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US continues to cuddle ISIS - Iraq, Syria, Iran, Russia and Hizbullah continue to fight them

Bernard
Moon of Alabama
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:36 UTC
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OIR Spokesman Verified account @OIRSpox - 15:02 UTC - 24 Apr 2018

#Iraq's strike on a known Daesh HQ in Syria was planned/conducted by the Iraqi Security Forces, w/ support from @CJTFOIR. This strike shows Iraq's willingness to do what's necessary to secure its citizens as well as their important role in the Global @Coalition to #defeatDaesh
The above tweet by the spokesperson for the U.S. Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) against ISIS is extremely misleading if not false. The U.S. is trying to take some credit for a strike which was done without its consensus. The attack against ISIS was initiated by an anti-U.S. alliance as a warning against further U.S. shenanigans with ISIS.

The U.S. military in Syria has refrained from fighting ISIS for months. The map of the territory held by ISIS (grey) at the Syrian-Iraqi border in the U.S. controlled zone north of the Euphrates (yellow) has not changed since November 2017.

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Livemap: Nov 30 2017, Apr 24 2018 - bigger, bigger

(The yellow corridor going south east towards Iraq on the map is misleading. The U.S. has no forces there and ISIS crossed it several times to attack Syrian forces (red) across the river.)

Comment: How soon before US and Israel and Saudi Arabia's use of terrorists as a proxy force becomes understood among the majority of Westerners as the THE prevailing problem in the Middle East? Maybe sooner than we think:



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Gallup poll shows Killary set humiliating record MSM is ignoring

Benjamin Arie
Conservative Tribune
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:49 UTC
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Hillary Clinton wanted desperately to make history by being America's first female president. Instead, she just broke a different record for a very humiliating reason - and it provides a hint of exactly why she lost in the first place.

Forbes journalist Josh Jordan just pointed out an amazing fact that has been widely ignored by the mainstream media. Based on widely-respected Gallup polling, Hillary is the only candidate known to have dropped in likability after losing an election.

Comment: Killary is a textbook example of pathological persistence publicly demonstrated.

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Leaked NSA cable confirms Israel assassinated Syrian government official in 2008

Tamar Pileggi
Times of Israel
Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:56 UTC
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Screenshot of the leaked NSA cable implicating Israel in the assassination of the Syrian general Muhammad Suleiman on April 1, 2008.
In a scene that sounds as if it was taken out of a spy movie, Israeli naval commandos are said to have assassinated President Bashar Assad's top security aide as he hosted a dinner party at his beachfront villa in the coastal city of Tartus in 2008.

General Muhammad Suleiman was killed after multiple bullets hit him in the head and neck as he sat around a crowded dinner table in the summer of 2008, the Intercept reported on Wednesday.

Citing recently leaked NSA documents, the report said that Israel's elite naval commandos of Shayetet 13 stormed into Suleiman's seaside vacation from the beach and shot the general before quickly escaping back to the sea.

According to the report, the intelligence files confirm for the first time that Suleiman was the target of an Israeli military operation, ending years of speculation that it was in fact an internal dispute that had resulted in the general's assassination.

The document was provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who intermittently leaked thousands of classified documents from the American intelligence agency beginning in 2013.

Comment: See also:

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Propaganda

BBC's Newsnight report into disinformation shows hallmarks of information warfare

Simon Rite
RT
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:15 UTC
BBC Newsnight
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"In the world of information warfare, the Russians are on the offensive," says a new BBC Newsnight report on disinformation, which bears all the hallmarks of a corporation waging an information war of its own.

In fact, the report comes mere days after a BBC presenter suggested live on air that the British state broadcaster was part of information warfare, and people should be tailoring their message accordingly.

Well, Newsnight was back in the props cupboard for this report, in order to sprinkle its now familiar Russian stereotypes throughout. The tropes on show here are Gabriel Gatehouse starting his report with a shot of vodka before later showing off his Russian skills, as well as two separate Russian matryoshka dolls, one with Putin's face on it. This is the level of discourse at which we're operating. "We've entered a world of confirmation bias," says Gatehouse unironically at one point, in what could be a description of his own work.
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New book reveals how Killary melted down and went on expletive-laced rants against her staff during 2016 campaign

Justin Caruso
The Daily Caller
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:02 UTC
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Maybe I had him killed, maybe Russia did. What difference does it make?
A new book claims Hillary Clinton melted down during debate preparation against Donald Trump in 2016.

Amy Chozick, who covered Clinton for The New York Times during the 2016 campaign, wrote in her book that Hillary went on expletive-laced rants against her staff.

The Guardian reports that Chozick wrote, "Aides understood that in order to keep it all together onstage, Hillary sometimes needed to unleash on them in private."
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Russian criticism of Western aggression and no intervention encourages more of the same

Stephen Lendman
Stephen Lendman Blog
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:51 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
Hegemons pay no heed to criticism of their policies, no matter how lawless.

Nor do their partners in high crimes, allied in pursuing a common agenda - regardless of how core international laws are violated.

Washington is a serial aggressor. US-dominated NATO is all about offense, not defense. Alliance enemies are invented. Real ones don't exist.

Yet endless wars rage, no end of them in sight, new nations on Washington's target list, eliminating sovereign independent Russia and China the final obstacles to unchallenged US dominance.

America's permanent war agenda heads perilously toward a potentially catastrophic one to end future conflicts, humanity at risk of being consumed by US hubris, arrogance, and rage to dominate.

