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Former Chief of Staff: Syrian Chemical Weapon Narrative Could Be An Israeli False Flag
“We don’t know what the chain of custody is. This could’ve been an Israeli false flag operation, it could’ve been an opposition in Syria… or it could’ve been an actual use by [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad, but we certainly don’t know with the evidence we’ve been given.” … Read More
Lawrence O’Donnell on The Role of WeAreChange
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Iraq clashes between army and Sunni tribesmen kill more than 100 in two days
On Wednesday, clashes erupted in North of the country when government forces clashed with Sunni protesters, following the deaths of at least 56 people at a protest camp near Kirkuk on Tuesday.“It reflects ongoing sectarian violence that was released in 2003 when we removed Saddam Hussein,” professor Lawrence Davidson, from Westchester University told RT. The army raided the camp in Hawija, where Sunni Muslims have have been gathering for month to protest what they see as their marginalization under the Shia-led Maliki government. Clashes followed and with them fears that ethnic violence could spread and return as a critical internal security issue as it was following the downfall of Saddam Hussein. On Wednesday, armed tribesmen cordoned the Sunni town of Qara Tappah. Fierce clashes erupted when Iraqi troops arrived to try to clear the makeshift roadblocks. Police say 15 gunmen and seven soldiers were killed. In the clashes, Sunni protesters took over an army base and torched a Shia mosque in Sulaiman Pek before army helicopters were deployed, resulting in the death of at least 18, including 10 protestors and five soldiers, officials announced. The fighters now control the town after government forces withdrew from the area, local administrative official responsible for the area told AFP. Roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades attacks on a military convoy near Tikrit killed three more soldiers.Furthermore, at least eight people were killed and 23 more injured from a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, according to the authorities.Thousands of Sunnis have been protesting since December over what they see as an effort by Prime Minister Nouri al - Maliki to keep them out of top positions in the government. They have also protested against tough anti-terrorism laws that they says discriminates against their religion. Under the legislature, government forces constantly carry out arrests in Sunni areas on charges of terrorism and ties to the deposed Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein. Professor Davidson blames the US forces for unleashing the ethnic unrest in the country.“Since 2003, thousands, tens of thousands people have died as a part of this sectarian violence. We (US) opened Pandora’s box and we could not close it even when we were there,” he argues. Prime Minister Maliki has offered some compromises to Sunni leaders, even to amend the anti-terrorism laws, but most Sunni tribal leaders say they will not be enough to appease their followers. “Maliki government’s reputation has already hit bottom. What we got is a government that is determined to maintain its position and crush opposition, particularly Sunni politicians,” Davidson says. … Read More
California governor has 20 days to fix overcrowded prisons or be put on trial
A panel of federal judges gave Gov. Jerry Brown and the state’s top corrections officials an ultimatum this week, ordering they come up with solution to the rampant overcrowding epidemic that has caused critics to condemn the treatment endured by prisoners as “cruel and unusual” — or else face the consequences.If Gov. Brown and his colleagues cannot come up with a plan in the next three weeks that will slash the number of inmates in the state’s 33 prisons by December, the court says they will take legal action against the officials.According to a corrections department report released this week, the state prison system presently counts 119,542 inmates as residents of those facilities, or 149.5 percent of the number those buildings were designed to hold. In a 71-page ruling described by the Los Angeles Times as “blistering,” a panel of three judges says that portion must be brought down to 137.5 percent by the end of the year. That could mean releasing roughly 9,500 inmates by December if no other solution is found.In an opinion piece published in the New York Times this week, the paper’s editorial board notes that 30 percent of the California prison population suffers from mental illness, and that the suicide rate among inmates is nearly twice the national average. Judge Lawrence Karlton of Federal District Court in Sacramento wrote in a filing earlier this month that the treatment subjected on the seriously mentally ill violates prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment, and that conditions continue to be sub-par despite issuing more than 100 court orders against the prison system in the last 17 years.All the way back in May 2011, the Supreme Court said California had two years to fix the overcrowding issue, ordering them even then to get the number of inmates held in the state system down to the 137.5 percent figure. Then last August, a federal panel including Judge Karlton said the state was obligated to immediately figure out which prisoners are “unlikely to re-offend or who might otherwise be candidates for early release,” hoping to start shedding numbers then.The state, wrote the panel in 2012, must take “all steps necessary” to reach the population limit set by the Supreme Court.But this January, Gov. Brown and Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard filed a motion asking for the state to soften the number of inmates that must be released, and threatened to take their appeal to the US Supreme Court if the lesser justices shuts them down.”The prison emergency is over in California,” Brown said at a press conference that month. “California is a powerful state. We can run our own prisons. And by God, let those judges give us our prisons back. We’ll run them right,” he said.The federal panel fired back this week, though, threatening to hold those officials in contempt “individually and collectively” if they cannot immediately find a way that would bring numbers down by December.”California still houses far more prisoners than its system is designed to house,” the judges ruled. “At no point over the past several months have defendants indicated any willingness to comply, or made any attempt to comply, with the orders of this court,” they said. “In fact, they have blatantly defied them.”That threat against Brown and company was made reluctantly, wrote the court, “but with determination that defendants will not be allowed to continue to violate the requirements of the Constitution of the United States.”"It’s a crushing blow to the governor’s efforts to get out from under the population cap,” Donald Specter, lead attorney for the Prison Law Office, tells Mercury News. “He’s burned whatever bridge there is.” … Read More
NBC’s “Hannibal” and getting full on TV violence
On “Hannibal,” NBC’s lurid procedural drama about serial killer Hannibal Lecter’s origins, back when he was already enjoying human livers with fava beans and chianti but nobody knew it, another serial killer is murdering people by drugging them and then flaying their backs, their ribs and their skin to make wings. The victims resemble bloody, perverse angels. One such victim has been hoisted into the air, arms outstretched, in the middle of a barn. From behind one of this corpse’s flesh wings, the camera peers down on an FBI agent (Lawrence Fishburne) and the mentally delicate but brilliant profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy). A filigree of bloody skin takes up the right side of the frame. The camera then moves in on the two crime solvers, looking up at the corpse, as they have the following meta-textual conversation:“It’s getting harder and harder to make myself look,” the sensitive Will, who, as profilers do on television, regularly re-imagines ultra-violent incidents from the perspective of the violent. “No one’s asking you to look alone,” says Fishburne’s Agent Jack Crawford, eager to keep Will on the job. “But I am looking alone. And you know what looking at this does,” Will responds. “I know what happens if you don’t look,” Crawford answers. “I can make myself look,” Will says. “But the thinking is shutting down.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Netanyahu Apologizes as Isolated Israel Needs Turkey Deal
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Israel needed Obama to broker Turkey deal as Netanyahu’s policies and unstable region put Israel in a precarious position … Read More
