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Deir ez-Zor Residents Describe Horrors of Life Under US-backed 'ISIS'


Sputnik
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:09 UTC
Deir Ez-Zor
Deir Ez-Zor after liberation from US-backed ISIS by the Syrian and Russian militaries
Speaking to Russian media, a couple from Deir ez-Zor, the eastern Syrian city which held out for three long years against Daesh, described a story of suffering, resilience and heroism often chillingly reminiscent to that of WWII-era Leningrad.
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Pentagon fearing 'space Pearl Harbor': US could miss out on chance to ban weapons in space


RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:02 UTC
artist's rendition of the X-37B
© NASA / AFPThis NASA image obtained on December 1, 2010 shows an artist's rendition of the X-37B as it might look like orbiting Earth.
Russia and China have updated a draft treaty for the upcoming UN General Assembly, which seeks to ban deployment of weapons in space. The US is skeptical of such initiatives and prefers to develop new assets like the X-37B space plane.

The draft treaty was first presented in 2008 and updated for the second time for the session. Russia and China want to ban deployment of conventional weapons in space and prohibit the use of force and the threat of use of force against spacecraft.

The initiative is favored by an overwhelming majority of UN members, as evidenced by previous votes at the UN General Assembly. But the most advanced space nation - the US - has been opposing it, despite a long-standing concern in the US that another nation may attack its satellites to cripple America economically and militarily.

The US pursues a 'wait and see' policy, neither rushing to weaponize space nor missing a chance to develop new technologies which could be used for space warfare. For example, just last week it launched the Boeing X-37B - a drone spacecraft with potential for space warfare - on its fifth mission.

RT looks back at the military aspects of the space race history.
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Russian Defense Ministry says Russia sends sappers to help de-mine liberated parts of Deir ez-Zor


RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:50 UTC
A combat vehicle entering into the fighter jet
© RTA combat vehicle entering into the fighter jet
A group of mine clearance specialists of the Russian Armed Forces have been sent to the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor to take part in the mine removal operation following the breach of the city blockade, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"A forward detachment of the International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has been deployed to the Syrian Arab Republic," the ministry's press service said in a statement.

The unit, consisting of more than 40 mine clearance specialists joined by a squad of specially trained mine-detecting sniffer dogs and equipped with seven specialized vehicles, was already transferred to the Khmeimim Air Base in Syria's Latakia Province, it said. The military specialists would be soon redeployed to the liberated districts of Deir ez-Zor for reconnaissance operations before the actual demining starts.

The forward detachment will be followed by other Russian mine disposal units, the statement said, adding that the total number of Russian specialists working in Deir ez-Zor would eventually be 175. They will have 42 pieces of specialized military equipment, including Uran-6 state-of-the-art multi-purpose de-mining robotic complexes, which were previously used in Palmyra, Syria.

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Syria summary: A new clash looms in Syria's east


Moon Of Alabama
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:23 UTC
deir er zor
When the Islamic State siege on Deir Ezzor was broken by the Syrian Arab Army we asked:
Will the SAA cross the Euphrates at Deir Ezzor to retake the valuable oilfields east of it? Or will it stay south of the river and leave those oil fields to the Kurdish U.S. proxies in the north?
To cross the river is clearly desirable but also potentially contentious.

Since then several convoys of military bridging equipment have been seen on the road to Deir Ezzor. It is now obvious that the SAA will bridge the river (all regular bridges have been destroyed by U.S. bombing) and send significant forces across. New questions now are: When, where and with what aim?

As soon as the government intent became clear the U.S. pushed its local proxy forces to immediately snatch the ISIS held oilfields. In less than two days they deployed over 30 kilometers deep into the ISIS held areas north of the Euphrates. It is obvious that such progress could not have been made if ISIS had defended itself. I find it likely that a deal has been made between those two sides.
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US global hegemony ending: Interview with Alfred W. McCoy

Mark Karlin
Truthout
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:04 UTC
US soldier in Vietnam
© US ArmyCombat operations at Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam, November 1965. The Vietnam War set a precedent for covert action used to maintain US empire
Historian Alfred W. McCoy's new book peels back layers of secrecy to tell how the United States used covert intervention, surveillance, torture, trade pacts and military alliances to become a world power. Filmmaker Oliver Stone calls In the Shadows of the American Century "a hard look at the truth of our empire, both its covert activities and the reasons for its impending decline."

With a sweeping and detailed account of how the US rose out of World War II to become the reigning empire, Alfred W. McCoy connects dots that reveal how the role of covert action and torture enhanced its powers. However, McCoy ponders that these may be the last days of US global hegemony. Truthout asked McCoy to talk more about these issues.
Mark Karlin: How did your growing awareness of CIA involvement in assisting with the drug trade in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War awaken you to US strategies of hegemony?

Comment: ...yeah, it's "manipulated"... by its own gargantuan hubris and paranoia. Psychopathy in high places takes its toll.

The author and interviewer have apparently eaten the nothing-burger of 'Russian interference'.

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Russia runs massive military drill as Trump threatens WW3 'reviewing plans to send weapons to Ukraine

Aaron Kesel
Activist Post
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:32 UTC
Caricature of Putin and Trump
President Donald Trump is "actively reviewing" plans to send lethal weapons to Ukraine, according to the U.S Secretary of Defense as to what will be the words heard around the world and the move that starts WW3.

James Mattis has previously stated the United States "stands with Ukraine" after the country's president, Petro Poroshenko, said there are at least 3,000 Russian troops on Ukrainian's soil."

He said Russia has not abided by the Minsk ceasefire agreement meant to end separatist violence in eastern Ukraine.

"Despite Russia's denials, we know they are seeking to redraw international borders by force, undermining the sovereign and free nations of Europe," he told reporters.

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'Must be resolved peacefully': Putin and Merkel talk North Korea crisis ahead of UNSC sanctions vote


RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:06 UTC
Kim Jong Un
© KCNA / Reuters
The leaders of Russia and Germany discussed the upcoming vote at the UN Security Council on new sanctions against North Korea. They agreed that the issue should be resolved peacefully and that Pyongyang should stop its provocations.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the North Korean crisis on Monday in a telephone call.

"There was agreement that the conflict about North Korea's nuclear armament must be resolved peacefully," German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.

He added that Merkel expressed support for tougher UN sanctions against North Korea, according to Reuters.
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US' proxy power grab thwarted in Syria, will now target Russia more than ever

Finian Cunningham
RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:51 UTC
Syrian flag
© SANA/Reuters
The spectacular victory this week for Syrian state forces and allies liberating Deir ez-Zor portends an end to the war. But celebrations should be tempered by the realization that the enemies of Syria will shift their agenda for conflict elsewhere.

If we segregate the many protagonists in Syria's conflict, the two main rivals to emerge from the melee are the United States and Russia. Russia may have gained the upper hand in Syria. But, ironically, winning the peace in Syria may unleash wars elsewhere.

Reports that US military forces have been airlifting insurgents out of harm's way in Syria suggest that Washington is saving its terrorist assets to fight another day, perhaps in some other unfortunate country targeted for regime change.

The six-year war in Syria was never really about Syria alone. It was but a battlefield in a global war for dominance by the US and its allies. Syria was only one of many countries where the US has sought to establish its suzerainty through war for regime change.

When Russia stepped in to defend its Syrian ally at the end of 2015, that was the game-changer. Up till that point, the government of President Bashar Assad looked decidedly precarious, as mercenary proxies backed by the US and its allies homed in on the goal of regime change.
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Brexit chaos: Labour MPs plan to defy Jeremy Corbyn in parliament


RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:21 UTC
Demonstrators head towards Parliament Square
© Tolga Akmen / ReutersDemonstrators head towards Parliament Square during the anti-Brexit 'People's March for Europe', in central London, Britain September 9, 2017.
Jeremy Corbyn is expected to face a blow to his authority on Monday night as some Labour MPs prepare to defy a three-line whip on the government's controversial EU Withdrawal Bill.

The Labour leadership has instructed its MPs to oppose the bill - which will transfer EU law into British statute books - amid fears that 'Henry VIII' powers contained within the draft legislation would allow ministers to alter laws without full parliamentary scrutiny.

But Caroline Flint, a Labour backbencher and former Europe minister, told the BBC she will not adhere to the three-line whip and is urging her colleagues not to "kill" the bill.

If enough MPs did vote against the bill to frustrate its passage, they would be acting against the decision made by the British people in the EU referendum, Flint says.
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Top Secret

Disturbing facts about what happened on 9/11

Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:04 UTC
WTC on 911
When it comes to the American people, and the global population not believing in an "official explanation" for an event, 9/11 is at the top of the list, along with many others, unfortunately. Democracy doesn't really seem to exist. Instead, we have what I like to refer to as the "illusion of democracy." We believe we are making choices through voting, but our choices are severely limited. The corporate and financial world have gripped the United States government, and will not remove their claws.

Today, in large part, democrats and republicans are just "two wings of the same bird, and the flight path never changes." We are constantly pointing our fingers at presidents and politicians who seem to be the "fall" people for the even bigger, larger, and more powerful Deep State.

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