
by Pepe Escobar, Brazilian Investigative Journalist, Senior Analyst and Author May 14, 2012 (TSR) - Former United States president George W Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein before bombing and invading Iraq. Nine years later, US President Barack Obama has issued an ultimatum to the leadership in Tehran before … setting optimal conditions for an [...]

May 14, 2012 (TSR) - The Fifth Trilateral Summit Meeting among China, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan was held in Beijing from Sunday to Monday. The three nations released a Joint Declaration on the Enhancement of Trilateral Comprehensive Cooperative Partnership. The main aim of the summit is to launch a Free Trade Area (FTA) [...]

by Sergey Strokan, Journalist, Essayist, Political Commentator and Poet May 12, 2012 (TSR) - May Day celebrations, with their global anti-imperialist drive, coincided with the “big two” of the non-Western world – post-communist Russia and communist China – exercising in foreign policy pirouettes and military drills to boost their all-weather ties. High-level contacts in Moscow and large-scale naval exercises [...]

May 11, 2012 (TSR) – Kuwaiti police arrested a group of Qatari agents charged for overthrowing Emir Al-Sabah IV. The seized documents corroborate the existence of a plot organized by Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar. Copies of these documents as well as the legal proceedings were immediately transmitted by Kuwait to Saudi Arabia. [...]

May 8, 2012 (TSR) - Afghan president Hamid Karzai has warned that the strategic pact with the US will be meaningless if the US continues killing Afghan civilians. Political analyst Ahmed Quraishi told RT that Karzai is learning the hard way he cannot trust US forces. RT: Just a week after Obama visited Afghanistan to confirm his [...]

by Khan Hussan Zia, Author of ‘Muslims and the West: A Muslim Perspective’ May 7, 2012 (TSR) - When you are in the dominating position in which the United States finds itself vis-à-vis Pakistan the tendency is to look at only its side of the picture and ignore the rest. That does not mean that the other side [...]

by Vladimir Putin, Three-time President and Former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation May 7, 2012 (TSR) - Russia is part of the greater world whether we are talking about the economy, media coverage or cultural development. We do not wish to and cannot isolate ourselves. We hope that our openness will result in a higher standard [...]

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Chairman of The Institute for Political Economy and Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Reagan Administration May 6, 2012 (TSR) - Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think [...]

May 2, 2012 (TSR) - China demands an apology from the U.S. side for taking a Chinese citizen “via abnormal means” into its embassy in Beijing, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said here Wednesday. Chen Guangcheng, a native of Yinan county in eastern China’s Shandong province, entered the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in late April and [...]

May 1, 2012 (TSR) - Addressing a mass rally in southern Egypt on Sunday, the former Arab League chief described the agreement as a document which should be put “on the shelves of history,”Ha’aretz reported. The Camp David Accords were signed by then Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September [...]