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Aufruf: NATO-Gipfel in Warschau bereitet Krieg vor – Höchste Zeit, aus der NATO auszutreten!

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26. Mai 2016 •

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Der folgende Aufruf wird in ganz Europa zirkuliert – bitte helfen Sie mit, ihn weitmöglichst zu verbreiten!

Der bevorstehende NATO-Gipfel am 8.-9. Juli in Warschau ist allein schon eine weitere Provokation gegenüber Rußland. Mit diesem Aufruf sagen wir, die Unterzeichner, „Stopp!“ zu dieser nuklearen Eskalation, bevor Irreparables geschieht.

Wir leben in dunklen Zeiten. Eine neue Raketenkrise baut sich auf, dieses Mal als Spiegelbild der Krise, als die Sowjetunion Atomsprengköpfe auf Kuba, unmittelbar an der Türschwelle zu den Vereinigten Staaten, stationierte. Heute ist die Lage umgekehrt. Während damals die NATO gegen den Warschauer Pakt kämpfte, veranstaltet diese nun ein Gipfeltreffen genau in jener Stadt!

Wir, die Unterzeichner, stellen fest, daß die NATO eine provokative „Einkreisungspolitik“ betreibt:

  1. Die ständige Osterweiterung der NATO bis an die Grenzen Rußlands, trotz der Zusicherungen des Westens an Gorbatschow 1989, daß dies niemals geschehen werde.
  2. Die Stationierung der Aegis-Raketenabwehrsysteme in Rumänien, Polen, der Türkei und Spanien. Diese Waffen, die von MK41-Startsystemen gestartet werden, können für defensive Missionen (in der Luft, zu Land und zur See), aber auch für Offensivschläge mit Nuklearwaffen genutzt werden.
  3. Der ständige Rotationseinsatz von vier jeweils 1000 Mann starken Regimentern und die Stationierung von schwerem Kriegsgerät in den baltischen Staaten, Polen und Rumänien.
  4. Die Schaffung einer „nordischen Front“ gegen Rußland, bestehend aus den NATO-Mitgliedstaaten Dänemark, Island und Norwegen, und den Mitgliedern der „NATO-Partnerschaft für den Frieden“, Schweden und Finnland.
  5. Die Modernisierung von Atomwaffen, insbesondere die in Deutschland stationierten B61-12-Bomben und die Long Range Standoff LRSO Cruisse Missiles. Die US-Senatorin Dianne Feinstein sagte dazu: „Diese sogenannten Verbesserungen dieser Waffen scheinen… dafür konzipiert zu sein, sie einsatzfähiger zu machen, einen begrenzten Nuklearkrieg zu kämpfen und zu gewinnen…“

Um diese Bedrohung zu beenden, fordern wir:

  1. daß unsere Regierung beim kommenden NATO-Gipfel in Warschau eine Politik des „leeren Stuhls“ (Boykotts) verfolgt; und
  2. daß unsere Regierung ihre Absicht erklärt, die NATO zu verlassen, die schon längst keine Existenzberechtigung mehr hat.

Um dem gegenwärtigen Countdown zum Nuklearkrieg zu entgehen, fordern wir außerdem unsere Regierung auf, unverzüglich die Bedingungen für eine neue globale Friedens- und Sicherheitsarchitektur auf der Grundlage der von den BRICS vorgeschlagenen „Win-Win“-Kooperation zu schaffen, einer Kooperation, der sich Europa und die Vereinigten Staaten im eigenen Interesse anschließen sollten.

Die gewaltigen Anstrengungen, die im 20. Jahrhundert für Kriege gemacht wurden, müssen heute im gleichen Maß für den Frieden und die gegenseitige Entwicklung aufgewendet werden!

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Warning to the world: Washington and its NATO & EU vassals are insane

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A 2014 article by Paul Craig Roberts which is even more true today.

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
September 2, 2014

Warning to the World: Washington and its NATO & EU Vassals are Insane
Paul Craig Roberts

Herbert E. Meyer, a nutcase who was a special assistant to the CIA director for a period during the Reagan administration, has penned an article calling for Russian President Putin’s assassination. If we have “ to get him out of the Kremlin feet-first with a bullet hole in the back of his head, that would be okay with us.”http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/how_to_solve_the_putin_problem.html

As the crazed Meyer illiustrates, the insanity that Washington has released upon the world knows no restraint. Jose Manual Barroso, installed as Washington’s puppet as European Commission President, misrepresented his recent confidential telephone conversation with Russia’s President Putin by telling the media that Putin issued a threat: “If I want to, I can take Kiev in two weeks.”

Clearly, Putin did not issue a threat. A threat would be inconsistent with Putin’s entire unprovocative approach to the strategic threat that Washington and its NATO puppets have brought to Russia in Ukraine. Russia’s permanent representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, said that if Barroso’s lie stands, Russia will make public the full recording of the conversation

Anyone familiar with the disparity between the Ukrainian and Russian militaries knows full well that it would take the Russian military 14 hours, not 14 days, to take all of Ukraine. Just remember what happened to the American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian Army when Washington set its stupid Georgian puppets on South Ossetia. The American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian army collapsed under Russian counterattack in 5 hours.

The lie that Washington’s puppet Barroso told was not worthy of a serious person. But where in Europe is there a serious person in power? Nowhere. The few serious people are all out of power. Consider the NATO Secretary General, Anders Rasmussen. He was a prime minister of Denmark who saw he could rise beyond Denmark by serving as Washington’s puppet. As prime minister he strongly supported Washington’s illegal invasion of Iraq, declaring that “we know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.” Of course, the fool didn’t know any such thing, and why would it matter if Iraq did have such weapons. Many countries have weapons of mass destruction.

According to the rule that anyone who serves Washington is elevated, the cipher Rasmussen was elevated.

The problem with elevating unprincipled fools is that they risk the world for their career. Rasmussen has now put the entirety of Eastern and Western Europe at risk of annihilation. Rasmussen has announced the creation of a blitzkrieg spearhead force capable of blitzkrieg attack on Russia. What Washington’s puppet calls “the Readiness Action Plan” is justified as a response to “Russia’s aggressive behavior in Ukraine.”

Rasmussen’s “lightening spearhead force” would be wiped out along with every European capital. What kind of idiot provokes a nuclear superpower in this way?

Rasmussen asserts “Russia’s aggressive behavior” but has no evidence of it. Russia has stood on the sidelines while Washington’s puppet government in Kiev has shelled and bombed civilian housing, hospitals, schools and issued a constant stream of lies against Russia. Russia denied the requests of the now independent eastern and southern provinces of Ukraine, former Russian territories, to be reunited with Russia. As readers know, I regard Putin’s decision as a mistake, but events might prove me wrong and that is OK with me. For now, the fact is that every act of aggressive behavior is the result of the US and EU support of the Kiev nazis. It is the Ukrainian nazi militias that are attacking civilians in the former Russian territories of eastern and southern Ukraine. A number of regular Ukrainian military units have defected to the independent republics.

Yes, nazis. Western Ukraine is the home of the Ukrainian SS division that fought for Hitler. Today the militias organized by the Right Sector and other right-wing political organizations wear the nazi insignia of the Ukrainian SS divisions. These are the people that Washington and the EU support. If the Ukrainian nazis could win against Russia, which they cannot, they would turn on the West, just as has the Washington-funded ISIS that Washington unleashed on Libya and Syria. Now ISIS is remaking the Middle East, and Washington appears helpless.

William Binney, a former high level official in the US National Security Agency, and colleagues from the CIA and military intelligence services have written to German chancellor Merkel advising her to beware of Obama’s lies at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales. The US intelligence officials advise Merkel to remember Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” and don’t again be deceived, this time into conflict with Russia. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/ex-nsa-director-us-intelligence-veterans-write-open-letter-merkel-avoid-all-out-ukra

The question is: who does Merkel represent? Washington or Germany? So far Merkel has represented Washington, not German business interests, not the German people, and not Germany’s interests as a country. Here is a protest in Dresden where a crowd prevents Merkel’s speech with shouts of “kriegstreiber” (warmonger), “liar, liar,” and “no war with Russia.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wSMhGE_Mpk

My Ph.D. dissertation chairman, who became a high Pentagon official assigned to wind down the Vietnam war, in answer to my question about how Washington gets Europeans to always do what Washington wants replied: “Money, we give them money.” “Foreign aid?” I asked. “No, we give the European political leaders bagfuls of money. They are for sale, We bought them. They report to us.” Perhaps this explains Tony Blair’s $50 million fortune one year out of office.

The Western media, the largest brothel on earth, is desperate for war. The editorial board of the Washington Post, now a trophy newspaper in the hands of Amazon.com’s billionaire owner, ran an editorial on August 31 that projected all of Washington’s (and the Post’s) lies upon Putin.

Amazon.com’s owner might know how to market products on the Internet, but he is hopeless when it comes to running a newspaper. His editors at the Washington Post have made his trophy a worldwide laughing stock.

Here are the mindless accusations against Putin from the editors that the billionaire put in charge of his trophy newspaper:

Putin, bitterly resentful at the loss of power from the Soviet collapse, has “resurrected the tyranny of the Big Lie” in order to reconstitute the Russian Empire.

“Russian sponsored militias in Ukraine” are responsible for the “shoot-down of the Malaysian airliner in July.” The “Russian state-controlled media” lied and misrepresented to the Russian people the party responsible for downing the airliner.

“In the absence of independent and free reporting, few Russians realize that Russian soldiers and armaments are in action in eastern Ukraine, albeit (as in Crimea) in uniforms and vehicles stripped of their identifying insignia and license plates. With no free media, Russians are left to fend for themselves against a firestorm of falsehoods.”

“Mr. Putin’s Big Lie shows why it is important to support a free press where it still exists and outlets like Radio Free Europe that bring the truth to people who need it.”

