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Escalation of Syria War: Ahmed Al-Assir, America’s Pawn in Lebanon By Phil Greaves, June 28 2013

This weeks conflagration near Sidon, a majority Sunni city in the South of Lebanon has been on the cards for some time. Sheikh Al Assir, the instigator of the street battle’s with the Lebanese Armed Forces, (LAF) has been on

Syria: How far will Obama go to Save the Insurgency? By Phil Greaves, June 28 2013

The Obama administration has yet to publicly reveal any of its ‘evidence’ to prove the Syrian Government or armed forces have used Sarin, or any other chemical weapon. This can simply be put down to the administration not having have

US-Israeli Stuxnet Cyber-attacks against Iran: “Act of War” By RT, June 28 2013

Global Research Editor’s Note

The article below originally posted on Global Research on March 26, 2013  sheds light on what is now “official” following the alleged leak of classified  information about a covert cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. 

Retired Marine

Simulation Map of Fukushima Fallout: Radioactive Dispersion of Cesium-137 in North America By Global Research News, June 28 2013

The simulation developed in September 2011 by a team at CEREA, Ecole des Ponts  was performed with a specific version of the numerical atmospheric chemistry and transport model Polyphemus/Polair3D. The parametrisations used for the transport and physical removal of the

George W. Bush “Guilty of War Crimes”, Lawyers File for Obama’s Arrest in South Africa By Global Research News, June 28 2013

“We’ll get Bush in the US” the world’s top war crimes prosecutor tells The Truthseeker after Dubya’s deputies warn him against travel,

Lawyers file for Obama’s arrest tomorrow when he hits South Africa, huge secret wars in America’s name being

Digital Warfare: Stuxnet and Flame Viruses could have Three “Sister Viruses” By Global Research News, June 28 2013

This article originally published by Global Research in September 2o12 sheds light on recent revelations concerning the Stuxnet virus following the alleged leak of classified  information about a covert cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. 

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Hezbollah fighting in Syria to Defend Lebanon from Bloodbath By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, June 28 2013

Mainstream media fail to mention that key anti-government forces in Syria swore to kill all the Shiite Muslims and to march straight into Lebanon after Syria.

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general, announced his party’s entry into the Syrian conflict on …

Spying on Americans before 9/11: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 By Washington's Blog, June 27 2013

Government Built Spy-Access Into Most Popular Consumer Program Before 9/11

In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government (it’s much more wide spread than you’ve heard even now), we ran across the fact that the FBI wants software …

The Fed’s Assault On Gold: “Short Selling” and the Rigging of the Gold Market By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 27 2013

I was the first to point out that the Federal Reserve was rigging all markets, not merely bond prices and interest rates, and that the Fed is rigging the bullion market in order to protect the US dollar’s exchange value,

How Complacency, Complicity of Black Leadership Led to Supreme Court Evisceration of the Voting Rights Act By Bruce A. Dixon, June 27 2013

Did the Supreme Court kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act have to happen? Could black leadership have seen it coming and prevented it? Why didn’t they, and what can we do now?

The June 25 Supreme Court ruling tearing the …

CIA Covert Ops in Central America: Nicaragua and the Road to Contra-Gate By Greg Guma, June 27 2013

This is the thirteenth chapter of a series excerpted from “Maverick Chronicles,”

In July 1983, only weeks after being arrested with other anti-war protesters for nonviolently blocking the gates of the GE Gatling Gun plant in Burlington – ironically,

The Intelligence Community’s “Insider Threat Program” By Global Research News, June 27 2013

The US intelligence community has established its own procedures to deal with whistleblowers. The program described as the Insider Threat Program has been documented in a detailed article by Marisa Taylor and Jonathan S. Landay of  McClatchy News Service:

Colombia Signs Cooperation Memorandum with NATO By Global Research News, June 27 2013

Photo: Colombian defence minister Juan Pinzon (EFE)

Mérida – Yesterday representatives of Colombia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) signed an agreement for cooperation and exchange of classified information, “good practice” in the “anti-terrorist” struggle, and against drug trafficking.…

Criminalizing Journalism. US Government Spying campaign having “Chilling Effect,” AP president says By Thomas Gaist, June 27 2013

Longtime sources have stopped talking to the Associated Press in response to the Obama administration’s secret seizure of the wire service’s phone records, said AP president Gary Pruitt on Wednesday during a speech at the National Press Club.

The Department …

For A European Antifascist Movement By Yorgos Mitralias, June 27 2013

 The deepening and generalization of the crisis to nearly all European countries makes it now possible to comprehend not only the crisis’s dynamic and characteristics, but also the priority tasks which a Left that does not surrender and keeps resisting …

The Impacts of Biotechnology on Agriculture and the Food Chain: Evidence of Worldwide GMO Contamination By Global Research News, June 27 2013

“UK’s push for GM crops looks ill considered and irresponsible”. Megan Noble and Lawrence Woodward

Does Owen Paterson – described as the biotech companies’ latest PR man – know about the recent experience of GM contamination in Oregon, Switzerland, Western …

Tracking Edward Snowden: Chartered Russian Jet lands in Reykjavík, Iceland By 21st Century Wire, June 27 2013

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Yesterday evening June 26th, at approximately 3:00am Iceland time, an in-bound Russian Sukhoi Super Jet 100-95 chartered flight landed at Keflavik International Airport, after being held in a holding pattern for approximately 45 minutes while circling the

South Africa High Court War Crimes Case against US President Barack Obama By Global Research News, June 27 2013

26 June 2013

Lawyers will continue to pursue the case against Obama in the courts

The Muslim Lawyers Association (MLA) brought an application to court on Tuesday, 25 June 2013, to charge US …

‘World War Z’ and Hollywood’s Zionist Embrace By Jesse Benjamin, June 26 2013

I went to the Drive-In in Atlanta Friday night, to celebrate a friend’s birthday, a beautiful night under an almost full moon. We watched This is The End and Fast and Furious 6, and two of us stayed for …

The Crippled Fukushima Daiichi Plant: TEPCO Shareholders Want Out of Nuclear Power By Global Research News, June 26 2013

A group of shareholders at Tokyo Electric Power Company is demanding the utility withdraw from the business of nuclear power generation. TEPCO operates the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Shareholders gathered in Tokyo on Wednesday. It was their first …

A New Beginning Without Washington’s Sanctimonious Mask By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 26 2013

It is hard to understand the fuss that Washington and its media whores are making over Edward Snowden.  We have known for a long time that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying for years without warrants on the

Repeal of Important Civil Rights Legislation: US Supreme Court Guts the 1965 Voting Rights Act By Patrick Martin, June 26 2013

Tuesday’s decision by the US Supreme Court gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act is an outrage that must be answered by working people. This act of judicial oppression is a milestone in the mounting attacks on democratic rights by the …

Eavesdropping on the Planet, Whistleblowers and Edward Snowden By William Blum, June 26 2013

In the course of his professional life in the world of national security Edward Snowden must have gone through numerous probing interviews, lie detector examinations, and exceedingly detailed background checks, as well as filling out endless forms carefully designed to …

Challenging Liberty: The Danger of DNA Databases By Devon Douglas-Bowers, June 26 2013

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court passed down a ruling stating that it is legal to take DNA swabs from arrestees without a warrant on the grounds that “a DNA cheek swab [was similar] to other common jailhouse procedures like …

Gutting the Voting Rights Act: Supreme Court’s War on Democracy and the Right’s Last Stand for White Supremacy By Robert Parry, June 26 2013

The U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing majority is a serial killer of American democracy – first Bush v. Gore, then Citizens United, now gutting the Voting Rights Act – but another part of this crime story is the Right’s grotesque

America’s “Afghan Exit” May Depend on Obama’s Dwindling “Syria Options” By Sharmine Narwani, June 26 2013

Washington’s options in Syria are dwindling – and dwindling fast.

Trumped up chemical weapons charges against the Syrian government this month failed to produce evidence to convince a skeptical global community of any direct linkage. And the US’s follow-up pledge

Syria: The “Western Faces” Behind The Terror By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, June 26 2013

In her extraordinarily bold and direct speech addressed to the Irish Parliament, Clare Daly (TD, Dublin North) called Obama a “war criminal”and “hypocrite of the century”.

In describing the fawned reception of Obama in Ireland akin to pimping and

Obama Called “War Criminal” and “Hypocrite of the Century” in The Irish Parliament By Global Research News, June 26 2013

 ‘Now, I ask you, is this person going for the hypocrite of the century award?  Because we have to call things by their right names, and the reality is that by any serious examination, this man is a war criminal.

Lebanon is Being Prepared for Sedition as a Front in the Syrian War By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, June 26 2013

The flames of division and fighting in Syria are being fanned into Lebanon. The US and its allies could be working with their Lebanese partners and proxies to ignite and internal conflict. The small Arab republic is politically divided and

Time for an Economy Of, By and For the People By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, June 25 2013

The reaction to Ben Bernanke suggestion that it may be time to wind down the easy money policies which have been injecting $85 billion into the hands of Wall Street each month show that the ‘recovery’ has been a fraud.…

Snowden’s Case for Asylum By Prof. Marjorie Cohn and Dennis J Bernstein, June 25 2013

Despite U.S. government pressure, Russian President Vladimir Putin is balking at demands that he extradite Edward Snowden from Moscow to face espionage charges for leaking secrets about America’s global surveillance operations. Still, Snowden’s status remains dicey.

