Brainwashed Palestinians !!
Once, a friend of mine, a Palestinian writer (or actually trying to be a writer) told me that he wants to write a story or a novel about the Massada myth .. he was obsessed with that idea and repeated …
Once, a friend of mine, a Palestinian writer (or actually trying to be a writer) told me that he wants to write a story or a novel about the Massada myth .. he was obsessed with that idea and repeated …
At least 52 were killed and 15 were wounded. Most of the victims were executed. One bomb attack, however, targeted pilgrims.
Anyone for a swim? Popular Science labeled this photo by Dan Bracaglia: "A Swirl of . . .
Press TV called early this morning seeking comments on an article about Hillary Clinton’s promise to “topple” the top 1%. That topic was too good to resist; here’s the link to their page and file of my monologue, and here are some outtakes:
The parties are so busy dancing to the hardline Zionist tune that they fail to acknowledge the original Jewish wish for there to be no Jewish state at all. They’re all pressing for a two-state arrangement arrived at by endless, futile and utterly discredited negotiation. They claim to be champions of international law but are not prepared to let the law settle it.
100-year betrayal of the Holy Land set to continue
GAZA MASSACRE 2014 inspired this dark rock tune about a murdered father speaking to his daughter about her future. Dark yes! But also hoping for a better day in a future where we coexist as brothers, We Exist will make you think. It will make you hurt, get angry and move you to be fired up about changing this world for all of us because we belong no matter what they say!
For the Project Syndicate page click here. ATHENS – Three months of negotiations between the Greek government and our European and international partners have brought about much convergence on the steps needed to overcome years of economic crisis and to … Continue reading →
by Judith Curry
Its time to check in with the Climate Uncertainty Monster.
SinemaThanks to a tiny gaggle of reactionary Blue Dogs, Boehner's latest attempt to gut the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection can be called "bipartisan." H.R.1195 passed yesterday, 235-183, with 5 Republicans voting for the interests of their constituents and 4 faux-Democrats crossing the aisle in the other dire
Belated disclosure of secret January strike and admission that “mistakes can occur” underscore failures of drone warfare and Obama’s hypocrisy….
--drone landed on roof of prime minister’s office in Tokyo shows traces of radiation
The eloquent Will Grigg in an outstanding interview with Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams, discussing his article Protecting the Vicious, Punishing the Virtuous: Marijuana Prohibition and Idaho’s Prison-Industrial Complex.
Former CIA Director David Petraeus just got sentenced to two years of probation for leaking highly sensitive information to his mistress and then lying to the FBI about it.
Petraeus had asked to enter the court room via a backdoor, so he would not be photographed, but he was forced to enter the courthouse in the normal fashion.
As happens with big-wigs, Petraeus’ lawyer cited the 34 letters of support from other big-wigs sent on his behalf. Petraeus admitted his crimes and apologized to those he hurt.
By Gabe Rottman | ACLU | April 23, 2015 And it must be stopped in the Senate. In what can only be described as a travesty for responsible, transparent lawmaking, the House of Representatives just passed a Frankenstein monster of a “cybersecurity information sharing” bill that will massively expand government surveillance authorities if it’s not […]
RT | April 23, 2015 Germany’s BND intelligence agency spied on European politicians and companies for the NSA for over a decade, Spiegel Online revealed. But an internal probe showed that at least 40,000 of those spying requests were against German and EU interests. Over the course of 10 years, the NSA sent the BND […]
Sputnik | 23.04.2015 The joint military drills held by the US paratroopers and the Ukrainian National Guard are taking place in urban environments in eastern regions of Ukraine close to the conflict zone, a Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman said. Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov pointed out that American military instructors are holding […]
Good friend Adam joins us to discuss the 1998 action thriller Enemy of the State, and its unprecedented ‘revelation’ of surveillance technology. We talk about how the film has a rogue’s gallery of technical advisers – including Chase Brandon and Marty Keiser – and how this led to one of the most spectacular depictions of the NSA and the spy state in general. Following from this we analysed the likely purpose in the CIA masking themselves as the NSA in the film, and how this has scuppered the progress of any serious dialogue about mass surveillance.
