Isis, Jabhat al-Nusra and Other Islamist Groups Are One And The Same: Senior Army Officer
By Robert Fisk A senior Syrian army officer talks to Robert Fisk about his army's brutal struggle with Isis, in a dirty war whose challenges include widespread atrocities. Continue By Finian Cunningham Claims can now be seen for what they are: propaganda in the service of a political agenda from Washington.
Latest Putin-bashing Invention
Putin About To Be Sacrificed By The Saker I normally don't comment any of the nonsense which circulates on the Internet, but this one seems to have a lot of people worried.
The Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld-
By Michael S. Rozeff The U.S. planned full spectrum dominance everywhere. Continue By Jim Miles Once upon a time, Canada was able to create the illusion that it was the "peaceable kingdom", an illusion accepted domestically and arguably by most of the rest of the world.
Fighting for Survival in the Sinai: Egypt's Convenient War
By Ramzy Baroud Egypt's recent turmoil has indeed exasperated violence in the Sinai Peninsula, but that violence was rooted in a largely different political reality. By Paul Craig Roberts The official story is that combat troops are being sent to build treatment structures for those infected with ebola.
The Moral Blindness of our Leading Liberals
By Chris Floyd What is most important to them is not stopping the system -- but making sure that one of "theirs" is running it. Continue By Michael Krieger I had no idea that the President of CBS News' brother was a top national security advisor to President Obama, did you?
Risky Business: "Easy Money"
By Mike Whitney Last week, the country's biggest mortgage lenders scored a couple of key victories that will allow them to ease lending standards, crank out more toxic assets, and inflate another housing bubble. Continue
Rise Up America, Rise Up!
By Mohammed Mesbahi It is up to you, the youth of America, to lead the way by organising a non-stop demonstration in every state, until that nationwide wave of peaceful protest eventually catches on globally. Continue |
Hard News
Syria: 30 people killed in refugee camp 'massacre': Footage shows horrific aftermath of attack in Syria. The footage showed corpses of women, children and burning tents while people scrambled to save the wounded. "It's a massacre of refugees," a voice off camera said.
IS attack on Syrian gas fields kills 30 government troops:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/Islamic State fighters have attempt to recapture the Sha'ar gas fields, which they had lost to pro-Assad forces in July
U.S. airstrikes failed to kill terror targets in Syria, officials say: Both Muhsin al-Fadhli, the leader of the Khorasan Group, and David Drugeon, a French jihadist and key member, who is believed to be a skilled bomb-maker, are alive. The United States does not know with certainty if they are injured.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/
Isil controls half of Kobane, says rebel leader:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/More than half of Kobane is now in Isil hands, according to veteren rebel leader, as Kurdish Peshmerga forces arrive in a last-minute bid to defend besieged town
Kurdish convoy heads to Syria to take on Islamic State: A convoy of peshmerga fighters from northern Iraq headed across southeastern Turkey on Wednesday towards the Syrian town of Kobani to try to help fellow Kurds break an Islamic State siege which has defied U.S.-led air strikes.
http://www.reuters.com/
Free Syrian Army Fighters Enter Kobani To Help Battle ISIS: A small group of Syrian rebels entered Kobani from Turkey on Wednesday in a push to help Kurdish fighters there against the militants, activists and Kurdish officials said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
For Turkey and U.S. a 60-year alliance shows signs of crumbling: The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their 60-year alliance, to the point where some are starting to question whether the two countries still can be considered allies at all.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
150 Iraqi tribesmen opposed to ISIS found in mass grave: Islamic State militants took the men from their villages to the city of Ramadi and killed them on Wednesday night and buried them, an official in a police operations centre and another security official told Reuters.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/
Iraqi Forces Launch New Bid To Retake Country's Largest Refinery From ISIS: Iraqi security forces said they advanced to within 2 km (1.2 mile) of the city of Baiji on Wednesday in a new offensive to retake the country's biggest oil refinery that has been besieged since June by Islamic State militants.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Far-right rabbi shot and seriously wounded in attack in Jerusalem: While details remained confused, it appears the man was shot several times at close range outside the city's Begin Centre by a gunman who escaped by motorcycle.
http://www.theguardian.com/
Abbas to Israel: Make peace with us and 57 other nations will follow: He called on Israeli citizens to request that the Israeli government "not miss this opportunity for peace because what surrounds us is even worse."
