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Disgusting Perversion: US Media Makes a Fetish of ‘Badass’ US Women Who Torture, Kill for Empire Michael McCaffrey Thanks to a new wave of feminism and its call for equality, it isn’t just toxic men who can kill, torture and surveil in the name of US militarism and empire, women can now do it too! This past weekend was the third annual Women’s March, which is a protest originally triggered by Donald Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election that encourages women across America to rise up against misogyny and patriarchy. As sincere as these women are in their outrage, in their quest for power they are inadvertently reinforcing the immoral and unethical system that they claim to detest. This is most glaringly apparent when this new feminism boldly embraces the worst traits of the patriarchy in the form of militarism and empire. The rise of #MeToo, Time’s Up and the anti-Trump Women’s Movement, has brought forth a new wave of politically and culturally ac...

Urgent   Release all detainees of protests in Sudan The director of the Sudanese security and intelligence apparatus orders the release of all detainees in light of the protests in the country The head of the Sudanese security and intelligence services, Salah Qosh, on Tuesday, ordered the release of all detainees against the backdrop of a wave of recent protests in the country. عاجل  اطلاق سراح كل معتقلي الاحتجاجات في السودان مدير جهاز الأمن والمخابرات السوداني يأمر بإطلاق سراح جميع المعتقلين على خلفية الاحتجاجات في البلاد أصدر المدير العام لجهاز الأمن والمخابرات السوداني، صلاح قوش، اليوم الثلاثاء، أمرا بإطلاق سراح جميع المعتقلين على خلفية موجة الاحتجاجات الأخيرة في البلاد.

إِنَّهَا حَبِيبَتُي.  عُثمَانُ بِرِيمْ.  مِنْ جُنُونٍ عِشْقِيٌّ ذَهَبْتُ بَعِيدًا. ظَلَّتْ رُوحِي تَسْأَلُ رُوحِي هَلْ أَحْبَبْتِهَا حَقًّا؟!.  أَمْ مَحَّضَ خَيَالٌ؟!. أَمْ يَكُونُ كُلٌّ هَذَا وَذَاكَ وَهُمَا طَرَأَ عَلَى البَالِ؟!.  وَلَكِنَّ كَيْفَ وَقَدْ نَقَّشَتْ اِسْمَهَا عَلَى جُذُوعِ الشَّجَرِ.  وَرَسْمَتُهَا مَعَ قَلْبِي وَرَمْيَتُهَا عَلَى البَحْرِ.  وَرَسْمَتُهَا مَعَ قَلْبِي وَرَمْيَتُهَا فِي أَعْمَاقِ البَحْرِ.  وَسَهَّرْتُ أُنَاجِي رُوحهَا تَحْتَ ضِيَاءِ القَمَرِ.  وَقُلْتُ مُسْتَحِيلٌ أَنْ يَكُونَ حُبُّهَا وَهُمْ عَلَى القَلْبِ قَدْ خَطِرٌ. وَكَيْفَ يَكُونُ وَهْمَا وَقَدْ اِشْتَعَلَ بِحُبِّهَا قَلْبِيٍّ.  وَتَصَاعَدَتْ نِيرَانُ الشَّوْقِ فِي جَوْفِي  حَقًّا لَقَدْ أَصَابَنِي. مِنْ حُبِّهَا رَعْشَةٌ مَا زَالَتْ بِالبَدَنِ تَسْرِي؟! ظَلَّتْ الحَبِيبَةُ تَظُنُّ أَنَّ كُلَّ مَا يَعْتَرِينَا مُجَرَّدُ هذيان.  قِلَّتُ لَوْ كَانَ حَقًّا هذيان سَنُلَمْلِمُ أَفْكَارِنَا لِتُرَحِّلَ مَعَ الزَّمَانِ.  الحُبُّ...

Afghan Army troops, left, and American soldiers attacking a Taliban firing position in 2013. Credit Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times U.S. and Taliban Agree in Principle to Peace Framework, Envoy Says By Mujib Mashal KABUL, Afghanistan — American and Taliban officials have agreed in principle to the framework of a deal in which the insurgents would guarantee Afghan territory is never used by terrorists, which could lead to a full pullout of American troops in return for larger concessions from the Taliban, the chief United States negotiator said Monday. The negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad, said those concessions must include the Taliban’s agreement to a cease-fire and to talk directly with the Afghan government, which the insurgents have persistently opposed in the past. “We have a draft of the framework that has to be fleshed out before it becomes an agreement,” Mr. Khalilzad said in an interview with The New York Times in Kabul. “The Taliban have committed, to our satisf...

Pentagon: Washington talks with Taliban are encouraging US Defense Secretary Patrick Chanahan said in Washington Monday that peace talks between the United States and the Taliban to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan were "encouraging." "I would like to say that the conclusions that have been drawn are encouraging," he told reporters ahead of a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. The minister declined to comment on a question about the possible withdrawal of half of the 14,000 US troops from Afghanistan, which President Donald Trump wants, according to US officials. For his part, Stoltenberg said it was "premature" to talk about the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan. He also said peace talks with the Taliban were "encouraging". The US envoy to talks with the Afghan Taliban said on Saturday that "significant progress" had been made in the negotiations. "The meetings here have been more fruitful tha...

Documents Show C.I.A. Knew Of a Coup Plot in Venezuela By JUAN FORERODEC. 3, 2004 BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Dec. 2 - The Central Intelligence Agency was aware that dissident military officers and opposition figures in Venezuela were planning a coup against President Hugo Chávez in 2002, newly declassified intelligence documents show. But immediately after the overthrow, the Bush administration blamed Mr. Chávez, a left-leaning populist, for his own downfall and denied knowing about the threats. Long irritated by Mr. Chávez's ties to Fidel Castro and his blistering anti-American attacks, the Bush administration provided the Venezuelan government in Caracas with few hard details of the looming plot, although American officials say they broadly talked to Mr. Chávez about opposition plans. Mr. Chávez was removed from power on April 12, 2002, after 18 people died in a spate of gunfire during a huge antigovernment protest. Taken into custody by dissident military officers, Mr. Chávez was s...

Guido appeals to Britain not to extradite Venezuela's gold to Maduro Venezuelan parliament speaker Juan Guido, who has appointed himself as prime minister, has appealed to Prime Minister Teresa Mai not to return government-owned gold bullion in Britain to the government of Nicolas Maduro. A report from the Ambito Gate, based on Guido's own letter, said the letter, sent on January 26, was sent to May as well as to Bank of England President Mark Carney. In his written letter, Guido called for delaying "this illegal and illegal deal ... because, if the money is transferred, it will be used by Maduro to crush people." On Saturday, Bloomberg reported, citing informed sources, that the Bank of England had rejected Maduro's request to return $ 1.2 billion gold bars. An unnamed source said the decision not to return gold to Venezuela was made after senior US officials, including Foreign Secretary Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton, lobbied their c...