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Video: Escalation or Peaceful Coexistence. Is Russia the Enemy? By Drago Bosnic and Prof Michel Chossudovsky In late August, CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Russia on an Air Force C-17 “Globemaster III” heavy-lift transport plane. He reportedly met his Russian intelligence counterparts, without immediately disclosing the nature of the visit. His concern was not the danger of escalation. His intent “consisted in blackmailing the Kremlin while offering nothing but hot air in return.” Read here

Europe Falling Behind in US Priorities. Trump Wants to Break the US-Europe “Automatic Alignment” By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida Diverging interests between the US and Europe are becoming increasingly apparent. One sign of these tensions is Europe’s loss of priority status within US strategic affairs. European partners now appear to be far down Washington’s list of major concerns, prompting them to seek autonomous remilitarization as an alternative.  Read here

Plaguing the Americas with Misery in the Name of Liberty By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The US-backed despots replacing popular democratic and socialist governments across Latin America today are indeed doing so in the name of liberty, as Bolivar warned. But in practice this means only the liberty of traditional ruling classes to exploit, impoverish and kill their less privileged neighbors, formerly as conquistadors and compradors for the Spanish Empire and now as agents of the US government and transnational corporations. Read here

The CIA’s John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow. Not to Escalate. Stop Supporting Iran By Philip Giraldi Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport in NATO member Latvia, and then flew on to land at Vnukovo International Airport, one of the four airports that serve the Russian capitol Moscow. Read here

When Did the American Civil War End: In 1865 or 1965? By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović The American Civil War (1861−1865) was a military conflict between the northern and the southern states of the USA, which initially started as a political-economic revolt and desire for independence by the southern states, which created their own Confederacy not recognised by Washington. However, very soon the conflict was transformed into a war for the abolition of slavery within the whole territory of the USA. Read here

Trump’s Stolen Venezuelan Crude Oil Sent to Israel By Kurt Nimmo On August 29, President Trump went on social media and boasted about stealing Venezuelan oil. The theft, according to Trump, “more than doubles American oil reserves.” He said there was “no cost” to American taxpayers, although there will obviously be a huge cost to the people of Venezuela who will see little if any benefit from Trump’s plunder. Read here

Autonomous Weapons and Killer Robots: New Warnings, Old Habits By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger issued a joint appeal stating that, “We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines.” Read here