Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As a rule, conspiracy theories are more elaborate than the truth, requiring subscribers to suspend their judgment. Someone called every Jewish person in the World Trade Center, and told them to stay home on the morning of 9/11, when the planes brought down the twin towers. The United Nations, along with the vast majority of the…
Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of US Navy SEALs was nothing at all like the official accounts given by the United States government and military, according to a controversial article in the London Review of Books by veteran investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh: Rather than hiding in Pakistan, bin Laden was a prisoner…
As of mid-April, when a Pentagon flack announced it in Kiev, and as barely reported in American media, U.S. troops are now operating openly in Ukraine. Now there is a lead I have long dreaded writing but suspected from the first that one day I would. Do not take a moment to think about this….
I know, right? Will your friends agree? Share this Link Gone Girl: An Interview With An American In ISIS http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/gone-girl-an… Why would an American college student run away to Syria and join ISIS? Meet Hoda, a 20-year-old w… Gone Girl: An Interview With An American In ISIS – BuzzFeed News.
Just after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina Street, a modern four-storey office complex with a small sign outside that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12 hours in the building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will work through the night. The nondescript building has…
Negative comments on your social-media posts might just be the work of standard Internet trolls. But it could actually be a bit more sinister. An article recently published by The Guardian details the Russian troll house, a government agency that hires people to post pro-Russian and anti-Western blogs and comments. Though it may be surprising…
Photo of American military boots via Creative Commons. There’s increasing recognition these days of the widespread problems of sexual assault in the military. But how does that culture of sexual violence spread out from the military to impact civilians? A new report by an independent Colombian commission on violence reveals a troubling pattern: the report says…
51 photos Smoke rises from the front line of a clash south of Kirkuk, Iraq, on Saturday, March 14. 51 photos A group of Kurdish Peshmerga troops take a break from fighting ISIS militants south of Kirkuk on March 14. 51 photos Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite militiamen gather in Tikrit on Friday, March…
Copyright 2015 Reuters Report: Hillary Clinton didn’t email to official State Dept addresses U.S. Politics • March 23, 2015 6:38 AMMarch 23, 2015 6:38 AM FOLLOW STORY Register or sign in to receive story updates. FOLLOW STORY Register or sign in to receive story updates. Copyright 2015 Reuters this is necessary because of the different…
story functions js ISIS today claimed responsibility for the Wednesday massacre at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia that killed 22 people, many of them Western tourists, and the two attackers. In a 3 minute, 10 second audio message disseminated on twitter accounts associated with ISIS, the terror group said that the two dead gunmen, who…