In the recent rhetoric over tensions in the Korean Peninsula, US President Trump called North Korean Chairman Kim “Rocket Man” and Chairman Kim responded by calling Trump a “Dotard”. The exchange has plumbed the depths of statesmanship, with the greater offender being President Dotard. Language...
Patchwork propaganda, forcibly arrested and rock bottom Weiner + this day in history w/the death of Bonzo and our song of the day by The Reverberations on your Morning Monarchy for September 25, 2017.
Earlier this year, I pointed out that Trump and Republicans could learn a valuable lesson from Maine Governor Paul LePage on how to win a government shutdown. Today, let’s look at a lesson from North Carolina on how to design and implement pro-growth tax policy.
The UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame (from Lebanon), has released a bit of information about his upcoming plan for Libya. He states that there is a 3 step plan culminating in a general election for the country in 2018. This will be an election for President and Parliament. He...
The Seventh Circuit handed a victory to the Libertarian Party on Friday, declaring an Illinois requirement that third parties run a full slate of candidates to get on the ballot unconstitutional.
“We have little difficulty concluding that the full-slate requirement severely burdens the...
It’s been said that truth is always the first casualty in war. The mystery of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014 continues to be an unresolved international issue. Over three years later, the two countries meant to be leading a ‘neutral’ international investigation, the...
An award-winning New Jersey detective has been charged after he repeatedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old, who has given birth to his baby, according to NJ.com.
Camden County Police Department detective Rafael Martinez Jr., 32, raped the teen several times at his home between September...
The idea of human rights began to be applied to other areas. Freedom of speech. Freedom of the press. Freedom of association. Freedom to trade, create, buy and sell, travel and move. The root was the same in every case: the core governing unit of society is located within the individual. The...
Last September, the people of the Potlotek First Nation, located in Canada’s Nova Scotia, began to protest the quality of their water. The community’s water supply has been an issue for over a decade when reports of black, thick, foul-smelling tap water first became commonplace. Over that entire...
Today is the day that the Kurdish people in northern Iraq and in northern Syria "vote" in a referendum for their "independence" and to create an independent "Kurdistan" that is to be carved out of both northern Iraq and northern Syria.... I will state it clearly that this "independence" is a...
No matter what crazy stuff Trump is up to now let’s keep in mind Puerto Rico really needs our attention and help.
Those are the words of Mark Ruffalo this weekend as the actor and social justice activist echoed the concerns of many that the president’s incendiary comments over recent days...
By Barbara Nimri Aziz | CounterPunch | September 25, 2017 At least the combative and haughty Israeli prime minister was forthright: he supports a free and independent Kurdistan. Tomorrow’s vote by Iraqi Kurdish parties to secede from Iraq may well push the country into another war, a civil war...
21st Century Wire says…
Above the bluster and posturing of western world leaders at the UNGA, rose the voices from nations that are most under attack from these neo-colonialist entities…
Syrian Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem...
by Gaius Publius
The massive data breach suffered by Equifax, one of the nation's three credit data reporting agencies, caused by what looks for all the world like negligence...
A majority of British people support racial profiling against Arabs and Muslims for security reasons, according to a new poll, which also reserves criticism for British foreign policy in the Arab world.
The YouGov poll which looks at UK attitudes to the Arab world, reveals differences...
This Thursday evening, September 28, join KPFK Radio’s Alan Minsky, and Scott Horton, managing director of the Libertarian Institute and opinion editor of Antiwar.com, for a discussion about the deadly and disastrous war in Afghanistan you won’t hear anywhere else!
Approaching sixteen...
By Ron Paul | September 25, 2017 The descent of US/North Korea “crisis” to the level of schoolyard taunts should be remembered as one of the most bizarre, dangerous, and disgraceful chapters in US foreign policy history. President Trump, who holds the lives of millions of Koreans and Americans...
Justin Podur: You recently completed an unusual book RPS/2044. Can you first tell us what it is?
Michael Albert: I think the publishing industry would call it an alternative history novel. In it...
Catalans are drawing comparisons to the brutal rule of El caudillo, the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, after the Spanish central government began its crackdown on a planned referendum for Catalonia independence.
Offices were raided and members of the Catalan government arrested on...
Complaints about illegal immigration are constant and repetitive. They’re sowing chaos along the border, using welfare, taking American jobs, and their mere presence is destroying respect for the law. Some oppose legalizing any illegal immigrants until the border is secure.
Good news:...
(ZHE) — As previewed last week in “Prosecutors Demand 2-Year Prison Sentence For Anthony Weiner“, with Weiner having already agreed to serve prison time for sending explicit message to a teenage girl as described in painful detail in “Prosecutors Unveil Full Details Of Anthony Weiner’s...
A book featuring portraits of women from around the world aims to challenge the narrow concept of beauty depicted by the mass media, and celebrate diversity
The post Photography book aims to challenge conventional ideas of female beauty appeared first on Positive News.
Lunch alone in a trattoria in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Rome, which is neither fashionable nor touristic. Noisy with students and young people at night, local places to hangout, some occupied spaces.
What struck me, in contrast to the U.S...
The Russian Defense Ministry has released aerial images allegedly showing ISIS, the SDF, and US special forces working side-by-side on the battlefield against Syrian and Russian forces in Deir el-Zour, Syria.
