The journalist Eva Golinger (US - Venezuela) has repeatedly questioned the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The website aporrea.org quotes her statement:

Everything that Washington was trying to achieve during the administration of Hugo Chávez is today being realized in his absence. The cancerous illness from which Chávez suffered was unusually aggressive and suspicious, and every day turns up more evidence that it is possible Chávez was murdered.

The first signs of cancer were found in Chávez in May 2011. In June he underwent two surgeries at a specialized center in Havana. His Cuban surgeons found and removed a malignant tumor that had metastasized with sinister persistence, despite all preventive measures. New operations were needed. This athletic man, who was full of strength and physically robust, passed away on March 5, 2013 at the age of 58.

According to the Russian center of Syrian reconciliation, militants have killed 67 civilians in Syria's Aleppo since the ceasefire regime had gone into effect on February 27.

"Since February 27, 67 civilians were killed and another 65 wounded in Aleppo, including women and children," the commander of the Russian center on Syrian reconciliation, Lt. Gen. Sergei Kuralenko said.

According to Kuralenko, militants in Syria's Homs have shelled Syrian government forces' roadblocks twice on Saturday, one soldier has been killed.

"In the province of Homs fighters of armed groups Liwa al-Haqq and Ahrar ash-Sham twice fired at roadblocks of the government forces, killing a Syrian soldier."

However, he said that the ceasefire regime has been generally holding in Syria. Kuralenko added that there have been no ceasefire violations involving heavy weapons in Syria in the past 24 hours.

Turkey finances Daesh and helps send terrorists to neighboring Syria, Bashar al-Jaafari who heads the Syrian government delegation at the Geneva peace talks told Euronews on Friday. "It is not a secret that Turkey finances Daesh and facilitates the movement of its people into Syria," Bashar al-Jaafari said. He also blamed a number of Persian Gulf states for the continuing bloodshed in Syria and for assisting terrorists.

He mentioned the direct link existing between Daesh, Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia, which "provides the foundation for this philosophy. It is no longer a secret that Qatar and Saudi Arabia are funding the al-Nusra Front. They pay the bills for training and arming them. It is not just Syria that says it, the Security Council agrees," the Syrian envoy emphasized.

Syria has been torn by a civil war since 2011, as government forces have been clashing with opposition factions and extremist groups operating in the country, above all Daesh and the al-Nusra Front. More than 220,000 people have been killed and over a million have become refugees.

But unlike America's in Iraq, Russia actually has accomplished its mission. In what appears to be another carefully planned masterstroke vis-a-vis the US, NATO, and its Persian Gulf allies upon and around the Syrian battlefield, Russia has announced that it is withdrawing its forces after its 5 month long intervention on behalf of the Syrian government in Damascus.

The BBC reported in its article, "Syria conflict: Russia's Putin orders 'main part' of forces out," that:

In a surprise move, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to start withdrawing the "main part" of its forces in Syria from Tuesday.

He said the Russian intervention had largely achieved its objectives.

The comments come amid fresh peace talks in Geneva aimed at resolving the five-year Syrian conflict.

As the US $500 billion train-and-equip program aimed at training five thousand rebels in Syria spectacularly failed, the defense department is giving the effort another try, claiming that the lessons of the prior fiasco have been learned.

The Pentagon aims to launch a program that will be "more narrowly focused" than the previous one that was shut down due to its ineffectiveness, Foreign Policy reported on Saturday. Last time, US military officials admitted the effort that cost the state $500 million hadn't achieved any of its goals.

In an Orwellian Twist of Fate, two US senators drop legislation calling for the creation of a propaganda agency tasked with "delegitimizing" Russian and Chinese media, and "strategically" presenting "facts" to support US interests. Critics slam the bill as "extreme," adding that it likely violates the US First Amendment.

On Thursday, US Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced bipartisan legislation titled "The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act." The bill targets specifically the growing visibility of the popular RT (Russia Today) and CCTV (China Central Television) stations by calling for increased appropriations to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which already receives $768 million per year under the current budget, and developing a new agency under the command of the State Department.

Portman, the bill's lead sponsor, said in a speech Thursday before the Atlantic Council think tank that the purpose of the bill is to "delegitimize" alternative news sources such as RT and CCTV. In making the argument for the necessity of the measure, Portman claimed that RT spends $400 million on its Washington Bureau alone, a position that RT representatives adamantly deny and that is a direct contradiction with previous reports from Western media and analysts.

What Does "The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act" Do?

Portman opened his remarks by noting that March 18 "marks the second anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea and subsequent military intervention in eastern Ukraine." Apart from mischaracterizing the reunification of Ukraine [Crimea] with Russia — the result of a referendum in which 97% of Crimeans voted for the move — and reiterating baseless claims of Russian military actions in that country, the Senator argued that these actions "exposed and intensified a broader struggle over the future of Central and Eastern Europe, the future of NATO, and of the rules-based, American-led international community."

Hilary Clinton candidly outlined US plans to overthrow Assad as a prelude to weakening Iran in a 2012 email released by Wikileaks. Clinton argued that this criminal policy of regime change in Syria was being pursued in large part to help Israel isolate Iran and thereby weaken Tel Aviv's other regional foes like Hezbollah and Hamas by strategically cutting them off "from [their] Iranian sponsor since Syria would no longer be a transit point for Iranian training, assistance and missiles."

Clinton noted that the operation in Syria was in part designed to curtail Iran's nuclear program so that Israel could maintain its "nuclear monopoly" and thereby continue to dominate the region militarily. "The best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad," Clinton wrote in the email. She further pontificated:

Iran's nuclear program and Syria's civil war may seem unconnected, but they are. For Israeli leaders, the real threat from a nuclear-armed Iran is not the prospect of an insane Iranian leader launching an unprovoked Iranian nuclear attack on Israel that would lead to the annihilation of both countries. What Israeli military leaders really worry about — but cannot talk about — is losing their nuclear monopoly. An Iranian nuclear weapons capability would not only end that nuclear monopoly but could also prompt other adversaries, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to go nuclear as well. The result would be a precarious nuclear balance in which Israel could not respond to provocations with conventional military strikes on Syria and Lebanon, as it can today. If Iran were to reach the threshold of a nuclear weapons state, Tehran would find it much easier to call on its allies in Syria and Hezbollah to strike Israel, knowing that its nuclear weapons would serve as a deterrent to Israel responding against Iran itself.

Lawyer Ilya Remeslo summarises the process in the case of Nadezhda Savchenko and considers options for further developments


The criminal trial of Ukrainian servicewoman Nadezhda [Nadiya] Savchenko is coming to an end in the City Court of Donetsk, Russia. She stands accused of complicity in the murders of journalists Anton Voloshin and Igor Korneliuk of the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK,). The prosecution has asked for a penalty of 23 years imprisonment. The court will hear the last words of the defendant on March 9 and then retire for a decision.

It is highly likely that the sentence will be an indictment the punishment harsh. What will be the fate of Savchenko? Will she be exchanged for other persons who are held in custody by the Ukrainian authorities, and how oculd [sic] such an exchange be carried out?

But first, let us make a brief summary of the process.

Evidence of the prosecution and defence

Firstly, the defendant's lawyers argued that Russia has no right to judge Savchenko on its territory, since she is a citizen of Ukraine and the crime of which it is accused was committed on the territory of Ukraine.

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has lashed out at the EU saying that Europe is "dancing in the minefield" when voicing its support for the Kurds, as it may well see Kurdish terror attacks on its soil. The angry remarks came after supporters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which Ankara views as a terrorist group, were allowed to set up protest tents near the venue, hosting an EU-Turkey summit on immigration on Thursday and Friday.

Europe is "dancing in a minefield" by directly or indirectly supporting terrorist groups, Erdogan said at commemoration of the 101st anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli in the coastal town of Canakkale. "There is no reason why the bomb that exploded in Ankara cannot explode in Brussels, in any other European city," he stressed, referring to last weeks blast, which took 37 lives and was claimed by a radical Kurdish group. To make his point clearer, the Turkish president used another metaphor to describe the Kurds, saying "the snakes you are sleeping with can bite you any time."

Earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern over the fate of the Kurdish population in the Turkey's southeast where the government is carrying out a harsh military operation against the PKK fighters. The EU will continue to "voice our convictions to Turkey regarding, for instance, the protection of press freedom or the treatment of the Kurds," Merkel said.

This page will continue to expand as more so-called "Human Rights" groups are outed for propagating anti-Syria war rhetoric and false allegations against the Syrian government and Syrian Arab Army. As it is, the list of players is quite extensive. Below, I'll list the known HR front people and groups (many, if not most, with links to the US State Department and criminals like George Soros). As Rick Sterling wrote in his "Humanitarians for War on Syria" (March 2015):

A massive campaign in support of foreign intervention against Syria is underway. The goal is to prepare the public for a "No Fly Zone" enforced by US and other military powers. This is how the invasion of Iraq began. This is how the public was prepared for the US/NATO air attack on Libya.

The results of western 'regime change' in Iraq and Libya have been disastrous. Both actions have dramatically reduced the security, health, education and living standards of the populations, created anarchy and mayhem, and resulted in the explosion of sectarianism and violence in the region. Now the Western/NATO/Israeli and Gulf powers, supported by major intervention-inclined humanitarian organizations, want to do the same in Syria."