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IS - Obama Speaks
#Obama: "Excuse me - I'm not done lying yet" #ImpeachObama #2A #tcot #TGDN #ccot #PJNET #RNR pic.twitter.com/0UGDslXidu
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US Federal Court Issues Summons Against Narendra Modi
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
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UN Documents Point To Deep Links Between Khorasan Leader Mohsin al Fadhli And Al Nusra Front In Syria
The Khorasan group, which the U.S. says was planning a terror attack in the West, is still largely mysterious -- but one thing that is clear, according to United Nations documentsconsulted by International Business Times, is that the man thought to be its leader has deep connections to Jabhat al-Nusra, al Qaeda's offshoot in the Syrian civil war.
Muhsin al Fadhli was arrested in Kuwait in 2003 and then released; he went on to a remarkable career in the top echelons of al Qaeda. Some of the al Qaeda leaders he has been linked to have also been arrested by other Middle Eastern governments but subsequently released, according to UN documents. Fadhli may have been killed in the airstrikes on Syria this week -- reports have differed.
"We believe the Khorasan group was nearing the final stages of an attack in Europe or the homeland," Gen. William Mayville, the Joint Staff director of operations, said at a Pentagon briefing Tuesday. The group "is clearly not focused on either the Assad regime or the Syrian people."
The man wholse full name appears in UN documents as Muhsin Fadhil Ayed Ashour al-Fadhli arrived in Syria last year. Rebels in Syria told the International Business Times that “no one” in the opposition had heard of the group before the U.S. airstrikes began earlier this week.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
IS in Syria and Iraq - Obama Avoids The Word 'War'
Obama announces the war-not-a-war. 'Action', 'Process', 'Fight', 'Effort' and 'Campaign' are among the euphemisms he has used in the last 24 hours.
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The mind, heart, and soul connection.
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For my cyber friend Dusty.
The mind, heart, and soul are all connected and intertwined within the same being of Self.
If and when any one of the three declares that it is time to depart this world.
The other two understand, agree, and it is done.
Life and death come and go.
But the Self remains and is everlasting.
Do not fear or hate death .
Understand it for what it is.
For it is but one more stop on our infinate journey.
Tao Dao Man
Monday, September 22, 2014
Gaza: How We Got Here ... The Struggle for Palestine (1947-1973) Part 2
This is the second part in a three part series. Click here for Part 1.
I Introduction
The British Foreign Secretary told Parliament on February 18, 1947 that "there is no prospect of resolving this conflict by any settlement negotiated between the parties." Further, he said, according to the League of Nations mandate, the legal basis for Britain's rule over Palestine, Britain did not have the authority to partition the country as everyone thought would be necessary. Thus, the British government had decided to turn the problem over to the United Nations. The Foreign Secretary did not mention, but it was obviously a significant factor, that Britain could no longer afford to keep nearly 100,000 troops employed in an increasingly vain effort to keep the peace in what was in comparison to India a relatively unimportant area.
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South Korea: Still Stonewalling About the Sewol
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The Sewol, a South Korean passenger-cargo ferry that was carrying 476 people—including a group of high school students on a field trip to Jeju Island—capsized on April 16, 2014, and sank to the bottom of the sea off Korea’s southern coast.
The Korean Coast Guard rescued most of the crew, including the captain, and some of the passengers. Before the Coast Guard or the Navy arrived on the scene, fishing boats and commercial vessels saved other passengers who happened to be on the deck or escaped soon after the capsizing. The rest were, unfortunately, trapped inside and sank together with the ferry. 294 were later found dead, and 10 are still “missing” almost 5 months after their disappearance.
The ship’s sinking may seem an unfortunate accident, and the passengers’ deaths its tragic ending. Once the surface is scratched, however, a more complicated picture emerges.
The Sewol sank under the weight of the neoliberal state that diminished its role in safety regulation and oversight. Its passengers drowned to death because the state relegated the rescue operation to a private salvage firm and prioritized its own interests over those of the passengers. But when victims’ families demanded the truth, the strong state reared its menacing head by deploying its force to silence them and mobilizing its resources to hide its responsibility.
The Korean state’s deregulation and dereliction combined to create the perfect storm that sent the Sewol and its passengers to the bottom of the sea. The state’s intimidation has suggested that a cover-up is under way to obscure the state’s responsibility, contrary to President Park Geun-Hye’s public promise to get to the bottom of the accident.
The Weight of the Diminishing State
Shia and Sunni Have Been at Each Other’s Throats for a Thousand Years? Architecture Shows this Isn’t True.
Detail, Inscription Praising Rightly-Guided Caliphs
This one wrapped around the portal’s entrance faΓ§ade and was located just under the heads of visitors entering the shrine. It bore a remarkable message, for it named the twelve Imams of the Shi’a alongside the four Rightly Guided Caliphs of the Sunnis, and, by using calligraphy of similar size and style and directly juxtaposing the two inscriptions, it visually equated the two groups of holy men. At the end, in clear, bold script, he wrote an unambiguously worded entreaty: “May God be pleased with all the Companions of His Prophet.” And with these words, al-Zahir carved in stone a sentiment that powerfully reflects the nuanced, negotiated sectarian history of Islam in Syria and elsewhere in the Islamic world.
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Saturday, September 20, 2014
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Tidal Power: 1.8 Trillion Won Garolim Tidal Power Project on Verge of Suspension
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The small finger of land on the middle right of the picture is where I have been living for the last 5 months.
Tao Dao Man
The Tao of North Korea
The Tao of North Korea
North Korea and South Korea are more alike than this famous satellite photo would have you believe. (Photo: NASA / Flickr)
You’ve seen those nighttime satellite pictures of the Korean peninsula. The northern half is dark, while the southern half is a thousand points of light. You might think: hat’s off to those thrifty North Koreans who are helping save the planet by conserving electricity!
But of course, that’s not the message you’re supposed to take away with you. The nighttime map is supposed to be a visual representation of what we intuitively feel to be the political, economic, and social reality of this divided land. The people of North Korea live a benighted existence in a totalitarian environment, where the entire population experiences the “lights out” of a labor camp or a detention facility. The people of South Korea, meanwhile, are just like us, staying up all night to eat, drink, dance, and party. The North is Gulag style, while the South is Gangnam Style.
The reality of the Korean peninsula is, of course, vastly more complicated than these either-or contrasts. Stop thinking of the peninsula as two completely distinct halves, with barbed wire running down the middle. At the very least, think of Korea as the Taoist yin-yang symbol: two cupped apostrophes, one black and one white and each containing a dot of the other’s color. There’s a little yin in yang and a little yang in yin.
Yin and Yang
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Leo Tolstoy’s diaries and notebooks go online
A website celebrates the legendary Russian writer's birthday by uploading several of his personal notes.
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Urgent inquiry needed after new US airstrike increases civilian death toll -| Amnesty
A recent Amnesty International report documented how previous incidents where civilians were killed during US/NATO military operations have not been properly investigated. Incidents involving likely war crimes have not led to prosecutions.
“The lack of accountability for killings of civilians by US/NATO forces in Afghanistan sends a message that foreign troops have free rein to commit abuses in Afghanistan and that the lives of Afghan civilians have little or no value,” said Richard Bennett, Asia-Pacific Director at Amnesty International.
“The lack of accountability for killings of civilians by US/NATO forces in Afghanistan sends a message that foreign troops have free rein to commit abuses in Afghanistan and that the lives of Afghan civilians have little or no value,” said Richard Bennett, Asia-Pacific Director at Amnesty International.
Extreme Solar Storm Headed For Earth
Observed late on Wednesday, the storm is moving towards Earth at a medium-to-fast rate of about 2.5 million mph (4.02 million kph), said forecaster Tom Berger, meaning the soonest it can arrive is early on Friday (US time). MORE
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Saudi Arabia Agrees To Provide Bases To Train Anti-ISIS Syrian Opposition Fighters By Mark Hanrahan
Saudi Arabia has indicated its willingness to provide bases to train moderate Syrian opposition fighters to combat the Islamic State, or ISIS, at the request of the United States, according to reports.
President Obama spoke with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Wednesday, hours before laying out his strategy to combat the militant group, who have taken control of huge swathes of Iraq and Syria. The White House said: “The president and the king agreed on the need for increased training and equipping of the moderate Syrian opposition.”
While the Saudis would be hosting the training program on their soil, the actual training of fighters would most likely be carried out by another country -- possibly the U.S.
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9-11 And The 'War on Terror'
For all the victims, not just of 9-11, but of the evil and carnage that 9-11 and its exploiters unleashed. Artwork by John Joe Neenan. @johnjoeneenan
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
9/11's secret 28-page history
Congressman Massie has described the classified chapter as "shocking".
"I had to stop every couple pages and just sort of absorb, and try to rearrange my understanding of history for the past 13 years, and years leading up to that," he told a press conference earlier this year.
"It challenges you to rethink everything."
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Phil Ochs Remembered
In a poignant tribute, the archival materials of the great Phil Ochs, whose passion for social justice we could use these days, have been donated to Tulsa's Woody Guthrie Center, the first artist other than Guthrie to join a collection honoring music that "gives voice to the voiceless." Dubbed "a true son" of Guthrie, Ochs left us too soon, committing suicide at 35. But his fearless furious songs of the 1960s and 70s live on - hear his iconic The War Is Over or Power and the Glory for proof - and remain as painfully relevant as ever. The full PBS documentary There But For Fortune and the newly released CD Phil Ochs Live Again remind us how much we're missing. (source)
The New Realpolitik: Henry Kissinger, ISIS, and American Empire
'For a guy who claims to be a realist, Kissinger sure doesn’t seem to recognize the real conditions nation-states are currently facing,' writes Niemela. (Photo: Gero Breloer/AP)
The re-emergence of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and his latest book, “World Order,” has prompted accolades and resentments from across the political spectrum. “World Order” is realism re-emerging in a time of American idealistic, “moral” foreign policy. Kissinger campaigns once again for the Westphalian model of world peace in which nation-states draw borders, balance power, demonstrate mutual respect for sovereignty and work to manage conflict, and peace, accordingly.
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