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“I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.”
-- Joan Baez
News and Opinion
The American fear-mongering machine is about to scare us back into war again
Did you know that the US government’s counterterrorism chief Matthew Olson said last week that “there’s no credible information” that the Islamic State (Isis) is planning an attack on America and that there’s “no indication at this point of a cell of foreign fighters operating in the United States”? Or that, as the Associated Press reported, “The FBI and Homeland Security Department say there are no specific or credible terror threats to the US homeland from the Islamic State militant group”? ...
Facts or consequences have never gotten in the way of Congress’ lust for war before – this political body was, after all, George W Bush’s chief enabler in Iraq the last time around – and this time it’s no different. Sen James Inhofe (R-OK) recently said Isis militants are “rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major US city and people just can’t believe that’s happening.” (Maybe because there’s no proof that they are?) Sen Bill Nelson (D-FL) said, “It ought to be pretty clear when they … say they’re going to fly the black flag of ISIS over the White House that Isis is a clear and present danger.” (Again, who cares if they’re not?)
The White House declared on Tuesday night that it needn’t bother to ask Congress for war powers, and Congress is more than happy to relieve itself of the responsibility of asking for them – or, you know, voting. Members of both parties have actually been telling the president to ignore the legislative branch entirely – as well as his constitutional and legal requirements. It seems so long ago now that presidential candidate Obama said, “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”
“What if it comes over and you can’t pass it?” asked Sen Lindsay Graham, as though he wouldn’t want democracy getting in the way of a nice war. The aforementioned Sen Nelson said he thinks the president should go ahead and strike Isis all he wants, but added that “there are some legal scholars who think otherwise, so let’s just put it to rest”. Those pesky legal scholars with their “laws” and that “Constitution” of theirs, always slowing things down.
Mark Ruffalo reads Eugene Debs
Obama: I Do Not Need Congressional Approval To Go To War With ISIS
President Obama is again asserting his right to act unilaterally and without congressional approval in going to war. In what has become a mantra for this Administration, Obama reportedly told members of Congress that he does not need congressional approval to unleash a comprehensive military campaign against the Islamic State. The President informed a few members at a dinner — a striking image of how low congressional authority has become in our tripartite system of government.
We have been discussing the growing concerns over President Barack Obama’s series of unilateral actions in ordering agencies not to enforce law, effectively rewriting laws, and moving hundreds of millions of dollars from appropriated purposes to areas of his choosing. One of the greatest concerns has been his unchecked authority asserted in the national security area. I previously represented members of Congress in challenging Obama’s intervention in the Libyan civil war without a declaration from Congress. In the case, President Obama insisted that he alone determines what is a war and therefore when he needs a declaration. Since the court would not recognize standing to challenge the war, it left Obama free to engage in war operations in any country of his choosing. As with his approach in Libya, Syria and other combat operations (and most recently on whether he will resume the war in Iraq), Obama is again asserting his extreme view of executive power.
As in the past, Democrats are not just silent but actually applauding the circumvention of Congress — a precedent that will likely come back to haunt them if the next president is a Republican.
Obama to lay out plan to 'destroy' Isis threat as Kerry arrives in Baghdad
Barack Obama will pledge on Wednesday night to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State insurgency operating in both Syria and Iraq in an address to the American people expected to herald a significant escalation of the US military role across the region.
Though the exact extent of the anticipated US intervention in Syria remained unclear in the hours leading up to the key speech, White House officials made clear the president planned to pursue a two-pronged strategy on both sides of the border that is likely to building on existing air strikes in Iraq against the group known as Isis or Isil.
"Tonight you will hear from the president how the United States will pursue a comprehensive strategy to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL, including US military action and support for the forces combating Isil on the ground – both the opposition in Syria and a new, inclusive Iraqi government," said a senior administration official in a statement issued to reporters on Wednesday morning.
"The president will discuss how we are building a coalition of allies and partners in the region and in the broader international community to support our efforts, and will talk about how we work with the Congress as a partner in these efforts."
In contrast Obama's failed attempt to seek congressional backing for US air strikes against Syrian government forces last year, the president is seeking to shore up support on Capitol Hill with further briefings for senators planned on Wednesday but has so far refused to give Congress a veto over his latest strategy.
Surprise! Obama's bombing in Iraq is exacerbating the ongoing civil war between factions...
Iraq's Shi'ite militia, Kurds use U.S. air strikes to further own agendas
Helped by the United States and Iran, Kurdish forces and Shi’ite militia are finally beating back Islamic State militants who overran most Sunni Arab areas in northern and central Iraq nearly three months ago.
But the aftermath illustrates the unintended consequences of the U.S. air campaign against Islamic State.
