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Return of Japanese militarism: Yankees of the Far East activate first marines since WW2


RT
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:36 UTC
Japanese marine
© Issei Kato / Reuters
Japan activated its first marine unit since the Second World War in its latest move to strengthen its military defense capabilities. The development appears at odds with Japan's constitution, which outlaws war.

On Saturday, 1,500 members of the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) were activated at a ceremony at a military base in Sasebo on the island of Kyushu. They took part in a mock exercise to take back an island from invaders, with some US Marines based in Japan also involved.

"The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade will show to the international society our firm resolve to defend our islands," a senior defense ministry official said during the ceremony, Mainichi reports.

"Given the increasingly difficult defense and security situation surrounding Japan, defense of our islands has become a critical mandate," Vice Defense Minister Tomohiro Yamamoto said. The marines are the latest addition to Japan's defense, which has been increasing its military hardware in an effort to deter China. The ARDB unit will primarily defend the country's remote southwest islands. The new force contains 2,100 marines in total, with this number expected to rise to 3,000.

Comment: They still haven't apologized for the rape of Nanking, among other war crimes.

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Ex-top CIA official claims Brennan's attacks on Trump stoking divisions and causing Americans to lose faith in government

Michael Isikoff
Yahoo
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
John Brennan
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Former CIA Director John Brennan
A former top CIA official who served as the agency's station chief in Moscow is sharply criticizing his former boss, John Brennan, accusing him of doing Vladimir Putin's "bidding" through his harsh attacks on President Trump.

In an interview on the Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery," CIA veteran Daniel Hoffman charged that Brennan's public comments and tweets in recent weeks have played into Putin's hands, helping the Russian leader stoke political divisions within the country and thereby undermine U.S. national security.

"I don't think we've ever seen something like this," said Hoffman about Brennan's public comments about the president. "Gosh, I can't remember ever seeing an instance of this in our history where a retired director of the CIA went as far as he did."

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Finian Cunningham: Humpty dumpty Boris Johnson

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:38 UTC
boris johnson
© AP Photo/ Bernadett Szabo
Humpty Dumpty Boris Johnson
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again.

So goes the famous English nursery rhyme for children, which applies aptly to the hubristic and accident-prone Foreign Minister Boris Johnson.

The buffoonish Johnson - who has an unenviable reputation for making cringing public gaffes - was this week spectacularly caught out telling lies about Russian responsibility for an apparent nerve agent attack in England last month.

And like Humpty Dumpty in the nursery rhyme, the British foreign minister cannot repair the damage now that his facade of authority has been cracked wide open.

Appropriately enough, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Johnson of "having egg on his face" after it emerged that the foreign minister has been making grave accusations against Russia without the scientific proof he had been earlier boasting to have.


Comment: British Government's Chemical Attack Narrative Falls Apart - Boris Johnson Lied About Russia


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Passport

Canada expelled four Russian diplomats because they told the truth

Thomas Walkom
Toronto Star
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 10:48 UTC
Chrystia Freeland
© Chris Young / Canadian Press
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Russians emissaries had been using their diplomatic status “to interfere in our democracy.”

Comment: If the Russians are telling the truth about Freeland's grandfather, then it's entirely possible, even likely, that they are telling the truth about their non-involvement in the Skripal poisoning.

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UN warns Israel against "unjustified and unlawful" murder of Palestinians in military occupied Gaza is breach of Geneva conventions


RT
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 16:44 UTC
Israeli soldiers deploy on the Israeli side of the border with the northern Gaza Strip.
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
Israeli soldiers deploy on the Israeli side of the border with the northern Gaza Strip.
The use of live fire by the Israeli security forces against Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border may amount to willful killing and a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the UN warns.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Liz Throssell has condemned the "deplorable" killing of Palestinians during the Great Return March, and harshly warned Israel against further use of violence.

One man has already been killed and dozens wounded during the Friday protest, Palestinian Red Crescent told RT. It followed a major outbreak of violence a week ago, when 18 Palestinians were shot dead and hundreds injured as Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) snipers were instructed to fire at anybody who approached the border fence.

