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Regime Change in Iran: Been There, Done That By----- Philip Giraldi

Regime Change in Iran: Been There, Done That  By----- Philip Giraldi  American Free Press | May 27, 2019 The failed coup attempt in Caracas in early May brings to mind the techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and British intelligence in Iran in 1953 to overthrow the Mohammad Mossadeq government. It is quite astonishing how that regime-change long-ago operation parallels what is currently taking place in Venezuela and also with regards to Iran yet again. Mossadeq was the democratically elected prime minister of Iran beginning in 1951, serving in a government in which the Shah with limited authority was the head of state presiding over a parliamentary system. Iran was nominally independent at the time, but it was heavily influenced by the neighboring Soviet Union, which retained control over several Iranian provinces after the Second World War ended, and Great Britain, which exploited the country’s oil resources through the mechanism of the Anglo-Irania...

‘Chernobyl’ is a blast of a TV series – but don’t call it ‘authentic’ By ----Igor Ogorodnev

‘Chernobyl’ is a blast of a TV series – but don’t call it ‘authentic’ By Igor Ogorodnev | RT | June 2, 2019 Building film sets out of old Soviet buildings is easier than understanding the people who inhabited them – and the hit HBO show doesn’t grasp either why the nuclear accident was allowed to happen, nor the heroism that followed. Authenticity is not an essential virtue even for a docudrama, but it has been one of the main selling points of Chernobyl, the five-part mini-series that is currently the highest-ever rated TV program on film database IMDB. Now, my qualms aren’t with the factual inaccuracies, the creation of Emily Watson’s fictional female scientist in place of the thousands of women actually involved, or the squeezing of such a grand-scale, multi-faceted story into what is, for the most part, a disaster film with two leads. All of this artistic license could have been acceptable if only a higher truth had been preserved. But Chernobyl is fundamentally phony. Beca...

?What’s the Plan Mr. Tariff Man--- Tom Luongo

?What’s the Plan Mr. Tariff Man Tom Luongo For three years now all I’ve heard is “Trust the plan.” “Trump has a plan.” Maybe he does and maybe, just maybe, he doesn’t. Trump’s latest folly to place a 5% per month tariff on Mexico if it doesn’t control the border with the U.S. is just another idiotic move in his quest to control global trade. It’s not like Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is Trump’s enemy on the border. In fact, if anything, AMLO has been on Trump’s side. But, like Trump, he’s got just as big a Deep State problem and that precludes anything substantive getting done. This latest outburst by Trump ensures that his USMCA, the “Greatest Deal Ever,” won’t get ratified. And it just goes to show that he’s so weak as a President that he can’t win any wins within his own government so now he’s going to punish Mexico while pandering to his mostly brain-dead base. He’s looking at his rising approval numbers and surveying the carnage in global trade and thinkin...

The tragedy of Sudan with Humaidati.------ Khaled Hassan Yousef

  The tragedy of Sudan with  Humaidati. Khaled Hassan Yousef In 2017, he was promoted to the rank of Dean. In 2019 he was promoted to the rank of First Team. The promotion of the officer from the rank of Brigadier to the Major General takes place two years after his first promotion, which includes the transition to the rank of team. My three-year shift between three ranks is a brigadier, a team, a first team, based on the criterion of patronage and contribution to the system machine, as a militiaman ready to carry out practices that a regular military officer or soldier can not do. For the military council to take over the authority. He also did not shy away from the threat of mobility in general and directly compared to his partners in the Council, who are not different from him, but they are more politicized than him, where they justify their angry statements, trying to find excuses, especially because they know their background knowledge. And they are leaving behind ...

Sudanese Communist Party -- Central Committee --- Special Session

Sudanese Communist Party Central Committee Special Session On the current political situation and developments Submit The Central Committee held a special session on Friday, April 19, to discuss a paper submitted by the Political Bureau on "The current political situation and developments." After extensive discussion of the paper and the changes made since its writing, the Central Committee approved the paper, On the current political situation and developments an introduction:- The glorious December 19 uprising demonstrated the health of the Communist Party line drafted at the April 2010 session calling for the overthrow of the totalitarian regime of Islamic parasitic capitalism through the widest coalition for the restoration of democracy, peace-building and justice. The Communist Party in the implementation of its strategy and tactics depends on alliances to resolve the major and secondary contradictions among the masses. The party has identified the main contrad...

This Is What Jerusalem Looked Like Just Months After Photography Was Invented

This Is What Jerusalem Looked Like Just Months After  Photography Was Invented A look at the city when it was still a poor and neglected town at the remote edge of the Ottoman Empire, through the lens of two legendary photographers By Daniel Tchetchik  and Dr. Gil Weissblei Jun 02, 2019 Exactly 180 years ago, in the summer of 1839, Jerusalem became the first site in the Land of Israel to be documented with a camera. It was only a few months after practical photography was invented in Paris. In the coming years, there was a steady increase in the number of photographers who came to Jerusalem from Europe with various types of cameras. Biblical landscapes, the cradle of Jesus’ birth and especially the city itself assumed a real and concrete shape for the first time. Through the lens of the camera, a small, neglected and poor town at the remote edge of the Ottoman Empire became a magical city where time stood still, full of shadows and secrets. Everyone who came to...

Aden Zaman: Memories of the story of Somalia .. and the Suez War-Mohammed Ahmed Al - Baydani

Port of Aden in 1864. Aden Zaman: Memories of the story of Somalia .. and the Suez War Written by: Mohammed Ahmed Al - Baydani Many of the events took place in Aden and this is part of the history of Aden. There was no record of the events, some of them knew about their proximity to them, others knew little about them, there was no interest in recording these events, and there were events that went into oblivion. I wanted to live with these events, some of which I have seen from the police files that I joined in 1962 - the years of the summit in the events. I was lucky when I saw her and I never thought I would ever record them or even write them down. Important Events After years of age I was sometimes afraid to talk about it or even register it. Some of these events have almost gone into oblivion. I sit today after 42 years of age to record them so as not to be lost, and much has been lost. The years 1960 - 1967 were among the most important years in the history of Aden. The per...