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Europe & US use Russia-Poland discord to their advantage, first post-Cold War Polish leader Walesa tells RT

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:44 UTC

Poland and Russia must lay "old ghosts to rest" as the US exploits their bitter strife to its own advantage, former Polish President Lech Walesa - who led the fight against Communist rule - told RT.

Moscow and Warsaw need to bury the hatchet and sort out their troubled shared history as part of an open and honest dialogue instead, Walesa believes, adding that the endless quarrels that have lasted for decades have so far led the two neighbors nowhere.

"We can't change history," the former president told RT. Still, Walesa - whose Solidarity trade union movement led the struggle against the Communist rule and Soviet influence in his homeland in the 1980s - said it is high time the two nations laid "the old ghosts to rest" and started cooperating.

"We have this trail of mutual grievances, and until we deal with that we won't arrive at a compromise," he said, adding that the two nations are now engaged in a "useless struggle."

Comment: Walesa is spot-on. The West uses countries like Poland as pawns in their game of imperial chess. Any country that takes the US by their word in a diplomatic sense is probably laughed at behind closed doors by American leaders.

CPAC: Nunes maintains Mike Flynn 'targeted' because he wanted to 'empty intelligence swamp'

Edwin Mora
Breitbart
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:35 UTC

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Friday vowed to hold people "accountable" for spying on the Trump campaign in 2016, saying GOP lawmakers will do everything in their power to provide the U.S. Department of Justice with the evidence needed to convict anyone responsible.

A December 2019 report from Michael Horowitz, the inspector general (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), found that the FBI lied to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretaps that enabled the federal investigation into Trump's presidential campaign.

The comments of Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, came during an event at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday titled, "The Coup: Spygate."

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Tulsi Gabbard to MSM: Stop referring to Al-Qaeda in Syria's Idlib as 'rebels' to make them seem like 'freedom fighters'

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:32 UTC

The US media and officials who stubbornly keep referring to armed groups dominated by an Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria's Idlib province as 'rebels' only disgrace themselves and their country, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has said.

Gabbard, who is one of the Democratic Party contenders in the 2020 presidential race, castigated American mainstream media and Trump administration officials for a consistent effort to whitewash the extremists entrenched in the north-western province of Idlib - Syria's last major stronghold of anti-government forces. Such actions betray the memory of the 9/11 terrorist attack, one of the worst tragedies in modern American history, she said.

The corporate media needs to stop referring to Al-Qaeda and their affiliated groups in Idlib as 'rebels' in a deceptive effort to make them seem like freedom fighters. I and thousands of Americans enlisted after Al-Qaeda's attack on 9/11. The media and the Trump administration's continued labelling of these terrorists as 'rebels' is a disgrace and dishonor for all our men and women in uniform and our entire country.

Pepe Escobar: 'Julian Assange is a spy at the service of the people'

Pepe Escobar
Consortium News
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:00 UTC

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Julian Assange is unable to participate in his own trial by being confined to a spot reserved for only the most dangerous offenders.

By offering asylum to the persecuted publisher of WikiLeaks, France's Macron would enhance his status in myriad European latitudes and all across the Global South, writes Pepe Escobar.

It's quite fitting that the - imperially pre-determined - judicial fate of Julian Assange is being played out in Britain, the home of George Orwell.

As chronicled by the painful, searing reports of Ambassador Craig Murray, what's taking place in Woolwich Crown Court is a sub-Orwellian farce with Conradian overtones: the horror...the horror..., remixed for the Raging Twenties. The heart of our moral darkness is not in the Congo: it's in a dingy courtroom attached to a prison, presided by a lowly imperial lackey.

In one of Michel Onfray's books published last year, "Theorie de la Dictature" (Robert Laffont) - the top dissident, politically incorrect French philosopher starts exactly from Orwell to examine the key features of a new-look dictatorship. He tracks seven paths of destruction: to destroy freedom, impoverish language, abolish truth, suppress history, deny nature, propagate hate, and aspire to empire.

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Secretive military base outside Paris hit by coronavirus, Europe banning mass gatherings

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 01:52 UTC

© Reuters / Christian Hartmann
FILE PHOTO. View of the main entrance of Creil's hospital, where people tested positive for coronavirus have been treated.

Several people stationed at the 110 Creil air base outside Paris have fallen ill with coronavirus, the French military confirmed, with the base effectively being placed on lockdown.

Defense Minister Florence Parly confirmed on Friday that a number of coronavirus cases have been registered at the military facility, located to the north of the French capital. While Parly did not provide the exact tally, earlier reports by local media suggested that at least four people, including a civilian employee, had contracted the virus.

An "epidemiological investigation" into the outbreak is now underway, Parly said, while all mass activities, as well as trips to and from the facility, have been suspended. Precautionary measures are also being undertaken at other military installations.

Comment: See also: Don't buy China's story: Clues that coronavirus may have leaked from a lab

Said the fly to the elephant: 'Get out of the way, let us deal with Assad regime', Erdogan says he told Putin regarding Idlib, Syria

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:52 UTC

As tensions in Idlib province reach the boiling point, Turkey has asked Russia to let it fight the Syrian government face-to-face, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed.

Erdogan asked Putin "to get out of the way" and let the Turkish troops deal with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Turkish leader told his AK Party on Saturday.

Erdogan was explaining to lawmakers his government's handling of the escalation in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, where Turkish and Syrian troops have engaged in several clashes over the past weeks. The hostilities have all but ruined Turkey's 2018 agreement with Russia on de-escalating the violence in the area, which remains the last major stronghold of anti-government forces in Syria.

Describing his phone conversation with Putin, Erdogan said if Russia's interest in Syria was to keep a military presence there, Turkey, a NATO member, does not object to it.

I asked Mr Putin: What's your business there? If you establish a base, do so but get out of our way and leave us face to face with the regime.

Comment: What are the Turks up to? Is this naked imperialism, pure and simple? It sure looks like it. Meanwhile, their belligerence abroad is causing conflict closer to home - a brawl broke out among Turkish MPs several days after Erdogan's troops (apparently) took Turkey to the brink of open war with Syria/Iran/Russia:

LNA spokesman shares video of aftermath of alleged Turkish drone strike civilians in Tripoli

Sputnik
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:45 UTC

Ankara previously deployed forces to Libya in support of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) against the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, in a civil war between the two sides.

Ahmed al-Mismari, a representative of the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Marshal Khalifa Haftar, on Thursday posted a video on his Facebook page featuring the alleged aftermath of a Turkish drone attack on a civilian neighborhood south of Tripoli.

The video, said to have been recorded by members of the LNA, shows houses and civilian cars purported to have been destroyed in an air strike in the Al-Rawajeh area, south of the capital.

Al-Mismari said that "the Turkish enemy" conducted a drone attack on civilians after their "impotence" in facing the Libyan army.

"These are what Erdogan says he kills in response to the killing of his invading soldiers on various fronts of Tripoli and their various locations," al-Mismari wrote.

The spokesman said that the LNA is "awaiting a statement" from the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Ghassan Salame, to "ascertain the extent of civilianness [sic] of the occupied Mitiga airport".

The video does not reveal, nor did the spokesman report, on a number of people who may have been killed or injured in the alleged attack.

Comment: Erdogan is not only meddling in Libya:

Biden claims he'll 'appoint' first African-American woman to US Senate in fresh gaffe

RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:37 UTC

Joe Biden has aroused concerns after misspeaking yet again in public, this time in front of an audience in South Carolina, promising voters he would "appoint" the first African-American woman to the US Senate.

From accidentally pitching himself as a Senate candidate to having to admit a bizarre story about being arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela was false, the Democratic presidential hopeful has had his fair share of gaffes during his presidential campaign.

