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America’s Transition to the “State Terrorist Model of Government” By Prof. Robert Abele, August 08 2015

It has occurred almost without notice. While the U.S. continues to claim its foremost world status as a democracy, since 9/11 it has shifted its model of government to something far more concerning. This shift is instanced perfectly in a

The Rebirth of the Patriarch Of Moscow: Moscow Politics in Harmony with the Russian Orthodox Church? By Dr. Filippo Romeo, August 08 2015

The Orthodox Church and the Christian tradition have always assumed a role of primary importance in Russian history and tradition.

The origins of Christianity in Russia go back to 988 and coincide with the baptism of Prince Vladimir the Great.

US-Russia Confrontation in the Arctic and the Battle for Oil. Russia’s Territorial Claims of the Arctic Shelf By South Front, August 08 2015

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US Congress and President Obama “Officially” Recognize Donbass’: Public Law 86-90 (1959) By George Eliason, August 08 2015

It’s true! President Barack Obama beat Russia’s President Putin to the punch by recognizing the right of Donbass to ascend to the fraternity of nations first. He has unwittingly reaffirmed this every year he has been in office.

The Captive

Donald Trump’s Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System By Mike Whitney, August 08 2015

Last night’s FOX News GOP Presidential Debate Extravaganza featured the most riveting two minute political exchange ever heard on national television. During a brief colloquy between Republican frontrunner  Donald Trump and Fox moderator Brett Baier, the pugnacious casino magnate revealed

Obama Versus Netanyahu: Fight to the Finish By Patrick J. Buchanan, August 08 2015

In his desperation to sink the Iran nuclear deal, Bibi Netanyahu is taking a hellish gamble.

Israel depends upon the United States for $3 billion a year in military aid and diplomatic cover in forums where she is often treated

Behind Israel’s Hysterical Opposition to the Iran Nuclear Deal By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, August 08 2015

In light of the fact that Israel is in possession of at least 200 (surreptitiously-built) nuclear warheads, and considering the reality that, according to both US and Israeli intelligence sources, Iran neither possesses nor pursues nuclear weapons, the relentless hysterical

The US Invasion of Syria: “Divide, Destroy, Invade and Occupy”. The Deep Breath before the Plunge By Tony Cartalucci, August 08 2015

When Foreign Policy magazine recently claimed, “Turkey Goes to War,” in their article of the same title, what they really meant was “the US goes to war.” That is because the lengthy plan they described in their article

Obama Heads for Full-Scale War on Syria By Stephen Lendman, August 08 2015

It’s been coming for a long time – facilitated by repeated Big Lies about Bashar al-Assad, ignoring his overwhelming public support, especially for defending Syria against an imported Islamic State and other takfiri terrorists, enlisted by Washington as foot soldiers

From Palestine to Yemen: Honour and Shame of the Arab World By Sayed Hasan, August 08 2015

While Saudi Arabia is trying its best to supplant Israel in terms of crime, terror and barbarism, pushing a whole country to the edge of the abyss to general indifference, the poorest of the Arab countries gives the world a

The US-Saudi Oil Deal: From “Win-Win” to “Mega-Loose” By F. William Engdahl, August 08 2015

Who would’ve thought it would come to this? Certainly not the Obama Administration, and their brilliant geo-political think-tank neo-conservative strategists.

John Kerry’s brilliant “win-win” proposal of last September during his September 11 Jeddah meeting with ailing Saudi King Abdullah was

Hiroshima-Nagasaki: 70-Year Nuclear Explosions Not Done Yet. “A Thirty-second fit of Insanity…” By David Swanson, August 08 2015

Image: A mushroom cloud billows about one hour after a nuclear bomb was detonated above Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. 

This August 6th and 9th millions of people will mark the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima

The US Senate’s “DARK Act” Would Cause America’s Crop Fields to Be Saturated with Cancer-Causing Glyphosate (Monsanto Roundup) By David Gutierrez, August 07 2015

A bill pending before the U.S. Senate would not just deny consumers the right to know whether their food contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs), it could also strip states of their right to limit or regulate the use of dangerous

Which U.S. Senators Want War on Iran By David Swanson, August 07 2015

Let’s do the count:

Senators rallying and whipping their colleagues to support the Iran agreement: 0.

Senators admitting that Iran has had no nuclear weapons program and has never threatened or been a threat to the United States: 0.

Senators …

BlackLivesMatter Activists: Targets of US Surveillance By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, August 07 2015

The Obama administration’s spy agencies have been keeping track of the movements, communications and activities of the new crop of Black activists. Although not surprising, the recent reports should give rise to “new strategies and tactics to exchange information among …

The Sacking of the German Attorney General and the Assault on Press Freedom By Peter Schwarz, August 07 2015

The events that led to the dismissal of the German Attorney General Harald Range show the true extent of the preparations to erect an authoritarian state in which freedom of speech and basic democratic rights are suppressed.

In May, the …

Hundreds Dead as Refugee Boat Sinks in Mediterranean By Martin Kreickenbaum, August 07 2015

Up to 700 refugees were on board a fishing boat that capsized 15 nautical miles off the Libyan coast on Wednesday. More than 200 are feared drowned. According to the Italian coast guard, around 400 people were rescued, while 26

Police State Brutality in Chicago. African Americans Lawlessly Arrested, Detained, Tortured during Secret Interrogations By Stephen Lendman, August 07 2015

An earlier article discussed London Guardian revelations about Chicago police operating an “off-the-books (Homan Square) interrogation compound” – a “nondescript warehouse” using “CIA black site” practices.

Police brutality victims are lawlessly arrested, detained, denied access to lawyers, and tortured during …

Fukushima’s Radioactive Baby Milk Formula. Japan’s “Contaminated Exports” to China By John LaForge, August 07 2015

The Chinese authorities seized more than 881 pounds of baby milk formula that had been imported from Japan because it had been produced in areas known to be heavily contaminated with radioactive material emitted by three damaged nuclear reactors at

Israel Appoints Former Leader of West Bank Settlers as New Ambassador to Brazil By Taisa Sganzerla, August 07 2015

Image: Daniel Dayan, former chairman of the West Bank settlement council. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Israel has appointed prominent settler-advocate Dani Dayan as new ambassador to Brazil. Dayan publicly opposes the two-state solution and has previously told the press that ‘

Financial Warfare, China and the Gold Market By Bill Holter, August 07 2015

Shock of all shocks, the IMF announced the Chinese yuan will not be admitted into the SDR until at least Sept. 2016.

What exactly does this mean? I can tell you the gold community is so shell shocked and fearful

The Contradictions of US Sponsored Terrorism: Pentagon’s “New” Syrian Rebels to Direct U.S. Airstrikes against ISIS and Assad’s Government Forces By Timothy Alexander Guzman, August 07 2015

And so it begins. The first official airstrike was carried out by a U.S. drone that targeted ISIS strongholds inside Syrian territory. “A US drone today carried out one air strike in Syria near Raqa,” according to the Agence France-Presse

Israel Is NOT a Democracy By Washington's Blog, August 07 2015

Israel’s leaders hold the country out as a democracy … just like the U.S.

Of course, America is officially no longer a democracy … as wealth is so concentrated that it has broken the political system.

The same thing

Twisted Narratives of Hiroshima: “Atomic Warfare Became Noble Even to the Victims” By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 07 2015

Hiroshima signalled a breach in war, radical in its annihilating scope, and merciless in its existential fury.  At the time, there was an almost desperate attempt on the part of the military establishment to normalise its use – in truth,

Arab League Calls for Jewish Settlers to Be Prosecuted By Middle East Monitor, August 07 2015

The Arab League’s “Arab Peace Initiative Committee” has called for Jewish settlers and their organisations to be placed on terrorist lists and prosecuted in international courts for their crimes.

