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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Syria Demands International Action Against Turkish Aggression
Post Date: 2016-02-14 11:55:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Demands International Action Against Turkish Aggression by Stephen Lendman A separate article discussed Erdogan-ordered Turkish cross-border shelling of Kurdish YPG and Syrian forces - calling it a provocative US-approved act of war! Damascus reacted sharply, its Foreign Ministry condemning naked Turkish aggression, saying: “Turkish artillery shelling of Syrian territory constitutes direct support to the armed terrorist organizations,” in letters to the UN Secretary General and Security Council chairman, demanding international action. Maranaz, al-Malkieh, Minnegh, Ein Daqneh and Bazi villages were attacked. Turkish forces entered Syrian territory. Its aggression ...
Turkey Shells Kurdish and Syrian Forces: A US-Approved Provocative Act of War!
Post Date: 2016-02-14 07:53:13 by Stephen Lendman
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Turkey Shells Kurdish YPG and Syrian Forces: A US-Approved Provocative Act of War! by Stephen Lendman Turkey is a fascist police state, a valued US ally, a NATO member, partnered with Obama’s war on Syria - naked aggression against a nonbelligerent state. Reported cross-border shelling into Syrian territory ups the stakes hugely. Will direct confrontation with Russia follow? On Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu admitted his country’s military attacked Kurdish YPG fighters battling terrorist groups in northern Syria. “We will retaliate against every” advance they make,” he ranted. He demanded their forces “immediately withdraw from Azaz and ...
Futile Diplomacy to Resolve Syria's Conflict
Post Date: 2016-02-14 07:40:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Futile Diplomacy to Resolve Syria’s Conflict by Stephen Lendman Russia’s forthright diplomatic efforts continue tirelessly, committed to resolve Syria’s conflict responsibly - a futile effort without a serious US peace partner. Washington wants war, not peace. At the Munich Security Conference, John Kerry admitted as much, saying conflict won’t end as long as Assad remains in power - leaving no doubt where America stands, its imperial arrogance holding humanity hostage to its ruthless agenda. Kerry and Sergey Lavrov met for more discussions, painful for the Russian diplomat, knowing they’re futile, doing his job responsibly nonetheless - fully committed for ...
Deconstructing John Kerry's Latest Big Lies
Post Date: 2016-02-14 07:31:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Deconstructing John Kerry’s Latest Big Lies by Stephen Lendman As secretary of state, Kerry is Washington’s imperial front man, its lead spokesman, complicit in its high crimes, justifying the unjustifiable, pretending to want peace while endless US wars rage. Addressing Munich Security Conference participants, he repeated tired old Big Lies, featuring long ago discredited US policies, an agenda holding humanity hostage to its viciousness. His disingenuous claims about American “democratic values…liberty, decency, justice and rule of law” fooled no one. He expressed “unwavering support” for US-installed fascist putschists in Ukraine - at the same ...
Turkey Fires On Syrian Army, Kurds, Says "Massive Escalation" In Syria Imminent As Saudis Ready Airstrikes
Post Date: 2016-02-13 21:58:14 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Update: At least two sources confirm that Turkey also fired on the Syrian army on Saturday, an exceptionally provocative move. Update: Washington has now weighed in and is asking the Turks to please stop shelling the soldiers the Pentagon is arming.#BREAKING US urges Turkey to halt artillery fire on Kurd, regime forces in Syria — AFP news agency (@AFP) February 13, 2016* * *Even as all sides - including the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and select rebel groups - pretend to be working towards a ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the five year conflict in Syria, actions speak louder than words, and to put it as succinctly as possible, everyone is still fighting.In fact, ...
The Sordid NYT Anti-Russian Bashing Machine
Post Date: 2016-02-13 12:09:43 by Stephen Lendman
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The Sordid NYT Anti-Russian Bashing Machine by Stephen Lendman Do disreputable pubic and/or private sources pay off the misnamed newspaper of record to bash Russia and Vladimir Putin irresponsibly? Is it bribed to lie, to suppress hard truths? It owes its readers an explanation, none forthcoming so far, none expected. Relentlessly it reports malicious misinformation and Big Lies, truth and full disclosure banned, mocking legitimate journalism, absent on issues mattering most, notably geopolitical ones. Its latest editorial entirely ignores Obama’s war like always, his support for ISIS and other cutthroat killer terrorists - perpetuating the myth about Washington wanting peace, ...
"We Are In A New Cold War": Russia PM Delivers Stark Warning To NATO
Post Date: 2016-02-13 11:24:54 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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It was just two days ago when Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev warned that if Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar invade Syria in a transparent attempt to shore up their Sunni proxy armies currently under siege by Moscow’s warplanes and Hezbollah, a “new world war” would be inevitable. He also indicated that such a conflict would likely drag on for “decades.” “Do they really think they would win such a war very quickly? That's impossible, especially in the Arabic world,” Medvedev said. “There everyone is fighting against everyone... everything is far more complicated. It could take years or decades."On Saturday, Medvedev was back at it with the ...
Saudi Warplanes to Bomb Syria?
Post Date: 2016-02-13 09:02:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Saudi Warplanes to Bomb Syria? by Stephen Lendman US warplanes having been bombing Syrian infrastructure and government sites since late 2014 - on the phony pretext of combating ISIS. British, French, Canadian and Australian warplanes joined them. Israel intermittently launches its own aerial and at times cross-border shelling attacks. Syria is victimized by a US-led conspiracy to destroy its sovereignty, nearly five years of terror war raging on the entire country, mostly harming civilians, half the population internally or externally displaced - the equivalent of 160 million Americans. Try imagining it. Lay blame where it belongs. Obama’s ruthless war on Syria is airbrushed from ...
Aleppo Terrorists Lay down Arms, Cooperate with Syria Government, Americans Bomb Aleppo
Post Date: 2016-02-13 08:27:47 by Ada
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Moscow says some opposition groups in the Syrian city of Aleppo are breaking ranks with militants and cooperating with the government. In Dara’a Province, several groups have agreed to lay down their arms, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters in Moscow on Thursday. “Syrian opposition groups have been productively sharing intelligence with us. Many are shifting to cooperation with the Syrian government,” he said. Aided by Russian airstrikes, the Syrian army is closing in on the last pockets of militant positions in Aleppo which borders Turkey. Konashenkov said terrorists are trying to flee to Turkey Konashenkov said terrorists are trying to flee to ...
Devastating Toll of Obama's Rape of Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-13 06:49:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Devastating Toll of Obama’s Rape of Syria by Stephen Lendman Wherever America shows up, genocidal slaughter, vast destruction and unspeakable human misery follow. Syria is Obama’s highest of high crimes among numerous others on his deplorable rap sheet. A special place in hell awaits him, a lower level Dante forgot. According to the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR), at least 470,000 Syrians perished - 11% of its population killed or injured, the equivalent of 33 million Americans. Poverty exploded to over 85%. Unemployment exceeds 50%. Life expectancy plunged from 70.5 years in 2011 to 55.4 years last year, continuing its downward trajectory. The lives and welfare of ...
Syria Winning the Strategic Battle of Aleppo
Post Date: 2016-02-13 06:40:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Winning the Strategic Battle of Aleppo by Stephen Lendman Liberating Aleppo city (Syria’s pre-war commercial hub) and province are key to achieving military victory in Syria. A longterm struggle continues with no foreseeable end in sight, not as long as Washington and its rogue allies continue supplying ISIS and other terrorist groups with arms, munitions and other aid. Syrian forces aided by Russian air power severed virtually all supply routes from Turkey to Aleppo - a key strategic victory. Government troops continue making steady gains, liberating more areas, keeping plans on track to free all northwestern areas bordering Turkey. A four-year US-supported terrorist ...
Assad: Righteously Defending Syrian Sovereignty
Post Date: 2016-02-13 06:24:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Assad: Righteously Defending Syrian Sovereignty by Stephen Lendman It bears constant repetition to counter vicious US-led anti-Syrian propaganda, repeated by media scoundrels, featuring scurrilous reporting, suppressing what’s most important to reveal. Syria is Obama’s war, US-created and supported ISIS and terrorists recruited from scores of countries across the Middle East and the West, used as imperial foot soldiers. Perhaps the Biggest Big Lie about the war is calling it “civil.” Syria was invaded, Assad acting responsibly. He deserves universal respect, praise and support. On February 12, French news agency AFP interviewed him in Damascus. He’s forthright, ...
Russia and Syria Foiling Washington's Regional Imperial Agenda
Post Date: 2016-02-12 12:20:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia and Syria Foiling Washington’s Regional Imperial Agenda by Stephen Lendman America’s best-laid plans aren’t working. Russian and Syrian military effectiveness is foiling them - wanting Syrian sovereignty eliminated to isolate Iran, plans made long ago to rape the Islamic Republic like other US targeted nations. Obama, John Kerry and other US officials are frantic. They talk peace while waging war. Washington orchestrated farcical Geneva III peace talks to fail. Decisions reached Thursday in Munich by International Syrian Support Group (ISSG) members won’t fare better - aiming for a near-impossible ceasefire, despite Kerry’s duplicitous comments otherwise. ...
Russian Prime Minister Warns Against Syrian Conflict Igniting WW III
Post Date: 2016-02-12 12:07:27 by Stephen Lendman
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Russian Prime Minister Warns Against Syrian Conflict Igniting WW III by Stephen Lendman Addressing Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States following their threat to send combat troops to Syria, a grave breach of international law if ordered, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev blasted them, saying escalating conflict risks “unleashing another war on earth.” “Any (lawless ground invasion could) lead to (dangerously escalated) permanent war,” he warned - what Washington unleashed on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria with new targets in mind. Addressing his comments to Saudi Arabia and Turkey specifically, he meant America most of all. These and other regional states ...
Syria Ceasefire Deal in Munich? Hold the Cheers
Post Date: 2016-02-12 05:49:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Syria Ceasefire Deal in Munich? Hold the Cheers by Stephen Lendman How can fighting cease when Washington wants it continued, when it deplores peace and wants war, when it continues supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups using them as imperial foot soldiers, when key NATO and regional allies want fighting continued until sovereign Syria is destroyed? Throughout nearly five years of Obama’s war (it’s not civil and calling it that is part of the grand deception), US determination to transform Syria into another US vassal state remains unchanged - naked aggression the strategy to achieve it. Obama didn’t launch war in March 2011 to quit. Previous diplomatic efforts to ...
US Demands Halt to Russia's Real War on Terrorism
Post Date: 2016-02-12 05:40:56 by Stephen Lendman
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US Demands Halt to Russia’s Real War on Terrorism by Stephen Lendman It doesn’t surprise. Longstanding US hypocrisy and double standards are notorious. Do as we say, not as we do is official policy. Rogue states operate this way. Washington rules override all others, notably international, constitutional and US statute laws. Democracy is pure fantasy. None whatever exists. Elections are farcical when held, the political process too corrupted to fix. Money-controlled duopoly power runs things. Neocon fascist lunatics make or influence policy. America is by far the most ruthless and dangerous regime in world history. Its unrelenting imperial agenda risks global war. Syria is ...
Russia warns of 'new world war' starting in Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-11 23:11:49 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Russia warned of “a new world war" starting in Syria on Thursday after a dramatic day in which Gulf states threatened to send in ground forces. Foreign and defence ministers of the leading international states backing different factions in the war-torn country met in separate meetings in Munich and Brussels following the collapse of the latest round of peace talks. Both Russia and the United States demanded ceasefires in the long-running civil war so that the fight could be concentrated against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) - but each on their own, conflicting terms. An Islamic State position on Kobane hill is taken out by an allied airstrike But the Gulf states, ...
International Syrian Support Group Meets in Munich
Post Date: 2016-02-11 12:09:28 by Stephen Lendman
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International Syrian Support Group Meets in Munich by Stephen Lendman Representatives (mostly at the foreign ministerial level) from 17 member countries, the UN, EU and Arab League are meeting in Munich as this is written. They’re discussing efforts to resolve Syria’s conflict - Obama’s war, not a civil one as widely misreported, Western propaganda, blaming victims for US-led imperial high crimes. Chances for progress are virtually nil because Washington wants war, not peace, wanting Western- controlled puppet governance replacing Syrian sovereign independence. Russian UN envoy Vitaly Churkin explained Russia will present ideas toward achieving a ceasefire and addressing ...
