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IDF soldiers harrass Palestinian rights groups on California campus - administrators do nothing

Liz Jackson
Palestine Legal
Wed, 31 May 2017 14:59 UTC
IDF harass US students
© Jewish Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace's video features footage of the harassment by Israeli soldiers, including the Q&A session.
A coalition of civil rights groups wrote to the University of California Irvine (UCI) to demand that officials protect their students from harassment by Israeli soldiers visiting campus.

For four straight days this past May, a group of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers called "Reservists On Duty" harassed UCI students who were displaying a Mock Wall to educate their campus about Israel's concerted violations of international law and Palestinian human rights. The soldiers surveilled, disrupted, and physically assaulted Palestinian students, along with their Latinx, Black, Native and Jewish allies. This occurred in full view of UCI administrators, who refused to intervene.
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Will the Syrian-Iraq border battle trigger a 'hot' war?

Jim Dean
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 14:31 UTC
Syrian army tanks
"Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster. Nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life." - Vladimir Putin
The sands are shifting in the Syrian war, from Aleppo province down to the southeastern Al-Tanf border crossing into Iraq. With the Astana 4 safe zones supposedly separating the ceasefire zones from the shooting war zones, we find the Syrian coalition concentrating its offense onto ISIS and its changing militant allies.

In east Aleppo, where the town of Maskanah, SW of Lake Assad, is ISIS' last base, we find the Tiger Forces flanking widely in to the west to hook up with their forces protecting the Khanasser highway that is currently the only open supply road north to Aleppo. The Palmyra perimeter is being expanded and the ISIS pockets behind it to the southwest have been cleared of ISIS forces, leaving jihadi-cleared interior logistic lines in central Syria.


Comment: Syrian Army elliminates more than 1200 terrorists in Aleppo countryside, operations continue in Deir Ez Zour

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Hungary, Russia and Serbia resume South Stream gas pipeline talks


Sputnik
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:22 UTC
South Stream pipeline
© Sputnik/ Ramil Sitdikov
Russia, Hungary and Serbia have returned to the negotiating table on the issue of building the South Stream gas pipeline, Hungarian Foreign and Trade Minister Peter Szijjarto said Friday.

"Hungary, Russia and Serbia have resumed talks on South Stream gas pipeline construction," Szijjarto said, as quoted by the local MTI news agency, noting that the negotiated pipeline capacity was less compared to initial plans.

Comment: Maybe the EU will be more amendable this time as it seeks closer ties with Russia.

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Best of the Web: Manchester Attack Briefing: Blurring the lines between 'blowback' and complicity

Mark Curtis and Nafeez Ahmed
Insurge Intelligence
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:43 UTC
manchester attack
(This briefing will be updated as more evidence emerges. Sources are overwhelmingly from mainstream media, except where clearly stated).

A PDF version of this briefing is available here

Introduction

The evidence suggests that the barbaric Manchester bombing, which killed 22 innocent people on May 22nd, is a case of blowback on British citizens arising at least partly from the overt and covert actions of British governments. The British state therefore has a serious case to answer. We focus primarily here on UK policies towards Libya but also touch on some of those related to Iraq and Syria.

Comment: See also: Terror in Britain: What did Prime Minister May know?

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Terror in Britain: What did Prime Minister May know?

John Pilger
Counterpunch
Wed, 31 May 2017 14:07 UTC
attentato allo stadio di manchester
© Daily Mirror
The unsayable in Britain's general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy.

Critical questions - such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist "assets" in Manchester and why the government did not warn the public of the threat in their midst - remain unanswered, deflected by the promise of an internal "review".

The alleged suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester and was cultivated and used by MI5 for more than 20 years.

The LIFG is proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation which seeks a "hardline Islamic state" in Libya and "is part of the wider global Islamist extremist movement, as inspired by al-Qaida".

The "smoking gun" is that when Theresa May was Home Secretary, LIFG jihadists were allowed to travel unhindered across Europe and encouraged to engage in "battle": first to remove Mu'ammar Gadaffi in Libya, then to join al-Qaida affiliated groups in Syria.
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Even the Clinton groupies at CNN are fed up with Hillary's pathological BS


Russia Insider
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:01 UTC
Hillary Clinto with tin foil hat
Two thing you need to know about Hillary Clinton; she dodged sniper fire in Bosnia, and is not President today because of Macedonians.

