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Jolly Little War
By Eric Margolis
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Every new US
president has to
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44 Killed in Palm
Sunday Bombings at Egyptian
Coptic Churches;
Islamic State claimed
responsibility for the
attacks, which also injured
more than 100 people and
occurred a week before
Coptic Easter, with Pope
Francis scheduled to visit
Egypt later this month.
Russia and Iran warn
US they will 'respond with
force' if red lines crossed
in Syria again:
The alliance supporting
Syriangovernment made a
joint statement threatening
action in response to “any
breach of red lines from
whoever it is”.
Trump officials tell
Russia to drop its support
for Syria’s Assad:
Officials in the Trump
administration on Sunday
demanded that Russia stop
supporting the Syrian
government or face a further
deterioration in its
relations with the United
States.
"We're calling
(Russia and Iran) out," US
Ambassador to the United
Nations Nikki Haley said:
"I don't think anything is
off the table at this point.
I think what you're going to
see is strong leadership.
You're going to continue to
see the United States act
when we need to act."
U.S.-Led Force
Reduces Attacks on ISIS in
Syria After Airstrike:
If it becomes clear that the
Syrians and Russians will
not follow their sharp
criticism of the operation
with significant military
action, the pace of American
airstrikes against Islamic
State forces in Syria can be
increased.
Kremlin is ‘unaware
about’ suspicious document
: Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry
Peskov has responded to
questions about a dubious
document from an unknown
‘joint operations centre’
claiming to speak for the
armed forces of Russia,
Syria and Iran
UK: Jeremy Corbyn
warns of Syrian 'proxy war'
: Jeremy Corbyn has savaged
Boris Johnson’s strategy for
reviving political
negotiations to end the
conflict in Syria, as he
accused the Foreign
Secretary of “encouraging
further bombing”.
Lest we forget:
Britain’s Collusion
with Radical Islam:
Britain’s contribution to
the rise of the terrorist
threat goes well beyond the
impacts its wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq have
had on some individuals
Here are 45 times
Trump said attacking Syria
was a bad idea and might
start World War III:
Trump has repeatedly spoken
out against attacking the
Syrian government,
suggesting U.S. involvement
in the conflict could make a
bad problem worse and
possibly lead to a global
war.
‘Look at Syria &
Yemen. Who’s next?’ –
Russian Deputy Defense
Minister:
“These are some new
techniques, and revolutions
are exported to different
states that are supposedly
suffering under undemocratic
regimes."
EU urges diplomacy
in Syria as ex-weapons
inspector says US acted
without proof:
EU politicians and a former
weapons chief have urged for
an investigation into a
suspected chemical weapons
attack in Syria following a
US missile strike.
Rand Paul Wants to
See Evidence of Syrian
Chemical Strike:
Paul said, it makes no sense
for Assad to use chemical
weapons. He was winning the
six-year-old civil war, had
the support of Russian
troops on the ground
Canada PM open to
tougher Russia sanctions
amid Syria crisis;
Justin Trudeau said on
Monday he would consider
imposing stiffer sanctions
on Russia amid the Syrian
crisis, adding that Syria's
future cannot include
President Bashar al-Assad.
Five Top Papers Run
18 Opinion Pieces Praising
Syria Strikes–Zero Are
Critical:
Five major US newspapers—the
New York Times, Washington
Post, USA Today, Wall Street
Journal and New York Daily
News—offered no opinion
space to anyone opposed to
Trump’s airstrikes.
Lest we forget:
CIA Files Prove
America Helped Saddam as He
Gassed Iran:
The U.S. knew Hussein was
launching some of the worst
chemical attacks in history
-- and still gave him a
hand.
Lest we forget:
British plans to
overthrow the Syrian
government, 1956-7:
‘Governments [in Syria] are
unstable; the army is deeply
engaged in politics and
increasingly under the
influence of the extreme
left; and there is much
communist penetration."
Afghan forces claim
to have killed over 50
militants
; “There were a number of
Taliban and militants from
Tajikistan; they were hit
[by the drone] as they were
preparing landmines,” he
claimed.
US intel chiefs said
to tell Trump he might
consider killing Kim Jong-un;
In grappling with N. Korea,
National Security Council
also reportedly weighs
deploying nuclear weapons in
S. Korea, or sabotaging
nuclear infrastructure
Tillerson: Syria
strike a message to others,
including North Korea;
'If you violate
international norms, if you
violate international
agreements, if you fail to
live up to commitments, if
you become a threat to
others, at some point a
response is likely to be
undertaken.'
North Korea says
Syria airstrikes prove its
nukes justified;
The North called the
airstrikes "absolutely
unpardonable" and said they
prove its nuclear weapons
are justified to protect the
country against Washington's
"evermore reckless moves for
a war."
Chinese Troop Deploy
on N. Korea Border:
news that China has deployed
150,000 troops to the North
Korean border, and the U.S.
is considering further
sanctions against Russia.
Ex-MI6 chief fears
Trump will launch
catastrophic war on North
Korea;
The former spymaster warned
that Trump’s temperament
could plunge the UK into a
war in the Far East which
would be more dangerous than
anything that could emerge
in Syria.
Anti Capitalist
Protesters Clash with Police
at #G7 Summit in Italy
: Video-
'Shadow Brokers'
give away more NSA hacking
tools;
The mysterious team supplied
the password for an
encrypted file containing
many of the Equation Group
surveillance tools swiped
back in 2016. The group
posted the content in
"protest" at President Trump
turning his back on the
people who voted for him.
WikiLeaks just
dropped the CIA’s secret
how-to for infecting Windows:
Latest batch of documents
details how CIA infects
targets’ Windows-based
computers.
Spyware firms in
breach of global sanctions:
Undercover investigation
exposes inner workings of
spy equipment companies
selling to clients from
sanctioned countries.
Demonizing Russia and
Nicaragua:
Is Putin building a
base in Nicaragua to spy on
US citizens?
Fears grow over mystery
Russian compound that
overlooks an American
Embassy in Moscow's Cold War
territory
U.S. Muslims say
questionings, searches at US
airports are inappropriate
: Video
'Extreme Vetting'
Also Threatens Privacy of
Americans:
The “extreme vetting”
proposals floated this week
by Homeland Security
Secretary John Kelly include
the idea of making visitors
to the U.S. open their
phones and disclose their
contacts, passwords to
immigration authorities.
Video of cop
brutally throwing woman to
ground ‘lacks full context’
: Footage of a police
officer forcefully slamming
a woman face first onto the
ground has gone viral with
social media users venting
their outrage about what
they deem to be “excessive”
use of force.
Toyota announces
$1.33 billion investment in
Kentucky plant:
No new factory jobs are
being added, but Toyota says
the upgrades amount to the
biggest single investment
ever at one of its existing
plants in the United States.
Trump Scraps
“Phenomenal” Tax Plan, Goes
Back To Drawing Board:
Remember when Trump promised
in early February that he
would unveil a “phenomenal”
tax plan within two to three
weeks? Well, it was just
scrapped, AP reports,
Trump's Single
Biggest Donor, Robert
Mercer, Has a Merciless
Political Agenda:
What also drives Mercer is
his apparent hatred for all
things Clinton. He is also
the money behind a host of
major right-wing entities
and operations.
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Act Now
for Peace
By Mark Gaffney
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We the people
are the last
resort, the last
line of defense,
the last chance
for peace.
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Iraq:
200 IS militants killed as
Salahuddin province launches
“preemptive” operations;
PMUs said
Thursday they killed 14 IS
members after an attempted
attack on the city of Baiji,
north of the province. Six
suicide bombers from the
group were reportedly killed
before carrying out an
attack at the city.
Army recaptures
Anbar village near Mosul,
kill 30 militants:
Commander of
the army’s 9th division
invaded the village of
Rayhanna, killed 30 Islamic
State members and destroyed
several booby-trapped
vehicles belonging to the
group.
Besieged residents in Mosul
eat cats, grass to survive;
Iraqi people have spoken of
the tragic situation they
endure at Western Mosul,
which is still controlled by
Islamic State, saying they
resort to cats and grass as
food to survive. Deaths due
to starvation were reported
among children and the
elderly.
Trump's Attack on
Syria Killed 9, including 4
Children, State News Agency
Claims;
The report from SANA cited
civil sources as stating
that two missiles struck the
al-Shairat airbase,
resulting in the deaths of
five civilians, including
three children, and damage
to houses.
US military has
launched 59 cruise missiles
at airbase in Syria.
; Only 23 missiles flew to
the Syrian air base and just
6 MiG-23s were destroyed
there along with a radar
station. Where the remaining
36 cruise missiles have
landed is “unknown,” he
said.
Trump
administration: Assad’s days
are numbered:
Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson said Thursday that
“steps are underway” to
build an international
coalition to remove Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad —
as Pentagon officials
prepared to brief President
Trump on options for a
military strike against
Syria.
Vladimir Putin says
US air strikes on Syria army
'illegal' and badly damage
relations with Russia:
Kremlin views action taken
by Donald Trump as 'act of
aggression' on a 'made-up
pretext' to distract world
from civilian deaths in
Iraq, says spokesman Dmitry
Peskov
Russia suspends
military communication line
with US;
“Russia suspends the
Memorandum of Understanding
on Prevention of Flight
Safety Incidents in the
course of operations in
Syria signed with the US,”
the Russian Foreign Ministry
said in a statement Friday.
Russian warship
steams toward US destroyers
that launched Syria strikes:
The Admiral Grigorovich is
armed with advanced Kalibr
cruise missiles. Also
Friday, one of the American
destroyers that launched the
missiles into Syria started
heading to an undisclosed
location to rearm.
