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Impunity: Israel flatly states it won't cooperate with US probe into journalist Shireen Abu Akleh's killing

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:23 UTC
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© Al Jazeera, AFPAbu Akleh was fatally shot by Israeli soldiers as she covered an Israeli raid in Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank.
The U.S. has informed Israel that the FBI will finally investigate the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. The Israeli government has already declared it will not cooperate with the probe.

The U.S. Justice Department has informed the Israeli government that the FBI will investigate the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian American journalist who was shot during an Israeli raid in May. The announcement comes shortly after elections were held in the United States and Israel.

"Such an investigation is highly unusual and could lead to a U.S. request to investigate the soldiers who were involved in the operation — a request Israel would almost certainly reject," wrote Barak Ravid, who first reported the story for Axios. "The investigation could also lead to tensions between the Biden administration and the Israeli government."

On Twitter Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has already declared that Israel will not cooperate with any outside probe.

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Bug

Attempt to try Russian leaders for war crimes is part of the West's weaponization of the International Criminal Court

Robin Philpot
CovertAction Magazine
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
international criminal court
International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to serve as a "battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy," as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.

The quote above does not come from President Putin of Russia or from President Xi of China. It comes from David Scheffer, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) in the Clinton administration and lead negotiator for the United States during the creation of not fewer than five international criminal tribunals, namely for ex-Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Scheffer used the battering-ram image while talking about the first international criminal tribunal established in May 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia. He said:
"By then, the tribunal was a potent judicial tool, and I had enough support from President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Secretary of Defense William Cohen, and other top officials in Washington to wield it like a battering ram in the execution of U.S. and NATO policy." (All the Missing Souls, A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, Princeton University Press, 2012)
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You are under contrôle: French elites privately fear the US and new research explains why

Felix Livshitz
RT
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:01 UTC
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© Ludovic MARIN / AFPFrench President Emmanuel Macron (R) and US President Joe Biden (L) meet at the French Embassy to the Vatican in Rome.
Intelligence services worry about American economic warfare more than terrorism or the prospect of confrontation with Russia or China

New research published by France's Ecole de Guerre Economique has revealed some extraordinary findings about who and what the French intelligence services fear most when it comes to threats to the country's economy.

The findings are based on extensive research and interviews with French intelligence experts, including representatives of spy agencies, and so reflect the positions and thinking of specialists in the under-researched field of economic warfare. Their collective view is very clear - 97 percent consider the US to be the foreign power that "most threatens" the "economic interests" of Paris.

Comment: It appears that France still retains some of its revolutionary spirit at the highest levels. That it exists at the street level is undeniable. How will that translate into navigating foreign policy vis a vis the 800-pound gorilla?

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Cardboard Box

CBDCs? Banking giants, New York Fed start 12-week 'digital dollar token' pilot for wholesale transactions

Jamie Crawley
Coin Desk
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:12 UTC
digital currency
A group of major banks and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York have started to test the use of digital tokens representing digital dollars to improve how central bank money is settled between institutions.

Citigroup (C), HSBC (HSBC), BNY Mellon (BK) and Wells Fargo (WFC) are among the banks taking part, along with payments giant Mastercard (MA), the New York Fed announced Tuesday.

The 12-week proof-of-concept pilot program will explore the use of a platform known as the regulated liability network, or RLN, whereby banks issue tokens that represent customers' deposits that are settled on a central bank reserve on a shared distributed ledger.

Comment: It's probably no coincidence that this scheme is occurring amidst the rapidly growing and strengthening multipolar alliances, and the West's terrorist attacks against them, as well as nations and banks buying record amounts of gold, soaring, out of control inflation and the undeniable collapse of the West's ponzi financial system:

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Propaganda

The lies spread by all pro-US government media

Eric Zuesse
The Duran
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:47 UTC
Ukraine Propaganda
© Off-Guardian
First here, are a group of lies that all are false, all for the very same reason — that they all blatantly contradict the actual (as is to be documented here) history (just click onto each given lying phrase below, to see instances in which the given false phrase has been reported as being instead true — and, then, I shall here document them all to be not just false but the reverse of truth, the exact opposite of the reality): Any alleged report that employs any such phrase is propaganda — lying 'news' or 'history' — that bases itself upon the false unstated assumption that Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 started the war in Ukraine, instead of responded to a war in Ukraine that U.S. President Barack Obama's Administration (including Joe Biden) — the American Government — had actually started there, in 2014, against Ukraine's adjoining nation of Russia. America is planning ultimately to invade Russia from the only nation that is only 300 miles away from Moscow (Russia's central command — far closer than Cuba was to Washington DC during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis).
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Analyzing Western military aid to Ukraine

Noah Carl
Daily Sceptic
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:17 UTC
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© Sergei Supinsky / AFPUkrainian servicemen load a truck with Javelin anti-tank missile systems at Boryspil International Airport near Kiev, Ukraine.
How much military aid has the West given to Ukraine? What kinds of weapons has it supplied? And how does Ukraine's wartime arsenal compare to Russia's? I'll try to answer these questions using the latest version of the Kiel Institute's Ukraine Support Tracker.

From January 24th to October 3rd, the West gave a total of €41 billion in military aid (plus an additional €41 billion in non-military aid).

This equates to roughly 60% of annual Russian military spending. However, the figures are not directly comparable since Russian spending includes salaries as well as equipment, and about 40% of military aid to Ukraine is classified as "financial commitments" (e.g., to purchase weapons in the future).

Comment: The author has painted far too rosy a picture of Ukraine's situation. What he doesn't mention is that Russia is using only a fraction of its equipment and manpower, whereas Ukraine has gone all-in with its military resources, which are being systematically cut to pieces. Russia still controls an area in Ukraine greater in size than Britain with (so far) much less manpower.

