Kidnapped Journalist Freed; 284 Killed in Iraq
A fortunate journalist was freed after a week in captivity.
A fortunate journalist was freed after a week in captivity.
Instead of presenting evidence of Russian hacking, Western mainstream media outlets are continuing to peddle fiction, adding drama with every new story they publish.
On New Year’s Eve America’s two most famous warmongers, US Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) visited the troops of Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko in Mariupol overlooking the battle lines with self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s. Then scant minutes after the American dignitary’s departure, the soldiers they promised aid and support to opened fire. Breaking the Minsk imposed truce for the hundredth time, the so-called “UKROPS” began shelling areas of the Donbass.
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, January 3, 2017 Ryan Elected as Speaker 239-189 Over Pelosi as Democrats Decry Threats to Speech and Debate Clause and Warn of Assault on Obamacare; Ford Cancels New Plant in Mexico Due To Low Demand for Cars; Electoral Votes to Be Counted on Friday; Schumer [...]
This October, a colleague and I tracked a group of young Dalits fighting caste atrocities in Uttar Pradesh. The documentary posted above is one part of an extended multimedia project.
Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik, reportedly now under arrest, told The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins in August, early in the Turkish-government crackdown following the failed coup against the regime, that "he had little doubt that [President] Erdoğan aimed to remove all impediments to his rule" -- and that he himself expected to be arrested "very soon."by KenAlthough I refrained from fobbing off my amateur speculations in
Andrew Malcolm
McClatchy News
“You better stop stealing money from your mother’s purse, young man, or I will punish you late this year or perhaps sometime in 2018,” said no parent who was serious about punishment.
Yet that’s pretty much what President Obama did with his old-fashioned expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats over alleged political hacking by Moscow interests going back 18 months.
Consultants who advise the European Commission (EC) on its security policies have also been working for companies that win related research projects, funded by the European Union, raising concerns about conflict of interest. By Crina Boros at Investigate Europe.
James Burgess
Oil Price
Precious metals are an important component of every investor’s portfolio, and while gold often gets all the hype, another precious metal will be a much better bet in 2017: Silver.
When President Obama expelled Russian diplomats over the hysterical and unproven accusation of "hacking the election" on December 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to be drawn into a petty squabble, saying he would delay any response until Donald Trump assumed office. Instead Putin’s response was to issue an invitation to American diplomats and their families in Moscow to join the official holiday celebrations in the Kremlin.
Then came the shock from President Elect Trump, in the form of a tweet (what else) heard round the world that read:
Obama’s declaration of sanctions on Russia based on unproven hacking claims, and his bold UN move, too little, too late…Program Note: Based on user feedback, we are experimenting with 2 daily podcasts of about 15 minutes each. The first will cover top stories of the day, the second will focus on one or more major stories. Please share your comments, email peter@peterbcollins.com
--Obama announced sanctions after DHS and FBI issued December 29 statement with no new evidence
Weaponizing Twitter, Trump shames House GOP into dropping sneaky scheme to gut ethics enforcement, GM, Ford quiver and kneel down…..Program Note: Based on user feedback, we are experimenting with 2 daily podcasts of about 15 minutes each. The first will cover top stories of the day, the second will focus on one or more major stories. Please share your comments, email peter@peterbcollins.com
US liberals have a new-found interest in gun rights.
In November the Washington Post printed an article accusing some 200 independent media organizations of being “fake news” sites doing the bidding of the Kremlin. Their evidence? They had none, so very soon they were forced to walk back the story. On Friday they breathlessly reported that the Russians had hacked our energy grid, but it soon turned out they didn’t bother to actually contact the company they reported hacked. It wasn’t hacked. They had to walk back the story. Yes their credibility is shot, but they still churn out a steady stream of propaganda.
