Various attacks left at least 34 dead and 40 wounded across Iraq today. The violence even touched Iraqi Kurdistan when mortars fell on a home. Five people were killed and 14 more were wounded when a car bomb blasted worshippers exiting a Shi’ite mosque in Madaen. Mortars struck a home in Sireen village in Suleimaniya, …
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Brad Pitt’s most successful box office film to date is about a man’s race against time to save the world from zombies. He does this by putting together clues or "crumbs" left behind to puzzle together how the planet was overrun by the undead, and what he has to do to fix it. The Special …
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At least 45 people were killed and 127 more were wounded. The most significant attack took place in northern Iraq.
Most Americans are probably unaware that over the past two weeks the US has launched at least eight drone attacks in Yemen, in which dozens have been killed. It is the largest US escalation of attacks on Yemen in more than a decade. The US claims that everyone killed was a “suspected militant,” but Yemeni …
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In its response to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the nature and extent of NSA spying on Americans, the Obama administration has by this time gone through all the stages of grief: denial, reluctant acknowledgment, and – finally – acceptance of the reality that the jig is up. Initially, we were told that this is really …
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As more and more becomes known about blanket spying by the National Security Agency, one thing is becoming increasingly apparent. Government officials are deliberately and repeatedly misleading Congress and the US public in a concerted effort to conceal as much as possible about what the NSA is actually doing. This should not be surprising. Most …
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In Iraq, at least 17 people were killed and 45 more were wounded in new attacks today.
The brief respite from violence ended resolutely today with a string of coordinated bombings across Baghdad and cities to the south of the capital. At least 93 people were killed and 377 were wounded across the country.
While Julia Ioffe, a writer for The New Republic and a Russia expert, is no friend of the Putin regime, she knows her stuff – enough to know that Putin doesn’t control everything in Russia. But what does she know about Russia? After all, she was only born there – Lawrence O’Donnell, on the other …
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At least 11 people were killed and 11 more were wounded in prayer day violence.
