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Western presstitutes hide fact that U.S. backed down in Syria after Russian warning

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:53 UTC
Kerry Lavrov
© Andrew Kelly/Reuters
The Western media is failing to report the public news that the US publicly backed down over its plans to attack Syria after receiving a Russian warning, so that it can continue to advocate military action without provoking alarm on the part of the Western public.

An objective observer of international news would be forgiven for thinking that last week witnessed the most dangerous moment of the post-Cold War era.

What were undoubtedly well sourced media reports confirmed that discussions were underway within the US government about possible attacks on the Syrian military.

These reports appeared in Reuters, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, and confirmed that a meeting would take place at "staff level" on Wednesday 5th October 2016 to discuss military options to present to the President.

The military option which appeared to be the most strongly favoured was covert military strikes on Syrian army bases.

These reports provoked a warning from the Russian military on Tuesday 4th October 2015 that any US aircraft engaged in attacks on Syrian army bases risked being shot down by the Russian air defence troops stationed in Syria. This was not an empty threat since the Russian military has stationed advanced S-400 and S-300MV Antey-2500 anti aircraft missiles in Syria.
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Eye 2

Donbass flaring up: Ukrainian forces attack southern Donetsk; firefight ongoing - NATO helicopter shot down


Fort Russ News
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:36 UTC
Ukraine attack Donbass
© Maks Vetrov/ Sputnik
Ukrainian security forces have gone on the attack in the south of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. The losses of the Ukrainian side have amounted to 5 people killed. This news was reported by journalists by the official representative of the DPR's Ministry of Defense, Eduard Basurin.

"Ukrainian units, violating their obligations to maintain a ceasefire from 13:50, have started to attack our positions. After conducting artillery training with the use of 152 mm guns, enemy units went on the attack with a force of up to one company near the residential area of Leninskoe," the DPR's defense department's spokesperson stated.

According to Basurin, the attack is ongoing under the cover of mortar fire, and a fire fight is currently underway. "The preliminary losses of the enemy include one infantry fighting vehicle destroyed, and 5 security officers eliminated," he reported.

The defense ministry of the DPR has also demanded that the OSCE take measures to address Ukrainian security forces' violation of the ceasefire.

Via RIA Novosti- Translated by J. Arnoldski

Comment: The day before this flare-up, the DPR shot down a helicopter. Turns it was manned by NATO "instructors":
The Ministry of Defense of the DPR has released information that instructors from NATO countries were onboard the helicopter that the republic's servicemen shot down yesterday. DPR deputy operative commander Eduard Basurin stated this today, October 14th.

"In the helicopter at the moment of its sortie were military instructors from NATO countries," Basurin said. According to DPR intelligence, the helicopter crash landed in the area surrounding Krasngotovka. As the republic's command has pointed out, the area is now cordoned off and cellular communication is disabled there.

Yesterday, DPR head Alexander Zakharchenko stated that the UAF attempted to attack DPR positions under the cover of a military helicopter, which was shot down but managed to land. According to paragraph seven of the Minsk Memorandum from September 19th, 2014, the use of combat aircraft and drones is prohibited along the entire contact line designated for the ceasefire with the exception of OSCE SMM UAV's.

The last time that Kiev used aircraft in Donbass near Gorlovka was on January 18th, 2015, when several SU-25 fighter jets were noticed in the sky.


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Bizarro Earth

Time to pay attention: In the last 48 hours, humanity moved closer to the brink of World War

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:29 UTC
World bomb graphic
Months of disquieting and needless escalation between the United States and Russia over Syria and the Asia-Pacific theater quickened feverishly to near outright hostility over the past 48 hours, and — considering semantics from both ends suggestive of antebellum blame-casting — it's past time to pay attention.

Indeed, though a few analysts still dismissively liken the tensions to so much blustery rhetoric, a growing number contend obstinate U.S. posturing about Russian aggression hasn't been taken so lightly by President Vladimir Putin and his rapidly amassing allies.

Additionally, it now seems the U.S. has backed its incessant finger-pointing with the subtle language necessary to undertake what could best, if ironically, be termed a 'defensive first strike.'

While full-scale nuclear war might indeed be an outside possibility at this early date, the specter of full military engagement is quickly materializing on several fronts. To understand how we arrived so near this precipice, a series of events and statements over the previous month should be considered contextually with those of the last two days.
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Snakes in Suits

WikiLeaks: Clinton says 'we'll ring China with missile defense' and claims the 'American Sea'


RT
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 18:36 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
The US could surround China with missiles if Beijing doesn't agree to Washington's requests to use its influence to disrupt North Korea's nuclear program, Hillary Clinton apparently said, according to recently leaked emails.

A document featuring Hillary Clinton's private speech transcripts is among leaked emails belonging to her campaign manager, John Podesta. WikiLeaks has been releasing the emails since last week, with over 10,000 hacked documents published so far.

Some of them are believed to reveal the Democratic presidential candidate's stance on relations with China.

"We're going to ring China with missile defense. We're going to put more of our fleet in the area," Clinton apparently said privately in a 2013 speech, when she was head of the US State Department, as quoted by AP.
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Russia mulls supplying air defense systems to Turkey


RFE/RL
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:21 UTC
erdogan putin
© Reuters
Moscow says it "may consider" supplying Turkey with air defense systems in a further warming of ties after a feud over the downing of a Russian jet last year.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies on October 14 that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks in Istanbul earlier this week in which the prospect of supplying Ankara with air defense systems was brought up.

"Various missile defense systems were mentioned and if the Turkish side so desires, Russia may consider the possibility of supplying Turkey in various ways," Peskov said about the talks on October 10.

Turkey's private NTV channel, citing Turkish Foreign Ministry sources, said earlier this week that Ankara was ready to accept an offer from Russia for a Turkish tender to build long-range air defense systems.

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Bad Guys

The global conflict zones just waiting to reignite: Kashmir, South China Sea, Colombia, Congo

Anastasia Kasimirko-Kirillova
Russia Insider / Tsargrad TV
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:56 UTC
world wars
More often than not, the world's attention is on geopolitical and military processes that are already in an active phase. The analytical group Tsargrad offers an overview of the smoldering conflicts in the periphery that could provoke new rounds of instability in near future.

Kashmir

Recently, disturbing news emerged from the India-Pakistan border. From the Indian side there were reports of precision strikes on headquarters of terrorist groups in Kashmir, with Pakistan denouncing an invasion of its territory. Before that, on September 18, as a result of the attack of Jaish-e-Mohammed, 18 Indian soldiers were killed in Delhi controlled Jammu and Kashmir.

The ancient land of Kashmir became an apple of discord between Pakistan, India and also China, after independence from Britain in 1947. It was then that "The White Man's Burden" laid a delayed action mine, or more precisely an entire minefield, where explosions occur time after time, two states having been created out of one colony - India for Hindus and Pakistan for Muslims.
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Eye 1

Unavoidable dystopian future for world's biggest cities warned of in Pentagon video

Nick Turse
The Intercept
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:38 UTC
sniper
© Mario Tama/Getty Images
The year is 2030. Forget about the flying cars, robot maids, and moving sidewalks we were promised. They're not happening. But that doesn't mean the future is a total unknown.

According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of "Escape from New York" and "Robocop" — with dashes of the "Warriors" and "Divergent" thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers.

At least that's the scenario outlined in "Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity," a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations University. All that stands between the coming chaos and the good people of Lagos and Dhaka (or maybe even New York City) is the U.S. Army, according to the video, which The Intercept obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.

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Info

Rum and cigars for all: US finally lifts restrictions on Cuban imports


RT
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:34 UTC
Cuban cigars
© Desmond Boylan / Reuters
Americans traveling to Cuba will be able to bring back plenty of rum and cigars, after the Obama administration abolished special import restrictions in a bid to make the opening of relations with the island nation permanent.

The US Department of Treasury announced Friday that Americans traveling to Cuba will no longer be restricted to just $100 worth of rum and cigars. They will now be subject to the same duties as alcohol and tobacco from other countries.

Reselling the rum and cigars in the US still remains against the law, however. The goods will be restricted to personal consumption.

"Challenges remain - and very real differences between our governments persist on issues of democracy and human rights - but I believe that engagement is the best way to address those differences and make progress on behalf of our interests and values," President Barack Obama said, announcing the changes.
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Snakes in Suits

WikiLeaks: Clinton allies polled voters about Obama's ties to Islam in 2008

Daniel Halper
New York Post
Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:23 UTC
Obama and Clinton 2008 debate
© Getty Images
Hillary Clinton's allies poll-tested whether voters would be put off by Barack Obama's ties to Islam in the 2008 Democratic primary election, according to hacked emails released by WikiLeaks.

Specifically, Clinton's friends sought reaction from voters to this statement about the then-senator from Illinois: "Obama's father was a Muslim and Obama grew up among Muslims in the world's most populous Islamic country."

The revelation comes from the personal emails of John Podesta, a close Clinton confidant and now the chair of Hillary Clinton's presidential election campaign.
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Trump: 'The Clintons are criminals', Jack Abramoff agrees


Grabien News
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:08 UTC
Donald Trump
© AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
Donald Trump, speaking Thursday in West Palm Beach, Fla.:

"This is a struggle for the survival of our nation. Believe me. And this will be our last chance to save it on November 8th. Remember that. This election will determine whether we're a nation or only -- democracy but, in fact, controlled by a handful of special global interests, rigging the system, and our system is rigged. This is reality. You know it, they know it, and pretty much the whole world knows it.

"The establishment and their media neighbors wield control over this nation through means that are very well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, rapist, xenophobe, and morally deformed. They will attack you. They will slander you. They will seek to destroy your career and your family. They will seek to destroy everything about you, including your reputation. They will lie, lie, lie and then again they will do worse than that. They will do whatever is necessary.

"The Clintons are criminals. Remember that, they're criminals.

[Crowd chants "Lock her up!"]

"This is well documented, and the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive cover-up of widespread criminal activity at the State Department and the Clinton foundation in order to keep the Clintons in power. Never in history have we seen such a cover-up as this."
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