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ISIL executes Fallujah citizens to forstall rebellion


FarsNews
Wed, 02 Mar 2016 01:49 UTC
ISIL ISIS executions fallujah
Head of Iraqi Awakening Councils Wissam al-Hardan disclosed that the ISIL has killed a large number of Fallujah citizens for the fear of their imminent uprising as the country's army and volunteer forces are preparing for large-scale military operations to win back the city in Anbar province.

"The ISIL executed many Fallujah residents who are fed up with the Takfiri terrorist group over the past two weeks," al-Hardan told FNA on Wednesday. He underlined that the psychological pressures exerted on the tribes and citizens in Fallujah is to such an extent that they prefer to die rather than stay under the ISIL's yoke. Al-Hardan reiterated that the people of Fallujah have carried out several retaliatory measures against the ISIL.

In a relevant development on Monday, the ISIL terrorists executed scores of residents of the city of Mosul in Nineveh province on treason charges. A sum of 35 of Mosul residents were shot dead by the ISIL for spying and treason in al-Qazlani military base in the Western part of Mosul on Sunday, the Arabic-language al-Sumeria news website quoted an unnamed Iraqi security source as saying on Monday.

Comment: Seeing the excellent job Russia has done in Syria, will it be too long before Iraq makes the same request? ISIL is a band of murderous thugs that must be stopped.

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Nuclear red alert: Saudi fighter-bombers equipped with nuclear warheads

Manlio Dinucci
Global Research
Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:34 UTC
Warning: Saudi Arabia, although a signatory to the Nuclear Weapons Non- Proliferation Treaty has just, in violation of its pledge, acquired atomic bombs from Pakistan.

"We have nuclear bombs": this is what was said on February 19 on Russia Today by the Saudi political analyst, Daham al-Anzi, de facto spokesman for Riyadh.
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'War on Drugs' in Afghanistan losing proposition - US State Department


Sputnik
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:18 UTC
Afghanistan opium production
© Rahmat Gul/Associated PressAn Afghan boy walks through a poppy field in Khogyani district of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan
The United States and the Afghan government are losing the war on drugs in Afghanistan, the 2016 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) from the US Department of State admitted.

"The cultivation, production, trafficking and consumption of illicit drugs flourish in Afghanistan," the report, which was released and submitted to the US Congress on Wednesday, said.

A symbiotic relationship exists between the insurgency in Afghanistan and organized narcotics trafficking, the State Department observed.

"2015 saw a resurgence of the security challenges seen in earlier periods of the insurgency, and the intensity of active battles undermined progress toward the Afghan government's drug control goals," the report acknowledged.

The State Department explained that drug traffickers provide weapons and funding to the Afghan insurgency in exchange for the protection of drug trade routes, cultivation fields, laboratories and trafficking organizations.

The Taliban generates revenue by taxing drugs trafficked through areas they control, the State Department noted.

Afghanistan has one of the highest substance abuse rates in the world with an estimated 3 million people being addicted, or 11 percent of the population, it added.

Comment: Opium production was almost eliminated prior to US invasion... The invaders found the profits were just too big to ignore. From 2013:

So the UN is warning that the biggest warlords will be the benefactors of the NATO forces exit from the country. The same UN that in February 2001 declared that opium production had virtually been eradicated in Afghanistan:
U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer.

A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.

"We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies.
Opium production has been a major financing for the various alphabet soup's black operations. See:
Opium and the CIA: Can the U.S. triumph in the drug-addicted Afghanistan War?

Further reading:

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Killary Clinton: A bigger warmonger than Bush & Cheney?


WashingtonsBlog
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:10 UTC
Hillary Clinton neocon
Bush and Cheney launched two disastrous and totally unnecessary wars which increased terrorism and undermined America's standing in the eyes of the world.

Hillary Clinton is at least as bad ...

She is largely responsible for the war in Syria, which is plunging the Middle East and Europe into chaos.

The New York Times confirms that Clinton is responsible for the violent regime change in Libya, which was also completely unnecessary.

Hillary is largely responsible for the bombing of Yugoslavia ... another wholly unnecessary war. Diana Johnstone writes:
In her star-struck biography of the First Lady, Hillary's Choice, Gail Sheehy reported Hillary's plea in favor of bombing Yugoslavia in 1999 as a major point in her favor. According to Sheehy's book, Hillary convinced her reluctant husband to unleash the 78-day NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs with the argument that: "You can't let this ethnic cleansing go on at the end of the century that has seen the Holocaust."

This line is theatrical and totally irrelevant to the conflict in the Balkans. As a matter of fact, there was no "ethnic cleansing" going on in Kosovo at that time. It was the NATO bombing that soon led people to flee in all directions - a reaction that NATO leaders interpreted as the very "ethnic cleansing" they claimed to prevent by bombing.

Comment: Killary certainly can be considered a bigger warmonger and if she becomes president it is most certainly within her grasp to surpass Cheney and Bush on that front. She should already be considered a card carrying Neoconservative and if elected would aim to continue the wars started by the Neoconservative controlled Obama.

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How to surrender: Syrian air fleet drops leaflets over militants, Damascus Province


FARS News
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 03:32 UTC
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© en.farsnews.comOut of thin air: Syrian air fleet douses militants with surrender information leaflets.
The Syrian Air Force dropped a series of leaflets over the militant-held part of Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, giving the Takfiri terrorists yet another chance to lay down arms and surrender to the government forces.

As the Syrian government forces are advancing against the militant groups in different parts of Damascus province, the country's air fleet began dropping the leaflets, the practice that the government follows in parallel with hitting the militants.

Reports said earlier today that the Syrian army continued to advance against the militant groups, mainly the al-Nusra Front, and seized back more lands in the Eastern part of Damascus province known as Eastern Ghouta.

The Syrian army stormed the Takfiri militant groups' positions in Eastern Ghouta and pushed them back from the strategic regions between Nayem and Harasta al-Qantara in a day-long battle with the terrorists. The Syria army is now engaged in fortifying its position in the newly-liberated regions.

Comment: Hoping to save lives, hoping to shorten the war, hoping the militants would take the offer to surrender and leave. Did they?

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Erdogan says the Syria truce is only for a third of the territory


INTERFAX.RU
Wed, 02 Mar 2016 23:45 UTC
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that the coverage truce in Syria at the moment does not exceed one third of the country's territory, the Turkish newspaper Zaman.

Turkish president's statement was made in Abidjan during a joint with the president of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara news conference. At the same time, Erdogan expressed hope that the coverage truce in Syria will be extended to the whole country.

In turn, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said earlier that the parties to the conflict in Syria, as a whole, comply with the terms of the armistice.

However, the UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, warned that terrorist groups will do everything possible to disrupt the truce between the parties to the Syrian conflict.
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The US is likely to try to disrupt Russia's elections in September, and Putin is ready for it

Rudy Panko
Russia Insider
Sun, 28 Feb 2016 23:30 UTC
putin looking determined
Ready for Nuland and her cookie basket
On Friday, Russian president Vladimir Putin warned the FSB that as the September parliamentary elections inch closer, "foreign foes" present a "direct threat to [Russia's] sovereignty". Yes, this is code for "color revolution."

Although Putin enjoys overwhelming support from the Russian people (last we checked, his approval rating is still hovering around 80%), it would be naive to overlook economic factors that, along with a bit of help from western "democracy promoters", could potentially fuel civil unrest during the next elections. And Putin sees it coming:
Addressing top FSB officials in Moscow, President Putin said: "Unfortunately, our foes abroad are getting ready" for the parliamentary elections scheduled for 18 September.

He said the techniques were well-known and urged the security service to "suppress any attempts at foreign influence".
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Portrait of a war criminal: New York Times on Hillary Clinton and Libya

Bill Van Auken
World Socialist Web Site
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:37 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Reuters / David Becker
A two-part series entitled "The Libya Gamble" published in the Sunday and Monday editions of the New York Times is a damning indictment of Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and current front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The piece, written by Times national security correspondent Scott Shane and investigative reporter Jo Becker, details the leading role played by Clinton in fomenting a war of aggression that killed tens if not hundreds of thousands. The fact that it is not intended as an exposure of these imperialist atrocities makes it all the more incriminating.

The Times has endorsed Clinton's presidential campaign, describing her as "one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history" and as a president who "would use American military power effectively." The paper has helped promote the political propaganda touting her as a feminist icon and a candidate deserving the support of African-Americans.

No one would suspect that Ms. Clinton's criminal record makes her the political equivalent of a black widow spider.

Even the Libya piece suggests that her pivotal role in instigating the US-NATO war of 2011 casts a favorable light "on what kind of president she might be." It describes her as a "diligent student and unrelenting inquisitor, absorbing fat briefing books, inviting dissenting views from subordinates, studying foreign counterparts to learn how to win them over. She was a pragmatist, willing to improvise..."

Taken for granted in this account is that all of this diligence, pragmatism and improvisation was in furtherance of a criminal war of aggression that laid waste to an entire society.

Comment: For more on the real Killary see:

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The [redacted] truth: America's most notorious spy agency even deceives its own employees

John Kiriakou
OtherWords.org
Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:39 UTC
CIA floor emblem
© FlickrGlobal Panorama
It's no secret that the CIA isn't always up front with the public about its operations. You may even be kept in the dark if you're an elected official. But did you know the agency even lies to its own employees?

That's the subject of a recent Washington Post report on a heretofore unknown practice at the CIA called "eyewashing."

Before moving to the substance of the article, however, I owe my readers an explanation: The Central Intelligence Agency must approve of everything I write about intelligence, the CIA, foreign policy, diplomacy, the military, and national security — for the rest of my life.

They didn't like this column, even though the source material is freely available to anybody who reads the Post. The CIA consented to let me run it, but only if I redacted a few important sections.
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Former Bank of England chief says Euro depression is 'deliberate' EU choice

Mehreen Khan
The Telegraph
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:05 UTC
Euro symbol
Europe's deep economic malaise is the result of "deliberate" policy choices made by EU elites, according to the former governor of the Bank of England.

Lord Mervyn King continued his scathing assault on Europe's economic and monetary union, having predicted the beleaguered currency zone will need to be dismantled to free its weakest members from unremitting austerity and record levels of unemployment.
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