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8 things I learned about Palestine while touring 8 Western nations
By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | May 29, 2018 On 20 February, I embarked on a global book tour that has, thus far, taken me to eight nations. The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, […]
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Venezuela's Economic Collapse Is Linked to Its Socialist Policies
Shortages have sporadically appeared with items from milk to coffee since early 2003, when Chavez began regulating prices for 400 basic products. One cannot identify any one specific “wrong turn” in Venezuela’s economic history. It is more a matter of economic distortions building up over time, and compounding each other.
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Will Putin’s Policy of Concession Succeed?
Will Putin’s Policy of Concession Succeed?
Paul Craig Roberts
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Conference last weekend shows the Russian government’s ensnarement by neoliberal economic policy. Putin defended globalism and free trade, and he warned that crisis will result from the breakup of the global system. -
US Will Dump $700-Billion into Obamacare Subsidies in 2018
The US Congressional Budget Office estimates that it will spend $700-billion on subsidies this year to help pay the health-care premiums for Americans under the age of 65. The extravagant benefits of the government's so-called 'affordable health care' has forced insurers to raise premiums by 34% in 2018. [...]
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Israel, NATO carry out naval drills in Haifa
MEMO | May 29, 2018 The British air defence destroyer HMS Duncan and Spanish naval frigate “Victoria” on Friday docked on a NATO mission in northern Israel’s Haifa Port to participate in a joint naval exercise with the Israeli military, Israel Defence reported yesterday. According to the Israeli army spokesperson, this is the first time […]
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Scottish Government Greenlights Plan to Allow All Refugees and Asylum Seekers to Vote
In 2016, the Scottish parliament voted unanimously to lower the age of voting to 16. Now, leftists are pushing for refugees and asylum seekers residing in Scotland to vote, also. UKIP’s David Kurten says 'progressives' will benefit by using migrants to create "demographic gerrymandering" to win elections.
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Angry CEOs Split from GOP over Immigration Reform as Trump Appears to Support His Base
A group of GOP-aligned donors and Never-Trump Republicans are teaming up with elite-left donors to the Democratic Party to push open borders. The business-led Congressional Leadership Fund Super PAC is backing RINOs who endorse the "discharge petition" that would circumvent Republican leadership and bring a Democrat-sponsored 'no-strings amnesty' bill to the House floor as early as June 25. [...]
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Nazism and Communism Are Two Sides of the Collectivist Coin
Earlier today, I was lucky enough to get a tour through the House of Terror, a museum in Budapest that commemorates the horrors that Hungary endured during both Nazi occupation and Soviet occupation. I was particularly gratified to learn that it’s the most-visited museum in Budapest. Not simply because it’s filled with interesting material, but because it helps people understand that all forms of statism are wrong.
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MEK’s Money Sure Can’t Buy Love
But it can buy a lot of politicians Maryan Rajavi By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • May 29, 2018 Iran’s radical Marxist cult Mohajedeen e Khalq, better known by its acronym MEK, is somewhat reminiscent of the Israel Lobby’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in that it operates somewhat in the shadows and […]
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The European Union Has Been Spamming Your Inbox… and That’s Not the Worst of It
According to Forbes, the GDPR has already cost U.S. Fortune 500 companies $7.8 billion in compliance costs prior to its implementation. For mid-sized firms, the average of spending on compliance in those two years was $550,000. One specific group of people is therefore likely to tell you that the regulation is just wonderful: legal advisors and consulting firms.
Beyond this crony-like benefit, data policy is on its way to a drastic—and probably counter-productive—transformation: Facebook and Google alone have racked up $8.8 billion in lawsuits from just one day of GDPR. -
Israeli academic says Jewish lobby made Turkish lira fall
What to make of the tweet from an Israeli academic regarding the manipulation of the Turkish Lira?Be sure to share some thoughts!Middle East Monitor
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Syria sides with Russia, recognizes Abkhazia, South Ossetia
Georgia says it will sever diplomatic relations with Syria over its decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister David Dondua said on Tuesday.
The same day, a statement on the website of the self-declared South Ossetian Foreign Ministry said the northern Georgian region and Syria had “established diplomatic relations.” -
25% of Ukrainian troops under criminal investigation since April 2014
The military prosecutor’s offices of Ukraine have opened more than 27,000 criminal cases against 43,000 Ukrainian servicemen since April 2014, which is about 25 percent of all soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the chief military prosecutor, Anatolii Matios, said Tuesday, as reported by Sputnik.
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Here’s the REAL purpose and mission of the Deep State
The media narrative on the pro-Trump side of things is that the RussiaGate investigation is on its last legs and that it is falling apart. The anti-Trump side of this matter says quite the opposite, and keeps promising that the damning evidence is ‘just around the corner’ and that the media sources involved are committed to ‘bringing the truth to the American people’, and so on.
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We Can't Count On Journalists To Tell The Real Truth-- How About Pusha T?
It's incumbent on journalists to never give up on pointing out that Trump never opens his mouth without lying and attempting to manipulate the public. Most Americans know he's a liar; a recent poll found that only 13% of Americans consider Señor Trumpanzee honest and trustworthy. And yet... his job approval rating has crept back up into the 40s.
