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Latest Articles: War, War, War
Syrian Army Captures Strategic Town
Post Date: 2016-01-25 05:53:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Army Captures Strategic Town by Stephen Lendman Since Russia’s Syrian anti-terrorist aerial campaign began, government forces made steady gains, retaking previous lost territory. Over the weekend, the strategically important town of Rabi’a was captured, ISIS’ second Lattakia province stronghold, a key government victory. After hours of heavy fighting, Syrian forces regained full control. Russian airstrikes played an essential role. The victory came after 18 towns and villages were liberated, seven near Turkey’s border, areas ISIS and other terrorists used to move freely cross- border between both countries, Erdogan permitting it. A Syrian military statement ...
NYT Misreporting on Syria
Post Date: 2016-01-24 12:15:33 by Stephen Lendman
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NYT Misreporting on Syria by Stephen Lendman The Times consistently suppresses what’s most important to report, notably on geopolitical issues. Managed news misinformation substitutes, willful deception. On January 23, it discussed Washington’s (sinister) alliance with Saudi Arabia on Syria, a code- named Timber Sycamore - suppressing information on Obama’s war of aggression, launched for regime change, perpetuating the myth about nonexistent moderate Syrian rebels. According to The Times, “the Saudis contribute both weapons and large sums of money, and the CIA takes the lead in training the rebels on AK-47 assault rifles and tank-destroying missiles” - without ...
Moscow/US Compromise on Syrian Peace Talks Delegations
Post Date: 2016-01-24 06:32:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Moscow/US Compromise on Syrian Peace Talks Delegations by Stephen Lendman Endless war largely affecting Syrian civilians rages, ongoing for nearly five years, launched by Obama for regime change, wanting the Syrian Arab Republic transformed into another US vassal state. Washington’s policy remains firm. Earlier peace talks achieved nothing. Expect no better results this time. Whatever comes out of Geneva negotiations, US support for ISIS and other terrorist groups assures continued violence and chaos. Expect Russia’s best conflict resolution efforts to fail again. Reports indicate Sergey Lavrov and John Kerry agreed on inviting two separate opposition groups to Geneva, ...
Biden Threatens Escalated War on Syria
Post Date: 2016-01-23 12:08:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Biden Threatens Escalated War on Syria by Stephen Lendman On Friday, Biden and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met in Istanbul. The vice president is spending two days with him, Erdogan and other rogue regime officials. Discussions focus on Obama’s war on Syria, Turkey a valued partner in high crimes against peace. Biden warned of escalated military operations if peace talks fail. Chances for success are virtually nil. Terrorist groups mostly comprise Assad’s opposition. They’ll keep fighting no matter what comes out of diplomatic talks. Biden’s comments revealed Washington’s rage for war, saying: “We do know it would better if we can reach a ...
Phony North Korean Threat to America
Post Date: 2016-01-23 11:07:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Phony North Korean Threat to America by Stephen Lendman Pyongyang long sought normalized relations with America and other Western nations. Washington wanting adversarial relations maintained prevents it. A previous article explained why North Korea wants nukes. It fears America for good reason. It knows it wages endless imperial wars, raping one country after another. Truman’s naked aggression turned most of North Korea to rubble. Millions died, mostly civilians. Pyongyang wants protection against a possible repeat of what happened earlier. It chose nuclear weapons as its strategy, for defensive, not offensive purposes. It wants peace and stability, not war, devastation and chaos. ...
US Unleashing Deadly Virus in Donbass, Ukraine?
Post Date: 2016-01-23 08:43:51 by Stephen Lendman
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US Unleashing Deadly Virus in Donbass, Ukraine? by Stephen Lendman Is Washington intending biological war on its area residents? Chemical, biological and radiological warfare is longstanding US practice, used in direct and proxy wars, Syrians and Yemenis notably affected. On January 22, the Donbass International News Agency (DINA) headlined “Deadly virus leaked from US laboratory - DPR Army and Intelligence,” saying: “More than 20 Ukrainian soldiers have died and over 200 are hospitalized,” affected by a virus “immune to all medicines.” Thousands of Ukrainian troops are stationed menacingly in areas bordering Donbass. Intermittent shelling continues, ...
Pentagon Frantic on How to Counter Successful Russian/Syrian Campaigns Against ISIS
Post Date: 2016-01-22 12:24:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Pentagon Frantic on How to Counter Successful Russian/Syrian Campaigns Against ISIS by Stephen Lendman Russia’s effective aerial campaign, along with Syrian air and ground forces, are relentlessly pounding ISIS. They’re inflicting heavy casualties, destroying their supply lines, disrupting their oil smuggling operations, regaining lost territory, defeating Obama’s scheme to transform Syria into another US vassal state, its sovereignty destroyed. Syrian army troops have renewed vigor, on the offensive effectively. For the first time since Obama launched naked aggression in March 2011, Russia’s General Staff chief General Valery Gerasimov said his government’s ...
Trump Has Had Enough
Post Date: 2016-01-22 09:47:44 by Ada
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Sarah Palin just endorsed Trump in a shrill speech that sounded like the cheerleaders from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It’s “yuge” for his campaign because she’s likely to bring all the Tea Party holdouts who didn’t think he was conservative enough. It’s even yuger for the liberals who hate him because they see this as another step toward America’s first Islamophobic president. We should be focusing on guns instead because…the children. So much of these two opposing Americas come down to a simple question: What’s worse, being killed by a terrorist or being killed by a mass shooter? The left insists all this terrorism talk is just fearmongering ...
Amnesty International Blasts Erdogan's Collective Punishment of Kurds
Post Date: 2016-01-22 07:24:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Amnesty International Blasts Erdogan’s Collective Punishment of Kurds by Stephen Lendman On January 21, AI called for “end(ing) abusive operations under indefinite curfews” in Kurdish eastern and southeastern communities. War without mercy raged since last summer. Arbitrary round-the-clock curfews imposed for over a month and other abusive practices “left residents without access to emergency health care, food, water and electricity for extended periods.” Turkish forces target residential neighborhoods. Deaths and injuries mount, civilians mostly affected, indiscriminately killed and injured. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds are at risk. “According to the ...
US and UK: Merchants of Death and Destruction
Post Date: 2016-01-21 12:39:58 by Stephen Lendman
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US and UK: Merchants of Death and Destruction by Stephen Lendman US and UK weapons makers thrive on sales to Saudi Arabia, a rogue state sponsor of regional terrorism, waging naked aggression on Yemen, a US-orchestrated war. Washington is Riyadh’s leading arms supplier. In 2010, the Obama administration approved up to $60 billion in multi-year sales, the largest US weapons deal ever. Naval and missile defense upgrades may be worth tens of billions more. In 2011, Riyadh said it plans on around $90 billion worth of US arms purchases in coming years. It’s the world’s largest arms buyer, accounting for an estimated one in seven dollars spent in 2015. In 2014, Riyadh and the ...
US Illegally Building Airbase in Northern Syria
Post Date: 2016-01-21 07:13:48 by Stephen Lendman
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US Illegally Building Airbase in Northern Syria by Stephen Lendman Last month, Fars News reported Washington was illegally rebuilding and equipping a Hasakah province airbase in northern Syria, an area controlled by Kurdish People’s Defense Unit (YPG) fighters. The facility hasn’t been used since 2010. US warplanes already lawlessly bomb infrastructure and government targets on the pretext of combating ISIS. Russia uses Syria’s Latakia airfield legally, responding to Assad’s request for help against terrorists, causing havoc in ISIS and other takfiri ranks, supporting Syrian ground forces retake lost territory. Does Washington intend using the reconstructed facility ...
US Mission Creep in Iraq and Syria
Post Date: 2016-01-21 06:58:01 by Stephen Lendman
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US Mission Creep in Iraq and Syria by Stephen Lendman America’s long war on Iraq continues endlessly, ongoing for nearly five years in Syria - naked aggression by any standard. Despite Obama promising no US boots on the ground, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said increased numbers are planned in addition to ones already deployed - on the phony pretext of combating ISIS. Meeting with his French, British, Australian, German, Italian and Dutch counterparts in Paris, Carter focused on escalating conflict in Iraq and Syria, aiding the scourge Washington claims to oppose. Obama again proved he’s a serial liar, Carter saying he approved seeking “additional opportunit(ies) to ...
CIA Torture and Drone Assassinations
Post Date: 2016-01-21 06:40:45 by BTP Holdings
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CIA Torture and Drone Assassinations Recently we’ve been hearing about how horrible the CIA is because it tortured suspects for information about past or future terrorist attacks. President Obama has been very outspoken about this topic through the years, condemning the “enhanced interrogation techniques” that America has used while dealing with detainees. This is hypocritical for several reasons. Were it not for manhandling a number of suspects following 9/11, there’s no way we would have learned the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and been able to conduct a raid that resulted in his death. Of course, Obama was quick to take credit for killing bin Laden, despite the ...
ISIS: A US-Created Instrument for High Crimes
Post Date: 2016-01-20 07:24:37 by Stephen Lendman
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ISIS: A US-Created Instrument for High Crimes by Stephen Lendman ISIS didn’t arrive out of thin air. Washington created it along with other terrorist groups. They’re used as imperial foot soldiers, taught to commit appalling atrocities, largely against civilians. A new UN report on the Iraq conflict said “the scourge of ISIL continues to kill, maim and displace Iraqi civilians in the thousands and to cause untold suffering.” Conflict from January 2014 through October 31, 2015 claimed “at least 55,0547 civilian casualties,” 18,802 killed, another 36,245 wounded, the report said. It ignored millions of Iraqi deaths from US imperial wars since the 1980 ...
Disgraceful Saudi Foreign Minister NYT Op-Ed
Post Date: 2016-01-20 07:12:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Disgraceful Saudi Foreign Minister NYT Op-Ed by Stephen Lendman Times editors notoriously give feature op-ed space to international criminals - instead of denouncing their high crimes. Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s most despicable human and civil rights record. Despotism substitutes for democracy. So does supporting international terrorism - providing weapons, munitions and other aid to ISIS and likeminded groups. Foreign Minister Adel Bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir vilified Iran irresponsibly. Times editors gave him a platform to proliferate Big Lies. He turned truth on its head, accusing Tehran of “dangerous sectarian and expansionist policies… support(ing) ...
IS confirms death of 'Jihadi John' in Syria drone strike
Post Date: 2016-01-20 06:23:03 by BTP Holdings
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IS confirms death of 'Jihadi John' in Syria drone strike AFP 13 hours ago Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group confirmed Tuesday the death of British extremist "Jihadi John", saying he was killed in a drone strike in their Syrian stronghold of Raqa in November. Born Mohammed Emwazi, he was known as the executioner of the jihadist group appearing masked in a string of videos showing the beheadings of Western hostages. In its online magazine Dabiq, the group said Emwazi was killed on November 12 "as the car he was in was targeted in a strike by an unmanned drone in the city of Raqa, destroying the car and killing him instantly". The US military had said ...
Syrian Peace Talks Jeopardized
Post Date: 2016-01-19 06:13:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Syrian Peace Talks Jeopardized by Stephen Lendman Disputes over who’ll represent Assad’s opposition may delay or derail talks before their scheduled January 25 beginning. Under the best of circumstances, they have virtually no chance of succeeding. Washington wants war, not peace. It wants Western-controlled puppet governance replacing Syrian sovereign independence. Assad intends serving as long as he retains popular support. International law supports him. The New York Times said talks may not begin as scheduled next Monday. “(T)here is no agreement on who, if anyone,” intends showing up. Talks may be “pushed back” or derailed altogether. Chances for ...
Britain and Saudi Arabia: Partners in High Crimes
Post Date: 2016-01-19 06:00:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Britain and Saudi Arabia: Partners in High Crimes by Stephen Lendman British Prime Minister David Cameron defended the indefensible on state-owned, operated and controlled BBC - discussing his regime’s policy of selling Saudi Arabia terror weapons. They’re used for regional naked aggression, along with brutal internal repression. More on Britain’s deplorable policy below. An earlier article discussed Cameron’s partnership with Washington and Riyadh. They’re waging terror war on Yemenis, indiscriminately killing civilians, slaughtering them in cold blood, both countries choosing terror-bombing targets - including residential neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, ...
Dubious Report Alleges Russia Supplies Hezbollah with Heavy Weapons
Post Date: 2016-01-19 05:27:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Dubious Report Alleges Russia Supplies Hezbollah with Heavy Weapons by Stephen Lendman Haaretz reported it, citing The Daily Beast as its source, a disreputable instrument of US propaganda - notoriously substituting managed news misinformation for hard truths. “Russia is providing major supplies of arms to the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group in the course of military support that both the Russians and Hezbollah are providing the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad,” said Haaretz. “The arms include precision ground-to-ground missiles,” laser-guided rockets and anti-tank missiles “with no strings attached,” citing Daily Beast propagandist Jesse Rosenfeld. ...
World No Safer Following Iran Nuclear Deal
Post Date: 2016-01-18 05:59:02 by Stephen Lendman
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World No Safer Following Iran Nuclear Deal by Stephen Lendman Longstanding US imperial policy fosters endless wars, violence and chaos, an agenda threatening world peace and stability, risking WW III. Iran’s nuclear deal changed nothing. As long as America targets all independent countries for regime change, its endless wars of aggression will continue. Direct and proxy US conflicts rage in multiple theaters. New ones are planned. More than ever before in world history, humanity’s survival is up for grabs. Hawkish US policy risks the unthinkable. Nuclear war if launched may kill us all. New York Times editors have it backwards, headlining “A Safer World, Thanks to the ...
Latest ISIS Atrocity
Post Date: 2016-01-17 07:21:46 by Stephen Lendman
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Latest ISIS Atrocity by Stephen Lendman CIA operatives, US special forces and their rogue state counterparts train ISIS recruits in the fine art of committing gruesome atrocities, including beheadings, use of chemical and other toxic agents, as well as mass slaughtering civilians. US-led Western imperial ruthlessness bears full responsibility for the latest horrific incident. Dier Ezzor is Syria’s seventh largest city, its largest eastern one, located 280 miles northeast of Damascus. Pre-war, its population exceeded 200,000. Syrian oil fields are located in the area. The province connects ISIS’ declared capital Raqqa with Iraqi territory it controls. Reports indicate their ...
US, Britain and France Intend Undermining Syrian Peace Talks
Post Date: 2016-01-16 11:04:00 by Stephen Lendman
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US, Britain and France Intend Undermining Syrian Peace Talks by Stephen Lendman They want war, not peace, Assad replaced by a pro-Western puppet, Syrian sovereignty destroyed, the country balkanized for easier control. Iran’s turn awaits, despite last year’s nuclear deal. US-led Western rogue states want total control over vast regional resources, huge oil and gas deposits, giving Big Oil free reign to exploit them. Russia’s deputy UN envoy Vladimir Safronkov blasted what he called an “unscrupulous (Western) tactic,” saying: “It looks like that, under the pretext of the deterioration of the situation in besieged cities (the result of Obama’s launched ...
A Terrorist Under Every Bed
Post Date: 2016-01-15 06:45:25 by Ada
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Media hypes the terrorism panic I have written frequently on how the terrorist threat is routinely hyped to serve a number of special interests in the United States and elsewhere in the world. In many countries, including most recently Saudi Arabia and Turkey, anyone who is a critic of the existing government is routinely labeled a “terrorist” as that justifies taking harsh and often extralegal steps to confront him or her. In reality, the likelihood of being killed by a terrorist almost anywhere but an active war zone is miniscule. In the U.S. it is so small as to be statistically insignificant but the public has been led to believe that heavily armed Islamic militants are ...
US War on ISIS: A Complete Hoax
Post Date: 2016-01-15 06:30:53 by Stephen Lendman
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US War on ISIS: A Complete Hoax by Stephen Lendman US post-9/11 war on terror reflects willful state-sponsored deception - media scoundrels complicit in conning the public to believe Washington opposes what it actively supports. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and various splinter groups are US creations, used as imperial foot soldiers, flourishing because Washington and rogue partners arm, fund, train and direct them. Obama’s vow to “degrade and destroy” ISIS is one of his many Big Lies - saying one thing while supporting a universal scourge. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced scores newly deployed US commandos in Iraq - ahead of hundreds (perhaps ...
French Foreign Minister Irresponsibly Accuses Russia of Killing Civilians in Syria
Post Date: 2016-01-15 06:21:26 by Stephen Lendman
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French Foreign Minister Irresponsibly Accuses Russia of Killing Civilians in Syria by Stephen Lendman Russia uses state-of-the-art precision-guided weapons in its Syrian aerial campaign, accurately striking targets aimed at. Painstaking efforts are taken to hit ISIS and other terrorist elements only, scrupulously avoiding civilian casualties. Photographic evidence proves it. Claims otherwise are Big Lies. Washington (like Israel) considers civilians legitimate targets, deliberately massacring them in all its wars, indifferent to rule of law principles and human suffering, reflecting rogue state viciousness. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius showed his government’s opposition ...
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