The announcement last week by the United
States of the largest military aid
package in its history – to Israel – was
a win for both sides.
Israeli prime
minister Benjamin Netanyahu could boast
that his lobbying had boosted aid from
$3.1 billion a year to $3.8bn – a 22 per
cent increase – for a decade starting in
2019.
Mr Netanyahu has presented this as a
rebuff to those who accuse him of
jeopardising Israeli security interests
with his government’s repeated affronts
to the White House.
In the past weeks alone, defence
minister Avigdor Lieberman has compared
last year’s nuclear deal between
Washington and Iran with the 1938 Munich
pact, which bolstered Hitler; and Mr
Netanyahu has implied that US opposition
to settlement expansion is the same as
support for the “ethnic cleansing” of
Jews.
American president Barack Obama,
meanwhile, hopes to stifle his own
critics who insinuate that he is
anti-Israel. The deal should serve as a
fillip too for Hillary Clinton, the
Democratic party’s candidate to succeed
Mr Obama in November’s election.
In reality, however, the Obama
administration has quietly punished Mr
Netanyahu for his misbehaviour. Israeli
expectations of a $4.5bn-a-year deal
were whittled down after Mr Netanyahu
stalled negotiations last year as he
sought to recruit Congress to his battle
against the Iran deal.
In fact, Israel already receives
roughly $3.8bn – if Congress’s
assistance on developing missile defence
programmes is factored in. Notably,
Israel has been forced to promise not to
approach Congress for extra funds.
The deal takes into account neither
inflation nor the dollar’s depreciation
against the shekel.
A bigger blow still is the White
House’s demand to phase out a special
exemption that allowed Israel to spend
nearly 40 per cent of aid locally on
weapon and fuel purchases. Israel will
soon have to buy all its armaments from
the US, ending what amounted to a
subsidy to its own arms industry.
Nonetheless, Washington’s renewed
military largesse – in the face of
almost continual insults – inevitably
fuels claims that the Israeli tail is
wagging the US dog. Even The New York
Times has described the aid package as
“too big”.
Since the 1973 war, Israel has
received at least $100bn in military
aid, with more assistance hidden from
view. Back in the 1970s, Washington paid
half of Israel’s military budget. Today
it still foots a fifth of the bill,
despite Israel’s economic success.
But the US expects a return on its
massive investment. As the late Israeli
politician-general Ariel Sharon once
observed, Israel has been a US
“aircraft carrier” in the Middle East,
acting as the regional bully and
carrying out operations that benefit
Washington.
Almost no one blames the US for
Israeli attacks that wiped out Iraq’s
and Syria’s nuclear programmes. A
nuclear-armed Iraq or Syria would have
deterred later US-backed moves at regime
overthrow, as well as countering the
strategic advantage Israel derives from
its own nuclear arsenal.
In addition, Israel’s US-sponsored
military prowess is a triple boon to the
US weapons industry, the country’s most
powerful lobby. Public funds are
siphoned off to let Israel buy goodies
from American arms makers. That, in
turn, serves as a shop window for other
customers and spurs an endless and
lucrative game of catch-up in the rest
of the Middle East.
The first F-35 fighter jets to arrive
in Israel in December – their various
components produced in 46 US states –
will increase the clamour for the
cutting-edge warplane.
Israel is also a “front-line
laboratory”, as former Israeli army
negotiator Eival Gilady admitted at the
weekend, that develops and field-tests
new technology Washington can later use
itself.
The US is planning to buy back the
missile interception system Iron Dome –
which neutralises battlefield threats of
retaliation – it largely paid for.
Israel works closely too with the US in
developing cyberwarfare, such as the
Stuxnet worm that damaged Iran’s
civilian nuclear programme.
But the clearest message from
Israel’s new aid package is one
delivered to the Palestinians:
Washington sees no pressing strategic
interest in ending the occupation. It
stood up to Mr Netanyahu over the Iran
deal but will not risk a damaging clash
over Palestinian statehood.
Some believe that Mr Obama signed the
aid package to win the credibility
necessary to overcome his domestic
Israel lobby and pull a rabbit from the
hat: an initiative, unveiled shortly
before he leaves office, that corners Mr
Netanyahu into making peace.
Hopes have been raised by an expected
meeting at the United Nations in New
York on Wednesday. But their first talks
in 10 months are planned only to
demonstrate unity to confound critics of
the aid deal.
If Mr Obama really wanted to pressure
Mr Netanyahu, he would have used the aid
agreement as leverage. Now Mr Netanyahu
need not fear US financial retaliation,
even as he intensifies effective
annexation of the West Bank.
Mr Netanyahu has drawn the right
lesson from the aid deal – he can act
against the Palestinians with continuing
US impunity.
- See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-09-19/palestinians-lose-in-us-military-aid-deal-with-israel/#sthash.fL4Eq28N.dpuf
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The New
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By Chris Hedges |
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“We
will not only demand
the end to prison
slavery, we will end
it ourselves by
ceasing to be
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Saudi Arabia
kills 140 in attack on funeral in
Yemen:
Houthi rebels say Saudi-led
coalition to blame for attack on
ceremony that left at least another
525 wounded. “The place has been
turned into a lake of blood,” said
one rescuer, Murad Tawfiq.
Watch: 140
killed after Saudi coalition jets
rocks funeral ceremony in Yemen
: Video
US reviews
Saudi support as air strikes kill
140:
“In light of this and other recent
incidents, we have initiated an
immediate review of our already
significantly reduced support to the
Saudi-led coalition.” said National
Security Council spokesman Ned Price
U.S. Navy
ship targeted in failed missile
attack from Yemen:
U.S.: Saudi Arabia and the United
States blame Shi'ite Iran for
supplying weapons to the Houthis.
Tehran views the Houthis, who are
from a Shi'ite sect, as the
legitimate authority in Yemen but
denies it supplies them with
weapons.
Turkey says
38 Islamic State militants killed in
northern Syria:
Thirty-eight Islamic State militants
were killed in northern Syria over
the last 24 hours, the Turkish
military said on Sunday, marking an
escalation of conflict in the area
where Syrian rebels, backed by
Turkey, are fighting the jihadists.
Russia builds up forces in
Syria, Reuters data analysis shows:
Russia can just say: 'We're going to
continue to fly and anything that
tries to threaten our aircraft will
be seen as hostile and destroyed'."
Russia says
can protect its Syria assets if U.S.
carpet bombs:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov said on Sunday that Russia
had the means to protect its assets
in Syria if the United States
decided to carpet bomb the Syrian
government's military air fields.
What the
Deployment of Russian S-300 Air
Defense Systems to Syria Really
Means:
Op-Ed: Russia has deployed the
Antey-2500 S-300 V4 (NATO
designation SA-23 Gladiator) air
defense system to Syria.
Russia's
robust stance puts America's
imprudence in Syria on leash:
News Analysis: With the Russian
deployment of the air defenses,
"gone will be the days, when the
U.S. would express untrammeled power
to push for a regime change in
Syria," Ihsan added.
Rebels in
Aleppo reject UN envoy’s call to
leave the city
; Criticising the envoy for being a
tool against the Sunni Muslims in
Syria,
War criminal:
Kerry urges
war crimes investigation into
Syrian, Russian attacks in Aleppo
He said the attacks were deliberate
attempts to "terrorize" civilians.
China
supports Russian position on Syria –
Beijing
: China’s UN Ambassador Liu Jieyi
said some of the content of a French
draft did ‘not reflect the full
respect for the sovereignty,
independence, unification and
territorial integrity of Syria’,
while the content of the Russian
draft did
Little
consensus within administration on
how to stop liberation of Aleppo by
government forces:
Early last month, defense officials
objected to a deal reached with
Moscow by Secretary of State John F.
Kerry that would couple a cease-fire
and delivery of humanitarian aid
with U.S.-Russian counterterrorism
cooperation against the Islamic
State and al-Qaeda-linked forces in
Syria.
Syria no-fly
zone would mean ‘killing a lot of
Syrians’ – Clinton;
“To have a no-fly zone you have to
take out all of the air defenses,
many of which are located in
populated areas. So our missiles,
even if they are standoff missiles
so we’re not putting our pilots at
risk— you’re going to kill a lot of
Syrians,”
Syrian
government forces recapture more
territory from rebels in Hama:
They seized Maan and al-Kabariya,
two villages in rural northern Hama,
which the insurgents took control of
last month
18 People
Killed in Car Bomb Attack in
Southeastern Turkey
: Ten Turkish soldiers and eight
civilians were killed Sunday when
suspected Kurdish militants
detonated a car bomb outside a
military checkpoint in Hakkari
province in southeast Turkey.
Three bomb
attacks in Iraqi capital kill 10
people, wound 37:
In a statement, ISIS group claims
responsibility for the largest
attack, which killed five people and
wounded 22 in eastern Baghdad. It
says a suicide bomber targeted
Shiite pilgrims marking the holy
month of Muharram.
Iraqi PM:
‘Turkey won’t take part in Mosul op
under any circumstances’:
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi
has rejected any role for Turkish
forces in the upcoming offensive on
an Islamic State stronghold of Mosul,
as tensions between supposed
coalition partners escalate. Iraq
says the Turks are violating its
sovereignty.
UNICEF:
Cholera outbreak hits war-torn Yemen:
UNICEF warns of further health
crises with children at high risk in
country with poor access to
treatment.
Eleven
suspected militants killed in
Bangladesh raids:
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said
the raids took place on Saturday
morning in Gazipur, outside the
capital Dhaka, and in the central
district of Tangail. The suspects
were allegedly members of the banned
group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh.
Russian
Special Forces Kill 6 Alledged
Militants, including ISIS Member:
Special forces of the FSB security
police “neutralized” four fighters
in Nazran, the largest city in the
Ingushetia region, the National
Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) said
in a statement quoted by Interfax
news agency.
Russia says
U.S. actions threaten its national
security;
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov said on Sunday he had
detected increasing U.S. hostility
towards Moscow and complained about
what he said was a series of
aggressive U.S. steps that
threatened Russia's national
security.
US gov’t
officially accuses Russia of
political hacks; Moscow calls it
‘nonsense’:
“We believe, based on the scope and
sensitivity of these efforts, that
only Russia's senior-most officials
could have authorized these
activities,” says the Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper.
Is the first
secret bloody clash between Russia
and NATO in Syria - the reason for
Putin's plutonium ultimatum?:
What made Vladimir Putin raise the
stakes in a geopolitical game so
suddenly and sharply?
How U.S.
Torture Left Legacy of Damaged
Minds:
Beatings, sleep deprivation,
menacing and other brutal tactics
have led to persistent mental health
problems among detainees held in
secret C.I.A. prisons and at
Guantánamo.
New
Guantánamo intelligence upends old
‘worst of the worst’ assumptions
:
“It was clear early on that the
intelligence was grossly wrong,”
said Mark Fallon, who between 2002
and 2004 was Special Agent in Charge
of the Department of Defense’s
Criminal Investigation Task Force.
