Veterans For Peace offers its deep condolences to the family of Michael Brown Jr. and stands in solidarity with the family, the people of Ferguson and the Greater Saint Louis Region. We call for a complete, swift and transparent investigation. And we demand justice for Michael Brown Jr. and his family.

Mugabe, who is the incoming chairperson of the regional Southern African Development Community (SADC), is disliked by the imperialist countries because he implemented a radical land reform program that returns large portions of the land stolen by the British colonialists during the 19th century to the African people. The Zimbabwe Revolution fought during the 1960s and 1970s, was based on the return of the land to the indigenous people.

A year ago this week, Egyptian security forces launched the most brutal phase of their weeks-long crackdown on supporters of the then recently deposed president and leading Muslim Brotherhood figure, Mohammed Morsi. Pro-Morsi protesters, having been battling Egpyt’s then interim leader, General Sisi, for weeks, had retreated to Rab’a al-Adawiya square. There, with makeshift medical facilities available, they sought respite. But on 14 August this all came to a bloody end. Personnel carriers, bulldozers, ground troops and snipers entered the square from each of the four main entrances, launched tear gas and opened fire. At least 1,000 pro-Morsi supporters were killed over the following few hours.

By Pepe Escobar

This is the way the multi-trillion dollar Global War on Terror (GWOT) ends: not with a bang, but with a bigger bang.

The GWOT, since its conceptualization 13 years ago, in the aftermath of 9/11, is the gift that keeps on giving. And no gift is bigger than a Transformer Al-Qaeda on steroids – bigger, brasher, and wealthier than anything Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri had ever dreamt of; the IS (Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS) of Caliph Ibrahim, former Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

In the first budget he signed after being elected, Kasich cut aid to local and county governments by over $1 billion. Lucas County, which houses Toledo, has its state-based aid cut by $70 million in the last biennial budget. All of these cuts juxtaposed with Kasich‘s welfare for corporations and the rich makes it easy to connect the dots in what Kasich‘s true funding priorities are. Gov. Kasich‘sincome tax proposal, which the legislature recently passed, cuts taxes for the wealthiest 1 percent by over $10,000 per year, and raises taxes on the bottom 20 percent of Ohioans by an average of $63. After his elimination of Ohio’s estate tax for the wealthiest families, cuts are expected to deepen in coming years.

„Usually, out of the 153 Foreign Missions in New Delhi, 50-60 missions approach us for passes to attend the ceremony at Red Fort,“ the sources said. (…)

Top envoys from Russia, the US, France, Germany, China and Japan participated at the Independence Day celebrations.

(26. Juli) The Obama administration is particularly sensitive about the prospect of Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting Japan as early as this autumn. It is also concerned that Japan will further relax sanctions toward Pyongyang if there is progress in North Korea‘s attempts to shed light on the status of Japanese abductees from the 1970s and ‘80s.

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(19. April) Russia‘s Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak told Russian media that the money could be used to fund mutual projects in North Korea, including a proposed gas pipeline and a railway to South Korea.

PYONGYANG, August 14. /ITAR-TASS/. Current dramatic events in Ukraine “are caused by interference of the United States and Western countries into domestic affairs of that country,” the spokesman for North Korean Foreign Ministry told ITAR-TASS on Thursday.

The main goal “of this backstage control (over the current events) is to create a pro-American regime in Ukraine and a circle around Russia,” the diplomat said. North Korean Foreign Ministry is convinced that Washington “instigates actively and abets to inhumane war crimes which are being committed in Ukraine“.

The hug felt around the world: Kim Jong-il is embraced by Kim Dae-jung as the ROK president prepared to depart Pyongyang on June 15, 2000. Reuters

The message was sent to the Kim Dae-jung Peace Center, a non-profit organization founded by the late leader, through the inter-Korean communication channel at Panmunjom, a truce village.

The North earlier asked South Korea to extend Thursday‘s operation of a liaison office that closes at 4 p.m. every day, raising hopes that it would respond to Seoul‘s offer of high-level dialogue.

The United States should open dialogue with North Korea because ignoring the communist regime would only make the already bad situation worse, a former top American nuclear negotiator with Pyongyang said.

Robert Gallucci, who defused the first North Korean nuclear crisis by negotiating the 1994 Agreed Framework deal with Pyongyang, also said in an exclusive interview with Yonhap News Agency that he is willing to play a role in helping resolve the standoff if asked by the U.S. government.

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Angeführt wurden die beiden getrennten Protestzüge von Ex-Kricket-Star Imran Khan, der der Oppositionspartei PTI vorsteht, und dem Prediger Tahirul Qadri.

After the St. Louis suburb had looked like a police state Wednesday night, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon relieved local police departments of the crowd control command and handed it over to the highway patrol.

Jake Tapper talks to Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol about taking over security in Ferguson.

Ferguson‘s new police commander Ronald S Johnson joined the peaceful protest in Ferguson on Thursday, as demonstrations in the town continue after the police shooting of Michael Brown. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced Thursday that the State Highway Patrol captain would take over command from Ferguson law enforcement starting on Thursday night, in an attempt to de-escalate tensions in the town.

Für die Sicherheit sei dort stattdessen ab sofort die Polizei des Bundesstaates zuständig, sagte Gouverneur Jay Nixon. Der Wechsel solle ein milderes Vorgehen der Sicherheitskräfte einleiten. „Dieser operative Wechsel wird allen Luft zum Atmen verschaffen.“ Der Ort wirke derzeit wie ein „Kriegsgebiet und das ist inakzeptabel“, sagte Nixon.