TeleSur | – – Obama will spend two and half days in Cuba, where he will meet with U.S.-backed activists and attend a baseball game. U.S. President Barack Obama, together with First Lady Michelle Obama and their children, walked through the streets of Old Havana Sunday as part of a historic three-day trip to Cuba. […]
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White Terrorist and Muslim-Hater Breivik Sues Norway over ‘Inhumane Treatment’
AJ+ | – – “Anders Breivik’s trial over inhumane prison conditions just ended. His more serious complaints include 23-hour isolation, censorship and hundreds of strip searches. In 2011 he killed 77 people in what he calls an attempt to prevent “Islamization.” A decision is expected in April.” AJ+: “Anders Breivik, Norway Mass Killer, Sues Over […]
Has Western intervention prolonged the Syrian Civil War? & has our Press Covered it up?
By Ian Sinclair | ( Open Democracy ) | – – The media keeps saying that the West isn’t involved in Syria. This isn’t true. “The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary”, George Orwell noted in his censored preface to his 1945 book Animal Farm. “Unpopular ideas can […]
Poll: Trump Barely Has Any Support Among Latinos
TeleSur | – – According to a new poll, more than 80 percent of all Latinos in the U.S. view Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump unfavorably. The popularity of United States Republican presidential Donald Trump, who is leading in the race to the nomination, has been tanking in recent months within the Latino community across […]
Wikileaks: Netanyahu used Italy to pressure US on Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Among the NSA’s targets was UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon. “If the Secretary General can be targeted without consequence then everyone from world leader to street sweeper is at risk,” says Julian Assange. The NSA spied on EU, UN, Israeli, and Japanese officials, new documents […]
Arbitrary: Egyptian Military Court Sentences 3-Year-Old to Life
Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – A life sentence apparently handed down by mistake to a 3-year-old boy on February 16, 2016, exemplifies the arbitrariness of Egyptian courts that are used to punish political opponents of the government. A Cairo military court presiding over a mass trial of 116 defendants, including Ahmed Mansour […]
Turkey’s New Normal?: Bombing in Ankara kills Dozens
By Winston Obertan | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | – – Ankara. Wikimedia image. A bomb blast, believed to have originated from a car bomb, has killed at least 28 people and injured scores in what appears to be a targeted attack on vehicles carrying Turkish military personnel. The explosion comes amid an intensification of fighting […]
A Bizarre Argument From a Conservative Israeli Lawmaker Against Palestinian Statehood
Apparently, no ‘P’ means no state.
Failed Syria Talks raise specter of new Refugee wave, Misery in Mideast, Europe
By Alpaslan Ozerdem | (The Conversation | – – The Syrian civil war and the refugee crisis it has caused is the greatest humanitarian disaster facing the world right now. But while Europe is often portrayed – in Europe – as the epicentre of the refugee crisis, the reality is completely different. The forced migration […]