Tag: newspapers

November 3, 2014 0

US Struggles to Keep Asia in Dark Age

By News Desk

Its most recent article, " Thai Power Firm’s Business Tactics ‘Use Burma’s Weak Laws’ ," is a typical representation of these efforts. It reports that:   One of the chief financiers of hydroelectric dams planned on Burma’s Salween River is accused of investing in countries where there is “oppression and limited transparency†in order to achieve its objectives

August 20, 2014 0

ISIS: Region-wide Genocide Portended in 2007 Now Fully Realized

By News Desk

Veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh warned in a prophetic 2007 New Yorker article titled, " The Redirection Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? " that (emphasis added): To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran.