Press TV – May 23, 2013
French authorities are interrogating International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde in connection with a controversial payout to a French tycoon during her term as France’s finance minister.
The 57-year-old appeared in France’s Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) on Thursday.
When California's most rabidly homophobic state Senator, Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) was arrested for drunken driving and discovered with a young male prostitute in his car, I was impressed with how quickly he came to terms with how disastrous his life in the closet had been.
President Obama managed to deliver a speech on Thursday in many ways reminiscent of the rhetoric employed by candidate Obama, condemning the recklessness of the previous administration, hailing the rule of law, and citing James Madison’s warning that “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
On The Scott Horton Show yesterday, Marcy Wheeler discussed the ACLU’s lawsuit – filed on behalf of Antiwar.com – against the FBI for unwarranted surveillance; the FBI memo stating Antiwar.com might be “a threat to national security” and working “on behalf of a foreign power;” Justin Raimondo’s controversial columns after 9/11 about Urban Moving Systems and Israeli “art students” that may have piqued the FBI’s interest; the loss of major donors who worried about being investigated themselves; and evidence that the FBI thin
Daily Times
May 22, 2013
Uzbek quest for US weapons could dent Central Asia
Farooq Yousaf
Uzbek President Islam Karimov and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | May 23, 2013
Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinian children have been seriously injured, on Wednesday, in two separate incidents after being rammed by settlers’ vehicles in the West Bank districts of Hebron and Nablus.
“It’s terribly important that we see the horrors of war, because then we know what’s happening in our names,” Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney tells ReasonTV.
“If that stuff is kept secret, then we’re on our way to tyranny.”
In this ReasonTV interview, Gibney talks about Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, transparency and the horrors of the U.S. national security state.
Just 12 banks control almost 70% of total bank assets. This week at a Banking Committee hearing, Elizabeth Warren grilled Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about capping the size of the Too Big To Fail banks. He danced around her questions and sounds as full of crap as any GOP bank shill who's looking forward to his future on Wall Street. Notice in Lew's weasely, misleading answers he says "we" shouldn't do anything because we're in the middle of implementing Dodd-Frank.
There are some high expectations for Obama’s speech on national security and drone policy today. But, as I wrote yesterday, the president is unlikely to account for the most damning aspects of the drone war, like its illegality and disregard for innocent human life.
When I first read the news about this killing, my first thoughts were:Timely. Convenient. And wondered is this about tying up loose ends?Dead men tell no tales.
Press TV – May 23, 2013
An Israeli military commander says Tel Aviv is prepared to carry out an attack on Syria if the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad collapses.
On Wednesday, Israeli Major General Amir Eshel said the Tel Aviv regime might launch a sudden war on Syria should Damascus fall.
“We have to be ready for any scenario, at a few hours’ notice,” Eshel stated.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 061. This is my speech “How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism,” from the Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit: “The Economic Recovery: Washington’s Big Lie” (Oct. 9 2010, Auburn Alabama). A transcript is here; see also the article based on this talk: “How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market,” The Freeman (June 2011). The Youtube video […]
I actually watched a bit of the so called mainstream media the other night and their "reporting" of a new killing...This time done by "Islamic Extremists" in an area of Southeastern London, UK..... But I did notice how the media continued to stress that the killer was an "Islamic Extremist", and automatically I began to smell a rat....
Our longtime friend and columnist Charley Reese has died at the age of 76.
Charley’s columns were a regular feature in the early days of Antiwar.com.
Voice of Russia
May 22, 2013
NATO has never offered to cooperate with Russia – Rozoff
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Bob Menendez (D-NJ) wants to drag the U.S. into another Middle East WarThere are a lot of victims and a lot of "bad guys" in the Syrian civil war. But, from a U.S. perspective, there are no good guys. Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Bob Menendez (D-NJ) voted 15-3 to arm the rebels.
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is a phrase from the Old Testament, not the Holy Koran. So it is perhaps strange to see it used by “Islamic” extremist Michael Adeboloja after he beheaded a UK soldier on the streets of Woolwich, South East London. It is good to hear from […]
RT | May 22, 2013
An FBI agent shot Tamerlan Tsarnaev-linked triple murder suspect Ibragim Todashev in Florida, allegedly after the suspect attacked him with a knife. But Todashev’s father Abdulbaki told RT he strongly doubted his son could attack the agent first.
Sinclair Lewis once wrote that if fascism ever comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and carrying a cross. Lewis might have been describing our contemporary “political Christians,” the mostly evangelicals who believe that Washington has a manifest destiny to make the world behave while simultaneously expunging the constitution [...]
A few weeks ago, President Obama advised graduates at Ohio State University that they need not listen to voices warning about tyranny around the corner, because we have self-government in America. He argued that self-government is in and of itself an adequate safeguard against tyranny, because voters can be counted upon to elect democrats (lowercase [...]
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Or at least the story of how I tried...
Topics:
-How would mental illness be addressed in a voluntary society?
-How is it being addressed today?
-Condominium collectivism and authoritarianism
-SSRIs and depression
-positive social media campaigns
-FBI terror setups
This is an edited version the 4-4-13 live show. School Sucks is live on UStream Thursdays at 6:30pm EST.
