This video footage from December 5, 2012 shows what looks like a hardline Islamist member of al-Qaeda fighting alongside the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) terrorists in Syria in a chemical laboratory performing an experiment using two rabbits whom he manages… Read More ›
Moscow is dismayed after a number of countries failed to support a resolution designed to fight against the glorification of Nazism. The Foreign Ministry said Moscow regrets that the United States, the European Union and Ukraine have refused to support… Read More ›
by Ray McGovern It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman, and degrading… Read More ›
Petition by ILYA BORTNIKOVSosnovoborsk, Russian Federation Reputable mister President! Vladimir Vladimirovich! Russian lawmakers believe it’s time to remove monuments to the leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, from town and city squares across the country. We, who… Read More ›
Ten thousand US troops will stay in Afghanistan past 2014, senior officials say, despite earlier demands from President Barack Obama to end the war during the second year of his upcoming term. Most of the 66,000 or so troops currently… Read More ›
Nov. 22 will mark 13,439 days of incarceration for Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. This year’s commemoration of the National Day of Mourning, to be held in Plymouth, Mass., will once again honor Peltier, a hero-in-the-struggle who has been unjustly… Read More ›
By Yana Kunichoff, Truthout Black Friday’s shopping bonanza brings people out to line up in front of stores for hours before it begins. It has trampled people, but not profits for companies that reap a large chunk of their annual sales on the day… Read More ›
By Yasmine Saleh and John Irish CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) – France became the first European power to recognize Syria’s new opposition coalition as the sole representative of its people and said on Tuesday it would look into arming rebels against President… Read More ›
The upsurge of violence in Syria since the last week seems more and more to be an attempt to surround the Syrian capital from different axes. Three days later, it proved to be a failure. However, by bombed-car attacks, explosives… Read More ›
by Michael Kelley The official position is that the US has refused to allow heavy weapons into Syria. But there’s growing evidence that U.S. agents—particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens—were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to jihadist Syrian rebels…. Read More ›
by John Glaser Not even a full day had passed before newly reelected President Obama ordered another drone strike in Yemen. A U.S. drone strike targeted a group of al-Qaida militants on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday… Read More ›
By Libby Anne The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later… Read More ›
Hurricane Sandy is not turning into a political windfall for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Not only did Romney’s buddy New Jersey Governor Chris Christie go and call President Obama a “great leader” for his storm response but now some… Read More ›
Senior members of South Africa’s ruling party have endorsed a boycott campaign against Israel, with former South African deputy president Baleka Mbete calling Tel Aviv ‘far worse than apartheid South Africa’. During an international conference hosted on Sunday by the… Read More ›
By Arturo Garcia The American Family Association (AFA) emailed members urging them to keep their children out of school during an anti-bullying event organized by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). According to The New York Times, the evangelical group’s… Read More ›
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