Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tangled Threads of US False Narratives By Robert Parry Official Washington's many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against Sunni terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet, a risk that Robert Parry explores. Read More >>

The Republicans' Rhetoric of Hate and Fear By Walter Brasch Conservatives, while most profess to be Christians, don't want Syrian refugees in the U.S.Their reasons show not compassion but hate and paranoia. This is the story about their pitiful justification. Read More >>

In the fight against ISIS, Russia ain't taking no prisoners By Pepe Escobar The so-called Islamic State should have learned by now: they've picked a fight against the wrong guys. We have entered "take no prisoners" territory. For Russia, now all the gloves are off. Paris 2015 -- as well as Sinai 2015 -- essentially is a side effect of Baghdad 2003. Putin knows it. For now, the task is to smash those mongrel imperial offspring once and for all. Read More >>

Bill McKibben's Letter to the Future By Bill McKibben This letter to the future by Bill McKibben is part of the Letters to the Future campaign, a national effort to encourage people from all walks of life to write six generations into the future about climate change. The campaign puts a spotlight on the importance of world leaders agreeing to a global climate treaty at COP21 in Paris. Read More >>

NYT Editorial Slams "Disgraceful" CIA Exploitation of Paris Attacks, But Submissive Media Role Is Key By Glenn Greenwald Why do the CIA and other U.S. government factions believe -- accurately -- that they can get away with such blatant misleading and lying? The answer is clear: because, particularly after a terror attack, large parts of the U.S. media treat U.S. intelligence and military officials with the reverence usually reserved for cult leaders, whereby their every utterance is treated as Gospel. Read More >>

Judicial review is an abomination to Democracy and Justice By Timothy Franklin Judicial Review has been used as another layer of insurmountable white privileged royalist power that Black protest or politics will never overcome. Read More >>

Scytl has all the tools it needs for election fraud By Bob Fitrakis Internet voting makes election theft much easier for those with the means. A company named Scytl is at the forefront. Ballot tampering is a part of election rigging. Scytl is an expert. Voter suppression is another critical component. Scytl has an app for that. Read More >>

How the Government Made Me a Dissident By John Kiriakou it's clear that our government demonizes people who disagree with the official line. Things got bad for anyone who disagrees with the official line right after 9/11. We slid down the rabbit hole with the passage of the so-called PATRIOT Act. Enacted six weeks after the terrorist attacks, the law legalized actions against American citizens--including Internet surveillance and phone taps--that had previously been unthinkable. Read More >>

Clinton's Updated Tammany Hall--Destroying Democracy AND Climate Too By Patrick Walker If climate catastrophe leaves a civilization for historians to write in, they may someday lament how the world's biggest news story was irresponsibly flubbed by mainstream's willed failure to connect the dots: Hillary's Clinton's political machine is foisting on us a candidate provably unqualified, by policies and character, to address our planet's climate emergency. Fearing that, I try to "be the media" in this 3-part series. Read More >>

Clinton Foundation Laundering Foreign Money By Rob Kall Ken Silverstein's Harper's magazine article, Shaky Foundations: The Clintons' so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends, has just been published. He tells me how they do it and throws in the dirt on one of the Clinton's closest advisors, Sidney Blumenthal. Silverstein says the Clintons should be indicted and prosecuted Read More >>

The Little, Slightly Tilted Church By Kevin Tully Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump wants to close down Mosques. This reminds of a little story that came to me after I heard that Presidential Candidate Donald Trump wants to close down Mosques. Read More >>

Honest media? Not! By George Rizk Current terrorist acts in Paris. Read More >>

The Psychology of Transgender By Press Release Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20, honors those murdered as a result of anti-transgender prejudice. 16.8% of transgender students report being physically assaulted because of their gender expression and 32.1& experience physical harassment. Education about transgender issues can play a role in increasing acceptance of and curbing violence against the transgender community. Read More >>

Trump says he would "absolutely" implement Muslim database Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump voiced support Thursday evening for creating a mandatory database to track Muslims in the United States - the latest in an escalating series of responses following the deadly attacks in Paris. He said Muslims would be signed up at "different places," adding: "It's all about management." Asked whether registering would be mandatory, Trump responded: "They have to be."  Read More >>

American Muslims alarmed at anti-Muslim response to Paris attacks By Abdus-Sattar Ghazali The seven-million-strong American Muslim community was alarmed at the Islamophobic anti-Muslim response to Paris, France terrorist attacks which claimed 129 innocent lives and left around 300 people injured. American Muslims were deeply troubled that many American politicians have used the tragic terror attacks in Paris as a justification to promote xenophobia against Syrian refugees. Read More >>

the Paris attacks: challenging the narrative of the "new 9/11" This already is a “new 9/11.” And it’s up to the alternative media – right now – to do a better job of challenging this Minitrue narrative before it’s too late. With that in mind we’re going to be offering contrasting takes on the meaning behind the Paris attacks by different authors, all of which… Read More >>

When Fox News Didn't Blame The White House For A Huge Terror Attack In Europe By Eric Boehlert For anyone who's been watching the Fox News coverage since Friday and seen the almost non-stop smear campaign against Obama (it's been part of the larger, right-wing media freakout), it's almost unimaginable what the Fox commentary would sound like if ISIS killed hundreds in America during next year's campaign. (Calls for impeachment would come quickly, I assume.) Read More >>

USDA - Wrong About Dairy By Suzana Megles How much stock do you put in the USDA's Food Guidelines? I hope very little- if anything at all. Why would they promote dairy when people like Dr. Willet of Harvard warned about the dangers associated with it? Read More >>

Political Salafism has failed Lebanon's Palestinians. Can Jihadist Salafism succeed? By Franklin Lamb Those who claim to want to preserve the relative quietude in the Palestinian camps here would do well to resist ISIS in a concrete form. One of the most effective ways would be by using their political power positively by taking 90 minutes in Parliament to grant Palestinians in Lebanon the six decade overdue most elementary civil rights to work and to own a home Read More >>

Virginia is first state to end veteran homelessness Virginia provided housing to 1,432 homeless veterans last year, more than double the 620 identified in January as part of an annual one-day count of the homeless. That qualifies Virginia as the first state in the country to effectively end veteran homelessness, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial.  Read More >>

U.S. To Release Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard On Friday Former spy Jonathan Pollard is set to be released from a federal prison in North Carolina on Friday, 30 years after he was caught selling American intelligence secrets to Israel. But he'll be on a short leash as he rebuilds his life as a free man. Pollard, 61, was given a life sentence in 1987 in a case that has complicated diplomacy between the two countries. He's expected to settle in the New York area while he spends at least the next five ye ... Read More >>

Wells, Wells, and More Wells Pennsylvania has been in a shale gas boom for more than a decade. Recently FracTracker Alliance published an animated map that dramatically depicts the exponential growth in the number of gas wells across the state. Each of these requires a network of pipelines and compressor stations to bring the gas to market. What's happened in Pennsylvania has been happening around the globe.It's a huge development industry funded by investors eager to cash ... Read More >>

Freedom Rider: Solidarity and the International League of Peoples Struggles By Margaret Kimberley Free trade brings jobs -- or so we are told -- when in fact they do just the opposite. Workers instead are pitted against one another in the awful race to the bottom. Inevitably all of them suffer when corporations jump from country to country looking for the fastest route to chew up workers and spit them out. Read More >>

Prepared Speech: On Democratic Socialism in the United States By Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders' prepared speech to Georgetown University Read More >>

Breaking the cliched Western Narrative on Terrorism By C R Sridhar C R Sridhar -An article challenging the standard narrative of terrorism and of aggressors pretending to be victims Read More >>

Where American Socialism and Capitalism Blend Together Perfectly By michael payne How many times have we heard the dire warnings about socialism and what would happen if those socialists ever took control of this country and its government? Well, I have news for all of those who may be living in fear and paranoia of that possibility; socialism is alive and well in America and has been for some time. Read More >>

Old Racists Never Die By Tim McGettigan This is a satirical response from Reverend Billy Bob Butthole, Jr. to a Washington Post article about the insufferable anti-white prejudice that white racists claim to besieged by the contemporary USA. Read More >>

France's response to Paris attacks encourages ISIS's caliphate fantasy By Eric Walberg France's response to Paris attacks encourages ISIS's caliphate fantasy Read More >>

Chicago Restricts Drones: Who's Next? By David Swanson Chicago media outlets are reporting that drones have been banned from most of Chicago's skies and cannot fly over you or your property without your permission. The text of the ordinance, however, makes exceptions for police that will require eternal vigilance. Read More >>

USDAC Statement on Syrian Refugee Crisis By Arlene Goldbard U.S. Department of Arts and Culture Statement on Syrian Refugee Crisis. Opposing fear & isolation, sending love, creativity & compassion to those needing refuge. Read More >>

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Bush's Mission May Yet Be Accomplished ISIS, like U.S. neocon war planners, understands that polarization can lead to broader conflict. If Islamic nations and factions join the West in the fight against ISIS, they are doomed. But if the West can be baited into a conflict against Islam itself, then full polarization is achieved and ISIS has a chance to unite Islam against what it defines as "the infidels." Read More >>

David van Reybrouck to French President (open email via E. Korkut/ R. Greeman) Faced with the shock of the bloody attacks in Paris on Friday the 13th, the overall reaction of the French people (and media) was humane and peaceful, in a spirit of unity and solidarity. Read More >>

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The National Security State's Incestuous Relationship with the Islamic State Honestly, I don't know whether to rant or weep, neither of which are usual impulses for me. In the wake of the slaughter in Paris, I have the urge to write one of two sentences here: Paris changed everything; Paris changes nothing. Each is, in its own way, undoubtedly true. And here's a third sentence I know to be true: This can't end well. Read More >>

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House votes to block refugees from Syria, Iraq despite White House veto threat Tapping into heightened security fears after the Paris terrorist attacks, House Republicans -- joined by Democrats -- rebuffed President Barack Obama on Thursday and overwhelmingly approved legislation that would effectively halt the resettlement of refugees from Syria and Iraq to the U.S. The House approved the measure 289-137, with several dozen Democrats joining Republicans, crossing the threshold needed to overcome a presidential veto. "Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims ... that's just not who we are," said Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner.  Read More >>

France's Colonial Past and Blowback Glen Ford, executive editor and founder of Black Agenda Report, says that France's colonial legacy is again being ignored in the response and media coverage to the attacks in Paris.  During the 1960's France killed over 1 million Algerians in a failed attempt to deny Algeria independence.  Read More >>

How Russians See the West and Russia In each Russian city, I talked to a cross-section of people, from cab drivers and bus riders to civil society workers, professionals, and entrepreneurs of small- to medium-sized businesses.  I even had an opportunity to hear what teenagers had to say in two of those cities as I participated in a Q&A session with students of a private high school in St. Petersburg and teens who were part of various youth clubs in Krasnodar. Their questions reflected a thoughtful engagement with the world as they led to discussions on environmental sustainability, socially responsible economics and how to promote initiative, goodwill and peaceful conflict resolution.  Many of the adults were no less thoughtful during the formal interviews and informal conversations I had with them.   Read More >>

Stung by Edict on Gays, Mormons Leave Church The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not seem eager to draw attention to its recently updated guidance on gay marriage. In a memo shared confidentially, the church instructed leaders that Mormons in same-sex relationships were to be treated as “apostates.” Children being raised by two moms or two dads, the edict held, should be banished from the church until they become adults and can renounce their parent’s union. The response of hundreds of members of the church was powerful. In recent days, Mormons have been leaving the church in droves, saying they no longer feel at home in an institution that so resolutely excludes a segment of the population that has become increasingly visible, legally protected and socially accepted in America.  Read More >>