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This week, however, their paths crossed in a manner that the US government did not appreciate: Russia is "reportedly" increasing its involvement in Syria, backing the military in the fight against ISIL, al-Qaeda, affiliates and proxies.
The US government has picked the "military intervention" card to fight back - claim territory - which is absurd. After all, the US and its NATO-Arab allies are also "supposedly" bombing ISIL targets in Syria!
Moscow has confirmed it has "experts" on the ground to support its long-time ally in the Middle East, but Russian officials decline to comment on the scale and scope of their military presence. Damascus, for its part, denies Russians are involved in combat. Then again, even if Russia decides to increase the presence of its military advisers, it should be welcome news for at least Washington's European allies who are struggling with the Syrian refugee crisis at their own doorstep.
Into the argument, the Syrian crisis needs a political solution not bombs. While Tehran and Moscow have made it clear that President Bashar Assad must be included in the necessary political negotiations to bring the fighting to an end, Washington and its allies continue to demand that the Syrian president should step aside.
Even though all share the same declared enemy in ISIL, the White House continues to frown on Iranian-Russian efforts to bolster the Syrian army and has rebuffed diplomatic overtures that would include President Assad.
Forget for one moment everything you've been told about September 11, 2001. 9/11 was a crime. And as with any crime, there is one overriding imperative that detectives must follow to identify the perpetrators: follow the money. This is an investigation of the 9/11 money trail.
Comment: This is a fascinating documentary of who, what, where, when, how and why. The money trail that was supposed to disappear with the events of 9/11 was not completely obliterated and in turn becomes obvious by the excellent work of connecting the dots in this video. Must see.
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Calling economic migrants and the flow of refugees fleeing war zones in the wider Middle East and Africa only the "tip of an iceberg" the pontiff highlighted what he believes to be the root cause of the crisis.
"The cause is a bad and unjust socioeconomic system, in everything, in the world," Pope Francis said in an interview with the Portuguese Catholic broadcaster Radio Renascenca. "These poor people are fleeing war, hunger, but that is the tip of the iceberg."
"This migration phenomenon is a reality," Francis said. "When there is an empty space, people try to fill it. If a country has no children, immigrants come in and take their place. I think of the birth-rate in Italy, Portugal and Spain."
Comment: He really doesn't get to the real cause of the refugee crises: of the bombings by the West, other countries, and their proxies that obliterate nations that once prospered socially and economically. On the surface, though, he's right. The refugee crisis does create a scenario that can easily be exploited by "ISIS"/Western Intel: 'ISIS among the refugees' - Prelude to another European "terror attack"?
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European Sturm und Drang on what to do about the refugee drama is unprecedented in modern times. Bitterness permeates the fault lines separating fear and intolerance from generosity and solidarity.
Among quite a few progressive circles, there are widespread fears that the current Western media campaign centered on the plight of refugees may be a catalyst to prepare European-wide public opinion for an all-out war in Syria before the end of 2015.
There had been an unspoken consensus among non-sectarian close observers of Syria and Lebanon that "Assad must go" — the Obama administration mantra — won't be fulfilled anytime soon.
Thus the current flood of refugees released from Turkish "holding camps" on their way to Europe — by direct orders from Ankara, with a little encouragement from Washington.
The plight of the refugees would then become the perfect excuse to precipitate a new R2P (responsibility to protect) war; Libya remixed, with fighting ISIS/ISIL/Daesh — the fake "Caliphate" — barely disguising the real agenda (which Washington shares with Ankara, Riyadh and Doha, not to mention London and Paris): regime change in Damascus.
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Syrian refugees wait near the border railway station of Idomeni, northern Greece, to cross into Macedonia.
Syrian refugees wait near the border railway station of Idomeni, northern Greece, to cross into Macedonia.
Western Europe always portrays asylum seekers as "gold diggers" who are just trying to escape poverty and find an easy life. It doesn't say so out loud, but refugee policy in every country is based on this assumption. As Western governments don't want to admit that most of the world's conflicts are created by them for their own purposes, as in Syria, promoting such a view is necessary to disguise the humanitarian consequences of their actions.
But only a tiny proportion of people claiming they are fleeing persecution ever make it to Western Europe or North America. The need for refugee resettlement in Europe will rise sharply in 2015, according to UNHCR, but this is largely accounted for by the conflict in Ukraine and the huge outflow from Syria affecting all regions of the world.
Over 90 per cent of the world's asylum seekers live in countries as poor, or poorer, than those they have left. These countries nevertheless manage to provide basic support precisely because their own populations know what poverty is like, and this is the crux of the issue.
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US playing a deceptive game with its coalition.
US playing a deceptive game with its coalition.
Russia has information that the US know the specific location points of the "Islamic State" (extremist organization banned in Russia), but did not give an order to strike on the positions "of the IS," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
In the program Sunday Times on Channel 1, Lavrov said that the US government "was not originally very careful in creating a coalition, or conspired towards goals that were not the declared ones."
According to the foreign minister, the coalition was created spontaneously, "within just a few days it was announced that it includes a number of countries and then begun strikes."
Lavrov said that the analysis of aviation operations in countries included in the coalition, "creates a strange impression," - as if in addition to fighting "the IS" "there is something else which is a concern of the coalition."
The minister said: "I hope not to disappoint anyone in saying that some of our colleagues from the incoming coalition of countries have information on where exactly and on what positions are "IS" or other subdivisions, and the commander of the coalition (the United States ) does not give consent to striking them. "
Comment: The US-Israeli IS deception is unravelling. Bombing IS is a convenient excuse for a broader spectrum of targets, none of which seem to be IS.
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A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister, who is currently visiting refugee camps in Lebanon, told Reuters on Monday: "The PM thinks there is a strong case for taking action against ISIL in Syria in the way that the UK is taking action against ISIL next door in Iraq."
"That remains his view. It hasn't changed because there has been a new leader of the opposition elected but, as he has said before, he wants to proceed with consensus on this matter and I think that is how he will continue to approach the issue," the spokeswoman added.
Comment: Patho-logic: Introduce ISIL in places you can bomb, wait until it goes to places you want to bomb. Voila, a precedent.
See also:
Fighting Assad by fighting ISIS: U.S. considers bombing oil pipelines
This must be emphasized as the primary driving factor behind the "refugee crisis". If these Western-led wars and proxy wars had not taken place, there would be no "refugee crisis" at all.
"All of these players, these politicians are nothing more than puppets, they don't serve the people there is no real democracy, they serve the rich and powerful who run the world and that would be the bankers who control the money supply. The bankers make huge amounts of money....wars are great for them and ultimately they control the politicians.Ken O' Keefe is a former US Marine turned anti-war campaigner who appeared on a Press TV debate called Syria: War of Deception, and absolutely owned his opponent in such an awesome way that you'll be cheering at his every comment.
Psychopaths are running the world."
Recorded in August 2013, this interview is now two years old, but in light of the current European refugeecrisis it's more relevant today than ever before. Passionate, articulate and knowledgeable about the subject matter, O'Keefe is the perfect guy to step up and tell these home truths- and boy, does he do a good job.
This guy nails so many crucial points about the Syria situation in one interview, he'll have you jumping around and punching the ceiling.
"We have tortured and killed and maimed and raped around this planet; who in their right mind would consider the United States or the West in general to be in any position to punish anybody?" the veteran begins angrily, going on to outline the evidence for Syria being a false flag attack (Note: leaked emails showing how Assad was framed by the USA are detailed in this cached Daily Mail report from January 2013, which was published online briefly before being removed).
He rightly points out that the USA dropped more bombs in Vietnam than during the whole of WW2 combined, that it regularly arms terrorists (but the mainstream press refer to them as 'freedom fighters' when it suits them) and the former marine also points out how the so-called 'War on Terror' is nothing more than a well-planned strategy to be in a "perpetual state of war to destabilize the region for the Greater Israel plan."
Comment: Regardless of the yin/yang posturing and its absurdities, we have an ever-widening circle of war, destruction and horrific acts to humanity. Reasons become confounded, obscure, and twisted by which the common folk suffer for the self-serving and diabolical aims of the few. For this, who among us is willing to pay the price?