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Vast majority in the Middle East knows (We Exclude Wahabie
KSA and Takfiri and US Puppets, BNP/MKO/Fascist/Racist,... ), what majority of western audiences like Trump supporters,
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corporate media like BBC-CNN-FOX
NEWS, FR 24, ITV/CH 4-SKY-EURO NEWS, ITV- that those
murdered by Trump's expeditionary forces in the last few days, were those most
responsible for the destruction of the Bolton/ Saudi-inspired terrorists like ISIS
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Josh
Sigurdson
@JoshSigurdson
• 2h Check this out and share! BREAKING
NEWS: Josh Sigurdson reports on Iran striking U.S. on bases in Iraq! ➽➜R⇢➤=RESEARCH ➽=ALL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcotdR8U37o
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Facebook Tyrant
I saw a post about remembering the US shoot down of the
Iranian airliner (Iran Air Flight 655) in 1988, and Facebook had a flag warning
that it was "fake news" MOUTHPIECE OF Pentagon
Facebook is a protector and preserver of the propaganda
classifying IR Iran as a dangerous terrorist organization. But FB knows well,
that USA is the biggest terrorist country in the world. USA invades other
countries just to own their natural resources and to place them in the hands of
American corporations. Facebook doesn't call that terrorism. They call it
democracy. Leave FB
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FB is marking this as "partly false information, checked by
independent fact checkers" and then linking to some Spanish language fact
checking site named "Observador" which ranks the post at the upper
end of their "deceiver" scale based on the site's analysis asserting
that the US in reality apologised, while ignoring the fact that all military
personnel involved were decorated for their actions in taking down the plane.
The site, by
the way, contains almost no information about where it is bases, how it is
funded, or other information which relates to its own credibility. Conclusion:
Partly false
The
information in this post is a mix of true and false statements or it could
simply be incomplete. In some cases, the information is misleading.
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Enganador:
EUA não pediram desculpa por abaterem um avião comercial iraniano em 1988?
Publicação
diz que os EUA não pediram desculpa quando abateram um avião da Iran Air.
George H. W. Bush disse que nunca o faria, mas o então Presidente...
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In response to Donald Trump's comment, President of Iran
recalls the day the US eliminated a plane with 290 people on board, including
66 children. Killers were awarded:Trump’s Shameless Murder
of Soleimani Will Kill Thousands of US Troops — By Suicide
Each and every day, an average of 20 American
veterans take their own lives. The standard diagnosis is PTSD. But that
catch-all label conceals the deeper reality: The biggest single factor driving
veteran depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicide is shame. Veterans
know that US attacks against Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran are unjust. They
have seen, and in some cases participated in, horrifically immoral behavior.
Invading someone else’s country is the supreme war crime, the worst crime that a
human being can commit according to the Nuremburg Principles, and it
encompasses and leads to all of the lesser war crimes. Our veterans know,
consciously or unconsciously, that they are war criminals. That is why so many
are executing themselves. https://kevinbarrett.heresycentral.is/2020/01/trump-suicide/?fbclid=IwAR3vBDaLzMsrR2aQpd4Kzw72hnHxlhoHZ2LQhLhB-qvRcEcJYoCdPr_j2pE
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“The law of unintended
consequences” Blowback From The Soleimani
Assassination Increases As Iraq Reveals How Trump Tried To Steal Its Oil The blowback from Trump’s assassination of Major General
Qassem Soleimani and PMU leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis is increasing. A
scandal is developing as one consequence of Trump’s evil deed after Iraq’s
Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi revealed the gangster methods U.S. President
Trump used in his attempts to steal Iraq’s oil. Below we follow today’s
development.
The mourning for the assassinated Iranian
Major General Qassem Soleimani unfortunately caused even more suffering:
A stampede
broke out Tuesday at a funeral for a top Iranian general killed in a U.S.
airstrike, and at least 56 people were killed and more than 200 were injured as
thousands thronged the procession, Iranian news reports said.
The stampede
took place in Kerman, the hometown of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem
Soleimani, as the procession began, said the semi-official Fars and ISNA news
agencies, citing Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran’s emergency medical
services.
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/07/blowback-from-the-soleimani-assassination-increases-as-iraq-reveals-how-trump-tried-to-steal-its-oil/?fbclid=IwAR3BQJhm7h68QwwidVKP7to0k60jEnO782V2CReIr-C96hjcBE8ExSjGXEg
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In one of the
series of blatant lies the U.S. has told to justify the assassination of
Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
said that Soleimani was killed because he was planning “imminent attacks” on U.S.
citizens. It is a careful choice of word. Pompeo is specifically referring to
the Bethlehem Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Self Defence.
Developed by Daniel
Bethlehem when legal adviser to first Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s government and then U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Bethlehem
Doctrine says states have a right of “pre-emptive self-defence” against
“imminent” attack. That is something most people, and most international law
experts and judges, would accept. Including me. https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/09/lies-the-bethlehem-doctrine-the-illegal-murder-of-soleimani/?fbclid=IwAR2nhskd-JFjec-4GAiP0gmg4lN3vLNF_dnp2Kpa1uekoe1FiwCseufWmcA
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Diane E
Poland
"In one of the series of blatant lies the U.S. has told to
justify the assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, U.S.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Soleimani was killed because he was
planning “imminent attacks” on U.S. citizens. It is a careful choice of word.
Pompeo is specifically referring to the Bethlehem Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Self
Defence.
Developed by Daniel Bethlehem when legal adviser to first
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and then U.K. Prime
Minister Tony Blair, the Bethlehem Doctrine says states have a right of
“pre-emptive self-defence” against “imminent” attack. That is something most
people, and most international law experts and judges, would accept. Including
me.
What very few people, and almost no international lawyers,
accept is the key to the Bethlehem Doctrine — that here “imminent,”the word
used so carefully by Pompeo — does not need to have its normal meanings of
either “soon” or “about to happen.” An attack may be deemed “imminent,”
according to the Bethlehem Doctrine, even if you know no details of it or when
it might occur. So you may be assassinated by a drone or bomb strike — and the
doctrine was specifically developed to justify such strikes — because of
“intelligence” that indicates you are engaged in a plot, when that intelligence
neither says what the plot is nor when it might occur. Or even more tenuous,
because there is intelligence saying you have engaged in a plot before, so it
is reasonable to kill you in case you do so again.
Drone “pilots” launch an MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle
for a raid in the Middle East. (U.S. military)
I am not inventing the Bethlehem Doctrine. It has been the
formal legal justification for drone strikes and targeted assassinations by the
Israeli, U.S. and U.K. governments for a decade. Here it is in academic paper
form, published by Bethlehem after he left government service (the form in
which it is adopted by the U.S., U.K. and Israeli governments is classified
information).
Twisting the Meaning of ‘Imminent’
So, when Pompeo says attacks by Soleimani were “imminent” he is
not using the word in the normal sense in the English language. It is no use
asking him what, where or when these “imminent” attacks were planned to be. He
is referencing the Bethlehem Doctrine under which you can kill people on the
basis of a feeling that they may have been about to do something.
