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Provocations against right-wingers continues: Tommy Robinson's Instagram page removed


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:02 UTC
Tommy Robinson
© Joel Goodman / ReutersFormer EDL leader Tommy Robinson in Birmingham, UK. March 24, 2018.
Former English Defense League leader and right-wing activist Tommy Robinson has had his "realtommyrobinson" Instagram account removed. The social media website now displays a message saying "Sorry, this page isn't available."

Robinson - whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - was recently released on bail following his appeal against a contempt of court charge. He has suggested that he may fall victim to further bans.

In a recent Facebook post, he announced that he can no longer access Instagram.

"They have now deleted my Instagram account," he wrote. "Facebook will soon close us down."

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War Whore

Best of the Web: Remembering the 08.08.08 Georgia war: Forerunner to today's proxy war against Russia via Ukraine


war080808.com
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 03:53 UTC
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The US-backed coup d'état in Ukraine during Olympic Games earlier this year wasn't the first blatant attempt in recent years to attack Russia while the world's attention was focused elsewhere. The following Russian documentary exposes the truth about the '08.08.08 war'.

6 years ago today, Washington's puppet regime in Georgia, led by the psychopathic Mikheil Saakashvili, launched unprovoked attacks against civilian targets in the disputed territory of South Ossetia. Western media didn't pay the slightest bit of attention until Russian tanks entered South Ossetia and forced the Georgians back to Tbilisi, at which point it became a major media event and the false official narrative that 'Georgia attacked by Russia' was established and has endured to this day.

As this documentary shows, Georgia in fact attacked Russia, and did so with the help of NATO military personnel, NATO weapons and equipment, NATO 'counter-terrorism' training, and a green light from Washington. In fact, fighters from the Ukrainian National Defense Forces (UNA-UNSO), set up by NATO, supplied snipers and other military personnel, the same organization that would later become instrumental in orchestrating the coup d'etat in Kiev and today's bloodshed against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine.


War 08.08.08. The Art of Betrayal from RUSSIA.RU on Vimeo.
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Flashback Saudi Arabia sends death-row inmates to fight in Syria against Assad

Michael Winter
USA Today
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:53 UTC
King Abdullah
© Saudi Press Agency/APKing Abdullah of Saudi Arabia with French President Francois Hollande, who went to the desert kingdom in early November for talks about Syria and Iran.
Saudi Arabia has sent death-row inmates from several nations to fight against the Syrian government in exchange for commuting their sentences, the Assyrian International News Agency reports.

Citing what it calls a "top secret memo" in April from the Ministry of Interior, AINA says the Saudi offered 1,239 inmates a pardon and a monthly stipend for their families, which were were allowed to stay in the Sunni Arab kingdom. Syrian President Bashar Assad is an Alawite, a minority Shiite sect.

According to an English translation of the memo, besides Saudis, the prisoners included Afghans, Egyptians, Iraqis, Jordanians, Kuwaitis, Pakistanis, Palestinians, Somalis, Sudanese, Syrians and Yemenis. All faced "execution by sword" for murder, rape or drug smuggling.

Russia, which has backed Assad, objected to the bargain and allegedly threatened to bring the issue to the United Nations, said an unidentified former Iraqi member of Parliament who confirmed the memo's authenticity, says AINA, an independent outlet.

Comment: See also: The Saudi/Western connection to the spread of terrorism in Europe

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Gold Seal

Rand Paul heads delegation to Russia to encourage 'vital engagement' between lawmakers

Arkady Savitsky
Strategic Culture
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
Donald Trump is not the only American politician to be striving for a better relationship with Moscow in defiance of multiple opponents who are raising a ruckus about his stance on Russia. The hysterical reaction to the US president's summit with the Russian leader in Helsinki did not keep Republican Senator Rand Paul from doing what he believes is right - going to Moscow as the head of a US delegation, which also included Texas State Senator Don Huffines and the president of the Cato Institute, Peter Goettler, in order to spur contacts with Russian lawmakers.

During the talks in Moscow on Aug.6, he invited Russian senators to visit Washington."Today, I met with Chairman Kosachev, and we agreed on the importance of continued dialogue. I invited the Russian Federation to send a delegation to the Capitol, and they have agreed to take this important next step," Mr. Paul stated. It'll be the first Russian parliamentary delegation to have traveled to Washington in nearly three years. The senator thinks "our biggest problem right now is no dialogue," emphasizing that"engagement is vital to our national security and peace around the world."

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US-Russia alliance against China is absurd. America has nothing to offer

Andrei Martyanov
Reminiscence of the Future...
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:02 UTC
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© Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
Remember this?

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However debatable such an approach may be, there is no denial that geopolitical potential is quantifiable and here is an interesting piece of analysis by former Indian diplomat M. K. Bhadrakumar, who in his piece US-Russia-China triangle in flux, again comes to some interesting conclusions and provides some valuable insights. He starts with giving a trivial and unimaginative Kissinger "triangulation" of 1970s some treatment, not forgetting to mention earlier Eisenhower's triangulation of 1950s:
Kissinger argued that the United States, which sought to profit from the enmity between Moscow and Beijing in the Cold War era, would therefore need "to play this balance-of-power game totally unemotionally. Right now, we need the Chinese to correct the Russians and to discipline the Russians." But in the future, it would be the other way around....Now, this recapitulation is useful today, because Trump's moves so far are indicative of an agenda to revert to the Eisenhower era - containment of China by forging an alliance with Russia.

