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Jim Crow
is Alive and
Well in Israel
By Stanley L
Cohen |
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The Knesset has
used the veneer
of democracy to
ensure that
demographic and
political
control remains
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Liberals
Expose
Themselves
By Margaret
Kimberley |
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Talk of
resisting Trump
is useless
without exposure
of past and
present
Democratic Party
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At least 57 al-Shabab
extremists killed in Somalia
assault:
At least 57 members of the
al-Shabab extremist group
were killed Thursday as
African Union and Somali
forces attacked one of its
camps, the AU peacekeeping
mission in Somalia
announced.
Manbij front:
Turkish attacks repelled by
SDF forces, villages
recaptured
; Video -Members of the
Syrian Democratic Forces in
Manbij have repelled Turkish
attacks on the Manbij
frontline and recaptured
Tall Turin and Qarah, which
had been taken by Turkish/FSA
forces.
Syria : Manbij
militia to hand villages to
army;
A US-allied Syrian militia
has said it will hand over
villages west of the town of
Manbij to the army in order
to stop Turkish-backed
rebels taking them.
Will Turkey attack
Kurds in Manbij or move on
to Raqqa?:
The Syrian army, in a move
that eliminated Turkey’s
intended route to Raqqa,
blocked the corridor between
Manbij — where the Kurdish
People's Protection Units (YPG)
support the local military
council
Russia-Backed Syrian Army
Completely Liberates Palmyra
From Daesh:
The Syrian Army, supported
by the Russian Aerospace
Forces, has completed the
operation to liberate the
historic city of Palmyra
from Daesh terrorists,
according to the Kremlin
spokesman citing Russian
Defense Minister
Russian Airstrike in
Syria Hits U.S. Allies by
Mistake:
Russian aircraft mistakenly
bombed Syrian Arab fighters
who were being trained by
the United States, the
commander of the
American-led operation in
Iraq and Syria said
U.S. commander
downplays chance of big
Iraq, Syria troop hike:
"But in that event that we
bring in any additional
troops, we'll work that with
our local partners, both
here in Iraq and Syria, to
make sure that they
understand the reasons why
we're doing that and to get
their buy-in of that."
Islamic State
Fighters Being Wiped Out
From Mosul And Raqqa
Faster Than They Can
Sustain: "The enemy cannot
sustain the attrition that
they are suffering and
therefore they lose terrain,
they lose battles."
Airstrike on mosque
in W. Mosul kills both
civilians & ISIS fighters –
media:
A number of Mosul residents
and Islamic State militants
were killed in an airstrike
on a mosque in the western
half of the city, where
US-backed Iraqi forces
continue their major ground
offensive
'Exhausted,
terrified', 4,000 flee Mosul
daily:
Over 28,000 have been forced
from their homes since
operation to retake western
Mosul started on February
19, says UN.
Yemen: 40 Houthi
militants killed and injured
in al Jouf Province;
More than 40 Houthi-Saleh
alliance militia were killed
and injured during fierce
clashes on various fronts at
al-Mazweyiah and al Masloub
Directorates Wednesday.
US
Airstrikes in Yemen Kill 4
Alleged Militants;
U.S. jets and drones
targeted at least six
districts and they were all
located in a mountainous
area
U.S. Launches
Attacks in Yemen;
More than 20 attacks
launched Thursday targeted
alledged, AQAP militants,
equipment and infrastructure
in the Yemeni governorates
of Abyan, Al Bayda and
Shabwah, according to a
statement by Pentagon
spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis.
Yemen SEAL Raid Has
Yielded No Significant
Intelligence: Officials;
Although Pentagon officials
have said the raid produced
"actionable intelligence,"
senior officials who spoke
to NBC News said they were
unaware of any
Trump 'helping gut
rights in Arab world'
: US President Donald
Trump's attacks on Muslims
and his support for
strongman leaders are
exacerbating an already
dramatic rights decline in
the Arab world, two Arab
Spring champions said
Thursday.
UN chief urged to
add IDF to blacklist;
A network of human rights
and humanitarian
organizations that aims to
protect children in conflict
is urging UN
Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres to add the Israel
Defense Forces to the
blacklist of countries and
armed groups responsible for
grave violations against
children.
Report: Netanyahu
told ministers he urged
Trump to quit UN rights
body;
Amid reports that the Trump
administration is
considering pulling the US
out of the UN Human Rights
Council, Army Radio on
Thursday reported that Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said that he had been the
one to urge the US president
to do so.
GOP lawmakers unveil
measure to cut off U.S. aid
to Palestinians:
House and Senate Republicans
on Tuesday introduced
legislation that would cut
off U.S. aid to the
Palestinian Authority under
certain conditions.
UK curbing academic
free speech on Israel:
Jewish scholar;
The British government is
helping universities across
the UK suppress the right to
criticize Israel over its
human rights violations in
Palestine, says a Jewish
professor, vowing to never
give in to the pressure.
Save Palestine
boycott Israel
: Video-
80 percent of
Canadians back Israel
boycott — poll;
Four in five Canadians
believe the Palestinian call
for boycott, divestment and
sanctions (BDS) on Israel is
reasonable, a national
survey released Wednesday
suggests.
Hosni Mubarak
acquitted over 2011
protester killings:
Six years after the uprising
that ended his rule, former
Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak has been acquitted
over his alleged involvement
in the killings of nearly
900 protesters in 2011.
ISIL expands in
Afghan-Pakistan areas,
widening attacks;
ISIL expansion poses new
challenge for US President
Donald Trump, as he vowed to
"totally destroy" the rebel
group.
Japan scrambles jets
as Chinese warplanes fly
near Okinawa
; Japan’s Air Force deployed
fighter jets to shadow
Chinese warplanes passing
near the island of Okinawa,
according to reports citing
the Japanese Defense
Ministry. Okinawa is the
home base of the majority of
US troops stationed in
Japan.
Drones, lasers, and
tanks: China shows off its
latest weapons:
The Silent Hunter laser is
powerful enough to cut
through light vehicle armor
at up to a kilometer away
The official (and
unofficial) reasons why
China’s big shots are
meeting in Beijing this week;
The biggest political event
of the year is upon us again
as the country’s movers and
shakers drop everything to
gather in Beijing for the
“Two Sessions”, which
officially begins on Friday.
Russia to dominate
European gas market for next
two decades;
Russia’s Gazprom increased
its share of the European
gas market to a record 34
percent last year. This
means Russia will remain the
biggest supplier of gas to
Europe through 2035,
according to Royal Dutch
Shell and BP.
An Alternative to
NATO Expansion That Won’t
Antagonize Russia;
‘Permanent neutrality’ would
offer countries like Ukraine
and Georgia the protection
they need.
No Justice!
Former CIA agent
released by Lisbon court
after Italy reduces
sentence;
A former agent for the CIA
was on Wednesday freed at
the order of Lisbon's appeal
court, after Italy's
president issued a pardon
reducing her prison sentence
there by one year, her
lawyer told Lusa.
French industrial
giant admits deals with
‘armed groups’ in Syria:
French building materials
giant Lafarge admitted that
it provided funds to
“certain armed groups” and
“sanctioned parties” in
Syria when it faced
operational and security
challenges.
Marine Le Pen loses
EU parliament immunity over
tweets:
Le Pen's immunity shielded
her from prosecution. By
lifting it, after a request
from the French judiciary,
the parliament is allowing
any eventual legal action
against her.
Big Win for
Colombian Community Against
Canadian Mining Giant:
The Indigenous and
Afro-Colombian community of
Marmato won a major court
victory in their 10-year
fight against a massive
Canadian gold mine.
In Video, Uber CEO
Argues With Driver Over
Falling Fares;
Travis Kalanick tells a
driver to take
responsibility for his
problems and boasts about a
tough culture.
