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Make GRU GRU again, Putin says as intelligence agency commemorates 100 years


RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:55 UTC
Putin
© Sergey Guneev/Sputnik
The Russian president suggested returning the historic name to the military intelligence agency, which is accused in the West of staging coups, tilting US elections and using chemical weapons to get rid of double agents.

On Friday, Russian military intelligence officers were celebrating their professional holiday. This year is a big date for the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The organization is best known by its Soviet-times name the GRU (Maine Intelligence Directorate), even though the agency has changed its name to simply GU years ago.
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Israel and the Arab regimes: An alliance of despots

Dr Mohammad Makram Balawi
Middle East Monitor
Sat, 03 Nov 2018 17:34 UTC
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© Carlos Latuff/MiddleEastMonitorThe Arab nations couldn't care less about Palestine
Until Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultra-religious, right-wing party came into power, we Palestinians used to have a lot of difficulties convincing the rest of the world that Israel is not a modern, democratic country as Zionists continue to claim. It is, rather, a reactionary, religion-based, race-based, neo-colonialist entity which will not be a normal presence in the region until all its vicinity are built on the same principles. Thanks to Netanyahu, Culture Minister Miri Regev, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and the rest of this bunch of blood thirsty dinosaurs, our mission is much easier now - even many non-Palestinians have started believing us.
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Beto campaign appears to be illegally spending funds on supplies for caravan aliens


Project Veritas Action
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:29 UTC
project veritas beto migrants
© Project Veritas / Screen capture
Campaign manager says "Don't worry"; "Nobody needs to know

Project Veritas Action Fund has released undercover video from current Congressman and US Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke's campaign. The video exposes how his campaign staff appear to be illegally using campaign resources to buy supplies and help transport Honduran aliens. This is the eighth undercover video report Project Veritas has released in a series revealing secrets and lies from political campaigns in 2018.

Said James O'Keefe, founder and president of Project Veritas Action:
"Charity and helping your fellow man are things we applaud at Project Veritas Action. The problem is, you can't break the law when you do it."

Comment: Project Veritas' attempt at obtaining follow-up commentary from the Beto campaign did not go well.



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NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia would bring out the bear in Russia

Robert Bridge
RT
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:44 UTC
Trident Juncture 18, Norwegian Sea
© Global Look Press / US NavyTrident Juncture 18, Norwegian Sea.
Western leaders argue that the growth of NATO along Russia's border together with the militarization of Eastern Europe is necessary for preserving peace with Moscow. Nothing could be further from the truth.

There has been an unmistakable trend in the realm of geopolitics since the start of the new millennium - of which Ukraine and Georgia may represent the next phase - and it bodes absolutely disastrous for the future of mankind. Indeed, it may very well lead to its ultimate destruction. I am talking about NATO's incessant encroachment upon Russia's borders amid a crumbling arms treaty architecture.

Despite past promises that such a scenario would never happen, and regardless of which US leader was holding power in Washington, NATO's relentless eastward advance - under the guise of one excuse or another - has been ongoing for many years.
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Iran's Khamenei claims Trump has 'disgraced' America's prestige as renewed sanctions set to enter force


RT
Sat, 03 Nov 2018 14:35 UTC
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
© Global Look Press / Khamenei Official Website
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spoken out against the latest round of sanctions set to be imposed by the US, blasting Donald Trump for having "disgraced" US prestige and what remains of its liberal democracy.

"This new US president... has disgraced the remnants of America's prestige and that of liberal democracy. America's hard power, that is to say their economic and military power, is declining too," Khamenei said in a speech to students in Tehran.

He added that the US had failed to regain its influence in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ousted the US-friendly Shah.

"America's goal has been to re-establish the domination it had [before 1979] but it has failed. America has been defeated by the Islamic Republic over the past 40 years," state television reported him saying.
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What was not said about the Quadrilateral Summit on Syria

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:57 UTC
Syria peace talks
The quadrilateral summit in Istanbul on Syria has endorsed the political advances of Russia, but has decided nothing. Moscow gave its Turkish, French and German partners a lesson on the situation. The allies of Washington are having a hard time digesting their defeat and drawing its conclusions.

