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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Russia Opposes Merkel's Call for Imposing a No-Fly Zone Over Northern Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-18 11:55:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Opposes Merkel’s Call for Imposing a No-Fly Zone over Northern Syria by Stephen Lendman Germany is a NATO member, Chancellor Angela Merkel a close US ally, complicit in its imperial wars - naked aggression by any standard. She shamelessly supports Erdogan’s scheme to annex part of northern Syria - on the phony pretext of stemming the human refugee flood into Turkey en route to Europe, ludicrously saying: “In the current situation it would be helpful, if there could be such an area, where none of the parties are allowed to launch aerial attacks, that is to say, a kind of no-fly zone.” Russia strongly opposes the idea, a lunatic scheme exacerbating the problem, ...
They really don’t want this out”: The biggest Iraq War scandal that nobody’s talking about
Post Date: 2016-02-18 07:36:55 by Ada
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“The Burn Pits” reveals how a Dick Cheney-connected company got rich while U.S. soldiers got poisoned The first 10 pages of “The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers” will rip your heart out. In the opening chapter of this new book, Joseph Hickman, a former U.S. Marine and Army sergeant, shares the brief and tragic life story of one Iraq War veteran. In a nutshell, a healthy young man shipped off to Iraq, was stationed at a U.S. military base where he was exposed to a constant stream of toxic smoke, returned home with horrible respiratory problems, was denied care by the VA, developed brain cancer and died. Thousands of soldiers have suffered similar ...
Turkish Premier Accuses Syria of Involvement in Ankara Blast
Post Date: 2016-02-18 07:31:31 by Stephen Lendman
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Turkish Premier Accuses Syria of Involvement in Latest Ankara Blast by Stephen Lendman On Thursday, Press TV reported Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accusing Syria “of being directly responsible for” Wednesday’s Ankara blast. “The premier also accused Russia of using (Kurdish) YPG (fighters) against Turkey,” Press TV added. Erdogan intends using Wednesday’s incident as justification for continued cross-border shelling - perhaps a ground invasion to follow, a reckless act if launched, risking war with Russia. Heavy shelling continues for the sixth day, targeting northern Syrian YPG positions, reports indicating government strongholds attacked, ...
America: The Greatest Threat to World Peace!
Post Date: 2016-02-18 07:19:15 by Stephen Lendman
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America: The Greatest Threat to World Peace! by Stephen Lendman No nation in world history matches America’s ruthless agenda - at war at home and/or abroad from inception, not a single year of peace throughout its sordid existence. It’s the greatest purveyor of violence in world history, its barbarity unequaled, responsible for more harm to more people globally over a longer duration - contemptuous of democratic values, ignoring rule of law principles, indifferent to human suffering. Dealing diplomatically with neocons infesting Washington at the highest levels assures disaster. They don’t negotiate. They demand, duplicitously pretending otherwise. Agreements are made to ...
Latest Ankara Blast: Terrorism or False Flag?
Post Date: 2016-02-18 07:06:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Latest Ankara Blast: Terrorism or False Flag? by Stephen Lendman Put nothing past fascists running Turkey, led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a megalomaniacal international outlaw, a lunatic capable of anything to further his Ottoman empire delusions. False flags are perhaps the oldest dirty trick in the book, a longtime US tradition, dating from at least the mid-19th century, 9/11 the mother of them all. They’re used because they consistently work - able to incite fear and enlist public support for planned aggression and crackdowns on civil liberties, the public manipulated to believe state policies harming their well-being make them safer. They’re easy marks to be fooled every ...
Bush, 9/11, and Iraq: Trump Gets It Right
Post Date: 2016-02-18 06:04:46 by Ada
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Donald Trump, for all his obnoxious demagoguery, is adding value to the presidential campaign by calling former President George W. Bush to account for 9/11 and the Iraq war, which set in motion the growth and spread of al-Qaeda and the rise of the Islamic State. Former U.S. rulers rarely face consequences for the horrible things they do in office. Condemnation is considered impolite. So good for Trump. Unfortunately, he shows no sign of having done his homework; so his charges against Bush are little more than soundbites, allowing Bush defenders to dismiss Trump as a kook. But this time he is not a kook. Trump presumably does not mean that Bush knew where and when al-Qaeda would attack. ...
NSA chief: ‘Paris would not have happened’ without encrypted apps
Post Date: 2016-02-17 18:49:19 by BTP Holdings
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NSA chief: ‘Paris would not have happened’ without encrypted apps Michael Isikoff Chief Investigative Correspondent February 17, 2016 National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers warns that encryption is making it “much more difficult” for the agency to intercept the communications of terrorist groups like the Islamic State, citing November’s Paris attacks as a case where his agency was left in the dark because the perpetrators used new technologies to disguise their communications. In an exclusive interview with Yahoo News, Rogers confirmed speculation that began right after the attack: that “some of the communications” of the Paris ...
Libyans Have No Reason to Celebrate
Post Date: 2016-02-17 12:24:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Libyans Have No Reason to Celebrate by Stephen Lendman Five years ago today, February 17, US-led NATO began raping and destroying North Africa’s most developed country. Gaddafi enjoyed widespread support for good reason, providing extraordinary social and other benefits for all Libyans - ones Americans can’t imagine. The naked aggression Obama and Hillary Clinton as secretary of state orchestrated transformed Libya into a dystopian wasteland - devastated by endless violence, instability and chaos. Its people suffer intolerably, exacerbated by Washington helping ISIS gain a foothold in Sirte, aiming to control Libya’s oil wealth. Its infestation risks greater devastation ...
When Challenging Russia's Effective Syrian Intervention Fails, Pout!
Post Date: 2016-02-17 11:08:23 by Stephen Lendman
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When Challenging Russia’s Effective Syrian Intervention Fails, Pout! by Stephen Lendman Russia’s intervention last September perhaps snatched eventual Syrian victory from the jaws of defeat - foiling US imperial plans to establish another colony, no matter the human cost. US policymakers are frantic, unable to come up with an effective strategy, countering Russian/Syrian military successes - short of launching WW III, a shocking unthinkable possibility. Media scoundrels are just as panicky, beside themselves, pouting like children punished by parents for misbehaving, making fools of themselves in the process, showing full support for America’s war on humanity. NYT ...
Obama's Latest Putin Bashing Shows Desperation
Post Date: 2016-02-17 07:20:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama’s Latest Putin Bashing Shows Desperation by Stephen Lendman Putin’s intervention last year in Syria was a geopolitical masterstroke - battling US-supported ISIS and other terrorist groups, halting their advance, systematically smashing them, confronting America’s regional imperial agenda, so far effectively foiling it. Ousting Assad and installing a US-controlled puppet regime in Damascus is key to Washington’s aim for regional dominance, a vital step toward isolating Iran before attempting to overthrow its government belligerently, the same strategy used against Libya, Syria and elsewhere - raping and destroying countries to rule them, loot their resources and ...
Erdogan Defies Security Council Call to Stop Shelling Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-17 07:03:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Erdogan Defies Security Council Call to Stop Shelling Syria by Stephen Lendman Turkish cross-border shelling of Kurdish PYD forces and civilian areas in northern Syria continued for the fifth day, showing no signs of stopping. An unnamed Ankara official said “(w)e want a ground operation. If there is consensus, Turkey will take part.” “Without a ground operation, it is impossible to stop this war” - code language for Russian air power and Syrian troops turning the tide of battle, perhaps decisively, Washington and its rogue partners desperate to change things in their favor, unable to so far. Neither Turkey or Saudi Arabia intend launching ground and/or air ...
NEO – Who is Fighting the Invisible War on Russia?
Post Date: 2016-02-16 21:30:36 by Ada
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[ Editor’s Note: We are getting down to the nitty gritty in Syria, and possibly Iraq now. The ability of the Syrian coalition to completely roll up the terrorists and jihadis is self-evident, and it will not take them a long time to do it. So the $64,000 question is will the West push its luck on not having paid a huge political price for its long support and use of terrorism in their Syrian regime change plans, among other places. Will they double down in fear that, if they lose here, mass media will lose its fear of changing sides and really doing some investigative journalism reporting? I don’t think so. Will the US coalition fear that if the “play it safe, low level, ...
Assad's Remarks to Syria's Bar Association and Affiliated Councils
Post Date: 2016-02-16 12:13:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Assad’s Remarks to Syria’s Bar Association and Affiliated Councils by Stephen Lendman On Monday, he addressed their participating members. His remarks are always candid and straightforward, polar opposite Obama’s demagoguery. He stressed the important role these organizations play in Syrian society, notably at a time of war, when it’s vital them to be involved in defending its sovereignty against US-sponsored aggression. Fundamental rights according to law protect “the safety of society,” he noted. He explained the latest developments related to Syria’s crisis, the power of Western and regional rogue state propaganda facilitating it. Earlier Syrian ...
Former Military Chief: Iraq War Was A 'Failure' That Helped Create ISIS
Post Date: 2016-02-16 10:52:56 by Ada
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"We strategically marched in the wrong direction." Lt. General Michael Flynn testifies on Capitol Hill in 2014. The Army general led the Defense Intelligence Agency before retiring. Retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency who came up through intelligence positions in Iraq and Afghanistan, says that the George W. Bush administration's Iraq war was a tremendous blunder that helped to create the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS. "It was a huge error," Flynn said about the Iraq war in a detailed interview with German newspaper Der Spiegel published Sunday. "As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to ...
Tensions between Russia and Turkey reach new peak
Post Date: 2016-02-16 08:46:01 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Tension between Russia and Turkey has reached a new peak as the two countries step up military action in Syria in support of opposing sides, edging closer to direct confrontation in the country’s increasingly internationalised war. The growing rift between the two countries — with each now attacking rebels the other supports — has alarmed Western diplomats amid fears Russia is seeking to undermine Nato by ramping up its clash with Ankara. “It seems to us that just like in the Baltics, Russia wants to try and push at Nato’s ability to stand behind all its members,” said a Nato official. A senior European official said Russian President Vladimir Putin was ...
Failure as a Way of Life
Post Date: 2016-02-16 07:07:52 by Ada
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The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles The fault line in American politics is no longer Republican vs. Democrat nor conservative vs. liberal but establishment vs. anti-establishment. This is an inevitable result of serial failure in establishment policies. Nowhere do we see this more clearly than in the establishment’s repeated military interventions abroad in wars against non-state opponents. When such interventions fail in one place—first Somalia, then Iraq, then Afghanistan, then Libya, now Syria—it does the same thing again somewhere else, with the same result. Why has the establishment allowed itself to be trapped in serial failure? Once we ...
Is US Instigated Cold War About to Get Hot?
Post Date: 2016-02-16 05:45:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Is US Instigated Cold War About to Turn Hot? by Stephen Lendman Today is the most perilous time in world history. I’ve said it many times. I stress it again now!! Money controlled duopoly power rules America. Bipartisan neocons infest Washington. They make or influence policy. Their fascist political system demands endless wars, replacing all independent states with US vassal ones - Russia and China the main targets, the only countries able to challenge America’s imperial ambitions. It doesn’t matter who serves as US president, congressional leaders, Supreme Court justices and key bureaucrats. The ruthlessly dangerous system is too hard-wired to change, short of a ...
Phantom Free Syrian Army Moderate Rebels
Post Date: 2016-02-16 05:33:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Phantom Free Syrian Army Moderate Rebels by Stephen Lendman So-called Free Syrian Army moderates exist only in US-led Western and media scoundrel propaganda reports - along with deliberate deception from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other regional rogue states. No such forces exist. All anti-Syrian elements are US-created terrorist groups, including ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and their offshoots. The Big Lie persists. Repeated enough gets most people to believe it. Russia’s real war on terrorism is irresponsibly criticized. It’s made a major difference on the ground. Claiming it largely targets nonexistent moderates, civilians and non-military sites aims to discredit what ...
US Warplanes Bomb Syrian Hospitals and Other Civilian Sites: Russia Irresponsibly Blamed
Post Date: 2016-02-16 05:18:57 by Stephen Lendman
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US Warplanes Bomb Syrian Hospitals and Other Civilian Sites: Russia Irresponsibly Blamed by Stephen Lendman It’s not the first time Russia was recklessly blamed for US high crimes - in Syria and elsewhere. Pentagon warplanes bomb Syrian infrastructure and government sites virtually daily, ongoing since late 2014 - on the phony pretext of combatting ISIS. On Monday, Ban Ki-moon’s spokesman Farhan Haq said “(t)he secretary-general is deeply concerned by reports of missile attacks on at least five medical facilities and two schools in Aleppo and in Idlib, which killed close to 50 civilians, including children, and injuring many.” Fact: All Russian aerial attacks are ...
