Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Resistance is Fertile (Not Futile)
In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s 1984 soared onto bestseller lists, as did Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here and Margaret Atwood’s
In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s 1984 soared onto bestseller lists, as did Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here and Margaret Atwood’s
The latest reports from the US Army's entertainment liaison office brings us almost up to date on their activities, which includes support to everything from the film Jackie to History Channel documentaries and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. One continued theme is the military support not just for cookery programmes but also for their corollary - competitive weight loss reality TV game shows.(Read more...)
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Iraq is declaring victory over Isis in Mosul as the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, wearing black military uniform, arrived in the city to congratulate his soldiers at the end of an epic nine-month long battle. Elite Iraqi government forces raised the Iraqi flag on the banks of the Tigris River this morning, though ISIS snipers are still shooting from the last buildings they hold in the Old City...
The term Zionism was coined in the late nineteenth century to represent the movement for the return of the Jewish …Continue reading →
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Israel markets itself to the world as “the Jewish State.” As it turns out however, most of the their own residents do not want to live in such a place.
The self-appointed leader of ISIS, the rarely seen and deeply mysterious Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been confirmed dead by ISIS (aka Daesh).
This comes shortly after Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the defeat of ISIS in Iraq.
On the 16th of June, Russia stated that the ISIS leader was killed in a Russian airstrike near Raqqa, the self-proclaimed ISIS capital in Syria. Iran confirmed Russia’s statement shortly thereafter while the United States maintained that it had no information one whether Baghdadi was dead or alive.
OK... it's time for another rant on Amairikkuhn Edgykayshun; we're well overdue for one, and my therapist told me after the last electroshock that…
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I couldn't hep include this one in today's "tidbits" even though it's unrelated (sort of) to today's main blog. But inasmuch as I recently…
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This is a guest post by SURABHI SHUKLA Playing for the Oxford University Women’s team and the Oxford Cricket Club, I have noticed three different rules for women’s cricket. These may be observed in other countries as well. I argue that these rules are based only on gender stereotypes about women’s inferior sporting abilities and … Continue reading Women’s Cricket – Rules Based Only on Gender Stereotypes Need to Go: Surabhi Shukla
Over the years, Russia has fought more wars against Turkey than any other country, even more than Poland. Likewise, between 1904 and 1905 Russia fought a war with Japan whose devastating outcome for Russia lead to a destabilising revolution at home. Russia’s relations with Japan did not get much better as the century rolled on. The Soviet Union was on the opposite side of the Second World War vis-a-vis Japan and territorial disputes over the Kuril Islands remain unresolved into the 21st century.
Israel’s Defence Minister, the well-known hardliner Avigdor Lieberman has told a giant lie about the situation in Syria. He stated that because Israel is not a signatory or guarantor of the ceasefire covering the Golan Heights which was recently agreed upon by Russia, the US and Jordan, Israel is free to act as it militarily pleases in parts of Syria covered by the ceasefire.
A month-long India-China standoff in the tangled mountains of the Himalayas threatens to snowball into conflict. The circumstances are enveloped in thick fog endemic to those remote mountains at 10000 feet above sea level – and to the complicated India-China relationship...
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Από το 2010 όλες οι ελληνικές κυβερνήσεις, όλοι οι υπουργοί Οικονομικών ήρθαν αντιμέτωποι με παράλογες απαιτήσεις από δανειστές που δεν δίστασαν να τους εκβιάσουν στη βάση τού: «Είτε περνάτε τα μέτρα που σας υπαγορεύουμε είτε σας κλείνουμε τις τράπεζες και σας πετάμε από το ευρώ».
Η οργανωμένη άμυνα της χώρας απέναντι στον ωμό αυτόν εκβιασμό ήταν, και είναι, καθήκον κάθε κυβέρνησης, κάθε υπουργού Οικονομικών.
A new report by the toxicologist Dr Peter Clausing shows that the EU authorities violated their own rules and disregarded evidence that glyphosate is carcinogenic to reach a conclusion that the chemical does not cause cancer
North Korea’s latest test of a missile with a range capable of threatening American cities has left the Trump Administration somewhere between wishful thinking and a hard place. Too bad neither represents a realistic resolution of the conundrum.
The number of people who are alive in the UK thanks to organ transplants has exceeded 50,000 for the first time
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Seven children were hanged in Tal Afar to punish their families.
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Monday – Hour one: Jack rants on FBI terror sting set ups, Trump’s ever growing swamp, which includes Soros etc…
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One of the few things I recall fondly about the Trump campaign – a short list, I’ll admit – was the candidate’s apparent glee in ridiculing the warmongering of his rivals and predecessors. In early 2016, Trump (correctly) summed up George W. Bush’s legacy this way: “We’ve been in the Middle East for 15 years, … Continue reading "A Bipartisan Vote To Put the Brakes on War"
Donald Trump came to the White House with a reputation as a top notch businessman. He built an international real estate empire and is worth billions. He then went into reality television, where his signature line as he dismissed incompetent potential employees was, “you’re fired!” On Friday, President Trump held a long-awaited face-to-face meeting with … Continue reading "Ambassador Nikki Haley vs. President Trump"
Source : Marjorie Cohn, Consortium News, le 29-05-2017
Le long supplice judiciaire de Julian Assange (et les menaces continuelles à l’encontre du fondateur de Wikileaks) tournent en dérision l’engagement supposé de l’Occident pour la liberté de la presse et le droit à savoir du public, comme l’explique Marjorie Cohn.
(mis à jour le 30 mai 2017, afin de supprimer la référence aux procureurs suédois qui n’ont jamais posé aucune question à Assange.)
