(PressTV) – Russia opposed to Iran sanctions

“We have never supported unilateral sanctions, which will only serve as a spoiler for Iran,” Lavrov was quoted as saying at a press conference on Thursday. Read More Here

(JPost) – PM: Israel will work to disconnect Gaza from power grid – Read More Here

(OpenSalon) – Anniversary: Obama’s Invasion of Congo on Inauguration Day – Read More Here

(WashingtonTimes) – PRELL: China: U.S. No. 1 no more – China’s ambitions are not modest – Read More Here

(Makow) – Was Winston Churchill A “Soviet” Agent?

The USSR was a proxy for the Rothschild banking syndicate. Victor Rothschild was a “Soviet” spy. He was also Churchill’s handler. The Illuminati make war on humanity by instigating war and controlling both sides. War is a devilish dance of suffering which they choreograph. Read More Here

(Uruknet) – Iraqi Government to Purchase Armored Limousines Worth $75 Million for Members of Parliament – Read More Here

(Mail.com) – German Leader Merkel Honoured by American Jewish Committee for Her ‘Outspoken Support for Israel’ – Read More Here

(PressTV) – US Slams Palestinian Authority Efforts Against Israel – Read More Here

(EconomicPolicyJournal) – Doping Up the Troops

‘U.S. Central Command policy allows troops a 90- or 180-day supply of highly addictive psychotropic drugs before they deploy to combat, reports Nextgov. The CENTCOM approved drug list is a mixture that includes drugs like Valium and Xanax, used to treat depression, as well as the antipsychotic Seroquel, originally developed to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, mania and depression.

CENTCOM policy does not permit the use of Seroquel to treat deploying troops with these conditions, but it does allow its use as a sleep aid, and allows deployed troops to be provided with a 180-day supply.’ Read More Here

(Uruknet) – America’s Moral Vacuum: Dead Afghans = Lost Emails

‘It seems that U.S. troops in the field are getting so much information from so many different sources about targets for obliteration, they’re having trouble figuring how who to kill. Assorted military experts told the Times that information overload is the reason the American military winds up massacring so many civilians in Afghanistan. Read More Here

(Uruknet) – The Children’s Judge

‘True, in the military courtroom itself Palestinians are neither shot nor beaten. They are not ‘targeted for elimination’ nor even sentenced to death. At least not in the courtroom. But the military court is also the place where all illusions die. And hopes. Because that is where Palestinians learn that injury caused them, is no error, nor misunderstanding, but a matter of policy. Read More Here

(DailyMail) – Downing Street Ordered a ‘Cover Up’ Over Straw’s Bid to Talk Blair Out of Iraq Invasion, Explosive New Evidence Reveals – Read More Here

Video: From the Mouth of the Beast – What should the palestinians who live there do? – View Video Here

(UNWatch) – Rothschild Zionist UN Watch (Critics of Israel Watch) wants official dismissed for having the audacity to question the official story of 9/11 – Read More Here

(PressTV) – 100 States Back Anti-Israeli Resolution

‘Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat says more than 100 countries will support a resolution at the UN Security Council against Israeli settlement projects. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Blair Ignored Goldsmith Legal Advice

‘The Former PM has admitted at the Chilcot Inquiry that he knowingly disregarded Lord Goldsmith’s warning that attacking Iraq devoid of the UN support would be illegal. Read More Here

(RawStory) – Blackwater’s Prince building mercenary force with apartheid-era ‘hit squad’ officer – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Tony Blair’s Wilful Misrepresentation: Deliberately Manipulated the Facts to Justify the Invasion of Iraq? – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – The United Nations Security Council: An Organization for Injustice – Kourosh Ziabari – Read More Here

(RadioNZ) – Iraq Was Illegal – Blair Acknowledges That Warning Ignored – View More Here

(Channel4) – Video: Blair Says Force May be Needed Against Iran

Former Premier Tony Blair tells the Iraq Inquiry the West must end its “wretched posture of apology” towards Islamic extremism and may need to use force to tackle the “looming challenge” of Iran. Video Link Here

(GlobalResearch) – Silence is Complicity: The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force – Dr. David Halpin – Read More Here

(Guardian) – Tony Blair wanted a ‘gung-ho’ approach to Saddam a year before Iraq invasion – Read More Here

(AFP) – Japan PM ‘concerned’ over China’s defence build-up – Read More Here

(France24) – Bin Laden says France will pay a ‘high price’ for its policies in Afghanistan – Read More Here

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(PressTV) – ‘US Wars to Continue Until its Economy Busts’

American wars will continue until the country’s giant corporations, which pay the politicians in Washington’s corridors of power, become financially unsustainable, says senior fellow at the Nation Institute, Chris Hedges.

Hedges told Press TV’s U.S. Desk in a Wednesday interview that the economy will fail “because we’re paying for it through debt, through borrowing.”

HIGHLIGHTS

“Well the fact is like that … like most wars this is the business. Unlike previous wars we have privatized many of the functions that the traditional military used to do and whether the wars go badly, we’re certainly losing the war in Afghanistan,” he pointed out.

“And I think it ultimately has been covered in the New York Times that [the Afghan] war is also unwinnable. It doesn’t really matter. There are huge corporations whose profits [have] swollen four by four,” Hedges said.

“The continuation of these conflicts is good for their bottom-line. That’s why we’re seeing very little reticence on the part of the government which knows how drastic the situation is in Afghanistan to pull back because the people who hold the ultimate power in the United States, which are corporations want these wars to continue,” he went on to say.

Hedges named a number of corporations including Halliburton and Blackwater/Xe and argued that the big firms have obtained substantial profits, saying, “These corporations are doing very, very well. All you have to do is look at the difference in their stock price before 1991 and now.”

He said that U.S. President Barack Obama spoke tactically during his presidential campaign “when he said he would withdraw the combat troops from Iraq.”

“Even during the campaign if you look at the fine print, Obama wasn’t promising” what many expected, he noted.

“There was an acknowledgment that occupation troops would remain in Iraq for many, many years,” Hedges concluded.

FACTS & FIGURES

Roughly 48,000 American troops are still based in Iraq seven years after the start of the war, according to the Washington Post.

Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, 4,435 U.S. troops have been killed and more than 31,827 wounded in Iraq, according to the media.

The total cost of the Iraq war has been estimated to be over $3 trillion, according to wsws.org.

Since 2003, more than 1,300,000 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have been killed.

An estimated 4.7 million Iraqis have been displaced as a result of the war, according to brussellstribunal.org.

In October 2001 when U.S. forces attacked Afghanistan they had no authorization from the United Nations Security Council. It was only later on, in December, that the UNSC authorized the forces to be present in that country. As such, the Afghanistan war was not authorized by the United Nations Security Council from the start and many experts call it illegal under international law.

There are about 97,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan who, under Washington’s plan, were supposed to start withdrawing in July ahead of the scheduled transfer of responsibility for security to Afghan forces in 2014. WSJ

Since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, more than 34,000 Afghan civilians have been killed in the country as a result of the war. Iraq-war.ru

By the end of 2010, the war had resulted in 2,281 coalition casualties, including 1,445 American deaths. U.S. fatalities in 2010 (711) accounted for nearly half of all U.S. deaths since the war began over nine years ago. iCasualties

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