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A US intelligence official is traveling with Guaido on his 'regional tour' - who is she?


teleSUR
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 16:40 UTC
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© Twitter / @WHAAsstSectyJuan Guaido and Kimberly Breier pose for a photo with Brazilian officials during his visit to Brazil earlier this week.
His advisor is Kimberly Breier, a 20-year-experienced U.S. intelligence professional.

Since leaving Venezuela on Feb. 22, despite a travel-ban in place against him, opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido has deployed an intense agenda of attacking democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro as he travels to Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, and other South American countries, whose right-wing leaders were quick to throw their support behind his self-proclamation as interim president.

Besides traveling with his wife Fabiana Rosales, who has accompanied him on each visit as if they were performing official trips, Guaido has been accompanied by another woman: U.S. senior official Kimberly Breier.

A brief look at her social media posts reveals how Breier's constant close presence and collaboration with Guaido to achieve his political objectives of ousting the legitimate government in Venezuela, in line with the interests of her superiors in Washington.

Comment: So Breier's been sticking her official nose into Latin American affairs for quite a while it seems. Just this month she was castigating Cuba for voting massively against the US' preferred agenda.

Cuba snubs Trump's anti-socialist crusade with massive constitution vote

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Propaganda Alert: Hezbollah in Venezuela! Maduro "steals" 8 tons of gold!


SouthFront
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:13 UTC
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A meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on October 22nd, 2016.
The claim that Hezbollah has ties to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was reinforced by a report by the Jerusalem Post, citing former Venezuelan Intelligence Chief Hugo Carvajal.

The article was originally published on February 24th, but US National Security Adviser shared it on twitter on February 27th, with accusations that no longer mention "Maduro and his cronies," but rather Maduro and "a counsel of terrorists and Cuban minders."


According to the Jerusalem Post article, which itself cites a NYT report, Carvajal revealed powerful ties between the administration of President Nicolás Maduro and the Hezbollah terrorist group, as well as wide-spread corruption and drug activity.

Allegedly, those who were meant to combat drugs were engaged in trafficking them, Carvajal said.

Comment: Unfortunately, Russia was unable to get its resolution passed by the UN Security Council. On the plus side, neither was the US able to pass its resolution demanding Venezuela immediately hold a new election.

Russian, US resolutions on Venezuela fail to pass at UN Security Council

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Final steps of the multipolar revolution: Containing the US in Europe

Federico Pieraccini
Strategic Culture
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:00 UTC
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We discussed in the previous article how China and Russia are using diplomatic, economic and military means in areas like Asia and the Middle East to contain the belligerence and chaos unleashed by the United States. In this analysis, we will examine the extent to which this strategy is working in Europe. In the next and final article, we will look at the consequences of the "America First" doctrine in relation to South America and the Monroe Doctrine.
The United States has in the last three decades brought chaos and destruction to large parts of Europe, in spite of the common myth that the old continent has basked in the post-WWII peace of the American-led world order. This falsehood is fueled by European politicians devoted to the European Union and eager to justify and praise the European project. But history shows that the United States fueled or directed devastating wars on the European continent in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, with the conflict between Georgia and Ossetia at the beginning of the 1990s, with the war in Georgia in 2008, and in the coup in Ukraine in 2014, with the ensuing aggression against the Donbass.

Comment: It's likely that this pivot, although slow and with massive resistance from the Western establishment, is driven by the undeniable fact that the future for the planet no longer lies with one country. And the maniacs at the helm in the US and elsewhere have helped drive this point home: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Trump Ditches Europe, Europe Bluffs, Russia and China Carry on With Eurasian Integration

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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: How Trump sabotaged the North Korea summit to appease the hawks and lied about Kim's terms

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 20:05 UTC
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"During the Korean War, the US dropped more bombs on North Korea than it had dropped in the entire Pacific theater during World War II. This carpet bombing, which included 32,000 tons of napalm, often deliberately targeted civilian as well as military targets, devastating the country far beyond what was necessary to win the war. Whole cities were destroyed, with many thousands of innocent civilians killed and many more left homeless and hungry.... Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed "everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another." ...The number of inhabitants of Pyongyang killed by bomb splinters, burnt alive and suffocated by smoke is incalculable..." ("Americans have forgotten what we did to North Korea", Vox World)
The US-North Korea Summit in Hanoi has ended in failure just as all previous attempts at peace have ended in failure. This is by design. Washington has refused to incrementally lift the sanctions on the DPRK because sanctions are Washington's way of prosecuting an economic war against an enemy who, for the last six and a half decades, has been the target of US hostility. In case you hadn't noticed, US policy towards North Korea is regime change, the same as it is towards Iran, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela and any other country that doesn't accept Washington's moral superiority and divine right to rule the world. Economic strangulation (sanctions) is just one way that Washington cracks down on the dissidents and imposes its will with an iron fist. But don't kid yourself, this isn't about nuclear weapons, in fact, the Trump administration hasn't even bothered to assemble a team of weapons inspectors to investigate probable nuclear sites. Why? Because it isn't about nuclear weapons, it's about regime change, it's about inflicting maximum pain and suffering on the Korean people so they take up arms against the government and violently depose Kim and his cabinet. That's the goal. That's always been the goal. The blocking of heating oil, essential medicines and vital food supplies are all being used to promote social unrest, fratricidal warfare, and political anarchy. Sound familiar? It should, Washington has it down to an art.
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Pakistan didn't violate the Geneva Convention, it instead confirmed its adherence

Andrew Korybko
Eurasia Future
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
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© Lahore NewsPakistan-India Kashmir dispute
After suffering a humiliating military defeat on the morning of 27 February when Pakistan shot down two of its MiGs that violated the country's airspace and even captured one of its pilots, India went wild trying to distract its population by switching the subject of discussion to allegations that Islamabad violated the Geneva Convention of 1949 by airing footage of the captured pilot, but in reality Pakistan actually confirmed its adherence to this cornerstone of international law and simultaneously contributed to de-escalating the worst military crisis with its nuclear-armed neighbor since their 1971 war almost half a century ago.

A Desperate Distraction To Cover Up A Military Defeat

"Pakistan Turned The Latest Bollywood 'Surgical Strike' Flick Into Reality" on the morning of 27 February after it upheld the rules-based international order centered on the UN Charter's principles about territorial integrity, sovereignty, and the right to defend oneself against aggression when it shot down two Indian MiGs that violated its airspace and even captured one of the pilots.

This came as a total shock for the Mainstream Media-indoctrinated Indian masses who had mostly been convinced up until that point that Prime Minister Modi had "succeeded" in "putting Pakistan in its place" after "surgically striking" it on the unsubstantiated pretext that Islamabad was involved in the Pulwama attack. As the clichéd saying goes, "the truth hurts", and the proverbial "bloody nose" that Pakistan gave India risked exposing the latter's government-driven narrative as nothing more than pre-election propaganda for the incumbent BJP, which is why the state swiftly moved to distract the population as soon as possible.

Comment: The three videos referenced in the article:



See also: Kashmir crisis: Though tempers run high, India and Pakistan to avoid all-out war say analysts

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Briefcase

House Dems prepare case to request Trump's tax returns

Heidi Przybyla
NBC News
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:52 UTC
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© Anna Moneymaker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRep. Richard Neal during a hearing with Robert Lighthizer in Washington, Feb. 27, 2019.
Democrats are crafting a request to send to the IRS and say they will "take all necessary steps" to obtain the president's returns.

The top tax-writing committee in the House is readying a request for years of President Donald Trump's personal tax returns that is expected to land at the Internal Revenue Service as early as the next few weeks, according to congressional aides involved in the process. And Democrats are prepared to "take all necessary steps," including litigation, in order to obtain them.

Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., has asked the committee's attorneys to prepare the request, according to two aides involved in the process. Neal has also contacted the chairs of several other House investigative committees, including Oversight and Government Reform, Financial Services, Intelligence and Judiciary, asking them to provide detailed arguments for why they need the president's tax returns to conduct their probes.

