But was Putin really the provocateur in Sunday's naval clash outside Kerch Strait, the Black Sea gateway to the Sea of Azov?
Or was the provocateur Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko?
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But was Putin really the provocateur in Sunday's naval clash outside Kerch Strait, the Black Sea gateway to the Sea of Azov?
Or was the provocateur Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko?
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USS Chancellorsville
USS Chancellorsville
USS Chancellorsville conducted a "freedom of navigation operation" near the South China Sea's Paracel islands on Monday, the US Navy confirmed. The stated aim was "to challenge excessive maritime claims."
Yet, Beijing had a bone to pick with Washington on that, having scrambled warships and demanding the Ticonderoga-class cruiser immediately leave the zone.
On Friday Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang called on Washington to "immediately stop such provocative actions that violate China's sovereignty and threaten [its] security."
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The photo showed Pence being greeted by members of the Broward Sheriff's Office SWAT team at Fort-Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday. One of the men pictured was wearing a red and black badge with a Q on it, which appears to be the same design as QAnon merchandise being sold online.
The apparently Q-loving officer has been identified as Sergeant Matt Patten of the Broward Sheriff's Office.
Comment: More on the QAnon phenomena:
- Pro-Trump conspiracy-spinner "QAnon" calls for readers to promote regime change in Iran
- Telling it like it is: WikiLeaks calls QAnon a likely 'Pied Piper' operation
- QAnon is a PsyOp designed to mislead Trump supporters and divide alternative news readers
- Pizzagate, Seth Rich murder and the Clinton Foundation: The pro-Trump internet is ablaze with the Qanon conspiracy theory
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While not attempting to go in to a detailed explanation or analysis of each incident, below are a number of reports of such "airlifts of evil" that have surfaced over the last two years. The Pentagon, as mentioned above, has repeatedly denied these reports.
November 10-11, 2018 - SANA reported that a US-led aircraft landed in Deir ez-Zour Province, near the outskirts of al-Susah, taking away three ISIS members.
October 7, 2018 - SANA quoted residents of the town al-Shaafah, who reported that American helicopters had evacuated ISIS commanders from Abu Kamal in Deir ez-Zour province. There was no word as to where the fighters were taken.
September 22, 2018 - SANA reported that the US-led coalition carried out an "air landing operation" on the outskirts of al-Mrashde village, which was located in the same area where ISIS militants had spread out. This area is in the southeastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor. The report claimed that the flights transferred a number of ISIS commanders.
British special forces behead Malay villagers while 'spreading democracy' in the 1950s
When British forces pull down the union jack for the last time in Afghanistan this year, it will be a hugely symbolic moment. It is not just that the departure marks the end of 13 years of British involvement in combat in that troubled country. The surprise is that it could also signal the end of a century or more of unbroken warfare by British forces.
Comment: It didn't. 'ISIS' suddenly arrived on the scene in Syria, then Iraq, and British soldiers were back in 'expeditionary' mode...
Next year may be the first since at least 1914 that British soldiers, sailors and air crews will not be engaged in fighting somewhere - the first time Britain is totally at peace with the rest of the world.
Since Britain's declaration of war against Germany in August 1914, not a year has passed without its forces being involved in conflict. It is a statistic that has been largely overlooked, and not one about which the government is likely to boast.
Comment: Indeed. In the entire time since then the whole world has been daily informed (largely through anglophone media) about these dictators and those tyrants, but the backdrop - British and American warmongering - is so ubiquitous and monotonous that it's like white noise, or wallpaper no one notices.
The past 100 years have seen two world wars, large-scale conflicts in Korea and Iraq, and small-scale actions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. There have been punitive operations in defence of empire, cold war operations, post-9/11 support for the US, and the Troubles in Ireland.
Comment: 'War-weariness' is not a problem for the British elites: they can rely on media creating fictitious enemies (the Russians, currently).
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The Resistance is the voice of the Deep State - Pro-war, pro-globalisation, pro-Imperialism. It just hides its true face behind a mask of "progressive values". They prove this with their own actions - opposing Trump's moves toward peace with North Korea and finding common ground with Russia.
Comment: There's more than enough evidence to make an accurate judgement of Robert Mueller's character, but as the author points out, all is forgiven and forgotten because #OrangeManBad.
- Authoritarian special prosecutor Mueller is a political hack
- Liberal 'hero' Mueller helped pave way for Iraq war by lying about WMDs
- Fmr CIA analyst Ray McGovern: Mueller is a fraud who covered up torture, 9/11 and illegal surveillance
- A former Al Qaeda hostage was betrayed by the FBI under Comey, Mueller
- Robert Mueller a profoundly corrupt person
- The real Robert Mueller
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FILE PHOTO. Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva seen in the Bosphorus Strait.
FILE PHOTO. Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva seen in the Bosphorus Strait.
"I'm sure that the international community will make up its mind and recognize that there was an aggression against the state of Ukraine," commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Admiral Igor Voronchenko, said on Thursday.
Citing this, and the rules of the Montreux Convention, namely Article 19, we will try to ask the Republic of Turkey for the closure of the Bosphorus Strait, to teach the Russians what it takes to violate international rules," the official, who used to be a top officer with the county's national guard and was recently promoted to admiral, said.
The bold statement has surely raised some eyebrows in Moscow, since the article he mentioned regulates rules of passage through the Bosphorus Strait for the nations that are currently in the state of war. Some officials have dismissed the threat out of hand.
Comment: The Poroshenko regime is really grasping at straws!
- Russia blocks Kerch Strait passage after Ukrainian Navy ships violate border, calls UNSC meeting - Kiev declares martial law - UPDATES
- Drama in the Kerch Strait: A desperate ploy by West to undermine upcoming Trump/Putin meet
- Fmr Ukrainian general: Kiev hoped its sailors would be killed in the Kerch Strait
- 'Fake News' CNN in hysterics at Trump 'failing to condemn Russian aggression' over Ukraine's Kerch Strait provocation
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Former Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias during his speech
Former Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias during his speech
Nikos Kotzias, who resigned last month in a row over Macedonia's name, damningly said last week - and for the second time - that some 93 cases had been sent for prosecution, with a string of "highly respected ambassadors" already behind bars.
"Do you know what visas for unaccompanied minors mean? It means the organ trade."
Comment: Crikey!
Comment: As we've been pointing our for years now, illicit trafficking in organs for transplant is a world-wide problem. Destitute children are the easiest target. The do-gooders facilitating the migrant movements have no idea what evil they're facilitating.
- Cash-strapped Daesh reportedly trafficking children and human organs through Turkish company
- Algerian kids falling prey to Jewish 'organ harvest'
- Organ Trafficking: Israeli Police Arrest 10 'Body Snatchers'
- Police investigating Israeli "independent" organ-trafficking ring, because Israeli government can't have competition
- Egypt busts huge organ trafficking ring, arrests 45, seizes $mlns
- Rogue Kidney Brokers in the U.S. Sell Black Market Organs for Transplantation
- Organ Trafficking - A 'business' Built on Guilt and Desperation
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Activists of far-right parties in front of the presidential administration headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine November 26, 2018 .
Activists of far-right parties in front of the presidential administration headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine November 26, 2018 .
'Popping' recently over Russia have been key figures of the Western geopolitical and ideological firmament - people for whom the world is made of a Western bloc of nations divinely ordained to command, and the rest of the world condemned to obey.
A prime example of what I mean concerns the Atlantic Council in Washington, one of the more notorious of an ever expanding network of neocon think tanks in our world, within whose Washington offices you will find gathered cranks of inordinate dimension.
For such people Russia is not a country of 146 million people whose contribution to the world in the fields of art, science, culture and so on has been profound throughout its history and remains so today, but instead is a cancer that needs to be removed - preferably by force.
CNN's decision to fire Hill, nonetheless, is not surprising. Though Zionist groups regularly allege anti-Israel bias on CNN, the record, detailed below in chronological order, shows almost the exact opposite. While CNN had no shame in firing a prominent black professor for little more than defending Palestinian rights at a United Nations panel, CNN has a long history of hiring Israeli government personnel and lobbyists, and even Netanyahu speechwriters, to freely spout war propaganda designed to dehumanize the Palestinian people and sanitize Israeli government abuses.
Comment: Belligerence seems to be about the limit of (official) US army foreign policy these days: