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Sean O’Casey: The dead of wars past clasp their colder arms around the newer dead
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Sean O’Casey: The Prince of Peace transformed into the god of war
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Sean O’Casey
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Israel resumes building museum on Muslim cemetery
Ma’an – 10/12/2014 JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities have resumed excavations in Mamilla graveyard in West Jerusalem as part of the “Museum of Tolerance” project, a local committee said Tuesday. The head of the Islamic cemeteries preservation committee, Mustafa Abu Zahra, said large machinery was placed in the cemetery. It poured reinforced concrete in preparation for […]
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Release of Senate Torture Report Insufficient, Say Rights Groups
Tuesday’s release by the Senate Intelligence Committee of its long-awaited report on the torture by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of detainees in the so-called “war on terror” does not go far enough, according to major U.S. human rights groups.
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Journalist most recent victim of Israeli military violence at Kufr Qaddum
International Solidarity Movement | December 9, 2014 Kufr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine – Bashar, a journalist from Palestine TV, was shot in the left leg at Kufr Qaddum on Friday the 5th of December 2014. The weekly demonstration aims to highlight the issue of the road that has been closed to Kafr Qaddum and demands for it […]
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Who Gets Fucked When DC Republicrats Decide To Compromise? Not The Koch Brothers, Wall Street Or The Adelsons
Well, the regular working families are the ones who take it in the neck, of course. Republicans grudgingly prepared to not shut down the government by bragging to their extremist fringe that they would still enforce plenty of pain on the poor people their party is perpetually at war with.
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FBI director refuses to rule out agents posing as reporters
By Robert Bridge | RT | December 10, 2014 The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation left the door open to the possibility that officers may falsely represent themselves as journalists in the course of an investigation, so long as it’s done with “significant supervision.” Despite last month’s furor following revelations that an FBI […]
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Alternative Media and the MH17 JIT Reversal
December 10, 2014 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - After weeks of protests and growing suspicion, Dutch authorities overseeing the investigation of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have finally included Malaysia as a member of its Joint Investigation Team (JIT).Malaysia had made it clear it was immensely displeased with its inex
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Thank You for Making War!
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Often enough when something goes missing, it takes a while to realize that it’s gone. An example that came to me recently is the once-commonplace word “peace.” It’s not just that, in a time of public dissatisfaction with America’s wars, there’s no mention of a “peace movement” or “peace signs,” but […]
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The United States of Torture
Justin Raimondo is in the middle of a major storm, without power, so he will have no Friday column. His column will return Monday, rain or shine. His most recent column is below. Dianne Feinstein was the canary in the coalmine. If even the senior Senator from California, as stalwart an ally of the CIA […]
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KOL164 | Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity?: Mises Academy (2011)
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 164. Friday, Sep. 23, 2011, I conducted a Mises Academy Webinar discussing the America Invents Act, signed into law Sept. 16 2011 by President Obama. I discussed the webinar in a Mises Daily article, Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity? and discussed the AIA in further detail in The American […]
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Re. release of the "Senate Torture Report," what might Beethoven's Don Florestan and Donna Leonore have to say?
"We need reliable intelligence," Young Johnny McCranky said today on the Senate floor. And, he insisted, "Torture produces more misleading information than actionable intelligence."by KenEarlier this evening Howie wrote about the will-they-or-won't-they-release-it situation of the "executive summary" of what I'm just going to call the Senate Torture Report.
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Compromise: Pardon Bush, Execute Cheney And Let's Move On From This Whole Torture Thing
Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, had an ironic idea this week-- Obama pardoning Bush and Cheney for torture, making the point that what they did is illegal.
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St. Louis police charge young protester on Ferguson Commission
Press TV – December 8, 2014 A prominent young Ferguson protester has been charged with misdemeanor assault for brief contact with law enforcement officers while trying to access the closed down city hall. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department this week convinced the local prosecutor’s office to charge Rasheen Aldridge because he allegedly made physical […]
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PBC News & Comment: Feinstein Torture Review is Finally Published
After 2 years of obstruction by CIA, enabled by White House, summary of Feinstein’s heavily redacted torture report is released
sorry, a local internet outage hampered my work today
--NATO ceremony marks end of Afghan war, as it continues indefinitely with only US troops
--1500 more US troops headed for Iraq
--UN reports 57 million displaced people, billions needed for humanitarian aid
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CIA Torture Report- Why not mention CIA doctors & Human Experimentation?
Not one mainstream media outlet is mentioning this important fact. Skirting the issue. Talking around it. But, let's be honest here. The 'torture' gave the medical establishment a perfect opportunity to experiment on human beings- It's heinous to think about. But let's not kid ourselves. It happened! And if you foolishly think it didn't....
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Feds say cleaning up most contaminated nuclear weapons site in US is too costly
RT | December 9, 2014 The United States government recently argued in court filings that the state of Washington’s request of $18 billion over 14 years to address the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site should be rejected based on expense. The US Department of Justice said in a court filing on Friday that […]
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Benign Intent
The true characterization of the CIA - as the greatest purveyor of criminality and terror in human history - is notably absent from mainstream narratives.
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Spinning the ‘warmest year’
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | December 9, 2014 The buzz is intensifying about 2014 possibly being the warmest year globally in the historical temperature record. The spin The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a Press Release on 3 Dec: 2014 on course to be one of the hottest, possibly hottest, on record. Excerpts: WMO’s […]
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The REAL Reason For The Ferguson Riots: Mom And Pop Small Businesses Refused To Sell!
With the "riots" in Ferguson winding down, thankfully, there should now be some analysis of what the hell went wrong, and how the riots occurred in the first place... Too many people have been roped by the criminals in our media and the scumbags running our governments into the fraud of "race wars", and there definitely must have been another reason for all these riots, looting, and burning of businesses in Ferguson, Missouri...
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Alternative Media and the MH17 JIT Reversal
By Ulson Gunnar | New Eastern Outlook | December 8, 2014 After weeks of protests and growing suspicion, Dutch authorities overseeing the investigation of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have finally included Malaysia as a member of its Joint Investigation Team (JIT). Malaysia had made it clear it was immensely displeased with its inexplicable exclusion from JIT formed after the […]
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‘Failed experiment’: Privatized rail, water & utilities hit households financially – study
RT | December 9, 2014 British households could be saving £250 a year each if services such as railways and water were publicly owned rather than privatized, according to a new report. Research conducted by Corporate Watch and We Own It reveals Britons could be saving hundreds of pounds if such services were taken out […]
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Gap between rich and poor worst in decades: OECD
Press TV – December 9, 2014 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says the gap between rich and poor in most of its member countries has reached its highest level in 30 years. The organization released a report on Tuesday saying most of its 34 member states have seen a widening inequality gap. […]
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British rock guitarist, Geoffrey “Jake” Commander, jailed in US after joining Anonymous hack attack
British rock scene old-timer Geoffrey “Jake” Commander, who has played for the likes of Elton John and ELO, has been sentenced to ten days in a US jail after taking part in a mass online hack with protest group Anonymous.
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UK building firm linked to Qatari human rights violations
RT | December 9, 2014 One of Britain’s largest construction firms has been linked to severely sub-standard working conditions for migrants in Qatar. Over 1,000 foreign workers perished in the Gulf state between 2012 and 2013, a government report shows. The petro-rich Gulf state is investing over £200 billion in a construction frenzy in the […]
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Spinning the ‘warmest year’
by Judith Curry
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Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty
IT is what it ISN’T
An “exhaustive”, five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish.
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Costa Rica: State to Compensate Nemagon Victims
Weekly News Update on the Americas | December 8, 2014 A decree by Costa Rican president Luis Guillermo Solís authorizing payments to former banana workers sickened by the pesticide Nemagon became official on Dec. 1 with the measure’s publication in the government’s gazette. Under the decree the government’s National Insurance Institute (INS) will pay out […]
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New DoD Chief (Obama Secretary of Defense Nomination) is from Goldman Sachs, CFR, Aspen Group, DARPA…
By Jack Blood
Deadlinelive.info
RadioFreeBlood.com
President Obama on Friday announced his nomination of Ashton B. Carter, a physicist and former deputy defense secretary, to replace Chuck Hagel as defense secretary. Video by Reuters on Publish Date December 5, 2014. Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times.
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Culture Of Corruption-- Oklahoma, The Bronx... Transpartisan
In Sunday's NY Times Eric Lipton exposed one of the most insidious contemporary conspiracies in American politics: a secret alliance between Republican Attorney Generals and Big Oil. The chart above may summarize one of its key raisons d'être, but we'll come back and look at in in a moment.
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UK-based family: Hostage might still be alive, had it not been for attempted US rescue mission
Murdered photojournalist Luke Somers might still be alive if the US had not mounted a failed rescue mission, his family has said (AP)
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Putin Aide Says Israel is Training ISIS
Item 66 – In evidence (How much more do you need?):
(Proverbs 24:6): “For by ruses thou shalt make thy war.”
