B’Tselem – September 10, 2013
Four and a half years have passed since the killing of Bassem Abu Rahmeh by a tear gas canister fired at him directly from a short range. The death was documented by three video angles, but the Israeli state announced Monday it is closing the case citing lack of evidence
By Dr. Kaveh L. Afrasiabi | Press TV | September 11, 2013
Citing a “potential positive development” in the Russian proposal regarding Syrian chemical weapons stockpile, US President Barack Obama has put a temporary break on the express train of war on Syria and, simultaneously, accelerated the White House push for a congressional authorization for a military strike.
By Dave Lindorff | This Can’t be Happening | September 10, 2013
In what NPR called “perhaps President Obama’s last best chance” to make his case for launching a war against Syria, the president tellingly didn’t make a single effort to present hard, compelling evidence to prove that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had been behind the alleged Sarin Aug. 21 attack on residents of a suburb of Damascus.
Not one piece of evidence.
Scully: Why would somebody want to sabotage the Space Shuttle?
Mulder: Well, if you were a terrorist, there probably isn’t a more potent symbol of American progress and prosperity. And if you’re an opponent of big science, NASA itself represents a vast money trench that exists outside the crucible and debate of the democratic process. — “Space” broadcast date November 3, 1993.
(12th anniversary of the murder of 2,983 Americans by their own government)_______________________Yom Kippur "Eve" Superstitions of Pagan Judaism (This year Yom Kippur proper begins at sundown on Sept.
Xinhua News Agency
September 11, 2013
Commentary: Military strike against Syria, neither strategic nor tactic
BEIJING: On the eve of the 12th anniversary of 9/11 terrorism attacks against his country, U.S. President Barack Obama gave a rare prime time TV address to another round of pitching on Syria.
Thanks to James Corbett for doing the work@ The Corbett ReportListen:Podcast: Play in new window | Download As we approach the 12th anniversary of 9/11, it is time for 9/11 truth to mature as a movement before it stagnates into insignificance.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Erich Maria Remarque: War’s conqueror worms
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Erich Maria Remarque
From A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1954)
Translated by Denver Lindley
The White House, in a sad attempt to prove all the international support it has for bombing Syria, released a letter that a couple dozen countries signed onto. The letter (below) condemns the use of chemical weapons and strongly demands action by the UN. The UN is not the US-- and not all "action" is bombing. Here's the statement the 24 countries signed onto:
It is now the 12th anniversary of the Israeli Mossad attack on America known forever as "9-11". It is so astounding that now, 12 years after the fact, that most Americans and still many around the world are under the false believe that this pre-planned and absolutely horrendous attack on the United States was conducted by "19 A-rabs hijacking aircraft using box cutters". I for one have long hoped that America would have finally awakened to the truth that their so called "ally" Israel did the deed....For this article, I want to present the following new report from my friend, Whitewraith
By Dr. Kevin Barrett | Press TV | September 11, 2013
On the 12th anniversary of 9/11, everyone is talking about false-flag operations.
Pat Buchanan, a leading American conservative, says that the Syria chemical weapons incident “reeks of a false flag operation.” Buchanan says he cannot believe that Syrian President Assad would be so stupid as to order a chemical strike with no military purpose except to invite the US to bomb his country.
James Corbett joins Scott Teeters of Far Out Radio for an in-depth conversation on the latest developments in the Syria crisis and the Fukushima situation. Topics discussed include media propaganda, the public awakening to the real global agenda, the leaks at Fukushima, and the relationship of the nuclear energy and nuclear weapons industries.
Vexing the U.S. government again, basketball star Dennis Rodman has made a repeat visit to North Korea to visit its leader Kim Jong-un. After his last trip, which brought howls of protest from Washington’s foreign policy establishment and self-righteous screaming by media pundits about his coddling of a despot, I wrote one of the few […]
I decided after taking as much "Pepto-Bismol" as I could to actually listen to the criminal US President's speech to the American public tonight.....
