War in Syria 3

The Hillary Clinton Presidency Has Already Begun As Lame Ducks Promote Her War  -  by Diana Johnstone

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/26/the-hillary-clinton-presidency-ha...

"An infantilized public  will believe that when the United States goes to war, it is all about protecting little children from their bad, mean dictators whose only aspiration is to 'bomb their own people.'

It will never occur to an infantilzed public that the war to destroy Syria has been planned for years - even though someone like General Wesley Clark revealed this years ago.

Or that it is carried out to eliminate Israel's enemies, keep Arabs busy killing each other, and incidentally help Saudi Arabia spread its Wahhabist fanaticism.

No, that will never occur to them."

Obama Warned To Defuse Tensions With Russia

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/10/02/obama-warned-to-defuse-tensions-wi...

"A group of ex-US intelligence officials is warning President Obama to defuse growing tensions with Russia over Syria by reining in the demonization of President Putin and asserting White House civilian control over the Pentagon."

US Seeks to Enforce Global Dominance by Unleashing War on Countries Who Oppose It - Assad

https://www.rt.com/news/361623-assad-syria-american-hegemony/

"What is happening in Syria is an attempt to save what is left of the American and Western hegemony in the world. There is no point in analyzing US politics on the basis of common sense, as it is guided by factional interests,' Assad said..."

Syrian Forces Make Gains in Aleppo, Washington Intends to Escalate

http://theduran.com/as-syrian-forces-make-gains-in-aleppo-the-us-intends...

"The strategic and symbolic significance of the liberation of Aleppo is apparent, and now the immediate focus of the US and Gulf powers that support the armed groups is to hinder the advance of Syrian forces and their allies as they consolidate control over Castello road (the last remaining rebel supply route) and surround areas of eastern Aleppo held by insurgents.

The torrent of war-crime accusations and scathing denunciations of Moscow and Damascus in recent days is not authentically motivated by human rights, but rather is a means of using adverse global opinion to pressure Russia into easing the Syrian army's offensive, which may otherwise soon defeat the remaining rebel forces in Aleppo.

It is crucial to acknowledge that when similar rights violations are committed by Israel in its suppression of Palestinians, by Saudi Arabia in its illegal war in Yemen, or by US-backed forces fighting in Syria, the moral indignation of the international community is dramatically subdued.

The difference is that Syria is enforcing its legal right to territorial sovereignty against insurgents armed by hostile states, a predicament that any state would meet with lethal force. The furious vilification of the Syrian and Russian militaries is extremely political and a telling indication that Western and Gulf Powers see themselves on the losing side of the conflict..."

The Media Are Misleading the Public on Syria

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/22/media-are-misleading-public...

"Coverage of the Syrian war, will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press. Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo is the latest reason why..."

of course all this is just fear mongering...right...nothing to worry about re Russia/US-NATO nuclear confrontation, right!

 Russia has deployed state-of-the-art air defense system S-300V4 Antey-2500 in Syria (NATO reporting name SA-23 Gladiator), Fox News reported citing three sources in the US administration. According to the sources of the agency, Moscow continues increasing its military presence in Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad.

The US administration finds its difficult to explain the motive behind Moscow’s latest move in Syria. US officials say that the S-300V4 system is potentially capable of intercepting any kind of US cruise missiles in the event of an attack in Syria.

Is Fighting Al Qaeda in Aleppo Good or Bad? - US Unable To Decide

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/10/is-fighting-al-qaeda-in-aleppo-good...

"There is currently a barrage of propaganda in the 'western' media in support of 'rebels' in east Aleppo. It is all about 'hospitals' and 'children' but the aim is to stop a Syrian assault on the 'rebel' held quarters of the city.

US officials are again talking about 'intervention' meaning open war, to prevent the Syrian army and its allies from storming the 'rebel' held eastern parts..."

CONFIRMED: Russia warns U.S., ‘attack Syria and we will shoot down your aircraft’

"The Russian military has now made explicit the warning news of the deployment two days ago of advanced S-300VM Antey-2500 surface to air missiles to Syria had previously made implicit.

Russia not only opposes any US plan to launch covert air strikes or cruise missile strikes against the Syrian military.  Its air defence troops in Syria stand ready to intervene in the event of such strikes if they believe the lives of Russian military personnel in Syria are at risk."

The statement by Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Ministry of Defence spokesman, could not be clearer:

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“Most officers of the Russian Centre for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties currently work ‘on the ground,’ delivering humanitarian aid and conducting negotiations with heads of settlements and armed groups in most Syrian provinces. 

That is why any missile or air strikes on the territory under control of the Syrian government, will create an obvious threat for Russian military.

And finally, I draw attention of ‘hotheads’ that after a strike on Syrian troops in Deir ez-Sor by planes of the coalition on September 17, we have taken all necessary measures to rule out any such ‘mistakes’ against Russian military and military facilities in Syria (NB: this clearly refers to the deployment of the S-300VM Antey-2500 systems to Syria – AM).

The crews on duty will hardly have the time to calculate the missile’s flight path or try to find out their nationality. As for the laymen’s illusions about the existence of ‘invisible planes’ they may confront a disappointing reality.”

The White Helmets: a heartfelt humanitarian NGO or an elaborate and cynical Western PR stunt promoting illegal regime change in Syria? Does wearing white helmets mean they are the good guys supporting a just cause?

CrossTalking with Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, and Patrick Henningsen. Bartlett is a hero for a lot of us. It's nice to see her on the show.

Summary:

1. A fake NGO. An N"G"O. Main funders are the UK foreign office and USAID. We are talking about $100 million dollars going into an organization with 3,000 operatives. USAID has a long and ugly history of acting as a transmission belt for the "deep state", i.e., the CIA, and efforts at regime change and so on.

2. They operate, freely, on the territory occupied by the terrorists. Everyone else is in danger, they, have no problems with the terrorists. Their buddies. The White Helmets are interchangeable with them. Idlib, East Aleppo, outskirts of Damascus, and, of course, Gaziantemp in Turkey. The White Helmets DO NOT operate in areas that the terrorists are attacking, i.e., where Syrians are dying and being injured. 

3. The White Helmets are used to "sell" the war, regime change, against the legitimate government of Syria.  They are used to propogate the myth that the Syrian government is killing its own people, and, therefore, the Libyanization of Syria is on their agenda.

4. The White Helmets are calling for air strikes and a no-fly zone. This is the Western formula for regime change. The very idea of an NGO making such an argument is despicable.  

5. The stealth eradication of the Syrian state, in shadow state-building, in replacing and usurping legitimate Syrian civil organizations with fronts constructed by the barbarous UK and US regimes. In this process of usurpation, they killed legit civil leaders and stole their equipment.   This is an organization trained in Turkey, not Syria, and funded by hostile foreign powers. Residents of Aleppo, e.g., who are not media junkies, have never heard of this organization. The UK government is funding and setting up other, similar shadow state organizations, helping to destroy legitimate civil orgs in Syria, and replacing the latter with political zombies.

6. White Helmets now fabricates war videos, for use by the Western MSM, and, the latter cannot be bothered to verify or confirm any of this. This is used to create "synthetic outrage" in Western viewers which is, of course,  considered sacrosanct and unquestionable.

7. A new hybrid paradigm of warfare. It takes journalism completely out of the picture. Editors kow tow to the authorities, brainlessly re-gurgitating and showcasing the production of these abettors of terrorism.

8. Alt media, on the left, getting sucked into this media onslaught as well. E.G. lying about the number of doctors in Syria, lying about actual attacks on legitimate hospitals, and so on. Images of hospitals destroyed in 2013 used in a claim on a "recent" attack in Aleppo (Fox News) . We see Western media (CH 4 UK) actually showing suicide bombers and normalizing such conduct. The entire news stream is linked to al Qaieda. We see Syria, literally, through the eyes of the terrorists. 

9. "Something MUST be done", i.e., the WH are used to pump and pump and pump and pump to escalate the war against Syria.

10. Meanwhile, public execution of prisoners of war, brave soldiers of the SAA defending their country,  by the terrorists receives no condemnation from this fake NGO. The West vomits on every single UN convention that exists when it comes to Syria. In one gruesome case, the White Helmets came in as a "mop up operation" after another public execution, by the terrorists, of a civilian in Aleppo. Bravo, brave NGO!

11. A Nobel Peace Prize for this organization would mean the end of that prize.

Blecchhh! What a disgrace. The White Helmets are supporting and facilitating terrorist activity.

Smart move by the Russians.

Sure, it would be more than just to wipe out the terrorists. But saving Syrian lives trumps pretty well everything (except the sovereignty and independence of the country). 

With the terrorists using, e.g., the civilians still in east Aleppo as human shields, allowing the former to flee, arms in hand, ensures that only the most fanatical, brainwashed "jihadists" will want to stay and fight when they are facing inevitable defeat at the hands of the Syrian Arab Army and its Allies.

So, yeah. Let the bastards flee. This shows the humane-ness of the Russian approach. And that's important in the current climate of merciless information warfare by the sponsors of these killers, who want to depict the Russians as baby-eating monsters every chance they get.

Diane Johnstone wrote:

But it is interesting that humanitarian propaganda focuses only on children, as if realizing that most Westerners are totally indifferent to the massive deaths of Arabs – unless they are toddlers.  Or kittens.

Sadly, I must agree with this very troubling statement.

Well, the deaths of adults in Paris, London and New York seems to create much greater angst among the western press than the deaths of similar people in Iraq or Syria.

Newspaper Slammed For Unverified Claim of Russian-Syrian Shelling

https://youtu.be/2159UBKPerM

"We demand the world stop this!' -  parents of Syrian siblings killed in rebel shelling talk to RT."

Syrians Are Dying For Hillary Clinton

http://thesaker.is/syrians-are-dying-for-hillary-clinton/

"Everything is being done for the victory of Hillary Clinton in the presdential election."

UNSC Vetoes Rival Resolutions on Syria Sponsored by Russia and France

https://www.rt.com/news/362059-syria-aleppo

"The UN Security Council has vetoed two rival resolutions proposed by Russia and France on the escalating situation in Syria and the war-torn city of Aleppo in particular. Churkin urged all sides to restart the Syria peace process, which he said had been 'jeopardized' by the radical groups."

Here's some publicizing from the Russian FM of Yanqui propaganda. The Russians are now openly mocking the barbarous US regime, laughing in their faces. I love it.

I wish Sergei Lavrov would complain about the smell of sulphur at the UN. Noisily. And honour the memory of Hugo Chavez in doing so.

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So don’t touch Al-Nusra, because it is not humane in relation to the normal guys [‘moderate opposition’], and we will fight Al-Nusra later,” Lavrov said, as if mimicking Washington officials.

“And this ‘later’ never comes.

Lavrov takes the piss out of the US regime. The Emperor has no clothes.

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I wish Sergei Lavrov would complain about the smell of sulphur at the UN. Noisily. And honour the memory of Hugo Chavez in doing so.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

'Last Hospital in Aleppo': Collage

https://twitter.com/Nausleva/status/783648967871565824

"Propaganda goal is to foment an attack on Damascus."

RT is doing great work in Syria.

Peter Lavelle's Crosstalk devotes the whole show to the crisis in Syria. His guests are: Mark Sleboda, Alex Christoforou, and Mohammad Marandi. Marandi is worth watching alone. The guy is so measured, brilliant really, and it's really a treat to hear him speak. 10/10. Sure there is some repetition, but think about the audience. Plenty of people never get an opportunity to hear dissenting views on the barbarous Western narrative.

RT's latest is their photographic work in Aleppo.

supplemental: This includes details of sniper fire on civilians trying to flee by the "rebels" in eastern Aleppo.

The photos show the flags of ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria) flying in eastern Aleppo. That's who is controlling that part of the city for the nonce. You know. Sniper fire on people trying to get water in government-controlled Aleppo. Human shields, Israeli-style, used to protect these "rebels". With lots of weapons from their sponsors in Washington, London, Paris, probably Ottawa, Tel Aviv, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.. And so on.

Ever notice how the MSM doesn't identify who the "rebels" actually are?

So far:

No reply from Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

No reply from the International Commitee for the Red Cross.

No reply from Human Rights Watch.

I guess if you live in free Aleppo, [or fleeing eastern Aleppo trying to get there] - oops, I mean "controlled by the repressive regime of Bashar al Assad" - then your health is of no concern to these "human rights" organizations.

Meanwhile, France is the latest country to threaten Damascus and Moscow with an ICC War Crimes probe.

Who's the barbarians, again?

ikosmos wrote:

Meanwhile, France is the latest country to threaten Damascus and Moscow with an ICC War Crimes probe.

France is continuing to pursue this spurious approach to "peace" in Syria. In response, the Russian President has given France a big "F*** you" and postponed his visit.

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Putin was expected to arrive in Paris next week, but the visit has now been postponed, the Kremlin confirmed.

“There were some events scheduled, including the opening of a Russian cultural and religious center, [and] exhibitions. Unfortunately, those events were struck off the program, so the president decided to cancel his visit to France for now,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The Kremlin official would not comment on why France chose to change the program of Putin’s visit, saying that “this question should be addressed to the French side.”

Nicely done, Hollande - the latest US poodle in Europe. Just to review, Moscow vetoed a French resulution at the UNSC and the French (or some NATO regime - not sure) did the same with a Russian resolution.

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Moscow said that the [French] resolution would protect terrorist group Al-Nusra Front, which controls a greater portion of eastern Aleppo, under a pretext of humanitarian relief. An alternative proposal by Russia, which would seek a deal with the group to grant them safe passage out of the city and spare its civilian population, was rejected by other members of the UNSC.

Putin is absolutely slapping the faces of these regimes, one Yanqui poodle after the other. And good on him for pulling the curtain back, and showing that the wizard is only a mean old man, with no real power.

It's nice to see the world changing.

Rage, rage imperialism, against the dying of the light.

OffGuardian absolutely eviscerates the faux humanitarianism of the US regime.

From the fake news department ...

Aljazeera: Syria's civil war: Russian air raids kill 55 in Aleppo

I have no doubt that civilians are being killed in this war. But who's making the claims? Where's the evidence?

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At least 55 people have been killed over the past 24 hours in the Syrian province of Aleppo as Russian air raids resumed over the countryside, sources told Al Jazeera.

And that's it. "sources".

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The deaths from raids in Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr and Fardous neighbourhoods, as well as Ar-Rasheeqa city, were the results of the heaviest Russian bombardment in days on the city's rebel-held sector, people in the city said. Dozens were also wounded.

"people in the city" ? Do they mean "people" like the terrorists holed up in east Aleppo? Their family members?

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that monitors the war through a network of informants in the country, reported a lull in fighting on Wednesday.

This is the group that works out of the basement of some place like Crawley, England. You know. That one guy "really close" to events on the ground in Syria.

This is supposed to be "evidence" ? But here comes the most astonishing lie of them all:

International group including Saudi Arabia and Qatar calls on UN Security Council to help stop the bloodshed.

That's the subtitle of the heading of the story. No, I'm not kidding.

Does Aljazeera expect anyone to believe that the main funders of the terrorists want to "stop the bloodshed" ?

What they want is a ceasefire. So the Qatari and Saudi jihadist pals can reload.

More on the claims surrounding the attack on the aid convoy. The Russian MoD has basically said, "Prove it, Boris!" to UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. 

I don't think there will be a reply. He's too busy thinking up news ways to spy on the public, making ever new, but unimaginative, Russophobic accusations, and worrying about his vital bodily fluids. Crank.

Russian MoD invites UK to prove ‘Russophobic’ accusation that Moscow hit aid convoy in Aleppo

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Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation in embattled Aleppo continues to deteriorate. Aid organizations warn that civilians in the Islamist-held eastern part of the city are in desperate need of healthcare, food and sanitation. In government-controlled western Aleppo, people are vulnerable to the militants’ shelling and sniper fire.

All the Western crocodile tears notwithstanding, it's pretty clear that their proxies are the ones prolonging the suffering of the Syrian people.

5 Children killed by "rebels" in Aleppo.

Dead silence in Western MSM.

