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Vivian Lee, The Strange Crash of Ukrainian Flight #752 in Iran

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Vivian Lee On the morning of January 8, 2020, a Boeing 737 crashed and left debris scattered over a wide area just minutes after takeoff from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran. The Ukrainian International Airlines jet was en route to Kyiv, scheduled to land at Boryspil International Airport at 8 am local time. “Amateur” videos posted on social media led to the suspicion that the plane had been brought down by a missile over the city of Parand. The first video, posted on Instagram by The Rich Kids…

Michael Hudson, America Escalates Its “Democratic” Oil War in the Near East

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by MICHAEL HUDSON [Editor’s note: While I believe that Michael Hudson offers a brilliant exposition of US motives, tactics and strategy in the Middle East, the assassination of Suleimani appears to have been a target of opportunity for Israel, as I have suggested in “The Assassination of Soleimani: What Really Happened and Why it Matters”. For anyone who missed the memo, the imminence of the threat he posed is a crucial issue of international law, since the UN Charter declares that one nation has the right to a preemptory strike against another…

Jim Fetzer, The Assassination of Soleimani: What really happened and why it matters

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Jim Fetzer [Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Farsi in Iran https://www.mizanonline.com/fa/news/585480/سردار-سلیمانی-موفقترین-استراتژیست-نظامی-ضد-تروریسم-جهانترور-سردار-سلیمانی-نقض-قوانین-بینالمللی-است.] The stunning drone attack that killed Major General Qassem Soleimani and senior leaders of the Shia militia in Iraq was not only a violation of international law but of Iraqi sovereignty as well. Perhaps most disturbing, Iraq’s PM, Adel Abdul Mahdi, reported that Soleimani was on a diplomatic mission as the guest of Iraq at the behest of President Donald Trump, who used the pretext of receiving a Trump-Pompeo missive to take him out. The world has not seen…

Larry C. Johnson, The Facts About Iran and Terrorism

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 by Larry C Johnson When emotion rules the day facts do not matter. Sadly, that is the reality we confront when it comes to talking about Iran and terrorism. The U.S. Government and almost all of the media continue to declare that Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism. That is not true. That is a lie. I realize that calling this assertion a lie opens me to accusations of being an apologist for Iran. But simply look at the facts. Here is the most recent U.S. State Department claim about…

Kurt Nimmo, Delisted by Google

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Kurt Nimmo Think Orwell’s Memory Hole. Eugene Vollokh writes on his blog the behemoth Google has delisted articles critical of a legal judgment punishing author Jim Fetzer for daring to write a book questioning the official narrative on Sandy Hook.  Fetzer, a retired university professor, was ordered by the court to pay nearly a half-million dollars to Leonard Pozner, the father of a child allegedly killed at Sandy Hook.  Google received a request under the plaintiff’s name “asking Google to deindex pages that contain copies of the libelous book, and Google…

Matt Bracken, RICHMOND: THE MOTHER OF ALL BUFFALO JUMPS

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Matt Bracken The more I ponder the mass demonstration being promoted by the Virginia Citizens Defense League for the annual Lobby Day at the Richmond Capitol, the more it looks like a disaster in the making. I wish it were otherwise, but I see many times more downside risk than possible upside benefit. Even if Virginia Senate Bill 16 is passed, banning nearly all semi-automatic firearms, the new law will be challenged in court, and given the potential dire outcomes, the case will rapidly ascend to the SCOTUS. This process…

Stephanie Sledge, 9 Years Pass & Nation Still Enduring Lies of Tucson Shooting

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by Stephanie Sledge  WARNING: This publication contains information free to the American public “We the People” under the First Amendment. Any information you find offensive or inflicts any emotional response will be doing so at your own risk. It is the ninth anniversary of the January 8th, 2011 Tucson Safeway shooting and the scripted, lying, media begins another year of regurgitating the same lies and nonsense the People were indoctrinated with in January of 2011. A yearly ceremony now performed on the mainstream stage to prevent the nation from knowing…

Scott Ritter, Iran holds all the cards in coming Middle East conflict with US, unless Trump is ready to drop a tactical NUKE

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Scott Ritter Iran has promised retaliation for the assassination of Qassem Suleimani. Donald Trump said this will lead to a disproportionate response from the US. One side can deliver on its threats, the other can’t, unless it goes nuclear. Iran means business “Our reaction,” Iranian general Hossein Dehghan said at the weekend, “will be wise, well considered and, in time, with decisive deterrent effect.” Dehghan also noted that Iran was not seeking a wider confrontation with the US. “It was America that has started the war. Therefore, they should accept appropriate reactions…

Patrick J. McShay, Targeted Assassinations and Foreign Entanglements

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Patrick J. McShay “The Iranian regime’s aggression in the region including their use of proxy fighters to destabilize its neighbors must end and it must end now!“ *President Donald J. Trump President Trump’s former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster once said that “there are basically two ways to fight the United States, asymmetrically and stupid.” We know the disparities between Iran and the U.S. are immense but how much do we really know about Iran’s full capability? One thing we do know is that Iran is a much graver threat…

Scott Ritter, Iranian Revenge Will Be A Dish Best Served Cold

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Scott Ritter But the time and place will be of their choosing, when the U.S. expects it least. The assassination by the United States of Qassem Suleimani, a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general and commander of the Quds Force, an Iranian paramilitary force specializing in covert operations on foreign soil, has sent shock waves through the Middle East and around the globe. The Trump administration has justified its action, citing unspecified intelligence that indicated Suleimani was in the process of finalizing plans for attacks on U.S. personnel and interests…