Syria Militants Massacre Christian Village Population (Graphic Images)

 Richard Falk Will Not Be Another Richard Goldstone
US professor Richard Falk addresses participants during the Istanbul session of The World Tribunal on Iraq, June
Clovis Maksoud for Al-Monitor

Liars, lying all togetherThis collusion is a bad sign.

Look at this post at Part 2 of a series. You should very minimally listen to the interview in the previous post for some background. Syria- Lavrov Interview "Our priority is to stop violence" Corbett interviews... Unless you are on of the many who have been hanging around for a while now?And yeah, we are going long. Then there will be a part 3.

U.S. Air Forces in Europe
June 13, 2013
HAW welcomes new commander
By Tech. Sgt. Patrick Mitchell
U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa Public Affairs
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Monday night I was at the Hammer Museum for a screening of Shaun Kadlec's and Deb Tullmann's fantastic new film, Born This Way, a documentary on the gay and lesbian underground in Cameroon. Afterwards I ran into Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti. Eric's an old friend and one of the smartest politicians I've ever met. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and he studied Urban Planning at Columbia. I doubt L.A. has ever elected anyone as qualified to be mayor in its entire history.

By MEGAN GALLEGOS | Courthouse News | June 13, 2013

LAS VEGAS – Calling it “Greyhound therapy,” a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital drugs patients and sends them on buses out of state to cities where they know no one, without medical instructions or anyone to care for them, one such patient claims in a federal class action.
Lead plaintiff James Flavy Coy Brown claims the hospital’s illegal policies are “sometimes referred to as ‘Greyhound therapy.’”

By Shamus Cooke | Worker’s Action | June 12, 2013

The long awaited Syrian peace talks — instigated by power brokers Russia and the United States — had already passed their initial due date, and are now officially stillborn.
The peace talks are dead because the U.S.-backed rebels are boycotting the negotiations, ruining any hope for peace, while threatening to turn an already tragic disaster into a Yugoslavia-style catastrophe… or worse.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
June 13, 2013
A week of training onboard the USS Mount Whitney wraps up
By Chief Mass Communication Specialist Allison Pittam, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs
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One of SFN’s missions is to seamlessly integrate U.S. carrier or expeditionary strike groups into a NATO-led operation.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
June 13, 2013
NATOs Allied Force Command Madrid Deactivated
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Excerpted for length: I like info such as this where pertinent persons speak for themselves

Beta News Agency
June 10, 2013
14 years since end of NATO’s attacks on Serbia

BELGRADE: Monday marks 14 years since NATO’s air campaign against the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ended after 78 days.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
H.G. Wells: Selections on war
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H.G. Wells
What is Coming?
A Forecast of Things after the War (1916)

You may have noticed that DWT spends a lot of time going after a few especially bad Members of Congress. If you're a regular reader, you see a lot of mentions of shady characters like Darrell Issa, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Buck McKeon, Michele Bachmann, John Barrow, Steve Israel, Louie Gohmert, Steve King, John Boehner, Miss McConnell, Joe Crowley... the worst of the worst from both sides of the aisle.

Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Picture: The more things change...Topic:Part one in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth.This installment deals primarily with WWI, the Wilson administration and the Espionage Act of 1917, a very important (albeit absurd) precedent in the current legal conversation.Bumper Music:Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5, 4th mvt.

Picture: The more things change...

Topic:
Part one in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth.

This installment deals primarily with WWI, the Wilson administration and the Espionage Act of 1917, a very important (albeit absurd) precedent in the current legal conversation.

Picture: The more things change...

Topic:
Part one in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth.

This installment deals primarily with WWI, the Wilson administration and the Espionage Act of 1917, a very important (albeit absurd) precedent in the current legal conversation.

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley | Watt’s Up With That? | June 13, 2013

Few are as blatant and tone deaf as John Barrow (New Dem/Blue Dog-GA), but there are Democrats firmly allied with the NRA in both the House and Senate. In fact, four of them in the Senate-- Mark Pryor (AR), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Mark Begich (AK), and Max Baucus (MT)-- just got unpleasant wakeup calls on the issue from Michael Bloomberg.

MEMO | June 12, 2013

The spokesman of the Egyptian Army, Staff Colonel Ahmed Mohamed Ali, on Wednesday denied that his country had bought military wares from Israel.

RT | June 12, 2013

Russian shale oil reserves are estimated at 75 billion barrels, which puts the country on top of the global standings, followed by the US and China.
According to the report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the estimated American shale gas resources equal 58 billion barrels, with third-place China having 32 billion barrels.

By Denis Culum | The Argentina Independent | June 12, 2013

Economy ministers of member countries of Banco del Sur are meeting today in Caracas to define the operational details and implementation of this financial institution – a new regional funding entity independent of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

By Justin Doolittle | Crimethink | June 12, 2013

When British soldiers were roaming the American countryside in the 1760s with lawful search warrants with which they had authorized themselves to enter the private homes of colonists in order to search for government-issued stamps, Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” The soul-searching became a revolution in thinking about the [...]

News about President Obama’s program to listen in on nearly all telephone conversations in the United States, which Antiwar.com has been warning about for over two years, has preempted much of the alarming coverage about Syria. But one should not assume that lack of reporting means that the hawks are not continuing their efforts to [...]

Will the immigration reform battle sink any of these ships?Yesterday just over a dozen motley racists-- all Republicans-- voted against shutting down Jefferson Beauregard Session III's filibuster of the comprehensive immigration bill. These were the 15 bigots:

At least nine Iraqis were killed and 17 more were wounded in fresh violence. A Turkish citizen was also killed. Two

Why Washington Fears Iran

Iran’s nuclear medicine has achieved considerable progress in the past three decades despite numerous problems including sanctions against the country,
By Sharmine Narwani

The flagship Tiffany & Co. store on Fifth Avenueby KenThere's something about this heist story which has the odd effect of making a person smile. Of course it has entirely to do with the identity of the victim: Tiffany & Co. But that doesn't entirely explain the smile-producing effect.

Stars and Stripes
June 12, 2013
US participating in international Eager Lion exercise in Jordan
By Hendrick Simoes
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Eager Lion includes field training, multiple live-fire exercises, reconnaissance training, and Harrier, Cobra and Osprey aircraft…
Last week, Jordanian officials said the U.S. was likely to leave Patriot missile batteries and F-16s in Jordan after the exercise.
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President Obama is expected to make an announcement this week on whether his administration will begin arming the Syrian rebels in their suddenly uncertain effort to topple the autocratic regime of Bashar Assad. All signs point to a lifting of the White House restriction on “lethal assistance” to the rebellion for the first time since the armed resistance began two years ago.

I was invited to the White House yesterday for a briefing. I passed on the hassle and the opportunity. I suppose I would have heard President Obama reiterating his strong support for commonsense reform legislation to fix our broken immigration system, and the economic and national security benefits that reform will deliver. Tom Donohue of the US Chamber of Commerce, always pumping for cheap labor, was there-- as were labor leaders Mary Kay Henry and Richard Trumka. The President also invited two DREAMers, Gabriela Pacheco and Tolu Olubunmi.

It has long been known that cyberspace is one of the main battlegrounds in the 21st century.  However, last week’s shocking revelations about the NSA’s surveillance and data-gathering activities illustrate the extent to which US intelligence seeks “full-spectrum dominance” in cyberspace.

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With all the talk about Edward Snowden and the attempts to persecute/prosecute him as a leaker, it’s easy to forget that this battle is already going on with Pfc. Bradley Manning, the source of a large amount of information on US overseas war crimes by way of WikiLeaks.

RT |June 11, 2013

The US is scaling back its Guantanamo prosecutions from 36 to 20 or less, admitting that it lacks the evidence to convict many of the detainees of international war crimes.
Of the 166 detainees held at the prison camps, few have viable charges to face war crimes tribunal. Army Brigadier General Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor for the tribunals, told Reuters that the 36 detainees the US initially sought to prosecute was an “ambitious” number.

By Sharmine Narwani  | Al-Akhbar | 2013-06-12

“Tehran has developed technical expertise in a number of areas – including uranium enrichment, nuclear reactors, and ballistic missiles – from which it could draw if it decided to build missile-deliverable nuclear weapons,” reads Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper’s April 2013 report to the Senate Committee on Armed Services.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 12, 2013
NATO Week raises awareness of Georgia’s path to integration

By Sheldon Richman | FFF | June 11, 2013

It’s bad enough the federal government spies on us. Must it insult our intelligence too?

By Derek Khanna | Politix | June, 2013

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper being grilled by Sen. Ron Wyden • Screenshot

In March 2013, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) put the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on the spot on NSA’s dragnet style surveillance of American citizens.

New Jersey corruption personified: Christie and DiVincenzoNew Jersey politics is a cesspool of corruption-- bipartisan corruption. The New Jersey Republican Party is hopelessly corrupt and the New Jersey Democratic Party is hopelessly corrupt. That's why I've been so awed by Barbara Buono's nomination as the Democratic candidate for governor. She isn't corrupt. In fact...

An important message from James Corbett of BoilingFrogsPost and TheCorbettReport.com. Yesterday, 11 June 2013, James posted a very important video, which he has asked people to share as widely as possible. Centred in the recent news that the National Security Agency of the US is involved in an unconstitutional and Orwellian mass-surveillance programme with the consent of the political establishment, this message seizes the moment of public awareness, in order to help people see the bigger problem that faces us all; and to indicate solutions.

An important message from James Corbett of BoilingFrogsPost and TheCorbettReport.com. Yesterday, 11 June 2013, James posted a very important video, which he has asked people to share as widely as possible. Centred in the recent news that the National Security Agency of the US is involved in an unconstitutional and Orwellian mass-surveillance programme with the consent of the political establishment, this message seizes the moment of public awareness, in order to help people see the bigger problem that faces us all; and to indicate solutions.

by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
June 12, 2013

If you are an American who still reads the morning newspaper, then today (Wednesday June 12) many of you woke up with an internationally circulated Associated Press wire story headlined, "Pope tells group 'gay lobby' at work,” and a New York Times article that reported on: "...a network of gay priests inside the Vatican who used blackmail to gain influence and trade in state secrets."

Feeling a bit burnt out today....so just a news articleQuite relevant.

RT | June 12, 2013

Germans are expressing outrage as details of a US internet spy program – revealed by a former CIA employee-turned-whistleblower – are prompting comparisons with that of former communist East Germany’s Ministry for State Security.

U.S. Air Force
June 11, 2013
Fleet grows, training increases for F-35
By Maj. Karen Roganov
33rd Fighter Wing Public Affairs
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At Eglin, the Air Force has 12 F-35A joint strike fighters, the Marine Corps has 11 F-35Bs and the United Kingdom embedded with the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-501 has two F-35Bs. The Navy is slated to get its first two F-35C variants in the next coming weeks.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Henri Barbusse: Selections on war
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Henri Barbusse
From Light (1918)
Translated by Fitzwater Wray