US Military to Be No Longer Safe in Middle East
By insisting on fixing or abrogating the Iran nuclear deal, the United States may be ostracized. And being pushed hard, Iran will retaliate.
By insisting on fixing or abrogating the Iran nuclear deal, the United States may be ostracized. And being pushed hard, Iran will retaliate.
In his most recent book The true flag, veteran American journalist Stephen Kinzer chronicled what he called “the mother of all debates” in the United States, which transpired in the last years of the nineteenth century. Unlike today, America’s most prominent intellectual leaders were gripped by a question that would not only decide the country’s future but determine the outlook of the next century for the entire world: how should the US act in the world?
The Kurdish referendum seeking independence from Iraq has created more uncertainty in the turbulent Mideast with Israel appearing to see value in the new chaos, reports ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke.
If a business can be forced to sell something, they don't own it. Coercion violates the inherent right to private property. [...]
By David Swanson
October 6, 2017
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) — listen to my radio show with one of ICAN’s leaders two years ago here.
It’s conceivable that some Americans will now learn, because of this award, about the new treaty that bans the possession of nuclear weapons.
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton has called for the Mueller investigation to be shut down because it is unsupervised and unconstitutional. [...]
It is difficult to believe that in the 21st century there are still kings, queens, and other potentates, it is even harder to fathom such hereditary leeches on the taxpayers’ balance sheets calling any political shots.
This is yet one more step by the ruling elite to insure that nothing can challenge the narrative disseminated by mainstream media. [...]
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By Jan Oberg
Jan Oberg’s comments to Iran’s PressTV on this happy occasion.
The purpose of the theater is to condition the American people to accept, by way of the internet and TV, that martial law as inevitable. [...]
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According to this report, YouTube has shut down all independent media coverage of the Las Vegas shooting in a desperate maneuver to protect the official narrative.
For many years, the ongoing civil war in Afghanistan has been one of the most important drivers of instability in all of Asia that is causing global concern.
Many countries are concerned about the Afghan problem. However, this situation poses the greatest threat to the countries of Central Asia close to it, as well as to Kazakhstan, China and Russia. Apparently, these states are to lead the main work on the Afghan settlement.
There has been some unusual news from the world of physics lately, and though they were certainly not released in any fashion that suggests…
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Last week, DiEM25’s Yanis Varoufakis and Lorenzo Marsili toured Italy, meeting activists, movements, municipal coalitions and political figures across the Eurozone’s third largest economy to put forward our proposals for tackling Europe’s common problems, and to introduce our ongoing debate on DiEM25’s role in the 2019 European elections.
China aims to significantly reduce poverty by 2020 [Xinhua]
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called the campaign against poverty the “toughest of all battles” and that the country should exert all efforts to eradicate it.
His statement comes ahead of the UN earmarked International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17.
Two weeks ago, Beijing upgraded a new mechanism to help local governments and municipalities target poverty reduction through a 100-point assessment system that measures the efficacy of funds allocated to this pursuit.
Consider, if you will, these two indisputable facts. First, the United States is today more or less permanently engaged in hostilities in not one faraway place, but at least seven. Second, the vast majority of the American people could not care less. Nor can it be said that we don’t care because we don’t know. True, government authorities withhold certain[Read More...]
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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Hedd Wynn
War
Bitter to live in times like these.
While God declines beyond the seas;
Instead, man, king or peasantry,
Raises his gross authority.
When he thinks God has gone away
Man takes up his sword to slay
To say that the U.S. public don’t care if ‘news’media lie, is shocking, but I shall here present evidence that it actually is true — not in some mere theory, but in empirical fact. A typical example of Americans not caring about the truthfulness, nor even about the honesty, of their sources of alleged ‘news’, is that, during the[Read More...]
“Revolution in society must begin with the inner, psychological revolution of the individual. Most of us want to see a radical transformation of the social structure…however radical that social revolution may be its nature is static if there is no inward revolution, no psychological transformation…However much and however wisely legislation may be promulgated, society is always in the process[Read More...]
The increasingly globalised industrial food system that transnational agribusiness promotes is not feeding the world and is responsible for some of the planet’s most pressing political, social and environmental crises. Localised, traditional methods of food production have given way to globalised supply chains dominated by transnational companies policies and actions which have resulted in the destruction of habitat and livelihoods and the imposition[Read More...]
Our cave-day ancestors were probably very clever, resourceful, rational, logical and pre-scientific. They had to be so in a difficult world in order to stay alive in a hostile, barely supportive environment. They had to be so to bring generations of us forward 200,000 years for humans to the point that we all now exist. They brought us here[Read More...]
We presently are using whatever we can, with little to no concerns for our children’s future, as they, on present trend have little prospect and less to no chance that their offspring will be able to survive. Yet the continuation of life is life’s primary concern. But not in civilisation, with the new socioeconomic system of global capitalism, education primary[Read More...]
Removing from travel booklet
The imposing citadel bright
Cannot fool the tourist
Wah Taj!
Way back in 1972, a tribal girl was raped in custody by two constables in Desai Ganj Police Station in Maharashtra. The Supreme Court in Tuka Ram v State of Maharashtra[1](also known as Mathura’s rape case) acquitted the two accused policemen on the ground that the victim has raised no alarm, there was no visible injury mark on her[Read More...]
Will BSP nurture budding young Ambedkarite or become a family party ? Today we remember a great social scientist of India who changed the nature of politics and political movement in India. Whatever the brahmanical elite may say about him, late Kanshiram influenced the Indian polity more than anyone else in mid 1980s and the impact is still felt but[Read More...]
If the Rohingyas were not Muslims, they would not have faced what they have been facing for years—getting uprooted, exiled, expelled, burnt, beaten up, destroyed, devastated, raped, ruined, enslaved, shot to death, and starved to skeletal and spectral existence. Buddhist Myanmar’s military and militant monks are brutally Balkanizing (like what happened in the Balkans—Bosnia and Herzegovina—in 1990s) their historically[Read More...]
While coming back from work, I got in to a Sumo. I found a seat beside a nonlocal young boy. He too was travelling back from work, which I came to know later. While we both were on our way back home, a middle aged lady in a very unusual way asked this nonlocal boy “Why you guys keep chopping[Read More...]
(World Mental Health Day -10th October 2017) According to an India Spend report, the number of Indians suffering from mental illness exceeds that of the population of South Africa. At present, the mentally ill account for nearly 6.5 percent of the country’s population and it is estimated that by 2020 this number will increase to a staggering 20 percent. Further, the[Read More...]
Shankar Guha Niyogi was a leader with immense integrity and political purpose-fulness in life. And I am aware that I am not the right person to write about him. But since certain memories haunt me, I feel it may be good to relieve myself by writing about him. The time was 1979-80. My mind was filled with Marxian politics and[Read More...]
The last remaining stronghold of the ISIS/Daesh militants is along the Syria border and Euphrates River in Anbar province.
The post Focus Now on Fight in Anbar; 32 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Even though the article was buried at the bottom of page eight of the September 28th New York Times, it caught my attention. Its headline: "Russia Destroys Chemical Weapons and Faults U.S. for Not Doing So." In a televised ceremony, wrote reporter Andrew Higgins, Russian President Vladimir Putin "presided over the … Continue reading "Autopilot Wars: Sixteen Years, But Who’s Counting?"
With Donald Trump in the White House, merrily tweeting whatever disruptive and disturbing sentiments erupt from his consciousness in the early morning hours, hysteria has become the default condition of our pundit class. Trump tweets that “only one thing” can stop Korean despot Kim Jong-un’s nuclear pyrotechnics, and the editorialists swing into action, while the … Continue reading "Trump: Rhetoric vs. Reality"
While much of the world pursues the abolition of nuclear weapons – embraced by the adoption July 7 by 122 nations of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – the militarized Trump White House is pursuing plans for a trillion-dollar rebuild of the entire US nuclear weapons complex. The enormous, extravagant program is … Continue reading "US Bomb Tests and Bidding Wars Herald New (Unlawful) $1.5 Trillion Nuclear Weapons Complex"
Mashrou' Leila, a 5 piece alt-rock band from Beirut, is almost 10 years old. The sing about the some topics indie bands everywhere sing about-- like why stuff (like politics) sucks. But in their part of the world, those topics can mean trouble, especially now that they're hugely popular and draw gigantic crowds. Lead singer Hamed Sinno is openly gay-- which is dangerous in conservative Middle East societies.
Source : LCP, 25/09/2017
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Source : Le Figaro Vox, Jean-Michel Quatrepoint, 29/09/2017
FIGAROVOX/ENTRETIEN – Pour Jean-Michel Quatrepoint, la vente d’une partie d’Alstom à Siemens était écrite. Un empire industriel a été détruit en quelques années, faute de volontarisme politique. Selon lui, les promesse d’ «alliance entre égaux» ne seront pas tenues.
DAILY SABAH | October 8, 2017 The U.S. embassy in Ankara said Sunday that all non-immigrant visa services in its diplomatic facilities in Turkey were suspended after the arrest of one of its employees over the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) ties. A statement released by the embassy said: “Recent events have forced the U.S. government […]
Monday – Jack turns in his 2nd installment of LV shooting analysis – wading through BS… (MONEY EDITION COMING IN PART 3, 10.13.17!)
Late Sunday night here in central Canada... And here I am trying my best to get this rant off ....First and foremost.. Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian readers and fellow Canuckleheads.... Yes, in spite of the trials and tribulations of the present Trudeau regime in Ottawa doing their best to fuck up this country, there is a lot to be thankful for being Canadian.....Some people finally commented on the picture of the Lynx at the top of this rant..
Yesterday, Paul Ryan was on MSNBC-- not with one of their normal anchors, but with far right resident loon Hugh Hewitt. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, they decided Trump has sympathy for the victims of the hurricanes. "I have talked to him about these things," said Ryan. "He has tremendous compassion... He is flying to these emergencies as soon as he can without jeopardizing responses. He is stopping what he's doing.
Yesterday I appeared as a guest on Rick Adams Uncensored which broadcasts live on the Republic Broadcasting Network. Rick and I discussed some of my recent articles published by American Free Press and The Barnes Review, Jewish supremacy, media fakery and PSYOPs, and related matters.
Is the supposed safety advantage of GMO crops over conventional chemical pesticides a mirage? According to biotech lore, the Bt pesticides introduced into many GMO food crops are natural proteins whose toxic activity extends only to narrow groups of insect species. Therefore, says the industry, these pesticides can all be safely eaten, e.g. by humans.
En arrière-plan, une photo de Nassiriya en Irak après le double attentat, le 14 septembre 2017
Il y a moins d’un mois, le 14 septembre 2017, dans la province de Dhi Qar en Irak, aux alentours de la ville de Nassiriya, 84 personnes ont trouvé la mort dans un double attentat revendiqué par daesh ; 93 personnes ont été blessées.