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Killed ISIS Commander’s Cell Phone Shows Direct Ties To Turkish Intelligence

Former US Department of State senior adviser David Phillips said, “Turkey’s role has not been ambiguous — it has overtly supported the ISIL. It has provided logistical support, money, weapons, transport and healthcare to wounded warriors.”

Justin King
بواسطة Justin King
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan applauds after he received an honorary doctorate from Qatar University in Doha, Qatar, Dec. 2, 2015. Turkey and Qatar are two of the main benefactors of the Syrian rebels. (AP Photo)

Baghdad, Iraq – An ISIS commander was killed in Salahuddin province and his body was searched. A cell phone retrieved from the corpse revealed messages from Turkish intelligence services proving the NATO country was providing security for ISIS militants when they traveled between Turkey and Iraq. This is the second NATO country implicated in

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The FEC Just Made It Easier For Candidates To Be Bought With Super PAC Money

The new rules further blur the lines between candidates seeking public office and the private entities that fund their election campaigns.

Nadia Prupis
بواسطة Nadia Prupis
Donald Trump, second from left, makes a point as Ben Carson, left, Ted Cruz, second from right, and Jeb Bush look on during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Venetian Hotel & Casino on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has quietly released a new advisory opinion that will make it even easier for candidates and their staffers to solicit for super PACs donations. The opinion states that candidates can ask for funds from donors as long as they are meeting in small groups—as small as three people, according to the Washington

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Daniel Ellsberg: US Military-Industrial Complex Also Includes Big Corporations And Congress

“[The] CIA particularly represents the views of the Wall Street investment firms and the multinational corporations that they invest in,” noted the whistleblower who leaked “The Pentagon Papers.”

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Daniel Ellsberg, whistle-blower and former presidential adviser on nuclear strategy, is shown being photographed and placed in a bus after his arrest on Monday, June 22, 1982 at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore, California. Ellsberg was demonstrators opposed to Nuclear weapons development at Lawrence Livermore Lab were hauled off to jail as well as Ellsberg. (AP Photo)

MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host “Lied to Death,” a 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi wrote that these interviews are a “mixture of historical, political science and Dan’s sixty-year scholarly analysis as a former nuclear planner for Rand

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Jeremy Corbyn Slams UK Leadership For Constantly Following US Into Wars

“I hope the American people will realise that it’s against everything that’s in the U.S. constitution, it’s against everything that’s about freedom of speech, everything that’s about freedom of religion.”

Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia
بواسطة Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia
Jeremy Corbyn arrives at the Labour Party Leadership Conference in London, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. Corbyn will now lead Britain's main opposition party. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

United Kingdom — In an interview with the Huffington Post marking his first 100 days as leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn has criticised the U.K. following the U.S into war — and invited Donald Trump to a British mosque. Arriving by bicycle to a greasy spoon cafe in North London, the Labour leader discussed his life under the scrutiny of

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Slain Muslim Students’ Families Fight Grief To Honor Legacy

When Barakat’s mother worried aloud that the family could be harmed because of their religion, “we were all laughing it off, like: ‘Nothing bad is going to happen. This is America,'” said Deah’s brother, Farris.

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RALEIGH, N.C.  — Shortly before they were gunned down, a young Muslim couple was eating out with relatives when the conversation turned to anti-Islamic attitudes in the United States. It was January 2015, months before the massacres in Chattanooga, Paris and San Bernardino. Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha had just gotten married and started

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UN: Saudis Killing ‘Disproportionate’ Number Of Yemeni Civilians

The US insists that they’ve urged their Saudi Allies to stick to ‘lawful’ targeting. America is providing both logistical support to the Saudi-lead coalition attempting to defeat the Houthis in Yemen.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
A child who was injured in Saudi Arabia's ongoing assault on Yemen is brought to a hospital by her father, in Taiz, Yemen, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. The U.N. says at least 2,577 civilians were killed since the Saudi-led air campaign began in March, while 5,078 have been injured. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein, addressing the Security Council today, warned that Saudi Arabia seems to be disproportionately responsible for civilian deaths in the ongoing Yemen war, a nine month conflict that’s led to enormous civilian casualties. Saudi Arabia began airstrikes against Yemen back in March, and has repeatedly faced

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