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[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 →
(BBC) The air strikes on Daglica were in response to PKK shelling of a military outpost, the armed forces said. Both sides have been observing a truce and it is the first major air raid on the PKK since March 2013. Kurds are furious at Turkey's inaction as Islamic State (IS) militants attack the Syrian... Continue Reading →
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 →
[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 →
[Same old story. More Israeli genocide of Palestine, paid for by the USA -- NP] UN warns Israel against relocating Bedouins (AlJeezera) The United Nations relief and works agency for Palestine has urged the international community to block Israeli plans to relocate thousands of Palestinian Bedouin from the central West Bank, in fear the move... Continue Reading →
[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 →
[Israel violates Iran's territory. Imperialism continues to attack Iran. -- NP] VIENNA (AP) — Iran is asking the U.N. nuclear agency to condemn the purported incursion of an Israeli drone. The request, in a letter dated Sept. 9, was posted on Thursday on the website of the U.N.s International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran's Revolutionary Guard... Continue Reading →
(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((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 →
[More genocide bankrolled by the USA. Where there is repression, there is resistance. - NP] Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli police in Jerusalem By Ammar Awad JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scores of Palestinians rioted in East Jerusalem on Sunday after hearing that a youth from their neighborhood had died of wounds suffered in a clash with... Continue Reading →
[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 →
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