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The big lie about Russian forces in Syria

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 02:17 UTC
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Russian food, tents and medical supplies being unloaded in Latakia, western Syria
Washington continues using Islamic State and other takfiri terrorists as US proxy foot soldiers, waging naked aggression on Syria, largely affecting millions of civilians, creating a human flood of internally and externally displaced people along with mass slaughter and destruction.

Obama, John Kerry and other US officials firmly oppose Russia legitimately aiding its Syrian ally in need - providing political support as well as military weapons, munitions, equipment and technology.

The grand deception about Russian forces and warplanes operating in Syria persists. It's one of many Big Lies circulating to vilify Putin. Moscow has been forthrightly candid all along - explaining its obligation to supply Syria with contractually agreed on weapons, the only nation providing humanitarian aid along with UN efforts.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said over 12 million Syrians need help, larger numbers daily, desperate people enduring deplorable conditions and treatment, Obama's proxy war using IS and other takfiri terrorist foot soldiers fully responsible.
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The exploitation of the refugee crisis to escalate war in Syria


BRICS Post
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 04:34 UTC
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In less than two weeks we went from the picture of a dead refugee child to three new countries bombing Syria. How did we get here? And, perhaps more importantly, why did we get here?

George Bush's political architect Karl Rove once said "politics is TV with the sound turned off". This has never been more true than the way European governments and liberal interventionists have coalesced around the collective trauma of seeing the now-famous photo of a dead refugee child washed ashore to push for further bombing of Syria. Some against ISIS and others, increasingly, against the Assad government under the guise of a no-fly zone.

Indeed, the initial publishing of the pictures in The Independent (the now-famous image was originally tweeted out by Human Rights Watch's Peter Bouckaer) was accompanied by calls for UK Prime Minister David Cameron "to act".

What that meant exactly wasn't made clear but the door was left opened for a martial interpretation, which is precisely what Mr. Cameron did. In less than 96 hours, the UK was plotting to bomb Syria. France and Australia would soon follow.

Just as with the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the response was a swift military response to collective trauma with little or no public debate. Less than a week after the January 7th attack, if one recalls, the French legislature authorized the bombing of Iraq with a vote of 925 to 1.

Comment: This is probably the reason that the MSM is covering so much of this crisis. To engender support for a full scale invasion and bloody war with Syria.

Migrant crisis could be perfect excuse for overt regime change in Syria

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Israeli occupation forces arrest dozens of Palestinians following clashes over al-Aqsa Mosque

Sarah Benhaida
Interakyson
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:29 UTC
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Palestinian women shout slogans in front of Israeli forces during a protest in al-Quds (Jerusalem), September 20, 2015.
Israeli regime forces have detained nearly 40 Palestinians across the occupied territories following a series of clashes over the recent Israeli violations of the holy al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Israeli police sources confirmed on Sunday that they had arrested at least a dozen Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and 27 others in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) over the previous two days.

Palestinian protesters on Friday clashed with Tel Aviv regime forces in several cities across the occupied territories in a "day of rage" to denounce the Israeli acts of aggression against worshipers at the holy compound.

The arrests came days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed tougher penalties and "war" on Palestinian protesters. The Israeli premier said at an emergency meeting on Wednesday that Israel plans to broaden the mandate of its forces following clashes between them and Palestinian protesters in and around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied West Bank.

The brutal assaults against Palestinians at the holy compound started last Sunday following the deployment of Israeli soldiers to the area for the Jewish Rosh Hashanah New Year holiday. However, Tel Aviv regime forces had already applied sweeping restrictions on entries into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound since August 26.

Comment: Police state Israel: Govt approves sniper fire against Palestinians who throw rocks

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War drums: 24 generals from 13 NATO countries gather in Latvia for training in joint operations


RT
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:24 UTC
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NATO's cross-block training exercises, Steadfast Pinnacle 2015, involving high-profile commanders has kicked off in the Latvian capital of Riga. The session will focus on the role of top brass at an operational level.

