IS Promotes Its Bloody Multinationality - Obama Says Assad Stays
By Moon Of Alabama
Video showed a row of 18 Islamic State fighters each beheading a captured Syrian officer or pilot.
http://www.How Many Islamic State Fighters Are There?
By Ray McGovern
On his flight back to Washington, Dempsey will have time to ponder whether he has the courage to pass on this discouraging word to President Barack Obama about ISIS.
http://www.The Next Presidential Election Will Move The World Closer To War
By Paul Craig Roberts
Hillary as president would mean war with Russia.
http://www.It's All Right, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding
By Chris Floyd
Clinton's budding campaign is being lovingly embraced by unreconstructed neo-cons, who see a Clinton presidency as a restoration of the glory days of the PNAC crowd.
http://www.It's No Accident Afghan Opium Production Hits All-Time High
By Mike Whitney
The proliferation of drugs helps to keep the "little people" in line so the adults can get on with the business of looting.
http://www.Redefining "Imminent"
By Brian Terrell
How the U.S. Department of Justice Makes Murder Respectable, Kills the Innocent and Jails their Defenders.
http://www.US Policemen Visit Israel to Learn New Strategies and Methods:
By teleSUR
Police officers from the United States, which is one of the countries with the most militarized police corps, visited Israel, which has one of the most repressive security agencies, to learn "cutting-edge policing strategies and technologies."
http://www.Ten Illegal Police Actions to Watch for in Ferguson
By Bill Quigley
When the Michael Brown verdict is announced, people can expect the police to take at least ten different illegal actions to prevent people from exercising their constitutional rights.
http://www.Are 'We the People' Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
By John W. Whitehead
If free speech is not vigilantly protected, democracy is more likely to drift toward fear, repression, and violence.
http://www.Too Dumb for Democracy?
B.K. Marcus
Should Americans feel bad that we are the second-most-ignorant country in the world?
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Hard News
28 killed in clashes, car bombings in Iraq: In the western province of Anbar, dozens of IS militants attacked an army headquarters near the village of Majjara, near Fallujah, some 50 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
25+ ISIS fighters killed in Mosul by US-led coalition fighter jets: "This evening, the international coalition conducted air strikes against ISIS targets in an area near central Mosul. The air strikes resulted in killing at least 25 ISIS elements and destroying their shelters and checkpoints around the area. The operation was based on intelligence received from reliable sources."
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-
ISIS Killed 1,432 Syrians Outside Battle Since June: Report:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/The militant Islamic State group has killed 1,432 Syrians off the battlefield since the end of June when it declared a caliphate in the territory under its control, a group monitoring the war said on Monday.
Islamic State Claims Beheading of Former U.S. Army Ranger/Aid Worker Peter Kassig - (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
http://leaksource.info/2014/
Gruesome Islamic State Video Announces Death of Peter Kassig: The video also graphically shows brutal footage of a group of Syrian soldiers being beheaded by the group.
http://www.clarionproject.org/
US backed Syrian rebels abandon Aleppo, leader flees to Turkey: The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the recognized armed opposition group against the Bashar al-Assad in Syria, has ceased its resistance in Aleppo, Syria's second biggest city, withdrawing its 14,000 militia from the city, a ranking Turkish security source told the Hürriyet Daily News on Nov. 17.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.
Syrian Kurds advance in heart of Kobani, says monitor: Syrian Kurds fighting the ISIS group in the flashpoint town of Kobani made new gains on Tuesday, expelling the militants from several central buildings and seizing weapons, a monitor said.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/
Mossad-Backed Jundallah Pledges Support for ISIS: Jundallah is primarily a Balochistan separatist group, active in both Pakistan's far west and in southeastern Iran. In recent years, the group's attacks have mostly centered on Iran, and there is evidence they have been backed by Israel's Mossad in doing so.
http://news.antiwar.com/2014/
Prelate warns that Syria could turn into another Libya:
http://www.catholicculture.An archbishop in northeastern Syria has warned of the disastrous consequences of potential airstrikes by the United States against Syrian government forces.
6 people killed in Jerusalem synagogue attack: Two Palestinians armed with a gun and axes attacked a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday killing four Israelis, police said. The two assailants were shot dead.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Occupied East Jerusalem Under 'Collective Punishment': After months of unrest, municipal officials in Jerusalem have begun a widespread crackdown on the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, enforcing the finest points of the law in what rights groups have dubbed an act of "collective punishment".
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
Israel to step up demolition of Palestinian homes: Israel has sent notices to the families of several Palestinians in the West Bank implicated in attacks against Israelis to vacate their homes ahead of their impending demolitions. The development indicated that Israel is intensifying its much maligned policy of punitive destructions of homes of suspected attackers.
http://www.dailyprogress.com/
Haaretz obtains full document of EU-proposed sanctions against Israel: Sanctions could apply to Israeli politicians opposed to the two-state solution, which could include Bennett and Rivlin; steps against European companies working in settlements; punitive measures against Palestinians over 'negative measures.'
