On Monday, some Latin American countries are celebrating the Day of the Indigenous Resistance, instead of Christopher Columbus‘ non-discovery of the continent in 1492 and the beginning of its so-called „civilization.“

As of this writing, neither President Obama nor any prominent US official has opposed the Saudi government’s death sentence. When the State Department’s spokesman was asked about Ali’s case, he claimed he hadn’t heard of it—despite the broad international coverage the case has received. US Uncut contacted the State Department for clarification of the US position on the issue, but received no response.

The US and Saudi Arabia have a very close relationship: just weeks ago Saudi Arabia’s King Salman enjoyed a meeting with Obama at the White House.

To consider what is happening just as a „new wave of violence“ mainly overlooks the point that Palestinians have been under a belligerent occupation for decades, that Israel continues with its Apartheid policies and to build illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land, and that Israel has been aiming to change Palestine‘s identity; particularly occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, incited by members of Netanyahu‘s government, are just one example of the daily Israeli incitement not only against Palestinian rights as a whole, but against the very existence of an independent State of Palestine as a sovereign nation.

Offen räumte Putin den Umstand ein, dass der in den letzten Monaten durch türkische, saudische und katarische Stellvertreter in Nordsyrien geschwächte Präsident nur dann politische Kompromisse erwarten könne, wenn die syrische Armee ihre Kampfbereitschaft beweist.

Mit Blick auf den Marschflugkörper-Angriff vom Kaspischen Meer auf Stellungen des selbsternannten „Islamischen Staates“ sagte Putin, dass der Einsatz eine absolute Überraschung für die US-Geheimdienste gewesen wäre. Er betonte, dass es jedoch nicht die Zeit dafür sei, mit Steinen auf die US-Geheimdienstlandschaft zu werfen:

Units of the army and the armed forces, backed by the Syrian army air force, on Monday carried out wide-scale military operations against the Takfiri terrorist organizations across the country, destroying their dens and positions and inflicting heavy losses upon them in the personnel and the equipment.

The corollary is that ‘Western powers’, despite their peace-loving propensities and fraternal attempts to bring Russia into the democratic ‘fold’, have been ‘forced’ to now surround Russia with NATO military bases and missiles; to finance a violent coup in the Ukraine (on Russia’s frontier) and arm the Ukrainian putsch government and neo-fascist militias to ‘restore democracy’ and violently suppress ethnic Russian ‘separatists’ in Eastern Ukraine. We are told that US and EU sanctions against Russia were carefully crafted ‘diplomatic’ measures designed to punish the Moscow ‘aggressor’.

In reality, the Western media has relentlessly demonized Vladimir Putin in a campaign to further NATO military expansion and undermine the Russian economy and its national security.

At least 97 people, many from the pro-Kurdish Peoples‘ Democratic Party (HDP), were killed on Saturday in the deadliest such attack in modern Turkey‘s history when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the middle of a rally near Ankara‘s main train station.
„We will not break the halt to hostilities,“ he said.

Regarding this chain of massacres, we have a number of expectations and clear demands from the international community and from political leaders. In making this call, we wish to underscore that the Ankara massacre and the aforementioned previous attacks are international in scope, and to make clear that we see the potential for such events to open the way to regional insecurity.AKP’s policy of relying on radical groups as proxies, which began with President Erdogan’s support of, and even channeling through the intelligence organization MIT, the activities of such groups as ISIS, Al-Nusra, andAhrar Al-Sham—used particularly against Kurds in Rojava—is at the heart of today’s tragedy.

The National Intelligence Organization of Turkey (MIT) has warned about possibility of repeated terrorist attacks in the country, the Turkish Milliyet newspaper said Oct.12 referring to the MIT.
Another 20 suicide bombers prepare to carry out attacks in different cities of Turkey, according to the MIT.

Turkey will not join Russia’s operation in Syria, Paul Goble, the publicist, the former analyst at CIA and the US Department of State, told Trend on Oct. 12.

He was commenting on possible accession of Turkey to Russia’s operations against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria after the recent terrorist act committed in Ankara.

All Joint List MKs and members of the Committee are also planning to visit al-Aksa on the Temple Mount on Wednesday, despite an order by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prohibiting MKs from visiting the site.

Arab Joint List Head Ayman Odeh denounced tonight‘s (Sunday) attack near Gan Shmuel, in which four people were injured.
„I denounce this terrible attack on civilians and the very fact that there were children among the wounded breaks my heart,“ said MK Odeh. „We are facing horrible days that the irresponsible and brutal government has brought upon us, but it is not and has never been our way. The responsibility for the terrible situation belongs to this government and its prime minister.“

In a press conference, Qattan said this grant was made possible following a decision to increase Saudi Arabia’s monthly contribution toward PA’s budget from $14 million to $20 million.

Tens of thousands of families in East Jerusalem and the West Bank fear for the safety of their children, but are also proud that the young people collectively are showing that they are fed up.

The people of Israel see these pictures and most of them are filled with delight and pleasure, as the media inflames their animal urges.

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Speaker Yousif Mohammed‘s personal assistant said forces loyal to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) had turned him back on the road from Sulaimaniyah to Erbil, where the parliament is located.

Sulaimaniyah is ruled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Gorran party, which are locked in a power struggle with the KDP over the region‘s presidency, vacant since August.

Another KDP office in the town of Said Sadiq came under attack on Saturday from protesters hurling stones.

The Democratic Forces of Syria includes the YPG, various Arab groups including Jaysh al-Thuwwar (Army of Rebels), and an Assyrian Christian group.

Claiming that Russia would want to use the opportunity to cooperate with the PYD, Professor Ferhat Pirinççi from Uludağ University’s Department of International Relations said even in the event of such cooperation, “advancements of ISIS might be stopped, but cannot be rebuffed.”

“The YPG’s war power is weak. Moreover, the population structure in YPG-led areas and ISIS-led areas are not the same. Namely, it is hard to say that there will be an impact on the field.”

Russian airstrikes are a step forward in the war against terrorism, says Sihanouk Dibo, political advisor to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a leading Syrian Kurdish opposition party and member of the Syrian opposition group in Cairo.

Dibo believes that negotiations with the Bashar Al-Assad regime are inevitable if a solution to the Syrian conflict is to be reached.

„We welcome any intervention that would help fighting terrorism,“ says Dibo, who refutes the claim that Russia has mostly attacked rebels fighting the Syrian government, not the Islamic State (IS) group.