Assad close to being knighted under Blair
Dipesh Gadher
Published: 1 July 2012
TONY BLAIR’S government considered asking the Queen to bestow an honorary knighthood on President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, official papers reveal.
The decision to court Assad came despite the Syrian leader attacking Israel and comparing pro-Palestinian terrorists to the French resistance at an event attended by Blair.
Discussions about the honour took place ahead of Assad’s visit to Britain in 2002 during which he sought “as much pomp and ceremony as possible”.
The Arab leader was granted audiences with the Queen and the Prince of Wales, lunch with Blair at Downing Street, a platform in parliament and many other privileges.
Documents obtained by The Sunday Times under freedom of information laws show for the first time the lengths to which the government went to accommodate Assad.
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Syria Under Fire: Zionist Destabilization Hits Critical Mass
Syria is in the final stages of a Zionist-engineered destabilization operation; can the Arab nation of Resistance survive? |
Since 2004, the Zionist entity’s Mossad and its American partners in the Zionist-founded, Zionist-run National Endowment for Democracy (NED) have funded, armed and trained various opposition factions in Syria, spawning an army of ‘democracy-seeking activists’ ready to mobilize on command. An operations team was assembled by the House of Saud and the usurping Israeli regime, working together with a closeness most would have never imagined to be possible, and an HQ was established in Brussels with various satellites inaugurated in America and Britain just prior to the inception of the ‘Syrian Revolution.’ Leading this team are Zionists US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffery Feltman and US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, former Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri, influential, US-based Zionist Syrian exiles Farid al-Ghadry and Ammar Abdulhamid, the well-connected ex-Syrian VP, Abdel-Halim Khaddam and of course, the powerful Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (1).
Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s immensely popular President, is in the crosshairs of an axis bent on transforming the Middle East into an extension of the illegitimate entity currently occupying al-Quds. He, along with the Islamic Resistance of Lebanon, the Islamic Republic of Iran and what is left of the Islamic Resistance of Gaza, make up the counter-axis; the Axis of Resistance standing in the way of Zionism and its aims of conquest. Syria is under the heaviest fire it has ever been under; even heavier than the plot that the Israeli-Saudi partnership attempted to execute against Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, from 1976-1982 (2). And as the fire continues to burn through Syrian society, Zionist destabilization has hit critical mass. The plot to take down Syria which the usurping entity has actively and vigorously pursued for decades is dangerously close to coming to fruition.
On Syria, as well as a plethora of other geopolitical issues, the Saudi tyrant sees eye to eye with the Zionist regime and its lapdog, the United States. |
From the moment that the unrest in Syria exploded, Tel Aviv, through its tremendously venomous and wide-reaching media apparatus, unleashed one of its many ‘kisses of death’ against Bashar al-Assad and his government, labeling him its “favorite dictator (3).” This piece of pernicious hasbara was disseminated far and wide with the intent of not only turning the Syrian people against Bashar al-Assad, but to mask any Israeli involvement in Syria in the eyes of the international onlookers, developing an atmosphere of bewilderment and psychological warfare. The calculated move proved successful and the Zionist regime provided perfect cover for covert Israeli special forces, who have been on the ground since August 2007 (4). And then, as the world was looking away, Zionism lowered the boom.
It began on July 20th, when Israeli Prime Minister and mass murdering war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu offered his support to ‘protesters’ in Syria by stating, “the young people of Syria deserve a better future” and he went on with his usual diatribe against Syria for standing with Iran and Hezbollah. Ominously, Netanyahu also stated that it would be “bad for the people of Lebanon, bad for the people of Syria and bad for peace” if attention was shifted away from the unrest in Syria. The subtle words of Netanyahu were not what was most disturbing though. It was who the words were delivered to. And that who was Al-Arabiya News (5), the malicious Saudi propaganda outlet owned and run by the brother-in-law and son of the ex-Saudi tyrant, ‘King’ Fahd (6). The rare interview was an important revelation, exposing the public Israeli-Saudi working relationship.
Next up was an amplification on July 26th, when godfather of the Zionist nuclear program, war criminal, massacrer of Qana and Israeli President Shimon Peres stated in no uncertain terms, “Bashar al-Assad must go. The sooner he will leave, the better it will be for his people.” Peres also went on to say that regime change will lay down the groundwork for an eventual ‘peace’ treaty between Syria and the vile Zionist occupation. Who did Shimon Peres deliver this declaration of overthrow to? Arab media (undoubtedly dominated by the Saudi-Qatari alliance), in an ‘unprecedented’ press conference (7).
The Saudi-Israeli Alliance: demolishing Syria under the guise of 'democracy.' |
The “killing machine” spoken of by the Saudi despot is in reference to what the Zionist media calls the “Ramadan Massacre.” In a desperate attempt to garner international Muslim support during Islam’s holiest month, the Zionist media has peddled unverified, reactionary, sensationalist claims that Syrian security forces have massacred hundreds of ‘protesters’ in the Muslim Brotherhood stronghold of Hama (11).
The truth, something that the Zionist propaganda machine has never been concerned with, has been systematically repressed. An insurrectionist named Nader Hassan al-Kattan has confessed to being part of an organized terrorist operation in Hama, consisting of multiple units, in which he was paid $5,000.00 a day for his services. The operation consisted of the targeting of security personnel and civilians alike, for the sake of triggering all-out mayhem on Hama’s streets. Al-Kattan says he was recruited by a man named Mohammad Noir (12). Mask of Zion’s Syrian sources have confirmed that Mohammad Noir is a disciple of Mossad asset Muthanna al-Dhari, detained earlier in the uprising by Syrian security forces for attempting to coordinate false flag bombings with Israeli intelligence (13). It is clear that even without its leader, al-Dhari’s Zionist-backed network is alive and well.
America stands with the usurping Israeli entity and the House of Saud in an axis against Syria. |
This is a most frightening development, as the Zionist entity, the House of Saud, Washington D.C. and the Turkey-France partnership, which has played a prominent supporting role in the attack on Syria’s sovereignty via intelligence and military support for the Mossad-NED-created opposition (19), have taken their once-covert agenda public, so that the entire globe becomes aware that under the rule of international Zionism, Bashar al-Assad has no place. Also, the formation of such a council will mean that when the inevitability of sanctions against Syria’s rich oil and banking sectors becomes reality and billions of dollars are confiscated, the money will then be transferred into the hands of the Zionist criminal network’s puppets. The formation of such a council is an act of war.
Essential to every Zionist war effort is hasbara; and the hasbara against Syria has been nothing short of epic. |
Former Al-Jazeera Beirut Bureau Chief Ghassan Bin Jeddo, who will be launching an anti-Zionist satellite network called ‘Al-Mayadeen’ in early 2012 to serve as a counterweight to the media monopoly in the Arab world currently held by the GCC (20), went on the record in July to condemn the international (Zionist) media’s campaign to sow sedition in Syria, with the greater agenda of undermining Syria’s ‘Resistance’ stances and fragmenting the country (21), as per the plans laid out by Israeli Foreign Policy Advisor Oded Yinon in 1982 and the neoconservative ‘Clean Break’ cabal led by Zionist war criminal Richard Perle in 1996 (22).
Bin Jeddo couldn’t be more correct in his assessment. The powerful New York Times, owned by the Sulzberger family, a founding clan of the exclusively-Jewish Freemasonic organization B’nai B’Brith that is at the heart of all major media cover-ups (23), has been depicting Hama as a massacre-zone where civilians are under siege from a cruel, unrelenting military force (24), instead of a city where bitter armed conflict continues to rage. Robert Fisk, a foul (and unfortunately, authoritative) 9/11 gatekeeper and notorious slanderer of Hezbollah, Lebanon’s righteous Islamic Resistance, is begging the Zionist puppets in France, America and Britain to take action against Bashar al-Assad to “stop the spilling of innocent blood (25).” House of Saud mouthpieces, specifically those owned by ‘Prince’ Salman and his children, continue to elevate the anti-Assad, pro-Brotherhood line with each successive clipping that they print (26).
The historically Zionist wire service, the Associated Press, is channeling the hasbara of WINEP, a known front for AIPAC, in regards to the foreign-sponsored ‘Syrian Revolution’ taking a toll on Hezbollah’s image throughout the region (27). But no media institution has participated in the propaganda campaign against Syria quite like Qatar’s Al-Jazeera, which has taken the ‘humanitarian intervention’ approach in the dissemination of its hasbara and has now been picked up in New York, giving it a wider audience to influence, manipulate, confuse and brainwash (28). Al-Jazeera deliberately mistranslated a Bashar al-Assad speech in late July, ‘revealing’ that the Syrian President called opposition protesters “germs,” when he said no such thing (29), thus fueling the already-present geopolitical conflagration against Syria. Most despicably, it has partaken in the propagation of the ‘Ramadan Massacre’ narrative, using a pathetic, poorly-shot, unverified video as “evidence” that a murderous army operation had occurred (30). This is not journalism. This is not credible. This is hasbara, simple and plain; clear-cut.
Al-Jazeera's coverage on Syria is one of the most disgusting propaganda campaigns in modern history; it is now an official arm of the Zionist media, serving as the 'Arab' division. |
While Al-Jazeera is leading the way in overall coverage in the ongoing stream of hasbara against Syria, there is a single story that soars high above every single other propaganda pieces like a condor soaring above the Andes Mountains. And this is not the typical ‘inflated-protest-numbers’ story which has been typical and frequent of the Zionist media’s coverage on Syria; transforming hundreds of demonstrators at Syrian Muslim Brotherhood-dominated gatherings into thousands, thousands into millions and deceptively morphing pro-government protests into anti-government protests (34). No, this is far more gruesome, far more obscene in its falsehood. Propagated by CNN, run by avid Zionist Jeffrey Bewkes who has been honored by the ignominiously pro-Israel American Jewish Committee and the equally pro-Israel Simon Wiesenthal Center (35), this story was quite literally a blast from the past; a replication of a Gulf War PSYOP against Iraq.
CNN has always functioned as a mouthpiece for the Zionist occupation and all of its global ambitions, whitewashing its crimes and covering up its most intricate plots. |
As aforementioned, this ‘incubator babies’ hoax had been attempted before, in the lead-up to the Gulf War which paved the way for genocidal sanctions against Iraq, weakening the nation for the Zionist-engineered invasion that would thoroughly annihilate its infrastructure and brutalize its people in a seemingly eternal occupation 13 years later. At the heart of the Iraq ‘{312 dead} incubator babies’ hoax was the ubiquitous and devilish Amnesty International, working hand-in-glove with British intelligence and Zionist war criminal and Congressman Tom Lantos. Though the story was ultimately revealed as a hoax, it didn’t matter in the slightest. The Zionist plot had been put in motion and Iraq’s fate (destruction) was sealed (37).
This invocation of history is of the utmost vitalness to note. False stories, drawn up to despicably target basic human emotion and generate support for criminal-minded plans, can have tragic, reprehensible results; Iraqis, 2.5 million dead Iraqis from Zionism’s 2003 invasion alone (38), are the proof. The Zionist globe holders attempted to use such a story against Syria to accelerate their ‘Greater Israel’ ambitions and turn the Arab nation into another Iraq. It seems they will now have to go back to the drawing board.
Sheikh Adnan al-Ar'ur; agent of the House of Saud and 'face' of the 'Syrian Revolution.' |
With international efforts mounting to topple Bashar al-Assad and replace his government with one more subservient to the iron fist of the Zionist Power Configuration, the mainstream media has bombarded its viewers with a plethora of figures spouting propagandist venom and bolstering the Zionist narrative to increase unrest and ultimately bring about an invasion. Each figure, in their own way, plays a part in the global media spectacle shaping public opinion on all matters pertaining to Syria.
The individual with the most influence and therefore, the most destructive potential, is a ‘religious’ figure named Sheikh Adnan al-Ar’ur. Sheikh Adnan is based in Saudi Arabia and is receiving an obscene amount of press from the House of Saud’s propaganda giant, Al-Arabiya, which is touting him as a ‘symbol of the Syrian Revolution.’ He is known for his promotion of sectarianism and tragically, he commands a significant amount of influence in Syria (39); because of the sectarianism embedded in his verdicts, he is playing a major role in the Saudi Defense Ministry’s ‘civil war’ agenda.
Al-Ar’ur’s bloody fingerprints can already be found on the streets of Homs, a city 165 kilometers north of Damascus. On July 26th, three Alawi families were brutally butchered by agents of the Saudi-funded Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in an attempt to plunge the city of Homs into sectarian civil conflict. Throughout the unrest, MB agents, influenced by al-Ar’ur, have attacked Alawi mosques in Homs, Adlab, Latakia and Hama; all points of conflict between the MB and the Syrian army (40). While the Syrian people themselves have righteously rejected such sectarianism, this outrageous violence is taking a toll on the nation and their communities.
Rime Allaf is a member of the Chatham House, the UK arm of the Zionist, warmongering Council on Foreign Relations. |
Other notable assets of the hasbara war against Syria are Hamdi M. Rifai and Radwan Ziadeh. Rifai is a Syrian exile and News Jersey-based attorney who has recently had his legal license revoked for ethics violations. He has openly declared his friendship with the usurping Zionist entity and has strongly advocated for the Zionist-occupied United States government to militarily intervene in Syria. Rifai also spends significant amounts of his time spreading the works of neoconservative fanatics to justify his murderous positions and works with fellow exiles to generate sectarianism in not only Syria but Lebanon as well (42).
Twitter is a major breeding ground for hasbaraniks where anti-Syria propaganda can flourish uninterrupted. |
While Allaf, Ar’ur, Ziadeh, al-Abdallah, Rifai and other House Arabs cut from the same cloth claim to represent Syria and the demands of the Syrian people, the evidence shows that they are no more than shrill propagandists of the Zionist-Saudi axis and its agenda to drive Bashar al-Assad’s government into the ground. The truth is clear, overwhelmingly clear: the Syrian people support al-Assad and the multiple million man marches that they’ve conducted to show support for the President and his stance of Resistance and to counteract the Zionist-Saudi-backed insurrection are the proof (45).
An Israeli-NATO plan is already in the works to launch military strikes against Syria and cripple its army and infrastructure. |
One of the lesser-discussed players in the ongoing onslaught against Syria is Turkey, a collaborationist regime bound to the Zionist entity via several military-intelligence MOUs drawn up for the specific purpose of carrying out aggression against Israel’s enemies, including Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ankara has not only played the role of host for the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and served as the go-between for the US government and the Israeli-Saudi-controlled opposition, it has already intervened in a militaristic way by providing MB agents with weapons and a safe haven to re-up when ammunition is low. Ankara has already given NATO the signal to set up a military base in Western Turkey and fill it to the brim with ground forces (46).
NATO’s leadership has answered Ankara’s call and has begun planning an invasion to ‘roll back’ Syria and then Yemen in the final steps before launching full-scale warfare against Iran (47). This would assuredly please the Zionist creature occupying al-Quds, which signed an intensive, exhaustive military-cooperation agreement with NATO in 2005; a military offensive against Syria represents the very essence of the Israel-NATO bilateral agreement (48). Part of the Israeli-NATO plan has already been revealed and it is a mirror image of the current monstrous bombing of Libya; multiple airstrikes against Syria’s air defenses followed by an all-out bombardment of Syria’s army and infrastructure (49). Another criminal Western war carried out in the Zionist regime’s name. It for this reason, that Bashar al-Assad scoffed at Turkey’s attempts (read: threats) to convince his government to kowtow to Western pressure and bow to the insurrectionists tearing the country to shreds (50). Iran has also rebuked Turkey for its traitorous stance against Syria, offering its full support to Bashar al-Assad and signing a multi-billion dollar energy pact to solidify it (51). As Israel’s smokescreen dissolves, the battle lines get clearer and clearer.
