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Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation, and Apartheid South Africa
In a Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio Archives exclusive, we air a newly discovered recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On December 7,...
41 Hearts Beating in Guantanamo
January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjecting many of them to torture and arbitrary detention.
Witness...
41 Hearts Beating in Guantanamo by Kathy Kelly – Antiwar.com Blog
January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjecting many of them to torture and arbitrary detention....
Afghan Refugees Feeling the Heat as Geopolitical Tensions Rise
Last week, the Pakistani government callously doubled down on its strategy of using Afghan refugees as pawns in its ongoing political dispute with Afghanistan...
British embassy in Kabul will move to high-security zone amid Taliban resurgence — RT...
Published time: 2 Jan, 2018 09:13 Edited time: 3 Jan, 2018 08:26
The British embassy...
US Counter-Terror Airstrikes Double in Trump’s First Year
President Donald Trump speaks during an event with US military personnel at Yokota Air Base at Fussa in Tokyo on November 5, 2017. (Photo:...
US defense secretary bucks tradition, foregoes visit to frontline troops — RT US News
Published time: 30 Dec, 2017 03:02 Edited time: 30 Dec, 2017 07:51
Secretary of Defense James...
Theresa May’s ‘mission accomplished’ moment? PM thanks UK troops for ‘crushing’ ISIS — RT...
Islamic State terrorists have been defeated in Iraq, British Prime Minister Theresa May has told...
New York woman uses bitcoin to launder money to ISIS — RT US News
A woman allegedly converted $85,000 into bitcoin and other virtual currencies to support Islamic State, but...
Activists handcuffed by NYPD at US mission to UN over Yemen protest — RT...
Several protesters staging a civil disobedience action were led away handcuffed by New York police outside...
84% of grooming gang members Asian, researchers say — RT UK News
Published time: 11 Dec, 2017 08:15
The vast majority of men convicted of child grooming...
84 Percent of Grooming Gang Criminals Are of an ‘Asian’ Background
A report by counter-extremism think tank Quilliam has found that more than eight out of ten men convicted of grooming gang offences...
Abbas won’t meet Pence as Palestinians seek new mediator — RT US News
Published time: 9 Dec, 2017 20:28 Edited time: 9 Dec, 2017 20:28
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
Boris wants UK back in Middle East… RT looks at the mess British foreign...
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson attacked British foreign policy critics for playing “into a jihadi...
Former U.S. Defense Secretary Explains Why Nuclear Holocaust Is Now Likely
Former U.S. Defense Secretary Explains Why Nuclear Holocaust Is Now Likely
Eric Zuesse
The Stanford mathematician William J. Perry was a strategic nuclear advisor to U.S....
Cherry-picking Toward War with Iran – Consortiumnews
In trying to rally American hostility toward Iran, CIA Director Pompeo and other U.S. officials are engaging in the same...
US deployment of drones in Niger is a ‘big problem for Africa’ — RT...
The Niger government’s recent decision to allow American drones over its territory will accomplish little in...
FBI arrests 70yo who made ricin & tested it on her neighbors — RT...
Published time: 2 Dec, 2017 17:30
A 70-year-old Vermont woman has been arrested by the FBI...
How Iran Came to Be Called ‘The Top State Sponsor of Terrorism’
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
While I happened to be researching another subject, a central question in the investigation came to be how Iran...
Ahmadi mosques introduce extra security to stop terrorist attacks — RT UK News
British members of the Ahmadi sect, seen as heretics by most Muslims, have had to...
US Colonizes Africa – LewRockwell
If national-security reporters are ever replaced by robots writing boilerplate stories, blame it on the fact that U.S. military policy has become so predictable...
Why James Mattis Should Be Fired and Court-Martialed
Eric Zuesse
The U.S. Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, made a secret decision to place the safety and welfare of some foreigners higher than...
How US Tries to Link Iran to Al Qaeda – Consortiumnews
The U.S. propaganda campaign against Iran has tried to tie it somehow to Al Qaeda, including exploitation of a newly...
In Defense of Millennial Politics | By Derek Denman, Maria Adelmann
Read it enough, and it starts to seem true: Millennials are too wracked by fear and anxiety, too fragile, too self-absorbed, too distracted by...
Trump calls for suspension of NFL player who stood for Mexican, but not US,...
US President Donald Trump has called for the NFL to suspend Marshawn Lynch. The Oakland Raiders...
the UK’s Hair-Raising Admissions About the Prospect of Nuclear War and Accident
Photo by Toby Scott | CC BY 2.0
The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has published several reports over the last few years. They discuss...
Into the Afghan Abyss (Again) | By Alfred W. McCoy
After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying...
US spent $5.6 trillion on wars since 9/11 – study — RT US News
Washington has expended a whopping $5.6 trillion on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan since...
Why Robert Mueller Was Selected to Be the Special Prosecutor
Eric Zuesse
It all began with the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers apartment complex in the Saudi city of Khobar, which killed 19 U.S....
What Craziness Is Going On in Saudi Arabia? | By Eric Margolis
What’s going on in Saudi Arabia? Over 200 bigwigs detained and billions of ‘illegal profits’ of some $800 billion confiscated.
The kingdom is in an...
“Inappropriate Behaviour”: Michael Fallon, Yemen, And The “Mainstream” That Is Anything But
The truth of corporate journalism, and the great irony of its obsession with ‘fake news’, is that it is itself utterly fake. What could...
Nation That Says It Can’t Afford Medicare for All Has Spent $5.6 Trillion on...
Protesters converge outside of the Internal Revenue Service on tax day in lower Manhattan to protest tax dollars being spent on the military...
Is this justice? Here’s a list of those who HAVE and HAVE NOT been...
Cuts to the UK legal aid system have prompted a Great British backlash after it...
MI6, MI5 & GCHQ in court over mass surveillance practices — RT UK News
The legality of British intelligence services’ mass surveillance programs will be assessed by the European...
Nuclear First Strike: Is It Constitutional, Is It Lawful, Is It Just?
Your correspondent attended the November 4 Harvard University colloquium on the topic: Is Nuclear First Strike Legal or Just? The intellectual firepower contained in...
Did visit to Shakespeare’s birthplace turn Bin Laden against the UK? — RT UK...
Published time: 2 Nov, 2017 12:12 Edited time: 3 Nov, 2017 12:14
Osama Bin Laden...
Far-right extremists ‘milking’ UK’s political correctness on Islamists – former govt adviser — RT...
Published time: 3 Nov, 2017 12:58 Edited time: 4 Nov, 2017 09:12
Political correctness is...
Letters from the Leader of Al Qaeda
Eric Zuesse
Since there's no decent presentation on the Web of Ayman al-Zawahiri's lengthy 9 July 2005 letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, I'm here posting...
Trump’s Hate-Iran Campaign
Eric Zuesse
On October 19th, the far-right Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD) held a “National Security Summit” which featured as speakers both Donald Trump’s...
Woman jailed for luring sister home and stabbing her to death — RT UK...
Published time: 26 Oct, 2017 16:27 Edited time: 26 Oct, 2017 16:32
A woman who...
Many US troops say they encounter racism in the ranks
As many as 42 percent of non-white US troops said they have personally experienced examples of...
NYT Laments ‘Forever Wars’ Its Editorials Helped Create
In considering why “the public is quiet” about the United States’ unending wars, the New York Times (10/23/17) fails to examine the failure of...
‘They Have a Systematic Campaign to Ethnically Cleanse the Entire Rohingya Population’
Janine Jackson interviewed Azeem Ibrahim about the Rohungya ethnic cleansing for the October 13, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Malala Yousafzai targeted on social media for wearing ‘skinny jeans & heels’ at Oxford...
Published time: 19 Oct, 2017 11:50
Women’s education activist Malala Yousafzai has faced backlash on...
Traitor to American Exceptionalism and White Supremacy
Photo by United States Army | CC by 2.0
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s guilty plea begins the end of this phase of an embarrassing, sad and morally...
Wrongful Rhetoric and Trump’s Strategy on Iran
Mordechai Vanunu was imprisoned in Israel for eighteen years because he blew the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program. He felt he had...
Tom ‘two-dinners’ Watson joins Guantanamo solidarity hunger strike — RT UK
Published time: 17 Oct, 2017 11:45 Edited time: 17 Oct, 2017 12:59
Labour’s deputy leader...
Why the Vengeance Toward Sgt. Bergdahl – Consortiumnews
The angry politics around Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s “desertion” in Afghanistan revolve around right-wing hatred for President Obama who engineered Bergdahl’s...
‘Nonbinary’ 3rd gender now an option on California IDs — RT America
Published time: 16 Oct, 2017 13:18
California Governor Jerry Brown signed the 'Gender Recognition Act' into...
Trump Ignores Israeli/Saudi Abuses – Consortiumnews
By offering a propagandistic tirade on Iran’s role in the Mideast – a classic neocon screed – President Trump has...
Great divide between White Britons & ethnic minorities laid bare in nationwide audit —...
Published time: 10 Oct, 2017 09:32 Edited time: 11 Oct, 2017 07:43
An investigation into...
