Sun Aug 17, 2014 7:34 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
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Press TV
August 17, 2014
America’s ISIL threat claim is ‘dishonest ploy’ to justify intervention
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An American peace activist says US counterterrorism officials’ claim that the ISIL terrorist group poses a clear and immediate threat to the United States is a “dishonest and disingenuous ploy” to justify the military intervention in Iraq.
Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO International Network, made the remarks during a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday.
On Thursday, US counterterrorism officials told reporters that new strategies are urgently needed to counter the surging ISIL threat.
“We’re seeing an expansion of its external terrorist ambitions,” one US counterterrorism official said. “As its capabilities grow, it has attracted thousands of foreign extremists — some of whom are going home to start cells. As it carves out territory [in Iraq], it wants to go beyond that and do attacks outside.”
Rozoff said, “This is sleight of hand on the part of the White House in the first place that has been used over the past decades to justify the US military intervention/the US aggression.”
He also said that it is “ludicrous” that the US and its allies support “an armed insurrection within a nation” while insisting the groups they themselves armed pose a threat to the West.
“Nothing occurring in northern Iraq -- as tragic and violent as it is -- in any way presents a threat directly or even indirectly to the United States,” Rozoff stated.
“This is, I believe, making the military intervention by the US more palatable to the domestic audience in America,” he noted.
He went on to say that for the US “to claim that it is fighting terrorism, when it is one of the main supporters of exactly that, is another act of duplicity on behalf of the White House, on behalf of the US government.”
“You know, people would be well-advised to take what the US government says with a grain of salt and investigate these matters on their own.”
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Press TV
August 17, 2014
America’s ISIL threat claim is ‘dishonest ploy’ to justify intervention
Audio:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/
An American peace activist says US counterterrorism officials’ claim that the ISIL terrorist group poses a clear and immediate threat to the United States is a “dishonest and disingenuous ploy” to justify the military intervention in Iraq.
Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO International Network, made the remarks during a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday.
On Thursday, US counterterrorism officials told reporters that new strategies are urgently needed to counter the surging ISIL threat.
“We’re seeing an expansion of its external terrorist ambitions,” one US counterterrorism official said. “As its capabilities grow, it has attracted thousands of foreign extremists — some of whom are going home to start cells. As it carves out territory [in Iraq], it wants to go beyond that and do attacks outside.”
Rozoff said, “This is sleight of hand on the part of the White House in the first place that has been used over the past decades to justify the US military intervention/the US aggression.”
He also said that it is “ludicrous” that the US and its allies support “an armed insurrection within a nation” while insisting the groups they themselves armed pose a threat to the West.
“Nothing occurring in northern Iraq -- as tragic and violent as it is -- in any way presents a threat directly or even indirectly to the United States,” Rozoff stated.
“This is, I believe, making the military intervention by the US more palatable to the domestic audience in America,” he noted.
He went on to say that for the US “to claim that it is fighting terrorism, when it is one of the main supporters of exactly that, is another act of duplicity on behalf of the White House, on behalf of the US government.”
“You know, people would be well-advised to take what the US government says with a grain of salt and investigate these matters on their own.”
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Sun Aug 17, 2014 7:50 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
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Polish Radio
August 17, 2014
Wales summit to decide on NATO bases in Poland?
Following months of lobbying by Poland to beef up the alliance’s eastern flank, hopes have turned to the upcoming summit in Wales for a concrete decision on the creation of a NATO support base in Poland.
NATO
“We hope that a decision will be taken on the creation of a logistics centre for equipment and other provisions for Alliance members stationed in Poland as well as the Baltic States,” head of the National Security Bureau, General Stanislaw Koziej told Polish Radio.
According to Koziej, due to the increased financing such a construction would need, the base will most likely take some years to be built.
The comment comes as Washington announced last Wednesday that “600 soldiers from the Fort Hood, Texas-based 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, will rotate to Poland as the next unit to participate in the reassurance initiative”.
“This is the effect of an agreement which we rubberstamped with the Americans in spring,” Poland’s Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said.
Some 200 Canadians and 1,200 British soldiers are also expected to be stationed in Poland at the same time for training exercises in the region, while a delegation from the US Army is expected to arrive in Warsaw next week to discuss the planned operations.
Warsaw has been pushing for a greater NATO presence in the region, with renewed calls for a NATO beef up after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and further pro-Russian rebel-led actions caused unrest in eastern Ukraine. Speaking during a ceremony on Army Day on 15 August, which commemorates a Polish victory over the Soviets in 1920 at the Battle of Warsaw, President Bronislaw Komorowski said that “freedom is not given once and for all, it has to be protected, strengthened, prized”. “We are responsible for the independence of the Polish state, for its armed forces, and are co-responsible for the strength of the NATO alliance,” he underlined.
Speaking on the upcoming summit in Newport, Wales, Komorowski said that Poland will address finance issues. “It cannot be so that our powerful neighbour to the east has been increasing its defence budget for the past eight years while NATO has been cutting costs,” the President said, adding that “In Poland, we too should start spending the recommended 2 percent of GDP on defence.”
Polish Radio
August 17, 2014
Wales summit to decide on NATO bases in Poland?
Following months of lobbying by Poland to beef up the alliance’s eastern flank, hopes have turned to the upcoming summit in Wales for a concrete decision on the creation of a NATO support base in Poland.
NATO
“We hope that a decision will be taken on the creation of a logistics centre for equipment and other provisions for Alliance members stationed in Poland as well as the Baltic States,” head of the National Security Bureau, General Stanislaw Koziej told Polish Radio.
According to Koziej, due to the increased financing such a construction would need, the base will most likely take some years to be built.
The comment comes as Washington announced last Wednesday that “600 soldiers from the Fort Hood, Texas-based 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, will rotate to Poland as the next unit to participate in the reassurance initiative”.
“This is the effect of an agreement which we rubberstamped with the Americans in spring,” Poland’s Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said.
Some 200 Canadians and 1,200 British soldiers are also expected to be stationed in Poland at the same time for training exercises in the region, while a delegation from the US Army is expected to arrive in Warsaw next week to discuss the planned operations.
Warsaw has been pushing for a greater NATO presence in the region, with renewed calls for a NATO beef up after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and further pro-Russian rebel-led actions caused unrest in eastern Ukraine. Speaking during a ceremony on Army Day on 15 August, which commemorates a Polish victory over the Soviets in 1920 at the Battle of Warsaw, President Bronislaw Komorowski said that “freedom is not given once and for all, it has to be protected, strengthened, prized”. “We are responsible for the independence of the Polish state, for its armed forces, and are co-responsible for the strength of the NATO alliance,” he underlined.
Speaking on the upcoming summit in Newport, Wales, Komorowski said that Poland will address finance issues. “It cannot be so that our powerful neighbour to the east has been increasing its defence budget for the past eight years while NATO has been cutting costs,” the President said, adding that “In Poland, we too should start spending the recommended 2 percent of GDP on defence.”
