News/Politics

Franklin Lamb
Latakia, Syria
 
Recent reports from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the accuracy of which have been conceded by the White House, but denied in Tel Aviv, have it that slightly less than half of Syria’s chemical weapons have already left the country and 100% of the country’s stockpiles are believed to have been neutralized. Well along the path to meet the June 30 agreed discard date.

 
The Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects has voted to call on the International Union Of Architects to exclude the Israeli Association of United Architects over its refusal to oppose Israel’s construction of illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory.
 Abe Hayeem, RIBA member and chair of Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, said:

Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. “Your rights matter,” he say, “because you never know when you’re going to need them.” Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.

 
 
RT
Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin has issued a response to Christiane Amanpour after the CNN anchor lashed out at the diplomat over his inability to appear on her show and brought his daughter into the equation.
In her Thursday show, Amanpour said:

 
By Israel Shamir

 
by Gilad Atzmon
For many years we have been encountering  the relentless attempts of anti Zionist Jews AKA AZZ* to divert the attention from the fact that  Israel defines itself as the Jewish State.  For some peculiar reason, it is Rabbi, Kahane, the ultimate Jewish bigot who reveals the full truth re Jewishness and the West.
 

Editors Note: This is not an isolated incident.  The ethnic cleansing ,colonial expansion, occupation,  and apartheid policies by the Israeli occupation forces and colonist settlers  against the Palestinian people is conducted on a daily basis .  War crimes are being committed and the west is silent.
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by PATRICK COCKBURN                           Counterpunch
It is a chilling five-minute film made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), showing its fighters stopping three large trucks on what looks like the main highway linking Syria and Iraq. A burly bearded gunmen takes the ID cards of the drivers who stand nervously in front of him.
“You are all Shia,” he says threateningly.

Freelance writer Brandon Martinez debunks the myth of Canada’s benevolence vis-a-vis foreign policy and the “good war” legend of World War II.
The post Brandon Martinez on Canadian “Remembrance Day” Jingoism appeared first on Intifada Palestine.

 
James Petras
Introduction
            The two paths to 21st century empire-building-via-proxies are illustrated through the violent seizure of power in the Ukraine by a US-backed junta and the electoral gains of the US-backed Colombian war lord, Alvaro Uribe.  We will  describe the ‘mechanics’ of US intervention in the domestic politics of these two countries and their profound external effects – that is how they enhance imperial power on a continent-wide basis.
Political Intervention and Proxy Regimes:  Ukraine