If you're a regular DWT reader, you already know that Blue America endorsed Carl Sciortino for Ed Markey's old congressional seat (MA-05).

By DIANA JOHNSTONE | CounterPunch | September 23, 2013

Syria: Controversy surrounding MintPress Chemical Weapons Ghouta Report
 
 
by Phil Greaves

Now being mailed to subscribers -- Revisionist History Newsletter no. 68Between 1688 and 1815 about a quarter million white people became the slaves of Britain's mercantile-military sea power. Michael Hoffman furnishes a fascinating new account of this suppressed epoch.

ANNOUNCING THE CORBETT REPORT 2011 VIDEO ARCHIVE  

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Interfax
September 23, 2013
Iraq violence “directly linked” to Syria crisis – Moscow
MOSCOW: Russia has claimed that the current escalation of violence in Iraq is “directly linked” to the crisis in neighboring Syria.

Back in May, former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Ríos Montt was convicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in an historic case, the first time a former head of state had been prosecuted for genocide by his own country. Ten days after his conviction, the Constitutional Court annulled the verdict and wiped Rios Montt’s slate clean again.

When I first heard yesterday that there was a massive shooting in a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya that killed supposedly 68 people, while injuring some 150+, I was my usual skeptical self....

by Judith Curry Mitigation, adaptation, and the threat to biodiversity. Several years ago, Conservation Biology has published a paper with the provocative title Mitigation, adaptation, and the thread to biodiversity, by European biologists James Patterson, Miguel Araujo, Pam Berry, Jake … Continue reading →

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
September 23, 2013
NATO RESPONSE FORCE CONDUCTS MAJOR MARITIME EXERCISE TO STRESS TEST ITS CRISIS REACTION CAPABILITIES
Story by: SHAPE Public Affairs Office

Brilliant Mariner 2010

Having mentioned my previous post about Israel loving Islamists, more then once and searching repeatedly for it, I am happy to say, I finally found it!My rediscovery could not have come at a better time!More accurately, after the news of Ambassador Oren gushing all over the Islamic IDF in Syria and me feeling so pleased

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Ernest Hemingway: Selections on war
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Ernest Hemingway
From A Farewell to Arms (1929)

By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | September 23, 2013

Following the deadly shooting of an Israeli soldier in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to boost settlement activities, and ordered the Civil Administration, to take all needed measures to allow the return of Israeli settlers into a Palestinian home they previously occupied in Hebron.

It may not be wise to judge a book by its cover, but it’s entirely appropriate to judge an organization by its leader.
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The Australian news site, MercatorNet, has just published a piece by yours truly titled The UN’s Climate Change Chief Puts Politics First.

Hoyer will do Margolies-Mezvinsky as much good next year as he did for another corrupt conservative hack, Tim Holden, last yearThe campaign for the Northeast Philadelphia/Montgomery County congressional seat being vacated by Allyson Schwartz is starting to heat up.

This was just such an odd news item, I had to pop it up.Irony? Poetic Justice? Don't mess with Mother Nature?

RT | September 23, 2013

Syrian armed opposition may be ordered by its foreign sponsors to stage a false flag operation against foreign inspectors when they arrive in the country to monitor destruction of the country’s chemical weapons stockpile, says the Syrian president.

NATO's North African terror tidal wave predictably sweeps into Kenya.September 23, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - At face value, and how the Western media is attempting to portray it, the Westgate Mall siege in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi appears to be yet another senseless terrorist attack by the "religious fanatics" of Al Qaeda's Somalia franchise, Al Shabaab.

While the Western media focuses on turmoil in the Middle East, America’s annual ritual of formalizing its insolvency, and whatever other ginned up "crisis" has our attention for the moment, a moment of truth in the world’s most populous country is being steadfastly ignored by all the Very Serious People in Washington, D.C. That’s because […]

For at least the last six years, government agents have been exploiting an AT&T database filled with the records of billions of American phone calls from as far back as 1987. The rationale behind this dragnet intrusion, codenamed Hemisphere, is to find suspicious links between people with "burner" phones (prepaid mobile phones easy to buy, […]

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net September 23, 2013 Wharton Barker This account, written by the American banker Wharton Barker and published in The Independent (LVI) of March 24, 1904, recounts Barker’s conversation with Russian Tsar Alexander II, the celebrated Liberator of the serfs, on August 17, 1879, a few years before his assassination [...]

Vladimir Simonov — NEO (New Eastern Outlook) September 23, 2013 The United States and its Wahhabi allies have switched from financial blackmail to direct aggression against Russia. On this occasion, a mortar bombardment of the Russian Embassy took place in Damascus on the morning of Sunday, September 22. Three staff members were injured. As [...]

Earlier I was criticizing Beltway Democrats for hypocrisy. Maybe I just should have said Beltway politicians. It was hard to watch Tennessee Republican Stephen Fincher, a Methodist gospel singer aside from the congressman for the 8th district (Jackson, Germantown, Dyersburg and the whole western part of the state minus Memphis), voting to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program for the neediest American families.

Tarpley at DC 9/11 Truth Advancing the Truth Conference on September 14, 2013 Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net September 22, 2013 [download video] [download audio]

At least 33 Iraqis were killed and 131 were wounded in a series of attacks in central and northern Iraq. A retaliatory attack against a Sunni funeral took place in Baghdad while bombing against civilians and security personnel took place in the north.

