Op-Ed Articles
Jihadists in the Service of Imperialism
By Thierry Meyssan
How the Pentagon and the CIA manage to manipulate millions of Muslims and send them off to fight for Uncle Sam's interests.
Blackwater Trained Some of World's Top Terrorists
By Washingtons Blog
The head of special forces in Tajikistan was trained by American mercenary company Blackwater, but has now joined ISIS.
Aljazeera Arabic: Should We Kill All Alawites?
Video - English Translation
Is Aljazeera spreading hatred of the Alawite people? You Decide.
Palestinians Betrayed
Why There Was No FIFA Vote To Kick Israel Out Of World Football
By Ali Abunimah
Pro-Israel pressure and backroom deals puncture hope Israel would be held accountable for systematic abuses of Palestinian footballers.
Progressive Apocalypse
Obama Opens Door to Nuclear Nightmare
By Chris Floyd
America's bipartisan elite would rather put the entire world into more nuclear peril than surrender a single iota for their lust for loot and power.
Zombie Patriot Act Will Keep U.S. Spying-Even if the Original Dies
By Shane Harris
Forget the White House's doomsday talk about American intelligence going blind. Thanks to backdoor provisions and alternate collection schemes, U.S. spies will keep on snooping.
Why We Can't Trust the NSA (And Why That's a Crisis)
By Ron Fournier
A greater threat than Iran, ISIS, and "lone wolf" attacks: government lies.
Rule By The Corporations
TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act
By Paul Craig Roberts
The corporations have bribed the political leaders in every country to sign away their sovereignty and the general welfare of their people to private corporations.
Karl Marx Was Right
By Chris Hedges
Karl Marx - foresaw that capitalism had built within it the seeds of its own destruction.
License to Kill
By Jimmie Moglia
That policemen have a license to kill sounds a somewhat harsh way of stating the obvious.
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Iraq: Islamic State bomb attack 'kills 45 police officers':
Suicide bombers rammed three vehicles packed with explosives into a base in the Tharthar area, on a road connecting the cities of Falluja and Samarra.
Iraq: 12 killed in 'Iraqi air force barrel bomb' strike:
Iraqi army planes 'dropped bombs in Fallujah on civilian homes and local markets,' claims a tribal chief in Anbar province
Iraq loses 2,300 Humvees to ISIS:
"In the collapse of Mosul, we lost a lot of weapons," Abadi said in an interview with Iraqiya state TV. "We lost 2 300 Humvees in Mosul alone. Last year, the State Department approved a possible sale to Iraq of 1 000 Humvees with increased armour, machineguns, grenade launchers, other gear and support that was estimated to cost $579m
Syria: 29 bodies found in water wells:
The bodies of 29 people, believed to be killed by Syrian government forces, were removed Monday from water wells in Syria's northern province of Idlib, said a spokesman for the Idlib Civil Defense.
Islamic State militants 'filmed torturing Syrian boy': Video -
A graphic mobile phone video obtained by the BBC appears to show militants from Islamic State (IS) torturing a 14-year-old Syrian boy.
ISIS advances towards Turkey-Syria border:
Islamic State fighters advanced against rival insurgents in northern Syria on Sunday, capturing areas close to a border crossing with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Syria rebels blame US for failing to strike advancing Isil militants in Turkey border town:
Opposition groups say they handed US-led coalition co-ordinates of Islamic State fighters, but they failed to act on the tip
ISIL 'controls half' of Syria's land area:
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has seized territory from both Syrian government forces and rival rebels over the weekend, further expanding the area it has proclaimed straddling Iraq and Syria.
The Islamic State launched a new, deadly offensive:
Syrian rebels appealed for international assistance to counter a new offensive by the Islamic State in the northern province of Aleppo that could reshape the battlefield in Syria.
Fact or propaganda?
Russia reportedly pulling experts from Syria, in bid to save itself from sanctions:
Moscow has begun to turn its back on Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime, the London-based Arabic daily A-Sharq al-Awsat reported on Sunday.
Erdogan vows to punish journalist behind Syria trucks video:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has personally threatened the editor of a newspaper which published video footage it said showed the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) helping send weapons to Syria.
8 civilians killed as Saudi-led strikes hit Yemen arms depots:
Debris from the explosions fell as far as five kilometres (more than three miles) away, triggering an exodus of residents for safer areas
Yemeni captors post video of abducted Frenchwoman Isabelle Prime:
The captors of a French development worker have posted the first video of her since she was abducted. Isabelle Prime is shown appealing to the French and Yemeni governments for her release. Prime was kidnapped in Yemen in February.
