Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Since the beginning of Israel’s latest offensive against the Palestinian people in Gaza in October of last year, […]
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IAEA Inspectors: Iran not Producing Weapons-grade Uranium
As I mentioned yesterday, Iran is not producing weapon-grade uranium, and could not easily do so without detection. The Hindu, which despite its name is […]
Iran Nuclear Program Hyped again
Note to mainstream media: Iran cannot construct nuclear bombs with uranium enriched only to less than 4%. It needs to be enriched to something like […]
Netanyahu: Train Wreck for Israel, Middle East; Looming Disaster for United States
The selection of rightwing expansionist Binyamin Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government is being greeted with dismay by the Egyptian government, which remembers him […]
32 Killed, 145 Wounded in Bombing of Shiite Funeral in D.I. Khan;
Sunni fundamentalists used a suicide bombing to attack a Shiite funeral in the western Punjabi town of Dera Ismail Khan on Friday, killing 32 and […]
Kyrgyzstan Expels US, Endangering Afghanistan Logistics for US Troops: Major Victory for Putin
In a major blow for the US and NATO military effort in Afghanistan, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan voted Thursday formally to end US use of […]
Haidar: Bin Laden is not, either, Hiding Out in Shiite Parachinar
Murtaza Haidar shares with IC his letter to the editor of the MIT International Review [pdf] Gillespie et al. Finding Osama Bin Laden : An […]
Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing?
McClatchy is alarmed at the rapid deterioration of relations between Kurds and Arabs in the north of Iraq. The victory of the Sunni Arab nationalist […]
Obama Orders 17,000 US Troops to Afghanistan
President Barack Obama has decided to send 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, on the grounds that “the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan demands urgent attention”. […]
Iraq Funding Ponzi Scheme Bigger than Madoff’s; 8 Shiite Pilgrims Killed
The US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) has issued a report on as much as $125 billion unaccounted-for reconstruction and military equipment money […]