Interfax-Ukraine
December 3, 2013
NATO foreign ministers to discuss Ukraine crisis
The crisis in Ukraine will be discussed at the upcoming NATO meeting of Foreign Ministers.
As an alliance spokesman told Interfax in Brussels on Tuesday, “though Ukraine as such is not formally on the agenda of the Foreign Ministers meeting, we expect that Ukraine will come up in the discussions today on NATO partnerships.”
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Interfax
December 3, 2013
China angered by U.S. violations of expanded air defense identification zone
MOSCOW: China has warned the United States that it must stop violating its air defense identification zone, which was expanded recently, said Chinese Ambassador to Russia Li Hui.
If the public is to be represented at climate negotiations by someone other than their own government, it has a right to elect and dismiss those representatives.
By Kaveh Afrasiabi | Press TV | December 3, 2013
Can Europe be trusted? Certainly, this is an important question on the mind of many Iranians, in light of the surprise news that a precious few days after signing the Geneva agreement on November 24th, the European Union (EU) imposed new sanctions on Iran, by targeting 17 Iranian shipping companies, decried by Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson as “illegal.”
Yesterday, on my travel blog, we took a little look at the demands in Thailand that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of deposed right-wing populist Thaksin Shinawatra, resign. There are widespread anti-government demonstrations and increasing police reaction-- which have already led to several deaths and scores of serious injuries.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
December 2, 2013
NATO Ready To Establish Afghan Bases, But Only After Pact Is Signed
A senior NATO official says the trans-Atlantic alliance is prepared to sign a long-term strategic pact with Afghanistan, but only after Kabul concludes a Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with Washington.
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Zoé Oldenbourg
From The Cornerstone (1953)
Translated by Edward Hyams
The noon air lay ponderous on the blackened stones of the houses.
by Judith Curry It’s time for a discussion on blog commenting policy and moderation. I receive a lot of emails from readers, complaining about the dreck in the comments, saying they don’t read the comments or post comments because there … Continue reading →
A senior UN counter-terrorism official is to assess Edward Snowden’s revelations that US and British intelligence agencies are using specific software to retain and monitor telephone conversations, e-mails, and text messages. UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson said in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian that his inquiry would seek to establish whether the British parliament had been misled about the capabilities of the G-C-H-Q, which is the British intelligence agency that specializes in electronic surveillance.
Nancy Pelosi called it the “selfie of the year": the group snapshot of the first four women to make it through Marine infantry training. "Fearless," as Pelosi describes them. "Badasses," as onlookers have labeled them. Here is an acerbic quote from an article on Gawker: These women have now definitively proven what fatuous Congressional oldsters […]
Hamid Karzai, he of the signature Karakul hat and brightly colored robes, we hardly knew ye. Karzai, upon whom the Queen of England once bestowed an honorary knighthood, we barely recognize you. Karzai, for whom we have overlooked the drugs, the money laundering, the election fraud, the jailing of your own women – where did […]
I speak to plenty of Democrats who want Clinton as their party's presidential nominee for one reason: she's seen as the Democrats' best chance to hold the White House. A policy agenda almost never comes into play in their thinking. Democrats look at the ideological civil war wracking the Republican Party now and they don't want any of that in their own party.
At least 15 people were killed and 31 more were wounded across Iraq. A family of six was executed in the north.
December 3, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) - Anti-regime protesters, outnumbering police at two locations in Bangkok, Police Head Quarters and Government House, are poised to take over and occupy both locations peacefully as they have other government sites throughout the city.
Radley Balko | In my book on police militarization, I have a section on the role pop culture has played in blurring the line between cops and soldiers, particularly with the onset of reality(ish) shows like A&E's Dallas SWAT or Spike TV's DEA. Over at the blog Gun Culture 2.0, sociologist David Yamane...
Ron Paul | You cannot negotiate with Iran. That is what they told us for years. The Iranian leadership is too fanatical, they are not rational actors, they are “not like us.” One US official even recently said that deception is part of the Iranian DNA. But just over a week ago negotiations between the five permanent...
Jacob Hornberger | When I read this Washington Post article about the two-year-old child that U.S. forces just killed in Afghanistan, I wondered what the child’s name was. Nowhere was it to be found in the article. Maybe the Post hadn’t acquired the name. Or maybe it just doesn’t matter...
by KenThe working theory tonight is that a picture is worth, well, a whole lotta words, and above you have a picture, not just of how washingtonpost.com's opinion e-updates usually look when they arrive in my e-mailbox, with this weird line breakage that pushes authors' names up into cahoots with the (actual) previous author's column blurb, but an actual reproduction of the way this morning's opinion roundup looked, making it appear to the uncareful glancer as if Washington Post editor
House and Senate Intel chairs promote fear of terrorism, desperately trying to maintain domestic spying programs–they have no credibility….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible.com and support this podcast at no cost to you!
Opening music by Vic Sadot, see the video of Mad Cowboy Disease 2013 here
–SUNY/Buffalo investigation reveals 700,000 names on US watch lists, as Stanford PhD student trial begins, challenging her placement on a list
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 101. This was my talk delivered at the Open Science Summit, Mountain View, CA (Oct. 22, 2011), held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. My panel’s topic was “The Future (the End?) of ‘Intellectual Property.'” My talk, “IP and the New Mercantilism,” is first, and lasts about the first […]
Recently, I was interviewed by MK Lords, a manager at Roberts & Roberts Brokerage and correspondent for Bitcoin Not Bombs, of which Antiwar.com is a proud member. The transcript can be found here. Ms.
Last one for a couple of days-Following up on- Meet the Rebel Commander in Syria That Assad, Russia and the U.S. All FearThe BBC article mentions the feared Commander, ethnic Chechen, Georgian Army/Covert Operative- Tarkhan Batirashvili or U/Omar al-Shishani
http://www.occupy.com/article/exposed-globally-renowned-activist-collaborated-intelligence-firm-stratfor
Occupy.com
December 2, 2013
Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor
Carl Gibson and Steve Horn
Born in 1911, Ronald Reagan came from a normal working class Illinois home. He was a labor union activist in the 1940s and the president of his union from 1947 until 1952 and again in 1959 but at some point in there he sold out to management and started secretly ratting out other actors to the FBI as "communist sympathizers." He remained a Democrat and even helped California Senator Helen Gahagan Douglas defend herself against the deranged attacks from a sleazy, fascist-oriented political newcomer, Richard Nixon.
Lets just assume that these Sub hunting jets have been used for a while now – but a public announcement gets people’s attention and might get the China to ease back a bit. This has all the markings of WW3 and Obama as FDR. (Remember how we provoked the Japanese into attacking us?) Yikes!
Today, I am truly sick to be a Canadian... The more and more I have read the last few days about this so called "Federal Government" that occupies Parliament hill in Ottawa, and how it is nothing more than absolute butt kissers for the Jews that control this once great country, and the psychotic nation of Israel, the more I honestly want to puke! And the Canadian public blindly or unknowingly put up with this garbage?But I came across an article today that had me racing to the washroom wanting to hurl....
(CNN) – The husband of former Florida congresswoman and Secretary of State Katherine Harris was found dead Tuesday morning, apparently by his own hand, Sarasota police and the family’s pastor said.
Anders Ebbesen, 68, had been ill, “but it is unknown if that is why he took his own life,” Pastor William Hild, of the First Baptist Church of Sarasota, said in a statement released by Sarasota police. “The family is asking for privacy, prayers, thoughts and love from the community.”
“In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there’s a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.”
By James Fetzer | Press TV | December 2, 2013
William Colby, the former director of the CIA, told us that the agency owns everyone of significance in the mass media. The onslaught of false and misleading reports during the 50th observance of the assassination of JFK provided stunning confirmation that he was correct. none of the national news anchors addressed the evidence.
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Instead of “Knocking Out” Granny…. or giving her a “death Panel”… Help her! You will feel like a Million Buck$
Raw Story
For a year and a half, 80-year-old Kentucky resident Shirley Logsdon received repeated calls from a debt collection agency over an unpaid medical bill.
As we mentioned yesterday, Boehner has made time for Congress to debate how many fewer meals per week underprivileged children should be allowed to eat per week, but has no time to debate the Senate's bi-artisan comprehensive immigration reform bill or the legislation to prevent employment discrimination against the LGBT community.
By Dr. Elias Akleh
Last Friday, the 29th of November, was the annual observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People as dedicated by the UN General Assembly (resolution 32/40 B). On the same day Palestinians had called for “Day of Rage” demonstrations against Israeli theft of Palestinian land especially the on going theft of Naqab (Negev) area.
James Corbett joins Joyce Riley on The Power Hour every other Monday to discuss matters financial, economic, geopolitical and social. This time they talk about the rise of China as the next big boogeyman on the world stage; the rise of Bitcoin as the next speculative bubble; and the rise of open source as an alternative paradigm for the creation and propagation of media. We also take your calls on a host of issues.
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This article is interesting for a number of reasons, but, I will focus on three of them-Feel free to comment on what ever it is you think about this move.1st: Looking at the map, I would almost wonder why the US didn't make this claim?Or is Canada making this claim as an expansion of the NAU?2nd: I will highlight the fact that all this Arctic ice had to be dealt with to undertake this mapping.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is being depicted in the media as an obstinate spoiler who is sabotaging America’s plans for a decade or more of continued U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan by refusing to sign a status of forces agreement (SOFA) governing future troop presence. Who knows, maybe he is an obstinate saboteur. But his stated reasons for thwarting a security deal in the lead up to the scheduled 2014 drawdown are substantive.
Greenpeace makes a show of rejecting government and corporate money. But it's close pals with the WWF - which gets enormous funding from exactly those sources.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), the leaders of the Senate and House Intelligence committees respectively, went on CNN’s Sunday talk show yesterday to put fear into the hearts of Americans. They told us we are in more danger now than ever and the obvious corollary to this is that Americans need to take their fear of government and redirect it to nameless and faceless terrorists who are out to destroy us.
It is ready to fall! Tony is on the ground witnessing all of this. Compare actions to fake “revolutions” ….
Interfax
December 2, 2013
NATO’s refusal to adapt CFE harms conventional arms control – Grushko
BRUSSELS: The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) cannot be restored the way it used to be; the treaty became totally obsolete, which was declared back in 1996 when a decision on the parameters of its crucial modernization was made, Russian Permanent Representative to NATO Alexander Grushko told Interfax in Brussels on Monday.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe – U.S. Air Forces Africa
November 27, 2013
KC-135 brings force extension to Iceland
By Airman 1st Class Dana J. Butler
48th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
December 2, 2013
HQ ARRC PIONEERS NEW NATO CONCEPT AT CORNWALL EXERCISE
Story by HQ ARRC Public Affairs Office
NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC) completed a major training exercise at RAF St. Mawgan, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom last week.
Keith Ellison stood out as a principled, values-driven progressive when he was a member of the Minnesota legislature. Blue America backed him back then, hoping for more of the same in Washington. And we haven't been disappointed. Co-chair of the Progressive Caucus and Democratic Chief Deputy Whip, Keith is one of the only Democrats on a leadership track who speaks to the interests of ordinary working families. As Raúl Grijalva told us, "Keith, above all, isn't posturing.
Rustavi 2
November 30, 2013
US, NATO on Eastern Partnership Summit
The United States and the NATO have congratulated on Georgia and Moldova initialing the association agreements with EU.
