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Archives for فبراير 2016

The US Is Pulling The ‘Arabian String’

A long of war attrition fought with the help of U.S. made weapons would certainly boost the U.S. military-industrial complex’s profits.

New Eastern Outlook
بواسطة New Eastern Outlook
A Royal Saudi Arabian Air Force pilot adjusts his oxygen mask while in the cockpit of a an American-made F-5 Tiger II aircraft prior to flying a training mission at Williams Air Force Base.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – While Russia and Saudi Arabia may have reached some sort of understanding regarding the production of oil, the Syrian question remains unresolved and it is likely to remain so unless the ‘production’ of proxy groups is absolutely cut down to zero. Against the Syrian forces’ successful operations against such groups, the

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Chomsky: Trump Rising In Polls For Same Reasons Germany Embraced Hitler

“People feel isolated, helpless, victim of powerful forces that they do not understand and cannot influence.”

Claire Bernish
بواسطة Claire Bernish
Donald Trump waves as he walks offstage after speaking at the Iowa Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner. (Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Adolf Hitler rose to power during a period of similar social tumult as that which has currently garnered Donald Trump such fervent support, according to Noam Chomsky. In a recent interviewwith Aaron Williams for Alternet, Chomsky explained how fear, alone, does not sufficiently explain Trump’s surprising popularity: “Fear, along with the breakdown

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Report: French Troops Engaged In ‘Secret War’ In Libya

President Francois Hollande had authorized “unofficial military action” by both an elite armed forces unit and the covert action service of the DGSE intelligence agency in Libya.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz

A major new report broken by France’s newspaper Le Monde today revealed that the nation has been engaged in a secret war in Libya, in which French special forces have been carrying out “covert action” strikes against ISIS and other factions with the backing of Britain and the United States. French President Francois Hollande is said to have

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Evidence Shows ISIS Fighters Working With Turkish Military To Cross Syria Border

Further proof of ties between the Turkish military and ISIS fighters operating on the Syrian-Turkish border has been revealed in the Cumhuriyet newspaper, which published more transcripts of telephone calls between jihadists and officers.

Brandon Turbeville
بواسطة Brandon Turbeville
Turkish soldiers patrol a road near Hacipasa, Hatay, Turkey. At the peak of Turkey’s oil smuggling boom, the main transit point was a dusty hamlet called Hacipasa on the Orontes River that marks the border with Syria, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. Hacipasa has been a smuggling haven for decades, authorities and residents say. The fuel had come from oil wells in Iraq or Syria controlled by militants, including the Islamic State group, and was sold to middle men who smuggled it across the Turkish-Syrian border.

Tempting fate and risking both prosecution and shut down, Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper has recently revealed yet more evidence that Turkey is collaborating directly with ISIS terrorists and assisting them across the border into Syria. The Turkish paper has published new transcripts of telephone conversations between Turkish military officers

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Obama Bans US Imports Of Slave-Produced Goods

Until now, U.S. customs law banning imports of items produced by forced or child labor had gone largely unenforced.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Seafood From Slaves

President Barack Obama signed a bill Wednesday that includes a provision banning U.S. imports of fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia, gold mined by children in Africa and garments sewn by abused women in Bangladesh, closing a loophole in an 85-year-old tariff law that has failed to keep products of forced and child labor out of America. An

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Despite Backlash, Haaretz Editorial Board Opposes Israeli Apartheid Policies

Sometimes described as Israel’s New York Times, Haaretz is a rare media critic of the occupation of Palestine made all the more rare for being based in Israel.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
Front page of the Hebrew and English editions

TEL AVIV --- Haaretz is often described as one of Israel’s most influential newspapers, frequently compared to the U.S. “paper of record,” The New York Times. Both papers share a similar, liberal Zionist viewpoint, but with a major exception: Haaretz is one of the few mainstream media outlets in either country to openly equate Israel’s

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