Patrick Le Brun is a writer and activist who has written many articles for Counter-Currents. He has extensive experience with the French Identitarian movement and is currently based in the United States, where he mentors college students who wish to engage in activism.
(ANTIMEDIA) I see it all the time in my Facebook newsfeed when my politically active leftist friends make posts about why they won’t vote for Hillary Clinton. The most common reaction from liberals is: “DO YOU WANT DONALD TRUMP TO WIN?!?!”
NEW YORK — (Analysis) New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton formally announced his resignation on Tuesday, marking the end of a tumultuous second term as the NYPD’s top cop.
This week’s edition of THE SUNDAY WIRE is on the road broadcasting LIVE from Austin, Texas. This week’s special guest host Hesher from ACR’s Boiler Room takes the helm to covering the audacious US and international news.
(CCN) An “Alaskan Avenger,” a victim of molestation and abuse as a child, is accused of vengefully attacking pedophiles with a hammer, using the online registry to find sex offenders.
I've altered the headline in order to broaden the thinking here.By M.K. Bhadrakumar on August 8, 2016Of course the bits I find relevant will be highlighted!
On December 27, 2015 Dilbert creator Scott Adams wrote the following on his blog.
Yesterday, Maureen Dowd, who has been extremely friendly towards Trump's candidacy all year, did a hilarious satirical OpEd that basically said he's unfit for the presidency due to severe mental illness. The elite Republican critics of Mr.
As health officials predicted, the Zika virus is beginning to spread across south Florida, and now a type of genetically modified (GM) mosquito designed to fight the virus has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). [1]
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | August 8, 2016 Never since the smears that President Dwight Eisenhower was a Soviet agent has there been a McCarthyite campaign in American politics as scurrilous as the present one about Donald Trump being a creation of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Michael Morrell who left the CIA […]
RT | August 8, 2016 Britain’s new multibillion-pound Trident nuclear submarine fleet may be in jeopardy after the government’s own watchdog warned the project faces “major risks.” The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has cast doubt on the Trident renewal plan. The deterrent is expected to vastly exceed its budget and face technical and managerial […]
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French nuclear moguls Areva SA are now designing two nuclear reactors in the southern Chinese city of Taishan. Now, thousands of people took to the streets this week in Lianyungang in the northeast of China, to protest against the other Areva nuclear project there.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge are warning that being overweight in middle age may age your brain by 10 years. [1]
RT | August 8, 2016 The heart-warming image of the Olympic Refugee Team entering the Maracana Stadium last Friday was a special moment, but 77,000 Brazilian residents have themselves been displaced as a result of the Games. The Rio 2016 Games are the first to have a team of refugees compete, in recognition of the […]
So, Afghanistan. America’s longest and wackiest war will soon enter its 16th year, and is scheduled to run through the next administration, as no one can remember why the U.S. is fighting there anymore and so no one knows when this thing is over. Did we win yet? How would we know?
None of that matters of course, because plenty of American contractors are in their 16th year of getting filthy rich, thanks to extraordinary amounts of money being spent with no effective oversight by the Department of Defense. Let’s have the latest example.
Two new studies have shown that Alzheimer’s disease is frequently misdiagnosed. The rate of misdiagnosis may even be as high as 1 in 5 people being diagnosed incorrectly, which can lead to significant emotional consequences.
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British writers on peace and war
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Thomas Nashe
From A Litany In Time Of Plague
Strength stoops unto the grave,
Worms feed on Hector brave;
Swords may not fight with fate,
Earth still holds open her gate.
“Come, come!” the bells do cry.
August 8, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Since the onset of the war in Syria, corporate-financier funded think tanks engineering American and European foreign policy made it clear that establishing no-fly zones and "safe havens" in Syria would be an incremental step toward achieving regime change and rendering the nation divided and destroyed as US policymakers had done to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya beforehand.
By Franklin Lamb | CounterPunch | August 8, 2016 Tel Hara, on the Golan Plain, Syria – The likely next American President, Hilary Clinton is fielding an array of foreign policy advisers, a few being sort of table scraps from the Bush administration and others having resigned from Obama’s. They are today preparing white papers […]
It has previously been thought that having a sickle cell trait may increase an individual’s risk of premature death. However, new studies suggest that this may not be the case. Instead, other risk factors such as obesity, old age, and smoking might actually be the culprit instead of sickle cell.
by Judith Curry
The National Academies Press has published a new document: Frontiers in Decadal Climate Variability: Proceedings of a Workshop.
By Finian CUNNINGHAM | Strategic Culture Foundation | 08.08.2016 Former director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael J Morell is the latest in a phalanx of senior US military-intelligence figures who are shedding any pretense of political neutrality and giving their full-throated endorsement to Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In a New York Times opinion piece, Morell starkly […]
Official Washington’s influential neocons continue to dream up new excuses for expanding U.S. military intervention in Syria, including why to bomb Syrian government forces and confront Russia, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar The complicated, multidimensional…Read more →
Something announced recently by French media should really strike us as odd and potentially suspect. The recent announcement, first by French newspaper Le Monde and then considered by others, that French media might stop publishing images or identities of terror perpetrators, is curious to say the least. Le Monde made the announcement on July 27th […]
Since the onset of the war in Syria, corporate-financier funded think tanks engineering American and European foreign policy made it clear that establishing no-fly zones and “safe havens” in Syria would be an incremental step toward achieving regime change and rendering the nation divided and destroyed as US policymakers had done to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya beforehand.
4.92/5 (12) Every time a Clinton runs for office or is in office, the number of people showing up dead in unusual (and sometimes creative) ways (in that Vincent Price-Abominable-Dr.-Phibes-sort-of-"creative"-way) seems to notch up: think Vince…
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Eleanor Ross discovers there is far more to the Canadian Arctic than conventionally thought or reportedThe post Poles apart: journeying into the Arctic appeared first on Positive News.
ACRA wants to guarantee that investors receive in-depth quality analyses of Russian credit risk [Xinhua]
The BRICS Post (TBP) editor-in-chief Zeenat Saberin recently interviewed Ekaterina Trofimova, the first Chief Executive Officer of Russia’s new Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA).
“Anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror” – Barack Obama A US presidential policy guidance document on drone strikes – often referred to as the ‘drone playbook’ – was last week made public in edited form in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. Politico’s Josh Berstein […]
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On the subject of the Syrian war there has been much deserved mockery of the name change by Jabhat Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda’s local Syrian branch, to its new name: “Jabhat Fateh al-Sham”. It has been rightly pointed out that this name change, and the organisation’s attempt to distance itself from its Al-Qaeda parent, is a transparent fraud made all the […]
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It’s been announced that Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan will go to St. Petersburg to hold a personal meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin this Tuesday. According to Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, it will be the first personal meeting of the two leaders since November 2015 that will focus on the restoration of bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey that deteriorated rapidly after the downing of Russia’s Su-24 over Syria.
We need to go beyond Left and Right to found an anti-Banker party. Dr Michael Hudson.
On June 28, 1914, the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, visited Sarajevo, the main town of Bosnia, then an Austrian province. Three young Serbian inhabitants of Bosnia had decided to assassinate him, in order to achieve the attachment of Bosnia to Serbia. They threw bombs at the car of the archduke. All […]
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While the world is focused on the conflict in the Middle East, and the threat to Europe posed by increasing terrorist attacks, the reality is that the “war on terrorism” is being displaced by the West’s renewed cold war with Russia. This is true for a couple of reasons: 1) For all the dramatic headlines […]
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When Barack Obama was elected president, he hoped to eliminate nuclear weapons. His hope (expressed in his visit to Hiroshima) is still to eliminate such weapons. But that elimination never happens. Almost a decade ago, four powerful retired politicians – Sam Nunn, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and William Perry – called for ending nuclear weapons. […]
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An attack on Russia’s border control in Crimea leaves one Russian serviceman dead and several wounded. An attempt to assassin the President’s of the Lugansk Republic, Igor Plotnitsky, injures him
In response to Russia’s stance against Western aggression in Syria, the West has launched a full-scale war against Moscow. One of the major triggers of this war seemed to be when Russia diplomatically outmanoeuvred the US (through brokering a deal that brought Syria’s chemical weapons under international control) following the Ghouta sarin gas attack in 2013 – which the West blamed on Assad’s forces, but which was in fact a false flag attack to justify an invasion of Syria.
Exports fell 4.4 percent from a year earlier, the General Administration of Customs said on Monday [Xinhua]China’s exports fell 4.4 per cent year on year in July, while imports fell 12.5 per cent, customs data showed on Monday.
Imports saw the biggest decline since February.
That led to a monthly trade surplus of 342.8 billion yuan ($51.5 billion), up 34 per cent from one year earlier, according to figures from the General Administration of Customs.
It expects pressure on exports is likely to ease at the beginning of the fourth quarter, a statement said.
Protesters holding up pocket constitutions are now a signal for enraged Trumpanzee fans to start booing and frothing at the mouth. It had to come to that eventually. Several sitting Republican congressmen have publicly told their constituents they will not vote for Trump. Richard Hanna (R-NY) has said he'll vote for Hillary.
Militants killed eight displaced person by setting them on fire.
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Last Monday, the Department of Defense held a press conference in which Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook disclosed to reporters that the United States military – at the request of the officially recognized governing body of Libya, the Government of National Accord (GNA) – has begun a campaign of precision airstrikes on ISIL targets inside the northern city of Sirte.
According to the Pentagon, Aleppo is "primarily held" by al-Qaeda. They argue that the rebels the CIA supports there are allies of al-Qaeda.
In many of my past articles I have tried to show that the terrorists which have committed the recent atrocities in the USA, Europe and elsewhere were not really motivated
When Digby, John and I were first getting to know Ted Lieu, back when he was still a state Senator, we asked him why he was willing to leave the young family he's so devoted to in L.A. and spend so much time in Washington, D.C. He told us it actually had a lot to do with his two sons-- a compulsion to help turn Congress towards solving the accelerating problems around Climate Change. And, sure enough, last month when Ted was named the freshmen Democrats MVP, his unrelenting work-- with members on both sides of the aisle-- for climate change was first and foremost in everyone's mind.
by Almuth Ernsting Subsidies intended for next-generation cellulosic ethanol production are to be applied to a trivial improvement to corn ethanol refining technologies. Since cellulosic ethanol qualifies for much higher subsidies, this will significantly increase ...
August 8, 2016 (The New Atlas) - Iran has for now, banned Pokemon Go over security concerns. The BBC in their article, "Pokemon Go banned by Iranian authorities over 'security'," would report that:
