By Ron Paul Courtesy “Information Clearing House“ September 21, 2016  – “RPI” – Last week’s announcement of a record-breaking US aid package for Israel underscores how dangerously foolish and out-of-touch is our interventionist foreign policy. Over the next ten years, the US taxpayer will be forced to give Israel some $38 billion dollars in military aid. It […]

By Pepe Escobar Jonathan Cook is a Nazareth- based journalist and winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism – See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-09-19/palestinians-lose-in-us-military-aid-deal-with-israel/#sthash.H1NbQCac.dpuf September 21, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “RT” – You may have never heard of LEMOA. In Global South terms, LEMOA (Logistics Exchange Memorandum Agreement) is quite a big thing, […]

BY RAYAN NAQASH AND IPSITA CHAKRAVARTY| Courtesy Kashmir Observer Apart from causing anxiety and depression, the enforced lockdown has made people angrier, say residents. AUGUST 10, 2016, 05:08 PM On July 8, Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter with security forces in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, bringing a new regime of curfews to […]

By Dominic Ponsford  Courtesy BBC world service A BBC World Service journalist who claims he was sacked for favouring coverage about the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils has won an appeal and successfully argued that he was unfairly dismissed. Chandana Bandara lost his job on 15 August 2014 after he declined to put a story out […]

Deborah Haynes, Defence Editor | Francis Elliott, Political Editor Courtesy  The Times (UK) Damning inquiry into Libya points finger at former PM ● Failed intervention helped terror group grow in Africa An opportunistic” David Cameron led a botched intervention in Libya that caused the rise of Islamic State in north Africa, a parliamentary inquiry has concluded. The former prime minister was ultimately […]

By Alistair Bunkall, Defence Correspondent Courtesy Sky News MPs say the former prime minister’s intervention helped fuel instability and enabled increased terrorism across the Middle East. The 2011 campaign to overthrow the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has been described as “ill-conceived” and “founded on erroneous assumptions”. A highly critical report, published by the Foreign Affairs Select […]

RT acebook post commemorating the victims of the 9/11 attacks, Hollande criticized the way the administration of then President George W. Bush responded to the tragedy. “The response that the American administration gave to these attacks… far from eradicating the threat, expanded it over a wider area. Namely to Iraq,” the French leader wrote, as […]

BY SÖNKE IWERSEN HANDELSBLATT EXCLUSIVE Courtesy Handelsblatt Global Edition From a hotel in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden shocked the world in 2013 by disclosing the extent of U.S. intelligence spying. Then he vanished ore flebefeing to Moscow. Handelsblatt found the people who hid Snowden — refugees with nothing, and everything to lose. read Six refugees who sheltered NSA […]

US News ” Mr. Trump’s attack on Tuesday on Ms. Clinton and her policy in West Asia as Secretary of State was equally an assault on George W. Bush, the last Republican President who triggered the turmoil in the region with his ‘regime change’ policies. Mr. Bush has not endorsed Mr. Trump. Hillary Clinton favours […]

Courtesy aljazeera.com Many booed and shouted “No Kofi-led commission” as his convoy left the state capital airport, holding signs reading “No to foreigners’ biased intervention in our Rakhine State’s affairs”. Kofi Annan arrives to investigate communal conflict pitting ethnic Rakhine Buddhists against Rohingya Muslim minority. Kofi Annan, the former UN chief, has been given a hostile […]

Posted by Yashaswani Sehrawat Courtesy India Today  The World Health Organization on Monday certified Sri Lanka as a malaria-free nation, in what it called a “truly remarkable” achievement. New Poll Suggests Americans Want Third Party Candidates at Debates According to a new public opinion poll, voters want to see other parties represented in the upcoming presidential […]

Courtesy RT Published time: 5 Sep, 2016 11:12 Get short URL The constituency office of Labour Party MP and chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz in Leicester, Britain, September 4, 2016. © Darren Staples / Reuters Labour MP Keith Vaz will relinquish his post as chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee following […]

Courtesy:  The Hindu MHA says it will relook at FCRA ban case on Compassion International Raising the pressure on the government on the issue of NGOs, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry voiced concerns over the treatment of American NGO Compassion International at the strategic and commercial dialogue held here this week, Indian and American […]

