By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — The Rev. Sun Myung Moon — a controversial religious and political figure who founded the Unification Church, a major institution in East Asia and beyond that gained fame decades ago for its mass… Read More ›
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New study says the Cheonan was sunk by mine, not North Korean torpedo
Scientific analysis shows signs of a powerful underwater explosion By Oh Cheol-woo, science correspondent An article has been published in an international academic journal arguing that the explosion that sank the South Korean Cheonan warship in March 2010 may not… Read More ›
Taliban beheadings that weren’t: Behind the Afghanistan headlines
Honest reporting from Afghanistan would tell us there is no prospect of victory for the West, and less and less prospect of an orderly withdrawal leaving a stable state behind. by Lindsey German YOU COULDN’T make it up. Or perhaps… Read More ›
Our officers kill more U.S. troops than the Taliban
Record suicides prove our right to refuse to fight By Michael Prysner The author is a former corporal in the U.S. Army and a veteran of the Iraq war. The U.S. Army revealed that July yielded the highest number of… Read More ›
Lynch suspect: Victim cursed my mother, for all I care, let him die. He’s an Arab.
Appearing before court, 15-year-old suspected of assaulting Arab youth in Jerusalem lashes out at victim, says ‘If I catch him, I’ll beat him. He should die’ Noam (Dabul) Dvir One of the suspects in the Jerusalem lynch case appeared at… Read More ›
Bin Laden ‘killed while unarmed’: SEAL book debunks official death story
A firsthand account of the assassination raid against the former Al-Qaeda head challenges the official US narrative, claiming bin Laden was shot as he peeked out of his bedroom, unarmed. He did not have a weapon or resist, as was… Read More ›
Probe: US Burned 100 Qurans in Afghanistan in February
No Criminal Charges for Burners, Officials Say by Jason Ditz The investigation into February’s huge scandal in which US soldiers burned copies of the Quran at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan has come to an end, with officials… Read More ›
Holocaust Denier and Open Nazi Runs for Congress
27 August 2012 Republican candidate states: “Philosophically, I am A National Socialist” Illinois Republican Congressional candidate, Arthur Jones, openly asserts his allegiance to Nazi/fascism and asserts that the genocide of European Jews during World War II is a Jewish “extortion… Read More ›
Cover-Up of Civilian Drone Deaths Revealed by New Evidence
By Gareth Porter, Truthout Editors Note: “The New America Foundation (NAF) pages showing purported numbers for civilian drone casualties that are linked to and discussed in this article were previously public (see cached version). As of August 22, a few… Read More ›
Akin rape theory rooted in Nazi death camp experiments
By David Edwards The theory behind Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) assertion earlier this week that women who are victims of “legitimate” rape would not get pregnant appears to be based on 1972 research that cites experiments done in Nazi concentration… Read More ›
“Iran and Everything Else” by Michael Parenti
Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological crisis.” In fact, I had written a number of things… Read More ›
Iraqis Evicted from Damascus by “Free Syrian Army”
By Rami Ruhayem BBC News, Baghdad In the late evening, a busload of Iraqis arrived in Baghdad after a 12-hour journey across the desert. With a mixture of anger and resignation, they said that they had been forced to leave… Read More ›
Assad hands control of Syria’s Kurdish areas to PKK, sparking outrage in Turkey
By Roy Gutman ISTANBUL — President Bashar Assad, facing a growing rebel presence in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and its commercial hub, has turned control of parts of northern Syria over to militant Kurds who Turkey has long branded as… Read More ›