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Che Guevara

Rand Paul points out what Elites have known for years - "America has been illegally at war for a long time"


RT
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:44 UTC
Rand Paul
© J. Scott Applewhite/APSenator Rand Paul
US Senator Rand Paul has spoken out during the debate on war powers, saying that the current wars the US is leading are "illegal," and that he isn't "voting to go to war in 50 or 60 countries" where terrorist powers are now based.

The hearing during which Rand Paul spoke out was the latest one in a yearlong string of debates over what to do with the open-ended 9/11 Proclamation on war authorization.

The divide between the members of Congress over the issue has been growing, with some using "this debate for the singular purpose of imposing limitations on our president — it's just a fact," according to Republican Senator Bob Corker, while "others may refuse to limit a president at war in any way."

Paul first of all argued about the role and specifics of Article II of the US Constitution, detailing the president's duties as commander-in-chief.
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Cult

US's recent actions demonstrate its intention to occupy Eastern Syria and divide the nation

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Syria Assad
The United States is moving closer to active involvement in the Syrian conflict.

Tensions in Syria hit an all time high when the US military shot down a Syrian SU-22 that was attacking Al Qaeda jihadist forces on the ground.

The US version of the incident goes like this (courtesy of The Hill)...
A statement from the U.S. military said it shot down the Syrian SU-22 in self-defense and after contacting Russian counterparts through the established deconfliction zone. The Syrian aircraft was bombing U.S.-backed forces fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) south of Tabqa. It was the first time the United States has shot down a Syrian plane, and the first time a U.S. military jet has shot down any manned aircraft since 1999.
The reality is much more complex, yet simpler. Syria was flying its jets over Syrian sovereign territory, moving to attack Al Qaeda jihadists (aka "moderate rebels") operating illegally in Syrian territory, and backed up by US forces, which have set up operations illegally within Syrian sovereign territory.

Comment: See also:

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Propaganda

Anti-Russian propaganda spreads brain rot across America

Decker
Russia Insider
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:03 UTC
Putin propaganda
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It has now become a matter of self-defense to tune out the media here in the States. Things continue to boil, with the words "civil war" being bantered about more and more.

"We'll know our disinformation program Is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987

Well done, chaps. Appears you've nearly done it.

From one miracle of journalism of nonsense to the next, the American public can drink deeply from the barrel of mainstream media lies offered up each day. One might find pockets of free-thinking individuals who seek the truth and don't believe the torrent of daily media guano—but they are an increasingly endangered species.
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Bad Guys

German Minister: Europe should do more to defend 'liberal world order' against Russian, Chinese influence


RT
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:31 UTC
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble
© Stefanie Loos / ReutersGerman Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble
Europe should do more as a guardian of "liberal world order" because the US is starting to take a "skeptical" view of that role, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said, adding that China and Russia must be limited in their influence.

"If the United States is starting to take a skeptical view of its role as the guardian of global order - and we've already seen hints of this in recent years - then I would see this as a call to action directed at Europe, including Germany," Schaeuble said in a speech at the American Academy in Berlin, a think tank that promotes US-German ties.

He went on to state that China and Russia should not be allowed to step up to the plate when it comes to "filling the gaps left by the US."

Comment: The 'liberal world order' is doomed to fail no matter who leads. With the EU headed toward inevitable collapse, Germany would no doubt make a commensurate replacement to the US.

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Bad Guys

The US information war against Russia has misled the American people

Dennis J. Bernstein
Consortium News
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 14:01 UTC
propaganda information war
Russia has been made "the go-to scapegoat" for distracting Americans from the serious problems afflicting the U.S. government, says Thomas Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency who blew the whistle on multi-billion-dollar waste and violations of the rights of citizens through secret mass surveillance programs after 9/11.

As retaliation, the Obama Administration indicted Drake in 2010 as the first whistleblower since Daniel Ellsberg charged with espionage, carrying a possible 35-year prison term. However, in 2011, the government's case against him collapsed and he went free in a plea deal. He became the recipient of the 2011 Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize.

Comment: Drake touches on one of the central issues of the deterioration and aggression of societies and nations: psychopaths in power. Understanding its influence over populations, as explored by Andrew Lobaczewski in Political Ponerology, is a critical piece of the puzzle.

