A fake
bubble of certainty that has imprisoned us
in the west - and is now preventing us from
understanding what is really going on in the
world outside.
"You might ask what it takes
to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war "
Three young
British Muslims tell the story of how they
came to be in US custody at Guantánamo for
over two years, and discuss the Kafkaesque
horrors that awaited them there
Supporters of
the powerful Shia cleric
stormed Baghdad’s
parliament, leaving
legislators quivering in the
basement and Iraq on the
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We need an
independent investigation of
the brutal U.S. attack on a
Doctors Without Borders
hospital in Afghanistan,
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In subjecting Ken
Livingstone to
trial-by-media over his
comments on Zionism, his
detractors have also
unwittingly placed Zionism
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The House of
Representatives have lined
up to quietly kill a cost
estimate of the Pentagon’s
three-decade nuclear
modernization program, which
experts predict will exceed
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Iraq: 120 ISIS
militants killed in Tel Skuf battles:
“Today, Peshmerga forces managed to kill
120 ISIS fighters in the battles taking
place in Tel Skuf City north of Mosul,”
adding that, “The Kurdish elite forces
began attacking ISIS fighters to retake
the areas seized by the organization in
the District.”
20 ISIS members
killed by coalition airstrike in
northern Ramadi:
“The international
coalition aviation, based on security
information, targeted three vehicles
carrying ISIS leaders and destructed a
headquarters gathering senior leaders in
Albu Ali Jassim area in northern Ramadi,
killing 20 ISIS members, including
prominent leaders.”
US Navy SEAL
killed by ISIS during intense Iraq
firefight:
Islamic State fighters shot and killed a
Navy SEAL during an "extremely heavy,
extremely intense" firefight with U.S.
forces and Kurdish Peshmerga troops in
northern Iraq Tuesday
Conditions in
Iraq detention centre 'shocking':
Amnesty:
The Iraqi authorities are holding often
innocent "terror" suspects in dire
conditions across the country and have
no ability to process cases, Amnesty
International said on Monday.
Free speech in
Iraq suffers after closure of Al Jazeera,
says HRW:
The decision of Iraq’s Communications
and Media Commission to shut down Al
Jazeera’s Baghdad bureau is “nothing but
an effort to clamp down on freedom of
expression,” said Human Rights Watch in
a statement published Monday.
Turkey parliament
mayhem : Video
- Turkey parliament mayhem : Scuffles
break out between members of Turkey's
ruling AK Party and pro-Kurdish
opposition party during a discussion on
whether to remove politicians' immunity.
'Dozens killed'
in rebel rocket attack on hospital in
Syria:
The latest airstrike comes days after an
attack on a clinic in a rebel-held part
of Aleppo killed 27 medical staff and
patients, including Dr Muhammad Maaz,
one of the last paediatricians in the
area.
Renewed Fighting
Kills Some Two Dozen in Aleppo, Syria:
Renewed fighting between the Syrian
goverment forces and rebel groups killed
some two dozen people in the Syrian city
of Aleppo on Tuesday amid a flurry of
diplomatic efforts to try to renew the
cease-fire there.
Cessation of
hostilities in Aleppo to be announced in
coming hours - Lavrov:
According to UN special envoy Staffan de
Mistura, the stalled Syria peace talks
could be resumed if an Aleppo ceasefire
is agreed. He added that there is now a
possibility to relaunch the ceasefire by
extending local truces.
US forces arrive
in southern Yemen: Report:
Yemen’s al-Masirah television channel on
Sunday quoted Tom Bawman, the National
Public Radio’s Pentagon reporter, as
saying that the troops had arrived in
Yemen on April 25.
US Tells Pakistan
It Will Have To Fund F-16s Itself:
The United States has told Pakistan it
will have to finance the purchase of US
F-16 fighter jets itself after members
of the US Congress objected to the use
of government funds to pay for them.
Pakistan: Will
buy F-16s from others if US fails to
deliver:
Pakistan on Tuesday said it would buy
F-16 jets from other countries if the US
failed to provide agreed funds, amid
reports that the State Department
expressed inability to fund the USD 700
million deal with American tax payers'
money.
