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This writer’s continuing efforts to shed more light and clarity on Israel and America’s heinous genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza has already become a published work under the title: A Briefing before the World Can Ever Stand Together with Gaza – THE INTEL DROP.

However, it continues as an investigative literary piece to determine, more broadly, what specific militant political actions among the creative artist communities of Canada, the United States and Australia, collectively, as well as individually, already have, or are in the process of, undertaking, to provide whatever greater professional artistic, moral support they can to make the political systems and leadership of their countries more acutely-aware and responsive to the existing realities of what is, and s bring to a crashing halt Zionist Israel’s nightmarishly-brutal, savage onslaught against the entire nation of Palestine’s men, women, children, infants and senior citizens.

Especially, in light of the diabolical misinformation, disinformation, and what amounts to the nigh total insidious, malevolent censorship, by each country’s corrupt corporate mainstream media’s abject unwillingness to tell “the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help them God”; beyond the propaganda rubbish and flat-out , that daily fill their dumbed-down citizenry’s heads up with about what really is going on ever minute of every day in the disgraceful perpetration of the war.

 In other words, this seemingly endless work-in-progress seeks to identify what militant political actions among the creative artist communities of Canada, the United States, Australia, and really the entire human race, collectively, already are helping the populaces of their respective countries recognize that what is happening today to the Palestinians in their former homelands; can be likened not only to the WWII crimes of genocide committed by the Nazis at their Auschwitz Concentration Camp and other death camps; but to the similar hideous things in the history books that once happened to indigenous Indians, Black slaves and Mexican peasants in 17^th,18^th & 19^th century America, especially its Southern ante bellum states, and the wild west of Canada’s Northern plains.

These massive ad hoc European colonial societies of their times, with the complicity of the rest of the world’s so-called later civilized societies within its erstwhile United Nations; all, ever-ready, champing at the bit, to plunder yet some fresh new piece of the world for themselves; this time in the Middle East. 

The green light that has been given to Zionist Israel, its IDF stormtroopers, American society’s collective ideological ‘soldiers of fortune’, and others of the same ilk, worldwide, have once again been given all but carte blanche with the collective permission and blessings of the United Nations to do whatever they will.

It’s Nothing More Than the Human Race’s Same Ol Shuck and Jive

A starting point of this new awareness must begin with the realization that during the 17th, 18th, 19^th centuries, all the newcomer colonial European cultures and societies, like Israel’s contemporary, so-called, “Zionist Settler-Colonial Plan” for an Ersatz Israel, continues to regularly, routinely, murder, rape, slaughter and steal, at their whim, everything that ever belonged to the original Palestinian inhabitants; while their stormtrooper, blitzkrieg armies, and hosts of snipers, are given carte blanche to maim or shoot to kill innocent men, women, children. infants and elders.

Always, of course, without any recriminations whatsoever from their leaders; as if whatever the latest lumps of human flesh, bone and feelings of sentient beings are, are nothing more than unwanted vermin to be duly eradicated for the betterment of all concerned, and so, make way for all those ‘more gifted, favored ones’ yet to come.

Today, in 2024, it’s no different! To gain a truly sobering reality check of what actually continues to happen to Palestinians every second of every minute of every day in this hideous war in Gaza, the reader, if they care anything at all about the real plight of all concerned in Gaza, can do no better than take into their hearts the truths that Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian ER Doctor from Chicago, has to recount after having just returned from a nightmarish time spent in the midst of the Gaza tragedy. 

Dr. Ahmad describes in great shocking detail what day to day life is currently like in Gaza when living human beings are put on glass slides, like specimens under a microscope, to see how they will react under the severest of conditions. It’s unbelievable! Brutal, evil, savage carnage don’t remotely even begin to describe the hidosity of it all, once one has been touched by what they will learn.

Once this writer did, his heart ached grievously, from the place it touched within the residual memory banks of his own Irish-Tyrolean ancestors who suffered the same fate; as so many Palestinians whose hearts also now ache so grievously for their lost loved one, as indigenous peoples the world over also have ever suffered from the same fate since time immemorial.

To arrive at a truly sobering reality check, in the year 2024, of what this actually translates to, in human terms, and continues to happen to Palestinians every second of every minute of every day in this latest hideous war, this time around in Gaza; the reader, if they even remotely care enough about the real truth and justice of the plight of all those still hopelessly trapped in Gaza’s massive oppressive concentration death camp, could do no better than listen to Amy Goodwin’s Democracy Now interview of Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian ER Doctor from Chicago, who recently returned from a nightmarish time spent in Gaza’s hospitals in the midst of the unbelievable macabre tragedy that continues to unfold.

Dr. Ahmad candidly describes in great shocking detail what day to day survival is really like in Gaza. Words like: Unbelievable! Brutal! evil! Savage! Inhuman Carnage! fail to tell the whole truth. They don’t even remotely begin to describe the actual reality of it all.

Brace yourself, however, because when this writer listened to Dr. Ahmad, his own heart quietly, yet so grievously, painfully ached. The longer Dr. Ahmad spoke of the unspeakable plight of the Palestinians, that no one in their right mind would ever wish upon their worst enemy, was constantly tweaked by this writer’s painful remembrances of his Irish ancestors, not that terribly long ago in time or space, once suffered the same fate, during yet another violent, turbulent time and among humans, at the brutal hands of arrogant England’s overlords. 

Listening to the accounts of the suffering the Palestinian people continue to endure at the hands of their own arrogant, primitive IDF stormtrooper overlords, came the same reoccurring thought: “There but for the grace of God!”

Until that moment, while listening to Dr. Ahmad, this writer never truly, fully, could viscerally understand, at a gut level, how or why such overlords, English, German Nazis or whomever, could ever have been or still could ever be so cruel, heartless and barbaric, as to cause the needless suffering of so many innocent, helpless Palestinian hearts to ache and bleed so grievously, as indigenous peoples throughout the world also have had to needlessly suffer for so long a time in human history. It is one of those real mysteries of life as all of us sentient beings as we continue our cosmic journey on this tiny vulnerable orb we call ‘Earth’, as it an we all hurtle together through endless time and space.

The reader is asked to further brace themselves still one more time to continue to bear witness to yet more unedited, uncensored-truth-telling, as re-told by Dr. Taher Ahmad; this time to Abby Martin, host of the Empire Files: Unprecedented War Crimes: Eyewitness Truth in Gaza Hospitals w/ Dr. Thaer Ahmad.

Beyond what all that words, mental awareness and consciousness can ever say, this writer continues to be dumbfounded by so many reactions of seeming indifference and disinterest to what all continues to unfold everywhere around him within the Western World at large, and, more specifically, the populaces within the countries of Canada and the United States; who still unequivocally support and defend the Zionists, and soon; will elect yet another ‘Vanilla White’ fascist to replace PM Trudeau, or re-elect another ‘Sleepy Genocide Joe’ or ‘His Bloated Holiness’ to rule the world; ‘for which, this writer is now so deeply ashamed and embarrassed by what he once was so proud of feeling within himself, and so proudly once admitted to others, he was a dual citizen of both countries.

Also, too, knowingly-aware that all, or most of the world’s, apolitical figures, somehow, have had a hand in doing, or not doing by their silence, to do some positive action to stop what is happening today to the Palestinians in their former homelands of Palestine. 

Their collective diabolical actions or inactions can be likened not only to the recent WWII crimes committed by the Nazis at its Auschwitz Death Camp, Warsaw Ghetto or other death camps; but also the hideous things that happened during their own ancestors days, to indigenous First Nations, Black slaves and Mexican peasants in 18^th & 19^th century history books of America’s Southern ante-bellum states and Northern plains of Canada’s Wild West.

By then, as now, those massive ad hoc European colonial societies of their day, with the complicity of the rest of the world’s so-called civilized societies backing them up. Like a giant juggernaut; each one, always champing at the bit, to crush beneath its ponderous weight; ever eager to plunder some fresh new piece of others, once sacrosanct world for themselves.

All these newcomer colonial European cultures and societies regularly, routinely, murdering, raping, slaughtering, stealing, at their whim, everything that ever belonged to the original inhabitants. Their armies and snipers given carte blanche to maim or shoot to kill innocent men, women, children and elders, without any recriminations whatsoever from their leaders; as if the victims were nothing more than unwanted vermin; to be duly eradicated for the betterment of all, to make way for the minions who are still to come.

Fifty years – half a century – ago, when this writer first arrived upon Canada’s shores from America, the world was such a different place. Canada’s strong, colorful, outspoken leader, Pierre Eliott Trudeau, the father of the current Prime Minister, was someone who accurately felt the world’s pulse, and knew then what unequivocal actions needed to be taken for the betterment of the human race; for which the world once sat up in all their chambers, listened to, and took heed. Lo, were that the case now in these troubled times.

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Jerome Irwin is a Canadian-American writer who, in previous lives, has been involved in a wide range of diverse and varied worlds, including the Criminology profession with an American police department, and later for a brief-time in the capacity of clandestine communications with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. For decades, in various professional capacities as an educator, researcher, geo-political analyst, and writer. Irwin has sought to call attention to a broad spectrum of world problems pertaining to the degradation and unsustainability caused by a host of environmental-ecological-spiritual-ideological issues that exist between the conflicting world philosophies of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

Irwin is the author of the book, “The Wild Gentle Ones; A Turtle Island Odyssey” (www.turtle-island-odyssey.com), a spiritual odyssey among the native peoples of North America that over the decades has produced numerous articles pertaining to: Ireland’s Fenian Movement; native peoples Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Movement; AIPAC, Israel & the U.S. Congress anti-BDS Movement; the historic Battle for Palestine & Siege of Gaza, as well as; the many violations constantly being waged by industrial-corporate-military-propaganda interests against the World’s Collective Soul. To examine a portion of the eclectic body of his work goggle: “Jerome Irwin, writer” The author and his wife are long-time residents on the North Shore of British Columbia.

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Dr Gary G. Kohls is a retired rural family physician from Duluth, Minnesota. Since his retirement in 2008, Dr Kohls has written a weekly column, titled Duty to Warn, which has been re-published and archived at websites around the world.

Dr Kohls practiced holistic mental health care in Duluth for the last decade of his family practice career, primarily helping psychiatric patients who had become addicted to their cocktails of dangerous, addictive psychiatric drugs to safely go through the complex withdrawal process. His Duty to Warn columns often deal with various unappreciated health issues, including those caused by Big Pharma’s over-drugging, Big Vaccine’s over-vaccinating, Big Medicine’s over-prescribing, over-screening, over-diagnosing and over-treating agendas and Big Food’s malnourishing and sickness-promoting food industry. Those four powerful, profit-seeking entities combine to seriously affect the physical, mental, spiritual and economic health of the recipients of the prescription drugs, medical treatments, toxic vaccines and the consumers of the tasty, ubiquitous and disease-producing “FrankenFoods” – particularly when they are consumed in combinations, doses and potencies that have never been tested for safety or long-term effectiveness.

Many of Dr Kohls’ columns have been archived at websites around the world, including the following:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/gary-g-kohls;

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/gary-g-kohls/?ptype=article; and

https://www.transcend.org/tms/author/?a=Gary%20G.%20Kohls,%20MD

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/

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[1] The Hoess quote above is taken from Alice Miller’s Breaking Down the Wall of Silence. Miller’s seminal work on the political and theological consequences of harshness in child-rearing is For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Childhood and the Roots of Violence.

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Resistance forces in Yemen have been the targets in the U.S. and British efforts to halt the country’s blockade against Israeli ports.

Spokesmen for the Ansar Allah movement say that its presence in the Arabian and Red Seas is a direct result of the Israeli war on the Palestinians in Gaza.

During mid-March reports surfaced indicating that the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) and the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) were conducting exercises which simulate a ground invasion by two leading imperialist countries, the U.S. and Britain. The YAF have continued their attacks on ships which are violating the blockade. These resistance operations have openly defied the increased imperialist military presence and aggressive actions in the region.

Yemen resistance forces in formation

In describing the character of the drills and the political atmosphere spawning the present situation, the Cradle emphasized:

“As the drills occurred, the Yemeni Minister of Defense, Major General Nasser al-Atifi, delivered a speech stressing Sanaa’s capacity to ‘deal with an international community that respects only the strong. We will enforce new rules of engagement forcefully, and the price will be paid dearly by the Americans, the British, and the Zionists and those in their orbit. The battle of The Promised Conquest and the Sacred Jihad in support of Al-Aqsa Flood will triumph and inevitably lead to geopolitical changes in line with a new world order,’ Atifi said on Sunday (March 17). He noted that the people of Yemen are not ‘warmongers’ but stressed that Israel’s campaign of genocide in Gaza has prompted ‘freedom-loving nations of the world to declare their position against such atrocities.’” 

The Ansar Allah officials emphasized their sovereignty over territorial waters. They pledged not to relent even in the face of bombings by the Pentagon and the British Royal Air Forces.

Just prior to the military exercises, a delegation consisting of representatives of several Palestinian organizations visited Sana’a for high-level talks with the Yemeni government. It was reported that Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) were present for the talks.

This delegation was reflective of the unity which exists in the military resistance to the IDF occupation of Gaza. There are ten different brigades involved in the fighting and their actions are coordinated against the settler-colonial troops.

The general thrust of the conversations centered on enhancing the cooperation between fighters in Palestine and the solidarity efforts in Yemen. Although the western imperialist states and their media outlets attribute all of the armed resistance activity as being coordinated by the Islamic Republic of Iran, these organizations have engaged in self-directed defensive and offensive operations against the State of Israel and the U.S. All of the tactics being utilized in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, are based upon the concrete conditions prevailing in those areas of the region.

In Palestine and the other neighboring states, they have been able to build their own weapons which can effectively level significant casualties against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and those allied with Zionism and imperialism. The blockade carried out now for several months by the YAF has been quite costly for the commercial maritime industry.

The cost of shipping has risen sharply with the rise in insurance rates and travel expenses due to the rerouting of vessels. To respond to the crisis, the U.S. and Britain have been forced to deploy additional military personnel in the region. These events are occurring when popular pressure is mounting within the imperialist countries and around the world calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the recognition of an independent Palestinian state.

In the same above-cited article published by the Cradle, it reveals that:

“The Palestinians, in turn, reportedly conveyed their ‘great appreciation for the pivotal and important role’ played by Yemen since last November. Last week, Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi announced plans to expand Yemen’s maritime operations against U.S., U.K., and Israeli-linked vessels in the Red Sea. His speech came a day after a Yemeni military source revealed to Russian media that the armed forces recently tested a hypersonic missile and are preparing to introduce the technology into the country’s military arsenal.”

This YAF blockade is taking its toll inside the Israeli Occupied Territories (IOT) forcing an economic downturn in the shipping industry. Another report published by the Cradle says that:

“Israel’s port of Eilat in the occupied south is set to fire half of its employees due to the devastating effects of Yemen’s maritime blockade on Israeli shipping. The main Israeli labor federation, the Histadrut Labor Federation, said on 20 March that port authorities have announced their intention to lay off half of the 120 people employed at the Eilat port. It added that the workers plan on protesting the decision on Wednesday. ‘It would have been right for the company at this time to have embraced the workers and their families, and not chosen the easy way of attempting mass layoffs. We won’t be a part of this,’ said Eyal Yadin, the chairman of Israel’s transportation workers union, in a statement.” 

Since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, the level of resistance to the aggression exerted by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) coupled with solidarity efforts internationally characterized by mass demonstrations, boycotts, social media campaigns along with an overall intensified debate over the legitimacy of the Israeli state which relies on the unconditional support awarded by the U.S., the U.K. and the European Union (EU), illustrates clearly that the status-quo is unsustainable politically. The administration of President Joe Biden and the Democratic-dominated Senate headed by Chuck Schumer has to make it appear as if they want to lessen the suffering of the Palestinian people.

Nonetheless, there is no discussion yet on measures such as halting all aid to Tel Aviv including weapons, intelligence assistance and diplomatic cover. Sanctions could be imposed on leading Israeli officials for their blatant genocidal policies.

One of the key aspects of the global solidarity movement with Palestine is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns which have gained tremendous support in the U.S. and Britain. In the U.K., groups such as Palestine Action have been successful in exposing the links between transnational corporations and the arming of the Zionist state.

The difficulty in making such changes in U.S. foreign policy is that imperialism relies on the Zionist state as a bulwark against the aspirations of the people of West Asia and North Africa. With the entering of literally billions of people across the globe in the Palestine solidarity movement, this factor has rapidly shifted the public mood within the U.S., Britain and the EU member-states.

Regional Resistance Continues

Iraqi resistance fighters announced on March 21 that they had targeted a power generation station in Tel Aviv. Such attacks are ongoing despite the periodic airstrikes conducted by the Pentagon.

Al Mayadeen reported on the military resistance activities in Iraq saying:

“In the past weeks, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq intensified its operations against Israeli targets inside occupied Palestinian territory. On Wednesday (March 20), the Resistance said its fighters attacked Ben Gurion Airport deep within the Israeli occupation entity using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — the second time in one week. On Monday (March 18), the Islamic Resistance targeted an Israeli UAV airbase in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights using drones and affirmed the continuation and intensification of its operations during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Akram al-Kaabi, the Secretary-General of the al-Nujaba Movement, a faction that operates under the umbrella of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, affirmed on February 25 that the Resistance will maintain its operations to kick U.S. forces out of the country and will not stop attacking Israeli targets in occupied Palestine.” 

In neighboring Lebanon, the Hezbollah resistance movement has on a daily basis engaged the IDF in solidarity with the Palestinians. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers have been forced to move from areas on the northern border with southern Lebanon.

Al Mayadeen reported on the intensifying attacks against the settler-colonial regime pointing out:

“Hezbollah fighters continue to target Israeli occupation military sites and soldiers for the 165th day in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance in the Gaza Strip. Following up on nine operations announced throughout Tuesday (March 19), the group fired rockets and missiles at Israeli military positions across the Lebanese-Palestinian border. The first set of attacks was a dual operation that targeted Israeli sites in the occupied Lebanese town of Hounin and Kfar Chouba Hills at 5:35 pm (local time). In the first operation, Hezbollah fighters attacked the Hounin Castle, which had been appropriated by Israeli occupation forces for military purposes, confirming direct hits to the intended target. In the second operation, Hezbollah fighters targeted the Roueissat al-Alam military site, located more than 20 km away from the site of the first operation. Just five minutes later, Islamic Resistance fighters launched an attack on the Zibdine military site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms.” 

Consequently, the struggle against the genocide in Gaza cannot be halted through the aggressive actions of the IDF and the duplicitous statements made by the U.S. Unless widespread changes are made within the imperialist construct in the West Asia and North Africa regions, the imperialist states led by the U.S. will be forced to wage yet another disastrous war which will further weaken its internal and external capabilities to exercise world hegemony.

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Last year will be remembered for a lot of things, but the largely pointless NATO summit in Lithuania’s Vilnius in early to mid-July is not one of them. Most people have already forgotten what the point of the summit was, but one of its major tropes was that the Baltic Sea became a “NATO lake”. One would probably expect the case for this is even stronger now that Sweden is also officially a member, but that would imply that Stockholm has actual sovereignty, making the entire thing all the more laughable. Either way, joining NATO has become a mere formality for the Scandinavian country, as it has effectively been a member for decades, particularly as the European Union, of which Sweden is also a member since 1995, has been exposed as just another geopolitical pendant of the US-led NATO.

And while it can be expected that members of a military bloc under Washington DC’s stewardship are terrible at geography, which would perfectly explain how they could’ve forgotten about Russian coastal areas on the Baltic Sea, Moscow made sure to remind them that such assertions are nothing more than self-delusions and fantasies. Namely, on August 2 last year, Russia kicked off the Ocean Shield-2023, a major naval exercise launched amid a series of close encounters with NATO vessels and aircraft. Moscow’s naval drills in these waters are a regular occurrence, often in response to NATO’s belligerent actions and overall aggressive posturing. However, it seems Russia doesn’t really need any naval forces to make the political West’s life in the “NATO lake” even more difficult.

Namely, the mainstream propaganda machine has been trying to denigrate the Kremlin’s military power for years, changing the tune only when the United States and its vassals and satellite states needed an excuse to further militarize the world, particularly space. And yet, there’s one domain in which they never dared to question (let alone ridicule) Russia – electronic warfare (EW). This ever-evolving field of modern warfare is perpetually increasing in importance and has come a long way from simple radio communications jamming. It now gives a plethora of tools to completely shut down hostile activities without firing a single shot and that’s precisely what’s going on over the Baltic Sea. On March 18, the USAF’s MQ-9 “Reaper” likely experienced Moscow’s EW capabilities firsthand.

The drone is a major unmanned ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) asset and is used quite extensively for that very purpose. The Russian military is surely aware of this and it has already demonstrated it won’t tolerate the “Reapers” in its vicinity. However, this time, it seems the Kremlin chose a less kinetic approach to “undermine freedom and democracy”. Reports vary significantly, with some sources claiming that the drone crash-landed, while most of the mainstream propaganda machine insists that it simply returned to base after it lost contact with its operators stationed in Poland. The South Front quoted Brigadier General Ireneusz Nowak, an inspector in the Polish Air Force, who said that “the UAV crashed during a training flight”.

The “Reaper” took off from a military base in Romania and was supposed to land at the Polish 12th UAV airbase located some 5 km north of Miroslawiec, a town in northwestern Poland. American forces in Romania lost control of the drone at around 18:00 local time. They tried to transfer control to Polish operators, but failed to reestablish connection. The area where the “Reaper” crash-landed was cordoned off to prevent civilians from accessing it. The drone was found nine minutes after the incident. General Nowak stated that the US and Poland are conducting a joint investigation. What is known so far is that there were two MQ-9s operating in Polish airspace, designated WILEY22 and WILEY33, respectively. Both “Reapers” took off from an unnamed military base in Romania.

Both drones experienced “unexplained technical difficulties”, resulting in a crash for WILEY22, while there’s still no information about the WILEY33’s fate. The South Front report claims that the Poles closed their airbase early in the morning on March 19 and suspended all MQ-9 flights. The mainstream propaganda machine blamed the Russian military for the incident, but the Polish Ministry of Defense (MoD) officially denied speculation about Russian EW systems’ involvement in the incident. Warsaw is certainly not well-known for its love for Moscow, so it’s very possible that it’s simply trying to avoid giving credit to the Russian military, as it would be yet another embarrassment for both NATO and the US. And indeed, Western media are already giving a very different account.

According to the Aviationist, a single “MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drone carried out an emergency landing in Poland after losing contact with its ground control station”. Their report states that the incident happened after 23:00 and that the drone actually took off from the Miroslawiec airbase, supposedly to conduct “a scheduled quarterly training inside the Polish airspace” when it lost contact with the airbase. The Aviationist refused to directly acknowledge that the drones crashed, but the report did mention that “it’s not clear whether the remotely piloted aircraft was damaged, but the crash/landing site was secured by the Polish military police”. It’s rather peculiar that the author of the report decided to use such wording given the previous claim that the American drone supposedly “landed”.

The mainstream propaganda machine insists that “the MQ-9 was probably one of the civilian registered, unarmed Block 5 ‘Reapers’ which are flown and maintained by contractors”, with USAF “providing communications, intelligence analysis and force protection as part of the 52nd Expeditionary Operations Group Detachment 2, a geographically separated unit assigned to the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem AB, Germany”. The Detachment regularly conducts ISR missions in the area and has been operating from Miroslawiec since May 2018. The report further notes that “the airframes registered N428HK and N429HK are known to have been assigned to the 52nd Expeditionary Operations Group Detachment 2 in the past, as the MQ-9s relocated to Romania for a certain period”.

The report claims this was done because of construction work in the Miroslawiec airbase and adds that the drones also “deployed to Amari Air Base in Estonia, in 2020, to keep their SIGINT [signals intelligence] sensors pointed to Kaliningrad”. The Aviationist also suggested that “while the reason for the loss of control of the MQ-9 is unknown at this time, there are chances it was due to jamming that has been particularly strong in the region lately”. On March 17, the Warzone reported that the British Dassault 900LX business jet transporting the UK defense secretary Grant Shapps experienced GPS jamming while flying near the Kaliningrad oblast (region). Either way, NATO will continue experiencing “unexplained technical difficulties” as long as it continues its aggression in Europe.

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Feb. 2, 2024 (photo above) – Emily Bigham Unkle was driving when she had a seizure. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

• Mar. 18, 2021: “So grateful for science and the opportunity to get this vaccine.

• Apr. 19, 2021: “It’s so easy to get vaccinated in Hamilton County. My second dose took 10 mins start to finish. You never leave your car and the process is so simple.”

The trend of the COVID-19 Vaccinated collapsing while behind the wheel continues (here are 25 recent cases):

Jan. 30, 2024 – Coventry, UK – 53 year old Irene Mayunga Disala “feel unconscious” while driving in Coventry and died suddenly.

Jan. 24, 2024 – Three people died of “silent heart attacks” while driving in Madhya, Pradesh, India in a single day, ages 41, 42 and 57.

Jan. 18, 2024 – Queen Creek, AZ – 36 year old dental hygienist Sara Bacon died suddenly on Jan. 18, 2024 (it is believed she suffered a heart attack while driving home from work).

Dec. 16, 2023 – 2 US Army Drill Sergeants Found dead in 8 days at Fort Jackson, SC. 34 yo Allen Burtram was found dead on Dec. 8, 30 yo Zachary Melton was found dead in his car on Dec. 16, 2023.

Dec. 8, 2023 – 44 year old Tiffany Gilliam had a heart attack while driving on Dec.8, 2023; “her car headed into oncoming traffic”, “three nurses stepped in and saved her.”

Nov. 12, 2023 – HBO TV Producer Kevin Turen, age 45, died on Nov. 12, 2023. He was driving back from tennis tournament with his 10 year old son and collapsed at the wheel. His 10 year old son navigated and stopped the car.

AUTOPSY RESULTS – HBO Producer Kevin Turen collapsed behind the wheel of his Tesla and his 10 year old steered the car. He died Nov. 12, 2023.

Autopsy: “acute cardiac dysfunction” & “hypertrophic heart disease”

 

Nov. 11, 2023 – Liverpool, UK – 37 year old John McKeown collapsed in Liverpool on Nov.11, 2023 behind the wheel of his car with a cardiac arrest. He was saved by a student nurse.

 

 

Nov. 10, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Jay Carroll played a game of pickleball, walked to the car, opened the door, collapsed and died suddenly on Nov. 10, 2023 “So blessed! COVID Vaccine Shot #1.”

 

 

Nov. 9, 2023 – Reality TV Star 40 year old Brandi Mallory was found dead in her car on Nov. 9, 2023, in the parking lot of a strip mall after eating at Chipotle the previous day.

 

Nov. 5, 2023 – Granbury, TX – Tony Monroe had a medical episode while driving. He simply pulled over and died.

 

 

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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In early April 2020, Mercola.com purposely blocked Google from indexing our articles and breaking news blog posts

I encourage you to search every site’s privacy policy page to see if they use Google Analytics or Google Ad programs, and if they do, encourage them to stop

Nearly every non-major website is using Google’s “free” analytics program, as well as their advertising platforms. Alas, those services are not actually free. Ultimately, YOU pay for them with your personal data, as that is the product Google sells. Collectively, all of these sites are stealing an enormous amount of your private information

Google’s powers pose several threats to society. First of all, it’s a surveillance agency with significant yet hidden surveillance powers. It’s also a censoring agency with the ability to restrict or block access to websites across the internet, thus deciding what people can and cannot see

Google also has the power to manipulate public opinion through search rankings and other means, and the shifts in thinking produced are both rapid and enormous

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In early April 2020, Mercola.com became one of the first websites to purposely block Google from indexing our articles and breaking news blog posts. Most of you are well aware that I’ve had concerns about the surveillance capitalists, spearheaded by Google, for a number of years.

September 2017, I discussed Google’s partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and how their depression assessment quiz was in fact a drug promotion scam sponsored by the drug manufacturer Eli Lilly. No matter how you answered the questions, you were a candidate for antidepressants.

OGLE HOME from Goopocalypse Now! on Vimeo.

Since then, Google and other tech companies have only gotten deeper and wider access to people’s personal medical information, and Google’s selling of this data to third parties can have real-world consequences. Higher insurance premiums or denial of employment are but two obvious examples.

Google Blocked From Interacting with Mercola.com

Most of you know that in the summer of 2019, Google removed us from coming up in any keyword search unless our name was also typed into the query. While we still received substantial traffic from people who looked very hard to find Mercola articles through Google, we finally decided to block Google from crawling or indexing any of my articles or breaking news blogs. We also stopped using the Google Analytics program in 2018.

So, everything related to Google has been removed from this site, and I hope other sites will follow suit. I encourage you to search every site’s privacy policy page to see if they use Google Analytics or Google Ad programs, and if they do, encourage them to stop.

We can be successful without the surveillance monopolies, and businesses and individuals need to unite to do everything we can to stop their dangerous privacy theft and data mining.

How You Pay for Companies’ Use of ‘Free’ Analytics

A majority of websites are using Google’s “free” analytics program, as well as their advertising platforms. Alas, those services are not actually free. Ultimately, YOU pay for them with your personal data, as that is the product Google turns around and sells to third parties. Collectively, all of these sites are stealing an enormous amount of your private information.

Google and its data-siphoning tentacles reach deep into your everyday life, collecting data on every move you make and conversation you have, whether online or in the real world.

Even if you disable location tracking on your phone, Google has ways to determine your whereabouts by tracking the addresses of nearby cellular towers that your phone connects to instead. This is one of the reasons I strongly encourage you to ditch all Android phones and use an iPhone that has better privacy policies.

I discussed this in my 2018 article, “Google — One of the Largest Monopolies in the World.” That article also includes a list of examples of the type of data collected by Google, whether you’re aware of it or not.

Our ‘Cognitive Liberties’ Are at Stake

As detailed in “Will Google’s Social Credit System Determine Your Future?” there are now proposals suggesting all this data, in combination with artificial intelligence-enabled analytics systems could be used for “predictive policing” as illustrated in the 2002 movie “Minority Report,” where suspected perpetrators are arrested before a crime is actually committed.

In the 2018 TED Talk above,¹ legal scholar and bioethicist Nita Farahany discusses the potential ramifications of mind-reading technology, warning that such technology could easily lead to “a society where people are arrested for merely thinking about committing a crime.”

Mind you, Google claimed to have the ability to read your thoughts an entire decade ago. In 2010, Google CEO Eric Schmidt boasted, “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”²

Fast-forward 10 years, and Google’s mind-reading capabilities have exponentially grown and been perfected to the point that their AI can predict the exact moment when a teenager is feeling insecure, lonely or vulnerable, so that an advertisement for an image-boosting product can be placed in front of them on the screen in that moment.

This and many other terrifying capabilities are detailed in the book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” written by social psychologist and Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff. The video below features an interview I did with her about this topic.

In her TED Talk, Farahany also discusses the dangers of a world in which “private interests sell our brain data.” She believes we, as a global community, need laws protecting our rights to cognitive liberty; laws that protect our freedom of thought and self-determination.

Say Goodbye to Google

Over the years, I’ve grown exceedingly concerned about Google’s exponential data mining efforts and infiltration into every conceivable area of our everyday lives, from health care and fitness to education and finance.

The influence of Google is so vast yet so hidden, most people simply have no idea just how controlled they actually are. Most of us would vehemently deny that something as simple as Google search results can manipulate us into thinking a certain way about a topic, yet research clearly shows that this kind of subliminal influence is profoundly powerful.

Robert Epstein, Ph.D., who has spent the last decade of his professional career exposing Google’s manipulative and deceptive practices as a senior research psychologist for the American Institute of Behavioral Research and Technology, has also demonstrated how easily Google can shift our political and societal landscape.

Without Google, the technocrats’ dream of a One World Government would likely never happen, as it relies on social engineering and artificial intelligence. Google is a frontrunner and expert in both, and has the ability to control entire populations. As noted by Epstein in the interview above, Google poses three unique threats to society:

The Many Reasons to Ditch Google

As a user, there are many reasons to de-Google your life, including the following:

Privacy concerns — Google’s services, including search, email, and maps, collect vast amounts of personal data, which can include browsing history, location data, and more. This collection is integral to their business model, which focuses on targeted advertising. Other privacy concerns include the following:

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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#1 lie: If Russia takes Ukraine, we’ll be next.

There is zero evidence for this lie, and it is a lie that is even more outlandish than the lie that if Vietnam falls to the communists, that will be just the first “domino” and all the others will fall and the Soviet Union and/or communist China will take over the world.

Russia actually had no motivation to invade Ukraine until the U.S. carried out a coup, which overthrew and replaced Ukraine’s neutralist Government and installed a rabidly anti-Russian one in 2014. NATO nations unanimously refused to negotiate with Russia regarding Russia’s longstanding national-security red line against Ukraine — the nation with the nearest border to The Kremlin (Russia’s central command) a mere 317 miles away — ever becoming added to America’s anti-Russian military alliance, NATO. On 7 January 2022 NATO said no to that request by Russia. They wouldn’t even negotiate about it. They were determined to violate that red line of Russia. The only way left to Russia to carry out its red line in this matter that is so essential to Russia’s national security, was to take Ukraine before Ukraine would be taken into NATO and become set up with a U.S. nuclear missile.

Similarly, but in the opposite direction, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis had U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy refusing to allow the Soviet Union to be permitted by Cuba and to install Soviet missiles that could reach America’s central command in the White House within 30 minutes, but the big difference with Ukraine in that situation — the situation that Cuba was then in — is that Khrushchev was willing to, and did, negotiate with Kennedy about the matter so as to prevent a nuclear war. The other big difference, in this case, is that The Kremlin is only 5 minutes of missile-flying-time away from Ukraine, not 30 minutes, and that the NATO nations refused to negotiate with Russia at all.

After that 7 January 2022 rejection by NATO — refusal even to negotiate about the matter — Russia had a national-security necessity to take action, and nothing less than an invasion of Ukraine could be that required action, It was forced by NATO, upon Russia. The imperialistic aggressive power here is America (the virtual owner of the NATO alliance), NOT Russia. America demands the right to expand its empire to within 5 minutes of Russia’s central command; Russia isn’t threatening to expand its border to within 5 minutes of America’s central command. The U.S. and its colonies blatantly lie about which side is the aggressor against the other side. The very idea that Russia had any interest in invading any of the NATO countries — or even in invading Ukraine prior to America’s February 2014 coup there turned Ukraine rabidly against Russia — is a vicious and hateful lie, which has its origin in Washington DC and is parroted throughout its empire.

#2 lie: The war in Ukraine started on 24 February 2022.

We are actually now in year ten of this war. The war in Ukraine started in 2014, as both NATO’s Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Zelensky have said. It was started in February 2014 by a U.S. coup which replaced the democratically elected and neutralist President with a U.S. selected and rabidly anti-Russian leader, who immediately imposed an ethnic-cleansing program to get rid of the residents in the regions that had voted overwhelmingly for the overthrown President.

Russia responded militarily on 24 February 2022 in order to prevent Ukraine from allowing the U.S. to place a missile there a mere 317 miles or five minutes of missile-flying-time away from The Kremlin and thus too brief for Russia to respond before its central command would already be beheaded by America’s nuclear strike. (As I headlined on 28 October 2022, “NATO Wants To Place Nuclear Missiles On Finland’s Russian Border — Finland Says Yes”. The U.S. had demanded this, especially because it will place American nuclear missiles far nearer to The Kremlin than at present, only 507 miles away — not as close as Ukraine, but the closest yet.)

#3 lie: This is a war between Ukraine and Russia.

Ukraine was neutral between Russia and America until Obama’s brilliantly executed Ukrainian coup, which his Administration started planning by no later than June 2011, culminated successfully in February 2014 and promptly appointed a rabid anti-Russian to impose in regions that rejected the new anti-Russian U.S.-controlled goverment an “Anti-Terrorist Operation” to kill protesters, and, ultimately, to terrorize the residents in those regions in order to kill as many of them as possible and to force the others to flee into Russia so that when elections would be held, pro-Russian voters would no longer be in the electorate.

The U.S. Government had engaged the Gallup polling organization, both  before  and  after  the  coup,  in order to poll Ukrainians, and especially ones who lived in its Crimean independent republic, regarding their views on U.S., Russia, NATO, and the EU; and, generally, Ukrainians were far more pro-Russia than pro-U.S., NATO, or EU, but this was especially the case in Crimea; so, America’s Government knew that Crimeans would be especially resistant. However, this was not really new information. During 2003-2009, only around 20% of Ukrainians had wanted NATO membership, while around 55% opposed it. In 2010, Gallup found that whereas 17% of Ukrainians considered NATO to mean “protection of your country,” 40% said it’s “a threat to your country.” Ukrainians predominantly saw NATO as an enemy, not a friend. But after Obama’s February 2014 Ukrainian coup, “Ukraine’s NATO membership would get 53.4% of the votes, one third of Ukrainians (33.6%) would oppose it.” However, afterward, the support averaged around 45% — still over twice as high as had been the case prior to the coup.

In other words: what Obama did was generally successful, it grabbed Ukraine, or most of it, and it changed Ukrainians’ minds regarding America and Russia. But only after the subsequent passage of time did the American billionaires’ neoconservative heart become successfully grafted into the Ukrainian nation so as to make Ukraine a viable place to position U.S. nuclear missiles against Moscow (which is the U.S. Government’s goal there). Furthermore: America’s rulers also needed to do some work upon U.S. public opinion. Not until February of 2014 — the time of Obama’s coup — did more than 15% of the American public have a “very unfavorable” view of Russia. (Right before Russia invaded Ukraine, that figure had already risen to 42%. America’s press — and academia or public-policy ‘experts’ — have been very effective at managing public opinion, for the benefit of America’s billionaires.)

#4 lie: This is not a war between Ukraine and Russia; it is a war between Europe and Russia.

This is a restatement of lie #1. The truth is that this is a war between the billionaires who control the U.S. Government versus (i.e., their trying ever since 25 July 1945) to conquer (control) Russia, which has more natural resources than any other country. America’s billionaires especially control the top 100 U.S. corporations that sell (mainly weapons) to the U.S. Government and to its colonies (its ‘allied’ Governments); and, so, in order for them to continue growing their respective net worths, these billionaires must control their markets, which are those Governments. And they do it, so that their investment portfolios have been increasing in value even more, far more, than the U.S. stock markets have increased in value. It is their collective business plan.

Not only was NATO created by the U.S. regime in 1949 in order for the regime to be able to conquer Russia, but even the EU was created by the U.S. Government for the same purpose — to conquer Russia. The member-nations both of NATO and of the EU take from the U.S. Government and its agents their instructions regarding their international relations. Europe’s nations have virtually no sovereignty but are mere colonies of their dictator (ever since 25 July 1945), the U.S. regime, which is controlled by its billionaires. America’s aristocracy controls each of its colonies’ aristocracies. There can be no democracy in an empire, and isn’t in this one. This is the reality about the war in Ukraine: it is an imperialistic war by the U.S. regime and its colonies, against Russia, and it is being waged (till now) in the battlefields of Ukraine.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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In advance of oral arguments tomorrow in the Supreme Court for Murthy v. Missouri, formerly Missouri v. Biden, the New York Times and authors Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers wrote a craven and dishonest piece called, “How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation.”

The Times implies both the Twitter Files reports and my congressional testimony with Michael Shellenberger were strongly influenced by former Trump administration official Mike Benz, whose profile occupies much of the text. Benz is described as a purveyor of “conspiracy theories, like the one about the Pentagon’s use of Taylor Swift,” that are “talking points for many Republicans.” They quote Shellenberger as saying meeting Benz was the “Aha moment,” in our coverage, and the entire premise of the piece is that Benz and other “Trump allies” pushed Michael, me, and the rest of the Twitter Files reporters into aiding a “counteroffensive” in the war against disinformation, helping keep social media a home for “antidemocratic tactics.”

This all has a strong whiff of setup. I have nothing to say against Mike Benz, but let’s set some things straight. As Rutenberg and Lee Myers themselves note, I first talked to Benz in March, 2023. The Twitter Files reports were virtually all done by then. I would publish just two more, one on the day of my testimony, March 9, 2023 (“The Censorship-Industrial Complex”) and one on March 17 (“Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of ‘True Stories’”).

Mike was the source for exactly one piece of information in those two stories: a video his Foundation for Freedom Online posted of Stanford Internet Observatory director Alex Stamos, in which Stamos said Stanford’s Election Integrity Partnership was created to “fill the gap of things the government couldn’t do” legally:

This was true, public, and newsworthy, not a “conspiracy theory” about Taylor Swift or anyone else. Did “Trump Allies” force Stamos to put that video on YouTube?

Rutenberg and Lee Myers imply Benz influenced a change in my personal reporting, since I didn’t discover “evidence of direct government involvement” in the first installment of the Twitter Files about the Hunter Biden laptop story:

The author of that dispatch, Mr. Taibbi, concluded that Twitter had limited the coverage amid general warnings from the F.B.I. that Russia could leak hacked materials to try to influence the 2020 election. Though he was critical of previous leadership at Twitter, he reported that he saw no evidence of direct government involvement.

In March 2023, Mr. Benz joined the fray. Both Mr. Taibbi and Mr. Benz participated in a live discussion on Twitter, which was co-hosted by Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, an organizer of the Trump rally that preceded the riot on Jan. 6… As Mr. Taibbi described his work, Mr. Benz jumped in: “I believe I have all of the missing pieces of the puzzle.” There was a far broader “scale of censorship the world has never experienced before,” he told Mr. Taibbi, who made plans to follow up.

Nice try. Though I didn’t find “direct evidence” of government involvement in censorship programs in the first Twitter Files piece, we did discover it, on a grand scale, almost immediately after. Subsequent Twitter Files reports reflected this, including “Twitter, the FBI Subsidiary” from December 16th, 2022, and the “Twitter and Other Government Agencies” story published on Christmas Eve of 2022, the day the IRS opened a case on me.

Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and other Twitter Files reporters discovered the key elements of the Twitter Files reports, from the “industry calls” held between the FBI and Internet platforms like Twitter, to the role of Stanford’s Election Integrity Partnership, to the role of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center in sponsoring “anti-disinformation” work, in the first two weeks of research. Our central thesis about state-sponsored censorship was online months before we met Benz. By mid-December 2022, I knew we were looking at a sweeping federal content-control program, and repeated the idea many times. As I wrote on Christmas Eve, 2022:

The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government —from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA… The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF)… Twitter had so much contact with so many agencies that executives lost track.

Nonetheless, the gist of today’s Times piece is that Shellenberger and I got this thesis from Benz. They literally wrote it that way, that when I testified to Congress, I was presenting his thesis:

Later, Mr. Shellenberger said that connecting with Mr. Benz had led to “a big aha moment…”

A week after that online meeting, Mr. Taibbi and Mr. Shellenberger appeared on Capitol Hill as star witnesses for the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Mr. Benz sat behind them, listening as they detailed parts of his central thesis: This was not an imperfect attempt to balance free speech with democratic rights but a state-sponsored thought-policing system.

Michael, Bari, Lee, David Zweig and others involved with the Twitter Files project have been subject to a lot of silly smear jobs in the last year-plus, but this piece of deep state fan fiction in the Times is low even by their standards. It’s clearly intended to re-cast the outing of federal censorship initiatives as Trumpian conspiracy theory before oral arguments begin in Murthy v. Missouri tomorrow.

As the Times notes, this is one of “the most important First Amendment cases of the internet age,” and “could curtail the government’s latitude in monitoring content online.” Originally filed by the Attorneys General of Louisiana and Missouri, the lawsuit “accuses federal officials of colluding with or coercing the platforms to censor content critical of the government.”

The reason the government faces such danger is because two lower courts have already affirmed the core accusation that multiple Executive Branch agencies, including the White House and the FBI, violated the First Amendment when they engaged in mass-flagging programs of the type identified in both the Twitter Files and the original Missouri v. Biden complaint. After these lower court decisions, the Times notes with sadness, “the Biden administration has largely abandoned moves that might be construed as stifling political speech,” facing as it now does the specter of “legal and political blowback.”

The administration faces this blowback because the story about the censorship programs is true. The Times didn’t bother trying to argue we got anything wrong. It just said we knew Benz, showed a picture of him sitting behind Shellenberger as he testified, then said things like “More recently, Mr. Benz originated the false assertion that Taylor Swift was a ‘psychological operation’ asset for the Pentagon,” as if that had something to do with us. It’s Six Degrees of Misinformation.

Rutenberg two election cycles ago authored the seminal article on “oppositional” journalism in the Trump age. “Trump is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism” came out in summer of 2016, and was hugely influential. It said Trump was such a threat that the job going forward could no longer just be about reporting facts, but reporting facts that will “stand up to history’s judgment.”

Now he’s arguing the exposure of censorship programs is “paralyzing” official efforts to police social media, the medium that was “central to [Trump’s] political success.” Apparently misleading the public about my reporting is the new version of staying on the right side of “history’s judgment.” Let’s hope the Supreme Court doesn’t get distracted by these hysterics. Is there any doubt that’s what this story is designed to accomplish?

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Kinmen is a handful of small Islands with a total of under 130,000 people under Taiwan’s control. Kinmen is situated more than 150 km away from Taiwan, only 2 km away from mainland China. It only takes a quick view of the map (below) to understand that Kinmen is indefensible for Taiwan. China can with ease can take Kinmen with little or no bloodshed at any time.

Kinmen already earns massively from tourist visitors from China. Kinmen has asked China to build a bridge to increase the number of tourists, and to build a pipe to supply Kinmen with freshwater from the mainland. There have also been talks about making Kinmen a free-trade zone for China. Relations between the people on Kinmen and on mainland China are very fruitful. No reason for Beijing to let Taipei administer Kinmen in the future.

Some months ago, the US stationed troops on Kinmen, ostensibly “non-combat” troops for training the Taiwanese forces.

Taiwan has now officially acknowledged the presence of US troops on Kinmen. In addition to US troops on Kinmen, tensions China-Taiwan are heating up in the waters around Kinmen. It started with an “incident” where mainland fishermen died. Since then, China is stepping up maritime and aerial pressure on Kinmen.

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Russia just wrapped up three days of electoral processes which will define the internal direction of that nation for the next six years and, in doing so, serve as the driving force of global transformation for decades to come. Russia has some 112.3 million registered voters. From March 15 through March 17, a little more than 77% of them came out and cast their vote for who would be their president for the next six years. An overwhelming percentage—over 88%—cast their vote for the incumbent, Vladimir Putin.

Let there be no doubt—there was no question as to what the outcome would be in this election: Vladimir Putin was always going to win reelection.

Let there also be no doubt—the 2024 presidential election in Russia is the most important political event of the post-Cold War era, the byproduct of one of the greatest expressions of democratic will that the world will see in modern times.

The election was far more than a vote of confidence in an individual—Vladimir Putin has been the dominant political force in Russia since the turn of the century, a man who has, through sheer force of will, led Russia out of the dark catastrophe of the 1990’s, positioning Russia as one of the most powerful and influential nations of the modern era.

The election was not a mandate on the war in Ukraine—that issue had been decided in the fall of 2022, when Russia was compelled to mobilize its manpower and military industrial capacity as what had been envisioned as a short military campaign against Ukraine transformed into a larger, longer military struggle against the collective West.

Simply put, the Ukraine conflict was not on the ballot in 2024.

What was on the ballot was the future of Russia.

Vladimir Putin is 71 years old. His victory secures him another six-year term in office. When this term ends, in 2030, Putin will be 77 years old.

Russians are students of history, and they know too well the sad legacy of the period of Soviet stagnation, which began in the mid-1960’s under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev. Brezhnev was 75 years old when he died in office, a mentally and physically feeble man. He was replaced by Yuri Andropov, who died two years later at the age of 69, only to be replaced by Konstantin Chernenko, who died in 1985 at the age of 73.

There is no reason to believe that Vladimir Putin will not maintain his current level of physical health and mental acuity for the remainder of his new term in office. But all men are, in the end, created equal, and the ravages of time weigh heavily on everyone, even someone as exceptional as Vladimir Putin.

For the past quarter of a century, Vladimir Putin has relied upon a core team of advisors and officials to help him lead Russia on its path of recovery. While this team has proven to be very capable, it, too, is subject to the same laws of nature that govern human existence as everyone else—ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

No man can live forever.

Russia, however, is in the minds of the people who constitute the Russian nation, eternal.

Having saved Russia from the deprivations of the 1990’s, when the collective West, led by the United States, conspired to keep Russia down by tearing it apart, Vladimir Putin is cognizant of the lessons of history which saw what happens when a ruling elite holds on to power for too long without any thought as to who will take their place.

Mikhail Gorbachev tried to lead Russia (the Soviet Union) out of the period of Soviet stagnation. He did so in a reactive fashion, without a well-thought-out plan, and the result was the collapse of the Soviet Union and the horrible decade of the 1990’s.

If Vladimir Putin were to approach the next six years as merely a continuation of his impressive tenure in office, he would be leading Russia down a path where it would collide with the harsh mistress that is historical precedent—an aging man, at the head of an aging system of government, with no clear plan on how to proceed when the inevitable appointment with destiny arrives.

In short, should the situation arise where Vladimir Putin feels compelled to seek an additional six-year term as Russia’s president in 2030, then Russia would more than likely find itself in danger of sinking into a new period of stagnation where the gains that have been made over the course of three decades of Putin rule will be squandered, and the potential of a societal collapse on par with the 1990’s a distinct reality.

This is why the important statistic to emerge from the 2024 Russian presidential election is not the 88% of the voters who marked their ballots in support of Vladimir Putin, but instead the 77% of the eligible voters who came out to express their support for the Russian state. Voter participation levels have always been seen as a reflection of the confidence a particular electorate had that the system of government they were sustaining through their vote best reflected the vision they themselves had of the nation they lived in.

By way of comparison, the 2020 presidential election in the United States saw a record-level 66% participation rate by eligible voters.

The 2024 presidential election in Russia beat that mark by 11 percentage points.

This means that the Russian people are confident that the 71-year-old Vladimir Putin will not be leading them down a path of historical inevitability where they are destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. Rather, the Russian people, confident in where Vladimir Putin has taken them to date, believe that he is the man who will best position Russia to be able to sustain these gains, and continue to prosper, in an eventual post-Putin Russia.

The 2024 Russian presidential election was a not a vote to maintain the status quo.

It was a vote for change.

The man that will oversee this change is Vladimir Putin.

Post-election rally in Red Square following Vladimir Putin’s victory in the 2024 presidential election

 

In the coming months, one can expect to see the beginning of a changing of the guard. The Russian leaders who helped Putin get Russia to where it is today will be set aside, to be replaced by a younger generation of Russian leaders who will, under the guidance and leadership of Vladmir Putin, prepare Russia for whatever challenges that await it once Vladimir Putin is no longer president.

How this change will manifest itself—perhaps a transition from a Moscow-centric political elite to one derived from the various regions of Russia—is as yet unknown. But there will be change, because there must be change.

And this change was on the ballot.

The West derided the 2024 Russian presidential election as a sham.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The 2024 Russian presidential election was the manifestation of a thriving democracy, but a democracy defined by Russians.

The West focuses on the 88% of the Russians who voted for Vladimir Putin and derides the result as little more than a foregone conclusion in a system that offered the people only one real choice.

Russian democracy, however, is defined by the 77% level of electoral participation, and reflects the confidence of the people in the Russian state’s ability to take them from the strong position that Vladimir Putin has brought them and sustain this strength in a post-Putin era.

It was not a vote defined by recertifying the past, but rather a vote which empowered the government to undertake the critical changes needed for the future of the Russian nation.

It was the perfect expression of democracy, Russian style.

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France appears increasingly willing to face a large-scale conflict. In a recent speech, a high-ranking French military officer stated that his country is “prepared” for a possible situation of war in Europe, praising the current status of the French armed forces. In practice, this type of statement sounds like irresponsible propaganda and provocation amid the current context of tensions, as France seems on the verge of directly engaging in hostilities in Ukraine.

The information was revealed by the chief of staff of the French Army General Pierre Schill during an interview. At the time, Schill stated that French troops are “ready” to face any scenario of military escalation. According to Schill, “whatever the developments in the international situation, the French can be convinced: their soldiers will respond.”

Schill stated that Paris is committed to major “international responsibilities” within the scope of the treaties to which it is a signatory. These treaties, in the general’s opinion, are severely threatened by current global circumstances, which places France at strong risk of involvement in an armed conflict. Faced with this “threat”, the country “needs to be prepared” – and he believes that such preparation is already sufficiently advanced, believing that the country’s troops are able to defend French interests at any time.

Schill believes that a mere nuclear deterrent capacity is not enough to guarantee French interests. For him, this type of military power does not guarantee French victory in smaller-scale conflicts, where the use of these weapons is unlikely. So, rather than simply investing in nuclear development, Schill believes that the French focus must be on increasing inter-operational capacity with allied countries.

At first, Schill’s words could be interpreted as a mere act of propaganda to praise his country’s military capacity. However, the current moment makes it clear that the general’s intentions are much more than mere propaganda. In practice, Schill is endorsing the war plans previously suggested by French President Emmanul Macron, whose rhetoric on Ukraine has become more and more aggressive.

Macron has refused to rule out sending French troops to Ukraine. He also stated that the Russian defeat is vital for France, which is why every effort should be made to ensure a “Ukrainian victory”. With the failure of the policy of sending weapons and money, the discussion about directly sending troops has grown – and Macron has acted ambiguously, suggesting support for the project, while publicly denying that there are plans for such a deployment in the near future.

In parallel, Russian intelligence announced that it had obtained data proving that Paris is already keeping at least two thousand soldiers ready to be sent to Ukraine. It is believed that these troops are being prepared to work in specific areas in which the West wants to avoid Russian advances at any cost – such as Odessa. As expected, Macron’s team denied the existence of such a plan, but the aggressive speeches towards Russia did not change, therefore keeping tensions between both countries in a very critical situation.

Obviously, sending Western troops to the Ukrainian battlefield would practically be a declaration of war on the Russian Federation. French soldiers and equipment on Ukrainian soil would be legitimate targets and Moscow would certainly attack them with priority. In other words, to ensure its selfish interests of “leading Europe”, Paris is deliberately escalating rivalries with Russia to a dangerous level that could lead to nuclear war.

However, it is necessary to be skeptical of Schill’s propaganda. It is unlikely that France is truly prepared for any prolonged conflict situation on European soil. No European country is currently in a sufficiently strong military preparedness to face an all-out war with Russia, since Moscow’s military superiority is a fact widely recognized among experts.

It is very possible that Schill’s words are just meaningless rhetoric, intended to intimidate Russia and boost French morale. This may be said as a bluff intended to induce Russia into violent reactions in order to justify France’s militarization. Finally, given Russian patience and the European people’s objection to supporting the war, it is necessary for Western warmongers to create constant “psyops” and “false flags” that legitimize military action. So, perhaps the objective is simply to induce Moscow to act reactively – which is not likely to happen, considering the Russians’ history of caution and diplomacy.

However, the French must be careful not to be deceived by their own narratives. Given the high level of bellicosity in the country, Paris’ decision-makers are likely to begin to believe not only that such a “Russian threat” is real, but also that France is actually “ready for war” – which would enable them to launch measures that would lead continental security to ruin.

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“If the state could use [criminal] laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of our First Amendment liberties, and little would separate us from the tyrannies of the past or the malignant fiefdoms of our own age. The freedom to speak without risking arrest is ‘one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation.’”—Justice Neil Gorsuch, dissenting, Nieves v. Bartlett (2019)

Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power.

Cue the rise of protest laws, which take the government’s intolerance for free speech to a whole new level and send the resounding message that resistance is futile.

In fact, ever since the Capitol protests on Jan. 6, 2021, state legislatures have introduced a broad array of these laws aimed at criminalizing protest activities.

There have been at least 205 proposed laws in 45 states aimed at curtailing the right to peacefully assemble and protest by expanding the definition of rioting, heightening penalties for existing offenses, or creating new crimes associated with assembly.

Weaponized by police, prosecutors, courts and legislatures, these protest laws, along with free speech zones, bubble zones, trespass zones, anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws, and a host of other legalistic maladies have become a convenient means by which to punish individuals who refuse to be muzzled.

In Florida, for instance, legislators passed a “no-go” zone law making it punishable by up to 60 days in jail to remain within 25 feet of working police and other first responders after a warning.

Yet while the growing numbers of protest laws cropping up across the country are sold to the public as necessary to protect private property, public roads or national security, they are a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a thinly disguised plot to discourage anyone from challenging government authority at the expense of our First Amendment rights.

It doesn’t matter what the source of that discontent might be (police brutality, election outcomes, COVID-19 mandates, the environment, etc.): protest laws, free speech zones, no-go zones, bubble zones, trespass zones, anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws, etc., aim to muzzle every last one of us.

To be very clear, these legislative attempts to redefine and criminalize speech are a backdoor attempt to rewrite the Constitution and render the First Amendment’s robust safeguards null and void.

No matter how you package these laws, no matter how well-meaning they may sound, no matter how much you may disagree with the protesters or sympathize with the objects of the protest, these proposed laws are aimed at one thing only: discouraging dissent.

This is the painful lesson being imparted with every incident in which someone gets arrested and charged with any of the growing number of contempt charges (ranging from resisting arrest and interference to disorderly conduct, obstruction, and failure to obey a police order) that get trotted out anytime a citizen voices discontent with the government or challenges or even questions the authority of the powers-that-be.

These assaults on free speech are nothing new.

As Human Rights Watch points out, “Various states have long-tried to curtail the right to protest. They do so by legislating wide definitions of what constitutes an ‘unlawful assembly’ or a ‘riot’ as well as increasing punishments. They also allow police to use catch-all public offenses, such as trespassing, obstructing traffic, or disrupting the peace, as a pretext for ordering dispersals, using force, and making arrests. Finally, they make it easier for corporations and others to bring lawsuits against protest organizers.”

Journalists have come under particular fire for exercising their right to freedom of the press.

According to U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, the criminalization of routine journalism has become a means by which the government chills lawful First Amendment activity.

Journalists have been arrested or faced dubious charges for “publishing,” asking too many questions of public officials, being “rude” for reporting during a press conference, and being in the vicinity of public protests and demonstrations.

For instance, Steve Baker, a reporter for Blaze News, was charged with four misdemeanors, including trespassing and disorderly conduct charges, related to his sympathetic coverage of the Jan. 6 riots. Dan Heyman, a reporter for the Public News Service, was arrested for “aggressively” questioning Tom Price, then secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services during an encounter in the West Virginia State Capitol.

It’s gotten so bad that merely daring to question, challenge or hesitate when a cop issues an order can get you charged with resisting arrest or disorderly conduct.

For example, Deyshia Hargrave, a language arts teacher in Louisiana, was thrown to the ground, handcuffed and arrested for speaking out during a public comment period at a school board meeting.

Fane Lozman was arrested for alluding to government corruption during open comment time at a City Council meeting in Palm Beach County, Fla.

College professor Ersula Ore was slammed to the ground and arrested after she objected to the “disrespectful manner” shown by a campus cop who stopped her in the middle of the street and demanded that she show her ID.

Philadelphia lawyer Rebecca Musarra was arrested for exercising her right to remain silent and refusing to answer questions posed by a police officer during a routine traffic stop. (Note: she cooperated in every other way by providing license and registration, etc.)

Making matters worse, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in Nieves v. Bartlett that protects police from lawsuits by persons arrested on bogus “contempt of cop” charges (ranging from resisting arrest and interference to disorderly conduct, obstruction, and failure to obey a police order) that result from lawful First Amendment activities (filming police, asking a question of police, refusing to speak with police).

These incidents reflect a growing awareness about the state of free speech in America: you may have distinct, protected rights on paper, but dare to exercise those rights, and you risk fines, arrests, injuries and even death.

Unfortunately, we have been circling this particular drain hole for some time now.

More than 50 years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas took issue with the idea that merely speaking to a government representative (a right enshrined in the First Amendment) could be perceived as unlawfully inconveniencing and annoying the police.

In a passionate defense of free speech, Douglas declared:

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. The situation might have indicated that Colten’s techniques were ill-suited to the mission he was on, that diplomacy would have been more effective. But at the constitutional level speech need not be a sedative; it can be disruptive.

It’s a power-packed paragraph full of important truths that the powers-that-be would prefer we quickly forget: We the people are the sovereigns. We have the final word. We can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy. We need not stay docile and quiet. Our speech can be disruptive. It can invite dispute. It can be provocative and challenging. We do not have to bow submissively to authority or speak with reverence to government officials.

In theory, Douglas was right: “we the people” do have a constitutional right to talk back to the government.

In practice, however, we live in an age in which “we the people” are at the mercy of militarized, weaponized, immunized cops who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.”

As such, those who seek to exercise their First Amendment rights during encounters with the police are increasingly finding that there is no such thing as freedom of speech.

Case in point: Tony Rupp, a lawyer in Buffalo, NY, found himself arrested and charged with violating the city’s noise ordinance after cursing at an SUV bearing down on pedestrians on a busy street at night with its lights off. Because that unmarked car was driven by a police officer, that’s all it took for Rupp to find himself subjected to malicious prosecution, First Amendment retaliation and wrongful arrest.

The case, as Jesse McKinley writes in The New York Times, is part of a growing debate over “how citizens can criticize public officials at a time of widespread reevaluation of the lengths and limits of free speech. That debate has raged everywhere from online forums and college campuses to protests over racial bias in law enforcement and the Israel-Hamas war. Book bans and other acts of government censorship have troubled some First Amendment experts. Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments about a pair of laws — in Florida and Texas — limiting the ability of social media companies such as Facebook to ban certain content from their platforms.”

Bottom line: what the architects of the police state want are submissive, compliant, cooperative, obedient, meek citizens who don’t talk back, don’t challenge government authority, don’t speak out against government misconduct, and don’t resist.

What the First Amendment protects—and a healthy constitutional republic requires—are citizens who routinely exercise their right to speak truth to power.

Yet there can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force.

What is this language of force?

Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal weapons. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. Crowd control tactics. Intimidation tactics. Brutality. Contempt of cop charges.

This is not the language of freedom. This is not even the language of law and order.

Unfortunately, this is how the government at all levels—federal, state and local—now responds to those who choose to exercise their First Amendment right to speak freely.

If we no longer have the right to tell a Census Worker to get off our property, if we no longer have the right to tell a police officer to get a search warrant before they dare to walk through our door, if we no longer have the right to stand in front of the Supreme Court wearing a protest sign or approach an elected representative to share our views, if we no longer have the right to protest unjust laws by voicing our opinions in public or on our clothing or before a legislative body, then we do not have free speech.

What we have instead is regulated, controlled, censored speech, and that’s a whole other ballgame.

Remember, the unspoken freedom enshrined in the First Amendment is the right to challenge government agents, think freely and openly debate issues without being muzzled or treated like a criminal.

Americans are being brainwashed into believing that anyone who wears a government uniform—soldier, police officer, prison guard—must be obeyed without question.

Of course, the Constitution takes a far different position, but does anyone in the government even read, let alone abide by, the Constitution anymore?

The government does not want us to remember that we have rights, let alone attempting to exercise those rights peaceably and lawfully. And it definitely does not want us to engage in First Amendment activities that challenge the government’s power, reveal the government’s corruption, expose the government’s lies, and encourage the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices.

Yet by muzzling the citizenry, by removing the constitutional steam valves that allow people to speak their minds, air their grievances and contribute to a larger dialogue that hopefully results in a more just world, the government is creating a climate in which violence becomes inevitable.

When there is no First Amendment steam valve, then frustration builds, anger grows and people become more volatile and desperate to force a conversation.

As John F. Kennedy warned, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the government is making violent revolution inevitable.

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Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected].

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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The “threat” from China in general, and about TikTok as a particular case, is about reestablishing US hegemony, including US hegemony on information. It is about the US wanting to monopolize a global capability to spread even the most egregious US lies as “free speech” and “democracy” without any obstacles.

In an attack on free global media, the US Congress has just decided that China must divest of TikTok and put TikTok under US ownership. Now.

Why?

And why now? 

The likely answer has comes incidentally from Dr. Masood Raja (from University of North Texas). Dr. Raja explains that he has tried ALL social media’s coverage of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza – and TikTok is the place where you find all about Israel’s genocide and other crimes Gaza covered.

These images [of young Palestinians being paraded around blindfolded] don’t come to us from mainstream US media. These images come to us from citizen-reporters, from people on the ground sharing them on the social media.

Out of all the social media platforms – and I have tested all of them – TikTok has been the only place where you could go for latest reports on what’s going on in Gaza.

In clear language:

The US wants to prohibit TikTok as a media independent of the US political class and deep state. The US wants to censor TikTok from reporting Israel’s genocide by putting TikTok under full US control and censorship – just like all other “free” western media whose narratives are controlled by the US. 

Biden and the Democrats hypocritically wring their hands and claim to “do good”.

But Biden, the Democrats, and US institutions and media are fully involved in Israel’s genocide. They take direct part in planning and execution of Israel’s genocide, and they do so in vicious ways you didn’t imagine.

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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.

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Genocide, Coup d’Etat and Militarization: Palestine and Haiti

By Stephen Sefton, March 20, 2024

The Zionist genocide of the Palestinian people and the political and socio-economic crisis in Haiti both have their origins in their respective episodes of destructive foreign intervention in the first decades of the last century. Of course, the historical background also has some aspects in common.

Israeli Government Starves Palestinians in Gaza

By Bill Astore, March 21, 2024

Dishonest and disingenuous reporting is facilitating genocide in Gaza and a horrendous war in Ukraine that is hollowing out that country. In each case, what we’re supposed to focus on is something else: the crimes of Hamas and the alleged megalomania of Putin.

Inequalities and Concentration of Wealth in the USA Have Wide Implications

By Bharat Dogra, March 21, 2024

It is a very significant aspect of US economy that despite being blessed by an exceptionally rich resource base, despite enjoying certain unique advantages of the dollar being the international reserve currency for a very long time, and despite the country not hesitating to use its unmatched military strength and diplomatic clout to advance and protect its economic, trade and resource interests all over the world, the bottom half of the US population still has problems in meeting its basic needs.

Washington Post Calls on VP Kamala Harris to Step Down

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 21, 2024

No one expects Biden to be able to complete four more years in the White House. The Washington Post Kathleen Parker says that in view of Kamala Harris’s lack of success as VP, voters are discouraged by her likely succession to the presidency.

We Call for the Respect of Haitian Popular Sovereignty and an End to Western Imperialist Intervention

By Organizations of the Zone of Peace Campaign, March 20, 2024

We denounce the ongoing attempts by Western imperialists to force an armed intervention and another illegitimate government on the Haitian people, as well as the collaboration of regional institutions in this intervention.

Is Israel Committing Terrorism in Gaza? You be the Judge. Paul Larudee

By Dr. Paul Larudee, March 20, 2024

In August 2008, Ismail Haniyeh, the elected Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, welcomed me and other members of the Free Gaza Movement to his home in the relatively small al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, not far from the larger Jabalia camp.

How the Democrats Plan to Steal the Election

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., March 19, 2024

Biden and Trump have clinched the nominations of their parties for President. Everybody is gearing up for a battle between them for the election in November. It’s obvious that Biden is “cognitively impaired.” In blunter language, “brain-dead”. Partisans of Trump are gearing up for a decisive victory. But what if this battle is a sham?

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If you’re like me, you subscribe to news services like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and Reuters, which send daily news reports and quick highlights. Given the busy pace of life, most people probably read those headlines and short summaries and little else. The mainstream media is counting on that.

Consider this quick summary I received today from Reuters’ “Daily Briefing”:

ISRAEL AND HAMAS AT WAR

• More than five months into Israel’s ground and air campaign, launched in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, there are widespread shortages of food, medicines and clean water in Gaza, doctors and aid agencies say. Starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms.

Note the framing here. It’s a war between Israel and Hamas, with history beginning on October 7, 2023. Most of all, note how widening famine is described: it’s just happening, apparently due to a war that Hamas started.

You’re not told that the famine is man-made. That the Israeli government is blocking thousands of trucks loaded with food, medicine, and clean water for Gaza. Instead, you’re encouraged to think it’s much like a natural disaster, if not entirely the fault of Hamas, which allegedly started all the trouble on October 7th.

If challenged to write my own summary for Reuters, I’d pen something like this:

Israeli government policies are producing mass famine in Gaza. Israel has already killed or wounded more than 100,000 Palestinians since the October 7th Hamas attacks. An Israeli blockade on most aid to Gaza promises death tolls in the hundreds of thousands over the next few months. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to send weapons to Israel while providing diplomatic cover in the UN, making it complicit in genocide.

We see similar narrative elision with the Russia-Ukraine War, which in the mainstream media is all the fault of Vladimir Putin, who woke up in February 2022 and decided to invade Ukraine because he’s a power-hungry maniac, a new Hitler—or worse. Meanwhile, Putin blew up his own highly profitable Nordstream pipelines, or maybe a rogue element from Ukraine did it. Who can tell, right?

Dishonest and disingenuous reporting is facilitating genocide in Gaza and a horrendous war in Ukraine that is hollowing out that country. In each case, what we’re supposed to focus on is something else: the crimes of Hamas and the alleged megalomania of Putin.

Gaza is especially egregious since a genocide is in progress there, enabled and empowered by massive weapons shipments from the United States to Israel. But I guess there’s nothing we can do to help those starving Palestinian children “as famine looms.” I guess we can construct a temporary pier that will take two or three months to build; I hope the starving children can hold on that long. Whether that pier will facilitate relief efforts or serve mainly as a Trojan horse to evacuate Palestinians from Gaza (ethnic cleansing by the boat load) remains to be seen.

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It is a very significant aspect of US economy that despite being blessed by an exceptionally rich resource base, despite enjoying certain unique advantages of the dollar being the international reserve currency for a very long time, despite having certain other historical advantages and despite the country not hesitating to use its unmatched military strength and diplomatic clout to advance and protect its economic, trade and resource interests all over the world, the bottom half of the US population still has problems in meeting its basic needs.

While several explanations may be advanced, what may be particularly relevant is that the bottom 50% of the population has only 1.5% of the nation’s wealth.

One reflection of this situation is that life expectancy in the USA remains low relative to almost all comparable countries in the ‘developed’ world. Another reflection is that while US has claims of ‘feeding the world’ its own farmers including family farmers and small farmers in particular have faced very high rates of loss and deterioration of livelihood, a working out of the widely voiced but terrible precept of ‘get big or get out’ or ‘go big or go bust’. The very fact that such slogan-mongering can get acceptable hearing is a reflection that economic thinking has been systematically corrupted.       

A study by the Urban Institute (UI) in 2018, before the pandemic struck, found that nearly 40 per cent of non-elderly adults and their families struggled to afford at least one basic need for health care, housing, utilities or food in 2017. Difficulties among the elderly are likely to be even higher. This figure increased further in the post-pandemic years, bringing it closer to the bottom 50% of the population.

It is conventional to speak of inequalities mainly in the context of the share of various segments of population in income and wealth. However in the context of exceptionally high military budget of the USA and its close linkages to excessive profits made by military contractors, particularly some giant arms companies, it makes sense to speak of militarization also being a part of the inequalities which deprive the bottom 50% of the population of access to basic needs. The USA spends close to 900 billion dollars a year on military expenses. This excludes many expenses listed as civilian but having strong military implications and relationships. A huge and increasing share of discretionary federal spending is taken up by military expenses. 

The World Inequality Report 2022 tells us that the bottom 50% of the USA population has only 1.5% of its wealth and only 13% of its income. According to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the USA has the highest inequality in G7 countries— the USA has gini coefficient of 0.434 while for the remaining six countries this ranges between 0.326 (France) and 0.392 (UK). According to an inclusive development index prepared by the World Economic Forum the USA appeared at number 23 in a total of 30 rich countries. According to Stanford University’s State of the Union—The Poverty and Inequality Report (2016) the USA is ranked at the bottom in an index of 10 rich countries. When this index was widened to include some of the less rich countries, the USA appeared at number 18 in a total of 21 countries.

A particularly startling figure brought out by the World Inequality Report 2022 tells us is that in the USA, the share of wealth held by the top 1% ( 35%) is 23 times higher than the share (1.5%) held by the bottom 50%! In 1968 the top 20 per cent of US households accounted for 43% of income but in 2018 they took away 52% of the income, more than the bottom 80% who got a share of only 48%.  

It is this inequality and high military expenditure which is responsible to a significant extent for the deprivation suffered by a very large number of people in the middle of plenty.

The 2018 study of UI was based on a well-being and basic needs survey of non-elderly adults in the age-group 18-64. While 40% struggled to access at least one basic need, within this group 60% struggled to meet two basic needs and 34% struggled to meet three needs.

As many as 23% said that they were food insecure in the last 12 months. 18% struggled to pay medical bills while almost the same number (17.8%) decided to go without some required medical treatment due to costs. Deprivation levels were found to be higher among younger adults, women, households with children, blacks and Hispanics. Those struggling to meet basic needs included several of those who were regarded not as poor but as middle-class.

This data is from a study of 18-64 age group. However in 2020 it was reported that child poverty levels (under 18 age group) have been found to be 1.5 times higher than adult poverty levels.

On the other hand, despite social security payments, a large number of the elderly persons are also unable to meet their basic needs. The Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston has prepared the Elderly Economic Security Standard Index which found that in 2016 a majority of seniors lacked the “financial resources required to meet basic needs”. Conditions in nursing homes have been often found to be precarious.

Despite Obamacare a Gallup poll in December 2019 found 25% of persons contacted saying that they or a member of their family had   delayed treatment for an illness due to cost factors.

The number of homeless persons, estimated to be around 550,000 or so, is set to increase significantly. As the country emerged from the pandemic, in June 2021 nearly 2 million were found to be lagging behind mortgage payments and nearly 6 million were missing out in rent payments. A substantial number of these 8 million households face the threat of eviction, while the average number of cases of evictions filed in a year till 2018 was around 3.7 million. The landlords have legal counsel in over 90% of cases; the tenants rarely have such help. This amounts to about 10,000 eviction notices in a single day, a shocking figure surely, or 416 per hour, or 7 per minute.

A survey by the Guardian and Consumer Reports concluded some time back that as federal funding for ageing water systems has plummeted, millions of homes are being disconnected or placed into foreclosure each year. This survey found alarming levels of forever chemicals, arsenic and lead in samples taken across the USA. 

Clearly the extent of denial of basic needs of people in a country so well-endowed for prosperity in various ways is inexcusable and its leading causes including excessive militarization and inequalities should be challenged and reduced.

There has been increasing concern in recent times regarding the incredible concentration of not just wealth and income but also control and decision making at world level. With unprecedented global linkages and technological changes, the dangers of a handful of persons exercising undue and excessive control have increased rapidly, with very worrying implications for people worldwide.

The top 0.01 per cent of the world’s people have 11 per cent of its wealth. Since the 1990s the top 1 per cent captured 38 per cent of the growth of wealth, while the bottom 50% could capture only 2%. In the top 0.1% section, the per capita wealth of an adult amounts to 14,133,400 euros. According to Forbes listing, there were 2755 billionaires in the world in 2021. Among them the 724 who are in the USA are likely to be closer to the levers of control and power compared to those in other countries, at least as of now. This is not to understate the influence of billionaires in other countries, just two are known to exercise huge power and dominance in a leading country like India.

In the USA according to an organization named Americans for Tax Fairness, during the pandemic the top 10 billionaires increased their wealth at the rate of one billion dollars per day, or 12600 dollars per second. The wealth of this top 10 increased from $600 billion to 1300 billion, or more than doubled, during this period of about 2 years or so.

Several of these richest billionaires, as well as their multinational companies have become highly controversial in the context of their domination of crucial sectors in ways that can adversely impact most people in world. These sectors include health, food and farming, trade, transport, information, finance, banking and other crucial sectors, even outer space! Several of these super-rich, their cronies and employees, have joined in key positions in specially created international platforms with representatives of government, UN and other international organizations to create such influential groups that, for all practical purposes, what they decide spreads quickly to a  large part of the world. 

These billionaires and their cronies also use the platforms of loosely structured organizations to advance imperialist agendas of control and profit, covered up suitably, which cannot be stated directly or officially by certain governments or even by corporate entities. In this context some recent data from the USA regarding the extent of control exercised by a few companies is revealing.

On February 17 2022 Senator Bernie Sanders, Chairman of the State Budget Committee USA, made a statement before the Committee which is very significant in terms of exposure of the extent of wealth and concentration among top investment companies and the control exercised by them over the economy and the lives of poor people. These comments were delivered at a hearing ‘Warrior Met and Wall Street Greed: What Corporate Raiders are doing to Workers and Consumers’.

Sanders started by saying,

”Today, we are going to discuss an issue that is almost never talked about in Congress and the corporate media–the incredible concentration of ownership and power that a handful of Wall Street investment firms have over our entire economy, and the enormous impact they have on workers, consumers, and virtually every person in our country. Today, in America, just three Wall Street firms – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – manage $22 trillion in assets.”

To put this figure in perspective, he added,

”the amount of money these three firms control is nearly equal to the entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States and more than five times the GDP of Germany. These three firms are major shareholders in more than 96 percent of S&P 500 companies. In other words, they have significant influence over many hundreds of companies that employ millions of American workers and, in fact, the entire economy.”

Sanders went on to highlight the extent of their control in some important sectors:

• Banking- These three Wall Street investment firms are the largest shareholders of some of the biggest banks in America – JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citibank.
• Transport- They are among the top owners of all four major airlines – American, Southwest, Delta and United.
• Healthcare- Together, they own an average of 20 percent of the major drug companies.

More generally, Wall Street firms have bought up thousands of nursing homes where profits and mortality rates have soared. They are also responsible for the astronomical prices at emergency rooms, increasing prices by over 60 percent and driving over half a million Americans into bankruptcy each year.

Sanders stated

These three companies control nearly one-fourth of votes at shareholder meetings, leveraging their power to influence CEO compensation, stock buybacks, environmental commitments, mergers, and pension benefits. In addition to the Big Three, a small handful of Wall Street vulture funds – so-called “private equity” firms – also have an enormous control over industry after industry after industry.

This control impacts people in terms of growing unemployment and reduced incomes. Over the past two decades, private equity takeovers have slashed nearly 1.3 million jobs and shut down nearly 20,000 stores in the retail industry – including Toys R Us, Payless, and Dollar General.

At a time of increasing homelessness and eviction threats, these companies have been increasing their control and profits in the housing sector too. Last year, a small number of Wall Street firms and other extremely wealthy investors bought about one out of every 7 homes in some of the largest cities in America and now own over a million apartments, hiking rents by as much as 30 percent and neglecting needed repairs and the safety of tenants.

A small number of Wall Street firms control half of the newspapers in America, thereby exercising a big influence on media.

Sanders indicted a “handful of Wall Street firms that buy up companies, load them up with debt and make a huge amount of money by laying off workers, slashing wages, shipping jobs overseas and eliminating healthcare and pension benefits.”

According to recent studies, Sanders pointed out, after these Wall Street firms takeover companies as a result of a “leveraged buyout,” jobs are slashed by 13 percent, wages fall by 6 percent and the companies that Wall Street firms takeover are 10 times more likely to declare bankruptcy.

In the case of Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama where workers were then engaged in a strike for 11 months fighting for economic justice and dignity on the job, in 2016 a group of private equity funds led by Apollo and Blackstone acquired Walter Energy and formed Warrior Met Coal. As part of the restructuring, workers were forced to take a $6 per hour wage cut—over 20 percent—and massive cuts to their health and retirement benefits. This was just one of several cases. At a moment of unprecedented corporate greed in this country, attacks against working people are taking place in company after company, in industry after industry. 

Sanders concluded with some memorable words,

”Never before in American history have so few owned so much and had so much power over our entire economy.”

These observations of Bernie Sanders are very important for understanding the ongoing phase of the political economy of the biggest economy and biggest military power of the country, and should be widely discussed. At a wider level, the concentration of wealth and power as well as its extremely harmful, wide-ranging impacts should get much more attention worldwide.

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As readers know, I have wondered how the ruling elite are going to get their puppet Biden reelected.

His own Justice Department cleared him of charges the Justice Department is pressing against Trump for having national security documents in his unauthorized possession by ruling that President Biden is too mentally incompetent to stand trial.

No one expects Biden to be able to complete four more years in the White House. The Washington Post Kathleen Parker says that in view of Kamala Harris’s lack of success as VP, voters are discouraged by her likely succession to the presidency.

Parker says that for Biden to win, he has to have a VP voters can have confidence in as President.

Parker describes the ruling elite’s view:

“The Kamala conundrum comes down to this: She was picked because she was Black and female, a combo tantamount to job security. Now that she has become a burden to the Democratic ticket, Biden can’t fire her. He can’t risk alienating his base. Full stop. The seriousness of this situation can’t be overstated. Biden’s diminishing faculties, notwithstanding his relatively successful State of the Union address, and his increasing physical frailty are concerning.

“Every honest person knows he’s not in top form. A recent New York Times poll found that 73 percent of registered voters believe Biden is too old to be the nation’s top executive. This includes 61 percent of those who voted for him in 2020.

“Her performance as second in command has been disappointing, to say the least. Americans have taken note. Though Democrats unsurprisingly like her more than Republicans do, a recent analysis by FiveThirtyEight set her average overall approval rating at just 37.2 percent, among the lowest recorded for a vice president.

“Harris could provide her own reasons for moving on. Perhaps she and Biden could a cut a deal for her to become the next attorney general — if he’s reelected. Biden then could tap someone else with executive experience who could reassure voters that the next vice president would be ready to take the reins should events require it. Democrats and Republicans alike would be relieved.” (Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post, March 15, 2024; If you encounter a pay wall, you can read it here.)

In the scenario I described, the ruling elite has Biden resign. Kamala becomes President, appoints Hillary VP, and resigns with the promise of a cabinet appointment, such as attorney general.

Hilary becomes president prior to the election, and the expectation that she would run a closer vote count, thanks to the stupidity of so many American women, makes it easier for the Democrats to steal the third national election in a row. Lew Rockwell has pointed out that the Democrats have many more ways of stealing the election.

Judging by WaPo  Kathleen Parker, the Biden/Kamala ticket is too disfavored to permit a close enough election for a convincing theft. In order to continue the Democrat Party’s destruction of the United States, the Democrat presidential ticket has to have more credibility.

Obviously, the ruling elite agrees with my original analysis and is using the Washington Post to produce a more credible Democrat ticket.

If Kamala can be moved out, in goes Hillary. Then the agitation begins for Biden to step aside. With Hillary in the Oval Office prior to the election, the border conflict with Texas can be heated up, a national emergency declared, and the election suspended. The CIA can concoct another “Steele Dossier” and Trump can be blamed for the “Texas insurrection.”

If all fails and Trump wins, he will be assassinated before he can take office. See this.

It is not easy to see anything but a violent revolution by an awakened and determined people to save Americans from tyranny.

But where are these people?

How can they organize without all being arrested by the FBI as insurrectionists?

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A França parece cada vez mais disposta a enfrentar um conflito em grande escala. Num discurso recente, um alto oficial militar francês afirmou que o seu país está “preparado” para uma possível situação de guerra na Europa, elogiando o estado atual das forças armadas francesas. Na prática, este tipo de declaração soa como propaganda e provocação irresponsável no atual contexto, já que a França parece prestes a envolver-se diretamente nas hostilidades na Ucrânia.

A informação foi revelada pelo chefe do Estado-Maior do Exército francês, general Pierre Schill, durante entrevista. Na ocasião, Schill afirmou que as tropas francesas estão “prontas” para enfrentar qualquer cenário de escalada militar. Segundo Schill, “quaisquer que sejam os desenvolvimentos na situação internacional, os franceses podem estar convencidos de que os seus soldados responderão”.

Schill afirmou que Paris está comprometida com grandes “responsabilidades internacionais” no âmbito dos tratados dos quais é signatária. Estes tratados, na opinião do general, estão gravemente ameaçados pelas atuais circunstâncias globais, que colocam a França em forte risco de envolvimento num conflito armado. Perante esta “ameaça”, o país “precisa estar preparado” – e considera que tal preparação já está suficientemente avançada, acreditando que as tropas do país têm condições de defender os interesses franceses a qualquer momento.

Schill acredita que uma mera capacidade de dissuasão nuclear não é suficiente para garantir os interesses franceses. Para ele, este tipo de poder militar não garante a vitória francesa em conflitos de menor escala, onde o uso destas armas é improvável. Assim, em vez de simplesmente investir no desenvolvimento nuclear, Schill acredita que o foco francês deve ser o aumento da capacidade interoperacional com os países aliados.

A princípio, as palavras de Schill poderiam ser interpretadas como um mero ato de propaganda para elogiar a capacidade militar do seu país. Porém, o momento atual deixa claro que as intenções do general são muito mais do que mera propaganda. Na prática, Schill apoia os planos de guerra anteriormente sugeridos pelo Presidente francês Emmanul Macron, cuja retórica sobre a Ucrânia se tornou cada vez mais agressiva.

Macron recusou-se a descartar o envio de tropas francesas para a Ucrânia. Afirmou também que a derrota russa é vital para a França, razão pela qual todos os esforços devem ser feitos para garantir uma “vitória ucraniana”. Com o fracasso da política de envio de armas e dinheiro, a discussão sobre o envio direto de tropas cresceu – e Macron agiu de forma ambígua, sugerindo apoio ao projeto, ao mesmo tempo que nega publicamente que existam planos para tal envio num futuro próximo.

Paralelamente, a inteligência russa anunciou que obteve dados que comprovam que Paris já mantém pelo menos dois mil soldados prontos para serem enviados para a Ucrânia. Acredita-se que estas tropas estejam a ser preparadas para trabalhar em áreas específicas nas quais o Ocidente quer evitar a qualquer custo os avanços russos – como Odessa. Como esperado, a equipa de Macron negou a existência de tal plano, mas os discursos agressivos em relação à Rússia não mudaram, mantendo assim as tensões entre os dois países numa situação muito crítica.

Obviamente, enviar tropas ocidentais para o campo de batalha ucraniano seria praticamente uma declaração de guerra à Federação Russa. Os soldados e equipamentos franceses em solo ucraniano seriam alvos legítimos e Moscou certamente os atacaria com prioridade. Por outras palavras, para garantir os seus interesses egoístas de “liderar a Europa”, Paris está deliberadamente a escalar as rivalidades com a Rússia para um nível perigoso que poderá levar à guerra nuclear.

Contudo, é necessário ser cético em relação à propaganda de Schill. É pouco provável que a França esteja verdadeiramente preparada para qualquer situação de conflito prolongado em solo europeu. Nenhum país europeu está atualmente suficientemente preparado militarmente para enfrentar uma guerra total com a Rússia, uma vez que a superioridade militar de Moscou é um facto amplamente reconhecido entre os especialistas.

É muito possível que as palavras de Schill sejam apenas retórica sem sentido, destinada a intimidar a Rússia e a elevar o moral francês. Isto pode ser dito como um bluff destinado a induzir a Rússia a reações violentas, a fim de justificar a militarização da França. Finalmente, dada a paciência russa e a objecção do povo europeu em apoiar a guerra, é necessário que os fomentadores da guerra ocidentais criem constantes “operações psicológicas” e “bandeiras falsas” que legitimam a acção militar. Assim, talvez o objetivo seja simplesmente induzir Moscou a agir de forma reactiva – o que é improvável que aconteça, considerando o histórico de cautela e diplomacia dos russos.

Contudo, os franceses devem ter cuidado para não se deixarem enganar pelas suas próprias narrativas. Dado o elevado nível de belicosidade no país, é provável que os tomadores de decisões de Paris comecem a acreditar não só que tal “ameaça russa” é real, mas também que a França está realmente “pronta para a guerra” – o que lhes permitiria lançar medidas que levariam à ruína a segurança continental.

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Artigo em inglês : France escalates tensions in Europe, InfoBrics, 19 de Março de 2024.

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As políticas de mobilização de Vladimir Zelensky estão a levar à extinção algumas aldeias e pequenas cidades ucranianas. Devido ao recrutamento forçado e à elevada letalidade no campo de batalha, praticamente não restam homens em algumas regiões rurais da Ucrânia. Além de não trazer qualquer benefício estratégico real para Kiev na linha da frente, a política de Zelensky ameaça gravemente o futuro do país, pois causa danos à demografia ucraniana.

Em 16 de março, o Washington Post publicou um artigo sobre a situação demográfica na aldeia de Makov, localizada na região de Khmelnitsky, no oeste da Ucrânia. Diz-se que naquele local quase todos os homens adultos morreram, desapareceram ou ficaram feridos durante as hostilidades. Os poucos homens restantes estão agora a ser recrutados à força por oficiais ucranianos e terão certamente o mesmo destino que os outros.

Os esforços de mobilização na Ucrânia estão a revelar-se um pesadelo para os habitantes das pequenas aldeias. Há sentimentos de pânico entre os moradores de regiões rurais ou semi urbanas, que são frequentemente invadidas por militares em busca de novos recrutas. Para resistir à pressão de alistamento, os civis locais estão agora a criar alguns métodos de evasão, utilizando grupos de Telegram para notificar os cidadãos quando os militares estão a entrar na cidade. No entanto, a brutalidade dos militares ucranianos impede a segurança dos cidadãos – com os soldados invadindo constantemente casas e propriedades privadas em busca de nova “bucha de canhão” para as forças do regime.

Mais do que isso, há também algum ressentimento entre os locais, que afirmam que as suas regiões são as mais atacadas pelos recrutadores. Eles acreditam que em cidades como Kiev há menos risco de mobilização, com os residentes locais conseguindo esconder-se das autoridades com mais frequência do que em cidades mais remotas. Algumas pessoas em Khmelnitsky acreditam que esta situação se deve ao desejo por parte dos recrutadores de poupar a vida dos habitantes das grandes cidades, priorizando o alistamento de pessoas do meio rural.

“Os civis daqui dizem que isso significa que os recrutadores militares estão a agarrar todos os que podem. No Ocidente, o esforço de mobilização semeou constantemente o pânico e o ressentimento em pequenas cidades e aldeias agrícolas como Makiv, onde os residentes dizem que os soldados que trabalham para escritórios de alistamento militar vagam pelas ruas quase vazias. procurando por quaisquer homens restantes. Essas táticas levaram alguns a acreditar que seus homens estão sendo alvos desproporcionais em comparação com outras regiões ou cidades maiores como Kiev, onde é mais fácil se esconder. Os moradores locais usam canais do Telegram para alertar sobre avistamentos de soldados e compartilhar vídeos de tropas forçando homens a entrar em seus veículos – alimentando rumores de sequestros. Alguns homens estão agora cumprindo pena na prisão por se recusarem a se alistarem”, diz o artigo.

O fato mais chocante é que nem mesmo as pessoas com graves problemas de saúde são poupadas do front pelos recrutadores. Os moradores locais relataram à mídia vários casos de civis doentes sendo levados à força para a guerra por oficiais. Tais medidas já haviam sido denunciadas anteriormente por outras fontes, mas há vídeos circulando na internet que mostram soldados ucranianos com síndrome de Down sendo intimidados por outros combatentes em uma trincheira.

“’As pessoas estão sendo apanhadas como cachorros na rua’, disse Olha Kametyuk, 35 anos, cujo marido, Valentin, 36 anos, foi convocado em junho por soldados que o abordaram e pediram seus documentos depois que ele parou para tomar um café na estrada principal do lado de fora. Makiv. Apesar do diagnóstico de osteocondrose, um distúrbio articular, ele passou no exame médico em 10 minutos, disse ela, e foi enviado para o front, onde foi ferido”, acrescenta o artigo.

Na verdade, as políticas de Kiev já estão a ser suficientemente prejudiciais para causar um grande impacto populacional no país. Combinando os combates intensos com a migração em massa, o número de homens adultos na Ucrânia está a diminuir rapidamente, o que impede uma política de mobilização regular. A crescente procura de novos soldados está a tornar-se um problema difícil no país, uma vez que simplesmente não há mais homens para recrutar.

Ao procurar novos soldados em aldeias remotas, e nem sequer poupar pessoas com doenças graves, o regime de Kiev mostra a sua verdadeira natureza autoritária e terrorista. Em busca de novos soldados para trabalhar como bucha de canhão na frente, os oficiais ucranianos vão simplesmente ao ponto de extinguir aldeias inteiras, o que mostra quão desastrosas são as políticas de Zelensky do ponto de vista humanitário.

Na verdade, estes problemas só serão resolvidos com o fim da ditadura neonazista em Kiev. Os militares ucranianos precisam de admitir a sua evidente derrota, parar de perseguir o seu próprio povo e começar a trabalhar para pressionar o governo local a adotar a diplomacia e as conversações de paz em vez do confronto e da guerra prolongada.

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Artigo em inglês : Kiev regime extinguishing Ukrainian villages due to its policies of total mobilization, InfoBrics, 19 de Marco de 2024.

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We denounce the ongoing attempts by Western imperialists to force an armed intervention and another illegitimate government on the Haitian people, as well as the collaboration of regional institutions in this intervention.

After months of the U.S., Core Group, and other imperialist collaborators working to execute an armed intervention into Haiti that they are now calling a “Multinational Security Service,” ex-de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned from his illegitimately-held position. Those countries calling for military intervention – the U.S., France, Canada – have created the conditions making military intervention appear necessary and inevitable. Now, this same imperialist cabal wants to appoint a favorable “transitional government,” without input from the Haitian people.

As organizations of the Zone of Peace Campaign, we also denounce the role of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) working in collaboration with Western imperialists to deny the Haitian people their national sovereignty and collective self-determination. CARICOM has continued to betray the people of Haiti – in their support of western intervention, through select states’ choice to send troops to Haiti, and by including western imperialists in “negotiations” to which popular Haitian movements and organizations were not invited. CARICOM must reverse its position to one that opposes armed intervention into Haiti, and supports the efforts of the Haitian people to assert their sovereignty and reclaim their country.

We also remind all peoples and organizations of our hemisphere about the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States’ (CELAC) 2014 declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a ‘Zone of Peace.’ We recognize the recent CELAC statement by President Pro-Tempore Xiomara Castro, who declared that any “military action that violates the Principle of Non-Intervention and the Respect of Popular Self-Determination” in Haiti must be rejected, and we urge the CELAC “Troika” of Honduras, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, and Colombia to stand firm against imperialist aggression and intervention. It is clear that guaranteeing a true Zone of Peace in Our Americas requires a rejection of imperialist intervention in Haiti and all of our nations. This also requires a recognition of the human dignity of the people of Haiti and refusal to succumb to sensationalist western media and politicians that dehumanize Haitians and disregard the longstanding, organized popular mobilizations against imperialist aggression.

In addition to rejecting imperialist interventions and militarism, the call for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas means prioritizing People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs) in the Americas by observing the principles of national sovereignty, equal rights and self-determination of peoples. These are principles that must be defended through popular struggle. We, thus, support the statement of our comrades in MOLEGHAF, calling for organization and unity of revolutionary forces in Haiti against imperialist machinations.

Finally, we recognize and appreciate the forceful words of solidarity by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during and after the most recent CELAC meeting, which recognized that the current crisis is the result of western intervention and imperialist violence. President Maduro also called for “comprehensive economic and social support” and solidarity, instead of an intervention that will only cause more bloodshed.

As organizations of the Zone of Peace Campaign, we recently gathered in Bogota, Colombia, and agreed on the urgent need to support the people of Haiti and their popular mobilizations against ongoing imperialist violence. We call on all progressive, radical, and revolutionary movements and organizations across the Americas to support the Haitian people’s popular sovereignty and self-determination, to reject the “Multinational Security Support” mission, and to struggle for a peoples-centered Zone of Peace in Haiti and in all of Our Americas.

Hands Off Haiti!

Signed,
Organizations of the Zone of Peace Campaign

Black Alliance for Peace
Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration
Caribbean Organisation for People’s Empowerment
Consejo por la Emancipación Plurinacional de Perú
Diaspora Pa’lante Collective
Friends of the ATC (Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo)
Movimiento Evita
Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition
Observatorio de los Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos
Proceso de Comunidades Negras – PCN
Red de Organizaciones AfroVenezolanas
Soli Puerto Rico
World Beyond War

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In August 2008, Ismail Haniyeh, the elected Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, welcomed me and other members of the Free Gaza Movement to his home in the relatively small al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, not far from the larger Jabalia camp. We had just arrived on the first boats to enter Gaza by sea in 41 years, breaking the Israeli siege, and all of Gaza was celebrating. The home was very simple, not different from most others in the camp, and the Prime Minister was proud to show it to us.

This was the beginning of my education about Hamas, although I had previously been in touch with Dr. Bassem Naim, who was Minister of Health at the time, to coordinate our arrival. Dr. Naim was not the only MD in the Hamas cabinet. Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, who was Foreign Minister at the time, also welcomed some of us into his house, as well.

My view of Hamas is that they are a national liberation organization, which, like most such organizations, is depicted as terrorists by their oppressors, occupiers and enemies, in this case including Israel, the US and other Western allies of Israel. We, who pride ourselves on hearing both sides of an issue, have never sought the Hamas point of view, much less to the same degree as the Israeli side.

I really don’t like the term terrorist any more than I do savage or barbarian, which have been used historically for much the same purpose. It is a pejorative term, almost a racist one, that paints in black and white. Every government and every resistance organization uses weapons, which means that they use fear and intimidation to a greater or lesser degree. Isn’t that the definition of terrorism?

Hamas, of course, is blamed for extensive use of terrorism on October 7, 2023. But if you look at the facts and the analyses, especially as reported by the Grayzone, the Intercept and the Electronic Intifada, the exact opposite picture emerges. Not a single rape is verified, and not a single instance of deliberate killing of unarmed civilians, although some may have been killed when they went for their weapons. Most appear to have died as a result of the Israeli “Hannibal Directive” to kill everything in sight, while most of those killed by Hamas were soldiers. Furthermore, those who encountered or were taken captive by the Palestinian fighters often said that they were treated with respect and dignity. This is because the resistance forces are highly disciplined and devout Muslims who respect the teachings of Islam with respect to the rules of war, which are roughly the same as those of the Geneva Conventions, if not more stringent.

I am not prepared to say that Hamas has never committed an act that could be called terrorism. The suicide bombings of the Second Intifada come to mind. But they have also used nonviolent resistance on a massive scale, in the Great March of Return, during which more than 9,000 unarmed Palestinian civilians were shot by Israeli soldiers, and 223 killed. Sadly, the world looked the other way.

On the other hand, yesterday saw the following act that would meet most definitions of terrorism (caution: hard to watch):

Click here to watch the video.

Israel, true to form, is apparently doing everything possible to have this video removed from social media. But let’s face it: it’s not that exceptional. We’ve seen many such massacres since October 8, 2023, though not always at a girl’s school housing starving refugees in the Jabalia refugee camp, like the one I visited in 2008. It’s what we’ve come to expect as part of the Gaza genocide, despite our efforts to end it.

Is Israel a terrorist state? Apparently they would be proud to say so. Even before its establishment, the Jabotinsky “Iron Wall” doctrine espoused expulsion and lethal force to clear the land of Palestinians and maintain a Jewish supremacist state. Israel has always explicitly relied upon fear and intimidation to achieve that objective. What Israel is doing in Gaza is not fundamentally different from what it did in 1948 except that its weapons today are vastly more destructive.

In 2006, I visited the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh the day after Israel had bombed it into obliteration. It was nothing more than a pile of rubble, still smoking in some places. Israel gave the name of that suburb to the doctrine that has dominated Zionist policy for the past century even if the name is recent. The Dahiyeh Doctrine became synonymous with the use of disproportionate force and the destruction of civilian infrastructure to achieve military ends. Is it terrorism? It’s certainly an explicit policy to commit war crimes. Is Israel committing terrorism in Gaza? You be the judge. Most of us agree that it is genocide. Which is worse?

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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The Zionist genocide of the Palestinian people and the political and socio-economic crisis in Haiti both have their origins in their respective episodes of destructive foreign intervention in the first decades of the last century. Of course, the historical background also has some aspects in common. In the case of Haiti, its successful struggle for independence at the beginning of the 19th century was stifled by the aggressive imperialist extortion of France and the ruthless harassment of the imperial powers in the Caribbean region, until the invasion and occupation of the country by the United States from 1915 to 1934. In the case of Palestine, for four hundred years it was a territory ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the British military occupation at the end of the First World War, which ended the hopes for independence of the population, at that time 90% Arab.

So in their contemporary history, Haiti and Palestine have a common starting point a hundred years ago with their military occupation by Western powers. In Haiti, the Yankee occupation bequeathed the country chronic political instability that ended with the dictatorship of the Duvalier family. In Palestine, the end of the British occupation led to the imposition of a colonial state based on ethnic cleansing and racist Zionist supremacy. In both cases, the Western powers justified their inhumane actions with the usual hypocritical cynicism, claiming that their intention was to promote and defend democracy in the respective regions, the Caribbean in the case of Haiti and West Asia in the case of Palestine.

In fact, naturally, their real intention in both cases was to suppress popular aspirations for sovereign independence, which has always been the policy of the United States and its allies around the world. It is the reason for their endless aggression against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, against Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, against Syria and Yemen, for their ill-conceived war against the Russian Federation and for their constant provocations in preparation for a military aggression against China. While revolutionary governments promote the genuine democratization of their countries’ societies, governments submissive to imperialist demands continue to simulate the hollow electoral democracy of the West. Hollow, because the elections in the countries of North America and Europe offer merely a false appearance of choice between various ideological options.

In truth, Western populations are allowed to decide only which flavor of the union of state power with capitalist corporate power they prefer. Essentially, they get to choose between liberal fascism and conservative fascism. Instead, it is the majority populations of the world that from time to time have the opportunity to vote the wrong way, from the perspective of the West. For example, in 1998 with the election of the Eternal Commander Hugo Chávez Frías in Venezuela, or in 2001 when the population of Haiti voted for Fanmi Lavalas and Jean Bertrand Aristide or in 2006 when the population of Gaza elected Hamas. In all these cases, the United States and its allies did not delay in implementing one or another form of aggressive intervention to achieve a government with policies to their liking.

In the case of Venezuela, with the failed coup attempt of 2002, in Haiti the election of President Aristide was followed by the coup of 2004 and the 2006 election of Hamas signaled the beginning of repeated Israeli massacres of civilians in Gaza and the intensification of the apartheid system against the entire Palestinian population. By contrast, the United States and its allies generally have no problems with elections in countries that follow the model of Western pseudo-democracies. What bother them are processes of true democratization driven by revolutionary governments. The last ten years have given one example after another of how progressive governments, once they arrive in office, have been unable to implement their programs.

Now, in Colombia, President Petro is facing that situation and also President Lula da Silva in Brazil. In Mexico, Andres Manuel López Obrador has advanced to some extent with the so-called fourth transformation of his country and it is expected that his political project may well continue with Claudia Sheinbaun after the presidential election next June. Because, as has been clearly seen in Ecuador, even if a large part of a progressive program is implemented, without continuity to the policies initiated, it is almost impossible to sustain it, or to defend its achievements. Other clear examples of the futility of Western democracy as a system capable of ensuring the democratization of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have been the governments of Pedro Castillo in Peru, Alberto Fernández in Argentina and Gabriel Boric in Chile.

In all these countries the supposedly progressive movements that take office in government face an antagonistic judiciary, a sell-out anti-patriotic political opposition, anti-democratic police and armed forces, a reactionary church sector, a powerful, greedy and corrupt business sectors, all backed up and supported by biased, mendacious mass media. For the US and European ruling elites, these are indeed the essential components of their variety of democracy, precisely because they make true democratization impossible and guarantee the continuity of their neocolonial influence in the majority world. The true face, the essential values of the Western political class and its owners in the corporate elites of their countries, are in plain sight for everyone who observes their support for the terrorists in Syria, for the regime of nazi sumpathizers in Ukraine and the zionist genocide in Palestine.

US troops in Haiti, British troops in Palestine

What all this implies for Palestine and Haiti is constant, systematic misrepresentation of the true political situation in their countries with the aim of justifying, in Palestine, genocide and, in Haiti, armed intervention to impose yet another neocolonial puppet government.. It is very relevant to remember the words of President Comandante Daniel Ortega about Haiti,

“The first Nation that became independent in Our America was Haiti, that long suffering, heroic, martyred People… and it was Haiti, incredible as it may seem, the Haitian people who gave weapons and gave solidarity, gave support to the Great Liberator Simón Bolívar, so that he would continue the battle for the freedom of Our America. Notice what different attitudes, the Haitians with a solidarity attitude seeking their Freedom, on the other hand the Great Powers and the wealthy, looking for gold and looking for slaves so as to exploit the land better, and simply exterminating anyone who did not submit.”

Little has changed after two centuries. In the same way that the Yankees deployed their psychological warfare in Nicaragua against the struggle of our General of Free Men and Women, slandering Sandino, calling him a mere bandit, in the same way they despised the struggle of Haitian patriot Charlemagne Peralte against the Yankee occupation of Haiti. They murdered Charlemagne Peralte by means of a treacherous trap, just as they murdered Sandino. Now the various Haitian patriotic forces, including paramilitary armed groups that used to fight each other, have organized to confront both the corrupt security forces at the service of the Haitian elite and the neocolonial impositions of the United States and its allies. The armed struggle in Haiti has managed to force the resignation of the usurper Ariel Henry, imposed by foreign powers.

But the psychological warfare of the media, international NGOs and the relevant United Nations bodies involved does not recognize the revolutionary struggle of the great masses of the country. They focus on the difficult and complex situation in the capital Port-au-Prince, but ignore the large mobilizations that have taken place recently in practically all regions of the country, for example in Saint Marc, Gonaïves, Petit-Goâve, in Cap-Haïtien and Fort-Liberté and Ouanaminthe, in Hinche and in Jeremi. At a regional level, the President of Honduras who holds the pro tempore presidency of CELAC, Xiomara Castro, has had the dignity and independence to recognize reality, when she stated recently,

“The current crisis demands a solution led by Haiti that encompasses a broad dialogue between civil society and political actors… under no pretext should we allow military action that violates the Principle of Non-Intervention and Respect for the Self-Determination of Peoples.”

This declaration implicitly recognizes the failure of the previous armed occupation missions and repeated rigged elections organized through the United Nations as a tool of the Western powers. In Haiti, instead of defending the fundamental rights of its people, the UN has acted in the service of the United States and its allies in an unfair and false way, to the detriment of the integrity and coherence of the country’s national political and socio-economic life. In the case of Palestine, the role of the United Nations has been to normalize the illegal Israeli occupation and facilitate a policy of colonial occupation in order to destroy the possibility of national sovereignty for the Palestinian people in an even more extreme way than in the case of Haiti.

The mobilization of the majority Arab population in Palestine to demand their right to independence has been constant for more than a hundred years. The Arab insurrection between 1936 and 1939 was suppressed by more than 40,000 British soldiers along with more than 30,000 police and Jewish militiamen. So when the UN ratified the creation of Israel in 1948, it was the beginning of its role as a tool of the alliance between the Western powers and zionist forces to subjugate and destroy the Palestinian people. The same pattern is seen now, when the United States and its allies are actively arming, supplying and supporting Israel in response to the Palestinian insurrection of October 7th last year.

As in Haiti, the United States and its allies are mounting activities to cover up their crimes. The ignominious theater of dropping totally inadequate amounts of food by parachute to the starving population of Gaza is just one among many examples of the cynical bad faith of the United States and its allies. In reality, the Western powers support the blockade over land of thousands of trucks with enough food and sanitary supplies to alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza that its population of more than two million people is facing. In the same way, Western governments and media suppress the reality of the massive mobilizations in Haiti in favor of a sovereign resolution of its national destiny, free of foreign intervention.

In relation to Palestine, President Comandante Daniel Ortega has been clear that “…without the weapons of the United States, without the Yankee ships there, the munitions of the United States, Israel simply would not be committing the crimes it is committing. Those responsible for these crimes are the US government and the European governments that have joined in this brutal and cowardly aggression.” In the end, the crises in Palestine and Haiti are examples of what President Vladimir Putin, in a recent interview, characterized thus “..the desire to freeze the current state, the unjust state of affairs in international affairs, is very strong in the Western elites; they have been used to filling their stomachs with human flesh and their pockets with money for centuries. But they must realize that their “vampire dance” is now coming to an end.”

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Stephen Sefton, renowned author and political analyst based in northern Nicaragua, is actively involved in community development work focussing on education and health care. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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To All COVID Vaccine-Injured, Watch This Video. Fraud Is Identified, You Were Tricked and Lied To to Take an Unsafe Vaccine

By Mark Sexton, March 19, 2024

Had you been given informed consent, as it states in law, it is likely you would not have taken it. You suffered an unnecessary and avoidable injury as a direct result of the Fraud and the other already identified criminal acts.

Israel’s Trojan Horse

By Chris Hedges, March 20, 2024

Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the 2.3 million Palestinians. 

“Russia will be remembered as a pioneer of the multipolar world, daring to challenge the Globalist system”, Interview with Alexander Markovics

By Alexander Markovics and Steven Sahiounie, March 20, 2024

Globalization is an economic process which has created a global system. Some major countries have come to view other countries as enemies, to be threatened with wars. In the global system countries are economic enemies competing in world markets, according to Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira.

It’s Journalistic Malpractice to Say Gazans Are Starving Without Saying Israel Is Starving Them

By Caitlin Johnstone, March 19, 2024

The mass media are printing some amazingly depraved headlines about a new UN-backed report on starvation in Gaza from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, who says half the enclave’s population is now at the highest-possible threat level for starvation.

France, Now the United States, Suspended from Military Operations in Niger?

By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 19, 2024

The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has up to 1,000 soldiers and intelligence personnel operating in Niger. Previous governments in Niger had acquiesced to the presence of AFRICOM inside the country. However, the attacks by rebel groupings against the central government in Niamey continued despite the escalating deployments from France and the U.S.

What Are US Green Berets Doing Less Than 10 km Away From Mainland China’s Coast?

By Drago Bosnic, March 19, 2024

Last week, Taipei’s Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng confirmed the presence of US Army Special Forces in Kinmen, a group of islands controlled by the Taiwanese government, but located less than 10 km away from the coast of mainland China.

Canada’s Parliament Votes to End Arms Exports to Israel in Watered-down Motion

By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, March 19, 2024

This evening’s vote by Parliament did not go nearly as far as we had hoped for, but is nonetheless a small step forward for ending Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. By a vote of 204-117, Parliament endorsed concrete measures to bring an end to the violence, including an end to military exports to Israel. 

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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In a month or two, we can see close to a million murdered Palestinians in Gaza – exterminated in death-camp Gaza by planned starvation.

All because Israel blocks the transport of aid into Gaza.

Hatred against this is building up all over the World.

How can anyone claim that Israel is not committing genocide?

How can anyone claim that the USA and the EU, who deliver the bombs and even decreased aid to UNWRA, are not complicit in Israel’s crime of genocide?

And how can the world – including the Islamic world – sit and just watch?

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the 2.3 million Palestinians. 

If the Arab world will not take them, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken proposed during his first round of visits after Oct. 7, the Palestinians will be cast adrift on ships. It worked in Beirut in 1982 when some eight and a half thousand Palestine Liberation Organization members were sent by sea to Tunisia and another two and a half thousand ended up in other Arab states. Israel expects that the same forced deportation by sea will work in Gaza.

Israel, for this reason, supports the “temporary pier” the Biden administration is building, to ostensibly deliver food and aid to Gaza – food and aid whose “distribution” will be overseen by the Israeli military.  

“You need drivers that don’t exist, trucks that don’t exist feeding into a distribution system that doesn’t exist,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior aid official in the Biden administration, and now president of the Refugees International aid advocacy group told The Guardian. 

This “maritime corridor” is Israel’s Trojan Horse, a subterfuge to expel Palestinians. The small shipments of seaborne aid, like the food packets that have been air dropped, will not alleviate the looming famine. They are not meant to. 

Five Palestinians were killed and several others injured when a parachute carrying aid failed and crashed onto a crowd of people near Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp. 

“Dropping aid in this way is flashy propaganda rather than a humanitarian service,” the media office of the local government in Gaza said. “We previously warned it poses a threat to the lives of citizens in the Gaza Strip, and this is what happened today when the parcels fell on the citizens’ heads.”

If the U.S. or Israel were serious about alleviating the humanitarian crisis, the thousands of trucks with food and aid currently at the southern border of Gaza would be allowed to enter any of its multiple crossings. They are not. The “temporary pier,” like the air drops, is ghoulish theater, a way to mask Washington’s complicity in the genocide. 

Israeli media reported the building of the pier was due to pressure by the United Arab Emirates, which threatened Israel with ending a land corridor trade route it administers in collusion with Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to bypass Yemen’s naval blockade. 

The Jerusalem Post reported it was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who proposed the construction of the “temporary pier” to the Biden administration. 

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who has called Palestinians “human animals” and advocated a total siege of Gaza, including cutting off electricity, food, water and fuel, lauded the plan, saying “it is designed to bring aid directly to the residents and thus continue the collapse of Hamas’s rule in Gaza.”

“Why would Israel, the engineer of the Gaza famine, endorse the idea of establishing a maritime corridor for aid to address a crisis it initiated and is now worsening?” writes Tamara Nassar in an article titled “What’s the Real Purpose of Biden’s Gaza Port?” in  The Electronic Intifada. “This might appear paradoxical if one were to assume that the primary aim of the maritime corridor is to deliver aid.”

When Israel offers a gift to the Palestinians you can be sure it is a poison apple. That Israel got the Biden administration to construct the pier is one more example of the inverted relationship between Washington and Jerusalem, where the Israel lobby has bought off elected officials in the two ruling parties.

Oxfam in a March 15 report accuses Israel of actively hindering aid operations in Gaza in defiance of the orders by the International Court of Justice. It notes that 1.7 million Palestinians, some 75 percent of the Gaza population, are facing famine and two-thirds of the hospitals and over 80 percent of all health clinics in Gaza are no longer operable. The majority of people, the report reads, “have no access to clean drinking water” and “sanitation services are not functioning.”

The report reads: 

The conditions we have observed in Gaza are beyond catastrophic, and we have not only seen failure by Israeli authorities to meet their responsibility to facilitate and support international aid efforts, but in fact seen active steps being taken to hinder and undermine such aid efforts. Israel’s control of Gaza continues to be characterized by deliberate restrictive actions that have led to a severe and systemic dysfunctionality in the delivery of aid. Humanitarian organizations operational in Gaza are reporting a worsening situation since the International Court of Justice imposed provisional measures in light of the plausible risk of genocide, with intensified Israeli barriers, restrictions and attacks against humanitarian personnel. Israel has maintained a ‘convenient illusion of a response’ in Gaza to serve its claim that it is allowing aid in and conducting the war in line with international laws.

Oxfam says Israel employs “a dysfunctional and undersized inspection system that keeps aid snarled up, subjected to onerous, repetitive and unpredictable bureaucratic procedures that are contributing to trucks being stranded in giant queues for 20 days on average.” Israel, Oxfam explains, rejects “items of aid as having ‘dual (military) use,’ banning vital fuel and generators entirely along with other items essential for a meaningful humanitarian response such as protective gear and communications kit.” Rejected aid, “must go through a complex ‘pre-approval’ system or end up being held in limbo at the Al Arish warehouse in Egypt.” Israel has also “cracked down on humanitarian missions, largely sealing off northern Gaza, and restricting international humanitarian workers’ access not only into Gaza, but Israel and the West Bank including East Jerusalem too.”

Israel has allowed 15,413 trucks into Gaza during the past 157 days of war. Oxfam estimates that the population of Gaza needs five times that number. Israel allowed 2,874 trucks in February, a 44 percent reduction from the previous month. Before Oct. 7, 500 aid trucks entered Gaza daily. 

Israeli soldiers have also killed scores of Palestinians attempting to receive aid from trucks in more than two dozen incidents. These attacks include the killing of at least 21 Palestinians, and the wounding of 150, on March 14, when Israeli forces fired on thousands of people in Gaza City. The same area had been targeted by Israeli soldiers hours earlier.

“Israel’s assault has caught Gaza’s own aid workers and international agencies’ partners inside a ‘practically uninhabitable’ environment of mass displacement and deprivation, where 75 percent of solid waste is now being dumped in random sites, 97 percent of groundwater made unfit for human use, and the Israeli state using starvation as a weapon of war,” Oxfam says.

There is no place in Gaza, Oxfam notes, that is safe “amid the forcible and often multiple displacements of almost the entire population, which makes the principled distribution of aid unviable, including agencies’ ability to help repair vital public services at scale.” 

Oxfam blasts Israel for its “disproportionate” and “indiscriminate” attacks on “civilian and humanitarian assets” as well as “solar, water, power and sanitation plants, UN premises, hospitals, roads, and aid convoys and warehouses, even when these assets are supposedly ‘deconflicted’ after their coordinates have been shared for protection.”

The health ministry in Gaza said Monday that at least 31,726 people have been killed since the Israeli assault began five months ago. The death toll includes at least 81 deaths in the previous 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 73,792 people have been wounded in Gaza since Oct. 7. Thousands more are missing, many buried under the rubble.

None of these Israeli tactics will be altered with the building of a “temporary pier.” In fact, given the pending ground assault on Rafah, where 1.2 million displaced Palestinians are crowded in tent cities or camped out in the open air, Israel’s tactics will only get worse. 

Israel, by design, is creating a humanitarian crisis of such catastrophic proportions, with thousands of Palestinians killed by bombs, shells, missiles, bullets, starvation and infectious diseases, that the only option will be death or deportation. The pier is where the last act in this gruesome genocidal campaign will be played out as Palestinians are herded by Israeli soldiers onto ships. 

How appropriate that the Biden administration, without whom this genocide could not be carried out, will facilitate it.

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Globalization is an economic process which has created a global system. Some major countries have come to view other countries as enemies, to be threatened with wars. In the global system countries are economic enemies competing in world markets, according to Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira.

Currently, the war in Ukraine pits the US against Russia, and the EU and NATO have played follow the leader. However, Germany is in recession, and Russia’s economy is growing.

In an effort to understand the situation fully, Steven Sahiounie of MidEastDiscourse interviewed Alexander Markovics, the chief of the Suworow Institute in Vienna, author of books on the European New Right, Transhumanism and Biopolitics, editor of Deutsche Stimme Magazin since 2020, and Editor in Chief of Agora Europa since 2021.

Steven Sahiounie (SS): Sweden became a member of NATO. Why did Sweden take that step, and what will be the repercussions from doing so?

Alexander Markovics (AM): The Swedish Army consists of approximately 7,000 soldiers and has 110 Leopard 2 tanks, 319 CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles and 26 Archer self-propelled howitzers. In the last decades, Pacifist Sweden didn’t take part in traditional warfare. As we know from the battlefield in Ukraine, where NATO is waging a proxy war against Russia, this force wouldn’t last two months in a real war. As most of the West, Swedish politicians believed in the “end of history” and cut their military budgets to death. Basically, Sweden joining NATO in 2024 is the same as joining the Warsaw Pact in 1991 – an act of political insanity. Before Sweden was respected as a neutral country, now it will a Russian military target – for drones, hypersonic missiles, FAB bombs and more – in case of open confrontation with NATO – and nuclear annihilation, if the madmen in Washington, Brussels and Paris are triumphant in the end.

SS: The US, and their western allies, have placed many sanctions on Russia after the Ukrainian conflict began. Have these sanctions had an effect on Russia?

AM: Of course these sanctions had an effect on Russia. They forced Russia to abandon its’ economic cooperation with the West, and started its’ realignment with China, Iran, India, and even the People’s Republic of Korea. Furthermore, the sanctions strengthened a trend in the Russian economy towards autarky which always started with economist Sergey Glaziev. Obviously, Russia isn’t a “gas station with a government” as the West thought, but nowadays Russia is the strongest economy in Europe, whereas the former economic powerhouse Germany is in a recession. The sanctions only proved, that Europe was more dependent on Russia than vice versa. Basically, the sanctions led to a strengthening of the Eurasian Economic Union and the unfolding Multipolar World as such, whereas unipolarity and G7 are since then in a steady decline. Now the West is committing suicide not only in cultural terms via ‘wokeness’ and LGBT propaganda, but also in economic terms with its’ anti-Russian sanctions. It’s my hope that the backfiring of these sanctions will lead the peoples of the West finally to rise up in revolution against their Globalist puppet masters who are controlling their countries for the sake of the Western war effort.

SS: There was an election in Russia. How do you see the election, and the issues being faced in the election?

AM:  As we know now, Vladimir Putin has won the election. The Western secret services did everything in their power to stop him from doing that. They organized scams in order to force ordinary people into sabotaging the elections, and even made Ukraine organize suicidal military raids into the territory of Belgorod region. Nevertheless, more than 70% of the Russians participated in the elections (the highest turnout since 1991) the West wanted them to boycott as “farce”, and more than 80% of the Russians voted for the acting president Putin. Western schemes in Russia have failed miserably.

SS: The Russian conflict in Ukraine is dangerous for both countries. The US is fighting Russia on Ukrainian soil in a proxy-war, while it is Russians and Ukrainians dying, not Americans. How do you think the history books will record this period in history, and what will they have to say about Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine?

AM: I think history books will remember the 24^th of February 2022 as a watershed in history; the very moment when unipolarity started to end and multipolarity was forged by fire and sword. Russia will go down into the annals of history as avant-garde of the multipolar world who dared to challenge the Globalist system at the height of its power. Whereas, President Putin will be remembered as the liberator of his own people, and Ukraine; Wolodymir Zelensky and the Western elites forcing him to lead this suicidal war against Russia will be seen as the dangerous villains and madmen they are. At the moment, we only know for sure that Zelensky will not be the president of Ukraine for long. But, how he’ll leave the stage of Postmodern democracy simulation – either assassinated by his Neo-Fascist allies, his Western puppet masters, suicide, or overthrown by his own people and incarcerated in a Russian prison – that’s still open for debate. However, all the people who made this awakening of Russia possible, and were murdered for their fight for multipolarity – Daria Dugina, Waldlen Tatarsky and many more – will be remembered as heroes.

SS: President Donald Trump has vowed to stop the conflict in Ukraine if he is elected in November. In your view, will Trump be able to stop the flow of weapons to Ukraine?

AM: That really depends on Trump. Will he be successful in draining the Globalist swamp in Washington, and fighting the military industrial complex? Can he defeat the Cathedral of Globalist academia, press and media? I only wish all real American patriots the best, that they together with Donald Trump will be triumphant over the Globalist elites hijacking their country. Trump has disappointed them once – maybe twice is the charm?

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In recent developments, the Draft Law has been adopted by France’s Senate

March 5, 2024

Introduction 

On February 14, 2024, France’s Assemblée Nationale adopted a controversial draft law “to strengthen the fight against “sectarian drift” (in French dérive sectaire).

Click here to view video of National Assembly, February 14, 2024

 

The draft law was an initiative of the French government of Emmanuel Macron which will be presented to the Senate by the Minister of the Interior in the name of Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne.

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Author’s Translation from the French 

Presentation decree

The Prime Minister,

On the report of the Minister of the Interior and Overseas,

Having regard to Article 39 of the Constitution,

Decree:

This draft law to strengthen the fight against sectarian excesses, deliberated in the Council of Ministers pursuant to the opinion of the Council of State, will be presented to the Senate by the Minister of the Interior and Overseas, who will be responsible for setting out the reasons and supporting the discussion, with the assistance of the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior and Overseas, in charge of citizenship and to the Minister of the Interior and Overseas and the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, in charge of the city.

Paris, November 15, 2023

Signed: Élisabeth BORNE

By the Prime Minister:

The Minister of the Interior and Overseas

Signed: Gérald DARMANIN

The Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior and Overseas, in charge of citizenship and to the Minister of the Interior and Overseas and the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, in charge of the city

Signed: Sabrina AGRESTI-ROUBACHE

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Parliamentary Debate on “Dérive Sectaire”,  Sectarian Drift 

The draft law had first been debated on February 13.  2024

“A coalition of oppositions rejected the article [IV] on Tuesday evening [February 13], as the Senate did at the end of 2023. MPs LFI, LR and RN denounce a threat to “public freedoms” and to “whistleblowers” who criticize the pharmaceutical industry.

The following day (February 14, 2024) late into the night, following the question period,  a narrow vote was taken (116-108) repealing the vote of the previous day. There were about 40% of the 577 members of the National Assembly present when the vote was called. 

After long debates, the deputies adopted at first reading the draft law against “sectarian abominations” [dérive sectaire]  on February 14, in which they reintegrated the controversial article 4, which creates a new crime of “provocation to abstain from medical care”.(“provocation à l’abstention de soins”) 

…Article 4 of Chapter III, proposes to amend the Criminal Code to punish “provocation” on a sick person to “abandon or refrain from following medical treatment”, if this abandonment is presented as beneficial when it could lead to dangerous consequences.

(France Info, author’s translation, emphasis added)

According to France Info:

Article IV, “aims to fight against “charlatans” and “gurus 2.0”, who promote on the Internet methods presented as “miracle solutions” to cure serious diseases such as cancers. Often without scientific training and in defiance of science, they can drift towards behaviors of sectarian influence.

The “dérive sectaire” (sectarian drift) has allegedly increased dramatically, …”in particular because of the Covid-19 epidemic and the use of social networks.”

By punishing these behaviors, the crime of “provocation to abstention from care” would therefore serve to “fill a real gap in our arsenal by equipping us with effective means to fight against therapeutic excesses of a sectarian”… Up to three years in prison for these “provocations”

After long debates, the deputies adopted at first reading the draft law against “sectarian abominations” [dérive sectaire]  on February 14, in which they reintegrated the controversial article 4, which creates a new crime of “provocation to abstention from medical care”.(“provocation à l’abstention de soins”) (France Info, emphasis added)

See Video Interview. Michel Chossudovsky and Caroline Mailloux

 

 

“Dérive sectaire” and The Draft Law

link to French government website

Translation:

Based on the experience of the Miviludes, which receives some 2,000 reports per year, the sectarian drift can be defined as follows:

The sectarian drift

It is a diversion of freedom of thought, opinion or religion that violates public order, laws or regulations, fundamental rights, the security or integrity of persons. It is characterized by the implementation, by an organized group or by an isolated individual, whatever his nature or activity, of pressures or techniques aimed at creating, maintaining or exploiting in a person a state of psychological or physical subjection, depriving him of part of his free will, with harmful consequences for that person, his entourage or for society. (emphasis added)

The Draft Law Extends the “Sectarian Drift” Concept  

What is the purpose of the Draft Law:

“… strengthen the fight against sectarian aberrations (dérive sectaire) [sectarian drift], deliberated in the Council of Ministers

What this implies is to strengthen and extend the totalitarian sectarian drift concept to health and medicine.

The Draft Law:

“creates a new crime of “provocation to abstain from medical care”.(“provocation à l’abstention de soins”) 

The text of this draft law is chaotic, with confused statements. It acknowledges that the sectarian drift increased dramatically during the corona crisis.

The Covid-19 Vaccine is the Unspoken Intent 

The Draft Law does not explicitly refer to the Covid-19 Vaccine, which ultimately is the Bombshell. It constitutes an abominable threat. It criminalizes the protest movement against the Covid-19 Vaccine.

It provides legitimacy to a vaccine which has resulted in and upward movement in excess mortality.

What it intimates is a penalty of up to “three years of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 Euros” for French citizens who dare speak out against the Covid-19 vaccine.

These include not only thousands of scientists and medical doctors, but also people from all walks of life in towns and communities across France.

Concurrently it derogates fundamental human rights. It also points to the criminalization of parliamentary democracy.

I should mention that “derive sectaire” is not a legal term. 

According to renowned Lawyer David Guyon:

“In reality, it is clear that anyone who has criticized vaccination against covid-19 could be considered of having committed an offence. However, the aforementioned offences do not make it possible to suppress dissident opinions on health policy.

In this case, it is necessary to have an opinion that is contrary to the scientific consensus and that is only likely to have serious consequences. 

Consequently, such a text would be dramatic and would repress any challenge to the official word. This is why it must be fought.

 

 

The Lie Has Become the Truth. The Derogation of Fundamental Human Rights

What this decision –which is yet be voted upon by France’s Senate– implies is that THE LIE HAS BECOME THE TRUTH.

You can be arrested for informing friends and neighbours that the Covid-19 vaccine is a toxic substance?

Does this mean that you cannot even quote official data on mortality and morbidity? 

Does this mean that the numerous studies on excess mortality pertaining to the Covid-19 Vaccine cannot be published or quoted? 

Can you be arrested for saying that Pfizer –which leads the Covid-19 vaccine agenda Worldwide– has a criminal record with the US Department of Justice? 

 

 

In other words, the Covid-19 “vaccine” distributed at the level of the entire planet is produced by a pharmaceutical company which was indicted by the US Department of Justice (2009) on charges of “fraudulent marketing”. 

Bear in mind this a criminal indictment. It was not a civilian class action law suit. 

The Covid-19 Vaccine Is Killing Our Children

Pfizer is killing our children. And our governments are being bribed by Big Pharma. 

Under France’s new draft law, can you be arrested for stating the truth:

Our Children and Adolescents are Dying Worldwide

Student at the Lycée Valabre de Luynes-Gardannem, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sofia Benharira, 16 years old passed away on September 21, 2021, 7 days after having received the deadly Pfizer vaccine. Heart attacks and Thrombosis. 

This is happening all over the World. 

Children and adolescents are dying. 

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What is the Truth. Examine the Evidence. “Excess Mortality”

The evidence which has been blatantly ignored  both by the French Government and the Assemblée Nationale is overwhelming:

Numerous studies confirm that the Covid-19 vaccine has triggered a Worldwide upward trend in mortality and morbidity.

Visibly the Assemblée Nationale failed to acknowledge the data from official sources which confirm a rising trend in Covid-19 Vaccine related mortality.

See the important study on excess mortality entitled:

COVID-19 Vaccine-associated Mortality in the Southern Hemisphere

By Prof Denis Rancourt, Dr. Marine Baudin, Dr. Joseph Hickey, and Dr. Jérémie Mercier, February 13, 2024

 

What is displayed below are graphs for 6 countries, to consult all the graphs (section 5.1), click here

What is revealing is that for most of the countries the same tendency characterizes the relationship between All Cause Mortality and The Number of Doses Administered 

 

Vaccine Related Mortality: Selected Countries.

(Prof Denis Rancourt, Dr. Marine Baudin, Dr. Joseph Hickey, and Dr. Jérémie Mercier)

ACM All Causes Mortality. Number of deaths per month

Vax Doses Administered per week

Mortality. 1 year Moving Average

The vaccine administration by week (e.g., orange, Figure 2), for all-ages analyses in the present paper, is obtained from the original cumulative data (OWID, 2023a) by interpolating to obtain all dates, and then summing by week. As a result, where there are sudden jumps in the cumulative data, this can produce a large weekly value as an artifact, such as for the Philippines (Figure 2). Similarly, drops in cumulative values can produce artificial negative weekly values, as seen in a few cases, below.

 

Vaccine Related Morbidity 

Covid-19 Vaccine related Mortality is accompanied by Vaccine related Morbidity.

A recent UK study focussing on Cancer Related Excess Mortality and Morbidity in England and Wales outlines the following: 

The table below pertains to excess deaths related to malignant neoplasm (cancerous tumor) in England and Wales, recorded in three consecutive years: 2020, 2021, and 2022 vs. a 10 year trend (2010-2019).

The data for excess mortality in 2020 (the year prior to the vaccine) are negative with the exception of “malignant neoplasm without specification of site”.

The vaccine was launched in the UK in December 2020. The COVID-19 vaccine was rolled-out in several phases in England and Wales starting on December 8, 2020  and extending into March-April 2021. 

The upward movement in excess mortality (%) commences in 2021. The increase in excess mortality related to malignant neoplasm is tabulated for the two first years of the vaccine. 

Evidence of Individual Cases of Vaccine Related Mortality and Adverse Events

Oops: “Pfizer’s “Secret” Report on the Covid-19 Vaccine “Says the Truth” 

What happens if you quote the Pfizer Report?

Can you be arrested and imprisoned for revealing the data on mortality and adverse events in Pfizer’s Confidential report which was made public under Freedom of Information? This report should be consulted and made available to millions of people: 

The Confidential report is a bombshell. The vaccine was launched in mid-December 2020. By the end of February 2021, “Pfizer had already received more than 1,200 reports of deaths allegedly caused by the vaccine and tens of thousands of reported adverse events, including 23 cases of spontaneous abortions out of 270 pregnancies and more than 2,000 reports of cardiac disorders.”

This Confidential Pfizer Report provides data on deaths and adverse events recorded by Pfizer from the outset of the vaccine project in December 2020 to the end of February 2021, namely a very short period (at most two and a half months).

The data from mid-December 2020 to the end of February 2021 unequivocally confirms “Manslaughter”. Based on the evidence, Pfizer had the responsibility to immediately cancel and withdraw the “vaccine”.

Pfizer’s Worldwide marketing of the Covid-19 Vaccine beyond February 28th, 2021, is no longer an “Act of Manslaughter”.

Murder as opposed to Manslaughter implies “Criminal Intent”.

Pfizer’s Covid 19 Vaccine constitutes a Criminal Act. From a legal standpoint it is an “Act of Murder” applied Worldwide to a target population of 8 billion people. Sofar more than 60 percent of the World’s population have been Covid-19 vaccinated.

For details, consult:

Pfizer’s “Secret” Report on the Covid Vaccine. Beyond Manslaughter. The Evidence is Overwhelming. The Vaccine Should Be Immediately Withdrawn Worldwide

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 17, 2024

See Also 

J’Accuse! The Gene-based “Vaccines” Are Killing People. Governments Worldwide Are Lying to You the People, to the Populations They Purportedly Serve

By Doctors for COVID Ethics, October 22, 2022

Click here to read the complete Pfizer report. 

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Excerpt Pfizer Report, Figure 1

Click here to read the complete Pfizer report. 

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Concluding Remarks 

The French government, the National Assembly and the Senate must be challenged by a mass movement across France and the European Union,

What we are witnessing is the outright “Criminalization of the state apparatus” whereby politicians, members of parliament, senior government officials are routinely bribed, coopted or threatened to abide by a diabolical project which is literally destroying people’s lives Worldwide.

We call upon the Senate to dismiss the National Assembly’s Adoption of the Draft Law entitled

Le Project de Loi  visant a renforcer la lutte contre les “Dérives Sectaires”

Should Pfizer be Fined 45,000 Euros, Imprisoned for Three Years??  

What is contained in  Pfizer’s “confidential” report is detailed evidence on the impacts of the “vaccine” on mortality and morbidity. This data which emanates from the “Horse’s Mouth” can now be used to confront as well formulate legal procedures against Big Pharma, the governments, the WHO and the media.

The members of France’s National Assembly must take cognizance of this report. In a Court of Law, the evidence contained in this Big Pharma confidential report (coupled with the data on deaths and adverse events compiled by the national authorities) is irrefutable: because it is their data and their estimates and not ours. 

This is a de facto Mea Culpa on the part of Pfizer. #Yes it is a Killer Vaccine

Pfizer was fully aware that the mRNA vaccine which it is marketing Worldwide would result in a wave of mortality and morbidity. This is tantamount to a crime against humanity on the part of Big Pharma.

Pfizer knew from the outset that it was a killer vaccine. 

It is also a  Mea Culpa and Treason on the part of corrupt national governments Worldwide which are being threatened and bribed by Big Pharma.

No attempt has been made by the governments to call for the withdrawal of the killer vaccine.

Michel Chossudovsky, February 18, 2024

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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In the latest wave of anti-imperialist actions sweeping various West African states in the Sahel region, the government in Niger has nullified a security agreement with the United States.

Following the same decision related to French intervention in its former colony, the National Council for the Safeguarding of Our Homeland (CNSP) administration has declared that such cooperation pacts related to military affairs are no longer beneficial to the country.

French President Emmanuel Macron sought to have the western-allied ousted leader Mohammed Bazoum reinstalled after his overthrow on July 26, 2023. This plot, initially supported by Washington, was aimed at encouraging a military force staffed by member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to intervene with French and U.S. logistical support. Under the false pretense of salvaging democracy in the Sahel, the administration of President Joe Biden would then take credit for reimposing Bazoum while maintaining its drone facilities and troop presence in Niger.

The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has up to 1,000 soldiers and intelligence personnel operating in Niger. Previous governments in Niger had acquiesced to the presence of AFRICOM inside the country. However, the attacks by rebel groupings against the central government in Niamey continued despite the escalating deployments from France and the U.S.

Attempts to salvage the Pentagon presence in Niger took place in at least two phases. When the proposal for an ECOWAS military intervention drew enormous criticism and protest, the Biden administration sought to distance itself from France. Discussions were held with the CNSP government suggesting that the State Department would not follow through with classifying the events of July 26 as a “coup.” Designating these developments as a coup would seriously impact the diplomatic relations between Niamey and Washington.

During the months after the seizure of power by the military-led government now controlling Niger, French Armed Forces and diplomatic personnel were ordered out of the country. Later the U.S. announced a scaling back of operations in Niger.

High-level State Department officials were deployed to Niger several months ago where they sought to intimidate the new government. Rather than seek readmission after its suspension from ECOWAS and the leveling of economic sanctions, the government in Niger formed a security alliance with Mali and Burkina Faso, known as the Alliance of Sahel States.

Alliance of Sahel States map (Source: Abayomi Azikiwe)

The second phase of the diplomatic efforts by Washington to reset its relations with Niamey consisted of yet another State Department delegation which visited Niger during mid-March. It was at the conclusion of these meetings between the U.S. and Niger, that the CNSP government announced the revocation of its military agreements with Washington.

Journalist Reed Kramer wrote in an article published by allafrica.com news website that:

“The military regime in Niger on Saturday (March 16) revoked ‘with immediate effect’ the military cooperation agreement with the United States dating from 2012. The decision followed several days of tense discussions involving a delegation of senior American officials who visited the capital Niamey last week – a trip apparently triggered by growing concerns that Niger was moving towards a uranium sales deal with Iran. In a video announcement posted on X and Facebook, a day after the U.S. officials departed, Colonel Amadou Abdramane, spokesperson for the ruling military council, criticized a ‘condescending attitude’ by the delegation leader, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Molly Phee. ‘The Government of Niger, taking into account the aspirations and interests of its people, denounces with immediate effect the agreement relating to the status of military personnel of the United States and civil employees of the U.S. Department of Defense on the territory of Niger,’ Abdramane said.” 

France and the U.S. are quite concerned over the potential for the Alliance of Sahel States to move closer to the Russian Federation. Demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of people, mainly youth, in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have simultaneously called for the departure of French and now U.S. forces from their resource-rich countries, which remain severely underdeveloped, along with flying national and Russian flags. Despite propaganda and psychological warfare campaigns by the imperialists; the training and financing of armies; and the threat of further destabilization campaigns; these states are rapidly turning away from Paris and Washington.

These diplomatic and military setbacks are taking place while the Biden administration is facing a serious challenge to its reelection. A proxy war launched a decade ago in Ukraine resulting in the Russian Special Military Operation beginning in late February 2022, is facing defeat on the battlefield. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinians are fighting the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) which are fully backed by Washington. In addition to its diplomatic maneuvers in Niger, other governments on the African continent are being subjected to destabilization efforts.

The Republic of South Africa has openly challenged the U.S. for its facilitation of the Gaza genocide. The African National Congress (ANC) administration led by President Cyril Ramaphosa, has taken the State of Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Tel Aviv with violating the Genocide Convention. Due to South Africa’s refusal to adopt the U.S. position on Ukraine and its mobilization of public opinion internationally in defense of the Palestinian people, Washington is attempting to weaken and remove the ANC from power.

False allegations of weapons transfers to Moscow by Pretoria failed to turn up any evidence. The Biden White House later stated that the South African legal action against Israel had no merit. These developments have further exposed the imperialist character of the present administration in Washington.

ECOWAS Lifts Sanctions Against Niger and Other Suspended Governments

Realizing that the imperialist-engineered efforts to isolate the military governments in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have largely failed, the ECOWAS regional organization chaired by Nigerian President Bola Tinubu announced the lifting of economic sanctions against Niamey. Mass sentiment throughout the ECOWAS region has illustrated the heightening consciousness and activism demanding genuine independence, self-determination and sovereignty.

Later the All-Progressives Congress (APC) administration in the Federal Republic of Nigeria ended its own sanctions against neighboring Niger. The Alliance of Sahel States have indicated that they are not interested in returning to the ECOWAS fold. Their current interest lies in forming coalitions with governments other than those in Western Europe and North America.

Also, most of the sanctions by ECOWAS have been lifted against Guinea, which experienced a military takeover in 2021, as well as Burkina Faso and Mali. All four military governments which were suspended from ECOWAS are being asked to return.

According to a report in Al Jazeera during the ECOWAS Summit in late February:

“Speaking in his opening remarks at the start of the summit, ECOWAS chairman and Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said the bloc ‘must re-examine our current approach to the quest for constitutional order in four of our Member States’, referring to the three suspended countries, as well as Guinea, which is also military led. Tinubu urged Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to ‘reconsider the decision’ and said they should ‘not perceive our organization as the enemy’.” 

Despite its pro-western orientation, the Tinubu administration in Abuja is facing significant challenges on the economic and security fronts. A precipitous decline in the value of the Niara and the worsening problems of violence and kidnapping in the northern areas has weakened the regional and international stature of the current Nigerian administration. Although the imperialist states claim that they are committed to democratic forms of governance, the real issues motivating France and the U.S. are their determination to continue economic and military dominance over the West Africa region.

Washington and Paris Faced with a Dilemma in the Sahel

Absent its neo-colonial puppets in various African states, it will be much more difficult to implement hegemonic policies. The former colonial and existing neo-colonial apparatuses are being compelled to engage in more direct military interventions in Africa and across the world.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members are being stretched thin from Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, to the African continent and the Asia-Pacific. Biden’s supplementary funding for further militarization has been stalled in the U.S. Congress in this national election year. Obviously, the ultra-conservative Republican Party is holding up funding for the Ukraine war and Israeli aggression notwithstanding its stated policy of “containing China”, in its ongoing campaign to make Biden appear even weaker politically.

Antiwar and anti-imperialist organizations in the Western industrialized states must raise the issues taking place on the African continent right alongside opposition to the proxy war in Ukraine and the genocide being carried out in Palestine. Irrespective of which capitalist party wins in the November elections, without a militant mass movement in Western Europe and North America, money will continue being spent on failed attempts to effectively silence and destroy opposition to imperialism around the globe.

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Global Research Fundraising: Stop the Pentagon’s Ides of March

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Biden and Trump have clinched the nominations of their parties for President. Everybody is gearing up for a battle between them for the election in November.

It’s obvious that Biden is “cognitively impaired.” In blunter language, “brain-dead”.

Partisans of Trump are gearing up for a decisive victory.

But what if this battle is a sham?

What if Biden’s elite gang of neo-con controllers won’t let Biden lose?

How can they stop him from losing? Simple. If it looks like he’s losing, the elite forces will create enough fake ballots to ensure victory.

Our corrupt courts won’t stop them. They have done this before, and they will do it again, if they have to.

I said the Democrats have done this before. The great Dr. Ron Paul explains one way they did this in 2020.

The elite covered up a scandal that could have wrecked Biden’s chances:

“Move over Watergate. On or around Oct. 17, 2020, then-senior Biden campaign official Antony Blinken called up former acting CIA director Mike Morell to ask a favor: he needed high-ranking former US intelligence community officials to lie to the American people to save Biden’s lagging campaign from a massive brewing scandal.

The problem was that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, had abandoned his laptop at a repair shop and the explosive contents of the computer were leaking out. The details of the Biden family’s apparent corruption and the debauchery of the former vice-president’s son were being reported by the New York Post, and with the election less than a month away, the Biden campaign needed to kill the story.

Image: This caricature of Hunter Biden was adapted from in the public domain from the US Congress (PDF). The body was adapted from in the public domain from The White House’s Flickr photostream.

So, according to newly-released transcripts of Morell’s testimony before the House judiciary Committee, Blinken “triggered” Morell to put together a letter for some 50 senior intelligence officials to sign – using their high-level government titles – to claim that the laptop story “had all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.”

In short, at the Biden campaign’s direction Morell launched a covert operation against the American people to undermine the integrity of the 2020 election. A letter signed by dozens of the highest-ranking former CIA, DIA, and NSA officials would surely carry enough weight to bury the Biden laptop story. It worked. Social media outlets prevented any reporting on the laptop from being posted and the mainstream media could easily ignore the story as it was merely “Russian propaganda.”

Asked recently by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) why he agreed to draft the false sign-on letter, Morell testified that he wanted to “help Vice President Biden … because I wanted him to win the election.” Morell also likely expected to be named by President Biden to head up the CIA when it came time to call in favors.

Outside during the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021 attack on the building (Licensed under Creative Commons)

The Democrats and the mainstream media have relentlessly pushed the lie that the ruckus inside the US Capitol on Jan. 6th 2021 was a move by President Trump to overthrow the election results. Hundreds of “trespassers” were arrested and held in solitary confinement without trial to bolster the false narrative that a conspiracy to steal the election was taking place.

It turns out that there really was a conspiracy to steal the election, but it was opposite of what was reported. Just as the Steele Dossier was a Democratic Party covert action to plant the lie that the Russians were pulling strings for Trump, the “Russian disinformation campaign” letter was a lie to deflect scrutiny of the Biden family’s possible corruption in the final days of the campaign.

Did the Biden campaign’s disinformation campaign help rig the election in his favor? Polls suggest that Biden would not have been elected had the American electorate been informed about what was on Hunter Biden’s laptop. So yes, they cheated in the election.

The Democrats and the mainstream media are still at it, however. Now they are trying to kill the story of how they killed the story of the Biden laptop. This is a scandal that would once upon a time have ended in resignation, impeachment, and/or plenty of jail time. If they successfully bury this story, I hate to say it but there is no more rule of law in what has become the American banana republic.” See here.

But the main way the election can be rigged is by fraudulent “voting.” It’s much easier to do this with digital scanning of votes than with old-fashioned ballot boxes.

Dr. Naomi Wolf explains how electronic voting machines make it easier to steal elections:

“People could steal elections in this ‘analog’ technology of paper and locked ballot boxes, of course, by destroying or hiding votes, or by bribing voters, a la Tammany Hall, or by other forms of wrongdoing, so security and chain of custody, as well as anti-corruption scrutiny, were always needed in guaranteeing accurate election counts. But there was no reason, with analog physical processing of votes, to query the tradition of the secret ballot.

Before the digital scanning of votes, you could not hack a wooden ballot box; and you could not set an algorithm to misread a pile of paper ballots. So, at the end of the day, one way or another, you were counting physical documents.

Those days are gone, obviously, and in many districts there are digital systems reading ballots.” See here.

This isn’t the first time the “Left” has stolen an election. It happened in the 2020 presidential election too. Ron Unz offers his usual cogent analysis:

“There does seem to be considerable circumstantial evidence of widespread ballot fraud by Democratic Party forces, hardly surprising given the apocalyptic manner in which so many of their leaders had characterized the threat of a Trump reelection.

After all, if they sincerely believed that a Trump victory would be catastrophic for America why would they not use every possible means, fair and foul alike, to save our country from that dire fate?

In particular, several of the major swing-states contain large cities—Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Atlanta—that are both totally controlled by the Democratic Party and also notoriously corrupt, and various eye-witnesses have suggested that the huge anti-Trump margins they provided may have been heavily ‘padded’ to ensure the candidate’s defeat.” See here.

In a program aired right after Biden’s pitiful State of the Union speech, the great Tucker Carlson pointed out that Biden’s “Justice” Department has already confessed that it plans to rig the election. It will do this by banning voter ID laws as “racist.” This permits an unlimited number of fake votes:

“If Joe Biden is so good at politics, why is he losing to Donald Trump, who the rest of us were assured was a retarded racist who no normal person would vote for? But now Joe Biden is getting stomped by Donald Trump, but he’s also at the same time good at politics? Right.

Again, they can’t win, but they’re not giving up. So what does that tell you? Well, they’re going to steal the election. We know they’re going to steal the election because they’re now saying so out loud. Here is the Attorney General of the United States, the chief law enforcement officer of this country in Selma, Alabama, just the other day.

[Now Carlson quotes the Attorney General, Merrick Garland:]

“The right to vote is still under attack, and that is why the Justice Department is fighting back. That is why one of the first things I did when I came into office was to double the size of the voting section of the Civil Rights Division. That is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes and voter ID requirements. That is why we are working to block the adoption of discriminatory redistricting plans that dilute the vote of Black voters and other voters of color.

[Carlson then comments on Garland:]

“Did you catch that? Of course, you’re a racist. That’s always the takeaway. But consider the details of what the Attorney General of the United States just said. Mail-in balloting, drop boxes, voter ID requirements. The chief law enforcement officer of the United States Government is telling you that it’s immoral, in fact racist, in fact illegal to ask people for their IDs when they vote to verify they are who they say they are.

What is that? Well, no one ever talks about this, but the justification for it is that somehow people of color, Black people, don’t have state-issued IDs. Somehow they’re living in a country where you can do virtually nothing without proving your identity with a government-issued ID without government-issued IDs. They can’t fly on planes, they can’t have checking accounts, they can’t have any interaction with the government, state, local, or federal. They can’t stay in hotels. They can’t have credit cards. Because someone without a state-issued ID can’t do any of those things.

But what’s so interesting is these same people, very much including the Attorney General and the administration he serves, is working to eliminate cash, to make this a cashless society. Have you been to a stadium event recently? No cash accepted. You have to have a credit card. In order to get a credit card you need a state-issued ID, and somehow that’s not racist. But it is racist to ask people to prove their identity when they choose the next President of the United States. That doesn’t make any sense at all. That’s a lie. It’s an easily provable lie, and anyone telling that lie is advocating for mass voter fraud, which the Attorney General is. There’s no other way to read it. So you should know that. You live in a country where the Attorney General is abetting, in fact calling for voter fraud, and that’s the only chance they have to get their guy re-elected.” See here.

Because of absentee ballots, the voting can be spread out over a long period of time. This makes voting fraud much easier. Mollie Hemingway has done a lot of research on this topic:

“In the 2020 presidential election, for the first time ever, partisan groups were allowed—on a widespread basis—to cross the bright red line separating government officials who administer elections from political operatives who work to win them. It is important to understand how this happened in order to prevent it in the future.

Months after the election, Time magazine published a triumphant story of how the election was won by “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”  Written by Molly Ball, a journalist with close ties to Democratic leaders, it told a cheerful story of a “conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes,” the “result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.”

A major part of this “conspiracy” to “save the 2020 election” was to use COVID as a pretext to maximize absentee and early voting. This effort was enormously successful. Nearly half of voters ended up voting by mail, and another quarter voted early. It was, Ball wrote, “practically a revolution in how people vote.” Another major part was to raise an army of progressive activists to administer the election at the ground level. Here, one billionaire in particular took a leading role: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg’s help to Democrats is well known when it comes to censoring their political opponents in the name of preventing “misinformation.” Less well known is the fact that he directly funded liberal groups running partisan get-out-the-vote operations. In fact, he helped those groups infiltrate election offices in key swing states by doling out large grants to crucial districts.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an organization led by Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla, gave more than $400 million to nonprofit groups involved in “securing” the 2020 election. Most of those funds—colloquially called “Zuckerbucks”—were funneled through the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a voter outreach organization founded by Tiana Epps-Johnson, Whitney May, and Donny Bridges. All three had previously worked on activism relating to election rules for the New Organizing Institute, once described by The Washington Post as “the Democratic Party’s Hogwarts for digital wizardry.”

Flush with $350 million in Zuckerbucks, the CTCL proceeded to disburse large grants to election officials and local governments across the country. These disbursements were billed publicly as “COVID-19 response grants,” ostensibly to help municipalities acquire protective gear for poll workers or otherwise help protect election officials and volunteers against the virus. In practice, relatively little money was spent for this. Here, as in other cases, COVID simply provided cover.

According to the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), Georgia received more than $31 million in Zuckerbucks, one of the highest amounts in the country. The three Georgia counties that received the most money spent only 1.3 percent of it on personal protective equipment. The rest was spent on salaries, laptops, vehicle rentals, attorney fees for public records requests, mail-in balloting, and other measures that allowed elections offices to hire activists to work the election. Not all Georgia counties received CTCL funding. And of those that did, Trump-voting counties received an average of $1.91 per registered voter, compared to $7.13 per registered voter in Biden-voting counties.

The FGA looked at this funding another way, too. Trump won Georgia by more than five points in 2016. He lost it by three-tenths of a point in 2020. On average, as a share of the two-party vote, most counties moved Democratic by less than one percentage point in that time. Counties that didn’t receive Zuckerbucks showed hardly any movement, but counties that did moved an average of 2.3 percentage points Democratic. In counties that did not receive Zuckerbucks, “roughly half saw an increase in Democrat votes that offset the increase in Republican votes, while roughly half saw the opposite trend.” In counties that did receive Zuckerbucks, by contrast, three quarters “saw a significant uptick in Democrat votes that offset any upward change in Republican votes,” including highly populated Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, and DeKalb counties.

Of all the 2020 battleground states, it is probably in Wisconsin where the most has been brought to light about how Zuckerbucks worked.

CTCL distributed $6.3 million to the Wisconsin cities of Racine, Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, and Kenosha—purportedly to ensure that voting could take place “in accordance with prevailing [anti-COVID] public health requirements.”

Wisconsin law says voting is a right, but that “voting by absentee ballot must be carefully regulated to prevent the potential for fraud or abuse; to prevent overzealous solicitation of absent electors who may prefer not to participate in an election.” Wisconsin law also says that elections are to be run by clerks or other government officials. But the five cities that received Zuckerbucks outsourced much of their election operation to private liberal groups, in one case so extensively that a sidelined government official quit in frustration.

This was by design. Cities that received grants were not allowed to use the money to fund outside help unless CTCL specifically approved their plans in writing. CTCL kept tight control of how money was spent, and it had an abundance of “partners” to help with anything the cities needed.

Some government officials were willing to do whatever CTCL recommended. “As far as I’m concerned I am taking all of my cues from CTCL and work with those you recommend,” Celestine Jeffreys, the chief of staff to Democratic Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich, wrote in an email. CTCL not only had plenty of recommendations, but made available a “network of current and former election administrators and election experts” to scale up “your vote by mail processes” and “ensure forms, envelopes, and other materials are understood and completed correctly by voters.”

Power the Polls, a liberal group recruiting poll workers, promised to help with ballot curing. The liberal Mikva Challenge worked to recruit high school-age poll workers. And the left-wing Brennan Center offered help with “election integrity,” including “post-election audits” and “cybersecurity.”

The Center for Civic Design, an election administration policy organization that frequently partners with groups such as liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund, designed absentee ballots and voting instructions, often working directly with an election commission to design envelopes and create advertising and targeting campaigns. The Elections Group, also linked to the Democracy Fund, provided technical assistance in handling drop boxes and conducted voter outreach. The communications director for the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, an organization that advocates sweeping changes to the elections process, ran a conference call to help Green Bay develop Spanish-language radio ads and geofencing to target voters in a predefined area.

Digital Response, a nonprofit launched in 2020, offered to “bring voters an updated elections website,” “run a website health check,” “set up communications channels,” “bring poll worker application and management online,” “track and respond to polling location wait times,” “set up voter support and email response tools,” “bring vote-by-mail applications online,” “process incoming [vote-by-mail] applications,” and help with “ballot curing process tooling and voter notification.”

The National Vote at Home Institute was presented as a “technical assistance partner” that could “support outreach around absentee voting,” provide and oversee voting machines, consult on methods to cure absentee ballots, and even assume the duty of curing ballots.

A few weeks after the five Wisconsin cities received their grants, CTCL emailed Claire Woodall-Vogg, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, to offer “an experienced elections staffer that could potentially embed with your staff in Milwaukee in a matter of days.” The staffer leading Wisconsin’s portion of the National Vote at Home Institute was an out-of-state Democratic activist named Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein. As soon as he met with Woodall-Vogg, he asked for contacts in other cities and at the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

Spitzer-Rubenstein would eventually take over much of Green Bay’s election planning from the official charged with running the election, Green Bay Clerk Kris Teske. This made Teske so unhappy that she took Family and Medical Leave prior to the election and quit shortly thereafter.

Emails from Spitzer-Rubenstein show the extent to which he was managing the election process. To one government official he wrote, “By Monday, I’ll have our edits on the absentee voting instructions. We’re pushing Quickbase to get their system up and running and I’ll keep you updated. I’ll revise the planning tool to accurately reflect the process. I’ll create a flowchart for the vote-by-mail processing that we will be able to share with both inspectors and also observers.”

Once early voting started, Woodall-Vogg would provide Spitzer-Rubenstein with daily updates on the numbers of absentee ballots returned and still outstanding in each ward­­—prized information for a political operative.

Amazingly, Spitzer-Rubenstein even asked for direct access to the Milwaukee Election Commission’s voter database: “Would you or someone else on your team be able to do a screen-share so we can see the process for an export?” he wrote. “Do you know if WisVote has an [application programming interface] or anything similar so that it can connect with other software apps? That would be the holy grail.” Even for Woodall-Vogg, that was too much. “While I completely understand and appreciate the assistance that is trying to be provided,” she replied, “I am definitely not comfortable having a non-staff member involved in the function of our voter database, much less recording it.”

When these emails were released in 2021, they stunned Wisconsin observers. “What exactly was the National Vote at Home Institute doing with its daily reports? Was it making sure that people were actually voting from home by going door-to-door to collect ballots from voters who had not yet turned theirs in? Was this data sharing a condition of the CTCL grant? And who was really running Milwaukee’s election?” asked Dan O’Donnell, whose election analysis appeared at Wisconsin’s conservative MacIver Institute.

Kris Teske, the sidelined Green Bay city clerk—in whose office Wisconsin law actually places the responsibility to conduct elections—had of course seen what was happening early on. “I just don’t know where the Clerk’s Office fits in anymore,” she wrote in early July. By August, she was worried about legal exposure: “I don’t understand how people who don’t have the knowledge of the process can tell us how to manage the election,” she wrote on August 28.

Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich simply handed over Teske’s authority to agents from outside groups and gave them leadership roles in collecting absentee ballots, fixing ballots that would otherwise be voided for failure to follow the law, and even supervising the counting of ballots. “The grant mentors would like to meet with you to discuss, further, the ballot curing process. Please let them know when you’re available,” Genrich’s chief of staff told Teske.

Spitzer-Rubenstein explained that the National Vote at Home Institute had done the same for other cities in Wisconsin. “We have a process map that we’ve worked out with Milwaukee for their process. We can also adapt the letter we’re sending out with rejected absentee ballots along with a call script alerting voters. (We can also get people to make the calls, too, so you don’t need to worry about it.)”

Other emails show that Spitzer-Rubenstein had keys to the central counting facility and access to all the machines before election night. His name was on contracts with the hotel hosting the ballot counting.

Sandy Juno, who was clerk of Brown County, where Green Bay is located, later testified about the problems in a legislative hearing. “He was advising them on things. He was touching the ballots. He had access to see how the votes were counted,” Juno said of Spitzer-Rubenstein. Others testified that he was giving orders to poll workers and seemed to be the person running the election night count operation.

“I would really like to think that when we talk about security of elections, we’re talking about more than just the security of the internet,” Juno said. “You know, it has to be security of the physical location, where you’re not giving a third party keys to where you have your election equipment.”

Juno noted that there were irregularities in the counting, too, with no consistency between the various tables. Some had absentee ballots face-up, so anyone could see how they were marked. Poll workers were seen reviewing ballots not just to see that they’d been appropriately checked by the clerk, but “reviewing how they were marked.” And poll workers fixing ballots used the same color pens as the ones ballots had been filled out in, contrary to established procedures designed to make sure observers could differentiate between voters’ marks and poll workers’ marks.

The plan by Democratic strategists to bring activist groups into election offices worked in part because no legislature had ever imagined that a nonprofit could take over so many election offices so easily. “If it can happen to Green Bay, Wisconsin, sweet little old Green Bay, Wisconsin, these people can coordinate any place,” said Janel Brandtjen, a state representative in Wisconsin.

She was right. What happened in Green Bay happened in Democrat-run cities and counties across the country. Four hundred million Zuckerbucks were distributed with strings attached. Officials were required to work with “partner organizations” to massively expand mail-in voting and staff their election operations with partisan activists. The plan was genius. And because no one ever imagined that the election system could be privatized in this way, there were no laws to prevent it.

Such laws should now be a priority.” See here.

Let’s do everything we can to publicize the steal. That way, we have a chance to prevent it.

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Antagonizing the vast majority of the world has become NATO’s standard practice. Its never-ending encroachment on Russia’s borders is breaking world records, as it keeps deploying various missile systems and nuclear-capable fighter jets around it. However, trying to provoke a reaction of “only” one global superpower is obviously not enough, so the political West is also going after the other – China.  Its breakaway island province of Taiwan is once again the primary target of a crawling aggression by the United States. Namely, last week, Taipei’s Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng confirmed the presence of US Army Special Forces in Kinmen, a group of islands controlled by the Taiwanese government, but located less than 10 km away from the coast of mainland China.

Worse yet, certain parts of the Kinmen archipelago are a mere 4 km away from the city of Xiamen in Beijing’s Fujian province. The presence of American special forces, specifically the US Army Green Berets, was first reported by local media back in February. According to Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp, Chiu confirmed the highly provocative deployment when asked about a new report from the US outlet SOFREP that said Green Berets have taken up “permanent positions” as military advisors in Kinmen. The US soldiers are also deployed in Penghu, a Taipei-controlled archipelago less than 50 km west of the island of Taiwan and just over 110 km east of mainland China. The SOFREP report stated that the American Green Berets were stationed at amphibious command centers of Taipei’s military.

The deployment of US troops was carried out under the provisions of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which called for the Pentagon to create a comprehensive training program for the armed forces of the government in Taipei. This includes the training of local forces on the Black Hornet Nano, a micro military drone used for tactical ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance). Defense Minister Chiu stated that the presence of American Green Berets was a “learning opportunity” for the military of China’s breakaway island province. In the last several years, Washington DC has significantly increased its meddling in Taiwan, fanning up tensions with China to a boiling point several times already, despite Beijing’s repeated warnings and attempts to deescalate the situation.

In 2023, the Pentagon sent around 200 troops to Taiwan, making it the largest official American military deployment in China’s breakaway island province ever since the US pulled its forces out after severing de jure (albeit not de facto) diplomatic ties with Taipei back in 1979 and officially recognizing the government in Beijing as the sole legal entity in the entire country. In addition, back in early September last year, the Taipei Times reported that military drills were held in Michigan in the August 5-19 timeframe, involving approximately 7000 American and Taiwanese soldiers. Although most US troops involved in the exercise (dubbed “Northern Strike”) were members of the Michigan National Guard, some reportedly belonged to unnamed military units under the direct command of the Pentagon.

This clearly indicates that the soldiers in question must have been special forces used in various covert operations. For its part, Taipei sent the entire joint battalion of its 333rd Infantry Brigade. At the time, both sides indicated that such military drills would be held in the future on a more regular basis, a move clearly designed to further antagonize China. According to Taipei Times, which in turn cited Sankei Shimbun, a Japanese news source, the reason why the US hosted Taiwanese troops was that it’s supposedly “wary of provoking China”. This was allegedly because “the Michigan exercises were led by the National Guard — a strategic reserve force that is normally overseen by US state governments — instead of the US Armed Forces”. However, policymakers in Beijing certainly did not see it that way.

What’s more, according to Sankei Shimbun’s own inadvertent admission, this was a bogus attempt to present the exercise as not involving US federal troops, because the drills were directly overseen and commanded by the Pentagon. Normally, National Guard units are under the control of their respective states. In other words, Washington DC’s supposed attempt to not anger China is nothing but a mere formality. In practice, nothing could be further from true, as the US is providing hundreds of anti-ship missiles to Taipei, in addition to new fighter jets and a plethora of other types of weapons and munitions, much of it as the so-called “military aid”. This marks a major policy shift, as the Pentagon hadn’t made such deliveries since 1979. Namely, the US would always sell weapons to Taipei.

To make matters worse, the Pentagon is in the process of deploying new medium-range missile systems in the region, including the ones that can fire the land-based version of the medium-range “Tomahawk” cruise missile. Although this isn’t exactly a new capability, as the US had ground-based medium-range cruise missiles back in the early 1980s, these weapons were banned under the now-defunct Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty that was signed by Washington DC and Moscow in 1987, banning all types of land-based missiles and weapons with ranges of 500-5500 km. This included ballistic and cruise missiles, both conventional and nuclear-tipped. Needless to say, such weapons are a direct threat not only to Beijing’s interests in the region, but to mainland China itself.

As for Taiwan, it’s not only of historical, legal and national value, but also of prime strategic importance. When in the hands of Beijing’s enemies, the breakaway island province is a major security hurdle, as it exposes the entire southeast China’s “soft underbelly”, particularly the neighboring province of Fujian. This doesn’t only slow down (or even prevent) normal economic development, but it also requires the mobilization of significant resources to ensure the safety of the crucial area. On the other hand, if Beijing restores its full sovereignty over the island, be it in a similar manner to Hong Kong or perhaps within a new, even more lax framework that eliminates the threat posed by the US, Taiwan could then serve as a springboard to push America out of the area and protect China’s basic security interests.

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Сви чланци Глобалног истраживања могу се читати на 51 језику тако што ћете активирати дугме Преведи веб локацију испод имена аутора (доступно само у верзији за десктоп).

Да бисте добили дневни билтен Глобал Ресеарцх-а (изабрани чланци),  кликните овде .

Кликните на дугме за дељење изнад да бисте е-поштом/проследили овај чланак својим пријатељима и колегама. Пратите нас на Инстаграму  и  Твиттеру и претплатите се на наш Телеграм канал . Слободно поново постављајте и делите чланке Глобалног истраживања.

 

 

 

Editor’s Note: This is an AI translation of Michel Chossudovsky’s article. It has not sofar been edited

 

 

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Рат САД-НАТО против Југославије,

Глобализација рата

од стране

Michel Chossudovsky 

Београдски форум.

Конференција о комеморацији,

23-24. март 2024, Београд

 

Увод

Народе Србије. Наше мисли су са вама. Ми смо солидарни. Веома сам заслужан  Београдском форуму.

Морамо да обележимо као и да искористимо ову прилику да одлучно делујемо против војне агенде САД-НАТО, коју подржавају моћни финансијски интереси. 

Свет се тренутно налази на раскрсници најозбиљније кризе у модерној историји.

САД су се упустиле у војну авантуру, „дуги рат“, који угрожава будућност човечанства“

Тај дуги рат започет је 1990-их на почетку постхладноратовске ере. 

Рат против Југославије био је ” генерална проба” за све наредне ратове САД-НАТО.

Обиљежиле су га војне и обавјештајне операције, дестабилизација југословенске привреде, промјене режима, ломљење цијеле суверене националне државе на мноштво малих држава које су углавном вођене прокси режимима.

 

Пре 25 година у раним сатима 24. марта 1999. године, НАТО је започео бомбардовање Савезне Републике Југославије. „Операција је носила кодни назив „Савезничке снаге“.  

Када је Београд бомбардован, дечија болница је била предмет ваздушних напада. Војни планери су га издвојили као стратешки циљ. Ту болницу сам посетио годину дана касније, у марту 2000. 

Историјски преглед потврђује да су деца рутински била мета у СВИМ војним операцијама САД од Другог светског рата до данас.

25. марта 1999. започео сам своје истраживање. Немилосрдно бомбардовање Београда и Приштине НАТО-а су медији у хору означили као хуманитарну операцију. Одговорност за заштиту (Р2П)

Сегменти америчке и европске „левице“ подржавају ОВК

Ослободилачку војску Косова (ОВК) подржавали су сегменти европске левице (од којих је неколико подржао Џорџ Сорош) као националистички покрет који поштује себе и бори се за права етничких Албанаца. 

Каква глупост: ОВК је одржаван организованим криминалом уз прећутно одобрење Сједињених Држава и њихових савезника. Био је умешан у прање новца, имао је везе са Ал Каидом, коју је контролисала ЦИА. 

У САД, Степхен Схалом, у чланку на ЗНет-у наводи:

„Саосећам са аргументом који каже да ако људи желе да се боре за своја права, ако не траже од других да то ураде уместо њих , онда им треба обезбедити оружје које ће им помоћи да успеју. Такав аргумент ми се чинио убедљивим у односу на Босну.”

У том истом чланку сам лично оптужен да сам „дискредитовао ОВК“ . Прихватам критике. То је био мој циљ кроз пажљиву документацију и анализу:

„Мишел Чосудовски, професор економије на Универзитету у Отави, изнео је најпедантније оквире у делу под насловом  „Борци за слободу финансирани организованим криминалом“ , који се бави интернетом. Пун полуистина, претпоставки и инсинуација о наводној употреби новца од дроге од стране ОВК, чланак Чосудовски настоји да дискредитује ОВК као истински ослободилачки покрет који представља тежње потлачене албанске већине. …

Чосудовски тврди да „ОВК одржава организовани криминал… везе Ослободилачке војске Косова са криминалним синдикатима у Албанији, Турској и Европској унији познате су западним владама и обавештајним агенцијама од средине 1990-их.

Пре него што размотримо сведочење Чосудовског, треба се запитати: да ли је необично да ослободилачки покрети који су гладни новца прикупљају део својих средстава из илегалних извора, чак и новца од дроге? 

Послушајте извештај Демократије сада са Ејми Гудман  о ОВК и наводним везама са трговином дрогом (2. јун 1999.) (који укључује представника ОВК)

Те такозване „полуистине и инсинуације“ биле су предмет мог чланка написаног у априлу 1999. године на врхунцу НАТО бомбардовања.

У вези са оптужницом против Хашима Тачија:  Он је био „плаћени убица“ који је деловао у име својих спонзора. ОВК на челу са Хашимом Тачијем је немилосрдно подржавана од стране НАТО и америчке војске.

Дела цензуре

Редовно сам писао за Ле Монде дипломатикуе . Ја сам истраживао ствар: вођа ОВК  Хашим Тачи је имао кривични досије у Интерполу. То је била чињенична изјава. Али то нису поменули ни мејнстрим медији ни независни медији. 

Неизговорена истина. Тотална цензура и пропаганда. Мој чланак о борцима за слободу ОВК – што је поглавље у мојој књизи – никада није објавио Ле Монде дипло.

Иронично, 21 годину касније, 24. априла 2020., бивши вођа Ослободилачке војске Косова (ОВК) Хашим Тачи , који је после рата предвођеног НАТО-ом постао „премијер“, а потом и „председник“ Косова, оптужен је за злочине. против човечности.

Специјално тужилаштво Косова у Хагу подигло је оптужницу против Хашима Тачија 24. априла 2020. 

„за низ злочина против човечности и ратних злочина, укључујући убиство, присилни нестанак особа, прогон и мучење.

21 година касније: 2 деценије „истраге“

М. Олбрајт и Хашим Тачи, 1998

 

Упс:  СВЕ што се знало у марту 1999. Требала им је 21 година да заврше своју кривичну истрагу .

Хашиму Тачију суди се у Хашком трибуналу. Он се изјаснио да није  крив по оптужбама за ратне злочине.

Затварање Слободана Милошевића

Слободан Милошевић, храбри и посвећени човек, био је спречен да предузме своју одбрану.

Имао је довољно доказа о везама ОВК и са организованим криминалом и са Ал Каидом, која је ЦИА обавештајна имовина створена раних 1980-их

Милошевић је отрован у својој затворској ћелији под окриљем Хашког трибунала у Хагу. То је било потпуно вансудско политичко убиство.

Дестабилизација југословенске привреде 

Рат против Југославије није почео у марту 1999. године. Покренут је скоро 20 година раније, осамдесетих година.

Мултиетничка, социјалистичка Југославија је некада била регионална индустријска сила и прича о економском успеху: у две деценије пре 1980. године, годишњи раст бруто домаћег производа (БДП) је у просеку износио 6,1 одсто, медицинска нега је била бесплатна, стопа писмености била је 91 одсто, а очекивани животни век био је 72 године.

Циљ рата који је водио САД-НАТО у вези са Волстритом и институцијама Бретон Вудса био је да се уништи југословенски модел тржишног социјализма док истовремено уништава државу благостања и подрива њена економска и социјална достигнућа.

1980. године је преминуо председник Јосип Браћа Тито .  Почетком 1980-их, акте економског ратовања покренули су београдски кредитори:

Снажну „економску медицину“ наметнули су ММФ и Светска банка , након чега је касних 1980-их уследило наметање свеобухватног програма банкрота који је резултирао масовним сиромаштвом и незапосленошћу.

Као што је откривено у интерном документу Светске банке (који ми је дао југословенски дипломата), такозвани „ механизам окидача“ Светске банке (према Закону о финансијским операцијама) био је погодан за отпуштање 614.000 радника (од укупне индустријске радне снаге од 2,7 милиона).

Након ових економских мера уследила је „Шок терапија“ ММФ-а покренута јануара 1990.

Смањење буџета које је захтевало преусмеравање савезних прихода на сервисирање дуга допринело је обустављању трансферних плаћања Београда владама република и аутономних покрајина.

Једним замахом, реформатори су осмислили коначни колапс југословенске федералне фискалне структуре и смртно ранили њене савезне политичке институције.

Пресецањем финансијских артерија између Београда и република, реформе су подстакле сецесионистичке тенденције које су се храниле економским факторима, као и етничким поделама, практично обезбеђујући де факто сецесију република . 

Буџетска криза изазвана ММФ-ом створила је економски чин који је отворио пут за формалну сецесију Хрватске и Словеније у јуну 1991.

Хрватска, Босна, Косово: Подмукла улога генерала Мајкла Џексона

Велика Британија је послала сер генерала Мајкла Џексона у Југославију. Ко је генерал Мајкл Џексон?

Џексон је био капетан првог британског батаљона падобранског пука и други по команди у масакру крваве недеље у Дерију у Северној Ирској у јануару 1972.

Џексон је био одговоран за наређење војницима под његовом командом да отворе ватру на ирске цивиле укључене у мирни протестни покрет.

Капетан Џексон  – који је имао везе са обавештајним корпусом британске војске – наводно је такође имао кључну улогу у прикривању убистава.

Никада није био под истрагом за злочине почињене у Дерију у Северној Ирској 1972. године.

Сасвим супротно. Џексон је награђен и унапређен. Године 2003. унапређен је у највиши чин британских оружаних снага: начелник Генералштаба .

У Хрватској, Босни и на Косову, сер  генерал Мајкл Џексон  је активно сарађивао са командантом Агимом Чекуом који је предводио хрватске снаге укључене у масакр у Крајини у оквиру „Операције Олуја“.

Чеку је такође био командант ОВК. 

Џексон је наводно био одговоран за репатријацију крајишких Срба, под окриљем УН. Касније је именован за вођу мисије КФОР-а. 

Заузврат, Милитари Профессионал Ресоурцес Инц (МПРИ) , плаћеничка јединица по уговору с Пентагоном била је одговорна за савјетовање хрватских снага ХВО-а у планирању „Операције Олуја“.

Иста плаћеничка јединица је касније стављена на дужност за војну обуку Косовског заштитног корпуса (КЗК) коју су углавном интегрисали бивши оперативци ОВК.

С лева на десно:

Хашим Тачи , шеф Ослободилачке војске Косова (ОВК), која је имала везе са Ал Каидом и организованим криминалом. Хашим Тачи је наредио политичка убиства усмерена против Партије Ибрахима Ругове. Тачи је био штићеник Медлин Олбрајт. [Касније постао председник Косова, и даље на Интерполовој потерници]

Бернар Кушнер , шеф Мисије Уједињених нација на Косову (УНМИК) на Косову (јул 1999. – јануар 2001.), кључан у подизању статуса ОВК у УН кроз формирање Косовског заштитног корпуса (КЗК).

Генерал Мајкл Џексон , командант трупа КФОР-а на Косову.

Генерал Агим Чеку , војни командант ОВК и КЗК, под истрагом Међународног кривичног суда за бившу Југославију (МКСЈ) „због наводних ратних злочина почињених над етничким Србима у Хрватској између 1993. и 1995. године“. (АФП 13. октобар 1999.)

Генерал Весли Кларк, врховни командант НАТО-а.

Док је генерал Мајкл Џексон током свог мандата на месту команданта КФОР-а на Косову (1999-2000) показивао симболичне напоре да заштити српске и ромске цивиле; они који су побегли са Косова током његовог мандата нису били охрабрени да се врате под заштиту УН.

На послератном Косову масакре цивила је извршила ОВК (а потом и КЗК). И НАТО и УН су затвориле очи пред циљаним убиствима ОВК.

„Глобализација рата“

Као што је горе поменуто, Југославија је у многим аспектима била „генерална проба“ .

Различите фазе које су карактерисале рат у Југославији део су ширег процеса који се сада одвија широм света.

• економски рат, јака економска медицина, санкције
• распарчавање и разбијање целих земаља,
• наметање промене режима, постављање прокси политичара.
• опсежна бомбардовања цивила,
• бомбардовање дечијих болница, као и убијање новинара, у току, 
• употреба муниције са осиромашеним уранијумом која изазива рак,
• војна окупација, успостављање војних база, присуство страних трупа под лажним „хуманитарним мандатом“
• медијске дезинформације и ратне пропаганде

То је део континуума од 1990-их, након напада 11. септембра 2001. 

Оно што је у питању је  глобализација рата, односно амерички „Дуги рат“ против човечанства у име моћних финансијских интереса.

Америчка хегемонистичка агенда састоји се од вођења рата – укључујући економски рат – против свих главних региона света, укључујући и Европску унију.

Овај процес се предузима дестабилизацијом националне државе.

Агенда НеоЦонс- а није да „победе у рату“,  већ да осмисле распад суверених националних држава, да униште њихову културу и национални идентитет, да дерогирају основне вредности и људска права и да присвоје њене ресурсе.

Стратешки циљ је да изазове политички и друштвени хаос, изазове колапс националних економија, присвоји богатство и ресурсе земаља, осиромаши читаву планету укључујући земље чланице ЕУ и америчку домовину. 

То је сплет оружја за масовно уништење, тајних обавештајних операција, пропаганде и „јаке економске медицине“. Криминалност хегемонистичке агенде САД/НАТО је неописива. 

Оно чему смо сведоци је директна „криминализација државног апарата“ у којој се политичари, посланици, високи државни званичници рутински подмићују, кооптирају или им прети да ће се придржавати ђаволског пројекта који буквално уништава животе људи широм света.

Тријада УН-ВЕФ-НАТО

Стратешко партнерство потписано је 2019. на састанку одржаном у седишту УН између генералног секретара УН Антонија Гутереша и извршног председавајућег ВЕФ-а Клауса Шваба „ како би се убрзала имплементација Агенде за одрживи развој 2030“.

Ово значи да је систем Уједињених нација практично приватизован. 

Потписивање партнерства ВЕФ-УН 

Заузврат,  НАТО је постао све више уграђен у систем УН-а , наводно подржавајући „подршку миру и управљање кризама“.  

Истовремено, 2023. је постигнут споразум УН-НАТО који је резултирао оним што би се могло описати као тријада УН-ВЕФ-НАТО , која је у великој мери одговорила на потрагу за глобалном управом.

Савремени економски рат. Институције Бретон Вудса су застареле?

Док спољни дуг деноминован у доларима остаје инструмент економске потчињавања, „ Уједначавање финансијских система“ намерава да отвори врата приватизацији у великим размерама која утиче на читаве секторе и регионе и земаља у развоју и Запада.

Велики портфолио инвестициони фондови, укључујући БлацкРоцк, Стате Стреет и Вангуард  (заједно са банкарским картелима Волстрита) су покретачка снага. „Њихов посјед је колосалан. БлацкРоцк управља инвестицијама од скоро 10 трилиона долара . Вангуард има 8 билиона долара , а Стате Стреет има 4 билиона долара ” ( НИТ )

БлацкРоцк поседује Украјину 

 

Фласхбацк у историји. Ко је подржавао нацистичку Немачку? 

Зашто САД-НАТО подржавају нацистички режим у Кијеву?

 

Од Првог светског рата до данас: Дуг деноминиран у доларима био је покретачка снага свих ратова које су предводиле САД.

Данас су кредитори са Волстрита главни актери кијевског неонацистичког режима

Ти исти кредитори са Волстрита, укључујући Федералне резерве, чврсто су стајали иза нацистичке Немачке. Они су финансирали операцију Барбароса  и инвазију на Совјетски Савез у јуну 1941.

„4. јануара 1932. одржан је састанак између британског финансијера Монтагу Нормана ( гувернера Банке Енглеске) , Адолфа Хитлера и  Франца фон Папена (који је постао канцелар неколико месеци касније у мају 1932.)

На овом састанку је постигнут договор о финансирању Натионалсозиалистисцхе  Деутсцхе Арбеитерпартеи (НСДАП или Нацистичка партија).

Овом састанку су присуствовали и креатори америчке политике и браћа Далс , нешто што њихови биографи не воле да помињу.

Годину дана касније, 14. јануара 1933, одржан је још један састанак између Адолфа Хитлера, немачког финансијера барона Курта фон Шредера,  канцелара Франца фон  Папена и Хитлеровог економског саветника Вилхелма Кеплера , где је Хитлеров програм у потпуности одобрен. ( Ј. Рубцов , текст испод)

По ступању Адолфа Хитлера на место канцелара у марту 1933. године, покренут је масовни програм приватизације који носи отиске прстију Волстрита.

Ово је исти естаблишмент Биг Монеи Финанциал, који стоји иза СВИХ УС-НАТО ратова.

Приходи од програма приватизације коришћени су за отплату неизмирених дугова, као и за финансирање активног војног индустријског комплекса нацистичке Немачке.

Операцију Трећег Рајха Барбароса против Совјетског Савеза издашно је финансирао Волстрит са Стандард Оил оф Нев Јерсеи (ЕКСКСОН) у власништву Рокфелера, обезбеђујући немачком Вермахту бензин до 1945. године.

Извоз нафте у нацистичку Немачку имао је намеру да уништи Совјетски Савез.

Све до Перл Харбора (децембра 1941), Волстрит је трговао са Немачком.

Након Перл Харбора (1941-1945), Стандард Оил је „трговао са непријатељем” продавајући нацистичку Немачку нафту уз посредовање такозваних „неутралних земаља” укључујући Венецуелу и Аргентину.

Без америчке испоруке нафте нацистичкој Немачкој коју је инструментирао Стандард Оил из Њу Џерсија , Трећи Рајх не би могао да изврши инвазију на Совјетски Савез. 

Ово значи да је Волстрит чврсто стајао иза вођења Другог светског рата . 

Природа модерног ратовања

У новијим дешавањима дошло је до велике промене у природи модерног ратовања

У том погледу корона криза је одиграла кључну улогу у акцијама истовремено усмереним против 190 земаља чланица Уједињених нација.

Закључавање започето у марту 2020. захтева:

„ Ограничавање радне снаге“ и „ Замрзавање радног места“. 

Ми имамо посла са актом економског ратовања против човечанства , који резултира банкротима, економским и друштвеним колапсом, сиромаштвом и очајем на нивоу целе планете.

мРНА “вакцина”

Вакцина мРНА која је лансирана у децембру 2020. године, имплементирана у 190 земаља, такође је инструмент ратовања који резултира трендом раста морталитета и морбидитета. (За детаље погледајте Мицхел Цхоссудовски)

Акција против рата

25. комеморација рата САД и НАТО-а против Југославије требало би да нам пружи прилику да се позабавимо стварима које утичу на Србију, као и ширем светском ратном агендом која угрожава будућност човечанства.

 

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Референце 

 Агресорски рат САД-НАТО против Југославије 

(објављено на српском и енглеском)

Проф. Мицхел Цхоссудовски

 

Зашто Америци треба рат, пројекат за нови амерички век (ПНАЦ)

Др Јацкуес Р. Паувелс и проф Мицхел Цхоссудовски , 01. април 2023.

 

Историја: Адолфа Хитлера су финансирали Волстрит, Федералне резерве САД и Банка Енглеске

Јуриј Рубцов и проф. Мишел Чосудовски , 7. јануара 2024.

 

„Превентивни нуклеарни рат“: историјска битка за мир и демократију. Трећи светски рат угрожава будућност човечанства

Професор Мишел Чосудовски , 5. фебруар 2024

 

Вођа Ослободилачке војске Косова Хашим Тачи на суђењу за ратне злочине

Питер Шварц и проф. Мишел Чосудовски , 19. април 2023

 

Хегемонистичка тријада УН-ВЕФ-НАТО: УН „Одрживи развој“ (СДГ 2030) = бескрајни ратови, сиромаштво и глад широм света

Професор Мишел Чосудовски , 5. фебруар 2024

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О аутору

Мишел Чосудовски је награђивани аутор, професор економије (емеритус) на Универзитету у Отави, оснивач и директор Центра за истраживање глобализације (ЦРГ), Монтреал, уредник Глобалног истраживања.

Предузео је теренска истраживања у Латинској Америци, Азији, Блиском истоку, подсахарској Африци и на Пацифику и опсежно је писао о економијама земаља у развоју са фокусом на сиромаштво и социјалну неједнакост. Такође је предузео истраживања у области економије здравља (Економска комисија УН за Латинску Америку и Карибе (ЕЦЛАЦ), УНФПА, ЦИДА, СЗО, Влада Венецуеле, Џон Хопкинс Интернатионал Јоурнал оф Хеалтх Сервицес  ( 1979 , 1983 )

Аутор је 13 књига укључујући Глобализација сиромаштва и Нови светски поредак (2003), Амерички „Рат против тероризма“ (2005), Глобализација рата, Амерички дуги рат против човечанства (2015).

Сарадник је Енциклопедије Британика. Његови списи су објављени на више од двадесет језика.

Године 2014. одликован је Златном медаљом за заслуге пред Републиком Србијом за своје радове о агресорском рату НАТО-а на Југославију. Може се добити на цргедитор@иахоо.цом

Видети Мицхел Цхоссудовски, Биографска белешка

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The mass media are printing some amazingly depraved headlines about a new UN-backed report on starvation in Gaza from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, who says half the enclave’s population is now at the highest-possible threat level for starvation.

The New York Times has a real corker out titled “Famine Is Projected for Northern Gaza, Experts Say”, subtitled “A global authority on food security said that in the coming months, as many as 1.1 million people in Gaza could face the severest levels of hunger.”

A casual news consumer could get multiple paragraphs into this article assuming that people in a place called Gaza are suffering from some kind of famine caused by natural events, like a drought or something. Not until paragraph four would they encounter the word “Israeli”, and not until paragraph five would they encounter the line “Israeli’s bombardment and a near-total blockade.”

At a time when only 20 percent of news readers ever make it past the headline of a given story, this is an extremely destructive and propagandistic act of journalistic malpractice. The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they’re doing packaging a story about Israel’s deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians like it’s a troubling prediction about the weather.

Just when you think @nytimes coverage of Gaza couldn’t get worse, they sink to new lows. Now they’re describing famine in Gaza as if it’s an inclement weather projection, rather than a weapon of war deployed by Israel to collectively punish Gaza’s entire population. pic.twitter.com/nAlZPQdmJg

— Tariq Kenney-Shawa (@tksshawa) March 18, 2024

Contrast the New York Times’ headline with that of Al Jazeera’s report on the same story: “Gaza headed towards famine amid Israeli aid curbs: What to know”. That’s the normal way to present a story about a deliberately inflicted famine upon an imperiled population. If a population was being deliberately starved by siege warfare from a nation like Russia, China or Iran, we may be absolutely certain that the name of that nation would appear in the headline.

But because the western media exist to generate propaganda and not to report the news, we get headlines like “Gaza faces famine during Ramadan, the holy month of fasting” from the BBC, and “Famine in northern Gaza is imminent as more than 1 million people face ‘catastrophic’ levels of hunger, new report warns” from CNN, and “Famine imminent in northern Gaza, says UN-backed report” from Reuters, and “‘Catastrophic levels of hunger’ in Gaza mean famine is imminent, says aid coalition” from The Guardian.

We saw this with Saudi Arabia’s US-backed starvation of Yemen as well. When the mass media talked about Yemen at all (usually they just ignored it), editors consistently obfuscated the fact that this was a population being deliberately starved by a cruel blockade and the deliberate targeting of food infrastructure. The fact that it was being made possible by the United States was almost never mentioned.

This is a very good example of how western propaganda works, by the way. The mainstream western press don’t generally make up whole-cloth lies (though they will uncritically print claims made by western government agencies who have an extensive history of lying); what they do is rely on half-truths, distortions and lies by omission to give their audiences a wildly slanted picture of what’s going on in the world. By always going out of their way to tell you an enemy of the US-centralized empire is committing an atrocity the millisecond it looks like they might be, while being furtive and obfuscatory about the crimes of the US and its allies, they give their audience a skewed understanding of who is and is not committing the real evils in our world.

This doesn’t typically happen as a result of any grand monolithic conspiracy; it’s mostly just the natural consequence of having all the major news platforms controlled by wealthy and powerful people who each have a vested interest in manufacturing consent for the status quo upon which their wealth and power are premised. The oligarchs control the media, and they hire the executives who run the media, and the executives hire the editors who write the headlines and guide the reporters to report a certain way, and this gives rise to a system where everyone working for the outlet conducts themselves in a way that just so happens to suit the powerful people on top.

Then before you know it you’ve got editors at The New York Times — a paper that’s been published by the same family for over a century — packaging a story about starvation caused by an Israeli siege to look like it’s a story about an innocent crop failure. Odds are nobody told them to do that; they just learned over the years that that’s how you rise to the top in an outlet like The New York Times.

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The Belgorod region has been the target of several Ukrainian attacks in recent days, even more intensely on March 14, just before the start of the Russian elections. The targets of the attacks were civilian facilities, without any military relevance, which makes the Ukrainian attitude absolutely criminal according to international law.

Participating in a press expedition with the BRICS Journalists Association, I was in Belgorod to report the local tragedy on the ground. Several missile and drone attacks took place throughout the day, leaving at least two dead and several injured. I visited most of the affected places and spoke to some victims, obtaining a lot of relevant information.

Locals said that these raids have become increasingly frequent and that raids intensify during important dates for the Russian Federation. Religious and patriotic holidays, for example, are often marked by intense Ukrainian shelling on the border. Currently, due to the Russian election period, these attacks are once again becoming extremely violent.

Ukrainian missiles and drones on March 14 hit facilities such as shopping centers, common streets and residential buildings. There were no military targets in the attacks, with all victims being civilians. Apparently, the Ukrainian objective is simply to promote terror throughout the city and prevent people from living normally during election time. Unable to leave their homes for fear of bombings, ordinary citizens could be prevented from voting, damaging the electoral process.

In addition to drone and missile attacks, there was a land invasion, with Ukrainian troops trying to enter Russian territory using tanks and armored vehicles, with aerial support from helicopters. The invasion, however, was quickly neutralized by the joint action of the Russian military and security forces. Some villages close to the border were severely affected, such as in the Belovskoye region, where three people were seriously injured by Ukrainian forces – including two nine-month-old children, whose bodies were partially burned by shrapnel from bombs. The damage to the civilian population was severe, despite Kiev’s absolute failure to gain ground on the Russian side of the border.

I asked local residents on the city’s streets on how they felt about the Ukrainian threat during this election period. Despite the danger, the locals showed courage and fearlessness, stating that the elections would not need to be canceled or postponed. Residents said they trust the work of the Russian defense forces, which is why they feel safe going to the polls.

It must be emphasized that these attacks could have much worse consequences if the Russian defense forces were not sufficiently precise in containing the damage. Most enemy missiles and drones are destroyed by Russian air defense before reaching their targets, saving the lives of hundreds of civilians. Although some projectiles hit their targets, the damage from the attacks is partially low, which makes the local people feel reasonably safe, despite the constant threat.

In addition to the work of the Russian defense forces, the city of Belgorod is structured to protect as many civilians as possible. There are anti-missile shelters along the streets, where locals hide as soon as the air raid sirens start to sound. This protective structure allows life to continue reasonably normal in the city, despite the attacks. Commerce and transport services continue to operate, for example, with only small interruptions during the most critical moments.

In fact, this type of terrorist operation was already expected. The neo-Nazi regime intensifies attacks and killings of civilians during important periods, such as elections, which is why it is no surprise to Russians that this is happening now. However, the brutality with which Ukrainian forces target civilian areas should be seen as a reminder of the real nature of the Kiev regime. The Ukrainian Junta simply has a military guideline to target and kill civilians, and there is no limit to its bombings in absolutely demilitarized and strategically irrelevant regions.

Also, considering that the weapons used by Ukraine in these operations are supplied by NATO, it is also possible to say that the West is a co-participant in these crimes, having responsibility for the deaths of Russian civilians in Belgorod and other regions. As long as Ukraine has “carte blanche” from its Western partners to murder ordinary people, terrorist attacks like those in Belgorod on the 14th will be frequent – and only by the military action of the Russian forces it will be possible to save civilian lives.

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Jan. 30, 2024 – Milford, CT – Brayden Burwell Heery was born Jan. 30, 2024 weighting 7lb 1oz

• His mom, Shelley Heery works as a nutritionist, and as a Zumba Instructor at The Edge Fitness Clubs

• This was a rainbow baby (she had a previous pregnancy loss)

 

 

Feb. 16, 2024 – Brayden Burwell Heery died suddenly at 17 days old

 

 

My Take… 

Lipid Nanoparticles with mRNA cross the placenta.

In this case, it would be important to know if the mom continued to take booster shots and if she took a booster shot just prior to or during pregnancy.

There are multiple possible sources of injury to the infant:

1. Transplacental exposure (mom’s lipid nanoparticles with mRNA crossing the placenta)
2. Breast milk (mRNA can be contained in LNPs or exosomes) and ingested by the baby via breastfeeding.
3. Exposure to COVID-19 Vaccine spike protein (could be transplacental or via breast milk)
4. Exposure to COVID-19 Vaccine DNA Contamination (plasmids or fragments, transplacental or via breast milk)

These routes of exposure could give the baby internal organ damage.

One additional consideration is: did the baby receive any childhood vaccines?

SIDS is most commonly Vaccine induced sudden death.

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Dr. Vicky Jennings, a trauma surgeon in South Africa, used to post content online mocking people who questioned the safety of the mRNA injections.

For example, she posted a photo of herself encircled by the words:

Disinformation is Deadly

Vaccines Save Lives

Nice of her to weave a prime example of disinformation — “Vaccines Save Lives” — directly into her meme.

She even poked fun at the irrefutable reality of vaccine side-effects by saying that she was “waiting to grow my unicorn horn now” after submitting to the poison shot. Referring to the conspiracy theory that the injections contain self-assembling microchips, she added, “Bill Gates can start tracking my fascinating life.”

Dr. Jennings, however, has stopped posting these public disservice announcements… because her “fascinating life” has come to a sudden end at the age of 43.

South Africa’s R News published this statement on March 6th:

“Numerous tributes and messages of condolence poured into [sic] Dr. Vicky Jennings, an internationally respected and locally loved trauma surgeon, who died suddenly on Sunday.”

The official cause of death of this mother of two was a heart attack. She had no known illnesses.

It must be total coincidence she was fully boosted with an experimental technology known to cause myocarditis.

Just as Ian Vandaelle‘s death was also, surely, a coincidence. Vandaelle was a Canadian corporate media journalist who publicly demanded that anyone who wasn’t vaccinated get hauled off to concentration camps (according to the Lion of Judah Ministry Substack). This evil fascist was “declared neurologically dead” at age 33 on December 5, 2023.

Again, it must also have been a coincidence that Lt. Col. Jered Little, commander of Public Health Activity (for Hawaii), died suddenly, on November 24th, at age 39 — after being the triple-vaxxed poster boy for the US Military.

Jab Poster Boy for the military passes away Nov 29 at age 39 pic.twitter.com/OxIA9pl6Ct

— Bama_Jeans (@bamajayt) December 12, 2023

All three of these vaccine evangelists believed they were doing the world a service by not only getting the clot shot themselves but encouraging, shaming and threatening others to accept vaccination as the one true path to respiratory salvation.

In the end, they have done us a service: they have shown that they were dead wrong.

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So far, this year has been a disaster for the Neo-Nazi junta and its NATO overlords and everything indicates that it will be even worse. This is precisely why the European Union, now unequivocally exposed as a mere geopolitical pendant of NATO, is contemplating a far more direct involvement, with French President Emmanuel Macron even pompously announcing that some assault units are  supposedly ready to get involved. This soon turned out to be nothing more than wishful thinking, but the rhetoric still stands. And where there’s rhetoric, there is at least some possibility for action. Why is the political West doing this, when the mainstream propaganda machine keeps insisting that the Kiev regime is “winning” and that there’s “nothing to worry about”?

Obviously, they’re not winning and there’s a lot to worry about. Otherwise, the belligerent power pole wouldn’t be escalating tensions with the world’s only superpower that can wipe it off the face of the Earth in mere minutes. Faced with catastrophic losses, at least on par with those during the much-touted counteroffensive, the Neo-Nazi junta is desperate to divert public attention away from this to the only field in which it’s “winning” – optics and PR “victories”. Brainwashed by years of war propaganda about “Russia losing“, the populace in the political West is being tricked into believing that the Kiev regime “can win this”, that “it’s time to finish the job”, that “Putin is hiding in a bunker” and similar nonsense. And it worked for the most part.

Millions in the United States and Europe truly believe(d) in the “Ghost of Kyyyiiiv”, “Snake Island defenders”, pickle jar air defenses and even the “Goat of Kyyyiiiv”. Although all this (and much more) turned out to be nothing more than absurd lies, the war propaganda kept churning out nonsensical claims about Russia and its military. Moscow was now “stealing Ukrainian washing machines to ameliorate its lack of microchips“, while Russian soldiers “kept fighting with shovels due to ammunition shortages“. And yet, Russia was somehow magically able to “send nukes to space” and produce nearly three times more shells than all countries of the political West, combined. Obviously,  the reality on the battlefield is starkly different and NATO wants to hide it at all costs.

This is precisely why the abortive incursion into the Belgorod oblast (region) was launched. The goal was to demonstrate how the Neo-Nazi junta forces can still launch offensive operations into Russia’s undisputed territory, which was most likely supposed to affect the presidential election and show how President Vladimir Putin “lacks authority”. Needless to say, it not only failed miserably, but it actually backfired, as Moscow’s incumbent got a staggering 87% of votes, with a nationwide turnout of over 75%. Which Western leader has even half of that? In fact, the much more appropriate question is – which Western leader doesn’t have absolutely atrocious public approval, be it Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz, Rishi Sunak or Joe Biden?

Thus, as the belligerent power pole’s Belgorod adventure failed, it now needs another sacrificial lamb. Unfortunately for the peoples of Transnistria and Moldova, they’re the next target of the New Reich, just like they were some 80 years ago. On March 17, the Ministry of State Security of Transnistria reported a drone strike on a local military base in the capital city of Tiraspol. There were no human casualties, but the base hosts military helicopters of the Armed Forces of Transnistria. The drone, as of yet formally unidentified, destroyed a Mi-8MT helicopter of the Transnistrian military. According to the Ministry of State Security, the unmanned aircraft came from the direction of the Clover Bridge in the southwestern Odessa oblast of Ukraine.

While no side took responsibility for the attack, it’s quite clear that the Neo-Nazi junta and its NATO handlers are the culprits. Transnistrian security forces are investigating the attack, so we’re still waiting for an official confirmation, but one doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand who benefits from such escalation. Transnistria is an autonomous republic that declared independence from Moldova in the aftermath of the unfortunate dismantling of the Soviet Union. The ensuing conflict resulted in hundreds of casualties on both sides, particularly in 1992, but was stopped by the intervention of the Russian 14th Guards Army (officially disbanded in 1995, but in reality renamed to Operational Group of Russian Forces in Transnistria – OGRF).

In cooperation with the militaries of Transnistria and Moldova, OGRF has been maintaining security in the area for over 30 years now. The sides formed a trilateral Joint Control Commission (JCC) that supervises the formally demilitarized zone (DMZ) sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine (largely running along the Dniester River). The cooperation between the three sides, albeit not without problems, has been quite fruitful, preventing any conflicts over the last three decades. Unfortunately, after the controversial 2020 presidential election in Moldova, the political West managed to replace the then-incumbent Igor Dodon with its puppet Maia Sandu. Prior to her involvement in Moldovan politics, Sandu was a World Bank asset, working on turning Moldova into a (neo)colony.

Apart from this, her main job was to destroy Kishinev’s otherwise cordial relations with Moscow, which was to put the former Soviet republic firmly into the EU’s (and by extension NATO’s) orbit. This includes the deliberate undermining of press freedom under Brussels’ supervision, with Russian media being particularly targeted for suppression. In addition, Sandu has been promoting absurd conspiracy theories about Russia supposedly “trying to stage a coup with the help of Serbian football fans”. Understandably, the people of Moldova haven’t been quite happy with this, particularly after the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict escalated over two years ago, as they don’t want to see their country involved, directly or otherwise.

On March 7, the Brussels’ puppets in Kishinev even signed a military pact with Paris, once again highlighting France’s suicidal push for a direct confrontation with Russia. Macron even promised “unwavering support on security and defense issues”, obviously hinting at Transnistria. It should be noted that NATO is trying to spread its tentacles to Moldova, most likely in hopes of snatching Transnistria at some point. This would open the door for a more direct involvement in Ukraine, particularly the strategically important Odessa oblast. However, if Moldova ever becomes a NATO member (either through unification with Romania or direct accession), this would put the belligerent alliance directly on a collision course with Russia.

Namely, a “future NATO member” Moldova (or even Romania) would end up having Russian soldiers stationed on its territory. If the controversial Article 4 were to be invoked, then that would mean war between Russia and the political West. This is precisely why Brussels is directing Sandu to escalate with Moscow, as it would give her the excuse to formally request Russian troops to leave Transnistria. If this were to happen, Tiraspol would be left hanging, surrounded by hostile NATO satellite states and promptly neutralized. It would give the political West an actual, much-needed tactical and long-term (geo)political victory over Russia. However, precisely because of the strategic importance of the area the Kremlin is extremely unlikely to budge.

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Although Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has insistingly blamed India for the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters questioned Canada’s claim of an alleged “potential” link to the South Asian country. Although this suggests a minor split in the Five-Eyes intelligence alliance, it also demonstrates a coordinated information war by the alliance’s senior members.

Despite New Zealand’s membership in the Five-Eyes intelligence alliance with the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, Peters expressed scepticism about Canada’s evidence during an interview with The Indian Express. Peters, who entered government at the end of 2023 with the newly elected National Party, also stressed that he was not involved in the handling of the matter when Trudeau triggered a diplomatic crisis with New Delhi in September last year by accusing the country of killing Nijjar on Canadian soil.

“Well, I wasn’t here, it was handled by the previous government. But look, sometimes when you’re hearing Five-Eyes information, you’re hearing it and saying nothing. It is coming past you. You don’t know the value or the quality of it, but you’re pleased to have it. You don’t know whether there is going to be substantial material value or nothing. But the very, very critical information that matters… This was mainly handled by the previous government,” Peters said on March 13.

“As a trained lawyer, I look okay, so where’s the case? Where’s the evidence? Where’s the finding right here, right now? Well, there isn’t one,” he added.

Highlighting Canada’s lack of evidence against India marks the first instance of a Five-Eyes partner challenging claims regarding the Nijjar case, a designated terrorist in India who was shot and killed as he came out of a Gurdwara in Vancouver on June 18, 2023. Three months after the killing, Trudeau alleged Indian involvement in Nijjar’s killing, which New Delhi rejected as “absurd and motivated.”

Canada has not presented evidence to its claims over the killing, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has not named any suspects or made arrests in connection with Nijjar’s killing. Yet, despite this lack of evidence, Trudeau has continued to claim that the Indian government is behind the killing of a pro-Khalistan separatist leader who sought an independent state for Sikhs in northwest India.

Meanwhile, India ordered YouTube and X (formerly Twitter) to block access to a new documentary by Canadian public broadcaster CBC, which once again alleges India is behind the killing of Nijjar but without providing solid evidence.

The Indian government cited the Information Technology Act of 2000, which allows for the “intercept, monitor or decrypt any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer resource” if there is a threat to the “interest of sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognisable offence relating to above.”

In effect, India deems Canada to be spreading pro-separatist propaganda whilst also assigning blame without sufficient evidence.

YouTube told the CBC that “the content has now been blocked from view” on the India YouTube country site, but it is still available everywhere else.

At the same time, India’s actions were also aimed at X as they requested the social media platform to block access to the documentary.

“Indian law obligates X to withhold access to this content in India; however, the content remains available elsewhere,” X said in an email to the CBC. “We disagree with this action and maintain that freedom of expression should extend to these posts. Following the Indian legal process, we are in current communication with the Indian authorities.”

The request to YouTube and X follows India’s efforts in 2023 to the distribution of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question.

India recognises that there is an information war against the country from the Anglosphere, even if the South Asian country cooperates with the USA and Australia under the QUAD formation. Although India is important for the West in their attempts to counterbalance China, especially in the context of the two Asian giants having border disputes, the US and its closest allies, the UK and Canada, also recognise that India can turn into an economic and military juggernaut that primarily serves its own interests.

For this reason, although they cooperate with India at an economic level and in attempts to contain China, a vicious information war is being waged, whether by media platforms like The Washington Post and BBC or by the leaders of Washington’s junior partners like Canada’s Trudeau to spread unsubstantiated claims. The US assisted China’s rise, but as a counterbalance to the Soviet Union and to control the Asian country. This failed as China is independent. Now, the US wants India to counterbalance China but to remain in its sphere of influence, an endeavour that will also fail.

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British Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen last week called for the death penalty for Bill Gates and the “Covid cabal” which he said committed “crimes against humanity” during the Covid pandemic.

“Heads of governments around the world and others below them have engaged in what is tantamount to treason against the public,” declared Bridgen in response to a rebuttal from his colleague Penny Mordaunt, who is a long-term World Economic Forum (WEF) member.

During a round of Business Questions in the UK House of Commons, Bridgen said:

“I’ve always opposed capital punishment on the principle that it’s wrong to take a life so it can’t be right for the state to take a life in revenge. Events have caused me to reconsider my position.”

Bridgen continued:

“So can we have a debate on crimes against humanity and the appropriate punishment for those who perpetuate, collude and cover up for these atrocities, atrocities and crimes so severe that the ultimate punishment may be required?”

Business Questions are the oral questions to the Leader of the House that MPs are allowed to ask.

As expected, UK liberals, including Mordaunt, and media dismissed Bridgen as a “conspiracy theorist.”

“It is appropriate that the finale of this session, which has featured so heavily conspiracy theories, should fall to the honorable gentleman,” Mordaunt said of Bridgen.

Bridgen said he has reached out to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley and plans to organize a meeting where experts and whistleblowers will present evidence to demonstrate criminal activities conducted by senior members of the UK government and civil service during the pandemic.

Bridgen also said that a senior cabinet minister shared details of a plan to use what he referred to as “turbo cancer” to depopulate the world. According to Bridgen, this revelation unfolded in the tea room at Westminster Houses of Parliament. The unnamed minister allegedly conveyed that Bridgen would be “dead of cancer soon” due to being misled into taking the vaccine during the pandemic.

“You can speak out all you want,” the minister told Bridgen. “It doesn’t matter. You are vaccinated. You will be dead of cancer soon.”

Bridgen, who has served as Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire since 2010, has become a prominent voice in the fight against globalist authoritarianism in the UK.

Previously, Bridgen called on the House of Commons to call for the UK government to “immediately stop the mRNA vaccine booster program and initiate a full public inquiry into not only the vaccine harms but how every agency and institution set up to protect the public interest has failed so abysmally in its duties.”

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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) Vice President Michael Bueckert has issued the following statement in response to this evening’s vote by the House of Commons on an NDP Opposition Day motion on Palestine:

This evening’s vote by Parliament did not go nearly as far as we had hoped for, but is nonetheless a small step forward for ending Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. By a vote of 204-117, Parliament endorsed concrete measures to bring an end to the violence, including an end to military exports to Israel. The motion was passed with the support of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.

A last-minute backroom deal between the Liberal government and the NDP leadership means that the motion no longer contains several of the strongest provisions originally proposed by NDP MP McPherson, including recognition of the State of Palestine and sanctions on Israeli officials for inciting genocide.

CJPME is deeply disappointed that much of the language in the amended motion has been watered down or modified in a way that promotes false Israeli narratives and an acquiescence to the horrific status quo. Tens of thousands of Canadians had petitioned their MP in support of a resolution that suddenly ceased to exist. The watering down of the NDP resolution weakens the significance of Parliament’s vote, even if it was a major concession forced by the Liberal government to ensure its passage.

While the final motion adopted by Parliament no longer called for the total suspension of all trade in military goods and technology with Israel, it called on Canada to “cease the further authorization and transfer of arms exports to Israel to ensure compliance with Canada’s arms export regime.”

This policy is critically urgent in light of evidence that Canada exported a record-breaking $28.5 Million in military goods to Israel in the first three months after October 7. Canada has since ‘paused’ export approvals due to the risk that they could be used to violate human rights. With the passage of this motion, the government has effectively promised to adopt a clear policy to restrict exports, including for already-issued permits, not just a temporary pause on approvals. While imperfect, this is a tangible victory on the road to a Canadian two-way arms embargo with Israel. The NDP must not rest on its laurels and continue to fight Canada’s relationship with the Israeli military-industrial complex.

The Trudeau government must immediately implement the democratic will of Parliament by adopting these demands, and ignore the backlash from those who seek to vilify this motion, including the far-right Israeli government itself. Moving forward, CJPME will be following this government’s actions closely and providing advice on how to implement the motion, including by promoting a whole-of-government approach to ending Canadian involvement in illegal settlements.

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With a 75% voter turnout, 87% of the turnout voted for Putin.

No, the election was not rigged.

Americans are so accustomed to their elections being rigged that they think all other countries’ elections are rigged also. The whore American media instantly began the required chant: “a fishy election.”

Of course, American elections are never fishy, not even when under cover of darkness vote totals are suddenly reversed.

The election turnout is high in Russia because Putin, like Ronald Reagan and unlike Biden, is a leader who focuses on unifying the country. From a Russian national perspective, there is little, if anything, about which to disagree with Putin. His recent address to the Russian people shows his concern as well as the active measures he is implementing to support families and soldiers. It is rare for a country to have a leader who is not trying to survive being in office or using the office for his personal benefit.

There is no hope for US/Russian relations. The budget and power of the US military/security complex, a powerful lobby encompassing the armaments industry, the Congress elected by campaign contributions, and the CIA and FBI, depends on having an enemy. Russia is the enemy of choice. Americans were trained by decades of Cold War that there is a “Russian threat.”

Another reason is that US foreign policy in the Middle East is controlled by the Israel Lobby, second in power only to the US military/security complex and often united with it. Israel’s interests in the Middle East differ completely from Russia’s interests. Israel’s interest is the destruction of Iran, which would open a pathway for CIA “jihadis” to flow into the Russian Federation and the former Central Asian provinces of the Soviet Union. Instead of one Ukraine, there would be many.

Putin has the concept of good and evil. He is learning that in the West he faces evil. The Russian Church sees it as well and supports him.

Some Russians are still influenced by the American propaganda from “Voice of America” and “Radio Free Europe” during the Cold War of the 20th century. But as the previous lack of political support for Alexei Navalny and the absence of support for Putin’s challengers demonstrate, the Russian people understand that they face a threat from Washington’s empire, the response to which requires national unity.

Meanwhile in the US the Democrats and the corporations have the borders wide open in order to replace higher cost American employees and Republican voters. Unity in America and throughout the Western World has been destroyed by Identity Politics. In the Western World no government represents the ethnic base of the country. Governments only represent the elite ruling interests. President Trump tried to change that, and we have seen what happened to him.

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There has been a lot of hectic international activity in the Horn of Africa region this year. As the Houthis increased their attacks on several ships in the Red Sea to create pressure for stopping Israeli aggression in Gaza, the strategic importance of the Horn of Africa was re-emphasized with a new cutting edge prompting various activities on the part of various stakeholders. 

The US government has decided to set up 5 military bases for the Danab Brigade in Somalia—which is described as a US sponsored Special Ops Force. This is meant to help this brigade to improve its counter-terrorism abilities in dealing with the Al-Shabab terror group. However analysts are seeing this also in the context of the growing problems in the Red Sea region as Somalia is located in strategically important proximity to the Red Sea and more particularly its Baab al Mandeb through which so much of the international sea trade traffic connecting Europe and Asia passes. 

Secondly, Ethiopia has reached an agreement with Somaliland, the breakaway part of Somalia, to obtain about 20 km of coastland on lease, while at the same time Ethiopia is likely to recognize the independent status of Somaliland. At present some countries have diplomatic presence in Somaliland but have not recognized Somaliland as an independent country. So a question that has been raised is whether this will not lead to increasing tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia as from the point of view Somalia the land that is being leased still belongs to Somalia. Recognition of Somaliland’s independence by Egypt may have the same effect of increasing tensions. However Ethiopia which invaded Somalia around 2006-07 has sought to downplay tensions saying that following the secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia and its emergence as an independent country in 1993 Ethiopia needs some access to sea for its economic and trade interests and it is only trying to fulfill this need without having any aggressive motive.

Thirdly Turkiye has reached agreement with Somalia for strengthening its security needs as well as its own strategic presence in the region. UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also in the process of making somewhat similar moves.

These recent political chess games are likely to add to the tensions of a volatile region which had already had more than its share of tensions. Eriteria has already emerged as an independent country after fighting for this against Ethiopia for over 3 decades (1960-1990). Ethiopia has been engaged in suppressing another secessionist movement in recent years. Somaliland has also separated from Somalia for practical purpose although this is not formally recognized by the international community. The activities of the terror group Al Shabab have been a source of much disruption and uncertainty. At the same time unfortunately big power roles in the region including proxy wars have also caused massive distress. The roots of at least some of the terrorism can be traced to highly objectionable activities of some of the big powers particularly the USA. Earlier of course colonial forces of various European forces particularly Italy had caused enormous distress in this region.

All this war and violence have taken place at a time when climate change and worsening disasters have been creating very difficult conditions for the rural people including the pastoral and farming communities. Due to violence, war and terror, there were increasing difficulties in sustaining the otherwise well-developed traditional methods of sustaining livelihoods. To give an example, how can nomadic pastoral groups migrate from one pace to another when there is violence all over? Disruption of pastoralism also affects farming due to intricate relationships.

The greater part of the Horn of Africa region has been seeing a steady worsening of hunger and starvation, as four years of rain failure have tested the limits of the coping mechanisms of people.

In Somalia, a country of around 16 million people, nearly 260,000 people are reported to have died in the famine of 2010-11. The international community was alerted to the serious threat at a very late stage then. More recently there have been more warnings from the United Nations and other sources but nevertheless aid commitments are much lesser than actual needs.

Earlier Somalia used to get much of its food imports from Russia and Ukraine, but these supplies have become very difficult in more recent times. The situation for some time has been particularly serious in southern and central parts, particularly Baidoa and Burhakaba, according to reports. A recent UN report said that 3 million animals have died in recent times. 

There is also the problem of humanitarian workers not having easy access to areas affected by conflicts. Some of these areas have a large number of internally displaced persons.  

The situation of hunger is also reported to be serious in Ethiopia, particularly its southern and eastern parts, and in Kenya, particularly northern and eastern parts. In mid-August 2022, the World Food Programme stated that nearly 22 million people are at risk of starvation in these three countries which now face the worst drought in 40 years following four years of rain failures. These three countries (Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya) have a total population of around 185 million people. In addition we must include the needs of the people of Eritrea.

However some agencies refer to a Greater Horn of Africa region, including other countries Djibouti, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda as well, sometimes including yet others. In August the WHO released a statement saying that 37 million people including 7 million children less than five years of age are at serious risk. While serious drought is the main issue in the bulk of this region, South Sudan has suffered from three years of consecutive flooding, this statement said. Nearly 8.3 million people here, or almost 75% of the population, face serious risks. During the last year, internal fighting by armed groups has added to the woes of Sudan, causing massive displacement once again.

It is strange indeed that in a region which is experiencing such a serious situation, regarding which repeated warnings too are being voiced by the United Nations, there has not yet been adequate commitment of essential aid funds from various parts of the world. A well-funded system of ensuring relief should have been in place by now, not having to worry much about the funding part so as to be able to devote more attention to detailed planning, but unfortunately the situation we still see is that even essential funding is lagging behind. In addition there have been complaints of flaws in the relief system, for instance relief grain being given at a time when it had an adverse impact on grain price received by farmers. Such mistakes should be corrected, and it should be very clear that big power rivalries or political considerations will not stand in the way of relief supplies reaching the most needy and deserving people.   

If one looks at all the frivolous and wasteful expenditure taking place in some of the richest countries, what is needed to meet the most essential needs of the people of this region (suffering from some of the worst disaster situations and the worst impacts of climate change, resulting in turn in very serious hunger/starvation situation and impending famine) is only a very small share of this , but even this is not becoming available readily and the aid commitments still (at a time when several areas are close to famine) are falling much short of what is required.

Of course just now the most pressing need is to somehow make available adequate food and meet  other basic needs as well as to set in place relief disbursement systems with community involvement so that all those who need urgent help can be covered. But later there is also a clear need to go beyond this and also look at how time-honored coping mechanisms and survival strategies for difficult times have been disrupted due to not just conflicts but also distorted development strategies and projects pushed by big business interests. While the need for having development priorities and patterns which are most appropriate keeping in view local conditions has always been there, this need has increased all the more in recent times of climate change. The bigger challenge ahead is to move towards such development patterns which are most in keeping with local needs and conditions. 

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US Rejects Russian Ceasefire Proposal for Ukraine

By Kyle Anzalone, March 19, 2024

Russia’s attempt to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, along the current lines of control, was met with a firm rejection in Washington. US officials reiterated their stance, stating that they would only engage in talks with Moscow with Kiev’s consent.

War on Gaza: Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes

By Jonathan Cook, March 19, 2024

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid.

Conquest, War, Famine and Death

By Prof. Vijay Prashad, March 19, 2024

The four horsemen of the apocalypse described in the Bible’s Book of Revelation — Conquest, War, Famine and Death — are now galloping from one end of Gaza to the other. 

Enough Is Enough: USA Must Listen to Its Own Rational and Caring Experts on War and Peace

By Bharat Dogra, March 18, 2024

It is important to note that in the understanding of someone who has seen the inner workings of the political system, the impact of corporate funding, in this particular context the funding by the powerful arms industry but in other contexts also by the oil industry, the medical industry etc., can be so serious as to change in basic ways the policy and internal democracy of a leading political party.

Common Sense and Lessons Learned From COVID

By Dr. Emanuel Garcia, March 18, 2024

I note that New Zealand, which counts itself among the most liberal globalist nations on the planet, and whose citizens shake their heads at the notion of a ‘border wall’ in the United States, is an impregnable fortress when it comes to immigration.

Polish Farmers in Ongoing Fight for Their Existence

By Julian Rose, March 18, 2024

The provocative and violent behavior of the uniformed services, whose sole task is to ensure the peaceful conduct of the protest, is unacceptable. Recordings available to the public confirm provocations on the part of the police and reveal a number of irregularities in the actions taken by them.

HIV mRNA Vaccine Has Failed Phase I Trials: Dr. William Makis

By Dr. William Makis, March 18, 2024

The entire LNP/mRNA Vaccine field is a fraud. It’s a failed technology with a terrible side effect profile. The entire field now depends on the suppression of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine injuries & deaths, which are now in the millions (5.3 million in WHO VigiAccess alone), so we are no longer dealing with scientists but con artists.

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Russia’s attempt to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, along the current lines of control, was met with a firm rejection in Washington. US officials reiterated their stance, stating that they would only engage in talks with Moscow with Kiev’s consent.

According to Reuters, in late 2023 and early 2024, Russian intermediaries reached out to US officials seeking to establish a ceasefire. The Kremlin was hoping to freeze the fighting along the current lines of control. “The contacts with the Americans came to nothing,” an unnamed senior Russian official told the outlet.

Russian officials said some progress was made, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan agreed to a call with his counterpart in the Kremlin. Putin’s adviser, Yuri Ushakov, suggested the idea of a ceasefire to Sullivan, but Sullivan refused to talk about Ukraine.

Putin has also suggested talks during public remarks, including in his interview with Tucker Carlson.

US officials speaking with Reuters said there was no formal contact with Russian negotiators and stressed that Washington would not engage in talks with Moscow without Kiev. However, some admitted that Russian officials had floated talks in an unofficial manner.

The Joe Biden administration has steadfastly refused to engage in talks with the Kremlin. Before the war in Ukraine broke out, Moscow sent Washington the outlines of a deal to prevent the war. A Biden admin staffer later acknowledged that the White House refused to negotiate with Russia on Putin’s top issues, including NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe and the alliance’s expansion to Ukraine.

During the first two months of the war, Moscow and Kiev engaged in talks hosted by US allies Turkey and Israel. Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, and Israeli officials have all confirmed that a deal was nearly reached; however, the US and UK pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to forgo a deal with Putin.

Washington’s current refusal to talk with Moscow comes as the war is going poorly for Kiev, with Ukrainian forces losing significant territory to Russia in recent months. Additionally, Kiev lacks the manpower and ammunition to mount an effective defense.

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told Congress on Monday that Ukraine’s military weaknesses have been exposed.

“Ukraine’s retreat from Avdiivka and their struggle to stave off further territorial losses in the past few weeks have exposed the erosion of Ukraine’s military capabilities with the declining availability of external military aid,” she said.

CIA Director William Burns also issued a dire assessment of the conflict, saying the Ukrainians “are not running out of courage and tenacity. They’re running out of ammunition. And we’re running out of time to help them.”

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The UN’s child relief agency said on Sunday that over 13,000 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip and that many more could be dead under the rubble.

“Thousands more have been injured, or we can’t even determine where they are. They may be stuck under rubble,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, according to Reuters. “We haven’t seen that rate of death among children in almost any other conflict in the world.”

Gaza’s Health Ministry has said over 31,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and has consistently stated that around 70% of the casualties are women and children.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin previously said over 25,000 women and children had been killed in Gaza, but the Pentagon walked his comment back, claiming he was talking about all Palestinians killed.

Russel said that she visited a hospital ward where children were suffering from severe malnutrition and said the place was quiet because “the children, the babies … don’t even have the energy to cry.”

Separately, the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, said one in three children under the age of two in Gaza is now acutely malnourished. “Children’s malnutrition is spreading fast and reaching unprecedented levels in Gaza,” UNRWA said. Children have already started to starve to death in Gaza, with dozens of malnutrition deaths already reported.

Despite the horrific situation and Israel’s continued restrictions on aid, the US is still providing unconditional military aid to support the slaughter and starvation campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza.

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Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised.

No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid.

Last week, an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz disclosed that some 27 Palestinians seized off Gaza’s streets over the past five months are known to have died during interrogations inside Israel.

Some were denied medical treatment. But most are likely to have been tortured to death.

Three months ago, a Haaretz editorial warned that Israeli jails “must not become execution facilities for Palestinians”.

Israeli TV channels have been excitedly taking viewers on tours of detention centres, showing the appalling conditions Palestinians are kept in, as well as the psychological and physical abuse they are subjected to.

An Israeli judge recently called the makeshift cages in which Palestinians are held “unsuitable for humans”.

Remember, a large proportion of the 4,000 or so Palestinians taken hostage by Israel since 7 October – probably the vast majority – are civilians, like the men and boys paraded through Gaza’s streets or held in a stadium stripped of clothing before being dragged off to a dark cell in Israel.

Women Abused

According to Israeli media, many dozens of Palestinian women – including pregnant women – have been seized too, but in their case off camera.

Presumably, Israel has wished to avoid undermining its careful messaging that only Hamas weaponises violence against women.

But according to United Nations legal experts, Palestinian women are suffering the most degrading forms of abuse at the hands of the Israeli military.

The experts observed that Palestinian women and girls in detention were reportedly being subjected to “multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers.

“At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence.”

Soldiers are also believed to have taken photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances and then uploaded them online.

Palestinian women and girls in Gaza are also reported by their families to have gone missing after contact with the Israeli army.

“There are disturbing reports of at least one female infant forcibly transferred by the Israeli army into Israel, and of children being separated from their parents, whose whereabouts remain unknown,” they said.

Beatings, Waterboarding

A separate report by the UN last week revealed that 21 of its staff – humanitarian aid workers – had been snatched by Israel. They were then tortured to extract confessions, most likely false, of involvement in Hamas’ 7 October attack. Their torture included beatings, waterboarding and threats to family members.

Those confessions were cited by western allies as the grounds – in fact, the only known grounds – for cutting off funding to the UN relief agency Unrwa, the last lifeline for Gaza’s starving population. It was these claims, extracted through torture, that helped Israel rationalise its imposing of a famine on Gaza.

Palestinian men rounded up and stripped by Israeli forces in Gaza before being taken to an undisclosed location (Screengrab/X)

 

Of the 1,000 detainees subsequently released, 29 were children, one as young as six, and 80 women. Some were reported to have cancer and chronic illnesses such as Alzheimer’s.

According to the UN investigation, Palestinians reported severe punishment beatings, being caged with attack dogs, and suffering sexual assault. Physical evidence – such as broken ribs, dislocated shoulders, bite marks, and burns – was still visible many weeks later.

Executions, Human Shields

These horrors, of course, are not just taking place in cells and interrogation rooms inside Israel. Gaza is being subjected to astonishing levels of brutality and sadism from Israeli troops – quite aside from the carpet bombing and enforced starvation of civilians.

Israeli snipers have fired into Gaza’s hospitals, killing medical staff and patients there.

The Israeli military has used Palestinians as human shields, including one man sent into a hospital, his hands bound, to announce an Israeli order to evacuate the premises. Israeli forces executed him on his return.

Those trying to follow such evacuation orders, waving white flags, have been shot at.

Medical facilities have been repeatedly invaded by the Israeli military in stark violation of international law. Those who could not be evacuated, such as premature babies, have been left to die unattended, even while Israeli soldiers were occupying the building.

This week, the BBC interviewed medical staff who reported being tortured, savagely beaten and having attack dogs set on them inside the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis after Israeli soldiers stormed it. 

One, Dr Ahmed Abu Sabha, had his hands broken. He told the BBC: “They put me on a chair and it was like a gallows. I heard sounds of ropes, so I thought I was going to be executed.”

At another stage, he and other detainees were beaten in the back of a truck, while only in their underwear. They were taken to a gravel pit, where they were made to kneel blindfolded. They believed they were about to be executed. 

During his eight days as hostage, Sabha was never questioned. 

Dozens more medics are believed missing, presumed to still be in Israeli detention. 

Photographs published by the BBC also show patients in the grounds of Nasser hospital in beds with their hands bound tightly above their heads. 

Those who died were left to decompose by Israeli soldiers. A doctor there, Dr Hatim Rabaa, told the BBC: “Patients were screaming, ‘Please remove them [the corpses] from here’. I was telling them, ‘It isn’t in my hands’.”

Other examples of murderous cruelty are documented daily. Unarmed Palestinians, including those waving white flags, have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Palestinian parents have been executed in cold blood in front of their children. There have been repeated episodes of Israeli forces gunning down en masse desperate Palestinians trying to reach aid, as happened yet again this week. And even Israeli hostages trying to escape their captors have been killed by the very Israeli soldiers they were trying to surrender to.

These are just some of the cases of Israeli sadism and barbarity that have surfaced briefly in western media coverage, soon to be forgotten.

Wiping Gaza Off the Map

The stomach-turning double standards are impossible to ignore. 

The western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence. Claims that Hamas beheaded babies or put them in ovens – emblazoned on front pages – were later found to be nonsense.

Accusations against Hamas have been endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the carpet bombing and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation.

But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out.

If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at the acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? 

This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. 

Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide.

The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. 

If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? 

And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? 

Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless.

While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

Hamas ‘Started It’

There have been two, largely implicit defences for this glaring imbalance in western priorities. Neither stands up to even the most cursory scrutiny. 

One is the argument that Hamas “started it” – insinuated in the endless claim that, in destroying Gaza, Israel has been “responding” or “retaliating” to the violence of 7 October.

This is a justification for killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and starving two million more that should never have been let out of the playground. But worse, it is patent nonsense. Hamas did not initiate anything on 7 October, except for handing Israel a pretext to wreck Gaza.

The enclave has been under a crushing siege for 17 years, in which its land, sea and air were patrolled constantly by Israel. Its population was denied the essentials of life. They had no freedom of movement apart from inside their cage. 

Long before the current Israeli-induced famine, Israel’s trade restrictions had ensured high levels of malnutrition among Gaza’s children. Most exhibited too the scars of deep psychological trauma from constant and massive attacks by Israel on Gaza.

Biden crows about building a “temporary pier” – weeks or months down the road – to bring aid into Gaza that is desperately needed now. But there is a reason the enclave lacks a seaport and airport. Israel bombed the only airport back in 2001, long before Hamas took charge of Gaza. It has been attacking and killing fishermen trawling just off Gaza’s coast for years.

Israel has refused to allow Gaza to connect to the world – and break free of Israeli control – ever since. 

Hamas started nothing on 7 October. It was simply a new, and particularly gruesome phase in what has been decades of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s belligerent occupation of Gaza. 

Bogus Narrative

The other implicit defence of western establishments constantly stressing Hamas’ barbarism over Israel’s is that the nature of those atrocities is said to be categorically different – in the apples and pears sense.

Hamas supposedly demonstrated a degree of sadism in its killing spree on 7 October inside Israel that marks it out from Israel’s far larger killing spree in Gaza. 

That has been the basis for every media interview that requires guests to “condemn” Hamas before they are allowed to express concern about the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. No one is asked to condemn Israel. 

It is the basis too for permitting Israeli spokespeople to claim unchallenged that Israel targets only Hamas, not civilians, even while some three-quarters of Gaza’s dead are women and children.

On the BBC’s evening news at the weekend, presenter Clive Myrie made precisely this preposterous assertion as he intoned that since 7 October, “Israel launched a relentless bombing campaign targeting members of Hamas.” 

But the latest revelations of the 27 reported deaths in Israeli torture centres and the testimonies of beaten medics from Nasser Hospital confirm how bogus this entire narrative framing by the western media is – one intended to mislead and misinform audiences. 

Israel claims it is targeting Hamas, but its actions tell an entirely different story. Famine will kill off the sick and vulnerable long before it does Hamas fighters. 

The truth is, Israel is not primarily eradicating Hamas. It is eradicating Gaza. Its crimes are at least as cruel and savage as anything Hamas did on 7 October – and its atrocities have been carried out on a far larger scale and for far longer. 

Western establishments and their media have been waging a giant campaign of misdirection for the past five months, as they have against Palestinians over previous years and decades. Western publics have been encouraged to look in the wrong direction. 

Until that changes, the men, women and children of Gaza will continue to pay the heaviest of prices at the hands of a vengeful, sadistic Israeli military.

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Israel has once again stormed Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital. Israel spent the first few weeks of the Gaza assault churning out fake audio clips of Hamas fighters exonerating the IDF from attacking hospitals and healthcare workers, and has spent all the months since just unapologetically attacking hospitals and healthcare workers.

On the morning of October 18th, Israel Defence Forces released this video https://t.co/0edVN249Nr. https://t.co/8gAKfOuJj7 performed an audio analysis and found that this recording was manipulated and cannot be used as a credible source of evidence. 1/4

— earshot.ngo (@earshot_ngo) October 20, 2023

CNN’s Dana Bash just gave an adoring rimjob of an interview to Benjamin Netanyahu, telling him “You’re not Hamas. Israel is a democracy, and as a Jewish state supports and believes in every life mattering.”

If Netanyahu was interviewed by an actual journalist he’d be forcefully interrogated with extremely uncomfortable questions about his genocidal atrocities in Gaza. When Netanyahu goes on CNN the anchor recites all of his pro-genocide talking points for him so he that doesn’t have to.

The underlying assumption behind the claim that Hamas needs to be eliminated is that Israel should be able to inflict nonstop violence on Palestinians day after day, year after year, generation after generation, without ever receiving any violence in return.

You can’t equate the violence of the oppressor with the violence of the oppressed. They’re not the same, and the oppressor is the ultimate source of the violence from both sides.

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Say you’ve got a group of blue guys and a group of green guys. If the blue guys have power over the green guys and are constantly oppressing them, stealing from them, using violence on them and generally making life intolerable for the people they have power over, then the blue guys have no moral standing to get indignant and outraged when the green guys start responding to this with their own violence. That would be a ridiculous and illogical position for anyone to take.

In fact, if you look at what happened in our hypothetical scenario here, the blue guys are morally responsible for both their own violence AND the violence of the green guys, because they created the dynamics in which both happened. Had the blue guys not been oppressing and abusing the green guys, the green guys would not have responded with violence.

And you can argue “But the green guys aren’t making things any better with their violence! It’s just making the blue guys madder and more violent!” But that’s completely irrelevant to the question of responsibility, and to the fact that if the blue guys stop their violence and abuse there will be a cessation of violence from both sides.

The solution therefore is not to spend any energy whatsoever yelling at the green guys to stop being violent, the solution is to demand the blue guys stop being violent, abusive and oppressive toward the green guys — because that is the source of violence between the two groups. The violence of the blue guys is a cause, while the violence of the green guys is only an effect. You cannot therefore regard them in the same way, either morally or practically.

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Niger kicking the French military out of the country was interesting and potentially significant. Niger kicking out both France and the US is a major development. To borrow a line from Django Unchained, gentlemen you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.

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The US is backing a genocide and waging a proxy war against a nuclear superpower while the American people struggle with stagnant wages, a broken healthcare system and soaring costs of living, so naturally Americans are being told they need to be very, very worried about China.

Right wingers who regard themselves as bold anti-establishment freethinkers are currently defending the world’s most powerful government supplying bombs to drop on a giant concentration camp with arguments that ultimately boil down to “But the TV would never lie to me!”

If opposition to an active genocide shocks and offends you, that’s a character flaw, and you should change that about yourself. If it shocks and offends you because of your religious identity, that too is a character flaw. Supporting mass murder because of your religion is not a legitimate position to have.

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The four horsemen of the apocalypse described in the Bible’s Book of Revelation — Conquest, War, Famine and Death — are now galloping from one end of Gaza to the other. 

Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini presented his startling report on the situation in Gaza (Palestine) to the U.N. General Assembly on March 4. 

In just 150 days, Lazzarini said, Israeli forces have killed more than 30,000 Palestinians, nearly half of them children. Those who survive continue to face Israel’s attacks and are afflicted with the traumas of war. 

“Hunger is everywhere,” Lazzarini said. “A man-made famine is looming.” A few days after Lazzarini made his blunt assessment, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported that child malnutrition levels in the northern part of the strip are “particularly extreme.”

The U.N.’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Palestine Jamie McGoldrick said that “hunger has reached catastrophic levels” and “children are dying from hunger.” 

By the end of the first week of March, at least 20 children had died due to starvation. Among them was 10-year-old Yazan al-Kafarna of Beit Hanoun (northern Gaza), who died in Rafah (southern Gaza) on the same day that Lazzarini spoke at the U.N.

The image of Yazan’s emaciated body tore into the already battered conscience of our world. Story upon ugly story pile up alongside the rubble produced by Israeli bombing.

Dr. Mohammed Salha of Al-Awda hospital, where Yazan died, says that many pregnant women suffering from malnutrition have birthed stillborn foetuses or have required caesarean operations to remove them — without anaesthetics.

Mohammed Sami Qariqa, 1999–2023, from the exhibition “Gaza International Airport,” 2022.

 

A ceasefire is nowhere on the horizon.

Nor is any real commitment to get aid into Gaza, particularly in the north where hunger has taken the greatest toll.

(On Feb. 28, U.N. World Food Programme Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau told the Security Council that there is a “real prospect of famine [in northern Gaza] by May, with over 500,000 people at risk if the threat is allowed to materialise.”

Around 155 trucks of aid are entering Gaza per day — well below the 500-truck daily capacity at the crossing — with only a few of them going to northern Gaza.

Israeli soldiers have been ruthless. On Feb. 29, when aid trucks arrived at the Al-Nabulsi roundabout (on the southwestern edge of Gaza City, in northern Gaza) and desperate people rushed to them, Israeli troops opened fire and killed at least 118 unarmed civilians. This is now known as the Flour Massacre.

Airdrops of food are not only inadequate in volume, but they have resulted in their own heartbreaks, with some parcels landing in the Mediterranean Sea and others crushing at least five people to death.

As if from nowhere, U.S. President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address on March 7 that his country would build a “temporary pier” in southern Gaza to facilitate the entry of aid through the sea.

The context for this decision, which Biden omitted, is clear: Israel is not permitting the bare minimum of humanitarian aid to pass through land crossings, Israel destroyed the Gaza harbour on Oct. 10 and Israel pulverised the Gaza airport at Dahaniya in 2006.

This decision is certainly not from nowhere. It also comes in the midst of the campaign for Democrats in the U.S. to vote “uncommitted” in the ongoing primaries to make it clear that U.S. complicity in the genocide will negatively impact Biden’s re-election effort.

Although one loaf of bread is better than none, these loaves of bread will come to Gaza stained in blood.

There is a hollowness to Biden’s pronouncement. Once aid arrives at this “temporary pier,” how will it be distributed? The main institutions in Gaza capable of any mass-scale distribution are UNRWA — now defunded by most Western countries — and the Hamas-led Palestinian government — which Western countries have set out to destroy.

Since neither will be able to distribute humanitarian aid on the ground (and, as Biden said, “no U.S. boots will be on the ground”), what will become of the aid?

Fathi Ghaben, 1947–2024, “Ray of Glory,” n.d.

UNRWA has been at work since shortly after U.N. resolution 302 (IV) was passed in 1949, since which time it has been the main organisation to provide relief to Palestinian refugees (of which there were 750,000 when UNRWA began its operations and of which there are 5.9 million today).

UNRWA’s mandate is precise: it must ensure the well-being of Palestinians but cannot operate to permanently settle them outside their homes. That is because U.N. resolution 194 affords Palestinians the “right to return” to their homes from which they were ejected by the Israeli state.

Although UNRWA’s main work has been in the field of education (two thirds of its 30,000 staff work for UNRWA schools), it is also the organisation most equipped to handle aid distribution.

The West allowed for the creation of UNRWA not because of any particular concern for Palestinians, but because — as the U.S. Department of State noted in 1949 — the “conditions of unrest and despair would provide a most fertile hotbed for the implantation of Communism.”

That is why the West provided funds for UNRWA (although, since 1966, this has come with severe restrictions). In early 2024, most Western countries cut their funding to UNRWA based on an unsubstantiated accusation tying UNRWA employees to the 7 October attack.

Though it has recently come to light that the Israeli army tortured UNRWA employees, such as through waterboarding and beatings, and forced them to make these confessions, most of the countries that cut their funding based on these grounds have failed to reinstate it.

The exceptions are Canada and Sweden and Australia, which have recently resumed their funding.  [The EU on March 1 announced it would restore and add emergency funding. Belgium, France, Ireland, Norway, Slovenia and Spain never suspended aid.]

Meanwhile, several Global South countries – led by Brazil – have increased their contributions. 

Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees who ran UNRWA from 2010 to 2014, recently said that if “UNRWA is not permitted to work, or is defunded, I can hardly see who can substitute [it].” 

No humanitarian relief programme for Palestinians in Gaza is possible in the short run without UNRWA’s full partnership. Anything else is a public relations sham.

Majd Arandas, 1994–2023, “My Grandmother,” 2022.

 

Reading about the famine in Gaza, I remembered a poem written by Wislawa Szymborska (1923–2012) about the Szebnie concentration camp in Jaslo (southern Poland), which held Polish Jews, Romani people and Soviet prisoners of war from 1941 until the camp was liberated by the Red Army in September 1944.

Brutal, horrible violence was inflicted by the Nazis at Szebnie, particularly against the thousands of Jews who were killed there in mass executions. Szymborska’s poem, “Starvation Camp Near Jaslo” (1962), does not flinch from the wretchedness surrounding her, nor from the possibility of humanity for which she yearned.

Write it down. Write it. With ordinary ink
on ordinary paper: they weren’t given food,
they all died of hunger. All. How many?
It’s a large meadow. How much grass
per head? Write down: I don’t know.
History rounds off skeletons to zero.
A thousand and one is still only a thousand.
That one seems never to have existed:
a fictitious foetus, an empty cradle,
a primer opened for no one,
air that laughs, cries, and grows,
stairs for a void bounding out to the garden,
no one’s spot in the ranks.

It became flesh right here, on this meadow.
But the meadow’s silent, like a witness who’s been bought.
Sunny. Green. A forest close at hand,
with wood to chew on, drops beneath the bark to drink –
a view served round the clock,
until you go blind. Above, a bird
whose shadow flicked its nourishing wings
across their lips. Jaws dropped,
teeth clattered.

At night a sickle glistened in the sky
and reaped the dark for dreamed-of loaves.
Hands came flying from blackened icons,
each holding an empty chalice.
A man swayed
on a grill of barbed wire.
Some sang, with dirt in their mouths. That lovely song
about war hitting you straight in the heart.
Write how quiet it is.
Yes.

The paintings and photograph in this newsletter were created by Palestinian artists killed in Gaza during Israel’s genocide. They have died, but we must live to tell their stories.

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Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a senior non-resident fellow atChongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest books are Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism and, with Noam Chomsky, The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and the Fragility of U.S. Power. 

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On March 15, the next stage of an intriguing legal process seeking to hold the Biden administration accountable for its failure to prevent, as well as being complicit in, alleged acts of genocide taking place in Gaza, was taken.  It all stems from a lawsuit filed last November in the US District Court for the Northern District of California by the Center for Constitutional Rights, representing a number of Palestinian human rights organisations including Palestinians in Gaza and the United States.

The lawsuit sought an order from the court “requiring that the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense adhere to their duty to prevent, and not further, the unfolding genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza.”  The relevant duty arose by virtue of the UN Genocide Convention of 1948, which made obligations under it “judicially enforceable as a peremptory norm of customary international law.”

The complaint further alleged that the genocidal conditions in Gaza had “so far been made possible because of unconditional support given [to Israel] by the named official-capacity defendants in this case,” namely, President Joseph Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Such legal challenges can face challenges.  Can the foreign policy of a state, which is the purview of the executive, fall within the scope of judicial review?  In some countries, this has been shown to be the case – consider the Dutch appeals court decision compelling the government of the Netherlands to halt the transfer of F-35 parts to Israel for fear it would fall foul of the Genocide Convention.  “The Netherlands,” the court found, “is obligated to prohibit the export of military goods if there is a clear risk of serious violations of international humanitarian law.”

In the US, the separation of powers walls off judicial interference in matters of foreign policy.  Jeffrey S. White, in dismissing the case at first instance, admitted it was the “most difficult” of his career, conceding that the factual grounds asserted by the plaintiffs seemed largely “uncontroverted”.  He also acknowledged the legal noise and interest caused by South Africa’s actionin the International Court of Justice against Israel, one contending that Israel’s conduct against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip satisfied the elements of genocide.

While the ICJ is unlikely to reach a conclusion on the matter any time soon, it issued an interim order of provisional measures explicitly putting Israel on notice to comply with the Genocide Convention, punish those responsible for directly and publicly inciting genocide, permit basic humanitarian assistance and essential services to the Gaza Strip, preserve relevant evidence pertaining to potential genocidal acts and report to the ICJ on its compliance within a month.

In White’s words, “the undisputed evidence before this Court comports with the finding of the ICJ and indicates that the current treatment of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military may plausibly constitute a genocide in violation of international law.”  But to compel the US government to cease aid to Israel of a financial and military matter were matters “intimately related to foreign policy and national security”. The judiciary was, reasoned White, “not equipped with the intelligence or the acumen necessary to make foreign policy decisions on behalf of the government.”

On March 8, an appeal was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel Van Der Hout LLP in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arguing that aiding and abetting genocide can never be seen as a legitimate, unquestioned policy decision. The federal judiciary was duty bound to uphold the Genocide Convention, one that had taken on “an urgent, even existential dimension when the legal violation at issue is facilitating and even accelerating the destruction of an entire people.”

Within a matter of days, eight amicus briefs were submitted supporting the Palestinian plaintiffs.   In one brief, eleven constitutional, federal courts and international law scholars submit in severe fashion that “affirming the district court’s decision would create serious mischief and uncertainty by contradicting this Court’s and the US Supreme Court’s political question jurisprudence and degrading the essential judicial role in interpreting and applying the law, including norms of international law, treaties, and their implementing statutes.”

While Justice White had noted the obvious proposition that foreign policy remained a matter for the political branches of government, with disputes on the subject being nonjusticiable, “that principle was not actually at issue in this case.”  The Supreme Court had recognised that “legal disputes that touch on foreign affairs are not automatically policy disputes or political questions.” In this instance, the district court had “eschewed its responsibility to closely analyze the actual issues presented in favor of abstraction, generality, and already rejected misconceptions about what is and is not a political question.”

Another brief from seventeen former diplomats, service members and intelligence officers argues that “courts may decide whether an act violates a law, and that a finding that they cannot would harm US foreign policy.”  The authors accepted “for present purposes that the district court’s factual finding, that the Israeli military’s conduct may plausibly constitute genocide, accurately reflects the record and controls at this juncture.” Again, White was taken to task for not appreciating the distinction between the “wisdom” of foreign policy – a nonjusticiable issue – and “cases that question the legality of foreign policy, because applying the law to determine the legality of government action is the judiciary’s responsibility.”

Most impressive for the plaintiffs was the filing by 139 human rights organisations, bar associations and social justice movement lawyers reiterating the point that “allegations of the United States’ violations of the duties to prevent genocide and avoid complicity in its commission are clearly justiciable.”  International law, by virtue of its “decentralized” nature, placed reliance upon States “to enforce the obligations to which they have consented, imposing a primary duty to the domestic courts of each State to ensure the compliance of their executive and legislative bodies with international law.”

Oral arguments will be heard in San Francisco in June 2024.  By that time, the killing, starving and displacement of the Palestinian populace in Gaza will have further crystallised in its horror, leaving the legal fraternity dragging their feet.  But over the cadaverous nature of this conflict, litigants in the US may be clearer about whether courts can hold the government to account for aiding and abetting the commission of alleged acts of genocide.

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Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). Email: [email protected] 

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First published on November 26, 2022

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We are being accused of  “spreading disinformation” regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. 

The Reuters and AP media “trackers” and “fact checkers” will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their children.  

Let us be under no illusions, the Covid Jab is not only “experimental”, it’s a Big Pharma “killer vaccine” which modifies the human genome. The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from vaccine inoculation both present (official data) and future (e.g. undetected microscopic blood clots) is overwhelming. 

The official data (mortality and morbidity) as well as numerous scientific studies confirm the nature of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine which is being imposed on all humanity. 

Peer reviewed reports confirm the causes  of vaccine related deaths and “adverse events” (injuries) including among others blood clots, thrombosis, myocarditis, cardiac arrests.

The stated objective is to enforce the Worldwide vaccination of 8 billion people in more than 190 countries, to be followed by the imposition of a digitized “vaccine passport”. Needless to say this is a multi-billion dollar operation for Big Pharma. It’s a crime against humanity.

The global vaccine project entitled COVAX is coordinated Worldwide by the WHO, GAVI, CEPI, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in liaison with the World Economic Forum (WEF),  the Wellcome Trust, DARPA and Big Pharma which is increasingly dominated by the Pfizer-GSK partnership established barely four months before the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in early January 2020.  

The Covid 19 “Vaccine” from the very outset in January 2021 has been conducive to a Worldwide Upward Movement in Mortality 

 

This is Not Manslaughter. It’s Murder

Yes, It’s a killer vaccine. That message should be loud and clear.

This is happening all over the world: children and adolescents are dying.

Crimes against humanity, crimes against our children.

Less than two months following the launching of Pfizer’s mRNA “vaccine”, a mass funeral protest was held for children who died after receiving the vaccine in Geneva, Switzerland (January 29, 2021)

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Myocarditis, Cardiac Arrest: “Young People Are Dying”. Sudden Death on a Massive Scale

The Vaccine Safety Research Foundation has recently released Until Proven Otherwise— a short video documentary about the corroborating findings of two leading cardiologists.

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Pfizer Reveals in a secret report (declassified under freedom of information) that its mRNA vaccine is a “killer vaccine”. The evidence comes from the “Horse’s Mouth”

“By February of 2021, Pfizer had already received more than 1,200 reports of deaths allegedly caused by the vaccine and tens of thousands of reported adverse events, including 23 cases of spontaneous abortions out of 270 pregnancies and more than 2,000 reports of cardiac disorders.

Bear in mind, this is Pfizer’s own data.

In a twisted irony, the data revealed in this “insider report” refutes the official vaccine narrative peddled by the governments and the WHO. It also confirms the analysis of numerous medical doctors and scientists who have revealed the devastating consequences of the mRNA “vaccine”.

What is contained in  Pfizer’s “confidential” report is detailed evidence on the impacts of the “vaccine” on mortality and morbidity. This data which emanates from the “Horse’s Mouth” can now be used to confront as well formulate legal procedures against Big Pharma, the governments, the WHO and the media.

Pfizer was fully aware that the mRNA vaccine which it is marketing Worldwide would result in a wave of mortality and morbidity. This is tantamount to a crime against humanity on the part of Big Pharma.

Pfizer knew from the outset that it was a killer vaccine. 

It is also a  Mea Culpa and Treason on the part of corrupt national governments Worldwide which are being threatened and bribed by Big Pharma.

No attempt has been made by the governments to call for the withdrawal of the killer vaccine.

People are told  that the vaccine is intended to save lives.” (Michel Chossudovsky)

Click here to read Pfizer’s “confidential” report.

What is Presented above is but the “Tip of the Iceberg” of what is happening Worldwide

This whole process is “profit driven” in the billions, sustained by scientific fraud and disinformation.

Worldwide “Big Money” Vaxx Operation

Recorded September 21, 2022: 12.9 Million doses administered (mid December 2020- September 21, 2022)

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• INFORM PEOPLE ACROSS THE LAND ON THE HEALTH RISKS. 
• TAKE A FIRM STANCE AGAINST THE VACCINE PASSPORT. 

The legitimacy of politicians and their Big Money sponsors must be challenged.

We must act with a single voice nationally and internationally.

Our First Task is to disable the fear campaign

The COVID-19 “vaccination” programme should be halted immediately worldwide.

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The US-NATO War against Yugoslavia,

The Globalization of War

by

Michel Chossudovsky

Belgrade Forum.

Commemoration Conference,

23-24 March 2024, Belgrade

 

Introduction

People of Serbia. Our thoughts are with you. We are in solidarity. I am much indebted to the Belgrade Forum.

We must commemorate as well as take this opportunity to act decisively against the US-NATO military agenda, which is supported by powerful financial interests. 

The world is currently at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history.

The US has embarked on a military adventure, “a long war”, which threatens the future of humanity”

That long war was initiated in the 1990s at the outset of the post Cold War Era. 

The war on Yugoslavia was a “Dress Rehearsal” for all subsequent US-NATO wars.

It was marked by military and intelligence operations, the destabilization of the Yugoslav economy, regime changes, the fracturing of an entire sovereign Nation State into a panoply of small countries which are largely led by proxy regimes.

 

Twenty-five years ago in the early hours of March 24, 1999, NATO began the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. “The operation was code-named “Allied Force ”.  

When Belgrade was bombed, the children’s hospital was the object of air attacks. It had been singled out by military planners as a strategic target. I visited that hospital a year later in March 2000. 

A historical review confirms that children have routinely been the target in ALL U.S. military operations from the Second World War to the present.

On March 25 1999, I initiated my research. NATO’s ruthless bombing of Belgrade and Pristina was tagged in chorus by the media as a humanitarian operation. Responsabiity to Protect (R2P)

Segments of the U.S. and European “Left” Support the KLA

The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was upheld by segments of the European Left (several of which were supported by George Soros) as a self-respecting nationalist movement struggling for the rights of ethnic Albanians. 

What nonsense:  The KLA was sustained by organised crime with the tacit approval of the United States and its allies. It was involved in money laundering,  It had ties with Al Qaeda, which was controlled by the CIA. 

In the U.S, Stephen Shalom, in an article on ZNet states:

“I am sympathetic to the argument that says that if people want to fight for their rights, if they are not asking others to do it for them, then they ought to be provided with the weapons to help them succeed. Such an argument seemed to me persuasive with respect to Bosnia.”

In that same article, I was personally accused of having “discredited the KLA”. I accept the criticism. That was my objective through careful documentation and analysis:

“Michel Chossudovsky, a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa, has set out the most meticulous frame-up in a piece entitled “Freedom Fighters Financed by Organised Crime”, which has been doing the internet circuit. Full of half-truths, assumptions and innuendoes about the KLA’s alleged use of drug money, Chossudovsky’s article seeks to discredit the KLA as a genuine liberation movement representing the aspirations of the oppressed Albanian majority. …

Chossudovsky claims that “the KLA is sustained by organised crime … the links of the Kosovo Liberation Army to criminal syndicates in Albania, Turkey and the European Union have been known to Western governments and intelligence agencies since the mid-1990s.”

Before considering Chossudovsky’s evidence, it needs to be asked: is it that unusual for cash-starved liberation movements to raise some of their funds from illegal sources, even drug money?” 

Listen to the report of Democracy Now with Amy Goodman on the KLA and the alleged links to the Drug Trade (June 2, 1999) (which includes a representative of the KLA)

These so-called “half truths and innuendos” were the object of my article written in April 1999 at the height of the NATO bombings.

With regard to the Indictment of Hashim Thaci: He was “a paid killer” acting on behalf of his sponsors. The KLA led by Hashim Thaci was relentlessly supported by NATO and the US military.

Acts of Censorship

I had been writing on a regular basis for Le Monde diplomatique. I had investigated the matter: the leader of the KLA Hashim Thaci had a criminal record with Interpol. That was a factual statement. But it was not mentioned by the Mainstream Media nor the Independent Media. 

Unspoken truth. Total Censorship and propaganda. My article on the KLA Freedom Fighters –which is a chapter in my book– was never published by Le Monde diplo.

Ironically 21 years later on April 24, 2020, the former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Hashim Thaci who in the wake of the NATO-led war had become “Prime Minister” and subsequently “President” of Kosovo was indicted for crimes against humanity.

The Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office At The Hague filed an indictment against Hashim Thaci on April 24, 2020 ” 

“for a range of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, enforced disappearance of persons, persecution, and torture.”

21 Years later: 2 Decades of “Investigation”

M. Albright and Hashim Thaci, 1998

 

Oops:  ALL that was known in March 1999. It took them 21 years to complete their criminal investigation.

Hashim Thaci is on trial at the ICTY at The Hague. He has pleaded “Not Guilty” on charges of war crimes.

The Imprisonment of Slobodan Milosevic

Slobodan Milosevic, a man of courage and commitment was prevented from undertaking his own defense.

He had ample evidence of the KLA’s links to both organized crime and Al Qaeda, which is a CIA intelligence asset created in the early 1980s

Milosevic  was poisoned in his prison cell under the auspices of the ICTY Tribunal in The Hague. It was an outright extra-judicial political assassination.

The Destabilization of Yugoslavia’s Economy 

The war on Yugoslavia did not commence in March 1999. It was initiated almost 20 years earlier, in the 1980s.

Multi-ethnic, socialist Yugoslavia was once a regional industrial power and economic success story: In the two decades before 1980, annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaged 6.1 percent, medical care was free, the rate of literacy was 91 percent, and life expectancy was 72 years.

The objective of the US-NATO led war in liaison with Wall Street and the Bretton Woods institutions was to destroy Yugoslavia’s model of market socialism while destroying the Welfare State and undermining its economic and social achievements

1980 marked the passing of President Josip Bros Tito. As of the early 1980s, acts of economic warfare were launched by Belgrade’s creditors:

Strong “economic medicine”was imposed by the IMF and the World Bank, which was  followed in the late 1980s by the imposition of an all encompassing bankruptcy program which resulted in mass poverty and unemployment.

As revealed in an internal WB document (provided to me by a Yugoslav diplomat), the World Bank’s so-called “trigger mechanism” (under the Financial Operations Act) was conducive to the lay off of 614,000 workers (out of a total industrial workforce of the order of 2.7 million).

These economic measures were followed by the IMF “Shock therapy” launched in January 1990.

The budget cuts requiring the redirection of federal revenues towards debt servicing, were conducive to the suspension of transfer payments by Belgrade to the governments of the Republics and Autonomous Provinces.

In one fell swoop, the reformers had engineered the final collapse of Yugoslavia’s federal fiscal structure and mortally wounded its federal political institutions.

By cutting the financial arteries between Belgrade and the republics, the reforms fueled secessionist tendencies that fed on economic factors as well as ethnic divisions, virtually ensuring the de facto secession of the republics. 

The IMF-induced budgetary crisis created an economic fait accompli that paved the way for Croatia’s and Slovenia’s formal secession in June 1991

Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo: The Insidious Role of General Michael Jackson

The U.K had dispatched Sir General Michael Jackson to Yugoslavia. Who is General Michael Jackson?

Jackson was Captain of  Britain’s First Battalion of the Parachute Regiment and second in command in the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry Northern Ireland in January 1972.

Jackson was responsible for ordering the soldiers under his command to open fire against Irish civilians involved in a peaceful protest movement.

Captain Jackson –who had links to the British Army’s Intelligence Corps– was allegedly also instrumental in the cover-up of the killings.

He was never investigated for the crimes committed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1972.

Quite the opposite. Jackson was rewarded and promoted. In 2003, he was promoted to the highest rank of the British Armed Forces: Chief of the General Staff.

In Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, Sir General Michael Jackson actively collaborated with the Commander Agim Ceku who led the Croatian forces involved in the Krajina massacre under “Operation Storm”.

Ceku was also commander of the KLA. 

Jackson was allegedly responsible for the repatriation of Krajina Serbs, under UN auspices. He was subsequently appointed to lead the KFOR Mission. 

In turn, Military Professional Resources Inc (MPRI), a mercenary outfit on contract to the Pentagon was responsible for advising the Croatian HVO forces in the planning of “Operation Storm”.

The same mercenary outfit was subsequently put in charge of the military training of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) largely integrated by former KLA operatives.

1999 War Criminals Join Hands (Kosovo 1999).

From Left to Right:

Hashim Thaci, Head of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which had links to Al Qaeda and organized crime. Hashim Thaci had ordered political assassinations directed against the Party of Ibrahim Rugova. Thaci was a protégé of Madeleine Albright. [Later became President of Kosovo, still on the Interpol wanted list]

Bernard Kouchner, Head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in Kosovo (July 1999- January 2001), instrumental in elevating the KLA to UN status through the formation of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC).

General Michael Jackson, Commander of KFOR Troops in Kosovo.

General Agim Ceku, Military Commander of the KLA and the KPC, investigated by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) “for alleged war crimes committed against ethnic Serbs in Croatia between 1993 and 1995.” ( AFP 13 Oct 1999)

General Wesley Clark, NATO Supreme Commander.

While General Michael Jackson during his tenure as KFOR Commander in Kosovo (1999-2000) displayed token efforts to protect Serb and Roma civilians; those who fled Kosovo during his mandate were not encouraged to return under UN protection.

In post-war Kosovo, the massacres of civilians were carried out by the KLA (and subsequently by the KPC). Both NATO and the UN turned a blind eye to the KLA’s targeted assassinations.

“The Globalization of War”

As mentioned above Yugoslavia was in many regards a “Dress Rehearsal”.

The various phases which characterized  the war on Yugoslavia are part of a broader process which is now unfolding Worldwide.

• economic warfare, strong economic medicine, sanctions
• the fragmenting and breaking up of entire countries,
• the imposition of regime change, the instatement of proxy politicians.
• extensive bombings of civilians,
• the bombing of children’s hospitals as well as the killing of journalists, ongoing, 
• the use of depleted uranium ammunition which causes cancer,
• military occupation, the establishment of military bases, the presence of foreign troops under a fake “humanitarian mandate”
• media disinformation and war propaganda

It is part of a continuum since the 1990s, in the aftermath of the September 11 2001 attacks, 

What is at stake is the globalization of war, namely America’s “Long War” against humanity on behalf of  powerful financial interests.

America’s hegemonic agenda consists in waging war –including economic warfare– against all major regions of the World, including the European Union.

This process is undertaken by destabilizing the nation state.

The NeoCons’ agenda is not to “win the war” but to engineer the breakup of sovereign nation states, destroy their culture and national identity, derogate fundamental values and human rights, and appropriate its resources.

The strategic objective is to trigger political and social chaos, engineer the collapse of national economies, appropriate the countries’ wealth and resources, impoverish the entire planet including the EU member states and the American Homeland. 

It’s a mesh of weapons of mass destruction, covert intelligence operations, propaganda and “strong economic medicine”. The criminality of the US/NATO hegemonic agenda is beyond description. 

What we are witnessing is the outright “criminalization of the state apparatus” whereby politicians, members of parliament, senior government officials are routinely bribed, coopted or threatened to abide by a diabolical project which is literally destroying people’s lives Worldwide.

The UN-WEF-NATO Triad

A strategic partnership was signed in 2019 at a meeting held at UN headquarters between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and WEF Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab “to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

What this signifies is that the United Nations system has virtually been privatized. 

Signing of the WEF-UN Partnership 

In turn, NATO has become increasingly embedded in the UN system, allegedly endorsing “peace support and crisis management”.  

Concurrently, a UN-NATO agreement was reached in 2023 resulting in what might be described as the UN-WEF-NATO Triad, largely responding to the quest for global governance.

Modern Economic Warfare. The Bretton Woods Institutions are Obsolete?

While the dollar denominated external debt remains the instrument of economic subservience, “Aligning financial systems” is intent upon opening the door to privatization on a large scale affecting entire sectors and regions of both developing countries and the West.

The large portfolio investment funds including BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard (coupled with Wall Street’s banking cartels) are the driving force. “Their holdings are colossal. BlackRock manages nearly $10 trillion in investments. Vanguard has $8 trillion, and State Street has $4 trillion” (NYT)

BlackRock Owns Ukraine 

 

Flashback in History. Who Supported Nazi Germany? 

Why does US-NATO Endorse the Kiev Nazi Regime?

 

From World War I to the Present: Dollar denominated debt has been the driving force behind all US led wars.

Today, Wall Street creditors are the main actors behind the Kiev Neo-Nazi regime

These same Wall Street creditors including the Federal Reserve were firmly behind Nazi Germany. They financed Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941:

“On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held between British financier Montagu Norman (Governor of the Bank of England), Adolf Hitler and Franz Von Papen (who became Chancellor a few months later in May 1932)

At this meeting, an agreement on the financing of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP or Nazi Party) was reached.

This meeting was also attended by US policy-makers and the Dulles brothers, something which their biographers do not like to mention.

A year later, on January 14th, 1933, another meeting was held between Adolph Hitler, Germany’s Financier Baron Kurt von Schroeder, Chancellor Franz von Papen and Hitler’s Economic Advisor Wilhelm Keppler took place, where Hitler’s program was fully approved.” (Y. Rubtsov, text below)

Upon the accession of Adolph Hitler as Chancellor in March 1933, a massive privatization program was initiated which bears the finger-prints of Wall Street.

This is the same Big Money Financial establishment, which is behind ALL US-NATO wars.

The proceeds of the privatization program were used to repay outstanding debts as well as fund Nazi Germany’s buoyant military industrial complex.

The Third Reich’s Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union was generously financed by Wall Street with Standard Oil of New Jersey (EXXON) owned by Rockefellers, providing Germany’s Wehrmacht with petrol up until 1945.

The export of oil to Nazi Germany was intent upon destroying the Soviet Union.

Up until Pearl Harbor (December 1941), Wall Street was trading with Germany.

In the wake of Pearl Harbor (1941-1945), Standard Oil “was trading with the enemy” selling oil to Nazi Germany through the intermediation of so-called “neutral countries” including Venezuela and Argentina.

Without the U.S. supply of oil to Nazi Germany instrumented by Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Third Reich would not have been able to invade the Soviet Union. 

What this means is that Wall Street was firmly behind the conduct of World War II. 

The Nature of Modern Warfare

In recent developments there has been a major shift in the nature of modern warfare

In this regard the corona crisis has played a key role in actions directed simultaneously against 190 countries, member state of the United Nations.

The Lockdown initiated in March 2020 required:

“Confining the Labour Force” and “Freezing the Work Place”. 

What we are dealing with is an act of economic warfare directed against humanity, resulting in bankruptcies, economic and social collapse, poverty and despair at the level of the entire planet.

The mRNA “vaccine”

The mRNA Vaccine launched in December 2020, implemented in 190 countries is also an instrument of warfare resulting in an upward trend in mortality and morbidity.  (For details see Michel Chossudovsky)

Action against War

The 25th Commemoration of the US-NATO led war against Yugoslavia should provide us with an opportunity to address the realties affecting Serbia, as well the broader Worldwide war agenda which is threatening the future of humanity.

 

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References 

 The US-NATO War of Aggression against Yugoslavia 

(published in Serbian and English)

By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

 

Why America Needs War, The Project for The New American Century (PNAC)

By Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 01, 2023

 

History: Adolph Hitler was Financed by Wall Street, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England

By Yuri Rubtsov and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 07, 2024

 

“Preemptive Nuclear War”: The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 05, 2024

 

Kosovo Liberation Army Leader Hashim Thaçi on Trial for War Crimes

By Peter Schwarz and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 19, 2023

 

The Hegemonic UN-WEF-NATO Triad: U.N. “Sustainable Development” (SDG 2030) = Endless Wars, Poverty and Famine Worldwide

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 05, 2024

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About the Author

Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research.

He has undertaken field research in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific and has written extensively on the economies of developing countries with a focus on poverty and social inequality. He has also undertaken research in Health Economics (UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC),  UNFPA, CIDA, WHO, Government of Venezuela, John Hopkins International Journal of Health Services (1979, 1983)

He is the author of 13 books including The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003), America’s “War on Terrorism” (2005),  The Globalization of War, America’s Long War against Humanity (2015).

He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.  His writings have been published in more than twenty languages.

In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on NATO’s war of aggression against Yugoslavia. He can be reached at [email protected]

See Michel Chossudovsky, Biographical Note

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The carnage and devastation in Gaza is ongoing, but as the world looks at the western most land in Palestine, there are ongoing battles to the east in the Occupied Territory of the West Bank.

Tensions flared all of the summer of 2023 in the West Bank, and once the Israeli attacks began in Gaza, the Palestinians of the West Bank were also targeted by Israel and made to suffer because of the Hamas resistance operation in Israel on October 7, even though they are not connected by land.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have made daily and nightly raids into civilian homes and refugee camps in the West Bank. Thousands of Palestinians have been arrested indiscriminately, and both male and females have been singled out for prison in Israel, where the prisoner and their family are never informed of any charges, and have no legal representation.

Homes and shops have been bulldozed based on suspicions. The Israeli settlers, who are mainly US citizens living illegally on land recognized by the US and UN as land to be part of a future state of Palestine, have armed themselves with automatic rifles and pistols and have taking up ‘hunting’ Palestinians, who they consider to be ‘non-human’.

Despite the Jewish religious law prohibiting the destruction of any tree which bear produce, these mainly American Jewish fanatics have uprooted and burned thousands of olive trees, which are vital to Palestinians, and of historical significance.

The US government usually turns a blind eye to settler crimes, including murder, arson and maiming; however, the US President Biden has enacted sanctions on some Israeli settlers.

There is growing alarm at the prospect of a West Bank uprising, in support of their fellow Palestinians of Gaza, and because their own suffering under a brutal and long standing military occupation is no longer sustainable.  The occupation must end, and we are hearing that demand from Washington, London and across the world.

Steven Sahiounie of MidEastDiscourse reached out to Jafar Ramini, a Palestinian writer and political analyst and activist born in May 1943 in Jenin, northern Palestine. He was educated at Jenin local secondary school and then completed his education in London where he has resided for the past 53 years. In January 2021 he moved to Perth, Western Australia. Jafar lectures, and writes, and appears regularly on various international TV networks explaining both the history and modern-day politics of the Palestinian NAKBA.

Steven Sahiounie (SS): US president Biden has announced plans to build a port in Gaza to receive humanitarian aid, which will be shipped from Cyprus. In your opinion, wouldn’t it be faster and cheaper to open the gate at Rafah and allow the trucks to come in?

Jafar M. Ramini  (JMR): Definitely. Every UN aid organization, or NGO operating in the area declared this move to be costly, time-consuming, and ineffective. There are thousands of trucks waiting at the Rafah Crossing and they must be allowed in immediately, unfettered.

SS: Hamas, Egypt and Qatar have been meeting in Cairo, to draft a proposal for a permanent ceasefire, and a hostage-prisoner swap. Biden has presented a proposal for a temporary six-week ceasefire and hostage release. In your opinion are the two proposals so far a part that it can’t be achieved?

JMR: Definitely.  Without a permanent ceasefire and total withdrawal of Israeli Occupation Forces from Gaza there will never be meaningful peace.  Furthermore, when did Israel ever honor an agreement it concluded with the Palestinians? Never.

SS: Polls have shown that most Israelis are against helping the Palestinians, but they are also mostly against Benjamin Netanyahu. In your opinion, will the Israeli public be successful in removing Netanyahu from office?

JMR: The Israeli public might be able to remove Netanyahu and his fascist, right-wing government from office, but this has nothing to do with what is going on in Gaza.  Most Israelis are in favor of continuing the war on GAZA and preventing any aid from reaching GAZA.

SS: The genocide in Gaza Is ongoing with the IDF attacking, killing, and arresting Palestinians across the West Bank and Jerusalem. In your opinion, will the upcoming Holy month of Ramadan see an uprising in the West Bank?

JMR: We have to be careful here what we wish for.  Yes, an uprising in the West Bank is a necessary step to take some pressure off our brothers and sisters in GAZA and stop the daily incursion of the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank. But, will the security forces of the Palestinian Authority back them? Or stab them in the back? That is the question.

SS: Last month, the International Court of Justice held hearings on whether Israel Is illegally occupying Palestine. In your point of view, when the court’s opinion is released in the summer, will the international community take action?

JMR: The United Nations, The International Court of Justice, the ICC, and any other world forum are rendered impotent when it comes to holding Israel accountable. Having said that, if the International Court of Justice finds that Israel is illegally occupying Palestine, who will implement it? In 2004, the same court issued an opinion that the separation wall was illegal.  That made no difference.  The separation walls, since 2004, has expanded and is still standing. Without the Security Council removing their veto powers from the five permanent members no just solution will be found.  Note the use of the veto by the USA in favor of Israel in the Security Council five times in the last five months.  Their reason for using the veto? They are not happy with the language.

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