French Minister: Citizens Who Joined Jihad Should Die on the Battlefield – “We Don’t Want Them Back”

By Peter Koenig

October 23, 2017

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48068.htm

AP reported in The New York Post of 21 October 2017, that during ISIS heydays, it is estimated that about 30,000 citizens from around the world traveled to the Middle East, mostly Syria and Iraq, to join ISIS / Daesh as jihadi fighters. This included an estimated 6,000 Europeans, mostly from France, Germany and Britain, many with immigrant backgrounds. A study found that less than 10% converted to Islam.

After ISIS’ defeat in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa, the former ISIS stronghold and artificial capital of the Islamic State’s Caliphate, about a third of the European jihadists have returned home, where many are awaiting trial in prison. Others are free and under surveillance. They are easy fodder for western secret services to blow themselves up, as jihadists, leaving always an ID behind; False Flag acts of ‘terror’, immediately claimed by ISIS, through the Islamic State’s news agency, Amaq. No surprise, though, in case they were contracted by CIA, Mossad, MI6 et al, to do so.

Raqqa Destroyed To Liberate It

By Eric Margolis

October 22, 2017

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48054.htm

The so-called Islamic State organization was primarily a bogeyman encouraged by the western powers.  I’ve been saying this for the last four years. I asserted, as a former soldier and war correspondent, that IS would collapse like a wet paper bag if proper western ground forces attacked their strongholds in Syria and Iraq.  This week, the western powers and their local satraps finally took action and stormed the last IS stronghold at Raqqa.  To no surprise, IS put up almost no resistance and ran for its miserable life. The much-dreaded IS was never more than a bunch of young hooligans and religious fanatics who were as militarily effective as the medieval Children’s Crusade.

In the west, IS was blown up by media and governments into a giant monster that was coming to cut the throats of honest folk in the suburbs. IS did stage some very bloody and grisly attacks – that’s what put it on the map.   But none of them posed any mortal threat or really endangered our national security.   In fact, the primary target of IS attacks has been Shia Muslims in the Mideast. Many of the IS attacks in North America and Europe were done by mentally deranged individuals or were initiated by under-cover government provocateurs, such as the 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center.  IS was notorious for falsely taking credit for attacks it did not commit.

The Indonesia Massacre’s Historic Message

By Jonathan Marshall

October 19, 2017

Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/10/19/the-indonesia-massacres-historic-message/

Fifty-four years after the assassination of President Kennedy, historians are still waiting to see whether President Trump will approve the final release of secret records related to that crime by the Oct. 26 deadline set by a unanimous Congress in 1992 with the JFK Records Act.

Lyndon Johnson sworn in as U.S. President after John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. (Photo Credit: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library)

Senior Republicans in both the House and Senate have called on the President to “reject any claims for the continued postponement” of declassification. “Transparency in government is critical not only to ensuring accountability; it’s also essential to understanding our nation’s history,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.

قابل انکار نیست

چگونه منکرین علوم میتوانند بخود بقبولانند که گرمایش جهانی‌، تاریخ تکامل، و لزوم واکسیناسیون عمومی‌ دروغی بیش نیستند. برای کسانی‌ که این آزموده‌های علمی‌ را باور دارند، چنین مُنکرینی معمای بغرنجی هستند. بسیاری از اَنان تحصیلکرده و هوشیار هستند ولی‌ هنوز این دست‌آوردهای علمی‌ را نمی‌پذیرند. حد اقل حقایقی را که با منافع شخصی‌ و یا عقیدتی آنها سازگاری ندارند به کناری مینهند.

The Addicted Nation

United States is the largest and the most prosperous market variety of narcotics, and legally prescribed drugs. A consumer nation that is accustomed to buying on credit, and working hard in order to be able to buy more of the things that are mostly unused. As many entertaining gadgets are invented in this country, so are new kinds of drugs. Statistics are jaw dropping: “The most recent census on drug addiction shows that at least 24 million Americans (9.4%) have used illicit drugs in the preceding month. Of these, approximately 19.6 million have, or have had, a substance abuse disorder in the preceding year.  This means that nearly one in every ten Americans has a drug abuse problem – a statistic that would surprise many.” This is merely an illicit drug problem. The most common drug addiction is through the use of prescribed drugs. These days, you can buy any prescription drug you desire online. 