The training, which also involves commanders from Sweden and Finland, who are not NATO members, started Sunday and will last for six days. Altogether, 48 top officers and 50 lecturers, administrative staff, planning analysts and observers are participating in Steadfast Pinnacle 2015 which is held at the Latvian National Academy of Defense.

The aim of the trainings is to work on commander roles in the process of planning and running operations, according to the Latvian Ministry of Defense.

Comment: NATO claims this is a defensive exercise but is it really?

STRATFOR Chief outlines psychopathic Zio-Anglo-American plans for world domination in speech to Chicago Council on Global Affairs

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Islamic State group now controls key drug trafficking routes


Telesur
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:15 UTC
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Iraqi security forces display vehicles and weapons seized from the Islamic State group
According to some estimates, the group could be making US$1 billion per year from drug trafficking.

Russian United Nations Envoy Vitaly Churking warned Thursday that Moscow received information on the Islamic State group confirming the group now controls an important narcotics supply route from Afghanistan.

"There is information that a group of militants from ISIS (Islamic State group) already control a part of the routes of illegal drug supply from the Badakhshan Province (in northeastern Afghanistan)," said Churkin during a United Nations Security Council session.

The official also called upon the U.N. body to closely monitor the situation of drugs in Afghanistan, given that it is one of the main routes of drug trafficking into Europe.

Comment: For more information about who is secretly bankrolling the narcotic trade. Read:
Unsung heroin: How MI6, CIA spend tax money on propping up Afghan drug trade

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Egypt floods Gaza's underground 'lifelines'

Marga Ortigas
Aljazeera
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:37 UTC
Underground lifelines used by residents of the town of Rafah are being flooded by Egypt, worsening existing isolation.
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Palestinian children played in water after Egyptian forces flooded the tunnels dug beneath the Gaza-Egypt border.
Seventy-three year old Mansura Abu Shaar was more than happy to talk to strangers. People rarely came this far, she told us, and it seemed to her that very few of those that did, cared enough to ask how they were doing. "Not well at all," she said needing little prodding. "Not well at all."

Mansura was clearly exhausted from having stayed up the night before. Fearful for her family, she sat outside her makeshift house just a few hundred metres from the border between Gaza and Egypt, on guard until dawn. "We're used to the guns and the rockets and the explosions," she said. "But now - water?"

Her voice trembled, and tears began to pool in her eyes. "This is our life," she said hopelessly. "We are so, so tired." Mansura lives in Rafah, the town divided between Gaza and Egypt by international political agreements in the 1980s. With Israel the only other way in or out, Gazans saw the border with fellow-Arab Egypt as the "friendly" alternative.

It was a pressure valve when all else around them seemed to be closing in. But the "friendly border" closed when Hamas took control of the government in Gaza in 2007. At least in theory. Underground, an entire network of smuggling tunnels was fully operational. As it had been for years, allegedly with Egyptian border guards looking the other way.


Comment: 2011 Film: One Family in Gaza

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Polls reveal Syrians overwhelmingly blame US for ISIS

Eric Zuesse
Global Research
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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Polls rise in anti-US sentiment.
The British polling organization ORB International, an affiliate of WIN/Gallup International, repeatedly finds in Syria that, throughout the country, Syrians oppose ISIS by about 80%, and (in the latest such poll) also finds that 82% of Syrians blame the U.S. for ISIS.

The Washington Post summarized on September 15th the latest poll. They did not headline it with the poll's anti-U.S. finding, such as "82% of Syrians Blame U.S. for ISIS." That would have been newsworthy. Instead, their report's headline was "One in five Syrians say Islamic State is a good thing, poll says." However, the accompanying graphic wasn't focused on the few Syrians who support ISIS (and, at only one in five, that's obviously not much.) It instead (for anyone who would read beyond that so-what headline) provided a summary of what Syrians actually do support. This is is what their graphic highlighted from the poll's findings:
82% agree "IS [Islamic State] is US and foreign made group."
79% agree "Foreign fighters made war worse."
70% agree "Oppose division of country."
65% agree "Syrians can live together again."
64% agree "Diplomatic solution possible."
57% agree "Situation is worsening."
51% agree "Political solution best answer."
49% agree "Oppose US coalition air strikes."
22% agree "IS is a positive influence."
21% agree "Prefer life now than under Assad."

Here are the more detailed findings in this poll, a poll that was taken of 1,365 Syrians from all 14 governates within Syria.

Comment: See also:

Highlights from Assad's rare interview: Terrorism, the refugee crisis, and Western propaganda

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Israeli arms, training and psychopathic ideology fuel atrocities in Africa

Rania Khalek
The Electronic Intifida
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
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Israeli weapons are fueling atrocities in South Sudan, according to a United Nations report that sheds new light on the secretive Israeli arms trade in Africa.

Authored by an investigative team assembled by the UN Security Council, the report cites photographic evidence of automatic rifles made by Israel Military Industries (IMI) being in the arsenal of South Sudan's army and police. Known as Galil ACE, the guns have particularly been used by bodyguards of high-ranking politicians and by senior army officers.

South Sudan was granted independence in 2011 following a civil war that lasted for decades. Within days of its establishment, leading figures in the Israeli weapons industry rushed to advance their interests in the new ally against Iran's influence in Sudan.

Since its secession in 2011, South Sudan has descended into civil war between opposing political factions.

Comment: Incredible to think that a nation's number one export - connected to its "products" - can be the pathologic thinking that helps people justify acts of genocide. But that is what we're witnessing here from the "only democracy in the middle east". 'Ye shall know them by their fruits'. And certainly it seems that the toxic fruit the Israelis have planted in the lands of Palestine have not been enough to satiate its dark thirst for profit, conquest and destruction at any cost.

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Behind the Headlines: War and rumors of Wars: Is 'the end' nigh?


Sott.net
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:00 UTC
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This week on Behind the Headlines your regular hosts, Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley, are once again joined by 'The Truth Perspective' host, Harrison Koehli.

From the ongoing U.S./Saudi Arabia-manufactured Syrian 'civil war' and a possible Russian-inspired 'peace process' to the continued US-Japanese sabre-rattling in Asia; from the British people's 'new hope' UK opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn to the increasingly desperate plight of Syrian refugees in Eastern European nations as they try to reach 'prosperity' in Germany and Western Europe; we'll be discussing all the latest developments in global politics, society and 'earth changes' and calling out the BS in the process.

Join us this Sunday September 20th 2015, 2-4pm EST - 8-10pm CET.

Running Time: 02:19:00

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Hungarian police clash with migrants at Serbian border

Dusan Stojanovic and Vanessa Gera
Yahoo! News
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC

Baton-wielding Hungarian riot police unleashed tear gas and water cannons against hundreds of migrants Wednesday after they broke through a razor-wire fence and tried to surge into the country from Serbia. Crying children fled the acrid smoke and dozens of people were injured in the chaos.

With their path blocked, hundreds of other asylum-seekers turned to a longer, more arduous path to Western Europe through Croatia, where officials said 1,300 had arrived in a single day — a number that was sure to grow.

On the sealed border into Hungary, frustrated men — many of them war refugees from Syria and Iraq — hurled rocks and plastic water bottles at the helmeted riot police as they chanted "Open" Open!" in English. Children and women cried as the young men, their faces wrapped in scarves, charged toward the police through thick smoke from tear gas and tires set on fire by the crowd.

Comment: We are witnessing a bizarre, love-hate spectacle of western nations and their vassal states towards Arab migrants, whom they continue to create by destroying Muslim nations in the name of "freedom" and "democracy".
Canada to accelerate Syrian refugee applications

Canada will bring in 10,000 refugees by Sept. 2016, 15 months ahead of schedule. The government said it will speed the processing of Syrian refugees by no longer requiring them to prove their refugee status through the United Nations refugee agency. Instead, Syrians will be presumed to be refugees by Canadian authorities who vet their applications.
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