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Russia debunks HRW alleged bombing of Idlib school as a Wag the Dog production by SOHR and White Helmet terrorists


RT
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:25 UTC
Syria school
© Russian Defense Ministry
The Russian Defense Ministry has slammed a recent Human Rights Watch report that calls the alleged October 26 bombing of a school in Syria's Idlib province a possible "war crime," stating it is nothing more than another information attack.

The HRW report in question, published on Sunday, November 6, assumes without question or hard evidence that the attack on the school in Idlib province, which it claimed "could constitute a war crime," had been carried out by "the joint Russian-Syrian military," merely citing 'witness accounts' it apparently got over the telephone.

"Airstrikes by the joint Russian-Syrian military operation that killed dozens of civilians, mostly schoolchildren, in the northern, opposition-controlled Syrian governorate of Idlib on October 26, 2016, could constitute a war crime. [...]

"The repeated striking of a large school complex in a residential area indicate the attacks were unlawful, being either indiscriminate or deliberately targeting civilians. Serious violations of international humanitarian law (the laws of war), when committed with criminal intent, amount to war crimes," the report from HRW reads.

The Russian Defense Ministry, however, denounced the report.

Comment: The West's sources for condemning Russia for war crimes are phony 'humanitarian organizations'.The SOHR is essentially one man - Abdul Rahman, aka Rami Abdulrahman, aka Osama Suleiman - a three-term convicted criminal turned informant for British intelligence, who now operates a pizza parlor in the UK supplying second and third-hand reports from Syria that constitute the bulk of 'facts' that go into the Western media's narratives about the situation there. ‌See: Propaganda spin cycle: 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' is funded by US and UK governments And the White Helmets are nothing more than terrorists. See: The REAL Syria Civil Defence expose NATO's 'White Helmets' as terrorist linked impostors and Volunteers by day, terrorists by night: The double life of White Helmets.

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Philippines President Duterte calls off US assault rifle deal


RT
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:49 UTC
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
© Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has canceled the purchase of over 26,000 US rifles for the national police force after reports Washington would be halting the sale over concerns of human rights violations.

"We will not insist on buying expensive arms from the United States. We can always get them somewhere else. I am ordering the police to cancel it. We don't need them," Duterte said in a televised speech on Monday.

"We will just have to look for another source that is cheaper and maybe as durable and as good as those made in the place we are ordering them," Duterte added.
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What Putin Learned from NAFTA

Rob Urie
Counterpunch
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:21 UTC
Russia wants war
The U.S. is entering a dangerous political phase where a distant and cloistered political class threatens the use of state power to legitimize itself in the face of declining popular support and serial military calamities of its own making. In 2001 the George W. Bush administration used the opaque and as yet not fully explained events of 9/11 to claim legitimacy as faux protector of the American people as it launched catastrophic wars that destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan and unleashed ongoing chaos across the Middle East.

With uber-hawk and unindicted co-conspirator Hillary Clinton favored to win election under a cloud of suspicion for pay-to-play practices as Secretary of State and in widely declining economic circumstances, an imperative to change the subject will assert itself the day after election day. Having demonstrated a propensity for wanton slaughter in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and the streets of major American cities (1994 'Crime' bill), Mrs. Clinton is already busy stoking a new Cold War with Russia to cover her own activities.

The neo-con choice of Russia as menace-of-opportunity joins a long history of defining American politics through negation. In the original ('classic?') Cold War national identity served as an envelop-of-convenience for conciliatory economic policies within the U.S. and repressive and opportunistic policies abroad.Since the 1970s selective (class based) economic liberalization has cut labor and the poor adrift as a self-serving ruling class has gorged itself at the public trough through bailouts, privatizations and special privileges.

The Cold War was always largely a business enterprise— the communist boogeyman was used by the U.S. to overthrow democratically elected governments and install business-friendly regimes that would answer to U.S. (corporate) interests. Its resurrection is to reassert a national 'envelop' as cover for economic interests now 'freed' to treat a growing portion of the domestic population as imperial subjects. Growing resistance suggests a need for more convincing misdirection if the status quo is to be maintained.
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Iraqi Kurds request aid from Russia to support Peshmerga's fight against ISIS


RT
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:33 UTC
Iraqi soldier
© Zohra Bensemra / Reuters
Peshmerga forces battling Islamic State in Iraq have lost many lives, the Iraqi Kurds' top diplomat, Falah Mustafa Bakir, told the media in Moscow. The Kurds have requested humanitarian aid from Russia to assist refugees and support for Peshmerga troops.

"We've made a request to support the Peshmerga forces, who have been fighting against terrorism, namely Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL], for more than two years. Many fighters have lost their lives during the fight," Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the foreign department of Kurdistan's Regional Government (KRG), told Russia's Izvestia daily on Monday.

"We have requested humanitarian aid to support the refugees who came to Iraqi Kurdistan from other parts of the country, as well as Syria," he added.

Comment: Are the Kurdish Peshmerga forces not happy with the US?

