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miércoles, 31 de mayo de 2017

Tomgram: Greg Grandin, How the Iraq War Began in Panama | TomDispatch

Tomgram: Greg Grandin, How the Iraq War Began in Panama

martes, 30 de mayo de 2017

MI6, Theresa May and the Manchester attack

“We have to question where the empathy is for the local population.”

Smart Meters Uncloaked And How To Fight Back

The battle of AMI Smart Meters is heating up across the land. Too
many utility customers are getting sick after those meters unknowingly
are/were retrofitted on to their home utility meters. After researching
the timeline on what happened either to them or their children’s
health, customers realize it all started after AMI Smart Meters were
retrofitted on to their electric, natural gas or water utility meters.
The problem is the non-thermal radiation waves AMI Smart Meters emit,
which causes electrosmog and an adverse health problem known as
electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS).

However, I want to share with readers information which may help in
dealing with, and/or removing, those harmful meters from your utility
service. Here is the American Policy Center’s 2013 report SPECIAL REPORT Sustainable Development and the Control Of Energy: The growing battle over Smart Meters (a 36-page report) .

Below the icon taken from that Report, readers will find my comments and suggestions.

If You See Something, Leak Something — The Intercept

Whistleblower-based journalism is well-suited to the challenges facing the press and the public today.

#StopGlyphosate | Corporate Europe Observatory ECI glyphosate petition herbicide agriculture farmers

Important news on #glyphosate
safety assessment by EU agencies EFSA (food safety) and ECHA
(chemicals): the first ever independent analysis of the confidential industry dataset they used in their work points to possible severe omissions!

The dataset was obtained through two access to documents requests by CEO and Green MEPs.

One lesson, again, from all of this: products put on the market (and in
our bodies) should only be evaluated on the basis of published
scientific evidence, not confidential data submitted by producers!

PS: don't forget to sign the #StopGlyphosate ECI if not done already - https://corporateeurope.org/stopglyphosate

World in flames - the deadly legacy of Cold War warrior Brzezinski — RT Op-Edge

'In 2017 alone more than 2,100 civilians were killed or injured between
January and March in Afghanistan, according to UN. The world would be a
much safer place if Brzezinski had used his considerable intellectual
skills in pursuits other than global politics' (Op-Edge by Neil Clark)

Tracing the History of The Partitioning of Iraq | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

RAYYAN DABBOUS: Readers of newspapers in 2017 might not remember a time
in which they haven’t read about an ongoing war in Iraq – the Iran-Iraq
war persisted throughout the 80s, Saddam
Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War, and ongoing US bombings
reigned throughout the 90s, and the US intervention and the Iraqi civil
war that followed ran throughout the first decade of the new millennia.

Israel to push 140,000 Palestinians out of Jerusalem boundaries | GulfNews.com

The Palestinian Shuafat Refugee Camp, in Occupied East Jerusalem, and
the town of Kufr Aqab, in the north of the city, will no longer be
considered as falling within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries, Israeli
security sources recently announced.

Here's How to Honor the Fallen this Memorial Day by Exposing the Warmongering Lies of Govt

...Perhaps a new tradition must be initiated - one that would constitute the highest form of respect. It’s time, beginning with #MemorialDay 2017, to prevent any further unnecessary deaths by exposing the #lies of the #USA empire in corporate and defense profiteering as the now-exclusive driving factors behind its push for #war on all fronts...

Reexamining History with Noam Chomsky: The New World Order & Grand Area planning

In this instalment we talk to Prof. Noam Chomsky about the global plans that the United States drew before the end of World War II and how it proceeded to implement them.

The following questions will be addressed in this video:

- What geopolitical plans did the United States draw for the globe -
before World War II?
- What is the “Grand Area” and how did it effect the security and economy of the globe?

- How did countries such as Italy, Germany and Greece fit into this
scheme and why did the US crush anti-fascist movements across Europe?