Last week we looked at the persistent Beltway rumors that Boehner has had enough and wants to retire and spend the rest of his life drinking and golfing. If right wing groups have their way, he won't get the chance. They want to defeat him at the polls in 2014.
The violence shifted back east into Diyala province where several bombings targeted civilians. Another family was killed south of the capital where gunmen have taken up storming homes. At least 36 people were killed and 69 more were wounded.
The Senatorial leader of the new antiwar movement takes on Obama’s Syrian war plans:
Twelve years after we were attacked by al-Qaida, 12 years after 3,000 Americans were killed by al-Qaida, President Obama now asks us to be allies with al-Qaida.
Americans by a large majority want nothing to do with the Syrian civil war. We fail to see a national security interest in a war between a leader who gasses his own citizens and Islamic rebels who are killing Christians.
Stop NATO
September 10, 2013
Leader of Exceptional Nation: U.S. Military Doesn’t Do Pinpricks
Rick Rozoff
In his address to the American people, and by its very nature to the world as well as to the city, President Barack Obama delighted in playing the role of the emperor of the first global domain, omniscient and determined and even capricious in regard to the military at his command – the mightiest in the world, the most formidable in history, as he reminded his viewers – and when he will order it to strike Syria.
I don't know what Daniel Squadron can do as NYC public advocate, but he's the person I want to see doing it, en route to whatever higher office he's going to be seeking.by KenIf I had it to do over, maybe instead of deleting all those political-campaign phone messages as quick as I could punch them out, I might have kept a log of calls received, with a view to picking as te "winner" in each contested race the candidate who had inflicted the fewest nuisance calls on me.
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger writes that regardless of diplomatic attempts to delay an attack on Syria, the US objective has nothing to do with chemical weapons and everything to do with wiping out the last independent states in the Middle East.
On Sunday, all Democratic Members of Congress got a 9 x 12 envelope from "President Barack Obama" with the question on the front, "DO YOU STILL HAVE MY BACK?" Pelosi is much beloved by most Democrats in the House. But her "dear colleague" letters on behalf of Obama's resolution to bomb Syria are falling flat. In fact, every time she sends one out-- and Friday was the fifth-- another undecided Democrat switches to NO.
"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode075 - Come To My Party which features brand new sounds from Lissie, The Dodos, Black Joe Lewis,
One of the few things I got right in my last column was the title, which asked "Can This War Be Stopped?" Apparently the answer is: yes, albeit not for any reason the administration and the pundits (or do I repeat myself?) are now crowing about. We are told a Kerry gaffe, an impressive display […]
China.org.cn
September 10, 2013
Why do they love war so?
By Zhao Jinglun
“For what can war but endless war still breed?” – Milton
Barack Obama is feverishly preparing for war against Syria. But why? Al-Assad has crossed the “red line”- he gassed his own people!
By Peter Hart | FAIR | September 10, 2013
There’s plenty of discussion about how the threatened U.S. military attack on Syria is really a way of sending a “message” to Iran. And some media accounts inaccurately portray what is known about Iran.
Xinhua News Agency
September 10, 2013
News Analysis: Despite major risks, Obama to push for Syria strike with nationally televised speech
By Matthew Rusling
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama is to push hard for a strike on Syria with a nationally broadcast speech Tuesday, despite experts’ warnings that military action could entangle the U.S. in a no-win situation.
President Obama might have already achieved more for peace and stability in the Middle East than he is actually aware. The public debate on the Syrian Civil War and a possible U.S. strike on the Assad regime has shown that public opinion strongly favors non-interventionism to the neo-conservativism of recent history. More than a decade of warfare and U.S.-led interventions in the Middle East have illustrated that the use of U.S. military in troubled areas does not necessarily lead to stability and peace.
