These politicians become much more honest after they retire. Former Afghan PM Karzai hints at the fictitious and entirely malleable concept of "Al-Qaeda" and even says he "doesn't believe or disbelieve" the US government version of 9/11.

The Iranian nuclear deal doesn't mean a calm of the conflicts in the Middle East. Tehran's opponents in the region will curb the expansion of Iranian influence enforced by the chance of lifting the sanctions from the Islamic Republic. This will not immediately result in all-out warfare in the region, but it most likely will entail a growth of violence in Middle Eastern battle-grounds of Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other opponents of Iran are well experienced in the use of proxy forces including a diverse range of terrorist organizations and paramilitary groups. Thus, the situation in the region will likely worsen on multiple fault lines: Sunni versus Shiite, a war on terrorist groups as ISIL and ethnic conflicts among Turks, Iranians, Arabs, Kurds, and other groups.

Starting in 2007, the US was already in the process of engineering the overthrow and destruction of all prevailing political orders across the Middle East and North African (MENA) region.
It would be in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh's 2007 New Yorker article, "The Redirection: Is the Administration's new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?" that it was explicitly stated (emphasis added):

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabia's government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

Hersh would also reveal that at the time, the US - then under the administration of President George Bush and through intermediaries including US-ally Saudi Arabia - had already begun channeling funding and support to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood who would in 2011 play a crucial role in the opening phases of the destructive war now raging across the Levant.

In 2008, from Libya to Syria and beyond, activists were drawn by the US State Department from across MENA to learn the finer points of Washington and Wall Street's "color revolution" industry. They were being prepared for an unprecedented, coordinated US-engineered MENA-wide campaign of political destabilization that would in 2011 be called the "Arab Spring."

Through the US State Department's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and US State Department's Movements.org, agitators were literally flown on several occasions to both New York and Washington D.C. as well as other locations around the globe to receive training, equipment and funding before returning to their home countries and attempting to overthrow their respective governments.

In an April 2011 article published by the New York Times titled, "U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings," it was admitted:

A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington.

The article would also add, regarding the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED):

The Republican and Democratic institutes are loosely affiliated with the Republican and Democratic Parties. They were created by Congress and are financed through the National Endowment for Democracy, which was set up in 1983 to channel grants for promoting democracy in developing nations. The National Endowment receives about $100 million annually from Congress. Freedom House also gets the bulk of its money from the American government, mainly from the State Department.

It is clear that the political cover - the Arab Spring - and the premeditated support of terrorist groups including Al Qaeda brought in afterward, were planned years before the Arab Spring actually unfolded in 2011. The goal was admittedly the overthrow of governments obstructing Washington and Wall Street's hegemonic ambitions and part of a much wider agenda of isolating, encircling, and containing Russia and China.

The destruction of the MENA region was intentional, premeditated, and continues on to this very day.

Germany's decision to introduce border controls has exposed deep flaws within the European Union as it joined other countries in tearing up agreements made under fundamental principles of the EU.

Germany closed its border with Austria Sunday night and suspended train services as it struggled to deal with the influx of migrants and refugees. Although train services resumed Monday, border controls were still in place.

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told radio Bayern 2 that the temporary border controls will likely be in place for weeks. He said:

"We need to have a stricter control here in general, because we have established in the past few days that there are many en route here that are not really refugees."

A US-based company attempted to break into the web-site of the Russian Electoral Commission on the eve of the single national Election Day, the body's chief Vladimir Churov told the press.

"Yesterday someone attempted to hack our web-site and alter the data there making 50,000 requests per minute. They failed and we have already established the culprit - it's a company based in San Francisco," Churov told reporters at the press conference dedicated to the national unified Election Day that took place on Sunday.

The Russian official said that documented proof of the attack would be prepared before the end of the week and forward them to law enforcement agencies in the United States.

Hungary's hard-line prime minister highlighted stark divisions in Europe over a growing migrant crisis, telling a German newspaper in an interview published Saturday that refugees entering the continent should go back "where they came from."

Meanwhile, tens of thousands rallied Saturday on the streets of London, Madrid, Athens, Budapest, Lisbon, Warsaw, Geneva and Sweden as part of a solidarity movement supporting the refugees. Some 14,000 demonstrators assembled in Hamburg and another 30,000 gathered in Denmark, according to European media.

Germany welcomed 10,000 migrants into the country Saturday, according to the Associated Press.

Moscow and Brussels may have reached an agreement on the terms of Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine this winter. The EU appears set on providing Kiev with $500 million with which to purchase 2 billion cubic meters of gas, with Russia to offer Kiev a small discount lasting to the end of the winter heating season.

Ukrainian authorities are now set to debate the proposal, and a three-sided meeting on deliveries could take place as early as this week, according to Russian business newspaper Kommersant.

Negotiations between Moscow and Brussels on the draft agreement were held on Friday in Vienna, attended by Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, Gazprom head Alexei Miller and European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic.

Novak told Russian media that Moscow would be willing to provide Kiev with a discount in the fourth quarter of 2015, and the first quarter of 2016. As Kommersant explained, the size of the discount has not been revealed, but the price should be comparable to that paid by other countries in the region, such as Poland, and cheaper than the cost of the gas Ukraine receives by pumping supplies from Europe (estimated to cost Ukraine about $275 per thousand cubic meters, which is $20-30 more expensive than Russian deliveries).

According to Novak, with an undiscounted price of $252 per thousand cubic meters for the fourth quarter of 2015, Ukraine could use the $500 million in assistance to purchase more than 2 billion cubic meters of gas.

A revolt within the conservative Liberal Party on Monday has resulted in the ouster of Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott as one of his top cabinet ministers, Malcolm Turnbull, took over leadership of the nation's ruling coalition.

After letting Abbott know he would challenge him directly for the PM seat just hours before, Turnbull ultimately claimed victory after winning 54-44 in a dramatic leadership ballot in the capital of Canberra.

Though a multi-millionaire former banker and a prominent member of Australia's conservative establishment, Turnbull's ascent to leadership is seen as a rejection of Abbott's most reactionary and far-right tendencies, especially on social issues, human rights, and need to act more boldly on the impacts of human-caused global warming. As theNews.com in Australia reports:

On September 11, a publication called Russian Spring reported US unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks on Syrian military positions - "disguised as an airstrike on ISIS."
Syrian journalists learned details of what's happening. Numerous civilians were killed. According to Syrian military sources, covert US drone strikes against its forces and positions happened before, part of Washington's phony war on ISIS.

On September 1, the Washington Post headlined "US launches secret drone campaign to hunt Islamic State leaders in Syria," saying:

CIA and US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) operatives "are flying drones over Syria" - conducting targeted air strikes. WaPo lied claiming it's against "senior Islamic State operatives," citing official US sources.

The European Union has approved military action against human traffickers in the Mediterranean Sea, AFP reported, citing sources. The authorities plan to seize and destroy vessels to break up networks operating out of war-torn Libya.

In June, the EU launched European Union Naval Force Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR Med) "to undertake systematic efforts to identify, capture and dispose of vessels and enabling assets used or suspected of being used by migrant smugglers or traffickers." Now it will be allowed to stop and if necessary destroy boats which are used to carry illegal migrants.

"The conditions have been met" to launch the new phase of the military operation, one European diplomat told AFP.