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Mark Tailiano Global Research 26 May 2017 We shouldn’t be examining the Manchester bombing tragedy in isolation because we’ve seen all this before. While it is possible that the official explanation of what happened in Manchester, England on May 22, 2017 is correct, other possibilities should not be overlooked. Dr. Graeme McQueen , author of The 2001 Anthrax Deception, argues that the prime suspects in transformative, domestic terror cases, should be intelligence agencies. Naomi Klein argues in The Shock Doctrine that when people are shocked by a real or man-made event, they can be easily manipulated to support wars, or neoliberal market schemes, or any number of toxic agendas. A simple formula underpins the logic of synthetic terror operations: problem, reaction, solution . An analysis within this framework would look like this: The problem for the NATO warmongers is that their terrorist proxies in Syria are losing, and they need more military support. ...

Jon Queally Common Dreams 24 May 2017 Contradicting a version of events presented by the U.S. military and reported widely by the corporate press, a human rights group and a journalist in Yemen are citing witnesses who said a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs on Monday night killed multiple innocent civilians and not just “Al Qaeda militants” as the Pentagon claimed. Reprieve, a UK-based human rights group, cited witnesses from the village of Al-Jubah in Marib province, where the raid took place, and offered the names of five civilians killed as Nasser Ali Mahdi Al-Adhal ; Al-Ghader Saleh Salem Al-Adhal; Saleh Al-Taffaf; Yasser Al-Taffaf Al-Adhel; and Shebreen Saeed Salem Al-Adhal . The witnesses said that none of those five were fighting for al-Qaeda and that Nasser al-Adhal, identified as being approximately 70-years-old and partially blind, was the first one shot by the U.S. soldiers when he mistook them for arriving guests and came out to greet them. According to...

Washington's Blog 24 May 2017 Given that the Manchester terrorist was a product of the interventions in Libya and Syria, it’s time to have an adult discussion about what it will take to stop terrorism. 10 Ways to Reduce Terrorism There are 10 basic principles that serious, mature people need to discuss if we want to stop terrorism   I. Stop Overthrowing the Moderates and Arming Crazies If we want to stop terrorism we should – (wait for it) – stop supporting terrorists . Specifically, we’re arming the most violent radicals in the Middle East , as part of a really stupid geopolitical strategy to overthrow leaders we don’t like (more details below). And see this , this , this , this and this . We’re directly arming and supporting folks who are committing summary execution, torture, kidnapping, and imposing Sharia law at the point of the gun. But – strangely – we’re overthrowing the moderate Arabs who stabilized the region and denied jihadis a footho...

Alex Lantier World Socialist Web Site 23 May 2017 Newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing a historic assault on jobs, wages and labor legislation, to be rammed through by presidential decree in the face of overwhelming public opposition. Details of Macron’s plans emerged Monday in the run-up to his meetings Tuesday with trade union and business representatives at the Elysée Palace. After next month’s legislative elections, Macron will demand an enabling act from parliament authorizing the president to decree changes in French labor law. “The reform of the Labor Code has been well planned,” incoming Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told the Journal du Dimanche . “We will now discuss it to enrich it and explain it. This means discussions with the trade unions, which are indispensable, and a parliamentary discussion which will take place during the vote on the enabling act that will allow the government to impose decrees in a context d...

Graham Vanberggen Ture Publica 23 May 2017 The awful bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester was clearly an attack on girls and women – this was the demographic of the audience. Grande’s live concerts are largely populated by teenage girls and their mums. By attacking these young girls, the perpetrators, whoever they turn out to be, knew exactly what the result was going to be. The incident happened exactly to the day, four years after British army soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby was murdered by two Islamic lunatics in London. Rigby was a native of Manchester – growing up just a few miles from this same arena. American officials are making much of this point by saying this was no coincidence . US officials have stated within a few hours that the perpetrator was a suicide bomber. What evidence they have for that considering that Britain is the most heavily surveilled state in the world, one can only ponder. One newspaper has already g...

Ne News 23 May 2017 If you haven't heard already, a bomb went off at a Ariana Grande concert in Manchester killing at least 17 people, mostly young people who have their lives ahead of them. Ne News issues our sympathy to the families and friends of those who had died at the concert. The media and the UK Government has called this a "terrorist attack" and if this is the case, then it would be the worst terrorist attack on the UK since the 2005 attack on the public transport system in London. But what we should do is to place the tragedy at the concert into a wider perspective. The chances of dying in a terrorist attack is actually extremely remote. In fact, you are more likely to die falling out of bed than in a terrorist attack. In fact, you are more likely to die falling off a ladder than in a terrorist attack. In fact, you are more likely to die chocking on your own vomit than dying in a terrorist attack. But was the attack an inside job? Most probably is. We...

Vladislav B. Sotirovic Global Research 20 May 2017 The US military forces committed a classical example of aggression on a sovereign and independent state on April 6 th , 2017 by bombing the territory of Syrian Arab Republic with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles killing civilians who are proclaimed as “collateral damage”. A formal excuse for the aggression was based as many times before (from Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya… cases) on traditional political false flags and mainstream media fake news used by the US propaganda machine to sanction the Pentagon’s hegemonic policy of the Pax Americana. The Fundamental Dilemma The fundamental question is why the Obama and Trump administrations  supporting various Islamic fundamentalist jihadist organizations in Syria and the Mideast, labelled by the White House as “moderate rebels”? The terrorist is simply the terrorist and there is no any difference between “moderate” or “hardcore” terrorist if the firs...

Alison Weir If Americans Knew Blog 17 May 2017 For two decades, some Israeli officials and Israel partisans have worked to embed a new, Israel-focused definition of antisemitism in institutions around the world, from international bodies and national governments to small college campuses in heartland America. This effort is now snowballing rapidly. As a result, advocacy for Palestinian rights is well on the way to being curtailed and even criminalized as “hate.” As the world has witnessed the oppression and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, many people have risen in protest. In response, the Israeli government and certain of its advocates have conducted a campaign to crack down on this activism, running roughshod over civil liberties (and the English language) in the process. The mechanism of this crackdown is the redefinition of “antisemitism” [1] to include criticism of Israel, and the insertion of this definition into the bodies of law of various countries....