May 17,2012, according to Japan’s NHK the Japanese bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, is suing the United States over a court order to freeze Iranian accounts.
Western media has been reporting that the Japanese bank has frozen the accounts, but that’s not what Japanese media says. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ filled the suit on May […] Continue Reading…
May 16, 2012, in Afghanistan’s Herat Province three village elders were assassinated. They were shot while attending morning prayers in a Mosque. A fourth elder was wounded.
In Uruzgan Province a tribal elder, and his son, were assassinated by gunman on a motorcycle.
To show you how important the U.S./NATO supply route through Pakistan is, Pakistani […] Continue Reading…
May 15, 2012, the Group of 20 industrialized countries (not for long maybe?) will be meeting in Mexico, in June. Already Mexico and Japan are calling for G-20 members (mainly those of the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to give the U.S. based International Monetary Fund another $430 billion USD!!!
This is […] Continue Reading…
“Pakistan and other regional countries should carefully study the strategic pact and make sure that United States will have a long term commitment to Afghanistan, and Washington will continue its cooperation with the Afghan government until 2024.”
May 15, 2012, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, made that statement in Nangarhar Province. It subtly threatens […] Continue Reading…
May 14, 2012, officials in Laghman Province say five Afghan soldiers were killed, and two wounded, after their vehicle ran over a mine.
Pakistani border officials say U.S. forces fired artillery rounds into Pakistan from Afghanistan, the night of May 13. They say U.S. troops fired at least eight mortar rounds from Afghanistan’s Khost Province […] Continue Reading…
14 May 2012, Japan’s Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute analyzed rat samples. Their conclusion is that the rats are contaminated with cesium.
3,100 becquerels of cesium per kilogram was detected in rats near Kawauchi village, 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. About 790 becquerels per kilo was found […] Continue Reading…
The Washington Post reporting that Iran can not find buyers for its oil, and is storing oil on tanker ships as a result.
This is a blatant lie because Iran’s oil sales have only increased since the U.S. led sanctions were imposed!
The latest example is of Zimbabwe, which has asked for an increase in Iranian […] Continue Reading…
May 12, 2012, Yemen media reporting that two U.S. drone strikes killed 16 people in Yemen.
The drone strikes are part of a Yemen military blitz underway now: “A force of about 20,000 men is taking part in this offensive, ordered by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to free the cities of Zinjibar and Jaar.”-unnamed Yemen […] Continue Reading…
“It was sheer terror. They’d strap gasoline cans to IEDs. Our soldiers burned alive. You’d hear them screaming, and you couldn’t do anything.”-Mack McDowell, retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant
May 13, 2012, ISAF reports two U.S./NATO troops killed in eastern Afghanistan by an explosion.
Also today, officials from the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed […] Continue Reading…
“I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born in America and I am a proud American citizen. I am, and always have been, 100% committed to our United States Constitution and the United States of America.”-Michele Bachmann, Republican politician
Supposed U.S. patriot Michele Bachmann issued that statement after […] Continue Reading…