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Pro-Kurdish HDP leaders arrested, party 'halts legislative efforts' in Ankara parliament


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 13:24 UTC
Kurd rally Turkey
© Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/Agence France PressePeople hold a banner reading "Stop Erdogan (Turkey's President), do not touch our elected representatives. Turkey's government out of Rojava, out of Kurdistan" during in a protest in Place de la Republique in Paris on November 5, 2016
Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP party (Peoples' Democratic Party) has stated that it will "halt its legislative efforts" in the country's parliament in the wake of the arrest of its leaders by the Turkish authorities.

"After discussions with our parliamentary group and our central executive board, we have decided to halt our legislative efforts in light of everything that has happened," party spokesman Ayhan Bilgen said in a statement that was read out and then posted online.

The party will not stop its activities in the parliament entirely, however. Though its deputies will remain members, they won't participate in general assembly sittings or parliamentary commission meetings.

On Friday, Turkey arrested the HDP's two leaders, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, as well as 13 other legislators from the party, as part of a terrorism investigation. Over 1,000 HDP members have been formally arrested in the past year, according to Reuters.


Ankara accuses the HDP of having links to the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is banned in Turkey and has taken responsibility for several terrorist bombings. The HDP denies having these links.
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Peskov: NATO's massive build-up of forces is ridiculous, Russia not threatening anyone


Fort Russ
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:31 UTC
Dmitry Peskov
Dmitry Peskov
The Russian president's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, has replied to NATO General Secretary Jens Stolstenberg's statement on strengthening forces due to Russia's "activeness." The Kremlin's spokesperson categorized such as evidence of the "aggressive nature of NATO" and recalled that the blocs which NATO members opposed have long since disappeared, but the alliance's behavior has not changed.

"Stoltenberg's statement once again testifies to the aggressive nature of this organization. Despite the fact that the counter-bloc to NATO no longer exists, still this nature is impossible to eradicate for ideological and political reasons," Peskov is quoted as saying by TASS.

The approach of NATO military infrastructure up to the borders of the Russian Federation is a fact indicative of the aggressive intentions of the alliance. Meanwhile, "in terms of ensuring its national security, Russia is acting within its borders and these actions do not threaten anyone," Putin's press secretary added.

Comment: Further reading: NATO orders 300,000 troops on high alert, ready to attack Russia for fictional "cyber attacks"

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NATO orders 300,000 troops on high alert, ready to attack Russia for fictional "cyber attacks"

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:25 UTC
NATO funkcionira kao mafijaški reket - oni koji ne plaćaju morati će se naviknuti na terorističke napade
NATO is preparing a military force of up to 300,000 personnel, capable of being deployed within just two months to attack Russia.

As the world remains fixated on the outcome of Tuesday's US elections, NATO continues its aggressive troop build up around Russia.

With each passing day, the constant NATO activity is looking more and more like a preparation for full scale conflict with Russia. Something that would become a very real possibility should Hillary Clinton make it to the White House.

Comment: Further reading:

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Chinese ambassador proposes establishing free trade zone with Ukraine


Sputnik
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:06 UTC
Chinese port
© AP Photo/ Andy Wong
The Chinese ambassador to Ukraine proposed to establish a free trade zone between the two countries.

China has come up with a plan to establish a free trade zone with Ukraine, Chinese Ambassador Du Wei said Monday at an economic forum in Kiev.

"The Chinese side has made an ambitious proposal at the working level, which is the creation of a Ukrainian-Chinese free trade area, in the hope that the Ukrainian side will look into this issue," the Chinese diplomat said.
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Turkish newspaper finds US relief foundations aiding Syrian Kurds engage in human trafficking


Sputnik
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:01 UTC
Kurdish People's Protection units
© AFP 2016/ DELIL SOULEIMAN
A gang, allegedly linked to the Syria-based Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), carries out arms supplies and human trafficking between Azaz and Afrin cities in northern Syria with assistance rendered by US relief foundations, Turkish media reported on Monday.

According to the Yeni Safak newspaper, the gang is alleged to have close ties with the US humanitarian relief organizations, such as Mercy Corps, International Medical Corps and Medical Relief and uses its trucks for carrying weapons and smuggling.
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Trump says FBI rank & file 'won't let Clinton get away with crimes,' questions review of 650,000 emails


RT
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 05:27 UTC
Trump
© Carlo Allegri / ReutersRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said the FBI's rank-and-file agents will not stop investigating Hillary Clinton's handling of confidential information via her private server even after the FBI director said no charges would be brought against her.

Addressing a crowd of supporters gathered for a rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan, Trump argued that despite FBI chief James Comey's statement Sunday that the probe into Clinton's alleged national security breaches "will go on for a long, long time." Comey earlier said that nothing incriminating was found in the emails stored on the laptop used by Clinton's senior aide that could have warranted any charges against her.

"The rank-and-file special agents at the FBI won't let her get away with her terrible crimes, including the deletion of 33,000 emails after receiving a Congressional subpoena," Trump said.

"Hillary Clinton is the most corrupted person ever to seek the presidency of the United States," Trump argued.

Comment: The very fact that Killary is standing for office while being investigated by the FBI, having committed actions that would have ended the careers of other politicians and government employees, speaks for itself.
See also: The 2016 US presidential elections prove that the American political system is rotten to the core

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