For the first time since the outbreak of the Syrian conflict, sources have told RT that Israel used a Turkish military base to launch a recent attack against Syria. Turkey has firmly denied Israel used its military base to launch a raid against Syria.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that legal advisers to President Obama have warned him since the beginning that aiding the Syrian rebels probably violated international law and risked a direct conflict with the Assad regime.
Terror Group is Sounding Board for Dubious US Intel
By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America | July 13, 2013
Earlier this year, David Whitehouse of GWPF drew attention to a striking decrease in the UK Met Office decadal temperature forecast, that had been quietly changed by the Met Office on Christmas Eve. Whitehouse’s article led to some contemporary interest in Met Office decadal forecasts.
July 13, 2013
This is a update to my first video and this proves Michael Hastings was killed. Why this is not obvious to media or police is a question no one should have to ask and sadly means they lose even more credibility.
How is it US Journalists can turn their backs on an assassinated brother? Its despicably disrespectful to The Journalist’s Creed.
In May of last year I noted at this blog reports that an amendment had been slipped into the 2013 NDAA bill that nullified two U.S. laws - the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987 – that ban domestic propaganda. This month marks the official repeal.
John Hudson at Foreign Policy:
If you click this, you'll see how the stinking rich liveI go for a hike in the Los Feliz hills everyday. I delight in taking candidates and congressmembers who come to visit me along for the walk. Darcy Burner was smart enough to be wearing tennis shoes. Others have had heels or tassels. That doesn't work as well. That page from Angeleno is about a spa in my neighborhood that charges $10,000 a day to put wealthy fat people through a kind of bootcamp.
Russian Information Agency Novosti
July 15, 2013
19 Hospitalized in US-Ukraine Army Exercise – Ministry
KIEV: Nineteen servicemen from different foreign armies participating in a Ukrainian-US exercise have been hospitalized with non-life-threatening problems, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on Monday.
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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
So the planned furloughs for some 650,000 civilian workers at the Department of Defense have begun. Roughly speaking, this will mean about a 20 percent cut in each paycheck until September.
Press TV – July 15, 2013
Members of the US Congress have called for the imposition of sanctions against Argentina over its growing ties with Iran and Buenos Aires’ bid for joint investigations with Tehran into the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing.
On the website of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services there is a list of rights belonging to all Americans. Chief among them: Freedom to express yourself. Abdiwali Warsame must have taken them literally. Two days after he became a U.S. citizen, he created a rollicking news and opinion website covering his native Somalia. It [...]
Why didn’t Edward Snowden agree to be jailed, abused, silenced, and quite possibly tortured? This is what Melissa Harris-Perry wants to know. Harris-Perry is one of MSNBC’s minor weekend anchors, a professor currently at Tulane University who started out retailing her academic pretensions as a sometime guest on the Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes shows: [...]
Greek Orthodox Patriarch John : Syrian people committed to unity, peace and stability
The arrival of Patriarch John (Yazigi) to the city of Lattakia, Syria
Editors Note: The brother of Patriarch John (Yazigi) , Archbishop Paul of Aleppo was kidnapped along with Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim of Aleppo . The two Bishops were kidnapped by armed militants in April and still missing.
Peace and Freedom Party of Florida By Darcy Richardson July 15, 2013 Recognizing that a genuine economic recovery will only become a reality through a mass movement outside the twin, austerity-peddling parties of Wall Street, the state executive committee of the Peace & Freedom Party of Florida has voted unanimously to endorse the United Front [...]
Tomorrow afternoon we'll randomly pick the winner of the Neil Young contest. So, it's still not too late to enter. Like we explained last week, it's easy to win the RIAA-certified double platinum award for Neil's classic Harvest Moon.
A number of late-day, coordinated attacks targeted markets and bakeries to take advantage of food shopping right before the Iftar evening meal, which breaks Ramadan fasting for the day. July 14 also marks the 55th anniversary of the coup which installed the regime that ended with the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein. At least 77 Iraqis were killed and 223 more were wounded.
Let’s dissect a headline:
Pentagon: Iran will soon have nuclear missiles capable of striking US
Here’s the true parts:
1. Iran is a country that exists
2. The Pentagon is a place that says lots of nonsensical things
Chemicals and Weapons seized from Insurgents in Damascus
Medics and other masked people attend to a man at a hospital in Khan al-Assal in the northern Aleppo province, as Syria’s government accused rebel forces of using chemical weapons for the first time on March 19, 2013 (AFP Photo / HO-SANA)
by Christof Lehmann - nsnbc
I am on vacation... Enjoying the hot sun and sand.....
By Bill Conroy | The Narcosphere | February 17, 2013
US training of Mexican military forces spiked in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, coinciding with a sharp rise in drug-war homicides in Mexico, an analysis of records made public under the Foreign Assistance Act show.
Quinnipiac has a new poll out. It covered a lot of ground-- like Hillary Clinton's ability to beat NJ organized crime figure Chris Christie in 2016 if the tow of them run for president. I was more interested, though, in this: "American voters blame both parties for gridlock in Washington, but they say Republicans are more responsible for Congress' inability to get things done...
