Israel's long-promised attack on the Gaza Strip commenced in earnest today, with over 200 already dead as of the most recent reports. But at the Israeli Foreign Ministry mounts its "emergency international PR effort" to secure international support for what Defense...
by Justin Raimondo "There was no immediate comment on the Israeli air strikes on Gaza from Obama, who is vacationing with his family in Hawaii, or his staff." This is how our incoming President has reacted to the worst attack on the Palestinian people in 20 years – by...
Just hours after Israeli President Shimon Peres insisted his nation had no plans to ignite a war in the Gaza Strip and urged Arab nations to appoint "peace envoys" for the crisis, the Israeli military launched an unprecedented attack on the Gaza Strip. The attack,...
Dozens of demonstrators rally at the future site of the construction of Israel's barrier wall near the West Bank village of Bil'in every week. Regularly, those protesters are met with Israeli soldiers who violently disperse their rallies. Yet every week the protesters...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision to finally allow a convoy of humanitarian aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip doesn't sit well with MP Arye Eldad. The head of the minor Hatikva party today called for Attorney General Menahem Mazuz to indict Barak for...
While last month Israeli President Shimon Peres expressed hope that President-elect Barack Obama would be able to unite the world and force Iran to the bargaining table, he has now told Japan's Kyodo News that he hopes Obama delays those talks. Instead, Peres would...
Pakistani troops mass along India’s border… is it a prelude to war or a ploy to silence international criticism?
A daring prison break at Forsan police station in the city of Ramadi has left 10 police and six prisoners dead, and some 20 prisoners still on the run. Early this morning, prisoners killed a police captain with a makeshift knife to get out of their cell, then killed...
Less than a month ago, German General Hans-Cristoph Ammon declared the effort to train Afghanistan's police, Germany's whole raison d'etre in the seemingly endless war, "a miserable failure," and said that at the current rate of progress "it would take 82 years to...
The Associated Press announced today that it had obtained the "Homeland Security Threat Assessment" for the years 2008-2013. Though it was unclear who the intended audience for the "official use only" document was, it predicts virtually every disaster imaginable in...
