October, 2014

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Oct 31, 2014

Who's the real chickenshit? by Gideon Levy | Haaretz

From people’s rule to a broken social contract: The Illusion of Democracy, by Gilbert Mercier | CounterPunch

Protecting the Children of Gaza, by Clive Hambidge | deLiberation

Israel/Palestine

Sweden officially recognizes Palestinian state, Israel recalls ambassador | RT News

Jerusalem in Danger while the World Sleeps, by Tariq Shadid | Palestine Chronicle

Netanyahu humiliates Obama yet again, by George Hishmeh | Gulf News

‘Declaration of war’: Abbas warns over 1st Al-Aqsa Mosque closure since 1967 | RT News

Middle East

Imperial Foreign Policy: The Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz Strategy, by Michael S. Rozeff | Lew Rockwell

The Battle for Kobani: Whose side is Turkey on? by Patrick Cockburn | LRB

Ukraine/Russia

Something very, very interesting has happened in Novorussia | The Vineyard of the Saker

The Putinisation of Europe | Business New Europe

Latest Putin-bashing invention: Putin about to be sacrificed | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Make America Safer: Shut Down the Department of Homeland Security, by Chris Edwards | Reason

Federal Agencies Just Doing Whatever They Want Now, by Lucy Steigerwald | Antiwar

Jonathan Djanogly, example of UK’s Israel stooges, by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis

Oct 30, 2014

The Racist Concept of Israel | Craig Murray

Some Hard Facts About Terror | John Chuckman

A Short History Of The War On Syria - 2006-2014 | Moon of Alabama

Palestine, Israel and the ADL: A Sea Change in the Middle East? by Robert Fantina | CounterPunch

Israel/Palestine

The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here, by Jeffrey Goldberg?!! | The Atlantic

US beginning to ‘disengage’ from Israel, by Mike Harris | Veterans News Now

Three theories for why an Obama official called Israel's Prime Minister "chickenshit," by Zack Beauchamp | Vox

The genius of Israeli evil: It poses as concern, by Amira Hass | Haaretz

Meet the Israelis picking Palestinian olives | IRIN

Israelis kill Americans with impunity, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

The American Resistance to Israel, by Paul Larudee | Dissident Voice

Middle East

Nexus: “US and ISIL” – a New and Disturbing Turn in Proxy Warfare, by Henry Kamens | New Eastern Outlook

Former Weapons Inspector in Iraq Questions Claims that Iran Hiding Nuclear Tests | Democracy Now!

Resolving Key Nuclear Issue Turns on Iran-Russia Deal, by Gareth Porter | Dissident Voice

Iraqi battle seen as key victory in Iran | Al Monitor

America's Deplorable Afghanistan Legacy | Stephen Lendman

Ukraine/Russia

Putin’s Complaint, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

CIA Mouthpiece Lets Slip On Russian ‘Aggression’ by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation

West Denies Fact That MH17 Flight Was Shot Down by Kiev for 'Political Reasons' | RIA Novosti

Oligarchs rule! | RT CrossTalk

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

The Moral Blindness of Our Leading Liberals, by Chris Floyd | CounterPunch

Oligarchy and Zionism (Part 5) | YouTube

The Ebola Story Doesn’t Smell Right, by Paul Craig Roberts | Strategic Culture Foundation

Is Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’ Ebbing? by Andrés Cala | Consortium News

Separation Syndrome

Nation-state model of Europe has failed, breeding wars and misery | RT Sophie&Co

Oct 29, 2014

Organised Hypocrisy on a Monumental Scale, by Robert Wade | LRB

How to Start a War and Lose An Empire, by Dmitry Orlov | Information Clearing House

Skewering the “Shadow Government” by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review

Israel/Palestine

How Israel is turning Gaza into a super-max prison, by Jonathan Cook | Mondoweiss

Israeli Air Force is the Best in the World, by Bob Johnson | Veterans Today

Gaza reconstruction pledge | S.O.S. Kashmir

Lawsuit spotlights U.S. charities that fund Israel's secret nuclear weapons program | PR Newswire

University of Exeter students vote to boycott Israeli settlement products in a landslide, by Andrew Meyer | Mondoweiss

Under Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli Buses, by Ben Norton | CounterPunch

Middle East

U.S. Sends Planes Armed with Depleted Uranium to Middle East, by David Swanson | War Is A Crime

Did Banality Cause ISIS? by Dan Lieberman | Alternative Insight

Turkish PM: Turkey wants anti-Assad army in control of Kobani | RT News

Fighting for Survival in the Sinai, by Ramzy Baroud | Antiwar

Ukraine/Russia

Malice behind Putin misquotations? Russia to respond with full disclosure | RT News

Duplicitous Ukrainian Electoral Postmortems | Stephen Lendman

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

The Anarchy of Globalization, by Michael Perelman | CounterPunch

Suffering Through The Neocon Moment: Warmongering and Nation-Building Don't Work, by Doug Bandow | Forbes

Google: the security state’s playful arm | Jonathan Cook

Will the Feds Soon be Targeting People With a "Bad Attitude"?: Obama’s Hypocritical Crusade Against Extremism, by James Bovard | CounterPunch

Canada: Decoding Harper’s Terror Game, Beneath the Masks and Diversions, by John McMurtry | Global Research

Staged ‘terror’ in Ottawa pretext for police state, by Brandon Martinez | Non-Aligned Media

Ebola: Pandemic or ghost of neocons past?, by Tom Mysiewicz | The Oceania Saker

Check out anytime you want but Nobody’s leaving ’til the fat girls dance, by Michael Farrell | Veterans Today

Oct 27, 2014

The World Order: New Rules or a Game Without Rules? by Vladimir Putin | CounterPunch

Interview with the Saker: Is the CIA Running a Defamation Campaign Against Putin? | Russia Insider

Powerful Lobbies v. Public Interest, by Lawrence Davidson | Consortium News

Anti-Assad Warmongers Drag in the Holocaust, by Maidhc Ó Cathail | The Passionate Attachment

The Holocaust Explained, by Eustace Mullins | Rense

Israel/Palestine

Hamas’s Khalid Mishal on the Gaza War, Tunnels, and ISIS | Vanity Fair

Israeli minister warns of crisis in ties with US | PressTV

US-Israel relations in 'crisis' after Moshe Ya'alon snubbed, by Robert Tait | The Telegraph

Middle East

Saudi Arabia: As executions rise, allies must focus more closely on warring anti-IS forces, by Patrick Cockburn | The Unz Review

History of Key Document in IAEA Probe Suggests Israeli Forgery, by Gareth Porter | Truthout

Ukraine/Russia

Treating Putin Like a Lunatic, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

Washington Is Defaming Putin, by Paul Craig Roberts | Dissident Voice

Farcical Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections | Stephen Lendman

Ukraine Anti-War Alert: Stop Odessa Massacre Cover-Up and NATO Expansion | No To NATO!

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Mazal Tov: Jewish Leader Indicted For Calling Dieudonne 'Anti-Semite' | Gilad Atzmon

The Pentagon and Big Oil: Militarism and Capital Accumulation, by James Petras | Global Research

Russell Brand exposes 9/11 in must watch BBC interview | Veterans News Now

Noam Chomsky at United Nations: It Would Be Nice if the United States Lived up to International Law | Democracy Now!

