Robert Fisk | The Independent | 31 Oct 2014 What on earth has descended upon the Middle East? Why such an epic explosion of violence? It feels strange to ask these questions of Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s close advisers and former translator to his father, Hafez. Her office is spotless, flowers…
Fox News | 29 Oct 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITonhBJOVGY?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] The government when investigating a crime can lie, cheat, commit fraud, even commit assaults, even steal in order to catch a defendant. But it can only do those thing to the defendant it id trying to catch. It cannot to it to a third party … the…
by Cory Doctorow | BoingBoing | November 2, 2014 Biggest expansion of FBI spying power in its history The Bureau is seeking a rule-change from the Administrative Office of the US Courts that would give it the power to distribute malware, hack, and trick any computer, anywhere in the world, in the course of…
Paul Craig Roberts | 31 Oct 2014 If you require more evidence that the United States is a dysfunctional society, observe American elections. Election season is slander season. Each party’s attack teams focus on misrepresenting, defaming, and ridiculing the opposing party’s candidates. Attack ads have replaced debates and any discussion of what the issues are,…
Information Clearing House | 2 Nov 2014 Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval vessel. In 1967, at the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force launched an unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty, a US Navy spy ship that was monitoring the conflict…
GWPF | 2 Nov 2014 IPCC Powerless As Deadlock Over Climate Treaty Solidifies The world is on course to experience “severe and pervasive” negative impacts from climate change unless it takes rapid action to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, a major UN report is expected to warn on Sunday. Yet despite the IPCC’s stark warnings,…
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times | 31 Oct 2014 Islamic State leader Caliph Ibrahim – aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – never ceases to amaze us – and most of all his powerful petrodollar-stuffed backers. The Caliph is for all practical purposes now an oil major worth of membership of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting…
By Mark Taliano | Global Research | October 31, 2014 The tragic shooting of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo on October 22, 2014 at the War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada followed by a shoot-out at the House of Commons, and the death of the shooter, Michael Zebaf-Bibeau, serves as a catalyst to advance several hidden government agendas.…
Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today | 31 Oct 2014 “We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and feeble lies. We shall seduce them in your schools…in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms…wherever men are men together.” Michael Swift, “Gay Revolutionary” One can say that Aleister…