By Mike Masnick | Techdirt | September 16, 2013

By Tamara Pearson | Venezuelanalysis | September 17, 2013

By Ewan Robertson | Venezuelanalysis | September 16, 2013

Mérida – Around eight million pre and primary school children began the new Venezuelan school year today, with the government announcing the distribution of free textbooks and laptops to educational centres.

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by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
September 17, 2013
By any reasonable standard, the US-led NATO-powered invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, now entering its 13th year, has been an unmitigated failure.

http://youtu.be/WJEsyWBgoqgEric Draitser appears on RT to discuss the latest mass shooting in the US.  Draitser provides perspective on the incident, discussing the nature of “private military contractors” and the connection between US militarism and violence at home.  He also examines the critical role that private mercenaries play in US “black ops” and what that tells us about the types of individuals who might work for them.

We've been talking about the race in MA-05 to replace Ed Markey for some time now. It's just a month away and there are 7 Democrats running. Six of them are garden variety Dems and one, state Rep. Carl Sciortino, is a proven, dedicated progressive leader, which is why we endorsed him-- and why progressive organizations from People for the American Way, Progressive Mass and Mass Equality to the Human Rights Campaign and Grey2kUSA have also endorsed him. This week-- starting today-- we're launching a fundraising drive to help Carl pay to run his amazing TV ad (up top).

This is a perfect intro to a bunch of stuff I had saved to use over this past weekend, but, didn't get it put upNo better time then the present!Syria deal shines light on Israel's chemical arsenal

I will be speaking on “What are the True Goals of the Surveillance State?” on Saturday, September 21 at the Peace Resource Center at 1364 Fremont Blvd., Seaside at 2:00 PM PT. Free to the public. Sponsored by Libertarians for Peace, Peace Coalition of Monterey County and the Libertarian Party of Monterey County. For more information write Lawrence Samuels at lawsam1951@hotmail.com or call 831-238-5058.

Israel’s History of Chemical Weapons Use
 
 
By Dr. Elias Akleh
 

The Obama administration promises over and over again they are only sending arms to secular, freedom-loving Syrian rebels, not those Islamic jihadists associated with terrorist groups like al-Qaeda.

Osama bin Laden, also known as American CIA operative Tim Osman, died of complications due to failing kidneys sometime around December13th, 2001.   THAT, readers, is absolute fact....

By Lisa Pease | Consortium News | September 16, 2013

Fifty-two years ago, just after midnight on Sept. 18, 1961, the plane carrying UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others went down in a plane crash over Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). All 16 died, but the facts of the crash were provocatively mysterious.

Xinhua News Agency
September 17, 2013
Philippine, U.S. forces to hold amphibious exercise
MANILA: Thousands of U.S. and Filipino forces are due to commence on Wednesday an amphibious exercise in the northern Philippine province of Zambales, the Philippine military said on Tuesday.
The exercise, to last until Oct. 11, will involve 2,300 Filipino and U.S. soldiers. A number of naval assets from both sides will also be utilized for the bilateral exercise.

IsraelDefense
September 16, 2013
Lockheed Martin to Design NATO Infrastructure
The US company was chosen to design an advanced network infrastructure for NATO’s new HQ. The scope of the project is estimated at nearly $100 million

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Erich Maria Remarque: War was everywhere. Everywhere, even in the brain and the heart.
Erich Maria Remarque: War’s conqueror worms

A-Akhbar | September 17, 2013

Russia remains convinced that the August 21 poison gas attack in Syria was a provocation by rebel forces and says a report by UN inspectors does not answer all of its questions about the attack, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.

Last night we looked, once again, at how the Koch brothers are polluting American politics with the millions of dollars they inherited from their dangerously psychotic, anti-democracy father.

I cannot express to you all the level of vindication I feel in reading this news, today.For two and a half years I have talked plainly and clearly about the involvement of Israel in the take down of Syria. I talked about it because it was so obvious despite the media spin and talking head lies!I spoke about  the involvement of Israel in the ruin of Syria for the most obvious reason: Cui Bono.Who benefits?Israel had the most to gain, the most benefit, in the Middle East. Beyond the pipeline aspect. And onto the water aspect. The land grab. The mineral rights.

