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US-Backed Terrorists Shell Aleppo Hospital
Post Date: 2016-05-03 12:33:27 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Backed Terrorists Shell Aleppo Hospital by Stephen Lendman All terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere are US-backed, armed, funded, trained and directed to commit atrocities and other war crimes. Civilians are willfully targeted. All attacks on residential areas, schools, hospitals, infrastructure and other nonmilitary targets are carried out by US-supported terrorists, Pentagon warplanes, Israel or other coalition partners. Government forces and Russian aircraft have nothing to do with attacking nonmilitary targets. Accusations otherwise are fabricated. Unexplained is the obvious. Why would they kill civilians they’re waging war on terrorism to protect? Why would they ...
John Kerry's Phony Push for Peace in Syria
Post Date: 2016-05-03 07:52:47 by Stephen Lendman
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John Kerry’s Phony Push for Peace in Syria by Stephen Lendman Washington wants war, not peace. It continues endless aggression on Syria for regime change - using proxy terrorist foot soldiers to do its dirty work. Conflict will continue as long as its objective remains unattained. Its calls for peace ring hollow. On Monday, John Kerry met with pro-Western UN Syrian envoy Staffan de Mistura. They discussed collapsed peace talks ahead of attempting another farcical effort to revive them. Kerry lied, saying Washington seeks “not just re-implementation of cessation, but a path forward for (it) to hold.” US-backed terrorists continue ravaging parts of Aleppo they control, ...
Outnumbered, Outranged, and Outgunned: How Russia Defeats NATO
Post Date: 2016-05-03 03:25:52 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Originally appeared at War On the RocksWhen asked two weeks ago in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee whether the Army was “outranged” by any adversary, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley said: “Yes … the ones in Europe, really Russia. We don’t like it, we don’t want it, but yes, technically [we are] outranged, outgunned on the ground.”Given Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, this is sobering testimony. But is it accurate? Unfortunately, yes: Nearly two years of extensive wargaming and analysis shows that if Russia were to conduct a short-warning attack against the Baltic States, Moscow’s forces could ...
Phantom Free Syrian Army Rejects Peace
Post Date: 2016-05-02 09:23:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Phantom Free Syrian Army Rejects Peace by Stephen Lendman The phantom FSA exists on paper alone. All anti-government armed groups are US-backed terrorists - death squads imported from scores of countries. Syria is Obama’s war, orchestrated by Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Its goal is replacing Assad with pro-Western puppet governance like the US controlled Iraqi regime, partitioning both countries, looting their resources and exploiting their people. Illegally deploying hundreds of US special forces to northern Syria is part of the imperial scheme - on the phony pretext of aiding nonexistent “moderate rebels.” Russia supports Syrian sovereignty and territorial ...
Departing NATO Commander Hypes Nonexistent Russian Threat
Post Date: 2016-05-02 09:14:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Departing NATO Commander Hypes Nonexistent Russian Threat by Stephen Lendman Thousands more US-led NATO forces are being provocatively deployed near Russia’s borders. Interviewed by Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter broadsheet, Sergey Lavrov accused NATO of “inching closer and closer to Russia’s borders. But when Russia takes action to ensure its security, we are told that Russia is engaging in dangerous maneuvers near NATO borders. In fact, NATO borders are getting closer to Russia, not the opposite.” The 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act prohibits provocatively deploying Alliance forces near Russia’s borders. US history shows a flagrant disregard for agreement terms. ...
Iraq in Turmoil
Post Date: 2016-05-01 12:28:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Iraq in Turmoil by Stephen Lendman Public anger over unchecked corruption while popular needs go begging may be the undoing of Washington’s puppet regime. On Saturday, thousands breached the heavily fortified Green Zone. Hundreds entered parliament. Protesters want revolutionary change, current ministers replaced with new ones, no action so far taken. One protester likely spoke for others, shouting “(y)ou are not staying here. This is your last day in the Green Zone.” Another said “(w)e are fed up. We are living a humiliated life. We’ll leave here only when the corrupt government is replaced with another of independent technocrats that serve the people, not the ...
