The Global Realm

US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran
By Robert Parry
consortiumnews.com
February 18, 2010
Major U.S. news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, are engaged in a replay of the kind of slanted coverage that paved the way to war in Iraq, only this time regarding Iran.
The treatment of Iran’s election last June, the depictions [...]

Impending Explosion: U.S. Intensifies Threats To Russia And Iran
Rick Rozoff
Stop NATO
February 18, 2010
Washington and its NATO allies launched two of the three major wars in the world over the past eleven years in March – against Yugoslavia in 1999 and against Iraq in 2003. The war drums are being pounded anew and the world may [...]

The Wal-Mart Counter-Revolution
A Company That Fears Its Own Employees
By ADAM TURL
CounterPunch
February 19, 2010
“The commitment to stay union-free must exist at all levels of management–from the chairperson of the ‘Board’ down to the front-line manager. Therefore, no one in management is immune from carrying his or her ‘own weight’ in the union prevention effort.”
–from “Labor Relations [...]

Dubai murder strains Israel ties
Al Jazeera
February 19, 2010
Tensions between Israel and its European allies have mounted in the wake of the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas commander, in a Dubai hotel room.
The January 19 killing, which Dubai police have linked to Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, has caused concern in Europe as suspects [...]

Fatah members linked with assassination of Hamas commander in Dubai
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, is facing accusations of collusion with Israel after two former members of his Fatah faction were linked to the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month.
By Adrian Blomfield
Telegraph.co.uk
19 Feb 2010
The two men, who are both in custody in Dubai, [...]

Mossad’s licence to kill
The killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh bears the hallmarks of the ruthless Israeli intelligence service. One of the leading chroniclers of the agency gives a unique insight into its methods.
By Gordon Thomas
Telegraph.co.uk
17 Feb 2010
The Mossad assassins could have felt only satisfaction when the news broke that they had succeeded in killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, [...]

Russia Expands Military Presence on Black Sea
By Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Pravda.Ru
18.02.2010
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will become less vulnerable when it is deployed in Abkhazia, the former commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov believes.
“Taking into consideration the fact that the fleet is currently deployed in Ukraine’s Sevastopol, opening a new base [...]

Russian Iskander Missiles Coming Close to Europe To Counter Patriot Systems
By Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Pravda.Ru
16.02.2010
Moldavia asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to create a defense system in the Transdniestira region as a response to the plans of the US administration to deploy elements of missile defense system in Eastern Europe. As a result, Transdniestria might get Russian Iskander [...]

Dubai Police Aim for Arrest of Mossad Chief
Interpol Seeks Arrests of 11 Suspected Assassins
by Jason Ditz
Antiwar.com
February 18, 2010
Interpol has issued “red wanted notices” against 11 of the alleged assassins in the January Dubai killing of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The 11 are identified through photos from a security camera, but so far they have no [...]

IAEA: Possibility of Nuclear-Related Activities in Syria
New Report Sparks New Speculation, Lacks New Data
by Jason Ditz
Antiwar.com
February 18, 2010
Though the report did not appear to offer any new data with respect to the investigation, a new IAEA report on the Israeli attack on a building in the Syrian desert speculated that there was “the possibility of [...]