According to a report by Anadolu, the committee also called …

70 Years after Hiroshima, Okinawa’s Long Resistance to US Military Occupation By Taisuke Komatsu and Semanur Karaman, August 07 2015

Image: US military bases in Okinawa

Japan is living under the shadow of US militarism, write Taisuke Komatsu & Semanur Karaman – and most of all in Okinawa, the nation’s southernmost archipelago. Against overwhelming local opposition but backed by Japan’s

On Israel’s Little-Known Concentration And Labor Camps (1948-1955) By Yazan al-Saadi, August 07 2015

Much of the grim and murky circumstances of the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the late 1940s have gradually been exposed over time. One aspect – rarely researched or deeply discussed – is the internment of thousands of Palestinian

Financial Meltdown, Protracted Negotiations: Will the Greek Bailout Deal Work? By Kavaljit Singh, August 07 2015

On Monday (3rd August) when the Athens Stock Exchange reopened after a five-week shutdown, the share price index plunged by more than 23 percent in early trading. The banking index covering Greece’s biggest banks witnessed the largest decline, down to

Anti-Russia Propaganda: Pew Global Poll Finds that Obama’s Effort to Isolate Russia Is Succeeding By Eric Zuesse, August 07 2015

The latest Pew international poll finds that whereas U.S. and global sentiments toward Russia were rather moderate, not hostile, until after U.S. President Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012, the sentiments toward Russia both in the U.S. and in most countries

50 Years After US Voting Rights Act, A New Fight for Democracy Demanded By Jon Queally, August 07 2015

President Lyndon B. Johnson met with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965. This week a federal appeals court cited the landmark civil rights law in its decision to

The Eurasian Corridor: Pipeline Geopolitics and the New Cold War By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 07 2015
The ongoing crisis in the Caucasus is intimately related to the strategic control over energy pipeline & transportation corridors.
US, UK, World Bank Among Aid Donors Complicit in Ethiopia’s War on Indigenous Tribes, Opening the Way to International Agribusiness By Will Hurd, August 06 2015

Young Mursi cattle herders. Photo: Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA).

USAID, the UK’s DFID and the World Bank are among those covering up for severe human rights abuses against indigenous peoples in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, inflicted during forced evictions

Another Post 9/11 Police State Law: The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) Targets Fundamental Civil Liberties By Stephen Lendman, August 06 2015

Post-9/11 repressive legislation made America more of a police state than earlier.

Obama wants more on top of current freedom-destroying laws, executive orders, national security and homeland security presidential directives, military orders when issued, and extrajudicial diktats at his discretion.…

Nuclear Disarmament: If Not Now, When? By Robert C. Koehler, August 06 2015

Oh plaintive cry for justice, for change, for the world we must create, welling up from a tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean. I can only pray: Let there be an authority large enough to hear it.

My first …

Hiroshima-Nagasaki: “A Hole in American History”, Atomic Devastation Hidden for Decades By Greg Mitchell, August 06 2015

Originally published at WhoWhatWhy.org

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima —  followed three days later by the bombing of Nagasaki. While the world is now aware of the horrifying aftermath of these events, this wasn’t

A Dead Lion and a Dead Black Man By Margaret Kimberley, August 06 2015

When word reached the U.S. that Cecil the lion had been shot to death in Zimbabwe, much of white America was reduced to tears. But few of them know or care about Samuel DuBose, a Black man gunned down in

US Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Talks Militarism But Says Nothing New By David Swanson, August 06 2015

Yes, I think the election season is a disastrously overlong distraction. If people’s interest in it can be used to get them to ask their heroes to lead on important matters — such as asking Bernie Sanders to rally the

The Guardian Whitewashes Biased Coverage of Labour Leadership Candidate Jeremy Corbyn By Media Lens, August 06 2015

In our previous media alert, we described ‘the panic-driven hysterical hate-fest campaign’ being waged against Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn right across the corporate media ‘spectrum’.

This week, Guardian readers’ editor Chris Elliott responded to readers’ complaints:

‘I read or

Does the Greek Bailout Pave the Way for the United States Of Europe? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, August 06 2015
France has proposed that the 19 EU eurozone members form their own federal government complete with a single budget, one treasury department/ministry, and a unified parliament as a means of tackling the economic crisis in Greece.
Cellphones, Wireless Devices Connected to Cancer – Study By RT, August 06 2015

Radiation emitted from wireless devices can cause a metabolic imbalance in users, which can lead to various health risks including cancer and neurodegenerative disease, according to a new study.

review article — “Oxidative Mechanisms of Biological Activity of Low-intensity

Turkey Invades Syria and Iraq: Erdogan’s ‘Erratic’ Behavior By Andrew Korybko, August 06 2015

Turkey has been acting pretty erratic these past couple of weeks, launching a surprise dual offensive in Syria and Iraq, condemning Russia for alleged ‘oppression’ against the Crimean Tatars, and suspending the Balkan Stream pipeline negotiations. All of this is

