(StefanMolyneux) – Russia and American tensions continue to escalate as Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down Thursday in eastern Ukraine along Russia’s border. Without a full investigation, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and others in the United States government have reached the conclusion Russia was responsible for the deadly attack. Vladimir Putin and Russia deny any involvement, as the mainstream media and the world at large look to assign blame in this horrific situation. Stefan Molyneux decodes the propaganda and presents the facts as they are presently known.

(Youtube) – The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel’s murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank.
Dedicated to the children of GAZA.

(BreakingTheSet) – Abby Martin remarks on the recent air tragedy in Eastern Ukraine, calling out the insensitivity by international media outlets to politicize the downing of Malaysian passenger airliner and also the state sponsorship of militias worldwide.

(NC5) – A massive military build-up is underway right here in Tennessee.

Local law enforcement agencies are snatching up huge amounts of weapons — from the Department of Defense — used in fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Items include grenade launchers, mine-resistant vehicles and guns that have been deemed as surplus by the Pentagon. View this entry »

(ActivistPost) - Ukraine’s state sponsored news broadcast of the alleged shoot down of flight MH17 should win the award for best propaganda of the year.

Watch how the presenter repeatedly refers to the video of the perpetrators supposedly taking credit for the attack. The problem is that video is proven to have been produced before the event took place, thus implicating the creators in foreknowledge of the attack. The creator of that video, by the way, is the Ukrainian government and media in Kiev. View this entry »

The U.S. Has Previously Carried Out a Major Disinformation Campaign to Malign Russia

(WashingtonsBlog) - We noted yesterday that Ukraine, Russia, the U.S., Israel and China have all accidentally shot down commercial airplanes.

Ray McGovern – a 27-year CIA veteran, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their vice presidents, secretaries of state, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many other senior government officials – provides vital details on an accidental shootdown by Russia – and America’s disinformation campaign to make it look intentional – 3 decades ago: View this entry »

(Youtube) – “Immediately accelerate efforts to find alternatives to Gazprom.” View this entry »

(LandDestroyer) - With Kiev’s forces being encircled and decimated in eastern Ukraine, western Ukrainians in Kiev protesting the war, and US sanctions receiving global ridicule as feckless – the downing of a Malaysian Boeing 777 airliner with over 280 on board in eastern Ukraine – allegedly shot down over a conflict zone – will undoubtedly be exploited by NATO to vilify Kiev’s opponents, particularly fighters in the east and Russia who NATO accuses of “destabilizing eastern Ukraine.”

Preceding the downing of Malaysian flight MH17, just hours beforehand, Ukraine claimed Russia had shot down one of its SU-25 ground attack aircraft. The BBC’s article, “Ukraine conflict: Russia accused of shooting down jet,” stated that: View this entry »

(LandDestroyer) - United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power made a series of baseless, contradictory accusations aimed at politically exploiting the tragic loss of Malaysia Boeing 777 flight MH17 with nearly 300 civilians on board.

Power asserted that the most likely culprits behind the downing of MH17 were eastern Ukrainian separatists. Because of the high altitude MH17 was travelling at – approximately 33,000 feet – Power conceded that the weapons separatists have been using to down Ukrainian military aircraft would have been inadequate to down MH17. After claiming separatists had “bragged” about downing the airliner based on information from “social media,” she explained that Russia most likely assisted the separatists in operating the sophisticated anti-air missile systems required to reach MH17′s altitude. View this entry »

Effort to pull the Europeans into a more aggressive line

(StrategicCultureFoundation) - The downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 over eastern Ukraine with the loss of all 298 onboard comes amid mounting frustration between Washington and its European allies over the imposition of further trade sanctions on Russia.

Days before the doomed flight, American officials were quietly voicing their agitation at European leaders’ reluctance to apply sanctions that would hit Russia’s key economic sectors. View this entry »

Editor’s note: The validity of the document mentioned below cannot be verified due to the exclusivity of the Snowden cache. Cryptome sent a letter to various sources in possession of the documents, including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Barton Gellman, Laura Poitrias, Glenn Greenwald, ACLU, EFF and others demanding an accounting. The allegation about ISIS and al-Baghdadi, however, pairs up with other information demonstrating ISIS is an intelligence asset.

NSA documents add more detail to plan to destabilize Middle East

(KurtNimmo) - According a document recently released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, now the Islamic State, is an intelligence asset.

The NSA document reveals the United States, Israel, and Britain are responsible for the creation of ISIS.

Earlier this month Nabil Na’eem, the founder of the Islamic Democratic Jihad Party and former top al-Qaeda commander, told the Beirut-based pan-Arab TV station al-Maydeen all current al-Qaeda affiliates, including ISIS, work for the CIA. View this entry »

International war and millions dead merely a corrective

(KurtNimmo) – The establishment media is now diligently building a case against Russia in the downing of MH17 over eastern Ukraine.

All aspects of the tragedy serve the politically charged accusatory narrative as the financial elite position the United States and a reluctant European Union for confrontation with a nuclear armed Russia.

Here is a Twitter sampling of the propaganda war shaping up: View this entry »

Washington’s attitude toward Russia is formed by the Wolfowitz Doctrine

NOTE: Photos are now available of the wreckage from the Malaysian airliner crash. Notice the extensive debris and the large section of fuselage. You are observing remains of an airliner that was hit with a missile at 33,000 feet and fell to impact land. Remember, no such debris was present at the site where the airliner is alleged to have hit the Pentagon and at the alleged crash site in Pennsylvania of the 4th 9/11 hijacked airliner. Give that some thought. No doubt but that the 9/11 Commission will conclude that only Malaysian airliners leave debris.

(PaulCraigRoberts) - The unilateral US sanctions announced by Obama on July 16 blocking Russian weapons and energy companies access to US bank loans demonstrate Washington’s impotence. The rest of the world, including America’s two largest business organizations, turned their backs on Obama. The US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers placed ads in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post protesting US sanctions. NAM said that the manufacturer’s association is “disappointed that the US is extending sanctions in increasingly unilateral ways that will undermine US commercial engagement.” Bloomberg reported that “meeting in Brussels, leaders of the European Union refused to match the US measures.”

In attempting to isolate Russia, the White House Fool has isolated Washington. View this entry »

Toll from Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza strip climbed past 320

(AlArabiaNews) - The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s devastating assault on the Gaza strip reached climbed past 320 as international efforts to broker a truce between the Jewish state and Hamas militants continued.

Israel also suffered its biggest loss since hostilities between the two sides erupted more than two weeks ago, announcing that two of its’ soldiers had been killed by militants who breached the country’s border. View this entry »

Agency quietly constructing new facilities as Latin America’s collapse into US accelerates

(KitDaniels) - Federal Emergency Management Agency vehicles were spotted outside a new illegal alien shelter in McAllen, Texas, raising concerns that FEMA is using the border collapse to determine how to construct and manage detention centers for Americans during a government-declared crisis. View this entry »

(ActivistPost) - Wild speculation is flying as the mainstream media tries to piece together the official story of flight MH17 downed over eastern Ukraine this morning. Meanwhile, facts and on-the-ground reporting have been very limited. What has surfaced from local reporting, however, tells a startlingly different story than Western media.

Ukrainian militia tells onsite reporters that they did not possess the capability to shoot down a plane flying at 10,000 meters (33,000 ft or about 6 miles) and claim that Kiev must have shot the plane down. Also interesting, local firefighters said they have found no signs of dead bodies at the crash scene. View this entry »

(ReasonTV) - Sacramento sheriff’s deputies have been playing NSA. They tool around town with suitcase-sized StingRay surveillance devices in their squad cars, scooping up cellphone data from whomever happens to be within a one-mile radius. The deputies have reportedly been doing their shady business without warrants, and dozens of law enforcement agencies nationwide may be doing likewise.

But hey, what’s the big deal? After all, the feds say it’s OK. View this entry »

(BrandonTurbeville) - While the world is focused on the questions surrounding the Malaysian flight that crashed in Ukraine on July 17 and the aftermath that will result from it, another campaign of genocide in a long list of campaigns of genocide is taking place in Gaza. 