US-Supported Terrorist Atrocities in Syria
Post Date: 2016-05-01 12:18:33 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Supported Terrorist Atrocities in Syria by Stephen Lendman They’re committed daily in various parts of Syria, especially in northern areas near Turkey’s border and suburban Damascus. Scoundrel media headlines scream Russian and Syrian airstrikes continuing during (fantasy) cessation of hostilities and (farcical) peace talks - on life support, breathing hard, effectively dead. The London-based, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, publishes regular pro-Western press releases, one-sided conflict reports. It claimed daily Russian and government bombardment of Aleppo since April 22 killed 250 mostly civilians, ended ceasefire and caused peace talks to collapse. ...
America's Rape of Iraq
Post Date: 2016-04-30 12:27:36 by Stephen Lendman
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America’s Rape of Iraq by Stephen Lendman Complicit with Israel, America’s plan to redraw the Middle East map bears full responsibility for raping and destroying Iraq. From September 1980 to the present, Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama committed the highest of high crimes against peace. Millions of Iraqis perished from war, conflict related violence, preventable diseases, starvation, overall deprivation and US-sponsored terrorism. Millions today endure unspeakable misery - living in an endless war zone, security and stability entirely absent. Puppet governance runs things, serving its US master, officials enriching themselves through massive ...
Pentagon Whitewashes Mass Murder
Post Date: 2016-04-30 09:09:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Pentagon Whitewashes Mass Murder by Stephen Lendman America considers civilians legitimate targets in all its wars of aggression. Fundamental laws of war prohibit attacking them - ignored in all US combat operations. CENTCOM lied, calling its October 3, 2015 bombing of the Kunduz, Afghanistan Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital a “tragic incident.” It turned truth on its head, claiming “personnel involved did not know that they were striking a medical facility. The intended target was an insurgent-controlled site which was approximately 400 meters away…” CENTCOM commander General Joseph Votel willfully lied, claiming US forces “had no idea” they ...
China Denies US Carrier Group Hong Kong Port Call
Post Date: 2016-04-30 08:53:54 by Stephen Lendman
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China Denies US Carrier Group Hong Kong Port Call Stephen Lendman US/Sino tensions remain high. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Joint Chiefs chairman Joseph (“fighting Joe”) Dunford provocatively call China and Russia America’s leading threats, along with Iran, North Korea and terrorism. On Friday, America’s Hong Kong consulate said Beijing denied permission for the USS John C. Stennis and four accompanying vessels to make a Hong Kong port call, beginning on May 3 for five days. China’s Foreign Ministry said it “needs to approve every ship coming to Hong Kong on a case by case basis in accordance with sovereignty principles and specific ...
The Battle for Aleppo
Post Date: 2016-04-29 08:56:13 by Stephen Lendman
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The Battle for Aleppo by Stephen Lendman Western officials and supportive media scoundrels blame attacks on civilian targets in Aleppo and surrounding areas on Syria and Russia. US-backed terrorists bear full responsibility. The UK government owned, operated and controlled BBC was typical media deception, repeating tired old Big Lies, citing US sources “criticizing Russia’s air campaign for largely striking at Western-backed groups fighting the Syrian government rather than the so-called Islamic State.” Fact: Syrian and Russian forces are attacking ISIS and other Security Council designated terrorist groups. Fact: All armed factions waging war on Syria are imported death ...
US-Backed Terrorists Shell Aleppo Hospital - Russia and Syria Blamed
Post Date: 2016-04-28 12:06:59 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Backed Terrorists Shell Aleppo Hospital - Russia and Syria Blamed by Stephen Lendman Overnight Wednesday, US-backed terrorists shelled Aleppo’s Doctors Without Borders (MSF) al- Razi hospital and nearby residential areas - killing at least 20, injuring dozens, some critically. Syrian media reported rocket shells “stuffed with highly explosive materials” caused extensive damage. A Syrian military source said falsified reports blamed its warplanes and Russia’s for the attacks. US-backed terrorists bore full responsibility. Three children and six medical staff were among the casualties. The ICRC said escalated fighting worsened the humanitarian situation for tens of ...
