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[l] at 10/20/19 7:49am
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama: October 14 - Syrian Government Regains Control Over Country's Northeastern Parts October 16 - How The Win-Win-Win-Win Plan For Syria's Northeast Succeeds October 18 - Media And Pundits Misread The 'Everyone Wins' Plan...
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[l] at 10/20/19 5:19am
History as faked by the New York Times: Kurds’ Sense of Betrayal Compounded by Empowerment of Unsavory Rivals Ben Hubbard, David D. Kirkpatrick, NYT 18. Oct 2019 Now, [..] the sense of betrayal among the Kurds [..] is matched only...
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[l] at 10/20/19 5:19am
History as faked by the New York Times: Kurds’ Sense of Betrayal Compounded by Empowerment of Unsavory Rivals Ben Hubbard, David D. Kirkpatrick, NYT 18. Oct 2019 Now, [..] the sense of betrayal among the Kurds [..] is matched only...
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[l] at 10/19/19 7:44am
Hillary Clinton has gone mad: Hillary Clinton appeared to suggest that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is the “favorite of the Russians” to win the 2020 presidential election and is being groomed by Moscow to run as a third-party candidate against...
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[l] at 10/18/19 12:43am
The U.S. media get yesterday's talks between U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan all wrong. Those talks were just a show to soothe the criticism against President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops...
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[l] at 10/17/19 12:15pm
The Korean Central News Agency reports: Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Ascends Mt Paektu on Horseback bigger - more pictures ... He, atop Mt Paektu on the horseback, recollected with deep emotion the road of arduous struggle he covered for...
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[l] at 10/16/19 11:47am
The Syrian and Russian operations in the northeast of Syria are going well. bigger Russian troops prevented attempts by Turkish supported Jihadis to attack Manbij. Russian and Syrian units now also entered Ayn al-Arab/Kobani. Syrian government troops took control of...
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[l] at 10/14/19 6:28am
Eight days ago U.S. President Donald Trump gave a green light for another Turkish invasion of Syria. We explained why that move made it inevitable for the Kurds to submit to Damascus and to let the Syrian Arab Army back...
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[l] at 10/13/19 8:15am
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama: October 7 - Syria - Trump Gives A Green Light For Another Turkish Invasion October 9 - Syria - Turkey Again Invades Related: U.S. troops are withdrawing from north Syria. Turkish sponsored "rebel"...
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[l] at 10/12/19 12:31pm
Two weeks ago the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) released a 13 pages long recommendation (pdf) resulting from its investigation into the 737 MAX incidents. Since we dicussed that damning report more bad news for Boeing has come out. Boeing's...
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[l] at 10/12/19 12:31pm
Two weeks ago the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) released a 13 pages long recommendation (pdf) resulting from its investigation into the 737 MAX incidents. Since we dicussed that damning report more bad news for Boeing has come out. Boeing's...
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[l] at 10/11/19 10:10am
Monday: Want to bring back US forces engaged in endless wars: Trump "We want to bring our troops back home. It''s been many many years. It''s been decades, in many cases. We want to bring our troops back home. I...
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[l] at 10/10/19 4:08am
Two days ago the New York Times published a sensational story about alleged Russian fiendishness. It was headlined: Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say. According to the story unit 29155 of the Russian military intelligence...
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[l] at 10/9/19 8:43am
So it begins: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that a Turkish military operation into Syria has started. Erdogan said on his official Twitter account Wednesday that the operation, named “Peace Spring,” has begun. He said the operation aims...
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[l] at 10/7/19 8:33am
This morning U.S. President Donald Trump has a little surprise for the Kurds in Syria: Today, President Donald J. Trump spoke with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey by telephone. Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation...
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[l] at 10/6/19 6:55am
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama: September 30 - Senior Twitter Executive Joined British Army Troll Brigade Related: Elite UK military unit secretly trained by leftist regime-change advocate Gilbert Achcar and other academics - Ben Norton, Grayzone October 1...
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[l] at 10/6/19 3:52am
The current unrest in Iraq began a week ago after a prominent general was removed from his post: Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab al-Saadi was the great Iraqi military hero of the war against Isis, leading the assault on Mosul which...
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[l] at 10/4/19 12:03pm
The Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke yesterday at the yearly Valdai Discussion Club meeting in Sochi. A video with English translations and excerpts of the transcript are here. With regards to the global system Putin made an interesting historic comparison:...
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[l] at 10/3/19 11:30am
There are some serious questions around the Biden family involvement in the Ukraine that the media have not picked up on. The first regards the ownership of the company which hired Joe Biden's son Hunter for an exorbitant amount of...
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[l] at 10/2/19 9:35am
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[l] at 10/1/19 12:00pm
The People's Republic of China held a great parade (3h video, shorter version with comments) to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding. Some interesting new weapons were on display that are of strategic significance. China has, like Russia and...

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