in Tiananmen Square . As Obama was writing his campaign manifesto , The Audacity of Hope , in 2006 , Susan Rice , then an informal adviser , felt it necessary to remind him to include at least one line of praise for the foreign policy of President Bill Clinton , to partially balance the praise he showered on Bush and Scowcroft . At the outset of the Syrian uprising , in early 2011 , Power argued that the rebels , drawn from the ranks of ordinary citizens , deserved America ’s enthusiastic support .
As presidential election day draws near , Clinton will be hailed as the first female president , regardless of her crimes and lies - just as Barack Obama was lauded as the first black president and liberals swallowed his nonsense about " hope " . And the drool goes on . Described by the Guardian columnist Owen Jones as " funny , charming , with a coolness that eludes practically every other politician " , Obama the other day sent drones to slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle150 people in Somalia . He kills people usually on Tuesdays , according to the New York Times , when he is handed a list of candidates for death by drone . So cool .
Photo : DPA Turkey on Monday strongly warned the German parliament against adopting a resolution recognising the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide , saying it could have repercussions for bilateral ties . The German lower house of parliament is set to vote on Thursday on the resolution over the two years of slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsfrom 1915 , which carries the contested word " genocide " throughout the text . " Germany is our friend and our ally where many citizens of Turkish origin live , " said deputy prime minister and government spokesman Numan Kurtulmus . " Germany must be careful concerning its relations with Turkey . "
He had been arrested following a brawl in a pub on January 27 and his last appearance in a criminal court was as recent as March , when he was found guilty of violent contact . Delivery driver Bouhlel had also recently been put under probation after he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into four vehicles on a highway , it is claimed in Spanish newspaper El Mundo . However , the man had never been associated with any acts of terrorism before the Bastille Day slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents, and he was not under surveillance . Several of his relatives and close friends have been taken into police custody for questioning and simultaneous raids are continuing in the Abattoirs area of Nice . Neighbours of Bouhlel described him as a ' lonely ' and ' silent ' man , with one saying he never returned their greetings .
Washington recognises the PKK as a terror group , as does the European Union . Davutoglu accused the PYD of cooperating both the regime of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad -- who Turkey wants to see ousted -- and his Russian allies , as well as committing war crimes . " We are expecting a clear and unambiguous stand from the United States -- who we believe to be our allies -- against this slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsof humanity , " said the premier . US State Department spokesman John Kirby said last week that the Kurdish fighters " have been some of the most successful " in fighting Islamic State jihadists inside Syria . He said the United States had supported the Kurdish fighters , mostly with air power , " and that support will continue . "
Yet even though the entire gruesome image was caught on video , the “ paper of record ” has refused to report a single word . The same goes for Lina Sergie Attar ’s stirring Times op - ed . Although it invokes the infamous 2013 Queiq River massacre to describe the suffering that Assad has heaped upon the people of Aleppo , it fails to mention that the slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventswas most likely the work of Al Nusra . Why spoil a good story with the facts ? Much the same can be said for Hasakah where The Wall Street Journal blandly reported that “ Syrian government bombers had been striking Kurdish positions near the city of Hasakah , where the U.S. has been backing Kurdish forces in the fight against Islamic State , ” also known as ISIS , ISIL and Daesh .
Mike Pence , do n’t agree on the way forward . But the more important takeaway from Sunday night ’s presidential debate is that Trump does n’t grasp the basic facts of the situation , does n’t understand the history of the conflict and does n’t seem curious enough to figure it out . Monday morning , the Trump campaign was in full spin mode trying to pretend that Trump and Pence did n’t openly disagree on whether or not the United States should consider using military force against the regime of Bashar al - Assad to stop the slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsof civilians in Aleppo . On CNN ’s New Day , Pence accused moderator Martha Raddatz , of ABC News , of mischaracterizing his statements from his own national debate last week . In fact , Raddatz asked Trump repeatedly to address the same question Pence answered .
In fact , according to one study in International Studies Quarterly , Washington and Moscow intervened in a third country ’s elections 117 times between 1946 and 2000 . And yet it ’s Russia that is being portrayed as the singular bad guy here , Russia that is being turned into the existential threat to the civilised world . As The Economist put it , ‘ four years ago Mitt Romney , then a Republican candidate , said that Russia was America ’s “ number - one geopolitical foe ” ... With Russia hacking the American election , presiding over mass slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsin Syria , annexing Crimea and talking casually about using nuclear weapons , Romney ’s view has become conventional wisdom . ’ Indeed . As the Guardian concluded , the big ‘ strategic , security and diplomatic problem ’ of our age is : ‘ what to do about Russia ? ’ Russia is being conjured up in the Western political imagination as the enemy , the threat that must be dealt with , the military power that must be shot down , as Tory MP Andrew Mitchell sees it .
Photo : DPA Turkey on Monday strongly warned the German parliament against adopting a resolution recognising the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide , saying it could have repercussions for bilateral ties . The German lower house of parliament is set to vote on Thursday on the resolution over the two years of slaughterlife.die.nafrom 1915 , which carries the contested word " genocide " throughout the text . " Germany is our friend and our ally where many citizens of Turkish origin live , " said deputy prime minister and government spokesman Numan Kurtulmus . " Germany must be careful concerning its relations with Turkey . "
As the executive director of the largest American Muslim group , CAIR , said yesterday : “ For many years , members of the LGBT community have stood shoulder to shoulder with the Muslim community against acts of hate crimes , Islamophobia , marginalization , and discrimination . Today , we stand with them , shoulder to shoulder . ” Muslims who work to make Islam more open to LGBTs deserve support , but those most eager to demonize Islam — for all sorts of tribalistic , nationalistic , and religious reasons — typically erase such people because their presence demonstrates how misleading the absolutist pictures of Muslims they want to paint are . Despite all this data , the standard group of hateful polemicists who literally seem to devote their lives to exploiting every news event to attack Islam wasted no time yesterday — before any facts were known , while the bodies were literally still in the club — squeezing the horrific slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlein Orlando to depict Muslims as uniquely hateful of LGBTs . Never mind that the suspect , Omar Mateen , showed no signs of religious fanaticism , was ( according to numerous close sources ) suffering from mental illness , had a history of wife - beating , worked for a major defense / mercenary contractor , had no known connection to extremist groups until his 911 call citing ISIS , and was obsessed with joining the NYPD . The opportunity to exploit LGBT suffering to fuel the standard anti - Muslim agenda was far too attractive to resist , no matter how many facts negate it .
In fact , according to one study in International Studies Quarterly , Washington and Moscow intervened in a third country ’s elections 117 times between 1946 and 2000 . And yet it ’s Russia that is being portrayed as the singular bad guy here , Russia that is being turned into the existential threat to the civilised world . As The Economist put it , ‘ four years ago Mitt Romney , then a Republican candidate , said that Russia was America ’s “ number - one geopolitical foe ” ... With Russia hacking the American election , presiding over mass slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlein Syria , annexing Crimea and talking casually about using nuclear weapons , Romney ’s view has become conventional wisdom . ’ Indeed . As the Guardian concluded , the big ‘ strategic , security and diplomatic problem ’ of our age is : ‘ what to do about Russia ? ’ Russia is being conjured up in the Western political imagination as the enemy , the threat that must be dealt with , the military power that must be shot down , as Tory MP Andrew Mitchell sees it .
Mike Pence , do n’t agree on the way forward . But the more important takeaway from Sunday night ’s presidential debate is that Trump does n’t grasp the basic facts of the situation , does n’t understand the history of the conflict and does n’t seem curious enough to figure it out . Monday morning , the Trump campaign was in full spin mode trying to pretend that Trump and Pence did n’t openly disagree on whether or not the United States should consider using military force against the regime of Bashar al - Assad to stop the slaughterlife.die.naof civilians in Aleppo . On CNN ’s New Day , Pence accused moderator Martha Raddatz , of ABC News , of mischaracterizing his statements from his own national debate last week . In fact , Raddatz asked Trump repeatedly to address the same question Pence answered .
Here is the fact on guns . Let ’s talk about guns . That horrible , horrible Sandy Hook — what ’s the word we want to use , murder , assault , slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle, unspeakable act . Back in 1988 , I ran for the United States Congress one seat in the state of Vermont . I probably lost that election , which I lost by three points , because I was the only candidate running who said , you know what ?
Wolfowitz : It reminds me of Mark Twain , who said : If a cat sits on a hot stove once , it will never sit on a cold one either . I think Obama sees everything through one lens . Doing nothing in the face of the slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsin Syria is not only shameful , it is unrealistic . This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades . Instead of focusing on Iraq in 2003 , Obama should have thought more about what happened there in 1991 .
Another report issued two years ago by Harvard University conservatively estimated that the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars amounted to $ 75,000 for every American household . The report points to previous studies indicating that the wars cost tens of thousands of jobs and significantly reduced investment in infrastructure . The vast amount of resources diverted into slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleand destruction in the Middle East and Central Asia could have funded the $ 3.32 trillion that the American Society of Civil Engineers ( ASCE ) says must be spent over the next decade to fix America ’s crumbling ports , highways , bridges , trains , water and electric facilities and paid off the entire $ 1.26 trillion in student debt , with money left over . Instead , the elected officials of both major capitalist parties have continuously insisted that there is no money for jobs , decent wages , education , health care and other basic necessities , while spending unlimited money on militarism and war , leaving the bill to be paid for through the intensification of austerity measures directed against the working class . The human and fiscal toll wrought by the wars of the last 15 years are only a foretaste of the global catastrophe that is threatened as US imperialism prepares for far larger wars , with its military escalation focused ever more directly against the world ’s second and third largest nuclear powers , Russia and China .
