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Non-Muslim Student Denied Water During Ramadan
Is the “separation of church and state” being applied too literally? Because some U.K. parents may point out that mosque and state seems to...
The University of California and the Military Industrial Complex
Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano’s nomination to be the 22nd president of the University of California announced days ago has already provoked...
U.S. Mainstream Media Laughing at Snowden’s Asylum Requests
The mainstream U.S. news media has been chuckling over the “irony” of NSA leaker Edward Snowden asking asylum from Latin American countries purported to suppress...
‘America has no functioning democracy’ — Jimmy Carter on NSA
Former US President Jimmy Carter lambasted US intelligence methods as undemocratic and described Edward Snowden’s NSA leak as “beneficial” for the country.
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Poll: 34% of Americans Say First Amendment Too Extreme
44% also favor the government forcing journalists to give up their news sources.
Kit DanielsInfowars.comJuly 18,...
Snowden: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Snowden: Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
by Stephen Lendman
Swedish Sociology Professor Stefan Svallfors nominated him. He praised his "heroic effort at great personal cost."
He revealed NSA's...
10 Ways That The Iron Grip Of The Big Brother Prison Grid Is Tightening...
Do you ever feel trapped in an invisible control grid that is slowly but surely closing in all around you? Do you ever feel...
Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA
The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being affiliated with terrorists...
MB warns of plan to trap Morsi supporters
Egyptian riot police stand guard during a demonstration by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi near Tahrir Square in Cairo on July, 17, 2013.A...
A Big Tragedy and a Big Story: Race, Guns and Television
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_big_tragedy_and_a_big_story_race_guns_and_television_20130717/
Posted on Jul 17, 2013
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Holder: Time to Question "Stand Your Ground" Laws
When Attorney General Eric Holder (shown) told his audience at the NAACP’s annual convention on Tuesday, “It’s time to question laws that senselessly expand the...
German Paper: EU Plans to Drop Net Neutrality
The EU is about to drop its policy on net neutrality, Deutsche Welle (DW) reports on Wednesday, citing information from the German business paper...
Shades of Dred Scott
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the vines and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the...
Peaceful Revolution? Gandhi’s Four Paths to Get There
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What It Feels Like to be Black in America
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On the Poor Definition and Measurement of Corruption
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The Mass Protests in Brazil in June-July 2013
by Alfredo Saad Filho
The mass movements starting in June 2013 were the largest and most significant protests in Brazil in a generation, and they...
If George Zimmerman were Monsanto, would any black leaders seek justice for Trayvon?
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Locking Out the Voices of Dissent
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/locking_out_the_voices_of_dissent_20130714/
Posted on Jul 14, 2013
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No Justice for Tortured Bahraini Journalist
In May 2011, almost a year and half after a Tunisian street vendor’s self-immolation sparked waves of revolution still rocking the Middle East, Bahraini...
Federal Government Plans to Persecute Zimmerman
Kurt NimmoInfowars.comJuly 14, 2013
It’s not over, said one of the most powerful men...
Edward Snowden’s Asylum Quest: Press Conference in Moscow Airport
Snowden reflects the best of heroic activism. He acted responsibly. He did the right thing. He committed no crimes. He knew the risks and...
Snowden's Asylum Quest
Snowden's Asylum Quest
by Stephen Lendman
Snowden reflects the best of heroic activism. He acted responsibly. He did the right thing. He committed no crimes. He...
Egyptian MPs demand Morsi's return
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Israel Governs Lawlessly
Israel Governs Lawlessly
by Stephen Lendman
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Bill Moyers: Outrageous Bill Known As “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act” Seeks to...
So-called "ag-gag" laws have been passed...
There Is No Right to Privacy
Walter Block
lewrockwell.com
July 13, 2013
Illustration: LibertyManiacs
Don’t get me wrong. I am a BIG fan of Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, Julian...
The United States of Crazy: You Can Now Go to Jail for a Sarcastic...
Update: An anonymous donor has posted a $500,000 bond to allow Justin Carter to leave jail as he awaits trial.
On the Fourth of July...
The Korean War: Forgotten, Unknown and Unfinished
With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea. (Photo: Maj. R.V....
Democrats, Republicans conspire to hike student loan rates
13 July 2013
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EU Official: Pooling Sovereignty, Once “Unthinkable,” Now “the Model”
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Ongoing Fighting in Sinai: Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Iran Wrongfully Blamed
Headlines focus on Egypt. Sinai gets little attention. What’s ongoing bears close watching.
On July 7, Maan News headlined “Egypt army ‘preparing for Sinai operation,’ ” saying:
A...
The Government Is Spying On ALL Americans’ Digital and Old-Fashioned Communications
Washington’s Blog
July 12, 2013
Even now — after all of the revelations by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers — spying apologists say...
The Revolution Shall be Cannibalized
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Ongoing Fighting in Sinai
Ongoing Fighting in Sinai
by Stephen Lendman
Headlines focus on Egypt. Sinai gets little attention. What's ongoing bears close watching.
On July 7, Maan News headlined "Egypt...
New rival demos to be held in Egypt
Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi hold portraits of him during a demonstration in Cairo. (File photo)Opponents and supporters of Egyptâ„¢s ousted President...
Conservative Coalition Takes Stand for Religious Liberty in Military
A coalition of conservative leaders and congressmen gathered on Capitol Hill July 9 to lend their support to an amendment, offered in the National...
Who’s at the top of Britain’s Tory party?
Prime Minister David Cameron shaking hands with Israeli regimeâ„¢s agent in Britain, Daniel Taub.by Stuart-Littlewood
Ten years ago Tam Dalyell, the ËœFather of the...
Toshi Seeger, Beloved Activist and Wife of Pete Seeger, Dies at 91
Toshi Seeger (1922-2013) and her husband Pete. Toshi-Aline Ohta Seeger, the wife of legendary folk musician Pete Seeger, has died at the age of...
Police Fear Flash Mob Violence If Zimmerman Acquitted
Cops plan to flood Twitter with anti-riot messages
Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.comJuly 10, 2013
Police...
Iran satellite channels on new frequency
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US Bankrolled Anti-Morsi Activists: US Money Trail to Egyptian Groups that Pressed for President’s...
President Barack Obama recently stated the United States was not taking sides as Egypt’s crisis came to a head with the military overthrow of...
America and the Generals in Egypt moved against Morsi to prevent a Popular Revolution
The Egyptian military’s removal of the Muslim Brotherhood government is seen as a military coup, or an acknowledgment of the people’s demands to remove...
The British Labour / Israel Dinner Date
As the British Labour party leadership desperately tried to contain the fallout from the Falkirk fixing scandals last week, with allegations flying around that...
Political Violence and Privilege
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/political_violence_and_privilege_20130710/
Posted on Jul 10, 2013
By Matthew Harwood,...
Political Violence and Privilege
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/political_violence_and_privilege_20130710/
Posted on Jul 10, 2013
By Matthew Harwood,...
‘PM to offer Brotherhood cabinet posts’
New Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi will offer cabinet posts to the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, a report says.
"Some cabinet posts will...
Saudi, UAE to shower billions on Egypt
The body of a supporter of ousted President Mohamed Morsi is seen on the ground after he was shot dead, allegedly by police, during...
Exxon Funding? Nope, Never Got The Check!
It’s almost funny to watch. The radical left “Progressives” see our victories over their well-orchestrated plans to restructure America via Agenda 21 and Global...
Genetic Engineering, Biotechnology and the Future Of Humanity
Last year, the then British Agriculture Minister Jim Paice told the Cereals 2012 conference that the public is softening its views towards GM crops...
Saggy Pants Legislation — The Latest in Racial Profiling Laws
July 8, 2013
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Propaganda And Puppets: The GM Sector And The Battle For The Future Of Humanity
Last year, the then British Agriculture Minister Jim Paice told the Cereals 2012 conference that the public is softening its views towards GM crops (1). He said more work needed to be done to communicate the ‘full facts’ about GM crops. He stated:
“GM is not the panacea and it isn’t going to produce all the food on its own, but it has a role to play as long as it is applied safely and all the tests on its application are properly carried out… But yes… I do believe that the famous tanker is beginning to turn.”
Reality check for Jim Paice: the public is not ‘softening’ its views, no matter how hard the GM sector tries to soften us up. Moreover, just whose version of the ‘full facts’ are we to be subjected to? Those of the GM sector?
As if Paice’s words were not worrying enough, even more alarming were the comments last year from the British Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson. He called concerns over the use of GM foods “complete nonsense” in an attack on public concerns about GMOs (2):
“Emphatically we should be looking at GM … I’m very clear it would be a good thing… The trouble is all this stuff about Frankenstein foods and putting poisons in foods. There are real benefits, and what you’ve got to do is sell the real environmental benefits. Those benefits include a reduction in the use of pesticides because some GM crops are pest-resistant.”
“There’s about 160 million hectares of GM being grown around the world. There isn’t a single piece of meat being served [in a typicalLondon restaurant] where a bullock hasn’t eaten some GM feed. So it’s a complete nonsense. But, the humbug! You know, large amounts of GM products are used acrossEurope .”
So there you have it, straight from the horse’s mouth, or more aptly, from a minister acting as a front for the pro-GM lobby – GM food is safe simply because people do not know they are eating it, have no say in eating it and have not dropped dead from eating it. Perhaps Patterson would like to consult the mounting research that contradicts his assertions pertaining to the health impacts.
Such playground logic may wash well in certain quarters, but should we expect such inanity from a senior politician? You do not have to necessarily be a dyed in the wool sceptic to conclude that Paterson
In a June 2013 speech, Paterson
Surprisingly, however, one of the most damning indictments of Paterson Paterson Paterson
Speaking to The Independent newspaper on 3 July, Mr Goldsmith said:
"Any half-way decent GM enthusiast with a scientific background would have blushed during much of the speech Owen Paterson made. You have to wonder about the government's gung-ho attitude to GM… It undermines his credibility on this issue and makes the government look very silly… I think he's falling into a trap over GM and I don't think he understands the issue. He's swallowed the industry line hook, line and sinker without talking to anyone with a different view. When designing policy that's a dangerous thing, and I'm concerned big business is framing the debate for the government… The story so far suggests that GM is predominantly about the industry getting greater control over the food chain, rather than alleviating poverty or environmental concerns." (3)
Is Paterson India
Is he also unaware of the documented health risks or the actual efficacy or lack of agricultural benefits derived from GMOs (6,7,8,9,10)?
Or is he content to become part of the problem by kowtowing to the massive well-documented GMO industry pressures and its global PR machine, which receives full and active support from the US State Department (11,12)?
Based on the overwhelming evidence, it is Paterson who is talking complete nonsense. In response to Patterson, Peter Melchett, policy director at the Soil Association, said:
“GM crops are not cheaper, they use more pesticides in America Africa right now. The minister’s obsession with GM really is backward-looking.” (13)
Melchett also says:
“Owen Patterson is wrong to claim that GM crops are good for the environment. The UK Government’s own farm scale experiment showed that overall the GM crops were worse for British wildlife. US Government figures show that overall pesticide use has increased since GM crops have been grown there because, as scientists opposed to GM predicted, superweeds and resistant insects have multiplied. The recent British Science Association survey showed public concern has not changed, and the number of people saying that GM food should be encouraged dropped from 46 per cent in 2002 to 27 per cent in 2012. Owen Patterson says that people are eating meat from animals fed of GM feed without realising it. That is because the British Government has consistently opposed moves to label to give consumers accurate information, and he should put that right by immediately introducing compulsory labelling of meat and milk from animals fed on GM feed.” (2)
Friends of the Earth's senior food and farming campaigner Clare Oxborrow has said:
“Owen Paterson’s claims that we need GM crops simply don’t stack up. The industrial farming system, which GM aggravates, has been instrumental in causing the global food crisis we currently face. A fresh approach to agriculture is urgently needed to serve up sustainable diets globally, including reduced meat-consumption in wealthy nations and an end to food crops being used for biofuels.” (14)
Eight European countries have banned the production of GM crops: Poland Austria France Germany Hungary Luxembourg Greece Bulgaria Australia Japan Europe have either banned GM crop production outright, or have put in place extremely tight restrictions on the production and use of GM products.
Even though GM crops are prevalent in the US US
FDA scientists had continually warned regulators that GM crops could create unpredictable and hard to detect side effects, including allergies, toxin production, nutritional problems, and new diseases. They recommended that long-term studies were needed to fully assess the effect of GM foods on other crops, the ecosystem, and animal and human health, but these warnings were ignored.
In India
The claims that the use of GM crops reduce the use of pesticides do not hold up in either. Research by a Washington State University US
Researchers at the University of Arizona
Moreover, there has been no proper research or monitoring by the companies producing GM crops of the effects on humans consuming products made with GM crops. Scientists like Professor Seralini in France
Minister Patterson’s pro-GM attitudes come as little surprise, though. The cosy relationship between governments and the biotech companies is well known, especially in the US (19), where there has been legislation passed that allows biotech companies to be totally free of any legal ramifications if their products cause harm (20).
In the UK, Genewatch UK has revealed how Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, and BASF (all biotech companies) under the guise of the ‘Agricultural Biotechnology Council’ held a meeting in June 2012 with government ministers and academics to formulate a ‘strategy’ to promote GMO in schools, to ‘educate’ the public and to ‘improve’ the regulatory framework favouring GMOs, while encouraging farmers to change their farming methods to fully accommodate the GMO products the companies produce.
Dr Helen Wallace, Director of GeneWatch UK
“This dodgy deal shows breath-taking arrogance by Monsanto and its friends, who seem to think that British farming must be destroyed to suit their own commercial interest and British children should be brainwashed to support their business strategies. It is shocking that the Government has done a secret deal to promote GM in Britain US
Despite recent euphoric claims by some quarters that Monsanto has been placed on the back foot, this is far from the truth. The biotech sector continues to try to hijack legislation for its own gain, as evidenced by the 2013 Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India bill 2013 (22), and is determined to continue to push its global agenda (23).
