Tweet the Greek PM: Don’t leave refugees out in the cold | Blogs | Amnesty International UK

Tweet the Greek PM: Don’t leave refugees out in the cold | Blogs | Amnesty International UK

Tweet the Greek PM: Don’t leave refugees out in the cold

 

 

People sleeping outside a petrol station near the Greece/Macedonia border © MSF 

 

 

Tonight thousands of people, including babies and the
elderly, will be sleeping outside a petrol station at the Macedonian
border with Greece.


Just 20km away in Idonemi, Greece, there is an NGO-run camp with
heated shelter and other basic services – yet the Greek police are
denying them access.



The camp is nowhere near full – it’s currently operating at less than a third of its capacity.


With temperatures dropping below zero – this is simply not
acceptable. They have made long and dangerous journeys and are now being
denied access to the warmth, food and safety of Idomeni camp.


The women, men and children arriving at Idomeni are in desperate need of humanitarian and medical help.

Here's Why Identity Theft Can Be Far Worse Than You Might Imagine | Alternet

Here's Why Identity Theft Can Be Far Worse Than You Might Imagine | Alternet

Here's Why Identity Theft Can Be Far Worse Than You Might Imagine

There
are a number of companies saying they can protect you, but if you
listen closely, none of them say they can prevent identity theft.

By Adam Levin
/ PublicAffairs Books

 

 

Photo Credit: frank_peters/Shutterstock

How Do the Economic Elites Get the Idea That They ‘Deserve’ More? | Yanis Varoufakis

How Do the Economic Elites Get the Idea That They ‘Deserve’ More? | Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

thoughts for the post-2008 world

How Do the Economic Elites Get the Idea That They ‘Deserve’ More?

Posted on January 26, 2016 by yanisv

 

Evonomics
(The next evolution in economics) is a new site trying valiantly to
infuse economics debates with relevance, sense and sensibility. Here
they retrieved a paper that I published, together with Shaun
Hargreaves-Heap, in The Economic Journal. Below you will find my summary
of findings from a fascinating and intriguing laboratory experiment
that has many implications for the distribution of social power and the
beliefs that support it. For the Evonomics site click here or…

What Species Would Become Dominant on Earth If Humans Died Out?

What Species Would Become Dominant on Earth If Humans Died Out?



 What Species Would Become Dominant on Earth If Humans Died Out?



 By Luc Bussiere
/ theconversation.com

 





In a post-apocalyptic future, what might happen to life if humans
left the scene? After all, humans are very likely to disappear long
before the sun expands into a red giant and exterminates all living things from the Earth.



Assuming that we don’t extinguish all other life as we disappear (an unlikely feat in spite of our unique propensity for driving extinction), history tells us to expect some pretty fundamental changes when humans are no longer the planet’s dominant animal species.



So if we were given the chance to peek forward in time at the Earth
some 50m years after our disappearance, what would we find? Which animal
or group of animals would “take over” as the dominant species? Would we
have a Planet of the Apes, as imagined in popular fiction? Or would the
Earth come to be dominated by dolphins, or rats, or water bears, or cockroaches or pigs, or ants?



The question has inspired a lot of popular speculation and many
writers have offered lists of candidate species. Before offering any
guesses, however, we need to carefully explain what we mean by a
dominant species.



 

Swimming against the tide -- New Internationalist

Swimming against the tide -- New Internationalist



 Poverty and unemployment in the West Bank and Gaza contribute to the
high rate of violence in general, but against women in particular. Add
to this a desperate political situation, and you have a lethal cocktail
of violence, generally perpetrated by men existing under the daily
humiliation and oppression of military occupation, Michaela Whitton
reports.

Wall art in Bethlehem. Jan 2016.
by Michaela Whitton

In Besieged Middle East, Food Becomes Weapon of War | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

In Besieged Middle East, Food Becomes Weapon of War | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

In Besieged Middle East, Food Becomes Weapon of War

Despite
international laws prohibiting the use of starvation against civilians,
forces on all sides preventing aid from reaching blockaded towns in
Syria, Yemen, and Iraq

by

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

 

 

The use of starvation as a weapon of war is prohibited by international law. (Screenshot)

La guerre contre Daech par ceux qui la font, par Philippe Leymarie (Les blogs du Diplo, 28 janvier 2016)

La guerre contre Daech par ceux qui la font, par Philippe Leymarie (Les blogs du Diplo, 28 janvier 2016)

Le Monde diplomatique

« Nous ne nous laisserons jamais impressionner (…) Rien ne nous effraiera (…) Aucune menace ne fera douter la France (…) Nous ne céderons en rien (…) Nous sommes déterminés à frapper, frapper encore », a réagi le 25 janvier le président François Hollande, depuis l’Inde où il était en voyage officiel, après la diffusion d’images sur les attentats du 13 novembre dernier, attribués à l’Organisation de l’Etat islamique. Pendant que les politiques font les matamores, les militaires font la guerre : le général Didier Castres, chef d’état-major adjoint pour les opérations, entendu ces dernières semaines par la commission des affaires étrangères du Sénat, a brossé un portrait précis et en partie inédit de la situation et de l’ennemi, tels que les voit le « Balardgone » [depuis quelques mois, l’ensemble des moyens de commandement militaires français sont regroupés dans une enceinte au sud de Paris, boulevard Balard, louée au groupe Bouygues, qui l’a construite].

Carte des forces en présence en Irak et en Syrie, par Cécile Marin (décembre 2015) http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/conflit-irak-syrie

<< http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/conflit-irak-syrie

 

 

 

Airstrike targeting British hacker working for Isis killed three civilians instead, US admits | US news | The Guardian

Airstrike targeting British hacker working for Isis killed three civilians instead, US admits | US news | The Guardian

Airstrike targeting British hacker working for Isis killed three civilians instead, US admits

US Central Command said dead and injured civilians were in ‘vicinity’
of drone strike meant for Junaid Hussain on 13 August, which was not
disclosed before



 



US Central Command previously confirmed to the Guardian that UK military
played ‘consulting’ role in airstrike on Junaid Hussain on 13 August in
Syria.
Photograph: Youtube

US Govt Admits to Killing Innocent Civilians During Failed Assassination Attempt of British Hacker | The Free Thought Project

US Govt Admits to Killing Innocent Civilians During Failed Assassination Attempt of British Hacker | The Free Thought Project

US Govt Admits to Killing Innocent Civilians During Failed Assassination Attempt of British Hacker

By Matt Agorist





“With nearly 10,000 air strikes, we’re taking out their leadership,
their oil, their training camps, their weapons,” Obama stated during his
farewell State of the Union address earlier this month. Conveniently,
in those 10,000 air strikes, he failed to include the bombings of
hospitals, weddings, tribal council meetings, and, at least, eight U.S. citizens, with no concern for due process or a constitutionally mandated fair trial.


The Obama administration is also responsible for allowing the CIA to deploy drone strikes against a Yemeni wedding and a Pakistani tribal council meeting with total impunity.


On October 3, 2015, a U.S. airstrike
killed at least 20 patients and MSF staff at a hospital in Kunduz,
Afghanistan, occupied by the group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the
French charitable organization, “Doctors Without Borders.”


There is no question that the United States, in its carrying out of
drone strikes and bombing campaigns throughout the Middle East, has
killed thousands. However, the last thing the warmongers ever do is
admit to these killings.


On Friday, that changed as the US Central Command admitted that they
killed and injured multiple civilians in the ‘vicinity’ of a drone
strike meant for Junaid Hussain, on August 13, 2015.


Sadly, it’s not surprising to those who pay attention to the
atrocities carried out by the military-industrial complex, but what
makes this case unique is that not only did the US admit to killing
civilians, they also admitted to missing their target.



 

Liquid Freedom Reaches Europe – Citizens Beware! | New Eastern Outlook

Liquid Freedom Reaches Europe – Citizens Beware! | New Eastern Outlook: 



 Author: Phil Butler

Liquid Freedom Reaches Europe – Citizens Beware!
The other day a lone tanker ship carrying a cargo
of US shale oil dropped anchor in the French port of Fos. Laden with
oil destined for refining by a company called Vitol Group at a facility
in Switzerland, the fruit of US President Barack Obama’s Russia gambit
now trickles into Europe’s conscience. If not for a few news and
investment articles mentioning a company called Enterprise Products
Partners, then the greater significance of a world energy war waged
would escape the world. What you are about to read is a damning expose
of the most bloodthirsty killers since the Nazi holocaust. By the time
you’re done reading, this writer hopes you’ll be hunting a tall tree and
a rope.

