MEMO | May 9, 2013
As Israeli justice minister, Tzipi Livni, met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on Wednesday, the Israel Civil Administration approved a plan to build 296 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Beit El; an Israeli newspaper reported.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Cesare Pavese: Every war is a civil war
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Cesare Pavese
From The House of the Hill (Prima che il gallo canti) (1949)
Translated by R. W. Flynt
Voice of Russia
May 9, 2013
U.S. to maintain 9 bases in Afghanistan after 2014
Bagram Air Base
The United States will maintain nine military bases in Afghanistan after NATO’s troop withdrawal in 2014.
After you have read the news stories linked in the previous post: Kerry Sees Transitional Syrian Government Without Assad Read this one. A beginning for Syria talksLet's call this wondering, thinking, contemplating via the blog.. my thinking is all italicized New thoughts are in red... Excerpt and additional links below:
I have long said that this government in Ottawa is not my own, and absolutely does not listen to the Canadian people at all... Instead, it bends over and constantly grovels to the will of Jewish interests, and will do anything to please both their Jewish masters, and the wants and wishes of the criminal and diabolical state of Israel....It is so sad to watch these sick freaks do anything to support the Jewish state, above the needs of their own nation!I came across a very important video that absolutely stunned me...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says a transitional government in Syria would not include president Bashar al-Assad.Kerry said Thursday in Rome, where he was meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, that the goal is a political solution agreed to by the Syrian government and those opposed to Mr.
Image: Despite the US mobilizing the summation of its media power and pouring millions of dollars into the opposition party, including the creation and perpetuation of fake-NGOs such as Bersih and the Merdeka Center, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak sailed to a comfortable victory in this year's general elections.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Anatole France: Selections on war
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Anatole France
From The Wicker-Work Woman (1897)
Translated by M.P. Willcocks
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford | May 8, 2013
In doubling the bounty on former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur’s head, the Obama administration is announcing that Black radicals are candidates for his Kill List. The message is as unmistakable and dramatic as the billboards that have been erected in Newark, New Jersey, and elsewhere screaming for the exiled freedom fighter’s blood.
