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The Guardian published a piece entitled “Revealed: British councils used RIPA to secretly spy on public“, on Christmas Day at 7pm, a time that almost no-one reads news, you may have missed it.
For those unaware of the Regulation of …
On December 29, preliminary reports appeared that an evacuation agreement were made between the Syrian military and militants operating in Syrian Ayn al-Fijah, Baseema and Dayr Qanoon in the Wadi Barda region northwest of Damascus. Local sources reported that militants …
Last June, Israeli police quietly began examining allegations of Netanyahu accepting about $1.1 million from accused French fraudster Arnaud Mimran in 2009.
His case in France was called the “heist of the century.” Netanyahu’s office denied receiving illegal donations, accusing …
Amid more promises of real evidence to come, the Obama administration released a report that again failed to demonstrate that there is any proof behind U.S. allegations that Russia both hacked into Democratic emails and distributed them via WikiLeaks to …
Voltaire Network — a cease-fire agreement has been concluded in Syria. So announced the Russian president, Vladamir Putin, in the presence of his Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense [1]. Russia and Turkey are its guarantors. The Islamic …
The U.S. government’s plan to conquer Russia is based upon a belief in, and the fundamental plan to establish, “Nuclear Primacy” against Russia — an American ability to win a nuclear war against, and so conquer, Russia.
This concept became …
It’s rather easy, and undoubtedly necessary, to lambast President-elect Donald Trump and his team of corporate parasites who will soon head nearly every key agency in the U.S. government.
Of note are the pro-fracking, anti-environmental protections positions of everyone from …
In an executive order accompanied by a series of official statements, US President Barack Obama has sharply escalated the campaign against Russia, based on unsubstantiated claims of Russian government hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton …
A ceasefire brokered by the governments of Russia and Turkey went into effect at the beginning of Friday, December 30, with the Syrian army announcing that it had “declared a comprehensive cessation of hostilities across all the territories of the …
Today, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI released a report alleging Russian hacking.
It’s important to note what the report does NOT say …
It does NOT allege any of the following:
- It doesn’t claim that it’s accurate. Instead,
As promised (or threatened), the Obama administration has unveiled – via the US Treasury – new sanctions against Russia over election hacking allegations (that as yet have not been supported by any actual evidence). Despite president-elect Trump’s comments that “we …
“Big Brother” Watches Everyone in America: Obama Signs “Ministry of Truth” into Law
By Stephen Lendman, December 29 2016
In early December, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act as part of the annual National Defense Authorization
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On behalf of anti-Zionist Jews worldwide, we of Neturei Karta International, Jews United Against Zionism, greet with enthusiasm the recent United Nations Security Council resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements as illegal.
For decades, the settlements have been a major cause …
Actress Debbie Reynolds passes away at age 84, one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher.
“Oscar-nominated star told her son ‘that she would like to be with Carrie again’, 15 minutes before she had a
Post-9/11, an array of police state laws, executive orders, memoranda, various national security and homeland security presidential directives, along with other repressive measures eliminated constitutional protections.
Indefinite detention without charges or trial became the law of the land. Torture-obtained evidence …
President Barack Obama signed into law last week his seventh and final Pentagon spending bill, providing $619 billion to continue and expand the murderous violence of the US war machine. Spending more than the next seven countries combined, the US …
The world’s wealthiest 200 billionaires increased their net worth by $237 billion in 2016, taking their total wealth to $4.4 trillion as of the close of trading on Tuesday, an overall increase for the year of 5.7 percent, according to …
The resumption of diplomatic ties between China and Sao Tome and Principe reflects that the one-China principle has become an irreversible trend of times, the People’s Daily said in a commentary published on Tuesday, one day after the two countries …
The Founding Fathers protected freedom of speech and freedom of the press as the most important liberties.
They are protected in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. And as discussed below, the Founders recognized that the ability to speak …
A ceasefire deal in Syria brokered by Russia and Turkey will come into effect at midnight local time on Thursday, Moscow said, announcing a “reduction” in the numbers of Russian forces on the ground in Syria.
The announcement came after …
U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Turkey – December 28 2016
…There is considerable misinformation circulating in Turkish media concerning U.S. and Coalition
The Washington Post – among others – hit the ground running in the wake of an apparent terrorist attack in Germany’s capital of Berlin before evidence was forthcoming and even before German police arrested a suspect.
A truck plowed into …
The right to food campaign is dismayed by the Indian government’s reckless attempt to renew currency notes, known as “demonetization”, without any serious attention to the consequences it may have for poor people. This move serves no clear purpose and …
The results are in, and VMRO has beaten back yet another ‘soft coup’ attempt in the Republic of Macedonia. Although there were very legitimate fears that SDSM and its foreign backers might resort to large-scale voter fraud and other such …
The Syrian military has continued to deploy reinforcements to the battlefront against ISIS terrorists near the Tyas Airbase in the province of Homs. Pro-government sources say that the government is set use a 10,000-strong offensive force led by the Tiger …
A recent poll reveals that a maximum of 4% of British Muslims believe the official narrative of the 9/11 attacks. This is one of the strongest rejections of that story ever recorded. The sponsors of the poll have done their …
Dear Prime Minister, Kia ora,
On 26 December, I, too hastily, sent a letter to the New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia offering my gratitude to the New Zealand government for co-sponsoring UN Resolution 2234 demanding an end to Israel’s …
The advocates who work the halls of Congress, trying to persuade lawmakers to do more to protect public health and safety, the environment and our financial system, are gearing up for a tough four years in Washington. They worry not …
The Mosul dam is built on a bedrock of Gypsum, which dissolves in water [AFP]
Experts have warned of renewed fears that the Mosul Dam, once named “the most dangerous dam in the world”, may break open in Spring 2017,
NIST’s final report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, issued in November 2008, has many flaws, including blatant fraud.
Part 1 of Chris Sarns’ report, which examines the burned-out fire in WTC 7, is available here.…
“We can eat only if we work every day,” D. Narayanappa said after returning to Bucharla from Bengaluru on November 4. Like many other Dalits in this village, he migrates to the city to work on construction sites for most …
Mutually agreed points that emerged from the conference:
1. Respect for the territorial integrity of Syria.
For Iran and Russia, this is an essential point. Turkey sees the danger of an autonomous Kurdish enclave in Syria as an existential …
The English language Russian news agency, Sputnik, reports that former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is advising US president-elect Donald Trump how to “bring the United States and Russia closer together to offset China’s military buildup.”
If we …
It seems hardly a coincidence that the US out-going president announced fresh sanctions on Russia just when the later was busy discussing a deal on Syria with Turkey and Iran in Moscow. Far from being just a sort of coincidence, …
Canada, October 13th 1970. The capital city of Ottawa has awoken to find troops and armed police officers deployed around buildings which house government officials. A similar picture of martial power is on display in the major cities of …
One week after the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, there is a growing chorus of demands for a massive strengthening of the state apparatus, the elimination of basic democratic rights, and the erection of new barriers against refugees.…
An 18-year-old art student in Jerusalem discovered the hard way this month that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t care for irony.
For a class assignment, she took the famous Barack Obama “Hope” poster and changed the face to Mr …
With decades of imperialist meddling around the world and a culture defined by hyper-militarism, it’s no surprise
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Responding to Trump’s Alt-Right Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons and Military Generals, we bring to the attention of our readers Dr. Gary Kohl’s incisive compilation of political quotes “That Can be Used to Resist Donald Trump’s Oval …
In Aleppo at a historic moment
I visited Aleppo, East and West, December 10-14, 2016. I was there when Eastern Aleppo was liberated or fell, depending on your perspective and the media coverage; I was among the first handful of
Of all the crooked presidential elections that have happened in Haiti since the February 2004 coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the current one is the most blatantly fraudulent. There is no longer any attempt to hide the manipulation.
The new …
“The people of Aleppo East are experiencing moments of joy, liberated from the terrorists who used civilians as human shields.” The sound of these words has a different score than what we were used to hearing in the West.
Many …
President Barack Obama has long been under fire from the US national security elite and the media for failing to intervene aggressively against the Assad regime.
But the real strategic blunder was not that Barack Obama didn’t launch yet another …
Our visit to the Sukare District in East Aleppo on Dec 24, 2016 – only days after its liberation from the Al Nusra Front terrorist occupation.
We had been inspecting one of the supposed “last hospitals in Aleppo” – the …
Turkey and Russia agreed on a nationwide ceasefire plan in Syria.
The agreement proposes end of hostilities in the country starting at midnight local time on December 29.
The truce agreement has to be approved by the Syrian government and …
The Turkish government on Monday demanded the US-led coalition to provide air support to Turkey-backed rebel groups in their fight against ISIS near the Syrian northern city of al-Bab.
The Islamic State (ISIS) militant group is in control of the …
As planned by the Russian forces the liberation of east-Aleppo was completed before Christmas. There are no longer beheadings by Takfiris in East-Aleppo. Instead a Christmas mass could be held in the damaged Elias Cathedral in the Old City in …
According to a document published by the Arabic Al-Youm Al-Sabaa broadsheet, John Kerry and national security advisor Susan Rice told a Palestinian delegation headed by Saeb Erekat and intelligence chief Majed Faraj in Washington that the Obama administration would abstain …
For a straight-no-chaser interview with Jeffrey St Clair about “Bernie and the Sandernistas: Field Notes from a Failed Revolution,” listen to KPFA Radio’s Against the Grain, 12.21.2016. The book itself is more like a series of acid …
According to Haaretz, in an article titled “Britain Pulled the Strings and Netanyahu Warned New Zealand It Was Declaring War: New Details on Israel’s Battle Against the UN Vote” According to Haaretz: “The British secretly worked the Palestinians and …
12 dead, about 40 injured, is the result of the latest terror attack in Berlin, when on 19 December, a truck plouged into a Christmas market at Berlin’s Bretscheideplatz, near the lush Kurfuerstendamm.
Is it not a ‘déjà-vu’ of not …
The Syrian army and the National Defense Forces have repelled a major ISIS offensive on the Kuweires Airbase.
Heavy clashes have been ongoing in the area since December 25.
Government forces, supported by the Syrian Air Force, have been able …
United States policy threatens global war with Russia and China
President-elect Donald Trump in a twitter post raised the specter of an escalation in the nuclear arms race which could result in a catastrophic war with the Russian Federation, the …
On December 26 and December 27, the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Air Force were delivering massive airstrikes on Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) targets in the Idlib-Aleppo countryside, according to local sources. …
The First World War and the collapse of German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian Empires led to the creation of a band of newly independent states which, due to their economic underdevelopment, were too weak to serve as a buffer zone between …
Denmark has discovered that dozens of its citizens fighting for ISIS have continued to receive cash benefits. According to local media the government somehow expects terrorists to pay the improperly distributed funds back.
At least 36 people who are known …
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon …
From Libya to the Horn of Africa, Washington and its neo-colonial apparatus stifles Pan-African development
On December 24, an Afriqiyah Airways A320 flight took off from the southern Libyan city of Sebha heading for the coastal capital of Tripoli. However, …
The Palestinian ministry of agriculture has warned local people that the Israeli occupation authorities are going to spray pesticides along the Gaza border between 25 December and 5 January. The ministry’s statement was reported by a number of media outlets.…
In another demonstration of President-elect Donald Trump’s blatant conflicts of interest, a Trump family vineyard filed a request this month for six temporary foreign worker visas—visas which Trump’s administration will soon have the power to approve.
The U.S. Labor …
With all the action in Syria, the Ukraine is no longer a subject for discussion in the West. In Russia, where the Ukraine is still a major problem looming on the horizon, and where some 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees are …
Video And English Transcript
Russian President Vladimir Putin, annual press conference, attended by Russian and foreign media, in Moscow on Friday, December 23.
Conference begins at 9:30 of video.
Transcript
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues, friends. …
Despite a concerted backlash against what US political leaders and policymakers claim is Russian interference in America’s internal politics, the US continues to openly interfere in the internal politics of other nations worldwide, including most recently, China.
Berating Russia Over
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“The United States has been sending a message that the settlements must stop privately and publicly for nearly five decades.” Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the UN
Christians following the Gregorian calendar are getting busy to celebrate Christmas, but …
Cities are the monsters of civilization, the accrual of various factors of organisation that stress development and advancement. The latter two terms are often impossible to gauge except by comparison with other cities or States. We are left with the …
Israel illegally occupies historic Palestine, stealing its land for exclusive Jewish development, a clear example of racist state rule, defying the rule of law.
On Christmas day, the Israel Hayom broadsheet said “(t)he Jerusalem District Zoning Committee is scheduled to …
The Izvestia newspaper reported that UK Defense Minister Michael Fallon had earlier
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A battalion of the Russian military police was deployed to Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry reported late on December 23. The battalion entered liberated districts of the city to defend law and order. This was the first deployment under combat …
Despite fears about the many negatives from a Donald Trump presidency, one positive could be his shattering of the monopoly that neocons and liberal hawks now hold over U.S. foreign policy, says Robert Parry.
Americans and the world have valid …
Wednesday’s announcement that President-elect Donald Trump will establish a new National Trade Council signals that his administration will proceed rapidly with its promised trade war measures.
The new office will be headed by Peter Navarro, a University of California professor …
On Friday night, Anis Amri was shot by police in Milan. There is growing evidence that the 24-year-old Tunisian drove the truck that killed twelve people on Monday and injured 50 at a Christmas market in Berlin.
Investigators report that …
The jihadist rebels of Fatah Halab and Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham carried out another heinous massacre prior to leaving the last east Aleppo neighborhoods this past week, an SAA officer from the Republican Guard told Al-Masdar News on Friday.
Over 100 …
“In a way, their interest is served by it being known that he was flat-out railroaded, falsely convicted, that they orchestrated this as a consequence for basically standing on his rights and not equivocating.
And the message is… “if you …
On December 15, the European Union extended by six months its main economic sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
The decision, to large extent spurred on by US President-elect Donald Trump’s stated willingness to normalize the relations with …
Despite heavy-handed pressure from Netanyahu and Trump to block the vote, it went ahead on Friday afternoon – passing 14 – 0 with Washington abstaining.
Their obstructionist attempt failed, handing them and Israel a black eye, but little else. UN …
Controversial program met with opposition from civil liberties groups when first proposed in June
The U.S. government has quietly started to ask foreign travelers to hand over their social media accounts upon arriving in the country, a program that aims …
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