Flint Now Required
to Pay Full Price for
Contaminated Water:
Despite residents in Flint,
Michigan still needing to
filter their water to safely
drink it, they will now lose
their water relief credits,
forcing them to pay full
price for the contaminated
water.
Facebook Post on VA
Treatment of Patients Causes
Uproar:
A former Marine and his wife
say the scene inside a
Veterans Administration
hospital in Durham, North
Carolina, was so shocking
that they took pictures and
posted them to Facebook.
“The Evidence Was
Overwhelming That We Were
Being Used As Pawns,” Says
Iraq Vet:
Veterans Say Organizers
Concealed Saudi Sponsorship
of Their Trip to DC to Lobby
for Changes to 9/11 Lawsuit
Legislation:
Judge
to consider $1 million
settlement in US border
killing;
A federal judge will
consider an agreement for
the U.S. government to pay
$1 million to the children
of a Mexican man who died
after being detained by
immigration authorities and
shot several times with a
stun gun.
House
Speaker Paul Ryan on Trump
camp's alleged Russia ties:
'We
need to get answers'
Sessions Under Fire: GOP
Rushes to Eat Their Own
Again:
Some
Republicans quick to pile on
as Trump attorney general
targeted by media, leaks
Soros-supported
organization holds DOJ
protest calling for Sessions
resignation
:
MoveOn.org, an organization
supported by George Soros,
is holding a demonstration
outside the US Department of
Justice Thursday calling for
Jeff Sessions to resign from
the office of attorney
general.
Crony Capitalism at
Work? Trump Adviser Carl
Icahn Strong-Arms Ethanol
Lobby to Save His Company
Millions;
Critics are charging that
billionaire investor Carl
Icahn has used his position
as Donald Trump’s
deregulatory czar to
strong-arm the ethanol lobby
Ben Carson wins
confirmation as Housing
secretary:
Six Democrats and one
independent joined 51
Republicans in voting for
Carson to lead the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
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February 28, 2017
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Iraq: Security
forces, PMUs kill 12 Islamic
State members in Salahuddin
Iraq: 2 IEDs
explosion kills 8 volunteer
soldiers near Tikrit:
Army close to
invading Tal Afar, more than
900 militants killed in
western Mosul:
The number of Islamic State
militants killed since the
launch of Iraqi forces
offensives to retake western
Mosul has surpassed 900, the
police service said as the
army prepares to invade a
strategic IS stronghold.
US probing whether
Al-Qaeda number two killed
in Syria:
Al-Masri is a son-in-law of
Qaeda founder Osama bin
Laden and is believed to be
deputy to the group's
current leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Syria's FSA vows to
attack government forces in
Al Bab:
Syrian army's advances in Al
Bab city may delay the
battle for Raqqa, analysts
say.
Turkey-backed Syrian
rebels clash with army in
north:
Russia, which backs the
Syrian government, mediated
to bring an end to the
confrontation, according to
a source in the military
alliance fighting in support
of President Bashar al-Assad.
Russia also intervened to
halt the previous clash.
Russia, China block
U.N. sanctions on Syria over
alleged gas attacks;
Russia on Tuesday cast its
seventh veto to protect the
Syrian government from
United Nations Security
Council action, blocking a
bid by Western powers to
impose sanctions over
accusations of chemical
weapons attacks during the
six-year Syrian conflict.
Pentagon presents
Trump with plan for ‘rapid
defeat’ of IS:
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis
submits draft proposal which
likely includes possibility
of sending more US troops to
region
Yemeni forces kill 2
Saudi soldiers, score
multiple victories over
Saudi-led coalition:
Yemeni forces, backed by
fighters from the Houthi
Ansarullah movement, have
killed two Saudi soldiers in
the kingdom’s southern
regions of Najran and Jizan
Trump deflects blame
for Yemen raid that killed
U.S. Navy SEAL:
President Donald Trump on
Tuesday distanced himself
from a rare anti-terror raid
in Yemen last month that
resulted in the death of a
U.S. Navy SEAL --
emphasizing that although it
was successful, he didn't
plan the operation.
Trump has reminded
Palestinians that it was
always about one state:
News Analysis: Israel now
has a free hand to entrench
its existing apartheid
version of the one-state
solution – Greater Israel –
on the Palestinians
Official
Investigation Launched Into
German-Israeli Submarine
Deal:
Israel's Justice Ministry
has launched an
investigation into the
potentially corrupt purchase
of German submarines
involving individuals close
to Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu
The Israel lobby
scandal and Labour's
anti-Semitism 'crisis' are
intimately linked:
The fact that Labour Friends
of Israel (LFI) director MP
Joan Ryan is shown to have
misrepresented and smeared a
pro-Palestinian party member
is instructive, but not a
shock.
Refugee child abuse
rampant in Libya, UNICEF
report warns:
Thousands of refugee
children experience abuse,
exploitation and arbitrary
detention in Libya, UNICEF
reports
Taliban kill 12
Afghan police with silenced
weapons:
Taliban fighters in the
southern Afghan province of
Helmand attacked a
checkpoint with silenced
weapons and hand grenades
early on Tuesday killing 12
policemen and stealing
weapons and ammunition,
officials said.
Russia-US relations
are at their worst since
Cold War – Moscow
: “The foundation of
cooperation that had been
gradually created over the
course of many years was
almost completely destroyed
in a short period of time by
the previous US
administration,”
'No Mercy': Russia
'Should Prepare to Live
Under Sanctions
Indefinitely' - PM:
See what our friends both
overseas and in Europe are
doing. They are perpetuating
the sanctions," Medvedev
said in an interview with
the Vesti v Subbotu
television program .
Q. E. D.: US House
Finds 'No Evidence' of Trump
Campaign Contacts With
Russia;
US House of Representatives
investigations have yet to
find any indication of
regular contacts between
Russia and members of
President Donald Trump’s
election campaign,
Robert Fisk; The
Education of Marine Le Pen;
Op-ed;
Marine Le Pen has been doing
a little Trumping in Beirut.
TWENTY MILLION
African migrants heading for
Europe:
European parliament
president warns that a huge
number will arrive in the
'next few years' unless
action is taken.
How psychedelics
like psilocybin and LSD
actually change the way
people see the world:
"Psilocybin does in 30
seconds what antidepressants
take three to four weeks to
do," David Nutt, a professor
of neuropsychopharmacology
in the division of brain
sciences at Imperial College
London explains
Boston Dynamics
unveils 'nightmare-inducing'
hybrid robot:
Google-owned robotics firm
and “nightmare” factory
Boston Dynamics has released
video of its latest
creation: a two-wheeled,
four-legged hybrid robot
named Handle.
Trump’s DNI pick
takes hard line on Russia,
Gitmo & snooping;
Former Senator Dan Coats
(R-Indiana), nominated by
President Donald Trump to be
director of national
intelligence, wants to keep
the detention camp in
Guantanamo Bay open
The assault on
immigrants and the specter
of a US police state:
The brutal human cost of
this “unshackling” has
become manifest from coast
to coast since the
Department of Homeland
Security released two memos
spelling out this dramatic
escalation.
War criminal:
McCain, Thornberry: Trump's
Proposed Defense Spending
Hike Not Enough
; "With a world on fire,
America cannot secure peace
through strength with just 3
percent more than President
[Barack] Obama's budget. We
can and must do better,"
McCain said
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Truth
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By Lawrence
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In his own
opinion, nothing
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Twin attacks on
Syrian security kill at
least 32;
In synchronized attacks,
insurgents stormed into
heavily guarded security
offices in Syria’s central
Homs city, clashed with
troops and then blew
themselves up, killing a
senior officer and at least
31 others, state media and
officials reported.
