Archives for August 2016

Obama’s War On ISIS Sets Dangerous Precedent For Next President’s Pursuit Of Wars

The current war on ISIS depends on a decade-old congressional authorization for attacks on al-Qaida in Iraq, yet al-Qaida and ISIS are enemies fighting against each other in Syria.

President Barack Obama salutes as he walks down the stairs from Air Force One upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Aug. 23, 2016.

WASHINGTON --- An active-duty U.S. Army captain is suing the Obama administration for waging what he argues is an illegal war in the Middle East, and the government is urging the court to reject the case without even hearing it. Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, the president of the United States has 60 days to get the approval of Congress

Students Protest After Arizona School Bans Black Lives Matter Shirts But Allow Confederate Flag

Only after complaints of a double standard did the administration announce that confederate flag clothing would no longer be accepted on school grounds.

Mariah Havard snaps a photo of the t-shirt that she was later forced to remove by schoold officials (Photo: Mariah Havard/Facebook)

Led by Mariah Havard, the Arizona high school student made to take off her Black Lives Matter T-shirt last week by school authorities, about a dozen students staged a walkout and rally against the administration Monday morning. Chanting "We're fired up, can't take it no more!" the protesters walked off Buckeye Union High School grounds to

Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News Facing Prosecution For Falsifying Terror Report

Three men involved with the Sky News report have been arrested and detained for their participation in the report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjueUbCmwn4 Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay is a prominent multi-award winning journalist, also receiving BAFTA and Emmy nominations for his reporting on the Taliban. Ramsay’s undercover investigation, under Sky News sponsorship, exposed shocking deals with ISIS terrorists and arms trading in Europe.

Bing Users Change Translation Of ‘Daesh’ To Saudi Arabia, Enraging The Kingdom

Over 1,000 Bing users suggested the translation, causing it to be automatically adopted as the official Bing translation.

A poster made by Saudi Twitter users calling for a boycott of the Bing search engine. | Photo: Twitter / @waled_alshmmri

Bing search engine and its parent U.S.-based company Microsoft are coming under fire from users in Saudi Arabia after it was shown that Bing translated "Daesh," the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, to "Saudi Arabia." Angry Saudis took to Twitter using an Arabic hashtag that translates to “Microsoft Insults Saudi' where many were

Colin Kaepernick’s Black Lives Protest Met With Nationalistic Outrage

Militant nationalism, spurred at least in part by right wing populism, has become part and parcel of American consciousness.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, left, greets Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers at the end of an NFL preseason football game Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, in Santa Clara, Calif.

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. American nationalism is arguably a breed all its own. It’s a kind of patriotic obsession that manages to force a thread of shame into its adherents so that, should they ever veer too far from its path, the crushing guilt will overwhelm them enough to bring them back. Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for

“The Americans Give Us Nothing”: France Effectively Kills TTIP

In Europe, politicians in the bloc’s biggest economic powers, France and Germany, find themselves under fire for supporting negotiations with the U.S.

A man on stilts and dressed like the Statue of Liberty holds a banner with the slogan Stop TTIP during a protest of thousands of demonstrators against the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, ahead of the visit of United States President Barack Obama in Hannover, Germany, Saturday, April 23, 2016.

Just two days after Germany's outspoken vice chancellor (who has over the past 48 hours slammed not just Merkel's refugee policy but also Brexit negotiation demands), announced that Obama's transatlantic trade treaty, the TTIP, is dead, saying negotiations have failed because "we Europeans did not want to subject ourselves to American demands",