RT |John Wight: If the pain of birth is the price of life, Syrias birth as a truly independent nation has come at the price of eight years of brutal and merciless struggle.
As with the Vietnamese people, so with the Syrians. Their struggle against imperialism and hegemony has earned them a place at historys table that can never be relinquished. ...
Press TV - US President Donald Trump is attacking former President George W. Bush over his decision to launch a bloody war against Iraq.
Trump reportedly made the comment at a closed-door event with Republican donors in Florida, undermining the former presidents intelligence by comparing the decision to "throwing a big fat brick into a hornet's ...
Press TV - Donald Trumps habit of constant name-calling of foreign leaders such asKorean leader Kim Jong-un stands out as an exceptional case, but is not unique and has precedent in US history,an American analyst says.
George W. Bush called Kim Jong-il a pygmy and a spoiled child, so there is plenty of this stuff in the past, said David Lindorff,...
American Herald Tribune|Richard Behan: Early in December of 2016 CODEPINK conducted "The People's Tribunal on the Iraq War." Two days of testimony and documentation disclosed the indisputable truth: Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded to gain control of hydrocarbon resources. Combating terrorism was irrelevant, a concocted deception.
The detailed ...
American Herald Tribune|Richard Behan: A Detailed History: Part Three of Four
(Part Two can be found here.)
Early in December of 2016 CODEPINK conducted "The People's Tribunal on the Iraq War." Two days of testimony and documentation disclosed the indisputable truth: Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded to gain control of hydrocarbon resources. ...
American Herald Tribune|Richard Behan: Early in December of 2016 CODEPINK conducted "The People's Tribunal on the Iraq War." Two days of testimony and documentation disclosed the indisputable truth: Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded to gain control of hydrocarbon resources. Combating terrorism was irrelevant, a concocted deception.
The detailed ...
American Herald Tribune|Richard Behan: The illegal warmaking of the Bush Administration has returned to public view once more, thanks to the activist women of CODEPINK. They recently convened The People's Tribunal on the Iraq War in Washington D.C. Over two days more than 100 people testified to the deliberate lies that led the nation into war and ...
There's one thing everybody can do to make the country safer.
WASHINGTON -- Former President George W. Bush was a lot of things, but one thing he wasn't was soft. He responded to the attack on 9/11 by invading not one but two countries, authorized the use of torture and indefinite detention and launched a mass surveillance program. When the occupation ...
Many around the world believe that Tony Blair did not only support the Bush administrations war in Iraq, but did so in contravention of international law. New damning evidence in this regard suggests the net is finally closing in on him.
The unearthing of two classified US government memos, published in the UK tabloid, the Mail on Sunday, leaves ...
[caption id="attachment_118652" align="alignright" width="129"] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) meets US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on September 26, 2014 in New York.[/caption]
LONDON (AP) -- Bill Clinton tried. So did George W. Bush. Neither succeeded. As President Barack Obama's ...
Regional Rivals Share Angst Over Slimmed Prospects for 'Air Tight' Deal
TEL AVIV AND DUBAI In the run-up to a Nov. 24 deadline for nuclear talks with Iran, leaders from Israel and gulf states are separately urging Western powers to stand firm and demand a deal that derails the regional threat from Tehran.
Reflecting shared angst over dwindling ...
President insists he will not repeat mistakes of predecessor
Addresses United Nations general assembly in New York
Russia urged to change course and cooperate with west
Barack Obama sought to rally the world for a new struggle against Islamic extremism at the UN general assembly on Wednesday, while trying to reassure a global ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- American analysts believe that former US President George W. Bush and his neocon colleagues fueled the sectarian war in Iraq in 2003 and prepared the ground for the surge of Al-Qaeda.
The Shiite-Sunni sectarian conflict that Bush and his neocon advisers stirred up by invading Iraq in 2003 has now engulfed the entire region and has ...
[caption id="attachment_37139" align="alignright" width="180"] Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw[/caption]
Britains former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has suggested that he may have been sacked by former Prime Minister Tony Blair following pressure from former US President George W. Bushs hawkish cronies.
Straw, who was the UKs foreign ...
TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (MNA) Recent polls of Washington Post in US shows that ending his 5th year of presidency Obama is disapproved by Americans.
His position is all the more striking when compared with his standing a year ago, as he was preparing for his second inauguration after a solid reelection victory. That high note proved fleeting as the president ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- As the world commemorates Nelson Mandela, it is unfortunate that so much of the public discussion is dominated by the pious bloviating of politicians whose own careers seem not just unspeakably trivial compared to Mandelas, but run directly against so much of what Mandela worked so hard to accomplish in his life. We think it is better ...
TEHRAN, Dec. 11 (MNA) The Alphabet of Politics, a controversial documentary satirizing relationships between former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former U.S. president George Bush, was screened during the first day of the Cinma Vrit festival on Tuesday.
Iranian filmmaker MohammadrezaAkbari directed ...
South Africans, world leaders and celebrities braved the rain to honor the former South African president and anti-apartheid icon.
MIKE HUTCHINGS/REUTERS
Nelson Mandela, former South African President and anti-apartheid icon, passed away last Thursday at the age of 95. World leaders are joining South Africans for his memorial service.
JOHANNESBURG ...
In 2003, Iran made an offer to the Bush administration that they would, in fact, do major things with respect to their [nuclear] program; they had 164 centrifuges. Nobody took that [deal] nothing has happened.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry, in an interview on ABCs This Week, Nov. 24, 2013
In making the case for the administrations interim ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- "Barack Obama is not George W. Bush," the liberal French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lvy said, and added, "Everybody knows that."
Until a few years ago, "everybody" included Edward Snowden. The 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant, responsible for one of the biggest intelligence leaks in US history, first considered "exposing ...