Tomgram: William Hartung, Ignoring the Costs of War
When Donald Trump wanted to “do something” about the use of chemical weapons on civilians in Syria, he had the U.S. Navy lob 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield (cost: $89 million)...
When Donald Trump wanted to “do something” about the use of chemical weapons on civilians in Syria, he had the U.S. Navy lob 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield (cost: $89 million)...
President Trump is about to embark on his first foreign trip, choosing to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, before attending a NATO meeting in Brussels and the G-7 summit in Sicily.
The mainstream media is asking why Trump has not gone on a foreign trip sooner. Ron Paul wonders why should the President even go?
Au salon ProDurable à Paris, et à l’occasion du lancement du Club des Médias Citoyens, nous avons pu rencontrer Charles-Maxence Layet, fondateur de la revue « Orbs, l’autre Planète » (1). Pour ceux qui connaissent ce format, il s’agit d’un « mook ». Pour les autres, un mook est une publication périodique de forme hybride, entre magazine, revue et livre.
The unpunished slaughter of thousands of civilians in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan carried out by the US over the course of the last decade is now being gradually replaced by new types of crimes committed by Washington’s henchmen in the course of its ongoing instances of armed aggression against sovereign states.
The aristocrats who got Hitler into power were no more obsessed to control the world than are America’s aristocracy today; and, this time, the results could be even worse. This is deadly serious. But to America’s aristocrats, it’s only a game that they are dead-set on ‘winning’...
Julian Assange was quick to point out another James Clapper lie.
Here is Julian Assange’s response to James Clapper’s assertion that hackers only targeted Democrats and never went after Republicans.
DNI Clapper just misled or perjured himself to Congress saying that there was no release of Republican data. Proof: https://t.co/A2u3YFHShM
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) May 8, 2017
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY CAME – PART II
In a previous blog, this writer commented on the recent promotion of a meme that a…
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A group of farmer shareholders in the European co-op FrieslandCampina will start producing milk without using GM animal feed
Russian soldiers march at the Victory Day Parade on May 9th in Moscow, Russia [PPIO]
Russia today marks the end of World War II in Europe and its victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
This year’s 72nd Victory Day parade included some 10,000 members of the armed forces showcasing more than 100 advanced military hardware, including tanks, anti-ballistic missiles, and other displays of Russian defence systems and weaponry, as TU-160 and TU-95MS bomber aircraft fly over Red Square in the capital Moscow.
For a brief period in April, it appeared that the campaign that Democrats and neo-conservative Republicans were waging for a comprehensive investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election had peaked and was beginning to ebb...
President Putin has spoken during Victory Day celebrations in Moscow.
His message on Victory Day sent a poignant message at a time when Russians throughout the world are once again under attack.
President Putin stated,
US President Donald Trump’s readiness to use unilateral military force is undoubted, as his missile barrage on Syria and threats to North Korea and Iran attest. Alongside this militarism, however, is another, seemingly different side of Trump; one that appears to embrace talks and diplomacy with foreign leaders.
There’s little to celebrate for the GM crop industry in ISAAA’s latest figures, as China drops GM plantings by 24%
At the upcoming May 16-17 meeting between US President Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Turkish counterpart, and the May 25 Nato summit, serious issues relating to the status of Nato will need to be addressed — namely defense expenditures reform, clarification of the alliance’s approach to new security threats, and the status of Turkey’s membership.
The cheer was always going to be qualified. The bubbles would be less effervescent, more a case of relieved sighing rather than frothy exultation. After another electoral hack, and another round of threats, the French election was being played out in an era that may, in time, be given the Trump name. The pollsters did rest a bit easier after[Read More...]
As we await the big parade in Moscow, here is footage of parades and Immortal Regiment marches throughout Russia.
Sevastopol
Khabarovsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Vladivostok
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Sakhalin island
Blagoveshchensk
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— Больше чем новости (@newsamic) May 9, 2017
The head of the Iranian armed forces warned Islamabad on Monday (May 8) that Tehran would hit bases inside Pakistan if the government does not confront militants who carry out cross-border attacks. Ten Iranian border guards were killed by militants on April 26. Iran said Jaish-al-Adl (the Army of Justice), a militant group, had shot the guards with long-range[Read More...]
While growing up I learned that a sense of Muslim identity in me is not only a source of pride and joy, but also of great strengths, warmth and confidence. I did not find any conflict in my Muslim identity and being patriotic towards my own country. But gradually, I felt betrayed when I realised that my sense of belonging[Read More...]
Interestingly, “interesting” is an English expression, which may hide one’s actual opinion about something one considers “interesting”. What I read in Bangladesh media in the last one month is very “interesting” to me. Stories that I read are absurd, bizarre, entertaining, frightful, and sickening. I learnt from media reports and articles that there’s nothing immoral, or impossible in Bangladesh today.[Read More...]
The Islamic Republic of Iran has started propagandas for its 12th presidential election which is on Friday May 19. This is not a free election because the major secular political parties are banned and prevented to designate their candidates. Islamic Republic is a misnomer, the regime is neither Islamic nor a republic. It is a theocratic totalitarian regime ruled by a[Read More...]
Hindu Rashtra is the goal of Hindu nationalist politics, which is also called as Hindutva. In contrast to Hinduism, Hindutva is a politics in the name of Hinduism with Brahmanism as the core of the same. In a nutshell Hindutva is a politics based on Brahmanical values of caste and gender hierarchy. The concept of Hindutva-Hindu nation is a modern[Read More...]
India has recently seen a spate of allegations of sexual harassment at the workplace. While analysing the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, we caught ourselves wondering – would the Act have changed anything for Bhanwari Devi?
...The win of Macron does not signify that the process of opposing globalism started with Brexit and the Trump’s victory is over. It’s a step behind before taking more steps ahead. Nothing is lost and nothing can prevent Le Pen from becoming president when the time is propitious. She has only five years to wait.
Freedom of speech, just like the freedom of the media are among the fundamental values that are to be promoted and defended by any state that deems itself democratic. Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Philip Massinger: Famine, blood, and death, Bellona’s pages
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Philip Massinger
From The Maid of Honour
Let other monarchs
Monsanto has signed a string of licensing deals to add new gene editing capabilities to its established methods of genetically modifying seeds
Dr Ram Puniyani has been one of the foremost voices against communalism and has been active in promoting communal amity and national integration through various engagements at the grassroots. A regular commentator on the important socio-political issues, Dr Ram Puniyani has written as well as edited many books on communalism and for secular polity in India.
President Trump is about to embark on his first foreign trip, where he will stop in Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, before attending a NATO meeting in Brussels and the G-7 summit in Sicily. The media and pundits have loudly wondered why hasn’t he gone on a foreign trip sooner. I wonder why go […]
Twice in seven days the United States shot nuclear-capable long-range missiles toward the Marshall Islands, but the same government refused in March to join negotiations for a new treaty banning nuclear weapons. Tests conducted April 26 and May 3 from Vandenberg Air Force Base launched modernized Minuteman-3 ballistic missiles, and the US Air Force said […]
Poetry has ever been a conversation with self, with the other that we tend to call society, with nature and with mystery that envelopes all beings. Ocatvio Paz, wrote in his introduction to Poesia en Movimiento ( Poetry in Motion ) an anthology of contemporary Mexican poetry : “There can be no poetry without history, but poetry has no[Read More...]
A month and a half ago, we briefly mentioned the Japanese light aircraft carrier Izumo in connection with the acceleration of political processes on the Asia-Pacific region.
After a three year wait, 200 families returned to Abu Ghraib.
House Republicans had a tough choice Thursday when Ryan and Trump forced a vote on the phenomenally unpopular and destructive TrumpCare legislation. If members voted NO, they could be in trouble with the hardcore Republicans back home who have been brainwashed by Hate Talk Radio and Fox News and who insisted on a repeal no matter the consequences. That kind of trouble could lead to a primary from the right.
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, May 8, 2017 EU Needs $10 Trillion of 0% Long-Term Infrastructure Credit from European Central Bank; Obama Warned Trump 48 Hours After U.S. Vote Not to Make Flynn National Security Advisor; Fired Attorney General Sally Yates Confirms She Told White House on January 26 Flynn [...]
Imaginary Russian meddling in US election provides an excuse to undermine the political landscape of the Russian Federation.
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by Ramin Mazaheri Communist ideas have won concessions from industry, but they have been unable to stop high finance from exploiting workers. That is the big battle today. Only revolutionary
California needs more progressives like Senate President Kevin de León and fewer shady corporate shills like Gavin NewsomWonderful blue California, right? Well... yes, at least compared to the country as a whole. Hillary won the state's 55 electoral votes 8,753,788 (61.73%) to 4,483,810 (31.62%). She won the dozen most populous counties in the state; the only population center Trump won was the Bakersfield area. But California's legislature...
(ANTIMEDIA) Only one lawyer who prosecuted the Nuremberg trials is still alive today, and he has an important message for the world: war is not the answer.
21st Century Wire says…
One of the top places you can see in Riyadh, as told by its taxi drivers, is ‘Chop Chop Square’ better known as Justice Square, where in the early daylight hours beheadings take place.
On a past visit to the ‘Kingdom’, it was disturbing to find out that only metres away outside Justice Square, a small children’s fairground was set up and ready for operation.
Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Exclusive: Although no actual evidence was presented, two ex-Obama administration officials destroyed the reputation of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, portraying him as a liar and a potential traitor, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Not to defend retired Lt.…Read more →
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Pour le moment, nous n’en sommes qu’à une première amélioration visuelle d’ensemble, mais notre fantastique équipe bénévole travaille à une refonte complète du site, tout en gardant les impératifs de simplicité et d’efficacité qui vous tiennent à cœur, ainsi que l’esprit général du blog.
Ceci n’est donc qu’une première étape, et nous devrions pouvoir vous proposer la version finale d’ici la rentrée.
21st Century Wire says…
Facebook has stealthily evolved to the point where it is embedded within hundreds of millions of individuals psyche. If you leave the ‘herd’, you risk becoming socially ostracised, further questioned and even raise an eyebrow of a ‘date’, for example, who can’t find you on the platform; ‘what are they hiding’, and so forth.
Guardian investigation ties Bannon to billionaire Mercer’s Cambridge Analytica, which used social media data to elect Trump, pass Brexit…--our friend Andy Worthington tipped us to this important expose
--Macron easily beats Le Pen in France, as last minute hacking report sends NY Times and Rachel Maddow into deep conspiracy theories
--in South Korea, liberal activist named Moon is expected to win election
The Duran’s Adam Garrie recently asked Syrian political commentator Afraa Dagher about her views on the recent Astana Memorandum authorising the creation of so-called de-escalation zones/safe zones.
AG: The Astana Group released a memorandum calling for the creation of so-called Safe Zones in Syria. Many says these zones will allow the Syrian led anti-terrorist coalition to disarm or terminate terrorists though others fear they could evolve into US style no-fly zones that could allow terrorists to colonise parts of Syria.
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Voici les résultats en fonction de la population majeure (Macron 64 % / Le Pen 36 % au final en fonction des suffrages exprimés)
En rajoutant les non-inscrits, on a environ ceci : 20 millions d’adultes n’ont pas voulu prendre part au vote ou s’exprimer, 20 millions ont voté Macron, 10 millions ont voté Le Pen.
Facebook is having a hard time lately amid claims of fake news, political bias and sexism. The European Union considered legislation to encourage a more unified response to such postings and Germany supports fines for social networks that ignore hate speech. Similarly, today an Austrian appeals court ruled that Facebook must delete hate postings written about the leader of the country’s Green party — and not just in Austria.