June 2015
Tunisia hotel attack: At least 37 killed Posted: Friday, June 26, 2015
Tunisia hotel attack: At least 37 killed in town of Sousse, government says At least 37 people, including foreign tourists, have been killed in an attack on a tourist hotel in the Tunisian town of Sousse, the health ministry says.
Chilling new details of Tunisia beach massacre: Killer joked as he selected his tourist victims before opening fire with an AK47 Tunisian PM warns that majority of 38 dead are British
Supreme Court declares nationwide right to same-sex marriage
Supreme Court Delivers 'Transformative Triumph' for Marriage Equality Many in LGBTQ community urge, 'The work of the movement is far from over'
Suicide attacks kills 27 at Shiite mosque in Kuwait; ISIS affiliate claims responsibility More than 220 wounded when explosion hits worshippers gathered for midday prayers.
French Salafist Attacks US Plant in Lyon: One Beheaded Attacker Worked for Transport Company, Slain Man Was His Boss
US Drone Strikes Kill Nine 'Suspects' in Yemen Officials Label Everyone Slain as 'al-Qaeda'
Christie's Conspiracy The Real Story Behind the Fort Dix Five Terror Plot
South Africa to review ICC membership after Bashir row South Africa has said it will review its membership in the ICC after a row over its failure to arrest the Sudanese president. The court has issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir on genocide and war crimes charges.
US To Begin Invasion of Syria
Neocons Urge Embrace of Al Qaeda The latest neocon gambit is to build support for "regime change" in Syria by downplaying the evils of Al Qaeda, rebranding it as some sort of "moderate" terrorist force whose Syrian affiliate is acceptable to Israel and supported by Saudi Arabia. But this audacious argument ignores reality, writes Daniel Lazare.
In Baghdad, Organized Destruction
Latin American Revolutions Under Attack
Dominican Republic to begin deporting Haitian immigrants Posted: Saturday, June 20, 2015
Dominican Republic to begin deporting Haitian immigrants
Haitians go into hiding as Dominican authorities are free to deport Hundreds of buses have been leaving Santo Domingo for the border for the past week and as the deadline to register has passed – many fear mass deportations
Dominican Republic and Haiti: Is it Time for an Island Reunification?
Shooters of color are called 'terrorists' and 'thugs.' Why are white shooters called 'mentally ill'? This racist media narrative around mass violence falls apart with the Charleston church shooting.
Refusal to Call Charleston Shootings "Terrorism" Again Shows It's a Meaningless Propaganda Term ...many African-American and Muslim commentators and activists insisted that the term "terrorist" be applied: because it looked, felt and smelled exactly like other acts that are instantly branded "terrorism" when the perpetrator is Muslim and the victims largely white.
War, Murder and the American Way He sat with them for an hour in prayer. Then he pulled his gun out and started shooting.
State Dept: Iran 'Supports Terror' for Backing anti-ISIS Militias The State Department is struggling to make up its minds on the Iraqi Shi'ite militias in the ISIS war, declaring Iran to be financing "terror-related activities" for supporting those militias, which are the same militias fighting on the same side as the US in Iraq.
MoD confirms Britain is arming Saudi Arabia in Yemen conflict Britain's Ministry of Defence has confirmed it is providing technical support and arming Saudi Arabia in its ongoing war against Yemen, RT has learned.
WikiLeaks publishes the Saudi Cables Over half a million cables and other documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
FBI Agent: The CIA Could Have Stopped 9/11 Rossini, who was assigned to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC) at the time of the attacks, has long maintained that the U.S. government has covered up secret relations between the spy agency and Saudi individuals who may have abetted the plot. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a failed effort to crash into the U.S. Capitol, were Saudis.
Putin: Russian pipeline project to help Greece pay its debt
Putin reiterates support for Syria's Assad Russia leader stands by Syrian President Assad and opposes use of external force to end the four-year conflict.
Children raped, castrated, thrown into fires in South Sudan: UN 18-month civil war characterized by ethnic massacres, mass child abductions into service of warring militias
Confusing U(kraine)-Turn: Yanukovych Ousting Was Illegitimate - Poroshenko Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appealed to the country's constitutional court, asking the court to recognize the ousting of former President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 as illegitimate.
'Powerful People In The West And In Kiev Do Not Want A Ukrainian Settlement'
US Senator McCain slams European stance on Ukraine U.S. Sen. John McCain has said during a visit to Ukraine that it is shameful that Washington's European allies have not done more to assist Ukrainian forces in their quest to defeat Russian-backed separatists in the east.
We Are Expanding Freedom And Making Russia More Open: Putin
Moscow will respond in kind to seizure of its assets abroad - FM Lavrov Moscow will take reciprocal action in response to the seizure of its foreign assets, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned. "Our response would be in kind. This is inevitable. This is the only way of acting in international affairs," he told RBK-TV in an intervew.
Who's Behind Asia-Pacific's Growing Tensions? Increasing tension in the Asia-Pacific between China and nations surrounding its territory, appears to be an unstoppable and inevitable lead-up to regional conflict and perhaps even global war
Obama's Stupid Propaganda Stuff Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2015
CNN's 'Courageous' Advertorial Mill CNN has announced the formation of a new unit that will not report the news. Instead, it will take money from corporations to produce content that resembles news but is actually PR designed to burnish its clients' images.
Obama's Stupid Propaganda Stuff Just last month, President Obama dispatched Secretary of State Kerry to secure Russian President Putin's help in addressing the Syrian crisis and other world hotspots – but despite Putin's agreement, Obama has reversed himself and is back hurling insults at the Russians, a troubling development, writes Robert Parry.
U.S. contractors hurt in Bulgarian blast were testing arms for supply to Syrian opposition
Saudi Arabia's Yemen Offensive, Iran's 'Proxy' Strategy, and the Middle East's New 'Cold War'
Iran sends men and arms to shore up retreating Assad
Iran denies troops deployed in Syria
Ukraine Is In Crisis. Here's Why the West Can't Save It A video roundtable explains why the IMF, Europe, and Western corporations don't have the country's best interests at heart.
Spy Virus Linked to Israel Targeted Hotels Used for Iran Nuclear Talks Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab finds three hotels that hosted Iran talks were targeted by a virus believed used by Israeli spies
Did the War in Syria Just Become a Regional War? There are growing indications that the war in Syria has now entered a new and dangerous phase that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East in a broad regional war. The news that Iran has sent significant numbers of Iranian, Iraqi, and Afghan troops to take active part in defense of Syria has the potential to transform the conflict into one with global implications as Iran's key regional rivals – Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel – continue to support jihadi factions in their war against the government of Bashar al-Assad.
The US Government's Not-So-Secret Support for Al Qaeda and ISIS The Biggest State Sponsor of Terrorism of Them All
How the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq The war on terror, that campaign without end launched 14 years ago by George Bush, is tying itself up in ever more grotesque contortions. On Monday the trial in London of a Swedish man, Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after it became clear British intelligence had been arming the same rebel groups the defendant was charged with supporting.
The Dark Saudi-Israeli Plot To Tip the Scales in Syria The Saudis and the Turks are scaling up their support for Syrian jihadists while the Israelis contemplate a new war with Hezbollah
Setbacks suffered by the Syrian regime The Syrian government has suffered another in a series of battlefield losses against the Islamic State (IS) and other rebel groups.
Logistics 101: Where Does ISIS Get Its Guns?
22 dead in Hezbollah clashes with ISIS on northeast Lebanon border
US Backed Rebels seize sprawling army base in southern Syria
Eritrea accuses UN of 'slander' over rights report Eritrea's government has dismissed as a "vile slander" a UN report accusing it of human rights violations on a scale "seldom witnessed elsewhere".
Chadian Soldiers Kill 207 Boko Haram as Militant Group Slaughters 15 in Borno
15 killed, 500 homes burnt as Boko Haram attacks Borno village
Department Of Justice Uses Grand Jury Subpoena To Identify Anonymous Commenters on a Silk Road Post at Reason.com
California man beaten by police officers in 'horrific and inflammatory' video Footage shows Jose Velasco of Salinas, who sister says is mentally ill, being struck repeatedly with batons for over 45 seconds after alleged assault of motherDominican Republic to begin deporting Haitian immigrants
Haitians go into hiding as Dominican authorities are free to deport Hundreds of buses have been leaving Santo Domingo for the border for the past week and as the deadline to register has passed – many fear mass deportations
Dominican Republic and Haiti: Is it Time for an Island Reunification?
Shooters of color are called 'terrorists' and 'thugs.' Why are white shooters called 'mentally ill'? This racist media narrative around mass violence falls apart with the Charleston church shooting.
Refusal to Call Charleston Shootings "Terrorism" Again Shows It's a Meaningless Propaganda Term ...many African-American and Muslim commentators and activists insisted that the term "terrorist" be applied: because it looked, felt and smelled exactly like other acts that are instantly branded "terrorism" when the perpetrator is Muslim and the victims largely white.
War, Murder and the American Way He sat with them for an hour in prayer. Then he pulled his gun out and started shooting.
State Dept: Iran 'Supports Terror' for Backing anti-ISIS Militias The State Department is struggling to make up its minds on the Iraqi Shi'ite militias in the ISIS war, declaring Iran to be financing "terror-related activities" for supporting those militias, which are the same militias fighting on the same side as the US in Iraq.
MoD confirms Britain is arming Saudi Arabia in Yemen conflict Britain's Ministry of Defence has confirmed it is providing technical support and arming Saudi Arabia in its ongoing war against Yemen, RT has learned.
WikiLeaks publishes the Saudi Cables Over half a million cables and other documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
FBI Agent: The CIA Could Have Stopped 9/11 Rossini, who was assigned to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC) at the time of the attacks, has long maintained that the U.S. government has covered up secret relations between the spy agency and Saudi individuals who may have abetted the plot. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a failed effort to crash into the U.S. Capitol, were Saudis.
Putin: Russian pipeline project to help Greece pay its debt
Putin reiterates support for Syria's Assad Russia leader stands by Syrian President Assad and opposes use of external force to end the four-year conflict.
Children raped, castrated, thrown into fires in South Sudan: UN 18-month civil war characterized by ethnic massacres, mass child abductions into service of warring militias
Confusing U(kraine)-Turn: Yanukovych Ousting Was Illegitimate - Poroshenko Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appealed to the country's constitutional court, asking the court to recognize the ousting of former President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 as illegitimate.
'Powerful People In The West And In Kiev Do Not Want A Ukrainian Settlement'
US Senator McCain slams European stance on Ukraine U.S. Sen. John McCain has said during a visit to Ukraine that it is shameful that Washington's European allies have not done more to assist Ukrainian forces in their quest to defeat Russian-backed separatists in the east.
We Are Expanding Freedom And Making Russia More Open: Putin
Moscow will respond in kind to seizure of its assets abroad - FM Lavrov Moscow will take reciprocal action in response to the seizure of its foreign assets, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned. "Our response would be in kind. This is inevitable. This is the only way of acting in international affairs," he told RBK-TV in an intervew.
Who's Behind Asia-Pacific's Growing Tensions? Increasing tension in the Asia-Pacific between China and nations surrounding its territory, appears to be an unstoppable and inevitable lead-up to regional conflict and perhaps even global war
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