Airstrikes kill at
least 11 in Syria as Geneva
talks continue:
Separately, there were
unconfirmed reports that a
top al-Qaeda official was
killed in an airstrike, also
in Idlib.
Syrian army captures
key town from IS in northern
countryside of Aleppo:
Capturing the town of Tadef
enables the Syrian army to
secure transportation routes
in eastern Aleppo, and
constitute a base for
launching attacks and
undermining the presence of
the IS militants
Syrian Army
unstoppable amid new gains
on the outskirts of Palmyra:
Video
- Heavily supported by
Russian airstrikes, the SAA
pushed onwards from Jabbal
Hayyal and secured the
adjecent ‘hill 900’ point
southwest of Palmyra on
Monday.
Video: Israeli military
infiltrates into Syria’s
territories:
Israel has been providing
logistic support and medical
assistance to opposition
forces – including Jabhet
al-Nusra terror organization
– fighting President Bashar
Assad.
5 reasons Turkish
forces must leave Syria:
Turkey's presence in Syria
is not welcome, not legal
and not moral.
Iraqi forces
recapture northwestern Mosul
village, PMUs kill 15
militants:
The paramilitary force
fighting Islamic State with
the Iraqi government, said
through its media service it
had killed 15 members of the
group while advancing
towards the nearby Darnaj
village
Iraq: Bomb blasts
kill 3 in Baghdad:
A bomb exploded near a
marketplace in southern
Baghdad, killing two people
and injuring four others,
police captain Nazhan al-Khedr
told Anadolu Agency.
Iraqi police kills 2
IS suicide bombers south of
Mosul:
“Police forces, stationed at
al-Salam General Hospital,
killed two suicide bombers
belonging to the Islamic
State, before sneaking into
the hospital.”
Forces push into
western part of ISIL-held
Mosul;
Troops take Gawsaq and reach
strategic Fourth Bridge as
ISIL fights back with
anti-tank missiles and
suicide car bombs
Reports say Turkey
Behind Airdrop To ISIS in
Tal Afar :
Video - Erdogan can't handle
the idea of Iraq's PMU
capturing Tal 'Afar (a
Turkmen district). The
cameraman explains that this
is not the 1st time nor the
10th time that airdrops have
been dropped into Tal afar.
this time it was recorded
for evidence.
Mob Attacks And
Stones Iraqi Prime
Minister's Car In Baghdad
: Video -
Iran
launches major naval
exercise in northern Indian
Ocean:
The exercises are being held
in an area of 2 million
square kilometers, spanning
the Strait of Hormuz, the
Sea of Oman, north of the
Indian Ocean and the
Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.
Fatah
movement says Facebook shut
down the movement's official
page:
Facebook closed the Fatah’s
official page after the
group posted a photo of the
late Palestinian President
and Fatah leader Yasser
Arafat alongside the current
deputy chairman of the
movement Mahmoud al-Aloul.
Tom Perez condemned
BDS at the DNC Chair Debate
: Video - I asked him what
he thought about Israeli
home demolitions
Rebel Rabbis:
Anti-Zionist Jews Against
Israel
: Video - VICE embeds with
the London branch of the
Neturei Karta, a group of
controversial Ultra Orthodox
Jews who campaign against
Zionism and for the
immediate dismantling of the
state of Israel.
Car bombing kills 2
in Libya’s Benghazi:
Two soldiers were killed in
a suicide car bombing in
Libya’s eastern city of
Benghazi on Sunday,
according to a military
spokesman.
Famine In South
Sudan:
A turning point in global
food security: 2017; This
week, famine was declared
across parts of South Sudan,
where nearly 100,000 people
are facing starvation.
Pentagon Wants
Increased Role for U.S.
Troops in Somalia: Report;
The Pentagon reportedly
wants to expand U.S.
operations in Somalia,
potentially putting American
soldiers in frontline combat
with the extremist group al-Shabab.
Afghanistan: Senior
Taliban leader killed in
Kunduz air raid:
Taliban confirms Mullah
Abdul Salam Akhund's death,
saying he was killed by a US
bombing raid in Afghan
province.
China warns US, S.
Korea of 'consequences' over
THAAD land swap deal:Washington
and Seoul will face
“consequences” over a land
swap deal which will allow
the US to host its THAAD
missile defense system on
South Korean soil – a move
which Beijing claims will
undermine its own ballistic
capabilities.
How U.S. Missile
Defense Destabilizes the
World; Ray McGovern on
Missile Defense:
McGovern was a CIA analyst
from 1963 to 1990, and in
the 1980s chaired National
Intelligence Estimates and
prepared the President's
Daily Brief.
Unofficial US-North
Korea talks dropped after
State Dept denies visa to
top official – report:
State Department officials
have refused to comment on
the reason Choe’s visa was
denied, saying it does not
comment on “the details of
individual visa cases.
Treason charges
against Russian cyber
experts:
The arrests concern
allegations that the
suspects passed secrets to
U.S. firm Verisign and other
unidentified American
companies, which in turn
shared them with U.S.
intelligence agencies.
German hostage
beheaded by Philippine
Islamists: govt:
A video posted by the Abu
Sayyaf group, which was
monitored by intelligence
group SITE, showed Jurgen
Kantner being killed by a
knife-wielding man.
Russia to Help Boost
Tajik-Afghan Border
Protection Using Russian
Base - Putin:
Moscow and Dushanbe have
agreed to intensify efforts
to protect the Tajik-Afghan
border, using a Russian
military base, Russian
President Vladimir Putin
said Monday
‘Refugee spy’
working for unnamed ‘foreign
power’ arrested in Sweden:
The Swedish Security Service
(Sapo) has arrested a man it
claims has been spying on
Tibetan refugees on behalf
of another country, although
the identity of his
employing nation remains
unknown.
Orwell proved correct:
Critics accuse
European Parliament of
censorship over ‘kill
switch’ to cut racist
remarks:
The European Parliament is
introducing a new rule set
to curb hate speech, cutting
live debate feeds and
removing video/audio traces
of offensive remarks.
Islamic State
planning attacks in Britain:
anti-terrorism lawyer:
Islamic State militants are
planning "indiscriminate
attacks on innocent
civilians" in Britain on a
scale similar to those
staged by the Irish
Republican Army 40 years
ago, the head of the
country's new terrorism
watchdog said.
UK: electoral expert
– Copeland by-election
‘unlawful’, count ‘suspect’:
Labour’s election results in
the constituency had been in
sharp decline since 1997 and
an anti-Corbyn candidate was
standing. But there may be
yet more to the story.
30 Spanish cities
march in solidarity with
refugees, against 'Fortress
Europe':
Video - , Protesters decried
the perceived indifference
of the Spanish and other
European governments in the
face of the refugee and
migrant crisis.
Va. man charged with
hate crime after using
Muslim slurs, biting
victim’s face, police say:
How San Diego Built
a Bridge Over the Wall:
A simple pedestrian crossing
created the world’s first
true binational airport, and
boosted the economies on
both sides of the border.
What
happens during a deportation
raid in the US?
Activists and undocumented
people describe the chaos
and terror of predawn
deportation raids taking
place across the US.
Trump’s Deportation
Rules Will Make America
Unsafe Again:
The Trump administration’s
approach to immigration
enforcement will do anything
but enhance public safety.
Why Worry About
“Importing” Terrorists, When
the Regime Can Grow Its Own?
This year, there have been
three domestic
terrorism-related incidents
involving American-born
military veterans.
Targeting a
Sanctuary:
After ICE Stakes Out a
Church Homeless Shelter,
Charities Worry Immigrants
Will Fear Getting Help
Father Of Navy SEAL
Killed In Yemen Raid Has
Harsh Words For Trump:
"I told them I didn't want
to make a scene about it,
but my conscience wouldn't
let me talk to him," Owens
said of the president in an
interview with The Miami
Herald.
National security
adviser: Term 'radical
Islamic terrorism' isn't
helpful:
National security adviser
H.R. McMaster is already
setting a strikingly
different tone than his
ousted predecessor, Michael
Flynn, and President Donald
Trump, saying the term
"radical Islamic terrorism"
isn't helpful for US goals.
Military Industrial Complex
Wins:
Trump's budget will
call for $54 billion
increase in "defense"
spending:
Under Trump's proposal, most
federal agencies would face
budget reductions, but the
official did not say which
would see the biggest cuts.
Foreign aid spending would
also drop.
No evidence yet of
Trump team, Russia contacts:
key lawmaker;
U.S. intelligence officials
had not yet presented the
committee with any evidence
of contacts between Trump
campaign staff and Russian
intelligence.
Trump's pick for
Navy secretary withdraws:
The development leaves Trump
and Secretary of Defense Jim
Mattis without nominees to
head both the Navy and Army.
Schumer: Trump broke
his promises to Americans:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer blasted the GOP and
President Donald Trump's
first month in office while
speaking with reporters.
White House planted
fake story to smear Politico
reporter who wrote about
leaks: reports:
The White House apparently
attempted to smear a
critical reporter by
planting a story about him
laughing at the mention of a
Navy SEAL’s death.
Sean Spicer targets
own staff in leak crackdown:
Press secretary Sean Spicer
is cracking down on leaks
coming out of the West Wing,
with increased security
measures that include random
phone checks of White House
staffers, overseen by White
House attorneys.
State legislators
take steps to criminalize
protests;
Republican state legislators
across the country are
advancing bills that would
criminalize or penalize some
public protests just a month
after millions of Americans
took to the streets in
opposition to President
Trump.
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February 25/26, 2017
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By John Prine |
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There's a hole
in daddy's arm
where all the
money goes,
Jesus Christ
died for nothin
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50 killed in suicide
bombings targeting Syrian
military HQs in Homs – state
media:
Six simultaneous suicide
bombings targeted two
security centers and
surrounding areas in Homs
earlier Saturday, the
official SANA news agency
reported
Homs Suicide Attacks
An Attempt to Derail Geneva
Peace Talks: UN:
A United Nations peace envoy
said a militant attack in
Syria on Saturday was a
deliberate attempt to wreck
peace talks in Geneva, while
the warring sides traded
blame and appeared no closer
to actual negotiations.
Iraq: Coalition
kills 16 militants kills 16
militants:
“The international coalition
air force bombarded a convoy
belonging to the Islamic
State, while transferring
heavy weapons.”
IS attacks village
in Baiji, kills 5 civilians:
A number of the Islamic
State’s members sneaked into
al-Mazraa village in Baiji
District, at dawn today, and
killed four members of one
family.
No Easy Victory in
Mosul:
The battle to retake IS’
Iraqi stronghold will be
protracted, and could signal
the start of a new and
different kind of war
Iraqi forces push
deeper into western Mosul as
civilians flee;
Troops advanced in several
more populated, built-up
southern districts and about
1,000 civilians walked
across the frontlines, the
largest displacement since
fighting began a week ago
Saudi FM visits
Baghdad
: "The visit is a Saudi
attempt to balance Iran's
role in Iraq," Ahmed Younis,
a professor of international
relations at the University
of Baghdad, told Reuters.
Eight killed in
fresh Saudi airstrikes on
Yemen:
At least seven people have
lost their lives and several
others sustained injuries
when Saudi fighter jets
carried out a raft of aerial
attacks against residential
neighborhoods across Yemen.
Yemen officials: 8
soldiers killed in suicide
car bombing:
The bomber, was disguised as
a driver carrying a load of
fire wood for cooking,
failed to get inside the
camp after soldiers stopped
him. So he blew himself up
at the gates instead.
Yemen Stops Allowing
US to Conduct Special
Operations Ground Missions:
The US Special Operations
ground missions caused a
number of civilian
casualties, it fuelled the
anger of Yemeni population.
What a load of crap:
Israeli minister:
The Bible says West Bank is
ours:
"If you want to say that our
land does not belong to us,
I suggest you go change the
Bible first," says Bennett.
Libya: Video
circulates of purported LNA
execution of IS member;
A man accused of being a
fighter with the so-called
Islamic State (IS) is
reported to have been
summarily executed by
fighters linked to the
Libyan National Army (LNA).
Boko Haram
spokesperson killed after
plot to oust leader;
The leader of Boko Haram’s
main faction, Abubakar
Shekau, has admitted killing
the group’s purported
spokesperson over an
apparent plot to oust him.
Pay to play;
Libya, Venezuela
suspended from voting in the
UN General Assembly once
again;
The Assembly decided this
week that the two oil
producers and four other
countries would lose their
votes in the 2016-2017
session because they’re over
two years behind on dues
10 Police Officers
Killed in Ambush by
Militants in Afghanistan;
At least 10 police officers
and the wife of a police
commander were killed in an
ambush by Islamic State
militants in the northern
province of Zawzjan, a
provincial official said on
Saturday.
Kim Jong-nam murder
suspect says she was ‘paid
$90' for deadly 'prank’
: "Her health is stable.
During the meeting with
embassy officials, Doan Thi
Huong said she was being
taken advantage of and
thought she was starring in
a comedy video,"
Germany: One killed
as driver ploughs rental car
into pedestrians:
WARNING: DISTRESSING
CONTENT: Initial reports
suggest it was a deliberate
attack by the driver, who
was hunted down and shot by
police during a standoff in
a street
Dutch relations with
euro up for debate after
lawmakers commission probe;
The probe will examine
whether it would be possible
for the Dutch to withdraw
from the single currency,
and if so how, said lawmaker
Pieter Omtzigt.
Hollande fires back
at Trump over Paris comment
; French President Francois
Hollande fired back at
Donald Trump on Saturday
after the U.S. president
remarked in a speech that a
friend thought “Paris is no
longer Paris” after attacks
by Islamist militants.
Teargas used as
anti-Le Pen protest in
France descends into
violence:
Riot police were forced to
use tear gas to contain a
protest staged by
anti-fascist and far-left
union protesters in Nantes
in western France.
UK security and
counter-terrorism:
Two British men who were
caught trying to leave the
UK via a southern port have
been sentenced to more than
seven years in prison
A newly declassified
report shows Australia
joined 2003 Iraq War solely
to boost ties with Bush
: It’s one of many startling
revelations in a 572-page,
declassified internal report
on the Iraq War obtained by
Fairfax Media under freedom
of information laws.
Mexico Snubs Trump,
Says No to Deporting More
Central Americans:
The U.S. wants to pressure
Mexico into keeping migrants
and refugees as they await
trial, forcing Mexico to
deport them instead. Mexico
isn't falling for it.
Ecuador votes to bar
politicians from having
assets in tax havens:
‘civil servants will have
one year to bring all their
assets back to Ecuador, and
if they don’t comply with
this within one year they
will have to step down –
including President and
Vice-President.
Disgraceful:
DNC votes to roll
back Obama ban against
corporate lobby donations
; Despite Clinton’s campaign
being mired in accusations
of pay for play, influence
from Wall Street and oil and
gas industries, the DNC
appears to have a short
memory.
Tom Perez is the
next chair of the Democratic
National Committee:
“We are suffering from a
crisis of confidence and
relevance. We need a chair
that can take the fight to
Donald Trump,” Perez said in
his speech before the vote.
Syrian who worked on
nominated film can't attend
Oscars:
U.S. immigration authorities
are barring entry to a
21-year-old Syrian
cinematographer who worked
on a harrowing film about
his nation's civil war, "The
White Helmets," that has
been nominated for an
Academy Award.
