September 20, 2015
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Genocide in Yemen
By Stephen
Lendman |
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Yemen is Obama’s war - cold-blooded
genocidal slaughter and mass destruction,
planned long before conflict began in late
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Why They Hate Us
By Fred Reed
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They hate us because we are the most
murderous nation on the planet. They hate
our insufferable smugness.
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Local forces kill over 100 Nusra
Front militants in Syria's Idlib:
The Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen satellite channel said in
a report on Saturday that the militants were killed
after local forces repelled fresh attacks by the al-Nusra
Front in the al-Fo’aa and Kefraya villages in Idlib.
Syria : 14 Killed in Rebel
Shelling of Northern City:
At least 14 civilians, including seven children, were
killed Sunday when rebels in Syria shelled a
government-controlled neighborhood in the northern city
of Aleppo, the government and an activist group said.
Rocket Shelling of Syrian Latakia
Port City kills 14:
Militants of the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate in
the country, using Grad rocket launchers, have shelled
the Syrian port city of Latakia, killing 14 civilians
and injuring over 40, a hospital employee told RIA
Novosti on Sunday.
Propaganda alert:
Russian troops already engaged in
battle against ISIS around Homs:
Contrary to the impression conveyed by Moscow that
Russian troops in Syria are not engaged in combat and
that none of the sophisticated arms deliveries were
destined to the Syrian army, new developments belie both
these claims.
75 U.S.-trained mercenaries enter
Syria from Turkey:
Seventy five Syrian rebels trained by the United States
and its allies to fight Islamic State have entered
northern Syria since Friday, the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said on Sunday.
Ceasefire between government
forces & militants begins in 3 Syria battlegrounds:
Two villages, Fuaa and Kafraya, in northwestern Idlib
province, which are still controlled by the government,
and a rebels’ stronghold in the town of Zabadani at the
Lebanese border are subject to a ceasefire beginning
Sunday at noon, a member of the town council, told AFP.
Russia constructs first foreign
camp in Syria for internal refugees:
The camp for 500 refugees consists of 25 army tents
fully equipped for living, a field kitchen, a canteen,
showers, two mobile power generators and a water-storage
facility. The dwelling tents are equipped with beds and
heating furnaces for cold weather.
Iraq: 20 ISIS militants killed by
food poisoning in western Mosul:
“20 gunmen from ISIS were killed
in the district of Baaj west of Mosul, because of their
exposure to food poisoning, including a leader called
Abu Zeidan.” Mamouzini added that “unidentified had put
toxic substances in the food of the militants.”
Gunmen kill judge, 3 bodyguards
in Iraq's Kirkuk: -
Unidentified gunmen on Sunday killed a judge and three
of his bodyguards in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk
in northern Iraq, a local police chief said.
Saudi-led strikes kill 11 Yemen
rebel prisoners:
Saudi-led air strikes on a security complex in central
Yemen controlled by Shiite rebels killed 11 people on
Sunday, some of them prisoners, witnesses and medics
said.
Israel assisting UAE in
aggression against Yemen:
The Israeli regime is providing logistic and material
assistance to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in its
military offensive against Yemen, reports say. Israeli
regime military officers are also training the UAE
officers on urban and irregular warfare.
Fury after Saudi Arabia 'chosen
to head key UN human rights panel':
The United Nations has been criticised for handing Saudi
Arabia a key human rights role - despite the country
having “arguably the worst record in the world” on
freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents.
At least five killed in suicide
bomb attack in northern Cameroon:
At least five people were killed in a suicide bomb
attack on Sunday in the northern Cameroon town of Mora,
military sources said, in what appeared to be the latest
cross-border attack by Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist
militant group.
Suicide Bomber Kills Four Near
Libya's Misrata, Air Strikes Hit Tripoli Outskirts:
At least four people were killed and more than 20
wounded by a suicide bomb attack on a security
checkpoint east of the Libyan city of Misrata, a local
official news agency reported on Sunday.
US kills seven people in
Pakistan: A US drone
on Friday fired two missiles at a moving vehicle in
South Waziristan Agency (SWA), killing at least seven
suspected militants. However, local sources
said nine civilians were also killed in the strike.
Croatia 'forcing' Hungary to take
in refugees: Croatia
has said it had "forced" Hungary to take in thousands of
refugees, and would continue sending them to its
northern neighbour, amid deepening discord in Europe
over the biggest westward migration in decades.
US to accept extra 30,000
refugees over two years, says John Kerry
: The US will accept an extra
30,000 refugees from around the world over the next two
years, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday, as
the Obama administration came under further pressure to
take in more victims of the Syrian civil war.
Corbyn faces rebellion over
bombing ISIS in Syria:
British bombing of ISIS targets in Syria is becoming
increasingly likely as half the shadow cabinet are
prepared to rebel against Jeremy Corbyn and vote with
David Cameron in favour of airstrikes, the Sunday Times
reports.
British MI5 Paying Muslim
Informants for Spying on Suspects:
The informants are paid to monitor and target key
individuals and sites, such as mosques. Despite not
being formally on a payroll, the informants are paid up
to 2,000 pounds (US$3,000 dollars) for carrying out
these short-term tasks.
With Little Fanfare, FBI Ramps Up
Biometrics Programs :
This is not OK. The government should not collect
information on Americans for a non-criminal purpose and
then use that same information for criminal purposes
Text of Raul Castro's speech
after Pope Francis' arrival:
U.S. embargo 'is cruel, immoral and illegal,' Cuban
president says
Chinese-Built High-Speed Rail May
Be in the Works Between Los Angeles, Las Vegas:
China Railway will join XpressWest for the project, with
the hope of starting construction as early as September
2016. China Railway International USA, which announced
yesterday it's investing $100 million in the project, is
a consortium led by China Railway, the national railroad
of the People's Republic of China.
Bernie Sanders On Cutting
Deficit: "Every Major Defense Contractor Has Been
Convicted Of Fraud":
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said he would look to the
defense budget for spending cuts and try to "make it a
much more efficient budget than it is."
Watch: Shut Up!': Bernie Sanders
Defends Israel from Town Hall Hecklers:
Video
Republican candidate Carson says
Muslims unfit to be U.S. president:
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Sunday
said Muslims were unfit to be president of the United
States, arguing their faith was inconsistent with
American principles. "I would not advocate that we put a
Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not
agree with that," Carson told NBC's "Meet the Press."
No More Jet Skis, Maine Tells
Food Stamp Recipients:
The state announced this week that it will disallow
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for
childless households with certain assets worth more than
$5,000. |
September 19, 2015
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Corbyn’s Dilemma
By William Bowles |
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This
is JC’s reality; he has to work within the
‘system’, a system created by capitalism,
for capitalism.
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The Audacity of
Integrity
By Paul
Edwards |
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Bernie, You’ve got most of what Jeremy has.
You’re a good man. Have you got the courage
to embrace what’s right instead of what’s
“realistic”?
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Fools, Fascists and
Cold Warriors: Take Your Pick
By Robert
Scheer |
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Most of the GOP contenders appeared as a
shrill echo of the neo-fascist European
movements of late, adopting the traditional
tactic of blaming the most vulnerable for
economic problems the most powerful have
caused.
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Al Qaeda fighters execute 56
Syrian soldiers, activists say:
Al Qaeda-affiliated militants summarily executed 56
Syrian government soldiers days after wresting control
of a strategic airbase in the northwestern part of the
country, a monitoring group said Saturday.
Sources Detail Skewed Reports On
How The U.S. Is Doing Against ISIS:
The Pentagon is looking at whether senior military
officials at U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, pressured
intelligence analysts into painting a rosy picture of
the fight against ISIS.
Who Created ISIS? 81-85% of
Syrian Blame America
: 82 percent said that they believe the Islamic State
was created by the United States and its allies.
Russia doesn’t rule out airbase
in Syria, but has no plans for construction:
A number of Western media outlets reported that Russia
has been creating an air base in an airfield near the
Syrian city of Latakia with the US officials expressing
their “concern” over reports of Russia’s alleged
military presence in Syria.
Kerry says Syria's Assad must go
but timing negotiable:
"We need to get to the negotiation. That is what we're
looking for and we hope Russia and Iran, and any other
countries with influence, will help to bring about that,
because that's what is preventing this crisis from
ending," said Kerry.
Kerry: Russian fighter jets in
Syria raise serious questions:
The United States is disturbed by Russia's movement of
tactical aircraft to Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry said Saturday, acknowledging that the jets could
pose a threat to American and allied military forces.
If Assad asks, China can deploy
troops to Syria: The
Assad government is currently still the legal and
UN-recognized government of Syria, despite only holding
1/3 of its territory. If Assad asks and gives permission
for Russia, China and other SCO members to assist him
militarily, that would be in accordance with
international law.
Islamic State Group Now Controls
Key Drug Trafficking Routes:
According to some estimates, the group could be making
US$1 billion per year from drug trafficking. Russian
United Nations Envoy Vitaly Churking warned Thursday
that Moscow received information on the Islamic State
group confirming the group now controls an important
narcotics supply route from Afghanistan.
Turkish jets hit Kurdish
"militant" camps in Iraq, at least 55 killed: sources:
At least 55 "militants" were killed when Turkish
warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in
northern Iraq overnight, security sources said on
Saturday, as Ankara shows no sign of easing up strikes
on insurgents ahead of a Nov. 1 election
22 ISIL Militants Killed in Iraqi
Federal Police's Shelling East of Ramadi:
Chief of the Iraqi Federal Police Lieutenant General
Raed Shaker Jawdat said that his forces' bombing of
terrorists' positions in the Eastern flank of Ramadi
resulted in the killing of at least 22 militants and
wounding of many more.
