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Reality check: CNN's claim that Trump has been unwilling to confront Putin is total bulls**t

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:57 UTC

Fareed Zakaria is a veteran Putin conspiracy theorist. And you can assume he feels this obsession has helped further his career, especially at CNN.

Back in 2017, he made a pseudo-documentary on Russia's president, titled "The most powerful man in the world," which was widely pilloried. Indeed, the Kremlin labeled it "hysterical" and "odious," and dismissed it as "often complete fiction."

Russia expert Dominic Basulto summed it up as "what slick propaganda for the masses looks like in the digital era." Further pointing out how Zakaria failed to disclose his own "Russian collusion" as a host at the 2016 St Petersburg Economic Forum. An appearance which didn't go very well for the CNN anchor.

Over the past couple of years, Zakaria has been one of the loudest voices pushing the "Trump/Russia" hoax. But, instead of accepting reality after Robert Mueller's report kiboshed the yarn, he doubled down. And his latest video is unhinged.

Confirmed: War whore Bolton torpedoed Hanoi Summit

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:16 UTC

© Reuters
Bolton (far left) with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney at a meeting with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and his delegation in Vietnam on Feb 28, 2019.

An explosive report by Reuters confirms that John Bolton sabotaged the denuclearization talks between Kim Jong un and Donald Trump in Hanoi in February. According to a March 29 exclusive by journalists Lesley Wroughton and David Brunnstrom:

"Donald Trump handed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a piece of paper" demanding that Kim surrender all of his "nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the United States." Trump also added a number of unrelated demands including "fully dismantling" all "chemical and biological warfare program(s).... and ballistic missiles, launchers, and associated facilities." Trump surprised Kim by demanding complete, unilateral disarmament in exchange for a flimsy promise to lift economic sanctions sometime in the future. Naturally, Kim rejected the offer.

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Ecuador president implicated in financial scandal, blames Wikileaks, threatens Assange with expulsion from embassy

Elizabeth Vos
Consortium News
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:13 UTC

Julian Assang's health has declined rapidly as his illegal incarceration drags on.

Ecuador's president is threatening to soon decide on Julian Assange's refuge after his government falsely accused WikiLeaks of publishing files about a scandal that threatens to bring the president down.

Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said Tuesday he would decide "in the short term" the fate of Julian Assange after claiming that WikiLeaks had "repeatedly violated" the terms of Assange's asylum in Ecuador's London embassy by commenting on a scandal linking a Panamanian investment company with Moreno and his family.

Those conditions, or protocol, were imposed by Ecuador on Assange in March 2018 and bar him from commenting publicly on political matters in exchange for being allowed to remain a refugee in the embassy. Assange never agreed to the protocol, which contradicts international refugee law guaranteeing freedom of expression.

Ecuador's president claims Assange breached terms of London embassy

Alexandra Valencia
Reuters
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:04 UTC

President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador told radio stations on Tuesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has "repeatedly violated" the terms of his asylum in the Andean nation's London embassy, where he has lived for nearly seven years.

Moreno, interviewed by the Ecuadorean Radio Broadcasters' Association, said Assange does not have the right to "hack private accounts or phones" and cannot intervene in the politics of other countries, especially those that have friendly relations with Ecuador.

Attorneys for Assange did not respond to requests for comment.

Comment: Moreno has been trying to get rid of Assange at the behest of the US for some time now. Only his mother's tireless campaign and public opinion has kept him safe so far.

Imperialist mouthpieces CNN and WaPo demand that Trump further escalate tensions with Russia

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 08:43 UTC

CNN has aired a segment in which pundit Fareed Zakaria tells the network's audience that the US president has "been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on any issue" and asks "will Venezuela be the moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?"

The segment is a near-verbatim reading of Zakaria's Washington Post column from a couple of days prior, so that's two massive prongs through which this false and pernicious narrative is being driven into mainstream consciousness claiming that the Trump administration has been far too dovish toward Moscow, rather than dangerously hawkish as is actually the case.

Zakaria begins his segment by describing the Trump administration's (completely illegitimate) efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, then describing Russian efforts to counter this agenda as an attempt to "taunt the United States." He then spends the rest of the segment asking if Trump will be brave and patriotic enough to further escalate tensions against a nuclear superpower. Zakaria concludes by implying that if Trump fails to increase world-threatening nuclear tensions to effect yet another US regime change intervention in yet another oil-rich country, it will be because he is a Kremlin agent.

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AIPAC gathering in Washington is full of lies and liars

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Reader
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has just completed its annual summit in Washington. It claims that 18,000 supporters attended the event, which concluded with a day of lobbying Congress by the attendees. Numerous American politicians addressed the gathering and it is completely reasonable to observe that the meeting constituted the most powerful gathering of people dedicated to promoting the interests of a foreign nation ever witnessed in any country in the history of the world.

There are a number of things that one should understand about the Jewish state of Israel and its powerful American domestic lobby. First of all, the charge that the actions of The Lobby (referred to with capital letters because of its uniqueness and power) inevitably involves dual or even singular allegiance based on religion or tribe to a country where the lobbyist does not actually reside is completely correct by definition of what AIPAC is and why it exists. It claims to work to "ensure that the Jewish state is safe, strong and secure" through "foreign aid, government partnerships, [and] joint anti-terrorism efforts...," all of which involve the U.S. as the donor and Israel as the recipient.

Venezuela is the new Syria, and Russia is a friend to it too

Israel Shamir
The Unz Reader
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

A few days ago, an Ilyushin IL-62M liner carried over a hundred Russian soldiers and officers to Caracas. Symbolically, they made a stopover in Syria, as if saying that Venezuela is the next country after Syria to be saved from ruin and dismemberment. The military mission was led by the Head of General Staff, General Tonkoshkurov ("Thin-Skinned", a name that would thrill Vladimir Nabokov).

'Don't you dare, exclaimed John Bolton, meddle in the Western Hemisphere! Hands off Venezuela! It is our back yard!' The Russians didn't buy it. Some time ago they tried to object to the US tanks being positioned in Estonia, a brief drive from St Petersburg, and all they've got was preaching that sovereignty means sovereignty, and Estonia does not have to ask for Russian permission to receive American military assistance. Now they repeated this American sermon verbatim to John Bolton and his boss. Get out of Syria first, they added.

This is a new level in the Russian-American relations, or should we say confrontation. For a very long time, the Russians convinced themselves that their liking for the United States was mutual, or at least would be returned one day. However, this stage is over, the scales fell off their eyes and they finally realised America's implacable enmity. 'These Russians are really dumb if it dawned on them only now', you'd murmur. It is enough to read comments to the New York Times piece regarding Mueller's exoneration of Trump to learn that hatred to Russia is a staple diet of American elites, on a par with love to Israel. That's where we are.

Pacifying the natives: Bombs found in Corsica just ahead of Macron visit

The Local
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

Bombs at public buildings and holiday villas going up in flames: a spike in attacks on Corsica has led to worries that nationalist violence could return to the tourist destination known as France's "island of beauty".

The Mediterranean territory, famed for its beaches and as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, was once a hotbed of anti-French militancy which led to thousands of bombings from the 1970s to early 2000s.

But since 2014, when local National Liberation Front of Corsica announced a ceasefire, French state infrastructure and the luxury holiday homes owned by wealthy mainlanders - still seen as "colonisers" by some locals - have been largely safe.

Comment: The same thing is going on in the UK: mystery persons are leaving bombs lying around and the authorities are suggesting 'it may have something to do with Brexit'.

As the establishment in both countries clings on for dear life, Project Fear is about to be taken up a notch, or ten...

Pepe Escobar: The Pentagon's obsession with China, and Putin's strategy

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:00 UTC

Chinese nuclear bombers. Chinese hypersonic missiles. Chinese carrier killer missiles. Chinese cyberattacks. Chinese anti-satellite weaponry. Chinese militarization of the South China Sea. Chinese Huawei spying.

So many Chinese "malign intentions". And we're not even talking about Russia.

Few people around the world are aware that the Pentagon for the moment is led by a mere "acting" Defense Secretary, Patrick Shanahan.

That did not prevent "acting" Secretary to shine in the red carpet when presenting the Trump administration's 2020 Pentagon budget proposal - at $718 billion - to the Senate Armed Services Committee: the top US national security threat is, in his own (repeated) words, "China, China, China".

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With Mueller Report issued, WSJ pushes for investigation into the 'real scandal'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:38 UTC

Just hours after reports that Rep. Devin Nunes will refer criminal charges against Clinton operatives & high-level FBI & DOJ officials for perpetuating the Russiagate hoax for over three years, The Wall Street Journal's outspoken voice of reason, Kimberley Strassel, stresses that Americans deserve a full accounting of the missteps of Comey and the FBI.

Attorney General William Barr has reported to Congress that special counsel Robert Mueller has cleared President Trump and his campaign team of claims of conspiring with Russia during the 2016 election. This is more than an exoneration. It's a searing indictment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as a reminder of the need to know the story behind the bureau's corrosive investigation.

Mr. Mueller's report likely doesn't put it that way, but it's the logical conclusion of his no-collusion finding. The FBI unleashed its powers on a candidate for the office of the U.S. presidency, an astonishing first. It did so on the incredible grounds that the campaign had conspired to aid a foreign government. And it used the most aggressive tools in its arsenal-surveillance of U.S. citizens, secret subpoenas of phone records and documents, even human informants.

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sass

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Jibrish

Puppet Masters

Reality check: CNN's claim that Trump has been unwilling to confront Putin is total bulls**t

Confirmed: War whore Bolton torpedoed Hanoi Summit

Ecuador president implicated in financial scandal, blames Wikileaks, threatens Assange with expulsion from embassy

Ecuador's president claims Assange breached terms of London embassy

Imperialist mouthpieces CNN and WaPo demand that Trump further escalate tensions with Russia

AIPAC gathering in Washington is full of lies and liars

Venezuela is the new Syria, and Russia is a friend to it too

Pacifying the natives: Bombs found in Corsica just ahead of Macron visit

Pepe Escobar: The Pentagon's obsession with China, and Putin's strategy

With Mueller Report issued, WSJ pushes for investigation into the 'real scandal'

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