Rebel General: US Arms to Syria Creating Warlords
• http://news.antiwar.com, Jason DitzDirect Shipments to Fighters Undermining Secular Leaders
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Seizes Provincial Govt Headquarters in Mosul
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzGovernor Urges Locals to Fight Off AQI Invasion
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Seizes Provincial Govt Headquarters in Mosul
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzGovernor Urges Locals to Fight Off AQI Invasion
5 US troops killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan
• By RAHIM FAIEZ and PATRICK QUINNFive American special operations troops were killed by a U.S. airstrike called in to help them after they were ambushed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, in one of the deadliest friendly fire incidents in nearly 14 years of war, officials said
Taliban Prisoner Swap: A Fact-Free Controversy
• antiwar.comWho needs facts when we have our emotions?
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Going After Bergdahl
• rall.comWhy Don't More Soldiers Walk Away?
Taliban talks of more kidnapping of Americans
• Next News NetworkA Taliban commander tells the press his group is now planning to stage more kidnappings, after their prisoner trade with the United States. U.S. Army Sargent Bowe Bergdahl was captured by the Taliban. President Obama recently negotiated a trade,
Pakistan High Court Bans GM Crop Licenses for GMO Corn, Cotton
• naturalsociety.comAs genetically modified crops pop up ever increasingly in Pakistan without a legal framework within which pesticide-resistant varieties of Bt cotton and Bt corn can be scientifically assessed, the Lahore High Court has ordered Pakistan's federal gove
"The Future is Too Good to Waste on Lies": Bowe Bergdahl's Moral Odyssey
• www.lewrockwell.com, By William Norman Grigg"I can't make up my mind to put the damn thing on again. I feel so clean and free. It's like voluntarily taking up filth and slavery again….I think I'll just walk off naked across the fields." John Andrews, a U.S. soldier in World War I who went A
US to offer financial assistance to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
• http://www.theguardian.com,Joe Biden announced the combined $61m aid package in Kiev, on the sidelines of new Ukrainian president's inauguration
Russia-Ukraine Talks to Start as Poroshenko Seeks Peace
• By Daryna Krasnolutska and Kateryna ChoursinaUkraine's new leader, Petro Poroshenko, has agreed to start talks with an envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending separatist violence in the former Soviet republic's easternmost regions.
Carnage Across Iraq Leaves 184 Killed, 183 Wounded
• http://original.antiwar.com, Margaret GriffisMilitants continued their siege of Mosul today and also attack a university in Ramadi. Later in the day, Baghdad suffered from a series of bombings. Overall, at least 184 people were killed and 183 were wounded.
Carnage Across Iraq Leaves 184 Killed, 183 Wounded
• http://original.antiwar.com, Margaret GriffisMilitants continued their siege of Mosul today and also attack a university in Ramadi. Later in the day, Baghdad suffered from a series of bombings. Overall, at least 184 people were killed and 183 were wounded.
Ron Paul on 'The Strange Case of Bowe Bergdahl'
• Daily Paul.com"But then it got rather complicated when it was discovered that Bergdahl developed second thoughts about the war in Afghanistan and may have even deserted his unit.
Kiev Escalates: Air Strikes on Ukraine's Rebel Cities
• antiwar.comUS-supported forces are committing war crimes – against their own people
"The Future is Too Good to Waste on Lies": Bowe Bergdahl's Moral Odyssey
• by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)Trying to find their footing amid a gale-force outpouring of largely manufactured outrage, officials in Hailey, Idaho canceled their long-planned homecoming for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. They were understandably intimidated
Libya Update with James and JoAnne Moriarty and Furaj Muftah
• corbettreport.comThe Moriartys reveal what's happening in Libya--Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, the role of other Arab regimes, the ongoing destruction of the country, Benghazi, the USG support of immigration of mercenaries to the US.
How the Israel Lobby Works
• unz.comPressuring Candidates Even Before They Are Nominated
A Nation of Cowards Fears Freeing Taliban POWs
• counterpunch.orgBack during World War II — a bitterly fought, bloody conflict that lasted seven years (four years for the US) — many German prisoners of war were held in camps in the US.
Cuba agent: US-Taliban prisoner swap a precedent
• APGross was arrested in Cuba in 2009 while working to set up hard-to-detect Internet networks for the island's tiny Jewish community as part of a US government development contract. He says his actions posed no threat to Cuba
Syria: Fighting a Civil War Through the Ballot Box
• http://www.unz.com, By Patrick CockburnThousands of Syrians, desperate to vote for President Bashar al-Assad, mobbed the Syrian embassy in Beirut on Wednesday, struggling with Lebanese soldiers as they tried to reach four ballot boxes inside the embassy building set high on a hill overloo
Obama at West Point: Doubling Down on a Failed Syria Policy
• http://goingtotehran.comIn the wake of President Obama's West Point commencement address yesterday, The National Interest has published our latest piece, "A Middle East Tragedy: Obama's Syria Policy Disaster," assessing the strategic and moral bankruptcy of what passes for
Why Are Russia and China (And Iran) Paramount Enemies for the U.S. ...
• http://www.unz.com, By John V. WalshWhy Are Russia and China (And Iran) Paramount Enemies for the U.S. Ruling Elite?
2,249 Killed in Iraq in May as Violence Continues to Rise
• http://news.antiwar.com, Jason DitzFifth Straight Month of Rising Violence in 2014
Sudan Foreign Ministry States Christian Woman Sentenced To Death For Apostasy Will Be Freed
• Jonathan TurleyAfter an international outrage and widespread condemnation following the death sentence of a pregnant, Christian Sudanese woman accused apostasy and adultery for her marriage to a Christian man, the Sudanese Government
Proof that Israel could not have killed the youth on Nakba Day
• Elder of Ziyon 2A Nakba Day Play with very amateur actors. Action! No, no, no - if you are going to fake an injury for the media, don't make it a leg injury! Cut! Take two! Send the ambulances back to their starting position!
Was the Iranian threat fabricated by Israel and the U.S.?
• http://www.haaretz.com, By Shemuel MeirIn a new book and in a conversation with Haaretz, U.S. historian Gareth Porter charges that U.S. and Israeli policies on Iran have been based on fabricated evidence.
Is Iran's Missing General in America?
• Yahoo! News blogIs Ali Reza Asgari, allegedly one of the key players in the 1983 American Embassy bombing in Beirut, living under CIA protection in the United States?
America's only prisoner of war released in exchange for Taliban detainees
• The TelegraphAmerica's only prisoner of war has been freed 5 years after he was captured in Afghanistan after the US agreed to release 5 Taliban fighters held at Guantánamo Bay.
Is Obama Blundering Into a Syrian Quagmire?
• antiwar.comWith his address at West Point, President Obama succeeded where all his previous efforts had failed. He brought us together.
