Puppet Masters
It is not only American generals who are irresponsible and declare on the basis of no evidence whatsoever that "Russia is an existential threat to the United States" and also to the Baltic states, Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, and all of Europe. British generals. also participate in the warmongering. UK retired general and former NATO commander Sir Richard Shirreff, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe until 2014, has just declared that nuclear war with Russia is "entirely possible" within the year.
My loyal readers know that I, myself, have been warning for some time about the likelihood of nuclear war. However, there is a vast difference between me and the Western generals. I see the war as the consequence of the neoconservative drive for US world hegemony.
The neoconservative drive for world hegemony is acknowledged by the neoconservatives themselves in their public position papers, and it has a 15 year record of being implemented in America's many and ongoing wars in the Middle East and Africa. Although the Presstitute media does its best to keep our focus away from the known facts, the facts remain known.
The position of the Western generals is that "Russian aggression" is driving an innocent America/NATO to nuclear war.
Over 100 feared killed as suicide blasts hit near Russian military bases in Syria's Latakia province
Islamic State militants claimed the attacks saying via its news outlet, Amaq, that "gatherings of Alawites in Tartous and Jableh" had been targeted. The Alawites is the minority sect to which President Bashar Assad belongs.
Comment: Could this be an effort to draw Russia more deeply militarily into Syria? Or just continue to stall any possible diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis? The Syrian foreign ministry sent letters to the UN chief and security council in response, saying: "These terrorist attacks constitute a dangerous escalation on the part of the regimes of hatred and radicalism in Riyadh, Ankara and Doha, and are directed at derailing efforts to save lives of Syrians, derailing the Geneva talks and the cessation of hostilities."
Syrian special forces managed to arrest one suicide bomber who reportedly planned to blow himself up near a hospital in Jabla. He belonged to Ahrar ash-Sham, the U.S.'s non-terrorist terrorist organization notorious for killing civilians and breaking the ceasefire in recent months. Go figure.
It has taken only nine months for the third memorandum between the near-bankrupt Greek state and its creditors — the "Quartet" of the European Union (EU), European Central Bank (ECB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Stability Mechanism (ESM) — to lurch to the brink of crisis.
That deal, which the Syriza-led government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras felt forced to swallow despite the Greek people rejecting an earlier version by over 60% in a referendum last July, will provide the country with €86 billion. About 90% of this will go to paying off debt.
In turn, the tightly policed Greek government must continue to implement a package of strict austerity "reforms". These cover pension cuts, tax rises, privatisations and labour market deregulation.
On April 22, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Dutch president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, said that an in-principle agreement had been reached. This involves the Greek government committing to implement a "contingent" €3 billion bundle of extra cuts if the country fell behind on its debt reduction targets.
The unexploded BL-755 cluster bomb is designed to be dropped from the UK-made Tornado aircraft used by the Saudi Air Force. It was found in a village in the north of the conflict-torn Gulf nation.
Human rights NGO Amnesty International found the unexploded munition during an inspection.
The bomb is said to have been manufactured as long ago as the 1970s by a Bedfordshire-based arms company called Hunting Engineering.

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) attends a press conference with Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang at the Presidential Palace Compound in Hanoi, Vietnam May 23, 2016.
"Vietnam very much appreciates the US decision to completely lift the ban on lethal weapon sales to Vietnam, which is the clear proof that both countries have completely normalized relations," Quang said at a joint news conference with US President Barack Obama.
Obama reportedly said that although Washington was fully lifting the ban, the sale of arms would depend on Vietnam's human rights commitments.
Comment: No, it's not about human rights. It's about how useful Vietnam will be to counter Russia and China. When no longer useful, human rights will be paraded as the excuse to stop the arms trading.
Comment: Vietnam has come into the crosshairs of the South China Sea disputes:
- The Duran: Vietnam's dangerous courtship with Washington
- Vietnam signs free trade deal with Russia-led EEU economic block
- China looks to make historic shift in relations with Vietnam
- Global bully U.S. pushing Vietnam to end military cooperation with Russia
- Washington's quiet proxy war against Vietnam
To put this amount in perspective, the U.S. spent more on its military than the next six nations combined, with China coming in second at $215 billion, followed by Saudi Arabia at $87 billion, Russia at $66 billion, with the United Kingdom, India and France spending roughly $50 billion each on defense expenses.
When looking at this spending in context, the U.S. not only spends more than the next six countries combined, but spends almost triple the amount on military expenses than the second biggest defense spender in the world, China, according to data from the Stockholm International Peach Research Institute.
Comment: Despite the enormous sums spent on the US war machine, there is little to show as the military is slowing unraveling. Defense contractors seem to be the only winners in this corrupt system.
- Where's the money? Despite $600Bn military budget, Air Force pilots cannibalizing jets in museums to keep planes in the air
- The American military's coming collapse - the facts exposed
- Corrupted military: F-18 air supply system has bugs the US military can't fix

