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French MPs speak sacrilege: Russia effectively fights terrorists in Syria, Europe should work with Moscow


RT
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:26 UTC
Russian Sukhoi Su-24 planes
© Maksim Blinov / Sputnik
European states, along with the US, should change their attitude and policy towards the Syrian conflict by joining Moscow and Damascus in their fight against Islamist terrorism, which has proven "successful", French MPs told RT during their visit in Moscow.

Europe "should be realistic and give priority to destroying Islamist terrorism," Jacques Lamblin, a lawmaker from the center-right Republican Party told RT, adding that European countries should join in efforts with Russia and the Syrian President Bashar Assad, who in fact "rules the country."

Lamblin went on to criticize Europe's approach to the moderate rebels operating in Syria, whom he denounced as "moderate terrorists." He said that helping them in order to "get rid of Assad turned out to be a bad idea because they turned against the French and the Western forces."

Comment: It's great to see some politicians seeing the 'light' but can they overcome the war hawks?

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Chess

Will Trump have the courage to retreat from the catastrophe of Afghanistan?

Martin Berger
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:09 UTC
U.S. soldiers board a U.S. military aircraft in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
© AP/Musadeq SadeqU.S. soldiers board a U.S. military aircraft in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
The war in Afghanistan is not just the longest and most expensive American war to date, it seems that it can be carried on indefinitely, largely due to the fact that it resembles the catastrophe the US troops faced in Vietnam. However, there's no way for Washington to back away from it without a loss of reputation, and there's a lot at stake from the point of view of national pride.

American invasion of Afghanistan has put the country on the brink of total anarchy, in spite of the fact that massive resources that were pumped in it. It doesn't make much sense to keep throwing money into the bin, so it makes perfect sense that President Trump has already announced that he wants to put an end to this malicious practice. At the end of the day it was him who demanded the Democrats to rethink their actions, since, according to his opinion, Washington could rebuild the country twice on the 6 trillion dollars that were wasted on the Middle Eastern wars.

The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has recently announced Trump's administration is developing a new strategy for Afghanistan. According to Spicer, Washington reviews its policies in Afghanistan, and it's working with key military Afghan figures in a bid to develop a comprehensive approach to defeating ISIS. However, although Donald Trump has not specified his intentions yet, it is difficult to imagine him approving negotiations with the Taliban; It is equally difficult to imagine the America commander-in-chief sounding a massive retreat from this country.
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Star of David

Controlled opposition: Israel turned 'local Amnesty branch into a foreign ministry front'


RT
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:10 UTC
Amnesty International israel
© Tomas Bravo / Reuters
Israel used a local Amnesty International branch as a front for the foreign ministry in the late 1960s and 1970s, according to an exclusive report by Haaretz, based on official documents authenticated and translated by the Israeli news outlet.TrendsViral

The documents reveal how some heads of Amnesty International Israel were allegedly in regular contact with the Foreign Ministry from the late 1960s to the mid -1970s, reporting on their activity in real time, consulting with officials and taking instructions from them.
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Eye 1

The West's sights are now clearly set on Iran

Dan Glazebrook
RT
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:45 UTC
U.S. soldiers
© Mohammed Al-Ramahi
The British-US plan to weaken Iran via the proxy war on Syria has spectacularly backfired. Now they are more desperate than ever to bring Iran to its knees.

Western think tanks and 'strategic institutes' have been getting themselves in a cold sweat about Iranian influence for some time. In 2012, Frederick Kagan (former Bush advisor and Project for a New American Century neo-con) co-authored a report for the Institute for the Study of War warning "the US and its allies and partners in the region and beyond must not only understand Iran's regional strategy and influence but also develop a coherent strategy of their own with which to confront them. Considering the religious, economic, political and diplomatic power of the two sides, it is simply unacceptable for the US and its allies to allow even such progress as it has [already] made in these realms." Since Kagan made those comments four years ago, Iran's "unacceptable...progress" has continued apace.

Comment: More analysis on US-Iran relations: Behind confrontation with Iran lies the US 'greater destabilizing' agenda

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Bad Guys

Behind a corporate monster: How Monsanto pushes agricultural domination

Alan Broughton
Truth-out
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:46 UTC
Monsanto
© M. Lange / The New York TimesA farmhand loads genetically modified corn seed into a planter on Bo Stone's farm in Rowland, North Carolina, April 20, 2016.
Monsanto, one of the world's biggest pesticide and seed corporations and leading developer of genetically modified crop varieties, had a stock market value of US$66 billion in 2014. It has gained this position by a combination of deceit, threat, litigation, destruction of evidence, falsified data, bribery, takeovers and cultivation of regulatory bodies.

Its rise and torrid controversies cover a long period starting with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs, chemicals used as insulators for electrical transformers) in the 1940s and moving on to dioxin (a contaminant of Agent Orange used to defoliate Vietnam), glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide), recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH, a hormone injected into dairy cows to increase their milk production), and genetic modified organisms (GMOs).

Its key aim in dealing with health and environmental issues is to protect sales and profits and the company image. The latter has been a monumental failure, making Monsanto potentially the most hated corporation in the world.

To better sell its GMO technology, Monsanto began acquiring seed companies in 1996 and within 10 years became the largest seed supplier in the world. If the planned merger with German multinational Bayer takes place, the combined corporate giant will control a third of the world's seed market and a quarter of the pesticide market.
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Bullseye

'Without any hesitation': Erdogan vows to reinstate capital punishment in Turkey


RT
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 01:00 UTC
Erdogan
© Murat Cetinmuhurdar / ReutersTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he would approve the reinstatement of capital punishment in Turkey "without any hesitation" as he drummed up support for the upcoming constitutional referendum.

"I believe, God willing, that after the April 16 vote, the parliament will do the necessary thing concerning your demands for capital punishment. As for me, I will approve it without any hesitation," he said at a Martyrs' Memorial Day rally, commemorating the Ottoman Empire's victory in the battle of Gallipoli in 1915.

Erdogan went on to imply that the death penalty could then be applied to the coup plotters, who tried to overthrow the Turkish government on July 15, 2016.

"Who opened fire on their brothers in arms that night? Who attacked their own people with tanks and artillery, bombed the parliament, the presidential complex, and headquarters of the Special Forces? They are all busted. Our people should be at ease. Those murderers and their supporters will get the penalty they deserve," he said during the rally.
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Stock Down

How the Federal Reserve is setting up Trump for a housing crisis, recession, and a stock market crash

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:43 UTC
Janet Yellen
Most Americans do not understand this, but the truth is that the Federal Reserve has far more power over the U.S. economy than anyone else does, and that includes Donald Trump. Politicians tend to get the credit or the blame for how the economy is performing, but in reality it is an unelected, unaccountable panel of central bankers that is running the show, and until something is done about the Fed our long-term economic problems will never be fixed. For an extended analysis of this point, please see this article. In this piece, I am going to explain why the Federal Reserve is currently setting the stage for a recession, a new housing crisis and a stock market crash, and if those things happen unfortunately it will be Donald Trump that will primarily get the blame.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is expected to hike interest rates, and there is even the possibility that they will call for an acceleration of future rate hikes...
Economists generally believe the central bank's median estimate will continue to call for three quarter-point rate increases both this year and in 2018. But there's some risk that gets pushed to four as inflation nears the Fed's annual 2% target and business confidence keeps juicing markets in anticipation of President Trump's plan to cut taxes and regulations.

Comment: The Fed did raise interest rates .25 %

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Wall Street

IMF meeting on $1bn Ukraine tranche postponed after trade blockade


RT
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:33 UTC
IMF building
© Yuri Gripas / Reuters
The meeting on the IMF's new loan to Ukraine has been postponed following Kiev's decision to legalize a trade blockade on rebel-held parts of the country. The decision is expected to hurt Ukraine's already ailing economy.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board was expected to discuss a new $1 billion tranche to Kiev on Monday, but the event has disappeared from the calendar.

The Ukrainian Finance Ministry said the meeting was pushed back "for a short period of time" to recalculate the economic effects of the ongoing trade row, which it blamed on the rebels.

The statement said Ukraine "took measures in response to the blockade and the alienation of the Ukrainian businesses in the territories not controlled" by Kiev.
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Attention

US appeals court rejects last-minute bid to hault DAPL launch


RT
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:17 UTC
SD pipeline
© Lucy Nicholson / ReutersPeople protest against President Donald Trump's executive order fast-tracking the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.
Oil will start flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline as early as next week after an appeals court refused to grant an emergency order to Native American tribes that would halt the oil delivery process.

The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes have challenged Tuesday's decision by US District Judge James Boasberg not to stop construction of the final segment of the $3.8 billion pipeline.

On Wednesday, the legal team representing the two tribes asked the appeals court for an emergency order which would halt any further construction progress.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Saturday that the tribes had not met the requirements for the order to be issued.

"Upon consideration of the emergency motion for injunction pending appeal, the oppositions thereto, and the reply, it is ORDERED that the motion for injunction be denied," the ruling by a three-panel judge stated. "Appellant has not satisfied the stringent requirements for an injunction pending appeal."
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Free shipping on Globalism at Amazon

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:12 UTC
Jeff Bezos
Geo-politics in this bold new 21st century world is anything but boring. Just look at the headlines and you'll agree, 1970s tabloids were real news compared to today's sensationalist propaganda. One shining example from America's capital, the Washington Post has become a barometer for truth - but not in the way you might think. Here's some curious observances of the once venerable newspaper a billionaire technocrat bought for a purpose.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos does not like Donald Trump one little bit. One gander at the front page of his Washington Post tells us that anything "Trump" is bad. The same newspaper that spilled the beans about Richard Nixon's Watergate mess, it's now gone over to the dark side with recent front page stories on; Congressional Republicans criticizing Trump's budget, Sean Spicer's "angry" defense of the wiretapping claim, Trump and his team blabbing, White House dumping 30,000 FAA workers, Trump picking a "deeply disturbing" hero, Trump's budget being "utterly unrealistic", how Republicans plan on hurting American families, and you've got the picture on the rest. Bezos' bullhorn is over the top.

The good "news" is that discerning analysts, researchers, and interested citizens can use the Washington Post's propaganda for good, by applying some reverse psychology. Or to simplify, if Bezos is against it, then it must be good. Yes, the Washington Post tabloid can point us to the truth! But everyone knows by now the WP is so-called "Fake News", but few know the ins and outs.
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