Connecticut governor to
cops: Don't follow Trump
immigration orders:
Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) said
Connecticut officials should
not detain anyone solely on
the basis of their
immigration status. Federal
immigration detainer
requests do not constitute
orders or warrants,
Pruitt lied to
senators in saying he did
not use a private email
server for official state
business:
Illegal Fundraiser
for the Clintons made secret
tape because he feared being
ASSASSINATED;
The Chinese-American was
convicted of funneling money
to Bill Clinton's 1996
re-election bid in a breach
of campaign finance law
known as 'Chinagate'
Cheney Poisoned
Hundreds of US Troops in
Iraq — They’re Dying — And
the Media is Silent:
Just as the U.S. laid waste
to Vietnam’s human health
and jungle environment with
Agent Orange, it wrecked
human health and
environmental quality in
Iraq.
Trump cuts US debt
by $12bn in his first month
in office, accuses media of
‘not reporting’ it
: Moreover, between February
22 and February 23, the US
debt fell by further $ 22
billion from $ 19,935
billion to $ 19,913 billion.
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February 24, 2017
Trump
Relinquishes
Control of
Foreign Policy
By Mike Whitney
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The war party is
back in power
and the odds of
normal relations
with Russia have
dropped to zero.
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At least 68,
fighters killed by Daesh car
bomb attacks in al-Bab:
At least 68 people,
including Turkey-backed Free
Syrian Army (FSA) fighters
died, dozens of others were
wounded after two car bomb
attacks by Daesh terrorists
in northern Syria's al-Bab,
reports said on Friday.
Second car bomb near
Syria kills at least eight
people:
Syrian opposition activists
say a second car bomb has
exploded in a town just
captured from Islamic State
group militants by Turkish
troops and Syrian fighters,
leaving at least eight
people dead.
130 bodies found in
Syria mass graves:
- The bodies of some 130
fighters shot
execution-style or beheaded
by rival jihadists have been
found in mass graves in
northwestern Syria
Pentagon considering U.S.
troops in Syria
: Pentagon declined
repeatedly to rule out
committing U.S. ground
troops to battle the Islamic
State in in Syria, stressing
that the Pentagon will
present President Donald
Trump with “a full range of
options” to combat the
terror organization.
CIA-backed aid for Syrian
rebels frozen after Islamist
attack: sources;
CIA-coordinated military aid
for rebels in northwest
Syria has been frozen since
they came under major
Islamist attack last month,
rebel sources said, raising
doubts about foreign support
key to their war against
President Bashar Assad.
U.S. Generals want
talks with Russia about
Iraq, Syria operations
: Senior U.S. military
officials want to elevate
talks with Russia about air
operations over Iraq and
Syria, an effort that is
meant to protect pilots from
collisions
Russia says will
veto UN resolution imposing
sanctions on Syria:
Russia will veto the UN
Security Council’s draft
resolution imposing
sanctions on Syria over
alleged chemical attacks
Damascus is blamed for,
Russia’s Deputy Permanent
Represented to the UN told
reporters on Friday
Iraq carries out
airstrikes against ISIS
targets in Syria – PM
statement
: "We are determined to
chase terrorism that tries
to kill our sons and
citizens wherever it is
found, so we gave orders to
the air force command to
strike Islamic State
positions in Syrian
territory"
IS attack kills 15
Iraq border guards near
Jordan;
"Daesh launched an attack
with a suicide car bomb and
gunmen on the 2nd border
guard regiment near Trebil,"
an officer in the border
guard told AFP, using an
Arabic acronym for IS.
Six Islamic State
militants killed in
coalition airstrikes in
Anbar;
Six Islamic State militants
were killed on Thursday in
air strikes by fighter jets
from the U.S.-led coalition
that targeted group
strongholds in western Anbar,
a local military official
said.
Yemen clashes and
suicide bombing kill 43:
A suicide bomber killed
eight people at a Yemeni
Army base Friday as clashes
between pro-government
fighters and Huthi rebels
left 35 dead, security
sources and a local official
said.
Turkey finalizing
S-400 missile deal with
Russia:
The Daily Sabah reports
Turkey's defense leadership
says the goal of the
purchase is to fulfill the
country's missile defense
needs while its own
contractors work to produce
a domestic solution.
U.N. rights office
decries Israeli sentence as
excessively lenient:
"We are deeply disturbed at
the lenient sentence given
by the Tel Aviv Military
Court earlier this week to
an Israeli soldier convicted
of unlawfully killing a
wounded Palestinian"
What happens when you state
the facts about Israel:
Israel vows no more
visas to Human Rights Watch:
International NGO with
operations in 90 countries
is 'serving Palestinian
propaganda,' Foreign
Ministry says
13 Europe-bound
migrants suffocate in Libya
container;
The bodies of 13 migrants,
including two teenagers, who
died of suffocation in a
shipping container bound for
Europe have been found in
Libya and 56 survivors
rescued, aid officials said
Thursday.
The world is
ignoring an ‘unprecedented’
starvation crisis:
The world is in the grip of
an astonishing and acute
crisis: More than 20 million
people in South Sudan,
Somalia, northern Nigeria
and Yemen face starvation in
the next six months,
according to the United
Nations.
Car bomb kills 2
soldiers, wounds 3 others in
Afghanistan:
The attack took place this
morning when a suicide car
bomb exploded at an army
post in the district of
Girishk.
Air warfare in
Afghanistan costing civilian
lives dearly:
The drone missile hit the
tower in Jendakhel at 8 am
as five men climbed up to
keep watch for Daesh
fighters who had been
harassing their village for
months. Mistaken for the
enemy, they became some of
the latest victims of US
airstrikes
Afghanistan being
used for proxy war against
Pakistan:PM;
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
is on a three-day state
visit, Nawaz claimed that
elements upset by Pakistan’s
progress were behind the
current spate of violence in
the country.
China steams past
U.S., France to be Germany's
biggest trading partner:
China for the first time
became Germany's most
important trading partner in
2016, overtaking the United
States, which fell back to
third place behind France,
data showed on Friday.
The absolute
dominance of the U.S.
economy, in one chart
: Despite the bleak picture
painted by President Donald
Trump of the U.S. as a
country in disarray,
America’s status as an
economic superpower is still
very much intact, even as
China steadily closes the
gap.
UK 'pilots' working
way through kill list of UK
citizens fighting for ISIS
in Iraq and Syria;
RAF pilots have been
secretly assassinating
British jihadists, suspected
of plotting UK terror
attacks. ‘When we know where
they are we kill them,’
MPs call on Theresa
May to release 'kill list'
for UK drone strikes:
Lord Macdonald, the former
director of public
prosecutions, has co-signed
a letter to Theresa May
calling for greater
transparency on the UK’s use
of a “kill list” for drone
strikes targeting British
fighters in Syria
'People working as
drone operators cease to be
humans' - Brandon Bryant:
Audio -
German intel service
spied on foreign media incl
BBC, Reuters for years –
Spiegel
: The BND has spied upon
more than 50 phone and fax
numbers as well as e-mail
addresses of journalists and
editorial offices of various
news media outlets around
the world since 1999, Der
Spiegel says,
French presidential
candidate expresses her
support for Assad;
The head of the National
Front called Syrian
President Bashar Assad “the
most reassuring solution for
France” and emphasized that
to “eradicate” ISIS is the
best way to protect the
Christian minority, not
turning them into refugees.
French police
tear-gas students protesting
alleged rape:
The protesters gathered
outside schools in Paris to
prevent students and
teachers from entering,
using rubbish bins and other
objects to barricade the
entrances.
Ex-IMF chief Rodrigo
Rato gets 4.5 years for
embezzlement:
Former IMF chief Rodrigo
Rato has been sentenced to
four-and-a-half years in
jail for embezzling money
from two Spanish banks he
used to run.
