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Frank Anderson worked for the CIA from 1968 until 1995. According to his unclassified biography, he served three tours of duty in the Middle East as an agency station chief, headed the Afghan Task Force (1987-1989), and was chief of the Near East Division. He now runs a consulting practice that focuses on the Middle …
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The 10 stories the US mainstream news media ignored. The juiciest one of all: Halliburton sold key nuclear-reactor components to an Iranian company as late as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as …
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When George W. Bush made his first State of the Union Address “Speech to the Nation” in January 2002, he deployed the expression “axis of evil”. Thanks to his own foreign policy, Bush helped bring his own nightmare to life. But the president’s biggest act of axis-enhancement was tying up our military in Iraq and …
In Brussel zijn een aantal asielzoekers begonnen aan een hongerstaking. Hiermee hopen ze (sneller) een verblijfsvergunning te krijgen. Maar het is toch Ramadan voor alle moslims?
A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane involved in a mission in Afghanistan crashed while returning to its base in the United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot, the military said Wednesday. Euh, ja… “Spioneren boven Afganistan.” Dat zal wel. Als je van Afganistan naar de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten vliegt, kom je dan toevallig niet over …
De landen die eergisteren werden bestempeld als nieuwe landen van de ‘Axis of evil’ hebben ondertussen hun ongenoegen laten blijken. Zimbabwe De Zimbabwaanse minister van Corruptiebestrijding, Didymus Mutasa, zei op de Britse zender BBC dat de VS problemen zullen krijgen als zij pogen Zimbabwe aan te vallen, zoals eerder Irak. De Iraki’s hebben de Amerikanen …
