Possible Tactical Nuclear Strike (Neutron Bomb) in Yemen? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Possible Tactical Nuclear Strike (Neutron Bomb) in Yemen? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization





GR Editor’s note


The report below is unconfirmed. The evidence is scanty. The analysis
of this event requires further examination. There is no proof that it
was an Israeli IDF undertaking  (M. Ch, GR Editor)


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Analysis by Jeff Smith who is a nuclear physicist and former IAEA inspector:


A video received from Yemen, believed to be taken May 20, 2015, of
an explosion, when analyzed by nuclear weapons experts is, by very
high probability, a neutron bomb that could only have been an Israeli
attack.



 

Ukraine: Gangster State > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

Ukraine: Gangster State > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation



 Ukraine: Gangster State

 Washington allies with the world's most despotic regimes. Ukraine is one of the worst.

Fascists in charge are guilty of most every high crime imaginable - committed with full US support and encouragement.

They continue waging dirty war without mercy on Donbass. They attack civilian neighborhoods - murdering noncombatant men, women and children, torturing prisoners, committing atrocities too grave to ignore.

They used chemical weapons - last May and perhaps other times. A toxic choking agent was used.

Symptoms included first-degree chemical-inflicted eye burns, alcoholic-like intoxication, bodily lacerations and fainting, as well as one or more victims diagnosed with unidentified gas poisoning. White phosphorous and other chemical weapons were used. So were illegal cluster bombs - supplied by Washington.

On May 29, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Defense Ministry spokesman Eduard Basurin warned about Kiev possibly readying to use chemical weapons again.

"(W)orks are underway on the territory of a chlorine storage base, to the northeast of Kochetok settlement in the Kharkov region," he said.

"A week ago, our intelligence saw 20 truck tanks with a capacity of five tons with an unknown chemical agent arrived at the facility?s territory."

On May 26, US military chemical experts arrived in Mariupol, he explained. Perhaps they along with "Kiev authorities (intend) sabotage on Ukraine's territory with the aim of accusing DPR leadership of the crime against humanity" - a possible false flag.

Since Kiev forces launched naked aggression on Donbass last April, they committed horrendous crimes of war and against humanity. So far unaccountably.

MONSANTO KNEW OF GLYPHOSATE

MONSANTO KNEW OF GLYPHOSATE



 Monsanto knew of glyphosate / cancer link 35 years ago

------------------------------------------------

GM-Free Cymru Special Report

8th April 2015

According to evidence unearthed from the archives of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in the United States, it has been established that Monsanto was fully aware of the potential of glyphosate to cause cancer in mammals as long ago as 1981.

Recently the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) issued a statement in which glyphosate (the main component of Roundup herbicide) was classified as "probably carcinogenic" to humans and as "sufficiently demonstrated" for genotoxicity in animals (1). This announcement of a change to toxicity class 2A was given vast coverage in the global media, causing Monsanto to move immediately into damage limitation mode. The corporation demanded the retraction of the report, although it has not yet been published! Predictably, there was more fury from the industry-led Glyphosate Task Force (2). This Task Force also sponsored a "rebuttal" review article (3) from a team of writers with strong links with the biotechnology industry; but because of the clear bias demonstrated in this paper (which suggests that glyphosate has no carcinogenic potential in humans) it is best ignored until it has been carefully scrutinized by independent researchers (4).

Declassified docs: Hillary aided rise of ISIS

Declassified docs: Hillary aided rise of ISIS

Confirm reports of U.S. arming Middle East jihadists

NEW YORK – More than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defense and Department of State documents
implicate the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role
Hillary Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS.


The documents were obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch.


They confirm WND reporting over the past three years of evidence that
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was involved in shipping weapons
from Benghazi to support the al-Qaida-affiliated militias fighting the
Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, effectively arming the Sunni jihadists
who morphed into ISIS.


The documents further confirm WND reporting that the goal of the
terrorists behind the Benghazi attack that killed Stevens was to force
the release of Omar Abdul Rahman, the “blind sheik” in U.S. prison
serving a life sentence for his involvement in the 1993 bombing of the
World Trade Center, and to avenge death of a prominent Libyan al-Qaida
leader killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.


“These documents are jaw-dropping,” said Judicial Watch President Tom
Fitton. “No wonder we had to file more FOIA lawsuits and wait over two
years for them.”


Fitton referenced in particular a Defense Department document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, dated Sept. 12, 2012.
It documents that the attack on the Benghazi compound had been
carefully planned by the al-Qaida and Muslim Brotherhood-linked Brigades
of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman, BOCAR, which aimed “to kill as many
Americans as possible.”


The document, dated the day after the Benghazi attack, was sent to
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then-Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Obama White House National
Security Council.


The
free WND special report “ISIS Rising,” by Middle East expert and former
Department of Defense analyst Michael Maloof, will answer your
questions about the jihadist army threatening the West.



 

José Bové​

José Bové​

Cancer : Monsanto cache des squelettes nauséabonds dans ses placards depuis 1981 sous le regard indulgent des autorités US.

Cancer : Monsanto cache des squelettes nauséabonds dans ses placards depuis 1981 sous le regard indulgent des autorités US

 

Des preuves retrouvées au plus profond des archives de l’EPA (Environment Protection Agency - l’Agence de Protection (ce mot devrait être mis entre parenthèse) de l’Environnement, indiquent que dés 1981 Monsanto avait parfaitement conscience que le glyphosate pouvait induire des cancers. 

L’ONG GM-Free Cyrmu a mené l’enquête, en reprenant le travail engagé par Sustainable Plus. Elle a remonté le temps pour dvoir sur la base de quelles études l’autorisation initiale avait été accordée à Monsanto pour pouvoir commercialiser le RoundUp ou glyphosate - herbicide totale qui détruit tout sur son passage et dernière lequel, comme Attila, l’herbe ne repousse pas. Ses découvertes sont édifiantes et consternantes. Elles montrent un changement d’attitude très rapide la part des autorités américaines.

Les dossiers sur lesquels ces chercheurs ont mis la main montrent que (i) De nombreuses études de toxicité (sur les souris, les rats et les chiens) ont été conduites aux USA par le laboratoire Bio/Dynamics Inc. pour le compte de Monsanto entre 1978 et 1986. Deux de ces études portent sur une étude sur trois générations de rats et une autre étude appelée «Etude sur les effets d’une alimentation glyphosatée tout au long de la vie sur les rats. » (ii) les résultats de ces études sont considérés comme relevant des secrets commerciaux et ne peuvent pas être divulguées. L’absence de transparence sur ce cas laisse planer de sérieux doutes.

Si ces travaux de toxicologie montraient effectivement qu’il n’y a aucun problème, quel interêt Monsanto pourrait avoir à continuer à les cacher alors même qu’elle est sous le feu de la critique de l’OMS?

Cependant une partie des archives de l’EPA d’une début des années 1980 est maintenant accessible. Cela donne quelques indications sur le contenu de l’étude tri générationelle sur les rats concernant des problèmes sur les reins ainsi que sur l’appareil digestif. Les résultats étaient suffisamment inquiétant pour que les autorités américaines refuse de donner le NOEL (No Observed Adverse Effect Level - aucun effet négatif observé). En d’autres terme l’EPA refusait purement et simplement, il y a 24 ans de délivrer une Autorisation de Mise sur le Marché - (AMM).

En 1982 Monsanto a donc été contrainte de fournir d’autres études qui, comme par enchantement minimisaient les risques. Les nouvelles données contribuaient à rendre flous les effets du glyphosate. Le bidouillage était visiblement suffisant pour obtenir le feu vert de l’Agence Amércaine de l’Environnement.

En 1983, La porte était maintenant grande ouverte pour se lancer dans la commercialisation des semences OGM résistante au RoundUp que Monsanto n’hésitait pas à qualifier de bon pour l’environnement.

Maintenir que ces premières études relèvent du secret des affaires est particulièrement scandaleux (Une Directive européenne est d’ailleurs en préparation pour renforcer ce « secret d’affaire »). Les autorités américaines doivent les rendre public rapidement pour qu’elles puissent être examinées par les autorités sanitaires d’autres pays comme l’EFSA en Europe.

Ces documents qui remontent à la surface sont nauséabonds. Ils laissent planer le doute sur une possible corruption massive et sur un bidouille de données scientifiques. La transparence doit être faite et pour la énième fois, je demande à la Commission européenne de lancer une recherche trans-générationnelle sur les effets du glyphosate.

PS : je remercie les ONG GM-free Cymru et Sustainable Plus pour le travail qu’elles ont réalisé. Vous trouverez des informations précises (en anglais) sur leurs sites.

 http://www.gmfreecymru.org/documents/monsanto_knew_of_glyphosate.html

 

WikiLeaks issues call for $100,000 bounty on monster trade treaty

WikiLeaks issues call for $100,000 bounty on monster trade treaty

Today WikiLeaks has launched a campaign to crowd-source a
$100,000 reward for America’s Most Wanted Secret: the Trans-Pacific
Partnership Agreement (TPP).



 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PNsHAHQh4Es

Breaking the Silence › Video Testimony - From our point of view, there are no such thing as citizens

Breaking the Silence › Video Testimony - From our point of view, there are no such thing as citizens



 Watch this video testimony where the testifier describes the rules of engagement during Operation Protective Edge. Anyone found in the vicinity was considered suspect, therefore it was permitted to shoot.

video catalog number: 40629
unit: Armored Corps
place: Gaza strip
period: Operation Protective Edge 2014

The testifier describes the rules of engagement during Operation Protective Edge and that anyone found in the vicinity was considered suspect. Therefore it was permitted to shoot.

    This video appears under these categories: Protective Edge, Rules of engagement

    This testimony can also be viewed with Hebrew subtitles

http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies/videos/40629



 

Vote sur le TAFTA au Parlement européen : interpellez vos euro-députés ! - Collectif Stop TAFTA - Non au Grand Marché Transatlantique

Vote sur le TAFTA au Parlement européen : interpellez vos euro-députés ! - Collectif Stop TAFTA - Non au Grand Marché Transatlantique

Vote sur le TAFTA au Parlement européen : interpellez vos euro-députés !

