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Syrian military forces have discovered a network of long tunnels as well as underground makeshift field hospitals once used by foreign-sponsored militants, who controlled Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. Army soldiers and pro-government fighters from popular defense groups found the secret tunnels and hospitals during wide-scale clear-up operations in the towns of Hazza and Ein Tarma, located three kilometers east of Old Damascus, on Monday, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported. A Syrian military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said terrorists used the tunnels to carry munitions and transfer reinforcements between Hazza and the towns of Saqba, located 7 kilometers east of central Damascus, Arbin. Harasta and Zamalka. Syrian army troopers and their allies also found large stocks of medical supplies, makeshift operating tables and surgical gowns. Another Syrian military official said the medical equipment h...

Notorious war hawk John Bolton – who has long been vying for a position in Trump’s administration – has been especially eager to work with a president with minimal foreign policy knowledge or experience, allowing him maximum effect in achieving his policy goals. by Whitney Webb Part 1 Last Thursday, President Trump announced that former UN ambassador John Bolton, once called the “most dangerous man” in the entire George W. Bush administration, would replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser, making him the man in charge of what the President sees and hears regarding issues of national security. Bolton will officially take over McMaster’s post on April 9. The appointment was not surprising. Indeed, earlier this month, MintPress reported that McMaster was soon to be replaced – largely at the behest of billionaire Republican donor and militant Zionist Sheldon Adelson – and that Bolton was a top contender for that position, largely due to Bolton’s reputation as ...

globinfo freexchange Being a member of the neocon sociopathic cabal, responsible for endless chaos and destruction around the world, Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton, is expected to push for more wars and destruction. Speaking to Sharmini Peries and the Real News , investigative journalist, Gareth Porter, reveals the details of a Bolton's long record on pushing for war with Iran, even right after the US disastrous invasion in Iraq! Porter explains: What is not really known well about John Bolton is that when he was undersecretary of state from 2003-2005 in the Bush administration, he was involved very deeply with Dick Cheney in carrying out a policy that was aimed at positioning the United States for a war against Iran that Dick Cheney was clearly very much not just in favor of, but it was really his idea in the first place. Dick Cheney was surrounded by people who were violently anti-Iran, and he was all on board for eventuall...

It hardly needs to be said that Ireland is a small country. But, for decades, it has had a newspaper industry to be proud of, with its main titles fairer and less partisan than their equivalents in other states. Indeed, in Ireland we only needed to look across the water to Britain to see openly biased media in action, with papers either wedded to particular parties and ideologies or manipulated by their owners, depending on the circumstances of the day. Over the past generation, British outlets have entered the Irish market, looking for circulation boosts to buttress numbers back at home. And, aside from their presence squeezing indigenous Irish operations, they’ve also brought with them the poor journalism standards of their homeland. Take The Sunday’s Times’ (Ireland edition) splash on Dublin’s Russian embassy last weekend, for instance. For some time now, Rupert Murdoch’s operation has been running an anti-Russia campaign in its UK edition. And ...

More than 114,000 people have left Eastern Ghouta through humanitarian corridors since the declaration of a pause in hostilities, the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria said on Monday. The evacuees went through the corridors with the assistance of the Russian center, TASS reports, citing the statement. “ Civilians continue to leave the area through humanitarian corridors, receiving humanitarian aid and medical assistance, ” according to the military. It added that a passage was provided “ for more than 400 civilians leaving the enclave through the Al-Wafideen humanitarian corridor ” starting on Monday morning. https://www.rt.com/newsline/422348-civilians-ghouta-humanitarian-corridors/

Καθώς οι σχέσεις Λονδίνου – Μόσχας οδηγούνται στην άβυσσο, με αφορμή τη δηλητηρίαση του Ρώσου διπλού κατασκόπου Σεργκέι Σκρίπαλ, ένας άνθρωπος θα μπορούσε να διαλευκάνει όσα πραγματικά συνέβησαν. Το μοναδικό πρόβλημα είναι ότι βρέθηκε νεκρός, κοντά στο σπίτι του, πριν από 15 χρόνια. Είχε κάνει το λάθος να αποκαλύψει ότι η βρετανική κυβέρνηση ψευδόταν για τα ανύπαρκτα όπλα μαζικής καταστροφής του Ιράκ. του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου Δεκαπέντε χρόνια συμπληρώνονται φέτος από μια υπόθεση που θα έκανε και τα πιο συναρπαστικά μυθιστορήματα κατασκοπίας του Τζον λε Καρέ να θυμίζουν ανιαρές, υπηρεσιακές αναφορές κάποιου χαμηλόβαθμου διπλωμάτη. Τον Ιούλιο του 2003 ο Βρετανός επιστήμονας και σύμβουλος του υπουργείου Αμυνας, Ντέιβιντ Κέλι, εντοπίζεται νεκρός στο Οξφορντσάιρ της Αγγλίας. Η Αστυνομία ανακοινώνει ότι ο καρπός του ήταν χαραγμένος και δίπλα στο σώμα του υπήρχε ένα κουτί με παυσίπονα Co-proxamol. Ο φάκελος κλείνει με τη σημείωση «αυτοκτονία» ενώ οι εισαγγελικές α...

Για αστοχία δυο αντιεροπορικών πυραύλων αμερικανικής κατασκευής, τύπου Patriot, κάνουν λόγω αυτόπτες μάρτυρες και δημοσιογράφοι στη Σαουδική Αραβία. Οι πύραυλοι, εδάφους – αέρος, εκτοξεύθηκαν για να αναχαιτίσουν επίθεση με ρουκέτες ή πυραύλους από την Υεμένη αλλά ο ένας φέρεται να εξερράγη στον αέρα ενώ ο δεύτερος εμφανίζεται σε βίντεο να αλλάζει ξαφνικά πορεία και να πέφτει σε κατοικημένη περιοχή της πρωτεύουσας Ριάντ. Η πολεμική αεροπορία της Σαουδικής Αραβίας αναφέρει ότι αναχαίτισε συνολικά επτά εισερχόμενους πυραύλους που κατευθύνονταν σε πόλεις στα νότια και νοτιανατολικά της χώρας. Τους πυραύλους εκτόξευσαν αντάρτες Χούτι που μάχονται την σαουδαραβική εισβολή στην Υεμένη. Παρόλα αυτά δυο βίντεο που κυκλοφόρησαν στο ίντερνετ από το Ριάντ, δείχνουν μια διαφορετική εικόνα από αυτή που παρουσιάζει η Σαουδική Αραβία. Εκπρόσωπος των ενόπλων δυνάμεων της Σαουδικής Αραβίας ανέφερε ότι θραύσματα από ένα πύραυλο έπεσαν σε σπίτι στο Ριάντ σκοτώνοντας ...

by Mel Goodman Early in Richard Nixon’s presidency, he told his chief of staff Bob Haldeman that his secret strategy for ending the Vietnam War was to threaten the use of nuclear weapons. Nixon opined that President Eisenhower’s nuclear threats in 1953 brought a quick end to the Korean War, and that he planned to use the same principle of threatening maximum force. Nixon called it the “madman theory,” getting the North Vietnamese to “believe…I might do anything to stop the war.” Ironically, Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers, may have been responsible for introducing the theory in his lectures in 1959 to Henry Kissinger’s Harvard seminar on the conscious political use of irrational military threats. Ellsberg called the theory the “political uses of madness,” and he noted that any extreme threat would be more credible if the person making the threat were perceived as not being fully rational. Ellsberg couldn’t imagine that an American ...

In the past several days, Trump has appointed a new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel, who was a key player in the use of sadistic torture and abuse in secret prisons. He has appointed a new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, who believes in torture and abuse, and supports the idea of regime change in both Iran and North Korea. And now we have a new national security adviser, John Bolton, who has recommended the use of force and regime change in Iran and North Korea as well. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/26/the-mad-man-theory-nixon-trump-and-bolton/

John Bolton is the next National Security Advisor. That should scare everyone. Here are four reasons why: pic.twitter.com/0NC05iQs2w — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 23, 2018