Saturday, February 27, 2016

2016-02-28 Obama declares mission accomplished in Syria?...

2016-02-28 Obama declares mission accomplished in Syria?... smile emoticon
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In the great style of Bush II...
* US State Department’s deputy spokesman Mark Toner urged Russia to “put up or shut up” over Syria’s truce, describing it as Moscow's submitting to stopping the bombing of the so-called “moderate opposition”.
* Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova: "idiomatic style of communication" by American diplomats...
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has lashed out at remarks recently made by the US State Department’s deputy spokesman, who urged Russia…
RT.COM

2016-02-28 US in AFGHANISTAN: A corporate profit center...

2016-02-28 US in AFGHANISTAN: A corporate profit center...
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Journalist Antony Loewenstein tells Salon how corporations exploit violent conflicts in Afghanistan and beyond
SALON.COM|BY BEN NORTON

2016-02-27 US: Tightening the screws of the police state...

2016-02-27 US: Tightening the screws of the police state...
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ACLU advised people for years that it is a guaranteed Constitutional Right to record police in public action. No longer the case...
The Atlantic
22 hrs
"We find there is no First Amendment right under our governing law to observe and record police officers absent some other expressive conduct."
Civilians may actually have no constitutional protection here, except under specific—and subjective—circumstances.
CITYLAB.COM

2016-02-27 US in IRAQ - a review...

2016-02-27 US in IRAQ - a review...
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Enriching Cheney et al... killing a million people in the process... Bush, Blair Cheney et al should be tried as war criminals.
 early as September 2000. The fundamental goal was to secure access to Iraq’s oil reserves and remove a potential enemy to the state of Israel. This think-tank, founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, was mainly run by vice-president Dick Cheney; by defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld; by Paul Wolfowitz, (Rumsfeld’s deputy at the Defense Department); by George W. Bush’s younger brother Jeb Bush, then governor of Florida; and by Lewis Libby, Cheney’s deputy.
We [the United States] spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives. ... Obviously, it was a mistake… George W. Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one…
GLOBALRESEARCH.CA

2016-02-28 US in AFGHANISTAN: A corporate profit center...

2016-02-28 US in AFGHANISTAN: A corporate profit center...
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Journalist Antony Loewenstein tells Salon how corporations exploit violent conflicts in Afghanistan and beyond
SALON.COM|BY BEN NORTON

2915-02-27 US: In infrastructure of the totalitarian regime, money is no object

2915-02-27 US: In infrastructure of the totalitarian regime, money is no object
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nd 100 billion a year on 17 spy agencies way up from 2012 government estimates .The infighting and conflicts are not ending but multiplying along party lines. This was insanity at its height in every failed empire on earth.
Black budgets, secrets, and spy craft.
BUSINESSINSIDER.COM

2016-02-27 US: Texas "quail hunting" party - the perfect final chord for Scalia's career in corruption...

2016-02-27 US: Texas "quail hunting" party - the perfect final chord for Scalia's career in corruption...
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Justice Scalia Spent His Final Hours With Members of an Ancient, Secretive Society of Elite Hunters
The mysterious International Order of St. Hubertus is steeped in the heritage of European nobility, the "royal hunt" — and war.
http://www.alternet.org/justice-scalia-spent-his-final-hour…
Coleen Rowley
The mysterious International Order of St. Hubertus is steeped in the heritage of European nobility, the "royal hunt" — and war.
ALTERNET.ORG

2015-02-27 CLOSE GITMO NOW!

2015-02-27 CLOSE GITMO NOW!
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Will Guantánamo Ever Close? Fourteen Years After Prison's Opening, Indefinite Detention Persists
Adam Hudson, Truthout: While the Obama administration has increased the pace of releasing Guantánamo detainees, the US policy of indefinite detention remains. President Obama's plan to close the facility amounts to relocating it. Meanwhile, the stories of the people detained at Guantánamo rarely escape the prison.
Read the Article 
President Obama's plan to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amounts to merely relocating it to US soil.
TRUTH-OUT.ORG|BY ADAM HUDSON

2015-02-27 US in SYRIA and the lying media...

2015-02-27 US in SYRIA and the lying media...
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Particularly on foreign and security affairs, US mainstream media tend to parrot the official line... For that reason, the following two pieces in the Boston Globe are glaring recent exceptions...
However, they were published only after the total failure of the US-manufactured Syrian "civil war" operation, and not before some 400,000 deaths, millions of refugees, and massive destruction of the socio-economic infrastructure in Syria has resulted. In short - the typical US induced havoc and chaos.
a. Boston Globe: On Syria: Thank you Russia!
https://www.bostonglobe.com/…/UNKMxrzQvvAt8j4sJH…/story.html
b. The media are misleading the public on Syria
https://www.bostonglobe.com/…/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwa…/story.html
Coleen Rowley
The US would be more secure if it had followed Russia’s foreign policy lead in the past.
BOSTONGLOBE.COM

2015-02-27 WIKILEAKS: 2015 Saudi cables on Syria, Russian
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What would the world come to without Wikileaks?... smile emoticon jz
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Newly Translated WikiLeaks Saudi Cable: Overthrow the Syrian Regime, but Play Nice with Russia
By Brad Hoff
See more at: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44315.htm…
Coleen Rowley
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2016-02-26 The Russian-American Agreement on Syria? Yet Another Huge Victory For Russia

2016-02-26 The Russian-American Agreement on Syria? Yet Another Huge Victory For Russia
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The Saker
Yet again the nay-sayers and Putin-haters have been proven wrong.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44304.htm
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that everybody has now recognized that Syrian Arab Republic, backed by Russia, has successfully repelled the aggression of the huge coalition the AngloZionists built to…
INFORMATIONCLEARINGHOUSE.INFO

2016-02-26 Eurasian Century - China-Iran "Silk Road" re-opens


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The New Silk Roads - explained from a Chinese point of view, also doing the rounds in the US via ICH.
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INFORMATIONCLEARINGHOUSE.INFO

2016-02-26 PALESTINE: Routines of the occupation...

2016-02-26 PALESTINE: Routines of the occupation...
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Israel says it will not renew Muhammad al-Qiq's administrative detention order.
Israeli authorities promise to shorten Muhammad al-Qiq’s administrative detention order, not renew it. Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq ended a 94-day…
972MAG.COM