…He reportedly left a can of soda as an “offering” before leaving. Local fishermen from Kurma Dera beach on South Andaman Island spotted him using a video camera to capture footage of his visit, presumably to post…
Afghanistan’s government signed a peace agreement Sept. 22 with Hezb-e-Islami, the militant group of Islamist warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Representatives of the movement and Afghan officials signed the accord in a ceremony broadcast…
…the capitalist system pre-dates the emergence of Zionism by some 300 years.) Are the usual idiots going to also claim that this is legitimate “criticism of Israel”? See our last…
We aren’t sure how much method to place in Donald Trump’s madness. Right on the heels of the outrage over his diplomatically incorrect telephone conversation with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen comes word…
The evacuation of rebel fighters and civilians from eastern Aleppo has begun, with a truce in the stricken city said to be holding. More than 3,000 were bussed out on…
Last month, some 30,000 followers of the Ahmadiyya Muslim movement gathered in London for their annual conference, dubbed the Jalsa Salana, and held a march repudiating ISIS and extemism. It is telling…
A film celebrating the White Helmets, the volunteer rescue group that operates in rebel-held parts of Syria, won an Oscar for best short documentary. The eponymously titled White Helmets, a…
…minarets were burned down and blown up, only to find them banned in supposedly tolerant Switzerland where they sought refuge. And the idiot left in the West continues to deny…
Bill Weinberg continues his crusade against the post-truth plague, this time calling out Ben Swann of the ironically named “Reality Check” vlog for spewing lies and propaganda on behalf of…
President Trump said Jan. 25 that he “will absolutely do safe zones in Syria” for those displaced by violence, and a leaked draft of his impending executive order apparently directs…
The latest fodder for “anti-war” propaganda—avidly jumped on, of course, by such predictable outlets as the (reliably reactionary) Counterpunch and (poorly named) Global Research—is the report of the British parliament’s Foreign Affairs…
This is about as sick as it gets. US air-strikes in Syria’s Deir al-Zour governorate, aimed at ISIS positions, accidentally wiped out 62 Assad regime troops. The White House immediately issued…
