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Obama, Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Another Israeli War Criminal of the Year Award By Stephen Lendman, June 22 2013
On March 21, Obama received Israel’s Medal of Distinction. It’s also called the President’s Medal.

It’s Israel’s highest civil award. It’s for individuals “who have made an outstanding contribution to the State of Israel or to humanity, through their talents,

Historical Roots of the Social Crisis in Brazil. The Role of the IMF By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 21 2013
Millions of people across Brazil have joined one of the largest protest movements in the country’s history. Ironically, the social uprising is directed against the economic policies of a self-proclaimed “socialist” alternative to neoliberalism led by the Worker’s Party government of Dilma Rousseff.
Obama’s Syrian Press Pass: The Media are Loyal to the System, not to their Profession By Margaret Kimberley, June 21 2013

The corporate media are the megaphones of humanitarian death, as dispensed by the U.S. and its allies. If Obama says “Assad must go,” the high-paid press do all in their power to make the public crave his blood. “The media

Leaked “Top Secret Documents”: NSA Monitoring US Communications without a Warrant By Thomas Gaist, June 21 2013
Price of Gold Plunged, Panic Deepens on World Financial Markets By Andre Damon, June 21 2013

Global stocks plunged Thursday in the biggest one-day sell-off so far this year, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the US central bank might consider paring back its cash infusions into the financial markets within the next six months.

Genetically-modified Eggplant Found to be Unsafe for Human Consumption, Environment By Jonathan Benson, June 21 2013

Field trials of genetically-modified (GM) Bt eggplant, also known as Bt talong, have officially ceased in the Philippines following a major ruling by the nation’s Court of Appeals. Representing a massive victory for food sovereignty, the Court found that Bt

Obama’s Nuclear Arms Reduction Hoax By Stephen Lendman, June 21 2013

Jack Kennedy was America’s last peace president. He underwent a spiritual transformation. He changed from cold warrior to peacemaker.

He wanted nuclear weapons abolished. He urged “general and complete disarmament.” He wanted force-fed Pax Americana ended.

He assumed great risk. …

“Conspiracy of Secrecy”: System Failure, Cyber Threats and Corporate Denial By Greg Guma, June 21 2013

In August 2010, when Foreign Policy posted an article citing credible research and directly warning oil companies worldwide that their offshore oil rigs were highly vulnerable to hacking, few people took notice.

“Computer commands can derail a train or
The Rational Market Myth: “Financial Armageddon” without Nukes By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 21 2013

One of the myths of economics is that markets are rational. Theories are based on this assumption, and the belief that markets are rational fuels the argument against regulation.  The market response to the Federal Reserve’s June 19 statement that

Racism and Institutionalised Discrimination: How Israeli Apartheid is Coming Unstuck By Jonathan Cook, June 21 2013

One incident of racism, though small in relation to the decades of massive, institutionalised discrimination exercised by Israel against its Palestinian Arab citizens, has triggered an uncharacteristic bout of Israeli soul-searching.

Superland, a large amusement park near Tel Aviv, refused …

Iraq, Libya, Syria: Extensive US-NATO War Crimes. How the Media Buries “The Evidence” By David Edwards, June 21 2013

Last month, a ComRes poll supported by Media Lens interviewed 2,021 British adults, asking:

‘How many Iraqis, both combatants and civilians, do you think have died as a consequence of the war that began in Iraq in 2003?’

An astonishing …

The Keystone XL Pipeline: Enriching the Oil Giants, Threats to Water and the Environment from Oil Spills By Global Research News, June 20 2013

by Kevin Grandia

Keystone is an “export pipeline” that would transport toxic tar sands from Alberta down to a tax-free zone in Texas and out to foreign markets.

In other words, the EU, China and Latin America get the oil, …

Prisons Full of Innocents By David Swanson, June 20 2013

There are probably more innocent men and women in prison in the United States now than there were people in prison here total — innocent and guilty — 30 years ago, or than there are total people in prison (proportionately …

Indefinite Surveillance: Say Hello to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 By Stephen Benavides, June 20 2013

Passed in 1978, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) set the groundwork for surveillance, collection, and analysis of intelligence gathered from foreign powers and agents of foreign powers, up to and including any individual residing within the U.S., who were …

Understanding the Latest NSA “Security Leaks” is Understanding the Rise of a New Fascism By John Pilger, June 20 2013

In his book, ‘Propaganda’, published in 1928, Edward Bernays wrote: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute …

HAITI: Profit-Driven “Slum Reconstruction” Will Cost “Hundreds Of Millions” By Haiti Grassroots Watch, June 20 2013
Three years after its star-studded launch by President René Préval, the model camp for Haiti’s 2010 earthquake victims has helped give birth to what might become the country’s most expansive – and most expensive – slum.
Unnatural England: The Destruction of Flora and Fauna By Lesley Docksey, June 20 2013

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President Bashar Al-Assad: Fighting Terrorism in Syria. Rebuilding in the Wake of the Crisis. Interview By Bashar al Assad, June 17 2013

President Bashar al-Assad gave the following interview to the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper:

Interviewer: Mr President, how do you view the situation in your country? The Syrian Army has lost control over large parts of Syria, in other words

Fake WMD “Intelligence” and Orwellian Double-speak : Washington Is Insane By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 17 2013

In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered.  Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don’t even influence, much less

The Palestinian Struggle is a Black Struggle By Susan Abulhawa, June 17 2013

Image: Who are the Palestinians’ natural allies? (Ryan Rodrick Beiler)

One of the pillars of my trip to Gaza with the Palestine Literature Festival turned out to be an ongoing discussion regarding the essential blackness of the Palestinian …

Are the Boston Marathon Bombings Tied to a New American Campaign into the Caucasus? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, June 17 2013
There was a the string of deaths after the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The FBI’s Special Agent Christopher Lorek and Special Agent Stephen Shaw, who arrested Dzhokhar, were killed on May 17. In a bitter irony, Russia is being blamed for the Boston Bombings.
Media, Government Denounce Snowden as “Traitor” and “Chinese Spy”. Cheney: “I think he has Committed Crimes” By Eric London, June 17 2013

Representatives of the national security apparatus, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, appeared on the Sunday morning news programs to denounce Edward Snowden as a traitor and a Chinese spy.

US Inflames Sectarian Tensions to Escalate War in Syria By Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier, June 17 2013

In the run-up to today’s G8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, which is expected to focus on the Syrian war, US and European officials are calling for an escalation of the imperialist drive for regime-change. With US-backed Sunni Islamist opposition

Dilemma for the Warfare- Surveillance State: NSA and CIA Cannot be Sure that its Personnel “Will Obey the Rules” By Norman Solomon, June 17 2013

Edward Snowden’s disclosures, the New York Times reported on Sunday, “have renewed a longstanding concern: that young Internet aficionados whose skills the agencies need for counterterrorism and cyberdefense sometimes bring an anti-authority spirit that does not fit the security bureaucracy.”

Global Systemic Economic Crisis: Devastating Financial Explosion and Social Outburst on a Worldwide Scale By Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB), June 17 2013

The 2008 shock was certainly violent, but the reactions of the system, countries and central banks with their bailouts on an unprecedented scale, managed to hide the worst consequences: downgrading of the West in general and the United States in

Military Escalation? Sapping Assad’s Strength. Israel “Stirs the Pot” in Syria By Jonathan Cook, June 17 2013

For much of the past two years Israel stood sphinx-like on the sidelines of Syria’s civil war. Did it want Bashar al-Assad’s regime toppled? Did it favour military intervention to help opposition forces? And what did it think of the …

Washington’s Battle Over Syrian Foreign Policy: Will Hawks Or Doves Prevail? By Prof Peter Dale Scott, June 17 2013

Like Putin’s policy in Russia, Obama’s Syrian policy is being tugged strenuously in Washington, both by hawks and by doves. On June 13, Obama handed two limited but ominous victories to the hawks: a finding of fact that the troops

President of International War Crimes Tribunal may have Worked to Shield Israelis from Prosecution By Alison Weir, June 17 2013

The New York Times reports that an Israeli diplomat turned U.S. citizen – and now president of the war crimes tribunal at the Hague – has been pressuring the court to acquit officials accused of war crimes.

The Times says

Hassan Rohani: Iran’s President-Elect By Stephen Lendman, June 17 2013
It’s official. Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced it. Rohani won 50.7% of 36.7 million votes cast.
Six candidates competed. Principlist Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf finished second. He received one-third of Rohani’s total.
Rohani won decisively. He’ll serve four years. He’s limited
The Chemical Weapons Pretext for War on Syria: A Pack of Lies By Ben Schreiner, June 17 2013

In the wake of having its illegal domestic surveillance dragnet exposed, laying bare (yet again) the utter duplicity and criminality of the U.S. ruling class, Washington is once again digging deep to conjure up a pretext for yet another war

Say No To Surveillance UAVs and Drone Warfare By Global Research News, June 17 2013

Surveillance Drones at the G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland

For the first time it is reported that a unit of surveillance drones will be used in Northern Ireland during the G-8 summit of world leaders to keep tabs on protest …
Protest and Resistance against America’s Police State: What’s Your Breaking Point to Take Action? By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, June 17 2013

When Edward Snowden reached his breaking point, the world saw the truth about the vast extent of spying by the NSA on Americans and people around the world. In an act of conscience, Snowden released secret information, saying “My sole

The Next NSA Spying Shoe to Drop: “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence By Washington's Blog, June 16 2013

NSA Building Big Brother “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence Program

NSA spying whistleblower Edward Snowden’s statements have been verified.    Reporter Glenn Greenwald has promised numerous additional disclosures from Snowden.

What’s next?

We reported in 2008:

A new article by investigative reporter

Gezi Park Evacuated, Istanbul and Turkey Explode By Sungur Savran, June 16 2013

After days of hesitation and negotiation, the government has finally decided to evacuate the Taksim Commune, where thousands camped in Gezi Park and which tens of thousands visited every night.

Police attacked Gezi Park yesterday evening (June 15) and after

The Deeper Meaning of Mass Spying in America: Political and Economic Consequences of “The Spy State” By Prof. James Petras, June 16 2013

Introduction

            The exposure of the Obama regime’s use of the National Security Agency to secretly spy on the communications of hundreds of millions of US and overseas citizens has provoked world-wide denunciations.  In the United States , despite widespread mass

Timeline of Events in Turkey: Police Escalate Attacks, Including on Healthcare Workers and Doctors By Margaret Flowers, June 16 2013
Sarin Gas Use in Syria. “This Has Tonkin Gulf Written All Over It”: Pat Buchanan By Patrick J. Buchanan, June 16 2013


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Russian President Vladimir Putin talks NSA, Syria, Iran, Drones and Terrorism By Pres. Vladimir Putin, June 16 2013

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has spoken at length with RT about the world’s burning issues, including war-torn Syria, Iran, US surveillance and terrorism. He exclusively answered questions from RT journalists while paying a visit to the channel.

Margarita Simonyan: Mr. …

Obama Has Crossed The “Red Line” on Syria: Interview with Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 16 2013

“We have a lot of evidence, which incriminates the US-NATO-Israeli backed al-Qaeda affiliated rebel forces, namely al-Nusrah, which is on the US State Department list of terrorist organizations.”

Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Center for Research

The War Comes To Syria By Devon Douglas-Bowers, June 16 2013

It has recently been announced that the Obama administration has decided to go ahead and arm the Syrian rebels on the grounds that they have “obtained proof the Syrian government used chemical weapons against fighters trying to overthrow President Bashar …

Police State Canada: Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) Runs Massive Domestic Spying Program By Keith Jones, June 16 2013

On the basis of secret government directives, Canada’s national security apparatus is conducting mass surveillance of Canadians parallel to, if not directly patterned after, the domestic spying operations of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), …

Chemical Weapons: Building the Case for Further US Aggression against Syria By Phil Greaves, June 16 2013

The US Government is claiming it has definitive ‘evidence’ to prove the Assad Government has used chemical weapons (CW) “against its own people”. Chemical weapons are abhorrent, indiscriminate and cause massive human suffering. But what, if any, is the strategic

The Government’s Spying Is Not As Bad As The Whistleblower Said … It’s WORSE By Washington's Blog, June 16 2013

Whistleblower Claims Validated … and Then Some

The government is attacking whistleblower Edward Snowden by claiming that he was lying about the scope of the NSA’s spying on Americans.

However, CNET reports today:

The National Security Agency has acknowledged in

The Syria Chemical Weapons Hoax By Stephen Lendman, June 16 2013

Greater US intervention in Syria looms. Manufactured threats facilitate doing so. Replacing Assad with puppet leadership is planned. Independent governments aren’t tolerated.

Fact: Washington bears full responsibility for Middle East/North Africa/Central Asian wars. Resource control is prioritized. So is imperial

Obama Signals Start of US War in Syria By Rep. Ron Paul, June 16 2013
The Obama Administration’s sudden announcement last night that it has discovered the Syrian government used chemical weapons and thus crossed the “red line” is pretty unconvincing.The Administration provided no evidence, no new information, and no explanation of why the intelligence …
Bradley Manning Lynching: Judge Runs A Shell Game, Public Excluded from Hearings By Global Research News, June 16 2013

U.S. Army Cons Public With Three-Card Monte Sting in Form of Court-Martial 

 To Have a Constitutional Public Trial, Don’t You Have to Let the Public in?

 Public access to the Bradley Manning court-martial doesn’t exist in any meaningful sense, despite

Taksim Solidarity: Police turned Gezi Park, Istanbul and our country into a war zone By Global Research News, June 16 2013

.Urgent calls from Taksim Solidarity

Taksim Dayanismasi (Taksim Solidarity) website, 16th June 2013, 01.20 pm

The officials who promised to keep Gezi as a park until the end of the court case have turned Gezi Park, Istanbul and our

Nigeria: Candidate for Political Destabilization and “Regime Change”? By Adeyinka Makinde, June 15 2013

It is worth reminding, if such reminder is at all necessary, how even in the contemporary circumstances of an omnipresent international security system represented by the United Nations which promotes the ideals of mutual security and co-existence, the conduct of

The Protest Movement against the TransCanada Keystone XL Tar Sand Pipeline By Global Research News, June 15 2013

by Steve Horn

Vague language also ensnares journalists, researchers and academics

Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska show that TransCanada – owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline – has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in

My Creeping Concern that the NSA Leaker Edward Snowden is not who he Purports to be… By Dr. Naomi Wolf, June 15 2013
I hate to do this but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved in the story may be more
A Free, Quick and Easy Way to Protest Government Spying By Washington's Blog, June 15 2013

While it’s obvious to everyone that the government is spying on virtually all of the digital communications of Americans – phone, email, Internet, credit card, etc. – the government is pretending that it only spies on foreigners and

The Obama Regime: What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America’s Police State By Tom Burghardt, June 15 2013

Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for waging offensive cyberwarfare on a global scale, including inside the US, underscores what Antifascist Calling has …

NSA Chief General Keith Alexander Lies to Congress By Stephen Lendman, June 15 2013

General Keith Alexander is NSA director. He’s US Cyber Command head. He’s in charge of lawlessly spying. He directs illegal hacking.

He does both globally. He’s a serial lawbreaker. He violates fundamental constitutional law. He testified before Congress. More on

Turkey Protest Movement: Erdogan Government Threatens Doctors and First Responders, Violates Medical Neutrality By Margaret Flowers, June 15 2013

 The Turkish Health Ministry issued a threat to take medical licenses to practice away from doctors who have been providing treatment to the protesters in Istanbul. They are also demanding the names of all medical volunteers including Emergency Medicine Technicians.