Mass Executions Terrorize Mosul; 141 Killed in Iraq
Mass Executions Terrorize Mosul where women, young men and even taxi drivers were targets for slaughter.
Mass Executions Terrorize Mosul where women, young men and even taxi drivers were targets for slaughter.
by Judith Curry
The effects of climate change are already being felt across the nation. In the past three decades, the percentage of Americans with asthma has more than doubled, and climate change is putting those Americans at greater risk of landing in the hospital.
Caught wind of this ‘news’ early today. This move has ZERO to do with supporting the alleged US trained rebels. The expansion of air over flights has EVERYTHING to do with the US expanding the war on Syria- That’s it. In a nutshell. The US has taken it’s illusory velvet glove off to begin striking Syria, harder, slaughtering more civilians then ever before.
Democratic Party political boss and throwback Chuck Schumer has no primary and no viable Republican opponent for reelection next year. So he has plenty of time to sit on the phone calling progressive donors and threatening them for backing Alan Grayson in his Democratic primary battle against Schumer's conservative puppet, New Dem/"ex"-Republican Patrick Murphy, who has just spent 3 years in Congress voting to back Boehner's and Wall Street's agenda.
Jay Dyer joins the show to discuss his article "Why Does The War on Terror Serve Western Policy?" and a piece he co-wrote with 21st Century Wire's Patrick Henningsen, "TROUBLE IN THE HOMELAND: Chattanooga's Made-for-TV Psychodrama." We examine the ISIS "threat" and why the terrorist group is just another proxy force created by western intelligence services. Later we talk about the spate of "lone wolf" shooting incidents in the United States and why these attacks are likely staged events.
Jay Dyer joins the show to discuss his article "Why Does The War on Terror Serve Western Policy?" and a piece he co-wrote with 21st Century Wire's Patrick Henningsen, "TROUBLE IN THE HOMELAND: Chattanooga's Made-for-TV Psychodrama." We examine the ISIS "threat" and why the terrorist group is just another proxy force created by western intelligence services. Later we talk about the spate of "lone wolf" shooting incidents in the United States and why these attacks are likely staged events.
By Willis Eschenbach | Watts Up With That? | August 3, 2015 For this post I’ve taken as my departure point a couple of very interesting graphs from over at Not A Lot Of People Know That. I’ll repeat them here: Interesting, no? But I’m a numbers guy, I wanted to actually analyze the results. […]
Smoky air covers much of California as overstretched firefighters struggle to contain blazes fueled by 3-year drought; lightning primary cause…..
--China fights for extradition of brother of disgraced top official who may be seeking asylum in California
--Ted Cruz parachutes in to Koch Brothers primary, “dominates” as he denies climate change to the billionaires who fund deniers
--Obama fuels the charges of “war on coal” with new EPA power plant rules
--Fox “News” plays GOP prez candidates like “Idol” contestants, continues to change the rules
Many certainly can see Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister – a very different and totally new style of PM. He’s astute and has a track record of honesty and openness, laced with a burning sense of justice. By Stuart Littlewood – My Catbird Seat – August 2, 2015 Some polls are showing Jeremy Corbyn forging […]
Christopher Alder / Wikipedia By Dan Glazebrook | RT | August 2, 2015 Every obstacle will be put in the way of a successful outcome of this struggle, and those who seek justice are likely to find themselves subject to a vindictive campaign by the police. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than Janet Alder’s almost […]
An appellate decision on the long-running dispute between a former prosecutor and the Department of Justice may provide a new way for journalists to protect their government sources.
By Evan Blake | WSWS | August 1, 2015 The University of Cincinnati put police officers Phillip Kidd and David Lindenschmidt on paid administrative leave Thursday for the course of an internal investigation into their reports of the July 19 killing of Samuel DuBose by officer Ray Tensing. The family of DuBose has demanded that […]
teleSUR | August 2, 2015 Outrage among journalists has spread across Mexico since the Sunday’s confirmation by the attorney general’s office that the body found in an apartment in Mexico City on Friday belongs to the photojournalist Ruben Espinosa. Dozens of people are conducting protests across Mexico to demand justice in Espinosa’s case, but also […]
By Jack Dresser | CounterPunch | August 3, 2015 From the outbreak of the Second Intifada, Journalist Alison Weir has tirelessly investigated and reported on the history and realities of Israel’s dispossession and occupation of Palestine through her organization and website, If Americans Knew. Now, she has come under guilt-by-association attack by two umbrella organizations […]
Chris Christie had hoped to ride his patented loutish behavior to the Republican nomination. An advocate of violence and threats towards women teachers seemed to think he would come off as charming to the kind of people who found Jackie Gleason's 1950's era Ralph Kramden charming.
