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Consequences of US-led Regime Change Wars in the Greater Middle East (the Muslim World).
China Has Dominated the West Before As China comes into greater conflict with the West, now is a good time to consider the long arc of the relationship.
SUDDENLY THE WEST IS FAILING TO OVERTHROW "REGIMES" It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If the country did not collapse within months or just couple of years, the bombing would begin. And the nation, totally shaken, in pain, and in disarray, would collapse like a house of cards, once the first NATO boots hit its ground.
Omar, Tlaib, and the United States of Israel I’m trying to remember when Israel wasn’t the fifty-first state. It receives my tax money and a blank check by the United States government to torture, ethnically cleanse, and murder Palestinians.
Lula: The US is Behind "Operation Car Wash" Posted: Monday, August 19, 2019
Lula: The US is Behind "Operation Car Wash" For former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, events in Brazil since the 2016 coup that deposed President Dilma Rousseff were orchestrated by the US government. "Everything that is happening has the hand of the United States on it... The US created the Lava Jato investigation to take our oil," he said, speaking for the first time after Supreme Court (STF) prevented his transfer to a São Paulo prison. Lula's interview, with veteran journalist Bob Fernandes, aired on TVE, a public television station from Bahia, on Friday, August 16th.
U.S. Sanctions Backfire, Lead To Boost In Russian Oil Exports U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and Iran have had an unplanned side effect: they have increased exports of heavy, sour crude from Russia, Bloomberg reports, adding that calculations have shown Russian oil companies raked in an additional US$905 million at least from these sales between November and July.
Long Range Attack On Saudi Oil Field Ends War On Yemen Today Saudi Arabia finally lost the war on Yemen. It has no defenses against new weapons the Houthis in Yemen acquired. These weapons threaten the Saudis economic lifelines. This today was the decisive attack:
Hong Kong: Don't Provoke the Dragon Time was when flying to Hong Kong was a really big thrill – or maybe scare would be a better term. Its old airport, Kai Tak, was right in the middle of bustling downtown Hong Kong. Flying into Kai Tak used up 11 of one's 12 lives.
Ousted Honduran president calls Hillary Clinton a 'mafia boss' Rick Sanchez interviews Honduras's former President Manuel Zelaya about the reportedly US-orchestrated coup that dismantled his government to further the interests of transnational corporate power.
Targeting Iran Posted: Monday, May 20, 2019
Targeting Iran A dangerous flashpoint has emerged in world politics at the moment. There is widespread fear that the United States and its allies might launch a military operation against Iran at any time. A US aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers are already deployed in the region. The alleged sabotage of four oil tankers, two of them Saudi, and the attack on a major oil pipeline are being linked in certain circles without an iota of evidence to Tehran. There is no need to repeat that scenarios of this sort are often manufactured to justify military aggression.
Western states avoid culpability for war crimes There are parallels between the sudden growth of the warped mindset which proposes to exonerate murderers before they commit their crime and historically murderous military regimes
Bacteria-Killing Plastic Toxins Threatens 20% of World's Oxygen Scientists have revealed that a potential new problem associated with the plastic pollution epidemic is the inhibition of growth and photosynthetic efficiency of the bacteria that produces about 20% of the world's breathable oxygen supply, due to toxins in plastic seeping into seawater.
Palestine FM: US Peace Deal Favors Israel's Colonial Policies Palestine foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki slammed the so-called U.S. 'deal of the century' Friday, stating that it is “the consecration of our century-old ordeal: no independence, no sovereignty, no freedom, no justice,” during an address in London.
Amid Murky Intel, Experts Say Time to Be Clear: Threat of War With Iran "Solely and Unequivocally" Trump's Fault As "murky" intelligence reports swirl and the White House works overtime to establish its narrative with evidence-free warnings of a supposedly growing Iranian threat, foreign policy experts and analysts are attempting to set the record straight by establishing precisely who is responsible for the dangerously high tensions in the Middle East that could spark a catastrophic war.
US narrative on Iran questioned as allies call for 'restraint' The US narrative of a deepening threat from Iran was questioned and contradicted as senior Iranian officials warned the US against conflict and Russia's foreign minister spoke of a "downward spiral."
UN Praises Bolivia's Economic Model The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has celebrated Bolivia's economic model and said that the country must maintain the 'gains' of the last 13 years under leftist president Evo Morales.
'National security risk': Trump may ban US telecoms from using Huawei tech US President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to prohibit US telecom firms from using equipment made by companies that pose a “national security risk” with an executive order – a ban apparently aimed at China's Huawei.
U.S. Special Forces School Publishes New Guide for Overthrowing Foreign Governments The official school of the United States' Special Operations Command has published a new paper detailing a decades-long history of Pentagon-backed interference around the world, hoping to provide insight on how best to approach such efforts in the present and future.
The World's Dictatress In his Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821, U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams stated that if America were ever to abandon its founding foreign policy of non-interventionism, she would inevitably become the world's "dictatress" and begin behaving accordingly. No can can deny that Adams' prediction has come true. America has truly become the world's dictatress – an arrogant, ruthless, brutal dictatress that brooks no dissent from anyone in the world.
The Lies That Form Our Consciousness and False Historical Awareness My generation associated dystopias, such as George Orwell's 1984, with the Soviet Union, a country in which explanations were controlled and criticism of Stalin would land a person in the Gulag. We thought of the United States and our life here much differently. But with the passage of time the difference between life in the Soviet Union in the 20th century and life in the Western world today is disappearing. Today, the journalist Julian Assange is undergoing the same kind of state terror and torture as any Soviet dissident, if not worse. The Western media is as controlled as the Soviet media, with print, TV, and public radio serving as a propaganda ministry for government and the interest groups that control government. Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter are systematically denying their platforms to those who express views not supportive of the ruling order and its agendas. It has turned out to be easy to get rid of the First Amendment guarantee of free speech as the media have neither the ability nor the intention of exercising it.
Bomb Iran Half Way Back to the Stone Age Is it just a coincidence that TV networks are re-running old "Dirty Harry" films just as a powerful US Naval armada and Air Force B-52 bombers are headed for what could be a clash with Iran? Here we go again with the "good guys" versus the "bad guys," and "make my day."
'Pity America, because of this crazy Trump!' Here's what Iran's man in Iraq would say to Mike Pompeo Mike Pompeo went to put the thumbscrews on the Iraqi government this week. No more electrical power from Iran, he told them, and make sure those pesky Iranians don't attack our boys in that great American base in Iraq which Trump was boasting about. The New York Times numbingly told us that his trip was "shrouded in secrecy" – if only it had been. Then at least the US secretary of state could have paid a visit to Iran's most important supporter in the Iraqi parliament.
Indonesia to Hold UN Meeting on Israeli Occupation in Palestine Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has extended an invitation to Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki to a meeting with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to discuss illegal Israeli settlements.
China Confirms Retaliatory Measures Against US Tariffs China's Commerce Ministry released an official statement Friday stating that the Asian country will be taking "necessary countermeasures" to Donald Trump's announcement of increasing tariffs on Chinese goods entering the United States.
Bolivia Showcases New Approach to Drugs After Expelling DEA The Organization of American States (OAS) have announced they will be visiting Bolivia to learn about the country's anti-drug strategy. This follows the country's rejection of the US 'War On Drugs'.
Nicaragua Asks Opposition to Respect Peace Talks The Sandinista government is concerned that the country's opposition are not engaging with peace negotiations in good faith, due to the fact they refuse to condemn U.S. sanctions on the country.
Pandering to Israel Means War With Iran The United States is moving dangerously forward in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to provoke a war with Iran, apparently based on threat intelligence provided by Israel. The claims made by National Security Advisor John Bolton and by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that there is solid evidence of Iran's intention to attack US forces in the Persian Gulf region is almost certainly a fabrication, possibly deliberately contrived by Bolton and company in collaboration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump's Iran Policy Is Becoming Dangerous Posted: Thursday, May 9, 2019
'Hands off Ilhan': Black Women in Solidarity with Ilhan Omar What 'upsets (Donald Trump and) his goons … is that they can't stand that a refugee, a black woman, ... a Muslim shows up in Congress thinking she's equal to them.' Dozens of women from the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of African-American advocates, gathered Tuesday in support of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar who has been a target of hate-speech and trolling by right-wing politicians and their supporters.
The Complete Mercenary How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback
Court Says 'Extinct' First Nation US Citizen Can Hunt in Canada United States citizen and First Nation Sinixt, Rick Desautel, ancestral rights were upheld after he was awarded the right to hunt in neighboring Canada following a landmark ruling by the British Colombia Court of Appeal.
Assange's Defense File Complaint on Ecuadorean Diplomats for Espionage WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange's defense lawyer filed a complaint Monday before Ecuador's Attorney General against several members of its diplomatic mission in the United Kingdom (U.K.) for alleged espionage inside the embassy during his asylum in London.
Ecuador Embassy Staff Contradicts Allegations Against Assange Fidel Narvaez was the consul in London for 6 of the 7 years that Julian Assange stayed at the embassy, speaking to Russian outlet RT he said; "his alleged breach of asylum conditions" and altercations with diplomatic staff were a "smokescreen" and that "a couple of isolated incidents with security guards" was not improper conduct.
'Enough with Threats, Ultimatums,' Cuba Tells US Cuba has had enough of U.S. threats and ultimatums, said President Miguel Diaz-Canel, denouncing 60-years-worth of northern power's attempts to destabilize
Arresting Members of the Venezuela Embassy Protection Collective Would Be Unlawful Washington, DC – We told the State Department that if they enter the Venezuelan Embassy, they are violating international law, and if they arrest members of the Collective for trespass or unlawful entry, these will be unlawful arrests. Members of the Collective are in the embassy with the permission of the elected government of Venezuela.
Colombia: Nationwide Strike Against Duque's Neoliberal Policies Workers, farmers, teachers, students, and pensioners are staging a nationwide "Peace and Justice" strike to reject President Ivan Duque's neoliberal policies, supporting Indigenous rights and defending the peace process in Colombia being left behind by the head of state.
Lula: ‘Reduced Sentence Unfair For Man Who Committed No Crime' The former president also stated that he does not expect anything positive to come out of the trial, as he considers it part of "the farce that was staged starting the investigation which continued in the accusation, first and second instance."
US Ends Sanction Waivers for Countries Importing Iranian oil Posted: Monday, April 22, 2019
French Ambassador Says Trump "Deal of the Century" Is DOA, Calls Israel 'Apartheid State' In an interview with the Atlantic last Friday, outgoing French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud made headlines after emphatically stating that Israel is already "an apartheid state" and that the Trump administration's so-called "Deal of the Century" aimed at resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict is "99 percent doomed."
US Ends Sanction Waivers for Countries Importing Iranian oil U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to eliminate all waivers issued to eight economies allowing them to buy Iranian oil without facing U.S. sanctions, the White House said on Monday, while vowing to ensure global oil market was well supplied.
China Unilaterally Rejects US Sanctions Against Iran China consistently opposes unilateral U.S. sanctions against Iran, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday amid reports that Washington is expected to announce that buyers of Iranian oil must halt imports soon or face sanctions.
EU Lawmakers Praise Evo Morales On Economy And Equality On Thursday, 19 lawmakers in the European parliament wrote a letter to Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales, in praise of the country's progress on development and social equality. The signatories include those from Europe's most prominent leftist parties, such as Spain's Podemos, France Insoumise and Germany's Die Linke.
Who Is Ecuador's Ricardo Patiño, Latest Victim of 'Lawfare' Persecution? On Thursday, the Ecuadorean Attorney General's office announced the solicitation of a Red Notice request to Interpol for the capture of the foreign minister under former President Rafael Correa, Ricardo Patiño. As the goverment ramps up its attacks on the opposition, this opposition leader and vocal critic of the current government President Lenin Moreno has come under the gaze of lawfare attacks.
Jimmy Carter Lectures Trump: US Is 'Most Warlike Nation in History of the World' During his regular Sunday school lesson at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter revealed that he had recently spoken with President Donald Trump about China. Carter, 94, said Trump was worried about China's growing economy and expressed concern that "China is getting ahead of us." Carter, who normalized diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing in 1979, said he told Trump that much of China's success was due to its peaceful foreign policy.
Mexico, China Vow to Protect Firms Against US Sanctions on Cuba Several nations in the world have come out against the Trump administration's unilateral decision to allow the complete application of the controversial Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, opening the doors to a flood of lawsuits over alleged confiscation of property by the Cuban state.
"Assange’s Judge a Disgrace to the Bench" Posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Assange’s Judge a Disgrace to the Bench, Former UK Ambassador Says Both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are now in jail, both over offenses related to the publication of materials specifying U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and both charged with nothing else at all. No matter what bullshit political and MSM liars try to feed you, that is the simple truth. Manning and Assange are true heroes of our time, and are suffering for it.
Threatening 'Swift' Retaliation if US, Israel, or Allies Probed, Trump Celebrates ICC's Rejected War Crimes Probe as 'Major International Victory' President Donald Trump: Today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced its unanimous rejection of a request to investigate American military and intelligence professionals who served in Afghanistan. This is a major international victory, not only for these patriots, but for the rule of law. We welcome this decision and reiterate our position that the United States holds American citizens to the highest legal and ethical standards. Since the creation of the ICC, the United States has consistently declined to join the court because of its broad, unaccountable prosecutorial powers; the threat it poses to American national sovereignty; and other deficiencies that render it illegitimate. Any attempt to target American, Israeli, or allied personnel for prosecution will be met with a swift and vigorous response.
JOHN PILGER: Assange Arrest a Warning from History Real journalism is being criminalized by thugs in plain sight, says John Pilger. Dissent has become an indulgence. And the British elite has abandoned its last imperial myth: that of fairness and justice.
7 Years of Lies About Assange Won’t Stop Now One of the few towering figures of our time was reduced to nothing more than a sex pest and scruffy bail-skipper, writes Jonathan Cook.
