Daily Archives: December 27, 2020

2020-12-27: News Headlines

RT (2020-12-27). 'Playing a similar audio': ANOTHER suspicious truck searched by Tennessee deputies with bomb robot in wake of Nashville RV blast. rt.com Sheriff's deputies in Wilson County, Tennessee have stopped a "suspicious vehicle" and sent in a bomb-defusing robot, after it reportedly played a similar audio recording to an RV that exploded in Nashville on Christmas Day. | The vehicle, a white box truck, was stopped along Highway 231 South near Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Tennessee, on Sunday. The Wilson County Sheriff's Office in Lebanon closed the road and investigated the "suspicious" vehicle, sending in a bomb squad robot. | ***ROAD CLOSURE*** | Highway 231 South from the Cedars of Lebanon State Park to Richmond Shop road is currently shut down due t…

Steven Sahiounie (2020-12-27). How Will Joe Biden "Resolve" the Syrian Crisis? The Viewpoint of a French Diplomat. globalresearch.ca While, much of his analysis demonstrates professionalism; he misses a very important point …

Mehr News Agency (2020-12-27). Israelis on high alert after Iran scientist assassination. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 27 (MNA) — Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the Israeli regime's forces are on high alert after the assassination of top Iranian scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

yenisafak (2020-12-27). Turkey 'neutralizes' 15 PKK terrorists in Syria. yenisafak.com The commandos dealt a heavy blow to the PKK/YPG terrorist organization, it said in a statement.Turkish authorities use the word "neutralized" to imply the terrorists in question surrendered or were killed or captured.Since 2016, Turkey has launched a trio of successful anti-terror operations in northern Syria to prevent the formation of a terror corridor, and enable the peaceful settlement of residents: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US, and the EU [mdas…

MEE and agencies (2020-12-26). Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon set on fire. middleeasteye.net Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon set on fire | Camp in the Miniyeh region set ablaze after altercation between camp members and local Lebanese family, state media reported | Sat, 12/26/2020 – 21: 18 | Syrians in a refugee camp in the northern Lebanese Akkar region on 9 March 2019 (AFP) | A Syrian refugee camp in northern Lebanon was set on fire Saturday night following a fight between member…

Susan Price (2020-12-26). Biden will wage war on the Kurdish revolution. greenleft.org.au President elect Joe Biden has been described as a "friend of the Kurds", writes Marcel Cartier, but under his presidency, US attempts to undermine the Rojava Revolution by any means necessary is likely to continue.

Ralph Nader (2020-12-25). Recidivist Criminal and Constitutional Outlaw Trump Rushes to Pardon Criminal Lawbreakers. commondreams.org Trump and future presidents cannot be allowed to brazenly dishonor justice and undermine the rule of law. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/roger_stone_0_1.jpg

_____ (2020-12-25). Former U.S. Envoy to Syria Admits Misleading Trump to Keep Troops In Syria. strategic-culture.org In a recent interview with DC-based al-Monitor, former U.S. envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, revealed what many of us already knew and had been writing about long ago. Namely, that American foreign policy is not directed by the President, but by the military industrial complex and the Deep State itself.

Online News Editor (2020-12-25). EU spend Christmas Day with Brexit deal briefing. laprensalatina.com Brussels, Dec 25 (efe-epa).- European Union member state ambassadors spent Christmas Day being briefed on the Brexit deal struck late Thursday with the United Kingdom in what was the first step by Brussels to prepare the document for provisional approval by 1 January 2021. Sebastian Fischer, the spokesperson for Germany's current tenure of the rotating …

Josh Schoolar (2020-12-25). Working for the revolution in Rojava. zcomm.org Interview on the political and military upheaval taking place in Rojava and northern Syria from the perspective of someone who not only witnessed the struggle but was an active participant…

teleSUR (2020-12-25). Israel Bombs Syria on Christmas Eve. telesurenglish.net Syrian air defenses responded to an Israeli missile attack that targeted the western Masyaf area in Hama Governorate after midnight Thursday. | RELATED: | Syrian state TV broadcast images of the air defenses intercepting Israeli missiles in the sky over Masyaf. | The Syrian army said that the Israeli missile attack was launched from the Libyan capital city of Tripoli, adding that the Syrian air defenses intercepted mo…

sputniknews (2020-12-25). Satellite Images Show Damage to Facilities in Syria's Masyaf Following Airstrike. sputniknews.com The Syrian Defense Ministry has blamed the early Friday airstrike on the Israeli military, while the latter has neither confirmed nor denied the allegations.

Eds. (2020-12-24). The White Helmets fraud in Syria. mronline.org The most recent denunciation from Syria confirms the support of Western powers to the alleged humanitarian organization of the White Helmets which is also a fraud of crude media manipulation.

Joe Emersberger (2020-12-24). The UN is not above playing politics with its mortality (and other) statistics. zcomm.org It's clear that technical departments within the UN have their work corrupted by the US government and its allies. Consider recent reporting by the Grayzone on OPCW whistleblowers who exposed manipulation of an investigation into alleged chemical weapons use in Syria in 2018. Going further back, Hans Blix, the Swedish diplomat who was in charge

Peoples Dispatch (2020-12-24). Morocco and the Grand Bargain with US and Israel. peoplesdispatch.org A deal to normalize diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel was signed at the Rabat's Royal Palace, on December 22 in Morocco. The deal has been criticized by prominent Palestinian organizations, as well as by Iran and Hezbollah.

John Kendall Hawkins (2020-12-23). Ralph Nader: He's a Cookbook! counterpunch.org "We can all sit down and have a few beers together while we wait." — Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart), The Petrified Forest (1936) Call before, you dig? — Utility notification for unmarked Internet cables from hippy who finally got a job The other day, minding my own business, and getting lots of unwanted help doing