#International #Warmongers #Beat the #War #Drums for #War Against #Russia

 International Warmongers Beat the War Drums for War Against Russia

By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, January 27 2021

The only certain thing about this so-called security conference – postponed because of the Corona plague – is that the world’s worst warmongers are again beating the war drums. This year, possibly for a new war against Russia.

Russian-American Relations Under Biden: More of the Same Except for One Thing By Andrew Korybko, January 27 2021 Russian-American relations will remain just as bad under Biden as they were under Trump except for the 46th President’s desire to extend the New START for another five years as part of an implied nuclear detente with Moscow after his administration also announced that it’ll investigate Russia for alleged cyber spying.

What Happened to JFK and a Foreign Policy of Peace? By Rick Sterling, January 27 2021

Keep #War, #EnvironmentalDegradation and #Profit Out of #Space

Trump Budget Gives Top Priority to New Generation of Nuclear Weapons

By Patrick Martin, February 11, 2020

The most ominous feature of the new budget document issued Monday by the Trump administration is the prominent place given to the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons, including so-called low-yield weapons, smaller than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which are widely regarded as more likely to actually be used in combat. The document calls for nearly $50 billion to be devoted to nuclear modernization, including $29 billion from the Pentagon budget, and $19.8 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a unit of the Department of Energy which operates the actual production of nuclear warheads, as well as some of the primary research.

 

Democrats Ignore Trump’s Real Violations

By Rep. Ron Paul, February 11, 2020

Why do the Democrats keep swinging and missing at Trump? They can’t make a good

A #Future Without #NATO?

NATO’s Continuing Enlargement Aims at Further Weakening of Russian Influence in the Balkans
By Paul Antonopoulos
Of the 29 NATO member states, 22 have already ratified the accession protocol of North Macedonia into the anti-Russian alliance. The ratification process will likely be completed before the end of NATO’s summit taking place in London this week, which will make North Macedonia the newest country in military alliance. Read more...

NATO’s Deep Political and Legal Crisis: Madness and Irrationality
By Jan Oberg
NATO’s London Summit on December 3 and 4, 2019 displays the deep political crisis of the 70-year-old alliance: Only a dinner and a short meeting, no statement to be issued, quarrels among the leading military members, accusations, substantial differences on Syria and many other issues, the deepest-ever Transatlantic conflict and the usual issues of burden-sharing. Read more...

NATO: “Brain Dead” and Divided

#GulfOfOman #Attack: #FalseFlag Towards #Iran #War?

Provocations in the Gulf of Oman: Will John Bolton Get His War on Iran?
By Michael Welch, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Pepe Escobar, and Yves Engler
Is the world now on a trajectory toward war? Perhaps even a world war? This daunting possibility is at the heart of this week’s Global Research News Hour radio program. Read more...

Video: Mysterious Attacks on Oil Tankers Around Persian Gulf
By South Front
After the incident, Iranian state media reported that Iranian sailors had rescued all 44 crew members of the tankers. This statement contradicts to CENTCOM claims that said that 21 mariners from the M/V Kokuka Courageous, were rescued by USS Bainbridge. Read more...

The Gulf of Credibility. False Flag, Ludicrous Allegation. Iran Rescued the Crew of the Japanese Tanker

#President Starts a #War?

President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
By Rep. Ron Paul
Last week’s bipartisan Senate vote to rebuke President Trump for his decision to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan unfortunately tells us a lot about what is wrong with Washington, DC. While the two parties loudly bicker about minor issues, when it comes to matters like endless wars overseas they enthusiastically join together. Read more...

Indigenous Activists Set Up Protest Camp at South Texas Cemetery to Stop Trump’s Wall
By Gus Bova
Just a few feet north rises a sloped earthen river levee, which the Trump administration soon plans to transform into a 30-foot concrete and steel border wall. Read more...

