I don't know anyone who was a Saddam Hussein fan… but I've never been to Iraq. In fact, I always avoided the place. Even in the '60s and '70s when I traveled a lot in that part of the world, I did all I could to avoid Iraq, spending my time lolling around Trabzon, Ezurum and Van in Turkey (much of it, without any real paved roads, having just been opened to foreigners for the first time since 1925) and Tabriz and Zanjan in Iran, to avoid the dubious allure of Baghdad (where the Ba'athists had just taken over).

AKA: “CAPSTONE PIPELINE”
Cost Benefit Analysis HERE…. “Never Let a good CRISIS go to waste”? (Especially if you initiated the Crisis!) —- Better “hope” that your land isn’t in the way!

State Police commander, who served as lead Sandy Hook investigator, dies after brief illness –Podgorski worked as commander of state crime lab and in Division of Homeland Security

Rockefeller crash:NTSB cites weather, pilot restrictions
June 21, 2014
The Journal News

 
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US anthrax scare: 86 people possibly exposed to deadly bacteria –CDC: 86 people potentially exposed in US blunder –Live pathogen accidentally sent to low-security labs

Gary North – June 20, 2014
One of the problems that anyone who is critical of the Federal Reserve System faces is the fact that he is regarded as someone without any expertise in the area of money and banking.

Environmental organizations are large, affluent, and secretive. Rather than being underdogs, they are now the establishment.

Remnants of the “rEVOLution” …. Still having an effect!
 

 The US is pushing an agenda. The US does have the means to blunt the insurgency, as opposed to sharpen, it has instigated. Means that would not necessitate regime change however, regime change is the agenda no matter how many skeins of utter nonsense the NATO media spins.WSJ

President Obama’s announcement that the US is sending 300 "advisors" back to Iraq to stave off the rising Sunni insurgency was couched in assurances that "American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq" – but who really believes that?

 Al Gore! AGW has nothing to do with the destabilization campaign in Syria-Al Gore = Banker Whore Reported almost one month ago...A new Turkish aggression against Syria: Ankara suspends pumping Euphrates’ water

National Radio Company of Ukraine
June 23, 2014
Ukrainian armed forces complete most large-scale military operation in Ukraine’s contemporary history

This is what Ukrainian President Poroshenko said in an address to the Ukrainian people.

National Radio Company of Ukraine
June 23, 2014
Ukrainian armed forces complete most large-scale military operation in Ukraine’s contemporary history

This is what Ukrainian President Poroshenko said in an address to the Ukrainian people.

Unless you were completely out of it last week, you probably saw something about Wisconsin prosecutors accusing Gov. Scott Walker of overseeing a sweeping “criminal scheme” to illegally coordinate fundraising and campaign activity among conservative groups in a broad effort to help him-- and Republican senators-- beat back recalls in 2011 and 2012.

Missile Defense Agency
June 22, 2014
Target Missile Intercepted Over the Pacific Ocean During Missile Defense Exercise

Missile Defense Agency
June 22, 2014
Target Missile Intercepted Over the Pacific Ocean During Missile Defense Exercise

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Russian writers on war
Maxim Gorky: Selections on war
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Maxim Gorky
From Other Fires (1933)
Translated by Alexander Bakshy

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Russian writers on war
Maxim Gorky: Selections on war
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Maxim Gorky
From Other Fires (1933)
Translated by Alexander Bakshy

RT | June 23, 2014 France’s biggest bank has reportedly agreed an $8-9 billion settlement with US prosecutors over hiding $30 billion in money transfers to countries on the US sanctions blacklist. The fine against BNP Paribas could be a record for this type of violation. In the proposed settlement, BNP Paribas will plead guilty […]

By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | June 22, 2014 Sunday evening a number of fanatic Israeli settlers attacked the funeral of a Palestinian, killed by the Israeli army in al-Biereh, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, wounding one Palestinian. The Palestinians were participating in the funeral procession of resident Mohammad at-Tareefi, […]

Ma’an - 22/06/2014 RAMALLAH – Israeli settlers opened fire at Palestinians northwest of Ramallah late Sunday in the second such incident in hours, locals said. Two settlers shot at nine men who were working in a quarry near the village of al-Mazraa al-Gharbiya, without causing injuries, the workers told Ma’an. They said they noticed the settlers […]

1532 – Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson’s fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.

All of our other presidents combined can’t add up to how much of a badass he was. Theodore Roosevelt! President, badass war hero, Nobel Prize winner, hunter, animal lover, explorer, conservationist, historian, writer and the “real” most interesting man who ever…Read more →

  The only reason to dissolve Iraq, is Israel. Israel does not want a unified Iraq. Israel does not want an Iraq that can stand on its own two feet. Israel wants to make sure that Iraq never remerges as a regional power. And there’s only one way to achieve that goal, that is, to follow Yinon’s prescription of “breaking up Iraq …along ethnic/religious lines …so, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul.”

 
 
 
by MIKE WHITNEY

 
 
Watching or listening to Western news media is a bit like observing goldfish swimming around in a glass bowl.
Scientists reckon that so short is the memory of these fish that by the time they have swum back across the tank they have forgotten that they were already there only moments before. So, lucky for these little creatures, they think that their miniature environment is a limitless universe.

