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George Galloway - US expulsion of Russian diplomats is 'declaration of war'


RT
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:27 UTC
George Galloway
© Suzanne Plunkett / ReutersFormer British MP George Galloway
British politician, broadcaster, and writer George Galloway has slammed Donald Trump's decision to expel 60 Russian diplomats and close the Russian consulate in Seattle. Galloway regards it as tantamount to a "declaration of war."

Galloway contrasted the US' actions with those of EU member states. Those EU countries who rushed to follow the lead of Britain and the US in response to the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal are simply acting as "vassal states," doing what they are told.

European states have "made a fairly desultory expulsion of a diplomat or two or three, but the United States' act is a kind of declaration of war, all the more surprising given that according to the deep state, and the liberal confluence in the United States, President Trump is Russia's man," Galloway told RT.
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Boris Johnson Pilloried on Twitter Over Gloating About Russian Expulsions


Sputnik
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:43 UTC
Boris Johnson Skripal case
Britain's Foreign Secretary got enthusiastic praising the decision of the UK's allies to expel Russian diplomats over the alleged poisoning of the former agent Sergei Skripal; the reaction on Twitter was far from unanimous.

The UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson thanked the country's allies from all over the world, who have decided to expel Russian diplomats, telling Parliament that they have placed themselves at risk of retaliation from the Kremlin.

He also claimed the reaction was unprecedented on his Twitter account...

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Russia's UN envoy: US abusing its rights as host country by expelling Russian diplomats at UN


RT
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:43 UTC
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia
© Brendan McDermid / ReutersRussian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia
Washington has abused its power as the host of the UN headquarters when it moved to expel 12 staffers from Russia's mission at the UN, Moscow's envoy Vassily Nebenzia said. He called the decision an "extremely unfriendly" step.

"The expulsion of Russian diplomats as well as other recent unfriendly steps, such as restriction of access to Russian diplomatic property, visa denials to mission staff and other [measures], can be viewed as the US abusing its rights and privileges as the hosting country," Vassily Nebenzia said.

Nebenzia pointed out that the status of the staff at the permanent representations of the countries at the United Nations are regulated by UN conventions, namely the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations of 1946 and the Agreement Between the United Nations and the US Regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed in 1947.

Comment: See also: Trump caves again, expels 60 Russian diplomats, closes Seattle consulate over fake accusations for Skripal poisoning - 14 EU states follow suit

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Magic Hat

Best of the Web: SCL, Parent Company of Cambridge Analytica, is Military-Intelligence Front For British Establishment

Liam O'Hare
Bella Caledonia
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 06:36 UTC
city of london
The scandal around mass data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica took a new twist on Monday.

A Channel 4 news undercover investigation revealed that the company's Eton-educated CEO Alexander Nix offered to use dirty tricks - including the use of bribery and sex workers - to entrap politicians and subvert elections.

Much of the media spotlight is now on Cambridge Analytica and their shadowy antics in elections worldwide, including that of Donald Trump.

However, Cambridge Analytica is a mere offshoot of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL Group) - an organisation with its roots deeply embedded within the British political, military and royal establishment.

Indeed, as the Observer article which broke the scandal said "For all intents and purposes, SCL/Cambridge Analytica are one and the same."

Like Cambridge Analytica, SCL group is a behavioral research and strategic communication company.

In 2005, SCL went public with a glitzy exhibit at the DSEI conference, the UK's largest showcase for military technology.
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Snakes in Suits

Manufactured War Triggers: A manufactured "Catalytic Event" to all out war? Are we going to let this happen again?

Prof. Graeme McQueen
Global Research
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Teaching false flags
© Anthony Freda

Comment: Please read Global Research Editor's Note here.


As we watch Western governments testing their opponents - today Iran, the next day the DPRK, and then Russia and China - we hold our breaths. We are waiting with a sense of dread for the occurrence of a catalytic event that will initiate war. Now is the time to reflect on such catalytic events, to understand them, to prepare for them.

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo led to the outbreak of World War I. The Gulf of Tonkin incidents on August 2 and August 4, 1964 enabled what we call the Vietnam War.

Both events were war triggers. A "war trigger", as I am using the term, is an event that facilitates an outbreak or expansion of hot war - that phase of the war system in which active killing takes place.

War triggers can lead affected populations to cast aside their critical faculties and their willingness to dissent from government narratives. They can also disable moral values and ideological commitments. At the outbreak of World War I the peace movement, the women's movement and the socialist movement were all shattered.

Comment: The modus operandi of "manufactured war triggers" presents a near exhaustive 'known' list:

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Vader

John Bolton's bloody to-do list

Jim Carey
Geopolitics Alert
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 23:24 UTC
John Bolton
© Gage Skidmore/FlikrJohn Bolton
US President Donald Trump announced last week that he'd be replacing his National Security Adviser, General H.R. McMaster - a hawk; but a pragmatic hawk - with notorious bloodthirsty lunatic, John Bolton. Bolton is a man who has not only endorsed some of the worst US war crimes in the last 30 years but also continues to stand by them despite most initiatives being proven failures.

While both McMaster and Bolton come out of similar neoconservative cesspools - both are members of the Council on Foreign Relations - McMaster at least operated in some version of reality, most likely due to his military experience. Bolton, on the other hand, is and always has been a pure ideologue since his earliest days in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush White Houses.

