1 June 2013 — The Corbett Report
James Corbett has been living and working in Japan since 2004. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics.
Day: June 1, 2013
The Geopolitics of Gas and the Syrian Crisis By Dmitry MININ
31 May 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
What has one of the most democratic countries of the Middle East, Syria, done to tick off some of its neighbors in the West, the fierce fighters for democracy? The irrationality and unscrupulousness of the approaches Western countries have taken to the Syrian crisis, when the same people who in Europe are considered terrorists are declared «freedom fighters» when it comes to Syria, becomes clearer in light of the economic dimension of the Syrian tragedy. Continue reading
BFP Book Review: “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism’ by Trevor Aaronson”
1. June 2013 — Boiling Frogs
How the FBI creates and facilitates phony terrorist plots so that the bureau can then claim victory in the war on terror. Continue reading
Monsanto set to halt GMO push in Europe
1 June 2013 — RT
Monsanto plans to halt lobbying for its genetically modified plant varieties in Europe due to low demand from local farmers, a representative from the US agricultural giant told a German daily.
GR Week in Review: Fake Arms Embargo and EU Military Support to Al Nusra in Syria
1 June 2013 — Global Research
Deflation Smackdown: Bernanke’s Madcap Money Printing Fails to Boost Inflation, Mike Whitney, May 31, 2013“Under a fiat money system, a government… should always be able to generate increased nominal spending and inflation, even when the short-term nominal interest rate is at zero.”
“We Steal Secrets” The New Movie About Wikileaks Infuriates Wikileaks By Danny Schecter
1 June 2013 — Global Research
Every documentary filmmaker begins with deciding on the story to be told, and, then, how to sustain audience interest.
If your goal is to inform the public or take a stand on an important issue by explaining its origins and exposing wrong doers then you go one way. If your goal is to entertain and shroud your motives by exploring murky personality contradictions, you go another.
Who Was Behind the Woolwich Killing? Criminality of Britain’s Ruling Elite By Chris Marsden
1 June 2013 — WSWS
The killing of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, London has lifted a corner of the carefully constructed veil of lies, intrigue and criminality surrounding British foreign policy.
Report from Turkey: A Taste of Tahrir at Taksim By Sungur Savran
1 June 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 831
Istanbul has become a battlefield covered by tear gas. The police, no doubt at the behest of the Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP government, have been attacking protestors in the centre of the city, near Taksim Square, for five consecutive days. This would have been no news at all: Turkish police are famous for their brutality in dealing with demonstrations unwelcome to the government. Only a month ago, on May Day, they had dispersed a gathering of thousands of workers and unionists using tear gas unsparingly. So nothing new on the police front. This time is different for another reason.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 31 May 2013: ’Superland’ and the normalization of segregation in Israel
31 May 2013 — VTJP
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Child Seriously Injured In Bethlehem
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources has reported that a Palestinian child was seriously injured by Israeli army fire, late on Friday evening, at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. …
The Chemical WMD Story is Being Used to Cover the Rebel Retreat in Syria By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
31 May 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The timing of Tel Aviv’s repeated attacks on Syria in May 2013 attacks and the kindling of yet another round of accusations and tensions between the Turkish government and Syria that have resulted from the car bombings in the Turkish town of Reyhanli say a lot. Firstly, Tel Aviv’s aerial strikes, via illegal use of Lebanese airspace, on the Syrian military research facility in the town of Jamraya, which is an urban galaxy of Damascus, clarifies Israel’s role in destabilizing Syria. Israel is essentially acting as the insurgencies air force. Continue reading
New at Strategic Culture Foundation 26 May – 1 June 2013: War on Terror / Afghanistan-Pakistan / Syria-EU-US / Boston
1 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Pentagon Increases Authority Over Use of Force in CONUS
01.06.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV
Worried about the legality of the armed drone program and some covert missions in places not covered by the text of the 2001 measure, US Senators are mulling over the prospects for either a new resolution or an update to the existing one. On May 13 the US Senate debated an expansion of the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) so the U.S. can essentially engage any area in the world in the war on terror, including the territory of US itself. Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Sheehan told Congress that the AUMF authorized the US military to operate on a worldwide battlefield from Boston to Pakistan…
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