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US puppet Juan Guaido arrives back in Venezuela with no complications

Juan Guaido
© Reuters/Carlos Jasso
Juan Guaido arrived in Maiquetia airport, Caracas, Venezuela on Mar. 4, 2019.
Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido arrived in Caracas without obstacles after meeting right-wing Latin American leaders.

The Venezuelan lawmaker and self-proclaimed "interim president", Juan Guaido arrived at the Maiquetia airport Monday without any obstacles.

The opposition lawmaker was banned from leaving the country as an investigation is going on over his attempt to usurp governmental powers with the backing of interventionist United States.

Guaido secretly left Venezuela for Colombia, in violation of a Supreme Court order in February 22nd after proclaiming himself the so called "interim president." From Colombia, he traveled to Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Paraguay.

Light Saber

Hitting back: Trump accuses House Democrats of going 'stone cold CRAZY' with their probes

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In a tweet late Monday, March 4, 2019, President Donald Trump quoted Fox News host Sean Hannity in a tweet, referring to the corruption probe as “the biggest display of modern day McCarthyism.”
President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused House Democratic chairs of going "stone cold CRAZY" with their sweeping new oversight investigation into his White House and allies, arguing that the lawmakers are needlessly harassing the 81 people and groups that they're targeting.

"Now that they realize the only Collusion with Russia was done by Crooked Hillary Clinton & the Democrats, Nadler, Schiff and the Dem heads of the Committees have gone stone cold CRAZY," Trump tweeted, providing no evidence for his repeated accusation about Clinton.

He claimed that the 81 individuals and entities House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler sent letters to on Monday as part of a wide-reaching examination of possible corruption all over Trumpworld were all "innocent" and that Democrats were only looking "to harass them," perhaps unintentionally lumping his estranged former lawyer Michael Cohen in with that group.

"They won't get ANYTHING done for our Country!" Trump added of the Democratic lawmakers.

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Megaphone

Remove US nuclear weapons from Europe for "everyone's peace of mind", Lavrov tells US

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© Sputnik / Denis Aslanov
The US should transfer its nuclear arsenal from Europe back to its own country and eliminate the nuclear infrastructure based on the continent, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said

"It would be for everyone's peace of mind, if the American nuclear weapons would be brought back to the US soil," Medvedev told the Luxemburger Wort newspaper ahead of his visit to Luxembourg.

The PM also criticized nuclear war exercises, conducted by NATO in Europe. "These war games bring nothing but unnecessary worries to everyone, above all to the NATO countries."

Comment: Citizens of Europe are becoming wise to the fact that their alliance with the belligerent US is exposing their countries to unnecessary danger: Also check out SOTT radio's:


Eagle

US meddles again - warns Arab states against thaw with Syria's Assad

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© Reuters / SANA
Syria was expelled from the 22-nation Arab League after a civil war broke out in the country in 2011, with several members of the regional bloc subsequently pulling their ambassadors from Damascus. Syria, as one of the founding states, condemned the move as illegal.

The United States has pressed its Arab allies to put on hold their endeavours to renew the dialogue with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed US officials.

The Trump administration has reportedly warned that any attempts to participate in the post-war reconstruction of Syria would prompt Washington to impose sanctions in order to pressure Assad into accepting political reforms.

According to the newspaper, Washington's concerns were triggered by the United Arab Emirates' decision to reopen its embassy in Damascus after a "conviction that the next stage requires Arab presence and communication in the Syrian file".

The move became a big step towards Syria's rehabilitation by its Arab neighbours, who previously supported the opposition fighting against Assad.

Comment: It's a bit late for that. Syria's relationship with the Arab states has been getting better for months. It's time for the U.S. foreign policy morons to face reality: they lost. Time to get over it.


Pirates

UK govt busts own White Helmets myth by revoking volunteer's citizenship because he 'HAS TIES WITH AL-QAEDA'

tauqir sharif
© Youtube / Tox Vlogz
Tauqir Sharif, a UK-born man whose work in Syria has earned him glowing coverage in mainstream press, has come out as one of the people the British government has stripped of citizenship. He is accused of having links to Al-Qaeda.

Sharif left the UK for Syria together with his British wife around 2012, and has been working with supposed aid groups operating in militant-controlled territories there. His exploits were the subject of several dramatic reports in mainstream Western media outlets.

