Antiwar.com is linking to Seymour Hersh’s latest report indicating the potential role of the Turkish government in unleashing the chemical agent sarin in Syria last year and the possibility that it was done intentionally in order to instigate a U.S. military action against the Assad regime. Hersh spoke about the piece on Democracy Now:
It's no secret that Blue America is as excited about the Shenna Bellows race in Maine this cycle, as we were about the Elizabeth Warren race in Massachusetts last cycle. The two women are different in many ways, of course, but both are strong, independent-minded, brilliant and focused on breaking through the same-ole/same-ole that has made Washington so utterly dysfunctional.
DC on BFP #34 | Mark Mondalek, BFP Contributing Author, joins us to discuss First Look's consolidation of "independent voices"; the lack of criticism over Pierre Omidyar's connections to the national security apparatus, the White House, and USAID; Edward Snowden and the "hero vs. traitor" false dichotomy; and much more.
TweetThe Moriartys and Libyan Tribal Representative Faraj Muftah, speak with James Corbett of the Corbett Report about Libya before the NATO/US invasion and bombing , during the NATO/US bombing and the current situation in Libya.
You can listen at this link: http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-855-faraj-muftah-describes-the-fa...
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You listen to the video posted below
In today’s post, I will discuss the ethics application and approval process for Fury.
According to Fury, on August 28, 2012, Michael Marriott (of Watching the Deniers) and John Cook (of SKS) began a program of monitoring and “real time” categorization of “conspiracist ideation” within blog articles and comments. The monitoring program continued until October 18, 2012.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
April 4, 2014
Polish pilots take to the skies with US counterparts
By Airman 1st Class Ryan Conroy
31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs
Lask Air Base, Poland: Poland continues to build its relationship with the U.S. as both nations’ air forces integrate their capabilities through training sorties in a joint theater capacity.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
April 4, 2014
Polish pilots take to the skies with US counterparts
By Airman 1st Class Ryan Conroy
31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs
Lask Air Base, Poland: Poland continues to build its relationship with the U.S. as both nations’ air forces integrate their capabilities through training sorties in a joint theater capacity.
This should be rather obvious, but a recent study shows that the less informed you are, the worse your policy recommendations are likely to be. Specifically, you are much more likely to advocate U.S. military intervention in Ukraine if you’re also someone who can’t find Ukraine on a map.
Washington Post:
http://youtu.be/p8syuZd3xQ8Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org provides his analysis of the supposed conflict between the US Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA regarding the release of a classified report on the use of torture in interrogations carried out by the agency. Draitser explains that the Obama Administration and Senate are being utterly disingenuous in framing the issue as one of transparency, as he notes that the CIA itself will have a hand in deciding what will be declassified and released.
Editor's note: I receive all sorts of right wing foolishness by e-mail. This one below, oft-repeated no matter how many times it is shown to be false, is particularly deluded and preys on the fact that many right wingers are uneducated or indeed, semi-literate — being enthusiasts who entertain only those thoughts, ideas and books that agree with their positions — hence they end up in a fantasy land of their own devising. It reminds us of the Right wing Republican Senate candidate who declared that women who are victims of a "legitimate rape" will most likely not become pregnant.
Is Cliven Bundy a hero?
The contractors are nervous about Bundy’s veiled threats. They’ve asked reporters to come with them to reduce any chance of violence.
Bundy has lots of allies in his range war with the BLM.
And it’s easy to see why. His family has ranched the area since 1887, Before the Taylor Grazing Act was passed in 1934 and the BLM created, ranchers in the West never staked out claim to all of the land that they ran their herds on. There was no need.
Oddly enough this metaphor had come up in the last few weeks at home. Must have entered the discussion for some reason?
As discussed in my book, Another Nineteen, there are good reasons to believe that some 9/11 suspects were involved in previous deep state operations. For example, evidence suggests that Stratesec manager Barry McDaniel and Carlyle Group director Frank Carlucci might have participated in the Iran-Contra crimes.
If you go over Ohio state Rep. Matt Lynch's record, you might be moved to ask, "how the hell did an extremist and fanatic like that get elected to office anywhere. Well, that would be a good question, since Lynch was appointed to his seat, a seat that Richard Hollington, Matt Dolan, Tim Grendell all resigned from in the last couple of years, Hollington twice. And now Lynch wants to abandon the Geauga County legislative seat as well, to run against Republican Congressman David Joyce in the May 6 primary. Geauga is, by far, the reddest county in OH-14.
