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11 Jews occupy top positions in Trump’s administration
Palestine Information Center – January 28, 2017 Eleven Jews assume top positions in the administration of the new US president Donald Trump, according to an Israeli report published on Friday. Under the headline “Meet the top Jewish officials in the Trump administration”, the right-wing Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post introduced the 11 influential Jewish figures working […]
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President Trump’s Middle East immigration ban is an effect not a cause
To all of the misguided people crying crocodile tears because of Donald Trump’s new temporary immigration policy towards seven Middle Eastern and African countries, I have only this to say: you reap what you sow.
The only reason Trump has instituted this policy is because of the neocon/neoliberal interventionist wars that have destroyed much of the Arab world, beginning with George Bush and Tony Blair’s illegal war on Iraq in 2003. -
My beliefs precede quest for medal: Iranian karateka
Iranian karate practitioner Majid Hassaninia Press TV – January 28, 2017 Iranian karate practitioner Majid Hassaninia has refused to take on his Israeli opponent in the 21st edition of the Open de Paris – Karate Premier League in France. On Friday, Hassaninia did not show up for a scheduled encounter against a representative from Israel […]
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Gorbachev: ‘It All Looks as If the World Is Preparing for War’
The former president of the USSR speaks out against the rising tide of war.
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Global Warming: We Are Living In Dangerous Times
When Countercurrents.org started 15 years ago CO2 level in the atmosphere was 372 ppm. In the last 15 years it increased only at the rate of less than 2 ppm/year. This year we are seeing a jump of 3.5 ppm over the past year. United Nations climate change secretariat tweeted “January Mauna Loa record shows atmospheric CO2 concentration accelerating, now at[Read More...]
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Those Who Transmit Syrian Voices Are Russian Propagandists? Monitors of ‘Fake News’ Negate Syrian Suffering
Originally posted on In Gaza: *In the old city of Homs, June 2014, speaking with Zeinat and Aymen al-Akhras who endured years of hell under the rule of militant factions. In May 2014, an agreement saw the reportedly 1,200 militants bussed out of Homs (as recently happened in Aleppo), bringing peace to the neighbourhoods they’d…
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German Academics Pen Open Letter Slamming Western Interpretation of Syria Crisis
Sputnik – 28.01.2017 In contrast to the West, which has been intent on destroying Syria and other Middle Eastern countries, Russia and Iran are playing a constructive role in preventing the overthrow of Assad and the formation of a fundamentalist Sunni government in the country, a group of German academics have written in an open letter. […]
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Did the CIA ruin classical music for the masses?
As both a classically trained musician and an audiophile, the 1950s and 1960s was something of a golden age of recorded music.
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Has There Ever Been A New President So Widely Despised So Quickly By Americans?
Politico's Gabriel Debenedetti reported Thurdsday that national Democrats have largely "settled on a scorched-earth, not-now-not-ever model of opposition" to Señor Trumpanzee." I don't believe most of them are even capable of carrying it out or that most of them have the guts to try it but he claims that "[i]n legislative proposals, campaign promises, donor pitches and even in some Senate hearings, Democrats have opted fo
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The nazi punch that echoed around the world
Alt-right leader Richard Spencer got punched on live TV:
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UNHCR, IOM decry US refugee ban
The executive order exempts Christians and Yazidis from the ban [Xinhua]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization of Migration (IOM) issued a joint statement on Saturday decrying US President Donald Trump’s latest executive order to increase extreme vetting of immigrants and bar nationals froms even countries entry to the US for the next three months. -
James Mattis – new US Defense Secretary – puts F-35 program in doubt
The new Trump administration continues to surprise, with General James Mattis – recently confirmed as Defense Secretary – ordering a review of both the F-35 program, as well as the program for the replacement of Airforce One (the US President’s own transport jet).
