Year in review – Climate Etc.’s greatest ‘hits’
by Judith Curry
2016 was ‘extremely likely’ to have been a memorable year.
by Judith Curry
2016 was ‘extremely likely’ to have been a memorable year.
teleSUR | December 30, 2016 An Argentine court slapped a new sentence against jailed Indigenous leader Milagro Sala Thursday, just a day after she was handed down a three-year suspended prison sentence for being guilty of “aggravated damages” linked to a protest she led against the conservative government in her home province in Jujuy. The […]
teleSUR | December 29, 2016 An Argentine federal appeals court will order the reopening of a probe that accuses former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of covering up Iran’s alleged role in the bombing of a Jewish center in 1994, state news agency Telam said on Thursday. Two years earlier the prosecutor who initially made […]
teleSUR | December 31, 2016 After eight months filming a documentary in Syria, a Bolivian actress and filmmaker is contradicting the mainstream media’s narrative as she argues that the Syrian government has not, in fact, shot at militants leaving Aleppo. Carla Ortiz, who is filming a documentary on the lives of the people caught in […]
By Michael Brenner | Consortium News | December 30, 2016 The psychodrama over the alleged but unsubstantiated Russian hacking of Democratic emails to influence the U.S. presidential election has yet to reach its climax. Already, though, it has earned nomination as the most surreal and passionate work of fiction of the Twenty-first Century. In all the […]
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Byron: Selections on war
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Byron
From The Curse of Minerva
“The bannered pomp of war, the glittering files,
Henry Kissinger’s potential role as an intermediary between President-elect Trump and Russian President Putin suggests a comeback by the old-line “realists” versus the neocons and liberal interventionists, writes Gilbert Doctorow. By Gilbert Doctorow During a holiday getaway to India, I…Read more →
I don’t remember Jason Zengerle having been at James Madison High School in Brooklyn. In fact, even if he did go to school there, it would have been many years not just after Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Bernie Sanders, but many years after I went was there at the same time as Norm Coleman and Chuck Schumer.
Corn earworm pest evolves resistance to multiple Bt insecticidal toxins
Palestine Information Center – December 30, 2016 GAZA – Hamas on Friday lauded the ceasefire accord struck between the warring parties in embattled Syria, calling for boosting political solutions to the conflict. “We’ve been keeping tabs with deep satisfaction on agreements to cease fire in Syria,” said Hamas. “Hamas welcomes the ceasefire and calls for […]
There will be no blog until after New Year. Again I want to take the time to thank everyone for the memberships, donations, articles,…
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Syria’s strong ties with Russia helped it win back Aleppo and agree to a nation-wide ceasefire earlier this week [PPIO]
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has told Russian officials that the victory of his forces in Aleppo has proven to be a turning point in the war against terrorism in Syria.
Tomomi Inada and other cabinet ministers have routinely visited the controversial Yasukuni war shrine [Xinhua]
China and South Korea have condemned a visit by Japan’s defense minister Tomomi Inada on Thursday to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, a Japanese war memorial in Tokyo.
The shrine was built in honor of the 2.5 million Japanese dead during the Second World War, but is seen by some of its neighbors as glorifying a Japan’s imperialistic bloody past.
The year 2016 was a time of numerous major events providing no clue to what the world will be like in the 21st century. It could be anything – from plunging into devastating wars and economic downturns to unheard of prosperity and stability leaving the present turmoil in the past. There is no clear trend of global development and it’s impossible to say where the world is heading to. At least, not at the threshold of 2017...
Most Western media, commentators and politicians were not in doubt: Aleppo fell (back) to "the regime", to "the dictator". Their focus was on civilians and moderate rebels, as they are called, being killed in the last hours of the battle about Eastern Aleppo that had been occupied since mid-2012. I was there - both in the East and the West of Aleppo - when it happened. I was in Aleppo's Hanano district, its Old Town and in the Shaykh Najjar Industrial City...
Palestine Information Center – December 31, 2016 BETHLEHEM – The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) have seized about 13,295 dunums of Palestinian land during 2016, according to a report released on Thursday by the Palestinian Land Research Center (LRC). Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian land increased by 43 percent during the current year compared to 2015, the […]
I’m a former lifelong Democrat, stating here a clear and incontestable fact: Barack Obama is a failed President. It’s true not just because of the sad realities such as that «Top Ex-White House Economist Admits 94% Of All New Jobs Under Obama Were Part-Time» — or, as the economists Alan Krueger and Lawrence Katz wrote in the original of that study: «94 percent of the net employment growth in the U.S. economy from 2005 to 2015 appears to have occurred in alternative work arrangements».
