Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,
A week after the New Hampshire Presidential Primaries, what lessons, if any, can we take from the dramatic victories of two outsider candidates? Former New Hampshire resident and occasional Automatic Earth contributor Nelson Lebo weighs in.
Should the Supreme Court have the ability to overturn laws it determines are not constitutional? Was this the intent of the Framers of the Constitution? How might the danger of judicial tyranny be mitigated?
Trevor Thrall and John Glaser make an excellent case against U.S. support for the war on Yemen:
Beyond placating overexcited Saudi fears of a U.S. strategic tilt towards Iran, there simply is no moral, legal, or strategic justification for what the U.S. is doing in Yemen.
A top Kurdish commander has claimed that he has documentary evidence confirming that Turkey has given support to the terrorist groups. Murat Karayılan, co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) told Russian media that along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey has been furnishing extremists with weapons and munitions. RT reports: Karayılan has been the acting leader of the PKK, a group considered terrorists by Turkey and the US, since its original leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured in 1999.
A huge explosion has been reported in Ankara close to the Turkish parliament building. At least five people were reportedly killed in the explosion the city’s governor has said and up to a dozen more injured #Explosion hits military dormitory in central #Ankara – Turkish broadcaster NTV — LBCI News English (@LBCI_News_EN) February 17, 2016 According to local media a military dormitory was hit A Turkish police official quoted by the Reuters news agency said the blast was caused by a vehicle exploding. Photos on social media showed large plumes of smoke rising from the area.