Maybe politicians such as Owen Paterson are content to be willing servants for the wider military-industrial complex agenda that GMOs (and big dam, oil-dependent chemical agriculture) are tied to. And that agenda encompasses an integrated strategy that involves the (near) monopoly ownership and control of all water, seeds, food and food retail, land and energy, which in turn both fuels and is fuelled by conflict, debt and dependency (24,25,26,27). From Syria Pakistan Egypt India Europe , we see this agenda being played out via conflict or war, trade agreements (28) and the molding of political agendas (29).
For the big corporations and the families and individuals behind them, profit and 'full spectrum global dominance' of resources, nations and people is the ultimate aim.
Notes
16) http://www.globalresearch.
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/independence_from_terror_20130704/
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You've got to marvel at the industry of Cold Warriors and their offspring constantly reminding us of the state security measures-- real or imagined-- suffered by the inhabitants of the former Eastern European socialist countries. Books, movies, television and anecdotes have deeply embedded in the minds of people in the US the notion that life in Eastern Europe was under oppressive monitoring with spies lurking everywhere. Countless reports of visits to socialist countries told of the suspicions or hunches or impressions of being followed, watched, or overheard. I was always disappointed, in my admittedly infrequent visits to Eastern Europe or Cuba, that I never shared these experiences. I was either incredibly myopic or deemed not nearly as worthy of attention as were others.
Outside of the minority of US citizens who systematically question every “truth” endorsed and proclaimed by official circles, most people feel secure in believing that “we” don't do what “they” do or did. In fact, the certitude of our superiority in respecting privacy, speech, and beliefs serves as a pillar of the mythology of the land of the free.
Of course many of us on the left know better. We know first hand that the US security services operate without restraint or oversight. We know that everysignificant anti-war movement, everycommittee in solidarity with the victims of US imperialism, everyparty to the left of the Democrats, and even everyrenegade celebrity earns the attention of the US secret police agencies. We know that the tens of thousands of operatives employed and the huge budgets granted are not there for occasional or aberrant spying, but for systematic surveillance and monitoring of anyone perceived as challenging the ruling class consensus. We know that, whenever the need is felt, laws are passed that violate or stretch the intent of the Constitution. And extra-legal means-- easily concealed from the public-- are also common.
But you don't have to be among that select group to know what security services do. You don't have to be an anti-war activist to know that FBI files do not magically appear, but are created through surveillance and informants. The sordid history of the FBI, especially during the Hoover era, is available for all to see. Congressional committees have exposed enough of the chicanery, illegal activity, and violence of the security agencies to give everyone but the willfully blind an idea of just how fragile our privacy and personal integrity are under this self-styled democracy.
Yet liberals-- occupying a political category brazenly drawing its name from “liberty”-- have woefully fallen short in confronting the rise and expansion of the intrusive, Orwellian surveillance state, a process that only accelerated since the Second World War. The fears of the Cold War provided a handy excuse for government intrusion into the lives of hundreds of thousands of US citizens, driving such august institutions as the American Civil Liberties Union into backsliding and equivocation.
We saw it again in the uprisings of the 1960s, when even more presumably innocent citizens became the object of surveillance by a myriad of federal, state, and municipal spy agencies. Once again, the response was loud and clamorous on the part of the liberal establishment, but to little effect. Only Nixon's outrageous near-coup and the persistence of a few members of the normally somnolent media saved us from even further devolving toward a repressive, intrusive state in the early 1970s.
A further step towards a police state arrived with the so-called “War on Terror.” Few in the liberal establishment defied the hysterical surrender of the rights to privacy, speech, or association that ensued. In fact, most joined conservatives in a race to empower the security agencies with money, manpower, and legislation.
Oddly, those who find it so easy to identify snooping in foreign lands are conveniently blind to that malignancy in their own neighborhoods.
And now comes the Snowden affair.
The Nation magazine pens a headline, “A Modern Day Stasi State,” really a gratuitous slap at the former German Democratic Republic, to characterize the Snowden revelations of massive and comprehensive surveillance by the NSA. The truth is that nothing that the GDR security services could have possibly envisioned parallels the collection of every electronic communication by every US citizen. Perhaps the liberals at The Nation draw some perverse satisfaction from the false belief that other countries have gone to the same lengths to monitor their unsuspecting and innocent citizens.
And in an editorial commentary (“Snoop Scoops”) by Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorkermagazine attempts to simultaneously maintain three pathetically weak excuses for the Administration's secretive spying programs: first, the Snowden revelations expose nothing new-- we already knew about the NSA programs; second, the NSA collects the content, but doesn't examine it; and third, there is nothing illegal about the NSA surveillance.
The best that can be said for the Hertzberg apology is that maybe his boss, the old Cold Warrior David Remnick, forced him to write this nonsense. The fact that one could follow threads and leaks to learn of NSA programs hardly excuses the absence of the topic in most mainstream media and popular discussion. Hertzberg glaringly fails to point to any effort on the part of his magazine to discuss the NSA surveillance. Moreover, if everyone knew about the programs, how do we account for the hysterical response of the Administration, its cronies (Senator Feinstein called Snowden a “traitor”), and apologists? How do we account for the criminal charges against Edward Snowden? For revealing something everybody knew?
Clearly this is a sleazy sidestepping of the profound dangers raised by the government's license to snoop.
Only the terminally gullible would believe that the content of collected data lies untouched in NSA electronic files. With nearly one and a half million government employees and contractors enjoying top secret clearance, surely a few would be tempted to check the e-mails or phone calls of their neighbors, ex-lovers, or rivals. Hertzberg takes literally the assurances of the same people who have been trying desperately to keep NSA activity from public scrutiny.
I suppose one could equally say that “nothing illegal” occurred in Nazi Germany, given that laws were passed enacting or enabling nearly all of the carnage inflicted by the fascist regime. In truth, the vast powers granted by the Patriot Act and the secret kangaroo courts legitimizing NSA acts guarantee that legality washes over anything and everything that government agencies do or could do, as they equally would sanction the SS or Gestapo in the Third Reich.
Indeed, our moment is not so remote from those moments preceding the consolidation of fascist rule in Italy or Germany. Like those times, liberals and social democrats are temporizing, excusing, and denying the assault on privacy, personal security, association, and dissent.
The true history of those times-- not the convenient history that blames the staunchest opponents of fascism, the Communists-- points to the treason and capitulation of bourgeois politicians who sought to compromise, outsmart, or neutralize the tide of fascism. Similarly, our liberal politicians populating the Democratic Party (with a few notable, courageous exceptions) rush to establish their security bona fides by endorsing the expansion of the police state. They show the same misplaced confidence in their ability to restrain or control the uncontrollable.
