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La "guerra contra el terror" – por diseño – nunca podrá terminar.
As the Pentagon’s former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction Last month, outgoing pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on Terror must, at some point, come to an end: “Now that efforts by the US…
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El interminable "debate sobre la solución de dos Estados" es una tapadera para la verdadera historia: la anexión de Cisjordania.
by Philip Weiss One of the wiser political observations I’ve read lately was from Joseph Dana in the National: “the debate about the two-state solution has become an important diversion from discussing the true nature of Israeli colonialism.” I’ve noticed the same thing, from rightwingers and even liberal Zionists: Keep talking about the need for the…
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El Ejército Libre Sirio afirma tener capacidad para usar armas químicas.
A prominent member of the Free Syrian Army claims the rebels have all the components to produce chemical weapons and have the know-how to put them together and use if necessary. “If we ever use them, we will only hit the regime’s bases and centers,” the political adviser of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Bassam Al-Dada,…
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Es hora de invadir: el ejército estadounidense busca desplegarse en hasta 35 países africanos en 2013.
by Ezra Van Auken With United States officials itching to occupy another region of the world, they’ve set their sights on Africa. Since the installment of AFRICOM or the United States African Command in 2007 there has been an increased military presence in areas of Africa. Some of the nations include Uganda, Libya and as…
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La privatización en los países excomunistas causó la muerte de más de un millón de personas.
As many as one million working-age men died due to the economic shock of mass privatisation policies followed by post-communist countries in the 1990s, according to a new study published in The Lancet. The Oxford-led study measured the relationship between death rates and the pace and scale of privatisation in 25 countries in the former…
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Los rebeldes sirios exigen 14700.000 euros por los rehenes rusos e italianos.
by RIA Novosti at 20/12/2012 11:28 Syrian abductors of two Russian citizens and an Italian national demanded a ransom of over $700,000 for their release, Kommersant daily said on Thursday. Two Russians and an Italian national were abducted on December 17 near the western Syrian port city of Latakia as they were travelling along the Tartus-Homs highway. “A diplomatic…
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Aumentan drásticamente las denuncias de agresiones sexuales en las academias militares.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reported sexual assaults at the nation’s three military academies jumped by 23 percent overall this year, but the data signaled a continued reluctance by victims to seek criminal investigations. According to a report obtained by The Associated Press, the number of assaults rose from 65 in the 2011 academic year to 80…
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Importante publicación conservadora: El tiroteo ocurrió porque las mujeres dirigían la escuela.
If there were fewer women and more “male aggression” in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the massacre there never would have taken place, according to a contribution to a leading conservative magazine. National Review, whose in-house editorial suggested Newtown was the price of the Second Amendment, published a piece on Wednesday from anti-feminist Charlotte Allen suggesting the reason the…
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Siria: La policía religiosa patrulla la campiña de Alepo.
By: Basel Dayoub Published Wednesday, December 19, 2012 The Syrian opposition groups that have taken control of Aleppo’s countryside are deploying a religious police force to enforce new laws, such as barring women from driving and making prayer compulsory. Aleppo – The battle for Aleppo does not get the kind of media attention it did during the early…
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El acuerdo con Exxon lleva a Irak y Kurdistán al borde de la guerra civil.
Aide: Maliki Willing to Start War Over Oil Drilling War over oil in Iraq is a rather old issue, but as Iraq seems to be drawn ever near to an open civil war setting the central government against the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) oil is once again the principle justification. Oil and the contracts for…
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