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Monsieur Michel Cymès est l'exemple type de ce qu'il ne faut pas faire et dire pour rassurer les populations concernant la problématique vaccinale. Avec son air suffisant et arrogant, de millionnaire des médias et de la Doxa dominante, il est certainement la dernière personne à avoir de la...
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | September 25, 2017 The elections to the German Bundestag on Sunday throw up big surprises. Chancellor Angela Merkel will lead the next coalition government, too – her fourth successive win – but in all other respects, the results signify that Germany’s...
Our current welfare system is a dysfunctional mess. It’s bad for taxpayers and recipients. Replacing it with a universal basic income probably would make the system simpler, but at a potentially very high cost in terms of cultural capital.
By Sarah Abed | American Herald Tribune | September 25, 2107 The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and its Syrian spinoff, the YPG, are cult-like radical movements that intertwine Marxism, feminism, Leninism and Kurdish nationalism into a hodge-podge of ideology, drawing members through the...
Nine months after Trump introduced a controversial travel ban widely panned as discriminatory and anti-Muslim, the White House has issued new regulations that add North Korea, Chad and Venezuela to the list.
“Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our...
A federal jury awarded a Texas man more than $1.3 million in a civil lawsuit against deputies who claimed he assaulted them in January 2015.
But Lawrence Faulkenberry’s home surveillance video camera proved that was a lie.
Had it not been for his home surveillance camera,...
(TFC Op-ed) — As white supremacists of all sorts rebrand, they still cling to the concept of “free speech rallies”. Do you notice how they don’t invite groups opposed to them to speak? Do you notice all of the speakers are of the alt-right or alt-light variety? Do you notice the blatant racism?...
While there is no question that the innovations of Uber and Lyft have caused medallion owners and taxi companies hardship, the misguided response of these groups has often been to call for increased regulation of ride-sharing services. They argue that Uber and Lyft have an unfair advantage...
France’s draft counterterrorism bill is now in its final stretch before becoming law. The fast-tracked bill is widely expected to pass a vote in an extraordinary session of the National Assembly on October 3 – despite concerns that it encroaches on people’s rights.
The bill doesn’t...
Germans love their tranquility. I can attest to that having lived in the land of Oom-pah where wine and beer fests churn up robotic glee and civic togetherness. And the election charade for Angela Merkel’s fourth term is a good example of just how much people are willing to sacrifice in...
While the official Pentagon reports on civilian deaths claim far fewer deaths, NGOs have been consistently documenting a massive number of civilian bystanders killed in America’s air war in Iraq and Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the total at 2,617 civilians killed in...
Seymour Hersh receiving the annual Integrity Award from the The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence on Sept. 22, 2017, in Washington
Journalist Seymour Hersh, whose career includes exposing U.S. intelligence abuses, received an award for integrity from an organization of...
From Editor Robert Parry: Honest journalism is vital to a genuine democracy. But what we’ve seen from the U.S. mainstream media – of which I was a part for many years – is something dangerously far from honest. It has become…
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Debating access to deemed “public goods” is always a messy, dogmatic, and stinky mess. From healthcare to education to retirement, there has never been a dull moment. Of interest to libertarians should be the debate surrounding broadband internet access. This discussion is not of the net...
HOMS, SYRIA — In the last year, the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Madaya have become familiar to the international community as they have become subjects of heavy propaganda amid corporate media coverage to justify a so-called “humanitarian” war. Another area used in the war propaganda was al-Waer...
In today’s show originally broadcast on September 25 2017, TBR Radio’s Andrew Carrington Hitchcock interviews James Bacque to discuss his books, “Other Losses & Crimes And Mercies.” We discussed: Jim’s background; how approximately 2 million German Prisoners of War died in concentration...
President Trump doubled down on his rhetoric against NFL players who refuse to stand for the national anthem.
Trump is encouraging fans boycott the NFL if the league refuses to “back the U.S.”
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Unfortunately, most Americans do not bat an eye at the worst offenses committed by the presidency, namely the killing of millions in undeclared wars of choice with nations who have never attacked the United States. But Americans on both the right and the left are increasingly feeling the effects...
The Russian Defense Ministry has said that earlier reports of Russian attacks on US proxy SDF forces in Deir ez-Zor are false.
This comes as the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia described the earlier killing of Russian Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov in the following way,
..."Le grand chaos" Un documentaire de Cristophe Weber retraçant la chronologie des évènements qui conduisirent à la capitulation de la France en 1940, face à l'Allemagne nazie ...
Chronologie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
juin 1940 est l'aboutissement de la bataille de France qui...
Between the years 1913 and 1921 the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, outdid his predecessors in military interventionism. Wilson’s moral crusade to bring democracy to the world and uphold the Monroe Doctrine began in Mexico. Wilson’s “moral diplomacy” then set its gunsights...
In a breaking post yesterday, The Duran confirmed that the Russian Defense Minsitry has released photos showing ISIS, the SDF and US special forces working side-by-side on the battlefield in Dier ez-Zor, Syria.
The London Mayor could have cited such information to show that (much...
Actor and director, Rob Reiner, and other Hollywood liberals have joined forces with pro-war neoconservatives to investigate alleged Russian interference in the last election. [...]
Don’t get me wrong, if you want to be done with the NFL and boycott them, fine. That's your right. But that this is the last straw says more about you than it does about football.
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