Al-Shabab militants killed one US soldier and two American defense contractors during an attack at a Kenyan airfield used by United States forces Sunday morning. The US military said in a statement that two Americans from the Department of Defense were also wounded in the attack. ‘The wounded Americans are currently in stable condition and being evacuated,’ the US military’s Africa... 

Although no one died in the Iranian missile strikes on US bases in Iraq, in part due to advance warning from Tehran, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he personally believed that Iran intended otherwise. “I believe, based on what I saw and what I know, that [the strikes] were intended to cause structural damage, destroy vehicles and equipment and aircraft, and to kill personnel,” Army... 

Iran will not provide Boeing with the black box of a Ukrainian 737 that crashed near Tehran, the country’s civil aviation authority has said. An investigation into the accident is ongoing. Ali Abedzadeh, head of the Iran Civil Aviation Organization, said that Tehran would carry out its own probe into the crash, adding that Ukrainian authorities will be allowed to be “present during investigations.” He... 

Pennsylvania mother Shantika Briley was arrested Wednesday for allegedly beating a man with a pipe after she caught him sexually assaulting her 9-year-old daughter. The 35-year-old mom from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania said she caught the 39-year-old man “licking her daughter’s lips and trying to kiss her.” Briley allegedly responded by grabbing a pipe, beating the man until he ran out the front... 

On Tuesday at the opening of an international conference on persecuted Christians, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban asserted that Europe can only be saved if it “returns to the source of its real values: its Christian identity”: “Europe is quiet,” Orban said. “A mysterious force shuts the mouths of European politicians and cripples their arms.” He said the issue of Christian persecution... 

If the US and its allies launch any more attacks on Iran, they will incur “more painful and crushing responses,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guards of Iran warned, noting that the ‘Zionist regime’ of Israel would not be spared. The IRGC issued a statement in the early hours of Wednesday local time, after launching a volley of missiles against two bases used by US forces inside Iraq, in retaliation... 

Why has this happened??? And WHY NOW? Why now after America has killed Iran’s top general? This whole thing is suspicious to say the least, the most obvious mind path that a man would take would be to say that Iran did it to retaliate against USA, but hey, WTF? Retaliate against USA by killing Ukrainians who have nothing to do with this whatsoever? Doesn’t make any sense!!! And when nothing... 

A number of figures in the alt-media and extreme-left movement have surprised their audiences by rationalizing the Trump administration’s Israeli-directed push towards war with Iran. The consensus between high profile voices on the Zionist “far-right” and anarcho-neocon “far-left” in America and Britain reflect the party line in Israel, where even Amir Peretz of the ostensibly... 

Several towns and cities in Cordoba, Argentina were battered by a sudden and violent dust storm which ripped roofs from houses, felled trees and blocked out the sun. Shortly before 7pm local time on Sunday, locals noticed a rather foreboding cloud heading straight for the city of Rio Cuarto. Temperatures fell dramatically, and darkness descended as residents fled the sudden downpour of hail and debris. The... 

New autopsy photos of Jeffrey Epstein aired by CBS News’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday show that the deceased billionaire was likely murdered, according to a pathologist hired by Epstein’s family. Multiple photographs were given to “60 Minutes” by pathologist Michael Baden, who was hired by Epstein’s family to investigate the child sex trafficker’s death. Baden suggested that Epstein could... 

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” So Karl Marx wrote in 1843. For three generations over the course of the 20th century his atheist disciples violently sought to break their subjects of this “opium” addiction. They failed. In many though not all parts of the former communist... 

Iran has promised retaliation for the assassination of Qassem Suleimani. Donald Trump said this will lead to a disproportionate response from the US. One side can deliver on its threats, the other can’t, unless it goes nuclear. Iran means business “Our reaction,” Iranian general Hossein Dehghan said at the weekend, “will be wise, well considered and, in time, with decisive deterrent effect.” Dehghan... 

On Sunday, President Donald Trump cautioned that if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets in retaliation for the killing of the high-ranking Iranian general, Washington will strike 52 sites in the Islamic Republic “very fast and very hard”. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council and former chief of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),... 

Tom Pope, a Port Vale forward, is facing a Football Association (FA) investigation for appearing to share a Rothschild ‘conspiracy theory’, hours after he scored in his side’s FA Cup defeat at Manchester City: Tom Pope wrote early on Sunday morning: “We invade Iran then Cuba then North Korea then the Rothchilds [sic] are crownded champions of every bank on the planet – the end“. He later... 

While most of the not-unhinged world sees the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s IRGC, for the reckless and dangerous escalation that it is, Americans in general walk around looking for post Christmas bargains. They shift distractions from New Year’s Eve to Valentine’s Day on cue, blissfully unaware that they are living on borrowed...