Day: March 5, 2020

Syria – Another Ceasefire In Idleb – Erdogan Loses On All Points

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5 March 2020 — Moon of Alabama

Our last post on Syria concluded:

Erdogan wants Idleb but neither Syria nor Iran nor Russia will let him have it. President Putin will meet Erdogan during the coming days and will make sure that the point is understood.

President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and President Vladimir Putin of Russia met today in Moscow. They had a 160 minute long talk under 4 eyes and another round with their relevant staff. The parties agreed on a new ceasefire in Idleb governorate.
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Coronavirus: The only thing spreading “exponentially” is fear – Fewer people are sick each day, and yet there’s no sign of panic abating

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5 March 2020 — Off Guardian

Kit Knightly

Shall we start off this little overview with some cold hard facts? Not the ones about death rates, and the flu, and clinical diagnosis. We’ve done that. A lot.

No this is just simple maths; There are, according to official estimates, fewer people with coronavirus today, than yesterday.

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Empires of the steppes fuel Erdogan Khan’s dreams

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4 March 2020 — Asia Times

As Putin meeting looms, no one in Moscow believes any word, promise or cajoling from Erdogan anymore

Refugees wait Saturday to cross the border between Turkey and Greece near the Pazarkule border post, in Turkey. Thousands of migrants and refugees, including Afghans, Syrians and Iraqis, have massed at Turkey’s border with Greece after Erdogan announced on February 28 that Turkey would no longer prevent them from leaving for the European Union. Photo: AFP / Burcu Okutan / Sputnik

The latest installment of the interminable Syria tragedy could be interpreted as Greece barely blocking a European “invasion” by Syrian refugees. The invasion was threatened by President Erdogan even as he refused the EU’s puny “offer you can refuse” bribe of only one billion euros.

Well, it’s more complicated than that. What Erdogan is in fact weaponizing is mostly economic migrants – from Afghanistan to the Sahel – and not Syrian refugees.

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Julian Assange News Links 5 March 2020

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5 March 2020 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back

Julian Assange case is a retreat in civic progress and protection | Opinion
The Commercial Appeal
The case of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, violates not only Assange’s rights as a public servant but journalism as a whole.

Podcast: Kevin Gosztola Discusses the Latest Developments in the Case Against Julian Assange
https://www.mintpressnews.com/podcast-kevin-gosztola-julian-assange-extradition/265504/ Continue reading →

Turkey at War with Syria: Selected Stories

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5 March 2020 — Global Research

Empires of the Steppes Fuel Erdogan Khan’s Dreams

By Pepe Escobar, March 05, 2020

The latest installment of the interminable Syria tragedy could be interpreted as Greece barely blocking a European “invasion” by Syrian refugees. The invasion was threatened by President Erdogan even as he refused the EU’s puny “offer you can refuse” bribe of only one billion euros. Well, it’s more complicated than that. What Erdogan is in fact weaponizing is mostly economic migrants – from Afghanistan to the Sahel – and not Syrian refugees.
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Syria News Links 4-5 March 2020

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5 March 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back

Selected Articles: Turkey at War with Syria
https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-turkey-war-syria-whose-side-winning/5705666

Anti-Turkish Coalition is Getting Bigger by the Day
https://journal-neo.org/2020/03/05/anti-turkish-coalition-is-getting-bigger-by-the-day/

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Review: Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (2020)

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8 September 2019 — Eric Walberg

First, Diana Johnstone’s memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students of history and all those struggling to not only dismantle the beast, but to prepare us for what follows it.

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WaPo Prints Study That Found Paper Backed an Undemocratic Bolivia Coup

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5 March 2020 — FAIR

WaPo: Bolivia is in danger of slipping into anarchy. It’s Evo Morales’s fault.

The Washington Post editorial board (11/11/19) stated as fact that Bolivian President Evo Morales “moved to falsify the results of the October 20 vote so as to hand him a first-round victory.”

President Evo Morales won re-election in Bolivia’s presidential election last October 20, as pre-election polls predicted. He received 47% of the vote in an election with 88% turnout. He beat his nearest rival by just over 10 percentage points, which meant a second round was not required.

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We Who Were Nothing and Have Become Everything Shall Construct a New and Better World: The Tenth Newsletter (2020)

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5 March 2020 — Tricontinental

Jane NorlingJane Norling, Sistersongs, Berkeley, California, 1975.

We Who Were Nothing and Have Become Everything Shall Construct a New and Better World: The Tenth Newsletter (2020).

Dear Friends,

For Ernesto Cardenal (1925-2020), who has gone to hand out clandestine pamphlets in the sky.

Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

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