World News

Investigate Daily | A recent paper claims that CO2 change precedes temperature change.

Reuters | People in the restive provinces of Homs, Hama and Idlib which have seen recent shelling by Syrian President’s forces, say situation was calm after the 6 a.m.

The New American | Dr. Brzezinski can count on the establishment press to sell plenty of copies and keep the royalties rolling in with favorable reviews and lots of face time.

RT | Infowars writer Patrick Henningsen explains how the UN peace plan is a trap for the Assad regime.

DEBKAfile | Washington sources report that, although Obama is still flat against broad US military intervention in Syria, administration circles feel America could no longer stay aloof from what is happening there.

RIA Novosti | Two Russian anti-submarine aircraft have flown over a Japanese destroyer preparing to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it passes over Japan’s territory.

London Telegraph | Isolated North Korea said on Wednesday it was injecting fuel into a long-range rocket “as we speak” ahead of a launch condemned by its neighbours and the West as a disguised long-range ballistic missile test.

RT | Syria is nothing but a pawn in a global geopolitical game, set to be sacrificed in order to curb the expansion of China, Russia and Iran, political analyst Jamal Wakim tells RT.

Kurt Nimmo | Elite dusting off alien invasion story in world government push.

Russia Today | Turkey says it’s considering a tough response following skirmishes between Syrian forces and rebels across its border.

News 24.com | Asian airlines said they will divert planes from the intended flight path of North Korea’s rocket as shipping in the area was warned on Tuesday to beware of falling debris.

DEBKAfile | At least 200 American and Arab Gulf fighter-bombers thundered overhead Sunday, April 8 at the outset of the biggest air force exercise ever conducted in the Gulf region.

India DNA | The US and South Korea will consider any missile launch by North Korea as serious provocation and a violation of its international obligations.

San Francisco Chronicle | Kelp off California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant accident.

Russia Today | President Mikhail Saakashvili is getting ready for a war with Russia, says Georgi Gugava, political secretary of the Georgian opposition Labor Party.

POLITICO | The White House is pushing back against the media for what it sees as oversaturated coverage of this week’s forthcoming North Korean missile test.

London Telegraph | Israel would not be able to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme in a pre-emptive air strike with its current airforce, forcing its leadership to look for alternative means of attack, an influential defence report has concluded.

London Telegraph | A last minute demand by Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government has been rejected by the opposition, as the prospect of a UN-brokered ceasefire looked increasingly bleak.

PA | Iran’s nuclear chief has hinted at a compromise offer from Tehran ahead of negotiations with world powers this week over the country’s controversial atomic programme.

RT | A South Korean news agency reports the North is preparing a new underground nuclear test.

Haaretz | Washington Post reports that CIA has collected intelligence on Iran for past three years, which boosts U.S. confidence during upcoming Iran talks.

London Telegraph | North Korea has threatened retaliation and “merciless punishment” against any country that shoots down the long-range rocket it is preparing to launch this coming week.

Agence France-Presse | Former spy chief Omar Suleiman, a pillar of the ousted regime, decided on Friday to run in next month’s presidential vote.

DEBKAfile | Moscow has stepped into the vacuum created by US President Barack Obama’s decision to stay out of any potentially incendiary Middle East involvement while campaigning for a second term.

Pepe Escobar | No; this was not a Monty Python sketch.

Reuters | Top Administration official believes Iran is taking notice of growing sanctions, bite has been swift on the oil trade.

Christian Science Monitor | Twenty-five cents a gallon — that’s about how much some international energy experts say the tough U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil industry are costing Americans at the pump.

BBC | Turkey has warned the UN it may need help if the flow of refugees from Syria continues at its current rate.

Globe & Mail | A survey shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing.

Richard Silverstein | When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When he’s OUR terrorist.

Reuters | China official Chen Xiaodong issues strongest warning yet against using force on Iran over its nuke program, says a strike would incur retaliation, drive up oil prices; Iran, world powers to restart talks this month.

RT | On Wednesday the first 200 US Marines of 2,500 arrived in Australia. In November of last year, President Obama announced that the US will amp up its presence in the Pacific.

Tony Cartalucci | They have created a problem to which their answer is military intervention.

RussiaToday | Al Jazeera has supplied Syrian rebels with satellite communication tools to ensure telephone and Internet connection.

BBC | A Grad rocket has landed in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, but has caused no damage or injuries, Israeli security officials said.

AFP | White House officials held talks with representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington this week, as the Islamist group threw itself into the fray in Egypt’s presidential election.

London Guardian | Online retailer’s British operation owned by company in Luxembourg which receives all payments for books, DVDs and other goods.

Press TV | Thousands have staged a demonstration in Athens near the site where an elderly man committed suicide earlier buckling under economic hardship.

RT | The first rotation of about 200 US marines has arrived in Australia on a six-month training deployment.

NHK World | Japan’s Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba says the country will call on the UN Security Council to take action if North Korea conducts its planned rocket launch.

Russia Today | At least 26 people have been killed as violence flares up once again in the western Libyan town of Zwara.

UK Daily Mail | A rocket carrying a top-secret payload blasted off from the California coast yesterday.

RIA Novosti | Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday described as “arrogant” a recent statement by U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul on missile defense.

Daily Bell | So now Uruguay is standing up to the US – a country that could turn Uruguay into a smoldering hole in the Earth with a single thermonuclear device.

DEBKAfile | Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a strong warning against a military attack on Iran Monday, April 2,, saying that a pre-emptive strike would violate international law.

Stephen Lendman | So-called “Friends of Syria” aren’t at all friendly to most Syrians. Syrian National Council/Free Syrian Army hostility is visible in daily violence they commit.

Daily Caller | The world’s most oppressive regime is “on its last legs,” according to a former director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council.

London Telegraph | North Korea is preparing to unveil a new long-range missile that is capable of striking targets in the continental US.

RT | The international envoy to Syria tells the UN Security Council there’s no progress in implementing a ceasefire.

London Guardian | “It’s a pretty terrifying prospect,” said Chris Coles of Drone Wars UK.