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Telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump
Post Date: 2017-05-03 07:43:55 by Tatarewicz
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A wide range of current issues regarding the two countries’ cooperation in the international arena was discussed, with an emphasis on future coordination of Russian and US actions to fight international terrorism in the context of the Syrian crisis. It was agreed to bolster the dialogue between the heads of the two nations’ foreign policy agencies in an effort to find ways to stabilise the ceasefire and make it durable and manageable. The aim is to create preconditions for launching a real settlement process in Syria. To that end, the Russian Foreign Minister and the US Secretary of State shall promptly brief the countries’ leaders on any progress achieved. The dangerous ...
Bolivia Drops Truth Bomb: Independent Monetary Policy Is Key to National Sovereignty
Post Date: 2017-05-03 07:13:27 by Tatarewicz
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RI... Bolivia is one of the few countries left on Earth that has the cojones to tell it like it is. We witnessed some much needed truth-telling last month when Bolivia's ambassador to the UN deconstructed Nikki Haley's word goo at the Security Council: "Now the United States believe that they are investigators, they are attorneys, judges and they are the executioners ... The unilateral actions are imperialistic actions. The USA is not interested in international law; they ignore it when it is inconvenient to them". But this was just a warm-up lap. During a speech last week marking the 10th anniversary of UN Declaration on Indigenous' rights, Bolivia's ...
Who Is Destroying Syria?
Post Date: 2017-05-03 07:00:44 by Ada
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The Arab Gulf States, Israel, and Turkey all prefer anarchy to Assad. The United Nations Charter, to which all member states are signatories and which prevails over all other treaties and agreements, states that the organization is obligated to “determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression” and to take military and nonmilitary action to “restore international peace and security.” The justices at the Nuremberg trials in 1946 concluded that “to initiate a war of aggression … is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within ...
No WMDs
Post Date: 2017-05-02 13:04:40 by Horse
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Trump says he'd be 'honored' to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un
Post Date: 2017-05-02 09:29:01 by Tatarewicz
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May 1 (UPI) -- Just two days after inviting his controversial Philippines counterpart to the White House, President Donald Trump on Monday said he would be "honored" to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un "under the right circumstances." "If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it," Trump said Monday in an interview with Bloomberg. "If it's under the right circumstances. But I would do that." It's the first time since taking office Trump has expressed a willingness to meet with Kim. Last year, then-candidate Trump said he would negotiate directly with the controversial North Korean ...
Russia and Japan bury the hatchet of Kuril Islands dispute.
Post Date: 2017-05-02 09:15:09 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda... The visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Russia has confirmed the transition of Russian-Japanese relations to a new quality. Abe's visits to Moscow are now perceived as common work trips. It appears that the most painful issue in bilateral relations between Russia and Japan has been resolved - the dispute about the Kuril Islands. They will remain Russian territory, but will become an object for joint economic activity for Russia and Japan. An agreement was reached about a joint project for the cultivation of fish and sea urchins on four northern islands of the Kuril chain. Japanese officials are expected to come to the Southern Kurils in summer to study specific ...
Putin/Merkel Meeting
Post Date: 2017-05-02 07:35:27 by Stephen Lendman
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Putin/Merkel Meeting by Stephen Lendman At a time of US responsibility for dismal East/West relations, Angela Merkel will meet one-on-one with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia on Tuesday for the first time in two years. According to the Kremlin press service, both leaders will discuss “key international problems, including the fight against terrorism, the situation in the Middle East, and the implementation of the Minsk agreements aimed at resolving the Ukrainian crisis,” along with the current state and prospects for improving dismal bilateral relations, notably on trade. Things were further strained after Germany’s Bundestag was cyberattacked in late April 2015, falsely ...
Upcoming Erdogan Meetings with Putin and Trump
Post Date: 2017-05-02 07:22:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Upcoming Erdogan Meetings with Putin and Trump by Stephen Lendman After consolidating dictatorial powers by a manipulated referendum, a process OSCE observers said “fell short” of international standards, citing numerous irregularities, Erdogan will meet with Vladimir Putin Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, followed by a May 16-17 meeting with Trump in Washington. He’s part of the geopolitical landscape problem, not the solution - waging war on Kurds at home and abroad, wanting northern Syria and Iraq annexed, pretending to want conflict resolution. His belligerence and despotic rule belie his duplicitous rhetoric. According to Turkey’s deputy director for Syria policy ...
Lavrov to West: Don't Let Your Crazy Politicians Drag World Into War
Post Date: 2017-05-02 03:45:17 by Tatarewicz
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Russia's Foreign Minister urged the international community to denounce the 'philosophy of hegemony and one’s own exclusivity' during the Sixth Moscow Conference on International Security Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has a simple, but beautiful idea: Let's not allow insane war hawks to drag the world into open conflict. Speaking at the Sixth Moscow Conference on International Security on Wednesday, Lavrov reminded the audience that "the entire world history shows that wars are not unleashed by generals but by politicians". He also warned that "war hawks" are attempting to provoke escalation in Ukraine. Lavrov commented on the ...
Choices
Post Date: 2017-05-01 22:36:41 by Lod
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US Repeating Same War Crime in Syria that Starved 500,000 Children to Death in Iraq
Post Date: 2017-05-01 20:47:11 by Horse
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While the sanctions placed on Iraq by the United Nations Security Council in the 1990s may be a distant memory for some, it’s critical to remember the shameful aftermath as the Trump administration undertakes the sanctioning of certain specific individuals in Syria. No matter the position one might take on the issue of sanctions, the fact remains that they caused a decade of tremendous suffering and widespread deaths of Iraqi civilians, many of them children. Iraq Sanctions Led to Grievous Death Toll The widely-reported number of children who died as a result of the sanctions has been as high as 576,000, although one subsequent report estimated 227,000 and a second approximated 350,00 ...
Al-Qaeda says fighting alongside US-, Saudi-backed militia in Yemen
Post Date: 2017-05-01 20:22:30 by Horse
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The leader of al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen says his forces have often fought alongside US- and Saudi-backed militia and supporters of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi against the Yemeni army and the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Qasim al-Rimi, the ringleader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), made the remarks to the terrorist group's media arm al-Malahem from an undisclosed location in war-torn Yemen on Sunday, adding that his militants had teamed up with an array of other "factions," including Salafist groups and the "Muslim Brotherhood," who are both key militias on Hadi's side. The AQAP is perceived as the most active branch ...
Photos From Syria Show White Helmets And Nusra/Qaeda Are The Same Organization
Post Date: 2017-05-01 20:19:53 by Horse
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Unlike journalists associated with the Western corporate media, Vanessa Beeley has been reporting from inside Syria on and off since early 2016. In many cases, while the Western corporate press was reporting in the most authoritative manner about the alleged “crimes against humanity” committed by the Syrian government in Aleppo despite having no one on the ground in those areas, Beeley was indeed present and able to directly contradict the lies spread by the corporate press with her own firsthand accounts. Likewise, Beeley has led the charge against the ridiculous propaganda outfit known as the White Helmets, a terrorist support group that has been used by Western governments ...
ALERT: MSM Banned Reporting on German Court’s MMR Vaccine Ruling, “No Measles Virus”
Post Date: 2017-05-01 20:13:04 by Horse
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Economic Reality: Bottom 50% Of Americans No Longer Matter
Post Date: 2017-05-01 10:00:18 by Horse
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The Fed likes to brag about the “We saved the world” recovery. However, the unfortunate truth of the matter is a record Half of American Families Live Paycheck to Paycheck. Does it Matter? Let’s investigate. Unprepared for Nearly Anything 50% are woefully unprepared for a financial emergency. Nearly 1 in 5 (19%) Americans have nothing set aside to cover an unexpected emergency. Nearly 1 in 3 (31%) Americans don’t have at least $500 set aside to cover an unexpected emergency expense, according to a survey released Tuesday by HomeServe USA, a home repair service. A separate survey released Monday by insurance company MetLife found that 49% of employees are ...
Russia's Futile Outreach to Washington
Post Date: 2017-05-01 08:05:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia’s Futile Outreach to Washington by Stephen Lendman Russia knows Washington’s adversarial relations remain longstanding under Republicans or Democrats. Occasional more conciliatory-sounding rhetoric is subterfuge. America’s deep state wants regime change, Russian sovereignty eliminated, the country transformed into another US vassal state, balkanized for easier control, its resources looted, its people ruthlessly exploited. America is not Russia’s partner. Pretending otherwise won’t change things. So why does Moscow extend outreach overtures to a nation wanting its own destroyed in its current form? Why does it pursue diplomatic niceties accomplishing ...
After His First 100 Days, We Should Fear Trump More Than Ever
Post Date: 2017-05-01 08:02:33 by Ada
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Politicians and establishment media have greeted what they see as President Trump’s return to the norms of American foreign policy. They welcome the actual or threatened use of military force in Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea, and praise his appointment of a bevvy of generals to senior security posts. A striking feature of Trump’s first 100 days was the way in which the campaign to demonise him and his entourage as creatures of the Kremlin was suddenly switched off like a light as soon as he retreated from his earlier radicalism. In reality, the Trump administration should be more feared as a danger to world peace at the end of his first 100 days in office than it was at ...
Trump praises 'smart cookie' North Korean leader as tensions grow
Post Date: 2017-05-01 00:32:41 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US President Donald Trump has drawn criticism by praising North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as “a pretty smart cookie,” as Washington and Pyongyang position themselves for a possible military confrontation. Speaking to CBS News in an interview that was aired on Sunday, Trump said the North Korean leader was not to be underestimated. “'I can tell you this, and a lot of people don't like when I say it, but he was a young man of 26 or 27 when he took over from his father, when his father died. He's dealing with obviously very tough people, in particular the generals and others,” Trump said. “And at a very young age, he was able to assume ...
John McAfee Has Developed The ‘World’s First Truly Private’ Smartphone
Post Date: 2017-04-30 10:28:27 by Horse
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John McAfee has made a name for himself in the cybersecurity arena but he’s being gaining popularity for his antics recently more than his work in this space. He appears to have been working silently on a new device which he claims is the “world’s first truly private smartphone.” McAfee claims that this smartphone will be the most hack-proof handset ever manufactured. “Enormous investment in hardware costs have gone into this,” McAfee says, adding that the handset has a bank of switches on the back cover which enable the user to physically disconnect the battery, the antennas for Wi-Fi, geolocation, and Bluetooth. The switches can also be used to disconnect ...
Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China
Post Date: 2017-04-30 07:49:45 by Ada
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Not everyone likes to hear about the threat of nuclear war. Some find refuge in denial and say that nuclear war is impossible because it makes no sense. Unfortunately, humankind has a long record of doing things that make no sense. In previous posts in recent years I have pointed out both written documents and changes in US war doctrine that indicate that Washington is preparing a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia and China. More recently, I have shown that Washington’s demonization of Russia and President Putin, the incessant lies about Russian deeds and intentions, and the refusal of Washington to cooperate with Russia on any issue have convinced the Russian government that ...
Will China Force the Saudis to Dump the Dollar?
Post Date: 2017-04-30 04:29:07 by Tatarewicz
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RI... The East is the greatest threat to the petrodollar — and Saudi Arabia is already eyeing oil trade in yuan Should we welcome closer ties between Saudi Arabia and China? As the Asia Times writes, "China’s slow intertwining with Saudi Arabia complements the Sino-Russo alliance. Primarily, its benefits could lead to a realistic threat to the petrodollar." While we'd prefer Saudi Arabia to disappear entirely, if it has to exist — and from a pragmatic standpoint, it probably isn't going anywhere — it would greatly benefit the world if Riyadh dumped the dollar and adopted the yuan. It's not as crazy as it sounds. Russia became one of China's ...
The Place of Christianity in History: A View from Without
Post Date: 2017-04-29 18:52:29 by Ada
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In today’s irreligious and indeed anti-religious climate the fashion is to dismiss Christianity as crude superstition and to babble wisely about the separation of church and state. This is unfortunate, and stupid since Christianity was the heart and soul of as yet the greatest civilization the world has seen. Those who know nothing of it cannot understand the last two thousand years and how our world came to be. Renegade Jews founded Christianity (most Jews soon wished they had not), as a sort of heresy that got out of control, lost all resemblance to Judaism, and eventually stretched across Europe, Russia, North and South America, Australia, and the Byzantine Empire. In all of ...
N. Korean missile test fails hours after UN meeting on nukes
Post Date: 2017-04-29 13:59:05 by BTP Holdings
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N. Korean missile test fails hours after UN meeting on nukes FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated PressApril 28, 2017 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean mid-range ballistic missile apparently failed shortly after launch Saturday, South Korea and the United States said, the third test-fire flop just this month but a clear message of defiance as a U.S. supercarrier conducts drills in nearby waters. North Korean ballistic missile tests are banned by the United Nations because they're seen as part of the North's push for a nuclear-tipped missile that can hit the U.S. mainland. The latest test came as U.S. officials pivoted from a hard line to diplomacy at the U.N. in ...
Marine Le Pen closes the gap with Emmanuel Macron in latest French election poll after he is accused of taking victory for granted
Post Date: 2017-04-29 08:15:09 by Horse
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Macron is predicted to win 59 per cent of the votes on May 7, down four per cent Le Pen is still the underdog of the election, but is enjoying greater support On Wednesday, Le Pen upstaged Macron's visit to a Whirlpool factory in Amiens Marine Le Pen is closing the gap between rival Emmanuel Macron in the latest French election poll after the centrist was accused of taking victory for granted. Macron is still predicted a win on May 7, but his share of the vote could be 59 per cent, down four points, according to an Odoxa survey. Marine Le Pen is on 41 per cent, up four points from earlier in the week. Marine Le Pen is predicted to gain 41 per cent of the French election vote, up ...
Syria in talks to buy Russian air defense systems: Assad
Post Date: 2017-04-29 07:29:05 by Tatarewicz
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PMF... Syria says it is negotiating with Russia to buy state-of-the-art Russian missile defense systems to help defend the Arab country against Israeli and American aggression. SANA -- President Bashar al-Assad made the remarks to Venezuelan channel Telesur. Its natural that we should have such systems, said the Syrian leader. Israel has been committing aggressions on the Arab states surrounding it since its creation in 1948,he said. He made the comments Israel struck an area near the International Airport in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Tel Aviv has conducted many such attacks in the past. The forays, however, have increased in number since the outbreak of the foreign-backed militancy ...
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