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Russian perspectives on the Rohingya crisis

Scott Humor
The Saker
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
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Russia and Myanmar have a longstanding relationship of friendship and cooperation that began with the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1948. The Soviet Union, and then Russia, has provided over the past 66 years considerable assistance in the development of Myanmar in various spheres, including in the economic sphere. In June of 2016, Russia's Ministry of Defense and Myanmar signed a defense cooperation agreement:
"The signing of this Agreement establishes a solid legal framework for relationships between Russia and Myanmar in the military field, it includes exchange of information on international security and counterterrorism, development of relationships in the field of military medicine, history, topography, culture and recreation of servicemen and members of their families, exchange of experience in the field of peacekeeping as well as interaction during search-and-rescue operations at sea."
Prior to this defense cooperation agreement, Russia has done significant work that resulted in the 2014 Economic cooperation agreement between Russia and Myanmar.

Comment: See also: The Rohingya 'Crisis': U.S. Legacy and Current Policy in Southeast Asia

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Iraq wants nuclear power - U.S. war on Iran just got more difficult

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:23 UTC
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Iraq is today, little more than an aspiring Islamic Republic on the Iranian model. The only reason for this is the US war on Iraq in 2003.

While much of Ibrahim al-Jaafari's speech to the UN dealt with Iraq's recent successes and long term political strategy to combat Salafist terrorism, the Iraqi Foreign Minister's most important remark made during his address to the UN General Assembly was that Iraq seeks to exercise its legal option to create nuclear energy facilities.


Comment: Jafari's brief remark: "Iraq calls for assistance from nuclear countries to build a nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes in Iraq to acquire the nuclear technology."


This is not the first time Iraq has sought to being producing its own nuclear energy. Beginning in 1979, French nuclear scientists began building a nuclear reactors near Baghdad called Tammuz 1 and 2. The reactors are also referred to by their French name Osirak.

In spite of guarantees from the French scientists that the reactors were incapable of weapons grade enrichment, Israel resorted to numerous illegal measures to stop the project from being successfully competed. This included a state-sponsored assassination of a scientist in Paris. In 1980, agents of Israel's secret intelligence service, Mossad, killed Yahya El Mashad, an Egyptian national in his hotel room due to his role in the Iraqi nuclear energy programme.
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Syria used newly arrived advanced military tanks, vehicles from Russia for battle of Deir ez-Zor


Fars News Agency
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:18 UTC
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The Syrian Army had received a large consignment of modern Russian-made tanks and military vehicles last month and utilized them in the recent anti-ISIL operation to cross the Euphrates River in Deir Ezzur province, a Russian media outlet reported on Sunday.

The Arabic-language website of Russia's state news agency, Sputnik, reported that a large consignment, including Russian-made T-62 tanks and BRM-1K military vehicles was delivered to the Syrian army via the Tartus port in August, adding that the newly-arrived tanks and military vehicles assisted the Syrian soldiers to have an easier and fasters move while crossing the Euphrates River to hit ISIL's defense lines on the Eastern bank of the river.

The BRM-1K military vehicle in designed to carry out reconnaissance operation in the battlefield and the T-62 tanks are equipped with 115mm cannons.
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U.S. acknowledges unprecedented "face-to-face" military meeting with Russia over Syria - Russians will retaliate against any SDF provocation

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 20:03 UTC
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The moment the first Russian jet landed in Syria at the invitation of the Assad government in 2015, Putin placed himself in the driver's seat concerning the international proxy war in the Levant. From a strategic standpoint the armed opposition stood no chance of ever tipping the scales against Damascus from that moment onward. And though US relations with Russia became more belligerent and tense partly as a result of that intervention, it meant that Russia would set the terms of how the war would ultimately wind down.

Russia's diplomatic and strategic victory in the Middle East was made clear this week as news broke of "secret" and unprecedented US-Russia face to face talks on Syria. The Russians reportedly issued a stern warning to the US military, saying that it will respond in force should the Syrian Army or Russian assets come under fire by US proxies.
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Washington Post editors slam own paper's "puff piece" story on Awan investigation; "embarrassing" cover for Dems


True Pundit
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:42 UTC
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There is infighting among editorial hierarchy at The Washington Post about it's only "in-depth" story about the expanding Imran Awan and Hina Alvi investigation, according to sources.

The story was apparently put together with the cooperation of Awan's lawyer Chris Gowen and sweeping legal team. No FBI sources are quoted in a story dealing with a federal investigation. And more than one news veteran at the Post agreed the end result was a "puff piece" that stinks like a cheap press release written by a first-year Congressional flak.

"I don't care if the guy is guilty or not," said one Post editor. "But let's tell the story, the entire story based on what the public already knows. We didn't do that. I think we tried to create another story.
"It's a goddam embarrassment."

Oh, we forgot to mention Awan's attorney is a long-time campaigner for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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US, militant forces destroy key American base in retreat

Andrew Illingworth
AMN
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:15 UTC
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A key American military base in Syria's southwestern desert region has been destroyed by withdrawing United States and Coalition-backed Free Syrian Army forces.

The installation in question is the Zakaf Base which was established earlier this year in southeastern Homs near the Iraqi border.

The Zakaf Base served as a secondary Coalition garrison to the more important al-Tanf Base further west of it. Here the Coalition trained Free Syrian Army mercenaries and oversaw their operations in southwestern Syria.

According to reports, neither the United States nor the Free Syrian Army plans to use the Zakaf Base anymore and in the process of abandoning it have also chosen to destroy it in order to prevent the garrison's utilization by any other armed party.

The official reason for the withdrawal of American and Free Syrian Army forces has not been stated, although it is likely linked to a recent agreement been the US, Russia and Jordan that will eventually see the full withdraw of Coalition troops from southern Syria and, in theory, the surrender of militant-held areas in the region to the Syrian Arab Army.

Comment: Concrete proof the US coalition is departing? Guarded optimism required.

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Military source tells Sputnik U.S. ready to leave al-Tanf in Syria


Sputnik
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:58 UTC
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The US is ready to leave Syria's al-Tanf, where the US-led coalition is currently located, but it has not outlined any timeframes, a military-diplomatic source told Sputnik.

"They say that they will [leave At Tanf], but we do not know when," the source said.

On June 8, the US-led coalition bombed pro-Damascus forces near al-Tanf in the area of a deconfliction zone following an alleged attack by a combat drone resulting in no coalition forces' casualties.

Comment: Al-Tanf has become pretty much useless to the Americans after the Syrian army cut it off by liberating the country's borders to both sides of the base there. It was only ever a rebel stronghold that could potentially be used as a springboard for occupying the east of the country. See also: Syrian rebel defector from At-Tanf says his US-trained unit sold arms to ISIS

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Syrian FM blasts US, Turkey, Israel in proclamation against terror and empire at UN, praises Russia and Iran

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:49 UTC
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The Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic, Walid Al-Muallem has addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations in a powerful and defiant speech which lacerated the enemies of Syria while praising the will, determination and dignity of the Syrian people and the Syrian Arab Army.

Walid Al-Muallem began by stating that in the present conflict ridden world, there is a standoff between two forces. The first force seeks to dominate the world and re-establish a unipolar order which fuels chaos and war while violating international humanitarian laws. This is a clear reference to the United States and its allies.

Opposed to this are forces which work to create a more "balanced, just and secure world," one which respects the sovereignty of states and the self-determination of peoples. This appears to be a reference to Syria's allies including Russia, Iran and China.

He stated that while many people throughout the world continue to suffer due to the policies of "certain countries", that no country has suffered more than Syria.
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The other story: The Iran 'Nuclear Deal' leads to war, not peace

Tony Cartalucci
NEO
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
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The so-called Iran "nuclear deal," officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was hailed as "historic" when the United States among other nations became a signatory of it. Then US President Barack Obama, attempted to make convincing statements regarding America's commitment to the deal. However, America's rhetoric compared to its actual actions diplomatically, militarily, and geopolitically told two different stories.

US Was Waging Proxy War with Iran when the Deal was Signed

The deal was created in 2015, 4 full years since the United States engineered a destructive proxy war in Syria - one of Iran's closest and most crucial regional allies. By 2015, the United States had already committed to direct military intervention in Syria, occupying Syrian territory, directly arming, funding, and providing air support for militants seizing Syrian territory, and even constructing military bases within Syria's borders.

By 2015, the United States was revealed to have poured billions of dollars into arming militants ranging from Kurdish groups in Syria's northeast, to militants aligned to Al Qaeda and even the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS) in northern and southern Syria.

While US President Barack Obama posed as conciliatory toward Iran, the US was steeped deeply in not only a proxy war against Syria, but ultimately a proxy war aimed directly at Iran.

According to years of US policy papers, dismantling Iran's allies in Syria and Lebanon were crucial prerequisites toward eventually undermining and overthrowing the government and political order in Iran itself.

Comment: See also:

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Any better than Hillary? Six ways Trump now mirrors Clinton

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
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Last month, Donald Trump showed Americans that he has one goal in mind -- a goal that has been shared by all of his predecessors and his ostensible enemy, Hillary Clinton -- and a goal he vehemently opposed until he was elected. Endless, brutal, futile, and, of course, profitable-war.

Just like Obama, Trump ran on a platform of ending the war in Afghanistan and bringing the troops home. And, just like Obama, he lied.


Whether or not he is being controlled by deep state operatives forcing his hand into an Afghan surge or if he's doing it out of his own stupidity is irrelevant as the result will be the same - dead American soldiers, dead Afghan citizens, and more terrorism.

Trump knows this too.

Comment: Maybe in 2020, the US will hold an election and no one will care to show up to vote. What difference will it make?

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