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Hysterical Israel advocates freak out over mild State Dept. language, demand Tillerson resign

Alison Weir
If Americans Knew
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:46 UTC
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Not obedient enough to the Israel lobby.
On July 19th the US State Department released its annual report, Country Reports on Terrorism 2016. (pdf here)

The seven-page section "Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and Jerusalem" is extremely Israel-centric. It is written almost entirely from an Israeli point of view and much of its information comes from Israel. It does not discuss Israeli military terrorism and largely fails to report Israel's systemic oppression of Palestinians.

For example, it describes Israel's barrier as a "fence" even though many portions consist of a towering concrete wall with guard towers built on Palestinian land. It fails to mention that numerous Palestinian homes are being destroyed and prime agricultural confiscated in its construction.

The barrier is planned to be four times as long and in places twice as high as the Berlin Wall. More info here.

The report ignores the fact that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and creation of Jewish-only settlements is illegal under international law.
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WikiLeaks points out Imran Awan/Nancy Pelosi connection

Joshua Caplan
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:38 UTC
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Don't look to the mainstream media to tell you how troubling the situation with the Awan brothers is. It's worse than you think. After Imran Awan was arrested this week for trying to flee the country, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange reminded his 279,000 Twitter followers of an email link between Imran Awan and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.


Comment: More on the Awan scandal: Mainstream media does Wasserman Schultz a solid: Buries the Awan brothers IT scandal swamping her office

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Western Support for the Occupation of Palestine as The Root Cause of Today's Antisemitism

Anthony Bellchambers
Global Research
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 20:36 UTC
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The policies of the Netanyahu government treat the future of the next generation of both Israelis and Arabs, with contempt.

Netanyahu and his cabinet know fully well that they are on a deliberate trajectory towards an escalating conflict with the blockaded peoples of Gaza and the West Bank who are forced to live and work with virtually no electricity or power, whilst Israelis in Tel Aviv's affluent marina playground, plan their next luxury vacation to New York and the capitals of Europe.

Former Palestine is a land where IDF soldiers strut their stuff in the coffee bars fronting Tel Aviv beach whilst the indigenous Arab population is forced into massive unemployment by the Israeli occupying power and its economic blockades.

The incomprehensible factor in this smouldering cauldron of religious, economic and cultural disparity, is the apparent unlimited support from the Diasporas of New York and London, and indeed from the US Congress and the British Parliament, who continue to send money and weapons, by the shipload and plane load, to shore up the occupying regime.
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U.S.-led coalition to Iraq: Make public probes into alleged Mosul atrocities


Sputnik
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:25 UTC
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© Sputnik/ Sarah Nusreddin
The US-led coalition urged the Iraqi authorities to make public results of probes into allegations of abuse by Iraqi Security Forces, coalition spokesman US Army Col. Ryan Dillon said in a briefing on Thursday.

A human rights group called on the United States on Thursday to suspend its support for the Iraqi Army's 16th division, which was allegedly involved in war crimes during the liberation of Mosul.

According to the Human Rights Watch, the servicemen of the 16th division trained by the US experts allegedly executed several dozen prisoners in Mosul's Old City. Two international observers also told the human rights watchdog about murder of four people by the division's soldiers and evidence pointing at more executions.

"The government of Iraq has investigated previous allegations and they have taken action, and we encourage them to present the facts of these investigations to the public," Dillon told reporters.

Comment: "And while you're at it, you might want to reconsider getting so close to Iran and Russia..." No doubt many in the Iraqi military and militias engaged in atrocities. That much seems obvious. But despite U.S. complicity in the atrocities (via airstrikes and the nature of U.S.-Iraqi military cooperation), it looks like they may use said atrocities as leverage. Iraq has probably been inching too close to Iran and Russia for U.S. comfort. And "human rights" concerns are a tried-and-true method of U.S. coercion against other states. See also:

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More neocon nonsense: Trump's new Ukrainian envoy claims Russia has more tanks in Ukraine than in all of Western Europe

RI Staff
Russia Insider
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:09 UTC
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Kurt Vogel, Trump's new "diplomatic" envoy for the conflict in Ukraine:
"First off, Russia is already in Ukraine, they are already heavily armed," he said. "There are more Russian tanks in there than [tanks] in Western Europe combined. It is a large, large military presence."
More Russian tank crews in Donbass than Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands have combined? Ok, then it should be exceedingly easy to provide a single photo showing a Russian tank in eastern Ukraine.

Where is it?
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Che Guevara

Venezuela's electoral process: "The best in the world"

Dr. Maria Páez Victor, Edu Montesanti
Global Research
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
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© REuters/C. BarriaPresident Maduro shows details of the new Constituent Assembly up for vote.
The renowned sociologist Maria Páez Victor at Law Commission of Ontario in Canada, deeply analyses the Venezuela's Constituent Assembly to be voted on July 30, in the context of the Caribbean nation, and speaks on the biggest challenges the Bolivarian Revolution faces today.

