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Trump's Proposed Syria Safe Zones
Post Date: 2017-01-31 07:25:01 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Proposed Syria Safe Zones by Stephen Lendman Syrians need all the help they can get, America fully responsible for ravaging the country, together with its rogue allies. Trump’s safe zones proposal remains unclear, no details forthcoming so far. Russia is amenable to establishing them, likely under UN auspices, as long as Damascus agrees and Syrian sovereignty remains inviolate. On Sunday, Trump spoke to Saudi King Salman by phone, Washington’s partner in high crimes regionally, especially in Syria and Yemen. Saudi Arabia supports ISIS, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Its regime wants Assad ousted, replaced by an extremist Wahhabi caliphate like the scourge ...
Sergey Lavrov Blasts America's Imperial Agenda
Post Date: 2017-01-31 07:06:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Sergey Lavrov Blasts America’s Imperial Agenda by Stephen Lendman He’s a world-class diplomat, a model foreign minister, working tirelessly for world peace and stability - shaming his US counterparts, supporting endless wars on humanity. Last week, he repeated what he said many times before. Sovereign independence is inviolable. No nation has the right to interfere in the affairs of others. “(I)nternal reforms should be carried out in a peaceful, evolutionary way…(P)eople should determine their destiny on their own.” Supporters of “messianically imposing their own ultra-liberal values, changing sovereign countries’ political systems, among them ...
Neocon Infested Congress Proposes Preemptive War on Iran
Post Date: 2017-01-30 13:14:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Neocon Infested Congress Proposes Preemptive War on Iran by Stephen Lendman Trump’s geopolitical agenda is largely unknown. His foreign policy point man, secretary of state designee Rex Tillerson, has yet to be confirmed. Neocons infesting Congress are well known. HJ Resolution 10, introduced in early January, is titled “Authorization of Use of Force Against Iran Resolution” on the phony pretext of preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons it doesn’t want, urging abolition of these weapons altogether. Their existence risks eventually using them, by design or accidentally, threatening humanity’s survival. War plans on Iran were prepared years ago, updated ...
Russia Willing to Negotiate with US on Safe Zones in Syria
Post Date: 2017-01-30 13:04:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Willing to Negotiate with US on Safe Zones in Syria by Stephen Lendman Earlier safe zone proponents, notably Hillary Clinton and other neocons infesting Washington, wanted regime change, Syria balkanized, its sovereign republic destroyed. Trump’s idea needs clarification. If intended to keep displaced Syrians safe in their own country, perhaps under UN auspices, stemming their flow abroad, Russia is amenable to considering it - provided Damascus agrees. A government statement said any attempt to establish safe zones on its territory without its permission, including how and by whom they’d be administered, would constitute a “violation of (its) sovereignty.” ...
One Yemeni Child Dies Every 10 Minutes From Starvation
Post Date: 2017-01-30 07:19:53 by Stephen Lendman
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One Yemeni Child Dies Every 10 Minutes From Starvation by Stephen Lendman Yemen is Obama’s war, Saudis doing his dirty work, continuing it even though he’s gone. Now it’s Trump’s aggression unless he acts responsibly to stop it. Genocide haunts the country, the region’s poorest, the suffering of its people largely ignored. Deaths by war, related violence, preventable diseases and starvation are multiples higher than UN reported numbers - deliberately undercounted to downplay the horrors of what’s ongoing. US imperialism is raping and destroying the country, millions of Yemenis at risk. Instead of demanding Saudis stop terror-bombing, massacring civilians, ...
Trump Lets Saudis Off His ‘Muslim Ban’
Post Date: 2017-01-30 07:09:38 by Ada
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Exclusive: By leaving Saudi Arabia and other key terrorism sponsors off his “Muslim ban,” President Trump shows the same cowardice and dishonesty that infected the Bush and Obama administrations, writes Robert Parry. President Trump’s ban against letting people from seven mostly Muslim countries enter the United States looks to many like a thinly concealed bias against a religion, but it also is a troubling sign that Trump doesn’t have the nerve to challenge the false terrorism narrative demanded by Israel and Saudi Arabia. King Salman of Saudi Arabia and his entourage arrive to greet President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at King Khalid ...
Ukrainian Nazis Attack Donbass Overnight
Post Date: 2017-01-30 07:08:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Ukrainian Nazis Attack Donbass Overnight by Stephen Lendman Obama-installed Kiev putschists continue intermittent attacks on Donbass freedom fighters and residents - aggression begun after the US-sponsored February 2014 coup. A Sunday Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attack was launched in areas near the Donetsk airport, Yasinovataya and Avdeevka, according to Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Deputy Defense Minister/spokesman Eduard Basurin, saying: “This morning, the Ukrainian criminal command launched another provocation…The enemy attacked our positions with up to a platoon, which resulted in the DPR People’s Army units being forced to open respond fire.” Nine ...
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
Post Date: 2017-01-29 17:46:55 by Ada
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A recent al-Qaeda video shows a militant training to carry out his mission of lying back and watching America’s status as a superpower erode WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back and enjoy themselves while the United States collapses of its own accord. Multiple intelligence agencies confirmed that the militant Islamist organization and its numerous affiliates intend to carry out a massive, coordinated plan to stand aside and watch America’s increasingly rapid decline, with terrorist operatives across the ...
Trump Orders Plan to Defeat ISIS
Post Date: 2017-01-29 08:03:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Orders Plan to Defeat ISIS by Stephen Lendman America created ISIS and virtually all other terrorist groups. They operate because of foreign support, used as imperial foot soldiers in the Middle East and elsewhere. Defeating them requires ending support - no longer recruiting their fighters, supplying them with weapons, munitions, funding, training and direction. On January 28, Trump’s memorandum to defeat ISIS mentioned no other terrorist groups or what’s explained above - just saying it’s “not the only threat from radical Islamic terrorism…” They don’t threaten America as stated, just nations and populations where they’re deployed. ...
Russia Redeploying Withdrawn Combat Aircraft to Syria
Post Date: 2017-01-28 12:22:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Redeploying Withdrawn Combat Aircraft to Syria by Stephen Lendman According to Russian language Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily, Russia intends redeploying Ka-52 advanced combat helicopters and Su-25 warplanes to be part of current operations to liberate Palmyra for a second time from ISIS. Izvestia said redeployment aims “to compensate for the lack of Syrian artillery strike capabilities (in the area), as well as to provide support to government forces advancing on Palmyra.” Aviapanorama magazine’s Vladimir Popov said “(u)sing its state-of-the-art sighting and navigation equipment, the Ka-52s will transmit more accurate information about the (enemy) targets due to ...
Trump's Proposed Safe Zones in Syria Risk Escalated War
Post Date: 2017-01-28 07:50:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Proposed Safe Zones in Syria Risk Escalated War by Stephen Lendman Trump saying he’ll “absolutely do safe zones in Syria for the people” has nothing to do with protecting them, if implemented. It’s about keeping refugees out of Europe and America. It’s continued US interventionism abroad, what he rhetorically opposed. The best way to protect Syrians is by stopping support for ISIS and other terrorist groups attacking them. If good faith US efforts are made to restore peace, including heavy pressure on Gulf states and Israel to support conflict resolution, they’ll all be safe. His executive order titled “Protecting the Nation From ...
Trump's New Stance on NATO?
Post Date: 2017-01-28 07:25:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s New Stance on NATO? by Stephen Lendman Candidate Trump called it “obsolete,” saying the alliance needs reframing, focusing on combating ISIS and other terrorist threats, not targeting countries for regime change. He suggested America might not defend certain NATO states if attacked, complained about America carrying too great a financial burden, many other members not paying their fair share. Candidate Trump said one thing, as president apparently another, articulated Friday at a joint White House press conference by UK Prime Minister Theresa May, saying: “On defense and security cooperation, we’re united in our recognition of NATO as the bulwark of our ...
Former Soviet Leader Says World Preparing for War
Post Date: 2017-01-28 07:10:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Former Soviet Leader Says World Preparing for War by Stephen Lendman Elder statesman, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev will be age 86 in March. In 2014, he overcame serious health issues, weeks earlier spoke publicly in Moscow, and continues expressing views on major world issues. On January 26, Time magazine published his op-ed, expressing concern about world preparations for war, saying “no problem is more urgent today than the militarization of politics and the new arms race.” “Stopping and reversing this ruinous race must be our top priority.The current situation is too dangerous.” He cited US-led NATO’s provocative buildup along ...
Putin/Trump Deal to Carve Up Syria? Not Likely!
Post Date: 2017-01-27 12:06:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Putin/Trump Deal to Carve Up Syria? Not Likely! by Stephen Lendman Israeli military intelligence-connected DEBKAfile (DF) suggested Putin and Trump struck a deal “to establish US, Russian and Turkish security zones in Syria…transfer(ing) military control of the country to those three powers.” DF’s credibility blows hot and cold, at times best to take it with a grain of salt, suspect on this issue. It added Iran and Hezbollah would be required to leave Syria under the above scenario. It makes no sense, Damascus, Tehran and Hezbollah certain to oppose it. It’s hard imagining Russia agreeing. Throughout years of Obama’s war, Putin and Sergey Lavrov ...
The Best Way to "Knock Hell Out of ISIS"
Post Date: 2017-01-27 11:53:23 by Stephen Lendman
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The Best Way to “Knock Hell Out of ISIS” by Stephen Lendman On Thursday, Trump told Fox News “if we can get along with Russia that’s a great thing.” “It’s good for Russia. It’s good for us. We go out together and knock the hell out of ISIS, because that’s a real sickness.” Defeating ISIS and other terrorist groups begins by ending all support. Stop recruiting, arming, funding, training and directing their fighters. They can’t exist without foreign support except in very weak form easy to roll over and eliminate. As long as America uses these groups as imperial foot soldiers, Trump’s talk is demagogic bluster. Reportedly ...
Tulsi Gabbard Truth-Telling v. CNN Big Lies on Syria
Post Date: 2017-01-27 07:17:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Tulsi Gabbard Truth-Telling v. CNN Big Lies on Syria by Stephen Lendman CNN is a longstanding cesspool of managed news misinformation and Big Lies on all issues mattering most. Interviewed by Jake Tapper on January 25, her straight talk truth-telling exposed his Big Lies. She explained her “commitment is on ending this war that has caused so much suffering to these Syrian people, to these children, these families, many of whom” she met on a week-long visit. Tapper lied claiming “Assad used chemical weapons on his own people” - a long ago discredited canard. US-backed terrorists alone used them. CNN and other media scoundrels disgracefully blame Assad for their high ...
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Against Imperial War on Syria
Post Date: 2017-01-26 07:28:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Against Imperial War on Syria by Stephen Lendman If Washington had more Gabbards and less neocons, world peace might break out all over - polar opposite America’s longstanding permanent war agenda, humanity’s scourge. On Wednesday, she issued a press release, calling for ending Washington’s “regime change war in Syria now.” She spent a week-long fact-finding visit to Damascus, Aleppo and Beirut, learning firsthand what’s been going on, so adversely affecting the lives and welfare of millions of devastated Syrians - victims of US imperial viciousness. She met with refugees, opposition leaders, Lebanon’s president and prime minister, ...
Syrian Opposition Groups Invited to Moscow
Post Date: 2017-01-25 10:14:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Opposition Groups Invited to Moscow by Stephen Lendman Ahead of next month’s continued peace talks in Geneva next, Sergey Lavrov invited representatives from Syrian opposition groups to meet with him in Moscow on January 27. Earlier in Astana, Kazakhstan, head of Russia’s delegation to peace talks, Alexander Lavrentyev, indicated they’d be coming. The Astana meeting established a mechanism to monitor ceasefire, prelude to more substantive talks in Geneva, possibly as early as February 8. Some reports indicated later in the month. It’s unknown if groups not in Astana will be attending. ISIS and al-Nusra are excluded. Combating them continues. On Wednesday, ...
Color Revolutions
Post Date: 2017-01-24 15:55:02 by GreyLmist
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From the Description section: The aim is regime change through non-violent strikes, mass street protests, and media agitation-propaganda. [Some] Key NGOs active in regime change: [Refs. at 0:53 of the 4.5 min. video: The "Non-Governmental" Organizations (NGOs)] http://www.ned.org/publications/05annual/toc.html [National Endowment for Democracy] http://www.iri.org [International Republican Institute - AZ Sen. John McCain, Chairman] http://www.freedomhouse.org http://www.ndi.org/ [National Democratic Institute for International Affairs - Madeline Albright, Chairman and Fmr. Sec. of State (Clinton admin.)] http://www.soros.org/about/foundations Poster Comment:Additional ...