Nuclear Anniversary: The Atom Bomb Was Deemed “Essential”. “A Rain of Ruin, the Likes of which has Never been seen Before” By Brian Cloughly, August 06 2015

On 1 September 1939 – the date of the beginning of the Second World War – the President of the United States of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt, wrote to «the Governments of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and His Britannic Majesty»

Scientists Warn “Supercharged” GMOs Could be Used as Bio-weapons By Julie Fidler, August 06 2015

Scientists and environmentalists are concerned that a new technique for generated “supercharged” genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be misused and trigger a health emergency or natural disaster.

The “gene drive” technology allows GMOs to spread rapidly in the wild. The …

Nashville Theater Shooting: Alleged Gunman with Hatchet, Found Strapped to ‘Hoax Explosive Device’ By Shawn Helton, August 06 2015

Welcome to this week’s installment of the “Daily Shooter,” another episode tailormade for American audiences…

According to authorities, a man armed with a gun, pepper spray and a hatchet, was killed Wednesday afternoon after a fire fight with law enforcement …

Influential German Figures Call for a New European Approach to EU-Russia Relations and the Crisis in Ukraine By Oriental Review, August 06 2015

A couple of weeks ago a group of influential German figures, the members of Willy Brandt Circle, have signed an Open Letter to SPD (German Social-Democrats) Bundestag delegates and cabinet ministers urging them to abandon the confrontational course in relations

America: The Deceit About Being a ‘Republic’ versus a ‘Democracy’ By Eric Zuesse, August 06 2015

One of my recent articles at several sites, “Jimmy Carter Is Correct That the U.S. Is No Longer a Democracy” generated many reader-comments (such as here) saying things like, “The US has always been a republic. There are no

China-Latin American Relations, Santiago De Chile: The Yuan’s Financial Stronghold By Ariel Noyola Rodríguez, August 06 2015

Economic relations between China and Latin America are living increasing tensions. As a result of deflation (fall in prices) on a global scale, the South American region is suffering the consequences of concentrating the bulk of its exports to China

Will the US-Created ISIS Attack Americans on US Soil? By Joachim Hagopian, August 06 2015

Those of us in alternative news media shoulder a growing responsibility of shedding light on the truth where little to none exists anymore either in government and mainstream media. As such, citizens of the world but especially of America need

ISIS Threat Forces Iraq to Digitize National Library By RT, August 06 2015

In an effort to preserve centuries of the written word from possible pillage by Islamic State militants, the Baghdad National Library is rushing to scan ancient works to create digital archives.

The work undertaken by the microfilm department is truly …

Close Confidant’s Emails to Hillary Bash Britain’s Cameron By Stephen Lendman, August 06 2015

Shyness and self-restraint aren’t her attributes, along with a whole lot of other dubious qualities.

Revealed email content she sent and received on official State Department business as its head using her private account increasingly is coming back to haunt …

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Blames West For Biased MH17 Investigation and Anti-Russian Propaganda By Russia Insider, August 06 2015

Image: Source: amrfum

Mahathir bin Mohamad held the post of the Prime Minister for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister. As an experienced statesman he knows what he is talking about

This video is

Greek Forces to Train in Israel as Syriza-Led Government Deepens Alliance By Ali Abunimah, August 06 2015

Greek, along with Italian, military forces are soon to train in Israel.

This is the latest indicator of the deepening military alliance being forged between Israel and Greece’s government led by the leftist Syriza party.

Last month, Israeli helicopter pilots …

Mainstream Media To Pro-Vaxxers: Don’t Argue The Facts, Show Scary Pictures! By Brandon Turbeville, August 06 2015

The Vaccine industry, Big Pharma, and the mainstream media have some advice for vaccine zealots attempting to bully parents questioning the safety or effectiveness of vaccines into changing their minds – Don’t argue the facts! Show scary pictures!

In what …

CIA Executive Director: CIA Committed Torture By Washington's Blog, August 06 2015

Former CIA Executive Director Buzzy Krongard told BBC on Monday that the CIA did engage in torture:

[BBC] asked Buzzy Krongard, the CIA’s former executive director, if he thought waterboarding and painful stress positions were torture:

“Well, let’s put it

Shadow Puppets: Outside Groups Pulling the Strings in 2016 Election By Deirdre Fulton, August 06 2015

Ostensibly independent groups reported to have close ties to a candidate account for 96 percent of total outside fundraising

This explosion of outside money, the vast majority of it not subject to contribution limits, is a consequence of the U.S.

Texas Schools Caught Manipulating Quotes to Push Christianity on Students By Carey Wedler, August 06 2015

A public school district in Eastern Texas is under fire amid allegations it made up quotes by famous figures in order to promote Christianity to its students, posting them to the walls of the four schools in the district. The …

Thousands Protest Torture-murder of Mexican Photojournalist and Four Women By Rafael Azul, August 06 2015

Image: Protest against the murders of photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and four women [Credit: Eneas de Troya]

Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Mexico City and other major cities in response to the brutal July 31 murder of

Obama Speech on Iran: Collapse of Nuclear Deal Will Mean War By Barry Grey, August 06 2015

Defending the nuclear accord reached last month with Tehran, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that congressional blockage of the deal would rapidly lead to war against Iran.

In a chilling passage of the speech delivered at American University in Washington, …

Greece, “Respect the No Vote”: A Dramatic Appeal by Musician Mikis Theodorakis By Mikis Theodorakis and Peter Koenig, August 06 2015

Friends of Greece,

On 3 August 2015, Mikis Theodorakis, the Greek world famous music composer and Resistance figure, called upon the Greek people – and the peoples of the world – to respect Democracy – the very Democracy, born in

Rabble-Rouser Netanyahu Encourages Americans to Oppose Obama’s Bill for Peaceful Co-Existence with Iran By Anthony Bellchambers, August 06 2015

$25 million to support megalomaniac ambitions of Israeli Prime Minister

The U.S. Zionist lobby is to spend $25 million in an effort to turn American public opinion against President Obama, their own elected head of state, in a bid to

Extremist Ideological Background of Croatia’s Role in the Destruction of Yugoslavia By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović, August 06 2015

On the occasion of 20th anniversary of the end of the civil war on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia (1991−1995) it is necessary to reassess the real causes and cardinal perpetuators of the process of Yugoslavia’s internal and external bloody

The New Climate “Normal”: Abrupt Sea Level Rise and Predictions of Civilization Collapse By Dahr Jamail, August 06 2015

Helicopters drop water on the Blue Creek wildfire as it burns near Walla Walla, Washington, July 22, 2015. Officials warn about the potential for even more catastrophe in the months ahead, as drought, heat and climate change leave the landscape

Behind the Sanctions Regime: US Receives RD-181 Rocket Engines From Russia, Part of a New $1bn Contract By RT, August 05 2015

Russia has delivered two RD-181 engines to the US Orbital Sciences Corporation for its Antares rocket under a $1bn contract, signed despite several rounds of Western-imposed sanctions and hot debates in Congress over US dependency on Russia for national security

Citigroup’s Unchecked Crime Wave Proves that America Is Headed in the Wrong Direction By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, August 05 2015

Sanford (Sandy) Weill, the Man Who Put the Serially Charged Citigroup Behemoth Together

Citigroup, the bank that played a central role in bringing America to its knees in 2008; received the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of finance to …

Is the Biotech Industry Behind the Destruction of Italy’s Olive Trees? By Ruben Rosenberg Colorni, August 05 2015

Italy is internationally known mainly for three things: its cuisine, its abysmal politics, and its vistas and beaches. In recent months, a series of events has developed that involve those three aspects. Activists, farmers and a government inquiry have shed

Statement of Palestinian Groups About the War against the Syrian People By Global Research News, August 05 2015

Statement of Palestinian groups and individuals in the occupied homeland, refugee camps and the diaspora about the global war on Syria.

We are Palestinians and Palestinian organizations that declare our solidarity with the Syrian people in their historic struggle for …
Imperialist Powers Prepare Another Military Intervention in Libya By Jean Shaoul, August 05 2015

A joint US-European mission to Libya involving soldiers from six countries is being hatched under the pretext of combating Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and with the aim of establishing a pliant pro-Western government and “stabilising” the country.

