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http://rt.com/news/184340-castro-compares-nato-nazi/ Cuba's former President Fidel Castro Cuba’s former president Fidel Castro compared NATO’s recent statements to that of Nazi SS and accused US and its allies of igniting conflicts abroad. Castro slammed John McCain for backing Israel and accused both of being involved in the creation of ISIS. Apparently referring to the pressure the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been trying to exert on Moscow in connection with the Ukrainian crisis, which coincides with calls for the ramping up of military budgets of NATO member countries, Cuba’s iconic leader accused Western politicians of hypocrisy and aggression.   “Many people are astonished when they hear the statements made by some European spokesmen for NATO when they speak with the

Give 10 Bucks a Month to Counter - Punch. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/27/why-the-rise-of-fascism-is-again-the-issue/ The Reckless Lies of War Mongers Why the Rise of Fascism is Again the Issue by JOHN PILGER   The recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our consciousness. Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism. “To initiate a war of aggression…,” said the Nuremberg Tribunal judges in 1946, “is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Had the Nazis not invaded Europe, Auschwit

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/27/the-new-criminalization-of-dissent/   Canada Targets Tar Sands Critics The New Criminalization of Dissent by PETE DOLACK   Canada’s Harper régime has invented the new crime of being a member of an “anti-Canadian petroleum movement,” and equating such a stance with terrorism. Evidently believing it is in danger of losing the fight against pipeline projects intended to speed up Alberta tar sands production, its response is to place environmentalists under surveillance. A secret report prepared by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the country’s national police agency, claims that public activism against the problems caused by oil and gas extraction is a growing and violent threat to Canada’s national security. The report goes so far as to challenge the very idea that human activity is causing global warming or that global warming is even a problem. At least  97 percent of environmental scientists agree  that human activity is causing g

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/27/economic-hegemony-and-the-federal-reserve/ The Self-Enrichment of the Elites Economic Hegemony and the Federal Reserve by ROB URIE    In his book Globalization and Its Discontents former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz details the ignominious history of IMF ‘structural adjustment’ programs inflicted around the globe in the 1990s. While the IMF has admitted that economic austerity is both theoretically flawed and socially destructive it remains a core IMF policy and is currently being forced on peripheral Europe. This institutional persistence is characterized by the Western economic mainstream as an accident of history, as flawed theories driving bad policy decisions. Another explanation that also fits the facts is that the IMF is a tool of Western economic power used to extract wealth from poor countries under the contrived apologetics of the ‘market’ economics it claims as its goal. The point of interest here is the differenc

Support Counter Punch - take up a subscription or a monthly donation etc,. you will get the news that the global networks won't give you. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/27/revenge-of-the-rainforest/ Shutting Off Tap Water Revenge of the Rainforest by ROBERT HUNZIKER    Imagine this scenario: The following is a Public Service Announcement by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Water, July 4, 2015: Because of low water levels in state reservoirs, the Division of Water proclaims a statewide water-rationing program. Starting next month, on August 1st 2015, water service will turn off at 1:00 P.M. on a daily basis for an indeterminate period of time. Service will return the following morning. Now, imagine a city the size of the State of New York with its 20 million people subjected to the same water-rationing plan. As it happens, São Paulo, capital city of Brazil, home to 20 million, is such a city. The water is turned off every day at 1:

"We like to have a few beers and get friendly with each other." Well it looks like the Boganville Fire Brigade are running out of members...  There may be a whole heap of reasons. People moving away, people not interested, and possibly people just not willing to put up with the "Jobs for the boys" bullshit. But take it from an expert - How to become a member of the Boganville Fire Brigade. 1. Speak in high IQ tones with words like, "Awww mate, Awwww mate, Awwwwwwwww maaaate". 2. Lead the conversations with phrases like "Awwww mate, well I heard.." and act like a know it all expert - with your shit shovelling bar stool intellectual insights. 3. Practice your hose handling skills, by driving around with your brigade buddies, by keeping your hands in each others pockets. 4. Sink loads and loads of piss - and recite the adventures with "Awwwww mate, yeah mate, really mate, pretty ordinary mate, awww mate". 5. Rest assured that by the time y

In essence the Hello Sunday Morning thing, is good and worthwile.. https://www.hellosundaymorning.org/ With goals to aim for like health, relationships, financial stability, etc., etc., etc. And in a WHOLE LIFE kind of a way, instead of the "Lots of old men coughing up phlegm", and "Lots of old bags, sucking on fags" Alcoholics Anonymous religious proltysing bullshit..... "You cannot get sober unless you do it OUR way, as there is NO OTHER way, and ONLY god can relieve the obession to drink - and if you don't do it totally OUR WAY - you will surely die" - just fucking crap. I have fucked up many a belligerent AA member and meeting, where the mentally defective puff away on the fags, poisoning EVERYONE ELSE'S AIR, by raising the issues of the smoking with the people who lease the rooms to the fuckwits of AA, who say, "Thanks to god and Alcoholics Anonymous, I have been sober for X years", while huffing and puffing on cancer sticks, inhalin

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/24/the-secret-history-of-the-epa/ A Bureaucracy Going Mad The Secret History of the EPA by CAROL VAN STRUM Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts,” Richard Feynman famously declared in 1966. Ever quick to challenge accepted wisdom, he distinguished the laudable ignorance of science, forever seeking unattainable certainties, from the dangerous ignorance of experts who professed such certainty. Twenty years later, he would drop a rubber ring into a glass of ice water to show a panel of clueless rocket experts how willful ignorance of basic temperature effects likely caused the Challenger shuttle disaster (1). Experts with delusions of certainty create imitative forms of science, he warned, producing “the kind of tyranny we have today in the many institutions that have come under the influence of pseudoscientific advisors.” (2) POISON SPRING-VALLLIANATOS Feynman’s warning against faith in the phony trappings of “cargo cult sc