Category Coup d’état
PressTV-UAE financed Egypt military coup: Leaks
The leak by Egypt’s Mekameleen TV, believed to date back to January 14, shows how the UAE supported and funded the military coup in the African country in 2013. A part of the audio reveals that Sisi’s office manager, General Abbas Kamil, asks UAE Minister of State Sultan Al-Jaber to provide the Egyptian army with […]
Military warn of developing soft coup in Argentina | RNV – Radio Nacional de Venezuela
Military Center for Democracy Argentina (CEMIDA) warned -through a communique that the government of President Cristina Fernández faces a soft coup, after analyzing the operations of the right and the judiciary in that South American country. The highest authority of CEMIDA, retired Colonel José Luis García, and Elsa Bruzzone expert warned on US strategies in […]
‘New era of international jihad’ as Isis declares its territories an Islamic state – Independent.ie
The announcement will see the Isis now simply refer to itself as The Islamic State, and the group has called on al-Qa’ida and other related militant Sunni factions operating in the region to immediately pledge their allegiance.According to Isis’s chief spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the declaration of the “restoration of the caliphate” was made after […]
Venezuelan Government Exposes Plot to Assassinate President Maduro, Opposition Rejects Charges | venezuelanalysis.com
Jorge Rodriguez, mayor of Libertador municipality and leader of the governing political party, presented data collected by Venezuelan intelligence agencies which point to opposition figure Maria Corina Machado as the principle strategist of the proposed “annihilation” of Maduro.“I believe the time has come to join forces, make the necessary calls, and obtain the financing to […]
The real tragedy of Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef’s censorship is he played a role in it – Vox
The news is, unfortunately, hardly surprising. Since taking power in a coup in June 2013, military leader Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and his government have dramatically curtailed civil liberties and dissent. Still, while Youssef’s censorship is certainly awful in its own right, it’s also part of a much larger and more complicated Egyptian tragedy — one […]
Thailand military leaders dissolves Senate – The Hindu
Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha, who declared a coup d’état on Thursday, is now the acting Prime Minister and it is unclear whether he will appoint a civilian premier, as was the norm under past coups.Since staging the coup, General Prayuth has summoned 190 politicians, activists and academics to report to authorities, detaining more than […]
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev | The Smirking Chimp
“Geoffrey Pyatt is one of these State Department high officials who does what he’s told and fancies himself as a kind of a CIA operator,” laughs Ray McGovern, who worked for 27 years as an intelligence analyst for the agency. “It used to be the CIA doing these things,” he tells Democracy Now. “I know […]
UN Confirms to ICP Ban Ki-moon Met Svoboda’s Tyahnybok, Won’t Say If Knew In Advance He’d Attend
UN Confirms to ICP Ban Ki-moon Met Svoboda’s Tyahnybok, Won’t Say If Knew In Advance He’d Attend. Ban Ki-moon Met Tyahnybok of Svoboda, UN Won’t Say If Ban Knew in Advance By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, March 24 — The day after the UN confirmed to Inner City Press that in Kyiv UN Secretary […]
Exclusive Leaked phonecall !!! Yulia Timoshenko: “Shoot them all with atomic weapons” – Democratic Underground
Telephone conversation between the former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Nestor Shufrych and an ex-prime minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko. March 18, via Exclusive Leaked phonecall !!! Yulia Timoshenko: "Shoot them all with atomic weapons" – Democratic Underground.
NATO’s “Mystery Gunmen” Seek to Strengthen Kiev Regime’s Hand | New Eastern Outlook
“Supporting the fragile new government in Kiev,” is first and foremost among the priorities of the US and EU in Ukraine. Bremmer is kind in calling what resides in Kiev a “government,” considering it was not elected, and instead seized power violently.The US and EU’s support of the regime in Kiev is also problematic, though […]
Crimeas Case for Leaving #Ukraine | The Smirking Chimp
[by Robert Parry] — Granted, it’s not the greatest choice in the world, but it’s the practical one facing you. For all its faults, Russia has a functioning economy while Ukraine really doesn’t. Russia surely has its share of political and financial corruption but some of that has been brought under control.Not so in Ukraine where a […]
Russia hits back at US ‘barefaced cynicism and double standards’ over Ukraine — RT News
“The State Department is trying to play on a shamelessly one-sided interpretation of the events,” ministry spokesperson Aleksandr Lukashevich said on Thursday. “Surely, Washington cannot admit that they were nurturing Maidan [protests], encouraging the violent overthrow of the legitimate government, and thus clearing the way for those who are now pretending to be a legitimate […]
Sevastopol and Crimean parliament vote to join Russia, referendum to be held in 10 days — RT News
When the decision was announced to several thousand people waiting outside the parliament building, they, according to Itar-Tass, welcomed the news with cheers and screams of “Russia!”The parliament has also made a decision to ask the Russian leadership to “launch the procedure of Crimea becoming part of Russia.”Sevastopol’s city council also voted to become a […]
Luis Posada Carriles – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) (nicknamed Bambi by some Cuban exiles)[1] is a terrorist and former Central Intelligence Agency agent.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Posada has been convicted in absentia in Panama of involvement in various terrorist attacks and plots in the Americas, including 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 78 people;[9][10] admitted […]
Leak reveals plot to destabilize Venezuelan govt — RT News
Documents obtained by a contributor to RT’s Spanish channel, Eva Golinger, detail a structured plan to erode the stability of Venezuela with a view to “returning real democracy and independence that have been hijacked for more than 14 years.”The plans are allegedly the product of a conference between American company FTI Consulting and two right-wing […]
BBC News – Ukraine PM Mykola Azarov warns of coup in making
President Viktor Yanukovych released his first remarks since Sunday\’s historic protest and the violence that accompanied it, giving no sign that he was backing down – just the opposite.But judging from appearances on Kiev\’s Independence Square, the protesters are not showing any weakness either. They have set up almost a military camp of sorts, and […]