Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide by Joseph Brewda Dec. 8, 1995 On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The study falsely claimed that…
STATE OF THE ART| 21 May 2015 Venice Biennale: Iraq pavilion (Credit: Akam Shex Hadi) The Iraq pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale doesn’t with work addressing Islamic State. Alastair Sooke reports. As Islamic State (IS) fighters continue to advance towards Baghdad, contemporary art in the region is probably the last thing on the…
An exclusive ground-level look at the illicit oil trade that has made ISIS the world’s richest extremist group. BuzzFeed News’ Mike Giglio reports from the Turkey–Syria border.posted on Nov. 3, 2014, at 7:39 a.m. Mike Giglio BuzzFeed Staff Photograph by Yusuf Sayman for BuzzFeed News BESASLAN, Turkey — This town on the Turkish-Syrian border is covered…
“O crusaders, you have realized the threat of the Islamic State, but you have not become aware of the cure, and you will not discover the cure because there is no cure. If you fight it, it becomes stronger and tougher. If you leave it alone, it grows and expands… So mobilize your forces,…
Syrian War, Economic Hardship Drive Religious Minorities From Turkish Border City Posted: 03/13/2014 ANTAKYA, Turkey — Azur Havre stands over a lunch of steaming meatballs in a courtyard owned by Sister Barbara Kallash, a quirky German nun who runs a guesthouse in this city roughly 10 miles from Syria’s border. He puts on a white yarmulke…
Since the death of Italian anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone 20 years ago, how much has organized crime spread internationally? The trans-continental dimensions of the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, was already clear to the legendary prosecutor in 1980 when he took up the “Pizza Connection” case against Salvatore Inzerillo and the boss of the Gambino…
October 2nd, 2012 Why Syria turmoil threatens Middle East By Fareed Zakaria As Syria continues its descent into civil war, the terrible humanitarian tragedy occurring is unfolding in plain view: 20,000 dead, 250,000 refugees outside the country by some accounts, over a million people internally displaced. There seems no easy solution to end the crisis….
A Bollywood starlet has become the first Indian woman to pose nude for Playboy, sparking a wave of criticism in her home country where the magazine is banned. Sherlyn Chopra, 28, will appear in the November issue. However, a series of teasing interviews has provoked a round of condemnation from women’s rights activists who…
The reason that there’s no plausible end-game in Syria anytime soon — and that thousands more Syrians may be fated to die before the conflict is ended — is that the Assad regime is fighting a very different war to the one envisaged by many of its opponents. For Arab and…