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Why are US-backed politicians in Lebanon angry when Syrians want to vote freely?
When the majority of the Syrian population in Syria votes for Assad and openly sings his praise and holds banners and posters supporting him, it means he genuinely has popular support. Watch the spin doctors make all sorts of lies to reinvent what has happened. Go ahead New York Times and Washington Post, take your best shots.
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Lessons and Consequences of World War I: Back to the Future?
ht to KamNam for bringing this article to my attention.I finally got around to reading it last night KamNam and it was worth reading it, entirely.Interesting perspective. The Syrian history was totally new to me. Insightful Here is hoping the author, Andrew Korybko,(Master’s Degree student at the Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO) doesn't mind me posting every last word of his article.
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Brazil: Workers Struggle Trumps Sports Spectacle
The escalating protests in Brazil are symptomatic of the wealth disparities between the ruling class and the masses. More than just food baskets, Brazilian people demand social justice and are up in arms over the lavish spending on the 2014 football World Cup.
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“Syrians all over the world are dying to vote in this election. We see that as a defiant and courageous act”–interview with North American elections observers
Jun 3, 2014, Oriental Review
On June 1, I met with a delegation of North Americans going to observe the Syrian elections on June 3. I hope to be in Damascus shortly, if possible to likewise observe Syria’s historic election. Below is a brief bio of the delegates and my conversation with these anti-war, justice activists. -
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Power Elite Set To Steal Everything And Then Kill The Dollar
Paul Volcker wants a new Bretton Woods agreement to replace the old one which Nixon broke in August of 1971 when he refused to redeem dollars for gold at $35 an ounce. Henry Kissinger took us onto the Petrodollar standard in 1973 after the Arab-Israeli war. The Gulf oil monarchies agreed to sell oil only in dollars. These dollars bought US Treasury bonds and helped fund America’s perpetual budget deficit and to pretend it had also solved its trade imbalance. Some have mistakenly accused America of fighting Oil wars. We have been fighting wars to defend the Petrodollar.
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Power Elite Set To Steal Everything And Then Kill The Dollar
Paul Volcker wants a new Bretton Woods agreement to replace the old one which Nixon broke in August of 1971 when he refused to redeem dollars for gold at $35 an ounce. Henry Kissinger took us onto the Petrodollar standard in 1973 after the Arab-Israeli war. The Gulf oil monarchies agreed to sell oil only in dollars. These dollars bought US Treasury bonds and helped fund America’s perpetual budget deficit and to pretend it had also solved its trade imbalance. Some have mistakenly accused America of fighting Oil wars. We have been fighting wars to defend the Petrodollar.
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Imperialism and Nigerian Schoolgirls
It took awhile to find the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, and during that time officials from Western governments – likely the United States, Britain, and France – anonymously criticized the Nigerian government for being slow to accept foreign help and then being slothful and incompetent in the search. These […]
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“I have worse things to tell you, but I can’t bring myself to talk about them”
Even when I’m not “looking” for stories to share from Syrians, they come to me. Sitting at the sea, a young man a few metres away began talking with me after he saw my Syria wrist-band. I asked a few general questions, and then he let loose on the hell that is life in Halab (Aleppo) with the foreign insurgents. He did so in the same mournful voice that others I’ve met here and in Syria have had, again without the bitterness and anger you’d expect from people suffering so greatly under this manufactured crisis filled with its unending, ghastly atrocities.
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Tomorrow: A Battle Between The Two Wings Of The Democratic Party-- the Republican Wing And The Democratic Wing
Millions of Democrats are eligible to go to the polls tomorrow and put their collective foot down and stop the rise of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. There are primaries in New Jersey, Iowa, Montana, and California where the two wings are in deadly conflict. In most cases, most Democrats aren't even bothering to learn the issues or understand that the primary tomorrow is as important-- or in many cases-- more important than the November election. Far more Democrats will not vote tomorrow than will vote.
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Bombers Strike in Southern Iraq; 85 Killed, 189 Wounded
Several possibly coordinated bombings took place south of Baghdad today, while clashes and shelling continued in Anbar province. The usual scattered attacks occurred as well.
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Great New Video By Anthony Lawson: Israel's Apologists: Jon Faine Is At It Again
As I said in previous articles, Canada is definitely Jewish occupied territory. This nation has a horrific leadership that does nothing but grovel to their Jewish masters and will do anything to please their masters in Israel. It is so disgusting to behold..But there are definitely other nations on this planet that also grovel and bow down to their Jewish masters. One nation that definitely makes this list, sadly, is Australia. Australia has long had terrible governments that bow down to their Jewish masters and will do anything to please the criminal state of Israel....
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“They want to start a religious war; we want to extinguish it” – Mufti of Syria
Sheik Ahmed Hassoun, Syria’s Grand Mufti, preaches reconciliation and interfaith peace.
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"Lewy Body Dementia" sounds like more fun than it is -- that word "dementia" is probably a good tip-off
Lewy Bodies may sound like things you'd enjoy playing with, but apparently not so much.by KenDidn't I say way back, well, awhile ago, that one thing I really, really didn't want was to find myself on the dementia beat?
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PBC News & Comment: Obama’s Prisoner Swap Sparks Political Firestorm
Trading 5 Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo for one American POW, Obama risks backlash that may keep Gitmo open indefinitely….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and earn $15 for the PBC Podcast!
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Israel gags famous nuclear whistleblower invited to speak at human rights conference
RT | June 2, 2014
A decade after his release from prison for leaking information on Israel’s nuclear weapon program, Mordechai Vanunu has been denied permission to attend a human rights conference in London.
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Polar Bear Specialist Group says its global population estimate was “a qualified guess”
By Dr. Susan Crockford | Watts Up With That? | June 2, 2014
Last week (May 22), I received an unsolicited email from Dr. Dag Vongraven, the current chairman of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG).
The email from Vongraven began this way:
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The sociology of correlation and causation
by Judith Curry Correlation doesn’t imply causation. An interesting article in Slate: Correlation does not imply causation: How the internet fell in love with a stats class cliche. Excerpts: The correlation phrase has become so common and so irritating that … Continue reading →
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NATO Defense Chiefs To Back Kiev’s War In Southeast Ukraine
UNIAN
June 2, 2014
Ukraine and NATO discuss situation in security area and further cooperation
Defense Ministers of NATO member countries and Ukraine will discuss the situation in security area in Ukraine and priority of cooperation in sector of defense. -
NATO Defense Chiefs To Back Kiev’s War In Southeast Ukraine
UNIAN
June 2, 2014
Ukraine and NATO discuss situation in security area and further cooperation
Defense Ministers of NATO member countries and Ukraine will discuss the situation in security area in Ukraine and priority of cooperation in sector of defense. -
US troops ‘kidnap’ 4-year-old drone strike victim from hospital, allege parents
RT | June 02, 2014
A four-year-old girl whose face was blown off during a US drone strike in Afghanistan was kidnapped by American troops and hidden by an international organization, her family says.
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Ukraine, NATO, and the Multi-Polar World
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TOR Radio: Boston Bombing Revisited, Ibragim Todashev’s Killer Revealed
TOR Radio #100 | Russ Baker joins us to discuss recent developments in the case of Ibragim Todashev, shot and killed in his Florida home during an interrogation by police and FBI. The FBI agent who pulled the trigger on Todashev has been identified, and we break down it means within the larger questions surrounding the Boston Marathon Bombing.
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To President Obama: Let’s just assume for a moment we have a climate crisis
By Paul Driessen | Watts Up With That? | June 2, 2014
As we start hurricane season today, we note the unprecedented 3142 day drought of major hurricane landfalls, shattering a record that goes back to the year 1900.
