The #BiggerPicture Is #Hiding #Behind A #Virus

Critical Shortage of Ventilators and Protective Gear Persists

By Stephen Lendman, April 03, 2020

Governor of hard-hit NY state Anthony Cuomo stressed that if a patient “needs a ventilator” and they’re all in use because of an insufficient supply, “the person dies” from suffocation. That’s the disturbing reality of a critical national shortage at a time when they’re vitally needed. As daily COVID-19 infections increase exponentially in the US, numbers on Friday will way exceed 250,000 by day’s end.

 

Can We Trust the WHO?

By F. William Engdahl, April 03, 2020

The most influential organization in the world with nominal responsibility for global health and epidemic issues is the United Nations’ World Health Organization, WHO, based in Geneva. What few know is the actual mechanisms of its political control, the shocking conflicts of interest, corruption and lack of transparency that permeate the agency that is supposed to be the impartial guide for getting through the current COVID-19 pandemic. The following is only part of what has come to public light.

 

COVID-19: Cover for Military Attack on Iran and Iraq?

By Kurt Nimmo, April 03, 2020

Now that the American people are consumed with fear and loathing of an overblown virus

#America’s #Hypocrisy and “#MissileDiplomacy”

Pompeo to Iraq: If You Kick Us Out, We Will Bury You
By Mike Whitney, January 21, 2020
The Trump administration is threatening to destroy Iraq’s economy by withholding a critical source of money that is controlled by the Federal Reserve. The threat is a response to the Iraqi parliament’s unanimous decision to end Washington’s 17 year-long military occupation. The Iraqi people and their representatives in parliament are incensed by the recent assassination of Iran’s most revered general, Qassem Soleimani, who was savagely incinerated by a Hellfire missile on the direct orders of Donald Trump. Iraqi prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, and his supporting MPs believe that the US committed a gross violation of Iraq’s sovereignty by killing a visiting dignitary without first obtaining the government’s permission. This is why the parliament and the prime minister have asked the administration to respect the wishes of the Iraqi people and withdraw all US troops from the country. Read more...

Attempts to Remove Morales’ Memory from Bolivia Will Likely Reinvigorate an Anti-Imperialist Struggle
By Paul Antonopoulos, January 21, 2020
Last Wednesday, the coup government of Bolivia launched a massive military operation claiming to be a pre-emptive strike against the expected violence to occur this Wednesday during Plurinational State Foundation Day celebrations that memorializes the change in the name of the country and the adoption of a new constitution in 2009 under the Presidency of Evo Morales. Heavily armed military personnel on the streets, arrest warrants and the denouncements of deputies who are intimidated by violent groups has just continued under the U.S.-backed coup government in La Paz. Read more...

US Boosts Funding of Tech Companies to Help Anti-Tehran Protests
By Katrina Manson, January 20, 2020

How Far Can #Imperialism Go?

A Million Iraqis Asked Us to Leave. We Should Listen.

By Rep. Ron Paul, January 28, 2020
You wouldn’t know it from US mainstream media reporting, but on Friday an estimated million Iraqis took to the streets to protest the continued US military presence in their country. What little mainstream media coverage the protest received all reported the number of protesters as far less than actually turned out. The Beltway elites are determined that Americans not know or understand just how much our presence in Iraq is not wanted.

The US Dropped More Munitions on Afghanistan Last Year Than Any Other Time in the Last Decade
By Jared Keller, January 28, 2020
The U.S. military dropped more munitions on targets across Afghanistan in 2019 than during any other year stretching back to at least 2009, according to Air Force data. According to Air Forces Central Command’s airpower statistics, U.S. aircraft dropped 7,423 munitions across 2,434 sorties as part of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and NATO’s Resolute Support mission, and increase over the 7,362 weapons released across 966 sorties in 2018.

Iraq to Neocons: Get the Hell Out of Our Country
By Kurt Nimmo, January 28, 2020
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) units in Iraq are integrated into the Iraqi government by a

#Bolivia #Coup, #Masterminded in #Washington

George H. Walker Bush: The Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Cartel
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Donald Trump has offered to intervene in Mexico “to go after the Drug Cartels” following “the brutal killing of an American family in Mexico”. The Mexican president has turned down Trump’s generous offer.
In a recent interview, President Trump confirmed that his administration is now considering categorizing the Mexican drug cartels as “terrorist organizations” similar to Al Qaeda. The unspoken truth: The Mexican Drug Cartels have been protected by US intelligence. Read more...

Bolivia Coup, Masterminded in Washington: Post-Coup Update, Rigged Elections?
By Eric Zuesse
With every passing day, it becomes clearer that the military coup in Bolivia on November 10th was masterminded in Washington DC. This reality will create yet a new difficulty in relations between the U.S. regime and Mexico to its direct south, because the Mexican Government, under progressive President Lopez Obrador, took the courageous and very meaningful step of providing refuge to the U.S.-couped Bolivian President Evo Morales and therefore posed overtly a resistance to the U.S. dictatorship. Read more...

Trump Designating Drug Cartels as Terrorist Organizations Is Aimed Against Mexican President

#Geopolitical #Crisis in the #MiddleEast

Iran Declares War on the USA’s Covert Influence in Iraq
By Elijah J. Magnier
When US officials visited Baghdad and met with the Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, they had two requests: first, to close all commerce and financial exchanges with Iran to strangle the Iranian economy and bring it to its knees. The second was to neutralise the Iraqi groups (known as Hashd al-Shaabi) which sympathise with Iran and carry a similar ideology. Read more...

Brexit: British Lorries to be Turned Back at Dover by Shipping Companies
By Pölös Zsófia
British lorries that do not have proper documentation will not be able to reach France after a no-deal Brexit because shipping companies will not allow them to board their ships in Dover. Read more...

Ongoing Atrocities in Syria. Missile Attacks Directed against Civilians
By Miri Wood

The #Sassoons: Aka "The #Rothschilds of the #East"

By Mike King

There once was a wealthy Jew named David Sassoon --- who, like his father, had served as treasurer to the pashas (governors) of Ottoman-ruled Baghdad (in modern day Iraq). Eventually, the people and a new pasha turned against the Jewish money manipulators (surprise surprise). In the early 1830's -- as the result of a corruption scandal -- David and his brother Joseph left "anti-Semitic" Baghdad to seek new scams in new lands.

Joseph Sassoon settled in the city of Aleppo (modern day Syria) where he established a merchant house. Later on, his business interests spread to Alexandria, Thessaloniki, and Athens, which included a shipping company and a money exchange house. His five sons later branched out in different directions.

But it was David -- who led the community's exodus to Bombay (now known as Mumbai, India) -- that established the branch of the Sassoon Family which was to rank among the wealthiest and most respected and influential dynasties in the world. David Sassoon and his eight sons profited handsomely from several different types of businesses. They made a fortune in textiles; but the trade which really raked in the shekels for the new "Indians" later dubbed "the Rothschilds of the East" was in selling opium, aka narcotics, aka "dope" in China.

1. The ancestors of the Jewish Sassoon Family had been expelled from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain / Portugal) 300 years before David had been born. The Ottoman Turkish Empire welcomed the banished Jews. But when the Sassoons became embroiled in a corruption scandal, it was time for David and Joseph to pack up and leave again -- this time, for India and Syria respectively.

2 & 3. David Sassoon later founded Sassoon & Sons -- a mighty financial and political operation which later expanded to the trafficking of opium to China.

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1. Massive synagogue in Mumbai, India --- built by the Sassoon Crime Family.

The #Rockefeller Way: The Family’s Covert #ClimateChange Plan

The Rockefeller Way: The Family’s Covert ‘Climate Change’ Plan
By The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute
The Rockefellers are arguably the wealthiest and most powerful family in the history of the United States. For more than 100 years, they have shaped and directed America’s economic, financial, political, and public policy while simultaneously amassing one of the largest family empires in the modern era. Read more...

DHS Is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement
By Naureen Shah
The stories become even more harrowing when we learn why ICE allegedly imposed solitary. NBC news reported reasons including: wearing a hand cast, sharing a consensual kiss, or needing a wheelchair. ICE reportedly put LGBTQ individuals and people with mental illness in solitary as “protective custody,” citing their own safety. Read more...

Turkish Dreams of a “Radical Islamic Annex” in Northern Syria Fade Away

The #Pentagon’s #IdesOfMarch: Best #Month to Go to #War

We’re Killing Off Our Vital Insects Too
By F. William Engdahl
Recent independent scientific studies indicate that we are threatening our vital global insect population, including of bees, with widespread extinction through massive deployment of agriculture pesticides. Read more...

The Coup Against President Aristide 15 Years Later: The Clintons, the Canadians, and Western NGOs all Complicit in a Never-Ending Tragedy
By Michael Welch, Yves Engler, and Jean Saint-Vil
On February 29th 2004, fifteen years ago this week, following an insurgency by a rebel paramilitary army, U.S. Canadian, and French troops executed a coup d’etat against the democratically elected Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Read more...

The Pentagon’s “Ides of March”: Best Month to Go to War

2016 #USElections: Evidence for #Israelgate? #Russia Was a #Scapegoat?

By Global Research NewsGlobal Research, March 21, 2018

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Iraq and the “Gulf War”: Remembering the 1991 Al-Amiriyah Bombing by the US Air Force
By Felicity Arbuthnot and Radio Islam, March 21, 2018
According to Arbuthnot, the nuclear shelter was built during the Iran-Iraq War by a Finnish company which allegedly shared the map and the design with the United States who later on bombed the shelter through its only vulnerable place which was the ventilation shaft.

The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Could Provide Hard Evidence of “Israeli” Meddling in Trump Election

The #Road to #Understanding #Syria Goes Through #Iraq

By Global Research News

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US Has Budgeted $49 Million for Venezuelan Right-Wing Since 2009
By Telesur, August 07, 2017
Since at least 2009 the U.S. Department of State has budgeted at least US$49 million in total to support right-wing opposition forces in Venezuela who are now in their seventh week of violent protests to oust democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro.

The Road to Understanding Syria Goes Through Iraq

$1 #Billion #LightWeapons to #Iraq

US Military Sent over $1 Billion Worth of Light Weapons To “Multiple Armed Groups” in Iraq

Report of Amnesty International

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-military-sent-over-1-billion-worth-of-light-weapons-to-multiple-armed-groups-in-iraq/5592502

Management and Logistical Failure? Quoting a recently declassified US government audit, Amnesty International reports that the US Army “has failed to keep tabs on more than $1 billion worth of arms and other military equipment” channelled to Iraq under the Iraq Train and Equip Fund (ITEF).

In 2015, US Congress appropriated $1.6 billion for the ITEF program. The funds were earmarked to fight against the ISIS in response to Obama’s counter-terrorism campaign launched in Summer of 2014. In a bitter irony, a large number of these weapons landed up in the hands of terrorists including the ISIS. 

The 1.6 billion were spent on light weaponry. It’s all for a good cause: The shipments of weapons and ammunition were according to reports dispatched to Iraq (c/o the Iraqi Armed Forces) to be distributed to armed groups involved in fighting ISIS-Daesh.

Some of the shipments unfortunately went astray or landed in the wrong hands, according to Patrick Wilcken, an Amnesty researcher on International’s Arms Control and Human Rights. This was

Ray of Hope? Finally, A #BritishNewspaper Admits #UK Are Backing #Terrorists in #Syria

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21st Century Wire says…

This appears to be the first UK mainstream media outlet to openly admit that the UK are backing terrorist extremists in Syria.

Although 21WIRE has been exposing this fact for the last 4 years, mainstream media outlets have maintained a code of silence over the US, UK, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other ‘Coalition’ members who have been financing, training and arming of Islamist extremists currently running amok in Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Yemen.

The Expressarticle, filed by Charlie Peat, describes the latest savage barbaric deed done by NATO-backed “Moderate Rebels”, and admits how the US-led NATO confab is supplying weapons to these Islamist terrorist groups:

“The young [11 year old] boy is said to be a soldier for Liwaa al-Quds, a group which supports

Update on Iraq

By Global Research News

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Iraq Invasion – Anniversary of The Biggest Terrorist Attack in Modern History

By Felicity Arbuthnot, March 28 2016

Since terrorism’s tragedy is again in the news, it is timely to revisit perhaps one of the biggest acts of terrorism in modern history – the illegal invasion and destruction – ongoing – of Iraq. March 20th marked the thirteenth…

The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion

#MiddleEast Update. #Islam, #Iraq, #Iran and #Israel

By Global Research News

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Study: ‘NYT’ Portrays Islam More Negatively than Alcohol, Cancer, and Cocaine

By Dorgham Abusalim, March 11 2016

A study released in November 2015 by 416 Labs, a Toronto-based consulting firm, reveals that the New York Times portrays Islam/Muslims more negatively than alcohol, cancer, and cocaine among other benchmarked words. 

Recaptured from the Islamic State, Ramadi Destruction Is Worse than Anywhere Else in Iraq

First #CrisisActor: 1990 #Nayirah Claimed #Iraq #Killed 312

hospital incubator infants in Kuwait to criminally incite war

by Carl Herman

2-minute clip from Barrie Zwicker’s The Great Conspiracy:

Edited and amended from a brief I wrote for interested Members of Congress in 2005 (and updated to 2009), War with Afghanistan and Iraq, rhetoric for war with Iran:

The US and Iraq: the history you didn’t know: Saddam Hussein was a vicious dictator who should have never ruled a nation. However, according to a dozen former US diplomats, US intelligence officials, and British scholars, Saddam was supported by the US beginning in 1959. The US CIA authorized Saddam to assassinate Iraq’s dictator, Abd al-Karim Qasim, who had recently withdrew from the pro-US Baghdad Pact and initiated friendly relations with the Soviet Union (49). The assassination failed, but another succeeded in 1963. Saddam rose in power, and became dictator in 1979. Saddam had US support to invade Iran in a War of Aggression from 1980 to 1988, including supplying him with biological and chemical weapons (50). When Saddam invaded Kuwait in August of 1990, US cooperation with him was suspended. The UN Security Council voted in favor of military action to remove Iraq from Kuwait.

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#NorthAmerica's #Crazy #Enemies

THE "BAD GUYS" WHO OPPOSE U.S. SPEAK OUT

By Mike King

When we look back at Globalist-owned America's long history of making war against various 'Bad Guys' from A-Z, the discerning student of history can't help but notice the conspicuous absence of "the other side of the story". Why is that? Consider; even serial killers such as Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz ('the Son of

#ISIS = #Israeli #Secret #IntelligenceService

8-minutes of videos: 

ISIS = Israeli Secret Intelligence Service, just like OIL = Operation Iraqi Liberation; 

joke’s on We the People until .01% arrests

washingtonsblog,com

OIL (Operation Iraqi Liberation) was the official name of what the US was doing in Iraq, as Mugsys RapSheet’s 1-minute video reminds us:

Harold Saive’s 1-minute video reminds us of the implausibility that an alleged anti-Israeli group, ISIS, would choose the very acronym of Mossad, the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS). Importantly, as you

#Unmasking #ISIS

by WashingtonsBlog

INTRODUCTION

Where did ISIS come from? How was it able to gain land, arms and money so quickly?

This book will answer those questions … and unmask ISIS.

Part 1 shows that the U.S. – through bad policies and stupid choices – is largely responsible for the rise of ISIS.

Part 2 reveals the strange history of the leaders of ISIS … Including one who never really existed, and another who – if you read mainstream media drivel – was killed … then arrested … and then killed again.

Part 3 delves into the little-known, secret history of Iraq and Syria … and discusses the real motivations behind our current policies towards those countries.

And Part 4 reveals the shocking truth about who is really supporting  ISIS.

So grab a cup of coffee, and prepare to learn the real story.

PART 1: OOPS … WE CREATED A MONSTER

President Barack Obama noted in an interview in March 2015:

ISIL [also known as ISIS] is a direct outgrowth of Al-Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion. Which is an example of unintended consequences. Which is why we should generally aim before we shoot.