As a former Wall Street Journal editor, I can say with complete confidence that such extraordinary propaganda posing as an editorial would have resulted in the immediate firing of all concerned. In my days on the Congressional staff, the Washington Post was regarded as a CIA asset. Today the Post has sunk far below this status.

I have seen much media propaganda in my day, but this Washington Post editorial takes the cake. The editorial shows that either the editorial writers are completely ignorant or they are completely corrupt and also assume that their readers are completely ignorant. If Russian military units were in action in eastern Ukraine, the situation would be precisely as Alexander Zakharchenkohttp://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/08/30/west-greatest-cause-war-human-history-stands-stripped-legitimacy-paul-craig-roberts/ and Dmitry Orlov describe.http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/09/01/can-tell-whether-russia-invaded-ukraine/ Ukraine would no longer exist. Ukraine would again be part of Russia where it was for centuries prior to Washington taking advantage of the Soviet collapse to tear Ukraine away from Russia.

The question before us is: how long will Russia’s patience last with the West’s enormous lies and provocations? No matter how restrained Russia is, Russia is accused of the worst. Therefore, Russia might as well inflict the worst.

At what point will the Russian government decide that Washington’s mendacity, and that of its European puppets and corrupt Western media, render hopeless Russia’s efforts to resolve the situation with diplomacy and unprovocative behavior? As Russia is constantly accused falsely of invading Ukraine, when will the Russian government decide that as Western propaganda has established that Russia has invaded Ukraine and has imposed sanctions and new military bases on Russia’s borders because of the alleged invasion, Russia might as well go ahead and rid themselves of the problem Washington has brought to Russia and invade Ukraine?

There is nothing that NATO could do about it if Russia decides that Ukraine in Washington’s hands is too much of a strategic threat to Russia and reincorporates Ukraine again into Russia where it has resided for centuries. Any NATO force sent would start a war that NATO can’t win. The German population, remembering the consequences of war with Russia, would overthrow Washington’s puppet government. NATO and the EU would collapse as Germany departed the absurd construct that serves Washington’s interest at the expense of Europe.

Once this happens, the world will have peace. But not until.

For those who care to understand how the land of lies works, Washington’s puppet government in Kiev attributes the defeat of its military forces by the Donetsk Republic to the presence in the Donetsk army of Russian military units. This is the propaganda that has gone out to western Ukraine and to the presstitute western media, a collection of whores that echo the propaganda without any investigation whatsoever. However, Kiev has a different story for the IMF. Kiev cannot receive IMF money with which to pay off its Western creditors if Ukraine is at war. Therefore, Ukraine tells the IMF the opposite story: Russia has not attacked Ukraine.http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/08/ukie-doubleplusgooddoublethink.html

The Western media remains uninterested in any facts. Just the lies. Only the lies.

The Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, Fox “news,” Die Welt, the French press, the British press all plead: “please Washington give us more sensational lies that we can trumpet. Our circulation needs it. Who cares about war and the human race if only we can regain financial stability.”

Justin Raimondo warns that Washington is planting the seeds of World War III:http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/09/02/our-cold-war-with-russia-could-turn-hot/

https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/warning-to-the-world-washington-and-its-nato-eu-vassals-are-insane/

Greece sells two major ports; Greek workers strike

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From RT
May 31, 2016

Greek workers walk off job for 6th day to protest ports sales, march in Athens

Greek port workers walked off the job for a sixth day on Tuesday. They marched through central Athens to protest the state-sanctioned selloff of the country’s two largest ports, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, Reuters said. Fearing layoffs, port workers have been on 48-hour rolling strikes since last week. Greece sealed last month the sale of a 67 percent stake in Piraeus Port, which employs 1,100 people, to shipping giant China Cosco for €368.5 million (US$411 million). Athens is also selling a 67-percent stake in Thessaloniki Port. The strike is mainly disrupting cargo operations but the walkout could also affect cruise ships docking in Piraeus.

https://www.rt.com/news/line/

No Ukrainian language in 1911 British encyclopaedia, but there Is the Little Russian dialect

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From Fort Russ

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
12th April, 2016
 
Taken from zhenziyou [Another Livejournal blogger – O.R.] in “Ukrainian dialect of the Russian language and the New Russia – Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911, New York, USA“
“The Russian dialects are divided into two main groups – large (Velikorusskij), including White (Belorusskij) Russian language and Little Russian (Malorusskij). The latter is spoken in a belt reaching from Galicia and the Northern Carpathians (see Ruthenians) through Podolia and Volhynia and the governments of Kiev, Chernigov, Poltava, Kharkov and the southern part of Voronezh to the Don and the Kuban, upon which Dnepr Cossacks were settled. To the south of this belt in “New Russia” the population is very mixed, but Little Russians on the whole predominate. In all there must be about 30,000,000 Little Russians.”
PS. In the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica the following was written:
“The Little Russian dialect claims to be a literary language; it has established this claim in Galicia (see Ruthenians), but its use as such is much restricted in Russia. The Little Russians differ from the Great Russians not only in language but in physical type, customs, domestic architecture and folk-lore; but though Russophobes have tried to prove that this is due to the Finnish element in the Great Russians, it cannot be substantiated, and the Little Russians, especially the descendants of the Cossacks, have no small Tatar element in them. For the last three centuries they have been under strong Polish influence, and this has had great effect upon the vocabulary but not much on phonetics or morphology…”

Petition to get France out of NATO

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Sortirdelotan.fr, May 28, 2016

Here at Fort Russ, we do not expect that signatures outside of France will be of use, but it seemed that Fort Russ readers would be interested in knowing of this project and in reading its rationale… 

Translation by Tom Winter

Headline:
“At Warsaw they are getting set for war. Let’s get out of NATO!

“The next NATO summit in Warsaw July 8 and 9, just one more provocation against Russia. With this appeal, the signatories mean to say “STOP” to this nuclear escalation before something undoable gets done”

Text:
The hour is grave. A new missile crisis is brewing against Russia, a mirror image of the 1962 missile crisis when the Soviet Union deployed missiles in Cuba, at the very portals of the United States. The situation has gotten upside down: then NATO was struggling against the Warsaw Pact; today it meets in Warsaw!

Therefore, we the undersigned, find that we are faced with a provocative policy of encirclement:

1. continuous expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders, despite the guarantees given by the West to Gorbachev in 1989 that this would not happen;

2. deployment of the Aegis missile defense shieldin Romania, Poland, Turkey, and Spain. Featuring MK41 launch systems, these weapons can be used for defense missions (anti-aircraft, anti-submarine, anti-ship), but also for attack missions against ground targets;

3. deployment in the Baltic countries, Poland, and Romania, by rotation, of four regiments of a thousand men each with permanent military equipment;

4. constitution of a “northern” front against Russia, bringing together NATO members (Denmark, Iceland and Norway) or its Partnership for Peace (Sweden and Finland).

To end this menace we demand:
1. That the French government use the “policy of the empty chair” at the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw;

2. that it announce its decision to leave the organization that no longer has any raison d’être. 

We call on France to create the conditions for a return to an order of peace in the world, based on “win-win” cooperation proposed by the BRICS, which Europe and the United States have an interest in joining.

Let us mobilize today all those means that we have committed in the twentieth century for war, for peace through mutual development!

http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/05/petition-to-get-france-out-of-nato.html

À varsovie, ils préparent la guerre. Sortons de l’OTAN !

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Le prochain sommet de l’OTAN à Varsovie, les 8 et 9 juillet, s’annonce comme une provocation de plus contre la Russie. Par cet appel, les signataires entendent dire « stop » à cette escalade nucléaire avant que l’irréparable ne soit commis !

L’heure est grave. Une nouvelle crise de missiles se prépare contre la Russie, image miroir de celle qui avait conduit en 1962 l’Union soviétique à déployer des missiles à Cuba, aux portes des Etats-Unis. La situation s’est inversée : à l’époque l’OTAN luttait contre le Pacte de Varsovie ; aujourd’hui, elle se réunit à Varsovie !

Ainsi, nous soussignés, constatons que nous sommes devant une politique d’encerclement provocatrice :

  1. élargissement continu de l’OTAN aux frontières de la Russie, malgré les garanties données par les Occidentaux à Gorbatchev en 1989 que ceci n’aurait pas lieu ;
  2. déploiement d’un bouclier de défense anti-missile Aegis en Roumanie, en Pologne, en Turquie, en Espagne. Dotées de systèmes de lancement MK41, ces armes peuvent être utilisées pour des missions de défense (anti-aérienne, anti-sous-marine, antinavire), mais aussi pour des missions d’attaque contre des objectifs terrestres ;
  3. déploiement dans les pays Baltes, en Pologne et en Roumanie, par rotation, de quatre régiments de mille hommes chacun et d’équipements militaires permanents ;
  4. constitution d’un front « nordique » contre la Russie, regroupant des membres de l’OTAN (Danemark, Islande et Norvège) ou de son Partenariat pour la paix (Suède et Finlande).
  5. modernisation des armes nucléaires tactiques de l’OTAN en Europe (B61), qui vise, comme l’a dit la senatrice Dianne Feinstein le 25 mars dernier, à les rendre «plus utilisables et à nous aider à combattre et à gagner une guerre nucléaire limitée»

Pour mettre fin à cette menace nous exigeons :

  1. que le gouvernement français joue la « politique de la chaise vide » au prochain sommet de l’OTAN à Varsovie ;
  2. qu’il annonce sa décision de quitter cette organisation qui n’a plus aucune raison d’être.

Nous appelons la France à créer les conditions du retour à un ordre de paixdans le monde, fondé sur la coopération « gagnant-gagnant » proposée par les BRICS, auquel l’Europe et les Etats-Unis ont tout intérêt à se joindre.

Les moyens que nous avons engagés au XXe siècle pour la guerre, mobilisons-les aujourd’hui pour la paix par le développement mutuel !

