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August 28/29, 2016
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Turkish
airstrikes kill 75 in Syria:
Turkish shelling and airstrikes
killed at least 35 civilians in
Syria yesterday, the fifth day of an
incursion against Islamic State
jihadists and Kurdish militia
ISIS
recaptures Al-Rai following massive
attack:
Just a few days following its
massive retreat from the
northeastern countryside of Aleppo,
ISIS launched a large
counteroffensive aimed at capturing
the border town of Al-Rai and its
surrounding towns.
120 militants
leave Damascus suburb as Syrian Army
regains full control – Russian
military
: "120 militants and their family
members (230 persons in total) have
left Darayya city of their own free
will. They headed to Idlib ... on
buses," the ministry said in a
statement on its website.
Syria:
Government forces control Daraya:
Government forces move into the
besieged suburb after buses transfer
the civilians and rebel fighters out
of the area.
Turkey
signals no quick end to Syria
incursion as truck bomb kills police:
Turkish forces will remain in Syria
for as long as it takes to cleanse
the border of Islamic State and
other militants, Prime Minister
Binali Yildirim said on Friday,
after a truck bombing by Kurdish
insurgents killed at least 11 police
officers.
Kurdish
militant PKK claims attack on
Turkish police HQ: website:
Friday's suicide truck bombing at
the police headquarters killed at
least 11 people and wounded dozens,
two days after Turkey launched an
incursion against Islamic State and
Kurdish militia fighters in Syria.
One Turkish soldier killed
in Syria offensive:
One Turkish soldier was killed and
three others wounded in a rocket
attack on a tank close to the
northern Syrian town of Jarablus on
Saturday, Turkish military sources
said, after Turkey launched a
cross-border offensive this week.
US
'Sacrifices' Its Kurdish Allies in
Syria:
By sacrificing its Kurdish allies in
northern Syria, Washington wants to
mend relations with Ankara and
prevent Turkey from strengthening
its ties with Moscow, thus far
killing two birds with one stone,
U.S. seeks to
soothe Turkey ties, press fight
against Islamic State:
A weakening of the U.S.-Turkish
alliance is a concern for the United
States, which is counting on support
from Turkey - which has NATO's
second-biggest military - in the
battle against Islamic State.
Iraq: 22 ISIS
militants killed near Mosul:
“International coalition aircraft
carried out an airstrike on Friday
evening, which destroyed a cache of
ISIS weapons and also killed 12 ISIS
members of the outfit. Attack was
carried out in Sadia village.”
ISIS kills 4
Federal Police officers near Ramadi:
Mayor of Rutba district Emad Mashaal
al-Delimi in a statement, said, “A
group of ISIS members attacked a
checkpoint in Rutba district,
killing four Federal Police
officers.”
Yemen
cross-border shelling kills Saudi
child: civil defence:
A rocket fired from Yemen killed a
three-year-old boy Saturday in the
Saudi border region of Najran, a
civil defence official said, in the
latest cross-border attack by
Iran-backed Yemeni rebels.
Saudi
coalition strikes kill 7 Yemeni
civilians: sources:
Warplanes from the Saudi-led
coalition struck a rebel convoy near
a taxi stand in central Yemen,
killing seven civilians and nine
insurgents, officials said Sunday.
Israeli
Commander Violently Threatens
Palestinian Youth:
An Israeli army commander has made
shocking threats to Palestinian
youth held in the Al-Duheisha,
saying he will “make all the youth
of the camp disabled,” according to
a Palestinian rights group, the
Middle East Monitor reported on
Friday.
Israel
Primary Canceled, Netanyahu to Lead
Likud Through 2023:
An internal court of Israel’s ruling
Likud Party has canceled a planned
primary election for party
leadership. Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu was announced the winner
by default and will remain at the
post through 2023.
18 pro-govt
fighters killed, 120 wounded in
Libya's Sirte:
Medical source: Eighteen fighters
loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity
government were killed and 120
others wounded in clashes Sunday
with the Islamic State group in
Sirte, a medical source said.
4 Chadian
troops killed by ‘Boko Haram mine’:
“An army car hit a mine planted by
Boko Haram at Kaiga Kindji, near the
border of Chad and Niger. There were
four dead and a dozen wounded,”
US kills 22
Afghan soldiers:
Helmand council:
US drone attack has killed 22 Afghan
soldiers held by Taliban militants
in the southern Helmand province,
while Taliban have overrun a
strategic district elsewhere.
Taliban
fighters overrun district in eastern
Afghanistan:
Taliban insurgents overran a
district in eastern Afghanistan,
killing and wounding dozens of
police and soldiers and threatening
strategically important road routes
to Pakistan, officials said on
Saturday.
Teen attacks
priest with ax, attempts to detonate
bomb in crowded Indonesian church
: The assailant allegedly carried a
symbol indicating support for
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).:
Australians
rally against refugee detention
centres:
Protesters call for the closure of
overseas refugee prison camps and
demand asylum seekers be housed in
Australia.
Russian Law
Enforcers Kill Two Militants in
Kabardino-Balkaria Republic:
"According to preliminary data, two
militants, who fought back law
enforcement officers militarily,
were killed during the special
operation. An active phase of the
operation is over," the source said.
Two Ukrainian
soldiers killed in separatist east:
Two Ukrainian soldiers have been
killed in fresh clashes between
government forces and proseparatist
rebels in the country's war-torn
east, the military said Sunday.
TTIP has
failed – but no one is admitting it,
says German Vice Chancellor:
Germany’s Vice Chancellor said in 14
rounds of talks neither side had
agreed on a single common chapter
out of the 27 being deliberated
Paraguay
attack kills seven soldiers:
Interior Minister Francisco de
Vargas said the attack occurred on a
rural road near the village of
Arroyito, some 500 kilometers (300
miles) north of Asuncion.
Brazil's
Circus Impeachment Trial Begins 3rd
Day:
The third day of the impeachment
trial against the suspended
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
started early Saturday a day after
the session was suspended following
a Senate session that the chamber's
president said made the institution
look like a "psychiatric hospital."
Venezuelan
Workers Rally to Support Maduro:
Venezuelan workers are marching in
the streets of capital Caracas
Saturday to show their support for
the government of President Nicolas
Maduro and to advocate for peace and
stability in the South American
country.
76-Year-Old
Veteran Kills Himself in VA Parking
Lot After Being Denied Treatment:
“He went to the E.R. and was denied
service,” one anonymous source said.
“And then he went to his car and
shot himself.”
The U.S. Army
Lost Track of $6.5 Trillion:
How could the Army misplace, fudge,
misappropriate or otherwise lose
$6.5 trillion? It’s simple. Years of
no oversight, bad accounting
practices and crappy computer
systems created this problem. And
remember, this is just the Army and
just its general fund.
Judge Gives
Cancer Patient 90 Days Of Jail For
Being Too Sick To Pay Bills:
Judge Milas “Butch” Hale from
Sherwood, Arkansas has been accused
of running a “modern-day debtor’s
prison” after he recently sentenced
a 44-year-old man with pancreatic
cancer to 90 days i
NSA
Whistleblowers: NSA Hack Was Likely
An Inside Job:
In my opinion, if the Russians had
these files, they would use them not
leak them or any part of them to the
world.
Man Who
Killed Police Dog Sentenced to
45-Years in Prison:
This week, a judge sentenced
Kelontre Barefield to be
incarcerated for 11 years on
multiple burglary charges and 34
years for the death of Jethro, a
three-year-old German Shepherd who
served as a member of the
department’s K-9 unit
Colin
Kaepernick protests national anthem
and US flag:
“I am not going to stand up to show
pride in a flag for a country that
oppresses Black people and people of
color,” Kaepernick said.
Bush Advisor
Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for
Clinton:
Paul Wolfowitz, 72, an advisor to
former President Bush, discusses the
dangers of a Donald Trump
presidency, why he will likely vote
for the Democrat's candidate this
year and mistakes made during the
Iraq war.
Hillary Ally
Accuses Green Party’s Jill Stein of
Being Trump-like Russian Agent
: ?The article begins by noting that
she visited Moscow last winter to
attend a conference hosted by RT, in
order to call for an end to
decades-long war and a militaristic
policy that favors defense spending
over serving the needs of the
people.
State
Department Stonewalled For Three
Years On Clinton Foundation Donor
Story:
the Obama
Administration delayed these
journalist investigators for THREE
YEARS in seeking this information
from the State Department.
How to update
your iPhone:
Apple's patch targets previously
unknown spyware that infiltrated
iPhones and can read messages, track
calls and contacts, record sounds,
collect passwords and location
information, investigators told the
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Islamists
shell Aleppo’s Christian areas,
killing 6 civilians & injuring
dozens more:
At least six people were killed and
34 wounded as predominantly
Christian neighborhoods of Syria’s
Aleppo were shelled Thursday.
Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front
were reportedly behind the shelling,
releasing rockets and grenades on
the civilian areas.
Two Syrian
boys appear in heartbreaking footage:
WARNING
- Videos taken from the Syrian city
of Aleppo show two ash-covered boys
sobbing and clinging to each other
after finding out their brother had
been killed in an airstrike.
Turkey
expands invasion of Syria:
With support from the US Air Force
and military “advisers,” Turkish
soldiers expanded their invasion of
northern Syria Thursday.
Turkish army
shells US-backed Kurds ‘refusing to
retreat’ near Jarablus – state
media:
Turkish military have targeted
US-backed Kurdish YPG militia with
artillery fire south of the Syrian
border town of Jarablus on Thursday,
Anadolu state agency reported,
citing a security source. The units
allegedly refused to withdraw from
the area despite warnings.
Syrian Kurds,
have to meet a Turkish demand by
withdrawing: US Vice President
: “We have made it clear to Kurdish
forces that they must move back
across the river,” he said. “They
cannot and will not get American
support if they do not keep that
commitment. Period.” It was an
unusually sharp warning from the
United States to the Kurdish-led
forces.
Turkey
'planned Syria invasion for over 2
years':
Turkey had been planning a Syria
ground operation for over two years
before launching an offensive this
week, but it was stalled by the
military and various international
disputes, an official said Thursday.
US-Backed
Kurdish Militias Say They Were
Gassed By Turkish Forces:
Elements belonging to the Kurdish
People’s Protection Units (YPG) say
Turkish forces have shelled their
positions with chemical weapons
north of the Syrian city of Manbij.
Propaganda alert:
U.S. Plans to
‘Corner’ Russia on Syria’s Chemical
Weapons:
The Obama administration is pushing
U.N. reports showing Assad hasn’t
given up, and is in some cases still
using, poison gas. The strategy is
to pressure the dictator’s patron,
Vladimir Putin.
Russia urges
‘caution’ on UN’s Syria chemical
weapons report, will talk to US:
Russia’s UN envoy has called on the
international community not to draw
“hasty conclusions” from a year-long
UN investigation that blames the
Syrian government for carrying out
two chemical weapons attacks
Turkey car
bomb: Nine dead and dozens injured
in attack at police headquarters in
Cizre:
News channel NTV showed large plumes
of smoke billowing from the site
which it said was a police
checkpoint. Cizre is located in
Sirnak, a province that borders both
Syria and Iraq and has a largely
Kurdish population.
Iraq:
Security forces kill 3 ISIS members
while trying to cross Euphrates:
“Intelligence
information allowed the security
forces to monitor the movement of
ISIS members while they were trying
to sneak from Albu Ali Jassim to the
northern side of Ramadi through the
Euphrates River.”
Suicide
bombing kills 2 in northern Iraq
refugee camp:
Two people were killed in a suicide
bombing on Friday in a refugee camp
in northern Iraq, according to a
local official.
Iraqi forces
retake key town near Isis-stronghold
of Mosul:
The Iraqi forces, backed by U.S.-led
coalition airstrikes and tribal
fighters, have ousted the Islamic
State group from the northern town
of Qayyarah near Mosul. The town,
located on the banks of the Tigris
River, is considered strategic for
any future offensive against Isis'
Iraqi defense
minister gets no-confidence vote:
Iraq’s minister of defense received
a no-confidence vote from parliament
Thursday just as Iraqi forces retook
a key northern town near the Islamic
State-held city of Mosul.
Al Qaeda
Leader Zawahiri Urges Iraq Sunnis to
Wage Guerrilla War as ISIS Loses
More Land:
Zawahiri reprimanded Al Baghdadi for
an extreme interpretation of Islam
and the ‘“bloodletting’” which, he
said, gave “Safavid Iran and its
subservient government in Iraq … a
pretext to eradicate the Sunnis.’”