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Nuke

To contain Russia and China, Pentagon requests more than $230 billion for nuclear weapons modernization

Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:07 UTC
World War 3 nuclear fallout google search
© The Free Thought Project
In the next 20 years, the Pentagon intends on spending $230 - 290 billion for the modernization of its nuclear forces. This was stated by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Robert Soofer, presenting the budget request in the Senate. Among the reasons justifying the need to develop nuclear weapons, Soofer pointed to the the size of Russia's nuclear arsenal, which is not inferior in size to the US.

In his speech he explained the importance of further development of nuclear power and the need to allocate funds for the modernization to take place.

"Russia undertook aggressive actions against its neighbors, and has become a threat, including a nuclear threat to the US and its NATO allies," - said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.

According to Soofer, the only country that can compete with the US on the size of the nuclear arsenal, has started modernization of nuclear weapons, in connection with which the presidential administration is invited to consider concrete steps that "would deprive the significant military advantage Russia."

In addition, according to the Pentagon, a threat also exist from China, which is building up its own nuclear arsenal, and is North Korea.

"China's actions in the Asia-Pacific region are evidence of its desire to occupy a dominant position. North Korean authorities have demonstrated that they are ready to accept the prospect of retaliatory economic sanctions and international isolation for the sake of increasing its nuclear capability and ballistic missiles, capable of striking the United States, as well as to our allies in the region ", - said Robert Soofer.

Comment:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower


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Map

Huge advances by Syrian army transforming Syrian war

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:28 UTC
Syrian army
Whirlwind advances of Syrian army send ISIS reeling and position Syrian army to recover all of central and eastern Syria from the Mediterranean to the Iraqi border.

Though the Western media is barely reporting the fact, the last few weeks have witnessed a total transformation of the Syrian war.

Until the liberation of eastern Aleppo in December the Syrian war was being fought mainly in western Syria along a narrow stretch of Syria's Mediterranean coast in a grinding war of attrition between the Syrian army and various Turkish backed Jihadi groups all of which were led ultimately by Al-Qaeda.
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Pirates

From Europe to Libya: A psychopathic mercenary's journey from al-Qaeda terrorist to CIA "freedom fighter"

Steven Sahiounie
Mint Press News
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Mahdi al-Harati
Mahdi al-Harati, former commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan Civil War, is seen here fighting in Syria as commander of Liwaa Al-Umma, a designated terrorist group fighting the Syrian government.
In the bloody terror-fueled conflicts that have been waged by the U.S. and NATO in Libya and Syria, one man has helped to recruit so-called "freedom fighters" and unleash them on those countries' innocent civilians. But he has yet to be brought to justice.

Interpol may be on the hunt for the former mayor of Libya's capital of Tripoli - an Irish-Libyan man who has been named as an international terrorist by Saudi Arabia.

Mahdi al-Harati has lived in Malta on-and-off since 2014. In January 2017, he was arrested due to his involvement in a knife attack in Malta that occurred between two Libyans, as all three had gotten into a political argument that grew out of control.

It is odd that al-Harati would seek safe harbor in Malta, which is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. However, it is this very sea in which al-Harati first sailed into the international spotlight due to his associations with al-Qaeda and other terror groups. His relatively recent arrest has brought renewed attention to his past, including his history of recruiting terrorists - with the help of the CIA - for the purpose of aiding in Western-backed regime change efforts.
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Sherlock

Doha blames news agency hack on 'neighbors' who lead economic blockade


RT
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:07 UTC
Computer laptop
© Global Look Press
The hacking of Qatari state news agency QNA last month was carried out by the same "neighboring countries," which then used the resulting diplomatic fallout as a pretext to impose an economic and political blockade on Doha, the country's Attorney General has said.

It is "very clear" that the May 23 hacking attack on QNA originated from countries involved in the subsequent economic and political rift with Qatar, Attorney General Ali bin Fetais al-Marri told reporters on Tuesday, as cited by AFP.

"We have evidence to show that iPhones originating from the countries laying siege to us have been used in this hacking," Marri said in Arabic, promising to make public a list of specific phone numbers "very soon."
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Jet3

That didn't last long: Australia will soon resume anti-ISIS airstrikes in Syria


RT
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:41 UTC
RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornet
© Wikipedia
Australian warplanes will soon resume airstrikes against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) targets in Syria, according to the country's defense chief. Operations were suspended earlier this week, after a US fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane.

"It won't be long before you start to see the operations again," Australian Defense Force Chief Mark Binskin told reporters on Wednesday, as quoted by AP. The official did not elaborate on the exact date.

Defense Minister Marise Payne also said that Australian "force protection is uppermost in our minds" regarding the decision of when to resume missions over Syria.
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