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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Syrian Arab Army progress
Post Date: 2017-03-20 06:18:22 by Tatarewicz
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HOMS: AL-WA’AR QUARTER EVACUATED–TERRORIST VULTURES LEAVE FOR NORTHERN RURAL IDLIB; SAA SMASHES ALQAEDA ATTACK IN JAWBAR; LIBERATES NEW AREAS AROUND PALMYRA HOMS: As you all know, the Syrian government finally achieved a successful conclusion to the talks with the terrorists holed up in their last bastion in Homs. The area is called “Al-Wa’er”, a word which connotes rugged terrain. There are about 1,400 to –1,500 armed rodents still in the western enclave. They want to take their light weapons with them and be guaranteed safe passage to Idlib Province or northern Aleppo, specifically, the city of Jaraablus which is occupied by the inept and completely ...
Coverup of Humanitarian Disaster in Mosul
Post Date: 2017-03-19 08:50:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Coverup of Humanitarian Disaster in Mosul by Stephen Lendman US-led terror-bombing along with Iraqi ground forces are systematically destroying the city, not liberating it as claimed. Western media scoundrels and international NGOs are ignoring a humanitarian disaster far worse than what affected East Aleppo. Government and allied forces, greatly aided by Russian airpower, saved the lives of tens of thousands of defenseless Aleppo residents, held hostage by US-supported al-Nusra terrorists. Media scoundrels misportrayed heroic efforts as aggression. Big Lies substituted for hard truths. Liberating Aleppo was a glorious triumph, one Syrians will long remember and commemorate, grateful ...
Escalating East Asia Tensions
Post Date: 2017-03-19 08:28:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Escalating East Asia Tensions by Stephen Lendman Trump straightaway in office showed he’s the latest in a long line of US warrior presidents - escalating imperial wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Afghanistan is likely next. Will he launch new wars besides ongoing ones? Are Iran and North Korea on his target list? Are China and Russia at risk? Unthinkable nuclear war remains a possibility by design or accident. America’s bipartisan criminal class should terrify everyone. Last week, neocon Senators Marco Rubio (R. FL) and Ben Cardin (D. MD) introduced legislation to punish China for constructing artificial islands in its territorial waters. Rubio said proposed legislation would ...
Israel at War with Syria
Post Date: 2017-03-18 08:26:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel at War with Syria by Stephen Lendman Washington and Israel seek regime change. Both countries want pro-Western puppet governance replacing Syrian sovereign independence. Throughout Obama’s war, launched in March 2011, Trump escalating it, Israel supplied weapons and munitions to ISIS, al-Nusra and other terrorist fighters. It treats their wounded in Israeli hospitals. It terror-bombs Syrian targets at its discretion. Its aim is weakening Assad’s government. The ultimate aim of America and Israel is ousting it. Israel’s latest aggression occurred overnight Thursday, one of its many flagrant breaches of international law. Letters sent by Syria’s Foreign ...
Why Is Trump Abandoning the Foreign Policy that Brought Him Victory?
Post Date: 2017-03-18 08:13:22 by Ada
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Candidate Donald Trump offered a sharp break from his predecessors. He was particularly critical of neoconservatives, who seemed to back war at every turn. Indeed, he promised not to include in his administration “those who have perfect resumes but very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies and continued losses at war.” And he’s generally kept that commitment, for instance rejecting as deputy secretary of state Elliot Abrams, who said Trump was unfit to be president. Substantively candidate Trump appeared to offer not so much a philosophy as an inclination. Practical if not exactly realist, he cared more for consequences than his ...
NYT Defends Pentagon Mosque Terror-Bombing
Post Date: 2017-03-18 08:08:23 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Defends Pentagon Mosque Terror-Bombing by Stephen Lendman The self-styled newspaper of record operates as a press agent for wealth, power and privilege, featuring fake news instead of journalism the way it’s supposed to be. Overnight Thursday, US warplanes terror-bombed a Syrian mosque in al-Jinnah village near Aleppo, a previous article explained. Hundreds of worshipers were inside at the time, scores massacred, many others injured, a despicable war crime. A Pentagon photo The Times published showed an intact structure next to a crater. CENTCOM said a mosque across the street, 50 feet away, was untouched. The photo looks phony. The Times failed to explain. Vehicles on both ...
Will America Attack North Korea Again?
Post Date: 2017-03-17 13:05:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Will America Attack North Korea Again? by Stephen Lendman Truman ordered the earlier war, turning most of the country to rubble, killing millions. US warplanes ran out of targets to strike. Is more US aggression coming against a nation threatening no one? Throughout its post-WW II history, it never attacked another country. It justifiably fears another US war on its territory, why it sought to develop a nuclear and ballistic missile deterrent - for self-defense, not aggression. In Seoul with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-Se, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sounded like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry never left, belligerently saying: “Let me be very clear. The policy of ...
Russia Falsely Accused of US Airstrike on Syrian Mosque
Post Date: 2017-03-17 12:53:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Falsely Accused of US Airstrike on Syrian Mosque by Stephen Lendman Overnight Thursday, US warplanes terror-bombed a Syrian mosque in al-Jinnah village near Aleppo. Hundreds of worshipers were inside at the time. Bodies are still being pulled from rubble, the death toll so far up to 70, likely rising, many others injured. CENTCOM denied the attack. Its spokesman said “(w)hat (was) target(ed) was destroyed. There is mosque within 50 feet of that building that is still standing.” Photos of it destroyed prove otherwise. A Pentagon source told NBC News the mosque was not hit, saying it may have been blown up later, falsely suggesting Russian responsibility. Foreign ...
SEAL TEAM 6 ATTEMPTED A SECOND YEMEN RAID ONE MONTH AFTER BOTCHED OPERATION
Post Date: 2017-03-17 07:53:38 by Ada
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NAVY SEALS attempted to conduct another raid inside Yemen earlier this month but aborted the mission at the last minute, according to a senior U.S. military official. Members of SEAL Team 6 deployed to Yemen in early March for a ground assault targeting suspected members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a group U.S. officials view as the most dangerous branch of the terrorist organization. The aborted mission followed a botched January 29 raid in the village of al Ghayil, in al Bayda province. That raid left a Navy SEAL dead and two others seriously injured, and killed more than two dozen Yemeni civilians, including at least 16 women and children. The leader of AQAP, Qassim al Rimi, ...
The Kagans Are Back; Wars to Follow
Post Date: 2017-03-17 07:43:54 by Ada
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Exclusive: The neocon royalty Kagans are counting on Democrats and liberals to be the foot soldiers in the new neocon campaign to push Republicans and President Trump into more “regime change” wars, reports Robert Parry. The Kagan family, America’s neoconservative aristocracy, has reemerged having recovered from the letdown over not gaining its expected influence from the election of Hillary Clinton and from its loss of official power at the start of the Trump presidency. Former Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-coup leaders. (She is the wife of neocon theorist Robert Kagan.) Back ...
Another AUMF Coming?
Post Date: 2017-03-17 07:31:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Another AUMF Coming? by Stephen Lendman All US wars are illegally waged on the phony pretext of combating terrorist groups America created and supports. Following the mother of all false flags 9/11 attack, Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). Bush signed it into law, giving his administration authority to use “all necessary and appropriate force” against any nations, groups or individuals he designated. AUMF is illegal. Only Security Council members may permit war by one nation against others - in self-defense alone if attacked or one is imminent, never preemptively. No nation attacked America. None threatened it earlier or now. The war on ...
Israel Admits Bombing Syria
Post Date: 2017-03-17 07:15:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel Admits Bombing Syria by Stephen Lendman Throughout Obama’s war on Syria, Trump escalating it, Israel terror-bombed targets in the country numerous times - clear acts of naked aggression. The latest incident occurred overnight Thursday. Israeli warplanes terror-bombed several targets in Syria. This time, they were counted by anti-aircraft surface-to-air (SAM) missiles. An IDF statement said “(s)everal…were launched from Syria following the mission,” one intercepted by Israel’s Arrow aerial defense system. The IDF said its warplanes returned safely to Israeli airspace before Syria’s military responded, claiming none were struck struck. A Syrian army ...
Syrian army: Israeli jet shot down, another hit
Post Date: 2017-03-17 05:18:01 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The Syrian army says four Israeli jets breached the Arab country’s airspace on Friday morning, adding its air defense shot down one of the aircraft and hit another. Israeli warplanes "penetrated our airspace at 2:40 a.m. (0040 GMT) via Lebanese territory and hit a military target on the way to Palmyra," said an army statement carried by state news agency SANA. "Our air defense engaged them and shot down one warplane over occupied territory, hit another one, and forced the rest to flee," the army said, apparently referring to the Golan Heights. The Syrian army also slammed Tel Aviv’s strikes as “an act of aggression” meant to assist the ...
