Dispatches from
STEPHEN LENDMAN
Liberating Syria Requires Winning the Battle for Aleppo
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hey remain ongoing to liberate the entire city, Syrian ground forces advancing, inflicting heavy losses on terrorist fighters, retaking the Handarat Palestinian refugee camp and surrounding areas.
On Saturday, Syrian military sources said large numbers of Fatah al-Sham terrorists surrendered, adding:
“The growing trend of surrender among the terrorists in the Eastern districts of Aleppo has caused Fatah al-Sham’s commanders to take preventive measures across the militant-held neighborhoods in the city.”
“Fatah al-Sham has deployed more monitoring checkpoints across the Eastern districts of Aleppo to confront those militants who try to surrender to the government forces and takes tough action against those who intend to lay down arms.”
Fars News said Washington deployed unknown numbers of special forces to “at least 7 bases in Northern Syria…Qamishli, Ain Issa, Kobane, Hasaka and Tal Abyadh regions.”
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“No official report has been released yet about the exact number of the US forces and weapons transferred to the above mentioned bases, but field sources have reported observing armored vehicles, semi-heavy weapons, TOW missiles, thermal cameras, advanced wireless devices and night goggles in them.”
US direct and indirect operations in Syria flagrantly violate international, constitutional and US statute laws pertaining to war. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a despicable statement through his spokesman, blaming Syria for defending its sovereignty against US-backed terrorists, saying:
He’s “appalled by the chilling military escalation. Since the announcement two days ago by the Syrian Army of an offensive to capture eastern Aleppo, there have been repeated reports of airstrikes involving the use of incendiary weapons and advanced munitions such as bunker buster bombs.”
Throughout his tenure, Ban never once condemned US aggression, complicit with its allies, responsible for massive loss of life, vast destruction, and the most serious refugee crisis since WW II. Instead he blames victims.
His arrogance and failure to uphold UN Charter principles makes him complicit in US-led high crimes – indifferent to unspeakable human suffering wrought by imperial wars.
On Sunday around midday New York time, at the behest of America, Britain and France, another worthless Security Council session will convene on Syria – accomplishing nothing like all previous times, other than giving imperial diplomats a chance to blame Syria for their crimes of war and against humanity.
On Saturday, John Kerry ignored US-backed terrorism against Syrian sovereignty and appalling high crimes against its people, duplicitously saying:
“I want to make this clear. What is happening in Aleppo today is unacceptable. It is beyond the pale.”
“If people are serious about wanting a peaceful outcome to this war, then they should cease and desist bombing innocent women and children, cease cutting off water and laying siege in medieval terms to an entire community, and work with the international community in order to be able to bring peace to people who are starving – literally starving, but also starving for the possibilities of a future without chlorine dropping on them out of the sky, barrel bombs, and indiscriminate bombing.”
“And Russia needs to set an example, not a precedent – an unacceptable precedent, I might add, for the entire world. I know we will as a group have more to say about this later today, so I’ll leave it at that.”
Empires never admit culpability for their high crimes – instead shift blame on victims. The pattern repeats at home and abroad.
Russian Warships Destroyed Western/Israeli Operations Site in Aleppo Province
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]bama’s naked aggression on Syria represents a seminal struggle of good refusing to surrender to pure evil, headquartered in Washington – a malevolent force unparalleled in human history, wanting dominion over planet earth achieved by brute force.
Score one for the good guys. Fars News cited Sputnik News’ Arabic service, saying “Russian warships fired three Caliber missiles at the foreign officers’ coordination operations room in Dar Ezza region in the Western part of Aleppo near Sam’an mountain, killing 30 Israeli and western officers.”
Among them were US, British, Israeli, Turkish, Saudi, and Qatari operatives – aiding ISIS and likeminded groups wage terror-war on Syrian civilians and soldiers.
The operations room was hidden in a chain of mountains. Russian intelligence located it. Weeks earlier, Syrian forces destroyed a similar command and control center in Aleppo, “foil(ing) plots to attack the region’s supply roots,” an unnamed source explained.
Moscow needs escalated mobilization to smash all anti-government forces seeking Syria’s destruction, defeating them decisively, ceasing futile talks with Washington, betrayal following every time.
Preparing for a likely Hillary presidency succeeding Obama should be prioritized, militantly anti-Russia, anti-Putin. In her 2014 memoir, Hard Choices, she urged challenging Russia confrontationally, saying:
“We should hit the pause button on new efforts. Don’t appear too eager to work together…Make it clear that Russian intransigence wouldn’t stop us from pursuing our interests and policies (worldwide). Strength and resolve were the only language Putin would understand.”
During last October’s Democrat primary debate, she called it “important (to) make it very clear to Putin that it’s not acceptable for him to be in Syria creating more chaos, bombing people on behalf of Assad. And we can’t do that if we don’t take more of a leadership position.”
When asked during a later debate if she’d down Russian and/or Syrian warplanes, she equivocated, saying she doubted “it would come to that.”
Like Obama administration hardliners, Kerry included, she favors imposing a no-fly zone on Syria, giving Washington and its rogue allies exclusive control of its airspace – a prescription for war with Russia.
Tough talk is more proof of her ruthlessness, clear indication of escalated wars with her in charge, including the frightening prospect of confronting Russia militarily, perhaps waging nuclear war.
What better reason to oppose her in November, why it’s crucially important to defeat her presidential ambitions. Humanity’s survival is threatened otherwise.
ADDENDUM/ Patrice Greanville
Washington’s multi-prong hybrid war against Syria enlists corporate media assets and even many “alternative” channels, like Information Clearinghouse.
The West’s (Washington-instigated) hybrid information war against the government of Pres. Assad (or that of any secular, independent Syria)—a massive disinformation campaign with few parallels in history—includes myriad participants, in te US, NATO countries, the Gulf tyrannies, and many other water carriers for the empire in Asia, Latin America, and other parts, all bent on converting Syria into a Washington puppet state. Below, some examples. Note that the trademark of all sophisticated disinformation is the mixing of lies with truths and half-truths, making the sorting out impossible for the average citizen, but leaving a “residue” that is favorable to the propagandist’s point of view. Insidiousness is the word that defines it.
Don’t miss this amazing propaganda infographic (furnished by “Mapsoftheworld.com”). Be sure to click on the bar below.
ALSO, under it, click for an Information Clearing House’s piece first filed in 2012, essentially a blatant job of softening public opinion for US military intervention. The commentator/analyst, one Nadin Abbot, working for East County Magazine, shows, in our view, her bias, ignorance, or establishment brainwash by using the shopworn term “regime” to refer to the government of Pres. Assad.
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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“Al Sham” is the perfect ironic name for the terrorist formerly knows as Al Nusra..I don’t know what “Al Sham” means in Arabic but In English, I think it means even a terrorist can have a sense of humor. I do know that “Sham” meaning fraud, or con-job, is an English language loan word that has made its way into Arabic..So maybe one of those cannibal sheiks thought he’d send a message to McCain or one of the other American sugar daddys about the “moderate opposition” drivel.