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Trump’s Special Relationship With the Saudi Monarchy
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The Saudi crown prince and de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman bin Abduld Aziz al Saud (33),...
Video: Sister Simone Campbell: Catholic Sex Abuse Stems from “Monarchy” & Exclusion of Women...
https://democracynow.org - For the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope has addressed a letter to the entire population...
Catholic Sex Abuse Stems From Monarchy and Exclusion of Women From Power
For the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope has addressed a letter to the entire population of 1.2...
America Celebrates Lateral Move From Monarchy To Corporate Rule – Consortiumnews
America celebrates its independence 242 years ago today from Britain with little thought it seems about who rules them now,...
British Royals Rebrand With Royal Wedding, but Critics Say White, Neoliberal Monarchy Needs to...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married Saturday at Windsor Castle in a ceremony that many heralded for celebrating black culture and history. Markle...
Video: British Royals Rebrand with Royal Wedding, but Critics Say White, Neoliberal Monarchy Needs...
https://democracynow.org - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married Saturday at Windsor Castle in a ceremony that many heralded for celebrating black ...
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Anti-monarchy MP compares Kate Middleton to the Kardashians
Labour’s Kensington and Chelsea MP Emma Dent Coad has compared the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate...
Poll Reveals New Zealand Wants To Reject Criminal British Monarchy
New Zealand looks to be drifting closer to becoming a republic, as a new poll reveals a majority of Kiwis want to ditch the...
Video: Chuck D On The Two Party Monarchy In U.S Elections
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In this video Luke Rudkowski asks legendary musician Chuck D about the two party system in the U.S and what he thinks of...
British Republic by 2030? Historian predicts dying days of UK monarchy
Britain’s monarchy will be embattled and in its dying days within 15 years because current...
Regional tensions and falling oil prices deepen crisis of Saudi monarchy
Jean Shaoul
The House of Saud is seeking to impose onto the working class the full cost of its oil policies that led to crude...
Threat of wider war looms as Saudi monarchy proposes Syria intervention
Bill Van Auken
The Saudi Arabian monarchy Thursday declared that it is prepared to send ground troops into Syria under the pretext of prosecuting the...
Video: ‘Secret wife’ of late Saudi king to reveal monarchy’s mysteries in UK film
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Janan Harb, 68, has quite a life story to tell: she says she was the former Saudi king's secret wife. Harb, a Palestinian-born...
Video: Friend of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr: Shiite Cleric’s Execution “Will Not End Well” for...
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Democracynow.org - As protests erupt across the Middle East after Saudi Arabia's execution of prominent Shia religious leader Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, we speak...
Video: Anti-Monarchy Group “Republic” On Why It’s Time For The Queen & The Royals...
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Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining...
Former Met Police Officer: Pedophile ring leads to British Monarchy
A member of the British royal family was part of a pedophile ring under investigation by police until the case was suddenly dropped, an...
RINF Video: How an Establishment Paedophile Ring Leads to the Monarchy, MI5 & Rothschilds
It has long been alleged that the systematic abuse of children took place in the Kincora home at the hands of a paedophile ring...
Monarchy – Scottish independence vote may put Cameron’s job at risk
British Prime Minister David Cameron is in serious trouble as his own Conservative Party calls for a vote of no-confidence because he allowed the...
Thousands Stage Anti-Monarchy Protests Across Spain
Anti-monarchy demonstrations were held in over 50 cities across Spain Saturday in protest actions called by leftist groups. In Madrid over 15,000 people marched....
Get rid of the monarchy, and the myths that make it
Within hours of vile Spanish monarch Juan Carlos announcing plans to abdicate, tens of thousands took to the streets of Spain protesting for a...
Thermonuclear Monarchy and Revolution
So now we (or at least the 0.03% of us who care to hunt for it) discover that U.S. military spending is not actually being cut at all, but increasing. Also going up: U.S. nuclear weapons spending. Some of the new nukes will violate treaties, but ...
John Kerry Honors Military Dictatorship and Totalitarian Monarchy as Examples of Progress Toward Democracy
What John Kerry did this week in Egypt and Saudi Arabia is nothing short of despicable. He, and the president who appointed him, managed...
Spaniards hold anti-monarchy protest
Thousands of Spaniards have taken to the streets of the capital to protest against the country™s monarchy.
The march was held on Saturday in Madrid,...
Harper’s love affair with monarchy
Harper’s Conservatives have a thing for monarchy, the more absolute the better, it seems. At home they’ve put up portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and added the moniker “royal” to the Canadian Navy and Air Force while in the Middle … Continue reading →
‘Royal Baby’ Worship: From Declaring Independence from Monarchy to Embracing It
Anthony GucciardiInfowars.comJuly 26, 2013
We have officially gone from declaring independence from a tyrannical monarch known...
The Monarchy Part 26
The Monarchy program is aimed at shedding light on the dark corners of British internal affairs, foreign affairs, and of course, the UK economy....
The Monarchy Part 25
The Monarchy program is aimed at shedding light on the dark corners of British internal affairs, foreign affairs, and of course, the UK economy....
The Monarchy Part 10
The Monarchy program is aimed at shedding light on the dark corners of British internal affairs, foreign affairs, and of course, the UK economy.
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Gamers RISE UP against Prince Harry after he calls to ban ‘addictive’ Fortnite —...
While smash hit survival shooter Fortnite has become the most popular computer game in the...
60 Years Ago, Racists in Congress Nearly Cost Hawaii Statehood – Consortiumnews
Racism in the U.S. Congress nearly derailed Hawaii becoming the 50th state, as Sarah Miller Davenport reports.
By Sarah...
Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
by Jim Naureckas
The statement of ownership In the Now was forced to run to be allowed back on Facebook.
There’s a famous polling experiment that...
Video prompts Russian social media to JOKE that Elon Musk is a spy…US media...
When a video of a rear-driving car cruising around Russia’s Stavropol region appeared online recently, one...
My Father Faces the Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia for Supporting Human Rights
While the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October sparked international outrage, far less attention has been...
‘MBS Has Ushered in an Era of Unprecedented Crackdowns and Repression of Political Speech’...
Janine Jackson interviewed Sarah Aziza about Saudi Arabia’s repression of women for the February 8, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited...
Sarah Aziza on Saudi Repression of Women, Dean Baker on Taxing the Rich
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Who Was Secretly Behind America’s Invading and Occupying Syria?
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
The invasion and occupation of Syria by tens of thousands of jihadists who were recruited from around the world...
Iconic London Tower guards don yellow vests for their first strike in 55 YEARS...
The Tower of London's "Beefeater" guards staged a walkout in defiance of pension cuts, donning...
Canada’s Liberal Government is Enabling Saudi Arabia War Crimes in Yemen
One has to admire the Canadian government’s manipulation of the media regarding its relationship with Saudi Arabia. Despite being partners with the Kingdom’s international...
Saudi Arabia and the Canadian Arms Lobby
One has to admire the Canadian government’s manipulation of the media regarding its relationship with Saudi Arabia. Despite being partners with the Kingdom’s international...
As a Saudi Citizen in Exile I Know What the Regime Does to Silence...
As a Saudi citizen exiled in Washington, D.C., since 2000, Ali al Ahmed has experienced first-hand what the Saudi government...
After the Khashoggi Murder, It is Up To Israel to Repair the Crack in...
On the domestic scene, there is Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell and many others of a similar caliber, but among world leaders could there...
Blaming Saudis for Corrupting Otherwise Human Rights–Loving US
As FAIR has noted for years, one of the primary ideological functions of US corporate media is to maintain the mythology that the US...
The Earthquake in International Alliances
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
(UPDATE about the Khashoggi case, posted at end.)
America’s international alliances are transforming in fundamental ways. The likelihood of World...
Vanquishing the Republic: Harry and Meghan in Australia
The establishment of a republic… means insurrectionary war, it means the desolation of a thousand households. When the question shall arise, it will be...
As US-Backed War in Yemen Raged, UAE Hired US Mercenaries to Kill Yemeni Leaders
A shocking new investigation has revealed that the United Arab Emirates hired U.S. mercenaries to carry out assassinations of political and clerical leaders in...
As US-Backed War in Yemen Raged, UAE Hired US Mercenaries to Kill Yemeni Leaders
A shocking new investigation has revealed that the United Arab Emirates hired U.S. mercenaries to carry out assassinations of political and clerical leaders in...
BBC slammed for releasing off-air Khashoggi interview — RT UK News
The BBC is under fire for releasing off-air comments made by Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal...
Cracks in the House of Saud
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Over the past half century, critics have often predicted the fall of the House of Saud or emphasised the...
Video: ‘You might not be there for 2 weeks without us’ – Trump to...
The Saudi Arabian monarchy would fall “within two weeks” if it wasn't for the military support that the US has provided to the Gulf...
Video: Trump told Saudi King he wouldn’t last ‘2 weeks’ without US support
The Saudi Arabian monarchy would fall “within two weeks” if it wasn't for the military support that the US has provided to the Gulf...
