Daily Archives: 20. Oktober 2019


20.10.2019 - 23:37 [ German Foreign Policy ]

Krieg um Nordsyrien (II)

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.

20.10.2019 - 20:02 [ Stephen Kinzer / Information Clearing House ]

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.

20.10.2019 - 19:57 [ Stephen Kinzer / antikrieg.com ]

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.

20.10.2019 - 18:19 [ Daily Star ]

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.

20.10.2019 - 18:17 [ Daily Star (Libanon) ]

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.

20.10.2019 - 18:09 [ ORF.at ]

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“.

20.10.2019 - 17:52 [ Axios ]

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.

20.10.2019 - 16:55 [ Caitlin Johnstone / Twitter ]

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.

20.10.2019 - 16:41 [ Radio Utopie ]

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.

20.10.2019 - 16:27 [ Robbie Jaeger / Medium.com ]

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…

20.10.2019 - 16:02 [ @historyofarmani / Twitter ]

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