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Indian Defense Minister insists Indian forces downed Pakistani jet - Pakistan still denies it

BusinessToday.In
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:51 UTC

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Aaj Tak security summit in New Delhi.

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday if one wants tonic of motivation, he or she should meet Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman.

IAF pilot Varthaman was released by Pakistan on March 1 as a 'peace gesture' by Pakistan amid escalating tensions between the two countries. On her meeting with the airforce officer, Sitharaman said, "When I met Abhinandan Varthaman, he was calm and composed. He bore no malice against Pakistan. He said it was my job to fight, and I did".

Speaking at the Aaj Tak National Security Summit, Sitharaman said, "Pakistan always says it is also a victim of terrorism. But if you are, please take action. Don't play victim". The minister said Pakistan has always remained in denial mode when it comes to their involvement in the terror activities.

Referring to the recent dogfight between Indian and Pakistani airforce in February, Sitharaman said, "It is sad that Pakistan is still in denial on shooting down of F-16 aircraft, but we have proof and we have shown some proof of missile, which are compatible only with F-16. I am not revealing the fact, but social media from Pakistan side has revealed the fact about death of their pilot in dog fight."

"Pakistan did not admit to have lost its jawans in Kargil war too. They won't even now," Sitharaman added.

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Second time still no charm? UK Parliament expected to reject PM's Brexit deal again

RT
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:51 UTC

A slightly altered plan for exiting the European Union laid down by Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to be defeated at the British Parliament on Tuesday, moving the country closer to a no-deal Brexit.

MPs are to cast their second meaningful vote on the Brexit deal this year, which may well be the last one, after May secured a legally binding assurance from Brussels on the contentious issue of the Irish backstop. The first vote in mid-January resulted in a historic worst-ever parliament defeat for a British government, and this week is not expected to be successful.

The Labour opposition dismissed the slightly altered deal beforehand, saying Theresa May's assurances are not even close to the changes that she promised.

Influential Tory lawmaker Damian Collins said he will vote 'no' because "nothing has really changed since last November."

Warmonger Cheney attacks Trump Admin's isolationist foreign policy that millions of Americans voted for

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:29 UTC

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has attacked the Trump administration's "isolationist" foreign policy, lecturing Mike Pence on not living up to his example as one of the primary architects of Middle Eastern destabilization.

"We're getting into a situation where our friends and allies around the world that we depend upon are going to lack confidence in us," Cheney said, seemingly unaware of the irony dripping from his words.

Comment: Nations around the world do not depend upon the US to protect them. That is imperial non-logic that warmongers like Cheney repeat over and over again to justify cruel wars around the globe that enrich the Deep State and keep people perpetually in fear.

"I worry that the bottom line of that kind of an approach is we have an administration that looks a lot more like Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan," he added, perhaps forgetting that Obama's foreign policy largely consisted of continuing the wars that began under Cheney's own watch - with a few more thrown in for good measure.

Even the hire of an actual Reagan relic to run the administration's Venezuelan regime change - enforced democracy-dispenser Elliott Abrams, last seen threatening US allies with "secondary sanctions" for refusing to back the self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido - did not soothe the former VP's ire.

Political prostitute Lindsey Graham to push for US recognition of occupied Golan Heights as 'Israeli' territory

Sputnik
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:30 UTC

The region was taken by Israel from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. Neither the UN nor the US recognizes the territory as belonging to Israel.

US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Monday that he will push the Trump administration to formally recognize the disputed region of the Golan Heights as part of Israel, according to a report by The Hill.

Graham made the announcement after a joint tour of the territory by him, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Envoy to Israel David Friedman.

Last month, Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), together with Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), introduced a resolution "to ensure that Israel retains control of the Golan Heights."

Comment: "Moral clarity." Because in Israel and Washington, taking land by force in the 20th century is acceptable behavior, and international law be damned. Is theft legal in Israel? As long as it's theft by Israelis from non-Jews, apparently. How's that for a moral exemplar?

Netanyahu, who is currently facing criminal indictment in Israel on bribery charges, has used the US' support as a trump card for his re-election campaign, even using photos of President Donald Trump and American politicians in his campaign posters, The Hill reports. The trip to the disputed territories in company of Graham and Friedman was supposed to demonstrate American support to the media once again, The Jerusalem Post says.

US threatens to withhold intelligence sharing from Germany if it doesn't drop Huawei

Chris Mills Rodrigo
The Hill
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:24 UTC

The Trump administration is threatening to withhold intelligence from Germany if the country does not drop a potential contract with Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei.

The Wall Street Journal obtained a letter dated Friday from U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell to Germany's economics minister saying that intelligence sharing would be limited if Huawei or other Chinese vendors are allowed to participate in building Germany's 5G network.

The U.S. has been urging allies to drop Huawei for months. Intelligence officials have expressed concerns that the telecommunications giant is spying on behalf of the Chinese government.

The push comes as many countries begin adopting the next-generation wireless technology known as 5G. With people becoming increasingly dependent on the internet, U.S. officials are increasingly sounding the alarm over the potential for Chinese spying.

Comment: China's response:

Commenting on the report, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said Washington should accept the fact that other countries may take strategic decisions independently, as is their right. Beijing sees US attacks on Chinese telecom giants as baseless scaremongering and a not-so-subtle way of undermining a competitor through political leverage and legal attacks.

'Pressured' chemical watchdog afraid to contradict US on Douma chemical incident - Russian envoy

RT
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:01 UTC

The OPCW could not come up with an unbiased report on the alleged 2018 chemical attack in Douma, as acknowledging that it was faked would've made the US strikes against Syria illegitimate, the Russian envoy to the OPCW told RT.

In early March, the final report by the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) stated that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe that "molecular chlorine" was used as a chemical weapon in the Syrian city of Douma on April 7, 2018.

On Monday, Russian experts held a press-conference to respond to that paper. Moscow's Permanent Representative to OPCW, Alexander Shulgin, told RT after the event that the chemical arms watchdog's findings were "full of gaps, discrepancies and inconsistences."

Iran's Rouhani makes historic visit to Iraq to 'bypass unjust US sanctions'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:53 UTC

Iraq's President Barham Salih and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

What Iran is billing as President Hassan Rouhani's first "historic" and landmark visit to Iraq, both the United States and Israel are seeing as a provocative move to solidify Iran's influence over Baghdad.

Just prior to arriving in Iraq Monday, Rouhani said on state television that his country is determined to "strengthen its brotherly ties" with neighboring Iraq. It's expected that the the three-day visit will result in a wide range of economic deals in fields such as energy, transport, and agriculture; however, as Israel's Haaretz writes based on a Reuters report:

The visit is a strong message to the United States and its regional allies that Iran still dominates Baghdad, a key arena for rising tension between Washington and Tehran.

US is playing both India & Pakistan, in more ways than one

Darius Shahtahmasebi
RT
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:36 UTC

As India and Pakistan iron out a few significant differences after a near brush with each other's militaries, the US has been quietly enacting a trade war strategy against India, a key ally of Washington.

The India-Pakistan conflict has revealed an incredibly ugly side of the Middle East's regional geopolitics. What I mean is, if you thought it was ugly before, it just got a whole lot uglier.

For example, it now transpires that Israel has had a specific stake in the India-Pakistan conflict, as Israeli-made bombs dropped on Pakistani villages during the recent bombardment. Apparently, Israel is a key weapons supplier to the Indian army, supplying a billion dollars of arms each year. If it weren't for veteran journalist Robert Fisk, the Israel-India deal would most likely have been kept in the dark from the mainstream eye for some time to come.

Rouhani urges Pakistan to take decisive action against proxy terrorists

PressTV
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 23:25 UTC

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) and Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urges Pakistan to take firm action in dealing with terrorists acting against the Islamic Republic.

In a phone conversation with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday, the Iranian president said that Tehran and Islamabad should not allow "a bunch of terrorists," who are tools in the hands of other countries, to affect their decades-long cordial ties.

He said the Iranian and Pakistani nations enjoyed "exemplary and historical" relations, calling on senior officials of the two countries to help promote bilateral ties.

"We should not allow any third party to impact Iran-Pakistan relations through their measures," Rouhani said.

Trump's simple trick to getting budget past Democrats? Label everything 'confronting Russia'

RT
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:51 UTC

US President Donald Trump may have found a way to get Democrats in the House to approve all of the State Department funding in his proposed $4.7 trillion budget for 2020: by labeling all sorts of things as "countering Russia."

The budget request, published on Monday, says its State Department funding is "$12.3 billion or 23-percent decrease from the 2019 estimate." Yet the same document also says the US government will allocate $661 million to "counter Russian malign influence" in Europe and Eurasia - nearly double the numbers for fiscal year 2019.

A closer look at some of the numbers contained in the document suggests both of those numbers are subject to accounting logic and fuzzy math. Rebranding some of the programs as "countering Russia" seems mostly intended to get approval from Russiagate-obsessed Democrats who currently control the House of Representatives and, therefore, the purse.

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Puppet Masters

Indian Defense Minister insists Indian forces downed Pakistani jet - Pakistan still denies it

Second time still no charm? UK Parliament expected to reject PM's Brexit deal again

Warmonger Cheney attacks Trump Admin's isolationist foreign policy that millions of Americans voted for

Political prostitute Lindsey Graham to push for US recognition of occupied Golan Heights as 'Israeli' territory

US threatens to withhold intelligence sharing from Germany if it doesn't drop Huawei

'Pressured' chemical watchdog afraid to contradict US on Douma chemical incident - Russian envoy

Iran's Rouhani makes historic visit to Iraq to 'bypass unjust US sanctions'

US is playing both India & Pakistan, in more ways than one

Rouhani urges Pakistan to take decisive action against proxy terrorists

Trump's simple trick to getting budget past Democrats? Label everything 'confronting Russia'

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