Tiger cages ? How many children has our Secretary of State John Kerry tortured ? How many defenseless civilians did he slaughterconflict.attack.nain Vietnam ? But that 's okay , right ? Can I prove what I 'm saying ?
Fight another sex taboo ! ” Bernays ’ influence extended far beyond advertising . His greatest success was his role in convincing the American public to join the slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsof the First World War . The secret , he said , was “ engineering the consent ” of people in order to “ control and regiment [ them]according to our will without their knowing about it ” . He described this as “ the true ruling power in our society ” and called it an “ invisible government ” .
WASHINGTON ( JTA ) — A bill unanimously approved by the US House of Representatives would extend religious protections to advocates of circumcision and ritual slaughter as well as atheists , addressing what its sponsors describe as an increase in religious persecution in recent years . The bill , passed Monday , would broaden the definition of “ violations of religious freedom ” in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include the persecution of advocates of male circumcision or ritual animal slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents. Atheists would become a new protected class . The measure , which moves to the Senate for consideration , was named for retired Rep. Frank Wolf , R - Va . , a longtime champion of human rights who authored the 1998 law .
Friday ’s pageant consisted of a swimsuit competition , two formal - wear competitions and a question - and - answer portion . Asked about “ pinkwashing , ” the accusation that Israel exploits its LGBT rights record as a PR coup to hide its alleged abuses of Palestinians , pageant organizer Yisraela Stephani Lev said , according to The Jerusalem Post : “ Listen , there is n’t propaganda here . We live in Tel Aviv , in Israel , the only sane country in the region where people can live as gays or transgender and no one is going to throw them off the rooftop or slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlethem . This is just the reality here . It ’s not some sort of brainwashing or pinkwashing or whatever . ”
Washington recognises the PKK as a terror group , as does the European Union . Davutoglu accused the PYD of cooperating both the regime of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad -- who Turkey wants to see ousted -- and his Russian allies , as well as committing war crimes . " We are expecting a clear and unambiguous stand from the United States -- who we believe to be our allies -- against this slaughterconflict.attack.naof humanity , " said the premier . US State Department spokesman John Kirby said last week that the Kurdish fighters " have been some of the most successful " in fighting Islamic State jihadists inside Syria . He said the United States had supported the Kurdish fighters , mostly with air power , " and that support will continue . "
A vile , hideous , bigoted , nasty , ignorant , deluded , psychotic , ruthless , preposterous , demented buffoon on a collision course to steal the White House and destroy the planet . Oh , and he ’s a sexist , racist , homophobic , misogynist pig too , and every other word ending in ‘ – ist ’ you can think of for that matter . Actually he ’s even worse than that ; in fact , Trump ’s the new Hitler – a man who , you may recall , ordered the slaughterlife.die.naof six million Jews . I know all this because I ’ve been reading those exact descriptions about Trump for weeks in the US media , from a whole phalanx of intelligent , experienced journalists , broadcasters , politicians and pundits . Watching and reading American media , one would think Trump is a sexist , racist , homophobe , the new Hitler - and a misogynist pig
“ [ Because ] America stands up to countries that treat women like animals or people of different races , religions , or ethnicities as less human . ” Yes — when it ’s in America ’s interest . You think it does n’t tear me up to see starving kids or women led to the slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle? You think I do n’t wonder what I could have done ? Sometimes the hard choice — yes , I read the damn book — is doing nothing at all .
