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Donald Trump fired his national security adviser, John Bolton, on Tuesday just as John Kiriakou predicted in an article published June 12 on Consortium News .  The activist group Code Pink held a rally in front of the White House to celebrate. It’s not as though Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for running the most hawkish American official out of power (though when Barack Obama won his, he had arguably done even less), but Trump has taken an important step toward fulfilling campaign promises to not get the U.S. into even deeper military involvement in the world.  So far Trump has not started a major conflict though he’s continued and intensified Obama’s drone wars. In the face of Bolton’s almost pathological lust for war, Trump seems instead to be seeking diplomatic solutions in North Korea, despite his earlier bluster, and in Iran, showing interest in meeting the Iranian president, after ditching the Iranian nuclear deal shortly after Bolton took office.  Bolton had

The defense of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva denounced here that new leaks on the Lava Jato scandal confirm the rude illegalities practiced by Sergio Moro and the prosecutors of that operation against the former President. For lawyers, the revelations published Sunday by Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, in association with the Intercept site, also show Moro's improper performance against representatives of the former labor leader and the Federal Supreme Court (STF). The messages reveal that Lava Jato had 22 dialogues from the founder of the Workers Party in their hands, but, with political action, Moro only used one of them to manipulate public opinion. In March 2016, the then magistrate Moro released illegal telephone interventions in which former president Dilma Rousseff spoke with Lula about his possible inauguration as Minister of the Civil House. For that performance, the current Minister of Justice apologized to the STF, but not to Rousseff or the former unionist. All o

Amid reports about Israel's spying on the White House, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has mocked Washington’s friendly ties with Tel Aviv, saying the US needs no enemies with a spy in his allies. "The #B_Team Strikes again," Zarif said in a sarcastic tweet on Friday, referring to a term coined by himself to describe an international group of warmongers, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Zarif incorporated a report by the American political journalism company Politico in his tweet and said, " @realDonaldTrump: With a BFF in the #B_Team — who empties US coffers and takes US foreign policy hostage — SPYING on the US PRESIDENT, America doesn't need enemies. " Full report: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/09/13/606115/Zarif-Trump-Netanyahu-BTeam-Politico-espionage-tweet

RT America Economist and founder of Democracy at Work Prof. Richard Wolff joins RT America’s Michele Greenstein (in for Rick Sanchez) to discuss the US-China trade war, peculiarities of the Chinese economic system and what an economic slowdown in China would mean for the global economy. He argues that China is “ the model for what most Americans want ” and that this is embarrassing to Washington. He also weighs in on the Hong Kong protests. 

goingundergroundRT Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel says Bolton was close to start a war with Iran. He is the reason for the current hostility between the US, Russia, and China. Gravel also says that the only hope for a peaceful US foreign policy is Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard. 

The Guardian Edward Snowden has spent the last six years living in exile in Russia and has now decided to publish his memoirs, Permanent Record. In the book he reflects on his life leading up to the biggest leak of top secret documents in history, and the impact this had on his relationship with his partner, Lindsay Mills. The Guardian 's Ewen MacAskill, who helped break Snowden's story in 2013, has been given exclusive access to meet him.

Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, Orwellian “solutions” are set to be foisted on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent in the United States. by Whitney Webb Part 2 - Demystifying Carbyne Carbyne911, which will be referred to simply as Carbyne in this report, is an Israeli tech-startup that promises to revolutionize how calls are handled by emergency service providers, as well as by governments, corporations and educational institutions. Not long after it was founded in 2014 by veterans of Israeli military intelligence, Carbyne began to be specifically marketed as a solution to mass shootings in the United States that goes “ beyond the gun debate ” and improves the “ intelligence that armed emergency responders receive before entering an armed shooter situation ” by providing video-streaming and acoustic input f

Venezuela’s opposition has long accused the Bolivarian government of corruption and mismanagement. But with Citgo on the verge of liquidation, Guaidó’s officials are too incompetent — or too devious — to save it. by Anya Parampil Part 4 - Caught in yet another lie Following the July 29 court ruling in favor of Crystallex, José Ignacio Hernández’s past relationship with the company finally surfaced in Venezuelan media. On July 31, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced a criminal investigation into Hernández, accusing the lawyer of “ a conflict of interest that violates all judicial ethics ” and “ treason toward his fellow citizens. ” Hernández dismissed the allegations as “false” later that same day, telling TV Venezuela he had recused himself from the Crystallex case back in March. Yet Crystallex was not the only corporation battling Venezuela’s government that had turned to Hernández for expert testimony. According to documents filed with the W

globinfo freexchange After almost ten years of an unprecedented crisis, Greece has been trapped into an ongoing, slow motion recession. The economy still struggling hard to recover, with unemployment and national debt being permanently in a red alarm mode. As has been already pointed out , the result of the recent Greek national elections could be characterized "paradoxical" mainly for two reasons:  First, the voters gave a clear governmental order to one of the traditional powers of the old political system, which are highly responsible for the Greek crisis that erupted in 2010. Several top names of the new government, and even New Democracy leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, have been accused of being involved in various corruption scandals, in the not so distant past. Second, the fact that the voters elected perhaps the most fanatically neoliberal government ever. This means that Mitsotakis administration is expected to implement the brutal neoliberal policies imp

The United States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, Reuters reported the United Nations saying today. UN investigators compiled a secret list of possible international war crimes suspects, drawn from their latest report into violations during the four-year conflict between a coalition of Arab states and the Houthi movement that controls Yemen’s capital. Investigators found potential crimes on both sides, while also highlighting the role Western countries play as key backers of the Arab states and Iran plays in support of the Houthis. The report accused the anti-Houthi coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of killing civilians in air strikes and deliberately denying them food in a country facing famine. The Houthis for their part have shelled cities, deployed child soldiers and used “ siege-like warfare ”, it s