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Archives for May 2017

US Is Killing More Civilians in Syria Air War Than Assad Is

Monitor says US-led coalition killed at least 225 civilians in past month, surpassing 146 civilian deaths caused by Syrian government strikes.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Residents walk through damaged streets at the mountain resort town of Zabadani in the Damascus countryside, Syria, Thursday, May 18, 2017. A U.S. airstrike struck pro-Syrian government forces hitting a convoy in the desert near the border with Jordan, (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Exemplified by the hundred and some odd people they’ve killed in the last 48 hours, the US is struggling mightily with the narrative that they are taking extraordinary care to limit the number of civilian casualties in the air war in Syria, and are rapidly losing any pretense of a moral high ground. Indeed, the Syrian Observatory for Human

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Owners Of Russian Bank Sue Buzzfeed Over ‘Pissgate’ Dossier

BuzzFeed’s article introducing the dossier repeatedly noted that the allegations contained in the document were unverified and that the dossier itself contained errors.

Josh Russell
By Josh Russell
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MANHATTAN – Unhappy with BuzzFeed over its reporting of the infamous “Pissgate” dossier, the owners of a Russian bank that is being investigated by the FBI for ties to President Donald Trump brought a defamation complaint Friday. Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan, who together own Russia’s largest private bank Alfa, filed the 12-page

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Manchester Bomber May Have Been Groomed By UK Intelligence

The alleged perpetrator of last week’s bombing in Manchester has been linked to a Libyan terror group that has been aided in the past by British intelligence authorities – a fact that has been conveniently ignored by mainstream media, despite their intense coverage of the attack.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Manchester bomber Salman Abedi (Photo: Twitter)

As the worst terrorist attack to hit the United Kingdom since 2005, last week’s bombing of a concert in Manchester has since been a constant fixture of the news cycle both in the UK and abroad. bsent from mainstream media accounts of the event – and the man allegedly behind it – are several key coincidences that have raised concerns, particularly

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John Pilger: The White Helmets Are A “Complete Propaganda Construct”

In an interview with RT’s Going Underground, John Pilger outed the White Helmets as nothing more than a “complete propaganda construct in Syria.”

Vanessa Beeley
By Vanessa Beeley
white helmets

 Just prior to the 2016 announcement of the Nobel Prize I wrote to eminent author and filmmaker, John Pilger, about the NATO and Gulf State propaganda construct, the White Helmets, demonstrated to be nothing more than Nusra Front civil defense in Syria. In yesterday’s interview with RT’s  Going Underground, John Pilger outed the White Helmets

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The History Of Britain’s Deadly Collusion With Terror

Britain is not the enemy of terrorism – it stokes the flames of sectarianism and facilitates death squads when and where it fits in with the agenda of their foreign policy.

Gerard McNamara
By Gerard McNamara
The Pro-British Ulster Defence Association parade through Belfast, Northern Ireland under the protection of armed British troops, in August 1972. (AP Photo)

When Britain’s collusion with death squads across the ‘Middle East’ and Africa is mentioned it falls on deaf ears.  The only time you’ll hear of Britain’s open collaboration with these forces are when they are branded ‘moderates’ or ‘rebels’ by the British media. Firstly, what do I mean by death squads? I use this term to refer to a wide range

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Pentagon Admits US Killed 105 Civilians In March Airstrikes On Mosul

Reports also emerged Thursday of at least 35 civilian deaths from what is likely a U.S. airstrike in Eastern Syria.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Iraq | Mosul

Pentagon officials announced Thursday the completion of an investigation confirming that a U.S. airstrike in Mosul against the Islamic State group killed at least 105 civilians, AFP reported. They maintain, however, that the high civilian toll resulted from a secondary explosion of Islamic State group explosives stored in the building. There

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