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New leaked clips of censored film reveals The Israel Project's secret Facebook campaign

Ali Abunimah and Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:46 UTC

The Israel Project, runs several covert hasbara propaganda groups

The Israel Project, a major advocacy group based in Washington, is running a secret influence campaign on Facebook.

This is revealed in The Lobby - USA, an undercover Al Jazeera documentary that has never been broadcast due to censorship by Qatar following pressure from pro-Israel organizations.

The video above, exclusive to The Electronic Intifada, shows the latest excerpts to leak from the documentary.

Earlier leaked footage published by The Electronic Intifada and the Grayzone Project has already revealed underhanded tactics by anti-Palestinian groups planned and executed in collusion with the Israeli government.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Russia learned most from 2008 financial crisis

RT
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:33 UTC

In the decade following the financial crisis, Russia is one of the few countries that took the necessary steps to protect its economy from global turbulence, says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

The 2008 financial crisis plunged economies across the globe into chaos for years, forcing the countries' regulators to fight with the far-reaching consequences of the crash.

Russia managed to become a textbook example to follow when it comes to repairing damages, according to the chief economist at EBRD, Sergei Guriev. The analyst cites such steps as floating the national currency, introducing tougher banking regulation, as well as creating a bigger ruble-denominated bond market as the wisest measures the government could take.

Former YPG adviser: US trying to derail talks between Damascus and Kurds

Sputnik News
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC

Clashes between the Syrian Army and Syrian Kurdish militia left 18 dead in northeastern Syria last week. Speaking to Sputnik, Syrian Democratic Council chairman Rezzan Hiddo said tensions between Syrian government forces and Kurdish militia seem to exist only where US forces are present.

Last Saturday, 11 Syrian government troops and seven Kurdish militia members were killed at a checkpoint in central Qamishli, the de facto capital of the self-proclaimed Kurdish autonomous region in Syria's northeast. The clashes led to a rare spike in tensions between Damascus and Kurdish forces amid warming relations and months of fruitful negotiations.

Speaking to Sputnik, Rezzan Hiddo, a former advisor to the YPG militia and chairman of the Syrian Democratic Council, the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, said the clashes were highly suspicious.

Washington's edict: Do as we say or be punished - US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry

RT
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:23 UTC

A routine press conference of the US energy secretary and the Russian energy minister has surprisingly turned into a lecture on Washington's superiority and exceptionalism as the US official faced a question on sanctions.

A sudden but not all that much unexpected rant by the US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry came as a response to RT's Maria Finoshina's inquiry about an apparent contradiction between the US accusations against Russia over its alleged use of energy policy as a political tool and Washington's own threats to bring Iranian oil revenues to "zero."

Instead of addressing this issue, Perry, who spoke to the journalists together with Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak, preferred to explain that the US is simply in a unique position allowing it to basically impose its will on other countries, and the likes of Iran are, naturally, expected to oblige.

Comment: Rick Perry? Undeniably rude and diplomatically off the rails.

UN report spins Rohingya genocide, calls for charges against Myanmar officials

Joseph Thomas
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 03:59 UTC

Media headlines claim an independent UN report is calling for genocide charges against Myanmar officials.

Qatari state media outfit Al Jazeera, in its article, "UN report calls for genocide charges against Myanmar officials," claims:

Myanmar's senior military officials must be prosecuted for genocide and war crimes against the Rohingya and other ethnic minorities, a UN fact-finding mission has urged.

The mission, which was established by the UN Human Rights Council in March 2017, found that Myanmar's armed forces had taken actions that "undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law".

Al Jazeera admits Myanmar's military has been singled out by the report. Suspiciously absent from both the accusations made in the report and the charges called for, is State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi, referred to throughout the Western media and the report itself as the "de facto" leader of Myanmar.

The leader of a nation is undoubtedly responsible for the actions of that nation's military and while some claim Suu Kyi has no power over Myanmar's military, Al Jazeera itself notes her silence in even condemning the ongoing violence.

Comment: The UN, through its many 'services', is a compromised mechanism primarily utilized and controlled by the US to validate its positions and further its agendas. As the article aptly puts: 'The UN report is a political charade'. The Rohinga of Myanmar are only one of many 'politically-altered' victims.

Lavrov: Russia to create humanitarian corridors in Idlib, prevent civilian casualties

RT
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:36 UTC

Moscow will create humanitarian corridors in Syria's Idlib and encourage local reconciliation deals to prevent civilian casualties, the Russian Foreign Minister has said. He warned that terrorist sites would still be targeted. "We will do everything not to hurt civilian population," the diplomat said.

While delivering his message, Lavrov also pulled no punches on the way the Western coalition helped "liberate" cities. In particular, he touched upon Iraq's Mosul and Syria's Raqqa, which have been major strongholds of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists for a long time.

The cities were razed to the ground during the Western-backed offensives and corpses were lying under the rubble "for months," he said. The minister recalled that during these operations no proper evacuation corridors were created for civilians to leave.

Lavrov dismissed reports suggesting that the Syrian army has already launched an assault on Idlib.

Comment: Values in action: The US devastates, kills, maims, lies and takes no responsibility...following in its mentor's footsteps. Russia will do as it claims - take every measure possible to protect and shepherd civilians out of harms way.

NYT covered up Google tape's most newsworthy details

John Nolte
Breitbart
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC

The New York Times reported on the explosive Google Tape back in March but chose not to informs its readers of virtually all the key details revealed during this company town hall.

On Tuesday, Breitbart News obtained video of an hour-plus long company meeting at Google that took place shortly after the 2016 presidential election. You can watch the full video to judge the context of these individual quotes for yourself - but in my view, what you have here is a smoking gun proving the biggest Internet search engine in the world (by far) intends to abuse its corporate power to affect the outcome of elections, to manipulate searches in a way that will result in political outcomes desired by a multinational corporation and Silicon Valley.

Comment: See also: Google launches tool to identify trolls and 'toxic comments'

Iraq: IRGC claims missile attack on Kurdish rebels, 11 dead, dozens wounded

Al Jazeera
Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) confirmed on Sunday that it had launched deadly missile attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq a day earlier.

Rockets struck the headquarters of two Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region with reports saying at least 11 people were killed and 50 others wounded.

The missiles hit the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in the town of Koya, 300km north of Iraq's capital, Baghdad.

It was the first such attack since 1996.

"The terrorists' headquarters ... was successfully struck by seven surface-to-surface rockets on Saturday by the missile department of the Guards' aerospace force," the IRGC said on its Sepah News website on Sunday.

The statement added its drone division was also involved in the attack.

According to Soran Louri, spokesman for the KDPI, which is blacklisted as a "terrorist" group by Tehran, the death toll in the rare cross-border attack was 15, he told AFP news agency. About 30 others were wounded, according to local medical sources.

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Russia predicts it can completely dump the US dollar in five years time

RT
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:43 UTC

The head of the Russian Lower House Committee for Financial Markets has backed a plan to completely stop using the US dollar, noting that the program can be completed in three to five years.

"I think these are all very feasible proposals, though they are not designed to save our banking system, but to implement the measures that would make our whole financial system independent from external influence," MP Anatoly Aksakov said on Friday.

The lawmaker told RIA Novosti he believes that Western nations will not lift the sanctions against Russia any time soon, but instead will likely impose new, even harsher restrictions.

Aksakov said that given the current political conditions, dumping the dollar must become a global trend, and that the Russian economy's current dependence on the dollar could be completely ended in a relatively short period of time - in three to five years.

Comment: Bet it will happen in three rather than five!

Erdogan: US is behind the 'economic assassination attempt' on Turkey

RT
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:40 UTC

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Washington of waging an economic war against his country. Speaking before his ruling AK party in Ankara on Friday, he urged boosting the role of the Turkish lira in settlements.

"We have faced a heinous attack targeting the Turkish economy after a series of negative statements from the US about our country were used as an excuse," said Erdogan, calling the collapse of the national currency against the dollar "an economic assassination attempt".

The Turkish government is trying to stabilize the lira, which has plunged over 40 percent against the US dollar this year. Erdogan said that all savings should be converted to lira, and called on Turks to trust the national currency.

The Turkish currency has strengthened after the central bank hiked the key interest rate by 6.25 percentage points to 24 percent. Erdogan has been a fierce opponent of raising rates and some investors in the Turkish economy had fears he could be interfering in the central bank's affairs. Erdogan warned on Friday that his patience with interest rates had limits.

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Puppet Masters

New leaked clips of censored film reveals The Israel Project's secret Facebook campaign

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Russia learned most from 2008 financial crisis

Former YPG adviser: US trying to derail talks between Damascus and Kurds

Washington's edict: Do as we say or be punished - US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry

UN report spins Rohingya genocide, calls for charges against Myanmar officials

Lavrov: Russia to create humanitarian corridors in Idlib, prevent civilian casualties

NYT covered up Google tape's most newsworthy details

Iraq: IRGC claims missile attack on Kurdish rebels, 11 dead, dozens wounded

Russia predicts it can completely dump the US dollar in five years time

Erdogan: US is behind the 'economic assassination attempt' on Turkey

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