By Sami Kleib | Al-Akhbar | December 28, 2013

Well – Obama doesn’t make these decisions so – HAIL KISSINGER – ha ha or whomever decided to turn on the Saudis (which has happened – see all the new “Blame the Saudis for 911″ info out now) Good news for Shia oil nations? hello? Get Iran on the phone.

By James Petras | The People’s Voice | December 28, 2013

 
by Stuart Littlewood        Intifada Palestine
 

"Gee, I wish we had one of them Doomsday Machines."-- Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott)In the U.S. War Room, Soviet ambassador Alexi de Sadesky (Peter Bull) reveals the existence of his country's Doomsday Machine to the American security brain trust, including President Merkin Muffley and technology genius Dr. Strangelove (both Peter Sellers) as well as General Turgidson.

By William Manson | Dissident Voice | December 27, 2013 

By Finian Cunningham | Press TV | December 28, 2013

The latest deadly attack in Lebanon’s capital Beirut is yet another desperate attempt to destabilize not only that country, but the entire Middle East to precipitate all-out sectarian war.

December 28, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - Thai PBS confirms that Police Sergeant Major Narong Pitisit was killed by a bullet fired from above, in its article titled, "Chalerm told to clarify “men in black” at the Labour Ministry." It stated (emphasis added): 

Russian Information Agency Novosti
December 27, 2013
US Fighter Jets to Patrol Baltic Airspace

F-15C Eagles
RIGA: The US Air Force will patrol the airspace over the Baltic states for four months starting from January, Lithuanian media reported Friday, citing the country’s military.

Trend News Agency
December 28, 2013
Georgia hopes that NATO will offer new tool at next summit
By Nana Kirtzkhalia

Tbilisi: Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania hopes that NATO will offer Georgia a qualitatively new tool at the next summit. There is a certain agreement with the management of the alliance on this issue, Alasania said on Friday.

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
José-André Lacour
From Death in That Garden (1954)
Translated by Humphrey Hare

By James Petras | December 28, 2013

The transformation of Christmas from a story about a migrant working-class family fleeing state persecution, in the search for a safe haven and receiving support and solidarity to the biggest capitalist commercial bonanza of the year – has far-reaching political consequences.
Taking Christ out of Christmas

By Gilad Atzmon | December 28, 2013

JVP is moving from strength to strength. Though it didn’t liberate Palestine yet, it certainly managed to convince a few Jews that Jewishness is actually a good thing.
Today we learned that the legendary activist and scholar Noam Chomsky appealed to the general public to donate to the Jews only Group.

By Sean Clinton | Palestine Chronicle | December 28, 2013

Everyone blames Nazi-sympathizer John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower's Secretary of State, and his bumbling and incompetent brother, Allen, head of the CIA, for the unintended consequences brought on by the violent CIA overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh. History blames them-- and history was meant to blame them. Eisenhower's fingers are nowhere near any of that stuff-- only on his revered speech warning Americans about the Military-Industrial Complex.

After several years of discussions between the two governments, the first package of US drone material made its way to Baghdad last week and ahead of its 2014 schedule. The possibility of drone-aid has surfaced periodically in response to al-Qaeda’s ongoing campaign and the violence that continues to plague Iraq, with options ranging from material […]

The rushed campaign to insert Stanley Fischer straight from his position leading Israel’s central bank into the number two spot at the Federal Reserve has allowed little time for research into the appointee’s career or for informed public debate about his record. Like the failed recent Obama administration-Israel lobby pincer move to ram approval for […]

JINBA, Occupied West Bank, (IPS) – Jinba is in the crosshair of ‘Firing Zone 918’ – and ‘Firing Zone 918’ is a microcosm of the Israeli occupation. Together with seven other communities, Jinba is slated for demolition to make way for an Israeli training ground. Forced eviction hangs over a thousand Palestinians. Mahmoud Raba’i is […]

by KenI was looking at this box, Broadway in a Box, that I got for some agreeably modest price as an Amazon special -- 25 cast recordings of Broadway musicals, mostly Original Broadway Cast recordings, but with seven revivals mixed in, four from Broadway and three from the Music Theater of Linco

Here was my comment subsequent to Michael Collins Piper’s December 26, 2013 appearance on Spingola Speaks with Deanna Spingola: Once again, Mike Piper said nothing to refute any of the specific evidence put forward for crisis actors at Sandy Hook or Boston. And he keeps putting out Cass Sunstein and his memo out there, as […]

by Judith Curry [S]ilence is an advocacy for the status quo. – Kevin Anderson The issue of scientists and advocacy continues to generate interesting discussion. Brigitte Nerlich At the blog Making Science Public, Brigitte Nerlich has an interesting post Making … Continue reading →

Same violence seen used by Thaksin Shinawatra in 2010, now unfolding again. December 28, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - At approximately 3am Saturday morning, regime gunmen drove by the anti-regime rally site near Chamai Maruchet Bridge and gunned down one security guard - leaving several others injured.

[We continue our encore presentation of Noah's Idiocracy series.

 
 
JAMAL KANJ*
 
Palestinians and Israelis have met more than twenty times since July 2013 with little progress. Israel security issues dwarfed the final status negotiators while it continued to build, at an accelerated rate, “Jewish only” colonies undermining the very peace talks.

 
By Vacy Vlazna
On Christmas Eve, while Christians knelt in churches to honour the birth of the eternal light of the Child of Bethlehem — the Child of peace, Israeli Herods struck Gaza and the life-light of little Hala haemorrhaged into eternal death.

At least 11 people were killed and 62 more were wounded, including a number of casualties at an Iranian camp outside the capital.

December 26, 2013
Jim McNerney, CEO
The Boeing Company
100 North Riverside

By David Macaray | Dissident Voice | December 26, 2013

A brief summary of what’s been happening in Seattle between the Boeing Corporation and its union workforce, the IAM (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers).  Aware they have the upper hand, and that thousands of relatively well-paying jobs hang in the balance, Boeing has resorted to an unsubtle form of carrot-and-stick extortion.

With UPDATE: Saturday's StripDOONESBURY -- Wednesday[Click to enlarge]"Okay, I might've said it, but I was probably drunk."-- how GOP pols should not respond to queries about"Lady Problem" gaffes, says their special consultantby KenIn our last post Howie took a nostalgic look back at the age-old and still-raging Repub

Mythmaking in the Washington Post

Here are 10 questions I have for Lew Rockwell, founder of the government-regulated and tax-exempt Ludwig von Mises Institute, and founder of the purported “anti-state” site, LewRockwell.com: 1) Why did you enter into a voluntary agreement with the very same government you said is “far worse than the mafia?“ 2) When there were prominent voices […]

By Noel Brinkerhoff and Danny Biederman | AllGov | December 27, 2013

Defense officials in the Obama administration were more than a little off when they told Congress the cost of maintaining the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal over the next 10 years.
They missed the mark by at least $140 billion.

According to the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s 2012 IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt filing, it reported a total of $22,268,915 in assets. We see then, how the promotion of Austrian economics is big business, and why its associates and founder, Lew Rockwell, are limited in what positions they will take on certain issues. For example, Lew Rockwell […]

Anyone who voted for this should be voted OUT! This article does not mention the Unlawful detainment clause. Its there. Here is the full Text of the bill: H.R. 1960: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 WITH OVER 5000 PARTS… This thing is MASSIVE! (Section 3054 deals with Federal Agency water rights. This could be a clause to deal with activists attempting to lobby states to cut water to the NSA facilities?)

Murdered after all.
Read the rest at WHO WHAT WHY

By Robert Bonomo | The Cactus Land | December 26, 2013

Sometimes we cover the Republican War on Women, and invariably some pompous Republican asshat denies that there's any such thing. But it's very real and very serious and profoundly undemocratic. And it's got to stop.

Or is this a diversion from why Kyle was really assassinated… He knew too much?
Was Kyle against the Craft mission in Boston? (Above Craft Contractors mass at the Boston Marathon.)
Craft contractor with backpack. Matches closely the pack destroyed by explosion…
…. And there is no picture of the Brothers without a backpack?
Widow of Famed Sniper Chris Kyle Is Suing Executives at the Company He Started

By Sheldon Richman | FFF | December 26, 2013

For four consecutive years since 2010, Canada has been ranked more economically free than the United States. As of 2013, Canada was ranked as the 6th most economically free country in the world, with a freedom index of 79.4, with the U.S. ranking in 10th place, with a freedom index of 76.0. Embarrassingly for the […]

http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_12_27/US-NATO-missile-defense-key-to-first-strike-Bruce-Gagnon-3713/
Voice of Russia
December 27, 2013
 

US/NATO missile defense key to first strike – Bruce Gagnon
John Robles
 

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Voice of Russia
December 26, 2013
 

President Putin man of the year/Obama an empty raincoat – George Galloway
John Robles
 

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Five years after the devastating Israeli war on Gaza, called ‘Operation Cast Lead,’ Israel has again bombed the densely populated open air prison strip to its south. Several Gazans have been reported injured and at least one toddler has been killed.

Russia & India Report
December 25, 2013
Why Russia deployed Iskander missiles at the EU borders
Viktor Litovkin

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Vladimir Pozner
From First Harvest (Les Gens du pays) (1943)
Translated by Haakon Chevalier

Until last week I didn’t know anything about Duck Dynasty. I really couldn’t have cared less about those people, their business or their antics. Apparently, however, enough of my fellow human beings find them entertaining enough to make it worth A&E’s time and effort to produce a show based on their lives. Now, suddenly, I know way too much about them. Now, suddenly, I feel like someone has grabbed me by the neck and shouted in my face “These people are important! What’s happening to them is important!

ED: Living in LA in the 1980′s / 90′s I became so scared of getting busted for “Jay-Walking” that when I went to NY (where you have to cross against lights to even get around) I could not function…. Should police have better things to do? Is this just another way to get in your business, and do a little fishing? Yep
Don’t pay the Ticket…. Go to JAIL!
 

Via Reason
I get a weird pleasure of watching supporters of the obscure arts, whose fans lean overwhelmingly liberal-prog-commie, get increasingly bewildered as their heroes obdurately refuse to ratify their politics for them, forcing them to confront the unbelievable: decent worthwhile humans I admire might disagree with me about core elements of my politics!