Saudi-led airstrikes kill 30 in
Yemen's capital: agency:
At least two residential neighborhoods in the Old City
of Sanaa, a world heritage site, were hit by several air
raids that destroyed houses, shops and public
properties, the Saba news agency said.
Abbas to meet Putin in Moscow
next week: Visit of
PA president comes as Netanyahu also heads to Russia,
now an increasingly central Middle East player
Taliban Attack on Pakistan Air
Base Kills 29; Including 16 in Mosque:
At least 29 people, including members of the Pakistan
Air Force worshipping at a mosque, were killed Friday
when Taliban militants launched a terror attack at an
air base near Peshawar, officials said.
9 police killed in separate
attacks in Afghanistan:
Up to nine police personnel were killed in separate
attacks in Afghanistan overnight Friday, officials said
on Saturday.
Major general recommends no
prison for Bergdahl:
The Army officer who conducted the investigation into
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s disappearance says he doesn’t
believe Bergdahl should go to prison for walking away
from his post in Afghanistan six years ago.
12 Somali soldiers killed in Al-Shabaab
attack: officials:
Twelve Somali government soldiers have been killed in an
attack by Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab militants,
officials and witnesses said Saturday. The attack
occurred early Friday at a military base in the
Yaq-Bariweyne area about 100 kilometres south of the
capital Mogadishu.
At least 10 killed in Burkina
Faso clashes: At
least 10 people have been killed and 113 injured in
clashes since this week's military coup in Burkina Faso,
a hospital source said on Saturday. The main hospital in
the capital Ouagadougou had previously given a toll of
six dead. Trade unions said on Saturday that "around 20
have been killed by bullets".
Air Force Times runs ad urging
drone pilots to disobey orders:
A US veterans’ organizations is running an advertisement
in Air Force Times urging military drone operators to
refuse orders to fly attack missions. This comes as the
Air Force encounters trouble retaining drone operators
due to the stress of the job.
How the U.S. Waged Germ Warfare in the Korean
War and Denied It Ever Since”:
It is a historical fact that the United States
carpet-bombed and napalmed North Korea, killing nearly 3
million civilians
Ukraine soldier killed by
landmine in separatist east:
A Ukrainian soldier was killed, and another injured,
after stepping on a land mine in the war-torn separatist
east, but a new ceasefire deal remains in place, a
military spokesman said Saturday.
Putin gives go-ahead to Belarus
airbase plan:" Putin
said in a statement he had agreed a government proposal
to sign a deal for the military airbase and ordered
defense and foreign ministry officials to start talks
with Belarus. The plan is not expected to face major
obstacles.
Pentagon updates plans for war
with 'potentially aggressive' Russia – media:
The Pentagon is reportedly reviewing and updating its
contingency plans for a war with Russia for the first
time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with a
defense official telling US media that Russia's
“actions” prompted the assessment.
Over 4,500 migrants rescued off
Libya in one day:
Twenty rescue operations on Saturday (Sep 19) picked up
over 4,500 people off the Libyan coast, according to the
Italian coastguard, which was coordinating the response
for yet another boat in distress in the Mediterranean.
35 MILLION migrants heading to
Europe, says Hungary as it builds second fence:
The huge figure was revealed today by Hungary's minister
for foreign affairs and trade Peter Szijjártó. Speaking
as the country begins work on its second fence to stop
migrants heading across its border he predicted the
current crisis will continue for years.
How Queen Elizabeth II profits
from the arms trade :
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is one of the world's
richest women, worth £17 billion. Her investments in the
arms trade include firms that produce the uranium used
in depleted uranium (DU) shells.
One million people tune in to
watch Jeremy Corbyn's first battle at Prime Minister's
Questions: Video -
BBC bosses have revealed their ratings were close to a
record for the weekly dogfight as Labour's new leader
chose six issues from the public.
House GOP: Syria refugee
resettlement could be 'backdoor for jihadists':
Republican members of the House Committee on Homeland
Security have raised concerns that the Obama
Administration’s plans to resettle thousands of Syrian
refugees in the United States could provide a “backdoor
for jihadists” into the country, underscoring security
fears that refugee advocates say are alarmist.
With refugee vetting In US, ISIL
infiltration risk ‘overblown’:
Since President Barack Obama announced his plan to
accept 10,000 vetted Syrian refugees into the country,
critics have rehashed a perennial anti-resettlement
argument: that enemies of the United States will exploit
American hospitality to sneak in operatives and attack
the country from within
FactCheck: Carson, Walker stretch
facts on Syrian refugees:
Two Republican presidential candidates who oppose
President Obama’s plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees
stretched the facts to support their policy position:
US to Pay $1 Billion to Native
Tribes: In a historic
settlement, the U.S. federal government agreed to pay
almost one billion dollars to Native American tribes,
ending 25 years of litigation over the government’s
failure to fully cover service costs on reservations.
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In Case You Missed It
Russia and the
Changing World
By Vladimir
Putin |
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A string of armed conflicts under the
pretext of humanitarian concerns has
undermined the principle of national
sovereignty, which has been observed for
centuries.
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Obama’s Fateful
Syrian Choice
By Robert
Parry |
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Obama can either work with Russia’s
President Putin to stabilize Syria or he can
opt for a confrontation that could lead to
an open-ended war with grave risks of
escalation.
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Listening to Bashar
al-Assad
By The Saker |
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The first thing which impressed me about him
is that he simply makes sense. No offense
to anybody here, but most Arab leaders make
no sense at all.
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Corporate Press Fails
to Trump Bigotry
By Chip
Berlet |
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Trump should be held accountable on a moral
basis by the media for his using the tools
of fear, such as demonization and
scapegoating, that put real people at risk
for attacks.
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Syrian jets pound ISIS-held areas
for second day:
Syrian army jets carried out at least 25 air strikes on
the ISIS-held city of Palmyra on Friday, a group
monitoring the war said, the second intense bombardment
of territory held by the militants in two days.
Syria would request Russian
troops if needed but no combat troops now: minister:
"There is no joint fighting on the ground with Russian
troops but if we felt such a need we would study it and
ask," Moualem told state television.
Russia: If Syria asks us to send troops, we’ll
consider it: Russia
would consider sending troops to fight in Syria if
Damascus asked for them, a spokesman for President
Vladimir Putin said Friday. If such a request is made,
it will be “discussed and considered,” Peskov said.
US, Russia defense chiefs break
silence to discuss Syria crisis:
The Pentagon said the call lasted about 50 minutes and
included an agreement for further U.S.-Russian talks
about ways to keep their respective militaries out of
each other's way, something known as "deconfliction" in
military parlance.
Saudi led air strike kill 14 pro-govt
fighters by 'mistake':
"The air force bombed a gathering of fighters in the
region of Harib believing them to be Huthi rebels," a
military source said.
Shelling from Yemen kills 3 in
Saudi border region:
Shelling from across the border in Yemen killed three
people in Saudi Arabia Friday and wounded 28, the civil
defense agency said.
Violence in Jerusalem as
Palestinians stage 'Day of Rage' after Al-Aqsa clashes:
Accounts on the violence vary. According to The Times of
Israel, a Palestinian rioter and three Border Police
officers were injured in the Mukaber neighborhood in
southwest Jerusalem. The incident reportedly began when
Border Police in the East Talpiot area came under a
deluge of petrol bombs and stones.
Israel approves use of police
sniper fire against Palestinian rock-throwers - reports
: Attorney General
Yehuda Weinstein, has accepted a proposal by Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow the use live sniper
fire by police if needed to quell riots on Temple Mount,
reported the Jerusalem Post.
President Abbas plans to 'drop
bombshell' in anticipated UN speech:
Some Palestinians predicted that he would either
announce his resignation or the cancellation of the Oslo
Accords with Israel.
Watch: Palestinian child
confronts Israeli occupation forces:
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Video: Palestinian elder
fearlessly confronts Israeli soldiers:
This video shows a Palestinian elder with a paper model
of the kind of rocket the Palestinian resistance fires
from Gaza as he fearlessly confronts Israeli occupation
forces in the Bab al-Zawiya neighborhood of the occupied
West Bank city of Hebron on Friday.
IS claims attack on Tripoli
airport, 3 killed:
Militants attacked Tripoli's airport on Friday and
killed three security personnel, a Libyan official said,
in an assault claimed by the Islamic State jihadist
group.
Egypt Bans Publication On Killing
of Mexican Tourists Investigation:
The ban includes all media outlets and only allows for
official statements issued from the prosecution office
to be published
Afghanistan: 5 ISIS loyalists
killed in an airstrike in Nangarhar province:
According to the local government officials, the
militants were killed in a drone strike carried out by
the coalition security forces.
Indian army kills four near
Pakistan border in Kashmir:
Indian soldiers shot dead four suspected rebels Friday
near the heavily militarized border in Kashmir as they
tried to sneak in from the Pakistani side of the divided
territory, an army spokesman said.
7 dead as Libya tanker rescues
over 100 migrants: At
least seven bodies were recovered, including a child,
and four pregnant women were listed as missing, as an
oil tanker rescued 102 migrants from the Mediterranean
off Tripoli Friday.
Another drowned Syrian toddler
washes up on beach: report:
The yet-to-be identified girl was found lifeless on a
beach in the Aegean town of Cesme in Izmir province
after a boat carrying 15 Syrians to the Greek island of
Chios sank, the official Anatolia news agency said.
Hungary Is Callous, Xenophobic,
anti-Muslim, UN Rights Chief Accuses:
High Commissioner Zeid deplores Hungary's treatment of
refugees, says it reveals true colors of current
government
Croatia refuses to accept
refugees, partly closes borders with Serbia:
Croatia has closed seven of its eight border crossings
with Serbia overwhelmed by a huge surge of refugees
turned away by Hungary. PM said Croatia will not accept
or accommodate asylum seekers any longer.
