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Major' ISIS jihadi camp OBLITERATED by Russian bombers during devastating airstrikes
Post Date: 2016-07-13 23:43:12 by Tatarewicz
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UK Express... The Kremlin said six Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bombers were deployed in the raids which destroyed the jihadi targets east of the towns of Palmyra and As Sukhnah and the village of Arak. The long-range warplanes flew from their base in southern Russia and returned home after the operation. The Russian military said information on the eliminated targets was acquired over several days and confirmed through several intelligence channels. The strike resulted in the destruction of a large militant field camp, three depots of arms and munitions, three tanks, four infantry combat vehicles and eight vehicles fitted with heavy machine guns Russian Defence Ministry spokesman It ...
Phony US Proposed Military Partnership with Russia in Syria
Post Date: 2016-07-13 13:30:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Phony US Proposed Military Partnership with Russia in Syria by Stephen Lendman Imperial powers don’t negotiate. They demand. Deals struck aren’t worth the paper they’re written on - agreed on then unilaterally breached. Obama’s proposed military partnership with Russia in Syria is head-fake deception - unacceptable from what little is known. The devil is in the details - one-sidedly favoring US interests based on how it always operates. It calls for both countries establishing a Joint Implementation Group for intelligence exchanges and operational information on ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra locations - areas where they’re operating, not precise positions for ...
Chilcot Report damns the charade of Iraq War
Post Date: 2016-07-13 08:15:03 by Ada
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke during a press conference in response to the Chilcot Iraqi Inquiry on July 6. Reduced to a Tweet, the just-released Iraq Inquiry might read like this: “#Tony Blair a poodle? Verily.” That’s the key finding that emerges from the 2.6 million-word official investigation into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War, informally known as the Chilcot Report. In the wake of 9/11, the British prime minister and his colleagues fancied that by supporting the George W. Bush administration in its determination to overthrow Saddam Hussein they could exercise a positive influence over US policy more generally. Instead, they allowed their ...
Syria conflict gone nuclear?
Post Date: 2016-07-13 07:37:58 by Tatarewicz
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REVENGE! RUSSIA DROPS TACTICAL NUCLEAR BOMBS ON ISIS WITH TU-22 M-3 LONG RANGE BOMBERS; MAYDA’A LIBERATED COMPLETELY BY SYRIAN ARMY; RATS DIE IN LARGE NUMBERS IN NORTH ALEPPO PAVING ROADS HOMS: 6 Tupolev 22-M3 long-range bombers took off from Russian soil today and delivered the crushing message of revenge we have all been anticipating. The wing of TU’s dropped tactical nuclear weapons on an area east of Palmyra, Al-Sukhna and Araak. It all occurred at dawn, Damascus time. A major ISIS c&c center was pulverized, 3 tanks melted down, 4 infantry trucks reduced to dross, 8 pickups with 23mm cannons completely vaporized. The actual number of dead rodents can only be estimated ...
Fool’s Errand: NATO Pledges Four More Years of War in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2016-07-13 06:41:30 by BTP Holdings
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Fool’s Errand: NATO Pledges Four More Years of War in Afghanistan Posted on July 11, 2016 by Ron Paul afghanistan map title Personal Liberty Poll Exercise your right to vote. The longest war in U.S. history just got even longer. As NATO wrapped up its 2016 Warsaw Summit, the organization agreed to continue funding Afghan security forces through the year 2020. Of course with all that funding comes U.S. and NATO troops, and thousands of contractors, trainers, and more. President Obama said last week that the U.S. must keep 3,000 more troops than planned in Afghanistan. The real reason is obvious: the mission has failed and Washington cannot bear to admit it. But Obama didn’t ...
Why number of US troops in Afghanistan doesn’t matter much
Post Date: 2016-07-13 05:45:15 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... President Barack Obama announced last week that the US strategy in Afghanistan has changed again, slowing the drawdown of US forces in the country. He even bragged about why he constantly reviews his strategy in Afghanistan, changes commanders, and makes adjustments, saying he is “guided by the facts, what’s happening on the ground.” His speech -- before his departure for the NATO Summit in Warsaw – was nothing less than an epitome of rhetorical and oratorical elegance and linguistic ability of the US commander-in-chief as his Janus-faced narrative of the war in Afghanistan did manage to obfuscate the kludge Washington calls the War on Terror. Let’s ...
Syria's Assad Blasts Western-Supported Terrorism, Russia Steps Up Strategic Bombing
Post Date: 2016-07-12 13:29:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria’s Assad Blasts Western-Supported Terrorism, Russia Steps Up Strategic Bombing by Stephen Lendman In March, Obama’s naked aggression on Syria entered its sixth year. Endless conflict rages because he wants war, not peace. Claims otherwise are head-fake deception. US plans call for forcibly ousting Assad, destroying Syria’s sovereignty, partitioning the country for easier control, looting its resources, exploiting its people and creating dystopian chaos and human misery. Assad defends his country and people heroically, his leadership and mission entirely opposite of how he’s portrayed in the West, by Israel and other regional rogue states. Conflict can only end ...
New York Times Hypocrisy on Iraq War
Post Date: 2016-07-11 08:36:42 by Stephen Lendman
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New York Times Hypocrisy on Iraq War by Stephen Lendman In the run-up to the 2003 war, The Times was the leading instrument of US propaganda, flagrantly breaching journalistic ethics, featuring shameless daily misreporting, its longstanding practice. It substituted willful misinformation for hard truths, a daily drumbeat, supporting naked aggression against a nonbelligerent country based entirely on Big Lies. Mea culpas when it’s too late to matter ring hollow. Times editors headlining “Iraq War Lies, 13 Years Later” ignore consistent editorial support for US imperial policy, Obama’s multiple wars of aggression, confrontational policy toward Russia and China, as well ...
Turkish Leader Erdogan's Hollow Vow to Fight Terrorism
Post Date: 2016-07-11 08:21:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Turkish Leader Erdogan’s Hollow Vow to Fight Terrorism by Stephen Lendman In late June, Putin and Erdogan spoke by phone, their first direct contact since Ankara provocatively downed a Russian Su-24 warplane in Syrian airspace last November. It proved a costly act of war. Stiff Moscow sanctions followed, costing Turkey’s economy billions of dollars in lost tourism, trade and investments. Ahead of the arranged call, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Erdogan by letter apologized for last year’s incident, expressing eagerness to normalize relations - vowing to fight terrorism, the scourge he actively supports, wanting Bashar al-Assad toppled and sovereign Syrian ...
A New Fight Over Syria War Strategy
Post Date: 2016-07-11 07:35:19 by Tatarewicz
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Exclusive: President Obama has signaled a willingness to join Russia in going after Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front in Syria, but neocons and other hawks are fighting the policy shift, reports Gareth Porter. The long internal political struggle within the Obama administration over policy toward Syria has intensified following a proposal by President Barack Obama to cooperate with Russia in an air campaign against Al Qaeda’s Syrian franchise. The proposal, in response to an overture from Russia in May, would coordinate airstrikes against al-Nusra Front – the most powerful force in the war against Bashar al-Assad’s regime – in return for Russian agreement to constrain the ...
Tony Blair's Deputy Prime Minister Calls Iraq War Illegal
Post Date: 2016-07-10 11:55:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Tony Blair’s Deputy Prime Minister Calls Iraq War Illegal by Stephen Lendman John Prescott served from May 2, 1997 until June 27, 2007. In a Sunday Mirror op-ed, he called John Chilcot’s report “a damning indictment on how the Blair Government handled the war,” adding he shares blame. Apologizing to families of scores of British servicemen perishing in conflict dismissively ignored millions of Iraqi deaths from war, related violence, preventable diseases, starvation and overall deprivation - hundreds to thousands more dying monthly, a Western-instigated holocaust for power, privilege, dominance and all that oil. Prescott saying he now believes war on Iraq was ...
US-Sponsored Genocide in Syria
Post Date: 2016-07-10 08:52:17 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Sponsored Genocide in Syria by Stephen Lendman From the republic’s inception, America waged genocidal wars without mercy, rule of law principles discarded, conquest and dominance sought at any price. At home, America’s native people were virtually exterminated, survivors consigned to concentration camp-like reservations, treated more like animals than people, impoverished, abused and denied their fundamental rights. Abroad, one country after another was raped and destroyed, endless horrors continuing. Tens of millions of corpses attest to a ruthless state masquerading as democratic and peace-loving - an Orwellian world in fact, not fiction. Cold hard reality exposes ...
