By Daniel McAdams | LRC | June 1, 2013

MEMO | May 31, 2013

Al-Manar | June 1, 2013

Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at demonstrators in central Istanbul, wounding scores of people and prompting rallies in other cities in the fiercest anti-government protests in years.
Thousands of demonstrators massed on streets surrounding Istanbul’s central Taksim Square while protests erupted in the capital, Ankara, and the Aegean coastal city of Izmir.

Ministry of Defence of Georgia
May 31, 2013
Swearing Allegiance
Independence Day of Georgia marked in Afghanistan
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High-ranking military servicemen from the United States, Great Britain and Jordan attended a solemn ceremony.
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NATO’s global “freedom”

This college loan rate we've been writing about is a big deal. On Wednesday we pointed out the hypocrisy of the Democratic leadership in playing politics with the issue.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
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Jules Romains: Destruction of war itself, its deletion from the pages of history

By George Nelson | The Argentina Independent | May 31, 2013

By Charles Davis | False Dichotomy | May 31, 2013

James Corbett joins Micheael Welch of The Global Research News Hour to discuss the economic, political and cultural crisis that is taking shape in Japan under the umbrella of “Abenomics.” James provides his insights on what has happened to Japan, and where this unique island nation may be headed. The Global Research News Hour, hosted by Michael Welch, airs on CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg Thursdays at 10am CDT.

The alt media has done a remarkable job of raising awareness of the Bilderberg meetings in the last few years. Now, as this year’s conference gets set to kick off in Watford, UK, this year’s protest is shaping up to be the largest one yet. But as hopeful as this growing Bilderberg awareness is, there is always the question: what other meetings, conferences and groups are flying under the radar while the alt media is fixated on the Bilderbergers? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we explore what lies beyond Bilderberg.

Tenor René Kollo sings "On Youth" from Mahler's Song of the Earth, with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein, in May 1972.

At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 27 more were wounded.

IN THIS ISSUE

• Happy Birthday Randolph Bourne!
• Top News
• Opinion and analysis

‘War is the Health of the State’

Yariv Levin: laying the legal groundwork for Israeli apartheid"If [Yariv Levin's proposed new Basic Law] will be accepted, Israel will be able to proudly hold the title of a Jewish and racist state, a unique political creation, which will certainly astonish the family of nations."-- from an editorial in Haaretz [full text availablefor subscribers and registered users only]by KenWill it really?

By Justin Doolittle | Crimethink | 5.31.2013

Today Attorney General Eric Holder held a meeting — the second of three — with journalists from high-profile organizations including the ABC, The Wall Street Journal, and POLITICO, in order to discuss how to placate them during any potential, future Department of Justice wiretapping. Or something.

The alt media has done a remarkable job of raising awareness of the Bilderberg meetings in the last few years. Now, as this year’s conference gets set to kick off in Watford, UK, this year’s protest is shaping up to be the largest one yet. But as hopeful as this growing Bilderberg awareness is, there is always the question: what other meetings, conferences and groups are flying under the radar while the alt media is fixated on the Bilderbergers? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we explore what lies beyond Bilderberg.

By JEFF KLEIN | CounterPunch | May 31, 2013

Conservative Democrat Joe Manchin is very popular in West Virginia and he is widely associated with the state's coal mining industry, not necessarily with the coal miners and their families, but with the coal mine owners and managers. When Cecil Roberts, United Mine Workers president, in the video above, yells, "They tried to bamboozle us, they tried to rob us, they tried to steal from us.," no one could have mistaken him for the state's junior senator.

The Local
May 31, 2013
Swedish parties want to get closer to Nato

Prime Minister of Sweden, Frederik Reinfeldt, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
With Sweden’s main political parties in agreement that developments in Russia are going in the wrong direction, a key defence policy advisory committee has proposed Sweden seek closer cooperation with Nato.

By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | May 31, 2013

A young Palestinian man, from the Negev, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli Police fire when an armed Israeli man attacked the Hapoalim Bank in Beersheba, on Monday May 20, stated that the Israeli Police shot and cuffed him, after instantly profiling him as the assailant.

DSCC & Tea Party agree Joe Miller should be the GOP nominee. The GOP... not so muchIn the Quinnipiac poll released yesterday, voters across the country were clear that after weeks of intense right-wing propaganda and Establishment media drummed up poutrage, the GOP Scandalpalooza isn't as important to anyone as it is to deranged Republicans.

UPDATE @ BOTTOM from Watt's Up With That?WATERLOO, ON, May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to new research from the University of Waterloo published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B this week. CFCs are already known to deplete ozone, but in-depth statistical analysis now shows that CFCs are also the key driver in global climate change, rather than carbon dioxi

By Trevor Timm | EFF | May 30, 2013

By Justin Doolittle | Crimethink | 5.30.2013

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV May 30, 2013 Where are we in the unfolding of the current world economic depression, and what can we know about the events that lie ahead? The US Memorial Day holiday weekend provides the occasion to venture some answers to these questions. The current world economic depression reached [...]

