Ministry of Defence of Georgia
September 10, 2013
Meeting with U.S. delegation

Not so fast, gents. You aren't by chance transacting this transaction on the Sabbath, are you? For shame!by KenYou've probably heard this story, but I wanted to make sure. It's about the observant Jewish drug dealers in Brighton Beach who warned their customers via text that their business shut down every Friday evening and daytime Saturday.

RT | September 11, 2013

Israel is believed to have secretly built up its own stockpile of chemical and biological weapons decades ago, reports Foreign Policy, citing a recently unearthed CIA document.

By Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report | September 11, 2013

The entire world breathes a sigh of relief, except for Israel. Jerusalem Post has an article which expresses disappointment. Yup, who cares if the the population of the planet has said NO to war. For Israel a possible Syrian deal that would prevent war is ‘More bad then good for Israel”           Exclamation marks denote my exasperation with Israeli  spin, lies, propaganda and incessant warmongering !!!Excerpt     

Boehner and Cantor and the rest of the sorry GOP congressional conservative mainstream are holding a tiger by the tail-- and the tiger is hungry. They've talked so much about repealing ObamaCare that the drooling imbeciles they helped elect as Republicans last year think its real. So the House leadership tried throwing them a bone... and they threw it back. Boehner and Cantor have to pass a government funding bill this week.

Al-Akhbar | September 11, 2013

Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a decision to bar entry to the Jewish state to a Polish humanitarian worker for having unspecified links to “terrorist elements”.
Although Kamil Qandil had a valid visa when he landed at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on September 2, he was refused entry by immigration officials and held at the airport as he filed an appeal.

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by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
September 11, 2013
In naval warfare, a “false flag” refers to an attack where a vessel flies a flag other than their true battle flag before engaging their enemy. It is a trick, designed to deceive the enemy about the true nature and origin of an attack.

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.

Voice of Russia
September 11, 2013
Obama’s empty claims against Syria “imperial hubris” – Rick Rozoff

By Mike Masnick | Techdirt | September 10, 2013

Ben Swann · September 10, 2013

October 15 is the date of the special election primary for MA-05, Ed Markey's former House seat. EMILY's List is pushing hard to elect a conservative Democratic woman, as always, this one best known as the chief sponsor of a bill to allow more warrantless domestic spying in Massachusetts.

James joins Joyce Riley of The Power Hour to discuss the 9/11 anniversary, the ridiculous nature of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory, and what we really do know about what happened that day. We also take calls and answer listener questions about 9/11 truth.

Though I haven’t posted for a while, I’ve done quite a bit of work on climate recently, though it hasn’t been the sort of work that lends itself readily to blog posts.

I have been writing about a potential war against Iran and Syria for several years even though I have always said there would be no war as most have imagined it would be. I have noted with interest the resistance of the US military to the suicidal warmongering of the Bankers who think they own the government.

By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | September 11, 2013

Public Radio International
September 10, 2013
NATO leader says Syria not to be trusted

Bassem Abu Rahme flying a kite (image from palestinechronicle)

B’Tselem – September 10, 2013

Four and a half years have passed since the killing of Bassem Abu Rahmeh by a tear gas canister fired at him directly from a short range. The death was documented by three video angles, but the Israeli state announced Monday it is closing the case citing lack of evidence

By Dr. Kaveh L. Afrasiabi | Press TV | September 11, 2013

Citing a “potential positive development” in the Russian proposal regarding Syrian chemical weapons stockpile, US President Barack Obama has put a temporary break on the express train of war on Syria and, simultaneously, accelerated the White House push for a congressional authorization for a military strike.

By Dave Lindorff | This Can’t be Happening | September 10, 2013

In what NPR called “perhaps President Obama’s last best chance” to make his case for launching a war against Syria, the president tellingly didn’t make a single effort to present hard, compelling evidence to prove that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had been behind the alleged Sarin Aug. 21 attack on residents of a suburb of Damascus.
Not one piece of evidence.

Scully: Why would somebody want to sabotage the Space Shuttle?
Mulder: Well, if you were a terrorist, there probably isn’t a more potent symbol of American progress and prosperity. And if you’re an opponent of big science, NASA itself represents a vast money trench that exists outside the crucible and debate of the democratic process.   — “Space” broadcast date November 3, 1993.

(12th anniversary of the murder of 2,983 Americans by their own government)_______________________Yom Kippur "Eve" Superstitions of Pagan Judaism (This year Yom Kippur proper begins at sundown on Sept.

Xinhua News Agency
September 11, 2013
Commentary: Military strike against Syria, neither strategic nor tactic
BEIJING: On the eve of the 12th anniversary of 9/11 terrorism attacks against his country, U.S. President Barack Obama gave a rare prime time TV address to another round of pitching on Syria.

Thanks to James Corbett for doing the work@ The Corbett ReportListen:Podcast: Play in new window | Download As we approach the 12th anniversary of 9/11, it is time for 9/11 truth to mature as a movement before it stagnates into insignificance.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Erich Maria Remarque: War’s conqueror worms
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Erich Maria Remarque
From A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1954)
Translated by Denver Lindley

The White House, in a sad attempt to prove all the international support it has for bombing Syria, released a letter that a couple dozen countries signed onto. The letter (below) condemns the use of chemical weapons and strongly demands action by the UN. The UN is not the US-- and not all "action" is bombing. Here's the statement the 24 countries signed onto:

It is now the 12th anniversary of the Israeli Mossad attack on America known forever as "9-11".   It is so astounding that now, 12 years after the fact, that most Americans and still many around the world are under the false believe that this pre-planned and absolutely horrendous attack on the United States was conducted by "19 A-rabs hijacking aircraft using box cutters".   I for one have long hoped that America would have finally awakened to the truth that their so called "ally" Israel did the deed....For this article, I want to present the following new report from my friend, Whitewraith

By Dr. Kevin Barrett | Press TV | September 11, 2013

On the 12th anniversary of 9/11, everyone is talking about false-flag operations.
Pat Buchanan, a leading American conservative, says that the Syria chemical weapons incident “reeks of a false flag operation.” Buchanan says he cannot believe that Syrian President Assad would be so stupid as to order a chemical strike with no military purpose except to invite the US to bomb his country.

CIA documents reveal Israeli stockpile of chemical weapons
Israeli nuclear and chemical weapons manufacturing facility at Dimona (image by sodahead.com)
 
 
by Saed Bannoura 
 

Another War for Israel — Featuring America’s Newest Allies: al Qaida

 
by Anthony Lawson

James Corbett joins Scott Teeters of Far Out Radio for an in-depth conversation on the latest developments in the Syria crisis and the Fukushima situation. Topics discussed include media propaganda, the public awakening to the real global agenda, the leaks at Fukushima, and the relationship of the nuclear energy and nuclear weapons industries.

Vexing the U.S. government again, basketball star Dennis Rodman has made a repeat visit to North Korea to visit its leader Kim Jong-un. After his last trip, which brought howls of protest from Washington’s foreign policy establishment and self-righteous screaming by media pundits about his coddling of a despot, I wrote one of the few […]

I decided after taking as much "Pepto-Bismol" as I could to actually listen to the criminal US President's speech to the American public tonight.....

Last week we looked at the persistent Beltway rumors that Boehner has had enough and wants to retire and spend the rest of his life drinking and golfing. If right wing groups have their way, he won't get the chance. They want to defeat him at the polls in 2014.

The violence shifted back east into Diyala province where several bombings targeted civilians. Another family was killed south of the capital where gunmen have taken up storming homes. At least 36 people were killed and 69 more were wounded.

The Senatorial leader of the new antiwar movement takes on Obama’s Syrian war plans:
Twelve years after we were attacked by al-Qaida, 12 years after 3,000 Americans were killed by al-Qaida, President Obama now asks us to be allies with al-Qaida.
Americans by a large majority want nothing to do with the Syrian civil war. We fail to see a national security interest in a war between a leader who gasses his own citizens and Islamic rebels who are killing Christians.

Stop NATO
September 10, 2013
Leader of Exceptional Nation: U.S. Military Doesn’t Do Pinpricks
Rick Rozoff
In his address to the American people, and by its very nature to the world as well as to the city, President Barack Obama delighted in playing the role of the emperor of the first global domain, omniscient and determined and even capricious in regard to the military at his command – the mightiest in the world, the most formidable in history, as he reminded his viewers – and when he will order it to strike Syria.

I don't know what Daniel Squadron can do as NYC public advocate, but he's the person I want to see doing it, en route to whatever higher office he's going to be seeking.by KenIf I had it to do over, maybe instead of deleting all those political-campaign phone messages as quick as I could punch them out, I might have kept a log of calls received, with a view to picking as te "winner" in each contested race the candidate who had inflicted the fewest nuisance calls on me.

In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger writes that regardless of diplomatic attempts to delay an attack on Syria, the US objective has nothing to do with chemical weapons and everything to do with wiping out the last independent states in the Middle East.

On Sunday, all Democratic Members of Congress got a 9 x 12 envelope from "President Barack Obama" with the question on the front, "DO YOU STILL HAVE MY BACK?" Pelosi is much beloved by most Democrats in the House. But her "dear colleague" letters on behalf of Obama's resolution to bomb Syria are falling flat. In fact, every time she sends one out-- and Friday was the fifth-- another undecided Democrat switches to NO.

"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode075 - Come To My Party which features brand new sounds from Lissie, The Dodos, Black Joe Lewis,

One of the few things I got right in my last column was the title, which asked "Can This War Be Stopped?" Apparently the answer is: yes, albeit not for any reason the administration and the pundits (or do I repeat myself?) are now crowing about. We are told a Kerry gaffe, an impressive display […]

China.org.cn
September 10, 2013
Why do they love war so?
By Zhao Jinglun
“For what can war but endless war still breed?” – Milton
Barack Obama is feverishly preparing for war against Syria. But why? Al-Assad has crossed the “red line”- he gassed his own people!

By Peter Hart | FAIR | September 10, 2013

There’s plenty of discussion about how the threatened U.S. military attack on Syria is really a way of sending a “message” to Iran. And some media accounts inaccurately portray what is known about Iran.

Xinhua News Agency
September 10, 2013
News Analysis: Despite major risks, Obama to push for Syria strike with nationally televised speech
By Matthew Rusling
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama is to push hard for a strike on Syria with a nationally broadcast speech Tuesday, despite experts’ warnings that military action could entangle the U.S. in a no-win situation.

President Obama might have already achieved more for peace and stability in the Middle East than he is actually aware. The public debate on the Syrian Civil War and a possible U.S. strike on the Assad regime has shown that public opinion strongly favors non-interventionism to the neo-conservativism of recent history. More than a decade of warfare and U.S.-led interventions in the Middle East have illustrated that the use of U.S. military in troubled areas does not necessarily lead to stability and peace.