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U.S. demands there be no democracy in Syria

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:25 UTC
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© REUTERS/ Baz Ratner
All of the available polling that has been done by Western polling firms in Syria has indicated strongly that the current President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, would easily win any free and fair election in that country. In fact when the question was directly put to Syrians by a Western polling organization, Assad got 55%, which wouldn't leave much for each of the opposing candidates in any election, the candidates who would be splitting the residual 45%. And this poll was taken shortly after the Arab Spring demonstrations against him — those demonstrators actually possessed little support from most Syrians.

So, the United States Government demands that Assad be simply removed from office, and not allowed on the ballot, if an election for President is to be held at all in Syria.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have repeatedly stated that the ouster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is a prerequisite for stopping the invasion of Syria by U.S. bombers, and by other forces from the U.S. coalition. That's a coalition of (besides the U.S.) Sunni Islamic regimes (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey) that are likewise demanding removal of the Shiite President Assad of Syria, before they will cease their invasions of Syrian territory, and their supplies of weapons to the jihadist fighters who are trying to take over Syria.
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Attention

Syria's President Assad condemned savage Paris attacks, similar to what his country has endured for over five years

Suleiman Al-Khalidi
Reuters
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:18 UTC
Bashar al-Assad
© SANA / Reuters
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad
Syrian President Bashar al Assad condemned Friday's attacks in Paris and said that such acts of terror were similar to what his people had faced in years of violent civil war.

"What France suffered from savage terror is what the Syrian people have been enduring for over five years," the Syrian President was quoted as saying on state media and Lebanese TV station al Mayadeen.

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Arrow Up

Reaping the whirlwind of western support for extremist violence

Chris Floyd
Empire Burlesque
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:59 UTC
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© Associated Press Photo/Thibault Camus
People rest on a bench after being evacuated from the Bataclan theater after a shooting in Paris, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015.
We, the West, overthrew Saddam by violence. We overthrew Ghadafy by violence. We are trying to overthrow Assad by violence. Harsh regimes all — but far less draconian than our Saudi allies, and other tyrannies around the world. What has been the result of these interventions? A hell on earth, one that grows wider and more virulent year after year.

Without the American crime of aggressive war against Iraq — which, by the measurements used by Western governments themselves, left more than a million innocent people dead — there would be no ISIS, no "Al Qaeda in Iraq."Without the Saudi and Western funding and arming of an amalgam of extremist Sunni groups across the Middle East, used as proxies to strike at Iran and its allies, there would be no ISIS. Let's go back further.Without the direct, extensive and deliberate creation by the United States and its Saudi ally of a world-wide movement of armed Sunni extremists during the Carter and Reagan administrations (in order to draw the Soviets into a quagmire in Afghanistan), there would have been no "War on Terror" — and no terrorist attacks in Paris tonight.

Again, let's be as clear as possible: the hellish world we live in today is the result of deliberate policies and actions undertaken by the United States and its allies over the past decades. It was Washington that led and/or supported the quashing of secular political resistance across the Middle East, in order to bring recalcitrant leaders like Nasser to heel and to back corrupt and brutal dictators who would advance the US agenda of political domination and resource exploitation.
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South Front: Preliminary Paris attacks report (plus Ukraine, 'Syraq' and Ukraine updates)


South Front
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:38 UTC
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First look at the NOV 13 Paris Attacks


Comment: See also:

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Donut

Anonymous security officials claim: 'Three of the eight Paris attackers came to France from Brussels'


Sputnik
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:51 UTC
Paris terrorist attack
© AFP 2015/ BELGA / HENDRIK DEVRIENDT
Belgian authorities made several arrests in Brussels after witnesses said a car with Belgian license plates was seen close to the Bataclan theater in Paris, scene of the Friday night terrorist attacks.

Three of eight terrorists responsible for the Friday night attacks in Paris came to France from Brussels, officials said Saturday.

They are likely to be from St. Jans Molenbeek neighborhood in Brussels, an area with a substantial Muslim community.

Comment: 8 attackers? Do we even know it was 8? Depending on which 'anonymous security official' is speaking, it's anything from 7-15...

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Bizarro Earth

Coincidental timing? Paris attacks overshadow Syria talks in Vienna


RT
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:43 UTC
john kerry at vienna syria talks
© ASSOCIATED PRESS
World and regional powers will discuss the Syrian peace process in Vienna on Saturday, as the world struggles to cope with the terrorist attacks in Paris. Islamic State, one of the key players in the Syrian conflict, claims responsibility for the crime.

"Without a doubt, what happened in Paris last night, cannot fail to affect the present atmosphere, and the negotiation process," Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the talks in Vienna would strengthen coordination of the international effort to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

"One of the objectives of the Vienna meeting is to see how we can strengthen the international fight against Daesh [Arabic term for Islamic State]," Fabius told reporters in Vienna, as cited by Reuters.

Comment: The results of the talks? ISIS and Al-Nusra are to be added to the list of terrorist organizations. A ceasefire, not applicable to ISIS and Nusra, and backed by a UN monitoring mission, will be implemented "as soon as the representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition have begun initial steps towards the transition [process]". Negotiations between Syrian government and opposition representatives ("chosen by Syrians") should begin by January 1.

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Bad Guys

Britain should be prepared for casualties in Paris attacks, says Cameron


RT
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:15 UTC
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron delivers a statement at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain November 14, 2015.
© Chris Ratcliffe / Reuters
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron delivers a statement at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain November 14, 2015.
British citizens may be among the 120 or more people killed in a wave of terrorist violence in Paris overnight, Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement as he offered condolences and help to France.

The PM said Britain and France would stand together in the face of this tragedy and pledged to redouble the effort to eradicate extremist ideology.

"Together with our friends and allies around the world we will stand up for all we believe in," he said.

Comment: British Muslim communities accuse David Cameron of treating them as 'aliens to be bashed from time to time for political gains'

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Bad Guys

World takeover? US military deployed to 75% of the planet

John Vibes
Activist Post
Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:49 UTC
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© Anthony Freda Art
Last year, the US military was running special operations in 147 countries, which represents roughly 75% of the entire planet. According to Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw, the numbers are record breaking and represent a massive jump from the numbers seen during the Bush administration.

US and NATO military operations have grown exponentially over the years, as the Western nations have taken it upon themselves to police the world and use that position to their benefit at every possible opportunity. The fact that military agents have been deployed to this many different areas in just a year reveals that the US empire is involved in an even deeper war than most American citizens can imagine.

At which point is it safe to assume that the US military is attempting to take over the world and put it under their control? It is also important to point out that the US military is rarely ever on "peacekeeping" missions as they claim, and they are often unwanted in the countries that they are deployed in. They are typically seen as an occupying army by citizens who just want to be left alone.

Comment:
WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

-- General Smedley Butler


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Vader

Ex-CIA director accuses the Bush administration of ignoring warnings of the 9/11 attack 'to avoid a paper trail'

Tom Boggioni
Raw Story
Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:43 UTC
George Bush

President George W. Bush on 9/11/2001
In an explosive revelation during an interview with Politico, the former CIA director during President George W. Bush's administration claims his department informed White house officials over impending Al Qaeda attacks months before the president received the infamous "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." presidential briefing.

According to ex-CIA head George Tenet and Cofer Black, then chief of the CIA's counterterrorism center, they called an emergency meeting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on July 10 of 2001 saying they had evidence that an attack on the U.S. was imminent and that it would be "spectacular."

Beginning in May of 2001, Tenet and Black launched an initiative called "the Blue Sky paper" and pitched it to Bush's national security team. The CIA called for a joint CIA and military campaign to end the Al Qaeda threat by "getting into the Afghan sanctuary, launching a paramilitary operation, creating a bridge with Uzbekistan."

Comment: Plausible deniability, anyone?

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Bell

French Deputy: 'The enemy of France is ISIS, not Bashar Assad'


Sputnik
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:11 UTC
Paris terrorist attack
© AP Photo/ Michel Euler
Deputy in France's National Assembly Jacques Myard told Sputnik France that the Paris terror attacks force France to reconsider its foreign policy objectives.

A deputy in France's National Assembly has called on French politicians to reconsider the country's foreign policy in the aftermath of Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris, the deadliest in the country's history. Six separate strikes on the city's residents left at least 128 people dead and another 180 injured.
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