November 1, 2015
The vote is the second in five months, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party lost in June the governing majority it has enjoyed since first coming to power in 2002. With nearly 93 percent of the votes counted in Turkey’s snap parliamentary elections, the pro-Kurdish HDP had achieved 10.32 percent of the popular vote, enough to remain in parliament. (more…)
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky on October 28, 2015
On October 27, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that the Pentagon is contemplating “direct action on the ground” in both Iraq and Syria, “in an effort to combat the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group.” (Sputnik, October 27, 2015). (more…)
By Ramzy Baroud on October 14, 2015
When my book ‘Searching Jenin’ was published soon after the Israeli massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, I was quizzed repeatedly by the media and many readers for conferring the word ‘massacre’ on what Israel has depicted as a legitimate battle against camp-based ‘terrorists’. (more…)
By Ryan Rodrick Beiler on October 23, 2015
Hashem al-Azzeh harvests his family’s olives October 2012. Ryan Rodrick Beiler Active Stills
Hebron resident and anti-occupation activist Hashem al-Azzeh died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces. According to Palestinian media reports, al-Azzeh, who suffered from a heart condition, began feeling chest pains while in his home in the Israeli-controlled Tel Rumeida neighborhood of the occupied West Bank city. (more…)
October 18, 2015
Russian attack jets have hit 51 Islamic State targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, including four command posts, six arms depots, a mortar battery, two underground bunkers, 32 field camps and six outposts. (more…)
By Bill Van Auken on October 13, 2015
Just days after terminating its disastrously failed program to arm and train US-backed “rebels” in Syria, the Pentagon announced Monday that US Air Force C-17 cargo planes escorted by fighter jets airdropped some 50 tons of arms, ammunition and grenades to anti-government forces. (more…)
October 13, 2015
We are a group of Palestinian, Arab and International figures, who greatly appreciate and admire the inexhaustible creativity and sacrifice in their defense of their dignity and independence. (more…)
By Jon Schwarz on October 7, 2015
February 13, 1991, Air Raid Shelter, Amiriyah, Iraq
On October 3, a U.S. AC-130 gunship attacked a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Kunduz, Afghanistan, partially destroying it. Twelve staff members and 10 patients, including three children, were killed, and 37 people were injured. (more…)