Image: 69th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 24, 2014 (Reuters / Mike Segar
 

by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Stars and Stripes
September 26, 2014
173rd Airborne wraps up Rapid Trident exercise in Ukraine
By John Vandiver

The U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade on Friday concluded nearly two weeks of training in Ukraine, where more than 1,000 troops from 15 nations conducted a series of military drills and war games.

With jet lag and a nasty cold caught on an airliner, your humble host reports on 3-week adventure in Asia
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United States European Command
September 25, 2014
Statement on arrival of 1-1CD for Operation Atlantic Resolve
By U.S. European Command Media Operations Division
Stuttgart, Germany: U.S. European Command spokesman Navy Capt. Greg Hicks, director of Communication and Engagement, provided the following statement:

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
September 26, 2014
Meeting with the 160th Brigade Commander

Commander of the Wales 160th Brigade hold three-day long working visit to Georgia. Defence Minister of Georgia Irakli Alasania and Chief of general Staff of the GAF, Major-General Vakhtang Kapanadze hosted Brigadier Martyn Gamble at MoD today.

Polish Radio
September 26, 2014
‘Anaconda 14′ military exercises begin in Poland

Two-week military exercises known as Anaconda 14 have begun involving around 12,500 troops from Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Netherlands, UK and US.

Why did a scientific organization issue a statement about the Scottish independence vote?

When U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday, he was outspoken in his criticism of Russia for bullying Ukraine, Syria for its brutality towards its own people, and terrorists of all political stripes for the death and destruction plaguing Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia.
But as the New York Times rightly pointed out, Obama made only a “fleeting” reference to Israel and Palestine in his 47-minute speech to the world body.

John Barrow, from the Republican wing of the Democratic PartyYesterday we saw that most of the 17 Democratic House Members from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party who voted for Darrell Issa's strictly partisan resolution to hold Eric Holder in criminal contempt were defeated in 2012.

By John Chuckman | CounterPunch | September 26, 2014 Russia’s President Putin is reported to have said in a conversation a while back that he could be in Kiev in two weeks. In our press, this was reported as yet more evidence of aggressive intentions, but, given even a moment’s thought, that is a patently […]

Image: Saudi Arabian officials display the beheaded bodies of five Yemeni nationals. Photo: The Commentator.

The late Chalmers Johnson, the great analyst of the American empire, warned that if Americans didn’t give up the empire, they would come to live under it.
We’ve had many reasons to take his warning seriously; indeed, several important thinkers have furnished sound theoretical and empirical evidence for the proposition. Now come two scholars who advance our understanding of how an interventionist foreign policy eventually comes home. If libertarians needed further grounds for acknowledging that a distinctive libertarian foreign policy exists, here it is.

Following our recent interview with Dr. Stanley Monteith, we take a journey back to 1980 to listen to his classic interview with British-born economist and historian Dr. Antony C. Sutton, one-time lecturer at California State University. While a fellow at the Hoover Institution of Standford University from 1968 - 1973, Dr. Sutton researched into the role of certain Western corporations in helping to build the industrial and military capabilites of the Soviet Union, publishing a three-volume academic work entitled Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development.

Following our recent interview with Dr. Stanley Monteith, we take a journey back to 1980 to listen to his classic interview with British-born economist and historian Dr. Antony C. Sutton, one-time lecturer at California State University. While a fellow at the Hoover Institution of Standford University from 1968 - 1973, Dr. Sutton researched into the role of certain Western corporations in helping to build the industrial and military capabilites of the Soviet Union, publishing a three-volume academic work entitled Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development.

*Marcel Cartier’s Youtube Channel
 
***The bombing of ISIS is a pretext to target the Syrian state***

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The 1st idiot to run the DCCC, James Rood Doolittle, and the current incompetent, Steve IsraelPatty Murray did a legendary job running the DSCC in the 2012 election cycle.