(CNN) — Spc. Ivan Lopez vented about a range of subjects on Facebook before his shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, including his outrage at Adam Lanza’s mass school shooting in Connecticut.
He wrote of experiencing overpowering fear after an insurgent attack in Iraq and the hatred that consumed him after getting “robbed.”
RT | April 7, 2014
In the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, a group of activists have declared their region independent from Kiev. This comes after protesters stormed a local government building last night.
Mass demonstrations against the country’s new leadership started peacefully on Sunday, but the situation quickly escalated.
AMSTERDAM – A Dutch Jesuit priest was beaten and shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his monastery in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Monday, the Vatican said.
Frans van der Lugt, 75, had been living in Syria since the early 1970s. Armed men took him from his home in the morning and shot him twice in the head, Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant reported, citing the head of the Jesuit order in the Netherlands
Israel to extract a heavy price if Palestinians join UN bodies, says minister
by Stuart Littlewood
US-brokered negotiations with Israel, which started on 29 July 2013 and were to last nine months, are nearing their ignominious end. And Israel, the serial defaulter that it is, has reneged on the agreed release of 104 pre-Oslo prisoners in exchange for Palestine’s postponing joining international organizations to help achieve their long-overdue freedom.
After the U.S. and Israel delivered a one-sided, unacceptable interim agreement to the Palestinians last week, the PLO and Mahmoud Abbas decided to pursue further accession at the United Nations, building on its attainment of non-member observer status in 2012. In a press release yesterday, Human Rights Watch condemned the United States for opposing Palestinian efforts to adopt international treaties and urged Washington to “stop blocking Palestinian rights.”
I’ll be in Germany and Scotland this month, giving speeches about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This Thursday, I’ll be addressing the International Conference on Climate and Energy, which is being held in Mannheim, Germany (info here). Also on the program: meteorologist Richard Lindzen, geologist Sebastian Lüning, astrophysicist Nir Shaviv, and solar physicist Henrik […]
Here’s a worthwhile interview with Brennan Center’s Mike German, a 16-year veteran of the FBI, on excessive secrecy, incompetence, and threat inflation in the FBI and the intelligence community.
Also from VICE and also on the FBI, Charles Davis wrote a great piece on the FBI’s pursuit of anti-war activists. Read it here.
Today we continue last week’s conversation with James and JoAnne Moriarty of LibyanWarTheTruth.com and bring Faraj Muftah into the conversation. Muftah is a spokesman for the Warfalla tribe, the largest Arab tribe in Libya. We discuss the NATO-backed, Al-CIAda mercenary-led invasion of Libya in 2011 and how the very radical terrorists that the US claims to be fighting against are the ones in charge of the country today with the full backing and support of the US government.
Press TV
April 7, 2014
‘Increased drugs production sole outcome of US-led Afghan war’
Interview with Rick Rozoff, with the Stop NATO International Network
Video
Press TV has interviewed Stop NATO International Network’s Rick Rozoff to discuss the recent presidential election in Afghanistan.
What follows is a rough transcript of the interview.
Press TV
April 7, 2014
‘Increased drugs production sole outcome of US-led Afghan war’
Interview with Rick Rozoff, with the Stop NATO International Network
Video
Press TV has interviewed Stop NATO International Network’s Rick Rozoff to discuss the recent presidential election in Afghanistan.
What follows is a rough transcript of the interview.
Friday, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich made the case that unemployment is still high and the economic recovery so turgid because of the failed European-style austerity measures being forced on the country by the plutocrats and oligarchs, primarily through their bought-and-paid-for conservative handmaidens in government.
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio April 5, 2014 [download audio]
MEMO | April 7, 2014
Israel will surround the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas until he accepts the Israeli terms and recognises Israel as a Jewish state, Israel’s top negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said yesterday.
April 7, 2014 (New Eastern Outlook)New Eastern Outlook Since 2011 the Syrian people have been fighting against a long-planned foreign conspiracy to violently reorder their nation. Fighting off tens of thousands of foreign-backed sectarian militants for 3 years, the Syrian people are finally beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. For those that have stood with Syria these last 3 years, we must keep standing strong.
