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To contain Russia and China, Pentagon requests more than $230 billion for nuclear weapons modernization

Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:07 UTC
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In the next 20 years, the Pentagon intends on spending $230 - 290 billion for the modernization of its nuclear forces. This was stated by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Robert Soofer, presenting the budget request in the Senate. Among the reasons justifying the need to develop nuclear weapons, Soofer pointed to the the size of Russia's nuclear arsenal, which is not inferior in size to the US.

In his speech he explained the importance of further development of nuclear power and the need to allocate funds for the modernization to take place.

"Russia undertook aggressive actions against its neighbors, and has become a threat, including a nuclear threat to the US and its NATO allies," - said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.

According to Soofer, the only country that can compete with the US on the size of the nuclear arsenal, has started modernization of nuclear weapons, in connection with which the presidential administration is invited to consider concrete steps that "would deprive the significant military advantage Russia."

In addition, according to the Pentagon, a threat also exist from China, which is building up its own nuclear arsenal, and is North Korea.

"China's actions in the Asia-Pacific region are evidence of its desire to occupy a dominant position. North Korean authorities have demonstrated that they are ready to accept the prospect of retaliatory economic sanctions and international isolation for the sake of increasing its nuclear capability and ballistic missiles, capable of striking the United States, as well as to our allies in the region ", - said Robert Soofer.

Comment:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower


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Huge advances by Syrian army transforming Syrian war

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:28 UTC
Syrian army
Whirlwind advances of Syrian army send ISIS reeling and position Syrian army to recover all of central and eastern Syria from the Mediterranean to the Iraqi border.

Though the Western media is barely reporting the fact, the last few weeks have witnessed a total transformation of the Syrian war.

Until the liberation of eastern Aleppo in December the Syrian war was being fought mainly in western Syria along a narrow stretch of Syria's Mediterranean coast in a grinding war of attrition between the Syrian army and various Turkish backed Jihadi groups all of which were led ultimately by Al-Qaeda.
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From Europe to Libya: A psychopathic mercenary's journey from al-Qaeda terrorist to CIA "freedom fighter"

Steven Sahiounie
Mint Press News
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Mahdi al-Harati
Mahdi al-Harati, former commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan Civil War, is seen here fighting in Syria as commander of Liwaa Al-Umma, a designated terrorist group fighting the Syrian government.
In the bloody terror-fueled conflicts that have been waged by the U.S. and NATO in Libya and Syria, one man has helped to recruit so-called "freedom fighters" and unleash them on those countries' innocent civilians. But he has yet to be brought to justice.

Interpol may be on the hunt for the former mayor of Libya's capital of Tripoli - an Irish-Libyan man who has been named as an international terrorist by Saudi Arabia.

Mahdi al-Harati has lived in Malta on-and-off since 2014. In January 2017, he was arrested due to his involvement in a knife attack in Malta that occurred between two Libyans, as all three had gotten into a political argument that grew out of control.

It is odd that al-Harati would seek safe harbor in Malta, which is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. However, it is this very sea in which al-Harati first sailed into the international spotlight due to his associations with al-Qaeda and other terror groups. His relatively recent arrest has brought renewed attention to his past, including his history of recruiting terrorists - with the help of the CIA - for the purpose of aiding in Western-backed regime change efforts.
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Doha blames news agency hack on 'neighbors' who lead economic blockade


RT
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:07 UTC
Computer laptop
© Global Look Press
The hacking of Qatari state news agency QNA last month was carried out by the same "neighboring countries," which then used the resulting diplomatic fallout as a pretext to impose an economic and political blockade on Doha, the country's Attorney General has said.

It is "very clear" that the May 23 hacking attack on QNA originated from countries involved in the subsequent economic and political rift with Qatar, Attorney General Ali bin Fetais al-Marri told reporters on Tuesday, as cited by AFP.

"We have evidence to show that iPhones originating from the countries laying siege to us have been used in this hacking," Marri said in Arabic, promising to make public a list of specific phone numbers "very soon."
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That didn't last long: Australia will soon resume anti-ISIS airstrikes in Syria


RT
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:41 UTC
RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornet
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Australian warplanes will soon resume airstrikes against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) targets in Syria, according to the country's defense chief. Operations were suspended earlier this week, after a US fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane.

"It won't be long before you start to see the operations again," Australian Defense Force Chief Mark Binskin told reporters on Wednesday, as quoted by AP. The official did not elaborate on the exact date.

Defense Minister Marise Payne also said that Australian "force protection is uppermost in our minds" regarding the decision of when to resume missions over Syria.
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Insane US brinkmanship: NATO F-16 approaches Russian defense minister's plane over Baltic


RT
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:31 UTC
SU-27 and F-16 fighter jets
© Sputnik / Reuters
A NATO F-16 fighter jet has tried to approach the Russian defense minister's plane above the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. The plane was warded off by a Russian Su-27 escorting the minister's aircraft, according to journalists who were on board.

Russian plane was en route to the city of Kaliningrad, a western Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea, where Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu is scheduled to discuss security issues with defense officials on Wednesday.

While one NATO aircraft tried to approach the Russian airplane, a Russian Su-27 fighter jet got in its way and tilted its wings, apparently showing its arms, according to RIA Novosti and TASS journalists who were on board. The F-16 then flew away.

Comment: NATO is currently holding military drills in the Baltic: Increasing tensions: NATO stages first-ever war games in Baltic 'weak spot' to defend from 'Russia threat'

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Saudi King names young son Mohammed bin Salman crown prince, strips eldest of title and post


RT
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:26 UTC
Mohammed bin Salman
© Bandar Algaloud / Reuters
Saudi King Salman has named 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman crown prince in place of Mohammed bin Nayef, who had previously been first in line to the throne. The King also stripped bin Nayef of his function as interior minister.

The newly announced Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is already the country's defense minister, believed to be the mastermind behind the war in Yemen that has brought the country to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. He also leads an economic council aiming to boost the Saudi economy, and has made overseas state visits to Russia and the United States.

Bin Nayef was responsible for overseeing security and counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia, and AP reports that he has close ties to Washington.
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Poroshenko's visit to Trump was an epic failure

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:01 UTC
Poroshenko and Trump
Petro Poroshenko's visit to Donald Trump was called a 'drop in' by the White House. It was in reality, more like a 'drop out'.

While many were wondering if somehow the beleaguered, bumbling war criminal leader of the Ukrainian regime Petro Poroshenko could some how convince Donald Trump to change his generally positive views about Russia, the truth is that the meeting could have been described as 'useless' before it even happened.

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Pentagon's latest report paints grim picture of Afghanistan in 2017


RT
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:54 UTC
US soldiers in Afghanistan
© Ryan Hallock / Reuters
Afghanistan is "at a critical point" in its battle against multiple insurgencies and terrorist groups, the Pentagon has said in a new report to Congress. It also reveals that US and Afghan authorities are seeking peace through talks with the Taliban.

Sixteen years after the US-led invasion aimed at overthrowing the Taliban and denying a safe haven to Al-Qaeda - the group blamed for 9/11 terrorist attacks - Afghanistan is facing a "continuing threat" from as many as 20 insurgent and terrorist networks, in what the US Department of Defense called "the highest concentration of extremist and terrorist groups in the world."
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The real story of Jeremy Corbyn and George Soros

Barbara McKenzie
Barbaramckenzie.wordpress.com
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:40 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
On 12 September 2015 Jeremy Corbyn, as his first act as the new leader of the British Labour Party, addressed a protest in support of refugees, called Solidarity with Refugees. Corbyn stood next to Abdulaziz Alhashemi of Syria Solidarity UK (SSUK), who was draped in a flag representing UK-backed Syrian extremists, on a platform from which Clara Connolly, also of SSUK, had urged a Libya-style no-fly zone.

Syrian Solidarity UK describes itself as 'a network of activists committed to solidarity with the Syrian Revolution'. In practice this means making the case for greater UK involvement in Syria, above all a no-fly zone. SSUK
 claimed a large part of the credit for the March:

Syrian Solidarity UK
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