Jeju Island, South Korea – For the past two weeks, I’ve been in the Republic of Korea (ROK), as a guest of peace activists living in Gangjeong Village on ROK’s Jeju Island. Gangjeong is one of the ROK’s smallest villages, yet activists here, in their struggle against the construction of a massive naval base, have inspired people around the world.
United States Army
May 21, 2014
SecArmy: Land Command making advancements for NATO
By Allied Land Command
IZMIR, Turkey: During a visit last week, Secretary of the Army John McHugh reinforced U.S. commitment to NATO’s Allied Land Command, and received briefings from its leadership on progress made since the command was formed in 2012.
United States Army
May 21, 2014
SecArmy: Land Command making advancements for NATO
By Allied Land Command
IZMIR, Turkey: During a visit last week, Secretary of the Army John McHugh reinforced U.S. commitment to NATO’s Allied Land Command, and received briefings from its leadership on progress made since the command was formed in 2012.
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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 Saint Joan (1924)
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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 Saint Joan (1924)
Michael Maharrey of the The Tenth Amendment Center‘s Nullify The NSA campaign joins us to discuss the latest campaign success: the passage of a bill in the California state Senate that would end state cooperation or support with the illegal collection of electronic data or metadata. We also discuss the status of similar campaigns across the United States and the passage of a new law in Minnesota that bans warrantless cellphone tracking.
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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:
Story #1: Did the Fed Launder $141B Through Belgium to Hide Massive Increase In QE?
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Russia Dumps 20% Of Its Treasury Holdings As Mystery “Belgium” Buyer Adds Another Whopping $40 Billion
http://ur1.ca/hd4rw
The anti-EU movement spreads all over Europe… apart from Ukraine*
Charlie Dent was first elected to Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley congressional seat (PA-15) in 2004, a D+2 district that had given both Gore and Kerry the narrowest of victories. Dent took the seat when incumbent Rick Santorum ran for the Senate. The district was gerrymandered by the Republican state legislature in 2010 and is now an R+2 district that includes red-leaning parts of Berks, Lebanon and and Dauphin counties.
By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi | Iran Review | May 20, 2014
There is a widespread Western fallacy that “sanctions brought Iran to the table,” which serves to legitimize the unjust regime of sanctions imposed by the Western governments, who rationalize their action by claiming to be the “injured parties” under international law, with respect to Iran’s alleged “non-compliance” with its international obligations.
Palestine Information Center – 24/05/2014
RAMALLAH — Israeli undercover soldiers kidnapped three Palestinian young men in down el-Bireh on Friday night.
Sources in the city said that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and soldiers in plain clothes were heavily deployed in the city before kidnapping the three young men.
Press TV | May 24, 2014
A Turkish man who was injured in Israel’s 2010 deadly attack on a Gaza-bound flotilla has died after four years in a coma.
Ugur Suleyman Soylemez was left comatose after Israeli soldiers opened fire on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara. The 51-year-old man passed away on Friday.
It is clear that the Syrian public and their officials, in all 14 of the country’s governorates, are committed to the complete restoration of their nation’s peerless and incomparable archaeological heritage sites as soon as security conditions permit.
YouTube description: "Tornado hunter Ricky Forbes was driving through Kootenay National Park when he spotted the black bear cub sitting dangerously close to the highway." (Newsflare link: http://www.newsflare.com/video/14601/weather-nature/mama-bear-rescues-baby-bear.)by KenKids!
Pilgrims continued to be targeted in Baghdad, as were militants in Anbar province.
Speaking Thursday at a State Department dinner, Secretary of State John Kerry said of Nigeria that “only the United States is there offering the assistance to help find those young woman,” adding “other countries, not only aren’t they invited, but they did not even offer.”
Kerry’s comments aimed to brag about the US “leadership” position globally, while presenting American intervention as not only effective but uniquely welcome.
RT | May 23, 2014
Iran is fulfilling its obligations under the nuclear deal with the six-world powers, having curbed its stockpile of higher-grade enriched uranium gas by more than 80 percent, a quarterly report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
Most of the 209 kilograms of Tehran’s enriched uranium were either converted or diluted to less proliferation-prone forms, the document said.
"For those who seek a gentle, nonabrasive hero whose recorded speeches can be used as inspirational resources for rocking our memories to sleep, Martin Luther King Jr. is surely the wrong man."-- Vincent Harding, who wrote MLK's 1967 anti-VietnamWar speech, to the National Catholic Reporter in 1997"Sen.
Some serious setbacks in Washington this week on surveillance reform, a bad judicial nomination, attempt to fix NDAA detention clause….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and earn $15 for the PBC Podcast!
–who watered down the NSA “reform” bill?
–Senate on path to confirm Kill-at-will memo author David Barron
–effort to revoke NDAA detention clause fails
–judge reluctantly allows force feeding of Guantanamo prisoner
–IRS delays new rules on political nonprofits
The Consequences of Parasitical Capitalism
No one's even asking Jean Merl to explain this drunken, coked up messJean Merl is the big kahuna among L.A. political journalists. She works at the L.A. Times and her articles are widely considered the most-read political stories in southern California, even though they generally lack context, insight and substance and are suspiciously similar to campaign talking points.
RT | May 23, 2014
On the heels of a high-profile indictment announced earlier this week by the United States Department of Justice against five Chinese military officers, sources say Russian hackers could be among the next individuals targeted by the DOJ.
TweetDr Jerome Corsi, working with the Moriartys and the Great Tribes of Libya, again hits the truth about Libya that is not being talked about by any main stream media. His report brings to the surface the ongoing subterfuge by the US in Libya today. The US Ambassador to Libya (Deborah Jones) is the leader of the mis-information machine as pointed out in a rebuttal statement put out by the Great Tribes of Libya.
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Maybe Fox was just prescient-- instead of stupid or partisanWhen Mark Foley was forced to resign, in the midst of a shocking sex scandal just before the 2006 election, no one would have imagined he would ever run for office again-- no, one that is, except for people who know Mark Foley. He needed some time off.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
May 23, 2014
Combined Resolve II trains NATO and Partner forces in Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
May 23, 2014
Combined Resolve II trains NATO and Partner forces in Germany
The NBC article used the word "jab". I can't be bothered with that nonsense. It actually appeared to me that Putin was quite diplomatic.
Christopher Black is a Toronto-based international criminal lawyer who has spent the last 14 years successfully defending former Rwandan Gendarmerie General Augustin Ndindiliyimana at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In that 14 years, Black has uncovered copious evidence about what really happened in the so-called “100 Days” of 1994 and the four year civil war that led up to it. Today on the program, Black shares that information with us and deconstructs the lies that continue to be propagated about the Rwandan genocide.
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RIA Novosti
May 23, 2014
West’s Refusal of Dialogue May Lead to Ukraine’s Membership in NATO – Putin
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (U.S. Missile Defense Agency)
RIA Novosti
May 23, 2014
West’s Refusal of Dialogue May Lead to Ukraine’s Membership in NATO – Putin
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (U.S. Missile Defense Agency)
1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London, England.
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1934 – The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company and Rockefeller University (b. 1839) was birthed.
Al-Manar | May 23, 2014
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed the west over the current situation in Ukraine, saying that the West triggered the crisis by its megalomania.
In a speech at a security conference in Moscow organized by the Russian Defense Ministry, Lavrov said that the Ukrainian crisis is a natural result of the West’s expansion of its influence eastwards at the expense of Russian interests.
Interfax-Military
May 23, 2014
Russian General Staff does not rule out West military operation against Assad regime in Syria
MOSCOW: The chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, has said he does not rule out that the West could follow a “military scenario” in Syria.
“One cannot rule out a military operation against the regime of [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad,” Gerasimov said at the International Security Conference in Moscow on Friday.
Interfax-Military
May 23, 2014
Russian General Staff does not rule out West military operation against Assad regime in Syria
MOSCOW: The chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, has said he does not rule out that the West could follow a “military scenario” in Syria.
“One cannot rule out a military operation against the regime of [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad,” Gerasimov said at the International Security Conference in Moscow on Friday.
Interfax-Military
May 23, 2014
Russian, Iranian defense ministers confer on bilateral cooperation, regional security
MOSCOW: Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu met with his Iranian counterpart Brigadier General Hosein Dehqan on the sidelines of the Third Moscow International Security Conference on Friday.
Interfax-Military
May 23, 2014
Russian, Iranian defense ministers confer on bilateral cooperation, regional security
MOSCOW: Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu met with his Iranian counterpart Brigadier General Hosein Dehqan on the sidelines of the Third Moscow International Security Conference on Friday.
U.S. Tests Advanced Missile For NATO Interceptor System
Rick Rozoff
Russian version
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the U.S. Navy and the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex and Pacific Missile Range Facility conducted what was described as a successful first flight test of the program alternately known as the Aegis Ashore and the European Phased Adaptive Approach interceptor missile system.
U.S. Tests Advanced Missile For NATO Interceptor System
Rick Rozoff
Russian version
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the U.S. Navy and the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex and Pacific Missile Range Facility conducted what was described as a successful first flight test of the program alternately known as the Aegis Ashore and the European Phased Adaptive Approach interceptor missile system.
by Tomas Milanovic This essay has been motivated by Isaac Held’s paper [link] arguing for possible emerging simplicity or even linearity in climate dynamics. Indeed a cursory observation of climatic phenomena shows a staggering complexity on all spatial and temporal scales. Tornadoes, … Continue reading →
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Siegfried Sassoon: Selections on war
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Siegfried Sassoon
On Passing The New Menin Gate
Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
the unheroic dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,-
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Siegfried Sassoon: Selections on war
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Siegfried Sassoon
On Passing The New Menin Gate
Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
the unheroic dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,-
I can't see any way for Obama to keep Eric Shinseki on as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. No matter how good a job he did fighting in Vietnam or commanding in Bosnia or as Army Chief of Staff, he screwed up royally as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. At least 40 veterans have died while waiting to see V.A. doctors. That's not what Americans expect from the Veterans Administration and Shinseki should resign at once or be fired by Obama.
An "outraged" Dominique Strauss-Kahn, aka DSK, is going to sue the producers of Welcome to New York, the movie inspired by the epic 2011 scandal that effectively terminated his career as head of the International Monetary Fund and possible future president of France.
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US armed forces are now involved in 49 out of 54 African states, along with the former colonial powers of France and Britain, in what's becoming a new carve-up of the continent: a scramble for resources and influence in the face of China's growing economic role, underpinned with an escalating military presence that spreads terror as it grows. That will bring its own backlash, as did the war in Libya.
Image: Thai military announces it is taking power from ThaksinShinawatra's proxy regime. The coup has so far been peaceful and well-organized. May 23, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - ATN) - Life goes on as normal in Thailand's capital of Bangkok the day after the Royal Thai Army declared it was taking power from the diminished, ineffectual "caretaker government" Thursday.
Image: Bangkok residents who welcome their presence, pose with troops.May 20, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The Royal Thai Army has moved decisively to fill an increasingly dangerous security vacuum in the Southeast Asian country of Thailand after nearly six months of paralysis from the embattled Western-backed proxy regime of convicted criminal, fugitive, billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra.
Image: Armored vehicle operating in Lugansk, eastern Ukraine.. May 23, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The regime in Ukraine is rushing forward with elections, supposedly to take place on May 25, even as much of the country descends into chaos.
On May 13, an unusual weather pattern began hovering over the Balkans, dumping unprecedented amounts of rain on Bosnia, Serbia, and parts of Croatia. Satellite imagery showed a full-blown tropical cyclone, which the weather-watchers dubbed "Tamara." By May 16, the rains had stopped – and the flooding began. The rains and the flooding were without […]
