Torture Report Incomplete as Key Documents Remain Withheld
TWO THOUSAND TURKISH SPECIAL FORCES IN ISIS FEATURED
[No way to verify this, but if true it shows a greater level of Western coordination than previously known --NP] (Source: http://kurdishquestion.com/) Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Demir Celik stated in a press conference in Parliament that the majority of ISIS’ fighting force was formed of around two thousand Turkish Special Force officers, who in the... Continue Reading →
Iran asks UN agency condemn alleged drone probe
[Israel violates Iran's territory. Imperialism continues to attack Iran. -- NP] VIENNA (AP) — Iran is asking the U.N. nuclear agency to condemn the purported incursion of an Israeli drone. The request, in a letter dated Sept. 9, was posted on Thursday on the website of the U.N.s International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran's Revolutionary Guard... Continue Reading →
EDWARD SAID’S DIARY ON MEETING SARTRE, DE BEAUVOIR AND FOUCAULT
EDWARD SAID'S DIARY ON MEETING SARTRE, DE BEAUVOIR AND FOUCAULT((http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n11/edward-said/diary)The following are quotes from Edward Said's diary on meeting Sarte, De Beauvior, and Foucault. Said was very disappointed with the French intellectuals, especially Sarte and Foucault's support for Israel and De Beauvior's First Worldist feminism. The following is from Said's diary:Once the most celebrated intellectual, Jean-Paul... Continue Reading →
Why the Islamic State has no sympathy for Hamas
Why the Islamic State has no sympathy for Hamas (AlMonitor) Most of today's Salafist jihadist movements have no interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for the time being regarding it as irrelevant. Instead, their call is to engage in intense, bloody confrontations involving bombings, executions, and suicide attacks against governments headed by Muslims and against Muslim... Continue Reading →
The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth
[Capitalism is a war machine. Not only do the capitalists need wars to suppress its enemies, including the masses of the Third World, the system itself uses war as a way to create disaster and justify spending as a means of stimulating growth. Capitalism is irrational from the standpoint of human need. Despite what the... Continue Reading →
Netanyahu to talk curbs on Iran with Obama in Washington in March
[Warmongering of the big imperialists not enough for the Zionists. Both the USA and Israel have far more nuclear weapons than Iran. Furthermore, the USA is the only country to have ever used them on human targets. Israel, armed to the teeth by the USA, is a much greater threat to the region than Iran.... Continue Reading →
Obama says U.S. will deal harshly with violators of Iran sanctions
[The record of the USA is crystal clear. The USA has more weapons of mass destruction than any other country in the world. The USA is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons on real targets, in this case mostly civilian targets. The USA has been continually at war for most of its... Continue Reading →
Al-Qaida group in Lebanon vows to strike at Iran
[Al-Qaida unknowingly shows us why revolutionary scientific leadership of the anti-imperialist united front is so important. Rather than joining with Iran and Hezbollah against the main enemy of the peoples of the Middle east, AQ points its spear at Iran and Hezbollah. Hezbollah has been at the forefront of the struggle against the USA and... Continue Reading →
Israel, Gulf in ‘strange alliance’ against Iran
[The US, Gulf states, and Israel are all in an alliance against Iran. The war in Syria is a proxy war between this imperialist alliance and Iran, amongst other things. We must oppose the expansion of imperial power in the Middle East. -NP] Israel, Gulf in 'strange alliance' against Iran DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP)... Continue Reading →
Oliver Stone’s Son Says 9/11 Was an ‘Inside Job,’ Hezbollah Aren’t Terrorists, Israel Is a ‘Crusader State’
Oliver Stone’s Son Says 9/11 Was an ‘Inside Job,’ Hezbollah Aren’t Terrorists, Israel Is a ‘Crusader State’ (theblaze) Hollywood director Oliver Stone's son Sean made news last year when he said he'd converted to Islam on Valentine's Day while working on a film in Iran and that he believed then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was... Continue Reading →
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