Obama in Poland
Post Date: 2016-07-10 08:39:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama in Poland by Stephen Lendman In Warsaw for US-dominated NATO’s anti-Russia, saber-rattling summit, Obama commented Saturday at its conclusion - demagogic doublespeak featured, no straight talk. He expressed hollow condolences for Blacks victimized by police violence and grieving family members - mindless of his war on humanity at home and abroad, his callous indifference to human suffering, once offhandedly telling aides he’s “really good at killing people.” He’s waged dirty war throughout his tenure, responsible for millions of deaths in multiple US war theaters. His crimes include drone war as an instrument of state terror, assassinating targeted ...
Top Aide to Iranian Commander Calls on Russia to Use S-400 Missile Shield against All Hostile Aircraft in Syria
Post Date: 2016-07-10 04:13:32 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Top Advisor to Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Brigadier General Khosro Orouj called on Moscow to use its defense missile shield in Syria to target all enemy targets violating the war-ravaged country's airspace. "The anti-aircraft systems that Russia has brought to Syria shouldnt allow even one single (enemy) aircraft to fly over the country, but this is not happening," General Orouj said with much regret. His remarks came as Israeli airstrikes in Syria have been widely reported over the last five years of the countrys crisis in support of the Takfiri terrorists. In a latest development in December, Israeli jets carried out several ...
US-Installed Kiev Puppet Blames Russia for His Regime's Crimes
Post Date: 2016-07-09 12:28:18 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Installed Kiev Puppet Blames Russia for His Regime’s Crimes by Stephen Lendman Widely reviled, illegitimate billionaire puppet Petro Poroshenko heads Ukraine’s putschist regime - waging US-backed naked aggression against his own Donbass citizens, mobilizing forces for escalated conflict. Wall Street Journal editors gave him featured op-ed space. Legitimate ones wouldn’t touch his rubbish, shameless stuff not fit to print. Headlining “Ukraine and NATO, Complementary Allies Against Russia,” he reinterpreted history, accusing Russia of high crimes he committed. He boasted of new fighting forces, armed and trained by US-led NATO allies, participating with them ...
NATO: An Instrument of US Imperial Policy
Post Date: 2016-07-09 09:01:37 by Stephen Lendman
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NATO: An Instrument of US Imperial Policy by Stephen Lendman US-dominated NATO threatens world peace. It’s for offense, not defense. No threats exist except invented ones, lamely justifying the unjustifiable. Washington uses the alliance to advance its imperium, hanging a sword of Damocles over humanity. Claiming NATO’s resolve is to confront a “resurgent Russia” masks its aim to be a world policeman, a global alliance operating on every continent, an enforcer of US foreign policy - an agenda of endless wars, elimination of all independent governments, puppet regimes replacing them, planet earth colonized. Obama’s Financial Times op-ed on the summit’s eve ...
Chilcot Report and 7/7 London Bombing Anniversary Converge to Highlight Terrorism’s Causes
Post Date: 2016-07-08 09:11:49 by Ada
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Eleven years ago today, three suicide bombers attacked the London subway and a bus and killed 51 people. Almost immediately, it was obvious that retaliation for Britain’s invasion and destruction of Iraq was a major motive for the attackers. Two of them said exactly that in videotapes they left behind: The attacks “will continue and pick up strengths till you pull your soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq. … Until we feel security, you will be targets.” Then, less than a year later, a secret report from British military and intelligence chiefs concluded that “the war in Iraq contributed to the radicalization of the July 7 London bombers and is likely to continue to ...
Saber-Rattling NATO Warsaw Summit
Post Date: 2016-07-07 11:54:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Saber-Rattling NATO Warsaw Summit by Stephen Lendman Washington dominates NATO policy, other members and partners pressured to go along with policies harming their own interests. Meeting in Warsaw, Poland on July 8 and 9, 28 NATO countries, 26 partners, the UN and World Bank intend focusing on pre-agreed anti-Russian policies - US-appointed Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg highlighting the alliance’s “biggest reinforcement since the Cold War.” “We will deploy four robust, multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland,” he said. “I welcome Canada’s recent announcement that it will lead one of these four battalions.” “We ...