Amplifying the hesitation of liberals is the embarrassing role of the Obama Administration in the construction of the NSA police state. After giving their undivided, unqualified support to the candidacy of hope, change, and the restoration of liberal values, the liberal establishment finds itself in the uncomfortable position of defending the trappings of a police state or, conversely, righteously attacking their designated standard bearer. This dilemma has driven liberals to such outrageous statements as Hertzberg's: “The critics [of the NSA] have been hard put to point to any tangible harm that has been done to any particular citizen,” a statement worthy of a self-satisfied burgher in Munich in 1934.
Particularly bruised by the Snowden revelations are those pseudo-radicals who have unceasingly called for a love fest with the Democratic Party as a response to the “fascist danger.” How does one enlist those who we now know have crafted and implemented fascist-like policies as partners in stopping fascism? Surely embracing them as anti-fascist allies borders on insanity.
Perhaps it is only fitting that those seduced by the pied piper of hope and change have arrived at this juncture. However, we have lost far too much ground to this political silliness. There is too much at stake. We deserve better.
Zoltan Zigedy
zoltanzigedy@gmail.com
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UK Protesters to Canadian PM: 'Keep Oil Peddlers' Out of Europe
Greeting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as he arrived at the UK's Parliament Thursday morning was a barrage of environmental activists who came to...
The Snoop Solution
Were Barack Obama as clever at being President as he is at running for President, he would now declare a national emergency, take a...
The War on Metadata
Ideas are fashioned weapons. When applied to the right spot, their result can be immediate, overwhelming, collapsing. The pressing need for populations across countries...
Reform and Revolution at Left Forum 2013
This year’s Left Forum, held from 7 to 9 June at Pace University in lower Manhattan, was a rather impressive conference, one that arguably...
New York lawmakers propose ban on anonymous online comments
Called the Internet Protection Act (A.8688/S.6779), the legislation would require a web site administrator to pull down anonymous comments from sites, including “social networks, blogs forums, message boards or any other discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.â€
UK Protesters to Canadian PM: 'Keep Oil Peddlars' Out of Europe
Not crumpets and tea. Protesters with the UK Tar Sands Network rallied outside of Parliament Thursday against the presence of Canadian PM Stephen...
UK Protesters to Canadian PM: 'Keep Oil Peddlars' Out of Europe
Not crumpets and tea. Protesters with the UK Tar Sands Network rallied outside of Parliament Thursday against the presence of Canadian PM Stephen...
NSA Spying Is About Intimidating the Media, American Citizens
Blanket surveillance is about covering up government corruption and chilling free speech, not catching terrorists
Alex...
Eutelsat steps up bid against Iran media
Europeâ„¢s leading satellite operator Eutelsat has stepped up its illegal campaign against Iranian media outlets.
The French-based company has warned several international satellite providers against...
Florida County to Host Nation's First Official Atheist Monument
A Florida county has agreed to allow an atheist organization to erect a monument to its godless religion. In a major concession to a...
Turkey: Epicenter of Police State Violence
For over two weeks, daily anti-government protests rocked Turkey. Police attacked peaceful demonstrators intermittently. They’ve done so brutally. Turkey’s notorious for police state viciousness.
It’s...
22 Nauseating Quotes From Hypocritical Establishment Politicians About The NSA Spying Scandal
Establishment politicians from both major political parties are rushing to defend the NSA and condemn whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Why Arabs Must Worry
My friend Hanna is Syrian and also happens to be Christian. The latter fact was rarely of consequence, except whenever he wished to boast...
Why Arabs Must Worry
My friend Hanna is Syrian and also happens to be Christian. The latter fact was rarely of consequence, except whenever he wished to boast...
Letters from our readers
13 June 2013
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ACLU Suit Challenges NSA Surveillance; Sen. Paul Plans Class Action Suit
On a “daily, ongoing basis,” the National Security Agency unconstitutionally collects the phone log data of millions of Americans. Additionally, through an operation known...
The Path That the Patriot Act Paved
Regardless of how it is constituted, whether it is “democratic” or otherwise, no government poses a larger threat to liberty than a government that...
Death Row Diary (of a Florida Man Scheduled to be Executed Tonight)
William Van Poyck, 58 years old and on death row at the Florida State Prison in Starke, is scheduled to die at the hands of the...
Obama Calls Constitution ‘Charter of Negative Liberties’
Infowars.com
June 12, 2013
Long before he was president, Barack Obama was already plotting to overturn the Constitution of the United...
Turkish lawyers protest in Ankara
Turkish lawyers hold demo in the capital Ankara on June 12, 2013.Lawyers have taken to the streets in the Turkish capital Ankara to protest...
Congress demands more information on NSA spy programs
Members of Congress are suddenly finding themselves more informed than ever about a scandalous NSA surveillance program in the wake of an intelligence leak...
Terrible Tuesday in Taksim Square
Istanbul.
PAT! PAT! PAT! PAT! PAT!
The first sound of volleys of teargas cannisters being fired by police at the protestors in nearby Taksim Square came in through my open...
Greece's Only Public TV Station Shuttered Spawning Widespread Anger
Staff continued to defy the government's closure of ERT's television and radio stations. This is a screen shot from one of the livestreams last...
ACLU Suit Challenges NSA Surveillance; Sen. Paul Plans Class Action Suit
On a “daily, ongoing basis,” the National Security Agency unconstitutionally collects the phone log data of millions of Americans. Additionally, through an operation known...
ACLU Sues Obama Administration Over NSA 'Dragnet' Surveillance Revealed in Historic Leaks
Following this past week's groundbreaking NSA leaks, the ACLU has now filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the agency's vast phone spying practices–a...
The Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons
For some years an international campaign has been gradually building — ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The goal is a treaty...
The Path That the Patriot Act Paved
Regardless of how it is constituted, whether it is “democratic” or otherwise, no government poses a larger threat to liberty than a government that...
Germany slams US for ‘Stasi methods’ ahead of Obama visit
Germans are expressing outrage as details of a US internet spy program - revealed by a former CIA employee-turned-whistleblower — are prompting comparisons with...
The Rest Of The World Is Absolutely Disgusted With Our Big Brother Spying Methods
Michael T. SnyderThe Economic CollapseJune 12, 2013
The rest of the world has found out...
FBI client data requests under Patriot Act quietly skyrocket after tech firm resistance
The FBI greatly expanded data sharing requests under the controversial Section 215 of the Patriot Act when tech firms tried to resist the bureau’s...
ACLU Files Lawsuit Over Vast Collection Of Phone Records
Eyder PeraltaNPRJune 11, 2013
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Obama...
ACLU Files Lawsuit Over Vast Collection Of Phone Records
Eyder PeraltaNPRJune 11, 2013
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Obama...
The US is a Police State
Global Research Editor’s NoteThis article by Professor McMurtry first published by Global Research in November 2011 had been commissioned by an academic journal called New Politics....
“Digital Blackwater” Rules: The NSA Black Box in a Black Hole
The judgment of Daniel “Pentagon Papers” Ellsberg is definitive; “There has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release...
Russia Hints It Could Protect NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden
June 11, 2013
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Exposing the Turnkey Tyranny
Edward Snowden, the leaker of the National Security Agency top-secret PRISM surveillance program has voluntarily stepped into the public limelight. The 29-year-old former technical contractor for the CIA...
Edward Snowden and China
First, why Hong Kong?
My answer: Because he’s a spook.
There has been no end of sniggering from the liberal Colonel Blimps that Snowden chose to...
What Is The Government’s Agenda? – Paul Craig Roberts
What is the Government’s Agenda? Paul Craig Roberts It has been public information for a decade that the US government secretly, illegally, and unconstitutionally spies on its citizens. Congress and the federal courts have done nothing about this extreme violation of the US Constitution and statutory law, and the insouciant US public seems unperturbed. In…
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Edward Snowden's Explosive NSA Leaks Have US in Damage Control Mode
June 10, 2013
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Kuwaiti teacher given 11-year sentence for Twitter criticism of government
A teacher in Kuwait has been given an 11-year sentence for offensive tweeting against the country’s monarch, calling for his ouster. This comes amid increasing tightening of internet freedom laws across the Gulf region.
Edward Snowden: The man who exposed PRISM
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked detailed National Security Agency documents on how information is stockpiled on millions of Americans, said he could have...
You can’t go home again: The uncertain fate of Edward Snowden
Holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, the man who blew the lid on the NSA’s PRISM program, lamented he...
FBI Files Reveal Anti-Defamation League Spied on Arab Students
In 1969, the Anti-Defamation League infiltrated and spied on a national gathering of Arab students in the United States, newly released Federal Bureau of Investigationdocuments show.
Obtained in...
FBI Files Reveal Anti-Defamation League Spied on Arab Students
In 1969, the Anti-Defamation League infiltrated and spied on a national gathering of Arab students in the United States, newly released Federal Bureau of Investigationdocuments show.
Obtained in...
Checking Bill Maher in Real Time
In June 2009, Bill Maher readied himself to pick a fight with his comrades. He lashed out against those defending Obama for rather indefensible...
The Emperor’s New Clothes
One of Hans Christian Andersen’s better known fables tells of an emperor who is promised a magnificent suit of clothes by swindlers who claim...
Obama most lawless leader in US history
US President Barack Obama has overtaken his predecessor, George W. Bush as the most lawless president in US history, an analyst tells Press TV.
The...
“The Gaia Plan: A Worldwide Guaranteed Income”
“The Gaia Plan: A Worldwide Guaranteed Income” By Richard C. Cook Speech Prepared for “Public Banking 2013: Funding the New Economy” Sponsored by Dominican University and the Public Banking Institute San Rafael, California June 2, 2013 My name is Richard C. Cook, and I am grateful to Dominican University and the Public Banking Institute for [...]
NSA Whistleblower Reveals Himself
The US government will be happy to learn it will save several million dollars on the criminal inquiry into the identity of the NSA’s PRISM whistleblower because moments ago in a lengthy profile by the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, said whistleblower has decided to reveal himself to the world.
NSA Whistleblower Revealed: Q&A with Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden.
Get used to hearing the name that belongs to the twenty-nine year old systems administrator for the private defense company...
Meet the Whistleblower Responsible for the Massive NSA Leak
June 9, 2013
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Source of NSA leaks casts off mask
Edward Snowden, a former technical worker for the CIA, identifies himself as the source of a series of leaks about US phone and internet...
Obama Defends Mass Surveillance; Internet Firms Deny Playing Part
"Nobody is listening to the content of people's phone calls," President Obama said Friday as he sought to allay concern arising from news reports...
Al Sharpton: A Lucrative Career Built on Hate and Racial Conflagration
Twenty-five years ago the Tawana Brawley case enflamed race relations in America and catapulted Al Sharpton into the national limelight. But Sharpton’s race demagoguery...
Obama Defends Mass Surveillance; Internet Firms Deny Playing Part
"Nobody is listening to the content of people's phone calls," President Obama said June 7 as he sought to allay concern arising from news...
Obama defends massive spying on Americans
8 June 2013
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Rethinking American Exceptionalism
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/rethinking_american_exceptionalism_20130607/
Posted on Jun 7, 2013
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Al Sharpton: A Lucrative Career Built on Hate and Racial Conflagration
Twenty-five years ago the Tawana Brawley case enflamed race relations in America and catapulted Al Sharpton into the national limelight. But Sharpton’s race demagoguery...
Rethinking American Exceptionalism
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What’s Wrong With the NSA Collecting Your Phone Records?
Michael S. Rozefflewrockwell.comJune 7, 2013
Verizon is being forced by the government to disclose...
Repressing “Un-American Activities”: The Historical Roots of Today’s Homeland Surveillance State
Political rights are so easily taken for granted — until they’re threatened or curtailed by repressive laws. In the United States, they are usually...
Iran and the Outside World
London.
The presidential election in Iran, due to take place on June 14, has ignited a fresh round of debate in the West on the...
Evil Takes the High Road
The natural gaze of human beings is to the heavens. The welcoming light of the dawn. The warmth of the noonday sun. The beauty...
Assange not our concern – Australia
The Australian government has severed all ties with Julian Assange, stating that the Wikileaks co-founder is not their concern, while the US military prosecutors...
DHS defends suspicionless searches of laptops and cell phones
The United States government doesn’t need a reason to seize and search the cell phones, laptops and other electronic devices of Americans entering the...
Feds Using AP and IRS Scandals To Limit First Amendment Rights
Donna Anderson
Infowars.com
June 6, 2013
There’s been a subtle shift in the language coming out of Washington lately. If you pay attention and...
Would-Be World’s Biggest Oil Merger Agreed at Bilderberg
Steve WatsonInfowars.comJune 6, 2013
Despite countless examples that prove the contrary, detractors, debunkers...
Pipelinistan
I have written on more than one occasion about the value of preaching and repeating to the choir on a regular basis. One of...
Kerry and Blair’s $4 Billion Mystery Plan for Palestine: Crony capitalism under the guise...
The recent World Economic Forum in Amman, Jordan, was billed as the Obama administration’s milestone moment for reviving the comatose US-led peace process. Announced...
The Business of Standing in Line
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_business_of_standing_in_line_20130605/
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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Louisiana Legislature Passes Bill Promoting Student-led Prayer in Schools
The Louisiana State Legislature has given its final approval to a bill that affirms the right of students to hold prayer meetings in the...
Obama Wants Whistleblowers Silenced
Sibel Edmonds founded the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). She did so to aid “national security whistleblowers through a variety of methods.”
The ACLU called...
Studies in Intelligence: New Articles from The CIA’s In-House Journal
The Presidential ban against CIA assassinations of foreign leaders, first enacted in 1976, reflected both moral and practical reasons – including concerns about retaliation...
Louisiana Legislature Passes Bill Promoting Student-led Prayer in Schools
The Louisiana State Legislature has given its final approval to a bill that affirms the right of students to hold prayer meetings in the...
