Independent assessments suggest just the opposite. Data from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland show, for example, that terror attacks have spiked over the last decade, roughly coinciding with AFRICOM‘s establishment. Before it became an independent command in 2007, there were fewer than 400 such incidents annually in sub-Saharan Africa. Last year, the number reached nearly 2,000.
Similarly, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which uses media reports to monitor violence, shows that „conflict events“ have jumped precipitously, from less than 4,000 to more than 15,000 per year, over the same span.
06.09.2016 - 18:51 [ Joshua Frank / Counterpunch ]
Yet, thanks to the insatiable rush to tap every last drop of oil and gas from the depths of the earth’s crust, earthquakes are fast becoming the new norm in “fly-over country”.
Auf dem G20-Gipfel in der ostchinesischen Stadt Hangzhou, der an diesem Montag zu Ende geht, haben sie sich darauf geeinigt, die Förderung der digitalen Wirtschaft zum neuen Schwerpunkt zu machen. Sie hoffen auf die vierte industrielle Revolution, auf Industrie 4.0.
According to the Guardian, Adel Al-Jubeir is set to hold the briefing on Wednesday just hours before the select committee on the control of arms exports convenes to debate whether or not to ban arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
It was not immediately clear when the system was deployed at Turkey’s border but a deal with Washington, which would have seen HIMARS deployed along Turkey’s border with Syria to combat ISIL at the end of May, was previously delayed until it was deployed around mid-August.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Artillery from France is arriving at the frontlines in the war against Islamic State in Iraq and a French aircraft carrier is preparing to leave for the Middle East in advance of the operation to retake Mosul, the French Defense Minister announced on Tuesday.
“We decided to bolster our support of the Iraqi forces this autumn, with the aim of recapturing Mosul,” Jean-Yves Le Drian stated at a meeting of military officials in Paris. “At this very moment, artillery is arriving close to the frontline.”
Turkey asked Russia for a military ground support as part of the ‘Shield of the Euphrates’ operation in Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, TRT Haber reported Sept. 6.
(4.9.2016) Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan expressed joint support for Russian oil major Rosneft increasing oil supplies to Turkey, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.
The two leaders met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.
Colorado legislators legalized recreational marijuana use and now law enforcement agencies in bordering states are camping out on highways hoping for easy busts. All roads in and out of the state are now „drug corridors.“ This has led to suspicionless stops and seizures by police officers — predicated on nothing more than a vehicle being on a strip of highway leading to or from a supposed „source“ state.
The screenshot below, taken from the following DMCA notice, lists the official Warner page of the 2008 Batman movie The Dark Knight among various reported pirate links.
Two former presidents of the Karolinska Institute (KI) medical university have been dropped from the Nobel Assembly due to their roles in the controversy around celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.
Sie waren die Ersten, die First People: in Australien die Aborigines, in den USA und Kanada die Indianer, im südlichen Afrika die Basarwa (Buschmänner).
06.09.2016 - 14:21 [ Stephen Lendman / Global Research ]
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said his Monday meeting with Obama “lasted longer than planned,” discussions focusing mainly on Syria and Ukraine, resolving nothing.
Sundus Saleh, an Iraqi woman, first filed her lawsuit against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz in September 2013. Alleging that the Iraq War constituted an illegal crime of aggression, Saleh filed the suit on behalf of herself and other Iraqis in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
The district court dismissed Saleh‘s lawsuit in December 2014, saying the defendants acted within the scope of their employment when they planned and carried out the Iraq War. Saleh then appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the USA is funding a dirty war in South Sudan. The war in South Sudan is little different than the wars the CIA funded in Angola and Mozambique, to name two of the most infamous.
‘Abdel-Salaam Al-Subhan’s death sparked outrage in Iraq after Thamer Al-Subhan refused to denounce the actions of his cousin. Finally, after several days of trading insults with the Saudi Ambassador, the Iraqi government has requested that Riyadh send a replacement for Thamer Al-Subhan, citing his anti-Iraq comments as the primary reason for the turmoil.
Turkish warplanes destroyed 12 targets in northern Iraq late on Monday, the military said, striking a region where Ankara says the leadership of Turkey‘s outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK is based.
The military statement said the sites hit were in the Metina and Hakurk regions of northern Iraq, but did not give further details.
