Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Saturday 18 April 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 17 Apr 2015 01:41 AM PDT
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor by the US army.
Iran has announced its readiness to cooperate with Russia, China and India on the issue of NATO’s missile shield and related threats from the military bloc, the head of its defense ministry said in Moscow.
“I’d like to support the idea of developing multifaceted defense cooperation between China, Iran, India and Russia to counter NATO eastwards expansion and installing a missile shield in Europe,” Hossein Dehghan said on Thursday, at an international security conference in Moscow.
Hours later Dehghan was cited by RIA Novosti as saying that Russia, China and Iran may hold tri-party defense talks.
“We discussed certain aspects of regional security. It was proposed to hold a trilateral meeting of Russia, Iran and China,” Dehghan said after meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.
Despite a deal on Tehran’s nuclear program, the US is still going to site its missile defense installations in Europe. They are being deployed over a perceived threat from “nuclear Iran” – a pretext which Moscow called a “fairytale.”
“The threat to NATO countries posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles continues to increase… the framework [of the Iran nuclear program] agreement does not change that fact,” NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu told Sputnik.
According to Russia, the controversial missile shield in Europe is staying because “the Missile Defense System was never about Iran.”
“This serves as yet more proof that references to the ‘Iranian [missile] threat’ served as a smokescreen, whereas the genuine objective is the creation of an anti-missile program with quite a different purpose,” the Russian Foreign Ministry wrote.
The US has for years insisted the missile defense system is needed for protection against potential missiles from rogue states, such as North Korea and Iran. Moscow strongly objected to new unilateral NATO military installations, citing national security threats. Russia proposed the creation of a joint system, but Washington rejected it.
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Posted: 17 Apr 2015 01:34 AM PDT
Yemeni people take to the streets in the capital Sana’a to condemn Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes against and a recent UN sanctions resolution targeting Houthi movement, April 16, 2015.
Yemeni people have taken to the streets in the capital city of Sana’a to condemn Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes against their country and a recent UN sanctions resolution targeting Houthi movement.
The protesters shouted slogans against Saudi Arabia and the United States, emphasizing that Yemeni nation cannot be brought to its knees through airstrikes.
They also called Saudi Arabia as an ally to Israel, emphasizing that the airstrikes will not shatter people’s resistance.
They noted that the recent resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Ansarullah fighters was meant to make people cut their support for the revolution, but Yemenis will bow to nobody except God.
“With UNSC resolution they wanted to terrorize you because their airstrikes failed to terrorize you, their missiles did not shake you, so they hoped this resolution would shake you and your steadfastness,” a lecturer told the demonstrators.
He added that the massive turnout of protesters would send the message to those behind the UN resolution that Yemeni people will bow to nobody but God.
Another lecturer lashed out at the ruling Al Saud for what he called its continued support for terrorism and oppression.
“Al Saud, this unjust family, it will fall. This is a family which is financing al-Qaeda and ISIL,” he said to demonstrators who were chanting slogans against the Saudi royal family.
“Down, Down to Al-Saud,” the demonstrators said, while expressing their solidarity with Saudi Arabia’s people in Eastern Province who have been protesting against the Al Saud rulers since an uprising began in 2011.
“We say to the world that the Qatif (capital of Eastern Province) Revolution is a revolution of free people, it is a real revolution,” a lectured said.
The demonstrators condemned the ongoing aggression of Saudi Arabia on the Yemeni people, calling on the international community to take swift action against the Saudi strikes.
“These forces of criminality and those serving them, they are fanning the flames of hatred against the Yemeni people,” a statement read out at the protest rally said, adding that the attacks on the Arab country are meant to force people to bow to pressures.
“They (the aggressors) are the ones who are isolating and besieging the people, denying people medication and food,” it said, noting, “The people of Yemen cannot be silent on this aggression and they will not forgive those committing this massacre.”
The demonstrators also condemned the slaughtering of people in Yemen and elsewhere in other countries by terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIL, saying that the revolutionaries of Yemen will continue their fight against these terrorists until they are completely eliminated in the country.
In the statement, the demonstrators also slammed what they called the joint Saudi-American crimes against the Yemeni people and called for an international probe into brutalities committed against civilians.
“We call on the international community to condemn this unjustified aggression and urge them not to stand with the oppressor against the oppressed.”