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Snakes in Suits

Bolton and Johnson: The malevolent villain and the callous buffoon on the nuclear stage

Brian Cloughley
Counter Punch
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 08:38 UTC
Boris-Johnson
There are currently several characters of clownish tendency on the stage of international affairs, with others waiting in the wings for an opportunity to prance forward and perform their antics. The most recent addition to the Western cast is the new National Security Adviser to President Trump, John Bolton, who isn't so much a clown as a pantomime villain - a grimy scoundrel who skulks round the stage twirling his moustache, jeering at his censorious audience and plotting the downfall of whomever has displeased him.

On the other side of the Atlantic the sinister Bolton is complemented by a venomous buffoon, Boris Johnson, the foreign minister who enunciates British policy in the dignified fashion that we have come to expect from representatives of the United Kingdom.

In evidence to Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on March 21 Johnson "compared Russia's hosting of the 2018 Football International tournament to Hitler's notorious Berlin Olympics in 1936." He then expanded his line of attack and declared "It is up to the Russians to guarantee the safety of England fans going to Russia. It is their duty under their FIFA contract to look after our fans. We are watching it very, very closely. At the moment we are not inclined actively to dissuade people from going because we want to hear from the Russians what steps they are going to take to look after our fans."


Comment: British Government's Chemical Attack Narrative Falls Apart - Boris Johnson Lied About Russia


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Blackbox

Putin replaces 11 generals - reasons for changes not given


Pravda
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:28 UTC
Putin
On April 6, President Vladimir Putin dismissed eleven generals from the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Investigative Committee. The relevant decree was published on the website of legal information.

Putin's decree also contains new appointments. The reasons for personnel changes have not been named, RIA Novosti reports.

The following officials lost their positions:

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The real mind control: All mass media corporations are "extremely dangerous to our democracy" (VIDEOS)

KB
Medium
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:20 UTC
mass media coporations
Earlier this week, a video made by Deadspin made the rounds of social media depicting local newscasters reciting clearly scripted lines warning of the dissemination of fake news on social media.

The irony was almost too much to stomach as the screen was filled with newscasters announcing in chilling unison : "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy." The original post by Deadspin on Facebook was captioned with an eerie but nonpartisan warning: "Here's what happens when one corporation owns all the TV stations." Sinclair broadcasting company has since been under fire as details of the script and commands to air the promo were exposed.

A number of mainstream media outlets have jumped on the bandwagon with utter condemnation of the company, citing Sinclair as an example of how the Trump administration's relationship with the corporation has resulted in this nightmare scenario. The story goes that Trump's cronies in conservative media are now ordering "must air" segments accusing mainstream media of being "fake news" just as he has accused them many times.

The not-so-subtle implication is that Sinclair has crossed a line that no other media outlet dare cross and that by denouncing Sinclair they indicate that the problem lies primarily within the company. The long-running tropes of Trump as Putin-puppet, despot, and demagogue only reinforce this idea that an Orwellian world has manifested via Trump's administration.

Dan Rather tweet
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'Soft mouths with deep throats': Pelosi and 9 Dems had 'excellent meeting' with Netanyahu even as Israel sent 'dozens of snipers' to Gaza

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 10:11 UTC
Dems meeting Netanyahu

Dems meeting Netanyahu on March 26, 2018 are left to right, Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.), Ambassador David Friedman, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), Netanyahu, Donald McEachin (D-Va.), Pelosi, Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)
Last Tuesday March 26, Nancy Pelosi led a delegation of ten House Democrats to Israel, where most of them met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu tweeted that night that he'd had an "excellent meeting" with the congresspeople.

At that time, Israel was already planning to shoot Palestinians in Gaza at the Land Day demonstration on Friday: "dozens of snipers will be deployed along the Gaza border," the army announced that same day.

Israeli forces

Israeli forces, prepared to shoot Palestinian protesters in Gaza
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Ankara urges Paris not to make 'same mistake' as US on Syria


The Jordan Times
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 09:26 UTC
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
© AFP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a joint press conference with the leaders of Russia and Iran as part of a tripartite summit on Syria, in Ankara, on Wednesday
Turkey on Thursday urged France not to "make the same mistake" as the United States by sending troops to the Syrian town of Manbij, which Ankara has threatened to attack to dislodge Kurdish militia.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey would expand its offensive against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia to the town in north Syria.

Turkey's pro-government Yeni Safak daily reported that France had deployed 50 soldiers to Manbij to support the YPG, while state-run Anadolu news agency said 100 French special forces were deployed at five bases in YPG-controlled areas of Syria.

Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said officials were looking into the reports and indicated Turkey would inform Paris of its opposition "if this is found to be true".

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