Jon Queally

Despite Brutal Irony, US Accuses Russia Of ‘Pouring Gasoline On Fire’ In Syria

Speaking at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter charges airstrikes by foreign military may be “pouring gasoline on the fire.”

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By Jon Queally
U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin pose for members of the media before a bilateral meeting Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at United Nations headquarters. (Sergey Guneyev/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

At an afternoon press conference, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter claimed evidence may show that Russia airstrikes were hitting areas where there were not Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) forces and charged that Moscow's bolstering of President Bashar al-Assad could backfire if that meant the targeting of what the U.S. considers "legitimate"

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Protesting Big Pharma ‘Death Sentence,’ Cancer Patient Arrested Outside TPP Talks

‘For thousands of women to die unnecessary of breast cancer because of the TPP is a horrible, cruel, premeditated, and avoidable catastrophe.’

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By Jon Queally

A cancer patient was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday after allegedly "disrupting" the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in a protest aimed at maintaining access to affordable cancer medicines in the dozen countries, including the U.S. and Canada, that would be impacted by the colossal trade deal. Video footage showed

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As Young Refugee Boy Identified, Photos Representing His ‘Outcry’ Reveberate

Three-year-old Aylan Kurdi drowned along with his mother, Rehan, and older brother, Galip, while the family attempted to cross the sea from Turkey to Greece on Wednesday.

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By Jon Queally
A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi after he drowned when the boat he and his family members were in capsized near the Turkish resort of Bodrum early Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. (Photo: Nilüfer Demir/DHA)

As new details emerge about the young Syrian boy, now identified as three-year-old Aylan Kurdi—who drowned along with his mother, Rehan, and older brother, Galip, while the family attempted to cross the sea from Turkey to Greece on Wednesday—the global impact of the pictures has perhaps fulfilled the "sorrowful" hopes of the photographer who took

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AP Files Suit For FBI’s Refusal To Come Clean On ‘Fake Reporter’ Operations

‘While the public clearly has a strong, compelling interest in knowing more about the FBI’s use of this tactic, the FBI seems determined to withhold that information,’ says lawyer involved with the case.

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By Jon Queally
FBI Director James Comey is under fire, and now facing a lawsuit, for the agency's impersonation of an AP reporter. "We cannot overstate how damaging it is for federal agents to pose as journalists," said Katie Townsend of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. (Photo: AP File/Evan Vucci)

Following public outrage expressed when it was first discovered last year, the Associated Press took legal action against the Department of Justice on Thursday for the FBI's failure to come clean about details surrounding its decision to  impersonate an AP reporter as part of a covert investigation. Along with the Reporters Committee for Freedom

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As Obama’s War In Iraq And Syria Rumbles On, Are Intel Books Getting Cooked?

As Obama’s War in Iraq and Syria Rumbles On, Are Intel Books Getting Cooked?

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By Jon Queally
ISIS Obama

Calling to mind the subterfuge made infamous by the administration of George W. Bush in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, reports are emerging from within Obama's Pentagon and intelligence community that internal assessments of the ongoing war against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria are being "cooked" or "politicized" to fit

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“Go ‘Head”: Trump Gives Nod Security To Eject Latino Journalist

The billionaire presidential candidate tells Jorge Ramos to “Go back to Univision” before the security team member had given approval to remove the well-known journalist.

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By Jon Queally
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tells Univision anchor Jorge Ramos to "sit down" during a press conference in Iowa on Tuesday evening. (Photo: Screenshot/CNN)

With eye contact and a short "Go 'head" to a swift-moving member of his security team, Republican presidential candidate and billionaire media personality Donald Trump appeared to authorize the physical ejection of Univision's anchor Jorge Ramos from a press event on Tuesday evening. Captured by numerous cameras at the event in Iowa, the display

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July Was Hottest Month Ever Recorded

Record set for hottest month of the year puts 2015 on track to be hottest year ever recorded… and the consequences are mounting.

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By Jon Queally
In this photo taken Monday, March 2, 2015, a helicopter water bombs fire in the Tokai Forest near Cape Town, South Africa. A wildfire continues to burn across the city's southern peninsula Tuesday, March 3, 2015 after breaking out Sunday with firefighting re-enforcements being flown in to assist with battling the blaze (AP Photo/Mark Wessels)

The world is burning up. The previously available evidence for that statement is staggering and on Thursday the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S. announced that July was the hottest month the planet has ever experienced since records began and that both land and ocean temperatures are on pace to make 2015 the hottest

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