Category Americas
Anna Lazowski // One photograph shaped how everyone saw the Oka Crisis | CBC Radio
One particular photograph captured the moment that went on to represent the entire siege at Kanesatake. Freelance photographer Shaney Komulainen was the woman behind the lens of that iconic image. Source: One photograph shaped how everyone saw the Oka Crisis | CBC Radio
#HurricaneIrma / #HAARP / #GlobalWarming / #ConspiracyTheory / #USA / #FarRight / #Misinformation
No, Dumbasses, the Government Didn’t Cause Hurricane Irma With Its Secret Weather Machine – // David Axe – 09.12.17 1:00 AM ET // The website promoted a Sept. 9 story by YourNewsWire.com that seems to be a major accelerant of the current round of HAARP conspiracy theories. The YourNewWire story falsely claimed that physicist Dr. […]
#Minnesota residents waiting for Trump to address mosque attack | TheHill
“He is the president of this country, and this happened to us. He has to come here and at least express his feelings and say this is bad,” Mohamed Omar told the news outlet.The attack, which took place on Saturday, did not leave any individuals injured, but reportedly damaged one room. Gov. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) […]
Utah Department of Corrections releases Technical Manual for their execution process
The list of witnesses to the execution must be completed a minimum of two weeks before the date of execution, and carries strict rules: the condemned may only choose five family members, friends, or religious figures to be there at the moment of death, and witnesses have to sign forms in order to view […]
#MAGA means #MakingArroganceGreatAgain…
Trump’s Tax Plan to Slash Tax Rate for Companies, Including His Real Estate Empire | Democracy Now! – President Trump is slated to announce his tax plan today. The plan proposes to slash the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to a mere 15 percent. The plan would also grant the 15 percent tax rate […]
4th World Radyo: Overstanding a Manufactured Hysteria: Or, Why Witnessing Afro-Revisionists Sip Nazi Kool-Aid is Ideologically Painful
Summary: This spoken word dispatch features FWR host @TheAngryindian addressing the prevalence of nonsensical conspiracy theories circulating within the American Afro-Urban community due to the dissemination of false information spread by misinformed, Afrocentrist extremists who routinely (and ignorantly) pluck their ‘research notes’ from the very same pro-European propaganda machine they habitually criticise. Unwittingly, many Black […]
Assessment of White House Intelligence Report About Nerve Agent Attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria | Global Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
In fact, a main piece of evidence that is cited in the document points to an attack that was executed by individuals on the ground, not from an aircraft, on the morning of April 4. This conclusion is based on an assumption made by the White House when it cited the source of the sarin […]
yonhapnews.co.kr: U.S. Navy SEALs to take part in joint drills in S. Korea
U.S. Navy SEALs to take part in joint drills in S. Korea – yonhapnews.co.kr – The U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six will join the annual Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises between the two allies for the first time, along with the Army’s Rangers, Delta Force and Green Berets. “A bigger number of and more […]
Pentagon wants to declare more parts of world as temporary battlefields | US news | The Guardian
The proposal would in effect unravel a highly controversial bureaucratic structure for launching lethal assaults, such as drone strikes and counter-terrorism raids, set up by Barack Obama’s White House. Under Obama’s structure, known as the Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG), the president and his counter-terrorism adviser at the National Security Council played a substantial role in […]
Is ‘This’ Making Us ‘Safer’??
After cracking the US military, HackerOne gets $40 million in funding – The Verge – Today HackerOne announced a Series C financing round of $40 million, which was led by Dragoneer Investment Group. The company will use the funds “to invest further in technology development, expand market reach, and continue to strengthen the world’s largest […]
Article: Should an Innocent Person Be Forced to Pay for Their Arrest? | OpEdNews
Article: Should an Innocent Person Be Forced to Pay for Their Arrest? | OpEdNews – Donald Trump takes office in two short weeks. As I’ve written previously, I don’t expect much in the way of prison reform or sentencing reform. Indeed, I’ve urged readers to take to the courts for redress because we obviously won’t […]
Trump’s appointment of several billionaires to cabinet raises questions – Xinhua | English.news.cn
Trump’s appointment of several billionaires to cabinet raises questions – Xinhua | English.news.cn – As the brash businessman prepares to take office, he is busy putting together a cabinet that includes a few billionaires, including now former Exxon CEO and incoming secretary of state Rex Tillerson. “I think there is some legitimate criticism about billionaires […]
Arson suspected in latest Dakota Access pipeline fire — Warrior Publications
Associated Press, October 17, 2016 REASNOR, Iowa Authorities suspect arson in the latest burning of heavy equipment being used in the construction of the four-state Dakota Access pipeline in central Iowa. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office says the blaze late Saturday near Reasnor, Iowa, caused about $2 million damage to an excavator and three bulldozers. […] […]
Obama Should Cancel Trump’s Intelligence Briefings | Foreign Policy
It is worth asking why the intelligence community bothers at all with briefing candidates during the election. Candidates are usually pretty busy, what with trying to win an election to the country’s most powerful office. Given the challenge of scheduling a briefing in between campaign stops, often the first meeting won’t happen until well into […]
The Dark Prison: Legacy of the CIA Torture Programme – Al Jazeera English
While the CIA has long admitted the use of waterboarding, which simulates drowning by pouring water into a person’s nose and mouth, a truncated and heavily redacted report by the Senate Intelligence Committee in December 2015 detailed other abuses that went beyond previous disclosures. Reading like a script from a horror film, some of the […]
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