Israel Reconsiders Military Action Against Iran
By Jerusalem Post
Whether Israel still has the ability to strike Iran, without American assistance, is an open question.
http://www.How The U.S. And Israel Support Al-Qaeda in South Syria
By Moon Of Alabama
When the Obama administration said it bombed the "Khorasan group" in north Syria experts wondered what that meant. There was and is no such group.
http://www.ISIS - Fighting The Modern Wahabis
By Eric Margolis
ISIS uses the idiom of Islam, but it's a bloodthirsty mob of enraged young men who understand little about Islam.
http://www.All-Out War in Ukraine: NATO's 'Final Offensive'
By James Petras
There are clear signs that a major war is about to break out in Ukraine:
http://www.Biden in Kiev on US Regime-Change Victory Tour
By Finian Cunningham
In spite of a dearth of evidence, Western governments, NATO and the Western mainstream media continue to assert that Moscow is the guilty party for the conflict in Ukraine.
http://www.West 'Seeks Russia Regime Change' Lavrov
By RT
The West doesn't want to change Russia's policies. They want a regime change. Practically nobody denies that"
http://www.Washington Plays Russian Roulette
By Pepe Escobar
So the logic of escalation is on. The economically devastated EU is a joke; the only thing that counts for the US is NATO.
http://www.Readers Comments Show anti-Putin Propaganda Not Working
By Mike Whitney
Readers Comments Show anti-Putin Propaganda Not Working.
http://www.In Israel, Only Jewish Blood Shocks Anyone
By Gideon Levy
Murder by ax is more appalling than murder by rifle.
http://www.The US War Industry Blazing The Terrorism Trail
By CJ Werleman
There are "more than 1,200 government organisations and nearly 2,000 private companies working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence programs,"
http://www.Obedience is the True Character Flaw
By Paul Street
We can and must reverse the prevalent establishment psychological messaging on radical dissent and mass obedience
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Hard News
Up to 80 people killed by suspected Ugandan rebels in Congo: group:
Suspected Ugandan ADF-NALU rebels have killed between 50 and 80 people in attacks near the eastern Congolese town of Beni, slitting the throats of many of their victims, local sources and witnesses said on Friday.
28 people killed in Kenya bus attack: Al-Shabab fighters from Somalia hijacked a bus in Kenya's north and killed 28 non-Muslims on board after they had been singled out from the rest of the passengers, police officials said.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
Children 'killed and snatched by Mali rebels': Suspected al-Qaeda-linked rebels have kidnapped 10 children and killed two others who tried to escape near two towns in Mali, capping a week of violence in the West African country's desert north, a senior Malian military official said.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
Plague outbreak kills 40 in Madagascar: WHO warns of deadly disease spreading in densely populated capital city with weak healthcare system.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
Islamic State kills at least 25 Iraqi tribesmen near Ramadi: officials: Islamic State militants have killed at least 25 members of a Sunni Muslim tribe in a village on the eastern edge of the provincial capital Ramadi, local officials said on Saturday, in apparent revenge for tribal opposition to the radical Islamists.
http://www.reuters.com/
Iraq: ISIL launches fierce assault on Iraq's Ramadi: Major offensive under way in capital of Anbar, where only a few small areas of province remain under government control. Tens of Iraqi soldiers had been abducted near Ramadi while at least 20 Iraqi soldiers and eight ISIL fighters had been killed in the fighting.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
Iraqi forces repel Islamic State attack on Ramadi: The Islamic State offensive, which began on Friday, was described as the militants' most ambitious effort yet to seize Ramadi, about 95 kilometres west of the capital, Baghdad. Islamic State has controlled parts of Ramadi and environs for months.
http://www.theage.com.au/
U.S. plans to arm Iraq's Sunni tribesmen with AK-47s, RPGs, mortars: The United States plans to buy arms for Sunni tribesmen in Iraq including AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds to help bolster the battle against Islamic State militants in Anbar province, according to a Pentagon document prepared for Congress.
http://www.reuters.com/
A breakdown of all the weapons the U.S. wants to give Iraq to fight militants: Top U.S. officials said earlier this month that they would ask Congress to spend $1.6 billion in fiscal 2015 to help equip security forces across Iraq. A new Defense Department document outlines what that money will go toward
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Islamic State stockpiles silver, gold to make own currency:
http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/The Islamic State is accumulating gold, silver and copper in markets throughout northern and western Iraq, dealers report, in an apparent effort to stockpile enough precious metal to follow through on a pledge to mint its own currency.
