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Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen could not be happening without a media blackout

Catherine Shakdam
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
war in Yemen
"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
- Albert Camus
Since the Saudi-led coalition declared war on impoverished Yemen: March 26, 2015, foreign journalists and independent news organisations have been prevented from entering the country - de facto putting Yemen under a media blackout. If such infringements on freedom of the press are indeed criminal as they speak of a grand political cover-up, Yemen's media blackout has reached too grand proportion, and compounded to such an abysmal betrayal of journalistic standards that silence must absolutely be broken.

The danger here is not so much in this silence Saudi Arabia's war coalition architected around Yemen, so that only its voice would reach the ears of public opinion, but that our well-thinking, well-to-do so called free press was hijacked to the agenda of a minority few to purposely mislead.
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Bad Guys

The United States will not stop bombing the world until it finally collapses

Antonius Aquinas
antoniusaquinas.com
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
countries bombed by US
Two recent articles* have again demonstrated that the greatest "terrorist" entity on earth is not the bogymen - Russia, China, Iran, North Korea - so often portrayed by Western presstitudes and the American government, but the United States itself! Ever since World War II, the US has been the most militaristic, far surpassing all of the Communist and dictatorial regimes combined.

Some startling and rarely reported facts:
  • Currently, the US drops on someone or something a deadly explosive once every 12 minutes
  • W. Bush's military dropped 70,000 bombs on five different nations during his murderous regime
  • Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Barrack Obomber, launched 100,000 bombs on seven countries
  • Funding this mass murder is a reportedly $21 trillion (!) that is unaccounted for in the Pentagon's coffers
Despite all of the "America First" bluster at the start of the Trump Administration, little has changed but, in fact, things have escalated. While G.W. Bush in his wicked eight years dropped over 24 bombs per day and his successor upped that total to 34 bombs per day, the current Bomber-in-Chief has, in his first year in office, averaged 121 bombs per day! For the initial year of his Presidency, 44,000 bombs were dropped on people and lands despite the fact that the US is not officially at war with a single country!


Comment: This probably says more about the pathological types in the Pentagon than about Trump however. The war machine is already in place and has its 'plans'. And there's very little that Trump - or anyone - has the power to change.

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Mail

Trump's EPA head Scott Pruitt cites 'unrelenting attacks' in letter of resignation


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 23:12 UTC
Scott Pruitt
© Jonathan Ernst / ReutersScott Pruitt
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned, citing "unprecedented" and "unrelenting attacks" on him and his family in a letter to President Donald Trump. Democrats have demanded his departure for months.

Trump confirmed Pruitt's resignation on Twitter, but little was known about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief's reasons for departure until the full text of his letter to the president was provided to the media. After praising Trump and the "transformative work" his administration has done, Pruitt says:

"However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us."
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Newspaper

China to breathe new life in Venezuelan oil company despite ire of US


Sputnik
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 23:19 UTC
Petropiar
© AP Photo / Fernando Llano
China is lending its helping hand to Venezuela to stabilize the country's oil sector, analysts told Sputnik, adding that Beijing's economic activities in Latin America are apparently getting on Washington's nerves.

China is about to breathe new life into Venezuela's collapsing oil sector regardless of Washington's displeasure: On July 4, 2018, Bloomberg reported that the China Development Bank is going to invest more than $250 million in the country's crude production.

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Bad Guys

Duterte vs. the Jesuits, CIA and Communists


Covert Geopolitics
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 21:43 UTC
Duterte
While the Philippines is undergoing its own brand of peaceful reforms, it cannot be denied that the defeated agents of the Imperial Crown and the Puppet Masters are still inside the country, trying their best to malign the president from time to time. Fortunately, the president is not letting every shot in the bow unanswered.

He recently asked the most fundamental question, "Who is this stupid god?," which reminds us of the good old George Carlin...

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Stock Down

Beijing ready to fight back in Washington's trade war, economic blackmail will only hurt the US - China's ministry spokesman


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 19:31 UTC
trade barge
© Lee Jae Won / Reuters
China is preparing for a trade war with the United States, which is officially going to start on Friday. Beijing says it will never shoot first, but is ready to defend itself.

"China will not bow in the face of threats and blackmail, nor will it be shaken in its resolve to defend global free trade," said ministry spokesman Gao Feng at a press conference. Gao Feng warned the US tariffs would hit international supply chains, including foreign companies in China.

"China will never fire the first shot," Gao said. "However, if the United States adopts taxation measures, China will be forced to fight back to defend the core interests of the nation and the interests of the people."
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Donut

EU rejects China's offer of alliance to counter US trade war


RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 19:22 UTC
Merkel Xi Jinping
© Axel Schmidt / ReutersGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures next to Chinese President Xi Jinping in Berlin
The European Union has turned down China's proposal of co-operation against escalating US trade tariffs on European and Chinese goods.

China proposed launching joint action against the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO), EU officials and diplomats told Reuters ahead of a Sino-European summit in Beijing on July 16-17.

Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He told the media that Beijing is ready to set out for the first time which sectors it can open to European investment at the annual summit.

According to EU officials, Chinese state media has promoted the message that the European Union is on China's side, putting the bloc in a delicate position.

Comment: Western Europeans apparently still have some way to go towards seeing the natural order.

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Mr. Potato

US Senate: Russia meddled in 2016 election because we don't care about facts


Sputnik
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:36 UTC
Capitol Hill
© AP Photo / Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
The US Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that it agrees with the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) from January 2017 that Russia interfered in the 2016 US election and that President Vladimir Putin personally approved the meddling campaign, despite admitting that it didn't have access to the sensitive data underpinning the report.

"The ICA [Intelligence Community Assessment] is a sound intelligence product," the committee said in its report. "The Committee concurs with intelligence and open-source assessments that this influence campaign was approved by President Putin."

The ICA mentioned Russian-funded media outlets RT and Sputnik News as having "contributed to the influence campaign by serving as a platform for Kremlin messaging to Russian and international audiences." The Senate report found, however, that the ICA only provided a summary of Russian state media operations in 2012, failing to provide an updated assessment of Russian media "capability" in 2016.

"The ICA provides a summary of Russian state media operations in 2012," the Senate report notes, though it fails to explain how this would be relevant to alleged meddling in 2016, the time the report is intended to cover. It called this lapse a "shortcoming."


Comment: What they mean by 'shortcoming': failure to provide actual proof or hard evidence.


Comment: Ok, so there was no collusion but Russia "still bad" because we wish it to be so. See also: US Senate doubles down on demonizing Russia - Says panel intelligence report on Russiagate came to 'sound conclusions'

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Footprints

Trump considered an invasion of Venezuela at the height of its political crisis


RT
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 16:08 UTC
Trump
© Agence France-PresseUS President Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump has allegedly contemplated a possibility of sending the American troops into Venezuela, according to AP. The US leader even repeatedly raised this issue with his top aides and Latin American leaders.

Why can't the US just simply invade the troubled country? Trump reportedly asked his top aides in August 2017, referring to Venezuela, AP says, citing an unnamed US official familiar with the matter. The president particularly discussed this issue with the then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the then national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, both of whom, allegedly expressed skepticism over the idea by saying such a move could alienate the US allies in the Latin America.

Comment: Trump let the 'one trick pony' option go by. Perhaps his fielding of responses was a convincing enough 'show of threat'. Did he ultimately get the answer he was hoping for?

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Star of David

Israel capitulates: Accepts Syrian Army to advance to 2011 Golan buffer zone positions

Patrick Lang
Russia Insider
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Syrian Tank
© Facebook
The only remaining demand is that Hezbollah and Iran do not establish a presence there

The Israeli military has reportedly drawn its "red lines" for the ongoing fighting between the Syrian government and militants along its northern border, ruling out a direct clash with pro-Assad forces and claiming that they alone must take over the conflict zone.

According to Haaretz, Israeli defense officials said they did not expect a direct confrontation between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Syrian Army in the wake of a pro-government offensive against the al-Nusra Front and Daesh terrorist groups in southwestern Syria near the border with Israel.

According to Israeli officials cited by the media outlet, pro-Assad forces must be the only ones to enter the conflict zone near Israel's de facto northern border and take control over it when the strife is over, while Tel Aviv does not intend to allow other forces and armed groups to take over the area or join the Syrian army.

In a meeting between senior defense officials, Israel addressed an array of scenarios it would not tolerate from the Syrian troops or other forces in the area, the report says.

Comment: A reasonable and cooperative decision? What's the catch?

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