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Hell bent on blowing up the plane.Who sponsors terrorism?May 19, 2018 at 07:08Interesting how the UK, one of the early promoters of radical Islam for her own materialistic gains in recent history, is now so overrun by Muslim immigrants that people are worried she’ll eventually become a Muslim country.Talk about karma. :)May 19, 2018 at 06:52I’m agreed with the point you make&nbsp;about the IRI combatting one of the most reactionary outfits of religious fundamentalism namely the ISIS, but it should not be ignored that some of the shiite forces from Iran and Iraq in particular represent a sort of (anti-sunni) sectarian force themselves liable to violate the human rights of sunni civilians.It is also right to say that Russia in contrast to the USA and their European and regional proxies has intervened in Syria (on the legal basis of having been invited by the perhaps not legitim but certainly legal Baathi government) in order to combat ISIS. However this in itself does not necessarily mean that Russia is not defending some geopolitical interests in Syria (namely the safety of its maritim basis there). It should perhaps be added that Russia has a very good reason to fight islamic reactionary extremism since there are a lot of citizens if the RF who are muslims (not only in Chechenya).May 19, 2018 at 05:30The Zionist control of America has resulted in the US becoming a menace to world peace. Yes, the Obama admin (with the enthusiastic participation of Hillary and John Kerry) did create the jihadist movement that morphed into ISIS. That this atrocious fact has been concealed from the public by the mainstream media is full confirmation that that media is entirely owned and controlled by Zionist Jewish interests. How much longer will this madness continue?May 18, 2018 at 20:57What impresses me here, if the movie trailer is any indication, is others can make Hollywood-like action films (and good trailers to promote them).May 18, 2018 at 17:28Hundreds of thousands of real Syrians and Iraqis have been killed by the unleashing of the ISIS Frankenstein. Ironically, American leaders criticize Iran for being the “leading state sponsor of terrorism.” But in the Syrian war, Iran has been combatting it.What Mr. Sterling leaves out is that Iran also supported the fight against jihadists in Iraq. Assad was more than willing to use the jihadists from inside and outside of Syria to undermine the US invasion of Iraq. Syria served as the launching point for jihadists filing into Iraq to fight the US occupation (supported by the Assad regime). These were the same jihadists Assad is fighting in Syria today. Under the leadership of al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda helped foment a civil war in Iraq by bombing Shia Mosques, murdering Shia civilians and executing resistant Sunnis. Assad has blood on his hands in Iraq in the exact same sense that the US, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries are accused of fomenting a “civil” conflict in Syria.Bashir Assad also was very likely involved in a second important event which only exacerbated the Sunni – Shia divide in Lebanon and Syria – the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon. Hariri was a popular Sunni leader that opposed Syrian troops in Lebanon. He was murdered in a car bomb. Four Hezbollah operatives have been indicted by the ICJ. It’s extremely unlikely the Hezbollah operatives operated alone – and certainly not without the knowledge and/or consent of Assad. Under international pressure, Assad removed his troops from Lebanon. The US cut off diplomatic relations with Assad after the bombing.Both of the above decisions came back to haunt the Assad regime.Russia began its military intervention in late September 2015 without the United States, with the Kremlin’s motives made abundantly clear by Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials. But such clear explanations are rarely reported clearly by Western corporate media, which instead peddles the line from officials and think tanks that Russia is trying to recover lost imperial glory in the Middle East.Russia has other motives for preserving the Assad regime. First of all, Russia’s only Middle East Naval facility is in Syria. That is a key military facility to preserve for Russia. That would potentially represent a big loss to Russia if the Assad regime was overthrown. Russia isn’t fighting the jihadists in Libya for a reason – no Russian military complex! Furthermore, the Medvedev Doctrine outlines very clearly an additional motive for the Russian intervention in Syria: challenging the US on the world stage and revitalizing a multipolar world similar to cold war conditions:Second point in the Medvedev Doctrine:Second, the world should be multipolar. A single-pole world is unacceptable. Domination is something we cannot allow. We cannot accept a world order in which one country makes all the decisions, even as serious