21st Century Wire says…
Once again, Operation Mockingbird has been deployed in order to bury another damaging White House scandal. 

https://southfront.org/battle-for-mosul-challenges-of-reluctant-allies/

International Solidarity Movement | October 21, 2016 Hebron, Occupied Palestine – Late Thursday morning, as Palestinian schools in the Old City of occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) were dismissing their students early due to enhanced settler activity, Israeli forces harassed a Palestinian man and denied him his right of movement through the large parking lot near the […]

The close ties between certain Google executives and the U.S. government (as well as Hillary Clinton’s campaign specifically), have been well documented over the past few years. For example, recall last fall’s post titled, Meet “Groundwork” – Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s Stealth Startup Working to Make Hillary Clinton President, in which we learned:

CPT | October 21, 2016 Prayer Ban Pictured here: Israeli Border Police prevented Palestinian men from 15-35 years old from passing  through the checkpoint to the Ibrahimi Mosque. Friday is the Muslim holiday and the noon prayer is the most important prayer time of the week (analogous to Sunday morning worship for Christians.) (October 14, 2016) We Still Pray Pictured here: Personnel from the […]

If you’ve had problems accessing certain websites today, you aren’t alone.

Businessman Carl Lundström is the grandson of Karl Edvard Lundström, founder of the world's largest crisp bread producer Wasabröd. Carl has founded and financed a number of companies, notably Swedish telecom, internet and co-location provider Rix Telecom. He also financially helped the torrent site The Pirate Bay getting started, something he was prosecuted for years later. In addition, he has been involved with various Nationalist organizations in Sweden.
A video version of this interview is available in the members' section.

RT | October 21, 2016 Latvian border guards have detained Ella Taranova, a chief producer for Russia’s Rossiya Segodnya international information agency, who arrived for the Baltic Forum in Riga. According to RIA Novosti, she was deported late Friday. It appears Taranova had been blacklisted by the country’s authorities in August 2014 but was never […]

By Lucas Koerner | Venezuelanalysis | October 20, 2016 Caracas – Venezuela’s Supreme Court (TSJ) issued a ruling Tuesday ordering the country’s the public prosecution to reopen investigations into the case of a law student disappeared in 1966. Andres Pasquier Suarez, a law student at the Central University of Venezuela, was detained by Venezuela’s national […]

When fiction becomes reality...

Selling ads, complicit cinema and pop opportunism + this day in history w/the Guggenheim and our song of the day by the Flaming Lips on your Morning Monarchy for October 21, 2016.

I was going to add to the previous post, Canada's FM Stephane Dion Forgets Terrorists in Aleppo.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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Charles Lamb
From Mille Viae Mortis
Here pallid Fear & dark Despair were seen.
And Fever here with looks forever lean,
Swoln Dropsy, halting Gout, profuse of woes,
And Madness fierce & hopeless of repose,

A huge chemical leak sent a large plume marching its way through the town of Atchison, Kansas, this morning, and authorities asked residents to shelter in place for nearly 2 hours.
Source: The Kansas City Star
Those in the plume area were told to shut their doors and windows and stay inside, while those in its path were evacuated. Residents were being instructed to avoid the area north of MGP Ingredients, where the leak originated. The Atchison County courthouse closed and employees were evacuated.

Maryann Price singing "I'm an Old Cowhand" with Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. She knows all the songs that the cowboys know, 'bout the big corral where the dogies go, 'cause she learned them all on the radio, yippee-i-o-ki-ay. There are fake cowboy visitors in HBO's new series Westworld too, but they're not so nice.by Gaius PubliusI'm a fan of science fiction, especially when it reflects and comments on the state of our national affairs — and our national affairs are definitely in a state. Which brings me to the new HBO series Westworld.Westworld is derivative in some ways.

Social entrepreneur Jerry Lockspeiser describes how his new book helps take the confusion out of wine, while helping create lasting change in Sierra LeoneThe post Creating change in Sierra Leone, one sip at a time appeared first on Positive News.

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve become a big fan of The Young Turks’ Jordan Chariton as of late. In this latest video, he provides viewers with a behind the scenes analysis of his recent viral interview of DNC interim chair Donna Brazile, which I highlighted in yesterday’s post, Video of the Day – Watch Donna Brazile Squirm When Asked About DNC Rigging of Democratic Primary.

