The government’s fidelity to the Constitution is never more tested than in a time of crisis. The urge to do something — or to appear to be doing something — is nearly irresistible to those whom we have employed to protect our freedom and to keep us safe. Regrettably, with each passing violent crisis — [...]
Hind Ibrahim Abeyat has spent most of her life separated from her father. “Every house in Palestine has something – someone in prison, a martyr,” the 19-year-old told IPS from her family home in Abeyat village, near Bethlehem. “For us, our father isn’t here. My friends ask me, ‘How can you live without your father?’” [...]
Apart from the Obama trip and a follow-up visit by new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Israel has not featured much in the news lately, largely because Benjamin Netanyahu was struggling to form a government in the wake of the January elections, which gave no party a simple majority. Bibi finally cobbled together a coalition shortly [...]
At least 86 Iraqis were killed and 128 more were wounded in a second day of violence. Dozens more who were killed injured during an aerial attack in Suleiman Bek and clashes in Baiji remain uncounted.
John Pilger describes reporting Margaret Thatcher's many wars, at home and abroad, from the side of her enemies - such as miners and Vietnamese children. He argues that her acolytes ensure she 'didn't really die at all'.
Found this interesting. Reuters picks it up today, but, it appears to be older news from Syria
Victor Davis Hanson’s latest piece at The National Review can only be described as delusional.
U.S. Air Force
April 24, 2013
Ramstein Airmen train with Romanian counterparts
By Airman 1st Class Hailey Haux
86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany: More than 80 Airmen from Ramstein participated in exercise Carpathian Spring in Romania April 12 through 21.
The exercise was designed for aircrew to receive upgrade training as well as building partnership capacity with Romanians.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
H.G. Wells: Selections on war
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H.G. Wells
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916)
Sadaullah Khan lost both legs and one eye in a 2009 drone strike on his house (Reuters)
U.S. Department of Defense
April 24, 2013
Deputy Defense Secretary Receives Missile Defense Award
Ground-based midcourse interceptor missile system launch
WASHINGTON: Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter received the 2013 Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Award yesterday for his contributions in advancing missile defense as a critical U.S. defense capability.
Tony Gosling, investigative radio journalist and ex-BBC reporter, joins us for the fourth interview in the World Government series; this time on the Bilderberg Group. Drawing upon his years of research, Tony traces both the official and unofficial histories of this secretive globalist organisation, and assesses its influence in the modern world. (Tony also shares his views on the BBC and mainstream journalism today.) (For show notes, please visit TheMindRenewed.com)
Tony Gosling, investigative radio journalist and ex-BBC reporter, joins us for the fourth interview in the World Government series; this time on the Bilderberg Group. Drawing upon his years of research, Tony traces both the official and unofficial histories of this secretive globalist organisation, and assesses its influence in the modern world. (Tony also shares his views on the BBC and mainstream journalism today.) (For show notes, please visit TheMindRenewed.com)
Senator Rand Paul has generated a firestorm over his apparent flip-flop on drones used by the US government to kill American citizens on US soil.
Last month, Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor was the most sweeping denunciation of the Obama administration’s liberal use of drone warfare ever in Washington.
Civil Georgia
April 24, 2013
Georgian FM Visits Brussels
Tbilisi: Georgia’s Foreign Minister, Maia Panjikidze, participated in the NATO and ISAF partner nations’ foreign ministerial meeting on Tuesday and will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday in Brussels.
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV April 23, 2013 Margaret Thatcher’s first high-profile political job came in 1970 when she was appointed to serve as education and science minister in the cabinet of the liberal Tory Edward Heath. She imposed a series of brutal budget cuts, the most infamous of which was the abolition [...]
[For a French version of this video, please click here.]
By James Corbett
corbettreport.com
April 24, 2013
It has often been observed that the war on terror is unwinnable. After all, how could a war on an abstract noun ever have its “Mission Accomplished” moment? It is, according to this wisdom, meant to drag on forever.
FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost.com editor Sibel Edmonds joins us to discuss the recent Boston bombing hysteria and the potential geopolitical implications of the American public’s “discovery” of Chechen terror. We discuss Sibel’s work exposing the US/NATO roots of so-called Chechen terrorism, and what the FSB’s involvement in this twisted tale might mean in terms of future Russian-US relations.
CLICK HERE for the mp3 audio of this interview
How did the FBI fail to keep track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev after the Russians warned us about him? This is a mystery our lawmakers are passionately interested in. The FBI blames the Russians for not providing more information after their own efforts failed to turn up anything they regarded as suspicious. Yet the Russians did [...]
Editor’s note: Brian Terrell was arrested in April of last year for protesting drone warfare at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and wrote the following from Yankton Federal Prison Camp, where he is nearing the end of a six month sentence. In the final weeks of a six month prison sentence for protesting remote [...]
The bomb attack on innocent civilians and subsequent shooting of two law enforcement officials was a reprehensible act of terrorism, but the saturation media coverage and resulting societal frenzy is unwarranted and actually harmful. Apparently, the lone surviving terrorist, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told the FBI, before receiving notice of his Miranda rights, that he and his [...]
Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 — and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as “the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people.” In his prologue, the former consultant [...]
Security personnel fought demonstrators at sit-in camps in at least two predominantly Sunni cities. The highest number of casualties occurred in Hawija. The clashes led to several curfews and road closures across the country. They also encouraged two ministers to quit their posts. Overall, at least 111 people were killed and 233 more were wounded.
Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com April 23, 2013 [download audio]
I received an email from a friend just a few hours ago that contained an important video that I find very intriguing, and may show proof positive that the two brothers that were fingered (wrongly) for the Boston Marathon bombing are indeed innocent and have been set up as the patsies to take the fall for this clear false flag operation!I want to share this important video with all of my readers right here for their viewing.... Please watch this video closely, and feel free to send me any comments in the comment section below...
I came across a most important video this morning that I surely want everyone to view... It comes courtesy of Youtube user "Thepoliticalport" and gives a fantastic perspective on what happened in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing..... Here is that video here for all of my own readers to view: NTS Notes: I do believe that this young lady is perfect in her use of colorful metaphors to make her points clear....
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Tranformation
April 23, 2013
SACT on visit to Hungary: A key NATO ally in Central Europe
Written by ACT PAO
Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), French Air Force General Jean-Paul Paloméros, visited Hungary on April 19.
Judge faces off against Fox News people who think they can pick and choose when rights to due process apply and when they don’t:
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Frank Harris: Henri Barbusse and the war against war
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Frank Harris
From his autobiography (1922)
I want to welcome my friend and ally, Whitewraithe back from the hiatus she took over the last few months...
FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost.com editor Sibel Edmonds joins us to discuss the recent Boston bombing hysteria and the potential geopolitical implications of the American public’s “discovery” of Chechen terror. We discuss Sibel’s work exposing the US/NATO roots of so-called Chechen terrorism, and what the FSB’s involvement in this twisted tale might mean in terms of future Russian-US relations.
You don’t need a PhD in international relations, or even an impressive IQ, to see that recent statements by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel stressing Israel’s right to attack Iran are just words.
The White House, intelligence community, and Defense Department see it quite differently, as was evidenced by the kerfuffle back in 2011 and 2012 between the Netanyahu and Obama administrations. Back then, Israel’s war rhetoric was at its most intense and the Obama administration responded defensively.
With the news still inundated with constant updates about the two men that were set up to be the fall guys for the Boston Marathon bombing operation, came news just yesterday of a new "terrorist plot", this time in Canada. When I first heard the reports about this "terrorist plot" last night on the Jewish controlled Canadian news outlets, I immediately called "bullshit" on the whole thing...
Show notes from Two Beers With Steve:
In this week's show we revisit a question from the last podcast, is society truly progressing? To help us answer the question we have a round table discussion. Hosts Steve and Chris are joined by previous guests Wes Bertrand of the Complete Liberty Podcast and Brett Veinotte from the School Sucks Project. Listen to the show to discover why we almost titled this episode "The Philosophy of Hookers."
Show notes from Two Beers With Steve:
In this week's show we revisit a question from the last podcast, is society truly progressing? To help us answer the question we have a round table discussion. Hosts Steve and Chris are joined by previous guests Wes Bertrand of the Complete Liberty Podcast and Brett Veinotte from the School Sucks Project. Listen to the show to discover why we almost titled this episode "The Philosophy of Hookers."
Show notes from Two Beers With Steve:In this week's show we revisit a question from the last podcast, is society truly progressing? To help us answer the question we have a round table discussion. Hosts Steve and Chris are joined by previous guests Wes Bertrand of the Complete Liberty Podcast and Brett Veinotte from the School Sucks Project.
Far from abandoning its atomic program – North Korea is now reportedly seeking international recognition, as a Nuclear armed state. The US had laid out disarmament as a condition for talks. But Pyongyang’s official newspaper says if negotiations happen – it will be between equal, nuclear armed nations.
RT discusses the North’s atomic aspirations with James Corbett, the editor of The Corbett Report.
Itar-Tass
April 23, 2013
Pacific Fleet naval force to enter Mediterranean Sea in mid-May
Russian Information Agency Novosti
April 23, 2013
Russia to Deploy Fighter Jets in Belarus – Defense Minister
MINSK: Russia plans to base fighter jets at a military airbase in Belarus, with a first wing due to arrive there later this year, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.
April 23, 2013 (LD) - As the FBI reels from what now appears to be revelations it was directly involved in the Boston Marathon bombings, a deluge of FBI "success" stories have been "serendipitously" splashed across Western headlines.
“Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” -C.S. Lewis Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans fail to realize that the world around them has been suddenly and jarringly shifted [...]
Ten years and the scripted media narrative of the Iraq War — now receding into the rear-view of our embarrassingly short American memory — is about as satisfying as the obligatory drum solo at your standard 1980’s rock concert. In other words, a milquetoast, factory-wrapped history of the war is hardening like a stale taffy [...]
“Three interrogators questioned me for three hours. I was handcuffed. They beat me, slapped me, kicked me, boxed me, accused me of throwing stones; played a video of a demonstration. I denied I was there. So again, they beat me up,” recounts Zein Abu-Mariya, 17, seated on a sofa next to dad. “They pressured my [...]
Clashes in Mosul left one soldier dead and another wounded. Three soldiers were wounded in a bombing. An explosion wounded a member of the Bani Saad council. In Baghdad, a bomb wounded three people. A blast near a mosque in Sadr City wounded one person. In Mahaweel, a man stabbed a policeman who then arrested [...]
