|
Latest Articles: War, War, War
Western War on Libya Imminent
Post Date: 2016-01-05 05:35:14 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Western War on Libya Imminent by Stephen Lendman In 2011, US-led NATO ravaged Africa’s most developed country. Libya remains a cauldron of violence and chaos, now threatened by ISIS. Washington helped it establish a foothold in Sirte, a jumping off point to expand to other areas - with designs on Libyan oil, perhaps just a matter of time before it seizes control without efforts to stop their forces. Sirte is a gateway to several major oil fields and refineries further east. ISIS fighters targeted them before, gaining control of some. Its propaganda claims “Sirte will be no less that Raqqa,” its self- declared Syrian capital. In mid-December, rival Tobruk and Tripoli ...
Phony US Neutrality in Saudi/Iranian Rift
Post Date: 2016-01-05 05:24:18 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Phony US Neutrality in Saudi/Iranian Rift by Stephen Lendman Many of the world’s rogue states are close US allies, notably Saudi Arabia, other Gulf States, Egypt, Turkey and Israel. Washington largely ignores their high crimes, their contempt for fundamental human rights and other democratic values, waging war on fundamental freedoms, stoking conflicts and instability. State Department spokesman Admiral John Kirby expressing concern about rising Middle East tensions belies longstanding US initiatives fueling them. Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr’s extrajudicial execution passed with little more than a meaningless pro forma statement, urging Riyadh “to ensure fair and transparent ...
Captured ISIS Terrorist Admits Stolen Oil Arrives in Turkey Daily
Post Date: 2016-01-04 06:25:39 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Captured ISIS Terrorist Admits Stolen Oil Arrives in Turkey Daily by Stephen Lendman Russian surveillance footage, independent investigative journalists and others exposed Erdogan’s oil smuggling racket, complicit with ISIS, refining and selling stolen Syrian and Iraqi oil on the black market - Israel a key beneficiary. Captured ISIS militant Mahmud Ghazi Tatar provided more evidence of illegal Turkish oil operations. His “commander told us that the group sells fuel to Turkey,” he explained. Income funds ISIS terrorist activities. “(O)il trucks crossing into Turkey every day carry crude oil, as well as petrol,” Tatar said. Militants have “enough oil to last ...
West Largely Silent About Erdogan's War on Kurds
Post Date: 2016-01-04 05:17:25 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
West Largely Silent About Erdogan’s War on Kurds by Stephen Lendman They’re ravaged the way America treated is native people for centuries, exterminating the vast majority of Indian tribe members. Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members are marked for elimination. Earlier attempts for peace collapsed in July. Open warfare followed - Ankara using tanks, artillery, warplanes, attack helicopters and thousands of combat troops in heavily populated areas. Civilians suffer most. Devastating war on Kurds shows no signs of abating. Urban areas are bloody battlefields. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were displaced. Combat areas are off-limits to journalists to suppress reports ...
US Evacuated ISIS Fighters from Ramadi
Post Date: 2016-01-03 11:45:47 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
US Evacuated ISIS Fighters from Ramadi by Stephen Lendman Before Iraqi forces retook Ramadi last week, Washington was accused of evacuating around 2,000 ISIS terrorists from the city. Iraqi People’s Mobilization Shiite militia umbrella group commander Hashd al-Shaabi said America delayed the liberation of Ramadi and Fallujah to enable “evacuat(ion) of (ISIS) ringleaders (and fighters) secretly to unknown places” by helicopter. Fort Russ reported an unnamed high-ranking Iraqi official, saying “(o)ur signals and human intelligence informed the Americans…about ISIS movement(s).” “We were not allowed to engage against these, and no one in the government ...
Mass Saudi Execution Reflect Regional Violence an Turmoil
Post Date: 2016-01-03 06:49:50 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Mass Saudi Executions Reflect Regional Violence and Turmoil by Stephen Lendman Most Arab League states are run by pro-Western despotic regimes - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait and Egypt the worst of a bad lot. Palestinians get rhetorical support only, nothing meaningful done on their behalf. In March 2011, League members backed UN Resolution 1973 - prelude to US-led NATO war on Libya, a devastating conflict creating endless violence and chaos continuing unabated. Human rights abuses are commonplace throughout the region, democracy strictly verboten in most states. So are virtually all rights people in free societies take for granted. Most regional regimes harass, attack, ...
Iraq's Longstanding Nightmare
Post Date: 2016-01-02 12:00:54 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Iraq’s Longstanding Nightmare by Stephen Lendman Washington bears full responsibility for the Middle East’s longstanding nightmare, partnered with rogue Israeli, NATO and Arab regimes. Call it the curse of oil - Iraq Exhibit A. From America’s orchestrated Iran/Iraq war to Operation Desert Storm, to years of genocidal sanctions, to Operation Iraqi Freedom, to ongoing out-of-control raging violence and chaos, its imperial madness destroyed the cradle of civilization, replacing it with endless dystopian harshness - one of history’s greatest crimes, accountability nowhere in sight. Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama committed high crimes ...
Delusional US Claimed 2015 Success Stories
Post Date: 2016-01-02 05:52:15 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Delusional US Claimed 2015 Success Stories by Stephen Lendman State Department spokesman Admiral John Kirby’s year in review “Official Blog” comments focus on reinventing history. He turned truth on its head, claiming “the United States helped change the world for the better” in 2015 - “across a range of issues…vital to ensur(e) the safety, security and prosperity of the American people.” It’s hard taking rubbish he wrote seriously, substituting fiction for facts, suppressing most important ones, inventing claims to justify nonexistent US successes, ignoring America’s endless war on humanity at home and abroad - causing more global ...
Marco Rubio Has Gone Full Neocon
Post Date: 2015-12-31 21:09:11 by BTP Holdings
13 Comments
Marco Rubio Has Gone Full Neocon Invade here! Invade there! Invade everywhere! And don't forget the waterboard. Getty Ethan Miller By Charles P. Pierce Dec 30, 2015 Marco Rubio, still waiting out there for the surge in the polls that he and many pundits know is coming, hitched up the big-boy foreign policy pants again in order to accuse the president of being indifferent to America's rightful place atop the imperial food chain. Or something. The subject was Afghanistan, a country that's been in a handbasket halfway to hell since Alexander the Great. Here are the words young Marco said to Fox News coiffure Anna Kooiman. The campaign is so proud of these words that it emailed ...
Grim New Year Tidings
Post Date: 2015-12-31 07:42:30 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Grim New Year Tidings by Stephen Lendman The new year traditionally is a time for hope and change, a new beginning, a shift from policies causing so much harm to many millions worldwide - nameless, faceless victims of imperial ruthlessness. New Year’s day and each successive ones assure more of the same, business as usual - a continued menu of endless imperial wars, neoliberal harshness, government serving elitist interests exclusively, and harsh crackdowns on nonbelievers, America heading toward full-blown tyranny in the name of combating terrorism - the greatest hoax in modern times. The larger issue is whether humanity can survive the ravages of US-led pure evil - the greatest ...
Big Lies About Russia's Anti-Terrorism Campaign
Post Date: 2015-12-31 06:06:44 by Stephen Lendman
1 Comments
Big Lies About Russia’s Anti-Terrorism Campaign by Stephen Lendman It’s been devastatingly effective in Syria, conducted with powerful weapons and precision accuracy, exclusively targeting ISIS and other terrorist groups. Big Lies persist otherwise. Media scoundrels willfully proliferate misinformation. Russia bashing continues without letup - because Putin respects sovereign independent rights and inviolable international laws, polar opposite US-led Western policy, waging endless wars of aggression, serving elitist interests exclusively. The London-based Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) fronts for Western interests - funded to proliferate daily streams of misinformation, ...
Russia and America: Competing Strategies on Terrorism
Post Date: 2015-12-30 12:56:45 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Russia and America: Competing Strategies on Terrorism by Stephen Lendman Each nation has polar opposite objectives. Russia is committed to combating the scourge of ISIS and other takfiri terrorist groups - its Syrian campaign remarkably successful in a few short months, intending continued operations until its objectives are accomplished. Washington supports the scourge it claims to oppose, failing to strike terrorist targets in well over a year of Iraqi and Syrian bombing, supplemented by covert ground operations, infrastructure and government positions alone hit. Media scoundrels perpetuate the myth of America’s war on terror, repeating official Big Lies and misinformation, ...
Russia's Awesome Military Power
Post Date: 2015-12-30 11:25:37 by Stephen Lendman
1 Comments
Russia’s Awesome Military Power by Stephen Lendman Russia’s military is a formidable force to be reckoned with, matching America’s best at a small fraction of the cost, using its resources judiciously, prompting US Air Forces in Europe commander General Frank Forenc to call its qualitative and quantitative capability “alarming.” Its competency is exceptional, using powerful state-of-the-art weapons with precision accuracy, including from hundreds of miles away. They’re able to launch them from aerial, ground, sea and subsurface locations, maybe space, with ability to destroy what’s aimed at. Pentagon commanders are forced to admit respect, perhaps ...
Russi: America's Main Geopolitical Adversary
Post Date: 2015-12-30 06:19:26 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Russia: America’s Main Geopolitical Adversary by Stephen Lendman At least from when the Soviet Union replaced Tsarist Russia, Washington and Britain wanted regime change, officials installed they controlled. Three months before WW I ended, Britain led a multi-nation force. At the time, Lloyd George was Prime Minister. Churchill was UK Minister of War and Air. Woodrow Wilson was US president. Thousands of US marines were involved. They invaded Russia, intervening against Bolshevik forces, remaining until April 1920, an early example of imperial American lawlessness. On the one hand, Soviet Russia and today’s Russian Federation land mass represents a huge prize, rich in ...
Turkey Backs Anti-Russian Tatar Sabotage and Subversion
Post Date: 2015-12-29 08:07:53 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Turkey Backs Anti-Russian Tatar Sabotage and Subversion by Stephen Lendman Turkish President Erdogan is up to his ears in high crimes, internally and abroad, his rap sheet matching some of the world’s worst. Self-determination is a universal right. Crimea is legally part of Russia, its population overwhelmingly voting by national referendum in March 2014 (by a 96.77% majority with an 83.1% turnout) to correct a historic mistake. There’s no going back or legitimate reason for any nation to reject reality. Washington and likeminded regimes remain hardline, including Turkey - Erdogan directly aiding the formation of a Crimean Tatar battalion, tasked with committing sabotage and ...
Russia Accuses America of Waging Phony War on ISIS
Post Date: 2015-12-29 06:32:37 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Russia Accuses America of Waging Phony War on ISIS by Stephen Lendman A separate article discussed America’s phony war, supporting the terrorist enemy it claims to oppose, systematically lying to the public, media scoundrels regurgitating its grand deception. Russian officials at all levels are usually circumspect in their comments, rarely criticizing US policies, favoring mutual cooperation on all major issues despite consistent hostility against them, wholly unwarranted actions. Despite Moscow urging joint efforts against the scourge of ISIS and other terrorists, US officials categorically refuse, including withholding vital intelligence information, a clear indication of which ...
US Phony War on ISIS
Post Date: 2015-12-29 05:52:34 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
US Phony War on ISIS By Stephen Lendman Obama’s so-called war to degrade and destroy ISIS is a complete fabrication. Just the opposite is true. The public is willfully deceived every time on major issues mattering most. Major media scoundrels repeat official Big Lies ad nauseam. Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is a part of US support for ISIS and other terrorist groups, not “part of a comprehensive strategy to degrade and defeat” their scourge. Their fighters are valued US imperial foot soldiers, heavily supported by Washington, key NATO partners and regional rogue states, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel among others. Their only way to get training, funding, ...
Love Thy Enemy? US Plot to Evacuate Top Jihadis From Ramadi Uncovered
Post Date: 2015-12-29 04:53:26 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Sputnik... A US plot to evacuate Daesh leaders from the strategic city of Ramadi in central Iraq has reportedly been disclosed by a volunteer forces commander. Iraqi security forces cross a bridge built by corps of Engineers over the Euphrates River as Islamic State destroyed all the bridges leading to central Ramadi to block Iraqi security forces from moving forward in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 © AP Photo Iraqi Government Forces Advance on Daesh in Center of Ramadi City An Iraqi volunteer forces commander has revealed US plans to evacuate Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) leaders from the central Iraqi city of Ramadi, according to the Iranian news ...
It's not January 1, 2016 yet. Are there Russian troops on the ground in Syra?
