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May 22, 2013
Romania to further support Azerbaijan’s cooperation with NATO
NATO International School of Azerbaijan
Bucharest has a significant role in enhancing the relations between Azerbaijan and NATO, and it is aimed at further development of this trend.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Henri Barbusse: Selections on war
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Henri Barbusse
From Light (1918)
Translated by Fitzwater Wray
MEMO | May 21, 2013
Al-Tadamun human rights organisation said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation has renewed the administrative detention of 11 Palestinians, including a former hunger striker and two Palestinian lawmakers.
Like most Americans, President Obama's reaction to the tornado devastation is Oklahoma was to ask how we could help. He pledged "all of the resources" necessary to rebuild to the state that gave him his poorest results in November, 33% and a loss of every single county. (Cleveland County, where the devastation was the most brutal, went for Romney 59,019 to 34,701 in November.) Oklahoma has 5 congressmen, all Republicans. Jim Bridenstine, Markwayne Mullin, Frank Lucas, Tom Cole and James Lankford.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 059. From: Libertarian Parenting–A Freedomain Radio Conversation with Stephan Kinsella, FreeDomain Radio #1689 (Thursday, 1 Jul 2010): “Two libertarian parents discuss how to best raise confident and freethinking children, including discipline without aggression, spanking, Montessori education, resolving conflicts and teaching skepticism and rationality.” See also: my TLS post Stefan Molyneux’s “Libertarian Parenting” […]
For more than 100 days, detainees at American detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been on hunger strike, drawing international attention back to the prison that U.S. President Barack Obama vowed during his first presidential campaign to close down. Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who defends prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Photo courtesy of Ramzi Kassem. [...]
In order to give our readers some essential background on the lawsuit against the FBI we launched today [5/21/13], we are reprinting this column by Justin Raimondo originally published on August 11, 2011. The phone rang. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and it was my day off. Sitting in my rather neglected garden, as [...]
A move is afoot in Congress to change the 2001 law that kicked off what became the “war on terror” (although the Obama administration has dropped the now politically incorrect term). The administration, however, opposes changing the statute, because, as one Pentagon official said, “As of right now, it suits us well.” Naturally the administration [...]
Kabul – Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “The Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces. Even with details culled from news reports, these data can’t help but merge into one large statistic, something about terrible [...]
Valor stealersYesterday the House voted 390-3 on a Stolen Valor bill sponsored by Nevada Republican Joe Heck. The 3 oddballs who voted NO were Justin Amash (R-MI), Paul Broun (R-GA) and Tom Massie (R-KY). The actual Stolen Valor Act was written by then-Congressman John Salazar (D-CO) and passed in 2006 and signed by George W.
Violence continued all across central and northern Iraq. At least 60 were killed and 132 more were wounded. Also , Canada's foreign affairs minister, John Baird, announced that a Canadian was among the dead in recent attacks.
by Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgRe: "Orthodox Jewish Scholar's Profound Words about Yeshua Nazarene Space"
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
May 22, 2013
“Tyranny” in the popular imagination is something that exists safely in the past. It’s the stuff of museums and oil paintings of long dead emperors and grainy black-and-white footage of goosestepping Europeans. “Surely there are no tyrants these days,” say the masses. “Not in our modern western democracies.”
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com May 21, 2013 [download audio]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 058. I appeared on the Gene Basler Show (May 30, 2010), discussing a variety of anarcho-libertarian matters–environmentalism, nuclear power, state propaganda in government schools, class action lawsuits, reparations, how to achieve an anarcho-libertarian society, animal rights, positive rights and obligations, forced heirship, and so on (an edited transcript to appear […]
DUKASCOPY TV - GOLD DEBATE - BULLS OR BEARS ?Please find below a link to a recent Financial TV interview/debate between myself, John Hancock and Natalie Macdonald of Dukascopy TV, discussing:The recent beat down in Gold price, the reasons behind it, and the implications for the Gold price in the future.To view the broadcast, in two parts please follow the links:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhddZ--mzxghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?… Bank SA offers direct access to the Swiss Foreign E
Sunday, Bill Jarman at Daily Kos created two charts of the most vulnerable Members of the House, a chart of Democrats (above) and a chart of Republicans (below). He combined data on the nature of their districts with data on how close their last race was to come up with his conclusions. I cut each chart off at the #25 most vulnerable.
www.revisionisthistory.orgThis writer has been invited to speak at the "America's Promise Annual Bible Summer Conference" in Sandpoint, Idaho, which will be held Friday July 26 through Sunday July 28. The town of Sandpoint is located in northern Idaho, on the shore of one of most beautiful bodies of water in North America, Lake Pend Oreille (www.sandpointonline.com/rec/lakeguide/index.html).I will give two talks at the America's Promise conference.
Yes, it's going to be a long one. But worth reading.
WASHINGTON – Antiwar.com is taking the FBI to court. The website’s founder and managing editor Eric Garris, along with longtime editorial director Justin Raimondo, filed a lawsuit in federal court today, demanding the release of records they believe the FBI is keeping on them and the 17-year-old online magazine. Antiwar.com says this is one more [...]
I don't recall any L.A. Mayor going on to be President of the United States. Eric Garcetti could be the first. Today's the day that will be decided. His opponent, "former" (technically-speaking) Republican Wendy Greuel, a shill for the DWP (Department of Water and Power), is a dead end hack with a lot of endorsements from a lot of people who instinctively pick a corrupt conservative Democrat over a progressive reformer.
Press TV – May 21, 2013
Guatemala’s top court has overturned the genocide conviction of the country’s former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, ordering his trial to restart.
The move came on Monday, about ten days after a three-judge panel convicted the 86-year-old of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 80 years in prison.
by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
May 21, 2013
CNBC:Why is this corporate newsworthy now? I mean, it is nice to see mainstream, sure.But is it acceptable, presently, all these years later, for the media to bring forward just one of the many, many 9-11 "inconsistencies" ?It only reinforces the fact that the media, are nothing but the great regurgitators...Then as now. Like Iraq. Like Syria. Like Libya.
By Nadezhda Kevorkova | RT | May 21, 2013
As the Syrian army and rebels fight for control of Qusair, it is necessary to realize why the town is strategically important and vital for Shias on both sides of the border, making it a military and media battleground.
There are far more elements surrounding the situation in Qusair than first meet the eye, RT’s Nadezhda Kevorkova reveals.
War criminal Rios Montt with his pal, Ronald Reagan.
The historic conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity was annulled late last night by the country’s high court.
BBC:
John Barrow (GA), one of the shadiest and most cowardly fake-Dems in the House, is a co-chair of the reactionary Blue Dogs and a member of the corrupt, corportaely-owned New Dems. In 2012 the top 38 recipients of legalistic bribes from Big Oil & Gas were all Republicans. The 39th biggest bribe taker was John Barrow, who got $106,900.
Rustavi 2
May 21, 2013
Two senior officials to take part in Georgia-NATO commission
The Prime Minister`s Special Representative in Relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze and the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Davit Zalkaniani have left for Brussels, where they will participate in the session of the NATO-Georgia Commission.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
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Henri Troyat
From Sowing and Harvest (1953)
Translated by Lily Duplaix
Ma’an - 21/05/2013
JERUSALEM – Israeli forces demolished two homes in the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Tuesday, having earlier destroyed two Palestinian homes in al-Tur.
Witnesses said that a large Israeli police force surrounded the buildings in Jabal al-Mukabbir and closed off the area before demolishing the buildings.
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory May 21, 2013 [download audio]
A nuclear-armed Iran would not pose a fundamental threat to the United States and its regional allies like Israel and the Gulf Arab monarchies, according to a new report released here Friday by the Rand Corporation. Entitled “Iran After the Bomb: How Would a Nuclear-Armed Tehran Behave?“, the report asserts that the acquisition by Tehran [...]
I've changed the way I travel pretty drastically. My first big international sojourn was primarily in a VW van I bought in Germany and drove to North Africa and then through Europe and Asia as far as Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal... and back to Europe. It was a hectic time in my life, but I was a kid and my system handled the shocks pretty well.
For years I was guilty of not associating the crimes against humanity with the real name of the perpetrators responsible... The JEWS.... It is especially sad to see others still stuck in the false premise of calling them "Zionists", or "Globalists", or still sticking to the false "New World Order" premise....
by KenFrom Demand Progress ("Demand Progress mobilizes the public to challenge entrenched power and promote freedom") comes book-publication news that includes a "pay what you wish" option for the e-book edition.
By Greta Berlin | Palestine Chronicle | May 20 2013
Today in their weekly conversation on politics and finance, James and Dr. Stan Monteith discuss the origins of the central banking system in the United States and its current form in the Federal Reserve system. They also take calls on a range of economic and political questions and discuss the non-fear-based solution of cooperation and building of alternative local systems.
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net May 20, 2013 For a radio station near you or to listen online please check: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net May 20, 2013 VOTING NO (ALL GOP MEMBERS, 1 DEMOCRAT) • John Kline (MN) •Tom Petri (R-WI) • Buck McKeon (R-CA) • Joe Wilson (R-SC) • Virginia Foxx (R-NC) • Tom Price (R-GA) • Kenny Marchant (R-TX) • Duncan Hunter (R-Betty Ford Clinic) • Phil Roe (R-TN) • Glenn Thompson [...]
There was a time when even I used to believe that this war was against "Zionism" and not against Judaism as a whole... Those days are long past and even I have crossed the so called Rubicon in my own understanding on how evil and disgusting these monsters truly are...And how they actually picture the rest of mankind as subhuman and to be nothing more than slaves when they achieve their sick aim of world domination!To remind everyone of what we are truly up against, and to show their evil in THEIR OWN WORDS...
Bellaciao | May 20, 2013
The publication date of two different books, to be released on May 31 2013, is a coincidence that could turn out to be a fortuitous one for each, in that both deal with the same topic, the secret war in Laos that took place during the 1960’s, and whose geographical focus is the same area of northern Laos. One is a novel, The Plain of Jars, while the other is a reprint of a 1972 anthology of bombing survivor stories, Voices from the Plain of Jars.
From Frank Brodhead’s Iran War Weekly:
After almost a year of no progress in negotiations between “the West” and Iran about Iran’s nuclear program, last week’s meetings in Istanbul confirmed that there would be, indeed, no progress until at least after Iran’s presidential election, which will take place on June 14th. Whatever the outcome of the election, it is likely that the post-election resumption of talks (if any) will take place in an international landscape greatly altered by the fighting in Syria.
Andy Hounshell, John Conyers-- fighting for jobsJimmy Carter signed the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act into law on October 27, 1978. It had passed the House on March 16... 257-152. 81% of the House Democrats (233 Members) were joined by 16% of the House Republicans (24)-- there were still that many mainstream Republicans back then-- to pass one of the era's most significant pieces of legislation.
This may ultimately come as no surprise, but yet another party connected to the torture and abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib circa 2004 may get off with little more than a slight taint on their reputation.
