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Lavrov calls out US 'hypocrisy and duplicity' amid Kiev embassy attacks

Sputnik
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:55 UTC

As a series of attacks struck Russian diplomatic missions across Ukraine, the West remained silent. On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the US and its allies of "hypocrisy," for refusing to condemn the violence.

On Wednesday, protesters outside of the Russian embassy in Kiev turned violent, throwing eggs, stones, green dye, and iodine at the main building. This followed dangerous incidents over the weekend, in which demonstrators torched cars and threw flaming objects at the embassy.

Similar instances have occurred at Russian consulates in Odessa and Lvov.

Comment: Since the US hasn't condemned the protesters actions, may be it is sign that they are supporting them?

Climate change deniers may be prosecuted says US attorney general

James Delingpole
Breitbart
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:55 UTC

The US Department of Justice has been considering whether people should be prosecuted for the offense of climate change denial.

"This matter has been discussed. We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action on," said Attorney General Loretta Lynch, responding to a question from green activist Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) at a Senate Judiciary Hearing.

Whitehouse said:

"The similarities between the mischief of the tobacco industry pretending that the science of tobacco's dangers was unsettled and the fossil fuel industry pretending that the science of carbon emissions' dangers is unsettled has been remarked on widely, particularly by those who study the climate denial apparatus that the fossil fuel industry has erected."

"Under President Clinton, the Department of Justice brought and won a civil RICO action against the tobacco industry for its fraud. Under President Obama, the Department of Justice has done nothing so far about the climate denial scheme,"

Perhaps the kind of RICO action Whitehouse has in mind is similar to the one proposed to President Obama a few months ago by a number of key climate scientists, led by one Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University.

However this campaign appears to have gone mysteriously quiet of late.

Could it perhaps be that having become embroiled in "the largest science scandal in US history" and now being under investigation for "double-dipping" and the potential misuse of $63 million worth of taxpayer funded grants, Shukla feels somewhat less confident of holding the moral high ground?

McCain: US to increase deployment of Special Operations in Libya, fight Daesh

Sputnik
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:34 UTC

The United States will increasingly have to deploy Special Operations forces to Libya to combat Daesh and other militant groups establishing a stronghold in the country, US Senator John McCain told Sputnik.

"They are going to have to fight in Libya, they know that... they're already there," McCain said on Wednesday of US Special Operations forces. US forces will most likely be deployed to Libya "in the same incrementalism that [the Obama administration] has been practising, which in the long-run doesn't work."

In a testimony on Wednesday, a nominee to head the US Special Operations Command, General Raymond Thomas, noted that the Islamic State in Libya poses the "greatest risk" to US coalition partners and European countries as a result of its strong organization and resource base along Libya's Mediterranean coast.

The Obama administration has come under increasing pressure to send additional special forces to Libya, following recent gains made by the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, in Northern Africa.

Comment: Thanks to John McCain and other Western ~~hawks~~ vultures, Libya is a devastated country rapidly becoming the new stronghold for Daesh and other militant groups. As a war junkie, McCain is spouting the same war chants he did in 2011 before Gaddafi was murdered, but, you know, it's a new day, a new war, and he can hardly wait.

More evidence: Sputnik obtains exclusive video from Daesh chemical storage

Sputnik
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:21 UTC

Iraqi soldier with ISIS chemical weapons

Sputnik obtained exclusive video footage from a Daesh chemical weapons store. The terrorist group used these weapons against the Iraqi security forces and civilians.

The 5th Regiment of the people's militia in the Iraqi province of Anbar in the city of Ramadi discovered these new warehouses.

In the video, an officer of the national militia not only pointed to the canisters containing the dangerous substance, but also showed the procedure that the militants used to produce these chemical weapons. They charged their missiles and mines with it.

'Absurd and ridiculous': Iran ordered to pay $10.5 billion for 9/11 by US judge

RT
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:14 UTC

A US judge ordered Iran to pay over $10 billion in damages to families of victims who died on September 11, 2001 - even though there is no evidence of Tehran's direct connection to the attack. The same judge earlier cleared Saudi Arabia from culpability.

The default judgement was issued by US District Judge George Daniels in New York on Wednesday. Under the ruling, Tehran was ordered to pay $7.5 billion to 9/11 victims' families, including $2 million to each victim's estate for pain and suffering, and another $6.88 million in punitive damages. Insurers who paid for property damage and claimed their businesses were interrupted were awarded an additional $3 billion in the ruling.

The ruling is noteworthy particularly since none of the 19 hijackers on September 11 were Iranian citizens. Fifteen were citizens of Saudi Arabia, while two were from the United Arab Emirates, and one each from Egypt and Lebanon.

Iraqis block highway, demand airstrikes to stop Daesh's chemical weapons attacks

RT
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:52 UTC

Comment: Oddly, Iraqi intelligence agencies say they have found no evidence that Daesh possesses chemical weapons, according to head of the national parliament's security and defense committee Hakim Zamili. Yet Iraqi militias have found warehouses full of the stuff:

Hundreds of people have blocked Iraq's main highway, demanding retaliation strikes against a town which Islamic State extremists launched a chemical attack from on Wednesday.

"We demand Iraqi air force strikes on Bashir," chanted the crowd that blocked the road between the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and the city of Kirkuk, referring to the village which the militants launched their chemical attack from.

