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The Mainstream Media Obfuscates War Crimes

The big pandemic of 2020 has done a good job of blocking any other news from hitting the headlines. However, just because the limited mental space of the Mainstream Media (MSM) is being occupied by a virus, does not mean that other things are not occurring. One very hot issue that is on the backburner of the public’s consciousness is the abuse and possible murder of Afghan civilians by Australian Special Forces.

Corona defeats massive DEFENDER-Europe 20 war games (Video)

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Pentagon’s decision to scale back (effectively cancel) NATO’s massive military drill named ‘Defender Europe 2020’ due to the coronavirus threat.
The US Department of Defense has announced that it will halt further troop deployment to Europe for the Defender 20 exercises, and recall thousands of already deployed troops from Europe, returning them back to the United States to help deal with the COVID-19 crisis.

Trump and the Taliban ‘Non-Peace Peace’

History is filled with examples of Neville Chamberlain’s Folly: Old fools like the British prime minister in 1938 selling out Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union to the merciless bloodlust of Adolf Hitler and proclaiming “peace in our time” when there was no peace.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s new deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan may prove to be a classic example of the opposite phenomenon: A hollow non-deal that only generates universal skepticism and zero expectations but that still might work.