Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. KDKA-1020AM, Pittsburgh with Chris Moore August 19, 2013 Originally aired on Sunday, Aug. 18 [download audio]
The takeaway from the scandal over the detention by British authorities of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s partner, David Miranda, should be obvious: it was an egregious abuse of power by a desperate and cretinous government. Miranda was detained for 9 hours, the maximum allowed under a British anti-terrorism law. Uncontroversially, as Greenwald himself has laid out, British authorities had no suspicion whatsoever that Miranda was at all involved in terrorism-related activities.
Welcome to SeaWorld Orlando -- just not too many of you.by KenI know it's going to appear in the following that I'm rolling in Schadenfreude, reveling in the banana-peel-style slip of a corporate muckety-muck, but nothing could be further from the truth. I am merely exercising my customary fascination with the fine calibrations of the marketplace as practiced by America's ever-intrepid business visionaries.
Tom Blanton’s photowork and caption captures the sad finale of Bradley Manning. “Those with proper authority” …. I liked that phrase better when Stephen Colbert uses it.
See more of Blanton’s artwork & zippety headlines at http://www.pnar.org.
By ALESSANDRA BAJEC | August 19, 2013
A new mission vows to challenge the blockade of Gaza by sea following Freedom Flotilla efforts since 2010, and Free Gaza missions preceding Cast-Lead in 2008. Not a Gaza-bound aid convoy this time.
With a crew of Palestinians and international activists on board, Gaza’s Ark will sail from the port of Gaza, carrying Palestinian products to buyers around the world, to defy Israel’s illegal and inhuman blockade.
I guess if Troy King is still in the closet, he can be on the Alabama GOP steering committee.
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. Unbound Radio Truth-A-Thon Roundtable August 17, 2013 [download audio]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
August 19, 2013
NATO assists Kazakhstan Peace Keeping Battalion with Exercise Steppe Eagle
[Previous NATO-supported "peacekeeping" missions included one in Iraq from 2003-2008 and attempts to replicate that model in Afghanistan until it was blocked by MPs in the Kazakh parliament in 2011 - RR]
Steppe Eagle 2012
The Onion has a commentary up by someone bravely pronouncing his willingness to die for his country. Or…a country.
Karin: I concur completely the whole Egyptian meltdown has more twists and turns then a mountain road.Including the treacherous conditions!UPDATED BELOW This was starting to look like a case of needing more background. Myself, I am coming away with the idea that the military bloodbath and all that has ensued is serving as some sort of distraction from the Sinai region on one level. On any other levels? I am just not sure. Syria, Cyprus, Lebanon, Sudan.
Ken used to be an opera critic for the NY Times but, that aside, neither of us get many calls from ace Times reporters working on explosive investigative pieces about criminal congressmen. A couple years ago, though, several Times reporters called me because, it turns out, DWT was the first to report anything at all about a rogue FBI agent named "Mikey Suits" who went over to the Dark Side-- first to the Mob and then to the GOP for the Mob.
Press TV – August 18, 2013
Video-sharing site YouTube deactivated Press TV’s official page without explanation after the Israeli-American Anti-Defamation League (ADL) ordered it to terminate the Iranian channel’s live broadcast.
“We have not been able to upload new videos on our official YouTube page since July 25. Both YouTube and (its parent company) Google have declined to comment,” said Press TV Newsroom Director Hamid Reza Emadi.
By Sharmine Narwani | Al-Akhbar | August 19, 2013
Beirut was thrown into turmoil on Thursday evening as a terrorist attack against residents of Dahiyeh – a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital and a predominantly Shia neighborhood – threatened to draw the country into a region wide crisis.
Carl Sciortino with Ed Markey on election dayLast night, Alan Grayson (D-FL) endorsed Carl Sciortino for Congress, the progressive in a tight 5-way primary to replace Ed Markey. He joins People for the American Way, Blue America and all the Massachusetts LGBT and progressive organizations who have already endorsed.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
August 19, 2013
EXERCISE RAMSTEIN ROVER TO GET UNDERWAY EARLY THIS FALL
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Emmanuel Roblès
From Vesuvius (1961)
Translated by Milton Stansbury
The Lord of the Rings is an epic tale of good and evil, centering around a lowly hobbit’s quest to destroy the One Ring with its magical power before it falls into the hands of Sauron, the dark lord. The story is well-known by now, if not in its own right then from the popular Hollywood adaptations of the tale. But what is the deeper significance of the story? What does the ring really stand for? Is the ring a symbol of our quest for political power, and if so, then was Tolkein an anarchist?
Press TV – August 19, 2013
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has for the first time published a document that confirms Washington’s role in the 1953 coup d’état against the democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq.
The open acknowledgment by the US intelligence community comes some six decades after the British- and American-backed military overthrow.
Nile Bowie discusses the Fukushima disaster and the daunting possibility of economic collapse in an increasingly militaristic Japan with James Corbett, independent journalist and editor of the Corbett Report:NB: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition has grasped a strong mandate in recent parliamentary elections, and this is viewed as a green light to continue pressing ahead with the much-touted “Abenomics” economic reform program.
James CorbettInternational Forecaster / Corbett ReportIt was the Sentence Heard Round the Blogosphere. The Sentence That Launched a Thousand Headlines. The Sentence to End All Sentences. Or so some would have us believe:
Quit meddling, Kerry, leave the Israel problem to the proper authorities
The former ambassador to Israel tapped by Secretary of State John Kerry as U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations just a year and a half ago voiced pessimism about the prospects for a peace agreement.
by Stuart Littlewood
I can't wait to see which Republican troll-- I'd bet on fake preacher Bryan Fischer or one of two Texas congressmen, Louie Gohmert or domestic terrorist Steve Stockman-- is the first to accuse Obama of being in thrall to aliens from Mars. The proof: His unjustified anger at Ed Snowden may be due to the exposure of Area 51, where the U.S. works jointly with aliens on various projects.
Bill Still of BillStill.com joins us to discuss his latest documentary film, Jekyll Island. We talk about the political and economic climate that led to the creation of the Fed, and how the banksters have worked to keep the public in the dark about the central issue of their economic existence: money creation and the political power wielded by the privately owned Federal Reserve.
APOLOGIES FOR THE LATE POSTING: I really wanted to do something more with this post, and I just wasn't getting it done. Finally I decided to go with what I had more or less ready, reserving the right to return to the subject.MONDAY NIGHT UPDATE: With time to reflect, I've revamped the post to include vocal texts. After all, if I'm inviting you to listen, really listen, to the various performances, and I am, I am, the texts could help, and even raise questions like: For which recordings are the printed texts most and least necessary? -- Ken
By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | August 17, 2013
The vast majority of medical experts in the U.S. who help formulate disease and diagnostic guidelines are taking money from the pharmaceutical industry, according to a new study.
Sunday again... And it is time for my weekly rant....There are so many things going on right now around the world that it is tough to know where to begin... I thought I would begin with the massive upheaval that is now going on in Egypt....When I first saw that Egypt was in revolt again, much like two years ago, I smelled a rat..
After giving up his House seat to run a losing battle for an open Republican Senate seat in New Mexico, Stevan Pearce was reelected to his former House seat two years later (2010) by defeating, 55-44%, a very weak Blue Dog Democrat Harry Teague, who had depressed Democratic turnout by voting with the GOP on too many critical issues.
America has changed radically since 1970. And those changes are reflected in the changing meaning of the words we use.
Romanian News Agency
August 16, 2013
Foreign Ministry says Basescu’s speech about Moldova’s union with Romania generated complications
By Carla Stea | Global Research | August 17, 2013
“The United States appears to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” Simon Bolivar
Anthony Lawson · December 8, 2007
A comparison between what we are told and what we can see, with our own eyes. World Trade Center 7 collapsed after having been damaged by fire and falling debris, but the collapse looks very much like a controlled demolition.
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Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler: liar or loon?by KenWe know that the Right has excellent skills in picking its rhetorical battles: the kinds of things that will inflame public sentiment regardless of the truth of them, which usually ranges from "not much" to "undetectable." And one especially clever example has been "voter fraud."It sounds like an issue that strikes at the heart of democracy: all those (yuck!) "other" peoples racking up fraudulent voter registrations and
Press TV – August 18, 2013
An overwhelming majority of Americans say James Clapper, the spy master who lied to Congress about domestic surveillance, should be prosecuted for perjury, results from a new survey show.
Including 13 suspects who were killed during a security operation in northern Iraq, at least 35 people were killed and 23 more were wounded.
By Vijay Prashad | Jadiliyya | August 15 2013
“Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise,” Samantha Power, 2003.
RT | August 17, 2013
Even the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT.
Judge Walton says: "The FISC is forced to rely upon the accuracy of the information that is provided to the Court. The FISC does not have the capacity to investigate issues of noncompliance."by KenYou want a good laugh?You know the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the one created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to issue surveillance warrants in cases too secret to go through normal court channels?
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio August 17, 2013 [download audio] Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi Gamal Abdel Nasser [...]