Veuillez remplir le formulaire ci-dessous pour signer l’appel.

http://sortirdelotan.fr/form/form_petition.php

Petitioning Parlamentari – Sindaci: Basta sanzioni alla Siria e ai Siriani

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Vi invitiamo a firmare il seguente appello – “Basta alle Sanzioni alla Siria e ai Siriani” – redatto da esponenti religiosi operanti in Siria.

https://www.change.org/p/parlamentari-sindaci-basta-sanzioni-alla-siria-e-ai-siriani

Basta sanzioni alla Siria e ai siriani

Nel 2011 l’Unione Europea, varò le sanzioni contro la Siria, presentandole come “sanzioni a personaggi del regime”, che  imponevano al Paese l’embargo del petrolio, il blocco di ogni transazione finanziaria e il divieto di commerciare moltissimi beni e prodotti. Una misura che dura ancora oggi, anche se, con decisione alquanto inspiegabile, nel 2012 veniva rimosso l’embargo del petrolio dalle aree controllate dall’opposizione armata e jihadista, allo scopo di fornire risorse economiche alle cosiddette “forze rivoluzionarie e dell’opposizione”.

In questi cinque anni le sanzioni alla Siria hanno contribuito a distruggere la società siriana condannandola alla fame, alle epidemie, alla miseria, favorendo l’attivismo delle milizie combattenti integraliste e terroriste che oggi colpiscono anche in Europa. E si aggiungono a una guerra, che ha già comportato 250.000 morti, sei milioni di sfollati e quattro milioni di profughi.

La situazione in Siria è disperata. Carenza di generi alimentari, disoccupazione generalizzata, impossibilità di cure mediche, razionamento di acqua potabile, di elettricità. Non solo, l’embargo rende anche impossibile per i siriani stabilitisi all’estero già prima della guerra di spedire denaro ai loro parenti o familiari rimasti in patria. Anche le organizzazioni non governative impegnate in programmi di assistenza sono impossibilitate a spedire denaro ai loro operatori in Siria. Aziende, centrali elettriche, acquedotti, reparti ospedalieri sono costretti a chiudere per l’impossibilità di procurarsi un qualche pezzo di ricambio o benzina.

Oggi i siriani vedono la possibilità di un futuro vivibile per le loro famiglie solo scappando dalla loro terra. Ma, come si vede, anche questa soluzione incontra non poche difficoltà e causa accese controversie all’interno dell’Unione europea. Né può essere la fuga l’unica soluzione che la comunità internazionale sa proporre a questa povera gente.

Così sosteniamo tutte le iniziative umanitarie e di pace che la comunità internazionale sta attuando, in particolare attraverso i difficili negoziati di Ginevra, ma in attesa e nella speranza che tali attese trovino concreta risposta, dopo tante amare delusioni, chiediamo che le sanzioni  che toccano la vita quotidiana di ogni siriano siano immediatamente tolte. L’attesa della sospirata pace non può essere disgiunta da una concreta sollecitudine per quanti oggi soffrono a causa di un embargo il cui peso ricade su un intero popolo.

Non solo:  la retorica sui profughi che scappano dalla guerra siriana appare ipocrita se nello stesso tempo si continua ad affamare, impedire le cure, negare l’acqua potabile, il lavoro, la sicurezza, la dignità a chi rimane in Siria.

Così ci rivolgiamo ai parlamentari e ai sindaci di ogni Paese affinché l’iniquità delle sanzioni alla Siria sia resa nota ai cittadini dell’Unione Europea (oggi assolutamente ignari) e diventi, finalmente,  oggetto di un serio dibattito e di conseguenti deliberazioni.

Firmatari

Padre Georges Abou Khazen – Vicario apostolico dei Latini ad Aleppo

Padre Pierbattista Pizzaballa  – Emerito Custode di Terrasanta

Padre Joseph Tobji  – Arcivescovo maronita di Aleppo

Padre Boutros Marayati- Vescovo armeno di Aleppo

Suore della Congregazione di San Giuseppe dell’Apparizione dell’Ospedale “Saint Louis” di Aleppo

Comunità Monache Trappiste in Siria

Dottor Nabil Antaki – Medico, ad Aleppo, dei Fratelli Maristi

Suore della  Congregazione del Perpetuo Soccorso – Centro per minori e orfani sfollati di Marmarita

Padre Firas Loufti – Francescano

Monsignor Jean-Clément Jeanbart – Arcivescovo greco-cattolico di Aleppo

Monsignor Jacques Behnan Hindo – Vescovo siro-cattolico di Hassakè-Nisibi

Padre Mtanios Haddad – Archimandrita della chiesa Cattolica-Melchita e Procuratore patriarcale

Mons. Hilarion Capucci – Arcivescovo emerito della Chiesa greco-cattolico melchita

S.B. Ignace Youssef III Younan Patriarca di Antiochia dei Siri

Mgr.Georges Masri, Procuratore presso la Santa Sede della Chiesa Sirocattolica

S.B. Gregorio III Laham – Patriarca dei Melchiti

In data 20 maggio l’appello è stato inviato a :

Alto rappresentante dell’Unione Europea  per gli affari esteri e la politica di sicurezza – Federica Mogherini
Referente Consiglio dell’Unione europea  – Virginie Battue
Presidente del Consiglio Matteo Renzi
Ministro degli Affari Esteri – Paolo Gentiloni
Sottosegretario di Stato Ministero degli Affari Esteri – Benedetto della Vedova
La raccolta di firme, ovviamente, procede e – qualsiasi sarà il voto del Consiglio dell’Unione Europea sulla questione – la mobilitazione contro le sanzioni alla Siria è appena cominciata.

Appello promosso in Italia dal

Comitato italiano “Basta sanzioni alla Siria e ai Siriani”

https://www.change.org/p/parlamentari-sindaci-basta-sanzioni-alla-siria-e-ai-siriani

Christian leaders in Syria ask your support to stop the anti-Syria sanctions

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From Fort Russ

Green: SIGN! Text: “We invite you to sign the following appeal – “Enough with the sanctions on Syria and the Syrians” – written by religious leaders operating in Syria.”


Petition: stop the anti-Syria sanctions
This title is the link. The part where you sign is in English. 
Here is what the Italian says:

Enough with the sanctions on Syria and the Syrians! In 2011 the European Union initiated the sanctions against Syria, presenting them as “sanctions on personnel of the regime,” but which imposed an oil embargo, blocked any financial transaction, and prohibited the trade of many goods and products. This measure continues today, although with a somewhat inexplicable decision, in 2012 the oil embargo was removed from areas controlled by the armed and jihadist opposition,in order to provide economic resources to the so-called “revolutionary forces and the opposition” .

In these five years, the sanctions on Syria have helped destroy Syrian society condemning her to hunger, epidemics, poverty, and encouraging fundamentalist militia fighters and terrorist who also strike in Europe And add to that a war that has already resulted in 250,000 deaths, six million displaced and four million refugees.The situation in Syria is desperate. Food shortages, widespread unemployment, inaccessibility of medical care, rationing of drinking water, electricity. Not only that, the embargo makes it impossible for the Syrians who settled abroad before the war to send money to their relatives or family members left behind.

Non-governmental organizations engaged in assistance programs are unable to send money to their workers in Syria. Companies, power plants, aqueducts, hospital departments are forced to close because of the inability to procure spare parts or gasoline.Today the Syrians see the possibility of a better future for their families in running away from their land. But, as you see, this solution also involves many difficulties and causes intense controversy within the European Union. Exile cannot be the only solution that the international community knows how to propose to these poor people.

So we support all humanitarian initiatives and initiatives towards peace that the international community is implementing, in particular through the difficult negotiations in Geneva, but whole waiting and hoping for such expectations to find concrete answers after so many bitter disappointments, we ask that the sanctions that affect the daily life of every Syrian be immediately removed. The expectation of the longed-for peace can not be divorced from a concrete concern for those who today are suffering because of an embargo whose weight falls on an entire people.

That’s not all: rhetoric about refugees fleeing the Syrian war appears hypocritical if at the same time we continue to starve, prevent medical care, deny drinking water, work, security, and dignity to those who remain in Syria. So we turn to the parliamentarians and mayors of each country so that the iniquity of sanctions on Syria is made known to the citizens of the European Union (now totally unaware) and become, finally, the subject of a serious debate and consequent resolutions.

Signatories

Father Georges Abou Khazen – Apostolic Vicar of the Latins in Aleppo

Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa – Emeritus Custos of the Holy Land

Father Joseph Tobji – Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo

Father Boutros Marayati- Armenian Bishop of Aleppo

Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Hospital “Saint Louis,” Aleppo

The Trappist community in Syria

Dr. Nabil Antaki – M.D. in Aleppo, the Marist Brothers

Sisters of the Congregation of Perpetual Help – Center for children and orphans displaced, Marmarita

Father Firas Loufti – Franciscan Monsignor

Jean-Clément Jeanbart – greek-Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo

Monsignor Jacques Behnan Hindo – Syrian Catholic Bishop of Hassaké-Nisibi

Father Mtanios Haddad – Archimandrite of the Melkite Catholic Church and the patriarchal Attorney

Msgr. Hilarion Capucci – Archbishop Emeritus of greek-Melkite Catholic Church

S.B. Ignace Youssef III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians

Mgr.Georges Masri, Procurator to the Holy See of the Syro-Catholic Church

S.B. Gregory III Laham – Patriarch of the Melkites

Translation from Italian for Fort Russ by Tom Winter  

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Aleppo has been under fire by terrorists for four years. “They got orders from outside…”

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By Patrik Paulov
Global Research, May 30, 2016
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Aleppo is Syria’s largest city. During the conflict’s first year Aleppo was relatively calm, unlike many other Syrian cities. In July 2012 hell broke out. The story from medical doctor Tony Sayegh about life in the million-city is dramatically different from the one we usually hear. In this interview he talks about living under terror, about the sanctions and the road to peace. 