The idea that killing an individual who you have received
information is going to attack you, but you do not know when, where or how, can
be justified as self-defence, has not gained widespread acceptance — or indeed
virtually any acceptance — in legal circles outside the ranks of the most
extreme devoted neo-conservatives and Zionists. Daniel Bethlehem became the
U.K.’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s chief legal adviser, brought in by
Jack Straw, precisely because every single one of the FCO’s existing legal
advisers believed the Iraq War to be illegal. In 2004, when the House of
Commons was considering the legality of the war on Iraq, Bethlehem produced a
remarkable paper for consideration, which said that it was legal because the
courts and existing law were wrong, a defense which has seldom succeeded in
court.
(b)
“following this line, I am also of the view that the wider principles of the law on self-defence also require closer scrutiny. I am not persuaded that the approach of doctrinal purity reflected in the Judgments of the International Court of Justice in this area provide a helpful edifice on which a coherent legal regime, able to address the exigencies of contemporary international life and discourage resort to unilateral action, is easily crafted;”
“following this line, I am also of the view that the wider principles of the law on self-defence also require closer scrutiny. I am not persuaded that the approach of doctrinal purity reflected in the Judgments of the International Court of Justice in this area provide a helpful edifice on which a coherent legal regime, able to address the exigencies of contemporary international life and discourage resort to unilateral action, is easily crafted;”
The key was that the concept of “imminent” was to change:
The concept of what constitutes an
“imminent” armed attack will develop to meet new circumstances and new
threats." https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/09/lies-the-bethlehem-doctrine-the-illegal-murder-of-soleimani/?fbclid=IwAR2nhskd-JFjec-4GAiP0gmg4lN3vLNF_dnp2Kpa1uekoe1FiwCseufWmcA
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The
US is being run by a government that no longer represents the people
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-government-supreme-court-senate-president-represent-minority-views-2019-12?fbclid=IwAR2KiPh1_LQ4Pm8CdlOwuE5OGQQozKsnXUzfAu3HTn5pRW3PtZXJ588qudo&r=US&IR=T
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U.S.
Regime Has Killed 20-30 Million People Since World War II After the
catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of
desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few
people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out
that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same
feelings in people in other nations, but they produced hardly a ripple.
Although Americans understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the
world empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of wrongs
committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon overshadowed by an
accelerated “war on terrorism.” https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-regime-has-killed-20-30-million-people-since-world-war-ii/5633111
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Sheep-Dogging
on Steroids: America’s New Democratic Party Anti-War Activists https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-democratic-party-anti-war-activists/5700074?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles
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Iranians
Are Not Our Enemies
When foreign policy as we know it isn’t
working, creative citizen diplomacy can step in to humanize the real people who
would be most impacted by war
by
Patrick Hiller When we are talking
about the possibility of war with Iran, we must refuse to think about the
faceless enemy that is so often being dehumanized in our political system and
in the media. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/07/02/iranians-are-not-our-enemies?fbclid=IwAR0Gswv8fByyrOLzLU42P-x-6HhiUOpCmp8PRlx6r2hIWpFoegi0ct502wQ
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Avid Kamgar
·
When “millions” of
Iranians come out to mourn the death of General Soleimani and pay respect, the
US media (even the trusted, progressive” NPR) continues to repeat “thousands”.
This is wrong by 3 orders of magnitude
Even from this minor example, one can extrapolate the degree of trust worthiness of the American news media.
This is wrong by 3 orders of magnitude
Even from this minor example, one can extrapolate the degree of trust worthiness of the American news media.
Kimberly
Ann Todd "On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former
Israeli ambassador to the United States Danny Ayalon about the assassination of
Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He discusses Netanyahu’s statements to
cabinet calling his assassination a purely American event and urging Israeli
ministers to stay out of the conflict, as well as Soleimani reportedly
carrying an Iranian answer to the Saudi peace initiative, why Trump notified
Netanyahu before the assassination but did not tell other US allies, and more!
Next, we speak to Iraqi MP Saad al-Muttalibi about the Iraqi parliament’s
decision to expel US and other foreign forces from Iraq. He discusses the
process by which Iraq will expel foreign forces, why the assassination of Hashd
Al-Shaabi’s (PMF) Deputy Chief Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis is an outrage considering
his role in defeating ISIS, the unacceptable US response to his assassination,
and the revelation that Soleimani was due to meet Iraqi PM Adil Abdul Mahdi to
discuss Saudi Arabia’s proposal for peace between the Middle Eastern rivals.
Finally, we speak to Geoffrey Robertson QC to discuss his new book ‘Who Owns
History,’ which explores the history of imperial powers stealing and keeping
cultural monuments and treasures. He also discusses Donald Trump’s threat to
target Iranian cultural sites, for which he calls the US president a barbarian,
and suggests that US generals will likely disobey Trump’s order to avoid being
prosecuted for war crimes." https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/477706-israeli-ambassador-soleimani-assassination/?fbclid=IwAR0ch-7GD3AYhIOGZYEZkhATOCtwMCjXbeZUwg9kCrjCnZ5lsg-3PmObLVc
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Washington’s
War on Reality
Trump and the US war
lobby continued to lay on the moxie, saying ‘no one will mourn Solemani’s passing.’ Those
propaganda lines quickly evaporated when scenes emerged from Iran,
showing millions
of Iranians taking to the streets in
multiple cities, in what is now regarded as one of the largest televised
funeral processions in world history. Trump
Stands Down Against Iran, U.S. Still in Denial of the ‘New Middle East’ https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/01/09/trump-stands-down-against-iran-but-still-in-denial-of-this-new-middle-east/?fbclid=IwAR3_HjqpRGWn3k3Wl3ISXHZ9-e-BUOvX3C1GSjJcvflZDVILWY-ylmTuCGM
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January
8, 2020
©
Photo: Wikimedia
Days after the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, new and
important information is coming to light from a speech given by the Iraqi prime
minister. The story behind Soleimani’s assassination seems to go much deeper
than what has thus far been reported, involving Saudi Arabia and China as well
the U.S. dollar’s role as the global reserve currency.
The Iraqi prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, has revealed details
of his interactions with Trump in the weeks leading up to Soleimani’s
assassination in a speech to the Iraqi parliament. He tried to explain several
times on live television how Washington had been browbeating him and other
Iraqi members of parliament to toe the American line, even threatening to
engage in false-flag sniper shootings of both protesters and security personnel
in order to inflame the situation, recalling similar modi operandi seen in
Cairo in 2009, Libya in 2011, and Maidan in 2014. The purpose of such cynicism
was to throw Iraq into chaos. https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/08/the-deeper-story-behind-the-assassination-of-soleimani/?fbclid=IwAR0WATCZwhGRhlxG96ETK-9mEsW9onBNjgZnt3d3BFSrenRO-e0lpiJ5z8w
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Federico
Pieraccini
My analysis for Strategic Culture
Foundation on the killing of Soleimani dives into the complexity and
the behind the curtain events that have not been reported by mainstream media.
(...)
"The Iraqi prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, has revealed
details of his interactions with Trump in the weeks leading up to Soleimani’s
assassination in a speech to the Iraqi parliament. He tried to explain several
times on live television how Washington had been browbeating him and other
Iraqi members of parliament to toe the American line, even threatening to
engage in false-flag sniper shootings of both protesters and security personnel
in order to inflame the situation, recalling similar modi operandi seen in
Cairo in 2009, Libya in 2011, and Maidan in 2014. The purpose of such cynicism
was to throw Iraq into chaos.
Here is the reconstruction of the story:
[Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq] Halbousi
attended the parliamentary session while almost none of the Sunni members did.
This was because the Americans had learned that Abdul-Mehdi was planning to
reveal sensitive secrets in the session and sent Halbousi to prevent this.
Halbousi cut Abdul-Mehdi off at the commencement of his speech and then asked
for the live airing of the session to be stopped. After this, Halbousi together
with other members, sat next to Abdul-Mehdi, speaking openly with him but
without it being recorded. This is what was discussed in that session that was
not broadcast:
Abdul-Mehdi spoke angrily about how the Americans had ruined the
country and now refused to complete infrastructure and electricity grid
projects unless they were promised 50% of oil revenues, which Abdul-Mehdi refused.
The complete (translated) words of Abdul-Mahdi’s speech to
parliament:
This is why I visited China and signed an important agreement
with them to undertake the construction instead. Upon my return, Trump called
me to ask me to reject this agreement. When I refused, he threatened to unleash
huge demonstrations against me that would end my premiership.
Huge demonstrations against me duly materialized and Trump
called again to threaten that if I did not comply with his demands, then he
would have Marine snipers on tall buildings target protesters and security
personnel alike in order to pressure me.
I refused again and handed in my resignation. To this day the
Americans insist on us rescinding our deal with the Chinese.
After this, when our Minister of Defense publicly stated that a
third party was targeting both protestors and security personnel alike (just as
Trump had threatened he would do), I received a new call from Trump threatening
to kill both me and the Minister of Defense if we kept on talking about this
“third party”.
Nobody imagined that the threat was to be applied to General
Soleimani, but it was difficult for Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi to reveal
the weekslong backstory behind the terrorist attack.
I was supposed to meet him [Soleimani] later in the morning when
he was killed. He came to deliver a message from Iran in response to the
message we had delivered to the Iranians from the Saudis.
We can surmise, judging by Saudi Arabia’s reaction, that some
kind of negotiation was going on between Tehran and Riyadh:
The Kingdom’s statement regarding the events in Iraq stresses
the Kingdom’s view of the importance of de-escalation to save the countries of
the region and their people from the risks of any escalation.
Above all, the Saudi Royal family wanted to let people know
immediately that they had not been informed of the US operation:
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia was not consulted regarding the US
strike. In light of the rapid developments, the Kingdom stresses the importance
of exercising restraint to guard against all acts that may lead to escalation,
with severe consequences.
And to emphasize his reluctance for war, Mohammad bin Salman
sent a delegation to the United States. Liz Sly, the Washington Post Beirut
bureau chief, tweated:
Saudi Arabia is sending a delegation to Washington to urge
restraint with Iran on behalf of [Persian] Gulf states. The message will be:
‘Please spare us the pain of going through another war’.
What clearly emerges is that the success of the operation
against Soleimani had nothing to do with the intelligence gathering of the US
or Israel. It was known to all and sundry that Soleimani was heading to Baghdad
in a diplomatic capacity that acknowledged Iraq’s efforts to mediate a solution
to the regional crisis with Saudi Arabia.
It would seem that the Saudis, Iranians and Iraqis were well on
the way towards averting a regional conflict involving Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Riyadh’s reaction to the American strike evinced no public joy or celebration.
Qatar, while not seeing eye to eye with Riyadh on many issues, also immediately
expressed solidarity with Tehran, hosting a meeting at a senior government
level with Mohammad Zarif Jarif, the Iranian foreign minister. Even Turkey and
Egypt, when commenting on the asassination, employed moderating language."
(...)
"The assassination of Soleimani is the US lashing out at
its steady loss of influence in the region. The Iraqi attempt to mediate a
lasting peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia has been scuppered by the US and
Israel’s determination to prevent peace in the region and instead increase
chaos and instability.
Washington has not achieved its hegemonic status through a
preference for diplomacy and calm dialogue, and Trump has no intention of
departing from this approach.
Washington’s friends and enemies alike must
acknowledge this reality and implement the countermeasures necessary to contain
the madness."
Trump: 'I Have Done More For Christianity Than
Jesus' AND:
ISIS/ KSA-Bahraini
Regime ..../MKO (MEK)...’WE HAVE DONE MORE FOR WAHABI/... ISLAM THAN DEVIL’
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In response to the Christianity
Today editorial calling for his removal, Trump called the
magazine a “left-wing rag” and said, “I have done more for Christianity than
Jesus.”
“I mean, the name of the magazine is Christianity
Today, and who is doing more for Christians today? Not Jesus. He
disappeared; no one knows what happened to him. But I’m out there every day
protecting churches from crazy liberals.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-i-have-done-more-for-christianity-than-jesus?fbclid=IwAR2L8l6xX6-AmIJpfcg4mq5UAwjhOXFBsjv6Up_F06ab8LXvJZwg7QeiRow
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Everything You Need To Know
About Trump (But Were Afraid To Admit You Wondered) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everything-you-need-know-about-trump-were-afraid-admit-you-wondered?fbclid=IwAR15dpXtQkpDNR_YpEzdteVz5guhR-hRqvLdHmYUxRf-z3mKNxkXHYkLAK4
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William
Blum
Overthrowing other people’s governments:
The Master List Instances of
the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign
government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster
of a government)
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China
1949 to early 1960s
·
Albania
1949-53
·
East
Germany 1950s
·
Iran
1953 *
·
Guatemala
1954 *
·
Costa
Rica mid-1950s
·
Syria
1956-7
·
Egypt
1957
·
Indonesia
1957-8
·
British
Guiana 1953-64 *
·
Iraq
1963 *
·
North
Vietnam 1945-73
·
Cambodia
1955-70 *
·
Laos
1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
·
Ecuador
1960-63 *
·
Congo
1960 *
·
France
1965
·
Brazil
1962-64 *
·
Dominican
Republic 1963 *
·
Cuba
1959 to present
·
Bolivia
1964 *
·
Indonesia
1965 *
·
Ghana
1966 *
·
Chile
1964-73 *
·
Greece
1967 *
·
Costa
Rica 1970-71
·
Bolivia
1971 *
·
Australia
1973-75 *
·
Angola
1975, 1980s
·
Zaire
1975
·
Portugal
1974-76 *
·
Jamaica
1976-80 *
·
Seychelles
1979-81
·
Chad
1981-82 *
·
Grenada
1983 *
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South
Yemen 1982-84
·
Suriname
1982-84
·
Fiji
1987 *
·
Libya
1980s
·
Nicaragua
1981-90 *
·
Panama
1989 *
·
Bulgaria
1990 *
·
Albania
1991 *
·
Iraq
1991
·
Afghanistan
1980s *
·
Somalia
1993
·
Yugoslavia
1999-2000 *
·
Ecuador
2000 *
·
Afghanistan
2001 *
·
Venezuela
2002 *
·
Iraq
2003 *
·
Haiti
2004 *
·
Somalia
2007 to present
·
Honduras
2009 *
·
Libya
2011 *
·
Syria
2012
·
Ukraine
2014 * By William Blum https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list?fbclid=IwAR1bcYmMXWjFtxO2FQ-xH4-84ZxaVpJhsR9UpcHXVVUo3r4eTk7vQwKGQ10
Don DeBar Of
course, none of us knows yet what caused the plane crash in Tehran yesterday.
But the plane went down over Tehran - that's in Iran, FYI - and Iran denies
that it was shot down. It was departing Tehran Imam Khomeini Airport when it
developed trouble. Shooting down a plane with a missile over a large city
coming out of an international airport leaves a footprint larger than Bigfoot's
- thousands of witnesses, hundreds of cell phone videos, radar and other
electronic air traffic data, etc. Surely we'd have SOME of this evidence by
Barry
Grossman It makes no sense to claim Iran downed the plane, be it
intentionally or by accident. That corporate media outelts and even Canada's PM
are making the allegation without clear evidence only shows how biased and loat
in propaganda they are. On the other hand, if it turns
out that the plane was taken down, my first inclination would be to look at the
US enabled terror group MEK and other US proxies.
Barry
Grossman Standard investigative procedure dictates that when a disaster is
suspected of having in fact been a crime, anyone with an established history of
committing that kind of crime, who had the motive, means, and opportunity to
have done so again, be considered the primary suspect.
Baghdad (GPA)
– It’s time to debunk the common misconceptions floating around and cover
important points missing in most mainstream op-eds, analysis, and Tweets about
General Qasem Soleimani, the US occupation of Iraq, and Washington’s 67-year
aggression against Iran.
9 Things Americans need
to know about General Qasem Soleimani’s assassination and the US occupation of
Iraq
4. General Qasem Soleimani led the fight to eradicate Daesh (ISIS) in the
entire region. https://geopoliticsalert.com/soleimani-assassination-iraq?fbclid=IwAR2iH8XnJ-KgR5kE_jfaaUfRN_EAXcrOEPxXlMrTZPqejh7eBmh8UrkEnnY
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Lie by
Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq At a congressional hearing examining
the march to war in Iraq, Republican congressman Walter Jones posed “a very
simple question” about the administration’s manipulation of intelligence: “How
could the professionals see what was happening and nobody speak out?”Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, responded with an equally simple answer: “The vice president.”
But the blame for Iraq does not end with Cheney, Bush, or Rumsfeld. Nor is it limited to the intelligence operatives who sat silent as the administration cherry-picked its case for war, or with those, like Colin Powell or Hans Blix, who, in the name of loyalty or statesmanship, did not give full throat to their misgivings. It is also shared by far too many in the Fourth Estate, most notably the New York Times‘ Judith Miller. But let us not forget that it lies, inescapably, with we the American people, who, in our fear and rage over the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001, allowed ourselves to be suckered into the most audacious bait and switch of all time. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline/
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17 Years Later, How the Press That Sold the Iraq War Got
Away With It
In an excerpt from his new book Hate Inc., Matt Taibbi
looks back at how the media built new lies to cover their early ones Sixteen years
ago this week, the United States invaded Iraq. We went in on an unconvincing
excuse, articulated by George W. Bush in a
speech days before invasion:
“Intelligence gathered by
this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to
possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. This regime
has already used weapons of mass destruction against Iraq’s neighbors and
against Iraq’s people.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/
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Trump
and His Team Are Lying Their Way to War With Iran
Congress was left in the dark, and the
administration appears to be lying about the intelligence they used to justify
the strike. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/05/trump-and-his-team-are-lying-their-way-war-iran
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Lawrence
Wilkerson on Trump's Iran aggression: same Neocon lies, new targetAs millions of Iranians mourn the US murder of Qassem
Soleimani, ex-Bush administration officialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVWmmVhS0uc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR14CPzxy6jwza-8Ic4nIa7GCs0yN0KAOELvhSSCNp5--ibbtckDXsFOhh4
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Scott Horton is an informed and pragmatic researcher on the lies of
these wars. He recently authored, "Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan".
The recent revelations of the Afghanistan Papers prove Horton was writing the
truth.
Did Iran Kill 600
Americans in Iraq War II? No.
ByScott
HortonJanuary 5, 2020
Due to the current
ubiquity of claims that Iran killed 600 Americans in Iraq War II, I figured it
might be worth bringing up the fact that that is a complete and damnable lie.
In the case of
Petraeus’s surge against Sadrist forces in Sadr City and Najaf in 2007 and
2008, Sadr was the least Iranian-loyal of all the major Shi’ite factions. The
U.S.’s favorites from Dawa and SCIRI were also Iran’s favorites. Sadr wanted
the U.S. and Iran both out. (At a couple of points the U.S. chased Sadr into
Iran, but that was a self-fulfilling blunder, not proof they were right about
him.)
When Petraeus
attacked them they responded, not the other way around. (Danny Sjursen was in
East Baghdad at that time and confirmed this to me in an interview just a few
weeks ago.)
And when they did
respond with copper-core EFP bombs, they were made in Iraq by Iraqis. Despite
all of Michael Gordon’s claims in the New York Times back then, and all the
claims since, no one has ever demonstrated that these bombs came from Iran at
all, much less directly from the Qods force.
via
Janice Kortkamphttps://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/did-iran-kill-600-americans-in-iraq-war-ii-no/?fbclid=IwAR0i0GoGaMUmGthdhKZ5WpxvB93VyoBES0P5YzFi-4PMnBaQEo5vKy2waxE
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Doris Welsh
6 hrs ·
~ Canada's True-Dough Mouths Imbecilic Slander & Dangerous
Gossip ~
Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Rabiei responded to US, British and
Canadian assertions of “secret evidence” by inviting all countries who have
lost citizens in the disaster to come to Tehran in order to investigate the
black box (which they rightfully refused to hand over to US officials). Rabiei
stated on Thursday: “All these reports are a psychological warfare against
Iran. All those countries whose citizens were aboard the plane can send representatives and we urge
Boeing to send its representative to join the process of investigating the black
box.”
Iran stated that all evidence gathered should be “published and
publicized to the world.” ~ * January 10, 2020 ~
BY:
Matthew Ehret ~> the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review and has
authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. His works appear
regularly on The Duran, Strategic Culture, Sott, Fort Russ, Zero Hedge, Global
Times, L.A. Review of Books, LeSaker.fr, Vigile Quebec, South Front and
Veterans Today. He is a correspondent/BRI Expert for ANGLO 5CANADADEFENSE
Canadian
PM Steps Into The Mud Of Slander Blaming Iran For Boeing Crash
Iran's Foreign Minister Calls out Bluff Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau’s recent claim that Ukraine’s flight PS752 was shot down by
Iranian rockets according to “secret intelligence” has provoked the Iranian
government to respond by calling out the bluff which has spread like wildfire
in the recent 48 hours.
On Wednesday, Trudeau stated: “We have
intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own
intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian
surface-to-air missile. This may well have been unintentional.” Canadians
represented 63 of the 176 victims who died in the crash and so the words of the
Canadian government obviously carries more emotional weight than other nations
in this matter. https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/01/canadian-pm-steps-into-the-mud-of-slander-blaming-iran-for-boeing-crash/
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Iran urges all parties involved to
contribute to Ukrainian plane crash probe Iran has urged all
parties involved, including American multinational aviation corporation Boeing,
to contribute to a probe into a Ukrainian plane crash near the
capital Tehran that killed all 176 people aboard.
