The courage of Bradley Manning will inspire others to seize their moment of truth
John Pilger describes the importance of Bradley Manning's 'triumph' and of other whistleblowers, whose inspiration may well be their most enduring achievement.
John Pilger describes the importance of Bradley Manning's 'triumph' and of other whistleblowers, whose inspiration may well be their most enduring achievement.
Lots of people are asking good questions about the veracity of the Obama administration’s claims regarding this latest terrorist attack that they foiled by intercepting electronic communications between Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of core al Qaeda, and Nasir al Wuhayshi, a high level operative in the Yemeni affiliate.
This is one of those tying up loose ends kind of posts... Or following up, if you please?Going long.
Republic News Agency
August 7, 2013
South Ossetia does not exclude further military provocations of Georgia
South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov does not exclude further military provocations from the Georgian side, declared the head of state at today`s press conference in Tskhinval.
According to him, Georgia continues to build up its military capability and strengthen its armed forces.
Walk away, Palestinians!
Choose new leaders and fight for justice under fair and decent procedural rules
by Stuart Littlewood Intifada-Palestine.com
Headquartered in Camarillo, California (near an infamous mental institution), the Salem Radio Network syndicates their right-wing "Christian" talk shows to a couple thousand stations, above and beyond the 100 they actually own. They also own a chain of Republican Party propaganda websites like Townhall.com and Hotair.com and stream their hate-and-poison-for-profit to another hundred right-wing websites.
This is the 49th anniversary of Congress’s passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, by which the Lyndon Johnson administration lied the nation into the Vietnam War. The resolution was spurred by false assertions of multiple North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. ships. At a National Security Council meeting on the evening that the first report came in, Johnson asked, “Do they want war by attacking our ships in the middle of the Gulf of Tonkin?” CIA chief John McCone answered, “No. The North Vietnamese are reacting defensively to our attack on their off-shore islands.
Shimon Gapso, an Israeli mayor of Upper Nazareth, recently said that Upper Nazareth is a Jewish city and “will be Jewish forever.” In response to this, and in consideration of anti-Arab statements Gapso allegedly made in the past (and, say, his opposition to the establishment of Arab schools in his city), Israeli civil rights groups called on the attorney general to investigate Gapso’s raci
RT | August 7, 2013
Cases of misconduct among airport screeners employed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) increased by 26 per cent between 2010 and 2012, according to a new report. It comes as the agency expands its services beyond airport security gates.
RT | August 7, 2013
The journalist involved in the publication of leaks provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden said in a testimony to the Brazilian government that he possesses up to 20,000 secret US government files.
The Cato Institute’s Justin Logan at POLITICO argues “Washington’s war hawks are gearing up to scare you with another phantom devil: isolationism.”
When you open the right wing propaganda site, Townhall, the first thing that pops up onto your screen is the form they use to mine screen names they sell to various right-wing organizations (above). What a business model-- but it does get them the target audience of low-info/high-anger morons they're looking for.
OLIVER STONE: … Every school kid — still, my daughter in her school, in private school, in good school, is still learning this: We dropped the bomb because we had to, because the Japanese resistance was fanatic, and we would have lost many American lives taking Japan. This is one — there’s no alternative to that story. –Oliver Stone on the Untold U.S. History from the Atomic Age to Vietnam to Obama’s Drone Wars | Democracy Now!
Al-Akhbar | August 7, 2013
Four Israeli soldiers were injured on Wednesday by a landmine after having crossed into Lebanese territory, the Lebanese National News Agency reported.
By Nicola Nasser | August 6, 2013
The critical issue of the ever expanding illegal Israeli colonial settlements on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) in the West Bank (WB), which are peace killing in eastern Jerusalem in particular, will make or break the newly resumed Palestinian – Israeli negotiations.
Sousveillance explains the psychopathic elites need for the Apple Technology mentioned yesterday.Apple Inc. Patents Technology to aid the Fascist Police State. Clearly the elite were feeling threatened by an empowered populace... Too bad for them.Sousveillance will continue and evolve.I enjoyed this video by James Corbett. Send thanks the anonymous commenter who left the link. And applaud the courage of the individuals who work for freedom, however it is they choose to work for it.
