Abby Martin takes a look at two recent investigative reports from the Associated Press and New York Times, uncovering the recruitment of Nazi spies for the CIA and the US’ policy of giving social security payments to former Nazi leadership.
‘Western countries are creating mass panic which is unhelpful in containing a contagious disease like Ebola,’ Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said.
The US military has started isolating soldiers returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa and Australia became the first rich nation to impose a visa ban on the affected countries amid global anxiety about the spread of the virus. The latest measures, along with decisions by some US states to impose mandatory quarantines on health
Gaza’s health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an that a 27-year-old man was seriously injured after being shot in the thigh in Beit Lahiya.
Reports: Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man on the beach in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medical sources said. Gaza's health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma'an that a 27-year-old man was seriously injured after being shot in the thigh in Beit Lahiya. The man, identified only by his initials "S.Gh." was
Since 2008, child poverty has increased in a majority of the 41 most affluent nations, UNICEF report finds.
Children remain "the most enduring victims" of the recession in the world's wealthiest nations, where 2.6 million children have fallen below the poverty line since 2008, a new report from UNICEF reveals. The annual study, Children of the Recession: The impact of the economic crisis on child well-being in rich countries, was released Tuesday in
Local fuel and food prices are soaring as US targets infrastructure.
The US war on ISIS in Syria, when it hasn’t centered on the offensive near Kobani, has mostly been a war on oil. Airstrikes have pounded oil wells and refineries across ISIS territory, which is also the primary oil-producing part of Syria. It’s being couched as an effort to cut off ISIS funding, but the oil wells and other infrastructure being
“Chickenshit”: Public Feud Erupts Between Named (and Unnamed) US-Israeli Officials.
Reporting by The Atlantic's Jeffery Goldberg published late Tuesday, in which he offers anonymity to a "senior Obama administration official" who called Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "a chickenshit," has set off a public relations firestorm in both Tel Aviv and Washington, DC. Goldberg reports that U.S.-Israel relations are in tatters
