Category Archives: FBR in English

The Make-Believe Crisis in Iran

More Lies and Misinformation Weekend Edition October 5-7, 2012   by PATRICK FOY What if the White House were deliberately misleading America and the world about a major foreign policy issue involving war and peace, would it not be something worth investigating? What if, on top of that, the US Congress and Senate were going along with the subterfuge, remaining

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Anti-American Autumn Follows the Arab Spring

Beyond the manipulations underlying the film “Innocence of Muslims” and the assassination of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, the emotions and violence that have rocked North Africa and the Middle East are the direct consequences of a strategy. Washington has opened a Pandora’s box and now must weather the storms it has itself unleashed. Unfortunately, being caught in its own

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Where The Yellow Lemon Blooms (Video)

05.10.2012 . Branko Ilic, Serbian FBReporter         At the end of the 1915th , in the second year of the First World War, with the beginning of attack the powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire on the small Kingdom of Serbia, Serbian people, its army and government have found themselves facing the greatest temptation in total its history. On Serbia United armies

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Radical Islamist leader threatens Serbia

05.10.2012 Branko Ilic , Serbian FBReporter   Source: Beta BUCHAREST — Radical Islamist leader Omar Bakri has warned that terrorist attacks would be launched against Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and other countries in the region.      Sheikh Omar Bakri (in picture), a Syrian Islamic leader.Bakri led the Al-Muhajirun movement, close to al-Qaeda, until 2004, which was involved in the bomb attacks

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Barcelona’s unemployed detail social tragedy engulfing Spain

By our reporters 5 October 2012 Since the outbreak of the economic crisis in 2008, unemployment in Spain has risen from 8 percent to nearly 25 percent, over double the European Union average. Amongst young people it has risen from 22 percent to 53 percent. In the poorer regions, including Extremadura, the Canary Islands and southern Andalucia, the unemployment rate

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Colombia’s FARC Guerrillas “Took Up Arms to Make Ourselves Heard”

By Patricia Grogg Sandra Ramírez on Havana’s malecón, or seaside drive. Credit: Patricia Grogg/IPS HAVANA, Sep 27 2012 (IPS) – It’s hard to imagine her in guerrilla fatigues, carrying a 25-kg backpack and firing shots to repel an enemy attack, or diving for cover from aerial bombardment. She is known as Sandra Ramírez, and she has left the field of

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European Union demands further cuts in Greece

By Christoph Dreier 5 October 2012 Last weekend, representatives of the troika—the European Central Bank (ECB), European Commission (EC) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)—returned to Athens to discuss a third package of budget cuts with the Greek government. Officially, the troika has the task of preparing a report on Greece’s budgetary situation for the European Union (EU) and IMF

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Revolution Becomes A Tourist Destination In Nepal

By Countercurrents.org 04 October, 2012 Other than ecotourism, there are varieties of tourism including village tourism, development tourism, pro-poor tourism, slum tourism, outer space tourism, tiger tourism, learning from people tourism, education tourism, and war tourism. Climate crisis tourism, civil war tourism and military intervention tourism may follow. Whatever it’s, it fetches money. The distribution of tourism money is a

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