Can the EU go it alone? | Angela Merkel | Al Jazeera

Can the EU reconcile its differences with the U.S. and UK?

Guests:

Thorsten Benner, Hertie School of Governance

Charles Lichfield, Eurasia Group and specialist on EU-US relations

Lawrence Korb, Former US Assistant Secretary of Defense

TRUTH REVEALED: British Intelligence Received Warnings Of Manchester Bomber Attack - TruePublica

TruePublica Editor: There appears
now to be a reason why officials in the USA were able to name the
Manchester Arena suicide bomber within four hours of the event. The
FBI knew exactly who the perpetrator was and were able to leak huge
amounts of data to the American press, much to the vocal frustration of
British intelligence. Here’s why:

By Laura Tiernan – Explosive
allegations have emerged that the UK’s MI5 intelligence agency had
prior warning of Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi planning a
terrorist atrocity.

On May 22, Abedi detonated a shrapnel-laden improvised explosive
device outside a performance in Manchester by American singer Ariana
Grande, killing 22 people, many of whom were children, and wounding 116.

Émiettement d'un royaume, par Renaud Lambert (Le Monde diplomatique, juin 2017)

Les médias célébraient hier le Royaume-Uni comme l’incarnation de la
mondialisation heureuse et du multiculturalisme. Ils déplorent désormais
sa métamorphose en symbole du « repli nationaliste ». Comment expliquer
une telle évolution ? Édito de Renaud Lambert.

What Is Trump's Middle East Doctrine and How China, Russia and Iran Are Dealing with It

Donald Trump's first foreign visit has begun to define America’s
foreign-policy posture. After almost two years of words and rhetoric,
Trump has began to reverse his electoral
promises with diametrically opposed actions. The most recent meetings
with the King of Jordan and President Erdogan, in addition to the trips
to Saudi Arabia and Israel, represent the foundations of a great
alliance that seems to be directed towards halting the advance of the
Shiite arc in the Middle East that is led by Iran and Syria (as well as
Hezbollah) with the assistance of Russian military power and Chinese
economic power.

domingo, 28 de mayo de 2017

The Real Story of Zbigniew Brzezinski That the Media Isn’t Telling

The media is sad that the godfather of al-Qaeda died last night. Here's what they're not telling you

Google Is About to Start Tracking Your Offline Behavior, Too

#Google is about to start tracking your #offline behavior, too...
{#internet #privacy}

What's Hidden Inside That Conservative Manifesto That No-one Is Talking About - TruePublica

By Graham Vanbergen: I
have spent the last two years since the last general election
attempting to raise awareness that the current incumbents in the seat of
power in Britain have been slowly and surely salami slicing civil
liberties laws to not just deprive a largely unsuspecting population
of their hard fought rights but to neuter activists and civil society
groups along the way. The Conservative manifesto is proof that our
guided democracy will morph into a new form of authoritarianism
to ensure the Tories remain in power for decades to come.

The exact definition of authoritarianism is “the enforcement or
advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal
freedom” – it’s not hard to see or feel this enforcement of obedience
effort happening right now.

This salami slicing has included new laws such as (RIPA) the Snoopers
Charter, a law designed to hack into all your devices and surveil your
entire life. Then there have been various laws passed that make it
illegal to protest without police permission, or to gather in groups of
more than three, feed the homeless and Closed Material Proceedings – or
secret courts, that have doubled in number in just one year.

I have just been informed by a diplomat that after the Manchester
bombing, the escalation of national security to ‘critical’ with the
deployment of “Operation Temperer’ is in fact Britain’s code for ‘state
of emergency’ – they just haven’t said it is so.

ISIS Touches Down in the Philippines | New Eastern Outlook

The "Islamic State" can't reach into Asia, including taking an entire city in the Philippines...

... or acting in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...

... without substantial state sponsorship.

The US and Saudi Arabia are fueling the spread of ISIS through fake
mosques/madrasas, fake human rights advocacy to prevent targeted
governments from targeting these networks, and outright covert/overt
subversion.

http://journal-neo.org/…/isis-touches-down-in-the-philippi…/

5 things you should know about the Libyan crisis

Libya's chaotic civil war and status as a failed state threatens world peace.

Libya’s new civil war is quickly becoming a war fought on many
layered and at times competing fronts. There is now a regional,
ideological and internationalised font in a war for what remains the
heart and soul of a failed state that was once the most united, wealthy
and stable in Africa. It was also incidentally the most effective state
in Africa at prosecuting terrorism, more so even than the much larger
Egypt, a country which spiritually and culturally is far more Levantine
than Maghrebi (Arab Africa) as it stands.

Here’s what you need to know about where things stand in the Libyan failed state.

La planète selon Brzezinski, par Jean-Marie Chauvier (Le Monde diplomatique, juillet 2004)

La vocation des Etats-Unis à guider la planète, à en contrôler les
ressources énergétiques, à déployer partout leur armée, à modeler la
civilisation mondiale est un credo ancien des stratèges du pouvoir
américain. L’un des plus prestigieux, M. Zbigniew Brzezinski, vient de mourir.

sábado, 27 de mayo de 2017

Manchester Bombing: The Uncomfortable Truth - TruePublica

By Robert Stevens: More
details have emerged about the prior familiarity of British
intelligence agencies with the Manchester suicide bomber, Salman Abedi,
whose murderous assault Monday evening left 22 people dead.

Given Abedi’s connections and his travel movements leading up to the
attack, the only explanation for him being able to remain at large for
so long is that he was a protected asset—part of a broad network of
operatives utilised by Britain and the US to conduct their nefarious
operations in the Middle East.

It is the exposure of these operations which accounts for the fury of
Prime Minister Theresa May over the US leaking of intelligence
information about the UK’s investigation into the bombing. Whatever the
specific reasons for these leaks, they have completely undermined the
British authority’s original claims that Abedi was an unknown, “lone
wolf”.

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Blame David Cameron for Manchester Bombing!

Britons should hold David Cameron guilty of the innocent blood staining
Manchester. No less guilty are Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama.
Likewise Hillary Clinton of "We came, we
saw, he died" infamy, without which regime change in Libya would not
have occurred. When on the Last Day the books are opened and all
accounts settled, Salman Abedi will have to face the judgment he escaped
in this life. But add to that reckoning before the Dread Judge the
names of those who helped the Saudis and their confederates do their
dirty work.

How Israel prevents Palestinian farmers from working their lands - Palestinians - Haaretz

"A months-long strike ended this week when the Civil Administration
agreed to reexamine procedures concerning access to farmland beyond the
West Bank separation barrier. Have the reasons for the strike really
disappeared? Time will tell."

A Palestinian drives into his land beyond the West Bank separation barrier near Qalqilya, last month. CREDIT
Nir Kedar

viernes, 26 de mayo de 2017

Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald: Criminalizing WikiLeaks is a Threat to Journalists Everywhere | Democracy Now!

"If they do charge Julian Assange with espionage, if they do criminalize
what WikiLeaks is doing, that’s a threat to journalists everywhere,"
says Jeremy Scahill. "This is a tactic that the U.S. government uses all the time."

ISIS conquers Philippines city of Marawi (PHOTOS)

The Philippines city of Marawi has reportedly been taken by ISIS in
the most brutal way imaginable. According to the Amaq Agency, over 70
Philippines soldiers have been killed. However, the Philippine Army have
contradicted this report saying that only 8 of their soldiers have been
killed. It remains to be seen which report is the more accurate figure.

ISIS have set up check-points around the city in a manner reminiscent
of how they came to control cities like Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in
Syria.

New pictures have been released by al-Masdar depicting the rapid conquest of the city by ISIS.

