by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American puppet state in the geographically largest country on earth, the one country with a nuclear arsenal sufficient to deter Washington’s aggression.

Michel Chossudovsky – In this online interactive I-book, we bring to the attention of our readers a selection of feature articles on the Syrian crisis.

We have to be very clear about this, every one of these is a coordinated operation by the instruments of US imperialism and its spokesperson and its organizations and its front groups…

Concerns over Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons flared again Saturday after a previously unknown Syrian general who defected to Turkey was quoted by Reuters as saying that Syria was moving its chemical stockpile to use against civilians. The general presented no evidence to support the claim.

Q: It seems that there is a power struggle ongoing behind the scenes between the Saudi royals. Is this moving around of the intelligence chief to now Bandar bin Sultan further proof of that?

Al-Ahmed: Yes, I think it is one of the ways that you can look at this as you have the king sacking one of his closest aides and brother, Muqrin, and replacing him with a younger person who is not going to be much more effective than him.

(26.Februar 2007)
Die Strippenzieher hinter der “Umlenkung” sind Vizepräsident Dick Cheney, der Vize-Berater für Nationale Sicherheit Elliott Abrams, der scheidende US-Botschafter im Irak (und nominiert als UN-Botschafter) Zalmay Khalilzad, und Prinz Bandar bin Sultan, der saudische Berater für Nationale Sicherheit.

Einen Grund für Muqrins Ablösung nennt SPA zwar nicht, möglich scheint jedoch Unzufriedenheit über die Effizienz des saudischen Geheimdienstes zu sein.

“Time has come for the opposition to get going and take over the reins of the country,” said Fabius. He said he could organise a meeting of ministers in Paris “to consolidate efforts by Arab countries to build tomorrow’s Syria”.

Wir schauen auf die sympathischen Herrschaften, die der Vize-Außenminister der euro-zivilisierten Welt, Laurent Fabius, zur „Übergangsregierung“ über Syrien ernennen will:

Dozens of Turkish truck drivers on Saturday accused rebel fighters of the Free Syrian Army of having burned and looted their lorries as they stormed a border post in Syria.

Free Army militia carries out a field assassination for a person, claiming to be Lieutenant Qusay Al-Ali of Syrian Arab Army in Al-Muhasan town located in Deir Al-Zour

Uthman Bin Affan anti-government coordination publishes photos of several people, claiming to be Syrian Politic Security members, where the video shows severe torture marks on them

Amid an escalation of the terrorist attacks on citizens and government buildings in the Syrian capital Damascus, the extremist Wahhabi clerics in Saudi Arabia have called for the destruction of holy shrine of Lady Zaynab.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Yes, and there are reports today that these Iraqis say they‘re fleeing because they believe they‘ve been targeted by the rebel Free Syrian Army in Damascus?

MATT BROWN: Well yeah, and who can be sure about who‘s targeting them, but it is pretty ugly. In a suburb called Sayyida Zeinab in the southeast of the city there was a family of seven Iraqi refugees found executed according to the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). So quite an ugly scene there.

With a mixture of anger and resignation, they said that they had been forced to leave their homes near Damascus by armed opposition groups.

„The Free Syrian Army ruined our lives,“ said one Iraqi man who had just arrived with his Syrian wife and daughter.

Die britische Notenbank wusste bereits früh von den mangelnden Auflagen bei der Kontrolle des Libor. Um keinen Imageschaden zu erleiden, ließ sie im Jahr 2008 alle Hinweise auf sich aus dem Dokument des Bankenverbandes über die neuen Regeln streichen.

They arrived a day after the final go-ahead for a bank bailout loan of up to 100 billion ($122.9 billion) failed to calm international markets.

A march was planned for Saturday night towards Madrid‘s Puerta del Sol, a central square that has been the scene of protests involving hundreds of thousands of demonstrators.

Unemployed Spaniards on Saturday held the latest in a series of angry demonstrations against the government‘s economic crisis cuts, as fears rose for the country‘s financial stability.

Hunderttausende Spanier gingen am Donnerstagabend in 80 Städten auf die Straße, um gegen die „sozial ungerechten“ Sparmaßnahmen zu protestieren.

„Sie lassen das politische Kapital außer acht, das unsere politischen Führer in diese Union investiert haben und die Unterstützung der Europäer“, sagte Draghi in einem am Samstag veröffentlichten Interview der französischen Zeitung „Le Monde“.

Der Informationsfluss vom Geldfluss von 100 Milliarden Euro über den Bundestag zu den Banken in Spanien und dann zu denen, denen sie das zahlen müssen und deswegen in Not sind.

Iran, Hezbollah, irgendein schwedischer Typ aus Guantánamo Bay, oder keiner von diesen? Es gibt jede Menge Theorien darüber, wer wirklich verantwortlich ist für den Bombenanschlag in Burgas, Bulgarien, bei dem fünf Israelis getötet wurden, aber es gibt keinen konkreten Beweis, der in eine bestimmte Richtung weist.

Sie bestätigte den Eingang eines Briefes von Lammert, in dem dieser Zweifel an der umfassenden Information des Parlaments über Zwischenergebnisse der Verhandlungen mit Spanien geäußert hatte.

Die Hypo Alpe Adria und die KA Finanz brauchen weitere 5,5 Milliarden Euro an österreichischen Steuergeldern. Insgesamt geht man bei den drei verstaatlichten Banken von einem Risiko von bis zu 35 Milliarden Euro aus.

Die deutschen Banken parken ihr Geld stattdessen bei der EZB. Der Deutschen Bundesbank zufolge stiegen ihre überschüssigen Reserven bei der EZB in den ersten drei Monaten des Jahres um 158 Prozent auf 394 Milliarden Euro.

Doyle is not the first to claim that the IMF missed the signs of an impending financial catastrophe before the 2008 meltdown.

In einem Kündigungschreiben an das Direktorium des Internationalen Währungsfonds kritisierte der Ökonom Peter Doyle, der Fonds habe nicht frühzeitig vor der Euro-Krise und auch der globalen Finanzkrise von 2007 bis 2009 gewarnt. Der Brief datierte vom 18. Juni und lag der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters am Wochenende als Kopie vor

Ich entsende meinen Stellvertreter für Friedensoperationen, um die Situation einzuschätzen, sowie den Obermilitärberater, der die Uno-Beobachtermission in Syrien leiten wird“, zitiert Reuters Ban, der gegenwärtig zu einem Besuch in Kroatien weilt.

China urges all the parties and forces in Syria to stop violence, achieve ceasefire, ensure the safety of members and staff of the UNSMIS, and cooperate fully with the work of UNSMIS, said the Chinese envoy.

Russland und China kritisierten, dass die Syrien-Resolution über Kapitel VII der UN-Charta hätten laufen sollen, das auch den Einsatz von Gewalt zulässt. Damit würde einer ausländischen Intervention in Syrien der Weg bereitet, hiess es in Moskau und Peking.

Das Viertel Midan befindet sich wieder in Regierungshand. Flüchtlinge verlassen das Land.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday he was sending an envoy to Syria to assess the situation as government forces and rebels battle for control of the country.

Typically, there are 66 routed Syrian prefixes (networks) and 61 of these go though the incumbent, STE. All of these networks were unavailable from 13:32 UTC to 14:12 UTC, or 4:32 to 5:12PM local time. However, five routed Syrian networks were not impacted by this incident.

It remains to be seen how Silman‘s death will affect Israel, but it will undoubtedly bolster the argument for social revolution in a country that, as Silman wrote in his suicide letter, had “stolen from me and robbed me, left me with nothing.“

“There was protest in his soul,” said a friend who went to rallies with Silman in Haifa. “He waited for it to break out and was glad when it did,” the friend added.

In Damascus, a day after regime troops launched a major counter-offensive to retake rebel-held areas, residents reported the city was largely calm.

Rabia was still in the hands of government forces, he said on Friday night.

Syrische Regierungstruppen haben nach Angaben der Opposition am Samstagmorgen den Vorort Schaba bei Damaskus überrannt.