Archive for the 'Lebanon' Category

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(GlobalPost) – The UN Security Council expressed “grave concern” Thursday over cross-border attacks between Syria and Lebanon in a rare united declaration on the Syrian conflict.

The 15-member body, bitterly divided over the war, expressed “deep concern” over the impact on Lebanon from the Syrian conflict, in a statement agreed at closed talks. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – Section 1 (starts at 00:00): OTV report about how Lebanon’s Future Movement (Tayyar al-Mustaqbal) led by former Prime Minister Saad Hariri is actively working on supplying weapons and ammunition to the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) terrorists and other groups fighting with them in Syria. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (KurtNimmo) – State Department Condemns Its Most Effective Mercenaries in Syria – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Thanks to the Mossad, Israel’s “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, Arafat’s Fatah Movement for National Liberation as well as the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression and intimidation. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (RussiaToday) – Thousands of US troops arrive near Syrian shore on USS Eisenhower – Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – December 5th, 2012 – Read the rest of this entry »

(CSPAN) – January 9th, 2009 – Read the rest of this entry »

(BBCUK) – Lebanon, like so many small nations buffeted by greater powers, has always sought and failed to carve out space for its own politics, free from the overweening influence of its self-appointed friends and protectors.

In this tradition, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has over the past 18 months articulated a policy of “disassociation”. As he puts it, “we decided to stay away from the Syrian crisis”.

But things aren’t so simple. As Leon Trotsky once noted: “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” Read more

(KurtNimmo) – Diplomats are under orders to destroy classified documents at the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, according to a State Department status report made public on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – At least one person was killed and 24 were wounded in clashes with police as demonstrators burned down a US-based KFC restaurant in Tripoli, Lebanon. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Following the inevitable collapse of Syria, Israel will invade Lebanon and “the damage will be enormous,” a senior officer told Haaretz on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »

(LandDestroyer) – The United Nations has been inexplicably silent over revelations that the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other “Gulf States,” are arming militants in Syria in direct violation of a UN brokered ceasefire. Additionally, the US has openly threatened to arm Kurd militants in Syria to “rise up” against the government. While in reality this constitutes a greater threat to neighboring Turkey, and perhaps an attempt to motivate Ankara to take a more aggressive stance against Syria, the threat of purposefully inciting more violence in a conflict that has allegedly claimed “10,000″ lives, seems not only grossly irresponsible, but a violation of international peace. Read the rest of this entry »

(PatrickHenningsen) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made a career out of feeding the media with millions of documents, as well as being interviewed on his political situation, both of which have landed him in hot water with the US State Department and the British Foreign Office. Following 500 days awaiting extradition under house arrest in rural Great Britain, Assange has managed to turn the media tables, with Russia Today initiating him the host of their new talk show, The World Tomorrow. – Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – A former Al Jazeera correspondent reveals the news outlet smuggled Satellite internet and phone communication tools to the Syria rebels through Lebanon. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – October 19th, 2011 – Max Kaiser talks to Saifedean Ammous about Tunisia and Lebanon – Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – Lebanon’s caretaker Telecoms Minister Charbel Nahas has confirmed news saying that the presence of an American warship has caused distortion in its internet system.

Nahas said on Saturday that the US ship had been the source of the problem, noting, “The problem, however, is due to a coordination error related to waves,” Lebanese website Naharnet reported. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – $100mn damage reported in Kandahar

The US military has inflicted more than $100 million in damage to homes and farms in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar over the past six months, an Afghan commission says. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Ex-US defense secy. accused of torture

A US rights group has filed a lawsuit charging former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with involvement in torturing former prisoners in American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read More Here

(TruthDig) – Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich – Chris Hedges

Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary that protects us from predators. Power rests with corporations. And corporations gain very lucrative profits from war, even wars we have no chance of winning. Read More Here

(PressTV) – 2012 London Olympics under terror fear

An in charge police has said that the 2012 London Olympics security is planned based on the issue of severe terrorist actions in the stadium. Read More Here

(Guardian) – Israel demolishes homes and classroom in West Bank village

Children taught outdoors after bulldozers reduce unauthorised buildings to rubble Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – The US/Israeli Coup in Beirut – Mike Whitney

The United States and Israel have executed a stealth coup that has precipitated the collapse of Lebanon’s unity government. Read More Here

(StopNATO) – Preparing for War with Russia? Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts – Rick Rozoff – Read More Here

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(RussiaToday) – Snatch! Long arm of US law pulling ‘suspects’ from home

Afghan citizens snatched from their home country, shipped to America and locked up on charges of terrorism, are now finding themselves standing trial in U.S. courts. Only, with no official extradition treaty in place, it could be America that’s breaking international law. Read the rest of this entry »