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Kashmir crisis: Though tempers run high, India and Pakistan to avoid all-out war say analysts


RT
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:06 UTC
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© REUTERS/Munish SharmaIndian and Pakistani border guards face each other at Wagah checkpoint.
Despite growing tensions over Kashmir and cross-border skirmishes, the two nuclear-armed rivals don't want to take the conflict to a new stage, choosing instead to keep a safe distance from the point of no return, analysts told RT.

The simmering conflict between India and Pakistan returned to front-page news in late February when India launched air strikes on what it claimed was a terrorist training camp located in Pakistan after a deadly attack by a jihadist group, prompting Islamabad to retaliate.

Both countries scrambled jets and sent them into their neighbor's airspace. India said it hit one Pakistani jet, which fell on their side of the border. An Indian MiG-21 was shot down and its pilot captured, although returned later.


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Propaganda

Trump, lambasting the media for twisting his words on Warmbier, issues non-apology


RT
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:35 UTC
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© REUTERS/Leah MillisUS President Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam, February 28, 2019
President Donald Trump has scolded the media for "misrepresenting" his words on Otto Warmbier, a US student who died shortly after his release from a North Korean jail, saying that he still holds the reclusive nation responsible.

Trump faced massive backlash after he told a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam on Thursday that he takes North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "on his word" that he had no prior knowledge about the Warmbier ordeal before the US negotiated the student's return.

"I don't think that the top leadership knew about it," Trump said, noting that Kim gained nothing from Warmbier's death. "I don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen. Just wasn't to his advantage to allow that to happen."

Mainstream media immediately jumped on the remark, accusing Trump of "absolving" the "brutal dictator" at the expense of an American citizen.

Warmbier's parents have also poured fuel on the fire online, blaming the North Korean leader for their son's death and seemingly reprimanding Trump for his reluctance to do the same.

In a series of tweets on Friday, Trump blamed the media for putting him in the crosshairs.

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Footprints

US notifies Turkey of its plans to withdraw troops from Syria by summer


Sputnik
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 02:50 UTC
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Washington has informed Ankara about its intention to pull out US troops from Syria by the summer of this year, noting, however, that the schedule can be adjusted depending on the situation on the ground, Turkish media reported on Friday.

According to the Anadolu news agency, Washington made the announcement during the meeting of the Turkey-US joint working group aimed at coordinating the US troop withdrawal from Syria. The meeting was focused on the situation in the northern Syrian city of Manbij and Syrian territories to the east of the Euphrates River, the media outlet specified.

The Turkish side firmly opposed a possible transfer of former US bases to militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terror group by Turkey, after the US withdrawal, saying that they either must be destroyed or handed over to the Turkish military, the news agency added.

Ankara also reportedly informed the US side that if Washington withdrew troops without a mutual agreement with Turkey in line with its security concerns, it would reserve its right to self-defense.

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Arrow Up

Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is 70% complete


RT
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 09:17 UTC
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© 5Pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit in the Gulf of Finland Nord Stream 2 AGPipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit in the Gulf of Finland
More than 800km of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has already been laid under the Baltic Sea, the project's operator announced. The gas pipeline is scheduled to be fully finished by the end of this year.

Some 400km of pipes along the 1,200km route were laid along the seabed since the beginning of the year. In January, the Nord Stream 2 operator reported that 400km of the line had been completed by the end of 2018.

"We have a complex, non-linear schedule for laying the twin Nord Stream 2 pipelines, taking into account the environmental requirements and using a large number of vessels for the implementation of various activities," Nord Stream 2's Chief Project Officer Henning Kothe said on Friday. He added that the works are progressing according to the schedule, which will [guarantee] the gas pipeline completed by the end of 2019 as the company earlier promised.

Over 1,000 people are currently working on some 20 vessels for the project in the Baltic Sea. However, the heavy lift and pipe lay vessel 'Pioneering Spirit,' the world's largest of its kind, will temporarily be used in another project in the North Sea. The construction vessel is set to continue laying the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in around one month.

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