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Iran and the United States after the Nuclear Deal: Hillary Mann Leverett, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, and Seyed Mohammad Marandi
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett | Going to Tehran | July 18, 2015 Now that the P5+1 and Iran have concluded their Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), it is important to look not just at how the parties will go about implementing the deal but also at the JCPOA’s strategic impact. Hillary, […]
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Bill Kristol on Iran Deal: ‘Its Munich!’
By Daniel McAdams | Neocon Watch | July 18, 2015 Bill Kristol is the epitome of the neocon mindset: cultivating a staid and urbane image while writing the most unhinged and mendacious claptrap. In his utterly predictable denunciation of the successful Iran nuclear talks, Kristol frames the issue in the crudest terms: if the deal goes […]
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Cameron Demands Iran Change Policy on Syria, Yemen
Sputnik — 19.07.2015 MOSCOW – Western countries expect changes in Iran’s policy in the Middle East following a nuclear deal concluded between Tehran and the international negotiators, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday. On Tuesday, Iran and the P5+1 group, comprising China, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia and the United States, concluded […]
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Zionist Columnist Calls for Economic Sabotage and Cyber Warfare Against Iran
By Brandon Martinez | Non-Aligned Media | July 19, 2015 In an insane Machiavellian screed, American-Jewish archaeologist and Zionist propagandist Alex Joffe has suggested that the nascent West-Iran rapprochement in the form of the nuclear deal be used as an opportunity for criminal subversion and sabotage now that Tehran will ostensibly open up its economy to Western business investment. […]
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FDA to Require Stronger Warning Labels on OTC Painkillers
Patients who take antidepressants with painkillers could be setting themselves up for deadly adverse events, new research suggests.
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Education, Access to Healthy Food is Key in Ending Junk ‘Food Deserts’
Healthful food choices are becoming increasingly abundant in the United States – this can be exemplified by the fact that organics are booming like crazy. But as many as 23.5 million people in this country don’t have access to this overflow of nutrition because they live in “food deserts” – areas of the country where there are no grocery stores but plenty of mini-marts offering sugar-filled snacks and artery clogging prepared foods. [1]
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More Proof that Doing This Leads to Better Health
According to new research, city dwellers are more likely to be stressed, depressed, and suffer from mental illness, while nature-seeking individuals experience better health.
There’s something about staring at concrete and hearing the constant roar of traffic every day that makes life a bit gloomier. -
World Crisis Radio
New programs posted weekly on Saturday evenings World Crisis Radio Ad-Free RSS Feed! Select Year 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Select Program August 1, 2015 July 25, 2015 July 18, 2015 July 11, 2015 July 4, 2015 June 27, 2015 June 20, 2015 June 13, 2015 June 6, 2015 May 30, [...]
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Mark the dates for this year's Open House New York Weekend: October 17-18 -- and check out these upcoming OHNY events
by KenOpen House New York is probably still best known for the mid-October weekend that is one of NYC's great events, Open House New York, where the general public is offered rare, often this-time-only access to sites of all sorts in all five boroughs, and to talks, and to tours of projects of every description that are planned, or under construction, or recently completed -- always guided by people intimately involved with
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MH17: ‘No one deserves to die that way’
RT | July 17, 2015 With debris of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 still covering the crash site in eastern Ukraine, the investigation of the July 17, 2014 tragedy is surrounded by secrecy. RT talked to international experts and the victims’ families, still waiting for answers. “He was a good man, a good brother. He promised […]
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Tally from Friday Bombing Races Higher; 44 Killed across Iraq in Fresh Attacks
At least 44 were killed and 12 were wounded in other violence. Due to the Eid holiday reports were slim on Satuday.
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The DOJ is investing millions of dollars in research to spy on students at public schools nationwide
PrivacySOS | July 17, 2015 The Department of Justice’s National Institute for Justice funds law enforcement research to the tune of tens of millions of dollars each year. The full list of grants, posted each year, is a valuable insight into future of law enforcement trends in the United States. NIJ funding for 2014 appears […]
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Vacation Alert
I am taking a much needed vacation for the next 12 days starting tomorrow....I will NOT be posting anything, including my weekly "rants" during that time frame...This vacation has been long in planning, and my better half has demanded that I do NOT blog during that time, just to give my body and my mind some much needed rest and relaxation....During my absence, you can take a close look at the outstanding work put out by my friends and colleagues, that I call 'The best bloggers that I know"...
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4 Ways to Spot Big Pharma’s Media Manipulation
By Heather Callaghan | ANTIMEDIA | July 17, 2015 Studies show that people are gullible enough to believe anything if it appears on TV and sounds authoritative. If this is really true, upper-echelon pharmaceutical companies may be using the media to bend the public’s perception. Giant corporations—and other entities that act as though they own the […]
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Greece Surrendered: But to Whom Exactly?
