By Charles Shaw | October 28, 2013

500 innocent Americans are murdered by police every year (USDOJ). 5,000 since 9/11, equal to the number of US soldiers lost in Iraq.
In 1994 the US Government passed a law authorizing the Pentagon to donate surplus Cold War era military equipment to local police departments.
In the 20 years since, weaponry designed for use on a foreign battlefield, has been handed over for use on American streets… against American citizens.

Last week, Matthieu Aikins at Rolling Stone shed light on evidence that U.S. forces committed war crimes against Afghans, including extra-judicial executions, torture, and disappearances of at least 17 men.

By Elise Viebeck | The Hill | November 11, 2013

Fewer than 50,000 people have successfully purchased private healthcare coverage using the struggling ObamaCare enrollment site, according to a report.
The figure represents about one-tenth of an initial enrollment target from the Obama administration that has been referred to by Republican lawmakers.

Published on Nov 12, 2013 Filmmaker and author G Edward Griffin talks about the history of the secret cabal known as the ‘Federal Reserve’ — how it came about, what it’s done and what we can do about it. He also offers his opinion on Bitcoin and Carbon Credit schemes like those being offered by ‘Blood & Gore’.   Would […]

A Bedouin woman after an Israeli demolition
Via Ma’an News, Israel is close to carrying out plans to forcibly displace tens of thousands of Bedouin Palestinians in southern Israel, demolishing their villages, and erecting new Jewish settlements in their place.

Published on Nov 12, 2013 The total number of service men and women injured in Iraq & Afghanistan was approaching 1 Million until the VA abruptly stopped reporting the number. Will we remember not only the human cost but the lies that began the wars? Would you like to know more? VA Stops Releasing Data On Injured Vets As Total […]

Announcing Revisionist History issue no. 69 Symbolism, Psychological Warfare and Revelations in the John F. Kennedy Assassination ConspiracyMichael Hoffman, author of Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, has been on the trail of the assassins since the 1970s.

This week on Radio Liberty, James and Dr. Stan discuss the abysmal labor participation numbers from October, the ECB’s surprise rate cut, and China’s call for a New World Order.

Press TV | July 30, 2009

A former Mossad director opposed to the assassination of world leaders says the case of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is different.
Meir Amit, who died in July at the age of 88, shared some of “his fears for the future of the Middle East” in an interview published by The Media Line.

By Mike Masnick | Techdirt | November 11, 2013

By Cindy Cohn | EFF | November 11, 2013

Published on Nov 12, 2013 The stock market roars with another bubble as the Congress quietly removes the minor reforms they just enacted. Would you like to know more? G.Edward Griffin on The 100 Year Old Creature From Jekyll Island Stay in the know – Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones Published on Nov 12, 2013 The stock market roars with […]

The Washington Post‘s Bart Gellman, one of the journalists in possession of the full cache of Edward Snowden’s leaked NSA documents, debated former NSA/CIA chief Michael Hayden yesterday. Lengthy, but worth watching.

By Glyn Moody | Techdirt | November 12, 2013

Press TV – November 12, 2013

The list of US spying targets now includes the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a new report reveals.
The US National Security Agency and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters infiltrated OPEC’s computer systems to access an internal study in the organization’s research division, the German newspaper Der Spiegel reported, citing documents provided by American whistleblower Edward J. Snowden.

Good time Charlie and Nan Rich-- only one is a DemocratIn recent weeks, we met two congressional candidates, Jason Thigpen (D-NC) and Michael Cole (D-TX), running, respectively, againstRepublican incumbents Walter Jones and Steve Stockman.

RT | November 11, 2013

Mass surveillance isn’t something only being conducted by the likes of the National Security Agency anymore. Despite growing concerns brought on by the Summer of Snowden, cities around America are adopting high tech spy tools.

Voice of Russia
November 12, 2013
Russia’s principled actions made the US/NATO back down – Rick Rozoff
John Robles
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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 Axe of Wandsbek (1947)
Translated by Eric Sutton

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy enough. It’s a reasonable supposition that, before the Snowden revelations hit, America’s spymasters had made just that mistake. If the drip-drip-drip of […]

Controversy continues to follow Edward Snowden around, with the American people nearly evenly divided on whether he is a hero or a traitor even as the Obama Administration and Congressional leaders insist that he is a criminal and there will be no clemency for him. It should be no surprise to anyone that the debate […]

If Bibi Netanyahu succeeds in closing down Obama’s diplomatic path to Iran, only the road to war remains open. Which is exactly what Bibi wants. For what terrifies Tel Aviv, and rattles Riyadh, is not a U.S. war with Iran, but the awful specter of American rapprochement with Iran, a detente. Thus, when France’s foreign […]

The British and the Canadians call today Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day. In the United States, it’s been known as Veterans Day since the end of the Korean War. Americans are much more divorced from WWI than people in Europe or Canada. Understandable, since the conflict  never touched our soil, and it killed “only” 125,000 men in less than two years.

[Click to enlarge.]by KenNow that the nomination of Chris Christie as the 2016 Republican candidate for president is all but official, even as the sure-to-be-virulent "hell no" of the party's farthest-right wing is acknowledged, a spell of craziness.

At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 30 more were wounded in the latest violence. No major attacks took place, but a riot broke out at an oil field.

The new letter to Blue America members earlier today is all about electing a progressive U.S. Senator in Maine, Shenna Bellows. If you contribute to Shenna, or any Blue America candidate-- any amount-- you'll be a member too… and you'll get the e-mail blasts long before they're up on our blogs.

By Michael Smith | Legalalienate | November 11, 2013

As usual on Veteran’s Day, we are urged to honor our “heroes” and salute their martial courage, while ignoring the murderous imperial role they play in “fighting for their country.”

Here is the summary I prepared of the first hour of my November 4, 2013 interview on Red Ice Radio. 1m – Credit default swaps 3m – The Federal Reserve as the world’s bank 5m – Big economic busts are a direct consequence of the debt-money system with compound interest 5m – Individual interest-based contracts […]

I really do not like being proven right again… I have said time and time again that these "talks" between the innocent and peaceful nation of Iran, and the so called "P5+1" states over Iran's non-existent "nuclear weapons" program were doomed from their onset…. Israel and the Jews would never allow their minion states to sign off on any agreement with Iran, simply because these psychotic criminals have always wanted Iran destroyed, and to have their minions do all the fighting and dying in a war for that nation's destruction.

Today is Remembrance Day in Canada, and Veterans Day in the United States…. This day marks the 95th anniversary of November 11th, 1918, when at 11am European time, the guns on the Western front went silent and the fighting of World War I officially came to a bitter end….It is not my place to vilify those brave individuals that gallantly fought for their nations in these conflicts…. Many believed in the cause and they had faith in their leadership and at the time went off to fight and die under the assumption that they were fighting for liberty, freedom, and justice…..

The Facebook page for my talk at the 9th annual Usuryfree week event in Toronto on November 16, 2013 from 7 to 9:30 PM EST can be found here.

John Mica (R-FL), no friend of veteransToday, every candidate and every congressmember who ever managed to get their grubby paws on my e-mail address-- both parties-- sent out Veterans Day greetings. They were all pretty much the same pious ass-kissing, many from conservatives who expect the most from the military and who had actually voted against veterans over and over again.

RICHMOND — More than 90 tons of prepackaged salads and sandwiches were recalled by a Richmond catering company because a bacterial strain of E. coli has been linked to its products, federal health officials announced Sunday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Glass Onion Catering recalled approximately 181,620 pounds of salads and sandwich wraps containing cooked chicken and ham after 26 patients in three states were sickened with E. coli O157:H7, a strain of the sometimes deadly bacteria.

By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America | November 11, 2013

Edward Archer of the University of South Carolina, lead author of a scathing examination of U.S. federally-funded nutrition research, has written an even more scathing editorial in The Scientist (here) (H/t Margaret Wente of the Toronto Globe and Mail here.)
Some quotes:

"In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes.

"In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes.

"In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes.

We were outraged when in 2009, Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney received an Ambassadorship to Ireland for helping win PA for Obama in 2008.

The Washington Post reported last week that hundreds of Afghan detainees held at Bagram airbase were transferred to Kabul’s control, as per earlier agreements, and hundreds were simply released.

Alhaqhr · November 11, 2013

By Mike Masnick | Techdirt | November 11, 2013

By Notsilvia Night | July 24, 2009

Have you ever gotten death-threats?
Well, I have… and so have a million or so other people.
It’s not unusual for political activists, writers or even humble bloggers, who even become a bit visible to be the target of threats, if they they attack the interests of corrupt people.

Last year, when Justin Amash first ran for reelection to Congress in a west Michigan district centered on Grand Rapids and Battle Creek (MI-03) the Democratic Party put up a corrupt conservative hack, Steve Pestka, who could never heart him.

Sam Mayfield | October 2, 2009

Settlement expansion in the Occupied Territories of Palestine is about more than constructing houses for Jewish settlers. Palestinian farmland is being turned into industrial space. Illegal outposts on Palestinian land are protected by Israeli military. Roads, if Palestinians are allowed to drive on them, are often blocked without warning.
I toured Illegal settlements and outposts in the West Bank with Dror Etkes.

RT | November 11, 2013

The successful adoption of the EU-US trade agreement promises both parties massive gains of up to $159 billion, but the profits could come at the expense of the everyday consumer, who could see the quality of their products diminish as a result.

No good deed goes unpunished! And… THIS is the future of Obama-Care. F You …. We dont care!

Lawrence Wilkerson Pt2: I learned that war was about power, politics and commercial advantage

Also See: Wilkerson’s Shame. And Colin Powell’s

Press TV – November 11, 2013

US Senator Lindsey Graham has warned about a possible easing of economic sanctions against Iran, saying Israel is “apoplectic” about the Obama administration’s approach.
Graham, a hawkish Republican from South Carolina who has repeatedly called for military strikes on Iran, said Sunday that lifting sanctions would send the wrong message to Israel and other US allies in the region.