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Pentagon training ex-Daesh militants
Jan 01, 2018 06:35According to a report issued by the Russian military command, US special operations troops are secretly harboring and training former Daesh terrorists active in Iraq and Syria at the remote American base in Al Tanf, Syria near the strategic nexus of the country’s borders with Iraq and Jordan.
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Trump unveils “America First” national security strategy
Dec 31, 2017 10:40US President Donald Trump delivered a speech in Washington introducing his administration’s new “America First” National Security Strategy, a 55-page document that sets out in blunt terms the preparations for a new world war.
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How Saudi Arabia tried to bully Jordan and failed
Dec 31, 2017 10:37Whatever Saudi Arabia has done, since Mohamed bin Salman (or MBS) imposed himself upon his father, King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, as the principle decision-maker and then declared himself Heir Apparent, has badly boomeranged on Riyadh.
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US Intimidating UN Member States, “Al Capone Style”
Dec 31, 2017 06:43The US is behaving like a gangster on the world scene, trying to browbeat into submission countries that refuse to follow its dictates, as was evident last Thursday when it tried in vain to dissuade UN member states from voting against the quixotic decision of President Donald Trump to shift the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied Islamic holy city of Bayt al-Moqaddas in the Zionist usurped state of Palestine.
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A thousandth day & the destruction of Yemen goes on
Dec 30, 2017 16:55It seems there is no end to the state terrorism of Saudi Arabia, which emboldened by its ties to the super terrorist, the US, continues to bomb Yemen to bits, but when there is retaliation from the defenders, Riyadh cries and tries to act innocent as if the Yemenis have committed a crime.
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United States and Israel: Re-evaluating a toxic relationship
Dec 30, 2017 16:53In 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, was shot six times in the back and head by police officer Darren Wilson while fleeing a confrontation in Ferguson, Missouri. The teenager was then left to bleed out in the street. The police officer, who claimed that he feared for his life, was acquitted.
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Time to resist lucrative arms sales of merchants of death
Dec 30, 2017 16:36As more and more people continue to be bombed, killed, massacred, and displaced from the destroyed homes, hearths, cities, and countries, the merchants of death, without the least concern for human plight and life, are happy in doing a good business by manufacturing and supplying to the killer regimes the most lethal and destructive armaments.
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Nigerians call on Buhari to release Sheikh Zakzaky
Dec 30, 2017 09:16The people of Nigeria are intensifying efforts to force the government of President Muhmadu Buhari to release the Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky. Here is a report in this regard by Abdul-Mumin Giwa.
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Growing inequality dulls India’s sheen
Dec 29, 2017 18:45India’s economy surges, but inequality threatens democracy, culture and security with 80 percent of wealth in the hands of 10 percent. Here we present you an interesting analysis published in Eurasia Review by the visiting research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies of Singapore Riaz Hassan titled “Growing inequality dulls India’s sheen”.
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How the US and Israel extort votes at the UN
Dec 29, 2017 18:38On December 21, 2017, 128-member states of the United Nations General Assembly voted against the US in condemning the Donald Trump administration’s decision to recognize al-Quds as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to al-Quds. Moreover, the General Assembly called on member states not to move their embassies in Tel Aviv to al-Quds or Bayt al-Moqaddas.