By Peter FORD, former UK ambassador to Syria | September 17, 2018 It appears that the Russians have pressed the pause button on their plans for an offensive alongside the Syrian government to retake Idlib. By the time they return to play mode the martial music may have changed. New US policies...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Ralph Waldo Emerson: All history is the decline of war. Cannot peace be, as well as war?
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of...
Like vultures, Israeli soldiers descended on Khan Al-Ahmar, on September 14, recreating a menacing scene with which the residents of this small Palestinian village, located East of Jerusalem, are all-too familiar.
The strategic location of Khan Al-Ahmar makes the story behind the imminent...
California officials failed to convince a judge that a ban on handgun advertisements at gun shops effectively reduced the risk of “handgun suicide and handgun crime.”
Diaper characters, edible bottles and vampire facials + this day in history w/grand theft Parsons and our song of the day by Eric Church on your Morning Monarchy for September 19, 2018.
The public pension crisis plaguing multiple states could have dire consequences, so why isn't more being done to fix it?
More power to the wicked By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • September 18, 2018 The week leading up to the funeral of Senator John McCain produced some of the most bizarre media effusions seen in this country since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. McCain, who never saw a war or regime...
Washington’s decision to intensify swingeing aid cuts to the Palestinians – the latest targets include cancer patients and peace groups – reveals more than a simple determination to strong-arm the Palestinian leadership to the negotiating table.
Under cover of a supposed peace effort, or...
Regime Change in Budapest? By Diana Johnstone • Unz Review • September 17, 2018 CNN recently discovered a paradox. How was it possible, they asked, that in 1989, Viktor Orban, at the time a Western-acclaimed liberal opposition leader, was calling for Soviet troops to leave Hungary, and now that...
Bob Woodward Says Russiagate Is Devoid of Evidence
John V. Walsh points out that the presstitutes and Democratic Party are making a sensation out of Bob Woodward’s book, Fear, but ignore Woodward’s most sensational statement. Woodward says that for two years he searched as hard as he...
California officials failed to convince a judge that a ban on handgun advertisements at gun shops effectively reduced the risk of “handgun suicide and handgun crime.”
The growing interest in and acceptance of socialist ideas in the United States with a hundred year time lag has engendered a desperate attempt to fit the political center into the new equation in a way...
HODEIDA, YEMEN — The “world’s worst humanitarian crisis” is now more dire than ever according to a new report from the U.K.-based charity Save the Children, which warns that 5.2 million children now face starvation in Yemen.
The group’s warning comes as the coalition led by Saudi Arabia...
There is one thing that Israel fears more than anything else in Syria. The loss of its ability to fly its F-16’s with impunity and hit whatever targets it wants claiming defensive measures to stop Iran, their existential enemy.
Israel finally admitted to carrying out over 200 such...
Via RT…
One toilet for over 70 people, rape, and mental health issues – a doctor from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and an aid worker told RT about the dire conditions in the overcrowded Moria refugee camp in Greece.
The overcrowded camp on the island of Lesbos, built to...
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Monday’s surprise Turkey-Russia deal on Syria’s Idlib Province, which aims to stop a military invasion of rebel-held territory in return for a demilitarized zone, and groups like al-Qaeda withdrawing from that entire area, has a very fast time-frame, with officials hoping to have...
THE WORLD’S FIRST OFFICIAL “POP UP” RADIO STATION
PRESS RELEASE – APRIL 17TH, 2015
After 19 years of broadcasting on stations owned by others, being blackballed, used, and put through the ringers….. I finally did what I should have done back in 2007. Starting my own...
(MEMO) — Saudi Arabia issued new directives banning up to 300,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon from performing pilgrimage, Alarab.qa reported yesterday. Reporting the Palestinian Institution for Human Rights (Shahed), the Qatari news website said that Saudi Arabia stopped issuing visas for...
Please start by watching the two and a half minute video, the first for Kevin de León's Senate campaign. If it feels familiar it's because it was made by the same filmmakers who were responsible for the Randy Bryce video launch that electrified us all. This one is also very powerful, very...
Over the past 24 hours the Internet, including this blog, have been flooded with opinion on what everybody and anybody would do if they were in Putin’s boots. Proposals range
Symbole de la résistance palestinienne après avoir passé huit mois en prison en Israël pour avoir giflé deux soldats de Tsahal, Ahed Tamimi, interrogée par RT France, a dénoncé la souffrance des Palestiniens du fait de l'occupation israélienne.
Invitée d'honneur de la fête de l'...
Inte för att jag har något direkt över för SD. Men gnället över valresultatet börjar bli påfrestande.
Det är så här demokrati fungerar. Makthavarna gör något som folket inte gillar. Folket röstar på någon annan. I grunden handlar det om att utkräva ansvar. Om att folket vill ändra kurs...
RT | September 19, 2018 South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have signed a joint statement following their bilateral talks in Pyongyang. The countries’ defense chiefs have meanwhile signed a separate military pact. As part of the military agreement, the...
My sister Emma Redmond is my guest this week. We started off the first hour by discussing the rise of involuntary celibates, commonly known as incels. We talked about their belief system and world view, as well as their insular community online. Emma and I addressed incels intense misogyny and...
The deal struck in Sochi averts a large scale Syria’s offensive on Idlib, as Turkey gives it guarantee to monitor what will effectively become a demilitarized zone.
According to the agreement, troops from Russia and Turkey will enforce a new demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Idlib, from...
Strategies Have Unintended Consequences
Since posting my remarks — https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/18/can-russia-survive-her-partnerships-has-putin-made-a-strategic-miscalculation/ — other comments on President Putin’s response to the loss of Russian lives have appeared. I am...
Press TV – September 19, 2018 The two Koreas have agreed to take further steps toward peace following a one-on-one meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is on his first ever visit to Pyongyang. The two leaders issued a joint statement at the...
Il est possible de créer 5 millions d'emplois grâce aux grands travaux et l'économie de travail permise par les robots. Les grands travaux sont le nucléaire du thorium, les trains à plus de 700 km/h et le métro à air, les voitures à l'hydrogène et à l'air comprimé, l'agrandissement des canaux...
Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org:
Upon the memory and truthfulness of Christine Blasey Ford hangs the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his reputation and possibly his career on the nation’s second-highest court.
And much more. If Kavanaugh is...
“People want to live in a world where love motivates people to help others. And love does that. But there’s not enough love to go around. Love for strangers is not going to motivate enough people to get in their trucks, load them up with generators, and take them down to people who are cold and...
“We have agreed to make the Korean Peninsula a land of peace that is free from...
In the several days since hurricane Florence made landfall near the border between North and South Carolina, the storm’s floodwaters have set one record after another. The storm’s official death toll now stands at 32 and is expected to rise with entire cities inundated by flood waters. The Cape...
When it comes to progressive proposals aimed at social well-being, the associated costs are always the first explanation for why such efforts are either unrealistic “pie in the sky“.
Medicare for All. But how you gonna pay for it?
Tuition-free public college. But how you gonna pay...
We need new societal patterns. Likewise, people with limited financial means can’t take care of all tragedies. We have our own ongoing in MA right now with recent gas explosions and fires as this picture of a house shows.. Kerala, India has a giant torment with almost two million people...
Venezuela’s government ignored the most basic law of economics in raising the minimum wage: the law of supply and demand. But laws don’t go away just because you ignore them.
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.
Trump is floating the possibility of establishing a permanent U.S. military base in Poland:
President Donald Trump said the U.S. is looking “very seriously” at establishing a permanent military base in Poland.
Trump said at...
Macron le millionnaire.
On a tous vu avec quel mépris le banquier Macron, devenu millionnaire après son passage chez Rotchild traite nos concitoyens ; pas de doute, un an après les élections 2017, Macron sort largement vainqueur du championnat à la phrase abjecte et au comportement...
Geneva – Geopolitics Alert editor Randi Nord participated in two side panel events at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 39th session in Geneva, Switzerland last week. The second panel demanded accountability for war crimes committed against civilians in Yemen — particularly due to the...
The flexibility of English, and thriving sign that it is not a dead language, permits repeated atrocities to be committed in the name of new terms. We are told that what is new is supposedly good, a sign of evolution. More accurately, such terms simply describe an old phenomenon, giving the...
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This deep state employee is part of the anti-Trump resistance movement and said his goal is to, “Resist everything." He joked that, even if he got caught, it is impossible to fire a federal employee.
When it comes to decisions about health, what’s best for us as individuals might not always be the best thing for the wider population, and vice versa. This can make it difficult for authorities to make decisions to protect the whole population. But there’s a way we can make sense of such a...
New Mexico is suing Google, Twitter, Tiny Labs, and other app developers for collecting data on children under 13-years-old without their parents' permission. The apps can track where children live, play, and go to school.
Please enjoy my recent conversation with Justin Pedini. Herein we discussed his path to Anarchism/Voluntaryism, George Carlin, truth telling comedians, Larken Rose, Conscious Resistance Network, myth of authority, chain of obedience, blaming violent video games, Mark Passio, deep rooted...
Russ Winter returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his Parasite Guild series of articles. We talk about the various scams and intrigues of the criminal syndicate that run the global economic order and how this cabal of bankers and financiers use monetary debasement and debt to...
Syria: A Russian military plane was shot down accidentally by Syrian anti-aircraft fire, killing all 15 on board. Initially, Moscow blamed Israel, because Israeli jets were flying in the same area as the passenger route and, thereby, attracted Syrian anti-aircraft fire into the path of the...
L'acteur a pris la parole le 12 septembre 2018 au sommet pour le climat de San Francisco pour dénonçer les dangers de l'inaction face aux enjeux écologiques et les politiques inconscientes qui nient tout impact de l'homme sur les écosystèmes.
Une pique à peine voilée à la politique de...
It's a question that needs asking. The timing is certainly suspect. But timing isn't everything.
It can be part of the whole picture. Might there be other aspects worth considering when thinking of the attack on the Russian plane as a message delivered via missile?
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The basis for the war in Afghanistan was an official document that was classified as secret but which was said to contain conclusive proof that the 911 attack on the US was directed from Afghanistan, but there was no proof whatsoever.
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