The rapid gains ISIS is making in Philippines could gain the group a
foothold in South East Asia. Unlike previous Islamist insurgencies in
Philippines, ISIS openly claim to hold regional and indeed global
ambitions.

WikiLeaks - Hillary Clinton Email Archive

Hillary Clinton's #Libya "Tick Tock" details how she 'led' the destruction https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23898#efmARSAR6 - … #imwithher

Assad Calls Out The West, Says Mainstream Media and Trump Are Pawns of the Deep State

(ActivistPost)
While Americans endlessly battle each other over seemingly important
choices like Clinton and Trump or Democrats and Republicans, it is clear
that the majority of the population has little understanding of how the
U.S. government operates. Yet, for those who pay the price for the
apathy and confusion of the general population of the West, it often
becomes stunningly obvious that neither presidents nor political parties
in America represent any discernible difference in the ongoing agenda
of the Deep State and the rest of the oligarchical apparatus. Indeed,
that agenda always marches forward regardless of who is president or
which political party is in control.

Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has thus had the unique position of
not only being on the receiving end of American imperialism by virtue
of not only being a citizen of a target country but also by being the
head of the country, steeped in politics in his own right and thus
understanding how certain factors come into play at the national level.

America’s Wars of Aggression against Africa under the Disguise of the “War on Terrorism” | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

ABAYOMI AZIKIWE: The reasoning behind the creation of AFRICOM has
evolved over the last eight years from being a necessary security
measure to protect vital American
interests on the continent to a mechanism designed to assist
post-colonial African states to enhance their national security
apparatuses in light of the so-called “war on terrorism”, by then in
full operation some four to five years after the invasion of Iraq and
Haiti, and six-and-a-half years after the Pentagon occupation of
Afghanistan.

Press Freedom On Life Support: Why It’s Harder Than Ever To Get Real News

Will Republicans, Democrats, and tech giants collude to crush independent journalism on the internet?

SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION ---- Rajoy’s ‘no’ to negotiation ‘won’t help solve’ the stalemate between Catalonia and Spain | VilaWeb

Rajoy’s ‘no’ to negotiation ‘won’t help solve’ the stalemate between Catalonia and Spain | VilaWeb

CATALONIA

Rajoy’s ‘no’ to negotiation ‘won’t help solve’ the stalemate between Catalonia and Spain

jueves, 25 de mayo de 2017

As ISIS Takes Blame for Manchester, Israel Reveals West's True Feelings

As ISIS Takes Responsibly for Manchester Attack, Israel Reveals West’s True Feelings

A Very Heavy Agenda Part 3: Maintaining the World Order

“Without doubt it is the best documentary I have watched – on any subject – in years” – Tom Secker [spyculture.com - ]

“One of the most important documentaries in circulation at the moment with relevance to the extremely dangerous drumbeat and buildup to major war” – Joanne Leon [shadowproof.com - ]

”Completely mind-blowing documentary about neocon ideologues and their
bipartisan destructive influence” – Max Blumenthal [Author of Goliath
& The 51 Day War]

“Shows how the smarter neocons were able to
escape accountability for engineering the Iraq War and slither their
way back into positions of power” – Daniel Wright [shadowproof.com - ]

Told Ya So: Majority of Americans Think Mainstream Media Publishes Fake News

Poll shows 65 percent of Americans think media is overrun with #FakeNews, to no surprise, expert says it's up to outlets to change the perception.

US Government Lost Track of $1B Worth of Military Equipment in Iraq

New report "provides a worrying insight into the U.S. Army's flawed– and potentially dangerous – system" after revealing its inefficient processes.