ISIS leader
was secretly held in Abu Ghraib
torture prison - report:
For the first time, the US Army
acknowledges that the Islamic
State’s caliph, Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, spent most of his time
under US detention in the infamous
Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
Report: 11
civilians killed in airstrikes in
northern Yemen:
Yemen's rebel-run news agency says
airstrikes by the Saudi-led
coalition have killed 11 civilians
and wounded others in the northern
city of Saada.
In ‘Peace
Initiative,’ Kerry Demands Yemen’s
Houthis Surrender and Disarm:
Kerry’s statement laying out the
plan demanded that the Shi’ite
Houthis, who the Saudis are
fighting, must immediately surrender
all territory and unilaterally
disarm before being allowed to
participate in any talks.
Saudi-led
coalition airstrikes #1 cause of
civilian deaths in Yemen – UN body:
Airstrikes carried out by the
Saudi-led coalition in Yemen are
responsible for the majority of
civilians killed in the country’s
ongoing conflict, the UN has found,
while calling for an international
investigation into the coalition’s
violations there
The Death
Toll in Yemen Is So High the Red
Cross Has Started Donating Morgues
to Hospitals:
Almost a year and a half into Saudi
Arabia’s U.S.-backed bombing
campaign in Yemen, the humanitarian
toll has become so extensive that
the International Committee of the
Red Cross has taken the unusual step
of donating entire morgue units to
Yemeni hospitals.
Saudi Arabia
to exceed Russia, France in defense
spending:
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is
expected to increase their defense
spending from $48 billion last year
to $52 billion by 2019, IHS Janes
Defense analysts reported
Oil spikes on
report Yemeni missiles hit Saudi
Arabia's oil facilities:
Yemeni forces have fired ballistic
missiles at the facilities belonging
to the Saudi state oil giant Aramco
in the kingdom's southwest
Israeli
occupation forces kill ‘unarmed,
mentally ill’ Palestinian man in
West Bank:
Israeli soldiers shot dead a
Palestinian man in a village in the
occupied West Bank on Friday. A
Palestinian official said the man
was suffering from a mental illness,
while it is reported that he was not
carrying any weapons.
U.S. Navy
ship fires warning shots at Iranian
vessel:
A U.S. defense official, speaking on
the condition of anonymity, said the
USS Squall patrol craft fired three
warning shots from a .50 caliber gun
in the northern Gulf on Wednesday
after warning flares did not work.
Somalia: 10
Killed in Mogadishu Beach Restaurant
Attack:
Around 10 people have been killed
after al-Shabaab militants detonated
a car bomb on a seaside restaurant
in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, on
Thursday (25 August) evening, police
said. Among the dead are six
civilians, two security force
members and two attackers.
Afghan army
strikes Taliban hideout in S.
province, killing 24;
About 24 militants, including an
insurgents' local military chief,
were killed after Afghan army
warplanes struck a Taliban hideout
in restive southern province of
Helmand, authorities said Friday.
Afghanistan:
Four security personnel killed in
militant attack:
They were reportedly killed as
insurgents stormed a security
check-post and carried out the
attack.
7 killed in
clashes with militants in Pakistan:
At least six security personnel and
a local government official were
killed and four others injured in a
clash with militants in Pakistan's
southwestern Balochistan Province
North Korea's
Kim declares sub missile launch
'greatest success':
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
supervised the test-firing of a
submarine-launched ballistic missile
and declared it "the greatest
success," which puts the country in
the "front rank" of nuclear military
powers, official media reported on
Thursday.
Czech PM
backs European army in talks with
Germany's Merkel:
The Czech Republic supports deeper
European defense cooperation that
could eventually lead to the
creation of a European army, Czech
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said
Bolivian
minister kidnapped, beaten to death
by striking miners
: Tensions are running high in
Bolivia, where striking mineworkers
apparently kidnapped and then killed
Deputy Interior Minister, Rodolfo
Illanes, who went out to negotiate
with the protesters. The 56-year-old
official’s demise has been confirmed
by the government.
Colombia and
FARC rebels reach historic peace
deal after bloody war:
Colombia’s government and leftist
FARC rebels unveiled a final peace
deal on Wednesday to end a
50-year-old guerrilla war, one of
the world’s longest conflicts which
took the resource-rich country to
the brink of being a failed state.
Marc Faber:
S&P is set to crash 50%, giving back
5 years of gains
: "I think we can
easily give back five years of
capital gains, which would take the
market down to around 1,100," Faber
said, referring to a level 50
percent below Monday's closing on
the S&P 500.
Poll Finds
Trump Edging Out Clinton in Florida
:
Murphy and Rubio Poised for Tough
Senate Race : Republican nominee
Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary
Clinton in Florida 43 to 41 percent,
with Libertarian Gary Johnson taking
8 percent and 5 percent undecided
Trump
campaign opens 3rd Israeli office,
near Tel Aviv:
There are believed to be hundreds of
thousands of American Israelis who
are eligible to vote in the U.S.
election
Farage stumps
for Trump: Video
- Nigel Farage, a key figure in the
successful campaign to get Britain
out of the European Union, lent his
support to Trump on Wednesday,
saying Trump represented the same
type of anti-establishment movement
that he masterminded in his own
country.
Clinton
attacks Nigel Farage for campaigning
with Trump - after he taunts:
'I wouldn't vote for Hillary if SHE
pays me!'
US election:
Hillary Clinton met 85 Clinton
Foundation donors while secretary of
state:
The foundation established by Bill
and Hillary Clinton is at the centre
of fresh controversy after it was
revealed that half of the people who
met her when she was secretary of
state gave money to the organisation.
Clinton
Foundation Donor Reached Out To
Hillary Clinton Before Arms Export
Boost:
Emails just released by the State
Department appear to show Clinton
Foundation officials brokering a
meeting between then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and a top
military leader of Bahrain — a
Middle Eastern country that is a
major foundation donor.
Assange slams
Clinton for ‘Russian hysteria’ & US
media for politicized election
coverage:
“She has palled up with the neo-cons
responsible for the Iraq war and she
has grabbed onto a kind of
neo-McCarthy hysteria about Russia
and is using this to demonize the
Trump campaign,” |
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46 IS
militants killed in Turkey's
operation in northern Syria:
Turkey-backed Syrian rebels, the
Free Syrian Army (FSA), have now
taken four villages in northern
Syrian, Dogan said.
