As widespread unrest and civil war takes hold inside Iraq, President Barack Obama has told the U.S Congress he is sending combat-ready troops back into “President Obama Orders US Soldiers Back to Iraq”
Month: October 2020
UN Security Council Demands Investigation Into Downed Malaysia Airlines Flight
The United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution demanding an international investigation into the crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight in Ukraine “UN Security Council Demands Investigation Into Downed Malaysia Airlines Flight”
Perez won’t take lobbyists' money for DNC election
Labor Secretary Tom Perez will not be accepting contributions from federal lobbyists in his bid for Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman, according to his campaign’s “Perez won’t take lobbyists' money for DNC election”
Anti-Cuba Propaganda Plane Downed for Good
After years of a being criticized as wasteful and ‘ineffective,’ a U.S.-funded anti-Cuba propaganda campaign consisting of a plane that flew around the island broadcasting “Anti-Cuba Propaganda Plane Downed for Good”
FBI Entrapment Created 'Illusion' of Terrorist Plots: Report
Federal officials and law enforcement agents are treating American Muslims like “terrorists-in-waiting,” according to a new report released Monday by Human Rights Watch and Columbia “FBI Entrapment Created 'Illusion' of Terrorist Plots: Report”
Peddlers & Profiteers: Wall Street's Finest Pushing Tax-Dodging Mergers
Wall Street’s largest investment banks are both peddling and profiting from the latest corporate craze known as “inversion mergers” in which large U.S.-based companies sell “Peddlers & Profiteers: Wall Street's Finest Pushing Tax-Dodging Mergers”
Greenwald: NSA Docs Show 'Israeli Action in Gaza has US Fingerprints All Over It'
A new analysis of the intelligence and military relationship between the U.S. and Israeli governments—bolstered by new top secret NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden—exposes “Greenwald: NSA Docs Show 'Israeli Action in Gaza has US Fingerprints All Over It'”
Women Warriors Take Environmental Protection into Their Own Hands
Aleta Baun, an Indonesian environmental activist known in her community as Mama Aleta, has a penchant for wearing a colourful scarf on her head, but “Women Warriors Take Environmental Protection into Their Own Hands”
As Police ID Michael Brown's Shooter, Calls for Justice Remain
Police in Ferguson, Missouri on Friday identified Darren Wilson as the officer who fatally shot unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown last weekend, launching days of protests “As Police ID Michael Brown's Shooter, Calls for Justice Remain”
Michael Brown's Funeral Unites Family, Activists, Mourners
As activists and mourners in Ferguson, Missouri prepared for Michael Brown’s funeral on Monday, his father, Michael Brown, Sr., asked the community to suspend its “Michael Brown's Funeral Unites Family, Activists, Mourners”