Neocons Plotting New Preemptive Strike on History CounterPunch | With the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967 coming early next month, With the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967 coming early next month, pro-Israel pundits like syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer are again promo...
Israel and the Neocons Mounting Pre-Emptive Strike on History UCIMC | Applying the Six-Day War to Iran | by Ray McGovern | With the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967 coming early next month, pro-Israel pundits like syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer are again promoting Israel’s faux-narrative o...
Facebook floats IPO on NASDAQ Al Jazeera | Facebook, the world's biggest social-networking site, is raising $16bn for itself in a highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO). | The social networking site floated 421 million shares of common stock at $38 in Friday's IPO, ...
Former Jeremy Hunt adviser Adam Smith to appear at Leveson Inquiry The Independent | News Corporation lobbyist Frederic Michel will also appear on the same day. | Mr Smith resigned last month over his dealings with Mr Michel in relation to the BSkyB takeover bid. | Their evidence on Thursday will lead to fresh scrutiny of Mr Hunt's...
Nation Waits for Tourism to Rebound Wall Street Journal By FARAH HALIME | GIZA, Egypt—Businesses relying on tourists visiting Egypt's ancient sites are counting on the post-revolution presidential elections later this month to calm political turbulence, allowing their companies to return to somethin...
Democracy Lab Weekly Brief, May 18, 2012 Foreign Policy | Can Burma make headway towards democracy when it's still saddled with an authoritarian constitution? Michael Albertus and Victor Menaldo argue that countries in comparable situations have managed to overcome similar obstacles in the past. | Skeptic...
Camp David in the international spotlight with G-8 The Guardian | JIM KUHNHENN | Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief. | British Prime Minister W...
Savage Incongruities CounterPunch | On November 24 1945, the American photographer Lee Miller walked into the newly liberated Buchenwald death camp. Dead bodies were stacked in rotting mounds. The furnaces that had burned human flesh were still warm to her touch. The stench of shit a...
Camp David in the international spotlight with G-8 Springfield News-Sun | WASHINGTON — Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief. | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill huddled there wit...
Camp David in the international spotlight with G-8 Houston Chronicle | WASHINGTON (AP) — Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief. | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill huddled there wi...
Camp David in the international spotlight with G-8 my SA | WASHINGTON (AP) — Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief. | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill huddled there wi...
IMF Awaits Economic Plan From Egypt Wall Street Journal By LEILA HATOUM | DUBAI—The International Monetary Fund is still waiting for the Egyptian government to present a viable economic-recovery plan that enjoys broad political support before it can approve a $3.2 billion loan to help the country deal with its financial difficulties, a senior IMF official said Wednesday. | Masood Ahmed, the IMF's ...
UN says al Qaeda behind Syria suicide bombs death toll from civil war reaches 10,000 The Daily Telegraph UN leader Ban Ki-moon has said he believes al-Qaeda committed a major bomb attack in Damascus that left dozens dead, and that up to 10,000 people have now been killed in Syria. | United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon Photo: EPA | 10:30AM BST 18 May 2012 | Ban said President Bashar al-Assad has still not implemented a peace plan agreed with UN-Arab ...