Bolton unveils Trump’s new far-reaching counter-terrorism strategy — RT US News
The Trump administration has put together a six-prong counter-terrorism strategy that does not focus on a...
Enemy of Our Future
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The Reactionary
If you look up the meaning of the term “reactionary,” you will probably get something like...
Trump told Saudi King he wouldn’t last ‘2 weeks’ without US support — RT...
The Saudi Arabian monarchy would fall “within two weeks” if it wasn’t for the military support...
How the U.N. Joined America’s War Against Syria
Eric Zuesse
America has been at war to transfer control of Syria over to the Saud family, who own Saudi Arabia; and America has been...
Economy, Society, History, and Civilization
Hans-Hermann Hoppe presents a thorough reconstruction of the foundation of economics, social theory, and politics.
1. The Nature of Man and the Human Condition: Language,...
How a Free Market Inevitably Produces Dictatorship
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
Who rules the land? A deeper and truer version of this question is: What rules the land? Is it...
Trump Lied About His Intentions Toward Russia
Eric Zuesse, originally published by The Saker
On August 20th, Gallup headlined "More in U.S. Favor Diplomacy Over Sanctions for Russia” and reported that, “Americans...
‘There’s an Alternative to the Hierarchical, Top-Down Capitalist Corporation
Janine Jackson interviewed Richard Wolff about the racial wealth divide for the August 10 episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
...
The Hour When Children Die—What Is Going On in Yemen?
A busload of young boys was on a field trip. They were excited. Their summer session of school was over. This was to be...
NGOs and Development Studies promote Canadian Foreign Policy
Are they critical thinkers or cheerleaders pretending to be independent of the government that funds them? Given the title conference organizers chose — “Is...
Limits on support for Saudi campaign ‘nothing but fig leaf to shield US complicity...
Congress is trying to camouflage US responsibility for civilian deaths in Yemen – it’s an attempt...
ACTION ALERT: It’s Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in...
As FAIR has noted before (1/8/18, 3/20/18), to MSNBC, the carnage and destruction the US and its Gulf Monarchy allies are leveling against the...
The Saudi and American Way
(photo above: 15 August 2016, Yemen, U.S. weapons, Saudi pilots)
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
The U.S.-Saudi-UAE “Operation Restoring Hope” has become their plan to...
The Blue Pill Presidency
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Who would have predicted that in 2018, the FBI, the CIA, John McCain, Jeff Bezos, and now the...
Ministers prepare for Queen’s death in ‘unprecedented’ exercise – reports — RT UK News
UK ministers took part in a secret exercise to prepare for the aftermath of the...
New figures show royals cost the public more than ever before — RT UK...
The annual cost of the Queen is now 69p per person, as figures show that...
Intolerable Opinions in an Intolerant Time
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In Love’s free state all powers so levelled beThat them affection governs more than awe.
— William...
Fawning Theresa May bowing to prince sparks mockery online — RT UK News
A tweeted picture of Prime Minister Theresa May curtseying to the duke of Cambridge was...
Fawning Theresa May bowing to prince sparks mockery online — RT UK News
A tweeted picture of Prime Minister Theresa May curtseying to the duke of Cambridge was...
The Diseased, Lying, Condition, of America’s ‘News’Media
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
Both President Trump and former President Obama are commonly said in America’s ‘news’ media to be or to have...
The Day the US Became an Empire
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For half a century, the United Kingdom celebrated May 24, the birthday of the late Queen Victoria,...
Ahead of North Korea summit, Trump softens Iran rhetoric — RT US News
Discussing the upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore, US President Donald Trump...
A Spirited and Nativist Democracy
Guillaume Durocher, The Occidental Observer, 1 June 2018 The Persian Empire was driven by a certain logic, certain feedback loops pertaining to...
Promoters of Saudi Prince as Feminist Reformer Are Silent on His Crackdown on Women
“It appears the only ‘crime’ these activists committed was wanting women to drive before Mohammed bin Salman did” (Independent, 5/22/18).
During his US PR tour...
‘Deterrent to regional threats’? US approves $45mn sale of 3,200 bombs & bunker busters...
The US has cleared the sale of 3,200 bombs valued at about $45 million, including powerful...
The best anti-royal wedding tweets — RT UK News
Royal wedding mania has hit fever pitch as royal enthusiasts descend on Windsor to pitch...
Britain shrugs as Royal wedding approaches
A majority of Brits don’t care about the Royal wedding, a YouGov poll has found....
Trump promises Iran ‘highest level’ of sanctions, ‘bigger problems’ if nuclear research continues —...
President Donald Trump has promised the highest level of sanctions on Iran after announcing that US...
‘Daily Mail going full psycho on the Lords today’
Social media users have reacted to today’s Daily Mail front page "It's time to pull...
Trump & Bolton call for regime change in Iran even as they speak of...
White House National Security Adviser John Bolton says the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal...
Charles as King would help end the royals
Labour MP Emma Dent Coad has taken another swipe at the monarchy saying Prince Charles'...
Deep State 101: A Primer and Prescription
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Every nation worth its salt has a deep state, a loose network of rich and powerful players who...
Top Six Reasons Mike Pompeo Should Not Be Secretary of State
NBC is reporting that Mike Pompeo lacks the votes in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to have his nomination to be Secretary of...
Jewdas responds with humor to attacks over Corbyn Passover meal — RT UK News
You have to hand it to Jewdas – despite an onslaught of negativity after Jeremy...
Trump Finds Fellow Bully in Bolton
Nothing Donald Trump has done since his inauguration 14 months ago is more dangerous – to the United States, and indeed, to the world...
Media Boosts Obvious Saudi Front Group as Neutral ‘Think Tank’
A Saudi government spokesperson couldn’t have said it better (Washington Post, 5/31/17).
The Arabia Foundation appeared in spring 2016, seemingly out of nowhere, as a...
Trump, the Crown Prince and the Whole Ugly Big Picture
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There are few countries on earth more oppressive than Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy shaped by...
The Fake Enemy
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Towards the end of 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US. Their Nazi...
Greece’s Colossal Cave In | Dissident Voice
Europe’s Left has finally renounced the Syriza Party (acronym for Coalition of the Radical Left), as Jean-Luc Mélenchon of France Insoumise or “Unsubmissive France”...
Greece’s Colossal Cave In
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Europe’s Left has finally renounced the Syriza Party (acronym for Coalition of the Radical Left), as Jean-Luc...
‘There’s an Alternative to the Top-Down Capitalist Corporation’
Janine Jackson interviewed Richard Wolff about questioning economic fundamentals for the February 9, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
...
Bungling Crown Privilege: Australia’s Cabinet Security Breach
Journalists would have seen it as a scoop, and insisted that no laws had been broken. Politicians might have considered it a calamity. Whatever...
Queen’s bra-fitter stripped of royal title after ‘tell-all’ book — RT UK News
The British Queen’s bra supplier has been sacked after its founder June Kenton published a...
Could the Pahlavi Dynasty Really be Restored in Iran?
Demonstrations have been taking place in Iran against unemployment, poverty and corruption. Some of the protesters have even been calling for the...
Remaining Peaceful Was Their Choice – Antiwar.com Blog
People living now in Yemen’s third largest city, Ta’iz, have endured unimaginable circumstances for the past three years. Civilians fear to go outside lest...
The Two Main Ways Corporate Media Will Whitewash McCain’s Legacy
“McCain has never wavered in his support for democracy and human rights,” the Washington Post‘s Fred Hiatt declares (12/17/17)–which will be news to...
‘March of Shame’: Tens of Thousands of Israelis Protest Against Netanyahu, Corruption
Tens of thousands of people rallied in protest on Saturday night in Tel Aviv, Israel against Israeli government corruption and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Backlash as Prince Harry announces he is about to marry a TV star —...
Published time: 27 Nov, 2017 16:07
News that Prince Harry and his fiancée Meghan Markle...
Saudi Arabia to buy $7bn-worth of US precision weapons from Raytheon & Boeing –...
Published time: 23 Nov, 2017 15:02
As part of the mammoth $110-billion deal brokered by Donald...
The Ongoing Agony of the Obama-Trump War on the People of Yemen!
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation.
— Martin Luther King, “Beyond Vietnam”
Yemen, the poorest...
Queen Elizabeth II is worth more than Vodafone, Barclays & Tesco — RT UK...
Sitting on her throne, a chopper out back and private security out front, dripping in...
Saudis and Trump: Gambling Bigly | By Richard Heinberg
“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive...
Remaking Armistice Day into Veterans Day – Consortiumnews
The holiday now celebrated as Veterans Day – to thank American soldiers – started as Armistice Day, a time for...
What Craziness Is Going On in Saudi Arabia? | By Eric Margolis
What’s going on in Saudi Arabia? Over 200 bigwigs detained and billions of ‘illegal profits’ of some $800 billion confiscated.
The kingdom is in an...
