October 2018
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ICC Prosecutor: The Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin Community Is a War Crime Committed by Israel By Ali Salam
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, released a statement on Wednesday, with regard to Palestine. She refers to the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, stating that “extensive destruction of property without military necessity, as well as population transfers in an occupied territory constitute war crimes under the Rome Statute.” Continue reading
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Crap’s Last Crap or How we Crapped Out By William Bowles
21 October 2018 — Investigating Imperialism With crappy apologies to Samuel Beckett It was just a question of time before the crap spilled over the edge of the bowl. The basement was the first to fill up of course but who looks in the basement; out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Continue reading
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The Geopolitics of Human Gene Editing By Ulson Gunnar
A cursory warning was left by renowned physics professor Stephen Hawking regarding a future where a race of superhumans, manipulating their DNA, would taking control of their own evolution. The warning came just before his death in March of this year. Continue reading
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Converting Khashoggi into Cash By James George JATRAS
The hazard of writing about the Saudis’ absurd gyrations as they seek to avoid blame for the murder of the late, not notably great journalist and Muslim Brotherhood activist Jamal Khashoggi is that by the time a sentence is finished, the landscape may have changed again. Continue reading
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Jamal Khashoggi Newslinks 19-20 October 2018
20 October 2018 — The New Dark Age Jamal Khashoggi case: Saudi Arabia says journalist killed in fight https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45923217 Continue reading
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Inside Nikki Haley’s Shocking Speech to Secretive Far-Right Group
Just days before she resigned as UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley delivered a private speech to the Council for National Policy, a secretive group of influential right-wing figures. Journalist Max Blumenthal obtained exclusive access and reveals shocking details — including Haley’s admission that she threatened the Chinese ambassador with a US invasion of North Korea. Continue reading
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Political Violence Escalates in Brazil as Historic Presidential Race Enters Final Phase
Supporters of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro have attacked dozens of his opponents, killing two, while social media campaign spins out of control with lies about Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad. Michael Fox reports from Brazil Continue reading
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Trump scrambles to cover for Saudi regime as crisis over Khashoggi murder mounts By Barry Grey
Following US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s emergency talks in Riyadh and Ankara, and amid mounting reports implicating Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration is scrambling to shield Washington’s closest ally in the Arab World. Continue reading
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Syria’s UN Rep. Jaafari Puts Saudi Arabia in Its Place
Imagine a country where a royal family spends billions of dollars on US and UK weaponry in order to increase their domestic and regional hegemony, engaging in a brutal regime change wars by force by bombing its neighbors, as well as funding and arming radical Wahhabi terrorists throughout the Middle East, particularly in Syria, along… Continue reading
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Bellingcat linked to Western special services, says Russian foreign minister
Bellingcat, a UK-based open source and social media investigation site, is linked to special services, which use it to “dump” information aimed to sway public opinion, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in an interview with the Euronews channel. Continue reading
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Jamal Khashoggi Newslinks 19 October 2018
19 October 2018 — The New Dark Age ‘Mohammad bin Salman Must Go”, but US-Saudi Ties Are Here to Stay https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/19/mohammad-bin-salman-must-go-but-us-saudi-ties-here-stay.html Continue reading
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Selected Articles: The Khashoggi Affair
18 October 2018 — Global Research Breaking: Seven of Bin Salman’s Bodyguards Among Khashoggi Suspects By David Hearst, October 18, 2018 Seven of the 15 men suspected of being involved in an operation to kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi belong to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s personal security and protection detail, Middle East Eye can reveal. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 18 October 2018: Facebook is NOT Your Friend; Womens’ March on the Pentagon; Jamal Khashoggi and U.S. Hypocrisy; Congo at the Abyss
18 October 2018 — Black Agenda Report Facebook is Not Your Friend – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Facebook has become The Great Censor, ready to pull the pages of dissenters that seek to “stir up political debate” in ways that threaten the legitimacy of corporate rule. Continue reading
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Killing Jamal Khashoggi Was Easy. Explaining It Is Much Harder By Philip M. Giraldi
If he was killed inside the building and dismembered, as seems likely, he could have had his body parts removed in the suitcases carried by the alleged fifteen official Saudis who had arrived that morning by private jet and left that afternoon the same way. The supposition is that the fifteen men, which may have… Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 170 Mid-October 2018 – is now on line
18 October 2018 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia’s Great Tumbling Down – The Boy Who Wanted to be King is No More
Where has Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gone? Since mainstream media broke news of the disappearance and alleged death of Jamal Khashoggi, MBS has gotten a little camera shy … and somewhat politically withdrawn. Continue reading
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Feigning moral outrage, the Times’ Thomas Friedman comes to the defense of the Saudi killer regime By Barry Grey
Leave it to Thomas Friedman, the New York Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator, to outdo his colleagues at the nation’s foremost sounding board for CIA propaganda when it comes to hypocrisy and deceit. This he has achieved in an op-ed piece on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi published in Wednesday’s print edition under the headline… Continue reading
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What sanctions on Russia and China really mean By Pepe Escobar
A crucial Pentagon report on the US defense industrial base and “supply chain resiliency” bluntly accuses China of “military expansion” and “a strategy of economic aggression,” mostly because Beijing is the only source for “a number of chemical products used in munitions and missiles.” Russia is mentioned only once, but in a crucial paragraph: as… Continue reading
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Mainstream Media Drives Getaway Car for Alt-Media Purge By Helen Buyniski
Facebook purged more than 800 accounts last week, continuing its scorched-earth campaign of eradicating dissent as Americans prepare to go to the polls. The social media platform is nicely settling into its role as official censor, working hand in glove with the imperialist Atlantic Council to silence all popular voices to the left and right… Continue reading
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Israeli Private Intelligence Companies Turn Civilians into Enemies
Shir Hever talks about Psy-Group and other Israeli private intelligence companies and the role which they play in undermining democracy when intelligence gathering is privatized Continue reading
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