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Seeing Behind “Reform” Facade, UK Media Regulator Bans Saudi Ad

Since rising to power in mid-2017, MBS has shown that, despite his best efforts to lay on the PR charm, he is hardly the reformer he has promoted himself to be. Indeed, he has strewn repression and brutality in his wake, domestically and outside Saudi borders.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May looks to the media as she greets Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman outside 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. (AP/Alastair Grant)

LONDON -- Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s media regulator, ruled on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia had broken British broadcasting law by running television advertisements aimed at promoting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and his so-called “reform” agenda. Ofcom’s ruling focused on a single advertisement, broadcast 56 times over a three-day

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Syria Delivers Evidence to UN Showing Idlib Rebel Preparations to Stage “False Flag” Chemical Attack

Warnings from Syria’s UN representative and the Russian military follow hawkish statements recently made by members of the Trump administration that the U.S. would respond “very strongly” if the Syrian government is accused of chemical weapons use in Idlib.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Syria Chemical Weapons

NEW YORK -- During a speech delivered on Tuesday to the United Nations Security Council, Syria’s Permanent UN Representative Bashir al-Jaafari claimed to have provided information to the council that was evidence that armed opposition groups, including Al Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front, were gearing up to use chemical weapons against civilians in

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US Intel Officials Made Secret Trip to Damascus for Talks With Assad Advisor

Such talks are unprecedented. The two countries haven’t had such direct dealings since near the start of the conflict in 2011.

ZeroHedge.com
بواسطة ZeroHedge.com
Bashar al-Assad during the interview in Damascus on Saturday. SYRIAN PRESIDENT’S OFFICE

UPDATE: State Department Denies Reuters Report That US Officials Met With Syrian Officials Reuters has confirmed a bombshell report which first surfaced Tuesday in Lebanese media saying that a high level delegation of US intelligence officials made a secret visit to Damascus in June to meet with President Bashar al-Assad's most trusted senior

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Why a Two-State Solution May Be the Only Answer to America’s Enduring Racial Divide

American white supremacy is akin to a religious cult: motivated by ignorance and fear, a critical mass of Whites regard non-Whites in much the same way that villagers in Salem regarded the witches they burned at the stake for practicing witchcraft.

Jon Jeter
بواسطة Jon Jeter

I will state flatly that the bulk of this country’s white population impresses me, and has so impressed me for a very long time, as being beyond any conceivable hope of moral rehabilitation. They have been white, if I may so put it, too long. They have been married to the lie of white supremacy too long. The effect in their personalities, their

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Permanent War for Permanent Peace: The Global Alliance for Evil

American troops live and die for both the owners and the customers of America’s weapons-manufacturers, and are being paid by U.S. taxpayers to do it.

Eric Zuesse
بواسطة Eric Zuesse
President Donald Trump shows a chart highlighting arms sales to Saudi Arabia during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

The global alliance for evil is the system that’s behind the current reality, which some call “permanent war for permanent peace,” and others call “perpetual war for perpetual peace,” but it’s the same thing no matter what it’s called: the ‘national security’ system that exists today, and that was accurately foreseen (and dramatically embellished)

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After the EU Boycotts Russia’s Initiatives to Rebuild Syria, China Steps In

With the EU refusing to engage. China intends to intensify its participation in Syria, and Damascus, with the support of Russia, is working on the return of Idlib, the last stronghold of Islamists.

Evgeny Satanovsky
بواسطة Evgeny Satanovsky
A man walks next to damaged buildings in the old town of Homs, Syria, Aug. 15, 2018. The Russian Defense Ministry said it is coordinating efforts to help Syrian refugees return home and rebuild the country's infrastructure destroyed by the civil war. Sergei Grits | AP

The hopes of the Russian diplomats for the US, the EU countries and the UN humanitarian agencies’ participation in the reconstruction of Syria and the return of refugees to its territory were dashed. At the same time, China intends to intensify its participation in the conflict, and Damascus, with the support of the Russian Aerospace Forces, is

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