Simpsons’ Apu Controversy: About me, I have no sense of humour
By Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog There I was, back on the NYC-SF red eye, and man do I hate flying. While you’re waiting to board there is absolutely
By Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog There I was, back on the NYC-SF red eye, and man do I hate flying. While you’re waiting to board there is absolutely
Establishment Democrats are making a terrible mistake in moving their emphasis towards millionaires and away from the working class. The glory days of the Democratic Party was when they united working families and dominated politics-- basically from 1930, when the Democrats netted 52 House seats, making John Nance Garner Speaker.
A Court that’s required to elevate the Constitution, and in doing so ensure that trade among American citizens is regular and free, has empowered cities and states to effectively put up tariff barriers to trade through a wholly invented taxing power.
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With all of the unfounded hysteria surrounding alleged “Russian meddling” in during recent US elections, few are focusing on actual US interference – covert and corporate – in electoral processes around the world.
Despite democracy’s prominence in his title, de Tocqueville’s focus was liberty, because “the only passions I have are love of liberty and human dignity.” Revisiting him is particularly important now, when the need for a political majority has become virtually the only limit on government, because he saw how democracy can subvert liberty.
By Tony Kevin | OffGuardian | July 29, 2018 The current Maria Butina indictment in the US reminds one of Voltaire’s famous saying: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”. I do not share Maria Butina’s fondness for guns or for the National Rifle […]
RT | July 29, 2018 Failure to release any evidence of Russia’s alleged involvement in the Skripal case shows that neither German nor British intelligence services have anything on it, a member of the German Left Party, Heike Haensel, believes. Western media and politicians still seize every opportunity to pin the blame on Moscow for […]
Another stroke of sheer luck for Imran Khan! What timing. How convenient.
Around the time Trump announced the United States’s withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear non proliferation agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Bolton was pushing this idea of a kind of ‘Arab NATO’ type of alliance, to take America’s place in the Middle East. Trump has been touting the idea of withdrawing American troops from the region, but that wouldn’t suit Washington’s agenda over there, and could result in the return of some degree of stability, and that just can’t be allowed. So, enter the Bolton factor.
In following Jesus, it is unethical to enter my neighbor's house with deadly force to force them to pay their employees better wages, use healthcare insurance plans I want funded, or stop using a drug.
Ahed and Nariman upon their release Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – July 29, 2018 Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi, 17, and her mother, Nariman Tamimi, were released from Israeli occupation prisons in the morning of Sunday, 29 July 2018 after serving eight-month prison sentences. Ahed and her mother were arrested on 19 December 2017 after […]
After being released from detention in Germany on a Spanish arrest warrant, the deposed Catalonian President, Carles Puigdemont, announced that he was going to continue to pursue the cause of Catalonia’s independence. Puigdemont made the statement at a joint press conference in Waterloo, the site of Napoleon’s 1815 defeat, and from where the cause for Catalonia’s independence will be orchestrated through a ‘Republican Council’, which he says that he is going to organize. Much of Puigdemont’s political activism will take place from Belgium.
Bad campaign messageThe albatross is on the way! Republican incumbents got some really bad news Friday evening on Hannity's show. Down deep, Trump knows he's really bad at being president. He would never admit it but he knows the 38% job approval is silly. It should be 8%, not 38%. He's terrible at his job. Everything he touches turns to shit.
The Russian Federation’s VESTI news program “60 minutes” reports that one of their missile development scientists, 74 year old Dr. Viktor Kudryavtsev, an aerodynamics and hydrodynamics expert, was arrested by the FSB two months ago on charges of espionage in connection with passing along classified information about the breakthrough Avangard and Kinzhal hypersonic missile technology to NATO operatives.
During the fallout from his failure to score victory during the last election, in 2013, Islamabad saw the ‘wrath of Khan’ in the protests which were led by his party members while Khan claimed the election was rigged against him. This time, however, Khan has come out the victor and most of the opposition has admitted it, although some claims of election rigging are still floating around.
Direct western intervention in a major ground campaign seems unlikely. But the US and Israeli war plan would aim to totally destroy Iran’s infrastructure, communications and transport (including oil) crippling this important nation of 80 million and taking it back to the pre-revolutionary era. That was the plan for Iraq, the Arab world’s most industrialized nation. Today Iraq still lies in ruins.
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Following the call of Assad’s government for displaced citizens to return to their homeland, hundreds of civilians have returned to homes in town liberated from the occupation of ISIS affiliated terrorists. The Jaleen area has been cleared of terrorists and any possible mines which they might have left behind, in order to render the area safe enough for the repatriation of its population.
The hope that a short victorious campaign will boost Trump’s approval ratings and increase the GOP’s chances for success at the November midterm election has never been abandoned.
For movie censors, crime is perhaps the most complex issue to make decisions about. They want the public to be alert to the possibility of crimes happening, and respectful of law enforcement institutions. But entertainers and audiences want dramatic, ambiguous villains and stories of institutional corruption and hubris.
Evolutionsbiologen Richard Dawkins fick en anglikansk uppfostran, men är ateist. Han tror alltså inte på någon religion alls, men han är klok nog att göra skillnad på dem. Dels gör han skillnad på ”sin” religion och andras och dels gör han skillnad på bättre och sämre religioner. Detta retar förstås det auktoritära vänsteretablissemanget som bara går med på kritik mot islam om man också kritiserar kristendomen – knappt ens då.
I infer, from the evidence, that the leaders, of the operation to conquer Russia, are the controlling owners of America’s large ‘defense’ contractors, and of those individuals’ largest non-U.S. customer, the Saud family. The Sauds’ biggest competitors in the international-energy markets (which are their own main markets) are: Russia and Iran. Those same two countries are also the main enemies that are targeted by the U.S. alliance.
Iranian Minister of Defense, Amir Hatami, attended the opening of a production line for the manufacture of air-to-air missiles in Iran. He was keen to make note of the fact that Iran has the capability to not only manufacture the missiles, but also to tweak the technology and mechanics so as to suit the needs of the Iranian military, rather than finding itself in a position which would seeking the technological competence elsewhere. The Faqoor missiles are said to be designed with state-of-the-art technology and successfully passed trials last year.
The aftermath of the last Putin-Trump meeting in Helsinki, saw top heavy anti-Russian and anti-Putin theatrics, which stand in the way of improved relations.
One thing is clear, Donald Trump has no idea what a war with Iran would cost. Estimates of American combat dead begin at 80,000 and move upward. Civilian death in the US, not counting any nation that would aid the US in such an endeavor, would likely top 50,000 or more.
The financial cost is estimated in the trillions with Saudi Arabia’s oil output ended for all time. That nation would lie in ruins. The same is likely for Israel as well.
No one has practiced more fascist-style criminality and brutality towards law and peace than the polite-sounding pseudo-democrats who have been in office for the past 70 years in the US and Europe.
Ahed Tamimi and her mother were freed from prison on Sunday. Ray McGovern looks back on when he met the Tamimi family last year in their West Bank village and reflects on the spirit that drives them. By Ray McGovern…Read more →
An Egyptian Kangaroo Court Saturday (July 28) sentenced 75 supporters of the former President Mohammad Morsi to death. Egyptian Kangaroo courts are on death sentences spree since the overthrow of Mohammad Morsi, the first democratically election president of Egypt by US client General Abdel Fattah el-Sissi who has since assumed the title of Field Marshall. Last month Egypt’s Zagazig Criminal[Read More...]
by Noah"How Do You Milk Sheep?" sounds like any politician's handbook if there ever was one. Chances are such a book, if it exists, has been translated into more languages than the Bible or Traitor Don's Hollywood Access tape. And, since I mentioned Traitor Don...During the 2016 campaign, Trump cruised the Midwestern states with a typical divide and conquer approach.
“We are at a watershed, where success in managing forced displacement globally requires a new and far more comprehensive approach so that countries and communities aren’t left dealing with this alone”, Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, heralds. ‘Global Trends’, the yearly report published by UNHCR unravels the contemporary state of global population of forcibly displaced people. “Globally, the[Read More...]
