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Bizarre Kerry Comment About Not Seeking Regime Change in Syria
Post Date: 2015-12-18 11:28:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Bizarre Kerry Claim About US Not Seeking Regime Change in Syria by Stephen Lendman Kerry made the comment during his Tuesday Moscow visit - at Washington’s request. Both countries are unable to square the circle on their differing views on Syria, despite their diplomatic rhetoric suggesting otherwise. Two major issues separate both sides. Washington won’t agree to recognize certain indisputable terrorist groups, including Jabhat al-Nusra, an Al Qaeda affiliate, responsible for gruesome atrocities against civilians. Russia justifiably maintains they all must be called what they are, nations worldwide united against them. The second sticking point is over who should lead ...
Turkey Dumping Refugees It Was Bribed to Accept
Post Date: 2015-12-18 06:42:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Turkey Dumping Refugees It Was Bribed to Accept by Stephen Lendman Turkey is a valued NATO member, a close US ally - a fascist police led by the Erdogan crime family, directly involved in Obama’s regional wars of aggression. It was caught red-handed smuggling heavy and other weapons to ISIS and other terrorists in Syria along with supplying them with deadly sarin and other toxic agents to kill civilians, then wrongfully blame incidents on Assad. Last month, the EU bribed Turkey with 3 billion euros and promised help to join the bloc in return for accepting refugees from Syria and other war-torn countries its member states don’t want. EU leaders called the deal a key way to ...
Obama's Demagogic Double Talk on Countering Terrorism
Post Date: 2015-12-18 05:59:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama’s Demagogic Double Talk on Countering Terrorism by Stephen Lendman On Thursday, Putin and Obama spoke on major world issues. What a difference between them! Russia’s leader held his highly anticipated annual Moscow marathon Q & A with reporters - an exercise in candor and straightforwardness like all his remarks. It’s why a record number of Russian and foreign journalists came to hear him. His preeminence on the world stage is indisputable - making Obama look buffoon-like in comparison. The US president disgraces the office he holds. He’s a war criminal multiple times over, a serial liar, a moral coward, his policies polar opposite his duplicitous ...
By Funding Foreign Militaries, the US Is Spreading Terrorism
Post Date: 2015-12-17 08:45:16 by Ada
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Nothing recruits terrorists like corrupt security forces committing human rights abuses with impunity The War on Terror is at a stalemate. Recent, disparate terrorist attacks have shown that far from being “degraded and destroyed,” the Islamic State’s reach is growing. Unwilling to commit large numbers of U.S. boots on the ground, policymakers have instead doubled down on a “small footprint” approach of military aid to foreign governments. But this strategy is failing. Contrary to what one might expect, US military aid doesn’t produce willing, cooperative, or effective security partners. Instead, it incentivizes bad behavior and drives the sources of ...
Iraq Rejects US Proposal to Send Attack Helicopters to Ramadi
Post Date: 2015-12-17 08:39:13 by Ada
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Iraqi PM Resists US Efforts to Escalate Involvement in War Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told reporters today that his most recent meeting with Iraqi PM Hayder Abadi failed to convince him to authorize the deployment of US Apache attack helicopters into the city of Ramadi, along with potential US “advisers.” Iraq attacked Ramadi earlier this month, and Carter made the offer publicly for helicopters last week, saying he believed Iraq needed US troops and helicopters to “finish the job” in the Anbar capital. Subsequent reports from US officials suggested they believed Iraq would accept the offer. Abadi, however, is struggling with the political fallout of recent US ...
US Phony War on ISIS Continues
Post Date: 2015-12-17 08:38:28 by Stephen Lendman
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US Phony War on ISIS Continues by Stephen Lendman US policy continues supporting the scourge it claims to oppose - directly aiding ISIS and other takfiri terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq, now getting a foothold in Libya and Central Asia. Obama’s claims otherwise are a Big Lie. Since America supported Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan (today’s Taliban) against Soviet Russia, it spent countless billions of dollars recruiting, training, arming, funding and directing terrorist elements, used as proxy imperial foot soldiers where they’re deployed. Ignore high-minded administration and Pentagon rhetoric. Nothing suggests US policy changed - nothing interfering with its longterm ...
Another Anti-ISIS UN Resolution
Post Date: 2015-12-17 06:32:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Another Anti-ISIS UN Resolution by Stephen Lendman Anti-ISIS lip service has been around a long time. Until Russia intervened in Syria against its forces and other terrorist groups on September 30, these elements made steady gains. Rhetorical Western and regional opposition did nothing to stop their advances. Resolutions declaring UN Member States’ unity in combating ISIS are one thing - commitment entirely another. Russia alone among major powers is combating its scourge. America, Britain, France, Germany, Turkey, Israel, Canada, Australia, Gulf States and other so-called US coalition partners support what they pretend to oppose. Security Council resolutions changed nothing on ...
Kerry in Moscow: Part II
Post Date: 2015-12-16 05:56:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Kerry in Moscow: Part II by Stephen Lendman The public isn’t privy to closed door political discussions, especially on issues as crucial as war and peace. Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov are redoubtable, forthright figures, vital ones on the world stage. Perhaps on Monday in Moscow, they convinced John Kerry about Russia’s intentions and objectives in Syria. It’s fully committed to defeat ISIS and other terrorist groups for as long as it takes, working cooperatively with Syrian ground forces, as well as help from Iran and Hezbollah. It welcomes unity among all nations against a common scourge. It doesn’t buy the nonsense of so-called “moderate” bad ...
Kerry's Duplicitous Moscow Mission
Post Date: 2015-12-15 11:47:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Kerry’s Duplicitous Moscow Mission by Stephen Lendman Russia urges mutual cooperation among all nations - on the basis of each one respecting the sovereignty of others, none demanding its interests matter most at their expense, the way Washington unilaterally operates. Expect Kerry’s latest mission to Moscow to accomplish nothing. Two nations have fundamentally opposite agendas. Russia is the world’s leading peacemaker, going all-out to resolve conflicts in Ukraine and Syria diplomatically - impossible to achieve given America’s belligerent agenda. It wants endless wars of aggression for unchallenged global dominance, including all independent governments replaced ...
Obama Vows Escalated War OF Terror
Post Date: 2015-12-15 06:53:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Vows Escalated War OF Terror by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, America deceptively launched what it called a Global War on Terrorism. It’s a war OF terrorism on humanity, using its military might along with rogue NATO and other partners, currently supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. Following state-sponsored false flags in Paris and San Bernardino, US Middle East aggression escalated, on the phony pretext of combating ISIS. Speaking from the Pentagon on Monday after meeting with his national security advisors, Obama lied claiming US “armed forces continue to lead the global coalition in our mission to destroy the terrorist group ...
Saudis Form Pro-ISIS Block
Post Date: 2015-12-15 04:52:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Saudis Form Pro-ISIS Block by Stephen Lendman Saudi Arabia and Turkey are key US allies, fostering endless Middle East wars, instability and turmoil. They’re involved in recruiting and directly aiding ISIS and other takfiri terrorists throughout the region - mainly in Syria and Iraq, now beginning to establish a foothold in war-torn, chaotic Libya, with elements in Yemen and elsewhere. Riyadh wants more regional power along with control over oil reserves outside its borders. Together with Washington and other rogue partners, it’s using ISIS and other terrorist groups to advance its objectives, not oppose a universal scourge. It’s so-called new 34-nation “Islamic ...
A Special Relationship
Post Date: 2015-12-14 06:38:39 by Ada
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The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again One morning early in 1988, Ed McWilliams, a foreign-service officer posted to the American Embassy in Kabul, heard the thump of a massive explosion from somewhere on the other side of the city. It was more than eight years after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, and the embassy was a tiny enclave with only a handful of diplomats. McWilliams, a former Army intelligence operative, had made it his business to venture as much as possible into the Soviet-occupied capital. Now he set out to see what had happened. It was obviously something big: although the explosion had taken place on the other side of Sher Darwaza, a mountain in the ...
Turkey Concealed Its Oil Smuggling Complicit with ISIS
Post Date: 2015-12-14 05:11:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Turkey Concealed Its Oil Smuggling Complicit with ISIS by Stephen Lendman Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin accused Washington and Turkey of failing to inform the Security Council about ISIS trafficking in stolen Syrian and Iraqi oil. It’s required under SC Res. 2199, unanimously passed in February 2015, requiring “Member States to take steps to prevent terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria from benefiting from trade in oil, antiquities and hostages, and from receiving donations.” Churkin said Russia “got serious complaints” about SC Res. 2199 violations. “(T)he Americans had to provide (required) information, and of course Turkey…should have reported any ...
