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While Lebanon’s protests remain focused on the economy and widespread corruption, Washington is increasingly determined to exploit the movement as a geopolitical weapon in the region. by Rania Khalek Part 6 - Hijacking the protests The leaderless, ideologically diffuse nature of Lebanon’s protest movement leaves it vulnerable to hijacking by powerful outside actors. Almost anyone can show up and inject their agenda into the movement, but under another name. Most participants in downtown Beirut say they hate politics, had no interest in the country’s affairs before the protests, and appear easily moved by anyone with a slick message. They are the perfect audience for groups like Beirut Madinati and other civil society groups that spout empty platitudes and always seem to skirt the issue of Israel.  A telling moment arrived a week into the protests when an American AUB lecturer, Robert Gallagher, grabbed the microphone at a political discussion in downtown Beirut to ca

globinfo freexchange Right after Jeremy Corbyn's heavy defeat in the recent UK national election, we warned that the corporate Democrats and the Clintonian establishment will seek to invest on this defeat in order to crush Sanders' momentum. They will certainly use the argument that the Leftist faction in the Labour has failed to inspire the voters. The liberal media will exercise enormous pressure on Bernie Sanders in order to make him withdraw his nomination from the Democratic primaries. We got some furious responses by many progressives who supported, more or less, that what happens in the UK is a different thing and can't be connected to any political development in the US. Yet, unfortunately, we were right ... again. Indeed, the US liberal media and their corporate stooges didn't waste time. Almost simultaneously, they launched one more anti-Sanders campaign based on Corbyn's defeat.  Here are only a few examples: The next day of the

The war on Syria started more than nine years ago in Daraa  on the 17th of March 2011. Media reports have finally acknowledged that the so-called “protest movement” in Syria was instigated by Washington. This was known and documented from the very inception of the Syrian crisis in March 2011. It was not a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency integrated by US-Israeli and allied supported “jihadist” death squads? From Day One, the Islamist “freedom fighters” were supported, trained and equipped by NATO and Turkey’s High Command. Full report: https://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-who-is-behind-the-protest-movement-fabricating-a-pretext-for-a-us-nato-humanitarian-intervention/24591

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is yet to be shown key evidence in the case brought against him by the American authorities, his extradition hearing was told today. The 48-year-old, faces accusations of leaking sensitive United States' military material between January and May 2010. The Australian national appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court over video-link from HMP Belmarsh white haired and clean shaven with a grey jumper and spoke to confirm his identity. The Americans want to extradite him to US soil so he can be prosecuted for conspiring with army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning for leaking classified documents. Full report: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7788673/WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange-BLOCKED-seeing-key-evidence-authorities.html

When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to close a vital airbase used by American forces, he wasn’t bluffing, and Washington should take his threats at face value, or risk losing a NATO ally, analysts say. The Turkish leader announced on Sunday that Incirlik Air Base - a vital hub for US and NATO forces stationed in the Middle East - could close its doors if US lawmakers press ahead with sanctioning Turkey for its acquisition of the Russian-made S-400 air defense system. Incirlik is not a backwater airstrip, the kind the United States utilizes for its drone missions in Africa, for example. Instead it’s a massive base in Adana, a city of 1.7 million people. Here, just 250km from the Syrian border, nearly 5,000 US airmen are stationed, as well as several hundred Turkish airmen. More than 50 hardened aircraft shelters hide American jets, while the base also hosts an estimated 50 American nukes. Erdogan has also threatened to close the Kurecik Radar Station, an isol

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redfish Exarchia is Athens' popular neighbourhood known for being a rebellious stronghold of anarchist collectives, anti-fascist movements and home to many refugees. But Greece's government is on a mission to take control of the community by raiding squats and pushing gentrification that is threatening the soul of this district. redfish spoke to residents and activists in Exarchia about the threats to the neighbourhood and how they intend on resisting growing repression.

Days before Britain’s historic election, the UK’s military-intelligence apparatus is turning to the corporate media and US government-funded NATO cut-outs to smear Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with evidence-free Russiagate allegations. by Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal Part 3 - Using literal Nazi blog posts to smear Corbyn as a terrorist sympathizer One of the most shockingly dishonest smears of Jeremy Corbyn was published in the British tabloid The Sun on December 7. The story, hyperbolically titled “‘HIJACKED LABOUR’ Ex-British intelligence officers say Jeremy Corbyn is at the centre of a hard-left extremist network,” claimed the “ Labour leader’s spider’s web of extensive contacts stretch from Marxist intellectuals to militant groups and illegal terror organisations. ” The piece uncritically echoes the opinions of a right-wing lobby group called Hijacked Labour , which was founded by former military intelligence officers with the express goal of ousting Corbyn and pur

Journalists revealed to me the tactics they use to sell stories painting Venezuela as a socialist dystopia. One described himself as a “mercenary,” explaining how he aims to please his employer’s funders. by Alan MacLeod Part 3 - How US media recruits opposition activists Due to budget cuts, the corporate press has outsourced their Latin America reporting to a collection of unabashed opposition activists. Francisco Toro, for example, resigned from the New York Times claiming, “ Too much of my lifestyle is bound up with opposition activism ” that he “ can’t possibly be neutral. ” Yet Toro is now charged with providing commentary on Venezuela and Bolivia for the Washington Post . Unsurprisingly, he supports the Bolivia coup and was “elated” when Chávez was overthrown.  Another local Washington Post contributor was Emilia Diaz-Struck, who founded the website Armando.info , an investigative news outlet that runs a constant stream of stories slamming the socialist gove

The Jewish community’s alienation from Labour has been years in the making - but it is Johnson's Conservatives who have embraced hostility to minorities Jonathan Cook Part 7 - Nationwide echo-chamber Corbyn’s democratic socialism is the first serious attempt by Labour since the Thatcher years to try to reverse the enormous and relentless economic gains made by Britain’s corporate ruling class. And Corbyn’s much more outspoken position in support of Palestinian rights – no different from his backing for black South Africans under apartheid rule – is unprecedented for a leader of a major British party. That has made him especially vulnerable to attack both from a billionaire-owned media worried about his economic policies and from Israel lobbyists worried about where he might take British foreign policy on Israel.  Both have found antisemitism an effective weapon with which to damage Corbyn – both because of the seriousness of the offence and because it has be