Chuy Garcia and Carlos Rosa, 2 of Chicago's bestProgressivePunch rates Jan Schakowsky's voting record an "A." This year she scores 100. And career-long she gets a 96.43, the 13th best score in Congress. The only other Illinois member with an "A" is Danny Davis. Robin Kelly has a strong progressive voting record as well. And Luis Gutierrez's isn't bad.
By Ahmed Jamil Azam | Arabi21 | November 28, 2017 The events currently occurring in the Palestinian arena, specifically the American vision for the Palestinian issue, are similar to a huge marketing campaign, as well as the sanctions that will be imposed on anyone who refuses the marketed product. This is despite the important fact […]
Well, yesterday was another "me day" where I spent much of the day away from my computers and surfing the net..... I went for my usual long walk and spent part of the day with my better half doing some chores, including getting some grocery shopping done at the local supermarket.....While I was at the Supermarket the other day, I could not help but notice once again a lot of people over at the Pharmacy in a line up....
I found the short to be beautifully touching, profoundly relevant, and emotionally powerful. It deals head on with a problem that nearly everyone has this time of year but no one really talks about much: we all have tradition anxiety. What are our distinct traditions, how do we practice them, and what happens to us if we can’t remember them, can’t practice them, or secretly don’t like them? What if we fail?
Book review: Tales Of Two Americas. Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation edited by John Freeman
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
27 November 2017
Made up of contributions from 36 contemporary writers, Tales Of Two Americas explores what it feels like to live in the inequality-riven United States today.
The study found that the lowest dosage of aluminum, at 200 mcg, actually delivered more aluminum to the brain than a higher dosage. Low dosages may be more able to slip past the immune system and get to the brain before the body responds. The size of the aluminum particles also are believed to play a role as smaller particles pass more easily through the blood-brain barrier. The US government has given legal immunity to vaccine manufacturers so they cannot be sued for any damage to children from vaccines.
I get periodic emails and comments from time to time where people say: "Hey, NTS, Take a look at this?" and of course many do ask me to post up the material that they come across at this blog from time to time... I figure that I would oblige one person who emailed the following information with an article to cover what he had found..OK, In last weekend's rant, I went on a tirade about the bullshit of "political correctness" and how it is ruining our society and social structure....
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an agency that claims to protect consumers in the financial sector. Instead, it has been used as a legal money-laundering operation for collective causes. The bureau was set up to operate without Congressional oversight and is funded by the Federal Reserve, not Congress. [...]
Rep. Raul Grijalva spent $48,395 from taxpayer funds to buy the silence of a former female staffer who threatened a lawsuit claiming Grijalva was frequently drunk and created a hostile workplace environment in 2015. Democrat Rep. Al Green is also under fire following reports he had sex with a drug-addicted staffer and then sued her in 2008 after she threatened to go public with the encounter. [...]
I den franske orientalisten Maxime Rodinsons biografi över Muhammed (1961, sv. övers. 1981) finner jag två stycken om paradiset som jag vill ta upp. På sidan 80 berättar Rodinson om de tidiga uppenbarelserna i Mecka. Då hade Muhammed ännu bara en hustru, han var gift med den äldre Khadija. I en kommentar till Koranens 55:e sura, ”Ar-Rahman”, och dess beskrivning av helvetet och paradiset kommenterar Rodinson:
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North Korea test fired a long-range missile today that appears to have the range to potentially hit most parts of continental United States, including its capital Washington DC. The test took place amid high tensions on the Korean Peninsula stoked by the Trump administration’s threats to use military force to destroy North Korea’s nuclear and missile facilities. North Korea fired[Read More...]
Previously, we have mentioned that various international forums, which were initially associated with serious positive expectations, have today turned mainly into political vanity fairs. In assessing the peculiarities of the modern global game, these events are not of interest in and of themselves, but in the way the main players behave during these events: participants of a meeting and the topics of their discussion.
China has repeatedly accused the US of straining their vast economic relationship through a slew of anti-dumping measures [Xinhua]
Beijing has again criticized the US for its recent anti-dumping investigations on general aluminum alloy sheets imported from China.
