India to boycott London Olympics

Press TV Indian athletes have threatened to boycott the London 2012 Olympic Games after it emerged that the head of the 2012 Games, Lord Coe, is involved in a deal with a chemical company. Coe has signed a deal with Dow Chemical, the owner of the Union Carbide India Limited whose pesticide plant in Bhopal, [...]

Thousands of Jordanians, Egyptians rally in support of Jerusalem

AMMAN, (PIC)– Tens of thousands of Jordanian citizens rallied on Friday in Suweima village in the Jordanian Valley, only 25 kilometers away from occupied Jerusalem, in support of the holy city. Ibrahim Al-Keylani, delivering the Friday sermon at the village, said that the Jordanians were displaying solidarity with their Palestinian brothers. He championed resistance as [...]

Professors back “occupy Harvard”, condemn decision to lock gates

Moqawama Tens of professors at the Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts expressed their support to the “occupy” camp staged on the university’s campus, demanding an end to restriction imposed on it. According to Bostinnovation.com, twenty-nine professors at Harvard expressed their support for the campaign by writing a letter to the university’s president. “We consider the [...]

Is Britain plotting with “Israel” to attack Iran?

Ex-ambassador exposes government cover-up by Jonathan Cook, GB Last February Britain’s then defense minister Liam Fox attended a dinner in Tel Aviv with a group described as senior Israelis. Alongside him sat Adam Werritty, a lobbyist whose “improper relations” with the minister would lead eight months later to Fox’s hurried resignation. According to several reports [...]

Video: Israeli forces violently ethnically cleanse Bedouin homes in Beit Hanina

by Ali Abunimah, EI A video taken today by photojournalist Fadi Arouri shows Israeli occupation forces demolishing the homes of Palestinians in the village of Beit Hanina north of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. In the video, an elderly Palestinian man can be seen admonishing Israeli occupation soldiers as his home is torn down [...]

IOF troops demolish mosque near Yatta, arrest two girls

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– IOF troops on Thursday demolished a mosque after storming Khirbat al-Mafqara to the east of the town of Yatta in the southern West Bank district of al-Khalil. Local sources said that the IOF troops raided the village and demolished the small mosque which occupies a 50 Square meter area. They also demolished a [...]

Medvedev: US missile shield could be targeted

Al Manar Russian President Dmitry Medvedev threatened on Wednesday to deploy missiles to target the US missile shield in Europe if the US fails to allay the country’s concerns about its plans. The Russian president said that his country would have to take military countermeasures if the US continues to build the shield without legal [...]

Egypt protesters block cabinet building

Press TV Egyptians block the cabinet building to prevent entry of premier nominee Kamal el-Ganzouri to protest the ruling junta’s choice of the ex-regime figure, Press TV reports. The move came on Friday after tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters continued to hold their ground in Cairo’s Liberation Square for the seventh straight day following [...]

Jordanians protest Israeli settlements

Press TV Thousands of Jordanians have rallied near the Israeli border to protest against the construction of Jewish settlements in al-Quds (Jerusalem). More than 7,000 Jordanians from all over the kingdom have gathered in the town of Sweimeh in the Jordan Valley, a few kilometers from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Friday to condemn Israel’s [...]

Bahraini forces attack mourners

Press TV Bahrain’s Saudi-backed security forces have attacked thousands of people mourning the death of a man who was killed by regime forces on Wednesday Press TV reports. Several mourners were injured on Thursday when regime forces attacked people who had gathered in the town of A’ali, just outside the capital city of Manama, to [...]

Iran arrests CIA agents

Al Manar A senior Iranian parliamentarian announced that Iran had arrested a number of agents working for the Israeli Mossad intelligence service and “other regional agencies,” Iranian Fars news agency reported Thursday. The report cited Parviz Sorouri as saying that “The US and Zionist regime’s espionage apparatuses were trying to damage Iran both from inside [...]

The “Free Syria Army”: Placard-waving protesters are actually machine gun-wielding terrorists

by Tony Cartalucci, GB The “Free Syria Army” is literally an army of militant extremists, many drawn not from Syria’s military ranks, but from the Muslim Brotherhood, carrying heavy weapons back and forth over the Turkish and Lebanese borders, funded, supported, and armed by the United States, Israel, and Turkey. The latest evidence confirming this [...]

Irish friends of Palestine participates in delegation to Gaza

Derry Friends of Palestine Derry (Irish) Friends of Palestine member and Sinn Fein Councillor Gerry MacLochlainn along with Sinn Fein MLA Jennifer McCann from Belfast, both arrived in Gaza on Monday night to a big Gazan weclome. They are part of the (Council for European Palestinian Relations) CEPR’s largest delegation yet. A fact finding mission [...]

Family of 12 faces eviction in East Jerusalem

by Nadia Walid Somrein, The Electronic Intifada In the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, another house is about to bite the dust. The odds are certainly stacked against the Somrein family, which has received eviction orders and a series of bills amounting to more than two million shekels (over $500,000) worth of “back rent.” [...]

Saudi police kill two as protests rage

Press TV Two people have been shot dead by the Saudi security forces in the Eastern Province, bringing the death toll of the country’s latest protests to five. Witnesses said Ali Abdullah al-Qarayrees, 26, from Awamiya town, and Munib al-Sayyed al-Adnan, 20, of Shweika, were shot by security forces during demonstrations in the province late [...]