By Margaret Flowers | Dissident Voice | March 28, 2014

Hutto with deranged teabagger Lee Bright-- 2 ineffectual Lindsey Graham opponentsSouth Carolina state Senator Brad Hutto announced yesterday-- just before the filing deadline-- that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination to oppose Lindsey Graham. A conservative, Big Business-friendly Democrat, he will be up against Jay Stamper who has been endorsed by Blue America but is not a favorite of the party Establishment.

By Stuart Littlewood | September 15, 2009

“The Israel Project”, a US media advocacy group, has produced a revised training manual to help the worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war, keep their ill-gotten territorial gains and persuade international audiences to accept that their crimes are necessary and conform to “shared values” between Israel and the civilized West.
It’s a clever document.

(MEMO) – Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative movement, has estimated that Israel has incurred losses of around eight billion dollars due to the boycott campaign against illegal settlements, equivalent to 20 per cent of their GDP.

By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim | Venezuelanalysis | March 28, 2014

Merida – The Venezuelan government has condemned the United States for threatening to impose sanctions, and accused Washington of encouraging “extremist sectors”.
In a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Maduro government accused the US of “meddling in … internal affairs” and “ignoring our democratic process”.

Turkey’s courts have blocked access to Twitter a little over a week before elections as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan battles a corruption scandalReuters

International Business Times

 
Just before an FBI agent shot (unarmed) Ibragim Todashev dead, according to a report released Tuesday, Todashev had begun to write a confession—implicating himself and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham that had long gone unsolved.

You may have learned this month, as I did, that Surveillance State shill "Dutch" Ruppersberger of Maryland has an energetic young primary opponent, Paul Rundquist. MD-02, most of which is part of Baltimore County (with pieces of Anne Arundel, Howard and Hartford), is solidly blue, with a PVI of D+10.

Philip Weiss on March 29, 2014

Philip Weiss on March 29, 2014

 

 
Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
December 13, 2012
 

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week. Nate Silver Some follow-up to my previous post Nate Silver’s 538: inconvenient truths. Nate Silver has posted a note to his readers:  538 to commission response to … Continue reading →

U.S. Air Forces in Europe
U.S. Air Forces Africa
March 28, 2014
Exercise Tonnerre Lighting 14-1: Refining the language of war
By U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa Public Affairs

An F-15E Strike Eagle from RAF Lakenheath, England, takes on fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker from RAF Mildenhall March 28, 2014, during Exercise Tonnerre Lightning

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Russian writers on war
Alexander Herzen: Barracks, the most inhuman condition in which men live. An exhibition of generals.

Al-Manar | March 29, 2014

The United States is considering allowing shipments of portable air defense systems to Syrian opposition groups, a U.S. official said Friday, as President Barack Obama sought to reassure Saudi Arabia’s king that the U.S. is not taking too soft a stance in Syria and other Mideast conflicts.

In 2011, the Washington Post's Wonkblog brought some clarity to the much-used term, "doc-fix." They made it sound so easy.

 
by Alan Hart
A thought constantly in my mind, and which was reinforced by the Arab League’s 25th Summit in Kuwait, is that with Arab leaders and governments as “enemies” the Zionist state of Israel does not need friends.
The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945. Its six founding member states were Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan (renamed Jordan in 1949) Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Today the Arab League has 22 members (though Syria’s membership has been suspended since November 2011).

Franklin Lamb
Palmyra, Homs Governorate, Syria
 

March 29, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The small northwestern Syrian town of Kassab, located directly on the Syrian-Turkish border, has turned into a pivotal battleground between Syrian security forces and armed militants backed by the Turkish military.

NJ Fats with his No. 1 and No.

At least 50 people were killed and 63 more were wounded, mostly in an ongoing battle in Anbar province.

RT | March 28, 2014

Russia has denied any troop build-up on the Ukraine border, a claim voiced by President Barack Obama and Kiev officials. Moscow slammed the West for ignoring the results of recent fact-finding missions for the sake of political expediency.
On Friday Obama urged Russia to pull back “a range of troops,” which he said, “we have seen […] massing along that border under the guise of military exercises.”

NY Daily News caption: "In an exclusive interview, Diane Sawyer speaks with Gov. Chris Christie at his New Jersey home. Christie blames Bridgegate on his former aides." Doesn't Governor KrispyKreme look nice for his public whitewashing?"Not only do Christie's guys clear Christie, he goes on with Diane Sawyer on Thursday night and clears himself all over again.

We open with “I’m Free” by The Who and some powerful comments from the newly-released Roger Shuler, the Alabama journalist…..Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and earn $15 for the PBC Podcast!
–in excerpt from our in-depth interview, Roger Shuler tells his story—5 months in jail for journalism in Alabama
–Jason Leopold adds new dimensions to the story of Abu Zubaydah and who features prominently in Senate’s torture “review”

What to make of all this? Obama mending fences in Riyadh?

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I love a good argument too, but I think the Crimea situation is less about race, nationalism and the East-West divide than it is economics.
Crimea is dirt poor, even by Ukranian standards, and was intensely dependent on government aid. The regime change brought about a lot of philosophical shifts in government, but the big change from the Crimean perspective was economic in that:
a) Ukraine’s struggling economy is heading further into the ditch, with EU trade ties likely not to make a major difference for years and the loss of Russia trade ties likely to be a quick impact.

Good riddance to corrupt McCarthyite stooge Mike Rogers (left)For whatever reason, Steve Israel has a policy at the DCCC-- Thou Shalt Not Contest Elelections Against Senior Republican Policy Makers. No matter how vulnerable the districts, Israel has not allowed the DCCC to go after any committee chairs last cycle or this cycle.

Yeah – The SPLC was FBI – we made the hate list a few years back: Nullification Advocates Take Show On The Road | Hatewatch

By David Swanson | War is a Crime | March 28, 2014

By Glyn Moody | Techdirt | March 28, 2014

Belarusian Telegraph Agency
March 28, 2014
Belarus president: We are not afraid of NATO, but have to respond to its actions
MINSK: NATO’s actions in the region need an adequate response. The statement was made by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko in an interview for the Ukrainian TV show Shuster Live on 26 March, BelTA has learned.

Robbie Martin of MediaRoots.org joins us today to talk about his involvement in the fake beheading video that was picked up and reported on as a real video in 2004. We talk about media lies and how they are used to further the war agenda, and we discuss the recent drama surrounding his sister Abby’s on-air comments and their reception in the corporate media.
SHOW NOTES:
MediaRoots.org
Record Label Records

RT | March 27, 2014

Brazil’s public prosecutor wants to suspend use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s pervasive herbicide Roundup. A recent study suggested glyphosate may be linked to a fatal kidney disease that has affected poor farming regions worldwide.

Iymen Chehade, a professor at Chicago’s Columbia College.
By Eva Bartlett, Palestine Chronicle, Mar 28, 2014

Iymen Chehade, a professor at Chicago’s Columbia College.
By Eva Bartlett, Palestine Chronicle, Mar 28, 2014

Wes Bertrand and I continue our series based on Nathaniel Branden's book, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. Today's show includes a discussion based on the sixth pillar, the Practice of Living With Integrity.

Do your ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs and behavior line up?
Do most people know what their ideals, convictions, standards and beliefs are?

The root of self-esteem is not in accomplishment or output, but in our practices. However in school, we are only our output.

Wes Bertrand and I continue our series based on Nathaniel Branden's book, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. Today's show includes a discussion based on the sixth pillar, the Practice of Living With Integrity.

Do your ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs and behavior line up?
Do most people know what their ideals, convictions, standards and beliefs are?

The root of self-esteem is not in accomplishment or output, but in our practices. However in school, we are only our output.

Wes Bertrand and I continue our series based on Nathaniel Branden's book, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. Today's show includes a discussion based on the sixth pillar, the Practice of Living With Integrity.Do your ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs and behavior line up?Do most people know what their ideals, convictions, standards and beliefs are?The root of self-esteem is not in accomplishment or output, but in our practices.

Also can be used as a “Room 101″ Interrogation Technique….

I was thrilled this week when Guy Cecil and Michael Bennet got on board and gave the Shenna Bellows campaign the DSCC's big thumbs up. Hopefully, that will be the beginning of the end for fake moderate Susan Collins in Maine. So, RIGHT ON GUY CECIL and RIGHT ON Michael Bennet. I will refrain from any gratuitously nasty statements about the two of them for at least… well, I hope forever. Next up: South Dakota prairie populist Rick Weiland.

Nice of them to tell the family members of passengers that their loved ones were found and DEAD though…..

Posted on March 28, 2014

Iymen Chehade, a professor at Chicago’s Columbia College

By Eva Bartlett | Palestine Chronicle | March 28, 2014

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
March 27, 2014
NATO Positively Evaluates Georgia’s Defence Reforms

A NATO assessment team is on a four-day official visit at the Ministry of Defence of Georgia. Today, Deputy Defence Minister Mikheil Darchiashvili held a tête-à-tête meeting with the Director of Force Planning, NATO Defence Policy and Planning Directorate Frank Boland.

Ma’an | March 28, 2014

RAMALLAH (AFP) — Israel has told the PLO it will not free the final group of prisoners they had been expecting alongside US-brokered peace talks, a senior Palestinian official said on Friday.
Under the deal which relaunched the talks in July, Israel said it would release 104 Palestinians held since before the 1993 Oslo peace accords in exchange for the Palestinians not pressing their statehood claims at the United Nations.

And a lengthier translation?To my eyes this looks to be not just about Syria.

Voice of Russia
March 27, 2014
Before casting aspersions upon Russia, West should look at own interventions – expert
Dmitry Vostok

Over the past 15 months, I’ve made repeated requests to the University of Western Australia for a complete copy of Lewandowsky’s Hoax data in order to analyse it for fraudulent and/or scammed responses. Up to now, none of my previous requests were even acknowledged.