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The Indian Ocean Region is Going to Heat Up
In the complex political picture that looms in the Indian and Pacific region, the various processes that are taking place in all of its geographical elements deserve attention. At the same time, it makes sense once again to designate the special significance of the sea band between the coast of the PRC and the so-called ‘First Island Line’. However, there are increasing signs of an increase in the role and region of the Indian Ocean (IOR). -
U.S. Foreign Policies Remain Unchanged Since 1948
Ever since 1948, the U.S. Government’s foreign policies have been consistently focused upon breaking up the Soviet Union and turning its Warsaw Pact allies against the Soviet Union; and, then, once that would be (and was) accomplished, turning any remaining allies of Russia against Russia; and, then, once that will have been accomplished, conquering Russia. Since at least 2006, U.S.[Read More...]
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New Defense Strategy: War With Great Nations And Arms Race
Co-Written by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers This week, following the recent announcement of a new National Defense Strategy that focuses on conflicts with great powers and a new arms race, the Pentagon announced an escalation of nuclear weapons development. The United States’ military is spread across the world, including several dangerous conflict areas that could develop into an all-out[Read More...]
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Commonsense College
“Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation’s final law Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d against his creed” — Tennyson Most college professors of literature — most readers of Flaubert across the board — will tell you that the characters in Madame Bovary are bourgeois. But one thing that should be called attention to[Read More...]
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11 Pakistani Soldiers Killed By Taliban Gaining Strength In Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed at least 11 Pakistani army soldiers and injured 13 at an army camp in Sawat Valley on Saturday (Feb 3). An army Captain was among those who died in the bombing. Army officials in Swat told the press that the soldiers were playing a volleyball match outside their base camp in Kabal in lower Swat[Read More...]
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Is Sri Lanka Going To Be The Next China Town In Indian Ocean?
Co-Written by Punsara Amarasinghe & Eshan Mandara Jayawardane Chinese presence in Sri Lanka was not emerged out of the blue in the island’s recent political past. Having located in a crucial geographic location in maritime silk route Sri Lankan history claims a long standing affinity with China in its rich history. However Sino Sri Lankan relations in the post independent[Read More...]
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Poor Posture: Trump’s Nuclear Doctrine Resumes Cold War
While elected officials of our increasingly dysfunctional democracy debated "memogate," the world became more dangerous as Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review was officially released on Friday, February 2.
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Taking War Off Its Pedestal
Originally posted at TomDispatch. The groundwork is already laid for America’s next war(s) in the Middle East and, in the process, one of the last relatively undamaged areas of Syria (at least before the Turkish military began to pound it with air strikes and artillery, then moving in tanks) is about to be added to … Continue reading "Taking War Off Its Pedestal"
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FISA-Gate: The Plot To Destroy Our Republic
You don’t need any special analytical abilities to understand “the memo” and its meaning. A simple reading reveals that allegations of skullduggery peeking by the Obama administration during the presidential campaign were entirely accurate: the memo just filled us in on the details. And while the debate has largely been over whether the proper legal … Continue reading "FISA-Gate: The Plot To Destroy Our Republic"
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Quand Cousteau se plaignait : « On commence à me casser les oreilles avec cette histoire de CO2 »
Un beau témoignage de l’époque de l’insouciance quant à l’avenir…
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Rally For Gauri Lankesh And Rohith Vemula Held In Canada
The South Asian activists gathered at Holland Park in Surrey on Sunday evening to remember Gauri Lankesh and Rohith Vemula, the two prominent victims of the right wing extremists. Organized by the Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI), the rally was held to mark the birth anniversaries of the two individuals who stood up against the violence of Hindutva forces.[Read More...]
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Crisis For NREGA
In its recent press release the NREGA Sangrash Morcha brought in several important issues which we need to reflect upon for the efficient implementation of one of the world’s biggest employment guarantee schemes. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) budget for 2018-19 is Rs 55,000 crores, the same as that of this year’s in money terms. (The[Read More...]
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Kerala’s Remittance Economy: Impending Crisis
The ‘insider-outsider’ problematic of diaspora gives every Malayali’s life a degree of tension and uncertainty today. For the six million remittance-dependent population of Kerala, no news from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is comforting. Of late, the distress signals from countries like Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait etc are too many. So are their implications for Kerala. The major documents[Read More...]
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Le député américain qui espionnait pour le compte de la Russie, par Peter Duffy
Source : Politico Magazine, Peter Duffy, 06-10-2014
L’étrange cas de Samuel Dickstein.
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New Defense Strategy: War With Great Nations & Arms Race
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance
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L’espion qui a fait McCarthy, par Julian Border
Source : The Guardian, Julian Border, 27-01-1999
Mercredi 27 janvier 1999
Une nouvelle preuve révèle que l’architecte involontaire de la chasse aux sorcières de McCarthy était un agent soviétique. Julian Border parle de l’étrange cas de Samuel Dickstein. -
Rampant abuse and possible contempt of Court: what you need to know about the GOP memo
When I read the GOP memorandum late yesterday a few hours after it was published it became immediately obvious to me why the Democrats, the Justice Department and the FBI had so strenuously resisted publishing it.
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Guest Post: Stephanie Kelton Introduces A New Candidate For Congress
Stephanie Kelton has been eager to introduce an acquaintance of hers, Justin Santopietro, who is running for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the rural, Appalachian district of VA-09. She had introduced me to Justin a couple of months ago and, among other things, I asked him how he would handle being smeared by Republicans as a puppet of Nancy Pelosi. At the time he told me that "The right wingers' attempts to smear all Democratic challengers as 'Pelosi Puppets' is even more laughable in rural districts like mine, where the national party has no presence whatsoever.
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The Nunes Memo Only Partially ‘Vindicates’ Trump, But it Fully Indicts the FBI and the FISA Court
On February 2, US president Donald Trump approved public release of a memo from the US House Intelligence Committee concerning FBI malfeasance in its applications for warrants to surveil Carter Page, a former member of his campaign team.
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Super Bowl Security Has Turned Minneapolis Into a Military Police State
(ANTIMEDIA) — The Department of Homeland Security has designated Super Bowl LII a National Special Security Event (an event deemed a potential target for terrorism or criminal activity) with a SEAR-I classification. The National Guard, federal agencies, and law enforcement from across the country have been patrolling Minneapolis and Saint Paul since January 26th. While […]
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Tomgram: William Astore, Taking War Off Its Pedestal
Whether the rationale is the need to wage a war on terror involving 76 countriesor renewed preparations for a struggle against peer competitors Russia and China (as Defense Secretary James Mattis suggested recently while introducing America’s new National Defense Strategy), the U.S. military is engaged globally...
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Tim Canova Barenaked Ladies "Million Dollar" Award Plaque Starts Today
Today is Day One of a week long contest on behalf of the Tim Canova congressional campaign in South Florida (FL-23 which starts up at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport and works it way south and west through Hollywood to Surfside in the south and Weston in the west). It's Debbie Wasserman Schultz's safe gerrymandered district. We've contributed a beautiful gold, RIAA-certified award plaque for the Barenaked Ladies' first U.S.
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Peace and Justice for the Palestinian People: a Conversation
[Prefatory Note: The post below is a modified text of an interview conversation with Khourosh Ziabari, initially published on the website of the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence on February 4, 2018, <info@odvv.org>] </info@odvv.org>
Peace and Justice for the Palestinian People: a conversation
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Teacher on Leave After Allegedly Assaulting Student Who Refused to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance
By Jon Queally | Common Dreams | February 3, 2018 A teacher in Colorado this week was suspended after it was alleged that she assaulted a young child who refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance—a troubling example of educators who refuse to acknowledge that students have the right to refuse participation in the […]
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US Rep. Adam Schiff (D,CA) Has Gone Completely Insane
US Rep. Adam Schiff (D,CA) Has Gone Completely Insane
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More Evidence of Media’s Total Lack of Integrity and Respect for Truth
More Evidence of Media’s Total Lack of Integrity and Respect for Truth
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WMD Claims in Syria Raise Concerns over U.S. Escalation
Following a well-established script, anonymous U.S. officials are making unsubstantiated claims about weapons of mass destruction – this time in Syria – while the media fails to ask tough questions, reports Rick Sterling. By Rick Sterling It’s the WMD story…Read more →
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Israeli forces kill 19-year-old with bullet to the head
IMEMC | February 3, 2018 Ahmad Samir Abu ‘Obeid, 19, was killed by Israeli soldiers with a live round in the head, during a massive military invasion into Burqin town, west of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the soldiers shot Ahmad with a live […]
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Criminals With Badges
It’s Like “Nazi Germany” — Federal Police Officer Furious After Cops Attempt to Rob Him & His Wife
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Bahraini Emir Mubarak Al Khalifa in Tel Aviv
Al-Manar | February 4, 2018 The Bahraini emir Mubarak Al Khalifa visited the Zionist entity in the context of normalizing ties between the regime in Manama and the enemy’s authorities. The Zionist Telecommunication Minister Ayoob Kara revealed that he met with the Bahraini emir, adding that he would welcome him at Knesset on Monday. Ayoob […]
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BBC Documentary Exposes Neoconservatives
BBC Documentary Exposes Neoconservatives
Here is a Documentary on the Neoconservatives by the BBC before the BBC became an apologist for Washington’s aggression. Note that everything the Neoconservatives predicted would be the great results of the illegal invasion of Iraq turned out to be 100 percent wrong. The Neoconservatives have the blood of millions of peoples on their hands. Neoconservaives are Satan’s spawn.
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Israel Conducting Secret Airstrikes Against Islamic State in Egypt: Report
(MEE) — For more than two years, unmarked Israeli drones, helicopters and jets have carried out a covert air campaign, conducting more than 100 air strikes inside Egypt with the approval of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, according to a media report. Enemies in three wars, then antagonists in an uneasy peace, Egypt and Israel are now secret […]
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Fourteen-year-old Ghada was the latest victim of Israel’s dehumanising machine
How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials – alone, at night and without her parents being informed? The terrifying ordeal – a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one – is hard to contemplate for any parent.
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ClandesTime 133 – Was the Unabomber Right?
Ted Kaczynski is most famous for both being the most prolific serial bomber in US history and for writing the Unabomber Manifesto – a political-philosophical tract that was published by major newspapers and by the FBI. This week I take a look at the life of Ted Kaczynski and conduct a philosophical analysis of Industrial […](Read more...)
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‘We are going to win’: Trump can’t do anything about FBI despite GOP memo – former CIA official
RT | February 4, 2018 The FBI need not worry despite the release of the GOP memo alleging the FBI’s surveillance abuse against Donald Trump, because the Bureau has been in the game much longer than the current president, says an ex-CIA analyst. “I know how this game is going to be played. We are […]
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Malayali Feminism 2018: In the Light of Vadayambady and Hadiya’s Struggle
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, not our own powerlessness, stupefy us. Adorno. As frightening spectres of untouchability and unseeability hover around the festering sore of the ‘caste-wall’ at Vadayambady in Kerala, as the so-called mainstream left-led government here continues to pour its energy and resources into aiding and … Continue reading Malayali Feminism 2018: In the Light of Vadayambady and Hadiya’s Struggle
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“Nunesburgers” & denial from the MSM while Politico blames Putin
OffGuardian | February 4, 2018 The “Nunes” Memo isn’t political dynamite but it could be the final blow to the whole ridiculous and virtually fact-free Russiagate narrative. It confirms the Steele dossier is a scam, and demonstrates the lies employed to get approval for spying on Trump’s team, it shows the vindictive bias in the […]
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Northerntruthseeker Rant For Sunday, February 4th, 2018
Sunday, and in spite of so many other issues on my plate these days I am here to do my rant!Yes, I have been a busy person these last few days taking care of my sick mother who is of course one heck of a stubborn mule.... She is one that loves to be pandered and especially when she is ill... I was basically at her beck and call over the last while, spending time with her and doing what I could to help and assist with her needs....
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Asheville-- Great Town In A miserable Political Situation
By December 31, the end of the last FEC reporting period, Patrick McHenry already had just over $2 million in his Wall Street-funded campaign war chest. He had spent over a million dollars already and raised another $1.7 million. He had 2 Democratic rivals, Kenneth Queen, who raised $8,130 and David Brown, who raised $6,229.
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Jack Blood Show – February 2 2018
Friday – Our won: Jack dissects the Trump SOTU speech and its ramifications + Breaking news. Our too: Kathleen Fitzgerald of Columbia River Gorge Skywatchers is the guest. Subject – Toxic Skies, food, water, vaccines…
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The World’s Most Dangerous Document Hits the Front Pages…
No it didn’t. By Jan OBERG | The Transnational | February 2, 2108 The mainstream media are totally irresponsible in their priorities. At the moment of writing, five hours after the world’s most dangerous document was presented, no major Western media has featured it prominently. This means it won’t be. No chance it would go […]
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Citing Russia, Trump Administration Seeks ‘More Usable’ Nuclear Weapons
(ANTIWAR.COM) — The Trump Administration’s nuclear plan is increasingly public, with its unclassified summary providing confirmation of all the concerns that have already been set out in recent weeks, that the administration intends the development of new, lower-yield nuclear weapons that they believe would be more usable than the current arsenal. Though Defense Secretary James Mattis denied that […]
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Moscow Identifies Reasons Behind New US Nuclear Doctrine
Sputnik – February 4, 2018 MOSCOW – The Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday expressed disappointment with the confrontational and anti-Russian stance in the recently issued US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and outlined intentions to take the policies, revealed in the document, into account in ensuring its own security. The NRP, published on Friday, claims a stronger […]
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Palestinian official Saeb Erekat tells UN Ambassador Nikki Haley to “shut up”
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat on Saturday accused the Trump White Hous of trying depose the Palestinian leadership in a “coup”.
Erekat then went on to blast the “impudent” US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, saying she should “shut up” with her criticism of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas…“Nikki Haley needs to shut up and realize that the Palestinian leadership is not the problem.”
After scolding Haley, Erekat delivered a more moderate and diplomatic message to the Trump Administration…
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