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Claims of anti-Semitism 'weaponized' to undermine Corbyn, denounced by Jewish Labour MPs


RT
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:51 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© www.politicshome.comJeremy Corbyn appearing in front of a parliamentary inquiry on anti-Semitism.
A number of Jewish Labour MPs have denounced claims by members of the grassroots pro-Corbyn Momentum movement that the persistent accusations of anti-Semitism within the party are being "weaponized" to undermine Jeremy Corbyn. During a debate on the issue, Jackie Walker, vice chair of Momentum, said the anti-Semitism controversy had "become a weapon of political mass destruction."

Walker, who was briefly suspended from the party over remarks that Jews were the "chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade" earlier this year, claimed there was "little, if any evidence" to support allegations of anti-Semitism.

"The most fundamental aim of such allegations is to undermine Jeremy, silence his supporters... It is the silencing of any criticism or potential criticism of the Israeli state, attacking and undermining anyone who supports Palestinian rights," she said at a Momentum event on the fringes of Labour's Liverpool conference.

Jeremy Newmark, the head of the Jewish Labour Movement, who also spoke at the debate on Sunday, said that such comments suggest a crisis between the party and the Jewish community. Jewish Labour MP Luciana Berger also condemned Walker's remarks. "There are too many examples of where my Jewish parliamentary colleagues, where my Jewish council colleagues, where Jewish members have been attacked because they're Jewish," she told the BBC."We need to stamp it out."

Comment: The "anti-Semitism" label seems to surface whenever there is a need of a time-proven stimulus to auto-align the public against a particularly inconvenient person or position. The mere mention of anti-Semitism has quite the remarkable effect of a poison pill.

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SOTT Focus: SOTT News Snapshot: U.S. rages at Russia for attacking its terrorist allies in Syria


Sott.net
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:44 UTC
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Churkin stares down a terrorist.
For the second week in a row, developments abroad in Syria have been closely followed by chaos and violence at home in the United States. Yesterday, in a pathetic copy-cat maneuver of the (justified) emergency UN Security Council meeting called by Russia last week following NATO's egregious act of war against Syria, the U.S., UK, and France yesterday called an emergency UNSC meeting over the Syrian Arab Army's "shocking" and "barbaric" offensive on eastern Aleppo. The collective Western idiocracy called for an immediate end to the offensive, with pseudo-humanitarian troll Samantha Power laying all the blame on Russia and Assad, as usual:
What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it is barbarism. Instead of pursuing peace, Russia and Assad make war. Instead of helping get life-saving aid to civilians, Russia and Assad are bombing the humanitarian convoys, hospitals and first responders who are trying desperately to keep people alive.
No, Samantha is the barbarian for supporting terrorists. She is the barbarian for bombing humanitarian convoys and hospitals. She is the barbarian for representing the most odious, murderous, genocidal regime in recent history. She represents terrorists, defends them, and deserves to be held accountable for her lies and her glib denial of American-supported war crimes. Maria Zakharova had an appropriately cutting response:
Historically speaking... a barbarian is someone not belonging to an empire, and we have only one of those today ... As for the imagery... the world has seen nothing more barbaric in modern history than Iraq and Libya done the Washington way.
Power also accused Russia of abusing its "historic privilege" of sitting on the UNSC, and Britain's UN lapdog, Matthew Rycroft, played fetch with the suggestion, saying Russia would be excluded from the Syrian peace process due to the recent escalation in fighting, adding:
"The regime and Russia have instead plunged to new depths and unleashed a new hell on Aleppo. Russia is partnering with the Syrian regime to carry out war crimes."
The pusillanimous French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault joined in, calling for Russia and Iran to rein in Syria, lest they too be complicit in war crimes. It looks like Power really does corrupt...
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Evo Morales: Imperialism and capitalism are the root causes of issues humanity is facing


teleSUR
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:44 UTC
Evo Morales
© EFE
The main objective of humanity should be "to eradicate" capitalism and imperialism, recommended the Indigenous head of state.

On the International Day of Peace, Bolivian President Evo Morales condemned the imperialist and warmongering policies of Israel and the United States during his address at the United Nations General Assembly in New York Wednesday.

"Israel's warmongering policies are probably one of the most barbaric examples in the world," said Morales, vigorously condemning Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians. "We have to stop the genocide against the Palestinians."

As for the U.S., they must immediately end the blockade on Cuba and gave the island reparations, he said.

Imperialism and capitalism are the root causes of the issues humanity is facing in the 21st century, he added, and the main objective of humanity should be "to eradicate" capitalism.
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Lavrov: US wants to distract attention from coalition strike on Syrian troops


RT
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:44 UTC
airstrikes in Idlib province, Syria
© Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
The US and its Western partners are trying to steer the world's attention away from their airstrikes on the Syrian Army by accusing Russia of attacking a UN humanitarian convoy outside Aleppo, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian television.

"I would like to emphasize that the Americans and their Western allies, for one thing, want to distract public attention from what had happened in Deir ez-Zor," Lavrov told NTV on Monday following an urgent session of the UN Security Council.

On September 17, a Syrian Army unit was hit by US-led coalition aircraft near the city of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, resulting in 62 troops being killed and many more being injured. Syrian officials later said the attacks lasted about an hour and had been visibly "intentional." The Russian Defense Ministry said that the aircraft which carried out the airstrike had entered Syrian airspace from Iraq.
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Before the US-NATO sponsored dirty war, Syria was an oasis of civilization

Mark Taliano
Global Research
Sun, 25 Sep 2016 20:03 UTC
Syria Democracy
Before the externally-orchestrated dirty war on Syria started with the externally-orchestrated "Arab Spring" psy op; before the "peaceful protestors" shot the unarmed Syrian security forces; and before the West armed, trained and funded the international mercenary cannibals who loot, rape, and plunder; Syria was an oasis of civilization surrounded by imperial puppet states.

