The U.S., via the State Department, is spending considerable effort and money producing anti-ISIS videos and other media (actual example, left), the goal of which is to convince American and other would-be jihadis not to join ISIS. The efforts won’t work, almost can’t work. They fail to understand the way ISIS recruits and as such, […]
I rarely agree with Henry Kissinger, our latter day Metternich, but his recent Washington Post Op Ed was on the mark: Western “demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.” He suggested instead that the U.S. goal should be to find a way for the two […]
Below is an edited transcript of my presentation “Argumentation Ethics, Estoppel, and Libertarian Rights” delivered (by remote video) at the 6th Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 2, 2014). Video and audio for the speech, plus further information and related resources, are available at Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 161. Argumentation Ethics, Estoppel, and Libertarian Rights […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 161. This was my (remotely delivered) presentation at the 6th Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 2, 2014): From the programme: “Entitled “Argumentation Ethics, Estoppel, and Libertarian Rights,” Kinsella discusses the nature and definition of libertarianism and surveys different arguments and theories for its particular conception of rights and politics, including natural rights, […]
The White House said it will deploy 1,500 more U.S. troops to train and assist Iraqi forces. Meanwhile, at least 92 people were killed on Friday and 50 were wounded.
Updated, with the actual clip embeddedLatest tidings from the Better Call Saul set in Albuquerqueby KenBe still, my heart! I know the above picture is crap [UPDATE: all fixed! see the explanation below -- Ed.], but yes, that really is our very own Saul Goodman -- or rather, I gather, some yokel named Jimmy McGill. And Better Call Saul is apparently on target for a February rollout. And the 2:27 tease is authentically worth the trouble for anyone who's looking forward to the series as much as I am.
Coming off the heels of the previous Themes and Memes podcast which was a review of Divergent Adam and Aaron now turn their sights to another recent teen novel dystopian film adaptation. Here they review the film The Giver.
Roger Stone, The New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Killed Kennedy the Case Against LBJ, gives the inside scoop on Nixon’s rise and fall in Watergate as we discuss his latest book “Nixon’s Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon.” Stone was the youngest member of the Nixon staff in 1972 and worked closely with Nixon on his rehabilitation in his post-presidential years.
Charges dropped against AC/DC drummer in murder case, no charges likely for CIA torture program despite clear violations of law, treaties….
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our rockdog pal John Dissed performs live with his band the Discontents, Friday November 14 at The Park Bar & Grill in Burbank!
–AC/DC’s drummer charged, then un-charged in Dirty Deeds plot
Following up on two previous posts- Earlier today Kiev: Laying Siege to the Separatist EastFrom Tuesday November 4/14: Ukraine: Poroshenko breaks Minsk ceasefire- Moving troops- Revoking autonomy laws...Kiev claimed a Russian invasion was taking place..... I had some serious doubts as to the validity of the aforementioned claims. For one simple reason.
Yesterday we took a look at some of the really extremist crackpots Republicans across the nation elected to Congress Tuesday.
This is hour one of my recent conversation with Henrik Palmgren of Red Ice Radio.
Our discussion includes my answers to the following questions:
This is hour one of my recent conversation with Henrik Palmgren of Red Ice Radio. Our discussion includes my answers to the following questions:-Putting the history of education in context to what we are seeing today. (Education is going down the drain and we are seeing a decline in average I.Q in the west. Yes, we are importing an unprecedented amount of third world population into the west which is contributing to these statistics, but it doesn’t explain the massive drop entirely.
This is hour one of my recent conversation with Henrik Palmgren of Red Ice Radio.
Our discussion includes my answers to the following questions:
By Lawrence Davidson | To The Point Analyses | November 7, 2014 Intractable Process An intractable process, one that never seems to resolve itself, is either no process at all or a fraudulent one contrived to hide an ulterior motive. The so-called Israeli-Palestinian (at one time the Israeli-Arab) “peace process,” now in its sixth decade […]
The calculation of the PAGES2K regional average contains a very odd procedure that thus far has escaped commentary. The centerpiece of the PAGES2K program was the calculation of regional reconstructions in deg C anomalies. Having done these calculations, most readers would presume that their area weighted average (deg C) would be the weighted average of these regional reconstructions already expressed in deg C.
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1728 – James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer (d. 1779) was born.
1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
TweetMoriartys Speak with Jordan Page on Liberty Movement Radio "Page Against the Machine" We spoke with Jordan Page on October 28th, of this year. His show was hacked and kept offline but we recorded the interview anyway. The next day our website was hacked and Jordan has had his radio show shut down twice, every time he tries to publish our interview. Our site is back up now and the interview is posted.
By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH | CounterPunch | November 7, 2014 While the financial sector of the core capitalist economies is enjoying escalating asset price inflation, the real sector of these economies, especially those of Europe and Japan, is suffering from deflation, that is, stagnation and high unemployment. And while the simultaneous occurrence of inflation and deflation […]
Many of the Democrats who lost their seats-- or nearly lost their seats-- Tuesday had nothing to offer voters, which helps explain why voters stayed away. DCCC Chair Steve Israel had a purposeful "mystery meat" strategy for his collection of lousy candidates-- almost all of whom lost. That excuse for a strategy calls for candidates to say nothing controversial that might make someone (like a Republican) not want to vote for them.