US lawlessness fuels global insecurity, by Finian Cunningham | Veterans News Now

U.S. Vetoes of UN Security Council Resolutions Critical to Israel | Jewish Virtual Library

Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire, by Nozomi Hayase | CounterPunch

Compare How U.S. Responds To The Killing Of American Kids Based On Identity Of The Killers, by Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept

Once-Peaceful Canada Turns Militaristic; Blowback Follows, by Ron Paul | The Ron Paul Institute

Why Do We Keep Thanking the Troops? by Rory Fanning and Nick Turse | TomDispatch

Central Bank Monetary Heroin: The 3rd Dose May Kill, by Charles Hugh Smith | David Stockman

Putin’s Valdai Address: One-Sided Cold War, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch

Oct 26, 2014

Oligarchy and Zionism (Part 4) | YouTube

Love Is the Answer to Empire, by Bill Kauffman | The American Conservative

Israel/Palestine

Israel is Burning Down Assets, by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

Middle East

Ending ISIS Power in Libya, by Franklin Lamb | Veterans Today

Why Obama Rejected Peace With Iran, by Shamus Cooke | CounterPunch

Ukraine/Russia

Putin - World Order: New Rules or a Game without Rules, by Jonathon Blakeley | deLiberation

Arming Ukraine Is a Very Bad Idea, by James Carden | The Nation

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Russia and China: the Stuff of American Nightmares, by Ariadna Theokopoulos | deLiberation

Hong Kong’s Umbrellas are ‘Made in USA,’ by William Engdahl | New Eastern Outlook

Former Czech Dissident, Now Against the West: Freest Under Czech Communism! by Andre Vltchek | CounterPunch

La Follette’s Lessons in Empire, by Andrew J. Bacevich | The American Conservative

JFK: The Zionist Manifold Cover-Up, by Laurent Guyénot | My Catbird Seat

So Much For Obama's 'Transparency' by Sherwood Ross | MWC News

The Government Antidote to Poverty, Disease and Terrorism, by Cesar Chelala | CounterPunch

Oct 25, 2014

Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems | Newsweek

Abbas's Choice: Israel, Palestine, and Netanyahu’s Agenda, by Robert Fantina | CounterPunch

Israel/Palestine

U.S. Leaders: “Listen to this Irish Senator,” by James M. Wall | My Catbird Seat

Israel risks turning al-Aqsa into powder keg, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth

Recognizing Palestine, with Amir Oren and Norman Finkelstein | RT CrossTalk

Just dunno... | Paul Eisen

Muhammad, Where Are You? by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom

Middle East

Syria shoots down army jets operated by ISIL | PressTV

Ending ISIS Power in Libya, by Franklin Lamb | Veterans Today

Eastern Libya’s top terrorist group, 17 February Brigade, routed by national army | Redress Information & Analysis

Ukraine/Russia

♫ Pelagea - Lyubo: Пелагея & Забайкалье - Любо, братцы

Putin lashes out at US, West for destabilizing world | RT News

Soros warns Europe the Russian Bear is about to bite | RT/YouTube

Cold War II: Nikolay Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Interviewed by Ivan Yegorovby | Sharmine Narwani

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Piercing the Technology Bubble | Ralph Nader

Neo-Liberals be Damned: Let the Democrats Rot, by Rob Urie | CounterPunch

Irritation with Mediacracy, by Jonathan Cook | MWC News

Police kill shooter and lose suspect in Ottawa — Canada’s 911? by Denis G. Rancourt | Veterans Today

ISIL Attacks Ottawa: The Canadian Government and Media are Creating a Moral Panic? by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | Strategic Culture Foundation

Eternal War | RT CrossTalk

1918: a report from the front, by Michael Parenti | MWC News

Oct 24, 2014

Why Pro-War Pundits Are Always Wrong, by Charles Davis | CounterPunch

The forgotten coup - how America and Britain crushed the government of their 'ally', Australia | John Pilger

Gilad Atzmon: The Cognitive Elite of Jewish History | YouTube

Stopping Cyber Hate, by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review

Israel/Palestine

Gaza and the Bi-Partisan War on Human Rights, by Stephen Zunes | CounterPunch

Statehood for Palestine? by Micaela Sahhar | Spook Magazine

Middle East

Nexus: “US and ISIL” – a New and Disturbing Turn in Proxy Warfare, by Henry Kamens | New Eastern Outlook

Israeli Defense Minister Predicts The End Of Artificial ME States | Moon of Alabama

In war against ISIL, a fine line between facts and artifacts, by Jessica Holland | Al Jazeera

Ukraine/Russia

Two minutes of Hate: Emanuel Goldstein in Eastern Ukraine, by Konrad Stachnio | New Eastern Outlook

'Prosecutie' Poklonskaya hits the right note in Crimean palace | RT News

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Oil Oligarchs continue global takedown, by Viktor Titov | Veterans Today

Yellen’s Insouciant Denial: Inequality Is Growing Due To The Very Fed Policies She Long Championed, by William D. Cohan | David Stockman

George Soros: Russia poses existential threat to Europe, by Julian Borger | The Guardian

Soros and the CIA Now Banking on Neves to Defeat Rousseff, by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation

PuppetGate, the Continuing Saga, by Preston James | Veterans Today

Turmoil in Hong Kong, Terrorism in Xinjiang: America’s Covert War on China, by Tony Cartalucci | Global Research

Peculiarly Jewish? | Paul Eisen

Rage of Democracy in America, by Eric Zuesse | Global Research

Oct 22-23, 2014

Netanyahu and Hitler: Uncanny Parallels in Character, by John Chuckman | Intifada Palestine

Domination Strategies of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, by Ariadna Theokopoulos | deLiberation

Terror-scaremongering designed to erode freedoms, stamp out dissent, by Brandon Martinez | Veterans News Now

Phantoms of the Past: Britain’s Vote on Palestine is a Nonstarter, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle

Interview with Dr Milena Rampoldi of ProMosaik | Paul Eisen

“Cleansing the Stock” | George Monbiot

Israel, the US Congress and treason, by Alan Hart | Redress Information & Analysis

Israel/Palestine

Alimuddin Usmani Interviews Gilad Atzmon: Is It Haskalah Or Culture Of Deceit? | Veterans Today

Disorganized Reflections at Al-Shejaiya Ruins, by Haidar Eid | Palestine Chronicle

Israel to vote on partitioning Al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews | MEMO

After Killing 2,100 Gazans, Racy IDF Fashion Line Proclaims: “Make Love AND War” | Tikun Olam

When did Israel cease fire? | Redress Information & Analysis

Middle East

Leslie Gelb Is Right, by Justin Raimondo| Let Iran, Syria, and the Russians take care of ISIS | Antiwar

Canada: Withdraw From The US-led Coalition For War in Iraq and Syria! | Global Research

Why do we know nothing about ISIS? by Nadezhda Kevorkova | RT Op-Edge

How a US and International Atomic Energy Agency Deception Haunts the Nuclear Talks, by Gareth Porter | Truthout

Obama Sees an Iran Deal That Could Avoid Congress | NYT

Pro- and anti-ISIL students clash at Turkish universities | Today's Zaman

Ukraine/Russia

Mike Whitney interviews the Saker | Vineard of the Saker

Whitewashing Kiev Mass Murder | Stephen Lendman

Maidan Massacre | Russia Insider/YouTube

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

The Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth, by William Blum | CounterPunch

Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof on 'The War That Had Many Fathers' | YouTube

Rwanda and the Criminalisation of International Justice: Anatomy of War Crimes Trials, by Christopher Black | Global Research

Will the U.S. Go to "War" Against Ebola? by Karen Greenberg | TomDispatch

Catalan Independence, Scotland and the Middle East: Laia Gordi interviews Tariq Ali | CounterPunch

"Have I got the right place?": A terrorist hands himself in | Paul Eisen

Sandy Hook: GoFundMe deletes Wolf’s donation site, supports obvious fraud, by Jim Fetzer | Veterans Today

What Is Wrong With Gareth Porter - An Interview | Gilad Atzmon

Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel’s “Night” by Alexander Cockburn | CounterPunch

Obama's counterrevolution against the Founding Fathers, by Bruce Fein | Washington Times

The Reign of 'Terror,' by Tomis Kapitan | NYT

US Army withheld promise to Germany that Ebola virus wouldn't be weaponized | RT News

Obama Still Does a Good Imitation of Bush, by Sheldon Richman | Future of Freedom Foundation

Oct 21, 2014

Adrian Salbuchi Speaks, We Need to Listen, by Ariadna Theokopoulos | deLiberation

Christopher Columbus and the History of Colonial Destruction: An African Perspective, by Sabamya Jaugu | Global Research

Israel/Palestine

Israeli society ‘sick with violence’ – country’s president | RT News

Judaization of Islamic Al-Aqsa Mosque, by Elias Akleh | MWC News

Oligarchy and Zionism (Part 3) | YouTube

Official: PA forces regularly conduct politically motivated arrests | Maan News Agency

Middle East

ISIS Downs Two US Warplanes: Who Is Responsible? by Gordon Duff | Veterans Today

The Emergency is Not the Islamic State but War, by Kathy Kelly | CounterPunch

Ukraine/Russia

Crashes of Convenience: MH17 | The Corbett Report

German’s BND ‘evidence’ on MH17 tragedy looks like another disinformation operation | RT

Lavrov: West’s ‘colonial-style’ sanctions on Russia have little to do with Ukraine | RT News

Ukraine Used Cluster Bombs, Evidence Indicates | NYT

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Ron Paul Blasts 'Deeply Flawed' US Foreign Policy: Interview With Larry King | Ron Paul Institute/RT

Obama’s Support of Torture: Nadir of American Liberalism, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch

British and American War Crimes During World War II: Review of "Hellstrom: the Death of Nazi Germany 1944-47" by Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall | Veterans Today

Is Mexico a Failed State? by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar

Cuba's war on Ebola, by Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera

The Cuban Embargo Is an Attack on both Cubans and Americans, by Jacob G. Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation

The Snowden Reboot: Tom Engelhardt interviews Laura Poitras | TomDispatch

The Forever-War President: Obama's 'Transformational' War Powers Legacy, by Gene Healy | Cato Institute

From Israel to the Islamic State: Canada’s ‘Orwellian’ Foreign Policy, by Murray Dobbin | Global Research

The Era of "Tiny Wars": Shadow Facts About Shadow Government, by David Swanson | CounterPunch

Oct 20, 2014

The Neocons: Masters of Chaos, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

Tables turned — Israel on the run, by Adel Safty | Gulf News

Lenin, Stalin, and Mao’s Willing Executioners, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today

Israel/Palestine

The End of Jewishness? by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

EU science chief promised to be "flexible" towards Israel's war crimes, by David Cronin | The Electronic Intifada

Middle East

Chuck Spinney: Trusting Iran — Not US-Based Liars | Public Intelligence Blog

‘America's ‘moderate rebels’ in Syria formed mostly from criminal gangs’ | RT Sophie&Co

‘Even animals don’t do it’: Kobani siege survivors on ISIS brutality | RT News

28 pages that could change the Middle East, by Kevin Barrett | PressTV

“The Roads of Damascus”: How the Elysee Manipulated Chemical Weapons Reports | The Syrian Observer

Iraq’s Abandoned CW’s | Arms Control Law

Notes on the air war, by Brian M Downing | Asia Times Online

Ukraine/Russia

Obama’s Stupid Sanctions Give Putin New Oil Bonanza, by F. William Engdahl | Veterans Today

Answers to journalists’ questions following visit to Italy | President of Russia

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

U.S. is Responsible for the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Liberian Scientist, by Timothy Alexander Guzman | Global Research

Do the Trans-Siberian shuffle, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online

Interview with German Editor Turned CIA Whistleblower, by Erik van de Beek and Udo Ulfkotte | Russia Insider

The Politics of Empire, by James Petras: Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal | MWC News

Separation Syndrome

14 lessons from the Scottish referendum, by Adam Ramsay and Peter McColl | Open Democracy

Independent Scotland 'will happen soon' says new SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish Daily Express

Independent Perth | Craig Murray

The shattering of The Vow | Wings Over Scotland

Oct 19, 2014

Mullahs and Heretics: A Secular History of Islam, by Tariq Ali | LRB

Terror-scaremongering designed to erode freedoms, stamp out dissent, by Brandon Martinez | Veterans News Now

Diplomatic terrorism and wings over the Iron Wall, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country

A Caliph in a wilderness of mirrors, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online

♫ Malek Jandali: Echoes from Ugarit | YouTube

Israel/Palestine

Defense Minister Ya’alon: I am not looking for a solution, I am looking for a way to manage the conflict, by Noam Sheizaf | +972 Magazine

Israeli Monologue | Gilad Atzmon

The Israeli Solution, by Hasan Afif El-Hasan | Palestine Chronicle

Richie Allen Speaks with Gilad Atzmon about the last Gaza Conflict | Gilad Atzmon

PLO to submit UN resolution on occupation by end-Oct | Maan News Agency

Middle East

Washington Admits: FSA Equals Fictitious Syrian Army, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation

Joining Islamic State is about ‘sex and aggression,’ not religion, by Arie W. Kruglanski | Reuters

Now He's Bombing Syria: Obama’s “Stupid Shit” by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch

How To Create A No-Fly Zone Over Syria | Moon of Alabama

History of Key Document in IAEA Probe Suggests Israeli Forgery, by Gareth Porter | Dissident Voice

Ukraine/Russia

Russia at the gates? US State Dept, Pentagon grilled over NATO expansion | RT News

Deadlock and Gas Talks in Milan, by Alexander Mercouris | The Saker

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

American Exceptionalism and Plain Stupidity, by Seth Ferris and Jim W. Dean | Veterans Today

The Debate is Over: Ebola Virus Is Airborne, by Stew Webb | Veterans Today

The Anti-Semitic and Pro-Terror Myths, by Robert Fantina | CounterPunch

Oct 18, 2014

Ilan Pappe & Miko Peled on Zionist Israel | Veterans News Now

The Islamist State, by William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report

Two Millstones Drowning America into Premature Oblivion, by Ben Tanosborn | MWC News

The Missing Context: 'Islamic State' sectarianism is not coincidental, by Ramzy Baroud | Mondoweiss

