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Has Russia Now Salvaged Europe?
Eric Zuesse
The United States cooked up the idea of using fundamentalist-Sunni, Saudi-led-and-inspired mujahideen, or “Taliban,” as cheap fanatics to fight against the Soviet Union in 1979 in Afghanistan; and, then, after thus draining and ending the USSR by 1991, the royal Sauds and their friends U.S. Presidents — starting with the Bushes but including Clinton(s) and Obama — have continued it as a bad habit, which got out of control and has now ultimately forced millions of Syrians (and Libyans etc.) to leave their jihadist-infested homelands to seek safety in Europe. This influx is too many refugees, too fast for Europe (or anywhere) to absorb, and so has created a crisis that threatens the continued existence of the EU. Has Russia now effectively come to the rescue and saved the EU, and perhaps placed the U.S.-Saudi fundamentalist-Sunni genie back into its bloody destructive bottle? Perhaps so.
Europe’s enemies, the United States and its Sunni fundamentalist allies (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Turkey) almost succeeded in replacing Syria’s non-sectarian and secular Ba’athist government, by a Saudi-inspired fundamentalist-Sunni one; and, in the process, those enemies of Europe produced millions of Syrian and other refugees into Europe and elsewhere. In this ongoing crisis, Europe’s leaders, such as Angela Merkel (who as an East German has hated and feared Russians ever since childhood), are still allied with Europe’s enemies (those Sunni-fundamentalist-ruled nations, which compete against Russia in the oil-and-gas markets), but Russia’s intervention in the Syrian conflict has finally turned the tide against the jihadists, so that Europeans can, at long last, reasonably begin to hope again that this hell has reached its bottom, and that Europe’s future is heading back towards progress, instead of towards ever-increasing conflict and recession and soaring debt.
Why is Lebanon holding Hannibal Gaddafi hostage?
Franklin Lamb
Beirut
As of this week, following his arrest on December 15, 2015, Hannibal Gaddafi, one of seven children of Moammar Gaddafi and his Widow Safia Farkash, has spent, without a scintilla of evidence that he violated any Lebanese law, nearly 16 weeks wrongly incarcerated in a Beirut jail.
Hannibal Gaddafi the fifth son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
Mr. Gaddafi is being held for one reason only. A botched attempt by certain politicians here to exact a $ 200,000,000 ransom before releasing Hannibal Gaddafi was made between Lebanese politician Nabih Berri and the illegal Tripoli government ( الانقاذ الوطني) , which is not recognized by the UN and which has been recently replaced.
Something that the U.S. Press Hide about 9/11
Eric Zuesse
The U.S. government’s hiding the fact that the Saudi royal family and their friends had financed the 9/11 attacks is hidden from the American public by the American news-media, as will be documented in the links to this news-report:
On March 28th, I had issued a news-report, "U.S. Still Demands Assad’s Removal in Syria”, and one of the reader-comments (from “guest”) responded there with:
For the life of me I can't understand why the U.S. government is utterly obsessed with getting rid of Assad. Do the Saudis and those other little feudal sharia law fiefdoms in the Persian Gulf have that much control over this government?
I answered:
cettel guest
Yes. After all, despite their having funded Al Qaeda (for which see this evidence
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/al-qaedas-bookkeeper-spills-beans.html
and this http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/02/terrorists-arent-hitting-u-s-now.html, which latter shows that even Secretary of State Clinton knew in 2009 that they still were), the 28 pages in the U.S. Senate report are still prohibited from being released to the public; and, moreover, the U.S. government has now officially blamed and fined Iran -- the Saud family's arch-enemy -- as having caused 9/11:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/03/u-s-government-blames-911-iran-fines-iran-10-5b-iran-refuses-pay.html, and so how can there be any doubt about it?
Congressional Members Want Israel Investigated for Human Rights Abuses?
Stephen Lendman
A Politico report reads like an April Fools Day stunt, the story published three days in advance on March 29.
It said Senator Patrick Leahy (D. VT) and 10 House members want the State Department to “investigate claims that the Israeli and Egyptian security forces have committed ‘gross violations of human rights’ - allegations (sic) that if proven true could affect US military aid to the countries.”
A February 17 letter to John Kerry “inquir(ed) about specific allegations (sic) of gross human rights violations by the security forces of both countries.”
It highlighted “alleged” Israeli extrajudicial executions and Egypt’s 2013 Rab’aa Square massacre, killing around 1,000 peaceful protesters, along with numerous reports of forced disappearances.
The letter cited the 2001 law bearing Senator Leahy’s name. It prohibits funding foreign security forces involved in committing human rights abuses. The 1961 Foreign Assistance Act prohibits providing aid to governments engaging in a “consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of person, unless such assistance will directly benefit the needy people in such country.”
Obama’s War on Yemen Harms Children Most
Stephen Lendman
Obama’s war on Yemen began long before partnering with Riyadh, orchestrating its terror-bombing, choosing targets to strike, supporting its ground forces and terrorist fighters.
US planned and implemented genocide affects millions of Yemenis, Obama’s latest atrocity, another country being raped and destroyed. War in its second year harms civilians most, young children most vulnerable.
Thousands are dying from violence, preventable diseases, starvation and overall deprivation. Official numbers way undercount reality on the ground.
What’s ongoing is largely unreported - 24 million people at risk ignored. US drone war has been ongoing for years, rules of engagement authorizing indiscriminate murder, noncombatants comprising the vast majority of casualties.
Trump-Bashing Battery Charge Against His Campaign Manager
Stephen Lendman
The underlying theme of this year’s US presidential campaign is stop Trump, no trick too dirty considered out-of-bounds.
Expect lots more ahead as July nominating conventions draw nearer, the dirtiest perhaps while Republicans meet in Cleveland from July 18 - 21 - anything to choose someone else as party standard bearer.
For now, Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery on Tuesday - allegedly for grabbing and bruising Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields’ arm, at a March 8 campaign event when she approached Trump to ask a question.
He denies it, calling the accusation false, saying “(s)he shouldn’t have been touching me. She had a pen in her hand. It could have been a knife. It might have been dangerous.”
The Gulf War Syndrome and the Over-looked Aluminum Adjuvanted Vaccine Connection
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
“Gulf War Syndrome refers to the complex of symptoms that affects veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War at significantly excess rates. It is characterized by multiple diverse symptoms not explained by established medical diagnoses or standard laboratory tests, symptoms that typically include a combination of memory and concentration problems, persistent headache, unexplained fatigue, and widespread pain, and can also include chronic digestive difficulties, respiratory symptoms, and skin rashes.”“…the biological effects of different combinations of pyridostigmine bromide (PB), multiple pesticides, low-level nerve agents, oil and dense smoke from burning wells, depleted uranium (DU) weaponry dust, fuel vapors, exhaust from tent heaters, Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC) paint, airborne particulates, infectious agents, and receipt of multiple vaccines, experienced concurrently or over a brief time period, are unknown. Many have suggested that unknown and difficult-to-characterize effects may have been precipitated by an ‘exposure cocktail’ or ‘toxic soup’ effect during Gulf War deployment.”
Anti-Trump NYT Blasts His Foreign Policy
Stephen Lendman
He’s a serious presidential contender with unorthodox views on some issues - making him appear anti-establishment, worrying duopoly power brokers and media scoundrels supporting them.
Wide-ranging interviews with NYT and Washington Post editors, as well as opinions expressed separately, showed his foreign policy views differ considerably from other candidates.
“I want to get along with Russia,” he said, calling good relations “very good…I’d get along very well with Vladimir Putin.”
“I want to get along with all countries, and we will,” he said, calling his approach to world affairs “unabashedly noninterventionist.”
He opposes expensive worldwide nation-building projects while America’s infrastructure deteriorates.
Hillary’s Phony Way to Defeat ISIS
Stephen Lendman
Her public record as first lady, US senator and secretary of state shows rage for endless premeditated wars of aggression.
A Clinton presidency assures permanent wars on humanity, raping more countries than already, risking direct confrontation with Russia and China - the horror of possible nuclear war.
I’ve explained many times ISIS and likeminded terrorist groups are US creations, unable to function without foreign support.
Stopping them requires no longer recruiting new fighters, ending funding, arming, training and directing them - waging peace, not war, an agenda America rejects.
Clinton’s phony “real plan” to “beat ISIS” is cover for supporting permanent war. Last week she twittered:
“Hillary has a three-part plan to defeat ISIS in the Middle East, around the world, and here at home:
Fidel Rips Imperial America
Stephen Lendman
Approaching age 90 this summer, Fidel Castro’s physical capability isn’t what it used to be. His intellect remains keen, his judgment sound, his passion for keeping Cuba free from US predation and control uncompromising.On March 20, Obama arrived in Cuba representing former US colonial control over the island state, wanting it regained in new form - intolerable for the vast majority of Cubans, unwilling to sacrifice their socially responsible sovereign state to yankee imperialism.
Obama snubbed Fidel during his visit, disgracefully meeting with anti-government dissidents instead, symbolic of US hubris and arrogance.On March 28, Fidel commented, his article titled “Brother Obama,” blasting US imperialism, saying:
“We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet” - anathema to America’s ruling class.
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