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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Joseph Kessel: In my family, war is in the blood…the blood of others
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Joseph Kessel
From The Medici Fountain (1950)
Translated by Herma Briffault
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Joseph Kessel: In my family, war is in the blood…the blood of others
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Joseph Kessel
From The Medici Fountain (1950)
Translated by Herma Briffault
Not everyone reads and Boko Haram is hiding under your bed. Bombings in Nigeria and burning people alive in Ukraine. Joe Biden and John Kerry are cashing in while the FBI agent who killed Todashev …
On May 21, the $700 million dollar National September 11 Memorial Museum opened to the general public,12 years and change after that awful, now-historic day in September. The museum provoked controversy for years before it even opened. The astronomical cost – a mixture of private and government funding – to build the thing, as well […]
This week, Rick Weiland, the populist Democrat running for open Senate seat in South Dakota, sent his supporters a statement called "The Lost Highway," and, of course, he was talking about the Internet. "Everybody," he began, "seems to think the so called net neutrality issue is incredibly complex. It isn't." Weiland isn't much loved by the Big Money interests or the Establishment shills from either party.
The fighting continued in Anbar today, while gunmen and bombers took their toll elsewhere.
Lia Tarachansky presents the Nakba from the unusual viewpoint of its perpetrators and the ‘inheritors’ of its stolen booty- the land of Palestine. The protagonists are Tarachansky, who, herself, is an ex-settler from Israel’s largest illegal colony, Ariel, Eitan Bronstein founder of Zochrot and Palmach veterans, Tivka Honig-Parnass and Amnon Noiman. Amnon’s struggle to come out of the torture chamber of silent guilt is vivid and (grudgingly) brave.
NYRB caption: "Some of the two hundred thousand pro-democracy student protesters face to face with policemen outside the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, April 22"by KenLast night I teased you with the piece that longtime China watcher Jonathan Mirsky has posted on the New York Review of Books blog on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Squa
Image (Nigeria) – Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked three villages in Nigeria, killing 48 people. Rescuers carry a body recovered from a shop burned by car bombs in Jos’s terminus market. Most of the victims were women and children. Photograph: AFP/Getty
From another US Embassy Cable released by Wikileaks we find:
TweetDeborah Jones US Ambassador to Libya spoke today at the Stimson Center in Washington DC. Her prowess for mis-statements and lies is unmatched except by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama'. She states the Libyan people never had a government before the so called "revolution" and that they are not capable of having a large government only of having small pieces of governments. She also states that the Libyan people do not want a great leader it is not in their culture.
Paul Topete is the Singer, Guitarist, for the BAND Pokerface.
RT | May 21, 2014
Ukrainian authorities are not letting the OSCE special monitoring mission visit the detained journalists from Russia’s LifeNews channel, Andrey Kelin, Russia’s permanent representative to the organization, said.
“At our request, the OSCE mission is demanding a meeting with the journalists, but the Kiev authorities forbid them from doing,” Kelin told ITAR-TASS news agency.
WikiLeaks, others push for full disclosure, as Greenwald argues that revealing second nation subject to “full take”, may risk lives…Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and earn $15 for the PBC Podcast!
Frontline—no mention of Nacchio as they show AT&T CEO Whitacre stonewalling Arlen Specter, Greenwald gave more details on Snowden’s options from HK to Moscow
By Z.C. Dutka | Venezuelanalysis | May 20th 2014
Earlier this afternoon in Washington, the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. Senate approved 13 to 2 the “Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act.” The bill includes sanctions on key individuals of the Venezuelan government and at least $15 million to “defend human rights… and strengthen the rule of law.”
The Menendez Bill
Syrian special forces have broken the siege of Aleppo Central Prison, according to a correspondent with Al-Manar News. The sprawling facility has been under siege by foreign militants for over a year. For the past number of days, Syrian forces have bombarded terrorist positions on the outskirts of the prison. Today, elite troops broke through to the prison, providing the garrison with food and ammunition.