Outcry after Sydney
doctor faced with
deportation over autistic
child;
The immigration department’s
decision to refuse a visa to
a Sydney doctor because her
daughter is autistic has
been condemned by the
medical fraternity as
“disgusting” and
“reprehensible”.
Ecuador’s Anti-Wikileaks
Candidate Serves US
Interests: Correa:
President Correa criticized
right-wing presidential
candidate Guillermo Lasso,
claiming the opposition
leader serves U.S. interests
because he wants to
eliminate asylum for
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange.
Bolivia Rallies
Behind Evo Morales on 'Day
of Lies':
Morales' former romantic
partner, who claimed she was
the key figure in a smear
campaign scandalizing the
personal life of the
Bolivian leader since 2005,
two years before they
allegedly had a child
together.
Venezuela Calls for
Meeting of Foreign Ministers
to Support Palestine:
'The objective is that the
120 country members of NAM
take joint and concrete
actions to raise our voice
for the Palestinian cause,'
said Rodriguez in a meeting
with her Palestinian
counterpart Riad Al Malki
Venezuelan VP
Releases Open Letter to US
Treasury as Parliament
Demands Resignation;
The US Treasury Departmen
froze all of El Aissami’s
alleged assets in the US
under the Foreign Narcotics
Kingpin Act, making the
vice-president the
top-ranking official of any
country to be sanctioned in
this way.
Blaming Socialism,
US Media Distorts
Venezuela’s Food Crisis:
Reuters admitted in 2014
that Venezuelan opposition
members living in border
states are shipping low-cost
foodstuffs provided by the
Venezuelan government into
Colombia for profit.
Mexican Migrant
Shelters Notice Spike in
Deportees Coming from US:
Silva said they received
about 160 deportees on
Thursday. He said many of
them return distraught after
being separated from their
families still living in the
U.S.
“Get out of my
country” – Kansas man shoots
Indian men, killing one:
Purinton uttered racial
slurs at Kuchibhotla and
Madasani as the attack
escalated. He perceived the
two Indian men of being
“Middle Eastern.” Both men
worked for the firm Garmin
in the area of aviation.
Muhammad Ali’s son
detained under Trump
immigration ban:
Muhammad Ali’s son was
detained at Fort Lauderdale
International Airport
earlier this month — in the
wake of President Donald
Trump’s executive order on
immigration, it was revealed
Friday.
Homeland Security
Draft Report Casts Doubt On
Countries Trump's Travel Ban
Targeted;
An internal Department of
Homeland Security assessment
throws cold water on
President Donald Trump’s
justification for attempting
to ban citizens of seven
Muslim-majority nations from
entering the United States.
Florida mosque fire
was deliberately set, $5k
reward offered;
An overnight fire at a
mosque in suburban Tampa,
Florida was arson,
authorities have ruled. The
mosque endured minor damage,
and no injuries have been
reported. A nonprofit is
offering a $5,000 reward for
information about the fire.
Meet the Jewish
couple leading the Trump
resistance:
Greenberg draws motivation
from her Jewish background.
Why We Must Oppose
the Kremlin-Baiting Against
Trump;
The Russia-connected
allegations have created an
atmosphere of hysteria
amounting to McCarthyism.
Republican lawmakers
introduce bills to curb
protesting in at least 18
states;
Since the election of
President Trump, Republican
lawmakers in at least 178
states have introduced or
voted on legislation to curb
mass protests in what civil
liberties experts are
calling “an attack on
protest rights”
Arizona Senate votes
to seize assets of those who
plan, participate in
protests that turn violent:
Claiming people are being
paid to riot, Republican
state senators voted
Wednesday to give police new
power to arrest anyone who
is involved in a peaceful
demonstration that may turn
bad — even before anything
actually happened.
Law Enforcement
Using Facebook and Apple to
Data-Mine Accounts of Trump
Protest Arrestees;
Law enforcement is
compelling Apple and
Facebook to hand over the
personal information of
users who were mass arrested
at protests against the
inauguration of Donald Trump
in Washington, D.C.
US Attorney General
Overturns Memo Phasing Out
Private Prisons:
Shares of the two leading
U.S. private prison
companies gained in
after-hours trading, with
GEO Group. Inc. up 2.15
percent and CoreCivic, Inc.
up 3.44 percent.
Mortgage
delinquencies among some
homeowners just spiked,
spelling trouble:
Federal Housing
Administration mortgage
delinquencies jumped in the
fourth quarter for the first
time since 2006, the
Mortgage Bankers Association
reported Wednesday.
Americans eat out
less as higher menu prices
take a bite from restaurant
visits:
One-third of respondents to
the Reuters/Ipsos opinion
poll of U.S. adults from
Jan. 14 to 25 said they were
eating out less often than
three months ago. Of those
diners, 62 percent said cost
was the primary reason.
Trump puts
regulation monitors in U.S.
agencies:
The sweeping order directs
every federal agency to
establish a task force to
ensure each has a team to
research all regulations and
take aim at those deemed
burdensome to the U.S.
economy
FBI rejected WH
request to deny contacts
between Trump advisers and
Russia: report:
CNN reported that a law
enforcement official and a
White House official offered
conflicting stories of how
the communication between
the White House and the FBI
over the news reports began.
White House defends
contacts with FBI over
Russia reports:
President Donald Trump's
spokesman, Sean Spicer,
argued Priebus had little
choice but to seek Comey's
assistance in rebutting what
Spicer said were inaccurate
reports about contacts
during last year's
presidential campaign.
Trump Blasts Media,
Outlines His Presidential
Promises at CPAC 2017
Video - (Full CPAC Speech)
White House blocks
CNN, BBC, New York Times, LA
Times from media briefing:
Politico, New York Daily
News, Daily Mail, and
BuzzFeed were also denied
entry
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The
Chickens Have
Come Home to
Roost
By Judge Andrew
P. Napolitano |
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The deep state,
has acquired so
much data on
everyone in
America that
they can
selectively
reveal it to
reward their
friends and harm
their foes.
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What
Does Russia
Produce?
By The Saker |
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According to the
myth that is
being peddled by
the Western
media, Russia
has an
underdeveloped
economy. See for
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Turkish military
says 56 IS militants killed
in Syria;
Fifty-six Islamic State
militants were killed by
Turkey-backed forces around
the Syrian town of al-Bab
and by U.S.-led coalition
air strikes in the latest
operations on Wednesday, the
Turkish military said on
Thursday.
US-led coalition is
‘killing more civilians than
Russia’
: Between 254 and 369
civilians were killed by the
coalition in Iraq and Syria
in January. That is almost
twice the number estimated
killed in December, when 134
to 187 civilians were found
to have died.
Israeli warplane
attacks Syrian Army in west
Damascus:
A Syrian Army source told
Al-Masdar this morning that
the Israeli warplane had
crossed into Syria after
flying over Lebanon’s ‘Arsal
Barrens, where both Al-Qaeda
and the Islamic State (ISIS)
are headquartered
Syria rebels
announce capture of Al-Bab
from ISIS:
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels
said Thursday they had fully
captured the town of Al-Bab
from ISIS, marking a key
defeat for the extremists
after weeks of heavy
fighting.
Arab and Kurdish
fighters close in on 'IS'
Syria stronghold Raqqa;
An alliance of Arab and
Kurdish fighters has seized
a dozen villages in eastern
Syria. The move is part of a
drive to encircle the
so-called 'Islamic State'
(IS) group's stronghold of
Raqqa ahead of new peace
talks.
Road to Raqqa a
tricky path for US-Turkey
cooperation:
Turkish officials have
recently been in close
contact with their US
counterparts, and a possible
joint military operation in
the Daesh stronghold of
Raqqa is on the table.
