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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH & COMMUNISM – Who's Infiltrating Who? – CHAINSMOKE SERIES. Programs from series: Global Research News Hour|A-Infos Radio Project. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army Used Drugs to Build Super Soldiers. Some historians call Vietnam the “last modern war,” others the “first postmodern war.” Either way, it was irregular: Vietnam was not a conventional war with the frontlines, rears, enemy mobilizing its forces for an attack, or a territory to be conquered and occupied. Instead, it was a formless conflict in which former strategic and tactical principles did not apply. The Vietcong were fighting in an unexpected, surprising, and deceptive way to negate Americans’ strengths and exploit their weaknesses, making the Vietnam War perhaps the best example of asymmetrical warfare of the 20th century. The conflict was distinct in another way, too—over time, it came to be known as the first “pharmacological war,” so called because the level of consumption of psychoactive substances by military personnel was unprecedented in American history.

The British philosopher Nick Land aptly described the Vietnam War as “a decisive point of intersection between pharmacology and the technology of violence.” Stop the Next President From Waging the Next War. Russia, U.S. on Brink of Nuclear War » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! Russia has begun moving nuclear-capable missiles into Europe after America threatened to shoot down Russian planes over Syria, greatly raising the risk of all-out war. Russian military appears to be moving nuclear-capable Iskander-M missiles from Saint Petersburg to Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave situated between NATO members Lithuania and Poland, according to sources inside Estonia. The Iskander-M, which can fire a nuclear-armed missile over 300 miles away, is reportedly being transferred to Kaliningrad by ship approximately two years ahead of its previously scheduled deployment to the enclave.

In addition to its military deployments in Kaliningrad, Russia has deployed the S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria after the Obama administration indicated covert air strikes on Syrian government forces are being considered to stop their advances in Aleppo. U.S. Arms Transfers to Saudi Arabia and the War in Yemen | Security Assistance Monitor. Introduction The debate over the recent U.S. offer to sell M1A2 Abrams battle tanks to Saudi Arabia has raised the question of Saudi dependency on U.S. equipment for its defense needs in general and for the prosecution of its war in Yemen in particular. Saudi Arabia has requested up to 153 tanks, 20 of which have been described by the Pentagon as being destined to replenish vehicles damaged in the war in Yemen. The deal also includes related equipment, including machine guns, grenade launchers, night vision devices, and ammunition.[1] The tank deal, worth an estimated $1.15 billion, is the third recent offer that has involved replenishing Saudi weaponry damaged or used up in Yemen.

The others were a July 2015 offer of $500 million in ammunition to the Royal Saudi Land Forces (RSLF) and a November 2015 offer of $1.29 billion worth of bombs and air-to-ground missiles to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).[2] Rep. Sen. This issue brief provides information on the amounts and types of U.S. JOHN PILGER - A WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN: BREAK THE SILENCE. 7 Things I Learned Reading Every Issue Of ISIS's Magazine. Sun Tzu, generally considered a reliable source on Good War Ideas, said something along the lines of, "You've got to know your enemy in order to beat him, because some dudes hate being kicked in the junk and others seem to enjoy it.

" The difficulty we've had defeating ISIS suggests that, maybe, we don't really understand who and what the fuck they are. Everything we hear is filtered through politicians and pundits, each with their own agenda ("You know what ISIS is afraid of? Me, Donald Goddamned Trump! "). Fortunately, it turns out that finding out what ISIS wants is like finding out what a vegan eats: They'll tell you. No, really. . #7. Maybe it's not surprising that the Islamic State has a regular periodical: Every crazy group of violent assholes in the world has some sort of leaflet or zine they publish.

ISISI read every single issue. That's a pretty darn competent (if simple) Photoshop of the Vatican flying an ISIS flag. ISISNote the American rifle in his hands. . #6. Google #5. . #4. Groundtruth | GlobalPost Video. Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Marcos ★ Aquì Estamos (película completa en Español )(HD) Interview with Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN. NYPD Report Radicalization in the West. Gazette. Geopolitics | EMerging Equity. In First Law Of Its Kind, Kuwait To “DNA Tag” Everyone Like Cattle, Including All Tourists By Melissa Dykes I know, I know, this really hinders your Kuwait travel plans. In the first law of its kind anywhere in the world, Kuwait has decided it will not only “DNA tag” everyone presently in the country as part of a new “integrated security database,” but all tourists will be required to submit a … Continue reading Why China Is Investing More Money In The US By Shannon Van Sant Chinese investment in the United States is expected to break records this year, as massive amounts of money continue to flow from China.

Chinese companies looking to expand and merge with U.S. firms are expected to invest $20 billion to $30 billion in many sectors. Sean Miner oversees the China program at … Continue reading What Is The State Of The BRICS Economies? World War III Has Begun: Paul Craig Roberts By Paul Craig Roberts The Third World War is currently being fought. Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS. China Breaking News. Help for the Survivors of Sexual Violence in Northern Iraq = Obama Tolerates the Warmongers – Consortiumnews. Exclusive: President Obama is caught between the harsh realities of the Mideast and the fantasy world of Washington’s warmongers, but he prefers to risk a global catastrophe than to stand up to the neocons, the liberal hawks, the Israelis and the Saudis, a dilemma that Daniel Lazare explains.

By Daniel Lazare “Only odd-numbered world wars start in Sarajevo.” That was the joke during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. Though it turned out not to be true, fortunately, a strange echo occurred a few years later when NATO military commander General Wesley Clark threatened to shoot down Russian planes flying paratroopers into Kosovo, prompting a British general to refuse on the grounds that “it’s not worth starting World War III.” But war among the great powers may now be in the offing in Syria, where the conflict seems to be exploding on a new and grander scale. The upshot is a game of chicken that is bigger, bloodier and more intractable than anything in decades. Finally, there is the United States.

Heralding the Rise of Russia. France 24 / 24-Hour News: Live from France (in English) Police terror raid near Paris ends with at least two killed, eight arrested Read more IS group attacks signal shift in strategy, says expert Read more Jewish schoolteacher stabbed by ‘IS supporters’ in Marseille Read more Fate of suspected Paris attacks 'architect' unknown Read more Russia allies with France to counter IS group Read more Two Air France flights from US diverted by bomb threats Read more California rockers return home after Bataclan attacks Read more France, Russia, US seek to tighten noose around IS group Read more All Blacks rugby legend Jonah Lomu dies aged 40 Read more Dozens killed in blast at market in Nigerian city of Yola Read more Wembley stadium erupts with French national anthem Read more.

Channel: PressTV: Iranian International News Network. A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Nov. 19. IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The comments of President Rouhani that his administration does not want a particular faction to emerge triumphant in the upcoming elections dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday. Ettela’at: President Rouhani has said that he hopes judicious, capable and experienced individuals win parliamentary seats in the upcoming elections. He further said that his administration does not want a particular faction to emerge victorious in the vote.

In another development, the Cabinet confirmed Fereydoon Hemmati and Mohammad Reza Khabbaz as new governors general of Qazvin and Semnan provinces. Ettela’at: Between 4,000 and 5,000 individuals are predicted to field their candidacy for the early 2016 elections. Ettela’at: Three terrorists were killed when French police raided an IS hideout in France. Sectarianism: A History of the Shia-Sunni Divide : syriancivilwar.

Slavoj Zizek (Mein Nachwort): In the Wake of Paris Attacks the Left Must Embrace Its Radical Western Roots. Zizek responds to his critics on the refugee crisis. There should be no “deeper understanding” of the ISIS terrorists (in the sense of “their deplorable acts are nonetheless reactions to European brutal interventions”); they should be characterized as what they are: the Islamo-Fascist counterpart of the European anti-immigrant racists. In the first half of 2015, Europe was preoccupied by radical emancipatory movements (Syriza and Podemos), while in the second half the attention shifted to the “humanitarian” topic of the refugees.

Class struggle was literally repressed and replaced by the liberal-cultural topic of tolerance and solidarity. With the Paris terror killings on Friday, November 13, even this topic (which still refers to large socio-economic issues) is now eclipsed by the simple opposition of all democratic forces caught in a merciless war with forces of terror. It is easy to imagine what will follow: paranoiac search for ISIS agents among the refugees. Sure, Norway exists. The Historic Painted Panels That Exposed the Hell of Hiroshima. Iri and Toshi Maruki, “Hiroshima Panel #2: Fire” (1950) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless indicated otherwise) (click to enlarge) After the atomic bomb that led to the deaths of over 100,000 people exploded in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, artists Iri and Toshi Maruki entered the destroyed city — Iri just three days after the blast, Toshi following her husband shortly thereafter. The pair had traveled there from Tokyo to join friends and family and found themselves surrounded by burned buildings and charred bodies, breathing air that smelled like death, with flies and maggots the only thriving forms of life.