A former CIA pilot has sworn an affidavit, stating that no planes flew into the Twin Towers as it would have been physically impossible. The son of Learjet inventor Bill Lear, John Lear, has sworn expert evidence that it would have been physically…Read more →
RT | May 21, 2014
A Canadian proposal that calls for a nuclear waste storage facility less than a mile away from the Great Lakes is coming under heavy fire from Michigan lawmakers and environmental groups, who are now attempting to stop the project.
CA-33 is a blue, blue district encompassing iconic California dreamscapes like Santa Monica, Venice, Malibu, Beverly Hills, Westwood, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, El Segundo… a canvas for a David Hockney painting-- or a Beach Boys career. One of the most well-educated congressional districts in the country, it isn't friendly to the Republican message. The PVI is D+11 and McCain only managed 34% in 2008 while Romney took 37% in 2012.
1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
When a sexually assaulted American citizen can be falsely arrested for assaulting a police officer, brought to trial by a corrupt prosecutor whose false case is endorsed by a corrupt judge and convicted by an insouciant jury, you know that justice is dead in America.
Just because Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch don’t recognize the U.N. Charter or the Kellogg Briand Pact is not a reason for us not to. Laws don’t work that way. Laws remain law until they are repealed. These laws have not been. If a memo can make a murder part of a war and therefore legal, we are obliged to ask: What makes the war legal?
The post Why I Don’t Want to See the Drone Memo appeared first on BSNEWS.
On 2 May 2014, there was a massacre that was initially reported as being of 116 anti-Kiev (or independence) demonstrators at the Trade Unions Building in Odessa. The latest reliable report (from an American, George Eliason, who lives in that area) indicates it to be instead “now counted at 272 people that were tortured, gassed …, bludgeoned, …, etc.,” above and beyond the numbers who had been incinerated there by the firebombing of the building. Western news-media unfortunately seem to be doing all they can to keep the public ignorant of what went on there, and of why.
For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy in the first place
The post Secrets, lies and Snowden’s email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit appeared first on BSNEWS.
All the Blue America bloggers have been agitating for Pelosi to refuse to legitimize the Benghazi clown show and to instead appoint just one Democrat-- Alan Grayson, who is bound to make the Republicans wish they were not the party of sedition and obstruction. Yesterday, Grayson told Brett Logiurato at Business Insider that the Republicans are "scandalmongers without a scandal.
A year ago, on May 23, 2013, I was in the audience at the National Defense University when President Barack Obama gave his major foreign policy address. Having worked for years trying to close the Guantanamo prison and stop US drone attacks, I was crushed to realize that the president’s speech was ending and he had not announced any significant change of course on either policy. My heart was pounding with fear.
Eva Illouz, a professor of sociology at Hebrew University, published an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz entitled, “Is It Possible to Be a Jewish Intellectual?” In this piece she sets forth two opposing positions: one is the Zionist/Israeli demand for the primacy of “ahavat Israel,” or the “love of the Jewish nation and people” – the claim that all Jews have a “duty of the heart” to be loyal to the “Jewish nation.” The other position is that of the lone i
TweetFormer General Kalifa Hafter is leading a coup against the Libyan government.
After Islamist terrorists did NATO's dirty work, they are fighting over the spoils. Enter CIA-asset General Kalifer Hafter.
"The UK, France and the USA are now going to "save" Libya from the mess made by them."
