Former Commander Reveals Turkey’s Close Ties with ISIS in Syria

A former ISIS commander nicknamed the “ISIS ambassador to Turkey” has revealed the terror groups expansive liaisons with Turkish Intelligence.

Nafeez Ahmed
By Nafeez Ahmed
Turkey-backed Syrian rebels and Turkish troops secure the Bursayah hill, which separates the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin from the Turkey-controlled town of Azaz, Syria, Jan. 28, 2018. (AP Photo)

In an explosive interview, a former ISIS commander has claimed that the terror group cooperated directly with Turkish state intelligence agencies for years on areas of “common interest”. The source said that senior Turkish government officials had numerous meetings with ISIS representatives to coordinate activities and that this also involved

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MIT Scientist Disputes ‘Evidence’ Of Syria Chemical Weapons Attack

A Quick Turnaround Assessment of the White House Intelligence Report Issued on April 11, 2017.

Theodore Postol
By Theodore Postol
Close up photograph of the crater that has been shown in numerous mainstream media publications that the White House alleges is proof that the source of the nerve agent attack was the Syrian government.

This is a portion of an assessment of the alleged April 4, 2017 chemical weapons attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria by MIT Professor Theodore A. Postol.  The full assessment, published in the Unz Review, can be found here. Dear Larry: I am responding to your distribution of what I understand is a White House statement claiming intelligence findings

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MIT Researcher Warns Of Link Between Monsanto’s Glyphosate And Autism

A senior research scientist from MIT warns that glyphosate could disrupt bacteria in the gut, leading to mental health problems.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
A Sri Lankan agrochemical vendor gives instructions on how to use Glyphosate

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts --- The pesticide glyphosate has come under fire again. However, the concern this time around is not focused on the compound’s potential carcinogenic properties, but the possibility that it may contribute to autism. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup. It’s one Monsanto’s most important products because crops

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Hersh, Higgins and MIT Rocket Scientists Weigh in on Syria Sarin Gas Attack

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, MIT professors and rocket scientists and blogger Elliot Higgins on the sarin gas attack that almost dragged the US into war in Syria.

Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
By Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
Syria Chemical Weapons Feature photo

It’s a story that has been framed many ways: the battle of an old-school journalist against a new media blogger; a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist now on the fringes of the journalistic community; and an American media that has again refused to buck the official White House line. Last week, the London Review of Books published Seymour Hersh’s

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Report Clears MIT In Aaron Swartz Case; Critics Call It A ‘Whitewash’

MIT says an internal review shows the school acted appropriately in the case of Swartz.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke
Aaron Swartz

An internal investigation by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is billed by the school as evidence the school acted appropriately in the case of Aaron Swartz, but supporters of the late freedom-of-information advocate are calling it a “whitewash.” Swartz, 26, committed suicide after federal prosecutors targeted him for downloading academic

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