Executive Orders & Airport Protests: Trump Clashes With The CIA

What is actually going on? The answers from both sides of the political spectrum are loaded with emotion and lacking truthful content.

Caleb T. Maupin
بواسطة Caleb T. Maupin
Demonstrators chant outside Tom Bradley International Terminal during a protest by airport service workers from United Service Workers West union Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at Los Angeles International Airport. The vigil in support of travelers affected by Trump's Muslim ban. (AP/Chris Carlson)

Trump signed an executive order. Airports filled up with protesters. The media screamed about a Muslim ban. Federal Judges intervened. Anger and chaos erupted. What is actually going on? The answers from both sides of the political spectrum are loaded with emotion and lacking truthful content. “Trump is trying to protect us from terrorists!

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3 Years After Brutal Rabaa Al-Adaweya Square Massacre, US Still Funding El-Sissi Dictatorship In Egypt

At least 817 supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi died in the initial attack, and disappearances and crackdowns on civil liberties have become routine in the years since the 2013 massacre.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
Egyptian army soldiers take their positions on top and next to their armored vehiclesin Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

AUSTIN, Texas --- Three years ago this week, Egyptian forces opened fire on a sit-in, killing hundreds of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. At least 817 people died in the Aug. 14, 2013 attack on Rabaah Al-Adawiya Square, where protesters -- mostly supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood -- had gathered after the coup. For the

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Erdogan Purges 60,000 Positions After Failed Coup, Shifting Turkey Into Totalitarianism

Erdogan’s purge took a dark turn when the Erdoğan government moved beyond ferreting out coup supporters in the military. Soldiers, police, judges, civil servants, teachers, and others—over 60,000 people so far—have been suspended, terminated, or detained, and a putatively temporary prohibition on international travel for all academics is now in effect.

Claire Bernish
بواسطة Claire Bernish

(ANTIMEDIA) Turkey — A totalitarian crackdown of epic proportions is underway in Turkey following a failed military coup attempt—itself the subject of conjecture across social and news media to have presented the prime opportunity for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to consolidate power by purging dissenters. But that purge took a dark turn when

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Oil Wells: The New Frontlines In Yemen’s Sectarian Violence

The implications of the battle being waged for access to Yemen’s energy resources extend far beyond the country’s borders. As one analyst told MintPress, “Yemen is an international choking point.”

Catherine Shakdam
بواسطة Catherine Shakdam
Yemeni soldiers stand guard in front of Yemen's President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi's house. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

While Yemen has been hailed a revolutionary success by the White House, presented to the world as a perfect example of political cooperation, well-planned institutional transition and a partner in counter-terrorism initiatives, the impoverished nation has been faced with crisis after crisis over the past three years and experienced little in the

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Egypt Security Forces Disperse Anti-Mubarak Rallies After Closing Tahrir Square

Saturday’s ruling exonerating Mubarak angered many Egyptians, with some relatives of slain protesters, as hundreds took to the streets near Tahrir Square and blocked it to traffic to protest the autocrat’s acquittal and demand “retribution.”

Al Akhbar
بواسطة Al Akhbar

Egyptian police dispersed a demonstration in Abdel-Moneim Riyad Square on Friday, held to protest last week's court ruling clearing ousted president Hosni Mubarak of charges that he had conspired to kill protesters in 2011. Police used batons to disperse demonstrators, several of whom were arrested at random, eyewitnesses reported. The

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American Citizen On The Verge Of Death In Egyptian Jail

Imprisoned for over a year in an Egyptian jail without proper medical care and under a self-imposed hunger strike, an American citizen’s health is fast deteriorating. But because of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the U.S. hasn’t been very vocal in demanding his release.

Sean Nevins
بواسطة Sean Nevins
Soltan

WASHINGTON --- “Last year I put my hands up like #Mike Brown did and the Egyptian police shot me twice with bullets my US gov’t paid for!” wrote Mohamed Soltan, 26, in a letter from a prison cell in Egypt. “It pains me that this type of injustice is still taking place in America, and I wholeheartedly declare my solidarity with #Ferguson from my

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