Edu Montesanti: Professor Doctor Maria Páez Victor, thank you so very much for granting me this so important interview; it is an honor to me. What is the importance of the upcoming National Constituent Assembly in Venezuela? The opposition claims it is undemocratic: how do you respond to it?

Maria Páez: The parties and leaders of the violent protests that for three months have disturbed the peace of Venezuelans, are the very same who in 2002 supported the coup d'etat against President Chávez. During those tense 48 hours, one of the very first things they did was to abolish the Constitution of 1999 - the one they now purport to defend. (See the film, available on the internet: The Revolution will not be Televised)

Comment: Venezuelans are guardedly aware that the overthrow from 'without' is as destructive to their society as the overthrow from 'within.' They are taking action.

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Snakes in Suits

Beijing to Pompeo: China wants peace but won't let others hurt its interests


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:27 UTC
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© washingtontimes.com
China has rejected the CIA director's concerns that Beijing is the top threat to America. Beijing said it backed peaceful cooperation and was not in the habit of infringing on other nations, but that it wouldn't allow others to threaten its interests.

CIA chief Mike Pompeo described China as the biggest long-term threat to America in a recent interview with the Washington Free Beacon. He said China's strong economy and large population gave it a better chance against the US than Russia or Iran.

"I think it's very clear when they think about their place in the world, they measure their success in placing themselves in the world where they want to be vis-à-vis the United States and not as against anyone else," the US spy chief said.

The speculation was dismissed by Beijing on Thursday, however.

"We noticed those statements. Following their reasoning, whoever has a stronger economy and military capability poses the greatest threat to the world," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lu Kang told the media.


Comment: Touché!


Comment: CIA Director Pompeo seems to have little in the way of PCI: personal central intelligence. He should refrain from speaking in public on foreign affairs unless it is a requested report based on rock-solid intel.

See also: CIA Chief Pompeo: China tops Russia and Iran as America's biggest long-term threat to domination

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Arrow Up

Steve Bannon: 44 percent marginal tax rate for the very rich

Ryan Grim
The Intercept
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 04:25 UTC
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© The Sun
Top White House adviser Steve Bannon is pushing for tax reform to include a new 44 percent top marginal tax rate, hitting people who earn more than $5 million a year, with the revenue paying for tax cuts for the rest, according to three people who've spoken to him recently.

The top rate is now 39.6 percent and most Republicans have been planning to lower it significantly as part of tax reform. The plan Trump put out previously would have only three brackets, with the top one brought down to 35 percent.

Raising taxes on the very rich has been a rare policy that President Donald Trump has publicly espoused throughout much of his life. On Tuesday, he told the Wall Street Journal, "If there's upward revision it's going to be on high-income people."

"I have wealthy friends that say to me, 'I don't mind paying more tax,'" he said. White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders was pressed on Trump's comment at a televised briefing Wednesday, and said that further specifics of the plan would be released shortly, with an emphasis on tax cuts for the middle class.
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Trey Gowdy asks a simple question about weed, and exposes the US' tyrannical drug war

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:36 UTC
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The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) met with members of Congress this week to discuss multiple issues when a Republican congressman asked a question that would expose the state's immoral and tyrannical war on drugs in an accidental stroke of logic.

Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy III is a member of the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party and serves as a congressman from South Carolina. He is also the chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. During the meeting with the ONDCP this week, Gowdy asked why marijuana was a schedule I drug.

Schedule I "drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse," the DEA claims. Given the mountains of evidence showing the beneficial nature of the cannabis plant, the DEA's claims are nothing short of asinine and tyrannical.

However, marijuana continues to be categorized as such, paving the way for the police state to lay waste to rights and fill prisons for profit.

When Gowdy asks Richard Baum, the acting director of Trump's ONDCP, why marijuana is a schedule one, Baum immediately skirts the question. He then digresses into support for big pharma's version of synthetic marijuana by saying that the FDA-approved versions of marijuana components can help people.

While Gowdy didn't go so far as to call for the legalization of cannabis - because it would likely mean political suicide among his staunchly conservative base - his line of questioning set off a conversation that would eventually expose the war on drugs.
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King of Jordan urges 'political showman' Netanyahu to put Israeli embassy shooter on trial


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:37 UTC
Jordan's King Abdullah II
© Reuters
King Abdullah II of Jordan has issued a sharp rebuke to "political showman" Benjamin Netanyahu, who has given a hero's welcome to an Israeli guard who shot an assailant and another man at the country's embassy in Jordan.

"The Israeli prime minister is required to honor his responsibilities and take the necessary legal measures to ensure that the killer is tried and justice is served, rather than exhibiting political showmanship in dealing with this crime to score personal political points," Abdullah said at a meeting of the National Policies Council at his Al Husseiniya Palace near the capital Amman, with statements later being posted to an official Twitter account.

"Such conduct is utterly rejected and provocative. It angers us all, threatens regional security, and fuels extremism. It is absolutely unacceptable," added the monarch.
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