The Empire Reaps the Jihadist Whirlwind
By Glen Ford
Imperialism has let loose a plague upon the world, that will - sooner, rather than later - consume the kings, emirs and sultans the U.S. depends on to keep the empire's oil safe.
Why Obama is Bombing the Caliph
By Pepe Escobar
Obama's bombing of the Caliph's goons has absolutely nothing to do with US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power's much beloved R2P ('responsibility to protect') doctrine.
Another War in Iraq Won't Fix the Disaster of the Last
By Seumas Milne
The Yazidis need aid, but military intervention by states that destroyed Iraq will deepen the crisis now tearing it apart.
Israel Arms Free Syrian Army
Syrian Rebel Commander says he Collaborated with Israel
By Elhanan Miller
Sharif as-Safouri, abducted by Al-Nusra Front in July, confesses to receiving antitank weapons in return for protecting the Israeli occupied Golan Heights "border".
How Israel Targeted the Children of Gaza
By Bayan Abdel Wahad
These stories are not fiction. They are the gruesome reality created by the Israeli war machine.
Hashtag Genocide
Why Gaza Fought Back
By Ramzy Baroud
For Palestinians in Gaza, this is not about mere resistance strategies, but their very survival.
"Sadistic & Grotesque"
Noam Chomsky on How Israel Limits Food & Medicine in Occupied Gaza
Video and Transcript
Chomsky says the debate inside the Israeli government is whether to allow "bare survival" or to inflict "misery and starvation," as a former Israeli national security adviser recently proposed.
How the West Green-lighted Sisi's Massacres
By Tim Black
The systematic and widespread killing of those opposed to Sisi's coup d'etat does cast a shadow over Sisi's continued leadership of Egypt.
Washington Chokes Truth With Lies
By Paul Craig Roberts
NATO generals, Pentagon chief, and US senators are spreading hysteria about a looming Russian invasion not only of Ukraine but also of the Baltics, Poland, indeed, all of Europe.
Gaza, Ukraine and US Preparations for Urban Warfare
By Bill Van Auken
The slaughter in Gaza and Ukraine represents a warning to the working class in the US and all over the world.
The Militarization of U.S. Police
Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson
By Glenn Greenwald
Americans have been trained to believe that everything is justified on the "battlefield" (now defined to mean "the whole world"): imprisonment without charges, kidnapping, torture, even assassination of U.S. citizens without trials.
There's a Police Coup Going on Right Now in Ferguson, Mo.
By Will Bunch
There's been no police riot in Ferguson, Mo. -- not yet anyway (and hopefully never). But what is happening in the working class suburb just outside of St. Louis is, in some ways, far worse.
To Terrify and Occupy
By Matthew Harwood
Police officers shouldn't be breaking down any citizen's door at 3 a.m. armed with AR-15s and flashbang grenades in search of a small amount of drugs, while an MRAP idles in the driveway.
NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of NSA Reporting
By Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman
It's hardly surprising that these kinds of firms, linked to and dependent on the largesse of the U.S. intelligence community, produce pro-government tripe of this sort.
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
The Most Wanted Man In The World
By James Bamford
Some of the revelations attributed to Snowden may not in fact have come from him but from another leaker spilling secrets under Snowden's name.
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Hard News
25 killed in clashes with Sunni insurgents in Iraq:
A total of 25 people were killed and five others wounded in separate clashes between Iraqi security forces and extremist Sunni militant groups in Iraq on Thursday, security sources said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
Islamic State militants mass near another town north of Baghdad:
Islamic State militants are massing near the Iraqi town of Qara Tappa, 122 km (73 miles) north of Baghdad, security sources and a local official said, in an apparent bid to broaden their front with Kurdish peshmerga fighters.
US says Mount Sinjar evacuation unlikely:
A Special Forces team flew to the mountain and found fewer people than expected, and those remaining were also in a better condition than feared, the Pentagon said.
Despite U.S. Claims, Yazidis Say Crisis Is Not Over:
Yazidi leaders and emergency relief officials on Thursday strongly disputed American claims that the siege of Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq had been broken and that the crisis was effectively over, saying that tens of thousands of Yazidis remained on the mountain in desperate conditions.
UN sounds alarm on humanitarian crisis:
The UN has declared its highest level of emergency in Iraq as a humanitarian crisis follows the advance by Islamic State (IS) militants in the north. Kurdish officials said the situation in Dohuk city, with 150,000 refugees, was now critical.
Anbar governor seeks US help against ISISD:
The governor of Iraq's Sunni heartland Anbar Province said he has asked for and secured U.S. support in the battle against Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militants because opponents of the group may not have the stamina for a long fight.
