Danish Photojournalist Released In Syria After 13 Months In Captivity
Daniel Rye Ottosen, a Danish photojournalist who has been held captive in Syria for 13 months, was released yesterday and reunited with his family, Denmark’s Foreign Ministry reports. According to the Associated Press , a ministry spokesperson would not comment on reports that Ottosen had been kidna ...
Howard negligent as PM in defence of Australia
Tony Abbott was over the top in describing Robert Menzies and John Howard as "giants, both, in whose extraordinary footprints I am proud to follow" ("In the eyebrow stakes, the PM just doesn't measure up", September 4). The unlikely occasion for Abbott's homage to the two former Prime Ministers was ...
Zawahiri launches al-Qaeda in South Asia..Relevance Deprivation Syndrome taking hold
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29056668 Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced in a videoed message the creation of an Indian branch of his militant group to “raise the flag of jihad” across South Asia. In the 55-minute video posted online, Zawahari pledged renewed loyalty to Afghan Tal ...
Mission Accomplished ..?
In recent years, we have learnt that the two words ‘Mission Accomplished’ ring hollow when our political (and corporate) masters use them. Within moments of hearing these words on radio or TV or reading them in the print media, they trigger alarm bells in many of us who would know by facts and/or in ...
Oh Now you're talking, Reuters? F*U
US Troops Routinely Committed Rape (of both males and females), Torture and Theft in Iraq 2003-2011 "We failed to give the proper context that would allow readers to understand what was going on," ~former Reuters bureau chief in Iraq, Andrew MacGregor Marshall ஜ☪۞☪ஜ _ ☜(*▽*)☞ _ ஜ☪۞☪ஜ and a Big Heart ...
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Friday Afternoon Roundup - Learning to Love Big Jihad
Code Pink Takes Time Out from ISIS and Hamas to Support Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine LEAVING TO LOVE BIG JIHAD Israel was told not to take down Arafat or Hamas would take over. Now Israel is being warned that if it destroys Hamas, ISIS will take over... And who is to say that ISIS is as extreme as it ...
The sklavenmoral of the master class
David Brooks has described Russia's interventions in Ukraine and the rise of the "Islamic State" in Syria and Iraq as "revolts of the weak." That sounds paradoxical since both ISIS and Vladimir Putin are perceived to advance their interests through raw application of force. To call them "weak" is al ...
TFP Column: Participation Foreign Policy
One of the things that has always been the most valuable about sports for young people are the lessons they learn in life that have nothing to do with the sports themselves. The price involved with sacrificing individual effort to contribute to a team as one learns to compete as a part of one, the e ...
Coalition of Interfaith Charities Support UN Efforts to Investigate Atrocities Committed by ISIS in Iraq
Iraqi security forces and Shi’ite militias pull down a flag belonging to Islamic State militants at Amerli, Sept. 1, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday formally notified Congress that he had authorized targeted air strikes in Iraq to help deliver a humanitarian aid to the besieged Shi’ite t ...
New Iraq coalition not a 2003 redux, US insists
Washington (AFP) - US plans to forge a coalition to defeat Islamic militants are not modeled on the global front brought together for the heavily-criticized 2003 invasion of Iraq, American officials insisted Friday. "When we talk about what we are doing ...
