Op-Ed Articles
The New Iraq War is Doomed
By Reese Erlich
After years of lies and senseless military conflict, we must oppose US escalation in Iraq.
As Aleppo Goes, So Goes Syria?
By Franklin Lamb
"Change is coming. Deep change. The corrupt incompetents and religious fanatics on all both sides will be swept away.
It's Not the Koran, It's Us
By Leonard C. Goodman
The corporate media chorus willfully ignores that U.S. actions, not Islam, fuel jihadism.
UN Security Council Rejects Palestinian Statehood Resolution
By Elior Levy
Resolution fails to achieve required 9-vote majority; 8 countries vote in favor, 2 oppose, 5 abstain; no US veto needed.
Ashrawi: UN Vote Against Palestine Bid 'Outrageously Shameful'
By Maan News
"Those countries (Lithuania, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Korea, and the UK) that abstained demonstrated a lack of political will to hold Israel accountable and to act in accordance with the global rule of law"
Abbas Signs Bid to Join ICC
By Maan News
President Mahmoud Abbas signs Rome Statute to join International Criminal Court after UNSC resolution fails to pass.
Hyperempire:
Spreading Chaos and Trivia Everywhere in Its Path
By John Chuckman
The Middle East provides the strongest possible evidence of the complete unsuitability of the United States to play a dominant role in international affairs.
Obama Says He Is Improving the World
By Eric Zuesse
He asserts: "wherever we have been involved over the last several years, I think the outcome has been better because of American leadership."
The Imperial Presidency Comes to Kaneohe Klipper's 16th Hole
By Gary Chartier
The president is treated, not like an ordinary citizen but instead like a demigod.
Cuba in the American Imagination
By Margaret Kimberley
Americans are celebrating what they hope is a return to Cuba's status as a de facto American colony.
Murdoch, Scaife and CIA Propaganda
By Robert Parry
The Reagan administration pulled right-wing media executives Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife into a CIA-organized "perception management" operation which aimed Cold War-style propaganda at the American people in the 1980s.
Stop Kidding Yourself
The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People
By Sam Mitrani
The police were not created to protect and serve the population.
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Hard News
Bomb blast targeting Houthis kills 33 in Yemen:
The attack took place on Wednesday in the city of Ibb when an assailant blew his explosives in a cultural center, where a group of Shia Houthi militants were preparing to celebrate the birth anniversary of Islam's Prophet Mohammad.
Bush Blair Legacy Continues
Iraq: 31, including 28 ISIL militants killed:
At least 31 people, including 28 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants were killed in four separate incidents across Iraq Wednesday, security sources said.
Eight, including two policemen killed in Baghdad:
Eight people, including two policemen were killed and 16 others were wounded in five separate incidents Tuesday in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, police said.
Kurds begin new ground offensive against ISIS in Mosul:
A statement issued on Wednesday by the northern Kurdish authorities says the operation aims at pushing the ISIS from an area of about 120 square kilometres outside the militant-held city of Mosul.
Rebels: U.S. ignored early plan to stop Islamic State:
Two months before Mosul and other cities in northern Iraq fell to the Islamic State last June, representatives of a Syrian rebel group called on the new U.S. special envoy for Syria with an outline of a plan to stop the extremists.
Author of the infamous Iraq memo knighted:
Sir David Manning, who was foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair and was in a meeting where the then prime minister allegedly made a secret pact with George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq, has been honoured by the Queen.
Syria Kurds control 70 percent of besieged Kobani: monitor:
Kurdish forces have regained control of around 70 percent of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border after pushing back ISIS fighters that have spent months besieging it, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday.
Israel's Mossad anticipates "Small Syria" in 2015:
On Tuesday, Saudi newspaper 'al-Hayat' reported, that Israel's Mossad anticipates that the year 2015 is likely to witness the emergence of a "Small Syria" led by Assad's regime.
Syria vows government posts to relatives of killed fighters:
The law, decreed by President Bashar Assad after passing parliament earlier in the week, comes as the death toll among Syrian government troops grows.
Behind the UN vote: How the Palestinian bid was defeated: Analysis:
How US helped lead blitz to torpedo unilateral Palestinian resolution in UN Security Council, and how a phone call helped Nigeria's surprising change of heart.
Russia threatens to change Iran stance over US sanctions:
Moscow warns it will respond to Washington's 'unfriendly gestures'; US Treasury enforces financial sanctions
35 killed in Burundi clashes with rebel group: army:
At least 35 people are now confirmed to have been killed in clashes between Burundi's army and members of an unidentified rebel group near the DR of Congo border, an official said Wednesday.
US envoy calls for military action against Congo rebel group:
The Democratic Republic of Congo and U.N. peacekeepers should take military action against a Rwandan Hutu militia if it fails to meet a Jan. 2 deadline for disarmament, the U.S. envoy to Africa's Great Lakes region said on Tuesday.
Nigerian Villagers: 15 killed in Boko Haram Raid;
At least 15 people were killed by Boko Haram fighters during a raid on a village in Northern Nigeria, local residents said.
At least six killed by suicide bomb in bus in Nigeria's Yobe state - witness:
"A suicide bomber, I think he was on his way to bomb the market in Fika ... but unfortunately while he was still in the bus to the market the bomb strap on him exploded and killed six people. This happened early this afternoon at about 1 p.m. (1200 GMT)," the man said in hospital.
US drone strike against Somalia:
The attempted assassination of a Somali Islamist militia leader is part of a global escalation of the Obama administration's illegal drone killing program.
France says world must stop Libya from becoming terrorist haven:
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned that the situation in Libya was "no more and no less... the resurgence of a terrorist sanctuary" that was dangerously close to Europe.
In case you missed it
Another Shocking UN Cover Up About Libya:
The Anglo-French-American consortium leading this criminal activity has fallen for its own propaganda
In case you missed it
Libya Rebels: Gaddafi Could be Right About al-Qaeda:
The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812
Gaddafi former aide accuses the West over Libya's unrest:
"The West offered financial and military assistance to militants during their war to oust the Gaddafi regime. They later used this assistance to turn whole towns in Libya into strongholds of terrorists," Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, a cousin of Gaddafi, told dpa in Cairo.
23 suspected militants killed in Pakistan:
At least 23 suspected terrorists were killed when Pakistani fighter jets targeted militant hideouts in North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday evening, military officials said.
Pakistani and Indian soldiers again exchange fire, 3 killed:
One soldier from India and two from Pakistan were killed after the two sides exchanged fire with each other on the joint border on Wednesday.
Rocket hits Afghan wedding, at least 15 killed: officials:
A rocket fired during fighting between Afghan forces and insurgents killed at least 15 wedding guests late Wednesday in the southern province of Helmand, officials said, highlighting the continuing conflict after NATO's combat mission ended.
2014 - The deadliest year for Afghan civilians on record:
The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan is to exceed 10,000 in 2014 - the highest since records began. UNAMA's Georgette Gagnon tells DW the figures reflect how civilians are bearing the brunt of the violence.
German Bundeswehr's role in targeted Taliban killings in Afghanistan:
Secret documents reveal that it supplied information for NATO death lists.
Putin's Approval Spikes as US Admits Attack on Russian Economy:
Gallup attributed recent nationalism following Crimea's incorporation into Russia and the Sochi Winter Olympic Games to explain the rise in Putin's popularity to 83 percent, despite the economic trouble that his nation currently faces due to the drop in oil prices.
Russia buys 40bn roubles of shares in Gazprombank:
Move is latest support for banking sector suffering from western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and economic slowdown
Ukraine police watch as pro-Russian politician thrown in dumpster:
On Christmas Eve, a group of masked men picked up a municipal council member and tossed him into a dumpster in the city of Kharkov. Despite bearing witness to the surreal chain of events, the police failed to react, raising questions about the impunity afforded to certain ultra-nationalist groups in Ukraine.
Ukraine Massacre has CIA Fingerprints Says Oliver Stone:
The director drew comparisons between the Ukrainian and Venezuelan coups, which, he argued, both involved third-party agitators.
China and Russia Planning $230bn Moscow-Beijing High Speed Rail Link:
The Beijing Times said that the line, which would be over 7,000 kilometres but cutting the Trans-Siberian railway journey from six days to two, would cost in excess of $230bn (£142.9bn, €179.5bn) if it is to connect Moscow and Beijing via a high-speed railway line.
US spyware 'on USB stick of Merkel aide':
Regin, an advanced spyware program widely believed to have been developed by US and British intelligence agencies, was found on a USB stick belonging to an official in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office, Berlin sources say.
Italy saves 970 migrants abandoned by smugglers:
The Italian Coast Guard rescued 970 migrants Wednesday after smugglers put their cargo ship on automatic pilot heading straight for a crash into the Italian coast and abandoned the command.
US releases 5 innocent men from Guantanamo gulag, sends them to Kazakhstan:
Five men who were held for a dozen years without charge at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan for resettlement, the U.S. government announced.
Venezuela recession confirmed as Maduro attacks US 'oil war':
The Venezuelan economy is now officially in recession after the central bank released figures showing that it has been shrinking all year. The bank said the economy had declined by 2.3% in the third quarter of 2014.
The numbers of unauthorized Mexican immigrants have declined since 2007:
"Despite the decline, the estimated 5.9 million unauthorized immigrants from Mexico still account for a majority (52 percent) of the nation's unauthorized immigrant population," Pew reported.
Gov. O'Malley to commute sentences of Maryland's remaining death-row inmates:
Maryland's repeal of capital punishment did not apply to prisoners already on death row. There were five such prisoners when the legislation took effect; one has since died of natural causes.
Drone Video Exposes 'Feces Lake' Inside Mega US Factory Farm:
You've seen disturbing images and videos of factory farm animals being forced to live in the absolute worst of conditions, but a new overhead video captured by a spy drone reveals a whole new sector of disturbing factory farm activity.
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