There's no sign that his blunders will cease, either, judging by Biden's confusion when addressing South Carolina voters ahead of the state's crucial primary. Visiting the city of Sumter on Friday, Biden promised the crowd that he's "looking forward to appointing the first African-American woman to the United States Senate."

The US president does not "appoint" anyone to the Senate, so Biden could have intended to refer to the US Supreme Court. More so because there already have been African-American female senators, from Carol Moselely Braun to Kamala Harris, a former rival of Biden's in the 2020 presidential primaries.

This is the second time Biden seems to have forgotten Harris exists. In November, at the fifth Democratic presidential debate, the former vice-president claimed that he had been endorsed by the only African-American woman elected to the Senate, referring to Braun. Harris was on stage at the time and quickly corrected him.

Comment: Someone get this man into a home. He needs round-the-clock care.

Tech giants debunk US govt claims that Russians are pushing coronavirus disinfo

Max Eddy and Michael Kan
PCMag
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:17 UTC

On Thursday, Facebook and Twitter cast doubt on a US State Department claim that Russia has been secretly controlling thousands of fake accounts to spread disinformation about the coronavirus outbreak on social media.

"In general, our investigation hasn't substantiated this claim," Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of site integrity, said during a panel at the RSA security conference.

"We have asked (the State Department) for any evidence that they have to support this, and we haven't received anything yet," added Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy.

The discussion comes almost a week after the State Department told news agency AFP that it identified thousands of fake, Russia-linked accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter that are out to sow fear by falsely claiming that the US created the coronavirus strain.

But the social networks say US officials have not shared their findings with Facebook and Twitter. "We'd love to get a briefing on this," Roth said.

So far, Twitter has seen some Russian accounts tweet out medical disinformation about the coronavirus strain. But all these accounts were clearly marked as having ties to Russia, and included Kremlin-backed news agencies. "You can identify these accounts because they have names like Russia Today," Roth said. "But are there clandestine efforts on Twitter or on Instagram or on Facebook that are engaged in some sort of 2016 (presidential election) covert activity? Our experience thus far is no, we haven't identified anything like that."

Comment: Funny how they downplay one hoax by comparing it to another hoax! That's how routine anti-Russian hysteria has become.

Comment: See also:

Russia isn't only behind election hacking! They're also trying to smear US over coronavirus ... according to State Department

Flynn attorney seeking total exoneration, not pardon

Sophie Mann
JustTheNews
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:29 UTC

Sidney Powell says case could 'be over in a week' once 'altered 302' examined in DOJ review

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's lawyer, Sidney Powell, told Just the News this week that she is seeking total exoneration of her client from the Department of Justice in a case that has dragged on for years.

"We don't want a pardon," she told the site's CEO John Solomon for his podcast John Solomon Reports. "We want an exoneration."

While emphasizing that her client wouldn't dismiss the idea of accepting a pardon, Powell made clear that she and Flynn have set their sights higher.

"We want this case dismissed in the interest of justice," she said.

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Puppet Masters

Europe & US use Russia-Poland discord to their advantage, first post-Cold War Polish leader Walesa tells RT

CPAC: Nunes maintains Mike Flynn 'targeted' because he wanted to 'empty intelligence swamp'

Tulsi Gabbard to MSM: Stop referring to Al-Qaeda in Syria's Idlib as 'rebels' to make them seem like 'freedom fighters'

Pepe Escobar: 'Julian Assange is a spy at the service of the people'

Secretive military base outside Paris hit by coronavirus, Europe banning mass gatherings

Said the fly to the elephant: 'Get out of the way, let us deal with Assad regime', Erdogan says he told Putin regarding Idlib, Syria

LNA spokesman shares video of aftermath of alleged Turkish drone strike civilians in Tripoli

Biden claims he'll 'appoint' first African-American woman to US Senate in fresh gaffe

Tech giants debunk US govt claims that Russians are pushing coronavirus disinfo

Flynn attorney seeking total exoneration, not pardon

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