By Carlyn Meyer | (Informed Comment) – According to sources familiar with negotiations between the international P5+1 group and Iran, the Obama Administration is optimistic that a deal can be reached over Iran’s nuclear program. A recent article in Al-Monitor reports that the chances of a successful deal have increased considerably in the past week […]
Holy War: How Bill O’Reilly & Daesh/ ISIL Share The Same Goal
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) “Bill O’Reilly stated definitively, multiple times tonight, that he believes the United States and the world are in a “holy war” against ISIS and the White House needs to accept that fact. He said, “This is now a so-called holy war between radical jihadists and everyone else, including peaceful […]
Russell Brand: Chapel Hill Vs Copenhagen – Which Is Terrorism?
Russell Brand | (The Trews) – “Reaction to the media coverage of the Chapel Hill killings last week and the shootings in Copenhagen.” Chapel Hill Vs Copenhagen – Which Is Terrorism? Russell Brand
Just when you thought they Couldn’t be Worse: ISIL trafficking Human Organs
RT | – The Islamic State is harvesting human organs to finance its blood-driven caliphate, according to Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations, urging its Security Council to investigate the issue. Envoy Mohamed Alhakim called on the 15-member body to look at allegations of organ removal by the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) as bodies with […]
NSA making all vulnerable online with Equation Viruses on your Computer
TheLipTV | – “Malware in hard drive firmware is the latest, and most sophisticated spying tool the NSA is suspected of using, with Kaspersky Labs of Russia suggesting that the “Equation Group” of hackers have infiltrated the innermost workings of computers dating back to 2001. The “Equation Group,” have long been suspected of being intimately […]
Elon Musk’s Battery for Solar Homes may Change Electric Utilities forever
TomoNews | – “Tesla is developing a battery that can power homes with stored solar energy so that users do not need to draw power from electricity grid.” TomoNews: “Elon Musk: Tesla to launch batteries that can power homes”
Iraq: Sunni Sheikh Killed trying to Mediate between Shiite, Sunni Extremists
By Erin Evers | (Human Rights Watch) In Latifiyya, a small town 20 miles south of Baghdad, fighting has been raging since long before the armed conflict that erupted when the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) took over Mosul. For at least two years state security forces and government-backed militias have been battling Sunni […]
2 1/2 yrs after US Consulate Attack, Libyan Nat’l Army advances in Benghazi against Radicals
CCTV Africa | – “Footage from Benghazi showed troops, equipped with tanks, gun-mounted trucks and automatic weapons, advancing through farmland.” CCTV Africa: “Libya’s Army Makes Gains In Fighting Against Militias” The Algerian Times also reported last week: The Libyan army retook Benghazi’s largest military base … in the East, from fundamentalist fighters who held the […]
Avenging its Christians, Egypt Bombs Libya in first formal Campaign since 1991
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The murder by Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) thugs in Sirte, Libya, of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians this weekend provoked the first formal Egyptian military incursion into another state’s territory since the 1991 Gulf War. Egyptian fighter jets bombed warehouses, training camps and other assets of Daesh in Derna. […]