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Kerry offers Argentina declassified papers, underscores US' role in military dictatorship 1970s-80s


RT
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:06 UTC
Kerry, Macri
© Presidencia Argentina / AFP
US Secretary of State John Kerry in a meeting with Argentine President Mauricio Macri at Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires.
America's role in Argentina's military dictatorship in 1976-1983 could be revealed in declassified papers the US secretary of state promised to hand over to Buenos Aires. Tens of thousands of leftist activists were killed under the regime.

John Kerry, who was on a visit to Buenos Aires on Thursday, said he was delivering the first batch of US documents related to the Argentinian coup of 1976 and the military dictatorship (junta) that followed. "Last March, in response to a request from President Macri and human rights groups, President Obama promised to identify and share additional US government records, many from intelligence and law enforcement agencies," Kerry said while meeting with Argentine President Mauricio Macri at the Casa Rosada presidential palace, according to Reuters.
declassified doc
© Wikipedia
Kerry said he brought with him "the first tranche of those declassified documents" and added that more was "to come in the future."

Comment: There is a hole in the heart of Argentina. More than 30,000 Argentinians, of which many were children, were 'forcibly disappeared' by the military junta from the period 1968 to 1989.

Complicit was the US Army's School of the Americas, training members of Latin American armed forces in counterinsurgency* techniques (sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, millitary intel, interrogation tactics) utilized by military dictatorships to commit crimes against humanity.

The National Security Doctrine ingrained the idea that social conflict was caused by communist infiltration from the USSR. This justified US intervention in training Latin Am. soldiers to redefine their role as regional 'police' within their borders, resulting in population exterminations. Recent: attempted coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in 2002, coup that deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in 2009.

*'Counterintelligence' manual defines, as potential counterinsurgency targets, any groups or political parties "that have goals, beliefs or ideologies contrary or in opposition to the national government" or the US. It then recommends the creation of black lists to include "enemy agents" and "subversive persons", including political opposition leaders and "collaborators and sympathizers of the enemy". The suggested solutions to the enemy presence include infiltrations into enemy groups and population control techniques such as curfews, military checkpoints, house searches, issuance of ID cards and rationing. (Near future of the USA?)

See also: US to give Argentina declassified files on American role in 'horror' of military dictatorship

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Alarm Clock

Indonesia arrests six suspected militants accused of plotting Singapore 'rocket attack'

Fergus Jensen
Reuters
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 19:30 UTC
terror plot jakarta rocket attack
© Antara Foto/M N Kanwa/Reuters
Indonesian anti-terror police and an identification team are seen outside a building during a raid in Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia, August 5, 2016 in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
Indonesian police arrested six suspected militants on Friday who they believed to be linked to the Islamic State group and plotting a rocket attack on Singapore, authorities in Indonesia and Singapore said.

Singapore said it was stepping up security in response to the plan to attack it that was being hatched on Indonesia's Batam island, which is only about 15 km (10 miles) to the south of the wealthy city-state.

Members of an elite Singapore police unit patrolled the glittering downtown waterfront in vehicles and on foot on Friday afternoon. One officer said they were on routine patrol.

Indonesian police spokesman Agus Rianto told reporters the six suspects had been plotting with a member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria to attack Singapore, a major commercial, banking and travel hub that is home to many Western expatriates.

"What we understand so far is that they were planning to attack vital objects, busy areas including police offices," Rianto said.

Asked whether police had recovered any physical evidence of a rocket attack, Rianto said "not yet".
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Eye 1

China joins antiterror alliance with Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan


Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 19:33 UTC
China
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan have joined China in a military alliance aimed at countering Islamist militancy, officials said.

Military leaders from the four countries gathered on August 4 in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang to announce the alliance, the Pakistani Army said.

Known as the Quadrilateral Cooperation and Coordination Mechanism, the alliance is meant to bring together member states in areas of counter-terrorism and intelligence, the army said.

Comment: See also: The militarization of law enforcement: Police murder because they are trained to murder

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Info

Trump unveils economic advisory team: Carl Icahn turns down invite

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 19:13 UTC
Trumps economic advisory team
Earlier today Donald Trump, who despite lagging Hillary badly in the most recent polls, remains perceived as the presidential candidate who is better equipped to do a "better job on the economy"...

Poll on presidential economy
... even though a majority believes that Hillary is "more qualified" to be president (suggesting that to Americans the economy is not really a core part of the presidential mandate) unveiled his all-male economic team which in addition to boasting 6 guys named Steve, also includes billionaire hedge fund manager, John Paulson, to help guide the GOP presidential candidate's economic policy.


Comment: You mean that Paulson guy who blackmailed Congress for money to get out of the 2008 financial crises?


The 13-member group, whose average member has a net worth in the high double-digit million, features several longtime Trump business associates but only one academic economist, Peter Navarro of the University of California-Irvine. He specializes in trade with China, which Trump has made the centerpiece economic policy of his campaign.
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Bad Guys

'Jihadist' headed Italy people trafficking gang


France 24
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 08:46 UTC
Italy migrants
© AFP/File
Italian authorities said Friday they had broken up a people trafficking gang based near Naples headed by a Tunisian national they suspect of jihadist links.

The alleged gang leader's suspected backing for radical Islamism was uncovered during an investigation into the group's provision of false job contracts from local textile factories to enable illegal immigrants from North Africa to obtain work permits, a statement from the ROS police special operations unit said.

Arrest warrants have been issued for eight suspects. They included the Tunisian, who was said to have become radicalised in the last year and to have praised the recent terror attacks on Paris on social media.

Further details of the operation were to be released at a press conference later Friday.
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Star of David

The enemy of my friend may certainly be my friend: Israel accepts billions from the US, but maintains ties with al-Nusra

Richard Silverstein
Mint Press News
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:36 UTC
Members of al Qaeda’s Nusra Front near al-Zahra village, north of Aleppo city

Members of al Qaeda’s Nusra Front carry their weapons as they sit in a trench near al-Zahra village, north of Aleppo city, November 25, 2014.
Late last month, Jabhat al-Nusra (the Nusra Front), al-Qaida's Syrian arm, announced that it was severing ties with al-Qaida and renaming itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (the Front for the Conquest of Syria).

In a video, the group's leader, Abu Mohamed al-Jolani, explained that the group's association with al-Qaida permitted the outside powers intervening in the Syrian conflict to label it as an Islamic terrorist group.

The Guardian quoted al-Jolani as saying that the name change is intended "to remove the excuse used by the international community - spearheaded by America and Russia - to bombard and displace Muslims in the Levant: that they are targeting al-Nusra Front, which is associated with al-Qaida."

He further explained that the new policy was an attempt to have the group removed from international terror lists and to allow it to be perceived as a more acceptable alternative to its main competitor, Daesh (an Arabic acronym for the terrorist group known as ISIS or ISIL in the West).
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Stock Up

Russian and Turkish economy ministers holding final talks for trade revival


Sputnik
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:02 UTC
Russia Turkey trade talks
© Evgeny Biyatov/Sputnik
Turkish Economic Affairs Minister and his Russian counterpart are going to hold a meeting on restoring bilateral economic ties between the two countries on Friday
Turkish Economic Affairs Minister Nihat Zeybekci and Russian Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev are set to hold the final consultations on restoring bilateral economic ties between the two countries on Friday.

Ankara and Moscow ended seven months of tensions in late June when Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, apologizing for the downing of a Russian Su-24 attack aircraftby a Turkish jet in November 2015 over Syria and extending his condolences to the family of the pilot killed in the incident.

By apologizing for the incident, Ankara fulfilled Moscow's condition for restoring the long-term partnership between the two countries. Putin subsequently lifted the ban on charter flights to Turkey and instructed the government to negotiate a revival of trade with Ankara.

On July 22, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the restoring of the Russian-Turkish economic cooperation commission's work. Moscow is bringing back the talks with Turkey regarding a program of bilateral cooperation until 2020.

Comment: Washington's neocon thinktanks must be going nuts.

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Attention

Feigned surprise: Staunch American supporters of Syrian rebels suddenly shocked to realize they have been radical terrorists the whole time

b
Moon of Alabama
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:49 UTC
robert ford

Robert "can't believe they're not terrorists!" Ford
Anti-Assad luminaries in the United States suddenly play surprised that their beloved "moderate" insurgents are a bunch of racist and sectarian head choppers. But this was obvious as even the very first demonstrations against the Syrian government in March/April 2011 were driven by sectarianism. Countless members of minorities in Syria have since been murdered by "western" and Gulf-supported "moderate rebels".

Why do these anti-Syrian "experts", who supported the genocidal insurgents, suddenly find that abhorrent?

Comment: They know who they've been dealing with. The U.S. has been doing the same thing (dealing with radical terrorist death squads) all over the world for decades and calling them "moderates". If Ford and Landis are really shocked, it's a testament to their idiocy.



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MIB

Nusra Front has bodies of killed Russian pilots from downed helicopter


Sputnik
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 16:42 UTC
Russian helicopter bodies
© AFP 2016/ Mohamed al-Bakour
Russian Mi-8 helicopter crew bodies are held by the terrorist group in southeastern Aleppo region, a source close to the Aleppo militia command said Friday. The bodies of the crew from the Russian Mi-8 helicopter downed in Syria are held by the Jabhat Fatah al Sham group (previously known as Nusra Front, banned in Russia) in southeastern Aleppo region, a source close to the Aleppo militia command said Friday.

"The Russians' bodies are with the Nusra Front...two or three bodies are held by the terrorists," the source told RIA Novosti.

The Mi-8 tragedy took place in the neighboring province of Idlib that has been controlled by the Army of Conquest (Jaish al-Fatah), an umbrella organization that includes al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham and other Syrian rebels who are fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and establish a caliphate.

Russia launched its humanitarian operation in Aleppo on July 28. Three humanitarian corridors were opened in the city surrounded by Damascus-led forces, but held by radical groups. Moscow has pledged to deliver food and provide medical assistance to locals. Approximately 14 tons of humanitarian aid were delivered in the first three days of the operation.
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Light Saber

Greek Prime Minister calls for southern alliance against brutal EU austerity policies


RT
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:56 UTC
greek flag
© Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has invited the heads of Southern European countries to discuss a new alliance against the EU's tough austerity policy.

A conference is expected to be held in Athens on September 9 attended by France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, and Malta. The talks will continue during Tsipras' visit to Rome, where he plans to attend a meeting of European Socialists.

The meeting of the Southern countries will focus on the "common" challenges facing the EU, including austerity, fiscal measures and migration.

In April, Tsipras and the newly-elected Prime Minister of Portugal, leftist Antonio Costa signed a joint declaration, calling for an end to austerity policies.
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