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A genuine Left is rising in Britain: What are the implications for the Middle East?

Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
CounterPunch
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:11 UTC
corbyn
© Garry Knight
The other day a friend almost told me off when I said I don't exclude even an election win for Corbyn, but I certainly exclude the possibility that the Tories are going to romp home.

He was not the only person with this view. Once again, the great majority of observers throughout the world, but also politicians, proved completely wrong in their forecasts. Having succeeded in controlling the totality of public life, political correctness has fallen victim to its own success, reaching the point where it deceives itself, mistaking its own pronouncements for reality.

There is nothing accidental about this. It is a systematic, not a random error and this is why it is constantly being repeated. It was seen in the referenda in the Netherlands and Britain, in the elections in the US and France, in the Spanish Socialist Party, and now again in Britain.

Such mistakes always emerge in periods of deep crisis and transition to a new historical epoch. People tend to analyze the future in terms of the experienced past and present.
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Snakes in Suits

Crappy Crapo Amendment: US Senate adopts amendment on more sanctions against Russia


RT
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:01 UTC
Congress building
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A measure codifying into law the US sanctions against Russia was approved in the Senate by a veto-proof majority of 97 to 2. The amendment requires congressional review before any sanctions are lifted, and allows for new ones.

Amendment 232 has been attached to Bill 722 imposing sanctions against Iran, which the Senate is currently debating.

Known as the Crapo Amendment, after Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, the measure was endorsed by Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) and ranking member Ben Cardin (D-Maryland).

The sanctions against Russia are "in response to the violation of the territorial integrity of the Ukraine and Crimea, its brazen cyber-attacks and interference in elections, and its continuing aggression in Syria," according to the sponsors.
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The Great Tribes of Libya celebrate, Saif Al Islam is free

Joanne Moriarty
Libyan War The Truth
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:04 UTC
Saif Al Islam Al Ghadafi
From the ashes of a destroyed Libya rises the mythical phoenix and his name is Saif Al Islam Al Ghadafi, the only man who can bring peace and unity to Libya.

For anyone who has not figured it out, Libya has been the home of the dirtiest game ever played by the New World Order Khazarian Mafia Cabal. Oh, don't get me wrong, the cabal has played their criminal games in many countries but Libya will stand with those at the top in the Cabal's execution of crimes against humanity. The Cabal has targeted Libya ever since they lost control in 1969 when a real Libyan (Muammar Ghadafi) was appointed to lead the country by leaders of the tribes that effected the bloodless coup against the old despot king. This would be the FIRST, let me repeat that, the FIRST time in the history of Libya that a real Libyan had led the country of Libya. Libya had been occupied by foreign countries for thousands of years. Please understand the old king was Libyan but he was not a leader, he was a puppet appointed by the UK to further their oil interests in Libya, and there were no kings in Libya. This old king oppressed the Libyans as much as the other past occupiers of Libya had, one of the worst being the last occupier...ITALY.

Comment: Also see: Celebrations erupt in Libya at news of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's prison release

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Qatar to sign deal for 36 more F-15 jets, sources say as Gulf crisis continues

Anthony Capaccio
Bloomberg
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 20:48 UTC
US F-15 fighter jet in hangar
© Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Qatar will sign a deal to buy up to 36 F-15 jets from the U.S. even as a political crisis in the Gulf leaves the Middle East nation isolated by its neighbors and criticized by President Donald Trump for supporting terrorism, according to three people with knowledge of the accord.

Qatar's defense minister will meet with Pentagon chief Jim Mattis on Wednesday to seal the agreement, according to the people who spoke on condition of anonymity because the sale hasn't been announced.

Congress last year approved a sale of up to 72 F-15s in an agreement valued at as much as $21 billion. But that was before the latest political crisis in the region, which has led Qatari neighbors including Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates to isolate the country for its support of terror groups and Iran.
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Info

Egyptian MPs back disputed handover of 2 key Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, awaits Sisi signature


RT
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 20:24 UTC
Egypt's parliament meeting
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Egypt's parliament has approved a treaty to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, the speaker has announced. The deal has been the subject of a fight in the country's courts, and has prompted critics to say it's "selling" Egyptian land.

The islands of Tiran and Sanafir located at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba (also called the Gulf of Eilat) some decades ago belonged to Saudi Arabia and lie within its territorial waters, but were placed under Egypt's protection during Arab-Israeli tensions in the 1950s.
"I announce the House's final approval of the maritime demarcation agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed on April 8, 2016,"
House of Representatives Speaker Ali Abdelaal said before adjourning the session, Reuters reported.
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Labour Friends of Israel's unsuccessful campaign to undermine Jeremy Corbyn

Asa Winstanley
The Electonic Intifada
Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:46 UTC
Jeremy Corbin
© Andy Stenning/MirrorPixLabour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn awaits election results for his Islington North constituency in London, 9 June.
Thursday's general election was an earthquake for the UK's political establishment.

And although the issue did not feature in the campaign, the result has significant implications for the Palestinian cause.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been a lifelong supporter of the Palestinian struggle for justice.

