US Strike on Syria is Desperation Incarnate
September 24, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The West was racing against the clock - attempting to justify war with Syria by al
September 24, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The West was racing against the clock - attempting to justify war with Syria by al
Image above: United States ambassador to the UN Samantha Power next to President Obama
Possibly there's a school of thought somewhere which holds that all canals look pretty much the same. But you don't have to be a canal whiz to know that this sure doesn't look like the Suez Canal. Why, it looks more like, like . . .
According to the refuseniks, much Israeli intelligence gathering targets “innocent people”. The information is used “for political persecution”, “recruiting collaborators” and “driving parts of Palestinian society against itself”.
International Solidarity Movement | September 23, 2014 Hebron, Occupied Palestine – Violence broke out on the streets of Hebron’s university district (al-Khalil) this morning when Israeli soldiers opened fire on unarmed demonstrators who had been protesting the murders of two Palestinians earlier that day. Protestors took to the streets after Marwan Kawasme, 29, and Amar […]
Rather then updating an already lengthy post, I started anew-
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | September 21, 2014 In a press conference last week, UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon stated: “Action on climate change is urgent. The more we delay, the more we will pay in lives and in money.” The recently appointed UN Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio stated “The debate is over. […]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
September 22, 2014
NATO Leaders meet in Vilnius for the Military Committee Conference
At their recent Summit in Wales, NATO Allies agreed on a Readiness Action Plan that will strengthen NATO’s collective defence and re-ensure that the Alliance is ready to respond to any future security challenge.
GRAIN | September 22, 2014 With all this money pouring into palm oil companies, lands for oil palm plantations are at an all time premium, wherever they can be found. Oil palm plantations can, however, only be established on a narrow band of lands in tropical areas that are roughly 7 degrees North or South […]
GRAIN | September 22, 2014 The rush to develop oil palm plantations in Africa is a double whammy for the continent. Not only does it involve a huge land grab of peoples’ lands and food producing resources, it also directly undercuts the livelihoods of millions of people involved in Africa’s traditional oil palm sector. This […]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
September 23, 2014
DSACEUR discusses ‘Spearhead’ Force during Official Visit to Estonia
By Abayomi Azikiwe | Press TV | September 23, 2014 A team of eight experts and journalists visiting the southern region of the West African state of Guinea were found dead in the town of Nzerekore on Sept. 20. Reports indicate that they were there to educate people about the nature of the disease for […]
I finally have been able to surf the Internet over the last few hours today, and what I saw turned my stomach... It appears that starting last night, the criminal US Government finally launched their planned airstrikes into Syria...
The mainstream media is hyping the “biggest ever” Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (Ya know, where ALL the resources are and where China has been exerting its influence and power.
Scared yet?
Press TV (Iran)
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | September 22, 2014 The costs of the mainstream U.S. media’s wildly anti-Moscow bias in the Ukraine crisis are adding up, as the Obama administration has decided to react to alleged “Russian aggression” by investing as much as $1 trillion in modernizing the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. On Monday, […]
Mad in America’s International Film Festival will encourage us to think anew about the nature of what is commonly called “mental illness” and its treatments. The festival will run from October 9-12, 2014, in Arlington, Massachusetts (Boston vicinity).
-Finian Cuningham, Global Research, Jul 13, 2012
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63 BC – Augustus, Roman emperor (d. 14) was born.
1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land’s End.
1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
Blue-America endorsed candidate Kelly Westlund (WI-07) is running for the massive 72-county swing district seat in the northern, ventral an western part of Wisconsin. Sean Duffy, a sad Paul Ryan stooge, currently occupies the seat, although Obama won it 53-45% in 2008 and lost narrowly in 2012, 51-48%.
RT | September 23, 2014 China will never support any sanctions against Russia and will never join them, Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Russian parliament’s upper house said, citing Chinese President Xi Jinping, with whom she met on Tuesday. Both Russia and China believe the sanctions are illegal, ineffective and counterproductive, according to Matviyenko. They […]
Technical difficulties did not stop the show from going on. Monday News and callers….
By Hugh Handeyside | ACLU | September 22, 2014 A new report from the Government Accountability Office shows that the government is going easy on itself when it comes to aviation security screening, and in the process it is stretching the concept of watchlisting to the breaking point. Not only has the Transportation Security Administration […]
Carlos Martinez:
“The only decent anti-imperialist, progressive, HUMAN position is to unambiguously and unapologetically support the Syrian government, Syrian army, Hezbollah and Iran in their fight to the death against both sectarian terrorism and imperialist state terrorism (which are two sides of the same coin).“
Tony Cartalucci:
“Russia and Iran’s Reaction to US Assault on Syria…
Ma’an – 23/09/2014 JERUSALEM – Israeli police on Tuesday morning deployed heavily at all gates of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound imposing restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers ahead of the Jewish New Year. A Ma’an reporter in the holy city said Israeli police denied Palestinian men aged under 45 and all women entry to […]
Ukrinform
September 23, 2014
Ukraine changing military doctrine
KYIV: The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will draw up by December 2015 a new wording of Ukraine’s military doctrine and the program for the development of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
This is stated in a plan on the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, which the Cabinet of Ministers approved on September 17, 2014.
If Rick Weiland beats Mike Rounds for the South Dakota Senate seat in November, we'll probably be able to expect a lot more from him than your garden variety Democratic senator. That's because he will be 100% independent of the corrupted Establishment party leaders in DC. His campaign has gotten no help whatsoever from the DSCC and it's one of the most grassroots campaigns I've ever seen. He won't owe Reid or any other party leaders a thing. And he can win. Even without DSCC help, he's within a few points of corrupt former Governor Mike Rounds.
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Hamlin Garland
From The Return of a Private (1891)
By Jonathon Cook | The Blog from Nazareth | September 23, 2014 Today the US – backed by “moderate” Arab states like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Jordan – started bombing territory in another sovereign state, Syria, without a UN Security Council resolution or a plausible argument that it is acting in self-defence. That makes it […]
Press TV – September 23, 2014 Syria has once again slammed the Israeli regime’s support for the Takfiri ISIL militants operating inside the Arab country. A Syrian military official, whose name was not mentioned in the reports, made the comments on Tuesday after Tel Aviv said earlier in the day that it had shot down […]
Al-Manar | September 23, 2014 The Syrian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the United States has informed Syria’s permanent envoy to the United Nations before launching airstrikes against the militants of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group in Raqqa, state-run SANA news agency reported. “The United States informed Syria’s […]
This post is a work in progress. Check back for updates because they are forthcoming!The news this morning, broke my heart. My husband read to me as I prepped food in the kitchen and he said “The US is bombing Syria” and I said “No!” Hightailed it towards the computer and there were the reports. I knew it was coming... But the knowing didn’t lessen my sadness and disgustAs I wrote for readers here, Saturday September 20/14 in this post
By Reuters
(Haaretz) – The United States and partner nations are carrying out the first air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, the Pentagon said late Monday, in ongoing operations that mark the opening of a new, far more complicated front in battle against the militants.
September 23, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Wired magazine recently published an article titled, "Boom!
President Obama’s war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is modeled on the U.S. war against Serbia in 1999 to essentially detach its province of Kosovo – in which the United States acted as the air force for the Kosovo Liberation Army group. This model was also used more recently in Libya […]
The Under the Sun series continues on Trans Resister Radio. This installment revolves around the Osirian Cycle. How could there be such a thing as a dying god? How might a mortal being partake of eternal life? These riddles and much more are explored on this podcast.
At least 107 people were killed today across Iraq; however, the actual figure is likely much higher. The details from what may be another massacre at an army base are very thin, but it appears that hundreds of soldiers were probably killed or injured during bombings and clashes. At least 47 more people were wounded, mostly in a bombing in Baghdad.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, says Germany isn't sending men or planes to fight in Iraq, which is significantly different from what President Obama is asserting. Instead, says Steinmeier, let Iran do the heavy lifting.
Is this what happens when you've never had a birthday party?by Ken"Is This A Scientifically Superior Way To Cut Cake?" asks Elite Truong on WNYC's "Sporkful" blog ("It's Not for Foodies, It's for Eaters"), and while I undoubtedly wouldn't have seen this crackpot video if not for the blogpost, which can therefore be held to task for actually giving this sad person the attention he seems to crave so desperately, now that I have seen it, I have to say I'm glad someone blew the whistle on it.This Alex Bello
US policy has an Alice in Wonderland absurdity about it, everything being the opposite of what it appears to be. The so-called “coalition of the willing” is, in practice, very unwilling to fight ISIS, while those hitherto excluded, such as Iran, the Syrian government, Hezbollah and the PKK, are the ones actually fighting.
Neither the rebels nor President Assad’s army are strong enough to fight on two fronts at once
By Richard L. Fricker | Consortium News | July 11, 2013 Long before Edward Snowden’s claims or revelations that the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency were monitoring and tracking the Internet, cell phones, e-mails and any other electronic communication they could get their hands on using a program known as PRISM, there […]
Free speech is essential to freedom, but with it comes a level of personal responsibility. Supposedly, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes recognized this in his observations about shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre. People assume this meant you can’t do it, but his original comment included the critical word, “falsely”. In the US, your right to […]
This morning one of the Beltway trade papers ran a piece about how weak GOP backbencher Rodney Davis, is kicking the ass of Steve Israel's pathetic mystery meat candidate, Ann Callis, in Illinois' most swing district, IL-13.
U.S. Department of Defense
September 21, 2014
Dempsey Recaps NATO Meetings in Lithuania
Image: University of California, Davis — Davis, California
Donor blackmail is the last front line for the Zionists as they continue to suffer defeats in the battle for public opinion. Unfortunately, their activities on this front have resulted the erosion of academic freedom and the ruination of dozens careers.
I want to present Lasha Darkmoon's latest article here for everyone to read for themselves... It comes from her website: Darkmoon, at www.darkmoon.me, and is entitled: "Time To Resist"....In it, you will find further shocking evidence of the true evil nature of the Jewish criminals that are out to destroy many of our nations and at the same time trying to enslave us all.....
Slap in the face? Maybe… However we still believe that “tax credits” are a joke of extortion, and a Protection racket extending straight to the Federal Reserve. How many major corporations will get to keep their “Pre-funds” while the rest are chased and potentially jailed?
Actual Solutions for US healthcare NEVER get considered without paying off Corps O’merica their cuts!
Here is just another piece of evidence showing who owns the country–the Elite “Global Money Paradigm”.