Co-Hosts: Cory
Howie with a crackpot happily wearing attention-drawing accouterments, Pasadena, 2009 Many Republicans will tell you former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) invented the TEA Party-- Taxed Enough Already-- to help popularize the Republican scheme to eliminate progressive taxation, which they feel puts too much burden on the wealthy-- and replace it with a flat tax that would force the burden down the income scale.
Or at least the story of how I tried...Topics: -How would mental illness be addressed in a voluntary society? -How is it being addressed today?-Condominium collectivism and authoritarianism -SSRIs and depression-positive social media campaigns-FBI terror setups This is an edited version the 4-4-13 live show.
Thirty-one people were killed across Iraq, including 12 people at a brother in Baghdad,
Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com May 22, 2013 [download audio]
RT | May 22, 2013
United States Attorney General Eric Holder has informed Congress that four American citizens have been killed in Yemen and Pakistan by US drones since 2009.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 060. This is a Discussion of intellectual property and libertarianism on Ernest Hancock’s Declare Your Independence radio show (Sep. 14, 2010). I was on the show for about two hours (hours 2 and 3 of his show) discussing intellectual property. It was a pretty wide-ranging, radical discussion, but I think I made […]
RT | May 22, 2013
Afghan officials have reportedly found the footless body of a local man who went missing a half-year ago. The corpse was unearthed near the former A-Team US Special Forces base – where detainees were tortured and killed, locals claim.
Authorities alleged that the grisly discovery is directly connected to Zakaria Kandahari, a notorious wartime collaborator who Afghan officials believe has US citizenship.
Republican voters seem more and more insane lately-- like in the last decade. No one believes in all the trumped up "scandals" Republican congressional obstructionists are pushing out to a media desperate for fireworks except GOP voters.
It has indeed been a while since I put up an article to take a shot at the fraud known as man-made "Global Warming". I figured that this was an appropriate time considering the very long and very cold winter that we have just been subjected to here in North America.. That alone should have finally convinced the most ardent "Global Warming" supporters that they have been taken for fools and that the entire "Global Warming" stunt is a massive scam...I had put up many articles already at this blog where I laid it out plain and simple that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is absolutely NOT a so called "G
In the aftermath of public revelations that the Obama Justice Department snooped on scores of AP journalists and accused Fox News reporter James Rosen of criminal acts for seeking out statements from a State Department official, there is a lot of much-needed talk about the so-called “chilling effect,” especially in the context of the unprecedented number of whistleblowers prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act under the Obama administration.
Stars and Stripes
May 22, 2013
US to continue supporting French air force ops in Mali
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As soon as French President Francois Hollande announced his country’s military intervention, the Armee de l’Air (air force) started bombing rebels in strategic locations across the country. Since then, the 351st has flown more than 200 missions and provided more than 8.8 million pounds of fuel to the French.
Two related updates at the bottom: scroll down Consider this an update on the post from yesterday: Syria: Turkeys' military escapades; Israeli jeep enters Syrian territory & moreConcerning the taking, by the Syrian Army, of a strategic town near LebanonThis town has got to be extremely important, judging by today's newsNATO merc footage:Syria opposition calls for reinforcements in embattled Qusair
James takes you on a tour of the latest Corbett Report DVD: The Data DVD Volume 3 (2010). This two-disc set contains every podcast episode, interview, article and video published on the website in 2010. Clocking in at 15 GB, the set contains hundreds of hours of media on two data DVDs that can be played in any Mac or PC DVD player. Buy your copy today and help support the alternative media.
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"It's official: Governor Christie is a card carrying member of the Flat Earth Society. We know that climate change is causing more severe weather, like Hurricane Sandy. But Governor Christie ignores overwhelming scientific evidence in favor of right-wing ideology. It's no surprise coming from a governor who's rolled back environmental protections, defunded investment in clean energy and withdrawn our state from a regional effort to reduce greenhouse gases.
Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists have found. The surprise discovery may point to a new way of tackling this increasingly hard-to-treat infection, the US study authors from Yeshiva University An estimated 650,000 people worldwide have multidrug-resistant TB.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts joins us once again to discuss his latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West. We talk about the failure of outdated macroeconomic theories to describe the current economic context.
President Obama is scheduled to give a speech tomorrow at the National Defense University on national security and counterterrorism policy. Many are eagerly awaiting an unprecedented moment of candor, expecting the president at least to clarify certain ‘ambiguities’ (read: utter lack of transparency) on the legal and moral approach to his war on terror.
While the president may mention the drone war, I predict he will fail to address the most hard-hitting questions about its (il)legality.
A few weeks ago Matt Taibbi said in a 14 page article in Rolling Stone said that the Conspiracy Theorists were right and that every market was rigged by the bankers. And that included interest rates. commodities, Credit Default Swaps and the gold and silver markets. This has been confirmed by the courts and the securities markets. BP and Shell are being investigated in Europe for rigging oil prices. If the CEO of a small company were arrested, the stock price would go down. But BP and Shell stock prices remain unchanged.
Mehr News Agency | May 22, 2013
TEHRAN – Iranian car maker Iran Khodro will establish an assembly line with the capacity of 30,000 units per year in the Iraqi city of Iskandariya by the next month.
Preliminary agreements were made three years ago, IRNA quoted Iran Khodro deputy director for exports Abdol’azim Sa’dian as saying.
Iran Khodro has been exporting its products to Iraq for about a decade, he said.