When the Ayatollah Said No to Nukes, by Gareth Porter | Foreign Policy

Ebola! Prevention and Responsibility | Ralph Nader

Israel/Palestine

Palestine moves towards post-Oslo phase, by Richard Falk | MWC News

Cameron still hasn’t got the message on Palestine, by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis

One and Only One Road to Peace for Israel and Palestine, by John V. Whitbeck | CounterPunch

Soldiers storming Al-Aqsa mosque 14/10/2014 | YouTube

The Other is Nothing but a Target in the Rifle Scope, by Tamar Fleishman | Palestine Chronicle

Decent Respect, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom

The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe: Book Review by Jim Miles | Palestine Chronicle

Middle East

Iraq’s Descent into Chaos: Shia Militias 'Abducting and Killing Sunni Civilians in Revenge for ISIS Attacks,' by Patrick Cockburn | CounterPunch

Islamism in Egypt: untangling the confusion, by Tarek Heggy | Intifada Palestine

Greste hails global support for #FreeAJStaff | MWC News

CIA Admits That Funding Rebels Doesn’t Work, by Lucy Steigerwald | Antiwar

The Politicians Are Scaring You Again, by Sheldon Richman | Future of Freedom Foundation

Sparking Anger in Syria, by Franklin Lamb | Before It's News

Fateful week for US-Iran talks, by M K Bhadrakumar | Veterans News Now

Syria: Arming Insurgents Probably Achieved Its Real Aim | Moon of Alabama

Israeli analyst confirms link between Israel, “moderate” Syrian rebels, by Jinan Mantash | Al Akhbar

Ukraine/Russia

Vladimir Putin Reminds Obama That Sowing Discord Between Nuclear Powers Can Undermine Strategic Security | Paul Craig Roberts

Ukraine's free fall | RT CrossTalk

Moscow refutes reports that Russia, US agreed to share intel on ISIS | RT News

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

How the US Backed a Regime of Unrivaled Barbarism: Who Supported the Khmer Rouge? by Gregory Elich | CounterPunch

UN Report Finds Mass Surveillance Violates International Treaties and Privacy Rights, by Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept

Healthcare: A Fundamental Human Right | Stephen Lendman

Killing for Peace: The Madness of Endless War, by Winslow Myers | CounterPunch

Not just largest economy, 26 other ways China has surpassed US | PressTV

The Rosenbergs and the American Panic, by Clancy Sigal | CounterPunch

England is as Guilty as Germany, by Sami Jamil Jadallah | Veterans Today

Now Monbiot is smearing the BBC too | Jonathan Cook

Another Attempt to Prostitute Religion in the Service of American Hegemony, by Rev. William E. Alberts | CounterPunch

Social imbalance in Europe is increasing | Veterans Today

World Order, by Henry Kissinger: Review by Johnny Punish | Veterans News Now

Oct 16-17, 2014

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s Speech at the UN: “Pardon Us For Our Country’s Existence in the Middle of Your Military Bases” | Global Research

Falling Apart | George Monbiot

On the Purpose of U.S. Education | Lawrence Davidson

US Policy Towards Iran Played Big Role in Rise of Sunni Extremism, by Shireen Hunter | LobeLog

Sunni – Shia – Sushi | The OtherSite

♫ Heart Sutra with Ongmanibamai | YouTube

Israel/Palestine

The two-state solution is ultimately doomed to fail, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth

Settler Illiterates Expert at Arson, But Not Hebrew, by Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam

What is Zionism? by Lasse Wilhelmson | Veterans News Now

Who Recognizes The State Of Palestine? | YouTube

UK MPs blow a 'raspberry' at Netanyahoo and his serfs, by Stuart Littlewood | Intifada Palestine

Momentum for Palestinian Statehood | Stephen Lendman

Middle East

Seven Bad Endings to the New War in the Middle East, by Peter Van Buren | TomDispatch

Syria: UK Still Wants "Regime Change" | Moon of Alabama

Strategic blunder | RT CrossTalk

Kurdish Female Fighters and Kobanê Style Revolution, by Houzan Mahmoud | Huffington Post

Iran touts ‘experience’ fighting terrorists, says airstrikes not enough against ISIS | Amanpour/CNN

Washington concealed US troops exposure to chemical weapons in Iraq | RT News

Tehran Workshop Offers Insight Into Nuclear Talks, by Eldar Mamedov | LobeLog

Reclaiming Jihad: On the Meaning of Being Muslim, by Musa al-Gharbi | Counterpunch

Lobbying the Lancet: how Israel's apologists smeared 'doctors for terrorism' | MEMO

Islamic State Terrorists Trained in Jordan and Turkey, by K. Gajendra Singh | Tarafits

C.I.A. Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels | NYT

Pin-Prick Air Strikes Won’t Defeat Islamic State, by Nikolay Bobkin | Strategic Culture Foundation

Malicious Anti-Iranian Propaganda | Stephen Lendman

WFP cuts rations for one million Afghans | Al Jazeera

Ukraine/Russia

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spoke with CNBC anchor Geoff Cutmore | The Russian Government

Putin: Nazi virus ‘vaccine’ losing effect in Europe | RT

“The March of Heroes” | Slavyangrad

Geopoliticians discuss the Russian response to America's 'declaration of war' | The Vineyard of the Saker

Former FSB chief: US dusted off old USSR-break-up strategy for use in Ukraine | RT

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Oligarchy and Zionism (Part 2) | YouTube

Our Economy’s Real Problem: The Fed’s Easy Money | Against Crony Capitalism

Rewriting China's power playbook: Xi Jinping emerges as forceful No. 1, by Robert Marquand } Christian Science Monitor

The Hidden Government Group Linking JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra and 9/11, by Peter Dale Scott | WhoWhatWhy

Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth, by Jill Treanor | The Guardian

Sophie&Co interviews FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds: U.S. wants to revive terror scare in order to keep up the terror war industry | RT

Street Demonstrations In 21 European Countries Held To Protest Against TAFTA/TTIP | Techdirt

The Greatest Hoax: The World Significance of the Russian Revolution, by George Pitt-Rivers | Sweet Liberty

The Continuing Saga of Anti-Indianism in America: Critique of a Bestseller and the Reviewers Who Praise It, by Four Arrows | Truthout

Oct 15, 2014

Pure War in Tehran, by Pepe Escobar | Asia Times Online

The House of Commons Palestine vote: A well meant but futile gesture | Alan Hart

Obama’s War and the Limits of Reason, by Michael Holtzman | Antiwar

Israel/Palestine

Israeli Professor Calls for Palestinian Genocide, by Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam

In "self defense," no doubt: Israeli Squatters beat up woman picking olives in Palestinian West Bank (400 Attacks a Year) | Informed Comment

Israeli group sets fire to, vandalizes Palestinian mosque in northern West Bank | RT News

Yes to Palestine, say British MPs | Gilad Atzmon

UK Parliament Palestine Motion is Vote of Anger at Israeli Warmongering, by Tariq Shadid | Palestine Chronicle

A Shift toward Recognizing Palestine, by John V. Whitbeck | Consortium News

Middle East

♫ To Our Countries

♫ Malek Jandali: Echoes from Ugarit

US-NATO “exercises” prep attack on Syria, by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

Isis justify capture and sexual enslavement of thousands of Yazidi women and girls | The Independent

Russia sends plane with humanitarian aid to Syria | TASS

Storm Warning in Iran, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net

Comment by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding US air strikes at terrorists in Syria and Iraq | Voltaire Net

Iraqi Christian village takes the fight to 'IS' | Deutsche Welle

IS and the IDF: Canada’s double standard, by Eric Walberg | Middle East Eye

The US Treats ISIL Just Like its Other Allies, by Henry Kamens | Veterans Today

Ukraine/Russia

Ukraine SITREP October 14th: Dark clouds over Novorussia | The Saker

‘Our President is a pro judo wrestler’: Russian diplomat slams Aussi PM intention ‘to shirtfront’ Putin | RT News

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

America's Hollow Foreign Legions, by William Astore | TomDispatch

Separation Syndrome

By ourselves, then, by Rev. Stuart Campbell | Wings Over Scotland

Oct 14, 2014

War against Isis: US strategy in tatters as militants march on, by Patrick Cockburn | The Unz Review

The Globalization of War, by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research

Israel’s ISIL, by Wayne Madsen | Strategic Culture Foundation

Israel/Palestine

Islamic State vs Jewish State, by Jamal Kanj | Palestine Chronicle

Israel Sidelined as Nations Pledge $5.4 Billion to Rebuild Gaza, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

Israeli public figures support British recognition of Palestine | Gush Shalom

UK MPs pass motion to recognize Palestine as a state | RT

UN chief slams 'provocations' in Jerusalem | Al Jazeera

Middle East

♫ Ghazali: The Exquisite Pearl | YouTube

♫ Shimaneh Preesheh D'kha Oomta (Assyrian), by Jermain Tamraz | YouTube

Michael Scheuer: "ISIS Could Not Ask For Any Greater Gift Than The One Obama's Giving Them" | YouTube

Cooperation With Syrian Government Needed to Battle IS: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister | RIA Novosti

US top-brass eye Syria no-fly zone | RT News

German deputy speaker: NATO must stop Turkey support for ISIS | Rudaw

U.S. State Department: Iraq-Syria Conflict Without Borders Map October 2014 | Public Intelligence

This has been the basic scenario for twenty years at least | Niqnaq

Islamic State Officially Admits to Enslaving Yazidi Women, by Matthew Barber | Syria Comment

Foreign fighters flow to Syria | The Washington Post

"What's at Stake in Kobani: Islamic State and Kobani Calculations," by Carl Drott | Syria Comment

ISIS: Made on the Net? by Robert Fisk | The Independent

More French Jews said to join Islamic State | The Times of Israel

Jim Dean: US plans to invade northern Syria under FSA banner | PressTV

Ukraine/Russia

Nuland Lands in Kiev as US-backed Regime Tools Up for War, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Psy-ops whistleblower: “I worked with 9/11 suspects Rumsfeld, Myers, Zakheim” by Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today

Shoving Freedom Down Our Throats, by Alyssa Rohricht | CounterPunch

Google’s Cold Betrayal of the Internet, by Harry J. Bentham | Dissident Voice

Round-Up #70, by Christoph Germann | The New Great Game

Doing Well in Defence Stocks: The Dividends of Death, by Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch

First Latin American SITREP | The Saker

Obama a "Reluctant Warrior," My Ass | Ted Rall

With “Victories” Like WWII, Who Needs Losses? by Jacob G. Hornberger | The News Doctors

Separation Anxiety

Hope Over Fear Rally | Craig Murray

The Case for Scotland Making a Unilateral Declaration of Independence in May 2015? by Patrick Scott Hogg | Bellacaledonia

Oct 13, 2014

Two Types of Anti-Semitism, by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

Israel/Palestine

Fired Professor Steven Salaita’s Speech at Columbia College Chicago on Israel, Civility & Academic Freedom | The Dissenter

Palestinians torn over contact with Israelis, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth

The Talmud and the Israeli secret police, by Michael Hoffman | Revisionist Review

The Ringworm Scandal: When Israeli Doctors Killed Tens of Thousands of Arab Children, by Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam

Which way will the UK Parliament jump? by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis

UK vote on Palestine: Why all the fuss? by Rachel Shabi | MWC News

Sexual Consent & Israel's Biggest Lie: The Orange Strikes Back | YouTube

Middle East

The Wider Appeal of ISIL and Sunni Grievances, by Juan Cole | Informed Comment

♫ Aynur & Morgenland Chamber Orchestra | YouTube

Kobani, Turkey and the Perfect Storm, by Panton Echthiston | CounterPunch

Erdogan Dilemma: Kurds no better than ISIS for Turkish president? | RT/YouTube

Kurdish Women Fighters Photos | Cryptome

Tariq Ramadan: 'ISIL's acts are un-Islamic' | Al Jazeera

Richard Dawkins: People find ISIS attractive despite beheadings | Oksana Boyko on RT

Gov't arms extremist groups including ISIL, AK Party founder says | Today's Zaman

Turkey, Saudi Arabia giving terrorists WMDs, Syria claims | RT News

ISIS, USrael and so on | Lasse Wilhelmson

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Britain’s Shameless Conservative-led Government: Squeezing the Poor to Help the Rich, by Deepak Tripathi | CounterPunch

Ebola Update | Paul Craig Roberts

For the second opinion | RT

Oct 12, 2014

Shlomo Sand: ‘I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew’ | The Guardian

The Tragedy of Modern Democracy, by John Chuckman | UK Indymedia

Slaughter of German Cities After World War II, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today

Israel/Palestine

ODS support for Britain’s Recognition of Palestinian Statehood | Free Haifa

The massacre at Deir Yassin

Questioning Sweden’s ‘Bold’ Diplomatic Initiative, by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

UK Vote on Palestinian Statehood: Hold the Cheers | Stephen Lendman

Middle East

War On Syria Spills Into Neighbor Countries - Lebanon Now In Serious Danger | Moon of Alabama

ISIL is closing on Baghdad airport | Veterans Today/Russia Today

When Liberals Go to War: As ISIS Slaughters Kurds in Kobani, the U.S. Bombs Syrian Grain Silos, by Ajamu Baraka | CounterPunch

Is Former Israeli IDF Officer Behind Fake Videos of Beheadings? by F. William Engdahl | Veterans Today

Let girls study | Khamenei/Facebook

What gives legitimacy to ISIL's rhetoric? by Soumaya Ghannoushi | MWC News

"Don't Do Stupid Shit": Has Obama Changed His Mind About Syria? by Mike Whitney | CounterPunch

Ukraine/Russia

Ukraine SITREP October 11th: no Novorussian “sellout” after all | The Saker

China strongly opposes Western sanctions against Russia, considers them mistake | TASS

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Judeo-American imperium manipulates Canada into farcical ISIS quagmire, by Brandon Martinez | Veterans News Now

Is Obama Being Threatened by US Hawks with ‘Security Risks’? by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation

Nobel Hypocrisy 101 | Stephen Lendman

Secret Money Fueling a Flood of Political Ads, by Nicholas Confessore | NYT

How Will We Protest the Permanent War? by Ron Jacobs | CounterPunch

Bill Maher Isn't a 'Politically Incorrect' Liberal, He's Just a Bigot, by Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept

Oct 11, 2014

Israel, Here Comes The End | Gilad Atzmon

Tariq Ali - Scotland: Victory Next Time! | YouTube

"Crush the Seed of Ishmael": A "Final Solution" to the "Muslim Problem," by William N. Grigg | Pro Libertate

Israel/Palestine

Israel and the “G” Word, by Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice

Israeli perception and reality, by Jamal Kanj | Redress Information & Analysis

Rebuilding Gaza, Caveat! by Sami Jamil Jadallah | Veterans Today

Crusaders and Zionists, by Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom

From Stockholm to Khirbet Um al-Jimal and back, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country

Middle East

Washington Wields the Oil Weapon: Washington Takes on ISIS, Iran, and Russia, by Michael Klare and Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch

Ten reasons why bombing Iraq and Syria is no way to defeat ISIS, by Lindsey German and Robin Beste | Stop the War Coalition

America's 30-year war | RT CrossTalk

US is getting stuck in Middle East, by Petr Lvov and Jim Dean | Veterans Today

In Abu Ghraib, ISIS Fighters Eight Miles From Baghdad Airport, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

Why are the media playing lapdog and not watchdog – again – on war in Iraq? by Medea Benjamin | The Guardian

Ukraine/Russia

NATO’s games with Ukraine bring world to 5 minutes before nuclear midnight, with Stephen Cohen | RT SophieCo

A very moving video | The Saker

For the second opinion | RT

Armenia to join Eurasian Economic Union | RT

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

“We Honor What We Value” | The Nader Page

Mexico City March Demands Justice for Dead and Missing Students, by Laura Carlsen | Americas Program

The Big Heat: A Short History of Escalating Police Violence, by Jeffrey St. Clair | CounterPunch

Jewish Animal Sacrifice in America’s Streets Protected by Government, by Dave Gahary | American Free Press

The Origins of the Ebola Crisis: Tariq Ali interviews Allyson Pollock | CounterPunch

Oct 10, 2014

Did Israel Commit Genocide in Gaza? by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

Israel/Palestine

Prominent Israeli Settler Rabbi Calls for “Cleansing” of Palestinians, by Patrick Strickland | Global Research

Israelis: Send Obama Ebola, by Ben Norton | CounterPunch

'Ethnic cleansing for a better world': Richard Cohen says Palestinians brought the Nakba on themselves, by Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss

Song of Comradery! For Jeremy Karodia: Song by Haidar Eid | Palestine Chronicle

The Invention of the Land of Israel: Book Review by William Willers | Veterans News Now

Middle East

Dennis Ross’s Recipe for Disaster in the Middle East, by Soumaya Ghannoushi | Palestine Chronicle

After 13 Years, President Obama, 'Time to End Our Endless War in Afghanistan,' by Sarah Lazare | Common Dreams

ISIL, US Political Power Play, by Seyed Mohammad Marandi | Veterans Today

Life in the Islamic hellhole of Mosul | Redress Information & Analysis

Erdogan leads Turkey into Civil War, by K.Gajendra Singh | MWC News

ISIL: From decapitation to Islamophobia, by Ismail Salami | Intifada Palestine

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Dueling Ideologies: America v. Russia and Venezuela | Stephen Lendman

The Ghastly Grand Guignol: Violence at Guantanamo Has Its Day in Court, by Ray McGovern | CounterPunch

Towards One Quadrillion US Dollars in Derivatives, by Ben Tanosborn | MWC News

Bitcoin Rises in the Death Throes of Empire, by Nozomi Hayase | Antiwar

Crowning the Dragon: World's Top Economy | Stephen Lendman

Terrorism and Assassinations in Venezuela, by María Páez Victor | CounterPunch

Parallel Reconstruction, by Andrew P. Napolitano | Antiwar

Oct 9, 2014

The return of George Orwell and Big Brother’s war on Palestine, Ukraine and the truth | John Pilger

Ilan Pappe: A democratic state in all of Palestine is possible | Free Haifa

Leading German Journalist: CIA Media Pushing for World War, by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars

The Kosher ‘Philosopher’ | Gilad Atzmon

♫ (Serbian) Orthodox Celts: Star Of The County Down

Israel/Palestine

Another Daydream: How President Obama could earn his Nobel Peace Prize | Alan Hart

The Consequences of American Hypocrisy: Sweden, Palestine and the United States, by Robert Fantina | CounterPunch

Nothing about us without Us: The Token Palestinian and Authentic Narrative, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle

Middle East

“Anything That Flies on Everything that Moves”: From Pol Pot to ISIS, by John Pilger | CounterPunch

Foreign Policy by Ted Cruz: Bible thumping and carpet bombing, by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review

ISIS in Washington: America’s Soundtrack of Hysteria, by Tom Engelhardt | Huffington Post

Beheading Stock Value Threatened by Dumping, by Ariadna Theokopoulos | deLiberation

The Siege of Kobani, by Patrick Cockburn | CounterPunch

Meeting of minds in Tehran, by Eric Walberg | Crescent Magazine

Afghaniversary: The US Occupation Turns 13, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

‘Sisters in arms’: Kurdish women fighters ready ‘to send ISIS to hell’ | RT News

Biden Told the Truth, by Ludwig Watzal | MWC News

Ukraine/Russia

Ukraine SITREP October 8th: The calm before the storm? | The Saker

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No doubt that Endless War is Official U.S. Doctrine, by Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept

9/11 Goes ‘Mainstream’ in Times Square | 9/11 Truth

Check Out John Oliver on Drones, by Lucy Steigerwald | Antiwar

The Toll-Booth Economy | George Monbiot

Report from Budapest on the "forbidden" NPI conference, by Jared Taylor | American Renaissance

Where is the antiwar movement? by Alex Kane | Mondoweiss

Separation Syndrome

Hong Kong Protests: Why Imperialists Support ‘Democracy’ Movement, by Sara Flounders | Global Research

Operation ‘Occupy Central’ | RT CrossTalk

Oct 7-8, 2014

Israel’s occupation is more complex than a genocide, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth

The Question of State Legitimacy | Lawrence Davidson

Tehran Chronicle: Exposing Israeli Disinfo, by Anthony Hall | Veterans Today

Is this Palestine’s last chance? by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis

On the Other Hand - ♫ Carlos Nuñez & The Chieftains | YouTube

Israel/Palestine

An American Jew in Palestine, by Steven Davidson | The Chronicle

Rabbi Terrorist Confesses in Atlanta | Veterans Today

Donors Threaten to Withhold Gaza Aid | Palestine Chronicle

Are American Jews Turning Against AIPAC? by Connie Bruck | The New Yorker

Middle East

American Airstrikes & the Universal Language of Force, by Nima Shirazi | Muftah

In a Confusing Mideast, Finally a Clear Moral Choice, by William deB. Mills | MWC News

ISIS grand plan: Bribe Putin for Iran’s nuclear secrets | RT News

President Obama! Before taking on ISIS, topple the Saudi Regime, by Ludwig Watzal | MWC News

The Anglo-American Empire’s War of Conquest. The War on the Islamic State (ISIL) is a Lie, by Larry Chin | Global Research