Syria sees ‘looming dam catastrophe’ amid US-led airstrikes
Post Date: 2017-03-17 05:08:14 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The Syrian government has warned against an imminent disaster in the wake of airstrikes by the US-led military coalition against purported Daesh-held areas close to the Euphrates and Tishrin dams, urging UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to compel the coalition to stop the raids. On Thursday, Syria's Deputy UN Ambassador Mounzer Mounzer, in separate but identical letters to Guterres and Security Council President Matthew Rycroft, argued that the “systematic sabotage of infrastructure” could affect Iraqis living along the Euphrates River as well. “The total destruction of these dams that are being targeted by the airstrikes will wash away and flood ...
Trump Escalating War in Syria
Post Date: 2017-03-16 08:21:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Escalating War in Syria by Stephen Lendman Instead of winding down US wars he campaigned against, arguing they wasted trillions of dollars vital for domestic needs, he’s escalating them in Syria and Yemen, likely in Afghanistan, and continuing US terror-bombing in Iraq, massacring civilians. Hundreds of airmen manning B-52H Stratofortresses were deployed to Syria and Iraq. Along with US special forces and marines, they’ll aid anti-government terrorist fighters. They carry powerful payloads, able to cause extensive damage to targeted areas, along with indiscriminate killing of civilians. Reports indicate Washington may deploy 1,000 or more additional combat troops to ...
U Super-Fuzed, Super-Powerful Nukes
Post Date: 2017-03-15 08:56:34 by Stephen Lendman
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US Super-Fuzed, Super-Powerful Nukes by Stephen Lendman Today’s thermonuclear weapons are monstrously more powerful than the 15 kiloton Little Boy and 21 Kiloton Fat Man nukes used to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An article by nuclear experts Hans Kristensen and Matthew McKinsie, together with ballistic missiles expert Theodore Postol explained the enhanced power of US submarine-launched ballistic missiles “with more than three times the number of warheads needed to destroy the entire fleet of Russian land-based missiles in their silos.” Super-fuzing makes these weapons super-powerful, the authors saying “even the most accurate ballistic missile warheads might not ...
US Demands Raped Cambodia Repay War Debt
Post Date: 2017-03-15 08:33:51 by Stephen Lendman
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US Demands Raped Cambodia Repay War Debt by Stephen Lendman During its war on Southeast Asia, America raped and destroyed Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Terror-bombing massacred civilians indiscriminately. A decade of merciless war took millions of lives, around eight million tons of ordnance used in Vietnam alone, threefold WW II’s tonnage - about 300 tons for every Vietnamese man, woman, child, infant, the elderly and infirm. Herbicidal warfare was waged using deadly agent orange. Millions of gallons of dioxin-containing defoliant contaminated over five million acres. Exposure to minute amounts causes serious health problems or death. Other terror-weapons were used, including ...
Committee of Inquiry on Syria Propaganda Report
Post Date: 2017-03-15 08:15:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Committee of Inquiry on Syria Propaganda Report by Stephen Lendman The COI is an imperial tool, formed in September 2011 to wrongfully blame Syria for human rights abuses, downplaying atrocities committed by US-supported terrorists. It lacks credibility, Syria’s UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari earlier, saying it’s “deliberately blowing things out of proportion when displaying its findings, also fully disregarding or downplaying core issues.” “There are blood-curdling scenes that flagrantly contravene the Syrians’ dignity and human rights regarding the crimes of the armed terrorist groups…” They “rang(e) from eating human flesh, cutting throats, ...
Senate Neocons Want Permanent Aggression on Afghanistan
Post Date: 2017-03-14 12:58:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Senate Neocons Want Permanent Aggression on Afghanistan by Stephen Lendman Afghanistan is America’s longest war, a forever war if neocon Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have their way. The country had nothing to do with 9/11, nor anyone residing within its borders. It didn’t threaten America - not earlier or now. Washington used state-sponsored 9/11 as a convenient pretext to wage war on humanity at home and abroad - continuing endlessly in multiple theaters, Trump so far escalating them in Syria and Yemen, perhaps Afghanistan and elsewhere to follow, despite campaign rhetoric indicating he’d go another way. McCain and Graham (M&G below): “On Sept. 11, 20 ...