The mainstream U.S. media’s relentless Russia-bashing has obscured Moscow’s legitimate fears about Washington’s provocative nuclear-missile strategies, which could lead to Armageddon, explains Jonathan Marshall...
Going into 2017, the Christian Science Monitor reminded its readers that boosting low wages has become less controversial as conservatives looked elsewhere to inflict their deadly ideology on working families.
The great Greek philosopher, Plato, more than 2000 years ago argued that a democracy will eventually deteriorate into an oligarchy (or plutocracy) which, in time, will further degenerate into a dictatorship where society is ruled by a man exhibiting only the basest of emotions. Today, there is nothing stopping the American republic, which has […]
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Dick Eastman
The Truth Hound
When Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller met with Zhou Enlai in China in 1973—just after President Richard Nixon had visited China establishing official relations—an understanding was reached whereby the U.S. would supply industrial capital and know-how to China.
Fighting continued in Mosul where at least 41 militants were killed.
by David Wojick
The Social Cost of Carbon is absurd but entrenched.
"I blame the media."by Ken"It's definitely been one year," concedes The New Yorker's Colin Stokes as he looks back on 2016 in introducting "2016: The Year in Cartoons, a slide show drawn not from the heap of carto
Palestine Information Center – December 30, 2016 LONDON – The Palestinian Return Center (PRC) slammed on Thursday a speech by the American Secretary of State, John Kerry, on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying his comments pose a danger for Palestinians’ rights, particularly the right of return. According to PRC, the call of Kerry to resettle refugees […]
2016 wasn't so bad if you were a billionaire.
December 30, 2016 We regard the recent unfriendly steps taken by the outgoing US administration as provocative and aimed at further weakening the Russia-US relationship. This runs contrary to the fundamental interests of both the Russian and American people. Considering the global security
By Denis Rancourt | Dissident Voice | December 29, 2016 When one is critical of the human-rights violations of the state of Israel, there follows a vehement charge of “antisemitism”. When one supports institutional measures to counter systemic racism, there follows a charge of “reverse racism”. And when a white person is critical of a […]
Soros' ThinkProgress and Black Lives Matter call Trump a traitor for playing nice with Putin.
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As Official Washington rages over alleged Russian hacking of Democratic emails, a forgotten back story is how the U.S. government pioneered the tactics of cyber-war and attacked unsuspecting countries, recalls Michael Brenner. By Michael Brenner The psychodrama over the alleged…Read more →
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The new report media outlets are citing as proof is being disputed by experts.
No, we're not allowed to embed this clip of Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, and Gene Kelly singing and dancing "Good Morning" from Singin' in the Rain, but you can watch it on YouTube, where it doesn't even look too bad expanded to full screen.
On December 29, President Obama announced new sanctions against Russia that included the expulsion of 35 diplomats and the closure of two Russian recreational compounds in New York and Maryland. The cyber-attacks allegedly ordered by Moscow against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Hillary Clinton’s campaign and other political organizations, were cited as a reason...
RT | December 30, 2016 German government has officially admitted that it has no solid evidence that Russia is planning to interfere into the Germany’s upcoming federal parliamentary elections in 2017 as it answered a request from an MP amid ongoing anti-Russian hysteria. All accusations against Russia concerning its potential meddling with the German parliamentary […]
As Obama accuses Russia of tampering in US elections, the US is accused of the same.
Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
In this latest installment of JaysAnalysis, I cover the big picture story of Libya, Syria and the post-modern imperial plan to restructure these nations for NATO and the Bilderberg establishment’s pipeline plans.
I cover fake news at length in the first free half, and the black markets, as well as deeper connections to Wikileaks and Benghazi in the second half.
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False Claims & Uninvestigated Murders
Professor Michel Chossudovsky reminds us that the hacked emails were about the DNC and Hillary campaign’s theft of the Democratic presidential nomination from Bernie Sanders, which
had nothing whatsoever to do with Russia. Professor Chossudovsky also reminds us that the presstitute media fails to report many things and to investigate many stories, including mysterious murders.
I have come under attack by some "commentators" from my last few articles exposing the Berlin "truck attack" as a fraud.... I am a man of logic and reasoning, and everything about this "attack" in Berlin smells like complete and utter bullshit....
Pesticides will be banned in all public green spaces while non-professional gardeners will no longer be able to buy pesticides over the counter
Stephen Lendman Reports President Putin’s Response To Obama’s New Sanctions
It is clear enough who is the real leader of the world. That person is not in the White House.
Putin’s Response to Obama’s New Sanctions
by Stephen Lendman
Both leaders are polar opposites – a mensch in Moscow on the right side of history compared to a US menace in Washington waging war on humanity. [Mensch means a person of dignity and honor. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch ]