Op-Ed Articles
Season of Goodwill... West Delivers Sanctions, Suffering and Conflict
By Finian Cunningham
Kiev is a runaway train wreck, an insatiable Frankenstein monster.
John Pilger: 'Real Possibility of Nuclear War'
Ukraine Crisis Could Start World War 3
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With Russia, Pilger says he has never known the truth 'so inverted' over any one issue.
Russia Will Be Able To Overcome Economic Problems - Chinese Foreign Minister
By TASS
"If the Russian side needs it, we shall offer all possible support we may have," the foreign minister said.
"10 days in the Islamic State"
By Adam Withnall
Inside Isis: The first Western journalist ever given access to the 'Islamic State' has just returned - and this is what he discovered.
Ayatollah Khamenei's 6 Reasons to Prove ISIS Serves the U.S. and Israel
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Take a look at the condition of today's Libya, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and see against whom the forces and swords of Muslims are being used.
Banning Dissent in the Name of Civility
Truth, Is the Last Thing the Israel Lobby and its Lackeys Seek
By Chris Hedges
Israeli Jews think -we are the chosen people of God, we are chosen to do anything we damn well please. To take people's land. Take people's lives."
Torture's Time for Accountability
By Ray McGovern
The President still lives in fear of the shady characters at Langley.
Abolishing the CIA
By Robert C. Koehler
One can no more 'authorize' torture than rape or slavery. Torture inhabits that same moral category, which ethicists label intrinsic evil, always wrong - whether it 'works' or not."
Tea Partiers Are Right: Jeb Is a RINO
By Matt Taibbi
Apparently, the American political establishment isn't just afraid of new ideas, it's afraid of new people.
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Hard News
42 people killed' in central Yemen:
Dozens of Houthi rebels have been killed in central Yemen in a suspected revenge attack after at least 40 people from a rival tribe were kidnapped by the Shia group, sources told Al Jazeera.
40 alleged ISIL militants killed in airstrikes in Iraq:
At least 40 militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant were killed in airstrikes on Sunday by US-led international coalition forces in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.
Sinjar battle: Kurds 'take control' of large area from IS:
Kurdish authorities say their Peshmerga forces have taken control of a "large area" of the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants.
Kurdish fighters move on ISIL's Mosul hub:
Peshmerga forces expand a major offensive against ISIL while also delivering aid to Yazidi refugees on Mount Sinjar.
US soldiers engage ISIL in first Iraq combat since 2011:
The clashes would mark the first time that US ground forces have engaged ISIL militants since President Barack Obama authorised air strikes on the group in August.
20 jihadists killed in failed east Syria airport attack:
At least 20 Islamist State (IS) group members were killed in the second failed jihadist bid in a month to take over an air base in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said Sunday.
Assad tells Iran's Larijani he backs local truces:
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad told a top official from key supporter Iran on Sunday that his government is working on "reconciliations" to end the brutal civil war, state news agency SANA said.
Wars' Cost to U.S. Since the Sept. 11 2001: $1.6 Trillion :
A June cost-of-war assessment by Neta Crawford, a political science professor at Boston University, put the potential total cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and assistance to Pakistan since 2001 at $4.4 trillion, including $316 billion in interest costs and $1 trillion through 2054 for veterans care.
Egypt Opens Border Crossing with Gaza:
For the first time in nearly two months, Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing on Sunday for incoming travelers from the Gaza Strip, confirmed Palestinian and Egyptian officials. Rafah is the only crossing with Gaza that does not border Israel.
14 Militants Killed in Egypt Army Raids:
Fourteen militants have been killed and 45 others arrested in army raids in Egypt's North Sinai region in the past three days, the military said today.
US delivers Apache helicopters to Egypt:
Ten Apaches delivered to Cairo after part lifting of aid freeze to the country, according to senior US official.
Qatar announces full support for Egyptian leader:
Qatar has ended more than a year of enmity toward Egypt, announcing its "full support" for the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Nigeria: 82 killed in Borno gun battle:
No fewer than 80 Boko Haram insurgents and two soldiers lost their lives when suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram sect laid ambush along the troubled Maiduguri-Damboa road which was closed down for motorists since July this year.
Kenya security law: President Uhuru Kenyatta signs bill:
The new anti-terror legislation gives the security and intelligence agencies the right to detain terror suspects for up to one year and requires journalists to obtain police permission before investigating or publishing stories on domestic terrorism and security issues.
