Graphic: Russian Airstrikes Into Syria
Source See Especially: Wayne Madsen: CIA; Turks created caliphate to launch attacks on Russia and China UPDATE 1 Are Chinese Coming to Syria? See Also: Syria @ Phi Beta Iota
Berto Jongman: ISIS Terrorist Financing – Not As Reported, Some Useful Nuances
The Archivist: Unseen Islamic State Financial Accounts for Deir az-Zor Province Figures in the documents help us to quantify IS financing. From IS’ richest province in fossil fuels, revenues and expenditures for the province come in the form of millions of dollars on a monthly basis, not tens or hundreds of millions. As can be …
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Ray McGovern: Russia, Syria, & US-Israel UPDATE
The Hope Behind Putin’s Syria Help The risk here, however, is that the American neocons and liberal interventionists remain drunk on their dreams of a permanent U.S. global hegemony that doesn’t broach any rivalry from Russia, China or any other potential challenger to America’s “full-spectrum dominance.” If these war hawks don’t sober up – and …
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CounterPunch: WikiLeaks vs. the Empire – the Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Wikileaks vs. the Empire: the Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth To the rulers of the world in Washington and Europe, Syria’s true crime is not the oppressive nature of its government but its independence from American and Israeli power – just as Iran’s true crime is its independence, and Russia’s true crime is its …
Owl: Chinese Aircraft Carrier in Syria? UPDATE 1 Debka Lies…
Aircraft come in November. A Chinese aircraft carrier docks at Tartus to support Russian-Iranian military buildup Chinese warplanes to join Russian air strikes in Syria. Russia gains Iraqi air base UPDATE 1: Debka lies… No one can find the carrier, no photo of it anywhere near Syria. Chinese naval expert denies PLA joining fight against …
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Chuck Spinney: Col Pat Lang Provides Strategy on Syria — For Adults with Intelligence and Integrity…
Below at the close of this excellent opinion piece by Pat Lang is sensible prescription for shaping a schwerpunkt in so-called Global War on Terror or GWOT. Lang cuts thru the Gordian Knot of inwardly focused contradictions that are overloading and paralyzing America’s grand strategy* in the Syrian Civil War and turning our country into …
Berto Jongman: Lianyunggang / Haizhou Bay — Huge New Port Completing the New Silk Road
Fortunes will be made on the land near the obvious new deep water port. Lianyungang is the Missing Link That Completes the New Silk Road While the information presented at the Summit was too extensive to list in full, the most important takeaway was that China’s elite have determined that Lianyungang will be the ultimate bridge in linking together …
