School of the Americas Watch

Professor Christopher BusbyRussia TodayFukushima is a nightmare disaster area, and no one has the slightest idea what to do.

Written by Rights Action, Rainforest Rescue, Biofuelwatch, and Food First | August 6, 2013

For the last two years, I felt that I was one of the only people out here in the so called "Blogosphere" that was trying to keep up with the dismal news coming out of Fukushima Japan about the horrific nuclear disaster that is still ongoing to this very day..... It troubled me immensely that so many people ignored this horrible situation and the fact that this is STILL a world threatening situation....But recently, the reports coming out of Fukushima seemed to go from bad to worse...

U.S. Marine Corps
August 8, 2013
Khaan Quest 2013 begins
By Sgt. Ben Eberle
Marine Corps Installations Pacific

Yesterday we noted the endorsement of Rush Holt, who is white, by African-American civil rights leader Edith Savage-Jennings.

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
August 8, 2013
Chief of the Danish Home Guard Visits Georgia

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Henri Barbusse: Selections on war
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Henri Barbusse
From Chains (1924)
Translated by Stephen Haden Guest

By Christopher Busby | RT | August 7, 2013

Fukushima is a nightmare disaster area, and no one has the slightest idea what to do. The game is to prevent the crippled nuclear plant from turning into an “open-air super reactor spectacular” which would result in a hazardous, melted catastrophe.

By Damian Lataan | August 8, 2013

Last week the US and some of their allies shut up diplomatic shop in various places through North Africa and the Middle East due to a threat heard on the ‘al Qaeda’ grapevine that a big attack was being planned for the end Ramadan.

How is it that the government can charge Edward Snowden with espionage for telling a journalist that the feds have been spying on all Americans and many of our allies, but the NSA itself, in a public relations campaign intended to win support for its lawlessness, can reveal secrets and do so with impunity? That […]

As I have become accustomed to nearly every type of outrage here in the land of the BushObamas, it takes quite a bit to either surprise or shock me. But last week was a twofer and I’ll start with the shock. On Thursday morning I was reading my way through a rather silly piece "Rand […]

The critical moment in the political trial of the century was on 28 February when Bradley Manning stood and explained why he had risked his life to leak tens of thousands of official files. It was a statement of morality, conscience and truth: the very qualities that distinguish human beings. This was not deemed mainstream […]

Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman based his 2006 warrant for the arrest of top Iranian officials in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 on the claims of representatives of the armed Iranian opposition Mujahedin E Khalq (MEK), the full text of the document reveals. The central piece of evidence cited […]

Although Stephen Fry is best known in the U.S. for his role as Melchett in Blackadder and as Gordon Deitrich in V For Vendetta, in the U.K. he's a major celebrity-- an actor, screenwriter, director, author, playwright, journalist, comedian, television and radio personality and... an activist. He's also gay.

At least 39 people were killed and 111 more were wounded in continued violence. The worst attack occurred in Tikrit where dozens were killed or wounded. The Kirkuk area also saw a large number of wounded, but those bombs failed to kill anyone.

AIPAC flexes muscle on Iran, Egypt
Image credit: republicreport.org
 
 
by Alex Kane

RT | August 7, 2013

The rate at which contaminated water has been pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant is worse than thought before, an Industry Ministry official said as PM Shinzo Abe pledged to step up efforts to halt the crisis.
“We think that the volume of water is about 300 tons a day,” said Yushi Yoneyama, an official with the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, which regulates Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO).

Someone on Facebook reminded me of one of my somewhat informal comments providing a summary explanation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s argumentation ethics defense of libertarian rights. That post first quoted (a summary of) Hoppe thusly: The mere fact that an individual argues presupposes that he owns himself and has a right to his own life and […]

Seriously, have the Villagers seriously started to take Elizabeth Warren seriously?by KenAs I mentioned last night, I was taken aback yesterday by a posting on washingtonpost.com's "The Fix" blog.

RT | August 7, 2013

Deployments to war zones and combat exposure have no effect on military suicides and fail to explain the increase in self-inflicted deaths that occurred from 2001 to 2008, concluded a new medical study, thereby contradicting previous research.

John Pilger describes the importance of Bradley Manning's 'triumph' and of other whistleblowers, whose inspiration may well be their most enduring achievement.

Lots of people are asking good questions about the veracity of the Obama administration’s claims regarding this latest terrorist attack that they foiled by intercepting electronic communications between Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of core al Qaeda, and Nasir al Wuhayshi, a high level operative in the Yemeni affiliate.

This is one of those tying up loose ends kind of posts... Or following up, if you please?Going long.

Republic News Agency
August 7, 2013
South Ossetia does not exclude further military provocations of Georgia

South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov does not exclude further military provocations from the Georgian side, declared the head of state at today`s press conference in Tskhinval.
According to him, Georgia continues to build up its military capability and strengthen its armed forces.

Walk away, Palestinians!

Choose new leaders and fight for justice under fair and decent procedural rules
 by Stuart Littlewood      Intifada-Palestine.com

By Gilad Atzmon | August 7, 2013

Headquartered in Camarillo, California (near an infamous mental institution), the Salem Radio Network syndicates their right-wing "Christian" talk shows to a couple thousand stations, above and beyond the 100 they actually own. They also own a chain of Republican Party propaganda websites like Townhall.com and Hotair.com and stream their hate-and-poison-for-profit to another hundred right-wing websites.

