Press TV – June 12, 2013
The US has declared “sanctions” on four alleged “ambassadors” of the Lebanese Islamic resistance group Hezbollah, citing the movement’s role in pushing back foreign-backed insurgents in Syria as well as its rising influence in West Africa.
In the video above, from Tuesday evening, Rachel discusses Republican Party self-interest. She's a smart gal but she can't get her head around how exactly it is self-interest-- considering so many women vote nowadays-- for the Republican Party, as a party, to go so conspicuously out of its way to alienate and further alienate women as a class of people. If you ever had any doubt that the Republicans are waging a war against women-- dictated by their crazy conservative and misogynistic patriarchal base-- just watch the clip.
The firestorm of media coverage over a whistleblower’s revelation — that the National Security Agency (NSA) likely has been monitoring the telephone calls of most Americans and is likely reading some Americans’ emails, photos, and other electronic data without a search warrant when trying to catch suspected terrorists (a program called “Prism”) — has become [...]
Before the U.S. government and the mainstream media engage in the customary character assassination of truth-teller Edward Snowden – a fate endured by Pfc. Bradley Manning and others – let’s get on the record the motives he gave for releasing the trove of information on intrusive eavesdropping by the National Security Agency. Why would someone [...]
Okay, give them this much: their bloodlust stops just short of the execution chamber door. The military prosecutors of the case against Bradley Manning, presumably with the support of the Obama administration, have brought the virulent charge of “aiding the enemy” against the Army private who leaked state secrets. Yet they claim to have magnanimously [...]
When whistleblowers expose government wrongdoing and abuses, the procedure is always the same: the regime’s defenders focus on the whistleblower’s alleged personality defects and smear him within an inch of his life. They did it with Dan Ellsberg, they did it with Julian Assange, they did it with Bradley Manning, and that all too familiar [...]
At least 22 people were killed and 13 more were wounded in the latest round of Iraq violence.
When the first reports came out last week of ANOTHER mass "shooting" in America... This time at Santa Monica College in California... I began to wonder and to have my suspicions... Considering that the criminal Jewish elite were already doing their most evil in previous false flags in America such as the Aurora Colorado "Shooting", the Sandy Hook "Massacre", and the Boston Massachusetts "Bombing", I had hoped that Americans were not being played as suckers again with this Santa Monica California shooting....
By Dave Lindorff | This Can’t Be Happening | June 11, 2013
A lot of people in the US media are asking why America’s most famous whistleblower, 29-year old Edward Snowden, hied himself off to the city state of Hong Kong, a wholly owned subsidiary of the People’s Republic of China, to seek at least temporary refuge.
RT | June 11, 2013
Canada does not use the US NSA’s top secret surveillance PRISM program, officials revealed. Instead, it has a spying platform of its own that it claims manages to distinguish between domestic and international telephone and internet data collected.
The Communication Security Establishment (CSE) spokesman separated the National Security Agency and the Canadian surveillance program.
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com June 11, 2013 [download audio]
...and hints that Traditional Catholicism ("restorationist groups") has no futurehttp://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/06/pope-to-latin-american-religio… On June 6, 2013, the Pope received the presiding board of the CLAR (the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women - Confederación Latinoamericana y Caribe?a de Religiosos y Religiosas) -- three nuns and three priests.
Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on CNN tonight to tell Piers Morgan why he objects to the NSA surveillance program. Morgan directly asked Paul if he would have actually ended surveillance programs if he were president. Paul said he would still want intelligence gathering, but it would be done in a more transparent way, maintaining that the current surveillance program are unquestionably unconstitutional. He directly told NSA defenders that they are simply “justifying dictatorship.”
I think a generic Republican-- which is, after all, what they all are anyway-- could beat Hillary Clinton in Texas, Georgia, Kentucky and South Carolina in 2016. But those will probably be the battleground states if she runs. That's really bad news for the GOP, which would prefer that the battleground states be Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Colorado and New Hampshire, all states Clinton will probably have in the bag going into the election.
With all the reports coming out now about how the NSA has been purposely spying on every American citizen via their phones, social media, and even their personal e-mails, I am indeed shocked that more American citizens are not up in arms about this horrendous action by their own criminal government? Is America at the point now that its own citizens are hopelessly dumbed down by chemicals and the droning effect of their Talmud-Visions that they are unwilling to act to defend their freedoms and liberties? I do wonder...I came across the following article from the "From The Trenches World Re
By Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer | ProPublica | June 10, 2013
Last week saw revelations that the FBI and the National Security Agency have been collecting Americans’ phone records en masse and that the agencies have access to data from nine tech companies.
Don't forget the first post for today either.....Syria Conflict: A brief military analysis
Heralding the Rise of Russia-Russo-Armenian Relations, Eurasian Geopolitics and Combating Western Globalism. This blog has many geopolitical articles. Always enlightening. Perhaps controversial? Depending on your own thoughts, feelings and knowledge regarding geopolitical situations. The analysis on Syria is very good. Heralding the Rise of Russia is in the blogroll should you wish to continue checking them out!
In this special edition of The Boiling Frogs Post Eyeopener report, James introduces new members of the irate minority to the problem, as well as the false hopes (and real solutions) that are available to address that problem.
For more information on the abuses of the NSA, please visit:
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It shouldn’t be easy for a group of Antiwar.com writers and supporters to just walk in and dish about foreign policy at the Left Forum, which claims to be the biggest annual convocation of Leftwing activists in the country.
