Op-Ed Articles
Splitting the Atlantic Alliance
NATO Lies and Provocations
By Mike Whitney
The Euro-leaders have been going along with the lies to keep the public in line. In other words, it's a healthy dose of perception management for the sheeple.
NATO General Breedlove says Russian Army Still in Ukraine Despite Ceasefire
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General Philip Breedlove declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin had once again "upped the ante" and said the situation in the Donbas was "getting worse everyday."
Russia's Remarkable Renaissance
By F. William Engdahl
It may be the factor that saves our world from a one world dictatorship of the bankers and their military.
Netanyahu: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered.
The Power of Israel over the United States
By Prof. James Petras
There is only one reason that Netanyahu is received as a Viceroy overseeing and dictating strategic policy to what clearly is a servile colonial legislature.
Does Iran Really Want a Bomb?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
While Iran and its allies are fighting al-Qaida and ISIS, Turkey and our Arab allies are malingerers at best and collaborators at worst.
US Preparing for Military Aggression on Venezuela
By Atilio Borón
History shows that when the U.S. denounces a country, it is often a pretext for intervention and regime change.
The Foundations of Our Extinction
By Butler Shaffer
If we are to end our intra-species combat with one another in time to avoid becoming the first known species to engineer its own extinction, we must identify the causes of our aggression.
Who Is Running The Global Show?
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Ellen Brown Interviews Paul Craig Roberts About The Greek, Russian, and US Situations: History Explained From Reagan To The Present.
The NSA Has Taken Over the Internet Backbone. We're Suing to Get it Back.
By Patrick C. Toomey
Every time you email someone overseas, the NSA copies and searches your message. It makes no difference if you or the person you're communicating with has done anything wrong.
Don't Trust Your Phone, Don't Trust Your Laptop
By John Naughton
Edward Snowden's astute revelations show that no electronic communications device - from hard disks to sim cards - is trustworthy.
US Intel Vets Oppose Brennan's CIA Plan
By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Do we really believe that terrorists slip out of the womb screaming "I hate America"?
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Hard News
Iraq: 350 Daesh militants killed in Anbar operation:
Iraqi army seized control of large areas in Anbar province and killed 350 suspected Daesh militants within four days of its ongoing operation in the area, the Iraqi military said in statement late Monday.
Iraqi army, volunteer forces enter Tikrit from multiple directions:
Iraqi forces have reportedly taken control of the al-Qadisiyah neighborhood from ISIL Takfiri terrorists. The Takfiris are now besieged in the center of the city. According to reports, the streets of Tikrit have been covered with dead bodies of the ISIL members. Some of the terrorists were killed by the Iraqi forces, while others were executed by their fellow Takfiris for fleeing the battle.
ISIS fighters pushed out of town near Tikrit: mayor:
raqi troops and militias drove ISIS militants out of the town of Al-Alam Tuesday, fighters and a local official said, clearing the way for an offensive to retake the nearby city of Tikrit from the ultra-radical group.
Watch: Iraqi militia chief shot during television interview:
Mohamed Abu Ali Al Jubirawi, who leads a Shia militia fighting ISIL in Anbar province, was targeted by a sniper on March 7, according to news agency Storyful.
103 civilians killed by anti-IS coalition, including US aid worker: NGO:
A Syrian NGO on Tuesday claimed that the US-led international coalition's airstrikes on the Islamic State and other groups in Syria has killed 103 civilians since its campaign started in September 2014.
27 ISIL, Kurdish fighters killed in Ain Al-Arab clashes - SOHR:
Twenty-seven fighters from ISIL and the Kurdish people protection units were killed in clashes in Ain Al-Arab, Kobane, outside the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
ISIS kills at least nine of its own in infighting in Syria - monitor:
At least nine members of ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) were killed during infighting in northwestern Syria after some of them tried to flee over the Turkish border, a group monitoring the conflict said on Monday.
ISIS Child Soldier Allegedly Executes Israeli Mohamed Said Ismail Musallam, Threatens Mossad In Video:
The Islamic State group on Tuesday released a video purporting to the show the execution of an Israeli citizen it claimed was a member of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Mohamed Said Ismail Musallam, 19, was captured by the ISIS militants after they allegedly discovered he was a spy.
US, Israeli Military Advisors Accused of Aiding ISIL Arrested in Iraq;
Iraqi counter-terrorism forces arrested four foreign military advisors from the United States and Israel who were aiding the Islamic State, Iranian Tasnim News Agency reports.
White House Cannot Confirm Reports on US Advisors Allegedly Aiding ISIL:
Washington does not have information to confirm press reports that US and Israeli military advisors were arrested while allegedly aiding Islamic State (IS) terrorists in Iraq, a US State Department official told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Hamas offers long-term calm in exchange for end of blockade:
Hamas recently sent a series of messages to Israel indicating interest in a long-term ceasefire lasting for several years, in exchange for an end to the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, sources told The Times of Israel.
PA calls for arrest of Liberman for saying anti-Israel Arab citizens should be beheaded:
"It's shocking that the foreign minister spoke in a blatantly racist way against 20 percent of the citizens of the country he is supposed to represent," Shek stated.
Senator Who Organized Letter To Iran Has Said He Wants To Sabotage Negotiations:
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), previously told a conservative audience that the goal of congressional action should be to scuttle talks with Iran. The U.S. should, instead, engage in a policy of "regime change," he argued.
Ex-Yemen leader asks President Hadi to go into exile:
Ali Abdullah Saleh accuses his successor, who has re-established presidency in Aden city, of destroying the country.
34 killed by female suicide bomber at Nigerian market:
At least 34 persons were killed by a teenage girl suicide bomber on Tuesday at a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, said witnesses.
8 killed in Boko Haram Ambush:
It was learnt that the terrorists laid ambush at Ngamdu village along the Maiduguri/Damaturu road at about 9:30am on Tuesday.
Deadly bomb attacks hit Egypt's Sinai peninsula:
Bomb attacks targeting the police and army in Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula have killed two people and wounded more than 30, officials say.
Algerian army kills three Islamist militants: ministry:
Soldiers killed three Islamist militants and seized guns and explosives southwest of the Algerian capital on Tuesday, the defense ministry said.
ISIS Seizes Opportunity in Libya's Turmoil:
The Islamic State has established more than a foothold in this Mediterranean port. Its fighters dominate the city center so thoroughly that a Libyan brigade sent to dislodge the group remains camped on the outskirts, visibly afraid to enter and allowing the extremists to come and go as they please.
Turkey slams Egypt, UAE for claims it shipped weapons to Libya through Malta:
"We never deliver weapons to Libya," Mevlut Çavusoglu said when asked by MaltaToday at a press conference. "These libellous claims are coming from Egypt and the UAE, two countries that have provided weapons to Libya."
Libya to run out of cash as fighting takes its toll:
Libya will "run out of money" in 18 months despite once being one of Africa's richest countries, officials have warned, as internecine fighting grinds its oil and gas industry to a halt.
Ivory Coast's former first lady Simone Gbagbo jailed:
Ivory Coast's former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the 2010 elections.
Official says suicide car bomber kills 8 in Afghanistan:
A suicide car bombing at a police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan killed eight people Tuesday and wounded 23, an Afghan official said.
Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan in danger of sliding 'under thumb' of Pakistan:
Afghanistan's historic struggles against British imperialism and Soviet invasion will have been in vain if the country succumbs to pressure from neighbouring Pakistan, Hamid Karzai has warned in an interview with the Guardian.
Afghan artist in hiding after sexual harassment protest:
Kubra Khademi receives death threats after walking through Kabul in iron underwear to highlight abuse facing women.
Four Taliban Fighters Killed In Pakistan's Karachi:
Authorities said the militants had been involved in several terrorist attacks on security forces.
China's mega international payment system is ready, will launch this year - report:
The China International Payment System (CIPS) is due to kick off this year, bringing the yuan a step closer to becoming a global trading currency, as the new system will make payment transfers just as easy as in dollars and euro.
U.S. Military Moves To Russian Borders For First Time Ever:
Approximately 750 U.S. Army and military vehicles and equipment, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery pieces and helicopters from the 3rd Infantry Division arrived in Riga, Latvia, on Monday by ship to support Operation Atlantic Resolve and planned Army-Europe multinational training exercises in that region.
Russia vows to respond to NATO presence near border:
"The expanding military presence near the Russian border is not contributing to the restoration of trust with NATO," said Lavrov in a joint press conference with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo on Tuesday.
'We did what we had to do': Putin opens up on Crimea reunification plan:
"It was the night of the 22nd," Putin told Rossiya One's Andrey Kondrashov. "We were done by 7 am. And I won't conceal it, when we were saying goodbye, I told my colleagues - there were four of them - that the situation in Ukraine has evolved in such a way that we have to start work on returning Crimea to being a part of Russia. We couldn't abandon the territory and people who live there, couldn't just throw them under this nationalist bulldozer."
Ukraine: Poroshenko confirms rebel weapons moved:
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says pro-Russian rebels in the east have withdrawn a "significant" amount of heavy weapons. Speaking on TV, Mr Poroshenko said his government forces had also pulled back "the lion's share" of their rocket and heavy artillery systems.
