Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/02/us-drone-strikes-guantanamo

The lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to Guantánamo Bay.

Link: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8900491/a-corrupted-revolution/

Ghadi had spent the past two years on the run from the Syrian regime but it was the rebels fighting against the government, the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) who finally caused him to abandon the revolution and flee Damascus. ‘They are thieves and gangsters,’ he told me.

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/christians-feel-the-heat-of-religious-intolerance-2/

Younas Gill, a self-employed tax accountant, sits on the pavement in Joseph Colony, Lahore, staring at the place where, until about a month ago, his home had stood. It was burnt to ashes on Mar. 9, when a mob of Muslims tore through this Christian neighbourhood in the Badami Bagh district of Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, torching homes and displacing over 150 families

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/05/296589/international-terrorists-move-to-syria/

A recent study by the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICRS) found that up to 5,500 foreign fighters had traveled to Syria since the crisis erupted more than two years ago. Russia says the ongoing turmoil in Syria is turning the Arab country into a center of attraction for ‘international terrorists.’

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/democracy-tastes-bitter-as-poverty-bites/

On a recent Friday, coppersmith Alaa Moussa parked himself in the same spot where two years earlier he had stood defiantly with a handwritten banner addressed to then president Hosni Mubarak. His petition that cold February morning in 2011 had listed the key demands of Egypt’s 18-day uprising: “bread, freedom, dignity”.

Link: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/23/syri-f23.html

Yesterday US officials blocked a Russian-sponsored resolution at the United Nations Security Council condemning Thursday’s multiple terror bombings in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/21/290102/us-threatens-pakistan-over-iran-pipeline/

“Washington has made it clear that it will impose economic sanctions on Islamabad if it begins to buy gas from Iran. Besides, the UN mandated sanctions on any trade with the oil-rich country,” the Wall Street Journal said in a report.

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/02/political-violence-grips-egypt-from-all-sides/

Since the second anniversary of the uprising that ended the Mubarak regime, Egypt has witnessed a spate of political violence. Egypt’s opposition led by the high-profile National Salvation Front (NSF) blames President Mohamed Morsi for the bloodshed, but many blame the NSF and its leaders.

Link: http://droneswatch.org/2013/01/20/list-of-children-killed-by-drone-strikes-in-pakistan-and-yemen/

Compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports

Link: http://www.sott.net/article/255358-US-kills-12-civilians-and-destroys-a-community

Sanaa, Yemen - The villagers who rushed to the road, cutting through rocky fields in central Yemen, found the dead strewn around a burning sport utility vehicle. The bodies were dusted with white powder -- flour and sugar, the witnesses said -- that the victims were bringing home from market when the aircraft attacked. A torched woman clutched her daughter in a lifeless embrace. Four severed heads littered the pavement. "The bodies were charred like coal. I could not recognize the faces," said Ahmed al-Sabooli, 22, a farmer whose parents and 10-year-old sister were among the dead. "Then I recognized my mother because she was still holding my sister in her lap. That is when I cried."

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/15/278193/cia-mossad-staged-911-to-save-israel/

Thus the world (and Americans in particular) is having to come to terms with the nasty evidence that, in order to further Zionist interests by initiating a general war against Islam, the CIA and Mossad were heavily involved in the murder of three thousand Americans. The noted analyst Kevin Barrett, has summed up this situation by saying, “Israel has reached the end of its shelf-life.” He continued, “The US is going broke and sacrificing thousands of lives in wars for Israel - wars that damage, rather than aid, US strategic interests.”

Link: http://mycatbirdseat.com/2012/12/road-map-drawn-up-by-syrian-traitors-to-serve-imperialists-gulf-monarchies/

The terms of the "Doha Protocol," the document is the price of foreign pressures and of resignation and treachery on the part of Arab states. A high price, an exorbitant price for Syria that persons calling themselves "Syrian" have endorsed.

