Mint Press News – by Alan McLeod

Less than a week after millions of Iraqis took to the streets demanding the U.S. military leave for good, the United States announced that is planning to build three new military bases in Iraq, according to military news service Breaking Defense. The three sites chosen – Erbin, Sulimania and Halabja – are all extremely close to Iran, with Halabja (the site of the 1988 chemical weapons attack) just eight miles from the border.  Continue reading “US Announces Three New Bases in Iraq After Iraqis Demand Full Withdrawal”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

“They’re not going to help me, are they? I think I’m going to die.”

Miami, OK — Terral Ellis, 26, had made a mistake. In 2015 he got a DUI and then missed his court date. It’s a mistake thousands of people make every week across the country but because of the horrifyingly corrupt and negligent jail staff in Oklahoma, this mistake would cost Ellis his life. Just 12 days after turning himself into the Ottawa County Jail for missing his court date, Ellis would die a slow and agonizing death—all of which was entirely preventable. Continue reading “Horrifying Video Shows Officers Mock Suffering Father Until He Turned Blue and Died”

RT

Injuries have been reported as Palestinian protesters face Israeli security troops in the West Bank in non-stop protests after Donald Trump announced his peace plan for the region.

Scores of protesters flooded the streets in different parts of the West Bank, demonstrating against a US-proposed plan that they expect to lead to annexation of much of Palestinian land. Continue reading “Palestinian anger over Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ met with Israeli tear gas & rubber bullets in West Bank”

Ammoland

Colorado –  -(AmmoLand.com)- A CSU Police Officer was ERPO Red Flagged by the Mother of a man he killed in a 2017 Police Shooting; Mother claimed they have a child together – and it made it to a Permanent Orders Hearing!

No, this is not the Jerry Spring show I’m talking about, this is Colorado’s new Red Flag ERPO law in action.

Continue reading “Cop ERPO Red Flagged By Mother of Man He Killed In 2017 Colorado Police Shooting”

Vox

Donald Trump’s “peace plan” isn’t a plan for advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. It’s a plan for scuttling them.

The president released the long-awaited political framework of his “Peace to Prosperity” plan on Tuesday afternoon after a White House ceremony featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Continue reading “Trump’s Israel-Palestine “peace plan” is a con”

Middle East Monitor

Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the United Nations, claimed yesterday that the “number one priority” of the Trump administration’s peace plan is “the national security of Israel”.

As reported by the Jerusalem Post, Haley was speaking at an event in Tel Aviv . Continue reading “Nikki Haley: Number one priority of Trump plan is Israel’s ‘national security’”

Middle East Monitor

US President Donald Trump’s Senior Adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner on Tuesday said the Palestinians should accept the “full package” of the so-called peace plan offered and give up fairy tales, Anadolu Agency reports.

Speaking to Al Jazeera following the announcement of the long-awaited proposal on Palestine and Israel by Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Kushner said the detailed plan offers practicality to Palestinians and Israelis. Continue reading “Kushner: Palestinians should give up ‘fairy tales’”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharey

WALDRON, Ark. (Jan. 28, 2020) – The Scott County, Arkansas County Quorum Court unanimously passed an ordinance making the county a “Bill of Rights sanctuary.”

All nine members of the Quorum Court sponsored the ordinance and passed it unanimously. The bill declares Scott County a Bill of Rights Sanctuary County. Practically speaking the legally binding ordinance prohibits any agent, department, employee or official of Scott County, while acting in their official capacity, from knowingly and willingly participating in any way in the enforcement of any unlawful or unconstitutional act regarding the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the people to peaceably assemble, freedom of the press, freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances, or the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Continue reading “Scott County Arkansas Passes Ordinance Declaring a “Bill of Rights Sanctuary””

Winter Watch – by Thomas Müller

Hillary Clinton’s 3,000 emails released prior to the 2016 election reeked of banality and psychopathic chaos-creating behavior. Of late, she’s re-emerged, much like a high school clique leader, to proclaim that “nobody likes Bernie” and that Tulsi Gabbard is “a Russian agent.” Gabbard has filed a defamation lawsuit.  Continue reading “Crossing the Line in Libya: The Truth About Debt Slavery, Private Central Banks”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Mt. Juliet, TN — As our readers know, police officers killing dogs in the Land of the Free is such a common occurrence that it has its own name: puppycide. Despite postal workers, delivery drivers and pizza personnel coming into contact with dogs on a much more regular basis, it’s the police who are in the news because they can kill them with impunity. As the following story illustrates, an off duty police officer in Tennessee felt it necessary to try to kill a neighbor’s dog—by stabbing it six times.  Continue reading “Neighbors Horrified After Cop Caught on Video Repeatedly Stabbing Family’s Elderly Dog”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Tempe, AZ — As TFTP reported in 2017, the Trump administration lifted a ban on military surplus hardware being transferred to police departments across the United States. The controversial 1033 program became a source of citizen outrage after images of police armed with military grade weaponry, including grenade launchers and armored MRAPs, were beamed into people homes across the country during the battlefield-style police response to the rioting in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.  Continue reading “The Standing Army We Were Warned About: 25 SWAT Cops Raid Man for ‘Penis Man’ Graffiti”

The Mind Unleashed – by Aaron Kesel

A senior scientist who participated in a simulation of the global impact of a coronavirus outbreak has stated that “the cat is out of the bag” when it comes to the virus and that China is unlikely to contain its spread.

Eric Toner, Senior Scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Senior Scientist in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, said during an interview with CNBC that China’s efforts to contain the current outbreak of the rapidly spreading upper-respiratory illness known as 2019-nCoV are “unlikely to be effective.” Continue reading “Scientist Who Simulated Global Coronavirus Outbreak 3 Months Ago Makes Chilling Statement”