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Hard News
At least 22 killed in Iraq attacks:
In
the north of the capital Baghdad, gunmen attacked a police station and
occupied it after killing five policemen, medics and police said.
Militants target Iraqi Sunni militia near Fallujah:
At
least 14 members of an anti-al-Qaeda Sunni militia have been killed in
two attacks by militants near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah,
officials say.
Bush- Blair Legacy Continues As Wave of attacks in Iraq kills 460 in April:
Violence
in Iraq rose sharply in April, killing 460 people according to AFP
figures, as May started off with attacks that left 13 people dead
Wednesday, including six police and four anti-Qaeda fighters.
A Real American Hero:
Kimberly Rivera, Pregnant Mom of Four, Sentenced to Military Prison for Refusing to Serve in Iraq:
"My
biggest fear is being separated from my children and having to-having
to sit in a prison for politically being against the war in Iraq"
Syrian president shows renewed confidence that momentum in civil war is shifting in his favor:
On
Wednesday, a smiling Assad made another rare public appearance,
visiting a Damascus power station just a day after a bombing in the
capital and two days after his prime minister escapade an assassination
attempt.
Syrian envoy says chemical weapons can't be tolerated, demands probe of alleged Aleppo attack:
Syria's
U.N. ambassador said Tuesday that the use of chemical weapons is not
only "a red line" but "a blood line" that cannot be tolerated and again
demanded a U.N. investigation of an alleged chemical weapons attack in
Aleppo that it blames on rebels.
Bashar Ja'afari on the situation in Syria - Press Conference Video - :
The
Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United
Nations hold press conference regarding the alleged use of Chemical
Weapons.
Syria: The horrific chemical weapons attack that probably wasn't a chemical weapons attack (Warning - Graphic video)
A
recent strike in Aleppo led Syrians to think chemical warfare had
broken out. But a closer analysis reveals something different.
The Free Syrian Army has fallen prey to gangsters and fanatics:
BBC
journalist Paul Wood talks to Syrian revolutionaries who have deserted
the Free Syrian Army in outrage at the atrocities the rebels are
committing against ordinary people.
Frustrated Lakhdar Brahimi to quit as Syria peace envoy: diplomats:
"He
wants to resign because he feels that the Arab League has taken
themselves in a directions which is a bit different from the UN," said
the Security Council diplomat.
Poll: Americans against U.S. intervention in Syria, N. Korea:
Sixty-two
percent of Americans continue to say the United States does not have a
responsibility to intervene in the fighting in Syria, while 24 percent
of Americans think the United States does have a responsibility to do
something about the fighting between government forces and
anti-government groups there - a four point increase since last month.
First Russian warship docks at Israeli port:
A
Russian spokesman said the Azov would remain in the port until Friday
to resupply and allow the crew to rest, RIA Novosti reported.
Haaretz Columnist Confirms Two Unarmed Palestinian Teenagers Executed by IDF:
Recently,
I wrote a post about two Palestinian teenagers murdered by the IDF
near Tulkarem. Now, Gideon Levy not only confirms this, he adds an even
more damning charge that the boys were executed by the Haredi IDF
unit.
Palestinians say they (may) back minor land swaps in peace deal;
"In
the event that Israel should accept a two-state solution based on 1967
borders, the Palestinians may consider small border adjustments, as
long as it does not harm Palestinian interests," Erekat said.
Netanyahu cool to Arab land-swap initiative:
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel and the
Palestinians could not achieve a peace deal based on land swaps alone
and insisted that the most important thing is for Palestinians to
acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state.
Armed protests in Libya threatening safety in capital:
Armed
protests targeting Libya's ministries and media in the capital this
week have alarmed international observers who say deteriorating
security conditions are becoming a matter of serious concern.
Why Libya's militias are up in arms:
Both
the foreign and justice ministry buildings in the city remain
surrounded by a mix of young and older men in pick-up trucks mounted
with anti-aircraft guns.
Afghanistan peace negotiator killed in bombing:
A
roadside bomb killed a provincial peace negotiator and two police
officers in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, dealing another setback
to President Hamid Karzai's attempts to get talks started with Taliban
militants after more than 11 years of conflict.
Russia; Two teenagers killed by bomb in Dagestan:
Two
teenagers who tried to open the dangerous object died at the scene.
Two of their fiends were wounded and later hospitalized. The killed and
wounded were aged 15 to 17, the spokesman said.
Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev linked to Canadian jihadist William Plotnikov?:
Tsarnaev
left Dagestan two days after William Plotnikov's body was prepared for
burial. Plotnikov, a Russian who moved to Canada with his family when
he was a teenager, died along with six others in a firefight with
Russian forces in July last year.
Russia had elder Boston suspect under surveillance:
Russian
agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect under surveillance
during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled
to find him when he suddenly disappeared after police killed a Canadian
jihadist, a security official told The Associated Press.
Three arrested for allegedly helping suspect after Boston bombings:
Three
friends of one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings
were charged Wednesday with interfering with the investigation after
the attack.
Bombing suspect's wife to allow family to claim his body:
The
widow of suspected marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev said Tuesday she
would let other family members claim his body, which has been kept at
the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for more than a
week.
Myanmar Buddhist-Muslim Clashes at Mosque Leave One Dead:
Violence flares up between Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya after crowd attacks mosque in Mie Laung Sakhan village
Bolivian President Evo Morales expels USAID:
Speaking
at a rally in La Paz, the president said there was "no lack of US
institutions which continue to conspire against our people and
especially the national government, which is why we're going to take
the opportunity to announce on this May Day that we've decided to expel
USAID".
Mexico's Curbs on U.S. Role in Drug Fight Spark Friction:
Shortly
after Mexico's new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, took office in
December, American agents got a clear message that the dynamics, with
Washington holding the clear upper hand, were about to change.
Dengue epidemic rages on in Paraguay:"
With country's annual pesticide supply already running out, at least 45 people have died from the disease.
Most Americans Favor Public Surveillance: Poll:
Results
of a new poll show that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of the
installation of surveillance cameras in public places and see the move
as an acceptable trade-off to any infringement that might cause on
their privacy, The New York Times reports.
Stephen Lendman: Institutionalized Spying on Americans: Op-Ed:
Big
Brother no longer is fiction. It hasn't been for some time. It's
official US policy. According to ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program
director Barry Steinhardt:
Largest Prison-Owning Corporation Issues Massive Dividend of $675 Million to Sharedholders;
If
you want to make money these days, owning stock in a prison company is
the place to do it. The confinement of human beings, while selling
their cheap labor to companies seeking to save on labor costs has
become a cash cow.
Nikolayev Family Reunited with Baby Sammy, Calls for Change:
A
Sacramento couple is speaking out about their ordeal after their
five-month-old son was taken from their home by police and put into
protective custody.
Banks on the Run: Op-Ed: : Consider this:
Latinos
lost 66 percent of their household wealth after the housing bubble
burst, and African-American households lost 53 percent. Nearly 12
million families-disproportionately people of color-have either lost
their homes or are currently in foreclosure, and another 16 million are
underwater, owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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