Robert Parry | 20 April 2015 CBS News’ anchor Scott Pelley is known for his clueless journalism which never goes beyond Official Washington’s “group think” – and he was at it again in a dangerously provocative “60 Minutes” segment on the sarin gas attack near Damascus, Syria, in 2013, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry On Sunday evening, CBS’s “60 Minutes” presented…
Al Jazeera | 21 April 2015 Jabaliya, Gaza Strip – Issam Abu Mustafa Joudeh struggled to hold back tears as he recalled the drone strike that killed his wife and four of his children during the 51-day war in Gaza last summer. Around 4pm on August 24, 2014, just two days before a lasting ceasefire…
CNSNews | April 21, 2015 Assad reiterated his view that there is no “moderate” opposition to his rule The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was created in Iraq in 2006 “under the supervision of the Americans,” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told French television in an interview broadcast on Monday. With the civil war…
Health Impact News | 21 April 2015 Health Impact News Editor Comments KSBW in Salinas California is reporting this month (March 2015) that four fully vaccinated students at Monterey Park School have been diagnosed with pertussis, or whooping cough. KSBW reports that of the 524 students at Monterey Park, 99.5 percent are vaccinated, including the four students…
Eric Zuesse | 20 April 2015 On Saturday, April 18th, the Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, told Britain’s Telegraph that “There is a Russian threat,” and that “The best insurance we have against a showdown is that NATO stands together.” Ever since the Soviet Union’s military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, dissolved in 1991,…
GWPF | 20 April 2015 China’s President In Pakistan To Cement Huge Coal Power Projects Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to unveil a $46 billion infrastructure spending plan in Pakistan that is a centerpiece of Beijing’s ambitions to open new trade and transport routes across Asia and challenge the U.S. as the dominant regional…
GM Watch | 20 April 2015 Findings of new study need confirmation in animal tests Roundup is an endocrine disruptor and is toxic to human cells in vitro (tested in culture dishes in the laboratory) at levels permitted in drinking water in Australia, a new study has found. This is the first study to examine…
RT | 23 Feb 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51UseTj-nR8?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] WATCH IN FULL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkbXn… Afshin Rattansi goes underground on the recent Israeli attack on Gaza. Norman Finkelstein, author of ‘Method and Madness – The hidden story of Israel’s assaults on Gaza’, says the Goldstone report was ‘devastating’ in its conclusion that Israel was trying to punish and humiliate…
Conscience Communications | 18 April 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1-UnFMQb_U?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] After forty years of water fluoridation, campaign group, Fluoride Free Bedford, is leading the call to action to halt UK government plans for a national programme of fluoridation. This film provides a snapshot of the campaign, which, since 2013 has focused on using the local democratic process to…
NZ Herald | 21 April 2015 Last Friday one of the final acts in the long-running saga of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement began playing out in Washington DC. It may either be its salvation or its death knell. At present, odds are on the latter. The Obama Administration tabled a bill in Congress to give…