U.S. has killed 910 people in Syria: monitor: Air strikes by U.S.-led forces in Syria have killed 910 people, including 52 civilians, since the start of the campaign against Islamic State and other fighters two months ago, a group monitoring the conflict said on Saturday.
http://www.reuters.com/
12 Syrian soldiers killed near Damascus - SOHR: At least 12 Syrian soldiers and pro-government militiamen were killed in battles against Al-Nusra Front and other Islamist opposition groups in Zabdean town, eastern Ghouta, on the rural outskirts of Damascus on Saturday.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/
Russia accuses US of seeking to topple Assad: Russia on Saturday said the US-led operation against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadists in Syria could be a guise for trying to "surreptitiously" topple the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/
Bashar al-Assad Says 'Real' Cooperation Needed to Crush Islamic State: "Terrorist groups, led by IS, did not emerge from nothing but are the fruit of the mistaken and aggressive policies of those who have waged war on Syria," state news agency SANA quoted him as saying.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/
Revealed: UK 'mercenaries' fighting Islamic State terrorist forces in Syria: The Britons appear to have been recruited by an American called Jordan Matson on behalf of the "Lions of Rojava", which is run by the Kurdish YPG movement and whose Facebook page urges people to join and help "send [the] terrorists to hell and save humanity"
http://www.theguardian.com/
Al-Qaeda in Yemen denounces ISIS: Yemen's Al-Qaeda branch has denounced ISIS for declaring a caliphate on territory it seized in Syria and Iraq and its plans to further expand its area of control.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Iran: Nuclear deal impossible before deadline: A member of Iranian negotiating team in Vienna told an Iranian news agency that Iran and the six main powers involved in the high-level talks in the Austrian capital were discussing the possibility of extending negations if the parties failed to arrive to an agreement before Monday.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
43 US Senators 'Alarmed' by Reports of Obama-Iran Nuke Deal: Scathing letter by Republican senators warns Obama against plans to circumvent Congress on a deal with Iran.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian protests across West Bank: Israeli forces opened fire and injured dozens of Palestinians across the West Bank on Friday, as hundreds marched in a number of cities and villages in protest against the Israeli occupation and recent Israeli violence in occupied East Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Abbas warns Israel against 'religious war': His comments came as Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank, amid growing fears that Israel wants to change the status quo at Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif by allowing Jewish prayer there.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
Israeli mayor bans Arab workers from his city, prompts outrage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?The mayor of Israeli city Ashkelon, Itamar Shimoni, has imposed a partial ban on employing Arab-Israeli workers in his city
Majority of Jews in Israel support Ashkelon mayor's decision to ban Arab workers: A poll shows that a majority of Jews in Israel back Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni's decision to ban Arab workers from constructing bomb shelters in city kindergartens, Israel media reported.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.
Protesters clash with Bahraini forces, call election 'farce' (PHOTOS, VIDEO): Security forces in Bahrain have engaged anti-regime protesters with tear gas as crowds of activists across the nation attempted to block the streets in protest against parliamentary elections which they see as farce and sham.
http://rt.com/news/208019-
3 Afghan soldiers martyred following IED attack in past 24 hours: Afghan armyAt least three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were martyred following roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack.
http://www.khaama.com/3-
Obama signs order expanding U.S. war on Afghanistan: NYT: U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing a broader military mission in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
http://www.reuters.com/
Afghanistan parliament approves US, NATO agreements: Afghanistan's parliament has approved a bilateral security agreement between Kabul and Washington allowing international troops to remain in the country past the end of this year.
http://economictimes.