German Government Fires Prosecutor over Treason Charge against Internet Blog By Ulrich Rippert, August 05 2015

On Tuesday evening, the German government fired the chief federal prosecutor, Attorney General Harald Range, for his unprecedented defiance of the government in bringing treason charges against an Internet blog that exposed plans for mass spying by the federal intelligence

The MH17 Pilot’s Corpse: More on the Cover-Up By Eric Zuesse, August 05 2015

It might be the decisive piece of evidence proving who and what and how and why the MH17 Malaysian airliner over the conflict zone in Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was shot down, but the pilot’s corpse has been hidden

Danish TV Documentary Exposes Gardasil Vaccines for Triggering Wave of Disease Among Young Girls By Jonathan Benson, August 05 2015

The Danish news service TV2 recently aired a bold documentary calling into question the safety of the Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer. Documenting dozens of cases of serious injury and disability among Danish girls following the three-part vaccination regimen, the

Ireland and the Privatization of Water: Anti-Water Charge Campaigners’ Victory By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, August 05 2015

Anti-water charge campaigners had a major moral victory over government plans to make the people pay for the financial crisis when Eurostat determined that Irish Water had failed the Market Corporation Test. [1] One reason given was that “sales must

Global War On Terror Has Killed 4 Million Muslims Or More: Do The Math By Mint Press, August 05 2015

In this Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 file photo, a man is questioned in the living room of his home during a raid by the 82nd Airborne Division near Fallujah, Iraq.

WASHINGTON — A study released earlier this year revealed the …

Still Uninvestigated After 50 Years: Did the U.S. Help Incite the 1965 Indonesia Massacre? By Prof Peter Dale Scott, August 05 2015
U.S. academics and policy intellectuals with connections to the CIA and RAND Corporation publicly urged their contacts in the Indonesian Army “to strike, sweep their house clean” (Guy Pauker), while “liquidating the enemy’s political and guerrilla armies”
Pro-Israeli Propaganda Works: New Polls Show Most Americans Oppose Iran Nuclear Deal By Stephen Lendman, August 05 2015

Three recent polls show most Americans oppose what they know little about or what’s potentially at stake. More on this below.

The vast majority of Americans know virtually nothing about Iran, its history, culture. They’re the most over-entertained, uninformed people …

Fukushima Radiation: Millions of Fish Dead in Pacific Northwest, Destruction of Marine Life, Unprecedented Catastrophe. By ENENews, August 05 2015

USA Today, Jul 31, 2015 (emphasis added): … weather in the Pacific Northwest is killing millions of fish

AP, Jul 27, 2015: More than a quarter million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either

Obama’s “Regime Change” Strategy: How US Allies Aid Al Qaeda in Syria By Daniel Lazare, August 05 2015

The dirty secret about the Obama administration’s “regime change” strategy in Syria is that it amounts to a de facto alliance with Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front which is driving toward a possible victory with direct and indirect aid from Saudi

US State Deptartment “Doesn’t Know” Legal Authority Behind Obama’s Green Light to Attack Syrian Troops By Paul Joseph Watson, August 05 2015

Asked what legal justification the Obama White House’s decision to strike Syrian government forces was based on, State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner said, “I frankly don’t know.”

Earlier this week it was reported that the U.S. would allow airstrikes

“Europe Needs Russia and Russia Needs Europe”: Influencial German Figures Call for a New European Approach to the Crisis in Ukraine By Oriental Review, August 05 2015

A couple of weeks ago a group of influencial German figures, the members of Willy Brandt Circle, have signed an Open Letter to SPD (German Social-Democrats) Bundestag delegates and cabinet ministers urging them to abandon the confrontational course in relations

The Next Financial Crash. “The Writing is on the Wall”. Don’t Say “You Weren’t Warned” By Bill Holter, August 05 2015

It was said after the last financial crash that “no one could’ve seen it coming”. This was not so back then and is not so today.

If you were looking for the truth in 2007, the average investor had ample

US Politicians’ Racist Anti-Iranian Remarks Don’t Make Headlines By Ben Norton, August 05 2015

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) believes Iranians “are evil people. They’re dangerous.”

Imagine a US senator publicly calling the Chinese “evil people.” Imagine a governor saying African leaders are “animals.” Imagine a presidential candidate claiming Latinos are “liars.” In each of …