Russian PM: "US on
brink of military clash with
Russia;
Russian Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev said that
the US missile strike
violated not only
international, and added
that the attack “was on the
brink of military clashes
with Russia”,
Russia warns of
serious consequences from US
strike in Syria:
"We strongly condemn the
illegitimate actions by the
U.S. The consequences of
this for regional and
international stability
could be extremely
serious,"Vladimir Safronkov,
told a meeting of the U.N.
Security Council
Live Video: UN
Security Council holds
emergency meeting on US
missile strike in Syria
: The United Nations
Security Council is meeting
to discuss the US cruise
missile strikes on a Syrian
airfield in Shayrat.
Russian PM : US
strike 'good news for
terrorists':
Russian prime minister
Dmitry Medvedev has written
about “completely ruined
relations” between Russia
and the US.
ISIS, Al-Qaeda
Praise Trump's Attack:
Having perhaps lost the
support of much of his
anti-war base, President
Trump appears to have won
praise from two new groups.
Netanyahu: I support
Trump's decision to bomb
Syria:
"Israel fully and
unequivocally supports the
presidents decision and
hopes the clear message will
reverberate not only in
Damascus but also in Tehran,
Pyongyang and other places."
US strike in Syria
not enough, further steps
needed: Erdogan:
"Is it enough? I don't see
this as enough... the time
has come for steps for a
serious result to protect
the oppressed Syrian
people," he added.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard,
Sen. Rand Paul among
lawmakers criticizing
Trump's attack on Syria
: "This escalation is
short-sighted and will lead
to more dead civilians, more
refugees, the strengthening
of al-Qaeda and other
terrorists, and a possible
nuclear war between the
United States and Russia,"
Gabbard said
Merkel says
political methods should be
used to remove Assad:
The German chancellor said
that the US attack was
appropriate "in light of
large-scale war crimes, the
suffering of innocent people
and the blockade in the UN
Security Council."
US
missile attack risks
escalation in Syria - Corbyn;
The US missile attack on a
Syrian government airbase
risks escalating the war in
Syria still further.
Unilateral military action
without legal authorisation
or independent verification
risks intensifying a
multi-sided conflict
Ex-UK Ambassador:
Assad wasn't behind the
chemical attack; Video
- Former British Ambassador
to Syria Peter Ford says
those calling for
intervention in Syria are
likes "dogs returning to
their own vomit"
‘Don’t attack
Syria’: Donald Trump’s old
tweets to Obama
: The President must get
Congressional approval
before attacking Syria-big
mistake if he does not!
Turkish F-16
warplanes strike Kurdish
militants, eight killed,
says governor;
PKK militants had opened
fire on Turkish soldiers at
a military outpost near the
Iraqi border in the
mountainous Cukurca area,
triggering a clash between
the two sides, the Hakkari
governor’s office said
U.S. kills nephew of
dead leader of al-Qaida
branch in Yemen:
An overnight airstrike by a
U.S. drone killed two
alleged militants of the
Yemen-based al-Qaida branch,
including the nephew of a
dead top leader of the
terrorist group, a security
official said on Thursday.
Four suspected
people smugglers killed off
Libya;
Four suspected migrant
traffickers were killed in
an exchange of fire with
Libyan coastguards off the
western town of Zawiya on
Thursday, the navy said.
Mogadishu mortar
attack kills 3 family
members: official:
At least three people
belonging to the same family
were killed and three others
wounded when mortar shells
landed on their home in
Mogadishu on Friday, a
security official and
witnesses said.
Over 6,000 flee
'terrifying' violence in
South Sudan town:
UN; Fighting in the South
Sudan town of Pajok sent
over 6,000 people fleeing
this week, with refugees
recounting the slaughter of
civilians by government
forces, the UN refugee
agency said Friday.
15
ISIS militants killed during
Hamza operations in East of
Afghanistan:
At least fifteen militants
affiliated with the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) terrorist group were
killed during the ongoing
Hamza military operations in
eastern Nangarhar province
Sweden terror attack: 5
killed, truck rams into
pedestrians;
Up to three men were seen
leaping from the lorry and
opening fire on officers and
pedestrians at around 3pm
Norway police to
carry weapons at Oslo
airport and main cities
after Stockholm attack;
Police officers in Norway,
which borders Sweden, do not
usually carry guns on them.
Turkey halts Dutch
citizens critical of Erdogan:
UP TO 100 Dutch citizens
have reportedly been blocked
from leaving Turkey after
criticising the country's
president.
Senate confirms Neil
Gorsuch to Supreme Court
after bitter partisan
process:
With Vice President Mike
Pence presiding, the chamber
voted 54-45 to make the
49-year-old conservative
appeals judge an associate
justice.
Trump’s Syria Strike
Is Latest Sign of Steve
Bannon’s Waning Influence:
Two sources close to Bannon
told me the former Breitbart
executive chairman argued
against the strike — not
because of its questionable
constitutionality, but on
the grounds that it doesn’t
advance Trump’s America
First doctrine
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Love and
Western Nihilism
By Andre Vltchek
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Nobody
sacrifices
himself or
herself for
others, for
society, for
humanity, for
the cause, or
even for the
‘other half’,
anymore.
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Police, PMUs say
killed 60 IS militants west
of Mosul;
Iraqi police forces and
allied paramilitary troops
said Wednesday they killed
60 Islamic State militants,
including a senior
commander, in western Mosul.
Islamic State kills
31 in Iraq's Tikrit:
security sources, medics;
At least 31 people were
killed, including 14 police
officers, and more than 40
wounded in attacks overnight
by Islamic State militants
in the northern Iraqi city
of Tikrit, security and
medical sources said on
Wednesday.
Nine civilians
killed, three wounded in
western Mosul;
Iraqi army forces and the
allied U.S.-led coalition
were slammed due to the
killing of hundreds of
civilian casualties by air
strikes and explosions since
operations launched in
October to retake Mosul.
Father of disfigured
4yo Mosul girl shares
horrors of US-led coalition
bombing
; 4-year-old Hawraa, who is
slowly recovering from
severe wounds she suffered
in a coalition airstrike on
her home in Mosul that
killed her mother and most
of the family.
Syria;
Kurdish SDF Troops Kill 13
Daesh Militants
: The Kurdish-led Syrian
Democratic Forces killed 13
jihadists of Daesh terrorist
group in clashes near the
Daesh-controlled town of Al
Tabqah, local media
reported.
Russia, Iran bear
'moral responsibility' for
Syria chemical attack – US
State Dept.
; Tillerson pointed the
finger at Damascus, saying
that “it is clear that this
is how Bashar Assad
operates: with brutal,
unabashed barbarism.”
Haley rips into
Russia at Security Council
meeting on alleged Syrian
chemical attack:
"How many more children have
to die before Russia cares."
Haley: If UN won't
act on Syria, 'we may':
"When the UN consistently
fails in its duty to act
collectively, there are
times in the life of states
that we are compelled to
take our own action," Haley
said, adding that if the UN
doesn't take action, "we
may."
Saudi led air
attacks kill 13 people in
Yemen
: Warplanes and Apache
helicopters took part in the
raids that targeted "rebel
positions" in Taif and
Nakhliya, 10 kilometres (six
miles) south of the Red Sea
city of Hodeida, a military
official said.
Saudi warplanes kill
4 Yemeni fisherman at
Hudaydah Port;
In addition to the
airstrikes over the Hudaydah
Port, the Saudi Coalition
also targeted civilian areas
in the Ta’iz Governorate on
Wednesday,
Yemen
; Saudi Backed forces
prepare to attack main port,
agencies say civilians at
risk;
; United Nations warns that
a military operation there
would put millions of
civilians at risk.
Why U.S. Troops May
Fight Alongside al-Qaeda in
Yemen;
The Saudis and their chief
ally, the United Arab
Emirates, want more support
from Washington.
Kathy Kelly: Reality
and the U.S.-Made Famine in
Yemen,
; In FY 2016, the U.S.
admitted 84,995 refugees,
but Yemen, the poorest
country in the Arab world
took in 117,000 new refugees
and migrants in 2016, and
hosts more than 255,000
refugees from Somalia.
Four More US Vets
Say They Were Tricked into
Lobbying for Saudis;
More veterans are coming
forward to spotlight
misconduct by lobbyists
working for the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia.
Car
bomb kills at least 7 at
restaurant in Somalia's
capital:
A massive car bomb blast at
a restaurant in Somalia's
capital killed at least
seven people, police said
Wednesday, as fears grew
that al-Shabab extremists
who have vowed to
destabilize the country's
new government
Taliban attack kills
6 in Pakistan, including
census workers:
A Taliban suicide bomber
detonated his explosives
near a vehicle carrying
census workers in eastern
Pakistan on Wednesday,
killing six people — two
data collectors and four
soldiers who were escorting
them
Rex Tillerson's
incredibly odd and confusing
statement on North Korea;
"North Korea launched yet
another intermediate range
ballistic missile. The
United States has spoken
enough about North Korea. We
have no further comment."
Russia identifies
metro bomber as St
Petersburg mourns 14 dead
: The remains of the bomber
were found at the scene of
the blast, but it was not
clear if he is included in
the official toll of the
attack.
US Secretary of
State Tillerson to visit
Moscow on April 11-12;
It’s not clear yet if
Tillerson will also meet
Russian President Vladimir
Putin during his Moscow
visit.
EU, Israel agree to
develop Eastern
Mediterranean gas pipeline;
Three Mediterranean EU
countries and Israel agreed
to continue pursuing the
development of a gas
pipeline that could link gas
fields offshore Israel to
Cyprus, Greece, and Italy,
and potentially help the EU
to diversify supplies away
from Russia.
Letter from Jewish
members and supporters of
the Labour Party to the
Labour Party:
We write as Jewish members
and supporters of the Labour
Party in support of Ken
Livingstone. We do not find
the charges brought against
him in the name of the NEC
to be credible.
