Op-Ed Articles
The Bin Laden Murder Mystery
By John Gardner
Neither the hoax nor the purported story adds up.
Eight Problems with Amnesty's Report on Aleppo Syria
By Rick Sterling
Currently we see a major media campaign for a "no fly zone" billed as a "safe zone" in opposition controlled northern Syria.
The Battle for Syria and Erdogan "the Butcher"
By Bashar al-Assad
We must arm ourselves against those who are demoralized and discouraged during the battle, as psychological defeat is the final defeat.
Syrian War Set to Re-Explode
US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia In Alliance with Al Qaeda
By Shamus Cooke
The Syrian war stalemate appears to be over.
Hassan Nasrallah: "Game Over" for Syria and Bashar al-Assad?
By Hassan Nasrallah
He denounces the announcements of the coming fall of the regime as the result of the media and psychological war waged for four years against Syria, and reaffirms the support of Iran, Russia and Hezbollah to Syria.
The Summer of War or Peace With Iran
By Jamal Abdi and Trita Parsi
The endgame is now fast approaching.
Saudi Arabia Promises to Match Iran's Nuclear Power
By Telesur
The Saudi Kingdom is suspected to already possess nuclear weapons. Intelligence agents and diplomats have claimed Riyadh has had nuclear weapons since 1998.
Why I Wept at the Russian Parade
By F. William Engdahl
Something extraordinary just took place in Russia and it may have moved our disturbed world one major step nearer to peace and away from a looming new world war.
How Our Drone Policy Backfires
By Andrew Cockburn
We keep killing "terrorist leaders" yet terrorism only grows. Isn't it time to re-evaluate?
Let Us Help The Yemeni People!
By Caleb Maupin
A Message From Caleb Maupin Onboard the "Iran Shahed" Rescue Ship in the Persian Gulf.
Song for Yemen
By Finian Cunningham
What's it coming to?
When they kill children every day
And the whole world just looks away.
The European Union Plans War to Keep Europe White
By Glen Ford
Having created millions of Muslim and African war refugees, the Europeans now gear up to attack the boats that might bring them to Europe.
Our Right to be Marxist-Leninists
By Fidel Castro Ruz
I wish to put on record our profound admiration for the heroic Soviet people, who provided humankind an enormous service.
Middle Class? What Middle Class?
By Jack A. Smith
This boss of bosses in the U.S. is hiding in plain sight but its existence dare not be acknowledged.
A New Dark Age
By Robert C. Koehler
As American society militarizes, it dumbs itself down.
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Syria strikes on rebel villages kill 17 children: pro-rebel activists say.
Regime airstrikes on three adjacent rebel-held villages in northern Syria killed at least 39 civilians, 17 of them children, an activist group said Thursday.
IS kills 30 troops in Syrian province:
Islamic State (IS) fighters killed 30 government soldiers as the Sunni radical group advanced in the army-held province of Homs in central Syria
ISIL executes 26 people in Homs :
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executed 26 people and beheaded 10 of them in al-Ameria village and Al-Sokhna city near Tadmur in Homs
Syria opposition coalition turns down peace talks with UN envoy:
Syria's key opposition National Coalition will not take part in talks with the UN's peace envoy, instead delivering him a letter stating their position, a member told AFP on Monday.
ISIS leader Baghdadi urges Muslims to take up arms: new audio:
The leader of ISIS issued an audio statement on Thursday in which he called on supporters to join him or to take up arms wherever they live in the world.
Four killed as pilgrims attack Sunni district in Baghdad:
Four residents of Adhamiyah killed as passing Shiite pilgrims reportedly set fire to houses of the Sunni district in the Iraqi capital
Iraq releases video of airstrike said to have killed deputy ISIS commander:
Iraqi authorities on Thursday released footage of what they say is an airstrike on a compound that resulted in the death of the deputy commander of Islamic State.
Yemen's Houthi agrees to resume talks if Riyadh halts bombing:
Yemen's Shiite Houthi group agreed with the visiting UN envoy to resume UN-brokered talks as long as the Saudi-led air campaign is halted, government officials said Thursday.
Canada's complicity in the Saudi-Yemen war: News Analysis -
The richest country in the Arab region wasted no time quoting their American arms dealers when they declared an end to their bombing campaign on the poorest Arab country last month.
Iran says Yemen aid delivery coordinated with UN:
After disagreements between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Iranian ship carrying humanitarian supplies complied with request to coordinate ship's docking with the United Nations.
US: Iran fired on Singaporean cargo ship in Persian Gulf:
An Iranian naval patrol boat fired on a Singapore-flagged commercial ship in the Persian Gulf on Thursday in an apparent attempt to disable it over a financial dispute over damage to an Iranian oil platform, a U.S. official said.
Iran blasts Saudis over Yemen:
A top member of Iran's parliament called Saudi Arabia's King Salman a traitor to Islam on Thursday, a sharp escalation in rhetoric over Riyadh's airstrikes against an Iranian-allied militia that has seized much of neighboring Yemen.
Saudi Arabia prepares to hang opposition Shia cleric amid large protests:
Human rights activists worldwide are demanding clemency for cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for taking part in Shia Muslim minority protests in 2011. They warn the execution could inflame the whole of the Middle East.
Israel invites bids for 85 illegal, W.Bank squatter homes: NGO:
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: The Israeli ministry of construction issued tenders for the building of 85 new housing units in the Givat Zeev settlement, settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday.
23 killed in new massacres in DRC's east:
Twenty-three people have been killed in two new massacres blamed on Ugandan rebels in the restless east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a regional official told AFP on Thursday.
At least 12 dead after attack on Nigeria's Maiduguri city:
At least six civilians and six members of a youth vigilante group were killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants on Nigeria's northeastern city Maiduguri, two military sources said on Thursday.
