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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
 Saudi Arabia is reportedly preparing to counter any 'radioactive hazards' which may result from a US strike on Iran's nuclear plants. Popular government-guided Saudi newspaper Okaz recently reported that the Saudi Shura Council approved of nuclear fallout preparation plans only a day after US Vice President Dick Cheney met with the Kingdom's high ranking officials, including King Abdullah. With the sudden resignation of Admiral William Fallon, a high-ranking US military official who was a fierce critic of White House war rhetoric against Iran, and reports of the recent deployment of a US nuclear submarine in the Persian Gulf; there is speculation that Washington is moving forward with yet another war plan in the oil-rich Middle East. Be first to comment this article
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
 Hizbullah international relations officer Nawwaf Moussawi said Saturday that the coming months would witness the crash of the US administration and its allies in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon. "The war against Syria has nothing to do with the International Tribunal and the presidential elections in Lebanon," Moussawi said. Instead, he added, the anti-Syrian campaign aimed at "cutting the roots of the resistance." The resistance, he added, was acknowledged by friend and foe as stronger than ever before. In his latest speech, Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the opposition was keen on reaching a political settlement to Lebanon's ongoing crisis.Be first to comment this article |
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
 The US is facing a new crisis in Iraq that may determine the outcome of the presidential election, as American military forces are drawn into supporting the Iraqi government's faltering attempt to crush the main Shia militia. A US warplane strafed a house in Basra killing eight civilians, including two women and a child, Iraqi police said yesterday. The house was in the city's Hananiyah district, which is a stronghold of the Mehdi Army militia of the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Mr Maliki has said there will be "no retreat" and has boxed himself into a corner by ruling out compromise. Critics of US policy will attack the official picture of progress in Iraq as a mirage.Be first to comment this article |
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
 People switched off lights around the world on Saturday, dimming buildings, hotels and restaurants to show concern with global warming. Up to 30 million people were expected to have switched off their lights for 60 minutes by the time "Earth Hour" -- which started in Suva in Fiji and Christchurch in New Zealand -- has completed its cycle westward."Earth Hour shows that everyday people are prepared to pull together to find a solution to climate change. It can be done," said James Leape of WWF International which was running the campaign. Organizers of Earth Hour said that while switching off a light for one hour would have little impact on carbon emissions, the fact that so many people were taking part showed how much interest and concern at the climate crisis had taken hold.Be first to comment this article |
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
 A few months ago, a report was published entitled "Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership". It was written by five generals and it proposes a new vision for the NATO alliance and a strengthening of ties between the United States and the European Union. The report outlines the major security threats facing the world today and it asserts that NATO, in spite of its shortcomings, remains the most effective body for confronting these threats. On the whole, the report contains an unabashed support for increased militarism and an arrogant endorsement of continuing Western hegemony throughout the world. The "Western way of life" must be preserved at all costs and those groups and/or nations which pose a threat to Western dominance must be wiped off the face of the earth.Comments (3) |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
 Fighting rocked two Iraq cities on Thursday as security forces battled militiamen for a third day in clashes that left at least 130 people dead, while saboteurs blew up a key oil export pipeline. Fighting which began on Tuesday in Basra when Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered his troops to crack down on "lawless gangs", spread on Thursday to the central city of Kut, police said. In Basra, where clashes broke out in a stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr soon after dawn, saboteurs blew up one of Iraq's two main oil export pipelines, an official said.Be first to comment this article |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
 Hillary Clinton has been forced to admit she exaggerated claims of coming under sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia in the 1990s after video footage showed the then first lady walking calmly from her plane. The Clinton campaign played down the episode as a "misstatement" and a "minor blip". But it was seized on by supporters of her rival for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama, as further evidence of Clinton inflating her foreign policy experience during her time in the White House.Be first to comment this article |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
 France has sacked a senior civil servant over publishing an anti-Israeli diatribe on a web site, the interior ministry announced. Bruno Guigue wrote in an online column this month that Israel was the only regime that allows "snipers shoot down little girls outside their school gates," AFP reported. Guigue, author of several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, also wrote of the "Israeli jails where -- thanks to religious law -- they stop torturing on the Sabbath."Comments (1) |
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