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, July 10, 2017 Firm U.S. Statement Condemning North Korean Nuclear ICBMs Could Have Garnered 18 Votes, Turning the Tables on Moscow and Beijing; Instead, U.S. Was Isolated by Bungling Exit from Symbolic Paris Climate Accord; Reeling Under Backlash, Trump Nixes Russia-U.S. Cybersecurity Unit; Idea Reminiscent [...]
Source : Gareth Porter, Consortium News, 03-06-2017
Les principaux médias américains insinuent que les conseillers du président Trump sont des traîtres pour avoir parlé secrètement avec les Russes, mais ils ignorent l’histoire de Henry Kissinger faisant la même chose pour Richard Nixon, écrit Gareth Porter.
RSS, the leading flag-bearer of the Hindutva politics and the most significant motivating spirit behind Modi government at the Centre and BJP State governments has been demanding cleansing of minorities like Muslims and Christians for being foreigners. Even after Independence, the most prominent ideologue of the RSS, Guru Golwalkar, declared Muslims and Christians as ‘Internal Threats’ number ONE and TWO[Read More...]
In the periphery of the circles in which I travel, people do not actively defend what it means to be a member of the Democratic Party. They come on much stronger when they say they are against the Republican Party. And why not? The Republican Party is the party of old money, inheritance, white supremacy and fundamentalist Christianity. Republicans and[Read More...]
Some people have likened the Earth to a relatively small lifeboat wheeling in an incredibly vast sea of outer space. If they also think that the sinking of the Titanic was a sad disaster, they will be heartbroken over the tragic devastation when this sort of decimating occurrence happens on a planetary scale … Some time ago, I read[Read More...]
Virtually every segment of society was impacted by the democratic upsurge in the United States in the 1960’s and Puerto Ricans were no exception. Puerto Ricans in a number of places came together to form organizations and participate in multiracial coalitions in order to address a number of pressing problems. Among the most popular Puerto Rican organizations was the Young[Read More...]
The portrayal of Muslim women in the media is grim and sombre. The public perception of them 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. This picture keeps reinforcing itself, largely because this is how the Western media caricatures women in Islam.[Read More...]
Hate speech, lynching, mob violence, ransacking public property etcetera have become a part and parcel of our daily lives. The right wing cultural brigade of the Sangh Parivar increasingly finds itself at the very centre of all such episodes. At the same time, there is little clarity among people about who exactly does the “dirty work” for a particular party[Read More...]
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By Robert Parry | Consortium News | July 10, 2017 Yes, I realize that the editors of The New York Times long ago cast aside any journalistic professionalism to become charter members of the #Resistance against Donald Trump. But the latest frenzy over a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer who was […]
Sunday morning everyone who loves making fun of Señor Trumpanzee's Adderall-fueled tweet storms, had a field day. The one above was a sensation-- at least among those who enjoy mocking the imbecile Putin helped install in the White House. Did anyone imagine Trump's excursion to Hamburg and his opportunity to pay homage to the Russian dictator in person wouldn't be a farce?
Exclusive: The new Russia-gate furor is over Donald Trump Jr. meeting a Russian who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton, but the Clinton team’s Russian cash-for-trash search against Trump Sr. is all but forgotten, writes Robert Parry. By Robert…Read more →
The Democratic Party’s embrace of the New Cold War and New McCarthyism – to counter President Trump – has spread to Rep. Barbara Lee, a brave voice against the post-9/11 war frenzy, as Norman Solomon notes in an open letter. By Norman Solomon | Consortium News | July 10, 2017 Dear Congresswoman Lee: More than […]
(ANTIMEDIA) — Oregon’s state legislature just reduced penalties for drug possession in a bill also intended to reduce racial profiling by law enforcement agencies.
(ANTIMEDIA) Las Vegas, NV — Nevada’s Department of Taxation has issued a “statement of emergency” amid a shortage of cannabis since the plant was legalized for recreational use at the beginning of this month.
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At long last, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin finally meet at the G20 in Hamburg, while the UK continues to fund its shadow state building in Syria through a series of NGOs which are in reality are running a web of clandestine regime change networks, UN using ‘Bana of Aleppo’ as a PR prop, and behind BREXIT we find TTIP being pushed through by stealth. All this and much more…
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This latest move by the US is being sold to unwitting British holiday makers and business travelers as a “solution to long immigration queues at US airports.”
Detailed analysis of metadata from Guccifer’s DNC files support arguments by Bill Binney, others that info was leaked by insider….--read the report by “The Forensicator” here
--NY Times makes big deal out of June, 2016 meeting that Don Trump Jr. had with Russian lawyer who dangled dirt on Hillary
--in effort to distract, again, Trump tweets attacks on former FBI boss Comey
Ted Lieu tweeted this old article by Alice Park in Time Magazine today, The Fascinating Reason Why Liars Keep On Lying. I can't read Ted's mind and I don't claim I can ascribe motivation to his actions on Twitter but...
Geopolitics Alert | July 8, 2017 For the past 60 days, the Saudis have imposed a devastating siege on the Shiite town of Awamiya. And of course, mainstream western media remains silent. These photos aren’t from Yemen, they’re from the Saudi Arabian eastern town of Awamiya. Where Saudi forces are waging war against an oppressed […]
I recently joined good friend Chuck Ochelli for the first hour of this Friday show. We discussed the most recent Trump media shit show, mainly exploring the “scandal” over whether or not CNN blackmailed a Reddit user. Chuck and I talked about the strange symbiotic role that the alt-media and the right wing has with outlets such as CNN. I also talk about Alan Dershowitz’s latest transformation and how he has emerged from the shadows of scandal and Jeffrey Epstein with the help of his minion Mike Cernovich.
IDENTITY POLITICS: The official Transgender Flag (Source: LGBT Nation)
This week, the Church of England officially recognised transgender people as members of their flock.
The Anglican Church will offer special religious services for transgender people.