Behind the Saudi Troublemaking – Consortiumnews
Saudi Arabia’s monarchy is bombing Yemen, locking up domestic rivals and stirring up trouble in Lebanon, while a slow-burning confrontation...
3 times the royals got trolled — RT UK News
The Duke of Cambridge has warned of the toll that social media can take on...
Queen should give her offshore cash to Grenfell residents, Kensington Labour MP says —...
Published time: 9 Nov, 2017 17:26
Queen Elizabeth II should give the money her estate...
The Times hails Belgian royal’s conservation of the Congo – a place ravaged by...
“Why would a Belgian royal risk his life to save a Congolese wilderness?” reads a...
Lenin’s iconic announcement of Russia’s 1917 October Revolution to be shown in UK for...
An artefact marking a turning point in Russian history – the proclamation of the 1917...
Pony up! Queen makes £7mn from horse racing in 30 years — RT UK...
Published time: 24 Oct, 2017 09:29
The Queen’s racehorses have raked in £6.7 million (US$8.8...
Camilla slept with Prince Charles to get revenge, her biographer claims
The least sexy affair involving the British monarchy ever to be exposed just got interesting.
...
How the BBC Spreads Lies: How to read propaganda
Eric Zuesse, originally published at The Saker
Propaganda frequently masquerades as ‘news’. A ‘news’ narrative’s relevant background needs to be understood, in order for the...
Prince Philip 'unfaithful' to the Queen & Harry 'can’t actually fly a helicopter,’ claims...
Published time: 27 Sep, 2017 09:02
Labour MP Emma Dent Coad is facing backlash after...
After 27 Years of Determined Protest, Saudi Women Win the Right to Drive
Rights groups applauded Saudi Arabia's announcement on Tuesday that it will allow women to drive beginning next June, after decades of criticism from other...
Royal couple Kate & Wills are ‘ridiculous,’ according to their own Kensington MP
Published time: 26 Sep, 2017 13:11
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are “ridiculous” and...
Live and Let Di
By Taki Theodoracopulos Taki's Magazine September 5, 2017
I was appalled. She had asked Lord John Somerset to ask me to join her, and I rose...
Topless photos of Kate Middleton land French magazine with 103,000 euro bill
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be awarded €103,000 (£92,000) in damages by French...
Royal baby frenzy relegates Brexit & North Korea to backburner
Published time: 4 Sep, 2017 12:41 Edited time: 4 Sep, 2017 14:32
Forget Brexit negotiations...
Man with sword arrested in Buckingham Palace terrorist incident shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ – police
Published time: 26 Aug, 2017 11:18 Edited time: 26 Aug, 2017 11:46
London Police say...
Queen will not stand aside to make way for ‘unpopular’ Prince Charles, insist royal...
Published time: 21 Aug, 2017 10:35
The Queen has no intention of handing the crown...
Time To Call the Question: Is Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons Constitutional?
Adam Liptak wrote in the New York Times several days ago that law schools are preparing to delve into numerous Constitutional questions that have...
Queen to effectively ‘abdicate’ at 95, Charles becoming king in ‘all but name’ –...
Published time: 14 Aug, 2017 12:08
The Queen is planning to abdicate, ceding her crown...
How Media Spread CIA’s Sectarian, Anti-Iran ‘Mideast Cold War’ Narrative
A new Vox video (7/17/17) is the latest addition to a media onslaught that propagates numerous misleading talking points to demonize Iran—just as the...
US ship fires warning shots at Iranians in Persian Gulf
Published time: 25 Jul, 2017 13:50 Edited time: 25 Jul, 2017 14:07
A US patrol ship...
A Coup in the House of Saud
What has been an open secret across the Arab world is not a secret anymore even in the US: What happened last month in...
Winston Churchill tried to cover up royal family’s ‘Nazi connection’
Britain’s wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill desperately tried to suppress documents that showed that the...
Royal privilege? Princess Eugenie given university place despite low grades, claims lecturer
Published time: 18 Jul, 2017 12:33 Edited time: 18 Jul, 2017 12:37
The Queen’s granddaughter,...
Trump’s Majesty
Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann | CC BY 2.0
The authors of our Constitution were of many minds on many issues, slavery most of all. But...
Queen’s taxpayer-funded income doubles to £82mn, up 167% since 2012
The government has almost doubled the Queen’s income to £82 million, apparently to cover the...
Prince Harry says nobody wants to be king, republicans tell him he’s ‘free to...
Published time: 22 Jun, 2017 12:26
Prince Harry says nobody in the royal household wants...
Jeremy Corbyn didn’t bow to the Queen at state opening of Parliament (VIDEO)
Published time: 21 Jun, 2017 12:29 Edited time: 21 Jun, 2017 13:03
Labour leader Jeremy...
Bahraini royals threatened human rights activists on London’s Oxford Street – reports
Police are investigating allegations that members of the Bahraini royal family threatened two human rights...
Saudi Arabia is Destabilizing the World
Just a few months ago, the governor of Indonesia’s largest city, Jakarta, seemed headed for easy re-election despite the fact that he is a...
Trump’s Saudi speech puts commerce secretary to sleep (VIDEO)
Published time: 22 May, 2017 16:52 Edited time: 23 May, 2017 10:43
US Secretary of Commerce...
How Manchester Became Al-Qaeda Town UK
Those who claim that Israel is opposed to Donald Trump’s now openly warm relations with Saudi Arabia are missing the actual point. On the...
Against Equality
May 24, 2017 By Reinhard Wolff | redice.tv Editor's Note: The video based on this essay can be found here. Equality...
America’s Retarded Awareness
Alternative ideas don’t come easily to Americans. It seems that Americans imported colonial hierarchal practices from Europe to cultivate them to their own advantage....
Media to Trump: Don’t Cozy Up to Dictators–Unless They’re the Right Dictators
The New York Times (5/1/17) is critical when Trump embraces a despot not on the Approved Despots List.
After a series of friendly gestures by President...
Our Media Problem is Deeper than We Admit
The roots of our media dysfunction are deeply embedded in the ethos of the country, and always have been. We are -- in our...
David Ignatius’ 15 Years of Running Spin for Saudi Regime
David Ignatius on Saudi Arabia: “Reform plans appear to be moving ahead slowly but steadily”–as always.
Last week, in “A Young Prince Is Reimagining Saudi...
Transgender students ‘shouldn’t have to declare sex for uni sports teams,’ says NUS
Transgender and intersex students should not have to declare their birth gender when applying to university sports teams, the National Union of Students (NUS)...
Israel and Saudi Arabia: a Match Made in Heaven (or in Washington)
Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu
If we were to believe all the propaganda we would think (the occupation state of)...
How to Lose the Next War in the Middle East (Short Answer: Fight it!)
Make no mistake: after 15 years of losing wars, spreading terror movements, and multiplying failed states across the Greater Middle East, America will fight...
Mr. Libertarian
DAILY BELL: Please answer these questions as our readers were not already aware of your fine work and considered opinions. Let’s jump right in....
A Day of Betrayal
It is April 6, 1917 – a day of great betrayal. The House of Representatives of the United States votes to declare war with...
Excusing Bahrain’s Human Rights Abuses
The Trump administration has decided to remove any conditions regarding human rights from sales of F-16 fighter aircraft and other arms to Bahrain. The...
What austerity? Taxpayer-funded £369mn Buckingham Palace renovation approved
Funding for the renovation of Buckingham Palace has been approved by MPs, and it will...
When Canada Invaded Russia
The corporate media presents Russia as militaristic but ignores Canada’s invasion of that country.
100 years ago today a popular revolt ousted the Russian monarchy....
Saudi prince goes to Washington for Trump meet
Saudi Arabia’s royal court said the kingdom’s second in line to the throne will meet President...
The Revolt of the Intelligence Community
Factionalism and fury are basic ingredients of the US Republic. Designed as a classic response to the lynch mob fantasy of direct democracy, and...
Trump’s Inauguration and the Legitimacy Fetish
Jonathan Turley has spoken.
As John Lewis and 66 other Democratic members of Congress boycotted the festivities surrounding the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, they...
Video: Retweet the Revolution: Unfollowing Tsar, following Lenin (#1917LIVE Promo)
Follow twitter.com/rt_1917 The Russian Revolution of 1917, which abolished the monarchy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union, returns to life with...
ISIS, sectarian conflict & chaos: Iraq 10 years after Saddam Hussein’s death
A decade after Saddam Hussein was tried, convicted and executed, Iraq is struggling to defeat Islamic...
UK think tank covertly funded by Bahrain royal family – leaked papers
The International Institute of Strategic Studies, an influential UK diplomacy and security think tank run...
Video: ‘Puppeteer in proxy wars’: Boris Johnson accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘abusing Islam’
Key UK ally Saudi Arabia has become the latest target of Boris Johnson's extravagant rhetoric. The British foreign secretary claims the Gulf monarchy is...
Trump’s Peace Democrat
Two weeks after Donald Trump’s shocking upset of Hillary Clinton, the imperious and imperial neoconservatives and their liberal interventionist understudies may finally be losing...
