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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Lilika Nakos: The dead man, the living, the house; all were smashed to bits
Lilika Nakos: Do you think the war will ever end?

Though I don’t agree with everything Felipe Andres Coronel, better known by the stage name Immortal Technique says, I consider the Peruvian born American rapper and activist a soldier of truth and freedom. I only disagree with Immortal Technique on…Read more →

Do you want to be in a party where corrupt scumbags like this call the shots?Rahm Emanuel loved recruiting Republicans to run for Congress as Democrats-- Republicans who would then join the Blue Dogs and New Dems and vote with the GOP on crucial legislation... until voters wised up and defeated them. Steve Israel, a pale shadow of Emanuel, likes doing that even more. And he just did it again.

Kasab residents take shelter in an Armenian church in Latakia, after fleeing the attacks of foreign terrorists on the village near the Turkish border.

Man from Haram, northwestern Syria, tells of being kidnapped by armed mercenaries, and of the kidnappings and beheadings of those from his village.
UPDATE MAY 7 2014:  Syria 24 English reports today that “60 kidnapped from Nobbul and Zahra reached Latakia from Idlib”

Sharing an excellent summary of the Western/NATO-Saudi/Zionist-manufactured crisis in Syria. This is very much worth the read, and please share it widely.
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May 3, 2014, Lilly Martin, OpEd News

Next month it will have been 36 years since The Cramps and The Mutants played a show at what was then Napa State Mental Hospital northwest of San Francisco. I had some involvement in organizing that Saturday morning excursion and one of the few records of it-- aside from the video up top-- is an article I wrote about it immediately afterwards for the New York Rocker.

Press TV
May 3, 2014
The Debate – Crisis in Ukraine

Press TV
May 3, 2014
The Debate – Crisis in Ukraine

TweetAbdul Basit Igtet the Zionist, one world order, puppet is being pushed on the Libyan People as their savior.

http://porkinspolicyreview.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ppr-episode-21-four-lions-tom-secker.mp3
Download PPR episode 21

https://porkinspolicyreview.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ppr-episode-21-four-lions-tom-secker.mp3
Download PPR episode 21

by Judith Curry The whole concept behind IPCC is basically wrong. – Lennart Bengtsson Last week, The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) issued a press release that Lennart Bengtsson joints the GWPF’s Academic Advisory Council. Exceprts: The Global Warming Policy Foundation is … Continue reading →

Rick Rozoff
rwrozoff@yahoo.com
Chicago
May 3, 2014
Initial report on fate of survivors of massacre in Odessa
I received a phone call from a friend here in the Chicago area, herself a victim of the war in Transdniester in 1992, relating information a friend of hers, a native of Odessa, Ukraine, communicated to her today regarding the fate of survivors of yesterday’s murderous attack on the Trade Unions House in Odessa.

Rick Rozoff
rwrozoff@yahoo.com
Chicago
May 3, 2014
Initial report on fate of survivors of massacre in Odessa
I received a phone call from a friend here in the Chicago area, herself a victim of the war in Transdniester in 1992, relating information a friend of hers, a native of Odessa, Ukraine, communicated to her today regarding the fate of survivors of yesterday’s murderous attack on the Trade Unions House in Odessa.

So you love toast, do you? But does toast love you? This toast is not only not golden, it is surely by any standard dark brown. Why not just swallow poison?"Acrylamide [is] a chemical that causes cancer in animals. . . . The FDA suggests these steps to decrease your intake of acrylamide: . .

RT | May 3, 2014

The Ukrainian military has started an operation against pro-autonomy activists in the city of Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine, as well as the town of Konstantinovka, according to local self-defense activists.
The troops have moved into Mariupol and have surrounded an administrative building held by anti-government protesters.

RT | May 3, 2014

The Ukrainian military has started an operation against pro-autonomy activists in the city of Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine, as well as the town of Konstantinovka, according to local self-defense activists.
The troops have moved into Mariupol and have surrounded an administrative building held by anti-government protesters.

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | May 3, 2014

For Americans interested in foreign policy, the New York Times has become the last U.S. newspaper to continue devoting substantial resources to covering the world. But the Times increasingly betrays its responsibility to deliver anything approaching honest journalism on overseas crises especially when Official Washington has a strong stake in the outcome.

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | May 3, 2014

For Americans interested in foreign policy, the New York Times has become the last U.S. newspaper to continue devoting substantial resources to covering the world. But the Times increasingly betrays its responsibility to deliver anything approaching honest journalism on overseas crises especially when Official Washington has a strong stake in the outcome.

By Linda C. Farthing and Benjamin H. Kohl

Out now. An accessible account of Evo Morales’s first six years in office, offering analysis of major issues as well as interviews with a wide variety of people, resulting in a valuable primer on Bolivia and Morales’s “process of change”.

By Linda C. Farthing and Benjamin H. Kohl

Out now. An accessible account of Evo Morales’s first six years in office, offering analysis of major issues as well as interviews with a wide variety of people, resulting in a valuable primer on Bolivia and Morales’s “process of change”.

Reprinted from LobeLog with permission of the author.
I’m supposed to be editing right now, but I’ve discovered something wonderful enough to put aside my responsibilities for a moment and write about it here.