What Presidents Tell Our Students
In this season of college graduations, let us pause to remember the stirring words of America’s beloved scholar, George W. Bush, speaking in Florida...
What Our Presidents Tell our Young People
In this season of college graduations, let us pause to remember the stirring words of America’s beloved scholar, George W. Bush, speaking in Florida...
Istanbul Uprising
It seemed as if the world had entered the age of the austerity riots. And then Istanbul erupted. Let there be no mistake, Istanbul...
Second day of Manning trial focuses on hacker who turned him in
The Colombian-American computer hacker who turned Army Private Bradley Manning in to authorities surprised courtroom spectators Tuesday when he took the stand during day...
Media Put Socialist Spin on Words of Pope Francis
There’s an old patriotic joke about how the Soviet media spun a two-auto race in which an American car bested a Russian one. Went...
Media Put Socialist Spin on Words of Pope Francis
There’s an old patriotic joke about how the Soviet media spun a two-auto race in which an American car bested a Russian one. Went...
The Monsanto tipping point has been reached: We shall overcome global food injustice (GMO)
Mike Adams
Natural News
June 4, 2013
Monsanto is now in full retreat against a global grassroots rejection of its poisons and...
Bilderberg’s 60-Year Trajectory Exposed
Incrementalism key to Bilderberg’s long-term agenda.
Jurriaan MaessenInfowars.comJune 4, 2013
Some commenters in mainstream media are trying...
Frank Lautenberg, the Last of the New Deal Liberals
Frank Lautenberg, the son of a Paterson, New Jersey, silk mill worker and the last World War II veteran serving in the US Senate,...
Media Put Socialist Spin on Words of Pope Francis
There’s an old patriotic joke about how the Soviet media spun a two-auto race in which an American car bested a Russian one. Went...
Frank Lautenberg, the Last of the New Deal Liberals
Frank Lautenberg, the son of a Paterson, New Jersey, silk mill worker and the last World War II veteran serving in the US Senate,...
N.J. Senator Lautenberg Dies at 89
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J., shown), who was the oldest member and last World War II veteran in the Senate, died Monday following complications stemming...
N.J. Senator Lautenberg Dies at 89
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J., shown), who was the oldest member and last World War II veteran in the Senate, died Monday following complications stemming...
The People of the World Demand the Liberation of Jerusalem
The Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ) is proud to announce our preliminary program for marches around the world on Friday, 7th June 2013, to...
Obama in Mexico
President Obama touched down in Mexico and then flew to Costa Rica in a short trip with ambitious goals. The president sought to re-set...
Bradley Manning Trail Begins: A 'Danger Zone' for Civil Liberties
Bradley Manning supporters in Fort Meade on Sunday. (Photo: Steve Rhodes/cc/flickr)Developing...The trial of 25-year-old army Pfc. Bradley Manning begins on Monday, "the latest and...
What is Happenning in Istanbul?
by Ä°nsanlik Hali
To my friends who live outside of Turkey:
I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul...
Senior Watford Politician Slams Bilderberg Security Op
“Shambolic, unforgivable, disgraceful”Steve WatsonInfowars.comJune 3, 2013
A Watford Borough Council cabinet member has described...
“Pivot to Asia”: US Military Build-up in Asia, Threatening China
A speech on Saturday by US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel to the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore–the region’s top annual security conference–underscored the speed and...
Anti-Government Protests Rock Turkey
In 2001, Recep Tayyip Erdogan established the Justice and Development Party (AKP). In November 2002, it won nearly two-thirds of parliamentary seats. It did...
Bradley Manning on Trial
It is time to pull out the stops. Yes, efforts have been made, some commendable, some noisily admirable, and the protesters have gathered constantly...
Bradley Manning on Trial
It is time to pull out the stops. Yes, efforts have been made, some commendable, some noisily admirable, and the protesters have gathered constantly...
Obama's FBI Pick No Friend of the Constitution
James B. Comey (shown), the man reported to be President Obama's choice to succeed Robert Mueller as director of the FBI, vigorously supported the...
Erdogan calls protesters extremists
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has termed the protesters demonstrating against his government extremists, adding that he is not a dictator as they...
Obama's FBI Pick No Friend of the Constitution
James B. Comey, the man reported to be President Obama's choice to succeed Robert Mueller as director of the FBI, vigorously supported the decision...
Opposition Terrorists Target Hospital: Largest Cancer Treating Hospital in Syria Closed ‘Temporarily’
Al-Biruni University Hospital near Harasta, Damascus countryside, was closed ‘temporarily’ last Wednesday 29 May 2013 due to the security situation near the location, the...
Press TV back on Nilesat
Egyptâ„¢s satellite provider Nilesat has resumed its transmission of Press TV three days after it jammed Iranâ„¢s 24-hour English-language news channel under pressure from...
Google Is Ordered To Give Private Customer Data To The FBI
London GuardianJune 2, 2013
A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with FBI secret demands...
Special Report: World Must Unite Against Bilderberg Bullies
Infowars.comJune 1, 2013
Earlier today, Infowars received word from the Grove Hotel in Watford,...
Gitmo staff treat detainees 'worse than animals' – prisoner's lawyer
The hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay camp are being subjected to freezing temperatures in their cells and made to choose between shower and...
Qatar joins other Gulf States in clamping down on online media
The Gulf nation of Qatar is set to approve a range of new measures that aim to monitor online activity by its citizens, and...
UK PM urged to halt gay marriage plan
Religious leaders have urged British PM David Cameron to reconsider gay marriage plan.Leaders of Britain's major faiths have called on British Prime Minister David...
Hand 'Em Over: Judge Rules Google Must Comply with FBI Demands for Customer Data
In a defeat for privacy advocates and a warning to those worried about the encroaching ability of federal law enforcement agencies to spy on...
Hand 'Em Over: Judge Rules Google Must Comply with FBI Demands for Customer Data
In a defeat for privacy advocates and a warning to those worried about the encroaching ability of federal law enforcement agencies to spy on...
Bilderberg Cancels Hotel Reservations of Journalists Covering Secret Meeting
Unprecedented attempt to block freedom of the press
Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.comJune 1, 2013
The Bilderberg Group ordered...
Gitmo staff treat detainees 'worse than animals' – prisoner's lawyer
The hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay camp are being subjected to freezing temperatures in their cells and made to choose between shower and...
Hand 'Em Over: Judge Rules Google Must Comply with FBI Demands for Customer Data
In a defeat for privacy advocates and a warning to those worried about the encroaching ability of federal law enforcement agencies to spy on...
Qatar joins other Gulf States in clamping down on online media
The Gulf nation of Qatar is set to approve a range of new measures that aim to monitor online activity by its citizens, and...
Cracking The Bilderberg Nut
Jurriaan MaessenInfowars.comJune 1, 2013
As the stuffed dolls of mainstream media will expectedly persist...
Gitmo staff treat detainees 'worse than animals' – prisoner's lawyer
The hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay camp are being subjected to freezing temperatures in their cells and made to choose between shower and...