RT | July 13, 2013
The Chinese government says it will ‘respect public opinion’ and scrap a planned $6 billion nuclear processing plant in the southern province of Guandong after hundreds of protesters took to the streets to voice opposition to the project.
On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:54, Richard wrote:
Dear Michael,Have you ever seen the wonderful film "Shakespeare in Love" (1998)? It may be too Hollywoodish filth for your taste, but I have to admit to really loving the movie.Kit Marlowe is killed in a knife fight in the film, which does not seem plausible, your explanation sounds more likely!Why do you think the secret police killed him? His exposing of usury?All the best,Richard
Tokyo, Japan
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Black Tower Show – 1310 AM WRSB Canandaigua, NY July 13, 2013 [download audio]
Source: Chemi Shalev | Jul.14, 2013 | Haaretzhttp://htz.li/17e0hSlYour padded cell awaits you, BibiMichael Hoffman • www.revisionisthistory.orgOn CBS News, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu warned Americans that Iran is, according to him, developing intercontinental ballistic missiles – ICBMs – that are capable of reaching “the American mainland.”“It’s to reach you, not us,” he claimed.
U.S. Department of Defense
July 10, 2013
Centcom Plans for Broader Regional Engagement Post-2014
By Donna Miles
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Reflecting a global trend, many U.S. engagements in the region have evolved into multilateral exercises. “Based on past experience, we see any future conflict as being multinational and multilateral,” Zero said. “And as such, we need to conduct training and exercises and engagement on a multinational and multilateral basis.”
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
H.G. Wells: Selections on war
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H.G. Wells
What is Coming?
A Forecast of Things after the War (1916)
Excerpts
Nations in Liquidation
Republican in-fighting between conservatives and the neo-fascist radicals that have been challenging them, derailed the Farm Bill in 2012. This year Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy agreed to slash food stamps really badly and figured they would pass the bloated bill subsidizing wealthy farming operations (and scammers on the Upper East Side of Manhattan).
By Stuart Littlewood | Intifada – Palestine | July 13, 2013
(LONDON) – While the British government leads the charge to impose and tighten sanctions on Iran and makes other dire threats on the mere suspicion that the Islamic Republic may have nuclear weapons ambitions, its ministers continue to sidestep simple questions about Israel’s unsafeguarded nukes. Here is a recent example…
No doubt the administration of President Barack Obama had hoped that this week’s foreign policy news would be dominated by the high-level U.S.-China Strategic and Economic and Dialogue (S&ED) that just ended here Thursday. That would have furthered the administration’s effort to “pivot” public attention, as well as serious policy-making, more towards the Asia/Pacific region [...]
I've just finished watching the 2004 film of Michael P's epic 2003 journey through the Himalaya and surrounding regions. The map above should be intelligible enough (you should be able to click to enlarge it) to suggest the scope of the journey, except that the copy of the book covers over the early segments in Pakistan and India.by KenI've written about my excitement at rediscovering the early Michael Palin travel-trek series on British DVDs.
Late day attacks pushed the number of those killed to 46 dead, while another 106 people were wounded in the carnage. In Baghdad, soccer players and mosque attendees were among the victims, while in Diyala province another funeral gathering was attacked.
UK government still won’t come clean on Israel’s nukes
by Stuart Littlewood
(LONDON) – While the British government leads the charge to impose and tighten sanctions on Iran and makes other dire threats on the mere suspicion that the Islamic Republic may have nuclear weapons ambitions, its ministers continue to sidestep simple questions about Israel’s unsafeguarded nukes. Here is a recent example…
I think most Members of Congress, financed and sold out as they are to Wall Street, abhor the idea of going to war with the banksters over regulations. The finance sector spends more on bribing federal elected officials-- $663,265,994 last cycle alone-- than any other industry. And, although they give a bit more to Republicans, they give plenty to both corrupt Beltway parties.
The psychotic elites continue on with their agenda of death, destruction and mayhem.Israel readies for end of decades-long calm on Golan borderHmmmmm.......Israeli military prepares for Lebanon and Syria threats despite turmoil in Egypt
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio July 13, 2013 [download audio]
Sean's on the left-- at least in the photoWe looked at New York New Dem Sean Patrick Maloney's putrid record as a freshman a couple months ago; it hasn't improved. As of this morning he's tied with corrupt Texas Blue Dog and warmonger Henry Cuellar as the 200th "best" voter in Congress.
iadalah · May 14, 2013
Forced Displacement on Both Sides of the Green Line
Adalah captures the stories of two Palestinian villages, Al-Araqib and Susiya — one in Israel, one in the West Bank — that share a single story of struggle against forced displacement.
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NSA Storage is billion times more expansive than the Stasi. Is the Egyptian revolution a coup? Morsi is out, does that mean that ElBaradei is in? Can your webcam really take pictures of you in …