In an August 2015 interview with The Electronic Intifada, he called for an arms embargo on Israel and supported other key elements of BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.

His party's 2017 manifesto pledged that a Labour government would "immediately recognize the state of Palestine" - a position the governing Conservatives oppose.

Comment: Al Jazeera undercover investigation: Israel lobby infiltrates UK student movement; Israeli embassy influencing students & founding youth groups in main parties

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The Guardian's George Monbiot still can't admit media's core problem

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook Blog
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:36 UTC
the guardian
© Ben Stansall/Agence France-Presse
After more than two decades at the Guardian, George Monbiot has finally written a column in which he concedes that the entire British media has a problem, including its supposedly left-liberal elements like the Guardian. After years of cheerleading for his employer, that is a momentous, though not entirely surprising, turn-around. It would, after all, be hard for a serious commentator to overlook the media's wretched failings over the past two years in maligning Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and failing to grasp until the very last minute how powerfully his message resonated with much of the public.

Monbiot observes:
They [the media] missed the moment because they were constitutionally destined to do so. The issue that caused this disaster is the one that eventually fells all forms of power: the media has created a hall of mirrors, in which like-minded people reflect and reproduce each other's opinions. ...

The media as a whole has succumbed to a new treason of the intellectuals, first absorbing dominant ideologies, then persuading each other that these are the only views worth holding. If we are to reclaim some relevance in these times of flux and crisis, we urgently need to broaden the pool of contributors and perspectives.
However belated, that is a welcome admission. And it doubtless took some courage to write it in the pages of the Guardian. That is very much in Monbiot's favour.

But equally, it is important to note what Monbiot does not admit - and consider why even now he cannot make the necessary concession.
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More fuel for anti-Russia hysteria: 'Russian cyber hacks on U.S. electoral system far wider than previously known'

Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson
Bloomberg
Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:26 UTC
Russia brady bunch
Russia's cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump's election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported.

In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data. The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database. Details of the wave of attacks, in the summer and fall of 2016, were provided by three people with direct knowledge of the U.S. investigation into the matter. In all, the Russian hackers hit systems in a total of 39 states, one of them said.

The scope and sophistication so concerned Obama administration officials that they took an unprecedented step -- complaining directly to Moscow over a modern-day "red phone." In October, two of the people said, the White House contacted the Kremlin on the back channel to offer detailed documents of what it said was Russia's role in election meddling and to warn that the attacks risked setting off a broader conflict.

Comment: Stories such as this article continue to be published and cited in future articles as the topic continues to gather steam. At this time, from US government reports to leaked documents from the NSA, no direct evidence has been provided proving Russia was trying to hack the election. What we do have is the DHS in essence in control of the election systems country wide from this point forward.

Perhaps this was the plan all along or a fall back plan. As Russian President Putin has alluded to recently in an interview with Megyn Kelly:
There is a theory that Kennedy's assassination was arranged by the United States special services. If this theory is correct, and one cannot rule it out, so what can be easier in today's context, being able to rely on the entire technical capabilities available to special services than to organize some kind of attacks in the appropriate manner while making a reference to Russia in the process. Now, the candidate for the Democratic Party, is this candidate universally beloved in the United States? Was it such a popular person? That candidate, too, had political opponents and rivals.
The 'secret team' as discussed by Fletcher Prouty in his books The Secret Team and JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy is what Putin is referring to above in terms of 'special services.'

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Deep State Sabotage of Russian Detente is Pushing US Toward Civil War

Patrick J. Buchanan
The Unz Review
Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:11 UTC
Civil war
President Trump may be chief of state, head of government and commander in chief, but his administration is shot through with disloyalists plotting to bring him down.

We are approaching something of a civil war where the capital city seeks the overthrow of the sovereign and its own restoration.

Thus far, it is a nonviolent struggle, though street clashes between pro- and anti-Trump forces are increasingly marked by fistfights and brawls. Police are having difficulty keeping people apart. A few have been arrested carrying concealed weapons.

That the objective of this city is to bring Trump down via a deep state-media coup is no secret. Few deny it.
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Turchinov: Satisfy Minsk II by completing the 'Anti-Terrorist Operation'

Translated by Tom Winter
Fort Russ News / RusVesna.su
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 20:37 UTC
Oleksandr Turchynov
© RusVesna.suOleksandr Turchynov
Ukraine needs to complete the ATO in the Donbass and move on to "a new format for protecting the country from a hybrid war with Russia."

This was stated by Oleksandr Turchynov, NSDCU Secretary, in an interview with one of the Ukrainian media.
"Military operations have been going on in the east of our country for three years and have outgrown both in duration and in scale the ATO format.

"At the same time, it should be noted that the antiterrorist operation has accomplished many important tasks. It was within the framework of the ATO that we stopped the aggressor, we were able to hold presidential, parliamentary, and local elections, and also liberated a significant part of the occupied territory of Ukraine ...

"Now it's time to move on to a new format of defense of the country," says Turchinov.
According to him, the current Ukrainian legislation provides for two main cases, in which the use of armed forces is permitted - a declaration of war and an anti-terrorist operation.
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