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
We will
recapture our democracy in
the streets of cities such
as Philadelphia, not in
convention halls such as the
aptly named Wells Fargo
Center.
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26 killed as
deadly air raid hits busy market in
Syria's Deir Az Zor:
At least 26 people have been killed in
regime air strikes in Syria's Deir Az
Zor province, activists and a monitoring
group has said. The Syrian army crossed
the boundary of Raqqa province after
advancing in a major Russian-backed
offensive against ISIL
Russia denies
targeting Syrian market in airstrike:
“Russia’s air forces did not carry out
any combat missions in the area,”
Russian news agencies quoted Defence
Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov as
saying.
Russian Air Force
pulverizes Nusra in northern Aleppo:
video:
The Russian Air Force stepped up their
airstrikes over the northern countryside
of the Aleppo Governorate tonight,
targeting Jabhat Al-Nusra’s (Syrian
Al-Qaeda group) defenses at the
strategic village of Haritan in the
‘Anadan Plains.
Assad vows to
fight on, says Aleppo to be Erdogan's
graveyard:
Assad said he would win back "every
inch" of Syria and said Aleppo would be
a graveyard for the hopes and dreams of
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, a
major sponsor of the insurgents battling
to topple him.
Istanbul bomb
attack on police bus kills 11:
A car bomb attack targeting a police bus
has killed seven officers and four
civilians in central Istanbul. It was
the fourth major attack in Turkey's
largest city this year.
Falluja detainees
'tortured by Shia militias':
Those released showed signs of severe
torture, Sheikh Raja al-Issawi said.
Four people died as a result of their
injuries and others were in a critical
condition in hospital, he added.
Sunnis accuse
Shiite militias of torture in Fallujah:
The video shows an interrogation quickly
turning into an outright beating as a
prisoner is flogged and repeatedly
stomped on the head. It is said to have
been shot around Fallujah.
ISIS Has $1B
Worth Of US Humvee Armored Vehicles;"In
the collapse of Mosul, we lost a lot of
weapons," Abbadi said an interview
Sunday, as translated by Al-Jazeera. "We
lost 2,300 Humvees in Mosul alone."
Hospitals
supported by charity received 134
casualties in one day - MSF:
A rocket attack on a busy market last
week in Taiz, Yemen's third largest
city, killed at least 12 civilians and
wounded over 122 others, a much higher
figure than previously reported, a
medical charity said on Monday.
Israel has
destroyed $74 million worth of EU
projects:
More than 900 Palestinians have been
made homeless this year, according to UN
statistics, and thousands more have had
their livelihoods affected by the wave
of destruction.
The new
McCarthyism is pro-Israel:
Legal groups slam NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo
for creating “unconstitutional”
blacklist of BDS supporters
Pro-Israel groups
vow to “eliminate” BDS:
As the Palestinian-led boycott,
divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement
grows across the US, Israel’s supporters
are cranking up hatred against Palestine
solidarity activism in both rhetoric and
tactics.
Iran Says US
Congressmen Can't Visit Amid Nuclear
Deal Row:
Iran said Tuesday it would not grant
visas to three U.S. congressmen opposed
to its recent nuclear deal with world
powers, calling their request to monitor
the accord a "publicity stunt."
Boko Haram attack
forces 50,000 to flee Niger town:
Tens of thousands of people have fled a
town in the troubled southeastern Niger
following deadly attacks by Takfiri Boko
Haram terrorist group, the UN refugee
agency says.
Pakiistan
Military top brass, politicians condemn
US drone strike:
During the meeting a US drone attack
which killed Taliban leader Mullah
Mansour in Balochistan was condemned, an
ISPR statement said. The drone strike
affected Pakistan’s ties with the United
States as well as its sovereignty, the
statement added.
Anti-U.S. base
assembly members win majority in Okinawa
election:
Okinawa assembly members who want to see
a U.S. military base removed from the
southern Japanese island won a majority
in the prefectural assembly election,
emboldening the anti-U.S. base movement.
Nato troops begin
huge military exercise in Poland:
Nato countries are taking part in their
biggest ever joint military exercises in
Poland. Some 31,000 Polish, US and other
troops are participating in the land,
sea and air exercises called
Anaconda-16.
Britain secretly
upgrading its nukes without asking MPs -
report:
Britain is secretly upgrading its
arsenal of Trident nuclear weapons and
is developing an entirely new warhead,
according to a report from the Nuclear
Information Service (NIS).
Controversially, Parliament is yet to
consent to its renewal.
Brazil prosecutor
urges arrest of ruling party members:
Reports:
Brazil's top prosecutor has reportedly
requested permission to detain several
officials with the ruling Brazilian
Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) for
allegedly seeking to block a corruption
investigation.
One percent of
world's population holds almost half its
wealth: report:
Some 18.5 million households around the
world have at least $1 million worth of
assets, for a total of $78.8 trillion –
or about the same size as global annual
economic output – Boston Consulting
Group's annual report on global private
wealth says.