Syria rebels
backed by Turkey tanks invaders,
‘seize’ Daesh-held town:
Turkish tanks and hundreds of
opposition fighters thrust deep
inside Syrian territory on Wednesday
in a lightning operation that within
hours ousted Daesh extremists from a
key Syrian border town.
Syria
condemns Turkey’s breach of Syria’s
sovereignty:
"What is happening in Jarablos now
isn’t fighting terrorism as Turkey
claims; rather it is replacing one
type of terrorism with another."
In case you missed
it:
Erdogan:
Russian claim on Syria ‘laughable’:
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on
Friday blasted as “laughable”
Russia’s accusation that Turkey was
actively preparing to invade Syria.
Russian
Foreign Ministry Expresses Concern
About Turkish Operation in Syria:
“Moscow is deeply concerned about
what is happening in the
Syrian-Turkish border area,” the
ministry said, adding that further
degradation in the conflict zone and
the prospect of Kurdish-Arab
conflict raises alarm, according to
Sputnik.
Europe
supports Turkey's Operation
Euphrates Shield:
Messages of support were issued in
European capitals on Wednesday in
response to Turkey’s operation
against Daesh around the northern
Syrian city of Jarabulus.
Propaganda alert:
U.N./OPCW
inquiry blames Syria government for
gas attacks, likely sanctions fight
looms:
Syrian government troops were
responsible for two toxic gas
attacks and Islamic State militants
used sulfur mustard gas, a joint
investigation by the United Nations
and the global chemical weapons
watchdog found on Wednesday
Slow EU aid
puts Syrian children's lives on hold
in Turkey:
Their faces so burned by a rocket
blast they cannot fully close their
eyes, 13-year-old Gheis Mekansi and
his sister Limar, both Syrian
refugees, wait in limbo in Turkey
for surgery they need to return to
life and school.
More than
360,000 Foreign Fighters have fought
the Syrian Army”:
The number of foreign fighters who
have fought the Syrian army between
April 2011 and the end of 2015 is
360.000. The number does not
indicate a totality of all the
fighters who fought together rather
it refers to the total number in the
time span of the study.
U.S.-led
airstrike ‘kills civilians’ in
Syrian city of Raqqa:
A number of civilians are believed
to have been killed after a U.S.-led
airstrike in the ISIS-occupied
Syrian city of Raqqa, the U.S.
military reports. It comes on the
heels of other coalition airstrikes
in which civilians are believed to
have been killed.
Iraq:
Civilians with ISIS members killed
in airstrikes in Mosul:
“Ten civilians were killed and 15
others were wounded in the
airstrikes. The airstrikes also
killed and injured several ISIS
members, apart from causing severe
damage to the buildings.”
Blast near
Baghdad kills two and injures six:
“This morning, an improvised
explosive device exploded near a
sheep market at Suwaib, south-west
of Baghdad, killing two persons and
wounding six others.”
32 killed in
Yemen violence:
Pro-government forces said in a
statement that 24 Houthis and allied
forces of former president Ali
Abdullah Saleh were killed in
battles in the center of Taiz city.
Yemenis say
U.S. murders 5 alledged al-Qaida
suspects:
The witnesses say a missile struck
the militants' vehicle on Wednesday
in the southern Shabwa province,
completely destroying it.
How to whitewash
murder:
Israel clears
forces in deadly 2014 attack on
people of Gaza:
The Israeli military on Wednesday
cleared its forces of wrongdoing in
three deadly incidents that took
place during the 2014 Gaza war —
including an airstrike that killed
15 members of a single family.
Propaganda/
Disinformation shows Israel planing
murder in Gaza: :
U.S. Calls on
Americans to Leave Gaza ‘As Soon As
Possible’:
The travel warning statement
continued: “Gaza is under the
control of Hamas, a foreign
terrorist organization. The security
environment within Gaza and on its
borders is dangerous and volatile.”
Turkey
condemns Israel for Gaza strikes:
“The attacks, which caused injuries
to innocent Palestinian civilians,
are not acceptable regardless of
their grounds,” Turkey’s Foreign
Ministry said in a statement, the
Turkish Anadolu Agency reported
Monday.
Football fans
raise over 100,000 pounds for
Palestine following flag
controversy:
: The news comes as
Celtic gear up to play in Israel on
Tuesday night against Hapoel Be’er
Sheva. Israeli authorities have
promised to arrest and prosecute any
actions involving Palestine
solidarity.
Israel sold
weapons to Argentina at height of
Falklands War:
British diplomats cited evidence
that Israel had supplied the
Argentine military junta with arms
that were used against the Task
Force during the campaign to
liberate the islands.
22 militants
killed in fresh Afghan military
operations: gov't:
"A total of 21 militants were also
wounded during the joint military
and cleanup operations launched by
Afghan security forces in 11 of
Afghanistan's 34 provinces over the
last 24 hours," the ministry said in
a statement providing daily
operational updates.
Kabul raid:
Seven students among 13 dead in
university attack:
Two attackers were also shot dead by
security forces nearly 10 hours
after the assault began with an
explosion on Wednesday evening.
One dead, 25
injured, as gunmen attack American
University in Kabul
: Militants set
off a car bomb and burst into the
American University campus in Kabul
on Wednesday evening, trapping
hundreds of students and staff
inside for several hours, as special
forces attempted to retake control.
British
woman, killed in Australian by
knifeman 'shouting Allahu Akbar'
: Police arrested a 29-year-old
Frenchman and are investigating
whether the “senseless” knife attack
was motivated by Islamic extremism.
At least 120
dead as shallow 6.2 quake shakes
Rome, devastates towns in central
Italy:
Pictures: A powerful 6.2-magnitude
earthquake followed by a series of
aftershocks has rocked central
Italy. Strong tremors were felt in
the country’s capital, Rome, and
several small towns and villages
have been seriously damaged with
over a hundred killed and hundreds
injured.
'Threat is
real': France to deploy 3k troops,
prepare students for terror attacks
:
France will deploy around 3,000
reserve troops to provide security
to schools, education and security
ministers have announced.
Anti-terror drills aimed at
preparing students for potential
attacks will also be ramped up.
French police
make woman remove clothing on Nice
beach
following burkini ban: Authorities
in 15 towns have banned burkinis,
citing public concern following
recent terrorist attacks in the
country
Germany urges
people to store staples in case of
terrorism, national emergency:
Germany has told its citizens to
stock up on water and food in the
event of a terrorist attack or
national catastrophe and be ready to
support the military in the
country's first overhaul of civil
defenses for two decades.
