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Russian Foreign Minister: External Powers Plunge Middle East Into Worst Crisis In Its History
Interfax
January 22, 2014
Lavrov warns external forces against attempts to disrupts Montreux talks
MONTREUX: Moscow hopes all external players involved in the Syrian conflict will refrain from attempts to predetermine the outcome of the Geneva II, as well as any steps capable of disrupting the talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. -
Jordanian, U.S. Military Chiefs To Meet At NATO Headquarters
Jordan News Agency
January 22, 2014
Army chief attends NATO meetings in Brussels
Amman: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Mashal Mohammad Al Zaben is visiting Belgium to take part in the NATO Chiefs of Defence meeting, which kicked off today in Brussels. -
NATO Trains Balkans Armies For Global Wars
Southeast European Times
January 20, 2014
Balkan armies benefit from NATO training
Training allows Balkan militaries to improve their skills and participate in NATO-led missions abroad.
By Miki Trajkovski for Southeast European Times in Skopje
NATO continues to train Balkan militaries to participate in the Alliance’s missions abroad, while also strengthening their forces’ capacity and determination to become Alliance members, officials said. -
The Democratic Landslide In Virginia Last Night Was A Very Big Deal
Yesterday, voters headed off into the blizzard that blanketed northern Virginia with snow to vote in a special election for a state Senate seat that opened when Mark Herring was elected Attorney General. The district includes parts of Fairfax and Loudon counties and as voters drove to the polls they were hearing on their car radios about the massive indictment finally handed down for Gov. Rob McDonnell and his moll Virginia First Lady Maureen McDonnell.
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New Zealand: NATO Cohort In The Arabian Sea
Xinhua News Agency
January 22, 2014
New Zealand frigate to join NATO anti-piracy exercise
WELLINGTON: New Zealand will become the second non-member state to join a NATO anti-piracy exercise in the Gulf of Aden, the New Zealand government announced Wednesday.
Defense Minister Jonathan Coleman said New Zealand navy frigate HMNZS Te Mana would participate in Operation Ocean Shield for three weeks from Jan. 23. -
Why Do Some Americans Speak So Confidently When They Have No Clue What They’re Talking About?
The Harvard Business School (HBS) information session on how to be a good class participant instructs, “Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent,” reports Susan Cain in her best-selling book Quiet (2013).
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Leadership Training or Bullshit Training at Harvard? The Price of Pseudo-Certainty in Business, Government, and Medicine
The Harvard Business School (HBS) information session on how to be a good class participant instructs, “Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent,” reports Susan Cain in her best-selling book Quiet (2013).
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Russian Parliament Blasts West’s Role In Destabilizing Ukraine
Russian Information Agency Novosti
January 22, 2014
Russian Lawmakers Condemn West’s Role in Ukraine
MOSCOW: Russian lawmakers adopted a resolution Wednesday slamming foreign politicians for what they say is interference in Ukraine’s deepening political crisis as clashes rage between protestors and police. -
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Solution to Poverty
King wanted the government to eradicate poverty by providing every American a guaranteed, middle-class income—an idea that, while light-years beyond the realm of mainstream political conversation today, had actually come into vogue by the late 1960s.The post Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Solution to Poverty appeared first on BSNEWS.
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Alfred Neumann: Four thousand miles of fratricidal murder
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Alfred Neumann: Twilight of a conqueror
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The endless arms race
By Lawrence Wittner | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | January 21, 2014
It’s heartening to see that an agreement has been reached to ensure that Iran honors its commitment, made when it signed the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to forgo developing nuclear weapons.
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Ariel Sharon – War Is Peace
The 'mainstream media' - that curious collection of elite-run, profit-maximising business interests sometimes known as 'the free press' - performs a similar perceptual trick. In reviewing comparable crimes by the West and its official enemies, it is able to flick between perceiving virtue in 'our' criminality where only wickedness is found in 'theirs'.
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Could We Afford a Universal Basic Income?
That the funds the government already spends on antipoverty programs, if cashed out, would be more enough to raise everyone above the official poverty line.
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The Economic Case for a Universal Basic Income
The news that Switzerland will hold a referendum on a proposal to provide every citizen with an unconditional grant of 2,500 Swiss francs a month (about $2,800) has sparked renewed interest in the old idea of a universal basic income (UBI).
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Let’s disappoint those hungry for military interventions in 2014 too
2013 was not a good year for the pro-war lobby in the West, but in America, those in favor of military interventions are looking to make it easier for the president to formally declare war.The post Let’s disappoint those hungry for military interventions in 2014 too appeared first on BSNEWS.
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URGENT Al Qaeda Bombs Innocent Civilians of Warshafena and Al Ojailat
TweetURGENT - Al Qaeda groups in Libya attacked the innocent civilians of Warshafena and Al Ojailat areas near Tripoli last night while the people slept. Many people died and were wounded. These are criminal acts, acts that have been taking place in Libya since the 2011 NATO invasion of Libya. This is what drives the Libyan people, the tribes and the Great green resistance to rise up and fight for their people and their country.
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Gates’ Memoir Illustrates How Militaristic US Society Has Become
All the hoopla in the media over Bob Gates’ scathing criticism of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in his new memoir, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, has missed the mark. Obama can be criticized legitimately for his deplorable policy of piling up even more bodies of U.S. soldiers in an […]
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The Golden Age of Journalism?
Originally posted at TomDispatch. It was 1949. My mother – known in the gossip columns of that era as “New York’s girl caricaturist” – was freelancing theatrical sketches to a number of New York’s newspapers and magazines, including the Brooklyn Eagle. That paper, then more than a century old, had just a few years of […]
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The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism
Since its founding six years ago, J Street has emerged as a major Jewish organization under the banner "Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace." By now J Street is able to be a partial counterweight to AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The contrast between the two U.S. groups is sometimes stark. J Street applauds diplomacy with Iran, […]
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Sean Wilentz – Court Historian, NSA Shill, and Lickspittle ‘Liberal’
So you thought progressives would rally ‘round Edward Snowden’s and Glenn Greenwald’s crusade to rid us of the NSA incubus that’s attached itself to our computers and our daily lives. Well, you were wrong: dead wrong. With a few notable exceptions, the "progressive" media matrix – the lefty pundits, thinktanks, academics, and activists who make […]
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Intimidation of John Kerry
The peace efforts of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, have been dismissed by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, right, as not being worth the paper they are printed on.. AP Photo // EPA/ABIR SULTAN
By JAMAL KANJ
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated publicly what Israeli leaders say privately: Give us your tax money, weapons and your veto power but “leave us alone.” -
Why Sincere Political Donors Stop Contributing To The Dysfunctional Beltway Committees
This morning, the first Blue America contribution after we sent out a letter about Lee Rogers' race in CA-25, was from someone whose name I didn't recognize, Chris Horwitz, a PhD and the CEO of Electrogrip, a respected company in Pittsburgh known worldwide for advanced electrostatic gripping solutions.
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Iraq Executes 26; Attacks Leave 21 Dead, 28 Wounded
At least 21 people were killed, and 28 more were wounded in the latest attacks and clashes. Another 26 men were executed.
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UPDATE Libya - Official Document - Muslim Brotherhood Declaration Removing Support of Libyan Puppet Government
TweetToday we reported that the Muslim Brotherhood political group in Libya " Party for Justice and Development" pulled their support and their representatives (ministers) from the Puppet Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. This is crushing blow to Zeidan who, as we have reported in the past, carries dual citizenship with Libya and Germany. He is a German spy and this is known to all Libyans.
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University of New South Wales on Sub-Charter
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the University of New South Wales is a signatory to the sub-charter of the Akademik Shokalskiy:
To retrace Mawson’s voyage the AAE used the New Zealand tourism company Heritage Expeditions to sub-charter the Shokalskiy, an ice strengthened ship owned by the Russia government. Turney and Fogwill’s employer, UNSW, signed the sub-charter contract.
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New Details on the Ship of Fools
The precise chronology of the Ship of Fools on December 23 has been a topic of interest on skeptic blogs, including my recent post demonstrating the falsity of Turney’s excuses. However, up to today, this chronology had received zero media coverage, despite several reporters from major media on the Ship of Fools.
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Like NJ Guv KrispyKreme, ex-VA Guv McDonnell seems to have been asking: Why should white-collar crime be limited to the elites?
Washingtonpost.com caption: "In a Jan. 3, 2012, photo, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell wears a Rolex during an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. At the time, McDonnell said the watch was a Christmas gift from his wife. Sources say Williams purchased the $6,500 Rolex for the governor at first lady Maureen McDonnell's request.
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The Russo-Chinese Pincer Movement Against The US Treasury and The FED
The Federal Reserve Bank is privately owned by member banks. If those member banks have either sold out to China or are bought for pennies on the dollar by them when the dollar crashes, then Beijing will own the American Federal Reserve Bank. Though at that point we could no longer call it American.
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PBC News & Comment: Obama’s “Left-lon” Keeps NSA Fallout from Sticking
As corporate media spins NSA “reforms” in Obama’s favor, new poll shows most Americans don’t care about massive domestic surveillance…Click here for free audiobook download from Audible that generates $15 to PBC Podcast!
Note for Bay Area listeners: PBC will be speaking to San Francsco chapter of Progressive Democrats of America on Thursday, January 23 at 7:00pm. Unitarian/Universalist Center, 1187 Franklin at Geary. Topic: I want my damn Fourth Amendment back! -
Algeriepatriotique interviews Gilad Atzmon: “Dieudonné has proved to be resilient to Jewish nationalist terror”
Interview by Mohamed El-Ghazi, M. Ait Amara | January 18, 2014
Your fight against Zionism provokes critics against you in Israel and in the West. Your detractors conflate consciously between “anti-Zionism” and “anti-Semitism.” What is the difference between these two concepts?
