A war of words has broken out over the veteran journalist John Pilger's allegation that scientific research put the Iraqi civilian death toll at “up to a million.”
Pilger was commenting recently on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme following polling finding most Britons believe only a few thousand died violently in the US and British-led invasion, and the years since.The post How many Iraqis died in 2003 UK-US invasion? appeared first on BSNEWS.
We, like those in all emergent totalitarian states, have been mentally damaged by a carefully orchestrated historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. We increasingly do not remember what it means to be free. And because we do not remember, we do not react with appropriate ferocity when it is revealed that our freedom has been taken from us. The structures of the corporate state must be torn down. Its security apparatus must be destroyed.
What? You can grow your own without the muss and fuss of the Govt Authorized and taxed “Dispensary”? We Like!
Now…. Who out there is working on a plan to free all non-violent pot offenders from our prisons?
Free as it was intended to be!!!
Washington Times
The sad truth is that Britain sells arms to repressive regimes in the Middle East, and elsewhere, mainly because it supports them. It wants to keep them in power, and often prefers them to democratic movements which may not support Western policies. This is not simply my view. It is what policy makers have expressed in private government planning files, which are declassified after 30 years.
Either Time mag. doesn’t know what it’s talking about, or it’s lying to further Neo Lib fascism…. Guess they will need to spin this with some “hockey sticks” – Which will come in handy with all of the ice.
In 1974, Time Magazine blamed the cold polar vortex on global cooling.
What the world needs now, are “Mad Dogs”. Revolutionaries with a vision who dare to be unconventional and dare to be so all the way. It is time for us to become a Gaddafi rather than a Mandela. It is time to let the walls of fear around our thinking fall away.
Michael Moore, the Hollywood legend of liberal mindset and pro-Democratic documentary, has broken from the party line to criticize Obamacare, calling both its rollout and provisions “awful.”
He made the assessment in a written piece to The New York Times, saying that it was high time liberals came forward and admitted the obvious.
The people who own the Too Big To Jail Banks hope that they can create an invincible army of drones and killer robots that in the future will eliminate your ability to defend yourself so there will be NO Bill of Rights. And No right to private property. They will be able to take away our pensions and to seize our homes. Court appointed referees have cut pensions by 80%. And courts have allowed banks to seize homes using fraudulent documents.
The U.S. is supposed to withdraw all its troops from Afghanistan by the end of this new year. But despite public opinion polls to the contrary, President Obama is seeking to leave several thousand Special Forces troops, military trainers, CIA personnel, "contractors" and surveillance listening posts for 10 more years in Afghanistan until the end […]
After 9/11, the U.S. Army, taking the lead among the military services in fighting counterinsurgency conflicts against guerrillas in Iraq and Afghanistan, did well in the inter-service wars in the Pentagon over budgets. As in the post-Vietnam era, as the Obama administration has withdrawn from these counterinsurgencies without winning them, the White House and the […]
I see innumerable news articles detailing the latest revelations from Edward Snowden, and a blizzard of pieces calling for leniency or a pardon for the world’s most famous whistleblower – but in the comments sections, including of my own columns on the subject, I find expressions of seemingly hopeless despair: "Yes, but what can we […]
Originally posted at TomDispatch. It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So consider the actions of the U.S. Special Operations Command flattering indeed to the larger U.S. military. After all, over recent decades the Pentagon has done something that once would have been inconceivable. It has divided the whole globe, just about […]
Crazy BratSteve Israel, whose Long Island district has a rare 0 PVI (equally split between Democrats and Republicans) doesn't challenge any Republican leaders. All the House GOP leaders-- every single one of them-- has immunity and in return, Israel, the worst choice as a DCCC chair in history, is the only incumbent in a 0 PVI district that isn't a battleground.
At least 96 people were killed across Iraq today. One of them was an Egyptian civilian. It is likely that some of the militants killed in Anbar province today were also foreign nationals. Another 98 people were wounded, more than half of them in a bombing in Kirkuk.
It is indeed good to be back... I have had to take a bit of additional time to allow my right arm to heal properly from the Angiogram, and to get some strength back..... I really have a lot of catching up to do, and I figure I would start off by tackling the REAL situation with the Fukushima disaster, and not the absolute bullcrap that the Jewish controlled media and our criminal Jewish controlled governments continue to spew...I came across this most interesting article today that I want to share with all of my readers right here...
When a group of anti-war activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, on 8 March 1971 they hoped that they would be hitting the bureau’s overweening director, J Edgar Hoover, where it hurt most. They would grab whatever documents they could find and in that way expose the culture of Big Brother illegality that Hoover had created.
There’s no escaping the polar vortex. Not even for an escaped prisoner.
A Kentucky inmate managed to get out of a minimum-security prison on Sunday — and turned himself in the next day at a motel a few miles away, explaining that he wanted to get out of the frigid air.
It was 3 degrees in Lexington, with a wind chill of 17 below, when Robert Vick turned himself in at the Sunset Motel and Restaurant. Maurice King, manager of the 25-room motel, told NBC News that Vick definitely looked like he’d had enough.
(CNN) — Seventy seconds: That’s how long a North Carolina family says it took for things to go horribly wrong as they sought police help dealing with their mentally ill son.
Keith Vidal, 18, died Sunday. According to CNN affiliate WECT, he was just shot 1 minute and 10 seconds after a third law enforcement officer showed up at his Brunswick County home.
“A report on the Surveillance Society” was provided to the UK’s Information Commissioner in 2006, and predicted that developments in surveillance technology, and increasingly oppressive governments could see Brits ‘microchipped like dogs in a decade’. Eight years into that decade, the UK is indeed the world’s leading surveilliance society.
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by Judith Curry In a word, no. And now for the 2nd question: Does the massive cold air outbreak blanketing much of the U.S. disprove global warming? Same word: no. The media are mostly in stupid mode over this one. … Continue reading →
By Kevin Barrett | Press TV | January 7, 2014
The United States of America is supposed to be a democratic republic. Under its Constitution, the Congress decides whether to go to war, and the President serves as commander-in-chief.
Journalist Nick Turse reports on quadrupling of US special operations forces worldwide since 2001; next target: our very own “homeland”…Click here for free audiobook download that generates $15 for PBC podcast from Audible!
Read Turse’s important report here
–Bob Gates, Bush loyalist and former Defense Secretary, has new book that says Obama came to doubt the wisdom of his “surge” in Afghanistan
What a fortuitous find. What an excellent debate.Eric Draitser hits all the right notes! I was literally cheering him on. And, why wouldn’t I?He is singing from the songbook I know so well.....And the clip of that evil horrible witch Hillary Clinton?! Grrr......FYI: Eric Draitser runs the excellent site- Stop ImperialismPerma linked in the sidebar at the right
The difference between a "death bet" and this kind is that at least with roulette you've got a shot at winning. With the death bet, you know the debt is going to fall due; you only "win" by dying before it does."In its pure form, the death bet is just that, a bet that when the bill comes due, you’ll be dead.
School Sucks At the Movies #7
After I heard Jeffrey Tucker walked out of the new Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf of Wall Street, I was very intrigued and I asked him to join us for our review.
School Sucks At the Movies #7
After I heard Jeffrey Tucker walked out of the new Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf of Wall Street, I was very intrigued and I asked him to join us for our review.
School Sucks At the Movies #7After I heard Jeffrey Tucker walked out of the new Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf of Wall Street, I was very intrigued and I asked him to join us for our review. Today's podcast is made up of two segments from a five-hour live show Osborne and I recorded on 1/3/14.
DC wonks are giddy at the political drama sure to unfold with Bob Woodward’s review in the Washington Post of Robert Gates’s new memoir to be published this month.
In a memo to President Obama, former National Security Agency insiders explain how NSA leaders botched intelligence collection and analysis before 9/11, covered up the mistakes, and violated the constitutional rights of the American people, all while wasting billions of dollars and misleading the public.
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In a memo to President Obama, former National Security Agency insiders explain how NSA leaders botched intelligence collection and analysis before 9/11, covered up the mistakes, and violated the constitutional rights of the American people, all while wasting billions of dollars and misleading the public.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYOfficial Washington – from Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein […]
Guillermo Jimenez | When it comes to suspicionless snooping and collection of our electronic data, the NSA is far from the only federal agency with their prying eyes in the game. Perhaps the most under-reported and least understood of these agencies is Customs and Border Protection, and the staggering authority...
By Dr Sarah Marusek | MEMO | January 6, 2014
Ever since the 3 July military coup that ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected government, the world has stood back to witness the Egyptian authorities’ brazen attempt to cleanse an entire community from Egypt’s population.
Me. Me. Me..... How about you?Day 2 of the super chill. The furnace hasn't stopped. It is so windy, it keeps you up at night. Temp- Minus 16 C. Wind chill- Minus 29 C. White out conditionsToday Yesterday
Charles Pierce at Esquire says the new look at the 1971 burglary of FBI offices that revealed systematic abuses “says a lot about why the whole debate over what the NSA has been up to should not be wholly concerned about one’s opinion of Edward Snowden…and why any argument in support of any intelligence agency that is based on that agency’s ability to police
A new book has been published today that reveals for the first time the identities of a group of American activists who burgled FBI offices, stole sensitive documents, and leaked them to journalists. The fact that the burglary took place is hardly remembered by most Americans because it has been shadowed over by the revelations of the leak, which included the FBI’s unconstitutional program to crush domestic dissent, known as COINTELPRO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81qNxTOIXy0#t=1429Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on Press TV to discuss the recent clashes between the Free Syrian Army and Al Qaeda factions in Syria. Draitser explains how both are part of the broader destabilization campaign orchestrated by the US and its regional clients. Additionally, he argues that the distinction between the two sides is more a matter of political expediency than practical difference. Also, Draitser examines the role of Saudi Arabia in facilitating the co
Yesterday the Senate postponed voting on extending unemployment insurance for the 1.3 million Americans whose benefits expired last week and for even more people whose benefits will expire between now and July. Reid sensed he could get 5 Republicans to cross the aisle and back the American people, instead of their own party's determination to make Obama fail by making America fail. It worked.
Progressive Radio Network
January 3, 2014
Stephen Lendman interviews Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
C.F. Ramuz
From The End of All Men (Présence de la mort) (1922)
Translated by Allan Ross Macdougall
James Corbett joins John Gibbons of Alchemy Radio to discuss the founding of The Corbett Report, the building blocks of 9/11 Truth, the internet revolution, the economic prospects for 2014, and much more.
A special podcast presentation for Trans Resister Radio listeners: Tom Secker of InvestigatingTheTerror.com, Adam of CerebralRevolt.com, and Aaron Franz of AgeOfTransitions.com have a conversation about video game addiction. Without a doubt games can become an addiction, but how serious is the problem? What sorts of virtual worlds are emerging from out of current video games?
A special podcast presentation for Trans Resister Radio listeners: Tom Secker of InvestigatingTheTerror.com, Adam of CerebralRevolt.com, and Aaron Franz of AgeOfTransitions.com have a conversation about video game addiction. Without a doubt games can become an addiction, but how serious is the problem? What sorts of virtual worlds are emerging from out of current video games?
