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Trump Stands His Ground on Putin – Antiwar.com Original

Posted by M. C. on July 20, 2018

By cheering Brexit, dissing the EU, suggesting NATO is obsolete, departing Syria, trying to get on with Putin, Trump is threatening the entire U.S. foreign policy establishment with what it fears most – irrelevance.

https://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2018/07/19/trump-stands-his-ground-on-putin/

Thursday, Trump indicated that he knows exactly what is afoot, and threw down the gauntlet of defiance:

“The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war. They are pushing so recklessly hard and hate the fact that I’ll probably have a good relationship with Putin.”

Spot on. Trump is saying: I am going to call off this Cold War II before it breaks out into the hot war that nine U.S. presidents avoided, despite Soviet provocations far graver than Putin’s pilfering of DNC emails showing how Debbie Wasserman Schultz stuck it to Bernie Sanders…

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A NATO Crisis – LewRockwell

Posted by M. C. on July 13, 2018

We are giving the world a lesson in how great powers decline…

Why are we still defending European nations that collectively have 10 times the GDP of Vladimir Putin’s Russia?

Because NATO is one of the many tentacles of empire building neocons and the CIA.

A NATO Crisis

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Of President Donald Trump’s explosion at Angela Merkel’s Germany during the NATO summit, it needs to be said: It is long past time we raised our voices.

America pays more for NATO, an alliance created 69 years ago to defend Europe, than do the Europeans. And as Europe free-rides off our defense effort, the EU runs trade surpluses at our expense that exceed $100 billion a year.

To Trump, and not only to him, we are being used, gouged, by rich nations we defend, while they skimp on their own defense… Read the rest of this entry »

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MoA – “Officials” Attempt To Sabotage Further North Korea Talks

Posted by M. C. on July 3, 2018

Keeping up the sheeple’s fear means job security. Follow the money.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/06/officials-attempt-to-sabotage-trumps-north-korea-talks.html

Several Congress people and some officials in the CIA and Trump administration try to throw a spanner into the negotiations with North Korea. They “leak” to NBC News about an intelligence assessment on North Korea’s nuclear facilities. The result is a sensationalized piece that includes no surprising facts.

North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites, say U.S. officials
“Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles,” said one U.S. official.

One of the NBC authors is Ken Dilanian who is well known for his tight cooperation with the CIA.

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The Supreme Court’s Deference to the Pentagon – The Future of Freedom Foundation

Posted by M. C. on July 2, 2018

https://www.fff.org/2018/06/29/the-supreme-courts-deference-to-the-pentagon/

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Imagine a county sheriff that took a suspected drug-law violator into custody more than 10 years ago. Since then, the man has been held in jail without being accorded a trial. The district attorney and the sheriff promise to give the man a trial sometime in the future but they’re just not sure when. Meanwhile the man sits in jail indefinitely just waiting for his trial to begin.

Difficult to imagine, right? That’s because most everyone would assume that a judge would never permit such a thing to happen. The man’s lawyer would file a petition for writ of habeas corpus. A judge would order the sheriff to produce the prisoner and show cause why the prisoner shouldn’t immediately be released from custody. At the habeas corpus hearing, the judge would either order the release of the prisoner based on the violation of his right to a speedy trial or he would order the state to either try him or release him… Read the rest of this entry »

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OAS Facing Call for New Probe into RFK Murder – Consortiumnews

Posted by M. C. on June 8, 2018

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/06/oas-facing-call-for-new-probe-into-rfk-murder/

By Dr. William Pepper and Andrew Kreig

Robert Kennedy was shot on June 5 and died June 6, 1968, fifty years ago today. A new examination of evidence is forcing human rights organizations — including the OAS— to consider probing the case.

Recent news about Robert F. Kennedy’s fatal shooting sharpens the challenge for human rights organizations in how to address the shocking justice issues raised by the continued imprisonment of RFK’s convicted slayer Sirhan Sirhan.

Reporters and researchers have recently shown the disturbing pattern of suppressed evidence and other legal irregularities that led to Sirhan’s 1969 murder conviction after his scanty defense at trial.

On Sunday, May 26, The Washington Post published a front-page story by Tom Jackman headlined Who killed Bobby Kennedy? His son RFK Jr. doesn’t believe it was Sirhan Sirhan.

