TweetLibya January 23, 2014
* URGENT APPEAL TO ALL HUMANITARIAN GROUPS WORLD WIDE *

By Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle | January 23, 2014

In this exclusive interview for the Boiling Frogs Post Eyeopener report, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds discusses her recent article, “Turkish PM Erdogan: The Speedy Transformation of an Imperial Puppet.” We talk about Erdogan’s falling out with Fethullah Gülen and the CIA, and how serviceable puppets are discarded by their shadow government masters when they reach their “expiration date.”
More at Corbett Report

By Franklin Lamb | Al-Manar | January 23, 2014

The left will often use the McCarthy hearings to label the extreme views of the (phony) right wing. The Hypocrisy here is palpable!

What was the difference between McCain (who was a laughing stock during the 2008 GOP Primaries) and Cousin Barry Obama? Nice for McCain (Kaine) and others to gift this power to the President. McCain becomes somewhat unhinged at the end…. War Froth.
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(Not sure who the person is recording this and commenting, its the only copy we could find – so Thanks “Sherrie”)

It has been a while since I put up any important health reports at my blog... The last while I have been covering important world news, and the ridiculous fighting that has been going on in this "truth movement"... I figured it was time to take a slight detour and cover health issues that I do find important enough to share with readers...Recently, I have taken an interest in Soy and Soy protein, mostly at the request of my better half who has had her own concerns about Soy in our diet... And what I have discovered has been alarming...

An editorial in yesterday’s Washington Post urges President Obama to use the threat of a U.S. bombing campaign to achieve political ends on a transition deal in the Syria talks.

Did you read Ken's post last night about Davos and economic inequality? If not, here's another chance. OK, so who doesn't love traveling by private jet? I mean, everyone knows how sucky airplane travel has become, right? Especially all the way to Davos!

As hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the streets of Bangkok demanding the ouster of the Shinawatra government, the Western media continue their one-sided portrayal of events in Thailand, misrepresenting the protests as anti-democratic.

Press TV – January 23, 2014

Thousands of platinum miners in South Africa have embarked on a strike demanding their entry-level pay be doubled to nearly 1,200 dollars a month.
Workers at Impala Platinum, Anglo American Platinum, and Lonmin mines embarked on an indefinite strike on Thursday, crippling output at the world’s three biggest platinum producers.

By Tamara Pearson | Venezuelanalysis | January 23, 2014

Press TV – January 23, 2014

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has announced plans to call for the withdrawal of some US military officers from the South American country.

The NSA’s bulk collection of every American’s telephone call records is illegal, according to the federal government’s independent review panel, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

It's obvious the protests in Ukraine are cover for an overthrow. A coup attempt. So, let's look at this as one of the myriad of reasons for that overthrow.I have mentioned some of the other reasons in previous posts-Nuclear industry. Banks. EU. NATO.  * Ukraine and the West's monopolization of the nuclear industry *Ukraine Eurevolution? Who benefits?

by Judith Curry How can the IPCC increase their confidence in anthropogenic global warming at the same time their model projections are diverging farther and farther from reality? – John Nielsen-Gammon This question is asked in a blog post by … Continue reading →

Press TV – January 23, 2014

An independent review board working to protect Americans’ civil liberties and privacy has concluded that the US National Security Agency’s phone data collection program is illegal and should be stopped.

By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | January 23, 2014

A leading civil rights group has accused Border Patrol agents of abusing the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and legal residents living in southern Arizona.

By Mark M. Jaycox | EFF | January 22, 2014

Public Radio of Armenia
January 23, 2014
Chief of Staff of RA Armed Forces attends NATO meetings in Brussels

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Greek and Roman writers on war and peace
Aeschylus: Ares, father of tears, mows the field of man
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From The Persians

Jennifer Garrison-- does she look sort of like Erin Zeigler?Steve Israel, an ex-p.r. flack (and Blue Dog), who Steny Hoyer forced Nancy Pelosi to appoint DCCC Chairman, got an idea. One of Israel's Long Island neighbors, a constituent and on the board of the synagogue Israel attended, wrote this on his blog a few months ago:

MEMO | January 21, 2014

The European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton has said that the EU is pleased with the results of last week’s constitutional referendum in Egypt.

Under the pretext of the “Great Syrian Revolution,” civilians, clergymen, women and children are killed, victims are indiscriminately blown up in streets and buildings regardless of their political views or ideologies; books and libraries are burned, graves are dug up and artifacts stolen.

By Frank Pasquale · Concurring Opinions · January 21, 2014

On this audio-only edition of the BFP roundtable the BoilingFrogsPost.com crew tackle the issue of political labels. Liberal. Conservative. Progressive. Libertarian. What do these labels really mean, and how useful are they in coming to an understanding about our world? Join Sibel Edmonds, Peter B.

When President Obama chose a Friday before a three-day holiday weekend to address a matter as profound as the NSA spying scandal, I suspected he would raise issues that he hoped the media would ignore. That’s because the Reagan White House did a study in the early 1980s and concluded that Fridays are low-value news […]

Eight years ago, Stephen Rosen, then a top official at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and well-known around Washington for his aggressiveness, hawkish views, and political smarts, was asked by Jeffrey Goldberg of the New Yorker magazine whether some recent negative publicity had harmed the lobby group’s legendary clout in Washington. “A half […]

It’s heartening to see that an agreement has been reached to ensure that Iran honors its commitment, made when it signed the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to forgo developing nuclear weapons. But what about the other key part of the NPT, Article VI, which commits nuclear-armed nations to "cessation of the nuclear arms race […]

One of the brightest hopes for progressive governance in the L.A. area going forward-- not garden variety, corrupt Democratic Party hackish governance but progressive governance-- comes from Micah Ali, president of the Compton Board of Education and a candidate for the 64th Assembly District open seat.

