Act Of War?
Obama Will Sign Russia Sanctions Bill, Arms For Ukraine: White House
By AFP
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday branded the new sanctions as hostile.
Three Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking
By Dennis Kucinich
Late Thursday night, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a far-reaching Russia sanctions bill, a hydra-headed incubator of poisonous conflict.
Rouble vs. Dollar Games
From a Perspective of a Russian Businessman
By Zems
The task is simple - we need to drop the ruble to the maximum, and then buy all that we can, giving away the dollars that are no longer needed and not guaranteed by anything.
The U.S. Is Practically Begging for Global War
By Joshua Krause
It should be perfectly clear by now that our government is hell bent on starting World War Three.
US To Attack Russia in 2015
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By Evgeny Fedorov, a deputy in the Russian parliament.
In the next few years it will come to a head, with only two possible outcomes : the destruction of Russian civilization or the collapse of the American empire.
Russia Wants East Ukraine To Stay With Kiev Under Reformed Constitution
By Reuters
Lavrov said Ukraine needed a constitutional reform "with the participation of all regions and all political powers" that would allow the two rebellious eastern regions to remain part of the country.
Go West, Young Han
As Washington "Pivots" to Asia, China Does the Eurasian Pirouette
By Pepe Escobar
Moscow remains the only power capable of negotiating a global strategic balance with Washington and putting some limits on its empire of chaos.
Regime-Change Makeover
Blaming Syria for the Rise of ISIS
By Finian Cunningham
A classic case of the terrorists and their terror-master blaming the victim.
How Change Is Stymied
By Paul Craig Roberts
I have concluded that corruption is so dominant in the US today that change for the better cannot come from internal sources.
A Tale of Two Girls: Malala and Nabeela
By Sufyan bin Uzayr
Much like Malala, Nabeela too recently travelled to the Western part of the world, albeit the latter went to USA with an altogether different purpose.
Imperialism and the Politics of Torture
By James Petras
The US copied and amplified Israel's extra-judicial 'targeted' killings - the center piece of Obama's counter-terrorism policy.
How 'Awesome' Is America?
By Robert Parry
America has an extraordinary capacity to submerge unpleasant truths about its past and present, from African-American slavery and Native-American genocide to bloodbaths in Vietnam and Iraq.
US Television Provides Ample Platform for American Torturers, But None to Their Victims
By Glenn Greenwald
They do that because including those victims would, shatter the myths of American Goodness and the conceit that even when Americans do heinous things, they do it with Goodness and Freedom in their hearts.
Private Prisons:
How US Corporations Make Money Out Of Locking You Up
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Today the US is home to 5% of the world's population but a quarter of the world's prisoners.
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Hard News
80 Children among 130 killed in Pakistan school attack:
Several explosions and gunfire rung out as six armed men attacked the Army Public School on Tuesday morning, in one the bloodiest attacks in Pakistan's history. Six attackers were killed in the operation and that the death toll is likely to rise.
Afghanistan: 16 Armed Taliban Killed, Wounded In Nangarhar Clashes:
Five armed Taliban including a Pakistani fighter were killed and 11 others wounded in a clash in Nangarhar province this morning.
Around 180 Syrian soldiers, jihadists reported killed in battle for base:
Around 100 Syrian soldiers and 80 Islamist fighters were killed during a two-day battle in which insurgents captured the Wadi al-Deif military base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Tuesday.
18 civilians killed in bus attack in Syria's Damascus:
At least 18 people have been killed in a gun attack on an intercity bus that was on its way from the Syrian city of Raqqa to the capital Damascus, a Syrian anti-Assad coalition said Tuesday.
Al-Qaeda faction in Syria claims to have U.S.-supplied anti-tank weapon: Video -
As extremist rebels in Syria lay claim to fresh weapons, a new video circulating online purports to show an al-Qaeda-linked group fielding U.S.-supplied anti-tank weapons that may have been intended for more moderate factions in the conflict.
25 people killed after two car bombs explode in central Yemen :
The first car bomb exploded near a checkpoint manned by Shi'ite Houthi rebels while a school bus was passing, killing 15 students, sources said. The second car exploded near the house of an official in the area rumored to support Houthis killing ten, they said.
Iraq: 19, including 11 troops killed in attacks:
At least 19 people, including 11 security personnel were killed in clashes with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists Monday across Iraq, a security source said.
Two local Iraqi officials killed execution style after kidnap:
Two Iraqi local government officials who were kidnapped last week were found dead on the outskirts of Baghdad, officials said on Tuesday, accusing Shi'ite militiamen of killing them in a sectarian power struggle that is playing out across Iraq.
Israeli occupation force soldiers kill Palestinian in West Bank:
Israeli soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank refugee camp of Qalandiya, near Ramallah.
30 Palestinians injured as thousands lay Qalandiya man to rest:
Over 10,000 people on Tuesday afternoon participated in the funeral procession of Mahmoud Adwan who was killed hours earlier during an Israeli raid on Qalandiya refugee camp.
Why won't the media report on Israeli violence in East Jerusalem?:
Israel operates a regime of control and violence across East Jerusalem. The Israeli army, police and settlers all play their part in the daily aggression against Palestinians, whose very existence in East Jerusalem is becoming increasingly precarious.
Palestine, France in 'final touches' to UN bid:
Fatah central committee member says Palestine and France are coordinating and putting the final touches on a UN resolution to end the Israeli occupation.
John Kerry races to stop UN bid to force Israeli withdrawal:
The US Secretary of State met chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat to persuade him not to rush ahead with a draft UN resolution seeking to set a two-year timetable for an end to the Israeli occupation - which could be submitted to the world body as early as tonight.
