Lithuania Tribune
May 30, 2014
Ambassador of Lithuania awarded Swedish officers with NATO medals

Lithuania Tribune
May 30, 2014
Ambassador of Lithuania awarded Swedish officers with NATO medals

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Siegfried Sassoon: Selections on war
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Siegfried Sassoon
Bombardment

Four days the earth was rent and torn
By bursting steel,
The houses fell about us;

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Siegfried Sassoon: Selections on war
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Siegfried Sassoon
Bombardment

Four days the earth was rent and torn
By bursting steel,
The houses fell about us;

This is maybe not the first choice of making fire in the wild, but for someone lost in the wilderness or a FEMA Camp prisoner, it can be the only way to light a flame. You take a tampon, put…Read more →

By Brenda Heard | Friends of Lebanon | May 29, 2014

By Brenda Heard | Friends of Lebanon | May 29, 2014

Bill Gertz, writing for The Washington Times, reports the Obama administration had considered using the military during a standoff between Cliven Bundy and the BLM in Nevada in April. A 2010 Pentagon authorization, Directive No. 3025.18, “Defense Support of Civil Authorities,”…Read more →

It Has Begun: Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officers started knocking on doors asking for Tips, effectively turning Families and Friends into Informants, Against Each Other Sheriff John Rutherford held a press conference recently, to announce a new anti-crime campaign in the northwest area of Jacksonville, which…Read more →

With his address at West Point, President Obama succeeded where all his previous efforts had failed. He brought us together. Nobody seems to have liked the speech. A glance shows that the New York Times and Washington Times, the Financial Times and Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal were all disappointed with it. As […]

Newly declassified postwar Naval Intelligence files shine new light on a little-known chapter of U.S.-Israel relations. Massive supplies of American WWII military surplus under liquidation by the War Assets Administration were an irresistible target for Israel’s government-in-waiting the Jewish Agency and nascent military the Haganah in the years immediately preceding Israel’s declaration of statehood in […]

Note: It’s that time of year again when graduates, watched by friends and family, leave campuses across the country amid celebrations and enter our increasingly strange world. I admit to having a weakness for commencement addresses. Though often degraded, they can be inspiring and insightful. On occasion, TomDispatch has carried actual commencement addresses – from […]

The War Party is facing a dilemma: how to do an end run around the doggedly "isolationist" American people, who have had it up to here with the overseas adventurism of our out-of-control leaders? After a decade-plus of uninterrupted warfare, with a new intervention waxing on the horizon as soon as the previous one wanes, […]

Yesterday, tragically, the Democratically-controlled California State Senate sided with predatory real estate speculators who are destroying the whole concept of San Francisco as a diverse, working class city by displacing and uprooting tenants. There was an 18-19 vote against SB 1439, Mark Leno's crucial Ellis Act reform bill.

The only fighting reported in Anbar was in and around Falluja. The hospital was struck by artillery fire just a day after the Iraqi government denied it was intentionally shelling the hospital there. Across the country at least, 92 Iraqis were killed and 23 more were wounded.

It is a measure I guess of how twisted and shallow our depiction of a people is that these images come as a shock to so many. The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity….Anthony Bourdain
 
 
 

 Unfortunately the people in Jerusalem were not privileged to be on the streets to welcome  Pope Francis . The Israeli Police closed all the roads that led to the areas which he was going to visit, and turned the city into a ghost town.

NLG International | May 29, 2014

The Palestine Subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild expresses its grave concern for Jordanian national, Palestinian Amer Jubran who was detained on May 5th, 2014 in Amman, Jordan.

NLG International | May 29, 2014

The Palestine Subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild expresses its grave concern for Jordanian national, Palestinian Amer Jubran who was detained on May 5th, 2014 in Amman, Jordan.

Let's all tweet like the birdies tweet . . . .by KenIt's known in certain (very small) circles that I am not the world's most energetic enthusiast of Twitter, or of tweetin generally.

So, Angelina, the death angel was "drawn to the evil"?  Imagine my non surprise?After all this woman has hoodwinked ( to deceive by false appearance ) the world with her global do gooder facade.  Maleficent is, in my opinion, Angelina's inner being on display.Noticed, I didn't call it 'soul'? Why would I? That woman doesn't have one.Is she evil? I believe so.

Pressure builds on Obama to fire VA chief Gen. Shinseki, but the hypo-critics in Congress won’t cough up needed fundingClick here for free audiobook download from Audible, and earn $15 for the PBC Podcast!
–Jason Leopold filed FOIA request at NSA  on the volume of FOIA requests since Snowden leaks last year, in the Guardian

I have extended interview invitations to the Ontario Libertarian Party candidates in Kitchener-Waterloo, and here is my 20-minute interview with Patrick Bernier, OLP candidate in Kitchener Centre. You can listen to the audio here. We talk about the OLP’s plans for empowering individuals and not government, with regard to health care and education, which are […]

Joseph Meyer, author of the Straight Money Analysis newsletter and 40+ years of Wall Street experience, was on the Josh Tolley Show on May 28, 2014. The interview starts 14 minutes in to the audio. When asked about what he writes about he said that he doesn’t write things to make you feel good, he […]

The U.S. Israel Lobby has continued apace bribing, threatening, and intimidating members of the U.S. Congress and the President to move incrementally towards an awesome “clash of civilizations” between the United States and the Muslim world over Jerusalem as forecast by Harvard’s Samuel Huntington

 
 

By Alfredo Lopez | This Can’t Be Happening! | May 28, 2014

It just wasn’t a very good week for phones or for freedom.
Last week’s obscene joke of a bill coughed up by a Congress [1] wheezing with immobilizing congestion morphed an already compromised law about data collection into a green light to spy on everyone.

By Alfredo Lopez | This Can’t Be Happening! | May 28, 2014

It just wasn’t a very good week for phones or for freedom.
Last week’s obscene joke of a bill coughed up by a Congress [1] wheezing with immobilizing congestion morphed an already compromised law about data collection into a green light to spy on everyone.

Podcaster extraordinaire, James Corbett is back for his monthly appearance.
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Steve Israel-- still pushing fellow Blue Dogs at the expense of real Democrats This morning the DCCC announced that they had reserved $43.5 million in broadcast and cable television time in 36 congressional districts-- 19 to defend incumbents (+ an open blue district) and 19 held by Republicans.

by Judith Curry The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space & Technology is holding a Hearing today at 11 a.m.: Examining the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Process The link to the Hearing is [here].  The Hearing … Continue reading →

RT | May 29, 2014

The Obama administration has launched a sudden effort to keep classified additional parts of a memo outlining the legal justification for the drone killing of an American a mere week after saying it would comply with a federal ruling to release the memo.

RT | May 29, 2014

The Obama administration has launched a sudden effort to keep classified additional parts of a memo outlining the legal justification for the drone killing of an American a mere week after saying it would comply with a federal ruling to release the memo.

Bulgarian News Agency
May 26, 2014
Training Flights for Thracian Star 2014 Exercise Start at Graf Ignatievo Air Base
Training flights for the Thracian Star 2014 International Exercise started at Graf Ignatievo Air Base on Monday, the air base command said.

Bulgarian News Agency
May 26, 2014
Training Flights for Thracian Star 2014 Exercise Start at Graf Ignatievo Air Base
Training flights for the Thracian Star 2014 International Exercise started at Graf Ignatievo Air Base on Monday, the air base command said.

Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

 After yesterday's turnout in Lebanon .....Syria. Ukraine. Election Spin? And more!Check out Day 2!  Pay attention to the flags the Syrians are flying? - NOT the flag initially toted around by the NATO backed terrorists/ mercenaries/hired killersNotice the language used by our NATO media? "Hundreds of Syrians" ?Look at that image? Would you ever use the wording "hundreds of Syrians" unless you were pushing a negative anti-Syrian point of view?

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London Guardian (MSM Coverage)

Topics on the agenda for the three-day summit first held on 29 May 1954 will include: does privacy exist?

Mikey Suits used to get funnier headlinesAnything you read about Staten Island Mafia figure/Republican Congressman Michael Grimm is a part of a carefully staged and choreographed production that is leading inexorably to his plea bargain. The slimy political operatives/lobbyists, Mercury Public Affairs, withdrew the campaign manager, Bill Cortese, last week.

Credentialed, experienced critics declare that the UN's climate panel is politicized - and that many of its conclusions are mistaken.

RIA Novosti
May 29, 2014
1,200 Ukrainian Soldiers Dead in Slaviansk Special Op – People’s Mayor
RIGA: About 1,200 Ukrainian army soldiers have been killed during a special operation in Slaviansk, and eight helicopters and 15 armored vehicles were destroyed, Slaviansk people’s mayor Vyacheslav Ponomaryov said Thursday.

RIA Novosti
May 29, 2014
1,200 Ukrainian Soldiers Dead in Slaviansk Special Op – People’s Mayor
RIGA: About 1,200 Ukrainian army soldiers have been killed during a special operation in Slaviansk, and eight helicopters and 15 armored vehicles were destroyed, Slaviansk people’s mayor Vyacheslav Ponomaryov said Thursday.

Press TV
May 29, 2014
Putin ‘surrounded by NATO’, reversing course in Ukraine: Obama
President Barack Obama says that “American leadership” has forced Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is “surrounded by NATO members,” to reverse course in Ukraine.
US efforts to rally the world against Russia have changed the equation in Ukraine, Obama said in an interview with NPR News airing Thursday.

Press TV
May 29, 2014
Putin ‘surrounded by NATO’, reversing course in Ukraine: Obama
President Barack Obama says that “American leadership” has forced Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is “surrounded by NATO members,” to reverse course in Ukraine.
US efforts to rally the world against Russia have changed the equation in Ukraine, Obama said in an interview with NPR News airing Thursday.

In a memoir published this year, the CIA’s former top legal officer John Rizzo says that on the last day of 2005 a panicky White House tried to figure out how to prevent the distribution of a book by New York Times reporter James Risen. Officials were upset because Risen’s book, State of War, exposed what – in his words – “may have been one of the most reckless operations in the modern history of the CIA.”

By Francis Boyle | Media With Conscience | May 28, 2014

Over the years, one of the most important issues I have dealt with repeatedly for the Palestinian people is Jerusalem. For example, my friend Michael Saba and I launched an initiative to prevent the United States Government from illegally moving the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.