Is the world still afraid of Iran? by Rachel Shabi | MWC News

Heading for Ground War in Syria and Iraq | Stephen Lendman

The myth of Assad, ISIL and extremism, by Sharmine Narwani | RT

Syria is Still the Main Target, by Elias Akleh | MWC News

Ukraine/Russia

Mozgovoi's message to Putin | The Vineyard of the Saker

Russian news: Is Kiev Wildly Understating Combat Deaths? by Charles Bausman | Russia Insider

Illusory Ceasefire in Ukraine | Stephen Lendman

Is World War III on? | CrossTalk/YouTube

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Is World War III on? | RT CrossTalk

With bullet trains as a new Silk Road, China tightens embrace of its restless West | Helsinki Times

The God Particle: God, Science and the Universe | NDTV/YouTube

George Monbiot, the left’s McCarthy, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth

Police State: Obama Planning Mass Arrests? by Sherwood Ross | Veterans Today

USA Banana Republic: How 14 People Made More Money Than the Entire Food Stamp Budget for 50 Million People, by Paul Buchheit | Alternet

Separation Syndrome

Hongkongistan! Democracy and Chauvinism in Hong Kong and Xinjiang | China Matters

Hong Kong Protests, by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Dissident Voice

Hong Kong Strikes Back: West Attempts to Spin Growing Anti-Occupy Movement, by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer

Hong Kong activists, government agree to talks | Al Jazeera

Oct 6, 2014

Fear Begets Hate! by J. Speer-Williams | Veterans Today

The US Hastens Its Own Decline and Israel’s Too: The Anxieties of Empire, by Andrew Levine | CounterPunch

Changing the Political Climate: A Transitional Imperative, by Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century

New Silk Roads and an Alternate Eurasian Century, by Pepe Escobar | TomDispatch

Entire "Occupy Central" Protest Scripted in Washington, by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer

Take The Red Pill Before It’s Too Late, by Allen L Roland | Veterans Today

Israel/Palestine

Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course, by Noam Chomsky | In These Times

Over 250 Anthropologists Join Call for a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions | Anthroboycott

500 Mideast scholars call for academic embargo of Israeli institutions | Jerusalem Post

Why Must Gaza Wait in the Dark? by Sam Bahour | Palestine Chronicle

Jerusalem and Athens | Gilad Atzmon

Oligarchy and Zionism | YouTube

Uri Avnery: Two Speeches | Veterans Today

Middle East

Behind the anti-terror alibi, the gas war in the Levant, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net

Destabilizing Syria: This War is Not Aimed at ISIS, But at Assad, by Dan Glazebrook | CounterPunch

How Not To Understand ISIS | Jadaliyya

After Feigning Love for Egyptian Democracy, U.S. Back To Openly Supporting Tyranny, by Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept

Did America Fake Imminent Terror Threats To Justify Bombing Syria? by Ted Snider | Antiwar

President of Anti-Nuclear-Iran Group Dismisses Imminent Threat of Iranian Nuke, by Eli Clifton | LobeLog

The Siege Of Kobani: Obama’s Syrian Fiasco In Motion | David Stockman

Ukraine/Russia

Welcome to Nulandistan: Propaganda and the Crisis in Ukraine | GRTV/YouTube

Russia completes ratification of Eurasian Economic Union, as Putin signs law | RT

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): Just Another Outlet for Elite, Establishment-Oriented Views, by Peter Hart | Global Research

To Police and Politicians: “Hands Off Goddard College!” by Johanna Fernandez and Mark Lewis Taylor | CounterPunch

Weaponising neurotechnology: international humanitarian law and the loss of language, by Gregor Noll | Oxford Journals

Synagogues ‘hire armed guards’ as anti-Semitic mood grasps Germany | RT News

The Jewish Takeover of Canada: The Case of Arthur Topham | Darkmoon

United States, Britain, Israel etc. are Just Colonies | Henry Makow

Oct 5, 2014

Libya in Free Fall | Stephen Lendman

Eyes Finally Open to Syrian Realities, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

Israel/Palestine

A Paper Tiger? Poisoned atmosphere, by Adam Keller | Crazy Country

Palestinian-U.S. relations head for stormy times, by Nicola Nasser | Intifada Palestine

Sweden Recognizes Palestinian Statehood | Stephen Lendman

Quit Double Standard, by Nahida | Poetry for Palestine

American Jews Serving in Israeli Army in Clear Violation of the Neutrality Act | The New Observer

Middle East

OPCW Confirms the Use of Chlorine as a Weapon in Syria in the Months of May, June and July 2014 | Arms Control Law

Iran’s President makes strange statements regarding gas supplies, by Viktor Titov | New Eastern Outlook

Rouhani: Iran 'not ready' to replace Russian gas supplies to EU | RT News

Iran’s Film Directors Launch Internet Campaign 'No2NoDeal' On Nuclear Program | Chinatopix

The Twice Betrayed Christians of Ma’ loula, by Franklin Lamb | CounterPunch

Ukraine/Russia

Spinning in the Grave: Western Media Dig Dirt to Cover Kiev’s Atrocities, by Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation

Antidote against Western anti-Russian propaganda | Washington Times

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Lucrative biz: US taxpayers lose millions, defense contractors win on ISIS op | RT/YouTube

Poverty Report Contradicts GDP Claims | Paul Craig Roberts

Hellstorm: The Myth of the Good War | Paul Eisen

Sobibór Archeological Dig “No Proof” of “Gas Chamber” and Contradicts All Earlier Chamber Claims | The New Observer

Oct 4, 2014

Official Washington’s Syrian ‘Fantasy’ by Robert Parry | Consortium News

Christian Evangelicals increasingly support Palestinian human rights, by Allison Weir | If Americans Knew

The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda, by Media Lens | Dissident Voice

Scotland’s Referendum: The Stolen Nation, by Lesley Docksey | Dissident Voice

Israel/Palestine

Netanyahu finds himself increasingly alone on Iran, by Dimi Reider | Reuters

Israeli Military Officer: Upcoming War on Gaza Will Be Even Greater | International Middle East Media Center

Sweden to recognise state of Palestine, by Peter Beaumont | The Guardian

Middle East

Biden: Turks, Saudis, UAE funded and armed Al Nusra and Al Qaeda | Mideast Shuffle

The traditional Islamic roots of “Islamic State” by Magdi Abdelhadi | Redress Information & Analysis

Why the War on ISIS is Illegal, Illogical and Just Plain Ill, by Peter Certo | CounterPunch

Ukraine/Russia

What the battle for the Donetsk airport reveals about the Ukrainian and Novorussian forces | The Vineyard of the Saker

Washington's mischief | RT CrossTalk

Jim Dean: US firepower surrounding Russia, China | PressTV

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Brandon Martinez Interviews Historian and Author Veronica Clark | Intifada Palestine

Our terrorists, your terrorists? The United Nations Security Council urges states to combat “foreign terrorist fighters”, but does not define “terrorism” | EJIL

See also: Security Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution Condemning Violent Extremism, Underscoring Need to Prevent Travel, Support for Foreign Terrorist Fighters | UN

See also: Terrorism’s Proscription and Core Elements of an Objective Definition, by Jordan J. Paust | SSRN

Use of US Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2014, and More from CRS | FAS