US report proves Lithuania hosted
CIA 'black site' - lawyer:
A US Senate report proves that Lithuania hosted a secret
CIA jail for terror suspects a decade ago, a lawyer for
a Saudi-born Guantanamo detainee claimed on Friday.
30k Finns protest govt-planned
cuts, nationwide strike grinds country to a halt
: Finnish trade
unions have launched a national one-day strike
protesting against austerity measures. Some 30,000
people have taken to the streets of Helsinki rallying
against the government’s plans to aid the economy at the
expense of workers.
Assange says French president
'stabbed me in back':
The head of the whistleblowing website told Society
magazine that France's rejection of his request in July
followed discussions at the highest levels.
Mexico is outraged over citizens
killed in Egypt but ignores the dead at home:
The killings in Egypt come at a time when the president
is accused of a sham investigation surrounding the
murders of 43 rural students in Iguala last year
New Data Reveals U.S. Far From
Freest Country in the World:
At the top of the list was Hong Kong, followed by
Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, United Arab
Emirates, Mauritius, Jordan, Ireland, and Canada. The
United Kingdom and Chile tied at #10. The United States
followed behind at #16, continuing a downward trend that
has grown for several years.
US Immigrant Detention Centers
Violate Civil Rights Of Detainees:
In a report released Thursday, the commission criticized
immigration enforcement officials for routinely
violating detained immigrants’ rights and recommended
the immediate release of families from the detention
centers.
GOP’s Dreams Of Denying
Birthright Citizenship To Immigrants Are Becoming
Reality In Texas: GOP
candidates eager to end birthright citizenship need look
no further than Texas, where local country registrars
have started to make that situation a reality for
hundreds of immigrant parents living along the border.
Orleans Parish court system
operating 'modern debtors' prison,'A
class-action lawsuit accuses the Orleans Parish criminal
court system of using illegal warrants to arrest the
city's poorest citizens in what amounts to a "modern
debtors' prison."
Bernie Sanders Unveils Ambitious
Plan To End Private Prisons:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is officially taking on the
country’s private prison industry. By introducing a bill
that would ban government contracts with private
prisons, the presidential contender is quickly becoming
the loudest advocate for criminal justice reform among
his competitors.
Demand Bernie Sanders Retract His
Defamatory Propaganda about Hugo Chavez (RIP):
Sanders used the deceitful language of the US Empire and
propaganda media to call Hugo Chavez a "dead communist
dictator."
Trump doesn’t correct rally attendee who says
Obama is Muslim and ‘not even an American’:
Trump was also asked what he would do to get rid of
Muslim "training camps" and responded: "We're going to
be looking at a lot of different things." |
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General Petraeus
Calls For Recruiting Al Qaeda
By Bill Van
Auken |
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Washington
is fighting neither against terrorism nor
for “democracy” and “human rights.” It is
prosecuting another predatory war of
aggression aimed at securing a US
stranglehold over the Middle East.
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The Dirty Role of the
West in Syria
By Fragkiska
Megaloudi |
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WikiLeaks cables revealed that up to 6,3
million dollars was funneled to the Movement
for Justice and Development, a Syrian
dissidents organization based in London.
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Anti-Russian
Propaganda
By Margaret
Kimberley |
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“The Obama administration ought to be
embarrassed for spreading lies but the media
should be more ashamed for repeating it.”
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The Squirming Buddha
By Robert C.
Koehler |
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The world hemorrhages. Refugees flow from
its wounds. Is there a way to be innocent of
this?
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These Colors Don't
Run...The World
By Jack Perry |
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You’re expected to accept every lie you’re
told by this farce of a government. Even
more hilarious is they expect the rest of
the world to accept those lies also.
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Syrian army air raids kill at
least 53 in rebel-held areas of Aleppo: monitor:
Fifteen children were among the dead, the Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Activists: Syrian govt launches
heavy air raids on ISIS-held Raqqa:
Syrian warplanes mounted around a dozen airstrikes on
the ISIS-held city of Raqqa Thursday, activists
reported, in an unusually heavy attack by government
forces on an area also being targeted by a U.S.-led
coalition.
Syrian army starts using new
weapons from Russia: military source:
"New weapons are being delivered, and new types of
weapons. The Syrian army is being trained in the use of
these weapons. In fact, the army has started using some
of these [weapon] types," the source said in response to
a question about Russian support.
The Syrian Crisis is Part of a
Proxy War Waged on Russia by the West:
Syria is just one zone of engagement in a much wider war
against Russia that has been taking place since Putin
started to stand up to the West.
U.S. training helped mold top
Islamic State military commander:
Batirashvili’s battlefield successes, including
orchestrating the capture of Syria’s Menagh Air Base
after two years of failed attempts, “helped to
legitimize ISIS in militant circles, including in the
North Caucasus,” Cecire said.
Few U.S.-Trained
Syrians Still Fight ISIS, Senators Are Told:
Only four or five Syrian individuals trained by the
United States military to confront the Islamic State
remain in the fight, the head of the United States
Central Command told a Senate panel on Wednesday, a
bleak acknowledgment that the Defense Department’s $500
million program to raise an army of Syrian fighters has
gone nowhere.
John McCain calls Syria rebel
training program by US a 'failure':
“There were only about 60 Syrian fighters that had been
trained in our Train and Equip Program and reinserted.
Can you tell us what the total number of trained
fighters remains?” He replied: “It’s a small number. The
ones that are in the fight is we’re talking, four or
five.”
Fact or fiction
Russian helicopters spotted at
Syria airfield: U.S. officials:
The United States has identified a small number of
Russian helicopters at a Syrian airfield, U.S. officials
said on Wednesday, the latest addition to what
Washington believes is a significant Russian military
buildup in the country.
Fact or fiction?
Russia moves into Syria to boost
Assad, send signal to West:
"This is an attempt to ensure Russian views on the
future of Syria and the fight against (IS) cannot be
dismissed," he said.
This Is The
Satellite Image That Supposedly Proves The Presence Of
Russian "Troops And Aircraft" In Syria:
In a day of diplomatic snafus by the Pentagon, which
first admitted it had spec ops forces in Syria (remember
when it was just "advisors" and the Obama administration
was blaming Russia for escalating the conflict by daring
to join the fight against ISIS and sending its own
troops in Damascus) then promptly retracted
Russia denies reports of proposal
for Assad ouster; The
statement came in response to an interview published on
the website of the British daily The Guardian on Tuesday
in which former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari
revealed the details of a private meeting in 2012 where
Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin
had allegedly urged “an elegant way for Assad to step
aside.”
Australian jets complete first
attack against Islamic State in Syria:
Australian fighter jets have destroyed an armored
personnel carrier belonging to Islamic State (IS), the
first operation by Australian forces in Syria, Defense
Minister Kevin Andrews said on Wednesday.
Kerry says Russia proposes
military talks on Syria:
The Obama administration said Wednesday is was
considering how to respond to a Russian proposal for
military talks over Syria,. U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry said he was talking to the White House and
Pentagon about the Kremlin proposal, which was made
during phone calls with his Russian counterpart Sergei
Lavrov in recent days.
Int’l anti-ISIS coalition flawed,
you can't fight evil with illegal methods – Lavrov:
"Unfortunately, we consider the [international]
coalition to be built on a flawed basis. We of course
share the principles of combatting terrorism, but you
cannot fight evil with illicit wars," Lavrov said.
Engineering consent for increased
military budget -
Russia’s Assertive Moves Weigh on
Pentagon Plans for 2017 Budget:
Russia’s increasing assertiveness in Europe and the
Middle East is reshaping the U.S. defense budget for the
coming fiscal year, according to Pentagon Comptroller
Michael McCord.
This new map captures the
gigantic size of American military spending:
The chart illustrates how America’s military budget
surpasses our next 15 closest rivals—combined. with only
5% of Earth’s population, the US military budget makes
up nearly half of the planet’s "defense" spending.
Iraq: Baghdad market bombings
kill at least 23: The
attacks targeted police checkpoints in the Wathba and
Haraj markets during morning rush-hour, police said.
9 killed in Saudi-led strikes on
Yemen: medics: At
least nine Yemeni civilians were killed in airstrikes by
Saudi-led warplanes that targeted the home of a leader
in the dominant Houthi movement in the capital Sanaa,
medical sources said on Thursday.
The UN Says: US
Has Killed More Civilians in Yemen Than al Qaeda:
The data on drone strikes came from the latest report on
Yemen issued by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner
For Human Rights (OHCHR), which compiled accounts of
human rights violations from July 1, 2014 to June 30 of
this year.
Yemen: Exiled PM Khaled Bahah
back to form government:
Soon after pro-government forces drove Houthi rebels
from the strategically important port city of Aden,
exiled Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah has returned
to the war-torn country along with numerous members of
the defunct cabinet to form the government.
Netanyahu to tell Putin that
Russian weapons transfers to Syria threatening Israel:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Moscow
next week to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and
discuss Russia’s recent (alleged) troop deployments in
Syria, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Wednesday.
Israel calls Iceland capital's
boycott 'pure hatred':
Israel has lashed out at a boycott of its products by
the Icelandic capital's city council over the occupation
of Palestinian territory, describing it as a "volcano of
hatred"
Saudi to crucify man arrested
when he was 17: Saudi
Arabia has dismissed the final appeal of a juvenile
prisoner set to be crucified. Ali Mohammed Al-Nimr was
arrested aged 17 after participating in anti-government
protests in 2012. He was accused of protesting illegally
and being in possession of firearms.
At least 100 killed in South
Sudan oil tanker blast:
At least 100 people were killed in South Sudan when a
crowd tried to gather fuel from an oil tanker that had
veered off the road on its way to a region west of the
capital Juba, the presidential spokesman said Thursday.