8 rich people own as
much wealth as half the
world:
The world may see its first
trillionaire in just 25
years. “To put this figure
in perspective — you would
need to spend $1 million
every day for 2,738 years to
spend $1 trillion,” the
report said.
The Jewish Zionist
Control of the United States:
Interviews with Francis
Boyle, James Petras, and Kim
Petersen
Lawmakers Move To
Stop Warrantless Cellphone
Searches at the U.S. Border:
Four members of Congress
have introduced legislation
that would require border
agents to get a warrant to
search through someone’s
cellphone or laptop,
Bannon Taken Off
Trump National Security
Council in Shake-Up:
The realignment increases
the influence of National
Security Adviser H.R.
McMaster. In addition to
gaining greater control over
the NSC, McMaster will have
the Homeland Security
Council under his authority.
US National Security
Adviser McMaster Accused of
War Crimes in Iraq:
Former commander in charge
of US Army Military Police
in Iraq says President
Trump’s new National
Security Adviser, Gen. H.R.
McMaster, ‘ordered’ criminal
abuse of hundreds of Iraqi
detainees in 2005
Rick Perry added to
National Security Council’s
core decision-makers:
Headlines suggesting Perry
will fill Bannon’s role on
the committee almost
certainly overstate the
meaning of the energy
secretary’s return to the
inner sanctum.
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Dozens killed in
suspected gas attack on
Syrian rebel area:
An alleged Syrian government
chemical attack killed at
least 58 people, including
11 children, in the
northwestern province of
Idlib on Tuesday, a
pro-rebel monitor, medics
and rescue workers in the
rebel-held area said.
Lest we forget:
Seymour M. Hersh:
Whose sarin?
The U.S. intelligence
agencies produced evidence
that the al-Nusra Front, a
jihadi group affiliated with
al-Qaida, had mastered the
mechanics of creating sarin
and was capable of
manufacturing it in
quantity.
Yemen: The savage
May-Saudi equation:
As Yemen's annihilation
continues, Theresa May is
reaffirming her support for
the brutal Saudi regime
Bahrain King
Approves Military Trials for
Civilians:
Amnesty International called
the amendment a "disastrous
move towards patently
unfair" trials of civilians,
warning that it could be
used to try activists on
"trumped-up charges."
Anger as Berlin
refuses to light Brandenburg
Gate in Russian colors after
attack;
In the past after attacks in
other countries, the city
has beamed the colors of
flags of France, Turkey,
Britain and the Netherlands
onto the Brandenburg Gate
Blackwater founder
held secret Seychelles
meeting to establish Trump-Putin
back channel
; The United Arab Emirates
arranged a secret meeting in
January between Blackwater
founder Erik Prince and a
Russian close to President
Vladimir Putin as part of
an apparent effort to
establish a back-channel
line of communication
US Senator Goes
After RT, Sputnik: They’re
‘Undermining Our Democracy’!;
New Hampshire Senator Jeanne
Shaheen set her sights on
Sputnik News and RT,
comparing Russian media to
Nazi propaganda and calling
for the companies to be
registered as foreign
agents.
Jacksonville man
arrested after neighbors
threatened with guns and
anti-Muslim insults;
He yelled at them, saying
“I’m going to kill all you
Muslim m**f**s, get out of
my country. Don’t talk to my
wife,” the arrest report
said.
Trump administration
may force U.S. visitors to
hand over social media
passwords, bank accounts:
The vetting procedure could
affect people around the
world, including visitors
from 38 countries that
participate in the Visa
Waiver Program, including
France, Germany, and
Australia.
Susan Rice Ordered
Spy Agencies To Produce
‘Detailed Spreadsheets’
Involving Trump:
Obama’s national security
adviser Susan Rice ordered
U.S. spy agencies to produce
“detailed spreadsheets” of
legal phone calls involving
Donald Trump and his aides
when he was running for
president
White House logs
indicate Susan Rice consumed
unmasked intel on Trump
associatesby Sara Carter and
John Solomon:
Susan Rice accessed numerous
intelligence reports during
Obama's last seven months in
office that contained
National Security Agency
intercepts involving Donald
Trump
Rand Paul: Susan
Rice should testify under
oath about Trump unmasking;
The Kentucky senator, called
the unmasking an “enormous
deal” and indicated that it
should be illegal.
Cities sick of Trump
kleptocracy push for
impeachment;
Cambridge, Massachusetts is
the latest city to take up a
vote.
Filling the
swamp:
Donald Trump’s Pick to
Oversee Big Pharma Is
Addicted to Opioid-Industry
Cash;
Dr. Scott Gottlieb,
President Trump’s nominee to
the lead the Food and Drug
Administration, has received
significant payments from
the opioid industry
Filling the
swamp:
Koch
Brothers’ Operatives Fill
Top White House Positions,
Ethics Forms Reveal:
A significant number of
senior Trump staffers were
previously employed by the
sprawling network of
hard-right and libertarian
advocacy groups financed and
controlled by Koch brothers
Trump Kleptocracy
Watch;
A quick reminder: when
trying to figure out what
Donald Trump is up to, it
always pays to heed Deep
Throat’s advice and follow
the loot.
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U.S. Out
of Korea
By David Swanson |
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My biggest
concern is not
the
embarrassment of
a U.S. public
afraid of the
tiny
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By Chris Hedges |
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The United
States consumes
80 percent of
opioids used
worldwide, and
more than 33,000
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Bush/Blair
legacy continues
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Iraq:
Airstrike kills 50 IS
militants, destroys
booby-trapped tank;
Iraqi Air Force managed,
today, to conduct an air
strike, destroying two
hideout belonging to the
Islamic State and killing
13-17 militants, in addition
to destructing a
headquarters and killing 8
IS members.
Iraq: 40 IS fighters
killed, strategic regions
liberated in western Mosul:
Federal Police: Security
services were able to free
several regions including
al-Nahrawan and western
Yarmouk following fierce
clashes with the IS
militants. “Battles are
still ongoing
32 civilians killed
in IS shelling north, east
of Mosul: officer:
Thirty-two civilians,
including women and
children, died Monday when
Islamic State militants
shelled areas in eastern and
northern Mosul, according to
an Iraqi security officer.
20 bodies of women,
children killed by IS found
south of Mosul;
“The hospital of Qayyarah
town, south of Mosul,
received 20 bodies of women
and children who were killed
by IS while trying to escape
the western side of Mosul,”
Car bombing kills 3
policemen in Iraq’s
Fallujah;
Bomber blows up his car at a
checkpoint in city’s western
entrance, says local
military officer
Kushner arrives in
Iraq with Joint Chiefs
chairman for visit
: President Donald Trump's
son-in-law and senior
adviser, Jared Kushner, flew
to Iraq with the U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff chairman
Gen. Joseph Dunford on
Monday.
Jihadist rebels
claim over 400 Syrian Army
soldiers killed in last two
months;
Jihadist group claimed their
forces killed over 400
Syrian Arab Army soldiers,
while also conducting 11
suicide bombings during
their field operations.
US warplanes launch
white phosphorus airstrikes
on ISIS militants near Raqqa:
Report: New pictures reveal
that US airplanes operating
in northern Syria are using
White phosphorus munitions
in sorties on Islamic State
insurgents across the
embattled Raqqa governorate.
Thousands of rebels
and their families evacuated
from Syria's Al Waer:
Evacuation was conducted
under a Russia-backed deal
reached between the Syrian
opposition and the
government on March 13 to
transfer opposition fighters
to Idlib or to other
opposition-held areas
UN agrees to oversee
Kurdistan independence
referendum:
Official; Kurdistan Region
President Masoud Barzani is
insisting on organizing an
independence referendum in
2017, a move supported by
all Kurdish factions.
What a load of bull!
U.S.-led fight
against ISIS killed four
civilians in February:
Pentagon: The official tally
of civilian deaths since
this campaign started is far
lower than what outside
groups report for that
period.
Saudi warplanes kill
8 people in Yemen, including
5 rescue workers;
The Saudi Royal Air Force
killed as many as 8 people
in the Marib Governorate on
northern Yemen on Monday
after targeting the
Houthi-controlled Sirwah
District.
Saudi pilots get 60
percent pay rise as Yemen
war rages:
Cabinet says air force
officers to receive huge
salary increase as Riyadh
prosecutes air war in Yemen
that has killed thousands
Pentagon ramps up
Yemen airstrikes;
The United States has
supported the campaign by
selling the Saudis billions
of dollars of weapons,
providing intelligence and
helping with logistics such
as air refueling.
Scotland Yard
looking into allegations of
Saudi war crimes in Yemen;
The revelation comes in the
same week the Prime Minister
is due to pay the Saudi
royal family a visit, and
stress the need for "further
intensification in
relations" between the two
countries.
In case you
missed it;
The
Zionist Plan for the Middle
East:
Israel must 1) become an
imperial regional power, and
2) must effect the division
of the whole area into small
states by the dissolution of
all existing Arab states
In case you
missed it:
A
‘Greater Israel’ In The
Making: Experts;
The United Kingdom and the
U.S. alongside with their
allies are assisting Israel
in this ‘machiavelic’ plan
that includes the
partitioning of Saudi
Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and
Syria, said analysts in
Indonesia and Malaysia.
Israeli police kill
17-year-old suspect rather
than arrest him;
Israeli forces shot and
killed a Palestinian
teenager in occupied East
Jerusalem’s Old City on
Saturday, after he carried
out a stab attack that left
three Israelis lightly
injured, with witnesses
asserting Israeli police
could have easily detained
the boy.
Iran is a bright and
shining light for other
countries to follow:
economist;
Iran is a bright and shining
light for other countries to
follow, like Venezuela,
Brazil, North Korea - even
Europe, those in Europe who
are tired of the Washington
dictate, but so far haven’t
dared taking the actions
needed to gain back their
national sovereignty.
Trump administration
plans economic and military
offensive against Africa;
Despite the relative
secrecy, the general
outlines of Trump’s Africa
policy can nevertheless be
deduced from his
administration’s opening
moves on the continent
43 Daesh terrorists
killed in clashes,
airstrikes in Afghanistan:
A battle between Afghan
forces and Daesh terrorists
continued in Achin district
of Nangrahar province,
Hazrat Husain -- spokesman
for local police -- told
Anadolu Agency on phone.
4 Afghan
intelligence agents killed
in Taliban attack;
Afghan officials confirm
that at least four
provincial intelligence
service agents have been
killed in an attack by
Taliban insurgents in
eastern Ghazni province.
Trump says U.S. is
ready to act alone on North
Korea:
U.S. prepared to take
pre-emptive military action
against North Korea if
necessary, Tillerson says
Propaganda alert:
North Korean
Defector Tells Lester Holt
‘World Should be Ready’
: He was not directly
involved in North Korea's
weapons program but believes
his country "has reached a
very significant level of
nuclear development."
Least we forget:
Iraqi defectors
tricked us with WMD lies:
Hidden agendas on all sides
can still distort reporting
10 killed, dozens
injured in St. Petersburg
Metro blast (GRAPHIC IMAGES)
A suspected bomb blast
inside a train in the St.
Petersburg Metro killed ten
passengers and injured
dozens of others.
Another bomb found,
deactivated after St.
Petersburg subway blast
kills 10, injures 50;
Russia's National
Anti-Terrorism Committee
says it has found and
deactivated a bomb at
another St. Petersburg
subway station.
CCTV image of
suspect emerges after at
least 10 killed by
'briefcase' bomb:
Russian authorities were
hunting for two suspected
terrorists on Monday after a
bombing on the Saint
Petersburg subway system
killed 10 people and wounded
dozens.
ISIS Celebrates St.
Petersburg Metro Blast That
Killed 9;
“We ask Allah to bless the
operation by the lions of
the Caliphate, we ask Allah
to kill the Crusaders,” said
an ISIS supporter from the
terror group’s al-Minbar
online forum
Abandoned at Sea;
Europe Keeps Its Rescue
Ships Far From the Coast of
Libya — Where Thousands of
Refugees Have Drowned
Australian anti-war
activist 'among victims of
alleged UK police hacking':
Ciaron O’Reilly one of 10
people named by
whistleblower as having had
emails illegally monitored
by Scotland Yard
Ecuador's Lenin
Moreno Defeats Banker in
Presidential Election:
With 99 percent of the
official vote counted, Lenin
defeated former banker
Guillermo Lasso, candidate
for the right-wing CREO-SUMO
alliance, with 51.16 percent
to 48.84 percent
Worry About Hunger,
Homelessness Up for
Lower-Income in US;
Over the past two years, an
average of 67% of
lower-income U.S. adults, up
from 51% from 2010-2011,
have worried "a great deal"
about the problem of hunger
and homelessness in the
country.
Trump welcomes
Egypt’s dictator;
Critics worry the president
has a love for tyrants and
little interest in promoting
human rights and democracy.
General H.R.
McMaster, White House
National Security Advisor,
challenged over human rights
record:
Iraqi detainees in Gen H.R.
McMaster's custody were
treated in an inhuman
fashion bordering on torture
in 2005, according to a U.S.
Military Police officer.
Top Obama Adviser
Sought Names of Trump
Associates in Intel;
Former national security
adviser Susan Rice requested
the identities of U.S.
persons in raw intelligence
reports on dozens of
occasions that connect to
the Donald Trump transition
and campaign, according to
U.S. officials
Trump applauds
'amazing' Fox News coverage
of surveillance claim:
“Such amazing reporting on
unmasking and the crooked
scheme against us by @foxandfriends,”
Trump tweeted at 6:15 a.m.
“’Spied on before
nomination.’ The real
story.”
With Trump approval,
Pentagon expands warfighting
authority:
Week by week, country by
country, the Pentagon is
quietly seizing more control
over warfighting decisions,
sending hundreds more troops
to war with little public
debate
HHS Secretary Tom
Price Intervened on Rule
That Would Hurt Drug
Profits, the Same Day He
Acquired Drug Stock:
$90,000 of stock in six
pharmaceutical companies
last year, Price arranged to
call a top U.S. health
official, seeking to scuttle
a controversial rule that
could have hurt the firms’
profits and driven down
their share prices
Trump rally stormed
by anti-fascist
demonstrators in Washington
State:
Scuffles broke out between
the two sides, with some of
the anti-Trump protesters
tossing smoke bombs into the
crowd.
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Violence: Theirs
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By Vijay Prashad
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When anything
outside the
governing
ideology tries
to make an
appearance it is
dismissed as the
rants of a
conspiracy
theorist or as
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Cassius
Was Correct
By Philip
Farruggio |
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How many
Amerikans, like
the good Germans
in 1940, cheered
the carpet
bombing of Iraq,
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IS kills 13
civilians in western Mosul:
Police:
“13 civilians were killed
while trying to escape
Tamouz region heading to Bab
al-Sham, western Mosul,”
Colonel Khodeir Saleh told
BasNews.
7 IS Militants
Including 2 Leaders Killed
in Southwest of Kirkuk;
Anadolu Agency reported a
fighter jet belonging to the
coalition conducted a
precise strike against a
position of the IS militants
in Rashad town, southwest of
Kirkuk.
SIL
second-in-command reportedly
killed in air strike;
Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to
be ISIL's second-in-command
after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
has been killed in Iraqi air
strikes near the Syrian
border, Iraqi state TV
reported.
Syrian Kurdish-Arab
force 'surround' IS' last
stronghold before Raqqa;
Syrian Kurdish and Arab
fighters have reportedly
surrounded the town of Tabqa,
one of the last strongholds
of the Islamic State group
before its self-declared
"capital" Raqqa.
Thousands flee Tabqa
as SDF battle ISIS;
The SDF forces have repelled
at least four assaults from
ISIS, and encircled Raqqa
from the north, west and
south, attempting to cut off
their last supply line.
Two Saudi soldiers
killed in Jizan:
The army and popular forces
on Sunday shot dead two
Saudi soldiers and in Jizan
province, a military
official told Saba.
Yemen: Citizen
killed in US-Saudi airstrike
on Sa'ada;
A Citizen was killed on
Sunday in a US-Saudi
aggression airstrike on his
house in al-Dhaher district
of Sa'ada province, a
security official told Saba.
Britain apologises
after egg thrown at Saudi
general;
An anti-war activist last
week attempted a citizen’s
arrest of General Ahmed
Assiri, spokesman for the
Saudi-led Gulf coalition
fighting rebels in Yemen,
before another threw an egg
that hit Assiri in the back.
Propaganda alert:
Top US general calls
for use of ‘military means’
to disrupt Iran;
Joseph Votel tells Congress
Tehran’s destabilizing
activities in the Middle
East are chief long-term
threat to region
Three suicide
bombers killed in foiled
attacks in northeastern
Nigeria;
All the bombers died
instantly without killing
anybody,”
Libya: Sniper kills
woman and sailor on
Benghazi’s Guiliana Bridge:
; The gunmen opened up on
the car and his niece, who
was eight-months pregnant,
was shot in the side. A
sailor who rushed to help
was then shot dead.
20 Tortured and
Murdered at Pakistan Muslim
Sufi Shrine:
Six women are among the dead
and four other people were
wounded during the attack on
Sunday morning at the shrine
on the edge of Sargodha, a
remote town in the Punjab
region, police said.
Afghan official: 9
civilians killed in southern
Afghanistan;
At least nine civilian have
been killed after an
Afghanistan army commando
unit detonated a cache of
ordinance found in southern
Helmand province.
Propaganda
alert:
MATTIS: Russian action in
Afghanistan 'gives us
concern':
"I'm not going to say at
this point if that has
manifested into weapons and
that sort of thing, but
certainly what they're up to
there in light of their
other activities gives us
concern."
Donald Trump vows to
get tough with North Korea:
'If China won't deal with
North Korea, I will'
Propaganda
alert:
Mattis, Tillerson Call Out
Russia for ‘Aggression’;
"Russia's violations of
international law are now a
matter of record from what
happened with Crimea to
other aspects of their
behavior in mucking around
inside other people's
elections and that sort of
thing," Mattis said.
Putin seeking
meeting with Trump;
Putin adviser Dmitry Peskov
said on ABC's "This Week"
with George Stephanopoulos
that Trump and the Russian
president should "meet each
other and exchange views" in
order to build a
relationship between the two
nations.
Tillerson sets NATO allies
2-month "goal" on spending:
U.S. Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson warned NATO allies
Friday to boost defense
spending or come up with
plans to reach the
alliance’s budget guidelines
within two months.
Moscow and Beijing
join forces to bypass US
dollar in world money market;
Russia’s central bank opened
its first overseas office in
Beijing on Thursday, marking
a small step forward in
forging a Beijing-Moscow
alliance to bypass the US
dollar in the global
monetary system.
A near-no show for
Red Square protest movement;
Hordes of media overwhelmed
anyone who looked like a
protester. A man carrying a
Russian flag received
significant media attention
for “exercising my right to
walk carrying a Russian flag
in Russia.
Tear gas, scuffles,
projectiles flying at Paris
rally against police
brutality (VIDEOS)
; Live streams and videos
from the site show
protesters who gathered in
Paris on Sunday scuffling
with police and kicking away
tear gas canisters thrown at
them by law enforcement
officials.
Were the hackers who
broke into the DNC’s email
really Russian?
: There’s growing doubt in
the computer security
industry about CrowdStrike’s
theories about AGENT-X and
Russian hackers
Evelyn Farkas’s Six
Revelations about Obama,
Trump, and the Deep State;
Unsurprisingly, President
Donald J. Trump was correct.
The administration of his
predecessor, Barack H. Obama,
had indeed been surveilling
Trump and those close to his
campaign.
Paraguay's president calls
for end to unrest after
killing of activist:
Horacio Cartes promises
justice for 25-year-old shot
by police during protests
against his attempt to seek
second term in office
Rescuers, locals dig for
Colombia flood victims, at
least 210 killed;
Several rivers burst their
banks near the southwestern
city of Mocoa in the early
hours of Saturday, sending
water, mud and debris
crashing down streets and
into houses as people slept.
Both
Ecuador candidates claim
victory in presidential
runoff:
Three exit polls, showed
conservative former banker
Guillermo Lasso winning the
race by a slim margin of
between 3 and 6 percentage
points. But a fourth survey
gave Correa's successor,
Lenin Moreno, a 4-point
edge.
Ecuador’s Tax Evading
Oligarchs Try to Reconquer
the Nation:
The oligarchs and bankers
have been weakening the
Ecuadorean economy by moving
their wealth to offshore tax
havens.
Venezuela Opposition
Assembly Wants to Remove
Judges, Even Though it
Legally Can't;
Venezuela’s
opposition-controlled
National Assembly will seek
to remove the Supreme Court
judges behind a
controversial and
since-reversed ruling on the
judiciary
Ashamed to
show the reality of U.S.
Torture:
US court blocks
release of Guantanamo
force-feeding videos:
The US authorities said the
videos were a defense
secret, warning that their
release could threaten
national security.
Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif) ranks 6th
in the House with an
estimated net worth* of
$101,273,024 in 2014.
How
did Barack Obama (D-Ill)
make 70 Million in 2014?
Finance
profiles of recent years are
available here.
The
White House Wouldn’t Post
Trump Staffers’ Financial
Disclosures. So We Did.:
They lay out all sorts of
details, including
information on ownership of
stocks, real estate and
companies, and make possible
conflicts of interest
public.
Warm welcome awaits
Sisi as Trump rolls out red
carpet for Egypt "strongman":
The Egyptian president, is
set to visit the White House
on Monday, in a sign of the
Trump administration’s
willingness to firmly
embrace dictatorial regimes
that the previous
administration spurned.
Trump Backtracks:
Actually I 'Didn't Want To
Take A Vote' On O'Care
Repeal
: "Yeah, I don’t lose. I
don’t like to lose," Trump
told the Financial Times.
"But that wasn’t a
definitive day.
Senate committee targets FBI
No. 2 in Trump dossier probe:
Sen. Charles Grassley, has
sent a letter to FBI
Director James Comey
demanding the story behind
the FBI's reported plan to
pay the author of a lurid
and unsubstantiated dossier
on candidate Donald Trump.
Trump touts Fox
report on 'high up' official
behind alleged unmasking:
"If this is true, does not
get much bigger. Would be
sad for U.S.," he added.
Homeland Security
names 3 Md. counties as
non-cooperative
jurisdictions:
Homeland Security has
identified Baltimore,
Montgomery and Prince
George's counties as
non-cooperative
jurisdictions after defying
a federal request to hold
immigrants in their custody.
Flashback 2006:
Senators Clinton and Obama
Vote for Secure Fence Act:
The Secure Fence Act of
2006’s goal is to help
secure America’s borders,
and security threats by
building 700 miles (1,100
km) of physical barriers
along the Mexico-United
States border.
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The
Unbelievers:
By Richard
Dawkins &
Lawrence Krauss
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Scientists
Richard Dawkins
and Lawrence
Krauss, speak
publicly about
the importance
of science and
reason in the
modern world.
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Under Trump, U.S.
Military Has Allegedly
Killed Over 1,000 Civilians
in Iraq, Syria in March;
U.S.-led coalition
airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
may have already killed
1,484 civilians in just Iraq
and Syria this month alone
IS execute 23
civilians in western Mosul,
arrest leader over treason:
Dijlah TV quoted
eyewitnesses saying that an
Islamic State firing squad
shot dead 23 civilians from
Ras al-Jada and Malaab areas
in western Mosul for
refusing to evacuate homes
and move to other districts
with the militants.
Airstrikes kill 3 IS
leaders in Mosul, 2 suicide
attackers shot dead:
People in besieged
Mosul Old City ‘dying of
starvation’;
People in Mosul, once a city
of two million, are
desperate to escape by any
means. Isis fighters demand
a bribe of $2,000 to let a
person escape according to
one source
Syrian : Watch: ISIS
Retreats From Northeastern
Sweida:
Jaysh al-Izza actively uses
US-supplied TOW anti-tank
guided missiles against the
government military
equipment and manpower
inflicting notable damage
and casualties. Intense
clashes continued along the
whole frontline
Pentagon Has Video
Proving Mosul Target Of US
Airstrike Was Full Of
Civilians:
It confirms that the
Pentagon knew before the
attacks that those buildings
were full of civilians, and
attacked them anyhow.
U.S's
Tillerson says discussed
Syria stabilization zones
with Turkey;
U.S. Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson said on Thursday
his talks with Turkey had
focused on the creation of
stabilization zones in Syria
and that a number of options
on how to secure such areas
were being explored.
Nobody Needs To Know
How Many US Troops Are
Fighting ISIS, Pentagon
Declares;
U.S. Central Command will no
longer give out the number
of troops headed to Iraq or
Syria in the fight against
the Islamic State, the
Pentagon declared Monday.
Aiding Saudi
Arabia’s Slaughter in Yemen:
News analysis
- President Trump is
following the same path as
his predecessor, bowing to
the Saudi royal family and
helping in their brutal war
against Yemen
Journalists allege
threat of drone execution by
US:
Two journalists who say they
have been targeted by the
United States have filed a
complaint against the
American government,
accusing it of putting them
on a "kill list" and
demanding to be taken off
it.
US should use
‘military means’ against
Iran: CENTCOM chief;
The United States should
consider using “military
means” against Iran, US Army
General Joseph Votel says,
calling Tehran “the greatest
long-term threat to
stability” in the Middle
East.
UN slams Israel over
new illegal, West Bank
settlement:
UN chief calls decision to
build another illegal
settlement in occupied
Palestinian territories an
'obstacle to peace'.
55yo father beaten
by ‘terrorist’ Jewish
Defense League outside AIPAC
(VIDEOS)
: Nayfeh was taken to
hospital where he was
treated for his injuries
which included cuts and
bruises. He received 18
stitches around his eye,
In case you missed it;
Bomb Plot Charge
Only Latest JDL Controversy;
The trial of the leader of
the Jewish Defense League,
who stands accused of
planning a pipe-bomb attack
against Arab-Americans,
represents only the latest
allegation of violent plots
and actions in the group's
31-year history as an
extremist organization.
Trump eases combat
rules in Somalia that were
intended to protect
civilians:
That sets the stage for an
intensified pace of combat
there, while increasing the
risk that U.S. forces could
kill civilians.
33 militants killed
by government forces in
eastern Afghanistan
: "Security forces launched
operations against
anti-government militants in
Chaparhar and Pachiragam
districts Thursday night and
so far 33 rebels have been
killed, six others injured
and 22 more insurgents
arrested,"
22 killed in bombing
targeting Shia Muslims in
Pakistan:
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a breakaway
faction of Pakistani Taliban
militants, has claimed
responsibility for the
attack.
Defense Sec. James
Mattis: North Korea ‘Has Got
to Be Stopped’:
"Right now, [North Korea]
appears to be going in a
very reckless manner … and
that has got to be stopped,"
Mattis said at a press
conference in London.
US warns China it is
losing patience over North
Korea;
The US ambassador to the
United Nations on Thursday
said China can and must do
more to force North Korea to
halt its nuclear and missile
programs.
China bans burqas
and 'abnormal' beards in
Muslim province of Xinjiang;
Government claims it is
cracking down on 'extremism'
but human rights groups say
religious freedom under
attack
Putin spokesman:
US-Russia relations 'maybe
worse' now than Cold War:
"New Cold War? Well, maybe
even worse. Maybe even
worse, taking into account
actions of the present
presidential administration
in Washington," Peskov
Putin orders to
draft over 140,000 men into
army this spring;
Russian lawmakers have been
discussing proposals to
increase the draft age
ceiling from the current 27
years to 30 or 35 years.
This initiative is due to be
discussed already this
autumn.
Putin beefs up
number of troops in military
to nearly 2 mln:
Russian President Vladimir
Putin has set the personnel
strength of the country’s
Armed Forces at 1.897
million,
Tillerson Clashes
With NATO Allies Over
Military Spending:
German foreign minister said
U.S. demands on military
spending were ‘totally
unrealistic’
Fact or fiction?
Podesta Company Paid
One Billion Rubles from
Russian Govt.:
The Putin Government gave
John Podesta 35 millions
dollars (1 billion rubles)
while he advised Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama.
How the Clinton camp was in
bed with the Putin regime.
Syrian migrant sets
himself ablaze at Greek
refugee camp
; A migrant from Syria has
set himself on fire at a
Greek refugee camp,
apparently after being
rejected for asylum multiple
times, local media reported.
Venezuela Fake News
Debunked: Assembly Not
Annulled, No Coup:
The U.S. issued a
condemnation saying that the
"Venezuelan Supreme Court's
March 29 decision ...
usurp(ed) the power of the
democratically-elected
National Assembly."
Opposition leader Julio
Borges,
Brazil Coup
Architect Eduardo Cunha
Sentenced to 15 Years for
Corruption:
The man who led a campaign
to paint Dilma Rousseff as a
corrupt politician has
drowned in his own fraud
scandals.
Rogers’ Bill Would
Tax Undocumenteds to Pay for
Wall:
Would impose a 2 percent fee
on wire transfers to home
countries
U.S.Pension Crisis
Too Big for Markets to
Ignore:
Why haven’t the headlines
presaged pension implosions?
As was the case with the
subprime crisis, the writing
appears to be on the wall.
Drexel Professor
Tweets He Was ‘Trying Not To
Vomit’ After Passenger Gave
Up First-Class Seat For
Soldier:
On Sunday he posted a tweet
that read, “Some guy gave up
his first class seat for a
uniformed soldier. People
are thanking him. I’m trying
not to vomit or yell about
Mosul.”
WikiLeaks exposes
CIA anti-forensics tool
: It creates a means for
virus writers to pretend
that the malware was created
by a speaker of a range of
foreign languages (Chinese,
Russian, Korean, Arabic and
Farsi).
US border agents are
doing 'digital strip
searches'. Here's how to
protect yourself
: U.S. agents can make full
copies of all of the data on
the phone, which can be
shared with other government
agencies.
Who rules? Elected
officials or the national
security state?
Video - The fact this
question is being asked
reflects the dangerous times
we live in. Is intelligence
now a political weapon of
unelected stakeholders?
Norman G.
Finkelstein: No Free Speech
for Fascists?
Video
Tom Price bought
stocks and took official
action to protect
pharmaceutical profits:
He didn’t just lie to the
Senate about it. It turns
out to be much worse than
that, and ProPublica has the
story. On March 17, 2016,
Price’s stockbroker bought
him as much as $90,000 in
stocks at six pharmaceutical
companies.
Flynn offers to
cooperate with congressional
probe in exchange for
immunity:
Officials said the idea of
immunity for Flynn — who is
considered a central figure
in the probes because of his
contacts with the Russian
ambassador to the United
States — was a
“non-starter,’’
Michael Flynn in
2016: Immunity ‘means you
probably committed a crime’:
“When you are given
immunity, that means you
probably committed a crime,”
Flynn, then a top campaign
aide to Donald Trump, said
on “Meet the Press.”
Donald Trump six
months before Mike Flynn
offer:
'If you're not guilty of a
crime, what do you need
immunity for?' : Resurfaced
footage appears to
contradict President's
tweeted advice to his former
adviser
Senate Intelligence
Committee rejects Flynn's
request for immunity: NBC;
President Donald Trump's
former national security
advisor's lawyer was told
the move was "wildly
preliminary" and "not on the
table" at this point, a
senior congressional
official told NBC.
Sessions Moves To
Quickly Deport Imprisoned
Immigrants:
Bureau of Prison statistics
show that a little over 20
percent of federal inmates
are non-citizens.
Nearly 2,000 lawyers
ask for Jeff Sessions to be
disbarred:
Almost 2,000 attorneys from
across the US have signed on
to a complaint addressed to
the Alabama State Bar
Disciplinary Committee
asking that Attorney General
Jeff Session be disbarred
from the Alabama State Bar.
Indigenous and
Environmental Groups Sue
Trump Over Keystone XL;
On Thursday morning multiple
Indigenous and environmental
organizations launched two
simultaneous lawsuits over
U.S. President Donald
Trump’s approval of the
massive Keystone XL oil
pipeline project.
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More
Than 1,000 Civilians
Reportedly Killed by
U.S.-Led Airstrikes
: They are among the
deadliest U.S. airstrikes in
the region since the U.S.
invasion of Iraq in 2003.
U.S. military says
difficult to avoid killing
people in Mosul:
Votel, the head of U.S.
Central Command, said there
had been no change in the
rules of engagement, but
commanders closer to the
fighting had been given more
authority in order to reduce
potential delays.
Iraqi forces battle
to Mosul mosque, 17 killed
in Baghdad;
The close-quarters fighting
is focused on the Old City
surrounding the mosque,
where Islamic State leader
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
proclaimed a caliphate
nearly three years ago
Monitoring groups
say US behind deadly air
strike on Syrian dam:
Two Syrian monitoring groups
say that a US-led coalition
air strike was probably
behind the killing of two
local experts trying to
repair a dam during a pause
in fighting in the embattled
Tabqa region of Syria
Number of Syrian
refugees surges in 2017;
UN report says Turkey now
hosts nearly three million
Syrians, with 47,000 more
coming since February alone.
Assad
fate up to Syrians to
decide: US secretary of
state:
The remarks are a
significant departure from
the position of the former
US government, which made
any resolution of the Syria
crisis conditional on
President Assad stepping
down.
Syria: Kurdish YPG
fighters dominate Turkey-US
talks;
'A number of options' for
Raqqa military operation in
Syria, but no agreement
reached between Turks and
Americans.
Saudi Air Raid
Leaves 10 Civilians Dead in
Yemen's Sa’ada
: Eight children and two
women have lost their lives
in a fresh Saudi aerial
attack on Yemen’s
northwestern Sa’ada
province.
US Kills Four
"Suspected" al Qaeda Members
In Yemen:
The attack in Amqoz in the
Moudiya district of Abyan
province took place around
midnight on Tuesday. Their
vehicle was completely
burned and the four bodies
inside badly charred, they
added.
Donald Trump's Shift
On Yemen Risks Plunging The
Country Into Famine:
President Donald Trump may
be on the brink of sparking
a full-blown famine in Yemen
? all because of a subtle
shift in messaging that
risks effectively cutting
off humanitarian relief to
the war-torn nation.
CENTCOM chief:
'Vital US interests at
stake' in Yemen;
The White House is
reportedly weighing deeper
military involvement in the
Yemeni slaughter alongside
Middle Eastern allies
US military
footprint grows in Middle
East, with no endgame in
sight:
Two months after the
inauguration of President
Trump, indications are
mounting that the US
military is deepening its
involvement in a string of
complex wars in the Middle
East
Trump
Administration Drops Human
Rights in Bahrain F-16 Deal:
The Trump administration has
told US Congress it plans to
approve a
multibillion-dollar sale of
F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain
without the human rights
conditions imposed by the
State Department under
President Barack Obama.
Top US general calls
for military action against
Iran:
The top American commander
in the Middle East, General
Joseph Votel, yesterday
branded Iran as the
“greatest long-term threat
to stability” in the region
and called for steps,
including military action,
to disrupt Iranian influence
Apartheid Israel
delays cancer treatment for
Gaza children
; In some urgent cases,
Israel has blocked patients
from traveling for periods
of three or four months,
Thabet added.
Israel: The house of
hate:
Systemic hatred and violence
have worked their way into
the very marrow of the
Israeli state.
Video shows
far-right Jews beating
protesters outside AIPAC;
Members of the Jewish
Defense League filmed
kicking, assaulting a
Palestinian-American man
lying on the ground
Democratic and
Republican leaders Offer
Partisan Shots At AIPAC
Conference:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
read aloud a letter to
President Donald Trump
urging him to reaffirm
support for the two-state
solution signed virtually
only by Democrats – and
drafted by AIPAC’s rival, J
Street
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ISIS militants killed in
Afghan commandos operations
and airstrikes:
The provincial police
commandment earlier reported
that 24 Taliban insurgents
including four senior
leaders of the group were
killed in an airstrike in
Ghani Khel district last
night.
Taliban Claims to
Control 34 Districts in
Afghanistan;
The insurgent group claims
to contest 167 more, many in
southern, western and
northern Afghanistan.
Kashmir : 3 Youth
Killed in firing by Indian
Forces;
At least three civilians
were killed and about 28
people were also injured in
Tuesday’s demonstration that
followed a gun battle at the
home in the southern town of
Chadoora, where the
suspected fighter was
killed, police and witnesses
said.
South Korean court
says approves warrant for
arrest of ousted leader Park
Geun-hye;
A South Korean court said on
Friday it had approved a
warrant to arrest ousted
president Park Geun-hye, who
was removed from office in
March over allegations of
bribery.
Putin says claims
that Russia interfered in US
elections are 'lies':
"All those things are
fictional, illusory and
provocations, lies. All
these are used for domestic
American political agendas."
Propaganda alert:
NATO commander calls
for more US troops in Europe
to deter Russia:
The top U.S. general in
Europe said Tuesday he needs
more troops and high-tech
surveillance platforms to
counter an increasingly
belligerent Russia
U.S. Senate backs
Montenegro's membership in
NATO:
Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson wrote to the
leaders of the Senate this
month to say Montenegro's
membership in NATO was
"strongly in the interests
of the United States."
Cyber Firm Rewrites
Part of Disputed Russian
Hacking Report
: The challenges to
CrowdStrike’s credibility
are significant because the
firm was the first to link
last year’s hacks of
Democratic Party computers
to Russian actors
German government
explores 8 alternatives to
its Turkish airbase – report;
“The review of alternative
sites to the Turkish
aircraft base Incirlik found
that, from a military
perspective, locations in
Jordan, Kuwait and Cyprus
were available,” the
government said
EU peacekeepers
ready to intervene in Bosnia
in case of new strife:
The European Union
peacekeeping force (EUFOR)
in Bosnia warned its
political leaders on Tuesday
it was prepared to intervene
at short notice should
violence resume
US considers 100%
tariffs on EU goods as Trump
ramps up trade WAR:
DONALD Trump has ramped up
tension between the US and
EU as his administration
threatens to impose 100 per
cent tariffs on European
goods.
EU could BREAK UP
the US: Juncker in
jaw-dropping threat to Trump
over support for Brexit;
EUROPEAN Union boss
Jean-Claude Juncker this
afternoon issued a
jaw-dropping threat to the
United States
"Trauma on Trauma on
Trauma":
For Refugee Children, the
Journey Is Only the
Beginning
Iranian Woman
Visiting US Detained, Jailed
Despite Tourist Visa:
“How can they treat us like
that?" Leila Ahranjani told
local news station KATU.
