‪#‎Syrian‬ President Bashar ‪#‎Assad‬ has tasked the country's electricity minister to form a new government, the state ‪#‎SANA‬ news agency reported Wednesday.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has tasked the country's electricity minister to form a new government, the state SANA news agency reported Wednesday. Minister Imad Mohammad Deeb Khamis will form the…
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He then said ‪#‎Israel‬ will do "all we can so as to not find ourselves in such a situation," suggesting that the Israeli military is looking at direct support for ‪#‎ISIS‬ as a matter of policy, and not just rhetoric.

In a speech at the Herzliya Conference, Israel's military intelligence chief, Major General Herzi Halevy, took Israel's long-standing position that it "prefers ISIS" over the Syrian government to a…
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"We remember how it all started," ‪#‎Putin‬ said last week at ‪#‎SPIEF‬. "‪#‎Russia‬ did not initiate the current breakdown, disruption, problems and sanctions. All our actions have been exclusively reciprocal. But we don't hold a grudge, as they say, and are ready to meet our European partners halfway. However, this can by no means be a one-way street."

Between August 9 and 12, 1941, taking their battleships in turn to meet in a Canadian bay, US President Franklin Roosevelt (centre, left) and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (centre, right)…
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Today is Brexit referendum day!

Will the UK 'free itself from the evil EU'?

No chance, says Niall Bradley. Brexit is a ruse to destabilize European integration in favour of Anglo-American interests (not least, keeping European powers from looking towards Russia and focused on cementing the Western corporate super-state known as the 'TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership', a.k.a. the Atlantic Empire).

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I'll go out on a limb here and predict that, regardless of the result in today's "in or out" referendum, Britain will remain in the EU. In fact, I want to make the case that the British regime never…
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Crooke is a 'former' MI-6 agent. This isn't the first time he has spoken with common sense about ‪#‎Syria‬ and ‪#‎Russia‬.

What stands out in his analysis is the utter lack of responsibility and even rationality when it comes to ‪#‎US‬ decision-makers. It is as if they are unaware that they are dealing with real people, not just computer avatars or pieces on a chessboard to be used for whatever short-term gain is in sight. There is a total disconnect with reality and the fact that actions have consequences. They live in a narcissistic bubble and tell outrageous lies. As Crooke asks, do they not see where this leads? It appears not. They do not see what they don't want to see. It's unlikely to start a total nuclear war, but it's sure to make the world a worse place even than it is right now.

Gradually, the mist of ambiguity and confusion hanging over Syria is lifting a little. The landscape is sharpening into focus. With this improved visibility, we can view a little more clearly the…
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No amount of preventive repression or collective punishment will bring an end to the bloodletting in ‪#‎TelAviv‬ or elsewhere. As long as this oppressive system stands, and the ‪#‎UnitedStates‬ continues to support it with billions of dollars a year in military aid, despair will spread, and with it death. ‪#‎Israel‬ ‪#‎Palestine‬

The news was familiar but no less alarming for the ugly déjà vu: four Israelis killed on Wednesday night by Palestinian gunmen in the heart of Tel Aviv. Israel's government, the most right-wing in…
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Think of magnesium as the ‪#‎relaxation‬ mineral. Anything that is tight, irritable, crampy, and stiff — whether it is a body part or an even a mood — is a sign of ‪#‎magnesium‬ deficiency.

A deficiency in this critical nutrient makes you twice as likely to die as other people, according to a study published in The Journal of Intensive Care Medicine.(i) It also accounts for a long list…
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The point is, whether the challenge is cold feet or "coaled feet," we humans are really not as frail as we think we are.

In the face of heroic efforts needed to save our own lives, what chance do we have to save the world? Confronted with current global crises, we understandably shrink back, overwhelmed with a feeling…
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Milne told the Herald he raised the flag in solidarity with ‪#‎Mexican‬ people and "anyone else ‪#‎Trump‬ has decried, insulted, intimidated and lied about primarily during his campaign." "And it's also to show solidarity with all the people he has tried to harass and point out we are still here and not going anywhere," he added.

An angry neighbor whose land borders Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course defiantly raised the Mexican flag alongside the partition line, days before the presumptive Republican US presidential…
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Strange ‪#‎electrical‬ phenomena across the globe over the last month can be attributed to decreased solar winds that are now allowing the ‪#‎magnetosphere‬ to expand along with Earth's atmosphere. The wider gap is allowing more plasma arching and cosmic rays in, which also increases low cloud formation. A new feedback loop has begun. ‪#‎EarthChanges‬

Strange electrical phenomena across the globe over the last month can be attributed to decreased solar winds that are now allowing the magnetosphere to expand along with Earth's atmosphere. The wider…
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A group calling itself ‪#‎NewWorldHackers‬ has been taking over ‪#‎billboards‬ along Interstate 30 in Dallas. The group seems to dislike both the Democratic and Republican candidates for President, Donald ‪#‎Trump‬ and Hillary ‪#‎Clinton‬.

A group calling itself New World Hackers has been taking over billboards along Interstate 30 in Dallas. Like myself, the group seems to dislike both the Democratic and Republican candidates for…
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The ‪#‎information‬ flicker effect is powerful. It sweeps away independent thought and measured contemplation. It certainly rules out the possibility of imagining the murders in an alternative narrative.

I wrote this piece in 2012, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. I re-post it now, because it equally applies to the Orlando shooting. No, I'm not talking about the flicker of the television…
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No one - man or woman - should register, or be required to register, for the ‪#‎draft‬. The draft should be completely eliminated. The military should be dismantled. War should be abolished. The bloated war budget should be returned to our children and students. The ‪#‎military‬ industrial complex should be evicted from our politics and ‪#‎war‬ profiteering should be completely and utterly outlawed.

For too long, the women of this nation have been complacent while our brothers, sons, husbands, and fathers are sent to kill, maim, brutalize, destroy and even die in defense of our alleged liberty.…
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‪#‎Bilderberg‬ of course has traditionally been a prime lobby for ‪#‎BigOil‬ and Too Big To Fail (TBTF) ‪#‎Banking‬. So it goes without saying that Bilderberg's official candidate in the US presidential election is Hillary Clinton.

So the annual Bilderberg meeting placidly came and went behind heavily secured doors (and fence) at the Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski in Dresden - conveniently upstaged by the murky story of a…
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A looming natural disaster such as an earthquake could compound ‪#‎California‬'s problems.

The entire Los Angeles metropolitan area and most of Southern California can expect blackouts this summer. The power grid is under direct threat as a result of the unprecedented, but little reported,…
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The ‪#‎EU‬ is definitely tyrannical, but if anyone believes they'll find ‪#‎democracy‬ in the ‪#‎UK‬ they've got another thing coming.

Voting to leave the EU is a no-brainer for the Left. The European Union is remote, racist, imperialist, anti-worker and anti-democratic: It is run by, of, and for the super-rich and their…
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He is currently wanted in ‪#‎Russia‬ on murder charges, since in late 2015 Russia's Prosecutor General's Office charged ‪#‎Khodorkovsky‬ with the arranging of the 1998 assassination of the mayor of the oil-rich city of Nefteyugansk.

A petition on "We the People" website wants the White House to investigate allegations that Russia's Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who served prison time for embezzlement and is wanted on murder charges,…
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Kim White, a ‪#‎Michigan‬ resident who raises chickens and rabbits, said, "They don't want us little guys feeding ourselves. They want us to go all to the big ‪#‎farms‬. They want to do away with small farms and I believe that is what's motivating it."

Michigan residents lost their "right to farm" this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. Gail Philburn of the Michigan Sierra Club told Michigan…
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No surprise there. So will law enforcement and the media continue with the ‪#‎ISIS‬ narrative, or shift it to something new? We'll have to wait and see. ‪#‎Orlando‬

In extremely revealing testimony, director of the CIA John Brennan told the Senate intelligence committee Thursday that CIA has no evidence of a connection between Omar Mateen and the Islamic State…
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Social media lit up in ‪#‎Japan‬ on the night of June 18, with Japanese users posting images of a ‪#‎meteor‬ ‪#‎fireball‬ seen hurtling towards earth, visible for several seconds as it streaked through a vast stretch of night sky.

Recordings of multiple sightings of the bright light also show the visible plume it left as it streaked down from the sky. Social media lit up in Japan on the night of June 18, with Japanese users…
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