By Kevin Barrett | Press TV | September 26, 2014 Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s first Chief of Staff – who also served as Obama’s Israeli Mossad handler – famously said: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could […]

By Jan Oberg | TFF | September 26, 2014 What’s your image of Denmark? Apart from the Little Mermaid, Carlsberg beer and H.C. Andersen perhaps something with decency, welfare, development aid, equality and peace? Unfortunately, that image is outdated. During the last good 15 years Denmark has participated in wars on/in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, it […]

As bombs start dropping in Syria and Iraq, the world is once again being asked to cower in fear of a shadowy terror group that most people hadn’t heard of just a few months ago. But even the most cursory examination of ISIS’s past, its connections, and the actors populating it reveal a very different story than the one we are being asked to believe in. Fake terrorists. Foreign backers. False flags. Meet the new boogeyman, same as the old boogeyman.

Xinhua News Agency
September 26, 2014
U.S. advisers to assist Ukraine with army modernization: ambassador
KIEV: A group of American advisers will come to Ukraine in the near future to assist the country with the modernization of its army, the United States Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt said in an interview to a local newspaper published Thursday.

Xinhua News Agency
September 26, 2014
Over 2,100 troops to take part in military exercise in Latvia
RIGA: More than 2,100 troops from Latvia, the US, Estonia, Greece, the UK and Norway will join the Silver Arrow 2014 military exercise which is due to take place in Latvia next week, a military news website reported Friday.

I’m not sure McIntyre knows what ‘splicing’ is.  To me it means cutting and joining two ends together.  All Mann did was plot instrumental temperatures on the same axes, but he showed the whole record.
Dana Nuccitelli

Al-Akhbar | September 26, 2014 Israel on Friday imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in annexed East Jerusalem for the third consecutive day. Israeli police stepped up security around the mosque, deploying 2,000 troops in Jerusalem and erected roadblocks at entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City. “Police prevent men under […]

A 37 page pdf, that you can read through in under half an hour.Stumbled across this today.  Excellent reference.Good for getting a sense of what's at stake in this part of the world. Ya know, why all the interest?Though the East Mediterranean is quite far  from the US, the US is going to embed itself in the region for many years to come.  Clearly these 'game changer' gas reserves are a big part of the reasoning. It certainly isn't ISIS or humanitarianism or even terrorism.

The reports continue to come in fast and furious from the Jew spew media these last few days about the so called "airstrikes" against "ISIS/ISIL targets" in northern Syria.... I have watched some of the alleged airstrikes and I have been puzzled by several factors... One of course is the lack of so called "ISIS/ISIL" casualties from these "airstrikes" when all we find from real sources is the deaths of innocent civilians... The second is the "airstrikes" themselves that seem to hit empty targets....

emptywheel | September 25, 2014 As we speak, Chuck Schumer is probably yelling into a phone trying to get President Obama to nominate Wall Street’s US Attorney Preet Bharara to succeed Eric Holder as Attorney General. “Barahck,” Schumer is probably yelling, “I can get Mitch to agree to push Preet through in the Lame Duck.” […]

Control of the U.S. Senate will come down to a race none of the powers inside the Beltway are even talking about. Democrat Tim Johnson is retiring from his South Dakota Senate seat and Johnson is strongly backing prairie populist Rick Weiland, who is also being strongly backed by former Democratic Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Harry Reid has a bug up his ass about Daschle and is letting that get in the way of supporting Weiland. Almost every other Democratic senator has endorsed him or contributed to his campaign but Reid refuses to allow the DSCC to back him.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
September 26, 2014
A MILESTONE FOR LATVIAN MILITARY CAPABILITIES

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Maritime Command
September 26, 2014
NATO and Japan conduct first ever joint counter-piracy drill

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
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Ellen Glasgow
From The Battle-Ground (1902)

VIII. The Altar of the War God

Rinnief | September 24, 2014 Produced by Rinaldo Francesca. For a full transcript with links please visit: http://apophenia.altervista.org/gazan… Music by Kevin McLeod, available at http://incompetech.com/

Eighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury News’s bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California, remains one of the most explosive and controversial exposés in American journalism.
The post Managing a Nightmare: The CIA Reveals How It Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb appeared first on BSNEWS.

Abbas denies mounting claims that Egypt has offered territory for a Palestinian state. Should we believe him? By Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice | September 26, 2014 What is Israel’s endgame in Gaza? It is a question that has been puzzling analysts and observers for some time. But belatedly, there are indications of the future Israel […]

By Sharmine Narwani | RT | September 25, 2014 This US-engineered Coalition is in for some surprises. With few common goals, it has thrust itself into battle against the most determined players in the region and beyond. The airwaves are still heaving with spin two days after US airstrikes against Syria. Undoubtedly the attacks were […]

RT | September 26, 2014 Australia’s senate has endorsed new anti-terror laws that will grant its intelligence agency the right to spy on any citizen with just a warrant, while journalists and whistleblowers “recklessly” exposing special ops can face up to 10 years in jail. The anti-terror laws, which cleared the Australian Senate on Thursday […]

September 26, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - LocalOrg) - Ello, a social network alternative to Facebook is expanding its user base immensely, even as it remains in beta testing.

On this explosive episode #3 of the Non-Aligned Media podcast, host Brandon Martinez is joined by Christopher Bollyn, an American investigative journalist and author of the “Solving 9/11″ book series.
Bollyn is an expert on Middle East affairs, Zionism and American foreign policy, dedicating much of his time to unraveling the mysteries surrounding 9/11 and the central role of Israel’s intelligence services in orchestrating the attacks.

Did Senator John McCain, a leading advocate of arming Syria’s Islamist revolutionaries, meet with members or allies of the Islamic State in al-Sham [the Levant] (ISIS) during his trip to Syria on May 27 of last year? McCain and his defenders deny it, and McCain’s longtime advisor, Mark Salter, is accusing Sen. Rand Paul – […]

As American hysteria over events in the Middle East rises, news about whatever grim video the Islamic State (IS) has just released jostles for attention with U.S. bombing runs in Iraq, prospective ones in Syria, and endless confusing statements out of Washington about what the next seat-of-the-pants version of its strategy might be. These days, […]

At least 164 people were killed, but some of them died over the weekend during an assault on an army base in Anbar. Another 133 were wounded. Also, there are unconfirmed reports that an underling to Grand Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri has been kidnapped.

This morning Alex Isenstadt did a provocatively titled article for Politico, The Worst Campaigns of 2014. How hard is it to point to Eric Canter's loss and laugh your ass off now? Or Pat Roberts'? Or Chris McDaniels'?

DC on BFP #54 | Doug Owen joins us this week to discuss the latest round of US military aggression in Iraq, why the "war fatigued" American public appear to be largely in favor of the attack, and what it has to do with September 11, 2001. We also talk about the importance of the ongoing 28 Pages campaign, and much more.

Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Scottish Referendum Vote-Rigging Claims Spark Calls for Recount
http://ur1.ca/i8oy0
Video: Proof ‘Scotland Independence Vote’ Was Rigged?
http://ur1.ca/i8oy2

So this would be the school that Kristina Braverman (Monica Potter) dreamed up last season. Interesting to see all these Bravermans-by-marriage gathered onsite -- in addition to Kristina, Joel (Sam Jaeger), the estranged husband of Julia B (Erika Christensen), the only born Braverman in sight, and of course family matriarch Camille (Bonnie Bedelia). Season 6 launches tonight.by KenI guess they're going to have to get that school up and running, or failing, pretty quick, with Parenthood returning tonight for a mere-13-episode sixth and final season.

Image: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in New York on 24 September (AFP)
 
 

 Abbas denies mounting claims that Egypt has offered territory for a Palestinian state. Should we believe him? 

I listened to all of Tom Woods’ September 24, 2014 half hour presentation on the depreciation of the Revolutionary War-era Continental currency, fully expecting him to never mention the massive British counterfeiting, and true to my expectations, he didn’t! This is yet another example of why I am critical of the Austrian School of Economics […]

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teleSUR | September 25, 2014 President Barack Obama announced in a speech on Tuesday that the United States would be aggressively funding and supporting “civil society” groups around the globe, calling it a “national security” issue. “It is precisely because citizens and civil society can be so powerful — their ability to harness technology and […]