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"We know where the terrorists are coming from": Iranian FM says ISIS, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda get their money and ideology from US allies


RT
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:04 UTC
Iranian FM Zarif
© Michal Cizek / AFPIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
The Iranian Foreign Minister has accused Washington's allies in the Middle East of sponsoring terrorism. Mohammad Javad Zarif was speaking to CNN, commenting on US President Donald Trump's apparent anti-Iranian policy in the region.

In an exclusive interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Zarif said Trump's stance towards Iran, which includes accusations of Tehran sponsoring terrorism, represented a "misplaced and misguided policy."

"We know where the terrorists are coming from. We know those who attacked the World Trade Center were citizens of which countries in the region - I can tell you none of them came from Iran," Zarif said.

Comment: Saudi Arabia is the biggest sponsor of terrorism, not Iran

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Israel 'shows direct support for terrorists' by opposing Syrian ceasefire


Sputnik
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:05 UTC
Iraeli troops in Golan heights
© AFP 2017/ JALAA MAREY
Tel Aviv has come out in opposition to the Russian-US ceasefire deal in southern Syria. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Russian Middle East expert Boris Dolgov said it was noteworthy that Israel is now supporting those militant groups which both Moscow and Washington classify as terrorists.

Israel has voiced its opposition to the Russian-US ceasefire agreement reached by Presidents Putin and Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg earlier this month.

Speaking to reporters following a meeting in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel opposed the ceasefire plan.

According to the prime minister, the ceasefire would create the conditions for an Iranian presence in Syria. Israeli officials have also marked their concern with the fact that the ceasefire agreement closes only a 20 km strip of territory along the Israeli-Syrian border to Iranian forces.

Comment: Is Netanyahu worried about losing the Golan Heights? Israel now 'completely opposed' to Syrian ceasefire after Russian troops arrive

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Democrats and their corporate media operatives have gone mad: The year of living stupidly

Glen Ford
Black Agenda Report
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:37 UTC
trump putin handshake
© Whitehouse.govRussian President Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017.
Nobody voted for the War Party in November of 2016, but that's who's in power. Which is why both Democrats and Republicans talk of virtually nothing but Russians and war. Polls show most voters think there's no evidence that Trump "colluded" with Russia, and they believe that much of what they see in the mainstream media is "fake news." The Russian obsession is delegitimizing, not just Donald Trump, but the government and the media.

"The corporate media's standing among the public erodes by the day."

For more than a year now, the collective U.S. ruling class, with Democratic Party and corporate media operatives in the vanguard, has frozen the national political discourse in a McCarthyite time warp. A random visit to a July 26, 2016, issue of the New York Times reveals the same obsession as that which consumes the newspaper today: "Following the Links from Russian Hackers to the U.S. Election," "Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C." A year later, the allegations persist, piled ever higher with innuendo and outright nonsense. However, proof of the predicate act -- that Russia, not Wikileaks, penetrated the DNC -- remains totally absent.

Comment: The Transformation of Progressive Democrats into a Force of the Far Right

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Snakes in Suits

Brexit splits cabinet: Theresa May to reprimand warring Tory MPs


RT
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:38 UTC
Theresa May
© Matt Dunham / Reuters
Prime Minister Theresa May will reprimand feuding Tory MPs for leaking and briefing against one another, Downing Street has said. A civil war is alleged to have broken out in the party over Brexit.

May's spokesperson said she would use a meeting on Tuesday to remind her deputies that they should be "having discussions of government policy in private," according to the Independent.

The intervention comes after ministers targeted Chancellor Philip Hammond by leaking comments he is reported to have made in a recent cabinet meeting. One said he called public-sector workers "overpaid" while another claimed he said driving modern trains is so easy "even a woman can do it."
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Russian FM spokeswoman Zakharova: White Helmets part of large scale defamation campaign against Syrian government


Sputnik
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:53 UTC
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The White Helmets NGO is involved in a defamation campaign targeting the Syrian government, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

The activities of the White Helmets non-governmental organization (NGO) are a part of a defamation campaign targeting Syrian authorities, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Friday.

"In general, we consider the White Helmets to be yet another element of a large-scale information campaign aimed at defamation of the Syrian authorities," Zakharova said at a briefing.

The spokeswoman stressed that the media was using the White Helmets' materials without first verifying the content.