Reprieve | November 7, 2014 British security company G4S is refusing to address concerns over its involvement in the running of the US prison at Guantánamo Bay. Human rights charity Reprieve submitted a complaint to the UK government earlier this year, arguing that G4S has breached OECD Guidelines because of its contract to supply ‘base […]
By Jeff Sher | CounterPunch | November 6, 2014 The power of propaganda fueled by corporate cash triumphed over common sense once again in a California ballot measure on Tuesday. Two years after voters narrowly rejected a GMO labeling measure following a late-game, $46 million corporate advertising blitz led by Monsanto, the health insurance industry […]
Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Marijuana Legalization Passes In Oregon and Washington DC
http://ur1.ca/ipqsr
Oregon GMO Food Labeling Ballot Measure 92 Appears To Not Pass; 93.7% Reporting
http://ur1.ca/ipqt0
By Bjorn Hilt | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | November 6, 2014 They always tell us that nuclear weapons will never be used. The fact is that nuclear weapons are used every day by the nuclear-armed states to threaten the rest of the world with total annihilation, while threatening themselves with the […]
Following is a transcript of the fourth interview in the Gladio B interview series. Listen to the audio of the interview here or watch the video in the player below:
RT | November 6, 2014 Nearly two-thirds of British people stated that religion causes more harm than it brings benefits, according to a new poll, which shows Muslim beliefs at odds with those of the rest of society. The poll of 2,004 people conducted by Survation exclusively for Huffington Post UK revealed that nearly two […]
by Gaius Publius There will be much analysis of the 2014 election (including here), but I want to add a few preliminary notes of my own.1. DC insiders and corporatists have increased their hold over the House and the Senate. It took a joint, bipartisan effort, but the effort paid off on election day.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Air Command
November 7, 2014
NATO Alliance Continues 24/7 Baltic Air Policing Rotation
Let’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Whew.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
November 4, 2014
NATO Secretary General holds first meeting with EU High Representative
By James Petras | November 5, 2014 Introduction There are many fabrications and false assumptions underlying the Colombia peace negotiations between the Santos regime and FARC – EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Peoples Army). The first and most egregious is that Colombia is a democracy. The second is that the Santos regime pursues […]
Missile Defense Agency
November 6, 2014
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System Completes Successful Intercept Flight Test
Ukrinform
November 7, 2014
NATO plans large-scale military drills in Eastern Europe
KYIY: The North Atlantic Alliance plans to hold large-scale military exercises involving thousands of troops in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/11/07/nato-week-to-kick-off-in-armenia-on-november-10/
Public Radio of Armenia
November 7, 2014
NATO Week to kick off in Armenia on November 10
The 8th NATO Week will be held in Armenia from November 12 to 14 under the Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan.
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From Casa Guidi Windows (1851)
Announce law
By freedom; exalt chivalry by peace;
Instruct how clear, calm eyes can overawe.
And how pure hands, stretched simply to release
A bond-slave, will not need a sword to draw
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Let me tell you my modest post-9/11 dream. One morning, I’ll wake up and see a newspaper article that begins something like this: “The FBI is attempting to persuade an obscure regulatory body in Washington to change its rules of engagement in order to curtail the agency’s significant powers to hack […]
After making the case for political activism on behalf of anti-interventionism in Wednesday’s column, the results of all too many people not heeding my advice showed up on Thursday as the War Party made big gains in the midterm elections. There’s just one thing wrong with this rather self-serving take on the election results, however: […]
November 7, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - A torrent of leaked documents and e-mails have exposed the already questionable "Occupy Central" leadership as engaged in unethical, opaque funding.
Let me take a break from the election for a minute-- at least in terms of politicians. There were also food policy issues on the ballot around the country. The results were mixed.
Major battles are taking place in Baiji and driving up the number of casualties. At least 345 people were reported killed, mostly in Baiji. Another 48 were wounded. Executions by militants took place in several cities.
Image: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Israelis may not behead innocent Palestinians but they sure as hell butcher them in huge numbers with high-tech weaponry paid for by America, then whine when their victims hit back with whatever unsophisticated devices they can lay hands on…
By JOHN LAFORGE | CounterPunch | November 6, 2014 On October 31, a new United Nations General Assembly First Committee resolution on depleted uranium (DU) weapons passed overwhelmingly. There were 143 states in favor, four against, and 26 abstentions. The measure calls for UN member states to provide assistance to countries contaminated by the weapons. […]
by KenObviously the decision handed down this afternoon by a panel of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, overturning lower-court rulings that had struck down same-sex marriage bans in Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky, wasn't influenced by the election but was presumably withheld until today to prevent it from influencing the election. Still, it seems to me to focus some attention on a factor that seems to me to account for Tuesday's strong rightward tilt.
By Sam Husseini | Vote Pact | November 5, 2014 In perhaps the best mainstream report during the election season, the typically firmly D.C.-based Steve Inskeep went knocking on doors in Colorado and came across a woman, Ili Bennett, who told him she’s felt some excitement from both Elizabeth Warren — and in the past, the Tea […]
Bunraku, as it happens, offers a remarkable metaphor for some contemporary operations of American foreign policy. So many times – in Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Venezuela, Egypt – we see dimly the actors on stage, yet we are supposed to pretend they are not there. We can’t identify them with precision, but we know they are there. Most oddly, the press in the United States, and to a lesser extent that of its various allies and dependents, pretends to report what is happening without ever mentioning the actors.
There is a tragic irony in the flight from Syria where Palestinian refugees, unlike those in Lebanon, could hold passports, own property and get jobs. Lebanon’s inhumane denial of civil, social and political rights has sentenced generations of Palestinian refugees to unbearable lifetimes of social isolation, poverty and mental torture.
