Author: Steven Sahiounie

By Miri Wood As NATO media are currently mourning the departure of  Neocon, John Bolton, and incited support for US bombing of Iran because Yemeni patriots engaged in a retaliatory bombing of an oil refinery in Saudi occupied Arabia, no attention is given to ongoing war crimes by the Trump and Erdogan regimes, against Syria, nor of the continuing terror attacks, including the bombing of a real hospital. On 15 September, illicit US forces brought a convoy of dozens of military vehicles from Iraq into Syria, turning them over to the SDF separatist terrorists to strengthen them in al-Jazira, northeast of the country near…

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Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said that its oil supplies had resumed and that its oil market would be “fully back online” by the end of September following attacks which Washington blames on Iran while Riyadh is still probing. Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman told the media that oil production in October would reach 9.89 million barrels per day and 12 million bpd by the end of November. “We are asking the world to help us to help secure oil,” he said, adding that Riyadh expect no decline in oil exports and “no oil cargoes were canceled.” He also said Riyadh did not yet…

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Syrian military has found a cave near the recently liberated city of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province that was used by militants as a large military base, Big. Gen. Abdel Kerim Meikhun told reporters. “Our fighters discovered this cave after the liberation of the south of Idlib province, which took place in late August. Apart from being a powerful fortified area, it also stored scores of various weapons and combat outfit of militants: here are a helmet, uniform and gas mask; and here is a heavy machine gun belt and rocket-propelled grenade munitions,” Meikhun said. According to him, the cave…

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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and a senior Chinese military official have signed a set of documents on military-technical cooperation. Russia’s Defense Ministry says Shoigu and the Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, Zhang Youxia, signed the documents in Moscow. The ministry quoted Shoigu as saying China is Russia’s key strategic partner, and the two countries are entering a new stage of development. Zhang accused the United States of exerting strategic pressure on China and Russia. He said China has always put priority on Russia in its diplomacy, and it is ready to cooperate to achieve a new breakthrough.…

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Almost 50,000 US auto workers went on strike on Monday in a pay dispute with General Motors, the largest industrial action to hit the car-maker in more than a decade. Workers from 31 plants opted to walk out after talks between the company and the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) hit an impasse as they tried to negotiate a replacement agreement when the manufacturer’s four-year contract with workers expired. How long the labor action might last was uncertain. “The strike can take a little while longer,” Brian Rothenberg, a spokesman for the powerful union, told AFP. He said that only…

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By Pepe Escobar What’s going on deep down in Hong Kong? For a former resident with deep cultural and emotional ties to the Fragrant Harbor, it’s quite hard to take it all in just within the framework of cold geopolitical logic. Master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai once said that when he came up with the idea for Happy Together, he decided to shoot the story of his characters in Buenos Aires because that was as far away from Hong Kong as possible. A few weeks ago I was walking the streets of far away Buenos Aires dreaming of Hong Kong. That Hong Kong that…

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By: Mark Hunt The Muslim Brotherhood is a political group with offices around the world and throughout the USA. Their official website and platform states they believe the Koran to be the only global constitution, and Islamic Law (Shariah) to be the only law of the world. Their goal, as they have stated publically, is to abolish all secular government, and institute an Islamic State as the only global government. If we tell them this is absurd, and it is wrong, and can’t be anyone’s goal, we are in essence telling them that their religion is not good and should not…

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By Abdus-Sattar Ghazali  With $295 billion 2019 defense budget, Saudi Arabia Saturday failed to stop a drone attack on its oil installations from the Yemeni rebel rag tag militia. Drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels attacked the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and another major oil field, sparking huge fires. The facilities are operated by Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant, and produce up to 70% of the country’s crude oil output. The Wall Street Journal, quoting “people familiar with the matter,” reported that Saudi Arabia is shutting down about half of its oil output following the…

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by MARJORIE COHN The U.S. government has used the post-9/11 war on terror to launch two major wars, mount gunship and drone attacks on several countries, and institute a widespread program of torture and abuse. Casualties of those conflicts number in the hundreds of thousands. Another casualty of the war on terror is civil liberties. From the USA PATRIOT Act, to warrantless surveillance, to the Muslim ban, to the use of metadata to spy on people and target for drone strikes, the deprivation of constitutional rights has continued during the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. An additional assault on the Constitution is the terrorism watchlist, a federal government database…

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North Korea has called on the United States to provide security guarantees as a precondition to the resumption of stalled nuclear negotiations between the two sides. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) cited a senior official from the North’s foreign ministry as making the remark on Monday. The director-general of the department of US affairs, who was not named, said in a statement that “discussion of denuclearization may be possible when threats and hurdles endangering our system security and obstructing our development are clearly removed beyond all doubt.” It was up to Washington whether it would prove to…

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