BREAKING VIDEO: Russian warships attack ISIS positions in Syria from Caspian Sea
Image: Caspian Sea: the Buyan-M Corvette “Uglich” launches a 3M-54 Kalibr missile
Image: Caspian Sea: the Buyan-M Corvette “Uglich” launches a 3M-54 Kalibr missile
Yes, this is indeed the month of October, and everywhere across North America this month we are told to "give generously" to organizations that supposedly use the money collected for Breast Cancer awareness and treatment, and of course to "wear pink" for support of women who are battling Breast Cancer....
Doctors Without Borders are demanding a full, independent inquiry into whether the US' bombing of an Afghan hospital was a war crime.The post Doctors Without Borders Demand War Crime Investigation of US Bombing of Hospital appeared first on The Anti-Media.
National Security Archive | October 7, 2015 U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne said that “evidence of heavy-handed police tactics” was “strong and disconcerting” after a 2011 clash with student protestors from Ayotzinapa normal school left two youths and a gas station employee dead and several others wounded, according to a declassified cable from […]
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A senior Foreign Office official has admitted human rights are no longer a “top priority” for the British government.The post British Government Admits It Doesn’t Really Care About Human Rights appeared first on The Anti-Media.
While it is important to recognise the sources of bias, the repetition of anti-Syrian stories based on partisan sources cannot be a matter of simple bias. We know from independent evidence that earlier claims of massacres were fabricated by the sectarian groups, then backed by Washington. This has been documented with respect to mass killings at Houla, Aqrab, Daraya, and East Ghouta
Press TV | October 7, 2015 The United States has condemned Russia for striking the Western-backed militants in Syria and denied that it is cooperating with Moscow in this regard. Speaking at a press conference in Rome, Italy, on Wednesday, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter called the airstrikes against terrorists “a fundamental mistake”. “I have […]
Press TV | October 7, 2015 Police in Belgium have clashed with protesters in the capital, Brussels, where thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate against government austerity measures. On Wednesday, police used tear gas and water cannons to break up crowds of protesters in the city. Belgium’s three main unions said about […]
Press TV | October 7, 2015 Iraq is planning to officially ask Russia for airstrikes against Daesh in a bid to purge the Takfiri militant group from the territories it controls in the west and north of the Arab country. “We might be forced to ask Russia to launch airstrikes in Iraq soon. I think […]
So a Su-30 enters a few hundred meters into Turkish airspace for only two minutes over Hatay province, and returns to Syrian airspace after being warned by a couple of Turkish F-16s. Then all hell breaks loose as if this was the ultimate pretext for a NATO-Russia war. NATO, predictably, went out all rhetorical guns blazing. Russia is causing“extreme danger” and should immediately stop bombing those cute“moderate rebels” the coalition of the dodgy opportunists refuses to bomb.
Syria's Ambassador to Russia said that up to 40% of ISIS' infrastructure in Syria has been destroyed by Russian airstrikes in a week.The post Ambassador: Russian Airstrikes Destroy 40% of ISIS Infrastructure in a Week appeared first on The Anti-Media.
Reprieve | October 7, 2015 This week, two clients of international human rights NGO Reprieve chose not to meet their attorneys at Guantánamo due to reinstated genital searches, raising fears that the searches are being used in a deliberate attempt to stop detainees from meeting with their lawyers. Staff at Guantánamo told Reprieve attorney Cori […]
In honor of our favorite CIA television show, Homeland, Tom Secker and I have decided to cover every single episode with a separate podcast. We’ll be switching off hosting duties every other week.
by Gaius PubliusRecently, in writing about the newly-opened TPP issue — yes, it's about to be finalized, initialed and voted on — I said that three of the four major candidates had known positions. Trump and Sanders are strongly opposed (or so Trump says), and Biden is reportedly in favor. Clinton, the last candidate to declare her position, is going to be forced to make her views known soon, since she has tied her delay to the fact that the final text is unavailable.
Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade take part in a military exercise in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria on June 26, 2013. The Golan Heights was seized by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War. (Photo credit JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
By Joyce Nelson | CounterPunch | October 7, 2015 We still don’t know all the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal tentatively agreed to on Oct. 5 by negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries, but already critics are slamming it for many reasons, including its generous concessions to the pharmaceutical industry. Doctors Without […]
The only story the U.S. government hasn't told is the one where they commit a war crime.The post Doctors Without Borders Bombing: U.S. Changes Story Four Times in Four Days appeared first on The Anti-Media.
Today is the 166th anniversary of the death of Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore from — in our opinion — a blow to the back of his head. Poe was a committed opponent of Freemasonry and two of his best stories, "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" and in particular, “The Cask of Amontillado,” had anti-masonic themes. We offer a CD of this writer reading “Cask” and “The Raven,” and offering a biography of Poe’s life.
