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Afghan Reconstruction Watchdog SIGAR Publishes ‘Gallery of Greed’ over Fraud
Post Date: 2017-02-13 08:09:27 by Ada
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A $99 million Afghan road-building project funded by U.S. taxpayers has been scrapped, according to a report that details how American military personnel were bribed with Rolex watches in exchange for contracts. The deal was ditched in October after evidence emerged of corruption during the award of the contract by the country's government. In the last three months of 2016 alone, criminal investigations resulted in one conviction and six sentencings, nearly $2 million in criminal fines and the recovery of $320,000 according to a new quarterly report to Congress by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The report features a new "gallery of greed" ...
Lessons and Propaganda From the Botched Raid on Yemen
Post Date: 2017-02-13 08:04:44 by Ada
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The Trump administration’s first “kinetic” military action, last weekend’s raid on Yemen that killed a Navy SEAL as well as fifteen women and children, was an operational failure. Aggravating that failure has been the aggressive propaganda spin applied by the White House. According to White House spokesman Sean Spicer, the operation was a major success: “Knowing that we killed an estimated 14 AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] members and that we gathered an unbelievable amount of intelligence that will prevent the potential deaths or attacks on American soil – is something that I think most service members understand, that that’s why they joined ...
Resumption of Syria Peace Talks
Post Date: 2017-02-13 06:44:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Resumption of Syria Peace Talks by Stephen Lendman Despite no contacts with US officials so far, Sergey Lavrov hopes prospects for conflict resolution are “more favorable” with Obama’s obstructionism no longer an issue. Negotiating with John Kerry accomplished nothing. On February 15, peace talks will resume in Astana, Kazakhstan, scheduled for two days. Russia’s delegation is unchanged, led by its Syrian settlement envoy Alexander Lavrentyev. According to Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, Syria’s delegation remains the same, led by its UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari. Bogdanov hopes Washington will participate at least as an observer. Its Kazakhstan ...
Trump Blowing Smoke on Possible Israeli/Palestinian Peace Deal
Post Date: 2017-02-12 13:02:27 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Blowing Smoke on Possible Israeli/Palestinian Peace Deal by Stephen Lendman Whether or not Trump knows now, he’ll soon enough realize the so-called Israeli/Palestinian peace process is the greatest hoax in modern times. It’s been dead-on-arrival each time proposed for nearly half a century. Israel wants conflict and instability, not peaceful resolution - the way it’s always been since its inception. It doesn’t negotiate. It never has. It demands unconditional Palestinian subservience to its interests, yielding virtually nothing in return, the price long-suffering people pay, victims of Anglo- Zionist viciousness. In hindsight, analysts one day may call Trump ...
Nuclear Madness
Post Date: 2017-02-12 08:45:44 by Stephen Lendman
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Nuclear Madness by Stephen Lendman As long as these weapons exist, one day they’ll likely be used with devastating effects, risking almost certain doom or close to it. The only way to prevent eventual nuclear war is by eliminating these weapons entirely, the world community uniting on this most vital of all issues to save life on earth from possible extinction. Nuclear roulette assures losers, not winners. Einstein said splitting the atom “changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” Bush/Cheney’s December 2001 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), asserted the preemptive right to unilaterally declare and wage future ...
Assad Dubious About US Help in Combating Terrorism in Syria
Post Date: 2017-02-11 13:10:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Assad Dubious About US Help in Combating Terrorism in Syria by Stephen Lendman Syria is Obama’s war, launched for regime change, wanting a key Israeli rival eliminated, Iran isolated regionally, perhaps ahead of longstanding plans to replace the Islamic Republic with pro- Western despotism. The conflict now belongs to Trump. It’s unknown if he wants it continued or ended, whether he’ll combat terrorism or support it. His noninterventionist rhetoric indicated one thing. His geopolitical agenda appears worrisome. Lawless drone wars continue, mostly killing noncombatant civilians. He’s continuing Obama’s terror war on Yemen, complicit with Saudi Arabia, supporting ...
CIA Chief Pompeo Awards Saudis with Medal for Combating Terrorism
Post Date: 2017-02-11 07:41:26 by Stephen Lendman
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CIA Chief Pompeo Awards Saudis with Medal for Combating Terrorism by Stephen Lendman You can’t make this stuff up. Truth is stranger than fiction. On February 10 in Riyadh, CIA director Mike Pompeo awarded the Middle East’s leading Arab state proliferator of state terrorism at home and abroad with the George Tenet Medal for its “intelligence work in the fight against terrorism.” Tenet was CIA director from July 1997 to July 2004. His rap sheet includes involvement in Clinton’s rape of Yugoslavia, GW Bush’s aggression on Afghanistan and Iraq, along with establishing and running America’s global torture prisons, Guantanamo the tip of the iceberg. The ...
NATO Supports Kiev's Putschist Regime, Trump Suggests It
Post Date: 2017-02-11 07:27:33 by Stephen Lendman
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NATO Supports Kiev’s Putschist Regime, Trump Signals It by Stephen Lendman During a joint news conference in Brussels with Ukraine’s illegitimate prime minister Volodymr Groysman, NATO Deputy Secretary-General Rose Gottemoeller said all alliance member states “express strong support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” “NATO st(ands) by Ukraine. This will not change.” Gottemoeller blasted (nonexistent) “Russia(n) aggressive actions,” adding: “NATO does not, and will not, recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea, and we condemn Russia’s continuing destabilization of eastern Ukraine.” Separately, in a letter ...
Saudi Terror-Bombing in Yemen Now Trump's War
Post Date: 2017-02-10 13:14:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Saudi Terror-Bombing in Yemen Now Trump’s War by Stephen Lendman The same goes for all Bush/Cheney/Obama wars in multiple theaters, still raging. Trump inherited them. Failure to halt them makes him responsible for high crimes of war and against humanity. It breaches his promise to be noninterventionist. On Wednesday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Washington “will continue to work with” Yemen’s Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi - a US puppet, a despot, complicit with Al Qaeda. Not according to Toner, saying the Trump administration supports him “in order to ultimately eradicate ISIS from Yemen” - failing to explain Washington created and supports the ...
Imperial War on Syria Continues
Post Date: 2017-02-09 07:54:01 by Stephen Lendman
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Imperial War on Syria Continues by Stephen Lendman Since Trump’s inauguration, US-led so-called “coalition” warplanes continued attacking Syrian infrastructure. Bridges and Raqqa’s water lines were destroyed, cutting off supplies to the city. On Thursday, an Israeli helicopter shelled a Quneitra residential building. Separately, in response to an errant shell, harmlessly landing in Israeli occupied Golan, the IDF struck a nearby Syrian military position - without explaining if it was by airstrike or artillery fire. The Israeli regime actively aids ISIS and other anti-Syria terrorist groups. It invents reasons to launch periodic aggressive attacks against Syrian ...
Amnesty International Fake News
Post Date: 2017-02-08 13:11:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Amnesty International Fake News by Stephen Lendman AI is on the wrong side of the Syrian conflict, its reports sounding like US and scoundrel media propaganda. Its 1915-16 annual report on Syria was a litany of misinformation and Big Lies, claiming “(g)overnment forces and non-state armed groups committed war crimes, other violations of international humanitarian law and gross human rights abuses with impunity in the internal armed conflict.” “Government forces carried out indiscriminate attacks and attacks that directly targeted civilians, including bombardment of civilian residential areas and medical facilities with artillery, mortars, barrel bombs and, reportedly, ...
NYT Fake News on Ukraine
Post Date: 2017-02-08 08:35:15 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Fake News on Ukraine by Stephen Lendman Throughout nearly three years of Kiev’s on-and-off aggression on Donbass, The Times served as a virtual mouthpiece for its putschist regime. Disinformation substitutes for real news - the way it misreports on all virtually all issues, especially geopolitical ones. On January 29, Kiev forces escalated conflict on Donbass, naked aggression by any standard, war without mercy, mostly affecting civilians, replicating what it launched in 2014, continued in 2015, its forces handed a stunning defeat. Clear Trump policy on the conflict isn’t yet known. The Times drew its own conclusions like earlier, blaming victims for state-sponsored ...
Lavrov Blasts Ukraine's Putschist Leader
Post Date: 2017-02-08 07:49:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Lavrov Blasts Ukraine’s Putschist Leader by Stephen Lendman Ukrainian-installed president Petro Poroshenko is Washington’s man in Kiev, heading its coup d’etat regime - illegitimate by any standard. He’s waging war on his own people, blaming them for his high crimes, supported by Washington under Obama. It’s unclear where Trump stands, despite his UN envoy Nikki Haley irresponsibly accusing Russia of “aggression” in Ukraine and falsely claiming it annexed Crimea. According to Sergey Lavrov, re-escalating war on Donbass “benefit(s) the Poroshenko regime, seeking to distract attention from its inability to implement its obligations and to make the ...
The U.S. military's stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported
Post Date: 2017-02-06 08:49:13 by Ada
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The American military has failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, a Military Times investigation has revealed. The enormous data gap raises serious doubts about transparency in reported progress against the Islamic State, al-Qaida and the Taliban, and calls into question the accuracy of other Defense Department disclosures documenting everything from costs to casualty counts. In 2016 alone, U.S. combat aircraft conducted at least 456 airstrikes in Afghanistan that were not recorded as part of an open-source database maintained by the U.S. Air Force, information relied on by Congress, American ...
A BILLION DOLLARS OF FEDERALLY FUNDED PARANOIA
Post Date: 2017-02-06 08:30:03 by Ada
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When it comes to mindless excess in the war on terror, it is difficult to compete with the 70+ fusion centers bankrolled by the Department of Homeland Security. They began to be set up around the nation shortly after 9/11 as federal-state-local partnerships to better track terrorist threats. But the centers have been a world-class boondoggle from the start. Fusion centers have sent the federally funded roundup of data on Americans’ private lives into overdrive. As the Brennan Center for Justice noted in 2012, “Until 9/11, police departments had limited authority to gather information on innocent activity, such as what people say in their houses of worship or at political ...
US Terror-Bombing Far More Extensive Than Reported
Post Date: 2017-02-06 07:38:24 by Stephen Lendman
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US Terror-Bombing Far More Extensive Than Reported by Stephen Lendman America’s global war on terrorism is a scam to wage permanent war on humanity. Its imperial madness threatens everyone. It wastes trillions of dollars unavailable for vital domestic needs. It made America a rogue state far more menacing than any other in world history. Its thermonuclear arsenal if used in error or by design can kill us all. Neocons like Hillary Clinton and Washington’s criminal class believe the Pentagon should do whatever it takes to eliminate all challengers to US dominance over planet earth, its resources and populations. Trump is a businessman. Can he tame this beast or become its ...
Pentagon Withdraws Decade-Old Video They Claimed Was Netted in Yemen Raid
Post Date: 2017-02-04 07:36:17 by Ada
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Spokesman: It Doesn't Matter Still desperately trying to present the disastrous weekend raid into Yemen as having netted a treasure trove of valuable intelligence, the Pentagon released, and then sheepishly retracted, a video which they presented as a “detailed, do-it-yourself lesson” on terror attacks. The release was supposed to vindicate the raid, but media outlets noted within minutes of the Pentagon statement that the video itself had been publicly available since at least 2007, and that the only difference was the Pentagon had gone to the trouble to subtitle it. The Pentagon withdrew the video shortly thereafter, saying they did not want to give the impression they ...
Where America's Terrorists Actually Come From
Post Date: 2017-02-03 07:30:19 by Ada
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Syrian refugees have committed zero attacks in the United States. This weekend, Rudy Giuliani went on Fox News to explain why Donald Trump’s decision to bar Syrian refugees from U.S. shores and suspend visas for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries did not amount to a Muslim ban. “What we did was, we focused on, instead of religion, danger,” the former New York City mayor said, in reference to the targeted nations: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. “Which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. … It’s based on places where there are substantial evidence that people are sending terrorists into our country.” But ...
The CIA’s “Deep State”, Donald Trump and His “War on Terrorism”
Post Date: 2017-02-02 13:43:08 by Ada
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Donald Trump’s first act as president was a visit to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where he addressed gathering of CIA employees. His journey directly in “the swamp” took place almost immediately after his inauguration, and was clearly an urgent first priority. Serenading Langley The CIA is a headquarters of the Deep State and the Shadow Government. It is the nexus of criminality, and of the Bushes and Clintons, and the world- managing elite. The CIA enjoys a virtually unlimited black budget and virtually unlimited power that is beyond the reach of the law, and beyond the control of the White House. Yet here was Trump ingratiating and sweet talking the agency ...
