Is A Major Attack On Syria Feasible? Or Are Russia's Area Denial Forces Just Too Strong?

"As a result a Western attack, should it occur, would most likely be limited to a symbolic strike as per April 2018"

By Military Watch: With the United States, Britain and France all reportedly making preparations to launch a major offensive against Syria, and threatening use of force on a scale far larger than that of the attack carried out in April 2018, Russia has notably responded by moving naval assets to the Mediterranean and deploying its warships in defensive positions to deter a potential second Western attack.
While Russia has previously tolerated Western interventions against Damascus on a small scale, namely token missile strikes initiated with prior warning which were further blunted by Syria’s own air defences, a larger strike which could have a significant impact on the outcome of the war - at a time when Damascus’ forces and those of its allies prepare for a major ground offensive against the Jihadist held province of Idlib - could well cross a red line which would lead to Russian intervention on the side of its Middle Eastern ally.
To be able to deter a Western attack however, Russia will need to demonstrate that it has a credible chance of protecting Syria against the combined firepower of its adversaries despite the far smaller size of its forces in the country

US Says Assad Has Approved Gas Attack In Idlib, Setting Stage For Major Military Conflict With Nukes v Russia

By Tyler Durden: At this point there's not even so much as feigning surprise or suspense in the now sadly all-too-familiar Syria script out of Washington. 
The Wall Street Journal has just published a bombshell on Sunday evening as Russian and Syrian warplanes continue bombing raids over al-Qaeda held Idlib, citing unnamed US officials who claim "President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has approved the use of chlorine gas in an offensive against the country’s last major rebel stronghold."
And perhaps more alarming is that the report details that Trump is undecided over whether new retaliatory strikes could entail expanding the attack to hit Assad allies Russia and Iran this time around. 

That's right, unnamed US officials are now claiming to be in possession of intelligence which they say shows Assad has already given the order in an absolutely unprecedented level of "pre-crime" telegraphing of events on the battlefield. 
And supposedly these officials have even identified the type of chemical weapon to be used: chlorine gas.

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Tenured Professor Fired For Questioning Social Justice

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Israel's Fifth Column

Exercising control from inside your government

By Philip Giraldi: Referring to Israel during an interview in August 1983, U.S. Navy Admiral and former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Thomas Moorer said “I’ve never seen a President - I don’t care who he is - stand up to them. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn’t writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip these people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens certainly don’t have any idea what goes on.”

Moorer was speaking generally but he had something specific in mind, namely the June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the American intelligence ship, U.S.S. Liberty, which killed 34 American crewmen and wounded 173 more. The ship was operating in international waters and was displaying a huge stars and stripes but Israeli warplanes, which had identified the vessel as American, even strafed the life rafts to kill those who were fleeing the sinking ship. It was the bloodiest attack on a U.S. Naval vessel ever outside of wartime and the crew deservedly received the most medals every awarded to a single ship based on one action. Yes, it is one hell of a story of courage under fire, but don’t hold your breath waiting for Hollywood to make a movie out of it.

"We Will Both Prove Everyone Wrong" - Trump Thanks Kim For "Good Faith" Message

Update: Despite the best efforts of the mainstream media (and the Chinese government) to reinforce the idea that Trump-Kim relations are going nowhere, it appears there has been progress and President Trump has just thanked Kim for his show of good faith at the nation's military parade... "This is a big and very positive statement from North Korea. Thank you To Chairman Kim. We will both prove everyone wrong!"

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It increasingly looks like the Trump White House is in the driver's seat when it comes to stalled negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has in the past days and week seemed somewhat desperate to telegraph to Trump that he is fully committed to denuclearization.
The latest such signalling is reported via Reuters early Sunday:

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un told an envoy of Chinese president Xi Jinping that North Korea is upholding the denuclearisation agreement it reached with the United States this year, China’s state broadcaster said.

The Unspoken Burdens Of Men

By Mark Dent: I attended the March for Men in Melbourne with my wife a couple of weeks ago. Maggie and I were deeply impressed with the professionalism and planning of those who organized this event.  I can’t really add to the words others have already written about the experience, but I do want to expand on some thoughts I had while we marched down St Kilda Road.
One of my concerns before I decided to attend was how I would manage to control my emotions if confronted by one of the ranting lunatics who were protesting our gathering. When I saw the huge police presence on our arrival the images I had pictured on the train trip into the city began to dissolve. I felt sure the scenario I pictured, of a purple haired, tattooed woman screeching in my face and poking her fingers into my chest was now highly unlikely. My fear was based upon the idea that I would be placed in that age-old dilemma all men fear. When an aggressive woman gets in a man’s face his options as far as responses go, are extremely limited.
What should you do? Smile and try to look composed and cool even as the woman’s spittle is on your face and she is branding you a Nazi, KKK member and a woman hater in a shrill, enraged voice? So much easier said than done.
Do you shout back and immediately give the media fodder for the angle they have already decided to take? That angle being one which focuses on the “angry, aggressive misogynists who are marching because they want to remove women’s rights and encourage rapists to rape.”

USA Admit AlQaeda Run Idlib And They Want To Protect Them

SyrianGirl: Jewish Zionist run US state department is schizophrenic about their love for AlQaeda in Idlib. They're prepared to send American people to die, 'arrow fodder' in a war with Russia and Syria to keep groups like AlQaeda, ISIS, JSIL, etc. safe.

Big Brother Apple Goes Full Censorship Retard - Permanently Bans Hasbara Merchant Alex Jones From Entire Platform

By Tyler Durden: Apple permanently banned Alex Jones' Infowars app from its App Store late Friday, depriving the conservative host one of his last remaining conduits to reach a mainstream audience. The New York Times reports that an Apple spokeswoman said the app was removed under company policies that prohibit apps which contain content that is "offensive, insensitive, upsetting, intended to disgust or in exceptionally poor taste," however she did not note what specific content resulted in the app's removal.
Jones and his empire have also been banned from YouTube, Facebook, Google Podcast, Spotify, iHeartRadio, MailChimp, Disqus, Linkedin, Flickr, Pinterest and several others in what silicon valley swears wasn't a coordinated "unpersoning" of Jones. 
"Because I play devil's advocate, because I play both sides, they've taken me out of context, they are using me as a test case to try to bring an EU style web censorship," Jones said several weeks ago. "They've got mainline Democratic senators saying they ought to restrict Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Matt Drudge, the President himself. They are misrepresenting what I've said and done and are using that to set a precedent for internet wide de-platforming, censorship beyond what Russia does, what China does, ahead of the midterms (election). The whole thing is fake."

Fracking Financial Crisis Lurking + IMF & Co Fed On Greece’s Corpse

Max and Stacy discuss the next financial crisis lurking around the corner, according to the NYTimes and how it was Keiser Report who first warned you seven years ago that the economics of fracking makes no sense . . . at least yet, not if one is seeking a return on an investment. Fracking may make sense on national security grounds and it certainly creates a whole load of holes in the ground as economists like Paul Krugman believe are good for the economy.

Britain Should Be In The Dock Over Skripal Saga, Not Russia

"If we decided to write an opinion editorial on the subject of that man's gross incompetence, we would damn well sign it"

Op-Ed: The latest announcement by British authorities of two named Russian suspects in connection with the alleged poison assassination of a former Russian spy and his daughter is more absurd drama in a long-running tawdry saga.
No verifiable evidence is ever presented, just more lurid innuendo and more refusal by the British authorities to abide by any due process and international norms of diplomacy. It is all scurrilous sound and fury aimed at smearing Russia.
This week, Britain's Metropolitan Police released video shots of two alleged Russian men purporting to show them arriving at London's Gatwick airport on March 2. Other video shots purport to show the same men walking the streets of Salisbury on March 3, the day before former Russian Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were apparently stricken with a powerful nerve agent. The two would-be assassins then allegedly flew back to Moscow from London late on March 4.
One preposterous claim, among several by the British authorities, is that traces of the putative nerve poison Novichok were found in the London hotel room where the alleged Kremlin agents stayed.

Two-State Jew-State Hypocrisy

Justice is impossible, so long as Israel remains committed to a racist ideology.

By Mohamed Mohamed: Imagine the following scenario: In response to the peaceful African-American civil rights movement in the United States, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s, a large segment of white Americans figured that the best solution to the issue would be to form a new country on a small part of US territory in the north, where African-Americans would be segregated and live on their own.
Any of these African-Americans who lived for generations in the American South, but at some point had to flee to the American North (or to Canada or Mexico) because of violence and discrimination perpetrated against them, would not be able to return to their homes in the South. They would only be permitted to “return” to this new African-American state.
Any of the African-Americans already in the South could stay there, but would become second-class citizens, facing institutionalized discrimination in a country dominated politically, economically and socially by white Americans – much as was the case during the Jim Crow era following centuries of enslavement.