The British Empire in Yemen

“One of the reasons that Americans are unable to draw the parallels between Great Britain and the United States is that the U.S. version of empire hasn’t followed the British model. Instead of converting foreign lands into colonies, the U.S. government has followed the Soviet Union’s model of empire that was established in Eastern Europe. It uses local proxies or ‘puppets’ to serve as agents for the U.S. government, just as the Soviets did in Eastern European countries. This has enabled the United States to maintain the façade of supporting ‘independent’ regimes in the countries it controls, which just happen to ‘invite’ the United States to maintain military bases in their countries.”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/01/10/british-empire-yemen/

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James Corbett: How To Engineer A Crisis

“Are you a dictator in need of public support for your latest draconian clampdown on dissent? Or a deep state plotter hoping to topple a foreign government who doesn’t comply with your every wish? A low-level Machiavellian schemer looking for the ultimate trick for defeating your enemies without lifting a finger? Then look no further than this handy-dandy guide to ‘How To Engineer A Crisis.'”

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Pakistan Suspends Military And Intelligence Cooperation With US

“Kahn emphasized ‘a wide field of intelligence cooperation and defense cooperation have been suspended,’ but added the supply lines for NATO troops in Afghanistan would remain open. There was little mention of the fate of CIA drone bases operating in the country.”

Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-10/pakistan-suspends-military-and-intelligence-cooperation-us

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Americans Overwhelmingly Opposed to Endless US Military Interventions

“86.4 percent of those surveyed feel the American military should be used only as a last resort, while 57 percent feel that US military aid to foreign countries is counterproductive. The latter sentiment ‘increases significantly’ when involving countries like Saudi Arabia, with 63.9 percent saying military aid—including money and weapons—should not be provided to such countries.  The poll shows strong, indeed overwhelming, support, for Congress to reassert itself in the oversight of US military interventions, with 70.8 percent of those polled saying Congress should pass legislation that would restrain military action overseas.”

Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/new-poll-shows-public-overwhelmingly-opposed-to-endless-us-military-interventions/

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Both Sides of the Aisle Fire Back At Jeff Sessions’ New War on Weed

“With legal marijuana enjoying consistent majority support in opinion polls—a Pew poll released Friday at support at 61%–the blowback has been immediate, fierce, and across the board. Feeling particularly vulnerable, legal pot state Republicans howled especially loudly.”

Read more: https://www.alternet.org/drugs/america-declares-war-jeff-sessions-threatened-war-weed

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House Extends Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Safeguards

“The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to extend the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program for six years with minimal changes, rejecting a push by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to impose significant privacy limits when it sweeps up Americans’ emails and other personal communications.  Effectively, the vote was almost certainly the end of a debate over 21st-century surveillance and privacy rights that broke out in 2013 after the leaks by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html?_r=0

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De Facto Travel Restrictions Now Exist For Americans

“Green Party presidential Candidate Jill Stein is being investigated by the Senate Intelligence (sic) Committee for ‘Russian connections.’  What has brought Russiagate to Jill Stein? The answer is that she attended the 10th Anniversary RT dinner in Moscow as did the notorious ‘Russian collaborator’ US General Michael Flynn. RT is a news organization, a far better one than exists in the West, but if you were one of the many accomplished people who attended the anniversary dinner, you are regarded by Republican Senator Richard Burr from North Carolina as a possible Kremlin agent.”

Read more: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/12/21/de-facto-travel-restrictions-now-exist-americans/

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Governments Try to Control Language to Hilarious Results

“The people of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro all speak the same language, the Serbo-Croatian language, yet their respective governments claim that they speak Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin. In reality, the differences between how people speak in the former Yugoslavia are as little as the differences between English in Britain and the United States. Nonetheless, their respective governments sought to courageously protect their people from not speaking a language named after their national identity.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/governments-try-to-control-language-to-hilarious-results/

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French actress denounced for defending men’s right to seduce women

“She is one of 100 French women who wrote an open letter, warning about a new ‘puritanism’ sparked by recent sexual harassment scandals.  It deplores a wave of ‘denunciations’, following rape allegations made against US movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.  A group of French feminists condemned the letter, accusing the signatories of trivialising sexual violence.”

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42630108

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A ‘White Racism’ class just started at a Florida university

“Assistant Professor Thornhill said that he had expected some grumblings but hadn’t foreseen such an uproar from many who saw the class as an affront to an entire race — and some who viewed it as a personal attack on them for being white.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/01/09/a-white-racism-class-just-started-at-a-florida-university-police-were-on-standby/

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