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Archives for February 2015

Mounting Evidence Shows US Does Not Want ISIS Defeated

The West cannot pretend to want to defeat ISIS when they refuse to coordinate with or support the only indigenous group making substantial gains against the radicals.

Justin King
By Justin King
ISIS fighters parade through the streets of their de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria

(ANTIMEDIA) Mosul, Iraq – Whether through nefarious planning or just plain incompetence, it seems as though the Western powers have no interest in a defeated Islamic State. The battle in Iraq caused by years of failed foreign policy rages, and the West seems to only be concerned with public relations activities. The Kurds are literally begging

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Russia And US Spar Over Global Influence At UN Meeting

The Russian minister implicitly accused the U.S. of using “unsavory methods” such as mass pressure on sovereign states to promote Washington’s agenda, and promoting regime change.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
John Kerry, Sergey Lavrov

Secretary of State John Kerry talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the start of their bilateral meeting at the 51st Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich,  Germany, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. UNITED NATIONS — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov implicitly accused the United States on Monday of violating U.N. principles

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Israeli Settlement Building Up 40% In 2014: Watchdog

More than 600,000 Israeli settlers, soaring from 189,000 in 1989, live in settlements across the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar
Israel Palestinians

A Palestinian laborer works at a construction site in the Jewish only West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem. The number of homes under construction in illegal Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank rose last year by 40 percent, the Peace Now anti-settlement watchdog said Monday. The Israeli group said the

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Israeli Claims About Iran Nuclear Program Denied By Own Spy Agency

Leaked internal assessment, obtained by Al Jazeera and the Guardian, contradicts Netanyahu’s claim in 2012 that Iran was within a year of possessing an atom bomb

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare
Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel shows an illustration as he describes his concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions during his address to the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. Israel's Mossad spy agency in October 2012 had a less alarmist view of Iran's nuclear program than an assessment delivered by

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Efforts To Speed Up A Guantanamo Detainee Trial May Actually Slow It Down

Abd al-Rahim Al-Nashiri is one of five high-level detainees identified as having been subject to torture like waterboarding and rectal feeding.

Tyler Pager
By Tyler Pager
Guantanamo

A morning sunrise at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. A Republican-led Senate panel on Feb. 12, 2015, narrowly approved legislation that would bar most transfers of terror suspects from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a major roadblock in President Barack Obamaís push to close the detention center. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE,

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A Primer On The Latest Massive Spy Leak

Secret documents, leaked from numerous intelligence agencies, offer rare insights into the interactions between spies.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
CIA LEAKS

In what is being called the “largest intelligence leak since Snowden,” media outlets al-Jazeera and The Guardian have obtained hundreds of confidential spy cables leaked out of the South African SSA. The cables detail SSA correspondence with the CIA, Britain’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, and other nations. The following are the stories that have been

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