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Russia to deploy advanced S-400 missiles in Crimea next month


RT
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 12:39 UTC
Russian S-400 air defence missile system
© Dmitriy Vinogradov / Sputnik
Russia is to deploy its advanced long-range surface-to-air missiles S-400 in Crimea, beefing up Russia's anti-access/area-denial capabilities around the peninsula.

A full regiment system of S-400 Triumph is to be delivered to Crimea in August, told the media Lt. Col. Evgeny Oleinikov, deputy commander of the 18th missile air defense regiment of the 31 air defense division.

"After tests at a firing range... are complete, in August 2016 the accepted hardware will be transported to its permanent deployment site in the city of Feodosia," he said.

The equipment was manufactured by S-400 producer Almaz Antey this year under a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry. The regiment's personnel have been trained to use the new system earlier this year, the officer said.
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South Front: Ukrainian Army initiates 'probing attacks' into the Donbass region

Chris Covert
South Front
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:18 UTC
ucrania ukraine army ejercito
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Ukrainian ground forces have launched a total of five probing attacks on rebel positions in Donetsk since Tuesday, according to Russian language media and official rebel reports.

Meanwhile, Russian backed rebel forces and Ukrainian forces continue to exchange artillery fire all along the front in Donetsk and Lugansk.

All the probing attacks involved infantry, likely in platoon strength (30 effectives) , and all have been driven back with losses to the Ukrainians, according to news account posted on Russian Spring website. The attacks continue a now familiar pattern where Ukrainian forces nudge their forces closer to rebel lines in an effort to slowly push the rebels further back into their own territory. So far, only one of those types of attacks, at Yasinovataya last spring, have been successful. A second attack was tried at Logvinovo earlier this month, when Ukrainian forces launched a number of attacks on rebel strongholds and checkpoints, only to be driven back.

As previously reported, a July 11th probing attack by Ukrainian forces took place at the Donetsk airport. In the July 11th attack, according to data supplied by the Donetsk ministry of defense, a total of three Ukrainians were killed and another seven wounded, when rebel rifle counterfire drove them back.

The Donetsk airport has long been a strong point of contention between the two combatants, with rebel forces taking control of most of the airport grounds in brief, but bitter battles, January, 2015.

Comment: Further reading: Putin calls Obama & cancels regional visits amidst signs of full-fledged war in Donbass

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SOTT Focus: Dallas police shootings: Social Engineering and the American Police State

Joe Quinn and Beau Christensen
Sott.net
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:05 UTC
dallas police shooting
Social tension in the US appears to be at a boiling point. In the span of a week we have seen the deaths of two civilians - Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota - at the hands of cops. The two deaths were caught on video and have further enraged public opinion in the US, in particular among the black community, which has borne the brunt of police brutality for many years. Within a few days of the slaying of Sterling and Castile, five police officers were shot dead by "a sniper" during a 'Black Lives Matter' march in Dallas, held in protest against the police killing of the two men. Is someone trying to stir things up in the USA?

On Tuesday July 5th, Alton Sterling, 37, was selling CDs for cash outside a store in Baton Rouge, as he did most days. On this particular day he was approached by a homeless man who repeatedly asked him for money. Sterling told the man to leave him alone several times before resorting to showing the man that he was armed. The previous day Sterling had purchased the weapon for his own protection. "He didn't have a gun before that," barber Ronnie Harton, 50, told the New York Daily News. "He said he had to protect himself, because he had all this money on him [from selling CDs]. Around this area, you get robbed real quick."

Perhaps resentful that his requests for money were rebuffed by Sterling, the homeless man called 911 on his cell phone and told police that there was an "armed man in the parking lot." When police arrived and confronted Sterling, he was tackled to the ground, tased and, apparently because police were told he was carrying a firearm, publicly executed with two shots in the chest and four in the back.

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SOTT Focus: Psychopaths are Destroying our World (VIDEO)


Sott.net
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
psychos in power
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The harm and destruction caused by psychopaths in positions of power can now be felt everywhere. This world-wide problem worsens daily as the totalitarian whims of humanity's intra-species predators makes life increasingly unbearable for normal human beings.

Although they look and sound human, psychopaths feel no remorse, have no conscience, and have no concern or compassion for anyone but themselves. They prey upon our brothers, sisters and children; they lie to us and manipulate us. They poison us and tell us it is for our own good. They make life unlivable. They cause societies to fall, and oceans to die. While their greed consumes people and planet, they instigate hatred, and murder leaders of good will.

The psychopathic rulers and those that they command will stop at nothing. In these times, a true humanity can unite and emerge from the chaos. But people need to see the problem and share it.

History is repeating. Share this knowledge - for our future: the future of humanity.

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Freedom for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi could mean freedom for Libya!

Eric Draitser
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:24 UTC
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
The news that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the assassinated leader of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Muammar Gaddafi, has been released from captivity is one of the most significant developments in Libya in some time. For while the Western corporate media would like people to believe that the Gaddafi name is dead and buried, the fact remains that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and the surviving members of the Gaddafi family, are seen as heroes by many in Libya. Moreover, Saif's release has the potential to transform the political situation in the country.

Although details are few and far between, what we do know is that according to his lawyer at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Saif Gaddafi "was given his liberty on April 12, 2016." Indeed official documents (which remain unverified) seem to support the assertion that Saif has, in fact, been released. Considering the statements from his attorneys that Saif is "well and safe and in Libya," the political ramifications of this development should not be underestimated. Not only is Saif Gaddafi the second eldest and most prominent of Col. Gaddafi's sons, he is also the one seen as the inheritor of his father's legacy of independent peaceful development and the maintenance of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

This last point is of critical importance as his release is a clear signal to many Libyans that the resistance to the NATO-imposed chaos and war is alive and well. And while there have been isolated upsurges of pro-Gaddafi sentiments at various times in the last five years, they mostly remained underground. Perhaps it might soon be time for the resistance to once again become united as it moves to drive out the terrorists and opportunists who have torn the jewel of Africa apart these last five years.
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Poor decisions: Moldova asks NATO for help in withdrawing Russian troops from Transdniestria


ITAR-TASS
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:43 UTC
Moldova peacekeeper
© Sergei Karpov/ITAR-TASS, archive
Moldova's Defense Minister Anatoly Salary has asked NATO for help in withdrawing Russian peacekeeping troops from Moldova's unrecognized Republic of Transdniestria, Oleg Belyakov, the co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission for regulating the peacekeeping operation in Transdniestria, told journalists on Thursday.

"We constantly hear Moldovan officials speaking of the need to withdraw the Russian army [from Transdniestria] and disband the peacekeeping operation. The last call has recently come from Defense Minister Salaru. This is a source of our great concern because the peacekeepers' pullout will return things to the 1992 conflict when law enforcers from Transdniestria and Moldova stood one against the other ready to start military hostilities. Such calls reflect a desire to resolve the Transdniestria problem exclusively by force what must be prevented," Belyakov said.
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Zakharova: Western 'obsession with Assad's personality incomprehensible'


ITAR-TASS
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:37 UTC
Syrian soldier near poster of Bashar al-Assad
© Mikhail Pochuev/ITAR-TASS
Moscow considers Western obsession with the personality of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad incomprehensible, while rooting out terrorism should be the priority in resolving the Syrian crisis, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

"We have said time and again, responding to relevant criticism that we do not support Mr. Assad personally, that we are concerned about the existence of Syria's statehood and the forces that will be able to counter the terrorist threat on the ground," she said. "This is important for both Syria itself and the international community. With all due sympathy for the Syrian people, a practical perspective is present here as well."
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Snakes in Suits

'To defend western freedom': U.S. must preserve Egyptian tyranny

James North
Mondoweiss
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:27 UTC
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Since 2011, the United States has sent more than $6.4 billion in military aid to Egypt, while continuing to mute criticism of the dictatorship's massive human rights violations. How much does Israel's influence explain this inexcusable American policy?

Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to Washington, provided key evidence in his memoir a year ago. He says openly he opposed the pro-democracy Tahrir Square uprising in January 2011, and he even admits he regularly telephoned then-President Hosni Mubarak's envoy to the U.S., encouraging Egypt to resist the demonstrators. Such a stance seems odd coming from a nation that boasts that it is the only democracy in the Middle East, but Oren explained by quoting a senior Israeli approvingly:
"'Why won't Americans face the truth?' one frustrated Israeli ex-general exclaimed to me. 'To defend Western freedom, they must preserve Middle Eastern tyranny.'"
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Israeli army destroys three Palestinian wells in occupied Hebron


IMEMC News
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:20 UTC
Israeli soldiers raiding workshop
© IMEMC
As the extensive Israeli military invasion into the southern West Bank district of Hebron continues to escalate, the soldiers destroyed, on Thursday morning, water wells, and the entrances of several Palestinian homes.

Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers destroyed several Palestinian water wells, detonated the entrances of eight apartments, in Hebron city, violently searched many residences and kidnapped at least one Palestinian.

Also in Hebron, the army invaded Farsh al-Hawa area, and the area around the al-Ahli Hospital, before storming a residential building, and violently searched several apartments. During the invasions, the soldiers detonated three Palestinian water wells.

The soldiers invaded two workshops in Hebron city, allegedly used for manufacturing weapons, and also stormed and ransacked many homes in the towns of Sa'ir and Bani Neim, east of Hebron, and placed concrete blocks, closing Hebron's northern road.
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Best of the Web: Terrorism with a "human face": The history of America's death squads

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:04 UTC
Death squads in Iraq and Syria. The historical roots of US-NATO's covert war on Syria.

This article was first published by Global Research on January 4, 2013. It is also published as a chapter in Michel Chossudovsky's book The Globalization of War, America's Long War against Humanity. Global Research Publishers, 2015

In recent developments the Chilcot Report has revealed the role of Latin-american style death squads in Iraq.

El Salvador death squad
© UnknownEl Salvador Death squads
The recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US military-intelligence agenda. There is a long and gruesome US history of covert funding and support of terror brigades and targeted assassinations going back to the Vietnam war.

As government forces continue to confront the self-proclaimed "Free Syrian Army" (FSA), the historical roots of the West's covert war on Syria - which has resulted in countless atrocities - must be fully revealed.

From the outset in March 2011, the US and its allies have supported the formation of death squads and the incursion of terrorist brigades in a carefully planned undertaking.

The recruitment and training of terror brigades in both Iraq and Syria was modeled on the "Salvador Option", a "terrorist model" of mass killings by US sponsored death squads in Central America. It was first applied in El Salvador, in the heyday of resistance against the military dictatorship, resulting in an estimated 75,000 deaths.

The formation of death squads in Syria builds upon the history and experience of US sponsored terror brigades in Iraq, under the Pentagon's "counterinsurgency" program.
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