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Another Blue Dog Made The Natural Transition To The GOP-- Will Gene Taylor Beat Steven Palazzo In Tomorrow's Republican Primary?
Sunday morning we asked what it's like to be a Blue Dog in America today. And the picture that emerged was far from pretty. When looking at the natural progression from Blue Dog-- the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- to plain old Republican, we focused on the freak from Kansas who led the anti-gay and anti-Choice forces of hatred and bigotry in her badly afflicted state, Janice Pauls, finally finding her natural home in the GOP.
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Lugansk: Ukrainian Air Strike Kills, Wounds 15 Civilians, Including Health Minister
Itar-Tass
June 2, 2014
Health minister of self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic dies in air strike
LUHANSK: A public health minister of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, Natalya Arkhipova, died in the air strike which a Ukrainian fighter jet had delivered on the Luhansk regional administration building earlier on Monday, the press service of the Luhansk People’s Republic told ITAR-TASS. -
Lugansk: Ukrainian Air Strike Kills, Wounds 15 Civilians, Including Health Minister
Itar-Tass
June 2, 2014
Health minister of self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic dies in air strike
LUHANSK: A public health minister of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, Natalya Arkhipova, died in the air strike which a Ukrainian fighter jet had delivered on the Luhansk regional administration building earlier on Monday, the press service of the Luhansk People’s Republic told ITAR-TASS. -
Georgia: Pentagon Official Awarded Order Of Golden Fleece
Rustavi 2
June 2, 2014
The President awards U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense with the Order of Golden Fleece
The President of Georgia met with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, Mr. Andrew C. Weber today. Giorgi Margvelashvili and the senior U.S. official discussed the defense and nuclear security issues. -
Georgia: Pentagon Official Awarded Order Of Golden Fleece
Rustavi 2
June 2, 2014
The President awards U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense with the Order of Golden Fleece
The President of Georgia met with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, Mr. Andrew C. Weber today. Giorgi Margvelashvili and the senior U.S. official discussed the defense and nuclear security issues. -
Taliban prisoner swap was ILLEGAL claims GOP as former federal prosecutor says it could lead to Obama’s IMPEACHMENT
Barack Obama broke a federal law that he signed just six months ago when he authorized the release of five high-ranking Taliban terror targets from the Guantanamo Bay detention center in exchange for the return of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, senior congressional Republicans claimed today.
And the president may also have written a new chapter in the case for his own impeachment, according to a former federal prosecutor who helped bring the 1993 World Trade Center bombers to justice. -
This Day In History – June 2
455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
1731 – Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States (d. 1802) was born.
1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
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Demanufacturing Consent: Dr. Bruce Levine on Psychiatry’s “Useful Fictions” and Pathologizing Dissent
DC on BFP #41 | Dr. Bruce Levine joins us to discuss how elites in Psychiatry and Psychology have "manufactured consent" through the "chemical imbalance fiction"; how anti-authoritarianism has been pathologized through diagnoses of "oppositional defiant disorder"; and the potential for social engineering through psychiatry, media, and politics.
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Abdel Fattah al- Sisi's Triumph echoes Mubarek Era- including the Apathy
Meant to get around to Egypt's recent election- Apathy over Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s triumph echoes Mubarak eraCouldn't help but notice how quiet the US is on this election? No big condemnation. Despite the low turnout?
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Tomorrow Is Election Day Here In California
Right-wing carpetbagger Tony StricklandWell, it's primary day in several states. And several of them have contests that progressives are watching closely. The states with races where there's nothing important going on, on the federal level at least, for progressives: Alabama, Mississippi, New Mexico and South Dakota.
