Archives for نوفمبر 2018

Thanks to Government Inaction, Israel Has Become a Haven for International Scammers and Fraud

One analysis shows that one swindle alone has brought in over a billion dollars and employs 5,000 people. Another scam is predicted to be “the next major driver of the Israeli economy.”

بواسطة Alison Weir
Gilbert Chikli | Israel Scam

French and Israeli media report that a group largely made up of Israelis scammed 3,000 French citizens out of approximately $20 million.  Most of the stolen money is in Israel, but Israeli authorities are reportedly failing to cooperate with France in prosecuting the scammers and retrieving the money. This is the latest of numerous examples of

Teaching Kids to Kill at a Far Right Nationalist Summer Camp in Ukraine

“We never aim guns at people, but we don’t count separatists, little green men, occupiers from Moscow, as people. So we can and should aim at them.”

بواسطة Yuras Karmanau
Ukraine Nationalist Youth Camp

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The campers, some clad in combat fatigues, carefully aim their assault rifles. Their instructor offers advice: Don’t think of your target as a human being. So when these boys and girls shoot, they will shoot to kill. Most are in their teens, but some are as young as 8 years old. They are at a summer camp created by one of

Report From the Battlefields of Hodeida: Yemeni Locals Push Back Amid Saudi Bombs, Mercenaries, Blockade

Houthi fighters, together with local volunteer fighters, have turned the tides in Hodeida in recent days, absorbing the Saudi blitzkrieg and restoring many of the Saudi-taken areas to local control.

HODEIDA, YEMEN -- Following twelve days of clashes in Yemen’s strategic port city of Hodeida, the Yemeni Army, supported by local volunteer fighters as well as Ansar Allah (Houthi), has pushed back a large-scale offensive by Saudi Arabia, its coalition allies and the mercenary fighters it employs. The attack is the latest of multiple failed

Saudi Intelligence Met with Trump Admin and Mossad To Discuss Iran Sabotage and Assassinations

A plan to use private intelligence operatives to sabotage Iran was developed by Trump confidant George Nade and Joel Zamel, an Israeli known for his “deep ties” to Israeli intelligence and security agencies.

بواسطة Whitney Webb
Donald Trump | Mohammed bin Salman

WASHINGTON – A new report published in The New York Times has revealed that top Saudi intelligence officials with ties to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), in meetings with figures close to the Trump administration and Israel intelligence, expressed interest in using private contractors to “sabotage the Iranian economy” and to

Choosing Journalism over Cheerleading War: An Interview with RT America’s Anya Parampil

“As soon as I started looking closely at the inner workings of American foreign policy, I was forced to conclude my approach to producing and consuming news would never be welcome in the mainstream press.” — Anya Parampil

بواسطة Whitney Webb
Anya Parampil | RT America

WASHINGTON -- When Anya Parampil was attending George Washington University and saw her peers trickle into the university’s well-entrenched State Department pipeline, she knew that the path most commonly walked by her peers wasn’t for her. Eventually, life led her away from a career in international diplomacy toward one in journalism, but not

Ten Days in Palestine: A Close-Up View of the Fatuity of the Two-State Solution

Ten days in Palestine is all one needs in order to experience the collapse of the prevailing political thinking regarding Palestine.

بواسطة Miko Peled
Israel Palestine demolition

JERUSALEM, PALESTINE -- In his speech at the party conference, U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said “Let’s give real support to end the oppression of the Palestinian people,” a statement no other Western politician would dare to make. However, the latter part of Corbyn’s statement suggests that Britain must “move to a genuine two-state solution of