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UN Report Conclusive Sarin used on wide Scale, Points to Syrian Regime
When reports of a chemical weapons attack in Rif Dimashq near Damascus on August 21 first surfaced, some observers questioned whether these were really chemical […]
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44 yearly Murders by Firearms in Britain [220 equiv.] vs. 8,583 in US; US Navy now Menaced
Aaron Alexis carried out the mass murder of 13 people at the Navy Yard with an AR-15 assault rifle and a shotgun. AR-15 Bushmasters are […]
Thousand-Year Flood in Colorado: Climate Change & Extreme Weather
Commondreams.org writes The number of people missing or "unaccounted for" amid what experts are calling a thousand-year flood event in Colorado, is now more than […]
The Hubris of the Syria Interventionists
The hawks who are deeply disappointed that diplomacy has likely forestalled a US military intervention in Syria in the foreseeable future often attempt to tug […]
Summers withdraws from Fed consideration; Won’t be Rewarded for Beggaring Us All
Economist Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration for chairman of the Federal Reserve last night, even though he had been increasingly considered the favorite […]
The World after the Kerry-Lavrov accord on Syria
The agreement reached by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at Geneva on Saturday regarding the sequester of Syria’s […]
7 Million Displaced Syrians, Bayda Massacre, & other Reports you Didn’t see on American TV
American network & cable television has been focused his week on US-Russian diplomacy with relatively little coverage (aside from Ben Wedemann on CNN and a […]
Neil Young: Alberta Tar Sands fields ‘Look like Hiroshima’ (Chamberlain)
Jacob Chamberlain writes at Commondreams.org Fresh off a trip to Canada's tar sands oil fields in Alberta, famed singer Neil Young spoke out at a […]
Arguing with President Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin published an opinion piece in the New York Times on Wednesday. Here is my attempt at refutation of some of the […]
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