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Corbyn bars Saudi Arabia from attending Labour conference due to their war crimes in Yemen


RT
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:53 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© Vickie Flores / Global Look Press
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's decision to bar Saudi Arabia from his party's annual conference next week suggests he would not be afraid to cut military and diplomatic ties with the Gulf kingdom over its war on Yemen if he becomes prime minister.

A Labour spokesperson told the Huffington Post on Monday: "Following evidence of war crimes committed by Saudi Arabia in its bombing campaign in Yemen and other large scale human rights abuses, the NEC [National Executive Committee] agreed that the embassy's application to attend the Labour Party conference would not be accepted."

Labour also barred Sudan from the conference, which begins next Sunday in Brighton.

In response, the London office of the League of Arab States wrote to Labour MPs and peers to tell them a reception and dinner hosted by Arab ambassadors would be canceled.
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Kaspersky Lab says it is not affiliated with any government


RT
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:21 UTC
Kapersky Lab
© Vladimir Astapkovich / Sputnik
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab says it is disappointed by a vote in the US Senate stopping it's software from being used by federal agencies and insists it is not affiliated with any government, including that of Russia.

"Kaspersky Lab is disappointed the US Senate passed the Defense Authorization Act with an amendment regulating the use of the company's products. Thus, Kaspersky Lab appreciates the opportunity given by the US government to address the Congress on September 27 and publicly refute false accusations against the company" Kaspersky Lab in a statement on Tuesday.

On Monday, the Senate passed an amendment against the Russian company, which was proposed by New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. The senator said the prohibition "removes a real vulnerability to our national security."

The bill would bar the use of Kaspersky Lab in American civilian and military agencies.

Comment: See also:

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Poroshenko in panic over proposal for UN contingent to protect OSCE observers in Donbass

translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:33 UTC
Poroshenko UN Donbass
The proposed Russian input of the UN contingent for the protection of OSCE observers in the Donbass is a move that seriously limits the maneuvering space for the Ukrainian side, which violates the third year of the Minsk agreement under various reservations, says political scientist Denis Denisov.

The data of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights clearly demonstrates who fires on residential areas of the cities of Donbass, listing casualties by headcount.

I would like to refute the words of the alarmists. This is a UN contingent, which is proposed to be introduced into the Donbass solely for the protection of OSCE observers, not for control over the border, or for replacing the people's militia of LPR and DPR, as Ukraine would like.

Having received protection, OSCE observers will be able to appear at the most problematic points and record all violations of the Ukrainian side, which have been repeatedly declared by the Republics.
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US-Cuba relations thaw under threat as embassy closure in Cuba in cards


RT
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:24 UTC
US embassy Cuba
© Alexandre Meneghini / ReutersAn exterior view of the U.S. Embassy is seen in Havana, Cuba.
Two years after the US made the historic step to re-open its embassy in Cuba, Washington says a new closure is "under evaluation" - the latest move in a fragile relationship which has seen claims of "health attacks" on US diplomats.

"We have it under evaluation," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation regarding the possible closure of the embassy in Havana. "It's a very serious issue with respect to the harm that certain individuals have suffered. We've brought some of those people home. It's under review."

The "harm" Tillerson was referring to surrounds the mysterious cases of 21 Americans - diplomats and their families - who have reported bizarre health symptoms after being stationed in Havana.

It was not long ago that the US was without any diplomats in Cuba, with both countries closing their embassies in 1961, shortly after the US imposed an economic embargo on Cuba following Fidel Castro's overthrow of the US-backed regime in Havana and establishment of a socialist state.

Comment: More background: One wonders, of course, if the "mysterious cases of 21 Americans - diplomats and their families - who have reported bizarre health symptoms after being stationed in Havana" is not a sort of "health false flag attack" designed to create a pretext for anger at Cuba and to break relations.

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Never ending war: Over 3,000 new US troops headed to Afghanistan


RT
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:45 UTC
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© Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters
US Defense Secretary James Mattis confirmed that over 3,000 new US troops will be headed to Afghanistan as part of President Donald Trump's new strategy to win the war that has dragged on for almost 16 years.

"It is exactly over 3,000 somewhat and frankly I haven't signed the last of the orders right now as we look at specific, small elements that are going," Mattis told reporters on Monday afternoon.

Earlier in the day, Senator David Perdue (R-Georgia) referred to "3,500 more troops" in an article published by Defense One.

"For too long, America's strategy in Afghanistan was driven by politics, leading to arbitrary troop caps and unreasonable timetables for troop withdrawal," Perdue wrote, noting that enemies interpreted that as a lack of resolve. "Finally, the gloves are off."
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US military opens 1st permanent base in Israel as tensions with Iran rise


RT
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:18 UTC
Israel Air Force Brig. Gen. Zvika Haimovich, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Gronski
© Israel Defense ForcesIsrael Air Force Brig. Gen. Zvika Haimovich(L) with U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Gronski(R) at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new permanent U.S. Army base in Israel
Even though the US has routinely deployed forces to Israel, it is only now opening an official permanent military base in the country. The move, largely seen as symbolic, is meant to send a strong message to Israel's enemies.

It will be a "base within a base," located inside the Israeli Air Force's Mashabim Air Base in the middle of the Negev desert, close to a US military radar installation east of Dimona that tracks ballistic missiles.
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Benjamin "snake in a suit" Netanyahu slathers praise on Trump for making US-Israel relationship 'stronger and deeper'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:00 UTC
Netanyahu-Trump meeting
The Netanyahu-Trump meeting in a hotel at the sidelines of the United Nations in New York today was marked by Trump's carney chatter about a two-state solution ("a fantastic achievement. We are giving it an absolute go. I think there's a good chance that it could happen. Most people would say there's no chance whatsoever") and fulsome praise by Netanyahu of Trump clearly intended to show that the Obama days are past and gone.

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The Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar and the liberal-powered disengagement from objectivity

Gearoid Ó Colmain
21st Century Wire
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Rohingya refugees
The article should be entitled: The Rakine State refugee crisis or the Burmese/Bengali refugee crisis. But readers will be more familiar with headings such as Rohingya refugee crisis or Rohingya genocide. Why is that?

On the 25th of August a Saudi-backed terrorist group, Arakanese Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA formerly Harakah Al Rakin), attacked thirty police stations in Myanmar's Rakhine State, murdering 12 security forces and two civilians. The Burmese government responded with a full-scale military counter-insurgency operation. 59 insurgents were killed.

Burmese authorities leaked information which proves that ARSA leader Ullah Ata had planned the attack with help from outside agents in Pakistani intelligence and ISIS terrorists in Iraq. Supporters of ARSA and the Rohingya cause accuse the Burmese military (Tatmadaw) of burning down Rohingya (Eastern Bengali) villages. The Tatmadaw say the villages have been burned by the terrorists, embedded among the illegal Bengali immigrant communities. Thousands of Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus have fled the violence. Many Buddhist eye witnesses and victims have described massacres committed by Bengali terrorists to local journalists in Myanmar. The stories have not made international headlines.

Comment: For more on the geopolitics of the Rohingya refugee crisis, listen in to last Sunday's installment of SOTT's Behind the Headlines:

Behind the Headlines: Trump Trumped, and the Myanmar Conflict in Context

And read Joe Quinn's analysis of the situation there:

The Rohingya 'Crisis': U.S. Legacy and Current Policy in Southeast Asia

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How The Generals neutralized Trump's insurgency


Moon of Alabama
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 02:19 UTC
Dunford Mattis McMaster Kelly Trump
© Politco/Getty Images/European Press AgencyFrom left to right: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffJoseph Dunford, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Trump was seen as a presidential candidate who would possibly move towards a less interventionist foreign policy. That hope is gone. The insurgency that brought Trump to the top was defeated by a counter-insurgency campaign waged by the U.S. military. (Historically its first successful one). The military has taken control of the White House process and it is now taking control of its policies.

It is schooling Trump on globalism and its "indispensable" role in it. Trump was insufficiently supportive of their desires and thus had to undergo reeducation:
When briefed on the diplomatic, military and intelligence posts, the new president would often cast doubt on the need for all the resources. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson organized the July 20 session to lay out the case for maintaining far-flung outposts - and to present it, using charts and maps, in a way the businessman-turned-politician would appreciate.
Trump was hauled into a Pentagon basement 'tank' and indoctrinated by the glittering four-star generals he admired since he was a kid:
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Entire volume of CIA files on Lee Harvey Oswald, set for October release, has mysteriously 'gone missing'

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:48 UTC
Lee Harvey Oswald
© Dominio PúblicoLee Harvey Oswald
Volume 5 of the CIA's Lee Harvey Oswald 7-volume collection, may never be turned over, even though the law requires it to take place by October 26th of this year.

Countless concerned individuals are still searching for answers surrounding the mysterious death of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. The official narrative, that a lone former Marine named Harvey Oswald assassinated him, is widely disputed.

All available documents from all government entities are required by the Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 to be released on October 26th of 2017. But if history repeats itself, the Central Intelligence Agency may not release an entire volume of documents on Oswald, known as "volume 5."

As Sputnik reports, the release in July of 3,810 CIA and FBI documents on the assassination by the Assassination Records Review Board threw up a number of revelations that JFK researchers have hungrily devoured and enthusiastically publicized. For instance, the mayor of Dallas at the time of Kennedy's assassination, Earle Cabell, was a CIA asset in the 1950s, and his brother, Charles Cabell, a high-ranking CIA official until 1962.

The release in October has been highly anticipated by those seeking answers. However, thanks to a deliberate fudging of records, or a conveniently timed clerical error, an entire volume may never see the light of day.
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