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Israel Defense Forces violently intercepted the Swedish boat named Marianne in the early hours of June 29 to prevent it from landing in Gaza, using tasers against unarmed passengers. The 18 passengers, whose mission was to break the siege of Gaza, were taken to the...
Earlier this year, US officials announced a plan to set up a State Department office to centralize all government anti-ISIS propaganda on Twitter and Facebook. The efforts of middle-management bureaucrats to connect to the young people in an anti-ISIS manner, in hopes...
With a 7-day extension hinting at the possibility of a major breakthrough in nuclear negotiations with Iran, CNN turned the tables and instead released a story talking about US bunker-busting bombs being put on standby. The focus on a "military option" against Iran,...
Two days ago an email came from an Iraqi doctor in Baghdad in response to a brief greeting I sent for the month of Ramadan.“Thanks so much for remembering us…In fact we are the same if not worse. Our hearts are broken at the organized ruining of our country....
Last week CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling went to prison. If he were white, he probably wouldn’t be there.Sterling was one of the CIA’s few African-American case officers, and he became the first to file a racial discrimination lawsuit against the agency. That...
The White House recently announced that Obama has approved a plan to send 450 new troops into Iraq to fight ISIS. These “troops” aren’t ground troops, but instead are going in an adviser role to assist the Iraqi military.Now, everyone who believes...
The State Department is struggling to make up its minds on the Iraqi Shi'ite militias in the ISIS war, declaring Iran to be financing "terror-related activities" for supporting those militias, which are the same militias fighting on the same side as the US in Iraq....
Israeli officials are usually pretty mad at the UN for something they did or said, or didn't do or didn't say. Today, Ambassador Ron Prosor's outrage centered around a new UN report on Israel's treatment of Palestinian children in the occupied territories, a report he...
… or at least he tried to butcher them. On this day 800 years ago, King John was compelled to sign Magna Charta, formally accepting a limit to his prerogative to ravage everything in England. But the ink on his signature was barely dry before he brought in foreign...
