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Pakistan May Finally Be Taking Its Terrorism Problem Seriously

Islamabad is giving in to public pressure to ramp up its counterterror efforts and revise its policies in this regard. So far, that’s meant sidestepping the constitution to try terror suspects in military courts and lifting a moratorium on the death penalty for convicted terrorists.

Catherine Shakdam
By Catherine Shakdam
Pakistani army officer

A Pakistani army officer stands in front of a wall riddled with bullet marks inside the Army Public School attacked last Tuesday by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The Taliban massacre that killed more than 140 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan left a scene of heart-wrenching

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Erik Prince: America’s Harbinger Of Death, And Democracy?

The Blackwater founder’s movements can be read like tea leaves: Wherever he goes, tragedy and death surely follow, trailed by tens of millions of dollars.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Humanity has long shown its knack for developing belief in the validity of certain signs and portents as conveying a reliable prediction of the future. A comet, for instance, has often been interpreted as a signal that famine or war might soon make an appearance. Likewise, association of such things as the entry of one or more planets into a house

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Israel Has Detained 1266 Palestinian Children In 2014

A report by Defense for Children International (DCI) published in May 2014 revealed that Israel jails 20 percent of Palestinian children it detains in solitary confinement.

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar

Tariq Abu Khdeir is hugged by his mother Suha after he was released from detention in Jerusalem on Sunday, July 6, 2014. Khdeir, a 15-year-old Palestinian American, was badly injured while detained by Israeli police. (AP/Mahmoud Illean) Israeli forces detained over 1,000 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and annexed Jerusalem in

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A 2,500 Square-Mile Methane Plume Is Silently Hovering Over The Western US

The legacy of fossil fuel drilling is “giant cloud” of powerful greenhouse gas now visible from space.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
Gas well

(Photo: WildEarthGuardians/flickr/cc) A monstrous cloud of accumulated methane—a potent greenhouse gas—is now hovering over a large portion of the western United States according to satellite imagery analyzed by NASA and reported by the Washington Post. Created by years of intentionally released and errantly leaked natural gas during

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VIDEO: Purple Heart Recipient Killed By Police After 9-1-1 Call for Medical Emergency

Investigators are piecing together the events that led up to a Tooele County deputy shooting and killing a US Army sergeant.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk

Police say the officer was wearing a body camera but had not turned it on because he/she did not expect the situation to turn fatal. The call came in as medical emergency.

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VIDEO: Innocent Americans Are Being Jailed Because They’re Too Poor To Pay Rising Court Costs

Cities across the country are increasingly turning to what are known as private probation companies to collect unpaid fines. But are indigent people ending up in jail because they can’t afford to pay?

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Rural Counties Plight

Cities across the country are increasingly turning to what are known as private probation companies to collect unpaid fines. But are indigent people ending up in jail because they can't afford to pay? Since NewsHour Weekend's first story on this issue aired last spring, the Childersburg Municipal Court issued a “standing order” stating that “In no

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