This is the 49th anniversary of Congress’s passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, by which the Lyndon Johnson administration lied the nation into the Vietnam War. The resolution was spurred by false assertions of multiple North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. ships. At a National Security Council meeting on the evening that the first report came in, Johnson asked, “Do they want war by attacking our ships in the middle of the Gulf of Tonkin?” CIA chief John McCone answered, “No. The North Vietnamese are reacting defensively to our attack on their off-shore islands.

Shimon Gapso, an Israeli mayor of Upper Nazareth, recently said that Upper Nazareth is a Jewish city and “will be Jewish forever.” In response to this, and in consideration of anti-Arab statements Gapso allegedly made in the past (and, say, his opposition to the establishment of Arab schools in his city), Israeli civil rights groups called on the attorney general to investigate Gapso’s raci

RT | August 7, 2013

Cases of misconduct among airport screeners employed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) increased by 26 per cent between 2010 and 2012, according to a new report. It comes as the agency expands its services beyond airport security gates.

RT | August 7, 2013

The journalist involved in the publication of leaks provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden said in a testimony to the Brazilian government that he possesses up to 20,000 secret US government files.

The Cato Institute’s Justin Logan at POLITICO argues “Washington’s war hawks are gearing up to scare you with another phantom devil: isolationism.”

From the Guardian’s letters section:

When you open the right wing propaganda site, Townhall, the first thing that pops up onto your screen is the form they use to mine screen names they sell to various right-wing organizations (above). What a business model-- but it does get them the target audience of low-info/high-anger morons they're looking for.

OLIVER STONE: … Every school kid — still, my daughter in her school, in private school, in good school, is still learning this: We dropped the bomb because we had to, because the Japanese resistance was fanatic, and we would have lost many American lives taking Japan. This is one — there’s no alternative to that story.   –Oliver Stone on the Untold U.S. History from the Atomic Age to Vietnam to Obama’s Drone Wars | Democracy Now!

Al-Akhbar | August 7, 2013

Four Israeli soldiers were injured on Wednesday by a landmine after having crossed into Lebanese territory, the Lebanese National News Agency reported.

By Nicola Nasser | August 6, 2013

The critical issue of the ever expanding illegal Israeli colonial settlements on the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) in the West Bank (WB), which are peace killing in eastern Jerusalem in particular, will make or break the newly resumed Palestinian – Israeli negotiations.

Sousveillance explains the psychopathic elites need for the Apple Technology mentioned yesterday.Apple Inc. Patents Technology to aid the Fascist Police State. Clearly the elite were feeling threatened by an empowered populace... Too bad for them.Sousveillance will continue and evolve.I enjoyed this video by James Corbett. Send thanks the anonymous commenter who left the link. And applaud the courage of the individuals who work for freedom, however it is they choose to work for it.

Armenpress
August 7, 2013
In USA Safar Abiyev discussed NATO base establishment in Nakhchivan

A week from today, we'll wake up knowing who won the Democratic nomination-- tantamount to election-- for the open New Jersey U.S. Senate seat. Will it be another progressive dedicated to representing working families? Or will it be a shameless careerist who takes his every move from his Wall Street benefactors. Last week, Blue America and Progressive Democrats of America made the case for Rush Holt against Cory Booker.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Jules Romains: Selections on war
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Jules Romains
From Verdun: The Battle (1938)
Translated by Gerard Hopkins

Aletho News | August 7, 2013

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening urged increasing pressure on Iran relating to her nuclear program and warned that “if the pressure will drop, nothing would deter Iran from achieving its nuclear goals” according to Israeli media reports.
During a meeting with a delegation of 36 American congressmen headed by Congressman Steny Hoyer, Netanyahu claimed that though Iran’s president said pressure wouldn’t help, in the last two decades pressure was the only thing that helped.

Leon Pittard of FairdinkumRadio.com joins us once again to discuss the process of getting off of the corporate farming food supply chain. We talk about Leon’s own gardening efforts, tips for developing nutritive soil, juicing, preparing and preserving homegrown foods, urban gardening, and motivation for those not blessed with a green thumb. You can follow Leon’s gardening progress at his YouTube channel, fairdinkumradio1.

My article How We Come To Own Ourselves has been translated into Polish: Zbiór artykułów które przetłumaczyłem na język polski.

As Congress and the American people grapple with the fallout from Edward Snowden’s stunning revelations – which continue to come in, thanks to Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian – we are hearing a kind of defense coming from the authoritarians in our midst: none of this is new, they argue, so what’s all the fuss […]

Hey, let’s talk spying! In Surveillance America, this land of spookery we all now inhabit, what else is there to talk about? Was there anyone growing up like me in the 1950s who didn’t know Revolutionary War hero and spy Nathan Hale’s last words before the British hanged him: “I only regret that I have […]

The United States, which has dominated East Asia since World War II, is now "pivoting" towards that region to stem the rise of a new regional power – China. The instinct of most status quo powers is to foil the ascent of a rival for domination. This approach rarely works, because the emerging power is […]

US; the real global terror alert
A man stands in a sea of rubble in Hiroshima on September 8, 1945
By Finian Cunningham
 
(PRESS TV) – Sixty-eight years ago this week, the United States wiped out more than 200,000 people when it dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.