West Turns a Blind Eye on Kiev Aggression
Post Date: 2017-02-02 12:28:16 by Stephen Lendman
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West Turns a Blind Eye on Kiev Aggression by Stephen Lendman Ukraine’s naked aggression on its Donbass residents largely ebbed after Minsk II peace talks concluded two years ago, Kiev straightaway breaching terms agreed on. Fighting again flared up heavily last Friday, continuing daily, regime forces using heavy weapons against Donbass, including in residential areas. Commenting on Facebook, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blasted Western nations, saying “(s)ome people’s job is to turn a blind eye on tanks.” Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Deputy Defense Minister/spokesman Eduard Basurin blasted OSCE leadership in cahoots with Kiev ...
Questions rise about Trump-ordered raid in Yemen
Post Date: 2017-02-02 11:18:24 by Ada
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The first military operation ordered by President Trump may have resulted in as many as 30 civilian deaths and the killing of an American operative, according to several reports questioning the intelligence behind the raid in Yemen. U.S. military officials told Reuters that the operation was approved without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup operations. Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens died in the raid, along with 14 militants. President Trump flew to Dover Air Base in Delaware on Wednesday to visit with Owens's family. Trump approved the early Sunday morning raid, but it had been in the works under the Obama administration for months. The New York ...
Syria Rejects Proposed Russian Drafted Constitution
Post Date: 2017-02-02 07:19:19 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Rejects Proposed Russian Drafted Constitution by Stephen Lendman In February 2012, Syrian overwhelmingly approved a new Constitution - 89.4% in favor, 9% opposed, 1.2% of ballots invalidated - despite ongoing war, opposition boycotts, threats, and anti- Assad media campaigns. Turnout was an impressive 57.4%, given the risks most Syrians took to vote. The Constitution includes 157 articles. Among other reforms, political pluralism was established for the first time, as well as presidential term limits and press freedom. In March 2016, Assad said “(w)e in Syria assume that the term political transition means the transition from one constitution to another, and a constitution is ...
Fake News: Man Who Claimed Mom Died Due to Trump ‘Ban’ Lied
Post Date: 2017-02-01 16:54:13 by Ada
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An Iraqi-American man who made headlines earlier this week by claiming that his ailing mother had died because of President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration lied, according to the imam of his local mosque, Detroit’s Fox 2 reported Wednesday. The original story was that Mike Hager, a U.S. citizen born in Iraq, was visiting relatives in Iraq but was forced to abandon his mother in that country when he tried to return home. Hager said he was returning home with his family that included his sick mom. They were returning home to the United States where his mother has lived since 1995. As they were waiting in line at the airport in Iraq on Friday, he was told that he ...
Kiev Escalates War on Donbass
Post Date: 2017-02-01 12:28:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Kiev Escalates War on Donbass by Stephen Lendman Obama-installed putschists instituted a reign of terror on Ukrainians in February 2014 after usurping power illegitimately, committing sweeping human rights violations - with full US support and encouragement. How Trump intends dealing with Kiev remains to be seen. His UN envoy Nikki Haley’s comment isn’t encouraging, affirming “the United States’ support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine” - despite the illegitimacy of its coup d’etat regime. Backing it would show Trump’s no different from Obama, pursuing imperial madness while claiming to be non-interventionist. Overnight ...
Trump Supplying Armored Vehicles to Anti-Syrian Forces
Post Date: 2017-02-01 07:53:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Supplying Armored Vehicles to Anti-Syrian Forces by Stephen Lendman All anti-government forces in Syria are terrorists. No moderates exist. Does Trump want conflict resolution or continued war? According to Pentagon spokesman Col. John Dorrian, “(w)e have provided armored sport utility vehicles to the Syrian Arab Coalition using existing authorities, in the interest of helping protect our partnered force from the (IS) improvised-explosive device threat.” “The decision was made by military commanders, and has been in the works for some time.” Were heavy weapons sent with them, used at least largely against government forces? So-called Syrian Democratic Forces ...
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