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US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard introduces legislation to end illegal war in Syria to overthrow Assad

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:43 UTC
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© AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Last month, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard went on CNN and laid bare Washington's Syria strategy.

In a remarkably candid interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gabbard calls Washington's effort to oust Assad "counterproductive" and "illegal" before taking it a step further and accusing the CIA of arming the very same terrorists who The White House insists are "sworn enemies."

In short, Gabbard all but tells the American public that the government is lying to them and may end up inadvertently starting "World War III."

For those who missed it, here's the clip:


That was before Paris.

Well, in the wake of the attacks, Gabbard has apparently had just about enough of Washington vacillating in the fight against terror just so the US can ensure that ISIS continues to destabilize Assad and now, with bi-partisan support, the brazen Hawaii Democrat has introduced legislation to end the "illegal war" to overthrow Assad.

Comment: Tulsi Gabbard has proven that there are some politicians in the US who see the reality of what US foreign policy is about and are willing to speak out condemning it:

US congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard: 'How is Russia bombing terrorists a bad thing?'
Alternate reality? CNN broadcasts U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard telling the truth about Syria
Congresswoman who publicly supported Russia's anti-terror campaign says she was disinvited from Democratic debate

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Snakes in Suits

Group think: The tangled threads of US false narratives

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:23 UTC
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© Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaPresident Barack Obama meets with his national security advisors in the Situation Room of the White House, Aug. 7, 2014.
Official Washington's many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against Sunni jihadist terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet, a risk that Robert Parry explores.

One way to view Official Washington is to envision a giant bubble that serves as a hothouse for growing genetically modified "group thinks." Most inhabitants of the bubble praise these creations as glorious and beyond reproach, but a few dissenters note how strange and dangerous these products are. Those critics, however, are then banished from the bubble, leaving behind an evermore concentrated consensus.

This process could be almost comical - as the many armchair warriors repeat What Everyone Knows to Be True as self-justifying proof that more and more wars and confrontations are needed - but the United States is the most powerful nation on earth and its fallacious "group thinks" are spreading a widening arc of chaos and death around the globe.
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Fire

US diplomacy expert warns five conflicts that could trigger World War III


Sputnik
Sun, 22 Nov 2015 15:07 UTC
Syrian Kurdish sniper
© AP Photo
The leaders of all countries should consider the potential dangers of war games and do whatever it takes to prevent the escalation of the world's most hazardous conflicts, according to Robert Farley, a senior lecturer on diplomacy for the University of Kentucky.

Every global war gets started with a so-called "spark," or crisis situation, Farley writes in an article for The National Interest. He goes on to pinpoint five modern-day conflicts that could incite World War III if political solutions can't be found for each of them.

Comment: It is not a failure of the world powers to understand the dangers of war games but possibly a planned provocation. Indeed with all the tensions around the world rising rapidly, it wouldn't take much to light the fuse.

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Document

UN Security Council unanimously adopts French-drafted resolution, calls on world to fight ISIS


RT
Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:44 UTC
France signing
© www.dawn.comIt's official.
The United Nations has called the states to fight "a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security" which is Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL, Da'esh). All 15 members of the UN Security Council voted to adopt the French-proposed resolution.

The resolution "calls upon member states that have the capacity to do so to take all necessary measures ... on the territory under the control of ISIL ... in Syria and Iraq." IS "constitutes a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security," the resolution says.

Russia has repeatedly called for action to cut the terrorists' financial lifelines, with President Vladimir Putin revealing on Monday that IS is receiving funding from 40 countries.

Syria's UN Ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, hinted prior to Friday's vote that this resolution was long overdue. "Welcome to everybody who finally woke up and joined the club of combating terrorists."

Meanwhile, Russia is continuing its work on a draft resolution proposing international military campaigns to fight against Islamic State. The current text is an updated version of a document submitted on September 30. The text, submitted on November 18, stresses the need to coordinate military actions with the governments of the countries where the anti-terror operations are being conducted.

Comment: Will the Russian military resolution be accepted as easily, given the origins of ISIS and the resistance of Western action and resolve to remove this threat?

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Alarm Clock

SOTT Focus: The Murders of JFK, MLK, and RFK - Evidence of Revision


Sott.net
Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00 UTC
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Evidence of Revision is a six-part documentary containing historical, original news footage revealing that the most seminal events in recent American history have been deeply and purposefully misrepresented to the public. Footage and interviews provide an in-depth exploration of events ranging from the Kennedy assassinations to the Jonestown massacre, and all that lies between.

The footprints left in this archival footage reveal the coordinated, clandestine sculpting of the America we know today. Evidence of Revision proves once and for all that history has been revised, even as it was written!
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Quenelle - Golden

Russia's long-term strategy in Syria is to extinguish the terrorist threat, rebuild country from the ashes


Sputnik
Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:47 UTC
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© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
The German press reports on Russia's long-term plans to help rebuild Syria after the end of the war there, including renewed contracts for investment projects and a roadmap for a political resolution.

Russia has a long-term plan to rebuild Syria after the terrorists there are defeated, which requires the involvement of other regional powers to ensure that the threat of terrorism is extinguished, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten [DWN] reported on Saturday.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing a long-term strategy in the Middle East, according to which Syria's traditional allies play an important role," wrote DWN.

Comment: Hot on the heels of the Paris attacks, the US-led alliance is still pursuing the overthrow of Assad, despite the well-known fact that, from Iraq to Libya, this will only strengthen terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Russia has provided a very effective model of how to deal with both the terrorist and migrant crises.

Check out:

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Passport

Paris prosecutor: Two Paris suicide bombers came through Greece


RT
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:47 UTC
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© © Benoit Tessier / ReutersPolice on alert outside the Stade de France, site of detonations at the soccer match on November 13, 2015.
The Paris prosecutor says it has been determined that a second terrorist taking part in the suicide bombing at Stade de France stadium last Friday had also arrived in France via Greece. His fingerprints were taken on October 3 while he was traveling through Greece, Francois Molins said in a statement on Friday.

Counter-intelligence and police sources had told Reuters earlier that the first suicide bomber to be determined as arriving in France from Greece, who blew himself up at Gate D, may have had an accomplice as he was traveling through the Balkans to Western Europe. That terrorist was identified from a Syrian passport near his body as Ahmad al-Mohammad. However, it remains unclear whether the document actually belonged to the man whose body was found next to the stadium or had been stolen.

The first identified suicide bomber, Ahmad al-Mohammad, was apparently fingerprinted at the same time as the second on October 3 in Greece. Molins said that the fingerprints of the second suicide bomber, who blew himself up at Gate H of the stadium, and of the refugee fingerprinted at the Greek border with Mohammad were proven to match.

Comment: Tracing elements of guilt and association and "bordering" on lock down. See also:

Paris suspects update: Salah still on the run from police AND ISIS; police release 7 out of 8 suspects arrested during St-Denis raid

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Handcuffs

Belgian arrested in Turkey, suspected ISIS 'scout' in Paris attacks


RT
Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:30 UTC
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© IHLAS News Agency / AFPBelgian citizen Ahmet Dahmani, suspect in Paris attacks, is escorted by police officer.
Turkey has arrested a Belgian man of Moroccan origin, suspected of being involved in the Paris attacks that left 130 people dead and over 350 injured. Two alleged accomplices were also arrested, according to a government official.

Ahmet Dahmani, 26, was arrested at a luxury hotel in the southern coastal city of Antalya on Saturday, after traveling from Amsterdam on November 14, an unnamed Turkish official told Reuters. "We believe that Dahmani was in contact with the terrorists who perpetrated the Paris attacks. The investigation continues," the official said.

According to Turkey's Dogan news agency, the suspected Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) operative is believed to have scouted out targets for the Paris attacks.

Two other men - both Syrian - were detained on suspicion of planning to help Dahmani cross safely into Syria. The accomplices, identified as 29-year-old Ahmet Tahir and 23-year-old Muhammed Verdi, are believed to have been sent by Islamic State to ensure his safe passage across the border.


Comment: There are all kinds of questions here, given the rhetoric and the narrative. "We believe" instead of "we have evidence;" Dahmani wasn't on a watch list; no indication how he got to Amsterdam and then Turkey under the radar; Turkey has been less than reliable (as has the US) in pursuing terrorists and their affiliates; its borders are still not "ISIS secure;" and Dahmani was arrested in a "luxury hotel"...many invites to speculation.

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Heart - Black

Did John McCain actually - literally - choke on his own rage while discussing Russia and Syria?

Jay Vogt
Russia Insider
Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:12 UTC
McCain
© personalliberty.com
79-year-old warmonger ran a little hot while discussing Russia and Syria in a recent interview

Is it just me, or does John McCain - a man that everyone knows is full of hate (especially for Russia) - actually choke on his own rage at two different places in this recent interview he gave to France 24?

Two things really got his goat in the interview: (i) Assad himself, who McCain blames for killing 250,000 people, and (ii) the Russians, who he still hasn't forgiven for Crimea. In fact, he's still utterly enraged over it.

Comment: He didn't quite choke hard enough.

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Flashlight

State of emergency declared in Russia's Crimea after transmission towers in Ukraine blown up


RT
Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:19 UTC
transmission line
© Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Sputnik
Electricity has been completely cut off in Russia's Crimean peninsula since all power transmission line towers in the neighboring Ukrainian Kherson region were "blown up" by an unknown party, TASS reports. Right Sector militants had been rioting in the area earlier.

Crimean authorities rushed to connect hospitals and other vital infrastructure to reserve power stations and generators late on Saturday after the four main transmission lines from Ukraine were cut off in an apparent act of sabotage. The regional energy ministry has created an emergency response center to deal with the power cut.

"Crimea has been completely cut off," the Krymenergo energy company's director Viktor Plakida told TASS, adding that he could not immediately provide any more details.
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