MEMO | September 2, 2013

It has been alleged that the Egyptian coup government is working with the UAE government and the ex-Fatah leader, exposed as being complicit in many anti-Palestinian plots, Mohammed Dahlan, to overthrow the democratically-elected goverment in Palestine

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 077. In this podcast, recorded during my morning constitutional (stroll/walk), I discuss my take on how best to view the libertarian idea: its origins and basic concepts, from homesteading to body-ownership, inalienability, intellectual property, “coercion” vs. aggression, state vs. government, tactics and strategy and terminology and semantics vs. substance, etc., […]

By Jon Rappoport | nomorefakenews | September 1, 2013

You’re just a click away on your remote. Get the popcorn. It’s a blast. This one has moral stature. They used chemical weapons, so they will pay.
Don’t miss Chris Matthews. He’s tingling all over. “The president did the right thing and he upheld the Constitution. Only a living god could figure out how to pull that off.”

Russian Information Agency Novosti
September 2, 2013
China Speaks Up Against Unilateral Action on Syria
BEIJING: China has urged Washington not to take unilateral action on Syria over the alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians, the country’s Xinhua news agency reported a senior Chinese official as saying on Monday.

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts

Arnold Zweig: Conducting the business of murder with embittered reluctance

MEMO | September 2, 2013

The Egyptian army is working to create a buffer zone on the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip in a purported effort to undermine weapon smuggling and chaos caused by militants in the Sinai Peninsula.
The military envisions that the ten kilometres long and 500 metre wide buffer zone is to be a building free area without trees. The area stretches from the Rafah Crossing through to the Mediterranean Sea.

By Ian Swanson – The Hill – 09/02/13

The NSA monitored communications of the leaders of Brazil and Mexico, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald said in an interview on Brazilian television, according to the Associated Press.
The revelations come days before President Obama is to travel to Russia for a meeting of the G20.

When Lieberman finally recognized Connecticut's electoral calculus and retired last year, I was tempted to throw away my collection of Lieberman art. But something told me not to, that Lieberman still wasn't through polluting America's public spaces.

Press TV – | September 2, 2013

Top secret documents have shown that the US National Security Agency targeted France’s Foreign Ministry for spying.
Documents seen by Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly show that the US spy agency spied on the electronic communications of the French Foreign Ministry by breaking into the ministry’s computer network.

Al-Manar | September 2, 2013

Syria asked the UN to prevent “any aggression” against Syria following a call over the weekend by US President Barack Obama for punitive strikes against the Syrian military for last month’s chemical weapons attack.
US military action will be put to a vote in Congress, which ends its summer recess on September 9.

President Obama announced this weekend that he has decided to use military force against Syria and would seek authorization from Congress when it returned from its August break. Every Member ought to vote against this reckless and immoral use of the US military. But even if every single Member and Senator votes for another war, […]

Why did the President do an about face and suddenly decide to let Congress vote on intervening in Syria? It was the polls that did it: only nine percent of the American people support a bombing campaign. The number goes up somewhat if it is proved the Syrian government is responsible for the poison gas […]

Welcome back to The Asia-Pacific Perspective, that monthly show where James Corbett of corbettreport.com and Broc West of apperspective.net break down all the latest news and headlines from the Asia-Pacific region. In this month’s conversation (recorded on the morning of August 31st):
STORY #1:
As Australia takes UN Security Council reins, not only Syria on the agenda
http://ur1.ca/fadk5

Here's where you can submit your questions for Talking Bad.by KenI didn't think there would be a "TV Watch" this week.

American Hypocrisy on Chemical Weapons. BOMB Syria but APPLAUD and Protect Israel

By Mohamed Khodr
 

“You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria”…Henry A. Kissinger

The insane push for war against the innocent nation of Syria has completely unraveled now, and America and the criminal state of Israel have been exposed as the insane war mongering nations they truly are.  These criminals can no longer even keep their lies straight, and the US Government is desperately looking for any out to save face and to try to keep its all powerful image alive around the world....

At least 27 Iraqis were killed and 49 more were wounded in a number of attacks around Iraq. An unknown number of Iranian refugees were killed or wounded at Camp Ashraf as well. As many as 52 of them were killed and 30 more were wounded. The circumstances surrounding their deaths is unclear.

By Damian Lataan | September 1, 2013

The US and their allies are expending a lot of effort in trying to convince both each other and public opinion that intervention in Syria would be legal both under their own respective domestic laws as well as under international law. Little, however, is being said about whether or not such action would be moral.

Leaving out redistricting's incumbent vs incumbent primaries, in 2012 only 22 incumbents lost their House seats. Not one of them was a progressive. Every single one of them was a conservative. Only two Democrats were challenged by non-incumbents in primaries, Blue Dog Tim Holden (PA) and ConservaDem Silvestre Reyes (TX).

A most unusual thing happened yesterday [Aug. 31] at the protest in front of
the White House against President Obama’s planned bombing of Syria.

By Ron Paul | September 1, 2013

President Obama announced this weekend that he has decided to use military force against Syria and would seek authorization from Congress when it returned from its August break. Every Member ought to vote against this reckless and immoral use of the US military. But even if every single Member and Senator votes for another war, it will not make this terrible idea any better because some sort of nod is given to the Constitution along the way.

International Solidarity Movement | September 1, 2013

Hebron, Occupied Palestine – On Friday 30th August, Israeli soldiers arrested four Palestinian boys and held and abused them in a military base for around four hours.

