"This, now, is the real War on Terror. But this time it will be led from inside the Middle East, gain universal support and change the regional political balance of power for generations to come." Sharmine Narwani is a commentary writer and political analyst covering the Middle East. You can follow Sharmine on twitter @snarwani.
Vor dem Brandenburger Tor demonstrierten am Mittwoch unterdessen Tausende aus dem ganzen Bundesgebiet angereiste Kurden, Aleviten und Mitglieder sozialistischer Vereinigungen gegen Erdogans Kriegskurs. Die Demonstranten beklagten zudem die Unterdrückung religiöser und ethnischer Minderheiten sowie der Gewerkschaftsbewegung in der Türkei. Redner betonten die Wichtigkeit dieser erstmaligen gemeinsamen Kundgebung aller unterdrückten Bevölkerungsgruppen aus der Türkei.
November 24, 2015 by Brad Hoff
While the document was referenced and analyzed in literally hundreds of independent/alternative and foreign media reports, major U.S. news maintained its silence, even after Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), head of the DIA at the time the report was prepared, confirmed its accuracy and importance in an Al Jazeera interview with Mehdi Hasan.
The New York Times has finally acknowledged the 2012 DIA report a full six months after its release through FOIA , including new statements confirming its high importance, in a lengthy investigative piece about the rise of ISIS. To my great surprise the article sources my initial reporting of the Pentagon document...
Jean-Pierre PERRIN 23 juillet 2013 PORTRAIT Le nouveau chef de la Coalition nationale, en visite à Paris, a rencontré hier «Libération». Chef de tribu bédouin, laïc mais proche des Saoudiens, il est surtout un homme de terrain.
Paul Jay: "There's an organization called Enigma, which is a lobby--sort of lobby intelligence military group that is funded mostly by American military-industrial complex companies--Raytheons and Lockheed Martins and such. And the president of it had an editorial a few weeks of days ago which says that Saudi Arabia must be included in the P5+1 negotiations with Iran and literally threatens at the end of it that. And I have to say, this organization's led by former heads of, for example, the Emirates air force and very, very senior officers from the various militaries of the GCC countries, those particularly allied with the Saudis, not so much Qatar. And at the end of this piece he says that if Saudi Arabia is not included in the P5+1, the negotiations with Iran, look out. I mean, I don't have the quote in front of me, but it's hellfire and brimstone are coming. I mean, the Saudis have--you know, maybe they're in a somewhat desperate situation. They're going to lose their leverage here."
The United States attempts to secure its national security interests in Syria and Iraq by sustaining conflict rather than pursuing political solutions, says professor Sabah Alnasseri
Juri von Bonsdorff i Hbl 3.12.2017: "Det är frestande att utropa historiska skeenden precis när man tycker att man genomlever dem. I fallet Flynn kan det mycket väl hända att vi erfarit en brytningspunkt som markerar början på slutet för president Donald Trump. Men sanningen är den att vi inte vet den slutgiltiga betydelsen av åtalet mot Michael Flynn och hans erkännande av skuld. Men vi vet en del och vi kan dra vissa slutsatser."
4 October 2014 Last updated at 06:09 BST Intense fighting has flared between Kurdish militiamen and Islamic State (IS) militants advancing on Kobane in northern Syria. Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who says he was the last foreign journalist to leave the town, filed this report for the BBC.
BBC coverage has revealed damning information about Turkey’s recent occupation of northern Syria. And it has smashed Turkish state propaganda to pieces.
By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Foreign StaffJanuary 15, 2014 "In the report, titled “Possible Implications of Faulty U.S. Technical Intelligence,” Richard Lloyd, a former United Nations weapons inspector, and Theodore Postol, a professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argue that the question about the rocket’s range indicates a major weakness in the case for military action initially pressed by Obama administration officials"