Royaume-Uni, de l'Empire au Brexit, par Bernard Cassen & Renaud Lambert (Le Monde diplomatique, mai 2017)

L'attentat de Manchester a interrompu la campagne, mais des élections
législatives auront lieu le 8 juin prochain au Royaume-Uni. Un scrutin
déterminant pour l'avenir du pays. —

Trump’s Foreign Tour: the Clouds Surrounding Saudi Arabia Are Breaking Up

It’s revealing that Saudi Arabia is the first country the American
president has visited since his inauguration. That was a first in US
history. The choice of Saudi Arabia is
all the more interesting because throughout the last year Washington’s
relations with Riyadh have been strained. For example, Barack Obama got a
decidedly cool reception when he visited Saudi Arabia in April 2016.
And now we see this unexpected reversal.

Ce que voulait de Gaulle en quittant l'OTAN, par Dominique Vidal (Le Monde diplomatique, avril 2008)

En quittant le commandement militaire intégré de l’OTAN, le général Charles de Gaulle cherchait moins à réformer l’Alliance qu’à redéployer la politique étrangère de la France en toute indépendance.

Russian Defence Minister: White Helmets chemical attack footage 'staged'

It was fake all along. #WhiteHelmets #chemicalattack

Tariq Ali: Manchester Bombing is Part of Vicious Cycle, Likely Blowback from Ongoing War on Terror | Democracy Now!

"These terrorist attacks are not confined to Europe. They take place
every single day in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan and
Yemen, Bahrain." - Historian and commentator Tariq Ali

Keeping soldiers on our streets for too long would endanger our democracy

"The sight of soldiers loitering on a street corner is shocking."

Security officials line the streets during Donald Trump's visit to Israel

Credit:
EPA/ALAA BADARNEH

miércoles, 24 de mayo de 2017

Why Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel | Middle East | Al Jazeera

Today is "Jerusalem Day" - the day Israel celebrates occupying East
Jerusalem at the end of the 1967 war. The annual celebration is a day
when right wing Israelis, rampage around
East Jerusalem's Old City, carrying Israeli flags, and shouting
anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racist slogans.

The international community, including the US, regards East Jerusalem as occupied territory [The Associated Press]

CATALONIA --- Catalan Government to ‘formally’ request referendum negotiations | VilaWeb

Catalan Government to ‘formally’ request referendum negotiations | VilaWeb

CATALONIA

Last offer to Madrid

Catalan Government to ‘formally’ request referendum negotiations
Carles Puigdemont will send a letter during the next few days to the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy

<<< http://www.vilaweb.cat/…/catalan-government-to-formally-re…/

Le PIB, une mesure qui ne dit pas tout, par Olivier Zajec (Le Monde diplomatique, 2012)

Pendant
des décennies, la mesure du produit intérieur brut a «défini» le
développement. Pourtant, que vaut cette hiérarchie fondée sur la seule
croissance quantitative, ignorant sa
dimension qualitative ? Vit-on mieux dans le centre-ville dévasté de
Detroit que dans une famille de pêcheurs au Cap-Vert ? Que traduisent
réellement les indicateurs de richesse traditionnels ?

Turkey’s Varied Tactics of US Lobbying – Consortiumnews

Exclusive: Turkey has built one of the premier foreign lobbies in
Washington by paying powerful politicians, spreading around money to
arms manufacturers, and teaming up with the Israel Lobby, writes
Jonathan Marshall.

https://consortiumnews.com/…/turkeys-varied-tactics-of-us-…/

President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses citizens in front of his residence in
Istanbul on July 19, 2016. (Photo from official website of the
Presidency of the Republic of Turkey)

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Manchester Tragedy: Understanding The Big Picture

UK citizens should be angry over yesterday's terrorist attack in
Manchester. They should be angry at the demented person who committed
the crime. They should also be angry
with their own government, whose adherence to the US interventionist
Middle East policy virtually assures that such "Blowback" attacks will
continue. This and the broader context in today's Liberty Report:

Manchester Tragedy: Understanding The Big Picture

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/…/manchester-tragedy-understan…/

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : The Republic Has Fallen: The Deep State’s Plot to Take Over America Has Succeeded

The Deep State—a.k.a. the police state a.k.a. the military industrial
complex—has taken over. Instead of putting an end to the corruption,
Trump has paved the way for lobbyists,
corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to
feast on the carcass of the dying American republic. From Clinton to
Bush, then Obama and now Trump, it’s as if we’ve been caught in a time
loop, forced to re-live the same thing over and over again: the same
assaults on our freedoms, disregard for the rule of law, the same
subservience to the self-serving government that exists only to amass
power, enrich its shareholders and ensure its continued domination.

