By Dr. Ismail Salami | Global Research | November 21, 2014 The not-very-independent UN body has made a mockery of justice by soldering a resolution on the so-called human rights violations in Iran. The farce becomes more markedly absurd when you consider the plethora of human rights abuses going unpunished in the world with the UN…
By Eric Zuesse | Global Research | November 21, 2014 There are only two suspects in the shoot-down of the MH-17 Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on July 17th: the separatist rebels, whom the Ukrainian Government charge had shot it down mistaking it for one of the Ukrainian Air Force bombers that routinely drop bombs onto the separatists and…
Trevor Timm | The Guardian | 17 Nov 2014 If you thought the Isis war couldn’t get any worse, just wait for more of the CIA. Even America’s top spies know that arming rebels is ‘doomed to failure’ – but that can’t stop Obama’s gun-running operation As the war against the Islamic State in Syria has…
Democracy Now | 3 Oct 2014 We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting How the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 that helped create the threat now posed by the Islamic State. We also discuss the role of Baathist forces in ISIS, Obama’s targeting of journalists, and the trial of four former…
By Bruce Gagnon | Global Research | November 20, 2014 The American revolution was supposed to have happened because of the revulsion our ‘founding fathers’ had with the institution of ‘divine right of kings’ or monarchy. Supposedly the new American nation went to war with England because a revolutionary ‘democracy’ was the preferred way of organizing our…
Press TV | 18 Nov 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqSZjbwy14?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] The September, 11, 2001 attacks in the United States were a “lie” perpetrated by the government to justify waging two devastating wars and “kill millions of people,” an American journalist in Phoenix says. The 9/11 Commission’s official report of the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks…
GWPF | 20 Nov 2014 Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop criticises US president Barack Obama for a speech in Brisbane last weekend in which he claimed climate change threatened the Great Barrier Reef. It is highly unusual for an Australian foreign minister to openly criticise a US president. Ms Bishop also said Australia currently had…
by George Dvorsky | io9 | November 19, 2014 Particle physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider have detected two new subatomic particles that were predicted to exist but never seen. The discovery of the two new baryon particles stands to deepen our understanding of the universe. The two new baryons (known as Xi_b’- and…
Ali Watkins | Huffington Post | 19 Nov 2014 WASHINGTON — In mid-January of this year, a small request was slipped quietly to the National Archives and Records Administration, the lord of the U.S. government’s record-keeping operations. One government agency’s method for storing documents was clogging up its system, and it just wanted permission to…
By Ellen Brown | November 20, 2014 While 49 state treasuries were submerged in red ink after the 2008 financial crash, one state’s bank outperformed all others and actually launched an economy-shifting new industry. So reports the Wall Street Journal this week, discussing the Bank of North Dakota (BND) and its striking success in the midst…