The Broken Sparrows of Palestine
Abdul Rahman Abu Oida, pastels, by Ahmad Barqawi
By Eva Bartlett, Nov 4, 2014, Crescent International
Abdul Rahman Abu Oida, pastels, by Ahmad Barqawi
By Eva Bartlett, Nov 4, 2014, Crescent International
Sometimes it seemed that only two issues mattered in the midterm election campaigns just ended. No, I’m not talking about Obamacare, or the inequality gap, or the country’s sagging infrastructure, or education, or energy policy. I mean two issues that truly threaten the wellbeing of citizens from Kansas, Colorado, and Iowa to New Hampshire and […]
The Obama administration "has no foreign policy," says Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice-presidential candidate. While we may tune out this kind of election year rhetoric, similar complaints – no matter which president is being denounced – are common on both sides of the aisle. When the Democrats are in power we hear it […]
Hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims were in Karbala today for the culmination of Ashura observances. No major attack against them occurred despite the presence of Islamic State militants in Iraq. Some attacks did occur elsewhere, among the battles. At least 141 people were killed and 69 more were wounded.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | Statement to the UN First Committee | October 28, 2014 Nuclear disarmament has for too long been about waiting. Waiting for nuclear-armed states to fulfill their obligations. Waiting for the so-called “conditions” to be right for disarmament. While we wait, we do not get closer to the elimination […]
Osborne, Gardner Goldsmith and I continue our once-a-month listener participation live show where we will discuss our recent shows, projects, challenges, investigations, etc...
Osborne, Gardner Goldsmith and I continue our once-a-month listener participation live show where we will discuss our recent shows, projects, challenges, investigations, etc...
Osborne, Gardner Goldsmith and I continue our once-a-month listener participation live show where we will discuss our recent shows, projects, challenges, investigations, etc...Discussed:-Rock the Vote claims to be a nonpartisan organization. It is not. It claims to be simply interested in encouraging young people to vote for either party. But it is not that simple. We hope young people are smart enough to reject this and we're here to help.-Rock the Vote's new campaign, starring Lil Jon and Lena Dunham, is perhaps its greatest intellectual insult yet-Osborne is running for office.
By Rachel Nusbaum | ACLU | November 4, 2014 Today, in a hushed courtroom in Washington, D.C., not far from the now-empty halls of Congress, a federal appeals court heard arguments in Klayman v. Obama, a challenge to the NSA’s bulk collection of telephone metadata first revealed by Edward Snowden. If you have ever made […]
If you are unaware of the ongoing price war refresh your memory with this post- Oil Wars? US/Saudi Arabia vs Russia/IranOil price wars = economic warfare Then onto the latest: Saudi Arabia cuts oil prices, again!
Personal Privacy is dead, funeral services were held in secret: NSA, Britain’s GCHQ challenge modest encryption efforts by tech companies…
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–US Appeals Court hears arguments in case regarding NSA’s dragnet collection of phone call data
–another crisis in US nuclear command, as commanders at 2 of the 3 nuclear bases are sacked
CentrismLast week, a professional L.A.-based Beltway centrist, Matt Miller, wrote a self-pitying retrospective of his unmemorable vanity campaign for Congress. Obviously, for the Beltway publication virtually no one in L.A. reads or has even heard of, Politico.
That is what autonomous regions generally do. Elect their own leadership.
How Zionists Outmaneuvered and Replaced State Department Experts By Amb. ANDREW I. KILLGORE | CounterPunch | November 4, 2014 Alison Weir writes at the beginning of her book, Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel, that while many people are led to believe that U.S. support […]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Joint Forces Command Brunssum
November 4, 2014
Multinational Exercise Red Knight 14, Soldiers to Improve Military Planning
This film is radical. With over a dozen NHS insiders as my witnesses, I will tell the alarming story of how the health service as we know it is being quietly abolished. Almost without our noticing, it’s been replaced by a system modelled on the US in which care is delivered by profit-maximising companies that charge patients for treatment which is anyway to be restricted and reduced.
Because most of the political leadership, globally appears to be psychopathic.No moral code- Check!No feelings- Check!No moral code- Check! No empathy- Check!My bad, I sad no moral code twice. Oh, dear me. Obviously the elites have no moral code. Look at the wars they wage? The elite child molestation rings?
MEMO | November 4, 2014 Israel demolished two homes in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, today claiming they were constructed without a license, eye witnesses said. Eye witnesses reported that “a large bulldozer belonging to the Israeli municipality arrived this morning at Wadi Yasoul in Silwan accompanied by Israeli police and army […]
1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII’s first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII’s older brother – they would later marry.
1646 – Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God’s word
1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
by Judith Curry
Some new books that I’ve been reading, by Roger Pielke Jr., Rud Istvan, George Marshall and James Gleick.
RT | November 4, 2014 The Hungarian parliament has approved a law on Monday which allows building the South Stream gas pipeline without approval of the European Union. The European Commission has already demanded an explanation from Hungarian authorities. The European Commission’s spokesperson said at a press briefing in Brussels on Tuesday that the EC […]
By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson | Monthly Review Zine | November 1, 2014 On October 1, 2014, a remarkable event occurred in Britain. The British Broadcasting Corporation’s BBC 2’s This World telecast Rwanda’s Untold Story, a documentary produced by Jane Corbin and John Conroy that offered a critical view of Rwandan President Paul Kagame […]
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
November 4, 2014
Last night at 9:00 PM Eastern I was on the /r/conspiracy subreddit doing an “AMA.” For those not in the know, that’s an “Ask Me Anything” where redditors ask questions and the person in question (yours truly) provides answers.
