From the Trenches World Report

Western Journalism – by B. Christopher Agee

The recent rise in unaccompanied minors illegally crossing America’s southern border in recent weeks has led to serious criticism of existing immigration laws and lax border security. While the influx is seen by many as a symbol of a broken system, however, a large number of Americans still believe officials should allow these children to stay in this country and reunite with family members already here.

A recent revelation by authorities might just change some minds.   Continue reading “Support Amnesty? Wait Until You Learn What Happens To Mexican Gangbangers On U.S. Soil”

Deadline Live – by Mario Andrade, June 19, 2014

Yesterday, the FBI arrested two more dupes in Texas for trying to join Islamist rebel groups in Syria and Somalia ,and telling an informer about it. They were stopped at the airport and were charged with ‘providing material support to terrorists,’ which was probably a crime they hadn’t actually committed yet – as it is the case with most of these FBI entrapment scenarios.

By the same standards, one could say that Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have engaged in similar criminal activity. As members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, they have repeatedly called for arming the so-called ‘Syrian rebels,’ who are now in Iraq, taking over the northwestern cities and ready to take over Baghdad.   Continue reading “Arrest John McCain and Lindsey Graham for providing material support to terrorists”

New Haven Register – by Mercy A. Hayle

NEW HAVEN >> State police Maj. William Podgorski, a 24-year veteran of the department, has died after suffering from a brief illness.

Trooper Kelly Grant said Podgorski, 49, the Western District commander, died Monday after surgery. The illness was not disclosed.

Sometime after surgery on Friday, Podgorski was transferred to Yale-New Haven Hospital from another hospital, Grant said. He died there Monday morning surrounded by his family.    Continue reading “Connecticut State Police Major William Podgorski dies after brief illness”

RT News

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”

RT News

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”

RT News

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”