Astana Syria Peace Talks Conclude
Post Date: 2017-01-24 07:52:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Astana Syria Peace Talks Conclude by Stephen Lendman Negotiating with terrorists is risky under any circumstances, especially with Turkey one of the key players involved. Throughout six years of conflict, it supported ISIS, al-Nusra and likeminded groups it now says it opposes. Has Erdogan turned a page or is he engaged in a grand deception for his own self- interest? He’s long sought annexation of northern Syrian territory. He profited hugely from sale of stolen Syrian oil. He proved many times he can’t be trusted. Saying he now seeks peaceful conflict resolution can’t be accepted at face value without lots of proving on his part - much more needed than agreements ...
The Battle for Deir Ezzor
Post Date: 2017-01-23 12:32:42 by Stephen Lendman
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The Battle for Deir Ezzor, Syria by Stephen Lendman With peace talks underway in Astana, Kazakhstan, excluding UN-designated terrorists groups, the battle for Deir Ezzor rages. Government and allied ground forces, greatly aided by Russian air power, are battling to defeat thousands of heavily foreign-armed ISIS terrorists - mostly fighters the Obama administration helped relocate from Mosul, Iraq to Syria. The province in eastern Syria, Deir Ezzor city centrally located, borders Iraq, movement back and forth relatively unimpeded. Two days after an earlier strike, Tass reported Russian long-range strategic bombers “delivered a massive strike against control posts, ammunition and ...
Honest, Courageous, and Devastating
Post Date: 2017-01-23 08:11:48 by Ada
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General Smedley Butler was a decorated veteran. He understood the concept of war and did a remarkable job capturing it’s horrors and atrocities. This is a very short and concise book about how horrible war is, who profits and gains from it, and what should be done to prevent unnecessary wars in the future. I realIy appreciate how honest and genuine General Butler is in explaining how much suffering war causes not just to the soldiers who have to do the bidding of the war profiteers, but also how it impacts the nation as a whole. War is a Racket: The A... Smedley Darlington Butler Best Price: $3.74 Buy New $3.68 He also offers three unique solutions: 1) We must take the profit out ...
Assad on Astana Peace Talks
Post Date: 2017-01-22 13:05:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Assad on Astana Peace Talks by Stephen Lendman Discussed in a same day article, talks are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, longer if necessary. Because of US obstructionism under Obama, multiple rounds of earlier talks failed, despite Russia’s good faith efforts for cessation of hostilities and conflict resolution. Will this time be different? It’s hard being optimistic after years of failure. Maybe Trump succeeding Obama will bring positive change for Syria. Millions of its people and anti-war activists worldwide hope so. Interviewed on Japan’s TBS TV channel, Assad said “(w)e don’t have expectations. Let’s say we have hopes from Astana…” ...
Syria Peace Talks to Begin Monday
Post Date: 2017-01-22 07:19:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Peace Talks to Begin Monday by Stephen Lendman During six years of Obama’s war, three rounds of Geneva talks failed - because of US obstructionism. Neocons infesting Obama’s administration wanted endless war for regime change, not peace; mass slaughter and destruction, not conflict resolution; chaos, not calm. Will Trump go a different way? It’ll take a while to find out. Much depends on what he decides. Sunday is his third day in office. Though active pre-inauguration, Friday and Saturday, he won’t hit the ground running until Monday - even though working days are every day for presidents. Russia extended an invitation to his administration to participate in ...
Will Trump Stop Aiding ISIS and Other Terrorist Groups?
Post Date: 2017-01-19 13:12:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Will Trump Stop Aiding ISIS and Other Terrorist Groups? by Stephen Lendman US forces in Iraq facilitated the transfer of thousands of ISIS fighters from Mosul to Syria, mostly to Deir Ezzor - a major battle ongoing in the area with government troops. According to the Jordanian Al-Hadath web site, US forces in Syria are directly helping ISIS terrorists battle for Deir Ezzor control. Russia and Damascus are well aware of what’s going on, aiming to foil the Obama administration’s aim. US warplanes attacked Syrian army positions last year, paving the way for what’s now happening. Lebanon’s al-Akhbar said recent ISIS assaults on government positions followed last ...
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