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Former Mayor, VP candidate and 9/11 film producer on his film being blocked by a top alternative media outlet
Art Olivier, Former Mayor of Bellflower, California, former Libertarian candidate for Vice-President of the United States and producer of the 9/11 thriller, Operation Terror, spoke about his $100,000 film being blocked by Alex Jones’ media outlet, on the January 21, 2014 episode of Exposing Faux Capitalism with Jason Erb, with the full audio here. Art […]
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Israel lobby has Economist on the run
By Jonathon Cook | January 21, 2014
The Economist has found itself at the centre of another of those “anti-semitic cartoon” rows. The cartoon has upset the Israel lobby because it shows, well, that the Israel lobby has a lot of influence in Congress. The article it illustrated refers to President Obama’s attempts to reach a deal with Iran, a diplomatic process being subverted by AIPAC’s efforts to persuade Congress to intensify sanctions.
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When Tony Strickland Was Running In A Ventura County District, He Was Denigrating Los Angeles… Now He's Trying To Run In An L.A. District
In the 2010 redistricting, some residents of Simi Valley objected when they became part of the newly drawn 25th CD, which is primarily a Los Angeles County district. They wanted to remain as part of Ventura County. Tony Strickland's part of Simi Valley stayed behind with the rest of Ventura, in CA-26 and he ran, unsuccessfully, for the open seat there against Democrat Julia Brownley. She beat him 53-47% and he immediately began his rematch campaign.
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Iraq: NATO’s New Generation Of Military Partnership
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
January 20, 2014
NATO Secretary General discusses ways to strengthen ties with Iraqi Foreign Minister
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen held talks with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Monday (20 January 2014) to discuss ways to further strengthen relations between the Alliance and Iraq. -
NATO Partners Tighten Missile Cooperation Against Syria
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
Story by the Netherlands Department of Defence
January 21, 2014
NATO PATRIOT MISSION, PARTNERS AGREE TO INCREASE COOPERATION AND KNOWLEDGE -
Ocean heat content uncertainties
by Judith Curry Central to arguments related to the hiatus and the ‘missing heat’ is the assertion that unusual amounts of heat are being stored in the deep ocean, and that this heat will eventually reappear at the surface. Exactly … Continue reading →
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US Feigns "Horror" Over Cooked-Up Report on Syrian War They Engineered
Qatar - chief financier of Al Qaeda in Syria - commissions "report" on atrocities published just ahead of Geneva conference. Update: Further details have emerged regarding the authors of the report. It was produced by British law firm Carter-Ruck on behalf of Qatar who funded it (CNN).
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Demanufacturing Consent: Peter Ludlow on Aaron Swartz’s Legacy, SOPA 2.0, and Net Neutrality
DC on BFP #25 | Peter Ludlow joins us to discuss the legacy of Aaron Swartz, as both an internet pioneer and vocal activist, one year after an overzealous prosecution led to his suicide. Also, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, SOPA 2.0, the TPP, Net Neutrality, Verizon v. FCC, and much more
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A Dark Alliance Reborn: The DEA-Sinaloa Connection
Guillermo Jimenez | Almost 20 years after Gary Webb's Dark Alliance series was published, the drug war rages on, and new evidence continues to surface affirming an ongoing role for sections of the US government in the management of the drug trade through covert action.
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Systemic Foundations of American Capitalism
Inequality permeates the social system, taking multiple forms, themselves integrated, because the essential capital-accumulation process requires invidious distinctions, actualized in terms of power arrangements, across the board.
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President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with Agence France Presse
SANA | January 21, 2014
Damascus – President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Agence France Presse. Following is the full text of the interview:
Mr. President, what do you expect from the Geneva conference? -
Israel lobby has Economist on the run
The Economist has found itself at the centre of another of those “anti-semitic cartoon” rows. The cartoon has upset the Israel lobby because it shows, well, that the Israel lobby has a lot of influence in Congress. The article it illustrated refers to President Obama’s attempts to reach a deal with Iran, a diplomatic process being subverted by AIPAC’s efforts to persuade Congress to intensify sanctions.The post Israel lobby has Economist on the run appeared first on BSNEWS.
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Direct Action Must Be Remembered As Part of Dr. King’s Legacy
[D]irect action, as Dr. King understood it and practiced it, meant bringing a social institution or the society itself locally to a halt, to make the system scream, just like its victims screamed, to bring contradictions to a head, so that everyone could see what the real problem was, that is, to confront authority. And that's not understood in terms of what King's legacy is.The post Direct Action Must Be Remembered As Part of Dr. King’s Legacy appeared first on BSNEWS.
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