The U.S. government is …

GeoEngineering, Global Climate Disruptions, Chemtrails: “Our Atmosphere is a Massive Physics Lab” By Dane Wigington, June 25 2013

In this video, Dane Wigington gives a presentation in Northern California on the harmful effects of Geoengineering, declaring that this is among the most important issues affecting humanity.

The very essentials needed to sustain life on earth are being recklessly …

Ireland: Financial Playground for the Global Elites By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, June 25 2013

“So, so…[the €7 billion] is bridged until we can pay you back..which is never. [Loud laughter]” (Telephone conversation between Anglo Irish Bank executives in September 2008)

Current ongoing revelations in the form of recorded telephone conversations between top Anglo Irish …

Obama as a Third World Strongman By Wayne Madsen, June 25 2013

President Barack Obama entered office as a «hope and change» candidate who promised to be far different from his predecessor George W. Bush. However, in his fifth year in office, Obama has taken on the trappings of a «strongman», a

Turmoil on Financial Markets: Share Selloff Points to New Economic Crisis By Nick Beams, June 25 2013

The renewed turmoil on global financial markets, which saw major falls on Asian markets and a one percent downturn on Wall Street yesterday, underscores the fact that none of the problems that erupted in the 2008 meltdown have been overcome. …

US issues threats to China, Russia over Snowden By Peter Symonds, June 25 2013

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who arrived in Moscow on Sunday from Hong Kong, appears to be still in Russia after reports that he failed to board a flight to Cuba on which he was booked on Monday.

Ecuadorian foreign minister …

The Imperial Agenda in Syria. GRTV Feature Interview with Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and James Corbett, June 25 2013
The aggressor nations in the war on Syria need to be held accountable for their part in fomenting the conflict in the country, and should be made to pay war reparations.
Obama’s “Insider Threat Program” Views Whistleblowers as “Enemies of America” By Patrick Henningsen, June 25 2013

The ‘Insider Threat Program’, is an anti-whistleblower protocol created by the Obama administration, a program that seeks to crackdown on those looking to expose unjust practices by government agencies. The program mandates that employee’s spy on each other or risk …

Remember WTC Building Seven: Did You Know that a Third Tower Fell on 9/11? By Global Research News, June 25 2013

Dear Supporters,

The Remember Building 7 campaign is pleased to announce that we have contributed the remaining $50,000 of the funds raised during the 10th anniversary toward a larger joint effort with Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth called

America: Police State Ruthlessness Writ Large By Stephen Lendman, June 25 2013
Democracy’s more illusion than reality. Rule of law principles don’t matter. They’re systematically spurned.

Dissent’s increasingly targeted. Freedom’s imperiled. Obama exceeds the worst of George Bush. He’s waging war on truth-tellers. He targeted more whistleblowers than all his predecessors combined.

Are the US Armed Forces a “Rape Culture”? By John LaForge, June 25 2013

US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have produced quagmires of crime, corruption and abuse, beginning with the torture of prisoners, the creation of offshore penal colonies, and repeated airborne attacks on shepherd boys, wedding parties, TV crews and allied troops

G8 Debates: Views on War and “World Equilibrium” By Thierry Meyssan, June 25 2013

The unsinkable G8, meeting in Lough Erne, was an opportunity to contrast the views of the United States on the one hand, France and the United Kingdom on the other hand, and finally Russia, under the astonished eyes of the …

Is the Government Spying On You Through Your Own Computer’s Webcam Or Microphone? By Washington's Blog, June 24 2013

Government – Or Private Individuals – May Be Watching and Listening

We documented earlier today that –  if you are near your smart phone – the NSA or private parties could remotely activate your microphone and camera and spy on

Obama Prepares to Wage Offensive, First-strike Strategic Nuclear Warfare against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Syria By Prof. Francis A. Boyle, June 24 2013

I have now had the chance to read Obama’s recently released Report on Nuclear Employment Strategy of the United States, (June 21, 2013).  The critical passage can be found on page 5:

  “The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review established the

Netanyahu and Israel’s Threat to Attack Iran. Former CIA Official By Kourosh Ziabari, June 24 2013

When the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first bragged about a red line regarding Iran’s nuclear program, the international observers assumed that the flames of an imminent war between Israel and Iran will be ignited soon and Israel will act

The Tale of a Turkish Summer: Is there a Link between “Occupy Gezi” and the IMF? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, June 24 2013

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s fall from grace has manifested itself in Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Taksim Square now resembles Egypt’s Tahrir Square. What is interesting to note is that the timing of the massive protests comes a month after Turkey paid

Police State Canada: Harper Government Enacts Law Threatening Masked Protesters with Ten-year Jail Terms By Keith Jones, June 24 2013

Legislation that gives the Canadian state draconian and arbitrary powers to suppress protests became law last week after approval from the Conservative Party-dominated federal parliament.

Bill C-309—the Preventing Persons from Concealing Their Identities during Riots and Unlawful Assemblies Act—makes …

Military Escalation. Qatar “Friends of Syria” Conference Opens “New Stage” in Syrian War By James Cogan, June 24 2013

The “Friends of Syria” meeting in Qatar on June 22 ended with a communiqué announcing that Washington and its allies will “take all necessary practical measures” to arm the right-wing Sunni-based opposition forces, which have served as their proxies in

Presidential Rule by Deception: Obama, the Master Con-man By Prof. James Petras, June 24 2013

Introduction

In an electoral system, run by and for a corporate oligarchy, deception and demagoguery are essential elements – entertaining the people while working for the wealthy.

Every US President has engaged, in one fashion or another, in ‘play acting’ …

The Pursuit of Edward Snowden: Washington in a Rage, Striving to Run the World By Norman Solomon, June 24 2013

Rarely has any American provoked such fury in Washington’s high places. So far, Edward Snowden has outsmarted the smartest guys in the echo chamber — and he has proceeded with the kind of moral clarity that U.S. officials seem to

Cell Phone Users Beware: How to Protect Yourself from Government Spying By Washington's Blog, June 24 2013

 Unless You Know About This Spying Method, You Might Say Something Which Could Get You In Hot Water

Given that the NSA is tapping into your phone calls and spying on your Internet activities, you might have switched to a …

Boston Bombings: Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev a Double Agent Recruited by the FBI? By Prof Peter Dale Scott, June 24 2013

Amid the swirl of mysteries surrounding the alleged Boston bombers, one fact, barely touched upon in the mainstream U.S. media, stands out: There is a strong possibility that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers, was a double agent,

“Nobel of Agriculture”, World Food Prize. And the Winner is … Monsanto By Global Research News, June 24 2013

Though not nearly as high profile, the annual World Food Prize award is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize” for agriculture, and this year’s winners – scientists with key roles in developing genetically engineered crops – may bring unwanted …

NSA Spying and Intelligence Collection: A Giant Blackmail Machine and “Warrantless Wiretapping” Program By Tom Burghardt, June 24 2013

Despite a stream of mendacious twaddle from President Obama, congressional grifters and spook agency mouthpieces like Office of the Director of National Intelligence head James Clapper, FBI Director Robert Mueller and NSA chief General Keith Alexander, it turns out our

Searching for Peace in Cold War Germany By Greg Guma, June 24 2013

This is the twelfth chapter of a series excerpted from “Maverick Chronicles,” a memoir-in-progress. Previous stories can be found at VTDigger.

The interpreter warned us about getting into East Berlin. “They’ll probably hold you an hour,” he predicted. “Normally, it
Public Education at Stake: The Battle for Crenshaw High in South Los Angeles By Global Research News, June 24 2013

 Yuisa Gimeno

Student activist Anita Parker speaks on behalf of the Crenshaw Cougar Coalition at a press conference protesting the school district’s reconstitution plan, Jan. 28, 2013. Photo: Karla Alegria

Student activist Anita Parker speaks on behalf of the Crenshaw Cougar Coalition at a press conference protesting the school district’s reconstitution plan, Jan. 28, 2013.
Photo: Karla Alegria

 Crenshaw, an overwhelmingly Black and Latino high school in South …

Washington v. Edward Snowden: The “Russia -China Connection” By Stephen Lendman, June 24 2013
Events are fast-moving. On June 23, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s (HKSAR) press releasesaid:

“Mr Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel.”

“The

Are Al-Qaeda’s Lebanese Affiliates Opening a Lebanese Front in the Syrian War? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, June 23 2013
Rockets are also being launched by anti-government forces from Syria, and even from inside Lebanon, against Hezbollah’s political strongholds and against Shia Muslim villages. The goal is to ignite the flames of sedition between Shiites and Sunnis inside Lebanon.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria: Cheer-leading Another Blood Bath in the Name of Peace By Felicity Arbuthnot, June 23 2013
Having covertly provided arms to Al Qaeda insurgents, they have now moved to the overt stage, a move over which even arch hawks such as former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and former Republican Senator Richard Luger, urged caution.
Stasi in the White House: Obama’s Lofty Words of Peace While Beating the Drums of War By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 23 2013

On June 19, 2013, US President Obama, hoping to raise himself above the developing National Security Agency (NSA) spy scandals, sought to associate himself with two iconic speeches made at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

Fifty years ago, President John …

Follow the Money: The Secret Heart of the Secret State. The Deeper Implications of the Snowden Revelations By Chris Floyd, June 23 2013

No one, anywhere, has been writing about the deeper and wider implications of the Snowden revelations than Arthur Silber. (I hope you’re not surprised by this.) In a series of powerful, insightful essays, Silber has, among other things, laid bare

Political Lessons From Greece: Fake Social Movements and the Role of “Alter-Summits” By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones, June 23 2013