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Latest Articles: War, War, War
US-Led Foreign Support Lets ISIS Thrive
Post Date: 2016-02-25 06:50:15 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Led Foreign Support Lets ISIS Thrive by Stephen Lendman Washington created ISIS and virtually all other significant terrorist groups, used to advance its imperium, wage endless war on humanity. America, Britain, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel and allied rogue states supply ISIS and other terrorist groups with armaments, financing, training and other forms of material support. A new Conflict Armament Research (CAR) study provides more insight into Washington’s pure evil agenda - titled “Tracing the Supply of Components used in Islamic State IEDs,” it provides evidence from a 20-month investigation in Iraq and Syria. Dozens of US, European, Turkish and ...
Back to Iraq: US Military Contractors Return In Droves
Post Date: 2016-02-24 08:08:40 by Ada
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Behind the president’s directive to ‘accelerate’ the counter-ISIS campaign came a surge in the number of contractors assisting in the campaign against ISIS. Marcus Weisgerber is the global business reporter for Defense One, where he writes about the intersection of business and national security. He has been covering defense and national security issues for nearly a decade, previously as Pentagon correspondent for Defense News and chief editor of ... Full Bio The number of private contractors working for the U.S. Defense Department in Iraq grew eight-fold over the past year, a rate that far outpaces the growing number of American troops training and advising Iraqi ...
Obama's Imperial Syria Balkanization Scheme
Post Date: 2016-02-24 06:37:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama’s Imperial Syria Balkanization Scheme by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed dead-on-arrival US/Russia negotiated cessation of hostilities, despite Moscow’s forthright efforts for conflict resolution - impossible without a legitimate peace partner. Obama wants war, regime change and Syria colonized under US control. His latest twist was planned all along - unacceptable partition, balkanizing Syria for easier control, a dirty scheme demanding rejection. In Tuesday Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony, John Kerry called it “Plan B.” He failed to explain it’s been Plan A all along - carving Syria up like Yugoslavia, destroying its ...
Bashing Russia's Forthright Syrian Conflict Resolution Efforts
Post Date: 2016-02-24 06:23:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Bashing Russia’s Forthright Syrian Conflict Resolution Efforts by Stephen Lendman Washington expects negotiated cessation of hostilities in Syria failure - blaming Russia before implementation. On February 23, the Wall Street Journal headlined “Pentagon, CIA Chiefs Don’t Think Russia Will Abide by Syria Cease-Fire” - maintaining unrelenting Russia bashing, proving again Putin has no geopolitical partner in Washington. According to the Journal, hawkish Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Joint Chiefs chairman General Joseph (“fighting Joe”) Dunford and rogue CIA head John Brennan “voiced increasingly tough views in White House meetings, calling for new ...
Putin and Assad Vow Unrelenting War on Terrorism
Post Date: 2016-02-24 06:02:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Putin and Assad Vow Unrelenting War on Terrorism by Stephen Lendman On Wednesday, a Kremlin statement said both leaders discussed “(v)arious aspects of the Syrian crisis…in the light of the tasks to implement the statement Russia and the United States made as co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group on the cessation of hostilities in Syria as of February 27, 2016.” They support “truce” and conflict resolution “political” efforts. At the same time, they stressed the importance of uncompromising struggle “against the Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups included in the corresponding list of the UN Security ...
Biggest Syria War Big Lies
Post Date: 2016-02-23 12:21:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Biggest Syria War Big Lies by Stephen Lendman Good wars don’t exist, imperial ones worst of all, rage for power and dominance most devastating. Civilians suffer most in all wars - in harm’s way with no place to hide. Truth and sunlight are the best disinfectants. All wars are based on deception and Big Lies - no exceptions. Hard truths expose them - why they’re zealously suppressed in the mainstream. Propaganda works. Managed news misinformation and Big Lies repeated enough get most people to believe them - how America gets away with mass murder, raping and destroying one country after another, responsible for millions of deaths post-9/11 alone. Tim Anderson’s ...
More Proof of Turkish Support for ISIS
Post Date: 2016-02-23 11:49:33 by Stephen Lendman
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More Proof of Turkish Support for ISIS by Stephen Lendman Volumes of indisputable documented evidence show Turkish support for ISIS - complicit with Washington, key NATO partners, Saudi Arabia and other regional rogue states. Earlier articles discussed it. Turkish opposition broadsheet Cumhuriyet published phone transcripts of conversations between ISIS terrorists and regime officials, gotten from chief prosecutor office wiretaps last year, as part of investigation into missing Turkish citizens believed to have joined the group. Earlier transcripts were published in December, new ones on Monday involving leading ISIS figure Mustafa Demir. Evidence was presented in Ankara’s 3rd ...
Dead-on-Arrival US/Russia Negotiated Cessation of Hostilities in Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-23 07:00:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Dead-on-Arrival US/Russia Negotiated Cessation of Hostilities in Syria by Stephen Lendman Russia’s all-out efforts for cessation of hostilities and peace in Syria are forthright and honest. Putin, Sergey Lavrov and other officials involved deserve high praise. America’s imperial agenda undermines taking an important step toward transforming a region devastated by endless wars, violence and chaos into sea of tranquility - pure fantasy to believe otherwise. The Russian/American bilateral agreement announced Monday was dead-on-arrival, much as Syrians and anti-war supporters wish otherwise. The US-led Western supported Riyadh-based so-called High Negotiations Committee (HNC) ...
Security Council Silence on Last Sunday's Terrorist Attacks on Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-23 06:44:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Security Council Silence on Last Sunday’s Terrorist Attacks in Syria by Stephen Lendman Failure to condemn terrorist attacks in Damascus’ southern Sayeda Zeinab district and Homs last Sunday, killing scores, injuring hundreds, causing enormous damage shows US/Russia negotiated cessation of hostility terms won’t stop future incidents. In letters to Ban Ki-moon and Security Council president (Venezuelan UN envoy) Raphael Ramirez, Syria’s Foreign Ministry condemned the body’s silence, its failure to denounce flagrant terrorism, encouraging future incidents by irresponsible inaction - especially encouraging Ankara and Riyadh to continue supporting ISIS and likeminded ...
Bush Haunts the GOP
Post Date: 2016-02-23 06:30:49 by Ada
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“The evil that men do lives after them,” wrote Shakespeare. A prime example, former US President George W. Bush who appeared last week campaigning in South Carolina for his amiable younger brother, Jeb. George W. continues to haunt the Republican Party and damage its electoral chances. At home, Bush has been staying out of public gaze; abroad, he is widely hated and limits overseas travel due to fear of war crimes arrest for his 2003 invasions of Iraq. Republican spin doctors and the rightwing US media has been trying to soft soap Bush and his mentor, Dick Cheney, for years and slowly expunge their disastrous Iraq and Afghanistan Wars that opened a Pandora’s Box of horrors ...
NYT Endorses Murder by Drones
Post Date: 2016-02-22 05:33:41 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Endorses Murder by Drones by Stephen Lendman The Times consistently reaches for and achieves new lows in deplorable reporting, including giving unindicted US war criminals feature op-ed space. Obama-authorized drone warfare is cold-blooded murder by any standard - nonbelligerent men, women and children the vast majority of casualties, so-called high-profile targets a tiny, insignificant percent of victims killed or injured. Official US claims about strikes being precise, lawful and effective are bald-faced lies. Murder by drones is indiscriminate, lawless and ineffective, accomplishing no strategic objectives. They engender enormous public anger in targeted countries, facilitating ...
Libya's Interim Government Blasts US Aggression
Post Date: 2016-02-22 05:12:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Libya’s Interim Government Blasts US Aggression by Stephen Lendman On February 19, US warplanes bombed Libya, on the phony pretext of targeting ISIS and an alleged Tunisian terrorist - a flagrant act of aggression, violating core international law. Two Serbian nationals were killed among other fatalities, America guilty of mass murder, longstanding US policy - civilians harmed most in all its wars. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic “demanded explanations from the US about whether they knew that foreigners were present at the site” struck. Given sophisticated US intelligence, saying they didn’t doesn’t wash. Human lives and welfare don’t matter, ...
