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The Netherlands seeks UN inquiry into Saudi war crimes, UK blocks effort to maintain deplorable arms trade


PressTV
Sun, 25 Sep 2016 09:51 UTC
Boris Johnson
© AFPBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson attends the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City, September 20, 2016.
The United Kingdom has blocked European Union efforts to launch an independent international inquiry into Saudi Arabia's war of aggression in Yemen.

The Netherlands had hoped to gather support for its proposal that the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva establish an inquiry to look into war crimes and civilian deaths in Yemen,The Guardian reported.

The proposal, submitted Friday by Slovakia on behalf of the EU, was replaced by a much weaker call for the UN body to dispatch a mission "to monitor and report on the situation" after the UK refused to give its backing. Human Rights Watch and other rights groups protested the UK's stance, accusing it of protecting its arms deals with the Saudi regime.

In an open letter to the HRC, they said an international inquiry would help "establish the facts, collect and preserve information related to violations and abuses with a view to ensuring that those responsible for crimes are brought to justice in fair trials."
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Chess

Italian Navy docks warship at Iranian port in joint-plan to boost military relations


PressTV
Sun, 25 Sep 2016 09:12 UTC
Italian Navy warship Iran
© Italian Defense MinistryItalian Navy frigate dubbed 'Euro' calls at Iran's southern port city of BaItalian Defense Ministry
An Italian Navy frigate has docked at Iran's southern port city of Bandar Abbas in line with the two countries' plan to boost friendly military relations.

The warship, dubbed Euro, arrived in Bandar Abbas, the capital of Hormozgan Province, on Saturday for a four-day stay.

In a meeting with Italy's ambassador to Tehran, Mauro Conciatori, and the country's military attaché, Commander of Iran's First Naval Zone Admiral Hossein Azad said the Italian frigate has been dispatched to the Islamic Republic with the purpose of improving political, cultural and military relations.

"Given the international nature of naval forces in all countries across the world, naval units comprising warships and air [force] units are dispatched to other countries each year in the form of a fleet," the Iranian commander added.
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Quenelle - Golden

War report: Syria & Russia renew anti-terrorist operations in Eastern Aleppo (VIDEO)


South Front
Sun, 25 Sep 2016 05:55 UTC
Syrian army
The Syrian Arab Army announced renewed operations in eastern Aleppo on September 22nd. Hezbollah announced their participation shortly after the SAA General Command. The operations are reportedly coordinated with Russian military advisers deployed in the area.

The Syrian Air Force has delivered up to 45 air strikes on militant targets in the Aleppo neighborhoods of Sakhour, Hanano, Al-Sukkari, Bab Al-Maqam, and Bustan Al-Qasr.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that some 3,000 Russian soldiers have been deployed at a base in the south-eastern suburbs of the village of Al-Safir, citing an unknown 'reliable source'. There is no confirmation of this information, except the 'reliable source'. Russian troops are officially deployed only in the north-west of Aleppo at the Castello Highway.


Comment: SOHR is, as always, disinforming in order to support the Western narrative. There are indeed Russian troops present in Syria, but not in those numbers and probably not at these locations.

See: Propaganda spin cycle: 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' is funded by US and UK governments


Comment: More on the latest offensive in Aleppo: Syrian Army launches major three-pronged offensive on Aleppo city following heavy airstrikes

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Stormtrooper

War crime? American forces caught using white phosphorus munitions in Iraq


Sputnik
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:48 UTC
white phosphorus
© 1st Lt. Daniel Johnson / dvidshub.net
The banned weapon has long been criticized for its indiscriminate carnage often resulting in shocking injuries to civilians worse than any other known incendiary weapon.

US Forces in Iraq are using white phosphorus munitions in the fight against Daesh militants despite the weapon being banned under international law from use in areas that may contain civilians due to the weapon's indiscriminate nature and the shocking injuries that it causes.

The Washington Post identified M825A1 155mm shells from images posted on a Pentagon public affairs website "Dvids" that showed a US Army artillery unit firing white phosphorus munitions in Iraq.
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Attention

The REAL Syria Civil Defence expose NATO's 'White Helmets' as terrorist-linked imposters

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:26 UTC
Syria civil defense
"I am a director not only of a Syrian Civil Defence Unit, but of brave human beings, volunteers who risk their lives, despite the terrorism that is invading Syria, to maintain security for Syria. I give thanks from my heart for the courage of my men who have lost their comrades in terrorist attacks but they keep working despite the risks. They are true soldiers, their equipment and their spirit are their only weapons"
~ Director of Tartous' REAL Syria Civil Defence
Did I hear a pin drop? The real Syria Civil Defence? Are the west's iconized 'White Helmets' not the only emergency first-responders inside Syria?

For the REAL Syria Civil Defence you call 113 inside Syria. There is no public number for the White Helmets. Why not? Why does this multi-million dollar US & NATO state-funded first responder 'NGO,' with state of the art equipment supplied by the US and the EU via Turkey, have no central number for civilians to call when the "bombs fall"?
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Vader

Washington attempts to break BRICS: Wholesale privatization and rape of Brazil begins

William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
biden roussef
Biden: "You see Dilma, we want everything - everything. And we'd be willing to give you a cut if only you'd sell out on your country's future and quit making deals with those other countries. Oh, and I promise you'll be sorry if you don't take my offer. Good deal, no?"
Washington's regime change machinery has for the time being succeeded in removing an important link in the alliance of large emerging nations by railroading through a Senate impeachment of the duly elected President, Dilma Rousseff. On August 31 her Vice President Michel Temer was sworn in as President. In his first speech as president, the cynical Temer called for a government of "national salvation," asking for the trust of the Brazilian people. He indicated plans to reform, and has also signaled his intention to overhaul the pension system and labor laws, and cut public spending, all themes beloved of Wall Street banks, of the International Monetary Fund and their Washington Consensus. Now after less than three weeks at the job, Temer has unveiled plans for wholesale privatization of Brazil's crown jewels, starting with oil. The planned Wall Street rape of Brazil is about to begin.

It's important to keep in mind that elected President Rousseff was not convicted or even formally charged with any concrete act of corruption, even though the pro-oligarchy mainstream Brazil media, led by O'Globo Group of the billionaire Roberto Irineu Marinho, ran a media defamation campaign creating the basis to railroad Rousseff into formal impeachment before the Senate. The shift took place after the opposition PMDB party of Temer on March 29 broke their coalition with Rousseff's Workers' Party, as accusations of Petrobras-linked corruption were made against Rousseff and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Map

Syrian Army launches major three-pronged offensive on Aleppo city following heavy airstrikes

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 20:50 UTC
aleppo
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
[Fort Russ News has confirmed the following from various trusted sources on the ground, monitoring the events closely. These were compared to a number of breaking stories coming from AMN, SANA, Fars, and the SAA's official social-networking. We have also provided background information covering the several days before, bringing readers up-to-date from the end of the US-Russia ceasefire through the ongoing maneuvers leading up to the major pre-dawn offensive that is still underway. We have pulled together about nine different pieces of reportage and present them in a comprehensive manner, in chronological order. We have also given some analysis.]

Complete Report

September 24th - Aleppo, Syria - Pre-dawn around 4 am, the Syrian Arab Army and allied forces launched the largest phase of an all-out offensive in Aleppo, which was declared on September 22nd. At the time of publication, this is an ongoing offensive in the form of a three-pronged attack. The map below shows us the starting points of the three-pronged attack - in boxes.
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Snakes in Suits

Delusional Barroso claims Goldman Sachs 'not a drug cartel' in tirade against EU inquiry


RT
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:05 UTC
Barroso political cartoon
Former EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso has come up with passionate defense for his choice to join Goldman Sachs' London arm weeks after Brexit vote by insisting the bank is not as bad as it seems and definitely "not a drug cartel."

The timing of Barroso's career-changing move in July to a senior adviser position at Goldman after serving as the EU Commission president from 2004 to 2014 has landed him in hot water.

Last week, his successor, Jean-Claude Juncker, launched an ethics investigation into the matter, calling on Barroso "to provide clarifications on his new responsibilities and the terms of reference of his contract."


Comment: EU politicians furious over Jose Manuel Barroso's new job at Goldman Sachs


Comment: More on the 'vampire squid' Goldman Sachs (just a small sample mind you):

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Nuke

Syrian army discovers banned manual instructing terrorists in use of nukes


Sputnik
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:29 UTC
Jihadists
© Sigma Live
In the course of a recent operation to liberate a terrorist-held enclave in northern Latakia, Syrian Army troops discovered a 'manual for terrorists'. Printed in Turkey, the book teaches jihadis "the proper conduct of war on foreign soil," up to and including the use of nuclear weapons.

Comment: Our 'friends' at the CIA should also be included with those groups seeking to create chaos and destruction in previously peaceful countries.. They practically wrote the book on terrorism.

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Attention

SOTT Exclusive: Deir ez-Zor survivor: "U.S. coalition warplanes finished off wounded with machine guns" - Is Daesh calling in US airstrikes?


Sott.net
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 23:07 UTC
a-10 jtac
U.S. JTACs calling in a target for an A-10 warplane.
Here's a Syrian Free Press translated testimony of a Syrian soldier who survived the U.S. massacre at Deir ez-Zor last Saturday, given to the Russian site Life.ru:
"We thought the planes were leading the [reconnaissance] of the Daesh positions. But soon after, we were attacked by coalition fighters that hit our tanks, armored vehicles and artillery pieces. They were finishing with machine guns our soldiers who tried to take refuge in the streets. Each fighter jet fired at least three missiles at us. I saw with my own eyes the death of about 100 soldiers. They shelled our soldiers in retreat. Many of them perished because injured and could not move", he said.

"Immediately after the air raid, the jihadists went to attack the Syrian military positions. Daesh attacked our positions, our soldiers were captured. I had the impression that there was an agreement between the United States units and Daesh. The terrorists were jubilant, they fired shots into the air as if they were celebrating something", said the soldier.
According to the accounts, the strikes involved, among other aircraft, two A-10 "Warthogs". Funny thing about A-10s. For attacks of this sort, the usually utilize JTACs (Joint Terminal Attack Controllers), i.e., U.S. troops embedded on the ground who call in the strike.
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