Author: Bill Weinberg
Israel to attack Iran in spring? Mixed signals…
Leon Panetta says there is “a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran” in the Spring—but the US and Israel postpone their unprecedented joint missile defense exercises in a an apparent bid to avoid further escalating tensions with Iran.
Neurosurgeons scream for more
From Huffington Post, Feb. 1: Mind-Reading Advance Lets Brain Scientists ‘Eavesdrop’ On Thoughts Scientists already know how to see into your mind’s eye, and now they can hear the voices in your head. In a new paper published in PLoS… Read moreNeurosurgeons scream for more
“Anonymous” hack of neo-Nazi A3P reveals Ron Paul link!
“Anonymous” attacked the website of the neo-Nazi outfit American Third Position, splashing internal e-mails on the group’s homepage—to reveal that the “A3P” white supremacists are a well integrated into Ron Paul’s political machine!
Obama acknowledges Pakistan drone strikes
In a Google-sponsored “video chat,” Obama gave the first public acknowledgment of the use of US drones in Pakistan—and said that drone strikes “enhance” US respect for the sovereignty of the target countries. (Insert Orwell reference here.)
We’ll say it again: Ron Paul is a bogus “libertarian”!
Could everybody just stop and think, please? Rand Paul won applause from basically freedom-loving folks when he was blocked from boarding a flight by the Transportation Security Administration last week in Nashville, after refusing to submit to a full body… Read moreWe’ll say it again: Ron Paul is a bogus “libertarian”!
WHY WE FIGHT
From AP, Jan. 29: Florida highway pileup kills at least 10 people GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
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Amid a new round of Israeli air-strikes on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Donald Trump in Washington for the signing of a presidential proclamation officially recognizing the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory. At the joint press conference, Trump said, "We will confront the poison of anti-Semitism." We hope it is unnecessary to point out the perversity of Trump exploiting the threat of anti-Semitism to justify US recognition of an illegal Israeli annexation of Syrian territory. (Image: Ma'an)
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The Supreior Court of Justice for Peru's rainforest region of Madre de Dios upheld a lower court ruling that nullified mining concessions as well as the titling of agricultural properties and granting of water rights to third parties on the territory of the indigenous community of Tres Islas, without prior consultation with that community. The regional government of Madre de Dios is ordered to comply with the ruling, as is the National Water Authority and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. The National Police are called upon to enforce the ruling if necessary. Peru's International Institute of Law and Society, which represented Tres Islas in the case, hailed the ruling as "historic." (Photo: La Mula)
NYPD, under fire, to end CIA collaboration program
The New York Police Department, under fire from New York City Muslims, has announced that is ending its program of NYPD-CIA collaboration launched after 9-11. But calls mount for Commissioner Ray Kelly to step down.
Obama shilling for drilling, backing fracking
President Obama effuses about turning the US into “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas”—as new EPA studies find water wells contaminated with toxic chemicals from “hydraulic fracturing” across the country, sparking anger from affected residents.