4 soldiers killed, 10 wounded in
Somalia: military: At
least 4 Somali soldiers killed, 10 others wounded in
southern Somalia, military officials said on Thursday.
IS claims killing of Egypt police
general: Assailants
in a car gunned down General Khaled Kamal Osman during
an inspection of a police unit in the North Sinai
provincial capital El-Arish late on Wednesday, the
interior ministry said.
Elite troops declare Burkina Faso
coup, 'dissolves' political institutions:
Burkina Faso's presidential guard declared a coup
Thursday a day after seizing the interim president and
senior government members, as the country geared up for
its first elections since the overthrow of longtime
leader Blaise Compaore.
5 Afghans killed, 41 injured in
Taliban plotted car bomb:
A total of five people including the bomber were
confirmed dead and 41 others injured as a car bomb
rocked Paghman district, 20 km west of Afghan capital
Kabul city on Wednesday, police said.
2 Taliban militants killed in
northern Afghanistan clash:
Two Taliban militants were killed and three others
injured in a clash erupted outside Jauzjan's provincial
capital Shiberghan on Wednesday, police said.
Japanese parliament descends into
violence over bill to allow troops to fight abroad:
The bill in question proposes that the military, or
self-defence forces as they are known in the country,
have the option to fight abroad to defend the interests
of its allies even if there is no direct threat to
Japan.
Hungary Tear Gases Refugees, UN
Chief 'Shocked':
Hungary's crackdown on refugees and migrants has sparked
outrage from it's neighbor Serbia, and U.N. Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon.
Migrants break through Croatia
police lines at Tovarnik:
People waiting for hours in blazing heat at Tovarnik
grew frustrated, though the situation is quieter now.
Croatia to block refugees from
entering Slovenia:
Interior minister says refugees will have to seek asylum
in Croatia as thousands stream in from Serbia.
Turkey threatens to oust refugees
camped near Greek border:
Authorities warn hundreds of people trying to reach
Europe by land they will be forcibly removed in three
days if they refuse to leave
Climate Change Will Cause the
World's Next Migration Crisis:
According to this new study, the percentage of land
affected by serious drought has doubled from the 1970s
to the early 2000s. One third of the world appears
vulnerable to further land degradation. About half of
our planet's agricultural land is moderately or severely
degraded.
Global warming's one-two punch:
extreme heat and drought:
These extremes present financial and
social costs that will increase as we continue to warm
the planet.
AVG can sell your browsing and
search history to advertisers:
AVG's potential ability to collect and sell browser and
search history data placed the company "squarely into
the category of spyware", according to Alexander Hanff
security expert and chief executive of Think Privacy.
Prisoners’ Struggle Ends
Indefinite Solitary Confinement:
Confirming Frederick Douglass’s adage, “Power concedes
nothing without a demand,” prisoners held in solitary
confinement for many years in California have won an
unprecedented victory.
Watch: It takes 9 cops to detain
US teen for jaywalking (VIDEO)
: The footage begins with the cop restraining the young
man and then starting to beat the teenager with a baton.
7 Kids Not Named Mohamed Who
Brought Homemade Clocks to School And Didn't Get
Arrested: Below are
seven students, not named Mohamed, who got off scot-free
for the heinous crime of DIY timekeeping, plus a bonus
kid who brought an actual inert bomb to school and
wasn’t suspended. |
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Who’s to Blame for
Syria Mess? Putin!
By Robert
Parry |
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In the bizarre world of elite American
opinion, Russia is engaging in “dangerous”
acts when it assists an internationally
recognized government fighting a terrorist
menace.
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Greece – The Day
Democracy Died in Europe
By Peter
Koenig
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New elections
are just a week away. Without a drastic –
and fearless – change in
political and economic thinking, Greece and
for that matter the rest of Europe may just
have reached the end of the rope..
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Saudi-led strikes kill at least
54 Yemenis - Houthi-run agency:
Strikes by Saudi-led coalition aircraft killed at least
54 people in attacks across Yemen on Tuesday, including
four children, the Houthi-run Sabanews.net news agency
and residents said.
Saudi airstrike kills ten in
Yemen's Sanaa: A
Saudi-led coalition airstrike killed ten people in a
suburb in Yemen's capital Monday, Reuters reported.
Residents and medical sources told Reuters the airstrike
that targeted a government building killed seven from
the same family in the Waalan area in southern Sanaa.
At least 38 killed in Syrian
insurgent shelling of western Aleppo:
At least 38 people, including 14 children, were killed
on Tuesday when Syrian insurgents shelled three
government-held neighborhoods in western Aleppo, the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Suicide
attack in northeastern Syrian city kills 7:
A suicide car bomber struck in a predominantly Kurdish
city in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, killing seven
people, a day after twin car bombings in the same city
killed at least 32, including 19 civilians.
Putin: ISIS has designs on Mecca,
Medina, Jerusalem, endangers Europe & Russia:
The situation is very serious, Putin said, adding that
Moscow is very worried that IS terrorists are publicly
announcing their designs on Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
The jihadists also plan to spread their activities to
Europe, Russia, central and southeastern Asia.
Putin seeks consolidation of
Assad and opposition efforts to combat terror in Syria:
"Obviously, it will be impossible to drive the
terrorists out of this country and the region as a whole
without the active involvement of the Syrian authorities
and the military, without the Syrian army's involvement
on this territory in the fight against Islamic State, as
the military say," Putin said.
Russia calls on US for dialogue
on Syria: Kremlin
spokesman says talks between Moscow and Washington on
solving Syria crisis are indispensable, Reuters reports.
Assad: Europe Must Stop
Supporting Terrorists to End Migrant Crisis:
"If you are worried about them, stop supporting
terrorists. That’s what we think regarding the crisis.
This is the core of the whole issue of refugees," Assad
said in an interview with Russian reporters
IS making 'significant progress'
in Syria's Aleppo region: France:
In parliament, Jean-Yves Le Drian pointed to "the very
significant progress of Daesh (IS) in Syria at this very
moment," as he defended France's decision to conduct
surveillance flights over Syria with a view to carrying
out air strikes.
No friend of America, UK's Corbyn
faces test over Syria airstrikes:
No fan of Britain's "special relationship" with the
United States, the new left-wing leader of the country's
main opposition party is against Prime Minister David
Cameron's drive to join Washington's air strikes on
Syria.
16 killed in clashes with IS
militants in Iraq's Anbar:
A total of 16 people were killed and 28 others wounded
on Tuesday in an airstrike and separate clashes with
Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq's western province
of Anbar, provincial security sources said.
Jewish Man Dies as Rocks Pelt His
Car in West Bank: — A
Jewish man died early Monday morning after attackers
pelted the road he was driving on with rocks as he was
returning home from a dinner celebrating Rosh Hashana,
the Jewish New Year, the Israeli authorities said. Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency meeting
to discuss rock-throwing, mostly by Palestinian youths.
Clashes erupt in Silwan after
Israeli settler attacks 8-year-old boy:
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center, located in Silwan,
said 8-year-old Zaid Abu Qweidir was attacked by a group
of Israeli settlers in the neighborhood. More than 20
Israeli settlers arrived on the scene, many of whom used
pepper spray against Palestinians as young as
five-years-old, the information center reported.
70 militants killed in fresh
operations in Afghanistan:
Some 70 Taliban militants have been killed during
military operations in different Afghan provinces, the
Afghan Defense Ministry said on Tuesday morning.
5 civilians, 1 soldier killed in
eastern Afghanistan's attack:
About five civilians and one army soldier were killed
when militants attacked a vehicle in Afghanistan's
eastern province of Ghazni on Tuesday morning, the
provincial government spokesman said.
N Korea resumes normal operations
at nuclear facility:
Analysts in Seoul said the rocket launch announcement
suggests an imminent nuclear test. "A nuclear test
without a long-range rocket test is not effective," said
Lim Eul Chul, a North Korea expert at South Korea's
Kyungnam University. "The vicious circle is being
repeated."
U.S. set to back NATO invitation
to Montenegro: White House:
Allowing NATO membership for the former communist nation
could escalate tensions between Russia and the United
States and other members of the Western alliance amid
the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
Migrant shipwreck off Turkey
kills 22, police bar route to Greece:
Eleven women and four children were among the victims of
the latest migrant shipwreck in the Aegean Sea, where
three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi drowned two weeks
ago, the Dogan news agency said.
Hungary declares state of
emergency over refugee influx:
Police arrest almost 10,000 people for illegally
crossing border with Serbia, as tough new asylum laws
come into force.
Hungarian police block main
migrant crossing point from Serbia:
Dozens of police officers, backed by mounted police and
soldiers, took up positions on a railway track used by
migrants to cross the frontier into the European Union.
A helicopter circled overhead.
Refugees start sit-down hunger
strike on Hungary-Serbian border - reports:
"I will sit here until they open the border. I cannot go
back to Syria. Life in Syria is finished," a Kurd from
Syria, who called himself Bower, told Reuters.
Charlie Hebdo Causes Outrage with
Drowned Toddler Cartoon:
The satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo sparked
outrage Monday after its latest issue featured a cartoon
mocking the drowning of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan
Kurdi.
Jeremy Corbyn's full speech to
TUC: Video - Newly
elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn address the TUC;
"The first thing I did on being elected was go and speak
at a rally and say refugees are welcome here...they're
human beings like you and me".
Yanis Varoufakis on Jeremy Corbyn
and capitalism:
"Don't fear the media."