Saudi Arabia started its military aggression against Yemen on March 26, without a UN mandate, in a bid to restore power to fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a close ally of Riyadh.
Civilians and Yemeni infrastructure have been the target of the Saudi aggression against the Arabian Peninsula State.
According to sources in the Yemeni Army, around 2,600 people have been killed in the Saudi aggression over the past three weeks.
The humanitarian situation in Yemen is rapidly deteriorating. Many international aid organizations have sought clearances to dispatch medical and other humanitarian supplies by air and sea to civilians in need.
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Posted: 17 Apr 2015 01:30 AM PDT


Video footage out of Ontario, California shows armed National Guard troops patrolling residential streets and practicing traffic control.
The video, which was shot this past weekend, features Guard troops marching in formation while chanting a military cadence. Troops also take turns to practice blocking traffic.
The troops, followed by a humvee, marched close to an elementary school and single family homes.
“I just watched it again and recognized the low block wall and the elementary school! It was right there where my sister and her husband live! OMG how frightening!” one YouTube commenter responded, while others insisted the patrols were a routine occurrence.
However, another respondent insisted that the patrol was not normal.
“During the last few seconds I got a quick glimpse of my sister and brother-in-laws house on Fuschia. Ave,” wrote the commenter.”That motorcycle was parked almost in front of their house. They told me they saw this procession going on from their front yard. They have lived in that house for 30 or so yrs and this is the first time they have seen this type of thing in their neighborhood. Might be a common thing to do their training someplace else but not in that area.”
Concerns about the presence of troops on American streets have heightened since the announcement of Jade Helm, an upcoming nationwide military exercise which some fear is a dry run for martial law.
As we reported earlier this week, a National Guard drill based around dealing with civil unrest after a dirty bomb attack in Richmond, California featured role players acting as angry Americans yelling ‘right-wing’ rhetoric.
Footage captured by a local shows Guard troops pushing irate citizens away with batons before one of the protest group states, “I’m a sovereign citizen, I refuse to recognize you guys, I refuse to recognize you.”
Disturbing video out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida last month also showed military and law enforcement practicing the internment of citizens during martial-law style training.
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Posted: 17 Apr 2015 01:11 AM PDT
The GOP Congress takes its marching orders from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure there will be no nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1, an ex-US congressional staffer says.
The Republican-dominated Congress is taking its marching orders from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make sure there will be no deal between Iran and the P5+1 over Tehran’s nuclear energy program, an American activist and radio host in California says.
Rodney Martin, a former US Congressional staffer, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday.
He was commenting on the White House’s claim that the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s approval on Tuesday of bipartisan legislation to allow Congress to review a nuclear agreement with Iran is not a defeat for the Obama administration.
The so-called Iran Nuclear Amendment Review Act of 2015 should actually be called “the AIPAC Iran Nuclear Amendment Review Act of 2015,” Martin said, becase the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and “the Zionist Jewish lobby are pulling the strings of the Congress… to grasp at any straw they can to ensure that there is no agreement with Iran.”
“They are taking their marching orders from Bibi Netanyahu who made the extraordinary step of coming to Washington and giving personal marching orders to the senators themselves,” said Martin.
On Tuesday, the Foreign Relations Committee approved legislation that allows Congress to review a nuclear agreement with Iran.
US President Barack Obama had threatened to veto an initial version of the legislation, but changed his mind after some changes were made to the controversial bill.
“I think President Obama should have vetoed this bill as an encroachment on the executive branch by the legislative branch,” Martin said.
He added that the passage of this bill shows that “the legislative branch is taking marching orders from a foreign government and serving and running roughshod over the treaty-making powers of the executive branch.”
He stated that the same power, Israel, has also spied Iran nuclear negotiations and provided sensitive information to members of Congress, but the US government has done nothing about this.
Martin said Tel Aviv’s spying has “basically revealed Israel as being a foreign enemy of the United States, and if anything, Israel should be on the terror list the Congress routinely puts out every year, [but] Congress has done nothing.”
“Every senator that received intelligence information from Israel should be subject to an FBI investigation,” the former US Congressional staffer emphasized.
He went on to say that most of the Americans as well as many Democrats and Republicans want to end America’s 36 years of extreme hostility toward Iran, “with the exception of the evangelical neocons who have some sort of very perverted fetish towards the Zionist Jews, but they are a very small, but a very vocal minority.”
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 08:29