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Between Washington's rock & Ankara's hard place, Kurds would be wisest to choose Damascus

George Galloway
RT
Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:49 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Staff Sgt. Andrew GoedlUS and Turkish military forces conduct the third ground combined joint patrol inside the security mechanism area, Oct. 4, 2019
Being half an Irishman myself I feel entitled to refer to the probably apocryphal answer given by an Irishman asked by a lost, weary, traveler for directions to Dublin. "Oh, well now, I wouldn't have started from here."

That was my first thought when asked for my reaction to the late-night (are there any other?) statement from Donald Trump that US forces were finally withdrawing from Syria leaving their Kurdish auxiliaries in the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to the tender mercies of the Turkish Army.

The US should never have been there in the first place (though reading Hillary Clinton's late-night response to Trump it is clearer than ever that the world dodged more than a bullet when she failed to win the presidency).
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Flashlight

Impeachment? Ukraingate turns the spotlight on the Dems, Soros and Hill & Bill Clinton

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 21:00 UTC
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© Reuters/Lucy NicholsonHillary and Bill Clinton arrive at swearing in ceremony for elected President Donald Trump.
While attacking President Trump, the Dems and their donors remain silent about their own collusion with Ukrainian officials and tycoons. Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel and US academic Sean D. Foreman have explained why the Dems, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros are the wrong people to push Ukrainegate against Trump.

Ukrainegate has backfired on the Democrats and their donors, as Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani claims that the Ukrainians have brought him evidence of Hillary Clinton, the Bidens, and George Soros' alleged collusion with the country's officials and tycoons.

Giuliani said on Fox News' Hannity show on Wednesday:
"This information was given to me, I didn't go looking for Joe Biden. The Ukrainians brought me substantial evidence of Ukrainian collusion with Hillary Clinton, the DNC, George Soros, George Soros' company - they put it in my lap."
The announcement came amid the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, announced by speaker Nancy Pelosi on 24 September, over Trump's supposed effort to involve Kiev in disrupting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's 2020 campaign.
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Whistle

The 'whistleblower'? Likely isn't!

Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
Sun, 06 Oct 2019 07:19 UTC
Chelsea Manning
© Tom Nicholson/LNP/REX/ShutterstockChelsea Manning
Start with the initial headline, in the story the Washington Post "broke" on September 18th:

TRUMP'S COMMUNICATIONS WITH FOREIGN LEADER ARE PART OF WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT THAT SPURRED STANDOFF BETWEEN SPY CHIEF AND CONGRESS, FORMER OFFICIALS SAY

The unnamed person at the center of this story sure didn't sound like a whistleblower. Our intelligence community wouldn't wipe its ass with a real whistleblower.

Americans who've blown the whistle over serious offenses by the federal government either spend the rest of their lives overseas, like Edward Snowden, end up in jail, like Chelsea Manning, get arrested and ruined financially, like former NSA official Thomas Drake, have their homes raided by FBI like disabled NSA vet William Binney, or get charged with espionage like ex-CIA exposer-of-torture John Kiriakou.

It's an insult to all of these people, and the suffering they've weathered, to frame the ballcarrier in the Beltway's latest partisan power contest as a whistleblower.
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Attention

DNC colluded with Ukraine to boost Hillary, take down Trump

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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© Flickr/FacebookDir Natl Anti-Corruption Bureau Ukraine Artem Sytnyk • DNC Consultant Alexandra Chalupa
The Blaze has released an audio recording that they recently obtained that appears to show Artem Sytnyk, Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, admitting that he tried to boost the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton by sabotaging then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign.

The connection between the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Ukrainian government was veteran Democratic operative Alexandra Chalupa, "who had worked in the White House Office of Public Liaison during the Clinton administration" and then "went on to work as a staffer, then as a consultant, for Democratic National Committee," Politico reported.

Chalupa was working directly with the Ukrainian embassy in the United States to raise concerns about Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and, according to Politico, she indicated that the Embassy was working "directly with reporters researching Trump, Manafort and Russia to point them in the right directions."

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Star of David

Israel to deport BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
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© MondoweissOmar Barghouti's arrest in Israel
Israel's Minister of the Interior says he is taking action to force Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, out of the country.
"I intend to act quickly to deprive Omar Barghouti of residency status in Israel... This is a man who does everything to harm the country and therefore must not enjoy the right to be a resident of Israel."
Aryeh Deri said he had directed the Population and Immigration Authority to prepare a legal opinion aimed at Barghouti's deportation.

The announcement comes after Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber notified Deri's office that it had the authority to revoke Barghouti's residency. The legal basis: a 2018 amendment to the residency law, listing "breach of trust" as a crime which may justify stripping a residency status. Barghouti married a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and lives under the residency status in the city of Acre.

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X

Bellingcat-led backlash tanked scientific paper arguing Assad was not responsible for Syria chem attack


RT
Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:39 UTC
Syrian road signs
© Reuters/Omar Sanadiki
Unidentified "issues" prompted a prestigious scientific journal to withhold publication of a report challenging the mainstream narrative on a 2017 Syrian chemical attack - after 'citizen investigation' outlet Bellingcat objected.