What We Are Witnessing Now Is The Calm Before The Storm: Stephen Lendman with x22Report
Post Date: 2016-02-15 12:35:13 by christine
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Poster Comment:I agree with Lendman's assessment of the situation.
Provocative Saudi-Led Regional Military Exercises
Post Date: 2016-02-15 12:05:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Provocative Saudi-Led Regional Military Exercises by Stephen Lendman Saudi Arabia’s support for ISIS and other terrorist groups, as part of Washington’s regional imperial agenda, threatens world peace and security. According to the state-controlled Saudi Press Agency (SPA), 20 Middle East and North African countries will participate in Ra’ad Al-Shamal (Thunder of the North) military exercises. They’re being held at King Khald Military City in Hafr Al-Batin in northern Saudi Arabia. Participating countries include Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Senegal, Sudan, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Chad, Tunisia, Comoros, Djibouti, Oman, Qatar, ...
Imminent Turkish/Saudi Escalation in Syria?
Post Date: 2016-02-15 05:22:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Imminent Turkish/Saudi Escalation in Syria? by Stephen Lendman Russia’s intervention in Syria last fall shifted momentum in Assad’s favor, letting government forces regain lost ground, putting Washington’s Middle East project in jeopardy. US officials are desperate to turn things around. Their strategy may be to use Turkish and Saudi forces as proxies to do America’s dirty work. To what extent beyond provocative actions and warnings of escalation is unknown. The fullness of time will tell. A US invasion is unlikely beyond small numbers of special forces and combat troops. Perhaps Ankara and Riyadh have only disruptive objectives in mind. Maybe regaining control of ...
Russian Premier Warns Against East/West Confrontation
Post Date: 2016-02-15 05:12:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Russian Premier Warns Against East/West Confrontation by Stephen Lendman On Saturday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev addressed Munich Security Conference participants. He spoke ominously, warning about a new Cold War turning hot, a perilous time in world history because of US-led Western attempts to force-feed their system on independent nations. Instead of peace and stability, war-ravaged countries struggle to survive. Washington created a monster in Daesh and likeminded terrorist groups. Rejoicing about the so-called 2010/2011 Arab Spring proved premature. It never bloomed. It was fantasy, not real. Endless US imperial wars rage. Countries lie in ruins. Tyranny is deeply ...
American bombs are still buried under German towns. And they're blowing up.
Post Date: 2016-02-14 12:56:15 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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On March 15, 1945, the first of more than 1,300 bombers crossed the Channel coast north of Amsterdam at an altitude of almost five miles. They flew on into Germany, and around 2:40 p.m., 10 miles northwest of Berlin, the city of Oranienburg appeared beneath them. Sitting in the lead plane, the bombardier stared through his bombsight into the haze below. Five bombs tumbled into the sky. Between 1940 and 1945, U.S. and British air forces dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Europe, half of them on Germany. By the time the Nazi government surrendered, in May 1945, the industrial infrastructure of the Third Reich — railheads, arms factories, and oil refineries — had been crippled, ...
Road To World War III: Turkish Army Enters Syria After Second Day Of Shelling As Saudi Warplanes Arrive
Post Date: 2016-02-14 12:00:53 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Update: Reports indicate the Turkish army has crossed the border into Syria. ?????? ?????? ? ????????? ???????? ??????? ? ????? https://t.co/LBxx2iIzTu — ??????? ????? (@tvrain_live) February 14, 2016Meanwhile, since all that would take to unleash a full-blown war is for some Russian to be unexpectedly blown up, events like this do not inspire much confidence in the Syrian "ceasefire": #Breaking Several mortars reportedly impacted the vicinity of the Russian embassy in Damascus #Syria — Michael Horowitz (@michaelh992) February 14, 2016 On Saturday, the geopolitical world was shocked when Turkey began shelling Aleppo, where the Syrian opposition has its back against the ...
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