September 17, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - As predicted days before the UN's Syrian chemical weapons report was made public, the West has begun spinning the findings to bolster their faltering narrative regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks on August 21, 2013 in eastern Damascus, Syria.

In philosophy circles, bullshit is a technical term denoting a claim which is presented as “fact” although its veracity has not been established. The truth value of bullshit is largely irrelevant to its propagators. Bullshit is disseminated in the service of particular ends, typically opaque to the audience. There is no better description for the Obama Administration’s case for intervention in Syria.

This summer produced a triumph of American patriotism. A grassroots coalition arose to demand Congress veto any war on Syria. Congress got the message and was ready to vote no to war, when President Obama seized upon Vladimir Putin’s offer to work together to disarm Syria of chemical weapons. The war America did not want […]

Will the history books record these past couple of weeks as the point when the tide finally turned against our interventionist foreign policy? We began September with the Obama Administration on the verge of launching Tomahawk missiles at Syria. The missiles were needed, the administration claimed, to punish the Syrian government for using poison gas […]

Rodney McKeithan is a 20-year Navy veteran who retired in 2007 to open up a barbershop in the military community of Norfolk, Virginia, home of the Atlantic Fleet. When asked by reporters recently what his clients, mostly military, say about a pending war in Syria, he says, "We’ve got to look out for our guys. […]

I used to be the president of my university's Young Democrats. That didn't even last a full semester. I soon discovered that there was a sharp, sharp difference between a progressive and a Democrat. These days there aren't any Republicans who are progressive. There are barely any Republicans left who are even conservative. They've moved so far right-- from conservative to reactionary-- that they left plenty of room for the Republican wing of the Democratic party to feel comfortable donning conservative mantles.

The violence tapered off today, at least around Baghdad. Today's attacks focused, instead, on Mosul. At least 24 people were killed in them, and another 23 were wounded.

By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | September 17, 2013

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a Palestinian youth was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers invading his home in the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. Dozens of residents have been injured during ensuing clashes, and one was kidnapped.

Here's video from this morning.by KenAt the moment, the day's confusion in and around the Washington Naval Yard is still a long way from being sorted out. The last I heard, from washingtonpost.com's Rachel Weiner at 8:22pm ET:

By Ludwig Watzal | Media With Conscience | September 15, 2013

LETA
September 16, 2013
NATO exercise ”Steadfast Pyramid 2013” to be conducted in Latvia next week
RIGA: On Monday, September 16, the NATO exercise ”Steadfast Pyramid 2013” will begin at the Latvian National Defense Academy, where 27 high-ranking officers from 16 NATO and NATO partner countries will participate, LETA was informed by the Defense Ministry’s press department.
The exercise will go on until September 20.

By Melanie Ward | September 12, 2013

“They consider us as the enemy. These are extreme settlers.” 
Hishem, a Palestinian, sits with us in the shade of an olive tree in front of his home in Wadi al Hussein, Hebron. His children are playing on the hill behind us, and directly behind them stands the vast Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba. There, a man – a settler – is standing on his balcony watching us.

Or maybe it was Aldous Huxley's 1931 dystopian novel, Brave New World that the creators of Infinity's new television ad for the Q50 ("Factory of Life") based the new ad on. The blue chip advertising company, TBWA\CHIAT\DAY (part of the edgy and "disruptive" Omnicom marketing group) was also responsible for Apple's classic "1984" campaign for the newly introduced Macintosh (below) thirty years ago!

By Ismail Iskandarani | Al-Akhbar | September 16, 2013

On Saturday, September 7, the Egyptian army began a large-scale military campaign in the villages located south of the Sinai town of Sheikh Zoweid. Al-Akhbar toured the devastated area and found consistent reports of the Egyptian army indiscriminately targeting of civilians and their property.

