US and NATO troops training militants on the Syrian border

Hundreds of American and NATO troops are training militants on the Syrian border to overthrow Al-assad’s regime. The mainstream media (MSM) has finally begun reporting on these US operations, which have been going on for some 6 months now. (According to a former FBI official this has been going on since May 2011.) Sibel Edmonds, […]

What is NATO up to in Syria?

It was already established (see The shadow war in Syria Asia Times Online, December 2, 2011) that NATO had set up a command and control center in Turkey’s southern Hatay province – where British commandos and French intelligence are training the dodgy Free Syria Army (FSA *). The target: to foment a civil war engulfing […]

US drone bases throughout the Middle East

The Air Force is now negotiating with Turkey to relocate some of the Predator drones still operating in Iraq to the giant air base at Incirlik next year. Elsewhere in the Greater Middle East, according to Aviation Week, the military is launching Global Hawks from Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, piloted […]

The deepening rift between Israel and Turkey

As the rift between Israel and Turkey deepens, the Israeli media is preparing its crowd for another possible bloody conflict. Israel’s leading news outlet Ynet, published a detailed comparison between Israel’s and Turkey’s military capacity – it outlines the size of the air force, navy, ground forces in the respective countries. “Turkey”, it says, “possess […]

UN fact-finding mission: Israelis executed American citizen

The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla shows conclusively that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos. The report reveals that Dogan, a 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, […]

Jewish thoughts on Israel’s deadly raid of a Gaza-bound humanitarian convoy

If Operation Cast Lead was a turning point in the attitude of the world toward [Israel], this operation is the second horror film of the apparently ongoing series. Israel proved yesterday that it learned nothing from the first movie. [There has been international condemnation of Israel's deadly raid of a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid convoy. Turkey […]