Tag Archives : Syria

Former U.S. president George W. Bush (2001-2009) ordered the Pentagon who planned attacks on Iran and Syria, he said in his autobiography “Decision Points“, which launched yesterday. The U.S. says to keep “all options on the table” over Iran, which Washington accuses of seeking to develop a bomb with its nuclear program. Tehran [...]

Water scarcity has ceased to be a desertification issue in dry regions. The phenomena of climate change and global warming have now come into consideration. Arching over these serious problems are the twin realities of food shortage and hunger. All these are connected to the most basic problem of water shortage. Scott James in blue living ideas reports [...]

In the spring of 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated. Lebanon was plunged into some very profound questions that challenged everything it knew up until then regarding the connection between politics and religion, a fate that has long befallen the Arab world. Beirut Diaries, a documentary directed by a Palestinian-American, [...]

Turkey has finally loosened its alliance with the West and ‘turned its focus toward its former Ottoman neighbors in Asia and the Middle East.’ Pursuing this trend, ‘it will be as strategically significant for the balance of power in the region as the emergence of Iran as a preeminent power thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the later [...]

Although suffering a steady and growing censorship, more and more Chinese use the Internet to express their opinion using the great ease to write good articles, and at the same time circumvent government control. “The Chinese bloggers are the smartest in the world. In addition to writing a good and interesting article, they should think how to [...]

Intel Corporation, which is one of the biggest and most successful manufacturer of computer processors and chips have been issued a ‘show cause notice’ by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for trading with countries such as Iran, Syria, Cuba and Sudan. The U.S State Department has classified these countries as sponsors [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is worried about the possible link between nuclear North Korea and military-ruled Myanmar. Her primordial concern about any such ties has something to do with the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. North Korea has shown to be one country that is fully armed. There is also the possibility [...]

Euphrates is drying. Strangled by the politics of the neighbors’ from Iraq water, Turkey and Syria; two years of drought and years of inadequate use for Iraq and their farmers, the river is significantly smaller of the than there are just few years. Some authorities fear that soon can be the half than it was. The shrink of Euphrates, such a crucial [...]

North Korea has been a confirmed impoverished nation, replete with malnourished citizens and dependence on international food aid. The country is also wracked with famines. Moreover, it has been known as a failing economy. So, how then can it afford all the nuclear weapons that it has been testing under its missiles and nuclear weapons program? The [...]

Two senior US officials held high-level talks in Syria on Saturday in another sign of a warming of ties between the two countries. Jeffrey Feltman, acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, and Dan Shapiro of the White House’s National Security Council are the first senior US officials to visit Syria since January 2005. Feltman [...]