June, 2015

Jun 30, 2015

Above the Fold

Russia: Tit for Tat, by Israel Shamir | The Unz Review

Greece and the Future of European Democracy: Tariq Ali interviewed by Creston Davis | CounterPunch

“The question is just when”: Max Blumenthal on war in the Gaza Strip’s past — and its future, by Elias Isquith | Salon

Putin Gobsmacks Uncle Sam … Again, by Mike Whitney | CounterPunch

The human rights crisis: a problem of perception? by Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini | openDemocracy

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Hazel Kahan interviews Avigail Abarbanel: 'A traumatized society is dangerous' | Mondoweiss

Blood and Leviathan, by Stephen Davies | Reason

Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike 'to be released' | Al Jazeera

Will the UN's Gaza Report Force Change? by Annie Slemrod | Palestine Chronicle

Finkelstein: UN report on Gaza war is 'tepid,' 'unserious' and exhibits 'anti-Muslim bigotry' | Mondoweiss

Freedom Flotilla III Exposes Anti-Democratic Extremism of the Israeli 'Center' by Robert Naiman | Huffington Post

Israel seizes Gaza-bound boat in “act of piracy,” by Ali Abunimah | Intifada Palestine

My journey from Zionism to Palestine solidarity, by Adam Horowitz | Mondoweiss

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Five Myths About the Iran Deal, by Reza Marashi | Huffington Post

The Greek Debt Crisis and Crashing Markets, by Michael Hudson | CounterPunch

Greece Over the Brink, by Paul Krugman | The New York Times

RT CrossTalk: Minsk 2 RIP? | YouTube

NGOs losing the moral high ground - too militant, too strident, too sanctimonious, from Peter Myers | One Democratic State

Concern regarding the brutality of Montréal police against journalists | CJFE

Reports: Turkey Plans to Invade Syria to Fight Kurds, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

‘New demands on Iran – deliberate stumbling blocks’: RT interview with Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich | Veterans News Now

Carbon Week: The sun raises the seas, by Nir Shaviv | Financial Post

Whose Bosnia is it anyways? by Putnik | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Truth is a Crime Against The State | Paul Craig Roberts

The High Cost of the Military Technical Revolution, by Chuck Spinney | The Unz Review

The Rise and Fall of the Human Terrain System, by Roberto J. González | CounterPunch

Capture, Smear, Contaminate: The Politics Of GMOs, by Colin Todhunter | Global Research

Sick: ‘Intolerable Levels’ of Monsanto’s Glyphosate Found in Breast Milk | Natural Society

Jun 29, 2015

Above the Fold

"Hi, I'm Uncle Sam and I'm a War-oholic": Poverty, Drugs, Afghanistan, Iraq, Terror, or How to Make War on Everything, by William Astore, Intro by Tom | TomDispatch

Lower The American Flag On July 4th! by Gary Corseri | Rense

Doomsday Scenarios: Climate Change and World War III; Conversations with Guy McPherson and Mahdi Nazemroaya | Global Research

Letter to God, by Adam Coleman | Veterans News Now

Beyond the Real Time Catastrophe of Capital, by Paul Street | CounterPunch

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Former Israel Ambassador Oren Writes Memoir Complaining Obama Major Obstacle to Israeli Hegemony | Veterans Today

Not Equal: Gaza in over 1000 frames | YouTube

Israeli Deceit and Jewish-Zionist Power | The Mark Weber Report/YouTube

Liberate Jerusalem! Quds Day coming soon: Interview with Kevin Barrett | Qods News Agency

Why Israel Declared 18 Dairy Cows a National Security Risk, by Carol Hill | Global Research

Israel largest state user of explosive weapons in 2014 due to Gaza war, by Charlie Hoyle | Ma'an News Agency

Jewish Judges (3 of 5) bring Gay Marriage to America, by Peter Myers | One Democratic State

The “Penal Colonies” of Palestine: “The Gaza Strip is the Realization of Israel’s Vision of ‘Separation,’” by Tanya Reinhart | Global Research

Middle East/Eurasia/World

June 28th Ukraine and World SITREP, by Baaz | The Vineyard of the Saker

Rabbi Michael Lerner on Truth Jihad: The Pope’s environmental encyclical can save the world | Veterans Today

Media Coverage of Europe's Migrant Crisis Ignores Root Cause: NATO, by Danielle Ryan | Russia Insider

Isis, a year of the caliphate: Day-to-day life in the 'Islamic State,' by Patrick Cockburn | The Independent

Where is My European Union? by Alex Andreou | Byline

Libya : Lawless, Alarming, Unpredictable, Dangerous, by Alexander Mezyaev | Jamahiriya News Agency

Finessing the Iran-Sanction Issue, by Trita Parsi | Consortium News

Eastring vs. Balkan Stream: The Battle For Greece, by Andrew Korybko | The Vineyard of the Saker

Troika Intends Starving Greece Into Economic Submission, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research

Tragic History of XX Century and Crisis Faced by Greece, by Valentin Katasonov | Strategic Culture Foundation

Greek Investigator's Report Finds Evidence of Plot Against Former PM's Life, 'Silver Drachma' Plan, by A. Makris | Greek Reporter

Italy Could Bring Prosperity to the Mediterranean Nations, by Jerry M. Rosenberg | Strategic Culture Foundation

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Imperial Overstretch, by Pat Buchanan | Creators

Hillary’s emails reveal: How the French destroyed Libya, by Thomas Cantaloube | Veterans Today

The Election Blues Again, by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch

Assessing the Candidates: Obama’s Whistleblower War Leaves Dangerous Legacy for Future Presidents, by John Hanrahan | Expose Facts

They just follow Washington’s recommendations, by Sergei Glaziev | The Vineyard of the Saker

US, Allies, Support al Qaeda in Syria, with Gareth Porter | The Scott Horton Show

McFaul: 'Only a Complete Fool Would Invade Russia' | Sputnik International

The Fifteen Most Outrageous Responses by Police After Killing Unarmed People, by Bill Quigley | CounterPunch

Massive US Media Campaign Aims to Derail Iran Nuclear Deal, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

U.S. military is the largest employer in the world | MarketWatch

Jun 28, 2015

Above the Fold

The Human Experiment is Probably Coming to an End, by Moti Nissani | Dissident Voice

A Simple Recipe for the Future: Less is More, by John K. White | CounterPunch

JVP, BDS and Jewish Liberal Terror | Gilad Atzmon

After He Leaves, What Will They Say About Obama’s Foreign Policy? by Murray Polner | Antiwar

The Neocons have robbed us all of the peace we wanted so much | The Vineyard of the Saker

“It’s not ‘Regime Change’ America wants, but ‘Region Change.’”: Historic Interview With Tariq Aziz, by Felicity Arbuthnot | Global Research

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Israel furious at UN report detailing torture of Palestinian children | Telegraph

Human Rights Watch: Palestinian kids working illegally at settlement farms under hazardous conditions | Jewish Telegraphic Agency

We must break out of the paranoid survival myth, by Lillian Rosengarten | Mondoweiss

Israel arrests Greek Orthodox Bishop protesting illegal seizure of church property | Intifada Palestine

Don’t be fooled: “media watchdogs” are Israeli propaganda tools, by Alastair Sloan | Redress Information & Analysis

Freedom Flotilla III is Sailing to Open the Port of Gaza | Freedom Flotilla Coalition

ISIS is ‘not strong,’ could be defeated ‘within two days’ – ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak | RT

When will Obama's 'thunderbolt' of equality come for Palestine? by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

Liar, Liar! Mainstream Media Won’t Like This One, by Phil Butler | Russia Insider

Foreign investment in Israel drops by 50% | Newsweek

Middle East/Eurasia/World

ISIS: A year of the caliphate, by Patrick Cockburn | The Unz Review

Euro ministers reject Greek bid for bailout extension | Al Jazeera

Euro zone readies for Greek default after Tsipras referendum call | Reuters
Alexis Tsipras’ address concerning the referendum to be held on the 5th of July | Prime Minister of Greece

“Cuckoo”: Russian national idea in a song? | The Vineyard of the Saker

Vladimir Putin on France and Europe: “NATO Member States have Renounced their Sovereignty,” by Sayed Hasan | Global Research

In Baghdad, Organized Destruction, by Cathy Breen | Palestine Chronicle

Solzhenitsyn's Look at Russian-Jewish History: The End of the Legends, by Wolfgang Strauss | VHO

Turkish Voters Rebuke Erdogan, by Alon Ben-Meir | Consortium News

On the Trail of Turkey’s Terrorist Grey Wolves, by Martin A. Lee | Consortium News

International Art and Social Consciousness: Rejecting ‘Endless Lines and Squares,’ by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin | Global Research

What lies behind the transnationalization and occupation of the Esequibo, by Franco Vielma | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

We restarted the Cold War: The real story about the NATO buildup that the New York Times won’t tell you, by Patrick L. Smith | Salon

Carpet-Bombing History: Washington’s Anti-Monuments Men, by Nick Alexandrov | CounterPunch

The Greatest Obstacle to Anti-Muslim Fearmongering and Bigotry: Reality, by Glenn Greenwald and Josh Begley | The Intercept

Neocons Urge Embrace of Al Qaeda, by Daniel Lazare | Consortium News

‘We ain’t found shit,’ by Scott Ritter | LRB

The Pentagon Slush Fund, by Mel Gurtov | Antiwar

The National-Security’s State’s Crisis Racket, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation

Latin American Revolutions Under Attack, by Andre Vltchek | CounterPunch

Jun 27, 2015

Above the Fold

Palestine, Israel and the Sea, by Robert Fantina | CounterPunch

Greece – The Way Out: Troika Involved in “Financial Terrorism,” by Peter Koenig | Global Research

Solving the Ukrainian Crisis, by Oleg Maslov | The Vineyard of the Saker

War Crimes? Us??? by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom

Khader Adnan: A Symbol of Palestinian Resistance, by Ghada Ageel | Palestine Chronicle

Russia through Western & Chinese eyes: a Study in Contrasts, by Jeff J. Brown | The Vineyard of the Saker

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Tel Aviv University academics debate BDS for the first time, by Hilla Dayan | Mondoweiss

Gaza: Ending the Siege Now and Forever, by Sami Jamil Jadallah | Veterans Today

The Children of Gaza’s Harrowing Cry for Help, by Cesar Chelala | CounterPunch

Israel's PR gaffes expose its racist atmosphere, by Rachel Shabi | Al Jazeera

Study by German commission: Schoolbooks biased against Israel | Jerusalem Post (Hasbara Fail Dept)

Support Palestinian human rights with the 'fierce urgency of now': An open letter to the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, by James Michie | Mondoweiss

Israel: the Migrant Cuckoo in the Arab Nest, by Anthony Bellchambers | Global Research

Vatican Signs Treaty With Palestinians | VOA

Israeli police swoop in on hunger striking mother outside minister’s home, by Marianne Azizi | Redress Information & Analysis

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Germany Left Party VP: ‘Sanctions show no positive results, they harm Russia, EU economies’ | RT Sophie&Co/YouTube

Top German Politician Tells Ash Carter to 'Go F**K' Himself. Finally! | Russia Insider

Greek Diaries, by Tariq Ali | CounterPunch

Asylum seekers: Fortress Europe with Israeli guns, by Shir Hever | Middle East Eye

Five Things That Won't Work in Iraq: What If There Is No Plan B? by Peter Van Buren, and Tom | TomDispatch

On the Delphi Declaration, by Michael Hudson | CounterPunch

The Dark Side: “We should never be like them,” by Dagmar Henn | The Vineyard of the Saker

Busted! Charlie Hebdo suspect Bougrab stripped bare Charb's apartment, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

China criticises US human rights record | Al Jazeera

Hong Kong: the color revolution that failed, by Jeff J. Brown | The Greanville Post

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Nuclear Nightmare Redux: “Three Minutes to Midnight,” by John Steinbach | Global Research

Christie's Conspiracy: Terror Plot of the Fort Dix Five, by Murtaza Hussain and Razan Ghalayini | The Intercept

The NYT Pre-Announces Iran Deal Failure | Moon of Alabama

Leaked US-Led Iranian Nuclear Deal, by Stephen Lendman | MWC News

Topple the Cult of the Presidency, by Lucy Steigerwald | Antiwar

Neocons never fade away, they just get political cover in 'The New York Times,' by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

US To Begin Invasion of Syria, by Tony Cartalucci | New Eastern Outlook

How trustworthy are electronic voting systems in the US? by Beth Clarkson | StatsLife

Jun 26, 2015

Above the Fold

The Pentagon goes nuclear on Russia, by Pepe Escobar | RT

Propaganda Reigns In The West, by Paul Craig Roberts | Strategic Culture Foundation

“King Obama,” his Royal Court, and the TPP | Ralph Nader

America Going, (Going, Gone!) To The Dogs (Of War), by Sherwood Ross | MWC News

Syrian civil war: Can Assad's regime survive the onslaught from Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra? by Robert Fisk | The Independent

Physicist for War and Profit: Meet Obama's Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, by John Stanton | CounterPunch

The Day the Earth Died And Why Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Et Al Were Virtually Silent About It, by Eric Zuesse | Global Research

The Failure of Obama Policy: A State of Middle East Anarchy, by Matthew Jamison | Strategic Culture Foundation

Curb Your Malthusiasm | George Monbiot

♫ Grateful Dead (Collection) | YouTube

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Art of Palestine 2014, by Ibrahim Al Ali | YouTube

UN report on Gaza war includes stories of civilian executions, attacks on ambulances and targeting of humanitarian facilities | Mondoweiss

And the Jewish Nobel Prize Goes to Michael Douglas! by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today

In letter to John Kerry, 19 reps stand up for Palestinian children behind bars, by Kate Gould | Mondoweiss

The Great ID Politics Competition | Gilad Atzmon

Middle East/Eurasia/World

The Delphi Declaration on the European Russian Crisis | Global Research

Greek crisis: Deal in doubt as Eurogroup meeting breaks up - as it happened | The Guardian

Lost in Translation, or What the BBC Cut From Their Yanukovych Interview | Sputnik International

Turkey’s Troubling War on Syria, by Rick Sterling | Consortium News

Turks Put ISIS Back into Kobani After US Bombing Campaign, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

Alexander Kolomiets, Former Major General of the UAF, sides with his hometown | The Vineyard of the Saker

The Iran Deal Proves That Peace Is Possible, by Trita Parsi | Foreign Policy

Policeman/Nazi: “There’s no fascism in Ukraine!” (Video by Anatoly Sharii) | YouTube

Revolting Acts in an Age of Crisis: Beer, Vomit and Lipstick, by Colin Todhunter | CounterPunch

The arrest of two mass murderers can blow up Europe, by Evgenii Krutikov | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): An Oppressive US-Led Free Trade Agreement, A Corporate Power-Tool of the 1%, by Nile Bowie | Global Research

HRW and Amnesty: 'Humanitarian' Warmongers, by Chase Madar | LRB

The Vileness of the Clintons: Hearts of Darkness, by Joseph Grosso | CounterPunch

Are We on the Verge of a Nuclear Breakdown? by Nina Burleigh | Rolling Stone

The Privatization of Nuclear War: GRTV Report Produced by James Corbett, Featuring Michel Chossuodvsky | Global Research

ISIL: Made in Langley and propped up by Tel Aviv and Riyadh, by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation

I Was Tortured: I Know How Important It Is to Hold the CIA Accountable, by Juan E. Méndez | Politico

Boston Bombings’ Death Sentence: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s “Scripted” Confession. Who Wrote It? by Michel Chossudovsky and Julie Lévesque | Global Research

War on Whistleblowers, After Obama, by John Hanrahan | Consortium News

Jun 25, 2015

Above the Fold

The Geopolitics of American Global Decline, by Alfred W. McCoy | The Unz Review

NYT’s Orwellian View of Ukraine, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

When Putin Speaks, in His Own Words, by Paul Craig Roberts | CounterPunch

Dissolve NATO Before it's too Late, by Ludwig Watzal | MWC News

The Politics of Protest Is Literally Killing Us, by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review

“The Ukraine is Europe” | The Vineyard of the Saker

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

UK actors, directors and writers demand immediate sanctions on Israel | PNN

Israel’s Ravagement of Gaza: UN Human Rights Council—Report of Independent Commission, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch

'Six Jews sitting in the White House discussing the Palestinian state,' by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

The Medical and Scientific Assessment of Israeli War Crimes, by Dr. Derek Summerfield | Global Research

BDS Excommunicates the Great Jacob Cohen | Gilad Atzmon

Activists to set sail in new bid to break Gaza blockade | Al Jazeera

Torture experts join appeal of Rasmea Odeh’s unjust conviction | USPCN

What I learned crossing the Qalandia Checkpoint, by Léa Georgeson Caparros | Mondoweiss

US created ISIL for sake of Israel: Ex-CIA contractor | IRNA

Middle East/Eurasia/World

The B Vocabulary: The Western Left and Its Sterile 'Field of Ideas,' by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle

Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged in Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda, Psychology Research, by Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman | The Intercept

Three Victories of the Greek Government: Why We Should All be Indebted to Syriza, by Jacques Sapir | CounterPunch

Greek Democracy Is Failing | Paul Craig Roberts

RT CrossTalk: Kiev Cul-de-sac | YouTube

Ukraine SITREP June 24, 2015, by Scott | The Vineyard of the Saker

Britain pledges NATO commitment extension, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today

The Ridiculous Nature of Saudi Intelligence: What the Saudi Cables Released by WikiLeaks Say and Don’t Say, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Global Research

'Electric Yerevan' is Sliding Out of Control, by Andrew Korybko | Sputnik International

The Interests That Power Armenia's 'Electric' Protests | Sputnik International

I saw death in Odessa, by Claude Roddier | The Vineyard of the Saker

Russia extends tit-for-tat sanctions against West | Al Jazeera

Red Pope Green Pope, by Will Durst | MWC News

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

How the Bush Administration Created the Iran "Nuclear Confession" Scam, by Gareth Porter | Truthout

The Neoconservative Pivot, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

The Invisible Writing: 7 year Blindness. 2008 -2015, by Katherine Frisk | The International Reporter

Pentagon rewrites ‘Law of War’ declaring ‘belligerent’ journalists as legitimate targets | RT

US to EU: Sanctions Are For Suckers! by Finian Cunningham | Sputnik International

NATO Ambivalence and Stashing Weapons in Eastern Europe, by Paul Pillar | The National Interest

This Shadow Government Agency Is Scarier Than the NSA, by William M. Arkin | Phase Zero

Jun 24, 2015

Above the Fold

Ayn Rand killed the American dream: Our free-market economy only works for the 1 percent, by Matthieu Ricard | Salon

The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City under Fire, by Vacy Vlazna | Palestine Chronicle

China Syndrome: Why the PCR Won't Get Sucked Into a Pointless War with the United States, by Mike Whitney | CounterPunch

Neither Forgive Dylann Roof Nor Ourselves: Quandaries Of American 'Democracy,' by Gary Corseri | Countercurrents

Pop goes the Bubble, by Dmitri Orlov | Club Orlov

Is BDS replacing Iran as Israel’s blackmail card? by Alan Hart | Redress Information & Analysis

Ukraine’s President Poroshenko Says Overthrow of Yanukovych Was a Coup, by Eric Zuesse | Global Research

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

US journal 'Biography''s special issue on Occupied Palestine is launched in Gaza, by Yousef M. Aljamal | Mondoweiss

Druze attack Israeli ambulance carrying wounded Syrians | MWC News

Israel bans publication of details of report into church arson attack | MEMO

US and Israeli ICC Prosecutions? Don't Bet on It, by Stephen Lendman | MWC News

Jeb Bush, James Baker, and the Pro-Israel Mega-Donors: The Making of the Republicans’ Middle East Policy, by Stephen Sniegoski | Council for the National Interest

Democratic Party-linked thinktank issues report on Adelson's influence that never mentions Israel, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

Middle East/Eurasia/World

BBC Propaganda and War Criminal Tony Blair, by David Halpin | Global Research

Saudi Cables: The "Iran Kills Saudi Ambassador in DC" Plot Was A U.S.-Saudi Conspiracy | Moon of Alabama

Spies Hacked Computers Thanks to Sweeping Secret Warrants, Aggressively Stretching U.K. Law, by Andrew Fishman and Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept

The Murder of Journalist Oles Buzina in Ukraine, by Roger Annis | CounterPunch

Response from a Bosnian Muslim | The Vineyard of the Saker

François Hollande calls emergency meeting after WikiLeaks reveals US spied on three French presidents | The Guardian

Khamenei: US is after destroying our nuclear industry | Al Jazeera

Defying EU, Hungary suspends rules on asylum seekers | Reuters

Serbia angered by Hungary's proposed anti-migrant wall | Al Jazeera

Greece: The ball is in Europe's court on debt deal | Al Jazeera

Why democracy may have been just a passing phase, by John Lloyd | Reuters

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

No, War is Not the Health of Peace and Prosperity, by Dan Sanchez | Antiwar

Debating the 2016 presidential race: Libertarian Lindgren vs. progressive Reuschlein, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

Obama’s Neoliberal Endgame, by John Halle | CounterPunch

NATO-Russia Collision Ahead? by Patrick J. Buchanan | Antiwar

Green Party’s Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President on Democracy Now! | YouTube

E. Michael Jones on David Duke and His Weltanschauung, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today

Likely the Same Overextended American Empire From the Next President, by Ivan Eland | Antiwar

History Lesson

My Role in the Zündel Trial, by Mark Weber | The Journal of Historical Review [some critical observations on the Holycause; Editor]

Jun 23, 2015

Above the Fold

Emergence of the Real Israel, by Dan Lieberman | Alternative Insight

The Odd American View of Negotiation, by Paul R. Pillar | The National Interest

Bombs in the Air – Then Boots on the Ground, by Jack Speer-Williams | Veterans Today

SPIEF: St. Petersburg in the heart of the action, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times

Laudato Si, Manifesto of Humanity: Moral Critique of Capitalist Profligacy, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch

War, Murder and the American Way, by Robert C. Koehler | Common Dreams

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Philip Giraldi discusses the 48 year anniversary of the deliberate Israeli attack on the USS Liberty | The Scott Horton Show

The Gathering Of The Harvest, by Katherine Frisk | Veterans Today

Charleston: Do Black and Palestinian lives matter? by Marc H. Ellis | Mondoweiss

Palestinians urge Britain to arrest former Israeli army chief Shaul Mofaz | MEMO

Isratin or Palestrael? by Uri Avnery | Veterans Today (add some salt)

European Court Decides that Israel Is Not Occupying Gaza, by Marko Milanovic | EJIL

'You have to go,' by Alice Bach | Mondoweiss

Middle East/Eurasia/World

IMF Violates IMF Rules, to Continue Ukraine Bailouts, by Eric Zuesse | Global Research

Ukraine SITREP June 22nd, by Duff | The Vineyard of the Saker

Migrants: Mogherini announces launch of naval operation | EurActiv

EU still angling for UN permit on migrant operation | EU Observer

UN Report: Growing number of refugees due to increasing global conflict | Jurist

Greek Debt Committee Just Declared All Debt To The Troika “Illegal, Illegitimate, And Odious” | The Oceania Saker

Secular Investor: Could Russia Really Save Greece? And Does It Want To? | Russia Insider

Why the sudden concern for Central Asia rights abuses? by Massoumeh Torfeh | MWC News

Something critical might be happening in the Ukraine | The Vineyard of the Saker

Safeguards in a Final Iran Deal | Arms Control Law

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Facing America’s Great Evils, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

The Imperative of Moral Arguments Against Torture, by Kelly Thomas | The American Conservative

Spy Agency's Secret Plans to Foster Online "Conformity" and "Obedience" Exposed, by Jon Queally | Common Dreams

Michael Ratner: Court Reinstates Case Against Former Attorney General, FBI Director and INS Commissioner | The Real News

Wall Street Front Group Pleads for Government Help in New York Times OpEd, by Pam and Russ Martens | Wall Street On Parade

Deep Hypocrisy on Cuba and Egypt, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation

Los Olvidados “Forgotten,” by Jane Rosenstein | Veterans Today

Human Experimentation: A CIA Habit, by David Swanson | CounterPunch

America's drone policy is all exceptions and no rules, by Trevor Timm | The Guardian

Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks | The Intercept

Opposition To Spy State, First Step To ‘Least Popular’ in Washington, by John V. Walsh | Antiwar

Jun 22, 2015

Above the Fold

Shadings of Zionism, by Blake Alcott | Middle East Eye

Soros calls for "Big Bang" Privatization/Deregulation of Ukraine energy sector; hopes to buy it up, from Peter Myers | ODS

“Progressive” Obama: He’s Melting, He’s Melting: TPP Wipes Away the Last Shreds of Illusion, by Paul Street | CounterPunch

Je suis Dieudonné! French comedian wins free speech award, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

You Have Your History, I Have Mine, by Ted Gup | The Chronicle of Higher Education

What Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen and Iran’s Regional Strategy Are Really About | Going to Tehran

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Gaza welcomes Ramadan with record levels of poverty and unemployment | MEMO

JVP and Alison Weir: A Dissident View, by Ned Rosenberg | Gilad Atzmon

Hasbarists Are Cynically Attempting to Hijack the Charleston Massacre to Promote Israel's Image Abroad, by David Sheen | Muftah

More than 40% of Palestinians in historic land are refugees | MEMO

Israel Mocks Foreign Journalists | Veterans News Now

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Anti-Russian sanctions hurt Europe harder than expected, threaten 2.5mn jobs | RT News

Middle East: The predictable defeat of France, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net

The Freezing of Russian Assets, Moscow’s Counter-Sanctions Directed against the EU, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research

Why are some Lebanese Sunni Muslims becoming sympathetic toward Da’ish (ISIS)? by Franklin Lamb | Intifada Palestine

War in Ukraine: Enemy at the gates (English subtitles) | YouTube

An Erratic and Dangerous State: Saudi Arabia, Propaganda and Control, by Binoy Kampmark | Global Research

Unlike Obama 'Putin Says What He Means and Means What He Says' | Sputnik International

To Arms, French! | Eric Margolis

Hezbollah Kills Nine, Including ISIS Leaders, in Lebanon Border Attacks, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

IMF Humiliates Greece, Repeats It Will Keep Funding Ukraine Even If It Defaults, by Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge

Nearing the end of the Erdogan system, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

America’s ‘Exceptional’ Negotiations, by Paul R. Pillar | Consortium News

Confiscation of Bank Deposits: The Derivative Debt, by Ellen Brown | Global Research

What the United States Did to Vietnam: A Visit to Vietnam’s War Remnants Museum, by Brett S. Morris | CounterPunch

Trump for President? | Paul Craig Roberts

Surveillance court moving toward renewal of NSA spying program for 6 months | RT USA

The Rush to a New Cold War, by Dennis J. Bernstein and Robert Parry | Consortium News

How Lobbies, Intelligence Services and Advertisers Dictate Mainstream Media Content | Global Research

It’s a (Bush) Family Affair: How Uncle Bucky Made a Killing, by Jeffrey St. Clair | CounterPunch

The Anti-Politician, by Pat Buchanan | The Unz Review

The Pentagon’s War Reluctance, by Gareth Porter | Consortium News

Are Pershing missiles returning to Europe? by Vladimir Kozin | Oriental Review

Jun 21, 2015

Above the Fold

Paul Craig Roberts' Address to the International Conference on the European/Russian Crisis Created by Washington | Paul Craig Roberts

Divine Time Import | Lawrence Davidson

Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism, by Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch

The Human Aversion to “Doing the Right Thing,” by John Kozy | Global Research

The Undisclosed Second Paradox in Michael Walzer’s 'The Paradox of Liberation', by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

In the USA – “I Cannot Write!” by Andre Vltchek | CounterPunch

♫ Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt etc. (Really good collection)

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Exposing Israel's Ultranationalist Settler Movement | Gilad Atzmon

Of abductors and actors and censors, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country

Israel Battles the Boycotts, by Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative

A visit to the Bakr family in Gaza, by Dan Cohen | Mondoweiss

Palestine Solidarity: Freedom Flotilla III and Empowering Gaza with Solar Power, by Michael Welch | Global Research

BDS: Israel’s self-fulfilling prophecy, by Dimi Reider | Middle East Eye

Win for Academic Freedom: Steven Salaita Awarded Back-to-back Victories against University that Fired Him, by David Palumbo-Liu | Palestine Chronicle

Netanyahu: The Fantasy Grows, by Robert Fantina | CounterPunch

European Trade with Israel, Illegitimate, by Anthony Bellchambers | Global Research

“Scientific Facts” Concerning Israeli War Crimes in Gaza: The Role of Medical Journals, by Paola Manduca | MEMO

Middle East/Eurasia/World

IMF 'Trained' Greek Journalists in DC to Promote Its Position in the Media | Strategic Culture Foundation

Massive anti-austerity march in London mounts biggest challenge to Tory cuts | RT

WikiLeaks Releases Secret Saudi Documents, by Stephen Lendman | MWC News

Jens Stoltenberg: NATO’s Mr Zig-Zag, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation

Putin: €2bn Russia-Greece gas deal will help Athens pay its debt | RT

Asia: On the Rocks, by John Feffer | Antiwar

Secret bases? What is the situation now as Syria is targeted? | Drone Warfare

Chaotic scenes in Frankfurt, police cars burnt en masse | RT News

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

US accuses Iran of supporting terrorism ..for fighting terrorism! | PressTV

“Wag the Dog” Mass Killing, Race Wars and Gun Confiscation Obscure Sleight of Hand TPP Passage, by Joachim Hagopian | Global Research

Hillary Clinton’s Sincerity Question, by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | Consortium News

Why the US military opposed new combat roles in Iraq, by Gareth Porter | Middle East Eye

Obama’s Libya Fiasco, by Andres Cala | Consortium News

Anti-Torture and Anti-Racist Activists Stand Trial for Senate Protest: “The US Government is Guilty of Crimes,” by Frida Berrigan | Global Research

The Kidnapping of Babies and Children Goes Mainstream! by Jack Speer-Williams | Veterans Today

The “Denial” of US Military Aid to Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Battalions: The Conyers-Soho Amendment | Global Research

Charleston and the National-Security State, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation

"Moderate Rebels" Spent CIA $$$ To Finance The Islamic State | Moon of Alabama

Social Engineering and the Imposition of a “Free Market” Totalitarian Ideology, by John Stanton | Global Research

Jun 20, 2015

Above the Fold

Palestinian dignity and solidarity, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Redress Information & Analysis

Correcting the Zionist Narrative of Israel, by Garry Leech | CounterPunch

AIPAC and Zionist Regime Bleed Again–Two Cheers, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today

America In Decline: A Society In Denial, by Mark Weber | IHR

Truth Jihad: Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney on America’s post-2001 descent into madness, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Time to Erase Israel’s Green Line: A Violently Destructive Fiction, by Neve Gordon | CounterPunch

Let's get real; it's high time to erase Israel from the map

Israel Furious that UN Report on Israel Mentions Israel So Much, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

Does Israel have a toxic personality? Ask Michael Oren, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

