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Will Obama be tried for civilian deaths and other war crimes?

Martin Berger
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
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It's a well-known fact that the supreme commander is the highest official of the armed forces in any country. Simultaneously, as a rule, this very individual occupies the position of a head of the state, whether it's a president or monarch. The fundamental law of any state - the national constitution specifies the rights and duties of the Supreme Commander, that doesn't simply define the military policy of a country, but also bears responsibility for the fighting capacity of the national army, along with its activities in peacetime and wartime. In other words, this person gets the praise for victories, but is also bound to be questioned for defeats and mistakes.

This fact becomes particularly relevant today, when various ongoing US military operations continue to claim the lives of thousands of civilians as a result of routinely inaccurate aircraft and drone strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and a number of other countries.

The crimes of American soldiers in Afghanistan in the period from 2009 to 2013 are well documented in a 84 pages long report drafted by Amnesty International that is titled «Left in the Dark». International experts from AI came to the conclusion that even the most outrageous war crimes are not investigated in the United State, so those who committed them always come out clean in the end. Thousands of Afghans were killed and wounded by the American military after the invasion, yet the US justice system has never held any of the soldiers or commanders responsible for unlawful killings of civilians and other abuses, states Amnesty International, while any evidence of terrible war crimes are simply ignored.

Comment: Unfortunately, the US, NATO, Israel and Saudi Arabia have been getting away with criminal behavior for decades and the likelihood of any of the psychopaths responsible being charged with war crimes for the devastation they have wrought seems unlikely. However, if enough people with a conscience do not begin to demand restitution for these crimes, Nature has a way of dealing with the situation.

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Star of David

Like the fox guarding the henhouse: Israel provided intelligence to US, UK that bomb brought down Russian plane


Times of Israel
Sun, 08 Nov 2015 20:20 UTC
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Israel provided intelligence regarding the Russian plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, which indicated that a bomb had detonated on board, CNN reported on Sunday.

An unnamed US official and diplomatic source said that Jerusalem handed over information about the blast to the US and UK. One US official told the news outlet he was "99.9% certain" the plane had been bombed, while another said it was "likely."


Comment: Why the US and UK, not Russia?


Israeli officials declined to comment on the report.

Earlier, a member of the Egyptian investigation team said they were nearly certain explosives had brought the plane down, killing all 224 passengers on board.

"The indications and analysis so far of the sound on the black box indicate it was a bomb," an investigator — who asked to not be identified — told Reuters. "We are 90 percent sure it was a bomb."


Comment: It sure seems like the authorities are using the excuse of a bomb to cover up the true and very strange nature of this incident.

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Bulb

Are more U.S. politicians looking to Russia for resolution of Syrian crisis?


Sputnik
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:29 UTC
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Russia and the US should work together to fight ISIL, head of the US State Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Dianne Feinstein said. According to political analyst Vladimir Shapovalov, US politicians are starting to realize that the problem of terrorism cannot be resolved without Russia.

Russia and the US should join their efforts to fight the terrorist group Islamic State, Feinstein told NBC News. According to the US politician, the current situation would be convenient for the start of such cooperation as the United States started sharing intelligence data with Russia, something which had not happened previously.
"I think the time has come for us also to begin to develop a joint strategy with Russia," Feinstein said during the broadcast.
Russian political scientist Vladimir Shapovalov believes that such statements are a signal symbolizing the reestablishment of constructive relations between the two countries.

Comment: It's still early to say that there is any significant turning point within the United States, and such a dramatic change appears unlikely at this point in time. There are a few rational voices among the halls of insanity in Washington, but the driving force in the US remains corrupt at its core and many at the helm would like nothing more than to see Syria drown in chaos. Putin's actions in Syria can be a calling card to other leaders in positions of power who have a conscience to take a stand against human evil, but there will also be many along the way who will continue to distort such momentum for their own deceptions and lies.

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Bulb

Federal judge rules against NSA collection of phone records, ruling it unconstitutional


RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:27 UTC
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© Larry Downing / ReutersLarry Klayman
A federal judge has ruled against the NSA's controversial collection of Americans' phone records. The program was set to expire by the end of the month, but the ruling is considered a victory for civil liberties because it sets a legal precedent.

In his ruling on Monday, Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court reiterated his assertion that the NSA's program "likely violates the Constitution" and said that "the loss of constitutional freedoms for even one day is a significant harm."

In doing so, he sided with conservative legal activist Larry Klayman, whose clients had sued the NSA over its data collection following the revelations of whistleblower of Edward Snowden in 2013.

"This court simply cannot, and will not, allow the government to trump the Constitution merely because it suits the exigencies of the moment,'' Leon wrote in his 43-page decision.

Comment: Whether this has any effect on the illegal surveillance methods used by the NSA is debatable, but at least there is one good judge on the federal level who is willing to call out the NSA for what it is.

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Former State Dept. official slams Obama for leading U.S. into proxy war with Russia


Sputnik
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:40 UTC
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Washington recently decided to step up its efforts aimed at supporting so-called moderate Syrian rebels (although many doubt that they exist), "putting the lie to President Obama's pledge not to lead the United States into a proxy war with Russia," James Carden noted.

Carden, who served as an advisor to the US-Russia Presidential Commission at the US State Department, believes that the United States instead should combine its counterterrorism efforts with Moscow's campaign to tackle extremists in Syria. After all, ISIL and other extremist groups, as Russia always points out, are a common threat for everyone. But this is not what is happening.

Washington is not trying to promote cooperation with Russia largely due to the efforts of US hardliners. "The war party's stand, or goal, is to forever ruin US-Russian relations," Carden noted.

Comment: If you're hoping that the West will come to its senses and help Russia fight the war on terror, don't hold your breath. A perverse, unelected shadow government is calling the shots in the West, they make a killing off of terror, and it's apparent that they're here to the bitter end.

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Sherlock

Kremlin chief of staff: No relation between A321 crash in Egypt and Russian air operation in Syria


TASS
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:21 UTC
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© Press-service of Russian Emergency Situations Ministry
No link can be traced so far between the Russian aerospace force operation in Syria and Russia's A321 airliner crash in Egypt, the investigation is unlikely to be completed this year, Russian presidential administration chief Sergei Ivanov told reporters on Tuesday.

"I see no relation between them. The cause of the plane crash has not been finally established. The terror act is just one of the probed versions. I strongly doubt, having taken part in the investigation of several air crashes, that the probe will be completed this year," Ivanov said.

He recalled that the downing of the American plane over Scotland [On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground] was investigated during four years, and only after that the verdict was announced. "The layout of the aircraft fragments in hangar is at least needed to establish precisely and not theoretically the reasons for the airliner's crash. This means that the plane's wreckage should be transported from the crash site to a hangar in Cairo, laid out there and examined for several weeks and maybe several months. The chemical study of the scrapes made from the fragments may also continue for months. So now it's absolutely premature to unambiguously declare the verdict. The terror act is just one of the versions. But even an explosion on board the aircraft may occur for very different reasons," Ivanov said. He added that "only the fragments' layout will finally show where the explosion occurred."
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Light Sabers

Russia Defense Ministry: Location of ISIS facilities in Syria are most classified state secret in US


TASS
Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:47 UTC
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© Anton Novoderezhkin/TASSRussian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Igor Konashenkov
The Russian Defense Ministry denies US allegations that Russian warplanes in Syria are bombing regions, which are out of President Assad's control, rather than terrorist infrastructure, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday.

He explained that US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told Congress hearings held earlier that the Russian air group in Syria delivered most of its strikes at regions which were no longer under the control of President Assad's regime rather than at terrorists.

"If we analyze what various US officials say, there is an impression that the location of terrorist-held facilities is the most classified state secret in the United States. Representatives of the Pentagon and the State Department keep mentioning them all the time without specifying their exact location," Konashenkov said.
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Attention

More Eurozone troubles: Germany loses key ally in Portugal as austerity regime crumbles

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:45 UTC
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© EPAPortugal's incoming leader Antonio Costa is the son of a Communist poet from Goa.
Portugal's Communists and radical Left Bloc are poised to take power in a historic departure as part of an anti-austerity coalition led by the Socialists, despite being branded too dangerous for office by the country's president just 11 days ago.

While it is not a replay of the "Syriza moment" in Greece last January, the ascendancy of the Left marks a clear break with the previous austerity regime and with the policies of the now-departed EU-IMF Troika.

"Political risks are rising," said Alberto Gallo from RBS. While Portugal has been a model of good behaviour in the eurozone until now, largely immune to radical politics, it has extremely high debt levels. He warned that the country may be skating on thin ice.
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MIB

The Federal Reserve: Private institution installed to control and destroy the wealth of the American public

Aaron Dykes
Truthstream Media
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
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The Federal Reserve remains the 800-pound gorilla. Its moves are of enormous consequence to the economy, and their interests are at odds with those of ordinary Americans.

If people who've been thrown out of work, out of their homes and into bankruptcy understood what had been done, and by whom, they would have overthrown it practically overnight.

This insightful video discusses how the New York Federal Reserve is a corporation, largely owned by the top 10 banks - including many international banks - and works to increase the wealth of its shareholders at the expense of everyone else:

Secrets of the Federal Reserve: U.S. Economy, Finance and Wealth

Comment: As has been pointed out in the article - even its name is misleading. Among many of the facts about the Fed that this article and the accompanying videos state is that there has been a historic push among many in the U.S. to NOT have such an central banking institution such as the FED - precisely for the reasons that have come to fruition today.

When the U.S. economy does go completely kaflooey, we will have the machinations of those owners of the FED to thank for it.

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Portugal's ruling government forced to resign over pro-austerity policies


RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:30 UTC
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© Rafael Marchante / ReutersLeft parties vote at the end of a debate on government programs at the parliament in Lisbon, Portugal November 10, 2015
Portugal's pro-austerity government has been forced to resign by a leftist anti-austerity block, despite being sworn in only two weeks ago. Proposals to continue austerity policies were blocked in parliament, backed by mass public anger, forcing the government to dissolve.

The moderate Socialists worked with the Communist Party and radical Left Bloc to form a majority that voted down fresh austerity proposals today.

Following the October 4th general election, the anti-austerity leftist majority was explicitly prevented from forming a government by the president, citing 'the national interest'.

One of Europe's troubled PIGS, Portugal took a €78 billion bailout in 2011 and since then has spiraled into austerity dead-end fueling mass social unrest and emigration.

Comment: Good that the pro-banking and austerity government has been forced out by the public's knowledge that such policies only benefit the rich and powerful. Maybe Portugal should leave the EU if staying in it means being forced into austerity measures.

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