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Is Turkey supporting Daesh in Libya? LNA General Haftar claims he has evidence


Sputnik
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:41 UTC
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© Associated Press / Emrah Gurel
Daesh pins are on display at an Islamic bookstore where books about Islam, militant Islamic leaders and Islamic flags are displayed in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014
The Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, said on Monday that it possessed documents and other evidence confirming Turkey's support for Daesh*.

"Turkey is one of the countries supporting terrorism around the world. We posses leaked #Turkish documents and other evidence that prove the Turkish regime's support for #ISIS," LNA said on its official Twitter account.

​The statement added that the LNA was fighting al-Qaeda* terrorist organization in Tripoli.

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We'll share: Putin 'welcomes' idea of giving UKRAINIAN citizenship to Russians


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:44 UTC
Zelensky Putin
© Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko; Sputnik / Sergey Guneev
(L) Ukraine Rresident-Elect Volodymyr Zelensky (R) Russia President Vladimir Putin
President Vladimir Putin said the suggestion by Ukraine's president-elect to give Ukrainian citizenship to Russians "suffering from an authoritarian regime" is "a good thing," which would only bring the kindred nations closer.

The Russian president and his soon-to-be Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky have been engaged in a sort of media duel after Russia last week offered a fast track to Russian citizenship to Ukrainians living in self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine. Moscow said the move was a humanitarian one and necessitated by Kiev's failure to reconcile with its own citizens living in the east. But officials in Ukraine, including the president-elect, called it an act of aggression.

Amid the uproar from Kiev, Putin last Saturday suggested that the same simplified procedure may be extended to all Ukrainian citizens. Zelensky responded with a scolding Facebook post, in which he mocked the idea that a holder of a Ukrainian passport might be tempted with the Russian one.

Comment: The remark regarding 'the right to be arrested in Russia' is particularly rich.

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Washington threatens to 'reassess sharing information' with allies using Huawei equipment

Jack Stubbs
CNBC
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:00 UTC
USA threats huawei
Washington does not see any distinction between core and non-core parts of 5G networks and will reassess sharing information with any allies which use equipment made by China's Huawei, a U.S. cybersecurity official said on Monday.

"It is the United States' position that putting Huawei or any other untrustworthy vendor in any part of the 5G telecommunications network is a risk," said Robert Strayer, deputy assistant secretary for cyber, international communications and information policy at the State Department.

"If other countries insert and allow untrusted vendors to build out and become the vendors for their 5G networks we will have to reassess the ability for us to share information and be connected with them in the ways that we are today," he said.

Comment: For the most part Europe has so far been standing up to US demands to ban Huawei, which would normally be considered a positive development. However, given the negative health implications of 5G technology, any delays to its implementation are fortunate.

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US Navy admits Iranian drone footage of American aircraft carrier is genuine by dismissing it as 'several years old'


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:46 UTC
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier
© Rob Gaston/Navy Visual News Service/AFP
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier.
The US Navy has claimed that close-up footage released by Iran of an American aircraft carrier operating in the Persian gulf is "several years old," tacitly acknowledging that the audaciously captured images are genuine.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps released the up-close-and-personal video of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower on Sunday. Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that the footage was captured using a military drone.


"The footage the Iranians recently released... appears to be several years old, and of the last deployment to the Arabian Gulf by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)," a spokesperson for the US Naval Forces Central Command told AFP.

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Russian led Nord Stream 2 project may save the EU €8 billion annually


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:07 UTC
Nord Stream 2
© Global Look Press / Christian Ohde
“If the pipeline is completed by the end of 2019 and is launched in 2020, European families will get access to natural gas at a lower cost price, and will save eight billion euro annually.”
Russian-led gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 may save the European Union about eight billion dollars annually thanks to a 13 percent drop in costs, according to the enterprise's operator.

"If the pipeline is completed by the end of 2019 and is launched in 2020, European families will get access to natural gas at a lower cost price, and will save eight billion euro annually," the Nord Stream 2 AG's press office said, as quoted by Izvestia daily. "This could happen due to the 13 percent decrease in prices."

The operator stressed that no one would benefit from foot-dragging over the launch, as access to cheap natural gas would reduce prices for the fuel across the European market. Each day of delay will reportedly cost European citizens and industrial enterprises €20 million.

Nord Stream 2 is a 1,230km-long (765 miles) twin pipeline system designed to deliver Russian gas to Germany and further to other European consumers under the Baltic Sea. The project is scheduled to be finished by the end of 2019.

Comment: More on the US-EU spat over Nord Stream 2:

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Naming reality: Israel is not running an 'occupation' but a military dictatorship

Yossi Gurvitz
Mondoweiss
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:21 UTC
protest palestine
© Nedal Eshtayah/ APA
A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw stones towards an Israeli military truck on September 5, 2014 during clashes with Israeli security forces following a protest in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the northern city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
I am beginning to think one of the reasons the Israeli occupation has endured for so long is that we insist on speaking of it as an occupation. Let's stop doing that.

When you speak of an occupation, you are walking into the hands of the hasbara people. An occupation, they will remind you - at least, the more subtle of them will - is actually legal. Countries may occupy parts of other countries during warfare. Occupations are supposed to be short: The basic concept of the laws of war is that wars end, often quickly. Once the war ends, the territories occupied have to be restored to their owners. Much as many Israelis lament it, after World War II the bastards changed the rules and it's no longer legal to obtain territories by force.

The assumption that occupation is supposed to be short, however, is unenforceable. As long as we stick to the paradigm of occupation, Israel will claim (legally, correctly) that it stands in the shoes of the sovereign; that it has valid security concerns; and, using the loophole of "security concerns", will basically do whatever it pleases with the territories.
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Don't kill the cash cow: Why mainstream media can't let go of Russiagate conspiracies


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:03 UTC
rachel madow meltdown
© Reuters /Dado Ruvic/Illustration; Ron Hoskins / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
After MSNBC's Rachel Maddow flipped out over YouTube algorithms promoting RT content on the Mueller report, the host of that content, Chris Hedges, explains how her anger indicates serious problems with corporate news networks.

Maddow's reaction came in response to a Washington Post article detailing the 'shocking' revelation that RT content was allegedly promoted by YouTube to help understand the Mueller report. To Maddow's horror, YouTube algorithms could have left thousands exposed to an episode of the RT program On Contact featuring two award winning journalists challenging mainstream narratives on the Russiagate incident.

One of the journalists in question, On Contact host and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, says that the incident sheds light on the shortcomings of the mainstream media:
It exposes the bankruptcy of the corporate media and the American press, which spent over two years peddling a fantasy instead of focusing on the real issues.

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Guantanamo prison chief fired 'due to loss of confidence' ahead of term's end - for trying to improve jail's conditions


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 03:10 UTC
US Navy Rear Adm. John Ring

US Navy Rear Adm. John Ring
US Navy Rear Adm. John Ring, a commander in charge of the infamous Guantanamo bay prison has been fired over the "loss of confidence in his ability to command" after a monthlong probe details of which the Pentagon didn't disclose.

The Department of Defense gave a short statement on Sunday saying Ring's former deputy US Army Brig. Gen. John Hussey, will be an acting commander and that the change "will not interrupt the safe, human legal care and custody provided to the detainee population" in the facility that has become a symbol of rampant abuse and torture.

Ring, who commanded the Navy's oldest operational aircraft carrier USS Nimitz before assuming the reins at Gitmo, is leaving his post seven weeks before finishing his one-year assignment. There have been rumors that his sudden ouster might be linked to a recent tour he gave to media. The spokeswoman for the Southern Command, Col. Amanda Azubuike, dismissed the speculations. She told the New York Times that Ring was fired after a month-long investigation that had been completed before the media trip. There have been no further statements or reports on what Ring's transgressions might have been.

Comment: Sounds like US Navy Rear Adm. John Ring is trying to bring a little to much humanity to his job as head Guantanamo Bay jailer. Such things mustn't be tolerated!

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Briefcase

Sanctions payback: US dollar losing its luster in Russia's foreign trade as settlements in rubles and euros expand


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:29 UTC
sinking dollar
© Gettyimages / Chris Clor
Russia has managed to reduce the use of the US dollar in settlements with its foreign trade partners, significantly expanding the number of deals in Russian rubles and euro, according to international audit firm FinExpertiza.

The share of settlements in Russia's foreign trade using the greenback declined by 12.6 percent between 2013, before Western sanctions were introduced against the country, through 2018, research by the Moscow-based consultancy shows. At the same time, Moscow boosted the range of foreign trade deals settled in euro by 26.6 percent. The share of settlement in rubles rose by 14 percent.

Economic penalties against Russia were introduced by the US administration and backed by the European Union in 2014. The sanctions came in response to Russia's alleged involvement in the crisis in eastern Ukraine and following the Crimean referendum to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia. Since then, the measures have been expanded for various reasons.

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Trump needs to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Joseph Dunford before he starts a war with Russia

William Dunkerley
us-russia.org
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:46 UTC
Joseph Dunford

Joseph Dunford
Trump needs to act quickly to get rid of the country's top general. He's Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Joseph Dunford. This general seems bent on pushing the frayed US-Russia relationship deep into the danger zone. That could lead to a globally devastating nuclear war. Some say millions could be killed in minutes.

Saner heads see clearly the catastrophe that could result from Dunford's foolishness. The New York Times, the Washington Post and countless other news outlets have cried out the danger. They just ran an AP story titled "US-Russia chill stirs worry about stumbling into conflict."

It brings a word of warning from NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Curtis Scaparrotti. He asserts that "Washington and Moscow are in danger of stumbling into an armed confrontation that, by mistake or miscalculation, could lead to nuclear war."

He's rung an alarm bell that Dunford apparently hasn't heard

Comment: The problem is much bigger than just Dunford, however. There's also Bolton, Pompeo - and a whole culture of anti-Russian sentiment that is now plaguing whole swaths of Washington. And if that isn't enough, there is the Pentagon, the CIA and other cells of within the US military- intelligence apparatus that are practically acting on their own to destroy the great country to the east...

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