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Trump's 'peace team' offered Abbas a confederation with Jordan

Sputnik
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 17:03 UTC

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Abbas said he would only be interested if Israel joins the confederation.

US President Donald Trump's peace team offered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas the idea of establishing a Palestine-Jordanian confederation, Abbas revealed Sunday. Speaking before a meeting with Israeli left-wing movement Peace Now and Israeli lawmakers, Abbas said he acknowledged his interest in such a project, but only if Israel would be a part of it.

I was asked if I believe in a federation with Jordan," Abbas said about a talk he held with Trump aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner and US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, according to Haaretz. "I answered: Yes, I want a confederation with Jordan and Israel. I have asked the Israelis if they would agree to such an offer."

It is uncertain when the talks took place, as Abbas refused to meet with US representatives following Trump's unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

A Palestinian-Jordan confederation has been suggested by some on the Israeli right as a way to avoid granting full state status to Palestinians. The arrangement would also allow Israel to avoid taking responsibility for the estimated 3.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank.

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Pass up the buck: Erdogan invites global trading partners to smash US dollar's 'monopoly'

RT
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:50 UTC

Turkey will pursue non-dollar transactions in trade and investment with other countries, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in response to US sanctions. He compared the US' behavior towards his country to "wild wolves."

"We need to gradually end the monopoly of the dollar once and for all by using local and national currency among us," Erdogan said at a business forum in Kyrgyzstan.

According to the Turkish president, a dollar-linked system which was designed to simplify global trade has turned into a major problem. The purpose of manipulating currency rates is to cast doubt on the strong and healthy Turkish economy, Erdogan said.

"America behaves like wild wolves. Don't believe them," Erdogan said. "Using the dollar only damages us. We will not give up. We will be victorious."

Turkey is currently struggling with a severe currency crisis triggered by escalating US sanctions. The lira has lost around 42 percent of its value against the US dollar this year as a result of a diplomatic row between Ankara and Washington.

Comment: Erdogan's money woes have more reasons than US sanctions.

The Great Tribes of Libya begin to cleanse Tripoli of terrorist militias

JoanneM
Libyan War The Truth
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 04:38 UTC

The Great Tribes of Libya have begun their cleansing of the terrorists brought into their country illegally by NATO in their 2011 invasion of Libya.

These terrorists include groups such as Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Ansar Al Sharia, ISIS, Salafists, Wahabists and other assorted small criminal mercenary militia gangs. All of these militia gangs have been controlling Tripoli since 2011, ILLEGALLY. These terrorists are working with the UN puppet government, appointed by the UN (headed by the criminal Serraj) without any authority or vote of the Libyan people. These terrorist gangs answer to no laws or rules. They roam the streets armed and attack or steal at will. The Libyan people have suffered under these gangs ever since NATO, Obama, Clinton, McCain and others invaded their country with NATO using a false flag lie of a revolution to justify their war crimes.

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the conflicting parties in Libya to immediately cease fire and sit down at the negotiating table, his spokesman said in a statement on Saturday.

"The Secretary-General calls on all parties to immediately cease hostilities and abide by the ceasefire agreement brokered by the United Nations and the Reconciliation Committees," the secretary-general's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

Guterres condemned the continued hostilities in and near Tripoli, in particular, the indiscriminate shelling, which killed and injured civilians, including children. He offered his deepest condolences to the victims' relatives.

"He urges all parties to grant humanitarian relief for those in need, particularly those who are trapped by the fighting," the spokesman added.

Ghassan Salame, a special representative of the UN secretary-general and the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), will continue to work and cooperate with all parties to achieve a long-term political agreement acceptable to all, he concluded.

[F]ighting erupted on August 26 reportedly between local militias and Kani tribal fighters from Tarhouna, southeast of Tripoli.

According to the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) NGO, heavy shelling in residential areas resulted in an unspecified number of casualties and approximately 8,000 refugees and asylum seekers remaining trapped in closed detention centers in dire humanitarian conditions.

Macron: EU can't rely on US for security - time to woo big bro Russia instead?

RT
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 21:26 UTC

Emmanuel Macron's remark that Europe can't rely on the US for security, along with hints at rapprochement with Russia, show a rift in EU-Washington ties - a relationship that's crumbling amid pressure to end sanction policies.

"Europe can no longer rely on the United States for its security," the French President said in a recent foreign policy speech in Paris.

Relations between the US and France showed a promising start this year. "Handsy" interactions took place between Donald Trump and Macron during their summit in April, with the pair planting a tree together on the White House lawn. From those scenes, you would never guess that the allies would turn on each other only a month later.

The first fracture in relations occurred after Trump's withdrawal from the landmark Iran nuclear deal. At that time, on the heels of Trump pulling out of the agreement, France's economy minister urged Europe to stop acting like "US vassals" and continue trading with Tehran in defiance of what the "global economic policeman" had in store.

Trump's import tariffs on steel and aluminum in June triggered a global backlash and retaliation from the EU. Macron called the measures "illegal" and warned that "economic nationalism leads to war," adding that this is exactly "what happened in the 1930s."

This "reformatting of transatlantic relations during the Trump presidency has gone very far," Yury Rubinsky, head of the Center of French Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RT, adding that it was Washington that initiated such a shift.

Comment: A shift in US relations and policy has created an awakening in Europe. New dynamics and relationships are being formulated from the stagnation and dependency of stale and for-granted practices that no longer have (real) purpose or meaning.

Kremlin: Russia will stick to Minsk Accords, despite recent murder of Donetsk Republic head

RT
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:53 UTC

The recent murder of the head of the Donetsk People's Republic complicates talks with Ukraine, but Russia will continue its settlement efforts under the Minsk Accords, Putin's press secretary told reporters.

"After the perpetration of this terrorist attack it is very difficult to discuss anything with the Ukrainian side, but this does not mean that Russia is withdrawing from the Minsk process," President Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters on Monday.

The Kremlin spokesman said that talks should be held in order to achieve results, and that holding them for the process alone "was not an entirely reasonable action," pointing out that Russia has repeatedly noted Kiev's attempts to hamper peace talks on Donbass.

Peskov stated that President Putin is doing everything possible to kick start the Minsk process, but that terrorist attacks (such as the murder of the head of the Donetsk People's Republic) do not contribute to the peace process.

Comment: This is NOT how they wanted Russia to respond to this provocation; as the only adult in the room.

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For what reasons might Trump defend Al-Qaeda in Syria? Russians weigh in

Paul Antonopoulos
FRN
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC

While the US is increasing its military presence in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry warns of preparations to stage a chemical attack on Syrian territory. Several analysts are examining the possibility of further attacks by the US and its allies against the country.

Although US officials deny plans to carry out an attack on Syria, many experts doubt that. According to them, the same happened before the last two attacks carried out by the international coalition led by the USA. This comes especially as the Syrian Army is preparing to liberate jihadist-held Idlib, a province that is mostly controlled by the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front.

According to the editor-in-chief of the magazine Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defense), Igor Korotchenko, in such a situation, when the statements of the US and Russia contradict each other, it is to prioritize those of the Russian Ministry of Defense, whose data come from military intelligence. "[The statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense] are not mere statements but confirmed and reliable information," he told the Vzglyad newspaper.

The chairman of Russia's Academy of Geopolitical Problems, retired Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, shares that view and finds that statements by Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov about the imminent provocation have had an effect.

According to Ivashov, the fact that the Pentagon is justifying itself shows that it is likely that the attack will not be carried out. It is true that the US has increased the presence of cruise missile carriers in the region and it is not known for sure why they did this. "The US could be replacing the obsolete missiles that were used in the previous attack, or they could be preparing for an attack on Syrian targets," he said.

Kremlin: US meddles in Russian affairs, tries to turn citizens into informants

RT
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 11:35 UTC

In recent years, the US has been meddling in Russian affairs by "very crudely" trying to recruit Russians as informants, while exerting moral and other types of pressure on them, Vladimir Putin's spokesperson said on Monday.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was commenting on a recent story published in the New York Times, stating that in 2014-2016, the FBI and the US Department of Justice tried to recruit Russian business tycoon Oleg Deripaska as an informant.

According to the paper, US officials wanted to make the businessman share information on Russian organized crime and the alleged Russian aid to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Considering that businessmen like Deripaska are "major shareholders and top managers of major companies," including those operating in "quite sensitive segments of the Russian economy," attempts to recruit them constitute "attempts to meddle in Russia's domestic affairs," Peskov said.

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France getting to grips with reality in Syria? Foreign Minister acknowledges 'Assad won the war'

Sputnik
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 19:00 UTC

Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has stated that Damascus was determined to liberate the province of Idlib from terrorists.

Speaking on France-Inter radio on Sunday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has won the country's civil war but will not "win the peace" without a political solution aided by international mediators.

"Assad won the war, we have to state this. But he hasn't won the peace," Le Drian announced.

Comment: What he means is; 'Assad will never win the real war - against us, the Western Order - unless he does as we tell him to do.'

According to the minister, the West would retaliate if chemical weapons are used against civilians in the looming battle in the province of Idlib.

Comment: The peace component needed is the unequivocal exodus of Western presence and terrorist forces from Syria. While Assad may be open to 'political talks,' it is for Assad and his people to decide the way forward.

Exiled Yemen President Hadi heads to US for urgent medical treatment

Sputnik
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 23:21 UTC

A Yemeni government source told Reuters on Sunday that preparations are underway to transfer Yemen's President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi to the United States tonight to receive urgent medical treatment.

According to Reuters, Hadi will stay in the US until the United Nations General Assembly meeting at the end of September.

Yemen has been engulfed in an armed conflict between the government - nominally headed by Hadi - and the armed Houthi political opposition faction since 2015. A Saudi-led coalition of mostly Persian Gulf nations has been carrying out airstrikes against the Houthis at Hadi's request since March 2015.

Hadi has been living in exile in Riyadh since the Houthis seized the Yemen capital of Sanaa and he has been said to be being treated for a heart condition since 2011.

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths reportedly met Hadi in Riyadh on Saturday to discuss the latest negotiations and developments ahead of UN-backed peace consultations expected to take place in Geneva in September.

Comment: Hadi is of course the Western/Saudi puppet leader of Yemen, who effectively lost power in late 2014, then supported the West/Saudis starting a civil war to take it back.

Iraq's anti-US nationalist Muqtada Al-Sadr forms Parliamentary majority

RT
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 04:50 UTC

After three years of war with Daesh and three months of a vote recount, Iraq can now form a new government and begin the process of rebuilding.

Sixteen political groups in Iraq, including those of Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr and outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, reached an agreement Sunday to form the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament.

This agreement, reached just before the first session of the Iraqi Parliament on Monday, gives Al-Sadr the exclusive right to form a government.

Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, reportedly backed by the West, is also a part of the coalition. Al-Abadi is purportedly interested in extending his position into a second term, but as he is no longer the only candidate from the alliance, it is uncertain whether he will succeed.

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Puppet Masters

Trump's 'peace team' offered Abbas a confederation with Jordan

Pass up the buck: Erdogan invites global trading partners to smash US dollar's 'monopoly'

The Great Tribes of Libya begin to cleanse Tripoli of terrorist militias

Macron: EU can't rely on US for security - time to woo big bro Russia instead?

Kremlin: Russia will stick to Minsk Accords, despite recent murder of Donetsk Republic head

For what reasons might Trump defend Al-Qaeda in Syria? Russians weigh in

Kremlin: US meddles in Russian affairs, tries to turn citizens into informants

France getting to grips with reality in Syria? Foreign Minister acknowledges 'Assad won the war'

Exiled Yemen President Hadi heads to US for urgent medical treatment

Iraq's anti-US nationalist Muqtada Al-Sadr forms Parliamentary majority

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