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President Assad: War in Syria to end when terrorism defeated, not after constitution adopted


Sputnik
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:55 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse/SANAPresident Bashar al-Assad speaking during a special broadcast interview in Syria's capital Damascus on October 31, 2019 .
On 9 October, Turkey launched a military op in Syria to clear the border area of Daesh militants and Kurdish militia, which Ankara views as terrorists. After a series of ceasefire deals with the United States and Russia, the operation's active phase ended. Damascus has condemned Turkey's offensive as a violation of Syria's sovereignty.

The war in Syria will end after the victory over terrorism rather than after the adoption of a new constitution for the country.
"Some are led to believe the settlement of the conflict depends on the work of the constitutional committee. The war in Syria did not start because of disagreements around the Constitution, the war in Syria began because terrorists killed military, police and civilians, as well as because they destroyed infrastructure. By virtue of this, the war will end when terrorism is defeated."
Assad also said the Syrian government and the people of the Syrian Arab Republic will in no way agree to a partition of the country.
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Star of David

Netanyahu doesn't disappoint: Another election, another war on Gaza

Naim Mousa
Mondoweiss
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:26 UTC
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© Carlos Latuff/Mondoweiss
In a move that should have surprised absolutely no one, Israel has vigorously escalated its aggression in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza in the past several weeks. Israel has been dangerously provocative towards Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, particularly in East Jerusalem.

For the past six months, residents of the Issawiya neighborhood of East Jerusalem have been subjected to daily raids, arrests and beatings, and constant drone surveillance, culminating in the killing of 20-year-old Mohammad Samir Obeid at the hands of Israeli forces. Obeid was shot dead while holding his hands up in the air and waving a white cloth. 80 Palestinians were injured in subsequent protests due an exceedingly violent response by Israeli forces.

Now - under Netanyahu's orders - the Israeli military has vigorously escalated its aggression in Gaza in an effort to provoke a war that will allow Netanyahu to gain immunity from prosecution.

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Bullseye

The Brennan Dossier: An indepth look at a prime mover of the Russiagate Hoax

Aaron Maté
RealClearInvestigations
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:27 UTC
john brennan
© Shawn Thew/EPAJohn Brennan
In the waning days of the Obama administration, the U.S. intelligence community produced a report saying Russian President Vladimir Putin had tried to swing the 2016 election to Donald Trump.

The January 2017 report, called an Intelligence Community Assessment, followed months of leaks to the media that had falsely suggested illicit ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin while also revealing that such contacts were the subject of a federal investigation. Its release cast a pall of suspicion over Trump just days before he took office, setting the tone for the unfounded allegations of conspiracy and treason that have engulfed his first term.

What was Brennan's motive? Among the possibilities is hostility within his camp toward Michael Flynn (foreground), Trump's future reform-minded national security adviser.

Comment: Kudos to Aaron Maté for putting together a detailed report on the nefarious Mr. Brennan. It will take years to repair the damage he has done to the country.

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Question

Mysterious death of White Helmets founder leaves many unanswered questions

Paul Antonopoulos
BRICS Information Portal
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
james le mesurier
The dubious death of a former British intelligence member living in Istanbul with his family is thought provoking and must raise serious questions.
James Le Mesurier, the founder of the Al-Qaeda affiliated White Helmets, known as an "aid organization" in the West but known everywhere else for fabricating chemical weapon provocations in Syria, was found dead in Istanbul on Monday under dubious and confusing circumstances, and many question marks are being raised about his own death. Journalist Ramazan Bursa claims that the suspicious death clearly demonstrates the White Helmet's connection with intelligence organizations, particularly the British MI6.

The connection between the M16 and the White Helmets is often overlooked by the Western media, but on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry made a startling revelation. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova revealed that "The White Helmets co-founder, James Le Mesurier, is a former agent of Britain's MI6, who has been spotted all around the world, including in the Balkans and the Middle East. His connections to terrorist groups were reported back during his mission in Kosovo." A few days later he was found dead...

Of course, Karen Pierce, the UK Permanent Representative to the UN, denied the Russian allegation, claiming that they were "categorically untrue. He was a British soldier," before describing the mercenary as a "true hero." The claim he is a "true hero" is a curious choice of words considering he has a long history of working alongside terrorists, as Zakharova correctly highlighted.

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Russian Flag

Watch Russian military police descend on & secure hastily abandoned US airbase in Syria


RT
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:57 UTC
army mine
Russian military police and bomb disposal experts have taken control of an airfield in northern Aleppo province, which was abandoned in a hurry by withdrawing US forces. The operation to secure the base was captured on video.

Up until recently, the Sirrin Air Base was one of the largest military installations illegally occupied by American forces in Syria, but was hastily abandoned after President Donald Trump abruptly announced that the US had no reasons to stay in the region - besides 'securing the oil', of course.