British Intelligence Warned Tony Blair of Manchester-Like Terrorism if the West Invaded Iraq

Blair was repeatedly warned by British intelligence that invading Iraq
would lead to exactly this type of terrorist attack. He concealed these
warnings, instead claiming the war would reduce the risk of terrorism.

A "wage massacre" in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

"I’m afraid that my sons will not be able to buy enough food for their children after their salaries have fallen.”

Men and women hold Arabic-language signs protesting salary cuts during large demonstration

Palestinian Authority employees protest salary cuts in Gaza City on 8 April.

Ashraf Amra
APA images

Why Palestinians have already given up on Trump - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com

"Many believe Donald Trump's administration will not take any meaningful
action to preserve the already-endangered potential viability of a
future Palestinian state, and will empower Israel's policy of
colonization in the West Bank."

Palestinian demonstrators denounce Donald Trump's visit with the slogan: "US policy is shameful to humanity" in support of the hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Qalandia Checkpoint, West Bank. May 22, 2017

Palestinian demonstrators denounce Trump's visit: "US policy is shameful
to humanity", in support of the hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners
in Israeli jails, Qalandiya checkpoint. May 22, 2017
ABBAS MOMANI/AFP

President Putin Goes to France on ‘Unplanned Visit’

The announcement of President Putin’s visit to France made on May 22 by
Russia and France was quite a surprise. The date – May 29 – had not been
known though the upcoming event is not exactly a bolt from the blue.
The visit has been in the works for quite a long time

Manchester Bombing: What We Don't Know - TruePublica

On 22nd May at approximately
22.30hrs a bomb was detonated at the Ariana Grande Manchester Arena
concert, Manchester, UK. Much has emerged in the national press and
television media over the incident. There are some things though that we
don’t know.

In the early hours of the morning of the 23rd May – approximately 02.35BST NDTV via the Washington Post stated quite categorically that: “U.S.
officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, identified the
assailant as Salman Abedi. They did not provide information about his
age or nationality, and British officials declined to comment on the
suspect’s identity.” This was published at a time when British
police and security services were refusing to make any statements as to
who they thought the perpetrators were because at the time, they were
dealing with the immediate aftermath of the event.

Quite how unnamed ‘US Officials’ wishing to remain anonymous
correctly identified the exact individual exactly four hours after the
incident from 3,500 miles away is anyone’s guess, particularly when
British police and security services continued to make no such
statement.

miércoles, 31 de mayo de 2017

Tomgram: Greg Grandin, How the Iraq War Began in Panama

martes, 30 de mayo de 2017

My latest: Where is the British media as evidence surfaces that the MI6 spy agency had a direct hand in radicalising Libyans like Salman Abedi, responsible for last week's Manchester terror attack?

“We have to question where the empathy is for the local population.”

By Catherine J. Frompovich

Below the icon taken from that Report, readers will find my comments and suggestions.

Whistleblower-based journalism is well-suited to the challenges facing the press and the public today.

Important news on #glyphosate safety assessment by EU agencies EFSA (food safety) and ECHA (chemicals): the first ever independent analysis of the confidential industry dataset they used in their work points to possible severe omissions!

The dataset was obtained through two access to documents requests by CEO and Green MEPs.

One lesson, again, from all of this: products put on the market (and in our bodies) should only be evaluated on the basis of published scientific evidence, not confidential data submitted by producers!