By William Collins aka MRA-UK: Apparently I’m a deluded conspiracy nutjob. So Alex Proud believes. It’s a little disappointing. After several years immersing myself in oceans of data before forming my opinions, based on at least a modicum of factual knowledge, I had thought perhaps common politeness might be appropriate. There was a time when journalists were well informed and would pride themselves on confronting received opinion. Recall Orwell’s “journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations”. But Mr Proud is not such a journalist. So why do I draw your attention to his unimportant little hit piece in The Telegraph? I do not. I will say nothing of it. It is such an embarrassing display of ignorance. I draw your attention to the on-line survey which follows it. The results on 30th May at 14:15, seven days after the initial publication, were as follows,30 May 2016
Centuries Of Oppression
By William Collins aka MRA-UK: Apparently I’m a deluded conspiracy nutjob. So Alex Proud believes. It’s a little disappointing. After several years immersing myself in oceans of data before forming my opinions, based on at least a modicum of factual knowledge, I had thought perhaps common politeness might be appropriate. There was a time when journalists were well informed and would pride themselves on confronting received opinion. Recall Orwell’s “journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations”. But Mr Proud is not such a journalist. So why do I draw your attention to his unimportant little hit piece in The Telegraph? I do not. I will say nothing of it. It is such an embarrassing display of ignorance. I draw your attention to the on-line survey which follows it. The results on 30th May at 14:15, seven days after the initial publication, were as follows,There Has Been A Coup In Brazil
By Paul Craig Roberts: In Brazil the country’s largest newspaper has published a transcript
of a secret recording leaked to the newspaper. The words recorded are
the plot by the rich Brazilian elite, involving both the Zio-US-corrupted
Brazilian military and Supreme Court, to remove the democratically
elected president of Brazil under false charges in order to stop the
investigations of the corrupt elites who inhabit Brazil’s senate and
bring to an end Brazil’s membership in BRICS. The Russian-Chinese
attempt to organize an economic bloc independent of Washington has now
lost 20% of its membership.Democracy has been overthrown in Brazil as in Ukraine, Honduras-indeed, everywhere the dirty evil hand of Washington falls, including the US itself.
Glenn Greenwald reports on the extraordinary leak of the 75-minute recording of the conversations between Brazilian elites laying out the plot to frame the President of Brazil in order to protect themselves. https://theintercept.com/2016/05/23/new-political-earthquake-in-brazil-is-it-now-time-for-media-outlets-to-call-this-a-coup/
The Government of President Dilma Rousseff was dealing with the corrupt Brazilian elite in a legal, not a revolutionary, way. This was a strategic error, as neither the Brazilian elites nor their backers in Washington care a hoot about legality. For them power is the only effective force.
They used their power to remove Rousseff from the presidency, demonstrating to Brazilians that their votes are powerless to determine the government.
The Truth About Syria - A Manufactured War Against An Independent Country
The people of the world should ask Western leaders and their allies: Why
are you prolonging this war? Why do you continue funding and enabling
the terrorists? Isn’t five years of civil war enough? Is overthrowing
the Syrian government really worth so much suffering and death?
By In late April, President
Barack Obama announced that 250 U.S. special operations troops are being
deployed to Syria. Unlike the Russian and Iranian forces aiding
anti-terrorism efforts in the country, the U.S. military personnel have
entered Syria against the wishes of the internationally recognized
government.
In terms of international law, the United States has invaded Syria, a sovereign country and United Nations member state. This is the not the first time, though — Arizona Sen. John Mccain crossed into Syria without a visa to meet with anti-government fighters in 2013.
While the new U.S. boots on the ground have officially been dispatched for the purpose of fighting Daesh (an Arabic acronym for the organization known in the West as ISIS or ISIL), they will most likely be working to achieve one of the Pentagon’s longstanding foreign policy goals: violently overthrowing the Syrian government.
As the terrorism of Daesh and other extremists grows more intense, and as millions of Syrians have become refugees, the heavy costs of the U.S. government’s “regime change” operation in Syria should come into question.
By In late April, President
Barack Obama announced that 250 U.S. special operations troops are being
deployed to Syria. Unlike the Russian and Iranian forces aiding
anti-terrorism efforts in the country, the U.S. military personnel have
entered Syria against the wishes of the internationally recognized
government.In terms of international law, the United States has invaded Syria, a sovereign country and United Nations member state. This is the not the first time, though — Arizona Sen. John Mccain crossed into Syria without a visa to meet with anti-government fighters in 2013.
While the new U.S. boots on the ground have officially been dispatched for the purpose of fighting Daesh (an Arabic acronym for the organization known in the West as ISIS or ISIL), they will most likely be working to achieve one of the Pentagon’s longstanding foreign policy goals: violently overthrowing the Syrian government.
As the terrorism of Daesh and other extremists grows more intense, and as millions of Syrians have become refugees, the heavy costs of the U.S. government’s “regime change” operation in Syria should come into question.
Terrorist Israel Lost Its Latest Chance For A Peace Process
By Bernard Avishai: Last Friday, after weeks of political maneuvering, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin 'baby butcher of Gaza' Netanyahu appointed Avigdor Lieberman to be his defense minister. A longtime political hard-liner who has filled various cabinet positions for more than a decade, Lieberman made his career with coarse talk: Israel, he said, should “cut off the head” of a disloyal Arab citizen, or take “a lesson from Putin” on how to deal with terror. His appointment served as a climax to parallel dramas: a public dispute between Netanyahu’s most conservative ministers and the Israel Defense Forces, which Lieberman’s appointment will inflame, and a secret peace initiative prompted by Tony Blair, involving players from the opposition leader, Isaac Herzog, to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, which the appointment effectively scuttles.Misogyny? Sit Down Shut Up
Study: 50% Of Twitter Misogyny Posted By Women. UK MPs Launch “Reclaim The Internet” Campaign
By : The title says it all. Both the BBC and the Daily Wire
report that think tank Demos undertook a three-week study and found
that half of apparently misogynist posts were posted by women.
From the original report:
From the original report:
- Women are as almost as likely as men to use the terms ‘slut’ and
‘whore’ on Twitter. Not only are women using these words, they are directing them at each other, both casually and offensively; women are increasingly more inclined to engage in discourses using the same language that has been, and continues to be, used as derogatory against them.
