A resurgent Russia has asserted itself in the Middle East as a key international player. The draft agreement with Egypt to allow respective air forces to use each other's airspace and bases is a convincing example of its growing clout in the region.

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Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25, former Minister of Finance for Greece and high profile economist, academic and writer, addressed The Oxford Guild  on Tuesday 28th November in the Said Business School Amphitheatre. He discussed the state of the European Union, of the United Kingdom, the political landscape globally and the political/economic/social agenda of DiEM25 across the EU and the UK. The event was organised in association with the Economics Society and was free and open to all.

Merry Christmas to one and all from North Korea. Glorious Leader Kim Jong-un unwrapped a wonderful new intercontinental missile, the Hwasong-15, which experts believe might be capable of reaching Los Angeles, New York and Washington, depending on the weight of its nuclear warhead.

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It is practically impossible for the US corporate media to be convinced that the proper tag-line for the Trump scandal is “Israelgate,” not “Russiagate,” Wayne Madsen writes.

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To some ideologues, these reflections may seem unheroic. But there is a school of political philosophy that reconfirms them. In the 1950s, in the wake of the discrediting of political ideologies, some of the logical positivists in England undertook to define empirically principles by which regimes and changes in them should be judged.

Gates Foundation paid $1.6 million to influence UN on gene drives

You know things are in a bad state when an economics professor at one of the country's most prestigious research universities, the Michigan State…
The post THAT MISSING $21,000,000,000,000: DR. MARK SKIDMORE ON THE ... appeared first on Giza Death Star.

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-by NoahDecember 1st is now a New Day Of Infamy. It will go down as the day that republicans chose use their Tax Scam to align themselves with multinational corporations and oligarchs over American citizens more blatantly and callously than ever before.

In spite of the fact that the Supreme Court of India in its three judge bench judgment on October 12, 2017 said that my book ‘Smajika Smugglerlu-Komatollu’ cannot be banned, the Arya Vysyas of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are trying to attack me wherever I go to speak in meetings and seminars. The latest is their attempt at Khammam on[Read More...]

Vu le succès des précédents Afterworks, je propose aux Franciliens de nous retrouver pour prendre un verre le lundi 11 décembre à partir de 19h00, dans le quartier des Halles.
L’idée est de faire connaissance, de discuter du blog et de l’actualité (qui a été bien chargée…), de répondre à vos questions, et surtout de faire se rencontrer la communauté qui s’est créée, pleine de gens sympathiques…
Il y a toujours 50 à 80 personnes sympathiques et une excellente ambiance, n’hésitez donc pas à venir.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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James Allen
A Prayer for Peace
Great God, Almighty Power: Now send Thy Peace
To all the warring nations on this earth:
Let gentle thoughts spring up; pity have birth;
And Love, the mighty healer, have increase;

We spent the day at a beach in Brooklyn. Skyscrapers floated in the distance and my toddler kept handing me cigarette filters she had dug out of the sand. When we got home, I checked my email. I had been sent a picture of a very different beach: deserted, framed by distant headlands with unsullied sands and clear waters. As[Read More...]

A new militant group was reported to be forming near the Iran border in Diyala province.
The post New Militant Group Reported; Nine Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.

  The flight on 23 November 2017 of Igor Plotinitsky, President of the separatist Ukrainian area of the Lugansk People’s Republic is a sign of the continuing difficulties of developing appropriate forms of constitutional government in the Ukraine. Plotinitsky was in open conflict with his “Minister of the Interior” Igor Konet whom he had fired but who refused to give[Read More...]

Life is full of surprises. Like that time you were counting on a new bike for Christmas, and were totally certain your parents were going to come through, and then – lo and behold! – on Christmas morning there it was: a spanking brand-new Segway! The final evidence that, despite your best efforts, you’d always … Continue reading "From ‘Russia-Gate’ to ‘Israel-Gate’"

The Military-Industrial Complex has loomed over America ever since President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of its growing influence during his prescient farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961. The Vietnam War followed shortly thereafter, and its bloody consequences cemented the image of the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) as a faceless cadre of profit-seeking warmongers who’ve wrested control … Continue reading "America’s Military-Industrial Addiction"

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Few Americans ever took in the vastness of the prison outsourcing system the administration of George W. Bush set up from Afghanistan to Iraq, Thailand to Poland, the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. In those years, I began referring to that global network … Continue reading "Curating Guantanamo"

T.A. Frank offered an interesting theory that would-- if true-- put a damper on Trump's celebrations at the passage of his Tax Scam-- or, more appropriately Paul Ryan's Tax Scam, at 1:30 AM Friday night/Saturday morning, as the country snoozed. It's right up there with the theory that Paul Ryan may be about to resign, having accomplished all that he could be reasonably expected to towards towards the dismantling of the New Deal.

Look! There at the corner, the old man is crossing the children. All the saints and gods and goddesses of India are dancing around them. Pan is dancing. Nymphs and flowing hair maenads. Dervishes whirl around, like star-ribbons circling an astrolabe. Baal Shem Tov and the martyred, prayer-dance Hasidim. Jesus in cosmic circle dance. Sun smiles. Moon overflows with the[Read More...]

  “A nuclear weapon can be placed in a shipping container or on a small cabin cruiser, transported by sea, and set off remotely by cellular phone.” — from “Haywire” by Eric Schlosser in Harper’s Magazine/December 2017 This MUST be addressed in classrooms across the United States ASAP. The message here will go in and out of the ears of most[Read More...]