Kurdish and Shi'ite fighters have regained ground, but Sunni Muslims who fled the violence are being prevented from returning home and some have had their houses pillaged and torched.
Rather than help keep the nation together, the air strikes risk being used by different factions for their own advantage in Iraq's sectarian and ethnic conflicts.
The fallout also risks worsening grievances that helped Islamic State find support amongst Iraq's Sunnis, and allows the militant group to portray the U.S. strikes as targeting their minority sect. That may make it more difficult to bring Sunnis on side and convince them to fight the militants.
Great job, Obama!
Under militia power, Libya closer to failed state
After three years of chaos since Moammar Gadhafi’s fall, Libya is further crumbling into a failed state after Islamist-allied militias took over the capital Tripoli and other cities and set up their own government, driving out a parliament that was elected over the summer.
The militia takeover last month has raised alarm in the West. Among the militias are Islamic extremists, including Ansar al-Shariah, which now rules the country’s second largest city, Benghazi. The group is blamed for the killing of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in a 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in the city. France’s defense minister in an interview published Tuesday warned that Libya is a “hub for terrorists” and called for international action, even talking of moving French troops to the borders.
Beyond fears of extremists, many Libyans worry their country is on the verge of complete fragmentation.
Fighting the past month as the militias took over Tripoli and Benghazi drove more than 100,000 Libyans from their homes and some 150,000 foreign workers out of the country. Tripoli’s international airport was virtually demolished as rival militias battled to control it. During the fighting, both sides wildly bombarded residential neighborhoods and kidnapped civilians suspected of supporting their opponents, acts that Human Rights Watch this week said amount to crimes against humanity.
“Libya has entered the condition of a failed state. We are very similar to Lebanon in the 1980s or Somalia,” said Libyan analyst Ezz Eddin Ukail, speaking from neighboring Tunisia. “We are at the doorstep of a civil war.”
Terrorism plotter Jose Padilla has prison sentence extended
Convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla was handed a new prison sentence on Tuesday of 21 years after a federal appeals court ruled his original 17-year sentence was too lenient.
Padilla was convicted in 2007 on charges of supporting al-Qaida and terrorism conspiracy. The new sentence was imposed by US district judge Marcia Cooke, who originally gave Padilla more than 17 years in prison. She also previously gave Padilla, a US citizen and Muslim convert, credit for the more than three years he was held without charge as an enemy combatant at a South Carolina navy brig.
The 11th US circuit court of appeals in 2011 determined that Cooke erred in giving Padilla credit for the brig years and also failed to properly account for his “heightened risk of dangerousness” due to training at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan. In addition, the appeals judges ruled that Padilla – a former Chicago “Latin Kings” gang member – deserved a longer sentence because of his numerous previous arrests. ...
Padilla, 43, was arrested in 2002 at Chicago’s O’Hare international airport during the tense months after the 9/11 attacks. At the time, authorities said Padilla was on an al-Qaida mission to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb in a major US city. It later emerged that the “mission” was only a sketchy idea. The allegations against Padilla were dropped before he was added in 2005 to an existing south Florida terrorism case. ...
Padilla’s lawyers tried before trial to get the case thrown out by claiming his treatment at the brig amounted to torture, which US officials have repeatedly denied. His attorneys say he was forced to stand in painful stress positions, given LSD or other drugs as “truth serum”, deprived of sleep and subjected to loud noises, extreme heat and cold and noxious odors.
Obama commits US to war against Russia in defense of Baltic states
In a series of speeches and press conferences in connection with last week’s NATO summit in Wales, President Barack Obama publicly declared that the United States military will maintain a permanent presence in the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which border Russia. He vowed that US air and ground forces will remain poised forevermore to respond to claims of Russian aggression by the governments of these countries by attacking Moscow.
In appearances in the Estonian capital of Tallinn and later in Wales, Obama announced a series of military moves against Russia by the United States and NATO as well as expanded economic sanctions and pledges to bolster the military forces of the former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. He made clear in addition that Washington will push for all three countries to join the US-dominated NATO military alliance.
These statements represent an immense escalation of US and NATO military threats against Russia. Without any public discussion, and entirely over the heads of the American people, the Obama administration has committed the country to go to war with the second largest nuclear power in the world over three small countries in Eastern Europe. ...
With the commitments announced last week, the US government is tying the fate of the American people and, indeed, the people of the world, to the actions of governments of three small countries whose combined population is 6.6 million. All three governments are rightwing, ultranationalist and rabidly anti-Russian. They represent a criminal layer of oligarchs who made their fortunes by plundering state property after secession from the Soviet Union and the launching of capitalist restoration.
