One man’s trash is another man’s treasure: Turkish sanitation workers create library out of discarded books. Garbage collectors in Turkey opened a public library composed of discarded books which they collected along their routes in ...
A series of anti-government rallies rocked Iran to start 2018. Protests that threatened to shake the foundation of the Islamic republic. According to an ABC report on January 9, 2018, as many as 3,700 protesters were ...
“Are you comfortable with having Jared Kushner be the beneficiary of huge amounts of Israeli financing at the same time he’s overseeing U.S. foreign policy on Israel?” (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson, staff writer) President Donald Trump’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Since 2001, the “War on Terror” has become the punchline and the reason for expanding the military, invading other countries without an actual declaration of war, and taking away rights and liberties domestically to keep ...
1. Sunni/Shia/Wahhabi 2. Yom Kippur War 3. 1974 Nixon Deal 4. Iran/Iraq War 80’s 5. 9/11 & JASTA 6. Iran 2015 Nuclear Deal 7. S.A. – U.S. Arms Sales Sources: For our longer report and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The two American investigators felt a sense of foreboding that Sunday as they headed to an emergency meeting with their boss on the Iraqi air base. But they didn’t expect to be ...
“Patrick Clawson, member of the globalist-controlled think-tank and neo-con influenced Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP); recently spoke about the use of false flags as a necessary way for instigating a war with Iran. ...
Middle Eastern affairs often seem like an endless and confusing mess of wars, sanctions, peace treaties and changing governments. To help clear things up we introduce our “Understanding the Middle East” series. We spotlight individual ...
(Reprinted with permission from ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed, Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi) In June 2014, around the time ISIS was making headlines across the world, the Wall Street Journal reported that the terror group had 4,000 fighters in ...
The 2011 intervention in Libya was sparked by the US condemning the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan government. The official justification for the intervention was that Gaddafi was a brutal dictator who had ...
Reposted from Bloomberg.com by Andrea Wong, May 20, 2016 Failure was not an option. It was July 1974. A steady predawn drizzle had given way to overcast skies when William Simon, newly appointed U.S. Treasury ...
Reposted from History.com The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran. Iran remained a solid Cold ...
Published on Nov 8, 2012 In an exclusive interview with RT, Syrian President Bashar Assad said that Syria is not going through a civil war, but rather a different kind of war – terrorism through ...
Reposted from The World Post, A Partnership of The Huffington Post, by Robert Toscano (Italy’s Ambassador to Iran 2003-2008) In 2004, when I was Italy’s ambassador to Iran, I had the occasion to tour the ...
Al Fateh University (Arabic: جامعة الفاتح) is the largest and most important institute of higher education in Libya, providing undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels of study. It is located in the capital Tripoli. The university ...
Reprinted from EcoWatch by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., originally posted 25 February, 2016. The fossil fuel industry’s business model is to externalize its costs by clawing in obscene subsidies and tax deductions—causing grave environmental ...
From Washington Post By Craig Whitlock April 17, 2011 The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according ...
US Peace Council Representatives CONFRONT a hostile American press after visiting Syria, and learning that the American people are being lied to, grossly lied to.
This is a video of Gaddafi driving through the streets of Libya in an unarmored car with the people cheering him on as he drives by.
Report on the anniversary of Iran Air Passenger Flight 655 which was shot down by a US naval boat. The incident took place in Iranian air space and in Iranian waters and on the flight’s ...
The UN sanctions placed on Iraq after the Gulf War are highly controversial. When will we stop playing war games with children's lives? Who will have the courage to seek another way?
During an interview on Democracy Now General Wesley Clark reveals the Bush presidency's response to 9/11 was to take out 7 middle eastern countries in 5 years.