But it was — easy, that is. In fact, some of us probably made it harder for the Leftwing participants at the New York City confab to prove to us that that they weren’t just humanitarian “imperialists” in disguise. Imperialists – that’s a dirty word in these parts, on any side of the aisle.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 11, 2013
Strengthening IMS-EUMS complementarity
NATO International Military Staff (IMS) and European Union Military Staff (EUMS) Directors convened today at NATO Headquarters for the first high-level military conference of 2013.
Over the weekend, the L.A. Times reported on a Park City, Utah GOP big donor retreat hosted by Mitt Romney. The big donors are frustrated that their party has veered off the track-- keeping wealthy people's taxes low and undermining business regulations-- so gigantically into social issues.
Xinhua | June 10, 2013
CARACAS — Venezuelan authorities have detained two groups of Colombian paramilitary members allegedly plotting against Venezuela’s government, Venezuela’s Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace Miguel Rodriguez Torres said Monday.
Press TV – June 11, 2013
The US State Department may have hushed up allegations of misconduct by its employees worldwide that range from soliciting prostitutes to getting narcotics from a drug ring, a report says.
The CBS News uncovered on Monday a memo that showed the department’s security force, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), tried to cover up sex and drugs charges against agents and diplomats working for the State Department.
In Washington, where the state of war and the surveillance state are one and the same, top officials have begun to call for Edward Snowden’s head. His moral action of whistleblowing — a clarion call for democracy — now awaits our responses. After nearly 12 years of the “war on terror,” the revelations of recent [...]
It may be ironic, that as one major whistleblower stands trial on espionage charges, another stands before television cameras to declare his deed to the world, most assuredly sealing his own fate as a free man for some time to come. But it should come as no surprise. Bradley Manning, and to the same extent, [...]
When Boehner appointed a congenital liar and crook like Darrell Issa, a common street thug who robbed, cheated and burned his way into the ranks of multimillionaires, to head the House Oversight Committee, he knew exactly what he was doing. Issa's job was to drum up witch hunts and help discredit government and discredit Obama. He's been busy.
A new petition at the White House’s portal is calling for President Obama to immediately an unconditionally pardon Edward Snowden for leaking the truth about the NSA’s huge overarching surveillance of everyday Americans.
The number of attacks surged dramatically today, with Mosul and northern Iraq taking the brunt of the violence. Overall, at least 94 Iraqis were killed and 289 more were wounded.
James Corbett joins Dr. Stan Monteith for his regular weekly appearance on Radio Liberty. This week James and Dr. Stan discuss the sea change in public opinion that is happening right now, from the Bilderberg's blown cover to the public's recent awareness of NSA spying. We also take calls on the potential for good and the potential pitfalls in this latest stage of the global awakening.
Patrick Chappatte [click to enlarge]"For more than three years some of us have fought the policy elite's damaging obsession with budget deficits, an obsession that led governments to cut investment when they should have been raising it, to destroy jobs when job creation should have been their priority.
By Ibrahim al-Amin | Al-Akhbar | June 10, 2013
A great number of Hezbollah’s opponents have transformed into sworn enemies bent on the group’s destruction. This could signal a confrontation, whose theater will be my small country or my bigger one.
Many victims could fall. And since the situation is extremely dangerous, I find myself, once again, compelled to attempt an explanation of Hezbollah’s current reality.
Agence France-Presse
June 11, 2013
‘Dutch still store US nukes’: former PM
B61s
THE HAGUE: The Netherlands continues to store some 22 tactical US nuclear bombs at a southern air base where they were brought during the height of the Cold War, a former Dutch prime minister has revealed.
Obama the gun grabber is more then happy to send lethal weapons to hired killers in Syria, so they can kill more innocent SyriansAnd there is the double standard. The hypocrisy of the US government. They will take guns away from law abiding citizens in the US. But! The US will happily send off more additional lethal weapons to hired killers to kill innocent SyriansMeanwhile Assad is giving weapons to the Syrian people to fight off their invaders.Hm.
2 NJ pols who play on the same team-- the Wall Street teamThere are two excellent candidates running for what was Frank Lautenberg's New Jersey Senate seat: progressive congressman Frank Pallone and progressive congressman Rush Holt. Holt's career-long Progressive crucial vote score is the best of any New Jersey congressman: 91.88. For 2013 his score is 100, a distinction shared by only 15 Members.
The leaks about America’s ever growing (and already ridiculously large) surveillance state came with a handy list of nine companies that joined the program. Those companies are, per the NSA’s own leaked data, giving the NSA direct access to their servers and, according to officials, the PRISM Nine also went out of their way to redesign their systems to easier facilitate the NSA’s spying on Americans.
Predictably, uptight Military Industrial Complex shills like Peter King (R-NY) and Mike Rogers (R-MI), were on the Sunday TV gab fests howling for the blood of Edward Snowden, the 29 year old ex-NSA employee/technical engineer for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden came forward and outed himself as the source of Glenn Greenwald's explosive exposé about NSA domestic spying in The Guardian last week.
In this in-depth interview, Professor Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.ca joins us to discuss the failure of the NATO-led, Israeli/Qatari/Saudi/Turkey supported terrorist insurgency in Syria. We talk about the implications of this failure and where things are headed from hear. We also discuss the media’s complicity in the war crimes committed in Libya, Syria, and elsewhere, and the role of the alternative media in countering that disinformation.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
June 10, 2013
ATTACKS FROM CYBERSPACE…NATO’S NEWEST AND POTENTIALLY BIGGEST THREAT
“From the Cockpit”
Phil Breedlove
General, USAF
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander, U.S. European Command
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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
