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What About the Wagner Group? …it’s all about the OIL

What About the Wagner Group? …it’s all about the OIL

Long before and ever since the Blackwater Nisour Square massacre, the United States has employed contractors to pursue any particular US military agenda so desired, just about anywhere. However, under US law - depending upon who interprets it and when - US military contractors are not allowed to engage in aggression. Of course, the perception of "armed aggression" versus "self-defense" varies markedly, especially depending upon who or whom - ie which side - is doing the perceiving. The line...

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Trump cancels the pullout from Syria then flip-flops, threatens war with Turkey and gives money to terrorists

Trump cancels the pullout from Syria then flip-flops, threatens war with Turkey and gives money to terrorists

The long nightmare in Syria might finally be coming to an end, but not thanks to the United States and the administration of President Donald Trump. Trump’s boast that “this was an outcome created by us, the United States, and nobody else” was as empty as all the other rhetoric coming out of the White House over the past two and a half years. Nevertheless, it now appears that the U.S. military just might finally be bidding farewell to an exercise that began under President Barack Obama as a...

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Thanks to a Soviet Navy Captain — We Survived 1962

Thanks to a Soviet Navy Captain — We Survived 1962

Vasili Alexandrovich ArkhipovOct. 27, 1962, is the date on which we humans were spared extinction thanks to Soviet Navy submarine Captain Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov. Arkhipov insisted on following the book on using nuclear weapons. He overruled his colleagues on Soviet submarine B-59, who were readying a 10-kiloton nuclear torpedo to fire at the USS Randolph task force near Cuba without the required authorization from Moscow. Communications links with naval headquarters were down, and...

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Trump Flip-Flops on Syria Withdrawal. Again.

Trump Flip-Flops on Syria Withdrawal. Again.

President Trump is reversing his foreign policy decisions so quickly these days that it almost seems like he overturns himself before making the decision in the first place. Last week he was very clear that the US was pulling its troops out of Syria. “Bringing soldiers home,” he said. “Let someone else fight over this long-bloodstained sand.”But then he overturned himself later in the same speech. He said: “We’ve secured the oil and therefore a small number of US troops will remain in the area...

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Trump’s Imaginary Withdrawal From Syria: A Look Behind the Wizard’s Curtain

Trump’s Imaginary Withdrawal From Syria: A Look Behind the Wizard’s Curtain

Manjib: The city of Manjib in northeastern Syria has become a focal point for those who have attacked President Trump for pulling American troops from Syria. Newspaper columnists, Internet bloggers and even Senators have accused President Trump of “abandoning the Kurds” and pointed to Syrian government troops moving into the city of Manjib as proof. The city of Manjib is 80 percent Arab. It is not Kurdish at all. During the time American troops were in northern Syria the city of Manjib was...

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Lindsey Graham: ‘Steal Syria’s Oil to Pay for US Occupation!’

Lindsey Graham: ‘Steal Syria’s Oil to Pay for US Occupation!’

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been chewing down his fingernails ever since President Trump's first suggestion that US troops should come home from the Middle East. Last December, when Trump made it clear that he wanted to end the US troop presence in Syria and let the people of the region take care of their own problems, Graham took to an accommodating media (across the supposed ideological spectrum) to slam, damn, and threaten the president for even entertaining such a thought."Withdrawal...

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Barr Changes the Dynamic, The Threat of Obstruction of Justice

Barr Changes the Dynamic, The Threat of Obstruction of Justice

I do not believe in coincidence. I do not believe that it is a mere coincidence that these three events occurred late last night:1. The investigation of the roots of the plot to destroy Donald Trump and his Presidency is now a criminal matter.2. A letter from Inspector General Horowitz announcing that his report on the FISA fraud would be out shortly with no major redactions.3. The Government caved to Honey Badger Sidney Powell and allowed her to fully expose criminal conduct by Michael...

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Trump and Erdogan Are Alike: Both Are ‘Thin-Skinned’ and Relied on ‘Deplorables’ to Win

Trump and Erdogan Are Alike: Both Are ‘Thin-Skinned’ and Relied on ‘Deplorables’ to Win

The apparent communications problems that have arisen between US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are basically due to Trump’s failure to understand that Erdogan is essentially his Turkish counterpart in more ways that the title of the office that they both hold. They rose to power in a similar fashion, based on an understanding that there were large numbers of disenchanted essentially conservative voters, and they continue to rule in an unorthodox fashion that...

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‘We Want To Keep The Oil’

‘We Want To Keep The Oil’

“Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand, workin’ in the dark against your fellow man. But as sure as God made black and white what’s down in the dark will be brought to the light.” ~ Johnny Cash/traditional, ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down’ The Grayzone has an excellent new article out titled “US troops are staying in Syria to ‘keep the oil’ – and have already killed hundreds over it” detailing the many ways the Trump administration has openly admitted that it is keeping US troops in Syria...

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Expert Panel Finds Gaping Plot Holes In OPCW Report On Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack

Expert Panel Finds Gaping Plot Holes In OPCW Report On Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack

The Courage Foundation, an international protection and advocacy group for whistleblowers, has published the findings of a panel it convened last week on the extremely suspicious behavior of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in its investigation of an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria last year. After hearing an extensive presentation from a member of the OPCW’s Douma investigation team, the panel’s members (including a world-renowned former OPCW Director...

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Assange in Court

Assange in Court

I was deeply shaken while witnessing Monday's events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian’s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and...

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USAID Funds Salaries of Venezuelan Opposition Politicians as It Doubles Down on the Coup

USAID Funds Salaries of Venezuelan Opposition Politicians as It Doubles Down on the Coup

American taxpayers are now paying the salaries and expenses of dozens of Venezuelan opposition figures who have created a “shadow government” inside Venezuela and abroad. On October 8, USAID signed a bilateral agreement with the faction of the Venezuelan opposition led by National Assembly president Juan Guaidó (whom the Trump administration recognizes as the “interim president” of Venezuela) that includes $98 million in assistance for Venezuelans. A memo obtained by the L.A. Times reveals...

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Up In Smoke: The Neocon Assault On Syria Is Finally Over

Up In Smoke: The Neocon Assault On Syria Is Finally Over

By a vote of 354-60 last week the US House of Representative proved that Imperial Washington is addicted to war, and that the level of ignorance, bellicosity and mendacity among the people's representative has reach appalling heights. Having never voted for Washington's pointless, illegal and destructive fomenting of Syria's calamitous civil war in the first place, as the constitution requires, the bipartisan congressional mob actually had the gall to vote to keep US forces in the middle of a...

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Trump’s $4.5 Million Indulgence: Is White Helmets Blood Money the Price of US Leaving Syria?

Trump’s $4.5 Million Indulgence: Is White Helmets Blood Money the Price of US Leaving Syria?

While US President Donald Trump may be serious about pulling troops out of Syria, that doesn’t mean Washington intends to stop meddling there, as evidenced by taxpayer dollars he just sent to the fake rescue group “White Helmets.” The White House announced a $4.5 million donation to the group on Tuesday, citing the “important and highly valued” work the group has done rescuing “more than 115,000 people” over the course of Syria’s 8-year conflict. Left unsaid was that the number comes from the...

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Mr. Cantor Goes to Wall Street

Mr. Cantor Goes to Wall Street

Hightailing it out of the United States House of Representatives after losing his reelection effort in the Republican Party primary is paying off well for uber war advocate and...

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