UNIAN
April 23, 2015
MEPs believe EU ‘should be ready for nuclear war’
Declaring the EU’s readiness for nuclear war is one of the best steps to deter Russia from further aggression, MEPs said at a meeting on Tuesday organized by the largest political group in the European Parliament, the European People’s Party (EPP), according to a report by EU news Web site Euractiv.
Operators are standing by: (202) 225-3121.Seriously. Please call. by Gaius PubliusYou can't make this stuff up; it invents itself faster than you can find and print it. Two quick points, both about TPP and Ron Wyden's Fast Track sell-out.First, AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka testified before the Senate Finance Committee in opposition to Wyden and Hatch's Fast Track bill.
By Joyce Nelson | CounterPunch | April 23, 2015 In mid-April, hundreds of U.S. paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrived in western Ukraine to provide training for government troops. The UK had already started its troop-training mission there, sending 75 troops to Kiev in March. [1] On April 14, the Canadian government announced that […]
The six-month humanitarian bombing of Libya engineered to prevent a highly hypothetical "atrocity crime" ended up "liberating" at least 10 times more people from their lives than the previous skirmishes between Col. Gaddafi's troops and weaponized "rebels", most of them hardcore Islamist militias, now free to wreak jihadi havoc from eastern Libya to northern Syria.
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Rasmussen’s case for war is built on a stack of lies By Jon Hellevig | Russia Insider | April 22, 2015 In his op-ed in Project Syndicate, ex-NATO chief and former Danish PM Anders “Fog of War” Rasmussen calls for war against Russia in the name of democracy and the ever so elusive “Western values”. […]
Last summer (an aeon it seems before my recent sojourn into politics&government) I spent ten days writing a short book in Greek on economics. The idea was to write it as if it were addressed to my young daughter, so … Continue reading →
By Bill Blunden | CounterPunch | April 23, 2015 Yet another report has surfaced describing how tools created by the malware-industrial complex are being deployed by U.S. security services. While the coverage surrounding this story focuses primarily on federal agencies it’s important to step back for a moment and view the big picture. In particular, […]
I am deeply troubled by what I have seen happen in our sick world this last week... First we have the outrageous reports coming out of Australia where that sinister criminal Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has had the nerve to have his government pass new "legislation" that would prevent parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated from receiving any state or federal benefits....
A man who used to joke that he lived "at 30,000 feet" is well and truly grounded. This week two courts denied the former IPCC chairman permission to leave the country.
A very interesting read!Greece should issue it's own public currency.The ECB, however, is less enamoured of the idea, for what should be the most obvious reason. It would be a publicly issued currency outside the grasp of global private central bankersEkathimerini
AIPAC’s AIEF Briefing Book Leaked
An American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) briefing book (PDF) from a December 2014 congressional staff junket to Israel may be the first piece of “educational” information ever to leak out of the captive AIPAC shell organization to the public.
Xinhua News Agency
April 23, 2015
NATO to establish liaison office in Djibouti
BRUSSELS: NATO will establish a liaison office in the Republic of Djibouti in support of the Alliance’s counter piracy operation in the Gulf of Aden, according to a press release released by NATO Wednesday.
Last year, during the crowded primary battle over the seat Henry Waxman was giving up, I brought a Capitol Hill staffer to a small dinner with then-state Senator Ted Lieu. My friend the staffer asked Ted why he would even want to go to Washington since it's so difficult to get anything done. He was impressed by Ted's record of accomplishment in Sacramento and warned him it would be a lot rougher in DC.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
April 22, 2015
DSACEUR Visits Exercise WIND SPRING in Romania
The perfect analogy. Detective Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) is an imposter, an undercover cop pretending he’s a major league umpire and hoping no one catches on. He’s a cop in an area and venue he knows nothing of and about. But once he says the right thing and hears the roar of the audience’s applause he’s off and running. Repeating that which inspired the ovation even though he has no idea of what he’s doing or what it even means. Classic operant conditioning meeting Pavlov head-on.
Palestine Information Center – April 23, 2015 Isam Abu Mohareb, a Palestinian farmer from Gaza, did not think that the Israeli agricultural aircraft’s spray on Tuesday would ruin all his hopes of compensating his loss in the Israeli aggression of 2014. As the farmers finished their night shift, Israeli agricultural aircraft were spraying unknown pesticides […]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Air Command
April 23, 2015
20th Baltic Region Training Event a success for NATO Allies and Partners
RAMSTEIN, Germany: Ten NATO Allies and two Partner nations took part in the 20th Baltic Region Training Event (BRTE 20), which was held on 21 and 22 April 2015.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
April 23, 2015
DSACEUR Visits Moldovan 2nd Motorized Infantry Brigade, Cites 20-Year Partnership
The Bentley Continental GT (bentleymotors.com) Press TV – April 23, 2015 Billionaire Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal has vowed to give a free Bentley to every Saudi pilot that has taken part in bombardment of Yemen. According to a Wednesday report by the Daily Mail, late Saudi King Abdullah’s nephew pledged to reward each of […]
Thus Putin’s opinions and political plans become the decisive factor in areas such as Russia’s foreign policy. If the phrase “without Putin, there is no Russia” is an exaggeration, then the phrase “what Putin wants, Russia also wants” reflects the situation quite accurately in my opinion.
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The Local
April 23, 2015
Sweden eyes closer defence ties with Nato
A new defence strategy bid set to be unveiled by the Swedish government on Friday calls for increased co-operation with Nato, Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reports.
Nato membership is a long-running debate in Sweden, with Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s ruling centre-left coalition among those against it.
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-04-23%20Financial%20Survival.mp3"][/audio]Everyone knows that the unfolding bankster-created economic collapse and the growth of unaccountable international institutions is the problem...but what's the solution? Not the constitution, nationalism, or government, according to James Corbett. Join James and Alfred Adask on this week's edition of Financial Survival to find out why.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
William Dean Howells: Selections on war
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William Dean Howells
Member of the Anti-Imperialist League
Voting is a pitifully slow and ineffective way of creating change. In reality, the only thing that has ever created change is collective action; we think that action should be direct. Direct action is not just a tactic but a transformative way of taking back power for the people and beginning to re-organise our world.
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215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
1616 – William Shakespeare, English playwright and actor (b. 1564) died.
1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1910 – American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his “The Man in the Arena” speech.
1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
Could society move beyond the rhetoric of 'strivers' and 'skivers' and be rebuilt around understanding and compassion? The effects would be revolutionary, argues Elena Blackmore
After months of consumer and activist comments, picketing at the Attorney General’s Office, and winning a lawsuit against Monsanto who tried to overturn the original law, Vermont has just become the first state to have mandatory GMO labeling.
There have been many reports recently about the virtues of drinking alkaline water. Often they are accompanied by sales pitches for water ionizers or alkaline water machines. The marketing behind these water alkalizing product is usually quite aggressive, which begs the question. “Why?”
First, it ought to be established that the human body functions the best with fresh pure water at its natural pH of 7.0. However, found in its most natural state throughout the environment, water can range from 6.5 to 8.5.
If the mandate of the FDA includes protecting public health by assuring the safety of the food supply, why is the organization allowing a staggering amount of additives to adulterate our food? Many of these additives have dire consequences to the health this agency is supposed to protect.
The Daily show was the scene for Jeffrey Smith as he discussed the deep implications of new genetically engineered potatoes and apples biotech is rolling out. No stranger to the issue, this marks Jon Stewart’s third jab at the biotech industry, Monsanto, and regulatory agencies.
The megalomaniacs of the Washington power elite actually think they can mold the Middle East to their specifications. No calamity resulting from their clumsy machinations ever causes them to rethink this preposterous conceit. Look at some of their more recent handiwork. In 2003, on the basis of shoddy intelligence if not conscious lies, President George […]
Does the FBI manifest fidelity, bravery and integrity, or does it cut constitutional corners in order to incriminate? Can the FBI cut the cable television lines to your house and then show up pretending to be the cable guy and install listening devices? Can FBI agents and technicians testify falsely and cause the innocent to […]