Even from his earliest days in government, John Bolton began in the perfect place for his type of regime-changing, "nation-building," and hyper-interventionist ideas: the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This was at a time when subversion of legitimate governments was the preferred method of the Reagan administration, which used USAID's "freedom promoting" tools to destabilize countries around the globe. Bolton was also later found to be among many prominent Reagan administration officials later found to be involved in the Iran-Contra affair.

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SOTT Focus: British PM May Using Skripal Poisoning to Divert Attention from Child Sex Abuse


Sputnik
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:29 UTC
may theresa
© REUTERS/ Parliament TV
The assumption that British Prime Minister Theresa May has raised the alarm over the Sergei Skripal case to downplay political failures of her cabinet cost Dimitros Lyacos, Greek journalist and foreign affairs columnist, his job. Speaking to Radio Sputnik Lyacos shared his views on what could really be behind London's hysteria.

Having said on the air that British Prime Minister Theresa May is hyping the scandal about the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury to divert public attention away from the Rotherham child sexual exploitation case and Brexit problems, Dimitros Lyacos, a foreign affairs columnist, was fired from Cyprus' state-owned television channel.

"I dared to say on the air in Cyprus, the former British colony, that the reason behind British PM Theresa May's brining up [the Skripal case] is - at least according to Moscow - the Brexit problem which she has yet to solve. In a year Britain should withdraw from the EU and pay a huge sum of money to Brussels. And the second reason is a scandal about the rape of more than a thousand underage girls in a [South Yorkshire] provincial town," Lyacos told Radio Sputnik.

The journalist specified that the rape incidents remain neglected due to the fact that some of perpetrators were "refugees" which makes the case highly sensitive for the British authorities.

Comment: Poisoning a British spy in order to blame it on Russia is reprehensible. Even more reprehensible is the British authorities refusal to adequately protect their own children from sexual abuse for the sole reason that they're afraid of being called racist. It just goes to show how inverted Western values have become. Racism is the supreme evil and must be fought, even if that means subjecting our children to rape and murder.

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US Senate Majority Leader announces bill to legalize hemp


RT
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:46 UTC
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
No one tell Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but hemp - the industrial variety of cannabis - may soon be removed from the federal list of controlled substances, courtesy of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

McConnell (R-Kentucky) announced a bill on Monday that would legalize the growing of hemp as an agricultural product. The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 would legalize hemp as an agricultural commodity.

"Hemp has played a foundational role in Kentucky's agricultural heritage, and I believe that it can be an important part of our future," McConnell said at a conference in Frankfort, Kentucky, accompanied by the state Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles.
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Russian businessman flees UK - says British secret services are the real threat, not Russia

Will Stewart
UK Mirror
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:51 UTC
Sergey Kapchuk
© TV Rain / east2west newsKapchuk said he believed British intelligence were planning something
A Russian businessman who claimed he was 'marked for death' by Vladimir Putin in London has fled the UK - claiming the real threat to his life comes from British secret services.

Sergey Kapchuk, 45, filmed last week flanked by two bodyguards, says he is now in hiding in fear of his life somewhere in Europe.

He earlier claimed that he had moved from number 12 to 11 on the alleged hit list after the death of fellow London-based oligarch Nikolai Glushkov this month.


Comment: In other words, Kapchuk appears to be just another self-absorbed, sensationalist, opportunistic con man. Or at least, that's the way he is presented in the media, which makes his image a perfect fit for helping sell the UK's anti-Putin agenda. That said, it looks like the "hit list" wasn't written up by Putin, but by MI5. Russian defectors can only be so helpful in life, but in death they can do one last service for Her Majesty The Queen.


Kapchuk announced last week he had cancelled plans to be among a group of exiled Russians planning to return to Moscow after getting assurances from Putin's government that they would not be prosecuted.

Now in a dramatic interview with a pro-Kremlin newspaper he said: "Honestly today I would feel safer in Russia."

Explaining his U-turn, he said: "I understood that I ams not of interest either for the FSB, nor for Russian (foreign) intelligence. And the British secret service might organise some sort of provocation, in my opinion. So I did not wait for it. I simply packed my things and immediately left the country. I am in continental Europe now."

Comment: Whether or not Kapchuk is sincere, he's probably very close to the truth.

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What the Starr investigations of Bill Clinton can tell us about Mueller's probe


The Week
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
Ken Starr
© AP Photo/Doug Mills

How did Ken Starr's investigation into President Clinton resemble - and differ from - the ongoing Mueller investigation? Here's everything you need to know:

Why was Clinton investigated?

It began over the Whitewater scandal, a long-running controversy concerning a failed 1978 land deal in Arkansas. The Clintons' business partner in that project defrauded a small savings association and an investment firm, and some of the parties involved charged that the president and his wife had benefited from the fraud. In January 1994, Attorney General Janet Reno appointed Robert Fiske as a special prosecutor to investigate the Clintons' involvement. Seven months later, however, a Republican-leaning panel of judges dismissed Fiske - on the basis that his appointment by Clinton's attorney general represented a conflict of interest - and appointed Ken Starr as an independent counsel, reporting to Congress, not to the Justice Department. Starr, who had served as solicitor general under President George H.W. Bush, was a staunch Republican. Clinton loyalists immediately cried foul, denouncing the probe as "tainted" and a partisan "witch hunt." "This will last as long as [Clinton is] president and beyond," warned White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum. "They'll be investigating things years from now that we haven't even dreamed about today."

Comment: Parallels can certainly be drawn between the two cases, but it remains to be seen whether or not Trump escapes the whole affair unscathed, as did Slick Willy before him.

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