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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Russia Proposes New Syria Peace Plan
Post Date: 2016-02-10 07:06:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Proposes New Syria Peace Plan by Stephen Lendman Russia’s best efforts for peace throughout nearly five years of war in Syria failed because Washington wants war. Nothing suggests US policy changed. Syria is Obama’s war, naked aggression against a nonbelligerent country, using ISIS and other terrorist groups as imperial foot soldiers. There’s nothing civil about ongoing conflict. Syria was invaded. Claims otherwise are Western propaganda, maliciously blaming Assad for US-led high crimes. Geneva I, II and III peace talks failed. Sergey Lavrov prepared an alternative approach, saying “(d)uring our contacts with Washington, we have proposed an absolutely ...
Russia Consistently Blamed for US-Led Imperial Crimes
Post Date: 2016-02-09 12:31:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia Consistently Blamed for US-Led Imperial Crimes by Stephen Lendman Irresponsible Russia bashing no longer surprises, media scoundrels repeating state-sponsored Big Lies, vicious propaganda. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shamelessly supports imperial interests, serving his US-led Western masters. After farcical Syrian peace talks collapsed, he outrageously blamed Russia, saying: “As soon as (Geneva III) convened, (Russian) aerial bombing continued and the ground operation started in Aleppo.” He blamed Putin, discretely not naming him. His accusation was clear, turning truth on its head - failing to explain Russia’s war on ISIS and other terrorist groups, a ...
The Urgency of Opposing a Hillary Clinton Presidency
Post Date: 2016-02-09 08:30:58 by Stephen Lendman
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The Urgency of Opposing a Hillary Clinton Presidency by Stephen Lendman Among an array of deplorable aspirants, she stands out as the most dangerous and loathsome, an anti-populist Wall Street tool, a war profiteer’s dream, shamelessly indifferent to human suffering, a ruthless rogue actor, a menace threatening world peace. Ignore her gender and calls for finally electing a woman US president. Look at the enormous harm the first Black one caused at home and abroad, Muslims and people of color most affected. Obama achieved the impossible - exceeding the worst of George Bush, waging endless wars, bombing seven countries in seven years, ignoring popular needs, force-feeding austerity ...
West Turns a Blind Eye to Erdogan's High Crimes
Post Date: 2016-02-09 08:08:20 by Stephen Lendman
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West Turns a Blind Eye to Erdogan’s High Crimes by Stephen Lendman Turkey is a fascist police state, a valued US NATO ally, Erdogan an international outlaw, his high crimes ignored by Western officials and mainstream media scoundrels, on the wrong side of virtually all issues mattering most, notably geopolitical ones. America created ISIS and other terrorist groups. Erdogan supports them, provides arms and safe haven status on Turkish territory, secretly sells stolen Syrian and Iraqi oil - he, his family members and other top Turkish officials profiting handsomely. YPG fighters (Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units) are important elements in the fight against ISIS in ...
Relentless Russia Bashing Continues
Post Date: 2016-02-09 07:33:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Relentless Russia Bashing Continues by Stephen Lendman US-led Western managed news misinformation and Big Lies consistently drown out hard truths. Russia intervened responsibly in Syria, waging real war on terrorism, polar opposite US phony war, supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups it pretends to oppose. Moscow scrupulously observes international law. Claims about its aerial campaign killing civilians and using illegal weapons are Western-sponsored propaganda. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is part of the problem, not the solution to resolving US- orchestrated Middle East wars, Germany a reliable imperial ally. Meeting with rogue Turkish officials in Ankara, she lied, ...
Are America and Britain Preparing for WW III?
Post Date: 2016-02-08 11:29:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Are America and Britain Preparing for WW III? by Stephen Lendman Provocative US war games near Russia’s borders risk direct confrontation, madness if initiated. Is this why they’re held, preparing for the unthinkable, possible WW III? Neocons infesting Washington intend letting nothing deter their quest for unchallenged global dominance, an agenda reflecting pure evil. Britain is a longtime reliable US ally, both nations partnering in each other’s high crimes. Is David Cameron, complicit with Washington, preparing for escalated war, perhaps intending to confront Russia belligerently - inventing a phony reason as a pretext? A new London Telegraph report suggests it, ...
Super Bowl a Chance for More War Hype
Post Date: 2016-02-08 06:04:47 by Ada
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Northrop Grumman Commercial Touts Laser Shooting Future Plane From the helicopters looming overhead to the troops with assault rifles pretty much everywhere, Super Bowl 50 follows the ongoing trend of making everything about the military. That includes commercials hyping pricey new hypothetical war vehicles. Northrop Grumman was at the center of this, with its new commercial hyping its as-yet-unnamed new Long-Range Strike Bomber, which doesn’t actually exist yet, and has already won a $60 billion contract purely on hype. The new Super Bowl ad hypes the sixth-generation fighter, which has no tail and will fire lasers in a way that doesn’t give them away to enemies. Exactly how ...
American bombs are still buried under German towns. And they're blowing up.
Post Date: 2016-02-07 22:35:29 by X-15
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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, ...
DHS Official: I Was Ordered to Purge Records of Islamic Terror Ties
Post Date: 2016-02-07 17:32:54 by BTP Holdings
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DHS Official: I Was Ordered to Purge Records of Islamic Terror Ties Image: DHS Official: I Was Ordered to Purge Records of Islamic Terror Ties By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 06 Feb 2016 03:39 PM A veteran official with the Department of Homeland Security claims he and other staff were ordered to destroy records on a federal database that showed links between possible jihadists and Islamic terrorist groups. "After leaving my 15-year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, ...
An Exasperated John Kerry Throws In Towel On Syria: "What Do You Want Me To Do, Go To War With The Russians?!"
Post Date: 2016-02-07 16:52:47 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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“Russian and Syrian forces intensified their campaign on rebel-held areas around Aleppo that are still home to around 350,000 people and aid workers have said the city - Syria's largest before the war - could soon fall.” Can you spot what’s wrong with that quote, from a Reuters piece out today? Here’s the problem: “could soon fall” implies that Aleppo is on the verge of succumbing to enemy forces. It’s not. It’s already in enemy hands and has been for quite some time. What Reuters should have said is this: “...could soon be liberated.” While we’ll be the first to admit that Bashar al-Assad isn’t exactly the most benevolent ...
Dubious Pledged Aid for Beleaguered Syrians
Post Date: 2016-02-07 11:23:51 by Stephen Lendman
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Dubious Pledged Aid for Beleaguered Syrians by Stephen Lendman Pledging aid is one thing, delivering it another. Past experience shows suffering people in conflict theaters and natural disaster areas treated dismissively, given short shrift - most or all so-called aid diverted for profit-making purposes. Months after Haiti’s devastating January 2010 earthquake, a donor’s conference pledged over $5 billion to help victims rebuild and recover - virtually all funds earmarked exclusively for profit- making ventures, US companies getting the lion’s share, desperate people entirely ignored, still on their own six years later. Post-Katrina New Orleans became a metaphor for ...
Syrian Forces Winning the Strategically Important Battle of Aleppo
Post Date: 2016-02-07 07:01:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Forces Winning the Strategically Important Battle of Aleppo by Stephen Lendman Winning the battle of Aleppo (Syria’s commercial hub before Obama launched naked aggression in 2011) is key to controlling the country’s northwest along with strategic areas bordering Turkey - severing key supply routes, providing ISIS and other terrorist groups with weapons, munitions and other aid. Greatly helped by Russian air power, Syrian forces gained full control over the main supply route from Turkey. The Aleppo-Gaziantep Highway runs north to the Turkish border. Syrian forces liberated Ratyan and Mayer in northern Aleppo. Fighting continues in other contested towns and villages. ...
Russian Rules of Engagement in Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-06 11:08:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Russian Rules of Engagement in Syria by Stephen Lendman Russia’s intervention last year changed the dynamic on the ground. It holds key trump cards, waging real war on terrorism effectively. It determined rules of engagement - turning the tide in a protracted conflict government forces were losing, now with the upper hand. Fort Russ quoted an unnamed senior joint operation Syria, Russia, Iran, Hezbollah command official, saying: “Russia has established new rules of engagement on the Syrian-Turkish border, and has retained the upper hand for the Syrian air force and the Syrian army.” “Russia also refurbished and upgraded custom made Syrian MiG29SMT (warplanes), to ...
Obama's War on Syria: A Potential Catastrophic Flashpoint
Post Date: 2016-02-06 06:27:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama’s War on Syria: A Potential Catastrophic Flashpoint by Stephen Lendman America’s rage for unchallenged global dominance risks the unthinkable. Bipartisan neocons infesting Washington let nothing interfere with their reckless agenda - pure evil by any standard, risking humanity’s survival. Democrat Hillary Clinton is as ruthless, dangerous and over-the-top as the most extremist Republican, a war goddess ready to target humanity militarily, mindless of potential catastrophic consequences. Longstanding bipartisan US policy calls for replacing all independent governments with Western- controlled puppet regimes, naked aggression Washington’s strategy of choice. ...
Former DHS employee: Obama threw open the door for terror attacks
Post Date: 2016-02-05 20:11:29 by BTP Holdings
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Former DHS employee: Obama threw open the door for terror attacks Posted on February 5, 2016 by Sam Rolley Video thumbnail for youtube video Obama trivializes terrorist threats - Personal Liberty Former Department of Homeland Security employee and whistleblower Phillip Haney just revealed that the Obama administration is hugely responsible for terror attempts on the U.S. In an op-ed for The Hill, Haney reveals that the White House threw the nation’s intelligence community under the bus in the early days of Obama’s presidential tenure by blaming the 2009 “underwear bombing” attempt on a U.S. airliner on intelligence failures. “This was not a failure to collect ...
Collapse of Farcical Syrian Peace Talks: It's Russia's Fault
Post Date: 2016-02-05 08:37:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Collapse of Farcical Syrian Peace Talks: It’s Russia’s Fault by Stephen Lendman Russia’s devastatingly effective aerial campaign, aiding Syrian ground forces retake earlier lost territory, jeopardizes Washington’s regional imperial project - its ability to achieve longterm objectives considerably weakened. Farcical Syrian peace talks collapsed. Opposition groups dominated by terrorists committed to the nation’s destruction won’t negotiate except on unacceptable terms. No responsible leader would agree. Talks were dead on arrival. Resuming them is doubtful. Resolving things diplomatically is pure fantasy. Endless conflict shows no letup. Russian air power ...
Saudia Arabian Troops Headed to Syria?
Post Date: 2016-02-05 07:01:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Saudi Arabian Troops Headed to Syria? by Stephen Lendman Syria’s conflict is getting increasingly dicey. Farcical peace talks collapsed. Resuming them is doubtful. Chances for diplomatic resolution are nil. Russia’s aerial campaign aiding Syrian ground forces continues unrelenting, Putin committed to combating all terrorist groups until defeating or reducing them to a shadow of their peak strength - enabling government troops to contain their remnants. A previous article cited Russian evidence, indicating possible Turkish ground incursion preparations. Earlier Russian video evidence exposed Turkish shelling of Syria’s Latakia province - whether ahead of plans to invade ...
Obama at Baltimore's Islamic Society
Post Date: 2016-02-05 06:38:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama at Baltimore’s Islamic Society by Stephen Lendman Responsible historians will remember Obama as a loathsome rogue leader, a duplicitous con man, an unindicted war criminal, a serial liar, a moral coward - responsible for waging war on humanity at home and abroad, mainly against Muslims. Millions of corpses attest to his barbarity. Islamophobia on his watch rages. Muslims are America’s principal target of choice - state-sponsored, media-proliferated propaganda portraying them as dangerous run-toting terrorists. On Wednesday, Obama visited a mosque for the first time as president, likely his first time ever, a thinly veiled political stunt, a shameless act, masking his ...
Planned Turkish Invasion of Syria?
Post Date: 2016-02-04 12:38:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Planned Turkish Invasion of Syria? by Stephen Lendman All Turkish military actions are approved by or complicit with Washington. Erdogan would never act unilaterally on his own, not even aggressively against his own Kurdish population, slaughtering civilians in cold blood. Does he intend a Syrian incursion, unprovoked aggression, if launched? Russian evidence suggests it, according to Defense Department spokesman General Igor Konashenkov, saying: “We have serious grounds to suspect intensive preparations by Turkey for a military invasion on the territory of the sovereign state of Syria. We are recording more and more signs of concealed preparations by the Turkish military.” ...
Farcical Syrian Peace Talks Collapse
Post Date: 2016-02-04 07:07:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Farcical Syrian Peace Talks Collapse by Stephen Lendman Pro-Western, pro-Saudi, anti-Syrian UN envoy/interlocutor Staffan de Mistura tried putting a brave face on collapse, saying talks going nowhere were suspended until February 25. They’re a meaningless exercise in deception, mostly opposition terrorist groups, wanting Syria raped and pillaged involved. Mistura failed to reveal names of their delegates, groups and individuals as ruthless as ISIS, beholden to US-led Western and Saudi-led foreign powers - committed to war, instability and chaos, wanting Syrian sovereignty replace by caliphate tyranny. Talks scheduled to begin on January 26 never began. US/Saudi-backed terrorist ...
America Created Daesh (ISIS)
Post Date: 2016-02-04 06:54:35 by Stephen Lendman
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America Created Daesh (ISIS) by Stephen Lendman America created global terrorist groups at least since the CIA’s involvement against Soviet Russia in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Virtually all headline-making groups are US creations, or offshoots from them, used as imperial foot soldiers - recruited from scores of countries, armed, funded, trained and directed to serve Washington’s pure evil agenda, its quest for unchallenged global dominance, its endless wars of aggressions, its ravaging and destroying one nation after another. At a Rome news conference with his Italian counterpart Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, John Kerry was interrupted by a woman, accusing America of ...
Farcical Syrian Peace Talks Teeter Toward Collapse Before Beginning
Post Date: 2016-02-03 07:15:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Farcical Syrian Peace Talks Teeter Toward Collapse Before Beginning by Stephen Lendman Over a week since talks were scheduled to start, they haven’t begun. Anti-government posturing continues. Opposition groups are largely terrorists, sworn enemies of peace and stability. They want Syria raped and destroyed, their Shia and Alawite populations genocidally exterminated, tyranny replacing fundamental freedoms, all nonbelievers extrajudicially killed. Washington, Britain, France, Germany, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, other Gulf States, Jordan and Israel support this scourge - making a mockery of so-called peace talks. No serious ones are possible because Western/regional backed terrorists ...
Obama and the Pentagon Plan Massive Military Escalation and the Media Barely Seem to Care
Post Date: 2016-02-02 16:15:17 by Ada
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U.S. troops are going back into Iraq, our presence in Libya is escalating, and Obama has widened the war in Afghanistan—all without much of a public debate. Almost five years after the United States and its NATO allies launched a campaign in Libya to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the United States is on the verge of massively escalating its military operations in the war-torn country. According to the New York Times, the new effort is “expected to include airstrikes and raids by elite American troops.” It is unclear how long this newest effort will last. The announcement comes on the heels of U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announcing combat troops were going back ...
Russia tells Israel it is not transferring arms to Hezbollah
Post Date: 2016-02-02 12:34:38 by Ada
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The Russians have reassured the Israelis that they are not transferring advanced weaponry to the Hezbollah militia in Syria. Israel’s Ambassador to Russia Zvi Heifetz has said he has gotten assurances from Moscow, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “There’s an open line between us and the Russians at every level,” Heifetz stressed. “We made our red lines regarding Syria and the involvement by Iran and Hezbollah clear to the Russians, and when we have any concerns, we discuss them.” Moscow’s reassurances come after a report in the Daily Beast quoted Hezbollah commanders who claimed that the Russians were providing them with surface-to- surface ...
Pentagon Wants Fourfold Increase in US European Military Spending to Deter Nonexistent Russian Aggression
Post Date: 2016-02-02 12:19:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Pentagon Wants Fourfold Increase in US European Military Spending to Deter Nonexistent Russian Aggression by Stephen Lendman America is unique among world powers, a hated and feared pariah, a neocon-infested gangster state, waging endless premeditated wars of aggression, threatening world peace. US military spending already matches or exceeds budgets for all other nations combined, including foreign, homeland, numerous miscellaneous categories, unlimited black budgeting, frequent add- ons and unconstrained defense contractors’ cost overruns, amounting to trillions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse over time. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter wants billions more. His warrantless ...
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