By Richard Edmondson | War and Politics | June 29, 2013

Father Francois Murad was beheaded by US-backed rebels in Syria

It is now Sunday, June 30th, 2013, and it is time for my weekly rant of what I see is wrong and sometimes right in this world...First things first... I want to wish all of my fellow Canadians a Happy Canada Day tomorrow, July 1st, 2013.   It is supposed to be a day to celebrate being Canadian...

Roland's my closest friend. I call his cell phone at least once a day. But I have no idea what his number is. I press a button on my cell and his phone is automatically "dialed." If I lost my phone, I wouldn't be able to contact him. Oh, wait, I could. All I would have to do is go to my computer and type in the first 3 or 4 letters of his screen name and his e-mail address would come up. If I was at another computer, though, I wouldn't be able to e-mail him either.

Press TV – June 30, 2013

German aid group Gruenhelme says three of its members who had been reported missing in Syria for more than 45 days have been kidnapped in Idlib Province.
“It has been 45 days since three members and employees of Gruenhelme were kidnapped overnight on May 14-15, in the village of Harem” of Idlib, the group’s founder Rupert Neudeck said in a statement on June 28.

By Charles Davis | False Dichotomy | June 29, 2013

Today's the end of the FEC fundraising quarter and I want to refer you to a post yesterday you may have missed about real bipartisanship, bipartisanship based on compromising that genuinely works for both sides, not compromise based on a combination of opportunism, bribery and one side betraying core values.Some Members of Congress-- virtually all the Republicans, all the New Dems a

U.S. Africa Command
June 26, 2013
CJTF-HOA Prepares Mobile Forward Command Post
Staff Sergeant Rachel Waller
CJTF-HOA Public Affairs
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With the testing phase of the FCP complete, the current focus is preparing the tent system for future use in CJTF-HOA’s 2.4-million-square-mile combined joint operations area in East Africa.
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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

In the vast majority of Area C Israel denies Palestinians any opportunity to build or develop.

By Sam Gilbert | Palestine Chronicle | June 29 2013

♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫" on Episode065 - The Secret Is Out which features brand new sounds from Gold Panda, The Stranglers, Major Lazer,

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode159 -
Insider Threats, Poor Food, Supreme Genes
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. This week:

Long-suffering Gaza and Bethlehem communities ignored – “no effort to go to the heart of the issues”

 
 by Stuart Littlewood
(London) Before he left for the Holy Land I telephoned Justin Welby’s office for details of his first visit as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, only to be told none were available in advance.  So I emailed a list of questions….
 

Like we saw Thursday, now that the Senate has passed comprehensive immigration reform, what's next? The Senate Democrats have already given away every conceivable bargaining chip available before the bill becomes worthless and insupportable. Nothing will ever change the minds of the racists in control in the House.

For the fifth day in a row sports fans and players were targeted for bloodshed. All the attacks were either in the Baghdad area or in Diyala province. Police and Sahwa also saw losses. Overall, at least 28 Iraqis were killed and 51 more were wounded.

I have indeed been following the continuing story of Edward Snowden, who supposedly has fled America for his very life... And has very valuable information that could blow the entire criminal NSA organization in America to heck..... We have seen reports of his whereabouts in Russia, with revelations that Ecuador is willing to grant him asylum....

I have been tackling political and science issues for such a long time that I have not touched on the one subject that started me on the road to the truth... And that of course was finding out over 3 decades ago that Project Apollo and the United States putting a man on the moon was a fraud.    It is a fact that once you do realize that NASA LIED their asses off and fooled the entire world with the fraud of Project Apollo, that you begin to see other aspects of our so called "history" in a completely different light...

RT | June 29, 2013

The NSA has a “brand new” technology that enables one billion cell phone calls to be redirected into its data hoards, according to the Guardian’s Glen Greenwald, who told a Chicago conference that a new leak of Snowden’s documents was ‘coming soon.’

PhilosophyFootball | June 4, 2013

A film by Gregg McDonald of Consequential Films
Producers, Hugh Tisdale and Deborah Rich of Philosophy Football
In the autumn of 2011 Philosophy met Honey Thalijeh, then captain of the Palestine Women’s Football team.

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 28, 2013
Georgian Defence Minister met with General Dunford

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 29, 2013
Meeting with General Shirreff

Defence Minister of Georgia Irakli Alasania held a meeting with Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General Sir Richard Shirreff.

Palestine Information Center – 29/06/2013

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Palestinian sources in Jerusalem said Jewish settlers on Friday night attacked buses carrying 100 Palestinian children participating in a summer camp organized by Health Work Committees in Silwan in occupied Jerusalem.

When I was 16 I hitchhiked from Brooklyn to Los Angeles so I could stow away on a ship to Tonga. In Brooklyn there had never been anything like the billboard campaigns along Route 66 in state after state in the middle of the country to impeach Earl Warren.

Glenn Greenwald has, especially over recent weeks, been shaking the national security state to its foundations. It is due to his work the US army has blocked access to Guardian website to preserve ‘network hygiene’ In the video below Greenwald explains Edward Snowden’s personal sacrifice for a better world, in revealing the United States and […]

Barney Frank retired from Congress last year. Obama picked a series of crooked Wall Street operators for positions he should have tried filling with brilliant and proven tribunes of the public like Barney and Brad Miller (D-NC), who also resigned last year. I'm not certain what Brad is up to now but Barney has certainly not faded away. Having been for so many years the most noteworthy openly gay Member of Congress, media turned to him in droves for comments about the grudging and narrow Supreme Court ruling that struck down DOMA and kind of struck down California's hateful Prop 8.

The New York Times said in a recent report the CIA was cooperating with Turkey and a number of other regional governments to supply arms to militants fighting the government in Syria.” .
Former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski
 
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former White House national-security adviser under Jimmy Carter and now a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a senior research professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Editor

Hungarian News Agency
June 28, 2013
NATO Secretary General to visit Hungary on Monday

Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen is scheduled to visit Hungary on Monday at the invitation of Defence Minister Csaba Hende.

Press TV -  June 29, 2013

The former US national security adviser says the ongoing crisis in Syria has been orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and their western allies.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
H.G. Wells: Selections on war
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H.G. Wells
From The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)

RT | June 29, 2013

Turkish government officials are investigating Twitter and similar social media platforms in an attempt to identify and eventually prosecute the organizers of mass demonstrations, Erodgan administration officials said this week.
In the latest attack on social media’s role in protests, the country’s Transportation and Communications Minister Binali Yildirim called on social media networks on Friday to cooperate with authorities in the probe.

Yesterday we talked about how cowardly New Dem freshmen Patrick Murphy and Kyrsten Sinema, who Boehner and Cantor know they can count on to almost always betray progressive Democratic ideals and vote with the GOP in a way that allows them to claim their toxic agenda is "bipartisan," h

Amidst the doom, gloom and paranoia of the daily headlines, it is all too easy to lose sight of the big picture: that we are transforming the society around us, and we have already had an incredible effect in waking people up and raising awareness of the real issues. Today on The Corbett Report we take a moment out of covering the bad news to appreciate the progress we’ve made and anticipate the progress yet to come.
CLICK HERE to download the mp3 audio of this podcast.

On the eve of Iran’s presidential elections of 17 June 2005, George W. Bush declared that the elections did not have any legitimacy, because "Iran’s president has no power." But, after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected, refused to stop Iran’s uranium enrichment program, and began criticizing Israel and casting doubts on Holocaust, suddenly he became the [...]

For the past six months, the quisling regime in Belgrade justified a policy of consenting to rape with a promise of a promise: if only Serbia would submit to every demand from Brussels and Washington, it would receive from Brussels a promise of a date on which negotiations about Serbia’s eventual membership in the EU [...]

WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman: End of Act I, Daland, "Hei! Wie die Segel schon sich blähn" ("Hey, how the sails are already filling!") . . . Sailors, "Mit Gewitter und Sturm" ("Through thunder and storm")

For the fourth day in a row, soccer players or fans were targeted in attacks in or near Baghdad. Today, bombers struck at a field just south of the capital. In the north, a funeral was targeted as well. Also, the number of deaths at a soccer event in Baquba yesterday doubled. Overall, at least 41 people were killed and 57 more were wounded.

"Harry's decided that if the federal governmentwon't defend our marriage then he's got to.""I have been gay all my life, and for most of it gay marriage was not even on the table. In fact, for many years the only time you saw anyone openly gay was on television, and they were hiding behind a screen with their voice disguised."I am thoroughly convinced that at some point in time same-sex marriage will be a non-issue. For the most part. Eventually. Sort of. . .

Washington, June 27:  US forces are ready to implement a no-fly zone in Syria if it is asked to do so, but it would be difficult because the Syrian air defence system is sophisticated and dense, a top Pentagon official said.From the 'horses mouth':

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
June 26, 2013
NATO Partner Sweden Hosts 2013 Strategic Military Partner Discussions on Alliance Future
Written by US Navy Reserve Officer, Commander Steve Zip
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ht to freethinker!freethinkerJune 27, 2013 at 7:11 AMFor anyone who hasn't seen it already this is worth watching-EX-AL QAEDA Member: Nabil Naim - The Syrian Lie, Al Nusra's Fake War

United States European Command
June 28, 2013
Hagel, Sweden’s Defense Minister Meet at Pentagon

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with Sweden’s Minister of Defense Karin Enström at the Pentagon today, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said.

Kirkpatrick, Sinema & Barber all voted with the Republicans for CISPAIs Steve Israel or Steny Hoyer calling the shots, or did Arizona’s three freshman reps reach these cynical heights all on their own? It’s hard to say, but my bet is on Israel or Hoyer. Or maybe it's the New Dem operation.

By Lawrence Davidson | Consortium News | June 27, 2013

Ido Aharoni, Israel’s Consul General for New York and also “the founding head of Israel’s brand-management team and the originator of the Brand Israel movement,” recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Post (June 19, 2013). In it he took to task the famous American novelist Alice Walker for her promotion of a cultural boycott of Israel.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss his recent article "Washington Is Insane", in which he dismisses as pure propaganda the claim by the U.S. that Syria's President Assad ordered the use of chemical weapons, thus crossing the "red line" declared by Obama. Indeed the real 'villain of the piece' is Washington itself, or rather the "military-security complex" that controls it. (Subjects include: the NSA, false flag terror and the possibility of economic collapse.) (For show notes, please visit TheMindRenewed.com)

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss his recent article "Washington Is Insane", in which he dismisses as pure propaganda the claim by the U.S. that Syria's President Assad ordered the use of chemical weapons, thus crossing the "red line" declared by Obama. Indeed the real 'villain of the piece' is Washington itself, or rather the "military-security complex" that controls it. (Subjects include: the NSA, false flag terror and the possibility of economic collapse.) (For show notes, please visit TheMindRenewed.com)

By Charles Davis | False Dichotomy | June 27, 2013

Whether liberals are “stupid” is probably the wrong question. A lot of smart people support stupid things; their intelligence is irrelevant. But there can be no doubt that American liberals support — and lord knows, say — a lot of stupid things. Barack Obama, for instance.

Via Matthew Feeney at Reason, Irish politician Clare Daly calls Obama a “war criminal” and asks if he’s going for the “hypocrite of the century award.”

Most Texas politicians-- both sides of the aisle-- got A+ or A grades from the NRA. Blue Dog Pete Gallego got an A- and Ft. Worth freshman Dem, Marc Veasy, was given a B+. Remember state Senator Leticia Van de Putte standing up the other night and asking what it takes for a woman senator to get recognized in the male-dominated Texas Senate? The NRA rated her a B. Of the dozens and dozens of Texas politicians the NRA rated, only six, all Democrats, got an F.

RT | June 28, 2013

Ecuador renounced trade benefits which the US threatened to revoke over the Latin American country’s consideration of harboring NSA leaker Edward Snowden. It offered $23 million a year to fund human rights education for Americans instead.