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Russian Christmas Gifts for Syrian Children
Post Date: 2016-12-27 07:45:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Russian Christmas Gifts for Syrian Children by Stephen Lendman The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was America’s largest Muslim charity until Bush/Cheney neocons disgracefully called it an enemy of the state, shut it down and imprisoned its principles - police state ruthlessness by any standard, continued by Obama at home and abroad. HLF described its work, saying “(w)e gave books, not bombs; bread, not bullets; smiles, not scars; toys, not tanks; liberty, not not poverty; hope, not despair; love, not hate (and) life, not death.” Russia is helping long-suffering Syrians and its sovereign state the same way by combating US- supported terrorists, ...
[Russia Warns it Will Shoot Down Alliance Jets if US launches Air Strikes Against Assad Armed Forces
Post Date: 2016-12-27 03:46:45 by Tatarewicz
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Christmas Weekend Homicides in Chicago
Post Date: 2016-12-26 13:26:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Christmas Weekend Homicides in Chicago by Stephen Lendman Christmas weekend was extraordinarily violent in Chicago, my home for nearly the past half century. Police reported 27 shootings, seven killed on Christmas day. A Chicago Tribune account read like a war report, listing one incident after another, victims either wounded or killed. Through early December, reported homicides exceeded 700, according to police records. The Tribune said “(t)he year got off to a violent start with 50 homicides in January and rarely let up even after the end of the summer - the peak season for shootings.” Weeks before yearend, 4,050 occurred, according to police records, a stunning number - ...
Mass Graves Found in Aleppo
Post Date: 2016-12-26 08:03:33 by Stephen Lendman
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Mass Graves Found in Aleppo by Stephen Lendman US-supported terrorists posing as “moderate rebels” are responsible for gruesome atrocities in Syria, mostly against defenseless civilians. On Monday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said mass graves were discovered in Aleppo after its liberation. “Big burial sites of dozens of Syrians who had been tortured and massacred have been found,” he said. “Many of them lack body parts, most were shot in the head.” “Everything is being carefully documented, including the terrorists’ serious military crimes, to be made public.” What’s found “is only the ...
No Christmas Respite in Syria from US-Supported Terrorists
Post Date: 2016-12-25 13:15:54 by Stephen Lendman
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No Christmas Respite in Syria from US-Supported Terrorists by Stephen Lendman After liberating Aleppo, Syrian and allied forces, together with Russian aerial support, are focused on freeing Idlib province and Palmyra of its US-supported terrorist scourge - along with preventing these elements from mounting an effective counteroffensive. Reports indicated cutthroat killer “moderate rebels” murdered scores of captive Syrian soldiers before leaving the eastern Aleppo, many beheaded. Bodies of other victims were discovered, some with “severed heads and poked out eyes,” others lethally shot at close range. Hundreds of eastern Aleppo families returning home on Christmas ...
No Joy to the World Throughout the Year
Post Date: 2016-12-25 08:06:51 by Stephen Lendman
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No Joy to the World Throughout the Year by Stephen Lendman How can there be with wars raging out-of control! Who's celebrating while mass slaughter and destruction persist? No Christmas cheer this year for billions. No Feliz Navidad. No happy holiday. No Wise Men spreading good will. No silent, holy night. No decking the halls. No herald angels singing. None heard on high. No coming all ye faithful. No telling it on the mountain. No merry gentlemen resting. No peace on earth coming upon a midnight clear. No white Christmas dreams. No most wonderful time of the year. No having yourself a merry little Christmas. No holly jolly one. No wishing you one in times of war, ...
Celebrating Christmas in Rubble
Post Date: 2016-12-25 07:28:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Celebrating Christmas in Rubble by Stephen Lendman For the first time in four-and-a-half years, Aleppo residents have reason to celebrate this holiday season. On Thursday, thousands took to the streets, marching, expressing joy over US-backed terrorists expelled from the city. They carried flags, displayed pictures of President Assad, while mosques called the faithful to pray and church bells tolled. RT correspondent Lizzie Phelan spoke to residents. A young woman said “(w)e did not expect that this moment would ever actually come. We had four years of pain, of war and blood.” “We are so happy that we can celebrate once again. Aleppo has been returned to us. This is our ...
Obama's Syria Regime Change Objective On the Rocks with Aleppo's Liberation
Post Date: 2016-12-24 07:27:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama’s Syria Regime Change Objective On the Rocks with Aleppo’s Liberation by Stephen Lendman Syrian and allied forces, along with vital Russian aerial support, defeated Obama’s imperial objective, a major blow to Washington’s regional aims - a bit of holiday season cheer amid chaos and human misery affecting all US imperial victims. Assad remains Syria’s president, overwhelmingly supported by his people. They want no one else leading them, reelecting him in June 2014 by a near 90% majority - a process independent international observers called open, free and fair. After nearly six years of US orchestrated aggression, using ISIS and other terrorists as imperial ...
Putin Congratulates Assad
Post Date: 2016-12-24 07:06:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Putin Congratulates Assad by Stephen Lendman Ending an otherwise dismal year by handing America a stunning defeat in Aleppo is a glorious way to end it. Hopefully it’s prelude to liberating Syria entirely, along with inflicting a mortal blow to Washington’s regional imperial agenda. I tweeted Trump the following: A new year’s resolution to keep: Pursue world peace. Reject wars. Make you presidency historic if achieved. I restrained myself from separately saying govern like Putin, not Obama. On Friday, Russia’s president phoned Assad - “congratula(ing) him on the completion of the operation to liberate Aleppo. This success became possible thanks ...
US Nuclear Proliferation: A Doomsday Scenario
Post Date: 2016-12-23 13:25:54 by Stephen Lendman
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US Nuclear Proliferation: A Doomsday Scenario by Stephen Lendman Last summer, Obama said he “(s)trives for a world without nuclear weapons.” At the same time, he approved $1 trillion to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal over the next 30 year - maybe several-fold this amount before completed, along the way perhaps preemptively using them in combat against one or more adversaries - madness if ordered. Trump on Twitter said “(t)he United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” By phone with MSNBC, he added “let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass ...
Putin Calls Aleppo's Liberation a Major Step Toward Conflict Resolution
Post Date: 2016-12-23 13:08:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Putin Calls Aleppo’s Liberation a Major Step Toward Conflict Resolution by Stephen Lendman Overnight street celebrations followed Syria’s announced liberation of eastern Aleppo, formally declaring victory, freeing the city entirely of US-supported terrorists. Putin called the triumph “an essential component of a full normalization in Syria, and I hope in the region on the whole.” “And this operation, certainly, there is no doubt about it, ended with a direct participation - if not to say a decisive participation and influence of our military, especially in its final part, concerning the humanitarian operation.” He’s focused now on achieving cessation ...
Aleppo Free at Last
Post Date: 2016-12-23 07:50:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Aleppo Free at Last by Stephen Lendman After four-and-a-half horrific years under brutal US-supported terrorist occupation, Aleppo residents are finally free from the scourge of captivity as human shields, a nightmare now ended. Hopefully triumph is prelude to liberating Syria entirely ahead. Defeating terrorists in Aleppo, once Syria’s largest city, its commercial hub, may be looked back on one day as the war’s turning point. Heroic Syrian soldiers and allies, notably Russia, deserve full credit for defeating the scourge of US imperialism, proving it’s not invincible. Syria’s Army General Command announced the following: “The restoration of security and ...
Neocon John McCain Blames Putin and Assad for US War Crimes in Syria
Post Date: 2016-12-23 07:26:26 by Stephen Lendman
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Neocon John McCain Blames Putin and Assad for US War Crimes in Syria by Stephen Lendman McCain is part of the neocon lunatic fringe infesting Washington, a criminal gang waging war on humanity. Syria is one of many countries America raped, massacring hundreds of thousands, displacing millions, their well-being destroyed, victims of US imperial viciousness. Aleppo’s liberation is just cause for celebratory joy everywhere among people supporting peace and stability worldwide. In a neocon Washington Post op-ed, McCain called it a “tragedy,” saying the city “has fallen to regime forces of Bashar al-Assad.” He recited a litany of Big Lies, portraying liberation ...
New Arms Race? Trump Tweets US Must 'Greatly' Expand Nuclear Arsenal (Drop the Big One)
Post Date: 2016-12-22 19:21:59 by hondo68
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© Wikipedia/ “Until such times as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes,” President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Thursday, the US should be happy to spend money on more doomsday weapons.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016 Trump campaigned to put domestic policy at the forefront of his administration’s goals and championed a non-interventionist foreign policy. In a complete reversal, Trump advocates the US enter a nuclear arms race, despite having an arsenal that could destroy human civilization many times over. It is not as though America’s Cold War stockpile has been collecting dust on the shelf. Recent nuclear modernization ...
UN to Prepare War Crimes Cases in Syria for Prosecution
Post Date: 2016-12-22 07:58:59 by Stephen Lendman
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UN to Prepare War Crimes Cases in Syria for Prosecution by Stephen Lendman On Wednesday, US-pressured General Assembly members voted 105 - 15, with 52 abstentions, for empowering a panel to gather evidence of war crimes in Syria for prosecution. Russia, China, Iran and Syria strongly opposed the measure. It’s clear where this is heading - a scheme intended to largely blame Syria, Russia and allied forces for high crimes committed by Washington, its rogue allies and terrorist foot soldiers. Syrian UN envoy Bashar al-Jaafari denounced the proposal, coming in the wake of Aleppo’s liberation, saying it’s intended to undermine chances for diplomatic conflict resolution. It ...
Some Perspectives on the War on Terror
Post Date: 2016-12-22 07:34:18 by Ada
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Anyway you look at it, it's a failure The twenty-first century, at least up until this point, might well be described as the age of the terrorist. Even though most Americans and Europeans rank terrorism as low among their concerns, the repercussions when a terrorist attack does take place are greatly magnified by the sheer horror associated with the mass killing of innocent people going about their daily lives. There are a couple of annual reports that look at terrorism as a global phenomenon. The best known is the U.S. State Department’s Annual Country Reports on Terrorism that comes out in the Summer and covers the previous year. It is mandated by Congress and is largely based ...
UN Report Whitewashes Terrorist Attack on Aleppo Humanitarian Convoy
Post Date: 2016-12-22 07:16:02 by Stephen Lendman
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UN Report Whitewashes Terrorist Attack on Aleppo Humanitarian Convoy by Stephen Lendman Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon serves US imperial interests - on the wrong side of Obama’s war on Syria from its outset. Last September, US-supported terrorists attacked a humanitarian convoy for Aleppo, destroying at least 18 trucks, along with killing and wounding numerous aid workers. US-supported al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria) carried out the attack as humanitarian aid was being unloaded. Trucks were struck by artillery and rocket launchers. Video evidence showed no signs of craters that would have resulted from air-to-surface explosives. According to Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General ...
NYT Frantic Over Trilateral Russia, Iran, Turkey Alliance on Syria, Excluding US
Post Date: 2016-12-21 11:56:24 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Frantic Over Trilateral Russia, Iran, Turkey Alliance on Syria, Excluding US by Stephen Lendman Russia and Iran support cessation of hostilities and conflict resolution after nearly six years of US naked aggression on Syria - using ISIS and other terrorists as imperial foot soldiers. After supporting these groups throughout years of conflict, arming, funding, training and giving them safe haven protection within its borders, it’s unclear what Turkey wants, other than annexing northern Syrian territory, continuing its war on Kurds and wanting Assad’s legitimate government replaced. Or has its agenda changed in part? It’s unclear. Its actions on the ground so far ...
Aleppo Boy Redux
Post Date: 2016-12-21 07:09:33 by Stephen Lendman
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Aleppo Boy Redux by Stephen Lendman Last summer, Aleppo boy Omran Daqneesh was too young to know he was used as a US war OF terror prop. The image of his soot-covered, not bloodied, face dominated Western reports for days to enlist support for continued imperial war on Syria - naked aggression continuing despite Aleppo’s liberation. The Aleppo boy’s stunt was staged - fake news, not real, his image long gone from Western reports. A new one replaced it - a fake Aleppo girl on Facebook, holding a teddy bear, standing erect, what looks like a paper bag covering her head with eye-level openings for vision in one photo, her white dress covered in red paint, not blood, fake ...
