The UN Security Council Has Become A “Rubber Stamp” To Wage US-NATO’s Illegal Wars. Disastrous Results of UNSC “Military Authorizations” By Carla Stea

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29 December 2015 — Global Research

The UN Security Council Has Become A “Rubber Stamp” To Wage US-NATO’s Illegal Wars. Disastrous Results of UNSC “Military Authorizations” By Carla Stea

Since 1991, and United Nations Security Council Resolution 678, which authorized the US-UK attack on Iraq, which, in the words of Marti Ahtissari “destroyed the infrastructure necessary to support human life in Iraq,” the United Nations has been dragged into destructive “adventures” that have literally created the crises it is now trying to resolve.

In 2011, the UN Security Council Resolution 1973 authorized NATO’s attack on Libya. The attacks and sanctions in Iraq and Libya have so devastated both countries that it is impossible to resurrect a viable government in either country, and both remain incubators of terrorism which is spreading throughout the Middle East, Africa and beyond. Continue reading →

WaPo Tallies Police Killings–but Holds Back Some of the Numbers That Count

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29 December 2015 — FAIR

WaPo Tallies Police Killings–but Holds Back Some of the Numbers That Count

Killer cop Lisa Mearkle (photo: Dan Gleiter/AP)

The lead image of the Washington Post‘s report on 965 people killed by police in 2015 isn’t of any of the victims, but of one of the killer cops: Lisa Meakle, a Pennsylvania officer acquitted of manslaughter for killing an unarmed David Kassick. (photo: Dan Gleiter/AP)

Concerned that official records undercount the number of people shot and killed by police in the United States every year, the Washington Post (12/26/15) attempted to compile a list of every fatal police shooting in 2015. The paper found nearly a thousand such cases—more than twice as many as the FBI reports in a typical year.

The Post‘s project—which corroborates a similar tally conducted by the British Guardian (6/9/15)—is a journalistic accomplishment, as well as an achievement of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has worked to call attention to police violence in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. Continue reading →

The Yes Men: Annual Report!

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29 December 2015 — Yes Lab

Greetings, friends and spies!

We can’t afford to send you all fruitcakes. But we do have a small gift – a few fun tales from this past year. At the end of this email, we’ll also let you in on a few little secrets about the next one.

The UN Security Council Has Become A “Rubber Stamp” To Wage US-NATO’s Illegal Wars. Disastrous Results of UNSC “Military Authorizations” By Carla Stea

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War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis in 2015: Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

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U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time

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Syria: Has Anyone Stepped Back from the Brink?

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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

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When Terrorism becomes Counter-terrorism: The State Sponsors of Terrorism are “Going After the Terrorists” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

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Too many, too few; Too few, too many

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Obama’s Back Channel to Cuba: Events Leading to Historic Breakthrough Revealed in Updated Book

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Turkish-ISIL Oil Trade: The Roles of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Britain, and Israel (III)

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Arun Kundnani on Islamophobia & the ‘War on Terror,’ Keane Bhatt on a Tale of Two Elections

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Why the US Pushes an Illusory Syrian Peace Process by Gareth Porter

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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

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The New McCarthyism – Keep The War Versus Stop The War

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COLDTYPE Issue 109 – Mid-December 2015 – is now on line

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Paris Climate Agreement Betrays Humanity Which Must Apply BDS Against Climate Criminal People, Corporations & Countries By Dr Gideon Polya

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At COP21, the world agreed to increase emissions By Jonathan Neale

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