August 4, 2015 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - Russia's veto of the recent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution regarding the Malaysia Airlines MH17 disaster over Ukraine a year ago has garnered immediate condemnation across the West. Predictably, Russia has been decried as obstructing justice with language intentionally used to further heap guilt upon Moscow...
By Joseph Mangano and Janette D. Sherman | CounterPunch | August 3, 2015 August 6 marks 70 years since the bomber Enola Gay flew over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, with the atomic weapon “Little Boy” aboard. The mission unleashed devastation never witnessed before, changing history forever. Very shortly, a terrifying race to test and […]
By Mike Lofgren | Consortium News | August 2, 2015 A recurrent buzz phrase of the Washington mandarinate in the last two decades has been “soft power.” The term was coined by Joseph Nye, a Harvard academic, in his 1990 book, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power. What he meant by the term […]
Coming hot on the heels of SAS/ISIS damage control: SAS dress as ISIS fighters in undercover war on jihadis- Humour?! Today we see the Wall Street Journal is engaging in the Kurds/ ISIS spin/damage control.Damage control defined for clarification: measures taken to offset or minimize damage to reputation, credibility, or public image.Why might damage control be necessary at this time? The short answer is because their have been 2, yes 2, suicide bombings that took place in Turkey- both linked t
RT | August 3, 2015 Over 400 civilians have been killed in in the first year of US-led anti-ISIS airstrikes, including 58 non-combatants who were being held in an Islamic State prison for offenses such as buying cigarettes, a major study claims. The study was carried out by the Air Wars transparency group and written […]
MEMO | August 3, 2015 Israeli authorities yesterday opened a new coffee shop and pub build on part of the land belonging to the historical Islamic cemetery of Ma’manillah in the old city of Jerusalem, Quds Press reported. In a statement, Al-Aqsa Organisation for Waqf and Heritage said that an Israeli coffee network is running […]
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-08-03%20Andrew%20Demeter.mp3"][/audio]Today James talks to Andrew Demeter of the Teen Take YouTube channel about his work as a teenager in the alt media. They discuss how and why Andrew came to start his channel, whether his youth is an advantage or a disadvantage in his work, and how persistence and perspiration are the key elements to success in media production.
By Richard Sudan | RT | August 2, 2015 Just a few weeks ago, an act of piracy took place on the high seas, whereby a group of international activists taking part in a humanitarian mission including a member of the Israeli parliament, were captured and detained. The story didn’t attract much coverage in the […]
A six-month investigation into alleged civilian and ‘friendly fire’ deaths from Coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria has identified more than 120 incidents of concern to June 30th according to an Airwars report published today – three times more problem events than the Coalition itself was aware of. Airwars believes that for 57 of these […]
Thierry Meyssan of Voltaire Network Exposes Turkish President Erdogan as the Kingpin of ISIS; Erdogan’s Son and Daughter Serve as Integral Parts of Caliphate’s Rear Echelon; Varoufakis Reveals Preparations Approved by Tsipras for Parallel Payment System Ready to Switch to Drachmas, While Galbraith Talks Clearing and Settlement – but Was There a Complete Plan B? [...]
Ma’an – August 3, 2015 JERUSALEM – The Israeli authorities on Sunday denied Palestinian footballers from the occupied West Bank visa permits to enter Gaza to face a rival team in the first leg of a cup competition, the Palestinian Football Association said. The Israeli authorities denied the players and managers of Ahli al-Khalil, based […]
The elites who make up the Republican Party Establishment have good reason to fear Donald Trump. After all, Mitt Romney was just one of many, many Republicans who gave Trump credibility when it appeared to help their own cause. He had been widely quoted saying, "There are some things that you just can’t imagine happening in your life. This is one of them. Being in Donald Trump’s magnificent hotel and having his endorsement is a delight.
Stephanie Murphy and Brian Sovryn are in the School Sucks studio for a free-form, extended discussion on the topic of conspiracy theories.