The F-35 is supposedly the most expensive program in the US air force’s history. It has also been one of the most protracted and controversial, with many questioning the F-35’s capabilities as an effective combat aircraft. -
President Trump: Nationalist Capitalism, An Alternative to Globalization
By James Petras :: 01.27.2017 Introduction: During his inaugural speech, President Trump clearly and forcefully outlined the strategic political-economic policies he will pursue over the next four years. Anti-Trump journalist, editorialists, academics and experts, who appear in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have repeatedly distorted and lied […]
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Greece’s debt ‘unsustainable’ says IMF, warns of coming crisis, calls for debt relief
The Financial Times is reporting that a confidential IMF report is saying that Greece’s public debt is ‘unsustainable’ and is set to spiral to three times the size of Greece’s annual economic output, and that Greece’s economy cannot be expected to grow out of its debt problem.
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Those Who Transmit Syrian Voices Are Russian Propagandists? Monitors of ‘Fake News’ Negate Syrian Suffering
*In the old city of Homs, June 2014, speaking with Zeinat and Aymen al-Akhras who endured years of hell under the rule of militant factions. In May 2014, an agreement saw the reportedly 1,200 militants bussed out of Homs (as recently happened in Aleppo), bringing peace to the neighbourhoods they’d occupied and terrorized. Excerpt from my article on this visit and interviewing residents of the old city of Homs: “I dropped to 34 kilos. Aymen told me to weigh myself. I got on the scale and said, ‘What’s 34 kilos?’. A ten-year-old weighs more than that! And Aymen was 43 kilos.
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Does Torture CREATE Terrorists Via Trauma-Based Conditioning…?
Just as quick add-on to yesterday’s post about the Cheney/Rumsfeld regime’s torture programs and their psychological role in provoking so much of the modern radicalism and terrorism coming from the Middle East, there is another angle to this subject I wanted to touch on. The interesting thing about torture – aside from its ineffectiveness in […]
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In Solidarity with Adivasis in Bastar, Human Rights Defenders and Bela Bhatia in Bastar: Concerned Students in TISS, Mumbai
Guest Post by CONCERNED STUDENTS OF TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, MUMBAI We, the concerned students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai condemn the continuing state repression of adivasis and recent attack on human rights activist Bela Bhatia in Bastar, Chhattisgarh.
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Damascus water crisis ends as Syrian army captures Wadi Barada
The Jihadi interruption of the water supply to Damascus – which has gone on virtually unreported in the Western media for 44 days – is set to end, with the Syrian army finally gaining control of the water springs in Wadi Barada which provide water to Syria’s capital.
Al-Masdar’s report confirming the capture of the springs contains this sardonic comment about the Al-Qaeda led Jihadis who have surrendered to the Syrian army in Wadi Barada -
Liberals Morph from Peaceniks to Warhawks on Government Intelligence Agencies
By Stephen J. Sniegoski • Unz Review • January 28, 2017 During the latter decades of the Cold War with Soviet Russia, the charge of being “unpatriotic” or “anti-American” caused American liberals (excluding those who had to rely on the votes of regular Americans to hold political office) to burst into spasms of ridicule and […]
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How Do I Know Good Can Overcome Ignorance, Spite And Hate? Because I’ve Seen it
I want to share a story with you today that I’ve not shared before on this blog. I was moved by something I saw on Twitter to the effect that the future will not remember Trump, but the future will remember the remarkable things done by those mobilising to oppose him. It really resonated with me. I wanted to share[Read More...]
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Hawaiians ready for mass protest of “the wall”, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s 700 acre Hawaii wall
If Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg, really is looking to run for public office (even run for US President), then debacles like the Hawaii land lawsuit, and 700 acre “wall”, will not help Zuckerberg in his future political ambitions.
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Obama sold weapons to ISIS. President Donald Trump calls ISIS “sneaky, dirty rats”
What a refreshing turn around from Obama’s ISIS rhetoric (or lack thereof).
