BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 11, 2012
Monday, 11. June 2012
BFP Nightly Quote
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” – Charles Mackay
International Newsworthy
Iran Wants Leadership at OPEC
Tensions Rise again Between Iran & Azerbaijan
The IAEA & Parchin: Do the Claims Add Up?
Heroin Trade Entrenched in Afghanistan (No Kidding!)
Pakistan: US Assistant Defence Secretary ‘Cold-Shouldered’
Pakistani PM: Obama Using Drone Strikes for Political Gains
US Doublespeak on Pakistan
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Insurgents Named Responsible for Syrian Massacres
Syria: Fighting Intensifies as US Pushes for Expanded Intervention
Armed Groups Blast Gas Pipeline in Eastern Syria
China Has No Reason to Abandon Syria Stance
HRW: Israel Violates International Human Rights Law
A Turning Point in Lebanon?
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Libya: 23 Killed in Recent Clashes
Mali: Rebels Announce New Council to Govern North
Sudan: Negotiations Strive for a Consensus
Child Soldiers Forced to Fight as Mercenaries in Ivory Coast
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Russian Oil Interests Expending in Germany
Homes of Russian Opposition Figures Searched ahead of Rally
Russia Hints at Intervention in Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
SCO Launches Joint Exercises in Tajikistan
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UK: New Bill Allows All Phone & Internet Activity to be Recorded
French Socialists Heading to Win Parliament
Albania: Political Standoff Stymies Presidential Vote
National Newsworthy
Pentagon to Deploy Pint-Sized Lethal Switchblade Drones
House Committee Schedules Contempt Vote
28% of Federal Contract Funds Go to Just 10 Companies- All Make Weapons System
Senators Quietly Laying Groundwork for Looming Defense Sequestration Fight
NJ Republican Candidate for Congress Spent Election Day in Israel-Meeting with Netanyahu
Bradley Manning’s Motions to Dismiss Charges Rejected
Colin Powell: Another War Criminal Cashes in
Vacuum Cleaner Sucks $440 Million from Navy
Wall Street CEOs Got 20% Raises Last Year-Did You?
Suicides are Surging among US Troops
Cryptome: DOJ 2006 Memo on NSA Domestic Spying
Noteworthy Editorials
M K Bhadrakumar: SCO-Coping with Changing Times
David Gibbs: Welcome to the Balkan Propaganda Machine
Philip Weiss: Jane Harman-The Media Mogul
Glenn Greenwald: Obama Defender Rep. Peter King
One Nation under Surveillance
America is Deluded by its Drone-Warfare Propaganda
BFP Nightly Video-Audio
Video 1: Pepe Escobar- Western States Pounce on Massacre Mayhem in Syria
Video 2: Pentagon Sanitizes Movies to Make Americans Warlike
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ROro Says:
Sibel your warnings about the Ron Paul campaign have sadly been proven correct. But besides the insertion of Fein, one Trygve Olson appears to be have been even more insideous…
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/02/can-ron-paul-be-tamed/
“Who is Trygve Olson? A former official of the International Republican Institute (IRI), a tax-funded “regime-change” operation under the rubric of the National Endowment for Democracy, Olson was involved in several of the “color revolutions” that swept Eastern Europe and the central Asian former Soviet republics during the Bush years……
…..this biography on the web site of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University says:
“Mr. Olson has helped advise political parties and candidates in numerous countries throughout the world including nearly all of Central and Eastern Europe, Indonesia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Serbia.”
Bill Bergman Says:
Cool quote. That must be the Charles Mackay that wrote “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.” Interesting how the bursting of the South Sea bubble (discussed in there) was so important in the ideas behind America’s founding.