#NotMyPrince: ‘Anti-colonial’ Twitter campaign rejects Prince Harry’s Caribbean tour
Prince Harry is facing anti-monarchy protesters during his trip to the Caribbean, where the hashtag...
UK govt arranging meeting of Trump & Queen at Windsor as ‘secret weapon’ to...
An invitation to Donald Trump to stay at Windsor Castle and meet with the Queen...
Bahrain opposition leader accuses Prince Charles of ‘whitewashing’ regime abuses
A Bahraini opposition leader has accused Prince Charles of ‘whitewashing’ the country’s crackdown on dissent...
No EU Empire Works
The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable, by Jack Beatty.
At a Bosnian railway station in 1910 a would-be assassin...
Blair went ‘beyond the facts’ & damaged UK politics when advocating for Iraq invasion...
Former British PM Tony Blair resorted to rhetoric unsupported by any compelling evidence when he promoted the Iraq invasion to his cabinet and the...
Mass Migration
Observing the US presidential electoral campaign, Thierry Meyssan analyses the resurgence of an old and weighty conflict of civilisation. Hillary Clinton has just declared...
Protest against Bahraini king’s visit to Downing Street halted by police
The Kingdom of Bahrain’s authoritarian ruler King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa visited British Prime...
The Tragedy in Yemen
Imagine if the Islamic Republic of Iran, complaining that its regional rival Saudi Arabia was meddling in a neighbor’s politics for sectarian reasons, led...
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Sheikh Nimr has been the fiercest critic of the Kingdom’s absolute Sunni monarchy for the last decade, but gained a considerable public following after leading a series of protests in 2011 in opposition to the Saudi military’s violent intervention and suppression of the pro-democracy movement in neighboring Bahrain, a satellite state with a Shiite majority ruled by a heavy-handed Sunni dynasty. His sermons and political activism continually emphasized non-violent resistance.
The Kingdom’s decision to sentence Nimr to death has complex implications that will push sectarian tensions to fever pitch inside Saudi Arabia and throughout the region, dangerously sharpening tension with Iran. Prominent clerics in Iran and Bahrain, as well as Shiite militant groups such as Hezbollah of Lebanon and the Houthi movement of Yemen, have all condemned the verdict and warned the Kingdom not to proceed with the execution.
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by Stephen Lendman
Bahrain's Al Khalifa monarchy rules despotically. Ruthlessly. Extrajudicially. State terror is official policy.
Activists are targeted, arrested, tortured, and imprisoned. Kangaroo court proceedings deny justice.
Nabeel Rajab is one of Bahrain's best. He's a prominent human rights leader. A courageous one. Committed for right over wrong.
In 2002, he, current political prisoner Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, and others co-founded the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR).
Its objectives include:
(1) Promoting civil, political, and economic freedom.
(2) Ending racial discrimination.
(3) Disseminating human rights culture.
(4) Supporting and protecting victims' rights.
Promoting fundamental human and civil rights in Bahrain risks life and limb. Rajab was targeted before.
He was harassed, vilified, beaten, injured, arrested, tortured and detained. Bahraini justice is none at all.
Activists like Rajab know what they face. They challenge Al Khalifa ruthlessness anyway.
On August 16, 2012, Rajab was sentenced to three years in prison. At the time, BCHR condemned it "in the strongest terms."
He was already serving a three month sentence. For defending fundamental rights. For "libeling the citizens of the town of Muharraq over twitter," prosecutors said.
Rajab responded, saying "(y)ou can jail me for 3 years or 30 years, but I will not back down or retreat."
No matter the personal cost. He promised continued support for democratic values. He called them too important to be denied.
"I think we have to pay a much higher price than what normally people pay for freedom and democracy because you will not hear much about what’s going on here, as much as you will hear things happening in different countries," he explained.
On March 20, 2011, masked security forces dragged him from his home. They did so after midnight. They blindfolded and handcuffed him.
They severely beat him. He was attacked before. He was interrogated about statements he made. His family was threatened.
His children were harassed in school. His wife was sacked from her job.
He was banned from travel for several months. He was denied permission to participate in human rights conferences and meetings.
He was imprisoned for "illegal practices, inciting illegal assemblies, and organizing unlicensed demonstrations through social media websites."
He championed justice. Fundamental human and civil rights. Bahraini authorities criminalized them. King Hamad calls peaceful protests "foreign plots."
Rajab said Washington supports Bahraini despotism. Including "attacks against human rights defenders," he explained. Before his arrest, he said:
"Given that Bahrain in essence lacks a judiciary system that is independent and/or fair, and is far from being in line with international standards of a fair trial, I have decided to boycott the trial against myself."
"The judiciary system in Bahrain, today, is a tool used against human rights defenders and people calling for democracy and justice."
He explained two formative incidents. They changed him. They inspired his human rights advocacy.
"Two events affected me most," he said. "(O)ne when a colleague dropped himself from second floor to escape under-covered police who stormed school."
"The second incident was when a dear teacher was arrested. That is when my voice started to rise and become annoying."
"I was caught while writing apolitical human rights statements on school walls and was given the choice to either be submitted to police or to switch schools."
"I was the top student back then, but I choose to switch to Sheikh Abdul Aziz school." In college he challenged all forms of injustice.
Later he got involved in national campaigns. In 1999, he co-founded the Bahrain Human Rights Society. In 2002, BCHR followed.
It supports "a prosperous democratic country free of discrimination and other violations of human rights."
It "encourage(s) and support(s) individuals and groups to be proactive in the protection of their own and others' rights."
It "struggle(s) to promote democracy and human rights in accordance with international norms."
Rajab won numerous human rights awards. For wanting Bahrainis to live free. For championing fundamental democratic rights.
He's now free. After serving two years of his three-year sentence. BCHR welcomed him back.
"His release comes at a time when thousands of others continue to be imprisoned and targeted on trumped up charges," it said.
"It is important to note that (he's) not being released as a gesture of goodwill, but rather because he served the full length of his arbitrary detention sentence."
On December 11, 2012, Bahrain's Court of Appeal reduced his sentence to two years. In prison, he was tortured. He was ill-treated.
He was subjected to "dire conditions," said BCHR. He was mostly isolated in solitary confinement. Almost naked, he said.
RT International interviewed Rajab. "After two years in prison, I see Bahrain's political environment as more difficult and still without a roadmap for real reforms," he said.
"I was kept separate in a separate building for two years, just to make sure that I did not connect with the other prisoners," he added.
"There were very few people who were with me in that separate building."
"They were people who did not speak my language or people who were charged with criminal charges, which was completely different from what I was charged with."
He'll keep fighting for justice, he stressed.
"I know this is the cost of the struggle in this part of the world and I am planning to continue my struggle, no matter how much is the cost, knowing that all the countries have freedom and democracy today," he said.
"Maybe some people have to pay this cost in order to achieve democracy and human rights and I am one of many people in this country who is willing to pay this cost for my nation and my second generation to have democracy, justice and human rights."
He was only tortured once, he said. Emotionally things were tougher. Others were less fortunate, he explained.
"I have witnessed other people being tortured in front of my eyes."
"I have seen people being tortured by the police and I made a lot of noise while I was there."
"I sent a complaint to the United Nations and they finally told me that they are looking into those accusations."
He said Bahraini political prisoners get little or no attention.
"We have been ignored by the international community because Bahrain is with the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, which has a lot of influence in the west," he said.
The struggle for justice in Bahrain continues. Achieving it is distant. It's a long ways off, Rajab stressed.
"When I was sent to jail, there was no violence. I tweeted that I have said to the government that if you take peaceful people like me, who advocate peaceful gatherings and put them in jail, then you will face people who commit violence."
"All human rights activists in Bahrain are behind bars and this is why you see such violence."
Achieving real Bahraini democracy is his fundamental goal.
"All the aims which I am holding and the values that I am fighting for, it keeps me going, knowing that a lot of people are waiting for me, a lot of people need me to be out, need me to be focused and strong," he said.
"I will be there for my people."
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) called his detention arbitrary.
It contravened articles 19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and articles 9, paragraph 1, 14, 21 and 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, it said.
Horrific human rights abuses occur daily. Bahraini officials are rewarded for committing them.
In July 2013, evidence proving Lt-Colonel Mubarak bin Huwail's guilt was dismissed.
Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa responded saying: "Thank you for your good work."
Bahrain's culture of impunity shows what human rights champions face. Rajab challenged this system courageously. He's not about to quit now.
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Black propaganda is revealed immediately by its motto. ‘Nation shall speak Truth unto Nation’; it strangles truth in most minutes...
Glenn Greenwald on Hillary Clinton: “She’s a f***ing hawk and like a neocon, practically..”
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald's thoughts on a possible Hillary Clinton presidential run, in today's Politico:
"She's a f***ing hawk and like a neocon, practically," he...
