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Rouhani says Iran ready to scrap nuclear deal 'within hours' if US imposes new sanctions


RT
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:39 UTC
US and Iran flags
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Iran could backtrack on its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers "within hours" if Washington slaps new sanctions on Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned, noting that the US has proved to be a "unreliable negotiator."

"If America wants to go back to the experience [of imposing sanctions], Iran would certainly return in a short time - not a week or a month but within hours - to conditions more advanced than before the start of negotiations," Rouhani told a session of parliament broadcast live on state television, as cited by Reuters.

"The world has clearly seen that under Trump, America has ignored international agreements and, in addition to undermining the [nuclear deal], has broken its word on the Paris agreement and the Cuba accord... and that the United States is not a good partner or a reliable negotiator," he said.
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The anti-imperialist camp: Splintered in thought against psychopaths

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:23 UTC
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (right) and Bolivia's President Evo Morales (left)
© Reuters
In 2011 when his country was subject to a jihadist siege, President Bashar el-Assad's reaction was against the norm: rather than strengthening the powers of his security services, he cut them back. Six years on, his country is in the process of emerging victorious, in the most important war since Vietnam. This same type of aggression is unfolding in Latin America. Yet here, it is sparking off a far more classic response. In this article, Thierry Meyssan distinguishes the analysis and strategy of President Assad on the one hand and Maduro and Morales on the other. His aim is not to place these leaders in competition, but rather to call upon each of them to remove themselves from political catechisms and to pay due attention to the lessons learnt from the most recent wars.

The operation to destabilize Venezuela continues. The first phase: violent gangs demonstrating against the government killed passers by, as if citizenship created no bonds between them. The second phase: the major food suppliers organized food shortages in the supermarkets. Then some members of the forces attacked several ministers, called for a rebellion and now have retreated into hiding.

Of course the international press never ceases to hold the "regime" responsible for the deaths of demonstrators. Yet it is a fact that a number of videos testify that these demonstrators were deliberately assassinated by demonstrators themselves. No regard is paid to this and on the basis of this false information, the press then proceeds to qualify Nicolas Maduro as a "dictator" just as it did six years ago with respect to Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar el-Assad.
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'Unite the Right' organizer Jason Kessler ousted as provocateur Obama supporter from Occupy movement

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:05 UTC
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A troll is a troll is a troll. As the Free Thought Project has been pointing out recently, there is a deliberate divide being pushed in America right now and its effects are as violent as they are powerful. According to recent revelations backed up by a report out of the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least one of those helping to organize and push this divide is a self-proclaimed professional provocateur who allegedly supported Obama and the Occupy movement before doing an about face to white nationalism.

The organizer of the massively Pro-Trump 'Unite the Right' march on Saturday in Charlottesville, Jason Kessler reportedly happened to also be an Obama supporter in the days of Occupy - and as recently as 2016. According to an archived post from his blog, he also has no problem openly bragging about being a professional provocateur.
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'Unite the Right' organizer Jason Kessler launches legal fund


RT
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:28 UTC
Unite The Right rally organizer Jason Kessler attempts to speak at a press conference
© Justin Ide / ReutersUnite The Right rally organizer Jason Kessler attempts to speak at a press conference in front of Charlottesville City Hall in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 13, 2017.
The backlash against the 'Unite the Right' rally has been swift following the horrific death of one counter protester killed by a white supremacist at the event. Now, however, organizers are trying to sue the city for not protecting their rights.

Jason Kessler, organizer of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville has set up a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to sue the city for "violating" the attendees' civil rights.

"We have already successfully sued the Charlottesville government once in federal court where they were found to be discriminating against us," he wrote in a statement supporting his crowdfunding campaign.
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Taliban sends 'open letter' to Trump urging US to leave Afghanistan


RFE/RL
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:19 UTC
U.S. troops outside their base in Uruzgan Province in July
© ReutersU.S. troops outside their base in Uruzgan Province in July.
The Taliban militant group has sent an "open letter" to U.S. President Donald Trump, calling for the United States to leave Afghanistan rather than increase the number of troops after 16 years of conflict.

"Previous experiences have shown that sending more troops to Afghanistan will not result in anything other than further destruction of American military and economical might," the letter sent to journalists on August 15 said in English.

The 1,600-word note sent by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid also said a U.S. withdrawal would "truly deliver American troops from harm's way" and bring about "an end to an inherited war."

Mujahid asserted that Trump recognized what the Taliban spokesman called the errors of his predecessors by seeking a review of the U.S. strategy for Afghanistan.
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South Korea warns Trump only it can declare war on North Korea

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:55 UTC
Moon Jae-in
A day after US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford promised him that the US would exhaust all diplomatic options, including another round of UN sanctions, before resorting to a "military solution" in its simmering conflict with North Korea, South Korean President Moon Jae-in reminded Washington during a forceful Tuesday speech that the US would need to seek, and receive, South Korea's consent before risking another armed conflict on the Korean peninsula, signaling his country will no longer stay quiet as tensions escalate with its northern neighbor.

As Bloomberg summarizes, "Moon asserted the right to veto any military action against Kim Jong Un's regime, saying that decision should be made by "ourselves and not by anyone else." He vowed to prevent war at any cost - a statement that drew a sharp contrast with President Donald Trump, who has warned of "fire and fury" if North Korea continues to threaten the U.S."

Some highlights from his speech:
  • "Without South Korea's consent no one can determine military actions on the Korean peninsula"
  • South Korea govt will prevent war at any cost; "There will be no war repeated on the Korean peninsula"
  • South Korea will work closely with U.S. to overcome security threats posed by North Korea's nuclear missiles
  • South Korea govt will "strengthen diplomatic efforts in order not to shake principles for a peaceful resolution"
  • Sanctions and talks should go together; "Sanctions are not to heighten military tensions but to bring North Korea to talks"
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Sore loser: Soros continues betting against US stock market despite mounting losses


RT
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:09 UTC
George Soros
© Luke MacGregor / Reuters
US regulatory filings show George Soros is still investing in options that will profit him only if the stock market they are linked to declines in value.

Soros Fund Management held put options on PowerShares QQQ Trust, SPDR S&P 500 ETF, iShares Russell 2000 ETF as of June 30. Each is an exchange-traded fund that tracks a broad US stock market index. The bet is worth $1.8 billion. Soros stands to profit only if the stock market falls.

Michael Vachon, a spokesman for Soros Fund Management, said the company would not comment on the filing.

In January, Soros said "it's impossible to predict" US President Donald Trump's actions, but he was nonetheless sure the market would plunge.

Comment: Also see: Doubling down: Soros increases losing bet on US equity markets

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Twitterverse frenzy: Is 'Putin's Russia' responsible for the Ku Klux Klan?

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:48 UTC
Ku Klux Klan member
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We need to have a conversation about Twitter threads. Especially examples where pseudo-'Russia experts' try to connect Moscow to every problem facing the United States (and the wider world).

Because if you believe some of these clowns, before Vladimir Putin arrived on the political scene there was no Ku Klux Klan, no Nazis and no white supremacists in America. That's right, the political Superman himself has not only rebuilt Russia into a "threat," he's also orchestrated the birth of the US far right, which didn't exist before his emergence. And this is in addition to manipulating elections across the globe and preparing to soon, presumably shirtless, lead his forces into a mass invasion of Europe. Because, after all, he's the new Hitler too.

Which comes as a huge surprise to those who genuinely understand Russia. Where Putin has formed cabinets, containing a smorgasbord of ethnic backgrounds from Tatar to Tuvan and German to Chechen. Administrations that haven't been anti-immigration or anti-Muslim, and have implemented policies which made Russia the world's third largest migration destination. Bear in mind, before Angela Merkel opened Germany's doors two years ago, it was second to the US.
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Hyping North Korea threat to relaunch Reagan's Star Wars?


Moon Of Alabama
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:15 UTC
President Reagan delivering the March 23, 1983 speech initiating SDI
© Wikimedia CommonsPresident Reagan delivering the March 23, 1983 speech initiating SDI.
Since Trump issued "fire and fury" threats against North Korea (the DPRK), sanity has taken over among serious people. The talk of preventive strikes on North Korea within the expert community has largely ended. It was never a serious possibility. North Korea has many options to retaliate to any strike and all would come with catastrophic damage to South Korea and Japan and thereby to U.S. interests in Asia.

North Korea can be successfully deterred in the same way that all other nuclear weapon states are deterred from using their weapons. Unfortunately the National Security Advisor McMaster has not yet received that message:
STEPHANOPOULOS: But your predecessor Susan Rice wrote this week that the U.S. could tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea the same way we tolerated nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union far more during the Cold War. Is she right?

MCMASTER: No, she's not right. And I think the reason she's not right is that the classical deterrence theory, how does that apply to a regime like the regime in North Korea? A regime that engages in unspeakable brutality against its own people? A regime that poses a continuous threat to its neighbors in the region and now may pose a threat, direct threat, to the United States with weapons of mass destruction? A regime that imprisons and murders anyone who seems to oppose that regime, including members of his own family, using sarin nerve gase (sic) -- gas in a public airport?
Classical deterrence worked against the Soviet Union as well as against Mao's China. (Vice versa it also worked against the United States.) Both were arguably, like North Korea, brutal against internal dissidents, threatening to their neighbors and military opponents of the United States. If they could be deterred than North Korea can also be deterred.
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Intel CEO Krzanich resigns from Trump Manufacturing Council over 'divided political climate'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:01 UTC
Bryan Krzanich with Donald Trump
The CEOs on President Trump's Manufacturing Council are dropping like flies as they realize, one by one, this weekend's media mayhem surrounding Trump's comments about the chaos in Charlotteville is the perfect excuse to detach from the Trump bandwagon.

Following Merck's Ken Frazier and Under Armour's Kevin Plank, Intel CEO Bryan Krzanich chose to resign his position by announcing it quietly on a blog post at 2230ET explaining that he is departing the manufacturing council in order to bring attention to the demise of US manufacturing...

In a blog post, Krzanich said that the decline in American manufacturing remains a serious issue, but said that "politics and political agendas have sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America's manufacturing base."
"I resigned to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of American manufacturing," Krzanich said in a blog post.

"Politics and political agendas have sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America's manufacturing base."
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