Sunday Classics preview: Colin Davis's surprising triumph in Mahler
Tenor René Kollo sings "On Youth" from Mahler's Song of the Earth, with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein, in May 1972.
Tenor René Kollo sings "On Youth" from Mahler's Song of the Earth, with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein, in May 1972.
At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 27 more were wounded.
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‘War is the Health of the State’
Yariv Levin: laying the legal groundwork for Israeli apartheid"If [Yariv Levin's proposed new Basic Law] will be accepted, Israel will be able to proudly hold the title of a Jewish and racist state, a unique political creation, which will certainly astonish the family of nations."-- from an editorial in Haaretz [full text availablefor subscribers and registered users only]by KenWill it really?
The alt media has done a remarkable job of raising awareness of the Bilderberg meetings in the last few years. Now, as this year’s conference gets set to kick off in Watford, UK, this year’s protest is shaping up to be the largest one yet. But as hopeful as this growing Bilderberg awareness is, there is always the question: what other meetings, conferences and groups are flying under the radar while the alt media is fixated on the Bilderbergers? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we explore what lies beyond Bilderberg.
Conservative Democrat Joe Manchin is very popular in West Virginia and he is widely associated with the state's coal mining industry, not necessarily with the coal miners and their families, but with the coal mine owners and managers. When Cecil Roberts, United Mine Workers president, in the video above, yells, "They tried to bamboozle us, they tried to rob us, they tried to steal from us.," no one could have mistaken him for the state's junior senator.
The Local
May 31, 2013
Swedish parties want to get closer to Nato
Prime Minister of Sweden, Frederik Reinfeldt, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
With Sweden’s main political parties in agreement that developments in Russia are going in the wrong direction, a key defence policy advisory committee has proposed Sweden seek closer cooperation with Nato.
By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | May 31, 2013
A young Palestinian man, from the Negev, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli Police fire when an armed Israeli man attacked the Hapoalim Bank in Beersheba, on Monday May 20, stated that the Israeli Police shot and cuffed him, after instantly profiling him as the assailant.
DSCC & Tea Party agree Joe Miller should be the GOP nominee. The GOP... not so muchIn the Quinnipiac poll released yesterday, voters across the country were clear that after weeks of intense right-wing propaganda and Establishment media drummed up poutrage, the GOP Scandalpalooza isn't as important to anyone as it is to deranged Republicans.
UPDATE @ BOTTOM from Watt's Up With That?WATERLOO, ON, May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to new research from the University of Waterloo published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B this week. CFCs are already known to deplete ozone, but in-depth statistical analysis now shows that CFCs are also the key driver in global climate change, rather than carbon dioxi
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV May 30, 2013 Where are we in the unfolding of the current world economic depression, and what can we know about the events that lie ahead? The US Memorial Day holiday weekend provides the occasion to venture some answers to these questions. The current world economic depression reached [...]
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. KDKA-1020AM, Pittsburgh with Chris Moore May 30, 2013 [download audio]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
May 31, 2013
Junior diplomats from Pakistan and Bangladesh visit NATO
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Discussions…touched on the 2011 air campaign over Libya, the possibility of NATO getting involved in Syria, and NATO’s maritime counter-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa… [Which] highlight the need for the Alliance to develop partnerships with countries beyond the Euro-Atlantic area.
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RT | May 30, 2013
The former CIA analyst who spoke out against the agency’s use of torture says he’s been deemed a “threat to public safety” and is serving his prison sentence in a crowded jail cell despite being promised admission to a federal work camp.
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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
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:
Story #1: Privacy Breach As Xbox One A ‘Twisted Nightmare’
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Obama Intelligence Agency Chairman Has His E-Mail Account Hacked
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Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar As Easy As Angry Birds
Press TV – May 30, 2013
An American judge has passed a 25-year prison sentence for the Iranian-American citizen Manssor Arbabsiar over allegations of his participation in a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US.
On Thursday, New York federal Judge John Keenan passed the maximum sentence and said Arbabsiar must be taught a lesson for his involvement in a plot that Washington cannot tolerate.
RT | May 31, 2013
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that “political games” prevented Russia from investigating the data on the use of toxic substances in Aleppo: the UN Secretariat couldn’t respond promptly to Moscow’s demand to look into the matter.
RT | May 31, 2013
President Obama may pledge to finally close Guantanamo’s doors, but all his words are just an illusion, while prisoners are suffering at the notorious detention facility.
Human rights lawyer David Remes, who represents 17 Guantanamo detainees has been talking to RT.
RT: President Obama has made numerous promises over the years to close Guantanamo Bay prison. Is it likely to happen?
FBI Changes Story of How and Why Ibragim Todashev DiedOriginally said he had a knife - Feds now say it may have been a “broomstick” — or he "might not have had anything in his hands"Editor's Note: What follows is an unusually candid report by the New York Times -- to such an extent that in this writer's view it can be considered Revelation of the Method. While we have withheld an assessment until today, we now believe that like so many persons who had information on the conspiracy that assassinated President John F.
When Sen. John McCain went to Syria to meet with Syrian “rebel” commanders and call for sending them US arms, he snuck over the border with Turkey to the town of Azaz – the headquarters of the “Northern Storm Brigade,” and the site of a 2012 kidnapping by Syrian rebels of 11 Shi’ite pilgrims returning [...]
