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Russia's clear target on Islamic extremism is what makes Moscow's campaign in Syria effective, says strategic analyst

Sputnik
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:11 UTC

Making clear that Islamic extremists are the real enemy in Syria constitutes one of Russia's key accomplishments of the last two weeks, strategic analyst Paolo Raffone told Sputnik.

This makes Moscow's airstrike campaign efficient, he maintains.

"The enemy, according to the Russian strategy, is not the government of Assad but Islamic State. So the military intervention is simplifying the equation," Raffone said. Russia's major "achievement is to clarify that the alternative is either the current government or ISIL, there is nothing in between."

The airstrike campaign has already helped to change reality on the ground by helping the Damascus-led forces to push terrorists from their positions. For instance, on Monday, the Syrian military announced that large parts of the Aleppo Governorate were liberated.

Despite recent successes, it is still too early to say that the tide has turned. "For the time being we cannot say that ISIL forces are ruined. They have been put under pressure for sure but significant gains in military terms have not yet been made," the expert cautioned.

Japan considers cutbacks to funding of US military bases

RT
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:11 UTC

© Nathan Layne / Reuters
Osprey military aircraft are seen at the U.S. Futenma airbase in Ginowan, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.

Japan could be on a collision course with the US as Tokyo reportedly wants to cut the money it spends on American bases in the country. Washington may be reluctant to accept the cutbacks, as it would have to fork over millions of dollars per year.

Tokyo wants to reduce its spending on the upkeep of US bases so this money can be used to help expand the country's Self-Defense Forces, informed sources told The Japan Times. Japan reportedly wants to increase its defense of a group of remote islands in the southwest of the country.

The government had allocated 191.2 billion yen ($1.5 billion) for its 2015 budget to cover such spending. However, it wants to reduce this figure for 2016.

A joint pact between Japan and the US sees Tokyo review the amount it spends on the upkeep of the bases every five years. The current agreement is due to come up for renewal in March 2016.

However, the US is unlikely to welcome the proposed move, as it would have to spend millions of dollars per year to cover the shortfall.

Comment: Examining the new, urgently passed Japanese Defense Legislation

Russian strikes on ISIS expose West as #1 sponsor of terrorism

Steven MacMillan
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:10 UTC

Welcome to Obamaland, the mysterious, schizophrenic world where the truth is inverted. Washington is rapidly losing the microscopic amount of respect it had around the world, as US propaganda is becoming more childish by the week. Any rational person who is even remotely informed just sits back in amazement at the volume of deceptive, deceitful, and outright ludicrous statements constantly spewing from the mouths of top US officials. One of the latest comical episodes was when the US President, Barack Obama, actually tried to argue that Russian airstrikes against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS/IS/ISIL) are "only strengthening ISIL":

"The moderate opposition in Syria is one that, if we're ever going to have a political transition, we need. And the Russian policy is driving those folks underground or creating a situation in which they are [debilitated], and it's only strengthening ISIL."

So in Obama's mind, Russia pounding key ISIS positions and other affiliated terrorist groups isn't halting the groups rise, but "strengthening" it. In the real world however, Russia has been severely weakening ISIS and fellow extremist forces in Syria through bombing terrorist command centers, weapons warehouses, training camps and other enemy positions. Russian airstrikes have illuminated the complete sham of the US-led coalition against ISIS, as Russian airstrikes have been far more effective already, comparative to America's campaign.

Comment: Also see: Russia supplants U.S. in the global war on terror

Russia supplants U.S. in the global war on terror

Eric Zuesse
RINF
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:45 UTC

A meeting between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman (son of King Salman) ended on early Monday, October 12th. Agence France-Presse headlined "Vladimir Putin Meets Saudi Prince on 'Political Solution' in Syria," and reported that, whereas the son of the Sunni fundamentalist Saudi King says that his father still insists on removing the Shiite secularist leader Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria and on ending Syria's alliance with Shiite Iran, Prince Salman said that the Saudi King is "in favour of a political solution in Syria." Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was more forward in his statement about the meeting. He said: "The two parties confirmed that Saudi Arabia and Russia have similar objectives when it comes to Syria. Above all, it is to not let a terrorist caliphate take over the country." Nothing was quoted from the Saudi side about any such opposition to 'a terrorist caliphate,' however; the Sauds have been the chief financial backers of Islamic jihad. (And here is what their followers in Syria are actually like.) However, the fact that the Saudi King sent his son to Russia to negotiate with Putin about Syria is yet another indication that the key player in settling the Syrian civil war is now Putin, not at all U.S. President Barack Obama.

Russia takes out 53 ISIS targets, RT reports from the front

RT
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:52 UTC

The Russian Air Force has carried out 55 sorties in the last 24 hours, hitting 53 Islamic State targets in four Syrian provinces and destroying command posts, terrorist training camps and a transfer point, among others.

Sukhoi Su-24M and Su-34 bombers, together with Su-25SM ground support aircraft, bombed ISIS positions in the provinces of Idlib, Latakia, Homs and Hama, the Russian Defense Ministry's spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, told journalists.

The airstrikes destroyed seven command points, six training camps, six arms depots and a stronghold near the village of Salma in Latakia province.

Comment: RT's Murad Gazdiev has been to the area of Hama where heavy fighting is taking place between ISIS and Syrian troops. The large-scale offensive against the terrorists' strongholds started after air support from Russian bomber jets:

FDA Chief Nominee Robert Califf has ties to 'Greedy' Big Pharma

Nadia Prupis
Common Dreams
Fri, 09 Oct 2015 14:43 UTC

While at Duke, Robert M. Califf received millions in funding and salary support from Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis, and other drug companies.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday said he would vote against President Barack Obama's nomination to head up the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), citing Dr. Robert M. Califf's ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

Califf, a cardiologist and Duke University researcher, became FDA deputy commissioner earlier this year, and Obama announced plans to nominate him as the agency's chief last month. But in light of several recent industry scandals that brought national attention to price gouging of life-saving medications, Sanders—who is running for president as a Democrat—on Friday said he would not support the status quo when the vote comes before the U.S. Senate health committee.

Comment: WHO's been nominated to head the FDA?

Brzezinski's 'Arc of Chaos' is being laid to rest

Andrew Korybko
Sputnik
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:15 UTC

Russia's anti-terrorist campaign in Syria is nipping American grand strategy right in the bud.

From the 1980s onwards, Polish-American geostrategist and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski's ideas were at the forefront of the US' foreign policy application all across the world. Be it through the admitted creation and arming of the Mujahedeen (which later grew into Al Qaeda and the Taliban) or the obsession to divide Ukraine from Russia (later culminating in EuroMaidan), Brzezinski's ideas have become a destabilizing reality that have stretched across continents and decades.

The most enduring legacy that he ever created, however, is the destructive theory of the "Eurasian Balkans" that he devised in his 1997 book, "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". He postulated that it's the broad arc of land from North Africa to Central Asia whose ripeness for divisive ethnic and sectarian strife is exactly what the US needs to exploit in order to indefinitely maintain its unipolar grip on global power.

Comment: The US was clearly not anticipating Putin coming in and putting an end to this ridiculously elaborate scheme for world domination. Good on him. Also see: Russian buildup in Syria leaves US flat-footed

Doubling down: US military airdrops tons of ammo to terrorists in Syria's north

Sputnik
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:37 UTC

A group of US cargo aircraft airdropped overnight some 50 tons of small fire ammunition and explosives to ~~terrorists~~ rebels in northern Syria's Hasakah province, CNN reported Monday citing a US official speaking on condition of anonymity.

The broadcaster claimed that this was a first step in a US effort to boost support to what the White House refers to as moderate opposition forces fighting regular Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar Assad.

C-17 cargo planes dropped ammunition on 112 pallets to be retrieved by opposition fighters on the ground from a US-vetted group called by Washington the Syrian Arab Coalition.

According to the CNN, the newly-named Syrian anti-government force was first mentioned by Christine Wormuth, policy undersecretary at the US Defense Department, during Congressional testimony in September.

She said the group was being trained as part of a train-and-equip mission for anti-Assad opposition factions in Syria.

Comment: Psychopaths have no imagination, let alone foresight. It's likely this latest effort supporting 'moderate rebels' will go as every previous one, with the armaments being funneled into ISIS/Al Nusra hands.

Grassroots movements being systematically infiltrated by big industry operatives

Julie Wilson
Natural News
Fri, 09 Oct 2015 20:32 UTC

Sadly, it appears that Americans have even been stripped of the freedom to coordinate genuine grassroots movements, as they are now routinely infiltrated by the enemy who operates above the law and free from accountability.

Distrust for an oversized government has now leached over into distrust for corporate America, which one can argue are one in the same.

It's no longer a secret that corrupt corporations are not only running America but controlling many parts of the world, as they have funded politicians to write laws favorable to their business models, allowing them to operate freely at the expense of human life and the once-resourceful environment that we all desperately rely on for our existence.

Comment: 'Big industries have become particularly well versed in infiltration, planting their corporate seeds in the media, academia, influential public figures and grassroots movements, the latter of which they fear the most.'

The articles below are just a few examples of how Big Industry plants their corporate seeds in the media and academia. The Agriculture biotech giant Syngenta, goes to extreme lengths to shape the conversation about their controversial products, silencing academics and resorting to devious tactics to sway the public away from the truth:

Update: FSB says ISIS-trained suspects planned terror attack on Moscow public transport

RT
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:29 UTC

Several people were detained in a Moscow apartment on suspicion of planning a terror attack in Moscow, Russian news agencies reported, citing the FSB press service. Two of the detained confessed the attack was to be on public transport, the FSB said.

"It was determined that at a certain address in Moscow six to 11 people have occasionally been, some of them had undergone military training in camps of Islamic State terrorists on Syrian territory and arrived in Russia long before the start of Russian military operation in that country," the press office of Russia's Federal Security Service told Russian news agencies.

A self-made bomb with a capacity of 5 kilograms of TNT, an electric detonator, scales to weigh the bomb components, instruments and manuals on making explosives were found in a flat in an ordinary apartment building in western Moscow.

During the questioning, two suspects told security officers that they planned an attack on Moscow public transport, and had received financial resources and elements of an improvised explosive device from their superiors in the militant group, the FSB press service said.

"An evacuation of the building's residents was carried out, its gas supply system was switched off and the FSB's gas-engineering lab arrived at the scene," the Federal Security Service said. "The reconnaissance revealed [5 kilos] of explosives, produced [from] ammonium nitrate."

Comment: The FSB seems to be cleaning up at home too.

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Puppet Masters

Russia's clear target on Islamic extremism is what makes Moscow's campaign in Syria effective, says strategic analyst

Japan considers cutbacks to funding of US military bases

Russian strikes on ISIS expose West as #1 sponsor of terrorism

Russia supplants U.S. in the global war on terror

Russia takes out 53 ISIS targets, RT reports from the front

FDA Chief Nominee Robert Califf has ties to 'Greedy' Big Pharma

Brzezinski's 'Arc of Chaos' is being laid to rest

Doubling down: US military airdrops tons of ammo to terrorists in Syria's north

Grassroots movements being systematically infiltrated by big industry operatives

Update: FSB says ISIS-trained suspects planned terror attack on Moscow public transport

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