McKeon, Forbes, Hanabusa-- 3 crooked warmongers on the takeEarlier this week, Republican Congressman Randy Forbes did what he always does (the only thing he does?). He proposed more funding for the Pentagon.

Yes, It has been a while since I last did an article pertaining to the ongoing and seemingly never ending disaster at Fukushima Japan...

A few weeks ago I stumbled on the video above and was so impressed with Derek Cressman, the progressive candidate running against some corrupt Sacramento insiders, one of whom, Leland Yee, is now in prison, that I invited Cressman to introduce himself with a guest post. Instead of a bio bragging out his accomplishments, he got right to the meat of the matter-- cleaning up the systemic corruption that plagues California state government-- and he got very specific...

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
May 2, 2014
50 Canadian troops to join NATO exercises in Poland
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will send soldiers to Poland to take part in NATO exercises amid growing concerns about Russian aggression toward Ukraine.
Harper made the announcement during a press conference in London, Ont., on Friday.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
May 2, 2014
50 Canadian troops to join NATO exercises in Poland
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will send soldiers to Poland to take part in NATO exercises amid growing concerns about Russian aggression toward Ukraine.
Harper made the announcement during a press conference in London, Ont., on Friday.

In this edition of the BoilingFrogsPost.com Roundtable, James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds and Peter B.

Itar-Tass
May 3, 2014
Odessa residents block regional police building, demand punishment for deaths
ODESSA: Some 150 residents in Odessa, a southern Ukrainian city blocked the regional police building to protest against police inaction during the clashes provoked by ultranationalist Right Sector militants and so-called “Maidan self-defense” force, which resulted in the death of 46 people.

Itar-Tass
May 3, 2014
Odessa residents block regional police building, demand punishment for deaths
ODESSA: Some 150 residents in Odessa, a southern Ukrainian city blocked the regional police building to protest against police inaction during the clashes provoked by ultranationalist Right Sector militants and so-called “Maidan self-defense” force, which resulted in the death of 46 people.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Panaït Istrati: Warmakers and toadeaters
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Panaït Istrati
From Domnitza de Snagov (1929)
Translated by William Drake

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Panaït Istrati: Warmakers and toadeaters
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Panaït Istrati
From Domnitza de Snagov (1929)
Translated by William Drake

NRCC and Marco Rubio are not embracing their old pal Rivera this time aroundFlorida New Dem Joe Garcia has turned out to be a pretty big disappointment. A guy who certainly knows better, he quickly adopted the DCCC strategy of amassing a Republican-lite voting record in Congress.

By Robert Fantina | CounterPunch | May 2, 2014

By Robert Fantina | CounterPunch | May 2, 2014

Many people say marijuana is the most beneficial of all the substances, while others claim it is the most harmful.  Regardless that the Journal of Health and Social Behavior found that Marijuana is not a “gateway” drug, that the Global…Read more →

A team of researchers at Emory University in Atlanta recently found that politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths and/or psychopaths. The fearless dominance associated with psychopathy may predict presidential and overall leadership performance.…Read more →

 Ukraine is being pushed to the edge of a much larger and destructive conflict that if started, may be difficult to stop. If the West commits to a proxy war and has been able to mobilize enough militants to carry it out, it can leave Ukraine a destabilized failed state Russia may spend years managing

I’m actually referencing a CNN article, something I rarely do, but they have reported on Raqqa, where sadistic mercenaries are crucifying and assassinating Syrians.

Image: Neo-Nazis light Trade Union House ablaze, killing 30+ in Odessa.May 3, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Western headlines have attempted to spin into ambiguity the death of over 30 anti-fascist Ukrainian protesters cornered and burned to death in t

TweetAbdulhakem Belhaj, the well known al Qaeda leader controlling the Mitiga airport in Tripoli was in France for a meeting when he was confronted by one of the heads of the human rights groups in France. This video clip leaked to the head of a group of human rights activists attacks Abdulhakim Belhadj, head of home party Libya, accusing him of having links to terrorism and the blood of Libyans on his hands.

by KenMaybe the simplest way to approach this is to ask, what do you think of when you look at the picture above?One possible reaction:"Oh goody, there's a pussycat-shaped thing floating on top of my whatever-the-hell-that-viscous-liquid-is-in-the-mug."My first thought was that it was coffee, or maybe soup, but since the floating thing turns out to be a cat-shaped marshmallow, I certainly hope it's not coffee or soup.

 “Playing Israel now is the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of South African apartheid; regardless of your intentions, crossing the picket line provides propaganda that the Israeli government will use in its attempts to whitewash the policies of its unjust and racist regime.”

The much-touted debate on NSA spying sponsored by Canada’s Aurea Foundation between Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz on one side and Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian had few surprises — except for the surprise appearance of Edward Snowden in a video made for the occasion. In it, Snowden explains the power and scope of the National Security Agency: Hayden and Dershowitz spent the rest of the hour and a half or so denying that the pervasive surveillance described by Snowden and Greenwald even exists.

Maybe the problem was that Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), at right, was subjected to threatening visitations by hideous, monstrous creatures like the vaguely human-looking, er, thing at left.