Governor of Iraq Sunni heartland says U.S. to help against militants:
The governor of Iraq's Sunni heartland province of Anbar said he has secured a promise of U.S. support in a battle against the Islamic State, possibly reviving an alliance that helped thwart an earlier Sunni militant threat, from al Qaeda, Reuters reported.
US has nearly 1,000 troops in Iraq:
Pentagon officials say the soldiers are not "combat troops," but they are armed and can take self-defense measures.
The power struggle in Baghdad and Nouri al-Maliki's fight for survival:
Nouri al-Maliki's struggle to cling to power has reached its existential pinnacle, despite the designation of his apparent replacement in Haider al-Abadi.
Islamic State militants grab new weapon - Iraqi wheat:
Fighters from the Islamic State have overrun large areas in five of Iraq's most fertile provinces, where the United Nations food agency says around 40 percent of its wheat is grown.
Outgunned and untested for years, Kurdish peshmerga struggle:
After a two-month stand-off along a 1,000-kilometre (630 mile) long front, the Kurds failed their first major test, allowing the Sunni militants who want to redraw the map of the Middle East to grab more towns, oil fields and Iraq's biggest dam.
24 killed in Yemen clashes:
A bomb killed nine people in southern Yemen on Wednesday, a local official said, and tribal sources in the north said 15 more died in sectarian clashes.
ISIS makes gains in Syria's north, at least 52 killed:
Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) seized a string of villages in northern Syria Wednesday in fighting that left 52 people dead, an anti-gov monitoring group said.
Syria troops retake key town outside Damascus:
Syrian government forces retook a key town on the outskirts of the capital Damascus Thursday after a months-long battle against rebels, a military source and state television said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group backed up the report.
Negotiators announce extension of Israel-Hamas truce:
Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a temporary cease-fire for five days, Egyptian and Palestinian officials announced Wednesday, potentially averting renewed violence and permitting the sides to continue to negotiate a substantive deal to end the war in Gaza.
Netanyahu indicates Israel won't cooperate with UN probe:
PM says team should look for war crimes in 'Baghdad and Damascus,' not democratic Israel, charges UNHRC legitimizes Islamist terror groups.
Fact or fiction?
Gaza : Israel Outflanks the White House on Strategy:
White House and State Department officials who were leading U.S. efforts to rein in Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip were caught off guard last month when they learned that the Israeli military had been quietly securing supplies of ammunition from the Pentagon without their approval.
94 killed in 3 days of Ukraine fighting:
A pro-Russian rebel leader in one eastern Ukrainian city resigned and shells reportedly rocked another rebel-held area Thursday as the Ukrainian military kept up its deadly offensive to retake separatist strongholds.
3 days in Donetsk: 70+ civilians killed, over 100 wounded:
Over 70 people have been killed in the Donetsk Region, and 116 others have been wounded over the last three days of fighting in eastern Ukraine, according to a statement by regional authorities.
Ukraine: At least three reported killed by shelling in rebel-held town:
At least three people were killed when a local market and two apartment blocks were shelled in the rebel-held eastern Ukrainian town of Yasynuvata. Dirt, ash and debris covered the main market square in the town, some 20 kilometres from Donetsk, following the late afternoon shelling.
Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine as aid convoy stops short of border: Report:
Column of 23 armoured personnel carriers and support vehicles cross border after dark
Russian convoy stops close to Ukraine border:
Group of 280 trucks, reportedly carrying humanitarian aid, stops in field 25 miles from rebel-controlled border crossing
Ukraine claims to take town on Russian aid route:
In a diplomatic game of chicken, a large Russian aid convoy rolled toward the Ukrainian border on Thursday - but it was heading toward a crossing controlled by pro-Russian rebels instead of a government post as Ukraine had demanded.
Western media inspect Russia's Ukraine aid trucks and find... aid:
A Russian convoy to deliver humanitarian aid has reached the Ukrainian border. Some western journalists were given the opportunity to monitor its progress, as well as being allowed to see what they were carrying.
Putin says Russia should aim to sell energy in roubles: -
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia should aim to sell its oil and gas for roubles globally because the dollar monopoly in energy trade was damaging Russia's economy.
Near KO for Ukraine deputy in parliament row over eastern conflict:
The leader of Ukraine's populist Radical Party was nearly knocked out in a punch-up in the Kiev parliament's lobby on Thursday after he goaded a fellow deputy, accusing him of ignoring the plight of soldiers fighting in east Ukraine.
At least five killed by rocket fire in Libyan capital: official: -
At least five people were killed and families were forced from their homes when rockets hit neighborhoods in western Tripoli during clashes between rival armed factions, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.
Libya : Parliament votes for foreign intervention:
Libya's parliament has called for foreign intervention to protect civilians from deadly clashes between rival militia groups. MPs were meeting in Tobruk in the east because of violence in the capital Tripoli and the second city Benghazi, and 111 out of 124 voted for the call.