The United States should provide weapons to Ukraine: Zbigniew Brzezinski:
At a conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Brzezinski also emphasized that Russia is not ready for even a small war with the West.
Ukraine's NATO Membership Should Be Off the Table - Brzezinski:
Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said that the US should make an arrangement with Russia ensuring that even if Ukraine becomes a member of the European Union, it will not become a member of NATO.
Russia, ISIS 'greatest threats' to UK security - Foreign Secretary Hammond:
His speech comes only two days before a backbench debate on defense spending in the Commons, where MPs will discuss the UK's current commitment to NATO's 2 percent of GDP spending target.
Russia returns to Africa amid increasing isolation:
Using old Soviet connections, Uganda and Russia sealed an energy deal - the latest in a string of Moscow moves.
Greece has enough cash to pay second IMF loan tranche: sources:
Greece's newly-elected government must pay around 1.5 billion euros to the IMF this month, but its cash reserves are dwindling as it seeks to rework a bailout deal with its European partners. It made the first, 310-million-euro payment on Friday, and the final two installments are due on March 16 and 20.
The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets:
RESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple's iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept.
Wikimedia v. NSA: Challenge to Mass Surveillance Under the FISA Amendments Act:
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the NSA's mass interception and searching of Americans' international communications. At issue is the NSA's "upstream" surveillance, through which the U.S. government monitors almost all international - and many domestic - text-based communications.
Sign of Hope? Swedish Supreme Court Grants Julian Assange Appeal Hearing:
As he waits in limbo inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the Swedish Supreme Court has decided to accept an appeal hearing for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The decision comes after Assange issued a challenge to his arrest on February 25.
New memories implanted in mice while they sleep:
Sleeping minds: prepare to be hacked. For the first time, conscious memories have been implanted into the minds of mice while they sleep. The same technique could one day be used to alter memories in people who have undergone traumatic events.
U.S. declares Venezuela a national security threat, sanctions top officials:
The United States on Monday declared Venezuela a national security threat and ordered sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country in the worst bilateral diplomatic dispute since socialist President Nicolas Maduro took office in 2013.
Venezuelan leader Maduro condemns new US sanctions:
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called the latest US sanctions "the most aggressive, unjust and harmful step that has ever been taken by the US against Venezuela". In a televised address, Mr Maduro named one of seven officials sanctioned by the US as his new interior minister
Cuba, Bolivia, World Condemn US Sanctions on Venezuela:
"How is Venezuela a threat to the United States? Thousands of kilometers away, without strategic weapons and without the resources ... to conspire against the U.S. constitutional order; the (White House) declaration has little credibility," read a statement published in newspaper Granma.
Bolivia to Raise Minimum Wage by 15 percent:
Bolivian President Evo Morales made the announcement following lengthy negotiations between government officials and representatives from Bolivia's largest trade union (COB).
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Terror in Coahuila: Up to 300 disappeared in Mexico's forgotten massacre:
The official number of 1,808 disappeared in Coahuila is a hair-raising figure, more so because the majority of cases occurred in four years, since 2009. The real figure is unknown, but it likely far exceeds the official number, said Jorge Verástegui, founder of United Front for Coahuila's Disappeared, or Fundec.
Mexico Oil, the US and "Narco - Terrorism?":
The drug war brought U.S. commandos into Mexico, but the opening of the country's once publicly-owned energy resources to foreign investors may provide justification for the secretive American presence there to escalate-especially if the cartels are successfully painted as "narcoterrorists."
US Consumer Spending Tumbles:
Stick a fork in the now proven wrong theory that plunging gas prices would boost consumer spending. Why? Because 4 months after the full impact of tumbling gas price was said to become apparent, consumer spending is not only not picking up, it is in fact slowing down more
Recovery? 50% More New Yorkers Sleeping In Shelters Than In 2010:
February's auto sales numbers and the rising rate of repeat foreclosures in January suggest that perhaps autos and housing aren't doing as well as the media would have you believe.
UN expert slams US as only nation to imprison kids for life without parole:
The United States was singled out Monday by a United Nations expert on torture for being the only country in the world that continues to sentence children to life in prison without parole.
America is literally on fire: How out-of-control oil spills are destroying our population centers:
Disasters are raging with such force and regularity that firefighters have to give up. Welcome to the new reality
Temporary injunction bars man from smoking inside his Washington home after neighbors sue:
A judge issued a temporary injunction last week saying neither Gray nor any family or guests may smoke in the home the family has owned for 50 years. Gray's sister, Mozella Johnson, says they will fight.
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