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Bernie Sanders on Hugo Chavez: He's just a dead Communist dictator

Venezuela Today
Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:06 UTC

Comment: Many Americans, particularly young Americans, have latched onto Bernie Sanders as the guy who's going to fix America's problems. Yet in his comments below, it's clear he takes the same stance that all politicians who want to become president take, which is to share the same opinions on foreign leaders as the elites for whom he will serve have. If Sanders had done a little homework, he would know that Chavez worked on the same social issues that Sanders purportedly wants to fix.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is a rarity in American politics: a self-described socialist running for the White House. And this September, Sanders sought to distance himself from one of the most well known socialists of the new millennium — Hugo Chávez.

Sanders accused Hillary Clinton supporters of attempting to smear him by linking him with the divisive figure. Clinton is Sanders's biggest rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, and the comments were allegedly made by pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC Correct the Record. But in trying to distance himself from Chávez, Sander is making many Venezuelans angry.

"Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton's most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously...They suggested I'd be friendly with Middle East terrorist organizations, and even tried to link me to a dead communist dictator," Sanders wrote in a fundraising email.

Syrian Kurds say jihadists used yellow phosphorus in chemical attack on Aleppo

RT
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 22:07 UTC

Armed Islamist opposition fighters have used yellow phosphorous in a chemical attack on the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, Kurdish militia group YPG said.

"We hereby inform you that on March 8, 2016 at 15:00, shelling [was carried out] with rockets that carry chemical material, which we believe to be yellow phosphorous chemical weapon, on Sheikh Maqsud neighborhood by the Syrian armed opposition factions and battalions," Redur Xelilm, YPG's spokesman, said in a statement.

Alexander Mercouris: Libyan crisis showed US foreign policy is a train wreck

Alexander Mercouris
Russia Insider
Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:49 UTC

Obama in the Oval Office - alone and lost

New York Times articles intended to explain how the US intervened in Libya show a government in chaos

The New York Times has recently published two linked articles about the US role in the 2011 Libyan crisis (see here and here).The articles have attracted a lot of interest because of what they say about Hillary Clinton.It has long been known that she was the key advocate of the US intervention in Libya, and the two articles show the extent to which this was so.

There have been some complaints about the articles. It was said that they show Hillary Clinton in too favourable a light. It has also been said the articles ignore the extent to which the uprising against Gaddafi in Libya was clearly pre-planned and pre-prepared by outsiders.Both criticisms are valid, though I would say that in the case of the uprising in Libya the events point to France, Britain and Qatar being behind the uprising rather than the US.

It was apparent at the time that the US military and Obama himself were unenthusiastic about the intervention, and the "salty" comments to the French about Susan Rice - at the time the US's ambassador to the UN, now Obama's National Security Adviser - which are mentioned in the article, make it clear the US felt it was being led by the nose into an adventure in Libya that had been authored by its allies.

Comment: Further reading:

Erdogan's fantasy: A 'refugee city' in Syria, only a devious smokescreen

Sputnik
Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:48 UTC

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent suggestion about building a 'refugee city' on a foreign territory is only a smokescreen, which conceals his true intentions, among which are a push for a buffer zone and air cover for his 'moderate rebels,' says the German media.

Ahead of the Turkish-EU emergency summit on refugee crisis, which is currently underway in Brussels, the Turkish leader has come up with a suggestion to build a "refugee city." However, the city is to be located near the Turkish border, on the territory of a foreign state. "I am going to tell you something. What is the formula? We found a city in the north of Syria," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul late Friday.

The Turkish president said he had even discussed the idea with US President Barack Obama, which however "has not yet come to fruition." German's Zeit Online is convinced that the suggestion is a "smokescreen" which conceals the Turkish president's true intentions.

Comment: Erdogan, the master puppet, has dared take on a fantasy life of his own, flailing his string-tied arms in the air with hardly a leg to stand on. He believes his ploys are indiscernible and therefore out of sight. But strings are there for a purpose and this marionette is but "an emperor in his own mind."

Terrorists in Kiev shell eastern Ukraine checkpoint, sending Russian journalists into hiding

RT
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:35 UTC

A group of Russian journalists, including a stringer for RT's Ruptly video agency, have come under shelling by Kiev forces at a checkpoint near the town of Yasinovataya in eastern Ukraine.

No one was injured in the incident on Tuesday, but the journalists were forced to hide in a basement until the end of the bombardment.

The shelled reporters represent RT's Ruptly video agency, Russia's VGTRK, Channel One, Channel Five, and RIA-Novosti news agency, as well as local Donetsk News Agency.

The Ukrainian forces used mortars, grenade launchers, and fire arms in the attack, RIA-Novosti reported.

Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) spokesman Eduard Basurin said earlier that Kiev's forces were trying to battle through to rebel-held territory near the strategic transport-hub of Yasinovataya.

Yemen has received just 2% of required $1.8Bln in aid

Sputnik
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:21 UTC

The Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan, launched in Geneva last month, is currently just 2 percent funded, according to spokesman for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Leo Dobbs.

Yemen has received just 2 percent of $1.8 billion required to provide 13.6 million people with necessary humanitarian assistance, spokesman for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Leo Dobbs said Tuesday.

"The Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan, launched in Geneva last month, seeks $1.8 billion for more than 100 humanitarian partners to provide critical and life-saving assistance to 13.6 million people in need. It is currently just 2 percent funded," Dobbs told reporters in Geneva.

Yemen is engulfed in a military conflict between Houthis, the country's main opposition faction, and government forces. In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states began airstrikes against Houthi positions in Yemen at the request of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

According to UNHCR data, in 2015, donors provided $892 million out of $1.6 billion, or 56 percent, requested by humanitarian organizations in Yemen.

