Torture Report Incomplete as Key Documents Remain Withheld
Libya’s government holed up in a 1970s hotel
[Imperial intervention has led to chaos and tyranny in Libya -- NP] By Tim Whewell ( News, Tobruk) They've been chosen to rule a vast country that holds Africa's biggest oil reserves. They represent the democratic future of a land the world helped free from tyranny. But three years after the fall of Gaddafi, Libya's new... Continue Reading →
Christian clerics urge recognition of Palestinian state
Jerusalem (AFP) - Three leading Christian clerics in the Holy Land appealed Friday for more European governments to recognise a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital. The call from the Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Lutheran prelates -- all of them Palestinian -- came after EU member Sweden last week announced its intention to... Continue Reading →
Saudi Arabia declares all atheists are terrorists in new law to crack down on political dissidents
[Empire is manipulating Islam to advance its agenda. It is using Islam to silence its critics in the Gulf states. -- NP] (independent.co.uk) Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new... Continue Reading →
TWO THOUSAND TURKISH SPECIAL FORCES IN ISIS FEATURED
[No way to verify this, but if true it shows a greater level of Western coordination than previously known --NP] (Source: http://kurdishquestion.com/) Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Demir Celik stated in a press conference in Parliament that the majority of ISIS’ fighting force was formed of around two thousand Turkish Special Force officers, who in the... Continue Reading →
Saudi Arabia Beheads 26 People in 1 Month, Some for ‘Sorcery’: US Has Nothing to Say About it
(new-power.org)A recent article from http://aattp.org/ points out the hypocrisy of the US media and foreign policy:"We condemn ISIS’ public beheadings, but in 2012-13, our allies in Saudi Arabia cut the heads off of 79 people.Let’s play “Compare and Contrast” for a moment: Two oppressive, authoritarian Muslim regimes acting under the auspices of Sharia Law publicly behead... Continue Reading →
EDWARD SAID’S DIARY ON MEETING SARTRE, DE BEAUVOIR AND FOUCAULT
EDWARD SAID'S DIARY ON MEETING SARTRE, DE BEAUVOIR AND FOUCAULT((http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n11/edward-said/diary)The following are quotes from Edward Said's diary on meeting Sarte, De Beauvior, and Foucault. Said was very disappointed with the French intellectuals, especially Sarte and Foucault's support for Israel and De Beauvior's First Worldist feminism. The following is from Said's diary:Once the most celebrated intellectual, Jean-Paul... Continue Reading →
Islamist militia now guards US Embassy in Libya
[Libya is still in chaos after NATO and their Islamist allies deposed the Gadhafi regime. Instead of prosperity, Libya is now a land ruled by militias, warlords, and death squads. NATO has delivered the people of Libya into the hands of right-wing sectarian warlords. Without a strong central state, Libya's resources are more easily... Continue Reading →
FSA in Syria admit collaboration with Israel in video confession
(new-power.org) The Times of Israel reports: "In a video uploaded to YouTube Monday by the Executive Sharia Council in the eastern Daraa Region, an Islamic court established by Al-Nusra in southern Syria, Sharif As-Safouri, the commander of the Free Syrian Army’s Al-Haramein Battalion, admitted to having entered Israel five times to meet with Israeli officers... Continue Reading →
Why the Islamic State has no sympathy for Hamas
Why the Islamic State has no sympathy for Hamas (AlMonitor) Most of today's Salafist jihadist movements have no interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for the time being regarding it as irrelevant. Instead, their call is to engage in intense, bloody confrontations involving bombings, executions, and suicide attacks against governments headed by Muslims and against Muslim... Continue Reading →
Researchers: Children exposed to religion have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction
Researchers: Children exposed to religion have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction (theRawStory) A study published in the July issue of Cognitive Science determined that children who are not exposed to religious stories are better able to tell that characters in “fantastical stories” are fictional — whereas children raised in a religious environment even “approach unfamiliar,... Continue Reading →
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