US Pacific Hegemony vs. a Rising China
October 19, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The complexity and history behind the current tensions in Asia Pacific are belied by simplistic narratives underpinned by superficial nationalism.
October 19, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The complexity and history behind the current tensions in Asia Pacific are belied by simplistic narratives underpinned by superficial nationalism.
By George Wesley Buchanan | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | August 2011 While it has not been widely published, it assuredly has been known for more than 40 years that the 45-acre, well-fortified place that has been mistakenly called the “Temple Mount” was really the Roman fortress—the Antonia—that Herod built. The Dome of […]
I'm Not Lovin' It.The post Man Collapses After Biting Into Popular McDonald’s Breakfast Sandwich appeared first on The Anti-Media.
Documents demonstrate that British companies are being secretly encouraged to sign major contracts with Riyadh as a priority market. This is while London has openly censured Riyadh for beheading sentences handed to two Saudis for alleged anti-government activities. The Ministry of Justice was also forced to end a multi-million-dollar prison contract with Saudi Arabia over […]
More than 34,000 pesticides derived from about 600 basic ingredients are currently registered for use in the United States by the EPA. Industrial agriculture (meaning about 75% of all land used in the U.S. to grow food or raise animals) relies on these chemicals to grow food. Where, exactly has this gotten us? [1]
Billions of pounds of pesticides and herbicides used has resulted in:
A major study involving nearly 800,000 Japanese individuals shows that consuming fizzy drinks can “significantly” increase your risk of heart disease and stroke. The study found that the more people spent on fizzy beverages, the more likely they are to suffer cardiac arrest outside of the hospital. [1]
A childhood filled with psychological stress may put youngsters at greater risk of developing diabetes and heart disease later in life. [1]
When Trump says that Bush (and Cheney) ignored all the flashing red lights that they should have taken as warnings of what was to happen on 9/11, he raises the hackles of Bush-Cheney apologists and touches the rawest of raw nerves. Because, of course, he's 100% correct.
photo by Arkadiusz Podniesinski, Fukushima Exclusion Zone, an abandoned supermarket left in disarray with radioactively contaminated food and goods
Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer, Arnie Gundersen, sat down with CCTV Host Margaret Harrington to discuss, “Nuclear Power: Who is Looking Out for the Public?” Ms. Harrington and Mr.
Ma’an – October 18, 2015 HEBRON – More than 200 Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian villages of Wad al-Haseen and Wad al-Nasara near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba overnight in the eastern Hebron district of the occupied southern West Bank, locals and medics said. During the attack, Israeli settlers threw stones and firebombs […]
It is Sunday....And again time for my weekly rant..I do get a lot of emails and comments periodically asking why I do not write on certain days and why I do not write more articles.... I have said before that with my increased work both at my employment and at home it has been difficult the last while to even put up ONE article a day let alone a multitude... I am doing my best and again I periodically have to play "catch up" on events that affect us all....
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Alfred Noyes: Selections on war
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Alfred Noyes
From The Wine Press: A Tale of War (1913)
The troop-train couplings clanged like Fate
Above the bugles’ din.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Alfred Noyes: Selections on war
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Alfred Noyes
From The Wine Press: A Tale of War (1913)
The troop-train couplings clanged like Fate
Above the bugles’ din.
You are a tool of the state, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA in the U.S., and its equivalent in the UK, GCHQ, are taking control of your phone not just to spy on you as needed, but also to use your device as a way to spy on others around you. You are a walking microphone, camera and GPS for spies.
In 2011, when progressives proposed a 5.6% surtax on millionaires to pay for Obama's jobs program, conservatives whose primary job is, after all, to represent the interests of millionaires, went wild, accusing the Democrats of "class war." The GOP responded, as usual, with the same old tropes about how taxing the rich would discourage job creation and how small businesses would suffer. But, historically, even responsible Republicans have supported federal income taxes.
Understanding the premeditated nature of the West’s war on Syria and the fact that this current conflict serves only as a stepping stone toward a well-defined strategy to next destroy Iran explains why “partnering” with the US in any kind of solution regarding Syria is an impossibility. A “political settlement” that results in the division of Syria or the removal of the current government is also entirely unacceptable for this same reason.
Under Tory leadership the UK has gained the unenviable prize of being the first nation to ever be investigated by the UN for “grave violations” of the human rights of disabled people.
The post The UK Government, UN Reprisals And An Inhumane Austerity Agenda appeared first on BSNEWS.
So this was Putin’s first message to Washington, and the Pentagon/NATO combo in particular; your fancy ideas of stationing tactical nuclear weapons or expanding missile defense to Eastern Europe, or even Asia-Pacific, are just a mirage. Our cruise missiles are capable of wreaking real effective havoc; and soon, as this piece argues, there will be more hypersonic, high-precision long-range missiles added to the mix.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a Turkish politician should not have been prosecuted for denying that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey was a genocide.
Excavations at a site just east of Mexico have uncovered the scene of one of the many brutal exchanges between the Aztecs and the Spanish Conquistadors—and has revealed in grisly detail the full extent of Indian cannibalism.
Press TV – October 18, 2015 A damning White House memo has revealed details of the so-called “deal in blood” forged by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush over the Iraq war. The document, titled “Secret… Memorandum for the President”, was sent by then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell […]
Anand Gopal embedded with some of Afghanistan’s militias—many of which were aided by the Afghan government and the United States—for weeks. He reports on why America’s misadventures in the Kunduz region set the stage for the tragic hospital bombing.
The post America Failed Kunduz Long Before It Bombed a Hospital appeared first on BSNEWS.
“It’s now a matter of when the next Palestinian child fatality will occur and not if it will take place. The complete disregard for human life that Israeli soldiers exhibit suggests that the use of lethal force is their standard operating procedure whatever the circumstance.”