Roadside bomb kills 7 Afghan civilians in Kunar:
"Last evening a pickup truck, with women and children onboard, was blown up by a roadside bomb, that killed seven people including two little girls," Nari police chief Mohammad Yousuf told AFP news agency.
Taliban kill 7 Afghan policemen at checkpoint:
An Afghan official says seven policemen were killed in a northern province after their checkpoint came under attack by insurgents.
At least 5 alleged militants killed by Pakistani security forces:
At least five alleged militants have been killed by Pakistani security forces in the area of Bazargarai on the outskirts of Peshawar. The military said in a statement, a local militant commander was among those killed in the operation.
Pakistan: More executions after Peshawar school massacre:
Pakistan has hanged four prisoners, the second set of executions since a death penalty moratorium was lifted after the Peshawar school massacre. On Friday, Pakistan executed two convicts. This followed the Taliban attack on the school that left 141 people - 132 of them children - dead.
Russia's military doctrine remains 'solely defensive' - Putin:
Russia is going to maintain its security "consistently and rigorously," President Vladimir Putin has said. And despite NATO's military buildup close to Russian borders, the national military doctrine will remain solely defensive, he said.
Slumping Russian ruble threatens German economy - top exec:
"Thirty-six percent of companies assume that they have to cancel their projects," he cited the results of the poll, recently carried out by the German Chamber of Commerce in Russia among almost 300 German companies.
Obama says Putin no 'chess master' as Russian rouble spirals:
President Barack Obama hit back at foreign policy critics in an interview aired this morning, brushing off claims he had been naively outmaneuvered by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine crisis.
EU asks Russia to go ahead with South Stream:
Bulgaria is obliged to stand by its obligations to prepare for construction work and issue the required permissions, Bulgarian Prime Minister said after talks with the EU leaders
US "troubled" over slew of deals during Putin-Modi summit:
The outcome of the recent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi gave an all-embracing boost to the strategic partnership between Russia and India
Russia to begin food imports from Iran in January 2015:
First batches of food products from Iran will be supplies to Russia already in January 2015, a representative of the Russian veterinary and phytosanitary authority (Rosselkhoznadzor), Alexey Alexeyenko, who has just returned from a visit to Iran, told TASS on Sunday.
China and the United States: Who Is Number One?:
A NYT article on China's growth seems to have gotten data from the International Monetary Fund backward. It told readers:
The FBI told their story about North Korea attacking Sony. Read what they didn't tell you.:
No matter how often they lie to us, Americans believe what the government tells us. They lie, we believe, their lies are exposed - rinse, repeat. It makes us easy to govern, incapable of self-government, and quite different than our skeptical unruly forebearers.
Leaked CIA docs teach operatives how to infiltrate EU:
WikiLeaks' ?hief editor Julian Assange explains that these documents show that "under the Obama administration the CIA is still intent on infiltrating European Union borders and conducting clandestine operations in EU member states."
11 killed as Mexico troops sent to La Ruana after vigilante shoot-out:
The two groups of vigilantes were set up to fight the local drug cartel, but have since become bitter rivals and have started fighting each other. Five members of a group led by Hipolito Mora and six followers of his rival, Luis Antonio Torres, were killed.
Raul Castro: US Must Respect That Cuba Will Remain Socialist;
"In the same way that we have never demanded that the United States change its political system, we will demand respect for ours," Raul Castro told the National Assembly.
US seeks to overthrow Venezuela government: official:
"This US interference is aimed at promoting violence... against our institutions" to oust staunch US critic Maduro, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino told Telesur television.
Cops' killer angry at chokehold death:
A gunman who announced online that he was planning to shoot two "pigs" in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed two officers in a patrol car and shot them to death in broad daylight Saturday before running to a subway station and killing himself, authorities said.
Head of Police Union Declares War on Protesters After NYPD Cops 'Assassinated':
Two NYPD officers were killed Saturday in what a tearful New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio described as "execution style" as they sat in a patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Rally against police violence forces partial Mall of America shutdown:
A mass of demonstrators chanting, "Black lives matter," converged in the Mall of America rotunda Saturday as part of a protest against police brutality that caused part of the mall to shut down on a busy day for last-minute holiday shopping.
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