Justice Department Plans to
Stop Using Private Prisons:
The decision comes a week after the
DOJ inspector general released a
damning report on the safety,
security, and oversight of private
prisons, which incarcerate 12
percent of federal inmates
Is Donald
Trump’s proposal to keep out
anti-Semites practical — or ethical?:
Jewish civil rights and immigration
groups today have questions about
the viability of Trump’s proposal
and whether it is ethical to
institute an ideological litmus test
on arrivals from countries with
vastly different values and
education systems.
The 9 Best
Jews to Play Trump in Clinton’s
Debate Prep:
: Clinton has to make a choice soon.
Here is the lowdown on the Jewish
sparring mates she is said to be
considering, as well as a few others
she might want to add to the list. |
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The Genocide of a Land
By Paul Craig Roberts |
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The US
Has Consistently Opposed
the World’s Effort to
Stop the Zionist
Genocide of a Land
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Speaking of
Freedom
A
Word From Tom
By Tom Feeley |
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How poor we are when we
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Fighting
kills dozens in Yemen’s Taiz:
At least 46 people were killed in
deadly clashes Monday between
pro-government forces and Houthi
rebels in Yemen’s central Taiz
province.
Yemen
shelling kills one in southern
Saudi:
The victim, a Yemeni resident of the
kingdom, died in the attack on
Najran at about 6:00 pm (1500 GMT),
Civil Defence Colonel Ali al-Shahrani
said.
Why Is the
United States Abetting Saudi War
Crimes in Yemen?:
Op-Ed: The Obama administration’s
record-setting arms deals with
Riyadh have strengthened extremists
and led to greater regional
instability.
Thousands of
Dead Terrorist Corpses Still Litter
Syria:
Over 30,000 Islamic
terrorists have been killed in
anti-terror operations, but the
authorities are having problems
sending the bodies back to their
country of origin, the chairman of
Syria's Forensic Medicine Committee
told Sputnik.
Syrian children starving to
death:
Bara should weigh 7kg - but he is
just half that. His ribs can be seen
protruding from the skin on his tiny
chest, and he's been without a
proper supply of milk for months.
Turkey
Launches Artillery Barrage on
Northern Syria:
Turkish officials say that the
strikes are aimed at opening a
corridor for an "operation." Earlier
on Monday, Ankara had vowed to
"completely cleanse" militants from
its border region in the wake of the
suicide bombing attack that left
over 54 people dead at a wedding
over the weekend.
Propaganda alert:
Syria bombs
U.S.-backed forces in latest Syrian
battle:
Video - Until now, the U.S. has
merely backed Kurdish troops
fighting against the Assad regime's
forces in Syria's civil war. But as
fighting heats up, American forces
may be pulled directly into the
fray.
Agreement to
halt fighting in Hasaka enforced at
14:00 p.m.:
– An agreement to halt fighting was
agreed in the northeastern Hasaka
province that came into effect at
14:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the Syrian TV
reported. According to the TV
sources, the injured, bodies of the
martyrs and the captives on both
sides will be exchanged at 9 p.m. as
per the agreement
Syrian
forces, Kurdish YPG agree to Hasaka
ceasefire:
The truce, reported by Syrian state
media, comes after assault by
Kurdish fighters to seize all of
northeastern city.
All Syria
parties must commit to Aleppo aid
truce, not just Russia: U.N.:
The United Nations is ready to
deliver aid into Syria's Aleppo, but
needs commitments from all parties
in the war - not just Russia - to
abide by a 48-hour humanitarian
truce, the U.N. aid chief, angered
by lack of assistance to civilians,
said on Monday.
Governments
who claimed being friends of Syrian
people are the ones responsible for
Syrians’ suffering:
The solution to the crisis in Syria
is a political solution based on
inter-Syrian dialogue and under a
Syrian leadership without any
foreign interference or any
preconditions
Top U.S.
commander skeptical of military
cooperation with Russia in Syria:
WASHINGTON D.C. -- The top U.S.
commander for the fight against the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) said Monday that he is
skeptical of any additional military
cooperation with Russia in Syria,
and that he believes he can get the
mission done without it.
Iran: Russia
Has Stopped Using Iran Base for
Syria Strikes:
Moscow, which had used the Shahid
Nojeh Air Base to refuel its bombers
striking Syria at least three times
last week, confirmed that all
Russian warplanes that were based in
Iran have returned to Russia.
Russia used
Iranian airfield for Syrian
operation at Tehran’s invitation –
official:
Tehran asked Moscow for airstrikes
“next to the land operation” in
Aleppo, Ali Shamkhani, secretary of
Iran’s Supreme National Security
Council (SNSC), told state
television, according to AFP.
Turkish
soldier killed in clash with Kurdish
militants:
security sources: One soldier was
killed and three police officers
were wounded in a clash with Kurdish
militants in southeastern Turkey on
Monday, security sources said, as a
spike in violence rocks the restive
region.
US-Backed
Militias Tortured and Killed
Hundreds in Iraq:
Shiite militias in Iraq have
tortured and killed thousands of
Sunni men and boys from Fallujah
since the city was liberated from
the Islamic State group in June, a
Reuters investigation revealed
Tuesday.
Iraq used
torture to extract confessions from
convicts, Amnesty says:
Amnesty International on Monday
condemned the hanging in Iraq of 36
men convicted of a mass killing of
soldiers, saying some of their
confessions were extorted under
threats and torture.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect bans
‘dangerous’ higher education for
women:
It is “dangerous” for women to be
university-educated and the practice
is now banned among the Satmar sect
of ultra-Orthodox Jews, according to
a decree viewed by The Independent.
The ban is to prevent “secular
influences” in the “holy
environment.”
Nigerian Air
Force Kills Top Boko Haram Militants
In Airstrikes;
The terror group's leader, Abubakar
Shekau, who has a bounty on his
head, is claimed to have been
fatally wounded in the raids.
US deploys
helicopter gunships in battle
against IS in Libya:
Military officials step up attacks
in Sirte, using Cobra attack
helicopters based on the amphibious
assault ship USS Wasp
Russian
foreign minister: No one knows who
got shoulder-fired anti-aircraft
missiles in Libya:
The Russian foreign minister made
comments Tuesday on the whereabouts
and wisdom of the United States
providing shoulder-fired ManPAD
anti-aircraft missiles to groups in
Libya. The comments were reported by
the Russian state news agency TASS.