by JoAnne Moriarty
(henrymakow.com)
by Donald Rapp This paper describes a model that uses the basics of heat transfer to demonstrate than an increase in downwelling infrared radiation associated with increased CO2 reduces heat loss from the mixed layer of the ocean, causing the … Continue reading →
May 2nd was the last day to file for federal office in Florida for 2014. Of the 16 congressional seats held by Republicans, 5 have no Democratic candidates at all. Many others have just vanity Democratic candidates or wild-eyed idealists with no real chance, but these are the 5 with no Democratic opponents:, along with the incumbents and the district PVIs:
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
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Edgar Saltus
From Imperial Purple (1892)
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
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Edgar Saltus
From Imperial Purple (1892)
The White House
Office of the Vice President
For Immediate Release May 20, 2014
Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden to Joint United States and Romanian Participants in Carpathian Spring Military Exercise
Otopeni Military Airbase
Bucharest, Romania
The White House
Office of the Vice President
For Immediate Release May 20, 2014
Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden to Joint United States and Romanian Participants in Carpathian Spring Military Exercise
Otopeni Military Airbase
Bucharest, Romania
by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
May 20, 2014
Early 20th century writer Franz Kafka was known for creating unsettling stories of characters set upon by unseen forces, caught in the labyrinth of modern-day bureaucracy. A lawyer by training, this sense of angst is perhaps best exemplified in his famous novel, The Trial, in which a man is charged with an unnamed transgression by an unknown accuser in an unofficial parallel court system that begins to take over his entire life. This is the essence of the Kafkaesque.
Welcome back to The Asia-Pacific Perspective, that monthly show where James Corbett of corbettreport.com and Broc West of apperspective.net break down all the latest news and headlines from the Asia-Pacific region. In this month’s conversation:
STORY #1:
Tensions escalates between China and Vietnam over controversial oil rig
http://ur1.ca/hcf0d
Vietnam stifles new demonstrations as China fumes
By Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice | May 20, 2014
Hypocrisy, the most protected of vices.
— Moliere, 1672-1673
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: Brazil Tells World Cup Attendees “Don’t Scream When Robbed”
http://ur1.ca/hbomm
Brazil Crime Bosses Threaten ‘World Cup of Terror’
http://ur1.ca/hbomp
Brazil’s Plans for Anti-Terror Law Alarm Rights Groups
Image: Aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. May 21, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - ATN) In 1944 a daring assassination attempt was made on Germany's Adolf Hitler. The plan was hatched not by Allied commanders, but amongst the ranks of the Germany army itself.
It’s just a coincidence that Gen. Khalifa Hifter (sometimes spelled Hiftar) launched his Libyan coup only four days after the US deployed 200 troops to Sicily – a "crisis response team" sent at the State Department’s request. Another coincidence: US-backed Gen. Hifter lived in Washington, D.C. for decades, a few convenient miles from the CIA’s […]
Although the Nigerian radical Islamist group Boko Haram has long made even the al Qaeda groups look moderate – slaughtering entire villages and shooting or burning to death 59 school boys – it apparently took the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls to get the world’s attention, including that of America and Britain. And then […]
This shocking video shows the unprovoked, cold-blooded killings of two Palestinian teenagers, 17-year-old Nadim Siam Nuwara, and 16-year-old Muhammad Mahmoud Odeh Abu al-Thahir on 15 May near Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank city of Beitunia.
In Anbar: Five Sahwa members were killed and their leader was wounded in a clash with gunmen in Ramadi. Four gunmen were killed when a bomb accidentally blew them up. In Falluja, shelling killed four civilians and wounded five more. Four policemen were wounded in a blast in al-Baghdadi. In Amiriyat al-Falluja, 38 militants were […]
I hope you read VA-08 resident Pachacutec's very detailed rundown of the candidates running in his northern Virginia district. Although he found more than one well-qualified candidate, he came to the conclusion that Patrick Hope was the best candidate overall and the best candidate to beat the heavily financed conservative Establishment Democrat, Don Beyer. That was back in April. Today marked 3 weeks out from the election and the race has had time to develop.
A pro-Russian activist with a shell casing and a US-made meal pack that fell from a Ukrainian army APC in an attack on a roadblock on 3 May in Andreevka, Ukraine. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty
“Since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many democratically elected. The Pentagon currently runs “special operations” in 124 countries.”
TweetMustafa Abdul Jalil, Head of the National Transitional Council in Benghazi in 2011, admits:
