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The battles to cleanse 'Syraq' of ISIS terrorists are being won by Iran

Pepe Escobar
RT
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:18 UTC
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© Reuters/Jalal Al-Mamo
Aleppo, Syria.
A cliffhanger debate will take place this Wednesday at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Picture Secretary of State John Kerry, new Pentagon supremo Ashton Carter, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey all testifying in the same room.

The meat of the matter: the House of Cards, sorry, US Congress mulling over what's the real deal behind the Obama administration's proposal to use "military force" in Syria, and whether to impose a no-fly zone to protect Syrian "rebels".

Obama actually has a "special presidential envoy" for the Orwellian-style Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; he's retired Marine Gen. John Allen.

Allen swears the US "will protect" Syrian "rebels" trained and weaponized by Washington; and he's all in favor of a no-fly zone over northern Syria.

The envoy is essentially parroting 'His Master's Voice', whose self-described "Don't Do Stupid Shit" administration is confident the draft authorization to use military force in Syria will survive scrutiny at the House of Cards, sorry, US Congress.
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Light Sabers

Intelligence think tank Stratfor: U.S. using Ukraine to weaken Russia's position in Middle East


Russia Insider
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:50 UTC
The article originally appeared at German Economic News. Translated for RI by Anita Zalaldinova.
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© Reuters
Syrian and Ukrainian activists protested in September 2013 in front of the US Embassy in Kiev against military intervention in Syria. They consider the US government as the mastermind behind radical Islamist groups
The Ukrainian conflict was sparked by the US in response to Russia's activities in the Middle East, the US private intelligence service Stratfor suggested. Washington was discontented with the role of Moscow in the Syrian conflict, and wanted to avert it by using Ukraine.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday during his visit to the US Air Force base in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh that military pressure would be needed to force Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to negotiate. Syria needs a political transition and Assad should be removed because he 'had lost any legitimacy', AP cites Kerry as saying.

Kerry added that the fight against the Islamic State is the most important task of the US in Syria and Iraq. Assad, however, brings a serious accusation against the United States. The US air strikes against the IS were of 'purely cosmetic' nature. Terrorism cannot be combated from the air, said Assad. The statement that air strikes of Anti-IS alliance would strengthen Syria are not truthful.

It remains unclear whether the US seriously intend to carry out a military strike against Syria. Then that would invoke the Syrian allies plan with Russia. So far Kremlin has been at the side of the Syrian government. But the Ukrainian crisis is likely to have limited international latitude of Russia.
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Vader

U.S. labels Venezuela 'threat' while backing human rights abusers


teleSUR
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:31 UTC
obama maduro
Barack Obama has upped the ante in his aggressions against Venezuela. The U.S. president claimed Monday that the democratically-elected Venezuelan government poses a "threat to national security," due to a full compliment of alleged human-rights abuses.

"... the Government of Venezuela's erosion of human rights guarantees, persecution of political opponents, curtailment of press freedoms, use of violence and human rights violations and abuses in response to anti-government protests, and arbitrary arrest and detention of anti-government protesters, as well as the exacerbating presence of significant public corruption, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," Obama claimed, before announcing imposing financial sanctions on top Venezuelan officials.


Comment: Ahh, that explains it. Obama accidentally thought his one-sheet on the U.S. was describing Venezuela. Easy mistake to make. Now all he has to do to rectify the situation is declare his own country a national security threat.


Comment: Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa, rightfully blasted the decision, saying:
It must be a bad joke, which reminds us of the darkest hours of our America, when we received invasions and dictatorships imposed by imperialism...
His government issued a statement calling the move "an unacceptable attack on the sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and against its government." Outgoing Secretary-General of the Organization of American States Jose Miguel Insulza described it as "very harsh," while UNASUR Secretary-General Ernesto Samper said the bloc rejects "any attempt at internal or external interference that attempts to disrupt the democratic process in Venezuela. There is no possibility that UNASUR will validate any attempt to disrupt the democratic process in any country in the region."

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Book 2

Peter Hitchens reviews Richard Sakwa's "Frontline Ukraine"

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:21 UTC
frontline ukraine
You might have thought that a serious book on the Ukraine crisis, written by a distinguished academic in good clear English, and published by a reputable house, might have gained quite a bit of attention at a time when that country is at the centre of many people's concerns.

But some readers here now understand that publishing, and especially the reviewing of books, are not the simple marketplaces of ideas which we would all wish them to be.

And so, as far as I can discover, this book:

Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, by Richard Sakwa. Published by I.B.Tauris

...though it came out some months ago, has only been reviewed in one place in Britain, the Guardian newspaper, by Jonathan Steele, the first-rate foreign correspondent whose rigour and enterprise (when we were both stationed in Moscow) quite persuaded me to overlook his former sympathy for the left-wing cause (most notably expressed in a 1977 book Socialism with a German Face about the old East Germany, which seemed to me at the time to be ah, excessively kind).
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Light Sabers

Israeli FM Lieberman: Behead Arabs disloyal to Israel


RT
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:07 UTC
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© Reuters/Ronen Zvulun
Avigdor "Off With Their Heads!" Lieberman
The Israeli foreign minister and head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party Avigdor Lieberman suggested during a campaign event that Arab citizens of Israel, who are disloyal to the state, deserve to be decapitated.

"Whoever is with us should get everything," Lieberman said in a speech at the Interdisciplinary Center in the western city of Herzliya on Sunday. "Whoever is against us, there's nothing else to do. We have to lift up an axe and remove his head, otherwise we won't survive here."

During the rally, the nationalist leader declared those who raise the black flag on Nakba Day, the day Israeli Arabs and Palestinians commemorate the creation of Israel as a tragedy, do not belong in the state of Israel.

"Those who raise the black flag on 'Nakba Day' in mourning over the establishment of Israel do not belong here, as far as I am concerned," he said. "I am quite willing to donate them to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas. It would be my pleasure."

Comment: Lieberman seems to have lost his head. Scratch that, he's always been that way. It's funny: Lieberman is probably completely oblivious to the fact that, to others, it's perfectly clear that he is psychologically and ideologically equivalent to ISIS.

His comments on the Nakba are patently absurd. So, the people who were kicked off their land, and who lost countless relatives to the slaughter, don't deserve to be there because they remember the atrocity? Right...

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Eye 1

Was man murdered for exposing UK VIP pedophile ring?

Afua Hirsch
Sky news
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:43 UTC
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© Ian Vogler / Daily Mirror
Bulic Forsythe and his daughter Kiddist. The family have long believed he was murdered as part of a cover up into a VIP pedophile ring.
Police investigating Westminster-linked child abuse are examining whether a man was murdered because he was about to expose a paedophile ring operating within a London council.

Sky News has obtained details of an internal investigation documenting sexual assaults and abuse carried out by officers within Lambeth Council in the 1990s.

The unpublished report reveals claims from those within the council that Bulic Forsythe, a manager in the housing department whose murder sparked a nationwide appeal in 1993, may have discovered council property was being used to carry out abuse.

That abuse involved senior figures in Lambeth who were using council premises for the rape of women and children, according to the report's remarkable findings.

They used the basement of Lambeth's housing headquarters, the report says, because "sexual assault could be performed without fear of interruption by other staff".

A senior staff member is accused of watching material with "sadistic, bestial and paedophile themes" which "may have been home-produced by staff of people with whom they associated".

One female staff member was subject to a rape on council premises "of horrendous proportions", such that she was still suffering from serious injuries one month on.

She described being raped alongside children and animals by senior figures in the council.

Comment: See also: UK Establishment: Unmasking psychopathic faces - Pedophilia and murder in VERY high places

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Black Cat

Powerful pedophiles are seemingly everywhere and above the law in the UK

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:26 UTC
keep calm molest
Sexually molesting extremely small children is one of the most heinous acts a person can commit while existing as a human being on this planet. Since 99% of humanity agrees with this assessment, the incredibly small group of predators who get off on this sort of behavior understand they need to occupy the most elite levels of esteemed institutions in order to safely get away with their vile behavior. This is precisely why so many of the worst pedophiles tends to be very powerful businessmen, politicians and higher ups in organized religion.


Comment: This same logic explains why psychopaths in general occupy the same elite levels.


This is a topic I've explored previously. For example, in the post, In Great Britain, Protecting Pedophile Politicians is a Matter of "National Security", I wrote:
Those with the sickest minds, and who wish to act upon their destructive fantasies, understand that they can most easily get away with their deeds if they are protected by an aura of power and ostensible respectability. They believe that as a result of their status, no one would dare accuse them of horrific activities, and if it ever came to that, they could quash any investigation
Of the developed nations, this sort of thing has essentially become institutionalized in Great Britain, with many of the most horrid pedophiles sporting a "Sir" in front of their names. Like oligarch theft and political corruption, the reason it appears to be such an epidemic over there is precisely because the powerful are coddled and protected.

Comment: "National security." Not in the "public interest." No, revealing that a trusted, high-level politician gets his jollies abusing children is not in the public interest. What are we supposed to do? Expose these people?? They rule the country! Exposing them would tear down civilization's fabric. That's a matter of national security!

Some logic, huh? No, it is a matter of national security that these sick psychopaths are given the license to abuse, rape, and kill children. It is in the public interest that they are exposed, publicly shamed, and punished to the full extent of the law. All of them.

You can read the full Daily Beast article here: How Thatcher's Government Covered Up a VIP Pedophile Ring

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War Whore

More war, more deaths: U.S. will send Humvees and drones to Ukraine


RT
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:58 UTC
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© Reuters / Lucas Jackson
US is to send Ukraine more non-lethal military aid, including drones and armored Humvees, AP reported, citing a phone call between Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Biden told Poroshenko of the decision during a phone call, according to US officials, AP reported.

The aid package includes the small Raven drone system, which can be launched by hand, radios, counter mortar radars, 30 heavily armored Humvees and 200 regular ones.

The drones and the other equipment being sent is worth around $75 million. It was not immediately clear how much the Humvees cost.

Washington and other NATO allies have spent in excess of $100 million in security aid to Ukraine, although until now this has been primarily of a non-lethal nature.

"We have over the last 14 months provided $118 million in security assistance" to the Ukrainian authorities, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs earlier this month.

The US also announced earlier in March that they were planning to send about 300 military advisors to train the Ukrainian army from March through October.

The UK also announced that it will send 75 British military personnel in March who will offer medical, intelligence and infantry training to the Ukrainian army. Poland has also said it is sending military advisors to Ukraine.
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Eye 2

Push for war continues: Fox News military analyst suggests "killing Russians" to turn the tide in Ukraine


RT
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:32 UTC
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Robert H. Scales, former United States Army major general
A military analyst has told Fox News that the only way to turn the tide in conflict in Eastern Ukraine is to "start killing Russians." The former general alleged there are 12,000 Russian regular troops currently "camped" on Ukrainian territory.

On Tuesday, Fox News Channel aired a segment featuring Robert H. Scales, a former United States Army major general, who shared his own plan to settle the Ukrainian crisis. The recipe is simple: kill the alleged Russian soldiers roaming eastern Ukraine.

Scales acknowledged that an ongoing deployment of American troops to Eastern Europe is unlikely to change the situation and did not elaborate on who is supposed to eliminate the fabled Russian servicemen: Ukrainian troops or American GIs.

The interview ran as follows:

Fox News: 3,000 US troops deploying to Eastern Europe, some armor will be going with them, apparently. To what effect and what do you expect?

Robert H. Scales: I think to no effect. It's game, set and match in Ukraine. The only way the United States can have any effect in this region and turn the tide is start killing Russians. Killing Russians by... Killing so many Russians that even Putin's media can't hide the fact that Russians are returning to their motherland in body bags. But given the amount of support we've given to the Ukrainians and given the ability of Ukrainians themselves to counterattack against 12,000 Russians camped in their country - sadly, that's not likely to happen.
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Hourglass

Russian Foreign Ministry - WikiLeaks docs showed us participation in Joint Consultative Group talks were useless


Russia Beyond the Headlines
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:06 UTC
CFE treaty countries
Russia decided to suspend its work in the Joint Consultative Group on the CFE Treaty because it could not use this format to discuss issues relating to conventional weapons control in Europe, Mikhail Ulyanov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department on non-proliferation and arms control issues, said.

"When Wikileaks published secret documents, Department of State materials, what we had seen was confirmed: the U.S. had prohibited their allies from discussing any substantive issues in the Joint Consultative Group. In that situation, there was not much point in our further participation in the work of the Joint Consultative Group, it was becoming increasingly evident, and we have now decided to suspend our participation in the work of this group," he said in an interview with Interfax.

Ulyanov said Russia decided to make an exception for the Joint Consultative Group as a dialogue site when it made a decision to suspend its participation in the CFE Treaty in 2007.

"Indeed, we hoped then that work to resume an appropriate new conventional arms control on the continent would begin," he said.

"Unfortunately, it could not be done. The consultations on this issue were taken out of the Joint Consultative Group format. They were conducted in a Russia-U.S. format, although the Treaty was always called the 'cornerstone' of European security. The western Europeans in NATO essentially disassociated themselves and left it to Russia and the U.S. to decide," the diplomat said.

Comment: The last comment says it all. Russia has seen over and over that negotiating 'successfully' with the empire would mean giving over its own interests. The door is still open though, as long as Russia is treated with respect.

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