Obama Executive Order: Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, or Stability of Yemen

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: Summary now included at the end of the article UPDATE 2: A small except from a recent article written by Ralph Nader seems appropriate. This is the world in which we live. This is the new normal. “Far more people have become rich and famous for telling lies and falsehoods than [...]

Why Did Obama Help Lock Up a Yemeni Journalist?

(Not only did Barack Obama authorize an illegal cruise missile strike in Yemen on Dec. 17th 2009 which took the lives of 21 children, but he apparently also had a black-bag squad pick up a journalist in Yemen who reported on the cluster bomb munitions used in that attack. He had him picked up, tortured, [...]

Yemen designed for indefinite chaos

Beyond Pretense: The Global Free Market Wars Finally Acknowledged (and another U.S.S. Liberty event on the horizon?)

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: After all attempts to frame Iran have failed thus far, a Jerusalem Post article (written by a former Israeli intelligence officer turned Operation Mockingbird style “journalist“) suggests Iran will provide the needed pretext for the war themselves by attacking a U.S. warship. Get that? They failed to frame Iran for everything [...]

Obama and Clinton Still Dancing With Snakes

by Scott Creighton This Thanksgiving morn I wake to sadness for there is nothing to be thankful for, unless of course you are a brutal dictator who has served US interests for the past 33 years. If that is the case, then you are just smiling and clapping cus it’s payday in America! In Saudi [...]

Yemen: Top army commanders defect in Yemen

from Al Jazeera English Several top Yemeni army commanders have declared their support for anti-government protesters seeking the resignation of the country”s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Major General Ali Mohsen Saleh, the head of the north western military zone and the head of the first armoured division, said on Monday that he had deployed army units to protect the [...]

Naked Aggression: ‘Libya assault planned months ahead’

(H/T Empire Strikes Black)

Middle East & Africa News and Disinfo

(If there are professional photographers set up to take pictures of crashing “rebel” planes, why are there no photos of Gadhafi troops advancing on rebel positions? Good question, huh?)

Look Over There! Look Over There! Nothing to See Here… Look OVER THERE!!!

by Scott Creighton While most of the MSM focuses entirely on Japan or the drifting fallout, winds of CHANGE are blowing through the Obama administration who are definitely taking advantage of the distraction. The president has chosen this particular moment in time to take up the question of gun control in the wake of the [...]

Yemen observes ‘Friday of Fury’

At least three killed as tens of thousands of demonstrators, both pro- and anti-government, march in several cities. from Al Jazeera English Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken part in anti-government demonstrations across the country, with pro-government supporters also rallying in several cities. Three people have been killed in the demonstrations with one of [...]

In Yemen, calls for revolution but many hurdles

Washington Post The pro-democracy protesters marched through the dusty streets of this Middle Eastern capital, voicing hope that the revolution unfolding in the Arab world would soon reach them. “Yesterday, Tunisia. Today, Egypt. Tomorrow, Yemen,” they shouted, trying to make their way to the Egyptian embassy. [read the rest, here]

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