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Worst coup ever: British establishment's failed attempt to get rid of Corbyn

Richard Seymour
teleSUR
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 02:44 UTC
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© CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/2016 GETTY IMAGESLabour Leader Jeremy Corbyn listens as former leader Ed Miliband addresses supporters and members of the public in Doncaster town centre
As the Chilcot Inquiry report is released to the public, those MPs attempting to depose Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn — their leading lights inescapably sullied by having supported the war — are suing for peace. Over a week of high-profile resignations, statements, demands, pleas and threats have seemingly done little but consolidate Corbyn's position. In record time, it has gone from being a coup to a #chickencoup to a #headlesschickencoup.

This could be the biggest own-goal in the history of British politics. Journalists steeped in the common sense of Westminster, assumed that it was all over for Labour's first ever radical socialist leadership. How can he lead, they reasoned, if his parliamentary allies won't work with him? This, in realpolitik terms, merely encoded the congealed entitlement and lordly presumption of Labour's traditional ruling caste. Even some of Corbyn's bien-pensant supporters went along with this view. They should have known better.

The putschists' plan, such as it was, was to orchestrate such media saturation of criticism and condemnation aimed at Corbyn, to create such havoc within the Labour Party, that he would feel compelled to resign. The tactical side of it was executed to smooth perfection, by people who are well-versed in the manipulation of the spectacle. And yet, in the event that Corbyn was not wowed by the media spectacle, not intimidated by ranks of grandees laying into him, and happy to appeal over the heads of party elites to the grassroots, their strategy disintegrated. This was not politics as they knew it.

Comment: The Duran's Alexander Mercouris adds:
As for the motives of the plotters, they have entirely failed to set out any sort of alternative programme to Corbyn's, and though they repeatedly say he is too left wing they have failed to identify a single domestic policy of his they say they disagree with. The dispute is in fact wholly about foreign policy and about power and patronage within the Labour party.

In the decades he has been an MP Corbyn has established himself as a principled opponent of the neocon/liberal humanitarian military adventures his Blairite opponents in the Labour party remain obsessed with. By contrast the profile of his challenger Angela Eagle shows that on both foreign policy and domestic policy she is a classic Blairite, voting for the Iraq war in 2003, voting against any proposal for investigations into its conduct thereafter, supporting the Libyan war in 2011, voting for the bombing of Syria in 2015, and voting for welfare cuts and for introducing university tuition fees.


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Turkey arrests 7 more Istanbul attack suspects


RFE/RL
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 02:40 UTC
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© Drop of Light / Shutterstock.comTurkish President Erdogan
Turkish court has arrested seven more suspects in connection with last month's triple suicide bombing at Istanbul's main airport, bringing the number in custody to 37, Turkish media reported.

State-run Anadolu Agency said on July 11 that the seven suspects were detained on charges of "membership of an armed terrorist group" and being accomplices to murder.

The private Dogan news agency said all seven -- arrested late on July 10 -- were foreign nationals.

Comment: Inquiring minds want to know: Is Turkey rounding up some of its former assets? Key Daesh personnel in Turkey? or internal enemies unconnected with the attacks? In short, is it making good on its rapprochement with Russia, or simply conducting business as usual?

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Hacktivists leak identity of ISIS cyber army top brass

Aveek Sen
Security Affairs
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Hacktivists from Ghost Squad Hacker group made revealed the identities of hackers affiliated with the ISIS cyber army called United Cyber Caliphate.

Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH), a hacktivist group made public the identities of hackers affiliated with the ISIS cyber army called United Cyber Caliphate, including leader Mauritania Attacker.


Prior to this, Ghost Squad Hackers had also gone against a Jordan based bank in May 2016 as it laundered money for ISIS as part of Operation Icarus. Ghost Squad Hackers were also involved in Op ISIS. In collaboration with Anonymous and other groups, they took down the Twitter and Facebook accounts of ISIS sympathizers.
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Will it hold? President Kiir declares immediate ceasefire in South Sudan


PressTV
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 23:39 UTC
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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has ordered a unilateral ceasefire after days of fierce fighting between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and rebels backing former vice president, Riek Machar, claimed hundreds of lives in the capital Juba.

Information Minister Michael Makuei at 6:00pm local time on Monday announced on state broadcaster SSBC that President Kiir had issued directives for an immediate cessation of hostilities.

The president has called for the implementation of a peace deal signed between the two sides in August last year, the minister added.

"The president has reiterated his commitment to the continued implementation of the [peace] agreement in letter and spirit, and thus issues an order of cessation of hostilities with immediate effect," the minister said.

However media reports indicate that heavy gunfire was heard in Juba after the order.

Comment: Beware of the Western hand involved in the violence:

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Putin wages anti-corruption campaign against Russian ruling class to prevent Ukrainian scenario

Eduard Popov
Fort Russ
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 23:19 UTC
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In recent weeks in Russia, significant internal political events have taken place tied to the arrest or detention of several senior officials on charges of corruption. The loudest of these was the arrest of the Kirov region (northern Russia) governor Nikita Belykh. The governor was arrested while receiving yet another bribe in the amount of 400,000 euros.

