by Anthony Black, September 8, 2014, via Canadian Dimension On the evening of April 6th 1994 a plane carrying the Hutu leaders of both Rwanda and Burundi was shot down as it approached Kanombe airport. The assassins had little trouble targeting the flight as only one of the two runways was open, the other having been closed two months earlier on the orders of General Romeo Dallaire. [ 6,897 more words ]
by Petra Liverani I find it such an interesting phenomenon that of all the self-styled skeptics I have corresponded with or whose opinions are aired online, every single one swallows the miracles, told to us by NIST, of the three high rise steel frame building collapses on 9/11 being caused by fire when the evidence clearly shows that the collapses were caused by controlled demolition. [ 1,377 more word ]
This is an extract from Eastern Ghouta in the shoes of Aleppo: the media propaganda again on BalkansPost.com Concern for civilians is just another charade in the Western powers' effort to prolong the existence of terrorist groups as much as possible. We must ask the question which has been avoided and neglected by the corporate media: Who the US, UK and France trying to protect in Eastern Ghouta? [ 708 more words ]
http://off-guardian.org/…/who-are-the-us-uk-and-france-try…/
"The Arabic-language al-Akhbar newspaper wrote on Saturday that the US officials along with their western allies have decided to implement a detailed plan to disintegrate Syria and prolonge the war in the country by continued deployment on the Eastern banks of the Euphrates."
"Under the guise of 'Russia aggression,' a concept that was peddled to the unsuspecting masses based on the fake news of a Russian 'invasion' of Ukraine and Crimea, compounded by claims that Russia somehow swayed the 2016 US presidential elections, US-led NATO has dropped all pretensions and declared open season on Russia. Combined with Donald Trump's empty threat that the US would exit NATO if member states did not start spending more on defense (2 percent of annula GDP), Ea...stern Europe has become a veritable hothouse of paranoia-driven militarization.
In what the Kremlin has described as the greatest amassing of military assets on its border since World War II, NATO troops and hardware have set up camp from as far north as Estonia, down through Latvia and Lithuania, into Romania and Poland, where the rotation of US troops is now standard operating procedure."
"I can't believe that!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things.” "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. [ 568 more words ]
http://off-guardian.org/…/lewis-carrolls-white-queen-would…/
Dr Bashar Jaafari, Syrian representative at the UN, responding to the UNSC resolution calling for a ceasefire in Syria on February 24. His dignity, professionalism and intelligence may seem by many to be in stark contrast to the disgraceful and classless conduct of the UK and US delegates.
http://off-guardian.org/…/watch-bashar-jaafari-at-the-unsc…/
From September 2017.
"The ongoing political crisis in the Maldives has thrown into sharp relief that the strategically-located Indian Ocean archipelago has become a focal point of the increasingly explosive geopolitical competition between India and the US on one side, and China on the other."
We are posting this mostly uninteresting pseudo-debate purely for what happens in the first few moment. Vladimir Pozner, journalist, tells the anchor man and two other guests some important realities and then leaves, refusing to participate further. The other two guests then proceed to ‘debate’ what are essentially invented issues in an invented reality. It’s a microcosm for the current struggle, which is becoming less about conflicting opinions and more about those prepared to deal with reality and those who refuse to do so. [ 54 more words ]
One of our readers dropped this in our inbox. It’s been a pretty bad week for the planet as a whole, so why not just kick back for a minute this Sunday morning and smile
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‘Media on Trial’ is a grassroots movement instigated by Frome Stop War, an independent anti-war organisation. The goal is to cultivate a public scepticism when ...faced with establishment and corporate media’s partisan reporting at times of conflict.
Since the appalling disinformation disseminated when our government was debating the Iraq invasion, the same media, rather than reforming their reporting procedures, have continually used biased and dubious sources to propagandise for deadly interventions and regime change.
For this reason, and because glaring examples of media misinformation in the lead up to regime change or invterventions have come to light, Frome Stop War and its expert panel of speakers will again put the 'Media on Trial', our next event being Leeds on Sunday 27th May.
How many “last hospitals in Aleppo” did the media claim were destroyed during the fighting? One? Five? Ten? Watch to find out...
http://off-guardian.org/…/watch-how-many-last-hospitals-in…/
by Idan Landau, via Defend Democracy Press The writing is already on the wall: Israel will soon launch a military operation in Lebanon. Not a targeted attack on a weapons convoy or factory, but a simultaneous attack on Hezbollah’s missile production and launch sites. The operation will take place at the same time as, or immediately after, a series of assassinations… [ 2,043 more words ]