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-
Netanyahu Fumes At Reportedly Being Called 'Chickens**t' By U.S. Official: Netanyahu, the official was reported to have said, is interested only in "protecting himself from political defeat ... He's got no guts."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Top Dem 'shocked' by 'chickens---' remark:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-"I call upon the Administration to reassert the importance of the relationship between the United States and Israel, and to reaffirm that the bonds between our two countries are unbreakable. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said.
Death toll tops 200 in battle for Libya's Benghazi: At least 10 people were killed in fighting for Libya's second city Benghazi Wednesday, taking the death toll from a two-week-old government-backed counter-offensive against Islamist militia to 201.
http://www.france24.com/en/
Amnesty: Libyan militias committing war crimes: In a new report released Thursday, it accuses fighters of having complete disregard for civilian lives, saying militants have fired GRAD rockets and artillery into civilian neighborhoods. It also says "scores of civilians have been abducted by armed groups."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/
21 killed in Mali: France said a French soldier and about 20 Islamist militants were killed during a fierce clash in northern Mali near the Algerian border earlier in the day.
http://www.independent.ie/
Seven soldiers, one civilian killed in eastern Ukraine: "Over the last 24 hours, we have lost seven servicemen, 11 were injured," Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters
http://www.timeslive.co.za/
US Kills 4 People In Pakistan: : Security officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed at least four militants in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border.
http://www.rferl.org/content/
Afghanistan: 3 Taliban militants blown up by own explosives in Kandahar: According to local government officials, the incident took place around 7;00 am local time while the Taliban militants were busy planting Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
http://www.khaama.com/3-
Chuck Hagel issues broad military Ebola isolation order: All American troops returning from the Ebola zone in West Africa must spend 21 days in isolation, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered Wednesday.
http://www.politico.com/story/
Ebola nurse says she'll fight Maine quarantine authority: Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday that Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox was "unwilling" to follow state health guidelines and that he was seeking legal authority to force her to remain quarantined at a rural home in Maine for 21 days.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/
California issues quarantine policy for Ebola exposure: Anyone arriving in California from an Ebola-affected area and who has had personal contact with a person infected with the deadly virus will be quarantined for 21 days, according to an order issued Wednesday by the state's public health director.
http://www.latimes.com/local/
If Ebola batters US, we are not ready: Analysis: The U.S. health care apparatus is so unprepared and short on resources to deal with the deadly Ebola virus that even small clusters of cases could overwhelm parts of the system, according to an Associated Press review of readiness at hospitals and other components of the emergency medical network.
http://tinyurl.com/kjkcmbz
Austrian Police Detain 14-Year-Old Terror Suspect: The Austrian state prosecutor's office says a 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of planning to place a bomb in a busy Viennese train station and could be charged with belonging to a terrorist organization.
http://abcnews.go.com/
FBI demands new powers to hack into computers and carry out surveillance: Agency requests rule change but civil liberties groups say 'extremely invasive' technique amounts to unconstitutional power grab.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-
Government Authority Intended for Terrorism is Used for Other Purposes: What the reports reveal? Two things: 1) there has been an enormous increase in the use of sneak and peek warrants and 2) they are rarely used for terrorism cases.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
Make America Safer: Shut Down the Department of Homeland Security: Analysis: DHS, a massive department that wastes taxpayer dollars and abuses civil liberties, should be replaced
http://reason.com/archives/
US Federal Reserve to end quantitative easing programme: Central bank's head, Janet Yellen, confirms cessation of buying bonds in October after injection of £4.5 trillion over five years
http://www.theguardian.com/
Greenspan: Fed can't exit without turmoil: Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan sees concerns with the central bank stopping quantitative easing. Greenspan said he didn't like the word "crisis" but that "turmoil" was a good substitute.
http://www.marketwatch.com/
Fireworks Fly As Peter Schiff Warns "An Economy That Lives By QE, Dies By QE": Peter Schiff ventured on to CNBC to discuss the economy, the fed, and gold... among other things. Schiff rightly fears that while the Fed may well stop QE3 tomorrow, QE4 will not be too long behind it
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/
Does This Look Like A Housing Recovery To You?: Homeownership Rate 2014We just learned that the homeownership rate in the United States has fallen to the lowest level in 19 years. But of course this is not a new trend.
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