In April 2014, the world woke up to the news that Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist group in Nigeria had been kidnapped 276 school girls. It was horrifying, shocking and outrageous. There was a global ...
January 8th marked the birthday of North Korean leader Kim-Jong Un but nobody celebrated with him. According to the regime of the DPRK, the day is just a normal working day. Unlike his father and ...
At the end of 2017 there were signs that one of our biggest allies in the Pacific, Australia, was frustrated by a lack of coherency in Trump’s foreign policy. When a staunch ally calls you ...
China is the world’s biggest automobile market and now over 550 major car models are banned. In a sweeping order, Chinese authorities have banned more than 550 car models for failing to meet fuel economy ...
The once booming Venezuela economy is near collapse. Basic necessities like oil and food are in short supply. Political parties are fighting over rewriting the constitution while citizens turn to gas smuggling, bitcoin, and selling ...
António Guterres urges world leaders “to make this New Year’s resolution: Narrow the gaps. Bridge the divides. Rebuild trust by bringing people together around common goals.” (Common Dreams) In a video message delivered to ...
An investigation conducted by (CITES) revealed that of all the international passengers busted with illegal ivory, 85 percent were citizens of China. China has grown to become an indelible economic partner for many African countries. ...
The majority of these deaths were men and women over 50 years old who died in hospitals and nursing homes. (Centro de Periodismo Investigativo) Omaya Sosa Pascual It’s official. In the 40 days after Hurricane María ...
When push comes to shove will U.N. countries buckle to the threats of the most powerful nation in the world or will they unite and stand together? On Thursday they stood up. On Thursday, the ...
The Department of Defense on Wednesday confirmed that they have carried out “multiple ground operations,” as well as 120 airstrikes in Yemen. (AntiWar, Jason Ditz) While the Pentagon has been very secretive about what they’ve ...
Critics: “Trump regime exposes contempt for democracy through its threats against those who dare resist its thuggish demands at the UN.” (Common Dreams, Julia Conley) U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley told U.N. member states that she would be ...
Stein, who is fully cooperating, warns, “we must guard against the potential for these investigations to be used to intimidate and silence principled opposition to the political establishment.” (Common Dreams, Jessica Corbett) The Senate Intelligence ...
In Yemen 8 million people face food shortages and someone just killed the former President. Many fear that the killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh will open the floodgates for ISIS affiliated militants. The tension in the ...
With the fall of Gaddafi came the rise of a modern day slave trade in Libya. Our correspondent in Africa tells the tale of the horrific situation that befalls many in Africa. Chinedu, a young ...
Israeli Police Fire Stun Grenades at Peaceful Protesters (AntiWar, Jason Ditz) Protests continue to rage throughout the weekend in both the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with Palestinians out in force demonstrating against President Trump’s ...
Saudi Arabia nuclear power? The overture follows an intense and secretive lobbying push involving Michael Flynn, Tom Barrack, Rick Gates and even Iran-Contra figure Robert McFarlane. (ProPublica, by Isaac Arnsdorf) The Trump administration is holding talks on ...
Death Rate Is 31 Times Official Pentagon Figure (AntiWar.com, by Jason Ditz) It’s no real mystery that the Pentagon’s “official” civilian death toll from its airstrikes in places like Iraq is low, often insultingly low. ...
The Paradise Papers spur governments around the world into action. (Reveal News, by Sasha Chavkin) Governments around the world are swinging into action in response to the Paradise Papers, launching investigations, audits and issuing the first ...
(Democracy Now) The Paradise Papers revealed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is conducting business with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law through a shipping venture in Russia. According to the leaked documents, Ross owns a stake through ...
The United Nations reports world hunger rates increased for the first time in more than 15 years. (The Conversation, Leah Samberg, University of Minnesota) Around the globe, about 815 million people – 11 percent of the ...
US Niger: When our soldiers kill and die in wars we don’t know about and can’t end, we’re not a democracy anymore. (OtherWords, by Peter Certo) In our military-revering culture, it’s a strange thing for a ...
The order hasn’t been given, but the Air Force is already preparing to put U.S. nuclear armed bombers on 24-hour alert. According to a Defense One article that cites Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief of ...
The first seven months of the Trump administration have already resulted in more civilian casualties than under the entirety of the Obama administration. (The Conversation, Steven Feldstein, Boise State University) When President Donald Trump took office ...
“We are united in lifting up our fellow Americans.” (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) As President Donald Trump continues to come under fire for failing to deliver sufficient help to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria—which killed ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley tells the Defense secretary “if heads don’t roll nothing changes.” The plane, which never flew a mission in Afghanistan, is part of a pattern of billions in military waste documented by ProPublica ...
(Aaron Sankin / Reveal News, originally published August 11, 2017) An Israeli teenager arrested earlier this year for making a series of bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the United States might not have been acting ...
As we pass the anniversaries of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we look at war tax resistance then and now. (By Ruth Benn, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee) August ...
Appearing as a madman is actually a well-known foreign policy strategy that originates out of game theory. But can both Trump and Kim Jong-Un play the same game? Trump and Kim Jong-Un are like angry ...
(ANTIMEDIA) — Following new sanctions against Russia that President Donald Trump signed into law last week, Moscow responded Monday by announcing Russia will speed up work on reducing the country’s dependence on Western payment systems and the U.S. dollar in general, according ...
Renegotiation should address the NAFTA trade deal’s impact in Mexico, where it has devastated the rural sector while creating huge opportunities for wealthy oligarchs like Carlos Slim. (Inequality.org, by Malú Huacuja del Toro) I am a ...
Strikes Damaged Electricity Generator at Raqqa Hospital (AntiWar.com, Jason Ditz) New reports out of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa say US airstrikes hit a number of residential districts in the city over the course ...
A 2010 U.S. Geological Survey estimated $1 trillion in mineral deposits sit underground in Afghanistan. Will Trump prolong the U.S. Afghanistan War? Trump is reportedly considering prolonging the U.S. Afghanistan War in order to secure ...
Washington nominated a Raytheon executive to be Secretary of the U.S. Army; proving once again how cozy Washington is with defense contractors. In another example of the Washington revolving door, yesterday the White House announced ...
The F-35 cost: It’s become the most expensive defense program in world history, at around US$1.5 trillion before the fighter is phased out in 2070. (Michael P. Hughes, Francis Marion University) The F-35 was billed as ...
There always another $27 billion or lying around, it seems, when Lockheed Martin needs more money for expensive weapons system like the F-35. The nation’s most expensive weapons program isn’t done showing U.S. taxpayers how much it ...
CNN Hired Alleged Al-Qaeda Propagandist For Documentary, Is This Another CNN Cover Up? In June 2017, an American media activist living in rebel-held Syrian territory named Bilal Abdul Kareem expressed frustration with a former ...
More people are starting to consider tax resistance against the Trump administration. And many don’t know at first that others are already refusing to pay war taxes!
Israel Attacks Syrian Military Positions, Syria Issues Warnings The On Sunday June 25th 2017, Israel attacked the Syrian government. The attack by Israel was a result of stray fire between the Syrian government, Al Nusra ...
There was a big debate on our Facebook page recently about attitudes towards Muslims so we addressed the points people brought up: Islam, is it a violent religion? Media and polls: what to believe? What ...
In response to the U.S. shooting down a Syrian fighter jet on Sunday night, the Russian Defense Ministry gave the following statement: “All flying objects, including planes and drones of the international coalition, detected west ...
(AntiWar.com Jason Ditz) The US has confirmed that in an incident Sunday evening a US warplane, the F/A-18E Super Hornet, shot down a Syrian government Su-22 bomber south of Tabqa. The US accused the Syrian jet of ...
(AntiWar.com, Jason Ditz) An independent commission of UN war crimes investigators have denounced a “staggering loss of civilian life” that has resulted from the escalation of US airstrikes against the ISIS-held city of Raqqa since ...
After a June 7th 2017 terrorist attack in Tehran Iran, the government of Iran came out to blame the United States and Saudi Arabia for supporting terrorism. President Trump expressed grief but immediately after said ...
In April of 2016, Raed Al Saleh was denied a U.S. Visa. One reporter raised the question at a U.S. State Department press briefing at approximately the 47 minute mark in the video. This is a ...
(Northeastern.edu, Shraddha Kakade | Ruggles Media) Named last month as one of the four winners of the 2016 Right Livelihood Award,the White Helmets were also the subject of a recent Netflix documentary. The White Helmets are clearly glistening ...
(Reposted from ANTIMEDIA) Iraq — According to a government audit from 2016, through shoddy record-keeping, the United States Army has lost track of $1 billion worth of military material sent to Iraq. The equipment, intended ...
Re-posted with permission from AntiWar.com, by Jason Ditz. The weekend finalization of a US arms deal with Saudi Arabia which officials say will be worth at least $350 billion over the next decade sent the ...
The US government is secretly starting a new war and bombing Syrian government forces while the US mainstream media is focused on the Russia fiasco. The Syrian government convoy, showing the Syrian flag, was on ...
On April 4th, 2017 the Syrian government was accused of conducting a gas attack in Idlib. Videos and photos from the scene show White Helmet workers providing aid to victims. One of the doctors providing ...
If you go to YoutTube and search “White Helmets fake” all sorts of videos and montages come up. The below video is one of the most professionally done compilations of evidence against the White Helmets. The video ...
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