Elections, Superbugs, Operation Choke Point — New World Next Week
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Story #1: India’s Election Is Biggest Voting Even...
Interview 874 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on New World Next Week: the largest puppet election in the world proceeds in India; WHO warns of antibiotic resistant superbugs; and the DOJ pressures banks to close porn stars\' bank accounts in Operation Choke Point. Talk Nation Radio: Fahad Desmukh: Western PR Firms Cover for Bahrain’s Abuses
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The brutal monarchy in Bahrain hires Western public relations firms (not to mention a lawyer now in the news for marrying U.S. actor George Cloone...
Justifying Murder, Net No-trality, #myNYPD — New World Next Week
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Story #1: Federal Judges Order Obama to Release Memo...
Interview 865 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on New World Next Week: Obama ordered to release American assassination justification memo; the FCC moves to gut net neutrality; and the #myNYPD campaign backfires big time. 
Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court Are Wrong: The Original Intent of the U.S....
Eric Zuesse
RINF Alternative News
The original intent of the U.S. Constitution can most accurately be determined upon the basis of the debates that occurred at the...
Amnesty Report Slams Qatar For Exploiting Migrant Workers
Human rights charity alleges forced labour, abuse and sexual violence of migrant workers in the emirate
Amnesty International added to growing pressure on Qatar today...
Obama: “Remaking the Middle East”: The American Gulag
Prof. James Petras
RINF Alternative News
During the beginning of his first term in office President Obama promised “to remake the Middle East into a region of prosperity...
Citizen Kane — FLNWO #14
This month on Film, Literature and the New World Order James teams up with James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com to dissect the man, the myth and the legend of Citizen Kane. From the brilliance of the film\'s production to an examination of the Hearst/Kane/Welles parallels to a discussion about art attacking power, this wide-ranging podcast covers it all. Crowdsourcing Surveillance, Mainstream Conspiracies, No GMO Russia — New World Next Week
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Story #1: Los Angeles Law Enforcement Looking To Cro...
War Is Good for Us, Dumb New Book Claims
Ian Morris has stuck his dog's ear in his mouth, snapped a selfie, and proclaimed "Man Bites Dog." His new book War: What Is It Good For? Conflict and Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots is intended to prove that war is good for children a...
Interview 863 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on New World Next Week: Police try to crowdsource the snitch state; conspiracy theories (against the boogeymen) become "acceptable"; and Russia blocks GMOs. Good News Next Week — #NewWorldNextWeek
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Monsanto’s ‘Healthier Environment’ Ads Ban...
Interview 853 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
On this special edition of the New World Next Week, James and James bring you the good news from around the world thanks to our friends in the Twittersphere...because it can\'t be doom and gloom all the time. New Lows for Obama’s Failed Middle East Policy
Obama seemed so traumatized by his Middle East blunders he decided to take a break, giving Ukraine a try instead. The distraction was just what the president needed. And the U.S. media followed obediently, while barely glancing at the flames in the rear-view mirror — until another explosion piqued their interest. The predictable break down of peace talks […]
Obama in Saudi Arabia: Will Riyadh really go it alone?
Following his visit to Brussels where US President Barack Obama underscored the common values and principles shared between the United States and its European allies, the American president jetted off to meet another strategic ally. Saudi Arabia, a state that is the antithesis of those very western values that Obama passionately espouses, has been in the US sphere of influence for decades, and its opulent royal family has traditionally maintained close personal ties to American leaders.
Obama’s visit comes in the midst of a policy rift that has emerged between the two allies over Washington’s policies in the Middle East, which threaten to undermine this significant economic and security partnership. The two allies appear to be strange bedfellows at first glance, but when the relationship is examined within the context of a long-standing geopolitical and economic oil-for-security partnership, lofty rhetoric about western values becomes subservient to the harmonious marriage of convenience.
Read the full story on RT.com
Nile Bowie is a Malaysia-based political analyst and a columnist with Russia Today. He can be reached at nilebowie@gmail.com.
Canadian arms sale promotes misogyny, royal repression,
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper claims to take “strong, principled positions in our dealings with other nations, whether popular or not.” But, even the most ardent Conservative supporters must wonder what principled position is behind the recent government-sponsored arms deal … Continue reading →
Sunstein Infiltrates, Quakebot LA, GMO Pimps — #NewWorldNextWeek
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Story #1: ‘Most Transparent’ White House...
Neocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit
Robert Parry
RINF Alternative News
You might think that policymakers with so many bloody fiascos on their résumés as the U.S. neocons, including the catastrophic Iraq...
Interview 842 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: "Mr. Cognitive Infiltration" publishes a new book on those crazy conspiracy theorists; Quakebot breaks the LA quake story; and industry lobbyist/scientists pimp GMO garbage. Missing Plane, Hedge Fund Bets, Between Two Puppets — #NewWorldNextWeek
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Story #1: The Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines F...
Interview 838 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: the mystery of the missing flight MH370 continues to deepen; hedge funds bet against businesses and then lobby to bring them down; and the puppet-in-chief pimps Obamacare on an online comedy show. Osama’s son on trial, RT revolt, IBM turns Watson into chef — #NewWorldNextWeek
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Story #1: Osama bin Laden’s Son-in-Law Trial B...
Interview 835 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: Osama\'s son-in-law goes on trial in New York; RT anchors revolt against coverage of Ukraine; and IBM turns Watson into a chef. Obama’s Far Right Foreign Policy
“Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are.” — ancient proverb The conflicts in Ukraine, Venezuela, and Syria have one thing in common: the U.S. government is in favor of the groups who aspire to topple — or who have toppled — the government in power. Thus, U.S. politicians are […]
America vs. the World — Invasion, Occupation, Disruption: U.S. Imperialism is Alive and Well
Margaret Kimberley
RINF Alternative News
President Obama has placed whole nations on his Kill List. Syria and Venezuela are to join Libya and Iraq as states...
Beyond the Bubble, Beyond Fukushima: Reconsidering the History of Postwar Japan
Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George
RINF Alternative News
Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George make a case for revisiting Japan’s postwar history in the second...
Banking on Never-Ending Power and Rights
Greg Coleridge
RINF Alternative News
"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did,...
An Introduction to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Welcome. This is James Corbett of corbettreport.com, and you’re listening to The Well-Read Anarchist. This is Episode 2 ...
The Well-Read Anarchist #002 — An Introduction to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
In this inaugural edition of The Well-Read Anarchist podcast, we explore the life and work of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. From his humble origins to his bold proclamation of anarchism to his brief political career, his imprisonment and exile, and his posthumous banishment to the fringes of the canon, we take a look at the thoughts and ideas of the first self-proclaimed anarchist. Joining us to do this are Shawn Wilbur, an independent scholar and Proudhon translator, and Dr. Alex Prichard, a lecturer in international relations at Exeter University and author of Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. The Software That Can Predict the Future — #NewWorldNextWeek
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Story #1: This Algorithm Can Predict a Revolution
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Surveillance Valley Has Put a Billion Bugs in a Billion Pockets
While Google is notoriously private, one thing we do know is that the company has a nasty reputation for repeatedly making a farce of...
What’s Missing From President’s Day: the People They Enslaved
Clarence Lusane
RINF Alternative News
Schools across the country are adorned with posters of the 44 U.S. presidents and the years they served in office....
Interview 825 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: algorithms are being used to predict the geopolitical future; additives and chemicals are being removed from more foods as corporations run scared; and James and James run through some updates to old NWNW stories. Bankster Suicides and Bank Run Chatter — #NewWorldNextWeek
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Story #1: Harvard Economist Is Pulling All His Money Fro...
Interview 819 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: bank runs feared as economy falls apart; Sochi terrornoia grips MSM and alt media alike; and academics finally discover torrents. Thailand’s political crisis: Time up for Thaksin?
Protestors calling for the ouster of Thailand’s caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra disrupted the February 2 polls by obstructing traffic and blocking access to voting sites, forcing authorities to postpone further voting until a later date is decided upon.
Thailand has been marred by political upheaval since November, and the country’s two rival protest movements accuse each other of launching anonymous attacks on one another, usually by targeted shootings or by the use of small explosives, leaving several dead.
The consensus of independent analysts and others who have monitored the attacks suggest that they were mostly launched by government supporters, who have used insurgent tactics in the past to support the Shinawatra political clan.
Thai political movements have been characterized in recent times by color affiliations. Protestors wearing yellow shirts represent the faction aligned to the all-powerful Thai monarchy and the royal establishment that has traditionally wielded tremendous social, political and economic power over the country.
Read the full story on RT.com
Nile Bowie is a Malaysia-based political analyst and a columnist with Russia Today. He can be reached at nilebowie@gmail.com.
#SOTU? STFU! — New World Next Week
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Story #1: Obama Misleads Nation on Iran Deal
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Interview 814 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: the POTUS delivers his SOTU propaganda; a key 3d printing patent is set to expire; and the first American arrested via drone is sentenced. 
The Barriers to Iranian—American Rapprochement: Israel and Saudi Arabia
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
RINF Alternative News
Among US clients and allies in the Middle East there are fears that the security of their regimes had been...
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Interview 811 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
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Thai government imposes state of emergency
Peter Symonds
RINF Alternative News
Amid continuing anti-government protests, the Thai government has imposed a state of emergency on Bangkok and surrounding provinces in a bid...
The Israeli Imperator
Uri Avnery
RINF Alternative News
IN THE middle of the 70s, Ariel Sharon asked me to arrange something for him - a meeting with Yasser Arafat.
A...
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Story #1: Devastating Dossier on ‘Abuse’ by ...
Interview 807 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: The ICC receives a dossier on UK war crimes in Iraq; CFR Dream Team to take reins on Fed Board of Governors; and West Virginia worries mount as second chemical site deemed unsafe. 
What Is It That Causes a Great Power Like the U.S. to Rot from...
The wisdom Machiavelli is waiting for...
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Timothy Alexander Guzman
RINF Alternative News
As war continues to ravage many parts of the Middle East, Orwellian technology continues to make its presence more apparent....
High-Tech Tyranny in the Gulf: Biometric Technology Mandatory for All Citizens in the UAE
As war continues to ravage many parts of the Middle East, Orwellian technology continues to make its presence more apparent. Israel uses biometric technology...
Global Terrorism and Saudi Arabia: Bandar’s Terror Network
Saudi Arabia has all the vices and none of the virtues of...
GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling — New World Next Week
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Story #1: Original Cheerios to Go GMO-Free
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Historical Powder Keg: Is 2014 going be a 1914 Redux for Europe and the...
International columnists are predicting that quesstential “ Sarajevo moment” this year. A spark which would ignite an international conflagration, like the assassination of...
Interview 801 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: Cheerios go GMO-free; the NSA back door exploits are revealed; and more celebrities shill for dictators. The New York Times on Destabilisation of the Middle East: Falsifying History and Calling...
Chris Marsden
With Syria's Western-backed sectarian war for regime-change spilling over into both Iraq and Lebanon between forces that root themselves in divisions between Sunni...
The New York Times pronounces on destabilisation of the Middle East
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Military-backed Regime in Egypt Prepares for Referendum Amid Escalating Violence
Abayomi Azikiwe
RINF Alternative News
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Cruz to Renounce Canadian Citizenship; but Qualified to be President?
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Saudi Arabia and CIA Behind Terror Bombings in Southern Russia?
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Sunni Monarchs Back YouTube Hate Preachers
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The Arc of Justice and the Long Run: Hope, History, and Unpredictability
I don't know what's coming. I...
The Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervention in World Conflicts
Introduction
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The eternal sunshine of the mind-controlled classroom
The eternal sunshine of the mind-controlled classroom -a short story- by Jon Rappoport December 20, 2013 www.nomorefakenews.com I’m reprinting this piece, in view of the recent report on the vastly escalating diagnosis of ADHD, a “disorder” for which there is no diagnostic test. “Well,” Jimmy’s teacher said, “we’re trying to emphasize cooperation. But Jimmy has […]
The Legal System’s Role in the Disintegration of America
“The biggest problem is not to get people to accept new ideas, but to get them to forget the old ones.”–Nassau Senior
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New World Next Year — 2014
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week we look back at 2013 for the biggest stories of the year ...
New York Times: Supporting US Wars, Terrorism and Repression
Longstanding Times policy is consistent. It promotes establishment values. It supports wealth, power and privilege. It endorses global US dominance.
When America goes to war...
Interview 796 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Year we look back at 2013 for the biggest stories of the year and look forward to 2014 with our picks for important trends for the new year. New York Times Editors Support Wrong Over Right
New York Times Editors Support Wrong Over Right
by Stephen Lendman
Longstanding Times policy is consistent. It promotes establishment values. It supports wealth, power and privilege. It endorses global US dominance.
When America goes to war or plans one, Times editors march in lockstep. Propaganda substitutes for truth and full disclosure. Managed news misinformation is featured.
Editorial policy defends the indefensible. It backs wrong over right. It justifies what demands condemnation.
It supports banksters looting the federal treasury. It does so by not exposing and denouncing them. It does it by not demanding top Wall Street officials be prosecuted.
Monied interests run America. Times editors ignore it. They turn a blind eye to America's de facto one party state. They endorse sham US elections. They give legitimacy to a rigged process.
They give short shrift to growing US poverty, unemployment, underemployment, hunger, homelessness, and human misery.
They support destroying vital safety net protections when most needed. They endorse force-fed austerity instead of denouncing it.
News they claim fit to print isn't fit to read. Managed news misinformation substitutes. Vital truths readers most need to know are suppressed. Core journalistic ethics are violated.
On December 17, a flagrant human rights abuser got feature op-ed space. Doing so effectively endorses his nation's policy.
Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al Saud is Saudi Arabia's UK ambassador. He's a royal House of Saud member. His father, Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz, is a close King Abdullah ally.
Giving bin Abdulaziz feature op-space effectively supports one of the world's most repressive regimes.
State terror is official policy. Human and civil rights are denied. Authority rests solely with King Abdullah and royal family members.
Democracy is strictly forbidden. Constitutional provisions afford ordinary citizens and other residents no rights. Women are especially marginalized and denied.
Political parties and national elections are prohibited. So is media freedom. Most web sites are blocked.
Anyone dissenting is subject to arbitrary arrest and detention. Political critics, independent journalists, academics, foreign nationals, and human rights activists are especially vulnerable.
Fundamentalist Sunni Islam Wahhabism is Saudi's official state religion. Fanaticism defines it. Majority Shia nations are considered enemies. So are secular Arab states.
Wahhabis want them toppled. They want their own version of Islam replacing them. They operate lawlessly. They employ extreme tactics to achieve aims.
Saudi Arabia is hostile to Iran. It wants Syria's Assad removed. It's heavily involved in recruiting, funding and arming terrorist invaders.
It was caught red-handed supplying them with chemical weapons. New York Times editors ignored what demanded headlines.
They reported nothing about new US/Saudi-backed death squad atrocities. Dozens of Adra, Syrian men, women, children, infants, the elderly and infirm were massacred in cold blood.
Doing so is one of the most egregious crimes since Syria's conflict erupted. Defenseless civilians were slaughtered like sheep.
Local residents called terrorist invaders "the decapitators." They burned some civilians to death.
They targeted government employees and their families. They had lists of names and addresses supplied them.
They conducted sham Sharia trials. Guilt by accusation assured death by beheading. Others were shot in cold blood. Some were burned alive in bakery ovens.
Eyewitnesses described mass slaughter everywhere. Children were massacred like adults. Terrorists waged war without mercy.
One survivor said everyone at Adra Ummalia hospital was killed. Syria is Obama's war. He supports death squad invaders.
He's providing funding, arming, training and direction. Death squad diplomacy substitutes for peaceful conflict resolution.
War could continue for years. There's nothing whatever civil about it. US-backed death squads invaded Syria. Assad responsibly battles to defeat them.
Syria is being ravaged and destroyed. Doing so adds another horrific war crime to Obama's rap sheet.
Unspeakable numbers of innocent Syrian civilians could perish before conflict ends. Obama bears full responsibility. Key NATO partners, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and rogue Arab state allies share it.
So do Times and other scoundrel media editors. Misreporting shows support for unconscionable crimes.
Giving feature op-ed space to an enemy of peace and egregious human rights abuser reflects it.
Bin Abdulaziz headlined his Times op-ed "Saudi Arabia Will Go It Alone."
He called relations "with our Western partners..tested..because of differences over Iran and Syria."
"We believe that many of the West’s policies on both (countries) risk the stability and security of the Middle East."
"This is a dangerous gamble, about which we cannot remain silent, and will not stand idly by."
"The crisis in Syria continues unabated." He stopped short of explaining Saudi involvement in exacerbating it.
Times editors ignore it. They wrongfully blame Assad for death squad invader crimes. They do it repeatedly. They do it reprehensibly.
It's longstanding Times policy. So is giving feature op-ed space to loathsome figures like bin Abdulaziz.
He called Assad's government "a weapon of mass destruction. Chemical weapons are but a small cog in (his) killing machine."
He called it "an evil regime that is hurting and harming the Syrian people." He lied multiple times throughout his commentary claiming it.
Recent polls show Assad has strong popular support. In early September, Press TV cited a US daily news service World Tribune one.
It showed 70% of Syrians support Assad. Another 20% back neither side. Only 10% endorse opposition elements.
Don't expect New York Times editors to explain. Don't expect bin Abdulaziz and likeminded rogues to feature truth and full disclosure.
Their agenda is ruthlessly repressive. Bin Abdulaziz wants the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria's secular government toppled.
He wants Wahhabist extremism replacing them. He wants them turned into regional terror states. He wants them run as repressively as Saudi Arabia.
His notion of peaceful conflict resolution is preventing it. He accused "some Western capitals (of) risking the security of the whole Arab world" by failing to increase toughness.
