Kenya’s National Disaster Operation Center says the government’s operation against al-Shabab militants on a university campus in Garissa is over. It says that 147 people were killed, along with four militants. The center added that 587 students had been evacuated… Read More ›
By Rmuse; It is certain that since Americans elected an African American man as President, much of the world is aware that Republicans have deliberately and with malice aforethought acted to wipe out America’s government in one form or another;… Read More ›
The scandal over the Netanyahu speech to Congress is in the end a story about the Jewish condition in the United States. Netanyahu is coming here to tell the Congress to torpedo the efforts of the U.S. president to cut… Read More ›
The groundbreaking memoir of a current Guantánamo inmate that lays bare the harrowing details of the US rendition and torture programme from the perspective of one of its victims is to be published next week after a six-year battle for… Read More ›
As media coverage focused on the Paris terror attacks last week, more than 2000 Nigerians were reported to have been killed by Islamist militants. What makes one massacre more newsworthy than another? France spent the weekend coming to terms with… Read More ›
Circumstances of battle have changed in favour of Iraqi troops since June, local security officials say. Baghdad – Iraqi security forces backed by Shia militias, Kurdish forces and Sunni Muslim tribesmen will drive the Islamic State of Iraq and the… Read More ›
Ayaz Gul and Hameedullah Khan contributed reporting from Pakistan for Voice of America The first funerals are being held for the victims of a Taliban school massacre in Pakistan on Tuesday that left at least 141 people dead, most of… Read More ›
By skywriter and wouldn’t let go until a short time ago. Anonymous had been in control of the Klan’s main Twitter account @KuKluxKlanUSA since 9 this morning, posting its own pictures on the racists’ account and using the hashtags, #OpKKK #Ferguson… Read More ›
If Republicans win the Senate, expect a ferocious tactical clash between Cruz and the actual leader Mitch McConnell “Ted Cruz’s big (awful) plans: Why a clash is coming if GOP wins majority” by Jim Newell in Salon No one’s more… Read More ›
On Being – Scott Atran — Hopes and Dreams in a World of Fear This is a 51 minute audio interview from Krista Tippett’s radio show on Public Radio. It was recorded before the rise of ISIS. I woke up… Read More ›
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