Wrongful Rhetoric and Trump’s Strategy on Iran – Antiwar.com Blog
Mordechai Vanunu was imprisoned in Israel for eighteen years because he blew the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program. He felt he had...
Studies Show Republicans Don’t Understand What Produces Wealth in America
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
A Pew poll published on May 2nd was headlined "Why people are rich and poor: Republicans and Democrats have...
Wed. Oct. 11th Grandma Drone Protester, Mary Anne Grady Flores, Appeal to be...
Ithaca, N.Y. - On Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, the long-awaited appeals case of Mary Anne Grady Flores, one of many grandma drone protesters...
“Canadian Man” Pleads Guilty to Terrorism in plot Targeting NYC Landmarks
A 19-year-old Mississauga, Ont., man is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to terrorism offences in a 2016 plot to detonate bombs in New York...
Nobel’s Peace Prize to ICAN: Thank you to the Nobel Committee!
Our thanks to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for awarding its 2017 Prize to ICAN – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Undoubtedly nuclear...
‘We just need guns’: ISIS sympathizers targeted Times Square, unsealed terrorism charges say
The FBI says three men living outside of the US, including one American, planned to attack...
The Dangerous Hypocrisy of Celebrating Obama While Criminalizing Manning
Last month, two well-known Americans — former president Barack Obama, and whistleblower Chelsea Manning — were supposed to visit Canada. But while Obama was...
America Not Immune from Chaos
“Exceptional” America views itself as largely immune from devastating storms and the violence that infect much of the world, but...
Wars Are Not Fought To ‘Protect Your Freedoms’
A number of years ago I was at an antiwar protest in St. Petersburg, FL where one of my fellow protesters was holding a...
How the BBC Spreads Lies: How to read propaganda
Eric Zuesse, originally published at The Saker
Propaganda frequently masquerades as ‘news’. A ‘news’ narrative’s relevant background needs to be understood, in order for the...
Wars Are Not Fought To ‘Protect Your Freedoms’
A number of years ago I was at an antiwar protest in St. Petersburg, FL where one of my fellow protesters was holding a...
Rockets land in & around Kabul Airport after US Defense Secretary Mattis arrives for...
Published time: 27 Sep, 2017 08:09 Edited time: 27 Sep, 2017 08:42
Several rockets landed in...
Amid Tensions With North Korea, 51 Countries Sign Ban on Nuclear Weapons Despite US...
Amid tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile tests, 51 countries have signed the world's first legally binding treaty banning nuclear weapons. It prohibits...
Trump keeps eyes on Afghan mineral prize in meeting with Ghani
President Donald Trump and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani have voiced support for US companies developing Afghanistan’s...
After Its Caliphate Fails
While the Syrian Arab Army, the Russian aviation and Hezbollah are preparing to finish off Daesh, the Pentagon is planning a new war against...
Trump’s UN Speech
I listened to part of Trump’s UN speech this morning. I was so embarrassed for him and for my country that I had to...
Statue of famous Suffragette will stand among some of Britain’s most bloodstained imperialists
One hundred years since women were given the vote, Parliament Square finally gets its first...
Over 3,000 new US troops headed to Afghanistan – Pentagon
Published time: 18 Sep, 2017 19:27 Edited time: 19 Sep, 2017 06:50
US Defense Secretary James...
South Asia: 1,300 Dead, 40 Million Impacted in Climate Change-Linked Flooding
We turn to the devastating floods in South Asia, where more than 41 million people have been battling floods and displacement. More than 1,300...
The People of Afghanistan have had Truly Enough of Western Imperialist Barbarism
Alessandro Bianchi: The geographic location of Afghanistan has always occupied a central role. The April peace talks between Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Russia and China seemed...
Rand Paul threatens to hold up defense bill unless Congress votes to end wars...
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has vowed to delay a $700 billion defense bill until...
Nuclear Weapons, Natural Disasters, Bullies and Your Doctor
The world watches as the natural disasters of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the earthquake off Mexico wreak their devastation, waiting for their final...
‘Weapons for tyrants’: UK blasted for inviting human rights abusers to arms trade fair
Britain’s biggest arms fair starts Tuesday, and will play host to several countries labelled ...
Trump’s Continuing Refusal to Prosecute the 9/11 Funders
Eric Zuesse
By now, it has been well documented that, as I documented on January 29th, "Al Qaeda Funded by Royal Sauds, U.S. Gov’t. Documents”....
Deep Shame on Suu Kyi and Myanmar
Few people have ever heard of Myanmar’s Rohingya people. Not many more could find Myanmar on a map – particularly after its name was...
Putin/Xi To Bypass Dollar
The annual BRICS summit in Xiamen – where President Xi Jinping was once mayor – could not intervene in a more incandescent geopolitical context.
Once...
Jihadism Won’t Be Allowed To Die
A serious working hypothesis is being discussed for a while now among independent geopolitical analysts. Here it is, in a nutshell.
Daesh may be dying...
Echoes of Reagan: Another Nuclear Buildup
Thirty years ago Americans endured an absurd expansion of the US nuclear-weapon force under President Reagan. The announced weapons modernization program was accompanied by...
US warns citizens of terrorist attacks threat at European tourist hotspots
The US has extended a European travel alert for its citizens, warning that terrorists continue to...
‘This Has Always Been a Failed and Failing War’
Janine Jackson interviewed Phyllis Bennis about Trump’s Afghan War escalation for the August 25, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Trump Is Failing Because He’s a New Yorker, Argues Incoherent WaPo Op-Ed
The Washington Post‘s op-ed (8/27/17) on why New Yorkers “so often fail to fit in, here in Washington.”
Every now and then a major op-ed...
500 British Muslims attend ‘anti-terrorism’ training camp
Published time: 29 Aug, 2017 10:44 Edited time: 29 Aug, 2017 14:10
More than 500...
No end in sight: Pentagon awards $727mn contract to support Afghan Air Force
The Pentagon has awarded a contract worth over $727 million in support of the Afghan Air...
Afghanistan and the Collapse of American Governance
For years Donald Trump called for an end to America’s war in Afghanistan. Yet as president he has quickly decided to expand the war....
No end in sight: US leaders’ broken promises on Afghanistan
With President Donald Trump’s new strategy, America’s longest-ever war promises to stretch on indefinitely, despite pledges...
An Interventionist Foreign Policy Blurs the Line of Demarcation Between Neoconservatives and Neoliberals
President Trump’s address to the nation on August 21, 2017, in which he underscored his government’s stance vis-a-vis South Asia, gave me a sense...
US Doesn’t Want Its War on Afghanistan To End
The US is alarmed Pakistan decided Russia has the best chance of being a stabilizing force for a peaceful outcome in Afghanistan: the US...
Ex-DNC chair Wasserman Schultz cleared of fraud in federal court
The former Democratic National Committee chairperson accused of fixing the 2016 Democratic party primary in favor...
Understanding Trump’s Foreign Policies
Eric Zuesse
According to both the Washington Post and Politico, U.S. President Donald Trump is now in the thrall of the U.S. military-industrial complex, because...
Trump ‘Presidential’ Again—for Ramping Up War in Afghanistan
Foreign Policy‘s Paul Miller (8/22/17) liked the speech in part because “Trump said ‘win’ and ‘victory’ more times in 15 minutes than President Barack...
Corbyn ally ‘unfit for office’ after liking spoof tweet telling sex abuse victims to...
A Labour MP who shared social media posts telling Rotherham sex abuse victims to shut...
The Nations that Accept Nazism Today
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
The U.S. Government leads a global operation to make racist fascism ‘respectable’ again.
On 21 November 2014, in a vote...
Reporting on Trump’s Afghan Escalation Omits Dead Afghan Civilians
Coverage of Trump’s Afghan speech rarely mentioned how many civilians have been killed since the US launched the Afghan War in 2001.
As President Donald...
Man rejects British-Asian optician, says Manchester terrorist attack was ‘last straw’
A man has provoked an outcry after refusing to be seen by a British optician...
London police spend £9.4mn on lethal weapons to fight terrorism
Published time: 22 Aug, 2017 12:37
London’s Metropolitan Police has massively increased spending on weapons...
William Astore on Trump’s Afghan War Speech: More of the Same, With More Killing
As a private citizen and presidential candidate, Donald Trump railed against the Afghan war. A waste, he said. Americans should withdraw, he said. But...
Trump’s change of heart: Afghanistan strategy marks dramatic switch for US president
Published time: 22 Aug, 2017 09:57 Edited time: 22 Aug, 2017 10:17
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Tillerson: US supports Afghan peace talks that result in Taliban 'legitimacy'
Published time: 22 Aug, 2017 02:06 Edited time: 22 Aug, 2017 02:25
Secretary of State Rex...
Trump set to announce Afghan strategy after ‘rigorous’ review of options
Donald Trump is expected to announce his long-overdue military strategy for Afghanistan Monday evening according to...
How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
As white nationalism and the so-called “alt-Right” have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But...
The Saudi-Israeli Alliance
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
Two of the U.S. government’s supposed allies are supposedly not allies of each other but enemies of each other,...
Grand jury expands felony indictment of Wasserman Schultz’s former IT aide
A former House IT aide who had access to emails and files of dozens of Democratic...
Malala Yousafzai accepts place at Oxford University 5yrs after Taliban shooting
Published time: 17 Aug, 2017 13:40
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani-born Nobel Prize-winning activist who narrowly...
Man arrested for anti-Muslim chest graffiti tells RT that Britain has failed groomed white...
A man who was arrested after stripping off in public to reveal his torso scrawled...
Netanyahu’s Pro-Nazi Lie: ‘Hitler Wanted to Expel the Jews’
Eric Zuesse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dadgep_e0Hc
“Netanyahu: Hitler didn't want to exterminate Jews”
RT published Oct 21, 2015
Netanyahu (0:25-): “Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time ;...
British ex-Muslims vow to ‘boldly’ challenge Islam over LGBT persecution
The Council of ex-Muslims of Britain will challenge Islam and any other religion for persecuting...
N. Korea tension: ‘People who say nukes deter war must reconsider,’ says Trident whistleblower
Published time: 11 Aug, 2017 12:04 Edited time: 11 Aug, 2017 13:37
As threats between...
Sex abuse by Asian gangs unreported because informers fear being called racist – MP
Political correctness is getting in the way of authorities investigating whether there is an underlying...
Bergdahl court-martial: Prosecutor won’t use alleged Army deserter’s statements against him
Statements made by Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl during his five-year captivity by the Taliban will not be...
Convicted child rapist paid by police to spy on underage sex parties
Police paid a convicted child rapist almost £10,000 to spy on “sex parties” as part of an investigation into a grooming gang in Newcastle...
The Tale of the Brothers Awan
There has been surprisingly little media follow-up on the story about the July 25thDulles Airport arrest of House of Representatives’ employed Pakistani-American IT specialist...
Man found guilty of trying to smuggle pipe bomb onto UK flight
Published time: 8 Aug, 2017 16:07
Nadeem Muhammad, 43, originally from Pakistan, was found guilty...
Polls: U.S. Is ‘the Greatest Threat to Peace in the World Today’
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
It has happened again: yet another international poll finds that the U.S. is viewed by peoples around the world...
You Cannot Begin a Crime in Good Faith
This morning we handed out flyers on Kellogg Boulevard in St. Paul. We encountered very few who knew why it is called that. Frank...
Forget Principles, Impose Sanctions!
Photo by Seattleye | CC BY 2.0
“Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”
— Jawaharlal Nehru
“Those are my principles, and...
Time to End the Lost Afghan War
Media reports claim President Donald Trump let loose on his generals behind closed doors, blasting them royally for their startling failures in Afghanistan, America’s...
More UK children fearing forced marriage – protection charity
Published time: 4 Aug, 2017 13:52
The number of children in the UK who fear...
Swamp for Trump: Third US President vows to win 16-year Afghan War
Clearly frustrated by the Pentagon’s ineffective strategies, Donald Trump has vowed to fire some of his...
‘Three Musketeers’ terror gang found guilty of planning Lee Rigby-style attack
Published time: 2 Aug, 2017 11:07
Members of a terror cell that dubbed themselves the...
IT Hacker Imran Awan
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s IT specialist could very well bring down the entire fake news Russia story that Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff put together...
Global Polling: Which Nations Are Happiest? Unhappiest?
Eric Zuesse
Results have recently been published from surveys of 68,759 people in 69 countries around the world during 2016 by WIN/Gallup International, which organization...
Crooked Wasserman-Schultz in Trouble
A former IT staffer for Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was arrested at the Dulles International Airport trying to flee the country for Pakistan. Imran Awan...
Journalism Is Dying and Content Marketing Is Taking Its Place (I Know Because I...
Spin is spin, even when it is written by journalists. (Image: scyther5 / iStock / Getty Images Plus)
Stories like this can't be found in...
Teenage girl found chopped up in freezer in suspected honor killing
Published time: 21 Jul, 2017 12:00 Edited time: 21 Jul, 2017 13:40
A 19-year-old girl’s...
Empire of Destruction: Precision Warfare? Don’t Make Me Laugh
You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and...
Gay Muslim marriages ‘thriving’ in Britain, says drag queen
Same-sex Muslim marriages are “thriving” in the UK, according to the person billed as the...
Nukes and the Global Schism
The United States boycotted the U.N. negotiations to ban — everywhere across Planet Earth — nuclear weapons. So did eight other countries. Guess which...
Tory MPs faced anti-Semitism, intimidation & smears during election campaign – report
MPs faced anti-Semitic attacks, racist abuse, intimidation, smears, death threats and slashed tires during the...
Youngest ever Guantanamo prisoner to receive $8mn from Canadian govt – reports
Published time: 4 Jul, 2017 12:41 Edited time: 4 Jul, 2017 13:23
Canada will apologise and...
Rockets’ Red Glare and Bombs Bursting in Air
A June 27 Pew Research Center poll says world opinion of the United States has plummeted since Donald Trump took office. Surveying people in...
Rockets’ Red Glare and Bombs Bursting in Air
A June 27 Pew Research Center poll says world opinion of the United States has plummeted since Donald Trump took office. Surveying people in...
"I Saw Pieces of Bodies": Afghan Civilians Describe Terrorization by US Drones
Predator drone with Hellfire missiles on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. (Photo: Alex Edney-Browne)
The Trump administration's "drone policy,"...
Afghanistan’s Lessons for Syria
The bloody history of Afghanistan’s civil war in the 1980s – how the U.S. “victory” over the Soviets morphed into...
Nuclear Crisis Group Urges Steps To Prevent Nuclear Conflict
Former Officials, Experts From 10 Countries Review Nuclear Flashpoints, Propose Urgent Plan To Head Off Nuclear Use
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 28th, 2017CONTACT: Anna...
Indian Prime Minister Modi Was Once Banned From Entering US; Today He Meets Trump
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump in their first face-to-face meeting. The meeting comes as Lockheed Martin...
A Very Scary Week in the Middle East
What a scary week in the Mideast. The epicenter of the world’s energy resources and the land-bridge between Asia and Africa is spinning out...
Pentagon wasted $93 million on 'forest' camouflage uniforms for Afghan troops – report
The Pentagon spent $93.81 million over the past decade to provide Afghan troops with uniforms of...
‘Long-haul’ Afghan war to turn into ‘generational struggle’ involving US troops – Petraeus
Americans may stay on Afghan soil for a “long-haul” mission that could evolve into several decades...
Former congressional candidate gets 20yrs for plotting attack on Muslim community
Robert Doggart, a former independent Tennessee congressional candidate, has been sentenced to jail for 20 years...
Saudi Arabia is Destabilizing the World
Just a few months ago, the governor of Indonesia’s largest city, Jakarta, seemed headed for easy re-election despite the fact that he is a...
How I know that the Sauds did the 9/11 attacks
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
As a historian, I recognize that everything we know about history is from sources, and depends upon the reliability...
Mother of London attacker ‘believed he was under police control & not dangerous’
The mother of Yousef Zaghba, one of the three men responsible for the deadly vehicle...
‘I’m going to be a terrorist,’ 3rd London Bridge attacker told authorities
The Moroccan-Italian man identified as the third London attacker told Italian authorities “I’m going to be a terrorist” when he was stopped at Bologna...
‘Jihadis Next Door’: Netflix removes film featuring London Bridge attacker
Published time: 6 Jun, 2017 20:23
A documentary on British jihadists has been removed from...
Police name 2 London Bridge attackers as Khuram Shazad Butt & Rachid Redouane, release...
Published time: 5 Jun, 2017 17:14 Edited time: 5 Jun, 2017 17:59
Metropolitan Police have...
We Can’t Let Britain Become a Vast ISIS Recruiting Station
Photo by KeithJustKeith | CC BY 2.0
The massacre in Manchester is a horrific event born out of the violence raging in a vast area...
US to switch from free military grants to loans for Ukraine & others
The US will scrap many of its sizeable foreign military grants and replace them with loans, the White House’s top finance official has said....
The Real Story of Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, died Friday at a hospital in Virginia at the age of 89. Though the...
Iran and the 9/11 Attacks
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
The official U.S. government line is that Iran is the main country responsible for the 9/11 attacks in America....
US ramps up bombing in Afghanistan as Trump mulls troop surge
As the Pentagon lobbies President Donald Trump to send up to 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan,...
Is Europe Committing Suicide?
A couple of days ago, I saw TV footage of the outspoken Labour MP Jess Phillips on the campaign trail, seeking re-election in her...
Landlord banning ‘battered wives & coloreds’ from renting his properties faces legal action
A human rights watchdog has launched legal action against a millionaire property tycoon who bans...
Marriage between cousins linked to 19% of all child deaths in East London borough
Published time: 17 May, 2017 16:22
Infant mortality and other health issues in the East...
The Hazards of Military Worship
More, more, more.
I was guilty of it myself. Commanding a small cavalry troop of about 85 soldiers in southwest Kandahar Province back in 2011,...
Trump’s Plan Finally Becomes Clear
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
The first stage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to restore America’s former dominance as a manufacturing country will...
United Airlines changes cockpit codes after exposure on public website
Published time: 15 May, 2017 22:04
United Airlines is changing the keypad codes used to open...
Osama Bin Laden’s son ‘bent on avenging father’s death’ – ex-FBI agent
Published time: 14 May, 2017 15:55
Osama Bin Laden’s son is set to become the new...
Sex abuse & sham marriages: Reality for Eastern European women trafficked to Scotland
Women from Eastern Europe are being smuggled into Scotland for sexual exploitation and sham marriages at the hands of human traffickers, according to a...
The US Way of War Is a Budget-Breaker: Never Has a Society Spent More...
US Air Force Staff Sgt. Joshua Matrine, a crew chief with the 159th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, cleans the canopy on an F-15C Eagle aircraft...
IRmep Asks Appeals Court To Block Trump Transfer of $3.7 Billion in US Aid...
Washington, DC – On May 8, 2017 IRmep (Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy) Director Grant F. Smith filed an emergency motion (PDF) asking...
The "Stamp of Guantánamo" Brands Russian Former Prisoners for Life
A staged prison cell in the now-closed Camp 5 of the US prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, during a press tour, September 1,...
Killer Drones in the Empire State: Norman Solomon
At dusk I stood on a residential street with trim lawns and watched planes approach a runaway along the other side of a chain-link...
Government Has Allowed Corporations to Be More Powerful Than the State
Both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for letting corporations run roughshod over all attempts at regulation. (Photo: Pixabay / Flickr)
Disaster, poverty and misfortune have...
Mad-Dog Mattis Going Rabid
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
On Monday, April 25th, the AP headlined, "US general in Afghanistan suggests Russia arming the Taliban” and reported that...
NYT’s ‘Impossible to Verify’ North Korea Nuke Claim Spreads Unchecked by Media
The New York Times (4/24/17) makes news with an “impossible to verify” claim.
Buoyed by a total of 18 speculative verb forms—five “mays,” eight “woulds”...
‘Hang gliding jihadist’ has US citizenship revoked for plotting terrorist bombing campaign
Published time: 24 Apr, 2017 12:28
A man convicted of being a member of an Egyptian terrorist...
US 'Deep State' Sold Out Counter-Terrorism to Keep Itself in Business
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman outraged many readers when he wrote an opinion piece on 12 April calling on President Trump to "back...
Meet the ‘Mother Of All Bombs’: 6 facts about bomb Trump dropped on Afghanistan
Published time: 13 Apr, 2017 21:09Edited time: 14 Apr, 2017 16:26
US forces in Afghanistan have dropped...
‘We have no choice’: Trump justifies US strikes, military buildup & posturing
The US has “no choice” but to continue boosting its military power, Donald Trump has said,...
Chocolate Cake, the MOAB and Hexavalent Chromium: Let the Good Times Roll!
“It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a...
Handing Killer Drones to Donald Trump
When President Obama expanded use of lethal drones, many Americans trusted him to act judiciously, but now those exceptional powers...
Video: MOAB strike is a ‘demonstration to anyone who defies US dictates’ – Answer...
US forces in Afghanistan have dropped America's biggest non-nuclear weapon on Islamic State positions on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. US Senator ...
Via Youtube
What Have We Done: Executive Power, Drones, and Trump
The news is rife with President Trump’s threatened and actual military misadventures: in Syria, Yemen, and North Korea. But these military actions take on...
Devastating capabilities of mega-bomb raise questions over official death toll
Doubts have been cast over reports that the MOAB dropped by US forces in Afghanistan killed...
Dying for business: UK softening stance on death penalty for post-Brexit deals – Amnesty
Britain has been accused of “damping down” its criticism of regimes that practice the death...
Ground Killer Drones: Shut Down Creech!
CODEPINK invites all who love peace to join its Campaign of Non-violent Actions to Ground Killer Drones.
The drone era of endless war began in...
The Deep State, Explained
As the daily drip of information about possible links between Trump’s campaign and Russia trickles on, Democrats, commentators and at least some officials in...
US court nixes publication of Guantanamo force-feeding video
Published time: 31 Mar, 2017 20:58
Releasing the videos of Guantanamo Bay guards force-feeding an inmate during...
Lesbian asylum seeker says ex-husband will kill her if Britain deports her to Nigeria
A Nigerian woman held at Britain’s most infamous immigration detention center has pleaded with the authorities not to send her back to her home...
Welsh ISIS hacker hid information on secret cufflink memory stick
An Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) hacker who hid terrorism data in memory sticks disguised a cufflinks and plotted to down drones now faces...
George Galloway to stand in Gorton by-election, condemns Labour’s all-Asian shortlist
Former MP George Galloway is making a comeback to politics by running in the highly-contested Manchester Gorton by-election.
Galloway, originally a Labour MP before setting...
The Political Economy of ‘Moral Authority’
In her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last year (7/28/16), Hillary Clinton forcefully rebutted President Donald J. Trump’s call to “make America...
‘Misguided’ Obama counter-extremism program ‘almost exclusively’ targeted Muslims – report
A program introduced by the Obama administration to deal with radicalization “almost exclusively” targeted Muslims, a...
Pentagon wants looser rules on using force in ‘temporary areas of active hostility’ –...
The White House is reportedly mulling over a Pentagon proposal to designate undeclared battlefields across the...
Debbie Wasserman Snake
Congressional staffers allegedly held their stepmother in “captivity” with violent threats in a plan to use her to access money stashed away in the Middle East....
Bush-Era Foreign Policy Delusions Are Alive and Well in 2017
In trying to unravel the debates over U.S. foreign policy currently being fought out in the editorial pages of the New York Times, The...
The Endless, Victoryless, Afghan War
Last week, I wrote an article for TomDispatch.com on the Afghan war. You can read the entire article here, but I wanted to share...
In Afghanistan, America's Biggest Foe Is Self-Deception
America’s war in Afghanistan is now in its 16th year, the longest foreign war in our history. The phrase “no end in sight” barely...
British ISIS suicide bomber was ex-Gitmo detainee who won £1mn compensation
Suicide bomber Abu-Zakariya al-Britani detonated a car bomb outside an Iraqi military base southwest of Mosul, 12 years after winning £1 million ($1.25 million)...
British suicide bomber ‘wasn’t being monitored’ because Theresa May ‘downgraded surveillance’
While serving as home secretary, Prime Minister Theresa May downgraded the surveillance of an extremist...
DHS report disputes need for Trump travel ban, declassified docs show
Published time: 25 Feb, 2017 02:48
At least one intelligence officer determined that President Donald Trump’s executive...
California man pleads guilty to providing San Bernardino attack rifles
A California man has pleaded guilty to providing the high-powered rifles used to kill 14 people...
UKIP says Britain should slash its foreign aid budget
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is calling for an 80 percent cut to the foreign...
More Reds Under Our Beds
President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft...
Col. Ann Wright: Why I Support Tulsi Gabbard Going to Syria
I served my country for 29 years in the U.S. Army/ Army Reserves and retired as a colonel. I also served 16 years in...
Congressional Dems Go Diverse on Their Classifed Data
While the MSM is still in full “attack Trump” mode, breathlessly reporting each of his tweets, attacking his cabinet picks, gleefully celebrating how the...
Re-escalation in Afghanistan: Top US general calls for 'a few thousand' more troops
After 15 years, much bloodshed and hundreds of billions of dollars spent, the US should re-escalate...
The Muslim Ban Is Temporarily Halted, but It Must Be Overturned
Protesters march on the Capitol against the Muslim Ban in Washington, DC, February 4, 2017. (Photo: Masha George / Flickr)
On January 27, 2017, President...
Trump Schooled on Separation of Powers
President Trump is getting a crash course on the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers as federal courts knock down his...
Farage brands London mayor ‘hypocrite’ for hosting diplomats from nations banning Israelis
Ex-UKIP chief Nigel Farage has accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of hypocrisy for attacking US...
Al Qaeda Funded by Royal Sauds, U.S. Gov’t. Documents
Eric Zuesse, supplemented from original post at strategic-culture.org
The chief source of funds to Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups is Saudi Arabia’s royal family.
Documentation...
Trump Lets Saudis Off His ‘Muslim Ban’
President Trump’s ban against letting people from seven mostly Muslim countries enter the United States looks to many like a thinly concealed bias against...
Bull in the Mideast China Shop
President Donald Trump is getting ready to plunge into the burning Mideast with all the zeal and arrogance of a medieval crusader. The new...
Guerilla ads protesting mass deportations invade London tube
On Wednesday morning, London’s metro system was taken over by guerrilla advertisements that are part of a campaign to draw attention to mass deportations...
In final presidential hours, Obama quietly gave Palestinian Authority $221mn in aid – report
Just before leaving office, President Barack Obama reportedly authorized the discreet transfer of more than $227...
Peace Out, Obama
In the final days of his presidency, Barack Obama deployed 3,500 US troops, 87 tanks and 144 Bradley fighting vehicles to Poland, and 330 Marines...
Drone Proliferation Ramps Up
Photo by Iwan Gabovitch | CC BY 2.0
And thick and fast they came at last,And more and more and more—
— Lewis Carroll, “The Walrus...
The Three-way Tug of War that’s Pulling Syria Apart
(RINF) - Last month, the Islamic State recaptured Palmyra from where it was evicted by the Syrian army only in March; and this week,...
Body count: Judith Miller slammed on Twitter for saying Manning leaks killed people
Judith Miller, who through her reporting advocated invading Iraq in 2003, has been blasted on Twitter...
The Left is the New Right
Meg Lee Chin
Barack Obama started two wars. He launched strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. He bailed out Wall Street...
US sends 10 Guantanamo Bay detainees to Oman
Oman has announced it’s accepting 10 Guantanamo detainees, just days before President Obama leaves office. The...
Obama: The War Criminal Butcherer of Women and Children
There is no doubt that US President Barak Obama is a war criminal as are his military and intelligence officials and most of the...
Ethnic Conflict Leads to Brawl at German Police Academy
Last week, a fight broke out between at least two students at a police academy in Berlin. Several people were injured, including a number...
Guantanamo Bay turns 15: A look back at the notorious ‘torture camp’
Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp opened its cells to terrorist suspects 15 years ago, on January 11,...
Aid worker killed by Navy SEALs in Afghanistan ‘secretly worked with Britain’s MI6’ –...
A British aid worker who was killed by a grenade in Afghanistan during a botched rescue attempt by US special forces was actually working...
We Want To Be Somebody
Because the world feels dark these days, particularly in this imperiled republic, some light: For the last 30 years, Pakistani firefighter Mohammed Ayub -...
Bin Laden’s son ‘actively engaged in terrorism’, US imposes sanctions
The Obama administration has announced sanctions against the son of alleged 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden,...
US Special Operations troop deployments in Africa surged in 2016
Via WSWS. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission or license.
...
How Dangerous Is the US Assault on Russia?
Originally appeared at Facebook
As 2016 draws to a close, we find ourselves a deeply unsettled nation. We’re unable to draw the lines of our...
Syrian Conflict: The Deceptions and Betrayals
(RINF) - Since the times of the Soviet-Afghan jihad, during the eighties, it has been the fail-safe game plan of the master strategists at...
Climate Change Expert Sentenced to 32 Months for Fraud, Says Lying was a 'Rush'
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison Wednesday for lying...
British sex slave ‘held captive & raped by taxi driver for 13 years’
A woman who says she was kidnapped and abused as a sex slave for 13...
No black men, no Muslim women: UK job market discrimination remains rife, report shows
Muslim and black men are more likely to end up unemployed despite doing better in...
US closed $40bn worth of global arms agreements in 2015, far outstripping competitors –...
The US took first place in closing weapons sales deals globally last year, signing agreements to...
In the Wake of Berlin: What Now for Merkel?
It would be hard to find a leader who has suffered as sharp a reversal in popularity as Germany’s Angela Merkel. Her open door...
'I got a lot of problems with you': Rand Paul flames Trump, media, waste...
Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) took to Twitter to celebrate the fictitious holiday of Festivus by airing...
Berlin Truck Attacker May Still be at Large After Police Release Suspect
The Pakistani man who was arrested after the Berlin truck attack, was released as a result of insufficient evidence, according to the...
The Never-ending ‘War on Terror’
The Constitution granted war-making powers to Congress, but President Obama, like his post-World War II predecessors, has trampled on that...
If You’re for Peace
Speaking of fake news, the latest issue of the National Enquirer at the supermarket checkout is giving the mainstream presstitute media a run for...
It's 2016. Do You Know Where Your Bombs Are Falling?
A man walks through the remains of a factory that was bombed twice in September outside of Sana, Yemen, on October 29, 2016. (Photo:...
Owner of ‘Really British’ shop shocked at critics claiming he’s racist
The owner of a shop that specializes in British-themed products has rejected accusations of prejudice, accusing his detractors of “reverse racism.”
Small businessman Chris Ostwald...
Afghan “Refugee” Lie Exposed by UN
More than 380,000 Afghans have now been deported back home from Pakistan, with the active assistance of the United Nations (U.N.)—and with...
From iPhones to Trump, ripples of San Bernardino
A year after a couple loyal to ISIS killed 14 and wounded 22 in a terrorist...
Outrage as Islam Info Stall Established at Town’s Christmas Market
A Muslim group in Germany has been asked to voluntarily disassemble their information stand at a local Christmas market after a significant...
Kissinger and Brzezinski to be honoured by Nobel Institute and Oslo University
by Jan Oberg
These two top officials behind major US wars (Iran/Afghanistan and Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos) and regime change (against Allende, Chile) will speak at the first...
ISIS claims responsibility for Ohio State car-and-knife attack
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University in Columbus that...
Deceased Ohio State attacker identified as Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan
The deceased suspect in the car-and-knife attack on Ohio State University in Columbus has been identified....
What Has Neoliberal Capitalism Ever Done for India?
Colin Todhunter
When India ushered in neoliberal economic reforms during the early 1990s, the promise was job creation, inclusive growth and prosperity for all. But,...
Only Wealthy White Leftists
A great uproar goes forth from the enemies of the Trump Beast, with much gnashing of hair and pulling of teeth. He will be...
Lesson for the Transition Team?
This originally appeared in the March 1994 issue of The Rothbard-Rockwell Report.
On December 16, President Clinton named retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman to fill...
The Noose that Obama Had Wanted to Hand to President Hillary to Hang...
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
INTRODUCTION
This will be a summary, update, and extension from, a 25,000-word masterpiece of historical writing: the obscure, little-noticed, but...
On the Road With Our American Selves: Or How to Feel Like a Jerk...
Locals boarding the Likoni Ferry bound for Mombasa, Kenya, on March 20, 2011. (Photo: Xiaojun Deng)
The fluorescent circus of Election 2016 -- that...
State Dept approves possible $1bn sale of Reaper drones to UK
The US State Department has approved a possible $1 billion sale of Predator B ('Reaper') drones, as well as equipment, training, and support to...
The Magnificent Pre-Election Blindness
You can judge the competence of a newspaper by the articles that its editors run.
Consider this article from The New York times. Here is...
ISIS hunters: SAS to track & kill British citizens in Iraq
British citizens affiliated to jihadist groups in Iraq will be hunted down as part of a new kill or capture strategy, according to senior...
Hillary Clinton and the Muslim Brotherhood
The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private e-mails is not directed at a case of negligence in the face of security regulations but at...
The Looters vs. the Looted
From the conclusion of my earlier post on the topic:
It is the state against the people; it is the stakeholders against the subjects. Significant power...
This Is No ‘Cold War’; It’s Far Worse Than That.
World War III — the first (and final) nuclear war — has never been so likely as it is now.
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at...
Sharia courts inquiry: Muslim women used as ‘political football’
Muslim women feel they are being used to score political points by all sides as an inquiry into Sharia courts in Britain pitches religious...
Forget the Trump-Clinton Charade: It’s Time to Wake Up America!
Colin Todhunter
(RINF) - Who will be the winners and the losers in the coming U.S. presidential election? Trump or Clinton, Clinton or Trump? The...
How Washington Turned Ireland Into an International Scofflaw
Roger Cole of PANA, Sinn Féin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh, and Edward Horgan of Shannonwatch, a group that monitors U.S. military flights in and out...
UN votes to ban nukes despite UK attempts to ‘thwart’ negotiations
UN General Assembly (UNGA) members have defied the British government by voting to ban nuclear...
China repeatedly hacked US, stole data on nukes, FBI & war plans – security...
Chinese intelligence repeatedly targeted US national security agencies and email accounts of US officials, a soon-to-be-released...
Report from the Refugee Camp in Calais, France: “the Jungle”
“I was in jail with a Libyan man, his friends came and broke into the jail and let us go, too. There was fighting...
Halloween Is Coming, Vladimir Putin Isn’t
Photo by Jedimentat44 | CC BY 2.0
I would not rank Vladimir Putin high on a list of leaders. If I lived in Russia I’d...
Britain stops taking child refugees from Calais ‘Jungle’ at request of French police
Britain has stopped receiving child refugees from the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp at the request of...
Which One Is Less Evil?
Donald Trump seems to be a shady dealer, a blusterer, a prevaricator, an abuser of women — not my choice for president. Yet a...
Official U.S. Gov’t. Documentation that Saudi Gov’t. Funds Al Qaeda
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
As Liz Goodwin and Michael Isikoff noted on 11 October 2016 regarding a recent wikileak:
The Clinton email states: "We need to use our diplomatic...
Washington’s Global Economic Wars
During most of the past two decades Washington has aggressively launched military and economic wars against at least nine countries, either directly or through...
Video: ‘No where to turn to’: Muslim child beat up by classmates in North...
A Muslim American family from North Carolina are quitting life in the US and moving to Pakistan, after their seven-year old son claims he...
US Allies are Funding ISIS (and Hillary Knew All Along)
Photo by thierry hermann | CC BY 2.0
It is fortunate for Saudi Arabia and Qatar that the furore over the sexual antics of Donald...
