Daily Archives: 17. Mai 2019


17.05.2019 - 23:53 [ Electronic Intifada ]

Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine

(04.07.2018)

The group stands accused in United Nations and Human Rights Watch reports of committing war crimes against pro-Russian separatists during the ongoing civil war in the eastern Donbass region, including torture, sexual violence and targeting of civilian homes.

Today, Azov is run by Arsen Avakov, Ukraine’s interior minister. According to the BBC, he pays its fighters, and has appointed one of its military commanders, Vadym Troyan, as his deputy – with control over the police.

Avakov last year met with the Israeli interior minister Aryeh Deri to discuss “fruitful cooperation.”

17.05.2019 - 23:22 [ Stáliðsdóttir ‏/ Twitter ]

Azov neo-Nazis came to terrorize this small Ukrainian town and destroy the Lenin statue. The local people came out in anger and chased the fascists off.

17.05.2019 - 22:13 [ Dave Lindorff / antikrieg.com ]

Welche 50 Länder unterstützen Guaidó?

Wer weiß? Wen kümmert es schon? Wenn die Medien behaupten, dass 50 Länder den gewählten Präsidenten Venezuelas ablehnen und es oft genug wiederholen, muss es wahr sein

17.05.2019 - 22:10 [ Dave Lindorff / This Can't Be Happening! ]

Who knows? Who cares? If the Media Claim 50 Countries Reject Venezuela’s Elected President and Repeat It Enough It Must Be True

If anything, US sabotage and threats and US backing for a government of the wealthy are probably galvanizing support for Maduro. While people in the US, if they are paying any attention at all to events in Venezuela, may believe that Maduro is a corrupt thug, people in Venezuela itself, and in most of Latin America know full well that the main problems in that oil-rich country have to do with the collapse in oil prices since the heady days of Hugo Chavez when it was going for $100 a barrel, to American efforts to block Venezuela from exporting its oil now, and to freeze or even seize Venezuelan assets and oil receipts from the oil it does manage to export, and to other forms of economic warfare engaged in by the United States. As in Cuba, this kind of strategy by the US only works to build support for the country’s existing government.

17.05.2019 - 18:46 [ France 24 ]

Pakistan PM Imran Khan makes first visit to Iran

21.4.2019

Khan‘s visit to Iran, the first since he took office last year, also comes days after gunmen killed 14 members of Pakistan‘s security forces in the Balochistan province.

17.05.2019 - 17:33 [ Entertainment Guru ]

PTI Govt Sought Opposition’s Support for South Punjab Bill

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said, on Wednesday, the government had introduced the South Punjab bill in the National Assembly and sought the help of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to get it passed. During a news conference, Qureshi said the bill moved by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government would require amendments in Articles 1, 51, 59,106,198,218 of the Constitution. “We have to make the amendments to make South Punjab province a reality.”

17.05.2019 - 17:20 [ Pakistan Today ]

After PPP, PML-N also set to launch anti-govt movement

Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday gave the go-ahead to his party’s leaders and supporters to launch an anti-government movement over rising inflation and devaluation of the rupee against the US dollar after Eidul Fitr, a day after former president Asif Zardari announced a similar movement against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.

17.05.2019 - 16:26 [ Reuters ]

PM Abe says Japan wants to develop ties with Iran

Japan would like to maintain, and develop, its traditionally friendly ties with Iran, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday. At the start of a meeting in the Japanese capital, Abe also told Zarif that he was concerned about growing tension in the Middle East.

17.05.2019 - 14:35 [ Jonathan Cook ‏/ Twitter ]

Caitlin Johnstone on how the OPCW withheld information to deceive us about the most likely perpetrators of last year‘s deadly chemical attack in Syria (our friends, the jihadists) – and how the media are now assisting them in the continuing the deception

17.05.2019 - 14:20 [ Caitlin Johnstone / Medium.com ]

CONFIRMED: Chemical Weapons Assessment Contradicting Official Syria Narrative Is Authentic

We now have confirmation that, for whatever the reason may be, this assessment was hidden from the public by the OPCW.

British journalists Peter Hitchens and Brian Whitaker have both published matching statements from the OPCW on this report. Hitchens has been an outspoken critic of the establishment Syria narrative; Whittaker has been a virulent promulgator of it. The statement begins as a very mundane and obvious assertion that it takes information from numerous sources and then publishes its conclusions, but concludes with an admission that it is “conducting an internal investigation about the unauthorised release of the document in question.” This constitutes an admission that the document is authentic.

17.05.2019 - 14:18 [ Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media ]

Assessment by the engineering sub-team of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission investigating the alleged chemical attack in Douma in April 2018

(13.05.2019) As emphasized above, in a real chemical attack with chlorine or any other irritant gas, most victims would try to escape and non-fatal cases requiring prolonged hospital treatment would far outnumber fatal cases. The images of the victims seen at Location 2 show that they were evidently exposed to an irritant gas but were unable to escape. A careful examination of these images leaves little doubt that the victims were murdered as captives. The staining of the victims’ faces by mucus flowing from their noses and mouths shows in at least some cases the mucus flowed up their faces towards the eyes. This implies that they were hung upside down while exposed to the agent. Bizarrely, the eyes of most victims appear to have been masked so that the eyes were not affected by gas or mucus. In a few victims there are visible strap marks suggesting that the eyes were protected by something like swimming goggles. A possible motive for masking the eyes may have been to make it less obvious that the victims had suffered prolonged exposure to an irritant gas.

We conclude that the staging of the Douma incident entailed mass murder of at least 35 civilians to provide the bodies at Location 2. It follows from this that people dressed as White Helmets and endorsed by the leadership of that organization had a key role in this murder.

17.05.2019 - 14:12 [ Syrian Arab News Agency ]

Army foils terrorists infiltration attempt in Hama northern countryside

Hama, SANA- Army units thwarted an infiltration attempt by a terrorist group in the area of al-Masasenah towards the safe areas in the northern countryside of Hama, SANA reporter said.

17.05.2019 - 13:44 [ The Aviationist ]

USAF F-16 Crashes into Building at March Air Reserve Base, Pilot Ejects, Injuries on the Ground.

This accident is the first U.S. Air Force flying accident in 2019 following 11 accidents for Air Force and Air Force Reserve/National Guard aircraft in 2018. Two USAF F-16s crashed last year, including a fatal accident involving the U.S. Air Force flight demonstration team, The Thunderbirds that occurred on April 5, 2018. The other USAF F-16 accident in 2018 happened when an aircraft overran the runway on emergency landing and the pilot ejected safely at Lake Havasu City Airport in Arizona on April 24, 2018.

17.05.2019 - 13:18 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Corbyn-Erklärung: Labour bricht Brexit-Gespräche ab

Der Chef oppositionellen Labour-Party, Jeremy Corbyn, hat der britischen Premierministerin Theresa May mitgeteilt, dass er die Gespräche über einen Kompromiss im Brexit-Streit für gescheitert hält. Wörtlich hieß es, die Gespräche sind „so weit gegangen wie es möglich ist“. Er glaube nicht, dass es mit der auch innerparteilich angeschlagenen Premierministerin May zu einer Einigung komme, so Corbyn.

17.05.2019 - 13:09 [ The Young Turks / Youtube ]

Cenk Makes HUGE 2020 Announcement

We need YOU to help change the world! Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

17.05.2019 - 13:09 [ junge Welt ]

Einzelfall wird nicht genau betrachtet

Die Überwachung der Telekommunikation muss man sich so vorstellen, dass ein großes Umfeld von Personen mit einbezogen wird. Geht es beispielsweise um eine Telefonnummer in einem Dorf, werden andere Haushalte mit der gleichen Vorwahl vorsorglich mit abgehört und aufgezeichnet. Eine Vielzahl völlig Unschuldiger ist davon betroffen.

17.05.2019 - 12:57 [ teleSUR ]

US Raid on Venezuela Embassy „A Brutal Act against Int`l Law`: Maduro

Activists had been defending the embassy building since the two governments broke diplomatic relations. However, U.S. authorities and the Venezuelan opposition sought to cut off electricity and water services to the building, as well as prevent food from entering by keeping a siege on the premises daily.

17.05.2019 - 12:47 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Argentinien: Kontroverse um Prozesseröffnung gegen Cristina Kirchner

Unterdessen bahnt sich ein neuer Skandal an: Aus den Untersuchungen über das Spionagenetzwerk um Marcelo D‘Alessio, die derzeit von Bundesrichter Ramos Padilla geführt werden, geht hervor, dass der Hauptbelastungszeuge Fariña, der ursprünglich nur über die Steuergeschichten von Báez aussagen konnte, von Mitgliedern des staatlichen Geheimdienstes AFI mit Informationen versehen und von einer Fachanwältin sogar gecoacht wurde, um glaubhaft über Vergabeverfahren und Bestechungsformen aussagen zu können. Das Ganze wurde bei einem Treffen im Büro des Justizministers Garavano arrangiert, das dieser zuerst bestritt, dann aber eingestehen musste.

17.05.2019 - 12:41 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Polizei stürmt Botschaft von Venezuela in Washington

Vier Aktivisten, die sich in den Räumen aufhielten, seien inhaftiert worden. Das Vorgehen der US-Behörden sei ein klarer Verstoß gegen die Wiener Vereinbarung über diplomatische Beziehungen, so Benjamin.

17.05.2019 - 06:38 [ WikiLeaks / Twitter ]

Julian Assange. In his own words: The Media, Propaganda and You.

17.05.2019 - 06:17 [ Chelsea E. Manning / Twitter ]

** Today, Chelsea was not only put back in jail, but Judge Anthony Trenga ordered her to be fined $500 every day she is in custody after 30 days and $1,000 every day she is in custody after 60 days. This is unprecedented.

17.05.2019 - 06:17 [ ORF.at ]

Ex-WikiLeaks-Informantin Manning wieder in Haft

Die Whistleblowerin hatte sich zuvor erneut geweigert, zum Fall von WikiLeaks-Gründer Julian Assange auszusagen.

17.05.2019 - 06:12 [ Tulsi Gabbard, candidate for President / Twitter ]

Trump promised to get the US out of “stupid wars.” But now he and John Bolton are on the brink of launching us into a very stupid and costly war with Iran. Join me in sending a strong message to President Trump: The US must NOT go to war with Iran. #TULSI2020

17.05.2019 - 06:10 [ Bernie Sanders ]

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17.05.2019 - 05:54 [ Spiked ]

Change UK is the gift that keeps on giving

Chuka Umunna is on the front cover of GQ this month. Meanwhile, his newly formed anti-Brexit party, Change UK, the ChUKas if you will, is at around five per cent in the polls for the European Parliament election – an election that ChUKas were supposed to storm as the true party of Remain.

17.05.2019 - 05:52 [ Yvette Henson ‏/ Twitter ]

At the Birmingham Change UK ‘rally’ last night there were nine delegates addressing an audience of five

17.05.2019 - 05:18 [ Standard.co.uk ]

Theresa May resists calls to name date of departure but vows to discuss leadership election timetable after vote on Brexit deal

Mrs May will meet Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs, to set out a timetable for her departure after the second reading of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning June 3, he said today.

17.05.2019 - 02:13 [ Arab News ]

Plane crash near Dubai airport kills three Britons and a South African

The crash killed three Britons and a South African on board the four-seater Diamond DA62, the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority said. The UK registered plane was on a mission to calibrate terrestrial navigation systems at the airport when it crashed about 5 kilometers south of the airport.

The crash was due to a mechanical fault, Dubai Media Office said.

17.05.2019 - 01:50 [ USNI ]

Two U.S. Warships Enter Persian Gulf Without Incident

A U.S. team that includes special operations personnel were part of a group sent to determine the origin of the attacks.

17.05.2019 - 01:34 [ Reuters ]

Trump tells aides he does not want U.S. war with Iran

Trump told reporters on Thursday that he hoped the United States was not heading to war with Iran as he met with Switzerland President Ueli Maurer, whose nation has served as a liaison conduit between the two countries since they do not have diplomatic relations.

17.05.2019 - 00:09 [ Haaretz ]

If the U.S. Goes to War With Iran, Netanyahu Will Be the Prime Suspect

But while the campaign to blame Israel for the Iraq War was limited to a relatively small clique of its most vociferous critics – the most prominent of which were Professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer in their book about the Israel lobby – conflagration with Iran would dramatically expand the circle of Israel-accusers. When Walt and Mearsheimer published their book a dozen years ago, Israel still enjoyed wide partisan support in Congress. Its situation today is substantially worse: