After Promising No Boots On The Ground in Syria, Obama Deploys Boots On The GroundUS officials have confirmed today that special forces soldiers will be deployed on the ground in Syria, despite the fact that Obama promised he wouldn't deploys 'boots on the ground'.
A senior administration official told the BBC that there will be "fewer than 50" forces deployed in the region to "train, advise and assist" vetted opposition forces.
According to the official, this does n... (more)
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EU Parliament Votes For Dropped Charges, Asylum Protection For SnowdenThe European Parliament passed a resolution Thursday urging its nations to afford NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden protection.
Passed by a 285 to 281 vote, the resolution calls on EU member states to "drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently p... (more)
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'Mentally Unstable' Obama Looking to Start a War With China?This week, Barack Obama sent a guided missile destroyer into disputed waters in the South China Sea to see if the Chinese would start shooting at it. Yes, this is what he actually did. Fortunately for us, the Chinese backed down and did not follow through on their threats to take military action. Instead, the Chinese have chosen to respond with very angry words. The Chinese ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, says that what Obama did was "a very serious provocation, politically and mil... (more)
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Genies and Genocide: Syria, Israel, Russia and Much OilThe geopolitical stakes in the Middle East have just gotten higher by an order of magnitude. Take a little-known Newark, New Jersey oil company, the contested Golan Heights between Syria and Israel, add a reported major oil discovery there just as Russia's bombing campaign in Syria goes into high gear, shake it vigorously and we have a potential detonator for World War III.
Initially–going back more than a decade when Washington neo-conservative think-tanks and the Bush-Chen... (more)
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The Cost Germany Is Paying For Washington's WarsI am unable to vet the accuracy of this report from a German hospital beyond the fact that this report was given over Czech TV. It could be true or it could be anti-Muslim propaganda or some combination of the two.
Nevertheless, it is true in the sense that the sudden appearance of one million penniless refugees in a European country, which are not of the vast size of the US and Canada, is destabilizing in many ways.
One can commiserate with the Germans and the refu... (more)
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Canada's Liberals Sweep to Victory--With a Marijuana Legalization PlatformLed by Justin Trudeau, Canada's Liberal Party swept to a strong victory in Monday's elections.
While results were still being tallied Monday night, it looks as if the party has won enough seats to form a majority government by itself. At press time, the Liberals had won 156 six seats in the lower house of parliament and were leading in 34 more. They only need 170 seats to ... (more)
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Russia Destroys Most ISIS Heavy Weaponry, U.S. Promptly Airdrops 50-Tons of Weapons Into SyriaReports this week indicated that Islamic State militants were decimated by recent Russian airstrikes, and have lost "most" of their ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment in the precision strikes, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
An array of Russian bombers and ground support aircrafts targeted Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) sites in the provinces of Raqqah, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. The attacks reportedly destr... (more)
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After Nearly $20 Million Spent Watching Assange, Scotland Yard Ends 24-Hour Guard Outside EmbassyUK police have withdrawn from their round-the-clock cordon outside of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lived under asylum for the past three years.
Metropolitan police said the stakeout project had cost a total of £12.6 million ($19.4 million) and was "no longer proportionate," but said they would still try to arrest Assange, who is wanted in Sweden for questioning over sexual assau... (more)
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NDAA Defense Spending Bill Authorizes $600 Million More to Train "Moderates" in SyriaLast year's National Defense Authorization Act allocated half a billion dollars to train "vetted," "moderate" rebels to attack ISIS in Syria and also to overthrow the country's sovereign government. This schizophrenic policy goal not surprisingly produced a total (after the others were killed, captured, or willingly gave their weapons to ISIS) of four or five fighters. Even this micro force of five ultimately found itself in the depths of embarrassment as it was carjacked by al-Qaeda. Ha... (more)
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British Pilots Given Green Light to Shoot Down Russian JetsFollowing a report British defense officials have instructed fighter jet pilots to shoot down Russian jets over Syria, the military attaché at the British Embassy in Moscow was summoned to provide an explanation. "He was handed a note with a request to provide official explanations on information, published in the British media, citing high-ranking sources in the Defense Ministry of the country, on alleged directives to use weapons against Russian aircraft 'in case of threat to thei... (more)
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US Defense Secretary Predicts Terror Attacks On RussiaSecretary of Defense Ash Carter, in comments mocking Russia’s “unprofessional” military for the way it is conducting airstrikes against ISIS, predicted that Russia would face “reprisal” terror attacks on Russian soil because of their military action.
Earlier this week a group of Saudi clerics issued a joint statement urging ... (more)
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Greenwald: Obama Cannot Simply Apologize For Committing War CrimesJournalist Glenn Greenwald slammed the president in a CNN interview Wednesday, for delivering a lame apology to the Doctors Without Borders organisation, following the US airstrike on their hospital in Afghanistan.
"Doctors Without Borders, the organization that has run this hospital for five years, has made very clear that they're not most interested in hearing apologies or claims of mistake or collateral damage," Greenwald urged.
"They want only one thing, and th... (more)
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Trump: Middle East Would Be More Stable With Saddam and GadhafiSpeaking today on NBC’s Meet the Press, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump cautioned against further intervention in Syria, noting that the US largely has no idea who these rebels they’ve been funding and arming are, and predicting that Syria would go the way of Libya and Iraq, toward more chaos, if Assad was ousted.
Pressed on whether this meant ... (more)
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VIDEO: Full Vladimir Putin Interview With 60 MinutesUpdate: The copyright fascists at CBS news had the video from YouTube taken down, below is the interview from their site in two parts.
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