Link: http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2012/12/09/219341-hamas-commemorates-25th-anniversary-in-palestine/

On Friday, Dec. 07, 2012, Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Khaled Meshal arrived in Gaza. It was his first time in Palestine in decades. At age 11, his family fled after Israel’s Six Day War. In 1975, he returned briefly. On arrival, he was joyously welcomed. Tight security accompanied him. He entered through Egypt’s Rafah crossing. Symbolically, he kissed the soil and prayed. His stay is short. He’ll remain 48 hours.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/pers-n30.shtml

The war in Syria, portrayed by a broad stratum of so-called liberals and “lefts” as a crisis demanding “humanitarian” intervention, has emerged with ever-greater clarity as an exercise in ruthless and brutal conquest. Washington and all of the major powers have joined in fomenting a bloody sectarian civil war and preparing ever-more direct military intervention with the aim of toppling the regime of Bashar al-Assad and preparing a far greater war against its ally, Iran.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/274313.html

U.S. President Barack Obama has reportedly promised the Israeli regime that he will begin deploying U.S. troops in Egyptian Sinai. According to the Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile, in a conversation with the Israeli regime’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, Obama pledged that U.S. troops would soon be en route to the Sinai Peninsula.

Link: http://youtu.be/FmFSWMBWb7Q

Israel…Butchers Of Gaza

Link: http://alhittin.com/2012/11/18/stop-pretending-the-us-is-an-uninvolved-helpless-party-in-the-israeli-assault-on-gaza-gazaunderattack/

A central premise of US media coverage of the Israeli attack on Gaza - beyond the claim that Israel is justifiably “defending itself” – is that this is some endless conflict between two foreign entitles, and Americans can simply sit by helplessly and lament the tragedy of it all. The reality is precisely the opposite:

Link: http://alhittin.com/2012/11/18/stop-pretending-the-us-is-an-uninvolved-helpless-party-in-the-israeli-assault-on-gaza-gazaunderattack/

A central premise of US media coverage of the Israeli attack on Gaza - beyond the claim that Israel is justifiably “defending itself” – is that this is some endless conflict between two foreign entitles, and Americans can simply sit by helplessly and lament the tragedy of it all. The reality is precisely the opposite:

Link: http://www.azzaman.com/english/?p=471

The wars Iraq has gone through in the last three decades have produced a nation of disabled people – six million out of a population of 30 million. “People with disabilities caused by the three wars Iraq has suffered are estimated at more than 6 million,” according to Raad Abdulhusain who heads the rehabilitation of disabled people in the religious province of Najaf.

Link: http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2295-dead-enough-the-reality-of-the-qlesser-evilq.html

"Yes, the drone wars, the gutting of civil liberties, the White House death squads and all the rest are bad; but Romney would be worse. Therefore, with great reluctance, holding our noses and shaking our heads sadly, we must choose the lesser evil of Obama and vote accordingly."

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/21/267900/turks-see-us-plot-behind-syria-unrest/

A report says people in southern Turkey are getting increasingly agitated over their country’s involvement in Syria, saying Ankara is merely a pawn in US plots to foment unrest in the region.

Link: http://www.voltairenet.org/article176279.html

In U.S. war films, the American soldier fighting in a strange land befriends a local child, creating a personal bond of humanity, while busily killing scores of the kid?s adult countrymen. American corporate media perform much the same sick exercise, identifying children among the ?worthy victims? of the other side in U.S. foreign wars. Children deemed unworthy of American sympathy are left to the tender mercies of drones.

Link: http://truth-out.org/news/item/12171-sold-into-a-piece-of-hell-a-death-of-innocence-at-gitmo

Adnan Latif(Photo: Wikipedia)Sold for a $5,000 bounty, Adnan Latif was among the first prisoners detained at Guantanamo. A federal judge and two presidential administrations said he didn't belong there. A decade later he left in a box - and no one will say why.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/05/265079/russia-slams-us-drone-strikes-in-pakistan/

It is not right to violate the sovereignty and integrity of any state. We fully support Pakistan’s stance.” Russia has put its weight behind Islamabad’s position on US assassination drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions, describing them as violation of the Asian country's sovereignty and integrity. “It is not right to violate the sovereignty and integrity of any state. We fully support Pakistan’s stance,” Dawn quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying at a joint news conference with his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/05-2

Last week, Stanford University and New York University released a major study about the use of drones in the ever-evolving but never-ending war on terror. Unfortunately, many commentators missed the report's key message: Drones are terrorizing an entire civilian population. I was one of the researchers for the study, and spent weeks in Pakistan interviewing more than 60 people from North Waziristan. Many were survivors of strikes. Others had lost loved ones and family members. All of them live under the constant threat of annihilation.

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/10/pakistani-workers-slaving-brick-by-brick/

Over four million brick kiln workers in Pakistan are bonded labourers, tied by debt to their employers. Credit: LAHORE, - One does not always need a time machine to travel into the past – a visit to a typical brick kiln in Pakistan’s Punjab province is enough to evoke a time when human beings were traded like animals and slavery was rampant.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/25-0

Joint study by Stanford and NYU law schools casts doubt on the legality of drone strikes; Says secretive program fosters anti-American sentiment. US drones do not just kill 'terrorists' says new report. They kill innocent people, including women and children, and they sow deep and long-lasting instability. (U.S. Air Force/Lt Col Leslie Pratt/ Flickr)Rejecting the dominant narrative that insulates most Americans from the reality of the US drone program in Pakistan—a narrative that says drones are a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the US safer from "global terrorism" with minimal downsides—a new report by researchers at the Stanford and NYU schools of law says that the program itself is "terrorizing" and that its overall impact is "counterproductive" when it comes to addressing international law, security, and human rights.

Link: http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/us-foreign-policy-in-the-shadow-of-the-arab-spring-4727/

That the Arab Spring has come and gone and anti-American sentiment remains as explosive as ever throughout the Muslim world should surprise no one. After all, this is an instance of democracy materializing from thin air without the tradition or institutional convention that gives it substance.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/10/260794/us-sends-troops-jet-fighters-to-yemen/

The United States has reportedly dispatched a large number of troops and military hardware to a military base in southern Yemen. According to some Yemeni media, about 4,000 American troops, a number of F-16 jet fighters, Lockheed C-5 Galaxy military transport aircraft and Apache helicopters have been stationed in al-Anad Air Base in Lahij province.

Link: http://wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2412&Itemid=259

It was a left to the liver witnessing the scripted outcome in the shout out decision regarding Jerusalem at the DNC convention in Charlotte, N. C. After much debate around this nation the DNC Platform committee had deleted the 2004 and 2008 Platform sentence "Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel."

Link: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m90582&hd=&size=1&l=e

Just one day after the Pakistani government summoned a top US diplomat to formally protest the ongoing drone strikes against North Waziristan Agency, the Obama Administration has launched three more strikes, killing 18 others.

Link: http://theintelhub.com/2012/08/25/syrias-destruction-will-ensure-us-and-israeli-strategic-advantage-for-iranian-strike/

According to mainstream media (MSM), the capital of Syria is under siege as the CIA-sponsored Free Syrian Army (FSA) conducts house raids and attacks military checkpoints on highways.

Link: http://www.aclu.org/national-security/al-aulaqi-v-panetta

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) have filed a lawsuit challenging the government’s targeted killing of three U.S. citizens in drone strikes far from any armed conflict zone.

Link: http://www.beaconequity.com/breaking-assassination-attempt-of-hillary-clinton-in-israel-2012-07-17/

Iran’s Al-Alam News reports an assassination attempt of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Israel Sunday. Interestingly, no mention of the incident was reported by western media outlets.

Link: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/01/uk-pakistan-drone-idUKBRE86002K20120701

A U.S. drone aircraft killed eight suspected Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, security officials said. A drone missile struck a house in the Shawal Valley where militants were reported to be hiding in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/06/u-s-dangerously-short-sighted-on-yemen-experts-warn/

As President Barack Obama’s administration becomes further enmeshed in what many are calling an undeclared war in Yemen, observers here are urging the government to broaden its policy approach to the country beyond counterterrorism.

Link: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/national/25-May-2012/us-drone-strike-hits-mosque-10-killed

At least 10 people were killed and several others sustained injuries when unmanned US predator drone targeted a mosque in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan Agency on Thursday.

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107827

More than 15 months after Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising and four months after free parliamentary polls, many Egyptians say that daily living conditions are worse now than they were in the Mubarak era.

Link: http://rt.com/news/al-qaeda-usa-sanctions-yemen-443/

The US is moving to place sanctions on anyone who opposes what Washington calls a democratic process in Yemen. Anti-war activist Susan Lindauer says this brings the US right into Al-Qaeda’s trap. Yemen is fighting an alleged Al-Qaeda insurgency with military support from the United States. On top of this, the Arab state continues to suffer from months of political unrest, with anti-government protesters demanding more reforms.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/19/us-drone-strikes-yemen-panetta

Defence secretary goes before congressional committee to defend use of strikes as experts claim such a strategy is unlawful... the CIA is seeking permission to expand strikes in Yemen, a move that renewed debate about the legality of the strategy.