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David Cameron’s Christmas Crusade – More Killing, British “Humanitarian Boots” on the Ground in Syria By Felicity Arbuthnot, December 16, 2015
Selected Articles: The Relationship Between Climate Change, Capitalism, and Imperialism. Plus an Update on Syria. By Global Research News, December 16, 2015
Iraq
Islamic State (ISIL) based in Northern Syria: A Wahhabi Colony of Saudi Arabia? By Tony Cartalucci, December 16, 2015
Syria: Russian Warplanes Have Destroyed 1,200 Al Qaeda Oil Tanker Trucks, Russia Supplies Weapons to Iraq in Support of Counter-Terrorism By South Front, December 16, 2015
Dutch Experts and Council of Europe Slam Ukraine’s “Investigations” Into MH17 and Killing of “Pro-Russian Protesters” By Washington's Blog, December 16, 2015
Revue de presse: un peu de sérieux! By Mondialisation.ca, December 16, 2015
Week Ten of Russia’s Intervention in Syria. The Empire’s Reckless Arrogance By The Saker, December 16, 2015
David Cameron’s Contradictory Narrative: “Fighting ISIS” as a Means to Destroying the Syrian State… By Dan Glazebrook, December 16, 2015
Syriza Government sends Greek Riot Police to Attack Refugee Camp By John Vassilopoulos, December 16, 2015
Medical Doctors in Iraq: Vilified, Hunted and Killed By Nazli Tarzi, December 16, 2015
The Los Angeles School Closures. Fear-mongering Fast and Furious. “Jihadists with Guns and Bombs” By Stephen Lendman, December 16, 2015
ISIL Death Squads Dispatched to Afghanistan. Who is Behind Them? By Martin Berger, December 16, 2015
Kerry: US No Longer Seeking “Regime Change” in Syria? By Jason Ditz, December 16, 2015
First Coroner’s Court Inquest on Malaysian Airlines MH17 Crash: Australian Police, Dutch Prosecutors Break with Dutch Safety Board By John Helmer, December 16, 2015
Why African Americans Should Stand with Muslims and Arabs By Ajamu Baraka, December 16, 2015
You Want War? Russia is Ready for War By Pepe Escobar, December 16, 2015
Syria Battlefield Report: Syrian Government Forces Advance in South Aleppo By South Front, December 16, 2015
Weather Events
The Climate Crisis and Imperialism By Andre Damon, December 16, 2015
Syria: ‘Moderate Rebel’ Massacres and Everyday Propaganda By Prof. Tim Anderson, December 16, 2015
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Portrait of a Backstabbing Neoliberal Pasha By Prof. James Petras, December 16, 2015
Canada’s Band-Aid Approach to Refugees. Canada Sells Weapons to Saudi Arabia which Funds and Arms the Terrorists By Mark Taliano, December 16, 2015
BE AFRAID: Over 1000 Los Angeles Schools Closed After One Anonymous Telephone Threat By Stuart J. Hooper, December 16, 2015
Pull Back the Curtain on Exchange Traded Funds and Out Pop Wall Street Mega Banks By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, December 16, 2015
Kerry and Nuland in Moscow: Has the U.S. Ended Its Opposition to Democracy in Syria? By Eric Zuesse, December 16, 2015
Military Operations in Preparation in and Around Syria. Calm Before the Storm? By Thierry Meyssan, December 16, 2015
Putin Throws Down the Gauntlet By Mike Whitney, December 16, 2015
Iraqi Protesters Rally against Turkish Troop Deployment By Press TV, December 16, 2015
The Carbon Markets Financial Game: How “Emissions Trading” at Paris Climate Talks Has Set Us Up For Failure By Steffen Bohm, December 16, 2015
Assessing Venezuela’s Elections: The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent By Eric Draitser, December 16, 2015
2015 San Bernardino shooting map location of mass shooting, OpenStreetMap (CC BY-SA 2.5)
Farook Family Attorneys Question Veracity of San Bernardino Shooting Event By James F. Tracy, December 15, 2015
President Vladimir Putin: Who Armed the Terrorists in Syria? Who Created the Islamic State (ISIS) By Pres. Vladimir Putin, December 15, 2015
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, US are Supporting The Islamic State? How to Defeat Terrorism? “Regime Change” in the West By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 15, 2015
Selected Articles: The News in Review By Global Research News, December 15, 2015
The British Government’s Complicity in U.S. Torture and Rendition Programme By Reprieve, December 15, 2015
When Democracy becomes Hypocrisy. The Reprise of McCarthyism in Britain By John Wight, December 15, 2015
Detroit: Social Aftermath of the Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in US History. Expropriation, Impoverishment, Collapse of Social Services By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 15, 2015
Refugees, “Let Them Pass”, Ensure Safe Passage: Overloaded and Capsized Boats to Greece’s Islands … By Chris Jones and Sofiane Ait Chalalet, December 15, 2015
Bloody Entanglements: Saudi Arabia, Britain and Yemen By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 15, 2015
GMOs and “Unremitting Fraud” by Government Regulators in India concerning GM Mustard By Colin Todhunter, December 15, 2015
