When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flew into Riyadh to discuss the disappearance and likely death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia transferred $100m to the State Department for US efforts against the Islamic State (IS) group, the New York Times reported late Tuesday. While the funding was approved earlier in the summer, critics Read More…
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Amnesty Demands Independent Probe Of Civilians Massacred During US Annihilation Of Raqqa
“How can the coalition avoid inflicting high civilian death tolls in the future without accounting for what went wrong in Raqqa?” Amnesty International on Monday is urging the U.S.-led military coalition targeting the Islamic State in Syria to launch an independent investigation into the full scale of civilian carnage it may have caused in its brutal Raqqa Read More…
America Created Al-Qaeda And The ISIS Terror Group
Incisive article originally published by GR in September 2014. Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran’s growing influence in the region. The fact that the United States has a long and torrid history of Read More…
US Looks To Southeast Asia To Unleash Its ISIS Hordes
Western think tanks have been increasingly busy cultivating a narrative to explain the sudden and spreading presence of militants linked or fighting under the banner of the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (ISIS) across Southeast Asia. This narrative – these think tanks would have audiences believe – entails militants fleeing Syria and Iraq, and entrenching themselves amid Read More…
Terrorist Attacks Receive Five Times More Media Coverage If The “Terrorist” Is Muslim
A new study found that terrorist attacks allegedly carried out by Muslims receive over five times more media coverage than those carried out by non-Muslims in the United States. This isn’t necessarily surprising, as mainstream media (MSM) has worked alongside the U.S. government to paint an elaborate picture about false enemies such as al-Qaeda and the Read More…
ISIS “Coincidentally” Appears Along China’s One Belt, One Road
Two Chinese teachers based in Pakistan’s southwest province of Baluchistan were reportedly abducted and murdered by militants from the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (ISIS). CNN, in an article titled, “‘Grave concern’ over Chinese teachers reportedly killed by ISIS in Pakistan,” would attempt to portray the act of terrorism as a random strike aimed at China’s expanding Read More…