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Dear CCI Friends,
Hajizadeh says air defense system mistook plane for a cruise missile.
‘I wished death’ after realizing Ukrainian passenger plane had been mistakenly shot down: IRGC Aerospace Force Chief
This incident is what our top U.S. specialists in weapons’ delivery systems have been warning us about. Response is now 10 seconds … in which a receiver must “Fire”. No time to check if it is a false alarm … a bizarre cloud formation … or a fluke.
Natylie’s Place
January 13, 2020
By Natylie Baldwin
On Saturay, the Russian president had a lengthy meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel regarding Nordstream II and several issues pertaining to the Middle East, particularly the recent events involving Iran, Iraq and the U.S.
RT reported on the meeting and subsequent joint press conference by Putin and Merkel:
Dear CCI Readers,
We at CCI have been predicting that for change in U.S. policy to happen, a collective consciousness and rejection against “war-making and regime-change wars” must emerge within our citizenry across America.
That time has come. The killing of Suleimani in Baghdad has aroused the consciousness of Americans and people and countries across our globe. Why? Because it was the worst of options open to us. And because we and they understand this could easily create an uncontainable war … a Nuclear War … from which none of us would survive.
You will receive an increase in emails from us as this crisis moves forward.
We Americans have become so accustomed to creating wars against other nations, that they seems routine to us … like a movie on TV. We do not understand how this appears to other nations, even though many countries are chronically indebted to us for handouts. They go along with us because they must. What a vise to be caught in!
We Americans will pay the price for continuous war-making unless we citizens collectively rise up against the war planners. Our voices, phone calls, emails and letters can force this issue out in the open. Google your Senators or Congressmembers today. It’s easy to get their addresses and phone numbers from the Internet.
We urge you to be in touch with your Congressional offices locally and in Washington this week and every coming week until they take our urgings seriously. Let us at CCI know you are making this effort as a decent, law-abiding citizen of our country.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
If Baghdad Wants Us Out, Let’s Go!
January 7, 2020
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Perhaps, rather than sending troops into Iraq and Kuwait to defend U.S. troops already there, we should accede to the local nationalist demands, start bringing our troops home, and let Iranians, Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis and Afghans settle their quarrels.
Fifteen years after the U.S. invaded Iraq to turn Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship into a beacon of democracy, Iraq’s Parliament, amid shouts of “Death to America!” voted to expel all U.S. troops from the country.
Though nonbinding, the expulsion vote came after mobs trashed the U.S. embassy in an assault that recalled Tehran 1979.
What provoked Iraq’s Parliament into demanding the ouster of all U.S. troops?
CCI Friends,
We are posting Natylie Baldwin’s assessments of the latest happenings regarding the U.S., Iraq, Iran, Russia and China. This extremely dangerous situation could escalate. Hopefully saner heads will quickly emerge in Washington.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Dear Friends of CCI,
We wish you a wonderful New Year in 2020!
Thank you for the year just passing when you have intellectually and spiritually supported CCI’s mission between our two nations, the U.S. and Russia. For you Americans who have provided multiple volunteer services we are so grateful… and especially those of you who have paid to travel on CCI’s investigative trips to Russia to determine for yourselves, your colleagues and networks, what is currrently happening across Russia and the world (which is not in our mainstream media).
A special acknowledgement to our Russian Experts in Moscow: President Mikhail Gorbachev & Pavel Palazhhchenko, Vladimir Pozner, Vladimir Kozin, Andrey Kortunov, Christopher Weafer, Dmitri Babich, Alexander Korobko, Pavel Velikov, the OrthoClinic physicians, all of whom have given of their time, shared their points of view and answered the many questions of our traveling Americans.
Deep gratitudes to you Russian citizens who in 2019 hosted unknown Americans in your cities and homes and most importantly helped our U.S. travelers to experience and understand Russian culture, mentality and hospitality. A huge thanks to all of you volunteers in Moscow, Barnaul, Belgorod, Chelyabinsk, Simferopol, Yalta, Sebastapol, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Kungur, Orenburg, Perm, Torzok, Tula, Tver, Ufa and St.Petersburg!
May our 2019 efforts to bring knowledge, understanding, Peace and Goodwill between our leaders begin showing evidences of Hope and Success in the coming year!!!
The warmest of wishes from us to you in 2020!!!
Sharon Tennison
President and Founder (since 1983)
Center for Citizen Initiatives