Being Marco Rubio

#President #NicolasMaduro: #OpenLetter to the #People of the #UnitedStates

An Open Letter to the People of the United States from President Nicolas Maduro
By Nicolas Maduro
I address these words to the people of the United States of America to warn of the gravity and danger that intend some sectors in the White House to invade Venezuela with unpredictable consequences for my country and for the entire American region. Read more...

Venezuela: From Oil Proxy to the Bolivarian Movement and Sabotage. Abysmal Poverty under US Proxy Rule (1918-1998)
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner
We discuss the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, its history as an oil proxy nation since the discovery of oil in 1918, through successive dictatorships, coups d’etats, a fake nationalization of the oil industry, the Chavista movement and destabilization through financial warfare, with a special emphasis on Michel Chossudovsky’s personal experience there conducting a study on poverty in 1975 as Advisor to the Venezuelan Minister of Planning. Read more...

US Influence in Venezuela Is Part of a Two Centuries-old Imperial Plan
By Shane Quinn

Is #Kissing a #StateSponsorOfTerrorism a #TerroristAct?

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Is Kissing a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” a “Terrorist Act”?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 07, 2018
When George W. Bush respectfully kisses King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, does this mean that Dubya could –by some stretch of the imagination– be considered a “suspected terrorist”, who should never have been elected president of the United States of America?

“Flashpoint for War”: U.S. and Japan Plan Military Response to Chinese Incursions of Disputed Islands
By Zero Hedge, November 07, 2018
Things are again rapidly heating up in the East China Sea amidst already heightened tensions in a region where Washington is increasingly asserting the right of navigation in international waters against broad Chinese claims and seeking to defend the territorial possessions of its allies.

Photo of Brazil President-Elect Bolsonaro’s Sons Wearing Israel’s IDF and Mossad Shirts Goes Viral
By Randi Nord, November 07, 2018
A photo of Bolsonaro’s sons donning shirts depicting logos of Israel’s Mossad spy agency and “Israeli Defense Forces” (military) has gone viral, highlighting how Bolsonaro will normalize ethno-fascism as seen in Apartheid Israel that could stretch from the Americas to the Middle East and beyond.

The West Is Failing Julian Assange

By Stefania Maurizi, November 07, 2018
This lack of cooperation from the UK authorities – which can be reasonably interpreted as a deliberate effort to make Assange feel helpless, to break him down, so he’ll step out of the embassy and they can arrest him – has helped create this Catch-22 situation, with Ecuador attempting various options to find a solution, like giving Assange diplomatic status so he can leave the embassy protected by diplomatic immunity.

Trump’s Project of a Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA), An “Arab NATO-like Alliance” to Confront Iran
By Dr. Elias Akleh, November 07, 2018
While the USA and the Gulf States have enlisted, trained and armed all the terrorist groups that have been destroying Syria and Yemen during the last decade, they accused Iran of a state sponsorship of terrorism. The facts on the ground show clearly that Iran has been fighting and defeating terrorist groups and protecting Syrian cities first and eventually the whole region.

Cell Phone Radiation Leads to Cancer, Says U.S. NTP in Final Report
By Microwave News, November 07, 2018
The NTP found what it calls “clear evidence” that two different types of cell phone signals, GSM and CDMA, increased the incidence of malignant tumors in the hearts of male rats over the course of the two-year study. Higher incidences of brain and adrenal tumors were also seen, but those associations were judged to be somewhat weaker.

#US Led #Wars and #ClimateChange

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Gramsci, Passive Revolution and 20th Century Iran
By Marziyeh Asgari Vash and Karim Pourhamzavi, September 12, 2018

#Trump’s #NuclearButton #Entails #Genocide

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Trump Considers “Bloody Nose” Strike on North Korea
By Peter Symonds, February 06, 2018
The Trump administration, or a powerful military-intelligence faction within it, is pushing for a pre-emptive military strike on North Korea, in the wake of, or possibly even during, the Winter Olympics due to start in South Korea on Friday.

North Korea: Genocide Denial
By Prof. John McMurtry, February 06, 2018
With the people and society of North Korea, the same operations of denial have gone into play as endlessly before in the wider context of US-led world power in Indonesia, Vietnam, Latin America, Iraq, Palestine arguably throughout, and so on. Since the North Korean people have already suffered the death of an estimated third of their population by US-led armed forces in previous years, non-stop and imminent nuclear threats against them, and life-destructive embargo, where does it end?

Secret Meeting on the Privatization of Nuclear War Held on Hiroshima Day 2003

#NorthAmerica First in #War, Last in #Peace

by Stephen Lendman

All US presidential aspirants make promises they intend breaking if elected - Trump no different than his predecessors.

Straightaway in office, he sold out to Wall Street, war-profiteers and other corporate favorites. Instead of draining the swamp, he filled it with neocon generals and billionaires. 

Hyperbole calling NATO “obsolete” is long forgotten. So is his phony worker friendly trade agenda - protecting investors over consumers, reneging on halting jobs offshored to low-wage countries.

Instead of changing destructive US policies, he’s pursuing them with vigor - notably by escalating wars in multiple theaters, including by attacking Syria’s Shayrat airbase, likely prelude for further aggression, maybe full-scale war risking confrontation with Russia.

Is North Korea on his target list? Will he risk East Asia nuclear war? His South China Sea saber-rattling risks confrontation with China. Threats against Iran and Venezuela risk more trouble.

Does his “America first” hyperbole mean greater war on humanity than already? Does he intend making his administration first in warmaking above everything else?

How many more countries are on his target list? The New York Times criticized his missing voice on Syria since attacking its Shayrat airbase.

His actions speak louder than words, escalating Obama’s wars, featuring Mosul and northern Syria terror-bombing, massacring civilians, others in Afghanistan and Yemen - horrendous war crimes, ignored by media scoundrels.

What country does he plan to attack next? How many more combat troops are planned for US war theaters?

He earlier said “(w)e really have no choice. We have to knock out ISIS. I would listen to the generals, but I’m hearing numbers of 20,000 to 30,000” in Syria. 

McMaster reportedly wants 150,000, a full-scale invasion if ordered either way - for regime change, not combating ISIS Washington created and supports.

A White House statement said “(t)he president retains the option to act in Syria against the Assad regime whenever it is in the national interest…”

In other words, naked US aggression is OK if Trump orders it for any reason - claiming it’s in ‘the national interest.” 

He redefined “America first” - warmaking topping his agenda ahead of other priorities.

Inside the #InvisibleGovernment: #War, #Propaganda, #Clinton and #Trump

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Inside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton and Trump

By John Pilger, October 27 2016

Propaganda is most effective when our consent is engineered by those with a fine education – Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia — and with careers on the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times, theWashington Post. These organisations are known as the liberal media. They present themselves as enlightened, progressive tribunes of the moral zeitgeist. They are anti-racist, pro-feminist and pro-LGBT. And they love war. 

Who Was Behind the 2008 Financial Crash? US Aristocracy’s Immunity From Prosecution. Proposal to Hold Top Level Wall Street “Crooks” Accountable

By Eric Zuesse, October 27 2016

For the very first time, on October 25th, a high federal official, the “SIGTARP” or Special Inspector General for the TARP program that bailed out the largest financial institutions and their top investors after the 2008 economic crash, is now making a specific proposal to hold the top-level crooks accountable for the incentive-systems they had put into place motivating their employees to pump-and-dump ‘investments’ during the growth-phase of the ‘free market’ Ponzi game that existed since 2000 when the end of the FDR-era Glass-Steagall Act and the start of totally unregulated financial marketeering went wild after 2005 and came crashing down in 2008. 

Agrochemicals And The Cesspool Of Corruption: Dr. Mason Writes To The US EPA

#Obama Has Been At #War Longer Than Any Other #President In #History

by WashingtonsBlog

Bush was a horrible president. At the time, I thought he was the worst president in American history.

But Obama has made a lot of firsts himself …

For example, Obama:

• Has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined

• Sentenced whistleblowers to 31 times the jail time of all prior u.s. presidents combined

• Prosecuted fewer financial crimes than President Reagan, Clinton or either of the Bush presidents.   (As bad as the Bush administration was, they at least prosecuted the heads of Enron, Worldcom and some other white collar crooks. In contrast, Obama hasn’t prosecuted even one high-level Wall Street executive.)

• Is the most secretive president ever

• Is more hostile to the press than any president in history

• Claims the power to strip Americans’ liberty in a way that no other president has ever tried to claim … and that even King George of England didn’t claim. Indeed, Obama has rolled back some of our liberties to the time of the enactment of the Magna Carta in 1215

• Has turned America into the most spied upon nation in world history (and see this and this)

• Has arguably centralized power more than any other president

• Has granted less pardons than any president since Garfield, who served only 200 days as president before being assassinated in 1881

• May be the only U.S. president in history who failed to deliver a single year of at least 3% economic growth (when adjusted for inflation)

In addition, Obama has presided over:

• The greatest inequality of any president

• The first time in its history that America is viewed as the world’s greatest threat by the people of the world

• One of the largest net changes in debt in American history

• Perhaps the most corrupt government ever in the U.S.

And as the New York Times notes this week, Obama has been at war longer than any president in history.

#Obama Requests Support for Possible #War Against #Russia

Eric Zuesse

According to Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (German Economic News), on April 23rd, U.S. President Barack Obama is “demanding the active deployment of the Bundeswehr [Germany’s armed forces, including their Army, Navy, and Air Force] to NATO’s eastern borders” at Poland and the Baltic republics, to join the quadrupling of America’s forces there, on and near those borders of Russia. (This is an extreme violation of what Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to when he ended the Soviet Union and its NATO-mirror organization the Warsaw Pact, but it’s actually culminating a process that began shortly after he agreed to America’s terms, which included that NATO “not move one inch to the east.”)

Furthermore, DWN reports that on April 25th, the U.S. President will hold a “summit meeting” in Hannover Germany with the leaders of Germany (Angela Merkel), Italy (Matteo Renzi), France (Francois Hollande), and Britain (David Cameron). The presumed objective of this meeting is to

#NorthAmerica: The Greatest Threat to #WorldPeace

Stephen Lendman

No nation in world history matches America’s ruthless agenda - at war at home and/or abroad from inception, not a single year of peace throughout its sordid existence. 

It’s the greatest purveyor of violence in world history, its barbarity unequaled, responsible for more harm to more people globally over a longer duration - contemptuous of democratic values, ignoring rule of law principles, indifferent to human suffering. 

Dealing diplomatically with neocons infesting Washington at the highest levels assures disaster. They don’t negotiate. They demand, duplicitously pretending otherwise. 

Agreements are made to be breached, counterparties always blamed - victims and independent nations

The #DirtyWork of #InternationalOrganizations. #EverythingIsInterrelated

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War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis in 2015: Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 25 2015

Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law, 

Why World War III is on the Horizon

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 28 2015

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to a dangerous American ideology called

#FlagWaving In #WarTime

by Ryan O'Neill

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How selective solidarity and sympathy aids a jingoistic foreign policy

On Sunday evening, the first news reports started to come through that France had conducted its largest bombing campaign to date against an ‘ISIS stronghold’ in Raqqa, Syria. The Guardian referred to Raqqa as an ‘IS bastion’, and that the decision to launch such ‘massive, retaliatory airstrikes’ was an act of “self-defence”, according to french foreign minister, Laurent Fabius. These airstrikes follow Friday’s terror attacks in Paris that left over 140 people dead.

Speaking on the first day of the G20 summit in Turkey, Laurent Fabius claimed that

“France has always said that because she has been threatened and attacked by Daesh(ISIS), it would be

#Obama’s #War on #Venezuela

Stephen Lendman

Endless US hot wars rage in multiple theaters. Covert destabilizing ones target numerous other countries.

Toppling Venezuela’s government has been a US objective since Chavez took office in February 1999 - so far not achieved but ongoing without letup.

Occasional US soft diplomatic talk is pure deception - including John Kerry saying Washington “seek(s) ways to improve a historically strong relationship” on the occasion of Venezuela’s July 5 independence day commemoration.

Most often his rhetoric reflects longstanding US meddling in the internal affairs of other countries - flagrantly illegal under core international law ignored by Washington, operating solely by its own rules and standards.

James Petras explains US Latin American policy saying “(f)aced with the mess and difficulty of dislodging incumbent regimes via elections, (it) opted for the choreography of street violence, sabotage, martial law and coups (together with ‘local proxies’) - to be followed by sanitized elections - with US-vetted candidates.”

Venezuela is a prime US target for regime change. It has the world’s largest oil reserves (greater than Saudi

#War and #Peace in #Donbass

The Reversal of Kerry’s Ukraine Statement Came from Obama, Not Nuland

By Eric Zuesse

When Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on May 15th contradicted her boss John Kerry’s statement of three days earlier, in which Kerry had warned Ukraine’s President Petro Petroshenko not to violate the Minsk II agreement, and not to invade Crimea, and not to re-invade Donbass, the source of this reversal was actually U.S. President Barack Obama, and not Victoria Nuland (as the State Department had reported).

When I first noticed the contradiction as I reported on May 21st, Nuland’s statement on May 15th was being quoted by Ukraine’s Interfax News Agency, without any link to its U.S. source. I looked but didn’t right away find its U.S. source, but the official Ukrainian news agency would not quote a U.S. Government official falsely, and so I went with the story on that basis.

Now that I have found the U.S. source in the full May 15th U.S. State Department press briefing in Washington, there can be little doubt that Nuland had actually been instructed by the White House to be quoted there as issuing this reversal of Kerry’s statement.

The press conference, by the Department’s press spokesperson Jeff Rathke, opened with an introductory statement in which he asserted:

Assistant Secretary Nuland’s ongoing visit to Kyiv and her discussions with Prime Minister Yatsenyuk and President Poroshenko reaffirm the United States’ full and unbreakable support for Ukraine’s government, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. We continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Ukraine and reiterate our deep commitment to a single Ukrainian nation, including Crimea, and all the other regions of Ukraine.

That’s all that was reported by Ukraine’s Interfax. Much later in the press conference, however, after

#NATO Increasingly Surrounds the “ #Russian #Threat ”

“War is Good for Business”

By Eric Zuesse

On Saturday, April 18th, the Commander of  the U.S. Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, told Britain’s Telegraph  that “There is a Russian threat,” and that “The best insurance we have against a showdown is that NATO stands together.”

Ever since the Soviet Union’s military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, dissolved in 1991, NATO has expanded eastward to Russia’s borders, and now it is preparing to admit yet another nation on Russia’s border: Ukraine. This eastward expansion broke (and breaks, since it’s continuing) a verbal agreement which had produced the termination of the Warsaw Pact (the Soviet Union’s equivalent of America’s NATO alliance).

In February 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush sent his Secretary of State, James Baker, to Moscow to negotiate with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev an end to the Cold War. According to Jack Matlock, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union then, Baker offered Gorbachev the following deal:

“Assuming there is no expansion of NATO jurisdiction to the East, not one inch, what would you prefer, a Germany embedded in NATO, or one that can go independently in any direction it chooses.”

Baker knew that Russia, after Hitler’s invasion of Russia in June 1941 (“Operation Barbarossa”), feared, more than anything, the possibility that an independent Germany would build a nuclear-weapons force and use it against Russia. According to Ray McGovern’s account of the meeting, Gorbachev “wasted little time agreeing to the deal.”

McGovern, a retired high official of the CIA, blames U.S. President Bill Clinton for breaking that verbal agreement. Gorbachev had gotten nothing in writing from Baker on it, but acted on Baker’s verbal promise.

Proof that #Russia and #Iran Want #War

Look How Close They Put Their Countries To Our Military Bases!

WashingtonsBlog

Proof!

Bad people are putting their countries closer and closer to our military bases: 

Look how close Russia put its country to our military bases: