A Country in the Cloud: Estonia Offers E-Residency
The Internet is creating global communities that are organized by common interests and ideals rather than physical location. Lines on a map are less important than ever before.
The Internet is creating global communities that are organized by common interests and ideals rather than physical location. Lines on a map are less important than ever before.
Most, but not all Republicans are getting the crap kicked out of them at town halls with their constituents the way Jeff Flake did last week. In fact, the conservative Republicans going to the town halls of the Freedom Caucus members-- who Trump has threatened to primary-- have been cheering their congressmen for standing up to Trump and Ryan. Town hall addict Justin Amash has been harvesting plaudits at Trump's expense all year.
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President Tayyip Erdogan could be in office until 2029 if voters in today’s Turkish referendum give him the majority. Poll indications show a narrow lead but their reliability is questionable.
Ma’an – April 15, 2017 BETHLEHEM – Palestinian security forces briefly detained two undercover Israeli army soldiers who were conducting a military raid in the Rafidiya area of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday evening, according to official Palestinian and Israeli sources. The two were taken to a Palestinian police station […]
By Alex GORKA | Strategic Culture Foundation | 16.04.2017 The refusal of the United Nations to qualify the recent US airstrike against Syria as an act of aggression makes the Organization irrelevant – something Russia has been trying to prevent. It has become vulnerable to scathing criticism after demonstrating its impotence and inability to act. […]
I was watching some of the BBC news reports from North Korea’s military parade during the ‘Day of the Sun’ celebrations. It was a rare occasion in which select foreign reporters were allowed – under very close supervision (and minus their phones) – into the North Korean capital. The celebrations happen every year, but the […]
A terrorist offensive in Dara’a has been thwarted thanks to bombings by the Russian Air Force.
While US air strikes have been markedly down since Russia suspended the so-called flight safety memorandum in the aftermath of America’s attack on Syria’s Shayrat air base, Russian fighters and bombers continue to aid the Syrian Arab Army as they prepare for a large counter-offensive aimed at securing Dara’a from its current Salifist occupiers.
The refusal of the United Nations to qualify the recent US airstrike against Syria as an act of aggression makes the Organization irrelevant – something Russia has been trying to prevent. It has become vulnerable to scathing criticism after demonstrating its impotence and inability to act...
The WTC bombing in 1993 was a massive embarrassment for the Bureau. It emerged at the resulting trials that the Bureau had an informant deep within the Al Kifah group, but fired him months before the bombing took place. This week we take a closer look at Emad Salem, the former Egyptian intelligence officer hired by the FBI to infiltrate the Blind Sheikh's circle.
RT | April 16, 2017 Turkey has launched an investigation to examine whether 17 prominent Americans could have links to the FETO movement of an exiled US-based cleric, Fethullah Gulen, which Ankara blames for last summer’s failed coup attempt. The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched the probe into 17 individuals including US politicians, bureaucrats, and […]
In an interview with the Financial Times this month, US President Donald Trump offered up a headline-grabbing response when asked what kind of bargain his country could strike with China to resolve the North Korea crisis: “Well, if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.”
As the US Tomahawk missiles were raining on Syria, the entire Middle East was shaken to its core. Here, even the name itself – Syria – triggers extremely complex and often contradictory sets of emotions. To some, Syria is synonymous with pride and a determined struggle against Western imperialism, while others see it as an uncomfortable reminder of how low their own rulers and societies have managed to sink, serving foreign interests and various neo-colonialist designs.
Rex Tillerson’s recent trip to Moscow, amidst a ramp up in tensions between the US and Russia over Trump’s illegal missile strike on Syria, was seen by many analysts as a failed attempt by the Trump White House to deliver ultimatums to a Russia committed to defeating ISIS, and preventing Syria from failing under ISIS-Al Qaeda control.
The last three years of the Obama presidency highlighted two very different strategies being advanced simultaneously by the US and the nations opposing its imperialistic overreach, principally Russia, China and Iran. The latter have been seeking cooperation, while the US, with its big hammer, has characteristically been on the search for nails to hammer.
Indian authorities are claiming that at least 500 Pakistani nationals protecting ISIS operatives in Afghanistan, were killed in the US MOAB bombing in Nangarhar province.
The area that was targeted by the 21,000-pound bomb was said to be controlled by the Islamic State and protected by the Pakistan army.
Russians have celebrated Easter throughout the country and in ex-pat communities throughout the world.
Easter is the most important holy day in Christianity and Russia’s renewed vibrant Orthodox Christian traditions are being embraced across generations.
Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, welcomed worshippers including President Vladimir Putin to Easter liturgy at the Christ The Saviour Cathedral in Moscow.
Turkey votes today in a referendum that could give President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers in government, giving the President unprecedented control of the country.
Opinion polls give the “Yes” vota a narrow lead, but polls have been anything but reliable this past year.
The referendum will turn Turkey’s parliamentary democracy, into an all-powerful presidency which could keep Erdogan in office until at least 2029.
The cause for concern is obvious and real.
Today, Turkey holds a referendum that if passed, will change the Constitution and fundamentally alter the political balance of power in Turkey.
The proposed changes would make Turkey’s’ President, a post currently held by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an ultra-powerful and largely unaccountable position.
The referendum would abolish the all ready weakened post of Prime Minister and allow the President to personally appoint his ministers, independent of Parliament.
Despite evidence that Al Qaeda and its allies have staged fake chemical attacks in Syria before, Official Washington asserts with “high confidence” that it’s not being fooled again, reports Robert Parry.
By Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today | March 8, 2107 (UPDATED) In what amounts to a ringing endorsement of the claims of Holocaust revisionists, Amazon.com has apparently concluded that their books cannot be effectively refuted – and therefore must be banned. M.S. King, author of The Bad War, has been notified that his book has been banned from […]
The recent failure of Trump’s missile salvo has been the talk of the week of pretty much every single international media source.
Iraqi soldiers reported symptoms of chlorine gas exposure in Mosul.
In 1968, Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy, an anti-war candidate, was the front-runner in the presidential race. The party had revolted against President Johnson, forcing him to drop out of contention, and America got behind an anti-war candidate who surged ahead in the polls. He was quickly murdered.
Lavrov, hosted Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Moscow on 15 April 2017 [Image: MFA, Russia]The foreign ministers of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, and Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, met on Saturday in Moscow for talks on Syria and bilateral trade ties.
Russia hopes for further growth of trade turnover with Qatar and for development of bilateral cooperation in the investment and energy sectors, Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov said.
Guest post by BIJU MATHEW The BJP’s appointment of Adityanath to the post of UP CM once electoral victory was secured has left many angry, sad and frightened. Already the ominous signs of inhuman mass violence are accelerating across UP. A more brazen Sangh will pivot off UP to spread terror and hatred across the … Continue reading Stepping Back/Stepping Forward – Thinking Past the BJP Victory in UP: Biju Mathew
The Country Created by Our Founding Fathers No Longer Exists
John Whitehead is an American constitutional attorney whose institute, the Rutherford Institute, defends Americans’ civil liberties. In the 14 minute video below, he explains that “our” government has already set up the US military in violation of all US law and the US Constitution to suppress all dissent against the policies that “our” government follows that only benefit the One Percent. The rest of America is to be suppressed, eliminated, shot down in the streets.
Last weekend we noted in, post about the galloping inequality inherent in urbanization that Richard Florida was warning that "Young, affluent, highly educated people have flowed back to downtown cores in cities like London, New York, San Francisco and Vancouver. Good jobs, better restaurants, higher tax revenues and even high-tech startups have followed.
First, a painful, but necessary, clarification: Basement crazies. Neocons. Zionists. Israel Lobbyists. Judaics. Jews. Somewhere along this list we bump into the proverbial “elephant in the room”. For some this
By Aram Mirzaei Just as many observers of the Syrian conflict had been thinking that the tragic crisis playing out for the past six years in the Arab country was
By Margaret Flowers | Health Over Profit | April 10, 2017 There seems to be a lack of awareness in the United States about how much our healthcare system is an aberration. We tolerate levels of injustice that would be unthinkable in other advanced nations. Perhaps it is because many of us have never experienced […]
President Trump’s hopes that by ramping up talk of war with North Korea he might force China to ramp up pressure on that country has suffered a blow today in the form of a strongly critical editorial of his whole foreign policy stance in the Chinese English language daily the Global Times.
Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
Cabin in the Woods is an enjoyable satire of basically every horror movie stereotype and archetype imaginable. The box office hit from 2012 written by Joss Whedon raked in a hefty profit while throwing nods to horror classics like Friday the 13th, Evil Dead and The Shining. The writing is genuinely funny and the spoofing is spot on, but is there more at work here?
South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff reports that North Korea has attempted to test a missile but the launch has ended in failure.
A South Korean military official has told Yonhap,
“It’s presumed to be a new ICBM. It seems longer than the existing KN-08 or KN-14 ICBMs”.
The statement continued,
L’hallucinante interview de Donald Trump racontant le lancement des frappes en Syrie :
J’imagine que le Président chinois a dû avoir beaucoup de choses à raconter en rentrant à Pékin…
Sinon, pour la suite (comme l’Occident a applaudi Donald Trump, on voit mal pourquoi il s’arrêterait en si bon chemin) :Lire la suite
Source : Le Monde diplomatique, Frédéric Lordon, 12-04-2017
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London Guardian Asserts Contacts Between Trump Campaign and Kremlin Assets Were Surveilled in 2015-16 by British GCHQ, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Netherlands, France, and Australia; Reports “Specific, Concrete, and Corroborative Evidence of Collusion” Discovered; Major Clash Looms Over Trump Assault on Obamacare Subsidies in Context of April 28 Budget Authority Deadline; At Eastertide, a Survey of [...]
The following essay is a chapter from the recently released “Manifesto of the Free Humans”. Download or purchase your copy here. The full title of the chapter is “Panarchist Experiments: Can Propertarians and Non-Propertarians Co-Exist?”. Centuries ago most people would have thought it was impossible for two people who belong to two different religions to […]
Source : Truth-out, le 06/01/2017
Le vendredi 6 janvier 2017
Par C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout
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Photo of civilians murdered and wounded after terrorist attack, via U-News.
NBC news has come under fire from people questioning the veracity of a report released on the 13th of April citing anonymous sources which allegedly told NBC that the US could launch a preemptive strike on North Korea if they found that a North Korean nuclear test was ‘imminent’.
The original report has since been amended. Most crucially, the statement that the US could strike North Korea in ’24 hours’ has been removed.
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No one's perfect, especially not in politics. I suspect that if you read a steady dose of DWT, especially about the DCCC, you'd think I'm a major Pelosi detractor. I mostly admire her and respect her. (I just wish she never had anything to do with the DCCC, which has been a catastrophe under her hand.) As the Leader of the House Democrats in a more general way, it would be hard to find someone plausible who would be better.
(ANTIWAR) In October 1993, during the Battle of Mogadishu (the Black Hawk Down incident), 18 US soldiers were killed and 73 wounded, with a pair of Black Hawk helicopters shot down. The US responded by ceasing military operations, and within a few months had withdrawn all troops from Somalia. Today, they are headed back.
The Boston Marathon Bombing After Four Years
Paul Craig Roberts