By William A. Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
"Kurt Zehmisch of the 134th Saxons recorded in his diary: 'The English brought a soccer ball from the trenches, and pretty soon a lively game ensued. How marvellously wonderful, yet how strange it was. The English officers felt the same way about it. Thus [...]
By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
The hypocrisy of the American legislators has never stopped to amaze me. On Thursday March 4th The House Foreign Affairs Committee had approved, by 23 to 22 votes, a non-binding resolution to condemn WWI-era massacre of Armenians on the hands of the Ottoman troops that began in [...]
By Maidhc Ó Cathail* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
This month marks the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Despite the passage of time, there is still much confusion, some of it deliberate, about why America made that fateful decision. The following questions are intended to clarify who's to blame for the Iraq war.
1. [...]
A commentary by Anthony Lawson on Gordon Brown's statement to The Iraq Inquiry on March 5th, 2010:
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wmx-iQHI4I
Also tagged Gordon Brown, Iraq, UK, War CrimesBy Paul J. Balles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Living through five or six major wars has hardened me to what I thought were the extremes of inhuman cruelty and brutality.
Two things made those extremes almost bearable: the brutality always revealed – at least according to the media coverage – the viciousness of the enemy. It [...]
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
The developing debate about Israel's future offers two scenarios but there is a third which, apparently, should not be discussed in the open, in public. So let's do just that.
Among the most recent contributors to what I'll call the two-scenario debate was no less a figure than [...]
By Debbie Menon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Iran has not invaded or threatened any country for two and a half centuries.
(MELBOURNE, Aust.) – Iran has not attacked another country militarily. The track records of the US, Israel, the UK and France are very different.
These so called "democracies" have a bloody history of invading other countries [...]
Between 2009-2018, the United States is scheduled to give Israel–the largest recipient of U.S. aid–$30 billion in military aid. Through its illegal 42-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, Israel misuses U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. law to kill and injure Palestinian civilians, destroy Palestinian civilian infrastructure, blockade [...]
Also tagged Aid, American, Budget, Children, Earlyreading, Education, Health, Household, Housing, Israel, Jobs, map, Military, Palestine, palestinian, US, USAClaims Saddam threatened the world and picks fight with Iran
By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Tony Blair, the poodle of the White House and darling of the Israel lobby, met the pussy-cats of the Iraq Inquiry on Friday, tickled their tummies and was purred to throughout. It was more like a cosy fireside chat, [...]
The Chilcot Inquiry showcases the conspirators
By Christopher King* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Christopher King argues that Britain's Iraq Inquiry "appears now to be part of a general unravelling of the Blair conspiracy" and has underlined that UK politicians cannot be trusted. He says the lesson of Iraq lies not in whatever the [...]
By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Putting Tony Blair on trial would be much too cruel. The man is ill, delusional, quite possibly to the point of madness. What he needs most of all is psychiatric help. Any doubts I might have had about that diagnosis were removed by his six-hour [...]
By James Petras | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Introduction:
Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building.
One Day's Read of the Financial Times
Even a cursory read of a single issue [...]
By Paul Craig Roberts* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
On Christmas eve when Christians were celebrating the Prince of Peace, the New York Times delivered forth a call for war. "There's only one way to stop Iran," declared Alan J. Kuperman, and that is "military air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities." [There's Only One Way to [...]
By Coleen Rowley (Former FBI Special Agent) | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Gandhi said that the purpose of nonviolent action is to "quicken" the conscience of humankind. Citizens of Minnesota are called upon to stand in solidarity with an expected 1,300 International Peace Activists (including a number of Minnesotans) from over 40 countries marching in Gaza-to [...]
