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Snakes in Suits

Flashback The US has installed a neo-Nazi government in Ukraine

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:19 UTC
Neo Nazi Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok
Neo Nazi Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok
According to the New York Times, "The United States and the European Union have embraced the revolution here as another flowering of democracy, a blow to authoritarianism and kleptocracy in the former Soviet space." (After Initial Triumph, Ukraine's Leaders Face Battle for Credibility, NYTimes.com, March 1, 2014, emphasis added)

"Flowering Democracy, Revolution"? The grim realities are otherwise. What is a stake is a US-EU-NATO sponsored coup d'Etat in blatant violation of international law.

The forbidden truth is that the West has engineered - through a carefully staged covert operation - the formation of a proxy regime integrated by Neo-Nazis.

Confirmed by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, key organizations in the Ukraine including the Neo-Nazi party Svoboda were generously supported by Washington: "We have invested more than 5 billion dollars to help Ukraine to achieve these and other goals. ... We will continue to promote Ukraine to the future it deserves."

The Western media has casually avoided to analyze the composition and ideological underpinnings of the government coalition. The word "Neo-Nazi" is a taboo. It has been excluded from the dictionary of mainstream media commentary. It will not appear in the pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post or The Independent. Journalists have been instructed not to use the term "Neo-Nazi" to designate Svoboda and the Right Sector.
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Binoculars

Abduction Incorporated: Is Saudi Arabia operating a dissident kidnapping program?


Sputnik
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 21:19 UTC
Saudi King looking through binoculars
© AP Photo/ Saudi Press Agency
A mainstream documentary has released details on the abduction of three dissident Saudi Princes over a two year period. There is a growing body of evidence to suggest the Saudi state seemingly operates a systematic program to kidnap defectors and dissidents outside its borders.

The trio, all members of the Riyadh elite before becoming involved in peaceful political activities against the ruling monarchy, were kidnapped and transported to Saudi Arabia between September 2015 and February 2016.

The most senior, Prince Sultan bin Turki, was kidnapped together with about 20 members of his entourage, many of whom hailed from western countries February 1, 2016. He was on a flight to Cairo, which was unexpectedly diverted to the Saudi capital. Flight attendants, in fact disguised Saudi agents, produced concealed weapons in order to subdue his protestations.
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Snakes in Suits

US says interested in dialogue with North Korea as Russia and China push for talks


RFE/RL
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:12 UTC
Jim Mattis (left) and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
© AFP
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said Washington remains interested in a dialogue with Pyongyang, adding that it is up to North Korean leader Kim Jung Un to decide if he wants to talk to the United States.

"We continue to be interested in trying to find a way to get to dialogue but that's up to him," Tillerson said on August 15, after Moscow and Beijing, Pyongyang's closest ally, pushed for talks to defuse tensions between the United States and North Korea.


Comment: North Korea has been open for talks the past 60 odd years! It has been the US who refuses to make any deals. Can Russia and China get the US into a deal-making mood?


North Korea's threats against the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam have escalated the rhetoric being exchanged between Washington and Pyongyang.
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Dollar

Flashback George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War

John Arlidge
The Daily Beast/Newsweek
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:33 UTC
George Soros
© Jake Chessum for Newsweek
'The situation is about as serious and difficult as I've experienced in my career.' Plus, an exclusive interview with IMF chief Christine Lagarde, who issues a dire warning for Europe.

You know George Soros. He's the investor's investor - the man who still holds the record for making more money in a single day's trading than anyone. He pocketed $1 billion betting against the British pound on "Black Wednesday" in 1992, when sterling lost 20 percent of its value in less than 24 hours and crashed out of the European exchange-rate mechanism. No wonder Brits call him, with a mix of awe and annoyance, "the man who broke the Bank of England."

Soros doesn't make small bets on anything. Beyond the markets, he has plowed billions of dollars of his own money into promoting political freedom in Eastern Europe and other causes. He bet against the Bush White House, becoming a hate magnet for the right that persists to this day. So, as Soros and the world's movers once again converge on Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum this week, what is one of the world's highest-stakes economic gamblers betting on now?

He's not. For the first time in his 60-year career, Soros, now 81, admits he is not sure what to do. "It's very hard to know how you can be right, given the damage that was done during the boom years," Soros says. He won't discuss his portfolio, lest anyone think he's talking things down to make a buck. But people who know him well say he advocates making long-term stock picks with solid companies, avoiding gold - "the ultimate bubble" - and, mainly, holding cash.
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Snakes in Suits

Russia-gate's opportunism and fatally flawed logic

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 19:58 UTC
Donald Trump
There was always a logical flaw in pushing Russia-gate as an excuse for Hillary Clinton's defeat - besides the fact that it was based on a dubious "assessment" by a small team of "hand-picked" U.S. intelligence analysts. The flaw was that it poked the thin-skinned Donald Trump over one of his few inclinations toward diplomacy.

