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US Plan B for Syria Is Plan A
Post Date: 2016-04-13 12:36:46 by Stephen Lendman
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US Plan B for Syria is Plan A by Stephen Lendman Obama wants Assad’s government forcefully toppled, using ISIS and other terrorists fighters as imperial foot soldiers. Sham peace talks are cover, resumed today after pausing for two weeks, going nowhere. Washington knows Syrians won’t tolerate surrendering their sovereignty to a foreign power. They reject US-led Western interference in their internal affairs. Convincing them militarily is Washington’s Plan B - also known as Plan A, an escalated version with heavier weapons, giving ISIS and other imported death squads greater support to counter Russia, claiming cold-blooded killers are “moderate rebels.” Evil ...
I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones
Post Date: 2016-04-13 08:28:18 by Ada
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Friends decline my invitations and I have taken to sleeping outside under the trees, to avoid becoming a magnet of death for my family I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive. I don’t want to end up a “Bugsplat” – the ugly word that is used for what remains of a human being after being blown up by a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone. More importantly, I don’t want my family to become victims, or even to live with the ...
US Supported Terrorists Plan Major Aleppo Offensive
Post Date: 2016-04-12 08:01:38 by Stephen Lendman
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US Supported Terrorists Plan Major Aleppo Offensive by Stephen Stephen Washington allied with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel and other rogue partners continue arming and providing other material support for imported death squads - used to try toppling the legitimate, overwhelmingly popular Syrian government. Peace talks mock legitimacy, cover for Obama’s real objective - regime change, destroying Syrian sovereignty, replacing it with US controlled puppet governance, tyranny by any standard. Death squad fighters continue pouring across Turkey’s border into Syria unimpeded - terrorists Washington calls “moderate rebels.” Russia’s General Staff Main Operational ...
Syria Without Peace Partners for Diplomatic Conflict Resolution
Post Date: 2016-04-11 12:12:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Without Peace Partners for Diplomatic Conflict Resolution by Stephen Lendman Assad long sought peaceful conflict resolution without preconditions. He stressed Syrians alone must decide who’ll lead them, free from foreign interference as international law requires. On Monday, Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem repeated Syria’s long-held position in talks with pro-Western mediator Staffan de Mistura. US-supported opposition elements and Western powers demanding political transition (aka regime change) is wholly unacceptable. Syrians overwhelmingly reject it. De Mistura stressed it in upcoming talks beginning April 13, showing which side he’s on. Ceasefire is pure ...
Kerry in Hiroshima
Post Date: 2016-04-10 12:29:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Kerry in Hiroshima by Stephen Lendman On March 10, two days of G-7 foreign ministers talks began in Hiroshima - one of two cities gratuitously atom-bombed when war was virtually over, Japan negotiating surrender. August 6 marks the 71st anniversary of one of history’s great crimes, followed three days later by incinerating Nagasaki. At least 200,000 died, many others later from injuries and radiation poisoning, generations to this day harmed by radiologically caused birth defects and other serious health problems. Truman lied, claiming both bombings hastened war’s end and saved many lives. He authorized using America’s new super-weapon in real time, testing its ...
Syrian/Russian Offensive to Liberate Aleppo
Post Date: 2016-04-10 12:19:21 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian/Russian Offensive to Liberate Aleppo by Stephen Lendman Pre-war, it was Syria’s largest city and commercial hub. Hundreds of thousands fled the fighting. US backed terrorists committed massacres, gruesome atrocities and vast destruction. Syrians vow to rebuild the city after liberating it, including restoring damaged archeological sites. A joint Syrian military/Russian aerial forces offensive is being prepared similar to Palmyra’s liberation. More on this below. According to Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, “(o)ver the past six months, government troops and patriotic forces backed by the Russian air group have liberated about 500 ...
US, UK, Turkish Special Forces Aiding Terrorists in Syria
Post Date: 2016-04-10 07:53:48 by Stephen Lendman
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US, UK, Turkish Special Forces Aiding Terrorists in Syria by Stephen Lendman All anti-government forces in Syria are terrorists. So-called moderate rebels don’t exist - one of the many Big Lies about Obama’s war, nothing civil about it. America and its rogue allies continue actively supporting imported death squads wanting Assad toppled. Reports indicate Obama is preparing to send more special forces to Syria, supplementing numbers on the ground - on the phony pretext of aiding nonexistent “rebels” combat ISIS. Obama lied, saying “(w)e’ve got to keep putting pressure on them.” According to Pentagon spokesman navy captain Jeff Davis, “(w)e are ...
Endless War in Syria
Post Date: 2016-04-09 13:03:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Endless War in Syria by Stephen Lendman Peace talks are a sham. All parties involved know it but persist in the charade going nowhere. Assad is combatting US/Saudi supported terrorists, blamed for not surrendering to their demands, for unwillingness to let Syria become another US vassal state. Washington wants war, not peace. The proof is in the pudding, as the saying goes. All US- instigated post-9/11 wars rage endlessly, resolution nowhere in sight. Naked US aggression is responsible for raping one country after another. Mass slaughter and destruction are US specialties, civilians considered legitimate targets. Imperial priorities take precedence over rule of law principles. ...
Resumption of Farcical Syrian Peace Talks Delayed
Post Date: 2016-04-08 07:44:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Resumption of Farcical Syrian Peace Talks Delayed by Stephen Lendman Two weeks of proximity talks accomplished nothing. Nor will months more with US/Saudi terrorist groups representing the opposition. Assad rightfully vows to combat all armed groups killing Syrians until the nation is freed from their scourge. Liberation requires a military, not diplomatic, solution because no legitimate peace partner is represented in talks. Pro-Western mediator (sic) Staffan de Mistura announced scheduled April 9 or 10 talks delayed until April 13. Saying they’re intended to achieve “a real beginning of a political transition” defies justice for long- suffering Syrians, wanting no ...
An Ex-Army Ranger Finds a New Mission
Post Date: 2016-04-08 07:27:11 by Ada
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An Ex-Army Ranger Finds a New Mission Early each New Year’s Day I head for Lake Michigan with a handful of friends. We look for a quiet stretch of what, only six months earlier, was warm Chicago beach. Then we trudge through knee-deep snow in bathing suits and boots, fighting wind gusts and hangovers. Sooner or later, we arrive where the snowpack meets the shore and boot through a thick crust of lake ice, yelling and swearing as we dive into near-freezing water. It took me a while to begin to understand why I do this every year, or for that matter why for the last decade since I left the military I’ve continued to inflict other types of pain on myself with such unnerving ...
US-Turkey-Saudi Arabia Arm Terrorists with Surface-to-Air Missiles in Syria
Post Date: 2016-04-07 22:05:05 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Second Syrian plane shot down by Islamist rebels in one month as al-Nusra and Daesh continue to acquire American weaponry from Turkey, bankrolled by Saudi Arabia. On Tuesday, Islamist rebels shot down a Syrian plane, the second such incident in less than a month, and captured the pilots. Inquiries are being made at the highest level as to how the al-Nusra Front, a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, has come into possession of advanced Western surface-to-air missiles. Russian servicemen at Hmeimim airbase in Syria © Sputnik/ Dmitriy Vinogradov Russia Registers Four Ceasefire Violations in Syria in Past 24 Hours Loud & Clear’s Brian Becker sat down with Institute ...
US Genocide in Iraq
Post Date: 2016-04-07 12:44:24 by Stephen Lendman
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US Genocide in Iraq by Stephen Lendman Since Jimmy Carter instigated the 1980s Iran/Iraq War, millions of Iraqi civilians perished from endless conflicts, devastating violence, preventable diseases and starvation - continuing today without letup, US barbarity fully responsible. Bush administration officials remain unaccountable for genocidal massacres, Fallujah residents horrifically punished by US viciousness - on the phony pretext of pursuing resistance leaders, slaughtering civilians in cold blood. On April 7, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said tens of thousands of the city’s original population of over 300,000 “are besieged by the government, trapped by ISIS, and are ...
Ousting Assad Remains Official US Policy
Post Date: 2016-04-06 12:27:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Ousting Assad Remains Official US Policy by Stephen Lendman In March 2011, Obama launched naked aggression on Syria, using imported death squads as proxy fighters, creating the myth about civil war - wanting Assad replaced with US controlled puppet governance the way Gaddafi was ousted and murdered. Over five years later, endless conflict rages. Washington and its rogue allies continue supporting ISIS and likeminded terrorist groups while claiming they’re combatting them. When farcical peace talks resume this weekend, if things go as planned, expect continued failure to resolve things, both sides intractably apart, discussions a waste of time. Washington wants war, not peace. It ...
Calling Russia America's Greatest Strategic Threat Risks Direct Confrontation
Post Date: 2016-04-06 07:07:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Calling Russia America’s Greatest Strategic Threat Risks Direct Confrontation by Stephen Lendman US/Russian relations are adversarial. Nothing in prospect suggests change. Neocon lunatics in Washington bear full responsibility. Is eventual war inevitable? Will nuclear weapons be used for long sought regime change? Is the unthinkable possible? Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and NATO commander General Philip Breedlove, among others, persist in calling Russia America’s greatest existential threat. Putin is committed to world peace, stability and mutual cooperation among all nations. Moscow threatens no one. Washington is the greatest threat to world peace under Republican or ...
America Represents the Greatest Threat to World Peace
Post Date: 2016-04-05 07:28:48 by Stephen Lendman
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America Represents the Greatest Threat to World Peace by Stephen Lendman America needs enemies to justify its imperial agenda. When none exist, they’re invented. Cold War politics never died. After Soviet Russia dissolved, everything changed but stayed the same, largely dormant during the Yeltsin years, reemerged under Putin as Russia’s leader - a force for good, not evil, polar opposite America’s agenda. The real evil empire resides in Washington, waging endless wars against nonbelligerent nations, threatening world peace, humanity’s survival if nuclear war is launched. On Monday, Obama met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House. The ...
US Aids Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and Iraq by Terrorists
Post Date: 2016-04-05 07:16:23 by Stephen Lendman
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US Aids Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and Iraq by Terrorists by Stephen Lendman CIA operatives and Pentagon contractors train terrorists to use chemical weapons at secret Jordanian and Turkish locations - perhaps Saudi Arabia and Qatar as well. A previous article discussed an ISIS Mosul University (Iraq) chemical bomb-making lab not struck by US warplanes despite claims otherwise. America wants war, not peace, in Syria and Iraq. It wants unchallenged regional control. It wants endless wars to benefit its “defense” and related industries. Peace and stability defeat its agenda. Endless conflicts serve it, raging in multiple theaters, more for certain if Clinton succeeds ...
Time To Wake Up
Post Date: 2016-04-04 07:16:02 by Ada
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I’m afraid I’ve got some pretty bleak news for everyone though it shouldn’t be a surprise. We’re in some pretty serious deep dookey right now. Most people aren’t even aware of it. The United States government would like us to believe this cease-fire over in Syria has given us closure so we can move on now. Except this isn’t the amicable ending of a relationship, like the celebrities running our government think always works out in the end with both people finding snazzy new “life partners” or some-such. Understand this: ISIS has not given up or conceded that they are defeated. In truth, the threat from ISIS has only just begun. They have not even ...
Western Civilization Is Depraved
Post Date: 2016-04-04 06:22:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Western Civilization Is Depraved by Stephen Lendman Western civilization “would be a good idea,” Gandhi once observed. It’s depraved and uncivilized, harming the many for the privileged few, responsible for death, destruction and human misery on an unprecedented scale while pretending respect for democratic values it deplores. America is the leading force of evil in a world increasingly unfit and unsafe to live in, ruled by its privileged class serving its own interests exclusively, exploiting others for profit and dominance. Other Western nations operate the same way. Elections are farcical, democracy pure fantasy. Endless wars rage against nations threatening no one. ...
Top Commodity: Russia Has Its Hands Full With S-400 Orders
Post Date: 2016-04-03 22:28:17 by Tatarewicz
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© Sputnik... Why is Russia working double-time churning out ever more S-400 anti-aircraft missiles? What bonuses did the Syrian campaign bring to Russia’s arms manufacturers and how will Russia’s missile forces benefit from the launch of a new plant in Nizhny Novgorod? Gazeta.ru discussed all this with military experts. “We are working seven days a week because of the S-400 missile systems, a member of the Globus design bureau in Ryazan said last year. The bureau is one of the myriad such bureaus engaged in the design and development of the S-400 missiles built by Almaz-Antei concern. S-400 Triumf air defense systems enter service © Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresensky ...