Guantánamo force-feeding videos
released to US court in redacted form:
News outlets work to see eight tapes revealed to public
as attorney for released detainee Abu Wa’el Dhiab calls
depicted actions ‘a national scandal’
Musk-have WiFi: Internet
everywhere if Elon Musk’s 4,000-satellite idea gets US
greenlight : Elon
Musk’s idea of launching 4,000 satellites around the
world to bring internet to every corner of the planet
has moved to the next phase: the genius inventor is
securing government permission to begin testing the
technology.
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September 14, 2015
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US Drones Attack
Syria’s Military
By Stephen
Lendman |
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Numerous civilians were killed. According to
Syrian military sources, covert US drone
strikes against its forces and positions
happened before, part of Washington’s phony
war on ISIS.
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How to End the
Refugee Flood
By Eric
Margolis |
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How to stop today’s flood of political
refugees? Halt the western-led war against
Syria. Today. Cease arming and funding the
anti-Assad jihadis.
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"Psychopaths Are
Running The World"
By Tyler
Durden |
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“We don’t operate under international law;
we have the law of the jungle in which the
rich and powerful basically determine what
goes and what doesn’t go.”
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Where Is Our Jeremy
Corbyn?
By Chris
Hedges |
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Corbyn, like Syriza in Greece and Podemos in
Spain, is part of the new popular resistance
that is rising up from the ruins of
neoliberalism and globalization to fight the
international banking system and American
imperialism.
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In Syrian Kurdish city, IS
suicide car bombings kill 26:
Two car bombings, half an hour apart, killed 26 people
on Monday in a predominantly Kurdish city in
northeastern Syria, the country's state-owned media and
activists reported, in an attack swiftly claimed by the
Islamic State group.
Russia: Military planes carry
materials for Syrian tent camp:
- Russian military cargo planes have taken supplies to
Syria to set up a tent camp for more than 1,000
refugees, Russia's Defense Ministry said Saturday as the
main Syrian opposition group blasted Moscow over its
military presence in the Arab country.
Fact or fiction?
Russia building airstrip at
airport in Syria's Latakia, says monitor:
"Russian forces are building a long runway capable of
accommodating large aircraft near the Hemeimeem military
airport in Latakia province," the Observatory said,
adding that hundreds of Russian technicians and military
advisers had been brought to the site.
Fact or propaganda?
US officials: Russia positioning
tanks at Syria airfield:
One of the US officials said seven Russian T-90 tanks
were seen at the airfield near Latakia, a stronghold of
Syrian President Bashar Assad. The two US officials said
Russia had also positioned artillery there.
UN urges Moscow to set up
anti-ISIS coalition:
"Russia is committed in multi-vectoral
efforts to ensure the implementation" of President
Vladimir Putin's initiative of setting up a broad front
against ISIS threats, "with the participation of key
international actors and Middle Eastern countries,
including Syria and Iraq,"
Germany's Merkel sees need to
cooperate with Russia on Syria:
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with his
Russian, French and Ukrainian counterparts in Berlin on
Saturday evening and said afterwards he saw growing
support for creating an international contact group to
solve the Syrian conflict.
Syrian war seen displacing a
million more this year: U.N. official:
Yacoub El Hillo, U.N. resident and humanitarian
coordinator in Syria, said the conflict had already
displaced one million people within Syria so far in
2015, with intensified fighting in much of the country
now in its fifth year of war.
12 IS Militants Killed in Iraq
Clashes: At least 12
IS militants were killed in clashes with security forces
in Iraq's western province of Anbar, while a US-led
coalition air strike destroyed a vehicle bomb factory,
sources said
ISIS executes 30 of its elements
for planning operations against it, says Kurdish
official: – Media
official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul
Saeed Mamouzini said on Sunday, that ISIS has executed
30 of its elements for planning operations against the
organization.
US troops arrive in Iraq’s
Habbaniyah air base:
Nearly 160 US soldiers arrived from Kuwait aboard to the
Habbaniyah air base, east of Ramadi western Iraq,
yesterday to participate in the operation to recapture
the city from Daesh.
Iraq tells Turkey to coordinate
its strikes on PKK :
Iraq’s foreign minister has called on Ankara to
coordinate with Baghdad in its military campaign against
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in northern
Iraq following accusations that Turkish forces crossed
the border into Iraq last week.
At least 16 Yemeni civilians
killed in Saudi-led air strikes: medics:
Two civilians were killed in the capital and ten people
from one family died in Taiz. Eyewitnesses said the
strikes appeared to target the houses of political
leaders allied to the Houthis.
Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians
in Yemen War: Errant
coalition strikes have ripped through markets, apartment
buildings and refugee camps
Errant Civilian Airstrikes Turn
Yemenis Against The U.S.:
Half the people killed in Yemen's conflict have been
civilians, Amnesty International reports.
US Kills Four People In Yemen:
A US drone strike against the Jawf Province destroyed a
car, killing all four passengers within. The slain were
referred to as “suspected al-Qaeda members” by local
tribesmen, though as usual none of them were identified
by name.
Yemeni Army Captures Saudi
Military Base in Jizan:
Yemeni forces have taken control of a Saudi military
base in the southwestern border province of Jizan as
part of retaliatory offensives against Saudi Arabia’s
ongoing invasion of their country.
Five Saudi troops killed on Yemen
border: coalition: A
coalition statement yesterday did not say how the army
soldier and four Border Guard troops died in the
kingdom’s southern Najran region.
Away from spotlight, Israel and
U.S. begin post-Iran deal security talks:
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is expected in Washington
in mid-October for talks with his U.S. counterpart
Ashton Carter. They will discuss an aid package that
Israel will receive from the United States following the
ratification of the nuclear accord.
Mexican tourists killed by
Egyptian security forces:
Security forces in Egypt have mistakenly killed 12
people, including Mexican tourists, during an
anti-terror operation, the interior ministry says.
10 militants killed in S.
Afghanistan: Afghan
security forces during a crackdown against Taliban in
Musa Qala district of the southern Helmand province on
Monday have killed 10 insurgents and injured six others,
an army spokesman in the province, Mohammad Rasoul Zazai
said.
Senior al-Qaeda commander among
eight killed in Paktika:
The al-Qaeda commander is identified as Khuram alias
Qasim, Junaid, Hassan and Khadma.
Hundreds of inmates escape as
Taliban raid Afghan jail:
Taliban fighters storm prison in eastern Afghan province
of Ghazni, freeing hundreds of inmates, police officials
say.
Australia: Tony Abbott: Ousted
: Tony Abbott has been ousted as Australia’s Prime
Minister after Malcolm Turnbill won the leadership for
the Liberal Party. Here we take a look at the outgoing
PM's most controversial moments.
Malcolm Turnbull: Who is
Australia's latest Prime Minister?
: Rich and famous, combative and ambitious, Malcolm
Turnbull has lived a life full of glittering success.
His political career is now at its peak after he secured
the ultimate achievement, successfully challenging Tony
Abbott for the Liberal leadership and winning the ballot
54-44.
Austria deploys army to boost
refugee checks, Slovakia brings back border controls:
The Austrian army has been sent to assist in introducing
tougher border checks amid the growing migrant crisis,
Reuters cited the country’s vice-chancellor as saying.
Amid migrant crisis, Hungary to
tighten police controls until Sept 30:
Hungary is racing to complete a 175-km (109 mile) fence
along its southern border with Serbia by early October.
Tougher penalties on illegal border crossings and people
smuggling will also take effect on Tuesday.
EU approves military action
against Mediterranean people smugglers:
EU member states approved on Monday plans for military
action against people smugglers in the Mediterranean,
seizing and destroying boats to break up networks
operating out of Libya, sources said.
Israeli Soccer Fans Hold
'Refugees Not Welcome' Banner:
As soccer fans across Europe express their solidarity
with Syrian asylum seekers with “Refugees Welcome”
banners, supporters of an Israeli team have demonstrated
a much harsher sentiment.
Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet in
full: Labour leader
has finalised political appointments, with John
McDonnell, Hilary Benn and Andy Burnham among those in
top positions.
The Telegraph calls Jeremy
Corbyn's shadow chancellor a "nutjob":
But the headline didn't stay that way for long.
Following complaints about such an offensive label, it
was tweaked to give McDonnell a slightly more flattering
description, as "a man from cloud cuckoo land".
U.S. Military to Reopen Base in
Iceland?: The U.S.
government has expressed its opinion to Icelandic
authorities that considering increased Russian
aggression there may be reason to reopen the U.S. Navy
base in Iceland; the U.S. Armed Forces operated the
Naval Air Station in Keflavík as a NATO base from 1951
to 2006. Its location was considered to be of great
importance during the Cold War.
Why does the US have 800 military
bases around the world?:
Video - The US has about 800 military bases in other
countries, And it costs a lot of money to keep them
open. Why are they there in the first place?
Federal Taxes Set Record $19,346
Per Worker; Despite
the record tax revenues of $2,883,250,000,000 in the
first eleven months of this fiscal year, the government
spent $3,413,210,000,000 in those eleven months, and,
thus, ran up a deficit of $529,960,000,000 during the
period.
‘Not your BMW!’: Woman sues NYC
after being forced into psych ward by police, injected
with drugs : A black
New York woman is suing the city and a hospital after
being injected with heavy drugs and forced to spend
eight days in a psych ward – all because police did not
believe she owned a BMW. She was slapped with a $13,000
hospital bill upon release.
Robots are going to steal the jobs:
Some jobs, like doctors, are safe — but others could be
gone very soon
Sanders Surges in IA, NH; Clinton
up in SC: Bolstered
by support from liberal Democrats, Bernie Sanders tops
Hillary Clinton in primary voters' preference in both
the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, while
Clinton holds a lead in South Carolina. |
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The West Torments
Iran
By Andre
Vltchek |
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The West is horrified by the specter of a
united, internationalist, anti-imperialist
block. That is why Iran is now under attack.
