By Julie Webb-Pullman | Palestine Chronicle | May 6 2013
While the United States peddled the threat of chemical weapon use to justify its arming of the ‘opposition’ in Syria, Israel destroyed a chemical research facility near Damascus which was allegedly developing such weapons – thus unleashing every single potentially-poisonous particle on the Syrian public.
Last week, several polls came out assessing U.S. public opinion on intervention in Syria. According to the Huffington Post poll, Americans oppose U.S. air strikes on Syria by 3-to-1. They oppose sending arms to the rebels by 4-to-1. They oppose putting U.S. ground troops into Syria by 14-to-1. Democrats, Republicans and independents are all against [...]
WASHINGTON — In a burst of springtime whimsy, the principle of a private Christian school in Seattle last week looked at the bright, warm forecast and decided to call off school for a ‘Sun Day.” Principal Bob Sampson said he wanted to give students some time to “re-energize and enjoy the weather,” according to a [...]
In this week’s appearance on Radio Liberty, James and Dr. Stan discuss a range of issues, from the rebound in the gold markets over the past month to the illusory S&P 500 run-up to the statistical manipulation at the heart of the so-called recovery. They also take listener calls on a range of economic and geopolitical issues.
On Friday, Israel attacked Syria. On Sunday, they launched multiple additional attacks, destroying several military targets in the Syrian capital city of Damascus and killing 42 people.
Director Kathryn Bigelow’s cinematic valentine to dogged CIA sisters doin’ it and taking out Osama Bin Laden for themselves, Zero Dark Thirty, was controversial long before it was released last December. Initially there were rumors the film would be released two months before the 2012 election, ideally placed to give Obama a Bin Laden-killing bump.
RT | May 6, 2013
Fifteen people died and more than 200 others were injured following an explosion at a West, Texas fertilizer plant last month, and lawyers for the facility now admit that the plant’s owners aren’t prepared to pay for the damages.
RT | May 6, 2013
The UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released papers under the freedom of information act, revealing that radioactive materials have gone missing from businesses, hospitals and universities more than 30 times in the past 10 years.
U.S. Department of Defense
May 6, 2013
NATO Secretary General Warns Europe on Defense Cuts
By Nick Simeone
WASHINGTON: NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned today that further cuts in defense spending by European nations risk reducing the continent’s defense and security to “hot air,” turning the alliance into what he called a “global spectator” rather than a real force on the world stage.
Bolivian President Evo Morales recently announced he has expelled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), saying such “institutions” “continue to conspire.”
USAID, thanks to lots of propaganda, is thought to be a wonderful, almost charitable arm of the U.S. government that aims to promote democratic institutions and economic progress. Instead, it pushes through a staunch, pro-American agenda often at the expense of democratic institutions.
Israel does play the pity card regularly. And appears to playing it again today with the arrest of some 93 year old alleged guard.
By Avery Kelly | The Argentina Independent | May 6, 2013
Ma’an – 06/05/2013
BETHLEHEM – 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.
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved a bill which outlines a framework for implementing the Prawer-Begin plan, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel said.
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. SoulShakeDownDC May 6, 2013 [download video] [download audio]
Voice of Russia
May 6, 2013
Syria-Israel: on the eve of war?
Konstantin Garibov
Syrian missiles have been directed against Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories after Israeli warplanes struck several military facilities near the Syrian capital Damascus late last week.
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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
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com April 30, 2013 NOTE: This episode has some audio defects [download audio]
By Sibel Edmonds | Boiling Frogs Post | May 5, 2013
As more and more studies demonstrating the corrosive effect of psychopathy on government, finance, and business emerge, researchers have begun to explore how our society itself has been molded in the psychopaths’ image. Now, one of those researchers, Stefan Verstappen of ChinaStrategies.com, shares his insights on psychopathy in modern culture.
RT | May 05, 2013
Israel’s reported second air strike on Syria in two days targeted a facility just outside the capital. But there was no escalation toward Israel to justify the attack – and Tel Aviv is only trying to drag the US into the conflict.
That’s the view of journalist and Middle East expert Ali Rizk, who told RT he believes the actions are Israel’s attempt to influence US Middle East policy.
So-called "red line" both drawn and then crossed by US-Saudi-Israeli axis and their terrorist proxies. May 6, 2013 (LD) - The reasoning behind recent US-Israeli attacks on Syria has been undermined further as the UN reveals Western-backed terrorists, not the Syrian government, deployed sarin gas during the 2 year conflict. Reuters reported in their article, "U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator," that:
One of President Obama’s greatest “accomplishments” has been creating fissures within the antiwar/progressive community in the United States by talking like a progressive politician, but acting in most cases as a conservative one. Consider, for example, his domestic policy. It has helped Wall Street far more than anything the President is willing to do for [...]
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country, a British statesman famously wrote some 400 years ago. That is true, of course, for all diplomats. The question is whether the diplomat lies only to others, or also to himself. I am asking this these days when I [...]
For well over a year, the US has pursued a policy of regime change in Syria. This policy is rooted in Washington’s broader regional interest: maintaining obedient client states and eliminating states that challenge US hegemony. More specifically, the US is interested in breaking the “Iranian sphere of influence” in which Syria is key. In [...]
It’s seems counterintuitive, to say the least. Indeed, it seems quite mad. And yet we now have all the evidence we need to point to a de facto Israeli alliance with Al Qaeda. The bombing of Damascus suburbs by Israeli jets – purportedly in order to prevent the Syrians from supplying Hezbollah with long range [...]
IN THIS ISSUE
This week’s top news:
Hagel: US Considering Arming Syria Rebels: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel became the first US official to admit that the administration is "rethinking" its previous decision not to arm Syria’s rebels directly, though he insisted that no decision had been made and this was just one option being considered.
From Frank Brodhead’s Iran War Weekly. Please read the entire report at WarisACrime.org.
In Baghdad, one person was killed and six more were wounded when a bomb exploded near the Zein al-Abideen mosque. A bomb at a coffee shop killed three people and wounded 13 others in Jamiaa. Mortar fire that immediately followed the bombing killed three people and wounded 14 more. Gunmen in Mahmoudiya killed the mayor [...]
Press TV – May 5, 2013
United Nations investigators say they have found testimony from victims and medical staff that shows militants have used the nerve agent sarin in Syria, which has been classified as a weapon of mass destruction in UN Resolution 687.
By Alison Weir | MEMO | May 1, 2013
Thirteen years ago I knew very little about Israel-Palestine. Like most Americans, this seemed to be a distant, confusing conflict that had little to do with me. I was unaware –again, like most Americans – that American taxpayers give Israel over $8 million per day, more than we give to any other nation.
Fars News Agency | May 5, 2013
TEHRAN – Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff, believes that the chemical weapons used in Syria may have been an Israeli “false flag” operation aimed at implicating Bashar Assad’s regime.
Time for my Sunday rant, and there are many things to talk about....First and foremost... We now see the sick and deadly game that the criminals in both the psychotic and terrorist state of Israel, as well as their puppets in the United States government, are playing when it comes to Syria... These sick bastards could not get their nice little war started by promoting the lie that Assad has used "chemical weapons" on his people, simply because that same false and tired claim was made to get the US war on Iraq off and running and people are no longer fooled...
"Reports of the attack raised the possibility that Israel, even if merely intending to pursue its own national security goals, could end up providing a psychological and perhaps military assist to Syrian rebels, who over the last several weeks have faced losses in a series of government offensives around Damascus and the city of Homs to the north...Syrian rebels...benefit from the damage to key military structures from the attacks — said by opposition activists to have hit bases of elite troops as well as weapons stores...” --ANNE BARNARD, JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNER
A recent poll said that 29% of Americans thought an armed rebellion might be necessary within the next few years. Another 18% declined to say yes or no so more than 29% see an armed revolt in America’s future.
Deutsche Welle
May 5, 2013
Eight NATO soldiers, one German, killed in Afghanistan attacks
The German military says one of its soldiers was killed and another wounded in an insurgent attack in northern Afghanistan on Saturday. A total of eight NATO soldiers were killed in separate attacks on the same day.
The early Sunday am attack on Damascus was rejoiced by NATO's Islamist ArmySyria makes the very obvious and correct claim that this attack was done in coordination with NATO's Islamist ArmyIsraeli strikes on Syria 'co-ordinated with terrorists'
By Damian Lataan | May 05, 2013
It’s clear that Israel’s strategy is to use the Syrian Civil War to deliberately provoke Hezbollah. The provocation is designed to goad Hezbollah into retaliation for over-flying Lebanon while on their way to apparently destroy weapons that the Israelis say are bound for Hezbollah.
Al-Akhbar | May 5, 2013
Jewish settlers raided a West Bank village near Ramallah on Saturday night, attacking several houses and prompting clashes between residents and Israeli forces, Ma’an news agency reported.
By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | May 05, 2013
Sunday at dawn, May 5 2013, Syrian sources reported that the Israeli Air Force bombarded a Syrian army center north of Damascus, causing extensive damage.
In this interview recorded on April 25, 2013, Pippa Jones of iTalkFM 97.1 in Gibraltar talks to James Corbett about the Boston bombings, the conspiracy paradigm, and how people are being divided and ruled via events like these.
The US feigns disassociation with Hitlerian act of Israeli aggression - as was planned since 2007.
Two policemen were killed and a woman was wounded in a bombing in Tal Afar. In Mosul, gunmen killed a lawyer and wounded his companion. Gunmen killed a university dean in Falluja. A bomb in Hawija wounded a Sahwa leader and three bodyguards. In Baquba, gunmen wounded a policeman. Another policeman was wounded in a [...]
Today, I am really sickened to see that the long planned war on Syria by the criminals in the United States, Israel, and NATO may finally happen.... It does seem that according to this report from Reuters News Service at www.reuters.com, that the Israelis are carrying out bombing missions against targets in Damascus, Syria, causing explosions in the capital itself...And the Syrian government is correctly blaming the sick criminals in Israel for these horrendous unprovoked attacks....
Pajhwok Afghan News
May 4, 2013
ISAF loses 7 troops to explosion, insider attack
By Mohammad Younus Naseh
KABUL: The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) lost seven service members in two separate attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday – a deadly day for the foreign troops.
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Jules Romains
From Verdun: The Prelude (1938)
Translated by Gerard Hopkins
