Copperhead, which Ron Maxwell directed from my adaptation of Harold Frederic’s novella, opens in theaters June 28, with a second wave of openings July 19. You can find where it’s playing at copperheadthemovie.com. Herewith my introduction to the newly published edition containing Frederic’s story and my screenplay; it’s available at dzancbooks.org/copperhead.
Eric appears on RT to discuss the latest developments in the Snowden case, Eric explains some of the critical details and provides his analysis of the geopolitical conflicts emerging in the case, particularly with regard to the US relationship with both Russia and China.
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Eric is featured in this week’s “Inside Out” on the issue of the outsourcing of jobs. Eric explains how the ideology of free trade has precipitated this labor crisis, and that most Americans, especially young people, are bearing the burden of the economic crisis. Additionally, Eric traces the root of the problem directly to the ruling class and their elected servants who are little more than representatives of capital and finance. Highlighting a few marginalized groups, he critiques the notion that Obama’s policies are intended to do anything other than serve Wall St. and the 1%.
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by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
June 26, 2013
Justice Ginsburg, who, like Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, went to my high school, James Madison in Brooklyn, knows what she's talking about when she says the decision by the 5 right-wing Republican activists on the Supreme Court, each of whom is also a corporate whore, produced an anti-democratic ruling stinking of "hubris." She pointed out how illogical their nakedly partisan arguments were:
RT | June 25, 2013
A wave of outraged comments have swept the German media after it was revealed Monday that British secret Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) wiretapped the dataflow of Germany’s major transatlantic cable.
Published on June 21, 2013
Clare Daly in Irish Parliament: https://twitter.com/ClareDalyTD
Email her at http://www.claredaly.ie/contact/
Protests creating an impression of democracy at work? Reality being a reordering out of chaos?A distraction of the masses while the elites aided by sycophants do their dirty work?The protests continue in Turkey. And, Obama continues relations with Erdogan in Turkey.Not a surprise.The push for war in Syria was the main topic, though Obama found time to pay lip service to non violent free-expression.
Ministry of Defence of Georgia
June 26, 2013
North Atlantic Council (NAC) visit to Georgia/Meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission 2013
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Jules Romains: Selections on war
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Jules Romains
From Verdun: The Prelude (1938)
Translated by Gerard Hopkins
Shocking new revelations come as activists prepare to sue the U.S. military for unlawful spying
Carl and Ed, Massachusetts progressivesOnly weak minded and self-deluded Republicans were surprised by Ed Markey's healthy win yesterday in the Massachusetts special election to fill John Kerry's old Senate seat. Markey has been the foremost champion of climate change amelioration of any elected official in the entire federal government.
RT | June 26, 2013
Jeff Olson, the 40-year-old man who is being prosecuted for scrawling anti-megabank messages on sidewalks in water-soluble chalk last year now faces a 13-year jail sentence. A judge has barred his attorney from mentioning freedom of speech during trial.
RT | June 25, 2013
Two Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence say the National Security Agency provided “inaccurate” and “misleading” information to the American public about the government’s vast surveillance operations.
RT | June 25, 2013
A former cybersecurity advisor to President George W. Bush says a sophisticated computer hack could have been the cause of the automobile accident that claimed the life of journalist Michael Hastings last week in Los Angeles.
Photojournalist and roving correspondent Nile Bowie joins us today from his home base in Kuala Lumpur, which is getting set to host the next round of talks in the highly-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. We talk about Bowie’s work exposing the TPP and its secrecy, the worrying provisions contained in the deal as it stands, and the wave of opposition that is rising up against it in many of the signatory countries where it remains deeply unpopular.
Syria in-depth analysis: Where the anti-Assad coalition went wrong
Damascus has seen mass demonstrations in support of the regime
Sonia Mansour Robaey for RT
The Obama administration’s decision to directly supply weapons to the Syrian opposition may end up torpedoing the possibility of a political settlement. It will almost certainly accelerate the chaos spreading from the almost three-year old civil war. It will also align Washington with one of the most undemocratic alliances on the planet, and one that [...]
Amid all the drama over Edward Snowden‘s flight from "justice" – the media stakeout at a Moscow airport, the smear campaign aimed not only at Snowden but at Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke the PRISM/eavesdropping story, and the obsessive media focus on Snowden as a personality – the really interesting aspect of all this [...]
During almost every media interview on the Edward Snowden leak story, the person being interviewed (including me) is almost always asked whether Snowden should be considered a whistleblowing hero or a dishonorable traitor to the nation. The question probably arises from American society’s focus on the individual, leading to a celebrity-loving culture, and the black [...]