Comment: No funding for humanitarian aid, but plenty of funding for the wars that lead to the necessity of that aid. See also:

Sott Exclusive: Hillary Clinton's bluffing. But who cares. She's a Clinton

Terry Brown
Sott.net
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 19:47 UTC

A people get the president they deserve

Two famous families of Bushes and Clintons had governed in Washington for 20 years. And now another member of the Clinton family is running for presidency.

Hillary Clinton isn't a newcomer in politics. Though she has a reputation of a successful politician but it's difficult to mention her merits. All of them (if any) are easily cancelled out by her scandalous failures.

Hillary often acted thoughtlessly, irresponsibly, hypocritically and falsely. There's no need to mention the scandal with her personal email account instead of an official government account. But some of her mistakes and wrong decisions led to fatal consequences.

Syrian ceasefire bulletin: Syrian truce delegates want a unified Syria

Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 19:07 UTC

General information on the application of measures for the reconciliation of opposing sides

In the course of last 24 hours, preliminary ceasefire agreements have been achieved with commanders of 2 armed formations with total staff up to 300 men active in the Damascus province. In total, 37 ceasefire application forms have been signed with leaders of armed groupings.

Total number of towns, which had joined the ceasefire agreements, remained 42 ones.

In the Hama province, meeting of national reconciliation participants took place by the initiative of the governor and widespread support of population. More than 400 delegates, who represented 82 towns and villages, stated that it was necessary to maintain unity of Syria by ceasefire and establishing national political dialogue.

Comment: The actual 'rebel-held' areas complying with the ceasefire are relatively small. The war continues on the vast territories held by Daesh, al-Qaeda, and other terrorist groups. U.S. CENTCOM say they have observed 'infrequent' assistance provided to the Kurdish YPG in the north of Syria by Russian forces. (Kurds make up 80% of the U.S.-supported Syrian Democratic Forces. In other words, they're in the unique position of having both U.S. and Russian support.) The YPG is surrounded on most fronts by Daesh, and their forces were essential in closing and holding the northern Aleppo pocket/corridor. Turkey recently accused the SDF of shelling Turkish territory, which the Kurds denied.

Netanyahu cancels visit to White House, sparking rumors of strained relations between US and Israel

Sputnik
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:07 UTC

A fresh row has broken out after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned down an offer to travel to the US and meet with President Barack Obama. The dispute comes as US Vice President Joe Biden touches down in Israel for talks.

Netanyahu's decision to reject a US invitation to travel to the White House later this month sparked a sharp response from Washington, with US officials saying they were "surprised" to learn of the development through Israeli media, rather than from Netanyahu's office.

Officials in Washington also shot down "false" media suggestions that Netanyahu decided not to make the trip the US because President Obama could not organize a meeting between himself and the Israeli PM.

"We were looking forward to hosting the bilateral meeting," Ned Price, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council said. "We were surprised to first learn via media reports that the prime minister, rather than accept our invitation, opted to cancel his visit."

Israeli officials said Netanyahu declined the invitation to travel to Washington because he did not want to disrupt the caucus vote for the upcoming US Presidential election at the end of the year.

Neocons worried Trump will bring an end to their world order

Sputnik
Sun, 06 Mar 2016 18:38 UTC

Comment: Speaking in the early 1960s, former MI6 operative Julian Amery gave a speech in which he captured the essence of his and his fellow European colonialists' attitude to their continued ownership of their African holdings, like Katanga (which had illegally seceded from the newly formed Congo, with Belgian support and mercenaries): "The prosperity of our people rests really on the oil in the Persian Gulf, the rubber and tin of Malaya, and the gold, copper and precious metals of South and Central Africa ... as long as we [British] can realize the investments we have there; as long as we trade [sic] with this part of the world, we shall be prosperous. [If, on the other hand, the Communists take them over,] we would lose the lot." No acknowledgment that those resources were stolen from the people of the countries in which they were found, and their people deprived of any rights and profits.

How little things change. The neocons - architects of the current American empire - require control over those same oil resources, not to mention political control over bodies like the EU. Neocons like Applebaum could care less about war, poverty and death. All they want is that "prosperity" that never seems to trickle down to the citizens of their own countries.

As eccentric billionaire Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump continues to rack up primary victories, the party's establishment is beginning to wonder whether the political outsider can be stopped. Alarmed, neoconservative pundit Anne Applebaum goes so far as to suggest that a Trump presidency would mark "the end of the West as we know it."

On Saturday, real estate mogul Donald Trump racked up two more primary victories, winning in Louisiana and Kentucky, and thus securing a total of 373 delegates, with establishment candidates Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich trailing with 291, 122 and 33 delegates, respectively.

With some pundits now openly asking whether the Republican establishment really has a chance to derail Trump, others, including neocon journalist Anne Applebaum, have resorted to scaremongering.

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Puppet Masters

Bernie Sanders on Hugo Chavez: He's just a dead Communist dictator

Syrian Kurds say jihadists used yellow phosphorus in chemical attack on Aleppo

Alexander Mercouris: Libyan crisis showed US foreign policy is a train wreck

Erdogan's fantasy: A 'refugee city' in Syria, only a devious smokescreen

Terrorists in Kiev shell eastern Ukraine checkpoint, sending Russian journalists into hiding

Yemen has received just 2% of required $1.8Bln in aid

Sott Exclusive: Hillary Clinton's bluffing. But who cares. She's a Clinton

Syrian ceasefire bulletin: Syrian truce delegates want a unified Syria

Netanyahu cancels visit to White House, sparking rumors of strained relations between US and Israel

Neocons worried Trump will bring an end to their world order

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