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US intelligence weapons of mass migration

Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
Dissident Voice
Sat, 02 Sep 2017 20:22 UTC
Refugees
In Goodbye Europe? Hello, Chaos? - Merkel's Migrant Bomb, Michael Springmann analyzes evidence suggesting that US intelligence may be organizing the mass migration of millions of refugees as a form of asymmetric warfare.1 As a former State Department diplomat, Springmann was exposed to a different form of asymmetric warfare when he was ordered to issue US visas to Saudi jihadists, allowing them to undergo training in the US. He writes about this in his 2015 book Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts that Rocked the World.

Springmann first learned about mass migration as a form of asymmetric warfare from Kelly Greenhill's 2010 book Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy. Describing Greenhill as an academic with "close national security ties," he quotes her extensively in describing prior uses of mass migration to destabilize world powers. Among others, he lists the 1992 Cuban Rafter and the 2004 Haitian Boat People crisis (both aimed at destabilizing the US); the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict (aimed at destabilizing Western Europe); and a (unsuccessful) 2002-2005 attempt by the CIA to destroy the North Korean regime by setting up a refugee camp on the North Korea/China border.

Both Greenhill and Spring emphasize that countries can be destabilized by either a massive inflow or outflow of refugees. The CIA's goal in 2002 was to depopulate North Korea by encouraging a flood of refugees to escape into China.

Comment: See also: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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'N.Korea hopes to avoid tragic fate that befell disarmed Iraq and Libya'


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:03 UTC
Pyongyang
© KCNA / Reuters
Pyongyang is not a threat. They have no territorial ambitions. Its priority is survival and independence, and that has always driven the North Korean nuclear program, Dan Glazebrook, political writer, told RT. John Bosnitch also joins the discussion.

Russia and China offered their solution to the crisis calling it the 'Double Freeze' initiative.

It calls for North Korea to stop its nuclear and ballistic missile testing. In return, the US and South Korea would halt their joint exercises near North Korea.

However, the US dismissed the proposal.
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Dominoes

'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly': Iran, Israel and the big mess in Washington

Giulietto Chiesa
Global Research
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:51 UTC
Hassan Rouhani
The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

In the big mess of the current American foreign policy, which is an effect of the internal political mess, Iran represents the biggest issue.

It is unclear whether Donald Trump is acting in this way in order to cancel everything made by his predecessor or because he is controlled by the Israel Lobby (which dominates both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party). At any rate, he seems to operate in order to undermine at any cost the JCPOA agreement (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) signed by Iran and its western counterparties and indeed led by Barack Obama.

In order to understand what is going on, it may be useful to remember that the goal of the Joint Plan of Action - signed on July 14th, 2015 - was almost the complete annihilation (98%) of Teheran's low-enriched uranium stock and the reduction of two-thirds of the Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plants during the following thirteen years, besides the commitment by Iran to give up building a new plant for the production of heavy water. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been in charge of monitoring the progress of the agreement and, in order to do so, it has nearly unlimited access to Iranian nuclear facilities. These few facts are enough to understand that Rohani's Iran has accepted a virtually unconditional surrender, canceling any even remote possibility to build an atomic bomb in the next fifteen-year period.

In order to push the agreement with Teheran through the suspicious Congress, Barack Obama agreed on a quarterly monitoring. According to that, the US President must notify Congress every 90 days of Iran's compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (bear in mind that the Senate had praised unanimously the furious statement of Netanyahu, who had come to Washington to communicate the total Israel's disapproval towards the agreement). Now, it's Donald Trump's turn to make this review.
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Snakes in Suits

Corruption and bribery trial begins for US Senator Menendez


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:48 UTC
Bob Menendez
© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
Senator Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) is facing a federal trial for bribery and corruption, the first for a sitting senator in over a decade. Menendez has denied the charges of lobbying on behalf of a Florida doctor and accepting gifts and donations.

The case could end Menendez's political career if he is convicted. It could also shift the US Senate further towards the GOP, as Governor Chris Christie would most likely nominate a Republican to replace him.