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/
Blast kills senior Islamist politician in Yemen: A car bombing Tuesday killed a leading member of Yemen's powerful Sunni Al-Islah party whose supporters have been battling Shiite militias, a security official said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
At least 12 killed by female suicide bomber in Nigeria:
http://uk.reuters.com/video/Video report:
4 killed in revenge attacks after Kenya mosques raid: Four people were stabbed to death in Kenya's volatile port city of Mombasa following security raids on mosques in which a man was killed and over 200 people arrested, police said on Tuesday.
http://www.news24.com/Africa/
Seven Soldiers, Three Police Officers Killed in Ukraine: Seven Ukrainian soldiers and three policemen were killed in east Ukraine during the last 24 hours, amidst the conflict between the government troops and the pro-Russian separatist forces despite truce, official sources announced Monday.
http://www.telesurtv.net/
Ukraine : Petro Poroshenko says country is 'ready for total war' with Russia: Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko says his country is "prepared for total war" as fighting continues around the pro-Russian rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
Ukraine scraps human rights treaty for rebel areas, cuts services, freezes banks: Kiev has suspended the protection of human rights and ordered the withdrawal of its institutions from areas controlled by local militia in the nation's east. Rebels have branded the decree, which hits the population on winter's eve, an 'act of genocide.'
http://rt.com/news/205919-
Poroshenko: "Their children will hole up in the basements - this is how we win the war!": Video - 'We will have our jobs. They will not. We will have our pensions. They will not. We will have care for children, for people, and retirees. They will not. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens. Theirs will hole up in basements"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Ukraine: EU fails to agree on new Russia sanctions: The EU's foreign ministers have agreed to move towards placing more Ukrainian separatists under sanctions but not to increase sanctions on Russia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
Russia and Poland expel diplomats in tit-for-tat measures: Russia calls Polish action 'unfriendly and unfounded' and says Polish diplomats left for activities 'incompatible with their status'
http://www.theguardian.com/
'Obama is a lame duck': Gorbachev comments after G20: "Obama is a lame duck. One must not finish the job in such a mediocre way. He just decided to throw accusations around. He will be of no avail any more, unfortunately. I've thought better of him," the former leader of the USSR told Rusnovosti radio.
http://rt.com/news/206207-
Russian and Venezuelan State Oil Companies Close Exportation Deal: Russian state oil company Rosneft has signed a deal with the Venezuelan government which will see the state entity import 1.6 million tonnes of oil and 9 million tonnes of oil derivatives from Venezuela's state owned oil company, PDVSA.
http://www.telesurtv.net/
The Real Reason For Cheap Oil and Gas: In this video Luke Rudkowski explains the greater geopolitical chess game that is causing gas and oil prices to drop globally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Four Killed in Attack on Contractors' Camp in Kabul, Afghanistan:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/Four people were killed when a suicide car bomb detonated at a perimeter wall of a camp housing foreign contractors in the Afghan capital on Tuesday morning
Musharraf warns of proxy war with India in Afghanistan:
http://www.pakistantoday.com.The departure of NATO combat forces from Afghanistan could push India and Pakistan towards a proxy war in the troubled state, Pakistan's former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf warned in an interview with a foreign news agency.
China will never use force to achieve goals, Xi vows: President Xi Jinping vowed yesterday never to use force to achieve Beijing's goals, including in maritime disputes, just days after US President Barack Obama warned of the dangers of outright conflict in Asia.
http://www.scmp.com/news/
Abe calls snap Japan poll, delays tax hike: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told his party Tuesday he was calling a snap election and delaying a sales tax rise after figures showed Japan was in a recession.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Global terror attack deaths rose sharply in 2013, says report:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/There were nearly 10,000 terrorist attacks in 2013, a 44% increase from the previous year, the Global Terrorism Index 2014 report added.
Over 35 mn subject to modern day slavery across the world:
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/Among its definition of modern day slavery are: forced into in a life of cotton picking, cannabis growing, prostitution, fighting wars, cleaning up after the wealthy, debt bondage, forced marriage and the sale or exploitation of children, as well as human trafficking.
US/India WTO Agreement: How Corporate Greed Trumps Needs of World's Poor and Hungry: 'The big question is why do governments even need the WTO to decide whether they can guarantee the right to food to their people?'
http://www.commondreams.org/
Missouri governor declares state of emergency as national guard called in to Ferguson: The governor of Missouri declared a state of emergency on Monday, authorising the national guard to assist the policing of protests expected in Ferguson after it is announced whether a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black 18-year-old will face charges.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-
US Faces Child Homelessness Epidemic: A new study has found that one in 30 children in the U.S. is homeless, while up to 25 percent of homeless pre-school children have mental health problems.
http://www.telesurtv.net/
Rampant Use of Solitary Confinement in the US Constitutes Torture:
http://www.commondreams.org/George Ruiz is 72 years old. For the past 30 years, he has spent every day alone - locked in a cramped, windowless cell inside the Security Housing Unit (SHU) first at California's Pelican Bay State Prison, then at Tehachapi prison.
Nearly half of Florida households are struggling financially, United Way reports: Nearly half of Florida households do not earn enough to pay for basic necessities, according to a report released Tuesday by the United Way that seeks to cast a light on the large group of state residents who struggle financially but do not meet the official criteria for being in poverty.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/
25% Of Americans Prefer Socialism Over Capitalism: While Americans are preached that "free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity," it appears that not everyone is buying it.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ |
