20 May 2013 — Information Clearing House
Syria Has No Reason To Use Chemical Weapons
By Patrick Cockburn
The Syrian army has no need to use it as a terror weapon because artillery, aerial bombardment and death squads are quite enough to frighten people into taking flight.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35020.htm
20 May 2013 — PressTV
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange The UK government eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, is facing embarrassing revelations after its internal correspondence was made public by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
20 May 2013 — www.boilingfrogspost.com
Mother of All Rules Governing US Media: Censor & Cover-Up US Government Criminality
In January 2008 The Sunday Times published the second report of its four-part investigative series concerning the U.S. government’s direct role in international terrorism networks and organized crime involving nuclear espionage: For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets.
20 May 2013 — Joe Bageant
See the introduction to this series of posts: Writing on Things Southern and Past
Lonzy Barker is missing. Has been for several months now. Nobody noticed it until that smelly old hermit didn’t show up here at Dalton Bayles’ post office store for his sardines and rock candy. “He could be layin’ over there in his pigpen dead or something,” says Dalton. Did I tell you, dear reader, that Lonzy Barker lives in a pigpen? Always has. Anyway, after three months of Lonzy’s government checks piling up in the pigeonhole, Dalton has decided Lonzy “just might be — I ain’t saying he is and I ain’t saying he ain’t — missing.”
May 2013 — Great Latin Music
Recorded in Havana in 1985. The trumpet maestros are accompanied by Walter Davis Jr. on the piano and Sayyd Abdul al-Khabbyr on the baritone sax.
20 May 2013 — Global Research News
Media sources confirm the seizure of an Israeli military vehicle in Al Qseir inside Syrian territory, pointing to the presence of covert Israeli forces operating within the ranks of “opposition” rebel forces.
The vehicle’s licence plate corresponds to that of the Israeli military with a black background and the letter Tsade (?) (see image below)
20 May 20, 2013 — RT
Earlier Monday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the army had “restored security and stability to most Qusair neighborhoods” and was “chasing the remnants of the terrorists in the northern district.” The agency quoted a military source as saying that army units dismantled a number of explosive devices, planted by terrorists in al-Souk area in the middle of the city.Intense fighting is reported from the strategic Syrian town of Qusair, as rebels and government forces fight to control the area. Opposition activists say 30 members of Hezbollah were killed, while the government claims to have captured the area. Continue reading
19 May 2013 — Truthdig
Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion no longer have external impediments. We wanted to illustrate what unrestrained corporate exploitation does to families, communities and the natural world. Continue reading
19 May 2013 — VTJP
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Israeli troops storm Awarta near Nablus, detain Palestinian man
5/19/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) – Israeli forces stormed the northern West Bank village of Awarta south of Nablus on Sunday and detained a young Palestinian man, locals told Ma’an. They added that Israeli military vehicles stormed the village at midday before they detained 27-year-old Samir Faisal Qadah and took him to the nearby….
18 December 1878 — Marxists Internet Archive
This interview with Karl Marx first appeared on January 5, 1879, in the Chicago Tribune–one of the most conservative newspapers of the time, which regularly attacked socialism and trade unions.
The New Dark Age 