CAIRO (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood has warned that Egypt may review its 1979 peace deal with Israel if the United States cuts aid to the country, a move that could undermine a cornerstone of Washington’s Middle East policy. Washington has said the aid is at risk due to an Egyptian probe into civil society [...]
You don’t need to be a cynic of US overseas aid to know that cash is generally directed to those countries in which Washington has a clear foreign policy objective: Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan are among the top recipients. But perhaps more shocking is the increasing evidence of the way in which the [...]
By Jeremy Scahill The United States “should have never made counterterrorism a source of profit for the regime, because that increased terrorism,” asserts Iryani. “Their agenda was to keep terrorism alive, because it was their cash cow.” The US bombings, he said, were “a bad mistake. Military action often backfires by killing civilians, by the [...]
ISLAMABAD – Welcoming the presidents of Afghanistan and Iran, Pakistani leadership Thursday expressed its hope that trilateral summit would lead to enhanced cooperation for peace, security, stability and economic development in the region. The third round of trilateral summit being hosted by Pakistan comes at a critical juncture when Afghan government has begun peace talks [...]
While anger at the US continues to soar in Pakistan in the wake of the November 26 US air strike against two Pakistani military bases, a new coalition calling itself the “Defend Pakistan Council” is taking to the streets. With a giant banner calling on Pakistan to “break the shackles of American slavery” the group, [...]
Paul Chappell discusses the investigations into the making of war and of peace found in his books “Will War Ever End,” “The End of War,” and the just published “Peaceful Revolution: How We Can Create the Future Needed for Humanity’s Survival.” Chappell also authored a chapter in “The Military Industrial Complex at 50.” Total Run [...]
Eight youths, tending their flock of sheep in the snowy fields of Afghanistan, were exterminated last week by a NATO airstrike. They were in the Najrab district of Kapisa province in eastern Afghanistan. Most were reportedly between the ages of 6 and 14. They had sought shelter near a large boulder, and had built a [...]
President Barack Obama has finally begun in recent months to signal to Israel that the United States would not get involved in a war started by Binyamin Netanyahu without US approval. If it is pursued firmly and consistently through 2012, the approach stands a very good chance of averting war altogether. If Obama falters, however, [...]
Washington, DC – If Iran strikes Israel with a nuclear weapon, every member of my family living throughout Israel and Palestine could be killed or injured and my place of birth and ancestral homeland would likely be rendered uninhabitable. The scale of loss for me personally, and for humanity, would be immeasurable. Yet I have [...]
Should Israel be classified as a state sponsor of terrorism? That question is being debated in the wake of a story that NBC News broke late last week. Citing unnamed US officials, NBC reported that Israel has used an Iranian opposition group to carry out those much-publicized assassinations of Iranian scientists. The group in question [...]