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A government-controlled area in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo has been hit by rebel mortar shells. At least seven children came under fire, five of them were killed. An RT crew has been reporting from the local hospital.

A school and adjacent bus stop were hit by mortar shells in the government-controlled Al-Suleymaniya neighborhood of Aleppo, RT’s Murad Gazdiev reported from the Al Razi hospital, where the victims have been brought. 

WARNING: images deliberately blurred due to graphic violence by the western-sponsored and funded jihadists.

NATO tax dollars hard at work. Killing children.

Canada Leads New Push on Syria Crisis At UN

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-un-syria-security-council-1.3803893

"Canada is spearheading[/carrying] a new diplomatic effort to try to end the brutal civil war. According to one diplomat, a proposal under discussion is a resolution to suspend Syria's voting rights at the UN or even outright expulsion from the international organization."

What a good doggie JT's little vassalage is. 'Progressive' too...This is right up there with our support for the destruction of Libya or the Nazi putsch in Ukraine.

The CBC story completely omits the Russian resolution that was vetoed by the barbarous NATO regimes in the SC. Basically, the French-sponsored motion called for the establishment of a no-fly zone [no fly by Syria defending itself, and for the Russian AF but NOT for the NATO regimes, intent on regime change] in preparation for regime change, Libya style.

Rage, rage, against the dying of the imperialist light. Canada, ever the foreign policy chihuahua of the US regime.

As the terrorists are finally driven from east Aleppo, the noise from the imperialist USA, and its minion states, will get louder, shriller and more obscene. But once the western proxies are defeated, attention will turn to another target of the brutal NATO regimes.

Because freedom. Or something.

added: RT has provided video footage of actual child casualties of the terrorist attacks on western Aleppo. The latest dastardly, western-funded atrocity was an attack on a school bus stop, right at 8 am when the children are going to school, killing 4, wounding a dozen.

Way to go, western regimes and their child-killing, beheading "rebels".

So-called "rebels" using civilians as human shields in east Aleppo.

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Militants controlling eastern Aleppo have now completely barred residents from leaving the area and crossing to government-controlled districts under threat of shelling, using them as a human shield against the army. An RT crew witnessed the hostage crisis.

“East Aleppo is on total lockdown. Nobody is allowed in or out – not the sick, not women, not children,” RT’s Murad Gazdiev reports from the checkpoint in the Bustan al-Qasr district, the one that the Red Crescent tried to use to deliver aid to East Aleppo only recently, but were refused. All seven checkpoints between eastern and western Aleppo have now been sealed by rebels, mined and barricaded to prevent anyone from crossing over.

... Fighting in Aleppo escalated after the September 12 ceasefire collapsed with the Syrian Army having managed to encircle militants in its eastern districts. But this has pushed the rebels to barricade themselves within them – along with residents, as the Syrian Army will not be able to attack the districts with full might when there is a risk so many civilian lives could be lost.

You won't read that last item in the lickspittle Western MSM.

Syrians, like Russians, LOVE to kill children and do so with ENTHUSIASM they say.

bears repeating...

An Urgently Necessary Briefing on Syria

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45688.htm

"Is it not obvious? Public opinion is being prepared for another regime-change war."

Kerry's Anger as Assad Poised To Win: The US Still Serves Israel and Saudi Arabia

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45681.htm

"Now this same support of Israel and Saudi Arabia has brought us into a confrontation with Russia in a country where we have no interests."

Syrian TV: They are leaving!

(in Arabic)

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Locals celebrate “rebels” leaving Qudsaya and Syria’s army regaining control.

The meeting in Geneva will continue into tomorrow. Good luck getting the mostly fictitious "moderates" to separate from the "immoderates".

The UN HRC, under the leadership of US poodle the United Kingdom, decided to hold a session in which

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"The special UNHRC session on Aleppo is yet another anti-Russian and anti-Syrian publicity stunt. It is obviously counterproductive and its target provokes indignation. Because it is about protecting terrorists entrenched in eastern Aleppo, who are committing countless crimes against civilian population, and accusing those who are fighting against these hardened criminals of all sins," Alexey Borodavkin said.

Charming.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/politics/201610181046472568-syria-aleppo-expers-discussion/