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Poroshenko's "conditions" mean elections in Donbass will never take place


For Russ
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 02:47 UTC
Poroshenko
After a briefing by the Ukrainian head of state following talks on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poroshenko was approached by Russian journalists with the question of when elections will be held in Donbass.


The Ukrainian President stopped in front of the reporters and said: "As soon as Russian troops withdraw from the territory of Ukraine."


Comment: From the editor of News Front: To withdraw what doesn't exist from Donbass is impossible. Therefore, elections in Donbass on the basis of negotiations with the LDPR laws that bring fundamental change to the Constitution of Ukraine, will never take place during Poroshenko's reign


Via Newsfront Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
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Predictable - NATO summit closes by condemning Russia

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 13:49 UTC
NATO Warsaw summit logo
© Associated Press/Jonathan Ernst
The issues that were discussed at this year's NATO Summit were mainly preparations for a possible war against Russia.

The two-day Summit in Warsaw, Poland ended on Saturday July 9th, with a 139-part "Warsaw Summit Communiqué" which used the word "terrorism" 17 times, "jihad" and "jihadist" and "jihadism" 0 (zero) times, and "Russia" 58 times — never favorably, and often with overt hostility.

It also referred to "Ukraine" 34 times, and "Syria" 10 times. Ukraine, during a February 2014 coup (it has been referred to as having been a "coup" both by the leader of the private CIA firm Stratfor, and by the Establishment writer on international relations John Mearsheimer, among others) switched, immediately after the coup, from having been neutral between NATO and Russia, to being suddenly and consistently intensely hostile to Russia, and immediately applied to join NATO; Syria still remains strongly allied with Russia.

The Ukrainian government was referred to 100% favorably, and the Syrian government was referred to 100% unfavorably.

In other words: the Communiqué is 100% hostile toward Russia and its ally Syria, and is far more concerned about Russia than it is about terrorism — and not at all concerned about jihadism and jihadists.
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Russian Foreign Ministry: NATO provokes crisis while attempting to demonize Russia


RT
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 02:18 UTC
Maria Zakharova
NATO "exists in a political mirror-world," focusing on a "mythical" threat from the East "demonizing" Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said commenting on the results of the bloc's summit in Warsaw.

"We're currently analyzing the decisions made at the NATO summit that took place in Warsaw on July 8 and 9. But even a cursory look at the results of the meeting shows that NATO continues to exist in some political mirror-world," an official statement from Zakharova reads.

The summit ended on Saturday with the allies signing a 139-chapter communiqué on measures to tackle security threats, with "Russian aggression" being one of the core points. NATO accused Russia of "provocative military activities in the periphery of NATO territory" and "willingness to attain political goals by the threat and use of force." The alliance slammed Moscow's actions as "a source of regional instability, fundamentally challeng[ing] the alliance, hav[ing] damaged Euro-Atlantic security, and threaten[ed] our long-standing goal of a Europe whole, free, and at peace."

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Obama: The Nobel Peace prize winner that is a war god in disguise

Martin Berger
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 01:22 UTC
Obama
© New Eastern Outlook
The state controlled media sources in the US are desperately trying to present President Obama as a peacemaker that is "worthy of his Nobel Prize." However, this "dignified symbol" in his actions doesn't remind a hero of peace, instead he seems to be hiding a mask of the Greek god of war in his pocket - Mars.

The dubious achievements of the sitting American President in the field of undermining and invading sovereign states are well known and documented It's enough to just mention that Barack Obama has been at war longer than any president in United States history and he will be remembered as the only president who ever served two full terms in office while constantly being at war.

Obama received back in the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and in the coming years in the White House he must have been trying to fulfill the promises he given to the US as an anti-war candidate. Yet he would have a longer tour of duty as a wartime president than Roosevelt, Johnson, Nixon or his hero Abraham Lincoln.

The piece drafted in the Cato Institute would note that President Obama has taken military action in a total of seven countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen — without the authorization of Congress. If one is to include covert military actions taken by special operations forces, the list is longer and the impact much broader. During the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, 2014, US Special Operations forces (SOF) deployed to 133 countries - roughly 70 percent of the nations on the planet with missions ranging from kill or capture night raids to training exercises.

As noted by various American observers, the ease with which Obama starts new conflicts pose the same dangers to world peace that the wars in Vietnam and Iraq once did. It's clear that Obama declared the "end" of the Iraq war in 2011 only to start sending troops back. In Afghanistan, he didn't even go through that formality. The Pentagon has officially refused to disclose the exact number of American troops deployed in those states. We do know that there are at least tenfold more troops in Iraq now than there were in the latter half of 2014, when Obama went on television and said that the US would be conducting "limited" airstrikes there. Since then, more than 25,000 bombs have been dropped in Iraq, Syria, Libya and elsewhere.

Obama's policies resulted in the deaths of American soldiers, despicable massacres of innocent civilians, the massive exodus of refugees from the Middle East that keeps descending into violent chaos.It is not surprising that the Cato Institute statesthat after eight years of continuous warfare, the Nobel Committee should take another unprecedented action: it should revoke Obama's peace prize and demand repayment of the prize money.
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Reuters runs al-Qaeda propaganda, disguises them as "rebels"


Moon of Alabama
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:31 UTC
moderate rebel
The British news agency Reuters seems to have difficulties distinguishing between various forms of militancy.

Thus it categorizes designated terrorists as "rebels".

July 1 2016 : Syria rebels retake key town in western coastal province: monitor, rebels
Insurgents seized a strategic town from Syrian government forces and their allies in the western coastal province of Latakia on Friday, a monitoring group and the rebels said, in a rare advance for them in the area.
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Nusra Front said in an online statement that an alliance of Islamist rebel groups including itself had captured Kansaba and a number of other villages, seizing several tanks and artillery guns.
The Nusra Front is Al Qaeda's organization in Syria. Two UN Security Council resolutions call on all UN members to "eradicate" the terrorist organization's safe havens.
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Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard on US intervention in Syria - and the road to hell

Tulsi Gabbard
Medium
Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00 UTC
Tulsi Gabbard
There is much at stake as we look toward the next 5 months, and beyond. We must be engaged. Our voices must be heard on the many important issues that we are tackling — such as environmental protection, health care, education, criminal justice reform, social security, jobs, veterans, campaign finance reform, and more.

There is one issue that impacts all the rest: If we continue to spend trillions of dollars on costly interventionist regime change wars, overthrowing dictators we don't like, we will not be able to afford to make any real progress on all the other issues that are so important to all of us

As progressives, we care about the well-being of others. We are soft-hearted, and have aloha, respect, compassion for others and we don't like to see anyone suffering. As a result, sometimes it's easy to believe that maybe we should support a regime change war if we believe that war will relieve human suffering.

Proponents of the interventionist wars in Libya and Iraq argued that these actions were justified because of humanitarian concerns. It was pointed out over and over that these countries were in the grips of evil dictators who had to be removed.

Comment: One may well argue that there really are no "good intentions" involved in these cases of "intervention," but as a Congesswoman, Gabbard is choosing her words carefully and making the argument against more war in ways that most people can accept.

For an in-depth discussion of what the real intentions are among many in Washington's foreign policy establishment listen to this week's Sott Radio Show: A Very Heavy Agenda: The rise, fall and resurrection of the neocons, an interview with Robbie Martin.

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Paul Craig Roberts - Is the Dallas police shooting a false flag affair or is there some other explanation?

Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts Org
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:24 UTC
Police Brutality
© American Free Press
Police brutality.
Is the Dallas police shooting a false flag affair in behalf of gun control? Is it the result of a war veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder? Is the shooting the beginning of retribution for thousands of wanton police murders of US citizens in the 21st century? Or is there some other explanation?

We will never know. The perpetrator is dead. The authorities will tell us whatever suits the purposes of authority.

We could say that the police have brought this on themselves by their undisciplined and violent behavior toward the public. On the other hand, we can hold the police chiefs, the police unions, the mayors and city councils, the governors, prosecutors, and the Justice (sic) Department responsible for failure to hold accountable those cops who murder and commit gratuitous violence against the public.

When police execute someone, the excuse is always something like this: "He reached under his shirt to his waistband. I thought he had a gun. I didn't want to leave my children fatherless and my wife a widow." The murdered victim's wife and children, if any, are of no consequence.

Conservatives, especially those taught to be fearful of crime, have scant objection to police murders. Their view is always: "The police wouldn't have shot him without cause." The same bias in favor of the police is why conservative jurors always convict.

The liberals tend to interpret the shootings as racism, so they want to combat racism.
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Soldiers were on duty outside Bataclan theater during Paris attacks, did nothing

Anoosha Boralessa (translator)
Voltaire Network
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 21:44 UTC
Georges Dallemagne
© RTL
According to the Belgian Social-Christian MP, Georges Dallemagne (the former doctor close to the French Minister of Defence), soldiers on duty in front of the Bataclan at Paris, at the time of the Isis attacks on 13 November 2015, did not intervene.

Interviewed by RTL Belgique, the politician declared:
"We know that the police did not intervene even though they were at the scene. We know that the Sentinelle Force, that had six armed soldiers in front of the Bataclan did not intervene when the carnage occurred at the Bataclan" (...)

"They considered that they were under no duty to intervene, because no such duty was laid down in their rules of engagement. Their rules provided that they could only protect themselves. It is completely incredible, mind-blowing".
The MP regretted a lack of common sense while the Belgian Minister confirmed that his men are under instruction to intervene in a similar case.

Comment: Further reading:

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China-Philippines disputes: Incited by Washington for its own gain

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Global Times
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 21:18 UTC
Duterte
© asiapacific.anu.edu.au
President Rodrigo Duterte
The prospect for a negotiated settlement between China and the Philippines over some Nansha islands and islets appears possible with the change of government in Manila. The term of president Benigno Aquino III who rejected bilateral talks with Beijing ended on June 30. He has been replaced by Rodrigo Duterte in the Malacañan Palace. The new government has made overtures about holding bilateral talks with Beijing.

Relations became strained under the Aquino III administration. It restarted the territorial dispute and welcomed the revitalization of the US military presence in Southeast Asia.

In 2011, Aquino decided to start referring to the South China Sea as the West Philippine Sea to emphasize the country's claims, and later wrote this change into law. Straining ties further, his administration initiated legal action against China through the Permanent Court of Arbitration on October 29, 2015.

Comment: Duterte has made some controversial remarks since being sworn in:

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Putin denounces U.S.'s support for terrorists and neo-Nazis as proxies

Steven MacMillan
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 20:14 UTC
Obama and Putin
From Ukraine to Syria; Libya to Iraq: the West has repeatedly shown itself to be an imperial entity which brings nothing but chaos, devastation and destabilization to its victims. Contrary to spreading 'freedom and democracy' through its geopolitical endeavours, the West's rap sheet in the 21st century is unrivalled in its immorality and malevolence.

Considering this reality, it is frankly absurd that the Western mainstream media and NATO chiefs have been peddling the narrative that Russia is the belligerent power in the world today. Unless you have been living under a rock in the 21st century, you will have witnessed NATO and the Western establishment leaping from one horror show to the next. Starting with the 2001 war in Afghanistan, the West set the 21st century on the dangerous path of perpetual war, with the remaining 84 years looking as war-torn as the initial 16 if warmongering sociopaths are allowed to be at the helm of the Western world.

Comment: This policy didn't come out of nowhere. In fact, it is shaped by the same individuals who were responsible for Bush Jr.'s worst foreign policy 'decisions': the neocons behind the Project for the New American Century. The same people are active today within the rebranded Foreign Policy Initiative, and they include Bob Kagan's wife Victoria Nuland, and our favorite shellshocked lunatic, John McCain. For the whole sordid story, see Robbie Martin's documentary, A Very Heavy Agenda.

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