Le
mercredi 10 juin, le Parlement européen réuni en plénière votera le
texte de la résolution Lange, portant sur le traité transatlantique TAFTA. Sa version actuelle, adoptée la semaine passée par la commission responsable de la rédaction du texte (INTA),
est désastreuse pour les peuples et l’environnement. Pour la
démocratie, le climat, l’emploi, la santé et l’agriculture paysanne,
interpellons les euro-députés !



 

Lobby Tour TTIP español - YouTube

Lobby Tour TTIP español - YouTube

Corporate Europe Observatory

 

Video: visita guiada sobre agroindustria en Bruselas y el impacto del ‪#‎TTIP‬ para la agricultura. Our TTIP tour video now available in Spanish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ldTuE1iKZM



 

Noam Chomsky on Media, NATO, ISIS, Free Trade Agreements and Humanity

Noam Chomsky on Media, NATO, ISIS, Free Trade Agreements and Humanity

Noam Chomsky on Media, NATO, ISIS, Free Trade Agreements and Humanity

Noam Chomsky discusses the Cold War and US policy.

This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may
not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the
source.



 

Persistent and grave human rights violations in spite of relative calm in eastern Ukraine – Zeid

Persistent and grave human rights violations in spite of relative calm in eastern Ukraine – Zeid

United Nations Human Rights

 

Serious
human rights violations persist in Eastern Ukraine in spite of relative
calm in the region, a new UN report states. These abuses include
shelling, executions, arbitrary and illegal detentions, torture, ill-treatment, human trafficking and the lack of justice and accountability. http://sm.ohchr.org/1KHnClZ -

The impact of the conflict on the economic and social rights of
civilians continues to be dramatic, the report states, adding that “the
interruption of access to basic services is life-threatening and can
have a life-long impact on a large portion of the population, hindering
the post-conflict recovery of the society.”

“Too many have had
their homes and livelihoods destroyed and their lives torn apart, with
no sign of justice, accountability, compensation or redress,” UN Human
Rights Chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein added, urging all parties to end the
fighting and investigate all human rights violations.

Issued
today by the UN Human Rights Office, the tenth report by the UN Human
Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine covers the period from 16 February
to 15 May 2015.



 

Racing Extinction (trailer)

Racing Extinction (trailer):



Racing Extinction (trailer)

Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment, Oscar-winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists intent on showing the world never-before-seen images that expose issues of endangered species and mass extinction. Whether infiltrating notorious black markets with guerilla-style tactics or exploring the scientific causes affecting changes to the environment, Racing Extinction will change the way we see the world and our role within it.

‘Human Rights’ and Soft Power in Russia | New Eastern Outlook

‘Human Rights’ and Soft Power in Russia | New Eastern Outlook

‘Human Rights’ and Soft Power in Russia

 The news that Lyudmila Alekseyeva, head of the Russian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) the Moscow-Helsinki Group, will be returning
to the Presidential Council for Human Rights, has been heralded by many
in the liberal establishment in Russia as a victory for their cause.
Indeed, as an adversary of President Putin on numerous occasions,
Alekseyeva has been held as a symbol of the pro-Western, pro-US
orientation of Russian liberals who see in Russia not a power seeking
independence and sovereignty from the global hegemon in Washington, but
rather a repressive and reactionary country bent on aggression and
imperial revanchism.

While this view is not one shared by the
vast majority of Russians – Putin’s approval rating continues to hover
somewhere in the mid 80s – it is most certainly in line with the
political and foreign policy establishment of the US, and the West
generally. And this is precisely the reason that Alekseyeva and her
fellow liberal colleagues are so close to key figures in Washington
whose overriding goal is the return of Western hegemony in Russia, and
throughout the Eurasian space broadly. For them, the return of
Alekseyeva is the return of a champion of Western interests into the
halls of power in Moscow.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/01/human-rights-and-soft-power-in-russia/

 

Russian censorship approach: Threaten Facebook, Twitter and Google’s bottom lines

Russian censorship approach: Threaten Facebook, Twitter and Google’s bottom lines



 Russian censorship approach: Threaten Facebook, Twitter and Google’s bottom lines

The Russian communications oversight authority has put Facebook, Twitter and Google on notice. In May the agency, known by its acronym Roskomnadzor, sent a letter to the companies reminding them that they need to comply with the country’s Internet laws.

Roskomnadzor has vast powers: It can summarily order Internet service providers to shut off access to websites, as it has done with several independent news and analysis sites; it can levy fines; and it can ask the prosecutor’s office to launch criminal charges where it perceives a violation. In the case of foreign companies, it can team up with other agencies to drive them out of Russia. This is how contemporary Russian censorship works: by waving the stick of financial consequences.

Back in the Soviet Union, censorship had a straightforward structure: a centralized agency called Glavlit (Literature Directorate) had censors posted to newspapers and publishing houses. These people pre-cleared everything that was slated for publication. All periodicals and publishing houses belonged to the state then, so ultimately the editors and the censors worked for the same boss. The system worked smoothly. But now many media companies are privately owned. Enter market-based censorship.

