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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Portrait of a Backstabbing Pasha
James Petras
What Makes Recep Run? The Making of a Modern Pasha
Erdoğan began his ascent to power as a social reformer in opposition to the power elite; he was a rabble-rouser for popular Islam and social welfare. Once he takes political power he enriches his family and the business elite and purges adversaries and rivals.
With political power and economic connections, he amasses personal wealth through illicit business transactions.
With political power and personal wealth, he seeks prestige and status among the Western elites by serving imperial interests: He shoots down a Russian military jet over Syrian territory and thereby threatens hundreds of Turkish businesses and loses a major source of personal enrichment. When the Russians threaten to cut off energy exports to Turkey, Erdoğan’s opponents suggest he heat his own palace and villas with cow dung this winter.
Irresponsibly Vilifying President Assad
by Stephen Lendman
He’s been Syria’s president since July 2000, overwhelmingly reelected in June 2014 in a process independent international monitors judged open, free and fair.
Syrians want no one else leading them. The longer conflict continues, the more solid his popularity. He’s all that stands in the way of a US-controlled vassal state (now with vital Russian aid), complicit with ISIS and other terrorist groups, the ultimate slow-death nightmare free people everywhere dread.
The Atlantic Council is a neocon infested think tank, founded in 1961 to support NATO’s killing machine - one of many similar US groups threatening world peace and stability.
Its solution for resolving conflict in Syria is escalating it. Frederic Hof is an Atlantic Council senior fellow, a former neocon Hillary Clinton State Department representative on Syria - militantly anti-Assad.
Washington Post editors gave him feature op-ed space. He took full advantage, vilifying Assad irresponsibly, spreading vicious lies, demanding he “step aside for the good of Syria.”
Turkey’s Erdogan: Drug Kingpin
by Stephen Lendman
In a just world, Erdogan would top Interpol’s most wanted list, along with US-led NATO leaders, Israel’s Netanyahu, and Middle East Arab despots - partners in high crimes too major to ignore.
Along with arming and providing safe havens for ISIS terrorists, supplying them with toxic chemical agents, and selling their oil on the black market, Erdogan is a major drug trafficker. Nothing significant happens in Turkey without his knowledge, approval and involvement.
RT International reported (US-protected) Afghan opium is processed into high-grade heroin in “clandestine Turkish drug labs for distribution in Europe and Russia,” - citing Moscow’s anti-drug chief as the source.
U.S. May Be Salvaging Victory for Jihadists in Syria: How & Why
Eric Zuesse
According to Britain’s Telegraph, in a recent report, the U.S. Tow antitank missiles that U.S. President Barack Obama sent in October to the Islamic Sunni fighters in Syria to use against the forces of the non-sectarian Shiite ruler there, Bashar al-Assad, have been so effective against Russia’s forces that Assad had invited in, that Russia — defending (upon Syria’s legal request) President Assad’s forces, and attacking the jihadists imported into Syria by the Saudis and the rest of the West — is now being forced to send into the battle Russia’s costly T-90 tanks, which are less vulnerable to America’s missiles. "The deployment of the T-90s appears to reflect Moscow’s frustration at this failure ['getting sucked into a costly and possibly lengthy fight’], as well as concern over the damage inflicted by the rebels’ anti-tank missiles, themselves supplied by the regime’s arch-rivals in the Gulf states [specifically Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Kuwait] and Turkey.” All of those invading nations (other than the United States) are controlled by Sunni aristocrats, supporters and enforcers of Sharia Law, who (backed up by the U.S.) intend to take over and control the existing non-secular government of Syria, which is run by Bashar al-Assad, and impose Sharia Law.
Sham Paris Climate Agreement
by Stephen Lendman
So-called COP21 discussions from November 30 - December 11 among hundreds of representatives from 196 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) countries were dead on arrival.
They fell short of a whimper, let alone a bang environmental and other civil society groups hoped for - in vain.
Meaningful results were entirely absent - impossible to achieve with America and its key allies unwilling to address a potentially catastrophic future problem without taking constructive action now. Friends of the Earth International (FEI) accused America and other “(r)ich countries (of) mov(ing) the goal posts” to serve their powerful monied interests, profiting hugely by despoiling planet earth - ignoring a 19th century proverb more relevant today than ever, saying:
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught (and the air no longer safe to breathe and contaminated GMO and other crops no longer fit to eat) will we realize we cannot eat money.”
US Waging War on Russia Without Declaring It
by Stephen Lendman
Washington’s undeclared war on Russia (and China) is the greatest threat to world peace, risking the unthinkable - possible nuclear war able to end life on earth.
Both countries stand in the way of unchallenged US global dominance - allied with rogue NATO partners (mainly Britain, France, Germany and Turkey), Israel and tyrannical Middle East regimes led by Saudi Arabia, a metastasizing cancer masquerading as a nation-state. Two major flashpoint areas risk igniting global war - Ukraine and Syria. Washington transformed Kiev into a Nazi-infested fascist dictatorship (for the first time in Europe since WW II) - used as a dagger targeting Russia’s heartland, along with other Eastern European countries close to its border.
US Using Turkey to Provoke Confrontation with Russia?
by Stephen Lendman
Turkey’s Erdogan is a ruthless loose cannon, a valued US imperial ally, part of NATO’s killing machine - increasingly risking direct confrontation with Russia.
Washington likely orchestrated Turkey’s downing of Russia’s SU-24 bomber last month in Syrian airspace, a reckless act of war.
On December 11, Putin told participants at a Moscow Defense Ministry collegium: “I order to act very tough. Any targets that threaten Russian forces or our infrastructure on the ground should be immediately destroyed.”
He warned “those who will again try to organize any provocations against our servicemen. We have already taken additional measures to ensure security of Russian servicemen and air base.”
Reinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador
by Ellen Brown
Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself. Among other interesting news items:
In Russia, vulnerability to Western sanctions has led to proposals for a banking system that is not only independent of the West but is based on different design principles
In Iceland, the booms and busts culminating in the banking crisis of 2008-09 have prompted lawmakers to consider a plan to remove the power to create money from private banks
In Ireland, Iceland and the UK, a recession-induced shortage of local credit has prompted proposals for a system of public interest banks on the model of the Sparkassen of Germany
Israeli Commandos Rescue Wounded Terrorists in Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Israel, like America, is a sworn enemy of peace and stability. Both nations partner in waging war on Syria.
Britain’s Daily MailOnline (MO) has video evidence of Israeli commandos rescuing ISIS and other terrorists in Syria - crossing the border virtually nightly under cover of darkness to accomplish their mission.
A previous article cited Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon admitting Israeli support for ISIS and other takfiri terrorists - deceptively calling them Syrian rebels, disingenuously claiming a humanitarian mission.
Over 2,000 wounded terrorists have been treated in Israeli hospitals, according to MO, aiding their recovery to return them to terrorizing Syrian communities.
Netanyahu Calls Palestinian Self-Defense “Terrorism”
by Stephen Lendman
Israel’s Mossad may have been involved in last month’s Paris false flag, Netanyahu taking full advantage of what happened - including the latest US state-sponsored terror attack in San Bernardino, falsely blamed on innocent Muslims, guilty of no crime, murdered after being taken into custody to silence them.
In recent speeches and other public statements, Netanyahu lied, calling Palestinian self-defense against a ruthless occupier “terrorism.”
At the same time, he duplicitously claimed daily Israeli-instigated violence has nothing to do with their justifiable courageous response after nearly half a century of illegal, brutalizing military occupation.
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