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Turkey is preparing an offensive operation in Northern Syria
Said AlKhalaki
It's been quite a while since the treaty on cease-fire in Syria had been signed. We can say February 27 became the new anchor for the people of Syria who are tired of war and havoc. However, the situation doesn't suit the main sponsors of the "Syrian revolution", i.e. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar which had already planned how the country would be divided between them.
What's concerned territory, Turkey is interested in Syria's division most of all. The most attractive "piece" for it is Northern Syria with its used-to-be economical capital Aleppo. Obviously, the seized Northern territories would be a step forward in Erdogan's plan to resurrect the Ottoman Empire he is dreaming about. That is why the seizure of Aleppo is a strategic goal for Erdogan and his partners.
UK Schoolgirl Censored for Award-Winning Free Palestine Speech
Stephen Lendman
UK-based Jack Petchey’s Speak Out Challenge is open to London and Essex secondary school students - “believ(ing) everybody should have the skills, confidence and desire to speak in public, and (is) dedicated to helping people of all ages and levels achieve this.”
Wanstead High School student Leanne Mohamad’s uplifting Birds of Peace, not Bombs speech took top honors in the Redbridge regional final - supporting Palestinian rights, wanting them treated as human beings, opposing racist discrimination.UK-based anti-Palestinian blogger Edgar Davidson complained to the Speakers Trust - involved in training students to participate in the Speak Out Challenge.
He turned truth on its head, accusing Mohamad of delivering “a virulently anti-Israel speech full of lies and blood libels,” claiming it “should not have won the competition…”
In response, the Jack Petchey Foundation and Wanstead High School unanimously excluded Mohamad from participation in final rounds competition.
Hillary Clinton Vulnerable to Indictment on Federal Racketeering Charges?
Stephen Lendman
The Bill and Hillary crime family long ago should have been held accountable for high crimes against peace and numerous others.
Hillary is the most recklessly dangerous presidential aspirant in US history, supporting endless imperial wars and state terror, once saying “(w)hat do we have NATO for if not to defend our way of life.”
She endorses first-strike nuclear weapons use, calling them peacekeeping deterrents, mindless of their power to destroy life on earth. She’s militantly anti-Russia, earlier compared the nation to Nazi Germany, Putin to Hitler, claiming “he doesn’t have a soul,” has revanchist aims, wanting Russian greatness restored - all of the above an abhorrent perversion of truth.
Scratch My Back and I Shall Scratch Yours. American Dream Will Come True If Your Friends Are in Hilary's Team.
Terry Brown
Business and policy are sure to be closely tied in the US. American businessmen finance electoral campaigns of politicians who, in case they win, promote these businessmen's interests. These are rules of the game. This is how the American political system works. Is it good or bad? Not so easy to say, but it is clear that this is an inevitable devil we, the Americans, consider as our centuries-old tradition. For instance, a candidate for the US president Hilary Clinton has a close connection with The Coca-Cola Company: Wendy Clark, former Senior Marketing Executive at the company, served as Clinton's image maker at the beginning of her campaign.
However, not only the most prominent Columbia officials are close to the largest companies. Even those who are less powerful, benefiting from their contacts with Washington, help the private sector to resolve their issues without missing an opportunity to ask for something in return. Capricia Marshall, a former Chief of Protocol, who is currently serving as Clinton's special assistant in her running for the Oval, is a good example of such cooperation.
China Deploying Nuclear Armed Subs to Counter Growing US Threat
Stephen Lendman
The nuclear doomsday clock is ticking. America’s rage for unchallenged dominance threatens world peace.
Its global military footprint and out-of-control belligerence heighten the risk of eventual nuclear war, crossing an unthinkable catastrophic rubicon of no return if launched.
