The ISIS immolation video reveals a totalitarian cult, but Jordan and other regimes in the anti-ISIS coalition are also despotic—while Syria's pro-democratic forces are betrayed.
Once again, a nuclear scientist is caught on tape agreeing to sell secrets to a foreign government. Except Venezuela wasn't involved at all—the whole things is an FBI scam.
John McCain prompted testimony from a Homeland Security official that ISIS could seek to infiltrate the US through Mexico. The media jumped on it, but there's nothing there.
Instagram was blocked in mainland China in an evident attempt to stop images of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong as street clashes entered their third day.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that ISIS has recruited more than 6,000 new fighters since the US-led air-strikes began.
Putin's political machine convened an "anti-fascist" summit at Yalta in annexed Crimea, attended by Hungary's Jobbik party, the British Nationalist Party and other neo-fascist entities.
Common Dreams website claims to have conducted an investigation revealing that "more than a thousand" anti-Semitic comments posted to the site "were written with deceptive purpose."
In authorizing US air-strikes in northern Iraq, President Obama invoked the responsibility to protect the Yazidis from ISIS and avert a potential "genocide."
Elie Wiesel asks the world to stand with "the people of Israel" in their "struggle for survival"—but only with those in Gaza "who reject terror and embrace peace."
As Obama blames Russian-backed rebels in the downing of the Malaysian flight over Ukraine, Putin blames Kiev—and the people of eastern Ukraine are brutalized by both sides.
The rise of far-right "anti-Europe" parties in the Europarliament elections echoes escalating ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist rhetoric on both sides in the Russo-Ukraine conflict.
While claiming to withdraw troops from Ukriane's borders, Russia conducted military maneuvers that included nuclear missile tests—as NATO sends a special delegation to Kiev.
