Selected Articles: Southeast Asia, Syria, Ukraine, GMOs
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines: Southeast Asia “Forgets” about US Sponsored Terror
By Andre Vltchek, October 05 2015
Southeast Asian elites “forgot” about those tens of millions of Asian people murdered by Western imperialism at the end of and after the WWII. They “forgot” about what took place in the North – about the Tokyo and Osaka firebombing, about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, about the barbaric liquidation of Korean civilians by the US forces. But they also forgot about their own victims…
Syria President al-Assad Interview: “New Anti-terrorism Coalition Must Succeed, Otherwise the Whole Region Will Be Destroyed”
By Bashar al Assad, October 05 2015
Transcript (in English) of President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with Iran’s Khabar TV on October 4.
New York Times Moving into High Spin Denigrating Vladimir Putin on Syria
By Peter Koenig, October 05 2015
“The specter of mass protest – of mob rule – seems to have haunted Vladimir V. Putin throughout his political life, and that fear lies at the heart of his belief in the primacy of state authority. It also informs Russia’s forceful intervention in Syria. NYT, 4 October 2015.”
US Tax Dollars and Ukraine’s Finance Minister
By Robert Parry, October 05 2015
The U.S. government is missing – or withholding – audit documents about the finances and possible accounting irregularities at a $150 million U.S.-taxpayer-financed investment fund when it was run by Ukraine’s Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, who has become the face of “reform” for the U.S.-backed regime in Kiev and who now oversees billions of dollars in Western financial aid.
Wales Announces Complete Ban on GMOs With 15 Other EU Countries
By Christina Sarich, October 05 2015
The Welsh Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans, has announced that the country will take advantage of new EU rules allowing countries to opt out of growing EU-authorized GM crops. Yep – Wales is moving forward with a complete ban on biotech’s seed!