Israel Counting On US to Veto Palestinian UN Resolution:
"The consistent American policy for the past 47 years has opposed such unilateral steps. There is no reason for that to change, and we expect that it won't change," noted an Israeli senior official from the Prime Minister's entourage, as quoted by Haaretz.
Germany says will help finance four new Israeli warships:
As part of its atonement for the Nazi Holocaust, Germany is committed to Israel's security and has often helped pay for the cost of military equipment such as submarines.
Ruble plummets losing more than 20% in a day, hitting new dollar and euro lows:
The Russian stock market also went haywire, dropping more than 15 percent as of 2:30pm Moscow time, after it dropped 11 percent the day before. Sberbank, the country's largest lender, lost 17.77 percent, and VTB, the second biggest bank, fell by 14.29 percent. Oil and gas companies Gazprom, Rosneft, and Surgut also saw shares plummet.
Russia Defends Ruble With Biggest Rate Rise Since 1998:
In a surprise announcement just before 1 a.m. in Moscow, the Russian central bank said it would raise its key interest rate to 17 percent from 10.5 percent, effective today. The move was the largest single increase since 1998, when Russian rates soared past 100 percent and the government defaulted on debt.
The Russian Ruble Is Hereby Halted Until Further Notice:
So for those curious why there appears to be a collapse in Ruble volatility in the past few hours which in turn has sent both stocks and crude soaring, the answer is simple: nobody is trading it!
IMF, World Bank Halt Lending To Ukraine :
Multi-billion dollar lending to Ukraine by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank has stopped amid growing doubts among country board directors at the two international organizations that the Ukrainian Government can meet repayment commitments
Major Anti-Russian False Flag Coming?: Ukraine is a pretext.
A US-led NATO platform. A dysfunctional, criminal Washington installed neo-Nazi regime. Economically bankrupt. With no legitimacy whatever. Dependent on outside support for survival. America's newest colony.
It's Not Just Russia: Middle East In Freefall, Biggest Plunge In 6 Years:
Dubai's Financial Market General Index is now down 40% since the peak in oil prices in June this year.
OPEC won't cut production even if oil below $40 - UAE energy minister:
The UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al-Mazrouei says OPEC will maintain output at 30 million barrels of oil a day, and wants to monitor the price for three months before even considering a meeting about possible changes.
Blair whitewash? Ex-PM prepared to face CIA torture inquiry:
Tony Blair will face an inquiry into British complicity in the CIA's torture of terror suspects. The former prime minister's decision came to light following Home Secretary Theresa May's announcement that the probe would not be judge-led.
The allegations against MI6 are serious - so why aren't they front page news?:
The growing row over British security services' possible involvement in the CIA torture programme is starting to fill a few column inches. Slowly but surely, parliamentarians are feeling the pressure to investigate it fully.
Julian Assange Unleashed:
Hillary Clinton Is A Threat, Google Is A Monopoly And Should Be Broken Up, BoA Data Taken By Ex-Employee
Colombia announces deaths of rebel fighters:
Colombia's president has announced the deaths of nine rebel fighters in an aerial bombing raid by the Colombian army and in clashes with troops in a southeastern jungle region.
Mexico Gov't Claims on Disappeared Students Exposed:
teleSUR interviews the journalists whose explosive revelations show higher levels of official involvement in the disappearance of 43 students.
Venezuela Wants to Take the US to Court Over War Crimes:
The President of Venezuela proposed the creation an international committee of lawyers to charge the U.S. government for the wars in the Middle East and the deaths of black civilians by police.
Venezuelans march against United States sanctions:
Thousands of government supporters in Venezuela have marched through the streets of Caracas to denounce the recent approval of sanctions by the US. President Nicolas Maduro addressed his supporters at the end of the march and accused the US of trying to intervene in his country's domestic affairs.
Who Gets Citgo's Assets If Venezuela Defaults?:
Venezuela's bondholders have long held that if the South American country ever defaulted, they'd be able to seize its refineries and almost 6,000 gas stations in the U.S.
Evo Morales: We Will Confront U.S. Economic Aggression:
"We are going to confront this economic aggression, together" Morales said, explicitly referring to pressures the United States has put on Latin America. "It is not a coincidence that the oil price is falling ... It is not a coincidence that Argentina faces the problem with vulture funds."
Attorney General Allows Limited Subpoena of New York Times Journalist:
Attorney General Eric Holder has given federal prosecutors permission to subpoena New York Times reporter James Risen for some information regarding his connection to a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency.
U.S. fights to stop release of photos showing soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating prisoners in Iraq:
A federal judge has given government lawyers until Friday to prove that the 2,000 pictures could pose a threat to national security.
Iraq war veteran who killed six found dead in woods:
The body of Bradley Stone, 35, was discovered in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, a day after he shot dead ex-wife Nicole Hill, 33, her mother, grandmother, sister, brother-in-law and 14-year-old niece.
Excellent Thought Experiment re #TortureReport:
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Locked away for 17 months, accused Boston Marathon bomber set to emerge in court this week:
He spends most of his days in "nearly total isolation," according to his attorneys, locked behind a heavy steel door in a tiny cell in the most restricted wing at Fort Devens medical prison 40 miles outside Boston.
Jeb Bush to 'actively explore' run for president:
In a holiday message posted on Bush's Facebook page and Twitter account, the son and brother of past Republican presidents said he discussed the "future of our nation" and a potential bid for the White House with members of his family over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Food Stamp Beneficiaries Exceed 46,000,000:
The number of beneficiaries who receive compensation from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, has topped 46,000,000 for 37 straight months,
65 Percent of Children Live in Households on Federal Aid Programs:
The Census Bureau reported in a study released this week that 65 percent of American children lived in households taking aid from one or more federal program as of the fall of 2011.
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