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« The Art of War »

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 14 May 2013
The new Italian national coalition government eagerly began its reinforced collaboration with Washington. Emma Bonino, the new Minister for Foreign Affairs, met with her US counterpart, John Kerry, to polish the details. As Manlio Dinucci explains, it will be based on the military activity of the Special Forces, mainly in the Middel East.

"Before our very eyes"

Mali: One war can hide another

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 23 January 2013
A long time in the making and announced by François Hollande six months in advance, the French intervention in Mali was portrayed as an emergency decision in response to dramatic developments. This scheme aims not only at seizing Mali’s gold and uranium, but more especially at paving the way for the destabilization of Algeria.

"The Art of War"

Obama prefers to keep it hidden

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 13 December 2012
The United States can no longer afford to launch major wars like Korea, Vietnam or Iraq. Obama prefers to intensify secret military action. Manlio Dinucci lays out the plan.

Lebanese MP directing arms traffic to Syria

Beirut (Lebanon) | 13 December 2012
The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar and the TV channel OTV have published recordings which reveal the implication of Member of Parliament Okab Sakr in a vast arms trafic to Syria. The lawmaker was forced to admit the facts that he had repeatedly denied until now. In a declaration to the Press, he claimed that he was "proud of what he has done".
Okab Sakr is one of the three Chiite MPs who are members of the March 14 Alliance, which is the pro-Saudi and pro-Western coalition organised around Saad (...)

"Before our very eyes"

Israel is now just a paper tiger

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 11 December 2012
The celebration of the 25th anniversary of Hamas coincided with the victory celebration following the recent Israeli attack. This short war has profoundly modified Israel’s strategic situation and reunited different factions of the Palestinian resistance.
Hamas authorized the partisans of Fatah to demonstrate in Gaza for the recognition by the UN of Palestine as an observer state, while Fatah authorized the militants of Hamas to demonstrate in the West Bank. Furthermore, the four internal (...)

Chuck Hagel possibly next US Secretary of Defense

6 December 2012
The ex-Republican senator from Nebraska, Charles T. Hagel (known as "Chuck"), may be chosen by Democratic President Barack Obama as the next Secretary of Defense.
President Obama wants to nominate Democratic senator John Kerry as Secretary of State, but was reserving the possibility of handing him the Defense posting if he could not find a suitable candidate.
Chuck Hagel, a Chevron executive, presides over the Atlantic Council (one of NATO’s think tanks). He maintains trusting relations (...)

"Before our very eyes"

A risky strategy for Palestine

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 5 December 2012
The United Nations’ General Assembly has awarded Palestine « the status of non-member observer state » with a view to contributing to « the solution which envisages two states, with an independent, sovereign, democratic, single and viable Palestinian state, to live in peace and security side by side with Israel on the basis of pre-1967 borders ».
The resolution was adopted by 138 votes for, 41 abstentions and 6 votes against, including the United States and Israel.
The vote, which was (...)

"Before our very eyes"

Obama II – the purge and the pact

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 28 November 2012
Photo: Mr. and Mrs. Kerry with Mr. and Mrs. Assad, during a private dinner at a restaurant in Damascus, 2009.
Enjoying a legitimacy reinforced by his reelection, President Barack Obama is preparing to launch a new foreign policy – drawing the conclusions from the relative economic weakening of the United States, he has renounced the idea of governing the world on his own. US forces continue their departure from Europe and their partial disengagement from the Middle East in order to take (...)

"Before our very eyes"

Major manœuvers around Gaza

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 28 November 2012
After the "cease-fire" announced in Cairo by Hillary Clinton, a young man from Gaza, a twenty-year old called Anwar Qudaih, went to celebrate the event in the "buffer zone", the 300 metre-wide strip of Palestinian territory where his family used to farm the land. But when he drew close to the barbed wire, an Israeli soldier shot him in the mouth.
First victim of the "cease-fire", he must be added to the 170 killed, at least a third of them women and children, and more than 1,000 wounded in (...)

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Welcome to the "liberated zone" of Aleppo

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 28 November 2012
Thanks to logistical support from France, the new authorities of the "liberated zone" of Aleppo are currently setting up a religious dictatorship inspired by the Saudi model. The reality is very different from the soothing declarations of Presidents Sarkozy and Hollande concerning the defence of liberty and the promotion of democracy.

A lobbyist for Shell at the head of the Syrian National Coalition

The many faces of Sheikh Ahmad Moaz Al-Khatib

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 23 November 2012
Completely unkown to the international public only a week ago, Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib has been catapulted to the presidency of the Syrian National Coalition, which represents pro-Western opposition in the Damascus government. Portrayed by an intense public relations campaign as a highly moral personality with no partisan or economic attachments, he is in truth a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and an executive of the Shell oil company.

"Before our very eyes"

François Hollande wants to sponsor Islamic emirates

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 21 November 2012
France claims to be at the forefront of the fight for freedom in Syria. In fact, she brazenly violates the basic principles of international law to fulfill her dream of re-colonization of a country she held from 1923 to 1944. This ambition has led her to support the creation of Islamic Emirates at the risk of opening the door to a world confrontation.

"Operation Pillar of Cloud"

Why a new war on Gaza?

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 19 November 2012
Once again Israël attacks Gaza, and the international media relays the images of desolation. But the outrage provoked by these daily horrors must not prevent us from analysing the situation and understanding its aims. Thierry Meyssan anwers the question.

Adhesion to the EU

Serbia, a flexible candidate

by Miroslav Lazanski

Belgrade (Serbia) | 15 November 2012
The states who are candidates for the European Union have understood that they must now align themselves with the EU in all cases, despite the fact that they have not participated in the development of its decisions. So Serbia – after having copied and pasted European sanctions against Iran – has just voted with the EU at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to condemn the Russian legal system in the Pussy Riots affair. The ex-tin soldiers of Sovietism have have found no difficulty in signing up for service in the cause of Europeanism.

"The Art of War"

The weapon of media silence

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 14 November 2012
The new information technologies were going to transform the world into a global village where news reports would circulate instantaneously, assured Canadian sociologist Marshall McLuhan. But nothing could be further from the truth. An iron curtain has been drawn in front of Western audiences who are maintained in a state of ignorance about important current events, and are unable to access anti-imperialist satellite channels.

The Suspension of Fundamental Rights

Bush, Obama – change in continuity

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 13 November 2012
Far from having broken with his Republican predecessor, Democratic President Barack Obama has now reinforced the law of exception that he criticised when he was a senator. It is now possible to deprive United States citizens of their fundamental rights because they have taken part in armed action against their own country, but also when they take a political position favourable to those who use military action to resist the Empire. Worse - Barack Obama has added to the law John Yoo’s "Unitary Executive theory," which puts an end to the principles of the separation of powers as defined by Montesquieu. The security policy of the United States President now escapes all control.

"Before our very eyes"

The Chinese solution

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 7 November 2012
There is a solution for peace in Syria. All we need is the will to implement it. Yang Jiechi has imagined a way of avoiding France’s hostility to the implementation of the Geneva agreement.

THE ART OF WAR

The renaissance of a colonial army

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 28 October 2012
One of the objectives of the USA’s unofficial war in Libya was to set up a permanent base for AfriCom. The moment has come to implement it, but without admitting it. Manlio Dinucci reveals their method.