Qatar joins other Gulf States in clamping down on online media
The Gulf nation of Qatar is set to approve a range of new measures that aim to monitor online activity by its citizens, and...
Obama’s Elitism on Full Display
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/obamas_elitism_on_full_display_20130531/
Posted on May 31, 2013
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“We Steal Secrets” The New Movie About Wikileaks Infuriates Wikileaks
Every documentary filmmaker begins with deciding on the story to be told, and, then, how to sustain audience interest.
If your goal is to...
Colorado Governor Signs Marijuana Regulations Into Law
Last November, voters in Colorado and Washington approved constitutional amendments permitting adults 21 and older the right to use marijuana for recreational purposes. On Tuesday,...
Colorado Governor Signs Marijuana Regulations Into Law
Last November, voters in Colorado and Washington approved constitutional amendments permitting adults 21 and older the right to use marijuana for recreational purposes. On Tuesday,...
US lifts ban on gadget exports to Iran ahead of elections
The US has announced it is easing sanctions on Iran, allowing exports of computers, cellphones and software to individuals. The move comes ahead of...
Calif. Senate Votes to Drop Boy Scouts' Tax Exempt Status
The California State Senate voted May 29 to drop the Boy Scouts' tax exempt status because of the organization's refusal to allow homosexual scout...
‘Pot-Friendly’ Colorado to Regulate Marijuana Publications Like Porn
Three marijuana publications sued the state of Colorado over a law that forces storeowners to sell “green” magazines behind the counter, the Associated Press...
Calif. Senate Votes to Drop Boy Scouts' Tax Exempt Status
The California State Senate voted May 29 to drop the Boy Scouts' tax exempt status because of the organization's refusal to allow homosexual scout...
Capitalism and Economic Imperialism
With ‘recovery’ the dominant economic theme in the capitalist media the unqualified inference is we all benefit. Left out is the fundamental tension of...
US lifts ban on gadget exports to Iran ahead of elections
The US has announced it is easing sanctions on Iran, allowing exports of computers, cellphones and software to individuals. The move comes ahead of...
US lifts ban on gadget exports to Iran ahead of elections
The US has announced it is easing sanctions on Iran, allowing exports of computers, cellphones and software to individuals. The move comes ahead of...
US Attorney General Eric Holder Personally Approved Obama’s Secret Effort to Seize Email and...
US Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the Obama administration’s secret effort to seize email records of Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010....
Return of the Tea Party?
Two years ago, optimists had something to be optimistic about. Today there is nothing: the Occupy movements have gone dormant, and the historic struggles...
25 Signs That Military Veterans Are Being Treated Like Absolute Trash Under The Obama...
Michael SnyderAmerican DreamMay 31, 2013
Why does the Obama administration treat our military veterans like human...
“Conservative” Magazine Counsels Rand Paul to Join the CFR
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.New AmericanMay 31, 2013
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is currently on his nationwide“I’m...
GOP Opposes Obama Labor Secretary Nominee Perez
As the Senate awaits a vote on the confirmation of President Obama’s nominee for secretary of labor, Thomas Perez, it is uncertain as to...
Constitutional Sheriffs Convention Focus: States’ Rights, 2nd Amendment
For two days beginning on Friday, May 31, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is holding a convention (see video below) at...
GOP Opposes Obama Labor Secretary Nominee Perez
As the Senate awaits a vote on the confirmation of President Obama’s nominee for secretary of labor, Thomas Perez, it is uncertain as to...
Police Impose Security Lock Down For Bilderberg 2013
The site of the 2013 Bilderberg Group conference in Watford, UK will be subject to a substantial security lock down.
“Conservative” Magazine Counsels Rand Paul to Join the CFR
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.The New AmericanMay 30, 2013
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is currently...
"Conservative" Magazine Counsels Rand Paul to Join the CFR
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is currently on his nationwide “I’m probably running for president” tour. He’s made the requisite stops in the early election...
Republic of War
Republicans are upset about President Obama’s May 23 foreign-policy address, yet politics aside, it’s hard to say why. “We show this lack of resolve,...
Obama Hands Out the Hemlock
In Plato’s Trial and Death of Socrates Socrates is charged with corrupting the youth for the ghastly crime of encouraging his students to ask...
Obama Administration Warns U.K. of Economic Loss if it Exits EU
The Obama administration has warned British officials that if the U.K. leaves the European Union, it will exclude itself from the proposed Transatlantic Trade...
High Court to Hear Case Challenging Prayer at Government Meetings
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could place limitations on prayer at government meetings in cities, towns, and municipalities across...
High Court to Hear Case Challenging Prayer at Government Meetings
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could place limitations on prayer at government meetings in cities, towns, and municipalities across...
Obama Administration Warns U.K. of Economic Loss if it Exits EU
The Obama administration has warned British officials that if the U.K. leaves the European Union, it will exclude itself from the proposed Transatlantic Trade...
Lifting the Fake EU Arms Embargo: Weapons for Al Qaeda in Syria
On May 27, the so-called one-year EU arms embargo on Syria’s opposition ended. Officially it does so on June 1. EU nations agreed to...
Britain’s Security Service: More Questions about MI5’s Relations with Woolwich Killers
Questions continue to pile up over the security services’ familiarity and contact with the two killers of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, southeast London.
Rigby...
The Role of Turkey in the US-NATO-Israeli War on Syria
“Syria is worrying that it will be attacked by Turkey from above and by Israel from below. It is worrying that it will...
CIA Thwarts Polio Vaccination Campaign
A polio vaccination campaign worker was shot to death in Pakistan on Tuesday, which The New York Times wasted no time in reporting. What...
Obama’s Traducement of Democracy
Watching the French Open, I recalled the famous question years back about tennis, my substitution of “jihad” a timely update designed to insinuate a...
POTUS Impotens
An article in the Washington Post on July 6, 2010, reported me standing before the White House, announcing a new epithet for President Barack Obama: “Wuss...
High Court to Hear Case Challenging Prayer at Government Meetings
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could place limitations on prayer at government meetings in cities, towns, and municipalities across...
The Obama “Dog Whistle”
“It’s obvious by now that Barack Obama is treating black Americans like one treats a demented uncle, brought out from his room to be...
Texas Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Have Expanded Political Reporting
Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoed SB 436, a bill that would have greatly increased the number of organizations that would have had to make...
Neocon Invasion
In the last two weeks of February this year, American conservatives were shocked to see the vicious onslaught the media mounted against Pat Buchanan...
Kissinger Confronted As “Mass Murderer”
“You coward! You self-serving coward! Get lost!”
Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.comMay 29, 2013
Former Secretary...
Obama Vows to Ratchet Down the War on Terror — Will He Follow Through?
May 28, 2013
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Neocon Invasion
In the last two weeks of February this year, American conservatives were shocked to see the vicious onslaught the media mounted against Pat Buchanan...
Texas Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Have Expanded Political Reporting
Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoed SB 436, a bill that would have greatly increased the number of organizations that would have had to make...
