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Russia-NATO partnership? Invitation to military experts for talks


RT
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:21 UTC
Antonov
© tass.ruDeputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov
Russia has proposed to NATO a "positive program" for developing relations, aimed at decreasing tensions between Moscow and the US-led military bloc, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said. "NATO's military experts have been invited to Moscow in September for consultations concerning military and political situation in Europe," Antonov said in a statement to the media. Russia is ready for a constructive dialogue with NATO despite differences in approach to the reasons and consequences of the decisions made at the bloc's summit in Warsaw in July, Antonov stressed.

During the gathering in the Polish capital, NATO member states labeled Moscow "a source of instability" and ordered an increased military presence near Russian borders. The decisions made at the summit have been thoroughly analyzed by Russian experts, Antonov said.

One of the issues to be discussed in September is military flights over the Baltic Sea. According to Antonov, Russia is "considering the option of performing military flights over the Baltic only with ID transponders on," but only if NATO does the same.

NATO's military attaches have been informed of Moscow's offer to review the earlier existing military programs in the format of Russia-NATO Council, Antonov said. He noted that the renewal of the Cooperative Airspace initiative between NATO and Russia would be especially useful in the current situation. Antonov said NATO states' military attaches will also be invited as observers to Russian Army's Kavkaz-2016 drills, which are planned for September. "Russia's Defense Ministry proposed to start exchanging assessments at a military level regarding the terrorist threat, primarily to counter the spread of IS [Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL] and other terrorist organizations," he said.

"Russia is also ready for cooperation to avoid incidents at sea and in the air, based on bilateral agreements and consultations with the defense ministries of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden and Finland to address mutual concerns over military activities in the border areas," Antonov said.

Comment: Another smart move by Russia. It thinks before it acts. Will NATO members be receptive or still mesmerized by the US' cloak of fear and insanity? And, what will the US perpetrate to keep these meetings from happening?

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Hillary will order a policy "re-set," deliver Syria to the jihadists

Daniel McAdams
Ron Paul Institute
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Hil and reset
© www.zimbio.comDon't you touch that button!!!
According to Hillary Clinton's foreign policy advisor, Jeremy Bash, if Clinton is elected she will order a "re-set" of US policy toward Syria to emphasize the "murderous" nature of the Assad regime. As the Telegraph reports, Hillary Clinton will breathe new life into the "Assad must go" camp. She will likely launch a full-scale US invasion of Syria. Said Bash:
A Clinton administration will not shrink from making clear to the world exactly what the Assad regime is. It is a murderous regime that violates human rights; that has violated international law; used chemical weapons against his own people; has killed hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children.

Comment: No it is not. But it's a better description of the "American regime" for the past few decades.


Of course claims that Assad used chemical weapons on his own people is the long since disproven neocon cri de guerre to push Obama into an attack on the Syrian government. The 2013 gas attack near Ghouta was likely a provocation by the rebels hoping to draw the US directly into their fight. This "he gassed his own people" line is the Syrian version of Saddam's "WMDs," a lie repeated ad infinitum to make the case for war.

As far as violating international law, the entire two year US intervention in Syria is in clear violation of international law. The US has no legal right to bomb Syria.

Clinton's advisor informs us that as president his boss would involve the US in everyone else's affairs: "Mrs Clinton believes that problems around the world can more easily be solved when America is involved and in each of those problems or crisis," he told the Telegraph

If Hillary becomes president and gets her way with a Syria "re-set" the prime beneficiary will be radical Islamists. There literally is no secular, moderate opposition to the Assad government.

Comment: Mr. Bash describes a foreign policy more hawkish than that of the current administration. He said there were a "lot of clues" to how Mrs. Clinton will behave as commander-in-chief from her time as secretary of state. During that time she "championed the intervention in Libya" and "advocated the arming of Syrian rebels against the regime." A Clinton administration would seek to bring "moral clarity" to the US strategy on the Syrian crises.

Hard to even imagine the words "moral clarity" and "Clinton" in the same sentence (BTW: a phrase right out of the neocon PNAC plan). She is a psychopath hell-bent on sending the US, and all it touches, into a darkness from which it will never return.

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Snakes in Suits

Samantha Power outraged Syria wants to save civilians in Aleppo

Ricky Twisdale
Russia Insider
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 18:24 UTC
Samantha Power
© FacebookSamantha Power claims that Russia is responsible for the horrors that have descended upon Syria
Fresh on the heals of her shameful UN security council performance, US ambassador Samantha Power is embarrassing herself and the United States with her comments on Syria yet again.

The Syrian delegation to the UN sent a letter to the president of the security council, informing him of their plans to create safe zones so the population of Aleppo, which is currently under siege, could withdraw safely.

You would think no nation could find fault with this development. But no...Samantha Power finds it "chilling".
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Attention

Chinese media targets Australia in South China Sea dispute


Sputnik
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 18:17 UTC
aircraft carrier
© AP Photo/ Zha Chunming
The state-run Global Times issued a scathing editorial calling for war between Beijing and Canberra if Australia continues to meddle in the South China Sea dispute.

Chinese state-run media declared Australia "an ideal target for China to warn and strike" if it ventured into the contested South China Sea in a scathing call for war laced with insults against the country.

The Global Times, known for a hardline nationalist editorial line, blasted Canberra on Saturday, in an opinion piece titled "'Paper Cat' Australia Will Learn its Lesson," for supporting the July 12 ruling by the international arbitration tribunal at The Hague countering Beijing's historical claims to the South China Sea.

Beijing denounced the decision and has refused to abide by the tribunal's findings arguing that the court lacked requisite jurisdiction because China never submitted to bilateral arbitration - a position supported by legal scholars who argue that the Philippines unilateral call for judgment was not binding.

Comment: From Pepe Escobar's recent Escalating activities in South China Sea - Is war inevitable?:
For Beijing, it's crystal clear; the eastern seaboard must be protected at all costs - because they are the entry and exit point of China's global supply chains. Yet as Beijing improves its military sophistication, the hegemon - or exceptionalist - machine gets itchier and itchier. Because the whole ingrained exceptionalist worldview can only conceive it as a "threat" by a peer competitor.


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IOC defies attempt to ban entire Russian Olympic team

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:58 UTC
IOC Rio Olympics Russia doping
Despite the grossly unfair treatment of Russian athletes the most important fact about the doping scandal is that an attempt to expel a whole country from the Olympic movement has been defeated.

There is understandable anger and bewilderment in Russia at the announcement by the IOC that Russian athletes who have been cleared to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio by their own sports federations must now also pass a separate check by a 3 person IOC panel. It must indeed seem to the Russians that they are being asked to play against a constantly shifting set of goal posts.

I should say that the IOC decision is not actually unexpected and does not actually represent a retreat from its original decision. However it is understandable that there is anger about it in Russia, and about the fact that whilst Russian athletes with completely clean records who have had the misfortune of merely been named in ways that might even theoretically connect them to doping are being banned from Rio, athletes from other countries who have actually been caught doping are being allowed to compete there.

I agree that this is all outrageous. Indeed one of the most ugly aspects of this whole affair is the cruel bullying and mistreatment of young athletes who have done nothing wrong, simply because they happen to be Russian. It goes without saying that the training programmes of even those Russian athletes who do finally get to Rio have been badly disrupted, and their chances of winning medals must now be seriously diminished. Russians must prepare themselves for a drastically reduced medal haul from these Games.

Comment: The Olympic Games has been a political tool ever since its inception. The attempt to ban an entire team because the country they come from is unacceptable to the elite is just the latest use of this tool. An athlete's inside view of the "Olympic Movement":

Why the Olympics are a lot like 'The Hunger Games'

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Assange: Hacked emails show U.S. armed ISIS in Syria, Hillary knew of Libya-to-Syria arms shipments in 2011

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 18:02 UTC
assange clinton
© ReutersWikileaks founder Julian Assange targets "war hawk" Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew that the US was sending arms from Libya to Syria back in 2011, a year before the Benghazi consulate attacks.

Hillary Clinton denied she knew about the weapons shipments during public testimony (under oath) in early 2013 after the Benghazi terrorist attack.

Senator Rand Paul questioned Hillary Clinton about this gun running program back in January 2013 during her testimony on the Benghazi terrorist attack.


On Tuesday Julian Assange told Democracy Now that the Wikileaks DNC emails contains information on the weapons shipments to Syria.
Julian Assange: So, those Hillary Clinton emails, they connect together with the cables that we have published of Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of how Hillary Clinton performs in office, but, more broadly, how the U.S. Department of State operates. So, for example, the disastrous, absolutely disastrous intervention in Libya, the destruction of the Gaddafi government, which led to the occupation of ISIS of large segments of that country, weapons flows going over to Syria, being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within Syria, including ISIS, that's there in those emails. There's more than 1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton's collection, that we have released, just about Libya alone.

Comment: Not a big surprise. War whore Hillary doesn't care how many terrorists she has to create and arm in order to kill the people she doesn't like. Same with all the others within the American establishment who use terrorism as their primary means of foreign policy.

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Bad Guys

Saudi oil manipulation is not killing the U.S. shale oil industry

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Telegraph (UK)
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 17:48 UTC
shale
© BLOOMBERGOrion Drilling Co's Perseus rig in Webb County, Texas. Oil and gas production in the US state's Eagle Ford and Permian basins have transformed the global market
Opec's worst fears are coming true. Twenty months after Saudi Arabia took the fateful decision to flood world markets with oil, it has still failed to break the back of the US shale industry.

The Saudi-led Gulf states have certainly succeeded in killing off a string of global mega-projects in deep waters. Investment in upstream exploration from 2014 to 2020 will be $1.8 trillion less than previously assumed, according to consultants IHS. But this is a bitter victory at best.

North America's hydraulic frackers are cutting costs so fast that most can now produce at prices far below levels needed to fund the Saudi welfare state and its military machine, or to cover Opec budget deficits.

Comment: Is Opec really targeting the U.S. shale industry? Or did the Saudis and the Americans agree to increase output and lower costs in order to target Russia, primarily? The fact that the shale industry isn't suffering as much as some predicted might be the clue here. See also: Saudi Arabia starts crude battle with Iran for Asian oil market

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Question

Summarizing the '28 pages': Who was behind 9/11 and how long will America's dictatorship continue?

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 17:35 UTC
flowers graves
The following summary consists of quotations from the suppressed 29 pages (previously miscalled '28 pages') themselves, so that the accuracy of this summary won't be doubted. The entire document is here; and, of course, it provides much more information adding to the account that's here merely summarized by these quotations from it.

The document focuses mainly on FBI information regarding two of the 19 hijackers, and on the two individuals who were their handlers in the United States, and on those individuals' connections to (including their receipts of funds from) the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, and to other members of the Saudi royal family.

The SUMMARY (in its own words) now follows:
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Propaganda

UK urged to reject Saudi 'propaganda' amid juvenile execution fears


Sputnik
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:53 UTC
Juvenile execution
© AFP 2016/ Carl Court
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is being urged to publicly reject Saudi Arabian "propaganda" claims concerning three young men on death row, amid fears the protesters are set to be executed in the country - despite being convicted as juveniles.

Following recent activity and comments on influential Saudi Arabian Twitter profiles, human rights groups are growing increasingly concerned over the future of Ali al-Nimr, who was sentenced to death for his role in anti-government protests in 2012 — while he was just 17 years old.

Recent comments have suggested Ali al-Nimr could be facing imminent execution, while two other men, Dawoud al Marhoon and Abdullah al Zaher — who were 17 and 15 at the time of their arrest — have also been sentenced to death by Saudi officials.

Comment: See also: Leaked documents reveal concern of British police 'teaching Saudi torturers'

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Handcuffs

Afghan Police mop up Kabul hotel attackers, 1 officer killed


Sputnik
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:48 UTC
Afghan police hotel attack
© Omar Sobhani/Reuters
Afghan security forces have completed the operation against Taliban attackers at Kabul's Northgate hotel, with one police officer and two assailants killed, local media said Monday.

Earlier, a truck bomb explosion hit the Northgate guesthouse, located on Jalalabad Road in the Pul-e-Chakri area and frequented by foreigners. Several militants attacked the building after the blast and were inside the compound, with security and special forces later launching an operation to clear the compound. The Taliban has taken responsibility for the attack.

The operation resulted in two more police officers and two special forces members getting injured, the TOLO news channel reported.

One attacker died in the blast, with his two accomplices killed in the ensuing gunfight, according to the channel.

No casualties among hotel guests and staff have been reported, while the hotel and surrounding buildings have sustained significant damage, the news outlet said, citing its correspondent at the site of events.

Afghanistan has been experiencing significant political, social and security-related instability for decades, as radical extremist organizations, including the Taliban, continue to stage attacks against civilian and military targets.
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