At least 33 people were killed, and 73 more were wounded in the latest violence. Although there were many attacks, they did not seem coordinated.

By Stephan Lefebvre | CEPR Americas Blog | July 30, 2013

 West war crimes in Syria exposed
Horror inflicted on the Syrian people by Western –backed militants. This is Al-Khaalidiyya district of HomsImage courtesy Syrian Perspective
by Finian Cunningham   
 
There was a time during the 30-month covert dirty war on Syria when the Western governments and mainstream media would make a clamor over reported massacres.

By Marc Rogers | The Argentina Independent | July 30, 2013

Bolivian president Evo Morales today inaugurated the first factory for coca-based products, highlighting their health benefits and medicinal uses.
The new plant, opened in a suburb of La Paz, will process around 75,000 tonnes of coca leaf a year to make drinkable infusions, such as coca mate and teas.

By gthomas2219  · July 17, 2013

This dirty little Spanish fascist didn't even make the trains run on timeThere are certainly corrupt Democrats too-- plenty of them. But corruption isn't encouraged by their party's Greed and Selfishness Ayn Randian philosophical underpinnings. Conservatism is about what Depeche Mode called the grabbing hands that get all they can. In the U.S.

Mohammed Assaf: champion of the people or the powerful?

by Reem Kelani     The Electronic Intifada

Bradley Manning got nailed today by a military judge for exposing the truth. The folks who committed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq have almost all walked scot-free. The folks who made the policies that led to the abuses have never faced federal charges. Dreamworks has a movie on Wikileaks that will be coming out this Fall. This is as good a day as any to view the trailer….

Fascist hack Roberto Calderoli and Minister Cecile KyengeIn April, Dr. Cécile Kyenge, originally born in the Congo, was sworn in as Italy's Integration Minister. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies, she is also the first black person in an Italian Cabinet. And neo-fascists, who are a powerful, resurgent force in Italy, went bananas... literally.

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT’s CrossTalk to discuss the state of the US economy, specifically the assault on working people and the poor. Eric explains how low wage jobs have been used as a weapon by the ruling class to convert the US economy from a high wage economy to one that is typified by low wages, temporary jobs, and a reduced standard of living. Eric also examines many other aspects of this issue in this half hour program.

Blythe Masters: Mr President, I am the most qualified person to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke. All Janet Yellen and Larry Summers can do is Print more dollars to support the deficit. Whereas, I invented Credit Default Swaps so who is better qualified than I am to unwind hundreds of trillions of dollars in derivatives that would otherwise bring your presidency to a sudden halt?
Obama: Saving my presidency sounds good.
Valerie Jarrett: But you would continue printing dollars to support the deficit?

Strax innan jag slutade på P3 för säsongen så började jag hosta. Jag tänkte att det gör ju inte så mycket, jag har ju ändå sommarlov. Jag fattade inte riktigt då att jag skulle hosta i sju veckor till. Efter fyra veckor gick jag till vårdcentralen som skrev ut nåt som innehöll både etylmorfin och efedrin. Tror ni det hjälpte? Nej. Lika lite som tigerbalsam mot napalm. Men sommaren har ju inte bara varit trist. Jag fick ju träffa Kayo!

Press TV – July 30, 2013

US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been found guilty on five counts of violating the espionage act for giving secret US documents to WikiLeaks.
Manning’s verdict was announced by the military judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
July 30, 2013
NATO Response Force Training Takes Off with Live Air Manoeuvres in Norway
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Maybe you read the NY Times editorial over the weekend, The War Over Health Care Exchanges.

Truth Mission a Success in SandpointFrom July 26-28 Christian revisionist historian Michael Hoffman brought his research on the curse of usury, and the seduction of Judeo-“Christianity” by Orthodox Judaism, to America’s Promise Bible Church in Sandpoint, Idaho.America’s Promise Ministries, located in the foothills of the Selkirk mountains, has survived media vilification, vandalism and death threats, to win the respect of the local community while serving as a bastion of Christian inte

Trend News Agency
July 29, 2013
Georgia’s ambassador to U.S informed Committee of NATO PA about country’s foreign policy priorities
N. Kirtzkhalia

Tbilisi: Georgia’s ambassador to the U.S., Archil Gegeshidze, took part in the event organized by the Defense and Security Committee of NATO Parliament Assembly. The meeting was held at the initiative of Congressman Michael Turner.

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT's CrossTalk to discuss the state of the US economy, specifically the assault on working people and the poor. Eric explains how low wage jobs have been used as a weapon by the ruling class to convert the US economy from a high wage economy to one that is typified by low wages, temporary jobs, and a reduced standard of living. Eric also examines many other aspects of this issue in this half hour program.

Topic:
Part three in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth. And why do so many in the media want to bury the truth?

Topic:Part three in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth. And why do so many in the media want to bury the truth?This installment deals primarily with what my research has led me to believe was the actual subversion of the United States in the 20th century, by a vast network of internationalist and collectivist revolutionaries, tracing its roots to late-19th century British academia.

Topic:
Part three in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth. And why do so many in the media want to bury the truth?

War in Syria highlights vulnerability of Palestinian refugees
Most of the 71,000 Palestinians who fled Syria to Lebanon are sheltering in the already overcrowded refugee camps. (Mohammed Asad / APA images)
 

Finnish Broadcasting Company/YLE News
July 27, 2013
U.S. official criticises Russia for meddling in Finland’s NATO debate

James J. Townsend, a senior defence official responsible for U.S. policy on NATO and Europe, has criticised Russian interference in Finland’s possible NATO membership.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Henri Troyat: All humanity passing through a crisis of destructive madness

Prensa Latina | July 29, 2013

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations (Minrex) denounced today the United States has hardened the blockade on the island over the last weeks, using for this action the Office for Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury Department.

David Kravets put the vote on the Amash-Conyers amendment to end warrantless domestic spying into a sensible perspective for Wired Last week: Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash. And, appropriately enough, the photo in his piece-- Congress' most corrupt Military Industrial Complex shill, Buck McKeon (R-CA).

After years of China’s rapid growth and development, the world’s second largest economy appears to be slowing down. The government is expecting the lowest rate of economic expansion in more than two decades. James Corbett, editor of The Corbett Report news website, joins RT to talk more on China and its place in the global economy.

By Colin Todhunter | July 30, 2013

By Finian Cunningham | Press TV | July 30, 2013

There was a time during the 30-month covert dirty war on Syria when the Western governments and mainstream media would make a clamor over reported massacres.
Now, despicably, these governments and media just ignore such atrocities.

We are joined again by theologian Dr. Martin Erdmann, former Professor of Philosophy at North Greenville University and Director of the Verax Institute in Greer, South Carolina. In this second of two interviews on the subject of Technocracy and the Smart Grid, Dr. Erdmann introduces the Smart Grid, an energy distribution, allocation, monitoring and control infrastructure which is being quietly constructed across the globe, and which threatens to be the long-awaited tool of Technocracy in its utopian dream to forge a perfect world order.

We are joined again by theologian Dr. Martin Erdmann, former Professor of Philosophy at North Greenville University and Director of the Verax Institute in Greer, South Carolina. In this second of two interviews on the subject of Technocracy and the Smart Grid, Dr. Erdmann introduces the Smart Grid, an energy distribution, allocation, monitoring and control infrastructure which is being quietly constructed across the globe, and which threatens to be the long-awaited tool of Technocracy in its utopian dream to forge a perfect world order.

Arabs, Beware the “Small States” Option

By Sharmine Narwani      Al- Akhbar

At the heart of all politics lies cold, hard opportunism. New circumstances, changed alliances and unexpected events will always conspire to alter one’s calculations to benefit a core agenda.

Nile BowieRussia TodayTies between Washington and Moscow are at their lowest point in recent times, but if the United States truly wishes for better relations with Russia, it isn’t going to get it through imposing sanctions as a consequence of granting amnesty to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The US Senate has passed a bill authored by hawkish Senator Lindsey Graham that will enable Washington to move towards sanctioning c

WASHINGTON – To the glee of her critics, Janet Napolitano, the longest-serving secretary at the Department of Homeland Security in its decade-long existence, has announced her resignation. No longer will Republicans have old Janet to kick around. As for the civil libertarians and frustrated national security state watchers, she was a reliable foot solider and [...]

On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. A byproduct of this new age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, [...]

In his second term, Richard Nixon had Watergate, but also the rescue of Israel in the Yom Kippur War. In his second term, Ronald Reagan had Iran-Contra, but also a treaty eliminating U.S. and Soviet missiles in Europe, his “tear-down-this-wall” moment in Berlin and his lead role in ending the Cold War. In his second [...]

There's no question that the intrepid StopRush and FlushRush activists deserve a lot of the credit for this, but Cumulus, America's second biggest radio chain announced that they can't make any money on Limbaugh's show

At least 90 people were killed and another 266 were wounded across Iraq today. Many were killed in a series of coordinated attacks against Shi'ites across Baghdad and southern Iraq.

Canada is Israeli occupied territory.  It is so sad for me to make that statement, because it is absolutely true.  When it comes to supporting the criminal and terrorist state of Israel, no matter how evil and sinister its actions may be, there is no more a staunch supporter of that horrible state than my country, Canada!I have long wondered about how this country, Canada, that used to, at one time, pride itself on being possibly the most peace loving and honest country on the face of planet Earth has now turned into nothing more than a Jewish controlled sock puppet that bends over backward

RT :: July 29, 2013

New Zealand faces allegations of spying on a journalist in Afghanistan with the help of US agencies over his coverage of NZ’s treatment of prisoners. Defense denies the allegations, while the PM says reporters can get caught in surveillance nets.

So you think you have a right to know something, anything, about the workings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court? Maybe we need to, um, discuss this at greater length in, you know, secret."[The members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] all seem to have some type of a pretty conservative bent, I don't think that is what the Congress envisioned when giving the chief justice that authority.

Rorate Caeli writes:

The morning after blacklisting Hezbollah: is the EU experiencing ‘buyer’s remorse’?

by Franklin Lamb
Damascus
 

UPDATE AT BOTTOM!  As of this moment, I find this quite dubious.And, am looking for more info on this most recent alleged Israeli airstrike.The story comes via Israeli media from opposition sources.Very questionable sourcing, indeed! Report: Israel Bombs Another Syrian Weapons Convoy

U.S. Air Forces Europe – Air Forces Africa
July 29, 2013
U.S. Airmen jump with Bulgarians during two-week flying training
By Airman 1st Class Trevor Rhynes
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
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Another wise Brain Schatz supporterMore often than not, EMILY's List backs conservative women but they claim they only back ones who are pro-Choice. And most of the conservative women they endorse are indeed pro-Choice... kinda, sorta. Sometimes they're far less pro-Choice than the progressive men EMILY's List is always on a jihad against.

How UN schemers screwed up Middle East peace prospects for all time…with one 3-letter word  
  by Stuart Littlewood      Intifada Palestine

By Sharmine Narwani | Al-Akhbar | 2013-07-29

At the heart of all politics lies cold, hard opportunism. New circumstances, changed alliances and unexpected events will always conspire to alter one’s calculations to benefit a core agenda.
In the Middle East today, those calculations are being adjusted with a frequency unseen for decades.

♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode069 - Star Dream Girl which features brand new sounds from Pigeon, Chapin Sisters, Black Marble,

By John Robles | The Voice Of Russia | July 28, 2013