We're now seeing the results play out in a very dangerous way in Trump's bluster about North Korea, which was included in an aggressive economic sanctions bill - along with Russia and Iran - that Congress passed nearly unanimously, without a single Democratic no vote.

Democrats and Official Washington's dominant neocons celebrated the bill as a vote of no-confidence in Trump's presidency but it only constrained him in possible peacemaking, not war-making.
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Book

Book review: The Betrayal of India, The 26 November 2008 Mumbai Attacks

Dr. Ludwig Watzal
Global Research
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:46 UTC
The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel is seen engulfed in smoke during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks
© ReutersThe Taj Mahal Palace Hotel is seen engulfed in smoke during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Perhaps the FBI needs guys like Elias Davidsson to solve the circumstances of the 9/11 attacks. Could he have been successful within such an organization? Usually, the FBI investigators can only go so far as their superiors want them to go. That's why a highly qualified researcher such as Davidsson would have gone nowhere within the FBI.

In the 9/11 community, Davidsson is no blank sheet. He has published books on 9/11 and the follow-up terrorist attacks that set the world on fire. Hijacking America's Mind on 9/11[1], followed by Psychological Warfare and Social Denial: The Legend of 9/11 and the Fiction of Terrorism (Psychologische Kriegsführung und Gesellschaftliche Leugnung: Die Legende des 9/11 und die Fiktion der Terrorbedrohung)[2] presented a different narrative. An English translation of a condensed version would be very informative and highly useful for the English speaking public.

The elucidation of a terrorist offense suffers from the fact that governments clean up only as much as it benefits them politically. Such an approach also holds true for the Mumbai attacks. The impression given by the Indian government that all facts were on the table, is, according to Davidsson, false. As with the "9/11 Commission Report", which pretends to present the real events and the backgrounds, the same holds true for the processing of this heinous crime of 26/11, 2008. In both cases, statements of witnesses, which didn't support the official narrative were glossed over or brushed aside.
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Info

Tillerson calls out Turkey, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Iran over religious freedom


RT
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:33 UTC
Rex Tillerson
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has singled out several Muslim-majority countries for violating religious freedoms. He also called out Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists for their "genocide" of Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims.

Tillerson has accused friends and foes alike of violating their citizens' religious freedoms, particularly focusing on Muslim-majority countries in his presentation of the US State Department's annual report on religious freedom worldwide.

The US's top diplomat said Bahrain and Saudi Arabia "must" stop discriminating against their Shia community.

In Saudi Arabia, "the government does not recognize the right of non-Muslims to practice their religion in public, and applied criminal penalties, including prison sentences, lashings and fines for apostasy, atheism, blasphemy and insulting the state's interpretation of Islam," Tillerson said.

In Turkey, authorities continue to limit the human rights of members of some religious minority groups, he said.
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Propaganda

Theresa May refuses to jump on the 'bash Trump for Charlottesville' bandwagon


RT
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:45 UTC
Donald Trump Theresa May
© Matt Dunham / AFPUS President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May
British Prime Minister Theresa May abstained from joining widespread criticism of US President Donald Trump's insufficiently robust response to the deadly far-right demonstration in Charlottesville.

A spokesman for May refused to offer comment on the matter, stating "what the President says is a matter for him."

The Prime Minister herself is on a month-long holiday in Italy.

The spokesperson reaffirmed the British government is staunchly opposed to any manifestation of racism and bigotry.

Comment: Trump also expressed condolences to the victims of the hysteria in Charlottesville:
America is based on the idea that all people are created equal, under law and under the Constitution, Trump said, and"those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America."

"In times like these, America has always shown its true character, responding to hate with love, division with unity, and violence with an unwavering resolve for justice," Trump said.

The president expressed condolences to the family of Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old paralegal who died when a car ran into the crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, as well as two Virginia state troopers whose helicopter crashed while they were monitoring the events in the city.


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Eye 1

Saudi TV prepares public for military conflict with Qatar


RT
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:45 UTC
Jet plane missile shoot down saudi arabia qatar
© AlArabiya قناة العربية / YouTube
As the diplomatic feud between Doha and its Arab neighbors continues, Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya TV has published a video showing a Saudi fighter jet downing a Qatari plane, saying it's an "option" for violating Riyadh's airspace.

The animated video makes clear that Saudi Arabia would have the right to deal with a "violating plane" in "any way it wishes" under international law.

It begins by showing a less extreme scenario in which a commercial Qatar Airways flight is made to land by a Saudi fighter jet after entering the country's airspace.
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Gold Seal

South Korean President: No more war on the Korean peninsula


The India Times
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:45 UTC
Donald Trump and Moon Jae-in
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in on Monday declared there must be no war on the Korean peninsula and called on the North to halt its threatening behaviour as tensions between Pyongyang and Washington heighten with both hinting at military action.

"There must be no more war on the Korean Peninsula. Whatever ups and downs we face, the North Korean nuclear situation must be resolved peacefully," said Moon in opening remarks at a regular meeting with senior aides and advisers.

The remarks were provided by the presidential Blue House.
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