ISIS Showcases Massive Arsenal Of American-Made Weapons In New Video By Nick Bernabe, December 15, 2015
US Army Charges Bowe Bergdahl with Desertion By David Brown, December 15, 2015
“Left” Propagandists for Escalation of Imperialist War By Bill Van Auken, December 15, 2015
Saudi Arabia Creates “Pro-ISIS Block” to “Fight Terrorism”. The State Sponsors of Terrorism Indulge in “Counter-Terrorism” By Stephen Lendman, December 15, 2015
Court Rules Bush Administration Officials Can Be Sued for “War on Terror” Conduct By Thom Hartmann, December 15, 2015
Donald Trump Not Wrong When He Said That Hillary “Has Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People” By Claire Bernish, December 15, 2015
The Culture of Racism and the Donald Trump Phenomenon By Rev. Richard Skaff, December 15, 2015
Blocking Real Democracy as Syria’s Solution By Robert Parry, December 15, 2015
Israel Supports Islamic Terrorists By Washington's Blog, December 15, 2015
How Slaves Built American Capitalism By Garikai Chengu, December 15, 2015
Gladio and the Creation of Geopolitical Chaos: “Gangs and ‘Counter Gangs” in Europe, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Now in Syria By 21st Century Wire, December 15, 2015
In Midst of ExxonMobil Climate Denial Scandal, Company Hiring Climate Change Researcher By Steve Horn, December 15, 2015
Political Struggle Mounts Over the Economic Future of South Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 15, 2015
EU-Außenbeauftragte Federica Mogherini mit den Außenministern der Slowakei, Belgiens und Irlands am Montag in Brüssel. (Foto: dpa)
Angela Merkel Under Pressure: EU Countries Resisting Extension of Economic Sanctions against Russia By Eric Zuesse, December 15, 2015
Liberal Extremism Disguised as Defense of Muslims By Matt Peppe, December 15, 2015
Selected Articles: Smuggling Sarin Gas, Market Instability, San Bernardino and Assaults on Civil Rights By Global Research News, December 14, 2015
Skewed: Income Inequality in America. The American Dream has Gone… By Finance Degree Center, December 14, 2015
Turkey Smuggled Sarin Gas to Al Qaeda Terrorists in Syria? Turkish MP By Stephen Lendman, December 14, 2015
The San Bernardino Shooting – What Really Happened Behind The Scenes? By Shawn Helton, December 14, 2015
Haiti’s Martelly Government’s Assault on Local Journalists and Community Radio By Dady Chery, December 14, 2015
US Using Turkey’s Erdogan to Provoke Confrontation with Russia? By Stephen Lendman, December 14, 2015
More Market Instability? The Highly Leveraged Nature of our Financial System is Teetering By Bill Holter, December 14, 2015
Former British Prime Minister Blair listens to a question during an appearance at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Tony Blair Complicit in US Torture Regime. Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, the CIA’s “Black Sites”… By Global Research News, December 14, 2015
Montenegro Should Not ‘Go With Albania and Turkey Against Russia’ By Sputnik, December 14, 2015
Civil Rights and “Terrorism” in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 14, 2015
Dramatic Slide of China’s Renminbi. Weakening Currency and Economic Slowdown By Peter Symonds, December 14, 2015
Israeli Fighter Jets Bomb Besieged Gaza Strip By Press TV, December 14, 2015
Venezuela Election Aftermath: Privatization Looms By Telesur, December 14, 2015
Syria
Immunities of State Officials, International Crimes, and Foreign Domestic Courts By Prof. Dapo Akande and Sangeeta Shah, December 14, 2015
Wealth Inequality: The 1% versus The 99%. Realignment, Repression or Revolution By Klaus Marre, December 14, 2015
Blocking Democracy as Syria’s Solution By Robert Parry, December 14, 2015
ASEAN and the New Cold War Battle for Eurasia’s Economic Future By Andrew Korybko, December 14, 2015
ASEAN and the New Cold War Battle for Eurasia’s Economic Future By Andrew Korybko, December 14, 2015
Erdogan’s Strikes in the Dark and Russia’s Thousand Stings By Dr. Anthony F. Shaker, December 14, 2015
Turkey’s Role in Iraq – Precursor to War? By Peter Koenig, December 14, 2015
The Anti-Assad Wahhabi Confab: The Saudi-Hosted “Opposition Talks” Fiasco By Mike Whitney, December 14, 2015
Selected Articles: Humanitarian Intervention, Invisible War, Economic Collaspe and the Loss of National Sovereignty. By Global Research News, December 13, 2015
Israel’s Guantanamo: New Bill to Allow Force-Feeding of Hunger Strikers Held Without Charge or Trial By Noa Yachot, December 13, 2015
Netanyahu Calls Palestinian Self-Defense “Terrorism”. Palestinians are Categorized as “Islamic Terrorists” By Stephen Lendman, December 13, 2015
(From L) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama stand for a family photo during the G20 Leaders Summit in Antalya, Turkey, November 15, 2015. ©AFP
Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Recep Erdogan Crowned “Liars of the Year”: Poll By Press TV, December 13, 2015
Biological Warfare and the People of Iraq By Ian Roberts, December 13, 2015