50 Taliban militants killed
in Afghanistan:
"A total of 50 rebels, including
Mullah Ahmad Shah Ghori, the shadow
governor of Taliban group for the
western Ghor province, were killed
after government forces conducted
series of air strikes in Pashtunkot
district of the neighbouring Faryab
province
U.S. service
member killed in Afghanistan’s
Helmand province:
A U.S. service member was killed in
Afghanistan’s restive Helmand
province Tuesday after his patrol
triggered a roadside bomb. The blast
also wounded another American and
six Afghan soldiers.
Under New
Philippine President, Nearly 1,800
Have Died In Extrajudicial Killings:
In the seven weeks since he took
office, nearly 1,800 alleged
criminals have died — at the hands
of police or under mysterious
circumstances. The wave of
extrajudicial killings has prompted
outcry from human rights watchdogs
UK: Muslims
ordered off plane after ISIL
accusation:
Sisters and brother interrogated on
London airport runway after fellow
passengers claimed seeing Arabic
text on phone.
Czech PM says
no to 'large Muslim community' :
: "And to be honest, we don't want a
large Muslim community to form here,
given the problems we're seeing,"
Sobotka told the Pravo daily.
Venezuela
civil servants face sack over
referendum:
President Nicolas Maduro gives
ministries 48 hours to dismiss
public workers who signed a petition
for his recall.
CIA
Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling Close
To Death In Federal Prison:
Under pressure from media and
supporters, prison officials said
they will consider CIA whistleblower
Jeffrey Sterling’s request to
consult with an outside
cardiologist.
Joe Biden:
"Whites will be a Minority in US by
2017 - and that's a good Thing"
:
Video - “By 2017, those of us of
European stock will be an absolute
minority in the United States of
America,” Biden added that that’s
“not a bad thing, that’s a good
thing” because it means the country
is becoming more "diverse".
Clinton
Foundation donors include dozens of
media organizations, individuals:
NBC Universal, News Corporation,
Turner Broadcasting and Thomson
Reuters are among more than a dozen
media organizations that have made
charitable contributions to the
Clinton Foundation in recent years,
the foundation's records show.
Many donors
to Clinton Foundation met with her
at State:
More than half the people outside
the government who met with Hillary
Clinton while she was secretary of
state gave money — either personally
or through companies or groups — to
the Clinton Foundation. It's an
extraordinary proportion indicating
her possible ethics challenges if
elected president.
UPI Poll:
Trump and Clinton Virtually Tied:
The UPI/CVoter daily presidential
tracking poll released Tuesday shows
Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump
by less than 1 percentage point for
a second consecutive day.
Trump more
psychopathic than Hillary:
Clinton received a score of 152,
putting her in the top 20 percent.
Donald J. Trump "The media
pile on against me is the worst in
American political history!”
Hacking Democracy - The
Hack: Video
- This is the hack
that proved America's elections can
be stolen using a few lines of
computer code. The 'Hursti Hack' in
this video is an excerpt from the
feature length Emmy nominated
documentary 'Hacking Democracy'.
HUNDREDS of
dead people found casting ballots in
Los Angeles
: KCBS-Los Angeles recently led an
investigation into local voter rolls
to find voters casting ballots long
after they were buried. True the
Vote offers insight into why
California is so prone to voter
fraud.
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Dozens killed
in fierce fighting across Syria:
Kurdish fighters advanced in the
flashpoint city of Hasakeh in
northeast Syria after a Russian
mediation bid failed to halt clashes
with pro-regime forces, a monitoring
group said on Sunday.
Kurdish
militia launches assault to evict
Syrian army from key city of Hasaka:
The Kurdish YPG militia launched a
major assault on Monday to seize the
last government-controlled parts of
the northeastern Syrian city of
Hasaka after calling on
pro-government militias to
surrender, Kurdish forces and
residents said.
Turkey-backed
militants set to race US-supported
Kurds for ISIS-held Syrian town:
Ankara-backed Islamist units have
reportedly mobilized on the Turkish
side of the Syrian border to launch
an assault on Jarablus, aiming to
prevent the US-backed
Kurdish-dominant SDF from capturing
the town from Islamic State (IS,
formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.
Top US
commander warns Damascus & Moscow
against operations near American
positions
: Counter measures will be taken by
US troops in case they “feel
threatened” by Syrian or Russian air
forces, according to a senior US
military official.
Turkey PM:
Russia can share Incirlik airbase
with US ‘if necessary’:
Ankara has given Russia the go-ahead
to use its Incirlik air base for
operations in Syria, though no
official request from Moscow to use
the strategic military facility has
been made, Turkey’s Prime Minister
Binali Yildirim said on Saturday.
Turkey Seeks
Military Cooperation with Russia:
Turkey wants to position itself
closer to Russia, even militarily.
If these steps should be realized,
the development could lead to
considerable tensions within NATO.
But Turkey takes the view not to be
obliged obeying orders from NATO.
Erdogan
blames child bomber for attack that
killed 51:
A suicide bomber aged between 12 and
14 carried out the attack on a
wedding party in the Turkish city of
Gaziantep on Saturday that killed at
least 51 people, the president said.
Turkey
backtracks on 'child suicide bomber'
statement:
Turkey's Prime Minister Binali
Yildirim says authorities are in no
position to verify whether a child
suicide bomber was responsible for a
blast that killed at least 54 people
on Saturday, reversing an earlier
assertion by President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan.
Iraqi Air
Force leaflets urge citizens to keep
away from ISIS sites:
“Iraqi Air Force aircraft dropped
millions of leaflets and Iraqi flags
over Tal Afar, Baaj and Hawija,
urging the residents to stay away
from ISIS whereabouts. This call was
made so that the security forces can
carry out its attack plans against
ISIS without any obstruction.”
Israel hits
Syria targets after stray fire on
occupied Golan:
The Israeli air force struck a
Syrian army target Monday in
response to what the military said
was stray fire into its zone of
control on the occupied Golan
Heights.
Saudi Jets
Bomb Peaceful Rally of 100,000 in
Yemen: (VIDEO)
: The move by Saudi Arabia in
violation of international human
rights law comes at a time when the
United States has withdrawn support
for the Riyadh-led coalition due to
the rising civilian death toll.
Yemen Offers
Use Of Ports, Airbases To Russian
Military:
The offer takes place 48 hours after
the U.S. officials announced the
Pentagon has withdrawn from Saudi
Arabia its personnel who were
coordinating with the Saudi-led air
campaign in Yemen
Al Shabaab
suicide bombers kill 20 people in
Somalia:
More than 20 people were killed on
Sunday when suicide bombers from the
militant al Shabaab group detonated
two car bombs at a local government
headquarters in Somalia‘s
semi-autonomous Puntland region,
witnesses and officials said.
Libya: 9
killed, 85 injured by IS:
In Libya, Islamic State rebels have
killed nine pro-government forces
and wounded eighty-five others in
the city of Sirte.
Libya
parliament votes no confidence in
UN-backed government:
The spokesman, Abdullah Ablahig,
says 61 supported it, 39 abstained
and one member voted to support the
government. Some lawmakers claim the
vote would automatically dissolve
the government set up under a U.N.
deal, while its supporters dispute
this.
15 militants
killed in gun battle with Afghan
security forces:
At least 15 militants were killed
and three others arrested as a clash
flared up between them and the
security forces in Baghlan province
of Afghanistan on Monday, officials
said.
Taliban seize
district in Afghanistan's Kunduz
province:
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
confirmed that the fighters captured
the entire district along with
weapons and military vehicles.
Pakistani
forces kill six near Afghan border:
Pakistani security forces have
killed six people in a remote
northwestern valley near the Afghan
border in a new offensive against
Islamist militants in the area, the
military said.
Indian forces
fire at Kashmir protesters, 1 killed:
One young man was killed and dozens
wounded in Indian-controlled Kashmir
on Sunday as government forces fired
shotguns and tear gas at protesters
demanding an end to Indian rule in
the disputed Himalayan region.
Japan to
upgrade 200 F-15 jets, doubling
missile payload amid E. China Sea
tensions:
Japan’s Defense Ministry wants its
200 F-15 fighter jets to carry twice
as many air-to-air missiles as they
do now, in a bid to prepare for a
possible confrontation with Chinese
Air Force around disputed East China
Sea islands.
Duterte
threatens to pull Philippines out of
UN:
Philippine President has denounced
the UN after it called for an end to
killings blamed on his war on drugs,
saying he might leave the
organisation and invite China and
others to form a new one. About 900
suspected drug traffickers have been
killed since he came to power after
winning the election on May 9.
Three injured
as machete-wielding woman goes on
the rampage in Brussel:
Three people have been injured by a
machete-wielding woman who went on
the rampage in Brussels before being
shot by police, it has emerged. The
attacker lunged at passengers,
stabbing one in the back and one in
the stomach as they were getting off
a bus
Germany to tell people to
stockpile food and water in case of
attacks: FAS:
"The population will be obliged to
hold an individual supply of food
for ten days," the newspaper quoted
the government's "Concept for Civil
Defence" - which has been prepared
by the Interior Ministry - as
saying.
Sarkozy
announces bid for 2017 presidential
race:
Nicolas Sarkozy will run for
president in 2017, hoping to return
as France's head of state after
being unseated in 2012 by the now
deeply unpopular Francois Hollande,
he announced on Monday.
Dollar
Disaster Looms? China and Russian
Currencies Break Away:
In effect, money creation in Russia
was removed from state sovereignty
and tied to the US dollar.”
How the NSA
snooped on encrypted Internet
traffic for a decade;
The National Security Agency was
able to systematically spy on many
Cisco Systems customers for the
better part of a decade, researchers
have uncovered an attack that
remotely extracts decryption keys
from the company's
now-decommissioned line of PIX
firewalls.
State
Department Told to Speed Latest
Clinton E-Mail Review:
A federal judge has ordered the U.S.
State Department to accelerate its
review of almost 15,000 previously
undisclosed documents recovered by
the FBI from private e-mail servers
used by Hillary Clinton while she
was secretary of state.
The Forgotten
Government Plan to Round Up Muslims:
In the ’80s, terror led the
government to consider something far
more extreme than Donald Trump’s
ban.
As Clinton
asks for cash, campaign pitch
remains a mystery
: Clinton has refused to open her
fundraisers to journalists,
reversing nearly a decade of greater
transparency in presidential
campaigns and leaving the public
guessing at what she's saying to
some of her most powerful
supporters.
Clinton
campaign manager calls Trump a
Kremlin puppet:
On ABC’s "This Week With George
Stephanopoulos," the host pressed
Mook on why it was OK for the
Clinton Foundation to accept
corporate and foreign donations when
she was secretary of state but not
if she becomes president. Mook
provided no clear answer and instead
raised questions about Trump’s own
financial dealings.
Giuliani:
Press ignores signs of Clinton's
illness:
Continuing with the narrative that
Hillary Clinton is unfit to be
president, Rudy Giuliani, an adviser
with Donald Trump's campaign,
claimed Sunday there are videos
online that show Clinton has an
illness.
Alice Cooper
launches White House bid:
The veteran shock rocker announced
Monday that he is running for
president with the slogan, "A
Troubled Man for Troubled Times."
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Graves of
civilians killed by ISIS found in
Manbij, Syria:
According to the Manbij military
council, the 27 undocumented graves,
which were found on Friday, hold the
remains of civilians, who had
attempted to escape the town when it
was under the control of Daesh but
had been killed by the terrorists.
US soldier
among 7 killed by Islamic State in
Syria:
According to Amaq,
four IS militants carried out an
early morning assault on US and
Kurdish forces in the village. Six
Kurdish fighters are said to have
also been killed.
Brother of
Syrian boy pictured in Aleppo dies
of his wounds:
The older brother of the Syrian boy
whose image, dazed and bloodied
after an air strike, shocked people
around the world, has died in Aleppo
from wounds sustained in the same
incident, a war monitor and a
witness said.
Syria army
says Hasaka clashes result of
Kurdish take-over effort:
Fighting in Hasaka in northeast
Syria between the Syrian army and
Kurdish militia were a result of
Kurdish security forces trying to
take over the city, prompting the
army to respond by targeting armed
groups, the army said in a statement
on Friday.
Syrian
government airstrikes nearly hit
U.S. special forces:
The U.S. scrambled jets to protect
American troops near the
northeastern Syrian city of
Hassakeh, as government airstrikes
hit the Kurdish-controlled city for
the first time.