Over the last half a year, several arrests of high-ranking officials and politicians (including governor, regional center mayor, or deputy minister) have been made in Russia. On June 1st, the mayor of Vladivostok (a regional center on the Pacific coast), Igor Pushkarev, was arrested. Prior to Pushkarev, the governor of the Sakhalin region, Alexander Khoroshavin, and Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov were also arrested. And this is far from a complete list of the arrests and detentions of high-ranking officials over the past six months. In all of these cases, the charges are the same: corruption and abuse of office. But these are only the most high-profile arrests and detentions. Judging by press reports, over the past year alone the number of high-ranking corrupt officials arrested has reached dozens (or, more likely, hundreds).

Election primaries have begun in Russia and elections to the State Duma (parliament) are set to be held in September. In this context, on June 27th, the congress of the ruling United Russia party opened and was addressed by President Vladimir Putin. The majority of the party is made up of representatives of the ruling establishment. Characteristically, Putin is distancing himself from the party as its leader, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, is not popular in society or among professionals. The arrest of several regional leaders is hurting United Russia's image, hence why, for the first time in its history, the party is holding primaries in the hope of repairing its image and updating its ranks.

Comment: This latest development may be to prevent a Ukraine-style uprising, but it is also part of a larger plan to remake Russia's civil service into an organization that truly serves its people:

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Of course: Israeli Justice Ministry rebukes Netanyahu money laundering claims


Sputnik
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 23:26 UTC
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Israel's Justice Ministry has denied reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under a criminal investigation for illegally receiving large sums of money, local media reported.

Earlier media reports claimed that Netanyahu was under a criminal examination for shady financial dealings, including a recent transfer of money to either himself or his family member.

The office of Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit rebuked these reports as "inaccurate, to say the least," as quoted by the Haaretz newspaper.

The investigation was announced last Sunday. The Justice Ministry did not disclose the grounds for the inquiry, but said it was not a criminal investigation.
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Another U.S. technology company announces massive layoffs; 14% of labor force

Ian King
Bloomberg
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:00 UTC
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Seagate Technology Plc, a maker of disk drives for computer storage, expanded plans to cut jobs to 14 percent of the workforce, seeking to reduce costs to weather a prolonged slump in demand.

The company will eliminate about 6,500 positions by the end of fiscal 2017, according to a statement. Cupertino, California-based Seagate had previously indicated workforce cuts of about 3 percent, or 1,600 jobs, and the stock rallied as much as 13 percent on news of the broader restructuring. The moves will result in pretax charges of about $164 million next year.

Component makers are suffering through a fifth consecutive annual decline in personal-computer shipments. The magnetic spinning-disk technology that Seagate uses in its hard drives is also facing competition from semiconductor-based storage products that the company doesn't have.

The shares rose as high as $27.20 in extended trading following the statement. They had closed little changed at $24.09 in regular New York trading.
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Mass surveillance, deportations & nuclear weapons: UK's new PM is the same as the old boss


RT
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:46 UTC
Elizabeth May
© Press AssociationBritain's Home Secretary Theresa May will become the next British Prime Minister
Theresa May will replace David Cameron as Britain's prime minister on Wednesday. What do we know of the woman who's heading for 10 Downing Street?

May, 59, will be the UK's second woman prime minister after Margaret Thatcher. She is one of the longest-running home secretaries in British history and has earned a reputation as one of Whitehall's toughest operators.

RT has examined her voting record and policies, from human rights and mass surveillance, to immigration and nuclear deterrents, to get a picture of what Britain can expect from the new PM.

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CIA/Mossad-created Stuxnet virus no longer threatens Iran


Sputnik
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:02 UTC
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In the follow-up to the recently released documentary "Zero Days" by Alex Gribney on the Stuxnet worm, a "terrifying and groundbreaking virus jointly created by the US and Israel against Iranian nuclear technologies," one Iranian expert on regional security reassured Sputnik that the virus no longer poses a threat to his home country.

Alex Gribney's recent documentary "Zero Days" lays the story of the Stuxnet worm, a computer virus which was created by branches of the CIA and Mossad to cripple Iranian nuclear plants.

The story provides many fascinating details on how the virus got into the relevant networks, what it actually did when it got there, how it was discovered (and whose fault that was) and the fact that no one in the United States or Israel has ever acknowledged its existence.

The worm is described as "terrifying and groundbreaking."

However, Mani Mehrabi, an Iranian political analyst and an expert on regional security, has told Sputnik that no matter how black the virus is being painted, it poses no more threat to the Iranian networks.

Comment: A joint U.S.-Israeli virus. How symbolic! More on stuxnet:

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The militarization of law enforcement: Police murder because they are trained to murder

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:12 UTC
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In response to my request for information on US police training, readers have sent in a variety of information that seems to fit together. I am going to assemble it as best I can as a working hypothesis or provisional account. Perhaps a former or current police officer concerned about the change in the behavior of US police, or an expert on police training and practices, will come forward and verify or correct this provisional account.

First, we know that the police have been, or are being, militarized. They are armed with weapons of war that hitherto have been used only on battlefields. We don't know why police are armed in this way, as such weapons are not necessary for policing the American public and are not used in police work anywhere except in Israeli-occupied Palestine.

There is an undeclared agenda behind these weapons, and neither Congress nor the presstitute media have any apparent interest in discovering the hidden agenda.

Comment: Truth in Media: The Root of Police Militarization



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