At least 88 people, mostly gunmen, were killed, and 29 more were wounded in violence across Iraq.

The Alpine Fairyland of Davos, site of the Mastersof the Universe Annual World Economic Hoedown"[J]ust days after a stunning report was issued by Oxfam saying that the 85 richest people in the world are as wealthy as the poorest half of the global population, or about 3.5 billion people[,] a good chunk of those 85 are likely to be fretting on the slopes about this horrible state of affairs."-- Al Kamen, in his

Smeared by House Intel chair Mike Rogers on Sunday political TV show, Ed Snowden tells The New Yorker: “I acted alone”….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and generate $15 for PBC Podcast!
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Syrian Arab News Agency January 22, 2014 Montreux, (SANA) – The international conference on Syria, Geneva2, kicked off on Wednesday morning with the participation of Syria’s official delegation, headed by Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem. Minister al-Moallem said at the opening session of the conference: Ladies and Gentlemen,On behalf [...]

On the line from London, journalist/biographer Howard Sounes - author of '27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse' - delves into the depressed, drugs and rock 'n' roll of those that "join that stupi

By James Petras :: 01.22.2014

Introduction
Ariel Sharon was a serial mass murderer, engaged in massacres of unarmed victims in four countries, of all ages and conditions. He was a “hero” for hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews who settled on land and in houses seized from Palestinians in the West Bank. He was praised by Western leaders at his funeral for his violent, lifelong opposition to Arab nationalist movements throughout the Middle East.

Directly lifted from the Electronic Frontier Foundation blog:
January 23, 2014 – 7:30pm
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Join us for “NSA Surveillance and Our ‘Almost Orwellian’ State,” hosted by St. John’s Presbyterian Church on Thursday, January 23, 2014.
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And last, but not least, Egypt plays opposition softball-First up Pepe from RT Read in full at linkExcerpts-

U.S. Air Forces in Europe and U.S. Air Forces Africa
January 20, 2014
US airlifts Rwandans to Central African Republic
By Capt. Christine Guthrie
KIGALI, Rwanda: Two U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft operating at the request of the French government and African Union authorities continued airlifting a Rwandan mechanized battalion Jan. 19.

By Sherwood Ross | Aletho News | January 22, 2014

David Barron, a Harvard law professor who gave President Obama the green light for his illegal global drone attacks, has been nominated by Obama for a seat on the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals.
“Barron (co-authored) the infamous Justice department opinion authorizing Obama’s murder of U.S. citizens,” says distinguished international legal authority Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois, Champaign. “It’s a payback.”

RT | January 20, 2014

A new report describing the bizarre and dangerous side effects of the sleep aid Ambien has once again raised questions about one of the United States’ most popular prescription drugs.
In a story by the Fix, Allison McCabe chronicled the numerous cases in which Ambien has caused individuals to commit unsafe, and sometimes deadly acts.

Chris Horwitz is CEO of Electrogrip, which has manufactured equipment for the semiconductor industry for the past 25 years in Pittsburgh, PA. Electrogrip also makes precision large optical components; some of them for the new James Webb Space Telescope, which will be replacing NASA's Hubble Telescope in the near future. Last night was his guest guest post here at DWT. We are hoping there will be plenty more.It seems so obvious-- reduce taxes on business and remove those awful tax loopholes that make taxes so complex, so that businesses can thrive.

The Geneva II talks on the Syrian civil war in Switzerland started today. In the lead up to the conference, the media focus, unfortunately, had been on which parts of the Syrian opposition would attend and whether or not Iran, the Assad regime’s close ally, would attend (the U.S. pressured the UN to uninvite Iran at the last minute for not accepting the Geneva Communique).

 
James Petras       Intifada Palestine
 
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I truly am sick being a Canadian these days... Right now, the so called "Prime Minister" of Canada is in the criminal and terrorist state of Israel, butt kissing and sucking up to the psychotic leadership of that murderous state!  It is pathetic to watch this person, that is supposed to be the "leader" of this once free nation do his best to grovel and bend over to his Jewish masters every chance he gets..

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford | January 22, 2014

US Air Force conducting military exercises in South Korea. Credit: DoD
Today at Al Jazeera America I argue that the U.S. should stop occupying South Korea, not only because they don’t belong there but because the highly militarized alliance between the U.S. and South Korea doesn’t actually weaken North Korea, but helps sustain the regime by incentivizing China to continue to prop up Pyongyang.

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio January 22, 2014 [download audio]  

By Nahida Izzat | January 20, 2014

Words, in the battle of Liberation are of prime importance, but in the age of Internet, where Cyber Battles are waged, between truth and falsehood, the use of the right word becomes more vital than ever.
We have observed how the word, “apartheid” has crept in and has been intensely used by many Palestinians and their supporters without much reflection upon the meaning, implications or outcome of such use.