by MRN | Nov 19, 2013 | World
“The Middle East is a crucible for what is going on” in the world. Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Palestine. These are among some of the territories that hegemonic world powers have been trying to construct as spaces of exception, where...
by MRN | Oct 28, 2013 | Middle East
Jack Straw, a British lawmaker and former foreign secretary, said “unlimited” funds available to U.S. Jewish groups are used to control American policy in the Middle East. The comments reportedly were made last week during a debate in the British Parliament’s House of...
by MRN | Sep 30, 2013 | Middle East
Until joined by the Islamic government in 1979 and then by Hizbullah in the 1980s, Syria was Israel’s most visceral enemy. This enemy is now being destroyed but not by Israel. So-called Muslims backed by so-called Muslim governments – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey –...
by MRN | Aug 27, 2013 | Middle East
Yesterday US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on national television to deliver a lying statement aimed at preparing public opinion for an impending US-NATO attack on Syria. It was his very own “Colin Powell moment.” On February 5, 2003, Powell, then the...
by MRN | Aug 26, 2013 | Middle East
Ten years after the US government went to war in Iraq on the basis of lies about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a no less grotesque provocation is being concocted by Paris, London, and Washington to justify a new war of aggression against Syria. The...