"Not once have I dishonored my public office," Menendez told reporters as he headed to a New Jersey courthouse in Newark on Wednesday, according to AP.
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Russia's UN envoy: Moscow has become 'very convenient scarecrow' for US


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:24 UTC
Vasily Nebenzya
© Andrew Kelly / ReutersRussian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya.
Russia has turned into a convenient bogeyman used in the internal battles raging in the US political landscape, the Russian envoy to the UN says.

Although tensions are simmering, too much hinges on the bilateral relations, with the UN Security Council remaining one of the few cooperative platforms.

"We, unfortunately, became a very convenient scarecrow, including in the domestic political battles that are raging [in the US]," Vasily Nebenzya said in an interview with RT's Sophie Shevardnadze.

No thaw happened in the US-Russian relations with President Donald Trump coming into office due to "the domestic dimension and the political situation within the United States," Nebenzya believes.
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Snakes in Suits

Is John McCain hiding the generous donation from George Soros?


Russia Insider
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:11 UTC
Soros and McCain
He's on the hook of some of the most unsavory people in politics

The question we all want to know, is where did it come from? John McCain keeps hiding and refuses to answer that question!

What we do know, thanks to an investigation by The Daily Caller, is that the McCain Institute for International Leadership received a VERY GENEROUS donation from none other than George Soros.

The institute is intended to serve as a "legacy" for McCain. It "is dedicated to advancing human rights, dignity, democracy and freedom". It is also a tax-exempt non-profit foundation with assets valued at $8.1 million and associated with Arizona State University.

Comment: See also: 'Say cheese': The McCain Institute for International Leadership is funded by George Soros

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Bad Guys

Daesh is getting back in Libya


Sputnik
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:55 UTC
IS fighterrs
© REUTERS/ StringerIslamic State fighters
As the jihadist terrorists continue to be flushed out from Syria and Iraq, they are now looking elsewhere to regroup and form a kind of backup caliphate.

Libya: Daesh is Back

Libya is seen by Daesh as a new jumping-off ground outside the Middle East. The religious fanatics have seized the port city of Sirte, which was defended until autumn 2011 by forces loyal to Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi.

"After months of NATO bombardments, the port city of Sirte was captured by insurgents, then run by semi-criminal gangs. As a result the city's infrastructure ceased to exist, the residents moved elsewhere so by the time Daesh came there was no one left to defend the city," political analyst Grigory Lukyanov said.
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Russia versus US economic war: Who's going to be the ultimate loser?

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 02 Sep 2017 16:36 UTC
Dollar printing press
Full scale economic war in between America and Russia is underway. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said so, and the US administration and the American congress voted it in with new sanctions. The only question that remains is "who will win?" Here's a look at the future of US-Russia relations and the ultimate loser in this new type of Cold War.

A fact most people are not aware of is that the United States is at risk of repaying its debt if anything major happens. The $20 trillion that America owes is by far the largest of any single country, and about as much as the 28 members of the European Union owe altogether. The sum is greater than what America produces in one year, or twice the debt to GDP ration of 1988. But now let's look at the makeup of this staggering debt.
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Russia to work on trilateral projects with North and South Korea


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:30 UTC
North Korean students use different colored cardboard to form a picture of a child in uniform, Pyongyang
© Jason Lee / ReutersNorth Korean students use different colored cardboard to form a picture of a child in uniform, Pyongyang.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Moscow and Seoul have agreed to develop projects involving North Korea.

"We have arranged to strengthen the base for implementing trilateral projects involving both Koreas and Russia. The projects aim at consolidating the Korean Peninsula and Russia's Far East," he said after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

Earlier, Putin said the North Korean nuclear issue cannot be solved using sanctions and pressure.
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Arrow Up

The significance of the Syrian and Russian victory over the ISIS siege in Deir ez-Zor


RT
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:48 UTC
Syria soldier
© Sputnik
The Syrian people stuck with their government, they stuck with their army, they stuck with their allies and now their suffering has been vindicated, says Ammar Waqqaf, founder and director of Gnosos consultancy. Abdel Bari Atwan joins the discussion.

Syria's President Bashar Assad has congratulated his country's military on breaking ISIS' three-year-long siege of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria.

Government forces managed to fight their way into the embattled city, and link up with a brigade trapped there. The breakthrough by the Syrian Army was made possible by a Russian cruise missile strike on Islamic State militants, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed in a statement.
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