Former CIA director David Petraeus confessed to making some “big mistakes” by having an extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell, but said he never allowed her access to classified documents or information, according to Fox News Channel’s national security correspondent on Saturday. Catherine Herridge reported that the former four-star general insisted he never passed [...]
Benghazi: Petraeus Denies Leaking Secrets To His Paramour – OpEd
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Israel, Gaza And The Mideast: An ‘Indirect Approach’? – OpEd
By Zenonas Tziarras and Panayiotis Andrikopoulosi This article is overreaching and it does so because it accepts one axiom: the only politics that matters is the politics that happens “under the table”. While this does not refer to conspiracy theories it does imply that most people do not know most of the things that shape [...]
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RT’s Office In Gaza Destroyed After Israeli Attack
The office of RT channel in Gaza, located in al-Shawa media center was destroyed after Israeli air strike hit the building. The production team was not injured, said RT in a press statement. RT’s Arabic-language sister channel — Rusiya Al-Yaum — was struck by the Israeli forces in Gaza Strip in the early hours of [...]
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Does Lebanon Really Want To Solve The Imam Musa Sadr Mystery? – OpEd
“It is not too late to re-energize the moribund Sadr-Yaacoub-Badr Eddine inquiry employing proven and widely available investigative techniques. It’s a question of whether there exists the political will on the Lebanese side.” Some former Gadaffi officials, among the hundreds lying low in Egypt these days, continue to express remarkable interest in contributing to uncovering [...]
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Burma And The Rohingya People: An Open Letter To President Obama – OpEd
By Habib Siddiqui Dear Mr. President, I am somewhat puzzled by your decision to visit Myanmar, which has the worst records of human rights in our planet. As an overture to your trip, your administration has recently lifted import restrictions on Myanmar, broadly authorizing Myanmar-origin goods to enter the United States for the first time [...]
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Two Missiles Intercepted Over Tel Aviv, Netanyahu Threatens To Intensify Gaza Attacks
The Israeli anti-missile battery called “Iron Dome” on Sunday intercepted two rockets fired from Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv, police said. Shortly before, the sirens had sounded for the fourth consecutive day in Tel Aviv, causing a panic in the Israeli metropolis and its environs of Bnei Brak and Ramat HaSharon. Meanwhile, in Gaza, Hamas’ [...]
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Hamas, Gaza, And The Arab Spring – An Interview With Mark Perry
No one in Washington has a better understanding of Hamas than Mark Perry. He’s been in communication with the Palestinian resistance movement’s leadership for much of the last two decades. As bombs rain down on Gaza we are again reminded of the ruthlessness with which Israel controls and takes away the lives of Palestinians, but [...]
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Iran Hosts Syria National Dialogue
Iran opened a Syrian National Dialogue today in Tehran, hosting talks based on the motto “No to violence, yes to democracy!”. Topics on the opening day included “Opposition to Foreign intervention”, “Opposing any plans to arm the opposition” and “Emphasis on dialogue between the government and the opposition.” The Islamic Republic authorities say the talks [...]
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Iran Faces Shortages Of Medical Supplies, Infant Formula
The head of the Iranian Association of Pharmacists says the price of medical products has risen by 245 percent, and infant formula and medical drugs for special diseases are in short supply at Iranian pharmacies. ILNA reported on Saturday that the Association of Pharmacists has emphasized that the shortage of infant formula has not been [...]
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Gaza In The Line Of Fire
It was, he said, a horrible twist of fate. When air strikes began over the Gaza Strip on 14 November, Othman Abdel’Al made what seemed a wise decision. The Israeli air force was targeting, among other things, government offices belonging to the militant group Hamas. Abdel’Al and his family live near a police station; he [...]
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Kyrgyzstan: Economic Nationalism Threatens To Choke Chinese Trade
By Chris Rickleton A surge of economic nationalism is making life uncomfortable for Chinese companies working in Kyrgyzstan. Faced with obstacles to trade and investment in the restive republic, Beijing is looking for ways to mitigate risk. Kyrgyzstan, Chinese officials know, is not the only place in Central Asia eager for business. Case in point: [...]
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Will Kinshasa Go Easy On M23 Rebels?
By Mélanie Gouby As rebels operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo threaten further attacks unless the government agrees to negotiate, experts are warning that Kinshasa cannot afford to repeat the mistake of trying to pacify armed groups by integrating them into the national army. The M23 group has been ravaging the North Kivu region [...]
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Are The BRICS Broken? – Analysis
By Iliana Olivié Over four years ago, when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, what had so far been the US subprime meltdown turned into a global financial crisis. Since then, life has been tough for the Western economies, struck by low growth or recession, unemployment, financial drought, fiscal deficit, mounting public debt, consumption in the doldrums [...]
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Spain Approves Urgent Measures To Protect Most Vulnerable Mortgage Debtors
Spain’s Council of Ministers approved earlier this week a Royal Decree-Law on urgent measures to improve protection for mortgage debtors. The Vice-President of the Government, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, explained that this measure forms part of an initial set of decisions taken by the government aimed at combating the most urgent situations. According to the [...]
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Afghanistan: ISAF Forces Capture Taliban Suicide Bomber Operative
An Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban suicide attack operative in Kandahar province Sunday, according to the ISAF. The captured insurgent is suspected of planning and executing suicide attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout Kandahar province. The security force also detained a number of suspected insurgents as a result of the operation. [...]
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Russia To Demand Middle East ‘Quartet’ Meeting Over Gaza
During the ASEAN meeting in Cambodia with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov will declare the necessity of calling of the Middle East “Quartet” in connection with the aggravation of the situation between Israel and the Gaza Strip, the Kommersant daily writes on Monday. “At the [...]
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India And The Outgoing Chinese Leadership: Change With Continuity – Analysis
By R N Das A new pantheon of leaders will take the reins of power in the People’s Republic of China in March 2013, and the baton will be handed down to a new regime under the leadership of Xi Jinping, the incumbent Vice-President, who has already been declared the General Secretary of the Communist [...]
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Taxing Times – OpEd
By Jamal Harwood Several large multinationals were embroiled in a tax scandal this past week as executives from Starbucks, Amazon and Google were hauled before the Commons public accounts committee for interrogation. As expected with the best tax accountants and lawyers on the payroll it is not difficult for multinationals to take advantage of generous [...]
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India: Woman Immolates Herself In Land Grab Protest
A farmers’ protest against acquisition of their land has intensified with a woman setting herself ablaze and a man swallowing poison earlier this week. Farmers in Madhya Pradesh’s Katni district have been perching on unlit pyres, threatening to immolate themselves, if their land is acquired by the state for an upcoming power project. Sunia Bai [...]
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William Hague’s Defense Of Israel – OpEd
By Stuart Littlewood British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in an interview on BBC radio: “There has been a spike in rocket attacks over recent days and a very large number over recent weeks. What Israel has done is obviously the Israeli response to that.” This doesn’t tally with the actual sequence of events. And [...]
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