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Aleppo Largely Liberated
Post Date: 2016-12-07 07:37:45 by Stephen Lendman
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Aleppo Largely Liberated by Stephen Lendman News from Syria is the most encouraging since Obama launched naked aggression in March 2011 - using ISIS, al-Nusra and other terrorist groups as imperial foot soldiers. On December 7, Fars News headlined “Syrian Army On Verge of Epoch-Making Victory in Aleppo,” saying: “Aleppo is to be announced a completely liberated city by the Syrian army any moment now after hundreds of terrorists surrendered to the Syrian army at the end of daylong secret talks with government officials in Eastern Aleppo, while the remaining few hundreds under a now very tight siege have agreed to the Damascus terms to evacuate the city in less than two ...
Kissinger summoned to Trump Tower for private meeting
Post Date: 2016-12-06 18:13:50 by hondo68
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David Shankbone/Flickr Trump to meet ‘war criminal,’ globalist figurehead, for advice on China NEW YORK (INTELLIHUB) — Henry Kissinger is set to meet with the President-elect Tuesday, inside Trump Tower, to talk about foreign policy and U.S.-China relations The President-elect was reported to have called on Kissinger, who formerly served as Secretary of State from 1973 and 1977, to ask his advice, despite the fact that many believe that Kissinger is a ‘war criminal,’ as the controversial book The Trial of Henry Kissinger points out. At an event Monday, Kissinger said, “At this moment I’ve been very impressed at the calm reaction of the Chinese leadership, ...
US-Backed Terrorists in Aleppo Near Collapse
Post Date: 2016-12-06 13:29:32 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Backed Terrorists in Aleppo Near Collapse by Stephen Lendman Syrian and allied forces are advancing steadily, liberating one neighborhood and district after another. US-supported terrorists are surrounded, trapped and weakening, including the will of many to keep fighting battles they can’t win. According to the Arabic-language al-Hadas news web site, unnamed sources said CIA operatives are trapped in eastern Aleppo, there helping US-supported terrorists, Kerry’s negotiations with Lavrov aiming to free them. Yet he reneged on his Rome proposal, presenting an alternative one meant to buy time for US death squads. The Arabic-language al-Watan broadsheet reported continued ...
US Reneges on Its Aleppo Ceasefire Proposal
Post Date: 2016-12-06 10:59:02 by Stephen Lendman
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US Reneges on Its Aleppo Ceasefire Proposal by Stephen Lendman It doesn’t surprise, just confirms longstanding US duplicity, reneging on its word time and again. America’s ruthless imperial agenda is humanity’s greatest threat. On December 7, US and Russian officials were scheduled to meet in Geneva on having all anti- government terrorists withdraw from areas of eastern Aleppo they control, freeing the entire city from their scourge. On Monday, Sergey Lavrov said he received “notification” US representatives aren’t coming. A document John Kerry gave him in Rome is null and void, a new one replacing it. “(A)ccording to our first impressions, (it) ...
Russia and China Veto Phony Aleppo Ceasefire Resolution
Post Date: 2016-12-06 07:29:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia and China Veto Phony Aleppo Ceasefire Resolution by Stephen Lendman US, UK and French dirty hands were behind a Security Council resolution calling for a seven-day ceasefire in Aleppo - on the phony pretext of providing humanitarian aid they’re supplying only to terrorists. Egypt, New Zealand and Spain were used to introduce what they should have rejected outright. Russia, China and Venezuela responsibly opposed another scheme to give US-backed terrorists time to regroup, replenish their ranks, rearm and continue committing atrocities in Aleppo, largely against defenseless civilians. A deceptive Security Council statement claimed “(t)he proposed cessation of ...
Mixed State Department Signals on Russia/US Aleppo Ceasefire Talks
Post Date: 2016-12-06 07:18:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Mixed State Department Signals on Russia/US Aleppo Ceasefire Talks by Stephen Lendman Longstanding US policy consistently vows one thing while doing another. Its credibility in international relations is nil, wanting its own interests served at the expense of others - notably on issues of war and peace. Negotiating with Obama officials is a waste of time with virtually no chance for responsible conflict resolution in Syria, Ukraine or any other US war theater. Endless Sergey Lavrov discussions with John Kerry accomplished nothing. Days earlier, they met in Rome on withdrawing all anti-government militants from eastern Aleppo areas under their control and providing unimpeded humanitarian ...