The report constituted a breakthrough for a mainstream news organization, particularly because the article extensively examined scientific and other evidence supporting Sirhan’s innocence… Read the rest of this entry »

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How the FBI, CIA, and NYT Collaborated to Sway the 1996 Election

Posted by M. C. on June 1, 2018

Hovering above TWA 800 the moment it exploded was a U.S. Navy P-3 Orion with its transponder off.  The P-3 plays a critical role in missile tests relaying information among the various “combatants,” in this instance a cruiser and three subs that were in the “immediate vicinity” of the crash site.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/how_the_fbi_cia_and_nyt_collaborated_to_sway_the_1996_election.html

By Jack Cashill

The gold standard of government conspiracy remains the investigation into the July 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the south coast of Long Island.  The ensuing cover-up involved many of the same players as in the Russia conspiracy and for the same immediate goal: to secure a presidential election for a Clinton.

As with the Russia scandal, not all the collaborators in the TWA 800 case were equally motivated or equally powerful.  The White House drove the conspiracy through its Justice Department.  The CIA executed it without conscience.  The FBI grudgingly yielded to the CIA.  And the New York Times dutifully reported what the FBI whispered in its reporters’ ears… Read the rest of this entry »

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Haspel Is Not the Problem. The CIA Is the Problem. – Antiwar.com Original

Posted by M. C. on May 22, 2018

The problem is not Haspel, it’s not John Brennan, it’s not our lack of confidence. The problem is the CIA itself. If the president really cared about our peace, prosperity, and security, he would take steps to end this national disgrace. It’s time to abolish the CIA!

It is talk like this that got JFK dead.

https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2018/05/21/haspel-is-not-the-problem-the-cia-is-the-problem/

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As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it’s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president’s enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as CIA director but of the torture program she oversaw should tell us all we need to know about Haspel.

Saying that Haspel would make a great CIA director, Cheney dismissed concerns over the CIA’s torture program. Asked in a television interview last week about the program, Cheney said, “if it were my call, I’d do it again.”

Sadly, the majority of the US Senate agreed with Cheney that putting a torturer in charge of the CIA was a good idea. Only two Republicans – Senators Paul and Flake – voted against Haspel. Read the rest of this entry »

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Does CNN’s Anderson Cooper Work For The CIA? It Shouldn’t Be Taboo To Talk About It – Collective Evolution

Posted by M. C. on May 14, 2018

If you pay any attention at all to CNN or Cooper, this is a good reason to stop.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/05/11/does-cnns-anderson-cooper-work-for-the-cia-it-shouldnt-really-be-taboo-to-talk-about-it/

Arjun Walia

As James F. Tracy, a former professor of communications at Florida Atlantic University, emphasizes:

Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence over what the public sees, hears and reads on a regular basis. CIA publicists and journalists alike will assert they have few, if any, relationships, yet the seldom acknowledged history of their intimate collaboration indicates a far different story–indeed, one that media historians are reluctant to examine.

Not long ago, Emma Best from Muckrock wrote an article about how, in 1984, the CIA planned to infiltrate academia and media, and her article was retweeted by Edward Snowden. You can view that document here, and read more about it here.

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Former CIA analyst dragged from Haspel hearing by Capitol Police after anti-torture protest — RT US News

Posted by M. C. on May 10, 2018

Click the link for the videos. “Bloody Gina”. Isn’t that special!

https://www.rt.com/usa/426282-mcgovern-protest-haspel-hearing/

Former CIA analyst and anti-war activist Ray McGovern was forcibly removed from the US Senate hearing where Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, was answering questions about her record on torture.

McGovern was dragged from the room by Capitol Police after demanding that Haspel answer questions put to her about the waterboarding of terror suspects at a CIA “black site” in Thailand.

Before the McGovern incident, Haspel was interrupted by another lone protester. A woman, wearing a red t-shirt and shouting “Bloody Gina!” and “you are a torturer!” was also removed by police.

“Bloody Gina” was the nickname given to Haspel by her CIA colleagues, according to whistleblower John Kiriakou, who also claimed that Haspel personally tortured people because she “enjoyed it”.

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Former CIA analyst on the agency’s history of lying to the public RT — Redacted Tonight

Posted by M. C. on May 10, 2018

Click the link for the video

https://www.rt.com/shows/redacted-tonight-summary/402475-intelligence-belgium-habit-community/

Former CIA analyst on the agency’s history of lying to the public

Lee speaks with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the intelligence community’s habit of disseminating faulty intelligence for the benefit of the war machine. Lee then switches gears to talk about Ghent, a city in Belgium that’s leading the way as a sustainable, commons-based community.

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