Post Date: 2015-12-28 05:52:58 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
4 Comments
Much has transpired. The scenario has changed, as I said it would. Russian troops are on the ground now in Syria, and Turkey is trembling.
Turkey: Safe Haven for Terrorists
Post Date: 2015-12-28 05:11:44 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Turkey: Safe Haven for Terrorists by Stephen Lendman Turkey is a key US imperial partner, allied with Obama’s war on Syria - ongoing for nearly five years, another regional country transformed into a cauldron of endless violence and chaos, one of many testimonies to America’s barbarity. Assad proved far more resilient than US policymakers imagined. His popularity remains overwhelming. He’s going nowhere as long as Syrians want him, committed to serve his people, not easy in confrontation with imperial forces. Syrians want no one else leading them. Russia forthrightly supports their sovereign right, free from outside interference. Preserving it will strike a ...
Iraqi Forces Take Ramadi
Post Date: 2015-12-28 05:02:32 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Iraqi Forces Take Ramadi by Stephen Lendman The battle to retake Ramadi (about 63 miles west of Baghdad) from ISIS raged for over a year, including after it seized the city last May, part of an Iraqi army offensive to recapture all Anbar Province areas. Its forces finally seized the government complex in the city’s center, ISIS’ last stronghold in the area. According to Iraqi counterterrorism spokesman Sabah al- Numani, “(b)y controlling the complex, this means that (ISIS) has been defeated in Ramadi.” Iraqi forces have full control. “(N)o presence whatsoever of (ISIS) fighters” remains - though undetected pockets could be hiding in the city. The area was ...
Foiled US Coup Attempts to Oust Assad
Post Date: 2015-12-27 11:52:37 by Stephen Lendman
1 Comments
Foiled US Coup Attempts to Oust Assad by Stephen Lendman The Wall Street Journal reported years of failed US attempts at instigating a military coup to oust Assad. Secret communications were maintained with Syrian officials. Washington looked for “cracks” it could exploit with little success. The Journal’s report is “based on interviews with more than two dozen people, including current and former US officials, Arab officials and diplomats,” it said. Senior officials from both countries spoke directly or through intermediaries - notably “Assad’s main allies Russia and Iran.” Several times he tried unsuccessfully to get Washington to cooperate ...
Geneva III on Syria: Dead on Arrival
Post Date: 2015-12-27 06:20:27 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Geneva III on Syria: Dead on Arrival by Stephen Lendman Earlier Geneva I and II peace talks accomplished nothing. Washington and its rogue allies blocked Russia’s best efforts for resolving things diplomatically. Last January, Sergey Lavrov said “Russia's position on the Syrian crisis has always been consistent.” "We have always advocated for a settlement by Syrians themselves based on the principles of the Geneva communique of June 30, 2012, the basic principle of which is about achieving mutual consent of the Syrian sides through an inclusive national dialogue without any preconditions.” “This is exactly what we strive to promote” when engaging ...
NYT Urges Full-Scale War on Syria and Iraq
Post Date: 2015-12-27 05:58:47 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
NYT Urges Full-Scale War on Syria and Iraq by Stephen Lendman Peace is a dirty word for Times editors - even during the holiday period, promoting greater war than already, urging a new authorization for unlimited military force - instead of accurately telling readers what’s going on and the urgency for change. Times editors exclusively serve powerful US-led Western monied and political interests. They’re on the wrong side of virtually all geopolitical issues mattering most - none more important than war and peace. On the one hand, they accused Congress of “sit(ting) out the war against ISIS.” On the other, they highlighted nearly $60 billion appropriated for war on ...
ISIS Organ Harvesting
Post Date: 2015-12-26 11:38:42 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
ISIS Organ Harvesting by Stephen Lendman Add another high crime to ISIS’ odious rap sheet - maybe taught them by their CIA handlers, operating from covert Turkish, Saudi, Qatari and Jordanian training bases, perhaps others in Israel, where they learn beheadings, human trafficking, chemical weapons use, sex slavery, and other atrocities. A January 31, 2015 ISIL (ISIS, IS) Committee of Research and Fatwas document asks: “Is it permissible to take the captured apostate’s body organs and give them to Muslims who are in need of them?” It claims “Islamic principles and laws” permit transplanting apostate (sic) organs to save Muslim lives even if ...
Latest [Newer] 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 [Older]
|