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Dr. Gary G. Kohls Global Research 24 August 2016 55 years ago (July 2, 1961) an American literary icon, Ernest Hemingway, committed suicide at his beloved vacation retreat in Ketchum, Idaho. He had just flown to Ketchum after being discharged from a psychiatric ward at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN where he had received a series of electroconvulsive “treatments” (ECT) for a life-long depression that had started after he had experienced the horrors of World War I. In the “War To End All Wars” he had been a non-combatant ambulance driver and stretcher-bearer. One of Hemingway’s wartime duties was to retrieve the mutilated bodies of living and dead humans and the body parts of the dead ones from the Italian sector of the WWI battle zone. In more modern times his MOS (military occupational specialty) might have been called Grave’s Registration, a job that – in the Vietnam War – had one of the highest incidences of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that arose i...

Ne News 20 August 2016 Earlier this week, Republican nominee for the role of US Presidency Donald Trump accused current US President Barack Obama of lying about giving Iran US$400 million. It has been alleged by Washington that Tehran has a nuclear weapons programme. But it is worth noting that Tehran, despite having a peaceful nuclear power programme - and a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty in regards to nuclear weapons - Tehran does not have a nuclear weapons programme, and neither did Saddam Hussein when he was President of Iraq. And neither did Gaffadi when he was President of Libya. But, despite condemning Obama in regards to Iran, Trump has never criticised Israel's nuclear weapons programme; and many politicians in Washington has stated that Israel has a right to protect itself, even though none of its neighbours has nuclear weapons; thereby legitimating Israel's nuclear weapons programme, which is funded largely by US taxpayers through CIA front USAID. An...

John Passant Independent Australia 17 August 2016 The Gosford incident, the Nauru files, Don Dale and increasing racial violence are indicative of wider systemic racism, writes  John Passant . THERE IS A CONFLUENCE of events that is turning into a raging river of racism and reaction. Recent revelations about Don Dale and Nauru show us that much of this racism is driven from the top by governments of both persuasions keen to create enemies within and distract us from their real agenda of cutting wages and public services and shifting more and more wealth to the very rich and very powerful. They are examples of the systemic racism made overt that, coupled with anxiety among small business owners about their livelihoods and workers about jobs and wages, fertilises the extreme right – the likes of Pauline Hanson – and sees her and three of her mates elevated to the Senate. The media too have been driving this agenda as Bill Leak’s r...

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts Institute of Political Economy 2 August 2016 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released its report,   “Extreme Measures: Abused  Children Detained As National Security Threats.”  From my reading of the report, Israel and the US are the two worst abusers.  Boko Haram is a distant third. Which country is the worst abuser, Israel or the US?  Taking into account that the US is responsible for the violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria that has resulted in torture and detention, if we include these victims in the American total, then the US is the Number One torturer of children.  As it is unlikely that Israel could get away with abuse of Palestinian children without Washington’s support, we can add Israel’s abuses to Washington’s total. Guantanamo Bay is a great distance away from Washington’s wars against Muslims in Afghanistan, North Africa and the Middle East.  Yet even at Guantan...