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See Erratum : « Academi (ex-Blackwater) was not sold (correction) », Voltaire Network, July 26th, 2013.
Academi (ex-Blackwater), the world’s most powerful private army, reveals having been signed over, without indicating the name of the buyer, nor the amount for which it was bought.
According to SouthWeb.org, it’s the biotechnology multinational Monsanto who would be the happy acquirer .
Created in 1901, Monsanto debuted as a saccharine producer, used by Coca-Cola. During World War II, (...)

The Minister of Defence of Estonia and Chairman of Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica (IRL), Urmas Reinsalu, sent on 7 July 2013 a message of support to the members of the "Estonian Union of freedom fighters," gathered for their annual get-together.
The "Union of freedom fighters" brings together Nazi veterans who fought to "keep Estonia safe from communism."
In 2012, Urmas Reinsalu had personally attended this annual gathering, held on the island of Saaremaa. He congratulated the former (...)

Western media relayed disinformation by Israeli sources announcing that their army had attacked a Syrian military convoy transporting weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon. According to the press articles, Sam-7 missiles or chemical weapons ready for deployment were allegedly part of the shipment.
In fact, the Israeli Air Force bombed a research center located in Jemraya in the suburbs of Damascus, on Wednesday afternoon, January 30, 2013. There were no Sam-7’s or chemical weapons housed at the (...)

The war in Syria appears to be increasingly remote-controlled from abroad. Almost all states in the region seem to be involved to varying degrees, with Qatar providing the lion’s share of the funds going to the Free Syrian Army. However, the investment has generated disappointing returns. To avoid its funds from going up in smoke, Qatar has decided to dole them out on the basis of the actions carried out. As a result, the ASL began staging its most spectacular and deadly attacks to the detriment of its real military objectives.

France and the Gulf monarchies are bent on presenting Bashar al-Assad as a bloody tyrant and on blaming him for the 60 000 victims counted by the High Commissioner on Human Rights. Flipping this rhetoric, President al-Assad delivered a speech to the nation on January 6, 2012. He emerged as the leader of a country under attack from the outside and he pronounced the eulogy of the 60 000 martyrs. Symbolizing this claim, a Syrian flag composed of faces of the victims was deployed in the (...)

The battle that raged starting December 9 in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp (south of Damascus) has revealed new alliances.
The strategic objective was to involve Palestinians in the war in Syria, mobilizing them on a sectarian basis (they are mostly Sunni) against the secular regime. But the refugees did not allow themselves to be manipulated, no more than in Lebanon in 2007, when the mercenaries of Fatah al-Islam tried to mobilize the Palestinians of Nahr el-Bared against (...)
Interview with the Serbian magazine Geopolitika
Thierry Meyssan: "Syrian terrorists were trained by the KLA in Kosovo" by
Slobodan Eric

France, the United Kingdom, Israel and Qatar have prepared yet another plan for intervention in Syria. 6000 new jihadists, including 4000 from Lebanon, should be poised to attack the upscale Mezzeh neighborhood south of Damascus, home to many embassies and where several top military and civilian officials reside. An incident involving chemical weapons across the country is set to increase the tension. A traitorous general would then claim to have seized power and call to the West for help, (...)

The Free Syrian Army released a video in which it boasts of preparing chemical weapons.
The sequence shows a person dressed in fatigues and wearing a mask, gassing two rabbits in a laboratory. At the end of the video, he tells the viewers that that is the fate that awaits the Alawites and those who support them.
It is impossible to identify the toxic cans stacked on shelves, which bear the label of the Turkish Tekkim laboratories, or to detect the type of product used to kill the animals. (...)
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Welcome to the "liberated zone" of Aleppoby
Thierry Meyssan

Thanks to logistical support from France, the new authorities of the "liberated zone" of Aleppo are currently setting up a religious dictatorship inspired by the Saudi model. The reality is very different from the soothing declarations of Presidents Sarkozy and Hollande concerning the defence of liberty and the promotion of democracy.

In an act of unequivocal and explicit hostility toward Iran, the United States took the name of Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) off its list of foreign terrorist organizations on Friday, September 28, showing its unconditional support to the sworn enemies of the Iranian nation straight from the shoulder.
The U.S. government announced the decision a few days after the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton submitted a file of classified information about the terrorist cult to the Congress. (...)
"Before our very eyes"
NATO packs it in; Turkey on the verge of a nervous breakdown by
Thierry Meyssan

On October 8, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CTSO) began maneuvers dubbed "Inviolable Fraternity" ("НЕРУШИМОЕ БРАТСТВО"). The scenario focuses on the deployment of a peace force in an imaginary country where international jihadists and terrorist organizations operate against a backdrop of ethnic and confessional divisions. The accredited diplomatic corps, which was invited to attend the exercises, listened attentively to the opening address of the deputy secretary general of the organization. (...)

The experts of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on the situation in Syria confirmed on Monday, 17 September 2012 in Geneva, the presence of foreign armed groups who are attempting to topple the Syrian government.
Before the Council of Human Rights, CoI chair Paulo Pinheiro said that Islamic extremists in Syria are either fighting alongside armed anti-government groups or operating on their own. He also characterized the presence of these elements in Syria as (...)
The Dagestan connection
Salafism+CIA: The winning formula to destabilize Russia, the Middle Eastby
F. William Engdahl

The assassination of the most respected Sufi religious leader in Dagestan, Russia’s volatile Caucasus, comes as Salafist jihadists in Libya murder a US Ambassador who was actually a key player in ousting Gaddafi and bringing the Salafist Muslim Brotherhood and Jihadists into power. Throughout the entire Islamic world today, a wave of hate is being unleashed in the name of Islamic fundamentalism that could bring a new world war. This is the consequence of the Greater Middle East Project put in play in 2010 and earlier by the Washington-London-Tel Aviv axis. Manipulating religious fervor is an explosive cocktail as F. William Engdahl shows here.

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