May 2018
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US-NATO War on Syria and Iran: Hitting Two Birds with One Stone?
13 May 2018 — Global Research News Chemical Attack Accusations ‘Fake’: Bashar Al-Assad Interview By Bashar al Assad and Alexis Papachelas, May 13, 2018 I think maybe the only mission accomplished was when they helped ISIS escape from Raqqa, when they helped them, and it was proven by video, and under their cover. The leaders of ISIS escaped Raqqa, Continue reading
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Israel Baits the Hook. Will Syria Bite? By Tony Cartalucci
Headlines like the UK’s Independent’s, “Israel and Iran on brink of war after unprecedented Syria bombardment in response to alleged Golan Heights attack,” attempt to portray the Israeli aggression as self-defense. The Independent, however, failed to produce any evidence confirming Israeli claims. At face value, for Iran to inexplicably launch missiles at Israel, unprovoked and… Continue reading
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Syria News Link 12-13 May 2018
13 May 2018 — williambowles.info Israel Baits the Hook. Will Syria Bite? https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-baits-the-hook-will-syria-bite/5640294 Iran News Links 12-13 May 2018 https://williambowles.info/2018/05/13/iran-news-links-12-13-may-2018/ Continue reading
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Iran News Links 12-13 May 2018
13 May 2018 12:06:55 — williambowles.info The Real Reason Trump Abandoned the Iran Nuclear Deal https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/05/13/real-reason-trump-abandoned-iran-nuclear-deal.html Low turnout in Iraq vote. Partial results put pro-Iran candidate in lead https://www.debka.com/mivzak/low-turnout-in-iraq-vote-partial-results-put-pro-iran-candidate-in-lead/ Continue reading
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Israel’s Violence on Gazans’ Non-Violence
Norman Finkelstein says that Israeli forces have conducted “a murderous assault on non-violent protesters” in Gaza’s Great March of Return because non-violent protest threatens not Israel, but its occupation Continue reading
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Israel’s Violence on Gazans’ Non-Violence
Norman Finkelstein says that Israeli forces have conducted “a murderous assault on non-violent protesters” in Gaza’s Great March of Return because non-violent protest threatens not Israel, but its occupation Continue reading
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Hamas and Fatah: Why the two groups are failing By Jonathan Cook
The Palestinian national movement, which has led the decades-long struggle against Israel’s takeover of the Palestinians’ homeland, has reached the lowest ebb in its history, according to analysts. But as Palestinians mark this week the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the “Catastrophe” that followed the dispossession of their homeland and the creation of Israel in… Continue reading
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Ecuador hints it may hand over Julian Assange to Britain and the US By James Cogan
Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to renege on the political asylum it granted to the WikiLeaks editor in 2012 and hand him over to British and then American authorities. Continue reading
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Jeremy Corbyn silent on persecution of Julian Assange By Laura Tiernan
Since he was elected leader in September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn has made no public statement in Assange’s defence. Corbyn has refused to condemn the May government’s preparations to arrest Assange should he leave the embassy and has offered no guarantee that a Labour government will block his extradition to the US. Continue reading
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D-Notices, State Censorship And The Cynical Collusion of Mainstream Media
A DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice) — formerly a DA-Notice (Defence Advisory Notice), and before that called a Defence Notice (D-Notice) until 1993—is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for “reasons of national security.” Continue reading
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Countdown To War On Iran
The U.S. administration, the neoconservatives and the media are running a remake (recommended) of the propaganda campaign they had launched to wage war on Iraq. This time the target is Iran Continue reading
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Media Debate Best Way to Dominate Iran By Gregory Shupak
The New York Times‘ Bret Stephens (5/8/18) is glad Trump canceled the Iran deal because that allows the US to threaten Iran with “economic ruin and possible war.” The debate in the New York Times and Washington Post over President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known… Continue reading
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Iran News links 11-12 May 2018
12 May 2018 14:26:32 — williambowles.info Iraq and Syria: of memory and maps https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/darius-kamali/iraq-and-syria-of-memory-and-maps If Europe Wants to Remain on the World Stage, It Must Resist Trump on Iran https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/05/12/if-europe-wants-remain-world-stage-must-resist-trump-iran.html Continue reading
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Who Hired an Israeli Spy Firm to Tarnish the Iran Deal?
Trita Parsi was targeted as part of Black Cube’s spy operations against Obama officials involved in the Iran nuclear deal. With evidence pointing to the Trump camp’s role, Parsi says that Congress sho.uld investigate (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Iran News Links 10-11 May 2018
11 May 2018 17:42:58 — williambowles.info The Sound and Fury and Silences of Donald Trump. “What is the Purpose of America’s Roughly 4,000 Existing Nuclear Weapons?” https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-sound-and-fury-and-silences-of-donald-trump-what-is-the-purpose-of-americas-roughly-4000-existing-nuclear-weapons/5640038 Iran – Trump’s Broken Deal – Maneuver to War? http://thesaker.is/iran-trumps-broken-deal-maneuver-to-war/ Continue reading
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Unmasking the White Helmets
British government official agencies are the patrons, managers and funders of the White Helmets, who have been the go-to source for the mainstream Western media reporting on the ongoing Syrian war. For good measure, the U.S. State Department’s Agency for International Development (USAID) has kicked in $23 million to finance Mayday Rescue, the cutout between… Continue reading
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Media Use Disinformation To Accuse Russia Of Spreading Such
The Grauniad is slipping deeper into the disinformation business: Revealed: UK’s push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance is the headline of a page one piece which reveals exactly nothing. There is no secret lifted and no one was discomforted by a questioning journalist. Continue reading
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Will a Torturer Become CIA Director? By Ray McGovern
It is no secret that Haspel oversaw detainee torture, including waterboarding, at a CIA “black site” base in Thailand. The nonprofit National Security Archive, housed at The George Washington University, reports that Haspel later drafted a cable ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes of torture sessions, including some from before her arrival. Haspel also… Continue reading
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Who’s Reacting to Iran Deal Pull-Out? Why, It’s Women in Chadors, Walking Past Anti-US Mural By Jim Naureckas
Adam Johnson (FAIR.org, 10/21/17) called the “Woman in Chador Walks by Anti-US Mural” image “one of the most overused and toxic stock photos.” Documenting its ubiquity in online US coverage of Iran, Johnson argued that the cliche photo of “one or two Iranian women clad in black chadors, faces usually barely visible, walking past a… Continue reading
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In Provoking Iran and Allies Alike to Please Netanyahu, Donald Trump has become the Most-Pro-Zionist American President Ever By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay
It has become more and more obvious, for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see that Donald Trump’s drive to power is making the world a less secure place, possibly a very dangerous place. Trump is constantly poking the fires of war with his bullying foreign policy, a policy that seems to… Continue reading
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