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Tareq Haddad resigned from Newsweek last week when they refused to print his story on the Syrian chemical weapons attack OPCW scandle, where they had fabricated the evidence that Syria did it. The military says it needs phosphorous to illuminate battlefields at night, but they illegally use it to kill people.   Airstrikes and mortar shells from Turkey and its Arab militias rained down on the northern Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn a few weeks ago. Images from the attack showed children...

Washington is freaking scary!  The US Senate will consider a draft bill that will oblige the State Department to check whether Russia can be recognised as a “state sponsor of terrorism”. The document was submitted by Republican Cory Gardner. The draft bill also suggests that the State Department will answer another question: whether “Russian-controlled armed formations” in Donbass can be considered “terrorists”. At the same time, Moscow has repeatedly noted that it is not a party to the...

[embedded content] The CIA have noticed Jimmy Dore now.

The GrayzoneUS and UK military-intelligence apparatus campaigns to destroy Jeremy Corbyn Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal The GrayzoneUS government drops case against Max Blumenthal after jailing journalist on false charges Ben Norton Real-World Economics Review BlogSuper-rich in US paid a lower tax rate than the bottom 50% Internationalist 360º [linked to previously but important if you didn't get to it then]Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate Known as the CIA: An Interview with Douglas...

More options...Why the Pentagon Says It Needs Low-Yield Nukes | via @PopMech @KyleMizokami #NuclearWeapons #LowYieldNukes #USMilitary #DoD https://t.co/84j5O3uN1B pic.twitter.com/vF9zAM8p8d— RealClearDefense (@RCDefense) December 8, 2019

Uh huh.Foreign PolicyViolence Is Sometimes the Answer Kai M. Thaler | assistant professor of global studies at the University of California, Santa BarbaraRTHong Kong police retrieve [Glock semi-automatic] PISTOL & 100+ live rounds for 1st time aimed at 'creating chaos'

Short video backgrounder.  Virtually no one in the West remembers this and those that do likely don't consider it a major historical event of the period. All Chinese are intimately familiar with the Opium War as the onset of a century of humiliation for their country, and the Chinese are extremely nationalistic. Armstrong EconomicsThe Opium WarMartin Armstrong

I would add philosophical, social, and scientific to economic assumption. For example, academic economics focuses on homo economicus, ignoring that there is no clearcut, hard and fast distinction among the aspects of life that the various disciplines study. In previous times, when knowledge as a whole was more tractable, one was expected to know the fundamentals of the spectrum of life and knowledge. With the proliferation of information and knowledge, this is no longer possible. But...

De Gaulle hated imperialism and wanted peaceful relations with Russia and China. The Western Deep State tried to assassinate him several times. De Gaulle strategically fought tooth and nail against the pro-NATO fascists led by General Challe who attempted two coup attempts against De Gaulle in 1960 and 1961 and later worked with MI6 and the CIA using private contractors like Permindex to arrange over 30 assassination attempts from 1961-1969. De Gaulle was not only successful at taking France...

George Monbiot exposes the billionaire class. Once upon-a-time people were free to own slaves, but we put a stop to it.George Monbiot's critique of libertarianisn [embedded content]