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WHITNEY WEBB—However, it is essential to note that Israeli intelligence did attempt to warn the U.S. government at least twice beginning in August 2001 as did the intelligence agencies of many other countries, including France, the UK, Egypt, Russia and Jordan. Yet, no people connected to any other intelligence agency other than Israel were caught celebrating the attacks as they took place in the area nor were accused by mainstream media of operating a large spy ring within the U.S. at the time. One theory to explain this discrepancy is that the Mossad elements of which the “Dancing Israelis” and other alleged Israeli spies could have been part of a specific section of Israeli intelligence that were acting independently as a rogue agency. Such a possibility is not unusual given that divisions of or groups within the CIA have been known to “go rogue” on several occasions.

STALKER ZONE— On September 8, the Riga District Court confirmed the decision of the Vidzeme District Court that human rights activist and scientist Aleksandr Gaponenko committed a criminal offence by spreading anti-fascist statements. For these “crimes”, the court punished the scientist with 10 months in prison. He was awarded a suspended sentence and two years of probation.

This is a landmark decision, since previously anti-fascists in Latvia were persecuted only by the secret police and they did it surreptitiously. The decision of the Riga Court of September 8 means that the state has resorted to institutional means of reprisals against anti-fascists. Indirectly, the court’s decision recognised that fascism is a key element of the state ideology, an element that cannot be criticised under the threat of criminal punishment.

On Foreign Agents, Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton expose the biggest frauds recruited as defectors and dissidents to lie about Official Enemies by the US regime.

The Bolivarian nation will not forget the traitors either. Juan Guaidó, the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela on January 23, 2019, will not have impunity despite the dialogues with the opposition he represents. Guaido was not elected by anyone. He was not even a candidate in May 2018, when the legitimate and legal elections were held in Venezuela to choose the president. He was just some guy Venezuela’s right-wing chose in complicity with the U.S. to play the role of a pretend “popular” leader.

“That is why impunity will not be negotiated, whether the talks are in Mexico or on Mars. What there will be is justice, deep justice, because they have done so much damage to the Venezuelan family’s life,” Maduro said during an interview for Venezolana de Televisión.

Guaidó is the protagonist of the robbery of the CITGO company, a subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA in the U.S. He is also responsible for the seizure of more than $8 billion and the theft of more than $2 billion dollars in gold deposited in the Bank of England.

AJAMU BARAKA—Domestic colonial containment and imperialist counterrevolutionary policies are costly. But the brunt of the price is paid by the colonized and exploited working classes and peoples of the U.S. that pay for and die in U.S. wars of aggression, and by the peoples and nations that are bombed, subverted politically, sanctioned to death, and destroyed by the U.S. state and its European allies.

On the same day that the National Priorities Project report was issued, Brown University’s Cost of War Project release a report that estimated the war in Iraq and Afghanistan killed almost a million people and cost more than $8 trillion dollars.