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President Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia's King Salman walk together to a meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. The President begins a six day trip to strategize with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia, England and Germany on a broad range of issues with efforts to rein in the Islamic State group being the common denominator in all three stops. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama Meets With Saudi King Amidst Strained Tensions

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Former US Senate Candidate: Israel Orchestrated The 9/11 Attacks​

Former U.S. Senate candidate Mark Dankof has said that he has proof that Israel orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., during a television interview with Iranian TV recently.

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The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York.(AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Commenting on the Saudi’s role in supporting the 9/11 attacks, Dankof told the broadcaster that Israel were the chief player in organising the attacks. “When we get to 9/11, there are series of clues and series of explanations that have been provided for us; they really get in the bottom of the fact that it was Israel that was the chief player

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Syrian Parliamentary Election Results Disprove Western Claims Of “Alawite Dictatorship”

Despite claims by Western governments and corporate media outlets that the Syrian government is led by Assad’s “Alawite clan” and that both minorities and majorities are excluded and persecuted, the truth is that Syria and its government are pluralistic and multifaceted.

Brandon Turbeville
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A Syrian woman poses for a photograph showing her inked finger after voting outside a polling station during the Syrian parliamentary election in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

If the last nail had not yet been pounded into the West’s “The Syrian government is a sectarian dictatorship” line, the recent Syrian Parliamentary elections have gone to great lengths to ensure that very few spikes are needed to finally seal the box shut. Despite claims by Western governments and corporate media outlets that the Syrian

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Sikh Author Forced to Remove His Turban At US Airport

A Sikh-American teenager, who wrote a book about bullying of Sikh children, was compelled to remove his turban at a California airport after being threatened by security who said that they would deny access to his flight if he did not comply.

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Karanveer Singh Pannu, an 18-year-old high school student from New Jersey, was asked to remove his turban as part of a secondary test after he had gone through a metal detector and submitted to a pat down of his turban and chemical swab test for explosive material. "I refused at first but when they threatened me that I could not fly, I agreed,

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Pentagon’s New Rules Allow Them To Kill More Civilians In ISIS Strikes

Officials say they have implemented a “sliding scale,” based on the region being targeted and the “opportunity.”

Jason Ditz
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A US Air Force plane takes off as a Turkish Air Force fighter jet taxis at the Incirlik airbase, southern Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. (Photo: AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Though the Pentagon has mostly issued blanket denials whenever they’re caught killing civilians in airstrikes against ISIS targets anyhow, officials say their eagerness to escalate the air war against ISIS targets has seen the implementation of new rules allow the US to kill larger numbers of civilians per attack. The details are still scant,

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Voting Problems Plague High-Stakes Primary Day In New York

Some precincts opened two hours later than they were supposed to, while some would-be voters’ names couldn’t be found on registration lists.

Deirdre Fulton
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Hillary Clinton supporters who couldn't get into a Women for Hillary event listen and watch from behind a press riser in the back of a ballroom, as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop a day ahead of the New York primary, Monday, April 18, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Amid charges of voting machine mishaps and names purged from voter rolls, New Yorkers cast their ballots Tuesday in high-stakes Democratic and Republican primaries—those who were able to, at least. The results in New York's closed primary could define the rest of the race, putting the Empire State in the rare campaign spotlight. And the glare

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ACLU Of Oregon Condemns State’s Surveillance Of Black Lives Matter Activists

Monitoring the social media use of Black Lives Matter activists in Oregon is an example of ‘how the level of trust between law enforcement and communities of color has been so damaged,’ the civil rights group says.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell

PORTLAND, Oregon --- An investigation of social media surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists shows a pattern of systemic racism and disregard for the law, according to an Oregon civil rights group. The comments from the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon came in response to a report issued this month by the Oregon Department of

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