One afternoon last fall at Fort Benning, Ga., two model-size planes took off, climbed to 800 and 1,000 feet, and began criss-crossing the military base in search of an orange, green and blue tarp.
The automated, unpiloted planes worked on their own, with no human guidance, no hand on any control.
By: Julian Borger and Joel Greenberg
The Syrian government said that Israeli air strikes against military targets around Damascus amounted to a “declaration of war” and threatened retaliation, in the latest sign that the fighting is spilling across the Syrian border and risks sparking a wider regional conflict.
BY RAMZY BAROUDSEATTLE – During his talk sponsored by the New American Foundation in March 2008, author Parag Khanna addressed the rising challenges facing the United States’ global hegemony. According to Khanna, China and the European Union are the new contenders in the global “geopolitical marketplace.”
by Glen Ford
“For 16 years, Uganda and Rwanda have done the bidding of their paymasters and arms suppliers, the American and British governments.”
The United States has financed and given overall direction to the worst genocide since World War Two, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
By: Alexander James Green
It’s a hot 22°C June day in Miranshah – a town in the tribal region of Waziristan in northwest Pakistan – and, for two young lovers, its the day of their marriage. The day is set to be one of the happiest day of their lives; close to the whole village, 80 people and counting, has turned up to witness the reunion.
President Obama gave a sharp warning Monday to Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator who is fighting a rebellion by his own people.
Assad has not used his chemical weapons, including nerve gas, but the possibility that he might threatens to pull the United States into that conflict… I mean seems like history repeats itself remember something ?
Among the plethora of worries that plagued the Obama administration weeks before the election, chief among them may have been leaving behind an “amorphous” drone-strike program to a successor.
Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of members of the al-Dallu family during their funeral procession in Gaza City on November 19, 2012.
By Glenn Greenwald
The Obama administration’s unstinting financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a key enabling force in the conflict.
The sirens rang out again this morning in Tel Aviv in third day of Israeli air strikes on Gaza while another rocket fired by Hamas fell into the sea without causing victims in the Israeli town were reopened shelters public after 21 years. The last time was in 1991, when Tel Aviv was targeted by Iraqi Scud missiles.
Drone warfare and surveillance has expanded exponentially since their arrival in 2004 over Pakistan for use in targeted killings.
By Tony Cartalucci,
The discredited and now obscure, defected Syrian ambassador Nawaf Fares,had claimed mid-summer of 2012 that the Syrian government had been behind the influx of foreign terrorists that entered Iraq during the later phases of the US-British occupation of Iraq.
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The Mediterranean Union: NATO’s Role in Conquering the Middle East and North Africa
In the first portion of this text, the longstanding plans for creating a Mediterranean Union, which predate Nicolas Sarkozy by many years, were revealed as were U.S. and E.U. efforts to turn the Middle East and North Africa into free trade zones and economic territories. The implementation of this project was planned through the 1995 Barcelona Process and the U.S. Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA).
The powerful terrorist bombing in Beirut’s Christian quarter of Ashrafiyeh, which occurred yesterday (Oct 19, 2012) and which led to the death of 8 people and the injury of around 120 others, targeted the chief of Lebanon’s Intelligence Unit of the Internal Security Forces, Col. Wissam Hassan.
By: Robert Taylor
While the 2012 presidential election racket focuses on gaffes, Romney’s binders, and Big Bird, the CIA and the Pentagon are currently busy finding ways to increase their military power and influence around the globe.
When devils are allowed to go on rampage, and when wild beasts and blood thirsty vultures pounce upon besieged humans, obviously the humans fall victims. This is true of all occupied nations, from Palestine to Kashmir to Chechnya to Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Pakistan and Xinjiang. Like NATO’s Archontic rouges, both Israel and India continue to attack Muslims in their vicinities, killing more and more innocent people for obtain legitimacy form UNSC, USA and ICJ.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that carries out new sanctions against Iran that Congress approved and that he signed this summer.
At least four major regional struggles may be determined within the year: the Iranian nuclear crisis, the civil war in Syria, the struggle for the character of the new regime in Egypt, and the broader struggle for the character of the Arab world.
Patrick Clawson, deputy director of research for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy(WINEP) was caught on film last week suggesting that crisis initiation (i.e. a false flag) is needed to “get America into war with Iran.” Clawson has very little confidence that Obama “can get us into war.”
With the death today in an attack in the Afghan province of Maidan Wardak, an American soldier of the ISAF force, the U.S. death toll in Afghanistan in 11 years of war, and ‘come to share touching 2000.
Are you afraid of drones? Those unmanned aerial vehicles that can be remotely controlled from thousands of miles away that can also conduct blanketing surveillance and shoot down insurgents? You’re not alone — so does one-third of America.