"This means that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has no choice but to become more assertive in international affairs," he said.
He ludicrously claimed doing so is a way "to stand up for the genuine stability our region desperately needs."
"(W)e have a humanitarian responsibility to do what we can to end the suffering in Syria."
In February 1968, then AP correspondent Peter Arnett wrote about Ben Tre. He cited an unnamed US major saying: "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."
Intensive bombing and shelling slaughtered Vietnamese civilians. In mid-March, Charlie Company entered My Lai. Destroying the village to save it repeated. Hundreds were slaughtered.
Most were women, children, infants, and elderly victims. Bodies were found mutilated. Women were raped, then murdered.
Crimes of war and against humanity reflect longstanding US policy. Since early 2011, they continue in Syria.
Media scoundrels ignore them. They wrongfully blame Assad for terrorists' crimes. Saudi Arabia is very much complicit. It's a rogue state writ large.
Bin Abdulaziz shamelessly called its monarchy and likeminded ones "champions of moderation."
His notion of "humanitarian responsibility" is mass slaughter and destruction. It's unspeakable atrocities.
It's wrongfully blaming victims. It's waging war on peace, stability and security. Times editors march in lockstep.
They do so disgracefully. They shamelessly betray readers consistently. Doing so reflects longstanding Times policy.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."
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The US/EU Egyptian Roadmap to Hell
A number of human rights NGOs have condemned the string of recent massacres by the Egyptian Junta of their citizens, including Human Rights Watch...
1,000 Days and Counting
1,000 Days and Countingby Stephen LendmanDecember 13 marked the 1,000th day of Bahraini protests. At issue are long denied fundamental rights. Majority Shias face systematic discrimination. The ruling Al Khalifa monarchy governs lawlessly. Ruthles...
Elections in Nepal and Questions for People’s Struggles
by Noaman G. Ali
The recent elections in Nepal appear to spell a heavy retreat for the country's Maoist movement. After initiating a People's War...
Hagel tried to ‘placate’ Bahrain regime
American author Colin Cavell says the recent visit of US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to Bahrain was an attempt to appease the dictatorial regime...
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Hitila, Media PTSD, Viral Truth — New World Next Week
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Reality Star Tila Tequila Converts to Nazism, ...
Anti-government protests continue in Thailand
By John Roberts13 December 2013
The tense standoff continues in Bangkok between the Thai government and protesters demanding that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra step...
US Suspends Military Aid to its Syrian Proxies
Keith Jones
The United States and Britain have suspended military aid to the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army–the proxy force through which...
Interview 790 — New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: Tila Tequila converts to Nazism...or something; new research people can get PTSD from watching media coverage of traumatic events; and viral stories blur the lines between fact and fiction. Thai prime minister to dissolve parliament
By John Roberts9 December 2013
In a further sign of the country's deepening political crisis, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra announced today that she...
What’s at Stake with the Iran Nuclear Treaty? Intrusive Measures on Iran’s Sovereignty
The six-month nuclear agreement among Iran and the “5+1” countries has been described as a breakthrough, a departure, a disaster or a betrayal, depending...
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Here we go again. On Israel and the US losing their UNESCO voting rights, ‘Israel's ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan, ‘said in an interview...
Nepal’s Maoists suffer landslide election defeat
By W.A. Sunil6 December 2013
Nepal's elections held on November 19 resulted in a humiliating defeat for the United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M)...
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4 December 2013
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Temporary truce in Thai anti-government protests
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Thai protest leaders demand government steps down
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America is broken: Who will fix it?
This is the document that clearly authorizes what the Federal government is allowed to do, what authorities and responsibilities the separate entities of the Government have. It is what Our Troops swear to defend and what our politicians and judges have sworn to uphold:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Those words in the first paragraph above are the beginning of an article written on War On Terror News back on Constitution Day 2011.
As is pointed out within that article, the US Constitution is but four (4!!!) pages of simple language setting out what America is/will be, and what it is NOT. The foundations upon which a great nation was based seem to have been shaken to the core in recent years, as the current crop of politicians seem determined to over-reach the very clear limits placed upon them within that framework. Today, from where I sit, America is under attack by those very 'servants' of the people who - as noted above - swore to uphold the Constitution.
America is broken: Who will fix it?
Since the first election campaign of the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania, I have watched the media aid and abet those candidates who preached things like: Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
On the first campaign Obama repeatedly said things like: America does not need to be divided and angry. "You can't afford to settle for the same old politics," and was constantly referred to as the 'great uniter.' He made many silver-tongued promises of how if we just voted for him, he would join us all as one to transform this country, that was forged in those values held most dear by the Founding Fathers.
Really? Okay, well not so much. At almost every turn, this administration has been based on the willingness of the uneducated masses to blindly follow an ideology, an agenda, that was based on emotion, rather than a clear articulation of what that transformation really meant. Sure, his golden oratory promised that there would be 'peace in the world; the dawning of a new era' or something like that. A whole new America, where every mouth was fed, and everybody would be healthy and wealthy living in this new nirvana. What he did NOT say explicitly was that government would tell parents what their children would be taught in school (Common Core, anybody?), what those kids must eat in school (Let's Move, courtesy of the missus), a health care system where everybody would have equal access to healthcare, no matter their economical or citizenship status - or their individual choices? (ObamaCare of course!) As for everybody sharing the wealth of America? NOwhere in the Constitution is the power given to the Federal Government to give gazillions of taxpayer dollars to create phantom 'shovel ready' projects to give fake jobs to citizens. All well and good, but the America the Constitution was written in, and for, was an America that ANY and all of those were attainable by the individual effort. They are NOT mandated within the Constitution, nor are they God-given rights. "The PURSUIT...", not the giving.
From where I sit, this administration and their policies foisted upon us, has divided America in a way I have not seen before. And I am not alone in seeing this. COL (r) Allen West had this up today.
THIS administration has gone so far outside the Constitution of America, exceeded the mandate set therein, that the evidence of a divided America cannot be ignored, denied.
Every President of the United States swears an oath to defend the United States Constitution:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
This POTUS has taken this oath twice now, but from where I sit, this self-proclaimed 'Constitutional expert' has wilfully ignored the Constitution, and in so doing, has brought America to a very dangerous precipice.
NOwhere in the Constitution does it stipulate that any government (Federal or State) has the right to tell Americans what products they must buy, and then fine them if they do not. NOwhere in that document could I find it stated that it is the duty of the Federal government to tell schools (within different States) what the curriculum should be...
“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.” - Lenin
“Give me two generations of children of Americans in school without God and I will take the nation without firing a shot!” - Lenin
Search as I might, I found no dietary mandate for the Federal government within the records. Nor did I find any reference to the Federal government politicians having the duty to enable the ever more greedy, and dependent: the 'give me" generation. As I watch the America I love more divided - and angry - than I ever remember, I see Americans demoralised and asking themselves: Where is my America?
There is no denying that America IS broken, and the next question must be: Who will fix it? Our politicians ignore their sworn duty as set out in the Constitution, and forget that they are servants of the people, elected to serve us, not just ensure a lifetime career with the perks - paid for by your taxes - that they somehow see as their right, their entitlement. Dare to challenge that? You are branded a terrorist, un-American, and subject to public ridicule and character assassination.
NOwhere in the US Constitution does the president have unlimited power over the people, nor the authority to rule over every aspect of the citizens' lives.
Found a very interesting series of videos, where the same simple language as found in the Constitution is used to explain the function and limits of each of the three branches of government. Take a look:
"...their terms [Congress] are short to check corruption... this [the Senate] was designed so their duties would be to have a powerful role in checks and balances to the Federal government , so that it would not gain total power over the people. The Founding Fathers never intended for the Federal government to rule over the states or the people..."
In 1913, the 17th Amendment was implemented, which in effect weakened the individual States' powers to check the Federal government. Go check out the series of videos.
One of those videos focuses on the reason the US chose to be a Republic rather than stay under the Rule of a Monarchy.
There is a very simple Pledge of Allegiance, that swears (as per the original):
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
A very interesting history of that can be found here.
Part of that History can be found here, where it is noted:
In 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," creating the 31-word pledge we say today.[...]. Today it reads:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
An element present in the Pledge, and enshrined within the Constitution, is the pursuit of Liberty...NOwhere in the Pledge of Allegiance, NOR in the Constitution. is there a pledge to whatever president occupies the Oval Office. NOWHERE! Yet, in the current climate in America, partisanship rules the days and the politicians of all stripes demonstrate on a daily basis that their own allegiance is to their own re-election, and their political agenda, to the peril of the citizens. The cost? Freedom and our God-given Rights to Liberty.
That 1954 version of the Pledge still stands today, and yes, as noted, it was 'in response to the Communist threat of the times.'
That was a very real threat, and in those days America WAS vigilant of any threat to the freedom of the Republic's citizens. As well that might be to today, as we see very real threats to the Liberty and Freedoms determined to beat down the doors of the Republic.
From 1930, and still so very relevant today, with current enemies hell-bent on destroying the American citizens' God-given rights to liberty, and freedom to pursue those liberties:
"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack.
Our time will come in thirty to forty years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The Western world will have to be put to sleep.
So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There shall be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions.
The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate to their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends.
As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist."
Declaration by Dimitry Manuilski Professor at the Lenin School of Political Warfare in Moscow - 1930
Am reminded of : Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. At this time when Putin is on the world stage - front and center as an effective 'statesman' - as POTUS busies himself with drawing ineffectual red lines, and appeasing our enemies, it seems to me that the wolves have already breached the walls of the Republic.
Today, the wolves pervade every level of our government, as the citizenry are apparently intent on proving the truth of those words from 1930;
The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate to their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends.
From where I sit, the truth of that is staggering and is happening right before our eyes, and yet the sheep sleep on, as the current administration continues to run full-speed over their Constitutional duties, and implement programs for the 'gimmes' in our midst, all the while stepping into matters that are not their business. Beer summit, anybody? Trayvon Martin ring a bell? Giving trillions of dollars to auto industries? Meddling in private industries by giving away millions of our tax dollars to 'green ideas'? NOwhere in the Constitution is the power given to any government to dictate every detail of the people's lives. NOwhere in the Constitution is it stated that the Federal government can force any free citizen to buy a product, be forced to give financial aid/incentives, but rather they are given freedom to make their own individual choice.
On the illegal implementation of ObamaCare, someone I know and respect, recently wrote this:
[...]
ObamaCare: It is long past time that this un Constitutional law be repealed, in its entirety.
And no, I will not entertain arguments that the SCOTUS ruled, therefore it is Constitutional. The SCOTUS does not have Constitutional Authority to amend the Constitution, or legislate from the bench. If you want to claim it's Constitutional, quote me the entire clause which makes it so; not two words and not a generality that is defined in following specifics. Quote me the clause of the Constitution that authorizes the Federal Government to FORCE an Individual Citizen to buy anything.
All of which is absolutely correct as stated in the simple language of the Constitution. Written over two hundred years ago, the values and rights of the citizens enshrined by the Founding Fathers are still relevant today. BUT as we see, the government insists on ignoring the rights of a FREE people, and imposing their ideology, on an ever more somnambulant population.
America IS broken: Who will fix it?
Talking with a Military Veteran friend just last night, I was sharing how depressed - how angry - I get at the seeming unwillingness of the citizenry to really grasp the enormity of the current threats to all our Freedoms.
As the Military oath sworn by all new recruits says:
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. [yes, emphasis mine]
And there is part of my depression: it appalls me that our Troops have gone to far off lands to honor that oath, to advance the cause of freedom in places ruled by tyrants and despots. Yet, when they come home, they find the tyrants are more powerful, more pervasive than could almost be imagined.
There is an old cliche that goes something like 'only those who have fought for freedom, know the true value, the taste of it.' Today, I listen and watch the ever growing segment of our society who have no idea what it means to fight for their freedom. In this time of increasing unemployment stats (and if you believe the official figures released, you really ARE asleep); when a huge percentage of the population is lined up for some form of government hand-out, that they have not earned, I am reminded of the "no such thing as a free lunch' truism. Yes, Obama phones are 'free' for some, and yes, healthcare is 'free' for some, but not only is somebody else (another American citizen) paying for that - again, in direct contravention of the Constitution - but when we as a whole lose our Liberty and our Freedoms because we are too apathetic to fight and defend those very underpinnings of our Republic, there will be NO free anything: Not for you, me or the Obamaphone folks...
When our Military Veterans have to fight at home for the respect and care they have earned, because their Commander In Chief disrespects the sacred duty to our Defenders of Freedom, I have to despair. When I see Gold Star Families being threatened with cut off of their rightful due, because of partisan politics, I am beyond angry...OUR Military (no, not "HIS" Troops, as Obama claims) deserves better from a Chief Executive who swore to defend the Constitution. Part of the Constitutional powers given to the POTUS is to do with the "Defense of the Nation." Seems to me that the POTUS bears direct responsibility - within the clear parameters of the Constitution - for ensuring that those he expects to follow his orders, be well provided for both on and off the battlefield. These days, evidence clearly shows, to those of us paying attention, that the Constitution is irrelevant to the CinC, and he ignores it, as and when it suits his political agenda - aided and abetted by his political cronies and hacks, of course....
In the Constitution it is clearly stated that defense of our borders is part of the government's duties. Tell that to the family of Brian Terry. (Go watch the video at that link. Unbelievable) Tell that to the family of the rancher in AZ who was murdered.
Neither of these lives would have been lost, if the Federal government adhered to the Constitution (and we won't even get into Fast and Furious here, where the guns were supplied by the US DoJ and then proven to be used against Americans because of the open, porous border.) Go here to see how the dereliction of duty by the Homeland Security government department directly affects the US Border Control's ability to defend against all foreign enemies. Gone are the days when oppressed people eagerly grasped the legal opportunity to enter the US, and earn the rights of Freedom and Liberty accorded American citizens. Nowadays we have a POTUS and DoJ who are actively lobbying to reward those illegals who scurry across the unguarded borders in the dark of night. NOwhere in the Constitution does it give this power to POTUS, a deliberate flouting, blatant disrespect of the Republic's laws. And if you don't understand the magnitude of that problem, go look at some videos of the hundreds, yes hundreds, who weekly break our laws, confident that they can rape, murder and more, as they are promised amnesty, and given short-cuts to citizenship of America, that they have not earned.
Freedom and Liberty in America - FOR Americans - is under attack, and we have lost our way from the Founding Fathers' vision of this great Republic.
Our Founding Fathers, here in this country, brought about the only true revolution that has ever taken place in man's history. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another set of rulers.
But only here did that little band of men so advanced beyond their time that the world has never seen their like since, evolve the idea that you and I have within ourselves the God-given right and the ability to determine our own destiny. But freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream.
The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to them with the well thought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. Thank You.
And then there is Mark Twain, who is also credited with "what the government giveth, the government can take away":
“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, [...] and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, [yes, emphasis mine] and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.” – Mark Twain, “Official Physic,” The Twainian, November, 1943
The list is long, yet simplicity itself, of the Freedoms - God-given Rights - paid for and earned by Americans, and I have but scratched the surface of those under attack. The attack on the Second Amendment Rights is a battle being fought in parts of the country, as America-loving Patriots understand very well that sometimes we really DO need to fight to maintain the Freedom and Liberty enshrined in our Constitution.
America is so broken. WHO will fix it?
Today this question is so critical, as we face such dangerous threats within our country. We have lost the "one nation under God," and from where I sit, the Republic is in grave danger of collapse.
The Constitution begins: We, the people" and it is my firm belief that only when We, the People wake up and see that it only by our own actions, will we save our Republic. WE who care about our Constitution, who believe that our Freedoms and Liberty ARE our God-given Rights, that no mere politician can squander for their own gain, must defend America.
Am I suggesting we all take up our weapons, and stage an armed insurrection? No. What I am suggesting, URGING, is that all of us who see the precipice directly in front of us, continue to educate the sheep - after we have woken them up, of course! - and make them understand what is at stake here. Read and re-read the Constitution, so that you understand the foundations of America. Demand that every politician set aside their partisan politics, throw away their party loyalties, and demonstrate their loyalty to our country, our Constitution. If they are not capable of that, throw them out of office, and elect those Americans who WILL honor our Founding Fathers' vision of this great Republic.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
God bless America.
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On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
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On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime™s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were...
Bahrainis denounce regime crackdown
Bahrainis have once again taken to the streets to denounce the Al Khalifa regime’s unrelenting crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
On Thursday, anti-regime protests were held in the capital city of Manama and the Bani Jamra, a village in the northwest of the country.
The demonstrators carried their national flag and chanted anti-regime slogans during the protests.
Anti-regime protests have become an almost daily occurrence in Bahrain.
On Wednesday, Saudi-backed security forces in Bahrain attacked demonstrators who were marking the end of the mourning days for Yusef al-Nashmi, the latest victim of the regime’s brutal crackdown on the people.
Al-Nashmi died on October 11 after spending almost a month in police custody.
On Saturday, Bahraini riot police fired shots and used tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-regime protesters marching in the village of Sanabis, west of Manama, after al-Nashmi's funeral.
Bahrainis have been staging demonstrations since mid-February 2011, calling for political reforms and a constitutional monarchy, a demand that later changed to an outright call for the ouster of the ruling Al Khalifa family following its brutal crackdown on popular protests.
Scores have been killed, many of them under torture, while in custody, and thousands more detained since the popular uprising in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
Physicians for Human Rights says doctors and nurses have been detained, tortured, or disappeared because they have "evidence of atrocities committed by the authorities, security forces, and riot police" in the crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Protesters say they will continue to hold anti-regime demonstrations until their demand for the establishment of a democratically-elected government and an end to rights violations are met.
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