The Bill & Tony
Show: Clinton & Blair to join forces to
battle Brexit
: Two of the Anglosphere’s most intimate
political bedfellows, former US
President Bill Clinton and Britain’s
ex-PM Tony Blair, will combine to fight
against a possible British exit from the
European Union.
Obama invokes
Beijing threat in defense of TPP trade
deal
: The rules of trade in the Asia-Pacific
must be written by America, not China,
US President Barack Obama has argued in
an opinion article that called for a
swift ratification of the controversial
TPP free trade deal.
Cruz: Trump is an
'utterly amoral' bully, narcissist,
pathological liar:
Video - Ted Cruz laid into Donald Trump
with his most personal and toughest
criticism since the GOP presidential
campaign began, calling him a
"pathological liar" on Tuesday who
doesn't understand the difference
between the truth and lies.
Detroit resumes
water shutoffs that could impact 20,000
customers:
The Detroit Water and Sewerage
Department announced it will begin
turning off water service for as many as
20,000 of its customers who are behind
on paying their bills. The shutoffs
resume after a stoppage in mid-November.
Teachers'
'sickout' shuts Detroit public schools
again:
Nearly all Detroit public schools were
closed for a second straight day on
Tuesday as teachers called in sick to
protest news the cash-strapped school
system will run out of money to pay
employees at the end of June.
Headlines
this past week claimed that
more than half of poll
respondents said they saw
themselves more as a global
citizen than as a citizen of
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Fresh raids in
Syria's Aleppo despite bids to halt
fighting:
Several neighbourhoods, including the
heavily populated Bustan al-Qasr
district, were hit. It was not clear if
Monday's raids on the rebel area were
conducted by Syrian or Russian jets.
Iraq: Coalition
warplanes kill 15 “terrorists” north of
Ramadi:
The commander of Anbar Operations
Command, Maj. Gen, Ismail al-Mahalawi,
announced on Monday the killing of 15
ISIS elements during an aerial bombing
by the international coalition north of
the city of Ramadi.
15 ISIS fighters
killed, west of Fallujah:
Maj. Gen. Ismail Mahlawi said in a press
statement, “Today the security forces
carried out a large-scale military
operation targeting ISIS gatherings in
al-Falahat area (18 km west of Falluja),
killing 15 ISIS members and injuring ten
others,
45 insurgents
killed in Afghanistan operation:
In Afghanistan, 45 insurgents including
a Taliban-designated governor and his
deputy have been killed during an
operation in Shah Wali Kot district of
Kandahar province.
US military
whitewashes attack on Afghan hospital:
Op-Ed: The report blamed the deaths on
“human errors compounded by process and
equipment failures.” None of those
involved will face a court marshal or
criminal charges.
US Navy boss:
Russian jets should stop buzzing US
planes, ship:
"I don't think the Russians are trying
to provoke an incident. I think they're
trying to send a signal," he said. "I
think it's pretty clear that they are
wanting to let us know that they see
that we are up there in the Baltic."
Labour suspends
three councillors over Israel comments:
Nottingham councillor Ilyas Aziz and
ex-Blackburn mayor Salim Mulla are both
said to have shared a post which
suggested the state of Israel should be
relocated to the US.
Puerto Rico to
default on debt payment after talks fail:
Puerto Rico has halted a $422m (£289m)
debt payment due on Monday after talks
to ease the US territory's crisis ended
without a deal. Governor Alejandro
Garcia Padilla said in a televised
speech he had issued an executive order
suspending payments.
Saudi minister
confirms warning on proposed US law on
9/11:
Saudi Arabia has warned the United
States that a proposed U.S. law that
could hold the kingdom responsible for
any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
would erode global investor confidence
in America, its foreign minister said
Monday.
FBI gets warrant
to force woman to unlock iPhone with
fingerprint:
A federal judge has signed a warrant to
compel a woman to unlock her iPhone’s
fingerprint security mechanism. While
the Fifth Amendment would prevent a
person from having to give their
passcode, biometric methods are not
similarly protected.
