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Russia to Add Its 203rd Air Force Base — Its First Outside Russia
Eric Zuesse
According to GlobalSecurity.org, Russia has 202 Air Force Bases, all in Russia’s various “Military Districts"; but now there is to be a 203rd one, and it will be in Belarus. If this actually happens, it will be a historic expansion of Russia’s armed forces abroad — something that for the U.S. to do would be inconsequential since the U.S. already has 41 Air Force Bases in foreign countries, surrounding Russia, East West and South. (Belarus isn’t even anywhere near the U.S.; it’s instead bordering Russia itself.)
On September 19th at 112.international (and then on 20 September at the subscription-only Financial Times), was reported (as headlined at 112), “Russia to Establish Air Base in Belarus.” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Friday the 18th had signed a document, "To intrust the Ministry of Defense with the participation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carry out the negotiations with the Belarusian side and upon coming to an accommodation, to sign the agreement on behalf of Russian Federation.”
Greeks Without Choice in Sunday Election
by Stephen Lendman
Greece sold its soul to Troika bandits, abandoning what its people want most - an end to punishing austerity, government representing them, not Western bankers, a chance for a better future.
No matter what ruling coalition emerges from Sunday’s snap election, anti-populist business as usual will triumph, serving monied interests exclusively, imposing greater austerity than already.
The race is too close to call. Most polls show Alexis Tsipras’ SYRIZA party and Evangelos Meimarakis’ right-wing New Democracy in a virtual dead-heat - at around 32% support, a statistically insignificant 1% differential between them.
Genocide in Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
Yemen is Obama’s war - cold-blooded genocidal slaughter and mass destruction, planned long before conflict began in late March, using Saudi Arabia, UAE, other Gulf states and Egypt to do his dirty work.
Terror bombing residential neighborhoods, hospitals, schools and other non-military related targets continues.
US-Saudi enforced blockade prevents enough food, medical supplies, fuel, clean water and other essentials from reaching desperate people in need. Human Rights Watch said what’s ongoing “may amount to starvation of civilians as a weapon of warfare” - genocide by deprivation.
Jeremy Corbyn Anti-American?
by Stephen Lendman
So say Washington Post editors. His Labour party leadership “could accentuate Britain’s drift away from the trans-Atlantic partnership,” they claim. More on their Corbyn bashing below.
Aftershocks continue following his astonishing meteoric rise from longtime backbencher to shadow government leadership - his agenda polar opposite Thatcher/Blairite policies as well as bipartisan US politics.
London’s Guardian called his triumph “the most astonishing leadership victory in any major British political party in modern time.” He was a “rank outsider,” said the Financial Times.
BBC Strings Lies Together to Propagandize for Assad’s Overthrow
Eric Zuesse
To introduce this string of BBC lies, one thing that’s worth noting is that overwhelmingly the people of Syria view that nation’s current President, Bashar al-Assad, favorably. He won his election on 27 May 2007 by acclamation in a referendum when the Associated Press at the time reported that, “the country's tiny opposition boycotted the voting.” (Note that it indeed was “a tiny opposition.”) The AP reported: “Still, the president is assured of another seven-year term in a referendum that gave voters just one choice: a green circle to approve Assad or a gray one to oppose his second term. In his first referendum, he received 97.29 percent approval.”
Corbyn v. Sanders
by Stephen Lendman
Differences between them are stark. Sanders is more opportunist than populist, nearly always supporting Democrat pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-business, anti-human/civil rights policies - voting with party members 98% of the time, more than most Democrats, polar opposite his high-minded rhetoric, hiding his real agenda.
In over three decades as a Labour party member, Corbyn opposed its policies over 500 times - according to the Financial Times and London Telegraph.
Sanders pledged support for Hillary if she’s nominated. He refuses to attack her pro-war, pro-business, anti-populist agenda - or denounce Obama’s endless wars on humanity. Silence = support.
The Big Lie About Russian Forces in Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Washington continues using Islamic State and other takfiri terrorists as US proxy foot soldiers, waging naked aggression on Syria, largely affecting millions of civilians, creating a human flood of internally and externally displaced people along with mass slaughter and destruction.
Obama, John Kerry and other US officials firmly oppose Russia legitimately aiding its Syrian ally in need - providing political support as well as military weapons, munitions, equipment and technology.
The grand deception about Russian forces and warplanes operating in Syria persists. It’s one of many Big Lies circulating to vilify Putin. Moscow has been forthrightly candid all along - explaining its obligation to supply Syria with contractually agreed on weapons, the only nation providing humanitarian aid along with UN efforts.
Sen. Mike Gravel at the United Nations: China's Policy Offers Solutions to Obama's Disasters
larouchepac
Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska, a 2008 candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination and longtime trenchant critic of U.S. foreign policy, including that of the Obama Administration, told the United Nations press Monday, in New York, that China's policy offers solutions to world economic and political crises. Gravel pointed to China’s "One Belt, One Road" global infrastructure development policy for the solution to the world economic crisis, and said he sees no solution from inside Obama's United States.
Nazism in Israel
by Stephen Lendman
Israel treats Arabs the way Nazis treated Jews - a racist, fascist, white Jewish supremacist (the chosen people nonsense), Arab-hating society systematically ghettoizing and terrorizing people for praying to the wrong God.
Palestinians are treated like subhumans, enduring virtually every type indignity and mistreatment under brutalizing militarized rule, civil justice denied.
Institutionalized racism worse than South African apartheid denies them fundamental human and civil rights. De-Arabization is official Israeli policy. Occupation harshness facilitates slow-motion genocide.
US Presidential Candidates Demean Muslims and Hugo Chavez
by Stephen Lendman
Candidates on the stump show why America’s political system is too corrupted to fix - a money controlled duopoly masquerading as democratic. Democrats and Republicans represent one party with two wings.
They’re interchangeable on issues mattering most, representing wealth and power exclusively at the expense of beneficial social change, lying when claiming otherwise, other times making disgraceful comments, revealing their dark side.
Muslims are America’s geopolitical enemy of choice - vilified for their faith and ethnicity, a convenient pretext for Washington’s phony war on terror.
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