You can read through the questions and answers here.
Do fascists now control the Senate GOP? Curtis Haas and Ted CruzFormer Colorado congressman and virulent racist Tom Tancredo wrote on some fringy, far right website that if the GOP captures the Senate today the GOP leadership should move immediately to impeach President Obama. So? Who cares what a crackpot like Tancredo, a private citizen with absolutely no mainstream credibility, has to say?
Stars and Stripes
November 3, 2014
Breedlove: More rotational forces needed in Europe
By Chris Carroll
WASHINGTON: The top U.S. general in Europe said Monday that he’s been reaching out to the service chiefs and the head of the National Guard in an effort to ensure troop levels in Europe remain high enough to handle a host of new security challenges.
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
November 4, 2014
NATO Strategic Communication Conference
NATO Strategic Communication Conference is underway in “Sheraton Metekhi Palace” Hotel. Importance of strategic communication across the wider security sector is the key topic of the discussion at the international forum.
Inca Kola News | November 3, 2014 Not a clue. Data from here.
The reality of how money is created today differs from the description found in some economics textbooks: Rather than banks receiving deposits when households save and then lending them out, bank lending creates deposits.
. . . Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money.
The post Why Do Banks Want Our Deposits? Hint: It’s Not to Make Loans appeared first on BSNEWS.
Japan Times
November 4, 2014
Female GSDF officer to be assigned to NATO
The Defense Ministry said Tuesday it will send a female officer of the Ground Self-Defense Force to NATO headquarters in Brussels for a two-year assignment starting in December.
Lt. Col. Chizu Kurita, 39, will be the first member of the Self-Defense Forces to be dispatched to NATO headquarters on a long-term basis.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
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Albert Maltz
From The Cross and the Arrow (1944)
Weekly News Update on the Americas | November 3, 2014 Two Haitian human rights groups, the Haitian Platform of Human Rights Organizations (POHDH) and the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), issued a joint statement on Oct. 27 demanding “the release of the political prisoners and the demonstrators arrested illegally” by the government of President Michel […]
After my recent appearance on the Fox News Channel’s morning show, "Fox and Friends," Donald Trump, appearing after me on the same show, asserted that my ranking of Barack Obama 34th out of 41 presidents rated – in the new, revised edition of Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty – had […]
At least 174 were killed in Iraq, mostly militants. Another 26 were wounded. Meanwhile, Kurdish authorities said they paid unidentified intermediaries $1.5 million to facilitate the release or escape of 234 Yazidi captives.
-by Gaius Publius As we move to election day, I'd like to offer the following as a quick scorecard, a list of Senate races to watch. In the following table, the first seven races (bolded) are those marked "competitive" by the New York Times in an interesting interactive write-up. The second group (Roman font) lists races I'm interested in, for a variety of reasons. In some, the Republican is likely to win (for example, McConnell, Collins, Capito). In others, the Democrat is given at least a chance (Pryor, Landrieu).
Boiling Frogs Post | On this edition of the BFP Roundtable the panel gets into a lively discussion on the marketing of the "ISIS" brand of "Islamic Terror." But if the terror boogeyman is the product, then who's the customer and who are they buying from? Join Peter, Sibel, Guillermo and James for an uncensored conversation on terror, black ops...
Guillermo Jimenez | Over a month has passed since the forced disappearance of the normalistas (student teachers) of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, and still 43 remain missing. On September 26, members of the Iguala municipal police and the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel ambushed the caravan of students...
DC on BFP #58 | Phillip Smith of StoptheDrugWar.org joins us to discuss the four pending marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot this November, and what the odds are of ending prohibition across the country in the foreseeable future. Also, the potential dangers of the "Big Marijuana" industry, and a look at the arguments against legalization.
TOR Radio #106 | Guillermo Jimenez and Danny Benavides discuss the abduction and murder of blogger and citizen journlaist "Felina" @miut3, the massacre in Tlatlaya, and the forced disappearance of the 43 student teachers from the Ayotzinapa normalista school near Iguala, Guerrero.
"[D]oesn’t [successful business people's] success with money mean that they know how the economy really works? Actually, no. In fact, business leaders often give remarkably bad economic advice, especially in troubled times."-- Paul Krugman, in his NYT column today, "Business vs.
Tomorrow is election day, and 42% of California likely voters didn’t even know Gov. Jerry Brown is on the ballot…
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–polls show many close races, and with GOP voter suppression tactics, it may be worse….but Dems avoid talking about election integrity issues
–NY Times editorial reveals new FBI entrapment tactic
–Sibel Edmonds, FBI whistleblower and publisher of Boiling Frogs Post, talks about her new novel, The Lone Gladio
GRAIN | November 4, 2014 “Listening to farmers and addressing their specific needs. We talk to farmers about the crops they want to grow and eat, as well as the unique challenges they face. We partner with organizations that understand and are equipped to address these challenges, and we invest in research to identify relevant […]
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Sibel Edmonds talks about her new novel, The Lone Gladio, and explains some of the key elements of her fictional narrative based on the “deep state”, Operation Gladio, and CIA covert operations.
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We are walking back to August 28/14. A stroll down memory lane, if you will?To a blog post entitled ISIS = Smoke & Mirrors. Giving cover now for strikes on SyriaIf you didn't read it then, you may want to now? On that date, I made these statements and wrote them down for all the readers here