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US Warplanes Bomb Syrian Hospitals and Other Civilian Sites: Russia Irresponsibly Blamed
Stephen Lendman
It’s not the first time Russia was recklessly blamed for US high crimes - in Syria and elsewhere.
Pentagon warplanes bomb Syrian infrastructure and government sites virtually daily, ongoing since late 2014 - on the phony pretext of combatting ISIS.
On Monday, Ban Ki-moon’s spokesman Farhan Haq said “(t)he secretary-general is deeply concerned by reports of missile attacks on at least five medical facilities and two schools in Aleppo and in Idlib, which killed close to 50 civilians, including children, and injuring many.”
Fact: All Russian aerial attacks are precision ones, solely against terrorist groups, their implements of war and facilities.
Fact: Throughout five-and-a-half months of its campaign, no credible evidence proves any civilians or nonmilitary targets hit - NONE!!
Obama’s Latest Putin Bashing Shows Desperation
Stephen Lendman
Putin’s intervention last year in Syria was a geopolitical masterstroke - battling US-supported ISIS and other terrorist groups, halting their advance, systematically smashing them, confronting America’s regional imperial agenda, so far effectively foiling it.
Ousting Assad and installing a US-controlled puppet regime in Damascus is key to Washington’s aim for regional dominance, a vital step toward isolating Iran before attempting to overthrow its government belligerently, the same strategy used against Libya, Syria and elsewhere - raping and destroying countries to rule them, loot their resources and exploit their people.
It’s too early to declare victory. So far things look good. Hopefully Putin foiled Obama’s dirty scheme. It began five years ago on February 17 against Libya, continued weeks later on the Ides of March (the 15th) against Syria.
Global Terrorism Destroying the Humanity: How to Change the Future?
Mahboob A Khawaja
Nobody can predict which way the ‘Arab Awakening’ will turn this year… Over the decades of unchallenging aggressive adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and now in Syria, West and North Africa and soon in Saudi Arab, America has earned the distinction of being a leader in intrinsic and endless corrupted wars to dismantle, humiliate, kill and destroy the Arab people and maintain the surge for more bloodsheds anytime – anywhere…. Iraq? Its own latent civil war will go on grinding up the bones of civil society while we largely ignore its agony; there are days now when more Iraqis are killed than Syrians, though you wouldn’t know it from the nightly news. And the Gulf? Arabia, where the first Arab awakening began? Where, indeed, the first Arab revolution – the advent of Islam – burst forth upon the world. There are those who say that the Gulf kingdoms will remain secure for years to come. Don’t count on it. Watch Saudi Arabia. Remember what that British diplomat wrote 130 years ago. “Even in Mecca...” (Robert Fisk Could Saudi Arabia be Next?” The Independent).
Russian Premier Warns Against East/West Confrontation
Stephen Lendman
On Saturday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev addressed Munich Security Conference participants.
He spoke ominously, warning about a new Cold War turning hot, a perilous time in world history because of US-led Western attempts to force-feed their system on independent nations.
Instead of peace and stability, war-ravaged countries struggle to survive. Washington created a monster in Daesh and likeminded terrorist groups.
Rejoicing about the so-called 2010/2011 Arab Spring proved premature. It never bloomed. It was fantasy, not real. Endless US imperial wars rage.
The 587,688 Man ISIS Army
Michael Collins
The Commander in Chief of Turkey’s half million-man military, President Recep Tayipp Erdogan, is a supporter of ISIS and a financial beneficiary of the ISIS oil trade. It is entirely reasonable to say that Turkey is aligned with ISIS and is actively supporting that group and other extremist jihadist groups in the attack on Syria. Image: Creative Commons
Since the start of the attack on Syria in 2011, Turkey has been a key transit point for foreign jihadists, supplies, and weapons headed for rebels fighting to bring down the Syrian government. Jihadists enter Turkey and get bussed to the Syrian border. Along the way, many are trained at facilities like that in Adana, Turkey. The Turkish military has done nothing to stop this.
The Turkish military did nothing in 2012 when local authorities in southern Turkey stopped a shipment of weapons to jihadists in Syria. When intelligence officials in Ankara instructed the local authorities to stand down and allow the weapons to pass to Syrian rebels, the army passively observed and silently endorsed the delivery of deadly munitions to jihadist extremists.