Ukrainian Soldiers Caught Planting Car Bombs in Donbass. Guess Who Trained Them?
Post Date: 2017-03-14 07:00:28 by Tatarewicz
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RI... The "mystery" behind the long list of assassinated rebel leaders in Donbass might now be solved. Two Ukrainian soldiers have been captured with weapons and bomb-making materials by Lugansk authorities. The two soldiers, both allegedly part of Ukraine's Special Forces, confessed to assassinating the rebel commander Oleg Anashchenko last month. Guess who trained them? You already know. Watch: A (very) incomplete list of prominent rebel leaders who have been assassinated: May 23, 2015: Luhansk rebel leader Aleksey Mozgovoy is assassinated in East Ukraine (his car was ambushed). October 16, 2016: Donetsk rebel leader Arsen Pavlov, aka "Motorola", is ...
More Mideast Madness as Trump Prepares to March
Post Date: 2017-03-14 06:42:47 by Ada
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We are now moving rapidly into stage II of Levantine Madness as the US boosts its intervention in the war-torn Mideast. Five thousand US troops are back in Iraq to bolster the shattered nation’s puppet regime that is propped up by American bayonets. New Iraqi military formations have been formed, totally equipped with modern US M1 Abrams tanks, Humvees, and fleets of trucks. More US forces are on the way. These US-financed Iraqi units are euphemistically called ‘anti-terrorism forces’ and are supervised by US officers. In fact, what we see is the old British Imperial Raj formula of white officers commanding native mercenary troops. These Iraqi units are now assaulting ...
What a Mess: The US Blunders Deeper Into The Mysterious Levant
Post Date: 2017-03-13 07:02:43 by Ada
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We are now moving rapidly into stage II of Levantine Madness as the US boosts its intervention in the war-torn Mideast. Five thousand US troops are back in Iraq to bolster the shattered nation’s puppet regime that is propped up by American bayonets. New Iraqi military formations have been formed, totally equipped with modern US M1 Abrams tanks, Humvees, and fleets of trucks. More US forces are on the way. These US-financed Iraqi units are euphemistically called ‘anti-terrorism forces’ and are supervised by US officers. In fact, what we see is the old British Imperial Raj formula of white officers commanding native mercenary troops. These Iraqi units are now assaulting ...
The Empire Should be Placed on Suicide Watch
Post Date: 2017-03-12 16:07:34 by X-15
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In all the political drama taking place in the US as a result of the attempted color revolution against Trump, the bigger picture sometimes gets forgotten. And yet, this bigger picture is quite amazing, because if we look at it we will see irrefutable signs that the Empire in engaged in some bizarre slow motion version of seppuku and the only mystery left is who, or what, will serve as the Empire’s kaishakunin (assuming there will be one). I would even argue that the Empire is pursuing a full-spectrum policy of self-destruction on several distinct levels, with each level contributing the overall sum total suicide. And when I refer to self-destructive behavior I don’t mean ...
Turkey's Erdogan Wants Norther Syria and Iraq Annexed
Post Date: 2017-03-12 13:44:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Turkey’s Erdogan Wants Northern Syria and Iraq Annexed by Stephen Lendman His aim is longstanding. In December 2015, heavily armed Turkish forces invaded Iraq, an act of aggression, occupying territory near Mosul, on the phony pretext of combating ISIS he supports. His real aim is seizing the area’s valued oil fields, a prize he’s long coveted. Last August, he invaded northern Syria, his aggression code-named Operation Euphrates Shield - aiding anti-government forces, combating Kurdish YPG fighters, not terrorists. His forces seized Jarabulus in northwestern Syria straightaway, continued advancing east. Last November, he said his goal is gaining control over “5,000 ...
US-Supported ISIS Using Chemical Weapons in Mosul
Post Date: 2017-03-12 08:20:58 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Supported ISIS Using Chemical Weapons in Mosul by Stephen Lendman ICRC Middle East director Robert Mardini said patients treated in nearby Irbil show “clinical symptoms consistent with exposure to a blistering chemical agent.” Affected men, women and children suffer from respiratory problems, blisters, coughing, vomiting, along with eye redness and irritation. “The use of chemical weapons is absolutely prohibited under international humanitarian law. We are deeply alarmed by what our colleagues have seen, and we strongly condemn any use of chemical weapons, by any party, anywhere,” Mardini added. ISIS and other US-supported terrorist groups used chemical weapons ...
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