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December, 2015








Terrorism in Israel – and America

When we planned our recent trip to Israel with 50 other Northern Virginians, we didn’t expect that it would coincide with the latest spasm of Palestinian violence against Israelis. We didn’t anticipate that this new war would be more insidious than past “intifadas,” with almost daily violence coming out of nowhere, with no warning, rhyme or reason.
By Paul Driessen and Glenn Taubman - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - Full Story

Top 10 Misreported or Underreported Stories of 2015

As the year draws to a close, we like to highlight some of the American media's worst abuses that occurred during the past year. We have picked 10 stories for which there were general narratives presented by the mainstream media--narratives that ignored the larger truths to be gleaned from these stories.
By Roger Aronoff - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - Full Story

Pentagon finding ways to thwart prisoner release, closing of Gitmo

The Obama Administration has had three Defense Secretaries - Robert Gates (who was a Bush Administration holdover), Chuck Hagel (who was apparently undercut on a regular basis and then pushed out) and now Ash Carter. Two Republicans and now a Democrat. But one thing all of them apparently have had in common is a disinclination to cooperate with Obama's dream of closing the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay.
By Dan Calabrese - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - Full Story


$10 Trillion Investment Needed To Avoid Massive Oil Price Spike Says OPEC

The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck a much more pessimistic note on the state of oil markets than in the past. On the one hand, OPEC does not see oil prices returning to triple-digit territory within the next 25 years, a strikingly bearish conclusion. The group expects oil prices to rise by an average of about $5 per year over the course of this decade, only reaching $80 per barrel in 2020. From there, it sees oil prices rising slowly, hitting $95 per barrel in 2040.
By Oilprice.com by Nick Cunningham- Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - Full Story







Is Trump the New Armand Hammer?

Ever since I started writing critically about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s apparent lack of knowledge on the Russian military threat and the nature of the Vladimir Putin regime, various conservative websites that usually run my column have been refusing to do so. These outlets of conservative opinion seem to believe that Trump is a legitimate conservative, and that his followers can’t be offended with negative information about the candidate. Some of them had previously run articles about Vladimir Putin being a Christian statesman or anti-terrorist leader.
By Cliff Kincaid - Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - Full Story


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