A
Russian flag and a 3D model of the Facebook logo is seen through a
cutout of the Twitter logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 22, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

» Facebook Just Announced a Controversial Move that is Going to Infuriate the Police State

Facebook Just Announced a Controversial Move that is Going to Infuriate the Police State

As the dubious provisions of the PATRIOT Act expired last night at
midnight, the NSA began rolling up its cords, turned off their computer
monitors and took to rewriting their resumes to find new work. Oh wait,
sorry, that didn’t happen at all.


No surveillance sites have been shut down, no NSA employees have been
laid off, and business as usual went off without a hitch this morning.


If the government has proven anything over the last decade and a
half, it’s that they are not afraid of lying. Assange, Manning, and
Snowden have all exposed illegal functions of the US government that we
were told never existed.


The bottom line is that short of a radical change in the US
government, domestic spying will continue; regardless of the public dog
and pony shows implying otherwise.


More and more Americans realize the need to keep their information private and companies are responding to this demand.


Last year Google and Apple responded
to this demand by offering their customers encryption technology that
protects users’ privacy. The next big name to jump on the bandwagon of
encryption is the social media giant, Facebook.



 

Saudi analysts on how to defeat ISIL's threat - Al Jazeera English

Saudi analysts on how to defeat ISIL's threat - Al Jazeera English

Saudi analysts on how to defeat ISIL's threat

Four Saudi analysts talk to Al Jazeera about ISIL's real threat and suggest ways to uproot its ideology.

 

CATALONIA -- ynet המרד הקטלוני: אוהדים ביזו את מלך ספרד - חדשות

 http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4663502,00.html



Catalanan revolt: whistles against the king of Spain
relatively new

King Philip VI suffered whistles and boos in the Cup final between

Barcelona and the Basque Bilbao.Catalanes and show increasing

repudiation of the Spanish symbols in the separatist regions against the

central government of Spain. 

 "Catalonia was occupied by King Philip V" Franco and "repress any sign of Catalan nationalism"

 

ynet המרד הקטלוני: אוהדים ביזו את מלך ספרד - חדשות

Valery Vrublevsky - Wola Massacre and Polish Authorities: Another Case of Political Amnesia - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > Wola Massacre and Polish Authorities: Another Case of Political Amnesia > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

Valery Vrublevsky - Wola Massacre and Polish Authorities: Another Case of Political Amnesia - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > Wola Massacre and Polish Authorities: Another Case of Political Amnesia > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation



 #‎Poland‬
is suffering political amnesia. The condition gets acute any time one
mentions the mass crimes committed against Polish nationals. There is a
plethora of examples to prove the case. One of the most illustrative
among them is the pogroms in Wola that took place during the Warsaw
uprising. German fascists killed around 60 thousand Poles in two days
(August 5-6, 1944) - the largest single massacre in ‪#‎WWII‬.
Today the Polish authorities do the best to get around the details that led to the tragedy.



 

Nil NIKANDROV - CIA and Chevron against President of Ecuador - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > CIA and Chevron against President of Ecuador > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

Nil NIKANDROV - CIA and Chevron against President of Ecuador - Strategic Culture Foundation - on-line journal > CIA and Chevron against President of Ecuador > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation

CIA and Chevron against President of Ecuador

 The President of Ecuador Rafael Correa praised the book The CIA Against Latin America – Special Case – Ecuador.
Over 30,000 copies are in circulation. Written by Jaime Galarza Zavala
and Francisco Herrera Aráuz the book tells a story about the dirty
tricks the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was engaged in during the
1960s in Ecuador. The authors offer interviews with Phillip Agee
recorded at different times. Agee was a retired CIA operative who turned
against the Agency. 



 

Fifteen years of community-controlled water in Bolivia | ROAR Magazine

Fifteen years of community-controlled water in Bolivia | ROAR Magazine



 Fifteen years of community-controlled water in Bolivia

This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of the victory of the communities of Bolivia over private water corporations. Not only did popular power reverse the plan to privatize the water, but the many hundreds of communities surrounding Cochabamba managed to keep their water as a common good, controlled and managed by the community directly and democratically.

The past few decades have witnessed a massive increase in attempts to commodify natural resources across Latin America. Almost all these attempts have been met with powerful community mobilizations and resistance. There have been many victories, but also losses. Successes have taken place, for example, in Argentina with the defeat of Monsanto, three consecutive mining companies in La Rioja and a paper mill on the border with Uruguay.



 

Marina Sitrin interviews Marcela
Olivera, an activist in Bolivia’s Water Wars of 2000, about the
victories of the movement and its ongoing legacy today.

José Bové

José Bové

Monsanto n’a pas le vent en poupe.... même chez les actionnaires

L’annonce par l’OMS au début du mois de mars 2015 que le glyposate ou RoundUp était probablement cancérigène a sévèrement douché les actionnaires de Monsanto qui revendent leurs actions. Subitement les biotechnologies ne paraissent plus aussi sexy.…

Il aura fallu 20 ans d’opiniâtreté pour arriver à ce résultat. Pendant deux décennies les gens se sont mobilisé et ont mené régulièrement des actions d’un bout à l’autre de la planète, de l’Inde à la France, sans oublier le Burkina Faso ou les Etats-Unis.

