Monday, December 23, 2019

Some recent postings from my Facebook: 


Trump's Impeachment, Ukraine, and War With Russia

Tasha Levine: “...But you won’t hear any of this in the political frenzy that surrounds our impeachment hearings. It’s all about America. And as far as our political establishment is concerned, Ukraine is just a forward operating base full of Ukrainians eager to die to keep us safe from the Russians...”







Illegal surveillance of Assange’s conversations with his lawyers must not be used in court








26 Before-and-After Pics Reveal What War Has Done to Syria

From MICHAEL ZHANG

“...Ancient locations that are categorized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO have been reduced to rubble through looting, burning, and destruction...”

Contrary to the false mainstream narrative, Syria is NOT a ‘civil war’; it is a brutally ‘uncivil’ war of foreign aggression and illegal regime change for imperialist interests, led by the gangsters of the US Empire and its terrorist proxies. Australia, to its shame, is an active accomplice in this criminality!







US Fueling Terrorism in China

Tony Cartalucci: "The West’s human rights racket has once again mobilized – this time supposedly in support of China’s Uyghur minority centered primarily in the nation’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, China.

...China’s Uyghur population is a target of foreign efforts to radicalize and recruit militants to fight proxy wars both across the globe, and within China itself.

...omitted is any mention of systematic terrorism both inside China and abroad carried out by radicalized Uyghur militants. With this information intentionally and repeatedly omitted, Chinese efforts to confront and contain rampant extremism are easily depicted as “repressive.”…

Within China, Uyghur militants have carried out serial terrorist attacks… Abroad, Uyghur-linked terrorists are believed to be responsible for the 2015 Bangkok bombing which targeted mainly Chinese tourists and left 20 dead.

The bombing followed Bangkok’s decision to send Uyghur terror suspects back to China to face justice – defying US demands that the suspects be allowed to travel onward to Turkey.

In Turkey, they were to cross the border into Syria where they would train, be armed, and join terrorists including Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in the West’s proxy war against Damascus and its allies…

The US National Endowment for Democracy’s own website admits to meddling all across China and does so so extensively that it felt the necessity to break down its targeting of China into several regions including mainland, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang/East Turkistan…

By omitting the very real terrorist problem facing China in Xinjiang as well as elsewhere around the world where state-sponsored Uyghur terrorists are deployed and fighting, and by depicting China’s campaign to confront extremism as “repression,” the West aims at further inflaming violent conflict in Xinjiang and jeopardizing human life – not protecting it…

Uyghur extremism has become a central component in Washington’s struggle with Beijing over influence in Asia and in a much wider sense, globally…

...the US has already openly wielded terrorism as a geopolitical tool everywhere from Libya where the nation was divided and destroyed by NATO-led military operations in the air and terrorist-led troops on the ground, to Syria where the US is all but openly aiding and abetting Al Qaeda and its affiliates cornered in the northern governorate of Idlib, and even in Yemen where another AP investigation revealed the US and its allies were cutting deals with Al Qaeda militants to augment Western and Persian Gulf ground-fighting capacity….

Exposing and confronting these appendages of Western geopolitics, and the Western corporate-financier interests themselves directing their collective agenda is key to diminishing the dangerous influence they have and all the violence, conflict, division, and destruction they seek to employ as they have already done in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, and Syria.”









Pardon Assange and Snowden

Jacob G. Hornberger: 

The Washington Post has just released a trove of previously secret records documenting that the U.S. war in Afghanistan has been based on a multitude of lies and deception...

But that’s also what Julian Assange and Edward Snowden did. 

They didn’t publish any lies either. They simply published records that revealed the truth about the deep state. That’s why the deep state has condemned and vilified them as bad people, even as traitors — because they revealed the truth...

Why should anyone who publishes the truth about the deep state be condemned or punished?
Why shouldn’t the condemnation and punishment instead be leveled at the entity that engages in sordid, dark-side practices and the intentional utterance of lies and deception, especially with respect to something as important as war?...

