Bereits zuvor waren laut Angaben der syrisch-kurdischen Regionalverwaltung mindestens 218 Zivilisten bei Angriffen der türkischen Streitkräfte und der mit ihnen verbündeten syrischen Milizen ums Leben gekommen, darunter 18 Kinder. Am Wochenende wurden erneut 20 Zivilisten bei Attacken der Türkei getötet.
Daily Archives: 20. Oktober 2019
Live Updates: Bolivians Head to Polls in Key Election
Bolivians will vote in an election on Sunday to decide whether to extend the rule of President Evo Morales to nearly two decades amid a rise in right-wing governments in the region who have been facing major protests in neighboring Chile, Ecuador and Argentina over harsh austerity measures.
Condemning Trump on Syria? It’s ‘buffet outrage’
The more recent set of causes for our Kurdish misadventure began in 2011, when President Obama ordered President Bashar Assad of Syria to “step aside.” Beyond the arrogance that leads American presidents to think they can and should decide who may rule other countries lay the utter impossibility of achieving that goal.
Verurteilung Trumps wegen Syrien? Es ist „Empörung am Buffet“.
Obwohl die Entscheidung der Kurden, Assad um Verzeihung zu bitten und sich ihm beim Wiederaufbau eines weltlichen Staates anzuschließen, seit Jahren überfällig ist, ist sie willkommen und klug.
This is my #Tripoli ?? #طرابلس #لبنان #لبنان_ينتفض #لبنان_يثور
As a Lebanese person who DJs and studied movements in the Middle East, this is literally the dream that combines it all (h/t @eliasjescart) #لبنان_ينتفض
if you thought you’ve seen it all a birthday in the protest #لبنان #lebanonprotest #لبنان_يثور #اجا_وقت_نحاسب #لبنان_ينتفض #الشعب_يريد_إسقاط_النظام
A family got stuck in protests in Furn el Chebbak and the mum said her kid was scared. So the protesters sang Baby Shark. ???? Love you Lebanon.
How to protest, Lebanese style ?
every time i think i cant find a weirder video of the protests in lebanon im wrong
#Lebanese protesters play cards in #Beirut as others chant amongst the flames. Only in #Lebanon
Hezbollah opposes resignation of government: Nasrallah
Hezbollah opposes the resignation of the government and supports the current cabinet “but with a new agenda and new spirit,” party leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Saturday.
Lebanese Forces resign from government
The Lebanese Forces’ parliamentary bloc requested Saturday that its four ministers in Prime Minister Saad Hariri‘s government submit their resignation.
Vierter Tag mit Protesten in Libanon
„Ihr solltet alle gehen, wir vertrauen euch nicht“, stand auf dem Schild eines Demonstranten. „Das libanesische Volk hat jetzt das Wort, nicht die politischen Anführer“, hieß es auf einem anderen.
YPG-Kämpfer beginnen Rückzug aus Nordsyrien
Kurdische Quellen und Aktivisten sagten heute laut dpa, dass sich die Kämpfer der kurdischen Volksverteidigungseinheiten (YPG) zurückziehen. Das türkische Verteidigungsministerium teilte ebenfalls mit, es verfolge den Abzug der YPG. Es gebe dabei „keinerlei Hindernisse“.
Gantz urges Netanyahu to hand coalition mandate back to president
Given by the Israeli president the first stab at forming a governing coalition, Netanyahu is expected to fall short of collecting the lawfully-required 61 votes as his 28-day coalition effort will end on October 24.
Israel to attend U.S.-led maritime security meeting in Bahrain
Background: The Bahrain maritime security meeting is a follow-up to the U.S.-led anti-Iran conference held in Warsaw in February. Around 60 countries attended that conference and have participated in ongoing meetings since.
The state of play: According to the State Department, the Bahrain meeting on Oct. 21-22 will focus on maintaining maritime and aviation security in the Middle East and promote steps to interdict and prevent shipments of illicit weapons of mass destruction.
Netanyahu warns of ‚dangerous‘ minority gov‘t led by Gantz
(18.10.2019)
“Gantz refuses unity,” he wrote, claiming that Blue and White‘s leader Benny Gantz, his ally Yair Lapid and Avigdor Liverman, head of Yisrael Beiteinu party, refused to rule out a minority coalition.
@TulsiGabbard #IamTulsi 20years, 1 month, and 13 days on active duty. US Army retired 1SG. You have my vote.
Special Operations Vet 6 deployments #IamTulsi
When you accuse a soldier or veteran, and Congresswoman of being a Russian asset, you better show more proof than her unapologetic attitude towards ending our forever wars. Until then, #IamTulsi too.
Pro Trump former Green Beret Commander (Middle East, Central/South America) that loves our country and my brothers and sisters in Arms. #IamTulsi
I support Tulsi Gabbard and I am no Russian Bot that MSM calls all Tulsi‘s Supporters. Actually I am a Native to this land which is now America. @HillaryClinton has no idea what war is sitting behind a desk!! @TulsiGabbard knows first hand of war!! #IamTulsi #Tulsi2020
Both Gabbard‘s haters and her supporters treat her foreign policy like it‘s something wildly extraordinary, but it‘s actually just the mainstream US foreign policy consensus that Americans considered normal before 9/11. Shows how far the Overton window has been moved since then.
Doppelagent Putin
(15.04.2018)
Putins Rolle dabei ist ähnlich dem eines der vielen Monarchen vor und im Ersten Weltkrieg. Und seine Funktion, wie der „prorussischen“, also der pro-regierungs-russischen Lobby insgesamt, ist es, in verdeckter Dialektik mit ihren spiegelbildlichen „proamerikanischen“ bzw „proeuropäischen“ Pendants in der U.S.-Hegemonie die jeweilige innere Opposition, gerade die fortschrittliche und pazifistische, in Verbindung mit dem jeweils anderen Blockgegner zu bringen, sie von diesem absorbieren zu lassen und so im Inneren erst zu diskreditieren und letztlich neutralisieren zu können.
Tulsi Gabbard Has Enemies In High Places
The morning of February 28, 2016, Tulsi Gabbard was in a pretty good spot. She was the rising-star Congresswoman from Hawaii, the darling of the Democratic party, whose anti-regime change platform was breathing fresh life into a stagnating institution. She was their future. But the revelations — revealed by Wikileaks through troves of leaked internal emails — that the Democratic National Committee was actively conspiring against Bernie Sanders in order to ensure Hillary Clinton won the nomination at that years convention changed everything. That day, Tulsi Gabbard took a stand…
If Tulsi was a “ nobody” or “had no chance to win” like the other candidates & their media sycophants say, then this massive ploy to destroy her wouldn’t be in play. But the fact that they’re trying so hard to take her out shows what a threat she poses to their game! #Tulsi2020
Tulsi Gabbard responds to Hillary Clinton: Clinton „knows she can‘t control me“
Hillary Clinton implied Russians are „grooming“ Tulsi Gabbard to run as a third-party candidate to disrupt the election, a charge which Gabbard denies. In a live interview with CBSN, Gabbard responds to Clinton‘s claims and says she will not run as a third-party candidate.
‚I am not a Russian spy‘: Jill Stein slams Clinton‘s accusations
„I am not a Russian spy,“ Stein said Saturday on CNN‘s „Smerconish.“ „I think this is a completely unhinged conspiracy theory for which there is absolutely no basis in fact. Not for myself and not for Tulsi Gabbard. I think it‘s really outrageous that Hillary Clinton is trying to promote this crazy idea.“
She added, „You know, you can‘t just slander people. You have to present some basis and fact.“
Democrats Have No Answer for Trump‘s Anti-War Posture
What’s truly striking, though, and increasingly apparent, is that President Trump possesses—as a foreign policy autocrat, of sorts—the power to derail the Democrats and place 2020 hopefuls in an awkward position of defending U.S. forever wars. It’s already happening, at least among mainstream “liberal” media and political personalities who’ve flooded the networks with anti-Trump vitriol since the Syria withdrawal.
US expands ‚axis of evil‘
(6.5.2002)
The United States has added Cuba, Libya and Syria to the nations it claims are deliberately seeking to obtain chemical or biological weapons.
A Syria War?
(13. März 2007)
Syria is surrounded by unfriendly forces. Turkey, a close ally to Israel in the north, Jordan in the south, the U.S.-occupied Iraq east and Lebanon west of it.We know from Seymour Hersh (and in fact, „we“ does mean „6 Billion Jurors in the Court of Puplic Opinion“), that the Bush Administration and the royal dynasty of Saudi Arabia, in coordination with the Israeli Government, are funding Sunni islamists and terrorist militias in the north of Lebanon and all over the middle east, allegedly to prevent the so-called „Shiite crescent“.
We know, that the Lebanese Leader of the Druze, Walid Jumblatt, met with Dick Cheney in Washington last fall and advised him, if the United States does try to move against Syria, members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood would be „the ones to talk to“.
1961: The C.I.A. Readies a Cuban Invasion, and The Times Blinks
(26. Dezember 2014)
What unfolded 10 days later, on April 17, was exactly the “bloody fiasco” Mr. Dryfoos had feared. And, as he feared, The Times was indeed blamed by President John F. Kennedy. Two weeks after the Bay of Pigs disaster, Mr. Catledge was among a group of editors summoned to the White House to discuss with the president the issue of newspapers prematurely disclosing government security information.
As an example, President Kennedy cited the January report from Guatemala by the other Mr. Kennedy.
Mr. Catledge countered that the information had already appeared in The Nation.
“But it wasn’t news until it appeared in The Times,” President Kennedy said.
Then, in an aside to Mr. Catledge, the president said, “Maybe if you had printed more about the operation, you would have saved us from a colossal mistake” …