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Turkish airstrikes on Kurds complicates US operations in Iraq and Syria


Moon Of Alabama
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:32 UTC
Syria battle map
© Winep
A few hour ago the Turkish airforce hit Kurdish and Yezidi positons on both sides of the Singal mountains in east-Syria and west-Iraq. Near Derik in east-Syria more than 20 bombs destroyed a YPG headquarter, a radio station and a media center. At least nine YPK fighters were killed. The YPG is the Syrian sister organization of the Kurdish PKK in Turkey. The PKK is a designated terrorist organization. Within Syria U.S. special forces are embedded with the YPG and are coordinating YPG moves against the Islamic State in Raqqa. YPK and PKK follow the anarcho-marxist theories of their leader Abdullah Öcalan who is in isolation detention in Turkey.

The Turkish airstrike in Iraq hit YPG and Peshmerga positions near Shingal where they protect a displaced person camp of Yezidis. The Yezidis are an ancient religious minority. The Peshmerga are the main Kurdish militia in Iraq. They are controlled by Kurdish regional government. At least five Peshmerga fighters, all followers of Barzani clan, were killed and several more wounded. The Barzani family holds all important position in Iraq's Kurdistan - president, premier, intelligence chief and several others. Its election mandate has long run out but it simply ignores the regional parliament and rules through force and bribes. The Barzani clan is allied with Turkey and the U.S. It allows the Turkish army to operate several bases within its area. The U.S. is operating from Erbil airport in the Iraqi-Kurdish area. The oil pumped from wells in the Kurdish area is sold by the Barzanis to Turkey. The Turkish hit on Barzani fighters is deeply embarrassing for them and may incite new protest against the Barzani' quasi dictatorship.
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Hysterical Russophobic cyber-researchers: Hackers linked to Russia targeted Macron campaign


Radio Free Europe
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:57 UTC
Emmanuel Macron.
French presidential hopeful and the newest neoliberal robot political hack Emmanuel Macron.
French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron's campaign has been targeted in cyberattacks bearing the hallmarks of an aggressive hacking outfit that intelligence officials say is a branch of Russia's espionage apparatus, an Internet security firm says.

Discussing a report issued on April 25, researchers at Trend Micro said they think a hacking group called Pawn Storm used "phishing" techniques to try to steal personal data from Macron and members of his campaign.

The revelations are likely to deepen concerns that Moscow is seeking to sway elections in Europe after what U.S. intelligence officials say was an influence campaign ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin to interfere in the U.S. presidential vote in 2016.


Comment: Which evidence has still not been provided for.


They come as Macron, a pro-European Union politician and critic of Putin's government, heads into a May 7 runoff against far-right leader Marine Le Pen, an EU foe who has praised Putin and met with him in the Kremlin on March 24.
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USA

The United States of......False flags, lies and propaganda

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik News
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:17 UTC
Donald Trump
© Reuters/Carlos BarriaUS President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee March Dinner in Washington, US, March 21, 2017.
The United States government is the world leader in purveying false flags and propaganda stunts. Or, more generally, downright, systematic lies. To justify the outrageous violation of international law, wars and aggression.

Current president and Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump, is himself the object of fraudulent US intelligence, accused of "collusion with Russian agents." In a rare admission, the Washington Times this week described the US intel dossier against Trump as "riddled with fiction."

Yet, ironically, Trump, in turn, serves as a shameless conduit for US propaganda to fuel conflict with Syria and North Korea.

In the latter case, a world war could break out at any moment as a result of insane American goading. The dispatch of a US nuclear-powered submarine to the Korean Peninsula this week is just another reckless provocation by Trump.

On Syria, the Trump administration has slapped on more economic sanctions over an alleged chemical weapons incident earlier this month. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the "sweeping sanctions" were because of "Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad's horrific chemical weapons attack on innocent men, women and children."

