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The U.S. mainstream media avoids the word “coup” when a disfavored leader is ousted, but the silence around Iran’s 1981 coup also may have served Ronald Reagan’s political self-interest in keeping secret his own “coup,” as Mahmood Delkhasteh reflects. By Mahmood Delkhasteh Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff calls her impeachment a coup d’état. Many academics and political experts agree that the old guard and corrupt capitalist elite in Brazil have overthrown the president, despite the fact that all the legal procedures for her impeachment have been observed. As one pro-Rousseff Brazilian protester remarked, this is a “civilian coup – capitalism doesn’t need guns and soldiers; it is enough to have an anti-democratic judicial system.” Now go back 35 years to Iran. The 1979 Iranian Revolution is less than two-and-a-half years old. The clergy have, gradually, monopolized the state. The aim is, as the head of the Islamic Republic Party (Ayatollah Beheshti) has stated, to establish

The power and control that George Soros held over Ukraine after the Maidan is beyond belief. 74 Share on Facebook We noted in a previous post how important Ukraine was to George Soros, with documents from DC Leaks that show Soros, and his Open Society NGO, scouring the Greek media and political landscape to push the benefits of his Ukraine coup upon a Russian leaning Greek society. Now more documents, in the massive 2,500 leaked tranche, show the immense power and control Soros had over Ukraine immediately following the illegal Maidan government overthrow. Soros and his NGO executives held detailed and extensive meetings with just about every actor involved in the Maidan coup…from US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, to Ukraine’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Health, and Education. The only person missing was Victoria Nuland, though we are sure those meeting minutes are waiting to see the light of day. Plans to subvert and undermine Russian influence and cultural ties to Ukraine

The ca se of the "Aleppo Boy" is the latest in a long line of examples of the use of media images to promote war. 18 p-t-carlo Americans, as history has shown time and again, are a sentimental people ruled over by an elite of cynical manipulators. Every Jingoistic American war has been preceded by a campaign of propaganda and misinformation by the nation’s elites. Whether it was the destruction of the Maine by vile Spaniards, Vietnamese Aggression in the Gulf of Tonkin, Kuwaiti babies dying in their incubators, or Iraq’s phantom stockpile of WMDs, the same pattern always emerges. A story is concocted by Pro-War Ideologues in America’s Yellow Press which if not an outright fabrication is at the very least a profound distortion of actual events. This fictitious story then spreads like wildfire, scandalising America’s sentimental populace who then immediately demand their leaders “do something” about the terrible event they just read about. Their cynical Leaders, of course, are

PETER LAVELLE The writing would seem to be on the wall – Washington and its stenographers union (better known as the west’s mainstream media) are all fired-up and strategically positioned. The War Party has ascendancy and the window of opportunity is wide open, though slowly closing. The long desired wish to tame Russia is now in its final stage. “American Exceptionalism” must subdue any real or imagined threat. Importantly, intentionally generated phantom threats are given the most attention and media space. Russia is in this category. The reasons are patently obvious: Russia refuses to take the bait: From the proxy-backed South Ossetian conflict in 2008, to the forced regime change in Kiev in 2014, and to the defense of Syria’s sovereignty in its fight against western supported terrorists, Russia has stood its ground against western-inspired machinations. In all three cases, Washington’s attempt to lure Moscow into confrontation has failed. In fact, the west has been the net lose

A suspected suicide bombing in Turkey has targeted a wedding ceremony in Gaziantep, killing at least 50 people and injuring almost 100. Authorities have temporarily halted media coverage of the “barbaric” attack in the southern city near the Syrian border. “A suicide bomber blew himself up” in a neighborhood where a massive outdoor wedding was taking place, according to reports on social media. Turkish national broadcaster NTV confirmed the news, saying a “terrorist attack” had targeted an outdoor wedding celebration. At least 50 people were killed and 94 injured in the alleged terrorist attack, according to the governor's office. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, a parliamentary deputy from the ruling AK Party, Samil Tayyar, said that Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists were believed to be behind the blast. Numerous ambulances have been dispatched to the area. According to scarce media reports, the injured, which include children, have been taken

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iran's Ministry of Intelligence has announced identification and arrest of fugitive elements of a Takfiri terrorist group in western Iran. In a statement released today, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry has announced that the escaped terrorists were arrested on August 18 after surveillance and secret operations. The report reads that following the destructive attack on Takfiri terrorists in the west of Iran on August 16 and 17, surveillance was carried out until fleeing members of the group were identified and apprehended only one day later on August 18. Also in a joint operation by IRGC force in Najaf camp and Intelligence Ministry’s ‘Anonymous Forces’, other hideouts and depots of the terrorist group were discovered and large amounts of remote electronic kits, weapons, AK-74M, American Gun Motor Carriage M6, grenades, explosive belts and vests, electric detonators, bomb-making equipment as well as related supplies for terrorist acts inside the count

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - An alliance of Kurdish-Arab forces in Syria has discovered dozens of graves of people killed by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the recently-liberated town of Manbij in Aleppo province. According to the Manbij military council, the 27 undocumented graves, which were found on Friday, hold the remains of civilians, who had attempted to escape the town when it was under the control of Daesh but had been killed by the terrorists. “Most of them, I can say more than 90 percent of Manbij parks, have turned into graveyards. In this park we have 27 undocumented graves. All of those are civilians trying to escape from Daesh,” said Hassan Abu Kant, a fighter from the Northern Sun Battalion, belonging to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), adding that those people had been killed trying to reach SDF forces. Manbij lies along the only supply line of Daesh between the Syrian-Turkish border to the north and the group’s main stronghold in Syria, Raqqah, which lies to

By Roger Stone Judicial Watch proved it. Under a Freedom of Information Act request, Judicial Watch was able to obtain a (heavily redacted) copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) directive that initiated the creation of ISIS in 2012. the DIA report states, “THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY [WHO] SUPPORT THE [SYRIAN] OPPOSITION . . . [SUPPORT] ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA . . . IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME . . .”. Not even Judicial Watch seems to have appreciated the significance of this document, where its press release focused on the Benghazi attack. Recent releases of Hillary’s emails, moreover, confirm that taking out Assad has nothing to do with his alleged abuse of the Syrian people but because it will help Israel. Just in case it has slipped anyone’s mind, Hillary was Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. Barack was inaugurated in 2008 and steps down in 2016. It happened on their watch. It could not have happened