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. KDKA-1020AM, Pittsburgh with Chris Moore May 30, 2013 [download audio]

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
May 31, 2013
Junior diplomats from Pakistan and Bangladesh visit NATO
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Discussions…touched on the 2011 air campaign over Libya, the possibility of NATO getting involved in Syria, and NATO’s maritime counter-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa… [Which] highlight the need for the Alliance to develop partnerships with countries beyond the Euro-Atlantic area.
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RT | May 30, 2013

The former CIA analyst who spoke out against the agency’s use of torture says he’s been deemed a “threat to public safety” and is serving his prison sentence in a crowded jail cell despite being promised admission to a federal work camp.

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Henri Barbusse
From Light (1918)
Translated by Fitzwater Wray

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Story #1: Privacy Breach As Xbox One A ‘Twisted Nightmare’
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Obama Intelligence Agency Chairman Has His E-Mail Account Hacked
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Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar As Easy As Angry Birds

Press TV – May 30, 2013

An American judge has passed a 25-year prison sentence for the Iranian-American citizen Manssor Arbabsiar over allegations of his participation in a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US.
On Thursday, New York federal Judge John Keenan passed the maximum sentence and said Arbabsiar must be taught a lesson for his involvement in a plot that Washington cannot tolerate.

RT | May 31, 2013

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that “political games” prevented Russia from investigating the data on the use of toxic substances in Aleppo: the UN Secretariat couldn’t respond promptly to Moscow’s demand to look into the matter.

Lifelong Republican Patrick Murphy now calls himself a "New Dem"Murphy's pathetic, pleading spam yesterday:

By Charles Davis | False Dichotomy | May 29, 2013

RT | May 31, 2013

President Obama may pledge to finally close Guantanamo’s doors, but all his words are just an illusion, while prisoners are suffering at the notorious detention facility.
Human rights lawyer David Remes, who represents 17 Guantanamo detainees has been talking to RT.
RT: President Obama has made numerous promises over the years to close Guantanamo Bay prison. Is it likely to happen?

TNR | May 29, 2013

FBI Changes Story of How and Why Ibragim Todashev DiedOriginally said he had a knife - Feds now say it may have been a “broomstick” — or he "might not have had anything in his hands"Editor's Note: What follows is an unusually candid report by the New York Times -- to such an extent that in this writer's view it can be considered Revelation of the Method. While we have withheld an assessment until today, we now believe that like so many persons who had information on the conspiracy that assassinated President John F.

When Sen. John McCain went to Syria to meet with Syrian “rebel” commanders and call for sending them US arms, he snuck over the border with Turkey to the town of Azaz – the headquarters of the “Northern Storm Brigade,” and the site of a 2012 kidnapping by Syrian rebels of 11 Shi’ite pilgrims returning [...]

Imagine for a moment that in 2010, China’s leaders had announced a long-term, up to $60 billion arms deal with an extreme Islamic fundamentalist regime in the Middle East, one that was notoriously repressive to women and a well-known supporter of the Taliban.  Imagine as well that the first $30 billion part of that deal, involving 84 advanced jet fighters, was [...]

by KenMichele Bachmann and her curious withdrawal from the world of electoral politics can wait. Ditto the steady drumbeat of the Israeli march to fascism. Because I went back to work today.I got a jolt when I settled into my desk this morning, for the first time since I shut down my computer at the end of the day on Friday, April 12, with knee-replacement surgery scheduled for the following Monday.

It is a fact now that the so called "rebels" in Syria, who are actually nothing more than paid for murderous mercenary thugs by the criminals in both the US and Israel, are badly losing their war against the popular Bashar al-Assad government forces....Everywhere across Syria these murderous mercenaries are losing battle after battle, and there is a strong chance that all of Syria could be free of these mercenaries, and foreign intervention, very shortly....

Ever since I was a young man who faithfully attended church services every Sunday (whether I liked to or not), I have always been perplexed by the Christian churches calling the Jews the "Chosen People" of "God"....  To me, there is absolutely EVERYTHING wrong with that statement, in that how the heck can some group of people be considered better than everyone else?   It has always troubled me that a supposedly loving "God" that has all living creatures as his creation and that all people are his children can be BIASED in having one group of individuals better than everyone else!.....

Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

A wave of bombings continued unabated in Baghdad today, leaving 42 Dead and 129 Wounded

A bunch of slimy New Dems-- your father's Republican PartyAlmost half the Members of Congress (48%) are millionaires and most of the rest are there at the sufferance of millionaires and billionaires who finance their miserable political careers. The median estimated net worth of all 535 Members is about $966,000, although higher among the freshmen-- $1,066,515.

By Lawrence Davidson | Consortium News | May 30, 2013

Press TV – May 30, 2013

Photos shown by the father of Ibragim Todashev, a young man who was killed by FBI agents during investigations into the Boston Marathon bombings, reveal he sustained six gunshot wounds, one in the crown of his head.

Bashar Assad's interview with Al Manar has been made available by Syria Report-  Thanks kindly!Audio:Transcript and updates at the end, be sure to check that out!President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcast on Thursday Following is the full text of the interview: Al-Manar: In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Assalamu Alaikum. Bloodshed in Syria continues unabated.

The unprovoked massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales drew shock and horror from people all over the world when it happened last year.
And it should have. An American soldier, armed to the teeth, committed one of the most heinous atrocities of the war, even going so far as to stick a gun in the mouth of an infant baby and warning its mother to be quiet before ultimately pulling the trigger.