Analysis

Mar 27-29, 2015, Counter Punch -Ajamu Baraka Wednesday evening Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States announced that Saudi Arabia had commenced military operations against the Ansarullah fighters of the Houthi movement in Yemen. The Saudi intervention was not unexpected. Over the last few weeks there were signs …

Mar 30, 2015, New Eastern Outlook The military intervention in Yemen by a US-backed coalition of Arab states will undoubtedly inflame the conflict both in Yemen, and throughout the region. It is likely to be a protracted war involving many actors, each of which is interested in furthering its own …

Mar 22, 2015, Eva Bartlett, In Gaza Ramsey Clark and US delegation meet with four French representatives, ” naughty Frenchmen, against our government.” “It was as though we were supposed to talk about terrorism as ‘Freedom’: Freedom to kill, Freedom to destroy, Freedom to kidnap, to loot…This was viewed by …

Mar 19, 2015, New Eastern Outlook A recent report by an Israeli TV station revealed that Saudi Arabia would allow Israeli jets to use its airspace to attack Iran, demonstrating the clandestine strategic alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel. As the Times of Israel reported in an article titled: Saudis …

March 2015, Crescent International Harper’s cynical fear-mongering and Islamophobic rantings to push through the oppressive Bill C-51 have not gone unchallenged. On March 14, tens of thousands of Canadians rallied in 70 cities across Canada to oppose the bill. It is a serious assault on Canadian civil liberties and will …

Mar 19, 2015, Global Research As a lifetime student of classical mainline Islamic jurisprudential school of thought called “Sunni fiqh”,  I feel saddened to note how the Western mainstream media succumbed to the Islamophobic propaganda of affixing the epithet “Sunni” to the militia of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq …

  Reminder: East Ghouta fraud, August 2013: NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis, Dec 29, 2013, Consortium News  

Mar 17, 2015, Global Research Under the anti terrorist legislation adopted in Western countries, a person can be arrested for visiting an “anti-American” or “Islamist” website on the internet.  In the US, habeas corpus has been scrapped, the police can arrest a citizen on mere suspicion of “terror activities” without …

Mar 14, 2015, Global Research “Iraq may soon end up with no history.” – (Archeologist Joanna Farchakh, quoted in Cultural Cleansing in Iraq, Pluto Press, 2010.) In his indispensible book “from Sumer to Saddam” (1) Geoff Simons writes: “The region of the world that the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia (land between …

Mar 17, 2015, New Eastern Outlook With the situation in the Middle East seemingly spinning out of control, many political observers are left wondering what it all means. The war in Syria has been at the forefront of the news since 2011, and rightly so, as Syria has become the …