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Israel's Hannibal Directive
by Stephen Lendman
It's been Israeli policy since 1986. It's an unwritten military protocol. It was secret for many years.
In 2003, Haaretz called it "one of the most controversial operational orders" in IDF history. Three Northern Command senior officers established it.
They included NC head Major General Yossi Peled, operations officer Col. Gabi Ashkenazi and intelligence officer Col. Yaakov Amidror.
They established live fire rules in cases of Israeli soldier abductions. It said: "During an abduction, the major mission is to rescue our soldiers from the abductors even at the price of harming or wounding our soldiers."
"Light-arms fire is to be used in order to bring the abductors to the ground or to stop them."
"If the vehicle or the abductors do not stop, single-shot (sniper) fire should be aimed at them, deliberately, in order to hit the abductors, even if this means hitting our soldiers."
Ukrainian President Poroshenko in Washington
by Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed his three-day North American tour. His illegitimacy doesn't matter.
Nor his hardline anti-democratic fascist ideology, lawlessness or war without mercy against Ukrainian citizens.
He was treated like visiting royalty. Obama warmly greeted him at the White House. In late August, press secretary Josh Earnest issued a statement saying:
"President Obama will host President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine at the White House on Thursday, September 18." "The visit will highlight the United States' firm commitment to stand with Ukraine as it pursues democracy, independence, and stability."
ISIS, Scotland and The Politics of Mimicry
By Gilad Atzmon
Is the fact that half of the Scots want to split from Britain and the news that hundreds of young Muslim Brits are fighting with Jihadi militant groups in Syria connected?
Of course they are. These two social phenomena are intrinsically linked, yet in the intellectual desert in which we live, no one dares to address the subject. The boundaries of our curiosity are limited by our deference to political correctness and Zionist sensitivities.
From a political perspective, Jihadi enthusiasm amongst young Western Muslims is an outcome of the emergence of tribalism in the West; but isn’t the call for Scottish independence driven by a similar tribal urge? From both a philosophical and dialectic perspective, Jihadi identification and the Scottish call for independence are the antithesis of the New Left and its corrosive Identity (ID) politics that have been spread in our midst for too long.
Anti-Assad Extremists and Obama Plan Coordinated Attacks on Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Wendy Sherman is Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. On September 16, she spoke at Georgetown University.
She claimed Washington "cares about the Middle East because of (its) economic, political, and security interests…"
"Its rich spiritual and ethnic traditions…" It's Israel's home and America's Gulf partners.
It's "where values we cherish are under intense strain." Washington "is alarmed and moved to act by the upheaval" roiling the region.
America "must show the way."
Ukraine's President in Ottawa and Washington
by Stephen Lendman
Petro Poroshenko is Washington's man. He has no legitimacy whatever.
He replaced ousted democratically elected President Victor Yanukovych. He represents putschist power.
He's an oligarch billionaire. He made his money the old-fashioned way.
He's anti-democratic, fascist, lawless, neoliberal, confrontational and belligerent.
He waged war without mercy on his own people. He murdered them in cold blood. He ravaged their Southeastern communities.
He caused unspeakable human misery. He knows who's boss. He obeys marching orders from Washington.
Obama calls Ukraine's fascist government "democratic." John Kerry called Poroshenko's election "historic."
War Winds Near Gale Force
by Stephen Lendman
Candidate Obama promised peace in our time. He pledged to "bring America's longest war to a responsible end." He lied saying:
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do."
"I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank."
Fighting continues. It rages out-of-control. Washington plans permanent occupation. Withdrawal is more fiction than fact.
Thousands of US troops will remain. They'll do so indefinitely. It's just a question of how many.
Obama ravaged Libya. Syria is his war. So is Iraq war III.
Permanent war is official US policy. Obama is the latest in a long line of US warrior presidents. He's a war criminal multiple times over.
Israel's Ruthless Agenda
by Stephen Lendman
State terrorism is official policy. So is institutionalized racism, persecution, apartheid worse than South Africa's, and colonization.
Israel's occupation is lawless. It's the longest by far in modern times. Military orders control virtually all aspects of Palestinians' lives.
They have no rights whatever. They're not wanted. They're considered subhuman.
Efforts are made to eliminate them. Israel seeks total Judaization.
Its wars are cold, calculated premeditated aggression. They're high crimes against peace. They're slow-motion genocide. Palestinian self-defense is called "terrorism."
Sergey Lavrov: World Class Peace Advocate
by Stephen Lendman
He's that and much more. He's a world class diplomat. He shames his Western counterparts.
They're more secretaries of war than foreign affairs. They urge waging one after another.
Lavrov goes all-out for peace. He does so in all conflict zones. Wars settle nothing. They assure more conflicts.
Lavrov addressed his colleagues at the September 15 Paris International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq. He said in part:
"Russia consistently stands for the continued independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq."
"We strongly support the advancement of inclusive political process with a view to ensuring accord among all the political groups and ethno-confessional groups in that country."
HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF, NOVOROSSIYA, UKRAINE AND CRIMEA
GAITHER STEWART
(Rome)
Novorossiya map. A highly strategic region., key to many powers
to this day. (Click to enlarge)
It has been said that a nation is simply the spiritual body that a people acquires during the course of its history.
Novorossiya or New Russia, so absent in mainstream media and so present in alternative news sources today, is popularly believed to be a fleeting matter, simply a new name created ex-novo for effect by the local militias of southeastern Ukrainians today fighting and defeating the Ukrainian regular army troops invading their territories. In doing so the people of Novorossiya are also shattering the dream of American President Obama. The truth is the people of this region are closely linked to the history of their lands.
According to Alexander Zakharenko, field commander and Prime Minister of the Donetsk Peoples’ Republic (DPR) in southeastern Ukraine speaking at a recent press conference, invaders from West Ukraine run or surrender at the first shot. The American-financed troops, conscripted by force by the puppet state in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, simply don’t measure up to the warriors of the southeast Ukraine who are defending their lands, their cities and villages, and their families. The point is that the regular army troops are demotivated and scared and want to return to their homes in West Ukraine. Besides, many Ukrainian soldiers do not want to shoot at their fellow countrymen. Therefore they either desert to the so-called Separatists of the DPR, or flee.
A Public Bank Option for Scotland
by Ellen Brown
Scottish voters will go to the polls on September 18th to decide whether Scotland should become an independent country. As video blogger Ian R. Crane colorfully puts the issues and possibilities:
[T]he People of Scotland have an opportunity to extricate themselves from the socio-psychopathic global corporatists and the temple of outrageous and excessive abject materialism. However, it is not going to be an easy ride . . . .
If Alex Salmond and the SNP [Scottish National Party] are serious about keeping the Pound Stirling as the Currency of Scotland, there will be no independence. Likewise if Scotland embraces the Euro, Scotland will rapidly become a vassel state of the Euro-Federalists, who will asset strip the nation in the same way that, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain have been stripped of their entire national wealth and much of their national identity.
To achieve true independence, Crane suggests the following, among other mandates:
- Establish an independent Central Bank of Scotland.
- Issue a new Scottish (Debt Free) Currency.
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