Banning TikTok Is Not About Fighting China, It’s About Protecting Western Narratives and Israel’s War Crimes in the Middle East

 

Banning TikTok Is Not About Fighting China, It’s About Protecting Western Narratives and Israel’s War Crimes in the Middle East By Timothy Alexander Guzman The US government claims that TikTok is a national security threat because China can collect data on its users for “intelligence gathering.” Give me a break! The House of Representatives passed a bill to ban TikTok unless Byte Dance, the Chinese parent company “divests” from the app within six months or so, in other words, they are forcing Byte Dance to sell TikTok within a certain time period in order for it to operate in the US. Read here

Childhood Vaccines: HPV Vaccine (Gardasil) Injuries and Deaths of Young Girls By Dr. William Makis, Jessica Rojas, and Reuters The HPV vaccine has been a political lightening rod in Japan, where claims of side effects prompted the government to halt active recommendation of the shots in June 2013. Read here

Geopolitical Storm and the Black Sea. Turkiye’s Love for NATO? By Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz NATO’s sending of its Secretary General to the Caucasus, while the war in Ukraine continues and NATO is in serious decline, is not actually aimed at initiating a détente and peace talks with Russia until the American Presidential elections, but on the contrary, it is aimed at increasing the dose and scale of the war. Read here

The Outgoing Mexican President’s Policy Towards Illegal Immigration and Cartels Is a Gift to Trump By Andrew Korybko Outgoing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who’s popularly known by his initials as AMLO, declared that his country won’t accept any illegal immigrants that Texas might deport in the event that its Senate Bill 4 from last year survives the ongoing appeal process after the Supreme Court’s ruling. Read here

The AUKUS Cash Cow: Robbing the Australian Taxpayer By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Two British ministers, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, paid a recent visit to Australia recently as part of the AUKMIN (Australia-United Kingdom Ministerial Consultations) talks. It showed, yet again, that Australia’s government loves being mugged. Stomped on. Mowed over. Beaten. Read here

VIPS MEMO: The French Road to Nuclear War By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity France is reportedly preparing to dispatch a force of some 2,000 troops — roughly a reinforced brigade built around an armored battalion and two mechanized battalions, with supporting logistical, engineering, and artillery troops attached — into Ukraine sometime in the not-so-distant future. Read here

Jewish Holiday of Purim at the Time of Genocide By Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin The Jewish holiday of Purim, related in the Book of Esther, celebrates deliverance from a genocide. How to celebrate it when death and starvation kill thousands in Gaza, and the holiday’s rhetoric, namely the memory of the archenemy Amalek, is being used by Israeli politicians responsible for it? Read here