Likud sources claim PM ready to negotiate on basis of pre-1967 lines

I guess I'll believe it when I see it -- in 3 years. From the right-wing Times of Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to continue peace talks for another year on the basis of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s 'framework' agreement, which provides for negotiations for Palestinian statehood on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, according to Likud sources quoted by Israel’s Channel 10 news Monday night. Netanyahu is prepared to view the framework agreement, including the...

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When I was laid off from Antiwar.com in the summer of 2012 (due to illegal FBI police state persecution of that organization) there was a real question as to whether or not the show could survive. For an ideological libertarian, I'm a pretty lousy businessman, and job opportunities in the libertarian movement are incredibly scarce. But so I decided to just try to get a handful of advertisers from within the movement -- at incredibly reasonable rates -- and then fill in the gaps with monthly...

Afghanistan gains will be lost quickly after drawdown, U.S. intelligence estimate warns

And that's assuming Obama and the Democrats succeed in convincing the regime to "invite" the SOCOM to stay. If they all pack up and go next year as promised, well: "The report predicts that Afghanistan would likely descend into chaos quickly if Washington and Kabul don't sign a security pact that would keep an international military contingent there beyond 2014 ”” a precondition for the delivery of billions of dollars in aid that the United States and its allies have pledged to spend in...

Antiwar Radio 12/29/13:

This morning on Antiwar Radio: Adam Morrow of InterPress Service reports from Cairo on the dictatorship's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. That's 8:30-9:00 on 90.7 FM KPFK in L.A., KPFK.org.

Shoppers Stock Up On Rifles, Shotguns Before California Long Gun Registry Begins

Via LibertyCrier, American history being written: "A new gun law coming in 2014 has gun owners stocking up on long guns before a new registry begins. "Even though the law is at least temporarily boosting his bottom line, Just Guns owner John Deaser isn't a fan. He says requiring people to register their rifles and shotguns is an unnecessary invasion of privacy. "In the last week of 2013, he says sales of long guns are up 30 to 50 percent. "The registry goes into effect on Jan. 1, and would...

Michigan Nullifies NDAA’s Indefinite Detention

Michael Lofti of the Washington Times: Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed Senate Bill No. 94 into law yesterday. The bill seeks to nullify section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). 'It is important to recall that indefinite detention first appeared in section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA, which provided warrant for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens,' said Snyder. Michigan State Senator Rick Jones says that no American citizen should fear being thrown in jail or...

12/29/13 – Adam Morrow – The Scott Horton Show

Cairo-based IPS News journalist Adam Morrow discusses the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's turn from democratically elected government to outlawed terrorist group in six months time; the bigger Egyptian protests despite harsher and deadlier crackdowns by the military; and the media's increasingly less believable over-the-top denunciations of the Muslim Brotherhood.

How al-Qaeda Changed the Syrian War

Here's an interesting piece in the New York Review of Books about how 'nevermind al Nusra, these ISIS guys are the real ball busters. And the Americans don't know what to do.' The people of Syria can thank George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- as well as the Israelis and Saudis of course -- for their misery. Without the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would have just been the leader of crappy little Ansar al-Islam, terrorizing nothing and on the run. Instead an entire legion of Ayman...

12/27/13 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show

Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the Senate proposal for new sanctions that would undermine the fragile Iranian nuclear deal; mandatory US support for an Israeli attack on Iran; and the American misunderstanding of what a Palestinian "land for peace" deal really means.