On my wall is the front page of Daily Express of September 5, 1945 and the words: "I write this as a warning to the world." So began Wilfred Burchett’s report from Hiroshima. It was the scoop of the century. For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not […]
Via Emily Ekins at Reason.com, polling shows 74 percent of Americans think bombing Syria would be “unwise” and half of Americans believe the D.C. establishment wants war more than the public.
We’ve known about the low public support for strikes in Syria form the beginning, but the latest polling in this Reason-Rupe poll, among others, show opposition growing still.
As the American people await the possible commencement of another U.S. war in the Middle East, Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, has put together a series of charts to illustrate the uncontrollable financial cost of our other recent wars.
John Kerry’s promises that a U.S. strike on Syria would be “unbelievably small,” is about as plausible as the price tag being such, if we learn from history.
Veronique adds:
Allan Hoffenblum, a Republican consultant in California politics since the Nixon era, told the NY Times that “Until we solve our Latino problem, we’re not going to be a viable state party, and it’s hard to understand how that’s possible without fixing immigration.” The Times explains what everyone in California is already well-aware of:
By Finian Cunningham | Press TV | September 10, 2013
Forget diplomatic protocol: When a government is outrageously pushing the world into a criminal war based on a crock of lies, that government and its representatives forfeit the customary right to diplomatic niceties.
When truth is being twisted with rhetoric and bombast, then it is incumbent to untwist it with simple words.
I could come back here today and talk to you all in an expanded fashion about the latest developments regarding Syria.
By Gilad Atzmon | September 10, 2013
As the Jewish Lobby (AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and other Jewish groups) faces its first colossal defeat, Jewish media outlets and Zionists commentators are desperate to find a respectful way for AIPAC to ‘get off the tree’.
Antiwar.com
September 10, 2013
Obama’s Fumbling Incompetence on Syria
John Glaser
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by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
September 10, 2013
Preserve the crime scene. Follow the money trail. Establish the motive. Look for those with the means to pull off the crime.
Any criminal investigator will tell you that these are the most basic principles of any investigation. But none of them were followed on 9/11.
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As the US Congress inches closer toward a strike on Syria, many in the West are only now struggling to understand what the conflict is about and how the battle is effecting the Middle East. Now, geopolitical analyst and commentator Sharmine Narwani breaks down the Syrian war, outlining the major players and their motivations. This is the GRTV Feature Interview with our special guest Sharmine Narwani.
CLICK HERE for the audio mp3 of this interview.
In most cases throughout Obama’s presidency, I’ve hesitated to criticize the administration for incompetence or ineptitude. In his famously deliberative style, I’ve typically believed President Obama to be cold and calculating in his ruthless and extra-legal drone war. He has been thoughtful in crafting and executing his military expansionism in Asia aimed at containing a rising China.
RT | September 10, 2013
Footage and photos of the alleged chemical attack in Syria, which the US cites as the reason for a planned military intervention, had been fabricated in advance, speakers told a UN human rights conference in Geneva.
RT | September 10, 2013
President Obama should curb threats of a US military strike on Syria by joining Russia’s “face-saving” proposal for Damascus to give control of its chemical weapons to the international community, independent researcher Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich told RT.
Belfast Telegraph
September 10, 2013
Nato: UK nuclear might ‘crucial’
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said European powers risked being marginalised unless they invested in more military capacity.
The secretary general also indicated that the UK’s nuclear deterrent – which the Liberal Democrats would like to see downgraded – remains “crucial” to the alliance.
Voice of Russia
September 10, 2013
UN has evidence that Syrian rebels used chemical weapons
John Robles
After John Murtha died, his chief of staff/in-house thug, John Hugya, became a lobbyist and a shooting range owner. Today he is a 79 year old NRA fanatic, stinking of Beltway corruption, who wants his old boss' seat in Congress, PA-12.
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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)
RT | July 22, 2010
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is continuing to divide the Middle East. RT sat down with journalist and author Jonathan Cook who says that Israel actually benefits from the division.
Mother Agnes Mariam: “Footage of Chemical Attack in Syria is Fraud”
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