The post Hate-Mongering Israeli Rabbis Call Killing Palestinians “a Religious Duty” appeared first on BSNEWS.
The protests that have swept Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank this month have seen tens of thousands of Palestinians take to the streets. Men and women of all ages have joined the movement. In some cases, these massive demonstrations have passed peacefully, as protesters massed to chant slogans in unity, demanding solidarity to fight the Israeli military occupation.
The post Intifada Or Not, Something Powerful Is Going On appeared first on BSNEWS.
Everyone is getting excited about the 2016 elections which are over a year away. But there's a pretty exciting little election coming up in a week. Louisianans will be picking the guy to take over for Governor Bobby Jindal.... whether he makes it into the White House or goes back to performing exorcisms. Louisiana's jungle primary pits three Republicans-- U.S. Senator David Vitter, former Lt. Governor Scott Angelle, and current Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne-- against one Democrat, John Bel Edwards, the Minority Leader of the state House of Representatives.
Where is all the coverage of the utterly useless, dishonest and misguided Western campaign in Syria? If this had a tenth of the coverage given to Russian bombing I think the public and political discussion in Britain would be very different.
The post The Western Media Have Lost The Plot In Syria appeared first on BSNEWS.
By David Siegel – October 16, 2015 What is your position on the climate-change debate? What would it take to change your mind? If the answer is It would take a ton of evidence to change my mind, because my understanding is that the science is settled, and we need to get going on this […]
The mainstream media is failing the public once again.The post Study: Corporate Media Refuses to Acknowledge Civilian Victims of US Wars appeared first on The Anti-Media.
I have got to tip my hat to Gallier 2 for bringing this site to my attention along with some additional information regarding weapons systems Russia brought into Syria.So first things first: Merci Gallier/tristopia!
-by Dorothy ReikDebbie Wasserman Schultz has gotten away with so much that she thought she was invincible. As a Florida state senator she drew herself a congressional seat in southeastern Broward County and the northern Biscayne Bay shoreland of Miami Dade.
Palestinian protesters were neither terrorists nor heroes. “We are just normal people, living under every kind of oppression you can imagine.” “It is about being oppressed some 60, 70 years,” he said. “(The protests) are just the anger that has exploded.”
By Killian Redden
By Alison Weir | Associated Press Deconstructed | October 15, 2015 Once again, the Associated Press provides a blatantly slanted news report on Israel-Palestine. The problem is, AP’s slant is only blatant to those who know the full facts. This is the article that hundreds of newspaper wire editors around the US, most of whom […]
Are we seeing McDonald’s final days?The post McDonald’s Franchise Owners Confirm: Fast Food Giant “Facing Its Final Days” appeared first on The Anti-Media.
International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | October 17, 2015 Hebron, occupied Palestine – Today, Israeli forces and Israeli settlers in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) murdered two Palestinian youth within three hours. In the morning, Israeli settlers from the illegal settlements within al-Khalil, walked past the 18-year old Palestinian youth Fadel al-Qawasmeh in segregated Shuhada street, cursing […]
The 2016 elections is a little over a year away and candidates have already raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Just in the last 3 months-- and just the candidates for president (so not people running for Congress or for governor or for state legislatures or anything else-- raised around $150,000,000. Most of the candidates from both the completely corrupt Beltway party establishments have raised MOST of their campaign money in the for of legalized bribes.
By Harry Clark | CounterPunch | October 16, 2015 In 1992, Marc Ellis wrote an important article for the time, “Beyond the Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” which appeared in The Link, published by Americans for Middle East Understanding. Ellis found that “the Jewish progressive consensus position is a form of oppression vis-à-vis […]
The Vicious Zionist Persecution of a Truth Seeker _____________INTERVIEW - FRED LEUCHTER AND JIM RIZOLI LEUCHTER’S STORY — HIS WAYThis is a transcript of the September 2015 Rizoli video interview Transcribed by Diane KingBackground on Mr. Leuchter and to watch the video of the interviewJim Rizoli (JR): This is part of RizoliTV and we have a special feature of our show tonightwith Dr.
It should be noticed that the ever first recorded genocide in history was committed by the old invading (slaves of Egypt) jews against the natives of Palestine. This was justified by Toratic bloody verses that calls for annihilating the natives …
Press TV – October 17, 2015 US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has expressed support for President Barack Obama’s decision to keep thousands of American troops in Afghanistan. On Thursday, Obama announced plans to keep 9,800 US troops in Afghanistan through 2016 and 5,500 in 2017, reneging on his promise to end the war there […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice | October 16, 2015 Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terrorism. — Barack Obama, February 15, 2013. Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington’s vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously […]
When asked how the post-Assad regime would be selected, Aboud endorsed anything other than democracy: “The method of selecting a ruler varies in the Islamic state. There are those like today’s monarchies, for example, where the king appoints his successor, and also there are those where leaders are selected by senior nobles and wise men, and there are those consulted by citizens. All these methods are legitimate and nothing is wrong with them.”
Don't know how much real debate has revolved around the AGW hoax? AGW is a meme has spread pretty far and wide unquestioningly.
I guess I sound especially bloodthirsty the way I always advocate ultra-harsh sentences for politicians caught breaking the law. There's a reason for that, of course. Someone given a position of trust who abuses it should, of course, be held to a high standard. But there's more. History shows that if a politician gets away from criminal behavior, it encourages other politicians to give it a try.
By Fawzia Afzal-Khan | CounterPunch | October 16, 2015 Donna Nevell’s Oct 7th article about a new report called “The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US” – released by Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights (See more here.) points to the rise in North American academia, of a […]