Ma’an - April 6, 2012
BETHLEHEM – A group of Christians from East Jerusalem on Sunday said that Israel’s restrictions on Palestinian mobility resulted in violations of religious freedoms.
The statement, signed “Palestinian Christian Organizations in Occupied East Jerusalem,” complained that Christians are often denied access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during the Easter holidays.
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Here’s what the president said back in June 2013, while reassuring the American people about the National Security Agency’s collection of their phone metadata: “When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That’s not what this program’s about. As was indicated, what the intelligence community is […]
The 150th Anniversary of Lieber’s Code was celebrated by the International Humanitarian Law (Law of War) community in 2013 for the embryonic role the Code played in the development of the law of war. But while issuing Lieber’s Code is often credited as the founding of the law of war, in fact, Lieber’s Code is […]
It’s in somewhat dubious taste to start off a column by saying "I told you so," but in this case that’s the shortest and indeed only way to convey my reaction to Seymour Hersh’s piece in the London Review of Books revealing that the chemical attack which nearly triggered a full-scale US military operation against […]
Remember South Carolina crackpot Joe Wilson, the right-wing freak who screamed out "You lie!" at President Obama when he gave the State of the Union address in 2009 and was then formally admonished by the House? So far, according to ProgressivePunch, he has the most extreme right wing voting record of anyone from South Carolina for the 2013-'14 session. His crucial vote score is a shocking 2.80 (out of 100).
(RT) – Hacktivist group Anonymous plans to execute an anti-Israel operation dubbed #OpIsrael by launching massive cyber-attacks against Israeli ministries and organizations on April 7, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“On April 7, 2014, we call upon our brothers and sisters to hack, deface, hijack, database leak, admin takeover, and DNS terminate the Israeli Cyberspace by any means necessary” the group said in a statement.
30 – Jesus Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer, dies
1307 – Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (b. 1271) Burned at the Stake. Dies.
1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
Anecdotes and rare conversation you only hear on THE JACK BLOOD SHOW!
On this auspicious anniversary, Jack Blood interviews Bruce Pavitt – a co-founder of Seattle’s Sub Pop Records…. The label that discovered Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney (among others) .
Bruce has a newish book out that is a MUST HAVE for Nirvana / “grunge” fans.
Bruce drops a few bombshells regarding Kurt’s “suicide”, a new investigation… One that we know know was suppressed again…. and how he lost heavy on the popping of the 2008 Financial meltdown.
At least 42 people were killed and 74 more were wounded. An unidentified police colonel warned that the tense situation in Anbar could soon be on Baghdad's doorstep.
Surely the most influential, not to mention heroic, squirrel in squirrel history was Rocky the Flying Squirrel, though some people might argue that even Rocky might not have made it big without benefit of his lovable-lunkhead moose companion."I care a lot about animal welfare issues. To me, the issue is how do you deal fairly or ethically with a creature whose priorities are so different than yours? They're not going to be your friend.
Everybody likes inoffensive, friendly, old Tom Petri, right? He's the 4th most senior Republican in the House-- having beaten Tommy Thompson for an open GOP seat back in 1979. His central Wisconsin district is a swing district that leans red. Obama eked out the narrowest of victories there in 2008 and lost to Romney in 2012.
Attorney Michael Connett summarizes 10 basic facts about fluoride that should be considered in any discussion about whether to fluoridate water. To download the flyer that accompanies this video, visit: http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/…. To watch Michael debate two advocates of fluoridation, see: http://www.wpsu.org/conversationslive….
This is Exactly the kind of thing that Freescale (Blackstone Group / Carlyle) are working on. These techs were on Flight 370. What they might’ve know about this?
Also, This “PILL” was included in the initial version of ACA (Obamacare) it was taken out. (Allegedly)
65 years of covert/overt warfare is apparently not enough for NATO.NATO is, instead, looking for any excuse to revive itselfLiterally any excuse will do. NATO-no more favours
RT | April 5, 2014
* This decision has ZERO effect on PAC money, and corporate Bundling… and was never intended to! The decision was only based on what we as PEOPLE can contribute without getting ourselves in trouble, or endangering our Candidates (of whom, lets face it, if we are supporting – they wont be getting much from Billionaires or corporate entities.)
