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Arch hypocrisy: US lectures Cuba on human rights across from own torture dungeon

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer Report
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
obama with raul castro
US President Barrack Obama paid what the Western media hailed as a "historic" visit to Cuba, after decades of isolation imposed upon the island nation by the US and its Western allies.

While many claimed it was a sign of hope for US-Cuban relations, it could equally be equated with similar feigned rapprochements with nations like Syria and Libya, both of which were first offered false peace deals before betrayal and both of which have now been destroyed by years of US-backed proxy war, with Libya's government being overthrown and its leader along with three generations of his family virtually exterminated by US-NATO military operations.

And as if to prove President Obama's advocates wrong, the US president used this "historic" visit to publicly humiliate Cuban President Raul Castro regarding alleged human rights abuses the US claims are regularly carried out against "political prisoners."
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Heart - Black

"Infants could not be terrorists." Turkish massacre on civilians in Cizre draws condemnation


RT
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:07 UTC
Turkey Kurds
© Sertac Kayar / ReuterBuildings, which were damaged during the security operations and clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants, are seen in the southeastern town of Cizre in Sirnak province, Turkey
Turkey's crackdown on the Kurdish population has taken a turn for the worse, with growing civilian deaths at the hands of the Turkish military amid a full-scale military operation in the southeast of the country, a French Left Front MEP told RT. Marie-Christine Vergiat, a French lawmaker from the European United Left-Nordic Green Left, was one of the 18 MEPs to have sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, calling for an end to a crackdown in Diyarbakir's Sur district.

Vergiat said that so far the European Parliament had not received a response, adding that the EU is looking for something more than Turkey's promises to scale back and to use "appropriate force." Left-wing MEPs are demanding more information about what is happening in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated regions.

"The situation has been worsening since July, with over 20 cities put under curfew," Vergiat said. "The European Parliament is scheduled to send a delegation to Turkey and I hope more evidence is gathered on this issue."

The harrowing example of a populated area turned into a warzone is the southeastern town of Cizre, where Ankara carried out its military operation against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels back in February. At the time, Turkish state television announced that 60 "terrorists" were killed in a building basement.
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Bad Guys

Feeding the bank balance or feeding the world? GMOs, development and the politics of unhappiness

Colin Todhunter
Global Research
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:54 UTC
GMO world
© Ecowatch
Modern state-corporate capitalism is stripping the environment bare through unsustainable levels of consumption. It is legitimized by a deceitful ideology that attempts to justify and sell a system which by its very nature is designed to benefit a minority at the expense of the majority.

This model thrives on the exploitation of peoples and the environment by powerful transnational corporations. Look no further to see how intellectual property rights and agricultural subsidies and the WTO serves the interests of these corporations, for instance, or the roles that 'free trade' agreements, 'structural adjustment' and the undermining of non-compliant governments play. Moreover, economic neoliberalism strides the world hand in glove with militarism. The outcome is a program of endless destabilizations, conflicts and wars over finite resources to enrich elite interests.
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Pirates

ISIS Brussels attack: The real implications are Western support for "Islamic terror"

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:09 UTC
brussels
Just days after arresting French-born Belgium national and terror suspect Salah Abdeslam in Brussels, a coordinated terror attack unfolded in the very same city, killing at least 28, and injuring many more.

NBC News has already announced that European officials are linking the attack to ISIS, though it is unclear whether or not Abdeslam's network - which carried out the November 2015 Paris terror attacks - was directly involved.

Abdeslam's "Terror Ring"

Police in Brussels were still hunting for several other alleged accomplices of Abdeslam, including Najim Laachraoui and Mohamed Abrini.

Laachraoui and Abrini, like virtually every other suspect involved in a string of terrorist attacks across North America, Europe, and Australia, were well known to Western security agencies, having both been documented as having traveled to Syria to fight against Damascus under ISIS, with Abrini having been arrested and jailed several times in the past, and Laachraoui already having a 2014 international arrest warrant issued for him in connection to a trial involving recruiting Europeans to fight for ISIS.

Comment: Further reading: SOTT Exclusive: Who is Bombing European Civilians?

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War Whore

Hillary's emails reveal that her cozy relationship with the establishment makes her a shoo-in for president

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:20 UTC
Hillary and the establishment
Hillary Clinton has been deemed a sure bet for the White House, as it's widely speculated the inflammatory Donald Trump and socialist-leaning Bernie Sanders stray too far from establishment politics to be truly electable. But it wasn't until an examination using Wikileaks searchable archive of Clinton's emails that the establishment's love of the Democratic warhawk became truly apparent.

Buried in thousands of the former Secretary of State's emails sent via her personal server, are intimations of her close relationship with the infamous Rothschild banking family and hints for a potential Rockefeller-State partnership.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild wrote an email on April 18, 2010, in which she tells Hillary she would "love to catch up" — and "I remain your loyal adoring pal." Clinton responds "let's make that happen," and signs her response, "Much love, H."

Comment: A critical examination of Hillary Clinton's nightmare neoliberalism and American exceptionalism

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Yoda

Russian military in Syria: Better than the US and 6 times cheaper

Ollie Richardson
Fort Russ
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:12 UTC
Sukhoi T50
Sukhoi T50 - Better than Anything in the US
Russia's journalists decided to shock their Ukrainian colleagues and homegrown liberals with the truth about the figures and results of the military operations of Russia and the US.

KP.ru decided to get to the truth — 33 billion Rubles spent by Russia on the operation in Syria (which is about the amount that was announced by Vladimir Putin), is an astronomical figure, or vice versa, it's very modest. How can this be possible? Well, of course, by comparing the cost of Moscow's operation to the cost of the military operations of other countries.

We're not going to compare the current war in Syria with the old times - campaigns of Napoleon or Suvorov - as it would be unfair. But the last half a century is quite a suitable period of time.

Naturally, we'll use one currency for the ease of comparison - our 33 billion Rubles converts to 0.45 billion dollars (at current exchange rates). It is difficult to estimate the cost to the USSR of the war in Afghanistan. We only know that it cost 4-5 billion rubles a year. And then the Soviet ruble was officially worth more than the dollar (70 kopecks for $1)! In the end, we can assume that for 9 years the USSR "invested" about $60 billion in the Afghan campaign.

However, by referring to the table itself, it will immediately become clear that the Russian operation in Syria was not only relatively inexpensive, but also very successful in terms of results that Moscow got with the money. In fact, in Syria, Russia spent 6 times less than the US did on military operations, which is about the same the USSR spent in Afghanistan (in the comparable time period): 6-7 times less.
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Source: Rusvesna
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Medvedev calls Ukraine security chief a 'halfwit' for implicating Russia in Brussels attacks


RT
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:22 UTC
Brussels airport
© Francois Lenoir / ReutersPeople wrapped in blankets leave scene of explosions at Zaventem airport.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has called the head of the Ukrainian Security Service a "halfwit," after the latter publicly alleged that Moscow was involved in Tuesday's terror attacks in the Belgian capital Brussels. "The head of the Ukrainian Security Service, [Vasily] Gritsak who announced [Moscow's] involvement in the Brussels terrorist attacks is a halfwit," Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon.

The comment came shortly after Gritsak said he would not be surprised if it turns out that the Brussels attacks were an element of hybrid war waged by Russia. The official made this statement while talking to students from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the Ukrainian capital.

According to the latest reports, a series of explosions at Brussels Airport and the city's Metro killed more than 30 people and left scores injured. Belgian authorities have raised the terror alert in the city to the maximum level. The blasts took place just four days after local law enforcers apprehended Salah Abdeslam - the suspected mastermind of the November terrorist attacks in Paris.

Other Russian officials joined Medvedev in condemning the inappropriate allegations made by the Ukrainian security chief. The spokesman for Russia's top federal law enforcement agency - the Investigative Committee - called Gritsak's statement "insane and stupid" in a Twitter post. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook that Gritsak's words were inhumane. "A human being cannot have said this. This is beyond human nature. I offer my condolences to the people whose lives depend on decisions of these non-humans," Zakharova wrote. A short time later, the diplomat reprinted the news about Medvedev calling Gritsak a halfwit, adding that in her opinion such a description was an understatement.

Comment: There would be nothing for Russia to gain by staging a terrorist attack in Brussels. Russia is already at the top of the list for honor and integrity, unlike those who planned and executed this attack. It is a message, but certainly not Russia's.

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Network

Clinton emails: Google involvement to overthrow Syria's Assad

Rudy Takala
Washington Examiner
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 05:30 UTC
Jared Cohen
© www.slideshare.netGoogle Ideas, Jared Cohen, making things happen (according to plan) around the world.
Google, in 2012, sought to help insurgents overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to State Department emails receiving fresh scrutiny this week. Messages between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's team and one of the company's executives detailed the plan for Google to get involved in the region.

"Please keep close hold, but my team is planning to launch a tool ... that will publicly track and map the defections in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from," Jared Cohen, the head of what was then the company's "Google Ideas" division, wrote in a July 2012 email to several top Clinton officials.

"Our logic behind this is that while many people are tracking the atrocities, nobody is visually representing and mapping the defections, which we believe are important in encouraging more to defect and giving confidence to the opposition," Cohen said, adding that the plan was for Google to surreptitiously give the tool to Middle Eastern media. "Given how hard it is to get information into Syria right now, we are partnering with Al-Jazeera who will take primary ownership over the tool we have built, track the data, verify it, and broadcast it back into Syria," he said. "Please keep this very close hold and let me know if there is anything [else] you think we need to account for or think about before we launch. We believe this can have an important impact," Cohen concluded.

The message was addressed to deputy secretary of state Bill Burns; Alec Ross, a senior Clinton advisor; and Clinton's deputy chief of staff, Jake Sullivan. Sullivan subsequently forwarded Cohen's proposal to Clinton, describing it as "a pretty cool idea."

Comment: Where does an internet company like Google get off with manipulating the outcomes of world events? How does Google have any justification to provide "tools" for regime change in foreign nations? How is Google able to coordinate with the White House on foreign policy issues and boast it is "at the intersection between US global power and social media?" How does Google even employ "the director of regime change" who was "tied to the use of social media to incite social uprisings" and technologically encouraged an uprising in a foreign country, and whose emails are in Hillary Clinton's mailbox? A guy even his superiors think is more than meets the eye! What else is Google, really? And whose in-pocket company is it? The answer seems pretty obvious.

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Megaphone

Bulgaria PM: Foreign policy of certain EU states make Brussels attacks possible


RT
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:41 UTC
Boyko Borisov
© Stoyan Nenov / ReutersBulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov
Bulgaria's prime minister has said the foreign policy of "certain EU states" has blown up in the face of European politicians and made the Brussels attacks possible. Europe should show that it won't let the terrorists "destroy our civilization," the PM said.

"It is unfair and unjust that people we take care of deliver a stab at the very heart of Europe," Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said in comments on the terror acts in the Belgian capital on Tuesday. "We see in that the failure of the foreign policy of a whole series of European states."

"Terrorists cannot be integrated [into our society]," Borisov added.

The head of the Bulgarian government also issued a special statement, calling on Europeans "to show the world they would not allow terrorism to ruin our civilization."

"I know we can fulfill it in the most convincing manner, because we share common values, morale and culture. I assure the friendly Belgian people and government that in this hard moment we're together and they can rely on Bulgaria's help and solidarity," Borisov said.

Comment: Whether the prime minister knows it or not, his stance above is probably the reaction that the people behind the attacks want. They want European governments to turn against refugees, who are primarily Middle Eastern, and become more xenophobic and anti-refugee (which in reality is anti-Islamic). That is part of the reason for bombings in Brussels.

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SOTT Focus: Who is Bombing European Civilians?


Sott.net
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:39 UTC
brussels attack
© vesti24 / Instagram
The last time a wave of bomb attacks were carried out against European civilian targets, 'leftist' or 'communist' groups were blamed. Eventually the truth came out that those groups were deliberately framed and the real perpetrators were 'commando' type groups working directly under the imperial aegis of NATO, which is to say, the USA, its agents and ideological sympathizers in Europe.

The point of this wave of bombings and shootings was to divide, manipulate, and control public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, and false flag terrorist acts to achieve the strategic aims of Western governments, in particular the US government. These strategic aims were embedded in the 'Cold War' ideology of preventing left wing, socialist or communist parties from reaching executive power in Europe, reducing US influence and thereby increasing that of the former Soviet Union.

Last year the Chairman of the U.S. Join Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, stated that the US government and military was 'dusting off its Cold War playbook' in order to deal with Russia and the threat of it gaining influence over European countries. The Pentagon recently designated Russia as the number one threat facing the US today. One has to wonder then how closely the Pentagon's Cold War strategy is being followed today, and if it involves similar false-flag terror attacks against the civilian population of Europe in order to create a climate of insecurity under which more authoritarian policies can be imposed on the public. One also has to wonder about the strange coincidence of Turkish PM Erdogan warning just a few days ago that, "there is no reason why the bomb that exploded in Ankara [on March 12th] could not explode in Brussels."
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