and influential a country as the United States of America. Such a world is unstable and threatened by conflict.May 18, 2018 at 16:57It’s amazing how effectively the Washington regime manages to mask reality for its own people and substitute this impenetrable matrix of propaganda which most accept as gospel. And our leaders bitterly reproach China for manipulating the access its people have to Western media and its conventional wisdom in a clear case of the pot calling the polished silverware black.May 18, 2018 at 16:16“Russia shares with Iran the very reasons and logic of their military presence in Syria as both of the countries have been invited by Damascus itself and have been crucial in the fight against the Islamic States and other foreign funded ‘rebels.’ Therefore, while Russia may have no interest in Iran’s ‘resistance front’ against Israel, it doesn’t object to an Iranian presence in Syria either, and neither does it consider, unlike Israel, Hezbollah a ‘terrorist’ organization. On the contrary, the result of recent elections in Lebanon have only proved that Hezbollah is much more than a simple militant outfit and that it has a strong popular base and a sound electoral support, giving it social and political legitimacy and reinforcing the Russian view that Hezbollah isn’t a terror outfit and shouldn’t be treated as such.“From this logically follows another difference between Israel and Russia and a convergence of interest between Russia and Iran: the Iran-nuke deal, known as JCPOA. As such, while Israel was jubilant over the US exit from the deal, Russia did not refrain from calling it a ‘new confirmation of Washington’s intractability’, adding that ‘Russia is open to further cooperation with the other JCPOA participants and will continue to actively develop bilateral collaboration and political dialogue with the Islamic Republic of Iran.’“Therefore, notwithstanding the warmth that Netanyahu received in Moscow during his latest visit, it cannot be gainsaid that Russia might be thinking of potentially side-lining Iranian interests in Syria to accommodate Israel. On the other hand, the fact that Russia hosted Netanyahu and after that an Iranian delegation […]“It is, therefore, misleading to conclude, as has been widely done in the international media, that there is an unofficial agreement between Russia and Israel, according to which Russia has allowed Israel to attack Iranian targets as long as the attacks are retaliatory and don’t hurt Syrian and Russian interests.“What is more likely and serves Russian interests better is that Russia is simply balancing itself between Iran and Israel, and understands that allowing any of these parties a free-hand would only lead to a war that they might not be able to control.“Therefore, notwithstanding the impression that Netanyahu was successful in creating, it remains unrealistic to expect that Russia would decided to choose parties between Israel and Iran or will unconditionally subscribe to the Israeli agenda of vanquishing Iran from Syria or an Iranian agenda of expanding its front against Israel.“What, however, Israel can expect is Russian efforts to prevent the use of Syrian territory against Israel and vice versa. There are, as such, no deals, but only the wide spread recognition of the fact that anything that happens in Syria between any party needs to factor in the Russians and their interests.”What is Really Happening Between Russia and Israel?By Salman Rafi SheikhMay 18, 2018 at 11:19Dear Europe, wise up.In ten years (or less) foreign US military bases will rapidly begin to close, NATO will greatly weaken and return to it’s former predilection towards nationalist bickering. Putin will exult his hidden Neo-Stalinist agenda and do everything in his power to cut Iran off from the oil and gas energy market. After all, who sold uranium to Iran? have you forgotten? it didn’t take a Clinton to do that because Russia already had a mountain sized amount of fission grade U 235 and Pu 232 for sale. Brussels, where, pray tell, was your vigilance when an oil rich nation, in fact, fifth producer in the world not to mention second in gas reserves only to Russia, a nation who’s name is spelled I-R-A-N, wanted the filthy Plutonium/Uranium cycle for domestic electric energy consumption?? !! Brussels! did you not learn from the USA’s intrigues, lying, diverting uranium, deceiving and being deceived by two nations who never should have had atomic anything, namely Pakistan and Israel. Brussels! did you not witness the killing of JFK when he pointed his finger at biggest threat of nuclear proliferation in his time Dimona! and was shot for doing so…. France! did you not help foster the construction, continue the error of proliferation and military imbalance, foster Arab envy and the subjugation of Palestine by technical aid to the Dimona project! Well, we’re (USA) finally washing our hands of the whole miserable can of peas now. Europe, good reddens to you all and good luck from a broken down America, bankrupt, powerless now to undo your many political and financial intrigues and errors, promoted by a cabal of well known , stinking banksters, who have taken all they could from Europe (hopes, Shengen, TEU, Euro’s, using your prejudices, emotions and pipe dreams, and have now decided to relocate to banks in Reno Nevada. I suppose that these guy’s have molested you long enough but their not done with America just yet. We don’t want your pity, we want solutions, you’ve got the ball now…..May 17, 2018 at 20:51Bush 41 Predominately Instigated the 1st Iraq WarWhen he (and) April Gillespie gave the A-OK (approval)For OUR Middle East surrogate, Saddam Hussein toTo Attack Kuwait in order to retake OIL Fields stolen byKuwaiti Royals during Iraq’s War With Iran- (which was)Instigated By US Central Intelligence Agency ProvocateursWrapped in Images of Increased US Oil Wealth andThe Purposed Decapitation of Saddam, Our FriendMilitary Surrender in Kuwait was Saddam’s Waterloo,As declared in Bush 41’s1990 &amp; 91 NWO Speech.Sum totals of you don’t know of this history. (where were youwhen US soldiers died or were desperately compromised byUS Chemical Warfare and/or Depleted Uranium testing on USA G.I.’sBut Mostly On IRAQI Civilians/Huddled Masses Yearning To Breath FreeShame on US, vis-a-vis the swallowing of the vomit / “american exceptionalism”Who the Guck are we to Reign Such TERROR upon the world of humanity???May 17, 2018 at 19:32I figured out some time ago that when the US complains about something it’s because we’re doing it and we want to deflect scrutiny. The regime in Washington has been conducting propaganda operations in the US for sometime now. American opinion must be shaped to support the plans of the regime for an increasingly desperate race for global hegemony. Thus RT and Sputnik had to go. I wouldn’t be surprised if they came after CN as well.May 17, 2018 at 18:17Well the trailers are showing on Youtube, so I guess that’s a start. Would love a link tot he full movie though, happy to pay, I would just like to see a different narrative. I’ll make up my own mind if it is BS or not.May 17, 2018 at 17:52World War II fought against the axis powers, countries that had a military industrial complex, a monetary system, an agricultural system was fought for 6 years. This war fought by a rag tag group of stateless terrorists vs a State has been fought for 11 years . There is no way that happen without the support, financing, training, and weaponry given to these “terrorists”, who should be called “mercenaries”, not terrorists, of some major power. That major power can only be the Untied States. Even a child is capable of seeing that.May 17, 2018 at 17:47Are the going to have English sub-titles for this movie?May 17, 2018 at 17:37It won`t get shown in the West. There that settles that. The US won`t allow it.May 17, 2018 at 17:02I believe that western sanctions and censorship are extended to culture as well. The grip of the US doctrinal system will not allow any foreign movie that shows another perspective to be playing in a theater near us.May 17, 2018 at 16:24The part when the dude says to the US paid terrorists (ISIS) “This is not New York, and there are no twin towers here.” is priceless.May 17, 2018 at 16:10The author writes as if he is unaware or unconvinced that the US was one of the chief supporters of ISIS.May 17, 2018 at 16:04Thank you, Rick Sterling, for this perspective. Perhaps the movie will be available via a non-Youtube video server to those who can find out about it. With all of the major vendors (Amazon, Google, Youtube, et al) controlled by zionists, it will not likely be seen there. But one can order the Dreyfuss book easily, so I will read it.May 17, 2018 at 15:26I doubt very much that it will be shown here. The “Magnitsky Act, Behind the Scenes” was censored, why not this? Anything that contradicts to state sponsored MSM narrative will have a hard time getting an audience. Full spectrum dominance is the name of the game. After all, Hollywood even glamorized the “White Helmets” with an Academy Award!Karl Rove was prescient:“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.”Comments are closed.Securely by check, credit&nbsp;card or on Patreon:Consortium News LiveMay 2018SMTWTFS&nbsp;19&nbsp;May 2018SMTWTFS&nbsp;19&nbsp;

Hell bent on blowing up the plane.Who sponsors terrorism?May 19, 2018 at 07:08Interesting how the UK, one of the early promoters of radical Islam for her own materialistic gains in recent history, is now so overrun by Muslim immigrants that people are worried she’ll eventually become a Muslim country.Talk about karma. :)May 19, 2018 at 06:52I’m agreed with the point you make&nbsp;about the IRI combatting one of the most reactionary outfits of religious fundamentalism namely the ISIS, but it should not be ignored that some of the shiite forces from Iran and Iraq in particular represent a...

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