Clinton
accidentally admits drone killings of
civilians are a war crime : In her
self-declared “major” foreign policy
speech on June 2, presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton indirectly admitted that
the U.S. government’s drone killings of
family members of suspected militants,
such as Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, is a war
crime.
WikiLeaks Founder
Assange Claims Google Has Deal With
Clinton:
"Google is heavily integrated with
Washington power, at personal level and
at business level… Google which has
increasing control over the distribution
channels… is intensely allying itself US
exceptionalism," Assange added.
Russian, Syrian
regime airstrikes kill 18 civilians:
Aircraft dropped thermobaric and barrel
bombs on opposition-held neighborhoods.
“At least 18 civilians were killed and
50 others injured, including children
and women,” he said.
Syrian and
Russian aircraft step up bombing of
Aleppo city - monitor:
Nearly 50 air strikes hit rebel-held
areas in and around the Syrian city of
Aleppo on Sunday in some of the heaviest
recent raids by Russian and Syrian
government aircraft, residents and a
monitoring group said.
Baghdad-area
bombings kill 15, wound 40 in Iraq:
The deadliest was a suicide bombing
against a military checkpoint in
Tarmiyah, about 30 miles north of the
capital, which killed eight people and
wounded 15 others. Three of the dead
were soldiers.
Civilians Drown
Fleeing Besieged Fallujah:
Children were among the civilians who
drowned as they tried to flee the
besieged Islamic State stronghold of
Fallujah in Iraq.
Iraqi forces
secure southern edge of Fallujah:
Fighters battling to retake Fallujahh
from Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL) said on Sunday that they
secured the southern edge of the Iraqi
city and almost completely encircled the
whole city.
Seven soldiers
killed in Yemen clashes:
At least seven soldiers were killed as
clashes flared up between government
forces and Shia Houthi group in Yemen's
city of Taiz on Sunday, an official
said. Up to 18 soldiers have been
wounded so far in the ongoing fight in
Wazieyah district, Xinhua news agency
reported.
New York Governor
Signs Pro-Israel, Anti-BDS Executive
Order:
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has
signed an executive order declaring an
open war on companies and organizations
aligned with the pro-Palestine Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions Movement, or
BDS.
133 migrant
bodies found on Libyan coast:
Spokesman Al-Khamis al-Bosaifi said
about three-quarters of the migrants
were women and there were at least five
children. No documents were found with
the bodies, which were partly
decomposed, but they were mainly
sub-Saharan Africans, he said.
Gunmen Kill
Afghan Prosecutor, 7 Others in
Courthouse Attack:
Taliban gunmen stormed a court building
in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday,
killing seven people, including a newly
appointed chief prosecutor, the latest
in a series of insurgent attacks on
judicial employees.
Afghan lawmaker
killed in blast at his home in Kabul:
"It could either have been a bomb on a
timer or one that was remotely
detonated," Sediqqi said, adding that 11
people, including five of Wardak's
bodyguards, were wounded in the blast.
Philippine
president-elect urges public to kill
drug dealers
: The Philippine
president-elect has encouraged the
public to help him in his war against
crime, urging citizens with guns to
shoot and kill drug dealers who resist
arrest and fight back in their
neighborhoods.
Vladimir Putin
doubted alternation of power in the
United States:
At first, [41st US President George]
Bush-senior was in power, then [43rd US
President George] Bush-junior, it is all
family. [42nd US President Bill] Clinton
served two terms, now his wife [Hillary
Clinton] is running — family could
remain in power again. Where is
alternation?," Putin said during his
direct line session.
Clinton’s Efforts
to Oust Gaddafi Led to Rise of Daesh -
Bernie Sanders;
Former US State Secretary Hillary
Clinton’s success at ousting Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi led to the
emergence of the Islamic State terror
group, also known as Daesh, Democratic
US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders
said
Donald Trump Lies
Again On Libya,
Donald Trump reversed himself on Libya
again on Sunday, saying he would have
authorized a “surgical” strike to kill
former leader Muammar Gaddafi — after
months of saying the United States would
have been better off if the dictator
were still alive.
Russia: Al Nusra
shelling kills over 40 in Aleppo;
More than 40 people have been killed and
around a hundred injured by Al Nusra
militants shelling in the Syrian city of
Aleppo, Russian news agencies cited the
Russian ceasefire monitoring centre in
Syria as saying on Saturday.
US Asks Russia to Not Attack al-Qaida In
Syria;
Russia's foreign minister said
Washington has asked Moscow not to
target the al-Qaida's branch in Syria,
the Nusra Front, but the U.S. insisted
Friday that it only wants Russia to
carefully select it targets to avoid
hitting civilians and legitimate
opposition groups.
Iraq forces gain
ground from ISIS west of Fallujah;
Fighters from the army, the police and
from the Hashed al-Shaabi - a
paramilitary organization dominated by
Tehran-backed Shiite militias - entered
the center of Saqlawiya. The town lies
around 10 kilometers (six miles)
northwest of Fallujah
U.S. falters in
campaign to revive Iraqi army, officials
say:
A 17-month U.S. effort to retrain and
reunify Iraq's regular army has failed
to create a large number of effective
Iraqi combat units or limit the power of
sectarian militias, according to current
and former U.S. military and civilian
officials.
