Assange explains the details of the operation to get Snowden to a safe place and how it was disrupted by US intel in cahoots with European allies. A clearly illegal action by the US involving several European vassal nations to block the Bolivian president’s plane from refueling on its way home from Moscow. If nothing else, it shows the abject degree of vassalage and criminality exhibited by supposedly “sovereign” nations like France, Spain and Italy as they collaborate with the US in operations of importance to the ruling plutocracy.
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What We Still Do Not Know About Russiagate Hoax
13 minutes readSTEPHEN COHEN—Russiagate’s core allegation persists, like a legend, in American political life—in media commentary, in financial solicitations by some Democratic candidates for Congress, and, as is clear from my own discussions, in the minds of otherwise well-informed people.
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State Department ‘Swagger’ Means Offering Bribes
6 minutes readMoA—As the Grace 1 captain did not agree to be bribed the U.S. sanctioned him. The ship now sits off the Syrian coast and is unloading its 2 million barrels of oil. That will be enough for three month of Syria’s consumption.
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Antifa: A Look at the Antifascist Movement Confronting White Supremacists in the Streets
10 minutes readPresident Trump is facing widespread criticism for his latest comments on the deadly white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. Speaking at Trump Tower on Tuesday, Trump said the violence was in part caused by what he called the “alt-left.” President Trump’s comment were widely decried. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wrote on Twitter, “No, not the same. One side is racist, bigoted, Nazi. The other opposes racism and bigotry. Morally different universes.” We look at one of the groups who confronted the white supremacists in the streets: the antifascists known as antifa. We speak to Mark Bray, author of the new book, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
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The U.S. is trying to turn Hong Kong into a corporatized state
28 minutes readRAINER SHEA—Yet another U.S. fingerprint in Hong Kong is the tactic that protesters have taken up of goading the police into responding violently so that the Chinese government can be delegitimized in the minds of those who follow the movement’s propaganda. This approach of “aggressive nonviolence” was developed by U.S. soft power operative Gene Sharp, who’s now indirectly helping the protesters manufacture violent confrontations that the American media can exploit to the advantage of the anti-Beijing faction.