War criminal:
Ambassador Bolton Says Israel Must Strike Iran Soon:
Clock running out as Iran marches to nuclear arsenal with 'legitimization' of deal, which is part of Obama's 'wrong ideology.'
Turks think Israel is their biggest threat, poll finds:
Respondents put danger level from the US just behind Israel, but ahead of Syria; 85% see IS as a terror group
German FM calls for lifting of Gaza blockade during visit:
During Monday's visit to Gaza he said the enclave was a "powder keg" at risk of exploding, and called for efforts to quicken reconstruction.
Jewish protesters try to block Christian ritual at holy site:
Israeli police say they forcibly removed dozens of Jewish protesters trying to prevent a Christian ritual from taking place at a holy site revered in both religions. The skirmish took place Monday at a site revered by Jews as the tomb of the biblical King David and by Christians as the site of Jesus' Last Supper.
Adelson to host secret anti-BDS fundraiser, strategy summit:
Conference reportedly being organized by top Jewish donors, including Hollywood entertainment mogul Haim Saban.
50 Killed in Somali-Ethiopian Border Clashes:
At least 50 people were killed and scores injured in week-long border clashes between Somali clan militia and an Ethiopian paramilitary unit, Somali authorities said on Monday.
Five killed in Libya suicide attack claimed by IS militant group:
The IS group on Sunday declared "war" on the powerful Fajr Libya militia alliance that controls Tripoli and claimed a suicide bombing that killed five of its fighters.
Libya edges closer to economic collapse as currency dives:
The crisis has prompted the authorities in Tripoli, who control much of western Libya, to plan cuts to petrol subsidies, to delay public salary payments and to ban on imports from cars to steel.
Nine suspected separatists killed in SW Pakistan:
At least nine suspected separatists have been killed in a clash with security forces in the southwestern Baluchistan province on Monday, officials said. The clash occurred in Qallat district during a search operation , which is still ongoing, said Khan Waseh, a spokesman for Frontier Corps (FC), a paramilitary force in Baluchistan to assist police.
5 militants killed as in attacks on police station in Afghanistan: -
Five militants were killed in a six-hour-seige on a police station in Jalalabad city, capital of eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar by Taliban overnight Sunday, police said on Monday.
5 killed in eastern Ukraine despite cease-fire:
At least two civilians and three Ukrainian troops have been killed in eastern Ukraine despite the ongoing cease-fire, officials on both sides of the conflict said Monday.
Tsipras Blames 'Absurd Proposals' for Greece Debt-Deal Failure :
"The lack of an agreement so far is not due to the supposed intransigent, uncompromising and incomprehensible Greek stance," he wrote. "It is due to the insistence of certain institutional actors on submitting absurd proposals and displaying a total indifference to the recent democratic choice of the Greek people."
Lafazanis: Greece is preparing request to join BRICS bank:
Greece is preparing and will probably submit a request to participate in the new development bank for BRICS countries and has secured Russia's support on the issue, Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis told ANA-MPA news agency on Friday evening.
20 Most Peaceful Countries in the World to Live in:
The first prize goes to Iceland, followed by Denmark and New Zealand. The Global Peace Index has issued a report which lists all 162 countries in the world according to how peaceful they are.
War criminal:
Tony Blair 'in £330,000 demand for hunger talk':
A SPEECH by Tony Blair at a world hunger conference was dropped after the former Prime Minister allegedly demanded a massive £330,000 fee, it has emerged.
How Corrupt is Britain? :
Institutional corruption in Britain is endemic and Professor David Whyte has assembled an impressive list of academics and campaigners to prove the point.
Biggest cancer breakthrough in 40 years sees tumors disappear:
The powerful new combination of drugs has cured more than half of the patients in the trial, with tumors either completely eradicated or shrinking. The test was done on 945 patients with advanced melanoma, and carried out with the drugs Ipilimumab and Nivolumab.
Police crush, kill man begging for his life, screaming he was suffocating until his ears turned blue:
Some are calling Robert Minjarez Jr. the Latino Eric Garner. Sadly, the comparison is uncanny-including the failure of the system to indict the officers who killed Minjarez.
Missing Minutes From Security Video Raises Questions:
Chicago police officers deleted footage from a security camera at a Burger King restaurant - from where 17-year old was shot and killed. McDonald was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer on the night of October 20, 2014. Nine of the shots struck McDonald in the back, according to the Medical Examiners report.
Maine Tribes Withdraw Legislative Reps in Historic Break with State:
The Penobscot Indian Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe took history into their hands last week when they permanently withdrew their representatives from the Maine legislature, ending almost two centuries of participation in the state's political process.
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