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Making
Russia ‘The
Enemy’
By Robert
Parry |
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By hyping
the Russian
“threat,”
the neocons
and their
liberal-hawk
sidekicks,
can
guarantee
bigger
military
budgets from
Congress..
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Iraq: Security
forces kill 174 IS
members in Nineveh:
Operations Command
announced on Friday
killing 174 members of
the Islamic State, while
trying to attack
security forces in the
province, as well as
detonating their
booby-trapped vehicles.
IS Shows No Sign
Of Weakening As Mosul
Battle Enters Third
Month:
Islamic State fighters
have stepped up
counterattacks on Iraqi
forces in Mosul amid bad
weather as the
U.S.-backed offensive to
capture their last major
city stronghold in Iraq
enters its third month.
'IS chief still
in Mosul' claims Iraqi
intelligence;
Baghdadi likely remained
in the city, and is
currently hiding in an
underground bunker, Maj.
Gen. Fadhil Jalil
Barwari said, adding
that Iraqi intelligence
cannot pin-point his
exact location.
U.S. offers $25
million reward for
information on Islamic
State leader:
The U.S. State
Department’s Rewards for
Justice program
previously offered $10
million for information
on Baghdadi, announced
in October 2011. The
increase was announced
in a statement on
Friday.
Turkish jets
pound Islamic State
targets in Syria, kill
at least 20:
military; In addition to
the 64 targets hit, the
military said another
206 Islamic State
targets were hit by
artillery and other
weaponry in its latest
operations in northern
Syria.
Deadly bombing
hits Syrian refugee camp
on Jordan border:
At least five people
were killed and ten
injured Saturday in a
deadly bomb attack on a
Syrian refugee camp on
the border with Jordan,
local sources said.
14 US Coalition
Military Officers
Captured by Syrian
Special Forces in East
Aleppo Bunker: Report:
According to Alcharifi,
captured “NATO” officers
were from a number of
member states including
the US, France, Germany
and Turkey, as well as
Israel.
UK, US have
vaslty different
estimates of total ISIS
fighters killed
U.K. Defense Secretary
estimated that 25,000
ISIS fighters had been
killed during the
campaign. A senior
military official told
CNN last week that the
Pentagon’s conservative
estimate is that 50,000
ISIS soldiers have been
killed.
Liberation of E.
Aleppo has allowed
‘genuine’ separation of
‘moderate rebels’ from
radicals – MoD:
“The accomplished
operation of the Russian
Reconciliation Center
[in Syria] to safely
withdraw militants from
[eastern] Aleppo with
their families is
unique, not only because
the lives of nearly
10,000 Syrians were
saved,” he stated.
Aleppo
Liberation Exposed
Mainstream Media and
Their Lies About Syria:
"I can categorically and
unequivocally say that
the majority of their
reports are based on
unverified sources and
are blatantly untrue,”
Beeley said.
Over 3,400
Militants Surrender to
Syrian Army in Aleppo:
"A total number of 3,406
militants of the
so-called moderate
opposition groups have
surrendered during the
liberation of Eastern
Aleppo, and over 3,000
of them have been
pardoned,"
Car Bomb Kills 13,
Wounds 56 in Turkey;
President Tayyip Erdogan
blamed Kurdish militants
for the attack, as he
has waged a fierce
crackdown against anyone
who supports the Kurdish
movement.
Explosions in
Istanbul as angry mobs
storm HDP offices:
Angry mobs stormed the
premises of pro-Kurdish
Peoples' Democratic
Party (HDP) offices
across Turkey on
Saturday evening, with
initial reports
suggesting the
involvement of
ultra-nationalists.
Hamas blames
Israel for assassination
of drone chief;
Palestinian group says
Zawari was part of its
military wing for 10
years and vowed revenge
against "the Zionist
enemy".
Peace prospects
dead if Trump moves U.S.
embassy to Jerusalem:
Palestinian aide: A
senior Palestinian
official warned on
Friday that
implementation of Donald
Trump’s pledge to
relocate the U.S.
embassy to Jerusalem
would destroy any
prospects for peace with
Israel
Israeli
President Promises to
Help Ukraine Return
Crimea:
"We Have a Plan to
liberate Crimea from
Putin's 'Dictators'
Club"
Fierce clashes reported
in Yemen-Saudi border:
Yemen's dominant Houthi
group said Saturday that
its fighters have
repelled a major
offensive launched by
their foes of Saudi
government troops in
Alab border crossing,
between Saudi Asir
region and Yemeni
northern Houthi
stronghold of Saada
UK 'secretly selling
arms to Saudi Arabia and
elsewhere under opaque
licencing
: many of the countries
buying British arms are
run by governments with
dubious human rights
records, even though the
destinations of such
exports are supposed to
meet human rights
standards.
Did Satellites Expose A
Secret American Drone
Hangar In A Saudi
Desert?:
Did this satellite just
happen to reveal the
location of a secret
U.S. military airport
used to conduct drone
operations in Yemen?
