Thinking Outside the Two-State Box

 
By Yousef Munayyer
 

By Peter Hart | FAIR | September 23, 2013

Hassan Rouhani

Yesterday in USA Today (9/22/13), Aamer Madhani wrote this about the challenges facing Barack Obama:

UPDATE: For a contrary argument on the constitutionality of repealing a law by defunding it, see the comment by esteemed legal commentator Michael Froomkin in the comments section.[You should be able to click on this News Alert to enlarge it.]"The constitutional process for repealing a law -- such as Congress and President Clinton did with the old Glass-Steagall Act -- is for both houses to enact a new bill that repeals the old, which must then be signed by the President.

By Richard Lightbown | Global Research | September 24, 2013

Saudi Arabia Threatens to “End Career” of AP Reporter Over Chemical Weapons Story
 

Journalist who exposed how rebels were behind August 21st attack faces intimidation
 
Paul Joseph Watson

CPTnet | September 24, 2013

On 23 September 2013, in response to the death of Israeli soldier Staff Sgt. Gal Kobi, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for illegal settlement expansion in the Old City of Hebron.

By Zaher Mahruqi | Press TV | September 24, 2013

Bashar’s acceptance to let go of his “Nukes of the poor” arsenal could mean that the Syrian government has assessed the potential outcome of an American sustained offensive to be a game changer and desperately agreed to any way out.

Leith, North Dakota is on the map. Actually it isn't literally on the map, just in the news. The town was founded in 1910 along a railroad line that was abandoned in 1984. Since there were no highways going through Leith it started losing population. At its height in the 1930s there were 174 people. Today there are 24.

RT | September 24, 2013

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff lambasted US spying on her country at Tuesday’s UN summit, calling it a “breach of international law.” She further warned that the NSA surveillance, revealed since June, threatened freedom of speech and democracy.

Nordic Defence Cooperation
Arctic Challenge exercise will see dozens of fighters in the northern sky

Lindsey Williams has finally said when his friend in the elite ranks of the oil industry told him the dollar will collapse. He was told Americans must be totally enslaved before they can let the dollar collapse. The three major steps are:
1) The Patriot Act and other acts and laws that restricted our historic freedoms.
2) Americans must be bankrupted and sent into poverty and Debt Slavery. They  elite want more people on welfare and Food Stamps. They want pensions to collapse and cities to declare bankruptcy before they crash all economies in the world.

There is much in the news about how IPCC will handle the growing discrepancy between models and observations – long an issue at skeptic blogs. According to BBC News, a Dutch participant says that “governments are demanding a clear explanation” of the discrepancy. On the other hand, Der Spiegel reports:

Today James talks to Ben Stone of BadQuaker.com about 9/11, Gaslighting, mind control, Societal Stockholm Syndrome, and Michael Hastings.

This week on Radio Liberty, James and Dr. Stan discuss the fallout from last week's decision by the Federal Reserve to continue quantitative easing to the tune of $85 billion a month. They also take your calls on a variety of topics, from the recent German election to the inflation/deflation debate.

By Jay Knott | Dissident Voice | September 24, 2013

In a recent article on Counterpunch, Rob Urie defended the traditional Marxist analysis of US policy in the Middle East. He argues that support for Israel is driven primarily by economic interest, not the Jewish lobby.

by Judith Curry If you had the opportunity to ask 5 critical questions for the IPCC, what would you ask? Mike McGrath of the BBC asks the following questions: 1.  The IPCC – weren’t they the ones who said the … Continue reading →

The U.S. and Iranian presidents are probably going to meet face to face at the U.N. today. “They may even shake hands, ” CNN reports. This would be pretty significant given the history of enmity between these two nations and it would follow several weeks of what cable news annoyingly refers to as a “charm offensive” by Iran’s new reformist president Hassan Rouhani.

I've come late to Barton Gellman's 2008 thriller, Angler-- the Cheney Vice Presidency. The Washington Post staff writer won a Pulitzer for covering Cheney for the paper in 2007 and Angler expands on that work. The book is beyond gripping... also beyond horrifying when you consider what this inherently evil and seditious man was able to achieve against American democracy with a team of right-wing fanatics.

 This oped piece feels like the perfect follow up to yesterday's post -Israel Sides with Syrian JihadistsDifferent author. Same theme.

Press TV – September 24, 2013

The European Union is “not satisfied” with Washington’s answers on revelations that the US spied on international bank transfers, a top official says.
“I’m not satisfied with what we have gotten so far,” said EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom during a hearing at the European Parliament on Tuesday.
She added, “I will be seeking exhaustive explanations, comprehensive information.”

by Rud Istvan The crescendo of climate change ‘bad’ news leading up to release of problematic AR5 SPM continues. For example, a new paper [1] from the University of East Anglia is upsetting according to its own UEA PR: Climate … Continue reading →

Karl Rove was on Fox News Sunday this week when Chris Wallace announced that "as soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats but from top Republicans, to hammer Cruz." Accusations started flying across the wingnut blogosphere. McConnell, panic-striken, immediately denied that it was him or any of this staffers trying to undermine Cruz.

