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The French Presidential Election took another controversial turn with the EU Parliament revoking the immunity of France’s right-wing candidate, Marine Le Pen, for tweeting graphic photos of ISIS victims dating back to 2015 on Twitter. The decision to revoke immunity was taken by a majority of members in the plenary of the EU Parliament.
By David Swanson | War Is A Crime | August 26, 2016 ABC Television’s 20/20 will air a program on Friday called “The Girl Left Behind,” the main thrust of which is already apparent on ABC’s website. The horribly tragic story is that of Kayla Mueller, an American held hostage and reportedly raped and tortured […]
Image: Saudi Arabian officials display the beheaded bodies of five Yemeni nationals. Photo: The Commentator.
Ever since serious protest broke out in Ukraine in February the Western mainstream media, particularly in the United States, has seriously downplayed the fact that the usual suspects – the US/European Union/NATO triumvirate – have been on the same side as the neo-Nazis. In the US it’s been virtually unmentionable. I’m sure that a poll taken in the United States on this issue would reveal near universal ignorance of the numerous neo-Nazi actions, including publicly calling for death to “Russians, Communists and Jews”.
To the extent that the U.S. public is newly, and probably momentarily, accepting of war — an extent that is wildly exaggerated, but still real — it is because of videos of beheadings of James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
When 9-11 victims were used as a justification to kill hundreds of times the number of people killed on 9-11, some of the victims’ relatives pushed back.
Now James Foley is pushing back from the grave.
Image: Shmuley Boteach image for his New York Times ad, which he says thye paper insisted he change
Netanyahu’s depiction of Hamas and ISIS, or Islamic State, as “branches of the same poisonous tree” is a travesty of the truth.
Guillermo Jimenez Presents Pearse Redmond
Image: Isis, a radical, ruthless Islamist army, is brutally extending its hold in the Middle East, further destabilising an already restless region.
Guillermo Jimenez Presents Daniel McAdams
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. McAdams gives us his take on the current situation in Iraq and Syria, as the US war machine churns out a steady stream of fear-driven propaganda and prepares for another full-on military invasion.