3 killed as Ukraine accuses Russia of cross-border shelling: One government soldier was killed and 18 others wounded in confrontation with rebels, according to the press service of the Ukrainian military operation. In addition, two civilians were killed in eastern Ukraine in the past day, the press service said
http://www.china.org.cn/world/
Propaganda?
http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Kiev says Russia has 7,500 troops in Ukraine: Russia has 7,500 troops in the east of the country, where pro-Moscow separatists have been fighting government troops for months, Ukraine's defense minister said.
UK troops in largest armored deployment in Eastern Europe for six years: Britain is carrying out its largest armored deployment in Eastern Europe for six years, in a joint exercise with Poland to reassure it in the wake of Russia's (alledged) intervention in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense said on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/
Joe Biden retreats from angry crowd in Ukraine: Vice President Joseph R. Biden retreated from an angry crowd in Kiev Friday when his Secret Service agents decided the situation was not safe.
http://www.washingtontimes.
Chinese diplomat declares support for Russia's approach toward Ukraine: China supports Russia's position on measures aimed at overcoming the Ukrainian crisis, says Gui Congyou, acting director-general of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Department of European-Central Asian Affairs.
http://www.kyivpost.com/
US, Canada & Ukraine vote against Russia's anti-Nazism resolution at UN: UN General Assembly's Third Committee passed a Russia-proposed resolution condemning attempts to glorify Nazism ideology and denial of German Nazi war crimes. The US, Canada and Ukraine were the only countries to vote against it.
http://rt.com/news/207899-un-
On The Looming Wall Of Chinese Defaults, Restructuring Firm Warns "You Know It's Coming": The news this week of China's largest corporate bankruptcy - Haixin Iron & Steel Group - amid crashing iron ore and steel priceswas followed by analysts noting it "will be followed by others
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/
Petitioning Save the Children:
https://www.change.org/p/save-Rescind or apologise for giving an award to Tony Blair. Tony Blair was jointly responsible for starting an illegal war. Had he been a "Third World Despot" he would almost certainly have been charged with war crimes.
UK Security Enforced Media Blackout of Government Child Abuse: Two British newspaper bosses claim that national security services prevented them from publishing allegations of a government pedophile ring in the 1980s on the grounds that it was intelligence that might damage national security.
http://www.telesurtv.net/
UK police spied on reporters for years, docs show:
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_Freelance video journalist Jason Parkinson returned home from vacation this year to find a brown paper envelope in his mailbox. He opened it to find nine years of his life laid out in shocking detail.
UK: New web data powers plan for police: A law forcing communications firms to keep details that could help identify criminals using the internet is being planned by the home secretary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-
UK paved way for Sweden's new demand for Assange's extradition: The decision of the Stockholm Appeals Court to uphold the arrest warrant issued against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange over four years ago is the product of high-level collusion between the Swedish, British and US authorities.
http://www.wsws.org/en/
American Surveillance Now Threatens American Business: A new study finds that a vast majority of Americans trust neither the government nor tech companies with their personal data.
http://www.theatlantic.com/
School of the Americas Morphs Into US Training Industrial Complex: In a long, 200-year history of US interventionism, covert action and troubling support for repressive regimes, the story of the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia, stands out as a grotesque example of militarism run amok.
http://truth-out.org/news/
Latin America applauds Obama's immigration plan: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto praised President Barack Obama on Friday for his executive orders granting new rights to millions of people living illegally in the United States, calling it "an act of justice."
http://bigstory.ap.org/
Ferguson grand jury decision not expected before Monday: Multiple sources tell CBS News that the announcement of a grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting case is not expected before Monday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/
'Totally innocent' unarmed 28yo 'accidentally' shot dead by NYPD police: A rookie NYPD officer "accidentally" shot and killed an unarmed African-American man in a staircase in a New York apartment block. It happened as Ferguson is tensely waiting for a grand jury decision on a police officer who shot Michael Brown.
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