Since the Russo-US agreement of Helsinki last July, President Donald Trump has been trying to withdraw his troops from Syria, while the Pentagon insists on leaving them where they are in order to prevent Russia from being the only power to decide on the future of that country. However, the allies of Washington refuse to admit defeat.

The quadrilateral summit in Istanbul was intended to harmonize the points of view of Russia, Turkey, France and Germany. If we read the final communiqué [1], the entente seems perfect, but if we compare it with the Press of the countries concerned, nothing is so sure.
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Fragile peace: N. Korea threatens to produce nukes again if US sanctions remain


RT
Sat, 03 Nov 2018 13:50 UTC
North Korea Military parade
© Reuters / Damir Sagolj
Pyongyang may resume building up its nuclear arsenals if Washington's economic sanctions remain in place, the reclusive state has said amid diplomatic bargaining over the future of Korean peace talks.

"If the US keeps behaving arrogant without showing any change in its stand," North Korea may restart building up nuclear forces while also pushing for economic development, Pyongyang has said on Friday evening in a statement released by its state-run news agency.

North Korea is widely thought to have obtained enough weapons-grade plutonium to weaponize dozens of warheads. South Korea believes its northern neighbor may have developed 20 to 60 nuclear weapons, according to intelligence data cited by a top official in Seoul.
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Erdogan says 'highest levels' of Saudi gov't sanctioned Khashoggi murder


RT
Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:30 UTC
Erdogan Mohammed Bin Salman MBS
© AFP Photo / Turkish Presidential Press Service
The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was sanctioned at the "highest levels" of the Saudi government, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, trying to play kingmaker in Riyadh and bolster his credentials in the West.

"We know that the order to kill Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government," the Turkish leader wrotein a surprise contribution to Friday's Washington Post, vowing to "reveal the identities of the puppet masters" behind the murder.

"No one should dare to commit such acts on the soil of a NATO ally again," Erdogan wrote dramatically. "Had this atrocity taken place in the United States or elsewhere, authorities in those countries would have gotten to the bottom of what happened. It would be out of the question for us to act any other way," he added, noting that Ankara has already "moved heaven and earth to shed light on all aspects of this case."

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Harry Reid can't stop lying about his stance on immigration

Becket Adams
Washington Examiner
Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:30 UTC
Harry Reid
© AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz.,FileHarry Reid
Harry Reid lies even when he tells the truth.

The retired senator surfaced Wednesday to respond to President Trump, who shared a 25-year-old video this week showing the former Nevada lawmaker saying "no sane country" would offer birthright citizenship as "a reward for being an illegal immigrant."

Reid's decades-old remarks were made in the context of championing his Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993, which promised to "curb criminal activity by aliens, to defend against acts of international terrorism, to protect American workers from unfair labor competition, and to relieve pressure on public services by strengthening border security and stabilizing immigration into the United States."
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Armenia's PM tells US that it will maintain "special relations" with Iran regardless of sanctions


RFE/RL
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:28 UTC
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Acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian (right) with U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton in Yerevan on October 25
Acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says he made clear to U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton last week that Armenia will pursue its national interests and maintain "special relations" with its neighbor Iran.

Addressing the Armenian parliament on November 1, Pashinian said he told Bolton when he visited Yerevan last week that Armenia is a landlocked nation that does not have diplomatic relations with either neighboring Turkey or Azerbaijan, so it must retain "special relations" with its other two neighbors -- Iran and Georgia -- which he said are Armenia's only "gateways" to the outside world.

"I reaffirm the position that we should have special relations with Iran and Georgia that would be as far outside geopolitical influences as possible. This position was very clearly formulated also during my meeting with Mr. Bolton, and I think that the position of Armenia was clear, comprehensible, and even acceptable to representatives of the U.S. delegation," the Armenian leader said.

Comment: And as way for the threat to be even close to workable, the US and OPEC flood oil market ahead of midterms and Iran sanctions

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