The ones who deserve condemnation and punishment are those who engage in sordid, dark-side practices and who then cover it up and lie about it.
Assange and Snowden deserve immediate pardons, which would enable them to be released from prison and exile and to begin resuming their normal lives...”








'Blinding the truth': Israeli snipers target Gaza protesters in the eyes


Tareq Hajjaj and Pam Bailey: “...According to Dr Alqedra, most people with eye injuries from the Great Return March are journalists or photographers. One of them is Sami Musran 35, a photographer who works for Al-Aqsa TV...
Sami says he had received several calls from Israeli officers warning him not to take photos at the Great Return March...

"Forty times, my Facebook account was hacked or deleted for me, and I received death threats as well," he says. "But I decided to keep on with my work to reveal the Israeli crimes against unarmed Palestinians who participate in the march...

Israel wants to blind the eyes of the truth by sending messages to photographers saying we will hit your eyes to make you stop taking photos," he says. "But we do not surrender."






Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate known as the CIA: an Interview with Douglas Valentine

by Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith • November 21, 2019

"Douglas Valentine is an investigator and author with a rare and tenacious approach toward research. His writing results in uniquely incisive and revealing books on the dark side of U.S. intelligence activities and the National Security State. 

In this bombshell interview, Valentine ups the ante in his decades-long campaign to expose the agency for what it is: "an instrument of the rich, political elite [that] does their dirty business."

His latest book, The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World, shines a pervasive searchlight on the agency’s destructive covert activities in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.

In this interview, Valentine airs the dirty CIA laundry from plausible deniability, paramilitary wars, drug trafficking and sabotage to blackmail, betrayal, propaganda, political corruption, assassination, operation GLADIO, class interests of the CIA establishment, Donald Trump, the Mueller Report, the Bidens, and much more.

Valentine will remind you—to paraphrase the late William Blum—that no matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you think you are, what the CIA is actually doing is always worse than you imagine."








See how global warming has changed the world since your childhood

By Tim Leslie, Joshua Byrd, and Nathan Hoad

"Global warming is already changing the world before our eyes — let’s see what has happened in your lifetime."

Enter your birth year, and watch this active presentation.

By Tim Leslie, Joshua Byrd, and Nathan Hoad
This is part of a series from the ABC News Story Lab on climate change.








Syria: the War, the Loss, and the Silence
Western moral decay


Jan Oberhausen: “...Western, Saudi, Turkish and the Gulf States supported innumerable illegal, destructive and mainly foreign terrorist groups with the goal to undermine the legitimate Syrian government and destabilise the country – as had been recommended by US ambassador William Roebuck in Damascus as far back as in 2006...

Every war is two wars: the one on the ground and the one in the media. By now, both have fallen apart...

You begin to understand why Western media, politicians and experts have virtually avoided every mention of international law – according to which everything done by the NATO countries and their regional friends, such as Saudi Arabia, was illegal, an act of aggression on sovereign Syria and never had even the faintest mandate of the UN...

War and other violence is a boomerang.
The silence on Syria offers roaring evidence of Western moral decay, media deception and political decline.

You cannot repeatedly do evil things – radical evil things – to countries, peoples, cultures and nature – without, over time, harming and undermining yourself, your own strength, identity and core values.
There were lessons to have been learned since Vietnam...”







Chemical Weapons Watchdog Is Just an American Lap Dog

Scott Ritter: “...If an organization like the OPCW can be used at will by the U.S., the UK and France to trigger military attacks intended to support regime-change activities in member states, then it no longer serves a useful purpose to the international community it ostensibly serves.

To survive as a credible entity, the OPCW must open itself to a full-scale audit of its activities in Syria by an independent authority...

Anything short of this leaves the OPCW, an organization that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its contributions to world peace, permanently stained by the reality that it is little more than a lap dog of the United States, used to promote the very conflicts it was designed to prevent.”










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