Liquid Freedom – Bloody Crude

Dubbed “Liquid American Freedom” by
American lawmakers, the tanker cargo was the first crude oil delivery to
Europe in 40 years. The first such shipment since then President Gerald
Ford banned exports, it arrived as a result of President Barack Obama’s
December decision to sign a bill ending the export ban. The
significance of the shipment, while apparently an economic decision by a
US congress and executive branch, is in reality the end result of a
global corporate strategy involving governments, dictators, huge banking
interests, and the military industrial complex vital to the investment
endgame. As millions leave their homes, and hundreds of thousands bury
their dead because of business-induced conflict, the leaders of the
so-called “free world” bid to rape the last of Earth’s resources, and
simply for profit. Most people already suspect what I am suggesting
here, but what you may not be aware of, are the brands, billionaires,
and disasters that will arrive on your shores before it’s all over.

The Vitol company mentioned in these
sparse stories, it is the largest independent oil trader in the world.
This shipment of crude also shines a spotlight on a key partner in all
this, the notoriously low-profile Carlyle Group in this American bid (IBT)
to further marginalize Russia and other competitors. Before
characterizing these players though, it’s also important to galvanize
the significance environmentally, crisis wise, and strategically for the
reader. This tanker, and the Seaqueen which docked in Amsterdam last
week, were filled with shale oil fracked from depleted wells in Texas
and shale deposits in North Dakota, bay ConocoPhillips. The shipments,
which Financial Times and others called a “trickle” as far as overall
flows of energy to Europe is concerned, reveal the real strategy
unfolding in foreign policy and west-vs-east tensions the last few
years.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2016/01/29/liquid-freedom-reaches-europe-citizens-beware/

 

The New Year Brings More Geopolitical Madness | New Eastern Outlook

The New Year Brings More Geopolitical Madness | New Eastern Outlook: 



 Author: Jim Dean

The New Year Brings More Geopolitical Madness
The New Year begins with a race to see what world leader or country could make
the craziest geopolitical move to make the world a more dangerous place
for 2016. Obama lights a fuse blowing up his Iran deal at the last
minute with a new sanctions proposal, the Saudis execute the famous Shia
cleric Sheikh al-Nimr for his opposition heresy.

Mr. Erdogan tells the world that
“Turkey needs Israel” while his Foreign Minister Davutoglu justifies the
150 Turkish troops outside of Mosul as a blocking against ISIL
infiltration into Turkey. You just can’t make this stuff up.

Despite all the good news during
December on Iran being ahead of schedule for fulfilling its side of the
nuclear agreement, out of the blue came the White House announcement for
new sanctions. The only rationale seemed to be that a token response
over Tehran’s medium range missile test in December could head off
Republican sanctions with enough teeth in them to potentially wreck the
hard fought P5+1 deal.

But it was a crazy idea. When the
NeoCons were defeated on stopping the Iran deal, they started beating
their new Iran sanctions drum to milk media attention for the 2016
presidential race. Obama just could have shrugged the threat off with a
promise to veto any attempt as he did before. But somehow some terrible
staff work generated this idea that beating the Republicans to the punch
with White House sanctions would look more forceful.

It was a stupid idea, and the timing was
horrible. The Iranians had been working quickly to get all of their
mandated excess 3.5% reprocessed uranium out of the country before year
end, as a show of good faith. Russia took the whole load in a barter
deal for yellowcake. How the idiots in the Obama White House did not
expect the Iranians to look at this as a stab in the back is beyond me.

The IAEA had closed Iran’s military
nuclear portfolio with a unanimous vote, so there were no pending
investigative loose ends. Iran also has a large number of foreign trade
and investment deals all lined up to be signed as soon as the formality
of ending the UN sanctions is completed in January. These new US
sanctions were viewed in Iran as an extortion attempt to get some last
minute medium range missile concessions. This is what Iran always feared
the most, that the US would continue trying to renegotiate the deal via
petty compliance challenges.

That Iran has around 2000 of these
medium range missiles has been widely known for a long time. They even
had their guidance systems upgraded to state of the art by the Chinese
during the earlier sanctions period, part of a tradeoff for lower priced
oil shipments.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2016/01/30/the-new-year-brings-more-geopolitical-madness/

 

Jerry Berrigan...Presente!: Late Peace Activist 'Joins' Drone Protest | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Jerry Berrigan...Presente!: Late Peace Activist 'Joins' Drone Protest | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Jerry Berrigan...Presente!: Late Peace Activist 'Joins' Drone Protest

Protest at drone base in upstate New York denounces "instruments of terror"

by

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

 

 

 

 

A Guide to Stingray Cellphone Surveillance Technology

A Guide to Stingray Cellphone Surveillance Technology

A Guide to Stingray Cellphone Surveillance Technology

By Derrick Broze -

What exactly is a “Stingray”? How is it being used to track you? Find out more about this cellphone surveillance technology.