Michael Ledeen was also behind the fake documents of supposed Iraqi purchase of yellow cake uranium powder from Niger. His lie was crucial in Tony Blair and Bush’s decision to invade Iraq resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of human life. In addition, he was one of several Zionist neoconservatives – suspected of spying for Israel and had long been association with Israeli think tanks – who infiltrated the dens of the Pentagon advocating the “creative destruction” theorem to remake the “New Middle East.”
 
 
 

When I saw the Washington Post’s banner headline, “U.S. sees risk in Iraq airstrikes,” I thought, “doesn’t that say it all.” The Post apparently didn’t deem it newsworthy to publish a story headlined: “Iraqis see risk in U.S. airstrikes.” Then, in an accompanying article, authors Gregg Jaffe and Kevin Maurer observed nonchalantly that “Iraq and […]

Advocates of a noninterventionist foreign policy and the restoration of civil liberties in America haven’t had a reason to be optimistic in the past decade or so – but that is rapidly changing. On the foreign policy front, non-interventionism hasn’t had many champions in American politics. Indeed, during the darkest days of the post-9/11 era, […]

My grandfather was a Socialist who was proud to have voted for FDR in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944. A couple of decades after his last vote for Roosevelt, I had come on the scene and he told me too never trust the Democrats. No, he hadn't turned Republican, of course, he just saw how the corporate warmongers and Southern racists were able to extort effective control over the party on crucial issues. I've usually taken his advice to heart.

At least 141 people were killed and 73 more were wounded as militants took over more border towns and crossings.

"Some of the laciest, crunchiest onion rings you’ll ever taste"by KenIt just so happens that Kitchen Daily's got just the recipe for you, and son of a gun, it turns out to come from

by Judith Curry
[H]ow we meet the needs and aspirations of all of humanity while sustaining the planet’s ecology, is what the Anthropocene is all about. – Keith Kloor

Article Collapse of Israeli explanation

Article Collapse of Israeli explanation

By Carlton Meyer One theme presented by supporters of the American empire is the U.S. military is invincible and can never lose unless stabbed in the back by impatient politicians. They claim the U.S. military never lost a battle during the entire Vietnam war. On August 30, 2011, President Barack Obama proclaimed to a gathering […]

By Carlton Meyer One theme presented by supporters of the American empire is the U.S. military is invincible and can never lose unless stabbed in the back by impatient politicians. They claim the U.S. military never lost a battle during the entire Vietnam war. On August 30, 2011, President Barack Obama proclaimedto a gathering of […]

Obama hasn't helped our country's image recover from 8 years of Bush-Cheney as much as everyone expected. In fact, the U.S. is looked at as the biggest threat to world peace-- by far.

Courtesy of RT In MotionRead more →

Sen. Rand Paul explains to CNN’s Candy Crowley how US intervention is the cause of the region’s troubles.

By Matthew Vickery and Sheren Khalel | MEMO | June 22, 2014 As the lockdown on Hebron enters its tenth day, the atmosphere in the city is tense and restless, with people living under a state of erratic checkpoints and military closure for the past week. On the streets of the city, there is only […]

By Matthew Vickery and Sheren Khalel | MEMO | June 22, 2014 As the lockdown on Hebron enters its tenth day, the atmosphere in the city is tense and restless, with people living under a state of erratic checkpoints and military closure for the past week. On the streets of the city, there is only […]

NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, cond. RCA-BMG, broadcast performance from Studio 8-H, July 25, 1943Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, cond. DG, recorded 1976RCA Italiana Orchestra, Fausto Cleva, cond. RCA-BMG, recorded June 1964Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Muti, cond. Sony, recorded Sept.

Sunday... June 22nd.. And time again for my weekly look at what has been happening in our sick world over the last week..Today is June 22nd, and today marks the 73rd anniversary of Germany's Operation Barbarossa invasion of the former Soviet Union during the second World War.  Many of our so called "history" books called that attack an invasion, but the truth has been coming out that it actually was a pre-emptive strike to stop the criminal Stalin from launching his own carefully planned attack on Europe that was to take place on July 5th, 1941 under the code name: Operation Thunder.....

RT | June 22, 2014 If his current proposal for a truce, which came into force on Friday, fails to bring results, Ukraine’s newly elected president Petro Poroshenko warns he has an alternative “detailed plan” of regaining control over south-eastern Ukraine. “Peaceful scenario – it is our plan A,” Poroshenko said in a statement on […]

RT | June 22, 2014 If his current proposal for a truce, which came into force on Friday, fails to bring results, Ukraine’s newly elected president Petro Poroshenko warns he has an alternative “detailed plan” of regaining control over south-eastern Ukraine. “Peaceful scenario – it is our plan A,” Poroshenko said in a statement on […]

Antiwar.com supporter Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) talks to C-SPAN about the dangers and consequences of trying to police the world.

Ministry of Defense of Georgia
June 19, 2014
Military attaches visit Marneuli Aviation Brigade

Ministry of Defense of Georgia
June 19, 2014
Military attaches visit Marneuli Aviation Brigade

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
George Bernard Shaw: Selections on war
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George Bernard Shaw
From Preface to Heartbreak House (1919)

The Rabid Watchdogs of Liberty

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
George Bernard Shaw: Selections on war
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George Bernard Shaw
From Preface to Heartbreak House (1919)

The Rabid Watchdogs of Liberty