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Son Of Victim Arrested For Protesting Military Exploitation Of 9/11

‘Using Sept. 11 as a justification for an unnecessary war, torture, drone strikes and civilian casualties compounds my grief and is wrong-minded and counterproductive.’

Lauren McCauley
بواسطة Lauren McCauley
Jamie Roux, whose father was killed in the downing of United Airlines Flight 17, said he went to the remembrance ceremony but all he saw was a "program of military force." (Photo: US Marines/cc/flickr)

In Maine, a lone voice of protest at a small-town 9/11 ceremony has raised questions about how some mourn, and others exploit, the legacy of that day. Jamie Roux, whose father, James M. Roux, was one of the doomed passengers of 9/11's United Airlines Flight 17, was arrested on Sept. 11, 2015 for interrupting a remembrance ceremony in Freeport,

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VIDEO: AIPAC’s Failed Attempts To Derail Iran Deal Could Be Its Downfall

AIPAC is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and it recently suffered a series of losses that have left it in a less than powerful position. What happens when an organization like AIPAC beings to suffer public losses? Correspondent John F. O’Donnell has the breakdown.

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How A Dancing Baby Video Helped Save The Online Right To Fair Use

The decision could help bring an end to the practice of sending thousands of automated notices about copyright violations, which a court said violates fair use rights.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk

SAN FRANCISCO --- Free speech activists are hailing a recent court decision about a dancing baby video which they say protects Internet fair use, a critical free speech right, from corporate repression. The 29-second video, published in 2007 by Stephanie Lenz, shows her 13-month-old son, Holden, dancing in a kitchen. Prince’s 1984 hit song

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Former CIA Agent John Kiriakou Takes Us Inside The Saudi Terror Factory

Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally, is supporting many of the same terror groups the United States claims to be fighting in its so-called “war on terror.”

Mnar Adley
بواسطة Mnar Adley
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left, meets with Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul Aziz, right, at Al-Salam Palace in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 22, 2015.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou returns to join Mnar Muhawesh on “Behind the Headline” to go into greater depth on Saudi Arabia’s role in manufacturing terrorism by re-writing the entire religious history of Islam and engineering hadeeth to serve its own political & oil interests. The effects of these efforts to re-write the history of a

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‘Sole Superpower’ in Decline: US Losing Its Grip on the Middle East

Washington has lost its strategic influence in the Middle East, writes F. William Engdahl, adding that the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has acquired a new meaning in light of the Syrian crisis.

Sputnik News
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Twenty five years ago, on September 11, 1990 then US president George H.W. Bush declared the United States the "sole superpower"; however, times have indeed changed for Washington since then, American-German economic researcher and historian F. William Engdahl emphasizes. According to the historian, the most irrefutable evidence of Washington's

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Pope? Yes, Dalai Lama? No

“It’s an odd fact of history,” ruminates Time magazine, “that the world’s youngest empire, the U.S., established diplomatic relations with the oldest, the Holy See, only a little over 30 years ago under (President) Ronald Reagan” who was long described as an advocate of church-state separation.

Thalif Deen
بواسطة Thalif Deen
Pope Francis attends a special audience with the members of the UCIIM Catholic union of Italian secondary school teachers

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 2015 (IPS) - When the United States established diplomatic relations with the Holy See back in January 1984, a televangelist asked rather sarcastically: when will Mecca send its own ambassador to Washington DC? “It’s an odd fact of history,” ruminates Time magazine, “that the world’s youngest empire, the U.S.,

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