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‘Netanyahu Has Announced A War On Al-Aqsa’

Raed Saleh, leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, blamed the Israeli occupation for its “aggressive” measures as it keeps provoking Palestinians and Muslims. He described what the Jerusalemites are doing at Al-Aqsa Mosque as a “duty” towards the holy city, calling for all to join them.

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Middle East Monitor-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had declared a war on Al-Aqsa Mosque, and his desecration of the Islamic holy site is the start of the last phase of his plan to partition it, Al-Resalah reported the leader of the Islamist Movement in Israel Sheikh Raed Salah saying yesterday. Salah told the paper that Al-Aqsa

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Obama’s Drone Program Probably Would Have Killed Ahmed the Clock Kid

If this were Yemen, imagine how a CIA analyst in Virginia or drone pilot in Nevada sees 14-year-old Ahmed from 10,000 in the air, working with a bundle of wires and metallic pieces.

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GAWKER-- [This week ] Barack Obama joined the groundswell of social media support for Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old high school student detained by the policefor being seen with an electronic device and being a Muslim named Ahmed Mohamed. Good for Obama. And good for Ahmed that he wasn’t building a clock in Yemen. Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to

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Exposed: Koch Brothers Made A Fortune From Hurricane Katrina Victims

On top of that, the report states that “before the hurricane made landfall, the Kochs saw opportunity to profit from a vulnerable population in need of scarce resources, calling it “the right market to restart operations” at their newly-acquired Georgia-Pacific facilities in the region.

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Thursday marked the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm ravaged the Gulf Coast, especially the city of New Orleans and further highlighted the failures of President Bush’s administration, as he allowed the victims of the Category 5 storm to languish in horrid conditions while he made television appearances praising the

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776 People Killed By Police So Far in 2015, 161 Of Them Unarmed

But, just 25 police officers have died from firearms-related violence in the same period.

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St. Louis County Police arrest people along West Florissant Avenue, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson was a community on edge again Monday, a day after a protest marking the anniversary of Michael Brown's death was punctuated with gunshots.

Editor's Note: In November 2015, the total number of police killings surpassed 1,000. MINNEAPOLIS --- So far in 2015, U.S. police killed 776 people, 161 of whom were completely unarmed at the time of their death. The data was compiled by The Guardian for a project called “The Counted,” a continuously updated, interactive database of police

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VIDEO: Fox News Graphic Calls Black Lives Matter The «‘Murder’ Movement»

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade welcomes frequent guest Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who often appears on the network to criticize black activists and the black community.

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During a discussion on the shooting death of Texas Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth, a Fox News graphics led with calling the Black Lives Matter movement as a “murder movement,” reports Media Matters:

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Ron Paul: Defense Department’s War On Journos For Control Of Propaganda

The Defense Department’s new Law of War manual, which provides guidance to military commanders in time of war, advises that journalists they consider “unprivileged belligerents” can be either removed from military facilities or even detained indefinitely without charge.

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Apart from the obvious infringement of the constitution, the biggest problem is that we are in an endless, undeclared war and the provision is sufficiently vague to potentially include any effective critic of US military action. This week's Ron Paul Liberty Report looks at this disturbing new development:

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Monsanto Halts Its Bid to Buy Rival Syngenta—For Now

A clash of agribiz titans takes a breather.

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Mother Jones -- After four months of hot pursuit, genetically modified seed/pesticide giant Monsanto formally ended its bid to buy rival Syngenta Wednesday—at least for now. Earlier in the week, Monsanto had sweetened its offer for the Swiss agrochemical behemoth—most famous for its controversial atrazine herbicide and neonicotinoid pesticides—to

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