The Fun of Empire: Fighting on All Sides of a War in Syria
By Glenn Greenwald
From The New Hitler (back) to U.S. Partner in less than a year: an impressive feat for both Assad and U.S. propaganda.
Obama Declares War on Syria
By Stephen Lendman
The Islamic State is the pretext. Syria is the target. At issue is regime change.
The Pentagon's Strategy for World Domination:
Full Spectrum Dominance, from Asia to Africa
By Bruce K. Gagnon
The NATO military noose is tightening around Russia.
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters:
Why Moral Perversity of U.S. Position in Gaza is Stunning
By Roger Waters
I think it's safe to say that if U.S. neighborhoods were living under siege, folks like Rand Paul wouldn't take it.
Selective Outrage over Ukraine POWs
By Robert Parry
The New York Times has taken deep umbrage over an unseemly parade staged by ethnic Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine featuring captured Ukrainian soldiers.
Sanctions & the Dollar: A Fall From Grace?
By Conn M. Hallinan
With China set to replace the U.S. as the world's largest economy, it is only a matter of time before the renminbi-or some agreed upon international method of exchange-replaces the dollar.
Colonization by Bankruptcy
The High-stakes Chess Match for Argentina
By Ellen Brown
Similar bold moves by Ecuador and Iceland have left those countries in substantially better shape than Greece, which went along with the agendas of the international financiers.
The Final Nail in the Coffin
The Death of Freedom in Our Schools
By John W. Whitehead
American school children are indeed powerless. And they will remain helpless, powerless and in bondage to the police state unless "we the people" set them free.
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Hard News
15 killed in Baghdad bomb blast:
A car bomb exploded on Tuesday in a busy area in eastern Baghdad, killing as many as 15 people, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks to shake the Iraqi capital as the government struggles to dislodge militants from areas in the country's west and north.
ISIL recaptures Mosul Dam yet again, takes 200 Kurdish Peshmerga prisoners:
NATO ready to intervene militarily to help Iraq:
The Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced on Tuesday the alliance's readiness to intervene militarily to help Iraq if it is requested by the Iraqi government; the request for assistance of the Iraqi government will be taken into consideration, according to reports of the Daily Telegraph.
US: 7 European States to Arm Kurds in Iraq:
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says seven European governments have agreed to join the United States in supplying weaponry to Kurdish forces battling Islamic State extremists in northern Iraq.
Iran Arming Iraqi Kurds Against Islamic State:
Iran has provided weapons and ammunition to the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq, said the region's President on Tuesday in a joint a press-conference with the Iranian foreign minister.
US destroys millions of dollars in US-made arms in Iraq:
Since the Obama administration began strikes there on August 8, US fighter jets and drones have destroyed an estimated $3 million-$4 million worth of Iraqi military vehicles that were provided by the United States and later seized by Islamists who now control a third of Iraq.
American, killed while fighting alongside Islamic State militants in Syria:
A 33-year-old American man who grew up in Minnesota and then moved to California was killed over the weekend in Syria while battling alongside the militant grew formerly known as ISIS, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
Intel believes 300 Americans fighting with Islamic State, posing threat to U.S.:
American militants could commit terrorist attacks with skills acquired in Iraq, Syria
Islamic State demands $6.6mn ransom for female American hostage:
Islamic State militants are holding a third American hostage, a 26-year-old humanitarian worker kidnapped last year in Syria. The jihadist group is demanding a ransom of $6.6 million and the release of a Muslim woman from a US prison.
US Drones Are Flying Over ISIS Areas In Syria - Without Assad's Approval:
The missions will be carried out without coordination with or approval from the government of Syria. Officials noted that regime "air-defense systems in eastern Syria won't pose a threat because sensors are either sparsely located or inoperable," WSJ reports.
US military to initiate operations in Syria:
The Obama administration has ordered the start of US military operations inside Syria, in addition to ongoing air strikes and renewed troop deployments in Iraq.
US Launches Surveillance Flights Over Syria:
The flights focus on sites of the Islamic State militant group as possible targets and could pave the way for airstrikes in Syria.
US says no permission needed to fly spy planes over Syria:
The United States is poised to send spy planes into Syria to track the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadists, but said it would seek no permission to do so.
Israeli airstrikes kill 3 Palestinians in Rafah: -
An Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinians in the al-Jneinah neighborhood in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, shortly before a ceasefire agreement was due to go into effect.
Palestinian joy as Israel agrees Gaza truce:
"The embargo will be lifted and the five border posts will see considerable changes, with the Rafah border crossing opening," he said in reference to the crossing between Egypt and Gaza.
Senior Hamas official: Israel agreed to open Gaza crossings:
Asked about the fishing zone, he said that Gaza fishermen would be allowed to reach as far as 6 nautical miles and the zone would be increased gradually until it is 12 nautical miles by the end of 2014.
U.S. Coast Guard fires on Iranian fishing boat:
The incident occurred earlier in the day when a team from the Coast Guard patrol vessel Monomoy was dispatched in a smaller boat "to query the Iranian dhow" in international waters, the Navy said in a statement.
Philip Giraldi: Billionaires Make War on Iran: Op-Ed:
And the United States Government is Helping
Dozens of Afghan And Pakistani Taliban Killed In Faryab:
According to the commanders, during the operation, 54 armed Taliban including 11 commanders and so-called governor of Taliban were killed and 90 others wounded.
Pakistani Taliban Suffers Major Split:
Leaders of the new faction 'TTP Jamatul Ahrar' said that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leadership was promoting personal and narrow objectives, resulting in lack of coordination and the outfit's defeat.
3 killed as UN helicopter shot down in South Sudan:
A rebel commander who warned the U.N. not to fly over his territory shot down a U.N. helicopter Tuesday in rural South Sudan, charged a spokesman for a state governor. The U.N. confirmed that three people died and one survived - all Russian citizens - when one of its helicopters crashed.
Boko Haram seizes town after soldiers 'flee':
Group take over border town Ashigashya after hundreds of Nigerian soldiers fled to Cameroon, a police source said.
U.S., Europe weigh sanctions, armed force for Libya:
The Obama administration and its European allies are weighing their options for greater involvement in Libya, including sanctions against warlords and an armed international force to help stabilize the North African country, diplomats said Tuesday.
An unpleasant surprise for the US in Libya:
Washington is displeased with the air strikes it says the United Arab Emirates and Egypt conducted on Islamist militias in Libya - especially since it appears both countries tried to keep their US allies in the dark.
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Egypt denies role in air attacks in Libya:
The US government on Tuesday said it believed the UAE and Egypt carried out raids in Libya, a day after the New York Times quoted unnamed officials as saying the same.
Ukraine cites Russia support for peace plan:
Putin said separately he had an "overall positive assessment" of Tuesday's meetings, which included face-to-face talks with Poroshenko.
Captured Russian troops 'in Ukraine by accident':
Ten Russian soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine crossed the border "by accident", Russian military sources are quoted as saying.
Russian Intelligence Warns Moscow of US-Led ISIL Threat:
Russia's External Intelligence Service (SVR) warned Kremlin that the US is using the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group to create a new front against Russia in the Central Asia.
France's president replaces economy minister with "former" Rothschild Banker:
President Francois Hollande replaced his maverick leftist economy minister with a former Rothschild partner on Tuesday, in a reshuffle intended to reconcile his efforts to revive the stagnant French economy with deficit-cutting orthodoxy.
Global warming is already here and could be irreversible, UN panel says:
Global warming is here, human-caused and probably already dangerous - and it's increasingly likely that the heating trend could be irreversible, a draft of a new international science report says.
Tepid clapping greets unpopular Obama's VA speech at American Legion :
President Barack Obama faced a tough crowd on Tuesday - American military veterans - and fell flat on his applause lines as he failed to win over the American Legion's convention-goers.
Florida Man Records Himself Getting Attacked by Cop for not Rolling Down Window: Video -
A horrifying video has emerged showing St. Petersburg police forcing a man out of his car before pouncing on him, leaving him hospitalized with several injuries, all because the cop claimed he was in fear for his life.
Now Burger King is Renouncing Its US Citizenship :
Burger King is the latest company announcing plans to renounce its US citizenship in order to dodge taxes. It plans to buy Tim Hortons and then pretend Tim Hortons bought them so they can claim to be Canadian. (Tim Hortons renounced its own US citizenship in 2009 and moved their headquarters from Ohio to Canada.)
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