Media Monarchy plays Battleme, Sleaford Mods, Mexican Institute of Sound and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for January 3, 2017. ♬
Schumer, who has always panicked when someone smarter than him walks into a room, made sure Grayson wouldn’t get into the Senate and, alas, we’re now stuck with Marco Rubio… and with Grayson out of Congress for at lest two years. This morning was his last few hours in the House before the new members were sworn in.
Winegrowers fear federal approval of new herbicides to be used on GM cotton seeds will wipe out the wine industry in the Texas High Plains
2016 wasn't all Trump and dead celebrities.
From his first days, President Obama showed a lack of guts when confronted by powerful insiders. He backed down even when that meant squandering U.S. soldiers in the futile Afghan War “surges,” says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern.…Read more →
Even as much of the world bridled at the U.S. pretensions of “unipolar” power, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon toed Washington’s line and further undercut the U.N.’s supposed evenhandedness, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria After ten years of almost…Read more →
In the dying days of 2016, three serious wind turbine malfunctions occurred in a small corner of Europe.
Whilst Turkish officials are busy spreading stories about Russian proposals to carve up Syria and ditch President Assad that have no basis, the Turkish media has been full of stories of Russian warplanes bombing ISIS to help the Turkish army near Al-Bab.
Backtrack attack, 'Hoaxy' and the Quadrantid shower + this day in history w/Jack Ruby dies and our song of the day by Headwave on your Morning Monarchy for January 3, 2017.
Xymphora | January 3, 2106 By far the single best thing ever on the Weiss site, and ironic considering that Weiss and his crew are still peddling the same kind of trickery today. Terrorism: How the Israeli state was won excerpt: The fascist nature of the Zionist enterprise was apparent both to US and British […]
Here are the Top 10 all-time articles at FauxCapitalist.com by the end of 2016: 1) Dr. Stan Monteith, a 35-year orthopedic surgeon on Jeff Bauman’s leg amputations: “I believe that this young man was an actor” (2013) 2) I’m blowing the whistle on World Bank whistleblower Karen Hudes (2014) 3) Joel Skousen’s critique of World […]
By Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today | January 3, 2016 This is the third day of the year, and perhaps you would like to do some journalistic investigation. Get a microphone. Go to any major city in America or any city around where you live. Ask a number of people about how many civilians […]
Our old friend Reese Erlich’s most recent book, Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect, just came out in paperback and he’ll be speaking at UCLA on January 19. I’m planning on attending and I hope you’ll make it as well if you’re in the area. Meanwhile, he wrote a fascinating piece that will give you some idea about what a reality-based Trump administration would be confronting in the Middle East while Reese is speaking in Westwood.
It’s quite ironic that the one newspaper most hysterical in warning the American public about the dangers of “fake news,” has become the most prolific publisher of it. The most recent example, of course, relates to the entirely made up story that those dastardly Russians had hacked into the U.S. power grid through a Vermont utility. The paper’s source for the story? Anonymous government officials. Unsurprisingly, the entire thing was a fairytale.
Here were the top 10 accessed articles on Exposing Faux Capitalism for 2016. 1) Meet Gary Franchi, the radical Zionist behind Next News Network (2014) 2) The U.S. Constitution doesn’t say money should be gold or silver coin (2011) 3) Joel Skousen’s critique of World Bank whistleblower Karen Hudes (2014) 4) The United States isn’t […]
By Steven MacMillan – New Eastern Outlook – 03.01.2017 With each passing day, the anti-Russian hysteria in the western world is becoming more absurd and outlandish. For the last few months, we have been told that Russia has been the nefarious force behind numerous political developments over the past year, with the omnipresent Vladimir Putin […]
The Western world and that part of the world that partakes of Western explanations live in a fictional world. We see this everywhere we look — in the alleged machinations of Russia to elect Donald Trump president of the US, in claims that Saddam Hussein and his (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction were a threat to the United States...
It would be inconceivable to imagine that in 2017 a European state, an EU member state no less, could possibly be illegally occupied by a foreign power.
Far from being inconceivable, it is reality for Cyprus, whose north-eastern territory remains occupied by illegal Turkish forces.
With President Erdogan continuing to bite off more than he can chew, Russia ought to use northern Cyprus as a bargaining tool in any offers of assistance that Russia may make to Erdogan to preserve his rule.
In the West Junk Information And Junk Judgment Prevail
Paul Craig Roberts
It wouldn’t be a New Year without North Korea threatening to develop or test some sort of weapon.
In today’s show originally broadcast on January 2 2017, TBR Radio’s Andrew Carrington Hitchcock interviews John Tiffany to discuss his article, “The Case Of Algeria,” in the current November/December 2016 edition of The Barnes Review.
We also discussed: John’s new venture designed to save the endangered White Race; how the Jews are working to make criticism of their actions illegal; how the Jews are trying to take over the internet; Fake News; Pizza Gate; and how gun confiscation has only historically led to tyrannical regimes.
Happy New Year! May yours be peaceful, safe and impactful!
As tumultuous as last year was from a global political perspective on the back of a rocky start market-wise, 2017 will be much more so. The central bank subsidization of the financial system (especially in the US and Europe) that began with the Fed invoking zero interest rate policy in 2008, gave way to international distrust of the enabling status quo that unfolded in different ways across the planet. My prognosis is for more destabilization, financially and politically. In other words, the world's a mess.
The Washington Post has become less credible than the National Enquirer.
Trump has made a number of comments critical of China which some foreign policy experts fear could roll back good relations between Beijing and Washington [Xinhua]
If the Chinese thought that US President-elect Donald Trump would temper down his rhetoric critical of Beijing on trade and foreign policy, they had better think again.
Late on Monday, Trump tweeted that there was no way the North Koreans would be allowed to develop a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead which would reach North American shores.
The 2016 American presidential election was unorthodox in many ways and so will the presidency of Donald Trump. If he is going to succeed he will need to create a new political moment and sustain it. The moment must dispense with the business as usual power structures – they are all aligned against him and seemingly the political will of the country.
By Finian CUNNINGHAM | Strategic Culture Foundation | 03.01.2017 The dark, infamous days of American lynch-mob rule and burning witches at stakes are back as never before. But not in backwater enclaves of benighted bigotry. Oh no, the modern lynch mobs are running amok in Washington’s seat of government, across prime TV and on the […]
A Greek Melkite archbishop, described as an "icon" of the Palestinian liberation struggle, has died in Rome at the age of 94. Hilarion Capucci, who was appointed the Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem in 1965, was jailed nine years later by Israel for arms smuggling. Hanan Ashrawi said Capucci "embodied the activist church - spiritual leaders who were prepared to translate their principles into action and struggle against injustice."
by Judith Curry
Effective January 1, I have resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech.
Before reflecting on a range of things, let me start by answering a question that may have popped into your head: I have no plans to join the Trump administration (ha ha).
Technically, my resignation is a retirement event, since I am on the Georgia State Teachers Retirement System, and I need to retire from Georgia Tech to get my pension (although I am a few years shy of 65). I have requested Emeritus status.
Protester mot frihandelsavtalen CETA och TTIP i Bryssel i höstas.Frihandeln blir allt mindre populär visar Brexitomröstningar och Trumpval, och Vetenskapsradion Historia granskar äldre handelsbråk, guidar bland Stockholms tullar och besvarar lyssnarfrågor.Det är en av vår tids ödesfrågor, frihandeln, som nu är hårt pressad av politiska utspel från bland annat USA och Storbritannien.
The One Belt, One Road initiative runs through Iran as well [Xinhua]
Keeping in tandem with President Xi Jinping’s One Belt, One Road economic growth strategy, China this week expanded its pan-European railway destinations when a train left Yiwu West station in the eastern Zhejiang province headed for Barking Station in London.
The train’s trek will cover some 11,800 kilometers as it crosses through a number of countries, such as Kazakhstan into Russia, Poland, and Germany before crossing the underwater English Channel rail in France.