Puppet MastersS


Bad Guys

Obama plans on sending even more US troops to Syria


Sputnik
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:09 UTC
obama warns russia cartoon
© Evans
US President Barack Obama is expected to announce the deployment of additional 250 military personnel to Syria on Monday, the US media reported.

The deployment will expand the US military presence in the country from just 50 special operations forces to 250 service members, the Wall Street Journal said, citing senior US officials.

The president signed off on the plan only recently after his advisers convinced him that increased US presence would help the Pentagon make new gains against the Islamic State (Daesh), a terror group outlawed by the United States, Russia and other nations, which is in control of large swaths of Syrian land.

Comment: Further reading:
Sometimes, the ways of hiding a foreign invasion of a country can become almost irrelevant, and the only thing that actually still matters is whether the time appears to be ripe, to resume, or escalate, a war that one remains determined to win. So it is with the US Government under Barack Obama, who still remains determined to replace Bashar al-Assad by a fundamentalist Sunni proponent of Sharia law.

How the Syrian talks broke down: Al-Qaeda was facing defeat


Read More...
Eye 1

German media: US forcing Germany to support military aggression towards Russia

Translated by Susan Neumann
Russia Insider
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:02 UTC
NATO-Russia
© NATO-Russia
The United States is demanding that the German Army (Bundeswehr) take a more active role on NATO's eastern flank. This is thought to have the effect of scaring Russia militarily. Up to this point, Germany has held back on the issue of stationing troops there. Now Washington is increasing its pressure on Angela Merkel.

According to a report from der Spiegel that cites government sources, the US is calling for strong German support in its fight against Russia in Eastern Europe. Washington talks about the need for "deterrence" and urges [Germany] to agree to more participation in the plan to station both outgoing and incoming units at NATO's eastern border.

The US is expecting to receive troops and military equipment, mostly from the UK and Germany, to beef up its NATO presence in the Baltic States, Poland, and Romania. US President Barack Obama announced this at the National Security Council, according to the report.

Comment: Further reading:
The bottom line is that the 'Masters of the Universe' in Washington and Wall Street can't have Germany cosying up to Russia, and the best way to ensure that is to keep Europe's leading economy weighed down in costly, protracted legal affairs. Then again, Merkel may just be thanking her lucky stars that Germany isn't being accused of having a part in the 9/11 attacks.

Die amerikanische imperium: German car emissions 'scandal' is a petulant act of industrial sabotage


Read More...
Bad Guys

Balkan energy security: In the real world, the only dependable supplier is Russia

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:06 UTC
Balkan energy security hybrid war
© TransgazRegional energy security in the Balkans is an illusion so long as the world is at war.
Since strong pressure on the Bulgarian government back in 2014 caused her to stop construction of the Russian gas pipeline, South Stream, that was to have supplied Russian gas to the Balkans and on to Austria and Italy, Brussels has argued that the stop was necessary because of "regional energy security" and the risk of dependence on Russian gas. The decision has, to the contrary of what Brussels claimed, left Bulgaria and the entire region in south East EU states in a state of great uncertainty regarding its future sources and price of natural gas for their economies. The reality is that regional energy security in the Balkans is an illusion so long as the world is at war. We today in Europe and the world are in a state of de facto world war even if to date, war by hybrid or non-traditional means.

How did this come about in a world where a mere six years earlier events hardly seemed to suggest such a deterioration in political relations, especially between the European Union and the Russian Federation?

To answer this question it is necessary to understand the strategic military policy of the United States today.
Read More...
Wolf

UK foreign secretary Hammond cannot 'rule out' deploying ground troops to Libya - backtracks on previous statement


RT
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 23:23 UTC
British troops Libya
© Stringer / Reuters
British ground troops, supported by the Air Force and Navy, may go to Libya to take action against Islamic State in the future, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said, just days after telling MPs that no such plans were in the works.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond made his remarks in a Telegraph interview on Sunday. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) are seeking to turn Libya into a "bolthole" for launching attacks on mainland Europe or Western ships at sea, Hammond argued.

"It wouldn't make sense to rule anything out because you never know how things are going to evolve," Hammond told The Telegraph. "But if there were ever any question of a British combat role in any form - ground, sea or air - that would go to the House of Commons."

The Foreign Secretary warned that there is a possibility that IS could send terrorists across the Mediterranean to Italy in order to mount attacks, adding that British cruise liners and commercial ships have already been warned to avoid the coast off the Libyan city of Sirte.

Comment: Libya, like Iraq and Afghanistan is a gift that keeps on giving, providing neocons with endless excuses to keep meddling in the affairs of other countries, all in the name of 'spreading democracy'. Of course it must never be mentioned these same neocons created those "sh*t shows" to begin with.

Read More...
Chess

Russia's intervention in Syria splits US administration


Sputnik
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:31 UTC
Barack Obama
© Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
As the Russia-backed Syrian government pushes on against Daesh forces in a joint effort with the so-called "moderate opposition", the US administration is debating about Russia's true intentions and how America should react.

Some officials in Washington genuinely believe Russia has armored ground forces in Syria, claiming Russia moved its own artillery towards Aleppo — unproven information based on anonymous sources in Pentagon, published by Wall Street Journal. These persons believe that if the US fails to react with force, this will be viewed by Moscow as a sign of American timidity, which will further encourage Russia to perform risky and aggressive actions.
Read More...
Arrow Up

Syrian army captures key Homs province oilfields from Daesh terrorists


Sputnik
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
Syrian army
© Sputnik/ Michael Alaeddin
The Syrian Army and the country's National Defense Forces launched fresh attacks against Daesh strongholds in the central province of Homs, forcing the terrorists to retreat from their positions. The Syrian Army and the country's National Defense Forces (NDF) in Homs province in central Syria, prompting jihadists to retreat, the Iranian news agency FARS reported.

FARS quoted military sources as saying that the Syrian troops attacked Daesh forces in the territories between the recently-liberated cities of Quaryatayn and Palmyra and along the strategically important Palmyra-Raqqa highway, in an assault that lefty dozens of terrorists dead and many more wounded.

"A number of hilltops have been recaptured in the Bardeh Mountains and the government forces have started to fortify their positions in the newly-captured lands," the sources said.
Read More...
Chess

Kurds: Why US is concerned about yielding its key ally to Russia


Sputnik
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
Kurdish fighters
© AP Photo/ Hussein Malla
The US is concerned that Russia's rising authority with the Kurdish units in Syria and Iraq could "upstage a long-standing US alliance with the stateless ethnic group and increase Moscow's influence in the region", in addition, it will give Moscow a "permanent lever in Syrian domestic politics and a lever against Recep Tayyip Erdogan."

"The Russian government says it has sent troops to fight alongside Kurdish units in northwestern Syria and is providing weapons to Iraqi Kurds in a tactic that could upstage a long-standing US alliance with the stateless ethnic group and increase Moscow's influence in the region," according to The Wall Street Journal.

Comment: See also:
Turkey's war against the Kurds (part 1): Turkey's state sponsorship of terrorism in Syria
Turkey's fit over Kurds attending Syria peace process ignored (blessed?) by the West

Read More...
Pirates

U.S. admits Syrian Army is fighting al-Qaeda in Aleppo, not "moderate rebels"


Moon of Alabama
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 21:05 UTC
moderate rebel
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, HEARING - U.S. POLICY AFTER RUSSIA'S ESCALATION IN SYRIA, Assistant Secretary Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs U.S. Department of State, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015, Transcript (pdf)
Ambassador PATTERSON: That is true in the north, Mr. Issa. I would say that it is not true in the south. But, certainly, in the north, the al-Nusra Front, which is an al-Qaeda affiliate, has absorbed, as have other smaller groups, have absorbed a number of what we would have previously called the moderate opposition, yes, that is correct.



Comment: Apparently the U.S. thinks it can have it both ways. First, they want to be able to claim their rebels are moderate, in contrast to al-Nusra. Second, they want to be able to criticize Russia for bombing their "moderate opposition", who are embedded with al-Nusra! Russia is perfectly legally justified in bombing Nusra positions in Aleppo, just as the Syrians are justified in attacking and attempting to liberate the areas occupied by the al-Qaeda affiliate. If it walks like a duck, quacks like one, and fights alongside a whole army of them, it's a duck.
isis ducks


Read More...
Георгиевская ленточка

Syrian elections confirm West's worst fears

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern outlook
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
Syrian elections
© UnknownSome of the women candidates in Syrian Parliamentary elections.
Despite Syria's ongoing conflict, life in many parts of the nation goes on. Syria's election schedule is no exception. The last parliamentary elections before the latest held this month were in 2012. Since these elections are held every 4 years, the recent elections were far from a "political stunt" to bolster the legitimacy of the current government, but instead represented the continuity of Syria's ongoing, sovereign political process.

Attempts to undermine the credibility of the elections have become the primary objective of US and European news agencies, however, even the US government's own election monitoring nongovernmental (NGO) agencies have conceded the last presidential election in 2014 saw soaring voter turnout, and despite attempts to leave voter turnout this year omitted from US-European press reports, it appears to also have been high.
Read More...
Handcuffs

Berlin Pirate Party's leader detained in Germany for citing poem about Erdogan


RT
Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC
During a rally supporting comedian Jan Boehmermann, Bruno Kramm, the head of the Berlin branch of Germany's Pirate Party, was arrested for "insulting a representative of a foreign state" by quoting a line from the comic's satirical poem slamming Erdogan.

German police arrested Kramm while he was conducting a "literary analysis" of the German comedian's satirical poem in front of the Turkish embassy in Berlin during a protest held under the slogan "No Power for Erdowahn, Freedom Instead of Erdogan" [Keine Macht dem Erdowahn, Freiheit statt Erdogan], the Morgenpost newspaper reported.

Comment: See also:
Dutch PM seeks answers from Ankara as local Turks urged to report those insulting Erdogan
Boomerang effect: 'Insult Turkey's Erdogan' contest set up by Spectator magazine

Read More...