Washington's Imperial Project in Syria Faces Defeat
Post Date: 2016-12-06 07:07:50 by Stephen Lendman
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Washington’s Imperial Project in Syria Faces Defeat by Stephen Lendman Obama will long be remembered for waging endless wars of aggression on humanity throughout his tenure, at home and abroad - a war criminal remaining unaccountable for his high crimes, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, one of many examples mocking its legitimacy. He’ll leave office in January after bombing seven countries, multiple conflicts on his watch still raging, including nearly six years of terror-war on Syria, a nation threatening no one. According to Syria’s War Information Center, around 65% of eastern Aleppo was liberated from terrorist control, additional neighborhoods freed daily. US-backed ...
US Furious at UN Over Differing Afghan War Reports
Post Date: 2016-12-05 06:50:37 by Ada
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US Commander Considered Kicking UN Out of Kabul Base 15 years into the Afghan War, Pentagon statements are almost never the final word on what happened. False denials and upbeat predictions that never pan out have left US credibility incredibly low. Time and again, UN reports have contradicted the official US narrative, only to be proven correct, to the embarrassment of the occupation forces. Patience appears to be wearing thin after 15 years of inconvenient truth getting in the way of the military’s version of events, with both UN and US officials saying relations between the two are “a nightmare,” and that the latest US commander, Gen. John Nicholson, has been ...
Trump Ponders Petraeus for Senior Job
Post Date: 2016-12-04 18:19:54 by Ada
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The news that President-elect Donald Trump called in disgraced retired Gen. David Petraeus for a job interview as possible Secretary of State tests whether Trump’s experience in hosting “The Celebrity Apprentice” honed his skills for spotting an incompetent phony or not. Does Trump need more data than the continuing bedlam in Iraq and Afghanistan to understand that one can earn a Princeton PhD by writing erudite-sounding drivel about “counterinsurgency” and still flunk war? Granted, the shambles in which Petraeus left Iraq and Afghanistan were probably more a result of his overweening careerism and political ambition than his misapplication of military strategy. ...
Syria Crushing US-Supported Terrorists in Aleppo
Post Date: 2016-12-04 07:49:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Crushing US-Supported Terrorists in Aleppo by Stephen Lendman Perhaps by yearend, Aleppo will be entirely freed from the scourge of US-backed terrorists - 60% of eastern parts of the city so far liberated, according to various reports. On December 4, AMN News reported “major advance(s)…jihadists struggl(ing) to hold ground.” Led by elite Tiger Forces and Republican Guard troops “the Syrian Arab Army stormed the Tariq Al- Bab, Karm al-Tarrab, and Al-Jazmati quarters of east Aleppo, striking the jihadist defenses from several axes, while the Syrian Arab Air Force (SAAYF) provided aerial support.” “In a matter of hours, the Syrian Arab Army managed to ...
Russia/US Agreement on Aleppo or Another American Deception?
Post Date: 2016-12-03 12:14:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia/US Agreement on Aleppo or Another American Deception? by Stephen Lendman Throughout made in the USA conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, Washington systematically undermined Russia’s good faith efforts for responsible resolution. America can’t be trusted, vowing one thing, doing another, notably, under Obama, Bush/Cheney and the Clintons, waging permanent wars on humanity, rejecting peace and stability. It’s unknown if Trump intends changing things, diverging from longstanding policy, wanting to be a peace, not a warrior president. The way he goes will be the measure of whether he fulfills lofty campaign promises or governs as the latest in a long line of leaders ...
Politicized Humanitarian Aid to Syria
Post Date: 2016-12-03 07:31:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Politicized Humanitarian Aid to Aleppo by Stephen Lendman Two days after over 80,000 eastern Aleppo residents were freed from US-supported terrorists, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said the UN, America, Britain and France declined to provide any humanitarian aid. Russia and Syria alone are helping thousands fleeing from eastern Aleppo to safety in government controlled areas. On Tuesday, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “The President ordered the Defense Ministry and the Emergencies Ministry to send to Syria’s Aleppo mobile hospitals, which will provide treatment for residents of the city and its neighborhoods.” A special 100-bed clinic ...
Think Trump's scary now? Obama is leaving him with broad war powers
Post Date: 2016-12-02 09:10:22 by Ada
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The president-elect keeps news cycles churning with his unhinged tweets, but it’s the current administration’s expanding military license that should scare us ‘Make no mistake: Trump will have a free hand to use the law meant for the perpetrators of 9/11 to wage war around the world.’ In all the outrage about the unhinged things Donald Trump keeps tweeting and saying, there’s been almost zero criticism at the fact that Obama will be partly responsible for the extraordinary scope of powers Trump inherits. The Obama administration has not only done nothing to curtail the slew of extreme national security and war powers that Trump is about to acquire since the ...
Trump Names Hawkish General As Defense Secretary
Post Date: 2016-12-02 08:02:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Names Hawkish General As Defense Secretary by Stephen Lendman At a Thursday Cincinnati rally, Trump announced retired Marine Corps General James Mattis as defense secretary - calling him “the closest thing we have to (WW II era) General George Patton.” Earlier he tweeted he’s “being considered for Secretary of Defense…A true General’s General!” He last served as US CENTCOM head from August 2010 to March 2013. Notoriously known as “Mad Dog,” he earlier said “it’s a lot of fun to fight…It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right upfront with you. I like brawling.” He considers Iran the greatest threat to ...
Russia Aims to Liberate Aleppo Entirely by Yearend
Post Date: 2016-12-01 13:10:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Aims to Liberate Aleppo Entirely by Yearend by Stephen Lendman “We are hoping for this. Yes, indeed,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. We need to force these (US-backed) terrorists out the same way as they need to be forced out of Mosul and Raqqa. It’s a common task.” Eastern Aleppo is being liberated one neighborhood at a time, thousands of trapped residents held as human hostages already freed, numbers growing daily - hundreds of US-backed terrorists surrendering or retreating. In the last 72 hours, Syrian and allied forces routed terrorists in 16 districts, capturing northern parts of eastern Aleppo. According to a Syrian military source, ...
Turkey Has Declared War On Syria – Does This Mean That World War 3 Is About To Erupt In The Middle East?
Post Date: 2016-12-01 08:41:49 by randge
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Turkey Has Declared War On Syria – Does This Mean That World War 3 Is About To Erupt In The Middle East? By Michael Snyder, on November 29th, 2016 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has just announced that the only reason Turkish military forces have entered northern Syria is to “end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad”. By publicly proclaiming that Turkey intends to use military force to overthrow the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erdogan has essentially declared war on the Syrian government. Of course this puts a member of NATO in direct military conflict with Russia, since Russia is working very hard to prop up the Assad regime. If all-out war breaks out ...
Security Council Meeting on Syria
Post Date: 2016-12-01 07:49:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Security Council Meeting on Syria by Stephen Lendman At France’s request, representing America’s imperial project, its own and Britain’s, Security Council members met on Wednesday in “emergency” session on Syria. It had nothing to do with resolving the “humanitarian catastrophe” as French Foreign Minister Jean- Marc Ayrault explained why it was convened - everything to do with supporting terrorists in eastern Aleppo, being smashed by Syrian and allied forces, likely routed entirely in the coming weeks. According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, over 18,000 eastern Aleppo residents, held captive for years by US-supported terrorists, escaped to ...
UN Aid in Syria Going to US-Supported Terrorists
Post Date: 2016-11-30 12:05:21 by Stephen Lendman
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UN Aid in Syria Going to US-Supported Terrorists by Stephen Lendman The UN largely operates as a wholly owned US subsidiary, serving its imperial interests - in flagrant violation of its Charter principles. On November 30, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said world body aid is politicized - crumbs alone earmarked for thousands of Deir al-Zor residents, trapped by ISIS fighters, desperately needing help. Most UN aid goes to US-supported terrorists. On Wednesday, Russia’s General Staff head of main operations Gen. Sergei Rudskoi accused the UN and other international organizations of refusing to provide humanitarian aid to Aleppo residents. “The Russian ...
Erdogan's Imperial Lawlessness
Post Date: 2016-11-30 11:45:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Erdogan’s Imperial Lawlessness by Stephen Lendman Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an international outlaw, a wannabe sultan ruling with an iron fist, wanting northern Iraq and Syria annexed, along with Assad ousted. What’s been well-known all along, he partly admitted, saying “(w)e entered (northern Syria) to end the rule of the tyrant (sic) al-Assad who terrorizes (sic) with state terror (sic)…(not) for any other reason.” Claiming he has no territorial ambitions is false. He covets northern Iraq around Mosul for all that oil. He seeks expanding Turkish borders to include Iraqi and Syrian territory as part of his war on Kurds - at home and abroad. ...