Armenpress
August 7, 2013
In USA Safar Abiyev discussed NATO base establishment in Nakhchivan
A week from today, we'll wake up knowing who won the Democratic nomination-- tantamount to election-- for the open New Jersey U.S. Senate seat. Will it be another progressive dedicated to representing working families? Or will it be a shameless careerist who takes his every move from his Wall Street benefactors. Last week, Blue America and Progressive Democrats of America made the case for Rush Holt against Cory Booker.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Jules Romains: Selections on war
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Jules Romains
From Verdun: The Battle (1938)
Translated by Gerard Hopkins
Aletho News | August 7, 2013
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening urged increasing pressure on Iran relating to her nuclear program and warned that “if the pressure will drop, nothing would deter Iran from achieving its nuclear goals” according to Israeli media reports.
During a meeting with a delegation of 36 American congressmen headed by Congressman Steny Hoyer, Netanyahu claimed that though Iran’s president said pressure wouldn’t help, in the last two decades pressure was the only thing that helped.
Leon Pittard of FairdinkumRadio.com joins us once again to discuss the process of getting off of the corporate farming food supply chain. We talk about Leon’s own gardening efforts, tips for developing nutritive soil, juicing, preparing and preserving homegrown foods, urban gardening, and motivation for those not blessed with a green thumb. You can follow Leon’s gardening progress at his YouTube channel, fairdinkumradio1.
As Congress and the American people grapple with the fallout from Edward Snowden’s stunning revelations – which continue to come in, thanks to Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian – we are hearing a kind of defense coming from the authoritarians in our midst: none of this is new, they argue, so what’s all the fuss […]
Hey, let’s talk spying! In Surveillance America, this land of spookery we all now inhabit, what else is there to talk about? Was there anyone growing up like me in the 1950s who didn’t know Revolutionary War hero and spy Nathan Hale’s last words before the British hanged him: “I only regret that I have […]
The United States, which has dominated East Asia since World War II, is now "pivoting" towards that region to stem the rise of a new regional power – China. The instinct of most status quo powers is to foil the ascent of a rival for domination. This approach rarely works, because the emerging power is […]
US; the real global terror alert
A man stands in a sea of rubble in Hiroshima on September 8, 1945
By Finian Cunningham
(PRESS TV) – Sixty-eight years ago this week, the United States wiped out more than 200,000 people when it dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Cynthia McKinney on 911 - Zionist Controlled Media – Congress & Syria -
Cynthia McKinney, peace activist and former U.S. Congresswoman, presents to the “9/11 Revisted: Seeking the Truth” conference in Kuala Lumpur on November 19, 2012. Also addressing the current turmoil in Syria and greater middle east. Please do take a minute and LIKE & SHARE this with everyone. This information needs to spread. Cynthia is a true leader.
Maybe it's because I'm in Italy so often-- or maybe because my all fresh vegetables tomato sauce is so amazing-- but everyone has been asking me what's going on with neo-fascist multi-billionaire Silvio Berlusconi. First the good news: Thursday, the court of last resort for the old crook said his conviction for tax fraud and sentence (four years, already reduced to one) will stand. He can't participate in electoral politics for the next six years.
With Ramadan winding down, Baghdad was again targeted in a series of evening bombings. At least were 57 killed and another 161 were wounded there and across Iraq. One of the fatalities, a suicide bomber, was discovered to be a Saudi national.
By PAUL LARUDEE | August 6, 2013
The moment Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to send emissaries to Washington to discuss the resumption of 20-year-old peace talks, the objective of the talks was achieved. To anyone not in a coma, it is clear that these talks will not lead to peace, and in fact might not even lead to peace talks, merely to talks about resuming talks.
What, then, is the objective of the talks?
Close your eyes and make a wish, Chris: Here is washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza's view of "The future of the Washington Post -- in 2 tweets." Well, this is one view.by KenI really intended to write about, and share, a piece from th
By Alison Depsky | The Argentina Independent | August 6, 2013
President Fernández speaking before the UN Security Council
(photo:Presidencia/Télam/e)
For only the second time I have decided to post something from another source. Fukushima is a serious event. I would suggest in addition to the medical advice given below by Dr Sircus that you reduce the possibility that radiation from rain water contaminates your food supply by sprouting seeds. Getting together with others to raise food indoors in green houses and in aquaponics would be a great thing to do. Some have more time and less money but others have money but no time to contribute. You must reduce your exposure to rain if the rain drops are radioactive.
Nile BowieRussia TodayWhile many citizens long for stability as Mali holds its first presidential elections since the 2012 coup, France and others are positioning themselves to reap the rewards of military intervention from the impoverished resource-rich nation.As one of the world’s poorest countries, day-to-day life in Mali has never been easy for the vast majority of the people, but the situation has significantl
In this speech, delivered at the International Symposium on Concluding a Peace Treaty on the Korean Peninsula in Seoul, South Korea on July 26, 2013, Professor Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Research on Globalization outlines the truth about the threat to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and discusses what needs to happen in order to realize a peace treaty. Filmed and produced by James Corbett for Global Research TV
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com August 6, 2013 [download audio]
Once and Future Terrorism ©2013 by Michael HoffmanIn a front page story in today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal, the alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev is linked to the populist, right wing newspaper, American Free Press, a national weekly which exposes government black ops.Strange that a terrorist would be subscribing to a newspaper that warns its readers that terrorism is too often a US government false flag operation against its own people.The report, in the August 6, 2013 W
Itar-Tass
August 6, 2013
Al-Nusra Front militants massacred 450 Kurds in northern Syria
ROME: Militants from the Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (Front of Defense for the People of Greater Syria) have butchered 450 Kurds, predominantly women and children, in northern Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
Lavrov said that there was growing need to remove terrorist threats.
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Yemen seems like an interesting place to visit. So far the closest I've come is listening to Ofra Haza's music and sitting around a kitchen table in Los Angeles and talking with her before she passed away.
This week we are joined by Robert M. Bowman Jnr., Director of Research at the Institute for Religious Research (IRR.org), for an in-depth interview on the history and teachings of the Word-Faith (or Word of Faith) Movement within Christianity. Born out of the "faith-cure" teachings of the late 19th & early 20th Centuries, and developed and popularised in recent decades by flamboyant evangelists and preachers like Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland, Word-Faith teaching now reaches the homes of millions through TV broadcasts around the globe.
Press TV
August 6, 2013
US ‘playing both sides’ in Afghanistan at the cost of Afghans’ lives
The United States “is playing on both sides” in Afghanistan, subsidizing the Taliban’s insurgency on the one hand and deploying troops in the country to fight the Taliban on the other, says Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO network.
Ken and I-- along with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer-- went to James Madison High School in Brooklyn. Maybe that's why the 5 of us are all committed to the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, a crucial part of the Bill of Rights. It was Madison, who was later elected president, who wrote and proposed the simple one-sentence amendment:
Every year on this day, I pay homage to the 250,000 victims that were massacred by the American military at Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan. Yes, it was a massacre, and again I want to present material that absolutely shows that these atomic bombings were unnecessary and an act of cold blooded murder!For this article, I want to present a most interesting new article that comes from the "Beyond The Mainstream" website, at www.orwellwasright.co.uk, entitled: "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, And The Big Historical Lie". In this article, that I have here in
Peter BuffettNew York TimesI HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006.
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by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
August 6, 2013
U.S. Africa Command
August 2, 2013
AFRICOM, International Partners Cooperate on Improving Security and Stability in Libya
Technical Sergeant Olufemi A. Owolabi
U.S. AFRICOM Public Affairs
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As part of an effort to work together with the Libyan military, the UK plans to train members of the Libyan Armed Forces in basic infantry skills and leadership in Cambridgeshire, UK.