La Colombie a interdit l’utilisation de glyphosate pour pulvériser les champs de coca. D’un bout à l’autre de la planète, les activistes grâce à leur persévérance ont entamé la morve de cette multinationale qui se comporte depuis des décennies comme si la planète entière lui appartenait. Les Pays-bas ont interdit la vente de glyphosate aux particuliers, mais laissent encore les agriculteurs s’empoisonner. Si ce produit est dangereux, il faut être cohérent et interdire totalement son utilisation. La France serait bien inspirée de prendre les mesures nécessaires pour bannir ce poison de son territoire.

Il faut se souvenir que Monsanto est parvenue a entrer sur le marché Argentin à la fin des année 1980 de manière totalement illégale en organisant elle-même la contrebande de ses semences, préférant perdre un peu sur le court terme, pour engranger sur le long terme, et polluant ainsi la totalité de la récolte d’un pays. Aujourd’hui 99% du soja et du maïs d’Argentine est transgénique.

Se moquant des gens et des gouvernements, cette stratégie de voyou lui a permis peu à peu de coloniser l’Amérique du sud aussi bien au niveau des terres qu’au niveau des têtes. Madame Katia Abreu, nouvelle ministre de l’agriculture du Brésil, a profité de son passage au Parlement européen la semaine dernière pour faire la promotion des biotechnologie d’une manière indigne. Un représentant de commerce de Monsanto n’aurait pas fait mieux.

Il est nécessaire après les marches du 23 mai 2015, de renforcer encore notre pression contre Monsanto. Les ventes de glyphosate s’effondrent. Les OGM Monsanto sont dans de nombreux cas résistants à cet herbicide qui brûle tout sur son passage. Une interdiction de ce produit se traduira par l’effondrement des ventes de semences. Et les actionnaires commencent à prendre conscience du danger pour leur porte-feuille. Peut-Être comprendront-ils également les dangers pour leur santé et pour l’environnement.

Le journal britannique The Guardian annonçait que les ventes de la multinationale s’étaient effondrées de 34% en 2014. L’année en cours se doit de faire chuter une nouvelle fois les profits de Monsanto.

US-Saudi- Israeli “Axis of Evil” Against Yemen, Carefully Planned Military Undertaking | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

US-Saudi- Israeli “Axis of Evil” Against Yemen, Carefully Planned Military Undertaking | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization



Everything is orchestrated and coordinated by Washington – including supplying weapons, intelligence and targets to strike.



 

The Class Logic Behind Austerity Policies In the Euro-Area: Can SYRIZA Put Forward a Progressive Alternative? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

The Class Logic Behind Austerity Policies In the Euro-Area: Can SYRIZA Put Forward a Progressive Alternative? | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization



 Austerity constitutes the cornerstone of neoliberal policies. On the
surface, it works as a strategy of reducing entrepreneurial cost.
Austerity reduces labour costs of the private sector, increases profit
per (labour) unit cost and thus boosts the profit rate. It is
complemented by economizing in the use of “material capital” (alas,
another demand curtailing strategy!); and also by institutional changes
that, on the one hand, enhance capital mobility and competition and, on
the other, strengthen the power of managers in the enterprise and share
and bondholders in society. As regards fiscal consolidation, austerity
gives priority to budget cuts over public revenue, reducing taxes on
capital and high incomes, and downsizing the welfare state.

 

Holes in the Neocons’ Syrian Story | Consortiumnews

Holes in the Neocons’ Syrian Story | Consortiumnews

Holes in the Neocons’ Syrian Story

Exclusive: The Islamic State and Al-Qaeda’s Nusra
Front continue to make gains in Syria while Official Washington plays
the blame game, pushing a dubious narrative that the crisis wouldn’t
have happened if President Obama had just backed “regime change”
earlier, Robert Parry reports.

By Robert Parry

Official
Washington’s narrative about Syria’s civil war is that innocent
“pro-democracy” protesters were driven to violence because the Syrian
government cracked down harshly – and that if only President Barack
Obama had armed the protesters and supported “regime change” at the
beginning, the current crises in Syria and Iraq could have been averted.

But
the storyline was never that black and white. Though there surely were
many Syrian protesters in 2011 simply seeking the end of President
Bashar al-Assad’s rule and political reform, there were also extremist
elements in their ranks from the start, including “Al-Qaeda in Iraq”
terrorists, as a Defense Intelligence Agency report describes.



 

Propaganda and Islam: What you're not Being Told

Propaganda and Islam: What you’re not Being Told

Propaganda is the wheel by which the government steers the bus of a
nation; typically driving it into war or off the cliff of humanity. It
is amazing to see how many people who are otherwise rational human
beings will blindly follow the herd on the matter of how subhuman a
perceived national enemy is. Image credit: braveandboldthinking


The western media wonderfully paints Islam as a death cult bent on
world domination. Over and over again the American populace is shown
footage of the atrocities committed by fanatics or of Arab men burning
American flags. The problem, of course, is that this isn’t remotely
representative of the Islamic population of the world. Are there Muslims
who employ terrorism? Of course. Are there Christians who employ terrorism? Of course. There are even Buddhists who employ terrorism.


Some general facts about Islam might help break the noose of wartime
propaganda that rests around America’s neck. Below are a list of
statements this journalist has seen in the last week on social media,
followed by the data to put that statement in perspective.


