After fleeing for his life more than once, Kurdish refugee Salah Rasool found a new home in Wales. He offers advice to people who are new to the UK todayThe post The Kurdish refugee who found a new home in Wales appeared first on Positive News.
The sad state of American democracy – from the presidential race to Congress – is easy to lament as something beyond correction, but change is possible if the electorate starts taking citizenship seriously, says Mike Lofgren. By Mike Lofgren We…Read more →
From the Archive: America’s right-wingers talk fervently about protecting the Constitution but seem to have little understanding of what the Federalist framers were doing in creating a powerful central government, as Jada Thacker noted in 2013. By Jada Thacker (Originally published on…Read more →
The U.S. spends spends $5 billion of your tax money a year in “aid” to Afghanistan, plus billions more for the cost of the thousands of American troops and Pentagon-sponsored military contractors there.
An “Epidemic of Graft”
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | October 17, 2016 Note how differently The New York Times prepares the American public for civilian casualties from the new U.S.-backed Iraqi government assault on the city of Mosul to free it from the Islamic State, compared to the unrelenting condemnation of the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on […]
By Alice Martin-Prével | Oakland Institute | September 1, 2016 Senegalese agro-pastoralists are striking wins against Senhuile SA, a foreign-owned agribusiness company established in Ndiaël, Saint-Louis Region of Senegal. In 2012, Senhuile obtained a 50 year lease on 20,000 hectares for a sweet potato plantation in a forest and wetland reserve, which was partially declassified […]
The other day wizoz left a comment below the post: An Insecure West and Turkey?
There is much spin today about the fight for Mosul being long and difficult. Dramatic media presentation? Sure. Realistic? Not so much. Narrative prep to make the 'win' seem that much more substantive.I disagree completely with the presentation!*Since Mosul's been being softened for months and months now- Not to 'fight' but to displace.From Yesterday: The Battle for Mosul Has Begun?
U.K. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered restaurants, pubs, and cafes to make their food and drink healthier by cutting sugar content, and to shrink the size of desserts. [1]
It’s all part of Britain’s plan to combat obesity.
Hunt met with more than 100 major food chains, including McDonald’s, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Starbucks, and Pizza Express, and warned them that each restaurant’s performance would be monitored and that a public campaign would name any violators.
Hunt said:
Press TV – October 18, 2016 The US military has dramatically increased the number of its airstrikes in Libya in less than a month, new data shows, further cementing President Barack Obama’s record of taking more military action than any other American president. American fighter jets and drones stationed aboard the amphibious assault vessel USS […]
The Syrian crisis has widened the gap between Moscow and Washington [Xinhua]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told local media that military experts from his country will meet with their US counterparts in Geneva to work out how to separate Syrian rebels – deemed legitimate – from terrorist groups such as Al Nusra Front.
The meeting on Wednesday has been a key Russian demand since a ceasefire was brokered – and then collapsed – in early September.
By Yves Engler | October 18, 2016 It was a tough week for Romeo Dallaire, Louise Arbour, Gerald Caplan and other liberal Canadian cheerleaders of Africa’s most bloodstained dictator. Last Tuesday’s Globe and Mail described two secret reports documenting Paul Kagame’s “direct involvement in the 1994 missile attack that killed former president Juvénal Habyarimana, leading […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia [Xinhua]
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Asian countries as part of his participation at the 8th BRICS Summit in Goa has enhanced cooperation among emerging economies.
Japanese car maker Toyota plans to sell a “companion robot” next year for about $400 in the hopes it will serve as a friend to lonely people. [1]
At just 4 inches tall, the robot – Kirobo Mini – speaks in a high-pitched baby voice, and will hit the market in Japan in 2017. [2]
In their speeches MPs rightly focused on the humanitarian situation, especially in the eastern part of Aleppo. But the atrocities committed by the terrorists against the population of Western Aleppo, Damascus, and other Syrian cities were left out of the picture. Unfortunately, the British media keep silent on that. Furthermore, it is presented in a distorted way.
The post Open letter to Members of UK Parliament on the situation in Syria appeared first on BSNEWS.
Washington has finally thrown in the towel on its long, tortured efforts to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians...
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced on October 4th, 2016 that plans to reduce opioid manufacturing by 25% next year are underway, citing a shrinking market and the epidemic of abuse as primary reasons.
The official change, or Final Order, has been published in the Federal Register. And, as The Verge reports:
4.76/5 (45) Over the years I've occasionally blogged, or talked about during interviews, the curious cases that have emerged from time to time about…
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Concern over dwindling bee populations has led to a new kind of holiday with a positive impactThe post The buzz around bee tourism appeared first on Positive News.
People shout slogans during a rally protesting airstrikes on a funeral hall in Sanaa [Xinhua]
The UN has announced that a 72-hour ceasefire in Yemen willcome into effect on Wednesday night.
UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a statement that he had received assurances from all Yemeni parties of their commitment to the ceasefire.
