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Top Iranian diplomat Zarif discusses US troop pullout with Iraq's PMF chief


Sputnik
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:06 UTC
US military Iraq
© AFP / Ahmad Al-RubayeUS soldiers monitor as they train Iraq's 72nd Brigade in a live-fire exercise in Basmaya base, southeast of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on January 27, 2016
The Iranian foreign minister and the leader of Iraq's Shiite-dominated Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) discussed the US troop pullout on Sunday.

Mohammad Javad Zarif is currently on a visit to Iraq, where he has already held talks with the top leadership.

"Zarif and [Falih] Al-Fayyad, the head of Hashd al-Shaabi [PMF], discussed the legitimate decision of the government, people and parliament of Iraq on the need for American troops to withdraw from this country as well as other issues of mutual interest", the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.

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Star of David

Alan Dershowitz calls Peter Beinart a Nazi

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:03 UTC
alan dershowitz
© Technion/YouTubeIsrael apologist Alan Dershowitz
Peter Beinart's essay in Jewish Currents and op-ed in The New York Times of two weeks ago, announcing his abandonment of the two-state solution idea for Palestine-Israel, have made a lot of noise, and mark a serious crisis for 'liberal Zionism'.

While some, like Haaretz's US corresponder Chemi Shalev, insisted on holding respect for Beinart while expressing "sorrow and regret", others were much less respectful. Last week Israel apologist Alan Dershowitz published a piece in Newsweek titled "Beinart's Final Solution: End Israel as Nation-State of the Jewish People". The allusion to the Nazi genocide is not accidental, and its repetition at the last paragraph of the piece affirms this:

"The citizens of Israel — both Jewish and Muslim — will be the ones to decide on the appropriate solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. They overwhelmingly support a two-state solution, and they overwhelmingly reject Beinart's Final Solution."

Beinart himself noted Deshowitz's piece on twitter, remarking:

"I write an essay arguing that by depicting Palestinians as Nazis, Jewish discourse erases their humanity and conflates equality with genocide. In response, @AlanDersh calls my argument "the final solution." It's beyond caricature."

Indeed, Dershowitz was calling Beinart a Nazi.

Comment: Some scrutiny of Alan Dershowitz: As a side note to Dershowitz's general loathsomeness, witness his deep involvement with Jeffrey Epstein's sexual blackmail operation, allegedly on behalf of Israel:

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Bad Guys

Germany violated arms export regulations for decades, study says

Melissa Sou-Jie Van Brunnersum
DW
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:35 UTC
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Germany has systematically violated arms export regulations for 30 years, researchers announced on Sunday.

"Germany licenses and exports weapons of war and armaments to countries affected by war and crisis, to countries with human rights violations and to regions of tension," the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) said.

A PRIF study examined the consistency of German arms export policy since 1990 and whether they adhered to the European Union's eight-point criteria when approving arms exports.

The EU criteria includes "respect for human rights and international humanitarian law by the country of final destination" and "maintenance of peace, security and stability in a region."

Germany has "repeatedly violated these criteria," the study said.


Comment: Such criteria are humanitarian-sounding PR not taken seriously by anyone in a position of power. Weapons manufacturers make weapons in order to sell them. People who want to buy them intend to use them. Good luck getting that to change. The best we can hope for is better PR and more secretive deals.


"German weapons are systematically appearing in war zones and in the hands of dictators," Greenpeace disarmament expert Alexander Lurz told French news agency AFP. "We urgently need a strict arms export law that prohibits exports to developing countries and puts an end to this deliberate, systematic undermining of export guidelines."
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Dollar Gold

'I'm not worried. What do I care?' Bloomberg's sycophantic 'billionaires are human too' profile seems to suggest just the opposite

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 22:35 UTC
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© Reuters / Lucas Jackson
Bloomberg's 'Covid conversation' with an anonymous billionaire might have intended to humanize the rich in a time of unprecedented social upheaval, but the subject's clueless callousness will likely fuel class resentment.

Bloomberg reporter Max Abelson interviewed the richest person he knew the day the World Health Organization declared a pandemic back in March, explaining that he "thought someone so well-connected might know what was going on." The mystery tycoon's response? "What the f**k, I'm not worried."

As more Americans than ever before face joblessness, poverty, and a prolonged recession sparked by the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg apparently thought its readers needed to understand how the outbreak is going for the .01 percent. The super-wealthy have been making money hand over fist - $368 billion in the two months after lockdowns began in mid-March alone - while their countrymen flounder.
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Blackbox

Is Trump using Nordstream 2 to exit NATO?

Mike Luongo
Gold, Goats 'N Guns
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
Nordstream
The one thing I never thought I'd say is that Donald Trump is consistent, and yet on the subject of the Nordstream 2 pipeline he has been.

No single project has caused more wailing and gnashing of teeth than Nordstream 2. And since Nordstream 2 is simply the substitute for South Stream, which was supposed to come across the Black Sea into Bulgaria and then feed eastern Europe, this U.S. opposition to another Russian pipeline spans multiple administrations.

So, this is policy that goes far beyond simple 2020 electoral politics, Trump trying to look tough on the Russians, or his misguided Energy Dominance policy.

With Trump rescinding the sanctions exemption for Nordstream 2 he now has declared open war against Europe, specifically Germany over this project.
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Bullseye

Trump says he'd get '50 YEARS FOR TREASON' for what Obama & Biden did as he launches full-on attack on his rival


RT
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:00 UTC
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© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst and Leah Millis
US President Donald Trump has unleashed a fresh offensive on Joe Biden, suggesting his presidential rival should be punished for "spying" and "treason," and needs to be subjected to a cognitive ability exam.

Trump went on the warpath on Sunday, with Joe Biden the target of his rage. In a scathing tweet, he accused Biden of being "totally controlled" by the "radical left," referring to the leaders of Portland, where Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters have battered and burned the city's Justice Center for more than 50 days.

Trump then resurrected a long-standing gripe with the Barack Obama administration, which was in power when the FBI launched a surveillance operation on his presidential campaign in 2016. Recently declassified documents revealed that this operation involved a number of White House officials, among them then-Vice President Joe Biden.

"So we catch Obama & Biden, not to even mention the rest of their crew, SPYING on my campaign, AND NOTHING HAPPENS?" Trump tweeted. "I hope not! If it were the other way around, 50 years for treason. NEVER FORGET!!!!"
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Stop

Malaysian Parliament calls for the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations


Days of Palestine
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:00 UTC
Parliament of Malaysia
The Parliament of Malaysia unanimously agreed today on submitting a notice for emergency motion to urge the government to work with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in demanding the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations.

Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh (PKR-Ledang) has brought members of Parliament's attention to Israel's failure to uphold its pledges as a UN member according to the 1945 Charter of the UN.

Syed Ibrahim said this could be noticed while Israel is planning to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.

He said a petition, signed by all members of parliament, could send a clear signal of protest on the annexation plan by Israel over the occupied Palestininan territories in the West Bank, including the strategic Jordan Valley.

Syed has proposed to submit this petition to the United States' Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, UN and Asean Inter-parliamentary Assembly.

"I would like to propose that MPs sign a petition, through cooperation with the relevant NGOs, to express support and solidarity to the Palestinians in their fight for freedom and peace."
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Eye 2

Dirty tricks: Newly-declassified Trump-Russia documents show anti-Trump leaks planted in NYT were shockingly wrong - 9 times

Sharyl Attkisson
sharylattkisson.com
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:04 UTC
FBI redacted interview Russiagate
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has released two newly-declassified documents related to government surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign in 2016.

The first document, withheld from public view until now, is a 57-page summary of a three-day FBI interview in January 2017 with Christopher Steele's so-called "Primary Sub-source" in the anti-Trump allegations and "dossier."

According to the analysis by Sen. Graham's office:
  • The document reveals that the primary "source" of Steele's election reporting was not some well-connected current or former Russian official, but a non-Russian based contract employee of Christopher Steele's firm. Moreover, it demonstrates that the information that Steele's primary source provided him was second and third-hand information and rumor at best.
  • Critically, the document shows that Steele's "Primary Sub-source" disagreed with and was surprised by how information he gave Steele was then conveyed by Steele in the Steele dossier.

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NPC

White House portraits of Bill Clinton & George W. Bush MAY have been 'moved to a less prominent room' - CNN has meltdown

Tony Cox
RT
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:35 UTC
bush clinton portraits white house
© White House Historical AssociationOfficial portraits of former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush at the White House.
The mainstream media may finally have found its Trump card to ensure the ouster of Orange Man from the White House: the official portraits of two recent presidents have been moved from the Grand Foyer to a rarely used dining room.

As huge as this CNN scoop sounds - wink-wink - let's not get ahead of ourselves. We may need to insert the caveat that's so oft-used on cable news shows nowadays - "if true." That's the caveat that allows you to reasonably lob even the wildest allegations thinkable. In this case, "the Most Trusted Name in News" is relying on unidentified "aides" for the story. It doesn't say what kind of aides they are. White House officials haven't issued a response, and President Trump hasn't tweeted on the topic.

Let's assume that this latest White House artwork scoop is accurate, unlike the Time magazine reporter who alleged on Trump's inauguration day in January 2017 that a bust of civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office. It was an easy mistake to make after the shock of seeing that the offensive Winston Churchill bust had been moved back into the room.
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Bad Guys

Taliban rejects 'Russian bounties' report as 'fake news' to 'damage' group's peace deal with US

Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 16:50 UTC
taliban
© AP Photo / Allauddin Khan
Earlier this month, the Taliban denied a New York Times report that Russian military intelligence offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan.

Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen has reiterated the militant group's stance on its alleged collusion with Russia, which he said is nothing but "fake news".

"The Russian bounties report is not true; it is a baseless allegation. We're fighting neither for anyone nor for money. Our people have their own ideology and they are fighting for that and sacrificing", Shaheen told RT on Sunday.

Referring to a US-Taliban peace deal signed earlier this year in Doha, he suggested that the "politically motivated" report "has to do with spoilers of the peace process" related to the aforementioned agreement.

The goal is to "damage and harm this peace process", Shaheen underscored, slamming the opponents to the deal's "baseless thinking".

The remarks followed Shaheen's previous rejection of The New York Times report about Russian military intelligence allegedly offering bounties to the Taliban for killing US servicemen in Afghanistan.

Comment: The Taliban: still more reliable than the American mainstream media and 'anonymous' intelligence sources.

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