Tag: Syria

André Vltchek’s Sudden Death

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André Vltchek’s Sudden Death

EDITOR’S NOTE: CounterPunch received word from Rossi Indira, Andre’s partner who was with him at the time of his death, that Andre died from complications with diabetes. Andre had been very ill for several weeks prior to his death, he could barely walk and one of his legs was paralyzed. Rossi tells us that he also refused medical treatment. Andre’s funeral is being held in Istanbul.

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Telling the Untold: Remembering Andre Vltchek (1963-2020)

Are You Feeling Safer? ‘War of the Worlds’ Pits U.S. and Israel Against Everyone Else

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Clearly, a huge majority of the world’s governments, to include the closest U.S. allies, no longer buy the American big lie when it claims to be the leader of the free world, a promoter of liberal democracy and a force for good. The vote prompted one observer, John Whitbeck, a former international lawyer based in Paris, to comment how “On almost every significant issue facing mankind and the planet, it is Israel and the United States against mankind and the planet.”

Are You Feeling Safer? ‘War of the Worlds’ Pits U.S. and Israel Against Everyone Else

Nations Should Begin Removing Facebook, Twitter, and Google from Their Information Space

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Thai government has begun legal proceedings against US-based social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Google. This comes at a time when nations around the globe have begun pushing back against the abusive American tech firms and their role in advancing US foreign policy and in particular, illegal US interventions including war.

Nations Should Begin Removing Facebook, Twitter, and Google from Their Information Space

The Historical US Support for al-Qaeda

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Historical US Support for al-Qaeda

And let me tell you about American leaders. In power, they don’t think the way you and I do. They don’t feel the way you and I do. They have supported “awful jihadists” and their moral equivalents for decades. Let’s begin in 1979 in Afghanistan, where the Moujahedeen (“holy warriors”) were in battle against a secular, progressive government supported by the Soviet Union; a “favorite tactic” of the Moujahedeen was “to torture victims [often Russians] by first cutting off their nose, ears, and genitals, then removing one slice of skin after another”, producing “a slow, very painful death”.

US eyes Greek island as alternative to Turkish base due to “disturbing” Erdogan actions

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US eyes Greek island as alternative to Turkish base due to “disturbing” Erdogan actions

Erdogan has threatened American access to the base, which reportedly houses dozens of U.S. nuclear weapons, multiple times since he squashed a failed coup attempt in 2016.

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Greek City Times: Does US intend to transfer 50 nuclear bombs from Turkey to Greece?

Pentagon Eyeing Greece as ‘Alternative’ if Erdogan Closes Incirlik Base – US Senator

September 14, 2001: The Day America Became Israel

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The rubble was still smoldering at Ground Zero when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to essentially transform itself into the Israeli Knesset, or parliament. It was 19 years ago, 11:17pm Washington D.C. time on September 14, 2001 when the People’s Chamber approved House Joint Resolution 64, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) “against those responsible for the recent attacks.” Naturally, that was before the precise identities, and full scope, of “those responsible” were yet known – so the resolution’s rubber-stamp was obscenely open-ended by necessity, but also by design.

September 14, 2001: The Day America Became Israel