On New Year’s eve, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, released a letter accusing the US justice system of submitting whistleblower Chelsea Manning to coercive treatment which equates to torture.
21WIRE editor Patrick Henningsen spoke with RT International this week about the case and how it indicates a collapse in western justice standards. Watch:
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21st Century Wire
The United States may have just worn out its welcome in Iraq. Whatever comes next will be laid at the feet of the Trump Presidency.
The World Anti-Doping Agency WADA banned Russia on Monday, after it was alleged to have manipulated data in a Moscow anti-doping laboratory. Russia is now suspended from all major sporting events for four years – where the Russian flag is banned from flying at the next two Olympic Games, as well as the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, should Russia qualify for the finals. This will no doubt have a damaging impact on a generation of Russian athletes – who did nothing wrong.
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This past week, UK Ambassador to the UN, Karen Pierce chastises Reps from Syria and Russia for accusing the US and UK of ‘fighting on the side of terrorists’ in Syria. However, the lady doth protest too much, methinks, as there’s no shortage of evidence to the contrary. Also, WikiLeaks publishes new leaked email from OPCW which shows the corruption due to US pressure – to produce a report which ‘blamed Assad’ for a non-existent chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April of 2018.
Time is running out for Julian Assange.
As political theatre goes, this one takes the biscuit – but not for its compelling drama and anticipation of justice. Rather, this one is pure Vaudeville pantomime.
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The following is a brief analysis to help you read through the headlines and help see what the real underlying US foreign policy agenda is in Syria.
When Trump says “Take the Oil!” in Syria, what does he really mean? Does the US really need this oil? Not really. So what was all the major media fanfare about then?
This week, Russia mania has taken over the UK General Election agenda, as both parties revert to hurling ‘pro-Kremlin’ accusations at each other in an attempt to extract the last remaining drops of political capital from an increasingly dilapidated Russiagate narrative.
