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“ISIS inc” – The FT gives us the lowdown
A recent piece in the Financial Times called “ISIS inc” sets about trying to explain exactly how this ragtag group of a couple of thousand Wahhabis has somehow resisted...
Iraq Rebuffs Washington, Rejecting US Ground Troops
by Vaska Baghdad has not asked — and does not need — United States ground troops to assist it in its fight against Islamic State in Iraq, Saad Haithi,...
CIF Readers Demand Better Reporting on Corbyn
by Vaska In the past month and a half or so, both the Guardian and the Observer have come under sustained criticism for their extraordinarily hostile (as well as...
Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences”
by Tyler Durden for ZeroHedge, October 28, 2015 On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US would no longer hesitate to engage in...
Benghazi: Hillary Clinton and C.I.A. Crimes
by David Pear, originally published in OpEdNews, October 27, 2015 Hillary Clinton has been pilloried by her critics for not providing adequate security for the U.S. consulate in Benghazi...
PBS documentary: Inside Assad’s Syria
A street in the suburbs of Damascus. Photo Valery Sharifulin/TASS For weeks, the world’s eyes have been fixed on the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria for...
DPR: Out-of-control Ukrainian volunteer battalions deploy near disengagement line
The Azov battalion held an homage in Mariupol to their war dead, on the eve of Ukrainian local elections which were cancelled in the region for alleged irregularities in...
The Christian ghetto of ISIS
Christians in the Homs region, their heads shaved by ISIS to distinguish them from Muslims, listen to the new Islamist rules they will be forced to live under. Photo...
Institutional Incoherence: The Atlantic Council’s Desperate Scaremongering
via Kremlin Stooge Ooo, see the fire is sweeping My very street today; Burns like a red-coal carpet: Mad bull, lost its way Oh, children; it’s just a shot...
Assange: ‘Strategic depopulation’ of Syria behind EU refugee crisis?
Refugees in Slovenia after crossing from Croatia, October 26 2015. RT reports: The flooding of Europe by countless waves of refugees may be the result of the “strategic depopulation”...
Free Syrian Army: “We didn’t turn down the offer” of Russian military support
Free Syrian Army soldiers in the Syrian border town of Azaz, north of Aleppo. Photo AP/Turkpix Al Arabiya reports: The Western-backed Free Syrian Army said on Monday it had...
Iraq authorizes Russia to target ISIS convoys coming from Syria
Photo Reuters State-run Turkish press agency Anadolu Agency reports: The Iraqi government authorized Russia to target Daesh [ISIS] convoys coming from Syria, a senior Iraqi official said. The authorization...
Hillary Clinton Pretends to Be Progressive: She’s Actually Conservative
by Eric Zuesse The contrast between Hillary Clinton’s stated positions and her actual record, is stark. The record shows that she actually supports international trade treaties that allow the...
Grand Mufti of Syria: 800,000 refugees returned after start of Russian air strikes
Refugees preparing for their return journey to Syria from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on October 1 2015. Photo UNHCR Lenta reports: In Syria, over 800,000 refugees returned...
Turkish MPs: Turkey provided chemical weapons for Syrian terrorist attack
Victims of the Gouta chemical attack in Syria. Photo AFP. Turkey’s daily Zaman reports: Two deputies from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have claimed that the government is...
VIDEO: Chomsky on electing the president of an empire
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary “extravaganza,” the movement...
Guardian Spikes Own Readers’ Drone Exclusive
by David Parker The drone supposedly shot down in Turkey on Friday, October 16, is Ukrainian, Guardian online commenters revealed exclusively last Monday, outsmarting the world’s press and “military...