Hell on earth. Hospitals bombings. Tens of thousands of refugees.

No one has been able to escape the dramatic news about Aleppo in North Western Syria. But Tony Sayegh is not satisfied with how the Western media describes the situation. The first thing he does when we reach him on the phone is to say thank you.

– I say thank you, because the Western media always reports from the other side. We who are living in the Government-controlled area of Aleppo are never allowed to express our views about what is happening. In almost four years we have lived under the fire from terrorists.

Proletären gets in contact with Tony Sayegh through the Syrian Medical Association in Aleppo. He is a surgeon and teaches at the faculty of medicine at Aleppo University.

– Many doctors have left the city. Either because they are afraid or because there are no jobs. Many hospitals and clinics have been destroyed.

Despite war and hardship Tony Sayegh has stayed and continued with his life, just like most of the city’s residents. He is anxious to give his view on the development and tell who are ones guilty of terrorism and attacks on hospitals.

– We who live here refuse to talk about the western and eastern Aleppo, as if the city would be divided into two parts. It’s not true. Most of the city is under the Syrian government’s control. A small part is in the hands of armed groups, or terrorists as we consider they are.

The words from Tony Sayegh are important. A large majority of Aleppo’s inhabitants, nearly 1.5 million people, are in the government-controlled area. In the ”opposition-controlled” and much smaller part there is about 300,000 people. Yet it is this side media constantly refer to in the reports from Aleppo.

It is also important to note that ”opposition” in this case means Jabhat al-Nusra, stamped as a terrorist group by the UN, and its allies. Because these groups are the ones who control the ”opposition area” of Aleppo.

• What do you think about the allegations that Syrian and Russian air force are bombing civilian targets in the “opposition” Aleppo? In late April, photos were spread from Al-Quds hospital where ”Aleppo’s last paediatrician”, Wassim Mohammed Maaz, was killed. Doctors Without Borders who support al-Quds condemned the attack.

– First I want to say that we in the Syrian Medical Association have not heard of him. Every doctor in Syria must register in the association to be allowed to work. Since we do not know who he is, we can not express an opinion. The same applies to other doctors who are reported dead.

– But I want to inform you that we know many doctors in terrorist-controlled areas, says Tony Sayegh. We have doctors there who work for and are paid by the Syrian government. Residents in these areas need the care as well.

As for al-Quds Tony Sayegh do not believe the media reports. Four years ago there was no such hospital in Aleppo. Whatever it was that was attacked, it was not an established, well-known health facility. Tony Sayegh believes that the images of an anonymous building with sandbags outside indicates that it was a military site.

– Doctors Without Borders is also not a clean organization, they have their financiers and receive outside support, says Tony Sayegh.

Doctors Without Borders have previously admitted that field hospitals in the Syrian opposition areas that the organization supported primarily cared for rebel fighters and not civilians. This is not mentioned in the media reports.

And it is not mentioned that the al-Qaeda group Jabhat al-Nusra in Aleppo has taken over health facilities and used them for other purposes. Already in April 2013 New York Times wrote that al-Nusra ”has set up camp in a former children’s hospital and has worked with other rebel groups to establish a Shariah Commission in the eye hospital next door to govern the city’s rebel-held neighborhoods”.

What was it like in Aleppo before the conflict? And what happened when the war came to the city? We ask Tony Sayegh.

– The people of Aleppo lived a normal life like in any city. It was a quiet town. Aleppo is Syria’s economic and industrial capital. During the first year of the Syrian crisis many people moved here from other cities, because in Aleppo it was quiet and the economical situation was good.

In July 2012 everything changed. But it was not the residents of Aleppo who rebelled against the rulers. Parts of the city were invaded by armed groups with fighters from other areas of Syria and from other countries. Tony Sayegh believes that the interests at stake of the invasion was much bigger than the control of a single city.

– The attempt to overthrow the government of Syria with weapons and riots had failed. Then they decided to focus on Aleppo, to turn against the whole Syrian economy. The armed groups took over the water utilitys and power plants to stop the supplys to the residents, and they focused on the industries. Entire factorys were taken down and driven to Turkey. They stole everything. That was when everything turned upside down and the bad days of Aleppo began.

• Who were behind the invasion and the looting of industries?

– Those who did this are terrorists no matter which name they go under. Most were not even Syrians, although there are Syrians among them. They got orders from outside. The looting of factories to Turkey took place on the orders of Mr. Erdogan, the president of Turkey.

Four years after the invasion, life remains difficult in the Government-controlled area of Aleppo. Power shortage is a major concern. Food is available for purchase, but it is expensive. Something that makes life even more tough are the economic sanctions that the US and EU have imposed on Syria.

– The sanctions do not hit the government but the people. It is us who pay the price. Luckily, Syria still has friends so we can buy medications. Although many doctors left and hospitals have been destroyed, and although we lack a lot, we still give patients a good health care, says Tony Sayegh.

For almost four years the violence has been ever present. The weeks before our conversation there were reports about massive bombardment of rockets, grenades and gas canisters against government areas. Among the places attacked, parts of the Maternity Hospital al-Dabit was destroyed and twenty people were killed.

– It’s nothing new. We get our daily dose of bombs and grenades from the terrorists. We do not know whether it is accidental or intentional, but innocent people are killed, women and children are killed. This is never reported in the West.

• In the Western world we often hear about “moderate rebels” and “opposition” fighting for democracy and getting weapons and military training from the West.

– We are still trying to understand the meaning of “moderate rebels” and “opposition”. We do not understand, we have not found them. They are terrorists who go by different names, like Jabhat al-Nusra or Daesh, and they are supported by the Gulf States, says Tony Sayegh and continues:

– Is Saudi Arabia a defender of democracy and human rights? Compare the situation of women in Syria before the conflict with the situation for women in Saudi Arabia. Their talk of democracy and human rights is a joke.

The war in Syria has been going on for more than five years. Despite the ceasefire agreement and meetings organized by the UN the killing and destruction continues. When these words are written, we hear tragic reports about the horrific terrorist bombings in the coastal cities of Jableh and Tartus with so far 148 dead.

We finish the conversation with Tony Sayegh with the question that we have asked many Syrians during the years of conflict:

• How to make peace in Syria? What should the outside the world do to help Syria and its people to get away from the hell of war?

– I’ll give you a short answer. Leave us alone, forget us.

• What do you mean?

– Well, what we need is the US, Europe, Turkey and the Gulf States to leave us alone and stop supporting terrorists. There should be a decision by the UN Security Council that other states should stay out of Syria and that all those who have supported the terrorists should be punished.

– When you have left us alone, when the borders are closed and you have forgotten about us, then I am confident that the Syrian army can bring us peace.

Patrik Paulov

patrik.paulov@proletaren.se

 

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Syrian analyst, Afraa Dagher, to U.S.: “Is It normal to kill kids, women? Is this normal for you?”

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By Brandon Turbeville
Global Research, May 30, 2016
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After a series of coordinated suicide bombings rocked the Syrian coast, killing over one hundred innocent civilians, Syrians are becoming even more frustrated with the hypocrisy of the West, not only in terms of the faux solidarity expressed when Belgium and France were attacked and the subsequent silence when it comes to Syria, but also in the constant Western whining about a “war on terror” that is made up of supporting and directing the very terror organizations it tells its own population it is trying to defeat.

Nowhere outside of its own borders does anyone truly believe that the United States represents freedom and democracy. That lie is reserved for hundreds of millions residing in the U.S., constantly plugged in to American media and the constant barrage of pro-war propaganda. It is thus highly ironic that it is the American people who are the key to stopping the American war machine from its continued march across the rest of the world before finally running out of steam and coming back home to march upon its own population.

Still, Syrians, over 6,000 miles away from the United States, besieged by five years of intense warfare, are fully aware of who has brought this destruction to their doorsteps even if Americans are still unaware that the destruction is even taking place.

In an interview with Aimee Anderson of ED TV, Afraa Dagher, a Syrian political analyst currently residing in Syria, expressed much of that frustration. After reporting the facts of the recent bombings, Dagher stated what many Syrians feel and what any informed observed can easily see for himself. She said,

There is a mastermind behind this. Such [an] attack is well-organized and is planned. . . . . It is an organized plan to destroy our infrastructure, battle stations, hospitals, electricity directorate, many of our important and sensitive sides, killing our people. So called Ahrar al-Sham announced their responsibility but the U.S. refuses to designate it or to classify it as a terrorist group in [at] the U.N. Later, the so-called ISIS declared its responsibility. As I said, [there is] no presence for those [ISIS] in our cities in the coastal line. They are just a cover. At the time, Israel[i] media was so happy to announce that this is a great attempt to kill those [who support] Assad and who support their government. Al Jazeera also reported it as ISIS. It is not ISIS. It is the “moderate rebels.” The “moderate rebels” of the West bombing Assad’s stronghold.

Afraa then moves on to address the perpetrators of the attacks – the root of the problem – the United States, NATO, the GCC, and Israel. Most notably, she addresses the West, who is always harping on about the need for “democracy” in countries other than their own. Afraa asks,

Is this your democracy, to kill who is against you and your views and who is believing what I believe, in my government, so you must kill me? Is this your democracy? I think you are slaughtering every Syrian. Every day. Aleppo, Deir al-Zour, Raqqa, Latakia, Jobleh, Tartus. And I see it also as a message to Russia. Because Russia has its airbase in Tartus. They say “We are here. We can hit any point we want.” Please watch the video about this. Is it a crime? A war crime? Or is it normal to kill kids, women, innocent people? Is this normal for you?

Unfortunately, the answer to that question is “yes.”

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Brandon Turbeville – article archive here – is the author of seven books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, and The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President. Turbeville has published over 650 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s radio show Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. His website is BrandonTurbeville.com He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.

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