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U.S. Says No Cooperation with Russia Unless Assad Is Removed
Eric Zuesse
On Wednesday November 18th, a Defense Department spokesman at a Pentagon press briefing was repeatedly asked by reporters whether there is any possibility of the U.S. working with Russia to defeat jihadists in Syria. And the answer was clearly no, each time:
Q: Is the U.S. military leadership there — either there or here in the Pentagon, as far as you know — prepared to fly side-by-side with the Russians.
COL. Steve WARREN: We right now have no plans to conduct coordinated operations with the Russians.
Q: Actually working together in combat flight operations, side-by-side with the Russians at this point?
COL. WARREN: Yeah, we're — right now, we have no plans to do that. … We're not coordinating with the Russians, we're not conducting operations with the Russians, nor are we planning to do any of those things.
Putin Escalates Real War on ISIS
by Stephen Lendman
Obama’s so-called war on ISIS is phony. US operations support its proxy foot soldiers, waging war on Syria to oust Assad, wanting his government replaced with a Western-controlled puppet regime.
Putin’s combat mission is the real thing, making a significant difference on the ground. A previous article explained Syrian forces liberated Kuweyres air base in the country’s north. The reliable Saker called it “a huge victory” after ISIS elements held it for two-and-a-half years. Their “best fighters” were deployed to maintain control, “resist(ing) with everything they had up to the last moment” before liberation. Earlier Syrian army successes “were limited in importance” compared to this victory - both “moral” and strategic, “chang(ing) the shape and dynamic of the front.”
Media Scoundrels Are Complicit with Imperial High Crimes
by Stephen Lendman
America, its Western partners and Israel could never get away with unprecedented criminality over a longer duration, harming countless millions of defenseless victims, without scoundrel media support.
Daily drumbeat misinformation, Big Lies and coverup are priceless. Propaganda wars make hot ones possible. Enlisting public support is vital.
Western and most Israeli media are cesspools of official press release journalism, disgraceful rubbish, supporting their ruling regimes wholeheartedly, ignoring their high crimes, especially when truth and full disclosure are most needed - making it possible for these countries to operate lawlessly, get away with mass murder unaccountably, blaming victims for their ruthlessness.
Electronic and print media fail to observe fundamental journalistic ethics - truth and full disclosure without bias above all. The media’s fundamental role is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” as American humorist/reporter/writer Finley Peter Dunne once explained.
Not in America, European countries, Israel or most elsewhere. Nations permitting open, free and fair unbiased journalism are rare. Rubbish most often substitutes for explaining what’s most important to know, as well as holding culpable regimes and their officials accountable for their crimes.
How Many More Western False Flags Are Planned?
by Stephen Lendman
False flag terrorist attacks serve imperial interests. Pre-9/11, Project for the New American Century (now the Foreign Policy Institute) neocons explained a “catastrophic and catalyzing event…like a new Pearl Harbor” was needed to advance US hegemonic aims.
Well documented post-9/11 horrors need no elaboration. Rules of engagement changed from rule of law observance to anything goes, still in force. America’s war on Islam continues, likely about to be revved up post-Paris attacks - the most significant false flag attack since 9/11. Are follow-up ones planned in other Western cities, maybe one or more US ones? Does Israel plan one internally to justify even greater terror war on Palestine?
The Climate Talks in Paris will Fail: Why?
Robert J. Burrowes
As expectations build for a global consensus to emerge from the United Nations climate conference in Paris, starting on 30 November 2015, that could agree to taking action to limit any rise in global temperature to 2 degrees celsius, I would like to explain why these expectations are misplaced. And what we can do about it. The essence of the problem is that most people and organisations are asking elites to take action on their behalf rather than taking action themselves. Not only is this a fearful and powerless approach, it reinforces the widespread delusions that elites have the power in this regard and that they are responsive to our pleas. Neither of these is true. We have the power and elites only respond when we create the circumstances that compel them to do so. And not otherwise. Hence, it is the action that we take, as individuals, communities and organisations, that generate the outcomes we want.
Targeting Israeli Officials: Spanish Warrants Issued
by Stephen Lendman
The Middle East Monitor (MEM) reported arrest warrants issued by Spain’s Supreme Court for Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials - complicit in the May 2010 Mavi Marmara humanitarian mission to Gaza massacre.
Israeli commandos murdered 10 individually selected Turkish activists on board, one succumbing in May 2014 after being in a coma for four years.
Many others on board were brutalized - the incident happening in international waters, Israel so far remaining unaccountable for one of its many high crimes. Arrest warrants were issued for Netanyahu and former top officials Ehud Barak (a former prime minister), Avigdor Lieberman, Eli Yishai and Benny Begin (former prime minister Menachem Begin’s son) - as well as current defense minister Moshe Ya’alon and Israeli Navy commander Eliezer Marom.
Lunatics in Washington Want NATO Article 5 Invoked for Total War
by Stephen Lendman
NATO Article 4 calls for members to “consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of any” is threatened.
Article 5 considers an armed attack (real or otherwise) against one or more members, an attack against all. Collective self-defense is called for - perhaps in the wake of the Paris incident all-out war on humanity, risking global escalation if confrontation is provoked with Russia or China.
Unleashing US-led NATO’s killing machine could become the war to end all wars, risking world peace and humanity’s survival.
Republican presidential aspirant Marco Rubio called for “invok(ing) (NATO’s) Article 5,” requiring all 28 Alliance nations to defend a member under (alleged) attack.
Palestine: The Forgotten War
by Stephen Lendman
Israel’s war on Palestine rages into its 7th week, extrajudicial assassinations occurring virtually daily, thousands of Palestinians wounded from live fire and other military assaults, over 1,000 civilians imprisoned for political reasons, including children and women.
Sunday saw no letup. Unrestrained Israeli brutality continued. With world attention on Paris, Netanyahu’s terror war rages almost unnoticed - two Qalandiya refugee camp Palestinians the latest victims, gunned down in cold blood during a raid to demolish an alleged attacker’s home.
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers stormed the camp violently from all sides, initiating clashes against defenseless civilians. Dozens were injured, some seriously. Numerous arrests followed.
Politico Reports Bush Knew 2001 Terror-Attack Was Imminent and Wanted It
Eric Zuesse,
A stunning news-report at Politico on November 12th, titled “The Attacks Will Be Spectacular,” reveals that the then CIA Director George Tenet, and his anti-terror chief Cofer Black, say that they had told the White House this, but that the response coming back to them was “We’re not quite ready to consider this. We don’t want the clock to start ticking.” As Politoco’s reporter, Chris Whipple, then explains: "(Translation: they did not want a paper trail to show that they’d been warned.)”
It can’t get much more damning than that. Bush knew it was going to happen but did nothing to stop it. He didn’t even try to. In other words: His only actual concern at the time was for it to be done in such a way that his prior knowledge of it wouldn’t be provable — that his participation in it, his consciously allowing it to happen, would be deniable. He insisted on that deniability. He has consistently followed through with it.
France Declares War on Syria
by Stephen Lendman
It was predictable. What was just a matter of when came around 48 hours after what almost certainly was a Western-orchestrated false flag Paris attack, perhaps complicit with Israel - to create a pretext for escalated Middle East war and let Netanyahu terrorize the entire Palestinian population freely.
Syria is ground zero. More on the attack below. Paul Craig Roberts received an unverified report about “a massive cyber attack on French systems 48 hours prior to and during the Paris attacks.”
It “took down the French mobile data network and blinded police surveillance.” It was “a sophisticated attack…beyond the capability of” garden variety terrorists.
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