The US Air
Force Just Dropped Two Fake Nukes:
A pair of U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers
dropped two 700-pound faux nuclear
bombs in the middle of the Nevada
desert within the past few days.
The CIA Says
It Can Predict Social Unrest as
Early as 3 to 5 Days Out:
Deep learning and other forms of
machine learning can help analysts
understand how seemingly disparate
data sets might be linked or lend
themselves to predicting future
events with national security
ramifications.
Nearly 7 in 10
Americans have less than $1,000 in
savings:
The U.S. is often referred to as the
land of economic opportunity.
Apparently, it's also the land of
consumption and "spend everything
you've got."
Trump
disagrees with VP over more
intervention in Syria
: Clinton blamed the situation in
Aleppo on the Syrian government and
Russia, accusing Moscow of not
paying "any attention to ISIS" but
only being "interested in keeping
Assad in charge."
'You'd be in
jail' Trump says to Clinton & other
debate zingers:
Trump says Hillary Clinton would be
in jail if he were in charge of the
justice system, promising to hire a
special prosecutor to “look into her
situation” if he's elected
president.
Watch Robert
De Niro's no holds barred anti-Trump
rant:
"I'd like to punch him in the face":
Hollywood legend brands Trump a
"pig", "a con", "a bullshit artist"
and "a national disaster"
WikiLeaks
Appears To Release Hillary Clinton’s
Paid Speech Transcripts
A hacked email to campaign chairman
John Podesta, made public Friday,
appears to show excerpts Clinton’s
research team flagged internally,
including remarks she made about
Wall Street and trade policy.
Leaked Emails
- HRC Paid Speeches:
Attached are the flags from HRC’s
paid speeches we have from HWA. I
put some highlights below. There is
a lot of policy positions that we
should give an extra scrub with
Policy.
Some of
Clinton's pledges sound great. Until
you remember who's president:
Op-Ed: The Democrats promise to take
on a system rigged against middle
America. So why the hell has Barack
Obama done almost nothing about that
for eight years?
Six Million
Adults Who Won't Influence This
Presidential Race:
One in 40 Americans can't vote
because of a criminal conviction.
But the rules aren't exactly fair. |
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Nine Turkey-backed
rebels killed in clashes in
Syria: Turkish military:
Nine Turkey-backed Syrian
rebels were killed and 32
were wounded on Thursday
fighting in an operation to
push Islamic State militants
away from the border area in
Syria,
Russia to veto grounding
Aleppo flights at UN
Russia says
it will veto a
French-drafted U.N.
resolution calling for a
cease-fire in Aleppo and the
grounding of all aircraft,
which would include
Moscow's, over the besieged
Syrian city.
Hypocrite John Kerry says :
Russia and Syria must face
war crimes investigations:
“These are actions that beg
for an appropriate
investigation of war crimes
and those responsible would
and should be held
accountable for these
actions,” the secretary of
state added.
Russian MFA warns
Kerry about consequences of
the words ‘war crimes’
: “Kerry’s statement is
propaganda. There are some
very serious legal
consequences behind this
terminology, and I think
that Kerry used all of these
terms to inflame the
situation.
Russia ready to
support UN envoy’s proposal
to allow Al Nusra to exit
Aleppo with arms – Lavrov
: Once the jihadists exit
the war-ravaged city, Syrian
government troops and the
opposition will be able to
form joint law-and-order
bodies, Russia’s top
diplomat said, as cited by
RIA Novosti.
Intel Suggests CIA,
Pentagon Behind Media Leaks
About US Strikes on Syrian
Army;
Russian Defense Ministry
believes that the leaks to
the media about possible US
strikes on the Syrian army
could be a preface to real
action, spokesman Major
General Igor Konashenkov
said.
Russian MPs back
unlimited deployment of Air
Force in Syria
:The lower house of the
Russian parliament (the
State Duma) has ratified an
agreement allowing the
country’s Air Force to stay
in Syria on an unlimited
basis. Combatting terrorism
is cited as one of the key
goals.
Seven fighters
killed in Yemen clashes:
Seven fighters were killed
in clashes between Houthi
militias and loyalists of
Ali Abudllah Saleh in
southwest Yemen on Thursday,
a loyalist officer said.
Iraq: Gunmen kill 4
ISIS members, raise Iraqi
flag in Qaim:
Iraqi media outlets reported
on Thursday that four ISIS
members were killed in an
armed attack launched by
unidentified men in central
Qaim, west of Anbar, and
added that the gunmen
brought down the group’s
flag and raised the Iraqi
flag on the area.
EU questions
Israel’s commitment to peace
amid approval of new
occupied West Bank homes:
Echoing scathing US
criticism, Europe says
Israeli moves undermine
‘contiguity of any future
Palestinian state’
22 soldiers killed
in attack on Niger refugee
camp:
"A band of unidentified
criminals in vehicles that
had travelled from Mali"
carried out the attack,
killing "14 national guards,
five gendarmes, and three
army soldiers,"
US Ranked as Number
1 ‘Threat’ to China: Survey:
Chinese people believe the
United States is the "top
threat" facing their
country, a poll showed
Wednesday, with most
suspecting the world's
number one economy of trying
to "prevent China from
becoming an equal power".
Why the Philippines
wants to break away from US:
The Philippines’s top
diplomat said President
Rodrigo Duterte is seeking
an independent foreign
policy for the country
because “America has failed
us” in the decades since it
gained independence from its
former colonial master.
Russia Seeks to
Reopen Military Bases in
Vietnam and Cuba:
The Russian government has
complained over the years
that the West never
appreciated the good will
Russia showed in closing the
bases.
Brazil's Lula Faces
More Charges and Possible
Imprisonment:
The former president's
defense team said the fresh
charges were part of a
campaign “to destroy the
image of the most popular
former president in the
country's history.”
Luis Posada
Carriles: U.S.-Backed
Terrorist:
40 years ago, CIA agent Luis
Posada Carriles bombed a
plane from Cuba. After
decades of being involved in
U.S.-backed terrorist
missions in the region, he
still lives free, in Miami..
The Number of Babies
Born Addicted to Opioids is
Growing Alarmingly:
Rates for Kentucky and
Pennsylvania almost 2x
national rates
WATCH: Texas Man
Dies after Pleading “I Can’t
Breathe”
: A disturbing and
infuriating video has
surfaced showing a group of
Texas jail guards piling on
top of an inmate who
repeatedly tells them he
can’t breathe
Georgia Deputies who
Tasered Man to Death on
Video won’t be Charged:
The Georgia deputies who
tasered a man to death after
his family called 911 for
help will not face charges
in what the family’s
attorney calls “one of the
most horrible decisions”
he’s ever seen a district
attorney make.
In the Chicago
Police Department, If the
Bosses Say It Didn’t Happen,
It Didn’t Happen:
Two young officers began to
hear rumors of a drug gang
operating within the Chicago
Police Department. They were
skeptical at first.
U.S. government
officially accuses Russia of
hacking campaign to
influence elections:
The administration also
blamed Moscow for the hack
of the Democratic
Congressional Campaign
Committee and the subsequent
leak of private email
addresses and cell phone
numbers of Democratic
lawmakers.
Was the First
Presidential Debate Rigged?:
It seems the commission owes
us a fuller explanation
about the bad microphone and
the timing of the statement.
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Blast
at Syria-Turkey border kills
29 rebels:
ISIS, said a “soldier of the
caliphate” detonated a car
bomb as the rebel fighters
were crossing into Syria,
US-based monitor SITE
Intelligence Group reported.
‘20
killed’ in suicide bomb
attack at Syrian refugee
camp, ISIS claims
responsibility;
The attack took place at
Atma refugee camp in the
northwestern province of
Idlib, near the Turkish
border, sources told Anadolu
Agency.
Assad
offers rebels amnesty if
they surrender Aleppo:
Rebels holed up in Aleppo
can leave with their
families if they lay down
their arms, President Bashar
al-Assad said on Thursday,
vowing to press on with the
assault on Syria's largest
city and recapture full
control of the country.
UN
envoy warns east Aleppo
faces 'total destruction';
Staffan de Mistura offers to
personally escort rebel
fighters out of Aleppo to
help save 275,000 trapped
civilians.
Russia is ready to establish
a no-fly zone in Syria:
Igor Morozov, a member of
the Council of the
Federation Committee for
Foreign Affairs, told
Izvestia, other Russian
naval missile systems
operate in Syria as well.
This will allow to establish
a no-fly zone over the
country if necessary.
The
White Helmets Pushing U.S.
Military Intervention and
Regime Change in Syria;
The group is anything but
impartial. The White
Helmets’ leadership is
driven by a
pro-interventionist agenda
conceived by the Western
governments and public
relations groups that back
them.
White
Helmets are AlQaeda?
Video
exposing the White Helmets
NGO AKA the "Syrian Civil
Defence force" US funded,
AlQaeda group in Syria.
Propaganda
alert:
Should The U.S. Double Down
In Syria With A No-Fly Zone?:
The idea, resisted by the
Obama administration, has
been endorsed by Democratic
nominee Hillary Clinton
Propaganda
alert:
Petraeus: Straight-forward'
to ground Assad air force;
Assad and his supporters
"are intent on de-populating
Eastern Aleppo," says Former
CIA Director and Retired
Four-Star General David
Petraeus.
Propaganda
alert: :
John
McCain: Stop Assad Now—Or
Expect Years of War:
Ground the regime’s air
force, create safe zones for
Syrian civilians, and arm
the opposition.
Pentagon Fronts Bomb Buys
For Allies Fighting ISIS:
The Pentagon is buying bombs
for allies to drop on
Islamic State militants,
essentially fronting the
cash to speed up weapons
deliveries, top military
officials said.
Air
strike kills pro-government
fighters in Iraq:
An air strike has killed at
least 20 Iraqi
pro-government Sunni tribal
fighters in an area south of
Mosul, according to the
security forces and a
minister.
Turkish soldiers will stay
on Iraqi soil: Turkish PM:
“Whatever the Iraqi
government in Baghdad says,
the Turkish presence there
[in the Bashiqa region] will
remain for the fight against
ISIL and to make sure that
the demographic structure of
the region is not being
changed by force,”
Upset
with Turkey, Iraq seeks
Security Council session:
Iraq has requested an
emergency UN Security
Council session over the
presence of Turkish troops
in northern Iraq, a Foreign
Ministry spokesman said
Thursday, a development that
could further increase
tension between the two
neighbors.
Canadian special forces have
been in gunfights with ISIS,
general says:
Canada has about 200 special
forces soldiers helping
Kurdish forces fight ISIL in
northern Iraq.
Seven
fighters killed in Yemen
clashes:
Four
rebels and three
pro-government fighters died
on the edge of Taez and Lahj
provinces in fighting for
control of an area
overlooking the strategic
Bab al-Mandab strait, the
officer said.
Yemeni Forces Hit Several
Saudi Bases with Rockets:Yemeni
army soldiers, backed by
fighters from allied Popular
Committees, struck a number
of military bases in Saudi
Arabia’s border region of
Jizan on Thursday in
retaliation against
incessant airstrikes.
White
House: Netanyahu Broke a
Commitment, That's Not How
You Treat Your Friends:
After State Department
issues unusually harsh
statement on Israeli plans
for new settlement for Amona
residents, White House says
action 'undermines the
pursuit of peace.'
Inside Palestine’s Refugee
Camps : Must Watch Video
- With millions of displaced
Palestinians around the
world, hundreds of thousands
are refugees in their own
country—many have lived
packed into these refugee
camps after being ethnically
cleansed from their villages
just miles away.
11
killed in Central African
Republic after official
shot:
Mission spokesman said that
calm had returned to
Bangui’s PK5 neighborhood, a
mostly Muslim enclave where
the violence took place. On
Twitter, he said 14 people
were unaccounted for and
might be hiding in fear of
more clashes.
UN
peacekeepers refused to help
as aid workers were raped in
South Sudan – report;
Peacekeeper troops from
Chinain Juba, South Sudan. A
report says they and forces
from other countries
‘underperformed’ during
violence in the city in
July.
Afghanistan: Doctors to flee
Kunduz:
Hospital staff forced to
flee as fighters enter city
where thousands of residents
face water and electricity
shortages.
Demonizing
Russia?
Russia denies drugging US
diplomats;
"We are outraged," Russian
Deputy Foreign Minister
Sergey Ryabkov said, adding
the claim may have been the
work of the US State
Department seeking "revenge"
for the collapse of talks
between the two counties to
address the situation in
Syria.
Germany Considering a Push
for EU Sanctions on Russia
Over Syria;
Initial discussions on how
to force Russia to change
its actions in Syrian civil
war
Kremlin says regrets way
Russia is being used in U.S
election campaign:
Russia and President
Vladimir Putin have become
what it called an
inseparable part of the U.S.
election campaign, saying it
was fed up with Russia
usually being presented in a
negative light.
Norway seeks ban on burqas
in the classroom
: Norway's right-wing
government on Wednesday
announced plans to ban the
full-face Islamic veil from
classrooms and university
lecture halls.
Theresa May trying to
protect soldiers who murder
prisoners and torture
civilians:
“We will never again in any
future conflict let those
activist left-wing human
rights lawyers harangue and
harass the bravest of the
brave, the men and women of
our Armed Forces”.
The
Great Debt Unwind: Business
Bankruptcies Soar 38%;
In August, commercial and
industrial loans outstanding
at all banks in the US fell
for the first time
month-to-month since October
2010, which had marked the
end of the collapse of
credit during the Financial
Crisis.
Hurricane Matthew: At least
100 people killed in Haiti
devastation;
Hurricane Matthew has left
108 people dead in Haiti,
the interior minister has
told AFP news agency. One
local official, speaking to
AFP, said 50 people had died
in the southern town of
Roche-a-Bateau alone.
Two
million are told to flee
deadly Hurricane Matthew:
Hurricane Matthew is
expected to hit southern
Florida late this evening
and move up the East Coast
Neighbor Describes NSA
Contractor’s Arrest:
“I Thought the Third World
War Started”: The Justice
Department charged Martin on
Wednesday morning with
illegally copying and taking
home sensitive government
materials through his job as
a Booz Allen Hamilton NSA
contractor:
Jewish Man Indicted After
Criticizing Israel, U.S. at
Kansas Q&A With Dennis Ross:
If people can be arrested
for asking questions at
library events, 'then I
guess we're going to have to
shut the library down,' says
outraged director about the
May incident.
Charlotte police release
full video of Keith Lamont's
fatal shooting:
Video - WARNING GRAPHIC
CONTENT.F amily insists it
does not show whether the
action was justified as it
fails to reveal if he had a
gun.
'New
low': Dead vets left to
'decompose' in VA morgue for
weeks without burial:
An Illinois Veterans Affairs
hospital already under fire
for excessive wait times,
festering black mold and
kitchen cockroaches faces a
new shame – the bodies of
dead patients left unclaimed
in the morgue for up to two
months without proper
burial, whistleblower
documents allege.
DOJ
Allowed Clinton Aides'
Lawyer to Limit FBI Probe:
Department of Justice
officials allowed Beth
Wilkinson, the lawyer for
two of Hillary Clinton's
aides, to shape the FBI's
investigation into her
handling of email during her
tenure as secretary of
state, including allowing
the aides to destroy
official documents and
laptops
Clinton Campaign Helped
Script Steve Harvey
Interview:
Leaked memo shows questions
were sent to Clinton ahead
of sit-down interview and
Flint water crisis special
Trump’s use of debts and tax
laws spurs concerns about
his methods:No
one knows for sure what
provisions his accountants
used because Trump — unlike
every other major
presidential nominee over
the last four decades — has
refused to release his tax
returns.
Trump
supporters explain how the
election will be “rigged” —
but only if Trump loses:
Emotions are running high
going into the election,
some voters don’t want to
accept their candidates
could lose, and whatever a
candidate says can seriously
influence what his or her
supporters think and say.
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Turkish Airstrikes Kill 28,
Wound Over 100 in Eastern
Aleppo - Opposition:
Turkish aviation carried out
a raid east of the Syrian
city of Aleppo on Wednesday,
killing 28 people and
wounding more than 100, a
member of the Syrian
Democratic Council told
Sputnik.
Turkish soldier, 2 Syrian
rebels killed fighting IS in
Syria:
Latest incident brings
servicemen death toll to 11
since Turkey began operation
to remove Islamic State from
its border
Syrian government forces
advance on rebel-held Aleppo;
Russian-backed offensive to
retake Aleppo's rebel-held
east intensifies as Moscow
sends advance missile system
to Syria.
‘Leaked Kerry comments prove
US involvement in Syrian
crisis from onset’:
The leaked recording reveals
how angry John Kerry really
is about being unable to
topple President Bashar
Assad by military means.
Russia sends more air
defense missiles to Syria:
Russia sends more air
defense missiles to Syria:
The Russian military said
Tuesday it had beefed up its
forces in Syria with
state-of-the-art air defense
missiles, an announcement
that follows Washington's
move to suspend contacts
with Russia over Syria.
This
is How 'Extremely Efficient'
S-300 Will Boost Russia's
Defenses in Syria:
It is capable of
intercepting warheads
traveling at a speed of up
to 5 kilometers per second
and destroying them at a
maximum altitude of 30
kilometers," he explained.
US
Military Builds a New Air
Base in Northern Syria
The
construction site, located
between the cities of
Sheddadi and al-Hasakah and
secured by SDF fighters,
sits on a major oil and gas
field.
US
seeks to enforce global
dominance – Assad
: “United States builds its
position on hegemony over
other states and it has been
the case since they took
advantage of the USSR
collapse and established
unilateral control over this
world up to this day,” the
president said,
At
least 20 Iraqi Sunni tribal
fighters killed in mistaken
airstrike: police:
At least 20 Sunni tribal
fighters were killed in a
airstrike south of Mosul in
the early hours of Wednesday
when they were mistaken for
Islamic State militants,
Iraqi police said.
Iraq
Warns Turkey of ‘Regional
War’:
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi has warned Ankara
that keeping soldiers in
Northern Iraq could lead to
war.
Iraq
demands that Turkey pull its
‘occupying’ troops out of
military base near Mosul:
Outraged by Ankara’s
decision to extend the
stationing of its troops in
northern Iraq, 30 kilometers
from Mosul, Iraqi MPs have
called on the government to
review its relations with
Turkey and lodge a complaint
against the “occupation”
with the UNSC.
Mosul
fight could fracture Iraq:
former Sunni governor;
The battle for Mosul will be
a make-or-break moment for
Iraq that could split the
country along ethnic and
sectarian lines, said the
former regional governor who
has assembled a force which
will take part in the
campaign.
Iraq
PM tells Mosul residents:
‘Victory is near’:
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi said “victory is
near” as he pledged to
recapture Mosul from
militants, in a radio
address to residents of the
city on Tuesday
10
civilians, including
children, killed in Yemen's
Taiz
: Pictures of the dead
children in a pool of blood
were widely circulated on
social media.
Saudi
Arabia: Investigations into
War Crimes in Yemen
“Prohibited”;
Saudi Arabia rejected a
request by the United
Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad
Bin Al-Hussein to form an
international commission of
inquiry into war crimes
committed in Yemen.
Why
the War on Yemen Is Ignored;
Op-Ed:
Yemenis are trapped by the
coalition blockade that also
starves them of basic
necessities, so the outside
world doesn’t see the
millions of displaced from
their homes by the conflict
and the tens of millions
that desperately need food
and medicine.
The
Crimes of Shimon Peres:
Video
- We speak to Miko Peled,
the Son of a prominent
Israeli general who worked
with Shimon Peres, about the
crimes committed by the man
who is being celebrated by
the mainstream media.
50
bodies recovered as more
than 4,600 people rescued
off Libya in one day;
This brings the total number
of rescued in the last 48
hours to more than 10,000,
and the death toll to 50 as
people smugglers take
advantage of relatively calm
weather to push boats to
sea.
14
al-Shabaab fighters killed
in Somalia
: Somali armed forces have
killed 14 al-Shabaab
fighters in a security
operation in the Lower
Shabelle region in southern
Somalia, authorities said
Wednesday morning.
5
killed in fresh violence in
Central African Republic:
The five bodies were
deposited at the Ali Babolo
Mosque in the Km5
neighborhood, according to
Gen. Mohamed Moussa Dhaffane,
leader of the splinter group
Renewed Seleka for Peace and
Justice.
Foreign airstrike kills
entire families in Benghazi:
The media outlet of Benghazi
Shura Council said the
airstrike targeted a
residential building and led
to the killing of 7
civilians from the two
families, one Libyan and the
other Egyptian.
Afghanistan; Fierce
Gunbattle Rages In North
While 12 Policemen Killed In
South:
Taliban fighters besieged
police checkpoints around
the provincial capital of
Lashkar Gah late on Monday
night, killing 12 policemen
and wounding another 11,
according to Haji Gran,
chief of the city's police
district 2.
US
servicemember killed on
patrol in Afghan bomb blast:
“The servicemember was
killed conducting operations
with Afghan forces when the
patrol triggered an
improvised explosive
device,” US Forces,
Afghanistan said in a
statement.
World
powers seek billions more
dollars to keep Afghanistan
running;
World powers convened in
Brussels on Tuesday to raise
billions more dollars for
Afghanistan to keep the
country running until 2020.
Duterte tells Obama 'you can
go to hell,' warns of
breakup
: Since becoming president
in June, Duterte has had an
uneasy relationship with the
U.S. and with Obama and has
declared intentions to
bolster relations with China
and Russia
Sanctions against North
Korea have failed. End them
now : Op-Ed:
The latest nuclear test by
North Korea proves that
economic sanctions against
the regime have failed
utterly. So how is the west
proposing to react? It is
debating how to extend
sanctions.
Russia prepares citizens for
NUCLEAR WAR with the West:
Officials announced on
Friday underground shelters
had been built which could
provide shelter for Moscow’s
12 million people in the
event of an attack.
State
Department Threatens to Send
Islamic Terrorists into
Russia:
Because the “extremist
groups” in Syria are
supported by the United
States and its Gulf Emirate
partners, this remark can
only be interpreted as a
threat against Russia by the
State Department.
The New York Times'
Editorial Board making the
case for war with Russia:The
language in this NYT
editorial on Putin recalls
old edits on Milosevic &
Saddam. They're preparing us
for war
U.S.
State Department Threatens
to Send Islamic Terrorists
into Russia:
Because the “extremist
groups” in Syria are
supported by the United
States and its Gulf Emirate
partners, this remark can
only be interpreted as a
threat against Russia by the
State Department.
Yahoo
Built a Secret Tool to Scan
Your Email Content for US
Spy Agency:
Yahoo might have provided
your personal data to United
States intelligence agency
Google’s Jigsaw: Undermining
Alternative Media;
We examine Google’s Jigsaw,
an emerging technology that
will be used on the internet
to counter speech and ideas
considered “extremist” by
the global elite.
Security experts urge
clients to stop using Yahoo
Mail after spying report
: "It is deeply
disappointing that Yahoo
declined to challenge this
sweeping surveillance order,
because customers are
counting on technology
companies to stand up to
novel spying demands in
court."
IMF
Slashes US GDP Growth
Outlook:
Now Sees US Growing Only
1.6% In 2016
Jail
Wells Fargo CEO and Chairman
John Stumpf!:
Stumpf's actions were not
merely "unethical" — they
were criminal. And in the
current system, he'll not
only get away with it, he'll
profit more than handsomely.
Backlash to World Economic
Order Clouds Outlook at IMF
Talks:
Policy-making elites
converge on Washington this
week for meetings that
epitomize a faith in
globalization that’s at odds
with the growing backlash
against the inequities it
creates.
Bankruptcy Court Filings up
2nd month for 1st time in 7
years
: Overall, the September
increase marked the third
time filings have gone up
this year, but just the
sixth time they have risen
over the last six years.
200
veterans die waiting for
care
: But confusion and
bureaucratic bungling are
still prevalent, some
veterans are waiting a
half-year or longer for
treatment, and staff are
still canceling appointments
for questionable reasons.
Full
VP Debate: Mike Pence vs Tim
Kaine - Vice Presidential
Debate
: Video - The one and only
face-off between vice
presidential candidates Mike
Pence and Tim Kaine.
Judge
Napolitano: FBI Was Told To
Exonerate Hillary ‘At All
Costs To Run Against Trump’:
"Why the FBI would look the
other way in the face of
destruction of evidence and
obstruction of justice is
very telling," Judge
Napolitano said.
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October 04, 2016
Barbarism in Words and
Deeds
By James Petras |
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Accusing
Syrian soldiers of
‘barbarism’ was
Ambassador Power’s
cynical way of
dehumanizing the young
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Hillary Clinton-Pandora
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By George Capaccio |
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When I
enter my polling
location, I will be
thinking of victims —
from Palestine, Iran,
and Iraq to Honduras,
Yugoslavia, and Ukraine
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Bomb kills 20
at Kurdish wedding in Syria:
: A bomb killed at least 20 people
at a Kurdish wedding in the
northeast Syrian city of Hasaka on
Monday, a Kurdish militia and a
monitoring group said, while state
media said the casualties had risen
to at least 30 dead.
Leader of
former al-Qaeda group in Syria
'killed' in US airstrike:
A senior leader of a key Islamist
group in Syria has been killed in a
coalition airstrike near Idlib, the
group confirmed on Monday after the
Pentagon announced that it had
targeted him.
Rival
extremists in fierce clashes on
Lebanon border:
ISIS and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham
militants engaged in fierce clashes
Tuesday along the northeastern
Lebanese border with Syria,
Hezbollah-run media reported.
U.S. suspends
Syria ceasefire talks with Russia,
blames Moscow:
The confirmation that the
U.S.-Russian talks on Syria have
collapsed suggests that there is
little hope, if any, of a diplomatic
solution emerging anytime soon to
end a 5-1/2-year-old civil war
US ‘ready to
ally with terror’ to overthrow Assad
– Russia Foreign Ministry
: Moscow has accused Washington of
sabotaging the Syria ceasefire deal,
as by taking no action against Al-Nusra
terrorists it shows it is ready “to
make a deal with the devil.”
Russia Finds
- Shaming The U.S. Government Into
Action Can Work: Op-ed:
Russia has now managed twice to
shame the U.S. into action against
Jihadis by publicly demonstrating
that the U.S. is not really
committed to its promises.
U.N.'s rights
boss warns Russia over Syria air
strikes;
Zeid said that the situation in
Aleppo demanded bold new initiatives
"including proposals to limit the
use of the veto by the permanent
members of the Security Council”,
which would enable the U.N. body to
refer the situation in Syria to the
International Criminal Court (ICC).
US Officials
Believe Russia Deployed S-300
Advanced Anti-Missile System to
Syria:
: While Moscow's motives are not
certain, officials say the new
weapon system could potentially
counter any American cruise missile
attack in Syria.
ISIS executes
45 people southwest of Kirkuk:
“ISIS committed a new massacre
against civilians, and executed 45
persons from Hawija (55 km southwest
of Kirkuk) in Bakara military base
near the district.”
ISIS leader
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi suffers severe
poisoning:
“We received accurate intelligence
information stating that ISIS leader
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and three
senior leader of the so-called ISIS
Shura Council, suffered from food
poisoning, after eating a poisoned
meal.”
Iraqi group
demands payments for US invasion
after ‘Sue the Saudis for 9/11’ bill
passes Congress
: The group – the first to take
advantage of the precedent set by
the Justice Against Sponsors of
Terrorism Act (JASTA) – has asked
the Iraqi parliament to prepare the
lawsuit.
Yemen rocket
attack kills 6 civilians in Taiz:
Three children were among those
killed in the explosions outside a
post office
At least 4
Yemeni civilians killed in Saudi
fighter jets strike;
At least four people have been
killed and almost a dozen others
injured in a fresh wave of
airstrikes carried out by Saudi
Arabia’s warplanes against
residential areas across Yemen.
Houthi senior
militia leader killed near Najran;
Abdullah Qayed al-Fadeea was killed
early Tuesday morning after
Saudi-led Arab coalition forces
targeted him and his convoy in a
strike.
Turkey purges
13,000 police officers over failed
coup;
The latest wave adds to the 100,000
or so civil servants dismissed or
suspended since July's failed coup.
Palestinian
Government Postpones West Bank
Elections:
The Palestinian high court on Monday
ruled that elections will be held in
the West Bank only and not in Gaza —
effectively canceling the first
political contest in a decade
between rival factions, Fatah and
Hamas.
Ten countries
host half world’s refugees: Amnesty
International:
The top refugee hosting country was
Jordan, which has taken in more than
2.7 million people, followed by
Turkey (more than 2.5 million);
Pakistan (1.6 million) and Lebanon
(more than 1.5 million).
Libya govt
forces say 80 militants killed in
Sirte;
“Commanders of front line units have
counted at least corpses (of
militants) killed as they tried in
vain to attack behind the lines” of
the loyalists, said the media office
of forces loyal to the Government of
National Accord (GNA).
The Great
Libya War Fraud:
The UK government's relentless
insistence on the need to support
freedom-loving rebels against a
genocidal tyranny were invented
'facts' fixed around policy.
Ethiopia
mourns 55 killed during protest at
Oromia festival:
Renewed protests have hit Ethiopia's
Oromia region, a day after at least
55 people were killed in a stampede
triggered by clashes between police
and demonstrators at a religious
festival.
Egypt says it
killed senior Muslim Brotherhood
leader in shootout:
Mohamed Kamal, 61, a member of the
group's top leadership, and Yasser
Shehata, another leader, were
killed. The ministry said it raided
an apartment in Cairo's Bassateen
neighborhood
UN
peacekeeper killed, 8 wounded in
north Mali attack:
Attacks targeting a camp in northern
Mali operated by the United Nations
peacekeeping mission on Monday
killed one soldier from Chad and
wounded eight others, U.N. officials
said.
56
isis-fighters-killed-in-afghanistan:
At least 56 loyalists of the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were
killed in the latest operations
conducted in eastern Nangarhar
province of Afghanistan, local
officials said Tuesday.
40 million
Russians involved in annual 4-day
defense drills
: This week Russian authorities are
conducting massive civil defense
training involving 40 million people
nationwide. The drill comes amid a
spike in tensions between Russia and
the US after the collapse of the two
nations’ cooperation in Syria.
UK to exempt
troops from European Convention
: UK government will allow its
military to violate European human
rights law to boost their confidence
on the battlefield and stop a
“witch-hunt,” as it does not want to
spend more on “vexatious” and
“false” charges against troops in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
Deutsche Bank
Is Going Under:
The Real Reason Germans Were Told To
Prepare For A National Crisis?
Pound slumps
to 31-year low against US dollar:
Britain's currency also struck a
fresh three-year low point against
the euro, while the drops helped
pushed London's benchmark FTSE 100
stocks index up to a 16-month high
beyond 7,000 points at the open.
How
Capitalism Perpetuates Immigration:
Capitalism has a long, ugly history
of scapegoating immigrants. The
pattern has been repeated often.
WikiLeaks'
Assange promises election leaks:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
vowed Tuesday that the online
publishing organization would
publish "significant" secret
information related to the United
States presidential election — and
that it would do so before Nov. 8
The Failed
Ecuadorean Coup Against Rafael
Correa;
September 30 is a day Ecuadorians
won't forget. In 2010, a coup
attempt to oust Rafael Correa took
place. Although it failed, others
succeeded in the region. Is this a
new Operation Condor
Google’s
Jigsaw: Undermining Alternative
Media: Video
: We examine Google’s Jigsaw, an
emerging technology that will be
used on the internet to counter
speech and ideas considered
“extremist” by the global elite.
Library
Worker Heroically Defends Patron’s
Free Speech:
“For someone to be assaulted and
then arrested for asking a question,
in a public library of all places,
is abhorrent. The library should be
a place where people of all points
of view can feel safe and welcome,”
Protests shut
down streets in DC to demand justice
for Terrence Sterling (VIDEO)
:
Terrence Sterling was an unarmed
black motorist shot by a police
officer who did not turn on his
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