17 Years After 9/11, US Counts Al Qaeda Among Allies in Syria, Yemen

The U.S.’ willingness to treat Al Nusra as an ally in Syria seems set to continue, given the Trump administration’s ultimate goal of targeting Iran’s influence in Syria as well as its newly “redefined” goal of regime change in Damascus.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
9/11

WASHINGTON – Less than two decades after the attacks of September 11, the U.S. government has now effectively allied with the Al Qaeda terrorist group it has long blamed for planning and executing those attacks, which still remain the worst terror attacks to have ever taken place on U.S. soil.   Despite the U.S. having launched the war in

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US Government Program Forced Sterilization Of Hispanic Women

New details have emerged about a sinister program in California to perform state-sanctioned forced sterilization of Hispanic women without their consent over six decades.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News

A documentary titled No Más Bebés has compiled evidence and stories of women having hysterectomies without consent following a birth, to “control the population” of Latinas in the state. Many women state that they were told that they had received the procedure, but not until after it had been performed. “The doctor walked in and said, ‘we cut your

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Optimism Suffers Setback In Myanmar But Believers In Democracy Press On

“The generals are expert at delay. For 24 years they promised to move toward democracy…We cannot allow them to stall now. Without pressure, they will. “

Susanne Dumbleton
By Susanne Dumbleton

CHICAGO — For the past 18 months, the US Government and the American people have been buoyed by optimism about Myanmar. And, as a scholar of social justice leadership and the work of Aung San Suu Kyi, the beloved voice of Burma’s freedom movement, so have I. The other week, that changed. But I still see hope, somehow. Hope against odds has

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The US Is Sneezing Like Crazy. Will The World Catch A Cold?

Analysis: John Kerry says the government shutdown is ‘an example of the robustness of our democracy.’ The world may not be buying it.

Jean MacKenzie
By Jean MacKenzie

BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. — It’s not every day that Chile gets to wag its finger at the United States. Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali this week, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera sounded like an irate parent when he said Washington had to confront its fiscal problems "in a better way than they are doing it now

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Pakistani Court Rules CIA Drone Strikes Are Illegal

A Pakistani judge ruled that U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan constitute a ‘war crime’ and are a ‘blatant violation of basic human rights.’

Alice K Ross
By Alice K Ross

In the first major Pakistani court ruling on the legality of the CIA’s drone campaign in the country, a Peshawar High Court judge said this morning that strikes are ‘criminal offences.' Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan ordered Pakistan’s government to ‘use force if need be’ to end drone attacks in the country’s tribal regions. He ruled that U.S.

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