San Diego State University suspended American-Indian lecturer, Oscar Monge, from teaching after he threatened to lower a white student's grade when she expressed support for the school’s Aztec mascot. He also said it is easy to argue that whiteness is evil. [Have you noticed that almost all of those seeking to stir up violence and hatred between races in America are employed by American universities as professors or teachers?

* I had to take one of those "me days" yesterday to do some catching up on personal business.  I was tied up helping a family member over the weekend and needed yesterday to clear up some other family matters.

The US allows an estimated 1-million people to immigrate to the US each year, but a new poll by Harvard-Harris shows that 81% of Americans want the number reduced. According to the poll, 65% of voters would support a DACA deal that secures the Southern border, ends Chain Migration, and eliminates the Visa Lottery. [Question: If most voters want immigration to be substantially reduced, why do the politicians they elect push for more immigration? The answer is obvious.

Today I am sharing a song by one of my favorite Brazilian singers, Ney Matogrosso.  I love this song, a kind of lullaby when sung by Matogrosso, because it achieves

Neither China nor the US has approved mass cultivation of the rice amid low acceptance from the Chinese public for GM food

Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez faces ten criminal charges, including forcible rape, rape of an intoxicated victim, oral copulation with an intoxicated victim, and first degree burglary. He was arrested at his home in Santa Maria. His alleged victims are between 19 and 22 years old, and three were intoxicated when they were assaulted. California gives illegal aliens driver’s licenses, allowing them to become Uber drivers. [...]

Six prosperous doctors of different generations in my family inspired me to be a doctor. After I entered Medical College, the Medical College Democratic Students’ Association taught me to dream anew of being a very different kind of doctor…a doctor like Dr. Norman Bethune, like Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis. But where would I go? There was no anti-Franco resistance in Spain[Read More...]

On January 22, 2018, I had the opportunity to speak with the well-respected, highly-informed, longtime rights activist and writer, Ajamu Baraka.
A human rights defender whose experience spans four decades of domestic and international education and activism, Ajamu Baraka is a veteran grassroots organizer whose roots are in the Black Liberation Movement and anti-apartheid and Central American solidarity struggles. Please see his extended bio on his website.

Thomas Henry Horan returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his book The Myth of the Zodiac Killer. We discuss his research regarding Zodiac in the context of the wider serial killer phenomenon and the issue of fake news.

Thomas Henry Horan returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his book The Myth of the Zodiac Killer. We discuss his research regarding Zodiac in the context of the wider serial killer phenomenon and the issue of fake news.

A lot of voters-- voters who don't know rich people, I always thought-- were impressed with Trump's claims that because he was so rich he wouldn't be susceptible to taking bribes and being a crook.

At the beginning of 2017, the chief of US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) General Raymond Thomas while speaking in front of one of the Senate committees announced that:

In the past couple of weeks, thanks to the president’s racist comments about Haiti and African countries he can’t even name -- remember “Nambia”?

The UK Government’s Fracking Agenda is proving to be a massive catalyst in getting people to realise that everything they thought they knew, is probably wrong.
An excellent breakdown of where and why the term ‘conspiracy theory’ was created – from Ian R. Crane, broadcasting from an anti-Fracking camp located in the fields of Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire, England.

Sales only rose by 0.8 per cent y/y in the first half of the year 
File photo: The Mall of Africa in Midrand, near Johannesburg, South Africa [Xinhua]
In another sign of the recovery in the South African economy, real retail sales soared by 8.2 per cent year-on-year (y/y) in November after a revised 3.5 per cent (3.2 per cent) y/y gain in October according to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA).

It seemed so much busier, much more manic and crowded than the one year that had passed.  Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump continues to excite the same headlines and explosions that began even before he made it to the White House. By the time he got there, there were protests galore at agendas yet to be implemented, decrees yet[Read More...]

In India, there is a push to drive people from the countryside into cities. The mainstream narrative implies that urbanisation is natural in the evolution of societies and constitutes progress. The World Bank wants India to relocate 400 million people to urban centres. Former Chief Finance Minister P. Chidambaram once stated that 85% of the population would eventually live in[Read More...]

