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The United States has started training Syrian opposition fighters in Jordan who will be deployed to fight in the multinational military effort against the so-called Islamic State, according to reports.
Besides Jordan, the exercises will begin soon in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, the Associated Press reported Thursday, citing US officials
America is stringing up nooses for blacks now
Just as #BlackLivesMatter courses through America, so does a racist backlash: people are stringing up nooses all over the country. From college campuses to stores, fire houses to small towns, nooses keep popping up. The Resident discusses.
He announced early on Monday on his Twitter account that he’ll be vying for the White House in next year’s election, the first prominent member of the Republican Party to officially declare their intent to run.
“It’s going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again, and I’m ready to stand with you to lead the fight,” the solicitor-general-turned-US senator says in a campaign video attached to the tweet.
The Obama administration claimed an unmatched commitment to government transparency this week, even as it denied or delayed more requests for public information than ever, and claimed exemption from freedom of information laws.
After announcing that its Office of Administration would no longer be subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the National Freedom of Information Day, the White House released a report on FOIA requests in 2014.
“We actually do have a lot to brag about,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said about the report, which claimed success in quenching the public’s thirst for government transparency. It was released during Sunshine Week, a mid-March US tradition for the past decade. Actual facts and figures in the report, however, paint a very different picture.
The Secret Service is once again under investigation, this time over allegations that two agents drove a government car into White House security barricades after drinking at a late-night party last week, the Washington Post reported.
Officers who witnessed the incident wanted to arrest the agents and conduct sobriety tests, but a supervisor let the agents go home.
The Obama administration is investigating the allegations. One of the agents involved in the March 4 incident is a top member of President Obama’s protective detail. Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary confirmed the investigation with the Post, saying the agency was “aware of the allegations of misconduct involving two of our employees.”
Leary didn’t specify what the focus of the inquiry was, but told the news outlet that the incident was reported to the White House and Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy, and is being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.
Buying and owning possessions has long been thought of as mainstays of the “American Dream,” but the 2008 financial crisis and so-called recovery that followed have left many with no option but to embrace alternative economic models. Services such as Uber that make it possible to rely on others to fulfill every day needs have sprung up, and may even threaten concepts that have long-been thought of as quintessentially American. RT’s Marina Portnaya explores.
Prison State America: Inmates becoming corporate slaves in for-profit facilities
