Baghdad caught a break from the violence today, but attacks and clashes left at least 10 dead elsewhere. Another seven were wounded. A suicide bomber in Ramadi attacked a tribal checkpoint where he killed five men and wounded four more. Clashes continued in Falluja. In Mosul, a roadside bomb injured a lieutenant colonel. A soldier […]
A bona fide climate scientist tells US Senators we have no idea whether human-caused global warming will be a serious problem. The media doesn't report it.
Al-Akhbar | January 17, 2014
The defense counsel of four Hezbollah members accused of planning the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri dismissed evidence presented by the prosecution over Thursday and Friday as unverifiable “observations.”
Obama’s long-awaited speech on reforming domestic surveillance is all talk, no substance, demonstrated serious lack of leadership; Chew on Oscars….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible that generates $15 to PBC Podcast!
Note for Bay Area listeners: PBC will be speaking to San Francsco chapter of Progressive Democrats of America on Thursday, January 23 at 7:00pm. Unitarian/Universalist Center, 1187 Franklin at Geary. Topic: I want my damn Fourth Amendment back!
Voice of Russia
January 17, 2014
US puppet Saakashvili invaded South Ossetia to appease NATO
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Mikhail Saakashvili
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If you missed me putting Buck McKeon's resignation from Congress into context for KPFK listeners yesterday, here's a short, abbreviated version above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnLwa-Ic8pI&feature=youtu.beEric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT to discuss the latest remarks by Secretary of State Kerry in advance of the Geneva II negotiations on Syria. Draitser explains that the increasingly aggressive rhetoric from Washington is a product of the rapidly collapsing terrorist war and an attempt by the rebels and by the Obama administration to sabotage any prospects for a political settlement.
Watch out for Provocateurs…
From a previous rally sponsored but Gun Rights Across America.
The NRA protects gun rights about as well as a junkie protects your stash.
~ Jack Blood
The Blaze
Big-time movie producer Harvey Weinstein revealed Wednesday that he is making an anti-gun movie with actress Meryl Streep that is going to make the National Rifle Association “wish they weren’t alive.”
Last night 26 Senate Republicans-- basically, the hardcore lunatic fringe-- voted to shut down government operations.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell open to the idea of players using medical marijuana in states where the drug is legal
Russian Information Agency Novosti
January 17, 2014
Foreign Intervention Still a Threat to Syria – Lavrov
MOSCOW: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that attempts are continuing to prepare the grounds for a military intervention in war-torn Syria.
The island has its own parliament, judiciary and treasury, which prints its own currency stamped with the queen's visage and pegged to the British pound. For purposes of free trade, Jersey is treated as part of the European Union and falls under many of the U.K.'s international treaties and compacts, but it has its own constitutional rights separate from the U.K., tracing back to the year 1204.The post Inside the World’s Top Offshore Tax Shelter appeared first on BSNEWS.
Writer, researcher and film-maker Tom Secker joins us for a detailed interview on 7/7 (the July 7th 2005 London bombings). Drawing upon his several years of research, Tom shares with us many of the problems with the official story, delves into the backstories behind the alleged suicide bombers, and uncovers layer upon layer of suspicious information suggesting that 7/7 may well have been a false-flag terror event instigated by British Intelligence.
Writer, researcher and film-maker Tom Secker joins us for a detailed interview on 7/7 (the July 7th 2005 London bombings). Drawing upon his several years of research, Tom shares with us many of the problems with the official story, delves into the backstories behind the alleged suicide bombers, and uncovers layer upon layer of suspicious information suggesting that 7/7 may well have been a false-flag terror event instigated by British Intelligence.
Michael Hudson sees a parasitic financial industry that looks only to determine how much wealth it can extract via fees, interest income, and tax breaks, rather than providing capital to increase.The post The “Iron-fisted Kleptocratic Financial Oligarchy” 95% Income Growth Goes to the 1% appeared first on BSNEWS.
US Navy fleet in Asia-Pacific
Denny Roy, a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, writes at The Diplomat that the crux of the tensions between the U.S. and China is a contest for power in the Asia-Pacific region. The squabbling over competing sovereignty claims of this or that island chain in the East and South China Seas, he writes, is peripheral to the real battle for regional hegemony.
Here’s a rare on the ground look the daily battles being fought between illegal Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank. From Al Jazeera America:
New York Times “Room for Debate Question”: “Why We Like to Watch Rich People: Why do American television and movie audiences like to watch the antics and questionable behavior of the 1 percent?”
The lives of the outlandishly rich are so unreal and so bizarre for most of us that watching their self-indulgence, careless spending, and decadence can be an escape from the unpleasant reality of our own constant money worries.
New York Times “Room for Debate Question”: “Why We Like to Watch Rich People: Why do American television and movie audiences like to watch the antics and questionable behavior of the 1 percent?”
The lives of the outlandishly rich are so unreal and so bizarre for most of us that watching their self-indulgence, careless spending, and decadence can be an escape from the unpleasant reality of our own constant money worries.
Cyprus News Agency
January 17, 2014
Cyprus pushes to join NATO Partnership for Peace Programme
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Arnold Zweig: Selections on war
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Arnold Zweig
From The Crowning of a King (1937)
Translated by Eric Sutton
Pinto and Grimm-- two crooksBack in March of 2012 the NY Times looked into Staten Island Mafia congressman Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm's connection with Panicos "Pete" Papanicolaou and Cypriot crime syndicates.
In crucial ways – the scale of its attacks on social security, service privatisation and falling living standards for the majority – Cameron's coalition has outdone even Margaret Thatcher. Its austerity programme halted recovery for four years and has cut most people's real terms pay deeper and over a longer period than at any time since the 19th century.
RT | January 17, 2014
The Syrian government is ready to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with opposition forces in the flashpoint city of Aleppo, Foreign Minister Walid Moallem has said. A list of rebel prisoners has also been drawn up in preparation for a proposed exchange.
Damascus has handed Moscow a plan for a ceasefire in the city of Aleppo, Moallem announced at a news conference with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow on Friday.
I know that corporations are amoral, profit-driven entities that have no compunction about destroying the planet if they can make a quick buck first. I also know that our political systems have been almost entirely captured by these corporations.The post Gasland documents our race to extinction appeared first on BSNEWS.
A team of security and arms experts, meeting this week in Washington to discuss the matter, has concluded that the range of the rocket that delivered sarin in the largest attack that night was too short for the device to have been fired from the Syrian government positions where the Obama administration insists they originated.The post New analysis of rocket used in Syria chemical attack undercuts U.S. claims appeared first on BSNEWS.
TIME reports regime's "pro-democracy" weapon caches yesterday, uncovered today after grenade attack. January 17, 2014 (ATN) - A grenade attack has left over 30 injured today, while Thaksin Shinawatra's "red shirts" confronted protesters in the north of Bangkok. Image: The "spoon" mechanism of the grenade thrown.
There’s no column today: looks like the flu has claimed yet another victim! But don’t worry: I’ll be back on Monday. Meanwhile, you can read this old column on Mexico’s “vigilante” movement, which the rest of the world is beginning to notice this week. Just remember: you read it here first! NOTES IN THE MARGIN […]
In spite of the abundant revelations in the preceding year, 2014 in the Balkans seems to portend more of the same. Everyone is still in full-on reality denial mode. Or, rather, entrenched in the imperial belief that assertions can "create their own reality." Still a Lie In "Kosovo," a province of Serbia occupied by NATO […]
Originally posted at TomDispatch. These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington’s global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a new category in my mind that I call: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Take last Saturday’s Washington Post report by Craig Whitlock on the stationing of less than […]
At least 63 people were killed and another 41 more were wounded in fresh bloodshed. As in recent days, the focus of the violence was in Anbar.
I made a brief appearance on the Korelin Economics Report on January 14, 2014 to discuss the Heritage Foundation’s 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, with Canada holding its 6th place finish out of 178, and the U.S. slipping to 12th place.
"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode093 - Promised Land which features brand new sounds from Static Jacks, Title Fight, Glen Hansard,
