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"The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber."

-- George Galloway

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The violent contradictions of the Obama doctrine: How to plead for peace while bombing your enemies to hell

Almost 50 paragraphs into his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Barack Obama made the joke that formed half of his 2012 reelection message: “If you doubt America’s commitment — or mine — to see that justice is done, just ask Osama bin Laden.” Thus the president boasted, again, of having killed the al-Qaida leader. He continued: “Ask the leader of al-Qaida in Yemen, who was taken out last year, or the perpetrator of the Benghazi attacks, who sits in a prison cell,” listing the names of those his administration has killed or jailed. “When you come after Americans, we go after you,” the president warned, almost as if he was repeating the “dead or alive” guarantee his predecessor made. ...

While pushing against the belligerence of the GOP candidates, Obama advocated for a more measured application of American leadership (and pretended that our coalition in Syria was bigger than it is in practice). But in the middle of it all, Obama also invoked the pope, who addressed Congress just months earlier: “[T]o imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.”

It’s as if the guy boasting of his 10,000 airstrikes and the killing of Osama bin Laden missed the full point of the pope’s message, which also insisted: “Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.”

Obama is trying very hard to clear space from which to wage a more measured form of bombing. But even if he can, it’s bombing nonetheless. It is still responding to murder with more killing, imitating the violence of murderers. That may all be necessary from a political perspective, particularly as we get deeper into election-year campaigning. But bombing Muslim countries for eight more years, even without troops on the ground, hasn’t proven all that much more effective than claiming we’re in a world war against Muslims as a religion.

A Bad Week for Warmongers: U.S.-Iran Quickly Resolve Sailors' Breach Just Before Nuke Deal Kicks In

US Plans for ISIS War in 2016: Attacking Mosul, Raqqa

Likely a function of previous talk about getting the American public to recognize that they have an actual strategy in the ISIS war, Defense Secretary Ash Carter and other Pentagon officials laid out an ambitious series of plans for 2016, including capturing Raqqa and Mosul, ISIS’ largest two remaining cities.

Carter bragged about how well the ISIS campaign is going, claiming his statement today was the completion of a “military plan” to retake Mosul and Raqqa, saying Kurdish forces in both Iraq and Syria would encircle those cities.

Carter insisted he has “big arrows” pointing at those cities, but also talked up other plans, including widespread assassinations of ISIS leaders, and a significant escalation of the US drone wars against Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, with drone strikes in those countries extending “beyond declared battlefields.”

US ‘Targeting Force’ in Iraq, Aims to Up ISIS Assassinations

One of the escalations announced back in December, a US ground deployment of 200 special operations troops is now in place and active in Iraq, according to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who says they are working closely with Iraqi forces. ...

The deployment also likely is related to Carter’s talk of one of his goals for the ISIS war being an increase in assassinations of ISIS leaders, with the US boots on the ground trying to provide some intelligence on where those commanders are.

Istanbul attack: bomber confirmed as Saudi, suspected member of IS group, entered Turkey as refugee

Isis may be concluding Turkey is no longer a place where it need tread carefully

Turkey is becoming a more dangerous place, but then so is the Middle East and North Africa and anywhere Isis can send its suicide squads. The Turkish authorities say that the bomber who killed at least 10 people, mostly German tourists, near the obelisk of Theodosius, not far from Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, was a 28-year-old Saudi making it likely though not certain that Isis ordered the attack. ...

Turkey has been unenthusiastically sending planes to bomb Isis targets in Syria, under pressure from the US, and has arrested members of Isis cells inside Turkey. The government may not have done very much, but this is very different from the years when Isis volunteers were able to cross unimpeded the Turkish-Syrian border to reach the Islamic State. ...

A possible motive for yesterday’s bombing could be a warning that Isis will retaliate for any measures taken against it by the Turkish state. It certainly has the means to do so, because 1,000 or more of its fighters are Turks and it has pockets of committed support inside Turkey.

The violence emanating from the civil wars in Syria and Iraq has already affected Turkey. Low level guerrilla warfare between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish army is spreading across Kurdish areas of south east Turkey. President Erdogan reinforced his power at home when his party won the parliamentary election. Turkey’s influence in Syria is under threat, however, both from the Syrian Kurds – backed by US air strikes and from Russia’s extreme hostility to Turkey after Turkish jets shot down a one of its aircraft in November, in what looks like a carefully-prepared ambush. Russian military engagement in Syria makes it more difficult for Turkey to threaten to act against the Kurds there.

Isis may be concluding that Turkey is no longer a place where it need tread carefully in order to preserve official tolerance of its activities. With no sign of the war in Syria ending, the latest Istanbul bomb could be the precursor of far worse carnage.

Chomsky hits back at Erdoğan, accusing him of double standards on terrorism

The leftwing US academic Noam Chomsky has hit back at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the Turkish president accused him of ignorance and sympathising with terrorists.

Hours after Tuesday’s bomb attack on a tourist area of Istanbul, Erdoğan delivered a sneering criticism of Chomsky and “so-called intellectuals” who had signed a letter calling on Turkey to lift its siege against Kurdish towns and cities in the south-east of the country. ...

In the open letter to Erdoğan released last month, Chomsky and hundreds of others accused him of waging war against his own people. It said: “The responsibility for the present self-inflicted crisis in the country must lie squarely with Erdoğan, who perceives the Kurds – whether it is the HDP [the pro-Kurdish, left-leaning party which gained 81 seats at the last election], the PYD in Syria or the PKK [the separatist Kurdish Workers’ Party] – as obstacles to his plan to establish supreme rule for the Turkish presidency. ...

In his email to the Guardian, Chomsky accused Erdoğan of hypocrisy. He said: “Turkey blamed Isis [for the attack on Istanbul], which Erdoğan has been aiding in many ways, while also supporting the al-Nusra Front, which is hardly different. He then launched a tirade against those who condemn his crimes against Kurds – who happen to be the main ground force opposing Isis in both Syria and Iraq. Is there any need for further comment?”

The Laura Flanders Show: Molly Crabapple on Her New Memoir 'Drawing Blood'

Writers join worldwide action to protest Palestinian poet's death sentence in Saudi Arabia

Hundreds of writers including Irvine Welsh, Ruth Padel and AL Kennedy are taking part in a worldwide reading in support of the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after being accused of renouncing Islam.

The readings of Fayadh’s poetry at 122 events in 44 countries on Thursday are part of a campaign organised by the International literature festival Berlin calling on the UK and US governments to halt his beheading and to put pressure on Saudi Arabia to improve its human rights record.

The action comes ahead of a panel of judges considering Fayadh’s appeal next week, where it will be contested that the poet’s conviction for apostasy is seriously flawed and based on false and uncorroborated allegations.

Poems being read at the worldwide event include a selection from Fayadh’s 2008 book, Instructions Within, which his accuser claimed promoted atheism, a charge the poet has denied.

Likud calls off leadership vote: Netanyahu to remain party head through 2023

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be Likud's chairman in the next Knesset general elections, the party's court decided on Wednesday after it called off the leadership vote slated for February 23. Netanyahu was the sole contender for the position after he pushed a resolution to move up the party leadership vote.

This will be Netanyahu’s seventh term as leader, a post he has held intermittently since 1993. The decision leaves him as leader until 2023.

The court said that according to the Likud constitution, there was no need for a vote when only one candidate is running. The move allowed Netanyahu to neutralize all his rivals and limit their influence on the party’s central committee.

South Korea Fires Warning Shots at ‘Flying Object’ Across Border With North Korea

Adding to the ever-rising tensions in the area, the South Korean military fired a series of “warning shots” across the border into North Korea after spotting a “flying object” of unknown design and origin flying on the North Korean side of the border. ...

The early speculation is that the drone was spotting South Korean loudspeakers broadcasting propaganda into the north in a prelude to shooting at a few of them. This happened the last time South Korea set up the loudspeakers, though the large speakers are relatively cheap to produce and probably not economical to attack wholesale.

Al Jazeera America Terminates All TV and Digital Operations

Executives of Al Jazeera America (AJAM) held a meeting at 2 p.m. Eastern Time to tell their employees that the company is terminating all news and digital operations in the U.S. as of April 2016, resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs. The announcement marks a stunning and rapid collapse of what, from the start, has been a towering failure. ...

From the start, employees complained vociferously that network executives were paralyzed by fear, believing they had to avoid all hints of bias and opinion in order to steer clear of what these executives regarded as the lethal stench of the Al Jazeera brand for American audiences. This turned much of the network into a diluted, extra-fearful version of CNN, which itself has suffered from remarkably low ratings for years. ...

AJAM has been losing staggering sums of money from the start. That has become increasingly untenable as the network’s owner and funder, the government of Qatar, is now economically struggling due to low oil prices. The decision was made recently to terminate AJAM, which allows the network to terminate all of its cumbersome distribution contracts with cable companies, and re-launch its successful Al Jazeera English inside the U.S.

Research Doesn’t Back a Link Between Migrants and Crime in U.S.

In America, as in Europe, anti-immigrant backlashes have often followed episodes in which foreigners are blamed for crimes and other problems. But statistical studies show that in the United States, at least, immigrants are far more law-abiding than natives, regardless of race, class or education.

“Immigrants have always been a convenient scapegoat,” Walter A. Ewing, a senior researcher at the American Immigration Council, a nonprofit group in Washington, said on Wednesday. ...

Mr. Ewing collaborated with Rubén G. Rumbaut, a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine, and Daniel E. Martinez, an assistant sociology professor at George Washington University, on a study released this past July that used census data, F.B.I. data and other statistical data to rebut stereotypes about immigrants. It showed, for example, that between 1990 and 2013, as the foreign-born share of the United States population nearly doubled and the number of unauthorized immigrants more than tripled, violent crime declined 48 percent and property crime fell 41 percent.

The study also showed that incarceration rates of native-born Americans were far higher than of migrants.

Such findings, the study said, reiterated what other research had confirmed for more than a century: “The overwhelming majority of immigrants are not ‘criminals’ by any commonly accepted definition of the term.”

Angry Militia Leader: Stop Mailing Us Dildos

No one ever said it’s easy to take a stand against the federal government: it’s cold, there aren’t enough snacks, everyone is pissy, and a bunch of strangers won’t stop sending you hate mail and dicks.

Oregon militia organizer Jon Ritzheimer really, really fuckin’ hates Uncle Sam. But what he hates even more is all of the obscene and generally unhelpful emails and packages that strangers from around the country and Gawker are sending to his band of armchair commandos. In a new Facebook post and accompanying video, Ritzheimer says he’s sick of this garbage.

He takes particular issue with an enormous dildo and a “bag of dicks” that appear to be made out of candy—a form of snack, so I’m not sure what his beef is here.

[Note, if you have a spare dildo, you can send it to: General Mail John Ritzheimer or Blaine Cooper Burns, OR 97720. - js]

Thank you, Oregon militiamen: The longer you stay, the more ridiculous you and the conservative movement look

So far [...] the government shows no interest in giving the militia the violent showdown they long for, instead seeming content to wait them out, secure in the knowledge that this particular bunch of idiots are not the hard asses they pretend to be and will likely get cold or bored and leave on their own soon enough, tails tucked neatly between their legs.

It turns out that this is the best possible decision federal authorities could have made. In fact, it’s increasingly clear that this clown show is, if anything, a huge gift to liberals. Every day that these yahoos are out there, they expose how empty and stupid the myth of the “rugged individual” that the right so romanticizes really is. Instead, we get to see that these supposedly rugged individuals are, in reality, extremely silly people who are mostly there to play dress-up, engage in fantasies of self-importance, and beg the government to give them free money so they can get rich. ...

The only big action that the militia has taken, besides doing a bunch of news conferences where they play at a being tough guys, is tearing down a fence put up to keep privately owned cattle from grazing on public lands. This action was meant to drive home their main demand, which is for the federal government to give ranchers across the West free land to graze cattle with. ...

