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Partnership against the US Empire - The strategic implications of Sino-Russian Arctic cooperation

F. William Engdahl
Strategic Culture
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:39 UTC
ships arctic ocean
Cooperation in building modern railway links, deep water ports and mining infrastructure in Russia's Arctic and Murmansk Peninsula in the far north is becoming a strategic new element binding China and Russia. Its implications are worth a closer look.

On March 29 a high-level delegation from the Chinese Government and private companies will meet with their Russian government counterparts in the ancient seacoast city of Arkhangelsk on the White Sea at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River. The city is strategic as it is now navigable by ship year-around owing to technology improvements in Russian icebreakers. The occasion of the March 29 gathering is the fourth meeting of The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue forum since its creation by Russia in 2010. Among the agenda topics will be China-Russia cooperation in development of projects including the Belkomur railway and the Arkhangelsk deepwater port.

China's delegation, seventy participants, will be headed by Vice Premier of the State Council Wang Yang, a Politburo member and leading Chinese political figure. Russia's delegation will be led by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin is not only head of Russia's Arctic Commission. For the past six years he has held the key post as Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the Russian defense and space industry. He is directly in charge of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry, Russia's version of the US Pentagon DARPA.
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Damascus to file lawsuits over terrorist crimes committed in Syria


Sputnik
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:48 UTC
Destroyed buildings in Syria
© REUTERS/ Abdalrhman Ismail
Damascus has documented proof of the crimes committed by Daesh and other terrorists, Syrian Justice Minister Najm al Ahmed said in an interview with Sputnik Arabic.

He added that the veracity of the documents had been proven by independent judicial committees and forensic experts.

Syria is going to file a lawsuit with regional and internationals courts against the perpetrators of terrorist crimes in the country. Damascus has enough documents on its hands indicating that the terrorists are getting help from some Arab and other countries.
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Snakes in Suits

Unstable Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters tweets to Trump: 'Get ready for impeachment'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:39 UTC
Maxine Waters
Wishful thinking, or does nutty Maxine Waters know something?

Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters is quickly becoming the looniest US politician on the planet. Waters thought Russia had invaded North Korea, and called Trump's cabinet a bunch of scumbags, just to name a few of her recent mental breakdowns.

The Hill is now reporting that Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters is doubling down on her calls for impeaching President Trump, tweeting Tuesday that it's time to "get ready for impeachment."

Comment: More of Maxine Water's craziness:

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Sherlock

'America doesn't have a Deep State... it just sometimes really looks like it does'

Kit
Off Guardian
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:16 UTC
Last week the New Yorker, and yesterday Salon magazine, published editorials arguing against the very existence of an "American Deep State". The arguments presented are very...interesting. Both are, perhaps, classic cases of protesting too much

Salon article 'No Deep State'
© SalonSee no evil, hear no evil
This article, appearing in the New Yorker on Sunday, sets out to tell its readers that there is no such thing as an American "deep state", repeatedly rubbishing the very idea whilst - at the same time - making a compelling case for the exact opposite.

To start off the author, David Remnick, relates a very cheery sounding story about a young man's transformative journey from junior naval officer to hard-hitting journalist. I shall relate it to you in bullet points, for the sake of brevity:
  • In 1970 junior naval officer Bob Woodward, a Yale graduate and member of the Book and Snake secret society, goes to the White House Situation room. At night.
  • Whilst there, he meets a high-up at the FBI named Mark Felt, an intelligence veteran and long-time loyalist to J. Edgar Hoover.
  • For reasons unknown the two men discuss the career prospects of young Mr Woodward. Mr Felt gives Woodward advice about pursuing "only employment that interests him".
  • Later that year Woodward leaves the navy, and applies for a job at the Washington Post. He doesn't get it, thanks to a complete lack of any journalistic experience. He spends a year working at a minor local paper instead, before being hired by the WaPo in 1971.
  • Throughout this time Woodward and his FBI friend are in constant contact, Woodward thinking of Felt as a "career counsellor".
  • Felt confides in Woodward that he sees the Nixon administration as "corrupt, paranoid, and trying to infringe on the independence of the Bureau".
  • In 1973 Felt, under the alias "Deep Throat", leaks Woodward information on the Watergate break-in, and - by proxy - brings down the Nixon administration.
How does that story read to you? There are unquestionably overtones of Operation Mockingbird, right?
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Trade wrangling: Mexico threatens to ditch US corn imports

Yussel Gonzalez
AFP / Yahoo News
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:25 UTC
Corn plants
© AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski
Mexico has identified a potential weapon in its trade wrangle with US President Donald Trump: lucrative yellow cobs of American corn.

The Latin American nation imports billions of dollars' worth of the yellow grain from the United States to feed its livestock.

But with Trump pushing to shake up the countries' trade ties, Mexico is now threatening to buy from elsewhere.

That is worrying corn growers in some of the very same US states that voted heavily in favor of Trump: Iowa, North Dakota, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.

Trump has vowed to restrict free trade with Mexico in order to protect US jobs and industry.
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Chess

US-backed Syrian militia airlifted to Raqqa by US air assets to overtake Taqba Dam


RT
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 17:38 UTC
Raqqa
© Stringer / ReutersRaqqa city
The Pentagon confirmed US air assets have been used to airlift Syrian militia fighters in a bid to take the strategic Tabqa Dam, west of Raqqa, the Islamic State "capital" that is finding itself increasingly under siege.

US air assets had been used to airlift members of the Syrian Arab Coalition, part of the Syrian Democratic Forces group, in a bid to retake the Tabqa Dam, Major Adrian Rankine-Galloway, a Pentagon spokesman, told Reuters. US forces also provided fire support, Rankine-Galloway said, but offered no further details.

The Tabqa Dam has strategic significance because it provides electricity to Raqqa as well as the nearby military airfield.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Eric Pohan said US military advisers were helping to coordinate the operation. He said no US troops were doing any front-line fighting and declined to say how many US troops are involved and what kind of aircraft were used to ferry the Syrian Arab fighters to the area.
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Arrow Up

Tillerson: Baghdadi's lieutenants nearly all dead, U.S. will set up safety zones, "defeating ISIS no. 1 US goal"


RT
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:08 UTC
Tillerson
© ABC News
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is hosting a meeting of the 68-member US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). The Washington, DC summit is the first meeting of the full coalition since December 2014.

President Donald Trump promised to "demolish and destroy" IS, Tillerson told the coalition envoys in his opening remarks. "That's what we're going to do."

The top US diplomat said the coalition had made significant progress against the terrorist group, with the flow of foreign fighters into the region down by 90 percent and IS online content down by 75 percent. Turkey has pushed IS back from the border in Operation Euphrates Shield, while in Iraq, government forces and Kurdish Peshmerga are working together to liberate Mosul.

"All of [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi's deputies are now dead," Tillerson said, referring to the leader of the self-proclaimed caliphate. "It's only a matter of time before Baghdadi himself meets the same fate."
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Decriminalizing pot: Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard backs act to stop 'tearing apart families'


RT
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:05 UTC
Tulsi Gabbard
© Mike Segar / Reuters
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has urged Congress to federally decriminalize marijuana Tuesday, introducing a bipartisan act to to remove the drug from the federal controlled substances list.

"FBI reports have shown that in 2011 alone, an individual in the United States was arrested for marijuana use, sale or possession every 42 seconds," Gabbard said in a statement.

The congresswoman introduced the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act (HR. 1227) with Republican Virginia Rep. Tom Garrett, calling on Congress to update its "outdated drug policies".
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Archaeology

Polish Defense Minister loses his mind, accuses EC President Tusk of 'diplomatic treason' for colluding with Putin to harm Poland


RFE/RL
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:07 UTC
Donald Tusk
Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz has accused European Council President Donald Tusk of committing diplomatic treason when he was Poland's prime minister -- alleging that Tusk worked with Russian President Vladimir Putin to harm Polish interests after the 2010 plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people.

The ministry notified the military department of the National Prosecutor's Office on March 21 that it suspected Tusk, who was prime minister at the time, of an "abuse of trust in foreign relations."
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Syrian Army in heavy fighting with al-Qaeda in E. Damascus - MSM calls al-Qaeda "rebels" (VIDEO)


RT
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:59 UTC
nusra
Your granny would love to play Go Fish with these strapping young lads
Fierce clashes between the Syrian army and rebels led by the Al-Qaeda offshoot formerly known as Al-Nusra Front broke out in neighborhoods east of Damascus on Tuesday. Ruptly video footage captured relentless artillery fire, explosions and smoke rising from the area.

Syrian government forces have intensified the shelling of terrorist positions north of the Jobar neighborhood, which has been split between government forces and rebels for over two years.

On Tuesday morning, terrorists detonated a car bomb, launching an incursion from the edges of Damascus and succeeded in infiltrating al-Maamel area in its eastern outskirts, aiming to push offensive further into the al-Qaboun neighborhood, RT Arabic reported.

Several missiles have been launched by rebels into the central part of the city, Reuters reported, citing witnesses.

Comment: Footage from both sides of the fighting:


H/T to Russia Insider for noticing something strange about the MSM coverage of the latest attacks:
Media Celebrates: Coalition of Pro-Choice Knitting Clubs Liberates Northeastern Damascus
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We actually noticed an interesting pattern in mainstream news coverage of this heroic/suicidal Damascus "offensive", which was coordinated to give Islamist extremists an air of legitimacy at the upcoming peace talks in Geneva. ("Bend the knee, we liberated a textile factory".)

Do you see what we see?
msm syrian rebels
To be fair, the Al Jazeera and New York Times reports admit in their second or third paragraphs that the "rebels" are actually Islamists fighting alongside a "hardline al-Qaeda-linked alliance called Tahrir al-Sham".

The U.S. State Department recently designated Tahrir al-Sham as a terrorist group. Just some useful information you won't find anywhere in any of these trustworthy news articles.


Again, just to make it clear: U.S.-designated terrorists attacked a Damascus neighborhood, and the media is cheering (and also claiming that this is "proof" that Assad is incapable of defeating the "rebels").

Is this real life?

Although our own headline is by far the most accurate description of what is going on in Damascus right now, RT comes in second place with "Heavy fighting in east Damascus as Syrian army fends off Nusra-led offensive". But remember: If you're not first, you're last.

But Reuters went above and beyond the call of duty. Our favorite wire service resisted the temptation to use any word (or group of words) aside from "rebels" to describe the democracy-loving Boy Scouts attacking Damascus. Then, at the very end of its piece, Reuters drops this:
The government says the attack is being carried out by fighters of the Nusra Front, a jihadist group that was al Qaeda's official affiliate in the Syrian war until it declared they had broken off ties last year. The Nusra Front is now part of an Islamist alliance called Tahrir al-Sham.
The government says? Everyone says. Nobody disputes it. It's a fact. Even the New York Times admits it.

Bravo, Reuters. To quote famous last line from Babe: "That'll do, pig. That'll do."


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