“According to
international regulations, representatives from the civil aviation agency
of the country where the crash has taken place (Iran), the civil
aviation agency of the country which has issued the airworthiness
certificate (Ukraine), the owner of the airliner (Ukraine International
Airlines), the aircraft manufacturer (Boeing Co.), and the jet engine manufacturer
(CFM International) can participate in the investigation process. A delegate
from Ukraine is already in Iran. We call upon Boeing Co. to dispatch its own
representative to participate in the process of reading the black box
data,” Ali Rabiei, spokesman for the Iranian administration, said in a
statement released early on Friday. https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/09/615786/Iran-urges-all-parties-involved-to-contribute-to-Ukrainian-plane-crash-probe?fbclid=IwAR2v8xZpfw2Jv7KKIl1TK_7gMbB16c3b6-djz1GO5-6d5vKX_8pn7Rs50rw
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the Afghan War might prove a crime against humanityAs it happened, though (and not for
the first time in its history either),
the CIA got it wrong. It wasn’t Osama bin Laden on the receiving end of that
strike, or a member of al-Qaeda, or even of the Taliban. The dead, local
witnesses reported, were civilians out collecting scrap metal, ordinary people
going about their daily work just as thousands of Americans had been doing at
the World Trade Center only months earlier when terror struck from the
skies. https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/trump-threatens-afghan-armageddon-u-s-plans-for-the-afghan-war-might-prove-a-crime-against-humanity/?fbclid=IwAR2C_DblrUE67jBXI7ZGE7z9d3wTW8M-2H0F3hNlzvLJRl7bD_A09wbAVPs
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Iran: 'We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime'
Actress Rose McGowan called the Trump
administration a “terrorist regime” in a tweet Thursday, apologizing to Iran for the president’s
airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
“Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your
country, your flag, your people,” Ms. McGowantweeted to her 893,000 followers. “52% of us humbly
apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a
terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us.
#Soleimani.”https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/3/rose-mcgowan-apologizes-to-iran-we-are-being-held-/?fbclid=IwAR0crbGxmUumYytT_DpuVkz7K4uuDaCdXqQQLFkz5BEoig2AcISFu-7K6VM
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Respects to Iran’s General Soleiman Assassinated by the US
A military delegation from a group of
Russian troops in Syria visited the Iranian embassy to pay tribute and express
condolences to the Iranians in connection with the death of General Suleymani,
commander of the Kods IRGC Iran, as a result of the American strike. Wreaths were laid from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian
Federation and directly from our group of forces in Syria.
·
In the photo from the Iranian embassy as part of the delegation,
the commander of the group of forces (forces) of the Armed forces of the
Russian Federation in the Syrian Arab Republic, General Alexander Chayko.thomas malthaus • a day ago
Israel just sits
back and watches with glee, knowing American boys might pay the ultimate price
and Israel's homeland is protected with about a hundred warheads.
American politicians who've been very accepting of Israel's benevolence
through US federal outlays (quid pro quo) channeled through Tel Aviv, express
little emotion.
that's a strong sign of solidarity
and respect with the mourning Iran.....the populations in IRAQ and IRAN and
beyond take notice.... who is friend. . who is the foe....
the stupidity of the US administration has no boundaries.....
the stupidity of the US administration has no boundaries.....
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Its not just the administration. Both
of the fake political parties are supporting it, as well as some fat cats in
the military.
The Russian
Military knows that a Great General was bush whacked by a bunch of cowards from
Israel and the US. I'm sure General Suleimani was just as respectful, when a
Russian soldier was killed in Syria- fighting the same Proxy armies of the
Jews, Americans and the Saudi sand N ers. Spacibo Yuri and Chpt. Asia.https://www.anti-empire.com/russian-military-delegation-pays-respect-to-soleiman-in-damascus/?fbclid=IwAR1j5TQ9FQI47syW803sSs9NDxLcCSy28zDymGgEj4aUw5tkzfVe1lbDH-s
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On
The Idiotic Partisan Debate Over Regime Change In Iran Or SyriaI love my job.
Really, I do. But writing about US military agendas for a living often brings
one into contact with such staggering stupidity that all you can do is pause
and wonder how our species survived past the invention of the pointy stick.
By far the dumbest thing in all of US politics is the fact that
Democrats tend to support regime change in Syria, while Republicans tend to
support it more in Iran. I am not talking about the elected officials in those
parties; I’m talking about the ordinary rank-and-file Joes and Janets who stand
absolutely nothing to gain from toppling either Damascus or Tehran, but who
have been brainwashed by lifelong media consumption into supporting one or the
other anyway.https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/07/on-the-idiotic-partisan-debate-over-regime-change-in-iran-or-syria/?fbclid=IwAR2UgeU6zE-tYzc6SX1WcYCKrQF2zh_bvK6oxtLQOy9IrfBzu0gLJHGM8y4
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TV PUNDITS PRAISING SULEIMANI ASSASSINATION NEGLECT
TO DISCLOSE TIES TO ARMS INDUSTRY SINCE FRIDAY, a loud chorus of voices has appeared
in the media to celebrate President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate
Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, a move that has sparked renewed
tension in the Middle East, a new deployment of U.S. forces, and predictions of
increased military spending. https://theintercept.com/2020/01/06/iran-suleimani-tv-pundits-weapons-industry/?fbclid=IwAR3vKsUEMAsvaGtQc4AIC0BYQCCvA_QVCxJoEkQvy0dJRKLVpIOYqrUuSOg
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Martha
Rollins Of
course the official word was for their own security, but it means that no
information on what really happens comes back home. No cellphones, laptops were allowed to go with Army
82nd paratroopers deploying to Middle East
The move was made to ensure operational security was maintained during
the emergency deployment, which saw 3,500 paratroopers from 1st Brigade Combat
Team begin to fly out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Ali Al Salem Air Base,
Kuwait, over the first week of January.
“Anything considered a personal electronic device. All those things,”
Lt. Col. Mike Burns, division spokesman, told Army Times. “But banned is a
harsh word. The decision was made so soldiers weren’t put at risk.”https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/01/06/no-cell-phones-laptops-were-allowed-to-go-with-82nd-paratroopers-deploying-to-middle-east/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Socialflow+MIL&utm_source=twitter.com&fbclid=IwAR2_IrEPG2R5gJOwxO4wu3fJYueSz87s0beEeuTMCYVNltUSBPyhUDt_ncU
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2019 As War Drums
Beat for Iran, Remember, Lies And Propaganda Started Nearly Every War In US
History War is one of the most primitive and senseless manifestations
of the human experience, so naturally, most sane people with families,
ambitions and kind hearts want nothing to do with such things.