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said the latest US sanctions were "unfounded" since there is no proof that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in Idlib Province on April 4.

Indeed, several respected international authorities, such as American professor Theodore Postol, a weapons expert at MIT, have dismissed official US claims about the chemical incident. The only "proof" provided by the US government and Western media are videos of alleged victims. That is, videos supplied by al Qaeda-linked terrorists and their media agents known as the White Helmets. This terror nexus is a creation of US, British and French military intelligence, financed with Saudi and Qatari money.
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Arrow Up

Ron Paul scolds President Trump to back off of Assange, and stop being such a "hypocrite"

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:35 UTC
Donald Trump and Ron Paul
US President Trump's latest, and perhaps greatest pivot comes at the expense of press freedom, and Julian Assange's freedom.

From "l love Wikileaks" as a US presidential candidate, to "I hate Wikileaks" as President...Trump is in danger of alienating more of his hardcore base, already disillusioned with the POTUS' myriad of campaign promises turned presidential lies.

Comment: See also: Ron Paul: Candidate Trump: 'I Love Wikileaks', President Trump: 'Arrest Assange!'

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Dollar

Obama to receive $400,000 speaking fee for Cantor Fitzgerald conference

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:14 UTC
Barack Obama
© AP Photo/ Carolyn Kaster
Shortly after Barack Obama delivered his first (free) speech today since leaving the White House in Chicago before an invitation-only crowd of college students, community organizers and other fans, Fox News' Charlie Gasparino reports that in what may be his first paid speaking arrangement, Obama will be paid $400,000 to speak at Cantor Fitzgerald's healthcare conference this September, setting the benchmark for how much an hour of the former president's time will cost going forward.

Obama, who spent years bashing big banks (even if, like Trump, ultimately achieved nothing to halt Wall Street's dominance) will deliver the keynote address at the organization's lunch in what will be one of his first paid speeches.

"What sources are telling FOX Business Network is that former President Obama, now less than 100 days out of office, has agreed to a speaking engagement during Cantor Fitzgerald's healthcare conference in September," FBN's Gasparino said. "We understand that he is going to be the keynote speaker for the lunch, and he's going to receive a fee of $400,000. We should point out that that's in line with what Hilary Clinton got... we should point out that Cantor will neither confirm or deny."
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Russia turns back on Syrian deconfliction hotline with US

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:49 UTC
Rex Tillerson
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

Agreeing to US pleas Russia switches back on hotline between US and Russian militaries in Syria but steps up aid to Syria regardless.

A report in the Russian newspaper Izvestia sourced from the Russian Foreign Ministry says that in response to US pleas Russia has quietly switched back on the hotline between the Russian and US militaries in Syria.

Russia switched the hotline off in response to the US missile attack on Syria's Al-Shayrat air base on 6th April 2017. The immediate result was a dramatic cut in US air operations in Syria, as the US military dared not risk an accidental clash with the Russian air force in Syria, where Russia - because of the presence of its S-400 and S-300VM Antey-2500 surface to air missiles - dominates the skies.

The Russians made no concession to the US by switching the hotline back on. Had they not done so the US would at some point have increased its flights in Syria regardless, and the danger of a clash between the US and Russian militaries in Syria - which is wanted by neither side - would have sharply increased.

What the Russians have done by switching the hotline back on after leaving it off for several weeks, is give the US the strongest possible signal that unimpeded US air operations in Syria depend on Russia's agreement, and that Russia will not give this agreement if the US carries out further strikes on the Syrian military.

Comment: See also:

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Russia restores Syria flight safety memorandum with US on Tillerson's request


Sputnik
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:10 UTC
Russian SU-34 fighter jet
© Russian Defense Ministry
Russia has restored its 2015 memorandum of understanding on Syrian air operations with the United States at the request of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Russia's Izvestia newspaper reported Tuesday.