Libya: Benghazi Fighters Ignore Ceasefire Plea:
The new legislature promised in a press conference that it would confront the fight between rival militias that do not adhere to the implementation of the ceasefire.
Obama lifts ban on Libyans training in U.S. as pilots, nuclear scientists:
Acting without U.S. Congress knowledge or approval, President Barack Obama's administration is now allowing Libyan nationals to come to the United States and signup for flight schools or attend American universities to train as nuclear scientists, according to reports on Wednesday by a watchdog group
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Three people killed in Egypt clashes on crackdown anniversary:
At least three people were killed in Egypt Thursday as police quashed attempts by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammad Morsi to commemorate the first anniversary of a brutal Cairo crackdown.
80 people killed in Pilka, Gwoza in one week:
No fewer than 50 Boko Haram members and over 30 soldiers were feared killed in an encounter around Pilka, Kirawa and Gwoza communities of Borno State in the last one week, reliable security source has confirmed.
Guinea declares Ebola emergency:
Guinea declares a national health emergency as it battles to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed more than 1,000 people.
Afghanistan: Seven Taliban Killed in Ghazni Airstrike;
Seven Taliban were killed and four others were wounded in a NATO coalition airstrike in eastern Ghazni province late Tuesday night, local officials said.
IED Explosion in Afghanistan's Helmand Leaves 4 Civilians Killed:
According to local government officials, the incident took place late Wednesday in Khanshin district of Helmand province, Khaama press reported.
Pakistan protesters head towards capital:
Thousands of opposition activists in Pakistan are heading towards the capital, Islamabad, demanding that the prime minister step down.
Snowden: The NSA, not Assad, took Syria off the Internet in 2012:
In a Wired interview with well-known National Security Agency journalist James Bamford that was published today, Edward Snowden claimed that the US accidentally took most of Syria off the Internet while attempting to bug the country's traffic.
Snowden casts doubt on NSA investigation into security disclosures:
NSA whistleblower says he left detectable digital traces of his removal of documents which the agency did not pick up on
Meet MonsterMind, the NSA Bot That Could Wage Cyberwar Autonomously:
Edward Snowden has made us painfully aware of the government's sweeping surveillance programs over the last year. But a new program, currently being developed at the NSA, suggests that surveillance may fuel the government's cyber defense capabilities, too.
Watch a swarm of 1000 mini-robots assemble into shapes:
The world's largest robotic swarm has been created using small, simple bots. For the first time, an army of more than 1000 robots has autonomously formed complex 2D shapes like stars or letters of the alphabet (see video).
Anger Simmers in Ferguson, Missouri;
After a fifth night of unrest in this St. Louis suburb, Gov. Jay Nixon said, "While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern."
Ferguson Police Use Tear Gas On Al Jazeera America Team:
The team was reportedly setting up their equipment for a report on the rising tensions when police threw tear gas and fired rubber bullets towards them. Surrounded by a cloud of tear gas, the crew abandoned their cameras and ran to safety.
Video of Ferguson police gassing news crew and dismantling their equipment:
A news crew, clearly no threat or impediment to the cops, films from a verge in Ferguson, Missouri. A pop and a cloud of white smoke marks the arrival of a tear gas canister at their feet, and the newscrew is forced to flee. Moments later, police pull up in an armored van and hurriedly try to break down the film equipment--until they notice that another crew is still filming them from across the street.
Reporters arrested in Ferguson:
Reporters from The Washington Post and The Huffington Post were arrested in Ferguson, Mo., on Wednesday night while covering the protests that have rocked the St. Louis suburb.
St. Louis County police will no longer be involved in policing Ferguson:
The governor of Missouri will reportedly relieve St. Louis County law enforcement from policing the ongoing demonstrations in the town of Ferguson, paving the way for possible state or federal intervention.
What's going on in Ferguson, Missouri:
Watch these 10 videos to get a glimpse of what Ferguson is going through.
How America's Police Became an Army: The 1033 Program:
As many have noted, Ferguson, Missouri, currently looks like a war zone. And its police-kitted out with Marine-issue camouflage and military-grade body armor, toting short-barreled assault rifles, and rolling around in armored vehicles-are indistinguishable from soldiers.
The Pentagon Gave the Ferguson Police Department Military-Grade Weapons:
The local community of Ferguson, Missouri, may not look like a war zone, but the Pentagon has helped the police treat it like on
Not Just Ferguson: 11 Eye-Opening Facts About America's Militarized Police Forces
The "war on terror" has come home - and it's wreaking havoc on innocent American lives. The culprit is the militarization of the police.
Rand Paul: We Must Demilitarize the Police:
Anyone who thinks race does not skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just not paying close enough attention, Sen. Rand Paul writes for TIME, amid violence in Ferguson, Mo. over the police shooting death of Michael Brown
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