Meanwhile, the aforesaid Saudi-Israeli-controlled insurrectionists continue wreaking havoc throughout the streets of Syria and are doing so with new weapons provided by a smuggling operation run by Saudi-puppet and former Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri’s March 14 movement (52). The Zionist media’s ‘peaceful protesters’ narrative crumbles a little bit more every day. Beyond waging brutal warfare against the Assad government, the Syrian opposition is committing crimes against humanity; crimes that will almost assuredly not be investigated by the likes of the ‘international community.’ In Hama, they are butchering soldiers and dumping the bodies into the Asi River (53). In Jisr al-Shughour, a conflict-heavy area in Syria’s north, Syrian Muslim Brotherhood agents are murdering al-Assad supporters by lynching them (54).
Brigadier General al-Talawi's children; murdered by the 'peaceful' Syrian opposition. |
Israel’s favorite Western mouthpiece, the Sulzberger-owned New York Times, covers up these horrors by concocting its own horrors; its latest lie is that Syrian security forces are using “anti-aircraft weaponry on civilian buildings” in Hama (59). Hillary Clinton is now covering up the barbarity that her office ordered by calling on the world to completely cut economic ties with Syria and blaming the barbarity on Bashar al-Assad (60). The people of the world are being duped yet again; but it seems that not even the thud of NATO depleted uranium rocking Damascus as it is now rocking Tripoli will convince them of this reality.
Syria and Somalia: The first two targets of the Zionist-Orwellian 'Atrocities Prevention Board.' |
On August 4th, 2011, the next generation of war, psychological subversion, intelligence masking and covert operations began, officially, with a United States stamp of approval. Chief Zionist stooge, Barack Obama, considered by the Zionist-gangster class that fomented his meteoric political rise to be “the first Jewish President (61),” created the Atrocities Prevention Board to ‘stop genocide’ and “isolate those who engage in or conspire to commit atrocities (62).” Naturally, in a move obviously meant to please his Zionist sires, Obama invoked ‘the holocaust’ to justify the creation of the shadowy interagency (63). It is ironic: ‘the holocaust’ is one of history’s greatest exaggerations/fabrications, filled to the brim with false testimonies and coverups and is now an ideological weapon routinely deployed by the Zionist Power Configuration against all who oppose Israel (64), and it is now being used as the basis for the creation of another ideological weapon.
Apart from the gut-wrenching hypocrisy of the United States government taking steps to prevent atrocities, when it has funded or is directly responsible for mass atrocities in Cambodia, Vietnam, Germany, Japan, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Lebanon, Palestine and Kashmir to name just a few, the creation of the Atrocities Prevention Board will now give America (acting at Israel’s behest) jurisdiction to unleash hell on any nation it so chooses with the use of a single pretext: “humanitarianism.” Just like the Wikileaks PSYOP was designed to usher in a new era of COINTELPRO to subvert the growing anti-war and solidarity movements (65), the Atrocities Prevention Board will serve as its twin sister, coopting human rights movements and steering them towards an agenda of Orwellian war (66).
Libya was the trial run for the Atrocities Prevention Board; the absurd, baseless official line remains that NATO prevented Muammar Qaddafi from committing a massacre in Benghazi, the second largest Libyan city. A similar plan is already in place for Syria, with the Zionist entity leading and Washington D.C., Ankara, NATO and Riyadh ready to provide support for the ‘humanitarian war’ under the logo of R2P, ‘Responsibility To Protect.’ This is why the usurping entity, the US and NATO have been stockpiling and integrating their weapons systems since 2005, when Israel and NATO signed the aforementioned bilateral agreement. Mossad is increasing its covert support to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots and the Zionist media is increasing its hasbara against al-Assad to mask the Brotherhood’s atrocities. The groundwork for ‘R2P: Syria’ is deeply underway (67).
The Zionist Power Configuration wants al-Shabab eliminated so it can turn Somalia into a haven for multinationals and neoliberalism. |
Drowned out in the Zionist media’s coverage of famine and drought in Somalia is that the Zionist-run US State Department is sending droves of private military contractors to fight the Resistance (70) and aid the puppet government forced upon the Somali people by a globalist axis and armed by the Obama administration (71). Not mentioned by the Zionist media at all is that al-Shabab didn’t even exist until the US-backed United Nations-African Union occupation of Somalia began in 2006. The occupation has been slaughtering Somali civilians in the thousands ever since. There is no “democratically-elected” government in Somalia, only a coalition of puppets handpicked by the American and French militaries (72). Al-Shabab is all that stands between Somalia and total Zionist-globalist colonization.
The Zionist-dominated Obama administration is denying aid to all areas in Somalia controlled by al-Shabab, which is the majority of the country. Aid has been restricted to a few square miles of territory controlled by the US-AU-UN-backed puppet regime, exacerbating the famine and the drought and effectively transforming them into weapons of war (73); weapons of war against Resistance to colonial domination. These deliberate acts of terrorism will generate an international outcry to ‘save the babies,’ and in response, another invasion of another Muslim-majority country will occur, but this time, it will be under the ‘almighty’ humanitarian brand of the Atrocities Prevention Board.
At the heart of the ‘humanitarian’ adventures planned for Syria and Somalia, as is the case with every war waged by Israel and its global garden of imperial puppets, is energy. For Somalia, there is Bab el-Mandab, a strategic waterway that links Yemen, Somalia and billions of dollars in oil traded on the neoliberal markets; the Zionist-occupied United States government is dying to take control of this waterway, snatching it from Russia and China, allies of the Islamic Republic of Iran (74). For Syria, there are the gargantuan natural gas fields of the Levantine coast line, sitting between two energy corridors that Syria rests upon; Iran has already offered Syria assistance in cultivating these fields and the Zionist Power Configuration wants to take control of the project at all costs (75).
