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US is killing more Syrian civilians than Assad: Is it time to tomahawk the Pentagon?

Marko Marjanović
Russia Insider
Mon, 29 May 2017 15:40 UTC
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© U.S. Navy / Reuters
To be consistent the US military now needs to launch missiles against itself.

The UK-based, US-friendly Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the US is now killing more Syrian civilians than the Syrian military.

The group says in the past month US munitions killed 225 civilians while Syria's own killed 146. The pro-opposition outfit has no obvious incentive to exaggerate the former body count.

Of course, last month the US 'tomahawked' a Syrian military base because the latter allegedly killed some 90 people in a chemical gas attack. Syria denied such an attack, claiming it had only bombed a rebel warehouse, and the US didn't wait for an investigation, but never mind - let's say Syria had indeed done such a thing.
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'Even US doesn't call me a hacker': Assange hits back at Ecuador's new president Lenin Moreno


RT
Tue, 30 May 2017 15:14 UTC
Julian Assange
© Neil Hall / ReutersWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
New Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno says that, although he considers WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange a "hacker," he will allow him to remain in his country's London embassy.

"Mr Assange is a hacker. That's something we reject, and I personally reject," said Moreno, according to Reuters.

"But I respect the situation he is in, which calls for respect of his human rights, but we also ask that he respects the situation he is in," he added.

Responding to Moreno's comments on Twitter, Assange said: "Posting evidence of corruption is not a hack. I am a journalist and editor. Even the United States does not call me a hacker."
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Did the Washington Post inadvertently expose NSA capabilities over Kushner back-channel story?

Marko Marjanović
Russia Insider
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:59 UTC
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So The Washington Post broke the story that Jared Kushner allegedly wanted to do something which is neither unprecedented nor necessarily illegal. (Build a backchannel to the Russians.) Big deal. The more interesting part is how the paper says it learned this.

WaPo claims it learned this because its sources were briefed on the contents of "intercepts of Russian communications". Supposedly the Russian Ambassador in the US told Moscow of Kushner's proposal and the message was intercepted and decoded by US intelligence. (WaPo only says it was intercepted but surely a message like that is also encrypted.)

Comment: See also: Reckless culture of leaking leads to UK outrage after NYT publishes classified intel on Manchester terror attack

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Putin meets Saudi Prince after oil production deal extension


RT
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:59 UTC
Vladimir Putin (L), Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
© Pavel Golovkin / Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Moscow. It's the first meeting since the world's two largest oil producers agreed last week to extend a deal to cut production.

This is very significant and "our coordinated actions helped stabilize the situation on the world hydrocarbons market," Putin said Tuesday at the Kremlin meeting.

"We're grateful for your initiative to work together on joint actions between OPEC countries and non-members," added the Russian President.

Putin said that after a lull in business between the two, this year trade between Russia and Saudi Arabia had grown 130 percent.
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JFK and Donald Trump: Two leaders who challenged the deep state narratives

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:32 UTC
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JFK's White House talked to the Soviet Union in order to facilitate peace. Donald Trump's associates may have done the same with modern Russia. In each case, their opponents have been on the wrong side of history.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy would have been 100 years old this week, had an assassin's bullet still shrouded in mystery not taken his life in 1963.

As a child, Kennedy was something of both a haunting and a heroic figure to me. Everyone talked about the young, eloquent, scholarly President and how particularly unjust, unfair and utterly tragic his death was. Were I a Catholic, I'm sure I would feel there was even some Book of Job like test of faith involved in his death.
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Fruitcake Maxine Waters gets confronted by constituent and goes ballistic (VIDEO)

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 29 May 2017 14:37 UTC
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Maxine Waters (D-CA) was confronted by a constituent who wasn't too happy about her incessant calls for Trump's impeachment. Maxine Waters immediately went into a tirade about Trump being a horrible person and a liar.

At the end of the video, the constituent calls for Maxine Waters' impeachment and Waters responds with 'You cannot impeach a woman of Congress!'

After a constituent confronted Maxine Waters and told her that she's been emailing her and calling her office, Waters claimed she's just so busy that she hardly has time to check her emails then asked the constituent what she wanted to talk about.
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Three Middle East channels of military dialogue opened between Washington and Moscow

Translation - Anoosha Boralessa
Voltaire Network
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:25 UTC
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General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr
Just as the Russian and US armies are being deployed in the enlarged Middle East, three channels of communications have been opened up:

1. General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., has been appointed to the US joint military staff, to handle with the utmost promptitude, any problem between the two armies operating in the region.

2. A direct line of communication has been set up between those heading the operations that the two countries are carrying out in Iraq and Syria, to coordinate their efforts in the four de-escalation zones established under the Astana agreements. These agreements have been concluded under the auspices of Iran, Russia and Turkey but have not been officially recognized by the United States. Thus it seems that there is another agreement, a secret agreement between Moscow and Washington on this point.

3. A direct line has just been set up between the CentCom Commander, General Joseph Votel, and his Russian homologue. This is to deal with strategic, not tactical, problems.

This step is going to revolutionize the customary conduct of the US armed forces which have always been opposed to the creation of such structures. It is the direct consequence of the new strategy that Donald Trump has given life to.
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FBI, DOJ executives approved running a child porn site

Joesph Cox
Motherboard
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:18 UTC
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A court transcript shows that running Playpen as part of a child pornography sting was approved by the higher levels of each department.

The FBI decision to briefly run a large dark web child pornography site was done in close consultation with the Department of Justice, and was approved by executives from both agencies, according to a court transcript reviewed by Motherboard.

Defense lawyers have claimed that in operating a child porn website, the FBI itself distributed illegal material, and critics have pointed to the ethical issues around running such an operation. That higher levels of the FBI and Department of Justice were involved in the decision to proceed with the sting may not be surprising, but the transcript shows that the FBI's move was deliberate and ultimately seen as appropriate by the agencies.
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BBC veteran Dimbleby slams MSM's right-wing bias costing Corbyn 'fair' coverage


RT
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:16 UTC
David Dimbleby
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Veteran BBC broadcaster David Dimbleby has hit out at the British media for failing to give Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "fair" coverage in the run-up to the June 8 general election.

Dimbleby, who will be reporting the election results for a 10th time in his distinguished broadcasting career, echoed the long-standing complaint among Corbyn's supporters that coverage of the Labour chief tends to suffer from a right-wing bias and from "lazy pessimism."

"I don't think anyone could say that Corbyn has had a fair deal at the hands of the press, in a way that the Labour Party did when it was more to the center, but then we generally have a right-wing press," he said in an interview with the Radio Times.
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UN slams Britain's 'Big Brother' anti-terrorism strategy - "inherently flawed"


RT
Tue, 30 May 2017 14:11 UTC
The UK’s Big Brother surveillance
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The UK's 'Big Brother' culture of surveillance and suspicion in combatting terrorism is "inherently flawed" and could be promoting extremism rather than combatting it, a UN report has found.

The report, which was drawn up before the May 22 suicide bombing in Manchester that killed 22 people, is highly critical of many policies overseen by Prime Minister Theresa May in her prior role as home secretary.

It comes just 10 days before a general election that polls say May could win with a narrow majority.

The report, written by Maina Kiai, who was the UN's Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly until last month, slammed the government's 'Prevent' strategy, which aims to safeguard vulnerable individuals who are at risk of radicalization.
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