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  US Military Presence in Syria Has No Legal Grounds Whatsoever posted by Peter Korzun via cyd, 2017-11-19 10:14:05
America, the worlds leading civilian killing and law flouting nation (FACT) is in trouble, as the usual excuses and pretexts it uses for its many illegal military interventions are today as transparent as wet toilet paper. The Syrian government has made it clear that America's presence and its proxy fighters, including ISIL and Al-Qaeda, are invasive, aggressive forces and would be treated as belligerent enemy forces as outlined by the UN and international law. This puts corrupt Putin on the spot as he could have at any time demanded that the US withdraw from Syria immediately, yet he has chosen to play footsie with the USA. (full story)
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 Trump’s Presidency May Present “The Greatest Psychiatric Disaster In History” posted by Chauncey DeVega via sybil, 2017-11-19 03:34:19
Johns Hopkins psychologist John Gartner suggests an “80 percent chance” that Trump will push the nuclear button. (full story)
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 No One Man Should Be Able to Trigger Nuclear War posted by Eric Margolis via jan, 2017-11-19 03:17:16
Nuclear war is absolutely unthinkable. Totally crazy. Yet serious discussion is underway in military and neocon war circles about a nuclear war against North Korea and, even crazier, against Iran and Russia. Welcome home, Dr Strangelove. [And we all should be aware how that movie ended.] (full story)
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US Military and CIA Leaders May Be Investigated for War Crimes posted by Marjorie Cohn via james, 2017-11-17 01:50:12
Fat chance Ms Cohn, as it is established that the ICC only convicts those that are considered enemies of the USA; you would note that trials involving the KLA, a notorious Muslim criminal organisation, found none guilty of any crimes and that notwithstanding a published account by former chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, that the KLA were harvesting organs from captured Serbian civilians. It should also be noted that Croatian and Bosnian extremists were also found not guilty, give me a break! Do you find it odd that only Serbs were convicted and jailed after that American instigated conflict and that former Yugoslav president Milosevic was exonerated quietly after his death in jail? (full story)
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 Saudi Purge Signals War And New World Order Reset posted by Brandon Smith via jess, 2017-11-16 21:09:05
For years now, I have been warning about the relationship of interdependency between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and how this relationship, if ended, would mean disaster for the petrodollar system and by extension the dollar's world reserve status. (full story)
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UPDATE on Syrian Crisis and America's grossly Illegal Interference posted by MOA via cyd, 2017-11-16 20:24:46
There have been few significant movements during the last weeks. The war on Syria slowly grinds towards its end. The political tussle continues as ever. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mattis made a curious announcement of plans he can not fulfill. (full story)
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 Oz ABC 'Media Watch' Should Watch Itself! posted by Binoy Kampmark via justin, 2017-11-15 21:39:38
The program usually pokes fun, riddles and irks a fourth estate that has long given up the chase for verity. Media Watch, after years of weather beaten but reliable service, remains Australia’s only real source of genuine critical comment about journalistic practice and its poorer practices. Over the years, it has exposed fictions, unearthed myths and lampooned incompetence. (full story)
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Imbecile Drunken Australian Diplomat Dies After Falling From Balcony in New York posted by staff report Reuters via dulcie, 2017-11-15 21:14:24
A drunken Australian diplomat accidentally fell five floors to his death on Wednesday from the deck of his New York City home during a social gathering with his wife and friends, police and local media said. (full story)
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Why Science Says You Should Be Reading Small Independent Media posted by Jo Ellen Green Kaiser via jaxie, 2017-11-15 20:21:49
Trust in corporate news has plummeted over the past few years, however, trust in independent news is strong and growing -- hardly surprising in view of the blatant lies, misinformation and propaganda that issues like sewage from the corporate mass media. (full story)
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Australia -- Homosexual Marriage and a Distracted, Nose-ringed CONSERVATIVE Nation posted by les, 2017-11-14 21:16:52
Australians, like their moronic, media-enslaved American cousins, have fallen for ultra-conservative values dressed in ‘radical’ clothes. Homosexual issues, which group comprise a tiny percentage of any population, have been used by conservative authoritarian forces to distract from the critical and major SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL and FINANCIAL inequities and concerns that confront the overwhelming world MAJORITY, particularly Australians. (full story)
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 Iran's Leading Cleric Declares Psychedelics Halal, Acceptable posted by Phillip Smith via dulcie, 2017-11-14 00:44:19
In a move barely noticed in the West, more than three years ago, Iran's Grand Ayatollah Rohani issued a formal legal ruling—a fatwa—declaring that the use of entheogens and psychedelics was permissible (ḥalāl) for Shi'a Muslims for purposes of treatment and spiritual growth. (full story)
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 Into the Afghan Abyss (Again) posted by Alfred W. McCoy via jess, 2017-11-13 22:09:50
After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying in Afghanistan to fight and—so they insist—win. “The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that no place is beyond the reach of American might,” said the president in August, trumpeting his virtual declaration of war on the Taliban. Overturning Barack Obama’s planned (and stalled) drawdown in Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that the Pentagon would send 4,000 more soldiers to fight there, bringing American troop strength to nearly 15,000. (full story)
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 Secret ISIS Withdrawal Deal from Raqqa Exposed posted by staff report BBC via jane, 2017-11-13 21:18:36
Lorry driver Abu Fawzi thought it was going to be just another job. He drives an 18-wheeler across some of the most dangerous territory in northern Syria. Bombed-out bridges, deep desert sand, even government forces and so-called Islamic State fighters don’t stand in the way of a delivery. (full story)
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 The House of Saud a Tinder Box Ready to Implode posted by tafiq, 2017-11-13 12:23:13
Numerous commentaries by experts on the recent arrests of multi-billionaire Saudi royals by the heir apparent dimwit pretender to the throne, prince Salman, yes the same imbecile that sparked the war in Yemen which he is losing, which has demonstrated to the world his complete ineptitudes and incompetence as a tactician and leader. However, nothing compares to the recent convulsions in the house of Saud precipitated by the same idiot prince, the Trump of the Middle East, in that a total idiot is on the loose causing all manner of grief which could easily see the house of Saud implode, as there are far too many billionaire princes and other relatives that fear for their fortunes and lives to make this absurd purge tenable. (full story)
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On The Brink Of War posted by Abdel Bari Atwan via gail, 2017-11-13 02:58:25
We should not let minor details such as Hariri’s resignation or the detention of [Saudi] princes and former ministers divert our attention from the real developments that are taking place in secret. Nor should we let these minor details distract us from the more dangerous phase that will follow Prince Mohammad bin Salman ‘purge’ on the domestic Saudi front. For such ‘purges’ are the preliminary move to scenarios for a war that may be the most dangerous in the region’s history. And we are not exaggerating here. (full story)
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