In this image posted on the Twitter page of Ahrar al-Sham on May 6, 2016, an Ahrar al Sham fighter guards the front lines of Breidige village in northwest Syria. Unlike the Islamic State group and al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham is not on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.
Labib al Nahhas is known as the foreign affairs director for the Islamist fighting group Ahrar al Sham. He visited Washington in December. The leader of a terrorist entity linked to Al Qaeda was granted entry by US immigration:
That suggests that authorities granted him entry at a time when U.S. immigration authorities face political pressure to block visitors with even tenuous ties to extremist groups. Four months after Nahhas entered the United States on a European passport, U.S. authorities denied entry to a well-known Syrian humanitarian leader who had been approved to visit Washington to receive an award from international aid groups. McClatchyWhile the purpose of his visit was not disclosed, the report nonetheless intimates that he was in Washington for talks with US government officials. "His previously undisclosed visit is a delicate matter for both sides - the conservative Salafist insurgents risk their credibility with even perceived ties to the United States, and the U.S. government risks looking soft on screenings by allowing entry to a member of an Islamist paramilitary force."
Comment: Post Afghanistan, the above-mentioned Zawahiri was meeting with the likes of Saudi Prince Bandar and then Ambassador to Turkey Marc Grossman (current special rep. for Afghanistan and Pakistan, former Assistant Secretary of State) in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the late-90s. Looks like Nahhas is following in his footsteps!
According to The National Interest, the gradual decrease in military spending by a whopping 25 percent over the last five years has led to erosion of the American armed forces. The news outlet made a chart of six top revelations by military authorities that point to the horrifying scale of problems the nation's army is now facing.
Speaking to RT's Daniel Bushell on the sidelines of the third Russia-ASEAN summit held in Sochi, Russia on May 19-20, Prime Minister Razak hailed the event as "significant," saying it has provided an opportunity "to look back where we've come and what we've accomplished, but more importantly to look forward."
One of the key outcomes was that a consensus emerged among the participants that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states should broaden their economic cooperation with the Russia and Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to the extent of creating a free-trade agreement between the two. EAEU is a trade block comprising Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.
Comment: Multipolarity makes sense: What is multipolarity? The indicators for which nations are trying to build a better world
A source in Aleppo said in a statement to SANA's reporter that after monitoring and investigating al-Yaman, a Turkish medical company, the authorities seized a truck loaded with more than 25 tons of supplies for field hospitals worth more than USD 100,000.
"Al-Yaman Company in Istanbul is sending medicine, equipment, and medical supplies to ISIS organization in Manbej and Mosul and to other terrorist groups, the source explained.
Authorities arrested the terrorist Abdelrahman Canjo from "Shohadaa al-Haq Brigade" terrorist group who was transporting arms and medicine for terrorist groups in Aleppo, the source added.
Comment: It isn't just medical supplies that power-grabbing Turkey is supplying ISIS and other head-chopping groups with.
As we now know:
- Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: Turkey should prove at UN that it is not supporting terrorists in Syria
- German broadcaster: ISIS supply lines originate in NATO's Turkey
- How about that resignation, Erdogan? Turkey is buying oil from ISIS
- Watch Ash Carter lie about huge convoys of oil moving between Turkey & ISIS
- Turkey supports ISIS, declares war on them, bombs Kurds instead
- How Daesh took over and destroyed Palmyra: Weapons from U.S., Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia
- Media blackout: Russia tells UN Security Council that Turkey is 'main supplier' of weapons to ISIS, uses humanitarian convoys to deliver weapons
- Columbia U. Research Paper: Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)?
- Iraqi MP says ISIS-smuggled oil is 'Oxygen for jihadists'- Turkey facilitates flow to intl markets
- Al-Nusrat leader: There's no FSA, Ankara strengthening ISIS













Comment: Against Russia's wishes NATO pushes the world towards nuclear war. Yet, despite their belief in their 'exceptionalism,' it's doubtful they'd make it past the first strike: If only the peoples of the West were aware of how incompetent, corrupt, and truly evil their leadership has become.
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