Hafeel Farisz and Nabeela Hussain Courtesy The Daily Mirror Visiting United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon while evading the issue of a presumption of ‘War Crimes’ being committed in Sri Lanka, instead said the United Nations failed in its duty particularly during the last stages of the conflict”. Answering questions posed to him by the Daily […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island  September 2, 2016, 9:24 pm UNSG Ban Ki-moon has concluded what his office may describe as a successful tour of Sri Lanka. He squeezed as many meetings as possible into his tight schedule and whether he was able to ascertain anything substantive from his powwows is anybody’s guess. He is sure to […]

UK News Some interesting news about the JFK assassination…only a handful of people will know what really happened and all other witnesses have been got rid of in what can only be called a classic cover up. Then they propagate many theories so that no one is able to work out what actually happened. This […]

That which is freedom” to a liberal, is offensive to a more conservative state of mind. They are two irreconcilable world views. I don’t believe there is a right or wrong, but there are as many opinions on this subject as there are people in the world. However, it is true that many Russians hold […]

By Afshain Afzal The United Nations’ International Day of the World’s Indigenous People is observed on 9th August each year to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. This year’s theme is Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Education”.  The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples covers right of education of […]

Ranjith Soysa Hon Dy Prime Minister Hon At General Hon Minsters We wish bring to your notice a glaring error in the document below which will be used by the Australians. There is no country called Tamil Eelam whereas the Tamil Tigers , a banned organization under the UN was fighting a war to create […]

For many years the words international banker, Rothschild, Money and Gold have held a mystical type of fascination for many people around the world but particularly in the United States. Over the years in the United States, the international bankers have come in for a great deal of criticism by a wide variety of individuals […]

Neil Clark RT The ICTY’s exoneration of the late Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia, for war crimes committed in the Bosnia war, proves again we should take NATO claims regarding its ’official enemies’ not with a pinch of salt, but a huge lorry load. For the past twenty odd years, neocon commentators and […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Nobel peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus arrives in Brazil as he was honored as an Olympic torchbearer for the Rio Olympic  Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach. The first & only Bangladeshi Nobel laureate was chosen to join the mission of spreading the spirit of Rio 2016 […]

RT If Muslims in France don’t help the country to battle extremists and those who threaten the Republic, it will be “increasingly hard” for Paris to guarantee freedom of Islam, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said. “Through its history and its geography… and through its immigration, France maintains very strong ties with Islam,” Valls wrote […]

Courtesy Middle East eye At least 10,000 Indian workers in Saudi Arabia have gone without food for several days after being laid off and not being paid their salaries. New Delhi was working on Sunday to feed more than 10,000 Indian labourers stranded in the Gulf with no wages after losing their jobs, in what […]

Four Corners By Caro Meldrum-Hanna and Elise Worthington Updated Mon at 9:00pm Media player: “Space” to play, “M” to mute, “left” and “right” to seek. VIDEO: LANGUAGE WARNING: Watch the video obtained by Four Corners (ABC News) RELATED STORY: Detention centre probed amid claims teens forced to fight, eat animal poo RELATED STORY: NT detention centre’s […]

By F. William Engdahl Global Research, July 10, 2016The original source of this article is New Eastern Outlook Buried amid tens of thousands of pages of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s secret emails, now being made public by the US Government, is a devastating email exchange between Clinton and her confidential adviser, Sid Blumenthal. […]

by Senaka Weeraratna Courtesy vijayvaani.com The Indian general election scheduled for May 2014 would, if the forecasts are proved to be correct, result in a sea change in India’s relationship with the rest of the world as well as a revolutionary transformation of her economy, industry and education if the changes introduced in Gujarat by Chief Minister […]

RANJITH SOYSA The Canadian Prime Minister issued a statement on Sri Lanka on 18th May 2016 and stated that he had met a number of victims of war in Sri Lanka and he understands the unfortunate and bleak situation they were facing. He said that the Canadian Tamils were an integral part of the Canadians. […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Next journalist Kamala Saikia memorial lecture will be delivered by Itanagar based acclaimed journalist Tongam Rina of Arunachal Times on 9 August  in Jorhat.  The annual lecture, on the occasion of the 25th death anniversary of Saikia-who was killed by Ulfa militants, has been organised by Journalist Kamala Saikia Memorial Trust […]

RT US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Italy was disrupted by a cry of protest at his joint press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, when a woman in the The press conference was coming to an end, when the woman stood up from the public, her head covered up by a […]