Pentagon Hypes Fear for Greater Military Spending
Post Date: 2016-04-28 09:07:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Pentagon Hypes Fear for Greater Military Spending by Stephen Lendman I’ve stressed repeatedly. America’s only enemies are ones it creates. Its war on terrorism is a shameless hoax, a pretext for endless wars of aggression. Today is the most perilous time in world history. Bipartisan US policy threatens world peace. The possibility of nuclear war should scare everyone. Disarmament should be prioritized - using public resources for economic development, job creation, and rebuilding industrial America. Bipartisan consensus rejects what’s most essential, supporting military Keynesianism on steroids, a permanent war economy, ongoing since WW II ended. The world’s ...
Kerry: ‘I Have Deep Reservations About an All-Volunteer Military’ [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-04-28 06:19:34 by Ada
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Says Military Families Have 'Enormous Burden' In comments supportive of the idea of military conscription, something virtually unheard of among modern US officials, Secretary of State John Kerry, visiting the University of Texas today, declared himself to “have deep reservations about an all-volunteer military.” Kerry insisted that military families have an “enormous burden” from all their overseas deployments and that the US needs to find a way to ensure that all Americans are made to “share responsibility” for the wars, adding “everybody ought to give back something.” Ironically, during his presidential campaign in 2004, Kerry not only ...
Russian Air Power Making the Difference in Syria
Post Date: 2016-04-27 12:07:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Russian Air Power Making the Difference in Syria by Stephen Lendman Defeating US-supported terrorists in Syria requires longterm struggle. Reinvigorated government forces greatly aided by Russian air power, intelligence and other assistance are up to the task. Russia’s involvement since last September turned the tide of battle, its General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate head Gen. Sergei Rudskoy, saying: “Over almost seven months of the Russian Aerospace Forces' military operation (in Syria), more than 9,500 sorties (were) conducted, and some 29,000 terrorist targets (were) destroyed.” They include terrorist-held oil facilities, explaining “(t)he ...
Obama in Germany
Post Date: 2016-04-26 05:32:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama in Germany by Stephen Lendman After promising no US boots on the ground in Iraq and Syria, over 4,000 were deployed to Iraq, unknown numbers to Syria, another 250 or more coming on the phony pretext of combating ISIS. US responsibility for naked aggression in both countries rages while Obama maintains the fiction of pursuing peace. He touted the anti-consumer, anti-democratic, anti-environmental Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - empowering corporate predators to rule the world unhindered if enacted. He addressed “the people of Europe” his usual way - substituting misinformation and Big Lies for straight talk and hard truths. Beware a US president ...
All Anti-Government Forces in Syria Are US-Backed Terrorists
Post Date: 2016-04-25 11:50:57 by Stephen Lendman
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All Anti-Government Forces in Syria Are US-Backed Terrorists by Stephen Lendman The myth of so-called “moderate rebels” persists even though none exist. Political opposition in Syria like in most countries shuns violence. Militants are imported foreign death squads, recruited in scores of countries - supported by Washington and its rogue partners, wanting Syria raped and destroyed, waging endless war for regime change. Ceasefire is more fantasy than real. Farcical peace talks collapsed. Endless war rages because Washington rejects peaceful conflict resolution permitting Syrians alone to decide who’ll lead them, free from foreign interference. Obama launched naked ...
US Upping the Stakes in Syria
Post Date: 2016-04-25 08:51:44 by Stephen Lendman
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US Upping the Stakes in Syria by Stephen Lendman In March 2011, Obama launched naked aggression on Syria, using ISIS and other terrorists as proxy foot soldiers. In September 2014, US warplanes began bombing Syrian infrastructure and government sites on the phony pretext of waging war on ISIS. Last December, Fars News reported “US experts are reconstructing and equipping a desolate airport…in Northeastern Syria…turning it into a military base.” “The Lebanese al-Akhbar newspaper reported…that a number of US experts have entered the region since 50 days ago to develop and prepare the runways with 2,500m length and 250m width to be used by fighter jets.” ...
Exhibit One in Any Future American War Crimes Trial
Post Date: 2016-04-25 08:47:43 by Ada
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Let’s take a moment to think about the ultimate strangeness of our American world. In recent months, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have offered a range of hair- raising suggestions: as president, one or the other of them might order the U.S. military and the CIA to commit acts that would include the waterboarding of terror suspects (or “a hell of a lot worse”), the killing of the relatives of terrorists, and the carpet bombing of parts of Syria. All of these would, legally speaking, be war crimes. This has caused shock among many Americans in quite established quarters who have decried the possibility of such a president, suggesting that the two of them are calling for outright ...
Merkel's Syria Safe Zone Partition Plan
Post Date: 2016-04-24 09:02:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Merkel’s Syria Safe Zone Partition Scheme by Stephen Lendman Longstanding US/Israeli plans call for redrawing the Middle East map - including partitioning Iraq and Syria, installing pro-Western/Zionist puppet regimes. Turkey wants a Syria buffer zone to annex border areas between both countries. Weeks earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blasted the idea, saying creating one would “violate every principle of international law and will lead to a substantial, qualitative escalation” of tensions. In February, John Kerry told Senate Foreign Relations Committee members that establishing a buffer or safe zone in Syria would require up to 30,000 troops to enforce it, ...
BEFORE THEY GO TO ANY WAR, THEY BRAINWASH YOU IDIOTS
Post Date: 2016-04-24 00:11:07 by Tatarewicz
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PravdaMainForum... “Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” -George Orwell In the lead up to the first Gulf War in 1991, the world was shocked by congressional testimony from a young woman named Nayirah, who said she was in a Kuwait Hospital when Iraqi troops arrived. She broke down describing the looting she said followed, claiming the soldiers had killed premature newborns by taking them out of their incubators and leaving them on the cold floor. There was just one problem with this testimony that wasn’t discovered until later: it wasn’t true. The tearful story was given by ...
We’re not the “good guys”: American drone warfare is terrorizing the Middle East
Post Date: 2016-04-23 17:19:00 by Ada
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The Obama administration clings to Hollywood fantasy about the war on terror, even as its whistleblowers call foul In a trio of recent action-packed movies, good guys watch terrorists mingling with innocent women and children via real-time video feeds from halfway across the world. A clock ticks and we, the audience, are let in on the secret that mayhem is going to break loose. After much agonized soul-searching about possible collateral damage, the good guys call in a missile strike from a U.S. drone to try to save the day by taking out a set of terrorists. Such is the premise of Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky, Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill, and Rick Rosenthal’s Drones. In ...
Incoming NATO Commander Militantly Anti-Russian
Post Date: 2016-04-23 11:59:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Incoming NATO Commander Militantly Anti-Russian by Stephen Lendman NATO is a global killing machine, a US dominated imperial tool, its mission polar opposite its claim about being a “political and military alliance for peace and security.” Washington wants worldwide members and partners on all continents, prioritizes endless wars of aggression, wants all independent states replaced by pro-Western vassal ones. Its agenda threatens world peace and security. Current NATO commander US General Philip Breedlove will step down as soon as General Curtis Scaparrotti’s nomination is approved to replace him. In Thursday testimony before Senate Armed Services Committee members, he ...
Russia Foiled US Imperial Plans for Syria
Post Date: 2016-04-23 09:06:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Foiled US Imperial Plans for Syria by Stephen Lendman Syria is Obama’s war, naked aggression using imported death squads, orchestrated by Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, following a similar strategy she devised to topple Gaddafi and rape Libya. Russia’s intervention in Syria last September dramatically changed the dynamic on the ground. “(S)upport given…to the legitimate government of Syria helped prevent the disintegration of the Syrian state, its statehood, preserved power structures and prevented mass victims among the civilian population,” Putin explained. With Russian aerial support, Syrian forces “liberated more than 400 villages and ...
Iraqi warplanes destroy Daesh oil convoy in Nineveh province
Post Date: 2016-04-23 03:54:11 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The Iraqi Air Force has destroyed a Daesh oil convoy in the northern Nineveh province, a blow to stem the Takfiri terrorist group’s oil sales. On Friday, Iraqi warplanes targeted 20 tanker trucks, loaded with crude oil, in the Qayyarah oilfield, located on the west bank of the Tigris river, Arabic-language al-Sumaria news website reported, citing an unnamed security source in the province. According to the report, the airstrikes completely destroyed the convoy and caused a huge fire, whose thick and black smoke darkened the sky. At least eight terrorists were killed in the attack and eight others sustained injuries. The IHS Conflict Monitor reported on Monday that 43 ...
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