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Is Washington’s Dangerous Ukraine Boondoggle Starting to Unravel?
Russia, Ukraine, USA

Is Washington’s Dangerous Ukraine Boondoggle Starting to Unravel?

by Ron Paul  Last week the world stood on the very edge of a nuclear war, as Ukraine’s US-funded president, Vladimir Zelensky, urged NATO military action over a missile that landed on Polish soil. "This is a Russian missile attack on collective security! This is a really significant escalation. Action is needed," said Zelensky immediately after the missile landed. But there was a problem. The missile was fired from Ukraine – likely an accident in the fog of war. Was it actually a Russian missile, of course, that might mean World War III. But Zelensky didn’t seem to be bothered by the prospect of the world blown up, judging from his reckless rhetoric. While Zelensky has been treated as a saint by the US media, the Biden Administration, and both parties in Congress, something u...
Zionist obstruction of the Abu Akleh investigation
Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Zionist obstruction of the Abu Akleh investigation

Israeli obstruction of the Abu Akleh investigation should end the ‘special relationship’ Although a US investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder will unlikely lead to accountability, Israel’s refusal to cooperate should raise questions about the US/Israeli relationship. BY MITCHELL PLITNICK  LINA ABU AKLEH, THE NIECE OF SLAIN AL JAZEERA JOURNALIST SHIREEN ABU AKLEH, SPEAKS AT THE U.S. CAPITOL DURING A TRIP TO WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2022. (AP PHOTO/NATHAN ELLGREN) In a surprising but welcome development, the United States’ Department of Justice has begun an investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The announcement came six months after Abu Akleh was killed while covering an Israeli raid on the Palestinian r...
Iran Attacks Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran, Iraq

Iran Attacks Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan

Iran claims heavy damage on Kurds by Jason Ditz  After weeks of relative calm on the border, Iran has once again struck Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan, claiming them to be separatist elements.One Peshmerga was confirmed killed, and a Kurdish political leader said several were slain. Iranian semi-official media claimed 26 killed.Iran has accused several foreign factions of fueling unrest, and has targeted the Kurds over this several times, likely because they’re conveniently close. The US, predictably, faulted Iran’s strike and claimed it was threatening  Iraq’s stability.Iraq said that it “strongly” condemned the Iranian strikes as a sovereignty violation, as well as Turkish airstrikes that targeted Iraqi Kurdistan a day earlier.Unrest in Iran recently has...
Ukraine: Captive Russian Soldiers Were Killed at Close Range
Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine: Captive Russian Soldiers Were Killed at Close Range

Videos circulating online and reported on by Russian state media have raised questions about whether Ukrainian soldiers committed a war crime. By Malachy Browne, Stephen Hiltner, Chevaz Clarke-Williams and Taylor Turner A series of videos that surfaced on social media last week has ignited a debate over whether Ukrainian forces committed war crimes or acted in self-defense as they tried to capture a group of Russian soldiers who were then killed. The videos show the grisly before-and-after scenes of the encounter earlier this month, in which at least 11 Russians, most of whom are seen lying on the ground, appear to have been shot dead at close range after one of their fellow fighters suddenly opened fire on Ukrainian soldiers standing nearby. The videos, detailed below and who...
Germany to Deploy Patriot System to Poland After Ukrainian Missile Incident
Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine

Germany to Deploy Patriot System to Poland After Ukrainian Missile Incident

Ukraine's reaction to the missile hitting Poland led to the first major rift between Kyiv and its Western backersby Dave DeCamp Posted onNovember 21, 2022CategoriesNewsTagsGermany, Poland Poland said Monday that Germany will deploy a US-made Patriot air defense missile system to the Polish border with Ukraine. The agreement comes less than a week after a Ukrainian air defense missile hit a grain depot in a Polish village, killing two people. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak wrote on Twitter that he accepted the offer to deploy a Patriot system from his German counterpart with “satisfaction.” The agreement comes as tensions have been high between Poland and Germany. Warsaw has criticized the government of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for bein...
Finland Sees Istanbul Bombing as Potential Hindrance to NATO Talks With Turkey
NATO, Turkey

Finland Sees Istanbul Bombing as Potential Hindrance to NATO Talks With Turkey

Turkey has held up Sweden and Finland's membership over alleged support for the PKK, which it blamed for the bombingby Dave DeCamp Posted onNovember 21, 2022CategoriesNewsTagsFinland, Sweden, Turkey Finland’s foreign minister said Saturday that last week’s bombing in Istanbul, which Ankara has blamed on the Kurdish militant group PKK, could hinder talks with Turkey on joining NATO Turkey has held up Finland and Sweden’s NATO bid over their alleged support for the PKK and other Kurdish groups. Ankara is seeking the extradition of suspected PKK members, mostly from Sweden, and has said the Nordic nations have yet to fulfill a deal they signed with Turkey to join NATO. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said the Istanbul bombing, which killed six people,...
Syrian Kurdish Militants Fire Rockets Into Turkey, Killing Three
Syria, Turkey

Syrian Kurdish Militants Fire Rockets Into Turkey, Killing Three

The attack came after Turkey launched major airstrikes, Erdogan signaled he will also launch a ground operationby Dave DeCamp Posted onNovember 21, 2022CategoriesNewsTagsSyria, Turkey Turkey’s interior minister on Monday said that three people were killed after rockets hit the Turkish district of Karkamis, near the Syrian border, in an attack likely carried out by Kurdish militants. The rocket attack came a day after Turkey launched massive airstrikes in northern Iraq and Syria against Kurdish groups for their alleged role in a recent bombing in Istanbul. Dozens were reported killed in the strikes, including members of the US-backed Kurdish-led SDF. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the SDF fired rockets i...
Kamala Harris Hits Out at China in Speech on Philippine Coast Guard Ship
Philippine

Kamala Harris Hits Out at China in Speech on Philippine Coast Guard Ship

Harris delivered the speech in Palawan, a Philippine island province with a coast on the South China Seaby Dave DeCamp Posted onNovember 22, 2022CategoriesNewsTagsChina Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday wrapped up her trip to the Philippines with a visit to Palawan, an island province with a coast on the disputed South China Sea. From there, Harris delivered a speech onboard a Philippine Coast Guard vessel and said the US would lead a campaign against “irresponsible behavior” in the region, referencing Beijing. China, the Philippines, and several other Southeast Asian countries all have overlapping claims to the South China Sea. The US has inserted itself into the dispute and rejects most of Beijing’s claims. Harris is now the highest-level US of...
Ukraine: Will US Back Off as Russia Did on Cuba?
Ukraine, USA

Ukraine: Will US Back Off as Russia Did on Cuba?

by Ray McGovern  Sixty years ago today (October 28) the U.S. and Russia stepped back from the brink of nuclear war by making a deal. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev would yield to President John F. Kennedy’s demand that Soviet missiles be removed from Cuba; Kennedy pledged not to invade. There is an instructive analogy with Ukraine today. Soviet documents that were revealed after the USSR imploded show how this all went down – and how we all would have "gone down," literally, were it not for the statesmanlike behavior of both leaders and their acute realization of the stakes involved. Some of what I include below is drawn from a book by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali that is based on those documents. They called it One Hell of a Gamble: The Secret Histo...
Nazi Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Jerusalem And Jericho
Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Jerusalem And Jericho

Nazi soldiers abducted three young Palestinian men and assaulted two of them in Jerusalem and Jericho in the Nazi occupied West Bank. Media sources said the Nazi soldiers assaulted Mohammad Abu Sbeih and Rashed Sabah after stopping them in Al-Wad Street in the Old City and abducted them. The sources added that the Nazi soldiers assaulted another young man, Islam Sharabati, near Bab Al-Asbat in the Old City. Furthermore, the Nazi soldiers abducted a young man, Dia’ Abu Jomhoor, after stopping a car near Jericho city, in the northeastern West Bank. The Palestinian, from Jenin in the northern West Bank, was heading to Jericho when the Nazi soldiers abducted him.