Obama at the UN General Assembly:  Five Years a Zionist Lackey
Fifteen Minutes an American President
James Petras
Introduction
Obama’s rhetorical exercise in ‘peace talk’ at the United Nations General Assembly impressed few delegations and even fewer Americans:  Far more eloquent are his five years of wars, military interventions, cyber-spying, drone murders, military coups and the merciless prosecution of patriotic truth tellers.

by Judith Curry It’s your turn to introduce topics for discussion. I’ve been exceptionally busy for the last month;  things will slow down for the next few weeks.  If you’ve sent me an email or possible guest post and I … Continue reading →

Academic publisher Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield) has a new book series coming out, Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Ed Younkins is the Series Editor; I’ll be a member of the Advisory Board. The publisher’s description of the series: This book series is devoted to studying the foundations of capitalism from a number of […]

Republicans savvy about self-preservation in swing districts-- districts like the ones in Central Florida-- are starting to back away from the GOP/Ted Cruz strategy of holding the government and the economy hostage for narrow, unpopular Republican agenda items. But not John Mica, the lockstep conservative from Winter Park.

By Finian Cunningham | Press TV | October 11, 2013

The Nobel Peace Prize should be renamed the Nobel Propaganda Prize, after this year’s ever-so contrived award to the UN-approved chemical weapons team sent to disarm Syria.
Other dubious winners of the “illustrious” prize include the accused war criminal, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who oversaw the genocidal carpet-bombing of Indochina during the 1970s.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
October 10, 2013
NATO monitors PfP evaluation in Montenegro
JFC Naples Public Affairs Office

I'm feeling especially grateful for a recent book review in the Tuscon Citizen - and for the ones left by readers on Amazon.com and it's related websites.

Press TV – October 11, 2013

Costa Rican police have arrested four alleged members of a gang that trafficked organs to foreigners, the country’s attorney general says.
Carlos Jimenez said those detained on Thursday include three doctors, who are employed at the public Calderon Guardia Hospital in the capital, San Jose, as well as one Greek citizen, suspected of recruiting donors to sell their kidneys.

Of course Elizabeth Warren refused to endorse conservative shill Katherine Clark, but that didn't keep EMILY's List from printing up these fliersLast April, Digby exposed the EMILY's List strategy for beating progressive L.A. mayoral contender-- and now progressive L.A.

RT | October 11, 2013

Nearly two dozen of the commentators who appeared on major media outlets to discuss a possible US military strike on Syria had relationships with contractors and other organizations with a vested interest in the conflict, according to a new report.

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Syria rebels executed civilians, says Human Rights Watch        When my hubby brought this latest to my attention....grrrrr!! I was furious. And you would think I should be elated, right?Human Rights Watch actually focusing on this terrible, terrible atrocity committed by the WESTERN BACKED HIRED KILLERS.Since this happened way back at the beginning of August 2013, two months ago, we all need to ask ourselves...............Why a HRW report at this time? Why not in August? Or September?The Guardian had reported on the attacks near Latakia , just last week.

 The Pentagon is suggesting (?) the world's chemical weapons watchdog use a U.S.-made mobile destruction unit in Syria to neutralize the country's toxic stockpile, officials told Reuters.

Itar-Tass
October 11, 2013
Lavrov: Some countries use Afghan territory for training Syrian rebels
MOSCOW: Some countries have used the territory of Afghanistan for the training of Syrian rebels and trained them in handling toxic agents, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Friday.

Press TV – October 11, 2013

As Iran and the six major world powers prepare to hold a fresh round of talks over the country’s nuclear energy program, Israel has held a “special long-range flight exercise” in its latest act of provocation against Tehran.
The Israeli military said Thursday that the Air Force fighter squadrons conducted war games this week testing their capability to carry out long range missions..

Last week, when MoveOn and PPP released their much buzzed about polls showing how Democrats could pick up many seats, the first thing I noticed was that these were all the Steve Israel seats they had polled.

Estonian Public Broadcasting
October 11, 2013
Ämari Serves as Control Center for NATO Exercise for First Time
Ämari Air Base hosted its first NATO exercise yesterday, as part of the three-day Baltic Regional Training Event for fighter jets.
French, Belgian, Finnish and Baltic representatives were present, as were NATO officials and Estonian Defense Minister Urmas Reinsalu, reported the Postimees.

CCTV
October 11, 2013
US and NATO oppose China’s missile deal with Turkey
The US and NATO have applied enormous pressure to Turkey over the missile deal. And it’s not the first time that the US has opposed China’s military sale to other countries.

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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 Education Before Verdun (1935)
Translated by Eric Sutton

By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim | Venezuelanalysis | October 10, 2013

Mérida – The Venezuelan government has pledged to construct 4,400 new housing units in Haiti worth around US$260 million, according to Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe.
Lamothe announced the initiative after a one day visit to Caracas on Monday.

Though former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been indicted for leaking secrets about the U.S. government’s intrusive surveillance tactics, he was honored by a group of former US intelligence officials as a courageous whistleblower during a Moscow ceremony, reports ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern who was there. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, from his asylum […]

The push for "reforming" the National Security Agency is on, with a number of bills in the congressional hopper, notably a joint effort by Senators Ron Wyden, Rand Paul, Mark Udall, and Richard Blumenthal that sets a legislative marker for the civil libertarian agenda. The Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act would: End the bulk […]

The administration of President Barack Obama announced Wednesday it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Egyptian military pending “credible progress” toward a return to democratic rule. The State Department said Washington was suspending deliveries of big-ticket weaponry, including tanks, warplanes and attack helicopters, that make up much of the 1.3 […]

U.S. officials claim that the government’s massive data collection has protected the country from terrorist attacks. After The Guardian’s first revelations about the National Security Agency’s digital surveillance programs, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Rep. Mike Rogers, head of the House Intelligence Committee, jumped to the NSA’s defense by pointing […]

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode168 - Black Sites, Designer Babies, FDA Shutdown Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.

The 2013 movie "Parkland" is certainly not a "just the facts" docudrama.This Hollywood mega-bucks production supports the Establishment myth that there was no criminal coverup in the hospital's trauma room on Nov. 22, 1963."Parkland"ignores the testimony of the president's surgeon at Parkland Hospital, Dr.

When C.W. "Bill" Young was born, Herbert Hoover had just led the United States into the Great Depression. Young's entire childhood past the age of 2 was in the backdrop of FDR's presidency-- first in a poor coal-mining area of western Pennsylvania and then in the Tampa Bay area. When he finally retires next year he'll be 84.

Iraq executed 42 people today, while another 39 were killed in random attacks. At least 22 more were wounded.

"Why would I treat myself any different?" says Judge Clarke. "That would make me a hypocrite."by KenHere's a touching little story I wanted to make sure you saw. There's one detail in the HuffPost Tech account, one that happened to bother me, which isn't quite right, as you'll see by referring to Judge Clarke's actual courtroom sign, reproduced above.

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"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode079 - The Truth which features brand new sounds from Gipsy Kings, Holy Ghost!, FAIRCHILD, Ho

Pushing the hot buttons.  That is how I see it! How about you? Globe and Mail Excerpted:

MEMO | October 10, 2013

Israeli officials and experts are expressing disappointment over Washington’s decision to reduce military aid to Egypt in response to the events that followed the ousting of Egypt’s first freely elected President Mohammed Morsi on 3 July.

The Good Lord, in His wisdom, has dealt Trent Franks a most unfortunate hand-- and he's been taking it out on the American people for a very long timeOver 60% of American voters understand it was the Republicans who are behind the manufactured crisis threatening a worldwide economic catastrophe-- and they blame them for it.

Yesterday I attended a great conference at the Cato Institute on the NSA’s surveillance programs. I wrote a short piece on it at The Washington Times that you can check out here.

Back when the Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamad Morsi, the Obama administration deflected calls to cut off aid, as is required by law in the event of a military coup. And as the months passed and the military regime imposed emergency law, censored the media, and marginalized opposition political parties, President Obama steadfastly refused to cut off U.S. support for tyranny in Egypt.

Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

By Robyn Greene | ACLU | October 10, 2013

By RUSSELL MOKHIBER | CounterPunch | October 10, 2013

That’s the conclusion of single payer advocate Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), in his just released autobiography – Everybody In, Nobody Out: Memoirs of a Rebel Without a Pause.

by Judith Curry This paper will change the way you think about natural internal variability. And it provides a very different view from Mora et al.’s ‘we are toast by 2047‘ paper. Role for Eurasian Arctic shelf sea ice in … Continue reading →

Cuccinelli, struggling to stay in the 30's in recent polls, has already started cutting back on media spending. He knows he lost.

RT | October 9, 2013

As two new US ‘Hunter’ drones are set to start traversing German airspace next Monday, the army remains firm that they will be used solely for training drone operators rather than spying purposes, and will not be carrying weapons.

Cigarette packages come with warning labels. So should IPCC reports.

The people who think they own every government on the earth except for Syria and Iran are bankers. They do not know much about real people and their lives but they do understand money and interest rates. If you follow Zero Hedge or Bloomberg or some other financial source, you will already know that interest rates have been flashing ‘Warning! Crash Ahead’.

So, yesterday we looked at the spin being done on the Saudi role in Syria. You know taking a lead role? Strategic decision making? Saudi interests? All the while downplaying the US role.

By Sara Kozameh | CEPR Americas Blog | October 9, 2013

In Latin America, opposition to military intervention in Syria reflects the wariness of a region long beset with U.S. interventions of its own

By W. Alex Sanchez | Foreign Policy In Focus | October 4, 2013

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner with Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa. (Presidencia de la República del Ecuador / Flickr)

RT | October 10, 2013

Brazilian lawmakers indicated that, in lieu of direct teleconferences with Edward Snowden to gain further insight into allegations of NSA spying in their country, they may seek to seize documents now held by American journalist Glenn Greenwald.
On Wednesday Greenwald spoke to Brazilian senators currently investigating evidence of US as well as British and Canadian espionage in the Latin American country.

Voice of Russia
October 10, 2013
NATO should be held responsible for all the chaos in Libya – expert
Ekaterina Gracheva

No one's afraidFor the Democrats to take back the House and put an end to fanatic Tea Party excesses, the DCCC has to wrest at least 25 seats away from GOP incumbents (or win in open red districts). That's because it's likely that several Blue Dogs and New Dems who have disappointed their constituents-- particularly Mike McIntyre (NC), Jim Matheson (UT), Scott Peters (CA), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) and John Barrow (GA)-- will lose reelection efforts.