The alleged Pakistan commander of Islamic State (IS) or Daesh, Yousaf al Salafi – has confessed during investigations that he has been receiving funds through the United States.
Law enforcing agencies on January 22 claimed that they arrested al Salafi, … Read the rest
The US should get ready for a new era of endless wars, stated Pentagon’s chief Chuck Hagel, noting that “tyranny,” “terrorism,” national security challenges and climate change pose a substantial threat to the US and its allies.
Although the Pentagon’s … Read the rest
Two Royal Air Force jets reportedly threatened to shoot down a Latvian cargo plane, rushing at supersonic speeds to intercept it, after the plane failed to respond to air traffic control over Kent in Southern England and sent authorities into … Read the rest
The commander of Iran’s Basij (volunteer) force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi lashed out at the US and Israel for sponsoring the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
He said the US created, equipped and armed the ISIL … Read the rest
Glencore, the largest mining company listed on the JSE and headed by South African Ivan Glasenberg, has been accused in a new 245-page report of mining and exporting “blood coal” from Colombia.
The report, “The Dark Side of Coal”, published … Read the rest
As reported yesterday, in yet another humiliating blow to US foreign policy and the State Department, Al Qaeda-linked ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) militants took over the key northern town of Mosul, where an unknown number of US-made … Read the rest
By Chris Floyd.
The moral insanity of the Terror War continues to spawn more violence, more extremism, more repression, more injustice, and the total subversion of the “Western values,” all of which it is ostensibly designed to defend.
A new … Read the rest
Luca Zaia
Italian police on Wednesday arrested 24 people involved in a campaign to demand independence for Venice and its surrounding region and seized a tractor that they said the activists had tried to convert into a sort of tank.… Read the rest
by Dan Roodt
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Twenty years ago, on 28 March 1994, the ANC’s militia massacred a crowd of protesting Zulus in downtown Johannesburg, using automatic weapons against men armed only with … Read the rest
James Comey
Cyber-attacks are increasingly becoming the primary threat against the United States, according to the head of the FBI.
During his first testimony as the new FBI director, James Comey told Congress on Thursday that while the threat of … Read the rest
Church Street bombing
A former black South African government Minister has been detained in New York apparently because his name is on a terrorism watch list.
Tokyo Sexwale became a member of the Black Consciousness Movement in the late 1960s … Read the rest
By Eric Margolis
“Gentlemen do not read other gentlemen’s mail” sniffed US Secretary of State Henry Stimson in 1929 when told that American cryptographers had broken Japan’s naval and diplomatic codes.
Stimson, who later headed the War Department, ordered code-breaking … Read the rest
Scene of the Amanzimtoti bomb planted by the ANC and SACP
The department of international relations would continue in its attempts to rectify the travel restrictions of former ANC urban terrorists in some international countries, it said on Monday.
“The … Read the rest
Samantha Lewthwaite and Germaine Lindsay pose with their son.
A British woman thought to be linked to the Nairobi mall attacks used an assumed South African identity to take out bank loans and rent property in Johannesburg, local media reported … Read the rest