“Idlib province is the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 911.” US official Brett McGurk, 2017.…The Soviet Union ended on Dec. 31, 1991
2/29/20, “Syria – Deadly Bomb Strike Warns Turkey To End Its Escapades,“ Moon of Alabama
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“Tulsi posts a video denouncing Turkey’s expansionism and the U.S. government and media’s whitewashing of the Islamist [terrorists] extremists as “rebels”:
Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard – 13:07 UTC · Feb 29, 2020.@realDonaldTrump needs to make it clear to NATO and Erdogan that the United States will not be dragged into a war with Russia by the aggressive, Islamist, expansionist dictator of Turkey, a so-called “NATO” ally. #StandWithTulsi
Posted by: S | Feb 29 2020 22:47 utc | 214Transcript of 2/29/20 Tulsi Gabbard statements on Facebook post:
“Russia is sending warships to Syria right now to protect it from Turkey’s invasion in northern Syria, which is being carried out in alliance with Al-Qaeda. President Trump needs to make it very clear to NATO and Turkey’s Erdogan that the United States will not be dragged into a war with Russia by the aggressive Islamist expansionist dictator of Turkey via NATO. The corporate media needs to stop referring to Al-Qaeda and their affiliated groups in Idlib as “rebels” in a deceptive effort to make them seem like freedom fighters. I and thousands of Americans enlisted after Al-Qaeda’s attack on 9/11. And the media and the Trump administration’s continued labeling of these terrorists as rebels is a disgrace and dishonors all of our men and women in uniform and our entire country. Turkey’s been supporting ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorists from behind the scenes for years. But now Turkey is being forced to come out from behind the curtain and expose the role that they’ve been playing in the years-long effort to overthrow the Syrian government. Turkey’s Erdogan wants to create an Islamist caliphate in Syria, reestablish the Islamist Ottoman Empire and is working with Al-Qaeda and other terrorists to achieve his goal. He wants to be the caliph in the new Islamist caliphate of his creation. Turkey’s Erdogan is not our friend. He’s one of the most dangerous dictators in the world and the United States government and media have no business helping this Islamist megalomaniac and his Al-Qaeda partners.
It is long past time for Congress to pass my Stop Arming Terrorists Act, which would prevent our government from assisting countries like Turkey, who are aiding [what we thought was] our enemy, Al-Qaeda.
And every presidential candidate needs to tell the American people
where they stand. Will they support passage of my Stop Arming Terrorists
Act?”
“Posted by: S | Feb 29 2020 22:47 utc | 214″
More on Rep. Gabbard’s Stop Arming Terrorists Act that Congress refuses to sign:
Congress says it absolutely must buy weapons for Islamic terrorists using tax dollars, refuses to pass the Stop Arming Terrorists Act.…“Only 2% Of Lawmakers Support The ‘Stop Arming Terrorists Act’,” 6/23/2017...“The Stop Arming Terrorists Act would bar federal agencies from using taxpayer funds to provide weapons, training, intelligence, or any other type of support to terrorist groups.“...
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Added:
Fact Check on Deep State gofer Trump: US does whatever it wants. Conversely, Russia and Syria follow international law and UN resolutions: UN Security Council Resolution 2254 regarding Syria calls on all UN members “to eradicate the safe haven they [terrorist groups] have established over significant parts of Syria.”…It’s Trump and his staff that coddle terrorists, ignore UN Security Council Resolution 2254, commit crimes under international law by invading Syria for 9+ years, deploying 100,000 jihadists to destroy Syria, and annexing one third of Syria. “Every single Syrian death in this [9 year] conflict is, legally, the fault of the aggressors: the United States.” 9/6/2018, “Trump Protects Al Qaeda, “The Resistance” Applauds, Cursing “Russians”,” Black Agenda Report, Glen Ford: Donald Trump is now guilty of the same crime–the one that ten Nazis were hanged for at Nuremburg.”...
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Added: The lucrative “bombshell” election hacking industry: Proposals to institute backup paper ballots get no publicity because they would end the multi-billion dollar industry of election hacking “bombshells:”
2/27/20, “Tulsi Gabbard: Presidential candidates must also condemn election interference by US intelligence agencies,“ The Hill, Tulsi Gabbard, opinion
“Reckless claims by anonymous intelligence officials that Russia is “helping” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are deeply irresponsible. So was former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s calculated decision Tuesday to repeat this unsubstantiated accusation on the debate stage in South Carolina. Enough is enough. I am calling on all presidential candidates to stop playing these dangerous political games and immediately condemn any interference in our elections by out-of-control intelligence agencies.
A “news article” published last week in The Washington Post, which set off yet another manufactured media firestorm, alleges that the goal of Russia is to trick people into criticizing establishment Democrats. This is a laughably obvious ploy to stifle legitimate criticism and cast aspersions on Americans who are rightly skeptical of the powerful forces exerting control over the primary election process. We are told the aim of Russia is to “sow division,” but the aim of corporate media and self-serving politicians pushing this narrative is clearly to sow division of their own–by generating baseless suspicion against the Sanders campaign.
It’s extremely disingenuous for “journalists” and rival candidates to publicize a news article that merely asserts, without presenting any evidence, that Russia is “helping” Bernie Sanders — but provides no information as to what that “help” allegedly consists of.
The American people have the right to know this information [if it even exists] in order to put Russia’s alleged “interference” into proper perspective. It is a mystery why the Intelligence Community would want to hide these details from us. Instead it is relying on highly dubious and vague insinuations filtered through its preferred media outlets, which seem designed to create a panic rather than actually inform the public about a [supposed] genuine threat.
All this does is undermine voters’ trust in our elections, which is what we are constantly told is the goal of Russia.
If the CIA, FBI or any other intelligence agency is going to tell voters that “Russians” are interfering in this election to help certain candidates — or simply “sow discord” — then it needs to immediately provide us with the details of what exactly it’s alleging. Otherwise, all it is doing is fomenting a sense of powerlessness and paranoia in the voting public, which could suppress engagement in the electoral process. And, at least according to the anonymous officials speaking menacingly to the media, that is precisely what Russia wants.
If our political leaders and those in the media were really concerned with protecting the integrity of our elections from outside manipulation — instead of just making money from manufactured hysteria — they would presumably devote more coverage to proposals to institute backup paper ballots, which would ensure that no malicious actors can ever alter our votes or hack into our election infrastructure. The bill I reintroduced last year, the Securing America’s Elections Act, does exactly that — but the media has never shown much interest because it would not generate the so-called bombshell headlines they so desperately crave.
The FBI, CIA or any other intelligence agency should immediately stop smearing presidential candidates with innuendo and vague, evidence-free assertions. That is antithetical to the role those agencies play in a free democracy. The American people cannot have faith in our intelligence agencies if they are pushing an agenda to harm candidates they dislike.
Any attempts to keep the American people quiet — with the threat that if they dare criticize the Democratic Party establishment, they will be labeled hostile foreign agents-–are unacceptable and disgraceful.
This new McCarthyism must be renounced by every presidential candidate; otherwise, we must conclude they lack the foresight and integrity required to lead our country. If candidates are too afraid to stand up against those who would suppress the voices of the American people with McCarthyist smears, they are not real leaders. They are just power-hungry, self-serving politicians whose goal is to play-act as president — rather than actually defend the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution.
It is now clear that the mainstream corporate media and the warmongering political establishment are seeking to do two things:
One. Create enough suspicion around Sanders, by falsely tarnishing him as a puppet of Russia, that he loses the election.
Two. Or, at the very least, if Bernie wins the Democratic nomination, force him to engage in inflammatory anti-Russia rhetoric and perpetuate the new Cold War and nuclear arms race, which are existential threats to our country and the world.
That strategy worked very well with President Trump who has spent his entire presidency trying to “prove” to the media that he is not Putin’s puppet by carrying out extremely aggressive policies that have brought us closer to nuclear war with Russia than we have been in decades.
If Sanders is the Democratic nominee, the corporate media will do everything they can to turn the general election into a contest of who is going to be “tougher” on Russia. This tactic is necessary to propagandize the American people into shelling over their hard-earned tax dollars to the Pentagon to fund the highly lucrative nuclear arms race that the military-industrial complex craves. In the most recent appropriations bill last year, the Pentagon was handed $738 billion — which includes a blank check for dangerous new nuclear warheads and destabilizing missile systems that increase the likelihood of catastrophic war with Russia.
The question facing any potential Democratic nominee is this: Am I going to allow myself to be manipulated and forced into a corner by overreaching intelligence agencies and the corporate media where, in order for me to win the presidency, I’m going to have to do what I know is not in the interests of the American people and world peace?
Or will I stand up to the corrupt neocon and neoliberal establishment, condemn their lies and smears, and act with the integrity and foresight necessary to forge a rational policy that will serve all our interests?
The problem with Trump is that he talks toughagainst the media and the intelligence agencies, but he was not strong enough to stand up to their pressure. He was cowed into trying to prove that he’s not a puppet of Russia and as a consequence has brought us closer and closer to nuclear war. The Democratic nominee cannot make the same mistake; our country and the world are depending on it.”
“Gabbard represents Hawaii’s 2nd District and is seeking the Democratic nomination for president.”
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Added: It’s US voters and taxpayers that elites hate the most. “Russia” is just an excuse to prevent us from having a country. US imperialism’s first job was to permanently enslave the American people. Mop-up operations are carried out as needed against pockets of rube resistance. Bush family Middle East invasions marked the end of Americans as a free people. Justin Raimondo, 3/19/2003
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“The enemy is not only within the gates: he has seized our main headquarters, and is now conducting mop-up operations against such pockets of resistance as still persist. The citadel is taken….
The era of the American Republic is over, and age of Empire is begun. Where the US once fought wars in self-defense, it now wages wars of outright conquest.…
Their [US elites’] revolution is not directed primarily against foreign tyrants: for even as they put on a great show of “liberating” foreign peoples, they are in the process of enslaving the American people, and destroying the remnants of the Constitution. They are worse than mere hypocrites: they are defilers, who pray loudly even as they desecrate the gravestones of their ancestors.…
Where once we fought to preserve our constitutional form of government, today we must fight to restore it. The difference is that now we are fighting a rearguard action…
The war on Iraq is going to be short, but the occupation will a task without end, a heavy burden that will be more than just punishment for our vainglorious “victory.” As the self-elected arbiter of every ethnic dispute that arises among the quarrelsome peoples of the Middle East, we are walking into a snake-pit, I fear, without thought of the consequences.
A future of endless conflicts, perpetual war for perpetual peace, and color-coded terror unto infinity – that is what we have to look forward to….
Our old Republic, once the enemy of kings and contemptuous of empires, is now donning the imperial purple….
The America we loved is lost, perhaps forever. That is the meaning of this [2003 Iraq] war. The republic that bound its rulers with the chains of the Constitution and freed the rest of us to live in peace is no more.”…
March 19, 2003, “Shine, Perishing Republic: Kiss the good old USA good-bye, say hello to the American Empire,” by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com
“Posted by: S | Feb 29 2020 22:47 utc | 214″
More on Rep. Gabbard’s Stop Arming Terrorists Act that Congress refuses to sign:
Congress says it absolutely must buy weapons for Islamic terrorists using tax dollars, refuses to pass the Stop Arming Terrorists Act.…“Only 2% Of Lawmakers Support The ‘Stop Arming Terrorists Act’,” 6/23/2017...“The Stop Arming Terrorists Act would bar federal agencies from using taxpayer funds to provide weapons, training, intelligence, or any other type of support to terrorist groups.“...
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Added:
Fact Check on Deep State gofer Trump: US does whatever it wants. Conversely, Russia and Syria follow international law and UN resolutions: UN Security Council Resolution 2254 regarding Syria calls on all UN members “to eradicate the safe haven they [terrorist groups] have established over significant parts of Syria.”…It’s Trump and his staff that coddle terrorists, ignore UN Security Council Resolution 2254, commit crimes under international law by invading Syria for 9+ years, deploying 100,000 jihadists to destroy Syria, and annexing one third of Syria. “Every single Syrian death in this [9 year] conflict is, legally, the fault of the aggressors: the United States.” 9/6/2018, “Trump Protects Al Qaeda, “The Resistance” Applauds, Cursing “Russians”,” Black Agenda Report, Glen Ford: Donald Trump is now guilty of the same crime–the one that ten Nazis were hanged for at Nuremburg.”...
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Added: The lucrative “bombshell” election hacking industry: Proposals to institute backup paper ballots get no publicity because they would end the multi-billion dollar industry of election hacking “bombshells:”
2/27/20, “Tulsi Gabbard: Presidential candidates must also condemn election interference by US intelligence agencies,“ The Hill, Tulsi Gabbard, opinion
“Reckless claims by anonymous intelligence officials that Russia is “helping” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are deeply irresponsible. So was former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s calculated decision Tuesday to repeat this unsubstantiated accusation on the debate stage in South Carolina. Enough is enough. I am calling on all presidential candidates to stop playing these dangerous political games and immediately condemn any interference in our elections by out-of-control intelligence agencies.
A “news article” published last week in The Washington Post, which set off yet another manufactured media firestorm, alleges that the goal of Russia is to trick people into criticizing establishment Democrats. This is a laughably obvious ploy to stifle legitimate criticism and cast aspersions on Americans who are rightly skeptical of the powerful forces exerting control over the primary election process. We are told the aim of Russia is to “sow division,” but the aim of corporate media and self-serving politicians pushing this narrative is clearly to sow division of their own–by generating baseless suspicion against the Sanders campaign.
It’s extremely disingenuous for “journalists” and rival candidates to publicize a news article that merely asserts, without presenting any evidence, that Russia is “helping” Bernie Sanders — but provides no information as to what that “help” allegedly consists of.
The American people have the right to know this information [if it even exists] in order to put Russia’s alleged “interference” into proper perspective. It is a mystery why the Intelligence Community would want to hide these details from us. Instead it is relying on highly dubious and vague insinuations filtered through its preferred media outlets, which seem designed to create a panic rather than actually inform the public about a [supposed] genuine threat.
All this does is undermine voters’ trust in our elections, which is what we are constantly told is the goal of Russia.
If the CIA, FBI or any other intelligence agency is going to tell voters that “Russians” are interfering in this election to help certain candidates — or simply “sow discord” — then it needs to immediately provide us with the details of what exactly it’s alleging. Otherwise, all it is doing is fomenting a sense of powerlessness and paranoia in the voting public, which could suppress engagement in the electoral process. And, at least according to the anonymous officials speaking menacingly to the media, that is precisely what Russia wants.
If our political leaders and those in the media were really concerned with protecting the integrity of our elections from outside manipulation — instead of just making money from manufactured hysteria — they would presumably devote more coverage to proposals to institute backup paper ballots, which would ensure that no malicious actors can ever alter our votes or hack into our election infrastructure. The bill I reintroduced last year, the Securing America’s Elections Act, does exactly that — but the media has never shown much interest because it would not generate the so-called bombshell headlines they so desperately crave.
The FBI, CIA or any other intelligence agency should immediately stop smearing presidential candidates with innuendo and vague, evidence-free assertions. That is antithetical to the role those agencies play in a free democracy. The American people cannot have faith in our intelligence agencies if they are pushing an agenda to harm candidates they dislike.
Any attempts to keep the American people quiet — with the threat that if they dare criticize the Democratic Party establishment, they will be labeled hostile foreign agents-–are unacceptable and disgraceful.
This new McCarthyism must be renounced by every presidential candidate; otherwise, we must conclude they lack the foresight and integrity required to lead our country. If candidates are too afraid to stand up against those who would suppress the voices of the American people with McCarthyist smears, they are not real leaders. They are just power-hungry, self-serving politicians whose goal is to play-act as president — rather than actually defend the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution.
