Backfired!
U.S. New Cold War Policy Has Backfired - And Created Its Worst Nightmare
By Michael Hudson
The world's geopolitics, major trade patterns and military alliances have changed radically in the past month.
Russia and Turkey's Gas Deal Can Save Europe and the World
By Joaquin Flores
It is primarily about putting the brakes on what has slowly been developing into the next world war.
The Coming War
By John Pilger
The US is preparing for a new provocative cold war that has every chance of becoming a hot war.
Loss of Control
Waiting for the House of Cards to Collapse
By Bill Holter
we are on the doorstep of the worst financial panic event in all of human history.
Loose Cannon
US Standing in the Middle East
By Immanuel Wallerstein
The United States has become a "loose cannon," that is, a power whose actions are unpredictable, uncontrollable, and dangerous to itself and to others.
The CIA's Torture Orgy
100 or More Prisoners Tortured to Death in US Detention.
By Seumas Milne
Added to the rampant lying, cover-ups and impunity, it's a story that the champions of America's "exceptionalism" will find hard to sell around the world.
The CIA and Its Torturers
By Andrew P. Napolitano
One of the reasons repeatedly stated by President George W. Bush for the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the maintenance of "torture rooms" by Saddam Hussein.
CIA 'Torture' Practices Started Long Before 9/11 Attacks
By Jeff Stein
The 1963 CIA, KUBARK manual included the "principal coercive techniques of interrogation: arrest, detention, deprivation of sensory stimuli through solitary confinement or similar methods, threats and fear, debility, pain, heightened suggestibility and hypnosis, narcosis and induced regression,"
UN Expert Calls for Prosecution of CIA, US Officials
By UN News Service
"The individuals responsible for the criminal conspiracy revealed in today's report must be brought to justice, and must face criminal penalties commensurate with the gravity of their crimes,"
Torture "Architect" Mistaken in Claim Nobody's Punished for Drone Murders
By DavidSwanson
"Missouri judge convicts and sentences two peace activists for protesting drone warfare at Whiteman Air Force Base.
What Ferguson, Eric Garner, and CIA Torture Have in Common
By Shahid Buttar
From black sites to #BlackLivesMatter, it's time to end impunity for criminals with badges.
The Game Is Rigged: Why Americans Keep Losing to the Police State
By John W. Whitehead
Americans continue to naively buy into the idea that it's our politics that divide us as a nation.
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Hard News
Second blast hits Nigeria's Jos, 32 people killed - witness:
"I saw a flash of light and heard a loud boom. Afterwards there was debris everywhere and mutilated bodies.
French forces kill an alledged senior jihadi in northern Mali:
Ahmed al-Tilemsi was a commander of al-Mourabitoun Islamist group and participated in 2011 kidnapping of French nationals
UN envoy warns of ISIS camps in Libya:
A United Nations special envoy is warning of Islamic State group camps in Libya and says many nearby states risk being destabilised if the country's chaos isn't quickly brought under control.
EU bans Libyan airlines from operating in Europe airspace: .
"Recent events in Libya have led to a situation whereby the Civil Aviation Authority is no longer able to fulfill its international obligations with regard to the safety of the Libyan Aviation sector."
Ebola: Sierra Leone bodies found piled up in Kono:
Health officials in Sierra Leone have discovered scores of bodies in a remote diamond-mining area, raising fears that the scale of the Ebola outbreak may have been underreported.
Sadr readies militia to fight for Iraq's Samarra:
Sadr had ordered fighters of his Shiite 'Peace Brigades' to be "fully prepared to answer the call of jihad within 48 hours" and to await further instructions. The statement was dated Dec. 10.
Germany to train anti-ISIS fighters in Iraq:
Germany said Thursday it planned to send around 100 soldiers to northern Iraq to train Kurdish peshmerga fighters battling ISIS.
Senator: Bush misled nation in run-up to Iraq war:
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee released new information on Thursday that he claims is evidence that the Bush administration misled the nation in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
Chilcot inquiry delay branded 'cover up' by families of soldiers killed in Iraq:
The report, which is expected to to contain damning criticism of the way former Prime Minister Tony Blair led Britain into war, was first due to have been published three years ago.
Russia Alleges US Hand Behind ISIS Growth: Smells Hidden Agenda In Ground War Proposal:
Russia has accused the United States of having patronised the Islamic State radicals to grow into demonic proportions. Russia's chief of General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, on Wednesday lashed out at the U.S for being responsible in providing financial and technical assistance to the ISIS in Syria and elsewhere in the past.
Rebels in northern Syria say U.S. has stopped paying them:
The United States has stopped paying most of the pro-western rebels fighting in northern Syria and has suspended the delivery of arms to them, rebel commanders told McClatchy
Syria's Assad backs Russia peace bid, Moscow in touch with US:
President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday met a top Russian envoy who said Moscow is hoping to relaunch peace talks for the war-torn country and could host a Syria-US meeting.
Bush- Blair Legacy Continues :
Jihadists 'killed 5,000' people in one month:
More than 5,000 people worldwide died in November from jihadist violence, a BBC investigation reveals, with Iraq, Afghanistan and Nigeria worst-hit.
PA: Israel responsible for killing minister:
The autopsy results of Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein show that he died after a powerful blow to the diaphragm and the heavy use of tear gas, Palestinian minister of civil affairs Hussein al-Sheikh said.
