TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
You wouldn’t know it from following most of the corporate media online or on your television set, but ISIS is currently making significant headway in Syria. According to the Guardian, ISIS fighters have broken through government defensive lines in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, successfully surrounding a military airport and cutting off food supplies for Read More…
Russia is demanding answers after a report from an unnamed senior U.S. intelligence official claimed the United States military has successfully hacked into “Russia’s electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin’s command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary,” according to NBC News. Speaking to the anonymous intelligence Read More…
Shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon hired Bell Pottinger, a London-based PR agency. The PR firm was tasked with promoting what the Pentagon called “democratic elections” in Iraq, ultimately earning over a hundred million dollars yearly. Part of the firm’s job included producing “fake al Qaeda propaganda films,” the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Read More…
In what the US is calling a “misdirected” airstrike, some 22 Somali citizens and soldiers were killed by a US missile fired from a drone intended to take out al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabab militia members. According to the BBC, the airstrike may have been a ruse by one region in Somalia seeking to settle scores with Read More…
Is the expanded Papahãnaumokuãkea marine area a new U.S. Military zone? Another government ‘land grab’ occurred last month when the US Federal Government announced that it had massively expanded the scope of its marine protected area in Hawaii, known as the Papahãnaumokuãkea Marine National Monument. With this top-down presidential proclamation, over half a million (582,578) square miles off the coast of Read More…