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Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn: We Are Moving Toward a Major War
larouchepac.com
A warning of "major war" involving Russia and the United States has come from Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former Defense Intelligence Agency head who was fired by Obama after his agency submitted a 2012 assessment that U.S. policy was leading toward a "Salafist caliphate" in Iraq and Syria (i.e., what became ISIS). Lt. Gen. Flynn was interviewed by Russia's {Kommersant Vlast} magazine on Dec. 30.
The interview is wide-ranging and combative, and includes Gen. Flynn's assessment that there are "5-10,000 Russian citizens fighting [for ISIS--ed.] in Syria," making it a strategic necessity for Russia to be fighting the terrorists in Syria "so that they don't return to Chechnya, Dagestan, Uzbekistan, Moscow."
Obama's Friend No 1: Turkey's Erdogan Likens Himself to Hitler
larouchepac
Barack Obama's number-one friend in the Muslim world, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who harbors plans to be the Sultan of a revived Ottoman Empire, has gone on record to reveal his other intent, which is to be a new Hitler. Following his return from Saudi Arabia, on Jan. 1, according to a recorded broadcast by the Dogan news agency, Erdogan told reporters that it is possible to transform the Turkish presidency from a ceremonial office to the role of chief executive: "That could work without disrupting Turkey's unitary political structure. There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler's Germany. There are later examples in various other countries," Erdogan said. On Jan. 3, two days after citing Hitler's Germany as a model for Turkey's future presidential system, Erdogan took his point further, saying Turkey needs a country like Israel.
Suspected Arsonist Torches B’Tselem Office
Stephen Lendman
On Sunday evening, the human rights group’s Jerusalem office was set ablaze. Arson is strongly suspected.
Israel is a fascist police state. Its policies are ruthless. Were its dirty hands involved? It tolerates no criticism.
Fire broke out around 10:00PM, contained about 90 minutes later. Five firefighting teams were needed to battle the blaze.
Two centers of combustion were reported - both in B’Tselem’s first floor offices where most damage occurred. Flames spread to upper floors. The building was mostly empty late Sunday night, no B’Tselem staff members present.
How Corrupt the U.S. Is: An Extraordinary Example
Eric Zuesse
Even if it might be the case that incarceration rates don’t necessarily correlate with corruption, they do necessarily reflect the extent to which a given nation’s government is (by means of its laws and its enforcement of those laws) at war against its own population; and, so, technically speaking, incarceration rates (the percentage of the population who are in prison) are supposed to reflect the prevalence of law-breaking within a given nation. After all: by definition, people are presumed to be in prison for law-breaking, irrespective of whether the given nation’s laws are just — and, if they’re not just, then this fact reflects even more strongly that the nation itself is corrupt. So: a high incarceration-rate does strongly tend to go along with a nation’s being highly corrupt, in more than merely a technical sense — it’s almost more like being the definitive measure of “corruption.” So, the correlation between incarceration rates and corruption must be assumed to be high, and any measure of corruption which fails to at least include countries’ incarceration rates should be rejected.
Financial Mudslide Goes On
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Jan. 6, 2016 (EIRNS) -- Stock markets fell heavily again Jan. 6 across Europe and the United States, while restoring the Glass-Steagall Act -- the one action which can shut down the Wall Street casino before it destroys the economy again -- was the subject of widespread debate.
The drops in commodity prices and stock markets were led by the oil price dropping below $34/barrel, an incredible development with extreme religious-war tensions spiking among the major oil producing nations in the Mideast. One major criminal bank, UBS, called for the U.S. Federal Reserve to reverse itself in 2016, return to zero interest rates, and start QE4.
The extraordinary danger of a financial crash is the condition of precisely such megabanks, loaded with bad and delinquent debt. The first impositions of the "bank bail-in"
policy, since last month, have led to bailed-in banks immediately having their credit ratings downgraded and bank stocks falling across the board.
A {Financial Times} piece of Jan. 4, based on an interview with the new European Commission bank bail-in czar, Elke Koenig, made clear that her office has become an arbitrary tyranny over Europe's banks and savers, but one which is out to protect the giant London-centered banks from the bail-in regime. A former UniCredit chief tells the {FT}, "For the big banks this change should be like the atomic bomb; they know it's there, but it will never be used." The paper reports finding widespread skepticism that "bail-in" will be used against megabanks even if they face insolvency; rather, the EU "resolution fund" will be used to bail them out.
Iranian Foreign Minister Blasts Saudi Reckless Extremism
Stephen Lendman
New York Times editors surprisingly gave Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif op-ed space. He remarked candidly about Saudi Arabia’s reckless agenda.
It’s the epicenter of regionally-sponsored violence and chaos, a monster threatening endless conflicts and instability.
Zarif explained President Hassan Rohani’s top foreign policy priority since taking office: “friendship with our neighbors, peace and stability in the region and global cooperation,” especially in combating terrorism.
Weeks after taking office, he introduced his World Against Violence and Extremism (WAVE) initiative. UN General Assembly members approved it by consensus.
Some countries obstruct “constructive engagement,” said Zarif. Saudi Arabia continues going all-out to undermine last year’s nuclear deal.
America’s Unending War on Terrorism will Destroy Humanity and Planet Earth
Mahboob A Khawaja
Now the Western hypocrisy has willingly embraced Russia in partnership to destroy the Arab world. To deceive the humanity, they announced a Peace Plan for Syria approved by the UN Security Council. How and who will implement this so called Peace Plan? The Plan keeps the bloody Bashar al Assad in power and foresees public elections after the ceasefire. Strange as is that 60-70 % of Syrian population is displaced, the country’s economic and political infrastructures are in complete ruin, millions of civilians killed and pushed to the European oceans and countries as refugees and asylum seekers. Who will elect who? Could the large Syrian graveyards be places of ballot boxes for the dead souls? Do the Americans and Russian think that global community is just digits and numbers without human conscience and rational thinking?
Why North Korea Wants Nukes
Stephen Lendman
Pyongyang has just cause to fear America. It knows how it raped Southeast Asia, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
Truman’s naked aggression was devastating, turning most of North Korea to rubble. General Matthew Ridgway ordered air force bombers to level Pyongyang and other strategic targets. Scorched earth death and destruction was official US strategy.
Douglas McArthur wanted commander’s discretion to use nuclear weapons - to spread a radioactive belt from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea. US terror-bombing ran out of targets. Principle ones included Pyongyang, Chongyin, Wonsan, Hungnam and Rashin. North Korea suffered overwhelming numbers of casualties. Up to four million died, mostly civilians. Terror weapons were used, including napalm and toxic agents - chemical and biological.
El Chapo v. Longstanding CIA Global Drugs Trafficking
Stephen Lendman
Drug lords come and go, El Chapo’s arrest of little consequence, doing nothing to stem the flow of illicit drugs. Business as usual continues.
His operation and others like his pale compared to CIA global drugs trafficking - a topic media scoundrels won’t touch.
Its involvement began in 1947, its first year of existence. In his book titled “The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade,” Alfred McCoy documented CIA and US government complicity in drugs trafficking at the highest official levels. It continues today in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, South and Central America, facilitating the global supply of illicit drugs.
TransCanada’s $15B Lawsuit Against U.S. on Keystone XL Presents Strong Case
Eric Zuesse
TransCanada, the Canadian company that had been planning to build and own its proposed Keystone XL Pipeline carrying Canada’s tar-sands oil to Texas Gulf Coast refineries for export to Europe and elsewhere, released to the public, on Wednesday January 6th, two legal presentations against the United States, because U.S. President Barack Obama, through his Secretary of State John Kerry, on 6 November 2015, had said no to TransCanada’s proposed oil pipeline.
TransCanada’s basic legal argument contains many allegations, each one of which will be exceedingly difficult for the United States to defend successfully against; and all of which taken together provide TransCanada’s stockholders a reasonably high likelihood of ultimately winning their penalty claim, even perhaps all of the $15 billion that they are seeking against U.S. taxpayers for the American President’s having violated rights of TransCanada stockholders to profit, under the 1994 NAFTA trade agreement between the U.S. and Canada. This case could be a harbinger of many more to come if President Obama’s three mega trade deals become passed by Congress (TTIP, TPP, and TISA), each of which extends the same profitable potentials for corporations to sue the U.S. government.
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