By Anne Look It has been two weeks since the Nigerian military announced that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau died in Cameroon in early August following injuries sustained in battle. However, there is still no confirmation or proof of his death. Nigerians remain skeptical of the military’s claim, and analysts say killing off Boko Haram […]
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By Jemal Arfaoui Forty-nine inmates broke out of a prison in Gabes on Sunday (September 1st), the president of the Prisons and Correctional Institution Syndicate told Magharebia. “They violently assaulted a fellow prisoner in their cell until his blood covered the cell,” Olfa Ayari said in describing the breakout. “After that, they called a prison […]
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Chelsea Manning, the former Army private sentenced to 35 years in prison for the largest data leak in US history, has formally submitted a pardon request to President Obama. The former Army private was convicted of espionage and theft on August 21 in connection with illegally turning over 700,000 US diplomatic cables, battlefield reports, and […]
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By Mairead Maguire Pope Francis has set Saturday 9th September, 2013 as a world day of prayer and fasting for peace in Syria, and the Vatican has said it is against ‘armed intervention’ pointing to the havoc caused by the United States led war to topple Saddam Hussein, in Iraq in 2003. I would like […]
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The idea of having a separate fighting force for humanitarian crises and or plausible deniability in foreign wars once again makes sense. For the US, this concept goes back as far as the “privateers” (e.g. a group of private and independent sailors and marines that banded together to counter the Barbary Pirate attacks on US […]
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Sending a bunch of $3 million missiles into Syria to blow stuff up will kill a great many men, women, and children directly. It will also kill a great many people indirectly, as violence escalates in response — an established pattern recognized even by the war-promoting Washington Post. Refugees are fleeing Syria in greater numbers as a […]
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Women are two to eight times more likely than men to suffer a debilitating tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee and a new study suggests that a combination of body type and landing techniques may be to blame. In two new studies published online this week in the Journal of Athletic […]
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By Reza Pankhurst The removal of former Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi has seen the revival of the heated debate over when it is permitted to rebel against a Muslim ruler. At this time the focus of the discussion is not whether those who rebelled against Morsi were justified in their rebellion. Instead a number of […]
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On its own terms, the government’s case for war with Syria has problems. We cannot deny the monstrousness of Assad’s regime, but the Obama administration has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Syrian state is responsible for the particular chemical weapons atrocity that supposedly justifies a strike. Some of the very same […]
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By Donna Miles Emphasizing the need to protect U.S. national security interests, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today he supports President Barack Obama’s decision to seek congressional authorization for the use of force in Syria. Hagel joined Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman […]
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By Terri Moon Cronk Making sure people know where to turn for help during a time of crisis is the continuing goal of the Defense Department’s suicide prevention program, the Pentagon official in charge of the effort said here Aug. 30. In an interview with American Forces Press Service and the Pentagon Channel, Jacqueline Garrick […]
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McClatchy reports: The Obama administration’s public case for attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on circumstantial evidence, undermining U.S. efforts this week to build support at home and abroad for a punitive strike against Bashar Assad’s regime. The case Secretary of State John Kerry laid out last Friday contained claims that were […]
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Getting men released from Guantánamo has become more difficult than getting blood out of a stone, even though over half of the 164 men still held were approved for release in January 2010 by President Obama’s high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force. Please visit, like, share and tweet the GTMO Clock website, which I launched […]
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A new use-of-force resolution for Syria sets a 60-day deadline, with one 30-day extension possible, for President Barack Obama to launch military strikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad — and it will also bar the involvement of US ground forces in Syria. The revised resolution was crafted by Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) […]
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By George Leong For those of you who think oil prices will continue to steadily rise, you may want to pause and rethink that. The reality is that the price of oil, which in our case means West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude, recently broke difficult resistance at $110.00 a barrel. I wouldn’t be emptying my son’s […]
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By Mitchell Clark Geopolitical events are overtaking the stock market’s near-term trading action, which was all about speculation over the Federal Reserve and what Chairman Ben Bernanke will do regarding quantitative easing. Based on what transpires in Syria, the equity market is ripe for more declines; realistically, the stock market has been extremely lofty this year, […]
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When a country plans to go to war, the rhetoric leaders use to demonize the enemy and rouse the faithful are instructive. George H.W. Bush called Saddam “a new Hitler.” Saddam called the Iraq war the “mother of all battles.” George W. Bush had his embarrassing “mission accomplished” moment on board the U.S.S. Lincoln. Bibi […]
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BHP Billiton today celebrated the opening of the new Daunia mine, the Company’s ninth operating metallurgical coal mine in central Queensland. BHP Billiton Coal President, Dean Dalla Valle, was joined by the Hon. Campbell Newman, Premier of Queensland, and joint venture partner, Mitsubishi, in a ceremony to open the mine, which has created 450 direct […]
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By Thalif Deen When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was South Korea’s foreign minister during 2004-2006, his answers to reporters were so predictably evasive the press corps in Seoul affectionately dubbed him “the slippery eel”. Even at the United Nations, where he succeeded Kofi Annan as U.N. chief in 2007, Ban has continued to cultivate the art […]
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By Jagannath P. Panda Yet another joint military exercise between China and India! What for? Given the recent tensions following the PLA’s border incursion, not many would have expected that the two countries would carry out a joint military exercise so soon. But it’s official now. As part of the confidence-building measures (CBMs), the two […]
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