More US Troops in
Syria, Iraq Possible Under
Mattis Plan;
U.S. troop increases in
Syria and Iraq could be part
of the plan for speeding up
the campaign against ISIS
that Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis will present to the
White House next week,
military officials said
Wednesday.
McCain makes secret
trip to Syria to meet US
military, Kurds:l
“Senator McCain traveled to
northern Syria last week to
visit U.S. forces deployed
there and to discuss the
counter-ISIL [another
acronym for ISIS] campaign
and ongoing operations to
retake Raqqa,”
Russia asks Syria to
halt bombing during UN peace
talks:
There has been speculation
that other opposition groups
with a more favourable view
of Assad would be
incorporated into the main
rebel delegation.
IS affiliate
captures land near
Israeli-Syrian border:
An Islamic State-affiliated
group on Monday captured
territory in south-western
Syria, near the convergence
of the Israeli and Jordanian
borders, after launching a
surprise attack on more
moderate rebel fighters near
the occupied Golan Heights.
Iraqi forces line up
the corpses of more than 30
dead ISIS fanatics killed in
Mosul:
Video - Iraq's Popular
Mobilization Forces have
killed dozens of Islamic
State terrorists in the
western countryside of Mosul
as Iraqi officials continue
their work toward taking
back the city.
Mosul Ops: 7,000
Iraq troops killed by Daesh
; Amaq news agency, linked
to the militants, released
yet another summary of the
fighting, this time showing
a marked decrease in Iraqi
casualty figures.
Six Islamic State
militants killed in
coalition airstrikes in
Anbar;
Six Islamic State militants
were killed on Thursday in
air strikes by fighter jets
from the U.S.-led coalition
that targeted group
strongholds in western Anbar,
a local military official
said.
Iraq forces enter
ISIS-held Mosul airport;
Iraqi forces Thursday thrust
into Mosul airport on the
southern edge of the
extremist stronghold for the
first time since ISIS
overran the region in 2014.
US troops injured by
ISIS near Mosul frontlines:
US troops operating around
Mosul have come under fire
from ISIS and some have been
wounded in the last six to
eight weeks as they have
moved closer to the front
lines in Iraq, military
officials acknowledged
Tuesday,
Sadr proposes post-Mosul
roadmap, conditions U.S.
troops pullout:
Among those points was a
demand for the Iraqi
government to urge “occupier
troops, even the so-called
friendly ones, from Iraqi
territories so as to
preserve the state’ prestige
and sovereignty,
Russian company
discovers huge oil reserve
in Iraq
: The Iraqi Oil Ministry
said the new figure will
added to the 10 billion
barrel oil reserves the
country already has.
Senior Yemeni
general killed in Houthi
missile attack:
The second-in-command of the
Yemeni army was killed on
Wednesday when a missile
fired by the Houthi movement
hit an army camp, a military
source said
Israeli warplanes
shoot down Hamas drone:
army;
"An (Israeli) fighter
aircraft shot down a Hamas-owned
unmanned aircraft flown from
the Gaza Strip to the
Mediterranean," an army
spokeswoman said.
18 ISIS loyalists
killed in east of
Afghanistan:
The local security officials
are saying that the
militants were killed in the
past 24 hours in Haska Mina
and Nazian districts.
11 Insurgents Killed
by Foreign Airstrike in
Helmand:
At least 11 insurgents,
including two local Taliban
commanders, were killed in a
foreign airstrike in
southern Helmand province,
the provincial Governor’s
Office said in a statement
on Thursday.
13 people suffocate
in Libya shipping container;
Osama al-Fadly, the head of
the Red Crescent in Libya,
told The Associated Press on
Thursday that the deceased
were among 69 migrants, many
from Mali, who were packed
into the container.
2 killed in suicide
attack in northern Cameroon:
Two suicide bombers were
killed and two others
injured in an attack that
"carried the trademark of
Boko Haram," officials
sources said on Thursday.
Russia calls for
'post-West' world order:
Lavrov:
Lavrov said that the time
when the West called the
shots was over and,
dismissing NATO as a relic
of the Cold War, added: "I
hope that (the world) will
choose a democratic world
order -- a post-West one --
in which each country is
defined by its sovereignty."
Germany to expand
army and send tanks to
Lithuania as Nato-Russia
buildup continues:
Defence Minister Ursula von
der Leyen announces 5,000
new troops as US increases
pressure on Europe to boost
military spending
Marine Le Pen SOARS
in latest French election
poll as rivals Macron &
Fillon FALL AWAY:
The Front National leader is
ahead of Emmanuel Macron who
is set to finish the first
round in second place, with
21 per cent of the vote.
Britons seeking to
join IS warned amid reports
of RAF 'kill list':
Britons tempted to join
Islamic State (IS) must know
they risk losing their
lives, a Cabinet minister
has said, amid reports of an
RAF "kill list" targeting
jihadis.
CIA Cables Detail
Its New Deputy Director’s
Role in Torture:
Gina Haspel, President
Trump’s choice for the CIA’s
number two position, was
more deeply involved in the
torture of Abu Zubaydah than
has been publicly
understood, according to
newly available records and
accounts by participants.
DoJ moves to prevent
CIA official from detailing
role in Bush-era torture;
Court filing from Trump’s
justice department says
government ‘anticipates
asserting state secrets
privilege’ to prevent CIA
deputy director Gina Haspel
from being deposed
Venezuela VP blasts
drug sanctions in full-page
NY Times ad;
"These stakeholders not only
lack any evidence to
demonstrate the extremely
serious accusations against
me, but they also have built
a false-positive case in
order to criminalize —
through me — the Government
of the Bolivarian Republic
of Venezuela."
Venezuela Focuses on
Building Bridges With China
Amidst New US Sanctions;
The two countries agreed on
22 deals amounting to $2.7
billion during the 15th
meeting of the
China-Venezuelan High-Level
Mixed Commission in Caracas.
Top Trump
administration officials met
with chilly reception in
Mexico
: “I want to make it
emphatically clear that
neither Mexico’s government
or the Mexican people have
any reason to accept
provisions that have been
unilaterally imposed by one
government on the other,”
Foreign Minister Luis
Videgaray said
GOP Rep.: Bales Of
Marijuana Concealing Nukes
Can Cross Border
; A Republican congressman
from Arizona defended the
construction of a barrier on
the U.S.-Mexico border by
arguing that a nuclear
weapon could be smuggled
across a porous border in a
bale of marijuana.
Facebook Groups Warn
Immigrants About ICE Raids,
Checkpoints;
To stay ahead of police and
immigration authority
movements, some are turning
to private Facebook groups
to share the locations of
checkpoints and arrests in
their areas
‘This is not Trump’s
America!’: Passengers
rejoice when man accused of
racism is kicked off flight;
“Goooodbyeee raaacists!”
That was the blunt — and
unquestionably sarcastic —
message one heated passenger
delivered to a man and a
woman as they were being
kicked off a United Airlines
flight
Supreme Court hears
case of teen mudered in
Mexico by border agent in US:
U.S. authorities initially
claimed that Hernández was
throwing rocks and Mesa had
shot him in self-defense.
But cellphone video later
revealed that Hernández was
shot as he peered his head
out, according to the
petitioner’s brief.
Trudeau defends move
to give U.S. agents more
powers in Canada;
As part of a 2015 deal
between Canada and the
United States, Trudeau's
government has introduced
draft legislation allowing
U.S. border agents based in
Canada more leeway to
question and search people
wishing to enter the United
States.
Russia says it was
in touch with Trump's
campaign during election:
The Russian government was
in touch with members of
President-elect Donald
Trump's political team
during the U.S. election
campaign and knows most of
his entourage, one of
Russia's most senior
diplomats told the Interfax
Trump's new security
advisor differs from him on
Russia, other key issues:
McMaster is joining the
White House staff with views
on Russia, counterterrorism,
strengthening the military
and other major security
issues that diverge from
those the president himself
has expressed.