Local police departments and federal agencies around the United States have been making use of cellphone tracking tools for years without warrants. This has been happening since before whistleblower Edward Snowden released his documents to The Guardian and exposed the massive surveillance state that exists around the globe. One of these tools is popularly known as a “Stingray”.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

The Stingray is a brand name of an IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) catcher targeted and sold to law enforcement. A Stingray works by masquerading as a cell phone tower—to which your mobile phone sends signals to every 7 to 15 seconds whether you are on a call or not— and tricks your phone into connecting to it.

As a result, the government can figure out who, when and to where you are calling, the precise location of every device within the range, and with some devices, even capture the content of your conversations.

Police officers can use the devices to track your cellphones signal. Once the signal is located the stingray can provide a general location on the map and police officers can drive around (or in one case, walk door to door) until they get a signal from your phone. This has civil liberties advocates up in arms over the potential for misuse of the tools.

 

 

Brave New Digital World Propels Government Targeting of the Global Activist - Truth In Media - Paid Post

Brave New Digital World Propels Government Targeting of the Global Activist - Truth In Media - Paid Post

Brave New Digital World Propels Government Targeting of the Global Activist

In 2016, activists have more access than ever before to game-changing, high-tech tools to communicate, organize communities and lead political change. Perhaps the most popular is the smartphone, which instantly provides activists and journalists with tools like social media and cameras to quickly communicate and expose government corruption.

But there is a dark side to cyberspace which is particularly dangerous to activists around the globe. It’s more than likely your government is monitoring your work.

Corporations have been using spyware for years to target consumers, but governments have also collaborated with corporations to use state-sponsored spyware to target journalists and activists around the world at an alarming rate.

Governments in the Middle East are using malware to spy on activists, many who end up tortured and even killed. Even here at home, local law enforcement agencies target and spy on activists. In Chicago, local police have used Stingray surveillance technology to eavesdrop on #BlackLivesMatter activists without warrants.

Truth In Media has reported on these issues for years, and more voices are joining in to bring this information to light.

According to an article by Truth In Media’s Derrick Broze, use of Stingray cellphone surveillance technology remains in a gray area, legally speaking. He writes, “Some courts have stated that warrants are not required, while other states have yet to rule on the topic.” << http://paidpost.truthinmedia.com/brave-new-digital-world-propels-government-targeting-global-activist/

 

  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RGkQ2EC5Ba4

Women fight for access to sacred places in India - The Washington Post

Women fight for access to sacred places in India - The Washington Post

Women fight for access to sacred places in India

 
Indian
activists take part in a protest against a ban on women entering its
inner sanctum of the Haji Ali mosque, in Mumbai. (AFP/Getty Images)

 

Perspectives on Politics - Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens - Cambridge Journals Online

Perspectives on Politics - Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens - Cambridge Journals Online

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

 

Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page

Abstract

Each
of four theoretical traditions in the study of American politics—which
can be characterized as theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy,
Economic-Elite Domination, and two types of interest-group pluralism,
Majoritarian Pluralism and Biased Pluralism—offers different predictions
about which sets of actors have how much influence over public policy:
average citizens; economic elites; and organized interest groups,
mass-based or business-oriented.

A great deal of empirical
research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors,
but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting
theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical
model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that
includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.

Multivariate
analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups
representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on
U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest
groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide
substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for
theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian
Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.

Brothers-in-Arms: Why Turkey Proposed to Create Islamic Peacekeeping Force

Brothers-in-Arms: Why Turkey Proposed to Create Islamic Peacekeeping Force

 

Turkey has expressed
interest in the creation of an “Islamic Peacekeeping Force”. During the
11th session of the Parliamentary Council of the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC), the Turkish delegation expressed the need for such a
force whose priorities will be to help resolve the Syrian conflict and
fight Daesh.

 

©
REUTERS/ Stringer/Files

Turncoat Terror: Daesh Threatens Turkey in New Propaganda Magazine

The supposed “Land of the Free” is slipping towards totalitarianism, warns prominent civil rights attorney

The supposed “Land of the Free” is slipping towards totalitarianism, warns prominent civil rights attorney

 

By: Julie Wilson

 

  

 

 John W. Whitehead, renowned Constitutional law and human rights
attorney, is a celebrated hero in the liberty community, spending the
majority of his career fighting for freedom, while protecting the
oppressed from their oppressors. In 1982, he founded The Rutherford
Institute, “a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization”
headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.