Voice of Russia
September 24, 2013
The US is an insane power like the Nazis – Dr. Edward Herman

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Arnold Zweig: Selections on war
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Arnold Zweig
From The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927)
Translated by Eric Sutton

Press TV – September 24, 2013

New figures show every 58 seconds one person is stopped and searched by the police in England and Wales for drugs, with blacks bearing the brunt of the practice.

A fictional UN climate body exists in the minds of the gullible. And then there’s the real IPCC.

Baby Seif in Fallujah, born with spina bifida. Credit: Donna Mulhearn

When the television alerts began to signal that one shooter – and then possibly more – had attacked the Navy Yard in Washington DC last week, it was pretty natural that anyone’s first thought went to "terrorism." Hadn’t we been conditioned for these very moments, waiting for the other shoe to drop after the 9/11 […]

In the fall of 1956, Nikita Khrushchev threatened to rain rockets down on London for the British invasion of Suez and sent his tanks into Budapest to drown the Hungarian Revolution in blood. He blew up the Paris summit in 1960, banged his shoe at the U.N., and warned Americans, “We will bury you!” He […]

Nasrallah: Saudi Arabia, Turkey have failed in Syria

 
(Al-Akhbar) – Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other regional countries backing Syria’s rebels must acknowledge their failures to bring down the Syrian government, and join efforts for a political solution to end the two and a half year civil war, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday.

Are Jewish communities planning to ‘annex’ parts of north London?

‘Eruvs’: coming soon to a nice neighbourhood like yours, as Jewish exceptionalism stakes out its territorial gains on English soil (symbolically, of course)
by Stuart Littlewood

If I were to tell you that "the answer is Jeb Bush," could you guess what the question might be?by KenAs regular readers know, here at DWT we're not big fans of washingtonpost.com's "Fix"-master, Chris Cillizza, that fearless champion of Village-sanctified reality, and in a moment I'm going to offer an example of why.For now, while I'm not going to make a big point of urging you to read his post "Republican Party could learn a lot

For the third day in a row, suicide bombers targeted a funeral in the Baghdad area. Baghdadis saw two other bombings. One of them was at a cafe, which is another favorite target for bombers. A number of smaller attacks took place elsewhere. Overall, at least 38 people were killed and 65 wounded.

RT | September 23, 2013

Iranian officials say they have completed decoding the surveillance data and software extracted from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone that the United States lost possession of nearly two years ago near the city of Kashmar.

Maybe you saw Emily Jane Fox's CNN story over the weekend on what it takes to raise a family on three minimum wage jobs. The story takes place in Chicago:

Anti-ICC Kenyan President and his government appear to be the target of US-bolstered Al Qaeda attack.

by Judith Curry Climate researchers have an obligation not to environmental policy but to the truth. This quote comes from an article in Spiegel Online entitled Warming Plateau? Climatologists Face Inconvenient Truth.   Good article.  The entire context for this quote: … Continue reading →

By Cristina Trujillo | The Argentina Independent | September 23, 2013

Bolivia’s General Prosecutor Ramiro Guerrero has requested the extradition of former president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada from the US, so he can be brought to justice for crimes against humanity in his country.

"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode077 - Shake which features brand new sounds from Daughn Gibson, YAST, Amanda Shires, Glen Ca

Al-Akhbar | September 23, 2013

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other regional countries backing Syria’s rebels must acknowledge their failures to bring down the Syrian government, and join efforts for a political solution to end the two and a half year civil war, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday.

 Speech critical of Israel will go on

by Peter Harriman
Alison Weir
A speaker sharply critical of Israel will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Brookings Public Library as planned.

Right-wing extremists are pissed off at the thought of peaceKerry and his little cabal of imperialistic interventionists failed to force Obama into bombing Syria and failed in their attempt to make Kerry "President for Foreign Affairs." But that's not going to slow down McCain and Lindsey Graham, ironically, two of Kerry's top allies in the power struggle.

Itar-Tass
September 23, 2013
CSTO countries unanimously call for peaceful settlement in Syria

SOCHI: The member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) called for a peaceful settlement in Syria and opposed possible aggression against that country.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
September 23, 2013
NATO Response Force Training, The Road to Steadfast Jazz
Story by SHAPE Public Affairs Office

By Glyn Moody | Techdirt | September 23, 2013

United States European Command
September 22, 2013
Cyber injects help transition Combined Endeavor into operational exercise

The crux of why the Obama administration’s Asia-Pivot strategy is reckless and stupid is contained in the first question and answer of Foreign Policy’s interview with Japan’s Defense Minister, Itsunori Onodera.

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on Press TV to debate the war in Syria, its causes, and long-lasting effects. Draitser debunks some of the disinformation regarding the so-called "rebels" and their militant and ideological roots. He examines the geopolitical motivations of the regional and international players in Syria in order to provide the context necessary for understanding the conflict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbVHseDccQEric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on Press TV to debate the war in Syria, its causes, and long-lasting effects.  Draitser debunks some of the disinformation regarding the so-called “rebels” and their militant and ideological roots.  He examines the geopolitical motivations of the regional and international players in Syria in order to provide the context necessary for understanding the conflict.