Haaretz:
"Netanyahu Used Doctored Video of Abbas to Influence Trump's Policy, Woodward Reveals. According to excerpts from 'Rage' published by U.S. media, at a time when Trump was wondering if Israel was the obstacle to peace with the Palestinians, Netanyahu showed him a fake video to steer him away from pro-Palestinian sentiments. ...
The incident occurred on May 22, 2017, at a time when Trump was beginning to have doubts about Netanyahu and wondering aloud if the Israeli prime minister might be the real obstacle to peace with the Palestinians, Woodward wrote, according to excerpts from the book published by U.S. media.
A day after watching the 'spliced-together' video intended to 'counter any pro-Palestinian sentiments that were surfacing,' Trump confronted Abbas, calling him a 'murderer' and 'liar,' and shortly after ordered the closure of the Palestinian representative office in Washington and cut nearly all U.S. aid to the West Bank, Gaza and Palestinian refugees."
-->No mention of this extraordinary story in the NYT. All the news that Zionists deem "fit to print."
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Common Dreams:
"As officials marked 9/11 vowing to 'hold terrorists accountable,' new evidence suggests last week's swift and secretive police killing of activist Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, sought in the shooting of a right-wing Patriot Prayer follower, was a summary execution, so we have to wonder - who are the terrorists today?
After the shooting, a U.S. Marshals Service statement noted, 'Initial reports indicate the suspect produced a firearm, threatening the lives of law enforcement officers.' Now a witness - an ordained minister living in the same apartment building - says an unarmed Reinoehl was walking to his car, holding a cellphone and eating a gummy worm, when officers opened fire with 30 to 40 shots without first announcing themselves or trying to arrest him. ...
Reinoehl was killed in Lacey, WA. by four members of a federal fugitive task force after being identified to police by his sister. Officials said Reinoehl pulled a gun, but acknowledged they 'are not able to confirm at this time if he fired shots.' And two witnesses said they saw Reinoehl fire at police, who were not wearing body cams. But Nate Dinguss, a 39-year-old minister, said he saw two unmarked police cars converge on Reinoehl as he walked to his car; that the cops jumped out and began blasting rapid-fire rounds at Reinoehl, who ducked behind his car but never reached for anything; and that police waited 'multiple minutes' before offering medical aid to Reinoehl, who died at the scene."
-->Not much in the mainstream media about this summery execution by federal authorities. Was he armed? Was he guilty? Why 30 to 40 shots? Trumps tweeted comments were the most instructive: "Do your job, and do it fast! Everybody knows who this thug is." Later on Fox News, he was more explicit: “This guy was a violent criminal, and the US Marshals killed him. ... And I will tell you something, that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution.” Is this still a democracy? Reinoehl's murder was in fact a Presidentially directed execution, without any judge or jury. America has officially begun its fascist period.
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CounterPunch:
"To understand the depth of criminality involved in the US-NATO war on Libya, we must unravel a complex story involving actors from both the US and Europe who quite literally conspired to bring about this war, while simultaneously exposing the unconstitutional, imperial presidency as embodied by Mr. Hope and Change himself.
In doing so, a picture emerges that is strikingly at odds with the dominant narrative about good intentions and bad dictators. For although Gaddafi was presented as the villain par excellence in this story told by the Empire’s scribes in corporate media, it is in fact Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, former French President Nicholas Sarkozy, French philosopher-cum-neocolonial adventurist Bernard Henri-Levy, and former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who are the real malevolent forces. It was they, not Gaddafi, who waged a blatantly illegal war on false pretenses and for their own aggrandizement. It was they, not Gaddafi, who conspired to plunge Libya into chaos and civil war from which it is yet to emerge. It was they who beat the war drums while proclaiming peace on earth and good will to men."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/08/the-plot-against-libya/
-->The US media always comes up short when US war crimes are proven. Leave it to small publications like CounterPunch to show Americans the truth about their empire of perpetual war.
