By Joe Lauria on February 6, 2016
Exclusive: After Saudi-backed Syrian rebels balked at peace talks and the Russian-backed Syrian army cut off Turkish supply lines to jihadists and other Syrian rebels, the U.S. and its Mideast Sunni “allies” appear poised to invade Syria and force “regime change” even at the risk of fighting Russia, a gamble with nuclear war, writes Joe Lauria. (more…)
Dan Glazebrook on January 13, 2016
At least 10,000 people have been killed since the Saudi bombing campaign against Yemen began in March 2015, including over 630 children. There has been a massive escalation in human rights violations to a level of around 43 per day and up to ten children per day are being killed, according to UNICEF. (more…)
By Mike Whitney on January 29, 2016
The UN-sponsored Syrian peace talks, which began on Friday in Geneva, will be boycotted by the main Syrian opposition group which has insisted that Russia stop bombing its positions while negotiations are conducted. (more…)
January 29, 2016
Photo Credit: Free the Hares Boys Facebook page
After a nearly three-year long battle in Israeli military courts, five Palestinian teens from the occupied West Bank village of Hares accused of manslaughter after reportedly throwing stones were on Thursday issued sentences of 15 years, a prisoners’ rights group said. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on January 30, 2016
The wife and the son of Muhammad Al-Qiq calling for his freedom
Remember his name; Muhammad Al-Qiq. He is 33 years old and is dying in prison following a hunger strike. He is a journalist in Palestine, a territory occupied and carved by the violence of the Israeli invaders in 1948. (more…)
Jan 21, 2016
There was an underwhelming sense when Pentagon boss Ashton Carter met this week in Paris with other members of the US-led military coalition supposedly fighting the ISIL terror group. (more…)
January 16, 2016
Mainstream media have reached a new low this January as they purposely manipulated human suffering – engineered human suffering I need to add – to serve very political agenda. (more…)
January 10, 2016
Israeli forces detained more than 1,900 Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem in 2015, the majority of whom were minors, a prisoners’ rights group said on Sunday. (more…)