Turkey Smuggled Sarin Gas to Terrorists in Syria
Post Date: 2015-12-14 03:08:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Turkey Smuggled Sarin Gas to Terrorists in Syria by Stephen Lendman Turkey is complicit with Washington, other rogue NATO regimes, Israel, and despotic Arab states in waging war on Syria - including smuggled use of various type banned chemical weapons, Assad wrongfully blamed for their crimes. Turkish Republican People’s Party (CHP) opposition member Eren Erdem accused Ankara of covering up a major war crime, likely direct high-level involvement in smuggling materials used to make deadly sarin gas to ISIS and other terrorists - US proxy foot soldiers waging war on Syria. Various attacks occurred. The most notorious targeted the Damascus Ghouta suburb in August 2013, killing and ...
Irresponsibly Vilifying President Assad
Post Date: 2015-12-14 02:58:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Irresponsibly Vilifying President Assad by Stephen Lendman He’s been Syria’s president since July 2000, overwhelmingly reelected in June 2014 in a process independent international monitors judged open, free and fair. Syrians want no one else leading them. The longer conflict continues, the more solid his popularity. He’s all that stands in the way of a US-controlled vassal state (now with vital Russian aid), complicit with ISIS and other terrorist groups, the ultimate slow-death nightmare free people everywhere dread. The Atlantic Council is a neocon infested think tank, founded in 1961 to support NATO’s killing machine - one of many similar US groups threatening ...
US Using Turkey to Provoke Confrontation with Russia?
Post Date: 2015-12-13 10:16:16 by Stephen Lendman
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US Using Turkey to Provoke Confrontation with Russia? by Stephen Lendman Turkey’s Erdogan is a ruthless loose cannon, a valued US imperial ally, part of NATO’s killing machine - increasingly risking direct confrontation with Russia. Washington likely orchestrated Turkey’s downing of Russia’s SU-24 bomber last month in Syrian airspace, a reckless act of war. On December 11, Putin told participants at a Moscow Defense Ministry collegium: “I order to act very tough. Any targets that threaten Russian forces or our infrastructure on the ground should be immediately destroyed.” He warned “those who will again try to organize any provocations against our ...
Trump Stumps for ISIS
Post Date: 2015-12-12 11:45:04 by PnbC
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Trump Stumps for ISISDonald and Daesh Join Forces Against the 'Gray Zone' by Dan Sanchez, December 11, 2015 Since ISIS rose to conquest in Syria and Iraq, then turning its deadly attention westward, it (with the help of its government and media accomplices) has unleashed a fresh flood of terror, which the people of the West have, unresisting, let wash over them. In America, Donald Trump has tapped that terror to fuel the flames of Islamophobic hate, which he hopes will propel his rise to Presidential power. “When can we get rid of ’em?” asked a supporter at a rally before the Paris attacks. “We are going to be looking at a lot of different things,” Trump ...
Millennials: Let’s You and Them Fight
Post Date: 2015-12-12 11:40:54 by PnbC
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Millennials: Let’s You and Them Fight by Thomas Knapp, December 12, 2015 An October/November survey covering the midsection (adults between 18 and 29) of the “millennial” demographic finds that after the November terror attacks in France (but before the December 2 attack in San Bernardino), that demographic’s support for deployment of US ground troops against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria jumped from 47% to 60%. But when asked a followup question – “[i]f the United States needed additional troops to combat the Islamic State, how likely would you be to serve?” – 85% responded “probably won’t join” or “won’t ...
US Waging War on Russia Without Declaring It
Post Date: 2015-12-12 07:10:06 by Stephen Lendman
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US Waging War on Russia Without Declaring It by Stephen Lendman Washington’s undeclared war on Russia (and China) is the greatest threat to world peace, risking the unthinkable - possible nuclear war able to end life on earth. Both countries stand in the way of unchallenged US global dominance - allied with rogue NATO partners (mainly Britain, France, Germany and Turkey), Israel and tyrannical Middle East regimes led by Saudi Arabia, a metastasizing cancer masquerading as a nation-state. Two major flashpoint areas risk igniting global war - Ukraine and Syria. Washington transformed Kiev into a Nazi-infested fascist dictatorship (for the first time in Europe since WW II) - used as ...
The Only Thing We have to Fear...Is the Government
Post Date: 2015-12-11 17:09:04 by Ada
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“Air raid sirens wail, are you listening…in the lane, tanks are glistening…a frightening sight, we’re paranoid tonight…walking in a police state wonderland!” Wow, hasn’t the government put a lot of thought into this Christmas? I bet the argument this year won’t be over whether or not a Nativity scene can be put up in front of the courthouse, but if it’s appropriate to dress them all in SWAT team uniforms and put a surveillance camera in the manger. I bet they’ll have a B-52 bomber pulled by eight tiny reindeer. Frosty the Snowman is already a “person of interest” because he’s going by an alias. It’ll be hard to ...
DRONE OPERATORS REBEL
Post Date: 2015-12-11 17:04:15 by Ada
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Attacks Kill Civilians, Inspire Terror, Cause PTSD in Own Ranks In a scathing attack on President Barack Obama’s drone war, four former operators of the remote-controlled killing machines declared that this kind of warfare is actually fueling terrorism. Meanwhile, the soldiers who pull the triggers are cast aside when they break down under the incessant stress of long-distance killing. “This administration and its predecessors have built a drone program that is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world,” the quartet of former Air Force service members wrote in a letter to Obama, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and CIA ...
Putin Countering America's Counteroffensive in Syria
Post Date: 2015-12-11 12:03:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Putin Countering America’s Counteroffensive in Syria by Stephen Lendman Putin’s geopolitical agenda is carefully crafted, fully in accord with international law. It’s focused on protecting Russian interests, lawlessly targeted by America’s imperial agenda. Its aim is replacing Putin with a pro-Western puppet, balkanizing Russia for easier control, stealing its resources and exploiting it people - the same ruthless agenda bipartisan US policymakers have in mind worldwide. Putin intervened in Syria to combat ISIS and other terrorist groups, prevent their spread, especially to Central Asia and Russia - what Washington intends unless stopped. He’s committed to stay ...
Erdogan Rules Out Withdrawing Troops From Iraq
Post Date: 2015-12-11 08:14:48 by Ada
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Insists Pullout 'Out of the Question' Tensions between Iraq and Turkey continue to rise after last Friday’s Turkish military deployment into Iraq’s Nineveh Province, which the Iraqi central government insisted came without any approval and amounted to a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, however, ruled out removing the troops from Iraqi soil, saying they are there on a training mission for the Iraqi Kurds and a withdrawal would be “out of the question.” Erdogan suggested that the matter would be discussed more thoroughly on December 21 at a trilateral meeting between Turkey, the Iraqi Kurds, and the United States. The ...
Saudi Arabia Hosts Anti-Assad Terrorist Groups
Post Date: 2015-12-11 05:44:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Saudi-Arabia Hosts Anti-Assad Terrorist Groups by Stephen Lendman Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most tyrannical nations, a valued US ally involved in regional state-terror. From December 8 - 10, it hosted a three-day conference on Syria, attended by terrorist groups allied with Washington, its NATO partners, Saudi rulers and other regional rogue states, wanting Assad ousted by force, ignoring his overwhelming popular support. It bears repeating what previous articles stressed. No so-called anti-Assad “moderates” exist, or too few to matter. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and other groups fighting his government are extremist terrorists - imported from scores ...
Washington Remains Blind to Ankara’s Complicity in Terrorism
Post Date: 2015-12-10 17:46:14 by Ada
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We knew this shoot down was going to kickoff NATO’s counter offensive [ Editor’s Note: Not only did the SU-24 shootdown not slow NATO counter moves to undermine the Russian coalition’s successful anti-terrorism campaign, it is pushing a new terror supportive front in Iraq. Sure, Turkey has not flown any airstrike missions in Syria since the shoot down, but it has been busy with Plan B. It appears that NATO is stepping in to help cover the losses from the oil convoy bombings by helping Turkey replace them with Kurdish-Iraqi sources without the courtesy of asking Baghdad, a serious affront to its sovereignty. Anbar province will now become the “rear area” training ...
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