The former POTUS could not bring himself to say the words “radical islamic terror”. Obama’s entire Middle East foreign policy was predicated on funding ISIS so as to overthrow the secular government of Assad.
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Will The 2018 Midterms Put A Quick End To Trumpism?
Blue America's operating plan for 2017-18 is based on 2 simple premises-- first that Trump will be the worst and most destructive and hated president in history, and second, that Ryan, McConnell and the Republican Congress will drastically overreach, cement themselves to him, and make themselves vulnerable to a massive backlash in the 2018 midterms.I spend a significant part of my days-- every day-- on the phone with pers
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There is no room for ideology in the ‘special relationship’
It is always amusing to see ideology blind people to reality.
A recent example of this has been the reaction of the British Parliamentary establishment and the UK mainstream media to Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Washington D.C. to meet with President Trump.
It seems that the old hands in Whitehall and Fleet Street think they can do something that thus far the Democratic Party, much of the Republican Party, the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon, and China, have been unable to do, which is pressure Donald Trump to change his mind. -
Trump Orders Military To Prepare For War
During a visit to the Pentagon on Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive action calling for stepped up violence in Syria and a vast expansion of the US military, including its nuclear arsenal, to prepare for war with “near-peer competitors”—a reference to nuclear-armed China and Russia—and “regional challengers,” such as Iran. “I’m signing an executive action to begin a[Read More...]
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Trump’s “wall” may get a lot longer if California secedes from the union. 600,000 signatures required [Map]
‘Calexit’ may be put to an actual vote if a proposal for California to break away from the USA has been submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office in the state capital.
The proposal may trigger a vote on whether the California should leave the union and become its own nation.
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Communes In Venezuela: Experiments In Direct Democracy
Latin America is a witness to experiments by leftward leaning heads of states particularly in Venezuela, Bolivia and Equador. These are often seen as anti-US, anti-market, autocratic and have been demonized in the western media. These shifts happened after growing discontent with devastating effects of neoliberal policies in these countries. New leaders such as Hugo Chavez, Evo Molares and Rafael[Read More...]
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NAPM Condemns State-Sponsored Mob-violence On Bela Bhatia And Human Rights Activists, Academics And Adivasis In Bastar
The National Alliance of People’s Movements strongly condemns the multiple, brazen acts of intimidation directed at well-known academic and activist Bela Bhatia in Bastar including the most recent attack a few days back at her house in Parpa village by a belligerent mob of 30 goons. Clearly, this direct ultimatum and threat to Bela to “leave Parpa (Bastar) within 24[Read More...]
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Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, takes on Donald Trump on immigration and “the wall”
The internet is buzzing about Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg’s, new found political activism…with many pundits saying that the young billionaire is positioning himself for a Presidential run in the near future.
In a recent Facebook post, Zuckerberg addressed President Trump’s immigration policy (the wall) and recent executive order to begin vetting immigrants from various “hot spot” nations. -
Tulsi Gabbard: The Syrian people desperately want peace
Republished from The Medium.
As much of Washington prepared for the inauguration of President Donald Trump, I spent last week on a fact-finding mission in Syria and Lebanon to see and hear directly from the Syrian people. Their lives have been consumed by a horrific war that has killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians and forced millions to flee their homeland in search of peace. -
Russia-Egypt commercial flights to resume soon
Egyptian airports must upgrade their security measures if Russian tourists are to return, Moscow officials have said [Xinhua]
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has said that flights between Russia and Cairo will resume soon following cessation of travel in the wake of a downed Russian airliner over the Sinai. -
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On the Fate of Thae Yong-ho
We have already written about the defection of Deputy Ambassador to London, who together with his family resided in the UK for about 10 years and was engaged in propaganda, ranking second after the Ambassador. KCNA declared him a crook and demoralizer, who, since he was facing a dressing-down on his return home, decided to flee.
