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5 facts that prove Lavrov is correct when he says Ukraine is ‘dancing to pipe of neo-Nazis’
Ukraine’s decision to block the adoption by the UN Security Council of a statement dedicated to the late Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin was a disgraceful act.
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‘West must be held accountable for Libya, apologize & leave it alone’ – Gaddafi’s cousin
RT | February 21, 2017 The Libyan people are still suffering because Western powers continue to fuel the ongoing conflict there, the cousin of slain leader Muammar Gaddafi has said on the sixth anniversary of the Arab Spring, adding that the West should apologize and leave Libya alone. “It is clear to everyone what is […]
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EXCLUSIVE Interview with first head of LPR South-East Army counter-intelligence unit Vladimir Gromov
EXCLUSIVE Interview with first head of LPR South-East Army counter-intelligence unit Vladimir Gromov about paths the future of Ukraine and South-East could take. (Interview by PolitWera. Translation by V.P.E.) Can
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A 2018 Battle For A Changing Chicagoland District-- Guest Post By Geoff Petzel
This week, Blue America endorsed Geoff Petzel to represent Illinois' 6th congressional district in Congress, a seat currently held by conservative Republican Peter Roskam. The Chicagoland suburban district, which was Romney territory in 2012, voted for Clinton over Trump, 50.2% to 43.2%. The DCCC has given Roskam a free ride year after year but has finally vowed to prioritize IL-06 for the 2018 cycle.
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UK sales of organic goods soar by 7% in 2016
The value of the UK’s organic market – which is in its fifth year of growth – now tops £2bn. While sales of non-organic items declined in 2016, sales of organic produce increased by seven per cent
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Russian Lawmaker Calls US National Security Adviser McMaster ‘100% Threat’
Sputnik – 21.02.2017 MOSCOW – The appointment of US Army Lt. Gen. Herbert Raymond McMaster as the US president’s national security adviser poses a 100-percent danger to Russia, first deputy chairman of Russia’s Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Franz Klintsevich told Sputnik on Tuesday. McMaster’s appointment was announced on Monday by US President […]
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Herbicide resistance an increasing phenomenon
As the instances of weed resistance grow in number, farmers will face higher costs for controlling those weeds and perhaps even losses on crop yields – Syngenta agronomist
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Elor Azaria sentence: ‘No justice for Palestinians’
Human rights groups and Palestinian leaders condemned what they called the “extremely lenient” punishment of Elor Azaria, the Israeli army medic who was filmed executing a severely wounded Palestinian in Hebron last year. On Tuesday, a military tribunal sentenced the soldier to 18 months in jail and a demotion. The sentence was much lower than the three to five years demanded by the prosecution.
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Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Mission Unaccomplished, 15 Years Later
The United States has already lost -- its war for the Middle East, that is...
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The Conflictual Relationship Between Donald Trump and the US "Deep State" (II)
In just two weeks as president of the United States, Donald Trump has left traces of how he intends to tackle various international political situations...
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Why Do “Progressives” Like War?
Fleeing to Canada is no longer an option By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • February 21, 2017 Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and supported the war […]
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Will Major Opposition Groups Face Off in Syria?
It didn't take long for Syrian jihadist groups to react to the first round of the Astana talks on Syria that were held Jan. 23-24 in the capital city of Kazakhstan. Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, a former al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, attacked the Syrian sites of the factions that participated in the talks under the sponsorship of Russia, Turkey and Iran in Astana...
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The Struggle to Save the JNU Act – The Student Standing Counsel’s response to UGC 2016: Pratiksha Baxi
Guest post by PRATIKSHA BAXI The growing global mistrust and derision of the intellect and all that is the intellectual, is a political trd that displaces reason, method, contemplation, experiment, reflexivity and critique as valued traits in education. This politics colonises the University Grants Commission (UGC) in specific ways.
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Paul Joseph Watson makes an offer journalists can’t refuse
As they typically do, mainstream media journalists have lambasted Donald Trump for his remark about dangerous events ‘last night in Sweden’. Anyone who understands Donald Trump’s well known, casual and direct manner of speech ought to realise that the ‘last night’ issue was far less important than the broader and more obvious point that President Trump was trying to make.
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BREAKING: Ukraine blocks commemorative resolution for Vitaly Churkin at the UN
“I know how the UN works. I believe that [Ukraine’s] permanent representative would not do this on his own. This means that he was ordered to do it,” Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is quoted as saying in a Sputnik report.
