Obama’s trip to Africa is a propaganda crusade. As the president talks about growing economies and making electricity more available to the continent, he is all hush hush on what is actually happening in Africa with regard to U.S. policy. Namely, Obama has increased U.S. military presence and interventionism in Africa to unprecedented levels and is meanwhile trying to win a geo-political game with China to exploit the economic potential of the continent under the control of Washington.

July 1 marked the first day in office for Clifford Sloan, newly appointed Guantanamo closure envoy. Shortly after his May address on counterterrorism, President Obama appointed Sloan to the Office of Guantanamo Closure in the State Department, a position that had been vacant since January. The appointment and reopening of the office is the only concrete step the President has taken concerning Guantanamo since his May speech.

Itar-Tass
July 2, 2013
No country will be able to hit Russia’s defenses with impunity – deputy defense minister
MOSCOW: Not a single country will be able to attack Russia’s strategic nuclear forces with impunity, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said after talks between the Russian and Tanzanian defense ministers on Tuesday.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
July 1, 2013
DEFENCE TRAINING IN THE MED FOR NATO AND A U.S. DESTROYER

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
July 2, 2013
NATO and Japan explore opportunities to cooperate on emerging security challenges

Except when it's bad women candidates like Michele Bachmann, Colleen Hanbusa or Katherine Clark I got into a friendly Twitter argument the other day with a guy who works for the Victory Fund, an LGBT PAC.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Roger Martin du Gard: Selections on war
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Roger Martin du Gard
From Summer 1914 (1936)
Translated by Stuart Gilbert

This week on Radio Liberty, James and Dr. Stan discuss the economic and business ramifications of the NSA spying scandal.

Recently, I received an email from Rabbi Wise of the organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), who is alarmed by the Prawer Plan currently being considered by the Israeli Knesset. The plan outlines the removal of 40,000 indigenous Bedouin people from their ancestral homeland in the Negev desert in order to transform the Negev into [...]

And now we’re back Where we started Here we go round again Day after day I get up and I say I better do it again – The Kinks Could it be, that after 3,000 coalition troops killed and untold (because there are no official counts) civilian casualties that the U.S would just hand Afghanistan [...]

Iranians voted in the presidential, city and rural council elections on June 14, 2013. The two elections were arranged to be on the same day to boost participations and show support for the Islamic Republic. The Guardian Council had handpicked eight candidates and rejected the rest of the applicants for presidency in violation of the [...]

In this edition of the ongoing Questions For Corbett podcast series, James answers your questions on: wireless mesh networking, Snowden and limited hangouts, how to buy gold, how to use The Corbett Report website, the GMO/fluoride agenda, the endgame of the powers that shouldn’t be and much, much more.
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"Natalie Gunshannon, 27, with her daughter, Anie Popish, 7, said she had to use a card because her employers would not deposit her pay directly into her account." (NYT caption)

Although no soccer players or fans were reported among today's casualties, one of the bombings targeted a cafe. In recent days, several cafes screening international soccer matches were the focus of bloodshed. Overall, at least 55 people were killed and 53 more were wounded today.

I have watched the news this past week where that criminal who calls himself President of the United States, Barry Soetoro, had the audacity to go in front of the US Congress and now push for new taxes on the American public in the form of "Carbon Legislation".  This clown had the nerve to state that Carbon emissions had to be curbed so as to save the planet from the scourge of "Global Warming".  Even though all evidence shows that the planet is not warming at all, and is in fact in a state of Global Cooling, this criminal will attempt to have the American people swallow the Global Warming

We all love watching the Republican civil war between the greed and selfishness wing and the hate and bigotry wing as it unfolds. In the radio interview above, Palin declares war, again, on Marco Rubio and Kelly Ayotte. But how about the civil war that's tearing apart the Tea party itself... a civil war within a civil war? Those are always the most fun.Over the weekend Luke Mullins covered an aspect of that for the Washingtonian: Armey In Exile.

Yes, it is Canada Day....

More action is needed to stop militants (?) acquiring plutonium or highly-enriched uranium that could be used for atomic bombs, nuclear experts and government officials said on Monday. Analysts say radical groups could theoretically build a crude but deadly nuclear bomb if they have the money, technical knowledge and the amount of fissile material needed.

We've been trying to make the case-- so far without any success-- that the DCCC make an effort, even if it's one that takes more than one cycle, to defeat Darrell Issa in a purple district Obama won in 2008.

There is a bit of déjà vu happening in Egypt right now: as mass protests against the Morsi regime continue to grow, the Egyptian army gave the regime a 48-hour ultimatum, threatening direct military involvement in the political process “if the demands of the people are not realized.” In other words, if Morsi doesn’t either step down or call for early elections, the army will move to unseat him, just as happened when the protest movement prompted the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Millions marched against Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood

 By Christof Lehmann  - NSNBC International

Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio July 1, 2013 [download audio]

This news story out of China really caught my eye!  Xinjiang terrorists finding training, support in Syria, Turkey- Chinese media and government are not being the least bit outrageous in making that claim.Just the other day I had made this comment about the Ui/yghurs. Not because I am psychic. Just because I pay attention and so do my savvy readers- Read below

Press TV – July 1, 2013

An Argentinean court has ordered the probe of the country’s Jewish ex-interior minister for his alleged ties to the AMIA Jewish center bombing which left 85 people dead and hundreds wounded.

PressTVGlobalNews · July 1, 2013

Several international satellite providers, including Eutelsat and Intelsat, have stopped the broadcast of a number of Iranian channels.
On June 19, Intelsat said it would no longer provide services to Iranian channels, including Press TV, as of July 1. The decision has been made under the pretext that the company should be “abiding by” the sanctions against the president of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Ezatollah Zarghami.

In this edition of the ongoing Questions For Corbett podcast series, James answers your questions on: wireless mesh networking, Snowden and limited hangouts, how to buy gold, how to use The Corbett Report website, the GMO/fluoride agenda, the endgame of the powers that shouldn’t be and much, much more.
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After the closest call with political mortality of his life in 2012, Santa Clarita Republican Buck McKeon has told political allies that he won't run in 2014 if Lee Rogers challenges him again. Today he's getting the bad news: Rogers-- this time with the solid backing of the DCCC-- is running for the CA-25 seat. McKeon has promised the seat to Tony Strickland but Santa Clarita Mayor Bob Kellar, state Sen.

From the website of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam:How Usury Enslaves Economies WorldwideBy Dr. Ridgely Abdul Mu’min MuhammadJun 26, 2013http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_10017.shtml_____________________

I’ve noted the work of Webb and Murphy before here. They also claim, according to their sources, that Petraeus was intentionally ousted from the CIA through the deliberate public disclosure of his affair with Paula Broadwell.

Interfax
July 1, 2013
Shoigu, Chinese General Staff chief confer on Syria
Moscow: The Russian visit of Chief of the China People’s Liberation Army General Staff Col. Gen. Fang Fenghui displays the strategic nature of bilateral relations, Russian Defense Minister Gen. of the Army Sergei Shoigu said at the meeting with the Chinese general.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Henri Barbusse: Selections on war
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Henri Barbusse
From Light (1918)
Translated by Fitzwater Wray

Those defending the NSA’s surveillance activities in the wake of Edward Snowden’s leaks swear the program is lawful, transparent, and checked by oversight in other branches of government.

Palin's not happy with the Republican Party Establishment-- and she claims she may be ready to bolt and start one of her own. No one represents that Establishment better than Paul Ryan. Ryan's a packaged product, courtesy of Wall Street and Madison Avenue.

By JAMAL KANJ | Intifada-Palestine | June 30, 2013

But for the chap from Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza who emerged earlier this week as the winner of the “Arab Idol,” the news from Palestine is grim.
The newly appointed Palestinian Prime Minister resigned and Israel still insist it should be able to negotiate over dividing the pie while it continues to eat it.

The Crime of Indifference – An Analysis by Lawrence Davidson
 
Elie Wiesel
 by Lawrence Davidson
Part I – Indifference
 

Palestine Information Center – 01/07/2013

RAMALLAH — In its monthly report, the Information Center of the Wall and Settlement documented an escalation in Israeli attacks during June including demolition notices and settlement expansion.