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Supreme Court Helps Obama Trample Press Freedom
The Supreme Court announced today that it refused to hear a federal court case involving the Obama administration’s targeting of New York Times reporter James Risen. Risen has been in the federal cross-hairs since January 2008 because of details in his 2006 book, A State of War, about a botched CIA effort to subvert Iran’s nuclear program. The same book also blew the whistle on the NSA’s illegal warrantless wiretapping. The New York Times had sat on that story for more than a year at the Bush administration’s request. The Times only published the NSA expose after it was clear that Risen
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April car bombing testimonies and tomorrow’s Syria election
The footage was taken in mid-April but I’ve only just got around to deciphering and translating the Arabic (my apologies for the very rough translation, but I don’t think I’m too far off the mark). It’s important that these people’s voices are heard, because the terrorism they in Homs were facing (and still are, randomly now and then) is being felt in other areas of Syria, particularly in the lead-up to the elections. [apologies for the poor video quality, but in order to upload period I had to make the video smallest size possible]
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Israel’s Apologists: Jon Faine is at it Again
By Anthony Lawson · June 1, 2014
Jon Faine, of Radio 774 ABC Melbourne, interviews and insults former Australia Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser, in the process attempting to defend the indefensible, Israel.
In his book, Dangerous Allies, Mr Fraser’s suggests that it is time for Australia to formulate its own foreign policy and not, in future—as Captain Kirk might have put it—To blindly go where its current allies seek to lead it (my phrase, not Mr Fraser’s). -
289: Autonomy Through Agorism (Part 4) - Permaculture Connections to The Trivium, The NAP and The Practice of Living Purposefully
Jamin and I discuss how the Trivium method relates to Permaculture. Also covered: composting methods, Permaculture Principles, Permaculture Ethics, connections to the Non-Aggression Principle, connections to NVC, connections to the practice of living purposefully, Input-Process-Output
Do you have questions? Please submit them in the comments.
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289: Autonomy Through Agorism (Part 4) - Permaculture Connections to The Trivium, The NAP and The Practice of Living Purposefully
Jamin and I discuss how the Trivium method relates to Permaculture. Also covered: composting methods, Permaculture Principles, Permaculture Ethics, connections to the Non-Aggression Principle, connections to NVC, connections to the practice of living purposefully, Input-Process-OutputDo you have questions? Please submit them in the comments.Look Closer:Jamin's Group - Agora et Agricola: the market and farm.
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289: Autonomy Through Agorism (Part 4) - Permaculture Connections to The Trivium, The NAP and The Practice of Living Purposefully
Jamin and I discuss how the Trivium method relates to Permaculture. Also covered: composting methods, Permaculture Principles, Permaculture Ethics, connections to the Non-Aggression Principle, connections to NVC, connections to the practice of living purposefully, Input-Process-Output
Do you have questions? Please submit them in the comments.
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NATO Defense Chiefs To Discuss “Collective Defense” Against Russia
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 2, 2014
Defence Ministers to focus on collective defence, Wales Summit
Collective defence and preparations for the NATO Wales Summit in September will be in the spotlight at a two-day meeting of defence ministers which begins on Tuesday (3 June). Ministers will also meet with their Ukrainian and Georgian counterparts and discuss the ISAF mission in Afghanistan with ISAF contributors and the Afghan defence minister. -
NATO Defense Chiefs To Discuss “Collective Defense” Against Russia
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 2, 2014
Defence Ministers to focus on collective defence, Wales Summit
Collective defence and preparations for the NATO Wales Summit in September will be in the spotlight at a two-day meeting of defence ministers which begins on Tuesday (3 June). Ministers will also meet with their Ukrainian and Georgian counterparts and discuss the ISAF mission in Afghanistan with ISAF contributors and the Afghan defence minister. -
Thomas Piketty On Progressive Taxation And Democracy
Tonight at 8:30 (5:30 PT), MoveOn and HuffPo are broadcasting a dialogue between Senator Elizabeth Warren and author Thomas Piketty from Boston's historic Old South Meeting House. I wonder how many other Members of Congress, or how many candidates for Congress, have read Piketty's high acclaimed new book, Capital In The Twenty-First Century. I did an unscientific survey and found that no one had.
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