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Putin’s Stellar Economic Performance for Russia
Eric Zuesse
Despite Barack Obama’s economic sanctions against Russia, and the plunge in oil prices that King Saud agreed to with Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry on 11 September 2014, the economic damages that the U.S. and Sauds have aimed against a particular oil-and-gas giant, Russia, have hit mostly elsewhere — at least till now.
This has been happening while simultaneously Obama’s violent February 2014 coup overthrowing Ukraine’s democratically elected pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych (and the head of the 'private CIA' firm Stratfor calls it “the most blatant coup in history”) has caused Ukraine’s economy to plunge even further than Russia's, and corruption in Ukraine to soar even higher than it was before America’s overthrow of that country's final freely elected government, so that Ukraine’s economy has actually been harmed far more than Russia’s was by Obama’s coup in Ukraine and Obama’s subsequent economic sanctions against Russia (sanctions that are based on clear and demonstrable Obama lies but that continue as if they weren't).
Imminent Turkish/Saudi Escalation in Syria?
Stephen Lendman
Russia’s intervention in Syria last fall shifted momentum in Assad’s favor, letting government forces regain lost ground, putting Washington’s Middle East project in jeopardy.
US officials are desperate to turn things around. Their strategy may be to use Turkish and Saudi forces as proxies to do America’s dirty work.
To what extent beyond provocative actions and warnings of escalation is unknown. The fullness of time will tell.
A US invasion is unlikely beyond small numbers of special forces and combat troops. Perhaps Ankara and Riyadh have only disruptive objectives in mind. Maybe regaining control of limited areas in northern Syria close to Turkey’s border alone.
Provocative Saudi-Led Regional Military Exercises
Stephen Lendman
Saudi Arabia’s support for ISIS and other terrorist groups, as part of Washington’s regional imperial agenda, threatens world peace and security.
According to the state-controlled Saudi Press Agency (SPA), 20 Middle East and North African countries will participate in Ra’ad Al-Shamal (Thunder of the North) military exercises.
They’re being held at King Khald Military City in Hafr Al-Batin in northern Saudi Arabia. Participating countries include Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Senegal, Sudan, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Chad, Tunisia, Comoros, Djibouti, Oman, Qatar, Malaysia, Egypt, Mauritania, and Mauritius - along with what Riyadh calls the Peninsula shield forces.
Antonin Scalia’s Passing
Stephen Lendman
Appointed Associate Supreme Court Justice by Ronald Reagan in 1986, he represented core hard-right neocon extremism throughout his tenure.
Its ending saddens no one for governance serving all its people equitably and fairly, not just its privileged few. Scalia was ideologically over-the-top. He supported rolling back civil liberties, defiling human rights, and ending social justice.
He opposed core voting rights, reproductive choice, government regulations, labor rights, affirmative action, same-sex marriage, gay, lesbian and transgender rights, environmental protections and other progressive issues - subverting justice in defense of privilege, endorsing fascism over democratic values.
Conservative Judge Richard Posner once called him “the most influential justice of the last quarter century,” arguably the most deplorable among an array of right-wing extremists he failed to explain, often writing for the majority in major cases, opinions subverting fundamental justice.
Scalia was no ordinary conservative. He was a right-wing extremist, morally and ethically unfit to serve.
Turkey Shells Kurdish YPG and Syrian Forces: A US-Approved Provocative Act of War!
Stephen Lendman
Turkey is a fascist police state, a valued US ally, a NATO member, partnered with Obama’s war on Syria - naked aggression against a nonbelligerent state.
Reported cross-border shelling into Syrian territory ups the stakes hugely. Will direct confrontation with Russia follow?
On Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu admitted his country’s military attacked Kurdish YPG fighters battling terrorist groups in northern Syria. “We will retaliate against every” advance they make,” he ranted. He demanded their forces “immediately withdraw from Azaz and the surrounding area (near Turkey’s border) and not go close to it again.”
A Kurdish YPG official confirmed the attack, explaining the Menagh air base its forces captured from area terrorists was attacked, along with Maranaz village.
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