“China is strongly discontent with the trade protectionism tendency shown in the U.S. move,” a statement from the Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association is "the dinosaur just waiting to die” – former head of communications at the association
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Shia forces in Iraq call these terror vehicles…”jihadimobiles.”
The video below captures a deadly battle between Iraqi Shia militia forces and a “jihadimobile.”
Newly released documents shed light on the FBI's entertainment liaison office - officially titled the Investigative Publicity and Public Affairs Unit (IPPAU), including how they work on dozens of popular films and TV shows, and reject requests for support for PR reasons, just like the Pentagon. (Read more...)
Despite being the leader in military spending, the US military has very serious shortcomings. It is mired in problems. Military planning deficiencies greatly reduce combat capabilities. Cost-effectiveness is a big problem.
For a number of years now, I have been periodically interviewed as a source or a commentator on news programs and as an occasional panel participant on RT TV, the Russian government-funded English-language television station. For the past year, I’ve been paid a small amount for my work.
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... And speaking of the "Q revelations" and "breadcrumbs", Ms. C.F. spotted this article about the subject, written by an American and picked up…
The post TIDBIT: … AND SPEAKING OF “Q”… appeared first on Giza Death Star.
Mr. T.M. shared this story, and it's quite revealing, especially as I have entertained the idea, in previous blogs and in some interviews, that…
The post THE NSA-SHADOW BROKERS HACKS: MORE RECONNAISSANCE? appeared first on Giza Death Star.
In March 2012 Donald Trump tweeted that “Afghanistan is a total disaster.” Little has changed, except that 45 percent of Afghanistan’s districts are controlled or contested by the Taliban, but Trump has been persuaded to declare that the US will “fight to win”.
Middle East politics just witnessed two contrasting events. In Riyadh on Monday, there was a meeting of Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) defense ministers. The previous day, in Tehran, came a trilateral “commercial” deal signed by Iran, Turkey and Qatar.
In many ways, the fate of post-Brexit Britain is now in the hands of the Irish. After centuries of being collateral damage for British political rulers, that makes for a certain poetic justice.
Jeffrey Tucker of FEE.org joins us again to discuss his latest article, “Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition.” We explore the details of the net neutrality discussion that is being ignored by nearly everyone, including how the corporatocracy actually favours net neutrality and how government regulation of the internet is precisely what is keeping prices high and access to the market restricted for would-be competitors.
-by NoahMan's best friend often knows best. Here they are, lined up to figuratively relieve themselves on Trump and Pence. If you've ever had a dog, you know that when a dog has something to say, that dog is gonna say it. The thing is, when Trump sees this picture, he sees it as evidence of how "popular" he is.
Yemeni children struck down by Cholera. (Photo: Middle East Press)
Andrew Korybko
21st Century Wire
By Andre Vltchek and Mira Lubis From Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan): She was just standing there, in the middle of burning land, surrounded by stumps of trees, fire everywhere, smoke rising towards hopelessly gray sky. The expression on her face was mischievous, almost girlish. I had no idea how old she was: she could have been 28, just as she couldeasily[Read More...]
Billionaires, both liberal and conservative ones, own, and their corporations advertise in and their ‘charities’ donate to, America’s mainstream (and also many ‘alternative news’) media. They do this not so as to profit directly from the national ‘news’media (a money-losing business, in itself), but so as to control the ’news’ that the voting public (right and left) are exposed[Read More...]
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
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Charles Tennant
From The State of Man
The end of war and bloodshed for a time;
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And from Jerusalem the word of God,
Which, by the remnant sav’d on that great day,
Few could have colonised a role as comprehensively as David Suchet playing Hercule Poirot, that pedantic, fastidious figure of sleuthing fame created by Agatha Christie. Manner, affectation, and delivery all seemed immaculate, read, and even delightful. Invariably, this sort of thespian appropriation and adaptation creates its hordes of admirers, zealots who refuse to accept rivals, pretenders, or usurpers. Kenneth Branagh,[Read More...]
Israel, the USA, and Saudi Arabia are doing everything to lay the foundations for war against Iran. That is why Iran and its people must be demonized and dehumanized. The Israeli governments have been doing this since the Shah of Iran was overthrown by the Iranian people. In general, all Sunni Muslim countries get along very well with Iran, except[Read More...]
