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War? Syrian Air Force Pounds Turkish Positions
Post Date: 2016-11-24 21:20:41 by Ada
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Why is Russia Silent? Last night, the Syrian Air Force delivered air strikes on the Turkish Armed Forces near the ISIS controlled town of al-Bab in northern Syria, according to local sources in the Aleppo province. The Turkish military confirmed that three Turkish soldiers and 10 others wounded (one of them seriously)were as result of an air strikes thought to be carried by the Syrian military. The wounded soldiers were taken to the hospital in the Turkish province of Gaziantep, bordering Syria. Ankara added that the attack occurred at around 3:30 am (0030 GMT) in the course of the Turkish-led military operation (code-named Operation Euphrates Shield) in the area of al-Bab. At the ...
Russia Blasts US Failure to Combat Terrorism in Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-24 13:18:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Blasts US Failure to Combat Terrorism in Syria by Stephen Lendman Washington created and actively supports virtually all Middle East terrorists groups, others elsewhere - its so-called global war on terrorism perhaps the greatest hoax in modern times. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov responded sharply to deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner’s call for tankers to halt fuel shipments to Russia for aerial operations in Syria combating terrorism - in contrast to America supporting the scourge it claims to oppose. Toner’s call “confirm(s) our earlier estimates that fighting terrorism in Syria has never been on the outgoing ...
Trump's Son Held Talks on Resolving Conflict in Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-24 08:17:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Son Held Talks on Resolving Conflict in Syria by Stephen Lendman Call it a hopeful sign. The Wall Street Journal and other media reports indicated Donald Trump Jr., the president-elect’s eldest son, held talks last month in Paris with diplomats, politicians and businessmen - focused on cooperating with Russia and Assad to end years of war in Syria. French think tank Center of Political and Foreign Affairs founder Fabien Baussart and his wife Randa Kassis, a Syrian national, hosted the meeting - Kassis saying “(w)e have to be realistic… Without Russia, we can’t have any solution in Syria.” She praised Trump Jr., calling him “very pragmatic (and) ...
US House Members Up the Stakes in Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-23 14:39:39 by Stephen Lendman
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US House Members Up the Stakes in Syria by Stephen Lendman On November 15, House members unanimously approved legislation for new sanctions on Syria and its supporters, pointing fingers at Russia, Iran and Hezbollah - illegal if imposed without Security Council authorization. HR 5732, The Ceasar Syria Civilian Protection Act, requires reports on human rights violators (excluding war crimes by America, its rogue allies and terrorist foot soldiers called moderates), “abuse of cross-border assistance, and the feasibility of (establishing) a no-fly zone or safe zone over” the country - a declaration of war on Syria and Russia if imposed. Photographer Ceasar produced thousands of ...
Chemical Weapons Use in Syria: By US-Supported Terrorists, Not Assad
Post Date: 2016-11-22 13:28:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Chemical Weapons Use in Syria: By US-Supported Terrorists, Not Assad by Stephen Lendman US-supported terrorists used toxic agents on Syrian forces and civilians numerous times since Obama launched naked aggression in March 2011. Nearly always, Assad is wrongfully blamed, despite Syria’s entire CW arsenal destroyed under Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) supervision. On Monday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov issued a statement, saying: “In Area ‘1070’ in the southwestern suburbs of Aleppo, experts from the Russian Defense Ministry conducted rapid identification of nine selected samples (fragments of mines, the ...
Building a Non-Intervention Coalition?
Post Date: 2016-11-21 19:57:21 by Ada
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Here’s a hopeful sign for the non-intervention position. Trump met with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii). Gabbard explicitly rejected neocon-inspired escalation in Syria: “I felt it important to take the opportunity to meet with the President-elect now before the drumbeats of war that neocons have been beating drag us into an escalation of the war to overthrow the Syrian government—a war which has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives and forced millions of refugees to flee their homes in search of safety for themselves and their families.” Equally telling, she rejected a no-fly scheme, Hillary Clinton’s brainchild: “Gabbard told Trump she opposes a ...
