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The anti-Russia roots of the 'cultural left': CIA-backed controlled opposition

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In recent speeches, including her speech accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for the Presidency, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has declared she would work to eradicate "systemic racism." Clinton did not present any specific strategy or policy to do this, yet each time she has uttered the two word phrase "systemic racism" there is a large burst of applause from her audience. An article from vox.com claimed that use of this term was "major" because it is a phrase that is "embraced in particular by younger activists."

In her speech, Clinton could have said she would work to eradicate "discrimination" or "under-representation" of minorities, but instead chose to use the favored buzzword of a specific political milieu to whom Clinton's campaign seems to be pandering. The phrase is part of a whole vocabulary of what some call "oppression theory." Young people have learned it from their University professors, namely those who teach Black or Gender Studies. This new lingo is used on various internet forums, especially Tumblr.

When the Democratic Nomination was still up for grabs, the internet was filled with Clinton supporters who referred to Sanders supporters as "Bernie Bros", arguing that supporting the Presidential campaign of the Senator from Vermont was an expression of "white male privilege."

Comment: The 'new left' is a perfect case study in the ponerization of ideology. Couched in terms once associated with anti-imperialism, it has become a weapon for the most bloodthirsty imperialists. Clinton and the people like her would make Hitler and the people like him proud.


Star of David

Don't speak of Israel's influence: Let's talk about Russian influence

Neera Tanden and Netanyahu at Center for American Progress

Neera Tanden and Netanyahu at Center for American Progress
Over the weekend there was a lot more talk about Donald Trump and his operatives loving Russia, and about how Vladimir Putin wants Trump to win. "The hand of the Kremlin has been at work in this campaign for some time," Hillary Clinton's campaign manager said on ABC.

The Russian influence must be true, because it's all over our media; but you can be sure it's only half true because they're saying it so loud. The other half of the truth is that Russia is going to lose, big (because the media are talking about it and because Trump is going down). And the media have a guilty conscience, because they know the U.S. power structure is beholden to Israel, but they can't talk about that foreign influence.

No one talks about the hand of Israel; but Hillary Clinton promises her biggest donor, Haim Saban, whose one issue is Israel, that she'll work against the boycott campaign and she'll meet Benjamin Netanyahu in her first month of office: the same Netanyahu who tried to undermine our president's signature foreign policy achievement by speaking and lobbying Congress under the president's nose, Netanyahu who said that America could be easily moved, Netanyahu who pushed the Iraq war in 2002 to transform the Middle East, even as Hillary Clinton was voting for that war.

War Whore

How the West is using the media to provoke nuclear war

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© Christof Stache / AFP
The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain too much about how the rulers of the world rule.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has quietly cleared the late Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, of war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including the massacre at Srebrenica.

Far from conspiring with the convicted Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Milosevic actually "condemned ethnic cleansing", opposed Karadzic and tried to stop the war that dismembered Yugoslavia. Buried near the end of a 2,590- page judgement on Karadzic last February, this truth further demolishes the propaganda that justified Nato's illegal onslaught on Serbia in 1999.

Milosevic died of a heart attack in 2006, alone in his cell in The Hague, during what amounted to a bogus trial by an American-invented "international tribunal". Denied heart surgery that might have saved his life, his condition worsened and was monitored and kept secret by US officials, as WikiLeaks has since revealed.

Milosevic was the victim of war propaganda that today runs like a torrent across our screens and newspapers and beckons great danger for us all. He was the prototype demon, vilified by the western media as the "butcher of the Balkans" who was responsible for "genocide", especially in the secessionist Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Prime Minister Tony Blair said so, invoked the Holocaust and demanded action against "this new Hitler". David Scheffer, the US ambassador-at-large for war crimes [sic], declared that as many as "225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged between 14 and 59" may have been murdered by Milosevic's forces.

War Whore

Bloodthirsty Clintonites and Neocons ramp up the propaganda for war on Syria

Hillary Clinton Neocon
Neocons and Clintonites have launched a major campaign with the goal of direct US military intervention and aggression against Syria, potentially leading to war with Iran and Russia. An early indication emerged as soon as it was clear the Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic Party nominee. Following the California primary, the NY Times reported on State Department diplomats issuing an internal memo "urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al Assad."

In early August Dennis Ross and Andrew Tabler opined in the NY Times about "The Case for (Finally) Bombing Assad". Dennis Ross is a favorite Clintonite. In her book "Hard Choices", Clinton described how she asked Dennis Ross to come to the State Department to "work on Iran and regional issues".

NY Times regular Nicholas Kristof made his pitch for war against Syria. According to the self-styled humanitarian, we need "safe zones" as proposed by Clintonite Madeline Albright and retired General James Cartwright. That is risky but "the risks of doing nothing in Syria are even greater".

Light Sabers

Convicted embezzler Aleksey Navalny seeks to remove ban preventing him from participating in 2018 Russian presidential race

Aleksei Navalny
© Iliya Pitalev / Sputnik
Opposition politician Aleksei Navalny
Anti-corruption blogger-turned opposition activist Aleksey Navalny has reportedly asked the Supreme Court to cancel his 2013 conviction of embezzlement so as to remove the legislative ban that prevents him from participating in the 2018 presidential race.

Popular Russian business newspaper Kommersant reports that Navalny has based his petition on a decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. The ECHR earlier ruled that Russian courts had violated the right to a fair trial in the so-called Kirovles case and established an alleged "connection" between the convict's anti-corruption activities and the charges pressed against him by the Russian Investigation Committee.

The Strasbourg court also ruled that Russian judges had allegedly interpreted the Criminal Law in a free and unpredictable manner, hurting the interests of Navalny and another convict in the case and ordered the Russian authorities to pay the claimants over €87,000 (US$98,000) in damages.

At the same time, the ECHR refused to recognize Navalny's case as political.

Pistol

Israeli security forces conduct largest raid on Palestinian arms manufacturers

Israeli security force
© Flickr/ Israel Defense Forces
Israeli security forces have conducted the largest operation since the beginning of the year against the Palestinian arms manufacturers and traffickers in the West Bank, seizing dozens of firearms and weapon manufacturing machines, the Israeli defense Forces' (IDF) press service said in a statement Tuesday.

"Last night, the military seized 22 weapon manufacturing machines, dozens of firearms, and arrested two traffickers," the statement said.

Israeli security forces have been conducting operations to uncover weapons manufacturers and traffickers on the territory of the West Bank since the beginning of 2016, according to the Israeli army.

As a result of the operations, over 300 firearms were seized and 140 Palestinians suspected of manufacturing and trafficking weapons were arrested.

Attention

Over 150 killed in clashes between government troops, opposition in South Sudan

South Sudan policemen
© REUTERS/ Stringer
At least 153 people were killed during Friday clashes between government troops and opposition forces in the South Sudanese province of Jonglei, an army spokesman said Tuesday.

"The SPLA-IO [Sudan People's Liberation Army-In-Opposition] forces and some anti-peace elements attacked our forces on Friday but the SPLA forces managed to repulse them. Some 153 people died and we recovered 161 light and heavy weapons from the attackers," Lul Ruai Koang was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency.

He added that the situation had already stabilized.

Yoda

Pepe Escobar: How a Russian partnership with Iran is a strategic game-changer

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Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire bombers - as well as Sukhoi-34 fighter bombers - leave from the Iranian Hamadan airfield to bomb jihadis and assorted «moderate rebels» in Syria, and immediately we've got ourselves a major, unforeseen geopolitical game-changer.

The record shows that Russia has not been present militarily in Iran since 1946; and this is the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that Iran allowed another nation to use Iranian territory for a military operation.

Bets could be made the Pentagon would, predictably, freak out like a bunch of pampered, irate teens. They did not disappoint, complaining that Russia's advance warning did not allow enough time to «prepare» - as in blaring all across the planet another episode of «Russian aggression», on top of it in cahoots with «the mullahs». Further desperation ensued, with Washington claiming Iran might have violated UN Security Council resolutions.

Moscow's spin, in contrast, was a beauty; this was all about logistics and cost cutting. Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, chair of the State Duma's Defense Committee and a former commander of the Black Sea Fleet, gave a lovely explanation of the modus operandi:
«It is expensive and takes a long time to fly from bases in the European part of Russia. The issue of the cost of military combat activities is, at present, a priority. We must not go over the current Defense Ministry budget. Flying Tu-22s from Iran means using less fuel and carrying larger payloads... Russia won't be able to find a friendlier and more suitable, from the point of view of security, country in that part of the world, and strikes must be carried out if we want to end this war... Airfields in Syria are not suitable because of the constant [need for] flying over areas of combat activities».

Dollars

Crimea may sue Ukraine for 'decades of looting'

Sevastopol
© Vladimir Sergeev / Sputnik
A view of the Balaklava Bay of Sevastopol from the Castle Hill.
Crimea's deputy PM has told reporters that the republic could sue Ukraine in an international court for damages inflicted by 20 years of disastrous misrule that could be compared to looting, which ended in the collapse of the peninsula's infrastructure.

"Crimea has the right to file a countersuit and demand that Ukraine compensates for the looting it did on the peninsula for two decades. At that time, under the 'patronage' of Kiev authorities, Crimean lands and real estate got sold for nothing. They took all of the taxes that were collected, but invested nothing into our infrastructure or economy," deputy chairman of the Crimean government Ruslan Balbek said in comments with RIA Novosti.

His remarks came soon after Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin promised that his country would soon sue Russia for allegedly breaching the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and a convention banning the financing of terrorism. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry also issued a statement in June alleging that Russia had breached the Convention on the Law of the Sea, while promising to appeal to international courts for restitution.

"This decision aims to protect Ukrainian rights and interests guaranteed by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 violated by Russia in the Crimean territorial sea, waters of the Black and Azov seas and the Kerch Strait, including rights to natural resources of the continental shelf," the statement read.

Handcuffs

MI5 'blocked' the arrest of ISIS-supporting preacher Choudary many years, but no more

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© Tal Cohen/Reuters
Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary
Counterterrorism officers were repeatedly blocked by British security service MI5 from pursuing criminal investigations against Britain's highest-profile radical preacher, Anjem Choudary, it has been claimed.

Last week, Choudary was found guilty of supporting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL), which seized territory in Iraq and Syria and inspired terrorist attacks across Europe. Following his conviction, it was revealed that the 49-year-old former lawyer had been linked to at least 15 terrorist plots since 2001. Police also believe he has connections to as many as 500 of the 850 young British Muslims who have traveled abroad to join IS.

According to the Telegraph, counter-terrorism officers often felt they had enough evidence to build a case against the cleric, only to be told to hang fire by MI5 because he was crucial to one of their ongoing investigations. The situation led to a build-up of tension between the two sides, with police feeling "frustrated" that Choudary was not being brought to justice, a source told the newspaper.


Comment: It would be hard to imagine anyone being a 'focal point' in 15 terrorist plots since 2001 and just now coming under arrest. Would 16 plots be one too many?

Another source states Choudary's group and offshoots were responsible for half of all terrorist attacks in the UK and he was directly linked to: the RAF Lakenheath plot, to radicalizing Jihadi John's British successor Siddhartha Darr, the Anzac Day plot in Australia, the plot to behead a British soldier, the murder of drummer Lee Rigby at Woolwich in London, the Royal Wooten Basset plot, the London Stock Exchange Plot, and suicide bomber Omar Khan Sharif's 2003 attack in Tel Aviv. Choudary has also been indirectly linked to London's 7/7 bombings, the shoe bomber, the ricin plot, the fertilizer bomb plot, the dirty bomb plot, and the Transatlantic bomb plot.

The long, long delay in arresting Choudary gives rise to speculation of him being a UK tool within the framework of state-approved/sponsored/ignored terror attacks to further a covert agenda promoting and capitalizing on extremism.