(ANTIWAR) With the fighting against ISIS increasingly confined to densely populated cities like Mosul and Raqqa, the US air war against them continues to escalate precipitously, with record numbers of airstrikes in recent months, and the coalition dropping over 7,000 munitions on Iraq and Syria in just the last two months.
(MEE) The US-led coalition is killing more civilians than Russia in its campaign in Syria for the first time since Moscw entered the country’s civil war in 2015, according to data from a war monitor.
A new ‘scorecard’ report gives a failing grade to 17 out of 20 major food retailers in the United States, based on their policies and practices regarding pollinator protection, organic options, and pesticide reduction. [1]
Source: Friends of the Earth
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Tiffany Finck-Haynes, food futures campaigner with Friends of the Earth, said:
The US has dramatically under-reported the number of civilians killed.
The US and al-Qaeda are actually fighting as allies in Syria.
21st Century Wire says…
Their fight appears to be over.
Much progress has been made in the fight against ISIS with the Iraq Army successfully declaring the complete liberation of Fallujah, Iraq in recent days.
Now, dramatic footage has emerged showing airstrikes annihilating a 700-vehicle strong convoy of jihadists attempting to flee from the city.
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21st Century Wire says…
Turkey is freaking out.
During this past week, US special operations soldiers were spotted in Syria working alongside the Kurds and wearing their insignias.
21st Century Wire says…
These are the kind of results you can achieve when you are serious about stopping terrorism.
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21st Century Wire says…
Seeing the US partake in a legally sanctioned intervention would certainly make a change.
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Wendy’s has more than 6,500 franchises in the US alone. It’s the world’s third largest fast food hamburger chain, servicing millions of customers annually. A group of employees known as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is calling for a boycott of the hamburger titan, kicking off a demonstration to communicate its displeasure with a 12-day Workers’ Voice tour earlier this month.
