A provocative ad which debuted last month in San Francisco is making its way to New York subways today. Starting from Monday, September 24, 2012, as the UN General Assembly picks up momentum in New York and heads of states… Read More ›
International
Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
US Official: Military Action Needed in Mali
The apparent haven of radical Islamists in Mali is a consequence of US interventionism and now justifying further intervention A top US official told the Associated Press that military action will be needed to eliminate radical Islamists from the haven… Read More ›
Political Cartoon: Free Bradley Manning, Nobel nominee, WikiLeaks whistleblower
“Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning, a 24-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of releasing the Collateral Murder video, that shows the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He… Read More ›
Drones: the west’s new terror campaign
by Clive Stafford Smith Living Under Drones, a new report from Stanford and New York universities, was a difficult piece of fieldwork – I was with the law students in Peshawar as they tried to interview victims of the CIA’s… Read More ›
Dawood National Military Hospital Kabul Scandal Should End War in Afghanistan
by Alex Ellingboe On July 27, the website Buzzfeed.com released graphic photos of the gruesome conditions faced by wounded Afghan soldiers in the U.S. funded Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul. The condition of soldiers at the nation’s premier military… Read More ›
ACLU Takes CIA to Court Over Secret Drone War Everybody Knows About
by John Glaser The Obama administration has a good thing going. They get to run a futuristic drone war that operates above the law and allows them to bomb people outside any official theater of conflict, even if they are… Read More ›
Damascus Threatens to Arm Kurds with Missiles if Turkey Continues Meddling in Syria
TEHRAN (FNA)- Damascus has warned Ankara to drop support for terrorist groups fighting Bashar al-Assad’s government, threatening that it will arm Turkey’s Kurdish insurgents with missiles if Ankara continues meddling in Syria’s domestic affairs, sources revealed on Saturday. Al Manar… Read More ›
Video: Exposed – ‘Auschwitz-like’ US death camp hospital in Kabul
Senior US military officers blew the whistle on horrific conditions at the National Military Hospital in Kabul. They revealed some graphic images, showing severely neglected, starving patients at the hospital, which the US military sponsors and helps oversee. Witnesses describe… Read More ›
California passes resolution defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism
By Tom Carter Last month, the California State Assembly passed a resolution urging state educational institutions to more aggressively crack down on criticism of the State of Israel on campuses, which the resolution defines as “anti-Semitism.” The anti-democratic resolution is… Read More ›
Riot rage: Athens protesters throw firebombs, police shoot tear gas
A rally in the Greek capital turned violent when protesters in Syntagma Square lobbed Molotov cocktails at police, who retaliated by firing tear gas at the demonstrators. Security forces also reportedly used flashbang grenades and pepper spray to push protesters… Read More ›
US use of truth drug revealed
By Natalie O’Brien New evidence has emerged that all Guantanamo Bay detainees, including David Hicks, were drugged involuntarily with a substance that has a long history as a truth serum. Recently declassified US documents revealing medical procedures have shown that… Read More ›
Clinton offers $45 million to Syrian rebels, who want more support
By Hannah Allam NEW YORK — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday announced $45 million in additional aid for Syrian opposition activists, the latest U.S. push for influence in a civil war that’s raged beyond the international community’s control…. Read More ›
Epidemic of kidnappings breaks out in Syria
By Ruth Sherlock, Beirut An epidemic of kidnappings has broken out in Syria, with rebels funding their military operations with ransoms and common criminals taking the opportunity to make money. In al-Bab, a town on the periphery of Aleppo, abductions… Read More ›
Benghazi Attack a ‘Major Blow’ to CIA
CIA Forced to Evacuate Spies After Consulate Sacked by Jason Ditz The attack earlier this month on the Benghazi consulate, which killed four Americans including the US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was a blow to a lot of people…. Read More ›
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