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Monday, Jan 11, 2021 First it was Russia (FAIR.org, 7/3/20). And then Iran. But now it is China that has supposedly been placing bounties on the heads of US soldiers in Afghanistan—according to information received by outlets like the New York Times (12/30/20), Axios (12/30/20) and CNN (12/31/20). Outlets worldwide ran with the news, many treating it as highly credible: “Trump Was Briefed That China Sought to Pay Non-State Actors to Attack US Forces in Afghanistan” (CNN, 12/31/20) �...

Media Cry Wolf for Third Time on Afghan ‘Bounties’  Published: January 11, 2021 If corporate media want a genuine Afghanistan scandal, they could have piggybacked on the  Intercept’s excellent and substantiated recent report (12/18/20) on how the CIA has been funding, arming and training death squads inside the country, driving them to schools they had selected so they could massacre children as young as eight. Instead of covering this, however (a search for “ Intercept+Afghan...

Actually shouldnt do this. this is a nonstate actor. people knew what wikileaks were. if they had people who were actually grown up and serious about the office of the presidency they were pursuing, they could have given that advice. if they cared to get that advice. what we have now is more and more information about them not telling the truth about the contacts that they had and now we see more of these connections. and what the end point is, whether it proves collusion, i dont know. i dont th...

Which this is unprecedented it would be transferred to a nonstate actor. about you, but they cost $1 million apiece. you know, theyre like 4,000, a little under 4,000 u.s. aircraft, big commercial jetliners. were talking $4 billion. and frankly, american jet airliners commercial delta, usair, whatever, united are not landing in places where this is going to be a challenge. so i think its highly unlikely that youll see commercial airliners want to take on that cost. look at what happened which i ...

That its hamas policy to bury these munitions in civilian centers, near schools, near mosques, and has been criticized by international observers for using their own population as human shields. >> again, there is a context to all of this. and i understand how many problems all of this brings about for the civilian population. thats very clear. it is not lost on palestinians in hamas or otherwise because theyre pulling their children, their wives out of the rubble every day. so they understand t...