Mossad transferring ‘spying experience’ to the leadership of ISIS, as Israeli military advisers assist the terrorists, claims the aide.
Sen, John McCain (AIPAC) with ‘ISIS” and Abu Bakr Baghdadi
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Official denies having confirmed Iranian anti-ISIS strikes in Iraq
Al-Akhbar | December 9, 2014 A senior Iranian official on Tuesday denied remarks attributed to him in a British newspaper saying Tehran had carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in Iraq. The Guardian last week quoted deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Rahimpour as saying that Iran had conducted strikes […]
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This Is Ridiculous: Canadian Student Joining ISIS Is Complete And Utter Bull Crap!
I said on my weekly rant that I would put up some more articles here concerning matters pertaining to my home country, Canada, and I from what I have seen over the last few days, I have found something that I am calling a complete fabrication and nothing more than pure propaganda.....Well, according to this article from the CTV News online news service, at www.ctvnews.ca, it appears that the criminal propagandists are at it in trying to strike false fear into the Canadian people....
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Israeli settlers stab Palestinian youth on his family’s land
CPTnet | December 9, 2014 On 8 December 2014, Israeli settlers attacked seventeen-year-old Palestinian boy, Moad Al Rajabi on his family land in Bani Naim, on the outskirts of Al-Khalil/Hebron. He was sitting with his father, Noah Al Rajabi, and two of his cousins when settler cars stopped nearby. As seven settlers exited the cars […]
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Bank "Bail In" Theft Is Coming: Criminal Rothschild Bankers Lobby US Congress To Force Taxpayers To Insure $Trillions$ Of Fraudulent Bank Derivatives!
I really could see this coming... The world wide collapse of the price of Petroleum is causing severe problems in all the world's fraudulent financial markets... Major shareholders everywhere and especially in that casino called 'Wall Street' have been offloading and selling off all of their shares in Energy and Energy futures... On top of that, the collapse of the price of a barrel of Oil is spelling the end to the Petro Dollar scam and therefore the United States economy is finally (yes, after years of warnings at this site) entering a period of full collapse....
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Gilad Atzmon- The Jewish "left" is not the solution. It's the problem.
Quite an interesting interview...
Jewish Left Is Not The Solution, It Is The Heart Of The Problem
December 09, 2014 / Gilad Atzmon(access the interview at link above) Walid Darab & Gilad Atzmon #Israel #Zionism #Palestine #Jewishness
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Superman and Batman Tried to Warn Us About Iraq
A 1999 comic book examined humanitarian intervention and regime change, predicting the Iraq War catastrophe.
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More young men and teenagers arrested by the Israeli military
International Solidarity Movement | December 9, 2014 Nablus, Occupied Palestine – On December 8th in Nablus, the Israeli army broke into the homes of two families in Balata refugee camp and arrested two young Palestinians, 19-year-old Mujahed al Shekhalil and 17-year-old Yazan Hta. In both cases, their homes were raised by the military in the […]
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Prime Minister: Ukraine Moves Openly Toward NATO Membership
Ukrinform
December 9, 2014
Ukraine to cancel its non-bloc status – Yatseniuk
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NATO-EU Global Missions: Georgian Troops In Africa
Rustavi 2
December 9, 2014
Georgian Soldiers in Africa- The President demands to expand the mandate
The President of Georgia says Georgian soldiers should stay in Africa. Giorgi Margvelashvili demands to expand the mandate of the armed forces for 3 months.
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NATO-EU Military Fusion Proceeds Apace
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
December 5, 2014
General Paloméros at the European Parliament
On the occasion of the launch of European parliamentary work, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), French Air Force General Jean-Paul Paloméros was invited to address one of Parliament’s subcommittees on Security and Defence. -
No Exit in Gaza
By Jen Marlowe | TomDispatch | December 7, 2014 Rubble. That’s been the one constant for the Awajah family for as long as I’ve known them. Four months ago, their home was demolished by the Israeli military — and it wasn’t the first time that Kamal, Wafaa, and their children had been through this. For the […]
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Lactantius: War, object of execration, and its domestic analogue
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Greek and Roman writers on war and peace
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Lactantius
From Epitome 58
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Convening for Palestine
Delegate Feroze Mithiborwala at the conference.
December 8, 2014, Crescent-online
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Old Tricks, Old Dogs: Israeli Attacks on Syria
December 9, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Israel has once again conducted air strikes against the Syrian government and its people, in yet another act of unprovoked aggression and international criminality.
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