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August 26, 2019

US Craves Insecurity & War By Finian Cunningham
	It is deplorable how the US is incorrigible in its pursuit of confrontation. - Continue

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We're Listening to the Wrong Voices on Syria By Maj. Danny Sjursen
	Tulsi Gabbard, was right from the start. And that’s precisely why America’s perpetual warfare state must destroy her. -

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Netanyahu Attacks Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon in Desperate Reelection Bid By Jason Ditzs
	Israel ramps up region-wide aggression, to spin as targeting Iran - Continue

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From “Spook Air” to the “Lolita Express”: The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship By Whitney Webb
	Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation involving minors - was developed from the nexus forged between the CIA, organized crime and Israeli intelligence shortly after World War II. - Continue

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Are Sanders and Warren Throwing a Lifeline to the Military-Industrial Complex? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies
	They have both tempered their calls for peace and diplomacy with attacks on Russia and China, framed as warnings against “authoritarianism.” - Continue

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Hong Kong and the Audacity of the United States By Peter Koenig
	Washington pours millions into creating unrest in Hong Kong, similarly as in Ukraine. - Continue

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Counting deaths for dollars: the rise and fall of Nicaragua’s ‘human rights’ organizations By John Perry
	In their hunger for US funding, Nicaraguan “human rights” NGO’s inflated the death toll during last year’s coup. - Continue

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More Spying and Lying Trump wants to give government permanent authority to spy on everyone in America By Judge Andrew Napolitano
	What was initially aimed at foreign agents physically present in the United States has secretly become a means to spy on innocent Americans.. - Continue

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Twitter relying on US/European gov-funded regime-change groups to crack down on foreign states By Ben Norton
	How Big Tech corporations in Silicon Valley operate as arms of the American national security state. - Continue

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The Rise of Global Authoritarianism By Mario Candeias
	We live in the age of monsters. We are seeing the rise of an authoritarian and radical right wing. - Continue

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Can the American Economy Be Resurrected? By Paul Craig Roberts
	To bring American corporations home from China, this is what Trump has to do. - Continue

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Punishing the World With Sanctions By Philip Giraldi
	It has reached the point where the only country that likes the United States is Israel, which is locked into a similar cycle of incessant aggression. - Continue

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MIDDLE EAST

Air strikes kill 9 "civilians" in terrorist controlled Idlib : Pro rebel activist group
Syria: One woman killed, another injured in a terrorist rocket attack in Hama countryside
Syria liberates territory in NW held by rebels since 2012
U.S. sends tens of trucks with military and logistic equipment rebel militia: The USA has illegitimately sent equipment in support of Qasad militia, which is besieging tens of thousands of civilians in the areas with support of the US occupation forces in Syrian
Syria's Idlib offensive may turn tide against Turkey in Syria: Ankara may have to leave the areas under its control in the western part of the river in Syria.

Syria responds to Israeli attack, launches a surface-to-air missile against Israeli jets
Israeli occupation media tries to cover up failure of recent attack using old video
Israel attacked over 200 Iranian targets in Syria in past year : Israel acknowledges it fired over 800 missiles and mortar shells over the past year and a half, the IDF has revealed.
Israel will pay high price for its acts of aggression against Mideast: Iran official
Syrian army says it captures strategic hill overlooking Israeli "border"
Israel and Syria exchange fire near Homs, Arab media reports
Israeli bombs hit Lebanon a day after drone attack on Beirut
Lebanese president says Israel drone attacks on Lebanon amount to ‘declaration of war’
Lebanon's Hezbollah will no longer tolerate intruding Israeli drones: Nasrallah
Iraq paramilitary: Israel behind attack near Syria, Iraq border that kills one: Israel carried out a deadly drone attack on Sunday
Iraq coalition calls Israeli strikes a 'declaration of war'
24 Kurdish fighters killed by Turkey security operations, inside Turkey and in northern Iraq : ministry
Three Turkish soldiers killed in Iraq
Iraq: 4 IS members killed by security offensive in Anbar Desert

Britain sends another warship to Persian Gulf
Macron Invites Iran's Zarif to G-7 Sidelines, Risks U.S. Outrage
Merkel welcomes G7 progress on seeking Iran solution: Merkel said on Monday G7 leaders had taken a big step forward in their efforts to avoid an escalation of tensions with Iran
Iran says it has sold oil from tanker released by Gibraltar
Iran seeks to revive oil pipeline across Iraq to Syria amid tensions in Hormuz strait – media
Iran deploys 2 warships to Gulf of Aden aimed at providing security to the country's commercial shipping.
Yemen: Houthis claim attack on military target in Saudi capital Riyadh
Why the CIA doesn’t spy on the UAE; The United Arab Emirates hired former staffers of the US National Security Agency as elite hackers to spy in a program that included Americans as surveillance targets,
Israeli occupation’s warplanes renew aggression against Gaza Strip: Warplanes of the Israeli occupation fired at least one missile at the area to the north of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, causing huge material damage.
Watch: : Palestinian kids in Gaza shield injured protester against Israeli fire: Video shows how young Palestinian boys endanger their lives by bravely protecting a wounded Gazan protester against live fire from the Israeli forces
World terrorism ends when we stop Israel’s injustice against Palestinians, says prime minister, Dr Mahahir Mohamad

AFRICA

ASIA

EUROPE

US seeks to block investment deal between China, Ukrainian aerospace company
U.S. fines Deutsche Bank $16 million to settle China, Russia corruption charges
The Secret War Against Soviet Russia; This book as written in 1946. Note: If the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and a respected Senator think it's worth your time, it probably is.
EU says it will 'respond in kind' if US slaps tariffs on France
French police use water cannons, tear gas on anti-G7 protesters
Bank of England governor dollar is too dominant and could be replaced by digital currency:
Britain will withhold $37 billion from EU in no-deal Brexit: Mail on Sunday
EU Commission says UK must pay Brexit divorce bill even at no deal scenario
Why John Bolton Is Pushing Hard For Britain to Leave the European Union: Saying that the United States would support the U.K.’s departure from the EU but not a decision to remain, Bolton is stating a policy. The Trump administration would also like to deregulate the health service in the U.K.
With no-deal Brexit on the horizon, US farmers are sensing a lucrative opportunity: In the land of chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef, a post-Brexit trade deal still offers tantalising possibilities.

GLOBE

AMERICAS

Want to be: Venezuela "opposition leader" vows to boycott early election : Guaidó said he plans keep the title of acting president even after his one-year term as National Assembly president ends in the new year.
Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution, which toppled a US-backed dictator, is still thriving, after 40 years:
Panama to US: We Won't be Your 'Safe Third Country'
Innocent man jailed for 82 days and loses jobs for bringing three jars of honey back to US
Trump claims he has 'absolute right' to order US companies out of China under 1977 law
Want a U.S. Recession? Try Trump’s China Divestment Plan; President’s trade war order for U.S. companies to get out isn’t just impossible; it would sink the economy.
No cushion for the Trump recession: Why this one could be worse than 2008
U.S. Inequality runs even deeper than previously thought: The average pretax income of the bottom 50 percent of US adults has stalled since 1980, while the share of income of US adults in the bottom half of the distribution collapsed from 20 percent in 1980 to 12 percent in 2014.
Buying votes: Trump says he will approve 'major middle income tax cut' if GOP wins House, Senate in 2020
Just Who Got Trump’s Farm Bailouts?: Rich families cashed in on over half the bailout money set aside for farmers hurt by Trump’s trade policies.
Ex-US congressman set to challenge Trump: “Friends, I’m in. We can’t take four more years of Donald Trump. And that’s why I’m running for President,” Walsh also said on Twitter

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