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Conflicting reports on usage of US F-22 jets during failed strike on Syria


Sputnik
Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:32 UTC
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US Air Force Central Command has altered its account of the aircraft and missile systems used during April 14's airstrikes, sowing more confusion among defense observers.

F-22 Raptors "played an integral role" during last Saturday's attack in Syria, US. Air Force Central Command spokesman Capt. Mark Graff has said, according to the Air Force Times.

Last week, Joint Staff director Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie told reporters that since US air assets did not enter Syria's air defense zone, F-22s were not used to accompany bombers. He also reported that the US's B1-B bombers launched 19 of its new JASSM-ER cruise missile, making it the first time the new but troublesome Lockheed Martin standoff weapon was deployed.

Comment: See more: Syrian Crisis Shows US Empire Losing Hegemony as Western Mainstream Media Losing Grip Over Narrative

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US to allow Bayer's Monsanto mega-deal takeover

Brent Kendall & Jacob Bunge
Wall Street Journal
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:09 UTC
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© JASPER JUINEN/BLOOMBERG NEWSThe Bayer CropScience crop protection production site in Germany.
Companies agree to additional asset sales to address Justice Department antitrust concerns, sources say

The Justice Department has decided to allow BayerAG's megadeal to acquire Monsanto Co., valued at more than $60 billion, after the companies pledged to sell off additional assets to secure government antitrust approval, according to people familiar with the matter.

An agreement in principle between the companies and the department, brokered in recent days, marked a breakthrough in the U.S. merger review process, which had remained in limbo because of Justice Department concerns about the deal.
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Obama CIA chief Brennan made secret visit to Russia close to time Fusion GPS produced anti-Trump memos

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:48 UTC
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Well isn't this interesting?

Obama CIA Chief John Brenna, who is fiercely anti-Trump, made a secret visit to Moscow in March 2016.

Weeks later in June Christopher Steele with Fusion GPS, who was hired indirectly by Hillary Clinton, produced his first anti-Trump memo.

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Historian: Democrats' Russiagate lawsuit looks like Watergate in reverse


Sputnik
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:21 UTC
President Nixon bids farewell
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Speaking to Sputnik about the Democratic Party's new lawsuit against the Trump campaign, Russia, WikiLeaks, and others charged with a conspiracy against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, historian, author and direct democracy activist Roslyn Fuller outlined what the party is trying to get out of this.

Comment: From 'Watergate' to 'Russiagate' - from the sublime to the ridiculous

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Macron, Sun-King of France, tells Fox News: F.UK.US must colonize Syria


RT
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:55 UTC
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The US, France, and their allies should not leave Syria after the conflict is over, but must build a "new Syria," French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with FoxNews.

"We would have to build a new Syria after war," Macron said, adding that the US role would be "very important" in this process. He added that "it's not automatically US forces" that should carry out this task, but "that's US diplomacy and it's your President."

Giving his reasons for foreign states to remain in Syria, Macron listed the 'usual suspects' - Iran and Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"The day we'll have finished this war against ISIS [Islamic State, IS]; if we leave definitely and totally - even from [the] political point of view - we will leave the floor to the Iranian regime, Bashar Assad and these guys and they will prepare [a] new war. They will fuel the new terrorists."

Comment: Ok, so he didn't exactly say 'colonize'. But demanding regime change and the right to 'nation-build' a new state in place of the current one - so that it can be remote-controlled from Washington, London and Paris - amounts to the same thing.

It is truly astounding to hear the growing rhetoric coming from the F.UK.US alliance.

Are these the cries of a dying empire? Syrian Crisis Shows US Empire Losing Hegemony as Western Mainstream Media Losing Grip Over Narrative

Did the US just lose World War III by forfeit?

But beware of trouble brewing in southern Syria: Stumbling into a Big War: Hands on the trigger in southern Syria

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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Russian Trolls? Let's Talk About British and US Mainstream Media As Unabashed Government Mouthpieces


Sott.net
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC
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Those of us with a functioning BS meter and a decent grip on reality have known for many years that the mainstream media has, at least periodically, operated as a fifth branch of government (in the USA) and the 'Ministry of Truth' (in the UK). In recent years however, on all geopolitical topics - in particular those relating to Russia and the 'War on Terror' - the Western press seems to have fully embraced the role of Western government mouthpieces.

In recent months and weeks, with the outrageous claims over the Skripal affair and the 'chemical weapons attack' in Douma, Syria, the US, British and French governments have sunk to new lows (or new highs) in the blatancy of their lies and fabrications, the vast majority of them aimed at Russia.

Tune in this week when your hosts will be discussing the problem that is the Western media from 12-1:30pm EDT / 6-7:30pm CET this Sunday April 22nd.

Running Time: 01:42:12

Download: MP3

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Lieberman warns Iran: 'There's a price to be paid for threatening Israel'


RT
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:36 UTC
Avigdor Lieberman
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Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman cautioned Iran that "there is a price to be paid" for jeopardizing Israeli security. In April, Tehran slammed Israel for hitting a Syrian base, reportedly killing seven Iranians.

"Those who threaten [Israel] need to understand there is a price to be paid," Lieberman said on Sunday, speaking to Kan, Israeli public radio. "The State of Israel is acting out of a lack of choice and in today's situation we have no other choice."

Tensions between Iran and Israel flared following an airstrike on Syria's T-4 airbase in Homs province on April 8. Iran and the Russian military accused Israel of being behind the attack, which, according to Iranian news agencies, claimed the lives of seven of its military personnel.

"The attack was a blatant violation of international law which would strengthen terrorists," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said at the time. "The Israeli regime's aggression against Syria is a breach of that country's national sovereignty and territorial integrity and contradicts all international regulations and principles."

Comment: It looks like Israel may be stirring up more trouble in southern Syria: Stumbling into a Big War: Hands on the trigger in southern Syria

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Stumbling into a Big War: Hands on the trigger in southern Syria

Peter Korzun
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:10 UTC
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The US, UK, and French military strikes against Syria on April 14 paved the way for Russia to supply President Bashar al-Assad with S-300 air-defense missile systems. Any moral hurdles that might have blocked that deal were destroyed in the attack. With a range of 200 kilometers (120 miles), this air-defense system can engage as many as six targets at once, with two missiles trained on each target to increase the kill probability. This weapon will greatly enhance the Syria's government forces' ability to repel strikes. Any attacker will have to think twice before violating Syrian air space.

The move might cause friction with Israel but it was not Russia who started this whole thing. Moscow has respected certain agreements in order to avoid any escalation. The purchase of the S-300 was suspended in 2013 after talks with EU leaders and Israel. On April 9, Israeli warplanes attacked the T4 air base in central Syria. A few days later, the US and its allies launched their strikes so as to give the impression that the Israeli raid was actually one phase of a joint operation. Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the Israeli PM to discontinue the strikes in a phone conversation on April 11. On April 16 and17 Israel launched another attack. Now the S-300 might be on its way. You reap what you sow.

Israel's April 9 strike resulted in the death of Iranian servicemen. Iran said it would retaliate. As a result, both parties now have their fingers on the trigger.
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Did the US just lose World War III by forfeit?

James George Jatras
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:38 UTC
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In the fall of the year 1480, at a point not far from Moscow, two armies faced each other on the opposite banks of the Ugra River.

On the one side were the forces of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, whose ruler, Grand Prince Ivan III (known as "the Great" and the "gatherer of the Russian lands"), had recently rejected further payment of tribute to the Great Horde.

On the other were the forces of Grand Khan Ahmed bin Küchük, who had come to lay waste to Moscow and instruct the impudent Prince Ivan to mend his ways.

For weeks the two assembled hosts glared at one another, each wary of crossing the water and becoming vulnerable to attack by the other. In the end, as though heeding the same inaudible signal, both withdrew and hastily returned home.

Thus ended more than two centuries of the Tatar-Mongol yoke upon the land of the Rus'.

Was this event, which came to be known as "the great standing on the Ugra River," a model of what happened in Syria last week?
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Book 2

Interview with geopolitical analyst William Engdahl on his new book about US destruction of Russia in the 1990s

Lars Schall
The Saker
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:27 UTC
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Introduction by Pepe Escobar:

William Engdahl is one of the world's top geopolitical analysts. His books - from Century of War to Full Spectrum Dominance - are absolutely essential to understand how the self-described exceptional nation created and expanded its global hegemony tentacles.

A measure of his influence is that as much as Engdahl may be dismissed or derided across the Beltway, the usual suspects do read him - and are incapable of finding conclusive arguments to prove him wrong.

This extensive interview by financial journalist Lars Schall is largely centered on Chapter 3 - The Rape of Russia - of Engdahl's new book Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance.

Comment: See also: The rape of Russia: The CIA's Yeltsin coup d'état

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