Exclusive: In August 2013, when the U.S. government almost went to war in Syria over a Sarin attack, suspicions that it was a rebel “false-flag” were ridiculed. But new disclosures about a rebel role in kidnapping NBC’s Richard Engel several months earlier show the rebels knew such propaganda tricks, says Robert Parry.
Mongoose: Controlling Israel — It’s the Money, Stupid!
04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Peace IntelligenceOf note.
Counterpunch: Footing Israel’s Bill – Israel Won't Change Its Ways Until Washington Puts Military Aid on the Chopping Block
ConsortiumNews: Did Money Seal Israeli-Saudi Alliance?
Berto Jongman: America’s Troll Army Against Russia – $16M for Contractors, To What Good End?
IO Deeds of War, IO ImpotencyAmerica Goes Large: Obama Wants Huge Budget for His Anti-Russian Troll Army
While issuing scary revelations about the alleged ‘Kremlin Troll Army’ operating online, ‘perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue’, the US government's international broadcaster RFE/RL somehow forgot to disclose it is prepared to spend as much as $15.4 million of taxpayers’ money on its own digital media forces to battle phantom Russia in the media
Robert Parry: Neocon, R2P Hypocrisy
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, MilitaryExclusive: R2Pers say America has a “responsibility to protect” endangered people around the world, but this R2P moral imperative is selective, often indistinguishable from neocons tolerating some slaughters and choosing to wage war against certain enemies — just dressed up in liberal rhetoric, reports Robert Parry.
Berto Jongman: Covert War Between US and Russia? West Sidelined by Sino-Russian Entente & Expulsion from Southern Hemisphere?
02 China, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, IO Deeds of War, Officers CallBeing read, together, in Europe.
Putin Orders Millions Of Troops To High Alert After US Hypercraft “Attack”
From Greater Europe to Greater Asia? The Sino-Russian Entente