Archives for نوفمبر 2014

VIDEO: Citizen Journalist Bassem Masri Tells CNN Why Free Speech Matters In Ferguson

CNN’s Michael Smerconish asks if people in Ferguson should remain calm and nonviolent. Bassem Masri is ready with an incisive response about police brutality.

Police Shooting Missouri

US Troops Will Deploy To Iraq Without Congressional Approval: Pentagon

Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said leading elements of the US force would begin moving to Iraq in the coming weeks, even if Congress has not yet acted on a $5.6 billion supplemental request to fund the expanded fight against the militants who overran northwestern Iraq earlier this year.

بواسطة Al Akhbar
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Martin E. Dempsey as he addresses questions from US military members during a town hall meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, November 15, 2014.

Updated at 2:19 pm (GMT +2): Some of the 1,500 new US troops authorized to “advise and train” Iraqi forces in their fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants will be deployed in Iraq within the next few weeks without waiting for Congress to fund the mission, the Pentagon said on Thursday. Meanwhile, clashes broke out all

NYPD Whistleblower Sues For Questioning “Excessive Force” Report

A former New York City council analyst who dared to speak out against corruption in the NYPD, is now herself a target of their heavy hand.

بواسطة Carey Wedler

(TheAntiMedia) NEW YORK, NY- A former New York City council analyst is suing his former employer, claiming he was fired for speaking out about alleged NYPD lies. ­Artyom Matusov claims NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, presented a report to the council claiming the use of excessive force was down, but Matusov knew the officer was manipulating the

‘We Will Hunt You Down’: KKK Threatens To Shoot Anonymous ‘N***** Lovers’

The two groups with a penchant for face-covering apparel began engaging in a perhaps unequal “cyber war” after the KKK threatened to use “lethal force” against protesters in Ferguson, Missouri.

بواسطة RT
KLAN RALLY

A bitter war of words between hacker collective Anonymous and the Klu Klux Klan risks spilling over into real violence, with the right-wing hate group allegedly threatening to shoot dead activists wearing the Guy Fawkes mask in southern Missouri. Earlier this week, Anonymous sent out a tweet relating an alleged interaction between Frank Ancona,

Israel’s Arabs – Marginalised, Angry and Defiant

Photo: AP/Nariman El-Mofty WASHINGTON – The recent killing of an Arab youth by the police in the Israeli Arab village of Kufr Kanna, outside Nazareth, the ongoing bloody violence in Jerusalem, and the growing tensions between the Israeli security services and the Arab community in Israel could be a dangerous omen for Israeli domestic stability […]

بواسطة Emile Nakhleh

WASHINGTON - The recent killing of an Arab youth by the police in the Israeli Arab village of Kufr Kanna, outside Nazareth, the ongoing bloody violence in Jerusalem, and the growing tensions between the Israeli security services and the Arab community in Israel could be a dangerous omen for Israeli domestic stability and for the region. Should a

Proposal For International Anti-Corruption Court Seeing “Significant” Momentum

“In the developed world we can make the mistake of seeing corruption as merely stealing money, but in fact political corruption kills more people than war and famine put together – 140,000 children a year.”

بواسطة Carey L. Biron

WASHINGTON, Nov 21 2014 - The key U.S. advocate of a proposal to create a multilateral body mandated to investigate allegations of political corruption says the idea is receiving significant interest from civil society, politicians and major business leaders. Mark L. Wolf, a U.S. federal judge, first proposed the idea of an International