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Saudis Terror-Bomb Yemeni World Heritage Site
by Stephen Lendman
Sanaa's Old City is a World Heritage site - recognized by UNESCO in 1986. It's been inhabited for over 2,500 years - a major Islamic center since the 7th century.
It has 103 mosques, 14 hammans (bathhouses) and over 6,000 houses built before the 11th century. According to UNESCO:
Sanaa's Old City "is defined by an extraordinary density of rammed earth and burnt brick towers rising several stories above stone-built ground floors, strikingly decorated with geometric patterns of fired bricks and white gypsum."
"Described by historians, geographers and scholars of the early Islamic and medieval eras, Sanaa is associated with the civilizations of the Bible and the Koran."
Hillary Clinton: Profile of Rogue Leadership
by Stephen Lendman
The possibility of another Clinton or Bush becoming president in 2017 should make everyone's blood run cold.
Both represent everything wrong with America - a ruthless gangster state run by monied interests for their benefit alone, waging endless wars for power, profit and unchallenged global dominance along with governing under a homeland police state apparatus.
Hillary was Washington's 67th Secretary of State. She served from January 21, 2009 - February 1, 2013. She was arguably America's worst - at least until John Kerry succeeded her.
From 2001 - 2009, she was US Senator from New York. In 2008, she unsuccessfully challenged Obama for the Democrat party's presidential nomination. She's back again for another try.
Netanyahu: Serial Liar, Unindicted War Criminal
by Stephen Lendman
A previous article explained he heads an Israeli regime comprised of hate-mongering racists, over-the-top fascists and religious fundamentalist zealots.
It's Israel's most extremist regime in its history. It exceeds the viciousness of Netanyahu's previous coalitions and Sharonian evil. It represents the worst of rogue state ruthlessness and then some.
Netanyahu's speeches repeat the same old demagogic Big Lies. At the June 9 Herzliya Conference, he blustered about nonexistent "Iran(ian) regional aggression" and nuclear weapons program.
After renouncing Palestinian statehood while campaigning, he lied saying he's "committed to a solution of two states for two peoples…"
Conspiracy Theories: The Public Trust Skepticism Factor
By Katherine Smith, Ph.D.
“Conspiracy” is a real word for a real event that has existed in human societies in all cultures throughout human history. [Appendix A]
The assassination of the President of the United States on national television by a “lone” assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, who himself is assassinated the next day by another “lone” assassin—would cause even the most rational skeptic, or critical thinker, to question the institutional narrative of the events. [1]
In other words, the institutional narrative, or official explanation, of a lone assassin, who was in turn assassinated the very next day by another lone assassin, is as epistemically dubious, and as equally “silly and without merit,” as any of the conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination.
The human species has evolved as pattern-seeking, cause-inferring animals. As such, our nature drives us to find meaningful relationships to understand the world. Conspiracy theories are offered as alternate explanation to an important social, political or economic event (henceforward, “The Event”) when the institutional narrative is confusing or unsatisfactory. Conspiracy, originally a neutral term, has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning since the mid sixties, for it implies a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in certain events. Conspiracy theorizing has become commonplace in the mass media and emerged as a cultural phenomenon in the United States following the public assassination of JFK.
Noam Chomsky, linguist and scholar, contrasts conspiracy theory as, more or less, the opposite of institutional analysis. The latter focuses mostly on explanations based on the information found in official records of publicly known institutions, whereas the former offers explanations based on information derived from coalitions of individuals.
Most academics, or the rational community, find the conspiracy theories of popular culture to be silly and without merit, and automatically dismiss such alternative explanations as ridiculous, misconceived, unfounded, outlandish and the result of irrational thinking by paranoid schizophrenics. Some academics even contend that conspiracy theories “undermine human social and civic decency in society.” [2]
However, on closer examination, academics can see, and are forced to admit, that there is no systemic flaw to the concept of the conspiracy theory per se, because 1) there have been at least 33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True and 2) it is in the nature of many conspiracy theories that they cannot be falsified; that is, proven to be false.
Waco TX Biker Massacre: Classic False Flag Operation & Government-Run Inside Job
by Michael Thomas State of the Nation Posted on June 3, 2015
Innocent Bikers Slaughtered by Government Sting Operation to Teach ‘Rebels’ a Lesson
Just like the Branch Davidian bloodbath and Oklahoma City bombing, the ATF and FBI intimidate non-conforming fringe groups Agents Provocateurs Used to Manufacture Fake Feud Between the Two Biker Groups
Nothing scares the U.S. Federal Government more than an awakening populace that is moved to the point of revolting, or even organizing. Whenever citizens come together in a cohesive fashion to advance the deeply shared common goal of exposing government corruption, betrayal and malfeasance, all hell is bound to break loose. And so it did… at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 18th, 2015.
Make no mistake about it — this meticulously preplanned assassination of targeted bikers at Twin Peaks was a government-coordinated conspiracy designed to thwart any attempt to flex their muscles. It was also perpetrated to blacken the reputations of biker groups everywhere. They are groups, not gangs, as the Mainstream Media (MSM) purposefully and disparagingly call them.
The two biker groups involved also belong to a growing fringe culture that is far removed from any of the violent gangs of the past. These organizations are, in fact, much more civilized and law-abiding than the law enforcement departments that monitor them 24/7. They certainly don’t engage in misguided plots to commit cold-blooded murder like the alphabet soup government agencies which are supposed to protect them and everybody else.
Just who are these bikers who were falsely portrayed as a bunch of wild and crazy types similar to the “dreaded Black Widow biker gang”?
Social Science Findings about Conservatism
Eric Zuesse
WHAT IS CONSERVATISM?
The great empirical social psychologist who specialized in studying bigotry, Bob Altemeyer, in his 1996 The Authoritarian Specter, and his other writings, reported his exhaustive empirical studies, of more than 50,000 individuals in many countries, demonstrating that bigotries against each and every minority group were the highest amongst the individuals who scored as being the most religious in any religion. In each religion, the more fundamentalist (believing in the inerrancy of some Scripture) one was, the more bigoted one tended to be, not just against non-believers, but against homosexuals, Blacks, and so forth. Religious belief, in other words, causes bigotry. His studies also found that his scale for “Right-Wing Authoritarianism” (RWA) or what’s commonly called conservatism, was exhibited the most strongly by fundamentalists (and, in the Soviet Union, those fundamentalists took as their inerrant Scripture not the Bible, but instead Marx's Das Capital). Moreover, as one would expect from persons of faith (even of an atheistic one; i.e., belief in an atheistic ‘inerrant Scripture’), people of high RWA tended to make incorrect inferences from evidence, accept internal contradictions within their own beliefs, oppose constitutional guarantees of individual liberty, believe more strongly in sticks than in carrots to correct a person’s behavior, and were closed-minded to criticism of themselves. In 1992, Altemeyer had co-authored in the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, “Authoritarianism, Religious Fundamentalism, Quest, and Prejudice,” which examined “the relationships among right-wing authoritarianism, various indices of religious orientation, and prejudice. Measures of religious fundamentalism ... were good discriminators between prejudiced and unprejudiced persons.”
Leaked TPP Trade Bill Healthcare Annex
by Stephen Lendman
Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade legislation and its companion Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are anti-consumer stealth corporate coup d'etat freedom and ecosystem-destroying measures - nightmarish by any standard.
They let corporate predators establish unrestricted supranational global trade rules overriding national sovereignty and domestic laws. They serve investor rights at the expense of public ones. They permit anything goes for profit. They create a world more unfit to live in than already.
Israel Spied on Hotels Used for Iran Nuclear Talks
by Stephen Lendman
It's not the first time V on Iran nuclear talks was discovered. An earlier article discussed the following:
On March 23, the Wall Street Journal headlined "Israel Spied on Iran Nuclear Talks with US," saying:
Washington and other P5+1 nations learned Israel spied on their closed-door talks all along.
It was part of Netanyahu's scheme "to penetrate the negotiations and then help build a case against the emerging terms of the deal," the Journal cited current and former US officials saying. Israel "eavesdropp(ed), acquired information from confidential US briefings, informants and diplomatic contacts in Europe."
Espionage is common practice. Everyone watches everyone else.
Global Political Quagmire: Leaders who could Not Lead
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
“We should already know more than enough to be horrified by the state of our American world. It should disturb us deeply that a government of, by, and for the war-makers, intelligence operatives, bureaucrats, privatizing mercenary corporations, surveillers, torturers, and assassins is thriving in Washington. As for the people -- that’s us -- in these last years, we largely weren’t there, even as the very idea of a government of, by, and for us bit the dust, and our leaders felt increasingly unconstrained when committing acts of shame in our name. So perhaps the last overlooked anniversary of these years might be the 12th anniversary of American cowardice. You can choose the exact date yourself; anytime this fall will do. At that moment, Americans should feel free to celebrate a time when, for our “safety,” and in a state of anger and paralyzing fear, we gave up the democratic ghost.”…..“Among the many truths in that still-to-be-written secret history of our American world would be this: we the people have no idea just how, in these years, we’ve hurt ourselves.” (Tom Ingelhardt, “The 12th Anniversary of American Cowardice What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You.” TomDispatch.com: 3/28/2013).
The Heroic Anti-TPP Action by Alan B, Morrison — and More to Come
Eric Zuesse
On June 10th, Alan B. Morrison, one of America’s leading Constitutional lawyers, sent a letter to all members of the U.S. House of Representatives, explaining why U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) would violate the U.S. Constitution.
The striking headline above his letter is "The Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Violate Article III of the United States Constitution.”
He explains, at the start:
"I am writing this letter because I believe that the creation of private arbitral tribunals to decide whether otherwise valid federal, state, and local laws are inconsistent with the investor protection provisions of the TPP improperly removes a core judicial function from the federal courts and therefore violates Article III of the Constitution.”
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