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Elijah Magnier: Why Trump and Netanyahu's 'Deal of the Century' will not go through

Elijah J. Magnier
emagnier.com
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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For over a year now, the Israeli "Deal of the Century" for Palestine has been endorsed by the US establishment and is now echoing to the four corners of the world. The two novices in foreign policy, US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, manoeuvred by Israel from behind the scenes, are trying to promote it among Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, the three countries who are supposed to exchange territories to further Israel's plans in Gaza and the West Bank. It remains improbable that the US and Israel can impose this plan that has taken shape under the watchful but impotent gaze of Europe and the Arab nations.

Notwithstanding US-Arab-Israeli initial approval of this deal, the ultimate decision is in the hands of the Palestinian people. Although bickering and serious splits are omnipresent among the Palestinian leadership, all (including the President ad interim Mahmoud Abbas) have agreed to reject the Israeli-US deal. Thus, the "Deal of the Century" is expected to fall through because the Palestinians will never again make the mistake they made in 1948, and will hold on to their territory. They will not agree to exchange Palestine for parcels of land in Egypt and Jordan as written in the plan leaked by the same US establishment.
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SOTT Focus: The Prosecution of Julian Assange is Infinitely Bigger Than Assange

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Julian Assange
Julian Assange's mother reported yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers. Doctors who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy have attested that he urgently needs medical care. Belmarsh is a maximum security prison sometimes referred to as "the UK's Guantanamo Bay".

And yet we're asked to believe that this has something to do with an alleged bail violation and a US extradition request for alleged computer crimes carrying a maximum sentence of five years. If you zoom out and listen to the less-informed chatter of the overt propagandists and the brainwashed rank-and-file Western mass media consumers, you will also see that people believe this has something to do with Russia and rape allegations as well.

Actually, none of these things are true. Assange is being imprisoned under draconian conditions for journalism, and for journalism only. The Obama administration declined to prosecute him after WikiLeaks' publication of the Manning leaks out of concern that doing so would endanger press freedoms, and the Obama administration didn't have any more evidence at its disposal than the Trump administration has now. The "crime" Assange is accused of consists of nothing other than standard journalistic practices that investigative journalists engage in all the time, including source protection and encouraging the source to obtain more material. The only thing that has changed is an increased willingness in the White House to prosecute journalists for practicing journalism, and there are an abundance of reasons to believe that he will be hit with far more serious charges once extradited to US soil. They're not going to all this trouble for a bail violation and a five-year maximum sentence.
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Snakes in Suits

Paul Craig Roberts: When evil is triumphant

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
venezuela blackout
© Gaby Oráa / RMTFExplosion of two transformers of the electricity substation of Terrazas of the Club Hipico of Baruta
Today (April 17) I heard a NPR "news" report that described the democratically elected president of Venezuela as "the Venezuelan dictator Maduro." By repeating over and over that a democratically elected president is a dictator, the presstitutes create that image of Maduro in the minds of vast numbers of peoples who know nothing about Venezuela and had never heard of Maduro until he is dropped on them as "dictator."

Nicolas Maduro Moros was elected president of Venezuela in 2013 and again in 2018. Previously he served as vice president and foreign minister, and he was elected to the National Assembly in 2000. Despite Washington's propaganda campaign against him and Washington's attempt to instigate violent street protests and Maduro's overthrow by the Venezuelan military, whose leaders have been offered large sums of money, Maduro has the overwhelming support of the people, and the military has not moved against him.

What is going on is that American oil companies want to recover their control over the revenue streams from Venezuela's vast oil reserves. Under the Bolivarian Revolution of Chavez, continued by Maduro, the oil revenues instead of departing the country have been used to reduce poverty and raise literacy inside Venezuela.

The opposition to Maduro inside Venezuela comes from the elites who have been traditionally allied with Washington in the looting of the country. These corrupt elites, with the CIA's help, temporarily overthrew Chavez, but the people and the Venezuelan military secured his release and return to the presidency.

Comment: Like Libya and Syria, Venezuela is not just about oil
The West needs to rule. It is obsessed with controlling the world, with feeling superior and exceptional. It is a game, a deadly game. For centuries, the West has been behaving like a fundamentalist religious fanatic, and its people have never even noticed that their world views have actually became synonymous with exceptionalism, and with cultural superiority. That is why the West is so successful in creating and injecting extremist religious movements of all denominations, into virtually all parts of the world: from Oceania to Asia, from Africa to Latin America, and of course, to China. Western leaders are 'at home' with Christian, Muslim or even Buddhist extremists.


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Best of the Web: The West's irrational fear of Iran is a disaster waiting to happen

Seyed Mohammad Marandi
Middle East Eye
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:20 UTC
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© AFPIf the Trump regime miscalculates, the house can easily come crashing down on its head Electricity blackouts in Venezuela have been blamed by government supporters on a US-backed regime change operation, as also seen in Iran
While western regimes craft a fresh humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, their corporate and state-owned media and corrupted think-tanks embody what Shakespeare's Lorenzo describes as "this muddy vesture of decay" - and, true to form, frustrate attempts to provide voice to their latest subaltern victims.

Increasingly vitriolic voices, from Paris to Washington, reveal exasperation and express a need to intimidate and justify the eviction of the many increasingly difficult tenants of the Fifth Estate.

Just as advanced capitalism has successfully transformed the first four estates into an almost homogeneous, postmodern utopia for well-heeled Wall Street and Ivory Tower dwellers - amid a deluge of conspiratorial narratives of existential threats - western regime-affiliated intellectual elites vigorously promote a "benign" monopoly in this lucrative piece of real estate.

Ethnocentric worldview

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Best of the Web: Julian Assange's Nightmarish Future

Elizabeth Vos
Consortium News
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Belmarsh Prison
© Wikimedia CommonsLondon's Belmarsh Prison
While Julian Assange waits for what comes next - sentencing on skipping bail in England and a U.S. extradition request - he is being held in a maximum-security prison in London that has been called the "UK's Guantanamo Bay" and has been used to detain alleged terrorists, sometimes indefinitely.

The reputation of HM Prison Belmarsh raises natural concerns about the wellbeing of the WikiLeaks publisher there.

"While many prisoners at Belmarsh say it's difficult to see a doctor or a nurse, these services are available at the facility," reports Bloomberg News, regarding the possibility of Assange receiving overdue medical attention.

Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh had been used to detain high-profile national security prisoners indefinitely without charge under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act of 2001, passed six weeks after 9/11, until the House of Lords ruled it violated the British Human Rights Act.

Assange was found guilty on Thursday of skipping bail. On May 2 he is scheduled to participate in a court hearing via video link on the U.S. extradition request.


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Footprints

Galloway: Why I am voting Brexit in the European elections

George Galloway
RT
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:29 UTC
Farage/Galloway
© REUTERS/Peter NichollsNigel Farage, Britain's UK Independence Party leader, (R) and socialist politician George Galloway attend the "Grassroots Out" campaign, in favour of Britain leaving the EU, in London, February 19, 2016.
I was "trending" on Twitter in the UK for two whole days over the simple act of declaring where my vote will go in the European elections on May 23, which now look inevitable in Britain. There was a huge reaction elsewhere too. Mind you, it was a controversial call.

I have spent a lifetime on the left, joining the Labour Party at 13 and spending nearly 30 years in parliament as a left-wing MP. And I'm voting for Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party. How come?

Ontology is important to me. I made a documentary for RT called the Patriot Game, which looked at the history of the far right in Britain, the history of fascism. The left-wing predilection to call everyone to the right of you a "racist" or even a "fascist" is not just juvenile, cretinous, but totally counter-productive, driving the subject of your insults irredeemably beyond your political grasp.


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Pompeo: US won't seek military intervention in Iran


Sputnik
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 07:09 UTC
Pompeo
© AP/Sait Serkan GurbuzUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly told a group of Iranian-American community leaders that the Trump administration is not seeking regime change in the Islamic Republic through direct military intervention.

In a closed-door meeting with 15 Iranian-American community leaders at the Renaissance Dallas Hotel last Monday, Pompeo said the Trump administration is "not going to do a military exercise inside Iran", the news portal Axios reported, citing three sources that were in the room, including one who took detailed contemporaneous notes.

During the meeting, Pompeo reportedly was asked, "If regime change does not occur internally what is the endgame?" the US Secretary of State responded that the administration is "careful not to use the language of regime change" and has no plans to intervene in Iran with military forces. When asked if the administration had considered the possibility of a coup, Pompeo quipped that he would not tell the attendees even if they had, prompting laughter in the room, according to the article.

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Rouhani: Formation of a joint border 'reaction force' between Iran and Pakistan


RT
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 09:03 UTC
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© AFP/Stringer/Iranian PresidencyIranian President Hassan Rouhani • Pakistani PM Imran Khan
Iran and Pakistan to create a joint 'reaction force' on the border between the two countries, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said. The announcement came during a two-day visit to Iran by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the first of his tenure.

Iran and Pakistan share a 959km land border. Tehran has been complaining for years about recurring attacks by Pakistani militants on Iranian security forces, with the latest episode reported in February. The future force, which was announced by the two leaders during a joint media conference after a meeting, is intended to boost border security and foster bilateral ties.

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Attention

Former Ecuadorian FM: Assange arrest shows Moreno is a 'CIA asset', turning Ecuador into a 'vassal' state


RT
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:42 UTC
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© AFP/Andrew CowieJulian Assange • Ricardo Patino
The decision of Ecuador's government to terminate Julian Assange's asylum is "savagery" and has heavily damaged the dignity of the county, which caved in to the US as if it was its "vassal," former FM Ricardo Patino told RT.

The former official, who is a vocal supporter of the WikiLeaks co-founder, believes the arrest of Assange has greatly damaged the image of Ecuador, its constitution, as well as the international law as a whole. Patino told RT Spanish in an exclusive interview:
"This is an insult to the dignity of our country, it is lawlessness - to allow the British police to enter our embassy and pull out the person we gave asylum to. And according to our constitution and international agreements it is forbidden to extradite him, this is called the principle of non-refoulement."
Aside from that, he said Assange still holds Ecuadorian citizenship (currently "suspended" by the government). The country's laws explicitly prohibit handing over its citizens to be persecuted under foreign laws, Patino noted. The amount of violations is "savagery from a legal point of view," and Patino says it has clearly shown the country's president - Lenin Moreno - surrendered to the US "as a vassal."

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Dep. DM Fomin: Sovereignty now fragile in a world of US interference


RT
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:12 UTC
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© RTRussian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin
Terrorism and wars remain major concerns of world nations, but they've become more wary of threats to sovereignty - something "fragile" when exposed to outside meddling, such as that of the US, Minister Alexander Fomin told RT.

The Russian deputy defense minister spoke with RTD ahead of the Moscow Conference on International Security, which kicks off on Tuesday. Over 1,000 people from 111 countries are expected to attend the annual event and discuss the most troubling global security issues.

While terrorism and regional conflicts that have been rampant over the past decade remain concerning, Fomin said, increasingly more independent states are wary of interference from major powers - particularly the US - and the prospects of a potential sovereignty loss. Fomin told RTD:
"They realize that concepts like peace, independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty tend to be increasingly fragile today. They need to be protected. The last 20 years have taught them that a state can only be secure if its military is well-equipped and armed with the most advanced air and missile defense systems."
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