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Tactics of repression: The connections between Operation Jade Helm and the Ukrainian Far Right

Caleb Maupin
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:11 UTC
Jade Helm
© Capt. Thomas Cieslak/ U.S. Army
Green Berets assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) clear rooms inside a compound during a training mission held Feb. 20 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
On July 15, the United States military began practicing "counterinsurgency" warfare in the southwestern regions of the country. In nine different states, the Army Green Berets, Navy Seals, US Marines Special Operations Command, and Air Force Special Operations Command have been practicing scenarios involving "insurgents" within the domestic United States.The mainstream media assures us that such drills are routine, while some more alarmist elements speculate that it is based on fears of a foreign invasion. However, anyone who is paying attention should know what these drills — mysteriously called "Operation Jade Helm" — are really about. People in the United States are not happy. Incarceration and police brutality are rising, and good-paying jobs are becoming increasingly rare. Neighborhoods throughout the midwest are a mess of foreclosed homes and unemployment. Food banks across the country are reporting a record demand amid a continuing episode of mass malnutrition, here in the so-called "richest country in the world." The NSA is listening to our phone calls and reading our e-mails, and practices by police and military that were once considered torture are becoming more routine and accepted.
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Bad Guys

Eurasian disintegration: The US intensifies efforts to replace Russian oil to Europe

Steven MacMillan
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:23 UTC
petroleo oil
© REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
The US is intensifying its efforts to replace Russia as one of the EU's largest energy suppliers, hoping to provide gas from the US itself to Europe, in addition to exploring regional players as possible suppliers. As Sputnik reported in an article titled: US will be Able to Supply Gas to Ukraine in Two Years:
"Senator John McCain said at a press conference in Kiev that the US will be able to provide Ukraine and the rest of Europe with gas in the next two years... According to him, Europe's dependence on Russian gas supplies is a major obstacle that makes Europe unable to strengthen further sanctions against Russia."
Since relations between the West and Russia have deteriorated so rapidly following the US coup in Ukraine, Western strategists have been working relentlessly to find a replacement to Russian energy supplies to the EU. In the immediate term, this is impossible, a reality that unnerves many in Washington and Brussels. But in the medium to long term, an assortment of countries could combine to replace Russian energy, or at least dramatically reduce Europe's energy dependence on Moscow.

Comment: The US attempt to isolate Russia has backfired on the West in general. But don't expect that to slow them down: We'll take you down with us: US fears isolation, keeps tight grip on Germany

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Eye 1

MI5 warnings to Thatcher about Westminster pedophiles ignored


RT
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:48 UTC
Westminster
© Stefan Wermuth / Reuters
A former MI5 director warned Margret Thatcher's administration that allegations concerning one MP who had a "penchant for small boys" could cause the government serious political embarrassment.

Investigators currently looking into the historic child sex abuse scandal found that nothing had been done about the potential threat to children, but rather the security service had warned the allegations could damage the reputation of Thatcher's government.

Newly discovered files show former spy chief Sir Anthony Duff had written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Robert Armstrong in 1986 to warn him of claims made about the behavior of one MP.

The new documents were analyzed by the head of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Peter Wanless and Richard Whittam QC.

Other politicians whose names were mentioned in the review of new material include former Cabinet minister Leon Brittan, Thatcher's aide Peter Morrison, ex-diplomat Sir Peter Hayman and former minister William van Straubenzee.

Wanless and Whittam said the documents showed that threats to children were not taken seriously.

Comment: The priorities of those in power are not merely "misplaced", rather they so often operate from the inhuman premise of destroying lives.

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One minute propaganda clip reveals intellectual level of Ukraine's 'democracy'


Russia Insider
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:51 UTC
Free advice to Obama, Cameron, Merkel, et al: You are backing the mental midgets in this affair. Note giggling of viewers in the background.


Comment: Wow, evil Putin! And people gladly swallow this BS.

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Eye 2

Heartless war criminal Tony Blair on British Labour Party leadership contest: 'People who say their heart is with Corbyn, get a transplant'

Patrick Maguire & Tom Batchelor
Daily Express, UK
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:17 UTC
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'With God as my witness...'
The former prime minister warned the party not to veer to the left as a shock poll put the socialist firebrand on course for victory.

A sensational YouGov survey of Labour members and supporters found the veteran backbencher has secured the backing of almost half the electorate.

The scale of the crisis facing the party prompted Mr Blair to warn Labour against a lurch to the left.

Giving a speech this morning, he launched a scathing attack on the socialist leadership hopeful, saying: "People who say their heart is with Corbyn, get a transplant."


Comment: Says the Tin Man!


He said:
"It's like going back to Star Trek or something. Back to the old days. I wouldn't want to win on an old-fashioned leftist platform. Even if I thought it was the route to victory, I wouldn't take it. We won elections when we had an agenda that was driven by values, but informed by modernity."

Comment: The 'values' of modernity: economic debt slavery, illegal wars of aggression, and rampant nihilistic narcissism (led and instigated by pure psychopathy). Who would ever want to abandon such values?


Comment: That's an interesting bluff on the Tories' part. Their real fears of Corbyn leading the opposition is betrayed by the fact that the British media has been activated to 'nail him to the wall'.

As for Blair, 'get a heart transplant' is an interesting turn of phrase from the man who pretty much ripped the heart of the old British Labour Party and turned it into a heartless Neo-Liberal, NeoCon supporter of ruthless Western empire.

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Bad Guys

Western leaders are flirting with fascism (again)

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:04 UTC
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© Reuters
There seems little doubt that Western so-called democracies are gravitating toward increasingly autocratic politics. Executive power is being exercised by secret policy formulation, to be imposed on the electorate, or on other countries, with no regard for democratic oversight.

Western states are once again flirting with fascism - as in earlier dark periods over the past century.

Here is a recent snapshot of the disturbing trend. Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond this week openly voiced his frustration with democratic processes something that is "cumbersome" for the pursuit of foreign military objectives.

Comment: See also:

Fmr. NATO Commander Wesley Clark calls for internment camps 'to deal with radicals' in the US and Europe

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Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines: The U.S. aids and abets war crimes in the Philippines

Marjorie Cohn
truthdig
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 22:43 UTC
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© Bullit Marquez / AP
Protesters outside the U.S. Embassy in Manila display placards during a rally to mark the third month since the killing of 44 elite police commandos in the Philippines.
After Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush declared the Philippines a second front in the war on terror ("Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines"). The Philippine government used this as an opportunity to escalate its war against Muslim separatists and other individuals and organizations opposing the policies of the government. The egregious human rights violations committed by the Philippine military and paramilitary forces are some of the most underreported atrocities in the media today.

The International Peoples' Tribunal on Crimes Against the Filipino People, held July 16-18 in Washington, D.C., drew upward of 300 people. An international panel of seven jurors heard two days of testimony from 32 witnesses, many of whom had been tortured, arbitrarily detained and forcibly evicted from their land. Some testified to being present when their loved ones, including children, were gunned down by the Philippine military or paramilitary. I testified as an expert witness on international human rights violations in the Philippines, many of which were aided and abetted by the U.S. government.

Comment: Another country in a sad state affairs due to US interference.

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Treasure Chest

Persia's approaching gold rush

Pepe Escobar
RT
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:37 UTC
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© Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters
You may have heard of the N-11. Yes, it's another clever Goldman Sachs concoction, to the benefit of that prized specimen - the "global investor". These are the next BRICS, the new emerging powers.

The N-11 is made up of: Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey and Vietnam. Some of these upstarts may even become members of the increasingly assertive BRICS.

The moment the sanctions regime vanishes, arguably sometime in early 2016, Iran will become the hottest N-11 in the world. It's very hard to beat its roll call of assets: a consumer market of more than 80 million, largely well educated people; a human capital mix that is even more attractive than Turkey; and in the all-important energy front, a combination of as much oil as Saudi Arabia, as much gas as Russia, and arguably more mineral resources than Australia.

And soon back with a vengeance in the global market. Talk about an economic game-changer.
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Chess

The imperial designs on Iran

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik News
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:30 UTC
So what is the Obama administration really up to in Iran? What sort of strategic calculations have led to what for the moment looks like a tactical geopolitical shift?
Central Tehran
© Amos Chapple
View of central Tehran from inside a minaret in Sepahsalar Mosque.
President Obama certainly concluded that the 36-year-long Wall of Mistrust against Iran was bound to fail. The real Masters of the Universe in Washington - those who control the deep state - always knew that the "nuclear weapons" hysteria was bogus. That was part of a strategic decision to keep the Islamic Republic isolated from the West as long as possible, and ultimately force regime change.

The "policy" failed - miserably. So Obama's Plan B was a nuclear deal.

And after striking a deal, why not seduce Tehran into some sort of collaborative effort in policing the Middle East - as in reigning in or, better yet, soundly defeating ISIS/ISIL/Daesh?

That would provide a neat historical echo to the Shah years - the former "gendarme of the Gulf" who, when driven out of power by the Islamic revolution, plunged Exceptionalistan into fits of decades-long despair.

Moreover, the Obama administration and some Beltway factions seemed to believe that factional leadership silos in Tehran - and Qom — might be manipulated to serve US strategic interests.

Even before the Lausanne agreement, and in the lead-up towards the Vienna deal, this possibility was practically discussed by US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In diplomatic talk, these were "discussions of regional issues".
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Bad Guys

Remember why we need NATO: Islamic State threatens to cover Paris with corpses


Sputnik News
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:34 UTC
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© AP Photo / Militant Website, File
The brutal Islamist group notorious for the atrocities it commits daily in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere has promised to "fill the streets of Paris with dead bodies" in a newly released video, Press TV reported.

The footage, published by Islamic State's propaganda office, showed a militant saying that he is one of approximately five hundred French nationals fighting alongside IS in the Middle East. He added that the message was directed at anyone, who is trying to destroy the group, whether he is French or not.

The IS fighter then fatally shot a Syrian soldier with an assault rifle and threw his body off a cliff. The video was allegedly filmed in the Syrian province of Hama.

Comment: ISIS receives an allowance from NATO. So much for NATO being a "defensive pact":

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