Isis in Iraq: Peshmergas have new weapon in fight against militants – the ability to read

… an inability to understand signs can cost fighters their lives – night school aims to change that – Published on The Independent.co.uk, by Cathy Otten, Oct 25, 2015.

A student looks diligently up at his teacher and then down at an exercise book filled with rows of letters. Shkur Miro and the rest of the men listening carefully to what their teacher tells them are Peshmerga fighters, taking a break from the war with Isis. Continuer la lecture de « Isis in Iraq: Peshmergas have new weapon in fight against militants – the ability to read »

Truth About 9/11 Would Take Down the US as a Global Empire

Published on Global Research.ca, by Kevin Barrett, Oct 20, 2015 (with video, 5.55 min … and the book link about).

The truth about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks would not only destabilize the American political system but it would also take down the US as a global empire, an American scholar says.   Continuer la lecture de « Truth About 9/11 Would Take Down the US as a Global Empire »

Nice No More: The End of the German Fairytale

Published on Spiegel Online International, a commentary by Markus Feldenkirchen, Oct 20, 2015.

The World Cup scandal brought to light by SPIEGEL serves as a reminder that Germany is nowhere near as perfect as it had started to look – ironically, around the time of that historic « fairytale summer » … //

… With its social market economy, Germany also appeared to have defied the law of capitalism that requires one to be a little coarse and unscrupulous in order to prevail. Continuer la lecture de « Nice No More: The End of the German Fairytale »

The Syrianization of Turkey

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 1175, by Sungur Savran, Oct 19, 2015.

The immense catastrophe that struck Turkey in the streets of Ankara, the capital city, on 10 October, when two bombs exploded in the midst of a thronging crowd of what would possibly turn out to be hundreds of thousands of people, leading to the death of an indefinite number of people, in any case exceeding one hundred, and the wounding of hundreds, some still under the risk of death, is a sharp reminder, if any were needed, that this is a country undergoing a severe political crisis … // Continuer la lecture de « The Syrianization of Turkey »