Not Too Smart: New rabbi-approved ‘kosher’ phones are being marketed to ultra-Orthodox Israelis. They are like their high-tech treyf cousins, but disabled to avoid the internet or even phone calls. (Forward caption)"[H]ow does a smart phone cross from treyf to kosher? It has to be de-smarted.

This week our guest is once again Dr. Stanley Monteith, retired orthopaedic surgeon, veteran Christian researcher and radio host, who joins us to discuss the thesis of his controversial article, "The Population Control Agenda." Arguing that there exists a hidden agenda within elitist circles to reduce the world's human population by over 90%, Dr. Monteith indicates ways in which he believes this agenda is being implemented in the world today. (For show notes, please visit TheMindRenewed.com)

This week our guest is once again Dr. Stanley Monteith, retired orthopaedic surgeon, veteran Christian researcher and radio host, who joins us to discuss the thesis of his controversial article, "The Population Control Agenda." Arguing that there exists a hidden agenda within elitist circles to reduce the world's human population by over 90%, Dr. Monteith indicates ways in which he believes this agenda is being implemented in the world today. (For show notes, please visit TheMindRenewed.com)

Dana Rohrabacher's congressional district, CA-48, stretches along the Pacific Ocean from Seal Beach, where L.A. County and Long Beach end and Orange County begins, down through Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Laguna Niguel right to the edge of San Juan Capistrano. It's easternmost points are just beyond Fountain Valley and Aliso Viejo. It's one of southern California's redder districts with a PVI of R+7. Obama scored 46% against McCain and 43% against Romney. The district is wealthy (medium household income is $76,077, compared to $57,287 for the whole state) and white (69%).

In other words, the usual.Russia Rejects U.S., Europe Plan to Enforce Syrian UN Resolution

Sunday again, and again time for my weekly rant....I do feel that I have been neglecting this blog recently, due to my concentration on finishing this course material for my job.... With changes in technology, it was a decision between myself and my company that some enhancement was necessary to keep my job valid.   I am right now about to finish the material and write the examination this coming week... It has been very grueling and very hard, and has taken me away from other business...

"This is an industry that is concerned solely with profiting from death, and there's little time to scrutinise how many lives a bomb might end up destroying when there's payment to discuss."  September 23, 2013 - Vice Magazine (Uzi Gold) - Last week, Britain hosted a four-day get-together for the planet's preeminent weapons dealers.

By Arjun Walia | Collective Evolution | September 17, 2013

Elizabeth Futral does her best at singing while she histrionicizes Nedda's recitative and Balatella. The chunk of recitative below, the first of three, occupies the first 57 seconds of the clip.(1) "Qual fiamma avea nel guardo!"

By Ken Broder | AllGov | September 22, 2013

By Finian Cunningham | Press TV | September 21, 2013

The American war footing towards Syria plumbs a new diabolical depth.
Not only is it an act of criminal aggression against an innocent country – the supreme crime according to Nuremberg Principles – but that transgression would itself be based on another vile crime – the deliberate killing of children for propaganda purposes.

Rather than speaking truth to power, activists have been parroting claims by the establishment that the IPCC chairman is a Nobel Prize winner.

RT | September 22, 2013

The US is pushing Russia into approving a UN resolution that would allow for military intervention in Syria, in exchange for American support of Syria’s accession to OPCW, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

DCCC faves McIntyre & Matheson both voted to shut down the governmentI'm sure you already know that on Friday, Boehner surrendered to the Tea Party nihilists and the deranged Ted Cruz faction of his party and passed a bill that would shut down the government unless the Senate and Obama agree to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

By Fayez Rasheed | Al Quds Al Arabi | September 18, 2013

Fascinating research reveals that some people who suffer a psychotic break do better without a lifetime of medication.
It is an amazing victory for mental health treatment reform activists and one investigative reporter. On August 28, 2013, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) director, Thomas Insel, announced that psychiatry’s standard treatment for people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses needs to change.

It is an amazing victory for mental health treatment reform activists and one investigative reporter. On August 28, 2013, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) director, Thomas Insel, announced that psychiatry’s standard treatment for people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses needs to change.

RT | September 22, 2013

European diplomats are holding Israel accountable over an incident where IDF servicemen attacked a EU humanitarian convoy in the West Bank on Friday. So far Tel Aviv has left the scandal in limbo, offering no official explanation for the incident.
Diplomats from several EU countries have spoken out against the shocking incident of harassing a person with diplomatic immunity, clearly awaiting some sort of official reaction from the state of Israel.

by Judith Curry Some interesting tweets this morning on my twitter feed. Several tweets led me to look at an article in the Guardian, entitled Climate change:  IPCC cites global temperature rise over the last century.  Excerpts: In the past, … Continue reading →

You need to make it impossible for the politicians and the chattering class to turn around without being told they are lying. This is about the only means left available to us to stop them from causing another Depression, stealing all of our money, getting us killed in a war and  destroying the earth.

Just three weeks ago, Washington’s hawks, particularly of the pro-Israel neo-conservative variety, were flying high, suddenly filled with hope. President Barack Obama, having trapped himself with his own “red-line” rhetoric, appeared on the verge of ordering air strikes designed not only to deter Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad from re-using his chemical weapons, but also, at […]

Two-State Solution or Illusion?  An Analysis 
 
 
by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
 
Part I – The Two-State Solution

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio September 21, 2013 [download audio]  

by KenI hadn't planned to write about Breaking Bad again until the whole series was under our collective belts, but in a post prompted by last week's episode The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum, "That Mind-Bending Phone Call on Last Night's Breaking Bad," has raised two large issues about the relationship between TV programs and TV audiences which I think deser