Comment: The US wants to contain China but that's not likely to happen. Russia has a lot more to gain than to fear from China and the US has consistently demonstrated itself to be an unreliable partner. See also: There will not be an American-Russian alliance against China

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China ditches US oil and makes deals with Iran in defiance of sanctions

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
Iranian oil refinery
© AP/Vahid Salemi
One of China's largest oil companies, Sinopec, has suspended imports of 300,000 barrels per month by the end of the year, a company source has revealed to major international media.

At the same time, reports have confirmed that a number of other Chinese oil and gas companies have also joined in on refusing to purchase US oil.

This monumental decision seems to come from the very top of China's policy structures as a response to the recent standstill in negotiations on the US-China trade war and the US' sanctions offensive on Iran following Washington's unilateral withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal.

Meanwhile, other reports suggest that China will not cut oil purchases from Iran despite attempts by US negotiators to restrict Chinese imports of Persian oil.

Russian economist Vladislav Ginko, a senior lecturer at the Academy of Economics and Public Service under the Russian presidential administration, has commented on the situation of US sanctions against Iran.

Comment: The US may have won the trade war with the EU but China and non-Western players who aren't bound by the same corrupt 'special relationship' won't be so easy to subdue:

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International business analyst: 'China and India biggest winners in anti-Iranian sanctions'


Sputnik
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:01 UTC
Radio Sputnik has discussed the newly re-imposed US sanctions on Iran with Lawk Ghafuri, a London-based political analyst, who specializes in international business and economy.

Iran Flag
© Associated Press / Ronald Zak
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that Washington will enforce sanctions on Iran, adding that the restrictions on Tehran are aimed at pushing back against the country's allegedly malign activity. Pompeo also said that the Iranian people are unhappy with the failure of their own leadership to deliver on economic promises.

Sputnik: The European Union has announced that it will be blocking the US's anti-Iranian sanctions. What's your take on this? Did this move come as a surprise to you?

Lawk Ghafuri: Actually, the move by the EU and the US by re-imposing the sanctions on Iran is no surprise because Trump and his administration at the beginning have described that the Iran deal is a bad deal that Barack Obama, the ex-president of the US, implemented. We have to remember that Iran right now is having negotiations with the European Union to pull back the United States into the deal. But I look into as less likely to happen as long as the Iranian regime is refusing to negotiate another deal with the United States.

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Spanish fighter jet 'accidentally' fires live missile near Russian border


RT
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:35 UTC
Spain's Eurofighter Typhoon EF2000 fighter jet
© Jon Nazca / ReutersSpain's Eurofighter Typhoon EF2000 fighter jet
Spanish fighter jets taking part in a NATO Air policing mission over Estonia have been temporarily suspended from completing their duties, after one of the pilots erroneously fired an armed missile during a training flight.

A group of two Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon 2000 jets and two French Mirage 2000 jets were taking part in a training exercise over southwestern Estonia on Tuesday when one of the Spanish planes accidentally launched an air-to-air missile, the Spanish Defense Ministry said in a statement, adding that the projectile "did not hit any aircraft."

All the jets then safely returned to their Saiuliai air base in Lithuania, the ministry said, adding that it has opened an investigation into the incident. Meanwhile, the Estonian authorities decided to ban the Spanish aircraft from taking part in the air policing missions over its territory for a while.

Comment: A Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon 2000 jet on Tuesday accidentally fired an air-to-air missile during its training flight over southern Estonia, the Baltic state's Defense Forces said in a statement.
"The AIM-120 AMRAAM missile is equipped with the self-destruction mechanism which ensures that it is destroyed while in the air in case of an accidental launch. However, it cannot be ruled out that the missile hit the ground. The missile, launched by the Spanish crew during a training flight near the Otepaa town, is 3.7 meters [12 feet] long, its diameter is 19 centimeters [7 inches]," the statement read.


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Syrian air defense confronts unknown warplane above east Homs airport

Leith Aboufadel
Al Masdar News
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:17 UTC
Israeli fighter jet
The Syrian air defense units at the Shay'rat Military Airbase in east Homs have confronted an unknown warplane this evening, a local source told Al-Masdar News.

According to the source, the warplane is believed to be an armed drone that is similar to the ones used to attack the Russian-operated Hmeymim Airbase in southwest Latakia.

The source did not specify if the unknown warplane was destroyed.

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Bad Guys

US airstrike kills 15 Afghan police officers in Logar


PressTV
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:40 UTC
F-16 Fighting Falcon
© Photo by AFPIn this February 1, 2016 US Air Force handout photo, a pilot performs preflight checks from the cockpit of an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan
NATO has launched a probe into the deaths of some 15 Afghan police officers who were killed in a US air strike in eastern Afghanistan.

Logar provincial council chief Hamidullah Hamid on Tuesday said that "foreign forces" had bombed two police checkpoints and killed "about 15 police."

Interior Ministry Spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, confirmed the incident saying that over nine police officers were killed and 14 more injured during the aerial bombardment of the Azra district of the province.
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