The Senate wound up with 11 freshmen after the 2012 elections, 6 graduates from the House 4 from state government and one-- Elizabeth Warren-- direct from outside the grubby, hidebound realm of electoral politics:
The Obama administration is violating international law and United Nations resolutions in conducting its largely secret war in Somalia.
I have said in countless articles before that the entire Israel/Palestinian "Peace Process" is nothing more than a sham and a total fraud. The facts are simple... Israel absolutely does not want peace with the Palestinians, ever.... They want territory, and they want the Palestinians OUT of Palestine, period!I want to present the following article that comes from the Activist Post website, at www.activistpost.com, by author Stephen Lendman.
By RYAN ABBOTT | Courthouse News | July 23, 2013
WASHINGTON – A federal judge dismissed claims that the CIA dosed a bioweapons scientist with LSD in 1953, killed him and made it look like a suicide.
By Dr. Kevin Barrett | Press TV | July 23, 2013
On Monday, the European Union formally labeled Hezbollah a “terrorist” group.
Why?
Because Hezbollah has gone to war with al-Qaeda.
RT | July 22, 2013
The US is pressuring Russia to hand over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to face espionage charges. However, it routinely denies Russian requests to hand over suspected criminals living in America.
“Law agencies asked the US on many occasions to extradite wanted criminals through Interpol channels, but those requests were neither met nor even responded to,” spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry Andrey Pilipchuk said on Monday.
According to the nation’s top military officer, direct U.S. intervention in Syria would be extremely costly, risk mission creep, lend itself to unintended consequences, and may be ineffective.
Hard to imagine, but MN-06 is likely to wind up with someone WORSE than Bachmann!Drowning in scandal and extremism-- and facing a rematch with Jim Graves, the Democrat who nearly beat her last year-- Bachmann was uncharacteristically wise to announce her retirement from Congress.
Anonymous left a Pipelinestan piece from Pepe Escobar @ AT:Thanks, it works very well with the pieces I already had set aside for today's post. So......here we go
Stars and Stripes
July 22, 2013
In letter to Congress, Dempsey outlines Syria options
By Chris Carroll
Tomahawk cruise missile launch
United States European Command
July 20, 2013
USEUCOM and IDF begin Juniper Stallion 13
U.S. European Command Public Affairs
STUTTGART, Germany: U.S. European Command and the Israel Defense Forces are scheduled to begin Juniper Stallion 13, a bilateral aerial exercise held between the U.S. and Israeli air forces this week in Israel…
The context for this saying is the conforming oppression of society upon the unique individual."Humanity is the worst obstacle to it's own higher learning. More then anything else that might be cited (such as language skills or imaginative facilities) this is what makes our species unique. We are encouraged by society to serve and perpetuate the given order, not the higher order of evolutional striving"John LashThoughts?
Ma’an – July 22, 2013
JERUSALEM – Israeli police on Monday banned a Palestinian woman from the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where she teaches, for three months.
Um Radwan told Ma’an that Israeli police telephoned her on Sunday, summoning her to the Russian Compound interrogation center.
Voice of Russia
July 23, 2013
Military buildup around Syria points to another invasion – Rozoff
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Roger Martin du Gard: Selections on war
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Roger Martin du Gard
From Summer 1914 (1936)
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
When the latest uprising in Egypt occurred just last month, I knew something did not seem right... We had the reports of Morsi forced to step down by the Egyptian military and news that he would be replaced by someone out of the "Muslim Brotherhood".... But for the longest time, I had a nagging feeling that the so called Muslim Brotherhood was absolutely not as they seemed....
Al-Manar | July 23, 2013
Hezbollah expressed in a statement issued Monday evening firm rejection of the European Union’s decision to put its military wing on the list of terrorism, and considered it as “aggressive, unjust decision written with Zionist ink.”
The part of the First Amendment that prohibits "abridging the freedom … of the press" is now up against the wall, as the Obama administration continues to assault the kind of journalism that can expose government secrets. Last Friday the administration got what it wanted – an ice-cold chilling effect – from the Fourth Circuit [...]
When Edward Snowden revealed that the federal government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, was unlawfully and unconstitutionally spying on all Americans who use telephones, text messaging or emails to communicate with other persons, he opened a Pandora’s box of allegations and recriminations. The allegations he unleashed are that Americans have [...]
WASHINGTON – There is nothing wrong with giving credit where it is due. In recent months, Senator Rand Paul has taken positions we have both applauded, and grimaced over. And Sen. Ted Cruz, well let’s just say comparisons to the late redbaiter Sen. Joseph McCarthy have been called uncanny, and not altogether unfair, on these [...]
The political peddlers, think-tank experts and media professionals are all back in full force. They want us to believe that US Secretary of State John Kerry has done what others have failed to do. On his sixth trip to the Middle East during his post, and following intense shuttle diplomacy likened to that of Henry [...]
Don't mention Thomas Jefferson to Texas nutbag Ted CruzAs soon as the Texas plutocrats won control over the state Board of Education, through their pathetic Tea Party puppets, one of the first orders of business was to eliminate Thomas Jefferson from the history books. Dangerous revolutionary, that Jefferson, with his subversive ideas. I wonder how long it will take for them to move against historical Jesus too.
When the Edward Snowden/NSA trouble first started last month, I too was originally thinking that this man was a hero to the American people by his escaping the United States with valuable information that could both expose the criminality of the NSA and the entire Barry Soetoro regime in Washington.However, it has been well over a month since Snowden left the US, and I am deeply troubled by the simple fact that if this man is truly legitimate, he should have already put out valuable information that could possibly bring down the entire corrupt NSA organization. But to this day, he has not
By Steve Martinot | Dissident Voice | July 22, 2013
The Travesty goes like this.
The grounds for Zimmerman’s acquittal were that he shot someone, and killed him. Pure and simple.
The grounds for Trayvon Martin’s having been killed is that he decided to defend himself against someone stalking him.
Does it make sense? No. Is it true? Yes.
By David Cronin | New Left Project | July 18, 2013
Edward Snowden has exposed more than a massive spying operation. The whistleblower has – perhaps unintentionally – drawn attention to just how obsequious Europe’s political leaders are towards the US.
In this edition of the ongoing Questions For Corbett podcast series, James answers your questions on weather manipulation, cyber attacks, water wars, biometrics, Hitler, online anonymity and more.
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U.S. Navy
July 21, 2013
Exercise Sea Breeze 2013 Draws to a Close
By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason Howard, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs
ODESSA, Ukraine: Exercise Sea Breeze 2013, the 16th iteration of the largest annual multinational maritime exercise in the Black Sea, ended July 20, as representatives from the 14 participating partner nations gathered together for the exercise closing ceremony.
The head of the California Democratic Party's Environmental Caucus, R.L. Miller, is starting up a national Climate Hawks Vote project. She was instrumental in getting a resolution calling for a moratorium on fracking through the sometimes tepid California Democratic Party and many of us know her as an intrepid environmental blogger at Daily Kos.
Interesting piece on Syria from this weekend from CNNWith some help from Anon's links in the previous post. Thanks Anonymous, who I still wish had a name.....Just the highlights
Press TV – July 21, 2013
The United States and Israel have begun a joint aerial drill. According to a statement by the Israel military the two-week “Juniper Stallion 13” aerial exercise began Sunday morning.
An undisclosed number of F-15 and F-16 fighter jets from both sides are participating in the training event. It’s held at Uvda Base in the southern Negev Desert, during which pilots will practice air-to- air combat maneuvers, mid-air refueling, bombing runs and other missions.
[Reprinted with the author's permission. Reformatted for Antiwar.com.]
Iran’s newly elected president will take office on August 3, and negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program are expected to begin in early September. In the interim, intense and possibly important debates are taking place within the US policy-making elite about whether developments in Syria and Iran should prompt the United States to make more positive and creative diplomatic approaches toward Tehran.
In this edition of the ongoing Questions For Corbett podcast series, James answers your questions on weather manipulation, cyber attacks, water wars, biometrics, Hitler, online anonymity and more.
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George Prescott Bush shouldn't even exist. By all rights, his great grandfather, Prescott Bush, should have been tried for treason and executed for a Wall Street coup attempt against Franklin Roosevelt and for his simultaneous collaboration with Hitler. No Prescott, no George H.W. Bush and no Jeb Bush, George P's grandfather and father. But Prescott was rich, white and well-connected-- and got off almost scott free for his treason.
At the end of last week I expressed my doubts that Secretary of State John Kerry could orchestrate substantive peace talks between Israel-Palestine. At the crux of it, since Israel refuses to freeze settlements, and since settlements essentially indicate an intention to annex the West Bank, Israeli policy explicitly opposes a political settlement that would give Palestinians a state. America supports Israel unequivocally, and thus, no settlement is possible.
Reports of security forces completely foiling two jailbreaks yesterday near Baghdad were premature. Clashes continued for at least 10 hours overnight as several hundred detainees apparently made their escape at one or both prisons. The two facilities are located just outside the capital in Taji and Abu Ghraib. The number of casualties rose overnight as well.
Libertarian-leaning Republicans are holding up a defense appropriations bill until they get amendments through that will block funding for any military operations in either Syria or Egypt and for dragnet-style NSA surveillance.
Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) is leading a group of fellow congressmen to amend the impending Defense Appropriations bill to include language “that would ban the NSA from collecting information from people who aren’t under investigation.”
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
July 20, 2013
THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO – LESSONS FOR TODAY FROM 198 YEARS AGO
“From the Cockpit”
Phil Breedlove
General, USAF
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander, U.S. European Command
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I'm glad Nancy Pelosi is launching an initiative to help empower women. But, let's be frank-- when Michele Bachmann succeeds or Ann Coulter succeeds, America fails. Deb Fischer is a U.S. senator from Nebraska. She's one of almost two dozen far right crackpots with ZERO crucial vote scores according to ProgressivePunch...
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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 Prelude (1938)
Translated by Gerard Hopkins
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 072. I was interviews for Vrijheid Radio (Netherlands) last week, by host Henri Serton. We talked about libertarian property theory, Locke, intellectual property, and related issues. I think it was a very good interview, maybe one of the best I’ve participated in, due in no small part to Serton’s intelligent prodding […]
