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Western aggression: NATO hires Russian actors as it continues war exercises on Russia's doorstep


RT
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 08:52 UTC
nato troops
© Michaela Rehle / Reuters
The Western military bloc is hiring actors to play Russians in exercises that look to be preparations for an incursion into Russia; there is no reason to be mounting such fire power on Russia's border, says Mike Raddie, journalist and peace activist.

Security in Eastern Europe in the face of so-called "Russia's aggression" and the fight against ISIS are the main topics to be discussed at a meeting of NATO leaders in May.

In fact, NATO seems so sure of a threat that it is offering jobs to Russian-speaking actors to play civilians in future military drills.
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US Ambassador to UN: 'Trump never stopped me from beating up on Russia'


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Apr 2017 08:43 UTC
Nikki Haley
© REUTERS/ Stephanie Keith
Despite all the accusations of cozy - perhaps too cozy - relations between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Russia in general, the US ambassador to the United Nations says the president has never told her what to say about it.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in a recent interview that the US president has never stopped her from "beating up on Russia."

"The president has not once called me and said, 'Don't beat up on Russia;' has not once called me and told me what to say," Haley said in an interview on ABC's "This Week" March 31.

Comment: U.S. Ambassador To UN Says Trump Will Take Strong Action Against Russia
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says President Donald Trump will fully support strong action against Russia once investigations are completed into the Kremlin's interference in the U.S. presidential election.

Nikki Haley on April 2 told ABC television that "we don't want any country involved in our elections, ever," adding there was no question Russia was involved in the campaign.

She said her tough words against Russia did not conflict with Trump's public statements that appear to minimize Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. campaign.

Trump "has not once" told her to stop "beating up on Russia," she said.

U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia interfered in the U.S. campaign in an effort to help Trump win the vote.

Trump has said he believes Russian operatives hacked into Democratic Party e-mails but that any Russian involvement did not affect the outcome of the 2016 vote.

Over the weekend, Trump tweeted: "It is the same Fake News Media that said there is 'no path to victory for Trump' that is now pushing the phony Russia story. A total scam!"

When asked if Trump's public stance against Russia has been tough enough, Haley said, "Of course, he's got a lot of things he's doing."

"There's no love or anything going on with Russia right now," Haley said.

"They get that we're getting our strength back, that we're getting our voice back and that we're starting to lead again, and, honestly, at the United Nations, that's the No. 1 comment I get is that they're just so happy to see the United States lead again."

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied Moscow interfered in the U.S. presidential election.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on April 2 told ABC TV that Russia was not worried about what any U.S. probe might turn up.

"We insist that any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander," he said.


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Che Guevara

Duterte to critics of his war on drugs: Come visit me and I will slap you!


RT
Sun, 02 Apr 2017 08:40 UTC
duterte
© Romeo Ranoco / ReutersPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte has once again slammed the critics of his controversial war on drugs approach, saying those who recommend rehabilitation and substitute treatment should visit him personally in the Philippines because he wants to "slap them."

"Come here and we will talk because I want to slap you," Duterte said in a speech late Friday, blasting those who advise him to abandon his extreme anti-drug policy and instead build "clinics around like in other countries, and give shabu, cocaine, and heroin like in Holland."

Earlier this week Duterte called the European Union politicians "sons of b***hes" for proposing to him such a "government-sponsored idiotic exercise" instead of arresting and putting drug dealers in prison.
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Chess

Ex-CIA officer Ray McGovern: 'FBI never had access to DNC computers, used forensics from 3rd party'


RT
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:20 UTC
wikileaks
© Pascal Lauener / Reuters
We could forgive Crowdstrike, but we could not forgive the head of the FBI who said they never got direct access to DNC computers. That is a very poor admission to make, says former CIA officer Ray McGovern.

The CIA possesses a tool for disguising the source of its hacks, that's according to the latest release of classified documents from Wikileaks, called "Marble". Previous batches of CIA documents released by WikiLeaks also revealed some other tactics the agency is said to have used to link cyber-attacks to other countries.

At the same time, the agency is also believed to have a program, called UMBRAGE, which allows it to mimic all sorts of hacking techniques, and can leave traces that will point to foreign sources instead of the US.
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Attention

The UN dirty game continues against Libya

Joanne Moriarty
Libyan War The Truth
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 06:57 UTC
General Paoulo Serra
The UN started their dirty game against Libya in 2011. They used made-up lies about crimes that were never committed to push through articles to take action against Libya and the Libyan people using their criminal enforcer arm called NATO. The UN went against their own bylaws and refused to send fact finding commissions to investigate the truth in Libya before taking any action. The Libyan government requested 3 times for the fact finding commissions to come to Libya but were completely ignored. Then the UN went on to enforce a "no fly" zone over Libya by request and push of Obama, Clinton and McCain. After the "no fly" zone was installed (it took 3 days), NATO began to bomb the country with impunity.

Because the Libyan people were against this illegal invasion of their country, NATO faced a backlash and a strength of will to fight by the Libyan people who knew they were being attacked without cause. The Libyan people's only protection against the 250,000 mercenaries brought in by the CIA (Clinton/Obama) was the Libyan National Army. These mercenaries, robbed, raped, killed and destroyed whatever they wanted with the help and encouragement of the UN, NATO and all the other western factions involved in the invasion of Libya. NATO began to destroy the country with their indiscriminate bombing raids that took place day and night all over the entire country. The Libyan National Army having no ability to fight back was being systematically destroyed and those who were not killed were tortured, killed or assassinated by the mercenaries. NATO bombed homes, schools, water supplies, hospitals, food warehouses, roads, power plants, hotels, farms (including animals and crops), anything and everything they wanted...it was a killing free for all.

Comment: More on why Italy is so interested in Libya: Italy threatens military intervention in Libya

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'Guardian of peace' Erdogan urges Kurds to expand his powers in referendum


RT
Sun, 02 Apr 2017 06:31 UTC
Tayyip Erdogan
© Murad Sezer / Reuters
The Turkish President has called himself a "guardian of peace" while urging Kurds to vote 'yes' in the upcoming constitutional reform referendum. He also encouraged Kurds to rise up against the PKK.

"We are the guardian of peace, we are the guardian of freedoms," Recep Erdogan said on Saturday, speaking to a crowd in Diyarbakır province in southeastern Turkey where the government has been actively cracking down on PKK fighters since July 2015.

The Turkish leader ruled out peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), considered terrorists by Ankara, and urged Kurds to lay down their arms. He said as long as the PKK continues its armed struggle, there will be no peace.

"We have one condition; no one will be armed, [and] no one will attempt to divide this country and partition this nation," said Erdogan.

"Those PKK supporters say 'peace, peace, peace'. Will there be a peace with fine words? Will there be a peace with those roaming with guns in their hand?" the Turkish leader asked the crowd.
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Dollars

Centcom chief Votel: 'Vital US interests at stake in Yemen'

Joe Gould
Defense News
Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Votel
© ReutersUS Army General Joseph Votel, the commander of the US Central Command
As the White House is reportedly weighing deeper military involvement in the Yemeni civil war alongside Middle Eastern allies, America's top commander in the region told Congress "there are vital U.S. interests at stake" in the fight.

Army Gen. Joseph Votel told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that the U.S. does not want Yemen to be used as a sanctuary for attacks against the U.S. and allies or for militants to choke off the Red Sea's Bab el-Mandeb strait, which runs past Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula as well as Djibouti and Eritrea on the Horn of Africa.


Comment: If the US wasn't in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, it wouldn't be a sanctuary for attacks against the US. If Saudi Arabia and cohorts weren't bombing the blazes out of Yemen and killing off its population, the same applies.


The comments came as U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is asking the White House to lift restrictions on U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, The Washington Post reported this week. The plan under consideration reportedly includes backing a planned Emirati offensive to retake a key Red Sea port.

Altogether, it would be a more aggressive tack against Iran for the U.S., beyond counterterrorism operations against the local al-Qaida affiliate. On Wednesday, Votel said Tehran "poses the greatest long-term threat to stability" of the region and that the U.S. must disrupt, expose and hold it accountable through a combination of diplomatic and military action. "That has to be done, they have to account for their destabilizing role in the region right now," Votel said.

Comment: Iran is not backing, nor leading the Houthis. It is not attacking big US naval ships with little paramilitary boats. It is not in cahoots with the Houthis, nor has it been actively involved in Yemen.
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Smiley

Head chopper Snowflakes: Terrorists award themselves medals after pretending to shoot down Russian chopper


Russia Insider
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Russian helicoper on fire in Syria
© UnknownSpecial terrorist snowflakes: Everyone gets a trophy!
A Saudi-backed terrorist group handed out participation trophies to its brave fighters after they fired off a few rounds at a Russian helicopter in Latakia, Syria, and then declared victory.

Good heavens, even the head-choppers have become intolerable snowflakes. What is the world coming to?
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Russia urging Taliban to join Afghanistan national reconciliation, US-NATO suspicious


RFE/RL
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Aleksandr Grushko
© EPARussia's ambassador to NATO, Aleksandr Grushko
Russia says it is in contact with the Taliban in Afghanistan to push the militant group toward national reconciliation and to ensure the security of Russian citizens.

Speaking to reporters in Brussels on March 31, Russia's ambassador to NATO, Aleksandr Grushko, denied that Moscow is providing aid to the Taliban and said "many countries" maintain contacts with the group. "The consultations we hold, the work we do, we do it with the participation of Afghanistan's central government," Grushko said.

Earlier, in London, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis expressed concern over Russia's interaction with the Taliban, which is fighting the U.S.-backed government and U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

"I am not willing to say at this point if that is manifested into weapons and that sort of thing, but, certainly, what they are up to there in light of their other activities gives us concern," Mattis said.

The comments came after U.S. General Curtis Scaparrotti, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, said on March 23 that he had seen evidence of increasing Russian efforts to influence the Taliban "and perhaps even to supply" the militant group.

Comment: More vague speculations with no proof.

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Chess

Iran 'sole hope' for struggle against Israel, says Tunisian president


Sputnik
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 02:21 UTC
Tunisian president
© AP Photo/ Ilyess OsmanePresident of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi
Iran should play key role in the Middle East region despite all attempts to isolate it, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said Friday, adding that Tehran was the "sole hope for struggle against Israel."

According to Irna news agency, the relevant remarks were made during Essebsi meeting with Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Reza Salehi Amiri.

Amiri conveyed greetings of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to Essebsi and expressed hope for development of cultural exchanges between the two countries, as well as deepening cooperation in economy, trade and investment.

Essebsi in his turn praised cultural heritage of Iran and emphasized Tehran's regional role. The Tunisian leader expressed hope that other Arab states would support Iran in its confrontation with Israel.

Comment: Unfortunately for Iran, Israel and USA are glued together. Unfortunately for Israel, Iran has allies as well.

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