Jay Dyer on Programmed to Kill
Jay Dyer returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his recent analysis of Dave McGowan's Programmed to Kill.
Jay Dyer returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his recent analysis of Dave McGowan's Programmed to Kill.
The last time Donald Trump fired an important official prior to an important foreign visit was when Steve Bannon was fired from his position on the National Security Council the day before a Chinese delegation led by President Xi was to meet with Trump. It was also incidentally a day prior to Trump’s infamous 6 April 2017 attack on Syria.
Steve Bannon was known to favour Russian reconciliation, particularly over Syria cooperation. He was also a leader of the anti-Chinese camp, especially in the aftermath of Mike Flynn’s resignation. The dots were not difficult to connect.
...Meanwhile North Korea has fired back that it would reduce Japan to «ashes», turn South Korea into a «sea of fire», bring about the «collapse of the American Empire» and referring to the US aircraft carrier fleet the USS Carl Vinson which Trump called an «armada» the North Korean propaganda department stated...
Agribusiness mergers – a food system under corporate control – a call for consumer education, international and national action
The European elites want the European Union as a means for controlling the Continent’s economies, but that often requires overriding the popular will of nation states, a dilemma for “democracy,” explains Andrew Spannaus.
Odisha followed by Madhya Pradesh enacted the so called Freedom of Religion Acts for the first time in India. State of Chattishgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh which inherited the same law. Recently media reported of a series of Ghar Wapsi and attacks on Christians led by Dinesh Kashyap, a BJP MP from Jagdalpur, Chattishgarh. I joined a fact[Read More...]
The righteous rage that boils over into lynchings, mobs, suspicions and allegations of blasphemy shows a loss of balance and rationality in our social behaviour. This is a disturbing truth that needs a serious collective introspection. Among other things, a lot of this (self) righteous rage is because of an inability and unwillingness to intellectually confront and address diversity,[Read More...]
...Last year, the Bundeswehr was hot under the collar over problems not with right-wing extremists, but with Islamists: 20 soldiers had been identified from within its ranks who were associated with radical extremist organizations. Fears were expressed that such individuals were deliberately enlisting in the Bundeswehr to obtain military training, which they would then use to fight infidels, for example, in the ranks of the Islamic State. As a result, the counterintelligence services were granted the right to screen all volunteers for membership in such organizations.
Trendstorm
Roughly a month after concluding “Operation: Euphrates Shield”, Turkey seems primed to launch another anti-Kurdish campaign in northern Syria…
If you’re like me, you are probably feeling a deep sorrow in your heart over the news that oil will soon flow through that black snake of death, the Dakota Access Pipeline. Despite the largest gathering of tribes in over 100 years, despite the prayers and militant resistance, despite hundreds of water protectors facing trumped up felony charges, despite the[Read More...]
With the US occupation of Afghanistan well into its sixteenth year and the country no closer to becoming a stable democracy than it was in late 2001, Antiwar.com reports that this isn’t an “all options are on the table” scenario. President Donald Trump seems to have rejected the idea of withdrawing US troops and ending […]
I’ve always been a big Matt Drudge fan. That’s because I was there at the beginning, when the Drudge Report was just another web site and the Legacy Media was still the main focus of the journalism business. I remember when he was an habitué of Freerepublic.com, one of the earliest gathering places for all […]
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Wilbur Ross put the matter… well, mouth-wateringly. At a Milken Institute Global Conference in California, the commerce secretary recalled how President Trump was hosting a dinner for China’s president, Xi Jinping, at his Mar-a-Lago club at the moment when a bevy of Tomahawk missiles were being dispatched against an airfield in […]
“Having refused to admit his errors, the [FBI] Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.” US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Any sense that Donald Trump had found some accord with James Comey of the FBI gathered from his investigative zeal regarding Hillary Clinton’s improper use of a private email server should always have been doubted. Trump[Read More...]
“The essential thing is to WANT to sing.” — Henry Miller “Education in this country just boxes you in.” — Emil White Just prior to Emil White dying, I had a chance to interact with the publisher, artist and well-known friend of Henry Miller at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California in the late eighties. One of[Read More...]
Destroyed ISIS tank on the road to Palmyra, Syria (PHOTO: Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE)
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
DAMASCUS – A significant event took place last week, but you wouldn’t know it if you reside in North America or Europe.
Palestinian refugee camps are up in flames, across the country, a result of the disputes between the rival factions, but also of ‘unsavory’ influences from abroad. As everyone knows here, there are, for instance, the Al Qaida-affiliated militants hiding in the South.
There are Israeli incursions into Lebanon, both by land and by water. There are also drones, flying habitually from Israel into and through the Lebanese airspace.
Three eruptions of unintentional poetry plucked from prose works, on topics ranging from homelessness in India to neocolonialism to death.
On this edition of The Realist Report, we’re joined once again by my good friend Pete Papaherakles. Pete and I begin by discussing his recent trip to Harrison, Arkansas to attend a conference organized by Pastor Thom Robb. I attended a conference in Harrison organized by Pastor Robb in the fall of 2015, and had a great experience.
President Putin has called for justice and an “unbiased probe” into who is responsible for an alleged chemical gas attack at Khan Sheikoun, Syria, on April 4, which the Americans immediately claimed was an attack by the Syrian government, without providing any proof in fact nor any motive nor possible benefit to Syria.
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, May 9, 2017 McMaster and Mattis Push Re-Escalation of Afghan War with Wag the Dog Overtones; What Was Flynn’s “Underlying Conduct,” and What Was the White House Doing During the 18 Days He Was Kept at National Security Council After Yates’ Warning?; As Protests Multiply, [...]
A significant plurality of French voters (43%) who cast their ballots for Emmanuel Macron Sunday told pollsters that had done so primarily to stop Le Pen-- more of the ole "lesser of two evils" vision of politics, generally espoused by the Democratic Party to such ill-effect.
Foreword by the Saker: the four articles below, combined into one, are an exception to the normal rule which is that this blog doe not republish articles already published in
Vu le succès des précédents Afterworks, je propose aux Franciliens de nous retrouver pour prendre un verre le mercredi 17 mai à partir de 19h30, dans le quartier des Halles.
L’idée est de faire connaissance, de discuter du blog et de l’actualité (qui a été bien chargée…), de répondre à vos questions, et surtout de faire se rencontrer la communauté qui s’est créée, pleine de gens sympathiques…
Words cannot describe the wholesale destruction of the old area of Homs. In 2014, I visited Homs within two days of a double car bomb attack, an attack directed at women and children at the market. Survivors told us the reason for their targeting by takfiris, it was simply that they supported their President. Young men chanted ‘bombs or no bombs, Assad or no one.’
There’s that lay definition of mental illness where you come to believe you’re the only sane person left in the room. I think that’s where I am right now.
David Dees began his career as a commercial artist in the early 80s and has produced advertising illustration for Paramount Studios, Hanna Barbera, and Disney Home Video, along with cartooning and children’s book illustration for Sesame Street magazine, Family Home Entertainment, and TIME Magazine for Kids. In 2003, when Dees became fully awake to the New World Order Zionist agenda, he began fighting back with his own brand of activist political artwork and social commentary, with nearly 600 hard hitting and comical art pieces.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) published an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday taking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to task for Tillerson’s recent comment that our national security goals overseas may on some occasions preclude the export of our human rights values. In McCain’s view, it is our duty always and everywhere to export American values and help “liberate” oppressed masses overseas. But what about McCain’s own record? How are the people doing in those countries “liberated” by the policies he has endorsed?
Unless you spent the afternoon and evening in a sauna or on a remote mountaintop, you probably know that Trump fired Comey today.
by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times So in the end the West was saved by the election of Emmanuel Macron as President of France: relief in Brussels, a buoyant
French Election A Catastrophe For World Peace
Paul Craig Roberts
Marine Le Pen’s defeat, if the vote count was honest, indicates that the French are even more insouciant than Americans.
The week before the election the Russian high command announced that Washington had convinced the Russian military that Washington intended a preemptive nuclear first strike against Russia. No European leader saw danger in this annoucement except Le Pen.
There is no shortage of water in Haiti. Yet, everywhere on the island, Haitians travel for miles to get water, pay dearly for it if they can find it, and sometimes die on their journey to collect it, like so many antelopes snatched by predators on their way to drink. How does a thing like that happen in a country that gets reliably drenched with more than 50 inches (130 cm) of naturally distilled rainwater per year?
Zionists Declare Humanitarian Richard Falk “A Self-Hating Jew”
Recently I wrote that the Israel Lobby had turned anti-Semite into a badge of honor when former US President Jimmy Carter was labeled an anti-Semite. Now the Zionist lobby has added to the honor list another of the great humanitarians of our time, Princeton professor Richard Falk.
(ANTIMEDIA) The term “fake news” has dominated the internet conversation for the past year. With the rise of social media, it has become easy for individuals to make money by duping the public into believing just about anything.
Très intéressante analyse d’Édouard Husson – historien français, ancien directeur général de ESCP Europe, tirée de son blog.
Source : Blog d’Edouard Husson, 09/05/2017
(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) Ask and you shall receive. For weeks upon weeks on end, the American populace has watched Donald Trump and his administration, along with pundits in the corporate media, drone on about how China should step up its game in the effort to thwart North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. From the Washington Post on Tuesday:
Source : Consortium News, le 13/03/2017
Le 13 mars 2017
Exclusif: Les Démocrates et les libéraux sont à l’unisson avec les néo-conservateurs pour faire de la théorie conspirationniste – “C’est la Russie qui l’a fait” – une arme pour “avoir la peau de Trump”, mais ce néo-maccarthysme comporte de graves dangers, selon Robert Parry.
Je l’avais loupé en décembre, je me rattrape donc…
The Trump administration’s policy in Syria was always confused, but now it is beginning to appear downright incoherent.
The Untied States heeded recent Kurdish requests for increased support and consequently plans to heavily arm the Kurdish YPG forces which comprise the core of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SFD).
The announcement came as US Defence Secretary James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis was in Copenhagen meeting with Turkish officials whom Mattis said were also US allies.
“The president has accepted the recommendation of the Attorney General and the deputy Attorney General regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Sean Spicer told reporters in the briefing room on Tuesday.
Comey also has been under fire from Democrats over his announcement, less than two weeks before the November election, that the FBI was reopening an e-mail investigation into Clinton.
In delayed testimony, former acting AG Sally Yates says Mike Flynn was compromised by “underlying conduct”, but that’s still secret…..--analysis at The Intercept: Yates testimony shows White House lied about Flynn
--NY Times also infers that Flynn talked sanctions with Russian ambassador, then lied about it, but we have no evidence
While the fascist Kiev regime threatened terrorist attacks against the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics on Victory Day, The two Donbass Republics celebrated Victory Day in peace and with dignity.
READ MORE: Victory Day in Donbass
The same cannot be said of Kiev controlled regions. In spite of Victory Day being an ‘event non-grata’ in post-coup Ukraine, many ordinary people still felt the desire and the need to honour the veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
The move is likely to infuriate U.S. ally Turkey, which considers the YPG a terrorist group.
(MEE) U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the supplying of weapons to Kurdish YPG forces battling the Islamic State group in Syria, a US official said Tuesday.
The funding “to provide support to the YPG has been approved,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
Yesterday the DCCC targeted 10 Republicans whose seats appear vulnerable with new digital ads about their votes for TrumpCare. There were 217 Republicans who voted for it but the DCCC picked 10: Martha McSally (AZ), Jeff Denham (CA), David Valadao (CA), Carlos Curbelo (FL), Kevin Yoder (KS), Bruce Poliquin (ME), Jason Lewis (MN), Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ), Claudia Tenney (NY) and John Faso (NY). Except for Frelinghuysen and the 3 freshmen (Faso, Tenney and Lewis), they're all failed targets from last year.