US-Supported Terrorists Deny Medical Care to Eastern Aleppo Residents
Post Date: 2016-11-21 08:37:18 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Supported Terrorists Deny Medical Care to Eastern Aleppo Residents by Stephen Lendman US-supported terrorists control eastern Aleppo public and private hospitals still functioning - using them for military purposes, denying vital treatment for residents in need. Syrian and Hezbollah forces began a large-scale offensive to liberate Aleppo entirely from the scourge of US-backed terrorism. On October 18, Russian and Syrian aerial operations were halted within a 10 km area in terrorist- controlled eastern parts of the city - conducting them in surrounding areas alone so far, aimed at cutting supply lines and aiding the advance of government-led forces. At the same time, Russian and ...
Syria Rejects Eastern Aleppo Autonomy Run by US-Supported Terrorists
Post Date: 2016-11-20 12:32:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Rejects Eastern Aleppo Autonomy Run by US-Supported Terrorists by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, pro-Western UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura made Damascus an offer it refused - dividing Aleppo, letting US-supported terrorists called “moderates” control eastern areas. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem slapped him down diplomatically, rejecting his outrageous proposal, saying: “We held talks Sunday morning with UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura and his delegation, and we expected a date for resuming the intra-Syrian dialogue, but we did not heard about that from him.” “We gave three truce opportunities respectively for evacuating the ...
US-Supported Eastern Aleppo Terrorists Massacre Residents Protesting for Freedom
Post Date: 2016-11-19 07:57:24 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Supported Eastern Aleppo Terrorists Massacre Residents Protesting for Freedom by Stephen Lendman So-called “moderate rebels” at war with sovereign Syria and its people are US-supported cutthroat killers. On Friday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov issued a statement, saying “(r)adicals fired assault rifles at a rally in (eastern Aleppo’s) Haidariya district.” “A total of 17 people died on the site, including two teenagers aged 13 and 15. More than 40 people were injured. The terrorists caught a dozen men who they thought were ‘organizers’ of the unrest and took them away. They were all executed on the same day.” ...
GREEN BERETS MURDERED FOR THWARTING CIA LED ISIS TRAINING PROGRAM
Post Date: 2016-11-18 20:52:15 by Ada
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Special Forces for years have accused "moderate rebels" of being ISIS and al-Nusra infiltrators The truth about the 3 murdered CIA Green Berets has finally come out. This was no accidental discharge or mistake. This was a hit by ISIS to keep the CIA’s secret ISIS training program from going public. SOFREP News, a site with analysis from Spec Ops veterans, reports as follows: The slaying of three Green Berets comes after years of the Special Forces soldiers assigned to the CIA’s Timber Sycamore program complaining that the moderate rebels they had been sent to train were actually ISIS and al-Nusra infiltrators. The vetting that the CIA does of the rebels is dubious at ...
Will Trump End Obama's War on Syria?
Post Date: 2016-11-18 12:33:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Will Trump End Obama’s War on Syria? by Stephen Lendman Following months of planning, Obama waged war on Syria. It’s no civil conflict as falsely reported - one of many Big Lies about what’s ongoing. US-supported jihadist death squads are used as imperial foot soldiers - supplemented by Pentagon-led “coalition” terror-bombing of government sites, vital infrastructure, civilian targets, and at least one willful attack on Syrian forces. Trump earlier said “we’ve destabilized the Middle East and it’s a mess.” Will he end US aggression, partnering with Russian and Syrian forces to combat ISIS and other terrorist groups? Assad called him a ...
Will Trump Withdraw from NATO?
Post Date: 2016-11-18 08:31:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Will Trump Withdraw from NATO? by Stephen Lendman It’s no more likely than the sun henceforth rising in the west once he’s inaugurated. Though calling NATO “obsolete” and “costing us a fortune,” he said “I don’t want to pull (America) out,” adding “I think the distribution of costs has to be changed.” “We’re paying disproportionately. It’s too much…(I)t’s a different world than it was when we originally conceived of the idea…(M)aybe we have to pay a lot less,” other countries more. “(I)t doesn’t really help us. It’s helping other countries.” The media are “so totally ...
Trump Picks General Michael Flynn As National Security Advisor
Post Date: 2016-11-18 08:14:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Picks General Michael Flynn As National Security Advisor by Stephen Lendman Media reports indicated Trump chose him. It’s unclear if he accepted. Likely so as otherwise consideration of him for the position would have been kept under wraps. We’ll know either way soon. The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (NSA) needs no Senate confirmation. Duties involve advising the president on national security issues - specifically domestic, foreign, and military policies, along with assuring cooperation between military branches and civilian intelligence agencies. The 1947 National Security Act established the National Security Council, the NSA its head, the ...
Ban Bolton, Giuliani
Post Date: 2016-11-15 21:57:25 by hondo68
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Interview with Rand Paul: ‘I Can’t Support Anybody to Be Our Secretary of State Who Didn’t Learn the Lesson of Iraq’For the libertarian-leaning senator, just about anybody would be better than John Bolton or Rudy Giuliani. Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press/NewscomSen. Rand Paul implored President-Elect Donald Trump not to pick Rudy Giuliani or John Bolton to run the State Department and suggested he would be inclined to vote against their confirmation. In an interview with Reason, Paul described Bolton and Giuliani as representatives of "the most bellicose interventionist wing of any party" and the antithesis of the restrained foreign policy platform Trump ran on. The ...
Large-Scale Russian Anti-Terrorist Operation Launched in Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-15 14:12:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Large-Scale Russian Anti-Terrorist Operation Launched in Syria by Stephen Lendman According to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, “(t)oday (November 15) at 10:30 and 11:00 we launched a large-scale operation against the positions of Islamic State and Al-Nusra in the provinces of Idlib and Homs.” “The main targets of the strikes are warehouses with ammunition, gatherings and terrorist training centers, as well as plants for the production of various kinds of weapons of mass destruction of the population.” “They are factories, not workshops, more specifically the plants for the production of all sorts of rather serious means of mass destruction. Clearly, this ...
EU Imposing More Illegal Sanctions on Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-15 08:36:43 by Stephen Lendman
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EU Imposing More Illegal Sanctions on Syria by Stephen Lendman Sanctions on Syria since Obama’s naked aggression began hurt ordinary people most. Imposing them without Security Council authorization is illegal. Syria is being raped and destroyed, though contesting valiantly with vital Russia, Iranian and Hezbollah help. President Bashar al-Assad enjoys overwhelming support. Yet US-led Western propaganda viciously misportrays him as a brutal dictator. I support him and his liberating mission - to free his country from the scourge of US imperial lawlessness. On Monday, EU countries imposed sanctions on 17 Syrian ministers and its central bank governor, a meaningless vengeful action, ...
Trump to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terror Org.
Post Date: 2016-11-15 08:13:55 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Clarion Project13 Nov, 2016Donald Trump will work to pass legislation designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, said Walid Phares, a foreign policy advisor for the president-elect.Speaking to the Egyptian news outlet Youm7, Phares said the legislation, which was already approved by the House Judiciary Committee earlier this year and referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was held up due to the Obama administration’s support of the group.The bill included is an unprecedented opportunity to educate members of Congress about the Muslim Brotherhood's involvement in terrorism. It reviews the Brotherhood's terrorist history and how it is banned ...
'War crimes of torture': ICC prosecutor signals charges against US armed forces, CIA
Post Date: 2016-11-14 20:29:00 by Ada
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The US may have committed war crimes of torture, cruel treatment and rape, when it interrogate dozens of people in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2014, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said. © Mohammad Ismail International Criminal Court ‘about to probe US war crimes in Afghanistan’ – report The International Criminal Court's preliminary probe of the US armed forces and CIA activities in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2004 shows there to be a “reasonable basis to believe that, in the course of interrogating these detainees … members of the US armed forces and the US Central Intelligence Agency resorted to techniques amounting to the ...
US Troops Killed at Jordan Checkpoint Were Working for CIA
Post Date: 2016-11-14 08:52:41 by Ada
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US Sees 'Possible Terror' Link to Shootings On November 4, Jordanian troops shot and killed three US special forces soldiers who were described as “military trainers” at the time. The troops were killed at a checkpoint at the al-Jafr Air Base, and Jordanian officials said they didn’t stop like they were supposed to. The situation is looking a lot more complicated now, with officials conceding that the US troops killed in the incident were actually working with the CIA in a program to train “moderate” rebels. Jordan is still insisting it was a simple checkpoint shootout gone wrong, one of those things that just happens at checkpoints. Instead of claiming ...