‘Saudi violence
in Yemen can’t be ignored any longer’:
The United Nations included the
Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on the
blacklist of child rights violators.
Among others listed are notorious groups
such as Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram.
'Israeli police
help Palestinian girls commit suicide':
An 18-year-old Palestinian who may have
wanted to put an end to her life
approached a checkpoint with a knife.
The Border Police fulfilled her wish
quickly, although it's clear she could
have been stopped by other means. Her
family is shattered.
U.S. Embassy in
South Africa warns of 'near-term'
attacks:
The U.S.
Embassy in South Africa issued a
statement Saturday warning U.S. citizens
about the threat of "near-term attacks
against places where U.S. citizens
congregate in South Africa, such as
upscale shopping areas and malls in
Johannesburg and Cape Town."
Nigeria seizes
$10.3 billion in looted money, assets:
Information Minister Lai Mohammed says
the government also expects repatriation
of some $330 million stolen from the
public treasury and stashed in banks
abroad. Most is in Switzerland.
With new tactics,
Taliban gain ground in south Afghanistan:
First they storm a checkpoint, kill all
the police, seize their weapons and
equipment and effectively cut off the
main road to a remote village. They
raise the white Taliban flag and plant
roadside bombs to prevent cars from
coming through the checkpoint.
Don't yield to US
pressure, Maduro tells Caribbean leaders
: President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday
accused the United States of exerting
"brutal pressure" on nations in the
region to isolate his country, already
battered by an economic crisis and
domestic political upheaval.
President Castro
says Cuba won't return to OAS:
President Raul Castro says Cuba will not
return to the Organization of American
States after the regional group's
secretary called for possible sanctions
against Venezuela.
“The Obama
administration’s jihadist
policy, is to preserve the
Islamic State as a fighting
force for deployment under
another brand name, under
new top leadership.”
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Chris Hedges
interviews disbarred civil
rights attorney Lynne
Stewart .
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31 killed in
Syria strikes in and near Aleppo;
Bombing raids in and around the northern
Syrian city of Aleppo killed 31
civilians on Friday, including 10 when
their bus was hit, the civil defence
said.
US drops weapons
to rebels battling ISIL in Syria:
Witnesses say the US delivered the
weapons to armed units battling the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL,
also known as ISIS) group in Syria.
US asks Russia to
not hit Nusra Front in Syria: Moscow:
Russia's foreign minister says
Washington has asked Moscow not to
target the al-Qaida's branch in Syria,
the Nusra Front, for fear of hitting the
moderate opposition.
Battle for
Fallujah: 130 Iraqi soldiers die in ISIL
attacks;
The first attack took place on Wednesday
when 10 suicide bombers of ISIS, hit the
town of Kubaisah, and then it attacked
an army convoy to the south of Fallujah
at Amiriyat al-Fallujah with roadside
bombs said the military source.
Iraqi artillery
attacks kill 24 Daesh terrorists:
Major General Qassem al-Mohamadi, the
commander of al-Jazeera operations, said
the terrorists were killed as Iraqi
artillery shells hit Daesh concentration
centers in the district of al-Doulab in
Hit, 70 km west of Ramadi City,
17 Civilians
Killed by Rocket Fire on Market in
Yemen's Taiz:
At least 17 civilians — including 10
women and one girl — were killed and
dozens were wounded when rockets hit a
busy market in the western city of Taiz
on Friday, Yemeni medical officials
said.
U.N. adds Saudi
coalition to blacklist for killing
children in Yemen:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
slammed the Saudi Arabia-led coalition
fighting in Yemen for killing and
maiming children by adding it to an
annual blacklist of states and armed
groups that violate children's rights
during conflict.
Refugees drown as
boat capsizes in Mediterranean:
At least nine bodies have been recovered
and 340 people rescued from a sinking
boat carrying a "significant number" of
refugees in the Mediterranean Sea south
of the Greek island of Crete,
authorities say.
Germany, France
to revive EU defence but no plans for EU
army:
Proponents say closer defence
cooperation among the European allies is
needed particularly to reduce costly
duplication in production of defence
systems and programmes at a time when
greater investment is required in
defence technology.
'Hillary Clinton
has to go to jail!':
Donald the counter-puncher clobbers his
Democratic challenger over her
classified emails as he says watching
her anti-Trump speech was 'like taking
Sominex'
Sanders Takes
LEAD Over Clinton In California:
A new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times
poll has found … [Sanders] has battled
Clinton to a draw among all voters
eligible for the Democratic primary,
with 44% siding with him to 43% for
Clinton.
Sanders Statement
on Foreign Policy:
When it comes to foreign policy,
Secretary Clinton voted for the war in
Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder
in modern American history, and that she
has been a proponent of regime change,
as in Libya, without thinking through
the consequences.
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.