Most protesters came from the village of Taza, which came under Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) shelling on Wednesday, during which the jihadists used "poisonous substances." About 200 people were injured in the shelling and 17 Taza residents remain in hospital, according to the head of the Iraqi Kirkuk health directorate, Burhan Abdallah.

Cozy relationship: Ukraine offers to sell its coal mines to Turkey

RT
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:10 UTC

Kiev says Ankara is considering an offer to buy Ukrainian coal mines as part of the country's plan to privatize state assets this year.

During his visit to Ankara, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko asked Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to take part in Ukraine's privatization.

"The Turkish side has expressed interest in participating in the privatization of energy assets in Ukraine, coal mines in particular," said a statement from Ukraine's Energy Ministry.

Moderate rebels using moderate chemical weapons in Syria - BBC fails to notice

Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:35 UTC

Comment: Kurdish YPG sources say the weapons are coming from Turkey: "Our sources inside the rebel groups have confirmed that toxic substances were used. We also have verified information that sarin gas was delivered to them from Turkey. All signs point to the fact that these factions were using banned weapons, but we cannot access the launching area, as it is located on the front between the Turkish and rebel forces."

Cameron's "moderate rebels" - Saudi supplied Wahhabi jihadists - have this past 48 hours been bombing civilian areas of Aleppo with yellow phosphorus. The BBC, which went to such extraordinary lengths to fake reports of chemical attacks by Assad, has not reported these genuine chemical attacks at all. Probably because it is too difficult to explain not just why Cameron's allies are using chemical weapons - and who gave them the chemical weapons - but also why these "friendly" jihadists are attacking Cameron's other allies, the Kurds, all during a ceasefire.

This video of Robert Stuart is a must see. Let me pin my colours to the mast and say that I am absolutely convinced that the BBC did deliberately and knowingly fake evidence of chemical attacks.

Ilan Pappe demolishes Israel-Palestine peace process: 'We wasted 40 years talking about nothing, doing nothing'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:15 UTC

Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Last night Ilan Pappe gave a brilliant speech about the cruel illusion of the peace process to a hall at New York University packed with 200 people of all ages. This afternoon he speaks at Columbia, and if you are in the neighborhood you should go. I cannot think of a more cogent explanation of the political outlines of the conflict in this moment. One can differ with portions of Pappe's thesis, but his analysis of the service of the peace process to rapacious colonization is inarguable. And his argument was lit by empathy toward Israelis; so it is not a program of violence but of peaceful transformation.

What did the Anglo-Israeli professor say?

For decades, intellectuals tried and failed to explain the root of the conflict as a settler-colonial project. Now at last that paradigm has come into fashion in academia; and it is acute and powerful, and helps explain the relevance of Palestine to the Middle East and the world at large.

The settler colonial understanding replaces a discourse of Israel and Palestine as a hegemonic conflict between two national movements, a "business" problem more than a "human" one. In that understanding negotiators could manage the conflict and presume to offer a fair split of the real estate, tilted to one side because it was the stronger one; but the result of that failed model is what we see in the shrinking Palestine maps: less and less land, now mere crumbs for the indigenous people.

The settler colonial model is accurate because it captures the spirit of Zionism from 1882 to the present: a project to settle the land and deal with the indigenous people by a process of "elimination and dehumanization."

Comment: Nothing meaningful will happen for Palestine until the power of the Israeli lobby is broken, but the amount of money it has to throw at politicians will make it very difficult. Individuals can help by supporting the BDS campaign.

Western reporter Eva Bartlett's Syrian investigations find U.S.-backed 'rebel fighters' are really jihadists

Eric Zuesse
Washington's Blog
Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:48 UTC

Eva Bartlett, an independent journalist who is the first Western reporter who has travelled through the areas of Syria that have been freed from jihadist control by the Syrian government with Russian air-support, is reporting, at SOTT.net that everyone she speaks with has stories of horror to tell, and that in many instances the jihadists who were inflicting the horrors were U.S.-armed and backed, basically supported by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey — often "al-Nusra," the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. As Seymour Hersh and others have reported, the U.S. has worked with the Sauds, Qatar, and Turkey, to get men and weapons to al-Nusra.

For example:

In Latakia, many of the the over 1 million Internally Displaced Persons from Idlib, Aleppo and surrounding areas who are being housed and supported by the Syrian government spoke of the same heinous kidnappings, beheadings, and other crimes that most media currently only associate with Da'esh (ISIS), but which were perpetrated (with Turkish support) by the so-called FSA [that's the Free Syrian Army, the people that the Obama Administration backs and calls 'moderates'] and other terrorist factions.

Comment: Other excellent articles and interviews with Eva Bartlett:

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Puppet Masters

Lavrov calls out US 'hypocrisy and duplicity' amid Kiev embassy attacks

Climate change deniers may be prosecuted says US attorney general

McCain: US to increase deployment of Special Operations in Libya, fight Daesh

More evidence: Sputnik obtains exclusive video from Daesh chemical storage

'Absurd and ridiculous': Iran ordered to pay $10.5 billion for 9/11 by US judge

Iraqis block highway, demand airstrikes to stop Daesh's chemical weapons attacks

Cozy relationship: Ukraine offers to sell its coal mines to Turkey

Moderate rebels using moderate chemical weapons in Syria - BBC fails to notice

Ilan Pappe demolishes Israel-Palestine peace process: 'We wasted 40 years talking about nothing, doing nothing'

Western reporter Eva Bartlett's Syrian investigations find U.S.-backed 'rebel fighters' are really jihadists

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