But in 2017, his British citizenship was revoked by the UK Home Office, which has discovered that he was "aligned with an Al-Qaeda-aligned group." It reasoned that his return to the UK "would present a risk to the national security of the United Kingdom."

Sharif's lawyers have now obtained an order to lift his anonymity so that he can publicly deny links to Al-Qaeda and speak out about the perceived injustice to some of the same outlets that had given him positive press before.

Comment: So, if the White Helmets are who they say they are, why on Earth would this humanitarian volunteer have ANYTHING to do with al-Qaeda, much less be a fully paid-up jihadist??

Do the empire's dirty work, and you don't even get to keep the t-shirt. Revolutionaries, radicals and mercenaries of the world, take note: a helping hand from shady Western intel sources is easily revoked, then you're on your own, or worse.


Question

Why is Britain putting a new roof on Skripal 'house of horrors'

skripal house new roof
© Reuters/Peter Nicholls
A scaffolder works at the site of former spy Sergei Skripal's house, in Salisbury, Britain
In 12 months of shifting sands, one thing remains as its original foundations: the British state narrative on Salisbury stands as a castle in the air.

One year from the dastardly fate of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, no one is a step forward on what happened to them, how, why, or of course where they are.

One year ago, a nerve agent was allegedly sprayed onto their front doorknob. One year later, their house needs a new roof as a result. And why the roof? And why only the roof?

I don't know what happened to the stricken pair but then, neither do you, however much you've followed the story in Britain's mass media. In fact, the more you've read, the more confused you're likely now to be.

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Yoda

UN report condemns bloody response to Gaza protests: Corbyn renews calls to end UK arms sales to Israel

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Jeremy Corbyn addresses the annual Labour Party conference in 2017.
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has renewed his calls for Britain to cease arms sales to Israel following a UN report last week that the Israeli army's actions against Palestinian protesters in Gaza's Great March of Return could amount to war crimes.

"The UK government must unequivocally condemn the killings and freeze arms sales to Israel," Corbyn tweeted on Friday, linking the report.

The Labour Party approved a motion during a conference last September that called for the same embargo on arms sales to Israel.

During the conference, Corbyn, who has sustained years of attacks and accusations of anti-Semitism for his support of Palestinian rights, slammed US policies in the region and said that Palestinians can't be "left alone in the darkness."

Bad Guys

Israel receives US THAAD missile defense system - part of 'joint exercises'

THAAD system
© US Missile Defense Agency
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile battery
The U.S. military for the first time has moved an advanced missile defense system to Israel as part of a monthlong joint air defense exercise between the two countries.

U.S. European Command is currently conducting a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system exercise deployment in Israel, "which is part of U.S. efforts to implement its operational concept & mission to assist in Israel's aerial defense," Israeli Defense Forces tweeted on Monday.

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The THAAD system, considered one of the most advanced in the world, will be added to the existing Israeli air defence. The latter currently includes the Iron Dome, designed to shoot down short-range rockets and the Arrow system.

Commenting on the exercise, IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis specified the US anti-ballistic missile battery would be deployed in the south of the country and that about 200 American servicemen would participate in the drills.



Jet4

Indian media publishes 'minute-by-minute' account of India & Pakistan's aerial dogfight

Abhinandan Varthaman shot down
© (L) AFP / Dibyangshu Sarkar; (R) Ruptly / Pool
India AF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman
Indian media have provided a detailed account of its downed pilot's dramatic air combat with Pakistan in Kashmir, featuring rapid duels and daring aerial maneuvers on both sides. Some details have been disputed by Islamabad.

The detailed account of the dogfight was published by India's Times Now channel in an exclusive on Sunday.

The minute-by-minute report details the combat between the Indian jets and the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on February 27, which ended with one MiG 21 downed and its pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, captured by the Pakistanis on the ground.

Snakes in Suits

Former acting AG Whitaker leaves the Justice Department

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Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has left the Department of Justice.

A Justice Department spokesman told The Hill that Whitaker's last day was Saturday but did not expand on the circumstances surrounding his departure or his plans after leaving. It is unclear where Whitaker might go, including whether he might seek another role in the Trump administration.

Whitaker served as the chief of staff for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions until November, when President Trump tapped him to lead the department temporarily following Sessions's ouster. Sessions resigned at Trump's request the day after the November midterm elections, after enduring months of criticism from the president over his decision to recuse himself from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.