By Jason Ditz – Antiwar.com

The UN Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights is warning that Israel’s deliberate attacks on civilian targets across Lebanon may amount to war crimes, because international law demands a distinction between military and civilian targets. Continue reading “UN Rights Office Warns Israeli Attacks on Lebanon May Amount to War Crimes”

By Drop Site News

BAGHDAD, IRAQ—Through two improvised checkpoints, men filed into Al-Ummah Park in central Baghdad’s Al-Tahrir Square on Friday to mark the celebration of Al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day). Behind the artist Jewad Selim’s Monument to Freedom, a relic from a secular society that seemed so out-of-place and obsolete, a few hundred mourners gathered underneath a sea of paramilitary flags. A succession of defiant chants came in unison, condemning the U.S. and pledging loyalty to the Supreme Leader in Tehran. Projected on a giant screen before them were the smiling faces of Ruhollah Khomeini and his successor, the recently murdered Ali Khamenei. The image soon gave way to another, with Ali’s son, the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, flanked by his elders and crowned with the words “fa‘azazna bi thalithin,” a cursive allusion to a Quranic verse from Surat Yasin: “We sent them two messengers, but they rejected both. So We reinforced the two with a third.” Continue reading “As the Gulf Burns, Political Uncertainty Looms Over Iraq”

By Josh Walkos – Zerohedge

We have all experienced it, you’re scrolling through social media and a post catches your eye, it makes a claim or shows you something that makes you say to yourself, “there is no way that’s true,” or it invokes an immediate emotional response and before you know it, you have begun typing a comment laced with vitriolic outrage.

But pause there for a moment. Before your fingers hit the keys, before you share it, before you screenshot it and send it to three friends who you know will be just as furious as you are.

Ask yourself: Why that post? Why right now? Why you? Continue reading “Weapons of Mass Distraction”