Source : Proche & Moyen-Orient, Guillaume Berlat, 13-11-2017

by Jonathan Latham, PhD The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this year paid a PR firm called Emerging Ag $1.6 million to recruit a covert coalition of academics to manipulate a UN decision-making process over ...

Source : Alternatine économiques, Denis Clerc, 09/11/2017

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Source : François-Bernard Huyghe, 11-11-2017
Quiconque a assisté à un colloque sur le terrorisme connaît la scène. Au moment des questions, quelqu’un se lève pour en dénoncer les causes globales – misère, inégalité, intolérance, exclusion, etc. -. Un autre ajoute aussitôt qu’il faudrait s’accorder sur une vraie définition du terrorisme.

Please help Blue America urge Alan Grayson to run for Congress again. I sense he's halfway there already-- and I was right when I told you in 2015 Bernie was ready to run for president. All the Democrats representing the Orlando area are ineffective conservatives from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- Blue Dogs and New Dems.

RT | December 3, 2017 Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s senior advisor – and the man who allegedly ordered Gen. Michael Flynn’s “collusion” calls to Russia – has appeared at pro-Israeli donor Haim Saban’s event where he has been thanked for his lobbying on behalf of Israel. Speaking at the three-day conference, prominent Clinton Foundation […]

We're going to stroll back down memory lane. November 2015 to be exact. To a post which had lots and lots of reads at the time I published it. A good amount of comments too! Of course, that was before Google started it's heavy handed censorship of my blog. 

Can't you think for yourself ? Do your own research? Are you lazy?Shouldn't you think about what is right for yourself ?  Mass dumbing down? You got it!Big article so just a bit of it is below WSJAn Answer for Everything

I recently spoke at a conference sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers discussing the moral injury suffered by veterans returning from war. Other speakers included a clinician from the local Veterans Administration Medical Center, a woman Somali veteran and poet, and a panel composed of veterans from Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The audience, primarily clinicians working in the field and veterans struggling to make sense of their experiences in war, were enthusiastic and appreciative of the information provided.

We spent the day at a beach in Brooklyn...

"I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves-- won’t lift a finger-- and expect the federal government to do everything." Although reactionary vulture, Utah scumbag Orrin Hatch said this in regard to the children who count of CHIP (which he helped kill), he might as well have been talking about disabled veterans as well, since he just voted to set the governmen

On this edition of The Realist Report, we’re joined by Mark Neuhoff, a Masters student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Virginia Tech University who has come under fire for his personal political, racial, and historical views. Mark and I begin by discussing his background and history before addressing his college experience.

Paris: Authorities cancelled a long-approved march opposing the spread of radical Islam across Europe. The event was canceled​ only hours before it was due to commence​. The excuse was that police could not guarantee order ​in the face of counter-protestors. The cancellation sets a dangerous precedent for using the threat of violence as an excuse to ban non-violent protests. [...]

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RT | November 23, 2017 Populist, pragmatist, authoritarian, cunning tactician – years after he rose to the top of Russian politics Western observers still wonder about Vladimir Putin’s true motivations. In fact, behind the Kremlin’s decision-making is a set of consistently expressed beliefs. On the United States “The USA is a great power. Probably the […]

December 4, 2017 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - Artificial intelligence (AI) is already widely used by tech firms worldwide for everything from search engines to social media. It is also increasingly being developed for other applications including monitoring systems and decision making. Experimental platforms are already being tested that can review medical records and images to diagnose patients.

The DCCC can't get anything right.

By Andrew KORYBKO – Oriental Review – 02/12/2017 Trump has ostensibly compromised by promising Turkish President Erdogan that he’ll stop arming the Syrian Kurds. The US and Turkish leaders spoke by phone last Friday, during which time Trump allegedly gave his counterpart his word that he will stop giving arms to the Syrian Kurds. The […]

Well, after a long and gruelling week for yours truly, it is indeed Sunday and once again time for my weekly rant...Let me start by going after one of my greatest pet peeves, which is of course the fraud of this "Climate Change" aka "Global Warming" nonsense... The weather here in central Canada has been absolutely normal for this time of year and has been in line with the weather over the last two decades, which of course is showing NO signs at all of "warming" at all....

The America we once knew is gone forever. The 21st century has dawned just as the true light of liberty fades into shadow. The sooner the world recognizes this, the better off humankind will be. RussiaGate, Bill and Hillary Clinton revelations, Donald Trump’s quasi-populist misdirect, and a great nation turned amoral, this and much more forewarn of a cataclysm.

Chris writes:
For the last few months I have been battling some cognitive dissonance when making conclusions about the current state of U.S. foreign affairs. Ever since the Ron Paul days of 2008, I have been firm in my conviction that the libertarians are correct in this regard. I think on one hand that despite whatever disasters that may occur after a full military pull-out of all foreign countries, the situation couldn’t possibly be worse than allowing the U.S. government to continue the policy of the last century.

Zero Hedge | December 2, 2107 Syrian state television has confirmed that Israel attacked a military base outside of Damascus overnight on Friday, which Israeli media reports involved both surface-to-surface missiles and airstrikes, while Syria says its air defense systems were engaged and intercepted two missiles. Like other recent strikes inside Syria, the Israeli jets […]