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Turkey launches probe into role of former US officials in coup attempt


PressTV
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:18 UTC
Former CIA Director John Brennan
© AFPFormer CIA Director John Brennan
The Turkish judiciary has begun an investigation into the suspected involvement of some former US officials and politicians in the coup attempt of July 2016.

The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in Istanbul began the proceedings on Saturday, after some Turkish attorneys filed a criminal complaint against 17 individuals including US politicians, bureaucrats and academics.

The people are suspected of having links to what Turkey entitles FETO, an alleged terrorist network run by Fethullah Gulen, a cleric based in the United States whom Ankara blames for the coup attempt of July 15.
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Russia will build 'Storm' supercarriers to challenge US naval supremacy

Ricky Twisdale
The Duran
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:57 UTC
Russian Storm supercarrier
Called Project 23000E, Russia's new class of supercarrier will be able to give US carriers a run for their money

The unchallenged reign of the US Navy on the high seas may be drawing to a close.

Russia has plans to build a new class of supercarrier which will be able to challenge the US navy's Nimitz and Gerald Ford class carriers.

The "Storm" (or Shtorm) class supercarrier, also called Project 23000E, is being planned by Russia to be comparable to the Gerald Ford class, will be nuclear powered, and carry around 90 combat aircraft.
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Tillerson's Chief of Staff Peterlin is an old hand at US cyberwarfare against Russia

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:32 UTC
Margaret Peterlin Tillerson us cyber warfare
Margaret Peterlin
When US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was telling the Russians and the US state press yesterday to stop hacking into American politics, sitting beside him was a former US Navy signals officer and lawyer named Margaret Peterlin (lead image, red circle). Peterlin's job for the last two years was managing a Boston company specializing in cyber warfare weapons, including the latest in US computer programmes to mimic foreign hackers and convince US targets they have been hacked by Russians. Peterlin was also an advisor to Donald Trump during the presidential transition. Her targets then included Hillary Clinton and her campaign organization.

Peterlin was born in Alabama, and for most her career she has worked for southerners. Her appointment at the State Department as Tillerson's chief of staff is currently blank on the Department's website.
margaret peterlin Tillerson
© U.S. Dept of State
Peterlin's appointment to run Tillerson's office was announced more authoritatively by the Washington Post on February 12. There her Texas Republican Party credentials were reported in detail, but not her expertise in signals, codes, and cyber warfare.
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Russia announces tests of hypersonic Zircon anti-ship missile in warning to US

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:50 UTC
Russian hypersonic Zircon anti-ship missile
Russia announces test of hypersonic Zircon anti-ship missile as warning to US following US navy deployments against Syria and North Korea.

It is probably no coincidence that as international tensions have ratcheted up following on the US missile strike on Syria and the US military deployments around North Korea, that Russia has announced that its new hypersonic Zircon anti-ship missile has achieved speeds of Mach 8 in tests.

This claim appears in an article carried by the official Russian news agency TASS.
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Lavrov urges international investigations into Syrian gas attack allegations


RT
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:49 UTC
Syrian missile attack
© Mikhail Voskresenskiy / ReutersAftermath of the US missile attack on a Syrian military airbase.
Inspectors should be urgently sent to both Syria's Idlib province and the Shayrat Airbase to conduct an unbiased investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Russia will call on both the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN to investigate, Lavrov said after meeting with his Qatari counterpart in Moscow.

"We think that it is absolutely necessary to conduct a thorough, objective, professional, and unbiased investigation. We will insist that the OPCW and the UN in New York urgently send inspectors both to the site of incident and the airfield itself, where, according to Western experts, the munitions were loaded with chemicals."
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AP anonymous source: ISIS launched gas attack in liberated area of Mosul


RT
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:42 UTC
General view of destroyed buildings in Mosul
© Marko Djurica / Reuters
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has fired a rocket loaded with chlorine in western Mosul, Iraq, hitting several soldiers with the gas, according to an AP report.

The attack occurred in an area of western Mosul that has been recently liberated from the militants by US-backed Iraqi forces, AP reported on Saturday, citing an Iraqi military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A rocket loaded with chlorine was allegedly fired by IS the night before in the al-Abar neighborhood, the source, who was not authorized to release information, added.

At least seven soldiers reportedly suffered breathing problems and were treated at a nearby field clinic.
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Fierce battle for Mosul: House-to-house fighting, 400K civilians trapped

Ricky Twisdale
The Duran
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:36 UTC
Iraqi troops in Mosul
As the Iraqi army closes in on the core of the city of Mosul, desperate terrorist resistance meets them at every turn.

While most of the mainstream media's focus remains on Syria and on Bashar al-Assad's and Vladimir Putin's alleged "crimes" there - mostly staged false-flags and manufactured propaganda on social media - there is a genuine humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

The Iraqi army, with US and other western advisors and aided by significant air support, are pushing onto the heart of the embattled city - the biggest stronghold of ISIS in Iraq.

Iraqi commanders report desperate house-to-house and street-by-street fighting with ISIS fanatics as they close in on the city's Great Mosque, where the group's apparent leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a caliphate 3 years ago.

Around 400,000 people remain trapped in Mosul, according to reports.
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Raytheon lobbyist Ed Rogers has free rein to push for war in WaPo editorials


Mint Press News
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:04 UTC
Raytheon Ed Rogers
© CNBC
Raytheon lobbyist and Washington Post contributor Ed Rogers appears on CBNC (screenshot).
The Washington Post has given Ed Rogers, top lobbyist for Raytheon, an outlet for his blatantly pro-war editorials. The Post has failed to disclose Roger's ties to the weapons manufacturer - whose missiles were used in last week's strike against Syria - generating yet another conflict of interest for the CIA-funded and Bezos-owned paper

The Washington Post, the capital's paper of record, is at again - pushing war propaganda and failing to disclose glaring conflict of interests within the paper, particularly regarding one of its contributors whose ties to the nation's largest weapons manufacturers have been conveniently omitted from his WaPo editorials.

As Media Matters reported, WaPo contributor Ed Rogers has been given free range to praise and push for more military action against the Syrian government, all while failing to disclose that Rogers doubles as a lobbyist for defense contractor Raytheon, the very company that manufactured the Tomahawk missiles used in last week's strike.

Comment: WaPo is there whenever the CIA needs them. But Jeff Bezos is a good capitalist too:

The Washington Post actually takes Russian government money

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'CIA chief Pompeo treats American people as enemies'


RT
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:11 UTC
Wikileaks on computer screen
© Jens Bьttner / Global Look Press
The Trump administration doesn't want Americans to access the truth about what's happening in Syria or North Korea, that's why the CIA is trying to demonize WikiLeaks which consistently brings truth to the people, says Arvin Vohra of the Libertarian Party.

The CIA Director Mike Pompeo has called the WikiLeaks organization "a hostile intelligence service."
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Play the game - or else: Congressman says corruption in D.C. is 'worse than you think'

Rachel del Guidice
The Daily Signal
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:03 UTC
Rep. Ken Buck.
© Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/NewscomRep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., just released a new book detailing government corruption, entitled, “Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse Than You Think.”
Corruption on Capitol Hill is "worse than you think," according to Colorado Rep. Ken Buck.

"When you first get here, you think that you are in some sort of fairy-tale novel," Buck, a Republican, said. "They wine and dine you and they show you just exactly what it's like if you play the game. It's a wonderful life."

Things quickly change, however, if "you don't play the game."

"If you don't play the game ... it becomes a much less conformable existence here," Buck said.

Buck, who has served Colorado's 4th Congressional District since 2015, also previewed his new book, "Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse Than You Think," which was published on Tuesday.
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