Trump 41%,
Clinton 39%:
A new Rasmussen Reports
national telephone survey of Likely U.S.
Voters finds Trump with 41% support to
Clinton’s 39%. Fifteen percent (15%)
prefer some other candidate, and five
percent (5%) are undecided.
Agreement
between Zionist Jews and
Adolf Hitler to help create
a Jewish state in Palestine,
in return for an end of a
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Many Britons,
and other Europeans, remain
unaware of the declassified
documents from the US State
Department archives "showing
that US intelligence funded
the European movement
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Iraq forces
recapture ISIS-held town: officials:
Pressure for an operation to retake the
town had grown in March after ISIS
launched a chemical attack from Bashir
on the nearby town of Taza that killed
at least three children.
US once again
forced to turn to Russia for help on
Syria:
Scrambling to resuscitate a nearly dead
truce in Syria, the Obama administration
has again been forced to turn to Russia
for help, with little hope for the
desired U.S. outcome.
Islamic State
threatens to expose British military
secrets:
Islamic State terrorists have threatened
to publish details of British military
personnel after exposing a “hit-list” of
American drone pilots and urging
fanatics to “kill them wherever they
are”.
Separate PKK
attacks kills 4 Turkish soldiers
: At least four Turkish soldiers have
lost their lives and several others
sustained injuries when members of the
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) launched
two separate attacks against government
forces in the embattled southeastern
provinces of Mardin and Gaziantep.
Yemen govt
suspends 'direct' talks with Houthi
rebels:
Yemen's government suspended on Sunday
its participation in "direct" talks with
the Houthi rebels in protest at their
takeover of a military base in the
war-torn country despite a ceasefire,
officials said.
Islamist group al
Shabaab kills 15 soldiers: Somali
military:
The Islamist group, which wants to
topple Somalia's Western-backed
government, said it had killed 32
soldiers in the assault. It was not
possible to verify independently the
death toll. Al Shabaab has inflated
casualty figures in the past.
Pakistan: Drone
attack case: Two govt attorneys summoned
on May 5:
In April 2015, the IHC had directed the
Secretariat Police to register a case
against the former station chief of the
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Jonathan Banks for his alleged role in a
surgical strike that killed the family
members of an anti-drone activist.
US losing
military edge to Russia, China: American
experts:
Russia and China have recently
test-fired state-of-the-art
intercontinental ballistic missiles with
reported supersonic warheads that can
evade even the most complex of missile
defense systems.
Three killed in
renewed Ukraine violence:
Both sides claimed on Sunday that
despite a renewed truce, corresponding
with Orthodox Easter and Labor Day, the
opposite side had resumed fighting,
violating the ceasefire.
Germany 'to host
fresh Ukraine talks':
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier Saturday said he had invited
his Russian, Ukrainian and French
counterparts to talks in Berlin on May
11 intended to smooth differences
between Moscow and Kiev.
Ukraine nearly
doubles consumer gas prices to secure
IMF aid:
The long-delayed step is likely to play
poorly with people who have already
suffered from cutbacks imposed under an
austerity plan set by the International
Monetary Fund when it approved Kiev's
$17.5-billion (15.5-billion-euro) rescue
loan in 2014.
Nazi Propaganda
was Based on What Zionists Said:
The idea that Zionism and the State of
“Israel” is the protector of Jews is
probably the greatest hoax ever
perpetrated on the Jewish People.
Indeed, where else since 1945 have Jews
been in such physical danger as in the
Zionist state?!
The
Media-Assisted Manufacturing of
“Corbyn’s Anti-Semitism Crisis”: Op-Ed :
Jewish critic of Israel Noam Chomsky
(who was banned from entering Israel in
2010 on account of his views of the
state’s conduct) discussed the
distinction between the two concepts and
the disingenuousness of attempts to
conflate them at the UN in 2014
Tear gas in
Paris, Istanbul as tensions erupt on May
Day:
From Moscow to Madrid, workers chanted
demands for higher wages, better
conditions and more job security as many
countries battle economic uncertainty
and high unemployment.
Israel is
delighted to see Syria, a
primary foe, lying in ruins
as a result of a US,
British, French, Turkish and
Saudi-instigated civil war.
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It is time to
speak out against the
coordinated effort to
silence Labour leader Jeremy
Corbyn and critics of
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Iraq: ISIS claims
to kill 50 in suicide attack in Anbar
province:
Islamic State has issued a news release
claiming to have carried out a suicide
attack on a police station in the town
of Kubaysah, in Iraq’s Anbar province,
killing over 50 police officers and
soldiers.
Security forces
free 2 villages in Iraq's Anbar, 27 IS
militants killed:
Iraqi security forces on Friday
liberated two villages from Islamic
State (IS) militants in Iraq's western
province of Anbar, as the troops killed
27 IS militants, including six suicide
bombers, a provincial security source
said.
MSF Says Syria
Hospital Bombing Killed 50:
The medical charity Doctors Without
Borders says the death toll from the
bombing of a hospital and nearby
buildings in Aleppo in Syria has risen
to 50, including 6 medical staff and
patients.
Syrian TV: Rebel
shelling kills 15 at Aleppo mosque:
State TV said several rockets hit the
mosque and its surroundings as
worshipers were leaving after Friday
prayers. It said the attack struck the
Malla Khan mosque in the Bab al-Faraj
neighborhood.
Syria : Body of
Russian 'hero' flown home: The body of a
Russian officer killed near Palmyra
during a battle against so-called
Islamic State (IS) militants has arrived
back in Moscow from Syria.
US against
sanctions for Ahrar Al-Sham, Jaysh
al-Islam:
Russia's Permanent Representative to the
U.N., Vitaly Churkin, recently proposed
the U.N. place sanctions on Ahrar
Al-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam, claiming the
groups were linked to al-Qaeda and
Daesh.
Fresh U.S.-led
airstrikes kill 24 IS militants in
Afghanistan:
About 24 Islamic State (IS) militants
were killed Friday in U.S.-led coalition
airstrikes in eastern province of
Nangarhar with Jalalabad as its capital,
120 km east of Kabul, a military
statement said.
EU and Russia: On
the Path to Normality?: Op-Ed:
Relations between the EU and Russia are
on their way back to normal, slowly but
surely. Neither the US nor certain East
European states can halt the process
Irish parties
agree to form minority government:
Ireland's two key political parties,
Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, have struck a
deal to create a new government. The
agreement comes after an inconclusive
election led to months of political
deadlock.
Protests rage
outside Trump rally in Orange County;
17 arrested, police car smashed :
Traffic came to a halt as a boisterous
crowd walked in the roadway, some waving
American and Mexican flags. Protesters
smashed a window on at least one police
cruiser, punctured the tires of a police
sport utility vehicle, and at one point
tried to flip a police car.
The conflict emanates from Washington and is
perpetuated by Washington. Why? To justify
what would otherwise be seen as simply
outrageous US militarism in the Asia
Pacific.
The wars on Afghanistan
and Iraq are part of a broader military agenda,
which was launched at the end of the Cold War. The
ongoing war agenda is a continuation of the 1991
Gulf War and the NATO led wars on Yugoslavia
(1991-2001).
The overt theme is
unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of
domination. It calls for the United States to
maintain its overwhelming military superiority and
prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on
the world stage.
A SECRET blueprint for
US global domination reveals that President Bush and
his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on
Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took
power in January 2001.
02/25/03 - The Project
for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a
Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above
all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The
establishment of a global American empire to bend
the will of all nations.
A highly classified
British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's
just-concluded election campaign, indicates that
President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to
ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his
policy.
MINISTERS were warned
in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking
part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they
had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.
Those who have hoped
that a U.S. military victory in Iraq would somehow
bring about a more peaceful world are in for a rude
awakening. The final resolution of this war and the
U.S. occupation of Iraq will likely not be the end,
rather, only the prelude to a succession of future
crises: in Kashmir, Syria, North Korea, and Iran.
