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US must back Israel war on Iran: Senate legislation
US Senator Lindsey Graham
A bipartisan group of US senators are pushing for a legislation to force the government to prop up any military action that the Israeli regime adopts against Iran in “self-defense.”
The non-binding measure, introduced by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), is actually aimed at pushing President Barack Obama to intensify sanctions against Iran and...
Argentina MPs approve deal with Iran
Argentinean lawmakers have approved an agreement with Iran to probe the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
According to the agreement, approved by Argentina’s Congress on Thursday, an independent “truth commission” would be established to investigate the attack.
“I am no one’s puppet. The country is no one’s puppet. We assume our political commitment...
Feinstein: "Bad Things Happen" Because of 2nd Amendment
California Democrat senator and dedicated gun-grabber Dianne Feinstein went on the Piers Morgan Show earlier this week and blamed the “gun culture,” the NRA and Wayne LaPierre for mass shootings like Sandy Hook.
After shamelessly exploiting dead children and grieving parents to push her anti-Second Amendment agenda, Feinstein attacked LaPierre, who said last weekend:
I’ve been amazed at how...
Israel angry after Turkish PM calls Zionism "crime against humanity"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is furious at his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for describing Zionism “a crime against humanity.”
“I strongly condemn the comparison that the Turkish prime minister drew between Zionism and fascism,” Netanyahu said on Thursday, adding, “I had thought that such dark and libelous comments...
36 die in violent clashes in DR Congo
A column of Congolese Army soldiers walk towards the frontline between two tanks, near the village of Kibumba, some 13 kilometers from Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on July 29, 2012.
A spokesman for the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) says at least 36 people have lost their lives following clashes between the Congolese army and a rebel group, called...
Americans denied right to free speech: Analyst
The US has eroded freedom of speech, moral values and human rights for the American people over the past decades, a political activist tells Press TV.
“[US President] Barack Obama came into office as a constitutional professor and we have seen him do more damage to our constitution than even George Bush did,” said Tighe Barry, an activist with the CODEPINK group.
The advocate further criticized...
North Korea admits to have nukes, tips it can strike US mainland
A North Korean missile is displayed during a military parade in Pyongyang.
North Korea says Washington should be ‘acutely aware’ that the US mainland is within the range of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons.
A member of the Korean National Peace Committee said in an article posted on the official website Uriminzokkiri on Wednesday that Washington should be “acutely aware that the US mainland is now...
Germany green lights Turkey to EU membership 'hoping for Turkish votes'
“In recent times, negotiations have stalled somewhat and I am in favor of opening a new chapter in order to move forward,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Turkey for an official visit.
Meanwhile, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the delay in talks ‘unforgivable.’
Previously Merkel`s conservative Christian Democratic Union spoke against full Turkish membership, favoring...
US officials secretly visited North Korea
North Korea’s Leader Kim Jong Un among military authorities.
US officials have made two clandestine trips to North Korea in the past year in efforts to sway its new and younger leader Kim Jong Un into softening his nation’s stance towards Washington.
The brief visits in April and August by a White House official and other US authorities were aimed at encouraging the new leadership to moderate...
Obama to threaten Iran with military strike in June 2013
President Barack Obama says the United States could launch an attack on Iran as early as this June, Israeli media reports.
According to a report on Israel’s Channel 10 News that has since been picked up by the Times of Israel, Pres. Obama will use an upcoming meeting overseas to discuss a military strike on Iran. Pres. Obama is scheduled to visit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next month,...
UK seeks US backing on Falklands
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and William Hague, the UK Foreign Secretary, in joint press conference in London.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry came under intense pressure by the British authorities on Monday to reveal what stance Washington may choose to take on the dispute over Las Malvinas Islands (the Falklands), local media reported.
On his first foreign trip as Secretary of State, John...
New Bill set to set mandatory Army service for every US citizen
This week Charles Rangel, a crazy politician from New York who has recently been pushing for regulations on private gun ownership, is now putting forward a bill that would force young people to take up arms for the state, or at least work in some uniformed way to help the government with their never ending war effort.
H.R. 748 would require everyone from 18-25 to join:
“uniformed services or as...
US deploys troops to Niger
The US military has deployed about 100 troops in Niger to help coordinate intelligence sharing with the French, whose forces are currently fighting to seize Islamist-controlled territory in Mali, President Obama announced Friday.
The US forces are armed with “weapons for the purpose of providing their own force protection and security,” Obama said in a letter to Congress, adding that Niger officials...
Russian Communist Poster: Comrades, Turn In Your Weapons!
Gun control advocates claim historical gun grabs by tyrannical regimes are a “myth”.
This 1918 Communist propaganda poster from the Russian civil war serves as yet another reminder that tyrannical regimes throughout history have always sought to disarm their populations through gun control.
The poster shows Russian citizens turning in their rifles, handguns and even swords as a communist soldier...
Stalin's son joined the Nazi forces in Operation Barbarossa against the USSR
Doting father: Josef Stalin, pictured with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, disowned his son Yakov in 1928
A Soviet archive has yielded up one of the last secrets of World War Two that dictator Josef Stalin took to his grave – the fact his son Yakov gave himself up to Nazi forces during the 1941 invasion of his country.
The party line in Stalin’s Russia was always that Yakov Dzhugashvili,...