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#Obama ’s #GunRunning #Operation

#Weapons and Support for “Islamic Terrorists” in #Syria and #Iraq. 

“Create Constructive Chaos” and “Redraw the Map of the 3MiddleEast”

By Julie Lévesque 

Newly disclosed Pentagon documents prove what we’ve known for a while now: the Obama administration knew as early as 2012 that weapons were being sent from Benghazi, Libya, to rebels in Syria. 

The U.S. government also knew at the time that:

“the Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and [Al Qaeda in Iraq were] the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”

But did they just “know” or was it part of the plan?

These official documents of the Obama administration add to the large  amount of evidence proving that the actual chaos and havoc wreaked by extremist groups in the Middle East was deliberately created by the U.S. and its allies and is not the result of a “failed foreign policy”.

Judicial Watch recently revealed:

The DoD documents also contain the first official documentation that the Obama administration knew that weapons were being shipped from the Port of Benghazi to rebel troops in Syria. An October 2012 report confirms:

Weapons from the former Libya military stockpiles were shipped from the port of Benghazi, Libya to the Port of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria. The weapons shipped during late-August 2012 were Sniper rifles, RPG’s, and 125 mm and 155mm howitzers missiles.

During the immediate aftermath of, and following the uncertainty caused by, the downfall of the ((Qaddafi)) regime in October 2011 and up until early September of 2012, weapons from the former Libya military stockpiles located in Benghazi, Libya were shipped from the port of Benghazi, Libya to the ports of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam, Syria. The Syrian ports were chosen due to the small amount of cargo traffic transiting these two ports. The ships used to transport the weapons were medium-sized and able to hold 10 or less shipping containers of cargo.

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The heavily redacted document does not disclose who was shipping the weapons. (Benghazi Scandal: Obama Administration Knew Weapons Were Being Sent to Al-Qaeda in Syria, New Documents Show, Judicial Watch 18 May 2015)

Although the documents do not reveal who was responsible for sending weapons to Syria, it is quite obvious from the language used in the documents that it was a US initiative and the CIA presence in Benghazi at the time suggests that US intelligence was behind this gun-running operation.

Libyan Terrorists in Syria

On September 11, 2012, the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was attacked. Four people were killed, including the U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and two CIA officers.

In August 2013, Business Insider reported :

#Chaos – not #Victory – is the #Empire’s “Name of the #Game ”

By Peter Koenig

“Once again a country “liberated” by the West is sinking deeper and deeper into chaos.” Global Research. 

This could be anyone of the countries in conflict, where Washington and its Western and Middle Eastern stooges sow war – eternal chaos, misery, death – and submission.

This is precisely the point: The Washington / NATO strategy is not to ‘win’ a war or conflict, but to create ongoing – endless chaos. That’s the way (i) to control people, nations and their resources; (ii) to assures the west a continuous need for military – troops and equipment – remember more than 50% of the US GDP depends on the military industrial complex, related industries and services; and (iii) finally, a country in disarray or chaos, is broke and needs money – money with hardship conditions, ‘austerity’ money from the notorious IMF, World Bank and other associated nefarious ‘development institutions’ and money lenders; money that equals enslavement, especially with corrupt leaders that do not care for their people.

That’s the name of the game – in Yemen, in Ukraine, in Syria, in Iraq, in Sudan, in Central Africa, in Libya…. you name it. Who fights against whom is unimportant. ISIS / ISIL / IS / DAISH / DAESH / Al-Qaeda and whatever other names for the mercenary killer organizations you want to add to the list – are just tags to confuse. You might as well add Blackwater, Xe, Academi and all its other successive names chosen to escape easy recognition. They are prostitutes for the Zionist-Anglo-Saxon Empire, prostitutes of the lowest level. Then come elite prostitutes, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and other Gulf States, plus the UK and France, of course.

President Hollande has just signed a multi-billion euro contract with Qatar for the sale of 24 Rafale fighter jets. He is now heading to Riyadh for talks with the Saudi King Salman, and to sell