Just one day after most U.S. military personnel left Iraq, an arrest warrant has been issued for the Iraqi Vice President, Tariq al-Hashemi.
The Iraqi courts also released what they call video confessions from al-Hashemi’s body guards, stating he ordered them to plant bombs around Baghdad.
Hashemi’s supporters say the warrant is politically motivated because he is […] Continue Reading…
SAAB is now officially bankrupt. The company filed for bankruptcy after two Chinese companies changed their minds about buying the Swedish automaker.
There was talk that General Motors was concerned about the Chinese getting their hands on U.S. technologies, because GM supplied those parts to SAAB.
The demise of SAAB will now hurt GM’s parts sales.
“I don’t think there actually has been a revolution yet. I think that what’s happened is that the figurehead of the military regime has been deposed very dramatically. Certainly that was a hugely significant event, it was an earthquake….Until then I think the two sides are stuck in their current positions, fighting it out […] Continue Reading…
1. “The war in Iraq is finally over after nine years.”
Rothkopf notes the U.S. has been militarily engaged in Iraq since the early 1990 and this will likely be just the end of another installment in the long running series of U.S. warmongering policies in the region.
2. “America’s mission in Iraq was a success.”
He […] Continue Reading…
On 16 December 2011 the Japanese government declared the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant in “Cold Shut Down”. On 18 December, the governor of Fukushima challenged that claim.
Governor of Fukushima Prefecture, Sato Yuhei, met three national government Cabinet members. He asked them how they could make such a declaration when no one at the […] Continue Reading…
On 18 December 2011, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, found 230 tons of highly radioactive water in a tunnel under a building used to store contaminated water. This comes after the Japanese government declared the damaged nuclear reactors in “cold shut down”.
Tokyo Electric Power Company officials say the water is […] Continue Reading…
North Korean government media reporting that North Korea’s leader Kim Jon Il has died. He was 69 years old (some reports say he as 70).
North Korea’s state-run KCNA says he died of “great mental and physical strain” and a heart attack. He was on a train touring North Korea.
South Korea has put their military […] Continue Reading…
“We have no intention of acting for the moment …We should not engage in war when it is not necessary, but there may come a time or another when we are forced to face tests…Our position has not changed on three points: a nuclear Iran is unacceptable, we are determined to stop that and […] Continue Reading…
“We are dealing with fabrications whereby a war agenda, which has been on the Pentagon’s drawing board for many years, is now seeking justification to go live, and we’ve seen the drone attacks, we’ve seen the sanctions.”-Michel Chossudovsky, Center for Research on Globalization
On December 15, a lawsuit supposedly brought by victims of the September […] Continue Reading…
Once again, the New York cops have incriminated themselves by posting comments that prove they are not there to serve and protect you.
“On my way to wall street…..Let the savagery begin…”-Michael DeRosa Sr, NYPD
“wish I was there with you guys..it would be nice to crack a white guy over the head.”-Rey Hernandez, NYPD
Not only […] Continue Reading…