Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire

Well, today marks the 10th anniversary of this blog.... I for one am truly surprised that I have lasted this long!Yes, 10 years ago today, I wrote my first article here at NTS..... And to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this mostly successful endeavor, I want to take a fond look back at that first article which I have here once again for everyone to see for themselves:Saturday, January 12, 2008Connecting to other informative sitesThis is my first blog article!

First reported by the Washington Post, and then confirmed by various other outlets, President Donald Trump’s racism sparked renewed outrage on Thursday—and the #ShitHoleDon hashtag—after it was learned he referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shitholes countries” during  a closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers.

The Guardian recently published an article claiming that critical discussion of the White Helmets in Syria has been ‘propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government’. Many readers were dismayed at this crude defence of a – presumably – pro-imperialist perspective, and at the unwarranted smearing of reasoned questioning based on evidence from independent journalists.

Dear friends, Here is my latest interview with Bonnie Faulkner for her show “Guns and Butter” on Pacifica Radio’s KPFK.  Bonnie had some connectivity problems, so the sound is not

When governments manipulate the news, most journalists fall into line.

   Ignoring this morning Friday January 12 2017 press conference held by Justice Chelameswar the senior most Justice of India after the Chief Justice, along with the next three senior most judges of the Supreme Court, at his home in New Delhi, the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra continued with business as usual at the Supreme Court. At their[Read More...]

On 25 October/7 November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd from the so-called Provisional Government. It was a relatively easy thing to do for the Provisional Government enjoyed little or no popular support and basically represented the interests of the former tsarist urban and rural elites…

The Petrodollar is gaining strength. So is the Petroruble, to coin a phrase.
Yes, that was a pun.
The truth is that over the last twelve months, oil prices have been gradually and steadily on the increase.  At the beginning of 2017, the price for a barrel of crude was about $56.  It sunk gradually until June of last year, bottoming out in the mid $40’s, and has been on the rise again ever since.

This particular report focuses on a Defense Department-created entity called the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO), charged with overseeing U.S. taxpayer-funded economic development projects in Afghanistan. From 2010 to 2014, Congress appropriated approximately $823 million to fund TFBSO operations in Afghanistan. SIGAR now provides what is, in effect, a report card.

Remember those US warship collisions last year? First we had the USS Fitzgerald colliding off the coast of Japan with a freighter, and then…
The post AMAIRIKUHN EDGYKAYSHUN STRIKES AGAIN: JUST WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE ... appeared first on Giza Death Star.

Turkey marked its 94th anniversary in October, celebrating that anniversary with serious problems related to its latest strategic choice in foreign affairs.

Averting from the brink of war, thankfully the two Korean states proceeded this week to hold breakthrough peace talks. It was the first time the two adversaries held formal negotiations in nearly two years.

People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for consumers, but, they assume, it would not be up to the task of providing all the food needed by our still-growing global[Read More...]

Jolie is useful to NATO not only because she can be relied on to echo the military alliance’s self-justifying rationales for its favored solution to any problem, namely, the threat to use force. Jolie’s is the glamorous face of NATO’s revamped PR campaign.

  ‘I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, lok before they cross the road ‘ From Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays ‘If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault , but it is no good to blame the world or expecting[Read More...]

    “Do you know what it’s like on the outside?” — from the Bee Gees’ New York Mining Disaster 1941 The mudslides in Montecito and elsewhere throughout southern California are far more horrifying than anything being reported in the press. The devastation is simply one of those things that not only goes beyond words but exceeds what is possible to[Read More...]

By Craig Murray | January 12, 2018 It is for the government of Ecuador, not the UK, to determine who is an Ecuadorian citizen. It is for the government of Ecuador, not the UK, to determine who is an Ecuadorian diplomat. It is not in the least unusual for Julian Assange to become an Ecuadorian […]

In an unprecdented move four judges of the Supreme Court of India went public with their grievances against the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra by holding a press conference. They said democracy in India is at stake. NDTV reported: They said that repeated attempts to alert the Chief Justice to their concerns -including a meeting with him this morning-[Read More...]

-by NoahHey everybody! Trump and his supporters have two brand new hat choices! Just in time for Martin Luther King Day! Republicans everywhere will want one! Perfect gift for Valentines Day, too (and they'll never get the irony).

  “Why do men then now not reck his rod?” — a line from God’s Grandeur “Progressives, generally, are not at home with controversial religious issues, in part because they cannot deal with phenomena which they’ve only encountered in the telegraphic sound bites offered by political debate. It is characteristic of the narrow logic of left-of-center citizens that when they[Read More...]

Fire and Fury. Inside the Trump White House, Little, Brown 2018. One wonders how the public got so thrilled by a book that combines all the D. C. gossip and tittle-tattle between two boards, which the tabloids published about Trump’s chaotic White House so far. The book was a media coup that only served the financial advantage of the author;[Read More...]

The public perception of Muslim women is one of stubborn stereotypes: supposedly powerless and oppressed, behind walls and veils, demure, voiceless and silent figures, discriminated and bereft of even basic rights. Contrary to this general belief, Muslim women have held the flag of enlightenment throughout history. The early Muslim community recognised and honoured a wide spectrum of female roles and[Read More...]

This week on the New World Next Week: Vermont politicians try to get ahead of the pot legalization parade; people reject Kraft as the free market wins again; and DIY brings decentralization to the power grid.

