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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 ...
War? Syrian Air Force Pounds Turkish Positions
Post Date: 2016-11-24 21:20:41 by Ada
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Why is Russia Silent? Last night, the Syrian Air Force delivered air strikes on the Turkish Armed Forces near the ISIS controlled town of al-Bab in northern Syria, according to local sources in the Aleppo province. The Turkish military confirmed that three Turkish soldiers and 10 others wounded (one of them seriously)were as result of an air strikes thought to be carried by the Syrian military. The wounded soldiers were taken to the hospital in the Turkish province of Gaziantep, bordering Syria. Ankara added that the attack occurred at around 3:30 am (0030 GMT) in the course of the Turkish-led military operation (code-named Operation Euphrates Shield) in the area of al-Bab. At the ...
Russia Blasts US Failure to Combat Terrorism in Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-24 13:18:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Blasts US Failure to Combat Terrorism in Syria by Stephen Lendman Washington created and actively supports virtually all Middle East terrorists groups, others elsewhere - its so-called global war on terrorism perhaps the greatest hoax in modern times. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov responded sharply to deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner’s call for tankers to halt fuel shipments to Russia for aerial operations in Syria combating terrorism - in contrast to America supporting the scourge it claims to oppose. Toner’s call “confirm(s) our earlier estimates that fighting terrorism in Syria has never been on the outgoing ...
Trump's Son Held Talks on Resolving Conflict in Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-24 08:17:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Son Held Talks on Resolving Conflict in Syria by Stephen Lendman Call it a hopeful sign. The Wall Street Journal and other media reports indicated Donald Trump Jr., the president-elect’s eldest son, held talks last month in Paris with diplomats, politicians and businessmen - focused on cooperating with Russia and Assad to end years of war in Syria. French think tank Center of Political and Foreign Affairs founder Fabien Baussart and his wife Randa Kassis, a Syrian national, hosted the meeting - Kassis saying “(w)e have to be realistic… Without Russia, we can’t have any solution in Syria.” She praised Trump Jr., calling him “very pragmatic (and) ...
US House Members Up the Stakes in Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-23 14:39:39 by Stephen Lendman
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US House Members Up the Stakes in Syria by Stephen Lendman On November 15, House members unanimously approved legislation for new sanctions on Syria and its supporters, pointing fingers at Russia, Iran and Hezbollah - illegal if imposed without Security Council authorization. HR 5732, The Ceasar Syria Civilian Protection Act, requires reports on human rights violators (excluding war crimes by America, its rogue allies and terrorist foot soldiers called moderates), “abuse of cross-border assistance, and the feasibility of (establishing) a no-fly zone or safe zone over” the country - a declaration of war on Syria and Russia if imposed. Photographer Ceasar produced thousands of ...
Chemical Weapons Use in Syria: By US-Supported Terrorists, Not Assad
Post Date: 2016-11-22 13:28:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Chemical Weapons Use in Syria: By US-Supported Terrorists, Not Assad by Stephen Lendman US-supported terrorists used toxic agents on Syrian forces and civilians numerous times since Obama launched naked aggression in March 2011. Nearly always, Assad is wrongfully blamed, despite Syria’s entire CW arsenal destroyed under Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) supervision. On Monday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov issued a statement, saying: “In Area ‘1070’ in the southwestern suburbs of Aleppo, experts from the Russian Defense Ministry conducted rapid identification of nine selected samples (fragments of mines, the ...
Building a Non-Intervention Coalition?
Post Date: 2016-11-21 19:57:21 by Ada
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Here’s a hopeful sign for the non-intervention position. Trump met with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii). Gabbard explicitly rejected neocon-inspired escalation in Syria: “I felt it important to take the opportunity to meet with the President-elect now before the drumbeats of war that neocons have been beating drag us into an escalation of the war to overthrow the Syrian government—a war which has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives and forced millions of refugees to flee their homes in search of safety for themselves and their families.” Equally telling, she rejected a no-fly scheme, Hillary Clinton’s brainchild: “Gabbard told Trump she opposes a ...
US-Supported Terrorists Deny Medical Care to Eastern Aleppo Residents
Post Date: 2016-11-21 08:37:18 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Supported Terrorists Deny Medical Care to Eastern Aleppo Residents by Stephen Lendman US-supported terrorists control eastern Aleppo public and private hospitals still functioning - using them for military purposes, denying vital treatment for residents in need. Syrian and Hezbollah forces began a large-scale offensive to liberate Aleppo entirely from the scourge of US-backed terrorism. On October 18, Russian and Syrian aerial operations were halted within a 10 km area in terrorist- controlled eastern parts of the city - conducting them in surrounding areas alone so far, aimed at cutting supply lines and aiding the advance of government-led forces. At the same time, Russian and ...
Syria Rejects Eastern Aleppo Autonomy Run by US-Supported Terrorists
Post Date: 2016-11-20 12:32:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Rejects Eastern Aleppo Autonomy Run by US-Supported Terrorists by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, pro-Western UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura made Damascus an offer it refused - dividing Aleppo, letting US-supported terrorists called “moderates” control eastern areas. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem slapped him down diplomatically, rejecting his outrageous proposal, saying: “We held talks Sunday morning with UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura and his delegation, and we expected a date for resuming the intra-Syrian dialogue, but we did not heard about that from him.” “We gave three truce opportunities respectively for evacuating the ...
US-Supported Eastern Aleppo Terrorists Massacre Residents Protesting for Freedom
Post Date: 2016-11-19 07:57:24 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Supported Eastern Aleppo Terrorists Massacre Residents Protesting for Freedom by Stephen Lendman So-called “moderate rebels” at war with sovereign Syria and its people are US-supported cutthroat killers. On Friday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov issued a statement, saying “(r)adicals fired assault rifles at a rally in (eastern Aleppo’s) Haidariya district.” “A total of 17 people died on the site, including two teenagers aged 13 and 15. More than 40 people were injured. The terrorists caught a dozen men who they thought were ‘organizers’ of the unrest and took them away. They were all executed on the same day.” ...
GREEN BERETS MURDERED FOR THWARTING CIA LED ISIS TRAINING PROGRAM
Post Date: 2016-11-18 20:52:15 by Ada
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Special Forces for years have accused "moderate rebels" of being ISIS and al-Nusra infiltrators The truth about the 3 murdered CIA Green Berets has finally come out. This was no accidental discharge or mistake. This was a hit by ISIS to keep the CIA’s secret ISIS training program from going public. SOFREP News, a site with analysis from Spec Ops veterans, reports as follows: The slaying of three Green Berets comes after years of the Special Forces soldiers assigned to the CIA’s Timber Sycamore program complaining that the moderate rebels they had been sent to train were actually ISIS and al-Nusra infiltrators. The vetting that the CIA does of the rebels is dubious at ...
Will Trump End Obama's War on Syria?
Post Date: 2016-11-18 12:33:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Will Trump End Obama’s War on Syria? by Stephen Lendman Following months of planning, Obama waged war on Syria. It’s no civil conflict as falsely reported - one of many Big Lies about what’s ongoing. US-supported jihadist death squads are used as imperial foot soldiers - supplemented by Pentagon-led “coalition” terror-bombing of government sites, vital infrastructure, civilian targets, and at least one willful attack on Syrian forces. Trump earlier said “we’ve destabilized the Middle East and it’s a mess.” Will he end US aggression, partnering with Russian and Syrian forces to combat ISIS and other terrorist groups? Assad called him a ...
Will Trump Withdraw from NATO?
Post Date: 2016-11-18 08:31:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Will Trump Withdraw from NATO? by Stephen Lendman It’s no more likely than the sun henceforth rising in the west once he’s inaugurated. Though calling NATO “obsolete” and “costing us a fortune,” he said “I don’t want to pull (America) out,” adding “I think the distribution of costs has to be changed.” “We’re paying disproportionately. It’s too much…(I)t’s a different world than it was when we originally conceived of the idea…(M)aybe we have to pay a lot less,” other countries more. “(I)t doesn’t really help us. It’s helping other countries.” The media are “so totally ...
Trump Picks General Michael Flynn As National Security Advisor
Post Date: 2016-11-18 08:14:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Picks General Michael Flynn As National Security Advisor by Stephen Lendman Media reports indicated Trump chose him. It’s unclear if he accepted. Likely so as otherwise consideration of him for the position would have been kept under wraps. We’ll know either way soon. The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (NSA) needs no Senate confirmation. Duties involve advising the president on national security issues - specifically domestic, foreign, and military policies, along with assuring cooperation between military branches and civilian intelligence agencies. The 1947 National Security Act established the National Security Council, the NSA its head, the ...
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