Syria: The Armed Gangs Controversy
By Joshua Landis Syria’s army June 2011 crackdown on “armed gangs” in the flashpoint town of Jisr al-Shughur, where 120 police and troops were massacred. Widely read in Western government circles, U.S. Middle East expert Joshua Landis scrutinizes the role of armed groups in the escalating violence in Syria. While the mainstream media automatically echo [...]
Read More →Government raids, terrorizes Christian health ministry for not complying with unlawful demands
Ethan A. Huff Natural News Speaking the truth about the curative properties of natural foods and herbs is considered illegal by the U.S. government. The “land of the free” simply does not tolerate freedom of health speech that goes against the group think of mainstream medicine, and millions of tax dollars are spent every year [...]
Read More →UK Riots: Government Prepares Troops, Martial Law
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars Following numerous reports of failures on behalf of police to arrest looters or adequately respond to the riots in London that are now sweeping across the entire UK, curfews and troops on the streets are now being readied as authorities prepare to enforce martial law to quell massive civil unrest. BBC [...]
Read More →The U.N. and Double Standards
Joseph Klein Front Page Magazine After more than four months of silence regarding the ongoing civilian massacres in Syria that have taken at least 1600 lives, the United Nations Security Council finally issued an insipid “Presidential Statement” last week condemning “the widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the [...]
Read More →US markets rebound slightly
Russia Today The US stock indices have risen slightly on Tuesday, but it by no means looks like a full recovery from Monday’s nosedive. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans are all frustration and anger over their troubled economy. The Nasdaq rose by three per cent and the Dow industrials were up two per cent Tuesday morning, showing [...]
Read More →Markets Volatile Amid Aftershock From U.S. Downgrade
RFERL Stock markets around the world have continued to experience volatile trading following massive sell-offs prompted by concerns over the debt crises in the United States and Europe. U.S. stocks opened up on August 9, with the Dow and S&P 500 index climbing 1.2 percent and the Nasdaq 1.5 percent in the opening minutes. The [...]
Read More →Texas Rep. tells crowd Obama impeachment ‘needs to happen,’ but fails to say why
Raw Story A Republican congressman from Texas recently told a gathering of tea party supporters that the impeachment of President Barack Obama “needs to happen,” but when queried as to why, he could not say. The comment comes from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), a women’s doctor who took office in 2003, stepping into the seat [...]
Read More →X7-class solar flare
Spaceweather.com This morning at 0805 UT, sunspot 1263 produced a powerful X7-class solar flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the explosion’s extreme ultraviolet flash. The brunt of the explosion was not Earth directed. Nevertheless, a minor proton storm is in progress around our planet, which could affect satellites in high-altitude orbits. Also, radiation from flare [...]
Read More →Cameron vows action to halt London riots
Al Jazeera David Cameron, the British prime minister, has pledged to “do everything necessary” to tackle a wave of rioting in London and other cities following three nights of violence on the streets of the capital. Cameron chaired a meeting of the high-level COBRA crisis committee on Tuesday morning and said afterwards he would recall [...]
Read More →Moonless Earth Could Potentially Still Support Life, Study Finds
Space.com Scientists have long believed that, without our moon, the tilt of the Earth would shift greatly over time, from zero degrees, where the Sun remains over the equator, to 85 degrees, where the Sun shines almost directly above one of the poles. A planet’s stability has an effect on the development of life. A [...]
Read More →New Orleans police found guilty in post-Katrina killings
By Naomi Spencer World Socialist Web Site On Friday, a jury found five current and former New Orleans police officers guilty of shooting six innocent residents and then covering it up in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The officers were convicted in federal court of 25 separate civil rights violations. The victims were gunned down [...]
Read More →Italy prepares new cuts after stock market panic
By Mark Wells World Socialist Web Site The Italian government is preparing further social austerity measures in response to the Thursday stock market crash and demands from investors for more anti-worker cuts. The third-largest economy in the European Union, Italy is mired in debt (currently at 120 percent of the country’s GDP), economic stagnation, and [...]
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