Press TV – January 9, 2015 The United States and its allies should be held responsible for the ongoing ISIL terror activities in various parts of the world, the Imam of Masjid al-Islam in Washington tells Press TV. Imam Abdul Alim Musa, who is a strong critic of US support for terrorism, said in an […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | January 8, 2015 Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy stress their commitment to freedom of thought and democracy, but both cooperated with a CIA-organized propaganda operation in the 1980s, according to documents released by Ronald Reagan’s presidential library. One document showed senior Freedom House official Leo Cherne […]
By Seyed Mohammad Marandi | Tehran Times | January 6, 2015 Western pundits who blithely assert that the Islamic Republic of Iran can or will cooperate with the United States in Iraq against ISIL ignore a basic problem; how can the US be a serious partner in fighting a terrorist movement that Washington may have […]
Weekly News Update on the Americas | December 29, 2014 According to a secret study released by the Wikileaks group on Dec. 18, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) considers the killing of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) second-in-command Raúl Reyes by Colombian forces in Ecuadorian territory on Mar. 1, 2008 [see Update #937] […]
By Larry Chin | Global Research | December 27, 2014 Almost all wars begin with false flag operations. The coming conflicts in North Korea and Russia are no exception. Mass public hysteria is being manufactured to justify aggression against Moscow and Pyongyang, in retaliation for acts attributed to the North Korean and Russian governments, but […]
By Kevin Ryan | Dig Within | December 21, 2014 Graeme MacQueen’s new book, The 2001 Anthrax Deception, reveals stunning links between the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax attacks that immediately followed. The book also reviews some of the interesting actions taken by alleged hijacker leader, Mohamed Atta, in the years preceding 9/11. These actions […]
By CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO | CounterPunch | December 22, 2014 Alan P. Gross, an American arrested in Cuba in 2009 for smuggling broadband satellite communications equipment, made world headlines on December 2014 when he was released the same day that US president Obama ordered the release of three Cubans who were in American prisons serving sentences […]
US Hostility Toward the Island was Never Really About the Cold War By Chris Lewis | CounterPunch | December 22, 2014 President Barack Obama announced on December 17th that the United States would begin normalizing relations with Cuba. Both governments agreed to a prisoner swap: Cuba released imprisoned USAID contractor Alan Gross and a US […]
Anti-Castro forces in the US, backed by the CIA, had mounted an insidious campaign to stop Che Guevera from speaking. By Thalif Deen | IPS | December 19, 2014 Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Minister of Industries of Cuba, addresses the General Assembly on Dec. 11, 1964. UN Photo/TC UNITED NATIONS, - When the politically-charismatic Ernesto Che […]
By Matt Peppe |Just the Facts Blog | December 14, 2014 Twenty five years ago, before dawn on December 20, 1989, U.S. forces descended on Panama City and unleashed one of the most violent, destructive terror attacks of the century. U.S. soldiers killed more people than were killed on 9/11. They systematically burned apartment buildings […]
