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Archives for February 2015

UN Says Conflicts In Darfur Displace 41,000 In Two Months

Some 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Darfur, and the region is home to more than two million internally displaced persons, according to the UN.

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar

A Sudanese family takes shelter under their donkey cart at the Kalma refugee camp for internally displaced people, south of the Darfur town of Nyala, Sudan.  (AP/UNAMID) Fighting between Sudanese government forces and rebels in parts of Darfur has displaced more than 41,000 people from their homes since late December, the UN said on

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Google Joins Civil Liberties Groups To Oppose Expansion Of FBI Spy Powers

‘Government is seeking a troubling expansion of its power to surreptitiously hack into computers.’

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

A Google data center in Hamina, Finland. The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world.  (AP/Google) Internet giant Google and the American Civil Liberties Union are among the various groups who have objected to a rule change by the U.S.

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Cops Cleared After Shooting Unarmed Man In the Back of the Head At Traffic Stop

The Philadelphia police are also not releasing the names of the officers involved, nor specifying which officer fired the fatal shot to the back of Tate-Brown’s head.

Reagan Ali | Counter Current News
By Reagan Ali | Counter Current News
Brandon-Tate-Brown

Last December, two Philadelphia police officers shot and killed an unarmed man during what had been a routine traffic stop. The shooting death of Brandon Tate-Brown, 26, happened after the young man was pulled over for driving with his headlights off, according to the Daily News. The Philadelphia police officers say that Tate-Brown resisted

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Alberta Tar Sands Pollution Suspected In Rare Cancer Cases

As President Obama decides whether to veto the Keystone XL pipeline, evidence of disease in people and fish is found at its proposed source.

Daniel Grossman
By Daniel Grossman
Mining trucks carry loads of oil laden sand after being loaded by huge shovels at the Albian Sands oils sands project in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada. (AP/Jeff McIntosh)

FORT CHIPEWYAN, Canada — In 2006, Canadian doctor John O’Connor made a startling realization. Specialists had diagnosed three of his patients in the northern Alberta village of Fort Chipewyan with cholangiocarcinoma — a deadly cancer of the bile duct. The same cancer had killed his own father years earlier in Ireland. Only about one in 100,000

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Obama: US At War With Those Who Have Perverted Islam

“Just as leaders like myself reject the notion that terrorists like ISIL genuinely represent Islam, Muslim leaders need to do more to discredit the notion that our nations are determined to suppress Islam,” Obama said.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Barack Obama

President Barack Obama pauses as he turns to walk from the stage after speaking in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House Complex in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, during the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their

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Turkey Actively Assisting Rebels In Fight Against Syria

Turkey has now involved itself in the battle raging in Aleppo’s northern countryside.

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar

Aleppo — Upon seizing control of the towns of Bashkoy, Ratyan and Hardetneen in Aleppo’s northern countryside, the Syrian army retreated in Ratyan. Government sources say that this retreat came in response to opposition groups mobilizing forces from the Aleppo countryside and, indeed, from within Turkish territory. The army began to reinforce its

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