The Trump-Kim summit was one for the history books. Will this open the door to a peace that has eluded the peninsula for 70 years? The signs are positive... and the neocons are furious!

Putin’s response to what he called “creative babbling” was that Europe should get to work with Russia working out their common interest. There are common interests, and Putin sees them, but, as the G7 statements make clear, the G7 sees only a Russian enemy.

By Graham E. Fuller | June 13, 2018 The fascinating, elaborately choreographed diplomatic pas de deux in Singapore between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un mesmerized the world over two days. Most pundits look at the (perhaps more than) half empty glass of water on the table. Indeed, most Democrats and all Trump-haters refuse to […]

Dennis Rodman's visit to North Korea in early 2013 sent shock waves through the international media and inspired a CIA-supported Hollywood film about assassinating Kim Jong-Un. It also drew the attention of the US State Department, who recently released cables about Rodman's trip, though they are highly classified and heavily redacted.

Human cells resist gene editing by turning on defences against cancer, ceasing reproduction and sometimes dying, two teams of scientists have found​

By reaffirming the Panmunjom Declaration, the US President has committed to bringing its military back from South Korea and thus a complete denuclearization of the South as well as the North

The summit has already relaxed tensions but the reason is not because of a lessened threat from Pyongyang, as Jonathan Marshall explains.

While we've been eating popcorn and enjoying the three-ring Rome-Paris-Berlin circus that is the E.U. - although, I should say I'm foregoing the opera […]
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It’s important to know in advance who started the whole thing and who should be held responsible for the consequences.

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A resolution has passed in the UN General Assembly slamming Israel’s use of ‘excessive force’ against Palestinian protesters during their Great March of Return in Gaza, with more than 130 killed and thousands injured.
Many of the protesters were unarmed but encountered live ammunition from Israeli snipers. Victims included journalists and first aid responders, who were well marked but were targeted and slaughtered anyway.

Following ongoing mass protests which have gripped Tblisi for the past two weeks, the Georgian Prime Minister, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, has stepped down from office.
Protesters have been demanding the resignation of Kvirikashvili and his cabinet, with some officials having done so, emboldening protesters to continue their efforts towards that eventual goal.

By Eric Worrall | Watts Up With That? | June 11, 2018 Dr. Willie Soon – the opportunity for James Cook University to salvage what is left of its academic reputation is closing fast. Peter Ridd’s academic union is backing him, senior Australian politicians have spoken out against James Cook’s heavy handed actions, and now […]

by NoahAs more and more humans bow out of what used to be an honor, I suppose it could come to this; Trump being reduced to inviting four-legged animals for meet-and-greets at his over-crowded zoo at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I don't know how well horses would do at mixing with the animals on Trump's staff, though.

When the President wants to wage a war somewhere, he just does it, and no one bats an eye. But for the first time in a very long time, as opposed to escalating tensions, invading, and bombing somewhere, a US president is proposing to deescalate a situation and establish peace somewhere.
That’s a major thing in and of itself. But that’s not alright in the minds of US congressmen, who are concerned that a peace arrangement might be brokered with North Korea if Trump withdraws American troops from the Korean peninsula.

Yet another EU official has come out of the woodwork urging for the EU to grow up a little bit and to start deciding its policy for itself, rather than simply relying on the USA to tell them how it is.

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he fully intends to dial back on his purchase of American arms for Turkey’s defense, and the means that he is using to accomplish this goal is that of substituting those needs with Russian manufactured military hardware.

(MEE) — The UN General Assembly condemned Israel on Wednesday for excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians and asked UN chief Antonio Guterres to recommend an “international protection mechanism” for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The General Assembly adopted a resolution with 120 votes in favour, eight against and 45 abstentions. Algeria, Turkey and the Palestinians put […]

Je profite de l’incroyable sortie d’Emmanuel Macron :

qui, je rappelle, a été tweetée par la Conseillère presse de l’Élysée, Sibeth Ndiaye, retweetée par lui (c’est dire comme ils en sont fiers !) :

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Iraq received another batch of war planes from South Korea.
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You could hear the cries of anguish and the gnashing of teeth emanating from Washington, D.C., and the isle of Manhattan, as the media and the political class mourned the coming of peace to the Korean peninsula. Max Boot, one of the primary leaders of the anti-Trump “Resistance,” declared that “For Kim Jong-un this is … Continue reading "Singapore Summit: A Victory for Peace"

Which is worse: The specter of nuclear war, or giving US president Donald Trump credit for a significant diplomatic accomplishment? In her official statement on Trump’s Singapore summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi makes it clear that a few million incinerated human beings are a small price to pay … Continue reading "North Korea: Pelosi versus Peace"

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Un contexte économique, écologique et social très dégradé

What is taking place in Palestine is not a "conflict". We readily utilize the term but, in fact, the word "conflict" is misleading. It equates between oppressed Palestinians and Israel, a military power that stands in violation of numerous United Nations Resolutions. It is these ambiguous terminologies that allow the likes of United States UN … Continue reading "Beating the US ‘Veto’: Palestinians Need Urgent Protection from Israel"

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Fresh from what he sees as a great victory in Singapore, where Kim Jong-Un pantsed him, Trump's Wednesday was pretty crazy.

