Regarding human rights violations, the US and Canada have no lessons to give. Their jails are overcrowded with citizens. The bail system systemically denies constitutional rights. Physical isolation that amounts to torture is widely used. Jail sentences are disproportionate and there is no rehabilitation. The police summarily attack and murder black, aboriginal, and economically excluded citizens on the streets and in detention.

Denis G. Rancourt is a former tenured and Full Professor of physics at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is known for his applications in physics education research. Rancourt has published over 100 articles in leading scientific journals, and has written several social commentary essays. He is the author of the book Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight Against Racism. While he was at the University of Ottawa, he supported student activism and opposed the influence of the Israeli lobby at that institution, which fired him under false pretext in 2009. In an exclusive interview with Khamenei.ir, Rancourt answers questions on Canadian supreme court verdict against Iran, Canada's role in the Syrian crisis and how his activism was suppressed by the Israeli lobby on campus:

Original by Boris Rozhin (Colonel Cassad); translation by J.Hawk
Ukrainian MOD documents, testifying to UAF's high command complicity in the shot-down Malaysian airliner tragedy, are being offered for sale on the Internet.

On July 15, 2014, UAF Colonel General Viktor Muzhenko gave the order to transfer the 3rd Air Defense Missile Battalion of the 156th Air Defense Missile Regiment to the vicinity of the town of Zaroshchenskoye. The Ukraine MOD coded telegram No. 104 was received by the 8th Directorate at 9:10 in the morning. The battle disposition, classified "secret", was received by the Sector B commander and the commander of Unit No. 1973, earlier located in Lugansk, at 1:10 in the afternoon of the same day.

This and other coded telegrams were published on September 9 in the "collectibles" section of an internet trading site. The asking price was 900,000 rubles. The auction will end on September 30. In the text of the telegram, Muzhenko explains that the air defense missile regiment is needed in Zaroshchenskoye in order to cover the Amvrosiyevka-Snezhnoye line. In his next directive, he orders collaboration be established with the National Guard commander in order to "prevent opposing aircraft from entering the zone of responsibility." Aircraft.

Hillary Clinton is meeting on Friday with a new national security "working group" that is filled with an elite "who's who" of the military-industrial complex and the security deep state.

The list of key advisers — which includes the general who executed the troop surge in Iraq and a former Bush homeland security chief turned terror profiteer — is a strong indicator that Clinton's national security policy will not threaten the post-9/11 national-security status quo that includes active use of military power abroad and heightened security measures at home.

It's a story we've seen before in President Obama's early appointments. In retrospect, analysts have pointed to the continuity in national security and intelligence advisers as an early sign that despite his campaign rhetoric Obama would end up building on — rather than tearing down — the often-extralegal, Bush-Cheney counterterror regime. For instance, while Obama promised in 2008 to reform the NSA, its director was kept on and its reach continued to grow.

Obama's most fateful decision may have been choosing former National Counterterrorism Center Director John Brennan to be national security adviser, despite Brennan's support of Bush's torture program. Brennan would go on to run the president's drone program, lead the CIA, fight the Senate's torture investigation, and then lie about searching Senate computers.

That backdrop is what makes Clinton's new list of advisers so significant.

In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks no one in the US government knew what was going on, Russian ex-Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to Igor Ivanov, upon receiving the tragic news, President Vladimir Putin ordered an immediate telephone linkup with US President George W. Bush. "Bush was on the plane because [the Secret Service] was trying to move him out as they feared a similar attack on the White House. No one knew what was going on. Sergei Ivanov tried to get in touch with Condoleezza Rice and I - to get through to Colin Powell. We finally managed to put Putin through," said Ivanov, who served as Foreign Minister from 1998 until 2004.

"After talking to President Bush, Putin instructed our government agencies to work closely with their US colleagues in the war on terror. I immediately called Colin Powell to express our solidarity and discuss what we were going to do next," Ivanov recalled. "As instructed by [President Putin] I conveyed his personal message to [President] Bush. It outlined our position on fighting international terrorism and our readiness to build up our across-the-board cooperation with the United States," Ivanov continued.

Marathon talks end in agreement for ceasefire between Syrian government and opposition and for joint operations against Jabhat Al-Nusra. However both sides underlined absence of trust and terms of agreement are being kept secret.

After hours of prolonged negotiations in Geneva, Sergey Lavrov and John Kerry have announced that they have come to some sort of agreement over Syria.

The details of the latest plan are however completely obscure, and it is unwise to comment in detail until more details of what has been agreed are made known.

To complicate matters, though the Russians say the Syrians and Iranians have been kept informed about what has been agreed and are in agreement with it, the text of the agreement will be kept secret and will not be published.

So far as one can judge from the public comments, the plan calls for a 'cessation of hostilities' between the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition, the creation of 'humanitarian access' corridors for civilians to besieged cities, including government-controlled cities under siege by the Syrian rebels but also including rebel-controlled eastern Aleppo, the setting up of a joint command centre by the US and Russia, and joint air strikes by the US and Russia against ISIS and Jabhat Al-Nusra.

Should these air strikes ever take place they would be the first joint operation the Russian and US militaries have undertaken together in their histories. Though the US and the USSR were allies in the Second World War, there was no occasion during that war when they conducted joint military operations with each other.

Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein said that, if elected president, she would launch a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks.

On the eve of the 15th anniversary of 9/11 Green Party Presidential hopeful Jill Stein has stated that if elected President of the United States, she would start a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks.

Stein claimed that the probe conducted during the George W. Bush years has "defrauded the nation."

In a statement published on her campaign site, Stein said that the 9/11 Commission study has not gone far enough it ints inquiry and that Americans...

" - want and deserve a comprehensive and independent" probe into the 9/11, which they haven't gotten so far.

"The Bush Administration initially said an inquiry was unnecessary, claiming that the perpetrators had been identified and their methods and motives were clear."

By continuously sanitising images of war and censoring its reality, the Western media actively colludes in the wars the West is waging.

I recently came across a documentary from Russian television on the history of Libya from the rise of Gaddafi to his assassination.

It was a very well-produced and fair minded piece, exploring both pro and anti Gaddafi sentiments from Libyans and from those outside of Libya.

However what was most striking in comparison to agenda driven documentaries from Western media outlets was the lack of censorship. In particular, the producers showed the unedited assassination of Gaddafi for all.

Indeed, the horrifying reality of Gaddafi's assassination is something which it is very important for the world to see.

Hillary Clinton steps behind a pillar to keep the press from filming her coughing at a press conference on national security issues.

Hillary's coughing fits are seriously out of control, and these are not simple conspiracy theories as over 71% of 250 doctors surveyed now believe that HRC is hiding a "serious" health condition.

Even worse, Hillary is now showing all the signs of being totally rattled by the coverage her chronic coughing is receiving.

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.

General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; 1968

While it may no longer be our precious bodily fluids under attack by the big bad Rooskies and their ever-scheming leadership, it is clearly our political system that is in the Kremlin's crosshairs.

However detached from reality such an interpretation might seem to a clear-headed American, that is precisely the notion that Hillary Clinton and her gaggle of political guinea worms have endlessly droned on about. Listening to the Clinton campaign, and its public relations employees masquerading as corporate media journalists, one would think that World War Three had already begun on the battlefield of US electoral politics.

And this is not by accident. The Clinton campaign is trading in the worst forms of chauvinism, paranoia, and conspiracy theory in an attempt to deflect attention away from the rapidly expanding dumpster fires that are the series of scandals plaguing her White House bid.

The Democratic Party conspired with the Clinton campaign to sabotage Bernie Sanders? Why, that's little more than a Russian-Wikileaks plot to expose, well, the truth. But still, you know, Putin!

The Clinton Foundation is exposed as a pay-for-play scheme involving some of the world's most powerful politicians and various other assorted degenerates? Why, that is undeniably the work of those borscht-eating ex-commies.

Hillary illegally destroyed emails that were already illegally being stored on a private server? It was her black predecessor's fault! But Putin was probably behind that too, somehow. Of course, Colin Powell should take heart - at least Ms. #ImWitHer didn't call him a superpredator.

The fact is that only the most dim-witted dullards are entranced by the shiny objects of Clintonian propaganda. The more sophisticated, or even moderately informed, political observers understand that all the talk of Russian espionage is an attempt to both deflect from the scandals as well as the fact that Clinton offers very little that is truly progressive or even moderately beneficial to the vast majority of Americans. She's a Goldman-Sachs Girl, and everyone knows it.