Unfortunately, as we are
seeing with the Iran escalation,
governments thrive on war, as it gives them a pressing excuse to grab more
power and take extrajudicial measures—both at home and abroad. https://thefreethoughtproject.com/us-war-lies-iran/
The fingerprints of Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, are
unmistakably present in the assassination. It is plausible that the attack at
Soleimani’s convoy was a joint CIA-Mossad operation.By killing top
Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders
demonstrated the idiom ‘out of the frying pan into the fire.’ US President
Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are both politically
and legally embattled – the former has just been impeached and the
latter is dogged by an Attorney General indictment and
investigation into major corruption cases.https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-mossad-fingerprints-assassination-qasem-soleimani/263923/?fbclid=IwAR09rpAt0Z-jn9G8SQO5pHPnLPQyzjaVUNMhDE8WC6bQDi_2B49yREee4Rk
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America Escalates its “Democratic” Oil War in the Near East
by Michael Hudson exclusively for the Saker Blog
The mainstream
media are carefully sidestepping the method behind America’s seeming madness in
assassinating Islamic Revolutionary Guard general Qassim Suleimani to start the
New Year. The logic behind the assassination this was a long-standing application
of U.S. global policy, not just a personality quirk of Donald Trump’s impulsive
action. His assassination of Iranian military leader Suleimani was indeed a
unilateral act of war in violation of international law, but it was a logical
step in a long-standing U.S. strategy. It was explicitly authorized by the
Senate in the funding bill for the Pentagon that it passed last year.https://thesaker.is/america-escalates-its-democratic-oil-war-in-the-near-east/?fbclid=IwAR0-drTvlhl0SwaspNy3iX8_UcwBK44IL8W509CHq6a966bmpSmd46_qKW0
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The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the oldest and largest
progressive bar association in the United States, strongly condemns recent
illegal U.S. actions in Iraq, including the killing of Iranian and Iraqi
nationals and threats of military attacks on Iran as clear violations of both
U.S. and international law. We call on our members and all people of conscience
to mobilize in opposition to war with Iran, and we call on Congress to block
access to funding for any military action against Iran, to lift sanctions
against Iran, and to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. https://www.nlg.org/nlg-strongly-condemns-illegal-targeted-assassinations-by-us-increased-repression-of-iranian-nationals-at-us-borders/?fbclid=IwAR2rCbNjkxEemqQ9w5iQkY_6fPAN70js52BTsG1bF3U504y3nNXsFNJNQwg
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Propagandists
Ponder Plunging Popularity — Propaganda Watch https://www.activistpost.com/2020/01/propagandists-ponder-plunging-popularity-propaganda-watch.html
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"all us presidents are" captive of the military industrial
complex
The Military
Industrial Complex is the basis of the American economy. Companies Like Boeing
and they couldn't survive without massive spending in U.S. defense. They need
perpetual wars to sell their products and profit from a corrupt military
shopping system ", said the analyst.
" in a similar
way, the American media is controlled by a small collusion of large multimedia
conglomerate that represent the interests of American companies and their
political servants. It is not by chance that the anchor of news shows on
networks and cable continuously interview the same former military leaders, FBI
and CIA agents and former government employees day after day ", he
observed.
" it should be
obvious that neither trump nor any other us politician, regardless of his
rhetorical, is in a position to challenge the powers that exist. Whether or not
they may initially be sincere in their warnings against foreign confusion, it
is irrelevant, they will all follow the same interventionist policy that is
inherent in the us political economy Only with the dismantling and
socio-economic transformation of the military industrial complex and other
capitalist industrial complex into forces that meet the interests of the
American people and the whole world will us war policy come to an end ",
concluded etler."https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/12/31/614996/%E2%80%98Every-US-president-talks-peace-and-wages-war%E2%80%99:-Scholar?fbclid=IwAR3R0We1vbrgmkBesEICPPKVLEmtVAL-P_nIBzbeIK1Vhm3uZUatQ7zmdcI
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The USA is now at war,
de-facto and de-jure, with BOTH Iraq and Iran (UPDATED 6X)The blowback has
begun
First, let’s begin by a quick summary of what has taken place (note:
this info is still coming in, so there might be corrections once the official
sources make their official statements).
1. Iraqi Prime
Minister Adil Abdl Mahdi has now officially revealed that the US had
asked him to mediate between the US and Iran and that General Qassem
Soleimani to come and talk to him and give him the answer to his mediation
efforts. Thus, Soleimani was on an OFFICIAL DIPLOMATIC MISSION as
part of a diplomatic initiative INITIATED BY THE USA.
2. The Iraqi
Parliament has now voted on a resolution requiring the government to
press Washington and its allies to withdraw their troops from Iraq.
3. Iraq’s caretaker PM
Adil Abdul Mahdi said the American side notified the Iraqi military about the
planned airstrike minutes before it was carried out. He stressed that
his government denied Washington permission to continue with the operation.
4. The Iraqi
Parliament has also demanded that the Iraqi government must “work to end the
presence of any foreign troops on Iraqi soil and prohibit them from
using its land, airspace or water for any reason“
5. The Iraqi Foreign
Ministry said that Baghdad had turned to the UN Security Council with
complaints about US violations of its sovereignty.
6. Iraqi cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr said the parliamentary resolution to end foreign troop
presence in the country did not go far enough, calling on local and
foreign militia groups to unite. I also have confirmation
that the Mehdi Army is being re-mobilized.
7. The Pentagon brass
is now laying the responsibility for this monumental disaster on Trump (see here). The are
now slowly waking up to this immense clusterbleep and don’t want to be held
responsible for what is coming next.
8. For the first time
in the history of Iran, a Red Flag was hoisted over the Holy Dome Of
Jamkaran Mosque, Iran. This indicates that the blood of martyrs has
been spilled and that a major battle will now happen. The
text in the flag says “Oh Hussein we ask for your help” (unofficial
translation 1) or “Rise up and avenge al-Husayn” (unofficial translation
2)
9. The US has
announced the deployment of 3’000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne to
Kuwait.
10. Finally, the Idiot-in-Chief
tweeted the following message, probably to try to reassure his freaked out
supporters: “The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military
Equipment. We are the biggest and by far the BEST in the World! If
Iran attacks an American Base, or any American, we will be sending some of that
brand new beautiful equipment their way…and without hesitation!“.
Apparently, he still thinks that criminally overspending for 2nd rate military
hardware is going to yield victory…
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Iranian MPs declare all of US military ‘terrorist entity’ after General
Soleimani killingThe US Armed Forces are now regarded as
a terrorist organization under an urgent motion by Iranian lawmakers, who
earlier branded the assassination of the Quds Force commander “state-sponsored
terrorism,” state media report.
Iranian MPs adopted a bill on Tuesday calling “personnel
of the Pentagon, all affiliated companies, institutions, agents and commanders” members
of a “terrorist entity,”local media reported.
The bill amends and
expands previous legislation which gave a similar designation to US Central
Command (CENTCOM). Initiated in April of last year, it was a tit-for-tat
response to Washington’s blacklisting of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
(IRGC).https://www.rt.com/news/477623-iran-us-military-terrorist/?fbclid=IwAR0lmz1JKLlKfA6JIZn-QQLEYUkQmS9So3TIAy5eYMUI2XJNS67WTUEdh2g
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1. the unlawful use of
violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of
political aims.
"the fight against terrorism"The issue of War Crimes emerged
after World War I at the Versailles Conference, but it was not until the end of
World War II that a more comprehensive definition of what constitutes war
crimes was developed. First among new international conventions addressing war
crimes was the 1950 Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Its fundamental premise
was that the conduct of war in violation of international treaties was a crime
against peace. Ill treatment of prisoners of war, killing hostages, plunder of
public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages
was a war crime. Crimes against humanity include murder, extermination,
deportation, and prosecution based on political, racial or religious grounds.
The 1949 Geneva
Convention gave recognition to the development of new technologies which
exposed civilian life to greater threats of destruction. A 1977 addendum
further emphasized the right of civilians to be protected against military
operations. This included the protection of civilians against starvation as a
method of warfare. Article II of the Geneva Convention addressed the issue of
genocide, defined as killing or causing serious bodily harm to individuals
based on their nationality, ethnic, racial or religious group and with the
intent to destroy that group.
Since the Geneva
Convention, a number of other significant international treaties addressing war
and human rights have been drafted, but the United States has rejected almost
all of them. Among the treaties that the United States has refused to sign are
the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (1966); the
Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966); the Convention on
the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (1966), and the American
Convention on Human Rights (1965). Please read more https://www.globalresearch.ca/united-states-war-crimes/5561468
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‘ISRAEL’ APPROVES CONSTRUCTION OF 1936 NEW
WEST BANK SETTLEMENT UNITS
Ramallah (QNN)- The occupation state of Israel approved Monday the
construction of 1936 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, according
to the Israeli seventh TV. channel.
The Israeli higher council for planning and construction in the West
Bank announced the government’s approval to build 1936 settlement units in
different areas throughout the West Bank.
According to the Israeli channel, 258 units will be built in the illegal
settlement of Halamish, 180 settlement units in Mitzpeh Dani, 147 settlement
units in Mitzpeh Yericho, 107 units in Elon Moreh, 100 in Neve Tzuf, and 40 in
Peduel.
The Israelis have recently increased the construction of illegal
settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem. They also increased the land-grab
policy, taking advantage of the US support to the Israeli illegal settlement.
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Tucker Carlson has come out against the assassination of an Iranian
General, suggesting that those responsible for taking out Qasem Soleimani are
“liars” and “they don’t care about you.”
Firebrand, Tucker Carlson, who has
vociferously condemned neocon-led foreign entanglements while being the most
prominent mainstream voice in reporting on the US-Mexico border crisis, has now
slammed Iran’s Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani’s assassination after he was
blown up in an airstrike near Baghdad’s airport.https://nationalfile.com/tucker-carlsonthose-behind-iran-escalation-are-liars-and-they-dont-care-about-you/?fbclid=IwAR2rmrM37lD59ylwPAYTsUt2bCqj0hhDuG-FDOO4kYewQxII9Che4uIA6Mc
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“ All wars and
related hostile actions are unjustifiably justified by Big Lies and deception.
Iranian IRGC Quds
Force commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was a redoubtable figure.
Widely respected in
Iran and abroad, he was a key strategist in pursuing regional peace and
stability — free from the scourge of US-supported terrorists and the curse of
its imperial occupation.
General Soleimani’s
assassination last Friday by the Trump regime was an act of war on Iraq where
he was killed and on Iran where he served for decades with courage, dedication,
and distinction — from US-orchestrated Iraqi aggression on Iran in the 1980s
until his US state-sponsored murder.
Trump falsely
claimed he “killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended
period of time, and was plotting to kill many more (sic),” adding:
“He was directly
and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people (sic)” — an
astonishing Big Lie even by his dissembling standards.
As US
commander-in-chief, the dubious distinction applies to him. His regime and
congressional accomplices share blame for endless preemptive wars on
nonthreatening nations — a flagrant UN Charter violation.
Iran hasn’t
attacked another country in centuries! The Islamic Republic seeks regional
peace and cooperation with other nations.
Trump falsely
accused Soleimani of “plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American
diplomats and military personnel (sic), but we caught him in the act (sic) and
terminated him.”
No evidence was
cited because none exists, no “imminent…sinister attacks” on US civilian and
military personnel planned. Trump lied claiming otherwise.
He falsely accused
Soleimani of “target(ing), injur(ing), and murder(ing) hundreds of American
civilians and servicemen.”
Evangelical
Christian fascist Mike Pence falsely accused Soleimani of “assist(ing) in the
clandestine travel of 10 of 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11
terrorist attacks.”
Allegedly 19, not
12, individuals were involved in the 9/11 mother of all false flag attacks —
wrongfully blamed on Osama bin Laden and “crazed Arabs.” It was carried out by
the CIA and Mossad.
No Islamic Republic
officials have been involved in terrorist attacks anywhere — a US, NATO,
Israeli specialty, not how Iran operates.
Trump’s ordered
killing of Soleimani was a strategic blunder, dark forces in Washington
convincing him to act unlawfully and imprudently.
Lebanese Al
Mayadeen television director Ghassan bin Jiddo called Soleimani a “brave
leader.”
Millions of
Iranians, countless others in regional countries and elsewhere mourn his loss,
enraged over US state-sponsored murder — a CIA/Pentagon specialty.
Assassination
elevated Soleimani to martyrdom status, larger than life in death than while
alive.
He rose to
prominence from humble roots, becoming one of Iran’s most revered figures.
Former CIA officer
John Maguire called him “the single most powerful operative in the Middle East”
— on the side of the angels against the scourge of imperial wars, he omitted.
Following Iran’s
1979 Islamic Revolution, ending a generation of US-installed tyranny, he joined
the newly founded Islamic Revolution Guards Corp (IRGC).
As a battlefield
commander during US-sponsored Iraqi aggression on Iran in the 1980s, he led the
41st Sarallah Division.
In 1997, he was
appointed to lead Iran’s elite Quds Force, an Iranian intelligence analyst,
explaining that it was largely unknown until Bush/Cheney’s 2003 aggression
against Iraq.
Dangers to Iran
posed by what happened “compelled (Tehran) to intervene for strategic reasons,”
he said, giving Soleimani a chance “to exhibit his asymmetric war leadership
capabilities.”
In 2019, he became
the first Islamic Republic military commander to be awarded the “Order of
Zulfaqar,” named after Imam Ali (PUBH), one of Islam’s most revered figures.
Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei called “Hajj Qassem” a “living martyr” of the revolution, in death
saying:
He came “close to
martyrdom repeatedly, but in performing his duty and fighting for the cause of
God, he had no fear of anyone or anything.”
He served the
Islamic Republic with courage, honor, and devotion to his homeland as a
“sincere and exalted fighter” — perishing at the hands of “the world’s most
villainous individuals.”
Iranian Foreign
Minister Zarif expressed “special respect” for Soleimani, adding:
For over “20 years
(they) closely collaborated to advance the objectives of the Islamic Republic
in finding political and peaceful solutions.”
Soleimani was a
warrior for peace, for protecting Iran and its people, aiding Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad combat the scourge of US-supported terrorism — in an advisory
role.
Iranian forces in
the country aren’t involved in combat, operating from Syrian facilities, not
their own, their same role in Iraq when Iran has no bases of its own.
Iran supports
regional peace, stability, and mutual cooperation with other countries.
It’s against the
scourge of US imperialism, an enemy of its jihadist foot soldiers.
It stands tall for
preserving the sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations on the US
target list for regime change.
IRGC General Jafar
Assadi said Soleimani convinced Vladimir Putin to intervene in Syria against
the US-supported terrorist threat to its sovereign independence.
He played a lead
strategic role in smashing the scourge of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Mourned by millions
in Iran and abroad, he’s sorely missed.”
US Big Lies about revered Iranian commander By Stephen Lendman
All wars and related hostile actions are
unjustifiably justified by Big Lies and deception.
Iranian IRGC Quds Force commander Lieutenant
General Qassem Soleimani was a redoubtable figure.
Widely respected in Iran and abroad, he was a key
strategist in pursuing regional peace and stability — free from the scourge of
US-supported terrorists and the curse of its imperial occupation.http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2020/01/05/615464/General?fbclid=IwAR345wYIbeNPS2mZm0Vgb8smv2ti1A8H9qzUtfJmN1vAiMQIbosI3DROfjk
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Meet the Corporate War
Profiteers Making a Killing on Trump's Attacks on Iran
As long as the top executives of our privatized war economy can reap
unlimited rewards, the profit motive for war in Iran—or anywhere—will persist.
CEOs of major U.S. military contractors stand to reap huge windfalls from the
escalation of conflict with Iran. This was evident in the immediate aftermath
of the U.S. assassination of a top Iranian military official last week. As soon
as the news reached financial markets, these companies’ share prices spiked,
inflating the value of their executives’ stock-based pay.
I took a look at how the CEOs at the top five Pentagon contractors were
affected by this surge, using the most recent SEC information on their stock
holdings.
Northrop Grumman
executives saw the biggest increase in the value of their stocks after the U.S.
airstrike that killed Qasem Suleimani on January 2. Shares in the B-2 bomber
maker rose 5.43 percent by the end of trading the following
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7 hrs ·
Trump official
backpedals on the latest threatened war crime, 'we won't bomb Iran's cultural sites'
he says. But after the US bombing and looting of Iraq and Syria, why should we
believe them?
Trump's Own Defense Secretary Contradicts Him: US Won't Bomb Iran
Culture Sites
KEY POINTS
- The
U.S. "will follow the laws of armed conflict" in the event of a
clash with Iran, says Secretary of Defense Mark Esper
- The
law prohibits attacking a country's cultural sites
- The
UN declares actions targeting cultural locations constitute a war crime https://www.ibtimes.com/trumps-own-defense-secretary-contradicts-him-us-wont-bomb-iran-culture-sites-2897539?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR2fuMlcGLYUUBDr-4mJq2z5ECYLo0s-8yA2OXa9oSO-d5-LYrzdd9ILT-U PS YOU SOCIOPATH LAIR, WAR MACHINE,
WARMONGERS,…
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'They Fear Someone Will Go
There and Tell the Truth,' Says Iran's Top Diplomat as Trump White House Bars
Him From US
"You can speak with American people from Tehran too and we will do
that," said Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. Iranian Foreign Minister
Javad Zarif on Tuesday confirmed reports that
the Trump administration has denied him a visa to enter the U.S. for a United
Nations Security Council meeting in New York this week, a move the diplomat
said was motivated by a desire to suppress facts about the assassination of
Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
"This is because they fear someone will go there and tell the truth
to the American people," Zarif told reporters from Tehran. "But they
are mistaken. The world is not limited to New York. You can speak with American
people from Tehran too and we will do that." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/07/they-fear-someone-will-go-there-and-tell-truth-says-irans-top-diplomat-trump-white?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3XYpYI5hKmKrrIxzaa1O4mMavPfBloNjAF_Mw7DFc-ewGZx8si8Bq-iAM
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To Stop Trump’s War with
Iran, We Must Also Confront the Democrats Who Laid the Groundwork
Democratic leaders
are feigning outrage, but they’ve supported the precursors to war. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/06/stop-trumps-war-iran-we-must-also-confront-democrats-who-laid-groundwork
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SAA
Combat NATO Terrorists/ ISIS/KSA Terrorist and smaller terrorist Thugs in Idlib and Aleppo Southern Countryside: Units of the Syrian Arab Army continued
their operations against the concentrations and areas of the spread of
terrorist organizations in the vicinity of the cities of Saraqeb, Ma’rat
al-Numan and a number of villages in Idlib countryside and in the town of
Zarba, south of Aleppo city. The following report by the Syrian
Ikhbariya news channel sheds more light on the latest developments: https://www.syrianews.cc/saa-combat-nato-terrorists-in-idlib-and-aleppo-southern-countrysides/?fbclid=IwAR2AEQ-9jEXZ1_PCYlKahaT6NCvNUM2Q0L7t6VEPD_1z7nRj0Ht9TaBu6TE
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NATO Terrorists Kill More Syrians; US Dogs of War Demand More Syrian
Blood via ‘Caesar’ NATO terrorists are on another rampage
in Syria, celebrating the passage of criminal legislation by warmongers on
Capitol Hill, massacring nine civilians in two towns.
Nineteen persons were injured.
Wednesday’s atrocities follow the passage by US Congress and Senate of another
round of illicit sanctions against Syria, named for Qatar’s Caesar
psyop hoax. On 18 December, four persons were murdered when “a
mine exploded inside a car near al Bawabeh al Hudeidiya in Tal Abyad city in
Raqqa” governate. As two children were among the martyred, it is likely this
was a family massacre. NATO terrorists of the Turkish variety of mercenaries
who currently occupy this region of Syria. Four others were injured. https://www.syrianews.cc/nato-terrorists-kill-syrians-us-dogs-of-war-demand-more-blood-caesar/?fbclid=IwAR2Ybn-Da6FfGWYk9FOHKiFnCTxmSZsickzysR1l_U_w_tCjjGW5xEwYWGA
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Can you Show Me Another funeral this big? What is People Mobilization Forces (PMF)/ Popular
Mobilization Forces (PMF)/ ....? It is Qasem Soleimani Popular Mobilization
Forces it is a part of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ….against TRUMP
TERRORIST REGIME
General
Qassem funeral in Tehran, Iran from the air - millions bid farewell to the man who
dedicated his life to defending Iran and also to defending Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq
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Iran Evaluating 13 Retaliation Scenarios To Inflict “Historic Nightmare”
On US Activist
Post Editor’s Note: We’ve posted a couple of articles
about Trump’s declaration that he would hit Iranian cultural sites; we’ve noted
that it clearly would constitute a war crime. In the name of
consistency, if the following translations are accurate, the targeting of
American cultural sites — if that is what is meant by “set ablaze those places
Americans hold dear” — would also be a war crime. De-escalation would be a wise
idea right about now.
Breaking a 5-day
silence over its response for the US killing of General Qassem Soleimani, on
Tuesday Iran said it was assessing 13 scenarios to inflict a “historic
nightmare” on the US. “Even if the weakest of these
scenarios gain a consensus, its implementation can be a historic nightmare for
the Americans,” Ali Shamkhani, the head of Iran’s national
security council, was cited by Fars news
agency, adding that, “For now, for intelligence reasons, we cannot provide more
information to the media.”
Iranian officials
previously said that U.S. forces in the region will be targets, and overnight the Iranian parliament on Tuesday designated the Pentagon and
affiliated companies as terrorists. In response, the U.S. issued a
warning to shipping in the Middle East over the possibility of Iranian action
against U.S. maritime interests, the Associated Press reported, citing a
statement. https://www.activistpost.com/2020/01/iran-evaluating-13-retaliation-scenarios-to-inflict-historic-nightmare-on-us.html
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