Life was BETTER under Saddam Hussein: Iraqis say 'Tony Blair and George Bush destroyed our country...They are the devil'
Post Date: 2016-07-07 09:50:54 by Ada
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People on streets of Iraq today celebrated Sir John Chilcot's damning Inquiry report into the 2003 invasion of their country They say Tony Blair and George Bush orchestrated bombings which needlessly killed 179 British troops and thousands of their countrymen Many say the shamed former PM who issued a grovelling apology today underestimated the consequences of toppling tyrant Saddam Hussein They said killing Saddam sparked political and religious in-fighting, which made Iraq more dangerous now than under before invasion Shopkeeper Selman Hussein told MailOnline: 'Under Saddam we were happier. Now everybody is fighting, now there are bombs everyday' Iraqis whose lives were ...
Blair’s Overdue Repudiation
Post Date: 2016-07-07 07:55:30 by Ada
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I have been struck by a few things about the responses in Britain following the release of the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry’s findings. Some top Iraq war supporters remain unrepentant and as deluded as ever. Tony Blair affirms that he would invade Iraq again if he had to do it all over, and seems to be more preoccupied with the criticism that he was dishonest in selling the war than he is interested in facing up to the horrible costs of the war he helped to start. That is no different from many of our own Iraq war dead-enders, but the interesting thing is that Blair is still being criticized in the strongest terms across the political spectrum and his reputation is widely seen as being ...
Chilcot Report Postmortems
Post Date: 2016-07-07 07:48:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Chilcot Report Postmortems by Stephen Lendman According to Chilcot, “no imminent threat” justified war on Iraq, his conclusions saying: “(T)he UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort.” “The judgments about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq’s (alleged) weapons of mass destruction - WMD - were presented with a certainty that was not justified.” “Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated. The planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.” “The government ...
Chilcot Report Far Short of Judgment Day for War Criminal Tony Blair
Post Date: 2016-07-06 12:28:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Chilcot Report Far Short of Judgment Day for War Criminal Tony Blair by Stephen Lendman The long delayed Iraq Inquiry Committee Chilcot report took seven years to complete, filled 12 volumes, yet excluded what’s most important - declaring the 2003 Iraq war illegal, flagrantly violating international law, destroying the cradle of civilization, raping it for control and profit, and demanding accountability for those responsible. Its 2.6 million words pronounced no judgment on Blair’s partnership with GW Bush’s naked aggression against a nonbelligerent country, based entirely on misinformation and Big Lies. US, Britain and co-conspiratorial “coalition” partners ...
Neuroscience of terrorism: Inside the mind of a Takfiri terrorist
Post Date: 2016-07-06 00:33:28 by Tatarewicz
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PresssTV... Imagine you are contacted by a recruiter and have been asked to go get an explosive belt from their agents. Then you are instructed to go to one of the most crowded places near you and kill as many people as you can before you detonate your vest. Yes while you are still wearing it. Probably you cannot imagine that. Or you may be thinking what kind of psychological illness you should have to be able to even picture such a scene. But at the moment, there are quite a large number of people around the world who are following such instructions. What can make a sane human being be able to commit mass murder? What is the voice inside their heads when they are about to kill themselves ...
US-Backed Terrorists in Syria Committing High Crimes with Impunity
Post Date: 2016-07-05 10:50:25 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Backed Terrorists in Syria Commit High Crimes with Impunity by Stephen Lendman In its new report, titled “ ‘Torture was my punishment:’ Abductions, torture and summary killings under armed group rule in Aleppo and Idleb,” Amnesty International (AI) reported on what’s been well documented before. Terrorists in Syria, backed by Washington, NATO, Israel and other regional rogue states freely commit high crimes of war and against humanity with impunity. Media scoundrels largely ignore them, wrongfully blaming Assad, courageously combating foreign invaders, imported death squads wanting his country destroyed, its people slaughtered and brutalized. AI’s ...
Guns and Hotdogs
Post Date: 2016-07-05 07:55:35 by Ada
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How the U.S. Military Promotes Its Weapons Arsenal to the Public Photography by Nina Berman America’s wars take place far away — Kabul is 6,700 miles from New York or, traveling in the other direction, 7,400 miles from San Francisco. They also involve fewer and fewer Americans — the Army now has about 475,000 active duty soldiers, the lowest number since World War II. This leaves the Pentagon free to promote itself to a country that largely has no idea what war actually entails. In addition to standard TV advertising and flyovers at the Super Bowl, the U.S. military spends tens of millions of dollars each year on live events that function half as recruitment pitches and ...
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