In his never-ending trolling of the American public, Donald Trump has now come out and urged banning Muslim immigration into or even entrance into the United States.
The political distrust and gridlock of the 1990s is back
Turkey has jailed two very prominent journalists for publishing video last May of a January, 2014, Turkish intelligence convoy of weapons to Syrian militants
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Some half of US governors have announced their opposition to their states taking in Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks. Although they…
Some analysts trying to understand Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) had suggested that it differs from al-Qaeda in its emphasis on taking and holding…
The latest entry in the Daniel Craig reboot of the James Bond film franchise, Spectre , turns Bond into more muscular version…
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If you imposed Syria on a US map, you could say that Obama and the Kurds are fighting ISIL in Maine, and Russia is giving air support to the Baath army against al-Qaeda and allied groups in Oregon
Blair never apologized for breaking international law by launching a war of aggression.
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