Sometimes, it’s hard to grasp just how our world has been transformed since September 11, 2001. But here’s a little exchange at NBC Nightly News a few days back – just part of the humdrum flow of TV news-chat – that somehow caught my attention. News anchor Brian Williams and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea [...]

The debate provoked by Edward Snowden‘s revelations is drawing new battle lines in American politics, and redefining the image of the US in the eyes of the world. As Snowden’s personal fate, and his dramatic hegira from a Hawaiian paradise to the world’s drabbest airport, captures the narrative, we hear complaints from some of his [...]

The use of warrantless surveillance by the NSA has brought a wave of naïve statements from a segment of Americans who claim they have nothing to fear from NSA surveillance of their telephone calls and internet traffic because they’ve done nothing wrong. Obviously, the NSA and its employees are capable of using any violation of [...]

Now that the White House has come to the conclusion that Bashar al-Assad has indeed employed chemical weapons on a small scale against the Syrian opposition, the questions over what to do next have taken on ever greater urgency. Speaking to CNN recently, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), said that "we should be able to establish [...]

Yesterday we tried our hand at explaining how the Supreme Court's narrowly partisan decision to void the Voting Rights Act is a catastrophe that is not ameliorated by the nice pat on the head they have the LGBT community the following day. Few organizations have fought harder and as effectively as People For the American Way when it comes to LGBT equality.

Make no mistake about it. The vote to give Amnesty to 30 million illegal aliens already here plus the millions that will come here in the future will destroy America. We have a deficit of 4 trillion dollars on infrastructure repairs that needs to be addressed before we increase our population with low paid unskilled workers. We also have a 22% unemployment rate. And we have a trillion dollar structural deficit that cannot be reduced by adding 30 to 50 million people to those eligible for benefits. There is a provision which gives employers a subsidy for health care for illegal aliens.

The now daily attacks against soccer players and soccer fans continued in Baghdad. This time a bomb targeted young people, all under the age of 16, playing in a field. Across the rest of the country, the usual random violence took place. Overall, at least 23 Iraqis were killed and 29 more were wounded.

The new president signs the Lilly Ledbetter Act in January 2009, with Lilly Ledbetter visible seen behind him and members of Congress looking on.by KenHowie has already called attention to the Roberts Court's extremist coup with its Voting Rights Act slapdown.

Al-Akhbar | June 30, 2013

A top Palestinian official said on Sunday that there had been no breakthrough in marathon American-led efforts to revive direct peace talks, but US Secretary of State John Kerry said there had been “real progress.”
The statements come just as Israel announced that it might implement monetary incentives to encourage people to move to an illegal settlement in the West Bank.

Unattainable peace…
US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Jordan, on Friday, June 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
By JAMAL KANJ
 
BUT for the chap from Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza who emerged earlier this week as the winner of the “Arab Idol,” the news from Palestine is grim.

A helicopter carrying exam papers to primary school students in Aleppo countryside was shot down yesterday.
The helicopter was flying over the besieged town of Nubol and was carrying basic education examination papers. The helicopters crew as well as other passengers, were killed when the helicopter was hit by a surface to air missile. Among the martyred passengers was a teacher, Hussam Muhammad Youssef.
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) citing a source, said:

by KenIn our earlier post about Wagner's Flying Dutchman we heard the Norwegian sea captain Daland return home from a perilous voyage bringing a guest, none other than the Flying Dutchman to meet (and hopefully entrance) his daughter, Senta. Then we left the two potential lovers alone for their long scene, and I would have liked to return for the end of Act II, as Daland returns.

Press TV – June 30, 2013

Indian security forces have shot dead at least two people in the north of Indian-administered Kashmir, prompting huge anti-India protests.
An Indian police official said that soldiers surrounded a few houses in the village of Markondal in Bandipora District, about 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) north of the main city of Srinagar, before dawn on Sunday.
A teenage boy was killed during a search operation.