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Correction and clarification

7 August 2020
On the night of 6 August 2020, we posted an article by Thierry Meyssan titled “Israel destroys East Beirut with a new weapon”. To illustrate our point, we included a video showing a missile striking the alleged Hezbollah warehouse in the port of Beirut.
This video, whose origin we acknowledged that we didn’t know, turned out to be a fabrication made from CNN footage.
It has now been removed from the article. It could have been left out altogether since it was not necessary. We apologize to (...)

Homeland Security against Antifa

6 August 2020
President Donald Trump’s announcement on 27 July 2020 that he would soon designate Antifa as a terrorist organization is based on a 24 June report by the Homeland Security Department.
Entitled "The Syrian Conflict and Its Nexus to US-based Antifascist Movements) (downloadable below), and drawing on Thierry Meyssan’s article "NATO’S Anarchist Brigades" of 12 September 2017, the report describes Antifa’s engagement alongside the Kurdish forces.
Antifa is a movement subsidized by speculator (...)

Which new weapon was used in the Gulf and in Beirut?

5 August 2020
At the beginning of July, a new weapon was deployed against 7 Iranian ships in the Persian Gulf , then again on 4 August rocking the port of Beirut.
In all eight cases, the smoke cloud bore no resemblance to that generated by a conventional explosion; what rose instead was a mushroom cloud like in an atomic explosion.
In Beirut, the blast caused the ground to shake in a radius of 200 kilometers, at a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale, according to the German Geoscience Center (...)

CIA to illegally exploit oil in Northeastern Syria

1 August 2020
At a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on 30 July 2020, Senator Lindsey Graham questioned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about a US company that has just signed an agreement with the "Autonomous Administration" of Northeast Syria (YPG) for the exploitation of oil fields and the supply of refineries.
The Secretary of State confirmed that the negotiation of the agreement had taken longer than expected and that he was OK with the deal. Production is expected to start at 60,000 (...)

Iraq’s particular global warming phenomenon

28 July 2020
The temperature in some Iraqi cities, usually around 45° C in the shade during the summer, has hit a dramatic new high this year. Several cities have recorded averages above 50° C in the shade for more than 30 days, with the temperature failing to drop below 30° C at night.
Parts of Iran and Kuwait are also affected, but to a lesser extent.
According to the Iraqi meteorological services, this rise in temperatures is not attributable to the global warming of the planet. It is a phenomenon (...)

Erdogan, the new Mehmed II

26 July 2020
The Treaty of Lausanne, signed on 24 July 1923, annulled the Treaty of Sèvres and created modern Turkey while respecting the demands of Mustafa Kemal. He had Hagia Sophia in Istanbul restored and offered it to humanity by turning it into a museum in 1934.
On 24 July 2020, on the occasion of this anniversary, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reconverted the former cathedral of the Eastern Roman Empire into a mosque.
The ceremony was designed to glorify the Islamic conquest of the world and the (...)

Slavery and the US Democratic Party

24 July 2020
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) requested that various statues displayed in the halls of Congress be removed on the grounds that these men had voluntarily served the Confederate armies during the Civil War (H.R. 7573).
Ms. Pelosi equates the Confederates (opposed to tariffs set by the federal government) with slavery, according to a mistaken interpretation of the Civil War prevailing today. Yet, they are the portraits of four former House Speakers (Robert M.T. (...)

Statues of "white Virgin Mary" vandalized in US

16 July 2020
Following a call from anti-racist activist Shaun King, several statues of the Virgin Mary have been vandalized in the United States, particularly in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
On 22 June, former Protestant pastor Shaun King tweeted:
"All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They (...)

Hillary Clinton Preps US for Presidential Election Dispute

15 July 2020
Appearing virtually on 13 July 2020 for an interview on the Daily Show (Comedy Central), Hillary Clinton made a strong pitch for internet voting.
In her view, this is the only way to ensure that young people, African-Americans and Hispanics can vote in the face of the animosity coming from certain state governments. She brushed off objections regarding a possible attempt to hack the election website and assured that the electronic system was trustworthy.
According to her, internet voting (...)

Bulgarian President denounces Borissov’s "mafia-type" government

13 July 2020
On 9 July 2010, the seat of the Bulgarian presidency was requisitioned on orders from Prime Minister Boïko Borissov (left in the photo).
A crowd immediately took to the streets in support of President Roumen Radev (right in the photo) and to accuse the Prime Minister and the General-Prosecutor of manipulating the justice system.
On 11 July, the president called on the government to resign, denouncing its "mafia-style".
Boïko Borissov’s functions within the Bulgarian mafia and his role in (...)

US Army against Trump

11 July 2020
The United States Army addressed an email to all of its civilian and military staff denouncing white supremacism.
The thrust of the message is that celebrating Columbus Day, denying the existence of white privilege, talking about American exceptionalism and claiming that there is only one human race are characteristic signs of the far right (meaning President Trump).
The email was sent by the Army’s Equity and Inclusion Agency as part of its Operation Inclusion, and was signed by Casey (...)

239 scientists question how Covid-19 is transmitted

7 July 2020
From the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was taken for granted that the virus spread via respiratory droplets in the air and through contact. It was on this assumption that we were advised to wipe door handles, wear a mask and observe "social distancing".
However, this mode of transmission was never proven.
If Covid-19 is indeed a respiratory virus, then it should be deduced that it can only be transmitted by aerosol like all other viral respiratory diseases. In such a case, it is (...)

New Zealand espionage revelations

2 July 2020
During the Cold War, the New Zealand secret intelligence service carried out various operations on behalf of the "Five Eyes" (Australia, Canada, United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom).
Thus, at the end of the 1980s, the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) in Wellington reportedly broke into the Indian and Iranian embassies, where inter alia they installed listening devices ("Operation Horoscope"), photographed code books and stole communications.
The Prime Minister (Labor) at the (...)

Russia condemns Israeli bombing of Syria

2 July 2020
On 1 July 2020, the Presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey held by videoconference their quarterly appraisal of the situation in Syria.
The final press release reflects the conclusions of previous meetings .
Addressing the issue of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, all three states condemn the de facto unilateral annexation of the territory by Israel in 1981, which was recognized by the United States in 2019. Furthermore, they consider "that Israel’s military attacks against Syria are (...)

British justice endorses heist of Venezuelan gold

2 July 2020
On 2 July 2020, the UK High Court ruled that, on the basis of Her Majesty’s Government recognition Juan Guaidó as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the claims of constitutional president Nicolás Maduro to recover the Venezuelan gold deposited in the Kingdom were groundless.
Therefore, it is enough to stop recognizing a head of state to expropriate his country’s assets.
Since May, a controversy has been brewing between Venezuela and the United Kingdom at the UN Security (...)

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