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Flashback Made in England: Bangladeshi death squads trained by British government

Fariha Karim & Ian Cobain
The Guardian
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:30 UTC
Bangladesh RAB
Bangladesh's R.A.B., British proxy terrorist army in Bangladesh
The British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force condemned by human rights organisations as a "government death squad", leaked US embassy cables have revealed.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), which has been held responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial killings in recent years and is said to routinely use torture, have received British training in "investigative interviewing techniques" and "rules of engagement".

Details of the training were revealed in a number of cables, released by WikiLeaks, which address the counter-terrorism objectives of the US and UK governments in Bangladesh. One cable makes clear that the US would not offer any assistance other than human rights training to the RAB - and that it would be illegal under US law to do so - because its members commit gross human rights violations with impunity.


Comment: Wow, not even the US government would stoop so low (not openly anyway).


Comment: Notice that it's lefties they're really after, not 'terrorists', which is the ideological cover for clamping down on dissent to Anglo-American rule.

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Light Saber

Candidate for US Senate: McCain, Obama and Clinton are "partners in creating and arming ISIS"


State of the Nation
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Dr. Kelli Ward
Dr. Kelli Ward
An Arizona Senate candidate has emerged who is calling a spade a spade. The following video portrays the most shocking allegations in the history of American politics.

VIDEO: Senator John McCain is "Directly Responsible" for arming and supporting ISIS — Dr. Kelli Ward

Dr. Kelli Ward has taken the gloves off where it concerns the public service of Senator John McCain. She has rightly stated the McCain, along with President Barack Hussein Obama and Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, were actual "Partners in Creating and Arming and Funding ISIS".

It really does not get more serious than this accusation unless someone alleges that rogue elements within the U.S. Federal Government were directly responsible for the planning, coordination, execution and cover-up of the false flag terror attacks on September 11, 2001 ... ... ...
which it was.

Comment: There's more to what occurred in Benghazi than what Dr. Ward would seem to know, but be that as it is, she's got the right idea!

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Bad Guys

Boogeyman rises: Al Qaeda leader issues dire warning if Boston bomber executed


Sputnik
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 01:09 UTC
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri
© AP Photo/ File Photo
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri issued a statement warning the United States that if the Boston Marathon bomber, or any other Muslim prisoner, is executed, there will be the "gravest consequences."

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, now 22 years old, was named specifically in the warning. Tsarnaev is currently on death row for the detonation of an improvised explosive device during the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and injured some 280 on April 15, 2013.

"If the U.S. administration kills our brother the hero Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any Muslim, it... will bring America's nationals the gravest consequences," Zawahri said in the video statement.
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Snakes in Suits

Wishful thinking: Slovakia promises Brussels shakedown as it heads EU presidency


Sputnik
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 23:18 UTC
Jean-Claude Junker and Robert Fico
© AFP 2016/ Samuel Kubani
Slovakia takes over the rotating presidency of the European Council on July 1 - for the first time - promising an overhaul of the Brussels machine as it struggles to deal with the fallout of Brexit, the migrant crisis and the Eurozone troubles.

Slovakia's presidency comes at a critical time for the EU, with calls for massive reforms to prevent a domino effect, following the decision by Britain to leave the EU amid growing anti-EU sentiment throughout Europe.

Slovakia is no stranger to euroskepticism, being part of the Visegrad group — along with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland — which has been staunchly opposed to the mandatory relocation of refugees, as proposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

Comment: So Fico thinks he can create change with this guy?



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Take 2

Finally CIA tentacles in Hollywood on verge of being exposed

Clarice Palmer
The Anti Media
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00 UTC
cia hollywood
Hollywood, the land of dreams
An amendment added to Congress' annual intelligence spending bill may help the public gain a better idea of the U.S. government's relationship with Hollywood.

According to VICE News, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC), included an amendment to S. 3017 that would require the Director of National Intelligence to submit reports detailing the relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agencies and Hollywood. It would also require 15 other agencies to disclose the nature of their relationships with the film industry. These reports would have to be presented annually to congressional oversight committees.

Between 2006 and 2011, VICE reported, the CIA's Office of Public Affairs (OPA) had a role in at least 22 of the U.S. entertainment industry's projects. Some of the productions listed by VICE included the films Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, television shows like Top Chef and Covert Affairs, and documentaries such as the History channel's Air America and the BBC's The Secret War on Terror. The book, The Devil's Light, also had the help of the CIA.

Comment: It's highly doubtful that this amendment will put a stop to CIA/Hollywood connections however it's a step in the right direction.

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Arrow Down

UK's Guardian news agency throws fabricated anti-semitism claims at Corbyn

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook Blog
Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesJeremy Corbyn
This is way beyond a face-palm moment.

Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party's supposed "anti-semitism crisis" - in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right, Israel supporters and the media. I have repeatedly pointed out that misleading claims of anti-semitism (along with much else) are being thrown at Corbyn to discredit him. You can read my criticisms of this campaign and Labour's reponse here, here and here.

Comment: The UK media establishment continues to make feeble attempts at discrediting Jeremy Corbyn at any opportunity, and with claims that either entirely false or grossly manipulated.

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Map

Brexit may allow stronger UK-Russia trade ties in future


RT
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 13:10 UTC
Putin
© Yuri Kochetkov / ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin

Britain's vote to leave the European Union opens new opportunities for the development of business and trade relations between Russia and the UK, according to the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce (RBCC).

"Uncertainty affects moods of Britons more than Russians... But we expect that the turnover [between Russia and Britain - Ed.] will grow. It is true that London as a financial center may be hampered.. But we see it [Brexit - Ed.] as something that opens up new prospects and new opportunities," Russia's Director of the RBCC Alan Thompson told reporters.

He added that RBCC hopes Russia will once again become one of Britain's trade priorities after the leaving the EU.

Comment: The EU sanctions against Russia are counterproductive and nonsensical, since the countries affected the worst are those in the EU. Placing sanctions against Russia was the equivalent of "shooting oneself in the foot" in this case. Assuming Britain does actually leave the EU, it would be a wise decision to strengthen economic ties with Russia once more.

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Star of David

Israel-Turkey deal got done because Turkey agreed to drop condition that Gaza blockade be stopped

Ali Abunimah
Electronic Intifada
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 20:27 UTC
palestinian children protest
© Mohammed Asad/APA imagesPalestinian children take part in a protest against the Israeli siege of Gaza, at the Gaza City port on 1 June.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip expressed anger and dismay on Monday about the deal normalizing relations between Israel and Turkey that leaves them under a suffocating siege.

An Israeli human rights group that monitors the decade-old Israeli blockade of Gaza has also confirmed that the deal does not end Israel's tight control over the territory that has greatly exacerbated the devastation to Gaza's economy and society from three major Israeli military assaults since 2008.

Turkey put its once close military and political relations with Israel in the deep freeze six years ago, after Israel attacked the Turkish-owned Mavi Marmara as it sailed in international waters as part of a flotilla to Gaza in May 2010, killing nine people and fatally injuring a tenth.

Turkey imposed unprecedented military sanctions on Israel in 2011 over the incident.

Efforts at reconciliation had been stalemated by the conditions demanded by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: an Israeli apology and compensation over the Mavi Marmara attack and an end to the siege of Gaza.
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Dominoes

One blowback to Brexit may be giving up the idea of regime change in Syria


FARS News Agency
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:10 UTC
brexit
Even long before the British people decided to leave the European Union on June 23, we already knew that something was terribly wrong with the bloc, and that it had something to do with the Syria blowback and the subsequent refugee crisis. We just didn't know its social, economic, and political consequences would be so immense.

What started as a gambit by the War Party in Washington and its NATO partners in Brussels to regime change Syria - to be used as a lever to bargain with Iran and Russia for a few more regional designs and venal status quo - has metastasized into an astonishing social, economic and political earthquake about the disintegration of the European Union as we know it.

Mind you, it was Iran's Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei who had warned some five years ago that the US-led campaign to regime change Syria could have serious consequences not only for the Middle East but the EU and the West in its entirety ( although the Western neoliberal establishment never paid any attention).

True, Brexit proved that it's economy, but it also proved that it's regime change wars, immigration, and the Syrian refugee crisis that forced the Brits to say no to the EU.
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Sherlock

Does Washington fear a Brexit could undermine its anti-Russian policy?

Finian Cunningham
RT
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 19:50 UTC
ukraine protests
© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersAnti-Russia demonstrators gather outside the White House while Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko meets with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington
Britain's stunning referendum vote to leave the European Union has thrown a cat among the pigeons, not least in Washington, where it is feared that the "Brexit" could scupper its anti-Russian policy.

That tacit policy is a foundation of the postwar international order whereby Washington - thanks to its trusty British acolyte - has been able to exert hegemony over Europe. Nearly seven decades of American transatlantic domination are at risk of crumbling.

The unscheduled, hasty visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry to Brussels followed by London on Monday is a sure sign that Washington is alarmed at the historic decision by the British electorate to quit the EU - after 43-year membership of the bloc.

"Kerry urges Britain, EU to manage their divorce responsibly," was how American news outlet ABC reported the diplomat's detour. The outlet went on to say with a pretense of chivalry that Kerry's concern was "for the sake of global markets and citizens".

More to the point, Washington's perplexity is specific and self-serving. In particular, the loss of British influence inside the EU will impact on Washington's carefully constructed policy of trying to isolate Russia. American objectives to isolate Russia go much further back than the past two years over Ukraine. Indeed, one can trace the anti-Russia policy to immediately after the Second World War, a policy that was intimately shared by the British establishment, as expressed by Winston Churchill in his famous 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech, marking the onset of the Cold War against the West's erstwhile wartime Soviet ally.
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