They are threatening a violent standoff on the grounds that the taxpayers should be feeding their cows for free. And let’s be clear, this isn’t a “cow rights” issue. They want the taxpayers to feed their cows, but rest assured, they plan to keep all the profits off selling the cows we fattened up for them. It’s the equivalent of a car company asking the government to simply give them the steel for free to make cars.

The Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Has Convinced Lego to Change Its Policy on Political Projects

The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei leveraged his international fame in convincing the Lego toy company to abandon its policy of voiding big bulk orders of its bricks that it determines are going to be used to express political views or make a politically charged statement. ...

"In September Lego refused Ai Weiwei Studio's request for a bulk order of Legos to create artwork to be shown at the National Gallery of Victoria as 'they cannot approve the use of Legos for political works,' " the artist said on his Instagram account. "On Oct 21, a British firm formally announced that it will open a new Legoland in Shanghai as one of the many deals of the UK-China 'Golden Era.' " ...

The company announced on Tuesday that it would no longer ask about the "thematic purpose" of a project when it receives large orders of Legos. ...

The Danish company said it has changed its policy because of its potential to result "in misunderstandings or be perceived as inconsistent." Instead, when fulfilling such orders, "the customers will be asked to make it clear — if they intend to display their LEGO creations in public — that the LEGO Group does not support or endorse the specific projects."

Homan Square: legislators vote for DoJ inquiry of Chicago police to add facility

The Cook County board of commissioners, which oversees the second largest county in the US including the entirety of Chicago, approved a measure on Wednesday calling for the Department of Justice to expand its landmark investigation into the city’s police department “to look into allegations of civil and human rights violations” at the detention warehouse known as Homan Square.

That inquiry from the nation’s top law enforcement agency represented a domino effect: video footage of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being shot in the back by a Chicago police officer led to the forced resignation of the city’s police chief, and a wider look by the justice department’s civil-rights division has only hurled more pressure on Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel to step down after police misconduct on his watch.

But even politicians, activists and attorneys who saw the Guardian’s reports on Homan Square as signals of secrecy “far, far, far beyond” a single police-shooting cover-up have acknowledged – after Wednesday’s surprisingly unanimous vote – that federal pressure on the department marked a turning point for their attempts to shutter the facility. ...

As Chicago’s police re-inherit the national spotlight from Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri, which were subject to similar DoJ inquiries into race-based policing and use of force, Cook County officials said the scale of Washington’s investigation “provides us with an ideal opportunity” to bring to light more of the city’s law-enforcement abuses.

“Any federal investigation of the Chicago police department that does not include Homan Square will be incomplete and woefully inadequate,” said commissioner Richard J Boykin.

Myth of the middle class: Most Americans don’t even have $1,000 in savings

American politicians constantly speak of the middle class. Democrats, Republicans and even many independents all insist their policies defend it. ...

A new study suggests that the U.S. hardly even has one.

More than half of Americans — 56 percent, to be exact — have less than $1,000 combined in their checking and savings accounts, according to a recent survey, Forbes reported. ...

Politicians constantly insist that the U.S. is the putative “leader of the world,” but why does this matter if it does not translate into positive gains for actual working-class citizens? The U.S. may be the most powerful country in the world, economically and militarily speaking, but if this does not bring with it a high standard of living or ensure well-being for citizens, it ultimately does not matter; it simply benefits the rich, and the rich alone. ...

If most Americans do not have any savings, and this number is rising, the term “middle class” is useless. Politicians and news outlets may try to redefine it, but, if a majority of a country’s citizens live paycheck-to-paycheck, that country has been hollowed out — replaced with an inverted bell curve whose peaks are getting farther and farther apart and whose trough is so overstretched it will eventually burst.

It is time to admit it: There is no middle class; there is only the working class and the ruling class — the economic elite.

