Politics

Islamic State militants are sheltering their senior officials and high-value prisoners at Syria’s biggest dam by Lake Assad on the Euphrates, believing that U.S. forces will not go near them in fear of unleashing a giant flood that could potentially kill thousands. High-value prisoners and senior Islamic State officials are being held at the Tabqa Dam, safe in the knowledge that there are no ground troops capable of dislodging them before they unleash a deluge that could “mean that there’s no electricity for all of eastern Syria”, according to Virginia Tech associate professor Ariel Ahram.

Authored by Jon Schwarz, originally posted at The Intercept,

While the New York Times ridiculed Sarah Palin’s speech endorsing Donald Trump yesterday as “mystifying,” a big portion of it was a non-mysterious, coherent attack on big money politics. It’s worth reading that whole portion:

[Trump] is beholden to no one but we the people. ...

 

Trump, what he’s been able to do, which is really ticking people off, which I’m glad about, he’s going rogue left and right, man. That’s why he’s doing so well. ...

 

Israel have confirmed plans to steal more land that currently belongs to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.  The Israeli regime have said they will seize a large tract of fertile land in order to expand its illegal settlement construction along the West Bank. Presstv.com reports: The decision had already been taken to capture the territory and “the lands are in the final stages of being declared” Israeli lands, Reuters quoted a unit in the Israeli Ministry for Military Affairs, which coordinates Tel Aviv’s activities in the occupied territories, as saying.

An international lawyer has claimed that in order to win presidential elections in the USA candidates must show their loyalty to Wall Street, the military-industrial complex, and Israel in order to get funded.  Barry Grossman, lawyer and political analyst, told Iranian state media that the U.S. election system is run by the corporate elite with political candidates acting as puppets for their shadowy masters. Uprooted Palestinians reports: “Two things win elections in the United States – 1. money and 2.

Rubio recently said that the U.S. has “no choice” but to try to improve relations with Russia, but everything in his record tells us he isn’t serious: