After President Obama won approval on military action in Syria from Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Russia President Putin made harsh remark about Secretary of State Kerry before meeting of world […]
The U.S. government has now admitted its troops used white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against Iraqis during the assault on Fallujah a year ago. Chemical weapons experts say such attacks are in violation of international law banning the use of chemical weapons. We speak with columnist George Monbiot and […]
Hamburg Walmart manager fired over anti-Muslim posting Sep 05, 2013 (Menafn – The Buffalo News – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –A Facebook rant about Muslims by an employee of a Walmart store in Hamburg has prompted the retail giant to fire the man. The derogatory posting on Friday morning […]
Source: canton.patch.com Anyone who wishes to give blood should arrive between 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday at the Canton Library. The Canton Police Department is partnering with the American […]
Lives Lived- Tanya Khan, 38 BY Judy Csillag The Globe and Mail Wife, mother, teacher, interfaith activist, spiritual angel. Born Aug. 3, 1975, in Edmonton, died Aug. 6, 2013, in […]
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar For the first time through the two-year old Syrian conflict, the United States has mentioned the holy cow – “boots on the ground”. The Secretary of State John Kerry has pleaded that the US Congress should approve the use of American ground troops […]
(CNN) — The Pledge of Allegiance is recited in classrooms across the country every morning — and because of the words “under God,” it is heard in courtrooms across the country seemingly just as often these days. Every attempt to eliminate the mention of God has thus far failed, but the […]
Teacher Tanya Khan touched lives far beyond the classroom The Toronto Star, September 3, 2013 By Tanya Khan was a popular teacher at Louis-Honore Frechette Public School in Thornhill. She died in August of complications from a brain aneurysm. Tanya Khan was a popular teacher at Louis-Honore Frechette Public School […]
Source: The Conservative Papers: Al-Qaeda linked terrorists in Syria have beheaded all 24 Syrian passengers traveling from Tartus to Ras al-Ain in northeast of Syria, among them a mother and a 40-days old infant. Gunmen from the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant stopped the bus on the road […]
Author posits religion is essential building block of society The National Post: Among more militant atheist circles, the argument is often made that religion is a human invention serving only […]
Source: Stratfor: By George Friedman Last week began with certainty that an attack on Syria was inevitable and even imminent. It ended with the coalition supporting the attack somewhere between falling apart and not coming together, and with U.S. President Barack Obama making it clear that an attack was inevitable, […]
RT: Many US servicemen are against the looming strike on Syria, Republican Congressman Justin Amash said on Twitter, in an attempt to counter the idea that the country might be […]
U.S. fed intelligence to Iraq about whereabouts of Iranian forces Iraq deployed mustard gas and sarin in 1988 on the back of the information U.S. administration supported Iraq during the eight-year conflict Up to 20,000 Iranian troops were killed by mustard gas and nerve agents from Iraqi forces during the […]
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaeda, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.No other nation draws as much scrutiny across so many categories of national security concern. Secret […]
The situation in Syria is still in the focus of world media. Experts predict another U.S. aggression for “human rights”. Washington regularly declares its readiness to attack Syria. The official version – to punish al-Assad and Syrian army for the use of chemical weapons against the civilian population. Meanwhile, the […]
BY MORGAN LEE , CP CONTRIBUTOR September 2, 2013|1:19 pm Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor, Maryland March 14, 2013. A victory for Syria’s “Islamic rebels” and an overthrow of President Assad would endanger Syrian Christians, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) […]
Source: The Huffington Post Religion News Service | By Kimberly Winston (RNS) Massachusetts’ highest court on Wednesday (Sept. 4) will consider whether the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance is a violation of students’ rights. Since the addition of the phrase “under God” in 1954, the pledge has been […]
by Muath Freij | Sep 01, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Several Syrians in Jordan expressed their support for the likely military action led by Washington against the Syrian regime over alleged chemical weapon attacks. Syrians interviewed by The Jordan Times said that despite being against any Western intervention […]
By Robert Fisk, The Independent Watershed. It’s the only word for it. Once Lebanon and Syria and Egypt trembled when Washington spoke. Now they laugh. It’s not just a question of what happened to the statesmen of the past. No one believed that Cameron was Churchill or that the silly […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Barack Obama came to Washington to end wars. Not to start them. That much was crystal clear only three months ago when Obama gave a keynote speech on May 23 at the National Defense University in Washington in which he called for an end to the […]