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 Zionism’s Relationship to Anti-Semitism posted by Wendy Elisheva Somerson via suzie, 2019-07-27 04:31:41
Zionism developed in the late 19th century as a response to anti-Semitism in Europe, but it sadly reinforces the logic of anti-Semitism. A nationalist ideology that drove the founding of the Israeli state, Zionism developed as one response to the sharp rise in violent and pervasive anti-Semitism in Europe. Under escalating attacks, European Jews at the time responded to anti-Semitism in myriad ways, including assimilation, emigration and rejecting nationalism. The Jews who forwarded political Zionism proposed founding a Jewish nation-state in historic Palestine modeled after European settler colonialism. (full story)
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US and Iran Stuck on Negotiation Ground Zero posted by Pepe Escobar via trudy, 2019-07-27 03:35:20
All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes when we have the President of the United States (POTUS) glibly announcing he could launch a nuclear first strike to end the war in Afghanistan and wipe it “off the face of the earth” in one week. But he’d rather not, so he doesn’t have to kill 10 million people. (full story)
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  No Accountability in Washington or to the People posted by Philip Giraldi via james, 2019-07-26 23:42:46
Government that actually serves the interests of the people who are governed has two essential characteristics: first, it must be transparent in terms of how it debates and develops policies and second, it has to be accountable when it fails in its mandate and ceases to be responsive to the needs of the electorate. Over the past twenty years one might reasonably argue that Washington has become less a “of the people, by the people and for the people” and increasingly a model of how special interests can use money to corrupt government. The recent story about how serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein avoided any serious punishment by virtue of his wealth and his political connections, including to both ex-president Bill Clinton and to current chief executive Donald Trump, demonstrates how even the most despicable criminals can avoid being brought to justice. [Sometimes these agencies imagine they are above accountability and the Law -- not so, as WE pay their wages.] (full story)
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 Indian Hemp Could Save the World from Climate Change Impact posted by Ellen Brown via jaxie, 2019-07-26 22:51:52
Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. So states a Guardian article, citing a new analysis published in the journal Science. The author explains: (full story)
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Propaganda posted by Caitlin Johnstone via shirl, 2019-07-24 07:52:55
I write a lot about how important it is for political dissidents to research and understand cognitive biases, the large number of well-documented logical glitches in the way human brains process information. I do this because the science of modern propaganda has been in research and development for more than a century, so if public domain psychology is aware of these glitches we can be absolutely certain that the propagandists are as well, and that they are exploiting those glitches currently. (full story)
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 Crazed War Monger John Bolton Puts UK on Path to War With Iran posted by Jake Johnson via darcy, 2019-07-22 22:54:03
With the United Kingdom and Iran in the midst of a tense and extremely dangerous standoff after the tit-for-tat seizure of oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, international observers are warning that the British government has fallen into a trap set by hawkish U.S. national security adviser John Bolton that could lead to a devastating military conflict. (full story)
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 Our Ruling Elites Have No Idea How Much We Want to See Them All in Prison posted by Charles Hugh Smith via janice, 2019-07-22 22:40:40
Let's posit that America will confront a Great Crisis in the next decade. This is the presumption of The Fourth Turning, a 4-generational cycle of 80 years that correlates rather neatly with the Great Crises of the past: 1781 (Revolutionary War, constitutional crisis); 1861 (Civil War) and 1941 (World War II, global war). (full story)
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 Me, Me, Me: Millennials And The Neurotic Satisfactions of the Selfie Generations posted by Julian Rose via jane, 2019-07-21 21:55:37
Who or what am I? Not sure, I'll take a 'Selfie' to reassure myself I exist and have meaning in a meaningless digital world. (full story)
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The Constant REAL War of Today – The War You Don't See posted by jude, 2019-07-20 22:09:52
The mass media is awash with distractions from the real war of our time. You would never see this war covered in any media as the media is one of the weapons used to wage this war, the other is debt peonage. Some have called it the Battle for the Mind, others an Information War, but regardless of what you call it, its devastating effects are UNMISTAKABLE, it's clearly a war against the PEOPLE. (full story)
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 Hilarious! Trump interrogates NASA chief, "why can’t we go straight to Mars?" posted by Loren Grush via gloria, 2019-07-20 00:49:59
During an oval office photo-op celebrating the Apollo 11 moon landing, Trump attempted to look good by repeatedly questioning NASA chief, Jim Bridenstine, over 'why America couldn't go directly to Mars,' where Trump lives or perhaps on a more distant planet? I mean really, the least the commander-of-morons (his supporters)-in-chief could do was a little research on the subject, but no, he would rather perform and make a thorough, ignorant fool of himself, as usual. (full story)
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 The WORLD Is Dedollarizing posted by Peter Koenig via jane, 2019-07-19 23:46:09
What if tomorrow nobody but the United States would use the US-dollar? Every country, or society would use their own currency for internal and international trade, their own economy-based, non-fiat currency. (full story)
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 Trump Is Back Under Crazed Neocon Bolton’s Thumb posted by Paul Craig Roberts via reg, 2019-07-19 23:21:21
President Trump might be his own man [some of the time] but not when it comes to John Bolton and Israel. [Puppet] Trump is their man and is again being manipulated into starting a conflict with Iran. (full story)
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Iran Captures British oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz posted by Press TV report via baz, 2019-07-19 21:59:06
This is clearly a tit for tat exercise by Iran, as the UK recently captured one of its oil tankers for clearly political reasons. So is Iran justified? Clearly yes, but what good would it do, though an argument would now ensue, 'release my tanker and I'll release yours?'
This is too serious an issue for kindergarten antics and Washington is directly to blame, not lap dog Britain which is following Washington's aggressive and unjustified policies on Iran attempting to incite yet another unnecessary war. My solution is simple, nuke Washington and Wall Street, hmmm, why not the entire USA, it is the cause of all the horror, mayhem and mass murder of the 21st century and the entire WORLD knows it? Trump is a captured puppet president and has no control over insane neocon foreign policy, which reduces to submit or we'll bomb you back to the stone age. Well, do your own dirty work America, and face the consequences. (full story)
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Unaccountable Media Faced with Dilemma in Next Phase of Deep State-gate posted by Ray McGovern via jaxie, 2019-07-19 01:26:30
Friday’s surprising report that Robert Mueller had successfully sought an extra week to prepare for his House testimony on Russiagate (now set for July 24) must have come as scary news to those of his fans who can put two and two together. Over the past few weeks, it has become clearer that each of the two frayed findings of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election has now come apart at the seams. (full story)
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 Political Correctness Goes Nuts in Berkeley California posted by Olgar Rodriguez & Samantha Maldonado via gus, 2019-07-18 23:21:55
First we must consider the use of the word 'BAN' this is an enforcement, finality word in that minority, 'politically correct' values are imposed on ALL, whether WE like it or not. Is this democracy, majority rule, at work ? Not on your life, it's a bunch of minority fleas attempting to wag the majority dog and I for one won't have anyone CREATING gender divisiveness for the sake of non-democratic POWER IMPOSITIONS.
For millennia the term 'man' was accepted generically to mean humankind which is all inclusive in contrast to exclusive gender specific terms. Society is now left in the absurd situation of what to do with, 'manoeuvre, woman, and women,' for example. Would someone can these intoxicated on power, minority PC nutters before society gets lost in the profoundly absurd without an escape. The REAL world is not a Lewis Carroll wonderland. I refer all readers to the last two sentences of the following story, which make perfect sense to the democratic MAJORITY. As for the fleas, keep your idiotic values to yourselves, enough is enough, we all have far more important issues to deal with. (full story)
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