Tillerson visited Moscow earlier in April to meet Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin. The sides dealt with a number of issues on the bilateral agenda, including Syria, shortly after a surprise US strike on Syrian army facilities that resulted in Russia suspending its air safety memorandum with Washington.

Russia restored the memorandum on April 13, just a day after Tillerson's visit, the Izvestia newspaper reported citing a Russian Foreign Ministry source.

"Rex Tillerson asked Russia to reinstate the agreement while in Moscow," the source told the publication.
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Russian FM Lavrov: US claims of Russia arming Taliban baseless, unprofessional


RT
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:18 UTC
Talibans
© Reuters
Washington's recent accusations that Moscow supplies the Taliban with weapons are unprofessional and baseless, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that the US has not provided any evidence.

Lavrov was speaking at a press conference following talks with OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier in Moscow.

The Russian foreign minister said that Washington's claims are a possible smokescreen aimed at diverting attention from changing course on Syria and returning to 'regime-change' rhetoric.

"As for the statements on [Russia] allegedly supplying the Taliban with weapons, which are heard from the military in Washington and from those who head the US military group in the region, including Afghanistan - those [statements] are unprofessional and groundless," Lavrov said. The minister added that those in Washington in charge of gathering intelligence "know perfectly well that those statements are untrue," and "not a single fact" was provided.

Comment: See also: Mattis accuses Russia of arming the Taliban

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Bad Guys

NATO's emerging bases, alliances and preparations in and around the Indian Ocean and Arabian Peninsula

Wayne Madsen
Strategic Culture
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Istanbul Cooperation Initiative
A series of moves by NATO's Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) partner, the United Arab Emirates, has many observers in the Indian Ocean littoral nations wondering out loud whether the "North Atlantic" military pact is moving into the Indian Ocean and Arabian Peninsula, courtesy of an "outsourcing" deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations.

On January 27, while the world's eyes were on the one-week old Donald Trump administration in Washington and believing that NATO would become a shell given Trump's belief that it was "obsolete," NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg helped open the NATO-Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) Regional Center in Kuwait. Gathered with Stoltenberg for the opening ceremony were the Secretary General of the GCC, representatives of the 28 members of the North Atlantic Council, and government officials from host Kuwait, as well as Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman. The opening of a NATO facility in the Persian Gulf represented an unprecedented leap by the bloc designed for the defense of the "North Atlantic" into far-off waters in Asia.

Comment: Answer:

Nazi Germany
Nazi masses
Bombed Germany


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Trump drops 'Mother of All Bombs', but has released almost no follow-up information


Sputnik
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:37 UTC
MOAB Afghan strike
© ReutersThe GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb.
Achin District, in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, holds little information as to how many human casualties stemmed from the 21,600-pound bomb, dubbed the US military's biggest non-nuclear weapon, which the Pentagon dropped there earlier in April.

US forces have maintained a perimeter to control access to the site where the bomb hit, a complex said to be a stronghold for dozens of Daesh terrorists. A witness told Reuters that there was not an observable crater made by the GBU-43 MOAB strike, and furthermore no bodies were seen at the location of the strike.

Nearby, Afghan military personnel discovered a sweeping tunnel complex accessible via an entrance within a house, just a few hundred meters from the strike target. Inside the tunnel, soldiers found doorways tall enough to walk through standing up, makeshift electrical wiring providing power to lights hanging overhead, a variety of men's clothing apparel, and caves used for holding prisoners captive.

No prisoners were in the tunnels at the time of the strike, an Afghan official said.

Comment: So, like the Tomahawk strike on Syria's Shayrat airbase was it all for a (very expensive, but also profitable) show? The Donald may have just caught on to the next generation of American warfare: the war on uninhabited deserts, fields, and mountains. Hundreds of millions of dollars of weaponry are dropped on targets of no military value, the U.S. military claims scores of "enemies killed", the arms manufacturers make a killing, Trump looks like a tough guy, and no one gets hurt. Genius... If only it were true!

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