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Western media: Turkey is dying a 'slow death' under Erdogan's dictatorship


Sputnik
Mon, 16 May 2016 11:00 UTC
erdogan
© Adem Altan / AFP

Comment: While the Western media calls Erdogan a dictator it should be remembered that he is the West's dictator, carrying out their dirty work in the region. He is obviously a madman, but the increase in negative reporting serves to keep him 'in line,' not to expose his real crimes and those he is committing them with.



More and more western media sources now openly call Turkish President Erdogan a ruthless tyrant with a dangerous hobby of eradicating any form of opposition or freethinking; however, his strive for unilateral control over the country could end up entrapping him, given the recent challenges in the Middle East.

More and more western media sources now admit that Recep Tayyip Erdogan's behavior "rings more and more alarm bells."

In its recent analysis of the latest political developments in Turkey, the UK-based online newspaper Al-Arab calls him a "ruthless dictator with a dangerous hobby of eradication of any form of opposition and freethinking in the country".

"Erdogan is harsh and cruel with everyone, without any exceptions; he gives no piece to anyone in his country, fearing threats even in his own home palace," the newspaper says, referring to the recent changes in the country's government and the resignation of Turkey's former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

Comment: Further reading:

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Economic sanctions against Russia should be terminated as soon as possible: Says leader of Saxony, Germany


RT
Mon, 16 May 2016 08:50 UTC
Putin and Stanislaw Tillich
© Aleksey Nikolskyi / Sputnik
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saxony's Minister-President Stanislaw Tillich
Economic sanctions against Russia should be terminated as soon as possible, says Minister President of the German region of Saxony. Germany and Russia are longstanding trade partners capable of straightening out political differences through negotiations. "Our goal must be to end the economic sanctions against Russia as soon as possible," Stanislaw Tillich, who has headed Saxony since 2008 and a member of the Bundesrat since November 2015, told Die Welt. Russia is an important economic partner for both Germany and the EU and should continue this status for a long time, the CDU politician said.

"I hope that dialogue with Russia will be resumed so that diverging political issues can be clarified," he said. Economic sanctions against Russia were introduced by the US and its allies in Europe and worldwide in spring 2014, following a referendum among the citizens of the Crimea peninsula, which voted in favor of re-unification with Russia. After making repeated warnings that sanctions are counterproductive, Moscow retaliated in August 2014 by adopting food embargo on goods originating from countries that joined anti-Russian sanctions. Reciprocal economic attacks have already caused multibillion losses for all sides of the conflict.

Comment: EU countries are starting to wake up to the dangers of a reality that Washington is hell bent on creating.
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India court says former UN climate body head to stand trial


Fox News
Sat, 14 May 2016 00:00 UTC
Rajendra Pachauri
© AP Photo/Gurinder Osan
In this Feb. 6, 2010 file photo,Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman Rajendra Pachauri listens to a speaker at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi, India. A court in India's capital says there's enough evidence in a stalking and sexual harassment case for a former chairman of the U.N.'s climate body, Rajendra Pachauri, to stand trial.
A court in India's capital says there's enough evidence in a stalking and sexual harassment case for a former chairman of the U.N.'s climate body, Rajendra Pachuri, to stand trial.

The Press Trust of India news agency says a judge ruled Saturday that the next hearing in the case would be on July 11.

Police filed charges against Pachauri earlier this year after a female colleague filed a complaint.

Pachauri worked with the woman at The Energy and Resources Institute, or TERI, a New Delhi environmental think tank he had headed for more than three decades.

Comment: See also:
Conflict of Interest: IPCC Chairman Pachuri's services to Big Business
IPCC Chairman Refuses to Apologise for Himalayan Glaciers Debacle
IPCC focus on stopping global warming and extreme weather is 'unscientific and immoral'

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CIA tip led to arrest of 'dangerous communist' Nelson Mandela, former US spy confesses


RT
Sun, 15 May 2016 13:20 UTC
Nelson Mandela
© Reuters
FILE PHOT0 AUG96 - President Nelson Mandela
A former CIA agent has finally confirmed what the world has long suspected: the US agency was behind the arrest that put Nelson Mandela in prison for 27 years.

Two weeks before "unrepentant" 88-year-old Donald Rickard died, the CIA spy confessed to filmmaker John Irvin that his tip led to Mandela's arrest, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

Rickard defended the arrest of South Africa's most wanted man in 1962, which he says was necessary to capture "the world's most dangerous communist outside of the Soviet Union."

Comment: See also: Obama, prince of war

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'Print the money': Trump's 'reckless' proposal echoes Franklin and Lincoln

Ellen Brown
The Web of Debt Blog
Sat, 14 May 2016 23:55 UTC
Trump Throwing Money
"Print the money" has been called crazy talk, but it may be the only sane solution to a $19 trillion federal debt that has doubled in the last 10 years. The solution of Abraham Lincoln and the American colonists can still work today.

"Reckless," "alarming," "disastrous," "swashbuckling," "playing with fire," "crazy talk," "lost in a forest of nonsense": these are a few of the labels applied by media commentators to Donald Trump's latest proposal for dealing with the federal debt. On Monday, May 9th, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate said on CNN, "You print the money."
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The Duran: Vietnam's dangerous courtship with Washington

Andrew Korybko
The Duran
Sun, 15 May 2016 22:54 UTC
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On the eve of Obama's visit to Vietnam events point towards moves for a realignment of Hanoi's policies away from Russia and China.

President Obama's upcoming visit to Vietnam will take place amidst increasing American tensions with China. Beijing recently scrambled a couple of fighter jets after an American naval ship sailed dangerously close to one of its disputed islands in the South China Sea, which was just the latest in a series of multiple provocations that have taken place all across the region ever since the US declared its Pivot to Asia in October 2011. As part of the US's plan to "contain" China, the Pentagon envisages constructing a multilateral "China Containment Coalition" all across East, Southeast and South Asia, with the most active core of this prospective coalition being a Vietnamese-Philippine naval alliance.

With the election of Rodrigo Duterte as the President of the Philippines and his willingness to pragmatically negotiate with China, it is looking less likely that Manila will play as critical a "containment" role as the US had initially anticipated.

In response to this surprising shift in regional geopolitics, the US is expected to intensify its military-strategic relations with Vietnam, and President Obama's visit might be just as important a catalyst for Hanoi's pro-American pivot as Defence Secretary Carter's visit to India was last month. Considering this, it is important to take a look at Vietnam's recent moves with regards to China and explore the military-related avenues that it has to expand if it is to enter into a "containment" partnership with the US.
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South Front: Russia's Special Operations Forces Command


South Front
Sat, 14 May 2016 22:34 UTC
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Russia Defense Report: Special Operations Forces Command

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Shield or sword? US deploys new missile system at defense base in Romania


Sputnik
Fri, 13 May 2016 18:11 UTC
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The US officially inaugurated on Thursday its missile defense base in Deveselu, Romania. While the facility creates new strategic possibilities for the US, it also poses the risk of increasing instability in Eastern Europe. The new $800-million facility includes an Aegis Ashore missile defense system. Construction was finished in May 2015, and was ready for operation on December 31, 2015. The base is a former Soviet airfield. It was constructed in 1952 and used by the Romanian Air Force until 2003.

The Deveselu base is one of the first major European components of the US global missile shield. The so-called European Phased Adaptive Approach presumes that a number of information and combat missile defense components will be set up in Europe. In addition, warships equipped with the Aegis system will be put out on combat duty.

Aegis Ashore is the land-based version of the ship-based Aegis system. The land-based four-story-high construction weighs 900 tons and is similar to the deck-house of a Ticonderoga-class cruiser. The construction includes modular radio-electronic components. The system is equipped with an AN/SPY-1 radar and vertical launchers for 24 Standard SM-3 Block IB missiles.

The deployment of US missile defenses to Romania will not affect possible trajectories of Russian ballistic missiles, an article on Lenta.ru read. The trajectories of Russian missiles go from the European part of Russia and over Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea. The capabilities of existing and advanced US missile defense would not allow for intercepting of such launches.

What is more important is the fact that the new Romanian facility is officially aimed at the possible interception of Iranian missiles. The US has changed the configuration of its missile shield in Europe. Currently, it includes radars in Turkey and launchers for SM-3 missiles in Romania as well as planned SM-3 launchers in Poland.

The technical base of the Aegis Ashore system allows for launching SM-3 missile as well as Tomahawk cruise missiles. Thus, the new facility in Romania will pose a threat to military and civil facilities in south-western Russia, including in Crimea.

Comment: In 2002, Russia and the US created a joint declaration reaffirming they were no longer one another's enemy or strategic threat and they agreed to cooperate on creating a missile defense mechanism. A lot has changed. The US has, in effect, reneged, and by doing so, created again an atmosphere of fear and doubt. Why would any country want these missile defense bases within their borders? It's because of these installations and the mindset of those who install them (offense is the best defense), there will eventually be something pointing back, right at them. Shield or sword? Let's try sword. After the first few minutes, a shield would have dubious, if any, value. Romania, now locked and loaded. Poland, still on board?

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Western war on Russia: European Broadcasting Union rigs 'Eurovision 2016' to prevent Russian favorite from winning

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Sun, 15 May 2016 22:12 UTC
Just when you thought the Euro-liberals' 'Eurovision Song Contest' couldn't get any worse...
Eurovision song Contest

Jamala, 'winner' of the 2016 Eurovision song Contest
When strangers are coming,
They come to your house,
They kill you all
and say,
We're not guilty
not guilty.

Where is your mind?
Humanity cries.
You think you are gods.
But everyone dies.
Don't swallow my soul.
Our souls

~ 1944, the 'winning' entry in Eurovision 2016, by 'Ukrainian' singer Jamala
No, the above lyrics do not refer to US-supported Kiev forces waging war on southeast Ukrainians; they are meant to refer to Russian forces 'invading' Ukraine in 1944 and in 2014. In what can only be described as a blatant propaganda blitz against Russia, this year's Eurovision winner - in defiance of an anticipated Russian victory - was the Ukrainian entry. 'Eurovision' was aired to Americans for the first time this year. Just in time, then, for them to receive precisely the impression of Europe that Washington wants them to receive: that it is pro-US and anti-Russian.

In a move worthy of a Hunger Games 'gamemaker', the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs Eurovision, stated two days prior to the event that Russia winning the event (its entry was the bookies' red-hot favorite to win) would be "disastrous" for the event, and strongly hinted that it was prepared to rig the voting to prevent such an outcome:
A Eurovision source told the Mirror: "The feeling is that the European Broadcasting Union know how unpopular a Russia win would be and will do everything possible to help the other favourites to victory."
Unpopular to who, exactly? The live audience? The TV voters watching at home? Or the US Empire and its corporate minions in the EU?
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One-by-one, first France, now Germany in the battle to end anti-Russian sanctions

Alexander Tsyganov, Anastasiya Kazimirko-Kirillova
Fort Russ
Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00 UTC
Sanctions
© www.economist.com
The real question is: Who is twisting the screw?
Germany has followed France in attempting to bring the question of abolishing anti-Russian sanctions to the state level. Such an initiative has been made by the deputy Udo Stein from the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Stein has prepared a resolution on canceling the sanctions against Russia and has sent it for consideration by the government of the Baden-Wurttemberg region. Experts believe that this initiative is but the first step down a long and difficult road as it puts the ruling party in Germany in a difficult position.

Submitting his resolution for consideration to the Landtag, Stein stressed that Germany has suffered losses over Brussel's decision without any avail in peacefully regulating the conflict in Ukraine. Hundreds of business with ties to Russia have suffered along with whole regions which had good trade and economic relations with Russian partners, one of which is Baden-Wurttemberg.

It should be noted that this is not the first attempt by a party to raise the issue of canceling sanctions against Russia. Another deputy in the European Parliament from Alternative for Germany, Marcus Pretzell, called for canceling sanctions a month ago. In late April, a survey was published by the German Forsa Insitute which showed that the majority of Germany support the lifting of sanctions, or at least their weakening. Around 35% of correspondents were in favor of completely lifting sanctions against Russia while 36% believed that restrictive measures should at least be weakened. Only 18% of respondents said that the sanctions must be kept as they are.

Comment: The West can only see black and white. Russia operates in multiple shades of gray and has effectively run an end game around the sanctions, utilizing alternate resources many of which are now in-house. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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