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Despite Anti-War Claims, Sanders Endorses President Obama’s Foreign Policy
ShadowProof | February 13, 2016 WASHINGTON — On Sunday, Bernie Sanders endorsed President Barack Obama’s violent, expansive foreign policy in an effort to distance himself from accusations of inexperience in matters of war. At the beginning of an interview on CBS’ “Face The Nation” between John Dickerson and the Vermont senator, Dickerson noted: Senator, while […]
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Resurgent Boko Haram kills 30 in Nigeria raids
The Nigerian military has struggled to stamp out the highly mobile, combat-hardened fighters of Boko Haram, who want to carve an Islamic state out of religiously mixed Nigeria [Xinhua]Boko Haram Islamist extremists have killed at least 30 people and kidnapped an unknown number of women and children after two days of attacks in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, local authorities have said.
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Threat to Freedom of Speech in France
By Paul Larudee | Dissident Voice | February 13, 2016 12 February, 2016 Sonia Bojanowska-Cantor Association France Palestine Solidarité Dear Ms. Bojanowska-Cantor Thank you for your message of 12 February, 2016. We take very seriously the threats to freedom of speech in France and everywhere, and we are appalled that the courts have upheld the […]
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Episode #122 – SUNDAY WIRE: ‘The Art of Crisis’ with guest Andrew Korybko
Episode #122 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes this Sunday Feb. 14, 2016 presented by host Patrick Henningsen with 3 HOURS of power-packed talk radio…
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How Scalia Distorts the Framers
From the Archive: The late Supreme Court Justice Scalia put his right-wing ideology above any respect for the Constitution’s Framers, even resorting to a made-up view attributed to Alexander Hamilton in Scalia’s dissent to the landmark upholding of the Affordable Care Act, wrote Robert Parry in 2012. By Robert Parry (Originally published on July 4,…
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Justice Scalia’s ‘Originalist’ Hypocrisy
From the Archive: The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia has prompted fawning eulogies about his legal brilliance and his heart-felt faith in constitutional “originalism,” but the reality is that he twisted the Framers’ thoughts into whatever was politically convenient, as Robert Parry noted in 2011. By Robert Parry (Originally published on Jan. 5,…
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US, NATO ‘very nervous’ about Corbyn’s disarmament plans – reports
RT | February 14, 2016 US and NATO officials are “very anxious” about Jeremy Corbyn’s policies, specifically the Labour Party leader’s aim to scrap the UK’s four Trident-armed submarines, as well as his “support for Russia.” According to a senior government source asked by The Independent on Sunday, foreign diplomats had voiced fears about Jeremy […]
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Montaigne: War’s fury
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
French writers on war and peace
Montaigne: Selections on war
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Michel de Montaigne
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NATO’s Provocative Anti-Russian Moves
By Jonathan Marshall | Consortium News | February 13, 2016 Twenty-seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO is back flexing its muscles as if nothing had changed since the days of the Soviet Union. Defense ministers from the enlarged, 28-member organization agreed recently to strengthen the alliance’s “forward presence” in Eastern Europe. […]
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New GOP Plans for Torture
President Obama’s failure to prosecute Bush-era torturers created an impunity that has encouraged some Republican presidential candidates to tout new plans for more torture if they reach the White House, a grotesque example of “American exceptionalism,” as Nat Parry explains. By Nat Parry Troubling comments within the Republican presidential field over whether to reinstate torture and implement…
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LIONEL PODCAST: Remembering Nino Scalia, SCOTUS Rock Star and Major League Heel
“To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo.’”
He drove the Left nuts and the Right adored him and neither knew exactly why. It doesn’t really matter. Let me explain. (This is where you listen.)
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Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, February 14th, 2016
Sunday again... And Happy Valentine's Day to all of my readers...Yes, it is Valentine's day... The day that we are all supposed to share with our closest loved ones...... And the day that I thank my better half for putting up with me all of these years....Yes, after all these years, in spite of my wealth of knowledge and understanding, I still have not figured out the greatest mystery in the history of mankind, which is of course women.... I have always been perplexed by the female mentality and how they think...
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Iran nuclear accord means little to US
Press TV – February 14, 2016 The US administration is preventing the country’s banks from doing business with Iran despite the lifting of sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Washington says it has eased “secondary” sanctions targeting companies outside the US and Americans seeking certain businesses in Iran but most “primary” sanctions related to terrorism and […]
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Damascus: Turkey’s Shelling of Syria ‘Direct Support of Terrorists’
Sputnik – February 14, 2016 Damascus said that Turkey’s shelling of Syrian territory is a “direct Turkish support of terrorist groups,” state TV reported, citing a letter to the United Nations. On Saturday, Turkish forces began shelling the positions of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria’s Aleppo region.Turkish forces bombed a village and an airbase that […]
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Anarchy is for lovers.
As I have grown in my spirituality and as I have gained more knowledge on the true philosophy of anarchy I have become increasingly aware of the various ways its principles can be applied in my personal life. I am one for consistency. I like to apply my ideals into every way of my being. […]
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TIDBIT: WHAT ABOUT THOSE NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES? PROFESSOR: ...
4.8/5 (5) Here;s one to ponder, shared by Mr. V.T.:
Economics Professor: Negative Interest Rates Aimed at Driving Small Banks Out of Business and Eliminating Cash
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Another Day, Another Billion for Color Revolutions Near Russia’s Borders
Sputnik – February 13, 2016 Last week, the Obama administration proposed its final, 2017 fiscal year budget proposal to Congress. Among the proposed outlays is a State Department request for nearly a billion dollars to counter “Russian aggression” and “promote democracy” in the former Soviet Union. In other words, Washington thinks the region needs more […]
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54 Killed in Iraq as Forces Prepare to Storm Hit
At least 54 were killed in Iraq as security forces prepare to attack Hit and Kubeisa.
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Zika can not defeat Olympics in Brazil: Rousseff
IOC President Thomas Bach said Friday that no countries intend to pull out of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro over concerns of Zika [Xinhua]Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Saturday vowed her country would host a successful Olympic Games this year despite the outbreak of the Zika virus. Rousseff has enlisted the support of the World Health Organisation.
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News from the Country of Doom and Gloom
Usually, when talking about hoaxes fabricated about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, we have to deal with the products of either the Japanese mass media or the South Korean The Chosun Ilbo, but it turns out that a nonprofit broadcaster, Radio Free Asia, which also serves as a source of Internet news, makes a noticeable contribution to the demonization of this country as well.
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Saudi Arabia Prostrates Itself Before Washington as Its Yemen Disaster Unravels
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org provides his commentary (Feb. 9, 2016) on Saudi Arabia’s recent pandering to Washington neocons to continue supporting its criminal war on Yemen. Draitser explains that the Saudi war has been an utter failure, and that the divisions within the House of Saud are becoming increasingly apparent. He also notes the US role in Yemen, and Washington’s geopolitical agenda for the country, and strategy for the region.
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Syria: Battle for Aleppo, Erodgan’s War on Kurds, Syria Endgame; Bernie, Hillary, and Public Opinion
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on CPR Sunday with security analyst Mark Sleboda, and broadcaster Don DeBar to discuss the latest global developments. The conversation opens with discussion of the ongoing battlefield developments in Syria, including the assault on Aleppo and the cutting of terrorist supply lines. They touch on Turkey’s brutal campaign against the Kurds and the potential of a Turkish invasion of Syria. Eric, Mark, and Don round out the discussion with some analysis of the US presidential election and public opinion in the US.
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Republican Strategists Are Beginning To Realize Hillary Isn't Being Embraced By Democratic Voters
Last week, writing for The Intercept, Lee Fang reported that the Clinton campaign is stuffed full of advisors and fundraisers who were lobbyists working to kill Obamacare and Dodd-Frank. That's the Clinton Machine, her team and her allies-- corrupt lobbyists working against progressive values on every level.
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The Latest on Martial Law & FEMA Prison Camps with Locations & Updates
Maybe Our Economy Isn’t Our Biggest Threat after All According to David Hodges of The Common Sense Show, he is in possession of insider information which speaks to the emphasis UWEX 16, AKA Jade Helm 2, is going to be placed upon mass arrests and FEMA camp incarceration. Within 60 days, I predict the independent…
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Bungling the New World Order
By relying on NATO interventions and other military strategies, the U.S. is bleeding itself economically and crippling its ability to cooperate with Russia, China and other emerging forces in the multi-polar world that is taking shape, a grave geopolitical mistake, says ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller. By Graham E. Fuller On the world scene, America is…
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Pentagon Tells Kurds NO to Seizing New Territory- Turkey cease firing and more
As mentioned in yesterday’s post:
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Wisconsin Democratic Debate Shows Bernie Sanders Crippled Once Again by Obsession with Fussy Independents, Plus Defeatist Advisers of the Tad Devine School
United Front Against Austerity | Tax Wall Street Party Morning Briefing | Saturday, February 13, 2016 Bernie Needed to Win Big with Knockout Punch to Project Momentum into Southern and Western States, but Was Paralyzed by Hillary’s Passive-Aggressive Big Lie Strategy; Obama Is Indeed an Historical Failure; Hillary Has Diverged from President on Numerous Issues [...]
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Scalia (1936-2016)
We mustn't pretend that Justice Ninowas anything but, you know, what he wasUPDATE: Noah passes along a totally to-the-point thought for the day (see below)Futurama Wikiby KenIt happens every time an American officeholder dies leaving behind a record of evil: Amid the conventional pieties about the great sorrow, the great evil gets lost in the shuffle.
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Turkey and Saudi Arabia: to fight or to flight?
by Ghassan Kadi No one knows how the “War On Syria” is going to end, let alone what turns it will take in a year from now, a month, and
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode192 – All The Ways
This week on PUTV: It;s a Mike Patton, Tunde and Doseone supergroup called Nevermen; LA duo DJ Dodger Stadium become DJDS; Cali trio Dropout drop a huge one; Massachusettes Wet go pop; Seattlite Damien Jurado finishes a trilogy.
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Turkish military repeatedly shell Assad forces; Kurds confirm to RT being hit by massive attack
RT | February 13, 2016 The Turkish army has shelled Syrian government forces in Aleppo and Latakia provinces, while also hitting Kurdish targets near the city of Azaz in northwestern Syria, including an air base recently retaken from Islamist rebels, with a massive attack. Anatolia news agency reported that the Turkish military hit Syrian government […]
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Supreme Court Justice Scalia Found Dead at 79
Scalia was 79-years-old.
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While Kerry Talks Ceasefire, US Allies Secretly Ship Grad Missiles to Syria Rebels
By Daniel McAdams | Ron Paul Institute | February 12, 2016 photo The big news yesterday was that after some five hours of intense negotiation on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, an agreement was reached between the major powers on a “cessation of hostilities” in Syria within the next week. According to the […]
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EFSA, IARC and the glyphosate controversy: The significance of the secret studies
If the secret data which EFSA could access but IARC could not is so compelling, why keep it confidential?
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Varoufakis tells Irish people to ‘send Michael Noonan packing’ – The Irish Times
Former Greek finance minister accuses government of pandering to oligarchs about 4 hours ago Ronan McGreevy (For the Irish Times site, please click here) At a Right2Change meeting in Dublin’s Mansion House, the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis accused the … Continue reading →
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Do Conservatives Actively Want To Make Your Family Less Healthy-- Probably Not; They Just Don't Care
Friday morning, the House passed the GOP's so called Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act 266-144, originally written by lobbyists for Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Blue Dog John Barrow (GA), who has since wisely been retired by his district's voters.
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Week Eighteen of the Russian Intervention in Syria: a dramatic escalation appears imminent
This column was written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-eighteen-of-the-russian-intervention-in-… The situation in Syria has reached a watershed moment and a dramatic escalation of the war appears imminent. Let’s look again
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Israel’s Army and Government at Loggerheads Over Cause of Attacks
By Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice | February 12, 2016 Israel’s frantic cocoon-weaving entered a new phase last week, as Benjamin Netanyahu’s government stepped up efforts to stifle the last vestiges of dissent. The military censor’s office, a draconian 70-year-old hangover from British rule in Palestine, extended its powers over Israeli press and TV to […]
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Obama to sign trade agreement that equates settlements with Israel
Ma’an – February 12, 2016 BETHLEHEM – US President Barack Obama intends to sign a sweeping trade agreement including provisions that fail to differentiate between Israel and illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as discourage the boycott of Israeli goods. The agreement — H.R. 644: Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of […]
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