Iran calls for
meeting of nuclear deal
powers over U.S.
sanctions;
Iran has requested a
meeting of a commission
overseeing the
implementation of its
2015 nuclear deal with
world powers, Iranian
state media reported on
Saturday, in response to
what Tehran calls a U.S.
violation of the
agreement.
Twelve soldiers
killed in attack on
Burkina Faso army post;
A dozen soldiers were
killed in northern
Burkina Faso when
unidentified gunmen
attacked a military post
near the border with
Mali, President Roch
Marc Christian Kabore
said on Friday, calling
the assailants "forces
of evil".
16 ISIS
loyalists killed in US
airstrike in East of
Afghanistan;
According to a statement
released by the
provincial police
commandment, the
militants were killed in
a drone strike conducted
in Achin district late
on Friday night.
Gunmen kill five
female Afghan airport
staff in Kandahar;
Samim Khpulwak,
spokesman for the
governor of Kandahar,
said the five women were
in charge of searching
female travelers at the
Kandahar airport, and
had been hired by a
private security
company.
Kashmir, 3
soldiers killed:
Motorcycle-riding
militants fired on an
army bus in southern
Kashmir on Saturday,
killing three soldiers,
but the fatalities could
have been higher had the
driver not kept going
despite being shot,
police said.
Duterte's drug
war: Death toll goes
past 6,000:
More than 1,000 people
have been killed every
month during the first
six months of Duterte’s
term.
Russia, Japan
sign 68 agreements
during Putin's visit:
officials:
Among
business-to-business
deals reached, gas giant
Gazprom (GAZP.MM) signed
agreements on strategic
cooperation with trading
houses Mitsui & Co
(8031.T) and Mitsubishi
Corp (8058.T).
Russia launched
‘cyberwar & propaganda
campaign’ against UK –
media;
The Russian embassy in
the UK has demanded
“proof” as critics label
the allegations “psycho
propaganda” and say the
accusations are “a new
low.”
US sends 1,600
tanks to the Netherlands
as NATO's presence in
Europe hits RECORD HIGH;
Plans to open more
storage sites in Poland,
Belgium and Germany have
also been put forward as
part of a £2.7billion
($3.4billion)
Congress-approved scheme
to boost Nato’s presence
in Europe.
Obama vows to
slap Russia over
alledged hacking;
President Barack Obama,
who has vowed to
retaliate against Moscow
over its election
cyber-meddling, faces
the media Friday as
tensions soar with
Russia's Vladimir Putin,
whose Syria strategy has
left Washington on the
back foot.
Russia tells US
to prove campaign
hacking claims or shut
up:
The United States must
either stop accusing
Russia of meddling in
its elections or prove
it, a spokesman for
Russian President
Vladimir Putin said
Friday.
Intelligence
sources say “Russians
are hacking the hell out
of us”:
American intelligence
officials have told CBS
they are convinced that
Russian hacking of the
U.S. presidential
election was approved by
Putin, and that he was
aware of attacks that
began in July of last
year.
CIA Cloud Over
Jeff Bezos’s Washington
Post:
Petition calls on the
Washington Post to be
“fully candid with its
readers about the fact
that the newspaper’s new
owner, Jeff Bezos, is
the founder and CEO of
Amazon which recently
landed a $600 million
contract with the CIA.”
CIA meddled in
‘hundreds’ of elections:
Ron Paul
: “The American people
should be worried about
the influence of our CIA
in other people's
elections, I mean
probably hundreds. It's
constant,” he said, even
going as far as to
allude to “domestic
assassinations” the CIA
has allegedly taken part
in.
Obama is bombing
Syria and trying to oust
Assad yet complains that
Russia meddled in the
election
: Yes. That is how
stupid things are today.
America has been in the
business of ‘nation
building’ for
generations – installing
and deposing of nations
leaders whenever they
felt like it.
Protests flare
over Venezuela cash
chaos; three deaths
reported;
Protests and looting
broke out in parts of
Venezuela on Friday due
to a lack of cash after
the socialist government
suddenly pulled the
nation's largest
banknote from
circulation in the midst
of a brutal economic
crisis.
Venezuelans Take
to Streets in Thousands
to Support Government:
Thousands of Venezuelans
poured into the streets
of Caracas on Saturday
to protest against
hoarders and
speculators, who they
say are responsible for
what the government has
described as an
“economic war”
U.S. to disclose
estimate of number of
Americans under
surveillance;
The U.S. intelligence
community will soon
disclose an estimate of
the number of Americans
whose electronic
communications have been
caught in the crosshairs
of online surveillance
programs
Report: 820,000
criminal illegals, 84%
with felonies, serious
misdemeanors:
"Some estimates say that
there are only 820,000
undocumented immigrants
with criminal records in
the country, including
690,000 with a felony or
serious misdemeanor
conviction," said that
report.
President
Obama's final press
conference of 2016 :
Video
- President Barack Obama
faced questions about
the war in Syria, the
investigation to
determine if Russia
hacked the DNC, and
Hillary Clinton's emails
during his final press
conference of 2016.
Long-Shot to
Block Trump Lands at
Electoral College Monday;
Sixty-two electors have
asked for briefing on
Russian hacking