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Kissinger: Let Russia Defeat ISIS, Its Destruction More Important Than Overthrow Of Assad

“The current inconclusive U.S. military effort risks serving as a recruitment vehicle for ISIS as having stood up to American might.”

RT
بواسطة RT
Henry Kissinger

Defeating Islamic State should take precedence over regime change in Syria, Henry Kissinger has argued, adding that Russia’s intervention may help re-establish order in the Middle East that was once entirely dominated by the US. “The destruction of ISIS is more urgent than the overthrow of Bashar Assad,” the elderly US statesman, who served as

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Attacks On Muslims In The Midwest Highlight Violent Trend Of Bigotry Sweeping The US

In Bloomington, Indiana, a student is charged with a brutal attack on a Muslim woman in a cafe, while a Muslim family in a Chicago suburb recently received a threatening flier on their vehicle.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk
Protesters attend an anti-Muslim rally at the the Texas capitol. Brittney Martin/The Dallas Morning News

MINNEAPOLIS --- Two incidents of racially-motivated attacks against Muslims in the American Midwest highlight what experts say is a growing wave of Islamophobia and violence. Police in Streamwood, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, are investigating a disturbing flier found on a vehicle outside a Muslim family’s home earlier this

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New Report Maps Growing Impact Of Ocean Acidification On Marine Life Worldwide

Global collaboration among scientists is critical to developing new ways to measure and mitigate the damage caused by ocean acidification, experts urge.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
Credit Institute of Marine Sciences

AUSTIN, Texas --- New research maps the growing impact of ocean acidification and identifies the regions worst affected, while scientists and world governments are collaborating more and sharing ways to slow or reverse its progress. Fossil fuels and human industry are releasing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere where it is

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Study: Corporate Media Refuses To Acknowledge Civilian Victims Of US Wars

New research finds, through their silence, mainstream news outlets are ‘legitimating’ U.S. military’s burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sarah Lazare
بواسطة Sarah Lazare
A U.S. military burn pit at forward operating base Zeebrudge in Helmand province, Afghanistan pictured in March 2013. (Photo: Sgt. Anthony L. Ortiz)

Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in “legitimating the environmental injustices of war,” a harrowing new scholarly report concludes. “During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the US Department

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Obama’s New Appointee To Head The FDA Is A Big Pharma Mega-Lobbyist

While at Duke, Robert M. Califf received millions in funding and salary support from Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis, and other drug companies.

Carey Wedler
بواسطة Carey Wedler
While at Duke, Robert M. Califf received millions in funding and salary support from Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis, and other drug companies.

(ANTIMEDIA) President Obama’s recent nominee to chair the Food and Drug Administration has drawn harsh criticism for his ties to the pharmaceutical industry. The disapproval grew more justified this week as it was revealed that until this year, nominee Dr. Robert Califf was a board member and consultant for a company whose sole purpose is to help

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African Migrant Shot By Israeli Security Guard Then Beaten To Death By Israeli Bystanders

“The death of an asylum seeker at the hands of security guards and an angry mob is a tragic but foreseeable outgrowth of a climate in which some Israeli politicians encourage citizens to take the law into their own hands.”

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
In this Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015 file photo, Mulu Habtom Zerhoma, a wounded Eritrean, is evacuated from the scene of an attack in Beersheba, Israel. (AP Photo/Dudu Grunshpan, File)

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Eritrean migrant shot by an Israeli security guard and then attacked by bystanders who mistook him for an assailant in a deadly bus station attack has died of his wounds, hospital officials said Monday. The mistaken shooting of the migrant seemed to capture the current climate of ratcheted up tensions among Israelis after

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