The Merhav Group of Israel is a Mossad asset that specializes in hostile takeovers of regions rich with energy. |
Today, Syria and Somalia, two of the last remaining nations on the planet standing up against the neoconservative foreign policy and neoliberal economics of the globalist power matrix governed by Zionism, are both targeted under the insane premise of ‘humanitarianism.’ Tomorrow, the targets will be Lebanon, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Yemen, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba. Plans are already in place, as are agents of subversion and in some instances, preliminary, criminal action has already been taken.
If Bashar al-Assad falls, what will replace him? An anti-Resistance proxy of Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime. If al-Shabab is conquered, what will follow in Somalia? Most likely a carbon copy of the Zionist-marionette regime in Ethiopia, which has been nothing more than an Israeli military proxy for decades. But if the Resistance of both nations can survive the onslaught that they are now experiencing, feeding off of the intense support of the people that they defend, it will send a message to the globe holders: no matter what kind of tactics you may employ, the will of the people will always leave the arrogant powers torn asunder when the sun rises and the darkness is exposed. If only ‘if,’ wasn’t the word.
~ The End ~
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(69) ‘US Runs Secret Facility In Somalia’ by Press TV
(70) U.S. Relies On Contractors In Somalia Conflict by Jeffrey Gettleman, Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times
(71) U.S. Sends Weapons To Help Somali Government Repel Rebels Tied To Al-Qaeda by Stephanie McCrummen, The Washington Post
(72) UN/AU Continues Somali Slaughter by Thomas C. Mountain, Counter Currents
(73) US Prepares For Military Intervention In Somalia by Susan Garth, World Socialist Web Site
(74) Hollywood – Manufacturing Consent by Martin Iqbal, Empire Strikes Black
(75) Kiss Of ‘Democratic’ Death: Israel’s Plot To Take Down Syria II; Section – Conclusion: Long Live The Resistance by Jonathan Azaziah, Mask of Zion
(76) The War For Caspian Oil And Gas by Christopher Bollyn, Ascertain The Truth
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August 26, 2011
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Information Clearing House Newsletter
News You Won't Find On CNN August 26, 2011
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"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed" - Steve Biko
"In the past 30 years, the "masters of mankind," as Smith called them, have abandoned any sentimental concern for the welfare of their own society, concentrating instead on short-term gain and huge bonuses, the country be damned -- as long as the powerful nanny state remains intact to serve their interests." - Noam Chomsky
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Take The Pledge
"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome ===
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,792 www.icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,693
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Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 $1,240,660,277,153 http://www.costofwar.com/ Libya: 80 Found Dead at Abandoned Tripoli Hospital
By The Telegraph
Rescuers finally reached the hospital late on Thursday, finding 21 surviving patients among a macabre scene of dead bodies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28959.htm === Libya: Expect A Humanitarian Crisis
By RT
"Reporters in the field, more or less embedded with the rebels, cheering the rebels on"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28961.htm === Special Operations Clear Paths For Rebel Forces Attack On Sirte
By Christopher Stephen at Kilometre 60, eastern Libya
British and French special forces are on the ground in eastern Libya, calling in air strikes and helping co-ordinate rebel units as they prepare to assault Sirte, according to a rebel officer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28950.htm === 10 Myths About Libya? Rejoinder
By Conn Hallinan
With Qaddafi gone, every country that borders the Mediterranean is now associated with NATO, essentially turning this sea into an alliance lake.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28963.htm === NATO Destroys Yet Another Country
By M D Nalapat
The use of military power for commercial advantage ought to have vanished when the 19th century did. Its reappearance in Iraq and Libya is a worrisome sign that NATO has not learnt the lessons of history.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28952.htm === Eyeing The Prize NATO Nations Set to Reap Spoils of Libya War
By Rachel Shabi
In the context of responsibility for what happens next in Libya, an anonymous British official told the Economist that NATO's involvement in the Libyan uprising means that: "Now we own it."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28955.htm === Iran, Turkey, and Saudi The Regional Race for the Arab Spring
By Madawi Al-Rasheed
Arabs will welcome Saudi economic largess but may well challenge the patron-client relations that the Saudi regime has always deployed to silence regional Arab competitors.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28956.htm === Israel's Exclusive Revolution
By Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana
How the largest social justice movement in Israel's history managed to ignore the Palestinians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28958.htm === What Really Happened in the Bin Laden Raid?
By Mark Follman
Details of the story don't add up. Footage of the raid either exists or doesn't. The tale of that night in Abbottabad keeps getting more muddled.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28953.htm === New York Becomes the Occupied Territories
By Mark LeVine
As the US security state grows and civil rights and liberties erode, Osama bin Laden gets the last laugh.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28960.htm === President Narcissus and the faux "Debt Crisis"
By Mike Whitney
Isn't Obama one of those men who has based his economic policy "on highly abstract theories... on assumptions which are contrary to the facts..." If not, then how do we explain why he's put "deficit reduction" above unemployment?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28962.htm === 'The Banks Have Hi-jacked The Govt'
By BBC News Night
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Author of "The Black Swan"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28964.htm === American Decline: Causes and Consequences
By Noam Chomsky
In the past 30 years, the "masters of mankind," as Smith called them, have abandoned any sentimental concern for the welfare of their own society, concentrating instead on short-term gain and huge bonuses, the country be damned -- as long as the powerful nanny state remains intact to serve their interests.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28957.htm === 3 Things That Must Happen for Us To Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy
By Bruce E. Levine
Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but don't have the tools to fight back. Here are three things we need to create a real people's movement.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28954.htm === Bodies litter streets after fierce Tripoli battle:
The streets where rebel fighters bombarded snipers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi were strewn with bullet-ridden corpses from both sides Thursday. Streams of blood ran down the gutters and turned sewers red.
http://on.msnbc.com/pibyz9 === Libyan Rebels Call in NATO to Stop Qaddafi Counteroffensive as Fighting Rages: -
Libyan rebels called in support from NATO jets to stop a counteroffensive by loyalist troops in Tripoli in the early hours of Friday, as the fight continued for full control of the city.
http://fxn.ws/olWHTi === Nato leads attack on Gaddafi bastion:
British Tornado jets fired precision-guided missiles at a large bunker in Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, officials have said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14677754 === Libyan conflict far from being over:
Tripoli was attacked not so much by Libyan rebels as members of NATO security services disguised as Arabs. It was them who cleared the way for the opposition to enter a direct fight against Gaddafi troops
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/26/55214837.html
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Don't Give In To Colonization:
Muammar Qaddafi Address to the people of Libya
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28951.htm
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Libyan rebel oil firm AGOCO send "small army" to eastern oil fields:
"Security is ok now. We have a small army in place," an AGOCO official told Reuters. Libya was producing a total of 1.6 million barrels per day before the war and the country's eastern field of Sarir and Mesla can produce 425,000 bpd, the official said.
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL5E7JQ1XW20110826 === In hunt for Kadhafi, US has crucial, low-profile role:
US intelligence agencies have a crucial role to play in tracking down Libya's Moamer Kadhafi but are anxious to keep a low profile, current and former officials said Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/hunt-kadhafi-us-crucial-low-profile-role-141528552.html === AU won't recognise Libyan rebel council: diplomats:
The African Union will not explicitly recognize Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC), diplomats said on Friday, in a setback for Libyan rebels who have already been recognized by more than 40 countries as the legitimate government.
http://bit.ly/oNU16g === No, we still won't recognise Libya's rebels, says Zuma:
"We can't stand here and say this is the legitimate [government] now. The process is fluid. That's part of what we inform countries -- whether there is an authority to recognise," Zuma told reporters
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-26-zuma-cuts-a-lonely-figure-at-aus-libya-powwow/ === Libya's imperial hijacking is a threat to the Arab revolution:
They don't give up. For the third time in a decade, British and US forces have played the decisive role in the overthrow of an Arab or Muslim regime.
http://bit.ly/qM4K2P
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Libya: a new breed of military intervention:
High-level bombing, planning by low-level ground forces and a back seat for the US. This was no great victory for Nato
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/25/libya-military-intervention === U.S. May Buy Looted Libyan Missiles Sold in Mali's Black Market:
The fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi has kicked off a race to recover key types of weapons taken from his stockpiles, such as shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, by getting U.S. operatives to buy them before terrorists do.
http://bit.ly/o2dvLG === 16 people killed as car bomb hits Nigeria UN building:
At least 16 people have been killed in an apparent suicide car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.The powerful blast destroyed the lower floors of the building. Dozens have been injured, some critically.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14677957 === Ten Afghan Civilians Killed in Separate Incidents:
NATO kills five Afghan civilians: when warplanes carried out air strikes against "Taliban" in Logar province, provincial officials said.
http://tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/3786-ten-afghan-civilians-killed-in-separate-incidents === Details of Secret Pact Emerge: Troops in Afghanistan Until 2024:
If you thought President Obama was ending the war in Afghanistan, think again. Your children will be fighting it in 2024 if the Pentagon has its way.
http://www.alternet.org/world/152146/the_new_date_for_victory_in_afghanistan:_2024 === Pakistan: US Killed 73 people in July: :
According to The Conflict Monitoring Center's (CMC) monthly report, the CIA carried out six drone attacks inside Pakistani territory during the month of July 2011 killing 73 people.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=5460 ===
Eight Palestinians Killed Thursday; 11 in Two Days:
Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday evening that two residents were killed when the Israeli Air Force fired a missile at their motorcycle, north of Gaza City.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61887 === Factions In Gaza Declare Truce:
The Islamic Jihad Movement in the Gaza Strip reported that a new mediated understanding was reached between Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza in Israel to declare a truce starting Friday.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61890 === El Salvador Recognizes Independent Palestinian State:
The President of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, stated Thursday that his country officially recognizes Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, and that it supports the efforts of the Arab League to upgrade the Palestinian UN status into a full membership.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61888 === Israel to sever ties with Qatar:
Israel is angry with Qatar over the Gulf emirate's growing ties with Gaza's Hamas rulers, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
http://bit.ly/pyThHQ === Four killed in Iraq bomb attack :
Four people die and 34 are wounded when a car bomb blows up near a Shi'ite mosque in the Southern city of Basra. Sunita Rappai reports.
http://reut.rs/qS85Ma === Syrian forces kill two as tens of thousands protest:
"Activists" chose "patience and determination" as the theme of Friday's protests across the country of 22 million.
http://bit.ly/p2pgV4 === Syrian general: Militaries do not shoot at civilians:
"The Syrian militaries have never opened fire at civilians, except in cases of necessary self-defense," Hassan said.
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1923434.html === Libya 2.0 - Syrian protesters demand UN help to oust Bashar al-Assad:
"Opposition activists" voice anger over failed attempts to pass a UN security council resolution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/26/syria-protesters-demand-un-help
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Russia Rejects Syria Sanctions:
Russia today announced a diplomatic initiative to halt the violence in Syria, after rejecting a U.S. and European bid to impose United Nations sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad for his attacks on anti-government protesters.
http://bloom.bg/rg6bIW
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52 Killed In Mexico Attack: Calderon berates U.S. after casino attack:
President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning on Friday and demanded a crackdown on drugs in the United States after armed men torched a casino in northern Mexico, killing at least 52 people.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110826/wl_nm/us_mexico_crime === U.S. Widens Role in Mexican Fight:
Mexican commandos have discreetly traveled to the United States, assembled at designated areas and dispatched helicopter missions back across the border aimed at suspected drug traffickers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/world/americas/26drugs.html === Bolivia's president accuses US of sparking protest:
More than a thousand indigenous Bolivians have been marching against a highway being built across their land. Evo Morales says the US is behind the opposition.
http://bit.ly/puC52j === Are food prices approaching a violent tipping point?:
A provocative new study suggests the timing of the Arab uprisings is linked to global food price spikes, and that prices will soon permanently be above the level which sparks conflicts
http://bit.ly/qzXWo0 === US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke offers no new stimulus in key speech:
US central bank chief Ben Bernanke called on political leaders to do more to boost jobs and the housing market, saying the Federal Reserve could do little at this time to support economic growth.
http://bit.ly/outHve === August consumer sentiment drops to 3-year low:
Consumer sentiment in the U.S. plunged to the lowest level in three years and to one of the lowest level recorded by the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan survey.
http://bit.ly/qKUWBv === Battle for the California Desert: Video -
Why is the Government Driving Folks off Their Land?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3RiMdS7sE&feature=player_embedded#!
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
U.S.-Led Airstrikes Continue to Degrade Islamic State, Other Militant Groups: Other Militant Groups Unprepared
To Me
Saturday 27 September 2014 at 9:51 AM
U.S.-Led Airstrikes Continue to Degrade Islamic State, Other Militant Groups
(STRATFOR SHIT PROPAGANDA REPORT)
"Analysis"
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 | 0953
U.S.
and allied Arab forces pursued their operations over Syria Sept. 24,
striking Islamic State targets across the eastern part of the country
that included 12 modular oil refineries near the cities of Abu Kamal,
al-Mayadeen and Al-Hasakah. Airstrikes were also reportedly carried out
against Islamic State forces in the process of conducting an offensive
near Kobani against the People's Protection Units, a Kurdish militia
also known by the Kurdish acronym YPG. As in the initial airstrikes
launched by the United States on Sept. 22, Arab forces figured
prominently in these latest strikes, with Saudi Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates reportedly manning the majority of the missions.
Analysis
Beyond
hampering the mobility of the Islamic State by going after these
modular refineries, the United States and its Arab allies are striking
directly at one of the main sources of Islamic State funding, oil. More
than half the Islamic State's financial resources come from these
makeshift refineries, potentially amounting to daily revenues of more
than $2 million. The strikes near Kobani, on the other hand, seek to
halt the Islamic State's largest and most dangerous offensive in Syria,
in which jihadist fighters are pushing to within kilometers of the
Kurdish town and threatening thousands of civilians. An estimated
150,000 refugees have already been forced across the Turkish border.
Meanwhile,
the effects from the first night of missile attacks and airstrikes are
still being felt across Syria. The Islamic State has certainly suffered
considerable damage from the intense attacks and has reportedly lost
hundreds of fighters in the process. The militant group, however, was
able to somewhat minimize the damage of what could have been a far more
crippling strike by dispersing its forces in anticipation of the
U.S.-led attacks. Before operations began, the group's leadership had
gone into hiding, its supplies had been distributed into smaller depots
and its fighters had been mostly deployed on the front lines or
interspersed among the civilian population.
Other Militant Groups Unprepared
However, the al Qaeda cell that refers to itself as the Khorasan Group clearly did not anticipate that it would be one of the targets of U.S. airstrikes.
A wave of missiles struck the group's residential facilities in Aleppo,
located alongside the main al Qaeda franchise in Syria, Jabhat
al-Nusra. The attacks reportedly killed the leader of the cell, Muhsin
al-Fadhli, as well as some 50 other fighters from the Kohrasan cell and
Jabhat al-Nusra. Jabhat al-Nusra also lost one of its key combat
leaders, Abu Youssef al-Turki, who was known for running a sniper school
in Idlib.
As
a result of the strikes on Jabhat al-Nusra, numerous rebel groups in
Syria have expressed outrage that the United States targeted one of
their key allies but not the government of Syrian President Bashar al
Assad. Unlike the Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra has continued to
maintain very close ties to Salafist rebel groups such as Ahrar al-Sham
and has even actively coordinated and participated in joint operations
with Free Syrian Army outfits. Abu Musab al-Maqdisi, who is one of the
leaders of Jabhat al-Nusra, vehemently denounced the airstrikes,
allegedly suggesting that the primary enemy is the United States rather
than the Islamic State.
For
its part, al Assad's government continues to warily monitor the United
States and its allied Arab air operations in Syria. The United States
has reassured the Syrian administration — especially by using Iran as an
intermediary — that it would not be targeted in attacks in spite of the
fact that the United States and its allies are keen to see the
government fall. Al Assad, therefore, has elected to continue
maintaining a militarily passive stance toward the airstrikes, claiming
the attacks are part of a coordinated campaign with Damascus, despite
U.S. statements to the contrary.
The
strikes on Jabhat al-Nusra shifted the group's perception of its
susceptibility to U.S. air operations over Syria, and it has begun to
disperse its forces to reduce its vulnerability. Indeed, even Salafist
groups that were not initially targeted, such as Ahrar al-Sham, have
decided to evacuate their key bases and disperse their forces to avoid
the potential reach of U.S. strikes. In the short term, at least, this
disruption to some key rebel groups in Syria will benefit al Assad
because the rebels will be too busy reorganizing themselves to
effectively continue their operations against loyalist forces.
ALL THE WEST KNOWS IS BOMB DEFENCELESS NATIONS, STEAL THEIR RESOURCES AND ENSLAVE THEIR PEOPLE!
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has
underscored the need for unity among all Muslim countries amid enemy
plots to create rift in the Islamic Ummah.
Addressing a group of Iranian Hajj officials in Tehran on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei described Islamic unity as “the Islamic Republic’s fundamental slogan”, which means that Muslim states should set aside enmities and stand by each other vis-à-vis important global issues. Continue reading → Houthis make Al-Qaeda-linked militants retreat from southern Yemen
Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen confirm they have retreated from
their strongholds in the al-Manasseh area of the southern province of
al-Bayda.
In a statement on Monday, al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Sharia said that the Houthi movement’s Ansarullah fighters drove them out after a series of battles. According to the statement, all of the other local wings of al-Qaeda also withdrew from the region. Continue reading → Syrian Arab Army repels Takfiri militants in Idlib
Syrian military forces have repelled an offensive by
al-Qaeda-linked militants against the northwestern city of Idlib, a
UK-based Syrian opposition group says.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that the militants of Nusra Front, backed by other groups, attacked the city from all sides. Syrian forces pushed them back after they had temporarily seized several government buildings including the governor’s office. Continue reading → Iran Blames Turkey for Prolonged Syrian Crisis
TEHRAN (FNA)-
The Iranian foreign ministry expressed regret over Turkey’s
interference in Syria’s internal affairs, and said Ankara’s meddling has
been a driving force behind the continued crisis in the neighboring
Arab country.
“Unfortunately, Turkey’s interference in
Syria’s internal affairs and its emphasis on deciding for the fate of
the Syrian people has resulted in a prolonged war, displaced people and
large human casualties in Syria,” a high-ranking foreign ministry
official said on Tuesday.
Continue reading →Young Palestinian man dies of wounds sustained in Gaza war
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A young Palestinian man on Tuesday died in Turkey of wounds he sustained in Israel’s recent offensive on the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources and family members told Ma’an that 20-year-old Ibrahim Adli Asila from Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip had succumbed to his wounds. Continue reading → Palestine: Only 13 percent of Old Jerusalem remains
by Ahmed al-Abed, Al-Akhbar English
“Jerusalem is the bride of Arab nationalism, why did you let all these aggressors into her room?” asked Muzaffar al-Nawab, a renowned Iraqi poet, long before seeing the city at its worst today. As Israel continues to Judaize the city, forever changing its urban and cultural heritage, Arabs continue to condemn and denounce the occupation’s actions but in vain. Continue reading → UN: 5.2 million Iraqis in need of assistance for winter
As winter nears, about 5.2 million people in Iraq are in need of humanitarian assistance, the United Nations said on Monday.
Senior officials from the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned that an “immense” humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Iraq and called for greater resources from the international community to help with the upcoming winter season. Continue reading → Israeli mayor storms into al-Aqsa without permission
Israeli-occupied Jerusalem’s mayor Nir Barkat forced his way on
Tuesday into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem under heavy
police protection, a Palestinian official said, as Israel continues to
restrict the entry of Palestinian worshipers into al-Aqsa for the fifth
week in a row.
“We protest this intrusion. Barakat entered the compound under the Israeli police’s protections without permission or a prior request,” Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, head of the Jordan-run Organization for Muslim Endowments and al-Aqsa Affairs, told Anadolu Agency. Continue reading → Two-thirds of Lebanon’s Christians believe Hezbollah is protecting country
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The photo above is from the ancient Syrian
village of Maaloula, the only place in the world where Aramaic, the
language of Prophet Jesus The Messiah (A.S.) is still spoken. Hizbullah,
alongside the Syrian Arab Army, liberated Maaloula and the rest of the
strategic Qalamoun Mountains from Zionist-backed Takfiri control earlier
this year. The love and support for Hizbullah ain’t just a Lebanese
thing but a Syrian thing as well, masha’ALLAH. Takfiris and their
masters in Washington, “Tel Aviv”, Ankara and Riyadh have failed to
achieve sectarian-communal division in Bilad al-Sham and both these
pieces of evidence validate this reality beyond a shadow of a doubt. ~
Jonathan Azaziah)
Two-thirds of Lebanon’s Christians believe Hezbollah is protecting Lebanon from the threat of takfiris (extremist groups), a recent survey by the Beirut Center for Research and Information revealed. Continue reading → The Bear and Dragon Chronicles – Western MyopiaThe attentive reader will have noted an odd transformation in the Western narrative regarding Russia-China relations – the Bear and Dragon story which the current author has been arguing for over the past 15 years: Six months ago, the Western media were in unison, laughing off the suggestion that the Bear and Dragon could find an entente – much less a true alliance. The two countries were divided by a difficult history, unbridgeable cultural differences, and divergent economic geostrategic interests. Continue reading → |
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