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Imperial Jockeying in Africa:
U.S. Intervention Sets to Deepen
By Ben Schreiner
Pentagon plans for Africa stretch well beyond
northern Mali. A military doctrine of global “power projection” and
“full spectrum dominance” dictates nothing less. Continue
Morsi: The Beginning of His End
Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
November 22, 2012 was a black day in the short
history of the two year old Egyptian revolution. It was the day when
Morsi gave himself absolute powers and turned into a dictator. Continue
NDAA: Pre-emptive Prosecution Coming to a Town Near You
By Charlotte Silver
"The law could theoretically be used against
labour strikes, acts of civil disobedience, demonstrations, and so on."
In other words, acts that should be protected under the First Amendment
are not exempted from the definition of terrorism. Continue
Deranging America
By Linh Dinh
Each speech by the President is a
vapid pep talk with no correlation to reality, yet, clouded by virtual
or real narcotics, many of us still clap and cheer. Continue
The Secret Rise of 21st Century Democracy
By Kevin Zeese JD and Margaret Flowers
New economies based on greater
democratic control, real representation and citizen participation are on
the rise. There is much to be learned from countries like Venezuela
that break from the Washington Consensus. Continue
Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
This Is A Must Watch Video
For two hundred years Americans have been
indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a
manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control
on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its
citizenry. Continue
Al Gore: 'Our Democracy Has Been Hacked'
By Brad Friedman
Our democracy has been hacked. It's
been taken over. It no longer operates the way our founders intended it
to, because of anonymous donors, big money, corporations as people,
might makes right. The lobbyists and special interests are now in
control. Continue
NATO and Afghan Forces Kill 25 Insurgents;
NATO and Afghan forces have killed at least 25 insurgents and three of
their commanders in separate operations around the country, Afghan and
coalition officials said Wednesday.
Roadside bomb kills 2 Afghan police, wounds 1:
Two personnel of Afghan Border Police Force were killed and another
sustained injuries as a roadside bomb struck a police van in Kunar
province, 185 km east of Kabul on Wednesday, a local official said.
Jihadists and Islamists Clash in Syria:
The killing of the northern commander of one of Syria’s largest rebel
groups wasn’t carried out by gunmen loyal to Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad, but by men supposedly on the rebel side in the nearly
two-year-long Syrian civil war.
Free Syrian Army threatens to shell Hezbollah:
Free Syrian Army threatened yesterday to shell positions of the
Hezbollah militant group in neighboring Lebanon after accusing it of
firing across the border into territory it controls.
Russia, Arab League push for Syria conflict talks:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Russia and
the Arab League are attempting to establish direct contact between the
two sides of the conflict that the UN says has killed at least 70,000
people.
Russian warships head to Syria in show of power;
The Russian Defense Ministry told the RIA-Novosti news agency on
Tuesday that four large landing vessels were on their way to the
Mediterranean near Syria, three weeks after the Russian navy conducted
its biggest maneuvers in the region since the breakup of the Soviet
Union
Likud members: Livni will block rightist legislation; Ruling
party officials slam Netanyahu, say coalition agreement gives Hatnua
leader too much power. Habayit Hayehudi: Putting negotiations in hands
of woman who was responsible for Gaza disengagement plan make it hard
for us to join coalition
Egypt Rights Groups Allege Rising Police Brutality;
More than a dozen groups charged in a statement that police were
reverting back to the systematic torture that prevailed under Mubarak's
autocratic regime. "Some of the crimes have even gone beyond that," the
statement said.
Morsi is leading Egypt to a disaster: Op-Ed:
There are too many signs that Morsi is leading Egypt to a disaster.
Each one of these signs on its own may not make you conclude that the
disaster is coming soon but these signs in total can convince anyone
that the disaster is coming sooner than later.
Egypt's Military Signals Impatience with President :
The tension is raising the specter of another military intervention
much like the one in 2011, when generals replaced longtime authoritarian
leader Hosni Mubarak after they sided with anti-regime protesters in
their 18-day popular uprising.
Oakland, California: FBI foils another fake terror plot;
The charges filed against Matthew Llaneza, 28, stem from a months-long
operation staged by the FBI’s South Bay Joint Terrorism Task Force. The
event is the latest in a long series of bogus terror plots hatched or
otherwise encouraged by the federal government.
Teachers demonstrate in Berlin:
About 3,000 teachers and day-care workers stopped work on Monday and
demonstrated through the centre of Berlin. The protest was organized
following the collapse of the second round of state contract
negotiations for public sector workers taking place in Potsdam.
February 19, 2013
Hysteria Over Kim’s Nukes
By Eric Margolis
While everyone was fulminating against the wicked North Koreans,
there was barely any mention of US-South Korean-Australian war
games near North Korea that Pyongyang claimed were training for
a US-led invasion.
Continue
Hubris : Selling the Iraq War
Video Documentary
We must not allow the perpetrators of the Iraq War to
rewrite history. Their actions and the consequences of their
actions must be remembered in infamy.
Continue
Hubris Isn't the Half of It
By David Swanson
As our government was making a fraudulent case to attack Iraq in
2002-2003, the MSNBC television network was doing everything it
could to help.
Continue
Why Did You Murder Me?
The Slaughter of the Children Drones On & On & On &
On
By Michael Hall
When the drones are slaughtering innocent children in your name
do you bother to get concerned even when on your knees on
Sunday?
Continue
Our Residential Future: Segregation
Forever?
By Sam Pizzigati
Rising inequality, newly released data make plain, has
left America’s metro areas — and neighborhoods — considerably
less mixed by income. Are the rich about to bid the rest of us
good-bye?
Continue
Banksters Rip Apart Spanish Health Care
By Thom Hartmann
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development’s latest health care rankings of the 34 most
developed nations in the world, the United States ranks dead
last in male life expectancy.
Continue
21 killed in clashes with militants in
Mali: A French soldier and
more than 20 Islamist rebels were killed during what appeared to
be the first clashes in north Mali's Adrar des Ifoghas mountain
range, where militants have taken refuge.
French nationals kidnapped in northern
Cameroon:Seven
French nationals, including four children, have been abducted in
Cameroon, French President François Hollande confirmed on
Tuesday. Radio France International (RFI) earlier reported that
the kidnapped French nationals were taken by armed men on
motorbikes toward the border with Nigeria.
Troops pour into Syria's Aleppo:
A large number of government troops are approaching Aleppo from
the east, as a battle rages for control of Syria's
second-largest airport.
'People want Assad to
stay':
Life has become difficult for the residents of Damascus, in
Syria, but little is reported of the lives of those in Damascus
who support the Assad regime. BBC reporter Zubeida Malik spoke
on the Today programme to some of the government supporters in
Syria's capital city.
7 Taliban killed, 10 wounded during clash:
At least seven Taliban were killed and 10 more wounded during a
clash with security forces in Darzaab district of northern
Jowzjan province yesterday, an official said Monday.
German Cabinet approves Mali mission:
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet has approved a plan to send
up to 330 German military personnel to Mali to help train the
country's soldiers and provide logistical support.
Spanish woman set herself on fire in
bank: Upon being rescued the
woman reportedly cried “Look what you’ve done, you’ve ripped me
of everything,” which led local media to suggest the 47-year-old
had debt in the bank she was unable to pay.
Dems Sponsor Bill To Allow Police Search
Gun Owners Homes: :
Washington State Democrats have sponsored Senate Bill 5737,
which has a little provision that apparently was to go unnoticed
that would have said that police have a right to search a
private citizen’s home once per year if they own certain types
of firearms.
New York city mentally ill roundup plan:
Cops in the NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center are using high-tech
methods to first track down the individuals, and detectives on
the street have been assigned to then go after them and take
them to hospitals, law-enforcement sources said.
February 18, 2013
Equal Opportunity, Our National Myth
By Joseph Stiglitz
Today, the United States has less equality of
opportunity than almost any other advanced industrial country.
Study after study has exposed the myth that America is a land of
opportunity.
Continue
Democracy for Dollars
By Bill Moyers
“The House of Representatives, where Congress gathers
to hear the president, used to be known as ‘The Peoples’ House’,
but money power owns the lease now, and runs the joint from
hidden back rooms.”
Continue
UN: Both sides committing war crimes in
Syria : Both government
forces and armed rebels are committing war crimes, including
killings and torture, spreading terror among civilians in a
nearly two-year-old conflict, they said on Monday.
EU opens way for aid to Syrian rebels:
The European Union took steps on Monday to provide direct aid
potentially including security advice to rebels fighting Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad, but stopped short of lifting an arms
embargo on the country.
Foreign Fighters in Syria Talk Tough But
Fear Defeat: Tens of
thousands, if not more, of foreign fighters are making their way
into Syria to join the rebel forces as they fight against the
regime of Bashar Al-Assad as the civil war enters its third
year. Among the non-Syrians reported to be fighting alongside
the rebel forces are Americans, Syrians, Moroccans, Libyans,
Egyptians, Bosnians, and others.
Qaeda front group claims Baghdad bombings:
Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq has claimed a wave of bombings
targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad that killed at least 21 people
Sunday, in the latest violence to hit Iraq as it struggles with
protests and a political crisis.
Palestinians Rally for Prisoners Held in
Israel: Palestinians blocked
roads and held marches across the West Bank on Monday to protest
the fate of thousands of their countrymen held in Israeli jails
and demand the release of four detainees on hunger strike.
'Hamas official confirms
indirect talks with Israel':
Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya on Sunday confirmed that
the movement is engaging in indirect talks with Israel over the
implementation of the ceasefire deal agreed upon following
Operation Pillar of Defense, Palestinian news agency Ma'an
reported.
Bennett: No Palestine in ‘God-given’ Land
of Israel: “There is no room
in our small but wonderful God-given tract for another state,”
Bennett said in a speech that stressed Israel’s Jewish religious
heritage as a cornerstone of its society. “It won’t happen.
Friends, before every discussion on the territories, we need to
declare: ‘The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel.’
Only then can we start the debate.
Prisoner X Leaked Mossad Secrets:
A Mossad spy who had died in an Israeli jail in the year of 2010
was arrested by his spymasters after they believed he might have
told Australian intelligence about his work with the Israeli
intelligence agency.
Afghan president orders cameras to combat
torture: Afghan President
Hamid Karzai has ordered that all interrogation facilities
should be equipped with video cameras in a bid to prevent
torture, after a recent UN report said detainees were abused.
Most Terrorist Plots in the US Aren't
Invented by Al Qaeda --
They're Manufactured by the FBI: In the ten years following
9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department indicted and convicted
more than 150 people following sting operations involving
alleged connections to international terrorism. Few of these
defendants had any connection to terrorists, evidence showed
China, Russia to drop
dollar in bilateral trade:
China and Russia will stop using the U.S. dollar to settle
bilateral trade and instead use the ruble or the yuan, according
to a report in the state-run China Daily. "About trade
settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Putin
told reporters. Earlier this week, China added the ruble to the
list of currencies that can be traded against the yuan on its
domestic exchange.
Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another
Bailout: Op-Ed: MANY people
became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during
the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going
on, if more quietly, through the back door.
Obama Ready to Propose $1.5 Trillion
Plan: McDonough: The
president has a plan to reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion, and
Obama will insist that the changes happen in a “balanced way,”
which includes revenue increases, McDonough said on ABC’s “This
Week” program, one of three appearances he made on the Sunday
morning news shows.
February 17, 2013
War and Institutionalizing Abuse
By Lawrence Davidson
In the halls of Congress and confines of the Oval
Office, the perception is that the U.S. is at war with an enemy
called al-Qaeda. Is this actually the case or is the claim an
exaggerated piece of propaganda that has conveniently captured
the minds of leaders whose abuse of power has become
institutionalized? Continue
Smartphones To Collect Biometric Data
By Mick Meaney
We must ask ourselves; do we really trust the U.S.
Government with the data it collects?: During the Iraq war, the
U.S. Central Command gathered and kept the biometric information
of three million people.
Continue
Pakistan: 84 killed in Quetta blast:
According to Afghan consulate officials in Quetta city of
Pakistan at least 30 Afghan refugees were among those killed
following a deadly bomb blast in Baluchistan province.
Pakistan bomb 'a security failure':
The governor of a province in south-western Pakistan where 81
people died in a massive bombing says security officials are too
scared of retribution from terrorists to do their jobs.
Serial bombings leave 37 dead in Iraq:
Multiple car bombs exploded within minutes of each other as
Iraqis were out shopping in and around Baghdad on Sunday,
killing at least 37 people and wounding more than 100 in mainly
Shiite areas.
Israel 'implicates' Australia in scandal:
The government source stressed that the Australian authorities
were well aware that 34-year-old Ben Zygier was not “some
backpacker who got lost trekking when his coffin was returned to
Australia.”
Nine Arrested at Hancock Air Base for
Opposing Reaper Drone War Crimes:
Hancock is the regional hub for the hunter/killer Reaper drone
deployed over Afghanistan, Pakistan and, increasingly,
elsewhere. This nonviolent civil resistance is the most recent
in a series of actions at Hancock meant to expose and deter the
Reaper war crimes originating there.
Feds execute another terror sting;
The FBI's use of sting operations in terror cases has been
sharply criticized by activists and scholars who claim law
enforcement is helping individuals with mental problems and/or
little individual perseverance pursue plots they would be unable
or unlikely to complete on their own.
$1,728,477,000,000: Fed’s Holdings of
U.S. Debt Hit Another Record:
The total debt of the federal government was
$16,524,304,599,079.04. That included $11,668,602,027,147.93 in
debt held by the public and $4,855,702,571,931.11 in
intragovernmental debt, which is money the Treasury has taken
out of government trust funds—such as the Social Security Trust
Fund—and spent on other government programs.
Walmart VP Calls February Sales ‘Total
Disaster’: Wal-Mart Stores
Inc. had the worst sales start to a month in seven years as
payroll-tax increases hit shoppers already battling a slow
economy, according to internal e-mails obtained by Bloomberg
News.
February 16, 2013
Are Iranian Magnets the New Aluminum
Tubes?
By Peter Hart
In the run up to the Iraq War, the New York Times
(9/8/02) famously reported on an Iraqi scheme to procure special
aluminum tubes that could only have one purpose: Iraq's secret
nuclear weapons program.
Continue
Budget Cuts May Force Reduction in Israel
Aid
Kerry Warns of Serious Sequestration Cuts for State
and USAID
By Josh Rogin
The State Department will have to cut foreign assistance to
Israel, and delay efforts to ramp up diplomatic security abroad
after the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, if sequestration goes
into effect next month, according to Secretary of State John
Kerry.
Continue
Sleeping Through the Coup
By Phillip Farruggio
The sad fact that we live in the mother of all military
empires! Alas, the two party con job and their presstitutes are
embedded with the powers that be.
Continue
The Great Wealth Robbery
By Richard Eskow
There’s a Great Robbery underway, although most of its
perpetrators don’t see themselves as robbers. Instead they’re
sustained by delusions that protect them from facing the
consequences of their own actions.
Continue
About time!
Karzai to ban Afghan forces from
requesting NATO airstrikes: "I will issue a
decree tomorrow that no Afghan security forces in any
circumstances can ask for the foreigners' planes for carrying
out operations on our homes and villages," Karzai said during a
speech at the Afghan National Military Academy in Kabul on
Saturday.
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