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Because America: NYT editorial board lays out plan for war with Russia

Riley Waggaman
Russia Insider
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:59 UTC
The NYT Editorial Board -- the first brave souls to volunteer for the Eastern Front
The NYT Editorial Board -- the first brave souls to volunteer for the Eastern Front
Since the invention of a$$holes in 50,000 B.C.E., bleached-toothed television pundits and other social parasites have beckoned the young to die or lose limbs in pointless, illegal wars.

Usually these calls to arms — made from the comfort of a Manhattan skyscraper, or a Nantucket "weekend cottage" — come from professional, syndicated azzhats such as Thomas L. Friedman, who just yesterday wrote in the New York Times about a recent conversation he had with a Tibetan taxi driver which proves his theories of free markets and blowing up brown people for freedom. (Of course, from time to time America is also graced with a barely literate ejaculation of neo-conservative rage, penned by none other than Anne Applebaum, who writes exclusively for the Washington Post, the Daily Moloch, and Twitter.)

But for special we-really-need-you-to-support-this-dumb-shitty-war occasions, newspaper readers get to see the big guns in action: The New York Times' own Editorial Board, in all its majesty, making the case for war with Russia.
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Radar

Iran and Pakistan carrying out joint navy drills near Pakistan's port city of Karachi


Sputnik
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 16:07 UTC
Iranian warship
© AP Photo/ Fars News Agency, Mahdi Marizad
The joint exercise of naval forces of Iran and Pakistan is aimed at practicing search and rescue operations and communication between ships, according to local media.

Naval forces of Iran and Pakistan are holding joint maritime exercise near Pakistan's port city of Karachi in the Arabian Sea, media reported Saturday.

According to Iran's Tasnim news agency, bilateral exercises in the territorial waters of Pakistan started following relevant discussions between commanders of Iranian and Pakistani navies. The joint maritime exercise is aimed at practicing search and rescue operations and communication between ships.

The Iranian navy is represented by Lavan chopper carrier, Khanjar and Falakhen missile boats and Konarak logistic carrier, according to the media.
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Info

Turkey ready to open first African military base in Somalia


Sputnik
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 16:00 UTC
Turkish security guard in front of embassy
© AFP 2016/ MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB
Turkey is about to finish the construction of its first African military base in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu, media reported Saturday.

The base, at which Ankara will train about 10,000 Somalian soldiers in compliance with the bilateral security cooperation agreement, is being built with the United Nations' approval, the Garowe Online news agency reported.

Some 200 Turkish military specialists will arrive to the country soon to provide training, the media outlet said, citing its sources.
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Vader

Blood and devastation: The real cost of the global war of terror

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
War on terror
© Unknown
We all know by now that the real terrorists (the politicians in the suits and ties and the banksters that pull their strings) are waging their war of terror on multiple fronts for multiple reasons.

Domestically, it rallies the population around the flag, keeping the flock in check. At the same time it justifies the build up of the police state control grid to catch the thought criminals who resist.

It also writes a blank check for the illegal wars of aggression abroad. Simply place your terrorist boogeyman in the square of the chessboard you're looking to occupy and — hey presto! — you've got yourself an excuse to invade. (Even if you "accidentally" end up supporting them, right Uncle Sam?)

But of course the politicians, their string pullers and their fellow travelers benefit from the war of terror in a more straightforward sense. They get to use the terror scares that they themselves create to drum up billions upon billions in the name of fighting the boogeymen.

We've all heard of the $640 toilet seat and other ridiculous examples of Pentagon "overspending," but these stories tend to trivialize the abuses by the military-defense contractors whose entire industry is built on providing overpriced solutions to made up problems. After all, the Pentagon itself just admitted it could cut $2 billion from its budget by shutting down some of the needless bases and defense facilities that have been built around the globe in the name of the American empire.

But $2 billion is chump change.

Comment: America's 'humanitarian war' against the World

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Info

Russia takes over UN Security Council presidency on Oct. 1st


Sputnik
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:50 UTC
UN security council
© REUTERS/ Lucas Jackson
Russia took over the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council from New Zealand on Saturday, October 1.

The first council meeting under Russia's presidency is due to take place on Monday, when the current 15 members will discuss the program for the month ahead.

A total of 20 meetings are planned for October, according to the Russian UN mission. They will focus on conflicts on the African continent, including those in Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, the Central African Republic and South Sudan. The Middle Eastern security issue will also be dealt with, including the conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Libya.

The regular quarterly open debate on the Middle East, focusing on the Israel-Palestine conflict, will take place on October 19.
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Vader

US blames MOSCOW for its own failure to separate 'moderates' from terrorists - admits not targeting Nusra for months


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:31 UTC
Al Nusra terrorists jihadists
The US is not targeting al-Nusra terrorists in Syria because they have become too "intermingled" with moderates and civilians, the US State Department claimed, accusing Moscow of causing the mess which prevents Washington from separating the groups.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov once again stressed in an interview with the BBC on Friday that Washington never delivered on its obligation to separate Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (known before the rebrandingas al-Nusra Front) and other extremist groups from the so-called "moderate" rebels, to whom the US provides support.

However, this time Lavrov went a step further and implied that Washington has been sparing terrorists in Syria on purpose, should they ever come in handy in terms of potentially overthrowing the government of Bashar Assad.

"They still, in spite of many repeated promises and commitments ... are not able or not willing to do this and we have more and more reasons to believe that from the very beginning the plan was to spare al-Nusra and to keep it just in case for 'Plan B' ... when it would be time to change the regime," the Russian minister said.

Comment: Russia had foreseen the possibility of the US breaking its agreements. They are now doing everything possible to secure as much of Syrian territory as they can.


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Che Guevara

Syria's heroic fight against Western imperialism - and the terrible fate it is struggling to avoid

Andre Vltchek
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Syrian fighter
It is hard to imagine a more resilient, more heroic nation than Syria!

With only 17 million inhabitants (according to the 2014 estimate), Syria is now facing the mightiest coalition on Earth - a coalition that consists of virtually all traditional Western colonialist and neo-colonialist nations.

It is also facing some of the cruelest and deadliest inventions of the West - the extremist and murderous post- and pseudo-Islamic groupings, similar to those that were already unleashed against the Soviet Union during the war in Afghanistan.

Because of the tremendous determination of its people, Syria is still standing! But it is standing against all odds. Its Golan Heights are illegally occupied by Israel, its borders constantly violated by the Turkish military, and by the West's 'special forces' and air force.

Syria's "political opposition" was created, then groomed and financed by the United States and Europe, in the style of "Color Revolutions", as has happened in all other socialist countries that the West has been trying to destabilize and return under its deadly rule. Millions of Syrian people have been, during the last six deadly years, terrorized, slaughtered and intimidated by jihadi cadres, implanted by the West and its regional allies: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Israel and others.
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Airplane

Iran unveils combat UAV based on captured US spy drone design


RT
Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:30 UTC
A scale model of the US RQ-170 unmanned spy plane is displayed during a ceremony to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in Tehran's Azadi square February 11, 2012
© Raheb Homavandi / ReutersA scale model of the US RQ-170 unmanned spy plane is displayed during a ceremony to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in Tehran's Azadi square February 11, 2012
Iranian engineers have weaponized the drone they built after reverse-engineering the American RQ-170 Sentinel, which the Islamic Republic captured in 2011, Iranian media reported.

The drone has high endurance and can carry a payload of four smart guided bombs, Press TV reports. The aircraft is dubbed Saeqeh (Tunderbolt) and was made public on Saturday by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as part of an exhibition of advanced military hardware.
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Snakes in Suits

Has Washington just declared war on Russia?

Martin Berger
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:15 UTC
Rear Admiral John F. Kirby
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, US President Barack Obama has been steadfastly pursuing a policy of armed interventions and conflicts across the globe longer and more extensively than any other president in recent US history. Now he's sounding an advance against Russia, paying no heed to the fact that it may result in world war followed promptly by mutual nuclear annihilation.

One could hardly make a compelling argument how else one can explain the statement made by Spokesperson for the US State Department, Rear Admiral John F. Kirby, other than a direct declaration of war. The statement reads as follows:
The consequences are that the civil war will continue in Syria, that extremists and extremists groups will continue to exploit the vacuums that are there in Syria to expand their operations, which will include, no question, attacks against Russian interests, perhaps even Russian cities, and Russia will continue to send troops home in body bags, and they will continue to lose resources - even, perhaps, more aircraft...

Comment: More articles in US 'war' against Russia:

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Propaganda

Best of the Web: U.S. propaganda failing: Even mainstream now admits that moderate rebels are al-Qaeda

Bernhard
Moon of Alabama
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:17 UTC
syria
© Carlos Latuff
The Obama administration, and especially the CIA and the State Department, seem to be in trouble. They shout everything they can against Russia and allege that the cleansing of east-Aleppo of al-Qaeda terrorist is genocidal. Meanwhile no mention is ever made of the famine of the Houthis in Yemen which the U.S. and Saudi bombing and their blockade directly causes.

But more and more major news accounts support the Russian allegation that the "moderate rebels" the U.S. is coddling in Syria are actually in cahoots with al-Qaeda if not al-Qaeda itself.

Reuters reports (though only at the end of a longer story):
In Aleppo, rebels in the Free Syrian Army are sharing operational planning with Jaish al-Fatah, an alliance of Islamist groups that includes the former Syrian wing of al Qaeda.

Meanwhile, in nearby Hama province, FSA groups armed with U.S.-made anti-tank missiles are taking part in a major offensive with the al Qaeda-inspired Jund al-Aqsa group.

Comment: See also: SOTT News Snapshot: U.S. rages at Russia for attacking its terrorist allies in Syria

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