Prof. Dr. Bischara Ali Egal
Your website needs your support 9/11 After 22 years Paul Craig Roberts Today is the 22nd Anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon known as 9/11. A generation of 22-year olds has grown up after 9/11, and the event probably means nothing to them. They learn that it was an attack on America like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and 9/11 disappears into history. It is unlikely that anyone under 40 is much concerned with 9/11. A 40-year old today would have been 18 in 2001 and would likely dismiss 9/11 concerns as conspiracy theory. Today’s youth are more…
(note: Scott Ritter, recently booted from YouTube, all his previous interviews deleted, comments on Washington’s “dilemma” – and that it is – with Niger. This article originally appeared at “GlobalResearch” – link just below. rjp) The US Is Caught in a Dilemma with Niger. Scott Ritter Washington can’t sever relations with the post-coup government lest it lose the basis for its military presence in the African country Last week, Acting Deputy Secretary of State for the United States Victoria Nuland made her third visit to Niger in the past two years. This time, Nuland was in the African country to respond…
Media mogul, whose holdings include Israel’s i24 broadcaster, aims to calm concerns after top lieutenant detained in Portugal on suspicion of embezzlement Exchange, before the company’s IPO, June 22, 2017. (Richard Drew/AP) PARIS — French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi is set to make a rare appearance in front of investors this week with his multinational business empire Altice in the grip of a corruption scandal. Swiss-based Drahi, whose empire spans telecommunications and media in Europe, North America and Israel — where his holdings include the i24 broadcaster — is expected to try to ease investor concerns weeks after one of his top…
General Abdourahamane Tchiani intensifies standoff with ECOWAS, rejects any interference in Niger’s internal affairs. Niger’s coup leader has declared that he will not bow down to pressure to reinstate deposed President Mohamed Bazoum, criticising sanctions imposed by West African leaders as “illegal” and “inhumane” and urging his countrymen to get ready to defend their nation. General Abdourahamane Tchiani‘s comments, issued in a televised address on Wednesday, came as the defence chiefs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in neighbouring Nigeria to discuss the crisis in Niger. The regional bloc has imposed severe economic sanctions on Niger and threatened to use…
The War Crimes That Assange and WikiLeaks Exposed In 2010, U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning provided WikiLeaks with documents containing evidence of U.S. war crimes. They included the “Iraq War Logs,” which were 400,000 field reports describing 15,000 unreported deaths of Iraqi civilians, as well as systematic rape, torture and murder after U.S. forces “handed over detainees to a notorious Iraqi torture squad.” They contained the “Afghan War Diary,” 90,000 reports of more civilian casualties by coalition forces than the U.S. military had reported. And they also included the “Guantánamo Files” — 779 secret reports with evidence that 150…
Sudan’s neighbouring countries meeting in Cairo have agreed to form a ministerial mechanism comprising the foreign ministers of Sudan’s neighbours to address the conflict which has had severe implications on the participating nations. The first meeting of the mechanism will be held in Chad, where an executive action plan will be developed to find a comprehensive solution to the crisis, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced during the closing session. The Sudan’s Neighbouring Countries Summit brought together Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central Africa, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, along with the secretary-general of the Arab League and the African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson. Reading the final…