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Archives for August 2015

Israeli Settlers Continue Provocative Raids Al-Aqsa Holy Site

Extremist Israeli settlers and politicians have lately been violating the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque on an almost daily basis.

IMEMC News
By IMEMC News
Settlers Continue to Raid Al-Aqsa, 2 Female Students Detained

Israeli police took into custody, early on Wednesday, a photojournalist and two female students from Al-Aqsa Islamic School at Al-Silsila gate. Police deployed forces in the early morning hours, in the vicinity of the mosque, erected military checkpoints and barred all women and Islamic school students from entering the mosque for the third

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The Transatlantic Rift: Is US-Euro Relationship Showing Signs Of Strain?

Numerous indications suggesting that the governments and general publics of Europe and the US are diverging and becoming increasing less aligned in their beliefs and actions.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
© Flickr/ akob Huber/ECI Stop TTIP!

The West’s historical role in setting global trends and driving international norms is at threat due to a rift in the relationship between the US and Europe, with the rise of new of new powers like China and Brazil creating a more competitive international environment, researchers have warned. Xenia Wickett, US program director for the think tank

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Stability, Diplomacy, Peace: Scholars Say Benefits Of Iran Deal Go Beyond Nonproliferation

Prominent academics laud deal as ‘strong and positive step towards stabilizing the Middle East’.

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, during official talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, May 30, 2015.

Just one day after people across the United States took to the streets to demonstrate their support for the nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, over 70 prominent international relations scholars took to their pens on Thursday, signing an open statement declaring the pact to be a "strong and positive step towards stabilizing the Middle East,

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Media Blackout: Canada Plans To Dump Nuclear Waste Less Than Mile From US Border

Given the United States’ failure to build its own secure DGR, you would think the State Department would be concerned about its largest fresh water source’s close proximity to one.

(ANTIMEDIA) Over the last few years, the United States has not had the best track record with Deep Geologic Repositories (DGR) for nuclear waste. In February of 2014, the U.S.’ DGR, known as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), had two separate incidents that compromised the integrity of the project by releasing airborne radioactive

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AP Files Suit For FBI’s Refusal To Come Clean On ‘Fake Reporter’ Operations

‘While the public clearly has a strong, compelling interest in knowing more about the FBI’s use of this tactic, the FBI seems determined to withhold that information,’ says lawyer involved with the case.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
FBI Director James Comey is under fire, and now facing a lawsuit, for the agency's impersonation of an AP reporter. "We cannot overstate how damaging it is for federal agents to pose as journalists," said Katie Townsend of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. (Photo: AP File/Evan Vucci)

Following public outrage expressed when it was first discovered last year, the Associated Press took legal action against the Department of Justice on Thursday for the FBI's failure to come clean about details surrounding its decision to  impersonate an AP reporter as part of a covert investigation. Along with the Reporters Committee for Freedom

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Mnar Muhawesh: Nearly 8 Million Muslim Casualties In US-Led War On Terror

MintPress founder and editor in chief, Mnar Muhawesh, joins RT America to discuss the misconceptions about the war on terror and the true costs of war.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
War on Terror Circa 2004

The biggest misconception about the war on terror is that it started in 2003 with the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. But the truth is, that war was just an extension and continuation of US led military operations in those nations from the early 80s and 90s, bringing the actual death toll of Muslims to as high as 8 million. These wars

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