Far-left actress Debra Messing will be moderating a virtual fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden later this month. Messing will be working alongside her Will & Grace co-star Eric McCormack, as Hollywood steps up its efforts to defeat President Trump in the upcoming election. She and McCormack are also calling for the names of Trump supporters […]
Posts Tagged ‘moderate’
Debra Messing Joins Biden Campaign To Moderate ‘Value of Women Voters’ Fundraiser
WHITE HELMETS: ‘Humanitarians’ and the ‘Moderate’ Bomb Factory in Saqba, Eastern Ghouta
Failaq Al Rahman missile store next door to White Helmet headquarters in Saqba, Eastern Ghouta. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley) Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire Saqba in Eastern Ghouta was finally liberated during the third week of March 2018 and civilians were released from six years of brutality and hardship under occupation by Al Qaeda affiliate – Failaq […]
Moderate quake jolts Damavand, north Iran
IRNA – A 4.2-magnitude earthquake jolted Kilan city in the central district of mountainous Damavand county, located to the northeast of the capital Tehran late on Sunday. The quakes struck at a depth of ten kilometers, with no damage or casualties. According to the Seismography Center affiliated to Tehran University’s Geophysics Institute, the tremor occurred […]
Study of Western-trained terrorist combatants considered as “moderate rebels”.
The Western media affirm that Syria and Russia are crushing brave democrats in eastern Ghouta. According to the British and French governments, they would be three armed groups: the Army of Islam, the Rahman Legion and Ahrar al-Sham. On the contrary, according to Syria and Russia, these three denominations would not designate separate ideologies. These […]
‘Moderate Rebel’ Migrant Gets Life Sentence in Austria for Murder of 20 Syrian Soldiers
AFP – A Syrian migrant has been jailed for life in Austria for executing 20 wounded government soldiers in his home country. The court in the western city of Innsbruck announced its ruling late on Wednesday after a jury found the 27-year-old guilty of 20 charges of “murder as a terror offence”. The man, who denied the charges, […]
Whither Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s “moderate” Islam?
By James M. Dorsey Recent Algerian media reports detailing Saudi propagation of a quietist, apolitical yet supremacist and anti-pluralistic form of Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism raises questions about the scope of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s commitment to what he has termed “moderate” Islam. So does Saudi missionary activity in Yemen. The missionary activities suggest […]
Iran’s moderate quake leaves no loss of life: Governor
IRNA – Governor of Koubanan, Kerman province, said earthquake in the city had no victims with only six wounded in the 5.2-mabnitude earthquake which jolted the city late on Thursday. Mohammad Reza Mahdlou told IRNA late on Thursday that old buildings have sustained damages in the tremor. Facilities to provide relief aid to those affected […]
Time-restricted eating may yield moderate weight loss in obesity
Eating only during an 8-hour window for 3 months resulted in a 2.6% weight loss in adults with obesity; however, no effects were found for metabolic disease risk, according to findings from a pilot study presented here. “Time-restricted feeding is really about confining the period in which you eat into some type of window,” […]
Erdogan rejects ‘moderate Islam’ as a Western tool to weaken Muslims
Last month, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, vowed to restore “moderate” Islam to the kingdom considered to be “home” of the religion. The Gulf monarchy currently follows a Salafist or Wahhabi version of Islam that is often described as being “ultraconservative” and administered through Islamic Sharia law. In what appears to […]
Pentagon Think-Tank Praises Al Qaeda as ‘Moderate’ Islamists
Pentagon Think-Tank Praises Al Qaeda as ‘Moderate’ Islamists By Eric Zuesse.washingtonsblog.com Eric Zuesse An October 24th article by Colin P. Clarke of the Rand Corporation the main think-tank for the Pentagon is headlined “The Moderate Face of Al Qaeda , and a section of it is headed A Moderate Alternative, presenting Al Qaeda as the […]
US Govt-Funded Think Tank Praises “Moderate” Al Qaeda
Last week, Foreign Affairs, self-described as the “leading magazine for analysis and debate of foreign policy,” published an article titled “The Moderate Face of Al Qaeda.” The piece takes note of the fact that al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, long known as Jabhat al-Nusra or al-Nusra Front, changed its names numerous times in order to […]
Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad’s vow to moderate Saudi Islam: Easier said than done
By James M. Dorsey Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s recent disavowal of the kingdom’s founding religious ideology had a master’s voice quality to it. His words could have literally come out of the mouth of his United Arab Emirates counterpart and mentor, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed, but with one major difference: the UAE, […]
Study Finds Eating Low Carb, Moderate Fat Diet May Lower Risk of Death
Contrary to most dietary advice handed out for decades, consuming moderate amounts of fat appears to reduce the risk of premature death, a major global study has found. Research involving more than 135,000 people across five continents has shown that fat consumption representing about 35 per cent of daily caloric intake was associated with a […]
Syria War Diary: What Life Is Like Under ‘Moderate’ Rebel Rule
SYRIA — (War Diary) — In early 2016 the hillside town of Madaya, just northwest of Damascus, was the focus of sudden Western and Gulf media campaigns featuring harrowing photos of emaciated elderly and children splashed widely across print, online and social media. Throughout 2016, these stories continued in Madaya, as well as in al-Waer, […]
A History of Violence: The Myth of the Moderate Kurdish Rebel
Sarah Abed has finally posted part 3 of her series on the Kurds. I put up a commentary on the first two parts back in July in which I wrote, by way of introduction: What are we to think of the Kurds–often portrayed by mainstream media as gallant freedom fighters, with lots of cute girls fighting in […]
A History Of Violence – The Myth Of The Moderate Kurdish Rebel
A Kurdistan separatist fighter waits at his position near Degala, Iraq. Oct. 16, 1996 during fighting between rival Kurdish factions. (AP/Burhan Ozbilici) SYRIA (Analysis)-– In Part I of independent analyst Sarah Abed’s three-part analysis for MintPress News, Abed began exposing the modern day Kurdish/Israeli alliance that both parties have tried to keep hidden in order […]
Going Underground – Why does the US support moderate rebels in Venezuela? w/ Carlos Latuff
Going Underground – Why does the US support moderate rebels in Venezuela? w/ Carlos Latuff Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com We speak to world famous political cartoonist Carlos Latuff about western hypocrisy, from the US support of moderate rebels in Syria and Venezuela to Theresa Mays deal with the DUP. LIKE Going Underground http://fb.me/GoingUndergroundRTFOLLOW Going […]
Turkey and “moderate” Free Syrian Army start massacring Syrian Kurds
nsnbc : Turkey and the Free Syrian Army have started shelling villages in the Shebha countryside in the self-proclaimed Kurdish “Rojava” Monday night, resulting […]
Al-Qaeda in Syria Now Officially a “Moderate Rebel” Group
Last week MintPress News reported al-Nusra has rebranded itself as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and by doing so is no longer on the U.S. terror watchlist. This frees up the most effective jihadist “rebel” group in Syria to continue the CIA instigated war against Bashar al-Assad’s government. The State Department has yet to […]
Did British Officials Train Manchester Attacker as “Moderate Rebel” in Syria?
21st Century Wire says… This is a question firmly rooted in fact. Just a few hours ago it was revealed that Salman Abedi, the attacker in Manchester, had recently returned from trips to both Libya and Syria and it is unclear exactly where he was from around 2012. In 2013, right within this missing period of […]