Obama’s Stupid Propaganda Stuff
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
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
How Americans Came to Kill in the Middle East
‘March of Silence’ in Uruguay sends message of remembrance to South America
They were marching shoulder-to-shoulder, young and old, in absolute silence. Some were carrying small placards with names and photos of their loved ones, who disappeared four decades ago, during the pro-Western dictatorship here in Uruguay.
John Kerry Gives Saudis a Big Pass on Indiscriminate Bombing of Civilians in Yemen
NY Gov. Cuomo signs “unconstitutional, McCarthyite” pro-Israel exec. order punishing BDS boycott movement
Andrew Cuomo pushed through discriminatory policy to punish groups that boycott Israel for Palestinian human rights
New York Governor Signs Pro-Israel, Anti-BDS Executive Order
The governor is ordering the state to come up with a list of groups engaged in “boycott, divestment or sanctions activity targeting Israel.”
Pakistani sweet shop owner admits killing 30 people with poison-laced sweets
The owner said he mixed poison with the sweets to ‘teach his brother a lesson’
Muhammad Ali: a Torchbearer of Resistance
Clinton to Sanders: I dropped out for Obama – it was ‘the right thing to do’
Clinton recalls her decision to concede to Obama in 2008, turning up the heat on Sanders ahead of primaries she’s expected to use to declare victory.
How Americans Came to Kill in the Middle East
US Asks Russia to Not Hit Nusra Front in Syria, Moscow Says
Backed by Russian air cover, Syrian regime forces reach Raqqa border
Syria: The U.S. Is Unwilling To Settle – Russia Returns For Another Round
The Obama administration does not want peace in Syria. The Russians finally have to admit to themselves that the U.S. is no partner for a continuation of a cease fire, a coordinated attack against the Islamic State and al-Qaeda and for peace in Syria.
Hustler magazine hits the mailboxes of Utah lawmakers
Utah lawmakers began receiving unwanted copies of Hustler magazine’s latest issue this week, an attempt by the periodical’s eccentric founder to push back against a Legislature-approved resolution calling pornography a “public health crisis.”
NATO: America’s Other Cold War Dinosaur
Caracas Warns of Military Intervention Into Venezuela Amid Clash With OAS
NATO: America’s Other Cold War Dinosaur
Russia’s got a point: The U.S. broke a NATO promise
A Russian Warning
We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO policies have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with the Russian Federation, as well as with China.
Target Russia. Target China. Target Iran
Not a day goes by without US Think Tankland doing what it does best; pushing all sorts of scenarios for cold – and hot – war with Russia, plus myriad confrontations with China and Iran.
Family of Driver Killed in US Attack File Criminal Case
Relatives of Mohammad Azam, killed while driving Mullah Mansoor across Pakistan, lodge a first investigation report for murder
Isis faces likely defeat in battles across Iraq and Syria – but what happens next?
In the second of a four-part series examining Isis, Patrick Cockburn says the terror group may be under threat, but regaining the terrority it captured would not necessarily stabilise the region
Fighting Continues near Fallujah; 254 Killed in Iraq
Saudi Coalition Blacklisted by UN for Killing Children in Yemen
Report Also Faults US for Strike on Kunduz Hospital in Afghanistan
Fabricated Reports of Russian Airstrikes Killing Civilians in Syria
Report: Russia Discusses Sending Special Forces to Syria
Russian Leadership Seen Split on Putting Troops on the Ground
Britain is at war in Libya and nobody thought to tell us
British SAS troops may be fighting in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Libya – but Parliament hasn’t been told about any of these deployments, let alone been given the chance to debate them
Isis in Syria: US-backed Forces Target Jihadist Stronghold on Turkish Border
War Criminal Blair Warmongers for Ground Invasion of Syria and Iraq
How Hillary Clinton will squander the nuclear deal with Iran
America’s Habit of Fighting Unnecessary Wars
Clinton’s Foreign Policy Speech Marred by Inherent Contradictions
“Hillary Clinton’s history of supporting interventionism puts her in a weird place to be portraying her opponent as trigger happy.”
The Bigger Nuclear Risk: Trump or Clinton?
If the U.S. election comes down to Hillary Clinton v. Donald Trump, the American people will have to decide between two candidates who could risk the future of the planet, albeit for very different reasons, writes Robert Parry.