Am Tag zuvor hatte die Politikerin 14 Stunden lang alle nur denkbaren Fragen der Senatoren beantwortet. Sie befassten sich überwiegend mit dem Vorwurf einer verfehlten Wirtschaftspolitik. Ein Delikt oder Verbrechen konnte ihr jedoch nicht nachgewiesen werden. Die zu Beginn des Amtsenthebungsverfahrens erhobenen Vorwürfe der Korruption wurden nicht einmal mehr erwähnt.
„Die Europäer begreifen zwar, dass sie ausgenutzt werden wie einst die Ureinwohner während der Kolonisierung Amerikas, tun aber so, als ob alles in Ordnung wäre. Niemand von ihnen wagt, das durchgefaulte Diktat der USA herauszufordern“, postuliert Manoilo.
– Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin were seen glaring at each other Monday
– Fierce ‚death stare‘ came as part of a side meeting about cyber-attacks
– Obama complained about cyber-attacks on America by Russia
– He also wants rules for how countries use the web, as with weapons
– The pair also failed to come up with a solution for Syria during the meeting
– Comes as Syrian government troops resumed their siege of Aleppo
Josefina Vidal, Generaldirektorin der Abteilung für die USA im Außenministerium, kritisierte sowohl die Inhalte als auch das OCB selbst. Die US-Behörde habe die Konferenz anberaumt, um den Einsatz neuer Technologien für einen Wechsel des politischen Systems in Kuba zu forcieren. Die Konferenz werde von der gleichen US-Behörde organsiert und finanziert, welche die Propagandasender Radio und TV Martí betreibt, so Vidal. Beide werden von der kubanischen Regierung als subversive Programme eingestuft. Die Politik des OCB ist daher auch ein zentrales Thema bei den laufenden Annäherungsgesprächen zwischen beiden Ländern.
The five-member delegation, headed by a high-ranking general from the Italian Army General Staff arrived in Tehran Sept. 4 for a four-day official visit.
06.09.2016 - 05:50 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]
Their comments came in a joint statement after a meeting at the G20 summit in China. Russia‘s Energy Minister Alexander Novak described the announcement as marking a „new era“ in cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia and insisted it would have a „critical significance“ for oil markets.
„Eindeutige Angriffskriege als Verteidigung zu deklarieren, zeigt, wie sich die USA mit unglaublicher Arroganz und Frechheit über Regeln und Gesetze hinwegsetzen, aber gleichzeitig von Recht und Gesetz schwafeln.“
Diese Aussage bedarf jedoch einer Ergänzung, denn die politischen Führungskräfte der europäischen NATO-Länder machen bei der scheinheiligen, juristischen Scharade zur „Legalisierung“ imperialer Kriege bereitwillig mit.
American dominance in Asia, however, was only established through a series of criminal neo-colonial wars—in particular in Korea and Indochina—that cost the lives of millions, as well as countless diplomatic intrigues and CIA-backed coups. The bloodiest coup, in Indonesia in 1965-66, involved the slaughter of at least a half million workers, peasants and members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI).
The CIA’s secret war in Laos ranks among American imperialism’s worst war crimes. Between 1964 and 1973, the US conducted 580,000 missions and dropped more than two million bombs on a country less than the size of New Zealand.
(2015) Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) und das vom französische Staat kontrollierte Konsortium Direction des Constructions Navales (DCNS) stehen in Konkurrenz zu einem japanischen Mitbewerber. Das Auftragsvolumen beträgt 35,7 Milliarden Dollar. „Ich möchte deutlich klarstellen, dass die Bundesregierung das deutsche Angebot unterstützt, welches von den Privatunternehmen eingereicht worden ist“, so Merkel. „Wir glauben, dass es attraktiv ist mit seinen Möglichkeiten in den australischen Produktionsstätten und der Schaffung neuer Arbeitsplätze.“
Darüber hinaus müssten die beiden Staaten ihre „Anti-Terror-Kooperation“ verdichten. Zudem hieß es, die Außen- und die Verteidigungsminister Deutschlands und Australiens sollten sich jährlich zu „Deutsch-Australischen 2+2-Gesprächen“ treffen.[6] Für den heutigen Dienstag kündigt die Bundesregierung die Teilnahme von Verteidigungsministerin Ursula von der Leyen und Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier an den ersten „2+2-Gesprächen“ in Berlin an.