Pentagon
Warns Assad Regime to Avoid Action
Near U.S. and Allied Forces:
U.S. scrambled fighter jets after
Syrian warplanes target area used by
American military personnel
Syrian
warplanes fly over flash-point city
despite US warning:
Syrian government warplanes took to
the skies again Saturday over the
flash-point northeastern city of
Hassakeh, despite a U.S. warning
against new strikes that might
endanger its military advisers.
Iraqi Air
Force Kills 19 Daesh Commanders in
Mosul:
: "Air Force fighter
jets carried airstrikes against the
[Daesh] group's headquarters in
Mosul's al-Misaq quarter, when there
were high-ranking commanders of the
group. As a result of a successful
airstrike all the militants in the
number of 19 in the headquarters
were killed,"
14 ISIS
members killed in Khalidiya:
In the clashes, 14 ISIS men were
killed, apart from destroying three
cache of weapons at Albu Obeid and
Albu Bali. Among the dead ISIS men,
several members were Arabs and
foreigners.”
ISIS executes
14 civilians in Mosul:
“ISIS killed 14 civilians in
al-Faisaliah, central Mosul, for the
allegedly collaborating with the
government and Peshmerga forces. The
entire execution process was filmed
on camera by the outfit. The death
penalty against the civilians were
issued by the Sharia court in
Nineveh.”
ISIS executes
two of its own leaders in Hawija:
They were linked to the Emir of ISIS
in Kirkuk, who was executed
yesterday. The Emir was arrested
because in an audio recording he was
heard of appealing to the ISIS
fighters to withdraw and fall back
from Hawija.”
Eight killed
in blast at wedding in southeast
Turkey:
state media: Eight people were
killed and 60 were wounded on
Saturday in an attack on a wedding
party in southern Turkey that a
deputy prime minister said appeared
to have been carried out by a
suicide bomber.
Turkey vows
active role in Syria, better
regional ties:
Turkish Prime Minister Binali
Yildirim has vowed Ankara would play
a "more active" role in the next six
months in efforts to end the
five-year Syrian civil war and work
towards normalising its relations
with its neighbours in the Middle
East.
Turkey points
out CIA's 'more evidence' on Gulen:
US claims of not knowing Fetullah
Gulen's involvement in coup bid
mocks Turkish people, says Turkey's
justice minister
'US to send
team to Turkey' for Fethullah Gulen
probe:
The move, first reported on Friday
by Bloomberg News citing a US
administration official, would mark
the first sign of progress in
Turkey's attempts to have the
Pennsylvania-based Turkish-born
religious leader extradited.
Hundreds of
thousands in Yemen march in support
of rebels:
Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis
marched on Saturday in support of
Shiite Houthi rebels and their ally,
former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
U.S.
withdraws staff from Saudi Arabia
dedicated to Yemen planning:
Fewer than five U.S. service people
are now assigned full-time to the
"Joint Combined Planning Cell,"
including air-to-air refueling of
coalition jets and limited
intelligence-sharing
Cross-border
rocket from Yemen kills Saudi;
Pakistani among 6 injured: Rockets
fired by Yemeni rebels into a Saudi
border city on Saturday killed a
Saudi civilian and wounded six
others including a Pakistani man,
the Saudi civil defence agency said.
Reports: Iran forms
Liberation Army to deploy abroad:
In January, Al Jazeera reported that
Iran was recruiting tens of
thousands of Afghan Shia fighters to
step up the country's efforts in the
Syrian war, offering them salaries
to join the war on the side of the
government of President Bashar
al-Assad.
At Least 13
Libyan Soldiers Killed in Car Bomb
Attacks in Sirte:
– At least 13 soldiers of the Libyan
pro-unity government forces were
killed and 55 others wounded in the
explosion of two car bombs in the
city of Sirte, medical sources told
EFE on Friday.
Libya begins
air operation to cut off fleeing
Islamic State militants:
Government of National Accord said
surveillance operation covers
central Libya as well as western
region up to border with Tunisia
Taliban group
condemns killing of Afghan clerics
in Pakistan:
According to Taliban group, atleast
three clerics were killed in the
past few days in different parts of
Khyber Pakthukhwa province.
Indian Army
admits Kashmir teacher killed by
soldiers:
Amid protests in Kashmir, the Indian
army admitted today that a
32-year-old school teacher was
beaten to death by its soldiers,
during overnight raids at a village
and called it "absolutely
unjustified and unacceptable".
U.S. Defense
Contractors Tell Investors Russian
Threat Is Great for Business:
: The arms industry — both directly
and through its arsenal of
hired-gun, think-tank experts and
lobbyists – is actively pressuring
NATO member nations to hike defense
spending in line with the NATO goal
Leaked memo
proves George Soros ruled Ukraine in
2014:
More documents, in the massive 2,500
leaked tranche, show the immense
power and control Soros had over
Ukraine immediately following the
illegal Maidan government overthrow.
Dead in an
hour: Video shows LA cops tasering
grandfather who died in jail
: The video shows that the
56-year-old is violently thrown to
the ground and tasered five times by
officers. Despite receiving numerous
electric shocks,
Government
indifference in the midst of
historic Louisiana flooding:
The Red Cross calls the floods,
caused by unprecedented rainfalls
which began last weekend, the worst
US natural disaster since Hurricane
Sandy in 2012, which devastated much
of the East Coast.
The wealthy
have nearly healed from recession.
The poor haven’t even started:
The Great Recession and the
subsequent recovery from it have
deepened the wedge between the very
wealthy and everyone else in
America, plunging the poor deeper
into debt and wiping out two-fifths
of the wealth held by families in
the heart of the middle class.
Bombshell:
Clinton Foundation Witnesses Coming
Forward In Pay-For-Play
Investigation:
Today, Bestselling author Ed Klein
has revealed that sources have
confirmed to him that not only is
The Clinton Foundation under federal
investigation, but also at least one
Clinton Foundation insider is
prepared to testify in a court of
law against Hillary.
Clinton
Avoids Deposition But Must Still
Answer E-Mail Questions:
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan
on Friday set an Oct. 14 deadline
for Judicial Watch to submit its
questions to the Democratic
presidential nominee, meaning her
replies may not come until after the
Nov. 8 election.
Protesters
push, spit on Trump donors at Minn.
fundraiser:
Protesters pushed, verbally harassed
and spat on donors attending a
Donald Trump fundraiser in
Minneapolis on Friday night, the
Star Tribune reported. The
Minneapolis Convention Center area
became unruly as attendees left
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