Comment: We sympathize with Mr Lendman's frustration, and we admit it would be nice to see the US being slapped on the wrist a time or two when they unilaterally bomb other countries without any justification. However, Russia did not respond militarily to the attack because it was carefully measured to be minimal - a theatrical display that would not cause any real harm neither to Russia nor Syria. Why escalate based on so little when the war is virtually won? In fact, all things considered, F.UK.US. laregely damaged their own image, both for basing their actions on lies and for accomplishing nothing, leaving Russia and Syria looking much better.

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UN envoy to Israel: 'Stop shooting at children, they must be protected'


Middle East Monitor
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:59 UTC
Death of child
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Funeral of a Palestinian child who was killed by Israeli forces during the 'Great March of Return' on 7 April 2018.
UN Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov clashed with a former Israeli army spokesman on Twitter after the UN official slammed Israel's violent response to protests in Gaza on Friday which left four Palestinians dead.

Mladenov angrily tweeted that Israel's actions on the Gaza border were "outrageous", particularly calling for children to be protected from the ensuing violence, a reference to 14-year-old Mohammad Ayoub, who was shot despite being some 150 metres away from the border.

Peter Lerner, who acted as spokesman for the Israeli military for 25 years, responded to Mladenov, labelling his comments "unhelpful" suggesting steps that the UN envoy should take instead to rectify the situation, including stopping "Palestinian incitement and organised riots at the border". He went on to say that the "the tweet from THE most senior UN official does nothing to prevent the next death".

Maldenov replied bluntly: "Here's another idea. Stop shooting at children."

Comment: See also: Israel's latest excuse for murdering child protesters in Gaza: They're not in school

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Russian MOD says OPCW confirms no chemical weapons at facility bombed by FUKUS


Sputnik
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:24 UTC
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Last week, the fact-finding mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) visited a site in the Damascus suburb of Douma to collect samples in connection with the alleged April 7 chemical attack.

Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff Col. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy has announced that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had confirmed that there were no chemical weapons found at the Barzeh research center in Damascus despite the US officials' claims.

The official further noted that thousands of people could have died if there was any chemical weapon on the sites that were attacked by the US-led coalition.

"Immediately after the attacks, many people who worked at these destroyed facilities and just bystanders without any protective equipment visited them. None of them got poisoned with toxic agents," Rudskoy said.

He said the logic of strikes on alleged facilities with toxic agents in Syria was unclear, because if toxic agents had theoretically been stored there, tens of thousands of people would have died after the cruise missile strikes.

Comment: If the U.S. media bothered to actually read or undertake even cursory research, they'd know that the OPCW inspected the Barzeh site in November 2017 and found nothing. And if the U.S. media could use their vision and their ability to count to ten, they would have been able to confirm for themselves Rudskoy's counts of successful missiles, as SOTT's Joe Quinn did immediately after the attack: Just for comparison, we estimated 9 hits on Barzeh, 5 on Han Shinshar, and 1 on storage facility. The Russians counted 13, 7, and 2.

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France: Poll shows over half "dissatisfied" with President Macron


RT
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:31 UTC
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Over half of the French people broadly disapprove of President Emmanuel Macron's job performance, according to a new poll that took place around the time Paris joined US-led airstrikes on Syria, and amid protests over reforms.

As many as 55 percent of the respondents said they are "dissatisfied" with the president's performance, says Ifop poll, published by Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

The study was conducted online and by telephone, from April 12 to 21, with a sample of nearly 2,000 people polled.

People were asked: "Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with Emmanuel Macron as President of the Republic?" Only 44 percent of those polled said they were, with five percent of those "very satisfied" and 39 percent "rather satisfied." Around 23 percent said they were "very dissatisfied," and 32 percent "rather dissatisfied." One percent did not answer.

Comment: Macron doesn't seem too phased by the fact that both his countrymen and parliament aren't happy with his performance so far, so long as he has Trump by his side:

Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: World in Chaos: Anti-Russia Hysteria, Israel Murders Palestinians, US Leaving Syria?

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Bad Guys

Trump: Iran will 'pay a price like few countries have ever paid' if US is threatened


RT
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:41 UTC
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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran "will pay a price like few countries have ever paid" if the Middle Eastern nation threatens the US in any way.

The president was speaking at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on the second day of Macron's state visit to Washington.

Trump made his comments while speaking about the impending May 12 deadline to renew the Iran nuclear deal. If Trump does not sign a sanctions waiver by May 12 the deal is void and US sanctions on Iran resume.

Comment: Trump and Macron also discussed the possibility of unilaterally coming to a 'new agreement' on the Iran deal. The BBC reports:
"I think we will have a great shot at doing a much bigger, maybe, deal," the US president said, adding that any new agreement must be built on "solid foundations".

"They should have made a deal that covered Yemen, that covered Syria, that covered other parts of the Middle East," said Mr Trump, referring to the 2015 accord which he described as "insane".
Iran responded with appropriate indignation, threatening severe consequences if the US withdrew from the current deal:
"Together with a leader of a European country [the Americans] say: 'We want to decide on an agreement reached by seven parties,'" Mr Rouhani said in a televised speech in the city of Tabriz on Wednesday.

"For what? With what right?"

Mr Rouhani said Iran had "shown goodwill to the world" when it signed the accord and had wanted to prove it did "not seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction".

On Tuesday, he warned that there would be "severe consequences" if the US reimposed sanctions. He did not give any details but Iranian officials have said uranium enrichment could be stepped up within days and that the country could withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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