Asian stock markets plunged Tuesday after the collapse of Lehman Brothers caused a meltdown on Wall Street

British journalist Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of Tony Blair, announced that the port of Gaza “is now free to receive boats from all around the world.”

As this is a compilation of public statements, this doesn’t seem to be anything really juicy like a leak of classified documents, but it is certainly interesting and perhaps useful for research.

The Syrian Army is attacking several towns and villages in Lebanon. Lebanese President Sleiman doesn’t seem to mind.

Like the Russian air contingent, the Russian flotilla is also bigger and more formidable than Russian and Venezuelan spokesmen have indicated.

Washington is testing the Turkish government’s response to the permanent anchoring of US warships at either of the two Georgian ports of Poti or Batumi.

now they fear their Sahwa councils will be disbanded instead, leaving them both disarmed and jobless at a time when Al-Qaeda is likely to be seeking them out for revenge.

But we are the sole superpower. We are Israel’s closest friend. We have an obligation to lead for the sake of peace.

Moscow has decided to finally finish building Iran’s nuclear reactor in the southern town of Bushehr before the end of the year

Russia halts cooperaton with NATO, says it won’t install nukes but might sell anything to Syria that Assad asks.

An attack on Iran by Israel, with serious damage or even the destruction of both would suit the west, the Arab League, and the Russian Federation.

Iranian and Syrian rulers are so pleased with their unforeseen success in outmaneuvering the West that they called an urgent summit for follow-up planning.