Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
by ELLEN BRANAGH Prince Harry “kills innocent Afghans while he is drunk”, while foreign forces in Afghanistan have failed, a controversial Mujahideen leader in the country has declared. In an outspoken interview, former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, founder and… Read More ›
If the White House is going to act as judge, jury and executioner in targeting individuals with airstrikes, the least it can do is divulge its legal rationale. A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama… Read More ›
If you needed any further proof that Amnesty International is to the 21st century what rum-swigging bearers of the White Man’s Burden were to the 19th, look no further than its current campaign for a global arms trade treaty. Amnesty is… Read More ›
As the Pentagon’s former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction Last month, outgoing pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on… Read More ›
by Philip Weiss One of the wiser political observations I’ve read lately was from Joseph Dana in the National: “the debate about the two-state solution has become an important diversion from discussing the true nature of Israeli colonialism.” I’ve noticed the… Read More ›
By PASCALE BONNEFOY SANTIAGO, Chile — Eight retired army officers were charged on Friday with the murder of a popular songwriter and theater director, Víctor Jara, who was tortured and killed days after the 1973 military coup in a stadium that… Read More ›
A prominent member of the Free Syrian Army claims the rebels have all the components to produce chemical weapons and have the know-how to put them together and use if necessary. “If we ever use them, we will only hit… Read More ›
by Ezra Van Auken With United States officials itching to occupy another region of the world, they’ve set their sights on Africa. Since the installment of AFRICOM or the United States African Command in 2007 there has been an increased… Read More ›
As many as one million working-age men died due to the economic shock of mass privatisation policies followed by post-communist countries in the 1990s, according to a new study published in The Lancet. The Oxford-led study measured the relationship between… Read More ›
by Josh Ruebner On November 18, an Israeli air force pilot flying a U.S.-made F-16 fighter jet fired a missile at the four-story home of the al-Dalu family in Gaza City, killing ten members of the family and two from the al-Muzannar… Read More ›
Interviewer: “Is it permissible to kill ‘Alawites — their women and their children — in retaliation for their actions?” Muhammad Badi’ Moussa: “Yes, my brother. We have issued a communiqué to the ‘Alawites, in which we gave them a strong… Read More ›
Militants fighting against the Syrian government have used chemical weapons against the army in Daraya near the capital, Damascus, military sources say. According to a commander of the Syrian Presidential Guard, at least seven Syrian soldiers were killed on Saturday… Read More ›
The Israeli prime minister has vowed to continue building settlements in the “Israeli capital of Jerusalem,” defying near-unanimous international criticism of the illegal activity in retaliation for Palestine’s upgraded UN status. In an interview with Israeli Channel 2, Prime Minister… Read More ›
Video description: Terrorists from NATO sponsored Al Qaeda FSA ‘Screaming Wind Chemical Battalion’ carries out their second experiment on rabbits, this time by forcing a rabbit to drink a contaminated water mixed with a lethal mixture, they called it Sunnah… Read More ›
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