The Bilderberg, Google and the G8: New Global Tax Regime Already in the Works
This year’s annual Bilderberg conference is rapidly approaching — where the world’s political and business elite meet in private to discuss their agenda which...
Greek anti-racism law splits government
File photo shows Greek Golden Dawn members with sticks in their hands and wrapped with the national flag.A Greek proposal to toughen an anti-racism...
Naming Our Nameless War
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/naming_our_nameless_war_20130528/
Posted on May 28, 2013
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The war on terror and the fate of US democracy
The speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. last week has revealed not only a crisis within...
Rep. Schiff’s Bill Would Repeal Authorization for Use of Military Force
Jack KennyNew AmericanMay 28, 2013
A California congressman is preparing legislation to repeal the post-9/11 legislation...
An Endless “Peace Process” for Palestine
The United States balances its endless war of terrorism with the institution of an endless “peace process” for Palestine, a process valuable for its...
The war on terror and the fate of US democracy
28 May 2013
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Rand Paul Bolsters Libertarian Bona Fides, Delays Decision on 2016
CNN, quoting The Independent, reports that Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has made the decision to run in 2016 – for reelection to the Senate.
During a...
Rep. Schiff’s Bill Would Repeal Authorization for Use of Military Force
A California congressman is preparing legislation to repeal the post-9/11 legislation that two presidents have relied on as justification for waging war in several...
Syrian Rebel Alliance Openly Threatens Ethnic Cleansing
A spokesman for the primary rebel alliance in Syria, known as the “Free Syrian Army,” threatened that opposition forces could start implementing a broad...
An Empire of Graves "Around the Globe"
“Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!”
The speaker, if the story is true, was President Lyndon B. Johnson instructing Secretary of State Dean Rusk on...
Rand Paul Bolsters Libertarian Bona Fides, Delays Decision on 2016
CNN, quoting The Independent, reports that Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has made the decision to run in 2016 – for reelection to the Senate.
During a...
Rand Paul Bolsters Libertarian Bona Fides, Delays Decision on 2016
CNN, quoting The Independent, reports that Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has made the decision to run in 2016 – for reelection to the Senate.
During a...
Rep. Schiff’s Bill Would Repeal Authorization for Use of Military Force
A California congressman is preparing legislation to repeal the post-9/11 legislation that two presidents have relied on as justification for waging war in several...
Rep. Schiff’s Bill Would Repeal Authorization for Use of Military Force
A California congressman is preparing legislation to repeal the post-9/11 legislation that two presidents have relied on as justification for waging war in several...
Guantanamo an ideal recruitment tool for terrorists – UN human rights chief
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has scolded the US for failing to close Guantanamo prison, warning it “has become an ideal recruitment tool...
Guantanamo an ideal recruitment tool for terrorists – UN human rights chief
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has scolded the US for failing to close Guantanamo prison, warning it “has become an ideal recruitment tool...
Syrian Rebel Alliance Openly Threatens Ethnic Cleansing
A spokesman for the primary rebel alliance in Syria, known as the “Free Syrian Army,” threatened that opposition forces could start implementing a broad...
Obama’s Militarism-Imperialism Lite
A tissue of lies? No, the whole Kleenex box-one tissue interleaved with all the others. Obama is fortunate to be presiding over a country...
Obama’s Militarism-Imperialism Lite
A tissue of lies? No, the whole Kleenex box-one tissue interleaved with all the others. Obama is fortunate to be presiding over a country...
Escalation and US-NATO Military Intervention in Syria? War spreads to Lebanon
Escalating fighting in Lebanon along with growing efforts by the US and the European powers to arm the Syrian rebels are raising the risk...
An Empire of Graves "Around the Globe"
“Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!”
The speaker, if the story is true, was President Lyndon B. Johnson instructing Secretary of State Dean Rusk on...
UK moves to gag ‘poisonous’ radical preachers, clamp down on Internet extremism
The UK Prime Minister has announced an anti-terror task force to clamp down on the "poisonous narratives" of radical preachers who target recruits in...
President’s Obama’s Promise: Global War on Terror to Continue, with Fresh Makeup. Assassinating People...
The United States uses Predator and Reaper drones to kill people at a distance, sometimes at random, sometimes Americans or children, and after a...
The Obama Riddle
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_obama_riddle_20130526/
Posted on May 26, 2013
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The Network of Global Corporate Control: A Giant Bow-tie Structure, A Tightly-knit Core of...
by Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder, Stefano Battiston
The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability....
Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/six_facts_lost_in_the_irs_scandal_20130526/
Posted on May 26, 2013
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Lawsuit to be Filed Against IRS to Stop Targeting of Tea Party Groups
Following Lois Lerner’s Fifth Amendment plea on May 23 before the House Oversight Committee, Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law & Justice...
Facebook censors pictures of children rallying against GMOs
Mike AdamsNatural NewsMay 26, 2013
In one of the most devastating acts of destruction of its...
6 Key Facts That Have Been Lost in the IRS Scandal
May 25, 2013
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Obama Updates Drone War Policy, Due Process Still Not Included
In a foreign policy speech at the National Defense University on May 23, President Obama set out his “comprehensive counterterrorism strategy,” including a plan...
Obama Updates Drone War Policy, Due Process Still Not Included
In a foreign policy speech at the National Defense University on May 23, President Obama set out his “comprehensive counterterrorism strategy,” including a plan...
Obama’s Legacy
Shahid Buttar firedoglake.comMay 25, 2013
President Obama’s speech, presenting his vision of a...
The United States Is In Fact An Orwellian Tyranny
Obama statements at the National Defense University
Lt. William J. Lawler IIlibertycrier.comMay 25, 2013
The...
African Union celebrates 50th anniv.
A general view shows delegates attending the 50th African Union Aniversary Summit in Addis Ababa on May 25, 2013.Dozens of the African Union (AU)...
Rogue President Obama: Defending the Indefensible
Forked tongue rhetoric can’t disguise it. Throughout Obama’s tenure, he has governed lawlessly. He’s done so at home and abroad. He spurns rule of...
Building Mass Resistance against New World Order Economic Austerity
“We are in the midst of the pre-history of historic transformational change that will end the rule of money.”
This was a week that exemplified...
‘UK security services warned for a decade about wars abroad sparking home terror’
Woolwich machete attack is a result of the policy of British government that continues wars abroad despite security services’ warnings that this would increase...
Heckler Spars With Obama Over Drones, Guantanamo
President Obama had some competition Thursday when he addressed an audience at the National Defense University in Washington on the administration's approach to fighting...
Heckler Spars With Obama Over Drones, Guantanamo
President Obama had some competition Thursday when he addressed an audience at the National Defense University in Washington on the administration's approach to fighting...
Homeland Security “Police” Monitored Tea Party IRS Protests
Agents from the Department of Homeland Security posing as national “police” were deployed across the country this week to monitor and intimidate Tea Party...
Heckler Spars With Obama Over Drones, Guantanamo
President Obama had some competition Thursday when he addressed an audience at the National Defense University in Washington on the administration's approach to fighting...