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Bullseye

Bolivia's coup: Morales toppled not due to his failures, but due to his success

Pablo Vivanco
RT
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:43 UTC
evo morales
© Global Look Press / Jair Cabrera Torres
Questions remain about the circumstances that lead to the ouster of Bolivia's socialist leader, Evo Morales, and whether foreign governments played a role in it, but recent history provides grounds for suspicion.

In a near empty room, a Bolivian military official placed the presidential sash over Jeanine Anez Chavez, a senator from the Beni region who didn't run the country's recent election. The ardently Christian politician carried a Bible with her into the ceremony, which consolidated the coup d'etat in the Andean country.

Meanwhile, the victor of the October 20 vote, Evo Morales, was just arriving in Mexico where he has been exiled by the very same actors who claim that no coup has taken place. After calling for new elections in an attempt to quell unrest over election fraud allegations, Morales resigned when military and police heads 'suggested' he step down, though only after failing to protect activists and election officials from Morales' left-wing Movement For Socialism (MAS) party.

Though there is still certainly a lot of questions around the circumstances that led to the ouster of Morales, how it happened and why it did are clearer.
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Snakes in Suits

Desperate Democrats impeaching Trump to avoid defeat in 2020 - as well as possible jail time

Robert Bridge
RT
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:53 UTC
schiff
© Global Look Press / Stefani Reynolds / CNP / AdMedia 12
Here we go again. Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi have put the US government into a state of suspended animation as impeachment hearings against Trump go live. What insanity has gripped Washington, and, more importantly, why?

On Wednesday, the sound of millions of TV remote controls clicking in unison echoed across the heartland as the top American diplomat in Ukraine Bill Taylor told the stony-faced gallery: "What I can do, um, for you here today is tell you what I heard from [dramatic pause] people."

Translation: The inquisition's star witness 'witnessed' absolutely nothing that could warrant the removal of a sitting president from office. Their other so-called witness, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, did not fare any better at proving that Trump was looking for some 'quid pro quo' (i.e. dirt on his political rival Joe Biden and his dealings with a Ukrainian gas company, Burisma Holdings, in return for US military aid) in his June 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

To add some gravy to this dry biscuit of a story, the White House on Friday released the very first phone call between Trump and Zelensky just hours after the latter was elected to office. Predictably, Twitter has lit up in a virtual game of Clue to find some hint of foul play on the part of the US president.
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Star of David

Gaza attack aimed to get Netanyahu out of Israeli political jam


Arab News
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:48 UTC
Netanyahu
© ReutersIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem November 13, 2019.
Pundits and politicians appear to agree that the assassination of Islamic Jihad leader Bahaa Abu Al-Atta and his wife in Gaza, as well as the failed attack in Damascus against Akram Ajoury was committed to assuage domestic Israeli political tensions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing a corruption indictment and possibly about to lose power to opponent Benny Gantz, apparently acted in his own self-interest, disrupting political talks and potentially destabilizing Gantz' support from the Arab Joint List.

Jafar Farah, director of the Haifa-based Mossawa Center, told Arab News the Israeli attack in Gaza had all but ended the possibility of the Joint List supporting any Israeli government.

"Before the attack, 10 out of the 13 elected members of the Knesset were on board with the idea of supporting, externally, a minority government. Now the number of those supporting this has been reduced, as the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality are opposed to supporting any government," he said.

Gantz, who apparently was briefed before the attack, has come out publicly in support of Israel's actions, which killed over 20 Palestinians including women and children.

Comment: With all the corruption charges against him within Israel and the condemnation of his murderous politics against the Palestinians internationally, the fact that Netanyahu continues to hold a position of power in Israel is a reflection of the moral and intellectual degeneracy of the country in general.

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Network

Trump's V-Day plans to visit Moscow would be 'the right thing to do' even during election season - Putin


RT
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:58 UTC
Trump Putin
© Reuters / Kevin Lamarque / FileDonald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Helsinki, Finland, 2018
As Russia prepares to celebrate the May 2020 anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, President Vladimir Putin said that a visit from Donald Trump would be "the right thing to do," even during an election campaign.

Trump's re-election campaign will be in full swing next May, when Russia marks the 75th anniversary of the Soviet and allied victory over the Nazi Germany. While the US president's opponents will likely still be hammering him on his "friendliness" with Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader told reporters on Thursday that a visit from Trump would be fitting.

Even as part of the election campaign, that [visit] would be the right thing to do. But it is not for us to decide. The American president will make this decision.

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Bad Guys

Stephen F. Cohen: Ukrainegate impeachment saga worsens US-Russia Cold War

Aaron Maté
The Grey Zone
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
Stephen Cohen

Comment: Watch one of the most informed, rational and erudite analysts in the US, Stephen F. Cohen, give his take on the current state of affairs between the US, Russia and the Ukraine.


As the House opens impeachment hearings for President Trump, Professor Stephen F. Cohen warns that the US military assistance at the heart of Ukrainegate escalates the US-Russia Cold War.

Guest: Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University, contributing editor at The Nation, and author of War with Russia: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate.


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