Source : Strategic Culture, Alastair Crooke, 21-05-2018

RT | June 13, 2018 The UN General Assembly has adopted a nonbinding resolution condemning Israel’s use of ‘excessive force’ against Palestinian protesters in Gaza. A US amendment to condemn Hamas did not get enough support. The resolution condemns Israel for “excessive use of force” against Palestinian demonstrators on the Israeli-Gaza border and calls for […]

Two Muslim men were lynched on suspicion of stealing cattle in Jharkhand’s Godda district on Wednesday morning. Residents of Dullu village caught hold of the two victims – Sirabuddin Ansari (35) and Murtaza Ansari (30) – and accused them of stealing 13 buffaloes from one Munshi Murmu on Tuesday night. “Villagers claim that that they found the missing buffaloes in[Read More...]

Following his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, US President Donald Trump announced that he intends to dial back on military exercises in South Korea, citing their financial toll as his logic for this apparent decision.
Clearly these exercises were considered provocative by the North Korean regime on the basis that the exercises are practically war scenarios envisioning the North as the enemy combattant.

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Reports Suggest Trump Caved to Ultimatum by Kim in Singapore Demanding Halt to U.S.-South Korea Defensive Exercises; North Korea Claims Trump Offered Complete End to U.S. Economic Sanctions; “Maximum Pressure” Measures Collapsing After Appeasement Summit; Kremlin’s Peskov Gloats Over Trump’s Surrender to [...]

Be wary of the Chinese technological behemoth, goes the current cry from many circles in Australia’s parliament.  Cyber security issues are at stake, and the eyes of Beijing are getting beadier by the day. The seedy involvement of Australia in the Solomon Islands, ostensibly to block the influence of a Chinese company’s investment venture, is simply testament to the old[Read More...]

As birds become fewer, wildflowers vanish, butterflies disappear, and animals in the wild are threatened, extinction and a grim future haunts.  How often does Rumi write about birdsong … there is a reason.  Nature revives the spirit. World Environment Day has come and gone.  It was June 5th.  A UN outreach program hosted by a different country each year, it[Read More...]

The extremely dangerous situation in which the U.S. had been threatening North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) with annihilation unless they dismantled their nuclear weapons and submitted to intrusive inspections throughout the country has temporarily simmered down after the Trump-Kim negotiations.  At the same time, very little is known about what actually was and was not said and/or[Read More...]

India is home to one-fifth of the world’s population which includes a third of the world’s poor and one-eighth of the world’s elderly. Most of them spend their whole lives as informal workers and have no retirement security other than the hope that their children will care for them in their old age. This arrangement worked well as long as[Read More...]

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A critique of RSS needs to go beyond the current pattern. The contemporary liberal and left critique has been primarily targeted at their core concept of Hindutva. It is argued that Hindutva as an idea goes against the basic ethos of secularism, pluralism and ideals of the constitution. Commentaries and critics point as to how it is anti-Dalit, anti-minority and[Read More...]

One of the more fascinating readings of Mirza Waheed’s acclaimed The Collaborator is its critical intervention on one of the more integral facets of the conflict in Kashmir—the role of media as a potent instrument of state treachery. The work offers us a subtle critique of the language of media propaganda particularly when it comes to the armed conflict in[Read More...]

Carl Schmitt, renowned for his wide ranging critique of liberalism, once famously said,” All true politics is based on the distinction between a friend and an enemy.” Explicating his concept of the ‘political’, Schmitt further argues that it is not possible to analyse a thing from a non-political or a post-political prism. He uses the friend-enemy binary to underline this[Read More...]

The summit has already relaxed tensions but the reason is not because of a lessened threat from Pyongyang, as Jonathan Marshall explains. By Jonathan Marshall Special to Consortium News Scads of analysts and pundits have weighed in on the Trump-Kim…Read more →

When South Koreans went to the polls yesterday they registered their unambiguous backing for President Moon’s Democratic Party and the peace process that is a signature policy of his administration. In doing so, they also dealt a devastating blow to the country’s main faction hostile to North Korean diplomacy.

By James O’Neill | OffGuardian | June 13, 2018 It seems likely that the Australian House and Senate will pass the governments legislative proposals, ostensibly aimed at alleged foreign interference in Australia’s electoral process. Despite denials to the contrary, the legislation is manifestly aimed at alleged Chinese interference, although the scope of the proposed legislative […]

IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been quite vocal about the threats that US President Donald Trump’s economic policies pose to the world economic order.
She’s been criticizing Trump’s brand of protectionism and one-on-one take it or leave it style of diplomacy at nearly every turn here lately.

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by Doroth ReikTrump’s foreign policy is easy to understand. He likes places where he can make money and he doesn’t like places where he cannot. Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, places that used to be our allies, which fought alongside us in our tragically misbegotten wars-- he can’t make money there so the hell with them!

If Americans Knew | June 11, 2018 Israel partisans in the Bush administration played a central role in pushing the U.S. into the disastrous Iraq war. The video gives specifics and cites the following resources: “White Man’s Burden,” by Ari Shavit, Ha’aretz, April 3, 2003: http://iakn.us/2ggApnF “Perles of Wisdom for the Feithful,” by Akiva Eldar, […]

By Tortilla Con Sal | teleSUR | June 12, 2018 Nicaragua has been a good example of how Western corporate and alternative news media are able to create a custom-made bizarro-world to suit the propaganda requirements of their countries’ elites. The current media onslaught against Nicaragua uses the whole toolbox of propaganda tricks portraying aggressors […]