Russia, Iran and Turkey Pledge to Resolve War on Syria
Post Date: 2016-12-20 11:52:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia, Iran and Turkey Pledge to Resolve War on Syria by Stephen Lendman After meeting with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov said “I believe (this trilateral) format…is the most effective one. Today’s troika format has proved with practical action it is in demand.” “We (agree on the urgency of) terminat(ing) violence, combat operations, unhampered delivery of humanitarian aid and the start of an inclusive political process incorporating all Syrian parties concerned without any preconditions.” “Regretably…our (international) counterparts” seem bent on polar opposite policies, favoring war, not resolution. ...
Counterproductive Security Council Resolution on Aleppo Evacuation Monitoring
Post Date: 2016-12-20 11:41:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Counterproductive Security Council Resolution on Aleppo Evacuation Monitoring by Stephen Lendman With Aleppo virtually liberated, it’s unclear where monitors will be and what they intend to accomplish - other than undermining Russian, Syrian and Iranian good faith cessation of hostilities and conflict resolution efforts. Unanimously passed on Monday, the Security Council resolution calls for Ban Ki-moon “to take urgent steps to make arrangements, including security arrangements in consultation with interested parties, to allow the observation by the United Nations and other relevant institutions of the well- being of civilians…inside the eastern districts of the city of ...
A few initial short thoughts on the murder of the Russian Ambassador to Ankara
Post Date: 2016-12-20 06:23:44 by Ada
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Okay, so tonight we have the name of the assassin, it is Mevlut Mert Aydintas, a 22 year old policeman who had been recently fired following the anti-Gulenist crackdown of Erdogan against the forces which had attempted to overthrow him recently. We also have a very useful video of the murder. That video of the attack also shows something very important: the only shots fired are those fired by the assassin. See for yourself: What this means is one of two things: Version 1: there was nobody in charge of security at this exhibition Version 2: the room where this murder happened was considered ‘safe/sterile’ because it was inside an outer security perimeter which we don’t ...
Security Council Agreement on Completing Aleppo's Evacuation?
Post Date: 2016-12-19 07:30:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Security Council Agreement on Completing Aleppo’s Evacuation? by Stephen Lendman Ahead of a Sunday Security Council meeting, Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin called a French draft resolution (complicit with Washington and Britain) on completing Aleppo’s evacuation “a disaster,” vowing a veto, saying: “We don’t have problems with any kind of monitoring. We will support appropriate UN monitoring process. But the idea that the observers would walk amid eastern Aleppo ruins without sufficient training and without giving an account of what will be going on there is a tragedy and a provocation.” Russia submitted its own proposals, Churkin saying if accepted ...
Syrian Evacuations Resume
Post Date: 2016-12-19 07:08:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Evacuations Resume by Stephen Lendman Humanitarian efforts in Syria often don’t go as planned, dark forces continuing to devastate the country. Rare good news is welcomed. Liberating Aleppo from the scourge of US-supported terrorists may turn out to be a decisive turning point in the war. Yet pockets of renegade elements remain in the city - efforts to evacuate or eliminate them underway. Reports indicate hundreds left with their families Sunday night. According to ICRC Middle East regional director Robert Mardini, “five buses and an ambulance escorted by SARC (Syrian Arab Red Crescent) and ICRC” left eastern Aleppo overnight. Earlier on Sunday, US-supported ...
Syrian Offensive Underway to Liberate Palmyra
Post Date: 2016-12-18 11:41:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Offensive Underway to Liberate Palmyra by Stephen Lendman Losing it a week ago to thousands of US-backed ISIS terrorists was an embarrassment to Syria and Russia after liberating the city in March. Repeating the process is well underway, involving a major ground offensive with Russian aerial support to eliminate Palmyra’s terrorist infestation, supported by Washington and its rogue allies. According to AMN News, Syrian forces “capture(d) several sites from the Islamic State terrorists on Saturday night, marking a swift end to the terrorist group’s two week long offensive.” Within days, government and allied forces “will likely attempt to reach the ...
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