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“We don’t have a basis, our lawyers tell us, unless we have a UN Security Council Resolution, which the Russians can veto or the Chinese, or unless we are under attack, by the folks there, or unless we are invited in.
Russia is invited in by the legitimate regime–well it’s illegitimate in our mind–but by the regime. And so they were invited in and we’re not invited in. We’re flying in airspace there where they can turn on the air defense and we have a very different scene. The only reason they’re letting us fly is because we’re going after ISIL. If we were going after Assad, those air defenses, we’d have to take out all the air defenses, and we don’t have a legal justification, frankly for doing that, unless we stretch it way beyond the law, on a humanitarian basis. Which some people argue we should, by the way. But so far American legal theory has not gone into the so-called “right to protect.”
This follows the news that Washington has attempted to protect terror group AL NUSRAH FRONT by keeping its so-called “moderate” terrorists in the same locations, using them as human shields to protect AL QAEDA terrorists from aerial bombing.
Folks, this is what your “leaders” are actually doing in Syria today.
The Russian military says Washington still won’t provide a list of groups it considers terrorist, allowing jihadists to regroup and escape Russian-led air raids on their positions, the head of the Russian General Staff said.
Perhaps “intelligence” and “fraud” should be considered synonyms now, at least when it comes to war pretexts, war propaganda.
How US Policy on Iran Came to Be Based on Fabricated Documents
Major media outlets have already reported that Venezuela’s poor have not joined the right-wing opposition protests, but that is an understatement: it’s not just the poor who are abstaining – in Caracas, it’s almost everyone outside of a few rich areas like Altamira, where small groups of protesters engage in nightly battles with security forces, throwing rocks and firebombs and running from tear gas.
Walking from the working-class neighborhood of Sabana Grande to the city center, there was no sign that Venezuela is in the grip of a “crisis” that requires intervention from the Organization of American States (OAS), no matter what John Kerry tells you. The metro also ran very well, although I couldn’t get off at Alta Mira station, where the rebels had set up their base of operations until their eviction this week.
“There will be a response of some kind to the referendum itself,” Kerry said. “If there is no sign [from Russia] of any capacity to respond to this issue ... there will be a very serious series of steps on Monday.”
Russia has drawn the line:
Of course the obvious: that Ukraine has no legitimate government at all right now thanks to a fascist coup covertly sponsored by the West, does not get stated in the US corporate media.
Meanwhile:
Paratroopers from Attack Company, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) provide security from a vehicle during a tactical control point exercise July 10, 2013, during Exercise Rapid Trident in Yavoriv, Ukraine.
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The problem relates to Alkarama, a self-described human rights organization whose reporting the State Department, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International have uncritically incorporated into their reporting. The problem is that the founder of Alkarama, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, is also an al-Qaeda financier.
Not just Kerry, either: Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International use bogus information.
“USAID rocks!”
The Syrian terror army, supported by the Western alliance, has given the finger to the handpicked puppets chosen to represent them.
“…a collection of some of the country’s most powerful rebel groups publicly abandoned the opposition’s political leaders, casting their lot with an affiliate of Al Qaeda.”
Obama’s charade has been torpedoed by his own radical shock troops, paid for and assembled by intelligence services and the Saudis — particularly Bandar bin Sultan. Now that they won’t get their US bombing campaign, they are no longer pretending to be John Kerry’s “moderates.”