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There's a lot going on BESIDES Syria. We won't let those other things slip off the radar.
Meanwhile, it looks like Obama made
the same call I did-- that the members of congress are spineless,
worthless wimps, who will not take a stand and let Obama decide. McCain
is certainly one of them.
rob kall
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Radiation
levels around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than
previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned.
If
Section 1021 stands, it will mean that more than 150 years of case law
in which the Supreme Court repeatedly held the military has no
jurisdiction over civilians will be abolished. It will mean that whole
categories of Americans -- and here you can assume dissidents and
activists -- will be subject to seizure by the military and indefinite
and secret detention.
By Franklin Lamb
Syria Countdown: an Update from Damascus Washington's ill-considered criminal attack will aid and abet these largely Gulf financed militia and provide justification, in their minds for literally hundreds of often competing jihadist groups to spread carnage across Syria. The innocent in the USA and the West will also eventually suffer a severe pay back price as was the case on 9/11/2001 and a decade later on 9/11/2011. And on and on it goes.
As
the debate regarding a U.S. military attack on Syria shifts to
Congress, Congressman Alan Grayson was back on national TV on Sunday,
forcefully arguing against war
WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange submitted a complaint to the Swedish police,
seeking an investigation into reports of US illegal activity in Europe
against WikiLeaks and himself, including seizure of personal property
containing evidence of a war crime.
By Max Blumenthal
Dubious Intelligence and Iran Blackmail: How Israel is driving the US to war in Syria 
Though
Congress will be under unrelenting pressure from powerful forces to
authorize force, the vote provides an unprecedented opportunity for
opponents of US military intervention in the Middle East to mobilize.
Anti-war forces may not be able to match the financial muscle or public
relations power of pro-war elements, but they have opinion firmly on
their side.
Now
that the White House realizes that Obama cannot commit a war crime
without cover, here is what we can likely expect. The argument will move
from whether Assad used chemical weapons and become an argument that
Congress must not undermine US prestige and credibility by failing to
support President Obama, the latest front man for American wars of
aggression. The White House will bribe, cajole, and intimidate Congress.
Evidence
of one conspiracy does not prove another, yet -- in today's
hyper-vigilant atmosphere , it is easy to jump to assumptions,
especially when it's related to a hot button issue...
It
seems pretty clear, at this point, that President Obama does not have a
serious plan for what to do with Syria. Oh, he wants regime change, but
when it comes to his plan to attack Syria, he has made it clear that
what he wants to do is send a message and make it clear.
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A
family in Rowan County got an unexpected, and inspiring, note when they
were out to dinner on Friday. A photo of the note is going viral.
By Laurie Endicott Thomas
Is Dyslexia Really a Learning Disability? The word dyslexia was originally used to refer to the loss of the ability to read after a brain injury. Today, it is applied to seemingly normal children who are not learning to read in school. But is the problem really in the child, or is it in the school? Labeling the child as learning disabled can cause the problems in the school to go unrecognized and unsolved.
We
have a corporate press -- beholden to large multi-national corporations
that stand to reap enormous profit from the proposed military campaign
-- busy selling to the American people the notion that yet another
military campaign is justified. Creating a groundswell of support for
the president, and pressure on a Congress just as beholden to the very
same corporations as the media giants are.
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Watershed.
It's the only word for it. Once Lebanon and Syria and Egypt trembled
when Washington spoke. Now they laugh. It's not just a question of what
happened to the statesmen of the past. No one believed that Cameron was
Churchill or that the silly man in the White House was Roosevelt --
although Putin might make a rather good Stalin. It's more a question of
credibility; no one in the Middle East takes America seriously anymore.
And you only had to watch Obama on Saturday to see why.
The
hard-right is taking a scorched-earth approach, obstructing the law's
implementation by any means necessary and spinning the hiccups and
glitches that are inevitable with any complex new system as an
unmitigated disaster.
President
Obama's announcement Saturday that he would seek congressional
authorization for military strikes against Syria sets the stage for a
two-week campaign of media propaganda and political intimidation. Its
goal is to browbeat the American people into accepting yet another
imperialist war in the Middle East.
Since
2007, conservatives used crisis-driven drops in state and city tax
revenues to intensify attacks on public employee benefits and unions.
Both were denounced as "excessive and unaffordable for taxpayers". That
plus public worker layoffs reduced public sector unionization. Nor did
labor unions or the left find or implement any successful strategy to
counter the 50-year program aimed to destroy them.
With
the march to military action in Syria gaining more momentum by the
minute the Obama administration sent forth Secretary of Skull and Bones
Kerry to pimp Obama's war. In a whirlwind tour of Sunday morning
saturation bombing Kerry appeared on a number of the propaganda pulpits
that serve as launching pads for the weekly line of the establishment.
While
seemingly rushing to war, the U.S. government and corporate media is
omitting some key pieces of evidence regarding who is responsible for
releasing chemical weapons in Syria.
By Dennis Trainor, Jr.
Syrian Rebels Claim Saudi Prince Bandar Responsible For Chemical Weapons Attack 
New
evidence is surfacing about just who might be behind the chemical
attacks, a credible view published by a journalist with 20 years middle
East pointing to evidence that the Saudis could have supplied the Rebel
forces with chemical weapons and, in the untrained hands of the rebels,
the Chemical Weapons detonated in a tragic accident.
By Gary Brumback
Corporate Charades: Part 3. All the Rest Take away all the corporate charades and see a corporate monster. It's far worse than just saying, "Look, the emperor wears no clothes." The monster is slowly devouring America and the world.
By David Swanson
Caveman Credibility and its Costs Sending a bunch of $3 million missiles into Syria to blow stuff up will kill a great many men, women, and children directly. It will also kill a great many people indirectly, as violence escalates in response -- an established pattern recognized even by the war-promoting Washington Post.
As
wealth and income rise to the top, moreover, so does political power.
This continues to squeeze public budgets, corrupt government, and
undermine our democracy. The issue is not and has never been the size of
our government; it's who the government is for. Government has become
less responsive to the needs of most citizens and more responsive to the
demands of the monied interests.
In
the new authorization for military force measure proposed by the White
House much lip service is given to previous UN resolutions,
international norms, and the like. So why is it that not a SINGLE other
country in the world is interested in joining us in this rash assault?
By Dave Lindorff
Obama's and Kerry's Big Lie: White House Document "Proving" Syria's Guilt Doesn't Pass Smell Test 
The
White House paper laying out the case for bombing Syria is devoid of
evidence and is laced with lies, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
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The
White House's aggressive push for Congressional approval of an attack
on Syria appeared to have won the tentative support of one of President
Obama's most hawkish critics, Senator John McCain, who said Monday that
he would back a limited strike if the president did more to arm the
Syrian rebels and the attack was punishing enough to weaken the Syrian
military.
The
reason a missile attack on Syria is proving so unpopular on both sides
of the Atlantic has nothing to do with neoimperial hubris. The reason is
that it is a bad idea. "Punishing" a dictator for killing his own
people by simply killing more of his own people seems beyond cruel. It
seems stupid. It leads nowhere.
Vladimir
Putin is to be confronted at the G20 summit of world leaders in St
Petersburg this week with an array of western intelligence including
damning new French evidence directly linking Syrian government forces
with a massive and co-ordinated chemical attack on 21 August that led to
hundreds of civilian deaths. The Russian president will also be urged
to show a new diplomatic flexibility and come closer to accepting that
the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, has to stand aside.
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