Puppet Masters
The airstrikes came as part of an ongoing offensive by the government forces and National Defense units in the eastern part of Homs city, Iran's Fars news agency reported. In a parallel development, the government forces flushed out al-Nusra militants holed up in the northeastern part of the strategic city.
Also on Sunday, Syrian air force jets destroyed a number of Daesh positions in Homs province inflicting heavy losses on the enemy both in manpower and military hardware.
Oborne's piece, published by the conservative British news magazine last week and entitled "Aleppo Notebook: the city's terrorist besiegers will now be besieged," was based on the journalist's recent travels to the city, and his interactions with ordinary Syrians.
Around the time of the second anniversary of the February massacre, yet another pro-Maidan sniper, Ivan Bubenchik, has emerged to acknowledge that he shot Berkut before any protesters were shot that day. In a print interview Bubenchik previews his admission in Vladimir Tikhii's documentary film 'Brantsy' that he shot and killed two Berkut commanders in the early morning hours of February 20th on the Maidan. Bubenchik hails from Lviv, having learned how to shoot in the Soviet army and undergone training at a military intelligence academy for operations planned for Afghanistan and "other hot points." Claiming that he was on the Maidan from the "first day," he soon joined the MSD's "Ninth" soten tasked with guarding the subway exits onto the Maidan, so the SBU could not use them to infiltrate the square. At some point, the MVD blocked their acces to the government quarters on Hrushevskii Strret. The Ninth soten delivered a written ultimatum that if by the next day Ninth's fighters were not allowed to move freely between the Maidan and the Metro, they would attack the Internal Troops, which they did with Molotov cocktails and stones.1
Assad stressed that Turkey had been involved in events of Syria from the very beginning and sent terrorists to the country.
Last week, media reported that Saudi Arabia could send thousands of ground forces to Syria, most likely in coordination with Turkey, to take part in the fight against the Daesh jihadist group. Shortly after that, Turkey reportedly sent troops to its border, and also intensified the shelling of Kurdish-held areas in northern border regions of Syria.
On Monday, a spokesman for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Omer Celik, said Turkey had no plans to conduct a ground operation in Syria.
Comment: They will. They won't. They are. They aren't... Anybody got a scorecard? At least President Assad is perfectly clear on what Syria will do.
So one has to commend the Boston Globe for publishing this piece by Stephen Kinzer, a former foreign correspondent, warning that the media is not telling us the truth about what is going on in Syria.
But those constraints are also why Kinzer glosses over deeper problems with the coverage of Syria.
Comment: Cook nails it here. Read additional coverage of Stephen Kinzer's Boston Globe article here:
Storytelling in Washington: How the gov't manages American perception of its part in world affairs
Backed by the Syrian Air Force, the country's army and National Defense Forces (NDF) have clamped down on the terrorists' positions throughout Syria over the past 24 hours, according to the Iranian news agency FARS.
The West has been backing Syrian opposition factions since the 2011 beginning of the civil war. By first supplying arms to rebel groups, and then by launching a bombing campaign, the United States and its allies have acted militarily in Syria without permission from the legitimate government of President Bashar al-Assad.
It should come as no surprise, then, that both the US and France would roundly dismiss a recent UN resolution drafted by Russia to respect Syria's sovereignty.
Presented to the UN Security Council on Friday, the draft calls on all nations to avoid "provocative rhetoric and inflammatory statements" that could escalate foreign intervention in Syrian affairs. Russia also stressed that it was open to revising the draft to better accommodate all involved.
Comment: The lunatics in NATO seem determined to continue an armed conflict in Syria despite the fact they know any escalation into a direct confrontation with Russia can only end badly. They couldn't accept that at the end of the Soviet era, NATO was no longer needed.
- RAND wargame simulation sees NATO lose most of Europe to Russia
- West reviving moribund NATO using Russia as bogeyman
- The West continues spreading the myth of the Russian threat
- U.S. stooge NATO leading fascist charge towards attack on Russia
The Syria-based terror group, DWN says, citing a Reuters report, has asked for a "two-three week truce," and demanded that all attacks on the terrorist group be stopped.
The group has tabled the measure in the hopes that the break in hostilities will give them time to regroup, preventing their complete destruction, the paper says.
The American public is being constantly misinformed regarding global affairs, Stephen Kinzer, a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, writes in his article for The Boston Globe.
News on developments around the world are generated by the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House and by think tank "experts", who deliver the official point of view.
Comment: The ignorance of ordinary Americans is abysmal. But there will be one day soon when the lies and malevolence that the U.S. gov't has been inflicting will sear through the sleep of many, and awaken them to something like the suffering that so many around the world have already been experiencing. And then no amount of U.S. media will be able to contradict it, or tell them any different.
Seasoned geopolitical analyst William Engdahl, in his recent article for New Eastern Outlook, 'Washington's Machiavellian Game in Syria', reckons the 'reality-creators across the pond' have manipulated both Russia and the main players in the Middle East into a fatal trap: regional conflagration in order to 're-shape the Middle East'.
But with contradictory statements being made by US leaders, and apparently contradictory actions being taken by the different players on the 'grand chessboard', couldn't it be said that it's all coming apart at the seams for the Western imperialists? Or is the chaos in the Middle East, and elsewhere, all unfolding according to 'the grand plan'?
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Comment: And now, two years later, the revolution exposed as a total failure, Right Sector is at it again. And what do you know, there are more snipers: Another one? Mysterious snipers spotted in Kiev during new Maidan