Also an author, Whitehead’s writings have been featured in a range of publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and USA Today. One of his most famous cases involves his defense of Paula Jones and her sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton.

Palestinian Journalist Continues Hunger Strike | Al Jazeera America

Palestinian Journalist Continues Hunger Strike | Al Jazeera America

Palestinian journalist to continue hunger strike despite risk of death

Mohammed al-Qeq has refused food for more than 65 days in protest of his detainment without charge in Israeli prison

by

Ehab Zahriyeh

 

 

A
Palestinian woman holds a picture of Palestinian journalist Mohammed
Al-Qeq, who has been on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison since Nov.
21, 2015, during a protest to show solidarity with him, outside the
headquarters of the Red Cross in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Jan.
27, 2016.

Mohamad Torokman / Reuters

Behind Israel’s campaign to vilify peace groups

Behind Israel’s campaign to vilify peace groups

Jonathan Cook, journalist

My latest for Middle East Eye: Far-right activists spying on Israeli human rights community received hidden funds from Netanyahu government as Israel intensifies crackdown on dissent.

 

 

An ultra-Orthodox man walks past mounted policemen standing guard in front of Damascus Gate (AFP)

DNA from GMOs can pass directly into humans, study confirms - NaturalNews.com

DNA from GMOs can pass directly into humans, study confirms - NaturalNews.com

DNA from GMOs can pass directly into humans, study confirms

  by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer

(NaturalNews) The idea that DNA from genetically modified organisms
(GMOs) is broken down in the digestive tract and rendered innocuous, a
common industry claim, is patently false. A recent study published in
the scientific journal PLOS ONE found that large, meal-derived
DNA fragments from GMOs are fully capable of transferring their genes
directly into the bloodstream, deconstructing the myth that transgenic
foods act on the body in the same way as natural foods.

A
combined analysis of four other independent studies involving more than
1,000 human samples and a team of researchers from universities in
Hungary, Denmark and the U.S. looked at the assimilation process for
GMOs as they are currently consumed throughout the world. This includes
derivatives of GM crops such as high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) from GM
corn, for instance, and soy protein from GM soybeans, as well as meat
derived from animals fed a GM-based diet.

 

New World Summit: Stateless Democracy – Livestream -- ROAR Magazine

ROAR Magazine

New World Summit: Stateless Democracy – Livestream

 

 In less than two hours the New World Summit: Stateless Democracy conference kicks off in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference includes representatives from stateless nations across the globe: Kurds, Palestinians, Tamils, Amazigh and many more. For those of you unable to attend, you can watch the livestream on our blog.<<< https://roarmag.org/2016/01/29/livestream-new-world-summit-conference/

Cameron Desperate to Stop Scandal as Secret Plans to Sell the National Health Service are Discovered | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Cameron Desperate to Stop Scandal as Secret Plans to Sell the National Health Service are Discovered | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization



 JAMES WRIGHT: The Conservative government have blocked access to legal documents that may show the impact of a controversial ‘free trade’ agreement on the NHS. <<< http://www.globalresearch.ca/cameron-desperate-to-stop-scandal-as-secret-plans-to-sell-the-national-health-service-are-discovered/5504306



 

I worked on Wall Street. I am skeptical Hillary Clinton will rein it in | Chris Arnade | Opinion | The Guardian

I worked on Wall Street. I am skeptical Hillary Clinton will rein it in | Chris Arnade | Opinion | The Guardian





Glenn Greenwald



MUST READ: Ex-Wall St banker Chris Arnade, in The Guardian, on the Clintons & Wall Street

(Arnade left Well Street to devote his life to working with drug addicts)
<<<<< 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/28/hillary-clinton-wall-street-bailout



 

Hillary Clinton continues to receive large donations from top bankers.
Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

‘How can you say no?’ -- New Internationalist

‘How can you say no?’ -- New Internationalist

After nearly five years of war in Syria, its tiny neighbour Lebanon has the highest concentration of refugees in the world. But while an overstretched government is increasingly hostile, some Palestinian residents are bucking the trend, responding with great generosity – across the religious divide. Reem Haddad reports.