The Latest and Maybe the Last, “Existential Threat”: Netanyahu and BDS, by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch

Ah, How Sweet It Is To Be Jewish, by Robert Faurisson | IHR

Journey through a fractured landscape, by Sandy Tolan | Mondoweiss

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Ukraine SITREP June 19th, 2015, by Raskolnikova | The Vineyard of the Saker

Marc Rich and the Rape of Russia, by Steve Sailer | The Unz Review

Eurozone leaders to hold emergency summit on Greece | Al Jazeera

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

After Three Years, the Injustice Handed Out to Julian Assange Must End, by John Pilger | Global Research

Hillary's 1% backers: Haim Saban & the Neocons, from Peter Myers | One Democratic State

Hillary says she's for the 99%, but equivocates on TPP, from Peter Myers | One Democratic State

Next President of the USA? The Carlyle Group! by Katherine Frisk | Veterans Today

Another View: Worst year for American Muslims since 9/11, by Linda Sarsour | New Haven Register

Drone Pilots Are Exhausted and Suffering From PTSD, by Lucy Steigerwald | Antiwar

Trump for President? Giving the GOP Nightmares | Ralph Nader

The Progressive Case for Reducing Immigration, by Philip Cafaro | Chronicle of Higher Education

Jun 19, 2015

Above the Fold

The Imperative of Palestinian Liberation, by Atef Alshaer | Palestine Chronicle

Kiev: Chestnuts Blossom Again, by Israel Shamir | The Unz Review

JVP, Alison Weir And the Hatred of the White | Gilad Atzmon

Je suis, I am, you are, we are all Novorossians | Veterans Today

Towards A Global Military Fighting Machine: One World Government Protected by a One World Military, by Joachim Hagopian | Global Research

Neo-con politicians take major hits in Eastern Europe, by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation

Let Us Salute the Flag, by Fred Reed | The Unz Review

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Israeli Officers Captured, Killed in Yemen Attacks | Veterans Today

Oren turns on Jewish journalists, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

Israelis film themselves shooting unarmed Palestinian, by Ali Abunimah | Intifada Palestine

Anti-Gentile Content of the Bible, by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today

Extremist Jews attack Sea of Galilee loaves and fishes church | MEMO

Palestine cartoon icon on German stamps | PressTV

Can US Stop Enabling Israel? by Alon Ben-Meir | Consortium News

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Former US Attorney General brings legal challenge against Iraq War officials | RT USA

The Middle East and North Africa: Adapting to a New Paradigm, by James M. Dorsey | RSiS

A New World Order Requires a New Mindset – a response to Nikolai Starikov’s interview in the People’s Daily | The Vineyard of the Saker

Why Arming Ukraine Is a Really Bad Idea, by Paul J. Saunders | The National Interest

Zakharchenko, on crutches, speaks his mind | The Vineyard of the Saker

ISIL's Appeal Derives From Who It's Against, by Musa al-Gharbi | Al Jazeera

Torture is a war crime the government treats like a policy debate, by Trevor Timm | The Guardian

Ukraine SITREP June 18th, 2015, by Scott | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Obama in the Middle East: From Bad to Worse, by Jack A. Smith | Antiwar

Iraq: A Nation Destroyed by American Contempt, by César Chelala | Common Dreams

The Theology of American National Security: Down the Iraqi Rabbit Hole (Again), by Andrew Bacevich, and Tom | TomDispatch

How Obama Consolidated the Legacies of Bush and Clinton: Keeping Bad Ideas Alive, by Jason Hirthler | CounterPunch

Explaining Myself, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

The story of BlackRock, a modest participant at the Bilderberg conference, by Valentin Katasonov | Strategic Culture Foundation

The Last Jeb Killed for Slavery, The Last Bush Killed for Oil, by David Swanson | CounterPunch

Jun 18, 2015

Above the Fold

Our Treasonous Foreign Policy, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

If You'll Believe Russia Is the Aggressor in Ukraine You'll Believe Anything, by Raúl Ilargi Meijer | Russia Insider

War and Peace: The Lost Principles of Science and Value, by John McMurtry | Global Research

Obama’s War Machine Inches Forward, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch

Policing and Defending Then and Now, by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review

Just Politics: Iran, Like the Rest, Is Not Blameless, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle

Conspiracy Theories: The Public Trust Skepticism Factor, by Katherine Smith | The People's Voice

Foreign Policy Coup: De-Americanization of World’s Conflicts, by Ben Tanosborn | MWC News

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Tutu endorses UCC divestment: 'It is unconscionable to remain silent' | Mondoweiss

Palestinian unity government resigns | Al Jazeera

Life in Occupied Palestine | Project MUSE

CPDS – Gaza: Biography’s Life in Occupied Palestine Launched in Gaza | Palestine Chronicle

New program provides 'birthright' trips for US evangelicals to visit the holy land, by Alice Bach | Mondoweiss

Israeli military kills Palestinian kids, United Nations whitewashes it, by Brad Parker | Salon

Student leader bewails dead hand of conservative donors in Jewish political life, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Edward Snowden, The Sunday Times And The Death Of Journalism: ‘We Just Publish The Position Of The British Government’ | Media Lens

ISIS Loss of Syria Border Town ‘Biggest Setback’ So Far, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

Channeling the Joy | George Monbiot

Captured Documents Prove Turkish Alliance with ISIS, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

Those who would sell out Novorossia, by Rostislav Ishchenko | The Vineyard of the Saker

Russia threatens response to US military buildup in Eastern Europe, by Niles Williamson | World Socialist Web Site

ILO condemnation of Qatar likely to have ripple effects, by James M Dorsey | Middle East Soccer

Departure of AFC general secretary: Business as usual in a swamp of corruption allegations, by James M. Dorsey | Middle East Soccer

Ukraine SITREP June 16th, by Raskolnikova | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Seven Days in May? Carter Takes Over, by Mike Whitney | CounterPunch

Edward Snowden and the Department of Defense: Why Did It Take the Pentagon a Month to Figure Out Its Files Were Compromised? by Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic

Back to Iraq: No really, these troops are just here to advise, by Peter Van Buren | Reuters

The Pro-GMO Lobby’s Latest Scapegoat: “Organic Farming is Starving The Poor,” by Colin Todhunter | Global Research

Snowden Does a Product Endorsement: Does Ed Snowden Really Trust Apple? by Bill Blunden | CounterPunch

America hates its whistle-blowers: The tortured legacy of Edward Snowden, by David Sirota | Salon

Why There's No Conservative Jon Stewart, by Oliver Morrison | The Atlantic

Holding America Hostage, by Charles R. Larson | CounterPunch

History Lessons

The Mass Graves of Ireland | Irish Holocaust

Battle of Waterloo: Was it just an unpopular adventure led by an establishment hate figure? by Colin Brown | The Independent

Jun 17, 2015

Above the Fold

The Two Contending Visions of World Government: The Origin and Broader Context of Obama’s “Trade” Deals, by Eric Zuesse | Global Research

China Rising, by Pepe Escobar | CounterPunch

This is the Dead Land, this is Cactus Land: We're All Zombies, by Robert Bonomo | Cactus Land

Syriza: Plunder, Pillage and Prostration (How the ‘Hard Left’ embraces the policies of the Hard Right) | James Petras

IMF Report Admits IMF's Obsession with Capitalism Is Killing Prosperity, by Jon Queally | Common Dreams

The Hollow ‘Free-Trade’ Promises, by Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger | Consortium News

Syria: a Serious Situation for Us All, by Roya Arab | CounterPunch

Ukraine and the Apocalyptic Risk of Propagandized Ignorance, by David Swanson | War Is A Crime

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Judaism vs Jewish Identity Politics: Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro and Gilad Atzmon | YouTube

Godwin's Law: Netanyahu says BDS resembles Nazi Germany, by Annie Robbins | Mondoweiss

Israel’s behaviour will bankrupt it over time, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth

Palestinian youth dies after being left 3 hours under Israeli jeep that hit him, by Kate | Mondoweiss

The Magna Carta's very Jewish underpinnings | The Times of Israel

Why the Magna Carta anniversary celebrations will be missing two crucial paragraphs, by Francis Carr Begbie | The Occidental Observer

Shocking words of Israeli leaders read aloud in Irish parliament, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada

Czech minister in Israel: 'It will become difficult to maintain our pro-Israel position if situation doesn't change' | EJP

Israel’s Ludicrous Spoof of Western Journalists, by Ernesto Londoño | NYT

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Ukraine Is In Crisis: Here’s Why the West Can’t Save It, by Alexander Reed Kelly | The Nation

Starvation Is The Price Greeks Will Pay For Remaining In The EU | Paul Craig Roberts

NPR: African leaders want indictments of Bush, Blair and Netanyahu, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

Iranian students suing Norway over discrimination | Press TV/YouTube

When Graham Met Texas | YouTube

The Globalization of War and Towards a World War III Scenario: Two Books by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research

Advance of the Islamic State (ISIS) into the Heartland of Central Asia: “The US Plan is to Set Central Asia Ablaze in the Fire of Terrorism, Separatism and Extremism” (South Front) | Global Research

The Magical Content Tree | Club Orlov

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Let me be clear – Edward Snowden is a hero, by Shami Chakrabarti | The Guardian

Where Does ISIS Get Those Wonderful Toys? by Dan Sanchez | Antiwar

The Fed Cornered: Jessica Desvarieux interviews Michael Hudson | RealNews/Unz Review

Discussion with Dan, who grows fruit & vegetables in the Nevada desert, by Peter Myers | One Democratic State

U.S. terrorism list a lesson in hypocrisy, by DeWayne Wickham | USA Today

TPP the Trojan Horse of Global Conquest, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch

King John Might Envy President Obama, by Sheldon Richman | Free Association

Death Penalty: The Ultimate Corrupt, Big Government Program, by Ron Paul | Ron Paul Institute

What’s Going on in Guatemala? by Andrew Korybko | Sputnik International

Jun 16, 2015

Above the Fold

An American Oligarch‘s Dirty Tale of Corruption, by F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook

The State Against The Republic, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net

Nuke Russia? The warlords of Washington haven’t ruled it out, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

Is the Middle East America’s to Lose? by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

Multi-Polar World Order: The East Must Provide An Alternative to, Not Replace Western Hegemony, by Ulson Gunnar | Global Research

Thou Shalt Not Kill, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig

Why are journalists surprised that Israel kills children? by Amena Saleem | The Electronic Intifada

Israel’s behaviour will bankrupt it over time, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Dershowitz spills the beans: Supreme Court's Jerusalem case was about... Iran, by Annie Robbins | Mondoweiss

Tariq Aziz Obituary, by Hans-C. von Sponeck and Denis J. Halliday | Information Clearing House

Hawkish Hillary Clinton and Her Israel-First Political Sugar Daddy Haim Saban, by Stephen Sniegoski | Veterans News Now

Druze Mount Next Flashpoint in Syrian Conflict: Implications for Israel, by James Dorsey | Huffington Post

Israeli Campaign Against Forthcoming UN Report on Gaza War, by Stephen Lendman | MWC News

BDS could cost Israel $4.7 billion a year, by James North | Mondoweiss

Avoiding West Bank settlement goods isn't boycott - it’s the law, by Jack Khoury | Intifada Palestine

Israeli Soldiers Get Caught Red-Handed, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today

FIFA, Palestine & Israel: What Really Happened | Gilad Atzmon

Fire in the olive orchards, as two nonviolent protests against occupation are suppressed, by Kate | Mondoweiss

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Wanted: NGO Whistleblowers, by Andrew Korybko | The Vineyard of the Saker

What’s Really Going on at Fukushima? by Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch

Syrian civil war: Jabhat al-Nusra’s massacre of Druze villagers shows the group is just as nasty as Isis, by Patrick Cockburn | The Unz Review

Syrian Kurdish units take key ISIL-held town | Al Jazeera

US Warplanes Strike Iraqi Army Position in Anbar Province | Electronic Resistance

RT CrossTalk: NATO vs Russia | YouTube

Interview with Chris of the Watchdog Media Institute | The Vineyard of the Saker

Germany is Bluffing on Greece, by Mark Weisbrot | CounterPunch

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Sunday Times Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst — and Filled with Falsehoods, by Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept

The Truth About Diego Garcia: The Forgotten Costs of War in the Middle East, by David Vine and Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch

Samantha Power: Liberal War Hawk, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

Federal Judicial Deference to the National Security State, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation

Can the UN Talks Bring Peace to Shattered Yemen? by Medea Benjamin | Antiwar

Rafael Correa’s Push to Incense the Oligarchy: Ecuador's Strike Across the Bow, by Robert Fenton | CounterPunch

Romero’s Beatification and the CIA’s Assassination Attempts on Castro, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation

Jun 15, 2015

Above the Fold

Pillage and Class Polarization: The Rise of “Criminal Capitalism” | James Petras

Standing Up for Truth and Ben Franklin, by Coleen Rowley | Consortium News

Bibi boosts BDS: Israel’s opposition proves it is necessary, by Ben White | Middle East Eye

Radical Change is Taking Place Whether We Like It Or Not, by Frank Scott | Legalienate

Very interesting public survey in the occupied Ukraine | The Vineyard of the Saker

Chasing the Islamic State: Is the West set to miss the iceberg? by Hasan Abdullah | Strategic Culture Foundation

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

The Illegitimacy of Israel’s Colonisation of Land in Arab East Jerusalem, the Palestinian West Bank and the Syrian Golan Heights, by Anthony Bellchambers | Global Research

The Wrath of Netanyahu: What does Orange Telecom's departure from Israel really Mean for BDS? by Juan Cole | Informed Comment

Could California Ban Anti-Israel Campus Protests as 'Anti-Semitic' Hate? by Nathan Guttman | Forward

Israeli probe defends Gaza war actions as 'legitimate', 'lawful' | Ma'an News

Support for Iran Deal Stronger among US Jews than General Public, by Jim Lobe | LobeLog

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Darkness Descends on Palmyra, by Matthew Stevenson | Intifada Palestine

Save our stones | The Economist

Ukraine and World SITREP, June 14 2015, by Baaz | The Vineyard of the Saker

Lebanon must be ready for U.S.-Iran detente, by Basem Shabb | The Daily Star

RT CrossTalk: ISIS and Obama's Failure | YouTube

China Syndrome | George Monbiot

Yemen: The Silent Slaughter, by Michael Welch and Abayomi Azikiwe | Global Research

Why Putin doesn’t recognize DPR/LPR as sovereign states, by Nikolai Starikov | The Vineyard of the Saker

Charlie Hebdo perps BUSTED! The key lie of Jeannette Bougrab, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

The End of the Euro is Nigh: Can Greece Help Form a New Europe? by Cillian Doyle | CounterPunch

British Historian Blasts Russophobia, Calls for Dialogue | Sputnik International

No, Iran Isn't Destabilizing the Middle East, by Paul R. Pillar | The National Interest

The idea of a ‘Greater Albania’, then and now (II), by Pyotr Iskenderov | Strategic Culture Foundation

China Paves Way to Global Dominance Resting on US Marshall Plan | Sputnik International

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Snowden leaks forced British spies pullout from Russia and China, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today

Monsanto and the Subjugation of India, by Colin Todhunter | CounterPunch

State Dept ‘Concerned’ by Reports Syrian Kurds Are Expelling Arabs, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

I was a teenage Jihadi, by Clancy Sigal | One Democratic State

Hiding Facts to Thwart Democracy, by Kirk Wiebe | Consortium News

The story of Bush and Blair's great lie, by Lana Asfour | Al Jazeera

Why Scott Walker is Even More of a Menace Than He Seems, by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch

Ignoring Reality, Subverting Morality: GMOs and the Neoliberal Apologists, by Colin Todhunter | Global Research

Why Hollywood is still so bad at diversity, by Rachel Shabi | Al Jazeera

Prior to 9/11: US Covert Support to Al Qaeda in Macedonia, “Financing Both Sides,” by Michel Chossudovsky | Strategic Culture Foundation

Jun 14, 2015

Above the Fold

12 Reasons America Doesn’t Win Its Wars, by Jon Basil Utley | The American Conservative

G7: Currencies to Protect, Countries to Bomb, by Vijay Prashad | CounterPunch

Washington’s Death Squads, by Bill Van Auken | Information Clearing House

Unthinkable: Brazilian Journalist Mulls Soviet-Style Collapse of US | Sputnik International

Zionist Things Continue to Fall Apart, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today

Bombing ISIS Into Existence, by John Wight | CounterPunch

Logistics 101: Where Does ISIS Get Its Guns? by Tony Cartalucci | OffGuardian

♫ Django Reinhardt (full album) | YouTube

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

'The whole world is against us' | Gilad Atzmon

UN report catalogs Israeli attacks on Palestinian children, but leaves Israel off 'list of shame' of child rights abusers, by Allison Deger | Mondoweiss

Ship to Gaza Critics Don't Want Media to Expose Consequences of Blockade | Palestine Chronicle

Lebanon’s Palestinian Camps Protest UNRWA Aid Cuts, by Louisa Lamb | Intifada Palestine

Munayyer-Beinart debate revealed toothless sentimentalism of liberal Zionism, by Rob Bryan | Mondoweiss

Egypt Opens Rafah Crossing in Both Directions | Palestine Chronicle

AP Analysis: Fair to boycott Israel? Global momentum grows | The York Daily Record

Untold Stories: First-ever US Nakba Museum opens in Washington DC, by Kayla Blau | Mondoweiss

Ship to Gaza Critics Don't Want Media to Expose Consequences of Blockade | Palestine Chronicle

Impacts of the BDS Campaign? U.K. -Israel Trade Slumps, by Anthony Bellchambers | Global Research

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Russia Gets Very Serious on De-dollarizing, by F. William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook

The Saudi Finger-Pointing at Iran, by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Antiwar

Ukraine SITREP June 13th, by Duff | The Vineyard of the Saker

China in Africa: Jeff Brown hosts Gail Evans | 44 days

Stadium construction: A political barometer, by James M. Dorsey | Middle East Soccer

Deadline in Jeopardy as Iran Talks ‘Virtually Stalled,’ by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: Movement is determined to clear Takfiri terrorists from Lebanon’s borders | The Vineyard of the Saker

Saudi Arabia: another special friend of whom Britain should be ashamed | Political Concern

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

U.S. House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

Trade Deals and the Quest for Global Dominance, by Rob Urie | CounterPunch

A Rare Defeat for the Israel Lobby, by Paul R. Pillar | Consortium News

White House Deploys More Troops to an Open-Ended Conflict Against ISIS, by Micah Zenko | The Atlantic

Why the law doesn’t apply to people like David Petraeus, by Marcy Wheeler | Salon

Hiding Facts to Thwart Democracy | Consortium News

TTP, TTIP, TISA: Stop Obama’s Insane “Legacy” Trade Deals, by Eric Zuesse | Global Research

Obama orders secret surveillance court to ignore lower court decision and spy on Americans illegally, by J. D. Heyes | Natural News

The Bush Family ‘Oiligarchy,’ by Sam Parry | Consortium News

Jun 13, 2015

Above the Fold

US Politicians Hurt America While Helping Israel, by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today

Gilad Atzmon on Jewish ethnocentrism, hypocrisy, & "anti-Semitism" | The Realist Report

Israel’s Increasing Isolation: The Price of Denial, by Robert Fantina | CounterPunch

Expelled for Life: "They Demolish and We Rebuild," by Jen Marlowe and Tom | TomDispatch

American dreaming, from G1 to Bilderberg, by Pepe Escobar | RT Op-Edge

Sunni Alliances Trump Obama Administration Terrorism Concerns in Syria, by Gareth Porter | Truthout

What Texas Has to Hide, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

Let’s leave no stone unturned to help them secede;

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

BDS, the New Enemy, by Uri Avnery | MWC News

Hezbollah Might Just Be Our Best Bet for Middle East Stability, by Ken Silverstein | The Observer

'NY Times' helps Israel whitewash the killings of four boys playing soccer on Gaza beach, by James North | Mondoweiss

Two weeks before Iran nuclear deal deadline, Israeli delegation to head to Washington, by Barak Ravid | Haaretz

Palestinian American teen recounts Israeli assault to packed room on Capitol Hill, by Nora Barrows-Friedman | Intifada Palestine

Photographer Barred from Treatment after Being Shot by Israeli forces | Palestine Chronicle

Israel Whitewashes Mass Murder, by Stephen Lendman | MWC News

'My wish is to be able to wish': The Gaza narrative that's missing from the mainstream media, by Hayley Pearce | Mondoweiss

Outrage over Israel closing of Gaza beach attack probe | Al Jazeera

China Forbids Its Construction Workers from Building Israeli Settlements | Palestine Chronicle

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Bilderberg Kingpin Henry Kissinger Admits ISIS Gets Its Weapons from US, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars

German Companies Stop Sales of Monsanto’s “Roundup” Herbicide, by Eric Zuesse | Global Research

Dangerous Military Buildup in Asia and Pacific, by Ann Wright | CounterPunch

“Human rights” imperialism in Ukraine, by Patrick Martin | World Socialist Web Site

Quds Force Deputy Commander Terms ISIL “US Soldiers” | Veterans Today

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

America: Addicted to War, Afraid of Peace, by Gregory A. Daddis | The National Interest

Fast-Tracking TiSA: The Banking Game Exposed, by Ellen Brown | Global Research

Envoy: US Intelligence Forges Documents Against Iran | Sputnik International

Obama and Osama, by Ibrahim Bahati | Strategic Culture Foundation

The Stuff No One Talks About, by Ron Jacobs | CounterPunch

Think Tanks and the Iraq War, by Gene Healy | Cato Institute

House Rejects Trade Bill, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal | NYT

Obama orders secret surveillance court to ignore lower court decision and spy on Americans illegally, by J. D. Heyes | Natural News

How Poor Black Lives Matter to U.S. Capitalism Today, by Paul Street | CounterPunch

Jun 12, 2015

Above the Fold

Dual Citizenship and US National Security, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

Adelson’s Anti-BDS Event Links Money To Action, by James M. Wall | Wallwritings

Soldiers expel 200 Palestinians from pool to allow settlers to bathe | Mondoweiss

Reminder: If you plan to visit Israel, don't forget to pack your barf bags

Israel’s Shimon Peres Reacts to the Turkish Elections, by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Is Israel Beyond Saving or Worth it? by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today

Palestinian men face prison sentences for Facebook posts, by Aziza Nofal | Al Monitor

Where Do Israeli Weaknesses Lie? by Hasan Afif El Hasan | Palestine Chronicle

Israel razes Palestinian land in Wadi Fuqeen to prepare for new Jewish squatters project, by Nureddin Sabir | Redress Information & Analysis

The Peter Beinart Double Standard: Why is this boycott different from all other boycotts? by Isaiah Silver | Mondoweiss

Israeli social workers declare war on children’s rights journalist, by Marianne Azizi | Redress Information & Analysis

Middle East/Eurasia/World

George Harrison: A lovely man no longer with us | Paul Eisen

Ukraine SITREP June 11th, 2015 by Scott | The Vineyard of the Saker

Adrian Salbuchi on “Zion wages war on Argentina,” by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

Putin, the Pope, the Schism, Franks and Romans | The Vineyard of the Saker

Obama in Iraq: New Strategy, Old Mistakes, by Phyllis Bennis | CounterPunch

American citizen tortured by Ukrainian government, by Tatzhit Mikhailovich | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

How Obama Went From Being a Peace Candidate to a War President, by Sherle R. Schwenninger | The Nation

Rand Paul is right: Neocons created ISIS, by Bruce Fein | Washington Times

The Killer Elite, At Home and Abroad, by John Grant | CounterPunch

Federal Judicial Deference to the National-Security State, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation

Abolish Special Ops Forces, by Sheldon Richman | MWC News

Nature Abhors a Bell Curve, by Mike Farrell | Veterans Today

Here's How to Avoid World War Three, by Ted Galen Carpenter | The National Interest

Jun 11, 2015

Above the Fold

Barack Obama: No Jack Kennedy, by Ray McGovern | Consortium News

Playing Hard Ball With Soft Power, by Diana Johnstone | CounterPunch

The Saker interviews Michael Hudson | The Vineyard of the Saker

German Banker: Obama Is Destroying Europe, by Eric Zuesse | Global Research

Experts Say Best Option Now Is Keeping Nation As Comfortable As Possible Till End | The Onion

The Demonization of Iran, by Paul R. Pillar | Consortium News

Did the War in Syria Just Become a Regional War? by Eric Draitser | CounterPunch

The Dark Saudi-Israeli Plot to Tip the Scales in Syria, by Conn Hallinan | FPIF

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The USS Liberty Must Not Be Forgotten, by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review

Obama's disgust for Netanyahu's smell signals coming era of Jewish persecution in the U.S., says 'Tablet,' by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

Netanyahu cabinet members reject two-state solution; call for annexation of occupied territories, by Allison Deger | Mondoweiss

Approaching the endgame: the self-generated, inevitable expulsion of the Jews from Palestine, Insh’allah - When will they ever learn?

Tales of the Gold Casino, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

Is Netanyahu waging ‘war’ on critics at home? by Jonathan Cook | Middle East Eye

Palestinians set to file complaints against Israel at ICC | PNN

Middle East/Eurasia/World

What Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen and Iran’s Regional Strategy Are Really About | Going to Tehran

America’s longtime support for Ukrainian fascists, by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation

Ukraine SITREP June 10th, 2015, by Scott | The Vineyard of the Saker

RT CrossTalk: Maidan 3.0? | YouTube

Protests mount against US-backed regime in Ukraine, by Thomas Gaist | World Socialist Web Site

Through the Glass Darkly: Tariq Aziz and Iraq’s Tragedy, by Binoy Kampmark | Global Research

Kaspersky: Iranian nuclear talks venues attacked by $10mln 'state-sponsored' malware | RT News

Amendments to the Ukrainian Constitution proposed by the LNR | The Vineyard of the Saker

Work-Force | George Monbiot

How the Great Food War Will Be Won, by Jonathan Latham | ISN

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Imperial Overstretch, by Patrick J. Buchanan | The Unz Review

US Warmongering: Will Germans Again Claim ‘They Didn’t Know’? by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation

The New Colonialism: Selling Free Trade, by Carl Finamore | CounterPunch

The FBI's Own Surveillance Air Force, by Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic

Drilling & Nuclear Power in the Arctic, by Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch

What Is the Use of Mass Surveillance? by Branko Marcetic | Antiwar

How to Dismantle This Country, by Gottesdiener and Garcia | TomDispatch

Convicted Criminal David Petraeus to Represent US at Bilderberg, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars

Jun 10, 2015

Above the Fold

Criminalizing Criticism: A Zionist Project | Lawrence Davidson

Chill Out, America, by Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy

Attack on the USS Liberty | Council for the National Interest

Peace Negotiations or War Preparations? Colombia, Iran, China, Cuba, Ukraine, Yemen and Syria | James Petras

Turkish Elections: It’s Not Just Erdogan! by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

March Toward Global War, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch

A View From the Other 96%, by David Swanson | Let's Try Democracy

What Is the REAL Risk from Terrorism? | Washington's Blog

♫ Pete Seeger in Concert (Collection)

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Steven Salaita: First Amendment Rights, Academic Freedom and the Elephant in the Room, by Sandy Allen | CounterPunch

48 Years Ago: Commemorating the ’67 War, by Iris Keltz | Mondoweiss

Why is Israel Looking for Imam Mahdi? by Shabana Syed | Veterans Today

A Jewish reporter in Gaza responds to Jane Eisner, by Dan Cohen | Mondoweiss

Beinart vs. Munayyer: Liberal Jew vs. Proper Palestinian | Gilad Atzmon

Notes from the Munayyer-Beinart debate, by David Samel | Mondoweiss

Capitalizing on the Syrian War: Israeli Politician says Syria “No Longer Exists,” by Timothy A. Guzman | Silent Crow News

Middle East/Eurasia/World

If you were Lavrov or Putin – whom would you chose to talk to in the West? | The Vineyard of the Saker

Roberto Fiore: US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar are main plotters against Syria, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

Russia’s S-300 Missiles in Iran May Alter Power Balance in Middle East, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today

World Bank Whistleblower Writes to Bilderberg Steering Committee, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars

Karelia: The unknown hotspot of the new Cold War, by Sakari Linden | The Vineyard of the Saker

Princes Fleeing Saudi Arabia after Yemen’s Scud Missile Attacks, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today

Ukraine SITREP June 9th, by Raskolnikova | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

The US Government’s Not-So-Secret Support for Al Qaeda and ISIS, by Dan Sanchez | Antiwar

How Greed and Capital Triumph, by Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch

How a Hollywood spy film brainwashes us | Jonathan Cook

US Intelligence Responds ''No Comment'' To Questions Of Support for ISIS, by Brandon Turbeville | Activist Post

‘The Art of Dissent,’ by Laura Poitras | NYT

Bush “Pig Army” Doctor Busted for Sex Abuse | Veterans Today

Power Thrives in Complexity, by Sheldon Richman | Free Association

Slavery and Capitalism, by Sven Beckert | Chronicle of Higher Education

Obama Supporters Sign Petition to NUKE RUSSIA so America will Stay World's Superpower | YouTube

Inconvenient History

'The USS Liberty': America's Most Shameful Secret, by Eric Margolis | Lew Rockwell

USS Liberty: Cover Up, by James Bamford | History News Network

USS Liberty BBC Video: Dead In The Water | ICH

♫ Pete Seeger: Song for John Doe: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Jun 9, 2015

Above the Fold

Sheldon Adelson’s “secret” desert conference to plot against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement, by David Palumbo-Liu | Salon

Gideon Levy says BDS is 'justice campaign' to undo Israeli denial and propaganda even as Lapid calls it Hamas's 'puppet,' by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

Police search house, prepare charges against German Holocaust skeptic, by Brandon Martinez | Non-Aligned Media

The USS Liberty: June 8, 1967 | If Americans Knew

Reflections on the Delegitimization of Israel, by John V. Whitbeck | CounterPunch

Rivlin to announce 'joint Israeli society' and call for reforms on house demolitions, by Allison Deger | Mondoweiss [Israel’s de Klerk?]

The Israeli-Saudi Alliance, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

“The FBI is Responsible for More Terrorism Plots in the U.S.; More Than.. All Of Them Combined,” by Washington's Blog | Global Research

Can Scientists Think? by Fred Reed | The Unz Review

♫ Ry Cooder and Friends (Excellent Compilation) | YouTube

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

The Catch-22 for Palestinian Villages in the West Bank, by Annie Slemrod | Palestine Chronicle

Israeli forces attack Palestinian elder while demolishing Jerusalem homes, by Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada

Once Again, Israel Bombs Gaza, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research

White House Backs Israeli Attacks on Gaza Strip: Insists Israel Has 'Right to Defend Itself,' by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

A Chance Encounter With a Palestinian Refugee, by Louisa Lamb | CounterPunch

The Zionist Lobby freaks out over BDS, by Ludwig Watzal | MWC News

Is Max Boot Really a Liar and a Coward? by Jacob G. Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Vladimir Putin Interview with the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera | The Vineyard of the Saker

Soros Pushes US Bailouts and Weapons for Ukraine, by Ron Paul | Ron Paul Institute

Beating Uncle Sam at His Own Game: The Skirmish in the Spratlys, by Mike Whitney | CounterPunch

Can the complicit British government give a rational answer to his question? 98% of the Victims are Innocent Civilians, by Tim Martin | Drone Warfare

Yemen becomes front line in US drone war, by Patrick Galey | Middle East Eye

Extension of Anti-Russia Sanctions, Greek Debt Repayment Dominate G7 Agenda | Sputnik International

Bilderberg Conference 2015: June 11-14 | Bilderberg Meetings

China's new human rights report highlights development, rule of law | Xinhua

US training Ukrainian forces near Russia | PressTV

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Washington's Great Game and Why It's Failing: The Geopolitics of American Global Decline, by Alfred McCoy and Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch

Government Is Using Secrecy As a Weapon | Washington's Blog

Obama’s ‘G-1-plus-6,' by Ray McGovern | Consortium News

Got Hate? Here’s the Most Fascist Piece You Will Read Today | PJ Tatler

Right-Wing Assault on the Constitution, by William John Cox | Consortium News

Taxation Without Representation: Déjà Vu, by William John Cox | MWC News

Monsanto Ordered To Pay $93 Million For Poisoning Residents With Agent Orange, by Amanda Froelich | Global Research

Former EPA Scientist Speaks Out Against GMOs, by Christina Sarich | Natural Society

Neuropsychological and Electronic No-Touch Torture Report | Robert Duncan

Jun 8, 2015

Above the Fold

Facts About The Six-Days-War, by Elias Akleh | MWC News

Falling from grace, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country

FIFA Scandals are Worse than Bribes, by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

Merkel and Sisi: Game of Thrones, the Comic, by Omar Kassem | CounterPunch

Netanyahu is king in a world of perpetual fear, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth

Not in God’s Name: Confronting the Ideology of “Political Zionism,” by Anthony Bellchambers | Global Research

War with Isis: As the militant threat grows, so does the West’s self-deception, by Patrick Cockburn | The Unz Review

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

IDF Chief of Staff Promises 1.5-Million Lebanese Refugees in Next War, by Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam

Hassan Nasrallah: In any upcoming war, Hezbollah will displace millions of Israelis | YouTube

Netanyahu Demands World Boycott ISIS Products, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

“Combat Proven”: Gaza, Drones and the Booming Business of War in Israel, by Alex Kane | The Intercept

David Aaronovitch And The Jewish Solidarity Industry | Gilad Atzmon

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Russia, China Not to Accept America’s Vassalage Status Despite US Pressure | Sputnik International

Is ISIS Coming to Damascus? by Patrick J. Buchanan | Creators

The Arab Peace Corps – Why Now? by Sami Jamil Jadallah | Veterans Today

Stealth Ability Neutralized! Russia’s T-50 Jetfighter to Rule the Skies, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today

Dalit women and village justice in rural India, by Graham Peebles | Redress Information & Analysis

Gas Supplies from Russia: Prospects for Balkan Route, by Dmitry Babich | Strategic Culture Foundation

Turkey’s Ruling Party Loses Parliamentary Majority | NYT

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

“Homeland Defense” and the Militarization of America: Repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act, by Frank Morales | Global Research

The Use and Abuse of the Anti-Terrorism Act, by Kyle J. Bristow | The Occidental Observer

US/Saudi Genocide in Yemen, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research

Ann Coulter: a Jackboot in Guccis, by Ben Norton | CounterPunch

Enhancing Paranoia: Part of the Nature of Power, by Ron Jacobs | CounterPunch

Is the Pentagon really preparing to nuke Russia? | The Vineyard of the Saker

History Lessons

Four Pernicious Myths of WWII | Eric Margolis

D-Day & WWII: Familiar Myths About the 'Good War' | YouTube

D-Day: The Climactic Battle of World War II | David Frum

Jun 7, 2015

Above the Fold

Netanyahu and Reality: The Great Divide, by Robert Fantina | CounterPunch

We are the propagandists: The real story about how the NYT and the White House have turned truth in the Ukraine on its head, by Patrick L. Smith | Salon

Criminalizing Dissent: The West Bows to Zionism, by Brandon Martinez | Non-Aligned Media

Munayyer and Beinart's historic debate on the solution to the conflict, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

The World Says No to Surveillance, by Edward Snowden | NYT

Russia’s Law on “Undesirable Foreign NGOs” and the Ethics of International Activism, by Aleksandar Jokic | Global Research

Joshua Blakeney Interviews Dr. Stephen Sniegoski | Non-Aligned Media

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

"Criminalizing Dissent": Dr. Kevin Barrett Interviews Brandon Martinez | Non-Aligned Media

Alan Dershowitz' Plight: Oy Vey, My Scheister Hurts! | Gilad Atzmon

Zionists fail to quash Open Mind Conference in Amsterdam, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

In the propaganda war, Israel will stop at nothing, by James North and Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

The Real Naqba, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom

Freedom Flotilla arrives in Portugal | YouTube

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Iraq War Crimes: Holding Bush and Blair to Account, by Michael Welch and Inder Comar | Global Research

Putin: ‘Russia would attack NATO only in mad person’s dream’ | Strategic Culture Foundation

Saudi Air Attacks on Iraq Begin, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

Saakashvili’s Legend, A Con for the Ages, by Anatoly Karlin | The Unz Review

GRTV: The New World Order of Global Warfare, with Michel Chossudovsky and James Corbett | Global Research

The Child Veterans of South Sudan Want to Know, by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch

China urges no new demands at Iran nuclear talks | Reuters

Nukes on Yemen, Confirming Proofs: Introduction to Nuclear Operations, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

How Reagan’s Propaganda Succeeded, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

The Bomb Iran Lobby Gears Up for 2016, by Sina Toossi | FPIF

More Distortions on Iran from the Times, by Derek Davison | LobeLog

A Case Study in Distortion and Bias on Syria by PBS, by Rick Sterling | CounterPunch

Ask Bush Why The Iraqi Military Won’t Fight, by Ilana Mercer | The Unz Review

The NSA’s Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance, by John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute

The Sanders Syndrome Hits Home Court, by Paul Street | CounterPunch

Editorial: A Detainee Describes More C.I.A. Torture | NYT

Jun 6, 2015

Above the Fold

Western ‘News’ Media as Tyranny’s Propagandists Hiding Reality, Eric Zuesse | Global Research

Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq, by Seumas Milne | The Guardian

No Need to Abandon All Hope … Yet, by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch

Ukrainians Dispossessed, Americans are next | Paul Craig Roberts

Ukraine’s Tragicomedy, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

Short update about the (very dangerous) Ukrainian situation | The Vineyard of the Saker

What really happened in Mar’inka: Truce not over yet, but getting eroded just like before

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

The Big Lie at the Heart of the Myth of the Creation of Israel: An Interview with Lia Tarachansky, by Douglas Valentine | CounterPunch

Sunbathing at the crime scene: the Israeli resort that covers up a massacre, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth

Gaza’s al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades prepares for next Israeli war, by Dan Cohen | Mondoweiss

Gaza: A diary of pain, by Ismail Abu Aitah | Middle East Eye

From Germany, With Hypocrisy: Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits the Gaza Strip, by Emran Feroz | Mondoweiss

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Playtime Over, the War Begins, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

Heavy Fighting: ISIS at Gates of Key Syrian Kurdish City of Hasakeh, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

Iran's General: Moscow Fulfilling Promises on S-300 Delivery to Tehran | Sputnik International

American Committee for East-West Accord

What Russian Literature Tells Us About Vladimir Putin’s World, by James Stavridis | Foreign Policy

Atrocity in Horlivka | Seemorerocks

The Politics of Anti-Austerity: The Spanish Elections and Participatory Democracy, by Binoy Kampmark | Global Research

Paul Eisen on Jeremy Corbyn: The finest man in British politics | Gilad Atzmon

New Anti-Saud Movement Declares Existence, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Demands in US-Iran nuclear talks as political Kabuki theatre, by Gareth Porter | Middle East Eye

ISIL: Ugly Washington’s Child, by Vladimir Platov | New Eastern Outlook

Obama’s Big Lie on Syria, by Daniel Lazare | Consortium News

Four million US government workers hit by cyber breach | Al Jazeera [What a cool coup!]

Twilight of the Professors: The Neoliberal War on Higher Education, by Michael Schwalbe | CounterPunch

I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me, by Edward Schlosser | Vox

Neo-McCarthyism and the US Media, by James Carden | The Nation

Forget Sports: Geopolitics is Behind the FIFA Scandal As the War Against Russia Enters a New Front, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Strategic Culture Foundation

History Lessons

Rudolph Hoess' daughter Ingebirgitt talks of life near Auschwitz concentration camp [The Holocaust Industry version]| Daily Mail Online

How the British Obtained the Confessions of Rudolf Höss, by Robert Faurisson | IHR

Reflections on Auschwitz and West German Justice, by Thies Christophersen | IHR

Jun 5, 2015

Above the Fold

Status of Palestine in 2015, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | One Democratic State

Sleepwalking to Another Mideast Disaster, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

Washington Politicizes Football | Paul Craig Roberts

Palestine, by Clive Hambidge and Soraya Boyd | Facilitate Global

Why Shouldn’t We Arrest All Of Congress As Child Abusers? by Jack Balkwill | CounterPunch

Damascus Goes Into Defense Mode | Moon of Alabama

Ex CIA agent explains how to delete the elite! | YouTube

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Requited Obsession: Rachel Corrie and Light at the End of the Tunnel, by Hatim Kanaaneh | Palestine Chronicle

As presidential field broadens, GOP candidates race to show their love for Israel, by Allison Deger | Mondoweiss

To Get Elected | Thomas L. Are

The era of Iran is over; the age of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions begins, by Peter Beinart | Intifada Palestine

Israel’s Unlikely Alliance, by Asa Winstanley | Jacobin

What I Was Told: Arabs hate Jews, by Essrea Cherin | Mondoweiss

Congratulations Tony Blair | Gilad Atzmon

Dutch government issues travel warning about 'violent Jewish colonists,' by Kate | Mondoweiss

Rights group urges UN to add Israel to List of Shame | Al Jazeera

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Ukraine SITREP June 4, 2015, by Scott | The Vineyard of the Saker

Patrolling the hood from (China) sea to shining sea, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times

Iran’s writing on the wall: Ethnic minorities and others assert themselves, by James M. Dorsey | RSiS

RT CrossTalk: What Crisis? | YouTube

Reformatting Ukraine is on the agenda, by Vitaly Leybin | Oriental Review

The BBC’s Cover-Up of The Truth on 9/11, by Peter Drew | Global Research

War, Imperialism and the People’s Struggle in the Middle East, by Abayomi Azikiwe | Global Research

Petraeus: US ‘Probably Losing’ ISIS War, Needs New Strategy, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Help! The USA PATRIOT ACT Has Expired! Omigod! We’re all gonna die! by Dave Lindorff | This Can't Be Happening!

Arms Industry Ramps Up Lobbying Efforts As Budget Battles Continue, by William Hartung | Huffington Post

In Boston, Media Again Trash a Police Shooting Victim by Uncritically "Reporting" Police Accusations, by Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept

Snowden's leaks forced NSA reform on Congress. The US would still jail him, by Trevor Timm | The Guardian

Political Prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal: “Authorities wanted him Silenced,” by Stephen Lendman | Global Research

Wrong Message in the Ulbricht Case, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation

Cognitive Dissonance and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industry, by Dr. Gary G. Kohls | Global Research

Neither Freedom nor Safety, by Andrew P. Napolitano | Antiwar

Jun 4, 2015

Above the Fold

Some Israeli leaders do sometimes tell the truth | Alan Hart

A Palestinian’s guide to Palestine, by Amer Zahr | The Civil Arab

Going for Broke in Ponzi Scheme America: You’ve Been Scammed!, by Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch

Why Bernie Sanders is a Dead End, by Joshua Frank | CounterPunch

Keep Your Eye on the Camel: Are the soccer federation arrests about Israel? by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review

The Good, Bad and Uncertain about Recognizing 'Palestine,' by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle

Amputating Life Close to Its Base | George Monbiot

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

The Weasel hallucinates, as usual: So which was it, Mr Wiesel? | Paul Eisen

No Left is Left | Gilad Atzmon

Israel's Strategic Threat, by Neve Gordon | Palestine Chronicle

Goldberg predicts 'civil war' between American and Israeli Jews as Israel is 'defined as an apartheid state,' by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

2 Gaza fishermen shot, injured by Israeli navy | Ma'an News Agency

Rebirth, by Hatim Kanaaneh | Palestine Chronicle

The most precious forty-five minutes of your life: Diary of an Israeli prison visit, by Basil Farraj | Mondoweiss

Crossing Rafah: Into the Sinai, by Johnny Barber | CounterPunch

Take Action: Tell Your Rep. Not to Legislate against BDS | End the Occupation

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Neocon Fugitive Given Ukraine Province, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

Ukraine SITREP June 3rd, 2015, by Scott | The Vineyard of the Saker

Dude, where’s my Humvee? Iraq losing equipment to Islamic State at staggering rate, by Peter Van Buren | Reuters

Sergey Lavrov interview with Bloomberg TV | YouTube

Interview With a Member of the Parliament of Novorossiya: ‘Ukraine Was a Totally Oligarchic State,’ by Roger Annis and Halyna Mokrushyna | CounterPunch

Syria: Whose sarin? by Richard Lloyd; Ted Postol | LRB

Iran Raises the Stakes on ISIS in Syria, by Gordon Duff and Nahed al Husaini | Veterans Today

Macedonian media: patriots defeated Color Revolution, by Andrew Korybko | Oriental Review

Syrie : Interview de Mohammad Raad, Député du Hezbollah [Eng. subs] | YouTube

Dysfunctional Ukrainian Military, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Never Mind FIFA, How about a Crackdown on the Banksters? by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation

The War on Yemen: America’s Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons against the Middle East, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research

Inside the Belly of the Beast: The Manifold Crises Threatening Higher Education, with Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch

'NYT' [aka 'JYT'] says blockade of Gaza is justified by need to defend Israel from tunnel attacks, by James North | Mondoweiss

The Myth of the Interventionist Revival, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

Afghan and American people want peace but war profiteers drug traffickers do not, by Abdul Kadir Mohmand | Veterans Today

Camille Paglia on Q TV | YouTube

Senate Passes Patriot Act Extension, Heads to Obama for Signature, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

Jun 2-3, 2015

Above the Fold

Jihadists in the service of imperialism, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net

The Israeli war crime that goes unmentioned | Jonathan Cook

Bernie and the Plutocrats: A Real Progressive Candidate? by Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch

TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act | Paul Craig Roberts

Crazyland | Dmitri Orlov

‘Human Rights’ and Soft Power in Russia, by Eric Draitser | New Eastern Outlook

ISIL, Kiev’s Nazis, And The Rage Against History, by Andrew Korybko | The Vineyard of the Saker

The National Security States of China and the U.S., by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Netanyahu goes off the deep end after FIFA campaign: ‘They said we drink the blood of children’, by Allison Deger | Mondoweiss

Heading to Gaza: Crossing Rafah, by Johnny Barber | Palestine Chronicle

How an alleged war crime goes away — and resurfaces a year later, by Michael Omer-Man | +972 Magazine

One last appeal before a Bedouin village in the Negev is demolished and a Jewish town is built in its place, by Allison Deger | Intifada Palestine

Activists mark 5 years since Israeli flotilla attack | Ma'an News Agency

Blitzer Website Accuses Israel, the ISIS, of Organ Trafficking | Veterans Today

When will Israel Stop Seeing Palestinians as a 'Demographic Threat?' by Amjad Iraqi | Palestine Chronicle

Israel Supreme Court: Bedouin have no indigenous rights, by Mairav Zonszein | +972 Magazine

'New York Times' uses demographic threat argument without questioning it, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

Gilad Atzmon explains the subversion of the pro-Palestine cause by the Jewish left | The Realist

Watering Israel's Image, by Paul R. Pillar | The National Interest

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Athens Defies Washington: Greece to Join Russia’s Turkish Stream Pipeline Project, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research

‘He will pay a heavy price’: Erdogan threatens Turkish editor-in-chief for scandalous report | Veterans Today

Ukraine SITREP June 2d, by Raskolnikova | The Vineyard of the Saker

France warns against 'militant secularity' | Al Jazeera

Czechs Condemn General's Comments About Limited Nuclear Attack on Russia | Sputnik International

US Accusations against Syria Backfire, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

Salafists Gaining Ground, by Dan Sanchez | Antiwar

'Nuclear war our likely future': Russia & China won't accept US hegemony, Reagan official warns | RT

From Odessa to Transnistria – will Crazy Misha start another war? | The Vineyard of the Saker

Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA president | The Guardian

Asian Football: A Cesspool of Government Interference, Struggles for Power, Corruption and Greed | Middle East Soccer

Hard Truths About Iraq, by Ivan Eland | Antiwar

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

The Case Against Manifest Destiny: Disastrous Consequences, by Cesar Chelala | CounterPunch

Sheldon Adelson To Host Secret Anti-BDS Summit for Jewish Donors, by Nathan Guttman | Forward

Nuclear Weapons and the Language of “Power,” by Lesley Docksey | Global Research

McCain letter to FIFA demanded Blatter be replaced, to deny Russia the 2018 World Cup, by Peter Myers | One Democratic State

Declassified Pentagon Report: US Created ISIL as Tool Against Assad, by Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today

Imagine If Muslims Surrounded A Christian Church In The US With Assault Rifles During Prayer Time | FreakOutNation

When the Language of Freedom Dies, Freedom Dies With It, by Charles Farrier | Global Research

The Sanders Conundrum, by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer | CounterPunch

Jun 1-2, 2015

Above the Fold

One Democratic State Group on Vimeo

Obama Plays US Foreign Policy Roulette | New Eastern Outlook

America at Its Best is Strange, by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

Who’s the Real “Menace to Society”: Journalist or Leading Psychiatrist? by Bruce Levine | CounterPunch

Alberto Nisman’s Death and AMIA: Who Cares About the Truth? by Ezequiel Adamovsky | teleSUR

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Israel/Palestine/Zionism

Israeli propaganda dominates front page of 'New York Times' today, by James North | Mondoweiss

Israel’s ‘war on BDS’ misses the point, by Tomer Persico | +972 Magazine

Israeli weapons, US base plans found in Sanaa Saudi embassy | RT News

Jewish Hasidic sect in Stamford Hill 'bans' women from driving | The Independent

StandWithUs Invests Nearly Half a Million Dollars in Ongoing Anti-BDS Lawsuit against Olympia Food Co-Op | Palestine Chronicle

The untold story of Israeli military exports to South Sudan | +972 Magazine

Israel’s Charade of Democracy, by Hagai El-Ad | NYT

Seminars in Palestine/Israel | FFIPP

Middle East/Eurasia/World

Obama's Iran Nuclear 'Diplomacy' Boosts US Arms Racket, by Finian Cunningham | Sputnik International

Ukraine SITREP For 31st May, by Baaz | The Vineyard of the Saker

The Cultural Afterparty of Maidan, by Andrey Ukrainskiy and Anatoliy Slobodyanyuk | CounterPunch

‘Self-appointed advocate of new Ukraine’: Soros emails leaked by anti-Kiev hackers | RT News

Russian Foreign Intelligence Chief: Russia is a target because it’s a cradle of a new world paradigm | The Millennium Report

Fars: Ex-Yemeni President: Wars in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya Stirred by Saudis to Serve Israel | Global Research

FNA: Syrian Army Repels ISIL’s Massive Attack on Hasaka City | Veterans Today

FNA: Saudi Forces Running for Their Lives in Jizan | Veterans Today

Blatter enables AFC to keep its skeletons under lock and key, by James M. Dorsey | Middle East Soccer

Poets Talk: Where do we fit in in march of Time? - with Gary Corseri and Jose Tirado | Veterans News Now

Pox Amerikana and Related Matters

Joan of Arc, President Obama, And The Return To the Dark Ages, by Sherwood Ross | MWC News

TPP: $3.5 Trillion Stolen, Gold Price Rigging, Colour Revolutions and hanging out with BRICS, by Katherine Frisk | Veterans Today

Inside AIPAC's Quiet Campaign To Blur Israeli Settlement Lines, by Jessica Schulberg | Huffington Post

US-Saudi- Israeli “Axis of Evil” Against Yemen, Carefully Planned Military Undertaking, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research

Rand Paul Filibuster May Block Patriot Act Renewal, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

The totalitarian reign of Sheldon Adelson, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

State Dept. trained ISIL militant | Press TV