For weeks they remained in the leveled city, tending to the injured and cremating the dead. Three years later, they began painting the trauma they had witnessed — an effort that stretched over 32 years and yielded 15 large, folding panels of hellish scenes known as the Hiroshima Panels, each accompanied by a short poem explaining the subject depicted. March 21, 2011. "Rethinking the Middle East"/ Foreign Affairs, 1992. In the period immediately following the ceasefire in the Gulf War many voices were raised saying, "Everything has changed. The Middle East will never be the same again; this is a new world, a new Middle East, and all the problems and answers are different. " And then, when the new world order failed to materialize in days, or weeks or even months, many voices—some of them the same voices—were heard saying, "Nothing has changed.

Everything is back where it was before, the same actors playing the same parts and acting out the same scripts. " Momentous events may happen quickly, as they surely did in Kuwait and Iraq last year, but some time is needed to understand the changes that events have revealed, accelerated or caused. By now it is becoming increasingly clear that there are indeed many changes in the Middle East, and that while these vary considerably in their scope, scale and range, few things and few participants remain as they were before. Is this change irreversible? (2013) CIA begins weapons delivery to Syrian rebels. The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures.

The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war. The arms shipments, which are limited to light weapons and other munitions that can be tracked, began arriving in Syria at a moment of heightened tensions over threats by President Obama to order missile strikes to punish the regime of Bashar al-Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons in a deadly attack near Damascus last month. The arms are being delivered as the United States is also shipping new types of nonlethal gear to rebels. That aid includes vehicles, sophisticated communications equipment and advanced combat medical kits.

Sen. Geo-politics. The Ukraine Situation. Inside the surreal world of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine. CONFRONTING THE ‘CALIPHATE’ | This is part of an occasional series about the rise of the Islamic State militant group, its implications for the Middle East, and efforts by the U.S. government and others to undermine it. An image grab taken from a propaganda video uploaded on June 8, 2014, by the Islamic State allegedly shows militants driving in vehicles near the central Iraqi city of Tikrit. (AFP/Getty Images) RABAT, MOROCCO — The assignments arrive on slips of paper, each bearing the black flag of the Islamic State, the seal of the terrorist group’s media emir, and the site of that day’s shoot. “The paper just gives you the location,” never the details, said Abu Hajer al-Maghribi, who spent nearly a year as a cameraman for the Islamic State.

For Abu Hajer, that card told him to drive two hours southwest of the Syrian city of Raqqa, the capital of the caliphate, or Islamic realm, declared by the militant group. Play Video3:43 What they described resembles a medieval reality show. PARIS ATTACKS - Classic Hegelian Dialectic. Leader's aide: Iran not to leave Assad, Abadi, resistance front alone. TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Supreme Leader’s top Adviser for International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati underlined that Tehran will continue support for the Syrian and Iraqi governments as well as the resistance fronts in Lebanon and Palestine.

Iran has succeeded in aborting the US plots in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq by increasing necessary support for the government of President Bashar al-Assad with the help of the Hezbollah of Lebanon and the Iraqi forces, Velayati said in an interview with the Lebanese daily Al-Safir. He stressed that Tehran would never give up support for President Assad, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the resistance movements in Lebanon and Palestine. Although the current situation in the region is not acceptable, Iran is optimistic about a better future, Velayati added. Today, Iran has become a great country with a strong military and security power that would prevent all from even daring to think of an attack against the country, he said.

By Fars News Agency. Decades Later, NARA Posts Documents on Guatemalan Syphilis Experiments | UNREDACTED. One of many index cards used by Dr. Cutler to record notes on the progression of his patients Washington, April 25, 2011—Between 1946 and 1948, U.S. public health researchers infected hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers and mentally ill patients with syphilis and gonorrhea, without their knowledge or consent, in order to test the effectiveness of penicillin. The experiments were carried out in Guatemala under the cloak of confidentiality, and the results were never published in the United States. But after a scholar discovered archives chronicling the program at the University of Pittsburgh and published her findings last year, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) took custody of the documents and on March 29 made them publicly available. It is clear from the language of the report that the U.S. researchers understood the profoundly unethical nature of the study.

Dr. Susan M. Like this: Like Loading... The Guatemalan Death Squad Diary and the Right to Truth. Consortiumnews.com. Post #96: Truth and Consequences | In the Human Interest – Mel Gurtov. The Geopolitics of World War III (2014) US defense secretary: Washington to launch ground operations in Syria, Iraq. Chinese military gives tough words on US provocation in South China Sea. If US relations with China turn sour, there will probably be war | Timothy Garton Ash.

Professional commandos carried out Paris attacks: Historian. US warship defies Beijing to sail past disputed South China Sea islands. "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield" - Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky in Discussion. Moment of the explosion in Kharkiv. Charm Offensive — Switzerland’s ‘Polite War’ of 1847.