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The Birth of a New
Politics?
By Matt Carr
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Corybyn shattered his opponents and left
them stupefied and seething, all fake
smiles, pursed lips and slow handclaps, as
he thanked and praised them and outlined a
new agenda that most of them could barely
believe that they were hearing.
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Clashes
near Damascus kill 80 in six days:
The deaths came in clashes that began on Tuesday when
two prominent Islamist rebel groups launched
simultaneous attacks on three areas outside the capital.
Syria: 16
Zabadani rebels killed in fresh Hezbollah advance
: The Syrian army
and Hezbollah have advanced further toward the center of
the Syrian border town of Zabadani, trapping rebels in
one square kilometer area, Al-Manar TV reports
Syrian war
seen displacing a million more this year: U.N. official:
One million more people will be displaced within Syria
by the end of the year if the war there continues
unabated, potentially adding to the flow of refugees to
Europe, a senior U.N. official said.
Mapping
the Syrian refugee crisis across Europe: in pictures:
This map from the European Commission shows the extent
to which Syrians have been displaced from their homes.
While 7.6 million are considered internally displaced,
many have crossed over into bordering countries, with
more than 1 million seeking refuge in Lebanon and almost
2 million in Turkey. Others have headed to Jordan, Egypt
and Iraq.
Excluding
Syrian army from fighting ISIS is absurd – Lavrov:
The Syrian army could be a crucial force in fight
against Islamic State, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov said, reiterating that Russia will support the
Syrian government in the fight against the extremist
group.
Lavrov: US
knows ISIS positions, refuses to bomb:
Russia has information that the US know the specific
location points of the "Islamic State" (extremist
organization banned in Russia), but did not give an
order to strike on the positions "of the IS," said
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Where did
ISIS come from? How was it able to gain land, arms and
money so quickly?:
ISIL [also known as ISIS] is a direct outgrowth of
Al-Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion. Which is
an example of unintended consequences. Which is why we
should generally aim before we shoot. President Barack
Obama noted
Fact or propaganda?
Russia
Sending Advanced Anti-aircraft Missiles to Syria:
Moscow is sending an advanced anti-aircraft missile
system to Syria, two Western officials and a Russian
source said, as part of what the West believes is
stepped-up military support for Syria.
Russia
vows military support for Syria:
"There were military supplies, they are ongoing and they
will continue. They are inevitably accompanied by
Russian specialists, who help to adjust the equipment,
to train Syrian personnel how to use these weaponry,"
Lavrov said on Sunday.
Two
Russian planes deliver humanitarian aid to Syria:
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the planes
brought matrasses, blankets, beds, heaters, portable
kitchens, and so on, to the war torn region.
Fact or propaganda?
Majority of French people favor
sending troops to Syria: poll:
Some 56 percent of those questioned were in favour of a
ground intervention as part of an international
coalition, according to an Ifop poll for Sunday
newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
At least 12 IS militants killed
in clashes with security forces in Iraq's Anbar:
Fierce clashes erupted in Fallujah University compound
and the nearby Haiyakel area, just south of the IS-held
city of Fallujah, which located some 50 km west of the
Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on
condition of anonymity.
Eight people killed in Iraq's
Baghdad, Diyala: In
Baghdad, five people were killed and 19 others injured –
mostly civilians – by four bombs that went off in the
province’s Al-Azamiya, Al-Tarmiya, Al-Mashtal districts,
and by another that rocked central Baghdad’s Al-Mansur
neighborhood, according to the same police source.
ISIS executes 32 Iraqi soldiers,
15 of its elements in Mosul, says Mamouzini-:
“The organization fears people who have a relationship
with the Iraqi government such as employees and
ex-employees of the army,” pointing out that “ISIS
recently began the implementation of random executions
to strike fear among the population of Mosul.”
Clashes,
militant bombing kill nine in southeast Turkey:
Kurdish militants killed two police officers in a car
bomb attack on a checkpoint in southeast Turkey on
Sunday, as authorities imposed a curfew in the region's
largest city Diyarbakir where clashes broke out,
security sources said.
Turkey
reinstates curfews after deadly clashes with PKK:
Curfews reimposed in Kurdish cities of Cizre and
Diyarbakir following car bombing at police checkpoint.
At least
16 Yemeni civilians killed in Saudi-led air strikes:
medics:
At least 16 Yemeni civilians including ten people from a
single family were killed in nationwide air strikes by a
Saudi-led military coalition on Saturday, medics in
three provinces said.
Number of
UAE soldiers killed in Yemen rises to 52:
The bodies of all killed at the depot that had not been
identified were transported to Saudi Arabia. The General
Command of the UAE Armed Forces revealed on Saturday
that the death toll of Emirati soldiers had been raised
to 52.
Yemen's
exiled president Abed Mansour Hadi backs out of talks
with rebels:
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi fled Yemen earlier
this year, and his government is currently based in
Saudi Arabia, which is leading a US-backed coalition
that has been striking the Iran-supported rebels from
the air since March.
Israeli
forces storm Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa, injuring dozens:
Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Sunday when
Israeli security forces stormed occupied East
Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and
attacked Muslim worshippers, according to witnesses.
Champion
of Palestinian rights wins leadership of UK Labour Party:
The veteran left-wing lawmaker and vocal supporter of
Palestinian rights took almost 60 percent of the vote,
trouncing the establishment candidates Yvette Cooper,
Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall.
9 killed
in blast outside bus terminal in central Pakistan:
Several of the wounded from the explosion Sunday night
in the city of Multan are in critical condition. He
blamed the blast on a remote-controlled bomb. Another
government official, Zahid Saleem, said it appeared to
be a suicide attack.
Concern
mounts over UK role in Pakistan drone attacks:
MoD refuses to confirm if military at US base are
involved in airstrikes
US Kills
Five Alleged Afghan Militants:
At least five
alleged Taliban militants were killed and two others
were injured in the aerial attack carried out in
Marsangi area of Lal Pur district on Saturday, Khaama
press reported Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal,
Nangarhar province police spokesman, as saying.
China
intends to oust dollar from oil trade:
China is planning to launch its own oil benchmark in
October, similar to Brent and WTI, striving for a more
important role in establishing crude prices. Unlike the
Western benchmarks, the Chinese contracts will be
nominated in the yuan, not the US dollar.
Official:
Suicide bombers kill 7 in north Cameroon town:
An official in Cameroon says seven people died in
suicide bombings in the northern town of Kolofata, which
has been repeatedly targeted by Nigeria's Islamic
extremists Boko Haram.
More
refugees drown as boat capsizes off Greek island:
Authorities say 28 refugees, half of them children, have
drowned as boat sinks off Greek Island of Farmakonisi.
Germany
halts trains from Austria, introduces border controls:
Austrian train operator OeBB says Germany has stopped
all trains coming in from the country, and Germany’s
Interior Ministry has abruptly introduced “temporary”
border controls with Austria. More than 2,100 extra
police have been dispatched to secure the borders.
Czechs
boost controls on Austrian border over migrants:
minister:
"The Czech Republic is boosting measures on its border
with Austria. Further steps will be determined according
to the number of refugees heading to the Czech
Republic," Interior Minister Milan Chovanec told public
Czech Television.
Hungary
speeds up fence building as criticisms mount:
With the criticisms from Austria’s chancellor ringing in
their ears, likening their treatment of migrants and
refugees to Nazi holocaust deportations, the Hungarians
are busily trying to finish their razor-wire fence along
the Serbian border.
Austria
lets migrants keep streaming in at record rate:
While those announcements were made, people continued to
pour into Austria from Hungary. The police said 8,400
had arrived on Sunday by the early evening, and the day
was set to be the busiest at the border since the wave
began last weekend.
Defence
Secretary Michael Fallon: Corbyn 'a risk to security':
Conservative Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said
the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn presents a big
"risk" to Britain's national and economic security.
The scale
of Jeremy Corbyn's victory is the final insult to Tony
Blair:
For all the apocalyptic warnings from Tony Blair, Corbyn
achieved a bigger win than even he managed in 1994.
Manipulated intelligence: US spy chief's 'highly
unusual' reported contact with military official raises
concerns
: James Clapper said to have frequent communication with
military official who is said to be implicated in a
Pentagon inquiry into manipulated intelligence
Expatriates choosing to leave the U.S. rather than pay
taxes:
More Americans renounced their citizenship and
terminated their long-term residency in the first three
months of the year than ever before, courtesy of the
crackdown in foreign tax rules. |
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9/11 Fourteen Years
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By Paul Craig
Roberts |
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Directed by a beardy-guy from a cave in
Afghanistan, nineteen hard-drinking,
coke-snorting, devout Muslims enjoy lap
dances before their mission to meet Allah.
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Syria: 27
killed in Zabadani clashes:
Seven Hezbollah fighters were killed over the past 24
hours in Syrian rebels attacks on the group's positions
near the embattled Syrian border city of Zabadani, a
source close to the party told The Daily Star Friday.
Syrian
forces kill 16 foreign militants in Latakia province:
Syrian government forces killed 16 foreign militants in
the country's coastal province of Latakia, the state
news agency SANA reported on Friday. SANA said that the
killed militants were from Libya, Turkey and Saudi
Arabia.
Russia
sending advanced air defences to Syria - sources:
Moscow is sending an advanced anti-aircraft missile
system to Syria, two Western officials and a Russian
source said, as part of what the West believes is
stepped-up military support for embattled President
Bashar al-Assad.
Russia
calls on other nations to help arm Syrian government:
Lavrov said in Moscow on Friday that Russia would
continue to supply Assad with weapons and called on
other countries to help the Syrian government and its
ground troops. "You cannot defeat Islamic State with air
strikes only," Lavrov said. "It's necessary to cooperate
with ground troops and the Syrian army is the most
efficient and powerful ground force to fight the IS."
Russia to U.S. - talk to us on
Syria or risk 'unintended incidents':
Russia called on Friday for military-to-military
cooperation with the United States to avert "unintended
incidents" as it stages navy exercises off the coast of
Syria, where U.S. officials believe Moscow is building
up forces to protect President Bashar al-Assad.
Obama Says Russia's Support Of
Assad 'Doomed To Fail':
Obama said on September 11: "The strategy that they are
pursuing right now, doubling down on Assad, I think is a
big mistake." Obama said Russia's escalated military
involvement in Syria indicates that Assad is worried and
is turning to Russian advisers for help.
Turkish jets pound 64 PKK targets
in northern Iraq, killing 60:
21 warplanes struck sites where the PKK are located at
Qandil, Zap and Avashin in the mountains of northern
Iraq in attacks launched shortly before midnight that
continued until 5 a.m. (0200 GMT), the sources
reportedly said. A total of 80 bombs were reportedly
dropped on the PKK targets.
Baghdad condemns Turkish
incursion into Iraq:
"The foreign ministry expresses its condemnation of the
incursion of a number of Turkish military units inside
Iraqi territory," spokesman Ahmed Jamal said in a
statement. "It represents a clear violation of Iraqi
sovereignty and a clear offence to bilateral relations
between the two countries," he said.
Bombs kill 13 Iraq Kurds in
anti-ISIS operation:
Bombs killed 13 members of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga
forces during an operation against the Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group in the northern
province of Kirkuk on Friday, officers said.
Kurds gain ground against Islamic
State in northern Iraq:
The assault began at dawn on two fronts in the northern
province of Kirkuk, and by early afternoon, peshmerga
forces had taken an area of over 150 square km (60
square miles), the security council of the autonomous
Kurdistan region said in a statement.
Urban killings, air strikes as
bloodshed worsens in Turkish southeast:
- Kurdish militants shot dead a waiter and wounded three
police officers in a restaurant in southeast Turkey on
Friday, as the region descended further into the worst
bloodshed it has seen since the 1990s.
Cizre : "No-one can enter or
leave.": News from
the predominantly Kurdish town of Cizre is sketchy.
Turkish forces say they've killed 30 Kurdish PKK
fighters there in recent days but many say most of the
dead were civilians. Matthieu Delmas is a French
freelance journalist in the town. He sent us this
message.
Turkey 'must ensure access' to
besieged Cizre, says Council of Europe:
Turkey's Interior Minister Selami Altinok said seven
suspected rebels had been killed in the south-eastern
city. At least 12 civilians are also believed to have
died. The exact number is disputed.
Intelligence chief: Iraq and Syria may not survive as
states:
Iraq and Syria may have been permanently torn asunder by
war and sectarian tensions, the head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency said Thursday in a frank assessment
that is at odds with Obama administration policy.
In case you missed it:
The Zionist Plan for the Middle
East: The plan
operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel
must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must
effect the division of the whole area into small states
by the dissolution of all existing Arab states.
Saudi-led airstrikes and rebel
shelling kills 35 in Yemen:
Two days of airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition
targeting Yemen's Shiite rebels killed seven civilians
in the country's capital, Sanaa, independent security
and health officials said Friday.
Saudi led coalition navy
inspections paralyze Yemen food shipments:
- Shipping to Yemen is grinding to a halt as Saudi-led
navy inspections hold up cargoes, shippers say,
depriving it of desperately needed fuel and food as aid
groups warn of famine.
UN: Yemen government, Houthi
rebels agree to peace talks:
Talks seeking to end the Yemen conflict will resume next
week, the United Nations announced Friday.
No Egyptian ground troops in
Yemen: Saudi-led coalition spokesman:
The coalition criticised media
reports claiming that Egypt sent up to 800 ground troops
to Yemen on Tuesday
Invisible War
Crimes – The Corporate Media On Yemen:
News Analysis
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The propaganda
version of events, summarised and promoted by the BBC's
Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, is that Saudi
Arabia is waging a war against 'a pro-Iranian rebel
movement taking over their southern neighbour', Yemen.
Palestinians allowed to raise
flag at UN headquarters:
The UN General Assembly voted Thursday to allow the
Palestinians to raise their flag at its headquarters in
a diplomatic victory in their campaign for statehood.
Influential Pro-Israel Group
Suffers Stinging Political Defeat:
On Thursday, Aipac, was handed a stinging defeat. After
Mr. Obama mustered enough Democratic backing in the
Senate to halt a vote on a resolution of disapproval
against the deal, a group known for its political clout
saw its power and reputation in Washington diminished.
House rejects Obama’s nuclear
accord with Iran in symbolic vote:
The House voted on a resolution to approve the
agreement, which failed 162-269, with not a single
Republican voting in favor and 25 Democrats joining them
Iran Deal Vote Tally: Full List
of U.S. Senators and Where They Stand:
Current tally: 42 senators support, 36 senators against,
22 senators unannounced
Lindsey Graham Blames Iran For
9/11 Attacks: Graham
is a high-profile hawk and, along with Sen. John McCain
(R-AZ), one of the Republican party’s most outspoken and
influential foreign policy voices. So what he said next
is truly surprising:
Vanunu tells Channel 2: Israel's
nuclear program a danger to the world
: Vanunu told Channel 2 that his decision to photograph
sensitive nuclear facilities at Dimona, revealing
information that Israel had kept secret until that
point, was motivated by his desire to "inform the
citizens of the Middle East, the world, and the state of
Israel."
Nuclear secret-leaker Vanunu
arrested for giving TV interview:
Channel 2 filed a motion with the Jerusalem Magistrate’s
Court seeking to cancel the court’s earlier order for
Channel 2 to hand over all of its material related to
the interview, including footage which was not aired.
Egypt says it has killed 98
militants in Sinai operation:
Egyptian security forces have killed 98 militants in
Sinai during a recent military operation, the military
said on Friday. It was not possible to independently
confirm the figure.
Egyptian Military Says Car Bomb
in Northern Sinai Killed 2:
The explosion took place in the town of Rafah, which
borders the Gaza Strip, the military said on its
official Facebook page. The bomb went off during
movements by the armed forces and police in the area,
the military said, adding that extremists in the region
intentionally targeted civilians in the incident.
Nigeria: Troops kill 10 suspected
terrorists, arrest 64:
Troops of One Division of the Nigerian Army have killed
no fewer than 10 bandits and suspected terrorists in
Operation Restore Peace II in the North.
Bomb kills seven at Nigerian camp
for displaced people:
A bomb killed at least seven and injured 20 on Friday at
a camp in northeast Nigeria for people who have fled
Boko Haram, state emergency agency officials said.
Pakistan kills three with Burraq
armed drone:
Laser-guided missiles fired from the Burraq armed drone
killed three "terrorists" in a mountainous region near
the Afghan border on Sunday, according to Pakistan's
military.
Taliban overruns district in N.
Afghanistan: "Taliban
rebels after bloody fighting and suffering huge
casualties entered the headquarters of Raghistan
district Friday morning, forcing security forces to
retreat," district police chief Mohammad Ishaq told
Xinhua.
Hungary: Soldiers given shock
powers to use rubber bullets on migrants
: CHAOS has erupted in Hungary
after thousands of army soldiers assembled at the
Hungarian borders as the Government gave them power to
use rubber bullets and tear gas on migrants.
Europe migrant crisis: Hungary
'ill arrest illegal refugees:
Hungary's PM has warned that people who cross the
country's border illegally will be arrested from next
week. Aid workers have been telling of "abysmal"
conditions for refugees at a camp on the
Hungarian-Serbian border. Video footage has emerged of
people being thrown bags of food at the camp in the town
of Roszke.
Refugees march to Vienna amid
reduced train services:
Thousands are heading to the Austrian capital on foot
after rail traffic is sharply reduced due to
overcrowding.
Gateway to Catalan Republic:
Hundreds of 1,000s rally for independence in Barcelona:
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans have filled the
streets of Barcelona, calling for secession from Spain,
as the region prepares to go to the polls in what local
politicians say will serve as a proxy vote for
independence.
Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper, Concerned Islamic State Will ‘Infiltrate’
Syrian Refugees Fleeing to US, Europe:
Clapper on Wednesday lauded the “pretty aggressive”
means by which U.S. authorities screen refugees
attempting to enter the country, he added that he does
not have as much faith in the systems set up by European
nations.
FBI says
'Australian IS jihadist' is actually a Jewish American
troll named Joshua Ryne Goldberg:
A young Jewish American man has been charged with
pretending to be an Australian-based Islamic State
jihadist after a FBI joint investigation with the
Australian Federal Police based on information provided
by Fairfax Media.
US spy
chief's 'highly unusual' reported contact with military
official raises concerns:
More than 50 intelligence analysts, both those within
Central Command and their seconded Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) colleagues, have registered complaints
about manipulated or skewed data, the Daily Beast
reported on Wednesday
US
Government Blocks Release of CIA Torture Details:
The US government blocked the release of 116 pages of
notes detailing the torture a Guantanamo Bay detainee
says he endured while in CIA custody, defense lawyers
said on Thursday. Abu Zubaydah lost one eye and was
waterboarded 83 times in a single month while being held
by the CIA, according to government documents.
WATCH: Shocking attack on girl
wearing hijab as number of hate attacks on Muslims grow:
THIS shocking video shows a 16-year-old wearing a hijab
being brutally knocked out in a completely unprovoked
attack as she made her way to college.
‘Terrorist, go back to your country,’ attacker
yelled in assault of Sikh man:
Inderjit Singh Mukker, a father of two on his way to the
grocery store in his Chicago suburb, pulled over when
the vehicle behind kept tailgating him, according to the
Sikh Coalition. The 53-year-old Sikh man, who wears a
beard and turban, expected that the person in the other
car would just drive past.
Canada: Lynton Crosby, Australian
strategist, hired by Tories to boost political fortunes:
With polls suggesting the Conservatives are struggling
in third place, the party has reached out to Lynton
Crosby, a top Australian political campaign strategist
who has been credited with securing victories for
British Prime Minister David Cameron and other
right-leaning leaders. |
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Refugee Crisis Made in
America
By Philip Giraldi
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We Americans
are in something approaching
complete denial about how
truly horrible our nation’s
recent impact on the rest of
the world has been.
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Insurgent attack on Syrian base
kills 56 soldiers: monitor:
An alliance of insurgents including al
Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front seized
the Abu al-Duhur military airport on
Wednesday as Syrian troops withdrew from
their last major stronghold in the
northwestern Idlib province. Dozens of
soldiers were also reported missing and
insurgents took around 40 others
captive.
1yr, 6,700 airstrikes & $4bn
after Obama vowed to ‘destroy’ ISIS,
jihadists still on offensive:
The one local force that has been
successful against Islamic State ended
up being a target of Turkey, a US ally,
due to Turkish internal and regional
politics
How the Islamic State is
exploiting Asian unrest to recruit
fighters:
Intelligence sources in Ankara estimate
at least 1,500 recruits from Central
Asia (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan,
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan)
and Xinjiang (a Uighur autonomous region
of northwest China) are already fighting
for IS in Syria and Iraq.
Australia looks
set to start bombing Syria as Libs warn
against too much refugee compassion:
Should Christian refugees get priority?:
Among the ministers advocating a
Christians-first policy were
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull
and Senate leader Eric Abetz.
Russian troops
already in Syria, Israel says:
Russian troops have arrived in Syria to
aid Bashar Assad’s beleaguered
government in the battle against Islamic
State militants, Israel’s defence
minister said Thursday, a development
that could help the Syrian president
reverse his recent battlefield losses in
the country’s bitter civil war, now in
its fifth year.
Tens of people killed in
southeastern Turkish town under curfew:
Turkish Interior Minister Selami Altinok
said on Thursday that between 30-32
Kurdish militants and one civilian had
been killed in clashes in the
southeastern town of Cizre since a
curfew was enforced there last Friday.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic
Party (HDP) said 21 civilians had been
killed in Cizre over the past week.
Turkey's Demirtas warns leaders
heading towards civil war:
The head of the pro-Kurdish opposition
HDP party has accused the ruling AKP of
orchestrating nationalist attacks and
pushing Turkey towards civil war.
14 killed in clashes with IS in
Iraq:
A total of 14 people were killed and 27
others wounded on Thursday in clashes
with Islamic State (IS) militants, while
two senior officials of the provincial
council was injured by the IS mortar
barrage in the country's western
province of Anbar, a provincial security
source said.
Daesh kills 27
Iraqis by electrocution in Mosul:
Daesh militants electrocuted the 27 men
in a city prison located around 400
kilometres north of Baghdad.
Saudi soldier
killed on Yemen border:
A statement from the Interior Ministry,
carried by state-run media, says the
soldier was killed after a Saudi border
guard outpost in the southern region of
Jizan came under heavy fire from across
the border on Thursday.
Rejecting the Iran Deal Alone
Won't Be Enough for Conservatives:
Lacking the votes to derail the nuclear
agreement, opponents are trying to force
the Republican leadership into a more
confrontational strategy.
On Iran deal, Republicans move
swiftly to snatch defeat from jaws of
defeat:
Conservatives are pushing for a vote on
a new measure that would prevent any
vote on a final resolution of
disapproval, until President Obama makes
the full contents of so-called “side
deals” attached to the agreement,
including one between Iran and the
International Atomic Energy Agency,
available to Congress.
Seven soldiers killed in attack
in northeast Congo: sources:
Seven Congolese soldiers were killed on
Thursday in a surprise attack by heavily
armed assailants in Congo's restive
northeast, military and local sources
said, in what appeared to be an
operation by Ugandan Islamist rebels.
Landmine in Libya’s Benghazi
kills five children:
“The landmine went off near Benina
district,” Tarek al-Khazar, spokesman of
Tobruk government’s Foreign Ministry,
told Anadolu Agency by phone on
Wednesday. Khazar added that the
landmine was allegedly left behind by
Ansar al-Sharia during recent clashes
with the Libyan army.
Roadside bomb kills 5 Afghan
police officers on patrol:
Asadullah Ensafi, the deputy chief
police in Ghazni province, said the
blast was likely from a
remote-controlled bomb. It happened
Thursday morning in the city of Ghazni,
about 150 kilometers (95 miles)
southwest of Kabul.
Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor
Dadullah joined ISIS:
At least 230 ISIS fighters were deployed
to Zabul from western Farah province to
engage the Taliban militants and rescue
Mullah Dadullah
Dissident Taliban commander
claims Pakistani intel ordered him to
conduct assassinations, attacks in
Afghanistan:
A former senior Taliban leader who was
ousted by Mullah Omar in 2007 has
rejected Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour
as the new emir of the group and accused
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence
Directorate of ordering him to conduct
assassinations and attacks in
Afghanistan.
Ayman al Zawahiri: Islamic State
and al Qaeda must work together to fight
the US:
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called
on the group's militants to cocoperate
with Islamic State (IS) in fighting the
US-led coalition in Syria and Iraq,
though refused to endorse the group's
self-proclaimed caliphate. al-Zawahri
called on al Qaeda fighters to put
differences aside and co-operate with
the rival jihadist group.
Al Qaeda Mag Urges Attack on
Koch Brothers, Buffett, Bloomberg:
The article says the "economic
personalities" and "wealthy
entrepreneurs" can get off the list by
withdrawing their money from U.S. banks,
investing their wealth outside American
soil, and denouncing support for Israel.
U.S. sends 75 more troops to
Sinai to boost peacekeepers' security:
- The United States is sending an
additional 75 U.S. troops and other
assets to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to
bolster the security of international
peacekeepers, who have come under attack
from militants in recent days, the
Pentagon said on Thursday.
Hungary holding
refugees in closely guarded camps:
Thousands of refugees arriving in
Hungary have been taken to closely
guarded camps surrounded by chain link
fencing, barbed wire and patrolled with
police dogs
Austria halts train service with
Hungary due to 'massive overburdening':
“We need to temporarily suspend the
operation of trains to and from Hungary
due to the massive congestion...until
further notice, no tickets are
available," Austrian Federal Railways
wrote on its website. It added that a
rail replacement bus service is in
effect, along with regular buses.
Obama orders US to admit 10,000
Syrian refugees:
Spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama had
asked staff to "scale up" the number of
refugee admissions from around 1,500 in
this fiscal year, to 10,000 in the next,
beginning October 1.
Europe Seeks U.N. Blessing to
Confront Human Smugglers in the
Mediterranean:
European powers have begun laying the
groundwork for the passage of a U.N.
Security Council resolution authorizing
the boarding and interception of
people-smuggling ships in the
Mediterranean Sea.
Cameron refuses
to confirm whether security services are
spying on MPs:
The evidence that security services may
be secretly monitoring MPs'
communications emerged in a case brought
by three current and former
parliamentarians back in July.
Jeremy Corbyn Is
Set To Become Labour Leader:
Voting is at an end. The result will be
announced on Saturday.
DoJ says it can demand every
email from any US-based provider:
The United States government has the
right to demand the emails of anyone in
the world from any email provider
headquartered within US borders,
Department of Justice (DoJ) lawyers told
a federal appeals court on Wednesday.
What happens when you refuse to be a US
puppet:
Brazil cut to 'junk' credit
rating by Standard & Poor's:
Brazil has lost its investment-grade
credit rating following a downgrade by
Standard & Poor's to "junk" status. The
US rating agency said mounting political
turmoil and the difficulties faced by
President Dilma Rousseff's government in
tackling growing debt was behind the
decision.
No criminal charges for 3 cops
who killed Mexican man accused of rock
throwing:
Three Washington state police officers
will not face criminal charges despite
firing 17 shots that killed an immigrant
farmworker from Mexico who had allegedly
threw rocks at them back in February.
14% of US households don’t have
enough food for healthy life – report:
More than 80 percent of people
classified as food insecure said at some
point in the past year they weren’t able
to buy enough food to last until the end
of the month, and more than 75 percent
reported they could not afford a
balanced meal.
California Assembly approves
right-to-die legislation:
After nearly a quarter-century of
efforts in California to afford
terminally ill patients the right to end
their lives with a doctor’s help, state
lawmakers and the governor may be on the
verge of granting the dying that
authority.
I won't shrink from military
action against Iran if needed: Clinton:
"As president, I will take whatever
actions are necessary to protect the
United States and our allies. I will not
hesitate to take military action if Iran
attempts to obtain a nuclear weapon,”
she said.
Bernie Sanders Edges Ahead of
Hillary Clinton in Key State of Iowa:
The statistics represent a blow to
Clinton, who, in early July, was way out
in front with 52 percent of votes.
Sheldon Adelson Is Ready to Buy
the Presidency:
The GOP now offers Israel unconditional
and unquestioning support, so much so
that some Republicans now liken the
country to America’s “51st state.” The
person most responsible for this
development is the multibillionaire
casino magnate and Republican megadonor
Sheldon Adelson.
Poll: Donald Trump surges to 32%
support:
Donald Trump has become the first
Republican presidential candidate to top
30% support in the race for the
Republican nomination, according to a
new CNN/ORC Poll, which finds the
businessman pulling well away from the
rest of the GOP field.
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