Washington Moving Towards Wider War in Iraq and Syria
By Bill Van Auken
Plans are being prepared to extend the three-month-old US-led bombing campaign deeper into Syria.
http://www.How Many Muslim Countries Has the U.S. Bombed Or Occupied Since 1980?
By Glenn Greenwald
Denouncing the violence and savagery of others is a testament to how powerful and self-blinding tribalism is as a human drive.
http://www.Israel's Annexation Plan for Palestine
By John V. Whitbeck
The "two-state solution" has long been a useful excuse to do nothing.
http://www.ICC: Israel Committed 'War Crimes' but It's Not Our Problem
By Reuters, the Middle East Monitor
According to lawyers, the court's decision confirms that Israel has a 'special status' in regards to international law.
http://www.Obama's Secret Deals With Saudi Arabia & Qatar
By Eric Zuesse
Obama Represents U.S. & Arabic Aristocracies, Against Those of Russia & Iran.
http://www.All of My Friends are Dying
By Vince Emanuele
A veteran commits suicide every 65 minutes in the USA, with over 30% of veterans having considered suicide.
http://www.Free College Or More War?
By World Beyond War
Seven countries where U.S. students can go to college for free. How do they do it?
http://www.A Shadow Form of National ID Uncle Sam's Databases of Suspicion
By Hina Shamsi and Matthew Harwood
Innocent until proven guilty has been replaced with suspicious until determined otherwise.
http://www.Household Wealth Falls Considerably for Majority of Americans
By CEPR
Most US households now have less wealth now than they did in 1989.
http://www.Déjà Vu All Over Again The U.S. Elections: Bi-Partisan Vote Buying. Corporate PR Campaigns
By Shamus Cooke
The veins of the U.S. body politic are too clogged with cash to be cleansed.
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Hard News
220 Killed, 63 Wounded Across Iraq: Militants kidnapped 46 Albu Nimr tribe members near Ramadi.
Obama wants $3.2bn more for US air war on IS: officials: President Barack Obama will ask lawmakers on Friday for an additional $3.2 billion to pay for the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, including funds to train and arm Baghdad government forces, officials said Thursday.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/
In Iraq, Islamic State fighters seize Sunni tribesmen for resisting rule: The Islamic State has seized hundreds of tribesmen from a central Iraqi town after accusing tribal leaders there of plotting a rebellion against the militant group, residents and officials said, raising fears that it plans to kill the hostages as punishment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
More than 600 US troops say they were exposed to chemical agents in Iraq: Defence secretary Chuck Hagel ordered an internal review of military records after the Times reported in October that US troops encountered degraded chemical weapons from the 1980s that had been hidden or used in makeshift bombs.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-
US kills Syrian civilians: A militant group fighting against the Syrian government says US-led airstrikes have killed a number of civilians, including children, near the Turkish border.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/
Syrian government forces retake gas field from Islamic State: Syrian government forces and allied armed groups recaptured a gas field from Islamic State fighters on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/
Manufacturing Consent For InterventionIn Syria
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-France says anti-IS coalition must turn attention to Aleppo: The coalition fighting Islamic State must now save Syria's second city Aleppo as moderate rebels face destruction by attacks from forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and jihadi militants, France's foreign minister said.
US anti-ISIL strategy faces major setback in Syria's second city: With Syrian government forces now in control of all but one road into Aleppo, the remaining residents of areas controlled by the rebels designated "moderate" by the U.S. are bracing for the worst.
http://america.aljazeera.com/
Whitewashing war crimes:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/US general backs Israel on Gaza casualties: The highest-ranking US military officer has said that Israel went to "extraordinary lengths" to limit civilian casualties in the recent war in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians, mostly civilians.
US to model Israel tactics in Gaza operation: The United States sent a team of senior officers to Israel three months ago to learn from Israel's tactics in Operation Protective Edge in Gaza over the summer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said on Thursday.