Oh no, he's back! (Sorry, no penis pictures available.)by KenHowie will have quite a lot to say about the Supreme Court ruling in the morning, and I'm happy to give the subject a pass. I'd probably just fulminate, and probably calumniate -- the Five Supreme Lunks, that is. (Howie's going to have some point-by-point on them too.)Instead I thought I'd retreat into the political weirdosphere. From our local online news emporium DNAinfo.com this evening:
The World economies are indeed teetering right now on total collapse... It is so sad that nations that have foolishly adopted the criminal Jewish Usury debt system have not learned from history, which clearly shows that any nation that bases its financial system on Usury has always collapsed! What we have right now is history repeating itself...
Today's attacks focused on a group of Turkmen demonstrators and football players. Shi'ite pilgrims and security officials were also targeted. At least 53 people were killed and 142 were wounded across the country.
In this remarkable conversation, Sibel Edmonds reflects on Russ Tice’s recent revelations to Boiling Frogs Post and The Corbett Report that the NSA has wiretapped top government officials for years. Edmonds discusses from her own experience how the FBI collects dirt on Congressman and public officials for use as political leverage.
James Corbett joins Doug Owen of BlackListed Radio for a wide-ranging discussion on Snowden, the NSA spying revelations, the shadow state, government blackmail, the technology of enslavement, transhumanism and the future of humanity.
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Part two in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth.
Topic:Part two in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth.This installment deals primarily with both phases of The Red Scare (1919-1921 and 1947-1957), related trends in American politics (xenophobia, prohibition, isolationism, hyper-racism, paranoia), new uses of law and appeals to authority to control speech and the public mind, and some heavy hints of another dark conspiracy that began to overtake America e
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Part two in a series of shows inspired by recent current events involving the NSA, Prism, Edward Snowden and the barrage of leading questions from the mainstream media about the government's "legal" power to censor or silence the truth.
Within his July 1 Time cover story, you almost wish Joe Klein would just say it — how he yearns for one of those national service programs always suggested as the answer, at least among the chewy authoritarian center, to all of America’s problems.
Jack Blood joins James Corbett for their monthly conversation on the latest news and headlines from the United States and around the world. This month’s they cover the Michael Hastings assassination and the Snowden/NSA case. We also discuss optimism in the face of a never-ending torrent of bad news, and the possibility of people waking up and taking positive action to change society for the better.
We are already in World War III and in a Global Depression. The US government admits to sending American troops as either combatants or advisers in 74 countries. Comments from Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Stenny Hoyer and Republicans John Boehner and Peter King calling Edward Snowden a traitor reveals the nature of this war.
The war is against you because by declaring Snowden a traitor they are admitting that anyone defending the public is siding with the enemy of the government at a time when war is being waged against us.
Voice of Russia
June 24, 2013
Snowden would be better off in Cuba, chance of coup d’état is much less than elsewhere – Blum
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Voice of Russia
June 23, 2013
U.S. courts Taliban to keep nine bases in Afghanistan – Zalmay Gulzad
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Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com June 25, 2013 [download audio]
Interfax
June 25, 2013
Russian Federation Council member anticipates new leaks concerning U.S. security services
MOSCOW: The drama involving NSA leaker Edward Snowden and the disclosure of classified information regarding the operation of U.S. special services will not be the last of its kind, says Igor Morozov, a veteran of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and currently a member of the Federation Council international affairs committee.
Two polls were released Monday-- and both auger terrible news for the GOP. One, by the reputable Pew organization trumpets the broad national support for comprehensive immigration reform embodied in the Gang of Eight proposal.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
June 25, 2013
Exercise Anatolian Eagle is a huge success for the E-3A Component
Story by Staff Sgt. R. Michael Longoria
Public Affairs Office, E-3A Component
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Hundreds of participates [sic] from several nations, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and The United Arab Emirates, attended the exercise.
Israel approves plan to displace Negev Bedouins
A photo of Al-Araqib in the southern Negev, one of many Bedouin villages not recognized by Israel. (MaanImages/Eva Pilipp)
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israel approved a draft law on Monday to implement a plan which will displace thousands of Bedouins in the Negev desert, an Israeli rights group said.
Martin Wolf's autopsy of Europe's Austerity Agenda for the New York Review of Books doesn't even mention Paul Ryan. But I hope Democrat Rob Zerban, who nearly beat Ryan in 2012 and will take him on again next year, is reading it and absorbing it.
I am reading the heartbreaking suicide note of Daniel Somers, a US combat veteran who spent several years fighting in Iraq. Mr. Somers was only 30 years old when he took his own life, after being tormented by the horrific memories of what he experienced in Iraq. He wrote:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 25, 2013
NATO and Colombia open channel for future cooperation
The first response to Dave Swanson’s “Drones for Christ” report in Sojourners magazine this month is to rub your eyes. This can’t be real, it’s too satirical — a Christian university, sitting on $1 billion of assets in the conservative belt of old Virginia, run by a drawling evangelical preacher with big friends in Washington and the governor’s mansion, offering a concentration in Unmanned Aviation Systems (aka drones)? Calling Slim Pickens!
