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Trump's Israel campaign intimately tied to the Israeli far-right - just for votes, or sign of Trump's pro-Zionism?

Judy Maltz
Haaretz
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:56 UTC

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Habayit Hayehudi's Ayelet Shaked, left, and Nafali Bennett during an party event, December 30, 2014.
A background check on some of the key figures running the Trump campaign in Israel reveals a very strong affinity with one particular side of the local political map.

Israeli political leaders have thus far made a point of keeping their two cents out of the big election drama playing out across the ocean, doggedly refusing to endorse either of the presidential candidates.

But a background check on some of the key figures running the Donald Trump campaign in Israel reveals a very strong affinity with one particular side of the Israeli political map.

Tzvika Brot, the newly appointed director of the Republican Party campaign team in Israel, is a former journalist with close ties to the right-wing Likud party. After taking unpaid leave a few years ago from the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth, where he served as Knesset correspondent, Brot was approached by senior Likud officials urging him to run as their representative for mayor of Bat Yam, located just south of Tel Aviv. Brot declined to run for mayor but did try, without success, to get elected to the city council as a representative of Likud.

Comment: Bought and paid for: Clinton and Trump shamelessly anti-Palestinian, thanks to wealthy pro-apartheid Israel donors

U.S. and Saudi Arabia whine as Iran strengthens its borders

Sputnik
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:58 UTC

Despite the fact that supplying Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran does not violate any UN Security Council resolution, the US government expressed concern over the increase of Tehran's military potential caused by this development.

Meanwhile, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently declared that air defense systems are extremely important and "must be on the frontline, ready to repulse any aggression launched by an enemy that seeks to undermine the country's defense potential."

Ahmad Vakhshiteh, chief editor of Iranian analytical web portal RussiaViewer, told Sputnik that the sale of S-300 by Russia to Iran is a perfectly legal deal, and that the US has no right to interfere. He pointed out that while several years ago the shipment of these weapons was put on hold due to sanctions enforced via a UN resolution, the Iranian nuclear deal effectively helped resolve that issue.

Comment: The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are like psychopathic prowlers; they like their victims weak and defenseless. So if they're complaining, you can sure that whatever they're complaining about is a good thing, not only for Iran's security and stability, but for the entire region. Further reading:

UN official: Israel to ratify nuclear test ban treaty - in 5 years

RT
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 08:16 UTC

Israel will likely be the next country to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty, a UN official says, adding it that shouldn't take more than five years. The treaty is awaiting a greenlight from eight states, including the US, before it can come into effect.

"I'm putting five years as the longest it should take now based on the positive sign that I'm seeing from Israel," Lassina Zerbo, the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, (CTBTO), told AP on Wednesday.

The comments follow Zerbo's June visit to Israel, during which he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Zerbo went on to credit last year's Iran nuclear deal in the Middle East for "creating the confidence-building conditions in the region to help others to move forward."

German MP Sahra Wagenknecht: US is threat to European peace, not Russia

MINA News
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:42 UTC

German MP Sahra Wagenknecht

You're not going to see this on CNN.

A German MP has blasted the United States as the most dangerous country in the world, certainly the biggest danger to European peace - says MP Sahra Wagenkhneht in a speech in German Parliament which was frequently interrupted by applause.

"Today, on the exact anniversay of the 75th year of the German attack on the Soviet Union, very close to the Russian borders we're seeing military exercises, allegedly defensive, in which German soldiers take part".

"The Americans are placing nukes in Germany, supposedly to counter Putin's aggression in the Baltics. Do the Americans seriously expect us to believe in such stupidity?" asked Mrs. Wagenknecht to an applause from other MPs.

When few of Merkel's MPs asked Mrs. Wagenknecht why is Russia moving its borders and conducting military maneuvers, the German MP responded - Isn't this what NATO does?

Why Iran keeps making anti-American propaganda videos

The Observers
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:32 UTC

More than a year after the nuclear deal between Iran and the 5+1 countries, Iran's state television has aired a new music video full of anti-American propaganda, in which US warships are defeated by a tsunami born out of patriotic sentiment (yes, you read that correctly - it's best to watch the video to fully understand). This 8-minute video, chock- full of special effects, cost 350,000 euros of public funds. This has garnered a certain degree of criticism, even among conservatives.

The music video was produced by Soureh Film, a company that belongs to the Islamic Propagation Organization. This organization's chief is named directly by Iran's Supreme Leader.

Brazil's coup and Rousseff impeachment courtesy of Wall Street

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:11 UTC

This article was first published in June 2016. Dilma's impeachment was ordered by Wall Street. It is important to reflect upon the actors behind Brazil's coup d'Etat and the insidious role of Michel Temer's finance minister Henrique Campos Meirelles.

Control over monetary policy and macro-economic reform was the ultimate objective of the Coup d'Etat. The key appointments from Wall Street's standpoint are the Central Bank, which dominates monetary policy as well as foreign exchange transactions, the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Brazil (Banco do Brasil).

On behalf of Wall Street and the "Washington consensus", the interim post coup "government" of Michel Temer has appointed a former Wall Street CEO (with U.S citizenship) to head the Ministry of Finance.

Ilan Goldfajn
Henrique de Campos Meirelles, a former President of FleetBoston Financial's Global Banking (1999-2002) and former head of the Central Bank under Lula's presidency was appointed minister of finance on May 12.

Ilan Goldfajn [Goldfein] (right) appointed to head the Central Bank, was chief economist of Itaú, Brazil's largest private bank. Goldfajn [Goldfein] has close ties to both the IMF and the World Bank. He is a financial crony of Meirelles.

Historical Background

Brazil's currency system under the Real is heavily dollarised. Internal debt operations are conducive to a rising external debt. Wall Street is intent upon maintaining Brazil in a monetary straightjacket.