And finally, there was no great Kiev, Kharkov, or Kherson "victory". The only territory Ukraine has 'retaken' has been that vacated by Russia's choice. It's pretty certain Ukraine will lose them in the future.

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CIA Director Burns meets with Russian spy chief in Ankara to "warn" about use of nukes

Dave DeCamp
Antiwar.com
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
CIA Director William Burns met with the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service
The US says the meeting was focused on warning against the use of nuclear weapons, not negotiations on Ukraine

CIA Director William Burns met with the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday, marking the highest-level face-to-face meeting between US and Russian officials since the February 24 invasion of Ukraine.

The unannounced meeting was first revealed by media reports and later confirmed by the Kremlin, which said the talks between Burns and SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin were requested by Washington.

The White House said that the meeting was not an attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, but was focused on reducing the risk of nuclear escalation and the detention of US citizens in Russia.

"He is not conducting negotiations of any kind. He is not discussing settlement of the war in Ukraine," a White House spokesperson told Reuters. "He is conveying a message on the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, and the risks of escalation to strategic stability ... He will also raise the cases of unjustly detained US citizens."

Comment: So CIA head Burns has (or had) a decent understanding of Russia's position regarding NATO encirclement of Russia and its role in the Ukraine - but is now forced - or chooses to - proceed on the bogus pretense and narrative that Russia is going to use nukes against the Ukraine (or elsewhere) some time soon.

This visit is an obvious ploy to discredit and demonize Russia in the eyes of ignorant and/or Russophobic Westerners - and horribly ironic given the the intelligence showing that US/UK and Ukraine forces themselves were (and probably still are) planning some kind of false flag "dirty bomb" event designed to pin blame on Russia. Diabolical.

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Best of the Web: Turkey REJECTS US embassy's condolences over Istanbul terror attack, 'it's like the killer who's first on the scene of the attack' - Interior Minister


TASS
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 13:57 UTC
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© AAInterior Minister Süleyman Soylu speaks to reporters at the scene of the attack, in Istanbul, Türkiye, Nov. 14, 2022.
Turkey will not accept the United States' condolences over Sunday's terror attack in Istanbul. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday.

"We have received the message but we do not accept it and reject the US embassy's condolences. We are not hostile towards anyone," he said.

Earlier in the day, Soylu criticized the US embassy's condolences, saying that "it is like when the killer is among the first to come to the scene of the attack." At the same time, he did not quote the message but accused the United States of supporting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is banned in Turkey. "We see insincerity from some of our so-called allies who either give shelter to terrorists or let them exist on territories they occupy, or officially send them money from their senates," the Turkish minister said.

Comment: As noted in the report on the attack yesterday, Turkey recently made clear signals that it intends to join BRICS and to pivot away from the failing West: Suspected terrorist bomb attack on busy Istanbul street kills 8, injures 53 - President Erdogan

Twitter's translation:

❝ We also caught the organizer of the terrorist attack. ❞ ❝ If we hadn't caught them, they would have fled to Greece today. ❞ ❝ We do not accept the American Embassy's condolences, we reject it. ❞

Twitter's translation:

General Directorate of Security shared the photo of the suspect who carried out the terrorist attack in Beyoğlu

Twitter's translation:

Turkish police say that the perpetrator of the #إسطنبول bombing is a Syrian woman named Ahlam al-Bashir, who received training from Kurdish militias, confirming the arrest of 46 others in connection with the bombing God Ijrblk my innocent murderers have no guilt.
Twitter's translation:

Terrorist Caught in the Terrorist Bomb Attack on Istiklal Street The studies initiated regarding the incident continue in a multi-faceted manner.


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"Antidemocratic" just means "something the regime doesn't like"

Ryan McMaken
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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"Democracy" is the new "revolutionary."

In the old Marxist regimes, anything that displeased the regime was said to be contrary to "the revolution." For example, in the Soviet Union, national leaders spoke regularly of how the nation was in the process of "a revolutionary transformation" toward a future idealized communist society. Many years after the actual revolution and coup d'état in Russia following the collapse of tsarist rule, the word "revolution" had "positive connotations and was considered a source of legitimacy in official ideology."

"Revolutionary" became a synonym for "a thing we like," and it's no surprise that a 1952 Soviet legal manual lists "counterrevolutionary" activities as among the "political crimes ... deemed generally dangerous crimes against the order of the state." Moreover, in the early 1950s, when Mao Zedong launched new efforts to consolidate Communist power, he called the effort a "campaign to suppress counterrevolutionaries." Other regimes adopted similar practices as well. Fidel Castro's regime frequently launched investigations and campaigns against "antirevolutionary" dissidents and Ethiopia's Marxist governments in the 1970s described domestic opponents as guilty of "anti-revolutionary crimes."
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NATO needs enemies to justify its existence - Russia


RT
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:39 UTC
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© Kay Nietfeld / picture alliance via Getty Images
Having an enemy to fight against is essential for NATO's survival, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko has claimed. The diplomat added that the bloc's expansion is largely motivated by the need to antagonize nations so they can fit the role of an enemy.

"NATO is the kind of organization that cannot live without an enemy. If it had none, it would have died," he was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency on Monday.

"They have declared Asia a zone of the alliance's interest, pushed the zone of their defense right to the border of China," he noted.

Grushko said the conflict in Ukraine stems from NATO's declared intention to eventually accept Kiev as a new member, while ignoring Russia's national security concerns. The alliance is still trying to bring in Ukraine, he said, adding that he doesn't believe the US and its allies are acting rationally on the issue.
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