Will Trump Change US Imperial Policy? Hold the Cheers!
Post Date: 2016-11-13 14:32:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Will Trump Change US Imperial Policy? Hold the Cheers! by Stephen Lendman Trump won’t end US imperial wars. America’s military/industrial complex depends on them. Prioritizing global peace and stability would wreck its bottom line interests. Would he dare defy a far greater power than his own, perhaps assuring his demise if he rejects its demands? Don’t bank on it, but here’s a partial wish list for positive geopolitical change - if achieved would make his tenure historic: • better relations with Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela;
• halt color revolutions and wars for regime change;
• end the threat of Washington declaring war on ...
NYT Editors Promote US/Russia Confrontation
Post Date: 2016-11-13 07:48:19 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Editors Promote US/Russia Confrontation by Stephen Lendman Times editors support US imperial ruthlessness. They oppose normalized relations with Russia. They urge unchanged hardline, militant, confrontational policies instead - wanting Trump to continue what neocons infesting Washington demand, Hillary their choice for president, not him. Times editors: “Among the first world leaders to congratulate President-elect Donald Trump was Vladimir Putin. And why shouldn’t he?” “Just when relations between Russia and the West are at their most precarious point since the Cold War, Mr. Trump has been Russia’s defender and the beneficiary of Moscow’s efforts to ...
Obama Orders Pentagon to Attack Al-Nusra? Hold the Cheers!
Post Date: 2016-11-11 12:44:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Orders Pentagon to Attack Al-Nusra? Hold the Cheers! by Stephen Lendman According to the Washington Post, Obama “ordered the Pentagon to find and kill the leaders of an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria that the administration had largely ignored until now and that has been at the vanguard of the fight against the Syrian government, (unnamed) US officials said. Fact: His war on ISIS is phony. It’s destroying infrastructure and massacring civilians in Syria and Iraq - while pretending to be fighting terrorists, the elements America created and continues supporting in all countries where they’re deployed. WaPo: Obama is “concern(ed) that (al-Nusra) is turning parts ...
Massive Cyberattacks Hit Russian Banks Following An Explosion That Left 300,000 Without Power.
Post Date: 2016-11-11 10:01:05 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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by Pamela Williams Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky said Thursday that massive cyberattacks were hitting five of Russia’s largest banks. Earlier several days ago, an explosion hit Russia’s electrical grid, and 300,000 Russian homes were without power. This is a bad thing to be happening after the US announcing the military had hacked into Russia’s electrical grid. I refuse to think that the US could be so stupid as to do something like this. I know there is another explanation. Also, in addition, a man was found dead at the Russian Consulate in New York several days ago. There are some strange things happening right now with Russia. Police are ...
Russian and Syrian Warplanes Strike US-Supported Terrorists' Aleppo Supply Lines
Post Date: 2016-11-10 13:06:27 by Stephen Lendman
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Russian and Syrian Warplanes Strike US-Supported Terrorists’ Aleppo Supply Lines by Stephen Lendman According to AMN News, Russian warplanes launched airstrikes, targeting supply lines US- supported terrorists use in Aleppo and Idlib provinces - for replenishing their ranks along with providing their fighters with weapons, munitions and other material support. “Several Russian air battalions have been reportedly pounding the main jihadist supply road (M-5 Highway) from Idlib to Aleppo, inflicting heavy damage to a number of armored vehicles and militant bases,” AMN News explained. Weapons and munitions were destroyed. Kurdish-affiliated Hawar News reported terrorists ...
Russian Naval Battle Group Ready to Strike Terrorists in Aleppo Outskirts
Post Date: 2016-11-09 12:41:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Russian Naval Battle Group Ready to Strike Terrorists in Aleppo Outskirts by Stephen Lendman Suspension of Russian and Syrian eastern Aleppo airstrikes on October 18 let US-supported terrorists in and around the city replenish their ranks, regroup, rearm, strengthen their defenses, and mobilize for continuing attacks, attempting to break through government military positions - so far unsuccessfully. According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, its Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier-led battle group arrived off Syria’s coast - intending attacks on terrorists in Aleppo’s outskirts, away from heavily populated civilian areas. Interfax quoted a Defense Ministry spokesman, saying ...
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