From the Trenches World Report

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The Presbyterian Church has narrowly voted to move forward with divestment in various companies in protest of Israeli policies toward Palestinians. The group has now become the most prominent in the US to endorse some form of divestment.

The top US policymaking body for the Presbyterian denomination has opted to sell its stock in Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions by a vote of 310 to 303, ratifying a move that had failed two years prior. All three companies have been identified as making products used by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories.   Continue reading “Presbyterian Church votes to divest in protest of Israeli policies”

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A 7,500-gallon storage tank of crude oil has completely drained into the scenic Cache La Poudre, Colorado’s only designated National Wild and Scenic River, southeast of Fort Collins.

Vegetation was covered by an oil slick a quarter-mile downstream, but authorities claim “no drinking water intakes have been affected.”

The environmental disaster occurred at Noble Energy facility near Windsor in northern Colorado, in imminent proximity to the popular Poudre River Trail, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) reported late Friday afternoon.   Continue reading “178 barrels of oil spill into Colorado’s only designated wild and scenic river”

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Anthropologists uncovered a series of mass graves filled with the human remains of immigrants stuffed into shopping and garbage bags in a county-owned section of a cemetery in South Texas. Now, a local politician is calling for an inquiry.

The group of anthropology researchers is made of professors and students from the University of Indianapolis and Baylor University, who are working on the Reuniting Families project. The multi-year project seeks to identify the bodies of the hundreds of undocumented immigrants who died (usually from exposure in the 100-degree-plus heat) while crossing the Texas-Mexico border over the last few years. They resumed work two weeks ago, exhuming 52 plots in a Brooks County-owned section of the Sacred Heart Burial Park in Falfurrias.   Continue reading “Mass graves filled with remains of immigrants discovered in Texas”

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Mail.com

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of Afghans protested Saturday against alleged fraud in last week’s presidential runoff, part of escalating tensions over what Western officials had hoped would be a smooth transfer of power as violence across the country killed at least 13 people.

Former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, who is running against Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, a former finance minister, has accused electoral officials and others of trying to rig the June 14 vote against him.   Continue reading “Hundreds protest alleged Afghan election fraud”

Mail.com

BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of heavily-armed Shiite militiamen paraded through several Iraqi cities Saturday as Sunni militants seized two strategically located towns in what appeared to be a new offensive in western Anbar province.

The capture of the two towns — Qaim on the Syrian border Friday and Rawah along the Euphrates River on Saturday— dealt another blow to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government, which has struggled to push back against Islamic extremists and allied militants who have seized large swaths of the country’s north, including the second-largest city of Mosul.   Continue reading “Iraq militia parades as insurgents seize crossing”

    I’d guess it was about ten minutes after a rumor emerged of the militia going to protect the southern border that the spooks provided a “leader” for them, just to make sure they’re as ineffective at closing the border as the federal government’s been for the last thirty years.

    I’m sure they wasted no time pulling a shill out of a hat calling for all militia to stand down, and it wouldn’t surprise me if he were waiting in the wings just for this day.         

    Of course they’re going to do that, and you should expect it. We’ve learned the perils of following leaders the hard way, so we shouldn’t be making the same mistake too many times.    Continue reading “Go As Free Americans”

Angry Bear

From the BBC comes a note on a crowd control drone: South Africa-based Desert Wolf told the BBC it had secured the sale of 25 units to a mining company after showing off the tech at a trade show. It is marketing the device as a “riot control copter” that can tackle crowds “without endangering the lives of security staff”.   Continue reading “Crowd control drones”

The Real Agenda – by Luis R. Miranda

Science is great when scientists use it to manufacture products that make our lives easier. But science can sometimes be the worst culprit when it is misused to hide the dangers that some chemicals pose to human health. In the first article of this series, I demonstrated how easily chemicals get into the food supply and how every time humans, animals and the environment are exposed to them, disease is not only created but also continually fed.  Continue reading “The Multi-tasker Carcinogen in your Food”

The Daily Caller – by Brendan Bordelon

Probable Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton broke with President Obama on a key policy issue Tuesday, claiming the unprecedented number of illegal children flooding into the United States must be deported and returned to their families in Central America.

For years, parents in crime-ridden Central American nations have been sending their children up through Mexico alone to cross the American border.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton: Deport The Illegal Children Back To Central America”

Press TV

The Israeli army raided the offices of Palestine Media and al-Quds Media companies.

Witnesses say around 100 military jeeps entered Ramallah shortly after midnight. They conducted full searches at both offices and caused significant property damage.   Continue reading “Israeli soldiers storm Palestinian media buildings”

Cyrtogon

Is the U.S. on the way to becoming a failed state?

Losing control of borders is one of the primary characteristics of failed states.

See the Wikipedia page for failed states and compare the following criteria to what’s happening in the U.S. right now:   Continue reading “Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Being Housed in FEMA Facilities and Military Bases; Hundreds of Unaccompanied Children Arriving in U.S. Daily”

Wake Up From Your Slumber – by Tom Sullivan

“It is no longer plausible to argue that ISIS was a result of unintentional screw ups by the US. It is a clear part of a US strategy to break up the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Hezbollah alliance. Now that strategy may prove to be a total failure and end up backfiring, but make no mistake, ISIS IS the strategy.”

– Lysander, Comments line, Moon of Alabama Continue reading “Splitting up Iraq – It’s all for Israel”

Electric Intifada – by Ali Abunimah

Just when it appeared that the United Nations could not be more ineffective in protecting Palestinian rights and holding Israel accountable for violating them, here comes the news that Israel has been elected as vice-chair of the UN Special Commitee on Decolonization – which deals among other things with matters related to Palestinian refugees.

According to UN minutes, the representative of Israel, the world’s last settler-colonial power, received 74 votes for the post, despite strong opposition from the Arab Group of UN member states.   Continue reading “Israel elected to leadership of UN committee on “Decolonization””

KFOX 14 – by Patrick Hayes

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Hundreds of immigrant families caught crossing the border may be coming to New Mexico.

Deacon Thomas Baca is the executive director of Catholic Charities and told KFOX14 that nearly 300 immigrant families are in need of housing.

“And most of the people so far have provided an address of family members they can go see or go stay with,” said Baca.  “So then there’s the process of getting them their itineraries and getting them on buses to go to those destinations.”   Continue reading “Immigrant families heading to New Mexico”

Fox News

A Texas man is standing defiant after he claims he was told by his apartment complex that  he had to remove an American flag from his balcony because it was a “threat towards the Muslim community.”

Duy Tran told KHOU that he has friends who died for the country, so he decided to hang one from his balcony after moving into a new apartment in Webster, Texas. However, he said that soon after he hung the flag, he was told by his apartment complex manager he had to remove it.   Continue reading “Texas man claims he was told to remove American flag over ‘threat’ toward Muslims”