Well-Documented Close Turkish/ISIS Ties
Post Date: 2016-02-11 10:48:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Well-Documented Close Turkish/ISIS Ties by Stephen Lendman Western media scoundrels suppress information on America’s responsibility for creating ISIS and likeminded terrorist groups, using them to further its imperial agenda, involving endless wars of aggression. Turkey is criminally complicit, Erdogan allied with Washington’s imperial project, giving safe haven status to ISIS and other terrorists on its territory, arming them, letting them pass freely cross-border into Syria and Iraq. One rogue state supports another, both responsible for high crimes against peace. On Wednesday, Sergey Lavrov minced no words, saying clear intelligence-gotten evidence shows ISIS terrorists ...
Russia says U.S. planes bombed Syria's Aleppo on Wednesday
Post Date: 2016-02-11 08:30:42 by Ada
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that two U.S. aircraft had bombed the Syrian city of Aleppo on Feb. 10, and that Russian planes had not been operating in the area. A Pentagon spokesman had accused Russian and Syria government forces on Wednesday of destroying Aleppo's two main hospitals with air strikes, though he did not specify when the strikes were alleged to have taken place. The Syrian army has made rapid advances near Aleppo in recent weeks with the help of Russian air strikes. But Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement that "only aviation of the anti-ISIS coalition flew over the city yesterday", referring to ...
IS US-Dominated NATO Planning War on Russia?
Post Date: 2016-02-11 08:24:44 by Stephen Lendman
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Is US-Dominated NATO Planning War on Russia? by Stephen Lendman Given America’s bipartisan criminal class, the unthinkable is possible - the madness of launching catastrophic nuclear war, a strategy only lunatics would support. When NATO defense ministers meet, America’s imperial agenda dominates discussions, other alliance members pressured to go along, even when harming their national interests. After meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, US-appointed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said they “agreed on an enhanced (multinational) forward presence in the eastern part of our alliance…to make clear that an attack against one ally is attack against all allies, and ...
How America Manufactures Phony Evidence to Bash Russia
Post Date: 2016-02-11 08:14:37 by Stephen Lendman
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How America Manufactures Phony Evidence to Bash Russia by Stephen Lendman US viciousness is unrestrained, a pure evil force threatening world peace. Its imperial agenda gives rogue state terror new meaning, consistently blaming victims for its high crimes, bashing Russia irresponsibly. Its unrelenting aerial war on terror continues effectively. Washington invents dirty tricks to subvert it, including by manufacturing war crimes in Aleppo - claiming its warplanes bombed two area hospitals when they were no Russian flights in the vicinity. On Wednesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said “at 13:55 Moscow time (10:55 GMT), two American A-10 assault aircraft ...
Deplorable NYT Anti-Syrian Propaganda
Post Date: 2016-02-11 06:25:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Deplorable NYT Anti-Syrian Propaganda by Stephen Lendman The so-called newspaper of record makes garden variety yellow journal look good by comparison. State-sponsored managed news misinformation and Big Lies substitute for what readers need to know and deserve to get. Borrowing a line from the late Chicago columnist Mike Royko’s criticism of Rupert Murdoch publications, no respectable fish would want to be wrapped in its pages - containing toxic material unfit to read. Times management, editors, correspondents and contributors march in lockstep with all US imperial wars, turning a blind eye to their horrors, the highest of high crimes against peace. The Times continues ...
10 Secret CIA Prisons You Do Not Want To Visit
Post Date: 2016-02-11 06:20:33 by Ada
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The US Central Intelligence Agency has, according to multiple investigative reports from both mainstream media outlets and human rights organizations, operated numerous “black sites” across the world. These locations, according to the reports, are secret prisons used to house “ghost prisoners.” Those sent to these places are held captive without being charged with any crime and are not allowed any form of legal defense. Ghost prisoners are subject to what the CIA calls “enhanced interrogation tactics”; most others call it torture. The CIA and their operatives’ methods allegedly include waterboarding, sleep deprivation, humiliation, physical beatings, ...
Endless US War and Occupation of Afghanistan
Post Date: 2016-02-10 12:40:40 by Stephen Lendman
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Endless US War and Occupation of Afghanistan by Stephen Lendman Four weeks post 9/11, Washington launched naked aggression on Afghanistan, a country posing it no threat. Planners had endless war and permanent occupation in mind - an imperial scheme planned months in advance, the 9/11 mother of all US false flags the phony pretext. On October 28, 2007, candidate Obama lied, saying “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do.” He systematically violated every major promise made, continuing endless war on Afghanistan Bush began, maintaining permanent occupation - both leaders responsible for ...
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