 

 

A Syrian girl stands behind a door in a
makeshift settlement Ketermaya, south of Beirut. The village, which has a
population of just 15,000, is hosting 5,000 refugees – the same number
given sanctuary by Britain over the last four years.
© Ali Hashisho/Reuters

Seven Years of Monetary Quackery; Can the Fed Admit it Was Wrong Yet? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Seven Years of Monetary Quackery; Can the Fed Admit it Was Wrong Yet? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization





MIKE WHITNEY: America’s richest investors are betting trillions of
dollars that the US economy will stay lousy for years to come.

Who are these wealthy investors?



 

“Fierce Clashes” Between Syrian Arab Army and “Moderate Terrorists”, Retreat of ISIS | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

“Fierce Clashes” Between Syrian Arab Army and “Moderate Terrorists”, Retreat of ISIS | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

On Jan. 27 the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies captured hilltops of Tal Hamad and Tal Koum in the Sheikh Miskeen countryside expanding a security zone around this city. The clashes with Al-Nusra, Jaysh Al-Islam and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are continuing in this area. The town of Nawa is the next expected target of the loyalists’ offensive. If it’s captured, the Syrian army will be able to continue the advance in direction of Jassim.

 

 

Hillary Clinton: The Bride of Frankenfood | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Hillary Clinton: The Bride of Frankenfood | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Hillary Clinton: The Bride of Frankenfood

By Brandon Turbeville

Although during her tenure in the White House as first lady Hillary enjoyed the benefit of 8 years of organic non-GMO food by virtue of her residency in the White House, 2016 candidate Clinton has been perhaps the most vocal proponent of GM food to yet enter the race.

According to Global Research writer Stephen Lendman, nearly all the food produced for the Clinton White House was obtained from local growers and suppliers, GMO-free, pesticide-free, and with a preference for organic.[1] That, preference, however, is not to be afforded the American people and the people of the Third World for whom Hillary is pushing every toxic GM variety known to man.

Hillary’s Big-Agra ties go back quite a long ways. As far back as the 1980s, Hillary was working at high levels within the Rose Law Firm, a law firm that itself was tied to a number of scandals. Although not a scandal at the time, it is now important to note that the Rose Law Firm, at which Clinton was a partner, maintained Monsanto and Tyson Foods as clients.[2]

Yet a mere association between law firms and such food giants was by no means the depths of Clinton’s connection to these institutions and the industry of Genetically Modified Organisms and “biotechnology.”

It has been speculated by many that Hillary’s ties to Monsanto and Tyson as a result of her career with Rose was yet another link in the chain pulling biotech giants together with the Bill Clinton administration in the 1990s. Indeed, Clinton’s disastrous presidency resulted in seeing a number of former-biotech giant employees being hired and appointed to the FDA, USDA, and other relevant regulatory posts within the US government. While being careful not to ascribe the blame of Bill Clinton’s either years of treachery to Hillary, it is nevertheless worthwhile to ask whether or not Hillary served as a middleman of sorts for major government-corporate collusion of this type.

After all, when Clinton became US Secretary of State, she acted as Monsanto’s promoter both domestically and across the world, continuing a policy of GMO promotion that preceded and, apparently, continued even after she left the office.

 

Wayne Madsen - The US and Israeli Plan to Dominate the UN – Russian Ties Rise to the Surface - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > US and Israeli Plan to Dominate UN > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

Wayne Madsen - The US and Israeli Plan to Dominate the UN – Russian Ties Rise to the Surface - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > US and Israeli Plan to Dominate UN > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation



 Washington considers «rogue» states and «hostile regimes» anathema to its program of controlling the agenda at the UN.



 

Politics, Power, and Preventive Action » How Many Bombs Did the United States Drop in 2015?

Politics, Power, and Preventive Action » How Many Bombs Did the United States Drop in 2015?

How Many Bombs Did the United States Drop in 2015?

by Micah Zenko

The primary focus—meaning the commitment of personnel, resources, and senior leaders’ attention—of U.S. counterterrorism policies is the capture or killing (though, overwhelmingly killing) of existing terrorists. Far less money and programmatic attention is dedicated to preventing the emergence of new terrorists. As an anecdotal example of this, I often ask U.S. government officials and mid-level staffers, “what are you doing to prevent a neutral person from becoming a terrorist?” They always claim this this is not their responsibility, and point toward other agencies, usually the Department of State (DOS) or Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where this is purportedly their obligation internationally or domestically, respectively. DOS and DHS officials then refer generally to “countering violent extremism” policies, while acknowledging that U.S. government efforts on this front have been wholly ineffective.