Americans Can Stop U.S. Role in Yemen War

OCT 04, 2017

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Source: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/americans-can-stop-americas-war-yemen/

Author’s note: Saudi Arabia, which launched military operations in 2015, says its aims in Yemen are to fight Iranian influence and restore the “legitimate” government of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi’s, run out in 2014 by Houthi rebels. But Iran’s influence is heavily exaggerated, and Hadi is not popular. U.S. involvement has to do with controlling Bab-el-Mandeb strait, through which 3 million to 4 million barrels of oil travel daily. 

Yemen continues to suffer in silence as the world turns away from its ongoing misery.

The Rise of the New McCarthyism

September 26, 2017
By Robert Parry
Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/26/the-rise-of-the-new-mccarthyism/

Make no mistake about it: the United States has entered an era of a New McCarthyism that blames nearly every political problem on Russia and has begun targeting American citizens who don’t go along with this New Cold War propaganda.

Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisconsin, who led the “Red Scare” hearings of the 1950s.

A difference, however, from the McCarthyism of the 1950s is that this New McCarthyism has enlisted Democrats, liberals and even progressives in the cause because of their disgust with President Trump; the 1950s version was driven by Republicans and the Right with much of the Left on the receiving end, maligned by the likes of Sen. Joe McCarthy as “un-American” and as Communism’s “fellow travelers.”

The real winners in this New McCarthyism appear to be the neoconservatives who have leveraged the Democratic/liberal hatred of Trump to draw much of the Left into the political hysteria that sees the controversy over alleged Russian political “meddling” as an opportunity to “get Trump.”

Already, the neocons and their allies have exploited the anti-Russian frenzy to extract tens of millions of dollars more from the taxpayers for programs to “combat Russian propaganda,” i.e., funding of non-governmental organizations and “scholars” who target dissident Americans for challenging the justifications for this New Cold War.

US Provides Military Assistance to 73 Percent of World's Dictatorships

By Rich Whitney

September 25, 2017 

For decades, the American people have been repeatedly told by their government and corporate-run media that acts of war ordered by their president have been largely motivated by the need to counter acts of aggression or oppression by "evil dictators." We were told we had to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator. We had to bomb Libya because Muammar Gaddafi was an evil dictator, bent on unleashing a "bloodbath" on his own people. Today, of course, we are told that we should support insurgents in Syria because Bashar al-Assad is an evil dictator, and we must repeatedly rattle our sabers at North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Russia's Vladimir Putin because they, too, are evil dictators.

This is part of the larger, usually unquestioned mainstream corporate media narrative that the US leads the "Western democracies" in a global struggle to combat terrorism and totalitarianism and promote democracy.

How the UN Covers for US Aggression

By J.P. Sottile
September 19, 2017
Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/19/how-the-un-covers-for-us-aggression/

President Trump opened his big United Nations week … and his famous mouth … with a predictable plug for one of his properties and some playful glad-handing with French President Emmanuel Macron. Trump also scolded the U.N.’s unwieldy scrum for “not living up to its potential.” He made a passing reference to the U.N.’s wasteful use of American money. And he called for “reform” of the much-maligned international forum.

It was a stolid prelude to what will no doubt be “must-see” TV when he speaks to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday about North Korea and Iran. And it was a far cry from the way America’s leading “America Firster” spent the campaign lamenting how unfair the U.N. is to the poor schlemiel we call Uncle Sam.

He is likely to use his speech to throw a little bit of that same red meat to his base, but his call for reform falls well short of what his supporters want … which is an abrupt end of U.S. involvement in the international body. They are motivated by a grab-bag of reasons that point to the U.N. being a threat to their guns, their bank accounts and their God-given freedom.

Trump's UN Speech Was Tailored For Americans That Were Born Yesterday

By Chris Rossini
September 19, 2017

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47842.htm

In America, we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to watch.

Those were actual words spoken by President Trump today at the UN. If only it were possible to see the thoughts swirling through the minds of everyone listening.

The words "yeah right" most likely dominated at that moment.

​If only the president's words were true. Instead, the U.S. government has been at constant war (both overt and covert) for an entire century. The globe is bursting with American military bases that are stationed around every corner.

میرزاده عشقی

میرزاده عشقی (۱۲۷۳ همدان - ۱۳۰۳ تهران)، شاعر، روزنامه‌نگار، نویسنده و نمایشنامه نویس دوران مشروطیّت و مدیر نشریه قرن بیستم بود؛ که در دوره نخست وزیری رضاخان، به دستور رئیس اداره تأمینات نظمیه (شهربانی) وقت، ترور شد. وی از جمله مهمترین شاعران عصر مشروطه به شمار می‌رود که از عناصر هویت ملی در جهت ایجاد انگیزه و آگاهی در توده مردم بهره گرفت.

میرزاده عشقی نام اصلیش «سید محمدرضا کردستانی» و فرزند «حاج سید ابوالقاسم کردستانی» بود و در تاریخ دوازدهم جمادی‌الآخر سال ۱۳۱۲ هجری قمری مطابق ۲۰ آذرماه ۱۲۷۳ خورشیدی و سال ۱۸۹۴ میلادی در همدان زاده شد. سالهای کودکی را در مکتب‌خانه‌های محلی و از سن هفت سالگی به بعد در آموزشگاه‌های «الفت» و «آلیانس» به تحصیل فارسی و فرانسه اشتغال داشته، پیش از آنکه گواهی نامه از این مدرسه دریافت کند در تجارتخانه یک بازرگان فرانسوی به شغل مترجمی پرداخته و به زبان فرانسه مسلط شد.

شاهد بازی

چند سال پیش که این کتاب را خواندم اندوه سنگینی‌ تمام وجودم را فرا گرفت. دلیلش رفتار زشت و به غایت  تهوع آور پدران ما نبود، که البته در این مورد هیچگونه پوزشی پذیرفته نیست. ولی‌ به این دلیل که اشعاری که با آنها از نوجوانی انس گرفته بودم، و هر سطر آن اشعار باعث میشد که پندار شور انگیزی در ذهنم نقش ببندد، اکنون چهره ننگینی به خود گرفته بودند، و آن ادبیاتِ دلآرا را به صورتی‌ زشت و پلید میدیدم. به عنوان مثال در مرجع دیگری خواندم که این شعر لطیف حافظ که میگوید: نگار من که به مکتب نرفت و مشق ننوشت/ به غمزه مساله آموز سد مدرس شد، آن پنداری که من داشتم نبود، که چهرهٔ ناز و عشوه‌گر دختر زیبائی را که برای حافظ شراب میریخت، در ذهنم تصویر میکرد. دین سالاران البته معتقدند این شعر در مورد پیغمبر اسلام است، که هر چه را که زیباست به گردن این موجود هزار و چهارصد ساله می‌آویزند. این نگار غماز در واقع همان شاه شجاع خونخوار است که پدرش را میکُشد که جای او بنشیند‌ وروزها خون میمکد و چون حافظهٔ سرشاری دارد و اشعار بسیاری به فارسی و عربی‌ و ترکی‌ در ذهن دارد، شبها هم پیالهٔ حافظ است! 

The Dangerous Decline of US Hegemony

September 9, 2017

By Daniel Lazare

Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/09/the-dangerous-decline-of-us-hegemony/

The showdown with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a seminal event that can only end in one of two ways: a nuclear exchange or a reconfiguration of the international order.

While complacency is always unwarranted, the first seems increasingly unlikely. As no less a global strategist than Steven Bannon observed about the possibility of a pre-emptive U.S. strike: “There’s no military solution. Forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about. There’s no military solution here. They got us.”

This doesn’t mean that Donald Trump, Bannon’s ex-boss, couldn’t still do something rash. After all, this is a man who prides himself on being unpredictable in business negotiations, as historian William R. Polk, who worked for the Kennedy administration during the Cuban Missile Crisis, points out. So maybe Trump thinks it would be a swell idea to go a bit nuts on the DPRK.

How History Explains the Korean Crisis

By William R. Polk
Source:https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/05/on-the-brink-of-nuclear-war/

The U.S. and North Korea are on the brink of hostilities that if begun would almost certainly lead to a nuclear exchange. This is the expressed judgment of most competent observers. They differ over the causes of this confrontation and over the size, range and impact of the weapons that would be fired, but no one can doubt that even a “limited” nuclear exchange would have horrifying effects throughout much of the world including North America.

A Korean girl carries her brother on her back, trudging past a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea., June 9, 1951. (U.S. military photo)

Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1917–2017

by John Bellamy Foster

Source: https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/revolution-and-counterrevolution-1917-2017/

The Russian Revolution of 1917 erupted on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. From the start, the October Revolution seemed both to confirm and contradict Marx’s analysis. He had envisioned a working-class-based socialist revolution breaking out in the developed capitalist countries of Western Europe. But the 1882 preface to the Communist Manifesto, written a year before his death, amended this by pointing to a revolution in Russia as a possible “signal for proletarian revolution in the West.”¹ Yet although a worker-peasant revolution under Marxist leadership triumphed in Russia in 1917, Russia was still a largely underdeveloped country, and the revolutionary uprisings in Germany and Central Europe which followed were weak and easily extinguished.

In these circumstances, Soviet Russia, completely isolated, faced a massive counterrevolution, with all the major imperialist powers intervening on the side of the White Russian forces in the Civil War. “Socialism in one country,” the basic defensive posture of the USSR throughout its history, was thus to a large extent a geopolitical reality imposed on it from outside. This was evident beginning with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which Russia was forced to give up much of the territory of the Tsarist Empire, followed soon after by the Treaty of Versailles, which sought to isolate it still further.

ناسا قصد دارد کره زمين را جابجا کند Nasa aims to move Earth

دانشمندان يک روش غيرمعمول براي غلبه بر گرماي کره زمين يافته اند و آن هم اين است که کره زمين را به يک مدار دور تر از خورشيد يعني يک منطقه خنک تر حرکت بدهند!

اين ايده عجيب زائيده ي ذهن مهندسان ناسا و يکسري از اخترشناسان آمريکايي ست که معتقدند اين روش حدود ۶ بيليون سال به عمر سياره ما اضافه مي کند، به عبارت ديگر عمر مفيد زمين ۲ برابر خواهد شد! براي اين کار طرح هايي هم ارائه داده اند.

Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet overheating: move it to a cooler spot.
All you have to do is hurtle a few comets at Earth, and its orbit will be altered. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system.

Charlottesville is America: the myth of the white supremacist tidal wave

Source: https://mronline.org/2017/08/26/charlottesville-is-america-the-myth-of-the-white-supremacist-tidal-wave/

Structural racism is the root of all racist ideas and warrants just as much, if not more, attention than the gathering of white nationalists

Posted Aug 26, 2017 by Eds.

Topics: Culture , Human Rights , Race

Places: United States

Originally published: Black Agenda Repost by Danny Haiphong (August 25, 2017)

One death and many more injured later, the “Unite the Right Rally” to protest the removal of General Robert E. Lee’s statue became firmly planted in popular consciousness well after the band of white nationalists dispersed. Conversation regarding the significance of the demonstration has continued over a week after the incident. The demonstration comprised of hundreds of white nationalists from a number of organizations, all assembled to defend white power. Their opponents, which consisted of everyone from anarchists and communists, confronted the white nationalist mob head on. And like a tidal wave, the media narrative that a white supremacist takeover is flooding the shores of the US has many watching the scene from afar wondering what to do from here.

America Asleep

AUGUST 18, 2017

by JOHN STEPPLING

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/18/america-asleep/

“The summer of 1919, called “The Red Summer” by James Weldon Johnson, ushered in the greatest period of interracial violence the nation had ever witnessed. During that summer there were twenty-six race riots in such cities as Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; Elaine, Arkansas; Charleston, South Carolina; Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee; Longview, Texas; and Omaha, Nebraska. More than one hundred Blacks were killed in these riots, and thousands were wounded and left homeless. The seven most serious race riots were those which occurred in Wilmington, N. C. (1898), Atlanta, Ga. (1906), Springfield, Ill. (1908), East St. Louis) Ill. (1917), Chicago, Ill. (1919), Tulsa, Okla. (1921) and Detroit, Mich. (1943).”

— Robert Gibson

As Russia-Gate Story Stalls, Cue Trump Neo-Nazi Scandal

By Finian Cunningham
August 18, 2017

 Source: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/08/18/as-russia-gate-story-stalls-cue-trump-neo-nazi-scandal.html

The political opponents of President Trump have found a new lever for sabotaging his presidency – his alleged embrace of white supremacists and Neo-Nazis. He is now being labelled a «sympathizer» of fascists and bringing America’s international image into disrepute. Cue the impeachment proceedings.

Notably, the same power-nexus that opposed Trump from the very outset of his presidency is vociferously condemning his alleged racist leanings. Pro-Democrat media like the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN can’t give enough coverage to Trump «the racist», while the intelligence community and Pentagon have also weighed in to rebuke the president. Former CIA chief John Brennan said Trump’s comments on racial violence were a «national security risk».

North Korea: “Their Health System Sucks”, Do They have Schools and Hospitals… In America, We’ve Got Medicare…

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

August 16, 2017

Link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-their-health-system-sucks-do-they-have-schools-and-hospitals-in-america-weve-got-medicare/5604293

The North Korean government, according to the Western media is said to be oppressing and impoverishing its population.

Here in the USA we have medicare, all our kids are educated, we are all literate, and “we want to live in America”.

And in the DPRK, the health system sucks, they don’t have schools and hospital beds, they are all a bunch of illiterates,  

You would not want to live there!