(StopNATO) – U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan War – Rick Rozoff – Read More Here

(WarIsALie) – Wars Are Not Prolonged For the Good of Soldiers – David Swanson – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Lebanon at Stake: Turkey Must Reveal Its Cards – Read More Here

(Inter.ActionCenter) – Pushing to brink of war: U.S. sends warships, jets to Korea – Read More Here

(GlobalTimes) – North Korea a convenient threat for US-Japan alliance – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – The Hariri Assassination: All Eyes on Lebanon – Read More Here

(PressTV) – US, S Korea, Japan to hold more drills – Read More Here

(PressTV) – US soldier admits to sport killing

A US military court has spared an American soldier from an early discharge from the US Army after he admitted to shooting unarmed Afghan civilians for fun. Read More Here

(PressTV) – ‘Israeli troops open fire on Lebanon’ – Read More Here

(LewRockwell) – Dirty War in Afghanistan – Read More Here

(PakistanObserver) – “Obama Wars”: Woodward’s Ominous Narrative on the Af-Pak War – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – The Weaponization of Space: Corporate Driven Military Unleashes Pre-emptive Wars – Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat – Read More Here

(Uruknet) – Show Us All the Map!

Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, “We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a map of the borders of the state of Israel which they want us to recognise.”

That’s a completely logical and totally reasonable demand. Read More Here

(Intifada) – Israeli Occupation Bar Farmers from Harvesting their Olives – Read More Here

(Palestine-Info) – Erdogan: US is backing Israel’s “state terrorism” – Read More Here

(CNN) – What the numbers say about progress in Afghanistan

The latest poll from CNN and Opinion Research Corporation found only 37% of all Americans favor the war, 52% say the war in Afghanistan has turned into a Vietnam. Read More Here

140,000 U.S. soldiers diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after Iraq, Afghan tours

Some 140,000 U.S. soldiers dispatched to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) between 2001 and October last year, according to a U.S. Department of Defense study.

The total makes up about 7 percent of all U.S. servicemen and women dispatched to the two countries. Read More Here

(AmericaHijacked) – Ahmadinejad Promises to Protect Qana in South Lebanon – Read More Here

(Redress) – Why Israel will never show a map of its borders

Alan Hart explains that Israel will never produce a map of its internationally-recognized borders because no Israeli leader would ever have the courage and leadership to stand up to and remove Jewish squatters from the occupied territories. Read More Here

(Google) – Israel settlers start fires amid West Bank harvest

Thick black smoke billows from the olive grove under the gaze of Israeli soldiers as Palestinian farmers use branches to try to beat out the fires lit by Jewish settlers. Read More Here

(TheAge) – Troops ‘overwhelmed and cannot defeat Taliban’ – Read More Here

(MediaMonitors) – New War Rumors: U.S. Plans to Sseize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Yemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire – Andrew Gavin Marshall – Read More Here

(Salon) – “Everyone Just Wants to Kill People at any Cost” What Adam Winfield, one of the U.S. soldiers accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan, told his father – Read More Here

(Salon) – War on Terror Logic – Glenn Greenwald

Jim White — in a post this morning entitled “Stuck in Feedback Loop: Drone Strikes Provoke Terrorists Who Provoke More Drone Strikes” — documents exactly the process at play here: Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Mission Creep In Afghanistan / Pakistan – Eric Margolis

The focus of the Afghan War is clearly shifting south into Pakistan, drawing that nation and the United States forces ever closer to a direct confrontation. This grim development was as predictable as it was inevitable. Read More Here

(LoonWatch) – Europol Report: All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 99.6% that Aren’t – Read More Here

(PressTV) – Iran Ready to Give Lebanon Military Aid

‘Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki expresses Tehran’s readiness to provide “unlimited” economic and military support for Lebanon. “Stability and peace in Lebanon is a gift that benefits all countries,” Mottaki said on Monday. Read More Here

(AlJazeera) – Israeli Extremists Set Mosque Ablaze

‘A group of radical Israeli settlers have attacked a mosque near the West Bank city of Bethelem, ransacking the holy site and burning copies of the holy Qur’an, residents say.’ Read the rest of this entry »

(GlobalResearch) – Loopholes in International Law: When War Criminals Dismiss International Law as “Obsolete” – Prof. Lawrence Davidson – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – US Imposed “Democracy” in Afghanistan

Elections were held for the parliament in Afghanistan on September 18. Few Canadians were aware of this as there had been no coverage by our mass media. For geopolitical reasons, the U.S. government has been deeply involved in Afghanistan since the early 1970s. But Canada’s involvement in the war and economic development has been justified on the grounds that we are helping to build democracy. How has this been going? Read More Here

(McClatchy) – Lindsey Graham says U.S. Must Prepare to Attack Iran

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Monday that the United States must be prepared to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon — and added that the last-resort step should be taken with the goal of overthrowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – ‘Pakistan will always support the Taliban’ – Newly Disclosed Documents Shed More Light on Early Taliban Offers, Pakistan Role – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign against Israel – Read More Here

(NWOTruth) – Three drone strikes kill 28 in Pakistan

At least 28 people were killed in three US led drone strikes in the remote areas of South and North Waziristan, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday. Read More Here

(OpinionMaker) – Missing Weapons and Terrorism

It is rather worrisome to observe that large quantities of weapons have gone missing in Afghanistan. Over 72,000 American supplied AK-47s, hundreds of heavy machine guns and Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) launchers delivered to Afghan police are not traceable. Read More Here

(PoorRichardsBlog) – Analysis: a very British WMD program

Trident , the Britain’s nuclear weapon system consists of four nuclear-armed submarines, one of which is on operational patrol at all times. Each Trident submarine carries 48 nuclear warheads, each of which can be sent to a different target. Each warhead has an explosive power of up to 100 kilotons, the equivalent of 100,000 tons of conventional high explosives. It is 8 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, which killed over 140,000 people. Read More Here

(PressTV) – ‘Lebanon Army comes under Israel fire’

Israeli troops have fired at a Lebanese Army unit fortifying posts in the area of Doheira near Lebanon’s southern border, reports say.
“The army received around fourteen Israeli bullets in the area where they are positioned in Doheira,” dpa quoted a Lebanese security source as saying. Read More Here

(WPost) – Members of Stryker Combat Brigade in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport

AT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it. Read More Here

(Telegraph) – West needs new missile shield against Iranian nuclear threat, Nato chief says

Anders Fogh Rasmussen told The Sunday Telegraph he has full American backing for a proposed €200 million (£165 million) defensive “shield”, which he hopes will be agreed in November at a summit of members in Lisbon. Read More Here

(Sabbah) – Audio: Why America Cannot Win In Afghanistan? [podcast] – Guns and Butter interview – Audio Link Here

(Xinhua) – Pentagon says USS George Washington to join military drills off Korean Peninsula – Read More Here

(RawStory) – Korans vandalized in New York, Washington on 9/11 anniversary

UPDATE: Two religious leaders at a recently-founded offshoot of the Baptist church burned Korans in a Tennessee back yard on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, reports the NBC affiliate in Nashville. Read More Here

(PressTV) – ‘US responsible for anti-Islam crusade’

A senior Iranian cleric says the desecration of the holy Quran is the symbol of a “crusade” by enemies of Islam, holding the US government responsible for the sacrilegious move. Read More Here

(PressTV) – ‘France may ignite war in Lebanon’

A senior Lebanese politician warns France against triggering a ‘civil war’ in his country by refusing to denounce a potential indictment against Lebanese personalities. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Why Is NATO In Yugoslavia? – Read More Here

(SBPost) – Probe into Afghanistan troops’ heroin trafficking claims

Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers may have been involved in heroin trafficking in Afghanistan.

Officials said they were aware of “unsubstantiated” claims that troops were buying the illegal drug from dealers and using military aircraft to ship it out the country. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has expressed fears that Israel may attempt to involve the US in a new aggression against Lebanon or the Gaza Strip.

“Because of Israel’s current disagreements with the US, the Israeli side could get the US involved in what is a ‘crazy move,’” Berri was quoted as saying by Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat . Read the rest of this entry »

The “Convention for the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide” stresses the prevention of genocide more than prescribing its exact manner of punishment. Genocide does not have to be committed for the Convention to have effect. By defining “genocide” it seeks to avert agendas which will confirm the crime. Read the rest of this entry »

Amid much speculation over US President Barack Obama’s upcoming address to the Muslim world, reports published on Wednesday outlined the details of his Middle East peace plan, which are said to include a demilitarized Palestinian state. Read the rest of this entry »

For sixty years Israelis have been stealing Palestine from Palestinians. There are maps available on the Internet and in Israeli publications showing the shrinkage over time of what was once Palestine into what Palestine is today–a small number of unconnected ghettos or bantustans. Read the rest of this entry »

Bill Kristol thinks that President-elect Barack Obama should be thankful for Israel’s attack on Gaza.

“If you care about the peace process you should want Israel to embarrass and humiliate Hamas. That’s the only chance — there would be no peace process if Hamas were governing Gaza. That would be the worst thing for Obama. This is a favor for Obama if it de legitimizes and weakens Hamas,” Kristol said. Read the rest of this entry »