"Imagine you want to go
visit a country, you get off
the plane, you're excited to
see your nieces after five,
six years and then they take
her."
Canadians Report
More Scrutiny And Rejection
At U.S. Border Checkpoints:
Church volunteers on their
way from Ontario to New
Jersey were stopped at the
U.S.-Canada border and
turned away. So were
Canadian nurses who work at
a hospital in Detroit.
Americans
increasingly refused entry
to Canada, documents show:
30,233 Americans were turned
away when attempting to
enter Canada in 2016. In
2015, 23,052 people were
turned back, representing an
increase of 31 per cent in
one year.
Senator Aims to End Phone
Searches at Airports and
Borders:
"Folks are going to be less
likely to travel freely to
the US with the devices they
need if they don't feel
their sensitive business
information is going to be
safe at the border," Wyden
said Tuesday
Federal judge in
Hawaii extends court order
blocking Trump travel ban:
A federal judge in Hawaii
indefinitely extended on
Wednesday an order blocking
enforcement of President
Donald Trump's revised ban
on travel to the United
States from six
predominantly Muslim
countries.
Filling the swamp:
U.S. Air Force
Secretary Pick Has Stock In
16 Defense Contractors;
Sandia benefited from her
insider knowledge and used
it to craft strategy so that
the company could win a
noncompetitive contract to
continue its work on nuclear
weapons.
2 White House
officials helped give Nunes
intelligence reports,
according to the New York
Times;
, the Times identified the
White House officials as
"Ezra Cohen-Watnick, and
Michael Ellis, a lawyer who
works on national security
issues at the White House
Counsel's Office.
Dollar Tumbles On
Report Trump Studying Ways
To "Penalize Currency
Manipulators":
The yen, euro and yuan
snapped higher, following a
CNBC report according to
which the Trump
administration is studying
ways to penalize countries
whose currencies it believes
are undervalued.
What a load of bull:
Nikki Haley Calls
United Nations Human Rights
Council ‘So Corrupt’:
The American envoy to the
United Nations, Nikki R.
Haley, described the United
States on Wednesday as the
“moral conscience” of the
world, and she dismissed the
United Nations Human Rights
Council as “so corrupt” .
House Republicans
Launch a New Assault on the
EPA:
The story of the man who
imperiled his country with
pseudoscience designed to
please a politician seemed
particularly relevant during
a day filled with Republican
efforts to provide
scientific cover for a range
of unscientific policies.
With Washington’s
Blessing, Telecom Giants Can
Mine Your Web History:
Congress’s repeal of FCC
privacy rules could be data
boon for Verizon, Comcast,
AT&T
Internet users raise
funds to buy lawmakers'
browsing histories in
protest:
Internet users are fighting
back after Congress voted to
block Obama-era internet
privacy protections.
Fundraising campaigns have
so far raised more than
$215,000 to purchase and
reveal lawmakers' browsing
histories.
Are Congressional
Republicans Ready to Dump
Trump?
: Three officials break
ranks, as the Senate vows to
take up charges of collusion
and money laundering.
Napolitano returns
to Fox, stands by spying
claim:
TV analyst still says Brits
spied on Trump
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Army Aviation kills 50 IS members crossed borders
from Syria to Iraq:
he Army Aviation bombarded a gathering of the Islamic State members, who
were coming from Syria and Husaiba, in Balij area, south of Tal Afar,
killing nearly 50 terrorists and destroying 10 vehicles.
The airstrike in Mosul was potentially one of the
worst U.S.-led civilian bombings in 25 years:
Chris Woods, the director of the monitoring group Airwars.org, said the
range of dead have been reported from 101 to 511, though the likely
numbers are somewhere between 130 and 230.
Amnesty warns US coalition to do more to protect
Mosul civilians;
Amnesty said that there had been a “shocking spike” in civilian
casualties in the Iraqi city from both air strikes and ground fighting
in recent months that “raised serious questions about the lawfulness of
these attacks”.
Under Trump, U.S. airstrikes have already killed
hundreds of civilians:
It’s not just Mosul. U.S.-led attacks in Syria in the last two weeks—one
in Mansoura, a rural area of Raqqa, and another in Al Jinah, a village
in western Aleppo —killed at least 79 people.
Civilians in western Mosul are being shot at by
Isis and Iraqi forces alike:
Patrick Cockburn enters war-torn Mosul and gets a rare insight into what
life is like in the Isis-held western part of the city
200 more US troops headed to Iraq to 'advise and
assist' Mosul offensive;
The authorized troop cap for Iraq is 5,262 though the real number is
probably 6,000 with the presence of additional troops on temporary
assignment.
At Site of Deaths, Our Reporters Find Cost of
U.S.-ISIS Battle:
Many Iraqi commanders welcome the more aggressive American role, saying
that coalition officers were too risk averse under the Obama
administration
The innocent lives already lost amid Trump’s war
on terror:Analysts
think this surge in deaths may be a product of a shift in the
anti-Islamic State campaign under President Trump, who has called for
more unfettered action against the jihadists and memorably promised to
"bomb the s--- out of 'em."
Syria's Raqqa expected to join Kurdish-led
federalism: Kurdish leader:
Raqqa, Islamic State's main urban base of operations in Syria, is the
focus of an ongoing campaign by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces
(SDF), an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters that is closing in on
the city.
Lavrov Responds to US Decision to Block Advance
of Syrian Army
: Any attempt by Washington to
prevent Syrian forces from liberating their own country from Islamic
State should be seen as extremely worrying.
Islamic State releases video threatening Iran for
tolerating Jews:
Several captured soldiers are decapitated in the video, one of whom is
wearing a “Ya Hossein” badge, indicating that he was a Shiite fighter.
Watch: At the UN, ‘there’s a new sheriff in
town,’ Nikki Haley tells AIPAC;
Trump’s envoy thrills crowd at
annual event, says ‘the days of Israel-bashing at the UN are over’
Watch: At AIPAC, Paul Ryan talks tough on Iran,
says US will no longer tolerate UN’s anti-Israel bias;
Ryan, however, energized the crowd, drawing loud applause for his
criticism of Iran, the Obama administration, and the Boycott, Sanctions
and Divestment movement.
At AIPAC McConnell criticizes nuke deal as
‘windfall’ for Iran:
Aiming to prove their commitment to Israel, senior US lawmakers are
backing bipartisan legislation that would slap Iran with new sanctions
while maintaining rigorous enforcement of the landmark nuclear deal.
US leads boycott of UN talks on nuclear weapons
ban; The
United States, Britain and France are among almost 40 countries
boycotting talks on a nuclear weapons ban treaty at the United Nations,
according to Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the world body.
Gaza: Israel's war drums are getting louder;
On Friday, a senior member of Hamas's military wing, Mazen Faqha, was
assassinated in the Gaza Strip by armed gunmen. It was an assassination
tactic not seen in Gaza for at least a decade.
At Least 18 Killed in Al-Qaeda Attack in Southern
Yemen: The
dead included seven attackers, six members of the security forces and
five civilians.
U.S. weighs bigger role in Yemen's war, boosting
aid to allies:
The United States is considering deepening its role in Yemen's conflict
by more directly aiding its Gulf allies battling Iran-aligned Houthi
rebels, officials say, potentially relaxing a U.S. policy that limited
American support.
Watch: Yemen: Hundreds of thousands protest
Saudi-led military intervention in Sanaa
: Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Sanaa on
Sunday, in a mass demonstration decrying the ongoing Saudi-led bombing
campaign in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia pivots to China:
His visit to Beijing unfolded amid worsening relations between
Washington and the kingdom that has—since 1945—constituted an essential
prop of US imperialism in the region and a bulwark of reaction and
repression in the Arab world.
Kashmir: 3 killed in violent protests after
firefight:
Deadly standoff between rebels and police sparks protests in Chadoora
town, leaving three people dead and 28 injured.
All Sanctions Imposed Against Russian Companies
Illegal - Moscow:
Earlier in the day, the European General Court in Luxembourg ruled that
the sanctions adopted by the European Union against Rosneft were valid.
Clashes in Paris over police killing of Chinese
man:
Thirty-five protesters arrested and 3 police injured in protests that
come just days after march against police abuse.
Ex-cyber security chief says Government is
'using' Westminster attack to grab unnecessary spying powers:
Major General Jonathan Shaw said decrypting social media messages would
see terrorists use other secure methods to communicate
Scottish Parliament backs referendum call;
MSPs voted by 69 to 59 in favour of seeking permission for a referendum
before the UK leaves the EU.
Searches of Cellphones and Laptops Skyrocket at
Borders: Civil
rights groups have long claimed that warrantless searches of cellphones
and laptops by government agents constitute a serious invasion of
privacy, due to the wealth of personal data often held on such devices.
This Map Will Show If Your Web Traffic Passes
Through an NSA Listening Post;
IXmaps wants to “make visible the secret, dangerous, often illegal forms
of surveillance that are increasingly becoming part of everyday life.”
Mom says TSA agents at DFW Airport traumatized
son with 'horrifying' security check;
A mother who asked TSA agents at DFW International Airport for
alternative screening for her son with special needs said they were
"treated like dogs"
Trump son-in-law met executives of sanctioned
Russian bank, will testify:
A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia's "incursion
into Ukraine" disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared
Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a top White House
adviser, in December.
John Podesta May Have Violated Federal Law:
John Podesta, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 national
campaign chairman, may have violated federal law by failing to disclose
the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock from a Kremlin-financed company
when he joined the Obama White House in 2014,
Trump signs order sweeping away Obama-era climate
policies: The
decree's main target is former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan
that required states to slash carbon emissions from power plants.
