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Protests have been taking place in dozens of cities across Iran, a day after demonstrations turned deadly. Authorities warned they would crack down on any violence and challenges to the government. 31 December 2017 DEUTSCHE […]
By Roberta Rampton and Michelle Nichols | 20 December 2017 REUTERS — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft United Nations resolution […]
It’s funny how facts and data work. It separates men from boys and reality from rhetoric. Data, for example, enables us to discern what blowhard Donald “The Red Queen” Trump has really done about his […]
Monday’s veto at the Security Council marked the first time the US has used its veto power since 2011. By Tovah Lazaroff | 20 December 2017 THE JERUSALEM POST — The United States has publicly […]
By Chris Tomlinson | 17 December 2017 BREITBART — The increasing costs of population growth in Sweden, driven almost entirely mass migration, have forced the government to seriously consider raising the national retirement age to […]
In a surprising move against a chosenite last week, Twitter suspended the bot account of Jewish journalist Yair Rosenberg, the senior writer at American-Jewish news rag TabletMag.com. According to a sympathetic “reporter” over at Mashable.com, poor […]
By Tyler Durden | 18 December 2017 ZERO HEDGE — It’s not just the ultra rich, as well as a dazed and confused Bob Corker who is set to reap a $1+ million windfall from the passage of […]
‘President Trump’s historic recognition of Jerusalem will secure his place in history as the first American president to take that step since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.’ 13 December 2017 JERUSALEM […]
“How do you operate with people who are basically, with all due respect, a bunch of Orthodox Jews who have no idea about anything,” — Haim Saban VETERANS TODAY — Editor’s Note: These remarks below by Haim Saban, one […]
Trump’s declaration “adds insult to ongoing injury and is practically guaranteed to fan the flames of violence,” argue scholars By Julia Conley | 8 December 2017 COMMON DREAMS — As protests and violence intensified in the […]
The New Nationalist doubts there are few who are serving prison time that benefited from intensive lobbying by so many high ranking political figures as Sholom Rubashkin. We have also received clues about Trump and the sistema’s […]
By Peter Weber | 5 December 2017 THE WEEK — Blackwater founder Erik Prince, ex-CIA officer John R. Maguire, and Iran-Contra linchpin Oliver North have been shopping a proposal to President Trump’s White House and CIA […]
Interior minister expects to discuss proposal next week in attempt to improve surveillance capabilities By Thorsten Severin | 4 December 2017 INDEPENDENT — The German government is considering legal changes that would oblige operators of car and house […]
It now seems evident that the Neoliberal Camp of the U.S. Deep State is highly vulnerable on an individual basis. By Charles Hugh Smith | 30 November 2017 OF TWO MINDS — I tend to notice […]
Netanyahu needs a war because he’s desperate, and because a war might answer two of his more immediate needs By Bradley Burston | 29 November 2017 HAARETZ — Benjamin Netanyahu needs a war. He needs it to be […]
By Brandon Turbeville | 15 July 2017 ACTIVIST POST — Ever since the tragic and stupid launch of 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria by the United States took place in April, the entire incident has been […]
Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Proverbs 16:18 With one dictate through his pie hole, Trumpenstein demonstrated his willingness to burn any remaining good will among Muslim nations in order to […]
Deal Expected to Face More Resistance in Congress By Jason Ditz | 23 November 2017 ANTIWAR — With international complaints about war crimes mounting, and a vote on US involvement in Yemen having just been derailed […]
By Chris Riotta | 3 December 2017 NEWSWEEK — Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement […]
By Fuckcensorship | 19 November 2017 STEEMIT — Wednesday 11/22/2017 marks a full a year since the /r/Pizzagate subreddit was banned on Reddit. A lot has happened since then. This article was originally written in the beginning […]
‘Over the years I’m going to be giving my orders through you, and then only through you.’ — Tony Soprano The story of Gen. Michael Flynn contacting the Russians is a curious one indeed. The Lugenpresse ABC “News” ran […]
Known for his insightful take on politics, journalist and author Thomas Wictor believes Judge Roy Moore’s signature in Gloria Allred accuser Beverly Young Nelson’s yearbook is a forgery. By Joshua Caplan | 13 November 2017 […]
17 November 2017 FOX NEWS — Liberal billionaire George Soros and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were listed as the main attractions Friday at a California gathering of the anti-Trump elite. The four-day event in Carlsbad, […]
18 November 2018 THE NEW OBSERVER — The Israeli government is set to ratify a proposal by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan at this weekend’s cabinet meeting which will close the […]
Building a wall won’t solve the United States’ migration problem. Mass illegal migration stems from issues that run deeper than the tunnels that burrow under such artificial barriers. California is the nation’s hotbed of illegal […]
So what does Philip Kennicott think of his paper’s Roy Moore coverage? By George Neumayr | 17 November 2017 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR — Philip Kennicott, is a “Pulitzer Prize-winning” staff writer at the Washington Post, specializing […]
By Martin Slagter | 15 November 2017 THE ANN ARBOR NEWS — The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government is calling on university leaders to investigate divestment from companies that do business with Israel. UM’s student […]
By Michael Snyder | 9 November 2017 THE AMERICAN DREAM — Are the days of the free and open Internet numbered? The Internet is certainly used for all sorts of horrible things, but it has also […]
By Chris Menahan | 13 November 2017 INFORMATION LIBERATION — A professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law wrote an op-ed for the New York Times questioning whether his children can be friends with white […]
More and more of the troubled nation’s farms are become killing fields. 9 November 2017 THE TRUMPET — Thousands of black-clad farmers blocked South African highways with slow moving caravans on Monday, October 30, to […]