The Deeper, Uglier Side of TPP

Senator Kay Hagan Promised to Take On Special Interests, Now She Works for Them

Former Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., who lost her seat in the most expensive Senate race in history in 2014, has taken a job at lobbying powerhouse Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

After losing her seat, Hagan said in speeches that the biggest problem in America today is the dominance of big money, noting that the wealthy and special interests have come to control the political process through lobbyists and Super PACs. “We have got to get the obscene money out of politics, and I think that would change politics,” Hagan told the Rotary Club of Greensboro last year.

Akin Gump, one of the highest grossing lobbying firms in the country, is an odd perch for an avowed opponent of big money.

The firm lobbies for all kinds of corporate clients, including Amazon.com, AT&T, Boeing, Corrections Corporation of America, Dow Chemical, Monsanto, and Pfizer.

One of its top clients is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the lobbying group that aired campaign commercials that led to Hagan’s defeat over a year ago.

Bernie Sanders is winning with the one group his rivals can't sway: voters

As Trump continues to dominate both parties for media attention, and Hillary Clinton remains a favorite to win with Wall Street, Bernie Sanders is suddenly surging again among those who actually matter: voters. ...

But perhaps more important than the news of Sanders’s gain is how it happened: by patiently hammering on his message of drawing attention to economic inequality, raising taxes on the rich, dramatically expanding Medicare and Social Security, making public universities free of charge and criminal justice reform.

He has, to great criticism by beltway pundits, avoided the rest of the candidates’ descent into constant fear-mongering about terrorism and hyping the “threat” from Isis. Instead he has mocked both the media and other candidates for doing so, as BuzzFeed reported last month:

“As a nation and as a people, we have got to understand that our country faces a myriad of very serious problems… if you turn on the TV, what they now say is, ‘Well we’ve got one problem, it’s Isis,” Sanders said, launching into a sarcastic impression of the “they” on television this week.

Clinton, meanwhile, has sounded more like the Republican candidates with her conventional forever war posture, her defense of the disastrous Libya intervention and her calls for an escalation of the war in Syria. Apparently she’s not concerned that she’s running for the nomination from a party who rejected her in 2008 partly because of her support for the Iraq war.

As on almost every issue, the stench of corruption surrounds Hillary T. Hypocrite:

Hillary Clinton’s Single-Payer Pivot Greased By Millions in Industry Speech Fees

Hillary Clinton’s sudden attack on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is a dramatic break with Democratic Party doctrine that the problem with single-payer is that it is politically implausible — not that it is a bad idea. ...

Both Clintons have taken millions of dollars in speaking fees from the health care industry. According to public disclosures, Hillary Clinton alone, from 2013 to 2015, made $2,847,000 from 13 paid speeches to the industry. ...

Hillary Clinton’s record on single-payer dates back to 1993, when she was tasked to help formulate White House policy. According to the notes of former Clinton confidante Diane Blair, Clinton told her husband during a dinner in February 1993 that “managed competition” — a private health insurance market — was “a crock, single payer necessary; maybe add to Medicare.” ...

Hillary Clinton’s paid speech circuit came to an end as her campaign revved up. But for her husband, with whom she shares a bank account, it hasn’t. This summer, he was the keynote speaker at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the industry group that poured almost $100 million into trying to defeat health care reforms during the fight over the Affordable Care Act.

Amid Fundraising Surge for Sanders, Are Clinton 'Panic Attacks' Backfiring?

As a new poll out Thursday shows Bernie Sanders practically tied with Hillary Clinton in Iowa, the Vermont senator's campaign is reporting a surge of donations in response to the former Secretary of State's "panic attacks" earlier this week.

"As of now, we are at about $1.4 million raised since yesterday when the panic attacks by the Clinton campaign began," said Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs on Wednesday afternoon. "We've gotten 47,000 contributions. We're projecting 60,000 donations. Even for our people-powered campaign, this is pretty darn impressive."

On Monday and Tuesday, the Clinton camp struck out at Sanders' single-payer healthcare proposal, drawing criticism from progressive groups who decried the remarks as "a crude, inflammatory distortion."  ...

Having recently snagged the backing of progressive advocacy organizations MoveOn and Democracy for America, Sanders on Thursday gained his first national magazine endorsement, from The Nation.

A Series of Strong Quakes in Oklahoma Triggers Republican Scrutiny of Oil Drilling

Lewis Moore is expecting to get an earful Thursday night.

Moore, who represents a chunk of Oklahoma City's northern suburbs in the state House of Representatives, is holding a town meeting about the spate of earthquakes that have rattled homes there since the last days of December. His constituents are "pissed off," he said — And he can sympathize.

"I'm getting jacked up at my house the same as they are," said Lewis, a second-term Republican. "One neighborhood had 25 homes where the rockwork on the inside of the home came off." ...

They're not only pissed off, they're starting to sue. A group of Edmond-area homeowners went to court this week, seeking damages from a group of oil companies that operated wastewater injection wells nearby. ...

Moore said bills have already been introduced to give the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the state oil regulator, more power over the practice. Lawmakers return to session in February, and Democratic lawmakers are holding their own public forum on the earthquakes on Friday.

"We need to give the Corporation Commission more authority to stop injections," he said.

As California Methane Leak Displaces Thousands, Will U.S. Regulate Natural Gas Sites Nationwide?

A crime justified by climate change? Activists caught in legal showdown

A jury in Washington state is hearing evidence on whether the threat of climate change is a justifiable defense for criminal acts, the first time such a defense has been allowed in an American court. ...

The five activists [dubbed the “Delta Five” by their supporters] – Michael LaPointe, Patrick Mazza, Jackie Minchew, Elizabeth Spoerri and Abigail Brockway – face misdemeanor charges of criminal trespass and obstructing a train for a September 2014 protest. The group erected an 18-ft metal tripod over railway tracks in Everett, Washington, in order to block train shipments of crude oil and coal. ...

Having opened the door to testimony from climate scientists, Judge Howard also appeared inclined to allow expansive testimony from the defendants. He has permitted each defendant to testify to their personal history as activists, mapping their development from idealistic voters to frustrated believers in the necessity of civil disobedience.

“It felt like projects were being rubber-stamped no matter what we did,” Brockway said of her years spent writing letters to officials and testifying at hearings on environmental issues. “Before I switched to direct action, I felt I worked within the system as much as I could.”

That the defendants exhausted all the legal means of political persuasion available to US citizens in order to achieve their goals is a key factor of the necessity defense, McCallum explained. The defendants must show that they reasonably believed their actions were necessary, that the harm they sought to prevent was greater than the harm of breaking the law, that they didn’t create the laws they broke, and that they had no reasonable legal alternative.

By eliciting testimony that the activists had no reasonable legal alternative to prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change, the defense team is building a depressing but compelling argument against the efficacy of American democracy and government.

Nevada solar industry collapses after state lets power company raise fees

Although Nevada is one of the sunniest places in the world, there has recently been a dark cloud hovering over the rooftop solar industry in the state. Just before Christmas, Nevada’s public utility commission (PUC) gave the state’s only power company, NV Energy, permission to charge higher rates and fees to solar panel users – a move that immediately shattered the rooftop solar industry’s business model.

In addition to the new monthly fee, which will increase to $40 from $12 over the next five years, customers [...] will get less back from the utility for energy their solar panels capture and feed into the main power grid. Whereas previously they received full retail value for their surplus electricity, soon NV Energy will only pay a third of that price for exported electricity.

The uneven effect would be that during dark hours and cloudy days, solar customers could pay full price for energy, even after contributing two or three times as much electricity to the power grid during the same day. As the Alliance for Solar Choice frames it, the $40 fee eliminates the $11 to $15 solar users typically save on their monthly electricity bills.

“It’s simple math,” said Bryan Miller, president of the Alliance for Solar Choice. “The commission eliminated all solar savings. People would pay more for going solar rather than less. It has left companies no choice but to stop doing business in the state.”

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Hillary Clinton’s fatal weakness exposed yet again: Why Bernie Sanders’ surge is exposing her biggest political shortcoming

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