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Escalated US War in Syria and Iraq Coming
Post Date: 2016-02-02 06:28:45 by Stephen Lendman
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Escalated US War in Syria and Iraq Coming by Stephen Lendman Days earlier, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced more US combat troops coming to Syria and Iraq besides numbers already there - on the phony pretext of combating ISIS, America’s ally, not enemy, along with likeminded terrorist groups. Carter claiming Washington intends to degrade and defeat this scourge is a complete hoax. It flourishes because of US-led Western and Saudi/Turkish-led regional support. It wouldn’t exist otherwise. Washington’s so-called “advise and assist mission” is cover for escalated naked aggression, supporting terror war against Syria and Iraq, heading to Libya, aiming to ...
Naked Turkish Aggression on Syria
Post Date: 2016-02-01 13:04:50 by Stephen Lendman
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Naked Turkish Aggression on Syria by Stephen Lendman Turkey is a fascist police state, Erdogan a hoodlum, an international outlaw, a tyrannical regional scourge. His aggression against Turkish and Syrian Kurds, downing a Russian SU-24 bomber in Syrian airspace, committing other provocative acts against the Russian Federation, and now cross-border shelling of targets in Syria following permission from or complicity with Washington. Erdogan would never launch attacks outside his territory otherwise. Russia presented indisputable video evidence, showing Turkish military cross-border shelling, according to Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov, saying: “This is what we ...
Backdrop to Farcical Syrian Peace Talks: Sunday Damascus Terror-Bombings
Post Date: 2016-02-01 05:47:38 by Stephen Lendman
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Backdrop to Farcical Syrian Peace Talks: Sunday Damascus Terror-Bombings by Stephen Lendman Sunday blasts in Damascus killed dozens in a mainly Shia neighborhood, many others injured, some critically. Over 20 Hezbollah fighters supporting government forces were among the casualties, deliberately targeted by a car-bomb detonated near a bus stop. When rescue workers arrived, two suicide bombers blew themselves up. ISIS claimed responsibility for the incident. Most opposition groups involved in talks match its extremism - showing hope for resolving things diplomatically is pure fantasy. Syrian UN envoy/chief peace talks negotiator Bashar al-Jaafari linked the incident to terrorists and ...
Report: Taliban Controls More of Afghanistan Than Any Time Since 2001
Post Date: 2016-02-01 01:04:46 by NeoconsNailed
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15 years into the US occupation of Afghanistan, the nation is a less occupied than ever, as a new report to Congress warns that the Taliban's military gains have left it in control of a bigger chunk of the country than at any time since the 2001 US invasion. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the author of the quarterly report, cited tens of billions of dollars in waste and a general lack of security, warning the situation in Afghanistan is worsening by most metrics. Pentagon officials have been warning for awhile that the situation on the ground is deteriorating, but the SIGAR report offered more specifics and a stark metric, territory hold, by ...
US Responsibility for Iraq's Devastating Humanitarian Crisis
Post Date: 2016-01-31 12:33:37 by Stephen Lendman
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US Responsibility for Iraq’s Devastating Humanitarian Crisis by Stephen Lendman Decades of US-led aggression raped and pillaged Iraq, killing millions of its people, creating dystopian conditions for survivors. Humanitarian crisis conditions are deplorable, exacerbated by endless US aggression, using ISIS and other takfiri terrorists as imperial foot soldiers, along with low oil prices complicating things further. Iraq needs over $1.5 billion in aid this year alone. Baghdad called for international community help, its migration and displacement minister Jassim Mohammed al-Jaff, saying: “With the expanding needs, the allocation through the federal budget will not be ...
Conflicting Reports on Farcical Syrian Peace Talks
Post Date: 2016-01-31 11:48:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Conflicting Reports on Farcical Syrian Peace Talks by Stephen Lendman Holding them is a waste of time. Abandoning them makes more sense. Negotiating with terrorists won’t succeed. Diplomacy is doomed to fail. Instead the US/Saudi/UN-orchestrated charade continues, conflicting reports on whether opposition groups comprised of terrorists intend showing up muddy things further. Syria’s UN envoy/chief government negotiator Bashar al-Jaafari correctly said “any political solution to the (ongoing) crisis…can’t be achieved without the presence of a serious party to the dialogue process.” He justifiably accused opposition terrorist groups of “lack(ing) ...
Russia's Awesome Syrian Campaign
Post Date: 2016-01-31 08:51:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Russia’s Awesome Syrian Campaign by Stephen Lendman Russia’s sophisticated military capability matches the West’s best, a force to be reckoned with, giving Pentagon commanders pause on how to challenge it. London’s Independent discussed its effective Syrian campaign, saying it “deliver(ed) a hi-tech shock to (the) West and Israel,” its sophisticated weapons and technology matching or exceeding their best. Its military capability is no longer disparaged. US Army Europe (USAEUR) commanding General Ben Hodges called its electronic warfare advances “eye-watering.” US Air Forces in Europe commander General Frank Forenc said its air defense systems in ...
Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Boondoggle
Post Date: 2016-01-31 08:41:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II Boondoggle by Stephen Lendman At an estimated lifetime development, production, operational and maintenance cost of $2 trillion or more (adjusted for inflation), the F-35 perhaps most of all symbolizes notorious Pentagon waste, fraud and abuse - ripping off taxpayers, using the nation’s resources irresponsibly, at the expense of vital homeland needs. Pentagon hype calls the F-35 “a 5th Generation fighter, combining advanced stealth with fighter speed and agility, fully fused sensor information, network-enabled operations and advanced sustainment” - for Army, Navy and Marine Corps use, as well as for selected allies. After a decade ...
US/Turkish Anti-Russian Provocations
Post Date: 2016-01-31 08:29:01 by Stephen Lendman
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US/Turkish Anti-Russian Provocations by Stephen Lendman America and Turkey have disturbing similarities. Both are fantasy democracies, featuring money- controlled one-party rule while pretending otherwise. Police state governance tolerates no opposition - deploring peace and stability, waging endless naked aggression, repressing their own people, risking global war. Major media in both countries support regime policies demanding condemnation. Turkey and America are rogue states. A criminal class runs them. They’re allied against Russia. Repeated provocations risk direct confrontation. It’s inconceivable that Washington’s dirty hands weren’t behind Turkey’s ...
LIBYAN ISIS LAUNCHES MANHUNT FOR MYSTERY SNIPER PICKING OFF TERRORIST COMMANDERS
Post Date: 2016-01-30 15:04:14 by Ada
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ISIL fearing someone is on a mission to hunt them down Libyan ISIS chiefs are fearful of being picked off by a renegade sniper, who is already behind three long-range kills of high-profile figures in the terrorist group, all in the new Libyan “mini-caliphate” in the city of Sirte. The terrorists holed up in Colonel Gaddafi’s home town still don’t know if the sniper is one person, or several. The killings started on January 13, with the latest kill made 10 days after that. This now has Islamic State (IS, ISIS/formerly ISIL) fearing someone is on a mission to hunt them down. And they appear to be showing it too. The terror group has been carrying out arrests and ...
Scurrilous NYT Anti-Syrian Propaganda
Post Date: 2016-01-30 12:14:50 by Stephen Lendman
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Scurrilous NYT Anti-Syrian Propaganda by Stephen Lendman The Times is a longstanding pro-Western lying machine, featuring managed news misinformation, spurning truth and full disclosure on major issues, notably geopolitical ones. It’s militantly anti-Assad, scurrilously attacking him, falsely blaming him for US-led high crimes, using ISIS and other terrorist foot soldiers to do its dirty work - responsible for genocidal mass slaughter. It perpetuates the myth of anti-government “moderate rebels.” None exist, opposition forces comprised of US-created terrorist groups, cutthroat killers, responsible for gruesome atrocities - trained to commit them by CIA operatives, ...
Obama forced again to rethink troop numbers in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2016-01-30 09:55:29 by BTP Holdings
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Obama forced again to rethink troop numbers in Afghanistan Associated Press By DEB RIECHMANN and ROBERT BURNS 12 minutes ago FILE - In this Dec. 25, 2013 file photo, U.S. troops gather in to Wardak province, eastern Afghanistan. Conditions in Afghanistan are getting worse, 15 years into a war that few Americans talk about any more. That’s preventing the clean ending that President Barack Obama hoped to impose before leaving office. Violence is on the rise, the Taliban are staging new offensives, the Islamic State group is angling for a foothold and peace prospects are dim. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifteen years into the war that few Americans talk about ...
Western/Regional-Supported Terrorist Groups Invited to Syrian Peace Talks
Post Date: 2016-01-30 07:30:01 by Stephen Lendman
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Western/Regional-Supported Terrorist Groups Invited to Syrian Peace Talks by Stephen Lendman A separate article called them farcical, dead on arrival, orchestrated to fail, not succeed. Anti-Assad US-led Western and Saudi-led regional states’ claims about wanting conflict ended, peace restored, things resolved diplomatically ring hollow. Endless conflict continues. Scheduled talks change nothing. Violence, instability and chaos serve Washington’s agenda. Peace and stability defeat it. On Friday, Tass said Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee spokesman Andrey Przhezdomsky blasted Turkey’s continued “organized system of transferring addition(al) (gunmen) to ...
Farcical Syrian Peace Talks: Dead on Arrival
Post Date: 2016-01-30 07:10:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Western/Regional Support for Terrorist Groups Invited to Syrian Peace Talks by Stephen Lendman A separate article called them farcical, dead on arrival, orchestrated to fail, not succeed. Anti-Assad US-led Western and Saudi-led regional states’ claims about wanting conflict ended, peace restored, things resolved diplomatically ring hollow. Endless conflict continues. Scheduled talks change nothing. Violence, instability and chaos serve Washington’s agenda. Peace and stability defeat it. On Friday, Tass said Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee spokesman Andrey Przhezdomsky blasted Turkey’s continued “organized system of transferring addition(al) (gunmen) ...
Obama Plans More War on US-Ravaged Libya
Post Date: 2016-01-29 12:01:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Obama Plans More War on US-Ravaged Libya by Stephen Lendman Endless US imperial wars rage, raping one country after another. Wherever America shows up, mass slaughter, destruction and unspeakable human misery follow. ISIS is a US creation. Following a Thursday National Security Council (NSC) meeting, a White House statement lied, saying Obama “emphasized that the United States will continue to counter ISIL terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary.” “The President directed his national security team to continue efforts to strengthen governance and support ongoing counterterrorism efforts in Libya and other countries where ISIL has sought to establish a ...
Pentagon Seeks ‘Hundreds More’ US Troops in Iraq and Syria
Post Date: 2016-01-29 09:14:14 by Ada
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Military Eyes 800 More Troops Over Several Deployments Last week, Pentagon officials were talking up a few hundred additional “trainers” for the ISIS war in Iraq and Syria. This appears to have just been the start, as reports now suggest that over the last several weeks, the Pentagon has sought another 800 US troops for the war. 800 would be a big deployment for a war in which the “no boots on the ground” mantra has continued to be repeated by the administration, so the plan is to split this up over several deployments. Over the past 18 months, the US has brought some 3,700 troops into Iraq, over a large number of small escalations. In all of this the Pentagon has ...
NYT Admits US/Saudi Partnership Supports Regional Terrorist Groups
Post Date: 2016-01-29 06:56:56 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Admits US/Saudi Partnership Supports Regional Terrorist Groups by Stephen Lendman The Times, of course, would never admit Washington unilaterally or partnered with anyone would support ISIS and other terrorist groups. Its oblique account states “the CIA has relied…for decades (on) the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” to help fund its covert operations. “(A)n unusual arrangement (is maintained) for the rebel (sic) training mission…code-named Timber Sycamore.” Saudis “contribute weapons and large sums of money…” CIA operatives train ‘rebels’ (aka ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and likeminded groups)” in heavy and light weapons use. ...
US/Turkey Planning ISIS Attacks on Russia?
Post Date: 2016-01-29 06:31:38 by Stephen Lendman
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US/Turkey Planning ISIS Attacks on Russia? by Stephen Lendman Washington wants Russia marginalized, weakened, destabilized, contained and isolated, its sovereign independence destroyed, transformed into another US vassal state. It wants control over its vast resources, plundered for profit, its people exploited as serfs, its huge land mass balkanized for easier control. Its policies risk direct confrontation, a possible unthinkable war between the world’s leading nuclear powers, their arsenals able to end life on earth. On Friday, RT International quoted Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee spokesman Andrey Przhezdomsky, saying: “Russian special services have ...
Europe Waging War on Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Post Date: 2016-01-28 07:41:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Europe Waging War on Refugees and Asylum Seekers by Stephen Lendman A previous article said calling them “migrants” irresponsibly denigrates their humanity, mocks their suffering and need for help. They’re desperate people, fleeing countries ravaged by US-led aggression, seeking safe havens to stay alive. Most are Muslims, easy targets for vilification. Islamophobia rages across Europe and America, people threatening no one demonized for their faith and ethnicity, used as pretexts for US-led wars of aggression. EU countries increasingly consider them unwanted intruders, enemies, fifth column threats, treating them deplorably. Denmark intends confiscating their ...
Shaky Run-Up to Syrian Peace Talks
Post Date: 2016-01-28 07:26:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Shaky Run-up to Syrian Peace Talks by Stephen Lendman Talks are scheduled to begin Friday at Geneva’s Palais des Nations. It’s still unclear precisely who’s coming - what parties and individuals got invitations, which ones accepted or rejected them. From what’s known so far, US/UK/Saudi-backed terrorist groups were invited - a bloc known as the Higher Negotiating Committee, including ISIS-equivalent Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam). It’s committed to Syria’s destruction, mass slaughter of Shiites and Alawites - former leader Zahran Alloush (killed by Syrian airstrikes) earlier saying “(o)ur nation has a great thirst for an Islamic state.” He and ...
Saudi Airstrikes on Yemen Deliberately Target Civilians
Post Date: 2016-01-27 12:27:58 by Stephen Lendman
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Saudi Airstrikes on Yemen Deliberately Target Civilians by Stephen Lendman On January 27, London’s Guardian cited a UN panel investigating its terror-bombing found “widespread and systematic” attacks on civilians and civilian-related targets - horrendous war crimes by any standard. The Guardian said evidence uncovered raises disturbing questions about Britain supplying Riyadh with heavy weapons. US and UK military personnel select targets to be struck - including hospitals, schools, refugee camps, food storage areas, mosques, markets where Yemenis shop, and other nonmilitary sites, committing mass atrocities with impunity. Security Council members have the UN report. So ...
Denigrating Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Post Date: 2016-01-27 11:19:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Denigrating Refugees and Asylum Seekers by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, US-led imperial wars created the greatest refugee crisis since WW II, a high crime, Bush and Obama officials remaining unaccountable. Calling desperate people fleeing conflict areas for safe havens in Europe “migrants” denigrates their humanity, ignores what they’ve endured, reflecting indifference to suffering most people can’t imagine. Relief Web asked “(w)hy are people fleeing to Europe?” Hundreds of thousands undertake hazardous journeys, some perishing en route. “Most (come) from (war-ravaged) Syria and Afghanistan,” said Relief Web, many others from Iraq, Libya and other ...
Phony Global ISIS Threat
Post Date: 2016-01-26 11:26:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Phony Global ISIS Threat by Stephen Lendman ISIS and similar terrorist groups are US creations, used as imperial foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere. A video attributed to ISIS warned of attacks on US and European cities, saying “revenge has started…blood will flow. There will be no safety in this world from our guns and bullets and explosives.” Nothing suggests it’s credible. Any nation, organization or individuals can produce videos saying anything. ISIS claimed responsibility for last November’s Paris attacks. Evidence strongly indicates state- sponsored false flag responsibility - Western fear-mongering to enlist support for endless wars and ...
Syrian Peace Talks to Start January 29
Post Date: 2016-01-25 12:17:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Peace Talks to Start January 29 by Stephen Lendman On Monday, Arab League/UN envoy to Syria Steffan de Mistura announced the date without indicating who’ll participate. From what’s known, US/Saudi-backed terrorist groups will be involved, including Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam). It operates like ISIS, equally ruthless, responsible for the August 2013 Ghouta, Syria chemical weapons attack, killing scores, injuring numerous others, Assad wrongfully blamed for its high crime. What other US/Saudi-backed terrorist groups will participate remains for de Mistura to name them, begging the question. How can peace talks be legitimate when one side is committed to Syria’s ...
More Lies About Russian Airstrikes Killing Civilians in Syria
Post Date: 2016-01-25 06:03:46 by Stephen Lendman
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More Lies About Russian Airstrikes Killing Civilians in Syria by Stephen Lendman The misnamed, one-man operated, London-based, Western-supported Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) issues daily anti-Assad/anti-Russian propaganda reports, consistent misinformation substituting for hard facts. Its latest on January 24 turned truth on its head, headlining “Russian and Syrian warplanes kill 164 civilians in revenge massacre,” omitting evidence because there is none, saying: Deaths “includ(e) 43 children and 25 women…massacre(d)…in the past 72 hours…in the towns of Tabia, Jazira, Khesham, and al-Bolel in the eastern countryside of Der-Ezzor…in ...
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