Arab Dictatorships Take 4 of Top 5 Spots in Purchase of U.S. Wea

While United States manufacturing exports have been declining, sales of arms and weapons have been flourishing to the point where one could posit that the US military industrial complex is the chief supplier of the the Middle East arms race according to the Congressional...

Gaza, Israel and the New Year

During the siege of Acre in 1799, Bonaparte prepared a proclamation announcing a Jewish state in Palestine. He did not issue it since the siege was lost to the Ottoman Empire and the plan was never carried out....

Gaza aid convoy refused entry by Egypt government

After starting off from places as far afield as Chicago, London, Istanbul and Kuala Lumpur the 200 plus vehicles carrying 450 volunteers from over 20 different countries have remained stranded just a few hundred...

Foreign Policy Commentary Updates

Here are some selected articles providing a foreign policy commentary update for late December, 2009 for those interested in the Middle East, Iraq, and Afghanistan politics A Year Later: Gaza and Israel Both Under Siege by Rami G. Khouri Israel militarily attacked and laid...

The End of the War, And Then What?

     The recent news, while President Obama is across the pond accepting his award of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, like it or not, is that the U.S. is in for another buildup...

Citizen journalism: Media cover band or just bad karaoke

By Barry O'Regan Citizen journalists have been accused of being both, by some in the mainstream media and the public. Then again, there is MSNBC who rely on Citizen journalists to supplement their news and / or...

Iran Revolutionary Guards take over Gulf Naval Forces

An American intelligence report claims that Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps has been given command over Iran's navel operation in the Straights of Hormuz and in the Persian Gulf. With the command transfer,...

Retired Navy SEAL Questions Nation’s Mental State

" EDITOR’S NOTE: President Barack Obama outlined his new strategy for waging his surge-and-retreat style of war in Afghanistan Tuesday night.  Because that strategy will involve the expedited deployment of 30,000 more troops under the cloud of an announced timetable...

The Football Battlefield

In the last few days, we’ve witnessed a bloody battle in the Middle East. Not at the borders of Palestine, not at the borders of Lebanon and not at the borders of Iraq, Syria, Pakistan or Afghanistan… but at...

The war on Terror, a big question! the size of the enemy?

Grab your self a coffee please and lets look at a big problem that George Bush did not know when he declared war on terror. Now nearly ever big nation joined in this war and gave backing and gave applause to...

Each day terror bombing, more than 300 Killed

Terror bombs have become daily as to the population of Peshawar city, Pakistan. Within a month, a suicide bomb attack on the city's already killed more than 300 people. In the last week, the attacks took place...

Fighting in S. Arabia and N. Yemen Forces Evacuation of Villages

The conflict between the Houthi fighters in Northern Yemen and the Saudi military has forced the evacuation of more than 200 villiages.  Unicef has reported that 50 schools were shut due to the fighting as...

"Peace talk not war" is our choice

On the continuous consultation of Bishop Ulama Conference (BUC) of the Philippines, on the Mindanao conflict, more of Respondent favour on peace talk and not war, According to www.luwaran.com a website of major insurgency in the Philippines, the kunsult Mindanao or...

Blair in talks with Tesco over £1m deal - Middle East

It seems strange that a company founded by a very Jewish and clever barrow boy now seeks a market place in the Middle East and there we have this Scottish has been prime minister chuck out in disgrace selling...

Today’s Vital Question: Where Are Arabs?

“Israeli police raid Aqsa compound” “Amnesty: the Zionist entity depriving Palestinians of water” “More than 4500 Palestinian prisoner in 2009” “Zionist Rabbis calls on Netanyahu government to close...

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