Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts

Alberto Moravia: “Ah well, war is war, you know”

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James Corbett presents “Open Source Journalism” at Fossa 2013

December 2, 2013 - 1820 local time (Tony Cartalucci) - Taking their cue from US-backed pro-EU protesters in Ukraine, anti-regime protesters in Thailand have mobilized their own bulldozers to remove barriers.

Remember the "Orange Revolution"? You’ll be forgiven if you don’t: Ukraine’s "color revolution," organized, financed, and planned in the West, blends into the rainbow gallery of failed Western-backed regime-change operations launched in the wake of the Soviet Union’s fall: Yugoslavia (2000), which rid the world of Slobodan Milosevic and yet failed to permanently install a […]

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 UN […]

Pelosi raising cash for Ohio anti-gay/anti-Choice crusader Jennifer GarrisonSaturday, we mentioned that Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent, a Boehner crony and the Republican congressman from the Lansing area of central Michigan, is leading the efforts to allow the Cheney-initiated domestic spying agenda of the N.S.A. to stay in place.

At least 46 people were killed and 70 more were wounded in today's violence. In the bloodiest attack, a suicide bomber struck at a funeral in Diyala province.

Voice of Russia
December 2, 2013
Kosovo is Serbia, NATO is an atavism – Ambassador Chepurin
John Robles

DOONESBURY[Click to enlarge]by KenBack in the dark years of the "Chimpy the Prez" Bush regime, the arrival of Jon Stewart on The Daily Show not only provided relief from the mindless clatter of most of the infotainment noozemedia but in fact gave many of us our best actual source for news.

by Judith Curry “The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers in Science or Nature — it’s not bad for them if a paper turns out … Continue reading →

Western hypocrisy on full display as it backs pro-EU protesters in Ukraine, condemn Thai protests against US-backed regime in Thailand.UPDATE December 2, 2013 - 1555 Local Time - Taking a cue perhaps from the Western-backed pro-EU mobs, Thailand's anti-regime protesters have been seen preparing bulldozers of their own to breach barricades.The West has already hypocritically condemned protesters in Thailand - since it is

Croatian fascist leader Ante Pavelić with enthusiastic Franciscan monksToday Croat voters overwhelmingly-- and true to form-- chose to institutionalize the idea that their own LGBT community is less equal than other Croats. With four-fifths of the votes counted, a solid majority appears to have backed the move to amend the Constitution so that gays and lesbians can never get married. I drove through Croatia in 1969.

"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode087 - Good To You which features brand new sounds from Tennis, Girls Against Boys, AgesandAges, G

By Ron Paul | December 1, 2013

Heavy clashes at anti-Prawer protests were anything but unforeseeable. Unfortunately, the way the media and politicians are responding is only likely to make things worse.
By Haggai Matar

 

 
by  Alan Hart

Happy to say that none of this conditioning is happening in our school in Atlanta!

October 8, 2013 (we almost missed it) 
 Examiner

Its not who votes that counts, its who counts the votes – Stalin
Excerpt :
The Plain Dealer reports that court documents filed this week by the U.S. Justice Department allege executive and company employees from Diebold’s Asia Pacific region paid “$1.75 million in bribes, gifts and trips to dozens of employees of banks in China and Indonesia”… The bribes were paid in order to secure and retain business with bank customers, including state-owned and state-controlled banks.

The end of the Sextet in the Off-Monroe Players' 2010 production of PatienceGILBERT and SULLIVAN: Patience: from the Act I finale, Lady Saphir, "Are you resolved to wed this shameless one? . . . Sextet with Chorus, "I hear the soft note"

Sunday, the beginning of a new month, and time again for my weekly rant...I continue to get plenty of comments from our friends in the Hasbara/JIDF community, and it still startles me that they continue to send these comments knowing full well that they will never see the light of day.... It is also laughable that they are resorting to the ridiculous tactic of changing up the "name" of the person generating the comments in the vain hope that I will not see through the deception...

RT | December 1, 2013

Iceland’s government has announced that it will be writing off up to 24,000 euros ($32,600) of every household’s mortgage, fulfilling its election promise, despite overwhelming criticism from international financial institutions.
The measure was introduced by the country’s prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, the leader of the Progressive Party which won the late-April elections on a promise of household debt relief.

“You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.”
Leviticus, Chapter 26, verses 7-9
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations… then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.”
Deuteronomy 7:1-2,

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 100. Note: Also podcast at PFP116. This is my speech at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (Sept. 22, 2013, Bodrum, Turkey). The video and slides are below. See also the Q&A panel [PFP117], which contains several interchanges between me and Sean Gabb about this issue. […]

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
November 29, 2013
Georgian military train ANSF

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Arthur Schnitzler: Cannot praise war in general and oppose individual wars
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Arthur Schnitzler
From Some Day Peace Will Return (Und einmal wird der Friede wiederkommen)
Translated by Robert O. Weiss

Hillary and her Israeli controller, HaimIsrael covers its bases. Two dual citizens, both billionaires, GOP mobster Sheldon Adelson and Democratic media magnate Haim Saban help finance both party establishments. Whoever wins, Israel has a friend in the Washington-- or, more appropriately, many, many friends.

A message from Ken – December 1, 2013

Aloha all,
Well my first show on The People’s Voice will air on Sunday from 1600-1800 GMT.
It is a great programme with Gilad Atzmon and I having a conversation about the control of language and Jewish power, politically incorrect through and through.

By Maidhc Ó Cathail | The Passionate Attachment | December 1, 2013

by FRANKLIN LAMB
Damascus

I have been watching for the last few years the downfall of the United States happen right before our very eyes…. I have said again and again that it is like watching a "train wreck happening in slow motion" and I have not seen anything that has changed my mind on that aspect….But yesterday was "Black Friday" in the United States (as well as here in Canada and the United Kingdom), and it was an annual ritual of mayhem in American cities as dumbed down citizens rushed out and fought over consumer goods like wild animals!

Silvio and RubyItaly's 77 year old right-wing former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, a flamboyently crooked billionaire, was finally kicked out of Parliament Wednesday. Ostensibly it was because he had been convicted for tax fraud. The Senate vote was 192-113 with 2 abstentions.

At least 20 people were killed and 28 more wounded in today's attacks.

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio November 30, 2013 [download audio]  

For decades now, I and others living here in Canada have been constantly bombarded with the "fact" that "6 Million" Jews died by the hands of the Germans during the second World War… Primarily through the action of being put to death by "gassing".  This has been rammed into our brains in this nation and many others, and now to deny this "fact" can have many in over a dozen nations in Europe, and here in Canada, charged with "Holocaust denial".

It does appear that the shaky agreement reached between the so called P5+1 members and the peaceful nation of Iran over its non-existent "nuclear weapons" program is holding..

The U.S. Army Concert Band plays Gregorio A. Diaz's "Third Army March."by KenThere was a time a bunch of years ago when the New York Times was constantly finding stuff. What was it, a Bach manuscript? And, well, just all sorts of stuff, given credibility by the presence of a reporter from the Newspaper of Record.I don't think we can accuse the Washington Post of belatedly trying to play catch-up. This is just kind of a happy story about the resurrection of a long-presumed-lost march written for the army of one of the U.S. military historic personages.

Al-Manar | November 29, 2013

Three Lebanese were cleared of terrorism charges in Nigeria on Friday.
“The Nigerian authorities released Mustapha Fawaz and Abdallah Thahini, while Talal Ahmad Roda’s trial is still ongoing for possessing weapons,” Lebanese charge d’affaires in Nigeria told FM Adnan Mansour.

Peter B. Collins, Sibel Edmonds and James Corbett of BoilingFrogsPost.com present the latest BFP series, the BFP Roundtable. In this pilot edition of the series the panel discusses the latest “reporting” on Guantanamo by 60 Minutes, the truth about the Iranian nuclear deal, and the importance of open source journalism. Stay tuned to BoilingFrogsPost.com for future editions of this series.
Sources cited:
How Many Secret Files Did Snowden Get?
http://ur1.ca/g4g9o

I don't want to demonize Henry Waxman. As congressmen go, he's been a fairly decent one, for the most part, relatively progressive and-- except on issues relating to Israel and the Middle East-- pretty open-minded. The only time I remember really disagreeing with him, in fact, was when he backed Cheney's and Bush's horrific decision to attack Iraq without provocation.

By Dr. Sarah Marusek | MEMO | November 29, 2013

Key evidence about the range of the rockets allegedly used by the Syrian regime in the chemical attacks on 21st August in East Ghouta, which was first published by Human Rights Investigations (HRI) yesterday, indicates that widespread statements made by Human Rights Watch (HRW), government officials and the mass media about the attacks are erroneous. […]

Several already murdered in Bangkok as regime militants confront protesters. UPDATE: Regime gunmen have been identified by their shirts as a sect drawn from Phitsanulok province, part of the Thaksin Shinawatra regime's northeast political stronghold. This particular groups has strong affiliations with leading pro-regime mob leader and regime MP Jatuporn Prompan, and was involved directly with bloodshed in 2010's violence as well.

By Vijay Prashad | The BRICS Post | November 30, 2013

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week. Climategate Thanksgiving in the U.S.  brings back memories of Climategate, I recall spending Thanksgiving 2009 writing the essay An open letter to graduate students . . . with … Continue reading →

By Sasan Fayazmanesh | CounterPunch | November 29, 2013

November 27, 2013 by legitgov

 
Sandy Hook summary report: Two reporters held at gunpoint by police –Two black zip-up sweat jackets found on ground near alleged shooter’s car 27 Nov 2013 The [redacted] summary report of the Sandy Hook shootings was released Monday.
 

Global Research
“The perpetrators had committed acts against the Palestinians, with intent to kill, cause serious bodily or mental harms and deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the Palestinians as a whole or in part.”