After days of both air and sea-based military strikes against Palestinians living Gaza, Israeli tanks have crossed the border and are now pushing even deeper into the tiny sliver of land. 

According to Israeli military statements, Israel has called up 48,000 reserve troops as well as 18,000 additional soldiers which were called upon on Thursday, July 17.  View this entry »

(CounterPunch) - There is broad disagreement over the amounts and effects of radiation exposure due to the triple reactor meltdowns after the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) joined the controversy June 4, with a 27-page “Critical Analysis of the UNSCEAR Report ‘Levels and effects of radiation exposures due to the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and tsunami.’” View this entry »

(Youtube) - May 2013 – Respected Australian scientists laugh at Julia Gillard, David Suzuki and other climate change drama queens.

Professor Bob Carter of James Cook University is a Marine Geologist.
Professor Peter Reid of James Cook University is a Marine Physics specialist.

Professor Garth Paltridge is a former Cheif Scientist at the CSIRO and is an Atmospheric Physicist.
Listen to 100 years of experience in the field! View this entry »

(DallasNews) – Israeli soldiers and tanks fanned out along Gaza’s borders Friday seeking out Hamas tunnel networks while pounding residential buildings with artillery and clashing with militants.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a possible “significant expansion” of Israel’s ground offensive in the enclave.

The intensification of the conflict heightened concern about mounting Palestinian civilian casualties, even as the United States, Europe and several influential Muslim countries expressed support for Israel’s offensive to weaken the Islamist militantgroup Hamas. View this entry »

(NaturalNews) – An amazing breakthrough has taken place on the cancer research front, with a possible cure coming from a popular Chinese herb. Researchers out of the U.S., publishing their work in the peer-reviewed journal Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, found that triptolide, an extract from the Chinese herb “thunder god vine” (Tirpterygium wilforii), helps regulate the expression of a key protein involved in cancer cell death, effectively targeting pancreatic cancer cells for elimination using the body’s own resources. View this entry »

Pentagon previously caught inflating troop numbers

(PaulWatson) – Following denunciations by Obama and United Nations ambassador Samantha Power over the downing of a Malaysian airliner, Pentagon Press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said Friday Russia is massing troops on its border with Ukraine.

Pentagon: Russian troops mass near Ukraine border http://t.co/Yvcu2VCiaS

— POLITICO (@politico) July 18, 2014

Politico reports:

There are about 10,000 to 12,000 regular Russian combat troops inside their border with Ukraine, Kirby told reporters at a Pentagon briefing, an increase from a few weeks ago but a smaller force than the roughly 40,000 that were there earlier in the standoff. View this entry »

The longer diplomacy stalls, the higher the chances that Israel and Hamas will be drawn into a deadly, drawn-out war, with civilians – and increasingly children – its greatest victims

(IrishTimes) – In the neighbourhood, they used to call Mohammad Al-Bakr “The Prince”. The scrawny 11-year-old, the only son of Ramez and Salwa, was in line to take over the fisherman’s mantle that had passed down three generations and was now, due to his father’s chronic back problems, soon to be his. He was good at school, and much of his free time was spent at the nearby beach, where all the Al-Bakr children swam and played football. When it was busy, he made some pocket money by selling tea on the beach, and it was his dream one day to open a fish shop. View this entry »

(BrandonTurbeville) - Only yesterday, I wrote an article entitled “6 Reasons To Question The Official Story Of The Malaysian Flight Over Ukraine” where, as the title suggests, I briefly discussed a number of reasons the story presented by Western media outlets blaming Ukrainian separatists and even the Russian government for shooting down the plane were both contradictory and dubious. 

Now, on the day after the crash of the flight, more information has emerged regarding the details surrounding what actually brought the flight down. Yet, as is typical in international incidents, the Western press reports simply add more questions to the pile.  View this entry »

(NaturalBlaze) - Netherlands researchers fear the second coming of Silent Spring

“Neonicotinoids were always regarded as selective toxins. But our results suggest that they may affect the entire ecosystem,” says Hans de Kroon of Radboud University and co-author of a study recently published in Nature journal.

