It’s a relief to know that President Obama’s “preferred” solution to dealing with disagreements with Iran is diplomacy, as he said yesterday in an interview on NBC TV, but at the same time, it’s profoundly disturbing that he is simultaneously saying that, as an AP report on the interview put it: he would “not take options off the table to stop Iran …

Dharma Sri Abeyratne Rasika Somarathna and Nimal Wijesinghe in Anuradhapura Sri Lanka celebrated the 64th anniversary of gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1948 with pomp and pageantry in the sacred and ancient city of Anuradhapura, under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday. The day’s events not only symbolized the freedom gained from the administrative, economic and …

(Excerpts from the book “Nobody’s People-The Forgotten plight of Sri Lanka’s Muslims” by Latheef Farook)  During the World War 11 the British government asked its colonies to support them assuring that they would be given independence once the war ended. Like rest of the British colonies, Sri Lanka too supported the British. In the aftermath of the War, agitation for …

Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran – Presstitute Alert Israeli facilities in North America — and around the world — are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase. "We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase … …

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2, 2012 (IPS) – The political heavy hitters were all there at a key Security Council meeting early this week to decide on the future of beleaguered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The lineup included U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Muhammad Al Thani, the Secretary-General of …

Ben Dyson explains how banks make 92% of their investments in non-productive businesses, like speculative property bubbles, which has led to the massive unemployment that we see and repetitive boom and bust cycles.  === Uploaded by PositiveMoneyUK  January 10, 2012 Ben Dyson gives clear answers to 3 Key Questions:  1) Who creates money?  2) How much money do they create?  …