Venezuela Rejects Asylum Removal and Arrest of Julian Assange Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza published a statement on Twitter stating that President Maduro, on behalf of the government and the people, "expresses his most categorical rejection of the atrocious decision that deprived Australian-Ecuadorean Julian Assange of the right to diplomatic asylum."
US Vice President Mike Pence told the UNSC that "the time has come" for the UN to recognize Guaido as Venezuela's "legitimate president" and accept the latter's representative to the world body. He added that the US would circulate a resolution to this effect, but offered no details on its timetable. A previous US resolution at the UNSC was vetoed by Russia and China on February. Pence went on to reiterate the warning that "all options are on the table" to oust the Maduro government. "This is our neighborhood," he told reporters afterward, calling on Russia to cease its support to the Maduro government.
Correa Says Moreno INA Papers Probe Led to Facebook Page Block The INA Papers alleges Moreno's link to a firm which deposited millions to an offshore company, whose owner put money in Moreno's brother's shell company. Early Friday, former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa confirmed that his Facebook account had indeed been blocked, just one day after the ex-head of state publicly criticize Lenin Moreno for the withdrawal of asylum previously granted to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange.
Paraguay to Formally Withdraw From UNASUR The government of Mario Abdo is now the third to formalize its abandonment, joining Colombian President Ivan Duque, who on Aug. 27, 2018, and Ecuador's Lenin Moreno, who on March 14, 2019, made a similar decision. Since April 2018, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru suspended their participation, leaving Venezuela, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and Uruguay as active members.
Putin Wants the Rights of Assange to Be Observed Press secretary for the Russian Presidency, Dmitry Peskov told reporters that he currently can't make any detailed statements on the overall situation but stated that "We, of course, hope that all of his rights will be observed."
Least We Forget:WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007) Video footage from a U.S. Apache helicopter in 2007 leaked by U.S. Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower Bradley Manning to Wikileaks. The video shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well.
While Much of US Media Plays Along, Critics Warn Assange Indictment an 'Obvious' Ploy With Deeper Dangers "It is quite obvious the U.S. authorities have picked just one element of what they have been working on for a long time," Hrafnsson said. "There is no assurance that there would not be additional charges when he is on U.S. soil. And I think, and I believe, that this was an angle in the approach to increase the likelihood of him being extradited. That is obvious."
Julian Assange Arrested in London Posted: Thursday, April 11, 2019
Julian Assange Arrested in London After Ecuador Withdraws Asylum; U.S. Requests Extradition Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, was arrested on Thursday inside Ecuador's Embassy in London, where he had lived since 2012 under diplomatic protection. London's Metropolitan Police service said in a statement its officers were "invited into the embassy by the Ambassador, following the Ecuadorian government's withdrawal of asylum."
Julian Assange Arrested by British Police After Ecuador Withdraws Asylum WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police Thursday after U.K. law enforcement officials were "invited into the embassy by the Ambassador, following the Ecuadorean government's withdrawal of asylum."
Julian Assange's Arrest Prompts International Outcry from Rights Activists, Gov'ts Legal experts, human rights activists and several governments decried the arrest of co-founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange Thursday in London at the embassy of Ecuador, a South American country where he was granted asylum in 2012 by former President Rafael Correa.
Cuban Doctors Attend to Venezuelan Oil Workers Amid US Blockade Many Cuban doctors who are members of the "Barrio Adentro" mission are attending to the workers of the Electronic Corporation of Venezuela in order to help the people while they restore the Latin American nation´s power grid.
World Demands Lula's Liberty on 1st Anniversary of Captivity People are gathering all over the world to commemorate the first anniversary of the imprisonment of former Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. The most revered leftist leader from Worker's Party (PT) in Brazil, was arrested last year on April 7 prior to the country's presidential election in 2018 which saw the victory of far-right Jair Bolsonaro.
Theresa May's Appalling Legacy Will be the Destruction of the Good Friday Agreement Her list of blunders is too long to repeat here but must include her decision to treat the outcome of the EU referendum as if it was a decisive choice by the British people. The near dead heat should have meant that the wishes of both sides would need to be accommodated to stop existing divisions widening.
SYRIA: U.S clings to "regime change" fantasy by occupying Syrian territory and threatening economic warfare – Peter Ford Ambassador James Jeffrey, the US special envoy for Syria, gave an under-reported press briefing on 25 March which made fairly plain the US strategy. Far from being sated with its demolition of ISIS and resigned to Assad's ‘victory', the US clearly clings to its desire to remove Assad and proposes to go about that through economic warfare and by maintaining a military presence using the pretext of ensuring the ‘enduring' defeat of ISIS.
Reuters Confirms That Bolton Torpedoed the Hanoi Summit An explosive report by Reuters confirms that John Bolton sabotaged the denuclearization talks between Kim Jong un and Donald Trump in Hanoi in February. According to a March 29 exclusive by journalists Lesley Wroughton and David Brunnstrom:
