Syria: Everyone else's battleground, in both war and peace
9/25/2018, 7:55:18 AMUNITED NATIONS (AP) — As world leaders talk peace at the U.N. this week, the people of Idlib cling to fragile hope that diplomacy will avert a blowout battle over Syria's last reb ✔ UNITED NATIONS (AP) As world leaders talk peace at the U.N ✔ And most of all, Ankara wants to keep the region's Kurds at bay ✔ But analysts and Turkey's allies alike question whether Ankara can bring the desperate and disparate rebel fighters to heel ✔ As the opposition splintered, then-President Barack Obama was reluctant to commit to full-scale war or regime change
Russian decision to deploy S-300 in Syria 'a major mistake': US
9/25/2018, 6:09:36 AMUS National Security Advisor says sending S-300 missile system to Syria would be considered a 'significant escalation'. ✔ Al Jazeera's Rory Challands, reporting from Moscow, said the announcement on missiles seemed to be linked to the incident with Israel ✔ A dispute between Israel and Russia could restrict Israel's ability to mount air raids inside Syria on what it considers the greatest threat to its security from the Syria conflict: the build-up of Iranian forces or Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters
Inside America’s Foreign Election Meddling Machine - Excellent Video Exposé of the National Endowment for 'Democracy' (NED)
9/25/2018, 4:19:15 AMOn June 13, 2018 the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy presented its 2018 Democracy Award to a collection of Korean activists who aim to topple the communist government of North Korea. ✔ Pelosi was among a bipartisan cast of lawmakers on hand to pay homage to the NED ✔ But at the same time, official Washington celebrates its own taxpayer funded meddling machine as an engine of democracy promotion ✔ Does the American public know what’s being done with its money, and will there ever be a public debate on the consequences of Washington’s regime change efforts
UN rushes aid to hunger-stricken Yemeni district
9/25/2018, 6:25:01 AMCAIRO (AP) — The United Nations and individual donors are rushing food to a desperate corner of northern Yemen where starving villagers were found to be living off leaves. Aid off ✔ Officials also fear a coalition-led assault on the Houthi-held port of Hodeida could shut it down ✔ The United Nations and independent donors are rushing food to this desperate corner of northern Yemen where starving villagers were found to be living off leaves
Beijing loses a battle in the Maldives -- but the fight for influence goes on
9/25/2018, 6:08:21 AMThe archipelago shows democracy's power, but will struggle to resist lure of Chinese money ✔ China has revealed its strategic intentions by sending frigates to the Maldives ✔ After Yameen in February declared a state of emergency and jailed Supreme Court justices for quashing convictions against nine jailed or exiled opposition figures, India came under pressure, including from the Maldivian opposition, to intervene militarily, as it did once before - in 1988 when it foiled an attempted coup ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th
Trump stands alone as globe gathers
9/25/2018, 5:34:59 AMPresident Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton brought a prop to the UN General Assembly to underscore the Trump administration's primary theme: the US stands on its own. ✔ he asked reporters Monday, before outlining his vision that infringements on our sovereignty are .. ✔ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday the US isn't retreating from global leadership, but reaffirming it ✔ The EU, the EU official said, is a champion of multilateralism
Bolton Blames the Shootdown of the Russian Il-20 Plane on...Iran
9/25/2018, 7:56:59 AMThe US National Security Advisor said Tehran should be held responsible for last week’s downing of a Russian military plane over Syria, and warned Monday that Russian plans to transfer advanced anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria represented a major escalation in an already tense region. Speaking with reporters on Monday, President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton, rejected statements by the Russian Defense Ministry holding Israel responsible for the loss of an Ilyushin IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft over Syria last week. ✔ On Monday, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he did not accept the IDF’s claims regarding the incident ✔ We’re not going to leave as long as Iranian troops are outside Iranian borders, and that includes Iranian proxies and militias
Seoul proposes removing all weapons from border ‘truce village’
9/25/2018, 5:02:17 AMSouth Korea has proposed that all weapons be removed from the Joint Security Area, the sector around the truce village of Panmunjom in the centre of the Demilitarised Zone that has divided North and South Korea since 1953 and was less than a year ago the scene of a daring defection by a North Korean soldier. ✔ The defence minister’s proposal is the latest in a series of measures designed to reduce military tensions along the 160-mile length of the DMZ and increase cross-border trust ✔ The two sides have also agreed to stop military exercises near the border and shut down some of the border guard posts on both sides
EU announces mechanism to ease trade with Iran despite sanctions
9/25/2018, 6:43:38 AMThe European Union said Monday its members would set up a payment system to allow oil companies and businesses to continue trading with Iran in a bid to evade sanctions after the US withdrew from a nuclear agreement. ✔ The participants recalled that these initiatives are aimed at preserving the JCPOA, which is in the international interest, she said ✔ The EU move comes a day before Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani separately address the UN General Assembly, with the US leader expected to take a hard line on Iran
Trump and Macron seek to smooth over differences ahead of UN General Assembly
9/25/2018, 5:48:12 AMEmmanuel Macron and Donald Trump sought common ground on points of contention when they met Monday evening in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, France’s Elysée Palace said. ✔ Meeting for almost an hour, the French and US presidents discussed a range of topics including Syria, Iran and disagreements over trade ✔ Trump said before the conversation that the two men have had some very good experiences but acknowledged, On occasion not so good, but 99 percent very good ✔ Trump is expected to visit France in November to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War I
Ron Paul: Assad Gassing His Own People Is 'Total Nonsense'
9/25/2018, 5:23:35 AMWashington, D.C. – Former Congressman Ron Paul has strongly argued following the alleged chemical gas attack blamed on the Syrian government that it makes no logical sense for Assad to order a gas attack, and has called the accusations a telltale sign of a false flag attack meant to provide justification for the U.S. military to maintain a presence in Syria. ✔ Paul, who founded the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity in 2013 after leaving the U.S. House, presented his analysis via the Ron Paul Liberty Report, describing how foreign policy goals related to Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Russia, as well as the influence of neoconservatives, oil interests, and the military-industrial complex play into the current paradigm we see playing out in Syria
Beishan Broadcast Wall: Taiwan’s eerie sonic weapon
9/25/2018, 7:12:21 AMA stronghold of ‘sonic power’ has been brought back to life. Vivienne Chow talks to the artists behind a new project about different forms of propaganda – and the politics of silence. ✔ Back then the deafeningly loud sounds that came from the broadcast wall were looping around the clock non-stop, says Yang, who has collected the memories of local islanders during her research ✔ Instead of having something profound to say, this work is about the wish of being silent, he says
Teen Mom OG: Bristol Palin argues with now ex-husband Dakota Meyer
9/25/2018, 7:51:59 AMBristol Palin and her now ex-husband Dakota Meyer had a blazing row on Monday's episode of Teen Mom OG: Meet the Moms. ✔ Dakota got a vasectomy, but 'within two weeks I'm pregnant,' she explained ✔ 'I was super happy,' said Bristol, who gave birth to her third child Atlee in 2017 ✔ The young parents were experiencing some problems with Cheyenne's 'overbearing' mother ✔ Cheers time: Briston and Cheyenne at the end of the show met the other Teen Moms
Trump and Macron: Realism replaces unlikely bromance
9/25/2018, 6:24:42 AMNEW YORK (AP) — Gone is the shoulder squeezing, the affectionate dandruff-brushing — and French President Emmanuel Macron's hope that he could use his unlikely friendship wi ✔ NEW YORK (AP) Gone is the shoulder squeezing, the affectionate dandruff-brushing and French President Emmanuel Macron's hope that he could use his unlikely friendship with Donald Trump to rein in the American president's more incendiary instincts ✔ Macron appeared to convince Trump to follow through on promises to visit Paris in November to mark 100 years since the armistice ending World War I, and added a possible battlefield tour to Trump's program
Indian microfinance gives birth to smaller banking model
9/25/2018, 6:57:05 AMundefined ✔ One morning in 2010, on his family’s two acres of dry land in southern India, Kanakam Ramesh, a 27-year-old father of two, hung himself from a mango tree ✔ But in 2004, inspired by Yunus, he left the corporate world to try to bring access to finance to working-class Indian families spurned by mainstream lenders
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