Since the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Wall Street has exerted control over key economic appointments including the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Brazil and the Central Bank. Under the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luis Ignacio da Silva (Lula), the appointment of the governor of the Central Bank was approved by Wall Street.

Comment: See also:

Turkish prosecutor: Gülen movement in Turkey founded by the CIA

Hurriyet Daily News
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:29 UTC

A Turkish prosecutor probing the financial links of the Fethullah Gülen movement has said the organizational structure of the group is the same as the Mormon Church and the Church of Scientology in the United States, claiming that all three groups were founded by U.S. intelligence.

The CIA organizes these sects as non-governmental organizations in order "to make changes to society," read the indictment prepared Zafer Dur, a prosecutor in the Aegean province of İzmir.

The system that the Gülenists have built over years up in the education, heath, political, technology and culture sectors aims at the same thing as these churches, Dur said.

He claimed that it would not be possible for a primary school graduate, 75-year-old Fethullah Gülen, who has been living in the U.S. since 1999, to have built up such a large organization and infiltrated vital state organizations through his own efforts and abilities.

Comment: See also:

Tragedy for US-Russian relations: Exposing Western hysterical anti-Putin propaganda

Robert Bridge
RT
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:01 UTC

Western media and thinktankdom have gone wildly off the rails regarding the Russian leader, blaming anything and everything on Vladimir Putin. The public has largely bought the raw propaganda wholesale and this is a tragedy for US-Russian relations.

A cursory glance at Putin's track record should convince even the most jaded Russian observer that he has done everything possible to build solid relations with the United States. Yet not only has the Obama administration refused to meet Putin halfway, it characterizes the Russian leader as the global arch villain bar none.

So here's a refresher course for anybody who's ever dragged Putin's name through the mud, serving up piping hot propa-garbage while helping to exasperate tensions between Russia and the US.

As Vladimir Nabokov once proclaimed before considering an entirely different subject, "Look at this tangle of thorns".

Comment: Putin and Russia are being demonized to further the Empire's geopolitical agenda of total hegemony. The Western media as lapdogs of the Empire will only print what they are told, so as to keep the American public primed for perpetual war.

Report claims US allowed for Iran to evade restrictions in nuclear agreement to meet deadline

Jonathan Landay
Reuters
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:56 UTC

The United States and its negotiating partners agreed "in secret" to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in last year's landmark nuclear agreement in order to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief from economic sanctions, according to a report reviewed by Reuters.

The report is to be published on Thursday by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, said the think tank's president David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector and co-author of the report. It is based on information provided by several officials of governments involved in the negotiations, who Albright declined to identify.

Reuters could not independently verify the report's assertions. "The exemptions or loopholes are happening in secret, and it appears that they favor Iran," Albright said.

Comment: The timing of this report is certainly curious. Keep in mind that the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov recently visited Tehran and stated that unilateral US sanctions on Iran have stayed in place since the agreement and that this is effecting Iranian business with European and Asian business interests:

"These unilateral sanctions are a big hindrance," he said. "Any deal serviced in dollars goes through corresponding controlling agencies of the United States and can be suspended."

Seems like the US is countering the statement from Ryabkov by claiming they gave special privilege to Iran when negotiating the nuclear agreement. The reality is that the continuing sanctions against Iran are more detrimental to them than the benefits that the "special treatment" that the US says they gave them.

Among the exemptions were two that allowed Iran to exceed the deal's limits on how much low-enriched uranium (LEU) it can keep in its nuclear facilities, the report said. LEU can be purified into highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium.

Comment: How magnanimous of the US to "allow" Iran to exceed the deal's limits on keeping enriched uranium. This report comes across as purely propaganda to make the US look good, as though they have any right whatsoever to tell another country what to do in the first place.

The exemptions, the report said, were approved by the joint commission the deal created to oversee implementation of the accord. The commission is comprised of the United States and its negotiating partners -- called the P5+1 -- and Iran.

Mainstream media mandate: Defeat Trump by attacking his supporters

Ken Kurson
Observer Politics
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:49 UTC

© Darren Hauck/Getty Images
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump enters the stage as he takes part in a town hall event moderated by Anderson Cooper March 29, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisc.

It is no secret that the mainstream media has decided that the threat presented by a possible Donald Trump presidency is so grave that it has suspended even the illusion of objectivity. Writing in The New York Times, media columnist Jim Rutenberg granted permission to his fellow journalists "to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way you've never approached anything in your career."

The Observer and others have detailed the ways in which traditional media companies and even tech companies have colluded to maximize negative coverage of Trump and minimize negative coverage of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. But it doesn't end there. As Rutenberg described, many journalists feel the need to "move closer than you've ever been to being oppositional."

That opposition has extended into new and uncharted territory. In the coordinated effort to stop a dangerous candidate from obtaining, to use Rutenberg's breathless description of the stakes, "control of the United States nuclear codes," the mainstream media has taken not just to bashing Trump but to extracting a price even from those who support him.

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Puppet Masters

Trump's Israel campaign intimately tied to the Israeli far-right - just for votes, or sign of Trump's pro-Zionism?

U.S. and Saudi Arabia whine as Iran strengthens its borders

UN official: Israel to ratify nuclear test ban treaty - in 5 years

German MP Sahra Wagenknecht: US is threat to European peace, not Russia

Why Iran keeps making anti-American propaganda videos

Brazil's coup and Rousseff impeachment courtesy of Wall Street

Turkish prosecutor: Gülen movement in Turkey founded by the CIA

Tragedy for US-Russian relations: Exposing Western hysterical anti-Putin propaganda

Report claims US allowed for Iran to evade restrictions in nuclear agreement to meet deadline

Mainstream media mandate: Defeat Trump by attacking his supporters

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