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Regime change, in Syria and around the world, is as American as apple pie

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:34 UTC
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Clandestine American-led interventions have fuelled the explosion in terror networks across the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. Yet amid this American legacy of international violence, Obama was charged with painting a rose-tinted view of the world that was breath-taking in its distortion and absurdity.

US President Barack Obama is someone to almost pity. For he has the unenviable task of standing before the nations of the world and smugly spout endless falsehoods — as he did, yet again, during his address to the UN General Assembly.

By contrast, Russian President Vladimir Putin in his address to the UN may not have displayed the same oratorical flourishes as Obama, but far more importantly Putin spoke about some of the most pressing international problems with words that were the plain truth.

When Putin spoke about the UN and international law being undermined by "exceptional" unilateral actions of the United States, he was able to put his finger on the crux of why conflict, chaos and terrorism are raging in so many parts of the world.

And if we are trying to fix these problems, genuinely, then what the world needs is an accurate diagnosis. Putin delivered that, while Obama just added further layers of obfuscation and misinformation, making such problems ever-more insoluble.
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Russian TV shows frontline action in Syria: Cmdr says he's fighting terrorists trained and equipped by US

Vox Populi Evo
YouTube
Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:33 UTC
syria military
The frontline in North-East Latakia goes across mountains. The altitude of Yunus prophet is defended by Syrian militiamen. At the footstep - fighters of terrorist organization "Front an-Nusra", a division of al-Kaida prohibited in Russia. Militiamen really "penetrate" the defense of terrorists. At first, the infantry calls the fire at itself, then masked enforcements of guerrillas are destroyed by artillery and tanks. They move under cover of armored vehicles in open parts in mountains.

"Terrorists have many American weapons, rockets and even night vision devices. Americans teach them. USA bombed our gas plants in the East. We liberated these lands much time ago, but they said that according to their surveillance there is the IS" - field commander of militiamen Husey Vazih Ibrahim.

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Sad reality: Six months of conflict in Yemen leaves over 500 children dead


Xinhau
Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:31 UTC
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© Xinhua/Hani AliTwo children eat bread in an evacuation center for the displaced children in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sept. 13, 2015. According to Yemen's official Saba News Agency, more than 1.6 million Yemenis have fled their homes due to the ongoing civil war and Saudi-led airstrikes since March 26.
Six months of unremitting war in Yemen have left at least 505 children dead and injured a further 702, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) indicated on Friday.

UNICEF also reported that over 1.7 million children are presently at risk of malnutrition while 10 million children are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.

"With every day that passes, children see their hopes and dreams for the future shattered," said UNICEF Representative in Yemen Julien Harneis, adding "their homes, schools and communities are being destroyed, and their own lives are increasingly threatened by disease and malnutrition."

Comment: This is the sad reality of our world run by psychopaths who care nothing for normal human beings lives, yet on and on it goes. Wake up people! We're hearing story after story about Russian airstrikes killing civilians (without evidence, and some with provably fake evidence), and yet the MSM is silent about the high death toll caused by the Saudis (and their American backers).

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Hilary Clinton-fronted State Department planted questions with 60 Minutes for Assange interview


RT
Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:18 UTC
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© Finbarr O'Reilly / ReutersWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
The State Department under Hillary Clinton "planted" its concerns in an interview conducted by CBS's 60 Minutes with Julian Assange, according to an e-mail sent by her assistant secretary of state for public affairs.

A new batch of Hillary Clinton's e-mails released on Wednesday contains a letter from Philip J. Crowley, dated January 28, 2011.

The letter reads:
"Madame Secretary, a very quick update. I just received confirmation from 60 Minutes that a piece on Julian Assange will air Sunday night. He will be the only person featured. We had made a number of suggestions for outside experts and former diplomats to interview to "balance" the piece. 60 Minutes assures me that they raised a number of questions and concerns we planted with them during the course of the interview. We will be prepared to respond to the narrative Assange presents during the program."

Comment: This is more evidence of how Washington tries to control information and what the public is made aware of through its presstitutes in the media: Deception, propaganda, and social control: The power of the false narrative psy-op


The interview was conducted by CBS's long time correspondent Steve Kroft, who visited Assange when he was under house arrest fighting extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations.


Whistleblower Edward Snowden wrote on his new Twitter account: "If true, sad to see."

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Judge dismisses 9/11 suit against Saudi Arabia, citing sovereign immunity


RT
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:10 UTC
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© Brendan Smialowski / Reuters US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud at the Royal Palace in Jeddah on September 11, 2014.
A US District Court judge has dismissed claims against Saudi Arabia that it provided material support to Al-Qaeda ahead of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, ruling that the country has sovereign immunity.

In the aftermath of 9/11, some relatives of the more than 3,000 deceased victims sought billions of dollars in damages from companies, countries ‒ including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ‒ and organizations accused of aiding Al-Qaeda and other terror groups in carrying out the hijackings. In 2003, the 9/11 Commission found that there was no evidence that Saudi Arabia helped finance Al-Qaeda.


Comment: The Saudis possibly had a hand in attacking the United States, but they can't be prosecuted, because Saudi Arabia has sovereign immunity! So the United States violates the sovereignty of innocent nations and protects the guilty.


In 2005, a US District Court judge held that Saudi Arabia and the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia & Herzegovina (SHC) were foreign sovereigns immune from a lawsuit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). That ruling was affirmed by the Second Circuit Court in 2008, but for a different reason than Casey listed. However, the Second Circuit overruled its previous decision in December 2013, saying a legal exception existed and the circumstances were extraordinary. The plaintiffs then filed to reinstate Saudi Arabia and the SHC as defendants in their suit.

Comment: See also:

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Putin - the great strategist? Sure looks like it

Gordon M. Hahn
Russian and Eurasian Politics
Fri, 02 Oct 2015 15:49 UTC
Putin
Some, especially many of his compatriots, acclaim Russian President Vladimir Putin is a strategic (and tactical) genius. By contrast Western observers presuppose less competence. The most said by the latter is that he is a kind of evil genius or that he runs circles around US President Barack Obama.

Putin may not be a strategic genius, but he is strategically competent. He is also tactically unpredictable, even brilliant. Let's look at the record.

Putin as Foreign Policy Strategist

The first thing that needs to be stressed is that Putin has no grand strategy, no less one to 'reestablish the Tsarist or Soviet empire.' Such claims are delusions, paranoia, and/or well-compensated stratcomm. His goal is to ensure Russia's status as a global power, one of several great powers in Eurasia writ large, and the indispensable country for any other pursuing a presence in central Eurasia - the former USSR.

But there is no sure-fire strategy for achieving this goal other than that established before Putin's rise to the Russian presidency by then Russian Foreign Minister, the late Yevgenii Primakov. The 'Primakov doctrine' or strategy was the pursuit of a multipolar world through a 'multi-vector' or multi-directional foreign policy that took seriously the Russian state emblem of the double-headed eagle looking both east and west.

Comment: Mr Hahn has given a good overview of Putin's actions to date. However, it seems that he somewhat minimizes the tremendous problems and obstacles that faced Putin when he first came to power. Putin has demonstrated a clear grasp of facts on the ground, and a flexibility of approach as those facts change and morph that has proven effective for the last 15 years. Contrast that with the US necon's PNAC manifesto, which has lurched from disaster to disaster.

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Putin ally says Russian air strikes in Syria to last three-four months

Astrid Wendlandt
Reuters
Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:03 UTC
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Russia estimates its air strike campaign in Syria could last three to four months, the head of the lower house of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee said on Friday.

"There is always a risk of being bogged down but in Moscow, we are talking about an operation of three to four months," Alexei Pushkov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, told French radio station Europe 1. He added that the strikes were going to intensify.

Pushkov was speaking a few hours before Putin was due to meet leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine in Paris for talks about Ukraine which were likely to be overshadowed by the conflict in Syria.

Pushkov said the strikes mainly targeted Islamic State forces in spite of reports they had concentrated on opponents to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

"The opponents to Bashar are very close to Daesh (Islamic State)," Pushkov said. U.S. sources have said the Russians actually hit facilities of a U.S.-backed group, some of whose rebels received training and support from the CIA.

Comment: Russia isn't playing games here. They are dead serious.

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Head of Chechen Republic asks Putin to send Chechen infantry to Syria


RT
Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:04 UTC
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The head of the Chechen Republic has asked the Russian president to send Chechen units to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria, adding that his fighters have sworn to fight terrorists till the end.

"This is not idle talk, I am asking for permission to go there and participate in special operations," Ramzan Kadyrov said in the Friday interview with the RSN radio. "Being a Muslim, a Chechen and a Russian patriot I want to say that in 1999 when our republic was overrun with these devils we swore on the Koran that we would fight them wherever they are," the Chechen leader said.

"But we need the Commander-in-Chief's decision to do this," he emphasized. According to the Russian Constitution, the president is also the commander-in-chief of the military forces.
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Analyst: Russia wants to stabilize the Mideast, not destroy it like the U.S.


Sputnik
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:38 UTC
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© Sputnik/ Sergey Orlov
Russia has conducted its first airstrike against ISIL militants in Syria. The Russian Ministry of Defense says the operation took place in the Arab republic's third largest city of Homs, which is a central link between the interior cities and the Mediterranean coast.

The operation came hours after the Russian Parliament approved the use of the country's armed forces abroad.

According to Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov, the decision was made after Syrian President Bashar Assad requested military assistance from Moscow in the fight against terrorism.

While speaking to journalists on Wednesday morning, Ivanov also added that the move does not foresee any ground troop operations.

Russia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria have recently created an information center in Baghdad in order to coordinate the fight against Islamic State. The new center would begin operations in October or November.
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Americans being made to destroy their nation-destabilizaton project in its infancy

Nikolay Starikov
Fort Russ
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:31 UTC
Russian author, historian and politician explains what happened today like no one else at today's meeting with fans and supporters.
Starikov:

Transcript:

Even cats don't get born on their own and such high-profile terrorist organisations, packaged with beautiful Hollywood promos don't appear on their own. Of course, it is a project, the same project of the global banking elite. as once was Adolf Hitler, and before that where the Bolsheviks-Trotskyists, who have destroyed the Russian empire and were going to crush the neighboring states.
Islamic state is a can opener in the hands of the global elite, with which it was planning to destroy the world order, as it is.

You know, often when we talk about WWII, a question comes to mind, why did the English have to bring Hitler to power, if they were the strongest ones? Well, in order to be the strongest, you must destroy your competition. And Hitler was brought to power in order to destroy the USSR, which not only grew economically, but presented an alternative of a social order, which was a death sentence.

Lets remember the post-war USSR, when there was a constant dropping of prices which completely contradicts the market economy. Stalin did it, And did it yearly. And he would strangle this financially oriented economy with his price drops. It had to be prevented. This was Hitler's task.

Today's Islamic State is a tool to prevent the growth of China, Russia, and Europe getting out of control.

A big war is needed. Chaos is needed. It will help solve the problem of dropping consumption in the entire world.

War is needed for many reasons. Americans create the Islamic state.

Comment: Starikov brings a fresh angle to the US-created mess that is ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra etc.

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