8 killed, 7 of them children, in rocket strike in Libya's Benghazi:
Eight people were killed, including seven children, when a rocket hit a residential building in the city of Benghazi in eastern Libya on Thursday, medics said, two days after a similar attack claimed by Islamic State militants.
Four jihadists killed in clashes with Tunisian army:
A statement said troops clashed with jihadists at dawn on Mount Sammama near Mount Chaambi, where the army has been battling militants since 2012.
Three soldiers killed in Burundi coup battles:
At least three soldiers were killed in Burundi Thursday during intense battles between rival army factions after a coup attempt, an AFP journalist who saw the bodies on the streets said.
Fierce fighting near Burundi state broadcaster building:
Rival soldiers battle for control of national TV and radio compound in the capital following coup attempt.
Army Chief: Burundi Coup Attempt Has Failed :
Clashes and explosions have been reported in the capital this Thursday. Two radio stations have also been attacked. Burundi's head of the army said Thursday that a military coup attempt in Burundi that began on Tuesday against President Pierre Nkurunziza had failed.
UN Security Council condemns Burundi coup attempt:
The UN Security Council has condemned the coup attempt in Burundi and called for a swift return to the rule of law in the southeast African country. In a unanimous statement, the 15-member council said it "condemned both those who facilitate violence of any kind against civilians and those who seek to seize power by unlawful means."
Pakistan military officials admit defector's key role in Bin Laden operation:
A source - who was a serving senior military official at the time of the raid - told AFP that the defector was a "resourceful and energetic" mid-ranking intelligence officer whose efforts were critical to the operation's success.
'Ten deaths' on stranded Myanmar migrant boat:
Myanmar migrants on a boat stranded for a week in the Andaman Sea with no food or water say 10 people have died, while some are resorting to drinking urine.
Malaysia Says 800 Rohingya Migrants Muslims 'Not Welcome' :
More than 120,000 Muslim Rohingya have been boarding ships and paying smugglers to help them flee persecution to other countries. Malaysia turned away two boats carrying more than 800 Muslim Rohingya migrants on Wednesday who are fleeing the intense persecution against their community in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
Thailand finds migrant boat, declines permission to land:
"We declined them entry to the country but we gave them food and water to adhere to our human rights obligations," regional police official Major General Puttichat Akhachan told Reuters.
Tensions rise between Washington and Beijing over man-made islands:
China said it was "deeply concerned" on Wednesday about a reported U.S. proposal to consider sending naval ships and aircraft toward man-made islands in the South China Sea as tensions escalate between the two nations over the vital waters.
China, U.S. head toward faceoff in South China Sea:
The Chinese government gave a stern warning Wednesday that it will protect its sovereignty in the South China Sea after a cat-and-mouse pursuit of a U.S. warship by a Chinese frigate.
China invites Russian troops to march in war parade:
China has invited Russian troops to march in a parade in Beijing in September to commemorate the end of World War Two, the Defence Ministry said on Monday, a move likely to further put off Western leaders from attending.
10 members of Congress took trip secretly funded by foreign government:
The state-owned oil company of Azerbaijan secretly funded an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Baku, on the Caspian Sea, in 2013 for 10 members of Congress and 32 staff members. Lawmakers received hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of travel expenses, silk scarves, crystal tea sets and Azerbaijani rugs valued at $2,500 to $10,000, according to the ethics report.
Macedonia - the next hot spot after Ukraine?:
News Analysis - What is behind the events in Macedonia?
McCain appointed to Ukraine reform advisory team headed by fugitive Georgian ex-leader:
Georgia's fugitive ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili and hawkish US Senator John McCain have been approved as members of the newly-formed International Advisory Group that will help Ukraine's president in "conducting reforms."
Cancelation of Mistral ship deal with Russia could cost France up to €5bn - report:
Two Mistral helicopter carriers could end up costing France as much as €5 billion if it fails to deliver them to Russia, according to a French magazine. Paris and Moscow are also now locked in a dispute about how much compensation should be paid.
Italy says 3,600 migrants rescued in two days:
More than 600 brought ashore at Sicily's Catania port and another 2,500 picked from boats off Libya coast, reports say.
Migrant crisis: EU plan to strike Libya networks could include ground forces:
European plans for a military campaign to smash the migrant smuggling networks operating out of Libya include options for ground forces on Libyan territory.
UK: Theresa May says NO to taking 60,000 more economic migrant boat people from north Africa:
BRITAIN will fight European Union plans to accept tens of thousands more refugees from North Africa.
Migration Is an Act of Desperation, Not a Crime: News Analysis -
A father from Ivory Coast wanted to reunite his son with the rest of his family living in Spain. But the Spanish government denied him a family reunification visa. Desperate, he paid a Moroccan woman to smuggle his 8-year-old onto Spanish soil. On May 7, 2015, she attempted to do so by placing the boy, tightly folded into a fetal position, inside a carry-on suitcase and traveling to Spain.
Murdering Mexican women with impunity:
A woman is killed every four hours in Mexico, where domestic violence in the patriarchal society rages on.
Mexican Farmworkers Achieve Major Gains in San Quintin Protests :
Agricultural workers have clashed with police, leaving three community members dead and 70 injured in protests to demand better working conditions and wages.
House Approves USA "Freedom" Act, Extending And Revising The Patriot Act:
The USA Freedom Act extends many parts of the 2001 USA Patriot Act, which expires June 1. The measure's fate in the Senate is less likely.
Leaked Video Reveals Omissions in Official Account of Police Shooting:
The report absolving Hunt, who is Native American and is still a police officer in Fayetteville, did not mention the existence of video from the dashboard camera in Hunt's cruiser, which shows a more troubling unfolding of events.
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