Nuclear Standoff: Human Conscience Dismissed on a Technicality
Values the size of Planet Earth are at stake, as the American presidential
election grows ever smaller, ever pettier, ever more certain...
Peacekeeping: Fiction vs. Reality
The word peacekeeping is like the word terrorism: it is meaningless on its own and able to be molded to serve the interests of a...
Maintaining Influence in Afghanistan
Over the past few months, the Obama administration has renewed its efforts
to strengthen its position in Afghanistan. In spite of the...
Air Force investigates outage of secret computer network at its major drone base –...
The US Air Force is reportedly looking into a computer system outage at a base it uses to operate armed drones over Afghanistan, Pakistan...
Maintaining Influence in Afghanistan
U.S. Army patrol in Afghanistan (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Over the past few months, the Obama administration has renewed its efforts to strengthen its position in...
Gitmo detainee granted rectal surgery after CIA ‘torture by sodomy’
Charged in connection with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Guantanamo detainee Mustafa al-Hawsawi will reportedly miss a pretrial hearing Friday in order to “rest up”...
Yes, Obama, the Next President Will Drone People
It seems like an easy thing to remember, but then, so does don’t kill people.
In America, the two party system dominates....
America’s Pro-Drug War
Fifteen years ago this week, the US launched the longest war in its history: the invasion and occupation of remote Afghanistan. Neighboring Pakistan was...
Needed Now: a Peace Movement Against the Clinton Wars to Come
Photo by Nathania Johnson | CC BY 2.0
Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize –for not being George W. Bush. This seemed unseemly...
‘Alive & kicking’ Al-Qaeda poses ‘very direct threat’ to UK – Defense secretary
A resurgent Al-Qaeda poses a growing threat to the West as Islamic State is driven out of its strongholds, British Secretary of Defense Michael...
Pentagon searches for 7 Afghan military students who fled training bases – report
The Pentagon is reportedly missing at least seven Afghan soldiers, some of whom disappeared over the weekend which saw double bombings in New Jersey...
Burn Notice: Milo Yiannopolous
Sep 24, 2016 By Karl North | redice.tv With the recent increase in press coverage of the Alt Right there has...
Bid to stem African refugee flow sees PM pledge troops & cash
Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged troops and up to £100 million to stop the flow of refugees from war-torn regions of eastern Africa...
NYC/NJ bombing suspect Rahami's notebook full of Al-Qaeda, jihadist messages – report
NYC and New Jersey bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami carried a notebook full of “ramblings about...
Two Major Candidates, Zero Solutions for Terrorism
Facts are still coming out about the New York and New Jersey bombings.
But from the information we do have, one thing...
UK starts building ‘Great Wall of Calais’ to keep Jungle camp refugees out
The construction of a 1-kilometer concrete barrier passing by the infamous “Jungle” refugee camp in Calais, northern France, began Tuesday. Dubbed the “Great Wall...
UK commits troops to train Egyptian military in counter-terrorism tactics
British troops will continue to train the Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF) to tackle terrorism and...
The Real Enemy of Both Koreas
Warring hotspots all over the world are flaring up in 2016 in what amounts to preparation for World War III between the military forces...
15 Years of Crime
The United States and their allies will be commemorating the 15-year anniversary of 9/11. For Thierry Meyssan, it’s the occasion to take an honest...
US pays $1.3mn to family of Italian hostage killed by drone strike
The US has given a “donation” of $1.32 million to the family of Giovanni Lo Porto, the Italian aid worker killed in January 2015...
Colin Powell admits existence of Israeli nukes, but State Dept stays silent
Israel has 200 nuclear weapons “all targeted on Tehran,” so Iran would not dare use a...
Cost of US post-9/11 wars approaching $5trn – report
The US spent $4.79 trillion on wars in the Middle East and on the ‘War on...
I Am a Syrian Living in Syria
Two years ago, “Majd” wrote these words in a Facebook posting:
“ I am Syrian… living in Syria in the middle of everything. We have seen...
Our Post-September 11 Fifteen Years’ War
(Photo: DVIDSHUB / Flickr)
On the morning of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda launched its four-plane air force against the United States. On board were its...
Saudi Arabia: Can’t Pay Its Bills, Yet Funds War on Yemen
Almost exactly a year after Salman bin Albdulaziz Al Saud, king of Saudi Arabia, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and head of the House of...
Retaliation: Reality Vs. Pundit Fantasy
The US military shelling Lebanon in response to the April 1983 Beirut embassy bombing did not discourage an even deadlier attack on the US...
‘Enemy kills’: 3 former US Air force drone operators back Yemeni victims' lawsuit
Three former military veterans who were once involved in the US drone program are supporting a...
ISIS upping efforts to smuggle terrorists into Britain – reports
Islamic State is increasing its efforts to smuggle terrorists into Britain to launch attacks on civilians, according to new intelligence gathered following last year’s...
Exceptional Nation
If there’s one core belief that has guided and inspired me every step of the way, it is this. The United States is an...
Clinton Plan to Destroy Russia
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
Leaked emails are filling in the picture of a Bill-and-Hillary-Clinton plan to destroy Russia — a plan which had...
The New Homestead Act
The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be...
Abu Zubaydah: Torture’s ‘Poster Child’
Exclusive: The ugly legacy of George W. Bush’s torture program continues to haunt U.S. foreign policy as the “poster child”...
We Don’t Know If the Department of Defense Is Actually Providing Security
The U.S. Army has been falsifying its accounting records to the tune of $6.5
trillion for the year, according to a recent...
CIA torture prisoner makes case for Gitmo release in first public appearance in 14...
A Guantanamo detainee, who the CIA tortured as a suspected top leader of Al-Qaeda but never officially charged, has made his case for release....
Hack of NSA ‘cyber weapons’ verified by Snowden docs – report
Newly liberated NSA files from whistleblower Edward Snowden remove any doubt that the “ShadowBrokers” hack on...
Richard Holbrooke and the Obama Doctrine
Everett Collection | Shutterstock.com
In the early morning hours of January 23rd, 2009 a U.S. spy plane killed 15 individuals in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. It was...
Woman who cut off pet snakes’ heads with scissors & ate them escapes jail
A drunken woman who decapitated her pet snakes with scissors and swallowed their heads has...
Black people in Britain twice as likely to be murdered as whites – report
Black people in the UK are more than twice as likely to be murdered as...
It’s Time To Pull the Plug on the UN
Every wonder what can possibly happen on a foreign aid humanitarian mission? Well, have a look. Now, I don’t want to make fun of this...
Tory MP Pickles faces wrath of police over electoral fraud ‘political correctness’ claims
Sir Eric Pickles has provoked an angry response from the Metropolitan Police after an inquiry...
Team Refugee and the Normalization of Mass Displacement
Team Refugee (Photo: IOC / Olympic.org)
It was after midnight when the small refugee Olympic team strode into the stadium in Rio, the very last...
Child sex abuse still rampant in Rotherham despite report on 1,000s of victims –...
Thousands of young girls are being groomed for sex in Rotherham on an “industrial scale,” but abuse victims say authorities have failed to get...
Media’s Mix-Up of ISIS Branches Fuels ISIS’s Terrorism
The global
string of terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State has broadened the
War on Terror’s debate over the...
When a door closes, a window opens: Closing Silk Road leads to surge in...
Closing the online black market known as the Silk Road was a success for the FBI, but a short-lived one. Three years later, it...
Religiously motivated killer of Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah jailed for life
A taxi driver has been jailed for life after admitting he murdered Glasgow shopkeeper Asad...
‘Berners did it better’: Trump shrugs off 17 female hecklers during Detroit speech
Donald Trump’s big economics speech in Detroit was repeatedly interrupted by organized protesters. Security removed 17...
Devil Queen of War
It all starts with a Wahhabi-Zionist lovefest.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry was forced to go on a non-denial denial overdrive about a visit to Israel on July 22 by a delegation...
We Refuse To Be Targets
When Barack Obama was elected president, he hoped to eliminate nuclear weapons.
His hope (expressed in his visit to Hiroshima) is still...
‘Treated like criminals’: Muslim American couple kicked off Delta flight ‘based on appearance’
A Muslim American couple says they were kicked off Delta Airlines plane after an airline employee...
ISIS claims capture of advanced US weapons in Afghanistan
Islamic State terrorists say they have gotten their hands on a variety of US weapons and...
India could force Britain to return Koh-i-Noor diamond through legal action
Indian legislators say they are exploring alternative channels to force the UK to return the priceless Koh-i-Noor diamond after the British government said it...
US drone warfare relies on ‘near certainty’ of target IDs & collateral damage
The White House has released a redacted copy of the so-called drone strike “handbook”, which outlines...
The Sacrifice Captain Khan Shouldn’t Have Had To Make
It was impossible not to be moved as Khizr and Ghazala Khan, two Muslim immigrants
from Pakistan, stood before the Democratic National...
Khizr Khan Believes the Constitution ‘Must Always Be Subordinated to the Sharia’
Notwithstanding his war-hero son’s genuinely patriotic example, Khizr M. Khan has published papers supporting the supremacy of Islamic law over “man-made” Western...