Except her in-house TV news network disagrees about the latter:
Hillary Clinton's list of who's to blame for her 2016 election loss gets longer with every passing day.

On Wednesday, in an interview with Recode's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Clinton added a few more names to her list: The New York Times and the Democratic National Committee. That's in addition to the media, James Comey, Donald Trump, the Russians and her supporters' assumptions that she would win the race.

The one person missing from that list? Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Ouch!
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Snakes in Suits

Broadening Russia probe counsel now has ex-Trump campaign chief Manafort in view

Sadie Gurman, Eric Tucker and Jeff Horowitz
AP
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:50 UTC
Paul Manafort
© AP Photo/Matt RourkePaul Manafort
The special counsel investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia's government has taken over a separate criminal probe involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and may expand his inquiry to investigate the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, The Associated Press has learned.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told the AP in a separate interview that he would step aside from any oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller if he were to become a subject of Mueller's investigation.
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Putin roasts Merkel: Unlike Germany, Russia covets the privilege of sovereignty


Russia Insider
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:38 UTC
Putin at Spief
Putin is relentless.

Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, Putin theorized that Angela Merkel's recent outburst about not being able to rely on the United States anymore "was an expression of her resentment over a limited sovereignty."

Merkel may enjoy having her phones tapped by her "allies" in Washington, but Putin is less than impressed:
There are not so many countries in the world that enjoy the privilege of sovereignty. I don't want to offend anybody, but what Ms. Merkel said is an expression of her resentment over a limited sovereignty. I assure you of that, whatever she answers later on. Within the framework of the military-political alliances, it is restrained on official terms. It is determined what is allowed and what is not allowed. And in practice, it is even harsher. You must not do anything that is not allowed. And who is giving that permission? The leadership. And where is the leadership? It's far away.
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The Connection Between MI6, Theresa May & the Manchester Attack

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook Blog
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 12:41 UTC
Theresa May forward together
© AFP Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the launch of the Scottish manifesto by Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson in Edinburgh on May 19, 2017.
You would think that, as the reverberations from last week's Manchester terror attack continue to be felt, the UK media would be scouring through the literal and figurative rubble trying to find leads. After all, is that not what a profit-driven media in a free society is supposed to do?

But in the case of this attack, the corporate media have demonstrated extreme passivity. They have mostly waited for press releases from the government, police and intelligence services. The only things they seem to be chasing are the families of the deceased. (The one exception has been the admirable Peter Oborne, an old-school, maverick journalist who has long written for the right-wing press, including the Daily Mail.)

It is not even as though these pampered journalists need to do much of the leg-work themselves. More and more information has come to light online, from "alternative" news sites like Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera, of the close ties between the British spy agency MI6 and UK-based Libyans, most of them from Manchester.
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Syrian Army elliminates more than 1200 terrorists in Aleppo countryside, operations continue in Deir Ez Zour

SANA - translated by Samer Hussein
Fort Russ News
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 12:53 UTC
Syrian forces
Syrian forces made another series of huge victories against ISIS.

Earlier on Saturday, army units reestablished complete control over 22 towns, villages and agricultural areas in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province, including Al Asilan, Al Fakhha, Khrbet Al Fakhha, Al Mezzeh Al Shamaliyeh, Al Ghar, Jeb Al Hamam, Maskaneh Wheat Hermitages, Al Ajouziyeh, Al Ramadaniyeh, Al Masoudiyeh, Al Mahmoudiyeh, Jadiaa Kabira, Jadiaa Saghira, Al Hamra, Al Nua'imiyeh, Al Faisaliyeh, Al Mowaniyeh, Al Kaltah, Oum Rejel, Oum Hajrah, Al Taybbeh and Rasem Al Ghazal.

During the operation, more than 1200 ISIS terrorists were killed, among them Abu Hozaifa Al Lyibi, a prominent military leader of ISIS, in addition to hundreds of others being injured.
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