Here’s what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to say about using force against another country — one considered far more offensive than Syria — when she was a U.S. Senator:

“If the administration believes that any, any, use of force against Iran is necessary, the president must come to congress to seek that authority.” –Sen. Hillary Clinton, Feb 14, 2007

Again referring to Iran, Vice President Joe Biden, agrees. And then some – - -

On Wednesday, Ken pointed out that more Louisiana Republicans blame Obama for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina than blame George W. Bush, 29-28%-- with another 44% "unsure." Perhaps most Louisiana Republicans didn't recall that they had never heard of Barack Obama in 2005 when Katrina struck. At the time he had been a U.S. senator for a few months. "Oh my God," I thought when I heard about this; "are these people voting?

"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode074 - Mind Your Manners which features brand new sounds from Typhoon, Blind Boys of Alabama, Lower 48,

 Anderson Cooper and CNN have been caught staging fake news about Syria to justify military intervention.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By JG Vibes
Intellihub.com

Daniel Sutin as Tonio the clown in Austin, 2012

Welcome back to The Asia-Pacific Perspective, that monthly show where James Corbett of corbettreport.com and Broc West of apperspective.net break down all the latest news and headlines from the Asia-Pacific region. In this month’s conversation (recorded on the morning of August 31st):

Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
 
 
by Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh       MintPress News

It is Sunday, the start of the month of September, and again time for my weekly rant....First, Many have again wondered why I do not do daily posts like I used to.... I have been busy the last while with doing a course upgrade for my job, as well as taking care of some family business.... It has been hard to keep up with this blog at times, so bear with me....

Xinhua News Agency
September 1, 2013
Commentary: Congressional approval no license for attacking Syria
By Lu Yu
BEIJING: U.S. President Barack Obama’s last-minute decision to put a planned military attack on Syria on hold displays some sort of prudence, but it does not end the worry for a war-weary American public and the world’s peace-loving nations.

Grassroots pressure has forced President Obama to seek approval from Congress for an attack on Syria. But Obama is hell-bent on ordering a missile assault on that country, and he has two very important aces in the hole.
The administration is about to launch a ferocious propaganda blitz that will engulf a wide range of U.S. media. And as a fallback, the president is reserving the option of attacking Syria no matter what Congress does.

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
August 30, 2013
FACT SHEET: The United States and Latvia – NATO Allies and Global Partners

BALTOPS 2013

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war

Ernest Hemingway: All armies are the same

Fred Upton represents a blue-leaning district in western Michigan that Obama won 53-45% in 2008 and lost to Romney by a handful of votes. The biggest county in the 6th district, by far, is Kalamazoo. Upton only got 49% of the vote there last year (same as his under-funded opponent).

By Julian Hattem – The Hill – 08/30/13

A federal appeals court has ruled that the White House can keep secret some records of visitors who enter the building.

♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode073 - Hold Yourself Up which features brand new sounds from Superchunk, Mayer Hawthorne, Islands,

Obama and global intifada

 
by Mazin Qumsiyeh

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on Press TV on Friday August 30, 2013  to discuss the latest on the situation in Syria.  He examines the political divides that exist in the US ruling establishment between military and civilian factions.  Draitser explains how Syria might respond to any military strike, including widening the conflict to other parts of the region.  He also lays out the scenario for a possible escalation before any strikes might take place.

"Perhaps the storyteller," suggests The New Yorker's James Woods, "is especially ill suited for happy family life." Foremost among his subjects is Saul Bellow (above). "True genius, and I've known a few, is alienating. Geniuses perceive the world in a different way than other people do, and as a result they have trouble interacting with other people. . . . In the old days, geniuses were tolerated, even coddled. . . .

At least 29 people were killed and 63 more were wounded in ongoing violence. Some of the casualties occurred during protests against generous benefits to lawmakers. The demonstrations took place in Baghdad and several cities across southern Iraq.

Punishment for Syria, rewards for Syria’s neighbour Israel

 by Stuart Littlewood
US Secretary of State John Kerry accuses Syrian government forces of killing 1,429 people, including 426 children, in a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week described as an “inconceivable horror” and “a crime against conscience”.
President Obama is considering lethal punitive strikes against the Assad regime, strikes that Britain, for one, will not take part in.

http://youtu.be/QEgkJP1pfvg
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on Press TV on Friday August 30, 2013  to discuss the latest on the situation in Syria.  He examines the political divides that exist in the US ruling establishment between military and civilian factions.  Draitser explains how Syria might respond to any military strike, including widening the conflict to other parts of the region.  He also lays out the scenario for a possible escalation before any strikes might take place.

The NY Times Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan, admits she detects-- or at least readers bitching at her detect-- a bias in her paper's coverage, a bias that presents the administration's propaganda as conventional wisdom.

By Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance | August 31, 2013

Once again, let me play devil’s advocate.
Aside from the obvious fact that no head of state, with or without the approval of his nation’s legislative branch, can inform the world that he intends to military attack another nation that threatens neither his own or any other country (despite Obama’s repeated and thoroughly dishonest invocations of “national security”) constituting a gross insult to the international order, look what in effect he has done:

The Agenda with Steve Paikin · March 10, 2010

Guests:
Hadi Dowlatabadi is Canada research chair and professor in Applied Mathematics and Global Change at the University of British Columbia.
Richard Lindzen is a professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See, also: http://www.jpands.org/vol18no3/lindzen.pdf

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