LA mayor vows to fight Trump administration
attempt to strip ‘sanctuary city’ funding:
“We will fight to protect the safety and dignity of all Angelenos, and
we will make sure that Los Angeles does not go without federal resources
that help protect millions of people every day.”
NYC vows to fight for sanctuary status:
"We are going to become this administration's worst nightmare," said New
York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, at a small conference
that attracted officials from cities including San Francisco, Seattle,
Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York.
Consumer confidence soars in March to best
reading in 16 years:
Consumer confidence has taken off since the election of President Donald
Trump, on the prospect of lower taxes and more infrastructure spending.
Gallup: Trump Approval Rating Now Lower Than
Obama, Clinton Records:
According to Gallup, 36 percent of respondents to its daily polls
approved of Trump’s performance in office, while 57 percent disapproved.
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The president is
doubling down on
the Middle East
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Why Do
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US
admits killing 200 civilians
in Mosul:
Over the weekend the US
Pentagon has admitted to
another air strike in Mosul,
which is believed to have
killed more than 200
civilians including women
and children.
Mosul's children
were shouting beneath the
rubble. Nobody came;
Coalition bombs buried more
than a hundred people in the
ruins of three houses and
raised fresh questions about
US rules of engagement
43 more civilians
killed in western Mosul
airstrikes:
Anadolu Agency quoted an
officer within the Rapid
Response Forces, a special
interior ministry force,
saying the strikes were
carried out by jets from the
U.S.-led coalition at two
separate areas, adding that
those killed included women
and children.
27 IS members killed
in western Mosul, mass grave
found
: Clashes broke out between
Iraqi forces and IS members
near the town of Tal Afar,
west of Mosul. He said the
fights left dead 17
militants of multiple Arab
and foreign nationalities.
How Washington Backs
ISIS / DAESH
; Video - Vice-President Joe
Biden, Senator Lindsay
Graham and General Martin
Dempsey all admit US allies
ISIS
Another escalation
in Iraq: The U.S. Army sends
new reinforcements to Mosul;
An unspecified number of
combat soldiers from the
U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne
Division have been ordered
to northern Iraq, marking
the Pentagon's latest
escalation in the city of
Mosul.
More Than 1,000
Civilians Killed by US-Led
Airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
as Trump Expands War on
Terror
16 killed in
Damascus airstrike:
It said it was not
immediately clear who was
responsible for the strike
on the town Hammuriyeh in
the opposition bastion of
Eastern Ghouta.
US-backed forces
'capture' Tabqa airbase from
ISIL;
A US-backed alliance of
Syrian Kurdish and Arab
fighters has captured a
strategic airbase from ISIL
in northern Syria in the
first major victory for the
group since the US airlifted
the forces behind enemy
lines last week.
Syria threatens to
retaliate by firing SCUD
missiles at Israel if air
strikes continue: report:
The Syrian government has
sent a message to Israel
through Russia threating to
fire scud missiles at the
Jewish State should it carry
out future airstrikes within
its borders
Turkish jets hit PKK
militants installing
explosives in Turkey’s
southeast;
Three militants were killed
as they were installing
home-made explosives on a
road in the Semdinli
district on March 27.
More than 1,500
children killed in Yemen's
war as it enters third year:
In total around 19 million
people in the country are in
need of humanitarian
assistance.
Pence's Purified
Version of Trump Draws
Cheers at AIPAC;
But separate talk of
possible impeachment of the
president garnered strong
applause as well.
WATCH: IfNotNow
Protesters At AIPAC
Conference;
Activists from the IfNotNow
group entered a conference
held by the America Israel
Public Affairs Committee
Sunday, demanding that
American Jews stop
supporting what they say are
Israeli abuses toward the
Palestinians.
Mossad reportedly
turned French spies into
double agents after joint
Syria op;
Le Monde reveals how Israeli
espionage agency allegedly
exploited a successful
chemical weapons operation
to get French counterparts
to become sources;
40 police officers
decapitated in Congo ambush
- report:
Militia fighters in the
central Democratic Republic
of Congo reportedly
decapitated 40 police
officers in the deadliest
attack on authorities since
an insurrection began in the
region in August.
Kenyan forces kill
31 al Shabaab militants in
Somalia:
On Monday, the Kenyan
military troops in Somalia
disclosed that they had
killed about 31 Islamist al
Shabaab militants in a raid
on two of their bases in the
southern Somali region of
Jubbaland
Six Aid Workers Are
Killed in South Sudan Ambush;
Six aid workers were
ambushed and killed over the
weekend in South Sudan, a
United Nations official
said, the deadliest attack
on humanitarian workers
since the East African
nation’s civil war began in
2013.
South Sudan: 'There
are only dead bodies':
South Sudanese who have fled
to Uganda - escaping rape,
murder, assault and torture
- share their stories.
Somalia: Reported US
covert actions 2001-2016:
The US has been carrying out
extensive covert military
operations inside Somalia
since 2001, as a major
six-part investigation by
the US Army Times recently
revealed.
Afghanistan; 33
Daesh Militants Killed In
Nangarhar Airstrike
; At least 33 Daesh
insurgents were killed in an
airstrike carried out by
Afghan Air Force in
Nangarhar province on Sunday
night, the Ministry of
Interior said in a statement
on Monday.
Need for 5000 more
troops in Afghanistan
: US General; Nicholson has
recurrently categorized the
fight a “stalemate”, that
seems to be an
overestimation of the
condition in which Taliban
forces are gaining more
ground against security
forces of Afghan.
US Navy Prepares
Decapitating Attack Against
Russia:
The Bulletin of American
Scientists reports that as a
result of improvements in
the killing power of US
SLBMs, they carry more than
three times the number of
warheads needed to destroy
the entire fleet of Russian
land-based missiles.
War criminal;
DICK CHENEY: 'No question'
Russia meddled in the US
election, and it could be
'an act of war';
Segueing into talking about
Russian President Vladimir
Putin, Cheney warned of
Russia's aggressive actions.
Navalny fined $350
for staging unauthorized
rally, gets 15 days in jail
for resisting arrest
: Moscow police have
officially confirmed that
they detained some 500
demonstrators. Some 8,000
people took part in the
protest in Russia’s capital,
law enforcement officials
reported.
Trump handed £300B
NATO 'invoice' to German
chancellor: report;
“The concept behind putting
out such demands is to
intimidate the other side,
but the chancellor took it
calmly and will not respond
to such provocations,” a
German minister told the
newspaper.
More than 400 former
jihadi fighters back in
Britain, say security
sources;
UK authorities are facing an
increased terror threat from
battle-hardened fighters
returning from Mosul and
other conflict zones in Iraq
and Syria.
Talks aimed at
restoring power-sharing
executive in Northern
Ireland break down
: It is the strong wish of
the Irish Government to see
power-sharing re-established
so that the interests of the
people in Northern Ireland
are best protected and
advanced.
Q&A: What is going
on in Northern Ireland?:
Why is Northern Ireland once
again bogged down in
political stalemate and
crisis?
Watch; Cop Slams
Woman To The Ground, Fires
Taser At Her:
A bodycam video of a Florida
woman being shot with a
Taser. Aranda Wendell said
she brought the lawsuit
forward after she was
slammed to the ground and
shot with the stun gun.
Real-Time Face
Recognition Threatens to
Turn Cops’ Body Cameras Into
Surveillance Machines:
It can determine not just
who someone is, but where
they’ve been, where they’re
going, and whether they have
an outstanding warrant,
immigration detainer, or
unpaid traffic ticket.
Watch: Violence
erupts in California beach
town as Trump supporters
clash with protesters:
The violence was sparked
after one of the protesters
pepper sprayed a woman who
was one of the rally’s
organizers.
Mexicans who help
build Trump wall 'traitors,'
top Archdiocese says:
"Any company intending to
invest in the wall of the
fanatic Trump would be
immoral, but above all, its
shareholders and owners
should be considered
traitors to the homeland,"
Sessions says grants
to be withheld from
sanctuary cities;
State and local governments
seeking Justice Department
grants must certify they are
not so-called sanctuary
cities in order to receive
the money, Attorney General
Jeff Sessions announced
Monday.
Untold Story of the
Clintons Cashing In on
HIV/AIDS Sufferers:
"there is no evidence that
can be verified that the
'international' charity ever
lawfully provided any help
to victims of HIV/AIDS
anywhere."
Dollar skids to
four-month low as Trump
trade deflates;
The dollar fell to its
lowest since November
against a basket of
currencies on Monday as
investors lost confidence in
prospects for a U.S. fiscal
spending boost under
President Donald Trump
Flynn discussed
illegal kidnapping of exiled
Turkish dissident:
Former Trump national
security aide Michael Flynn
discussed the hypothetical
kidnapping of exiled Turkish
cleric Fethullah Gülen from
his Pennsylvania home with
senior Turkish government
officials in September, the
Wall Street Journal reports.
Trump's son-in-law
Jared Kushner to be
questioned on Russia ties:
The US Senate Intelligence
Committee wants to interview
Mr Kushner as part of its
inquiry into links between
Trump associates and Russian
officials in the run up to
November's election.
Here's a Shortlist
of US Government Crimes This
Week;
Here are a few examples from
this week alone.
Bernie Sanders to
Sponsor Single-Payer
Healthcare Bill;
Bernie Sanders is returning
to a key campaign promise
and will introduce a
single-payer healthcare bill
in the wake of the
Republicans' Obamacare
replacement defeat
Which Republicans
Were Against the American
Health Care Act?;
Which Republicans were
against the bill? Here’s
what you need to know.
Trump taps Kushner
to lead a SWAT team to fix
government with business
ideas:
President Trump plans to
unveil a new White House
office on Monday with
sweeping authority to
overhaul the federal
bureaucracy and fulfill key
campaign promises
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