Are We Witnessing a
Coup Operation Against the
Trump White House?;
Our intelligence apparatus
is doing far more than
stoking paranoia about the
Russian bogeyman—it’s
threatening democracy.
Leading contender in
Democratic chairman race
says Donald Trump
'legitimately raises the
question of impeachment':
Rep. Keith Ellison, the
Muslim congressman from
Minnesota who the president
gave a backhanded compliment
to on Wednesday, said he'd
done 'a number of things'
which warrant investigation.
Republican town hall
meetings are confronted by
angry constituents :
Videos were going viral on
Wednesday night of senator
Tom Cotton, a Donald Trump
ally, being grilled over
plans to repeal Obamacare
and the wall with Mexico in
the very red state of
Arkansas among others.
Record crowd at town
hall presses Rep. Lance to
get tough on Trump:
Audience members pressed him
to urge President Trump to
release his tax returns and
investigate Russia’s alleged
interference in U.S.
elections.
Project Veritas
Releases Over 100 Hours of
Audio From Inside CNN:
The audio was secretly
recorded in 2009 by an
anonymous source inside
CNN's Atlanta headquarters
who we are identifying as
Miss X. The tapes contain
soundbites from current and
previous CNN employees
Google launches robo-tool
to flag hate speech online;
Google has launched an
artificial intelligence tool
that identifies abusive
comments online, helping
publishers respond to
growing pressure to clamp
down on hate speech.
300 protest in
Anaheim after videos show
off-duty LAPD officer firing
gun in dispute with teens:
A day after an off-duty Los
Angeles police officer fired
his gun during a
confrontation with a group
of teenagers in Anaheim,
videos purportedly showing
the encounter spread online
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Turkish military
says 44 Islamic State
militants killed in Syria:
Forty-four Islamic State
militants were killed by
Turkey-backed operations
around the Syrian town of
al-Bab and in U.S.-led
coalition air strikes on
Monday, the Turkish military
said on Tuesday.
US-led coalition,
Turkey kill civilians in
airstrikes in Raqqa, Aleppo:
At least 11 civilians,
including children, were
killed in the Turkish air
and artillery attacks in
Eastern Aleppo, while five
Syrians were killed in the
US-led coalition's air raids
in Raqqa.
Dozens of Islamic
State members killed in
airstrikes at western Mosul
district;
Alsumaria News quoted the
source as saying that dozens
of IS extremists were killed
and wounded in intense
airstrikes on al-Jawsaq
district, a major stronghold
for the group in western
Mosul.
Drone kills 3 IS
militants, senior
executioner among 90 killed
Sunday:
Iraqi government forces
launched a major campaign
Sunday to retake western
Mosul from IS militants,
having recaptured the
eastern side late January.
The city, is IS’s biggest
bastion in Iraq
At least 7 killed in
car bomb attack in Iraq's
Baghdad;
At least seven people were
killed and 12 wounded on
Tuesday in a car bomb
explosion at a crowded
street in western Baghdad,
the Iraqi capital, APA
reports quoting Xinhua
Defense Secretary
Mattis: US will stay in Iraq
a while:
Mattis said he is open to
any request from his
military commanders to aid
the battle to retake Mosul
and launch a major battle to
oust IS from the base of its
so-called caliphate in Raqqa,
Syria.
3 Houthi-linked
military commanders killed
near Sanaa:
Rebel commanders are killed
while repulsing attack by
pro-government forces
outside Yemeni capital.
Children face
'immediate risk of death' as
famine looms in Yemen;
Nearly half a million
children in Yemen are
dangerously malnourished and
at risk of death, the U.N.
children’s agency UNICEF
reported on Tuesday.
Injustice in Israel;
Israeli soldier gets
18 months' jail for murder
of wounded Palestinian:
Israeli soldier who killed a
wounded and incapacitated
Palestinian assailant was
sentenced to 18 months'
imprisonment on Tuesday, in
a show of leniency that drew
Palestinian outrage
Tom Friedman begs
Trump to ‘save the Jews’
from themselves:
Tom Friedman seeks to
present himself as a Messiah
of sorts, suggesting to
Trump that he may be some
sort of Roman Pilate.
74 dead refugees
wash ashore in Libya:
Libya's Red Crescent has
said that 74 bodies of
refugees have washed ashore
in the western city of
Zawiya on the Mediterranean
Sea.
12 ISIS alleged
militants killed in US drone
strike in East of
Afghanistan;
The militants were targeted
in Bandar area as they were
travelling in a vehicle
which was also destroyed in
the airstrike.
‘Threatening &
damaging’: Beijing hits out
at US patrols in South China
Sea:
China says it respects the
principles of freedom of
navigation and overflight,
but “opposes” when other
states undermine its
sovereignty using this
pretext.
White House seeking
to arrange visit by North
Korean officials: Report:
The gathering would be the
first such meeting in five
years, according to the
Washington Post.
Ukraine ceasefire
largely holding in the east:
The agreement to halt
fighting and withdraw heavy
weapons from the front line
came into force on Monday,
after it was brokered over
the weekend.
4 dead Russian
Diplomats in 3 months:
Anyone who wanted to derail
the diplomatic successes
that the aforementioned men
achieved for Russia would
have a clear motive to
extract vengeance.
Riots erupt in
Sweden's capital after
arrest, just days after
President Trump comments:
Over four hours, the crowd
burned about half a dozen
cars, vandalized several
shopfronts, and threw rocks
at police.
White House
delivered EU-skeptic message
before Pence visit - sources:
In the week before U.S. Vice
President Mike Pence visited
Brussels and pledged
America's "steadfast and
enduring" commitment to the
European Union, Steve Bannon
met with a German diplomat
and delivered a different
message.
Le Pen Scraps
Meeting with Muslim Leader
over Headscarf:
France's far-right
presidential candidate has
campaigned for a public ban
on Muslim headscarves and
refused to wear one during a
meeting in Lebanon.
Norway pledges $10
million to counter Trump's
global anti-abortion move;
Norway has joined an
international initiative to
raise millions of dollars to
replace shortfalls left by
U.S. President Donald
Trump's ban on U.S.-funded
groups worldwide providing
information on abortion.
Biggest Gasoline
Glut In 27 Years Could Crash
Oil Markets:
A new problem has suddenly
emerged is the record levels
of gasoline sitting in
storage.
Quarter of Canadians support
Trump-style ban on Syrian
refugees: poll;
A quarter of Canadians would
endorse a Trump-style ban on
all Syrian refugees coming
to Canada, a new poll
reveals, and the country
remains relatively split on
how Ottawa should handle the
refugee crisis in 2017.
Pres. Trump picks
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as
national security adviser;
In a White House statement
issued late Monday, McMaster
said he was honored to serve
in his new role, adding,
"The safety of the American
people and the security of
the American homeland are
our top priorities."
In case you missed it;
General McMaster
dissects U.S. approach to
war
: Echoing outgoing President
Dwight David Eisenhower’s
farewell to the nation in
1961, McMaster urged renewed
caution about the
military-industrial complex
and its influence on how
America wages war.
RNC reports
record-setting $19.8M
January:
The RNC in January had its
best post-presidential
election month in the
party's history, it told The
Daily Caller.
Trump condemns
'horrible and painful'
anti-Semitic threats;
U.S. President Donald Trump
denounced anti-Semitism in
the United States on Tuesday
in his most forceful remarks
to date about a spate of
threats to Jewish community
centers around the country.
Emergency hearing
sought to stop NSA 'spying'
on Trump:
'Our own government has
committed biggest violation
of constitutional rights in
history'
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