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Tomgram: Nick Turse, Tomorrow's Terror Today
For almost 20 years, U.S. drone warfare was largely one-sided. Unlike Afghans and Yemenis, Iraqis and Somalis, Americans never had to worry about lethal robots hovering overhead and raining down missiles...
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The Open Letter sent to me in 2015 by Paolo Savona & Giulio Tremonti, two former Italian ministers, on reforms to the EU that they considered necessary
Rome, July 24, 2015
To Yanis Varoufakis and Dominique Strauss-Khan
Dear Yanis, dear Dominique,
There is a place on earth that represents Europe’s very roots: Greece. Let us begin there.
Athens, April 28, 1955. Albert Camus’ conference on “The future of Europe”.[1]
On this occasion, participants agreed that the structural characteristics of European civilization are essentially two: the dignity of the individual; a spirit of critique. -
An Admonition to the #Conspiratorium
Judges and anyone with significant power are admonished not only to not do evil, but to avoid even the appearance of evil. In other words, don’t get even get close to the line, never mind crossing it. The Obama administration and its #DeepState enablers both crossed the line and then turned back and erased it. Now the line is gone they can proclaim themselves innocent of all evil and proclaim everyone else guilty because they decide where the line is on any given day. But now everyone can play that deadly game. Violence, not words, will be the only outcome.
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US State Department Tells Syria What It Can and Can"t Do on Its Own Soil
The United States’ goal is the partition of Syria, with large swaths of its territory remaining under America’s control, including the Daraa province.
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A rejuvenated green movement is needed now more than ever
A rejuvenated green movement is needed now more than ever
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
21 May 2018
Looking back from today, we can now see the mid to late 2000s marked a high point in activism, media interest and government action regarding climate change in the UK. -
Israel"s Premature Celebration: Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may have thought he had won. Comforted by his rightwing government and society on the one hand, Trump and his angry UN bully, Nikki Haley, on the other, he feels invulnerable.
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Vladimir Putin grants Russian citizenship to American MMA champion Jeffrey Monson
Originally appeared at RussiaFeed
Another American celebrity has joined the likes of actor Steven Seagal and basketball player Jamierra Faulkner in becoming a Russian citizen.
Jeffrey Monson, a legendary mixed martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota, was granted Russian citizenship by decree of President Vladimir Putin yesterday, TASS reports. -
Austria, world’s intelligence capital, leans toward Russia
If the Russians did it, and insert accusation here, then surely the Austrians would know about it. After all, they’re the intelligence capital of the world.
They’re supposed to be home to the best spies, and perhaps have lots of good ones, themselves.
So, again, if Russia was up to all the nefarious activities that Washington and London keep griping about, then surely they would have some goods on it and therefore know that cozying up to Moscow isn’t the best maneuver. But apparently, they haven’t yet caught on. -
China Can Hold Trump"s Trade War Hostage
China is the key to bleeding off the negative consequences to global trade, thus blunting Trump’s economic Sword of Damocles – tariffs, sanctions, fines and expulsion from the SWIFT payment system.
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Iran Diary: Bracing for All-Out Economic War
Persian politeness, hospitality and graciousness always strike a visitor as deeply touching. All that combined with an obsession with the image that the West has of Iran. Iran does not seek “isolation”; it’s Washington politics that wants it isolated.
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WATCHING ITALY… AGAIN
See? I told you watching Italy would be fun! But just in case you haven't been watching, there's been another hiccup in the process […]
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TIDBIT: WATCHING ITALY… AND SPAIN…
Apropos of today's main blog, a thank you to Mr. H.B. for sending this article: Italian Bonds Tumble, Triggering Goldman "Contagion" Level As Political […]
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America"s Big-Brother "News" Media
America’s aristocratically controlled ’news’ media hide the basic reality — that America’s trillion-dollar annual federal military expense is a taxpayer-subsidization of US-headquartered international corporations, taking that trillion dollars each year from the public, and giving it to the owners of those mega-corporations. Here is how it’s done...
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German people hold foreign minister accountable for anti-Russia rhetoric, want improved ties with Moscow
Germany’s Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, came onto duty at his present post a Russian hardliner. Russia was the evil empire, and everything wrong with Germany, the EU, or anywhere else in the universe somehow went back to Moscow.
It was the Crimean annexation, it was the Skripal poisoning, it was some computer hacking, etc. But then Trump pulled America out of the Iran nuclear deal and suddenly Germany’s foreign policy with Russia was headed in a completely different trajectory. -
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Midnight Meme Of The Day!
by NoahI can imagine Roseanne's resume: "Experienced. Media savvy. Well versed in all forms of bigotry, with a large following. Let me make a difference on your team!"Maybe the qualities in the above resume line are what Disney (the owners of ABC) had in mind when they gave her a show in the first place. After all, Disney has its own past with bigotry and right wing stances. But, better late than never. They gave her the boot.
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Russia reverse engineers unexploded Tomahawk missiles from Syria
Just a week after the alleged chemical weapon attack in Douma, the one that the US, France, and the UK announced that they have proof of, and that the proof unequivocally pointed at the Syrian government under Assad, they decided to join together as a coalition and to conduct a ‘precision strike’ on Damascus to destroy sites alleged to manufacture or to warehouse chemical weapons.
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This is the New Italy
Years of neoliberal economic policies imposed by Brussels and by Italian politicians alike have devastated numerous industrial towns and the very fabric of Italian society, reports Attilio Moro. By Attilio Moro Special to Consortium News in Brussels Sesto San Giovanni,…Read more →
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Despite US sanctions, India will continue trade with Russia, Iran, Venezuela
Washington has taken up the perspective that it’s not going to do business with any country that they aren’t fond of, regardless of whatever agreements that it has made, and neither will it allow any of its friends or trade partners do it either, regardless of whatever that means for the hundreds of millions of people that America is directly and indirectly impacting in so doing.
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Italian president appoints ex-IMF official Cottarelli as interim PM, gives him mandate to form govt.
Press TV – May 28, 2018 Italian President Sergio Mattarella has appointed Carlo Cottarelli, a former senior director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as interim prime minister, giving him mandate to form a government ahead of snap elections in the country, which has been without a government for two months. Cottarelli made the announcement […]
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Poland to pay $2 billion in order to permanently host US base
Poland is so apprehensive of the perceived Russian threat that they are willing to cough up $2 billion in help offset the expenses of a permanent US military presence on their soil to deter ‘Russia’s aggressive posture’.
Poland’s present view of Russia simply makes no practical sense from a security perspective, as no threats have been made in their direction. -
Columbia joins NATO as a ‘global partner’
Columbia is about to become the first Latin American nation to join NATO as its newest member.
The Columbian President Juan Manuel Santos told a press briefing in Bogota “We are getting into the big leagues. We will be measured, compared and evaluated with the best.”
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May 28, 2018: Su-57 Stealth Fighter Carries Out Strikes In Syria
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-may-28-2018-su-57-stealth-figh… Four Russian military advisers have been killed and three others have been injured in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor in a shelling carried out by militants, the Russian
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Real Patriotism on Memorial Day Means Losing Fewer Soldiers in Meaningless Wars
Most people, when thinking of Memorial Day – if they don’t confuse it with Veterans Day – think of the start of the summer season or great sales at the stores and online. Yet the holiday is supposed to honor those who died in America’s wars. Even some of the limited remembrance on TV and … Continue reading "Real Patriotism on Memorial Day Means Losing Fewer Soldiers in Meaningless Wars"
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La collusion américaine avec les néo-nazis, par Stephen F. Cohen
Source : The Nation, Stephen F. Cohen, 02-05-2018
Les néo-fascistes jouent un rôle important, officiel ou toléré, dans l’Ukraine épaulée par les USA
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Questioning War Is a Civic Duty. Why Do So Few Do It?
“How do you motivate men and women to fight and die for a cause many of them don’t believe in, and whose purpose they can’t articulate?” That’s what Phil Klay, author and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, asks in an essay published this month in The Atlantic. Unfortunately, he points out in a recent New York … Continue reading "Questioning War Is a Civic Duty. Why Do So Few Do It?"
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America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence
Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his demands would be impossible to meet. They were designed that way. Just like Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum to Serbia in July, 1914, that led … Continue reading "America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence"
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Winning One Of The Last Republican Held Seats In Los Angeles-- A Two-Part Guest Post By Lee Rogers
Anyone who has followed this blog for the past half dozen years knows Dr. Lee Rogers, primarily because he ran for Congress in CA-25 twice. The heart of the district is Santa Clarita but spreads south to Porter Ranch, west into Simi Valley, north as far as Gorman and east to Palmdale and up to Lancaster in the Antelope Valley.
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21 Killed in Fresh Iraq Violence; 43 Bodies Found in Rubble
More bodies were pulled from the rubble in Mosul, but 21 were killed in fresh violence.
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[Vidéo] Olivier Berruyer : « Souvent Macron varie, bien fol est qui s’y fie »
Source : Olivier Berruyer, 25-05-2018
Le rédacteur en chef du site Les Crises, Olivier Berruyer, juge les paroles d’Emmanuel Macron lors de sa visite en Russie «fortes, intéressantes et encourageantes». Toutefois, il juge qu’Emmanuel Macron «parfois, manque un peu de cohérence». -
US meddled in Venezuelan elections, says Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza in new interview
Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, talked about how the US embassy and American diplomats meddled in Venezuela’s elections, calling for the opposition to boycott the elections in a bid to undermine its legitimacy, in a recent interview with Deutsche Welle.
Western media, in attempts to parrot the illegitimacy claims, have often pointed to the boycotts that much of the opposition carried out. -
The debate
by Judith Curry
On June 12, I am scheduled to appear in a debate that includes Michael Mann
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Russians test new cruise missiles in Syria using SU-57 jets
Just days after Russian defense Minister, Sergey Shoigu, announced that successful field tests have been conducted using both the KH-59 Ovod cruise missile and the SU-57 jet, a very brief video apparently showing this has popped up on Youtube.
The Drive observes:
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