Our latest: reading between the lines on the new US National Defense Strategy, and revealing classified off-shore US bioweapons operations, the Davos deception, and we ask whether or not Turkey’s latest gamble in Syria will produce any results other than more instability.
UK Column co-anchor Mike Robinson is joined by guest host Patrick Henningsen with all the top stories internationally. Watch:

CWI supporter Mohamed Diaeldin Mohamed Satti, 21, known as “Hamudi”, is among the protesters who have been arrested by the Sudanese State last week, as part of the brutal response of Al Bashir’s regime to the ensuing wave of protests against skyrocketing prices and austerity. Hamudi’s arrest took place last Wednesday afternoon, as he participated in a peaceful march in central[Read More...]

US-NATO military fandangos in the Black Sea are part of the Pentagon-Brussels policy of poisonous confrontation that is intended to increase in intensity. The world is becoming an ever more dangerous place.

For some students of history, the claim that international bankers had influenced and supported the British Secret Elite and their …Continue reading →

2018/01/23 10:30:01Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

The ongoing India-US rapprochement has been couched in terms of a pact between the “two largest democracies in the world” and similar superlatives. While geographically-challenged Americans may be forgiven for not recognizing their immediate northern neighbour as both a larger nation and a better democracy, mnemonically-challenged Indian pundits should nonetheless subject India-US ties to trend-based reality checks.

The fix was in. Former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew well in advance of FBI Director James Comey’s 2016 press conference that he would recommend against charging Hillary Clinton.
Congressman Matt Gaetz blasted the FBI’s loss of the Peter Strzok texts…

“A pro-Hillary Clinton, ant-Donald Trump bias has intractably infected the FBI, and the United States of America is in jeopardy as a consequence.”

"Who the heck is Fedorov and who are the 'Russian cosmists'?", I'll bet you're saying.
Well, to be woefully succinct and therefore inaccurate about…
The post FEDOROV AND OTHER RUSSIAN COSMISTS A STEP CLOSER TO REALITY? appeared first on Giza Death Star.

The White House’s wheeling and dealing in the Middle East, with Mohammad bin Salman, Mohammad bin Zayed, and Bibi Netanyahu, for a ‘deal of the century’ has yielded not only ‘no deal’, but rather, has exacerbated Gulf tensions to a near existential crisis.

The Hill sums up what may be the biggest scandal to rock US politics, as former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew well in advance of FBI Director James Comey’s 2016 press conference that he would recommend against charging Hillary Clinton, according to information turned over to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Friday.

The first pathetic pieces of wreckage from North Korean fishing boats known as “ghost ships” to be found this year are washing up on the coast of northern Japan. These are the storm-battered remains of fragile wooden boats with unreliable engines in which North Korean fishermen go far out to sea in the middle of winter in a desperate search for fish.

The Las Vegas shooter had a very active email account where he repeatedly emailed himself. Turns out Martin Luther King Jr. was not inclusive enough. Chelsea didn’t use Foundation money for her wedding, and China …

Close to 100,000 Greeks rallied in Thessaloniki on Sunday, calling on the Tsipras government to not compromise on the name Macedonia for its northern province.
Via VOA…

-by NoahTo those who marched, we salute you!I'm happy to see marches like the ones we saw this past weekend and I'd like to see more of them with even more people. It's a measure of how evil Trump and his party and their policies are that more people, true patriots, march in protest of Trump-style institutionalized misogyny and more than attended his sad little inauguration.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Craft beer is brewing big in New Mexico; Colorado cities are building their own internet; and some little kids show some old folks some virtual reality.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Craft beer is brewing big in New Mexico; Colorado cities are building their own internet; and some little kids show some old folks some virtual reality.

Eight men own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity, according to a new report published by Oxfam to mark the annual meeting of political and business leaders in Davos. Oxfam’s report, ‘An economy for the 99 percent’, shows that the gap between rich and poor is far greater than had[Read More...]

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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Hilaire Belloc
From Permanence

Hindutva brigade continues to pretend to have great admiration for Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (23 January 1897–18 August 1945) who attempted to organise a military campaign to force the British out of India. But very few people know about the terrible betrayal of his cause by the Hindu Mahasabha under the leadership of Savarkar who was also adored by the[Read More...]

(ANTIWAR.COM) — Turkey announced Monday that they are continuing to intensify their invasion of the Afrin District in northern Syria, a district held by the Kurdish YPG. Turkey began shelling the area on Friday, and invaded over the weekend.

  Hindu Rashtra benefits from the miserable underfunding of the Indian judiciary leading to what is objectively speaking a dysfunctional and for the poor more or less non-functional judiciary. The millions of cases pending at all levels of the Indian judiciary benefit Narendra Modi and Amit Shaw’s Hindu Rashtra project by encouraging extra-judicial settlement of disputes. In a functioning system[Read More...]

  Nazareth: Last week Israeli military officials for the first time echoed what human rights groups and the United Nations have been saying for some time: that Gaza’s economy and infrastructure stand on the brink of collapse. They should know. More than 10 years ago the Israeli army tightened its grip on Gaza, enforcing a blockade on goods coming in[Read More...]

  The world must save the Holy City from Israel, fearlessly confront false claims, challenge the cruelty and expose the lies. Campaigners for justice — and that includes civil society in all countries — need to re-frame the Palestine-Israel narrative and demolish the Zionist fantasy.……Zionists claim Jerusalem is theirs by right. Actually, it was already 2000 years old and an[Read More...]

The news cycle these days moves fast and furious, especially when it comes to our esteemed President Donald Trump.  The reader may remember that a few days back Trump referred to parts of the planet as peopled by “shithole countries,” including Haiti and all of Africa, among other places.  Trump was greeted with nearly unanimous, bipartisan condemnation for his blatant[Read More...]

Hama, Syria: Rather than the conventional wisdom of a “wrapping up,” of Syria’s seven years of civil war, this observer calculates that the conflict is on a trajectory to expand during 2018. Granted, over the past six monthsthere have been perhaps more than a dozen inflated declarations of “Victory.”  including 2 or 3 of the “Devine Victory” variety from three[Read More...]

  From ancient times, violence in society has been an integral part. There were killings and brutal murders. But, now-a-days, we are witnessing extreme form of ‘sadistic’ and gruesome violence that is chilling and heart- wrenching to say the least. For instance, Haryana singer Mamta Sharma found dead with throat slit ( published 18 -1- 2018 hindustantimes.com). In another incident,[Read More...]

As it is well known, the economy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (PRB) is one of the least developed, but one of the fastest growing economies of Asia demonstrating steady growth in the last few years. Today many countries seek to cooperate with PBR, in the hope of making profitable investments, gaining access to its growing markets and cheap labor. Among them are India, China, South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, USA and other states.

I heard a very touching account yesterday. It involved a house for which a whole home burned practically to the ground in a town near mine. So a local Go-Fund site was set up to help the family living there. Then $60,000 USD was raised for the family to restart their lives. Anyone who thinks that this money for a[Read More...]

Childhood is in difficult circumstances in various places across the globe. Global processes and societal structure shape childhood in different domains of children’s lives. Various social, economic, cultural, and political agencies (e.g., parents, family, governments) are responsible for unhappy and lost childhood. Children are the future continuance of societies, and have therefore been trained to replicate the material and intellectual[Read More...]

According to a news report from the capital, the 2018 Union Budget will be Modi budget as the PM is meeting finance minister Arun Jaitley and top officials of the PMO & finance ministry on a daily basis. Normally, the prime ministers have adopted hands-off approach to the budget-making exercise and interact with their FMs once or twice on policy[Read More...]

Generations pass and lives change
But the seeds of hatred never lose its range
At the time of my death, it only appears strange
That for no fault of mine, I receive death in exchange
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Dr. Ed interviews Dukes of Hazzard star and country music legend John Schneider. They talk about John’s ongoing life as Bo Duke, his upcoming project to release 52 new Country Music videos (one for each week of 2018), his new Album, including an awesome re-release of the Dukes’ themesong “Just a Good Ole’ Boy,” and…
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  Education at the school level, though it takes years to bear fruits, is recognized as crucial factor for social ,economic and cultural development. Education is an important indicator of inclusive growth and social change. School level education is the most crucial stage spanning the first fifteen years of life. It lays the foundation for the development of the child’s[Read More...]