By Diana Johnstone | CounterPunch | July 17, 2015 Paris – On July 12, Greece surrendered abjectly and totally. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who had promised to combat the austerity measures that are driving the Greek people to ruin, poverty and suicide, betrayed all his promises, denied the will of the people expressed in the […]
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TMR 116 : Advertising - Your Lifestyle by Design (Antony Rotunno & Julian Charles)
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
(Edward Bernays, Propaganda, 1928)
Entertaining, informative, irritating, embarrassing - you fill in the blanks - advertising certainly works on all of us; none of us is wholly immune. But surely it can never really control us (?)
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TMR 116 : Advertising - Your Lifestyle by Design (Antony Rotunno & Julian Charles)
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
(Edward Bernays, Propaganda, 1928)
Entertaining, informative, irritating, embarrassing - you fill in the blanks - advertising certainly works on all of us; none of us is wholly immune. But surely it can never really control us (?)
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Political Obstacles for Obama’s Iran Deal
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org provides his analysis of the Obama administration placing pressure on Congressional Democrats to sign off on the Iran nuclear deal. Draitser explains the role of the Israel lobby, 2016 elections, and party allegiance in this issue. He also notes the international implications of a US rejection of the deal.
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U.S. officials flex their power over Ukrainian parliament
Nuland and Pyatt, lords of the Verkhovna Rada By Dmitry Rodonov | SVPressa | July 17, 2015 (Excerpts) Yesterday the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, introduced to the parliament constitutional amendments on the special status of Donbass. … The amendments were introduced during the visit to Ukraine by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian […]
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Iran Deal: Ploy for Future Sabotage?
By Brandon Martinez
Many are hailing the recent nuclear agreement between the P5+1 powers and Iran as “historic” and a political “breakthrough,” the turning of a new leaf of peace and reconciliation between the West and the Islamic Republic. -
Chronicles of Kosher Conservatism, 7/18/15
Mr. RothsteinRothstein: Kosher Conservative MoleBy Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgEdward Rothstein is a public intellectual whose oracular writings are found throughout the canonical journalism of the American Establishment: the New York Times, Wall Street Journal (where he is “critic at large”), New Republic, New York Review of Books.Mr. Rothstein is a mole within the “Conservative” movement.
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Tom Petty gets it re. the Confederate battle flag: says he was "downright stupid" to use it in performance, and highlights how "we're creating so many of our own problems"
"The Confederate flag was the wallpaper of the South when I was a kid growing up in Gainesville, Florida. I always knew it had to do with the Civil War, but the South had adopted it as its logo. I was pretty ignorant of what it actually meant. It was on a flagpole in front of the courthouse and I often saw it in Western movies.
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MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case?
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | July 17, 2015 One year ago, the world experienced what could become the Tonkin Gulf incident of World War III, the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine. As with the dubious naval clash off the coast of North Vietnam in 1964, which helped launch the […]
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US Prepares to Put More Pressure on Russia, Threatens ‘Scaling Up Costs’
Sputnik | 18.07.2015 The US is prepared to put more pressure on Russia if the conflict in Ukraine escalates, and threatens that “the costs [then] will go up”, according to US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland; she also revealed that the US has spent $150 million on training the Ukrainian military, which it regards […]
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The Tortured Logic Behind Using Torture
If you watched Batman when you were growing up, chances are you saw him torture someone. If you watched Jack Bauer from the hit show 24, chances are even better that torture scenes were involved. And if you watched the Netflix show Daredevil, you probably saw it in almost every single episode.
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Endless enemies – how the US is supporting the Islamic State by fighting it
In other words, al-Qaeda’s official arm in Syria, and another group closely affiliated with al-Qaeda, were among the “moderate” vetted groups receiving arms and aid from the Gulf states and Turkey, under the supervision of US military intelligence operatives in the field.
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US oil service giants yearn for return to Iran
Press TV – July 18, 2015 Halliburton and Schlumberger, both among the world’s largest oilfield services companies, are waiting in hopeful anticipation that Iran will ramp up oil exports, US media have said. The Houston-based giants have “a well-established presence” in the Persian Gulf region and given the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)’s vast oilfield […]
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The Iran Nuclear Straw Man
By Patrick Foy | CounterPunch | July 17, 2015 Am I laughing. As Peace Prize Obama lectures us and the Republicans and Neocons have a cow, maybe we should pause to contemplate the full fraudulent spectacle in progress and analyze what we are being told about the just-concluded nuclear negotiations with Iran. First of all, […]
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Abdulazeez and Abdulaziz
By Robert Barsocchini | Empire Slayer | July 17, 2015 Former engineer Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, according to investigators, was a lone gunman with no prior infractions who this week targeted two US military facilities in Tennessee, killing four militants and no civilians. Salman bin Abdulaziz is one of the world’s worst dictators. He has many […]
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Sectarian, tribal wars protecting Israel: Khamenei
Press TV – July 18, 2015 Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the ongoing sectarian and tribal wars have been imposed on the Middle East region to deflect Muslims’ attention away from the atrocities of the Israeli regime. The Leader made the remarks in a Saturday meeting with senior Iranian officials […]
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Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian teen near Gaza Strip border
Ma’an – July 18, 2015 GAZA CITY – Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian teenager Friday evening in the town of Abasan al-Kabira east of the Khan Younis district in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses said. Mansour Abu Taima, 14, was reportedly hit with a live bullet in his left foot near the border […]
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The Agenda Behind ISIS' Cultural Genocide
The Romans would sow the earth with salt, America sends its terrorist proxies in with chisels and jackhammers. July 18, 2015 (Maram Susli - NEO) - In what UNESCO is calling ‘Cultural Cleansing’, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have begun destroying 2000 year old Syrian statues in th
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The Home of the Red Sox Just Went Organic
Is there anything more quintessentially American in the eyes of the world than baseball and Apple Pie? Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox, has made way for a new ‘American Dream’ with a roof top garden bursting with organic produce. Hopefully this will become the real American look.