This month marks the first anniversary of Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI). Formed in Surrey, BC on July 8, 2017, IAPI was created in response to the growing attacks on religious minorities in India. Ever since the right wing Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in India in 2014, violence against minorities has grown in the[Read More...]
As election results are almost declared, Pakistan is entering new phase of governanc under a new premier. Hindus comprise about 1.85% of Pakistan population ( wikipedia.org and as of 2010, it had fifth largest hindu population in the world. Pakistan census separates scheduled castes from the main body of hindu population who constitute a further 0.25% of national population. Thus,[Read More...]
(CD Opinion) — Over 50 years ago, in his letter from the Birmingham Jail, addressing a struggle of the civil right era, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” His message […]
South Korean statements about “comfort women” leave the author with an impression that only someone without similar skeletons in their closet has the right to voice such demands and harsh criticism. Otherwise these heartfelt declarations appear to exemplify duplicity or unscrupulous populism,
which is true of the situation in South Korea. Hence, it is worth reminding the readers of some events from South Korea’s history and its participation in the Vietnam War.
(ZHE) — Update: The death toll has risen to five, as great-grandmother Mary Bledsoe and her great-grandchildren, James Roberts, 5, and Emily Roberts, 4, were killed as the Carr fire moved through Redding, CA on Saturday. The fire is currently 5% contained and has destroyed over 80,000 acres and 500 structures based on a revised counts. President Trump has declared a state of […]
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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George Saintsbury
From A Short History of French Literature
Source : Le Figaro, Julien Licourt, 11/03/2018
INTERVIEW – Les attentats sanglants rythment le quotidien des Afghans. Karim Pakzad, chercheur à l’Iris et spécialiste du pays, estime que les talibans ont radicalisé leurs méthodes à cause de la concurrence imposée par Daech.
by Reese ErlichWhen I first reported from China in 1980, bicycles outnumbered cars on Beijing's major streets, and the tallest building in town was a 25-story hotel. I visited a small village that had one black and white TV, which everyone watched at night.Today China's major cities are jammed with modern factories, skyscrapers, and large public transportation networks.
Five election officials were fired over corruption allegations.
The post Five Election Officials Dismissed; Seven Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Source : NPR, Peter Kenyon, 08-03-2018
Le président turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan serre les mains de la population locale à Port Soudan, au Soudan, le 25 décembre, l’un des nombreux endroits en Afrique où le dirigeant turc s’est récemment rendu. Kayhan Ozer/AP
By Rob Slane | The Blog Mire | July 28, 2018 The two most basic claims made by the Government and investigators regarding the method and the mode in the Salisbury poisoning are these: That military grade nerve agent was used to poison Mr Skripal That it was applied to the door handle of his […]
Not every child molester is a wresting coach or a Republican legislator. Yesterday, Michael Graball and Topher Sanders reported for ProPublica that the ICE prisons (redubbed "immigrant youth shelters") Trump is sending children, are a "gold mine" for predators.
When I put up last week's rant, I was not aware that during my subsequent absence that I would get a lot of "hate" comments coming from the ludicrous and ridiculous "flat earth" group of idiots.... And yes there were quite a few....
I again want to thank everyone for their patience with me over this last week... I do have a LOT of catching up to do with what I have missed, and I figured I would start off with a most interesting new article that comes from someone that I have long had the greatest respect for, especially with his vast knowledge and ability to write so many articles that truly do expose the criminality of the so called "tribe" of most evil Jewish criminals and their actions in wanting to enslave us all...
I am back from my one week furlough away from everything.... It was so nice to get away from it all for a week and to actually enjoy myself and NOT have to worry about what is happening in our sick world during my absence..I did not bring my laptop on this short vacation, and I am presently just getting up to steam on what has been happening over the last week...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President, is embossed with the sheer magnitude of what the BRICS bloc represents, as well as what it has achieved, and is expected to accomplish going forward and wants a piece of the action, so it seems. Erdogan was invited to the 10th Leaders’ Summit of BRICS countries in Johannesburg representing the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.