Archives for ديسمبر 2014

VIDEO: Fight Against ISIS In Syrian Province Crosses Religious And Ethnic Lines

“ISIS doesn’t want us to be together, yet we have been living all of these years together, Muslim and Christian, and nothing happened, everything was fine, but now ISIS – they don’t want that,” one member of the militia fighting for an inclusive democracy tells MintPress.

بواسطة Matthew Vickery
A Dwekh Nawsha militia member sits on top of a tombstone inside a 200-year-old monastery in the Christian village of Bakufa, 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) north of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. Dwekh Naswha, or "self sacrifice" in Assyrian, is a Christian militia recently formed by volunteers to protect Christian territories in the Nineveh Province in Iraq. (AP/Bram Janssen)

AL-HASAKAH PROVINCE, Syria --- Saed Jabar sits cross-legged on the floor of a small dark room. Above him hangs a wall-sized portrait depicting the famous biblical scene of the Last Supper in delicate detail. The electricity just went out again, a common occurrence in Syria over the past three and a half years of civil war. Jabar, seemingly so

Police Threaten Blue Coup In New York City

The police union chief instructed his members to impose a martial law-type policing regime on the city.

A NYPD officer records Occupy protestors (Photo by Palinopsia Films) When Police Benevolent Association chief Patrick Lynch said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has the blood of two dead cops on his hands, he was issuing a physical threat to both the person of the mayor and the civil authority to which the police are subordinate and sworn to

NSA Spied On Americans For Over A Decade: Report

Files released in response to an ACLU lawsuit shows long-term, unauthorized NSA operations against U.S. citizens

بواسطة Nadia Prupis

A 2012 photo inside the NSA security operations center (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) The National Security Agency quietly released a heavily redacted report late Wednesday night showing that its mass surveillance program targeting U.S. citizens went on for more than 10 years. The documents, which are made up of annual and quarterly

BBC Grossly Misrepresents Facts Regarding Israel’s Almost Daily Violations Of Gaza Ceasefire

Through misreporting and non-reporting, the BBC presents a thoroughly inaccurate picture of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land.

بواسطة Ali Abunimah

A Palestinian protester wearing a Santa Claus costume is carried by medics after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli troops during clashes at Bethlehem checkpoint in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) Last month, the BBC sent an email to the UK-based campaigning organization Palestine Solidarity

Despite Box Office Patriotism, Experts Question North Korea Hacker Claims

“In the post-Watergate/post-Snowden world the U.S. government can no longer simply say ‘trust us.'”

بواسطة Lauren McCauley
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Security experts are claiming that, despite official rhetoric, North Korea was likely not behind the Sony hack that spurred patriotic zeal and widespread rallying around the Christmas Day release of the comedy film The Interview. The Sony Pictures film, which on Thursday opened in 331 theaters and was made available for online viewing, boasted

Facebook Facing Lawsuit For ‘Invasive Scanning’ Of Private Messages

Facebook could be forced to pay users up to $10,000 each for violating their privacy if a new lawsuit is successful.

A judge ruled this week that a class-action lawsuit could proceed. (Photo: Joerg Koch/DAPD) A judge in the US District Court ruled on Wednesday that a class-action suit against the social media giant can proceed. According to the lawsuit, originally filed in December 2013, Facebook scanned the content of users’ private messages for