Deplorable Reality in Ukraine
Post Date: 2016-11-29 08:16:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Deplorable Reality in Ukraine by Stephen Lendman In February 2014, Washington toppled Ukraine’s democratically elected government, replacing it with Nazi-infested putschists - a lawless regime at war with its own people, responsible for high crimes, ruthless governance and massive corruption, led by illegitimate US-installed Petro Poroshenko. New York Times editors gave feature op-ed space to its illegitimate foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin, disgracefully claiming “Ukraine has made great progress” - calling the most brazen European coup since Mussolini’s 1922 march on Rome a “Revolution of Dignity.” Klimkin: “We are finally tackling corruption in a ...
Syrian and Allied Forces Liberating Eastern Aleppo One Neighborhood After Another
Post Date: 2016-11-29 07:07:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian and Allied Forces Liberating Eastern Aleppo One Neighborhood After Another by Stephen Lendman Significant progress is being made, almost half of eastern Aleppo liberated, according to Russia’s reconciliation center. In the last 24 hours alone, 14 neighborhoods were liberated, thousands of civilians able to breathe free for the first time in years. Syrian forces have full control over eastern Aleppo’s northern districts, one after the other liberated, US-supported terrorist elements routed, forced to retreat, surrender or die. Reports indicate over 3,000 buildings cleared from their infestation, Syrian and allied forces now targeting areas they still control. Fierce ...
Julian Assange says CIA, Saudis created Daesh
Post Date: 2016-11-29 06:15:22 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) along with Saudi Arabia have paved the way for the creation of the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group, says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. On the occasion of releasing over half a million new documents on Monday, Assange explained the chain of events that led to the rise of Takfiri terrorism in the Middle East. He pointed the finger at the CIA and the Riyadh regime as the prime suspects, saying their decision to spend billions of dollars on arming Afghan militants against Soviet forces was the first step in the process. That move led to the creation of al-Qaeda terrorist group which in turn set the stage for the September 11, 2001 attacks, ...
John Kerry Wants Aleppo's Liberation Halted
Post Date: 2016-11-28 12:13:57 by Stephen Lendman
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John Kerry Wants Aleppo’s Liberation Halted by Stephen Lendman According to the neocon Washington Post, Kerry is “furious(ly)” aiming “to strike a deal with Russia to end the siege of Aleppo.” It has nothing to do with alleged concern about humanitarian crisis conditions in the city or elsewhere in Syria. Washington bears full responsibility for genocidal naked aggression against a nonbelligerent nation, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians alone, unaccountable high crimes. It has everything to do with Trump’s pledge to normalize ties with Russia, cooperating with Putin in combating terrorism in Syria - if he fulfills his promise. According to Putin ...
On the Same Day, One Year Apart, Russia Gets Its Revenge and Halts Turkey in Northern Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-28 05:27:36 by Tatarewicz
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RI... On the 24th of November 2015, Turkey shot down a Russian Sokhoi Su-24 over the Turkish-Syrian border causing the death of one of the two parachuted pilots while trying to hit the ground. On the same day, a year later, a Syrian Air Force jet hit a Turkish military convoy two kilometres from the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, killing three Turkish soldiers. The Turkish aggressive move toward Russia had come after the destruction of hundreds of oil tankers used by the “Islamic State” (ISIS) to transport oil from Syria and Iraq to Turkey. The Syrian Air Force (SyAF) activity is directly linked, coordinated and ordered by a common military operations room, headed by a Russian ...
Syrian Forces Capture Strategic Eastern Aleppo Area
Post Date: 2016-11-27 07:17:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Forces Capture Strategic Eastern Aleppo Area by Stephen Lendman According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), government and allied forces “established full control over Masaken Hanano and the area surrounding it in (eastern) Aleppo.” Capturing it is key to Aleppo’s liberation, perhaps before yearend or early January - pockets of US- supported terrorists increasingly isolated and surrounded, their supply lines largely cut off. Controlling Aleppo entirely and its surrounding areas is key to Syria’s eventual liberation. Reports indicate Syrian and allied advances against terrorists’ positions enabled hundreds of eastern Aleppo residents held captive as ...
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