As it is currently well known, countries using coal in power engineering are trying to reduce consumption of this fuel source in order to minimize the damage that it causes to the environment. However, we should not ignore the fact that coal is much cheaper than other energy sources, and its instant abandonment is impossible. Despite a gradual sales slowdown, it will continue to be one of man’s most important mineral and energy sources for many years.
Renee Ellmers (R-NC) is the only Republican member of Congress who Trump cut an ad for. It didn't help Ellmers win her primary. In fact, it probably hurt her She barely managed to come in second in a 3 way primary race and will be hoping for some kind of a job-- any kind of a job-- from Trump after January. These were the results:
While a number of decisions worth leaving critical imprints on regional situation were taken, as was being expected, in a highly significant meeting between Russia’s Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan held last week in Istanbul, it is equally, or perhaps more, important to analyse the attraction Turkey has re-discovered in re-allying itself with Russia.
The son of Kurdistan's vice president was among the casualties on the first day of fighting in and around Mosul.
The post 60 Killed in Iraq as Mosul Battles Commence appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, October 17, 2016 Calls for Simultaneous Effort to Free Terrorist Capital Raqqa; Liquidation of ISIS, Not Regime Change in Syria, Must Be U.S. Policy; Hillary Clinton Increases Lead Over Trump Nationally and In Many Battleground States; Professor Raises Specter of Democratic One-Party State, Assuming GOP [...]
Motorola’s home address was published online in spring 2015 Published on Apr 2, 2015 Donetsk street address of Motorola was revealed by a Donetsk blogger veselchak_jk. He found
-by Samuel HagarHow to cross party lines for votes without abandoning your ethnicity-- The first thing a pollster tells you when you ask “how do you win a Democrat on Democrat” general election (a phenomenon we're finding more and more frequently on the West Coast due to the somewhat dysfunctional jungle primary system) is:
Press TV – October 18, 2016 UK spying agencies secretly and unlawfully collected and stored personal data of Britons for 17 years, according to a court ruling. MI5, MI6 and GCHQ collected data on everyone’s communications between 1998 and 2015, according to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the watchdog for intelligence agencies. The agencies tracked individual […]
Exclusive: As the U.S.-backed offensive in Mosul, Iraq, begins, the mainstream U.S. media readies the American people to blame the terrorists for civilian casualties but the opposite rules apply to Syria’s Aleppo, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Note how differently The…Read more →
Nobody is talking about this.
Americans are finally realizing they never lived in a democracy; Hacks and pranks can be a fun way to monkeywrench the New World Order; and people are turning abandoned homes into greenhouses.
Americans are finally realizing they never lived in a democracy; Hacks and pranks can be a fun way to monkeywrench the New World Order; and people are turning abandoned homes into greenhouses.
What is the "The 7th Floor Group?"
Jay's Analysis
“Jay Dyer is on KBS and we get into the esoteric and dark side of Hollywood. We get into the intelligence connections to the film industry, and how the two are closely intertwined.
Col. Ann Wright gives live update as Amy Goodman surrenders to face bogus charges of “riot” covering Standing Rock protests…--in apparent effort to intimidate media and reduce coverage of protests of Dakota pipeline, Goodman and documentarian Deia Schlosberg are being targeted with ridiculous charges
--Joan Baez visited the Standing Rock protest, and filed this report
With so much mud being slung from all directions in this circus of an election, it’s often hard to separate fact from fiction. However, on one particular topic there is little doubt. When it comes to the big money crowd, they are definitely “with her.”
The Wall Street Journal reports:
America's monopoly on weaponized drones is quickly coming to an end.
by Pepe Escobar for The South China Morning Post So you think Donald Trump is the biggest threat to world peace? And Barack Obama engineered America’s “pivot to Asia”? It
Could Russia Shoot Down a F-22 Stealth Fighter Over Syria?
As the US and UK ramp-up the hyperbolic rhetoric on “confronting Russia in Syria”, another technical discussion is gaining steam regarding how the US would fair if they followed through on their threatening language and actually attacked Russian or Syrian Army targets in Syria.
Peter King has over $3 million cash on hand but racist Blue Dog Steve Israel has made sure the DCCC refuses to help DuWayne Gregory in a very winnable districtLate last week investigative journalists Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani went through a leaked DCCC memo compiled for chairman Ben Ray Luján that includes Wall Street lobbyists being reassured that Elizabeth Warren doesn't speak f
Media Monarchy plays Cherry Glazerr, Pony Hunt, PWR BTTM and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for October 17, 2016. ♬
Small caveat first: I will be honest here, I am extremely uncomfortable with this topic and I greatly hesitated before addressing it here. As I have said it many many
teleSUR | October 16, 2016 Despite his repeated public statements opposing “American boots on the ground,” President Barack Obama—just shy of the end of his time in office— has been expanding U.S. military presence in war-torn Somalia as the Pentagon has deployed up to 300 U.S. special forces and increased airstrikes in the African country, […]
Judge Françoise Tulkens is the chair of the Monsanto Tribunal, which opened in The Hague this weekend. Interviewed by journalist Rémi Barroux in Le Monde, Tulkens explains the legal context of the Tribunal and its potential consequences. English translation: GMWatch