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Scientist’s ground-breaking research uncovers new risks of GMOs, glyphosate
Within just a few weeks, two studies were published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports that cast new doubts on the safety of GM foods and glyphosate herbicide
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California clears hurdle for cancer warning label on Roundup
Monsanto attorney Trenton Norris argued in court that the labels would have immediate financial consequences for the company
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Astana talks prove that the West is losing influence in the Middle East
On January 25, The Financial Times published an article on the role of Western countries at the Astana negotiations. Author Erika Solomon writes that Western diplomats could do absolutely nothing to influence the negotiations and “found themselves relegated with journalists to the plaid-carpeted Irish Pub of a hotel in Kazakhstan.”
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The Trump Doctrine
The Inauguration of the billionaire property developer and businessman Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States has ushered in a new era in American politics and international standing. It was a surreal moment due to the fact so many believed it would never happen. Mr.
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Donald Trump’s foreign policy: an unwise inconsistency?
One day we heard that NATO was obsolete and the US needs to pursue better relations with Russia. But the next time he spoke, these sensible positions were abandoned or an opposite position was taken. Trump’s inconsistent rhetoric left us wondering exactly what kind of foreign policy he would pursue if elected.
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AT THE EYE OF A LOOMING STORM? THOSE BANKSTER DEATHS AND MORE MISSING ...
It has been a while since we've talked about those mysterious bankster deaths, many of them having all the hallmarks of "bankercides (i.e., murder…
The post AT THE EYE OF A LOOMING STORM? THOSE BANKSTER DEATHS AND MORE MISSING ... appeared first on Giza Death Star. -
Ron Paul: Donald Trump can’t avoid the coming financial crisis
Published with the permission of the author. First appeared on Ron Paul Liberty Report.
It’s unavoidable, and even Donald Trump can’t stop it. Trump will unfairly get the blame though. I discuss this and much more below:The post Ron Paul: Donald Trump can’t avoid the coming financial crisis appeared first on The Duran.
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Why Assad Won
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is starting to look that he will survive the uprising, even in the estimation of some of his staunchest opponents.
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SYRIA: The Amnesty International Scandal, ‘Smart’ Warmongers and Terrorist Sympathizers
Prof Tim Anderson infographic demonstrates the Amnesty Internation weaponization of humanitarianism. -
US Leaves TPP: Farewell to Unipolar World
President Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) signing an executive order on January 23 to formally pull out of the pact, which would have covered 12 nations and about 40 percent of global gross domestic product. The US-led deal would have reshaped commerce throughout the Pacific Rim. Mr. Trump opposed the pact because he said it could hurt American jobs. The agreement has never been ratified by Congress...
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The ongoing war against Donald Trump
Published with the permission of the author. First appeared on strategic-culture.org.
The Obama-Clinton (and Democratic Party newsmedia) war against Donald Trump — a war to delegitimize him as the U.S. President, and to soften the country up for installing instead a President as rabidly hostile toward Russia as Hillary Clinton would have been — continues on every front. -
Trump"s Ill-Conceived Great Wall
Fortress Israel reveals the delusion and folly of great wall protection, encircling the country irresponsibly, spending billions of dollars, escalating apartheid ruthlessness, accomplishing nothing except greater hostility between Arabs and Jews.
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Donald Trump dumps TPP, Barack Obama’s ‘gold standard’ trade deal
Published with the permission of the author. First appeared on 21st Century Wire.
The 12 nation deal was dubbed the “Gold Standard” by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and was supposed to be the high-water mark of ex-President Barack Obama’s economic legacy – continuously championed by Obama and his backers on Wall Street, but was not yet approved by Congress. -
Banning Refugees From Countries America Destroyed Is Wrong
President Donald Trump has been busy during his first week. The speed of his executive orders, and the confidence with which he has signed plans to build a wall, and to replace ObamaCare with… something else has been shocking, considering how shellshocked he looked when he actually won. Trump also followed through on his campaign […]
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