Op-Ed Articles
Who Ordered The Attack Against Charlie Hebdo?
By Thierry Meyssan
Thierry Meyssan points out that the jihadist interpretation is impossible. While it would be tempting for him to see it as an Al Qaeda or Daesh operation, he envisages another, much more dangerous hypothesis.
Who Profits From Killing Charlie?
By Pepe Escobar
Islamofascism peddlers are already having a field day/week/month/year. For simpletons/trolls/hordes exhibiting an IQ worthy of sub-zoology, when in doubt, demonize Islam.
The West is Manufacturing Muslim Monsters
Who Should be Blamed for Muslim Terrorism?
By Andre Vltchek
In the last five decades, around 10 million Muslims have been murdered because their countries did not serve the Empire, or did not serve it full-heartedly, or just were in the way.
The Farce of Western Free Speech
By Finian Cunningham
A French satirical publication may have been allowed to denigrate Islam, but it would never be allowed to condemn Zionism and all its provable criminality.
In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
By Glenn Greenwald
To comport with this new principle for how one shows solidarity with free speech rights and a vibrant free press, we're publishing some blasphemous and otherwise offensive cartoons about religion and their adherents:
Unmournable Bodies
By Teju Cole
Western societies are not, even now, the paradise of skepticism and rationalism that they believe themselves to be.
Paris Shooting Suspects Under French Radar for YEARS
By Tony Cartalucci
Determining the degree to which this attack was influenced or engineered by Western intelligence agencies will be difficult to establish.
Will France Repeat US Mistakes after 9/11?
By Ray McGovern
All the American public gets is the boilerplate about how al-Qaeda evildoers are perverting a religion and exploiting impressionable young men.
This Was Dick Cheney's Coup:
Why America's Torture "Reform" Is A Total Sham
By Marcy Wheeler
The White House let the CIA run wild, but insulated George Bush. And Democrats are letting them get away with it.
Russia and China: The Dawning of a New Monetary System?
By Peter Koenig
China, leading member of the BRICS, is lining up the bloc of the BRICS and that of the SCO - and their currencies - to support Russia in need.
The December 2014 Payroll Jobs Report
By Paul Craig Roberts
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that a quarter of a million new jobs were created in December.
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Hard News
Iraq: 30 ISIL, four Peshmerga killed in clashes;
At least 30 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants and four Iraqi Peshmerga fighters were killed in clashes in northern Iraq Saturday, a Peshmerga source said.
23 Kurdish soldiers killed in IS attack:
The military forces of Iraqi Kurdistan were targeted in two different vehicle explosions in areas around the Sinjar Mountains southeast of the city of Nineveh in northern Iraq, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday.
Two bombings kill 8 people in Iraq:
Police officials say a bomb exploded Saturday at a wholesale market in Baghdad's western district of Baiyaa, killing five people and wounding 11 others.
Tony Abbott confirms Australian Special Forces are training and assisting elite Iraqi security service accused of 'major war crimes':
They have admitted to executing prisoners on the spot
Lebanon: At least 7 killed in Tripoli suicide bombing:
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded café in the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen Saturday evening killing at least seven people and wounding 20, a security source told The Daily Star.
At least 25 people were killed, as Syria loyalists repel Al-Qaeda attack on Shiite villages:
The villages of Nubol and Zahraa in war-battered Aleppo province had been under siege by Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's Syria branch, and other Islamist rebels for a year and a half.
Fact or fiction?
Intelligence shows Assad 'building nuclear plant': report:
Citing information made available by unidentified intelligence sources, Spiegel said the plant was in an inaccessible mountain region in the west of the war-ravaged country, 2 kms from the Lebanese border. It is deep underground, near the town of Qusair and has access to electricity and water supplies
Saudi blogger Badawi 'flogged for Islam insult':
Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times. The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.
Suicide bomber kills 6 at Pakistan mosque:
A suicide bomber has struck a Shia mosque in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi, killing seven people and wounding several others, police have said.
6 Killed in US Drone Strike in Afghanistan, Main Victims Civilians:"
A US-led assassination drone strike killed at least 6 people in Afghanistan's Eastern province of Nangarhar.
Taliban 'reject offer of Afghan government posts':
The offer came from new President Ashraf Ghani in a bid to end the insurgency that threatens the recovery of the country.
'2,000 people killed in Nigeria':
Boko Haram's latest attack deadliest in history, Amnesty says: Amnesty International has quoted some sources that say the town has been razed, with as many as 2,000 people killed. If true, that would mark a "disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram's ongoing onslaught against the civilian population," Eyre added.
19 killed, 18 injured in Nigeria market blast: police:
A suicide bomb attack by a young girl thought to be as young as 10 in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed 19 people, police said on Saturday.
6 People Killed in Libya's Benghazi:
At least six people have been killed while 20 others have been wounded in clashes that took place in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, local sources told Al Jazeera.
Missing Tunisian journalists executed, IS group confirms:
The Libyan branch of the Islamic State group claimed late Thursday night to have executed two Tunisian journalists who went missing in September, in an online statement that sparked outrage in Tunis.
Six killed in clashes in eastern Ukraine:
Four Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians have been killed in an upsurge in mortar and rocket attacks launched just days ahead of planned international talks on the crisis.
Gorbachev issues new warning of nuclear war over Ukraine:
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that the crisis in Ukraine could lead to a major war, or even a nuclear war. In an interview with a German magazine, he criticized both Russia and the West.
Thank You Western Taxpayer: Russia To Accelerate $3bn Of Ukraine Debt:
According to Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov, "Russia has the right to demand early return of this loan." With European aid 'contingent on major reforms' and possibly taking up to 1 year, this leaves the good old IMF (i.e. the US and European taxpayer) to bridge Ukraine's 'gap'
Al Qaeda Source: AQAP Directed Paris Attack:
The target was in France in particular because of its obvious role in the war on Islam and oppressed nations.
Britain's MI5 chief warns al Qaeda in Syria planning mass attacks on West:
Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday.
Female accomplice of islamists in Paris attacks left France-source:
The suspected female accomplice of Islamists behind attacks in Paris left France last week and traveled to Syria via Turkey, a source familiar with the situation said on Saturday.
Hezbollah chief says terrorists damage Islam more than cartoons:
The leader of the Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah said on Friday that Islamist terrorists had done more harm to Islam than any cartoon or book, a reference to the attack by suspected Islamist militants on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Hamas condemns Charlie Hebdo attack;
A statement in French said Hamas "condemns the attack against Charlie Hebdo magazine and insists on the fact that differences of opinion and thought cannot justify murder."
Two arrested in Australia anti-terror raids:
Two men were arrested in Sydney during counter-terrorism raids part of long-running investigations into those backing fighters in conflicts in Syria and Iraq, officials said Saturday.
Prosecutors recommend charges against ex-CIA chief Petraeus:
Justice Department prosecutors and the FBI are recommending felony charges against former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus for allegedly sharing classified information with a mistress when he headed the intelligence agency, the New York Times reports.
James Bamford interviews Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare:
The United States doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing. And over the last decade, that sort of went too far.
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