The bombings returned to Baghdad today, where a Shi'ite mosque took the brunt of the attacks.

I have stated clearly in the last few articles that the criminal US President, Barry Soetoro, is a psychotic freak who wants to lead the United States into a new war against the innocent nation of Syria to please his Jewish masters in Tel Aviv.....

Introduction

"Since President Obama is asking us to trade some of our privacy with respect to our phone calls and our use of the Internet for greater protection against terrorism, at the very least we need to know exactly how our privacy is being violated."-- Aryeh Neier, in a New York Review of Books blogpost,"Spying on Americans: A Very Old Story"by KenIn this voluminous NYRB blogpost (I'm thinking it mus

“We Destroyed Arab Villages To Create Our State”, Retired General Said

 
 
by Saed Bannoura

Edward Snowden’s revelations had already led to some tension between the US and China. Beijing has demanded that Washington explain its surveillance program and cyber spying to the international community. James Corbett, editor of the independent news website the Corbett Report, joins RT to discuss how further damage to relations between the two countries is inevitable.

President of international war crimes tribunal may have worked to shield Israelis from prosecution
Theodor Meron, President of the United National War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague
 
by Alison Weir

Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com June 18, 2013 [download audio]

The New York Times op-ed page has a piece by retired General Wesley Clark headlined: “To Get a Truce, Be Ready to Escalate.”  The Times summarizes Clark’s wisdom: “The threat of force might get talks over Syria moving, as it did in Kosovo.”

By Doha Shams | Al-Akhbar | June 18, 2013

Since the start of the protests and ensuing unrest in Turkey, a peculiar tradition has emerged in Istanbul. As the soon as the clock strikes 9 pm, a chorus of percussion – banging pots and pans – emanates from open windows in “pro-opposition” buildings. The cacophony lasts for about half an hour, sometimes more, depending on the day’s events. Its purpose: to show solidarity with the protesters in Taksim Square.

Yesterday on CNBC Mark Begich (D-AK) admitted what people who watch Senate votes closely have already figured out: he's really a Republican calling himself a Democrat.

Intelligence chief says chaos in Arab world favours Israel
‘The current shake up will continue to change the face of the Middle East.
The chief of Israel’s military intelligence, General Aviv Kochav, has said that the chaos in the Arab world favours Israel and is something that he believes should continue. Speaking at the Herzliya Conference for Intelligence Studies, Gen. Kochav pointed out that the changes around Israel have fundamental implications for its security.

Sapping Assad’s strength: Israel stirs the pot in Syria
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Assad accused Israel of having gone further, “directly supporting” opposition groups inside Syria with “logistical support”, intelligence on potential targets and plans for attacking them.

RT | June 18, 2013

Iran has confirmed it is prepared to halt its enrichment of 20-percent uranium, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, urging Western nations to end their sanctions against Tehran.
“For the first time in many years, there are encouraging signs in the process of settlement of the situation with the Iranian nuclear program,” he said in the interview to Kuwait’s KUNA news agency, that was published on Russian Foreign Ministry’s website.

Global Times
June 18, 2013
US, Russia square off over Syria conflict
By Wang Zhaokun
US President Barack Obama met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday at the G8 summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, as the two leaders sought to narrow their differences on the Syrian conflict that was set to top the conference’s agenda.

ABC

There may be a gender gap, but there are still millions of women who vote for Republicans. Really. True, Obama won the two-party vote among female voters in the 2012 election by 12 points, 56% to 44%, over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. But that means 44% of women-- and they're not all in the South-- voted for Romney.

...from Eugenics to Common Core

Recorded live 6-6-13 with Joe, Cory and various participants in the chat

Topic:
The themes of central planning and well-intentioned megalomania tie together two distinct topics: a survey history of eugenics and the new Common Core national curriculum.

...from Eugenics to Common Core

Recorded live 6-6-13 with Joe, Cory and various participants in the chat

Topic:
The themes of central planning and well-intentioned megalomania tie together two distinct topics: a survey history of eugenics and the new Common Core national curriculum.

...from Eugenics to Common CoreRecorded live 6-6-13 with Joe, Cory and various participants in the chatTopic:The themes of central planning and well-intentioned megalomania tie together two distinct topics: a survey history of eugenics and the new Common Core national curriculum. The article that leads into our eugenics conversation: Huffington Post: People Getting Dumber?

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net June 9, 2013 [download video] [download audio]

by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
June 18, 2013

An appeal from Afghanistan to whistle-blow on warFrom Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers
Recognition that 95 million human beings were killed in World War I and II has helped the people of the world understand that the method of war is not cost-effective. An awakened world hoped the United Nations could, as determined in the UN Charter, eventually ‘save succeeding generations from the scourge of war’.

By SASAN FAYAZMANESH | CounterPunch | June 18, 2013

MEMO | June 17, 2013

Today on his weekly appearance on Radio Liberty, James discusses the BOE’s recent admission that central banks have intentionally blown the largest bond bubble in history, and what this might mean for the potential destabilization of the global economic system. Other topics discussed include the petrodollar, the uprising in Turkey, and the possible effects of this week’s FOMC meeting.

The Taylor Report
June 17, 2013
NATO Maneuvers and Countries of Clay
“What we’re seeing is a new attempt to divide up the MENA region.”
Featured Guest: Rick Rozoff
AUDIO
Description:
The New Sykes-Picot

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Georges Duhamel: Selections on war
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Georges Duhamel
From The Heart’s Domain (La Possession du monde) (1919)
Translated by Eleanor Stimson Brooks

Press TV – June 18, 2013

The United States has deployed 1,500 Marines with advanced arms and military equipment to Yemen, says a Yemeni military official.
Some 1,500 Marines were deployed to al-Anad military base in the country’s southern province of Lahij, al-Sharea daily quoted the official as saying on Monday.
Another 200 also arrived in the capital, Sana’a, to join the American forces already stationed in the capital’s Sheraton Hotel.

Monday we looked at Jason Farago's definitive Cory Booker analysis in the Guardian. One conclusion that struck me was about his lackey-like relationship with Big Business in general and Wall Street in particular.

Press TV – June 18, 2013

Canada has vowed to provide Jordan with an additional USD 100 million in aid amid ongoing crisis in the Arab country’s neighboring Syria.
Canada Foreign Minister John Baird said in a statement on Monday that Ottawa offered another USD 98.4 million to the Jordan’s government to help the kingdom cope with the influx of Syrian refugees.

By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | June 18, 2013

The Palestinian Ministry of Education, under the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, denied reports claiming that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and its government ever prevented Muslim students from attending Christian schools in the coastal region.

Al-Manar | June 18, 2013

Turkish police detained dozens of people at their homes and raided two media offices on Tuesday in a coordinated operation across the country to clamp down on nearly three weeks of mass anti-government unrest, AFP reported.

RT | June 17, 2013

Mass protests continued throughout Brazil on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converging in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brasilia and other cities.
Protests initially began last week following a government announcement of an increase in public transportation costs, which brought out students and young workers and led to more than 250 arrests.

Edward Snowden, a low-level employee of Booz Allen Hamilton who blew the whistle on the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), unexpectedly exposed a powerful and seamless segment of the military-industrial complex – the world of contractors that consumes some 70 percent of this country’s 52-billion-dollar intelligence budget. Some commentators have pounced on Snowden’s disclosures to [...]

Barack Obama has just taken his first baby steps into a war in Syria that may define and destroy his presidency. Thursday, while he was ringing in Gay Pride Month with LGBT revelers, a staffer, Ben Rhodes, informed the White House press that U.S. weapons will be going to the Syrian rebels. For two years [...]

Vlahos on how Hollywood still doesn't get it

Edward Snowden’s disclosures, the New York Times reported on Sunday, "have renewed a longstanding concern: that young Internet aficionados whose skills the agencies need for counterterrorism and cyberdefense sometimes bring an anti-authority spirit that does not fit the security bureaucracy." Agencies like the NSA and CIA – and private contractors like Booz Allen – can’t [...]

Saturday, Florida Democrats had their big Jefferson-Jackson fundraiser at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood (the Hollywood in political boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Florida congressional district, not the actual Hollywood).

At least 23 Iraqis were killed and 79 more were wounded in today's attacks.

Former French Foreign Minister: The War against Syria was Planned Two years before “The Arab Spring”

Israel’s support for Al Qaeda militants in Syria has even been admitted by the mainstream press. For example, Germany’s Die Welt newspaper published a report on June 12th on Israel’s medical treatment of the Al Qaeda fighters.
By Gearóid Ó Colmáin

I have been watching the Jewish media news on and off over the last few days as they continue to harp the LIES about Syria, and how its own government under Al Assad has been using "chemical weapons" on its civilian population.   I had to turn off this crap because I could not stomach the lies any longer....

 
 
by Lawrence Davidson
 
Part I – Shifting Historical Context
 

Eye of the TiberIs it any wonder that the Holy Father is so concerned about the gay lobby in the Vatican?by KenThe issue of a reputed "gay lobby" burst into public consciousness when its existence was offered as a possible reason for the sudden resignation of Pope Cardinal Ratguts (aka Benedict XVI), who was said to have cut and run rather than risk the f

If you were listening to NPR Saturday, you may have heard their report about water rights in the U.S. "Oil was probably the fluid of last century where there was a lot of turmoil, and I think water is the fluid of this century," explained Michael Walsh, a major general with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

By Mike Riggs | Reason | June 14, 2013

In November 2011, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told an audience at MIT, “I don’t listen to Washington very much, which is something they’re not thrilled about.” He didn’t listen because he didn’t have to. “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world,” Bloomberg bragged.

By Gilad Atzmon | June 17, 2013

Ynet reported today that Haifa District Court judge rules that there is no causal link between Kishon River’s pollution and the illness of more than 70 Israeli Navy seal divers, despite expert claims that ‘exposure to one molecule’ could lead to illness.

Cold Nights in an Indifferent World

VIDEO UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM. Israeli 'business man' in the business of supporting terror.Geez. The Western media is so full of nonsense and bravado today! No wonder most citizens from the so called ‘civilized nations’ are soooooo..... ignorant. Trying to find an article of substance regarding the G-8 meeting is difficult. Thankfully Chinese media had a decent one.Xinhua-U.S., Russia able to overcome differences on Syria by "minimum consensus"