War

From The Archive: MH-17

Paul Craig Roberts

Not long ago I wrote that every American institution, public and private, is corrupt. And every week Robert Parry’s reports prove the truth of my statement.

Syria has strongly condemned the United States for the deployment of troops on its soil, saying that the move amounts to aggression and a gross violation of national sovereignty. Russian media revealed on Wednesday that the first batch of US army personnel, including 150 soldiers and officers, had arrived safely to the Kurdish controlled Rumeilan Military Airport in Syrian territory.

The deputy chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has said that Israel is training Saudi military forces under the framework of clandestine relations between the two countries. The senior official, Sheikh Naim Qassem told Lebanese media that Dozens of Saudi military officers are being trained after secret contacts developed into military cooperation. He said that the secret relations between Riyadh and Jerusalem led to the Saudi decision, as part of the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council, to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

The US have confirmed they will be supplying advanced rocket launcher systems to Turkey in order to allow the Turkish regime to launch a military assault in Syria against the Assad regime.  On Tuesday the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced that the US has agreed to supply them with the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HMIARS), a truck mounted rocket launcher used by the U.S. during the Iraq invasion. Sputniknews.com reports: The announcement lends credence to fears that the rockets will be turned against the Assad government.

A few paces west of the public beach in Yorktown, Virginia, is a little cave looking out toward the water. We all know Yorktown from history class. This is where, in October 1781, the British army commanded by Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans under General George Washington and the French under the Comte de Rochambeau.