 As the BJP dipped below hundred seats in the recently concluded election in Gujarat, it was nervousness and not a sense of triumph that absorbed the party supporters at large. The word ‘vikas’ was wilfully abandoned during the campaigns and ‘Gujarat model’ was convincingly voted out in rural Gujarat.  A lot has been rightly said about the glaring limitations of[Read More...]

Detta gjorde de RödGröna med dina skattepengar.Finns många anledningar att göra om vårt skattesystem. Jag är trött på att mina pengar går till genusprojekt, kulturprojekt, fritidsgårdar som inte funkar, presstöd till en massmedia som hatar vita män och en migrationspolitik som kommer förvandla Sverige till dom fattigaste delarna av USA.Politiker tar ert hårda arbete för givet. Sänk skatterna och rikta om dom till det absolut viktigaste.

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, January 11, 2018 Amid Chaos, Kelly Rushes to House Cloakroom to Secure Vote, While Handlers Get Trump to Retract; Was Bannon Trump’s Brain After All?; Walmart’s $11 Minimum Wage Leaves Taxpayers Subsidizing Workers with Food Stamps and Medicaid; Alleged Bonuses a Mere Pittance; Gary Cohn [...]

Russia-gate is becoming FBI-gate, thanks to the official release of unguarded text messages between loose-lipped FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and his garrulous girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page. (Ten illustrative texts from their exchange appear at the end of this article.) Despite his former job as chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence section, Strzok had the … Continue reading "The FBI Hand Behind Russia-Gate"

Source : European Journalism Observatory, Nicolas Becquet, 04-11-2017

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Here’s a cheery note for you: the last mass killing of 2017 took place moments before midnight on New Year’s Eve. A 16-year-old New Jersey boy picked up a semi-automatic rifle, “lawfully acquired” by a member of his family, and killed his father, mother, sister, and a family friend. In doing … Continue reading "2018 Looks Like an Arms Bonanza"

After a year in which he tested a hydrogen bomb and an ICBM, threatened to destroy the United States, and called President Trump "a dotard," Kim Jong Un, at the gracious invitation of the president of South Korea, will be sending a skating team to the "Peace Olympics." An impressive year for Little Rocket Man. … Continue reading "Little Rocket Man Wins the Round"

Can you guess why we included this graphic on this post?45 Republicans looked at the stinky FISA bill on Thursday and could not pull themselves to vote YES. That means that had Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn held their caucus together, it could have been defeated. Instead, it passed 256-164. How the hell did that happen?

Source : Truthdig, Chris Hedges, 05-11-201711
Une manifestation à Minneapolis le 20 janvier, jour de l’investiture de Donald Trump (Fibonacci Blue/flickr/CC BY 2.0)

corbettreport | January 9, 2018 Fakebook has had to ditch its fake news flag after finding that people don’t just blindly listen to them when they declare something to be fake! Imagine that! Happy new year everyone! SHOW NOTES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=25625

By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | January 11, 2018 Russia-gate is becoming FBI-gate, thanks to the official release of unguarded text messages between loose-lipped FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and his garrulous girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page. (Ten illustrative texts from their exchange appear at the end of this article.) Donald Trump and Hillary […]

Vermont politicians try to get ahead of the pot legalization parade; people reject Kraft as the free market wins again; and DIY brings decentralization to the powerwall.

Vermont politicians try to get ahead of the pot legalization parade; people reject Kraft as the free market wins again; and DIY brings decentralization to the powerwall.

A bomb exploded at the finish of a soccer match in Anbar.
The post Soccer Match Ends in Blast; 17 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

Russian President Putin has now made his first public comments about the drone attack in Syria against Russia’s Khmeimim air base and Tartus naval base, which took place on 6th January 2018.
In these comments – made whilst meeting Russian media chiefs in Moscow – Putin categorically ruled out the possibility of Turkey being involved

-by NoahExcept for the times that Republicans start speaking complete gibberish, it’s not really hard to understand what they’re saying. What is difficult is understanding how they got the way they are. Did their moms drink way too much alcohol when they were in the womb? Were the water pipes in their childhood homes made of corroding lead? Were things like greed, hate, thugishness, and nihilism just drilled into them by horrid parents?

Thank you everyone for your patience. We will now begin our regular scheduled programming. Links: Obama Under “Intense Pressure” To Release Evidence Proving Russians Hacked The Election  Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian …

Sputnik – January 11, 2018 WASHINGTON – The United States is seeking help from 11 unspecified organizations to develop tools and techniques to manage US military operations in outer space, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said in a press release on Wednesday. “To help ensure future US technological and strategic superiority, DARPA’s Hallmark program seeks to develop revolutionary tools and […]

By Philip M. GIRALDI | Strategic Culture Foundation | 11.01.2018 There are two general theories about the protests that are taking place in Iran. One, unfavorable to the Iranian government and establishment, is that the widespread discontent and rioting is over mismanagement of the economy that has particularly hurt poorer Iranians. The other is that […]

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — Fox News snowflakes are melting in anticipation of the Super Bowl, where they fear NFL players may take a knee in ongoing protests against police brutality and institutional racism.
On the Outnumbered morning show, the panel expressed their dismay and fragility over the possibility that the apparent disrespect would be televised.

Sputnik – 11.01.2018 WASHINGTON – The United States plans to use aggressive sanctions to diminish the influence of Iran in Syria and remove Iranian-backed troops from the country, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Satterfield said in testimony before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday. When asked how the […]

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — The fact that Russia’s military operation in Syria is still underway in the Idlib province — with heavy bombing by both Syrian government forces and Russian military forces — proves Western countries pick and choose their moments of outrage in order to pursue their warped foreign policy agenda.