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Donald Trump echoes Obama's 'blank check' rhetoric in his Afghanistan speech

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:53 UTC
Trump and Obama
© Reuters
President Donald Trump announced his new strategy on Afghanistan Monday night, vowing he would end former President Barack Obama's cautious and restrictive rules of warfare.

But the president specifically echoed his predecessor's 2009 speech, after acknowledging that the war had gone on too long.

"Our commitment is not unlimited, and our support is not a blank check," Trump said. "The government of Afghanistan must carry their share of the military, political, and economic burden. The American people expect to see real reforms, real progress, and real results."

In his 2009 speech on Afghanistan, Obama said something similar:

Comment: Washington's Hidden Agenda: Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade

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Bad Guys

'Time to come home!' Donald Trump's long frustration with the war in Afghanistan

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:09 UTC
US servicemen Afghanistan
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Before he was elected president, Donald Trump frequently expressed frustration with America's longest war.

"Do not allow our very stupid leaders to sign a deal that keeps us in Afghanistan through 2024 - with all costs by U.S.A.," Trump wrote on Twitter in November 2013. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT!"

Trump shared his frank assessment about the Afghanistan conflict many times in 2013, as the United States military was repeatedly hit by terrorist attacks in the region.

"Let's get out of Afghanistan. Our troops are being killed by the Afghanis we train and we waste billions there," he wrote. "Nonsense! Rebuild the USA."

The mission in Afghanistan took a political blow as well in 2013, as President Hamid Karzai challenged the Obama administration's security pact.
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United Nations issues rare 'early warning' signaling potential civil conflict in America

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:15 UTC
UN meeting
A United Nations Committee tasked with combating racism on a global scale has issued an ultra rare "early warning" for the United States citing "alarming racism" trends.

As StockBoardAsset.com notes, this rare signal often preludes the potential for civil conflict.

In the past 10-years, the early warning has been issued in Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria.

The United Nations Committee on the Eliminations of Racial Discrimination has called on high-level politicians and public officials of the United States to condemn "racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and through the country".

Anastasia Crickley, Chairperson of UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said:
We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred
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Top-secret Russian hypersonic missiles will turn US strategic naval doctrine upside down


Sputnik
Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:15 UTC
hypersonic cruise missile
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Russia's top-secret Zircon hypersonic missiles are likely to change the balance of power at sea, RIA Novosti contributor Andrei Stanavov writes, recalling that exactly 55 years ago the Soviet K-10S supersonic nuclear-armed missile caught NATO commanders by surprise.

Russia's Zircon maneuvering hypersonic missile may turn the US strategic naval doctrine upside down, RIA Novosti contributor Andrei Stanavov notes.

Exactly 55 years ago the USSR successfully tested its supersonic nuclear-armed anti-ship missile K-10S (NATO reporting name: AS-2 Kipper).

"The creation of a new class of weapons radically changed the balance of power at sea," Stanavov recalled. "US aircraft carriers ceased to be an indestructible offensive force and turned into highly vulnerable large-scale targets."

Comment: It's not just hypersonic missiles that should concern American military strategists. Russia is also close to introducing invisibility cloaks for the Army and police, and a new high-speed combat helicopter that can fly up to 500km/h is in the early stages of being produced for the Russian military. One thing is for sure - Russia's military is soon going to be a formidable opponent for anyone foolish enough to pick a fight with the Bear.

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Chad shuts down Qatari embassy over alleged destabilization attempts


Sputnik
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:11 UTC
qatar skyline
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Chad shut down the embassy of Qatar in the country on Wednesday, saying that Doha had attempted to destabilize the African country from Libya.

Chad is closing the embassy of Qatar in its capital of N'Djamena and requests the departure of the ambassador and diplomatic staff within 10 days, the Chadian Foreign Ministry has said.

"The government of the republic of Chad has decided on the closure of the embassy of the state of Qatar in Chad and on the departure of the ambassador and Qatari diplomatic personnel," the ministry said in a statement, adding that the embassy was given 10 days to comply.
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Bullseye

Don't kid yourself - The US will continue destabilizing governments around the world

Andrew Korybko
Sputnik
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:21 UTC
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Despite what Trump said in his policy-making speech, the US will still continue to destabilize rival governments, but it'll just do so under different pretexts.

Trump's Afghan speech earlier this week resulted in a surprising bout of exuberance from many anti-imperialists in the Alt-Media Community who focused on the significance of three key policy-making sentences:

"...we will no longer use American military might to construct democracies in faraway lands or try to rebuild other countries in our own image. Those days are now over. Instead, we will work with allies and partners to protect our shared interests."

These words brought hope to many that the US would no longer continue waging wars of aggression around the world under the banner of "exporting democracy", and in a sense, that's true. As Trump himself said, "those days are now over", but what's to come might even be worse.
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Chancellor candidate Schulz: US nuclear arms should be removed from Germany


RT
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:59 UTC
Buechel Air Base
© WikipediaBuechel Air Base
German Social Democrat candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz says he will push for US nuclear weapons to be removed from Germany, calling for an end to the "armament spiral" pushed by US President Donald Trump.

"As German Chancellor... I will champion for the withdrawal of the nuclear weapons stationed in Germany," the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) said in Trier, addressing a campaign rally on Tuesday.

About 20 US nuclear warheads are currently stationed at a military base in Buechel, Germany, DPA news agency reported, citing unofficial estimates. The SPD leader also made it clear that, unlike Angela Merkel, he is strongly opposed to President Trump's demands for NATO members to increase their defense spending.

"Trump wants nuclear armament. We reject it," Schulz said, adding that his position also applies to the North Korea crisis.

"More than ever, the North Korean conflict signals the need for arms limitation, especially [need for] nuclear disarmament."
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Vader

'Trump's betrayal is complete': Military-industrial complex rises to power

Finian Cunningham
RT
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:35 UTC
Donald Trump (L), Defense Secretary James Mattis
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
If one moment stands out as the clearest signal yet of US President Trump turning his back on supporters, it was his announcement this week to re-escalate American military intervention in Afghanistan.

His signature campaign promise of putting "America First" and ending the folly of overseas wars launched by previous administrations was shredded on prime time television when he gave orders for thousands of more US troops to be sent to Afghanistan. The already 16-year war in that country - America's longest - will now go on indefinitely longer.

The Huffington Post headlined: "Trump's vague new Afghanistan strategy continues an endless war."

Not only that, but this president is refusing to give any public information on force numbers or timescale. America's overseas wars are not just expanding under Trump; they are going secret and unaccountable.

Comment: U.S. presidents are figureheads. That should be apparent to the American people since JFK's assassination. The US hasn't suddenly declined into a military state; it's been building such a position since the British began handing over the duties to the US as the World Empire in the 1940's. Trump's blatant foreign policy contradictions gives testimony to the phoniness of the office of U.S. president. For the careful reader of the signs, it shows where real power lies. It's somehow less disturbing for many to consider Trump's Afghanistan flip-flop as a mere deficit in character. The more disturbing issue being exposed, however, is the power being wielded by the men behind the curtain.

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Corbyn ally faces backlash after liking spoof tweet telling sex abuse victims to shut up


RT
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:00 UTC
Labour MP Naz Shah
© London News Pictures / Global Look PressLabour MP Naz Shah
A Labour MP who shared social media posts telling Rotherham sex abuse victims to shut up "for the good of diversity" has been hit with a furious backlash and urged to stand down.

Labour MP Naz Shah liked a post which told women who were repeatedly raped and abused in their teenage years to be quiet while their attackers are appealing jail sentences.

Shah interacted with the post on a parody account of left-wing writer Owen Jones on Twitter, which said: "Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity."

The Tweet appears to be a nod to the uproar caused when Labour MP Sarah Champion wrote an article insisting Pakistani sex gangs had a racist motive in their attacks on young white girls.

Comment: Outrage over Shah liking a tweet that was possibly meant to be an ironic jab at MP Sarah Champion falls flat when there is media silence and covering up of pedophilia within the ranks of the elites.

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Qatar turns to Russia for defense systems and technologies


Sputnik
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:23 UTC
Qatar soldiers
© AFP 2017/ KARIM JAAFAR/AL-WATAN DOHA
Doha is looking to cooperate with Russia in the military sphere amid the ongoing row with a group of Arab states that hit the tiny Gulf nation hardly.

Qatar is interested in cooperation with Russia in the defense sector, especially in modern Russian technologies, Qatari Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah said Wednesday. The minister stressed Doha would like to purchase Russian technologies for production of air defense systems.

"As far as our mutual cooperation is concerned, this is not just the purchase of air defense systems but also technologies. We would like to develop this industry and bring this technology to Qatar," Attiyah said during a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
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