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Pence: Prospects raised for talks with N. Korea but sanctions must go on


RT
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 01:59 UTC
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© REUTERS/Kim Hee-chul/Pool/ReutersUS Vice President Mike Pence • S. Korea President Moon Jae-in
US Vice President Mike Pence says Washington is open to talks with North Korea. Even though he emphasized talks are not negotiations, it shows the US has changed its attitude.
"We want to make sure North Korea understands us, and if there's an opportunity for talks that can communicate the fixed policy of the United States of America to them, the president has made it clear he always believes in talking. But talking is not negotiation - talking is understanding one another," Pence said on Wednesday.
The idea on meeting with North Korea has been rejected by Washington for months, as the New York Times reported.

Pence's decision comes at a time of increasing rapprochement between Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) leadership and South Korean president Moon Jae-In, after DPRK senior advisor Kim Yo-Jong invited Moon for further talk on the sidelines of the 2018 Winter Olympics, currently being held in PyeongChang, South Korea. The decision was considered a victory for thawing relations between the Koreas.


Comment: 'Diplomacy', with North Korea, is being served up cold and rigid. The longer Kim waits, the stronger his capabilities and offensive position. Kim may be willing to further sacrifice the welfare of his people under sanctions for his nuclear program. So far that seems to be the case. Are either of these scenarios in the US' best negotiation interest?

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US-backed Kurdish forces withdraw from Deir Ezzor as tensions raise possibility for clashes with Syrian army


FARS
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:29 UTC
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© FNAThe Syrian army has sent a large number of forces and military equipment to Eastern Deir Ezzur after the recent US attacks on its positions in the region, field sources said, adding that tensions have raised the possibility of clashes between the army forces and Kurdish militants backed by Washington
The sources reported on Thursday that the Syrian army has dispatched a large number of forces and military equipment to Wadi al-Forat region in Deir Ezzur.

They added that the Syrian army soldiers have strengthened their positions in the region, patrolling the Western banks of the Euphrates river.

Certain field sources also confirmed that the US-backed Kurds are on alert and have reinforced their positions, adding that there is a high possibility for clashes between them and the Syrian army.

Comment: Military (proper) and military analyst sources note that Syrian Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG) have mostly withdrawn from areas controlled by the US-led coalition in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, handing over control to another coalition partner militia known as the Deir Ezzor Military Council (DMC).
Following major military and diplomatic pressures imposed by Ankara against Kurdish paramilitary groups in Syria, US-backed YPG has withdrawn the main part of it forces in the country's east towards the embattled region of Afrin where the Turkish Army is leading an operation against the YPG and to the southern border with Turkey in provinces of Raqqa and Hasakah were the Turkish Army is threatening new operations.


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Was the DNC even hacked? It's looking less likely every day as Russiagate narrative crumbles

Jordan Schachtel
Conservative Review
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:42 UTC
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Prior to the publication of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, the DNC server intrusion and the Podesta email account "hack" were put forward as the first pieces of evidence that Russia was running a weaponized cyber campaign to support then-candidate Trump. But what if these hacking allegations are entirely baseless, just like the "salacious and unverified" allegations in the infamous dossier?

At the tail end of the 2016 presidential election season, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) spun the mainstream media into a frenzy by announcing that its servers had been hacked. The supposedly shocking news came just months after the Gmail account of Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta was "hacked," resulting in his emails falling into the hands of WikiLeaks. Shortly thereafter, most of the media reported as fact the DNC's determination that "the Russians" were responsible for the hacking of both the DNC and the Podesta email account.


Since then, many in the media have long concluded, based on the word of a political organization, that Vladimir Putin's Russia was all in on then-candidate Trump's electoral ambitions. This of course proved the wild conspiracies in the "Trump-Russia" dossier, too, they rationalized.

Comment: Every single Russiagate accusation has been hot air. The whole fiasco has been one big case study in mass hysteria: a massively hyped "crime" for which there is absolutely no evidence, but which everyone seemingly "knows" happened. Not one of the U.S.'s greater moments, that's for sure.

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Syria's UN Envoy Bashar Jaafari Says That US-Led Coalition 'Deliberately' Destroyed 90% of Raqqa


Sputnik
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:35 UTC
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© AFP 2018/ DELIL SOULEIMANA fighter from the Syrian Forces, inspects a military vehicle supplied by the US-led coalition, as they gather near a village north-east of Raqqa
The US-led Coalition to defeat the Daesh terrorist group (banned in Russia) has intentionally destroyed 90 percent of Syria's town of Raqqa, Syrian permanent representative to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari told the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

"This coalition has deliberately destroyed 90 percent of the city of Raqqa," Jaafari said. "This coalition has not felt to uphold its commitment to neutralize the mines left behind by Daesh."

The statement follows the February 12 press release by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch, saying that landmines planted by the Daesh terrorist group in the Syrian city of Raqqa have killed or wounded hundreds of civilians, including more than 150 children.

Comment: See also:

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Turkey asks US to end support for Kurdish fighters in Syria


RT
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:15 UTC
Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
© Erik de Castro / ReutersFighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walk along a road in Raqqa
Turkey has asked Washington to end its support for Kurdish fighters and remove them from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). It comes amid growing tensions between the NATO allies.

Speaking after a NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels on Thursday, Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said he had told his US counterpart, Jim Mattis, that Washington's support for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia has helped Kurdish rebels in Turkey "grow and strengthen," posing an increasingly "existential" threat to Turkey.

Canikli said he presented documents to Mattis which prove "organic"links between the YPG and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), recognized as terrorist by the US, EU and Turkey. He also said that he disputed Mattis' description of the SDF as being dominated by Arabs, saying the force is completely controlled by the YPG.

Comment: 'What kind of NATO alliance is this?' - Erdogan threatens US with 'Ottoman slap,' says all NATO countries created equal

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Syrian, Iranian envoys lash out at US for allegedly supporting Daesh


Sputnik
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:42 UTC
US President Donald Trump and US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
© AFP 2018/ MANDEL NGANUS President Donald Trump (C) speaks, watched by US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, during lunch with members of the United Nations Security Council in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC
Speaking at a UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting, Bashar al-Jaafari, Syria's permanent UN envoy, has pointed out that the future of his country should only be resolved by Syrian people, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

Al-Jaafari hit out at the US presence in Syria, which he said violates UNSC Resolution No. 2254 on the preservation of his country's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, in line with the UN Charter.
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Best of the Web: The doublethink of baseless accusations of 'Russian interference' while Soros openly meddles in British democracy

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:59 UTC
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You could hardly make this up. American-Hungarian billionaire George Soros is openly funneling money into overturning the Brexit referendum result.

He's even declaring the aim to crash the British government and trigger a new referendum that he hopes will result in a new vote for Britain to remain part of the European Union. That's tantamount to regime change.

Yet somehow, this foreign entity is not accused of "meddling" in British democracy. Oh, that accusation is solely reserved for Russia which has been wildly vilified for trying to subvert British, European and American elections - on the basis of no evidence whatsoever.
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Recall British premier Theresa May's shrill speech delivered at a City of London banquet at the end of last year in which she provocatively asserted that Russia was "sowing division" and eroding Britain's democracy.
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Gaslighting the public: Mainstream propagandist calls skepticism of Syria narrative 'dangerous inversion of reality'

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:36 UTC
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"This is dangerous, Orwellian inversion of reality. This is not the debate on Iraq's WMD, this is the debate on whether or not Sandy Hook victims were really crisis actors, or if Israelis were told not to go to work at the World Trade Center on 9/11. This is what Russia wants, and this is what Assad wants, as it lets the perpetrators escape justice, and leaves the victims to rot."
So concludes the Newsweek debut of neoconservative propagandist Eliot Higgins, who is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council, an extremely shady neocon think tank with ties to Ukrainian oligarchs, George Soros, and the military industrial complex, and fingerprints all over the foundational elements of the establishment Russia narrative. He is best known for his work with the war propaganda firm Bellingcat, which once ran an article explaining why the notorious Bana Alabed psyop is perfectly legitimate and trustworthy.

"This is dangerous, Orwellian inversion of reality. This is not the debate on Iraq's WMD," this clearly malignant war propagandist writes of the increasing public skepticism of what we're being told to believe about Syria.
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Italian backlash: Eurosceptic candidate Salvini promises to deport 500k illegal immigrants, declares Islam 'extremely dangerous'

Alessandro
Defend Europa
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:07 UTC
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Matteo Salvini, leader of the Lega party. Lega is the most Euroskeptic party which openly talks about leaving the common currency and has promised fierce opposition against the Bruxelles “Tyrants”.
Salvini is already thinking about the future after the possible victory of the right-wing coalition in March. Salvini stated:
"In the first year of the Salvini government, the number is zero. We must digest an overdue amount of illegal immigrants, around half a million. The first option is to close our borders, from the Alps to Sicily. No more, you will not pass, stop. Nowadays Islam is danger"
Lega is one of the 3 parties in the right-wing coalition, whichever between Lega or Berlusconi's party (Forza Italia) will get the majority of votes in the coalition will decide the shape of the new government. Lega is not just about immigration, but also the most Euro-Skeptic party, a position strengthened after the latest introductions of 2 candidates: economists and university professors Claudio Borghi and Alberto Bagnai.

Lega's leader has lately strengthened his positions on certain topics like the Islamization of Europe and he is the only politician in Italy with the guts to condemn the whole ideology and call it for what it is, a danger and threat to Europe's people and culture. In the recent days, Salvini has praised American president Donald Trump and vowed to apply similar protectionist measures to favorite Italian production and industries while weakening companies who chose to relocate their factories.
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Flashback German statesman Willy Wimmer: 'Russia is the only country in Syria acting under international law'


RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:43 UTC
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© Eric Bridiers / United States Mission Geneva
The UN is not free in its opinion; it is playing a part in the game on the side of the US, says Willy Wimmer, former State Secretary of the German Christian Democratic Party.

Some 80 aid and humanitarian organizations, including Human Rights Watch, claim Russia - the only country operating militarily in Syria legally - is no longer "fit" to hold its position in the body.

The move, prompted by Russia's anti-terror actions in Syria - actions that have attracted the ire of some Western countries - appear to be yet another effort on the part of particular countries to denigrate Russia.

Russia's presidential spokesman says the condemnation should be directed at extremists in Syria instead.

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