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Bibi, He’s The Bomb

Shortly before delivering that dud of a speech at the UN podium, Bibi met with Mayor Bloomberg… Mayor Bloomberg meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Gracie Mansion; both hail...

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What Ceasefire…?

So, today, our SoS arrived in Jerusalem… Clinton vows work on Gaza truce “in days ahead” … “In the days ahead the United States will work with our partners here in Israel and across the region toward...

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A MENA Roundup: Bye-Bye, Barak, And Morsi?

McClatchy expands on the new Tahrir Square protests… Egyptians fill Tahrir Square in largest protest of President Mohammed Morsi Tens of thousands of protesters poured into Tahrir Square on Tuesday...

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MENA Roundup: Bibi, Egypt, Iran, And, Syria

That 5 minute clip is dated from 2010, which I’d featured on this old post of mine… Bribing Israel will not help…! So that data is rather dated, with many more; checkpoints, ‘home’ demolitions, and,...

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MENA Mashup: Israel ‘Doesn’t Know What Its Best Interests Are’, ‘Institute...

  “The modern liberal state … often uses deception to gain its ends — not so much deception of the foreign enemy, but of its own citizens,who have been taught to trust their leaders.” – Howard Zinn In...

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Bibi’s Blunder…

As the Grey Lady reported… Syria Says It Has Right to Counterattack Israel …”Increasing the likelihood of a cycle of retaliation”… … Israeli officials remained silent on Thursday about their airstrike...

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AIPAC, Bibi, Biden And Occupy

At today’s AIPAC conference… Biden, Netanyahu set tone on Iran for Obama visit to Israel …Joe Biden insisted on Monday that President Barack Obama was not bluffing about using force to thwart Iran’s...

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Obama: ‘Obviously We Don’t Want To Cut It Too Close’

Obama tells Israel he will prevent Iran bomb …Obama’s first presidential visit to Israel comes at the onset of spring – the “red line” previously set by Netanyahu for attacking Iran’s nuclear sites…...

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Getting Syria-ous: Heads of U.N. Agencies Make Joint Plea to International...

Syria’s Survival: Heads of U.N. Agencies Make Joint Plea to International Community …As a measure of how dire the suffering in Syria’s war zones has become, the U.N. organizations’ joint appeal was...

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MENA Mashup: Our Failed FP, Noam Chomsky, Bibi, and, Iran

That RT clip is an object lesson in how obtuse our MSM FP press and/or Think Tank advisers are…! Consider Judith Kipper‘s bio… Judith Kipper is the adviser for Middle East Programs and director of the...

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‘Some Stirred-up Moslems’

Let’s reflect back… From a Zbigniew Brzezinski interview ‘Le Nouvel Observateur’ (France), Jan 15-21, 1998 p.76. Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to...

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MENA Mashup: Hagel, Iran, Kerry, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and, Qatar

Some more SoS Kerry: …We came to Turkey yesterday most importantly to join with other foreign ministers from the Core Group supporters of the Syrian opposition in order to outline our vision – the...

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Pouring Gas On The Syrian Inferno

From this past Sunday’s Bobblehead shows… Lawmakers say Syrian chemical weapons could menace U.S.… …Lawmakers sought to remind viewers on Sunday news programs of Obama’s declaration while discouraging...

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Wilkerson: Chemical weapon use in Syria ‘could have been an Israeli false...

(H/T wigwam) Here’s the extended Cenk interview… Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Chemical weapon use in Syria ‘could have been an Israeli false flag operation’ …“I think the president’s statement was very...

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MENA Mashup: Clueless In Syria and Faust Wants His Soul Back

Pepe is right (again) when he concludes that the Partitioning of Syria has been the Neo/Ziocon’s main objective all along…! Divide et Impera…! Since my last posting, a ton of sh*t has occurred in the...

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MENA Mashup: Bye-Bye Sykes-Picot, Game-Changers, and, Tiddlywinks

The Washington Post’s David Ignatius had recently raised the topic of redrawing the borders of Syria and/or the Middle East… An opening emerges for Syria talks …Here, American diplomatic pressure will...

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MENA Mashup: Rand Paul, al Qaeda, Iran, and Syria

Well, it’s official folks… Rand Paul: My colleagues just voted to arm the allies of al Qaeda … Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, which voted...

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MENA Mashup: Brent Scowcroft, Jabhat Al-Nusrah, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and,...

As former NSC Chief(under GHWB), Brent Scowcroft, notes… “If al-Assad left tomorrow, it would not be all peace and quiet” …Americans think “instinctively” they ought help put an end to the civil war,...

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MENA Mashup: Eternal War, Libya, Iran, And, Syria

(Phyllis Bennis is a superstar…!) Thursday, the US State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism released it’s annual Country Reports on Terrorism 2012, from Chapter 2 Country Reports: The Middle East...

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MENA Mashup: Putin, Rohani, Syria, and Turkey

(Full Transcript) Well, it’s all over in Iran… Rohani becomes Iran’s new president Hassan Rohani has won Iran’s 11th presidential election following a vote that saw a massive popular turnout on June...

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