“What do they talk about these days at Parent Teacher Association meetings?” — Question asked by one of the author’s home schooled youngsters. Cobalt is such a health hazard that it has a respiratory disease named after it – cobalt lung, a form of pneumonia which causes coughing and leads to permanent incapacity and even death. Even simply eating vegetables[Read More...]
I had long left watching the PR agents on the TV studios discussing nationalism or pushing the particular agendas of their political parties. It is over 5 years that I stopped buying newspapers or magazines. I do go through the news through my twitter handle as well as some other forwarded material but that too I am quite selective. In[Read More...]
V.R. Krishna Iyer (J) has rightly observed : “In our world prisons are still laboratories of torture, warehouses in which human commodities are sadistically kept and where spectrums of inmates range from drift-wood juveniles to heroic dissenters. It is established that conviction for a crime does not reduce the person into a non-person, so he is entitled to all the[Read More...]
An antibody is a protein produced by the body’s immune system when it detects harmful substances, called antigens (bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses) and chemicals. Many of us conceive of nature as a boundless resource to be exploited without any consequence. But, the natural world is vulnerable and our natural resources are precious and finite. Changing climates are[Read More...]
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, November 28, 2017 Schumer-Pelosi Snubbing of Trump Invitation Encouraging, but Does Not Change Overall Pattern of Passivity; What Does the Indivisible Manual Say About this Situation?; New North Korean Missile Launch Shows Trump Methods Are Failing; Massive Crash Program for Anti-Missile Strategic Defense Using Orbital [...]
A U.S. servicemember died in a non-combat incident in Iraq.
The post U.S. Servicemember Among 12 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Source : Gilbert Doctorow, Consortium News, 23-10-2017
Ces dix dernières années la diabolisation persistante de la Russie par l’Occident a conduit à une alliance de fait entre Moscou et Pékin, changeant par là le paysage géopolitique d’une manière que les commentateurs américains ne reconnaissent toujours pas.
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on November 7 to discuss the "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act." Proponents of ASAA claim it is a law that would protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment, which they claim is a major problem on campus. Opponents argue the bill would undermine free speech rights, and is a thinly-disguised gag … Continue reading "Poll: Americans Oppose the ‘Anti-Semitism Awareness Act’"
Tonight I want to talk about the SIFI Threshold, That';s because I had lunch with my old friend Roberto Rodriguez-- former congressional candidate and later special assistant for legislative affairs to the Secretary of the Treasury (Geithner at the time). So what's SIFI? Don't worry, I didn't know either til Roberto explained it over a bowl of pasta.
by Andrei Martyanov for the Saker blog “Tomorrow war breaks out; an autonomous torpedo boat—two officers, a dozen men—meets one of these liners carrying a cargo richer than that of
by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker blog Some are talking of “fear and euphoria” in the crypto-currency world, but what’s to fear? Last month Bitcoin’s multi-year existential crisis was surprisingly
Source : Robert Parry, Consortium News,19-10-2017
Quand l’administration Trump a accusé Cuba « d’attaques soniques » contre les diplomates américains, un journaliste du New York Times a fait quelque chose d’inhabituel pour son journal, il a tenté objectivement d’analyser les preuves, comme le rapporte Robert Parry.
MEMO | November 28, 2017 Egyptian authorities have criticised the Israeli Minister of Social Equality Gila Gamliel over her recent statements, in which she called for an alternative Palestinian state to be established in the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt’s foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, denounced today Gamliel’s statements stressing that Egypt firmly rejects any kind of “talk […]
By Mark Taliano | Global Research | November 28, 2017 Now that Syria and its allies in the Axis of Resistance have done the world a favour by destroying most of the West’s terror proxies in Syria, the Canadian narrative is falling apart. In 2016, Prime Minister Trudeau described the terrorists in this manner: “The […]
Source : Madaniya, 24-11-2017
«Le journalisme est un métier qui ne consiste pas à faire plaisir, non plus de faire tort, mais de porter la plume dans la plaie (Albert Londres) en ce que le goût de la vérité n’empêche pas la prise de parti.». (Albert Camus)
