VT | 17 Aug 2015 Hate Squad cracks down on book talk Edmonton, Alberta The Edmonton Police Department’s Hate Speech Squad has launched an investigation of a scholarly book that questions the War on Terror. On August 16th, two undercover EPD officers attended a book talk at the Rossdale Community League Hall in downtown Edmonton. The officers were…
Wall St Journal | 17 Aug 2015 Crowdfunding has gotten startups off the ground. Now it’s being used to a more controversial end: WikiLeaks is crowdfunding with the goal of leaking information about impending trade deals. The whistleblowing platform, famous for revealing U.S. State Department cables, last week launched a campaign on its website to…
Anti-War | 17 Aug 2015 Three years after Ecuador’s government granted political asylum to Julian Assange in its small ground-floor London embassy, the founder of WikiLeaks is still there – beyond the reach of the government whose vice president, Joe Biden, has labeled him “a digital terrorist.” The Obama administration wants Assange in a U.S.…
Nafeez Ahmed | 13 Aug 2015 A former Pentagon intelligence chief, Iraqi government sources, and a retired career US diplomat reveal US complicity in the rise of ISIS A new memoir by a former senior State Department analyst provides stunning details on how decades of support for Islamist militants linked to Osama bin Laden brought…
Salon | 9 Aug 2015 One of two outcomes is likely: Another long Cold War, or a great power conflict The Ukraine crisis and the attendant confrontation with Russia assume a “phony war” feel these days. As in the perversely calm months between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the Blitzkrieg into…
Washington Examiner | 17 Aug 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P3KmTjCGwQ?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on Monday compared the email controversy engulfing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to the downfall of President Richard Nixon. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Woodward, who through his reporting helped break open the Watergate scandal, said it’s at least suspicious that Clinton’s…
New York Times | 16 Aug 2015 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Hamid Gul, an influential and contentious three-star general who served as the head of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s spy agency, from 1987 to 1989 and was deeply involved in the country’s policy toward neighboring Afghanistan when Soviet troops were withdrawing, died on Saturday in Muree, a…
AFP | 14 Aug 2015 New Pentagon rules may change war reporting Washington (AFP) – New guidelines in a US military war manual may change the rules for reporters covering conflicts, but it remains to be seen how the Pentagon will implement the new policy. Media watchdog organizations have expressed shock and concern that reporters…
Infowars.com | August 16, 2015 Division 30, also known as the New Syrian Forces, was created by the United States as part of a propaganda campaign to counter the fact virtually all of the mercenaries in Syria have gone over to the Islamic State. On May 8 Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced 90 mercenaries had…
Robert Parry | 16 Aug 2015 Marching in lockstep with Israeli hardliners, American neocons are aiming their heavy media artillery at the Iran nuclear deal as a necessary first step toward another “regime change” war in the Mideast – and they are furious when anyone mentions the Iraq War disaster and the deceptions that surrounded…