“All [or most] Muslims are terrorists.”



 

Conspiracy Theorists Vindicated: HAARP Confirmed Weather-manipulation Tool | We Are Change

Conspiracy Theorists Vindicated: HAARP Confirmed Weather-manipulation Tool | We Are Change



Conspiracy Theorists Vindicated: HAARP Confirmed Weather-manipulation Tool

The most damning aspersion that can be lobbed against any person, or the exposure of “secret government activity,” overwhelmingly is “Conspiracy Theorist.” That pejorative ‘handle’ is equated with imbecile mind-activity with aspersions often suggested as ‘tin hat wearers’. Well, step aside all you doubters and listen up carefully to what took place in the halls of Congress on May 14, 2014 regarding the weather modification system known as HAARP.

In the YouTube below Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) asks some pointed questions about HAARP. However, readers may not be surprised at the answers, but the mainstream media ought to be wiping oodles of egg yolk from its collective face.



 

Activist Post: “Government Wants to Control Your Car” and Prevent You From ‘Tinkering’ Under DMCA Copyright

Activist Post: “Government Wants to Control Your Car” and Prevent You From ‘Tinkering’ Under DMCA Copyright





Think you own your car? Think again.



How much do we truly “own” of our own lives, anyway?


With income taxes, property taxes on homes and property, manipulations
and interventions of the markets, the food supply and health care,
education and many other areas, we may ultimately own very little. For
now, our souls remain out of reach.

Automobiles, our ability to legally drive and our inherent freedom to travel are all under systematic attack.


Buying a car no longer means that you have own it, use it, alter it or
modify it. Restrictions on drivers and advanced traffic monitoring are
being met with the trickle-down effects on auto manufacturers – the
rules for emissions, safety standards and environmental regulations are
being used to prevent individuals from tampering with computer-regulated
motor technology.



 

Reports from Underground: How the US Aided ISIS and the Fall of Mosul and Ramadi

Reports from Underground: How the US Aided ISIS and the Fall of Mosul and Ramadi



  How the US Aided ISIS and the Fall of Mosul and Ramadi

The US-led coalition now attempting to appear as though they are fighting ISIS knowingly aided the rise of the Islamic State for the purpose of isolating Assad and combating expanding Iranian influence.  At least as far back as August of 2012 the very same anti-IS coalition knew full well that the precursors to ISIS, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and Islamic State in Iraq (ISI), dominated the Syrian opposition along with other al-Qaeda affiliated groups.  They knew that AQI was declining during 2009-10, yet was resurrected due to the insurgency in Syria.  In spite of this, the US and her allies continued to provide aid, funding, weaponry, and training to these same extremist groups, specifically seeing their rise (and the horrendous crimes against humanity that they partook in) as a strategic asset for their geopolitical aims.  The rise of the Islamic State was not only predicted, it was the expressed aim of the powers sponsoring the sectarian Syrian opposition for the purpose of opposing Assad and containing Iran.  Despite the fact that the rise of an Islamic State was predicted to have dire consequences for Iraq, including the fall of Mosul and Ramadi, support from the US-coalition to the Syrian opposition continued to manifest, leading to the conclusion that this was either the expressed intent, or an accepted byproduct of these policy decisions.

Chris Hedges: Karl Marx Was Right - Chris Hedges - Truthdig

Chris Hedges: Karl Marx Was Right - Chris Hedges - Truthdig

Karl Marx Was Right 

 

On Saturday at the Left Forum in New York City, Chris Hedges joined professors Richard Wolff and Gail Dines
to discuss why Karl Marx is essential at a time when global capitalism
is collapsing. These are the remarks Hedges made to open the discussion.



Karl Marx exposed the peculiar dynamics of capitalism, or what he
called “the bourgeois mode of production.” He foresaw that capitalism
had built within it the seeds of its own destruction. He knew that
reigning ideologies—think neoliberalism—were created to serve the
interests of the elites and in particular the economic elites, since
“the class which has the means of material production at its disposal,
has control at the same time over the means of mental production” and
“the ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the
dominant material relationships … the relationships which make one class
the ruling one.” He saw that there would come a day when capitalism
would exhaust its potential and collapse. He did not know when that day
would come. Marx, as Meghnad Desai
wrote, was “an astronomer of history, not an astrologer.” Marx was
keenly aware of capitalism’s ability to innovate and adapt. But he also
knew that capitalist expansion was not eternally sustainable. And as we
witness the denouement of capitalism and the disintegration of
globalism, Karl Marx is vindicated as capitalism’s most prescient and
important critic. 

    A bust of Karl Marx. (gravitat-OFF / CC BY 2.0)

 

StopTTIP | TTIP | TAFTA | Reporter confronts EU-Commissioner with their own ordered study! - YouTube

StopTTIP | TTIP | TAFTA | Reporter confronts EU-Commissioner with their own ordered study! - YouTube

StopTTIP | TTIP | TAFTA | Reporter confronts EU-Commissioner with their own ordered study!

 Karel De Gucht (European Commissioner for Trade) has to answer a lot of
hard questions about the trade agreement. He is responsible for TTIP,
the trade agreement between USA and the European Union (EU). From
30.01.2014, long version. Please Share! #StopTTIP #TTIP #TAFTA

Das
MONITOR-Interview aus der Sendung: "Freihandelsabkommen: Das Märchen
vom Jobmotor" mit EU-Handelskommissar Karel De Gucht in der Langfassung
und original Ton. Der WDR Reporter konfrontiert den EU-Kommissar hierbei
mit der von der EU bestellten, optimistischen Studie zum
Freihandelsabkommen. Bitte teilen! #StopTTIP #TTIP #TAFTA

Original Interview: http://www.wdr.de/tv/monitor/extra/in... -
Original Sendung: http://mediathek.daserste.de/suche/19... -

***Liebes WDR, liebes Monitor Team,
ich
habe mir erlaubt euer Lang-Interview hier hochzuladen, damit es einer
breiteren Masse zugänglich wird. Leider habt ihr dieses Interview weder
in der Mediathek, noch bei YouTube online gestellt, sondern nur auf
eurer Monitor Website. Vermutlich verirren sich aber nur die wenigsten
dort hin, vor allem die vielen Nichtdeutsche bzw. der Rest Europas.
Dieses Interview ist zu wichtig und interessant um es den Leuten
vorzuenthalten/nicht auf YouTube zu veröffentlichen.***

(ich habe alle YouTube Werbe-/Monetarisierungseinstellungen deaktiviert)



 

NSA programme: Bush-era powers expire as US prepares to roll back surveillance | US news | The Guardian

NSA programme: Bush-era powers expire as US prepares to roll back surveillance | US news | The Guardian

NSA programme: Bush-era powers expire as US prepares to roll back surveillance

Sweeping intelligence capabilities exposed by Edward Snowden shut
down as hawks concede defeat on first major surveillance reform in a
generation



 

Senator Mitch McConnell said voting on the House-backed USA Freedom Act
was ‘certainly not ideal’ but was ‘now the only realistic way forward’
on a surveillance impasse. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Grèce, le coup d’Etat silencieux, par Stelios Kouloglou (Le Monde diplomatique, juin 2015)

Grèce, le coup d’Etat silencieux, par Stelios Kouloglou (Le Monde diplomatique, juin 2015)



 Semaine après semaine, le nœud coulant des négociations étrangle
progressivement le gouvernement grec. De hauts dirigeants européens ont
d’ailleurs expliqué au Financial Times qu’aucun accord ne serait possible avec le premier ministre Alexis Tsipras
avant qu’il ne « se débarrasse de l’aile gauche de son gouvernement ».
L’Europe, qui prêche la solidarité, ne la consentirait-elle qu’aux
conservateurs ?



 

Activist Post: How Much Money Did the Fed Dump into the Stock Market?

Activist Post: How Much Money Did the Fed Dump into the Stock Market?



 Ever since the housing crash of 2008 and the stock market crash that
followed, there has been an undeniable trend in our economy. As soon as
the Fed began its quantitative easing program, the stock market started
to recover. The more cash they dumped into the economy, the higher
NASDAQ would soar. To the central planners in Washington, this was a
recovery, but to the average citizen it was anything but.



 

Activist Post: UK’s Independent Newspaper Blows Lid Off Vaccine Damages

Activist Post: UK’s Independent Newspaper Blows Lid Off Vaccine Damages



Finally it’s happened! A member of the mainstream press has the
intestinal fortitude to publish the carefully ‘kept secret’, secret
about ‪#‎vaccines‬
and vaccinations: They cause dramatic life-altering damage and more
frequently than “evidence-based medicine” or “consensus science” owns up
to or MDs, the medical profession, public health agencies and
pro-vaccine acolytes acknowledge.



 

Julian Assange on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secretive deal isn’t about trade, but corporate control | bilaterals.org

Julian Assange on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secretive deal isn’t about trade, but corporate control | bilaterals.org: 



Julian Assange on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secretive deal isn’t about trade, but corporate control

As negotiations continue, WikiLeaks has published leaked chapters of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership — a global trade deal between the United States and 11 other countries. The TPP would cover 40 percent of the global economy, but details have been concealed from the public. A recently disclosed "Investment Chapter" highlights the intent of U.S.-led negotiators to create a tribunal where corporations can sue governments if their laws interfere with a company’s claimed future profits. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warns the plan could chill the adoption of health and environmental regulations.



 

Earthlings (2005)

Earthlings (2005)



 EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about
humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing,
entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our
complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film
is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and
features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby. Heads
up: contains some graphic imagery of the day-today reality for many
animals. Just watch the first 20 minutes if you can't handle the rest.



 

Bernie Sanders to Billionaires: ''You Can't Have It All!''

Bernie Sanders to Billionaires: ''You Can't Have It All!''

Bernie Sanders to Billionaires: ''You Can't Have It All!'' 

 

Burlington, Vermont - The campaign signs all say: “Paid for by Bernie 2016 (Not the Billionaires).”


That is a given with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the proud
democratic socialist who decries plutocracy and oligarchy and proposes
to tax Wall Street. Sanders is the presidential contender who is not
looking to win the favor of the hedge-fund managers, bankers and CEOs
who define and dominate American politics.


