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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Wildred Owen: Selections on war
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Wilfred Owen
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
Da Russophile | April 22, 2014
The US, Kiev, their EU allies and their media echo chamber are up to their invariable game of rewriting last week’s Geneva Statement to mean not what it says but what they want it to say.
Lies have shorter and shorter legs. Two months after the change of regime in Kiev, the Polish press has disclosed the role of Donald Tusk’s government in preparing the coup. The new revelations belie Western discourse and demonstrate that the current interim government of Oleksandr Tourtchynov was imposed by NATO in violation of international law.
The post Ukraine: Poland Trained Putchists Two Months in Advance appeared first on BSNEWS.
238 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
1622 – The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
1724 – Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) Born
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
In a sane, non-Hobbesian environment, a neutral Ukraine would only have to gain by positioning itself as a privileged crossroads between the EU and the proposed Eurasian Union - as well as becoming a key node of the Chinese New Silk Road offensive. Instead, the Kiev regime changers are betting on acceptance into the EU (it simply won't happen) and becoming a NATO forward base (the key Pentagon aim).
The post Ukraine and the grand chessboard appeared first on BSNEWS.
The New York Times publishes pablum about the IPCC.
Scenes from two parties of Christians celebrating post-Easter, Damascus. Life goes on, in spite of the last three tragic years.
Filed under: Syria
April 22, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Attempts to paint Pakistan as a dangerous enemy of the West and a prime candidate for military intervention has been made once again by those in the Western media.
With Vladimir Putin having bloodlessly annexed Crimea and hinting that his army might cross the border to protect the Russians of East Ukraine, Washington is abuzz with talk of dispatching U.S. troops to Eastern Europe. But unless we have lost our minds, we are not going to fight Russia over territory no president ever regarded […]
Last week Robert Reich penned a column about the Comcast acquisition of TimeWarner for his blog that I've been meaning to pass along, Antitrust in the New Guilded Age. I was a senior executive at TimeWarner when the horrific AOL merger happened. It's what led to me deciding to retire.
At least 105 people were killed and 127 more were wounded today when bombers struck deep into the Shi'ite south again. Baghdad also suffered from multiple bombing attacks. The now usual violence also occurred in Anbar and in the north.
As federal district judge in Oakland dismissed a similar case, appeals court in NY orders release of Obama’s kill memos….
–weekend drone strikes kill 55 in Yemen, US claims it got underwear bomb maker
–Jason Leopold front-pages the Guardian with his exclusive interview with CIA torture consultant James Mitchell
–ObamaCo delays Keystone XL decision again until after November election
DC on BFP #36 | Douglas Lucas explains what George W. Bush's recent "art exhibit" may reveal about the former sociopath-in-chief. Also, the drug war rages on "south of the border," the next generation of sociopathic cartel leaders, Stratfor's cozy relationship with law enforcement, and the latest on the Barrett Brown case.
If the Democrats were to win back the House in November-- and a herd of golden unicorns parading down Pennsylvania Avenue in honor of Earth Day tomorrow is more likely-- Steve Israel would be a hero and be asked to remain on as chairman for another cycle. There's no chance, not even a small one, that that will happen. Israel is the least competent DCCC chairman in history and Pelosi's unwillingness to fire him after his catastrophic performance in the 2012 cycle, is dooming America to another two years of a dysfunctional GOP-led House.
Editor’s Note: Idaho, where we maintain our office and residence, has a well deserved reputation as one of the most Conservative-Republican and heavily-churched states in the Union. Many residents pride themselves on their alleged Biblical and family values. With an interest rate on loans in Idaho pegged at an ungodly rate of predation of 582%, these Republican church-goers are either flagrant hypocrites or grossly ignorant of God’s law concerning loans of money.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
April 19, 2014
US, Romanian exercise comes to a close
By Staff Sgt. R.J. Biermann
31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs
CAMPIA TURZII, Romania: The week-long bilateral training exercise between the U.S. and Romanian air forces concluded at the 71st Air Base, Campia Turzii, Romania, April 17, 2014.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
April 19, 2014
US, Romanian exercise comes to a close
By Staff Sgt. R.J. Biermann
31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs
CAMPIA TURZII, Romania: The week-long bilateral training exercise between the U.S. and Romanian air forces concluded at the 71st Air Base, Campia Turzii, Romania, April 17, 2014.
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | April 21, 2014
There is now a pattern to New York Times “investigative” stories that seek to pin the blame on some nefarious foreign enemy, as in the 2002 article on Iraq buying aluminum tubes for nuclear centrifuges; the 2013 “vector analysis” tracing sarin-laden rockets to a Syrian military base; and now a photographic analysis proving that Russian soldiers are behind unrest in eastern Ukraine.
“If I sit for this photo Op Lisa – you wont look like such a little person” – Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Boston native Lisa O. Monaco w/ POTUS
In a speech earlier this week, Lisa O. Monaco, President Barack Obama’s assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, insisted that American parents must be vigilant because their “confrontational” children could be on the verge of becoming terrorists.
Syria- can't forget Syria. And now there are two updates!!!! Hoping you did not miss the fact that Syria has removed or destroyed 80% of it's chemsand all expectations are that Syria will have 100 percent removal in short order.A bit of a round up-The NATO media wants us to believe Syria is locked into a civil war... The situation in Syria has never been that simple. To define what has been going on in Syria as a civil war is newspeak. Double talk.
He was an absolute ORIGINAL! Never forget those that Brought you to the many truth’s you have banked today. ~ JB
Selected Writings of John Judge
Experts Predict Crash of the Dollar, Collapse of the United States & Rise of the Illuminati with their New World Order Agenda in 2014 “There will never again be an honest election in the United States” according to the elite banker…Read more →
More dysfunction at the DCCCUsually when Steve Israel recruit Jennifer Garrison makes the news it's about her anti-LGBT mania, her anti-Choice advocacy or her w
Christians in Damascus celebrating Easter, Syria, President Assad.
Now that I’m here as an independent (vs part of the delegation a large group of people from around the world, which I’ll address in another posting), I’m able to take a servis (shared minibus) or bus, am integrating with the locals. This is always better…chance to interact with people more, to also live more like they do, sweating in the over-stuffed bus stopped in a traffic jam, getting out of a seat to let a woman or elder sit down, watching Damascus roll past through the broad windows of the bus.
A man suspected of making threatening statements about a shooting and forcing the lockdown of the Los Angeles Times building was being held Saturday for a mental health evaluation, police said.
A psychologist requested a 72-hour hold for the 28-year-old man at a hospital after he was detained Friday night, Sgt. Keith Green said. The sergeant didn’t identify the man.
OR…. Just keep govt contractors – such as Craft International OUT! Also: Do not stage drills at the same time as the race. (ahem)
DEATH from above ( Current Drones) and now death from below…
RT
The Pentagon’s research arm, DARPA, is developing robot pods that can sit at the bottom of the ocean for long stretches of time, waiting to release airborne and water-based drones to the surface upon an attack command.
According to Stephen Aftergood at Secrecy News, a new intelligence directive forbids any official from talking with the media and threatens “termination of employment” or “criminal prosecution” for any violators.
Spencer Ackerman has a great piece up at the Guardian exploring what is likely to happen to the government’s legal justification for holding people under indefinite detention at Guantanamo Bay once the U.S.’s combat operations in Afghanistan are over in December. The detention system exercised by the Bush and Obama administration, according to Ackerman, “may grow legally tenuous after December.”
I used to believe that Canada was truly a free nation, and one that other nations around the planet would love to emulate for its peaceful idealism and its constant usage of its limited armed forces for "peace keeping" missions for the United Nations around the world....
by Judith Curry Science is not concerned only with things that we understand. The most exciting and creative parts of science are concerned with things that we are still struggling to understand. Wrong theories are not an impediment to the … Continue reading →
Do conservative voting records by vulnerable Democrats like Mary Landrieu (LA), Mark Pryor (AR), and John Walsh (MT) make it hard for you to get worked up about Democrats whining that they could lose the Senate?
Interfax
April 21, 2014
Lavrov: Russia to stop attempts to unleash civil war in Ukraine
MOSCOW:Russia will not allow a bloody conflict in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
“There has been a surge in appeals to Russia for saving them from this outrage. We are being put into an extremely complex position,” Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow on Monday.
Interfax
April 21, 2014
Lavrov: Russia to stop attempts to unleash civil war in Ukraine
MOSCOW:Russia will not allow a bloody conflict in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
“There has been a surge in appeals to Russia for saving them from this outrage. We are being put into an extremely complex position,” Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow on Monday.
RT | April 21, 2014
The Russian Foreign Minister says the US should take responsibility for those whom they put in power instead issuing ultimatums to Moscow.
This month on Film, Literature and the New World Order James teams up with James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com to dissect the man, the myth and the legend of Citizen Kane. From the brilliance of the film’s production to an examination of the Hearst/Kane/Welles parallels to a discussion about art attacking power, this wide-ranging podcast covers it all.
For those with limited bandwidth, CLICK HERE to download a smaller, lower file size version of this episode.
This morning I heard the familiar shelling sounds of mortar being fired by “rebels” from the Jobar region (usually, sometime from other east-of -Damascus “rebel”-infiltrated areas) upon the city. Later, scanning the news I read that one civilian was killed and at least two others injured in the at least seven mortar attacks near Dar al-Salam school and al-Zablatani area (not far from where I am staying, less than 1 km from here). The school is in an area not far from where the Peace Delegation stayed a week ago.