Fenway Farms in Boston proper will provide organically-grown food for menu items at the EMC Club, operated by Aramark Corp., which oversees the food concessions in the park. Everything from arugula and spinach to organic herbs will be grown for game-goers. -
Why 100,000 German Bee Keepers Want to Ban GMOs
The German Beekeepers Association (DIB), which represents almost 100,000 beekeepers, has called for a nationwide ban on GMO cultivation according to reports from the German NGO keine-gentechnik.de.
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Adidas Makes Sneakers from Ocean Waste
The importance of cleaning up our oceans has become a front-and-center issue, as it should be. From a 19-year-old’s creation of an ocean clean-up array meant to clean up the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ to the development of eco-friendly plastic alternatives, we’re all doing our best to save one of the most precious resources we have on this planet.
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The Nixon Legacy
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Let me give you a reason that’s anything but historical for reading Tim Weiner’s remarkable new book, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon. Mind you, with the last of the secret Nixon White House tapes finally made public some 40 years after the first of them were […]
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Ron Paul On His New Book, Swords into Plowshares
Ron Paul sits down with co-host (and RPI Director) Daniel McAdams to explain his new book, Swords into Plowshares. Why did he write such personal book about war? What were his early memories of World War II? His grandmother’s great words of wisdom about governments and war. And more:
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Devastating Blast in Town near Baghdad; 257 Killed across Iraq
At least 227 were killed and 60 were wounded across Iraq. Many of the victims died in a significant blast in Khan Bani Saad.
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One of these AOL Today "news" items isn't like the others -- and it's labeled. But . . .
One of these "newsy" items is not like the others --[Click to enlarge.]by KenI know I'm supposed to be humiliated to admit that I still use an AOL e-mail address, which marks me as some sort of pathetic, antique computer naïf. If I were foolish enough to use it to, say, apply for a job, I would be laughed out of consideration just for this. Still, perhaps you'll pardon my observation that none of the other e-mail systems I've been exposed to seem to me any better.
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Gwen Olsen - Hour 1 - Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
Gwen Olsen is the author of the award-winning book, "Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher." A fifteen-year-veteran pharmaceutical rep, Gwen worked for McNeil Pharmaceutical, Syntex Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb and others. She was a hospital rep and specialist rep for the majority of her career, selling prescription drugs to doctors. Gwen joins us to share her unique industry insider’s perspective of the current US drug problem.
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Medical school professor explains why we have serious reasons to review vaccine policy
Jeff Hays Films Terry Wahls, M.D. I’m often asked the question about vaccines and I can make some observations and raise more questions. There’s interest, a lot of growing enthusiasm for the Hygiene Hypothesis. The Hygiene Hypothesis: A lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms and parasites, increases susceptibility to allergic diseases […]
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PBC News & Comment: Obama Goes to Prison
Obama’s lame-duck efforts to reform criminal justice are welcome, and a good start; he needs to lead Congress, not follow…..
--Restorative Justice International is mentioned, their website is here
--daily diet of videos of abusive cops: Colorado jail scene, LA cops killing unarmed man 2 years ago, now Sandra Bland's "suicide" in Texas jail
--Chattanooga shooting suspect spent time in Jordan last year, but FBI says no direct ties to terror groups, and no FBI informant in the case -
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Patti LuPone teaches a lesson in acceptable audience behavior
Patti LuPone as Irene in Douglas Carter Beane's Shows for DaysOn her way to her matinee performance Wednesday, Patti called in to talk to WNYC guest host Jami Floyd (and the station's former business and economics editor, now entertainment editor, Charlie Herman
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Israel sets limits to negotiations with Palestinians
By Ramona Wadi | MEMO | July 16, 2015 Not content with permanently extending and rupturing negotiations over the two-state compromise, Israel has announced a new twist to the internationally accepted framework. According to Haaretz, a senior Israeli official declared that it would only engage in talks with the EU as long as settlement construction […]
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Tory move to peddle further arms to Israel condemned by campaigners
RT | July 17, 2015 Human rights activists have condemned the British government’s decision to lift restrictions on weapons sales to Israel put in place during last summer’s Gaza conflict. Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) said on Friday the move sends the message that Israel can continue using British arms against Palestinians and the […]
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