The whole point of the audacious bid that Sanders has now formally
launched for the Democratic presidential nomination is to upset the
calculus of American politics. “Today,” he declared at the opening of
Tuesday’s announcement address,
“we stand here and say loudly and clearly that; ‘Enough is enough. This
great nation and its government belong to all of the people, and not to
a handful of billionaires, their Super-PACs and their lobbyists.’”



Sen.
Bernie Sanders speaks during a town hall event at Drake University in
Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday, February 20, 2015. (Photo: J. Alex Cooney/StumpSource.org)

TTIP compromise ignores public concerns - GUE/NGL - Another Europe is possible

TTIP compromise ignores public concerns - GUE/NGL - Another Europe is possible

TTIP compromise ignores public concerns

Supporters of a far-reaching trade agreement (TTIP) between the EU
and the US won a majority in today's vote in the European Parliament's
trade committee on a resolution on Parliament's demands on the on-going
negotiations.



Helmut Scholz, shadow rapporteur for GUE/NGL
parliamentary group, criticised this outcome: "Compromises agreed
between rapporteur Lange (S&D group) and the conservative and
liberal groups are deliberately ignoring the deep concerns raised during
the broad public debate in many EU member states regarding the creation
of a common transatlantic market."



 #TTIP #TAFTA #NOTTIP #STOPTTIP #ISDS #OGM #GMO



 



STOP TTIP / TAFTA Europe



 

 

CATALONIA -- VIDÉO - Coupe du Roi : l'hymne espagnol sifflé par le public catalan et basque, le gouvernement s'insurge

VIDÉO - Coupe du Roi : l'hymne espagnol sifflé par le public catalan et basque, le gouvernement s'insurge

VIDÉO - Coupe du Roi : l'hymne espagnol sifflé par le public catalan et basque, le gouvernement s'insurge

Le
gouvernement espagnol a dénoncé "un manque de respect" et une marque
"d'intolérance" après les sifflets nourris contre l'hymne national en
finale de la Coupe d'Espagne de football.

 

 

CATALONIA -- Why fans are ready to boo Spain's national anthem before Saturday's Copa del Rey final | Fusion

Why fans are ready to boo Spain's national anthem before Saturday's Copa del Rey final | Fusion

Why fans are ready to boo Spain’s national anthem before Saturday’s Copa del Rey final

This was the Copa del Rey everyone thought they could win.
In the end, though, we’ve ended up with a final between the
competition’s two most successful teams. Only Barcelona (26) has lifted
the trophy more times than Athletic Club be Bilbao (23). The two sides
have previously met in the final on seven occasions, and on Saturday
they will face off at the final hurdle for the third time since 2009.

Getty Images

BARCELONA,
SPAIN - JANUARY 02: Supporters hols up Catalonian Pro-independence
flags during a friendly match between Catalonia and Nigeria at
Cornella-El Prat Stadium on January 2, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo
by David Ramos/Getty Images)

The Kurdish Woman Imprisoned for Singing in Turkey | Al Jazeera America

The Kurdish Woman Imprisoned for Singing in Turkey | Al Jazeera America



 Meet the Kurdish woman imprisoned for singing in Turkey



Nudem Durak sings and teaches Kurdish folk songs to kids in Turkey. She says her work honors her heritage, but the government recently imprisoned her for promoting Kurdish propaganda.

Caught in a decades-long conflict between Turkey and the Kurds, Durak’s future is now uncertain.

Sister Teresa at the JCF Part 1 on Vimeo

Sister Teresa at the JCF Part 1 on Vimeo



Sister Teresa Forcades gives the Annual Memorial Lecture at the James
Connolly Festival 2015. Her talk explores and exposes the undemocratic
nature of the EU, capitalism and how debt has been used as a weapon
against the people of Europe. For someone with English as a second
language, she speaks with a clarity that many on the left in Ireland
lack.

If you missed the lecture itself then this is a must see video and an asset to working people here in Ireland and beyond.

The lecture is broken into 5 parts:

1) The issue of Debt

2) The European Union

3) The impact of Austerity

4) An Ethical Critique of Capitalism

5) Solutions



 

​Bizarre spectacle of Queen's speech reflects broken system

​Bizarre spectacle of Queen's speech reflects broken system

Bizarre spectacle of Queen's speech reflects broken system & out of touch government

 

So, last week the Conservative government's plans were officially
rolled out, rubber stamped, by way of the Queen's customary speech,
following the formation of David Cameron's government.




Thousands of people are expected to attend numerous protests in
the capital on Saturday to demonstrate against further planned
cuts to welfare and the scrapping of the Human Rights Act.



The sobering reality of David Cameron's plan only feels
compounded, like a slap in the face, by the surreal and insane
spectacle, of watching the actual head of state (the Queen),
articulate the other so-called head of state's (the prime
minister) pre-election promises, which are to be continued for
another five years. Five more years of cuts and slashes to public
services that is, with ever increasing powers of surveillance for the state and its
agencies. Great news! 



 

Britain's Queen Elizabeth delivers her
speech to the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster, during the
State Opening of Parliament, in London, Britain, May 27, 2015.
(Reuters/Alastair Grant)