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Best of the Web: The US has backed 21 of the 28 'crazy' militias leading Turkey's brutal invasion of northern Syria

Max Blumenthal
The Greyzone
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:30 UTC
ohn McCain with then-FSA chief Salim Idriss
Left: John McCain with then-FSA chief Salim Idriss (right) in 2013; Right: Salim Idriss (center) in October, announcing the establishment of the National Front for Liberation, the Turkish mercenary army that has invaded northern Syria.
Footage showing members of Turkey's mercenary "national army" executing Kurdish captives as they led the Turkish invasion of northern Syria touched off a national outrage, provoking US government officials, pundits and major politicians to rage against their brutality.

In the Washington Post, a US official condemned the militias as a "crazy and unreliable." Another official called them "thugs and bandits and pirates that should be wiped off the face of the earth." Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the scene as a "sickening horror," blaming President Donald Trump exclusively for the atrocities.

But the fighters involved in the atrocities in northern Syria were not just random tribesmen assembled into an ad hoc army. In fact, many were former members of the Free Syrian Army, the force once armed by the CIA and Pentagon and branded as "moderate rebels." This disturbing context was conveniently omitted from the breathless denunciations of US officials and Western pundits.
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Hillary Clinton says Tulsi Gabbard is a 'Russian asset' groomed to ensure Trump reelection - Tulsi hits back ... hard!

Tim Pearce
Washington Examiner
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 11:35 UTC
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Hillary Clinton said that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is being groomed by Moscow to run as a third-party spoiler candidate in 2020 to help President Trump win reelection.

The former secretary of state pushed the theory on Campaign HQ podcast hosted by David Plouffe, President Barack Obama's campaign manager in 2008.

Plouffe and Clinton discussed hurdles the Democratic nominee would face and compared the 2020 race to Clinton's loss to Trump in 2016. Plouffe asked Clinton about the part third-party candidates, such as Jill Stein of the Green Party, played in 2016, allowing Trump to secure key states.

Comment: Tulsi's tweeted response:




#IamTulsi is trending on Twitter as a result:





Of course, some continue to be brainwashed. See RT for their tweets. Thankfully, the meme-gods have arrived:








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38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe


Chattanooga Times Free Press
Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
hillary clinton
© Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald via APFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answers a question posed by student journalists during the Trailblazing Women of Park Ridge event in Park Ridge, Ill., Friday, Oct. 11, 2019.
The State Department has completed its internal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of private email and found violations by 38 people, some of whom may face disciplinary action.

The investigation, launched more than three years ago, determined that those 38 people were "culpable" in 91 cases of sending classified information that ended up in Clinton's personal email, according to a letter sent to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley this week and released on Friday. The 38 are current and former State Department officials but were not identified.

Although the report identified violations, it said investigators had found "no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information." However, it also made clear that Clinton's use of the private email had increased the vulnerability of classified information.

Comment: Could this be the bit of news Clinton was hoping to draw attention away from by attacking Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein?



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Russia begins pumping natural gas into Turkish Stream pipeline


RT
Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:22 UTC
turkstream
© turkstream.info
Gazprom has started to fill the first branch of the offshore section of the Turkish Stream pipeline with natural gas. This is the final stage of testing the pipeline before putting it into operation later this year.

"Filling the pipeline system with gas is a significant step towards the start of actual gas supplies to Turkey and South-East Europe through the new system of offshore gas pipelines," said the pipeline's operator South Stream Transport B.V. It added that the first deliveries are scheduled for the end of 2019.

The major joint project between Moscow and Ankara, the Turkish Stream (aka TurkStream), was officially agreed in October 2016. It involves the construction of a gas pipeline consisting of two branches with a capacity of 15.75 billion cubic meters each. The first line is intended for the supply of Russian gas to Turkish consumers, the second - for gas supply to the countries of Southern and Southeast Europe.

Comment: With Turkey's operation in Syria right now, and with Russia watching, the timing of this is brilliantly coincidental:

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Best of the Web: Is Putin the new 'King' of the Middle East?

Patrick J. Buchanan
Buchanan.org
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:00 UTC
putin
© PixaBayIf Putin wants to be king of this, and it is OK with Assad, how does that imperil the United States of America, 6,000 miles away?
"Russia Assumes Mantle of Supreme Power Broker in the Middle East," proclaimed Britain's Telegraph. The article began:

"Russia's status as the undisputed power-broker in the Middle East was cemented as Vladimir Putin continued a triumphant tour of capitals traditionally allied to the US."

"Donald Trump Has Handed Putin the Middle East on a Plate" was the title of a Telegraph column. "Putin Seizes on Trump's Syria Retreat to Cement Middle East Role," said the Financial Times.

The U.S. press parroted the British: Putin is now the new master of the Mideast. And woe is us.

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Canadian populist leader Maxime Bernier: 'Reject global warming alarmism'

Maxime Bernier
Times Colonist
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 06:00 UTC
Maxime Bernier
© Justin Tang, The Associated PressPeople's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier, speaking at the federal leaders election debate on Oct. 10 in Gatineau, Que.
A commentary by the leader of the People's Party of Canada and MP for the Quebec riding of Beauce.

This is the second in a series of commentaries about climate change from Canada's main political parties; they are being published daily this week.
Justin Trudeau's Liberal government has spent billions of dollars at home and abroad to fight global warming — or "climate change" as it is now called, to account for every natural weather event and its opposite.

To lower greenhouse gas emissions, the government has imposed a carbon tax, other taxes and countless regulations. It subsidizes inefficient and costly "green technology," and it is blocking the development of oil resources crucial to our prosperity.

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How Israel's security minister Gilad Erdan is using Temple extremists as his ticket to power

Richard Silverstein
Palestine Responds
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
Ultra Orthodox Jew walks reading from a book
© AFPAn Ultra Orthodox Jew walks reading from a book in the east Jerusalem on 24 January
The headline leapt off the page of Makor Rishon, one of the right-wing Israeli dailies owned by Sheldon Adelson. Israel's public security minister, Gilad Erdan, boasted: "Freedom of worship on the Temple Mount? It can happen in the next few years, a decade at most."

He added: "Everyone must consider what he can do in the context of [Israeli] responsibility and authority to achieve sovereignty over our people's holiest site, our holy Mount. This is what I myself do and promise to do even more in future."

The explicit meaning of such statements is clear to all Israelis: Erdan plans to topple the decades-old compact between Israel and the Jordanian Jerusalem Awqaf, according to which the Awqaf exercised exclusive authority over Al-Aqsa Mosque, to offer the most extreme Israeli settlers, who seek to rebuild the Temple, total and free access to Al-Aqsa.

Full access

Given that it is the third holiest site in Islam, and that the Jordanian government is its guardian, offering full access to settlers will cause an immediate rupture within the Muslim world. It will threaten to resume the deadly riots which brought tens of thousands of Palestinians to Al-Aqsa when in July 2017 Israel installed intrusive surveillance equipment at the compound entrances.

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China records lowest quarterly economic growth in 27 years

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:46 UTC
china stocks
In the midst of a trade war with the United States and falling domestic demand, China registered a 6% GDP increase in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period of 2018.

That is the smallest number since Beijing began compiling the data in 1993, the Associated Press reports.

Quarterly economic growth was announced by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday. According to the Beijing agency, the number was lower than expected by analysts (6.1%) and the annual economic growth of 2019, compared to 2018, is at 6.2%.

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SOTT Focus: Tulsi Nails it on National TV: US Regime-Change Wars

Finian Cunningham
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:11 UTC
Tulsi Gabbard
© Stefani ReynoldsTulsi Gabbard
No wonder Democratic Party bosses and mainstream media are trying to bury presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard. She is the only candidate, perhaps the only politician in the US, who is telling the American public exactly what they need to know about what their government and military are really up to: fighting illegal regime-change wars, and to boot, sponsoring terrorists for that purpose.

It didn't come much clearer nor more explicit than when Gabbard fired up the Democratic TV debate this week. It was billed as the biggest televised presidential debate ever, and the Hawaii Representative told some prime-time home-truths to the nation:

"Donald Trump has blood of the Kurds on his hands, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing regime-change war in Syria that started in 2011... along with many in the mainstream media who have been championing and cheer-leading this regime-change war."

Comment: Outspoken, brave, truthful - which is why the establishment wants to shut her down:


Tulsi Gabbard takes the gloves off on Twitter:






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Trump says 'tough' love with Turkey got Syria ceasefire done


RT
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:29 UTC
Trump and others
© Reuters/Jonathan ErnstUS President Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump hailed the news that Turkey agreed to halt its operation in Syria pending the withdrawal of Kurdish militia from the 'safe zone' along the border, crediting his "tough love" approach for the breakthrough.

"This deal could NEVER have been made 3 days ago. There needed to be some 'tough' love in order to get it done," Trump tweeted on Thursday, adding he was "proud of all" involved.

Moments earlier, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Ankara had agreed to a 120-hour ceasefire, and to stop its 'Operation Peace Spring' entirely if the US-allied Kurdish militias completed their withdrawal beyond a 20-kilometer "safe zone" along the Turkey-Syria border.

Trump's "tough love" most likely referred to sanctions against individual Turkish officials involved in the operation and steep tariffs on Turkish steel, which he threatened Ankara with after the incursion began last week.
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