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“Erdogan plans to pull Turkey to the brink of war with Russia. Erdogan has given orders to shoot down Russian planes operating in Syria while claiming they have intruded into Turkish air space.”

by Israel Shamir

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by James Petras
Introduction
            The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona.  There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, ‘former KGB operative’ and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad giving an interview to the French magazine “Paris Match” in Damascus on December 3, 2014. Coalition strikes against the ISIS group are having no impact, Assad said in an interview, as members of the US-led offensive claimed to be winning

Syria’s conflict will be long and difficult and its army cannot be everywhere at once, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published by a French magazine on Thursday, in which he also vowed to remain in power.

 Thousands of Syrian police who joined the rebels are on U.S. payroll
Syrian police armored vehicle in Homs. /AFP/Anwar Amro
Special to WorldTribune.com
WASHINGTON — The United States has been paying thousands of Syrian
police officers who deserted the regime of President Bashar Assad.