All these governments are also led by individuals with close ties to American intelligence and the Pentagon. They are all imposing austerity programs that are impoverishing the working class, removing all social protections, and opening up their respective economies to unfettered profit making by Western capital.
Russia successfully tests nuclear missile, more planned
Russia carried out a successful test of its new Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile on Wednesday and will perform two more test launches in October and November, the head of its naval forces said.
The armed forces have boosted their military training and test drills since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which Russia considers in its traditional sphere of influence. ...
A Bulava missile weighs 36.8 tonnes and can travel 8,000 km (5,000 miles) and hold 6-10 nuclear warheads.
Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
"I have nothing against Russian nationalists, or a great Russia," said Dmitry, as we sped through the dark Mariupol night in a pickup truck, a machine gunner positioned in the back. "But Putin's not even a Russian. Putin's a Jew."
Dmitry – which he said is not his real name – is a native of east Ukraine and a member of the Azov battalion, a volunteer grouping that has been doing much of the frontline fighting in Ukraine's war with pro-Russian separatists.
The Azov, one of many volunteer brigades to fight alongside the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, has developed a reputation for its fearlessness in battle.
But there is an increasing worry that while the Azov and other volunteer battalions might be Ukraine's most potent and reliable force on the battlefield against the separatists, they also pose the most serious threat to the Ukrainian government, and perhaps even the state, when the conflict in the east is over. The Azov causes particular concern due to the far-right, even neo-Nazi leanings of many of its members.
Dmitry claimed not to be a Nazi, but waxed lyrical about Adolf Hitler as a military leader, and he believes the Holocaust never happened. Not everyone in the Azov battalion thinks like Dmitry, but after speaking with dozens of its fighters and embedding on several missions during the past week in and around the strategic port city of Mariupol, the Guardian found many of them to have disturbing political views, and almost all to be intent on "bringing the fight to Kiev" when the war in the east is over.
German TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past on Monday night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast. ...
The video was shot last week in Ukraine by a camera team from Norwegian broadcaster TV2. “We were filming a report about Ukraine’s AZOV battalion in the eastern city of Urzuf, when we came across these soldiers,” Oysten Bogen, a correspondent for the private television station, told NBC News.
Internet Slowdown: Online Protest Warns Users of What’s to Come if Net Neutrality Rules Redrawn
Tech firms begin 'go-slow' protest in battle for the web
Much of the internet went on a “go-slow” protest Wednesday as some of the world’s largest tech companies began a protest over proposals that could create fast web lanes for some companies.
Tech firms including Netflix, Etsy, FourSquare, KickStarter, Mozilla, Reddit, PornHub and Vimeo installed a widget on their sites to show how they believe the internet would look if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overturns “net neutrality” rules. ...
Evan Greer, co-founder of Fight for the Future, a pressure group helping to organise the protest day, said in an email: “Net neutrality is tough to explain to people, so we wanted to organize an action that actually shows the world what’s at stake. I think the three most hated words on the internet right now are ‘Please wait, loading ... ’
“Unless internet users unite in defence of net neutrality, we could be seeing those dreaded ‘loading’ wheels a lot more often on some of our favourite websites, while monopolistic companies get to decide which content gets seen by the most people.”
Betting Bonanza: Punters put cash on Scottish referendum result
UK Leaders Head for Scotland in Last Ditch Effort to Prevent Union Break-up
Britain's leaders flew into Scotland on Wednesday in a last ditch effort to win back voters as the Yes campaign gathers momentum ahead of next week's referendum on Scottish independence.
Alarmed by a Monday poll putting the Yes camp in the lead for the first time, Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour opposition, abandoned their traditional weekly parliamentary debate and headed north in an attempt to pull the 300-year-old union back from the brink of collapse.
The move was mocked by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, the leader of the pro-independence movement, who described the trio as "the most distrusted Westminster leaders ever." He predicted the arrival of the men would only boost support for the Yes campaign, which on Monday scored 51 per cent in a survey by YouGov. ...
In an unusually personal article in the Daily Mail, the prime minister told Scots that the rest of the UK "desperately wants you to stay." A brighter future for Scotland would come from staying in the United Kingdom while having substantial new powers, he said.
All three main Westminster parties have backed a plan of action which would a handover of enhanced powers to Scotland's already devolved parliament on 19 September, the day after the referendum, should it yield a victory for the union.
Ferguson: first public meeting since Michael Brown's death greeted by anger
‘You’ve lost your authority to govern this community,’ says one activist, as protesters express their unhappiness with leaders
Elected leaders in the St Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a white police officer hoped to use their first public meeting since Michael Brown’s death as a chance to promote community healing.
Instead, they were greeted Tuesday night with anger, outrage and warnings of voter retribution at the ballot box. Proposals to overhaul the municipal courts and create a citizen police review board were greeted warily, if not with outright skepticism. ...
Ferguson officials have pledged to boost minority hiring in a 53-person police force with just three black officers, and to meet informally in city neighborhoods to promote a public dialogue.
But within minutes of the start of the City Council meeting, where the proposals were briefly discussed, several demonstrators stood up and shouted as the council tried to cover some routine business. Later, others stood and chanted, “Shut it down!” while raising their hands in the air. Protesters have used the gesture because several witnesses say Brown had raised his hands as officer Darren Wilson shot him.
The first person to take the microphone during the public comment period said he was there for the mayor’s job. It was a theme echoed throughout, as speaker after speaker expressed doubt about the city’s planned reforms — and anger at the government officials on the stage.
“I heard the mayor say Ferguson doesn’t have a race problem,” said Taurean Russell, 30. “There must be two Fergusons.”
Police using military gear in riots could be forced to repay millions in grants
US police forces that use military equipment earmarked for counter-terrorism to handle public order disturbances instead could be forced to repay millions of dollars in grants, under a review revealed during the first congressional hearings into this summer’s riots in Ferguson, Missouri.
The Department of Justice and the White House were already investigating whether to limit federal programs that have showered local law enforcement agencies with armoured vehicles and military-style equipment in recent years.
But the Department of Homeland Security, one of three US agencies primarily responsible for providing the equipment, said it was now considering whether to demand that its grants be repaid if police are found to have broken a little-known rule prohibiting its use in riot suppression.
“We have a range of remedies should [the DOJ] find non-compliance, including recoupment of funds,” Brian Kamoie of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Kentucky senator Rand Paul during a hearing of the Senate homeland security committee.
Paul said he was horrified by the “thoroughly un-American” policing tactics seen in Ferguson and demanded an immediate end to a similar Pentagon program, called 1033, that has provided 12,000 bayonets, 5,200 humvees and 617 mine-resistant armoured vehicles (MRAPs) to civilian forces across the US.
Federal Reserve Data Shows Growing Wealth Gap Based on Race
Subprime lending execs back in business five years after crash
Five years after the financial crisis crested with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., top executives from the biggest subprime lenders are back in the game. Many are developing new loans that target borrowers with low credit scores and small down payments, pushing the limits of tighter lending standards that have prevailed since the crisis.
Some experts fear they won’t know where to stop.
The Center for Public Integrity in 2009 identified the top 25 lenders by subprime loan production from 2005 through 2007. Today, senior executives from all 25 of those companies or companies that they swallowed up before the crash are back in the mortgage business. Most of these newer “non-bank” lenders are making or collecting on loans that may be too risky to qualify for backing by the U.S. government. As the industry regains its footing, these specialty lenders represent a small but growing portion of the market.
Hawaii ramps up efforts to move homeless people from tourists areas
Jim Trevarthen used to teach tourists how to surf on Hawaii’s famed Waikiki Beach.
These days Trevarthen, 62, is homeless after his Waikiki landlord canceled his lease and jacked up the rent, he said. He spends his days reading surfside and figuring out where he’s going to get his next meal, and his nights finding a safe place to rest where he won’t be shooed away by police.
Trevarthen is one of Hawaii’s many homeless people who live on the shores of paradise, but he’s feeling the impact of the city’s ramped up efforts to move its homeless population away from its tourist meccas.
Under pressure from the visitor industry, the Honolulu City Council is taking up a slew of proposals to ban sitting, lying down, defecating and urinating on sidewalks in Waikiki and other public places.
In another proposal, the city may allow its homeless population to camp on Sand Island, a remote, mostly industrial island far from resorts that was used during World War II as a an Internment Camp for Japanese Americans and is home to a wastewater treatment plant and former dump.
Attitude Adjustment Camps
New York governor Andrew Cuomo bruised by strong primary challenge
Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has been renominated by the Democratic party after surviving a primary challenge that exceeded expectations from Zephyr Teachout, a leftwing insurgent candidate.
Cuomo, who is seeking a second term, will now face Rob Astorino, a little-known Republican county executive, in November’s general election.
The governor’s running mate, former congresswoman Kathy Hochul, also survived a contest with Teachout’s co-campaigner, Tim Wu, on Tuesday night to win the Democratic candidacy for lieutenant governor.
With 94% of precincts reporting, Cuomo had won 61.8% of the vote against 34.6% for Teachout, a 42-year-old law professor at Fordham University who spearheaded a liberal rebellion over Cuomo’s fiscal conservatism, his ties to big business and his decision to scrap an anti-corruption commission. ...
Liberals declared that they had embarrassed Cuomo. “The governor is feeling some heat,” said Bertha Lewis, an adviser to Teachout and veteran campaigner. “We kicked some ass and we took his name. We’re here and we’re not going away.”
The Evening Greens
Exclusive: DA Joins the 2 Climate Activists He Declined to Prosecute, Citing Climate Change Threat
An Energy Revolution is Underway in Uruguay
Uruguay is coming close to realizing a goal of complete energy independence — in a place with no known oil reserves.
A massive national endeavor is underway to construct wind farms, and Uruguay's private and public sectors are investing heavily in energy alternatives in an effort to generate electricity that is not dependent on petroleum. The changes have already reduced energy costs for consumers.
In a wide-ranging interview with VICE News, Ramon Mendez, director of Uruguay's energy administration, said that 84 percent of the country's electricity was generated from natural resources like wind, water, and agricultural waste (also known as biomass) in 2013. That pace is holding this year, and Mendez said he expects that rate to hit 95 percent in 2015.
As a result, the country managed to cut energy bills for consumers by 5.5 percent as of this July. Authorities have promised that more reductions are on the way.
"[Uruguay] will never again use oil to generate electricity," Mendez told VICE News. The progress will mostly be thanks to a source of energy that Uruguayans enjoy in abundance — the wind.
Japan to restart nuclear reactors
Japan's nuclear watchdog has given the green light for two reactors to restart but the operator still has to persuade local communities they are safe.
Widespread anti-nuclear sentiment has simmered in Japan ever since an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 caused meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant, sparking the worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl.
The country's nuclear reactors were switched off after the catastrophe. Two reactors were briefly restarted last year but all of Japan's nuclear plants are currently offline.
The go-ahead from the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) for two reactors at the Sendai plant in southern Japan comes after it issued a more than 400-page safety report in July and follows a month-long public consultation period.
But any restart is unlikely before the year end as the operator, Kyushu Electric Power, is also required to get two more NRA approvals for other facilities at the site.
'We're Running Out of Time': UN Body Says Greenhouse Gas Levels at Record High
In its latest annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin (pdf), which was released Tuesday, the WMO states that atmospheric levels of CO2 — the single most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas in the atmosphere — are at record levels.
In 2013, levels of CO2 were 396 parts per million (ppm), which is 142 percent of the pre-industrial level. The Bulletin warns that the world's global annual average is on track to surpass 400 ppm of CO2 in 2015 or 2016. ...
Methane, another important greenhouse gas, reached a record high in 2013 as well, surging to 253% of its pre-industrial level, according to the Bulletin.
This year's Bulletin is the first to include a section on ocean acidification, the rate of which "appears unprecedented at least over the last 300 million years." Acting as a carbon sink, the ocean absorbs roughly one-fourth of human-caused CO2 emissions, the WMO states. That absorption makes it more acidic, which can have a detrimental effect on marine life with shells because "calcification declines with increased acidification." ...
“The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows that, far from falling, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere actually increased last year at the fastest rate for nearly 30 years, stated WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Patriot Act’s absurd new spawn: Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse
Are We Approaching the End of Human History?
Yes to Scottish Independence — and to the End of British Neoliberalism
What To Do About ISIS
The Time to Oppose War Is Now
Germans Want Cooler Relations with USA
"Fiddle dee dee. War, war, war.
A Little Night Music
Sunnyland Slim - Be Careful How You Vote
Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get To Drinkin'
Sunnyland Slim - Tin Pan Alley
Sunnyland Slim - Shake It
Sunnyland Slim -- Woman I Ain't Gonna Drink No More Whiskey
It's You Baby (Sunnyland Slim, 1956)
Sunnyland Slim - I'm Prison Bound
Sunnyland Slim - Jivin' Boogie
Sunnyland Slim - Back to Korea Blues
Sunnyland Slim - Going Back To Memphis
Sunnyland Slim - Hit The Road Again
Sunnyland Slim - Be Mine Alone
Sunnyland Slim Blues Band - You Used to Love Me
Sunnyland Slim - Brown Skin Woman
Sunnyland Slim - The Devil Is A Busy Man
Sunnyland Slim - She's Got A Thing Going On
Sunnyland Slim - Speak Once and Think Twice
Sunny Land Slim with Muddy Waters - Johnson Machine Gun
Sunnyland Slim - Highway 61
Sunnyland Slim with Mike Bloomfield - Sunnyland's Jump
Sunnyland Slim - I Am The Blues
Sunnyland Slim - Lilly's - Chicago (1987) (from a film)
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