I just watched a video for a neighbor of Motorola who explains that Motorola had no real protection, that it was easy to enter his building, that it was easy

Exclusive: Official Washington is in a tizzy over Philippine President Duterte’s outreach to China and his estrangement from the U.S., but this realignment beats the alternative, a military showdown between the U.S. and China, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall…Read more →

Despite 15 years of war, foreign policy has rated only brief flurries of debate in Election 2016 with Hillary Clinton pushing a hawkish agenda and Donald Trump often incoherent, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar The…Read more →

-Ridicules the ceasefire ongoing in Aleppo, presently.-Doesn't mention that NATO's proxy thugs are simply refusing to leave Aleppo- while forcing civilians to stay-Doesn't mention that ISIS/AQ/Kurdish proxies are targeting civilians. Canada too as bombs are dropped from planes adorned with the Canadian flag How do you like your perception managed? Global News

One characteristic that sets humans apart from other animals is the capability to organize sustained warfare against members of their own species, a troubling fact that connects to the problem of PTSD, says Michael Brenner. By Michael Brenner The question…Read more →

https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-october-21-2016-major-militant…

Well, in a way, omega-3-fats could be ‘the new cholesterol.’ It seems as though we hear about omega-3 fats and their apparently never-ending list of benefits so much that many people just roll their eyes whenever they’re mentioned. But some health experts, like Dr William Harris, will freely talk about them as if they are the holy grail of health.

teleSUR | October 20, 2016 The U.S. Democratic Party showed its true colors in a new ad that the Venezuelan government blasted as “racist arrogance” that puts the late Hugo Chavez in the same category as fascist dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in an effort to cast Republican presidential rival Donald Trump as a […]

https://southfront.org/syria-iraq-war-report-october-20-2016-russia-mad…

Matthew Raphael Johnson
Johnstown, PA
The official flag of New Russia. Its similarity to the Confederate battle flag is coincidental.

By Aram Mirzaei For 18 months now, Yemen has been embroiled in a devastating conflict that has killed at least 10 000 people according to official sources, that number is however

This week on the New World Next Week: the green Chicken Littles continue with their enviro doom porn; a Newsweek journo is caught fingering US intel in Putin-Trump conspiracy story; and Americans fear their government more than anything else.

October 21, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The passing of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej marks a historical, cultural, and geopolitical event of yet unknown proportions.

If I'm right about people being fed up with the negativity and sheer dysfunction of the Republican Party, there really will be a wave in three weeks, nothing affirming about the almost-as-bad Democrats, but one that should send the GOP reeling. The party bosses will blame Trump-- and the media and Democrats who "forced him" on their party-- but the rejection I see coming is not just about Trump; it's about the Republican Party itself.

Press TV – October 21, 2016 South Africa has joined Burundi in officially announcing its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying its laws are incompatible with obligations under the ICC. The South African government gave a formal notice of its intention to pull out of the ICC on Friday. South Africa “found that […]

British researcher Madeleine Lancaster is growing human brains in her Cambridge University lab. A few hundred of them, in fact. That’s about 2 million neurons. [1]
No, this isn’t a Halloween gag. This sci-fi experiment is intended to help scientists understand disorders like autism and schizophrenia.
It’s not just Lancaster who is invested in growing human brains outside of the body. It’s a project being undertaken by scientists around the world.

A striking new study published in JAMA Psychiatry links hormonal contraceptives to depression, especially in teenage girls.
The findings aren’t surprising to many women.
A professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and lead supervisor of the study, Dr. Øjvind Lidegaard said:

The official pardon offered posthumously to Alan Turing for his conviction of 'gross indecency' is to be extended to thousands of gay and bisexual men in England and WalesThe post Thousands of gay men to be pardoned appeared first on Positive News.

Event “will echo back through the food system as the tribunal's participants bring home lessons, solutions and renewed hope for change”

4.77/5 (30) This has been a week of very strange space news, and of course, the centerpiece of these stories has been President Obama's…
The post DID WE JUST DISCOVER TWO NEW MOONS OF URANUS? appeared first on Giza Death Star.

21st Century Wire says…

Vladimir Putin’s most recent staff change has western experts baffled. According to the BBC, Mr. Putin’s new chief of staff Anton Vaino has reached the top of the Kremlin pecking order “shrouded in mystery”. However cloak & dagger Mr. Vaino’s appointment may seem though, it’s a clear sign Russia is headed off into a far more progressive policy realm than Londoners or Wall Street financiers would have us believe. Here is a candid look at the Putin way ahead.

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Slaughter is all too human. Killing fields or mass burial grounds are in the archeological record from the Neolithic period (6,000 to 7,000 years ago) on. Nonetheless, with the advent of modern weaponry and industrial processes, the killing fields of the world have grown to levels that can stagger the imagination. […]
The post The Perpetual Killing Field appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

Adam Curtis’ new, near three-hour documentary HyperNormalisation, showing on BBC iplayer, is being garlanded with predictable praise from liberal commentators. As ever, Curtis joins the dots in interesting, and sometimes compelling, ways. But HyperNormalisation also continues a trend by Curtis of using his insights to present a deeply conservative, disempowering and ultimately false impression of […]

Is the Iraqi city of Mosul on the border with Syria, as Mrs. Clinton averred during the third presidential debate? No way. Exactly no one has called her out on this. I guess you have to be Gary Johnson, rather than a former Secretary of State, for the mainstream media to start mocking you over […]
The post President Strangelove? appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

21st Century Wire says…
“ISIS inspired.”
“Assad’s barrel bombs.”
“We are at war with ISIS.”
“We are only arming the moderate rebels.”
“The Russians are bombing hospitals.”
“ISIS claims responsibility for stabbing in Minnesota.”
“We must save 100,000 children in Aleppo from Assad and the Russians!”