Imagine for a moment that in 2010, China’s leaders had announced a long-term, up to $60 billion arms deal with an extreme Islamic fundamentalist regime in the Middle East, one that was notoriously repressive to women and a well-known supporter of the Taliban. Imagine as well that the first $30 billion part of that deal, involving 84 advanced jet fighters, was [...]
by KenMichele Bachmann and her curious withdrawal from the world of electoral politics can wait. Ditto the steady drumbeat of the Israeli march to fascism. Because I went back to work today.I got a jolt when I settled into my desk this morning, for the first time since I shut down my computer at the end of the day on Friday, April 12, with knee-replacement surgery scheduled for the following Monday.
It is a fact now that the so called "rebels" in Syria, who are actually nothing more than paid for murderous mercenary thugs by the criminals in both the US and Israel, are badly losing their war against the popular Bashar al-Assad government forces....Everywhere across Syria these murderous mercenaries are losing battle after battle, and there is a strong chance that all of Syria could be free of these mercenaries, and foreign intervention, very shortly....
Ever since I was a young man who faithfully attended church services every Sunday (whether I liked to or not), I have always been perplexed by the Christian churches calling the Jews the "Chosen People" of "God".... To me, there is absolutely EVERYTHING wrong with that statement, in that how the heck can some group of people be considered better than everyone else? It has always troubled me that a supposedly loving "God" that has all living creatures as his creation and that all people are his children can be BIASED in having one group of individuals better than everyone else!.....
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:
A wave of bombings continued unabated in Baghdad today, leaving 42 Dead and 129 Wounded
A bunch of slimy New Dems-- your father's Republican PartyAlmost half the Members of Congress (48%) are millionaires and most of the rest are there at the sufferance of millionaires and billionaires who finance their miserable political careers. The median estimated net worth of all 535 Members is about $966,000, although higher among the freshmen-- $1,066,515.
Press TV – May 30, 2013
Photos shown by the father of Ibragim Todashev, a young man who was killed by FBI agents during investigations into the Boston Marathon bombings, reveal he sustained six gunshot wounds, one in the crown of his head.
Bashar Assad's interview with Al Manar has been made available by Syria Report- Thanks kindly!Audio:Transcript and updates at the end, be sure to check that out!President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcast on Thursday Following is the full text of the interview: Al-Manar: In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Assalamu Alaikum. Bloodshed in Syria continues unabated.
The unprovoked massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales drew shock and horror from people all over the world when it happened last year.
And it should have. An American soldier, armed to the teeth, committed one of the most heinous atrocities of the war, even going so far as to stick a gun in the mouth of an infant baby and warning its mother to be quiet before ultimately pulling the trigger.
It’s always amusing when one hears talk about The Washington Post being part of the liberal mainstream media conspiracy. The 136-year-old newspaper, known for its breaking of “Watergate” and subsequent downfall of President Richard N. Nixon in the 1970′s, is hardly “liberal,” nor “progressive” today, but straight down-the-middle establishment, and its editorial page baldly hawkish.
"If he honestly believes," says Van Jones in the video clip above, "that this pipeline-- which will be a huge part of his legacy-- is a good thing, he should call it the Obama Tar Sands Pipeline." Yes, a huge part of his legacy. The House may have made it easy for him-- whichever decision he makes. Last week they passed H.R. 3, which removes Obama from the decision-making process, despite this being a deal that involves the U.S. border, over which he has constitutional authority. So...
Stars and Stripes
May 29, 2013
NATO head to visit DC amid debate over Syria
By John Vandiver
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NATO currently has six Patriot missile batteries, including two from the U.S., positioned near Turkey’s border with Syria…Russia announced this week it will deliver S-300 long-range air defense systems to Syria, in a move that would greatly complicate any effort to impose such a [no-fly] zone.
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Stars and Stripes
May 29, 2013
Odierno: Don’t rule out ground wars when cutting Army forces
By Chris Carroll
Odierno at the NATO Defense College earlier this month
Rob Ford is certainly a "fat fuck," but-- much worse-- he's a disgusting bigot, a thug and a quintessential conservative. But what's interesting about the "fat fuck" episode (just before the 3 minute mark on the video above) is that the reporter didn't call Ford a "fat fuck." It was the goon bodyguard who came up with the accusation that the reporter called him a "fat fuck" to change the subject and rattle the reporter. He and Ford then went on the attack, like two vicious overtly threatening hoodlums, chasing the reporter out of the room and ending the embarrassing interview.
Democrat/Republican noun
1: one who selectively applies stated values
James Corbett joins Joyce Riley on The Power Hour to discuss the economic insanity that continues to sweep through the markets and how the bubble will eventually pop. We discuss Japan’s place in this unfolding economic catastrophe and take listener calls on a range of subjects from economics to geopolitics to the situation at Fukushima.
May 30, 2013 (RT - Eric Draitser) - The worldwide March Against Monsanto this past Saturday was no mere political demonstration. Rather, it was a worldwide mobilization against corporate greed, the assault on our health and environment, and the oppression of small farmers.
By Murray Polner · NYTX · May 29, 2013
Karl Eikenberry and David Kennedy’s “Americans and Their Military: Drifting Apart” (May 26) called for reinstatement of a draft, a favorite stance of the Times’ Op Ed page.
The Atlantic slave trade was run by the Jews of Portugal, Great Britain, Spain, France and the Netherlands. At least 12 million Africans were shipped across the sea though most were taken to non-British destinations. An unknown number were killed upon capture in the interior of Africa with many more dying en route to the coast even before the long sea voyage. Millions were also taken in other slave routes into either Arab territories where Jews also acted as slave traders and across the Indian Ocean.