Hilary Aked Lobby Watch 8 July 2016 Roberta Moore and Robert de Jonge, wearing black T-shirts with the yellow Jewish Defence League logo, watch over Board of Deputies president Jonathan Arkush. Matthew Offord, a Conservative lawmaker, and Jonathan Arkush, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, spoke at a small pro-Israel rally in […]
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BEST OF THE WEB: How the neocons took over America, and why 51 U.S. ‘diplomats’ are now calling for war against the Syrian government
More than 50 U.S. State Department “diplomats” sent a “dissent” memo urging President Obama to launch military strikes against the Syrian army, another sign that Foggy Bottom has collectively gone nuts, writes Robert Parry. Over the past several decades, the U.S. State Department has deteriorated from a reasonably professional home for diplomacy and realism […]
Can Google effect regime change? Appears so.
Last week truepublica reported that four months ago, Google created a new holding company called Alphabet and that Eric Schmidt, the new Executive Chairman of Alphabet, and therefore Google, had decided to accept the offer of leading the Pentagon advisory board with a view to “bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the […]
Magnitude 3.8 earthquake rocks Southcentral Alaska, on anniversary of 1964 quake
A magnitude-.3.8 earthquake struck east of Anchorage on Sunday — which just happened to coincide with the 52nd anniversary of the devastating magnitude-9.2 earthquake that reshaped the Southcentral Alaska landscape. According to information from the Alaska Earthquake Center, Sunday’s brief temblor was centered just 7 miles southeast of Eagle River and 17 miles east […]
86yo woman conquers Kilimanjaro, dances up the mountain
Eighty-six-year-old Angela Vorobyeva has just conquered Kilimanjaro, making it into the Guinness Book of World Records. RT spoke with the inexhaustible traveler to find out what keeps her going. “It was extremely hard,” Vorobyeva told RT. “On the first day, we went through a forest. On the second day, my ears started ringing. On […]
Dozens feared dead after massive explosion at gas plant in Nigeria
A massive explosion has taken place at a gas plant in the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra state in southeastern Nigeria, local media report. There have been reports of dozens burnt to death in the blast. Nigerian Vanguard daily puts the death toll at over 100 people. Graphic images of the burnt bodies lying […]
The US Govt is Blaming The 4th Amendment & Edward Snowden For Paris Attacks
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. … This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not before. -Rahm Israel Emanuel The surveillance state, exposed through brave whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden, has come under immense criticism. But government officials have latched onto the Paris attacks in […]
“A Song of the White Men” by Rudyard Kipling
Now, this is the cup the White Men drink When they go to right a wrong, And that is the cup of the old world’s hate– Cruel and strained and strong. We have drunk that cup—and a bitter, bitter cup And tossed the dregs away. But well for the world when the White Men […]