Puppet MastersS


Newspaper

Former World Bank chief Joseph Stiglitz: Separation from the euro maybe needed to save the European project


South Front
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
Appeared in Bulgarian at Svetoven.pogled.info, translated by Borislav exclusively for SouthFront
Joseph Stiglitz
© REUTERS/Ana MartinezNobel Laureate in economics and former World Bank chief Joseph Stiglitz speaks to the media after his lecture “The Price of Inequality” at the Center for The New Economy Annual Conference at a hotel in San Juan, February 21, 2014.
"Germany's exit from the eurozone is the easiest solution. The other countries can not continue to suffer just because Germany refuses solutions through mutual assistance, which most economists today support." In the book, which comes out in France today, Nobel laureate in Economics Joseph Stiglitz, offers unorthodox solutions for reforming Europe.

Published in Britain ten days ago, Stiglitz's last book has reached top sales, according to its publisher. It is true that its subject matter is extremely current: the future of Europe and in particular the euro zone. For this critic of neoliberalism, harsh austerity and inequality, who also has been an adviser to several social democratic governments in Europe, the ill-conceived single currency has caused more harm than good. With the perspective that an American citizenship gives him, the 73-year-old Joseph Stiglitz, professor at Columbia University in New York, offers unorthodox solutions to Europe: divorce amicably with Greece or an even more original solution, Germany's divorce with the euro. "Le Figaro" originally published the interview with the economist.
Read More...
Eye 1

U.S. attack on Syrian army further exposes Washington's moral bankruptcy

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 06:10 UTC
US empire American imperialism
© The Hawaii Independent
The US attack on the Syrian troops fighting ISIS exposes the moral bankruptcy of US policy, its disregard for international law, and its contempt for the United Nations.

In 1804 when the Duke of Enghien was executed by Napoleon, the Bonapartist minister of police Joseph Fouché said of the incident, "It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder".

This can be accurately applied to the US airstrike against the Syrian Arab Army which resulted in the death of 80 soldiers who were making strong gains against ISIS. Alexander Mercouris has written a piece with in depth analysis of the military and geopolitical significance of this event, and it is highly significant indeed.

But the timing of the event, the political response, the way in which the US has disregarded the UN as a serious forum, and the uncertainty over whether the crime was an intentional or unintentional blunder, cannot be ignored.

Comment: Further reading: Samantha Power, the 'unintentional' act of war against Syria, and Western silence on the blockade of Deir ez-Zor

Read More...
Chess

Lavrov drops the bombshell: US-brokered ceasefires are bogus & now off the table

J. Flores
Fort Russ
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 06:12 UTC
Serguéi Lavrov
© Sputnik/ Grigory SysoevSerguéi Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov made history today at the UN's meeting of the Security Council, declaring that future unilateral pauses couched as 'ceasefire agreements' are off the table. He has skillfully referred to the mounting factual evidence of the US's continued flagrant violations on any number of points of agreement over the course of this conflict.

These include primarily the violations of the ceasefire itself, in conjunction with officially leaked elements of the 'secret text' of the recent ceasefire which evidence that the US has been unable to reign in a number of groups signing onto previous ceasefires, let alone those groups the US claims to be moderates but did not sign onto the ceasefire, both of which continue to work closely with either ISIS or Jabat Al-Nusra. Russia has no doubt pointed out successfully that several of these groups are fictional entities, and are but operational synonyms of Al-Nusra (formerly called Al-Qaeda of the Levant), itself.

The impossible to ignore context here naturally is the ceasefire ending US joint attack alongside ISIS upon the Syrian Arab Army position at Deir ez-Zor which was sustained and lasted over an hour, despite calls from the Russian coordinating hotline which existed pursuant to standing agreements on deconfliction.

Comment: Further reading:
The entire fiction that is the US' rationale for waging endless war is falling apart, and so are the 'masks of sanity' worn by psychopaths like Samantha Power. The US has been caught red-handed (yet again) providing air cover for ISIS in the Middle East, while Russia, it appears, has been patiently waiting for opportunities to call them out on it. And now that they have, at the 'highest court in the land', and Little Ms. Sunshine just lost it.

Samantha Power loses it, walks out of UN meeting on US airstrike against Syrian soldiers


Read More...
Whistle

Ukraine's Orange Princess: 'Life was better before the Maidan Revolution'

Alexei Pankin
Russia Insider
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 05:40 UTC
The 'Orange Princess', ex-PM of Ukraine and political prisoner under the deposed President comes to the conclusion that life was better before the Maidan Revolution of Dignity

Julia Timoshenko
© Unknown
History seems to be going in circles.

Back in the 1970s - early 1980s - the vast majority of Soviet citizens were ashamed to live in their country, ruled by Leonid Brezhnev, a senile asthmatic pronouncing endless inaudible speeches, basking in praise, bending under the weight of decorations awarded to him by his Politburo peers or leaders of 'friendly', or 'brotherly' countries.

Brezhnev died in 1982 and in 1985 a youthful and energetic Gorbachev came to power, leading the Soviet Union to choose a European market democracy — civilization, in other words.

Thirty years later, Brezhnev tops the list of most popular Russian leaders of the 20th century, while Gorbachev competes with Boris Yeltsin for the title of worst leader at the bottom of the list.
Read More...
Heart - Black

Unknown genocide: Rwanda National Congress releases list of people responsible for genocide of Hutus


The Rwandan
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 05:24 UTC
The New Rwanda National Congress's Declaration on Genocide against Rwandan Hutu

Rwandan national congress
© UnknownRwandan National Congress: Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa, Jonathan Musonera & Joseph Ngarambe
Since 1994, Rwanda and the international community invested tremendous resources in acknowledging, documenting, remembering and bringing to justice the perpetrators of the genocide against Tutsi. Sadly, though well documented by the international community and known by the victims, there has never been an acknowledgement that the crimes committed against the Rwandan Hutu fully satisfy the definition of genocide according to the Genocide Convention of 1948. A combination of a victor's justice, a reign of impunity, and a guilty international community has led to a scandalous conspiracy of silence as a means to deny genocide against the Hutu.

The New Rwanda National Congress has, after a long and careful deliberation decided to rise to the historic responsibility of naming the crimes committed against the Rwandan Hutu in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo by their rightful name, genocide. Compelling evidence demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that members of the Hutu community were deliberately and systematically killed; that conditions were inflicted on them calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part; and that serious bodily and mental harm has been caused to them.

Comment: See also:

Read More...
Evil Rays

Hot under the collar? Killary let's her frustration show during teleconference, practically yells "Why aren't I 50 points ahead?" [Video]

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 01:50 UTC
Hillary Clinton, Gollum, crazy
Hillary Clinton is coming undone as witnessed in this bizarre video.

With each passing day, Hillary Clinton becomes a more bizarre, tragic, and very scary individual.

During a teleconference with the Laborers' International Union of North America, Hillary Clinton has a complete breakdown.
"Having said all this, 'Why aren't I 50 points ahead?' you might ask?"

Well, the choice for working families has never been clearer. I need your help to get Donald Trump's record out to everybody. Nobody should be fooled."
We are witnessing a US Presidential candidate in complete meltdown. Hillary claims she has the temperament to be US President...really?

This video shows a candidate with serious anger issues...unhinged and totally losing her cool.


Comment:

Read More...
Vader

Further escalation in Syrian conflict likely as a result of aid convoy attack

b
Moon of Alabama
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 02:12 UTC
syrian aid convoy attack
© Agence France-PresseRussia said the damage to the convoy appeared to be caused by its cargo catching fire
The show-down over the damaged aid convoy west of Aleppo is reaching comedy level.

The UN/SRC convoy came from the government held west-Aleppo. It had reached a Syrian Red Crescent center in Umm al Kubra in the "rebel" held area further west where it started to unload. Something happened and many of the trucks burned or where otherwise damaged. Allegedly some 20 people were killed. The incident happened shortly after the ceasefire had officially expired. U.S. sponsored "White Helmet" propaganda teams where there when or shortly after the incident happened.

Here are various claims that were made about the incident (I am time restricted and will for now not provide links for each of these):

The U.S. and its allies claim that the convoy was bombed in an air attack. The Russians deny that they or the Syrians executed any such attack.

The "rebels" had various version. Syrian jets AND helicopters did it; "Barrel bombs" were used; a sustained attack over hours ...

U.S. Secretary of State first claimed that the Syrian did it, than that the Russians did it; helicopters had attacked. The Pentagon then came up with two Russian SU-24 fixed wing aircraft as the culprits. But the U.S. then claimed that the attack went on over two hours which is longer than a pair of SU-24 could sustain.

Comment: Russia has stated that a U.S. drone was spotted in the air along the convoy's route.

US 'Predator' attack drone was spotted around at the time of UN convoy attack US Air Force

There is also some evidence of U.S. made munitions being used in the attack.There were no craters as would be seen from an aerial bombardment, only fire damage, such as could be inflicted by a Hellfire missile.

SOTT Exclusive: Did the U.S. target Syrian aid convoy with Hellfire missile?

The U.S.'s story smells from every direction.

Read More...
Attention

American psycho system a 'co-worker of God'

Finian Cunningham
RT
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:27 UTC
Fighters
© Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
US President Barack Obama made his eighth - and final - address to the United Nations General Assembly this week. What a relief, not to be subjected to any more florid speeches filled with vacuous, psychopathic lies.

Unfortunately, his successor - whoever that is - will pontificate more of the same. For the American psycho power-system is delusional about being a force for good.

As usual, Obama delivered another one of his soaring rhetorical pirouettes. The American Conjurer-in-Chief presented a sweeping vista of history that was a travesty of reality. Sweeping American global crimes under a carpet of lies.

"I say all this not to whitewash the challenges we face," he declared at one point, without a trace of irony that that was exactly what he was doing.

What is nauseating about an American president standing up in front of the world's nations at the opening of the UN annual assembly is not merely having to tolerate listening to such venal verbiage. It is an insult to common human intelligence to witness such brazen falsification of world conflicts - and specifically the sickening self-exoneration of American responsibility.

With patronizing, syrupy cant, Obama urged nations and world leaders to "work together" in order to resolve conflicts by "our commitment to international cooperation rooted in the rights and responsibilities of nations."

Obama even had the gall to quote Martin Luther King by calling on nations to join with the United States as "co-workers of God".

Comment:
Anonymous sources confirm that most delegates were looking for bag below during and after Obama's speech!
Sick Bag
© Sott


Read More...
Bizarro Earth

Syrian journalist: Here's how Israel, the US, al-Qaeda and ISIS work together in Syria

Afra'a Dagher
The Duran
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
Bibi at Golan Heights
Netanyahu at the Golan Heights
Simultaneous US and Israeli airstrikes on Syrian military positions in the eastern city of Deir-ez-Zour and in Al-Quneitra show how the US and Israel manipulate ISIS and Al-Qaeda to wage their war of aggression against Syria.

The Syrian battlefield is now witnessing an escalation of the war. This is despite the fact that it is supposed to be a time of cessation of hostilities brokered by the US and Russia.

The Syrian war has two major fronts. The first and most important is in southern Syria, on the borderline with Israel and the occupied territories of the Syrian Golan Heights. This area is divided into two areas: the liberated area of Al-Quneitra, and the occupied area of the Golan Heights where Jabhat Al-Nusra and Al-Qaeda's base their fighters.

Israel has been attempting to drive the Syrian army out of Al-Quneitra. Israel's objective is to join this part of the Golan Heights to the territory it controls, thereby creating a buffer zone like the one it once had in southern Lebanon. In order to achieve this objective Israel regularly bombs Syrian military positions in the area, including Syrian Arab Army artillery positions, radar stations, etc.

Comment: For more on Israel's part in the aggression and why, see: The man behind the curtain: Israeli colonel captured among ISIL terrorist forces in Iraq

Read More...
Attention

Cause of today's treacherous US-Russia conflict discovered in NY Times archives: finger points at former prez Bill Clinton

William Dunkerley
Russia Insider
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:53 UTC
Putin and Clinton
There has been a plethora of stories in the New York Times that cast Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin in a very negative light. So it was with great interest that I saw recently a 1998 article that explained how the US-Russia relationship was headed for serious trouble. It even prophesied the dire straits the two countries find themselves in today.

Who was to blame for the problems? Given today's Times' condemnatory coverage of Putin, it was surprising to see that the newspaper fingered then-president Bill Clinton and his team.

In contrast, the Times' coverage today attributes blame for the outcome to Putin. Hillary Clinton is very outspoken about Putin's culpability, ironically, with no hint of her husband's earlier role.
Read More...