RT | August 12, 2016 US officials are considering new economic sanctions against Russia over the DNC email leak released by WikiLeaks, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources familiar with the situation. Officials have not so far, however, reached common ground on how exactly to impose sanctions, the WSJ reports. Adopting more anti-Russian economic […]
By James W Carden | Consortium News | August 11, 2106 Despite America’s myriad problems domestically and internationally, its geo-strategic position remains the envy of the world. Protected in the east by the Atlantic, in the west by the Pacific, to the north by Canada and to the south by Mexico, the United States is, […]
Photo by Ali Tweel on Flickr. Original: https://flic.kr/p/HWGom3 By Dan Wright | ShadowProof | August 11, 2016 While it is impossible to know all the dirty deeds of America’s sprawling global empire, news that US ground forces are now fighting in Libya means that US troops are involved in at least four active wars: Afghanistan: […]
RT | August 11, 2016 The maternal mortality rate across most of the US increased by 27 percent from 2000 to 2014, new study finds, adding that the rate is actually higher than official estimates because states do not uniformly report pregnancy status on death certificates. The last calculation of the US maternal mortality rate […]
By Dave Lindorff | This Can’t Be Happening! | August 10, 2016 What if the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services were to report that $6.5 billion in spending by that federal agency was unaccounted for and untraceable? You can imagine the headlines, right? What if it was $65 billion? The […]
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | August 10, 2016 With the battle for Aleppo raging in Syria, another crucial battle in the east of the Greater Middle East, in Afghanistan, is being joined, the outcome of which is going to be no less fateful. The Associated Press flashed the news today that the […]
teleSUR | August 9, 2016 In a much-awaited step toward uncovering the historical truth of the U.S.-backed Dirty War in Argentina in the 1970’s and 80’s, the United States has delivered over 1,000 pages of classified documents to the South American country. But critics argue that there are major gaps in the files, including the […]
By Adam H. Johnson | Defend Democracy Press | August 9, 2016 The Obama administration announced on Monday the beginning of US air strikes in Libya against ISIS targets, marking the fourth country the United States is currently bombing with the goal of “degrading and destroying” the terror group. A campaign that began two years ago this […]
By Jean Perier – New Eastern Outlook – 09.08.2016 The unlearned lesson of Washington’s armed aggression against Libya back in 2011 has come to haunt the US yet again, since the US Air Force are back to bomb this African country again. The assault started on August 1st with the vigorous bombardment of the Libyan […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice | August 7, 2016 Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. — J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb”, quoting from the Bhagavad Gita, after the explosion of the first atomic bomb, New Mexico, July 16, 1945 When Paul Tibbets was thirteen years old he flew […]