PA halting security cooperation with Israel, top aide Erekat says:
Head peace negotiator says formal statement to come soon in wake of 'murder' of senior official Ziad Abu Ein, confirms Ramallah will also turn to UN and ICC
Israel's two-faced government: Editorial:
It is hard to grasp why the United States continues to placate Netanyahu, the prime minister who has done everything he could to sabotage relations with it.
Ireland and France approve Palestinian state recognition:
The motion was immediately slammed by Israel. Emmanuel Nahson, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry accused the Irish parliament of "statements of hatred and anti-Semitism directed at Israel in a way which we have not heard before."
Al Qaeda rains rockets on US-Yemen air base:
An Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen said on Thursday it targeted a US-Yemeni air base with rockets in retaliation for a US raid on the group's hideout to free an American hostage.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen blames US for death of hostages in raid:
"Obama made the wrong decision, and signed the death warrant," Ansi said. "Despite our warning to him not to act foolishly... he chose a military solution, which failed before and failed once again."
U.S. Scuttled Negotiations to Free American Killed in Yemen:
Sources also claim that the United States thwarted attempts by a meditator to negotiate his release by paying a ransom.
6 people killed as suicide blast hits Afghan army bus:
A suicide bomber has struck an Afghan army bus carrying soldiers east of the capital, Kabul, killing at least six troops, officials have said.
Several killed by Taliban suicide bomber at Kabul school:
The Taliban has said it was responsible for a suicide bombing at a Kabul school. The attack, in which several people died, has been condemned by French and German leaders.
India to build nuclear reactors with Russia:
India is to build at least ten more nuclear reactors with Russia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said after talks with President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi.
Hong Kong protests: Arrests as Admiralty site is cleared:
More than 200 activists have been arrested in Hong Kong after police cleared the main pro-democracy protest camp at Admiralty.
Ukraine reports three troops killed - first since 'Day of Silence':
Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian military, said on Thursday that three soldiers had been killed in attacks by pro-Russian militants in the past 24 hours.
Is Ukraine Preparing for a Nuclear False Flag to Frame Russia?:
Russia's State Advisor, Director of The Institute of Problems of Globalization, Doctor of Economics, author Mikhail Delyagin tells Anton Chelyshev on Komsomolskaya Pravda radio that Ukraine is preparing a new large-scale anti-Russian provocation.
Sanctioned Russian banks begin testing national payment system next week:
The move comes as a part of Russia's ambitious initiative to move away from the Western dominance of its financial markets. Last month the Russian Central Bank said it would have its own international inter-bank payment system, an alternative to the global SWIFT network up and running by May 2015.
Justice Department will not reopen torture inquiry:
The Justice Department's decision Tuesday not to re-open a criminal investigation into the CIA's treatment of detainees immediately prompted a renewed debate about how those responsible for the torture of 9/11 suspects should be held accountable.
U.S. Faulted for Undermining Torture Convention:
"If they order, enable or commit torture recognized as a serious international crime they cannot simply be granted impunity because of political expediency."
More Than A Quarter Of The World's Countries Helped The CIA Run Its Torture Program:
These countries made the CIA program possible in two ways: by enabling rendition, which involved transferring U.S. detainees abroad without due legal process, and by providing facilities far beyond the reach of U.S. law where those detainees were subjected to torture.
Britain's complicity in CIA torture is a crime that will only create more jihadis:
Injustice that is not fully exposed cannot be properly challenged; and when injustice is not properly challenged, it is doomed to repeat itself. That is why Britain's full complicity in the CIA's systematic torture of prisoners must not be allowed to remain a state secret.
Not-so-magnificent 7:
Nations named & shamed in CIA torture report
A History of the C.I.A.'s Secret Interrogation/Torture Program:
February, 2002 - Bush signs an executive order that says Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits "mutilation, cruel treatment and torture," does not apply to Qaeda or Taliban captives.
Torture report: CIA interrogations chief was involved in Latin American torture camps:
Senior agent in torture programme was recommended for censure decades earlier for "inappropriate use of interrogation techniques"
Brazil panel details dictatorship's brutality:
A "truth commission" investigating abuses during Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship has called for the prosecution of former military officers and some private companies for their role in human rights atrocities, in a long-awaited report.
U.S. tells North Korea rights abusers 'you cannot hide any more':
The top U.S. human rights official took to a stage with two young North Korean defectors on Wednesday and warned North Korea the United States would step up pressure on the country to end human rights abuses and that perpetrators "cannot hide anymore."
The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you:
A very unsexy-sounding piece of technology could mean that the police know where you go, with whom, and when: the automatic license plate reader.
Video shows Sacramento Cop Stomps man's head into the street.:
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Fed Bubble Bursts in $550 Billion of Energy Debt: Credit Markets:
The danger of stimulus-induced bubbles is starting to play out in the market for energy-company debt.
Bank of Canada Says Home Prices Overvalued as Much as 30%:
Canada's housing prices are overvalued by as much as 30 percent, the central bank said in its latest assessment of a financial risk that's built up over years of rising prices and low interest rates.
Americans' wealth slips in 3Q as stock values fall:
US household wealth declined 0.2 per cent in the third quarter to $81.3 trillion, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. Americans' stock and mutual fund portfolios shrank $700 billion. The value of their homes increased $245 billion.
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