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Terrorist mocks Islam, talks ISIL, then shoots Muslim-American Taxi Driver on Thankgiving
TomoNews | (Video Report) | – – 1. TomoNews | – Update: The shooter is allegedly one Anthony Mohamed, the first name indicating a Christian. […]
Former US Military Chief: US invasion of Iraq spawned ISIL: (“Huge Error”)
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer| (Commondreams.org) | – – The U.S. is poised to repeat all the same mistakes in Syria that it made in […]
After 2008 Wall Street Crash, did US White Working Class Drink itself to Death?
Barbara Ehrenreich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has […]
Don’t wait for Gov’ts in Paris to fix Climate Change: We can do it Ourselves
James Dyke | (The Conversation) | – – It’s now almost certain that 2015 will be the warmest year ever recorded. However, rather than reduce […]
The End of Press Freedom in Turkey?
By Joris Leverink | (Inter Press Service) | – – ANKARA, Turkey (IPS) – Days after the 1 November general elections in Turkey, Beyza Kural, […]
Putin: Turkey was protecting ISIL oil Smuggling; Russia urges Assad-Kurdish Alliance
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday in Paris that his government had intelligence that the reason […]
Snowden restores 4th Amendment: NSA halts mass Warrantless spying on your Telephone Records
By David Greene and Nadia Kayyali | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The NSA’s collection en masse of the call detail records of […]
ISIL/ Daesh exults at our loss of Liberties: “8 Men caused a nationwide state of emergency”
by Charles Kurzman | ISLAMiCommentary Two years ago, al-Qaeda’s Iraqi franchise took Raqqa, Syria, from al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, and was promptly kicked out of al-Qaeda. […]
Shooting of pro-Kurdish Human Rights Lawyer Deepens Turkey’s Political Crisis
GlobalVoices.org | – – On November 28, Tahir Elçi, one of Turkey's most prominent pro-Kurdish lawyers, was holding a press conference close to the very […]