“The best way to help Israel… is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad"- on Nov. 30, 2015 Hillary Clinton states her reason to help armed groups to overthrow democratically elected president of Syria Bashar Assad.
Don’t Call Him “Bernie” Anymore: the Sanders Sell-Out and the Clinton Wars to Come
by GARY LEUPP
The worst disservice Sanders has done to his supporters, other than to lead them on a wild goose chase for real change, is to virtually ignore his rival’s vaunted “experience.” He need not have mentioned Hillary Clinton’s Senate record, since there was nothing there; her stint as law-maker was merely intended to position her for a run for the presidency, according to the family plan. But there was a lot in her record as Secretary of State.
As she recounts in her memoir, she wanted a heftier “surge” in Afghanistan than Obama was prepared to order. Anyone paying attention knows that the entire military mission in that broken country has been a dismal failure producing blow-back on a mind-boggling scale, even as the Taliban has become stronger, and controls more territory, than at any time since its toppling in 2001-2002.
Hillary wanted to impose regime change on Syria in 2011, by stepping up assistance to armed groups whom (again) anyone paying attention knows are in cahoots with al-Nusra (which is to say, al-Qaeda). In an email dated Nov. 30, 2015, she states her reason: “The best way to help Israel…is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.”
In her memoir she criticizes Obama for not doing more to oust the secular Assad regime. She has repeatedly stated during her campaign that she favors a no-fly zone over Syria, like the one she advocated for Libya. That means conflict with Russia, which is bombing sites in Syria, with the permission of its internationally recognized government, under what Russia’s leaders (and many rational people) consider to be terrorists’ control.

Ron Paul | @RonPaul  Monday, 13 Apr 2015
Militarism and military spending are on the rise everywhere as the new Cold War propaganda seems to be paying off. The new "threats" that are being hyped bring big profits to military contractors and the network of think tanks they pay to produce pro-war propaganda.

Here are just a few examples:
The German government announced last week that it would purchase 100 more "Leopard" tanks — a 45-percent increase in the country's inventory. Germany had greatly reduced its inventory of tanks as the end of the Cold War meant the end of any threat of a Soviet ground invasion of Europe. The German government now claims these 100 new tanks, which may cost nearly half a billion dollars, are necessary to respond to the new Russian assertiveness in the region. Never mind that Russia has neither invaded nor threatened any country in the region, much less a NATO member country.

OPINION “I'm 80 years old. I was never scared throughout the Cold War years. I'm very scared now.” That is what Stephen Lendman, a Research Associate for the Centre for Research on Globalization told Sputnik in an exclusive interview regarding recent developments related to the military conflict in Ukraine.

The Atlantic Alliance mobilizes 30,000 soldiers at the Russian border.  By Manlio Dinucci
For NATO’s defense ministers meeting in Brussels yesterday, it was “a very busy day.” After the bilateral meeting in which U.S. Defense Minister Chuck Hagel sent instructions to the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the Nuclear Planning Group met (Italy participates in this group, violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty). What they decided is unknown, since they issued no press statements. But, since Washington has reiterated that “NATO will remain a nuclear alliance,” it can be deduced that they decided to accelerate the ”modernization” of U.S. nuclear forces deployed in Europe (including Italy) and the strengthening of the French and British forces.

The NATO war against Russia has escalated dramatically, both inside Ukraine and along other border states to Russia. Stratfor's George Friedman reported Tuesday that the US is deploying military equipment to forward positions in the three Baltic states, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria, with accompanying American troops. Friedman described the deployments as a return to Cold War programs, but with the added factor of forward basing lethal American military hardware in Eastern European countries bordering or close to Russia that were formerly either Warsaw Pact states or part of the Soviet Union. He described this as the "Intermarium Region," using the term for Winston Churchill's 20th-Century interwar proposed confederation of nations located between the Baltic, Black, Aegean, and Adriatic seas. The details of this deployment were provided over the weekend by Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of US Army forces in Europe, in an interview with Stars and Stripes.