China is justifiably concerned, According to London’s Guardian, it’s “poised to send submarines armed with nuclear missiles into the Pacific Ocean for the first time (because) new US weapons systems have so undermined (its) existing deterrent force that it has been left with no alternative.”Despite no official confirmation from Beijing, state-run People’s Daily headlined “Nuclear patrol to boost China’s own security,” saying “(a)s Sino-US tensions build, it is necessary for China to strengthen its capability for nuclear retaliation.”
“It is time the People’s Liberation Army sends nuclear submarines into the depth of the Pacific Ocean for regular patrols.”
Fabricated Reports of Russian Airstrikes Killing Civilians in Syria
Stephen Lendman
Since Russia’s anti-terrorist campaign began in Syria last September, it’s been falsely accused numerous times of striking hospitals, other nonmilitary sites and killing civilians.
It has documented photographic and other evidence disproving falsified claims, used to denigrate its vital mission, deserving universal support.
The UK-based pro-Western imperial mouthpiece Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) features propaganda, not credible information.
On Monday, it accused Russia of killing 2,100 Syrian civilians since last September, including 500 children and 300 women - citing no credible evidence supporting its spurious claim. On Tuesday, it was at it again, claiming (nonexistent) Russian airstrikes killed 23 civilians in Idlib city, including seven children, saying an area next to a hospital was attacked, indicating the death toll likely to rise.
Anglo-America: Regression and Reversion in the Modern World
James Petras
Introduction
What does it mean when the US and British financial systems launder hundreds of billions of dollars of illicit funds stolen by world leaders while their governments turn a ‘blind eye’, and yet the very same Anglo-American officials investigate, prosecute, fine and arrest officials from rival governments, rival banks and political leaders for corruption?
What does it mean when the US government expands a world-wide network of nuclear missiles on bases stretching from Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, the Gulf States to Japan, surrounding Russia, Iran and China, while the very same US and NATO officials investigate and condemn rival defense officials from Russia, China and Iran, as military threats to peace and stability?
The End of M.A.D. — The Beginning of Madness
Eric Zuesse
John Helmer, who explains military-strategic matters better and more knowledgeably than just about anyone, headlined on May 30th, “The Red Line Crossed, In the Cross-Hairs, At Trigger Point”, and he opened:
First there was the red-line announcement. On Friday [May 27th] in Athens there was the cross-hairs statement. By the month of October, the month before the US presidential election, there will be the trigger point.
The US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies are going to war with Russia, accelerating the inevitability that Russia will strike in self-defence. This is what the first and second statements by President Vladimir Putin warn. There will be no statement of warning.
Sergey Lavrov Rips Washington
Stephen Lendman
Lavrov did it diplomatically. I won’t - my take on what he said and meant, along with my own no-holds-barred views.
Lavrov did bluntly say the so-called US-led coalition, meaning Washington almost entirely with a little help from its rogue partners, “is just going through the motions,” pretending to wage war on the terrorist scourge it supports.
Lavrov asked John Kerry why Washington isn’t bombing terrorists. It hasn’t tried stopping “oil smuggling into Turkey.” Kerry’s response was duplicitous doubletalk - on the one hand, claiming the issue is being addressed when it isn’t. On the other, saying bombing terrorists risks harming (nonexistent) moderate rebels.
Lavrov wants this nonsense stopped, blasting Kerry for inventing reasons to wage war, avoid peaceful conflict resolution, and let Syrian civilians continue being slaughtered.
Remembering Hedy Epstein
Stephen Lendman
On May 26, German-born holocaust survivor, human rights champion Hedy Epstein died at age 91 at her St. Louis home.
She was internationally respected for supporting human and civil rights, justifiably critical of how Israel persecutes Palestinians.
She was activist to the end. At age 90 in August 2014, wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words “STAY HUMAN,” she was arrested “for failing to disperse” during a St. Louis, MO protest over the police murder of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.
At the time, she said she’d “been doing this since” her teenage days. She “didn’t think (she’d) have to do it (at age) 90,” adding:
“We need to stand up today so that people won’t have to do this when they are 90.” In 1939 at age 14, her parents arranged for her Kindertranport to England, allowing her to survive.
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