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Et tu Barack? The End of Turkey’s Little Erdogan
By Michael Collins
If Erdogan and his advisors seriously believe that they can publicly blackmail a superpower like the USA then their days are numbered. The Saker, Feb 20
Apparently, Turkish President Erdogan and his cronies failed to get the memo from The Saker. They continue to insist that the United States label as terrorists the Kurdish fighters of northern Syria known as the YPG. The YPG and the Syrian Arab Army are the only two ground forces fighting ISIS. The Kurdish YPG fighters are mopping the floor with the barbarians and control nearly the entire border region between Turkey and Syria. Even so, the Turkish government insists that the U.S. is either for Turkey by labeling the YPG as terrorists or against Turkey by supporting YPG’s efforts against ISIS. Image: WikimediaCommons
Why is the current Turkish government obsessed with the YPG? There are several reasons, none of them related to terrorism and all of them about the survival of the amazingly corrupt and repellant Erdogan, his family, and cronies in the AKP party.
What do Erdogan and company have to fear?
Scalia's Black Beemer
Greg Palast
It was one of our team’s weirder investigative discoveries: The recently departed Justice Antonin Scalia – aleha hashalom – in 2011, was ticketed for recklessly driving his black BMW.
To his family, I offer condolences. To my readers, I offer the facts. A man's soul must be laid to rest, but history must not be buried as well, especially now that the Justice's passing has become grounds for stories that border on historical obscenity, cf. the New York Times "Liberal Love for Antonin Scalia".
Love?? Well, if you want a Valentine, this ain't it.
There's been a lot of gleeful chuckling, for example, about Scalia's courtroom bench "humor." But behind his jokey comments lay a cruelty aimed at the poor, the injured, the Beemer-less class that turns to the Court as the last hope for protection against corporate and state violence.
Europe is following Obama - washing its hands of Palestine and why
Alan Hart
My headline is a response to recent comments made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a joint press conference in Berlin with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the decision of the Cameron government in the UK to make boycotting goods from "Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank" by publicly-funded bodies including local councils and universities a criminal offence. Much to the delight of Netanyahu who has rejected a French initiative to convene a regional conference to try to get a peace process going, Merkel said, "Now is certainly not the time to make really comprehensive progress."
How Turkey supports the jihadists
Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Damascus, Feb. 22, 2016
Russia questioned the future of Turkey when it delivered to the Security Council an intelligence report concerning Turkey’s activities in support of jihadists. The document includes about ten revelations which implicate the activities of the MIT. The problem is that each of the operations listed refers back to operations in which the same actors worked with the United States or their allies against Russia. This information adds to that which is already available concerning the personal connections between President Erdoğan and the Al-Qaïda banker, and the information about Erdoğan’s son and the illegal use of the oil stolen by Daesh.
Russia delivered to the members of the UN Security Council an intelligence report concerning the activities of Turkey which support the jihadists operating in Syria [1]. The document lists about ten facts, each one of which violates one or several Council Resolutions. (Image:thierry ehrmann)
By doing so, Russia puts the Council, and, by extension, several other inter-governmental organisations, face to face with their responsibilities. By law, the Council should ask for corresponding proof of these assertions and pressure Turkey for explanations. In the event that Turkey should be found guilty, the Council would have to decide which sanctions should be adopted under chapter VII of the Charter, in other words, by resorting to force. From their side, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation would have to exclude this gangster-state from their ranks, while the European Union would have to halt Turkey’s negotiations for membership.
Epilogue: Argentina The End of Post Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Hard Right
James Petras
Introduction
The class struggle from above found its most intense , comprehensive and retrograde expression in Argentina, with the election of Mauricio Macri (December 2015). During the first two months in office, through the arbitrary assumption of emergency powers, he reversed, by decree, a multitude of progressive socio-economic policies passed over the previous decade and sought to purge public institutions of independent voices.
Facing a hostile majority in Congress, he seized legislative powers and proceeded to name two Supreme Court judges in violation of the Constitution.
President Macri purged all the Ministries and agencies of perceived critics and appointees of the previous government and replaced those officials with loyalist neo-liberal functionaries. Popular movement leaders were jailed, and former Cabinet members were prosecuted.
Americans Mindless About the Grave Dangers They Face
Stephen Lendman
Never before in history has the danger of possible humanity destroying nuclear war been greater. Fundamental rights Americans think they have don’t exist.
They’re deplorably out-of-touch, the most over-entertained, uninformed people anywhere, controlled by neocon infested bipartisan governance, lunatics threatening their welfare, security and world peace.
Public ignorance is shocking, why America gets away with high crimes at home and abroad. Lawless interventionism is longstanding policy. .Endless US wars on humanity rage. Human and civil rights are fast eroding en route toward disappearing altogether. Police state injustice rules, tyranny by any standard, heading toward becoming full-blown.
Anyone considered a threat to regime authority risks arrest, imprisonment or death. Thousands of political prisoners languish in America’s homeland gulag, the world’s largest, one of its most brutal - supplemented by global torture prisons, Guantanamo the tip of the iceberg, what media scoundrels never report.
Hillary v. Bernie: Their Two Opposite Views of the Presidency
Eric Zuesse
Whereas Bernie Sanders claims to represent the bottom 99%, Hillary Clinton claims to represent a coalition of groups who are victimized by bigots (racists, sexists, etc.: she aims at women, homosexuals, Blacks, etc.). Whereas Bernie seeks to mobilize the bottom economic 99% against the top 1% who have scooped up almost all of the economic benefits that Americans have gained since 1993, Hillary seeks to mobilize all bigotry-victims against all of the many types of bigots. These pitches are fundamentally different from one-another. In fact, they’re diametrically opposite diagnoses of the biggest ailment threatening the U.S. future: our perilous economy.
Longtime Political Prisoner Albert Woodfox Free at Last
Stephen Lendman
Woodfox was one of the so-called “Angola Three,” Robert King freed in 2001. Herman Wallace died two days after spending 41 years in solitary confinement.
He and Woodfox were wrongfully charged, prosecuted and convicted for killing white prison guard Brent Miller - based solely on another inmate bribed to lie in return for special treatment.
No forensic crime scene evidence connected either man to the killing. Another inmate later confessed. King was blamed but never charged.
After 43 years of solitary confinement in a six-by-nine-foot cell, brutalizing torture by any standard, Woodfox was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) - one of America’s most brutal, racist prisons. He and Wallace were judged guilty by accusation - targeted solely for their activism.
They founded the Black Panther Party Angola chapter, organized other inmates to improve prison conditions through nonviolent hunger and work stoppages.
The Louisiana ACLU earlier called LSP America’s “most abhorrent in terms of violence and horrible living conditions.”
Syria’s President Assad Amnesties Syria’s Draft-Evaders
Eric Zuesse
Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, issued on February 17th, a decree "granting a general amnesty for military deserters inside and outside the country and the crimes included in the Military Service Law committed before 17th February 2016.”
This is being done in order to remove one reason why some Syrians are now refugees in foreign countries: their refusal (for whatever reason) to serve in the military.
"The decree grants amnesty on the full penalty for those who have deserted outside the country who are included in Article No. 101 of the military Penalties Law issued by Legislative Decree No. 61 for 1950 and its amendments. This decree does not include fugitives from justice unless they turn themselves in within 30 days for those inside the country and 60 for those outside the country.”
US-Supported ISIS Uses Young Children as Suicide Bombers
Stephen Lendman
CIA operatives teach ISIS recruits the fine art of committing atrocities, including beheadings, use of chemical and other banned weapons, along with an array of other lawless terror tactics.
According to a Combating Terrorism Center at West Point report, ISIS “is mobilizing children and youths at an increasing and unprecedented rate (to become) martyrs,” - failing to explain full US responsibility, not wanting to blow Washington’s cover.
The monster it created and supports operates with foreign funding, arming, training and direction.
Young children are brainwashed to become suicide bombers, throwing their lives away for nothing, too young to understand the folly of their actions.
Dozens of children suicide bombers were recruited in 2015 alone, imported into Syria, Iraq and elsewhere from numerous countries with US-led foreign help.
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