She had been orphaned by a brutal conflict, but the 14-year-old Congolese girl found refuge in a camp protected by United Nations peacekeepers. The camp should have been safe the day she was raped. A delegation from the U.N. was paying a visit, and her grandmother had left her in …
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What Could be the Long Term Financial Impacts of Trump’s Presidency?
The election of Donald Trump as president in November 2016 undoubtedly came as a shock to much of the world. He was a wildcard candidate with little experience of politics, and so his presidency has been both controversial and unprecedented. Many have been left wondering what the financial landscape will …
Read More »US airstrike kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan
Afghan officials said on Friday that American warplanes killed 16 civilians as they tried to flee an area in eastern Afghanistan controlled by Islamic State militants, but the United States military insisted the dead had been extremist fighters. Hajji Saz Wali, the governor of Haska Meena District in the southern …
Read More »Trump ends CIA funding of ISIS linked terrorists in Syria
In 2014 – 2015, $500 million of US taxpayer’s money was spent on training 54 so-called ‘moderate rebels’, most of whom immediately turned their weapons over and joined Al-Nusra or Al-Qaeda. Now the covert CIA program training and arming Syrian rebels to fight the government of Bashar al-Assad has been …
Read More »Why they hate us: US airstrikes kill another 35 civilians in eastern Syria
US-led airstrikes in Syria‘s oil-rich eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr have killed at least 35 civilians, mostly women and children, a monitoring group says. According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strikes targeted a series of residential buildings in the town of Mayadin on Thursday. It said …
Read More »Jacque Fresco, founder of The Venus Project, dies aged 101
Like most people, I was first introduced to Jacque Fresco through his appearances in the Zeitgeist film series by Peter Joseph. There was an old school, street wise, way about him that my particular background welcomed. He spoke bluntly, but brilliantly; and together, with Peter Joseph, helped open my mind to the concept of …
Read More »Julian Assange’s case: the full story
Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s collusion with the United States in its crimes of war …
Read More »Trump regime seeks to overthrow democratically elected Syrian government
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in an interview that she sees regime change in Syria as one of the Trump administration’s priorities in the country wracked by civil war. Defeating Islamic State, pushing Iranian influence out of Syria, and the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad …
Read More »Airstrike kills 33 civilians in Syria in latest US led terrorist attack
The Pentagon will aid in investigating reports that at least 33 civilian died near the Syrian town of Raqqa during a US-led coalition airstrike, officials said on Wednesday, following accusations from Damascus. “At this time, we have no indication that an airstrike struck civilians near Raqqa as the Syrian Observatory …
Read More »US Intelligence Director James Clapper lies to congress again
Just as the first casualty of war is said to be the truth, the first casualty of the new Cold War is irony. Our most prominent journalists seem to have missed the Orwellian irony of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asking Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper at Friday’s Senate hearings if Julian Assange …
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