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Archives for August 2015

Cocaine Production Plummets After DEA Kicked Out Of Bolivia

According to data released by the United Nations, cocaine production in the country declined by 11% in the past year, marking the fourth year in a row of steady decrease.

John Vibes
By John Vibes
Top photo | In this Sept. 25, 2013, photo, a girl plays on a bed of coca leaves, in the village of Trincavini in Peru’s Pichari district. Pichari lies on the banks of the Apurimac river in a valley that the United Nations says yields 56 percent of Peru’s coca leaves, the basis for cocaine. Coca is central to rituals and religion in Andean culture but in recent decades has become more associated with global drug trafficking. (AP/Rodrigo Abd)

After the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was kicked out of Bolivia, the country was able to drastically reduce the amount of coca (cocaine) produced within its borders. According to data released by the United Nations, cocaine production in the country declined by 11% in the past year, marking the fourth year in a row of steady decrease. It

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Cop Who Shot And Killed Six People Now Teaches Other Officers When To Use Their Guns

VirTra’s pain compliance training operates on the theory that officers who hesitate to take action, “effectively training them to shoot first and ask questions later.”

Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News
By Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News
The notorious officer James Peters

Officer James Peters is well known in Scottsdale, Arizona for having shot and killed six people in the course of only ten years on the force. Between 2002 and 2012, Officer Peters was constantly in the news for shooting someone new, each time the shootings being ruled justified. But how could so many cops go their whole careers without shooting

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Zionist Organization Of America And Other Lobbyists Organize Trump, Cruz Anti-Iran Deal Event

The event is sponsored by Tea Party Patriots, the Center for Security Policy and the Zionist Organization of America.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Republican Presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is interrupted by a Code Pink anti-war group member during a demonstration by the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC)

GREENVILLE, S.C.  — GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are expected to headline a Capitol Hill rally against President Obama's proposed nuclear agreement with Iran, both candidates confirmed Thursday. Trump, the Republican front-runner by far, announced the event during a 45-minute speech in South Carolina. Cruz aides said the

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Israeli Settlers Continue Provocative Raids Al-Aqsa Holy Site

Extremist Israeli settlers and politicians have lately been violating the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque on an almost daily basis.

IMEMC News
By IMEMC News
Settlers Continue to Raid Al-Aqsa, 2 Female Students Detained

Israeli police took into custody, early on Wednesday, a photojournalist and two female students from Al-Aqsa Islamic School at Al-Silsila gate. Police deployed forces in the early morning hours, in the vicinity of the mosque, erected military checkpoints and barred all women and Islamic school students from entering the mosque for the third

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The Transatlantic Rift: Is US-Euro Relationship Showing Signs Of Strain?

Numerous indications suggesting that the governments and general publics of Europe and the US are diverging and becoming increasing less aligned in their beliefs and actions.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
© Flickr/ akob Huber/ECI Stop TTIP!

The West’s historical role in setting global trends and driving international norms is at threat due to a rift in the relationship between the US and Europe, with the rise of new of new powers like China and Brazil creating a more competitive international environment, researchers have warned. Xenia Wickett, US program director for the think tank

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Stability, Diplomacy, Peace: Scholars Say Benefits Of Iran Deal Go Beyond Nonproliferation

Prominent academics laud deal as ‘strong and positive step towards stabilizing the Middle East’.

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, during official talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, May 30, 2015.

Just one day after people across the United States took to the streets to demonstrate their support for the nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, over 70 prominent international relations scholars took to their pens on Thursday, signing an open statement declaring the pact to be a "strong and positive step towards stabilizing the Middle East,

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