Another Strategic Syrian Military Victory Following Palmyra
Post Date: 2016-04-03 12:11:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Another Strategic Syrian Military Victory Following Palmyra by Stephen Lendman Greatly aided by Russian air power, Syrian forces “restored security and stability” to the ancient city of al-Qaryatain and surrounding southeastern Homs areas, according to its Army Command - achieving another strategic victory, dealing ISIS another severe blow. Syria’s military called its operation “precise” and “swift,” accomplishing its mission after several days of heavy fighting. Al-Qaryatain is located 60 miles west of Palmyra. Mop-up operations continue. Army Command called the victory significant, inflicting heavy ISIS casualties, cutting their supply routes, ...
Bashing Russia and Syria for Combatting Terrorists During Ceasefire
Post Date: 2016-04-03 08:17:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Bashing Russia and Syria for Combatting Terrorists During Ceasefire by Stephen Lendman Cessation of hostilities terms exclude ISIS and other Security Council named terrorist groups. War continues to eliminate them, Palmyra’s liberation the most important battlefield success so far. Spurious media and other misreporting claim Syrian and Russian ceasefire violations. The London- based, Western financed, misnamed Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports propaganda, not hard truths. Russian photographic evidence shows airstrikes it makes solely strike terrorist targets, scrupulously avoiding civilian ones - polar opposite how America operates, massacring noncombatants ...
US Mulls Massive Increase in Special Forces Troops in Syria
Post Date: 2016-04-02 19:10:57 by Ada
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Would Send 'Many Times' More Troops Pentagon officials have repeatedly made clear in recent weeks that they are pushing the Obama Administration for further escalations of the ISIS war in Iraq, envisioning a significant increase in ground troops there. Apparently, this doesn’t stop at Iraq. Officials today confirmed the administration is also considering a massive increase in US ground troops in neighboring Syria as part of the plan, in the form of a large contingent of special forces to be sent to Syria’s northeast. Exact details are scant, and officials wouldn’t offer any amounts for the number of troops to be sent, beyond saying that there would be “many ...
ISIS Atrocities Discovered in Palmyra
Post Date: 2016-04-02 12:23:31 by Stephen Lendman
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ISIS Atrocities Discovered in Palmyra by Stephen Lendman America is the world’s leading proliferator of violence and terrorism, not ISIS, its creator, used to wage proxy wars of aggression. CIA, Mossad and intelligence operatives from their rogue state partners teach them to behead victims, torture them, use chemical and other banned weapons, along with committing other gruesome atrocities. Their handiwork is discovered in liberated areas, most recently Palmyra. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported “popular defense forces” uncovered a mass grave with at least 40 corpses of men, women and children. Some were beheaded, others brutally tortured. After capturing ...
Obama's Nuclear Security Summit Ignores Greatest Threat
Post Date: 2016-04-02 11:15:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit Ignores Greatest Threat by Stephen Lendman Nuclear armed and dangerous America and Israel pose the greatest threat to world peace. Obama’s just concluded Nuclear Security Summit ignored it entirely. Russia declined to attend for good reason. More on this below. Obama’s demagoguery makes painful listening. He commented at NSS’ closing session, hailing dubious “extensive and impressive…steps” taken to keep nuclear material out of the hands of “terrorists.” Arsenals controlled by state terrorists alone matter. Extremist groups have no ability to enrich uranium or produce nuclear weapons. They’re unable to ...
More Evidence of Obama's Fake Air War on ISIS
Post Date: 2016-04-02 10:42:41 by Stephen Lendman
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More Evidence of Obama’s Fake Air War on ISIS by Stephen Lendman Con man credentials are required to become US president - being a master deceiver and serial liar. Straight talk disqualifies aspirants. So does supporting peace, not endless wars, and wanting governance serving everyone equitably. Obama, like his predecessors, was chosen to serve America’s monied interests exclusively while pretending to be populist, enriching them and advancing the nation’s imperium his main responsibilities. His war on terrorism, especially on ISIS, is a complete fabrication. Previous articles explained in detail. The Wall Street Journal supplied the latest evidence unintentionally, ...
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