Futile Diplomatic Efforts to Resolve Syria's Conflict
Post Date: 2016-02-21 11:53:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Futile Diplomatic Efforts to Resolve Syria’s Conflict by Stephen Lendman America’s rage for war assures protracted Syrian conflict. Nothing in prospect suggests resolution. US claims otherwise are a complete fabrication. Washington continues supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups, using them as imperial foot soldiers - intending endless war until Syrian sovereignty is replaced by another US vassal state. Sunday blasts in Damascus’ southern Sayeda Zeinab district and Homs killed dozens, injured many more. Defenseless civilians were targeted, showing US-backed terrorists intend to keep fighting - with full Washington support and encouragement. John Kerry in Amman lied, ...
Obama's War on Syria Risks Escalating Things Out-of-Control
Post Date: 2016-02-21 11:40:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama’s War on Syria Risks Escalating Things Out-of-Control by Stephen Lendman Flashpoint Syria could embroil the entire region and beyond in conflict. Lunatics in Washington, Ankara and Riyadh make anything possible. If Turkish and/or Saudi troops invade Syria, Russia will do whatever it takes to protect the safety of its personnel - perhaps including use of tactical nuclear weapons, according to journalist Robert Parry, saying: “A source close to Russian President Vladimir Putin told me that the Russians have warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Moscow is prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons if necessary to save their troops in the face of a Turkish-Saudi ...
Again: CIA, Coalition, Evacuate ISIS Leaders from Fallujah
Post Date: 2016-02-21 10:14:02 by Ada
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Source: US Military Chopper Transfers ISIL Leaders from Fallujah to Unknown Location Editor’s note: During interrogation, ISIS commanders confess to working with the US and of being promised that the US government would keep them safe and prevent military operations against Fallujah. It has become clear since 2013 that the US along with the Barzani Kurds in Erbil have been working directly with ISIS, selling oil, derailing military operations by the Iraqi Army and Shiite militias. America’s “double game” in Iraq is fully exposed and America has to answer for what it has done in Iraq, not just in 2003 but beginning in 1991. When we look at the core of ISIS leadership, we ...
New US Syria Strategy Aims to Con Russia
Post Date: 2016-02-21 07:05:26 by Stephen Lendman
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New US Syria Strategy Aims to Con Russia by Stephen Lendman Months of Russian air power and rejuvenated Syrian ground forces making significant gains against ISIS and other terrorist groups got Washington to change strategy. Wanting to avoid direct confrontation with Russia, it relies on deception - conning Moscow to cease bombing terrorist infested northern Syrian areas where US special forces are deployed, claiming cutthroat killers they’re supporting are “moderates.” Moscow knows none exist. Agreeing to the Pentagon’s request directly aids the scourge Putin and Assad want eliminated, vital in the campaign to liberate Syria. On the phony pretext of modestly ...
Liberating Syria Requires Defeating Terrorism
Post Date: 2016-02-21 06:33:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Liberating Syria Requires Defeating Terrorism by Stephen Lendman Preserving Syrian sovereignty depends on eliminating the scourge of US-supported ISIS and other terrorist groups - continuing the unrelenting campaign against them. US calls for cessation of hostilities and Geneva III talks reflect pure deception. Washington wants war, not peace. Ceasefire, if implemented, furthers its imperial objectives, buys time to rearm ISIS and other terrorist groups, add new fighters to their ranks, lets them continue serving as US foot soldiers, waging endless war to transform Syria into another US vassal state. Interviewed by Spain’s El Pais newspaper, Assad was asked if he supports a ...
US-Supported ISIS Uses Young Children a Suicide Bombers
Post Date: 2016-02-20 12:12:31 by Stephen Lendman
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US-Supported ISIS Uses Young Children as Suicide Bombers by Stephen Lendman CIA operatives teach ISIS recruits the fine art of committing atrocities, including beheadings, use of chemical and other banned weapons, along with an array of other lawless terror tactics. According to a Combating Terrorism Center at West Point report, ISIS “is mobilizing children and youths at an increasing and unprecedented rate (to become) martyrs,” - failing to explain full US responsibility, not wanting to blow Washington’s cover. The monster it created and supports operates with foreign funding, arming, training and direction. Young children are brainwashed to become suicide bombers, ...
American STASI
Post Date: 2016-02-20 07:27:42 by Ada
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I’ve been traveling with Monica and another friend for several weeks on a gambling trip in Europe. Monica escaped communist Poland via a work visa to Sweden. She’s fluent in English but won’t talk to me. She tells me it’s because I don’t drink. In Communist Poland, booze is the first line of defense against the Secret Police. “If they drink on duty, they might slip and reveal their ‘secret identity’,” Monica tells me. We have a drink and everything’s cool. It isn’t just in the movies. It really was standard operating procedure in the Soviet Block for the secret police to spy on everyone. The excuse was “national security” ...
Provocative US Militarization of South China Sea
Post Date: 2016-02-20 06:14:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Provocative US Militarization of South China Sea by Stephen Lendman In 2011, Obama announced his Asia pivot, prioritizing America reasserting its Pacific presence - intending to advance its military footprint aggressively. The aim is challenging China’s growing economic, political and military strength, along with checking Russia - pressuring Asian nations to ally with Washington’s agenda or face its wrath. Its rage to dominate by brute force is lost on no one regionally or elsewhere. On Friday, Beijing’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lie blasted Washington’s increasing militarization of the South China Sea - escalating tensions irresponsibly. He affirmed ...
Obama Endorses Naked Turkish Aggression on Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-20 05:55:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Endorses Naked Turkish Aggression on Syria by Stephen Lendman Five years ago next month, Obama launched war on Syria - aiming to replace its sovereign independence with US-controlled puppet governance. Turkey is a fascist police state ruled by a crazed dictator, a valued US ally, a NATO member country. On Friday, both leaders spoke by phone, a White House statement, saying it was “about the situation in Syria and US-Turkish cooperation in the fight against terrorism” - concealing their support for ISIS and likeminded groups. Obama “expressed concern about recent Syrian…advances” - opposing Assad’s liberating struggle, aiming to eliminate ...
Russia Tables Security Council Resolution Over Possible Turkish Plans to Invade Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-19 12:17:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Tables Security Council Resolution Over Possible Turkish Plans to Invade Syria by Stephen Lendman Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced it, issuing a statement, demanding an end to continued Turkish provocations, undermining Syrian sovereignty, risking full-scale war. Aggressive Turkish actions subvert “efforts to launch a political settlement in the Syrian Arab Republic,” she stressed. Russia’s draft resolution demands an “end (to) any actions that undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria, that are at odds with UN Security Council resolution 2254, as well as (interfere) with the launch of the Syrian peace process.” ...
US Warplanes Bomb Libya
Post Date: 2016-02-19 11:10:18 by Stephen Lendman
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US Warplanes Bomb Libya by Stephen Lendman Two days after the five-year anniversary of US-led NATO naked aggression on Libya, US warplanes attacked again - on the phony pretext of targeting ISIS, including an alleged Tunisian terrorist. “American warplanes struck an Islamic State camp in Libya” 50 miles west of Tripoli, The NYT reported. It claimed “at least 30 (ISIS) recruits” killed, others injured. The attack occurred pre-dawn Friday. According to The Times, the usual unnamed “Western official” was cited, saying the strike targeted Noureddine Chouchane - suspected (true or false) of involvement in two terrorist attacks in Tunisia last year. Washington ...
Military Solution Alone Can Save Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-19 07:10:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Military Solution Alone Can Save Syria by Stephen Lendman I’d love to be wrong. I see no evidence suggesting it. Diplomacy is futile without legitimate peace partners. Syria and Russia have none - not America, its rogue Western or regional partners, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Obama launched war on Syria in March 2011 to oust its sitting government, eliminate its sovereign independence, install another pro-Western puppet regime, isolate Iran ahead of repeating the same process - endless wars for unchallenged US dominance. Make no mistake. Washington’s rhetorical support for peace talks to end nearly five years of war in Syria is pure subterfuge. Its call for ...
Imminent Turkish Invasion of Syria?
Post Date: 2016-02-19 06:49:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Imminent Turkish Invasion of Syria? by Stephen Lendman Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu threaten to invade Syria. Thousands of Turkish forces are mobilized along border areas. So far talk is just bluster. For how long remains to be seen. Everything depends on what Washington intends. Escalated war is more likely than backing off. On Thursday, the Kurdish Hawar news agency ANHA reported dozens of Turkish military vehicles advancing about 200 meters into Aleppo province. A trench between the towns of Sorka and Meydan Ekbis is being dug. Concrete wall construction continues. The area is mainly Kurdish. Turkish forces continue heavy cross-border shelling, the international ...
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