Stephanie Murphy and Brian Sovryn are in the School Sucks studio for a free-form, extended discussion on the topic of conspiracy theories.
Stephanie Murphy and Brian Sovryn are in the School Sucks studio for a free-form, extended discussion on the topic of conspiracy theories. In this second installment, we talk about- how far are each of us willing to go?- a lost or hidden history of the ancient world- who built the pyramids? what planet were they from?- How did my exposure to Coast to Coast Radio and Alex Jones (circa 2004) affect my teaching- The story of Squanto and why it was omitted from American history class in public school- 9/11, conspiracy solved?
RT | August 3, 2015 The US president has reportedly authorized the Air Force to protect Syrian rebels trained by Washington to fight against Islamic State by bombing any force attacking them, including Syrian regular troops. Thus the US may become involved in the Syrian civil war on the rebel side. The change was first […]
Novelist Christos Tsiolkas (The Slap, Baraccuda etc.) wrote this piece (for the Australian magazine MONTHLY) from a Greek-Australian perspective (after the two of us had talked extensively over the telephone). Click on the photo above or… Down the road from my … Continue reading →
People’s quantitative easing is instead a highly directed process where the debt that is repurchased has been deliberately created and issued either by a green investment bank or by local authorities, health trusts and other such agencies for the specific purpose of funding new investment in the economy at the time when big business and financial markets are completely failing to deliver the scale of investment that is needed to get the UK working again and to restore our financial prosperity.
By Matt Peppe | Just the Facts | August 2, 2015 The CBS news program 60 Minutes on Sunday aired an extended segment titled “The Battle Above” that relayed the concerns of various US military personnel that China and Russia could pose a threat to the vast system of American satellites that are used for […]
By Craig McKee | Truth and Shadows | August 2, 2015 Be afraid. Be very afraid. Of what may come. Of each other. If movies and television in the last few years are any indication, we have so much more to fear in this world than losing a job or a relationship or our health. Our “entertainment” is telling us that […]
Only in the insanity of corporate America can nonviolent animal rights activists be charged as terrorists while a white supremacist who gunned down African-Americans in a South Carolina church is charged on criminal counts. Only in the insanity of America can Wall Street financers implode the global economy through massive acts of fraud, causing widespread suffering, and be rewarded with trillions of dollars in government bailouts.
While the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is not a regulatory agency, their release of a full report on glyphosate’s ability to cause cancer is making waves throughout the world. Glyphosate is the key component in Monsanto’s Roundup.
There are more than 750 products for sale in the USA alone which contain glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide that has been selling since the 1970s.
Are vitamins really bad for you? Is drinking water giving you cancer? In our modern world, where so many variables exist within the chemical matrix of our food supply, the truth of the matter is that many ‘health’ studies are often quite deceiving.
I’ve been talking about the subject of such studies for years, because it’s such a key issue for me. Let’s use the example of vitamin studies to help you see why.
Pharmaceutical drugs prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis number in the hundreds. If they really worked so well, you have to ask yourself – why do we need so many? There are numerous natural remedies for arthritis that are just as beneficial for reducing the pain and swelling which causes arthritis, specifically, from the root cause of inflammation in the body.
General Ali Mamluk is Syria’s chief of the office of home security. He visited Riyadh and met with the Saudi deputy Crown Prince Mohamad bin Salman [son of the current king] as a result of a Vladimir Putin brokered initiative. The coming together of these two sides to talk after 4 years of war is a hopeful sign that the Mideast is moving away from war towards peace.
"People compare my style with that of J.F.K., but in terms of substance, I feel much closer to Ataturk or Ben-Gurion or General de Gaulle – people who had to build nation states." ~ Mikheil Saakashvili If you had to use one word to sum up newly minted Odessa Governor and former Georgian president Mikheil […]
The Intercept has an article on the “U.S. Institute of Peace,” a government agency founded in 1984 supposedly dedicated to promoting “nonviolent resolution of conflicts”: author Lee Fang is shocked – shocked! – that USIP chairman Stephen J. Hadley, a former national security advisor to George W. Bush, wants to arm Ukraine so as to […]
Call-in radio programme aims to reduce mental health problems caused by earthquakes
United Front Against Austerity | Tax Wall Street Party Morning Briefing | August 2, 2015