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CNN Anchor Ashleigh Banfield tried to compare it to the abuses of innocent Jews. In making the argument that banning Moslems was the same as banning Jews, she listed off Jewish terrorist attacks against America.

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Israeli soldiers escort blindfolded Palestinian women to the Kissufim Israeli army base,after they were detained  during a military operation in the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Yehuda Lahiani)
 
 
by Amena Saleem                                   The Electronic Intifada
 

Crimea’s ascension into the Russian Federation itself  was only possible because the NATO-driven lawlessness that it occurred in the midst of. As this lawlessness continues, it is all but guaranteed that Crimea will only be driven deeper within the Russian Federation.

 
By Tony Cartalucci

Image: Grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani said on Friday that no country should “send its soldiers to the territory of another state under the pretext of supporting it in fighting terrorism without the conclusion of an agreement”. Handout/AFP Photo

by  Rostislav Ischenko
Kitchen “strategists”, who sincerely believe that massive nuclear strike is the universal solution to any international problem (even the hottest one, close to military confrontation), are unhappy about the moderate position of the Russian leadership in the crisis with Turkey. However, they deem insufficient even direct participation of the Russian military in the Syrian conflict. They are also dissatisfied with the Moscow’s activities on the Ukrainian front.

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“Any targets that threaten Russian forces or our infrastructure on the ground should be immediately destroyed,” Putin told a session of the Defense Ministry’s collegium

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Who’s ‘unprofessional’ now? RT’s Gayane Chichakyan gets criticism instead of answers

(RT) – Iraq is furious at Turkey’s military incursion, but the US State Department doesn’t seem too concerned. Its spokesman stonewalled RT’s questions about the Iraq-Turkey row, getting personal in the process.