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Emirati foreign minister retracts statement: UAE has not ended Yemen attacks


PressTV
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:07 UTC
UAE military convoy
© AFP
A senior Emirati official has withdrawn his earlier comments that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had ended its combat operations in Yemen, saying his country is still "at war."

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash, who had been quoted on Wednesday as saying that "war is over" for Emirati soldiers in Yemen, said on Friday that his comment had been taken "out of context."

"We are at war. I am appalled that my statement was taken out of context and misinterpreted for (an) external agenda that seeks to undermine the region," Gargash said, state-run WAM news agency reported.
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Arrow Up

Iraqi forces retake Fallujah from Islamic State!


RT
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:47 UTC
Fallujah Iraq forces
© Alaa Al-Marjani / ReutersIraqi security forces sit in military vehicles in the Nuaimiya suburb of Fallujah, Iraq, June 1, 2016.
The government headquarters in central Fallujah has been recaptured from Islamic State by Iraqi forces, state television reports. The Iraqi flag has reportedly been raised over the mayor's compound.

"The counter-terrorism service and the rapid response forces have retaken the government compound in the center of Fallujah," AFP cited Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, the operation's overall commander, as saying. "The liberation of the government compound, which is the main landmark in the city, symbolizes the restoration of the state's authority," said Iraq's federal police chief, Raed Shaker Jawdat.

The offensive to push the IS terrorists out of the city was launched four weeks ago. Iraqi troops entered downtown Fallujah at about 6 a.m. local time (0300 GMT) following an intense firefight with Islamic State militants and air support provided by both the US-led anti-ISIS coalition and the Iraqi Air Force, Special Forces Commander Haidar al-Obeidi told The Associated Press.

Comment: See also: Fallujah, perennial poster-child for US war crimes

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Light Sabers

Shooting itself in the foot, again: EU decides to extend some of its anti-Russian sanctions over Crimea


Sputnik
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:20 UTC
flags of EU, Russia, France
© Sputnik/ Vladimir Sergeev
The European Union has extended some of its sanctions targeting Russia in retaliation over its reunification with Crimea for one year, AP reports.

The sanctions target imports from the peninsula and investment there, among other measures.

Crimea seceded from Ukraine to rejoin Russia in March 2014 following a referendum in which over 96 percent of voters supported the move. The West labeled the vote an illegal "annexation." Moscow has stated that the referendum fully complied with international law.

Western countries, as well as Japan, have imposed sanctions targeting Russia's banking, energy and defense sectors after Crimea's reunification with Russia.

Comment: Russia has always left the door open for cooperation with Europe, but the EU has consistently gone against its own interests in order to appease the US. Considering the effect that the sanctions so far have had on the Russian economy, one could argue that the EU has gone insane.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results" - Albert Einstein


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Vader

Dr. Kevin Barrett spells it out: 'Trump is a psychopath, megalomaniac'


PressTV
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:12 UTC
Barrett trump
© PressTV“Trump’s gone out of his mind! Well Trump probably has always been out of his mind,” American scholar Dr. Kevin Barrett says.
Presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump -- a psychopath, narcissist, and megalomaniac -- is fueling genocidal Islamophobia in the United States to get elected president, according to American scholar Dr. Kevin Barrett.

Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11 and founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday while commenting on Trump's intensified rhetoric against Muslims in the wake of Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. US President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned Trump, and rejected his demands that the president use the phrase "radical Islam" in reference to the Orlando massacre and other mass shootings.
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Stop

Moscow reminds US of resolving conflicts without military scenarios


ITAR-TASS
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:15 UTC
Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
© Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS
The United States and its allies should not forget their own mistakes in the military resolution of conflicts, Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.

Commenting on an internal memo allegedly written by US State Department diplomats to President Barack Obama, Zakharova said: "Regardless of whether this letter was sent or not - we've seen quotes. We are talking about the fact that all international formats set up with US participation, the corresponding resolution of UN Security Council, documents adopted after the meeting of the International Syria Support Group, say that no military scenario for resolving the Syrian issue is considered. Only peaceful path, only political dialogue - only these approaches. The main thing is that it was already outlined in legal documents."

However, "we know that tough debates are underway in US on military or peaceful scenarios on any issue," she continued. "We saw this in case with the Iranian nuclear program, we remember how high-ranking officials called for resolving the issue of Iranian nuclear program by military means. Here's a concrete example of how wisdom gained the upper hand. We now see an issue that has truly been resolved, and not exacerbated," she said.
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Putin: 'Russia is willing to meet EU halfway, but equal cooperation is needed'


RT
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:07 UTC
Putin Economic Forum St. Petersburg
© Mikhail Metzel / TASSRussia's President Vladimir Putin at the 20th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2016.
Vladimir Putin has called on the EU to restore cooperation with Russia. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, Putin said Russia was ready to meet halfway, but stressed that the EU should also be willing to compromise.

"We do not hold a grudge and are ready to meet our European partners halfway," the Russian president told the forum. "But it certainly cannot be a one-way game."

"Our recent meetings with representatives of the German and French business circles have proved that the European business is willing and is ready to cooperate with our country. Politicians need to meet the businesspeople halfway, and show wisdom, foresight and flexibility. We need to regain trust in Russian-European relations and to restore the level of interaction," Putin said.
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Better Earth

Creating a multipolar world: Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov reaffirms foreign policy priorities


Sputnik
Thu, 16 Jun 2016 12:03 UTC
Russian Foreign Ministry building
© AFP 2016/ JOEL SAGET
Russia will continue along a political course based on supremacy of the international law and respect for the interests of all players in the global arena.

Russia will further adhere to a foreign policy course aimed at protecting its national interests and ensuring security of its people, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during his annual address to the Russian Parliament.

"Currently, the world is gradually becoming polycentric. In this context, many nations express their willingness to independently decide their future. No country or a group of countries can alone resolve modern global issues," the minister said.

According to Lavrov, despite the fact that the West is seeking global dominance Moscow will continue to protect its national interests. The ultimate goal of Russia's foreign policy is cooperation with other nations to establish peace and resolve global conflicts.

"We do not intend to give into attempts to drag us into a confrontation, not with the United States, not with NATO, not with the European Union.

Clearly, confrontational habits and fruitless geopolitical games only impede efforts to achieve sustainable global development and generate crises like the one in Ukraine," Lavrov told Russian lawmakers.
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Dollars

Now the European Union wants to tax internet links

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:55 UTC
european Union
The EU Commission is working to create an EU-wide snippet tax, which would effectively tax internet hyperlinks.

History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. When European nations were ruled by Kings and Queens, Princes and Dukes, royalty would suppress peasants in a variety of ways, all to enrich their bloodline and strengthen the thrones they held. Whether by tax or something a bit more sinister, the 1% ruled over the 99% with impunity.

Who could forget the Prima Noctis scene in Braveheart when the Duke of the land rides into the wedding party to"bless" the wedding by taking the bride into his bed.
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Bad Guys

Why did the FBI spend 10 months with the Orlando shooting suspect?

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer Report
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:49 UTC
FBI Seal
After a torrent of multifaceted politically-motivated assumptions about the Orlando shooting which claimed the lives of 50 and left scores more injured, the extent to which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interacted with the suspect, Omar Mateen, before the attacks was partially revealed.

In a press conference, FBI Director James Comey would admit (emphasis added):
...the FBI's Miami office opened a preliminary investigation, and over the next 10 months we attempted to determine whether he was possibly a terrorist. Something we do in hundreds and hundreds of cases all across the country.

Our investigation involved introducing confidential sources to him, recording conversations with him, following him, reviewing transactional records from his communications, and searching all government holdings for any possible connections, any possible derogatory information. We then interviewed him twice. He admitted making the statements that his co-workers reported, but explained that he did it in anger because he thought his co-workers were discriminating against him and teasing him because he was Muslim.
FBI Director Comey never elaborated on just how those informants interacted with Mateen. However, examining publicly available FBI affidavits from other investigations that resulted in arrests and prosecutions, it is almost certain the informants posed as terrorists with ties to Al Qaeda or the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (ISIS).
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Bulgaria rules out participation in NATO's "unacceptable" plans to provoke Russia in the Black Sea


RT
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:35 UTC
Turkish Navy's F-490 TCG Gaziantep frigate.
© WikipediaTurkish Navy's F-490 TCG Gaziantep frigate.
Bulgaria's prime minister ruled out participation in plans to form a united NATO Black Sea naval task force to counter the Russian Navy in the region. The president of Romania said the initiative is about joint drills, not maintaining a separate fleet.

"I always say that I want the Black Sea to see sailboats, yachts, large boats with tourists and not become an arena of military action ... I do not need a war in the Black Sea," Reuters cited Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borisov as saying at a media briefing. "To send warships as a fleet against Russian ships exceeds the limit of what I can allow," Borisov told reporters in Sofia on Thursday, as cited by Bloomberg. "To deploy destroyers, aircraft carriers near [the resort cities of] Bourgas or Varna during the tourist season is unacceptable."

A permanent presence of NATO task force near the Russian borders in the Black Sea would have "destabilizing character," Andrey Kelin, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's European Cooperation Department, said Wednesday. The alliance "has no relation" to the Black Sea, he added.

Comment: Turkey, Romania, and Ukraine with its one pathetic battleship are showing themselves, once again, to be a sad lot of fools.

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