Press TV – July 3, 2013
A Turkish court has blocked a redevelopment project for Istanbul’s Taksim Square after the country was rocked by four weeks of anti-government protests.
The court ruling is seen as a big blow to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had strongly backed the project, but is also seen as a victory for the opposition that has been staging nationwide rallies against it.
John Pilger describes the 'casual abduction' of Bolivian President Evo Morales as a metaphor the gangsterism that now dominates international affairs and urges that a taboo is broken.
Fireworks burst over Cairo's Tahrir Square, the centre of protests against Mohamed Mursi, and across the Egyptian capital after the army suspended the constitution and appointed a new, interim head of state on Wednesday.
Exactly 11th months to goSheriff Lee Baca is back in the news this week with yet another scandal. In a shocking new report, the U.S.
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The direction of collapse was controlled by more than 10,000 detonators and delays.
Note the top of the second building is not destroyed by the demolition – when it reaches ground level the remaining solid building simply falls over.
The Dundee demolition shows that the suggestion that fires could collapse WTC 7 perfectly into its footprint is ludicrous.
The appalling hubris of the imperial mindset in Washington was on full display yesterday when the U.S. government apparently pressured the governments of France, Spain, Portugal and Italy to deny a plane carrying Bolivia’s Evo Morales permission to pass through their air space. The plane was thus redirected, in flight, and forced to land in Vienna. The reason? Morales said he would consider granting political asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the suspicion was that Snowden was on the plane with the Bolivian president.
Governments by nature tend towards the authoritarian. Even when a liberalish type, like Obama, is elected, its almost inevitable that when something like Ed Snowden happens, the government errs on the side of repression. All governments. European governments are either flipping out or feigning flipping out over Snowden's revelations that the U.S. was relentlessly spying on all of our allies all the time. But have any of these any governments agreed to give Snowden political refuse from the American gulag which is looking to devour him?
In the midst of continuing anti-government protests, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has rejected the Egyptian Army’s 48-hour ultimatum (by now passed) to either call for early elections or step down. On Monday, I noted the acknowledgement of the Morsi regime that the military won’t pursue this effective coup without approval from their American overlords.
Quo vadis, Palestine? … as PLO prepares to get bogged down (again) in bogus US-Israel negotiations
by Stuart Littlewood – Intifada Palestine
The Palestinian embassy in London has just issued a rare media briefing. It asks “WHAT IS NEEDED FOR THE RESUMPTION OF CREDIBLE NEGOTIATIONS?” and tries to explain the Palestinian position.
Technically, Patrick Murphy is a Democrat. He switched his registration from "Republican" just before challenging much-hated Tea Party target Allen West in 2012. A son of great wealth and privilege, Murphy was, of course, a lifelong Republican. Since getting into the House he's voted with Republicans on crucial roll calls more frequently than with Democrats.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Romain Rolland: Selections on war
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Romain Rolland
From A World In Birth (L’enfantement) (1933)
Translated by Amalia de Alberti
Finding this article, Connecting the dots , felt to me the same as finding that impossible piece in the puzzle and fitting it in to the entire picture.First a sufficient definition of Globalist/s. What or who is a Globalist/s?
RT | July 3, 2013
‘An act of aggression and violation of international law’ is how Bolivia’s UN envoy described Austria’s decision to search the Bolivian presidential jet for NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The envoy has pledged to make an official complaint to the UN.
Secretary of State John Kerry, bringing intensive Henry Kissinger-like shuttle diplomacy back into fashion to make another one of the periodic post-1948 U.S. attempts to solve the Israeli-Arab conflict once and for all, instead would better be compared to Wile E. Coyote’s attempt to catch the ever-elusive Road Runner. Will the United States and its [...]
Whenever anyone challenges yet another power grab by government bureaucrats to spy, harass, and otherwise push their noses where it doesn’t belong, the post-9/11 "explanation" is always the same: It’s all the fault of the terrorists, because, don’tcha know, we’ve got to keep our Eye on them all the time. So shut up, whiner, it’s [...]
In the months after September 11, 2001, it was regularly said that “everything” had changed. It’s a claim long forgotten, buried in everyday American life. Still, if you think about it, in the decade-plus that followed – the years of the PATRIOT Act, “enhanced interrogation techniques,” “black sites,” robot assassination campaigns, extraordinary renditions, the Abu [...]
Dr. Thorsten Pattberg of Peking University and East-West-Dichotomy.com joins us once again to discuss Chinese-US relations in the wake of the recent NSA spying revelations. We talk about the long-term prospects for Chinese-American relations, as well as China’s growing importance as a ‘second pole’ for Europe and other geopolitical players, and we dissect President Xi Jinping’s oft-discussed remarks on the “Chinese dream.”
Civil Georgia
June 27, 2013
Rasmussen on Georgia’s NATO Integration
Tbilisi: NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on June 27 in Tbilisi that Georgia “is on the right path”, which moved “a lot closer to NATO”, but “the burden may still be on you now to continue to deliver the necessary reforms.”
Tanjug News Agency
July 2, 2013
Church dignitary likens NATO to “Fourth Reich”
PODGORICA: SPC Metropolitan of Montenegro Amfilohije has referred to the Western military alliance NATO as “the Fourth Reich.”
The media in Podgorica are quoting him as saying that NATO represented “a continuation of fascism and a desire to rule the whole world.”
Coordinated violence took place across Baghdad today, as bomb after bomb exploded in neighborhoods across the city. The bloodshed extended deep into Shi'ite southern Iraq, which has been relatively quiet compared to restive northern Iraq. Overall, at least 86 Iraqis were killed and 234 were wounded.
Sorry for the Cher version; I'm sick. I shouldn't be looking at something as serious at another Egyptian revolution-- there are already a couple dozen people dead and 14 million angry Egyptians in the street including some real assholes-- through the prism of U.S. pop culture, let alone my own travelogue.
Yes, on Canada day. Which the media has informed the Canadian readership is the equivalent of the 4th of July in the US.
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com July 2, 2013 [download audio]
Al-Akhbar | July 2, 2013
In mid-May, Mustafa Fawwaz, a 49-year-old Lebanese living in northern Nigeria, was headed to the Amigo Mall, a property he co-owns with his brother Fawzi. Hours later, police stormed his supermarket and placed him under arrest.
Daylin Leach is a candidate for Congress. Since Allyson Schwartz is running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, he's running to replace her as the Representative for northwest Philly/Montgomery County. He's campaigning hard, but that doesn't mean he's neglecting his current job as a state senator. The video above was in response to the reactionary Republican budget, which passed the House 111-92 just hours before the Sunday deadline. Gov.
Al-Akhbar | July 2, 2013
Israeli soldiers on Tuesday kidnapped two shepherds from a southern Lebanese village near the occupied Shebaa Farms, a UN official said.
Yep. I said globalist.
"Alex Jones is gonna shit when he sees this." -my exact thought 25 minutes into the movie
Topic:
(School Sucks At the Movies)
Cory, Osborne and I review World War Z. Our discussion includes a comparison of the film to the Max Brooks book by the same name, and an exploration the themes of and possible agenda behind both.
Yep. I said globalist.
"Alex Jones is gonna shit when he sees this." -my exact thought 25 minutes into the movie
Topic:
(School Sucks At the Movies)
Cory, Osborne and I review World War Z. Our discussion includes a comparison of the film to the Max Brooks book by the same name, and an exploration the themes of and possible agenda behind both.
Yep. I said globalist."Alex Jones is gonna shit when he sees this." -my exact thought 25 minutes into the movieTopic:(School Sucks At the Movies)Cory, Osborne and I review World War Z. Our discussion includes a comparison of the film to the Max Brooks book by the same name, and an exploration the themes of and possible agenda behind both.I was so shocked and offended by the heavy-handed nature of the propaganda that I immediately went to InfoWars.com to see if anyone else was talking about it.
Susan Lindauer was arrested under the Patriot Act after she tried to come forward and testify before the Congress about 911. The government’s answer to her offer to tell the truth was to send the FBI to her house to arrest her.
President Eisenhower with the Shah of Iran, who came to power as a result of a US-led coup
On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institute, Max Boot and Michael Doran are openly arguing for a return to the mafia-like political warfare of the Cold War era. “With the end of the Cold War,” they lament unironically, “America’s tradition of political warfare all but died.”
Al-Manar | July 2, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that the United States and Russia were committed to holding Geneva peace conference on Syria but that it would likely take place after August.
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Al-Manar | July 2, 2013
Iran urged the Egyptian armed forces on Tuesday to play their role in supporting national dialogue and respecting the people’s vote.
By Cora Currier | ProPublica | July 1, 2013
On June 9, a U.S. drone fired on a vehicle in a remote province of Yemen and killed several militants, according to media reports.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 069. I was a guest on the Feb. 15, 2011 episode of Thinking Liberty, “an interactive libertarian anarchist talk program.” We talked for quite a while about IP; the hosts asked very intelligent questions. This podcast episode begins with my segment, which originally started about 25:00 into the original episode.