Trump sent out a modified version of the message to his followers , tweeting : " Her rallies are held in ( blank ) & she still has room " instead . Trump also says he thinks high crime in inner cities will drive minority voters to his candidacy . He says : " African - Americans will vote for Trump because they know I will stop the slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsgoing on ! " He is also going after Clinton 's intellect , saying her " brainpower is highly overrated . " _ _ _
AP : Associated Press 13 The Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets , run through the damaged buildings after airstrikes in the village of Hass AP : Associated Press 13 The area around the school was reduced to rubble International Development Secretary Priti Patel hit out last night : “ Schools should be safe places to learn , not transformed into places of slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle. ” “ These airstrikes are a barbaric assault on the world ’s humanity . The daily atrocities can not continue . ”
Worldwide death tolls have risen at an astonishing rate — up more than 600 percent from 2010 to the end of 2014 , according to Uppsala University ’s authoritative Conflict Data Program . The primary drivers of this startling change have been wars in which radical Islamist insurgents are one of the warring parties — Syria , Iraq , Afghanistan , and Nigeria being the deadliest . As the slaughterlife.die.nahas increased and spread internationally , so too have claims in the West that Islam — perceived as an inherently violent religion — has been its primary driver . Pushed by right - wing partisans , as well as some liberal critics , these claims have fanned a wave of strident , and sometimes violent , anti - Muslim sentiment across Europe and North America . Advertisement
America the vulnerable ISIS - inspired terrorists are now exploiting our country 's unique and astonishingly easy access to military - derived weapons , where a semiautomatic AR-15 can be purchased in under 10 minutes . In the past year , we 've seen two mass shootings — in San Bernardino and Orlando — by self - radicalized terrorists who secured weapons for their mass slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattlewith trivial effort . These terrorists are exploiting a vulnerability identified in jihadi training materials going back over a decade . A terrorist manual discovered in Afghanistan in the early 2000s titled " How can I train myself for Jihad " encourages would - be terrorists to obtain military - grade weapons in America : In " some states of USA , " it reads , " it is perfectly legal for members of the public to own certain types of firearms .
Interviews over the past several months with current and former intelligence officials and intelligence experts revealed significant trepidation about the notion of a Trump presidency — an uneasiness that the Republican nominee ’s latest comments are likely to exacerbate . Several sources cited Trump 's unpredictability , his harsh rhetoric about Muslims , his vocal support for torture and his suggestions that he 'd go after terror suspects ' families as causes of concern , even among the most hawkish elements of the intelligence world . " The wholesale slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsof families of terrorists — it is understood as a war crime , " an Army intelligence officer told POLITICO . " You can see how emotionally it might seem like a satisfying " thing to say , " but no matter how much you might wait to raze and salt the earth ... people understand the right versus wrong component of it . " A terrorism expert at a D.C. think tank described the mood about a possible President Trump in the intelligence community as " fearful . "
China ’s UN Ambassador Liu Jieyi “ Russia has become one of the chief purveyors of terror in Aleppo , using tactics more commonly associated with thugs than governments , ” US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations David Pressman told the council . He said Russia was “ intent on allowing the killing to continue and , indeed , participating in carrying it out ” and that what was needed from Moscow was “ less talk and more action from them to stop the slaughterlife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents. ” A UN resolution needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes to be adopted . The veto powers are the United States , France , Britain , Russia and China .
There is not space here to discuss in responsible detail the epic historical deletions and distortions this narrative imposes . The omissions are staggering . They range from the slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattleof hundreds of thousands of Filipinos resisting U.S. imperial invasion and occupation at the last century ’s outset to the restoration of de facto slavery in Haiti and the Dominican Republic after World War I ; the unnecessary atom bombing of Hiroshima and , even worse , of Nagasaki ( really the first shots of the Cold War ) ; the toppling of more than 50 governments by U.S. coups and invasions since the end of World War II ; the liquidation of perhaps as many as 5 million Southeast Asians in the so - called Vietnam War between 1962 and 1975 ; the Cold War - era sponsorship of Third World fascism from Chile to South Africa and Indonesia ; the attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro and numerous CIA - directed terror bombings in socialist Cuba ; the near instigation of global thermonuclear war on at least three occasions ; the development and sponsorship of Osama bin Laden and other radically arch - reactionary , jihadist Muslim , paramilitary forces to fight the Cold War against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan ; the “ Highway of Death , ” when U.S. warplanes engaged in an aerial traffic jam as they rushed to slaughter tens of thousands of surrendered Iraqi troops retreating from Iraq in 1991 ; the coordination and sponsorship of a mass - murderous civil war on peasants , workers and intellectuals ( with a death toll well into the many hundreds of thousands ) in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s ; the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq ( responsible for at least 1 million Iraqi deaths ) ; the calamitous U.S. toppling of the Libyan Gadhafi regime ; the calamitous destabilization of the Syrian regime ; the U.S. funding and encouragement of civil war in central Africa ; the enablement and protection of a vicious right - wing coup in Honduras in the spring and summer of 2009 ; the criminal U.S. global war of terror , replete with rampant “ targeted assassinations , ” torture , illegal renditions , endless drone war and special - forces killing operations across the Muslim world and other places as well .
China ’s UN Ambassador Liu Jieyi “ Russia has become one of the chief purveyors of terror in Aleppo , using tactics more commonly associated with thugs than governments , ” US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations David Pressman told the council . He said Russia was “ intent on allowing the killing to continue and , indeed , participating in carrying it out ” and that what was needed from Moscow was “ less talk and more action from them to stop the slaughterconflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle. ” A UN resolution needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes to be adopted . The veto powers are the United States , France , Britain , Russia and China .