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-
Report: Obama sent letter to Iran's leader about ISIL: President Barack Obama wrote a secret letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regarding the two countries' shared interest in defeating ISIL, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
http://america.aljazeera.com/
Going against Netanyahu, 84 percent of US Jews favor Iran nuclear deal: Jewish backing of the administration's efforts to strike a deal suggests that American Jews aren't heeding the alarms being sounded in Israel by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/
Nigerian army suspected of killing 16 civilians: Nigerian soldiers have reportedly killed 16 men in the country's northeast just hours after they were arrested leaving a mosque, according to nurses at a hospital that received the bodies.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/
Putin promises support to Afghanistan after NATO withdrawal: 'We will be ready to lend our friends in Afghanistan a shoulder to lean on in order to keep the situation in this country stable and with perspectives of development," the TASS news agency quoted Vladimir Putin as saying.
http://www.khaama.com/putin-
Kiev shells Donetsk amid tank battle in city suburb - E. Ukrainian militias: The Ukrainian army attempted to take over Donetsk suburb with tanks a day after two children were killed in the shelling of a local school, rebels allege. This comes as Dutch inspectors, probing the Flight MH17 crash, arrived in the area.
http://rt.com/news/202879-
Putin Holds Security Council Meeting Over Ukraine Crisis Deterioration: Authorities in self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics have reported Kiev's increased military activity on the separation line between the warring sides in recent days in a serious breach of the Minsk ceasefire agreements.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/
Putin blames politics for falling energy prices: In an interview with Chinese media published on Thursday, Putin did not blame any particular country for the price drop, but some Russian political commentators have depicted it as a Saudi-U.S. plot against Moscow.
http://www.reuters.com/
World ominously close to nuclear war - Noam Chomsky:
http://rt.com/news/202995-The world has come ominously close to a nuclear war in the past and it could happen again as Russia and the West have slipped back into what seems like another Cold War
Navy SEAL who murdered bin Laden goes public: The retired Navy SEAL who says he shot al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in the forehead publicly identified himself Thursday amid a debate among special operations brethren about whether they should break silence about their secret missions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Naval Special Warfare Leadership Responds to 'The Shooter' & Mark Owen: Leaving little doubt of the disdain that they, and others in the community, feel toward breaches of the SEAL ethos, Rear Admiral Brian Losey, Commander of NSWC, and Force Master Chief Michael Magaraci state that violators of that ethos "are neither teammates in good standing, nor teammates who represent Naval Special Warfare."
http://sofrep.com/37850/bin-
'Toxic brand': Britons say religion does more bad than good, atheists 'more moral' than believers: Nearly two-thirds of British people stated that religion causes more harm than it brings benefits, according to a new poll, which shows Muslim beliefs at odds with those of the rest of society.
http://rt.com/uk/202987-
100,000 Workers Protest Belgian Labor Reform: One of Belgium's biggest postwar labor demonstrations brought about 100,000 workers to the capital on Thursday to protest government free-market reforms and austerity measures that they claim undermine Belgium's vaunted welfare state.
http://abcnews.go.com/
'Emergency' protests sweep US to save internet from 'hybrid' net neutrality: Net neutrality advocates took to the streets in over a dozen cities across the America, part of an emergency protest against a leaked "hybrid" proposal by the Federal Communications Commission to allow internet companies to charge more for faster service.
http://rt.com/usa/203043-net-
UK, Australia to share DNA database to aid international crime solving: Police forces in Britain and Australia will be able to access each other's DNA and biological databases when investigating serious crimes, it has been announced.
http://rt.com/uk/202919-uk-
Canada police deploy facial recognition tech: Canada is adopting some of its North American neighbor's controversial police methods and dipping its toes into the pool of facial recognition technology, with Calgary police paving the way for a full-scale automated biometric identification system.
http://rt.com/news/203035-
Ferguson Ordered to Stop Enforcing Policy that Prevents Protesters from Standing Still: "The police should protect the right to protest, not make up excuses to arrest peaceful protesters who are simply exercising their free speech rights."
https://www.aclu.org/free- |
