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Israeli Media Blames 'Friendly Russia' For Syria's Decision to Defend Itself Against Israeli Airstrikes

Rudy Panko
Russia Insider
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:36 UTC
This takes the "blame Russia" cake. With a S-200 on top.

Poor Israeli jets being attacked while bombing Syria. What is this world coming to?
Poor Israeli jets being attacked while bombing Syria. What is this world coming to?
"The serious exchange of missile fire between Israel and Syria early Friday morning reflects the Assad regime's attempts to change the unofficial rules of the game."

So begins a column published in Israel's Haaretz.

The newspaper is of course referring to the Israeli jets that "breached Syrian air space early in the morning and attacked a military target near Palmyra", apparently in an attempt to "aid" Islamic State forces.

According to reports, it's suspected that the Syrian Army responded to this "breach" by firing off a few S-200 missiles.

Comment: Notice that the extremely popular, democratically elected president of Syria is referred to by Haaretz as a "dictator". Also notice the claim that all Israel is trying to do is defend itself from Hezbollah. Pathetic examples of yellow journalism/propaganda.

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Bad Guys

House of cards: Is Assange right about Hillary Clinton's plot against Trump?

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:06 UTC
Trump_Pence
© AP/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Julian Assange's statement that Hillary Clinton is secretly plotting "a Mike Pence takeover" in the Oval Office together with US intelligence officials has stirred a heated debate. Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel shared his views on the possibility of a House of Cards scenario being implemented in his interview with Sputnik.

WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief Julian Assange announced Tuesday that Hillary Clinton is harboring a secret plan to replace US President Donald Trump with Vice President Mike Pence.
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'That's how we act': Netanyahu justifies Syria air raid, vows forceful response to Hezbollah threat


RT
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 23:08 UTC
Israeli F-16 fighter jet
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
Israel will never hesitate to intervene to prevent potential arms transfers to Hezbollah, PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated, commenting on Israel's latest air raid in Syria in which intruding jets were targeted by air defense systems.

Four Israeli jets breached Syrian airspace and targeted military sites roughly around 3:00 am on Friday, prompting Damascus to activate its air defense systems. According to the Syrian military, one of the Israeli jets was shot down over the occupied Golan Heights while another was damaged.

The IDF has firmly denied that any of its jets were hit, and said Syrian anti-aircraft missiles either missed or had been intercepted by Israel's own air defenses. Fragments of the intercepted projectile were allegedly found across the border in a village in Jordan's Irbid governorate.

Comment: So is Israel the airforce for Daesh?



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Info

'Immigration is a privilege, not a right,' Trump lectures Merkel in first meeting


RT
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:52 UTC
Merkel and Trump
© Jim Bourg / Reuters
US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have met for the first time in Trump's time in office, discussing many issues on which the two have disagreed in the past, including immigration, defense spending and free trade.

"Our two nations share much in common, including a desire for security, prosperity and peace," Trump said. He praised Germany's training of an industrial workforce, including "harnessing the full potential of women," as an example the US can look to as it seeks to rebuild its industrial base.

On NATO, which Trump has heavily criticized because he feels that other members "don't pay their fair share," the president extended an olive branch, but repeated his demands for other countries to step up.

Comment: Looks like the White House didn't actually send an apology to Britain:
And incidentally, in yet another change in the official narrative, after both Sky News and the Telegraph reported earlier today that the White House had apologized to Britain over the accusation that its spy agency had helped Obama spy on Trump, the NYT reported that the White House has said there was no apology from either Spicer or McMaster, and that instead the Administration defended Spicer's mention of the wiretapping story.


Finally, as Axios adds, after Trump and Merkel left the stage reporters again asked Sean Spicer whether he apologized for repeating an anonymously sourced Fox News claim that British intelligence helped in wiretapping Trump Tower. His response: "I don't think we regret anything."


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A Russian-German thaw? Merkel heads for Moscow

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:31 UTC
Putin and Merkel
As crises build up around her, Angela Merkel sends Putin "particularly warm greetings" and prepares a trip to Moscow.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing a possibly difficult election in Germany later this year, is traveling to Moscow on 2nd May 2017.

Merkel has been a regular visitor to Moscow, and speaks with Russian President Putin on the telephone more often than any other EU leader. However their relationship hit rock bottom when the Ukrainian crisis exploded in 2014, and has been fraught ever since.

Suffice to say that the last occasion when Merkel visited Moscow was in the fraught run-up to the Minsk Agreement in February 2015. When German SPD leader and Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel and Bavarian Minister-President and CSU leader Horst Seehofer, visited Moscow in October 2015 and February 2016, she made little attempt to hide her disapproval.
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Poklonskaya says Kiev should get used to Crimea's Russian identity


Sputnik
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:18 UTC
Natalya Poklonskaya
© Sputnik/ Sergey Guneev
On Thursday, Crimea marked the anniversary of the 2014 referendum which saw the peninsula break off from Ukraine and rejoin Russia. In an exclusive interview for Sputnik, Natalya Poklonskaya, the lawmaker who bravely served as Crimea's prosecutor during the Crimean Spring, offered Kiev and Western officials some advice about Crimea's status.

Poklonskaya, who actively fought for Crimea's reunification with Russia in the aftermath of the Maidan coup in Kiev, has become a symbol of modern Crimea, both in Russia and around the world.

During the events which followed the Maidan coup, the former Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs investigator resigned from her post, returned to Crimea and was appointed acting prosecutor of the Crimean Autonomous Republic, gaining international recognition as the peninsula's angel-faced but tough chief prosecutor. Ukrainian officials and nationalist activists repeatedly threatened Poklonskaya with prison or even death. In 2016, she took part in legislative elections, and became a member of Russia's parliament, the Duma.
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Attention

Ukraine's Neo-Nazis join forces

Eduard Popov - translated by J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ News
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 21:02 UTC
Andrey Biletsky (Azov), Oleg Tyagnibok (Svoboda), Andrey Tarasenko (Right Sector)
Andrey Biletsky (Azov), Oleg Tyagnibok (Svoboda), Andrey Tarasenko (Right Sector).
On March 16th, several Ukrainian neo-Nazi organizations signed a manifesto on joining forces. Signatures were provided by representatives of the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda, the National Corps party (created out of the Azov regiment), and Right Sector. The manifesto contains 20 points, among which are recognizing Russia as an "aggressor country" and severing diplomatic relations with it, recognizing the Lugansk and Donetsk regions uncontrolled by Kiev as "occupied territories," creating a contract army, and recognizing Ukrainian as the only state language.

The unification of these three Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups is a long overdue, partially overripe fruition. Let us provide some brief background.

One of the aspects of the Euromaidan was the unification of a most wide spectrum of Ukrainian political forces, ranging from pro-Western liberals to ultra-leftists (anarchists) and ultra-rightists (neo-Nazis), against the Yanukovych regime. During this process, the right-wing extremists created their own association, the notorious Right Sector. At the head of Right Sector stood the little-known figure from right-wing circles Dmitry Yarosh. Much of his rise can be explained by his closeness to Igor Kolomoysky, one of the richest Jewish oligarchs in Ukraine.
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Info

Russian lawmakers order probe of RFE/RL, VOA, and CNN


RFE/RL
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:44 UTC
Putin on computer screens
© ridus.ru
The lower house of the Russian parliament has ordered a probe into whether RFE/RL's Russian Service, Voice of America, and CNN are in compliance with Russian laws.

The move by the State Duma on March 17 comes just days after U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (Democrat-New Hampshire) introduced a bill that would empower the Justice Department to investigate possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act by RT, the state-backed Russian TV channel.

The Russian initiative was introduced by Konstantin Zatulin, a member of President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, which holds an overwhelming majority in the Duma -- Russia's lower chamber of parliament.
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Snakes in Suits

US apology: GCHQ didn't wiretap Donald Trump


RT
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:56 UTC
GCHQ parking lot
© Andrew Higgins/swns.com
The US has issued an official apology to Britain after the White House repeated a claim that former President Barack Obama used the UK intelligence agency GCHQ to "wiretap" Donald Trump. According to the Telegraph, White House press secretary Sean Spicer has personally apologized after repeating the claim in an official briefing, triggering a major diplomatic incident. General McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, has also apologized, according to an intelligence source who spoke to the newspaper.

On Thursday night, British officials hit back at the claim they had wiretapped Trump during last year's presidential elections. GCHQ issued a rare public statement, calling the allegations "utterly ridiculous." "Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct 'wiretapping' against the then president-elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored," the statement read.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer quoted a Fox News report which alleged Obama used the British intelligence agency to help him spy on Trump.

During a tense news briefing, Spicer said Obama used British officials so "there's no American fingerprints on this." He quoted Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox's senior judicial analyst, who earlier this week said:
"He didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI and he didn't use the Department of Justice. He used the GCHQ."

Spicer continued with the citation, saying, in the words of Napolitano:
"[GCHQ] have 24/7 access to the NSA database, so by simply having two people go to them and saying, 'President needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate president-elect Trump,' he's able to get it and there's no American fingerprints on it."

Comment: Interesting the reactions when the shoe is on the other foot and how quickly come the denials and requests for proof. What they haven't proven is that there was NO wire tapping. The GCHQ accusation sounds like a set-up and distraction. Too bad Spicer fell for it. Obama? He has no relationship with the truth.

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Accidental or provoked: The dangerous reality of an Iran war

Sharmine Narwani
The American Conservative
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:14 UTC
US navy persian gulf Iran
© Wikimedia CommonsThe USS McCampbell and aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the Persian Gulf.
A new war in the Persian Gulf could start accidentally—and would take a toll on U.S. forces.

After weeks of saber-rattling over Iran as the "number one terrorist state" in the world, the Trump administration appears to have quietly dialed down the rhetoric a notch.

Here in the Middle East, however, where every peep and creak out of Washington is scrutinized to death, interested parties haven't stopped speculating about a U.S. confrontation with Iran. Fifty days into his term, Trump's foreign-policy course remains an enigma. He swears "all options" remain on the table with Iran—but do they?
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