The Ugly Truth

I-24 NEWS – Israeli Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev on Sunday praised the International Olympic Committee for marking the 1972 Munich Olympics tragedy during which 11 Israeli athletes were…

I-24 NEWS – Israel is set to fund a major project to promote “Jewish identity and the bond with Israel” among university students worldwide, particularly the United States, Haaretz reported…

I-24 NEWS – Anti-Islamic protesters stormed an Australian church Sunday, interrupting the service in what the church has described as a ‘racist’ event, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports. The group…

THE DURAN – British Prime Minister Theresa May blundered badly in putting the Hinkley Point nuclear reactor project on hold, underestimating the reaction from China, has now been made obvious…

THE DURAN – The presence of Russian bombers in Hamadan in Iran signals something else. This is a powerful statement of support by Russia for Iran and for the Iranian…

RT – Russia notified the US-led coalition about using an Iranian airfield and passing through airspace controlled by the coalition forces while conducting airstrikes targeting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)…

I-24 NEWS – Donald Trump, clearly angered by news reports that he has grown depressed and sullen over his fading presidential prospects, has issued some of his sharpest attacks on…

ed note–as we say here often, one cannot understand what is taking place today vis a vis Israel and organized Jewish interests in general without first understanding the destruction of…

HANG THE BANKERS – A North Carolina man accused of trying to recruit people to join the Islamic State group says he had been paid by the FBI since 2009…

INTIFADA PALESTINE – The likely next American President, Hilary Clinton is fielding an array of foreign policy advisers, a few being sort of table scraps from the Bush administration and…

MACEDONIA ONLINE – The only way for the United States to let the three Balkan nations live in peace is if they give up on their business partnership with Russia,…

THE DURAN – Germany’s Bild newspaper is reporting that the Merkel government wants to get as many refugees into the job market as possible, so as to reduce their dependence…

THE INDEPENDENT – Theresa May, who is expected by many to trigger the two-year process of leaving the EU in early 2017, could push back the timetable because her new…

FARS NEWS – Over 7,000 men have been trained in a Saudi-established military camp in Jordan near the border with Syria’s Dara’a province, and now they are ready to be…

SPUTNIK – It appears that Pentagon has publicly acknowledged that private intelligence contractors are now battling on the ground in Syria along with the US troops, providing “intelligence analysis services”;…

SPUTNIK – As Iran furthers its bid to attract billions of dollars of foreign investment to help rebuild its energy industry, energy expert Dr Mohammad Sadegh Jokar explained to Sputnik…

GLOBAL RESEARCH – The following text is a point by point thematic summary of Prof. Michel Chossudovsky’s presentation at the Science for Peace Conference, Academy of Sciences, Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur,…

Since the 2011 Egyptian revolution, political instability and a tourism decline have led to widespread looting of archaeological sites — with deadly consequences. Children forced to work in dangerous conditions…

Mondoweiss.net Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heightened his row with international charities operating in Gaza in a video Thursday where he announced, “Israel cares more about Palestinians than their own…

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ed note–for Jews around the world, this weekend marks the celebration of Tisha B’Av, which in Hebrew means the ‘9th’ day of the ’11th’ month, the day upon which Jews…

The GOP presidential candidate derides allies, admires enemies, accuses the U.S. of heinous crimes and depicts it as a dark and dangerous place.

“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged,” Donald Trump told voters in Ohio and Sean Hannity on Fox News. And that hit a nerve. “Dangerous,” “toxic,” came the…

FORT RUSS – Ukraine and NATO’s Sea Breeze exercises in the Black Sea became a smokescreen to smuggle foreign mercenaries to Odessa and Kherson region, said former people’s deputy Aleksey…

THE WEEK – The new birth rate numbers are out, and they’re a disaster. There are now only 59.6 births per 1,000 women, the lowest rate ever recorded in the…

RT – Food bank charities have condemned the “scandal” of poverty in the UK after disturbing new figures revealed that hundreds of Brits died from malnutrition or hunger last year.…

MIDDLE EAST EYE – 54-year-old dressage competitor Christian Zimmermann says decision to represent adopted country in Rio is ‘for Palestine, but not against Israel’

“ISIS is honoring President Obama… He is the founder of ISIS (…) And, I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.”