Hard News
Death toll from Turkey bomb rises to 9:
Firat,
a pro-Kurdish news agency, cited militants as saying they were not
involved and guerrilla forces would not attack civilians
US kills 5 people in Pakistan: :
An
unmanned American aircraft fired missiles at a vehicle in a Pakistani
tribal area bordering Afghanistan Tuesday, killing five
Afghans to spy on own troops to stop 'insider' attacks:
Nine U.S. troops have been killed by their Afghan counterparts in the past 12 days
Four dead in Lebanon clashes:
Four
people were killed and more than 60 wounded in clashes between Sunni
Muslims and Alawites in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli as the war
in neighbouring Syria inflamed tensions there again, security and
medical sources said on Tuesday.
Engineering Consent for an attack on Syria :
Obama warns Syria against use of chemical weapons:
US
President Barack Obama has issued the toughest warning to his Syrian
counterpart Bashar al-Assad, saying the use of chemical or biological
weapons by Damascus would be a "red line" that would change his
calculus significantly and provoke a foreign military intervention.
Russia warns West on Syria after Obama threats :
"I
think this is the only correct path in today's conditions," Lavrov told
Dai, who also met President Vladimir Putin and his top security
adviser, Nikolai Patrushev, on Monday for consultations that went
unannounced by the Kremlin.
Syria Dismisses Obama Invasion Threat as Election Ploy:
"After
the Russian-Chinese veto [at the UN Security Council] the West is
looking for an opportunity for military intervention in Syria, but we
must say that such intervention is impossible," Jamil said. "Those who
are contemplating that evidently want to see the crisis expand and
spill over beyond Syria."
Russia: Syrian rebels getting lots of Western arms:
Russia
on Monday cited what it called increasing evidence that Syrian rebels
were obtaining large amounts of Western-made arms, suggesting the
United States and European countries are helping fuel persistent
violence in the divided country.
Syria slams UN envoy over "civil war"comments:
"To
speak of civil war in Syria contradicts reality and is found only in
the head of conspirators," the Syrian foreign ministry said in a
statement published by the official SANA news agency.
Man who armed Black Panthers was FBI informant, records show:
The
man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and
weapons training - which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police
in the turbulent 1960s - was an undercover FBI informer, according to a
former bureau agent and an FBI report.
Renewed String Of Anti-Islam Attacks Threaten U.S. Muslims During Ramadan:
This
year's Ramadan has been overshadowed by an uptick in Islamophobic
attacks against American Muslims in their schools, homes, and places of
worship.
Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases:
In
more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on
conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police
Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or
triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in
court testimony unsealed late Monday.
Anonymous releases how-to instructions on fooling facial recognition (VIDEO)
Big
Brother may indeed be watching, but that doesn't mean you have to make
his unwarranted surveillance mission easy to operate.
Number of Americans Living in Poverty Reaches All Time High :
Americans
are falling into poverty at a rapid rate, and have been for at least
the past 8 years. As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer,
inequality has risen to an all time high.
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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