The primary method for killing suspected terrorists is with stand-off precision airstrikes. With regard to the self-declared Islamic State, U.S. officials have repeatedly stated that the pathway to “destroying” the terrorist organization is by killing every one of its current members. Last February, Marie Harf, DOS spokesperson, said, “We are killing them and will continue killing ISIS terrorists that pose a threat to us.” Then in June, Lt. Gen. John Hesterman, Combined Forces Air Component commander, stated, “We kill them wherever we find them,” and just this week, Col. Steve Warren, Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman, claimed, “If you’re part of ISIL, we will kill you. That’s our rule.”

 

   

Smoke and flames rise over Syrian town of Kobani after an
airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar crossing on the Turkish-Syrian
border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on
October 20, 2014. (Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

Eric ZUESSE - An American Big Lie About ‘Terrorism' > American Big Lie аbout "Terrorism" > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

Eric ZUESSE - An American Big Lie About ‘Terrorism' > American Big Lie аbout "Terrorism" > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation





 Something is very wrong with American foreign policies regarding terrorism. This problem goes deep:http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/01/29/an-american-big-lie-about-terrorism.html



 

Le retour de bâillon, par Alain Garrigou (Les blogs du Diplo, 28 janvier 2016)

Le retour de bâillon, par Alain Garrigou (Les blogs du Diplo, 28 janvier 2016)



 « Alors que la liberté d’expression recule dangereusement, en France et
pas seulement dans une lointaine contrée, le silence répond, pathétique.
Je ne veux pas parler des polémiques parfois assourdissantes qui
défraient l’actualité mais de libertés élémentaires, si petites qu’elles
n’attirent pas beaucoup l’attention. »



 

Hillary Clinton, The Fake Bin Laden Killing, And The Fake Photos That Accompanied It

Hillary Clinton, The Fake Bin Laden Killing, And The Fake Photos That Accompanied It

 By Brandon Turbeville

Without a detailed study of the nature of the alleged killing of Bin
Laden, suffice it to say that there is overwhelming and credible
evidence suggesting that the entire affair was designed to drum up
support for a faltering administration, the war on terror, and the phony
narrative of the al-Qaeda bogeyman.


The most damning nail in the coffin of the killing of bin Laden
official story is that there is quite a bit of evidence that Bin Laden
was dead long before the alleged killing took place. Indeed, evidence
suggests that bin Laden was dead shortly after the attacks on 9/11.[1]
This is, of course, in addition to the fact that Bin Laden was a known
CIA asset in the late 1970s as part of the Mujhadeen forces organized by
Western intelligence to draw the Soviet Union into a disastrous war in
Afghanistan.[2]

Still, the narrative that Bin Laden was killed by the Obama
administration was used to make Obama supporters feel superior to their
false dichotomy opponents and bolster the support of the Obama
administration at a time when cracks were beginning to show in the
administration’s veneer. The stage was set in Pakistan and the official
script was that Bin Laden was killed, although his body was dumped into
the middle of the ocean in accordance with Muslim burial tradition.



 

War and the Destruction of Social Infrastructure in America | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

War and the Destruction of Social Infrastructure in America | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization



 ANDRE DAMON: As the water crisis in Flint, Michigan continues to occupy
national headlines in the United States, scientists and environmental
officials have revealed a dirty secret of American life: the poisoning
of drinking water with toxic chemicals is not unique to Flint, Michigan,
but takes place all over the country.



 

Finian CUNNINGHAM - Western State Terrorists Slander Putin - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > Western State Terrorists Slander Putin > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

Finian CUNNINGHAM - Western State Terrorists Slander Putin - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > Western State Terrorists Slander Putin > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation



 Two state-terrorist regimes - Washington and London - have the audacity
to make a song and dance with slanderous allegations against Russia's
Vladimir Putin based on their own mischievous lies.



 

Im Tirtzu's New Campaign 'Outs' Leftist Artists, Including Oz and Grossman - Israel News - Haaretz

Im Tirtzu's New Campaign 'Outs' Leftist Artists, Including Oz and Grossman - Israel News - Haaretz

Breaking the Silence

We want to congratulate the artists that the fascist organization "Im Tirzu" marked as moles. We are honored to be in the company of prominent artists and public figures, who all contributed to Israeli society and culture more than the members of 'Im Tirzu' will ever contribute,

 

Amos OzOlivier Fitoussi & Moti Milrod

    Im Tirtzu founder sings McCarthy’s praises on Twitter, gets 'schooled' by Meretz chairwoman
    Jerusalem bars New Israel Fund's anti-incitement campaign without convening relevant committee
    Israel will not investigate anti-leftist 'moles' video as incitement
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.699911

Did Wall Street Banks Create the Oil Crash? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Did Wall Street Banks Create the Oil Crash? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Did Wall Street Banks Create the Oil Crash?

