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Trump at greater risk of assassination than any other President

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 18:47 UTC
donald trump
Conspiracy theories still abound as to who actually killed John F. Kennedy, Jr., on November 22nd, 1963. The overwhelming consensus from researchers, who do not accept the official narrative, was that JFK wasn't killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, who, himself, said, "I'm just a patsy."

Oswald denied having killed the president and said he'd been framed because he used to live in the Soviet Union. Now, many of those same researchers, who took Oswald at his word, are convinced Donald J. Trump could be heading down the same street toward assassination that JFK traveled. And they're very concerned.

While Donald Trump and JFK are not alike, they both appear to have a common enemy — the deep state. Regardless of how you feel about Trump's policies, some of which are tyrannical, the deep state that is attempting a coup against him is far more dangerous.
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US Political Russophobia: A Symptom of Implosion

Finnian Cunningham
Strategic Culture
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
implosion
There was a time when Russophobia served as an effective form of population control - used by the American ruling class in particular to command the general US population into patriotic loyalty. Not any longer. Now, Russophobia is a sign of weakness, of desperate implosion among the US ruling class from their own rotten, internal decay.

This propaganda technique worked adequately well during the Cold War decades when the former Soviet Union could be easily demonized as «godless communism» and an «evil empire». Such stereotypes, no matter how false, could be sustained largely because of the monopoly control of Western media by governments and official regulators.

The Soviet Union passed away more than a quarter of a century ago, but Russophobia among the US political class is more virulent than ever.

This week it was evident from Congressional hearings in Washington into alleged Russian interference in US politics that large sections of American government and establishment media are fixated by Russophobia and a belief that Russia is a malign foreign adversary.
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UK Parliament report: 'No hard evidence' entire Gulen movt. behind Turkey coup, only some members


RT
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 19:02 UTC
Turkish military stand guard near the the Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey, July 16, 2016
© Murad Sezer / ReutersTurkish military stand guard near the the Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey, July 16, 2016
Some followers of exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen were involved in last summer's failed coup, yet evidence to suggest the entire Gulen movement or its leader were behind the plot is "anecdotal or circumstantial," a UK Parliament report states.

"There is a relative lack of hard, publicly-available evidence to prove that the Gulenists as an organization were responsible for the coup attempt in Turkey," the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee's (FCO) report released on Saturday states.

"While there is evidence to indicate that some individual Gulenists were involved, it is mostly anecdotal or circumstantial, sometimes premised on information from confessions or informants, and is - so far - inconclusive in relation to the organization as a whole or its leadership," it added.

Prominent Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen leads a popular Islamic transnational religious and social movement called Hizmet, believed to be funding numerous businesses, think tanks, private schools, and publishing houses around the world. The man and his group were accused by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of masterminding the failed coup in Turkey on July 15, 2015.

Comment: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the statements of German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) chief Bruno Kahl about Turkey's weak evidence base proving Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen's involvement in the July 2016 coup attempt.
On March 18, Kahl said in an interview with German Der Spiegel magazine that Ankara failed to convince Berlin in Gulen's role in the July 2016 coup attempt.

"He says they don't see [Fethullah Terrorist Organization] FETÖ behind this incident. Look at them. What do you know about FETÖ being a terrorist group?... Who do you think you are? Don't cross the line," Erdogan said as quoted by Daily Sabah newspaper.


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US presence in Korea drives instability

Ulson Gunnar
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:25 UTC
US troops
US and European interests continue to portray the government and nation of North Korea as a perpetual security threat to both Asia and the world. Allegations regarding the nation's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs are continuously used as justification for not only a continuous US military presence on the Korean Peninsula, but as justification for a wider continued presence across all of Asia-Pacific.

In reality, what is portrayed as an irrational and provocative posture by the North Korean government, is in fact driven by a very overt, and genuinely provocative posture by the United States and its allies within the South Korean government.

Comment: For more North Korea analysis: North Korea: The real serious options on the table

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Cop convicted in gruesome killing of 6-Year-Old Jeremy Mardis

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:29 UTC
Derrick Stafford and Jeremy Mardis
Sixteen months ago, one of the worst police killings ever to be recorded on video rocked the country. Jeremy Mardis, a 6-year-old boy, was gunned down in cold blood by two bad Louisiana cops — Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr. Now, one of those officers is finally being tried for this horrific act which was caught on a body camera.

In what the head of Louisiana State police called 'the most disturbing thing he's ever seen,' Mardis was murdered as he rode with his father, Chris Few, as he sat strapped into the front seat of the car.

"He didn't deserve to die like that," State Police Col. Mike Edmonson said as he announced the deputies' arrests, less than a week after the shooting.
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Swiss Minister: Schengen zone protects EU states from terrorism


RT
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:23 UTC
Parliament Square
© Stefan Wermuth / ReutersParliament Square, London, Britain, March 22, 2017
Membership in the Schengen zone gives European states protection from international terrorism, Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said following Wednesday's terrorist attack in London.

"Without Schengen we would be less protected from terror," Sommaruga said in an interview with Blick news outlet on Thursday, explaining that the Schengen system offers a number of instruments that help lessen the threat of terrorism.

"Try to board a plane without a passport. And without a passport you cannot easily leave the Schengen area. Today, the police can exchange information quickly across national borders. This is one of the key benefits of Schengen police cooperation...

Thanks to the Schengen system, the police can quickly and reliably check whether the suspect is on the radar of the authorities [elsewhere in the Schengen zone]. Without this information, the police have no idea who they're dealing with," the minister said, adding that due to these benefits, "anyone seeking to terminate the Schengen Agreement is irresponsible."
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Ex-spooks seek to expose the shabby intelligence of national security state

Philip Giraldi
The American Conservative
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:47 UTC
CIA conversation
© Michael HogueThere’s a long history of skepticism among ex-spooks.
There is a perception among some of the public and within the alternative media that America's burgeoning national-security state is a monolith, a collective entity pursuing its own interests regardless of what is good for the country or its people. From both progressives and conservatives who mistrust the government, I often hear comments such as, "Once in the CIA, always in the CIA"—as if onetime employment in the agency forms an unbreakable bond.

Those familiar with both the national-security community and the peace movement are aware that something like the reverse is true. Individuals who were attracted to careers in intelligence, law enforcement, or the military are often sticklers for doing what is right rather than what is expedient. That often puts them at odds with their political masters, leading sometimes to resignations and a resulting overrepresentation of former national-security professionals in the anti-war movement.

One manifestation of this is an organization of former national-security officers, including myself, called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, or VIPS. VIPS was founded in 2003 out of revulsion on the part of many former officials over the shabby intelligence that was driving the decision to invade Iraq. The group includes officials from the whole alphabet soup of national security—CIA, NSA, FBI, FS (Foreign Service), and DOD. VIPS's emergence and its ongoing letters of protest on national-security policy reflect a reality going back to the early debates surrounding the U.S. government's stealthy escalation of the Vietnam War and its woeful handling of that conflict, ending in a humiliating defeat.
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Seized laptop shows Clinton covered up Anthony Weiner's child sex crimes

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:08 UTC
Clinton and Weiner
© RollingStone
Damning revelations from within the New York Police Department have come to light, as detectives working an underage child pornography case against have confirmed to the media organization True Pundit that
"the laptop seized from the former congressman contains proof that Hillary Clinton knew he was engaging in a long sexual relationship with a minor but did not intervene to alert any state or federal authorities to protect the 15-year-old."
True Pundit reports:
Not blowing the whistle on the serial sexter allowed Weiner to keep sexting the youth via cell phone and internet chats for approximately another four more months, NYPD sources said. While Clinton was busy campaigning to be the first female US president with Weiner's wife and aide Huma Abedin, he was at home sending the 15-year-old online porn and divulging his rape fantasies to the girl, NYPD sources said. Weiner also apparently talked on the telephone with the girl, based on intelligence gleaned from the laptop.

Instead of rescuing the minor from a sex-obsessed Weiner, Clinton who was the Democratic presidential candidate at the time and eventual front runner, counseled her long time aide Abedin, to end her relationship with him because bad publicity could harm the campaign.

NYPD officials said Clinton and Abedin discovered Weiner's sexting with the minor in April 2016 and that he had already been corresponding with the youth for months. Neither Clinton nor Abedin apparently did anything to stop the abuse of the minor. Instead, the repeated incidents — which breach a host of state and federal laws — were kept quiet.

Comment: Of course, Clinton wouldn't give up Weiner. He probably has as much dirt on her as she does on him. Birds of a feather flock together, after all.

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Moral whitewashing: The corporate media's rehabilitation of George Bush and Tony Blair

David Edwards
The Morning Star
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Bush and Blair
Can you retain a sense of sincerity uttering some famous quotes from these two former international statesmen?
You have to marvel at the audacity of corporate journalists as they switch between damning "official enemies" to hell while finding it within their hearts to forgive members of the 1-per-cent club literally anything.

George W Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, bears responsibility for the destruction of an entire country, the killing of one million Iraqis, the wounding and displacement of countless millions more.

Before "Dubya," there had never been a suicide bomb attack in Iraq — the car bombs, the mass executions, the disappearances, the endless tortures, the bombs in London and Madrid, the rise of Islamic State, all began with him.

About this war criminal, Britain's leading "left-liberal" newspaper wrote last month: "The Guardian view on George W Bush: a welcome return."

The fact that the paper was using Bush to attack the execrable Donald Trump did not justify the assertion, however tongue-in-cheek, that "Bush can be seen now as a paragon of virtue. He sounds a lot better out of office than in it."

And so "the 43rd US president should be applauded." The Guardian had not one word to say about his millions of victims.

Comment: Western corporations own the media and cannot act as a watchdog of power because, in fact, it is power. It is the power of the globalised elite to control and limit the ideology of the media's readers and viewers to ensure that imperial interests, which are synonymous with those of the corporations, are not threatened. Thus the media will always distort or bury truth, and twist the narratives to fit their agenda. It is therefore necessary to portray leaders as only having made mistakes, being naïve or even stupid, but never bad or evil.

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Where Salman's 'Pivot East' will take Saudi Arabia?

Jean Perier
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:12 UTC
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Last year could hardly be described as the best period in bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States, since the interests of these two nations have shifted dramatically over the years. Today, Washington and Riyadh occupy different positions on such important topics as Syria, Iran, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Egypt, the so-called "democratization" of the Middle Eastern region, and oil price dumping proposed by Washington in a bid to undermine Russia's economy.

One of the major bumps in US-Saudi bilateral relations was the so-called Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act passed by Congress last year. The Saudi response to this act was a harsh one, with Riyadh announcing its plans to sell up to 750 billion dollars worth of treasury securities and other assets in a bid to prevent them from being seized. Under these circumstances Saudi Arabia began to explore the possibility of developing bilateral ties with states that could replace the US in its capacity of its major overseas patron, by initiating active contacts with Russia and a number of EU states.

Comment: For more analysis on this topic: Why is China choosing to partner with Israel and Saudi Arabia?

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