Media accounts portray Tarek Mehanna as a dangerous conspirator—but he never actually received “terrorist training” in Yemen, and the texts he apparently translated were al-Qaeda propaganda videos.
Ron Paul wants to privatize the national parks, abolish the EPA and open up virtually all offshore waters to BP and Exxon. Why are so-called “progressives” continuing to shill for this shill of Big Oil and the resource industries?
Even as the White House censures Venezuelan officials for “narco-terrorist” ties, the Hugo Chávez government handed a top Colombian drug trafficking suspect, Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco AKA “Valenciano,” over to US authorities.
Despite White House and media crowing about the “end of the war” in Iraq, in fact war continues throughout the country. The day of the US “withdrawal” saw deadly car bombings and oil pipeline blasts that shut production in Basra.
If this joker ever gets into the White House, he’ll be bringing troops back from Afghanistan, all right—to wage a race war in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Houston. Do not fall for this fascistic demagogue.
Media accounts widely differ on an offer apparently being extended by Seychelles for naval forces of the People’s Republic of China to have access to the African island nation to police the region against pirates operating out of Somalia.
Three inmates at Corcoran state prison’s supermax Secure Housing Unit who participated in this year’s California prisoner hunger strike issued a statement proposing “10 core demands” for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Reports in the North African press indicate that the US and France have jointly established a secret drone base in the Libyan desert, to seek out Saharan arms trafficking networks of al-Qeada in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the good ol’ Soviet-era KGB, applies pressure on Facebook and the VKontakte social networking site in a bid to snuff post-electoral protests against Vladimir Putin’s continued rule.
Conserva-bloggers are making much of a statement by ILWU president Robert McEllrath disavowing Occupy Wall Street’s call for a general strike to shut down the West Coast ports on Monday. But the statement is not the ILWU website.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company released a study finding that melted fuel at the Fukushima No. 1 reactor has nearly reached the steel wall under the concrete at the base of the containment structure—with a full meltdown possibly imminent.
A Burmese court sentenced prominent Rakhine ethnic leader Aye Maung to 20 years in prison for treason and defamation stemming from a January 2018 speech made one day before deadly riots broke out in Mrauk-U township. Maung, a member of parliament and former chairman of the Arakan National Party, was arrested along with writer Wai Hin Aung days after giving "inflammatory" speeches. Maung is said to have accused the ethnic Bamar-dominated ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) government of treating the ethnic Rakhine people (also known as the Arakan) like "slaves." Seven people were killed the evening after the speeches, when Rakhine protestors seized a government building and police opened fire. Maung’s lawyers are unsure if he will appeal at this time, as a new trial in the case could result in a death sentence. (Photo via Myanmar Times)