It’s not just the bees. There are at least two ways that neonicotinoid pesticides dramatically affect the bird population. View this entry »

(DailySheeple) - Sorry to be so grotesque, but there aren’t a lot of other ways to say it.

The Associated Press article floating around the mainstream media in source after source (surely before it gets buried forever) is simply titled, “Rebel Leader Gives Bizarre Account of Plane Crash”.

How bizarre, exactly? View this entry »

(ActivistPost) - Russia has denied involvement in the downing of flight MH17. Now they’re demanding answers to some very basic questions about Kiev’s actions related to the crash and their immediate, unsubstantiated claims that Russia was to blame. 

Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister was interviewed by RTwho made these questions public. Yes, RT is clearly biased, but who wouldn’t like to know the answers to these questions? View this entry »

(Crowhouse) - July 15th, 2014 – Israel is a rogue state that has been engaging in ethnic cleansing against the people of Palestine for 60 years ….Enough is enough. View this entry »

(NaturalNews) – The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines MH17 over Ukraine is a catastrophic event resulting in the loss of 295 lives (280 passengers and 15 crew). Details are still emerging about what really happened, but Netizens are already fronting various theories of what may have been the root causes behind the downing of the passenger jet.

So far, the most likely explanation is that pro-Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine mistook a Boeing 777 for a military transport aircraft, and they shot it down using a surface-to-air missile system. This theory holds water because those same forces have already shot down 10 other aircraft, including an IL-76 transport plane which could easily be mistaken for a Boeing 777 at a great distance. However, there may be far more elaborate strategic games being played behind the scene in an effort to stage this humanitarian tragedy for political or strategic gain. View this entry »

(GlobalResearch) - The signatories to this statement, all academics at Israeli universities, wish it to be known that they utterly deplore the aggressive military strategy being deployed by the Israeli government. The slaughter of large numbers of wholly innocent people, is placing yet more barriers of blood in the way of the negotiated agreement which is the only alternative to the occupation and endless oppression of the Palestinian people. Israel must agree to an immediate cease-fire, and start negotiating in good faith for the end of the occupation and settlements, through a just peace agreement. View this entry »

As I discover more self worth,
It’s good to keep in mind,
That everyone has their day in the Sun,
But together we shine Divine.

(TomLescher) – Wednesday Jupiter enters Leo, Tuesday the Sun. Friday Venus enters Cancer, Sunday Saturn goes direct. Monday Uranus goes retrograde and Mercury opposes Pluto. Finally, next Tuesday the Sun Conjunct Jupiter is exact. All this points to the possibility of all of us exploding like balloons with too much hot air haha! We’re all getting bigger and bigger and bigger…. so let’s get bigger and better together instead of the old “This town’s not big enough for both of us partner…..draw!” If we can all manage to be big without making others small we can all have a good time together. Injoy! View this entry »

Why did the pilot divert from his usual flight plan?

(ZeroHedge) - While there are various questions that have already emerged from what was supposed to be Ukraine’s “slam dunk” proof confirming Russian rebel involvement in today’s MH-17 tragedy, perhaps one just as gaping question emerges when one looks at what is clearly an outlier flight path in today’s final, and tragic, departure of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777.

Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today’s tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk. View this entry »

Alleged conversation between rebel leader & Russian commander attracts suspicion

(PaulWatson) – Evidence presented by Ukraine to implicate Russia in the shoot down of the Malaysian Airlines plane appears to have been fabricated. View this entry »

Treasury Dept. and U.N. sanctions on Russia tantamount to declaration of war

(KurtNimmo) - Obama, Hillary Clinton, the State Department, John McCain and others in government have reached the conclusion Russia was behind the deadly attack on a Malaysian airliner in Ukraine. They have reached this conclusion despite the fact the attack occurred less than 24 hours ago and an investigation has yet to begin.

The neocon wing of the establishment is ready to begin the process of blaming Russia and start the process of punitive sanctions. View this entry »