Daily Mail

Prince William has said he will make it a ‘lifelong project’ to secure peace in the Middle East, it has been claimed.

At the end of his historic five-day trip to Israel, Palestine and Jordan the Duke of Cambridge is said to have vowed to achieve a ‘just and lasting peace’.

He is reported to have told aides that he would ‘forever honour my commitments’ to the people he met on the trip, according to the Sunday Mirror.    Continue reading “Prince William ‘pledges to make peace in the Middle East his lifelong project’ after historic five-day trip to the region”

Strategic Culture – by Wayne Madsen

The Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia is merely the tip of a US intelligence iceberg. Much of the CIA, whether or not it is with a “wink and a nod” from its director Gina Haspel, a veteran of the agency’s extraordinary rendition and torture program, exists in the murky world of “carve out” contracts and front companies. This “unofficial CIA” is where “plausible deniability” for US intelligence actions is of paramount importance.   Continue reading “Is the Leash Now Off the ‘Other CIA?’”

Mondoweiss – by Philip Weiss

The former congressman Brian Baird once said that when you criticize Israel even privately to Israeli officials, they flip out on you, even if you’re a congressman; and this is the most important takeaway of the wonderful Birthright walkout that happened yesterday and that is now all over the Jewish press. A group of five young American Jewish women on their free propaganda trip to Israel kept demanding information about the occupation, and at last left the trip to join a tour of occupied Hebron by the Israeli dissident group Breaking the Silence. And the Israelis went crazy.   Continue reading “Birthright walkout is met with vitriolic rage in Israel — ‘Radicals’ ‘You will get raped’”

Washington Post

The gathering at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Ala., was by no means the largest of Saturday’s nationwide protests against President Trump’s “zero tolerance” border policies, though it was memorable for other reasons.

It began around noon, as an Episcopal priest delivered a prayer to about 100 protesters gathered around the gazebo and a man marched back and forth in front of her, shouting “womp, womp!”   Continue reading “Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters”

High Country News

In the failing light of an unusually warm January day, Jerry Erstrom and I race along a dirt track behind Rod Frahm’s white pickup. Here, near Ontario, Oregon, a stone’s throw from the Idaho border, Frahm grows onions, squash and corn. But today, he wants to show us something he’s growing against his will: a genetically engineered turfgrass designed for golf courses.

Frahm slams on the brakes next to a dry irrigation ditch, jumps out and yanks up a clump, winter-brown but laced with new green shoots. Beneath his gray fedora, his dark eyes glint with anger as he holds out the scraggly specimen. “I have it in a lot of my ditches,” he says.   Continue reading “GMO grass is creeping across Oregon”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Aurora, MO – Initial reports claimed that a young mother was shot and killed after she attempted to run over a police officer, but her family is now speaking out and claiming that she was actually attempting to help police, and was tragically killed in an operation gone wrong.

Savannah Hill, 21, was killed last month after it was reported that she was driving a vehicle that struck an officer during a traffic stop, while police were attempting to arrest Mason Farris, 19, who was in the car with her. Continue reading “Young Mother Tried to Help Police Arrest a Suspect, But Cops Killed Her Instead”

Breitbart – by Ken Klukowski

WASHINGTON, DC – President Trump has whittled his Supreme Court list from 25 down to 7 names and will announce a final decision on July 9.

The president has repeatedly said he will choose candidates from his “List.” That list began with 11 names in May 2016 when he was a candidate, and it became a central feature of his presidential campaign. He expanded the list in September 2016 during the general election campaign when he was the Republican nominee, adding 10 names to bring the total to 21.   Continue reading “Trump Considering Up to Seven Names for Supreme Court”

ABC News

Gunfire erupted as Iranian security forces confronted protesters early Sunday amid demonstrations over water scarcity in the country’s south, violence that authorities said wounded at least 11 people, mostly police.

The protests around Khorramshahr, some 650 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Tehran, come as residents of the predominantly Arab city near the border with Iraq complain of salty, muddy water coming out of their taps amid a yearslong drought.  Continue reading “Gunfire, clashes amid Iran protests over water scarcity”

AFN

Quotations from several speeches made on the Floor of the House of Representatives by the Honorable Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania. Mr. McFadden, due to his having served as Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee for more than 10 years, was the best posted man on these matters in America and was in a position to speak with authority of the vast ramifications of this gigantic private credit monopoly. As Representative of a State which was among the first to declare its freedom from foreign money tyrants it is fitting that Pennsylvania, the cradle of liberty, be again given the credit for producing a son that was not afraid to hurl defiance in the face of the money-bund. Whereas Mr. McFadden was elected to the high office on both the Democratic and Republican tickets, there can be no accusation of partisanship lodged against him. Because these speeches are set out in full in the Congressional Record, they carry weight that no amount of condemnation on the part of private individuals could hope to carry.  Continue reading “Congressman McFadden on the Federal Reserve Corporation Remarks in Congress, 1934”

CBS News

BOISE, Idaho — A man who had been asked to leave an apartment complex in Boise returned the next day and stabbed children celebrating a 3-year-old girl’s birthday, authorities said Sunday. Six children, ages four to 12, were injured in the attack, along with three adults who rushed to their defense. Boise Police Chief William Bones said the victims are alive but some are gravely injured.

A resident of the apartment complex where the stabbing took place had allowed 30-year-old Timmy Kinner to stay there a short time, but asked him to leave Friday because of his behavior, Bones said. Kinner returned Saturday, when the girl was having her party a few doors down from where he had stayed, according to police.    Continue reading “Idaho mass stabbing: Suspect accused of targeting 3-year-old’s birthday party”