The Sacrifice Muslim Soldier Khan Shouldn’t Have Had To Make
It was impossible not to be moved as Khizr and Ghazala Khan, two Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, stood before the Democratic National Convention and...
Khizr Khan’s Son Sacrificed His Life for a War That Never Should’ve Happened
Khizr and Ghazala Khan. (Photo: VOA Urdu / Wikimedia Commons)
It was impossible not to be moved as Khizr and Ghazala Khan, two Muslim immigrants...
Gold Star Muslim father Khan deleted law firm website after criticizing Trump – report
Khizr Khan, who as a Gold Star father of a soldier killed in the Iraq war...
US Military Pivots to Africa and the News Is Grim
Originally posted at TomDispatch.
Someday, someone will write a history of the U.S. national security state in
the twenty-first century and, if the...
Jesus is coming… and he wants you to elect him as MP for Burnley
A retired bus driver who believes he is the second coming of Jesus Christ says...
Before the US Starts Another War
Anti-Russian hysteria in America reached its apogee this week as Democrats tried to divert attention from embarrassing revelations about how the Democratic Party apparatus...
Welsh mother jailed for filming porn with her 14-yo son & sending it to...
A Welsh mother has been jailed for five years after filming videos of her having...
Summarizing ‘The Missing 28 Pages’: Who Was Behind 9/11?
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
The following summary consists of quotations from the suppressed 29 pages (previously miscalled ’28 pages’) themselves, so that the...
US Awards $1.7 Billion Contract To Buy Radios for Afghan Army
I always found myself giggling during the Democratic debates when Hillary would ask Bernie how he was going to pay for things like healthcare...
Video: Game of Drones: New type of war crime that’s going unpunished (RT Documentary)
Unmanned drones are the modern weapons of choice in the fight against terrorism. The tribal areas of Pakistan where various militant groups seek a...
Wild Turkey With H-Bombs: Failed Coup Heightens Calls for Denuclearization
An explosive cocktail of political instability mixed with 90 U.S.
H-bombs raises the specter of accidental or suicidal nuclear detonation in or...
Mourning and Resistance in Kashmir
Protest in Kashmir in 2010 (courtesy of Kashmir Global via Flickr).
In Kashmir, the killing days are here again. In 2010, Indian forces shot and...
Intervention Fail: ISIS Makes Bloody Gains in Post ‘Liberation’ Afghanistan
Shortly after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 1996 (their rise to
power itself a result of the 1979 Soviet intervention...
British Muslims top generosity charts with Ramadan donations
British Muslims are the most generous charity-givers, according to the UK’s Charity Commission, which says...
Afghanistan: President Obama’s Vietnam
Exclusive: President Obama is keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan fighting an unwinnable war for fear of the political consequences if...
Imran Khan’s Faustian Bargain
The predicament of Imran Khan’s fanboys has been somewhat like the pubescent girl who falls head over heels in love with a promiscuous playboy;...
Donald Trump's Dark and Scary Night
The GOP's new big dog blew the whistle Thursday night for nearly an hour and a half and it was loud and...
Trump’s Midnight in America
Ivanka Trump portrayed her father as a can-do executive with a big heart, but then Donald Trump opened his mouth,...
After US Airstrikes Kill 73 in Syria, It’s Time to End Military Assaults that...
Orlok | Shutterstock.com
Once again our hearts are breaking – this time, with the tragic news of the deaths of at least 73 civilians, including 35 children,...
Washington Is Politicizing the Olympics
Washington and its Canadian vassal are trying to use a Western media-created Russian athletic doping scandal to ban Russian participation in the Olympic games...
The Distinction between Terrorism and Insurgency
Nauman Sadiq
(RINF) - The definition of the term “terrorism” has been deliberately left undefined by the Western powers to use it as an umbrella-pretext...
Turkey Distances Itself From the U.S. and NATO
President Erdogan is pursuing ethnically narrow, Turkish-chauvinist, domestic and foreign policy. (Photo: Russia Today)
Cross-posted from View from the Left Bank.
Some Background
The aftershocks of...
9/11: Bush’s Guilt, And the ’28 Pages’
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
On Friday July15th, as the national newsmedia were either on vacation or preparing for the opening of the Trump...
The Trojan Drone: An Illegal Military Strategy Disguised as Technological Advance
The drones will continue to fly, but the "Trojan Drone's" work is complete. (Photo: Pixabay; Edited: JR / TO)
Think of it as...
A Sinkhole of Economic and Moral Perversion
An Interview With Hans-Herman Hoppe in the Polish weekly Najwyższy Czas!
What is your assessment of contemporary Western Europe, and in particular the EU?
All major political...
More Clinton Corruption
In 1996 President Bill Clinton, at a fundraising dinner in New York City said this: “There are no more nuclear missiles pointed at any...
‘War on Terror’ Blowback Hits Dallas
The blowback from America’s “war on terror” swept into Dallas last Friday when an Afghan War veteran allegedly killed five...
Of Lethal Drones and Police Shootings
Demonstrators record a crowd of police officers on hand in New York's Times Square, where a large crowd protested after fatal police...
NATO Summit Meeting, on July 8-9
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
All NATO leaders are meeting together at a crucial July 8th-9th Summit in Warsaw, to agree regarding what to...
Man admits to murdering Glasgow Muslim shopkeeper Asad Shah
A 32-year-old man from Bradford admitted to killing Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah in a religiously...
Guilty as Not Charged
Is it worth impairing the reputation of the FBI and the Department of Justice to save Hillary Clinton from a deserved criminal prosecution by...
To Stop ‘Bomb Trains,’ I Honeymooned in Jail
It was a few days after my wedding. I was supposed to be honeymooning at a nearby winery with my newly minted husband, celebrating...
Elie Wiesel: Poseur for Peace
An obvious and oft-sighted criticism of the Nobel Peace Prize is just how many of its recipients have virtually no connection to the cause...
The West as an Identifiable Civilization
“Nativism … xenophobia or worse” is behind the triumph of Brexit and the support for Donald Trump, railed President Barack Obama in Ottawa.
Obama believes...
Obama Drone Casualty Numbers a Fraction of Those Recorded by the Bureau of Investigative...
The US government Friday claimed it has killed between 64 and 116 "non-combatants" in 473 counter-terrorism strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and...
For Obama’s Secret Wars, the Record Suggests a Far Worse Reality
Armed drones became the symbol of US counter-terrorism policy under ObamaTargeted killings or assassinations beyond the battlefield remain a highly
charged subject....
How Does Corporate Media Manufactures False Narratives?
Nauman Sadiq
(RINF) - What bothers me is not that we are unable to find the solution to our problems, what bothers me more is...
Obama admin says up to 116 civilians 'accidentally' killed in US drone strikes
The US drone strikes have accidentally killed up to 116 civilians in countries that the US...
To Lump Him With Trump, Zakaria Lies About Sanders on Brexit
Fareed Zakaria is the ultimate Serious Person, invited by other Serious People to attend Serious Conferences and give Serious Speeches for Serious Amounts of...
Corbyn anti-Semitism claims were ‘deliberate media misrepresentation’
Mainstream media attacks on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for reportedly comparing Israel to Islamic State...
Murder by drone: Obama to announce civilian death toll numbers, but there’s a catch
President Barack Obama is expected to announce the number of civilians killed by "illegal" US drone strikes Friday, but only in countries where the...
"Transgender Troops" Should Be an Oxymoron
Allowing trans people to serve openly in the US military only furthers the violence of one of the central institutions of global...
#PostRefRacism: Twitter documents appalling rise of post-Brexit racism
Flyers saying “no more Polish vermin” posted in letterboxes, protesters holding signs reading “Rapefugees not...
FBI Overwhelmed by Terror Suspects
“They envy our freedom” no longer, if it ever did, explains why Islamic extremists seek to mount attacks against civilians in the United States....
How Obama, Clinton, & the DNC forced fracking on the world
This week’s decision by a federal judge to strike down the Obama administration's efforts to regulate,...
Paul Ryan censors Dem sit-in, so C-SPAN broadcasts Periscope & Facebook feeds (LIVE VIDEO)
Republican attempts led by House Speaker Paul Ryan to censor the gun control sit-in protest by Congressional Democrats was foiled on Wednesday when the...
Air Supremacy Isn’t What It Used to Be
Originally posted at TomDispatch.
On October
7, 2001, less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration
launched a...
The ‘Experts’ Are Wrong in Advocating Escalation in Syria
More than 50 U.S. mid-level diplomats have sent a memo through the State Department’s
"dissent channel" to a likely sympathetic Secretary of...
35,000 Brits sign up for dating site helping Muslim men find multiple wives
Nearly 35,000 Britons have signed up for a controversial new dating website designed to help...
Orlando Killer’s Father Knew Obama?
How close was presumed killer Omar Mateen to the bizarre world of Washington politics?
Close enough to raise your hackles about what is really going...
After Orlando: Twitter Recoils from Islamophobia, Takes Aim at Gun Laws
Twitter users responded to the shooting in Orlando, Florida, with an abundance of love and prayers for the victims, their families, and the gay...