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Snakes in Suits

Tony Blair admits Jeremy Corbyn could become Britain's next PM


RT
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:24 UTC
Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn
© Global Look Press
Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has now conceded it is possible Jeremy Corbyn could lead the party to victory and become Britain's next leader.

Blair fell short of endorsing Corbyn ahead of the June 8 general election, making known his hostility to the party's leftward turn.

However, in view of recent political events, such as the election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, and Corbyn's shock election success, stripping the Tories of their majority in the House of Commons, Blair has now admitted there is a chance the current Labour leader could take office.
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As ASEAN shifts east, ISIS 'coincidentally' follows

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:01 UTC
Thailand Police
Where US interests are threatened, ISIS coincidentally appears, threatening those standing in the way. What is behind this increasingly transparent pattern of geopolitical coercion?

As protracted warfare continues in southern Philippines between government forces and militants linked to the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS), fears that the US is leveraging the terrorist group far beyond Syria and Iraq where it was created are rising. Nations opposing or obstructing US interests beyond America's borders now find themselves likely targets of this covert form of armed coercion.

The United States is increasingly at odds with nations and political orders across Southeast Asia it had once counted among its closest allies in the region. Included is Thailand, a nation of nearly 70 million people, who as of 2014, ousted a US-backed client regime in a bloodless military coup.

Since then, Bangkok has definitively shifted further away from Washington's influence, toward Beijing, Moscow, and virtually any other nation-state that can provide Thailand with alternatives to Washington's monopoly on geopolitical, economic, and military influence.
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US & Australia test launch multimillion hypersonic missile (VIDEO)


RT
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:15 UTC
hypersonic missile
© Faculty of Engineering, Architecture & Information Technology / YouTube
A hypersonic glider capable of moving at a speed eight times faster than sound has launched from a rocket range in the town of Woomera, South Australia.

The launch was performed as part of a research project which features the US military and Boeing.

The rocket blasted off through Australian skies on an unspecified date in early July.
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Kusturica: 'Judo master Putin' knows how to counter NATO's encirclement


Sputnik
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:03 UTC
putin judo
© Sputnik/ Alexei Druzhinin
NATO is getting closer and closer to Russia's borders, deploying even more sizeable armed forces than Hitler did around the USSR during the Second World War. However President Putin knows very well how to respond. Being a master of judo, he is just biding his time, according to Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica in an interview with Sputnik.

The US has recently demanded a report on military cooperation between Russia and Serbia. The move, according to a senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives Eliot Engel, "is part of the National Defense Act 2018."

The congressman explained that the US must carefully analyze Russian-Serbian military ties and assess their consequences for the US national security policy and Serbia's membership in the NATO Partnership for Peace, as well as the consequences for Serbia's neighbors.

He said that Russia has recently donated to Serbia $600 million worth of weapons, including six MIG-29 "Fulcrum" combat aircraft, 30 tanks and 30 BRDM-2 armored reconnaissance vehicles.

The congressman from New York also added that Serbia is now seeking Russia's S-300 anti-aircraft defense systems.

"Frankly, I am more and more concerned about the choices Belgrade makes when it comes to military and security issues. Which is why I wrote today's amendment," Engel said on Friday.

Commenting on the US demand, Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician Emir Kusturica told Sputnik Serbia that "the whole world is aware that there are a lot more serious armed forces stationed on Russia's borders than those of Adolf Hitler back in the years of the Second World War."
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War on cash: Visa launches major initiative encouraging businesses to go cashless

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:37 UTC
war on cash, money
Visa has officially announced that they intend to snub out cash and create a world in which all transactions are monitored and tracked.

According to the most recent data, Visa - which is mostly owned by banks - accounts for over 50 percent of all credit card transactions and 70 percent of all debit card transactions in the world. Hundreds of billions in transactions process through Visa's databases every year and this number continues to grow.

Despite their overwhelming increase in market share, cards issued, and overall total volume, Visa has made a recent move that shows they intend to completely snub out their most unaccountable, untraceable, and most liberty-associated competitor and means of payment - cash.

In a news release, ostensibly written as an attempt to "help small businesses," Visa announced that they are launching "a major effort to encourage businesses to go cashless. Aiming to create a culture where cash is no longer king, the program will give merchants increased ability to accept all forms of global digital payments."
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