AFP The United States warned Iran on Tuesday that “time and patience is running out” with its nuclear program, saying Tehran had shown no interest in allaying world fears. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Iran’s recent pronouncements showed “they have no interest in building international confidence that their nuclear program is for ...
PRINCETON, NJ -- A Gallup poll finds 61% of Americans viewing the military power of Iran as a critical threat to U.S. vital interests over the next 10 years. An additional 29% say Iran is an important, though not a critical, threat to the United States. The findings come as Secretary ...
Haiti is no stranger to adversity and anguish - over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to a dozen magnitude 7.0 or greater Caribbean region earthquakes in the past 500 years. The last major one was in 1946 at ...
Israel will not be complicit in a second Holocaust. If Iran or any other nation that has called for the destruction of Israel is about to acquire nuclear weapons, the Israelis will attempt to destroy that nation's uranium-enrichment facilities. In June 1981, Israel launched a successful air attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, and in ...
Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua say the US is using the international relief operation in Haiti as a cover-up for a military takeover. Bolivian President Evo Morales said that he will request an emergency UN meeting to reject what he calls the US military occupation of Haiti. "It's not right that the United States should use this natural ...
by Michel Chossudovsky A Haiti disaster relief scenario had been envisaged at the headquarters of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in Miami one day prior to the earthquake. The holding of pre-disaster simulations pertained to the impacts of a hurricane in Haiti. They were held on January 11. (Bob Brewin, Defense launches online system to ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Army is pursuing criminal charges against a soldier in Georgia who did not deploy to Afghanistan last year because she's a single mom and says she had no family able to care for her infant son. A spokesman for Hunter Army Airfield in ...
By Richard Sisk In and out of uniform, those who have served the nation in the military are killing themselves at rates never seen before. In November, Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff, said the 211 suicides in the Army in 2009 had already surpassed the record rate of 2008. Chiarelli called the problem ...