It Wasn’t Just the Orlando Killer
One of the many unexplained (at least not officially) anomalies of the persons claimed to have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings is the...
US-China Maritime Disputes: Too Close for Comfort
Sunset on the South China Sea (Wikipedia)
Two recent close encounters between US spy planes and Chinese jets spell trouble for relations between Washington and...
French police couple killed in attack claimed by Islamic State
A Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and killed his partner, who...
Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror
“Americans have been told that their government is keeping them safe
by preventing and prosecuting terrorism inside the US… But take a...
Orlando and the Future of Terrorism
Those who commit atrocities in the name of ISIS should be considered criminals and nothing more. Their desire to elevate their crimes should not...
Violence Begets Violence
“Americans have been told that their government is keeping them safe by preventing and prosecuting terrorism inside the US… But take a closer look...
Clinton Discussed Top Secret CIA Drone Info, Approved Drone Strikes, Via Her Blackberry
A new report in the Wall Street Journal reveals emails in which then-Secretary of State Clinton approved CIA drone assassinations in Pakistan from her...
Plenty of Blame to Spread Around for the Orlando Nightclub Shooting
Well over 20 million AR-15s have been sold to American civilians.
There’s plenty of blame to assign in the Orlando nightclub shooting –– to everyone...
Given Orlando, Has the US Government Been Adequately Protecting the Public?
The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida at a gay nightclub, by a man pledging
a seemingly last-minute allegiance to the ISIS terror...
Germany: Thousands Surround US Air Base to Protest the Use of Drones
Demonstrators have formed a human chain near a US air base in western Germany to protest against lethal drone strikes.
The demonstration was organized by...
Orlando nightclub massacre becomes worst shooting spree in US history, surpassing 2007 Virginia Tech
The massacre at Pulse night club in Orlando, Florida has left 49 dead and 53 injured,...
The Orlando Horror
As I write this (it’s Sunday morning, 5:00 a.m. PST) the news is breaking that
an Orlando gay nightclub has been attacked...
De-Incarceration, a Different Drum so Needed
Along with VCNV companions, I’m part of a 150 mile walk from Chicago to Thomson, IL, a small town in Northwest IL where the...
Muhammad, Christ, Buddha, and … ibn Abd al-Wahhab?
High on the list of the important religious figures relevant today are three names known to most in the East, Near East, and West:...
The assassination of Mullah Akhtar Mansour: Washington plays with fire in Eurasia’s geopolitical tinderbox
The assassination of Mullah Akhtar Mansour: Washington plays with fire in Eurasia’s geopolitical tinderbox
Thomas Gaist
The assassination of Taliban Emir Mullah Akhtar Mansour, carried out...
"I Refuse to Serve as an Empire Chaplain": US Army Minister Resigns Over Drone...
An unlikely voice has emerged challenging the drone warfare program: former US Army Reserve Chaplain Captain Chris Antal, who spent time based...
Scottish councils making millions from global arms trade
Nine Scottish local authorities are directly invested in some of the world’s leading arms manufacturers,...
What the Swiss Can Teach NYC
NEW YORK CITY – America is falling apart. Anyone who travels in this great land knows it.
This great city is crumbling. I’m scared to...
Drone wars undermine 'checks and balances' – Army chaplain resigning over strikes
The Obama administration's drone strike policies around the world have "blown accountability and oversight and checks...
The Global Trade in Guantánamo Captives
An armed bodyguard stands just behind Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum during a political rally in Shibarghan, Afghanistan, in September 2004. (Scott Eells...
British Army training of Turkish & Saudi troops condemned by human rights groups
Britain’s habit of sending UK troops to train and mentor authoritarian regimes such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia are “deeply concerning” and need to...
Bollywood-boarding: UK special forces in Libya ‘torture’ ISIS with Indian pop tunes
UK special forces operating in Libya are blasting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) positions with...
A Hellfire from Heaven won’t Smash the Taliban
So Taliban supremo Mullah Mansour’s white Toyota Corolla was rattling across the Baluchestan desert just after it had crossed the Iranian border when a Hellfire...
‘Mental torture’: Gitmo inmate testifies against guards at US prison camp
A Somali detainee at Guantánamo Bay has accused guards at the high-security Camp 7 of using...
Preparing for the Next Memorial Day
Memorial Day weekend was replete with parades, American flags, and tributes to our war dead, but little reflection on war, particularly the...
America’s Sinkhole Wars
Originally posted at TomDispatch.
Here’s last week’s good news on America’s war fronts: finally,
there’s light at the end of the tunnel!
From one...
New and Old Vaccines Still Out of Reach for Many
Families and health workers defy the Taliban's ban on oral polio vaccines (OPV). (Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai / IPS)
While long-awaited new vaccines for...
Why Exactly Does Saudi Arabia Fund the Spread of Wahhabism?
Wahhabi missionary work is a result of efforts by the House of Saud to appease religious leaders. (Photo: Russia Today)
Many in the West may...
Memorializing the Horrors of War With 10 Must-See War Films
“The horror… the horror…” – Apocalypse Now (1979)
“You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore....
Close Calls: We Were Much Closer to Nuclear Annihilation Than We Ever Knew
The proposition that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never used – accidentally or by decision – defies credibility”.
This unanimous statement was...
Memorializing the Horrors of War
“The horror… the horror…”—Apocalypse Now (1979)
“You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it...
Ticking Closer to Nuclear Midnight
Exclusive: President Obama embraced Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima bomb, but his policies, such as heightening tensions with Russia, have...
Corporate Chicanery
Recently, you said, “I will fight my heart out to stop Trump.”
We know you have a big heart. A very big heart. Why else...
The Coming Drone Blowback
The targeted assassination of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour
last weekend wasn’t just another drone strike.
First of all, it was conducted...
CIA-tortured Zubaydah called to testify against Gitmo harsh techniques
Captured and tortured by the CIA after 9/11, then locked up in Guantanamo Bay without charges,...
Missing Pieces of Bin Laden’s Execution Mystery
According to Seymour Hersh, the original plan of the Obama Administration regarding the disclosure of the execution of Osama bin Laden to the press...
The Coming Drone Blowback
(Photo: Debra Sweet / Flickr)
The targeted assassination of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour last weekend wasn’t just another drone strike.
First of all, it...
Trajectory of US Policy in Vietnam Offers a Roadmap for the Mideast
As President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam and the lifting of the arms embargo
to that country represents his "pivot to Asia,"...
Video: ‘What’s the point?’ US drone strike ‘kills’ Afghan Taliban chief, to ‘help...
A US drone strike in Pakistan has allegedly killed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, US official source told Reuters. The Taliban denies Mansour's...
Video: DISTURBING: Body of Taliban chief Mansour reportedly killed in US drone strike
A US drone strike in Pakistan has killed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Afghan intelligence said. The Taliban has denied Mansour was killed,...
Britain is training the armed forces of brutal regimes on its own human rights...
British soldiers are training troops for regimes on the UK’s own human rights watchlist, including...
Secret Bush-era blacklist delays Muslim citizenship applications – lawsuit
Thirteen Muslims living in the US have filed a lawsuit against the US government for delaying...
The Privatization of the Public Sphere
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The Republican Party is consolidating behind Donald Trump and, on May 12th, House Speaker Paul Ryan kissed the ring of the party’s presumptive...
Declassified memo shows multiple Saudi connections to 9/11 plotters
Recently declassified information that a flight certificate of an Al Qaeda operative linked to 9/11 turned up in an envelope from the Saudi...
Obama Plays a Dove in NPR’s Historical Fiction
NPR‘s listicle on Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy distorts recent history.
The second thing NPR wants you to know about Hillary Clinton and foreign policy—after “she’s...
Our Military Needs to Defend the Country, Not Undermine American Security
As President Obama visits still-communist Vietnam, a former American rival,
in his "pivot to Asia" to recruit more countries to shelter against...
It’s official: Sadiq Khan wins London election, becoming first Muslim mayor of major Western...
Sadiq Khan has been officially declared the winner of London’s mayoral elections. The Labor MP of British-Pakistani origin gained 57 percent of the vote,...
Al-Qaeda eyes relocation to Syria, set to compete with ISIS for emirate – NYT
A number of Al-Qaeda veterans have secretly been sent to Syria, where their goal is to do the groundwork for the establishment of an...
Obama Disastrously Backed the Saudis in Yemen, Now He’s Deploying US Troops to Deal...
The Obama administration has said little about its fresh deployment of American troops to Yemen, where the U.S. has spent the past year backing...
Barack Obama and a quarter-century of US wars
In a front-page article published on May 15, the New York Times calls attention to a significant milestone in the presidency of Barack Obama:...
BBC is ‘too Christian,’ more room should be granted to Muslims, Hindus & Sikhs...
An internal review within the BBC has concluded that the network is too Christian in...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan Wants to 'Educate' Trump on Islam
London's new mayor Sadiq Khan would welcome presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to London to "educate" him about Islam and its...
Muslim leaders demand Tory party Islamophobia inquiry
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has called for an urgent inquiry into alleged Islamophobia...