The Security Council as a Legal Hegemon, by Daniel Joyner | SSRN

The Incarceration of the American Consumer | The Nader Page

Pierre Sprey: "They have stunning lobbying power" | RT

The Futility of Reform, by Jacob G. Hornberger | Future of Freedom Foundation

Mass Arrests of American civilians, by Sherwood Ross | MWC News

Dangerous Nonsense: David Cameron and Theresa May | Reinvestigate 9/11

Separation Syndrome

Iraq, Syria, Ukraine: Why the World is Getting Smaller as Ambitions Get Bigger, by Seth Ferris | New Eastern Outlook

Why the Scots Chose To Wear Their Chains With Pride, by Seth Ferris | New Eastern Outlook

US Now Admits it is Funding "Occupy Central" by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer

Hong Kong Should Decide Its Own Fate: On Occupy Central and the NED, by Ming Chun Tang | CounterPunch

Oct 3, 2014

The Kink in the Human Brain | George Monbiot

The Imponderable Will to Fight in Iraq, by Robert Bruce Ware | Antiwar

Transitional times or the end times? by Graham Peebles | Redress Information & Analysis

Israel/Palestine

A Long Walk for Palestinian Freedom, by Vacy Vlazna | Intifada Palestine

Brandon Martinez Interviews anti-Zionist activist Arthur Topham | Intifada Palestine

The End of Evangelical Support for Israel?: The Jewish State's International Standing | Middle East Quarterly

Middle East

Syria: Turkey's Plans And Other Confused Thinking | Moon of Alabama

Peter Hitchens on the latest war | Paul Eisen

U.S. Alliance with FSA and ISIL in Six Photographs, by Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice

US Now Admits it is Funding "Occupy Central" by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer

Ukraine/Russia

Fighting over Donetsk airport intensifies | Al Jazeera

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

The Six Million: Fact or Fiction | The Writings of Peter Winter

President Roosevelt's Campaign To Incite War in Europe, by Mark Weber | IHR

Egypt's Lost Revolution, by Toby Cadman | MWC News

China is Hong Kong’s future – not its enemy, by Martin Jacques | The Guardian

Oct 2, 2014

Why It's Time for the UN to Intervene: Negotiations, Rhetoric and Israel’s Lies, by Robert Fantina | CounterPunch

The Great Holocaust Mystery: Reconsidering the Evidence, by Thomas Dalton | Inconvenient History

A Dictionary Reference to the War on ISIS, by Ben Schreiner | Dissident Voice

Religious Zealotry and Imperial Domination: Infection and Inflammation in the Body Politic, by Dan Sanchez | Antiwar

A Dame to Kill for, Nymphomaniac, and Talmudic Ideology, by Jonas E. Alexis | Veterans Today

Israel/Palestine

A Nation in Authoritarian Lockstep: Israel’s Fascistization of Judaism, by Norman Pollack | CounterPunch

A letter to Arabs, by Nahida | Poetry for Palestine

Amira Hass and Birzeit University | Paul Eisen

Three Israeli soldiers commit suicide, by Jim Dean | Veterans Today

Middle East

Attack of the Five Monarchies: An Alliance of Dictators and Despots, by Rannie Amiri | Antiwar

Bomb Everyone | George Monbiot

Neocons’ Noses Into the Syrian Tent, by Robert Parry | Consortium News

US Loosens Standards on Killing Civilians, by Jason Ditz | Antiwar

A Poison Pill for the Iran-Nuke Deal, by Paul R. Pillar | Consortium News

Obama’s folly | RT CrossTalk

Obama Reconsiders Attacking Assad, by Shamus Cooke | Antiwar

‘Lack of intelligence’: US airstrikes in Syria, Iraq could lead to high civilian casualties | RT News

Ukraine/Russia

Murderous lawyers, mainstream officials, the decline of the state and fish soup | The Vineyard of the Saker

Ukraine Army terror units linked to mass executions | Veterans Today/Russia Today

An example of the Russian 5th column at work | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Round-Up #68, by Christoph Germann | The New Great Game

“The Lone Gladio” reveals Washington’s strategy for winning the New Great Game: Review by Christoph Germann | BFP

Terror in Latin America and the Caribbean, by W.T. Whitney Jr. | CounterPunch

Cocaine and Murder, by Robert O'Dowd | Veterans Today

Occupocalypse Now! | China Matters

Way to go! Islamic State fight could breathe new life into the A-10 | Stars and Stripes

War: What Is It Good For, by Russell Brand | YouTube

Oct 1, 2014

Iran the Perpetual Enemy? Neocons Call It "America's Biggest Challenge", by Philip Giraldi | The Unz Review

Turkey and Israel Are Directly Supporting ISIS and Al Qaeda Terrorists In Syria | Washington's Blog

The grinding reality of life under Israeli occupation, by Bethan Staton | Middle East Eye

Turn the Tables: Stopping Western Aggression in Syria, by Tony Cartalucci | Dissident Voice

Israel/Palestine

Bibi’s Fake Iran War Option, Barak Has Alzheimer’s, by Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam

‘Join the invisible to make the impossible’: Israel’s Mossad now recruits agents online | RT News

Middle East

Isis an hour away from Baghdad - with no sign of Iraq army being able to make a successful counter-attack, by Patrick Cockburn | The Independent

After Civilian Deaths, Human Rights Watch Says U.S. Strikes on Syria May Violate Laws of War | Democracy Now!

ISIS Has "More In Common With Mao’s Red Guards or the Khmer Rouge Than It Does With the Muslim Empires of Antiquity" | Washington's Blog

Statement by the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly | President of Iran

One door closes, another opens for IS, by Brian M Downing | Asia Times Online

George Galloway's Statement in UK Parliament on Isis airstrikes | YouTube

Threat posed by Islamic State’s capture of Iraq’s Muthanna CW site | Arms Control Law

What if ‘Islamic State’ Didn’t Exist? by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle

Shell-Shocked Syrian Town Freed After Savage Massacre, by Franklin Lamb | CounterPunch

Ukraine/Russia

Isolated? Russia Signs Historic Resource-Sharing Agreement with Caspian Neighbors, by Andrew Korybko | Russia Insider

What is the meaning of new Moscow Stance on Caspian Sea? | Payvand

Russia launches criminal case on genocide of Russian speakers in south-eastern Ukraine | ITAR-TASS

The Faces of the Resistance: With Your Own Eyes | YouTube

Daily life in Banderastan | The Vineyard of the Saker

Pax Amerikana and Related Matters

Parsing the East Asian Powder Keg, by Conn Hallinan | FPIF

Conn Hallinan discusses his article “Parsing the East Asian Powder Keg,” and the Pentagon’s plan for a land invasion of China | The Scott Horton Show

From Xinjiang to Hong Kong, the PRC Reaps the Bitter Fruits of Alienation | China Matters

Ron Paul: Secessionism is a ‘grand American tradition’ | RT

EU counter-terror official: Al-Qaeda, ISIS competition will bring violence to West | RT SophieCo

Gilad Atzmon On Muhammad and Friends (Nation of Islam TV) | YouTube

Rep. Jim Traficant (RIP) vs ADL Attack | YouTube

See also James Traficant: Americans are Prisoners of the Fed | Henry Makow

Scotland’s Vote and the Future of Civil Society, by Mel Gurtov | CounterPunch