It is now clear that the mainstream corporate media and the warmongering political establishment are seeking to do two things:
One. Create enough suspicion around Sanders, by falsely tarnishing him as a puppet of Russia, that he loses the election.
Two. Or, at the very least, if Bernie wins the Democratic nomination, force him to engage in inflammatory anti-Russia rhetoric and perpetuate the new Cold War and nuclear arms race, which are existential threats to our country and the world.
That strategy worked very well with President Trump who has spent his entire presidency trying to “prove” to the media that he is not Putin’s puppet by carrying out extremely aggressive policies that have brought us closer to nuclear war with Russia than we have been in decades.
If Sanders is the Democratic nominee, the corporate media will do everything they can to turn the general election into a contest of who is going to be “tougher” on Russia. This tactic is necessary to propagandize the American people into shelling over their hard-earned tax dollars to the Pentagon to fund the highly lucrative nuclear arms race that the military-industrial complex craves. In the most recent appropriations bill last year, the Pentagon was handed $738 billion — which includes a blank check for dangerous new nuclear warheads and destabilizing missile systems that increase the likelihood of catastrophic war with Russia.
The question facing any potential Democratic nominee is this: Am I going to allow myself to be manipulated and forced into a corner by overreaching intelligence agencies and the corporate media where, in order for me to win the presidency, I’m going to have to do what I know is not in the interests of the American people and world peace?
Or will I stand up to the corrupt neocon and neoliberal establishment, condemn their lies and smears, and act with the integrity and foresight necessary to forge a rational policy that will serve all our interests?
The problem with Trump is that he talks toughagainst the media and the intelligence agencies, but he was not strong enough to stand up to their pressure. He was cowed into trying to prove that he’s not a puppet of Russia and as a consequence has brought us closer and closer to nuclear war. The Democratic nominee cannot make the same mistake; our country and the world are depending on it.”
“Gabbard represents Hawaii’s 2nd District and is seeking the Democratic nomination for president.”
……………………………………….
Added: It’s US voters and taxpayers that elites hate the most. “Russia” is just an excuse to prevent us from having a country. US imperialism’s first job was to permanently enslave the American people. Mop-up operations are carried out as needed against pockets of rube resistance. Bush family Middle East invasions marked the end of Americans as a free people. Justin Raimondo, 3/19/2003
........
“The enemy is not only within the gates: he has seized our main headquarters, and is now conducting mop-up operations against such pockets of resistance as still persist. The citadel is taken….
The era of the American Republic is over, and age of Empire is begun. Where the US once fought wars in self-defense, it now wages wars of outright conquest.…
Their [US elites’] revolution is not directed primarily against foreign tyrants: for even as they put on a great show of “liberating” foreign peoples, they are in the process of enslaving the American people, and destroying the remnants of the Constitution. They are worse than mere hypocrites: they are defilers, who pray loudly even as they desecrate the gravestones of their ancestors.…
Where once we fought to preserve our constitutional form of government, today we must fight to restore it. The difference is that now we are fighting a rearguard action…
The war on Iraq is going to be short, but the occupation will a task without end, a heavy burden that will be more than just punishment for our vainglorious “victory.” As the self-elected arbiter of every ethnic dispute that arises among the quarrelsome peoples of the Middle East, we are walking into a snake-pit, I fear, without thought of the consequences.
A future of endless conflicts, perpetual war for perpetual peace, and color-coded terror unto infinity – that is what we have to look forward to….
Our old Republic, once the enemy of kings and contemptuous of empires, is now donning the imperial purple….
The America we loved is lost, perhaps forever. That is the meaning of this [2003 Iraq] war. The republic that bound its rulers with the chains of the Constitution and freed the rest of us to live in peace is no more.”…
March 19, 2003, “Shine, Perishing Republic: Kiss the good old USA good-bye, say hello to the American Empire,” by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com
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