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Gallup: Americans" Hostility to Russia Soared After Obama"s 2012 Re-Election
The Gallup organization samples Americans’ approval-disapproval of Russia in February of each year, and the approval-figure for this year is only slightly more than half as high as it had been back in 2012 when Obama publicly mocked his Presidential-campaign opponent Mitt Romney’s famous statement that «Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe»...
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A new arms race in the Middle East?
Russia remains the world’s second biggest seller of arms behind the United States, increasing its share by 37 per cent in 2010-2014 [PPIO]
New data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on global weapons sales indicates that there may be an arms race in full swing in the Middle East and Asia.
According to a report on trends in international transfers of major weapons published by SIPRI, arms sales have reached their highest since the late 1980s, just before the end of the Cold War. -
TFF PressInfo # 404: Unique Aleppo photos seen by over 100.000 people but not in mainstream media
By Jan Oberg
It’s probably unusual that a research organisation’s photos go viral – and do so in spite of the mainstream media’s manifest lack of interest in their story.
But the photos I took in Aleppo in Syria December 10-14, 2016 have been seen here by well over 100.000 people around the world, exclusively by organic, non-paid online sharing. -
REVISITING THE OROVILLE DAM STORY
In spite of the fact that many readers of this website reside in California, I was quite surprised at the amount of feedback I…
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The Did-You-Talk-to-Russians Witch Hunt
Democrats, liberals and media pundits – in their rush to take down President Trump – are pushing a New McCarthyism aimed at Americans who have talked to Russians, risking a new witch hunt, reports Robert Parry.
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Why a Trump and Putin Slovenia Summit Makes Sense
Rumors Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Ljubljana, Slovenia make sense if binding a new order of things is the goal. Not only is the this country the birthplace of first lady Melania Trump, Slovenia once thrived as part of greater Yugoslavia. It is in the geo-strategic loyal where great détente potential and catastrophe reside.
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This infograph visualizes the world’s most valuable brands, and number one may surprise you
This infographic comes courtesy of HowMuch.net, which visualizes Brand Finance’s list of the top 500 brands.
Each country’s brand is sized accordingly to the dollar value of that company.That most valuable brand in the world is Google, which edged out Apple by about $2B (via Zerohedge)…
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Life And Death Struggle For The Children Of Syria
The Story of One Child’s Struggle to Survive: On 2/17/2017 ten year old Ghina Wadi, who has spent the past seven months often in unbearable pain, which for the first month was periodically relieved for only approximately 15 minutes at a time- by heavy injections of morphine, had another of what hopefully this time will be a leg saving operation.[Read More...]
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Chaos And A Surreal Trump
For the ancient Greeks logos meant reason, dialogue and debate. It could also mean speech, the power of language for good or self-gain, an aspect demagogues know well and the sophist Gorgias (5th century BC) warned against. ‘The Greeks had a word for it’ is an English expression and they often did. ‘Hubris’ would be the word to understand[Read More...]
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US Confirms It Used Depleted Uranium in Syria
The US military has admitted using depleted uranium (DU) anti-tank rounds on two occasions in 2015 during devastating air strikes against convoys of Islamic State (IS) tanker trucks. Investigative reporter Samuel Oakford first brought up the use of DU ammunition by the coalition in October 2016. There have been questions raised ever since.
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Why Europe conquered the world
By Jonathan Power
February 21st 2017
Eleven hundred years ago Europe was a backwater. There were no grand cities, apart from Cordoba in Spain which was Muslim. The Middle East was much further ahead, still absorbing the intellectual delights and challenges of Greek science, medicine and architecture which Europeans were largely ignorant of. In southern China agriculture advanced and trade in tea, porcelain and silk flourished. -
Global Entry Privileges For Muslim-American Travelers Are Quietly Revoked
The Seven-million strong American Muslim community, on the receiving end since the ghastly terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001, has ostensibly become target of President Trump’s policies. While the January 27 travel ban may still be affecting American Muslim citizens, some Muslim travelers outside the seven countries targeted by the controversial ban, including naturalized U.S. citizens and green card holders, are indicating[Read More...]
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Bangladesh: February 21 And Unchained Participation
Aspiration for unchained participation in all walks of life is at the core of the spirit of Ekushey February, the Language Day observed on February 21 by the Baangaalees, and now observed as International Mother Language Day throughout the world. Aspiration for unchained participation is the spirit peoples nourish transcending time and ages all around the world as it’s a[Read More...]
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Sub-Humans — Just What Are We To Do with Them, The Vermin?
I just now read an article that states: Native American slavery “is a piece of the history of slavery that has been glossed over,” says Linford D. Fisher, associate professor of history at Brown University. “Between 1492 and 1880, between 2 and 5.5 million Native Americans were enslaved in the Americas in addition to 12.5 million African slaves.” From Colonial[Read More...]
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North Korea, The US And The Status Quo
In the age of “fake news” and President Donald Trump claiming that Sweden was riddled with terror attacks which of course never took place, and of perpetual corporate and state-media propaganda passed on as real news, it is very difficult to separate fact from fiction. Making matters worse, hyperbolic rhetoric goes a long way to confuse the public about what[Read More...]
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Japanese American Internment Remembered, As Trump Rounds Up Immigrants
Sebastopol, California: The Japanese American Citizens League held a “Day of Remembrance” at Sebastopol’s Enmanji Buddhist Temple on Feb. 18 in Northern California. Around 200 people marked the 75th anniversary of the incarceration of over 120,000 innocent West Coast Americans of Japanese ancestry in internment camps during World War II. “They were accused of a crime, sentenced without trial and[Read More...]
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The Music Of EveryThing
First published through EarthLines Magazine, Issue 16 I sing to elephants. It’s what I do. I sing because I like to, and because I believe my elephant neighbours are comfortable in my singing presence. I sing all the time, and it’s when I sing that I know more precisely how I feel. My own speech never does justice to my[Read More...]
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CIA Fed False Media, Hillary Dems, Cities Bomber McCain Demand War With & Destruction Of Russia
The seeds of public awareness of decades of monolithic mainstream media lies, news manipulation & deception sown by a maverick president, who is surely backed by a segment of Wall Street investors whose portfolios are NOT heavily weighted toward the manufacture WMDs and expected gargantuan profits from a new world war, will eventually grow public understanding of US crimes against[Read More...]
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New York Times Op-Ed Openly Promotes Formal Apartheid Regime By Israel
That the New York Times demonstrates a systematic editorial bias in favor of Israeli state power and against Palestinian rights is old news. Whether it is reporting on the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement, the deadly Gaza flotilla raid, cease fire violations between the IDF and Hamas, or any other aspect of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,[Read More...]
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A Tale of Two Realities: Donald Trump And Israel
“After what came out after the meeting between Netanyahu and Trump, I am not exaggerating if I say that yesterday there was a semi-official announcement of the death of the path of negotiations.” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Feb 16, 2017 It was supremely wicked, and rapidly meandered into horse muddied waters. US President Donald J. Trump had openly expressed what many[Read More...]
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Americans Must Crow Anew
“But I just had no intention of living this way” — from the Counting Crows’ Raining in Baltimore The actions being taken by concerned citizens respecting our collective crises are too prosaic. Overly “prosaic” in the sense that pleas and demonstrations are utterly too straightforward, much too much run-of-the-mill. Will someone, please, consider injecting poetry into activism? The language and[Read More...]
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Strategic Thinking And Organizing Resistance
The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency has seen an amazing explosion of mobilizing to oppose him and his administration on oh-so-many levels. And that has been heartening. But it is not enough. The fact is, as things now stand, Trump and his minions can outlast us. And even if we get Trump out of there—which I think is[Read More...]
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Gender and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership
This book is a tour de force that seeks to answer the complexities that surround the questions linked to gendered understanding of leadership. It adds appreciably scholarly knowledge to the issues related to leadership, union democracy and gender. It shares certain aporetic quality via generating intellectually rigorous critique on patriarchal culture of the trade union leadership. Canonical connections that exist[Read More...]
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Democratic Ex-Dove Proposes War on Iran
Rep. Alcee Hastings has sponsored a bill to authorize President Trump to attack Iran. Hastings reintroduced H J Res 10, the “Authorization of Use of Force Against Iran Resolution” on Jan. 3, the first day of the new Congress after President Trump’s election. Hastings’s bill has come as a shock to constituents and people who […]
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Trump’s ISIS Plan: Another US Invasion?
Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military actions, diplomatic actions, partners, strategies, and how to pay for the operation. As we […]
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Non-combat Death of U.S. Servicemember; 144 Others Killed in Iraq
A U.S. servicemember died in a non-combat-related incident.
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What does the Tao say about Europe and Islam?
by Ramin Mazaheri Look, we are just butting heads here, we Muslims and Europeans. Constantly arguing over whose ideology and culture is superior. And all the while the 1% of
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We Have An Expensive President!
Did Trump's campaign pay for his election rally in Melbourne, FL Saturday?-by Tracy B AnnI was reading last night that it cost $98 million to guard President Obama during his 8 years as President. This weekend they we, are guarding Trump in Florida, his wife and youngest son in Manhattan and I think his older sons are in Dubai with tax payer security.
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