By Tim Cushing | Techdirt | September 16, 2013

In addition to everything else it’s collecting, the NSA also has millions of international credit card transactions stashed away in its databases, according to documents viewed by Spiegel.

Press TV – September 16, 2013

The British government has launched a new debate on reintroducing mandatory National Service, or conscription, for the 18 to 26-year-olds, 50 years after the last conscripted British soldier ended his service.
The bill was tabled by Conservative MP Philip Hollobone, who said the service can inspire young people with “self-respect, personal reliance, discipline and behavior.”

   U.N. Report on Chemical Attack in Syria by Robert MackeyLinkPg 18- The time necessary to conduct a detailed survey of both locations as well as take samples was very limited. The sites have been very well travelled by other individuals both before and during the investigation.

This is the fourth installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen.

This is the fourth installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen.

This is the fourth installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen.

The Wisconsin Federation of College Republicans wants the GOP to take the lead on combating climate change. That's not happening in Wisconsin and it's not happening anywhere else.

Al-Manar | September 16, 2013

In significant remarks made by the president of the Zionist entity, Shimon Peres, he stated that what is happening in Syria today is punishment of the Arab state for refusing to compromise with ‘Israel’.
In statements published by the Zionist daily Yediot Ahronoth on Sunday, Peres said that “the 1973 war had brought peace in spite of its brutality.”

By DOUGLAS VALENTINE | CounterPunch | September 16, 2013

As soon as Kevin Drum at Mother Jones absolved the CIA of spewing poison gas as a provocation, many on the Liberal Left cautiously threw their weight behind Obama and the thrill of waging a punitive war on Syria.
“Perhaps regime change is a good idea,” Tom Hayden speculated in The Nation.

By Yves Engler | Dissident Voice | September 16, 2013

Somewhere in the Lester B. Pearson Building, Canada’s foreign affairs headquarters, must be a meeting room with the inscription “The World Should Do as We Say, Not As We Do” or perhaps “Hypocrites ‘R Us.”
With the Obama administration beating the war drums, Canadian officials are demanding a response to the Syrian regime’s alleged use of the chemical weapon sarin.

In this edition of Film, Literature and the New World Order we welcome Thomas Sheridan, author of The Anvil of the Psyche, to discuss Gaslight, the 1940 British psychological thriller that introduced us to the concept of ‘gaslighting.’ In the discussion we point out how common gaslighting is, ask “

Remember sequestration? Well, according to the mandatory cuts to the federal budget, funding for fiscal year 2014 can’t exceed $967 billion. Funny then, that House Republicans have proposed a budget of $988 billion for 2014.
The reason, according to the Cato Institute’s Tad DeHaven, “appears to be that the GOP wants to manufacture angst over sequestration’s hit to defense spending, which is a Republican sacred cow.” DeHaven continues:

Last week Tuesday, I took the time to take a close look at the criminal US President's speech to the American public, and honestly it was one of the most revolting speeches I had ever read...  I posted an article tearing it basically to shreds and showed clearly that the US President Barry Obama/Soetoro/Davis (take your pick as to what his real last name is) was a liar and a man absolutely bent on war against the innocent nation of Syria....

Al-Manar | September 15, 2013

Three rockets launched by mercenaries deployed across the Lebanese border with Syria hit the Bekaa valley Saturday, the state-run National News Agency reported.
“Three Syrian 107 mm Grad Rockets hit Baalbek District without causing any injuries,” the Army Command said confirming the news in a released communiqué.

“Bahrain security forces routinely detain children without cause and subject them to ill-treatment that may rise to the level of torture,” Human Rights Watch said in a report this week.
Obama meets with Bahrain King Hamad Bin Isa al-Khalifa

James Corbett appears on the Great Western Inland Sea YouTube podcast for a wide-ranging discussion on the big picture of the problems facing society. To discuss the New World Order agenda, the social and behavioral conditioning that has made it possible, and how we can really oppose that plan without building up another imperial tyrant.

The IDF insists on not indicting the security officer who killed Bassem Abu Rahme, even though we provided it with enough details to find him