Syria was prosperous, with a growing economy (link). It had food sovereignty, with a "strategic" stock of millions of tons of high quality wheat, not the "Franken-food" bio-tech variety; it had a strong central bank with no usurious IMF loans; it had a popular, reformer President; it had a mostly well-educated, secular, pluralist, forward-looking population; and it was the fourth safest country in the world.

After almost six years of illegal war launched by some of the most militarily advanced countries, and years of illegal sanctions imposed by these same criminal governments - including Canada's puppet government - Syria is still standing strong. It still has a popular, elected President and government. And it is still a beacon of civilization.

Comment: Libya was also a prosperous country until it was completely destroyed by the US-NATO. Though Syria is not out of the woods yet, they may still survive the West's attack on their sovereignty thanks to Russia's involvement in stopping the spread of ISIS. See:

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Iran's supreme leader: "Ahmadinejad, don't run!"


Jerusalem Post
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:48 UTC
Rouhani Ahmadinejad
© planetinvestigations.comHassan Rouhani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iran's supreme leader has told former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to stand again in next year's elections, state media reported on Monday, effectively eliminating a major challenger to pragmatist incumbent Hassan Rouhani. Ahmadinejad had not announced any plans to run in the vote scheduled for May, but has made several speeches in recent months, prompting speculation of a political comeback.

Commentators had suggested the firebrand populist, who frequently enraged the West with his rhetoric during his eight years in office, would have given Iran's conservatives their best chance of regaining power. But the instruction by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reported by state news agency IRNA, effectively destroys his chances of getting the wider backing he would need to run a successful campaign.

"He (Ahmadinejad) came to me and I told him not to stand as I think it is not in his interest and that of the country," Khamenei was quoted as saying. "It will create bipolar opposites and divisions in the country which I believe is harmful," Khamenei added. Rouhani's popularity surged after last year's deal with world powers that lifted most sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.

Comment: Rouhani is both competent and effective. The Ayatollah has made a good call.

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Zakharova: Nothing in modern history is more barbaric than what US has done in Iraq and Libya


RT
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:13 UTC
Zakharova Powers
© Sputnik / ReutersRussian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power
The US envoy to the UN, who recently called Russia's actions in Syria "barbarism," is hypocritical, because nothing in modern history is more barbaric than what the US has done in Iraq and Libya, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a fiery rebuke.

The American envoy to the UN, Samantha Power, blasted Russia on Sunday at a Security Council meeting, accusing Moscow of civilian deaths in Aleppo in the wake of the collapse of the ceasefire negotiated by the US and Russia.

"What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it is barbarism," the US diplomat said in reference to the renewed hostilities in Syria.

She delivered an emotional speech, accusing Russia and Syria of attacks on aid workers, civilian infrastructure and residential areas, while omitting the fact that armed groups - including Al-Qaeda offshoot Al-Nusra Front - are in control of large parts of Aleppo and are using its population as human shields.

Comment: See also:

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Duterte tells reporters he's "about to cross the rubicon" between him and US, seeks alliances with Russia and China


RT
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:08 UTC
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© Erik De Castro / ReutersPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his intention to distance his country from the US, its former colonial master, saying he is about to pass "the point of no return" with the US.

"I am about to cross the Rubicon between me and the US," the controversial Pacific leader told reporters, without elaborating.

Duterte reiterated that the Philippines would seek closer ties with Russia and China, the two nations that challenged American ambition for global leadership. But, he added, the ties with the US would not be broken completely, only driven to a point that would allow Manila to have an independent policy.

"I am ready to not really break [US] ties but we will open alliances with China and... [Dmitry] Medvedev, he is waiting there [in Russia] for my visit," Duterte said, referring to the Russian prime minister.
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Heartless Egyptian MP says drowned migrants 'deserved to die'


RT
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:41 UTC
Elhamy Agina
© Reuters; Elhamy Agina / Facebook
An Egyptian member of parliament has claimed the 168 migrants who drowned close to the Mediterranean on September 21 "deserved to die". Elhamy Agina also blamed the parents of those involved for what happened.

Agina, who earlier this month called on women to accept the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), said parents "should be punished"after a fishing vessel en route to Italy sank off the port city of Rosetta in the Nile Delta with at least 450 people on board.

"The parents of young people who migrate illegally [and] get caught trying to do so or die should be punished...because these young people are reckless and have not found anyone to tell them right from wrong," Agina said.

"If young people travel behind their parents' backs or without their permission it is their own fault what happens and they do not deserve sympathy."
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Russia's red lines and Georgia: How far will NATO go?

Henry Kamens
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:28 UTC
NATO and Georgia political cartoon
Hapless NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg flew into Tbilisi last week, to wave his hands about like some kind of puppet while coming out with the same old pre-programed message to the waiting Georgian public: "I cannot give the exact date of NATO membership as it depends on your progress".

They always say the same old bullshit... just phrased differently. NATO's new buzzword for prospective members is "instruments", and you could be forgiven for thinking that NATO's internal strategy meetings have been spent seeking inspiration in old movies, such as Woody Allen's wonderfully embarrassing comedy of social ineptitude "Play it again, Sam".

Perhaps the Georgian public would get more out of this process if they began greeting such celebrities at the airport with a load of banners saying "WHEN, THEN?". But "When" will certainly not be during Stoltenberg's tenure. Perhaps the next carefully selected Scandinavian spokespuppet for American foreign policy will have something positive to say, or perhaps not.
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