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US State Dept. warns Americans against traveling to Eastern Ukraine and Crimea


Sputnik
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:24 UTC
Ukraine APC near boy in Donbass
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The US Department of State said that the situation in Ukraine is unpredictable, warning Americans against traveling to the regions of the country involved in the armed conflict.

US citizens should avoid traveling to Crimea and eastern Ukraine due to unstable situation in the region, the Department of State said in a press release upon extending the travel warning from June 17, 2016.

"The situation in Ukraine is unpredictable and could change quickly," the release stated on Wednesday. "US citizens throughout Ukraine should avoid large crowds and be prepared to remain indoors should protests or demonstrations escalate."
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Ex-British ambassador Craig Murray claims Clinton emails were handed over to him by 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers

Alana Goodman
The Daily Mail
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 03:07 UTC
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A Wikileaks envoy today claims he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. after they were leaked by 'disgusted' whisteblowers - and not hacked by Russia.

Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email sources in September.

'Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,' said Murray in an interview with Dailymail.com on Tuesday. 'The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.'

His account contradicts directly the version of how thousands of Democratic emails were published before the election being advanced by U.S. intelligence.

Comment: Craig Murray is not alone in thinking that Washington insiders are the source of the leaks. Judge Napolitano also went on Fox News to declare that the intelligence community is the most likely source for the leaked emails:



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Not by chance - Russophobia and anti-Trumpism running wild in America

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:10 UTC
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Wall Street, war-profiteers, neocons infesting the Obama administration, the CIA under John Brennan, NSA head admiral Michael Rogers, and other pro-Hillary forces are going all-out to assure no change in US geopolitics - along with wanting Trump denied the presidency.

They notably want adversarial relations with Russia maintained, heading for war between the world's leading nuclear powers if not stopped.

For them, the notion of Trump wanting normalized ties, including cooperating with Vladimir Putin in combating terrorism, is anathema - to be quashed by whatever means necessary, a no-holds-barred assault for the status quo.

Throughout months of campaigning, the media played the lead role in denigrating Trump relentlessly, serving as press agents for Hillary, turning journalism into political advocacy.

They play the same role in longstanding vilification of Russia - not because of its policies, solely because of its sovereign independence and Putin's outspoken anti-imperial, anti-war advocacy.

The fever pitch of things today is unprecedented in memory, McCarthyism on steroids, along with a plot afoot to deny Trump his electoral triumph, things on a fast track toward full-blown tyranny.

The neocon, CIA-connected Washington Post long ago fell from grace, today making the National Enquirer look respectable by comparison.
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Promises, promises: Russia liberates Aleppo and sends massive amounts of humanitarian aid, where is the UN aid?

Translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
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Aleppo has been taken back by the Syrian Army, under the watchful eye of the Russian air force. Civilians have been evacuated en masse on behalf of Russia. Meanwhile the EU claims it is the only party to have sent aid to Aleppo - whereas, it is questionable whether they've sent any at all.

At the end are headlines in the mainstream media that are to the complete contrary, not based in the real world.

Comment: Moscow slams Mogherini for saying EU alone in providing aid to Syria unless she means aid to terrorists

Russia is supplying thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to various regions in Syria, including the liberated areas in eastern Aleppo while the UN halted aid deliveries to Aleppo after territory previously controlled by militants was recaptured by Syrian government forces.

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Finally free: Aleppo residents 'No longer afraid of being killed' after liberation of city


Sputnik
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:33 UTC
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Western media recently published several reports claiming that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was committing "atrocities" against the liberated people of Aleppo. In an interview with Sputnik France, humanitarian worker Pierre Le Corf, currently working in the city, revealed how the situation there actually looks like.

"I've read the reports that have been written on this subject (...) However, I've never heard somebody talking about it while I have been working here. I've heard about it in the media. I think it is difficult to verify the facts. Who is doing what — I don't know," Le Corf, the head of We Are Superheroes humanitarian organization, said.

Syrian forces with the help of Russian forces managed to create humanitarian corridors in the east of the city which were used by tens of thousands of civilians to leave the combat area and flee to the west.

"I would like to say that the people who live here [in the west], are happy. They are happy because they got tired of being afraid of being killed when they leave their homes or that their children will die on their way to school. Likewise, people who came here from the other side, they are happy to come here, because they know that there are no bombs here falling from the sky. The situation is quite dynamic, there is some confusion, but people who come here, feel free," Le Corf told Sputnik France.

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Deep State at war with itself

Peter Lavelle
The Duran
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:47 UTC
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The attempt to discredit and de-legitimize the president-elect could very well witness the Deep State go to war with itself.

The America presidential election cycle has exposed a number of serious fractures undermining the stability of the United States and the west in general. The power elites and its pliant mass media are in state of shock and fury western electorates are rejecting the neo-liberal order in droves. This has rattled the confidence of the powers-that-be. As expected these elites are not taking this lightly - they are vigorously pushing back.

At the center of the Deep State are the intelligence agencies. They are the guardians of the status quo and hegemony. Largely apolitical (though intensely ideological), they usually do not express a political party preference. It is assumed the major parties and their leaders will be in sync with the interests and goals of the Deep State. It is also assumed the intelligence community sings - more or less - from the same hymn sheet. This does not appear to be case at the moment.

Comment: More thoughts on the topic:

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Arctic thaw? Finland aims to host Putin-Trump meeting in 2017


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:36 UTC
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
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Finland is hoping to host a meeting between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, who will by then have taken up his role as US president, during the Arctic Council summit in 2017.

The Finnish authorities plan to invite Putin and Trump to a summit of the Arctic Council, which the country is chairing from 2017 through 2019.

The date of the event hasn't been yet set, but Finland's Senior Arctic Official, Aleksi Harkonen, told YLE: "It's quite possible that the summit will be held in Finland on the anniversary year of our independence."

According to Harkonen, Finnish president, Sauli Niinistö, has "already spoken in favor" of this initiative.

Comment: Is Finland happy to see a possible warmer relationship between Moscow and Washington?

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Mainstream media's latest psy-op: Alleged "atrocities" against people of Aleppo by Syrian Arab Army

Andrew Korybko
Sputnik
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:15 UTC
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The recent barrage of reports alleging that the Syrian Arab Army is committing "atrocities" against the liberated people of Aleppo stems from unsubstantiated Twitter accounts and melodramatic YouTube videos.

The glorious liberation of Aleppo by the victorious Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has finally arrived, yet the Mainstream Media is predictably doing its utmost to cast a dark pallor over this celebratory event.

Instead of rejoicing that the terrorists have been expelled and that the largest hostage crisis in history is now over, they've gone into overdrive alleging that the SAA is committing all sorts of "atrocities" against the city's inhabitants, using nothing more than the 140 characters of a Tweet or a brief YouTube monologue as "evidence" that this is occurring.

Independent journalist Vanessa Beeley is on the ground in Aleppo documenting everything that's going on, including the large-scale humanitarian operation aimed at helping the tens of thousands of refugees that escaped terrorist rule in East Aleppo, yet her photographic evidence and personal accounts are completely ignored by the Mainstream Media in favor of shadowy figures such as Bilal Abdul Kareem.

​This man, like Ms. Beeley, is also in Aleppo, but the primary difference is that while she's an objective observer documenting the reality of what life was like for the thousands of hostages which barely survived the prolonged terrorist occupation, he's one of the perpetrators who facilitated this nightmare by actively spinning the Orwellian narrative that the "rebellious locals" are under "deadly oppression" by the SAA.
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US troops rushed to Poland before Trump's inauguration


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:02 UTC
US troops unloading from plane
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More than 4,000 US troops are presently on their way to Poland, as part of a test deployment intended to "deter" Russia. Citing "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, NATO has planned to station four battalions in Poland and the Baltic states by May 2017.

Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz made the announcement on Wednesday in the Silesian town of Zagan, where he met with Lieutenant-General Ben Hodges, commander of US land forces in Europe, according to AP.

The unit was identified as the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, part of the 4th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. The armor-heavy team is also known as the "Iron Brigade" and recently celebrated its centenary.
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It's beyond question that prolonged fighting in Syria is US Empire's objective

Danielle Ryan
RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:57 UTC
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© Omar Sanadiki / ReutersGraffiti (R) sprayed by Islamic State militants which reads "No shooting is allowed without the permission of the Emir" is seen on a stone, as journalists inspect the remains of the Temple of Bel in historic city of Palmyra, in Homs Governorate, Syria April 1, 2016
Rare good news from Syria, of the nearing liberation of Aleppo from jihadist Syrian rebels, was overshadowed this week by news that ISIS fighters had recaptured much of the ancient city of Palmyra.

Palmyra had been retaken from ISIS in March during a major offensive by the Syrian army, strongly backed by the Russian air force. How exactly did ISIS get its hands back on the ancient city, and why are there so many indications the US seems intent on keeping the Syrian fires burning?

Time to regroup

There are a couple of reasons it can be deemed legitimate to place a significant portion of the blame for the recapture of Palmyra on the US, although it is clear that with the bulk of its focus on the liberation of Aleppo, Russia also took its eye off Palmyra.

First, consider that there are strong accusations the US was allowing ISIS fighters to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul on the assumption they would be more useful to the US cause of regime change in Syria. Given how much time and effort, and money, the US has spent trying to engineer the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad, anything that weakens him and his government is in Washington's favor.

Also being pointed out is that the US, with its super-sophisticated surveillance equipment, didn't notice 4,000 ISIS fighters advancing on Palmyra. Furthermore, the surprise attack on Palmyra would make you wonder just how much pressure ISIS is being put under by the US in its so-called capital Raqqa if it could afford to send thousands of militants back to the ancient city.
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