Note: Your host is traveling and visiting family. Posting throughout Easter will be light.
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
- April 15 – Notre Dame On Fire – Updated
The piece and issue was picked up by several other blogs and outlets:
No children or ducks harmed by novichok, say health officials – Guardian
Wiltshire council clarification follows claims Donald Trump was shown images to contrary
New York Times Accidentally Unravels UK Government's Official Skripal Narrative – Sputnik
The Official Skripal Story is a Dead Duck – Craig Murray
Trump in Dumps as Spook Picks Sick Kids’n’Dead Duck Trick Pics – The Blogmire
Wie Großbritannien und CIA Donald Trump gegen Russland manipulierten – RT Deutsch
Hospitalized children & dead ducks? The ‘official’ Skripal narrative goes completely quackers – RT English
- April 18 – First Thoughts On The Mueller Report Release
Still reading it. Mueller left out many important issues. The genesis of Russiagate is missing from the report as is any word on the falsehoods in the Steele dossier. The DNC "hack" is taken as fact even though the allegation of Russian involvement is solely based on the word of Crowdstrike, a company with well known anti-Russian bias hired by the DNC.
See also: Ten post-Mueller questions that could turn the tables on Russia collusion investigators – The Hill
and Interview with George Papadopoulos (audio) – Michael Tracey
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A handy reference to counter the dozens of smears against Julian Assange:
Debunking All The Assange Smears – Caitlin Johnstone
Syria:
The war isn't over. Over the last days Syrian troops were attacked by ISIS remnants in desert and by Al-Qaeda fighters around Idleb. Dozens of soldiers died. There is also a fuel scarcety as U.S. sanctions interrupted oil and fuel supplies from Iran.
Two pieces on how the U.S. and its allies nurtured al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria:
A Brief History of the Destruction of Yarmouk Palestinian Refugee Camp in Syria – William Van Wagenen
EXCLUSIVE: How CIA & allies helped jihadists in Syria – Interview with Maxime Chaix (Recommended)
Maxime Chaix, an expert on clandestine operations, intelligence and US foreign policy, is a journalist and regular contributor to GlobalGeoNews.com. He has written La guerre de l’ombre en Syrie (The Shadow War in Syria, published in French by Éditions Erick Bonnier), a shocker of a book in which he reveals insightful information on the support which several Western intelligence services provided to jihadist militias in Syria, starting with the CIA. His investigation reveals a multi-faceted state scandal and points out the murky game played by the Western powers and their Middle Eastern allies in the Levant.
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