2018 wasn’t a good year for Israel. It was even worse for Palestinians, of course. On the surface, it wasn’t an especially dramatic year – just a lot more of the same, without major new wars, and without much bloodshed if you compare it to most previous years. Things appeared frozen in place. The occupation Read More…
Month: December 2018
Trump “Reconsidering” Withdrawal Of US Troops From Syria Thanks To Lindsey Graham
President Trump is “reconsidering” his strategy to pull US forces out of Syria following an “eye-opening trip to Iraq” the day after Christmas, Bloomberg reports. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who sits on the Senate Armed Forces Committee – a harsh critic of Trump’s announced pullout, said earlier Sunday that he would try to change Trump’s mind during Read More…
US-Backed Child Soldiers In Yemen, US To Give Taliban ‘Job Opportunities’ & Opioid Crisis Spikes
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/30/18). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth Read More…
Training Jihad (Again): Pentagon Peace Deal Proposes “Job Opportunities” For Taliban
How much worse can America’s eighteen year long “forever war” in Afghanistan get? This is not The Onion, but Pakistan’s major English language daily, The Dawn citing Pentagon reports: “Eager to persuade Taliban to join the Afghan peace process, the United States is offering them a safety network that includes creating job opportunities for the insurgents.” This is part of Read More…
Yellow Vests Target French TV Station For Spreading ‘Fake News’
Hundreds of Yellow Vest protesters gathered outside France’s BFM TV station for week seven of nationwide protests. The protesters chanted various versions of “Fake news journalists come down,” and “Macron out!” at the TV station which one protester told RT France spreads false information about the movement, while purposefully understating the size of its demonstrations. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Kn67p7cnY[/embedyt] Read More…
Opioid Crisis Leaves 700,000 Americans Dead: “Epidemic Continues To Worsen And Evolve”
More than 700,000 Americans died from drug overdoses from 1999 to 2017, about 10% of them in 2017 alone, according to a new report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In total, there were a staggering 70,237 drug overdose deaths last year, which is more deaths than all US military fatal casualties of the Read More…
Two More Spiegel Employees Out After Fake News Scandal Expands
Two senior editors at Germany’s Der Spiegel have been fired amid the country’s largest newsroom scandal in decades. Ullrich Fichtner, and editor-in-chief, and Matthias Geyer, a chief editor, have been “suspended until the (magazine’s) internal commission has completed its investigation into the affair,” according to editor-in-chief Steffen Klusmann, according to AFP, citing a copy of an Read More…
US Commanders Dismiss Afghan Drawdown ‘Rumors’, Manbij Psyop & Saudis Violate Hodeida Ceasefire 400x
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/28/18). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth Read More…
UN Arrives In Hodeida To Monitor Fragile Truce Amid Repeated Saudi Violations
According to information provided by a local source to MintPress News, Saudi ceasefire violations included 100 missile attacks and 300 cases of artillery fire and shelling over the weekend, as well as attempts to breach Hodeida from two sides. HODEIDA, YEMEN — Dutch Major General Patrick Cammaert chaired a joint UN committee in Hodeida, Yemen on Read More…
How Critics Of Trumps’ Syria Withdrawal Fueled The Rise Of ISIS
President Donald Trump’s announcement of an imminent withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Syria summoned a predictable paroxysm of outrage from Washington’s foreign policy establishment. Former Secretary of State and self-described “hair icon” Hillary Clinton perfectly distilled the bipartisan freakout into a single tweet, accusing Trump of “isolationism” and “playing into Russia and Iran’s hands.” Read More…