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens

 

 

David Brooks and the Oligarchs: Voters Move Over, It’s Not Your Election! | Alternet

David Brooks and the Oligarchs: Voters Move Over, It’s Not Your Election! | Alternet

David Brooks and the Oligarchs: Voters Move Over, It’s Not Your Election!

President Obama’s “favorite pundit” is calling on the donor class to rescue the party from the rabble.

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
/ Moyers & Company

 

 

Charles and David Koch.
Photo Credit: DonkeyHotey on Flickr

Stop the execution of 49 juvenile offenders in Iran - Amnesty International Australia

Stop the execution of 49 juvenile offenders in Iran - Amnesty International Australia

Stop the execution of 49 juvenile offenders in Iran 

 

Iran has the shameful status of being the world’s leading executioner of juvenile offenders.



Under Iranian criminal law, girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 may be tried as adults and sentenced to death.



Despite an absolute ban under international law, there are currently
49 young offenders awaiting execution for crimes they committed when
they were under the age of 18.



Last year authorities executed four child offenders, reaching a total of 73 cases over the past decade.



Among those on death row is Razieh Ebrahimim, a child bride sentenced
to death for killing her husband. As a result of our calls and an
immense public outcry Iranian authorities halted the execution and
allowed a retrial. We are awaiting the outcome.



We can push the authorities again and insist they take steps to
commute the death sentences of all the juvenile offenders on death row.

Join our call on the Iranian Head of the Judiciary to abolish the
use of the death penalty against all child offenders immediately.

 

Razieh Ebrahimim, a child bride sentenced to death for killing
her husband, is awaiting the outcome of her retrial © iStock Photo

 

Boko Haram in Nigeria: The Destabilization of the World through the “War on Terror” | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Boko Haram in Nigeria: The Destabilization of the World through the “War on Terror” | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Boko Haram in Nigeria: The Destabilization of the World through the “War on Terror”

By Kola Ibrahim

 

 

Provocation and Arm-Twisting — the Core Methods of Turkey’s Foreign Policy | New Eastern Outlook

Provocation and Arm-Twisting — the Core Methods of Turkey’s Foreign Policy | New Eastern Outlook



 The Turkish authorities are conspiring to wreck negotiations in Geneva being organized to work out ways of putting an end...



 

Declassified Memo Proves the Pentagon had ZERO Evidence of WMDs in Iraq

Declassified Memo Proves the Pentagon had ZERO Evidence of WMDs in Iraq

 By Justin Gardner

Thirteen years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, it is
common knowledge that this war of choice was based on fabrications and
slick propaganda. There were no weapons of mass destruction, the country
posed no real threat to the U.S., and it was not a hotbed of terrorism
until after Saddam was deposed.


Now, a bombshell has dropped in the form of a leaked classified report—a
“smoking gun” if you will—that confirms the utter deception carried out
on the American people to support the invasion. It demonstrates just
how far the cabal under George W. Bush, making up a group known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), would go to prey upon fear in pursuit of global hegemony.


While Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and others were
proclaiming their certainty about the imminent threats posed to the U.S.
by Saddam’s Iraq, the leaked documents reveal that they knew almost
nothing about any actual weapons or capabilities.



 

 

Le fléau de l’arbitrage international, par Maude Barlow & Raoul Marc Jennar (Le Monde diplomatique, février 2016)

Le fléau de l’arbitrage international, par Maude Barlow & Raoul Marc Jennar (Le Monde diplomatique, février 2016)





Une disposition contestée du grand marché transatlantique
Le fléau de l’arbitrage international


Jugé frauduleux, l’arbitrage dont avait bénéficié, en France, l’homme
d’affaires Bernard Tapie jette le soupçon sur les mécanismes
dérogatoires aux procédures judiciaires habituelles. Pourtant, à
l’échelle du commerce international, ces mécanismes prévus par les
accords de libre-échange — dont le futur grand marché transatlantique —
s’imposent partout, au seul bénéfice des multinationales.

<<< https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/02/BARLOW/54744



 

What’s Really Going on with Oil? > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

What’s Really Going on with Oil? > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation



If you control the ‪#‎oil‬, you control entire nations.