The report, authored by MIT professor emeritus Theodore Postol and six other experts, concludes that the Syrian government was not behind the alleged sarin attack which killed more than 80 people at Khan Sheikhoun in April 2017.

Experts warned at the time that responsibility could not be so quickly determined, but that did not stop US President Donald Trump from launching 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in response. He was widely praised for the swift action, with even liberal media and his usual 'resistance' critics fawning over the display of military might.

A new study disputing the findings of US intelligence and UN investigators was due to be published in the Princeton University-based Science & Global Security (SGS) — but is mysteriously being held back following an "independent internal review of the editorial process" which threw up unidentified "issues" with the peer-review and revision process.

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Take 2

With repeat losers, Killary and Romney, rumored to join the 2020 race, DC politics is like a bad Hollywood remake

Helen Buyniski,
RT
Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:10 UTC
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© Reuters / NTB Scanpix / Global Look / Brian CahnThird time's the charm
Two-time losers Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney are rumored to be mulling presidential runs in 2020, despite repeated and resounding rejections from the voting public. Why won't they go away, and is this a sign of a deeper crisis?

It's not just Clinton and Romney. Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden himself is a two-time loser convinced that third time's the charm. Even Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders, whose policy ideas are relatively new, even if he isn't, has been in politics most of his life. DC has become the east coast version of Hollywood, churning through remake after remake as audiences and interest dwindle, fueled by a zombie economy of donors utterly disconnected from the real world.

Clinton has been ubiquitous on TV for the past few weeks, making the rounds ostensibly to promote a book she co-wrote with her daughter. Yet every single conversation inevitably swings back to 2016, how she was robbed of her rightful place in the Oval Office, and how President Donald Trump is an "illegitimate" leader who "knows" he stole the election.

When Trump opted to pull troops out of northern Syria on Monday, finally fulfilling a campaign promise he'd made in part to counter her warmongering, Clinton was quick to slam the decision as a "sickening betrayal."
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Bulb

Former US envoy to Moscow John Huntsman: Our knee-jerk Russia sanctions hurt our own interests, time to get smarter


RT
Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:02 UTC
John Huntsman Putin Lavrov
The now-former US ambassador to Russia risks being labeled a Putin apologist for advocating a less punitive approach. But he says he found that sanctions on Russia are actually detrimental to US policies.

In recent years, Washington has piled sanctions on hundreds of Russian individuals and companies with the claimed goal of changing Moscow's behavior, even though the Russian government has repeatedly said that sanctions will not change its policies. It appears that Jon Huntsman, who recently resigned as US ambassador to Moscow, believes US politicians should start believing what the Russians say.

"Russians have accepted that US sanctions will probably remain in place for the long term, inevitably distorting the market as Russians create alternative supply chains that aren't always conducive to American interests," Huntsman wrote in an opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal.

The US, of course, is far less interconnected economically with Russia than European nations, which toed the line in applying the sanctions and were hit by Moscow in return. Even so, US sanctions should do "more than to see some Russian officials squirm," but Washington doesn't really analyze what its sanctions do for its interests in the long run.

Comment: Huntsman's common sense will naturally be met with a wall of belligerent, ignorant and highly biased condemnation among much of Washington's political class - who believe - or want to believe that they need an external enemy in the form of Russia. The pathologically-driven hatred, and demonization of Russia, will likely boomerang (as these things often do) and play a great part in the US's undoing - much to the detriment of millions of people.

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Dollar

Buh bye dollar! Russia and Turkey agree to use national currencies for settlements


RT
Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:06 UTC
Istanbul
© Reuters / Murad SezerA new mosque under construction at Camlica hill overlooking the Bosphorus is pictured at sunrise in Istanbul, Turkey
Moscow and Ankara inked an agreement on using Russian rubles and Turkish lira in mutual payments and settlements, the Russian Finance Ministry announced on Tuesday.

The deal is aimed at gradually switching to using national currencies in mutual trade, the ministry said. Trade turnover between the two countries grew by 16 percent last year, reaching $25.5 billion.

According to the ministry, the agreement aims for "further expansion and strengthening of interbank interaction, as well as ensuring uninterrupted payments between business entities of the two countries."
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Network

China seeks joint nuclear and wind projects with Russia


RT
Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:06 UTC
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© Sputnik / Valeriy MelnikovThe nuclear icebreaker Yamal during Arctic exploration in the Kara Sea
Beijing is seeking greater energy cooperation with Moscow in Russia's Arctic region, according to Ou Xiaoming, chief representative of China's State Grid (the national power company).

"China and Russia are developing deep cooperation in the field of nuclear power and have expansive room for further growth. Russia has rich experience in the production and construction of advanced nuclear power units," he said.

The official detailed that both sides have been working actively on the construction of the Tianwan and Xudabao nuclear power plants in China. He noted that Russia enjoys a great advantage when it comes to wind power in the Arctic.
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