Rather than waiting around to see what happens at the Paris climate talks in December, a group of European creatives got together and came up with some low-tech solutions to the world's environmental problems. Elsa Pereria reports from POC21
Brigette DePape, the Senate page who held up a “STOP HARPER” sign during the Conservative’s 2011 Throne Speech, and being escorted out by the Sergeant-at-arms for it, was a panelist on the October 6, 2015 episode of TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, on the topic of The Young and Disengaged, concerning the low youth […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | October 6, 2015 President Barack Obama is turning his back on possibly the last best chance to resolve the bloody Syrian war because he fears a backlash from Official Washington’s powerful coalition of neoconservatives and “liberal interventionists” along with their foreign fellow-travelers: Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf […]
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-…"][/audio]Today James joins Clyde Lewis on Ground Zero to talk about Clyde's new article, "You End: UNinvolved in Peace." Topics discussed include the Strong Cities initiative and the UN Global Goals, the future of policing and autonomous weapons.
By Jonathon Cook | The Blog From Nazareth | October 7, 2015 Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patients and hospital staff. As Glenn […]
When you hear someone mentioning Lindsey Graham's hypocrisy, you immediately think it's about his sordid existence as a furtive, dishonest closet case. After all, even the local papers have been laughing at his pretense for years.
The first bit of extreme silliness surfaced when Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the United States Central Command, told a Senate panel that only a very small number of Syrian fighters trained by the United States remained in the fight—perhaps as few as five. The tab for training and equipping them was $500 million. That's $100 million per fighter, but that's OK, because it's all good as long as the military contractors are getting paid.
The Russian air-base at Latakia is perfectly situated for providing air cover or bombing terrorist targets across the country. The Russian airforce will also make every effort to cut off supply lines and escape routes so that as many jihadis as possible are liquidated within Syria’s borders. This is why ISIS positions along the main highway to Iraq were destroyed on Sunday. The jihadi thugs will be given every chance to die in battle as they wish, but getting out alive is not going to be so easy.
RT | October 7, 2015 Britain will order four new nuclear submarines, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced at the Conservative party conference in Manchester. In a clear message to anti-Trident Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the PM said four new submarines would be ordered to replace the existing fleet, which will be retired. In […]
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Octave Mirbeau: Selections on war
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Octave Mirbeau
From Calvary (1886)
Translated by Louis Rich
Former CIA officer and NSA contractor Edward Snowden has recently joined Twitter. While this is hardly headline news the story has gone around the world, reported on by dozens of major media outlets. A follow-up story, that Snowden accidentally received 47 gigabytes of emails as a result of joining Twitter also got enormous attention, despite being obviously untrue. In this episode I briefly outline the reasons for my suspicion towards Snowden and demonstrate how the 47 gigabyte story cannot be true.
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Russian Government Says U.S. Has Been Pretending to Strike ISIS Over the Last Year and that Obama is Lying to the American People…
The destruction of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, with 22 dead so far, including doctors, other staff and patients, capped a week that also saw the bombing of? another hospital in Afghanistan, plus the U.S.-backed Saudi Arabian bombing of a wedding party in Yemen set up in tents far out in the […]
Wasn’t there some grandiose purpose to having U.S. military forces operating in Afghanistan? What was that, again? I’m having a hard time understanding just what was the point of the initial invasion and subsequent occupation of that country, and why it is continuing. Events such as the October 3rd bombing of a hospital in the […]
War is the great clarifier. The Russian move to quash both ISIS and the US-backed jihadist movement aimed at overthrowing Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad has defined the lines of demarcation between the candidates for US President in both parties, and shown us what they are made of. The issue at hand: should the US impose […]
It becomes exceedingly clear that there is a war of information going on when you compare the headlines about genetically modified foods (GMOs) in Russia and Europe and compare them to what is being whitewashed in the US Press. EU country after EU country has been banning GMOs, and Russia has banned GMOs. The prime minister of Russia says that we don’t need GMOs to feed the world.
Recent news has come out exposing Monsanto for trying to discredit any scientist who paints a less-than-rosy picture for biotech and GMO crops. To join this play on the consumer conscience is a ploy from the international soda seller, Coca-Cola.
Since the death of noted entertainer Joan Rivers almost a year ago, the routine use of endoscopes has come under increased scrutiny. Now, evidence has surfaced that contaminated endoscopes are behind many hospital outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs,’ and the FDA has known about it for years and done nothing. Some of these outbreaks have killed dozens and made hundreds of others ill. (1)
For meat eats, beef is out and bison is in as consumers look for a healthier alternative to what they normally stick between a hamburger bun.
Students at Belfry High School in South Williamson, Kentucky found maggots in their baked potatoes, and were even served green, moldy meat last year. Now in a new level of school lunch madness, worms were found in a Sheehan High school lunch fruit cup.
At least 49 were killed across Iraq. Over two dozen of them were ISIS/DAASH deserters.
Jerry Lewis talks about prepping The King of Comedy (1981) with Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro in this excerpt from an October 2000 Archive of American Television interview.by KenSo after the introductions to the introduction were over, the introducer -- who would also be the evening's moderator -- stepped to the podium tonight at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, and promptly got a standing ovation. Because the introducer-moderator was Martin Scorsese.
In a newly published op-ed for the Financial Times, former official in the Johnson and Carter Administrations Zbigniew Brzezinski urged that US to use “strategic boldness” in confronting Russia, potentially militarily, over their involvement in Syria.
Formally linking the border control operation along the US-Mexican border with the global US war on terror is a long-standing goal of a lot of hawks, and it doesn’t take much of a comment out of an official for people to start trying to make connections.