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'come and see'

- a partisan film

 

Watch this film --- and you

will - finally - understand.

 

https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=NJYOg4ORc1w

 

Some in the West are fond

of a loose use of words...

 

''stunning'', for example, to describe

a work of art... but believe me

when I say - this film about a

lad of 14 - made me laugh

and cry and - by the end 

- I was left stunned.

A recent attempt on youtube by an obvious
anti-Russian, to pour scorn on this film's
historical accuracy, tries to point out
that the nazi troops state they are
members of a unit that was not
there.. but can't bring himself
to see that they might have
been lying!


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St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox 

Spiritual Care Centre


 


THE TRAGEDY IN UKRAINE


 


"Veterans and children of the Great Patriotic War:
to the Government 
and people of Germany".




 


By events in Ukraine


 


Today, when the German government decided


to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons, the


world has changed — the silhouettes of a 


new world war are more than clearly 


outlined! And again - Germany! 


 


But there are honest people in Germany, anti-


fascists, and we hope that this Message will 


fall into their hands. People born between 


1927 and 1945 have the status of "war 


children" in Russia.


 


All those who survived that war can subscribe to this letter.
We think that actual signatures are not necessary, we
suggest that veterans
 
(or "war children") read them
this letter, 
independently or with someone's help, 


and send us (at the coordinates indicated
below) something like 
the following: 


 


Moscow, Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich, 90 years old, disabled
war veteran (or otherwise), Hero of 
the Soviet Union
(or Holder of the Order of 
Glory... or otherwise),
was repatriated to
 Germany during the war
(or otherwise). 



Or just the city, full name, and age. The 


main thing, is that they should be real 


people who are familiar with the text.


 


 


MESSAGE TEXT


 


We, the last veterans and all the peoples of 


Russia who survived that great and terrible


war, are now on the verge of death! Our 


time is already running out. For a huge 


part of our lives, we hoped we would 


come to the end of it, in peace - 


without all-destroying hatred! 


 


For the painfully long decades after the Second World War,
we overcame our righteous anger! I 
long for retribution for
the innumerable wounds, spiritual and physical, that we
still carry in our bodies and our hearts! And most of us
have forgiven! And not in a small way due to the fact
that Germany for many years has demonstrated its
repentance its understanding of what it has done!
And we have overcome, not only ourselves, but
also the voice of the blood of 
our barbarically
exterminated relatives! 
By whom?
Germans ...fascists! 


 


We have forgiven... following the laws of human


coexistence! So it was... until 2014. And then,


in 2014, when everything began in Ukraine... 


we looked with hope at Germany and at the


then Chancellor Angela Merkel. We couldn't
imagine that after all that the Germans did 


in Ukraine, after Babi Yar, after mountains 


of mutilated corpses, they would still look 


with lust at the Ukrainian fields that can 


feed Europe today! Or they, the Germans, 


who have covered the Crimea they once 


promised with blood, will still somehow
be interested in turning the Crimea 
into
an American and in general a NATO 
base, ideal for aggression against
Russia! 
Which would be clearly


aimed at a future war. 


 


After all, only fools do not understand the meaning and
goals of the entire coup in 
Ukraine... in the conditions
of which 
Russia behaved in the only possible way! But
the Germans are not fools! 
We the Russians, know for
certain 
your psychology, as "brothers in blood" - our
blood, which you 
"prudently" shed in rivers! 


 


We remember your "systematic methods of


population reduction"! Our population! Until


now, in different parts of our once united


Homeland, where the boot of German 


fascism was trodden, we find hidden 


mass graves of our civilians: in the 


Novgorod region, in the Kuban, in 


the Rostov region, in Karelia. In 


Belarus, in 2021... hundreds of 


civilian remains... were found 


in Brest    ...on the site of the 


Jewish ghetto the Trostenets 


concentration camp....  near 


Minsk terrible in its tragedy


revealed the secret of the 


remains... of thousands of 


tortured and killed people! 


 


We are talking about tens of thousands of newly
discovered victims of Nazism! This blood - still
cries out for revenge - and for decades the
memory of the barbarously destroyed 


Russian people, and monuments to 
Russian soldiers, liberators, have 
been desecrated with impunity! 


 


And the new Nazis are marching in the Baltic


States and Ukraine, in front of the entire


"civilized" world!  But in 2014, we were 


sincerely convinced -- that in this new 


Nazi demarche it's the Germans who 


will be our associates in preventing 


this meanness! 


 


We hoped that, guided by an elementary


conscience, the Germans would not 


participate..  in an obviously fascist 


anti-state coup in Ukraine! After all 


...the subsequent catastrophe of 


modern Ukraine was committed 


by direct descendants of those 


who were special bastards in 


the German army! Clearly, 


openly! 


 


Americans and Canadians have only hidden and preserved
this diabolical heritage, feeding this 
generation, but the
product of this evil... is Germany! Hitler's Germany! And
it was impossible for us to believe that it was 
Germany
that would again give a 
"road map" to these inhumans!
But 
we were wrong! Germany has once again allowed
these fascist geeks 
to enter the world! 


 


The support of modern Germany - in the face of


the new government of Ukraine-Bandera, the


heirs of the SS division " Galicia ", the thugs 


of the UPA OUN and all other abominations;


is simply unthinkable for us! This is beyond 


all that is human!  But you, Germany, have
already done it and continue to do it! You 


have, once again, set your sights on the 


Slavic world and these geeks are blood 


from the blood of German Nazism! And 


again to Russia! 


 


Only, even more despicable: inciting our closest
Ukrainian brothers against us! And you know it!
 
You know this as well as we do! You killed one
nation in that Great War! Yes, we are
one people! 


 


The truth is written and often spoken about 


by your own Steinmeier, who at the same 


time viciously took a direct part in the 


Kiev coup of 2014 — fascist in fact! 


 


This American may not be clear about some-


thing, but it's more than that, for you!  And 


after all, it was your vykormysh..  that got 


ready..  for their torchlight processions in 


Kiev! The living shadow of Nazi Germany 


is behind all this. It was only temporarily


covered up by sly diplomacy — "helmets 


instead of guns"! But that's it, "masks 


are reset"! Your supply of German 


weapons to Ukraine today, is 


natural, it is in the logic of 


your policy of recent 


decades. 


 


Today it is clearly pro-fascist! You have taken 


this step: German weapons will kill Russians 


again! Keep killing. During the years of the 


conflict in the Donbas, your professional 


killers have already killed Russians, at 


least by teaching them...  "how to kill 


correctly"! Only now -- it's even more 


despicable — you're teaching this to


- your blood brothers!  Donbass is on 


your conscience! Thousands of lives 


of its peaceful citizens --- again your 


handiwork! We do not care about the


role of Americans, in everything that


happens: there, is money-God!  We, 


veterans of that war, its children, 


are concerned about the role of 


the Germans! Because it is you 


who know -- exactly -- who the 


Ukrainian "national battalions" 


consist of --- and could have 


prevented and stopped, this 


new fascism !  But they did


not do it! And just by doing 


this — you are once again, 


responsible to history! 


 


And you are definitely participating -- in the 


preparation of Ukraine for war with Russia! 


You can't help but understand the purpose 


of everything that happened --- from the


unconstitutional coup in Kiev ....to the 


bloodshed in the Donbass!  But, in fact


this is preparation for the Third World 


War! And again, you are Germans... 


Germany!  We hear from the high 


German rostrum in Berlin today: 


"Russia will pay a high price"!!! 


This is the German Chancellor's 


speech! Unthinkable! We have 


already paid the price — 27 


million of our lives! Isn't that 


enough for you?! What price 


are you still talking about? 


 


There is no home --- in Russia, Ukraine and


Belarus - where "this price" isn't paid! And


there is no home in Germany, that did 


not participate in that terrible, bloody 


barbarism!  It's scary!  It's wild! And 


today, there are, already, more than 


13 thousand dead Russian people 


in the Donbass at the hands of 


the new Nazis! 


 


The German Chancellor's public mockery of the


Russian genocide in the Donbas is a crime in


itself! How much can the lessons of history 


be misunderstood and discredited!  The 


scariest story in the world! Do you want 


to be even scarier?! After all, this new 


"Dranch nach Oschtern" ..may lead to 


the fact that the 2nd Nuremberg trial 


over you will no longer be - there will 


simply be no humanity! You won't be 


here! But a special Ecumenical trial 


of you Germans is inevitable! Over 


all aggressors — but over you 


ESPECIALLY!


 


World justice will be served! And we, the last


veterans of that terrible war, are leaving this


world as witnesses!  Witnesses for the 


PROSECUTION! And today the victory 


will be ours, but those who died 


yesterday, or those of us who 


will die today, already bear 


witness to the role of the 


German people, in the 


history of the human 


world — a bloody 


history! 


 


German weapons are back in the 


hands of Nazi thugs! Please stop!


 


Email addresses for information:


veterans1945@yandex.ru


 


https://t.me/Veteran_v_stroy_chat


 


- Russian Union of Veterans: organizing


 questions and collecting signatures of


 veterans and children of the Second 


World War


 


 


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veteran1944@yandex.ru -questions about 


this publication to its author: Monk John
(Adlivankin), Deputy Head of the Russian
Orthodox Church. head and ved. 


specialist of the St. Peter's 


Orthodox Counseling Centre. 


St. John of Kronstadt.


 


 


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REQUIEM

Efran and Poet's tribute to
 all those killed by wars


THE LATEST NEWS


 

MO: Russian Armed Forces have

 almost completely blocked 

Kupyansk and liberated 

half of the city

August 30th, 2:20pm

(RT.ru)

 

Russian troops have almost completely blocked Kupyansk 

in the Kharkiv region and liberated about half of the city.

 

This was announced by the Chief of the General Staff of the 

Russian Armed Forces, Army General Valery Gerasimov.

 

"The units and military formations of the West military group 

have almost completely blocked the city of Kupyansk and 

liberated about half of its territory," he said.

 

 

 

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Gerasimov..... summed up the results of the 

spring-summer campaign in the SVO zone

 and clarified the tasks

August 30th, 2:14pm

(RT.ru)

 

The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, 

Army General Valery Gerasimov, summed up the results of 

the spring-summer campaign of 2025. He clarified the 

tasks assigned to military groups in the SVO zone.

 

For example, Gerasimov noted that the Russian army is completing 

the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group, which is pressed 

against the Seversky Donets River in the Serebryanskoye

 forestry in the LPR.

 

Russian troops have already liberated 99.7% of the LPR territory, 

79% of the DPR territory, 74% of the Zaporizhzhia region, and

 76% of the Kherson region. In the Luhansk People's 

Republic, there is less than 60 sq. km left 

to liberate.

 

Since March 2025, the army has liberated 149 settlements.

 

 

 

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RT recalled the most notable moments

 in the biography of deceased Parubiy

August 30th, 1:20pm

(RT.ru)

 

RT recalled the most notable moments in the biography of Andriy 

Parubiy, the former head of the National Security and Defense 

Council and former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, who 

was assassinated in Lviv.

 

Parubiy was the commandant of the tent city on the Maidan and 

the leader of the Maidan Self-Defense, which included the 

so-called hundreds - that opened fire during the riots.

 

In 2014, the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine opened a 

case against Parubiy for his involvement in the fire that killed 

48 anti-Maidan protesters in the Odessa Trade Union House 

on May 2. Later, it was reported that he was being treated 

as a witness.

 

The politician who was eliminated in Lviv was suspected of 

misusing budget funds. The court ordered NABU to open a 

criminal case. According to media reports, the reason 

was a video showing Parubiy in the pool of the 

expensive five-star Intercontinental Doha 

hotel, in the capital of Qatar.

 

Parubiy called Russia "Ukraine's original enemy" and proposed 

introducing visas for Russians --- in 2014. He also claimed 

in an interview that Hitler was "the greatest supporter" 

of democracy.

 

He also claimed that the priests of the canonical UOC 

were allegedly killing Ukrainians. After this, a court 

in Kiev ordered the Prosecutor General's Office to 

initiate a criminal investigation. However, his 

statements were not found to constitute 

a crime.

 

In 2016, Parubiy demanded lethal weapons from the West 

and advocated the imposition of anti-Russian sanctions.

 

In 2023, the former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada was put 

on the Russian government's wanted list, for his alleged 

involvement in the mass killings in Donbas in 2014.

 

In 2014, he became the head of the National Security and Defense 

Council of Ukraine, but resigned a few months later. Ukrainian 

media reported that his resignation was linked to 

disagreements with President Poroshenko at 

the time. From 2016 to 2019, he served as 

the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada.

 

The elimination became known on Saturday, August 30. 

This information was confirmed by Vladimir Zelensky. 

 

It was reported that the former head of the National Security 

and Defense Council was shot by a delivery courier.

 

A video of the moment of Parubiy's elimination 

has already appeared on the network.





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A Dnipro fighter showed a UAV... with 

automatic drop and piloting systems

August 30th, 10:36am

(Vesti.ru)

 

A serviceman from the Volgograd Regiment of the 18th Army of

 the Dnepr Group, with the call sign Director, showed the 

Russia 24 TV channel a prototype of a drone with 

automatic dropping and piloting systems.

 

According to him, the soldier's task will only be to 

turn on the drone, and the drone will do the rest.

 

"It has a reset system, it has a different navigation system, not only 

GPS, but also some other systems. And it must come and fly itself. 

It is still being developed and configured, so there are still 

cameras and video transmitters here. Once it's ready, 

neither the video transmitter nor the camera will be 

here. It will be completely invisible," 

the Director said.

 

Earlier, the military personnel of the Volgograd Regiment of the 

18th Army of the Dnipro group told the TV channel Russia 24 

how the laboratory of unmanned aerial vehicles and 

electronic warfare was created.

 

 

 

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Russian Defense Ministry: The Armed Forces of 

Ukraine lost about 1,390 soldiers in the SVO 

zone over the past 24 hours

August 30th, 10:28am

(Vesti.ru)

 

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the total daily losses 

of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in all areas of the special operation 

amounted to about 1,390 military personnel. This was reported on 

Saturday, August 30.

 

According to the daily report, the enemy lost up to 185 soldiers in 

the area of responsibility of the Northern Group of Forces, and 

more than 270 soldiers in the Western Group of Forces. The 

Southern and Central Groups of Forces destroyed 

more than 200 and up to 405 Ukrainian 

soldiers, respectively.

 

In addition, the enemy lost more than 250 soldiers in the area 

of responsibility of the Vostok group of troops and more

 than 80, in the Dnipro zone.

 

The ministry also reported that Russian air defense systems 

shot down four Neptune guided missiles and 233 Ukrainian 

drones, in a day.

 

 

 

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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces 

Liberated Kamyshevakha in the DPR

August 30th, 10:18am

(Vesti.ru)

 

On Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the 

liberation of the village of Kamyshevakha in the Donetsk 

People's Republic.

 

According to the ministry's statement, the settlement was liberated 

as a result of the offensive actions of the Eastern Group of Forces.

 

On August 28, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that

 the military groups of the "South" troops had liberated 

Nelepovka in the DPR.

 

 

 

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Military Correspondent Sladkov: The Russian Armed Forces 

Have Started the Total Destruction of Ukraine's 

Military-Industrial Complex

August 30th, 7:26am

(Vesti.ru)

 

Russian troops have begun the total destruction of Ukraine's

 military-industrial complex (MIC), according to Alexander 

Sladkov, a military correspondent for VGTRK, on his 

Telegram channel.

 

The journalist noted that Russian missiles are launching 

multiple strikes on the same military factory.

 

"So - in my opinion, we are starting to destroy the military-industrial 

complex of Ukraine for real, already in the style of the West, totally. 

Moreover, several heavy missiles fly at the same enterprise - and 

smash it to dust. And so - several businesses per night. I judge

 this by the reports of today's raid on Ukrainian military 

factories, " Sladkov wrote.

 

The Telegram channel Mash reported that on the night of August 

30, Russian forces launched a combined strike on Ukraine's 

military and industrial infrastructure.

 

From August 23 to 29, the Russian Armed Forces launched seven 

group strikes on the facilities of the Ukrainian armed forces and 

the military-industrial complex (MIC) of Ukraine, the Russian 

Defense Ministry said earlier.

 

 

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Nine out of ten Ukrainian military personnel 

transferred to assault groups.... go missing

August 30th, 4:46am

(Vesti.ru)

 

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are forming assault groups in 

the Kharkiv region from the 425th Separate Assault Regiment 

and the 143rd Separate Mechanized Brigade.

 

This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to

a source in the Russian security forces.

 

According to the agency's source, the 143rd Brigade's troops

 will be transferred to the 425th Regiment's command.

 

Russian law enforcement agencies have noted that in 90% of 

cases, such "business trips" end with the status of "missing 

in action" for military personnel... and there is uncertainty 

about which unit commanders to contact for assistance.

 

Earlier, the commander of a section of the engineering and sapper 

company of the Leningrad Guards regiment of the "North" group 

of troops of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign Dome, 

reported that the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

hide improvised explosive devices... in the carcasses of 

dead animals in the Kharkiv direction. As the military 

man said, Ukrainian militants gut the carcasses of 

animals, and then hide explosives, motion 

sensors and special magnets in them.

 

 

____________________________________________

 

 

 

Marochko: Russian Armed Forces 

Drive the Ukrainian Armed Forces 

Out of the Kremensky Forests

August 30th, 2:15am

(Vesti.ru)

 

Russian military personnel are successfully pushing Ukrainian units 

out of the western part of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR).

 

This was reported by military expert Andrey Marochko

 in an interview with the news agency TASS.

 

According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces control less than 

20% of the Kremensky forests, while Russian forces have 

expanded their control over many areas.

 

On August 4, 2025, Marochko reported that Russian forces had 

cleared almost 50% of the Kremensky forests in the Lugansk 

People's Republic (LPR). It was noted that the positions of 

the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the cleared areas 

of the forest had been destroyed.

 

The Kremensky Forests are a national nature park located in the 

Severodonetsk region of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). 

In June 2023, several Russian media outlets referred to the 

Kremensky Forests as one of the most active areas on 

the map of the special military operation (SVO).

 

 















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US Systematically Removed Trust 

and Transparency Safeguards 

Preventing Nuclear War,

Ignores Remainder

by Morgan Artyukhina

January 28th, 11:13pm (Sputnik)





During and after the Cold War, when NATO and the

 Warsaw Pact armies faced each other down, 

backed by nuclear arsenals, the two sides 

reached agreements to make war much 

less likely.




 However, the US has systematically pulled them apart 

in its quest to maintain global dominance --- making
the
 present situation significantly more dangerous.




As the US threatens to send thousands of troops
to
 Eastern Europe... joining an already-boosted 

an Enhanced Forward Presence by the NATO 

alliance, claiming... it needs to deter an

 imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine, 

it is proving inflexible... toward any 

defense considerations of Russia, 

on whose border, several NATO 

members sit.




The situation has Russian leaders, who have patiently

 and publicly articulated their concerns in Eastern

 Europe - as a way to resolve the present crisis -

flummoxed. The US has demanded that Russia 

pull its troops back from parts of Russia's 

territory near the Ukrainian border, 

claiming they pose an inherent 

threat to Ukraine. 




However, Moscow has denied any intent to invade, 

saying that its troops are engaged in drills, and
asserting its sovereign right to send soldiers

anywhere on its territory. Ironically...  the
Ukrainian
 leaders have also downplayed
US claims
 that an invasion threat exists.




The situation is so volatile because of years of

 building tension in the region, while at the 

same time, many of the safeguards 

intended to keep tensions and 

suspicions low have been 

removed or ignored by 

the United States.




1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty




The first blow was struck in 2001, when then-US

 President George W. Bush, unilaterally pulled 

the US out of the ABM treaty, which limited 

the US and Russia - the Soviet Union when

 the treaty was signed - to two complexes 

of ballistic missile interceptors.




It had been feared in the early 1970s that recent 

technological developments, such as multiple

 independent reentry vehicles (MIRV), could

 provoke a dangerous arms race, in which, 

a nuclear first strike might seem like the

 advantageous option for a nation with 

such a defensive network. 




By limiting defensive measures to a set of interceptors

 around the capital city and another around a complex

 of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos, the

 US and USSR believed the threat of war 

was diminished.




Bush claimed... the treaty had left the US vulnerable to

 attack and created the Missile Defense Agency at the

 Pentagon to oversee a new generation of air defense

 systems, such as the Terminal High Altitude Area

 Defense (THAAD), Patriot PAC-3, and Ground-

Based Midcourse Defense. 




However, just 18 months prior, then-US President Bill

 Clinton had joined Russian President Vladimir Putin 

in calling the ABM Treaty the “cornerstone of 

strategic stability.”




As predicted, the treaty’s removal sparked an arms

race, with Moscow dusting off old plans for hyper-

sonic weapons which it unveiled in 2017, in order 

to compensate for Washington’s dramatically

 increased protection from ballistic
missile
 attack.




2002 Treaty of Moscow/ New START (Almost)




The Treaty Between the USA - and the Russian
Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions 

(SORT), also called, simply, the Treaty of 

Moscow, was a simple arms limitation 

treaty. Russia and the US agreed to
limit their nuclear arsenals 
to
between 1,700 and 2,200 

operationally deployed 

warheads each.




The deal had many faults, including that no warheads

 were destroyed, meaning they could be put into

 storage and then unpacked in 2012, when the

 treaty expired - and expire it did, albeit also 

being superseded by the New Strategic 

Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) 

in 2011. 




New START called for halving the number of strategic

 nuclear missile launchers, and established a new

 inspection and verification regime, although, it 

also did not get rid of the storage loophole.




The administration of former US President Donald

 Trump fully intended for New START to die, when

 it expired in February 2021, but after he lost the 

November 2020 election to US President Joe 

Biden, a new leader came into office just 

weeks before the expiration --- and
r
enewed it for another five years.




1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty




Similarly to the ABM Treaty, the US unilaterally pulled

 out of the INF Treaty in 2019. However, instead of

 simply stating it wished to develop weapons 

beyond the treaty’s limitations, the Trump 

administration accused Moscow of 

violating the treaty by lying about 

the range of its 9M728/9M729 

missiles used by Iskander

 missile systems. 




Nonetheless, within 2 weeks of the US’ formal 

departure from the treaty, in August 2019, it 

began testing the first of multiple missiles

 that violated the treaty’s limitations.




The origins of the INF Treaty lay in a dramatic

 showdown, across Europe, in late 1983, 

triggered by Washington’s deployment 

of ITS Pershing-II intermediate-range 

ballistic missiles (IRBM) to Europe.




 With a 900-mile range, a flight apogee of just 60 miles,

 and a maneuverable, radar-guided reentry vehicle, 

the missile could put an 80-kiloton nuclear war-

head on Moscow in between 6 and 11 minutes

 ...according to Pentagon leaders. Such a fast 

strike time gave the Soviets just minutes to 

identify, analyze and respond to the threat, 

greatly increasing the risk of them mis-

reading a situation and launching a 

mistaken nuclear return volley, 

believing it to be their 

only chance.




In addition, tensions in Europe had already been

 ramped up by years of psychological operations

 designed to increase Soviet anxieties, such as 

US bombers charging Soviet borders and 

turning away at the last second




That’s why, when NATO began the vast, ultra-realistic

 “Able Archer-83” war games, simulating an all-out

 attack on the Soviet Union, in November 1983,
it 
put Soviet fears through the roof. 




However, it wasn’t until after the war games had

concluded, several days later, that NATO 

commanders discovered key signs: the 

Soviets had loaded hundreds of strike 

aircraft in East Germany and Poland 

with nuclear bombs, and orders to 

strike “front-line targets” at a 

moment’s notice.




The INF Treaty eliminated missiles like the Pershing-II, 

banning land-based missiles with ranges of between

 500 klms and 5,500 klms. This significantly cooled

 tensions in Europe... although the treaty was only

 between the US and Soviet Union -- now Russia --

 which left other countries, such as China, free to

 develop their own intermediate-range missiles.




The INF’s absence now is especially poignant,

considering the long-standing Russian fears 

over a NATO Aegis Ashore missile system, 

built on a land base in Deveselu, Romania. 




While the US claimed the system was purely

 defensive, Moscow noted... that Aegis can 

also be used to launch offensive missiles.




 Among the missiles tested after the INF Treaty lapsed

 was a land-based Tomahawk missile with a range of 

1,600 kilometres - a cruise missile US Aegis 

cruisers have fired at sea for years.




1992 Treaty on Open Skies




The Open Skies treaty... was an attempt to increase

 transparency and put to rest fears of an impending

 attack by the other side. The deal allowed 35 

partner nations to perform reconnaissance 

overflights over other nations... using 

specialized aircraft with specialized 

equipment. However, flights could 

not interfere with other military 

activities and could be refused 

by the overflown nation, for a 

variety of reasons.




The US sent signs it was interested in leaving the

 treaty as early as 2019, claiming it was caused 

by Russia refusing US Open Skies aircraft 

access to several areas almost a decade 

earlier - denials Moscow insisted were 

within its rights under the treaty. 




The US finally made the move on May 21ST 2020,

 meaning the six-month cooldown time had the 

US leaving the treaty, after the November
2020
 elections, that Trump lost.




The decision sparked an outcry across Europe,
with
 Ukraine being one of the loudest critics;

that nation having long used Open Skies to 
perform overflights in western Russia, to
calm its nerves about troops and 

installations there.




Indeed, the Open Skies Treaty was drafted precisely to

 avoid the type of anxious confrontation... unfolding on

 the Russia-Ukraine border, over the last two months.




The Democrats publicly attacked Trump’s withdrawal

 as illegal then... although much of their criticism 

focused on his refusal to notify Congress before 

pulling out. However, in March 2021, a leaked 

message --- sent to concerned “international 

partners” by the Biden administration said

 it was afraid that doing so “would send 

the wrong message to Russia and 

undermine our position... on the

 broader arms control agenda.”




Istanbul, Astana Declarations




The Organization for Security and Cooperation in

 Europe (OSCE) has its origins in the November 

1972 multilateral talks in Espoo, Finland 

...intended to further the peaceful 

cooperation of the Detente era.




 Today, the OSCE has 57 members and 11 observers

 and continues to serve as a regional forum for 

resolving international issues.




Two of its most important declarations of principles

 came at summits in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999 and in 

Astana (now Nur-Sultan), Kazakhstan, in 2010, 

which, among other topics, affirmed each

 nation’s right to its own security in the

 context of an international community.




"The security of each participating State... is

 inseparably linked to that of all others. Each

 participating State, has an equal right to 

security. We reaffirm the inherent right 

of each and every participating State 

...to be free to choose or change its

 security arrangements, including 

treaties of alliance, as
they evolve.''




 ''Each State also has the right to neutrality. Each

 participating State will respect the rights of
all 
others in these regards. They will not 

strengthen their security ...at the 

expense of... the security of 

other States.'' the Astana

 declaration states.




While the OSCE met in Vienna, Austria, 2 weeks ago,

 the talks yielded no major breakthrough. Earlier this

 week -- when the US and NATO delivered separate

 written responses to Russia’s December security

 proposal -- the US response was considerably 

more intransigent, while NATO’s, sent from 

Brussels and speaking for 30 member 

states, acknowledged the Russian 

security concerns and proposed 

mutual briefings in the NATO-

Russia Council and the re-

establishment of their 

respective envoys in 

Moscow & Brussels.




However, neither reply gave deference to Russia’s

 central concern --- the eastward expansion of 

NATO and the impact that has on Russian 

security, especially since now, the US 

explicitly regards Russia as a 

challenger to its position
...as 
leader of the post-
Cold War
 global order.




Speaking on Thursday, about the US response,

in particular, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey 

Lavrov said "The principle that one should not
strengthen one's security -- at the expense of 

the security of others is deliberately avoided.

Neither the Istanbul or Astana declarations
are mentioned by 
our Western partners
in the 
discussions on European 

security that are currently 

taking place. We cannot 

accept this.”





Morgan Artyukhina is a writer and news editor at

Sputnik’s Washington, DC, bureau...   focusing on

international & breaking news. Born in southern
Maryland, she studied Russian, Central, and 

East European Studies, at the University of 

Glasgow and is a former history professor. 


At Sputnik, she covers military technology, 

the expanding neoliberal police state, and 

the ongoing struggles against it in the US

and around the globe.






Image: palestine


 

Paul Larudee:
Zionist Dream 

Turning into Nightmare

November 25th, 5:26pm (FNA)

 

 Paul Larudee, political activist and commentator, 

says Zionists have come to this understating 

- that Zionism is now nearing its predestined 

self-annihilation.

 

Speaking in an interview with FNA, Larudee 

said, “Zionism planted the seeds of its own 

destruction the moment they created a 

plan for a Jewish state in someone 

else's homeland. It is increasingly 

becoming an international pariah 

...contributing to the wars and 

conflicts in West Asia, South 

America, Africa, and other 

parts of the world. It only 

creates more enemies 

for them.”

 

Paul Larudee is an - Iranian-born - American political

activist who is a major figure in the pro-Palestinian

 movement. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, 

he is involved with the International Solidarity 

Movement, & was a founder of the Free Gaza

Movement & the Free Palestine Movement.

Larudee was a member of the US delegation 

aboard the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla,

 which was attacked by Israeli forces.

 

Below is the full text of the interview:

 

Q: Yaakov Sharett says “Israel and the Zionist

 enterprise were born in sin.” What do we 

learn about the nature of Israel?

 

A: Such words from a Zionist leader's son may help to

 gradually sink doubts into the minds of other Zionists,

 but we must not forget that many Jews were opposed

 to Zionism for decades before 1948. It is unfortunate

 that as Zionism became more successful in its

 genocidal project, it also became more 

acceptable to more Jews. But that is 

now being reversed. As Zionism 

becomes more racist, violent, 

and aggressive, it is starting 

to lose Jews who cannot 

stomach such behaviour.

 

Q: Such a significant assertion was made by the son

 of a signatory to the Israeli declaration in 1948. Do 

you believe settlers will learn a lesson to end their 

occupation of the Palestinians’ land?

 

A: There are two kinds of settlers that are being used

 to colonize the West Bank and Jerusalem. The most

 aggressive and violent are the ideological settlers,

 who think of themselves as conquering soldiers,

 much like the Europeans who took the land from

 the native peoples in the western hemisphere. 

 

They want to expel all Palestinians by any means

 necessary, and take their land. They do not need

 Israel to paint a rosy picture. They are ready to

 endure hardship, although Israel actually 

helps and enables them. The other type 

are the opportunists. Israel builds 

subsidized housing and industrial 

parks on Palestinian land... and 

makes it attractive for settlers 

to move there. Israel creates 

many advantages for them... 

so as to increase the Jewish 

population in the occupied 

territories and push the 

Palestinians out.

 

Q: Yaakov Sharett predicts a dark future for Israel 

and asks settlers to immigrate from Israel; like-

wise, Lawrence Wilkerson, former Israeli State

 Department aide, said Israel will be gone in 

some 20 years. How do you assess

 these statements?

 

A: Clearly, Sharett is being a realist in this case.

 Despite Israel's influence, propaganda, bribes 

and manipulations of other governments, it is

 increasingly becoming an international pariah, 

contributing to the wars and conflicts in West 

Asia, South America, Africa and other parts of 

the world. They believe that this makes them 

strong, but it only creates more enemies for 

them. Sharett seems to understand that the 

Zionist dream is proving to be unsustainable.

 It can only be realized by committing greater 

and greater crimes, but even many Zionists 

consider this too high a price for their dream, 

and their dream is turning into a nightmare. 

 

Zionism planted the seeds of its own destruction 

the moment they created a plan for a Jewish 

state on someone else's homeland.

 


Image: palestine



UN Must Prevent Normalization of

 Israeli Violation of Human Rights:

 Iran Envoy

November 20th, 11am (al Manar)





Iran’s ambassador to the UN office in Geneva 

put the onus on the United Nations: to take 

action: against the normalization of the

systematic violation of human rights 

and humanitarian laws, by the 

Zionist regime.




In an address to a meeting between ambassadors 

of the member states of the Organization of 

Islamic Cooperation, residing in Geneva, 

and to members of the Commission of 
Inquiry of the UN Council on Human 

Rights, held on Friday, Esmaeil 

Baqaei Hamaneh called for the

clarification of true and false 

narratives, referring to the 

stories...  that equate the

victims of Israeli crimes 

with the perpetrators 

of the heinous acts.




“It is the duty of all of us to clarify the true and false

 narratives, the narrative that equates the victims 

of Israeli crimes, with their killers, which is 

humanly shocking, legally unfounded, 

and morally shameful,” the Iranian 

envoy stressed.




He added that the inquiry commission has an historic

 responsibility --- to prevent the normalization of 

systematic human rights violations by the 

Israeli regime. 




The Iranian diplomat invited all the participants in the 

meeting to call for justice; and not allow war crimes, 

crimes against humanity, and blatant violations of

human rights, to become normal, Press 

TV reported.




In May, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to initiate 

an international probe into “systematic” human rights

 abuses committed during the asymmetrical war 

between ‘Israel’ and Palestinian resistance 

groups in the besieged Gaza Strip. 




The 47-member forum adopted a resolution presented 

by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC and the Palestinian

 delegation to the UN, by a vote of 24 states in
favour, 
9 against, and 14 abstentions.




The UN rights body agreed to establish “an ongoing 

independent, international commission of inquiry” 

into the war to probe the “underlying root causes 

of recurrent tensions and instability, including 

the systematic discrimination and repression 

based on group identity.”




Israeli troops have, on numerous occasions, been 

caught on camera, brutally killing Palestinians... 

with the videos going viral online and sparking 

international condemnation. 




The Tel Aviv regime has been criticized for its extensive 

use of lethal force against, and extrajudicial killing of,

 Palestinians... who do not pose an immediate threat 

to the occupation forces, or to the Israeli settlers.




In a statement released on Tuesday, the Palestinian 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, called 

on the International Criminal Court to launch an 

immediate investigation into the Tel Aviv 

regime’s crimes, in the occupied 

Palestinian territories  ---  after 

the Israeli forces shot dead a

young man, in the northern 

part of the West Bank.





Source: Iranian Agencies




Image: Bill Dores


 China is no threat

to people in the US;
Wall Street, CIA & 
the Pentagon are

-- Analyst

October 16th, 3:14pm (PressTV)

 

US political analyst and activist Bill Dores says

China is no threat to the people in the US., but

Wall Street, the CIA, and the Pentagon, are.

 

Dores, a writer for Struggle/La Lucha and a longtime 

antiwar activist, made the remarks in an interview

 with Press TV on Saturday, after the CIA launched 

a new mission centre to address what it calls
“the 
most important geopolitical threat”
posed...
 by China.

 

CIA Director William Burns said in a statement last week 

that the new unit, called the China Mission Centre, will

 “further strengthen our collective work on the most

 important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st 

century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese 

government.”

 

Burns said that his agency will still focus on other threats

 as well, including those emanating from Russia, North 

Korea and Iran.

 

The CIA’s renewed attention to China is the latest evidence

 of the Biden administration’s focus on Beijing as its main

 foreign policy target.

 

Since taking charge of the White House earlier this year, 

the Biden administration has been directing resources 

toward countering China.

 

Why is the CIA targeting China?

 

“The CIA is grabbing more tax money  ---  to start a ‘mission

 centre’ aimed at China, which it calls the ‘most important

 geopolitical threat we face.’ This is ominous news 

- considering the agency’s history of 'fabricating' 

evidence to start wars, e.g. Iraq’s nonexistent

 ‘weapons of mass destruction,’” Dores 

commented to Press TV.

 

“US troops have left Afghanistan. But not a dime has been

 slashed from the bloated US military budget. Indeed, it’s

 being increased to $778 billion from $753 billion to face 

the alleged ‘Chinese threat.’ That’s more than the 

combined military budgets of China, India, 

Russia, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Germany, 

France, Japan, South Korea, Italy 

and Australia,” he added.

 

“It’s also been revealed that US Special Forces have been 

operating secretly on Taiwan for two years. Meanwhile...

the US Congress will not pass the Build Back Better Act

 to modestly extend our social safety net,” he added.

 

“The People’s Republic of China...  has five times the
p
opulation of the United States. But it spends only 

$258 billion on its military. China’s forces are 

deployed in - or around - the borders and 

coasts of China. By no stretch of the 

imagination is China threatening 

he US militarily. Why would it? 

For what gain?” he asked.

 

So, what the Sam Hill is a ‘geopolitical threat.’ It’s a

 twisted concept based on the twisted premise that 

the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s 

population, should dominate the world 

politically & economically. And that 

really means the billionaires and 

millionaires, that Occupy Wall 

Street protesters called the 

‘One Percent,’” he stated.

 

China’s economic  ‘threat’ to US

 

“China’s real ‘threat,’ in the minds of the US corporate 

ruling class, is economic. China produces more than 

the United States, and its economy is growing
much 
faster,” the analyst said.  

 

“It has achieved this, not by destroying the economies of 

other countries with war and sanctions, but by growth, 

and trade. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has greatly

 weakened the stranglehold Wall Street banks once 

held on the world economy. An article in the US 

magazine Foreign Policy whined: that China is 

‘whittling away’ at the murderous ‘sanctions 

regime’ the US and West Europe use -- to 

‘punish’ countries that defy their 

dictates,” he explained.

 

“US corporations do, of course, invest in China. They make

 a lot of money there. But they cannot dictate to China's

 government the way US oil companies dictated to the 

Shah of Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Or 

the way they dictate to their paid servants in the 

White House and the Capitol today,”

 he observed.

 

“Politicians and news media tell working-class people in 

the US that China’s growth is, somehow, a threat to our 

well-being. They conceal the fact: that China’s dynamic

 growth is the biggest single factor staving off a global

 economic collapse,” he said.

 

“Yet it is their own Wall Street masters who have shut 

down plants all over this country and foreclosed on 

millions of homes. It is they who used the techno-

logical revolution as a weapon, to drive down 

wages and destroy millions of jobs,” 

Dores said.

 

Washington’s ‘hate China’ campaign

 

“Washington raises several phony issues in its ‘hate 

China’ campaign. One is the alleged persecution of

 the Uighur people in Xinjiang Province. There’s 

nothing but hypocrisy here,” the analyst said.

 

“If this claim were true - and I’ve seen no reliable evidence

 that it is - Washington would be the last to care. The US 

leads the world in mass incarceration and murder 

by police,” he noted.

 

“According to the Equal Justice Initiative... ‘Millions of 

Americans are incarcerated in overcrowded, violent, 

and inhumane jails and prisons.. that do not provide 

treatment, education, or rehabilitation.' A majority 

are from the oppressed Black, Latin and Native 

nations... targeted by the police,” he said.

 

“Among the incarcerated are dozens of political 

prisoners, such as Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard 

Peltier and Jamil Abdullah Al Amin, who have 

spent decades behind bars on framed-up 

charges,” he stated.

 

“Last year’s Black Lives Matter uprising..... highlighted 

the extent of racist police murder in the US. Between 

1980 and 2018, the US police killed more than 30,000 

people. Half of those killings were misclassified,

according to a study published in the Lancet 

medical journal,” he said.

 

US supports ‘ethnic cleansing and 

murder of Palestinian people’

 

“We also can't forget that Washington not only supports

but subsidizes --- the ethnic cleansing and murder of 

Palestinian people --- by the racist state of Israel,

including the mass imprisonment of 2 million

people in the giant concentration camp 

called the Gaza Strip. The US also has 

no problem with the oppression of 

the majority Muslim people of 

Kashmir, by the Indian
state,” 
Dores noted.

 

“The US accuses China of stealing ‘intellectual property,’ 

a twisted concept indeed. Perhaps the West should pay 

China for inventing paper, iron smelting, the seed drill,

 the compass, rockets, gunpowder and other 

innovations... that made its economic 

development possible,” he said.

 

“There is the accusation of currency manipulation. But 

Washington... has flooded the world with devalued 

dollars ever since the Nixon administration took 

the dollar off the gold standard in the 1970s. 

The US has long used the dollar as an 

instrument of financial warfare,” 

he said.

 

Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea?

 

“And there is the issue of ‘free navigation’ in the South 

China Sea. Which raises the question, what is the US 

Seventh Fleet doing in the South China Sea anyway? 

For that matter, why is the US Fifth Fleet off the 

coast of Iran and the US Fourth Fleet off the 

coast of Venezuela,” Dores said.

 

“Every year, ships carry $3.4 trillion worth of goods 

through the South China Sea. Most of that is 

bound to and from China,” he said.

 

“The PRC has no interest in stopping that commerce. 

It does have an interest in keeping US warships 

away from its coast and ports,” he said.

 

“For the past seven years, the US Navy has helped Saudi 

Arabia impose a naval blockade that is starving the 

children of Yemen. US sanctions, backed by the 

US Navy, are the main obstacle to commerce 

between nations in the world today,”

 he said.

 

“Instead of new CIA mission centres, military bases and 

fleets of warships and warplanes all over the world, the

 US should do what China does: Invest in schools, 

health care, housing, railroads and renewable 

energy. Bring all the ships, planes, troops 

and spies home. The world would be a

 much better and safer place,” 

he concluded.

 

 

Image: Sa’dollah Zarei


 

Iran won’t let US, Turkey, Israel 

create crisis in Caucasus

Sunday, October 3rd,
11:51am (PressTV)

by Sa’dollah Zarei

 

The fact of the matter is, that if there is no more time for

 preventing a conspiracy from taking shape... there is 

still time to thwart the conspiracy that has formed.

 Here are some points with regards to this issue:

 

1) What the US, the Zionist regime, the governments of 

Turkey and Azerbaijan, and the West in general, are

 pursuing in the regions north of Iran is, firstly,
reaction to the great achievements of the

Islamic Republic and the resistance front.

 

When the criminal Zionist regime refers to the Republic of

 Azerbaijan as “Lebanon of Israel,” it means that there is 

a “Lebanon of resistance” that has foiled any Israeli

 conspiracy over the past forty years and turned

 into a major crisis for the occupying regime.

 

Why is a front led by the US, Zionist regime, Turkey and

 Azerbaijan, talking about launching a pan-Turan move

-ment here? Because a powerful religious movement 

has, for more than 40 years, disrupted the plots of 

colonialists and criminals. So, it is quite clear
that
 the enemy, although very hardworking,
is in a 
state of “passivity.”

 

Here is another important question: will this evil conspiracy

 ever yield any result? The answer is that there is a serious

 antidote to prevent the realization of this tension-making 

scheme, and if it enters the scene, it will definitely

 thwart the plan, as it has happened so far.

 

2) Some people make a mistake here and say that the Syunik 

agreement with North Karabakh... is a matter that concerns 

the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia and that Iran’s

 objection to it is not a matter of concern. They argue that

 the implementation of the agreement is to the detriment 

of Iran’s regional situation, but it is a natural 

consequence and thus does not create a

 right for Iran to legitimize its opposition.

 

The answer is clear; This is not an agreement between the 

two countries on a disputed region, but one on creating a

 region meant to undermine the security, political and 

economic position of a third country.

 

While acknowledging their military and political failure, in

 Afghanistan, the Americans explicitly speak of pursuing 

a proxy war model to make up for their defeat. Shortly 

afterwards, it becomes known that they had sent a 

signal to Azerbaijan to launch and attack and a 

signal to Armenia to, in turn, show tolerance 

and accept the post-war reality, and at the 

same time, following the end of a recent 

44-day Karabakh war, the US stated

 that they 'support' the agreements 

reached between Azerbaijan and

 Armenia. All this suggests that 

the US has been standing
behind this war 
and the
situation
 that ensued.

 

Simultaneously, the Azerbaijani government announced

 the widespread use of Israeli attack drones in the war, 

and the Armenian army called the UAVs the main 

reason for its heavy casualties in the war. This 

means that it was an American-Israeli war.

 

Everyone knows, that the administration of Armenian 

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is a Christian govern-

ment dependent on the West, but it's interesting that 

in this war, the United States and Israel destroyed
the
 forces and facilities belonging to a pro-West 

Christian administration, and supported a 

Muslim government instead! Isn’t that

 a telltale sign?

 

The question is, what kind of “proxy war” US officials 

were talking about in the course of their withdrawal 

from Afghanistan? Was it possible for the US to 

start such a war in Afghanistan?  Which forces

could be used by the US to launch a proxy war

in Afghanistan? Could the US bring the Taliban

- which was taking power - into a proxy war?

Proxy war with whom? The answer is no.

 

Was the Afghan army able to enter a proxy war? The 

answer's clear. Was the army that was not even able 

to defend Kabul for an hour, against the Taliban — 

which took control of the capital without firing a 

single shot — ready to enter a proxy war? 

Could the old mujahedeen forces.. serve 

as the proxies of the American war? The 

answer is clear. The old forces, besides 

having an anti-American spirit...  have

currently no military capability. Could

the USA... create a ''proxy force'' in 

Afghanistan, in the medium term,

with the Taliban et al present on
the scene? The answer to this 

question is also, no. This is 

because...  for at least the 

next 50 years... US crimes

will be in front of the eyes 

of the Afghan people, and

the prospect for any kind 

of Afghan-American,

cooperation...

 is bleak.

 

So, what did the Americans mean by a proxy war? In fact,

 the Americans wanted a proxy war where there was a

 fertile ground... and the required strength. From the 

American point of view, the “ethnicity” factor must 

be emphasized and turned into a winning weapon 

against anti-American revolutionary uprisings. 


The Americans have long focused on the 

model of racism and pan-Turanism...  in

 the case of this region, and considered 

them as “a possible solution,” or more 

accurately, the last “remaining arrow,”

 and pinned their hopes on it.

 

Therefore, the prominent role of this tendency, in the

 developments in the north, and its overlapping in the

 Caucasus, besides the intention to highlight the anti

Iranian and anti-Islamic edges in the rhetoric of the 

officials of these countries, tell us that we are 

facing a “semi-hard” proxy war.

 

When Azeri President Ilham Aliyev speaks openly in an

 interview about the widespread presence of Israeli 

forces and equipment in the Caucasus, and the 

resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, he

 is, in fact, blowing the lid off a proxy war.

 

3) Saudi Arabia’s measures are yet another issue that
is
 indicative of the proxy war in the developments 

unfolding in Iran’s northwestern frontiers, on 

the one side, and its scale, on the other. The

 Saudis have explicitly said that they are 

working to launch a 24-hour television 

network for the Turkish region of the 

Caucasus called “Turk national.” 

 

Why is the Saudi regime in the Caucasus trying to launch

 such a TV network? The people in this region are neither

 Arabs nor Sunnis in order for them to be the audience of 

a Sunni Arab country. At the same time, it is obvious
that 
this decision cannot be implemented without
the 
consent and cooperation of the governments
in
 the region.

 

4) Naturally, on this front, Iran can't remain silent and turn 

a blind eye to the dimensions and consequences of the 

action that being along its borders; therefore, it has to

 react, but what is the due reaction? There is no doubt 

that military conflict & dragging Iran into the military

 arena is a well-known policy of the American front.

On
 the other hand... we know that what is intended for
the
 Caucasus region is not even a full-fledged military 

war, let alone a regional and multilateral war. We 

are thus not talking about a war in the sense

 that it is perceived. We are talking about 

actions that disturb the peace of this 

region and the interests of the 

powers around it.

 

Isn’t it true... that the Azerbaijani government says Israeli 

drones and forces have been involved in the recent war 

between the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Republic of

 Armenia? Isn’t it true that the Israelis explicitly referred

 to the Republic of Azerbaijan... as “Lebanon of Israel”? 

Since there are talks about the formation of a definite 

security threat against the Islamic Republic, Iran has

 the right to dismantle and confront the centre of 

conspiracy against itself, without coordination 

with any place or individual. 

 

This type of Iranian confrontation is not so incomprehensible

 to Zionists. Interestingly, an Israeli institution wrote a few

 days ago: “Iran may want to retaliate against Israeli attacks

 in Syria in Azerbaijan.” The regime is attacking areas in 

Syria under the false pretext that Syria has become a 

base for the presence of Iranian military personnel. 

The Israeli institute asks what problem would arise

 if Iran attacked a base in Azerbaijan, where Israeli 

force are possibly present?

 

Of course, Iran knows very well how to use developments

to the detriment of its enemies. The Islamic Republic will 

naturally begin with negotiations, to fraternally resolve 

the issue between neighbours on Iran’s northwestern

border. Over the past 2 decades, the United States, 

Turkey, and the Zionist regime have faced ultimate 

defeat in any sedition that they incited and gotten 

out of the situation while fraught with humiliation. 


They are inciting sedition while they do not have

 the power to tolerate and manage the war. If 

these acts of sedition are not put aside, they

 will face defeat, thanks to Iran’s measures.

 

(The views expressed in this article.... do 

not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)


Image: Boris Malagurski



It’s time for NATO to leave Kosovo

 before it does any more damage

October 2nd, 10:36am (RT)

 

By Boris Malagurski, a Serbian Canadian documentary

film director, known for “The Weight of Chains”, 

enlisted in the catalogue of the Library of 

Congress, whose work has been show-
cased on international festivals... 

including Raindance in London. 

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Just as it all ended badly for the West’s military interventions 

in Vietnam and Afghanistan, so it will in Kosovo. NATO has 

overstepped its mandate, overplayed its hand, and 

overstayed its welcome.

 

As the last US military helicopters were leaving Kabul, 

Afghanistan, many, including myself, emphasized the 

similarities with America’s embarrassment in Saigon, 

South Vietnam – but one parallel that few dared to 

draw, was with Kosovo.

 

When I merely asked “Is Kosovo next?” on Twitter, it 

sent Albanian media outlets into a frenzy. Kosovo’s

 Albanian majority celebrates the NATO troops as 

saviours – NATO bombed Serbia, to take away 

control of its Southern province of Kosovo in 

1999. Since then, NATO has been sponsoring 

a nation-building project... that seemed to
have 
culminated in 2008, when Kosovo’s 

provisional authorities declared 

independence from Serbia.

 

It wasn’t an ‘end of history’ moment. Serbia and much of 

the world didn’t recognize Kosovo as an independent 

country, and Kosovo itself remained heavily 

dependent on Western aid... and military 

support. Most Albanian politicians are 

aware of this and they are highly 

obedient with regards to NATO, 

whose KFOR troops are

 ‘keeping the peace’ 

in Kosovo.

 

However, NATO has overstepped its mandate. UN Security 

Council Resolution 1244, which put an end to NATO’s war 

with Yugoslavia, guarantees Serbia’s sovereignty over 

Kosovo, while NATO has pushed for an independent 

Kosovo from day one of their occupation. The 

resolution also called for... the return of an 

agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian 

personnel to maintain a presence at 

significant sites and key border 

crossings....  NATO has never 

allowed this to happen. The 

last Serbian prime minister 

who called for this agree-

ment to be honored, was 

assassinated in 2003,
little over a month

after his request.

 

On the other hand, what are the results of NATO’s nation

 building in Kosovo? Close to a 30% unemployment rate. 

One of the poorest areas of Europe...  with as much as 

45% of the population living below the official poverty

 line, and 17% being extremely poor. Former Kosovo 

Liberation Army terrorists, some accused of 

trafficking weapons and human organs, 

replaced their military uniforms with 

politicians’ suits and are governing 

the entity. The previous president 

of Kosovo, nicknamed ‘The Snake’

...is currently being tried for war 

crimes, and crimes against 

humanity, at The Hague. 

 

He’s the one who unveiled the Bill Clinton statue in 

Kosovo’s capital. Bill then came to celebrate with 

‘The Snake’.

 

Kosovo’s recent license plate row with Serbia was just 

the latest example of a leadership in Kosovo incapable 

of dealing with real issues, but rather... going into 

conflict... to cover its incompetence. Instead of 

negotiating with Belgrade, Kosovo unilaterally

 used force --- to implement the removal of 

Serbian license plates. And all that NATO 

was willing to contribute to deescalate 

the tensions... was to offer its KFOR 

troops, to replace Kosovo’s special 

unit, without even trying to resolve

 the essence of the dispute. What

 is NATO still doing in Kosovo?

 

Probably the same thing it was doing in Afghanistan. 

Hoping a bad decision to go in, will eventually pay 

off somehow. But it won’t. It didn’t in Vietnam, it 

didn’t in Afghanistan, and it won’t in Kosovo. 

So it’s time for NATO to start packing 

its bags.

 

The statements, views and opinions expressed 

in this column, are solely those of the author, 

& don't, necessarily, represent those of RT.

 

 

Image: Iqbal Jassat



“Normalization": Betrayal of
Palestine
 by Arab despots
no easy road

by Iqbal Jassat

October 1st, 11am (PressTV)

 

Pinning Palestinians down while applying harsh 

measures of violent repression -- accompanied 

by a fanatical settler movement of arch-racists

 given free reign to attack and plunder -- is a 

notorious game Israel has elevated to a 

daily ritual.

 

In fact the routine of inflicting war crimes has all 

the hallmarks of a rogue regime entirely caught 

up in a misplaced belief --- that to engage in
ethnic 
cleansing, is a religious obligation.

 

Conflating Judaism with a racist political ideology 

of Zionism has been part of a strategy designed 

to deceive, distort and divert. It has its roots in 

the first Zionist congress held on the eve of 

the 19th century.

 

That this is well documented and widely known is

 not in dispute. Indeed... awareness of Zionism's 

goal to dismember and dislodge Palestinians 

from their centuries old homeland and 

forcibly impose thereon a foreign

 entity known as Israel, has 

always been a bedrock

 for resistance.

 

Israel has thus always been considered an enemy 

thrust upon a native population through the most 

horrific forms of terrorism. The memories of Deir 

Yassin remind the world of bloody massacres 

committed by Zionist terrorists which didn't 

spare hundreds of villages... to 

colonize Palestine.

 

That more than seven decades later the expansionist 

goals of Zionism are still being pursued at great 

human cost to successive generations of the 

indigenous Palestinian population, is 

reflected in daily atrocities.

 

None of these facts, as attested to by historians, as 

well as organs of the United Nations, are contested. 

Though of course Israel and supporters of it seek 

to distort and malign commentators who speak 

truth to power, as anti-Semitic.

 

Yet against this background of terrorism and current 

conditions siege, occupation, killings and mass 

imprisonment - recorded and broadcast via 

mainstream media for all the world to 

witness - it is bizarre that a handful 

of Arab regimes, have broken rank 

with Palestine's freedom struggle.

 

And at a time when even Haaretz describes 

the atrocities by Israel, as a pogrom:

 

"Residents of the Palestinian communities in the south-

eastern West Bank have experience of settler attacks

 - when they graze their flocks, work their fields, or 

even have a picnic on their own land....  But they 

cannot recall an attack like the one experienced 

Tuesday -- by the small communities of Khirbat 

al-Mufkara, al-Rakiz and al-Tuwani. On Simhat 

Torah, dozens of young Jews, most of them 

masked, conducted what can only be 

described as a pogrom."

 

The treachery associated with what has become known 

as "normalization" is an outrageous manifestation of 

betrayal and collaboration. Limited to the UAE, 

Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco,.. these regimes 

have in effect confessed that the protection 

of their shaky thrones... counts for more... 

than legitimate rights of the Palestinians.

 

As unelected self-imposed despots fearful of democratic 

values, they have bargained that "normalization" with 

the usurper of Palestine will "guarantee" safety and 

protection for them. In other words, just as Egypt 

has done, these oligarchs have outsourced their 

intelligence networks and security apparatus
to
 Israel, knowing full well that in doing so,
they 
have abandoned Palestine.

 

Though the abnormality of the implicit recognition of an 

illegal colonial enterprise, has been in sharp contrast

 to countless Arab League resolutions... the deal of 

"normalization" pushed by Trump and vigorously 

backed by the Biden administration... has
exposed 
these leaders - as surrogates
of 
western imperialism.

 

The case of Bahrain's role in the "Abraham Accords" 

reveals the soft underbelly of Arab dictatorships. 


Besides being financially dependent on its 

neighbours especially the UAE and Saudi 

Arabia, Bahrain’s alliance with Israel is 

designed to entrench its power and 

crush any resistance to author-

itarianism or efforts towards 

freedom and democracy.

 

In 2011, during the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings, 

Saudi Arabia sent troops to Bahrain to suppress anti

-government protests. This trend continues today 

by Israel --- equally committed to maintaining the 

status quo, and preventing the success of any 

popular uprisings.

 

In this context, one may justifiably condemn
Bahrain’s
 gross insensitivity and abject
abdication of 
Palestine's freedom
struggle...
 as treacherous.

 

Showcasing Israeli war criminal Lapid’s visit to Manama 

where he is set to open the embassy flying Israel's flag

 is utterly outrageous. This follows the opening of a 

Zionist embassy in Abu Dhabi, and will likely be 

establishing one in Rabat. Sudan thus far has 

reportedly said that it has no plans yet to

 open an embassy in Khartoum.

 

Not surprising therefore that the Arab street across these 

capitals have vowed to end "normalization". The iron-

fisted grip held by Arab despots notwithstanding, 

human rights movements (many banned and 

leaders exiled) have declared their outright 

rejection of America's much-vaunted 

Abraham Accords.

 

Stirrings in Sudan are becoming more vocal despite 

Khartoum's attempts to silence critics. In Bahrain 

the main opposition group, al-Wefaq National

 Islamic Society declared Lapid’s trip as a 

"threat", saying, "This is provocative 

news and this trip is completely

 rejected, and he (Lapid) should

 not set foot on Bahraini soil."

 

Their message is clear: "Any (Israeli)
presence
 on Bahraini soil ---
means incitement."

 

Iqbal Jassat is an executive at the Johannesburg-

based Media Review Network (MRN), a socio-

political advocacy group, that concerns 

itself with media and political analysis.

 

(The views expressed in this article do 

not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)

 

 

Image: Paul Antonopoulos



Greece And France Take First Step 

Towards European Independence

 Following AUKUS Debacle

September 28th (South Front)

by Paul Antonopoulos, 

independent geopolitical analyst




Signing of Franco-Greek Agreement is the 

beginning of supplanting NATO in Europe.




Of the 30 NATO member states, Greece is one of the few 

to spend well over 2% of its GDP on defense, as agreed 

upon by NATO Defence Ministers, in 2006. However, 

Greece’s high spending (relative to GDP), is not 

because it is positioning itself as a buffed-up 

military state opposed to Russia, as per the 

aims of NATO, but rather, to defend itself 

against the threats of another NATO 

member, Turkey. 




With NATO consistently downplaying Turkish aggression 

against Greece and the new AUKUS pact creating 

distrust between the Anglosphere and the 

Europeans... Greece has ensured new 

extra security assurances against 

its long-time enemy.




Greece’s strengthened partnership with France highlights 

that the immediate consequences of the AUKUS alliance 

are already being felt, as the two countries are making 

the first serious steps towards a Europe independent 

of Washington.




Alexis Papahelas, one of Greece’s top journalists, explained 

that the Franco-Greek security pact is Macron’s “revenge” 

against the Americans as it will strengthen European 

autonomy. He also confirmed persistent rumours 

that a defensive pact between France and 

Greece was almost reached last year, 

but ultimately broke down at the 

last minute for “unknown

 reasons.”




To put the situation in context, Greece for a year and a half-

received bids from six countries, including France, the U.S.

and UK for brand new navy frigates. The finalization of a 

deal was continuously delayed... due to Greece’s 

insistence, that a frigate purchase must
include 
a defense agreement. 




Greece signed its 12-month Mutual Defense Cooperation 

Agreement (MDCA) with the US last year, but ultimately 

did not decide on which frigate bid to accept. With 

negotiations for a Franco-Greek defence pact 

last year stalling, Athens ultimately decided 

to sign the MDCA... with Washington. This 

was rumored to be partially motivated 

as part of 'negotiations' to pressure 

the French to accept Greek terms. 




However, with the sudden emergence of AUKUS, European 

trust in the Anglosphere quickly diminished, and thus 

galvanized Franco-Greek discussions on European

independence. And finally, a deal to purchase 

three brand-new French Belharra-class 

frigates, was stricken.




For his part, Mitsotakis said on Tuesday morning at the 

signing of the agreement that:-  “It is an historic day
for 
Greece and France. Today’s development is an 

initiative that responds to the demands of the 

times on our continent. It paves the way for 

an autonomous and strong Europe of the 

future. Whether there is a timetable for 

creating a European army: the debate 

on European military autonomy, 

evolves. Options such as this 

corporate defense partner-

ship, move to this central 

strategic choice.”




Effectively, Greece and France are advocating for a pan-

European military that would likely drive out NATO, as 

the premier defensive pact in Europe.




Another demonstration that this pact is aimed at 

supplanting NATO... is its careful wording. 

Although Turkey was not mentioned 

explicitly, there is little doubt that 

part of the motivation for the 

Franco-Greek defense pact 

was Turkey’s unilateral 

aggression in the 

Mediterranean.




Even just minutes after the signing of the Franco-Greek 

agreement, former Dutch diplomat Fons Stoelinga 

tweeted: “EU autonomy in security and defense. 

NATO still does not address the problem of 

NATO-member Turkey destabilizing the 

whole Eastern Mediterranean region. 

France and Greece now react and 

signed a security bilateral pact.”




The mutual defense assistance clause of the agreement 

ensures that if Greece or France is attacked on its 

territory, the other will come to assist, even if the 

attacking country is part of other alliances..... 

including NATO. This is an obvious message 

directed towards Turkey, a NATO member 

that on a daily basis violates Greek air-

space and threatens to invade its 

Aegean islands. 




These violations and threats receive no repercussions from 

NATO as individual members are unwilling to risk their 

economic relations with the country, whilst many 

NATO leaders still believe that Turkey is a

 bulwark against Russia.




France for most of its modern history, but especially 

galvanized under President Emmanuel Macron.. had 

an ambition of creating a more independent Europe.


 The European experience under former U.S. 

President, Donald Trump, and the recent 

snub from President Joe Biden, with the 

AUKUS debacle... has only increased
the 
urgency of achieving European 

independence from Washington.




 Despite this ambition, as well as warning Europe that it will

 become secondary in world affairs, if it does not become 

independent, it appears that France can finally kickstart

 its project alongside Greece.




Achieving EU unity is a difficult prospect, because minnow 

states like Lithuania prioritize the interests of Washington 

rather than the continent, but as Paris and Athens have 

shown --- they will move ahead, in changing the geo-

political balance in the Mediterranean and will not

 wait, while member states continuously bicker 

amongst themselves on foreign policy issues. 




If France and Greece can create strong foundations for an 

independent Europe, it will only be inevitable before more

 EU member states become interested in also being 

integrated into a continental structure that is

 independent of transatlantic alliances.

 


 

Image: Eric Zuesse


 

Why did the Taliban win against

 the Americans in Afghanistan?

by Eric Zuesse

August 21st, 2021 

 

Why did the communists win 

against the Americans in Vietnam?

 

Why did the communists win 

against the capitalists in the 

Russian Revolution?

 

Why did the American Revolutionists 

win against the British Empire?

 

I shall here propose an answer to all of them, because
that 
answer applies to all such cases, as I'll explain:

 

When an imperialistic society is as corrupt as Britain has
been 
since the creation of the British East India Company
in 1600, 
and as America has been since the end of World
War II in 
1945, with its takeover and control by the MIC
(military-
industrial complex), which has inevitably
produced the 
cancerous growth of America’s
permanent-warfare 
state, what, then, is the
reason to continue living by 
staying merely
as a colonist or a vassal-regime 
(or even
as the imperialist regime itself), 
which 
means, when the imposed regime is
so 
profoundly corrupt --- as any

imperialist power necessarily
is --- to accept 
such
corruption, as this? 




There’s something that is worse than dying... and it is to continue 

living under a regime that one utterly despises. That’s a dragged

-out death, instead of a quick death. A regime which is as 

corrupt as any imperialistic regime inevitably is, will be

 intolerable for a significant number of the residents in 

any one of its vassal-nations or “colonies.” Death, for 

them, isn’t such a bad choice, if it means that they'll 

go down fighting to overthrow it. They are driven by

 the motivation, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” 

 

This is a motivation that few, if any, of the imperialistic regime’s hired

 soldiers (regardless of whether conscripted or not) can match. And

 when they are foreigners who are fighting on a foreign soil (instead 

of locals who are defending their land’s own locally determined 

rulers), they especially and certainly cannot match such 

motivation, because only the locals can be fighting with 

a patriotic spirit. This is an intrinsic weakness in any  

empire. And imperialist leaders tend to ignore it, 

because they don’t want to understand how 

repulsive they are, to virtually anyone but

 their own boot-lickers.

 

Ultimately, the demoralization of a hired soldier’s continuing to place

 his very existence in jeopardy so as to continue the war to enslave 

and control the resisting local subject-population will mount high

 enough to produce self-contempt, desertion, and sometimes 

even suicide, in the oppressing power’s forces, especially if
t
hat’s a foreign power.

No longer will the rationalizations(that
 “We are protecting
the residents here”) be able to continue 
fooling the
invading-force’s soldier, and the imposed stooge
-
regime’s soldier. They both (the foreign regime,
and its 
imposed local stooge-government or
colony) are there 
really, to control the local
subject-population; 
and, ultimately, enough
of the oppressor’s forces will 
know this to
cause the imposed stooge-
government,
to be conquered by those 
indigenous
residents there - 
people who will be
recalled 
as heroes, by the other

residents in that land.

This is an 
advantage that any revolutionists 

have, against the imposed regime.

 

This is the real  meaning of “martyrs,” in the deeper sense than 

merely of a religious type — it is instead of the patriotic type; it

 concerns the land -- and not necessarily any religion -- such as 

Christianity, Islam, or Marxism. Their loyalty is to Afghanistan; 

or it is to Vietnam; or it is to Russia; or it is to China; or (before

America became imperialistic) it was to America. And so forth.

It is to the local land, not to any dictators. It is to the country 

that the foreign invader’s forces are occupying. The 

invader’s forces and their imposed stooge-regimes 

can’t match this motivation.

 

Similarly, when the American invaders were conquered by the 

residents of Vietnam, the winners were the Vietnamese, not 

really the communists; and, in fact, the Marxist philosophy 

(or ‘religion’) subsequently has waned there. America, in 

Vietnam, as in Afghanistan, was the invader, in a land 

which had not invaded their own. 

 

That similar situation exists in Afghanistan. The Sauds had invaded

 America on 9/11, with the assistance of G.W. Bush, Condoleezza 

Rice, and perhaps others in the Administration. And so, the U.S.

-imposed soldiers in Afghanistan couldn’t even possibly have 

been fighting against Afghanistan for any authentically 

patriotic real (factually true) reason, at all. Therefore, 

lies were constantly needed by the U.S. regime, not 

only against Iraq, but even against Afghanistan. 

 

(Furthermore, if Bush’s objective had really been to identify whom 

and how was actually behind the 9/11 attacks, then he would have

 pursued that at the U.N. Security Council and would have gotten

 unanimous backing for it, which would quickly have isolated 

and led to the destruction of Al Qaeda. It could all have been 

done without any war between nations, and also fully in 

accord with international law. To the extent that 9/11
was 
state-sponsored terrorism, it was actually being 

sponsored by the Governments of the U.S. and 

Saudi Arabia. 

 

George W. Bush, who was buddy-close with the Sauds, used 9/11 as 

an excuse to trash both the U.S. Constitution and international law 

so as to hoist yet higher his own tyranny, his own power - not only
internationally but also.. in his own nation. An imperialist would, 

of course, like to trash both, and to hoist his personal power as 

high as possible. And GWB had the boldness to do it, and -

 because America has been imperialistic ever since 1945

 (i.e., international aggressions... have been America’s 

culture since 1945) — he has been able to enjoy the 

success of getting away with doing it. However, 

everyone else, and especially outside
America’s 
MIC, suffers from it.

 

What have the mere soldiers of invading and occupying 

imperialist powers actually earned by having placed

 their own lives at risk? Maybe a tombstone back 

home, in the country that had invaded and 

occupied that colony.

 

By contrast, even if a defending soldier has died as a 

hero among the locals in a failed revolution against 

the imperialist power, any tombstone will be 

unnecessary to be that person’s memorial, 

because the true memorial is in the heart, 

and in the mind, of the locals there, not 

in anything that is in the land of the 

invading foreign power.

 

And, so, I propose that the answer, to the question here, is that, 

whereas America’s Founders were waging war as heroes 

(because their war was just), today’s Americans are 

waging war as villains (because our wars are unjust 

- imperialistic aggressions, instead of heroic 

defenses against an aggressor). Between 

America’s founding and the present time, 

America has switched from doing war 

against military occupiers, to doing 

war as military occupiers.

 

And this, I maintain, is the reason why: “The Taliban’s 80,000 

troops have retaken Afghanistan with cities falling like 

dominos while the 300,000-strong government forces,

 better equipped and trained, mostly melted and 

surrendered with no will to fight.”

 

What today’s Taliban are to today’s Afghanistan is therefore what

 the 1776 American Revolutionists were to the America of that era. 

It’s not the ideology; it is the love of that land there, which has 

motivated the residents’ forces to victory, against the forces 

of the invading-and-occupying foreign power. This can 

happen in any land, at any time.

 

America went into Vietnam focused on the “body counts.” That’s 

how stupid America’s imperialistic leaders were, back then. The 

only motivation they really understood was fear: “body counts.” 

They’ve evidently learned nothing since. That is how corrupt 

America is.

 

Right now in America, the ‘debate’ about Afghanistan is about Joe 

Biden, who is basically irrelevant. He wanted to end America’s 

military occupation there, just as Trump did, and just as 

Obama did. He acted on it, whereas they did not — they 

didn’t want to be accused by their political opponents 

of having ‘lost Afghanistan on their watch’, but Biden 

was evidently willing to risk it. 

 

His only failure in the matter is that he kept lying to the American 

people (and probably also to himself) about how chaotic the 

evacuation would inevitably be, and about how collapsed 

Afghanistan is, and has been, ever since the Soviets 

invaded there in 1979. 

 

Throughout America’s imperialistic era, the U.S. Government has

 routinely been lying to the American people. Imperialism isn’t as 

bad for the imperialistic nation’s public as it is for the conquered

land’s people, but it is very bad, even for them. The only people 

who benefit from it are the billionaires, who control companies 

such as Lockheed Martin, and ExxonMobil, and Amazon. 

Those are the people (the owners), who hire the leading 

politicians, including the members of Congress, and the 

Presidents, to spread their empire, and their control. 

 

They also hire the ‘journalists’ who shape their nation’s public 

to support these invasions and military occupations. The 

Government officials of an imperialistic regime represent 

not the nation’s public - but its aristocracy - who hire and 

appoint millions of the rest, the many agents (employees,

 etc.) of the few billionaires. The billionaires really control 

their country. After all: America is a thoroughly corrupt 

country, just as any imperialistic country is. (All 

imperialistic countries, are controlled by their 

aristocracy. And every aristocracy is corrupt.) 

 

The public in Afghanistan have long known this fact about America -

 that it is corrupt. And this is the main reason why the Taliban now 

rule that country. They represent that land. Not this land. It’s a 

different culture, and a different place. To most Afghans, 

America represents only corruption. There is nothing 

unique about what is now happening in Afghanistan. 

It has been happening for thousands of years, and 

it’s just replaying an ancient script, but in that 

particular location.

 

However, instead, the U.S.-and-allied media are focusing on Biden’s 

bit part (which was always in a supporting role) in America’s 

invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. So, probably 

nothing will be learned from America’s invasion and 

occupation of Afghanistan, just as nothing was 

learned from America’s invasion & occupation 

of Iraq, and from America’s invasion and 

occupation of Vietnam, and from the 

many other such post-WW-II 

American foreign disasters. 

 

For America’s billionaires, these have all been great successes 

(very profitable); and, so, probably nothing that’s useful to the 

American people will be learned from history; and, instead, 

the myths will continue that have caused “The Military” to

 be either the highest-respected or the second-highest-

respected of all of the 19 named institutions in
America
 - the world’s permanent-
warfare state. 

 

The American military wastes the most money and the most blood 

of any institution in America, but Americans nonetheless respect it 

enormously. That, too, is a mark of an imperialistic country. The 

way to control a public is to sustain the myths. U.S.-and-allied 

billionaires make sure that it is done - however much it costs.

 

As regards the future of Afghanistan itself: On August the 19th, 

the most reliable geostrategic reporter and analyst, Alexander 

Mercouris, headlined at The Duran, “US Freezes Afghanistan 

Reserves, Threatens Economic Crisis. Russia Works to 

Establish New Government”, and he explained why the 

Taliban will either cooperate with Russia, China, and 

Iran, or else will degenerate yet further into a failed 

state, especially because the U.S. and its allies will 

do everything possible to strangle the fully looted 

Government of Afghanistan — the new Islamic 

Emirate of Afghanistan. So: even after the US 

and its allies have all left that land, the war 

against the people there will continue, in 

full force, from the same people, though 

with different methods.

 

PS: The philosopher Zizek headlined at RT on August 20th, “The

 true enemy for Islamists is not the West’s neocolonialism or 

military aggression, but our ‘immoral’ culture”, and he said 

“it was not neocons who boosted Islamic fundamentalism, 

this fundamentalism grew up in a reaction to the influence 

of Western liberal secularism and individualism.” 

 

He did not understand that though religious fundamentalists 

(including the Taliban) focus especially on sexual and gender 

issues, a person didn’t have to be at all religious in order to 

consider the financial and economic corruption of the

 imperialists and of their stooges to be disgusting. 

 

Americans didn’t invade & occupy Afghanistan, in order to 

spread “liberal secularism and individualism,” but in order 

for US-and-allied billionaires to expand their wealth, their 

empire, and their global control. Even if the Taliban and 

other religious persons might object only (or even just 

mainly) to the sexual and gender issues... a broader 

segment of the Afghan population were repelled by

 the rampant financial and economic corruption of 

the imperialists, and of their stooge-rulers. 

 

This was not a defeat for “secularism and individualism.” 

It was a rejection of imperialism: a rejection of it even
by 
people who don’t understand what “imperialism”
means.

 

(Source: Strategic Culture Foundation)


Image: Iqbal Jassat


 

Israel is committed to

 aggressively pursuing 

'Zionist colonialism', 

says analyst

August 14th, 9:38am (PressTV)

 

A political commentator says Israel is relentlessly 

following its "Zionist colonialism" in the occupied 

Palestinian territories, and the evacuation orders 

handed out to indigenous Palestinian families
in the West Bank and 
Jerusalem al-Quds,
are in line 
with the regime’s land 

expropriation policies: to build
more illegal 
settler homes.

 

“Israel aggressively pursues Zionist colonialism, which

 has been the bedrock of the regime’s illegal ethnic-

cleansing agenda for the last seventy or more 

years,” Iqbal Jassat, an executive member 

of Johannesburg-based Media Review 

Network, told Press TV, in an 

exclusive interview 

on Saturday.

 

He lambasted the Tel Aviv regime’s systematic theft of 

Palestinian property as “a reprehensible disregard 

for the inalienable rights of indigenous 

Palestinians to their own lands 

and homes.”

 

“The racist practice of evacuation, is a misleading 

interpretation of forced expulsion, illegal under 

the international law. It is also indicative of 

the Group Areas Act [of 1950], under the 

former apartheid regime of South

 Africa,” Jassat noted.

 

The South African analyst also criticized the United Nations

 and the International Criminal Court (ICC), for their 

“impotence” ...to prevent Israel's unjust and 

blatant violations of international 

conventions and principles.

 

“It also raises serious questions about the inherent biases

 existing within these institutions. These biases prevent 

the exercise of law --- to halt land grabs, home 
demolitions, expulsions and incremental
genocide,” 
he pointed out.

 

Jassat went on to say that Western countries’ decades-long 

guilty conscience has prevented these states from 

criticizing Israel, for its barbaric and brutal 

practices, as such denunciations would 

be treated as anti-Semitic.

 

“The US and its allies in NATO view Israel as a bulwark of 

their interests in the heart of the Muslim world. They,

 therefore, place their so-called security goals 

above injustices against Palestinians,”

 the analyst said.

 

“Moreover, the Arab world is mainly made up of unelected 

despots, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab 

Emirates and Bahrain. Their collective view, pivots 

on the false notion... that their security is tied 

to Israel. That explains the close proximity 

between their notorious intelligence 

services and Israel's Mossad 

and Shin Bet.”

 

Jassat further noted that the controversial normalization

 agreements that several Arab states have struck
with 
Israel, have stifled opposition to the
Tel Aviv 
regime’s colonialist and
expansionist policies.

 

He said the unacceptable betrayal of the Palestinians' 

struggle for liberation from the Israeli occupation,

has even resulted in the regime being granted 

observer status, at the African Union.



Image: Daniel Patrick Welch



Peak hypocrisy: 
US is ''concerned'' 
about China's nukes

by Daniel Patrick Welch

August 7th, 11:45am




US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns of 

China's nukes, on the anniversary of his own 

country dropping the only one ever.

 

The US empire never disappoints in its endless quest 

to project the behavior of a true sociopath. As with 

Goebbels’ Big Lie (which he stole from the US's

Bernays anyway), the tried-and-true strategy, 

is to attack others, for actions it has itself 

performed on a regular basis. 

 

Hence the whole Russiagate charade about foreign 

interference in sacred elections by a country other

than the US —reigning and uncontested champion 

of regime change campaigns. Now comes Blinken,

the US talking head du jour on the world stage, to

warn Asia about China’s nuclear weapons. Huh?

 

If irony wasn’t dead, Blinken and crew (Winken, Nod 

et al) would track it down and strangle it with their 

bare hands. On August 6th, the State Department 

announced Blinken’s warning... to China’s 

neighbours: THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 

OWN COUNTRY’S DROPPING OF A 

NUCLEAR BOMB on Hiroshima. 

 

I would say “not to put to fine a point on it,” but it just 

can’t possibly be sharpened any further. Run that 

back, with the reverse tape noise and all.

 

The ONLY country EVER to drop a nuclear bomb on another,

 the United States, chooses the very anniversary of the
first
 of those two genocidal crimes against humanity,
to 
express grave concern about China’s nuclear 

arsenal. I guess you could just drop the mic 

here — there really is so little left to say. 

What comes after tragedy and farce?

 Even Old Man Marx didn’t mention 

a third, though I might venture 

Cynicism Made Flesh?

 

Of course, Blinken--I just can’t stop saying the name… it’s like 

DICK Cheney and COLIN Powell, or that library cop Bookman 

from Seinfeld—Blinken isn’t to blame for the blasphemy of 

rewriting history. He and his cohorts have a generational 

head start on stupid. Seventy-five years of relentless 

assault on Americans’ knowledge of history and 

political consciousness, has left a populace 

with a Hollywood understanding of WWII 

that has almost no relation to reality. 

 

Even Eisenhower knew (and said) that the bombings were of no 

military use. Lost to Americans’ history—but importantly, not 

the world’s—is the cold truth that Truman knew as well and 

didn’t care. Perhaps the meanest, and most small-minded 

of US presidents, he offed a hundred thousand Japanese

in one fell swoop, just to scare the Russkies. And by his 

own admission, never lost a night’s sleep. Brrrrrrrr.

 

But Back to the Future: Blinken’s degenerate idiocy also further 

exposes the infantile disorder of the Lesser Evilists and the rest

of the Harm Reduction menagerie. He is himself, of course, no 

more than a cardboard clown, or more likely made entirely of 

wood, spouting vituperations like a useful ventriloquist’s 

dummy while sitting on the knee of whoever plays Edgar 

Bergen in this cynical farce. The masters who pay 

Blinken, Biden, (O)Bama, Bush and Bacchus

 keep them on a short leash. The sociopaths 

in charge make the real decisions.

 

The notion that “getting back to normal” would yield anything other

 than a smooth return to the endless killing machine was not just 

wishful thinking, but deliberate self-delusion, a lazy and selfish 

need to play pretend and self-soothe while the world burns.

 

Unforgiveable, really. From Iran to Venezuela, Russia, China and

beyond, and with clockwork precision, the Enemies of Humanity

are ramping up war fever, concocting lies & manipulating truth 

and fear like never before. The New York Times’ perversion of 

the Tokyo medal counts, to pretend the US won, is more than

instructive: it is the stock in trade and lifeblood of the 

predator class, honing its exceptionalist rhetoric to 

wield when needed. Dark days ahead.

 

Daniel Patrick Welch is a writer of political commentary and 

analysis. Also a singer and songwriter, he lives and writes 

in Salem, Salem, Massachusetts with his wife. Together

 they run The Greenhouse School. He has traveled 

widely, speaks five languages and studied Russian

 History and Literature at Harvard University.

 

Welch has also appeared as a guest on several TV and radio 

channels to speak on topics of foreign affairs and political 

analysis--around his day job. He can be available for 

interview requests as time and scheduling permit.

 

Despite the price of being outspoken against US foreign policy

 and military adventurism -- which can be steep, in today's

 circumstances -- he believes firmly, as did Rosa

 Luxemburg, that "It will always be the most 

revolutionary act, to tell the truth out loud."

 

Welch wrote this commentary
for the Press TV website.

 

 

Image: Finian Cunningham

Russia-China the Endgame

by Finian Cunningham

July 3rd, 1:41pm (Sputnik)

 

The consolidation of the Russia-China alliance this week 

spells the endgame for Western imperialism and the 

never-ending wars that it spawns.

 

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s leader Xi 

Jinping celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Sino-

Russian Treaty of Friendship, first signed in July 

2001. The hallmark of that historic accord is a 

mutual commitment to peace, prosperity 

and global stability. 

 

As Putin commented, the alliance between Russia and China

 is a vital source of “stability at a time of increasing geo-

political turbulence”. The latter remark is an oblique 

reference to the US-led Western states which are 

driven by ratcheting up antagonism and 

tensions with Moscow and Beijing, 

using all sorts of spurious 

complaints. 

 

The attempt by Washington (whether Republican or Democrat) 

and its Western minions to make trouble with Russia and 

China has become almost frenetic. Step back from the 

daily headlines in Western media and it is glaring just

 how much the agenda has become irrationally 

hostile towards Moscow and Beijing. 

 

Week after week there are unfounded allegations about 

aggression, security threats, cybercrime, interference, 

Covid-19, & so on. It’s like a mad cacophony to wind 

up tensions. Nevertheless, the deranged attitude of 

Western ruling cliques is but the death throes of a 

world order that has reached its expiration. 

 

Russia and China’s partnership has hugely transformative 

geopolitical significance. Both these giant nations straddle

 the continents of Asia and Europe, connecting the Pacific 

with the Atlantic, ranging from the Arctic to the 

Mediterranean. Both are committed to a vision 

of a multipolar world where nations cooperate

 for mutual development. 

 

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) linking Eurasia with 

Africa and the Americas is the vision of the future, and 

Russia is a key partner in implementing that 

ambitious win-win project for global peace

 and prosperity. 

 

This vision stands in stark contrast to the prevailing Western 

capitalist paradigm which operates through dominance, 

control and exploitation for American and European 

profiteering. That kind of centuries-old system 

necessarily involves imperialist conduct ...

whereby the natural resources of foreign 

nations are commandeered by brute 

military force, conflict, subjugation, 

subterfuge, skulduggery and 

other machinations. 

 

The multipolar vision of global relations advocated by Russia 

and China is the nemesis of the Western imperialist system. 

And that explains why the Americans and their European 

vassals make every effort to demonize and distort 

Russia and China. 

 

But the geopolitical potential of Russia and China is 

unstoppable. There is a force of natural justice that 

all nations will inevitably subscribe to as the only 

reasonable, feasible & sustainable way forward.

It’s about people-centered development ...

versus profit-driven disorder.

 

Moreover, the partnership between Russia and China is a 

geographer’s wonder study. Russia is the world’s largest

 national territory by landmass. With over 17 million sq.

 kilometres, it covers 11 time zones out of the world’s 

total of 24. The abundance of natural resources that 

Russia possesses is astounding, from reserves of

 natural gas, oil, metals and minerals, to forestry, 

agriculture and fisheries. It also can boast of 

highly advanced technology in multiple 

sectors. And... it shares a long land 

border with China, for easing trade. 

 

Meanwhile, China has a population of 1.4 billion people, ten 

times that of Russia. With highly advanced technology and 

manufacturing, China is not only a vast market for Russian

 resources, it is also a gateway to the world economy. 

China has already become the world’s biggest 

economy over the United States, according 

to some measures. 

 

The US and Europe are post-industrial economies that are 

also post-peak of their prime. Their “prime” was always 

based on an extractive predatory relationship with the

 rest of the world that was predicated on inflicting 

conflict and poverty on others. 

 

As China and Russia build on their strategic partnership for

 mutual prosperity and peace the upshot will inevitably 

entail the endgame for Western imperial powers,

 which are atrophying from massive inequality,

 indebtedness, moral decadence and 

social decay. 

 

Fortunately, too, and this is crucial, Russia and China have

 military defenses from new generations of hypersonic 

weaponry that make them impregnable against any 

warmongering notions by the United States. A 

failing empire like the US and its Western 

satellites is always a dangerous time, as 

it tries to prevent the inevitable collapse, 

but starting a war with Russia & China

 ...is not an option. 

 

The views & opinions expressed in the article 

do not - necessarily - reflect those of Sputnik.

 


Image: Barry Grossman



Barry Grossman: US, Israel 

Adopting Bullying Tactics 

for ICC War Crimes 

Investigation in 

Palestine

June 30th (FNA)




Barry Grossman is an international lawyer and political 

commentator focused on human rights related issues. 

He has been extensively published, on various legal 

subjects and is a frequent commentator on political 

affairs. He has taught law at the University of 

Melbourne’s Faculty of Law and Monash 

University’s Faculty of Law.

 

Below is the full text of the interview:

 

Q: How do you see the ICC ruling and the

 issue of anti-Semitism raised by Israel? 

 

A: To be sure, Benjamin Netanyahu has himself said that 

“when the ICC investigates Israel for fake war crimes,

 this is pure antisemitism”.

 

There can of course be no doubt that antisemitism is real;

 indeed, every bit as real as Islam-phobia. But the long 

standing ruse of conflating antisemitism with any and 

all criticism of Zionism or Israel, is no longer taken 

seriously, by a growing and very substantial 

minority of people in the wider population.

 

Meanwhile the tactic of tarring everyone who resists Zionism 

or criticises Israel with the antisemitism brush is having the 

unfortunate, though not necessarily unintended 

consequence of discrediting even the most 

genuine efforts to draw attention to those 

people whose speech is, indeed, 

motivated by little more than

 hatred for Jews.

 

Q: There are huge media attacks towards ICC’s probe to

 Israeli war crimes in Palestine. Do you believe the ICC

 can make a correct ruling under this media hegemony?

 

A: Propaganda about the ICC case published by the 

Atlantic World’s Corporate Media Cartel is of course 

preceded by pressure and instructions from think-

tanks, as well as the security/policy making 

apparatus, which are, of course, fully 

infiltrated by individuals promoting 

Zionist agendas.

 

In that regard, both the US and Israel have openly declared 

their hostile intentions towards the ICC and there is already 

clear evidence that they're deploying all their usual tactics, 

including intimidation, extortion, bribery and garden variety 

corruption, to get politicians around the world, lawyers 

involved in making Palestine’s case, and members of 

the ICC to fall into line.

 

That said, if the myriad jurisdiction related technicalities 

raised by Israel can be overcome, I am quite sure the

ICC is capable of reaching what many of us consider 

the correct position regarding ubiquitous war crimes 

and other violations of international law, perpetrated 

by the occupation.

 

The real problem is that the ICC is quite limited in its ability 

to enforce any ruling against responsible individuals and 

Israeli organizations, so long as the key Atlantic World 

nations continue to provide unqualified support for 

the occupation, or, at the very least, to remain 

neutral, in the face of clear evidence of the 

occupation’s crimes.

 

A second very significant strategic issue arises from a 

prevailing political reality which dictates that, in order 

to make a reasonable finding about the occupation’s 

crimes, the ICC will also have to use its authority to 

investigate violations of international law alleged 

against Hamas and other Palestinian groups ---

bearing in mind that the law of armed conflict 

does not concern itself with the order in 

which things played out and any finding

against Palestinian groups will certainly 

receive far more traction, both in the 

international community as well as 

in occupied Palestine, than any 

finding of culpability on the 

part of the occupation.

 

Indeed, from where I sit, I do not see Palestine as 

having much to gain from this process, but it 

does stand to lose no small part of the 

standing in public opinion, which it 

has taken decades to develop, at 

the cost of thousands of 

Palestinian lives.

 

Q: Is it hypocrisy that Israel says Palestine is not 

a sovereign state to have a delegation at ICC?

 

A: Hypocrisy hardly even begins to cover it. No nation 

is in a position to dictate that Palestine is not a 

sovereign nation-state, even if the UN has not 

yet extended Palestine’s observer nation 

status to full membership --- the way it 

quickly recognized Israel’s existence 

as a full member, in 1949.

 

It is also worth remembering that 

31 UN member nations still do 

not recognize Israel.

 

Of course, none of this is relevant to the Palestinian 

delegation’s participation in ICC proceedings 

investigating allegations of war crimes and 

other violations of international law 

committed against Palestinians by 

Israeli nationals & organizations, 

even though Israel is not, itself, 

a party to the ICC treaty.

 

On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority (PA), 

whose statehood and sovereignty has been 

subject to intense dispute across the 

international community...  is a 

signatory to the Rome Statute 

(that is, the ICC Treaty), so it 

would be bizarre, if it was 

not permitted to have a 

delegation present, at

the ICC proceedings.





Image: US Encirclement of China

 

US Encirclement of China:

 A 'Progress' Report

by Brian Berletic 

May 22nd  (The Saker)

 

We post this long-read article in full - 

as the New Eastern Outlook site has

 been down for a number of days.

 

Tensions between Washington and Beijing are not merely

 the recent results of former US President Donald Trump’s

 time in office – but rather, just the latest chapter in US

 efforts to contain China, that stretch back decades.

 

Indeed, US foreign policy has, for decades, admittedly
aimed 
at encircling and containing China’s rise, and
maintaining 
primacy over the Indo-Pacific region.

 

The “Pentagon Papers” leaked in 1969 would admit in

 regards to the ongoing US war against Vietnam that:

 

…the February decision to bomb North Vietnam and the 

July approval of Phase I deployments make sense only 

if they are in support of a long-run United States policy 

to contain China.

 

The papers also admitted that China, “looms as a major 

power threatening to undercut [American] importance

and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but

more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against

[America].

 

The papers also made it clear that there were (and still are), 

“three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China: (a) the 

Japan-Korea front; (b) the India-Pakistan front; and (c) 

the Southeast Asia front.”

 

Since then, it is clear that from the continued US military

 presence in both Japan and South Korea, the now two 

decades-long US occupation of Afghanistan on both 

Pakistan’s and China’s borders, and the emergence 

of the so-called “Milk Tea Alliance” aimed at over-

throwing Southeast Asian governments friendly

 with China and replacing them with US-backed 

client regimes – this policy to contain China

 endures up to today.

 

Assessing US activity along these three fronts reveals

 the progress and setbacks Washington faces -- and 

the various dangers to global peace and stability

 Washington’s continued belligerence poses.

 

The Japan-Korea Front 

 

Military.com in their article, “Here’s What It Costs to 

Keep US Troops in Japan and South Korea,” reports:

 

In all, more than 80,000 US troops are deployed to Japan 

and South Korea. In Japan alone, the US maintains more 

than 55,000 deployed troops — the largest forward-

deployed US force anywhere in the world.

 

The article notes that according to the US Government 

Accountability Office (GAO), the US spent “$34 billion 

to maintain military presences in Japan and South

 Korea between 2016 and 2019.”

 

The article cites the GAO providing an explanation as to 

why this massive US military presence is maintained in

 East Asia:

 

“…US forces help strengthen alliances, promote a free 

and open Indo-Pacific region, provide quick response 

to emergencies and are essential for US national

 security.”

 

“Alliances” that are “strengthened” by the physical 

presence of what are -- essentially, -- occupying US 

forces, suggests the “alliance” is hardly voluntary
and claims of promoting a 
“free and open Indo-
Pacific region”
 is highly subjective – begging
the 
question of, to whom, is the Indo-Pacific
“free and open”.

 

And as US power wanes both regionally in the Indo-

Pacific as well as globally, Washington has placed

 increasing pressures on both Japan and South

 Korea to not only help shoulder this financial 

burden, but to also become more proactive 

within Washington’s containment strategy

 toward China.

 

Japan is one of three other nations (the US itself, 

Australia, and India) drafted into the US-led 

Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – also 

known as the “Quad.”

 

Rather than the US solely depending on its own military 

forces based within Japanese territory or supported by

 its Japan-based forces, Japan’s military along with 

India’s and Australia’s are also being recruited to

 take part in military exercises and operations

 in and around the South China Sea.

 

India’s inclusion in the Quad also fits well into the US 

3-front strategy that made up Washington’s contain-

ment policy toward China as early as the 1960s.

 

The India-Pakistan Front 

 

In addition to recruiting India into the Quad alliance, the 

US helps encourage escalation through political 

support and media campaigning of India’s 

various territorial disputes with China.

 

The US also targets Pakistan’s close and ongoing 

relationship with China – including the support of 

armed insurgents in Pakistan’s Baluchistan 

province.

 

Recently, a bombing at a hotel in Quetta, Baluchistan 

appears to have targeted China’s ambassador to 

Pakistan, Ambassador Nong Rong.

 

The BBC in its article, “Pakistan hotel bomb: 

Deadly blast hits luxury venue in Quetta,”

 would claim:

 

Initial reports had suggested the target 

was China’s ambassador.

 

Ambassador Nong Rong is understood to be in Quetta

 but was not present at the hotel at the time of the 

attack on Wednesday.

 

The article also noted:

 

Balochistan province, near the Afghan border,

is home to several armed groups, including

 separatists.

 

Separatists in the region want independence from the 

rest of Pakistan and accuse the government and 

China of exploiting Balochistan, one of 

Pakistan’s poorest provinces, for its 

gas and mineral wealth.

 

Absent from the BBC’s reporting is the extensive and 

open support the US government has provided these 

separatists over the years and how – clearly – this is 

more than just a local uprising against perceived 

injustice, but yet another example of armed 

conflict-by-proxy waged by Washington 

against China.

 

As far back as 2011 publications like The National 

Interest in articles like, “Free Baluchistan” would 

openly advocate expanding US support for 

separatism in Pakistan’s Baluchistan

 province.

 

The article was written by the late Selig  Harrison

--- who was a senior fellow at the US-based 

(corporate-financier funded) Centre for 

International Policy --- & would claim:

 

Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the 

heart of Baluch territory. So an independent 

Baluchistan... would serve US strategic 

interests, in addition to the immediate 

goal, of countering Islamist forces.

 

Of course, “Islamist forces”... is a euphemism for US-

Persian Gulf state sponsored militants used to both

fight Western proxy wars, as well as serve as a 

pretext for Western intervention. Citing 

“Islamist forces” in Baluchistan, 

Pakistan - clearly - serves as
an 
example of the latter.

 

In addition to op-eds published by influential policy 

think tanks, US legislators like US Representative 

Dana Rohrabacher, had proposed resolutions 

such as (emphasis added),

 

“US House of Representatives Concurrent Resolution 

104 (112th): Expressing the sense of Congress that

 the people of Baluchistan, currently divided 

between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, 

have the right to self-determination and

 to their own sovereign country.”

 

There is also funding provided to adjacent, political 

groups supporting separatism in Baluchistan, 

Pakistan, as listed by the US government’s 

own National Endowment for Democracy 

(NED) website under “Pakistan.”

 

 Organizations like the “Association for Integrated 

Development Balochistan” are funded by the
US 
government and used to mobilize people 

politically, constituting clear interference

 by the US, in Pakistan’s internal 

political affairs.

 

The Gwadar Port project is a key juncture within China’s 

growing global network of infrastructure projects, as 

part of its One Belt, One Road initiative. The US 

clearly opposes China’s rise & has articulated
robust strategies to 
counter it; everything up
to 
and including, open war, as seen in the
Pentagon 
Papers, regarding the
Vietnam War.

 

The recent bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan demonstrates

 that this strategy continues, in regards to utilizing local 

militants to target Chinese-Pakistani co-operation, and 

is one part of the much wider, region-wide strategy: 

of encircling and containing China.

 

The Southeast Asia Front

 

Of course the US war against Vietnam was part of a wider

 effort to reassert Western primacy over Southeast Asia 

...and deny the region from fueling China’s
inevitable rise.

 

The US having lost the war and almost completely retreating 

from the Southeast Asia region saw Southeast Asia itself

 repair relations amongst themselves and with China.

 

Today, the nations of Southeast Asia count China as their

 largest trade partner, investor, a ''key partner'' in infra-

structure development, a key supplier for the region’s

 armed forces, as well as providing the majority of 

tourism arrivals throughout the region. For 

countries like Thailand, more tourists 

arrive from China, than from all 

Western nations combined.

 

Because existing governments in Southeast Asia have 

nothing to benefit from by participating in American

 belligerence toward China, the US has found it 

necessary to cultivate and attempt to install 

into power various client regimes. This has 

been an ongoing process, since the 

Vietnam War.

 

The US has targeted each nation individually for years.

In 2009 & 2010, US-backed opposition leader-in-exile, 

Thaksin Shinawatra, deployed his “red shirt” rioters

in back-to-back riots - the latter of which included 

some 300 armed militants and culminated in city-

wide arson across Bangkok, and the death of 

over 90 police, soldiers, protesters, and 

bystanders.

 

In 2018, US-backed opposition groups took power in 

Malaysia after the US poured millions of dollars, for 

over a decade, in building up the opposition.

 

Daniel Twining of the US National Endowment
for 
Democracy subsidiary – the International 

Republican Institute – admitted, during a talk
by the 
Center for Strategic & International
Studies, 
that same year, that:

 

…for 15 years working with NED resources, we worked 

to strengthen Malaysian opposition parties -- and guess 

what happened 2 months ago after 61 years? They won.

 

He would elaborate on how the NED’s network played a 

direct role in placing US-backed opposition figures into 

power, within the Malaysian government, stating:

 

I visited and I was sitting there with many of the leaders 

the new leaders of this government, many of whom

 were just our partners we had been working with

 for 15 years and one of the most senior of them

 who’s now one of the people running the 

government said to me, ‘gosh IRI you 

never gave up on us even when we 

were ready to give up 

on ourselves.’

 

Far from “promoting freedom” in Malaysia  ---- Twining 

would make clear the ultimate objective of interfering

 in Malaysia’s internal political affairs, was to serve 

US interests, not only in regards to Malaysia, but 

in regards to the entire region and specifically 

toward encircling and containing China.

 

Twining would boast:

 

  …guess what one of the first steps the 

new government took? It froze Chinese 

infrastructure investments.

 

And that:

 

[Malaysia] is not a hugely pro-American country. It is 

probably never going to be an actual US ally, but this

 is going to redound to our benefit, and and that’s 

an example of the long game.

 

It is a pattern that has repeated itself in Myanmar over 

the decades --- with NED money building a parallel 

political system within the nation and eventually 

leading to Aung San Suu Kyi and her US-backed

 National League for Democracy (NLD) party 

taking power in 2016.

 

For Myanmar, so deep and extensive is US backing for 

opposition groups there, that the elections virtually 

guarantee US-backed candidates win.. every single

 time. The US National Endowment for Democracy’s 

own website alone... lists over 80 programs and 

organizations receiving US government money

- for everything from election polling, and

 building up political parties - to funding 

media networks and “environmental”

 groups used to block any Chinese-

initiated infrastructure projects.

 

The move by Myanmar’s military in February this year, 

ousting Aung Sang Suu Kyi and the NLD, was meant
to
 correct this.

 

However, in addition to backing political groups 

protesting in the streets, the US has – for many 

decades – backed and armed ethnic rebels 

across the country. These rebels have now 

linked up with the US-backed NLD and are 

repeating the US-backed regime change 

tactics used against the Arab World in
2011 --- in nations like Libya, Yemen, 

and Syria – including explicit calls

 for “international intervention.”

 

A US-Engineered “Asia Spring”  

 

Just as the US did during the 2011 “Arab Spring” – the US 

State Department, in a bid to create synergies across 

its various regime change campaigns in Asia, has 

introduced the “Milk Tea Alliance” to transform 

individual US-backed regime change efforts
in 
Asia, into a region-wide crisis.

 

The BBC itself admits in articles like, “Milk Tea 

Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-

democracy activists,” and that:

 

The alliance has brought together anti-Beijing
protesters,
 in Hong Kong and Taiwan, with
pro-democracy 
campaigners in Thailand
and Myanmar.

 

Omitted from the BBC’s coverage of the “Milk Tea Alliance”

 (intentionally) is the actual common denominators that 

unite it – US funding through fronts like the National 

Endowment for Democracy and a unifying hatred 

of China - based exclusively on talking points 

pushed by the US State Department itself.

 

Circling back to the Pentagon Papers and recalling the 

coordinated, regional campaign the US sought to 

encircle China with – we can then look at more

 recent US government policy papers like the 

“Indo-Pacific Framework” published in the 

White House archives from the Trump 

administration.

 

The policy paper’s first bullet point asks:

 

How to maintain US strategic primacy in the Indo-Pacific 

region, and promote a liberal economic order, while 

preventing China from establishing new, illiberal 

spheres of influence, and cultivating areas of 

cooperation to promote regional peace 

and prosperity?

 

The paper also discusses information campaigns designed 

to “educate” the world about “China’s coercive behaviour 

and to influence operations around the globe.” These 

campaigns have materialized in a propaganda war 

fabricating accusations of “Chinese genocide” in 

Xinjiang, China, claims that Chinese telecom 

company Huawei is a global security threat,

 and that China – not the US – is the single 

largest threat to global peace and 

stability today.

 

In reality US policy aimed at encircling China -- is 

predicated upon Washington’s desire to continue 

its own decades-long impunity upon the global 

stage, and the continuation of all the wars, 

humanitarian crises, and abuses, that 

have stemmed from it.

 

Understanding the full scope of Washington’s 

“competition” with China...  helps unlock the 

confusion surrounding unfolding individual 

crises like the trade war; the ongoing 

violence and turmoil in Myanmar;

 bombings in southwest Pakistan;

 students mobs in Thailand; riots

 in Hong Kong; and attempts by

 the US to transform the South 

China Sea, into an inter-
national
 conflict.

 

Understanding that these events are all connected - then

 assessing the success or failure of US efforts - gives us
clearer picture of the overall success of Washington
in 
encircling China.  It also gives governments and 

regional blocs a clearer picture of how to manage
policy, in protecting against US 
subversion: that
threatens national, 
regional, and global peace 

and stability.

 

Brian Berletic, is a Bangkok-based
geopolitical 
researcher and writer,
especially for the 
online magazine
“New Eastern Outlook”.







Australians should be ashamed that they have a
regime propped up to serve US racist agendas!

Image: sanctions infograph


How Exceptional America Is

by Eric Zuesse

September 30th, 2020





America is becoming exceptionally exceptional. In some votes 

at the UN General Assembly - the Assembly of nations - only 

Israel, or one or two other U.S. allies, vote along with it, and 

all others either vote against it, or else abstain in order to 

prevent U.S. retaliation against their own nation. No other 

nation is anything like that. In fact, on many occasions, 

the U.S. arm-twists other delegations -- in order to get 

them to abstain from voting so as to make less stark, 

and less embarrassing, America’s international 

isolation. But America is also extraordinarily 

exceptional in other ways, which have 

nothing to do with the UN.




America is truly an exceptional nation. As the 

Republican Party magazine National Review 

stated, on September 15th, “Last week, 

the US and Israel were the only states
to vote against a General 
Assembly
resolution on the
coronavirus
response. Some have 
seized
upon that vote to paint the 

USt as a bad faith actor
 
that stands alone
in the world.” 





However, this vote wasn’t about only “the global 

coronavirus response.” It was — perhaps even 

more importantly - about U.S. sanctions against 

Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Russia, China, and other 

countries that the U.S. regime considers to be 

its enemies. (None of these countries ever 

invaded or even threatened to invade 

the USA; all of those sanctions are 

100% U.S. aggression. 





They are target-countries that America’s aristocracy 

wants to take over. (The world’s U.S.-sanctioned 

countries are marked in red -- on the map of the 

world below.) Israel strongly supports sanctions 

against both Syria and Venezuela, and routinely 

invades and bombs Syria just for good measure. 

So, it joined America’s position on that.





That UN General Assembly vote was held on September 

11th. America’s Associated Press bannered the next day, 

“UN assembly approves pandemic resolution; US, Israel 

object”, and reported that, “The 193-member world body 

adopted the resolution by a vote of 169-2, with Ukraine 

and Hungary abstaining. It was a strong show of unity 

by the UN’s most representative body, though many 

countries had hoped for adoption by consensus.” 





The AP further stated:





It calls on governments and international financial institutions 

“to provide more liquidity in the financial system, especially 

in all developing countries.” It supports recovery plans that 

“drive transformative change towards more inclusive and 

just societies, including by empowering and engaging all 

women and girls.”





And it urges UN member nations “to adopt a climate- and 

environment-responsive approach to COVID-19 recovery 

efforts”, including by aligning investments and domestic 

policies with the UN goals & the 2015 Paris agreement

to combat climate change. …





By a vote of 132-3, the assembly amended the resolution to 

urge all countries “to refrain from promulgating and applying 

any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in 

accordance with international law and the Charter of the 

United Nations that impedes the full achievement of 

economic and social development, particularly in 

developing countries.”





The United States was then overwhelmingly defeated in 

attempts to remove 2 paragraphs from the resolution, 

one referring to women’s rights to “sexual and 

reproductive health” --- and the other --- to 

“promoting global sustainable transport.”





In addition to arguing against the language on sanctions, 

the United States opposed all references to the World 

Health Organization, which the US administration had 

stopped funding, accusing the UN agency of failing 

to do enough to stop the virus from spreading 

when it first surfaced in China.





Nowhere in the AP’s article was any mention made that 

in the “vote of 169-2,” the two nations which had voted 

against the Resolution were the US and Israel, but only 

that there had been “objections from the United States 

and Israel,” regarding attachment, to the Resolution, of 

the Amendment that added the anti-sanctions provision 

to it. This omission was not an error. It is a type of 

omission that is common in propaganda. America 

was more isolated than that ‘news’-report 

made clear.





This vote was about only a “Resolution,” a statement of 

the various nations’ values, to work toward, not about 

any nation’s policy, but the U.S. and Israel don’t share 

those goals — not even rhetorically. This opposition 

to that Resolution’s goals, was truly exceptional.





In particular, nothing is more abhorrent to the US regime 

--- than to stop or impede its sanctions. These sanctions 

include, for example, punishments against any company 

or government that will, in any way, assist in Russia’s 96% 

completed NordStream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany, 

for the EU to buy Russia’s pipelined natural gas instead of 

America’s fracked, canned, shipped, natural gas. The U.S. 

regime insists that EU nations buy the far costlier trans-

Atlantic-shipped fracked US liquefied natural gas (LNG). 





That insistence upon the EU’s wasting money, in order to 

prop-up America’s fracking industry, is, indeed, exceptional, 

because European nations haven’t customarily been treated

as being mere colonies of other powers. America is treating 

purchasers from, or cooperators with, that competitor (Russia), 

as being its enemies. The way the U.S. Representative stated 

this (after a lengthy diatribe which blamed China for Covid-19 

and said that the U.S. had quit the World Health Organization 

because WHO lacked “independence from the Chinese 

Communist Party”) was: “Economic sanctions are a 

legitimate means to achieve foreign policy, security, 

and other national and international objectives, and 

the United States is not alone in that view or in that 

practice.” (That exact same sentence had, earlier, 

been stated by the US regarding a different matter, 

on 18 November 2019.) Actually, the U.S. regime is 

very “alone” on it. Furthermore, the other part was 

also a lie: the U.S. regime asserts that coercing 

corporations and countries to not buy from the 

lowest-cost supplier, is within its sovereign 

right to do. 





However, as Professor Alfred de Zayas, who until recently was 

the UN’s top expert on this topic, explained in depth on 27th 

June 2019, that assertion is blatantly false, on many clear 

grounds concerning international law. It is a blatant lie, no 

matter how many times the U.S. regime asserts it (and 

asserts that the US regime isn’t “alone” in asserting it).





Even back when Barack Obama (the man who repeatedly 

claimed that “The United States is and remains, the one 

indispensable nation”) was America’s President, the US

was exceptional at the United Nations. For example, on 

24th November 2014, I headlined “U.S. Among Only 3 

Countries Officially Backing Nazism & Holocaust-

Denial”, and reported that - “In a UN vote, on 

November 21st, only 3 countries - the US,
Ukraine, and Canada — voted 
against a
resolution to condemn racist fascism, 

or nazism, and to condemn denial of
Germany’s 
World War II Holocaust
against, primarily, Jews.'' 





This measure passed the General Assembly, on a vote of 115 

in favour, 3 against, & 55 abstentions (the abstentions were 

in order not to offend U.S. President Obama, who was 

opposed to the resolution).” Then, on 21 June 2015, 

I headlined “America’s UN Ambassador Continues 

Standing Up for Nazis” and noted that, again, 

Obama’s UN Ambassador, Samantha Power, 

had stood up for nazism; she had just 

delivered an address -- in Ukraine -- 

rallying that country’s supporters 

of nazism to war against Russia. 





Then, on 21 November 2017, I headlined “Trump 

Continues Obama’s Support of Nazism”, and 

reported that:





On November 16th, US President Donald Trump, acting 

through an agent of his agent, UN Ambassador Nikki 

Haley, voted at the UN against a resolution that 

condemns bigotry, and especially condemns 

nazism & all forms of racism. He thus, yet 

again, continues in the tradition from his 

predecessors, Presidents Obama, and 

Bush, each year, placing this nation in 

the company of only one or two U.S. 

allies throughout the world who join 

with the US in refusing to commit to 

opposing and doing everything to 

reduce, not just political Nazism 

(which, of course, is past), but 

ideological nazism, racist 

fascism - institutionalized 

bigotry (which, sadly, is 

not past).





But, be that as it may, the U.S. is also exceptional in 

many other ways. I listed some of those on July 13th.





There are two main reasons why the U.S. regime is able 

to coerce other nations to not violate its will. One is that 

although publicly available reports allege it spends 

approximately 37% of the entire world’s military 

expenditures, the U.S. regime  actually - spends 

around 50% of the entire world’s military costs, 

and therefore, it possesses an extraordinary 

physical capacity to impose its will, if and 

when merely economically blockading an 

‘enemy’ country (via sanctions) fails to
do 
the job of getting it to comply. 





And the other main reason is that, since the US government 

is at least as corrupt as the average “third-world” country is, 

but is instead one of the world’s richest countries, arranging 

pay-offs to other world leaders, in order to obtain their 

cooperation, is easily affordable... (These payoffs are 

being paid by all US.taxpayers, not by only America’s 

billionaires, who reap all of the profits from the 

empire that is imposed.)





American exceptionalism is real. It’s not the type of 

exceptionalism that the regime’s propaganda claims 

to be the case, but, nonetheless, it is real.





(Strategic Culture Foundation)





Image: sanctions map


Please watch the video above...
We have never existed in such peril,
and yet almost no-one is able to act.



Nuclear words:
Putin's FINAL warning:

(People DO need reminding -- unless
US, UK and French policy changes,
and stops being so 'exceptional'
-- that is, outside the UN legal
Charter and thus, criminal
--- there will be a reaping.)






 

BREAKING: Russia's State TV
Advising Russian Citizens on

how to survive a World War !

WAKE UP NOW - AND STOP
THE WAR ON CHINA/RUSSIA !


The Doomsday clock of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

website now has the final singular
moment that will bring
civilization
to final nuclear annihilation, at
90 seconds to midnight.


This is the closest it has ever been.
Scott Ritter says it should be 2 seconds



World Will Not Survive the US'
 Neocons' Doctrine of US World
 Hegemony - Paul Graig Roberts
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018


"The government of the United States is clearly in
demonic hands. We are overflowing with proof",
writes American well known analytist and ex-
official Paul Graig Roberts in his website.


Take today (2-2-18) for example. A report from the
House Intelligence Committee was released that
is proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
 the Department of Justice --- and the Democrat
National Committee, are now in a conspiracy
against American democracy and the
President of the United States,
 with the full support of the
presstitute media.


As if that is not enough, also released today, is the
Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review. A nuclear
posture review specifies a country’s attitude to
nuclear weapons and their use. In past posture
reviews, nuclear weapons were regarded as
unusable except in retaliation for a nuclear
 attack. The assumption was that no one
would use them. There was always the
chance that false warnings of incoming
ICBMs would result in a nuclear button
being pushed - setting off Armageddon.


There were many false warnings during the Cold War

President Ronald Reagan, was very concerned about
a false warning, ending in mass death & destruction.

This is why his principal goal was to end the Cold War,
which he succeeded in doing. It did not take
successor governments long, to
resurrect the Cold War.


The new US nuclear posture is a reckless, irresponsible,
and destabilizing departure from the previous attitude
 toward nuclear weapons. The use of even a small part
of the existing arsenal of the United States would be
sufficient to destroy life on earth. Yet, the posture
review calls for more weapons, speaks of nuclear
weapons as “usable,” and justifies their use in
First Strikes, even against countries that do
not have nuclear weapons.


This is an insane escalation. It tells every country that
 the US government, believes in the first use of nuclear
weapons against any & every country. Nuclear powers
 such as Russia & China must see this to be a massive
 increase in the threat level from the US.

Those responsible for this document should be committed
to insane aslyums, not left in policy positions where they
can put it into action.

 

The neoconservatives are a small group of conspirators.
Most neoconservatives are Jews allied with Israel. Some
 are dual-citizens. They created an ideology of US world
 hegemony, specifying that the chief goal of US foreign
policy, is to prevent the rise of any other power that
could serve as a constraint on US unilateralism.


As neoconservatives control US foreign policy, this
explains US hostility toward Russia and China and
also the neo-conservatives’ use of the US military
to remove governments in the Middle East, seen
by Israel as obstacles to Israeli expansion. For
two decades --- the US has been fighting wars
for Israel in the Middle East. This fact proves
 the power and influence of the insane neo-
conservatives. It is certain, that people
as insane as the neoconservatives,
would launch a nuclear attack
on Russiaand China.


The Russian and Chinese governments seem to be
 completely unaware of the threat that the neo-
conservatives pose to them. I have never
experienced in interviews with Russians
 and Chinese, any awareness of the neo-
conservative ideology. Possibly, it is
too insane for them to grasp.


Ideologues such as the neoconservatives
are not fact-based



They are chasing their dream of world hegemony. Russia
& China are in the way of this hegemony. Having learned
 the limits of conventional military power—after 20 years
 the US “superpower” has been unable to defeat a few
thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan—the
neo-conservatives know: conventional invasions
of Russia or China, would lead to the total
defeat of US forces.


Therefore, the neoconservatives have elevated nuclear
weapons to a First Strike, usable, arsenal that in the
neoconservative dream of world hegemony can be
 used to destroy Russia and China.


Ideologues who divorce themselves from the facts
 create a virtual world for themselves. Their belief
 in their ideology blinds them to the risks for them-
selves and others that they impose on the world.


Thanks to the American liberal/progressive/left, the
entirety of the world is faced with a far more likely
nuclear demise than ever threatened us during the
 Cold War with the Soviet Union.


By its collaboration with the military/security complex
& the corrupt Hillary DNC, the liberal/progressive/left
has forever discredited itself. It is now seen by every
thinking person worldwide as an insane propaganda
ministry --- for the neoconservatives’ plan to use
nuclear weapons to eliminate constraints on
US unilateralism.

The liberal/progressive/left has endorsed
“hegemony or death.”


They will get death. For all of us.


(Source - DONi News Agency)


According to: PaulGraigRoberts.org

 




Legendary memorial at Saur-Tomb
''restored by May 2017''

DPR authorities have finished restoring the
Saur-Tomb by May 2017. It was announced
by the Building Minister, Sergey Naymets.


‘Saur Tomb has been being restored
since November, and we planned to
finish  this by May 2017’, the
Minister said.


He said "many people contributed to this
project of restoration of the
memorial
damaged by shelling," Naumets noted.

____________________________


Cool Russia!




[Eng Subs] Children of Donbass,
"Toys for Poroshenko"
Music Video by Artem Grishanov

POWERFUL - PUT THIS ON HEADPHONES.
I guarantee you will cry - and if you don't
- please seek psychiatric help.




Full Text: Official Declaration
 of the Malorossiyan Federation

Zakharchenko announces a new federal state, Malorossiya,
(means ''Little Russia'') as the legal successor of Ukraine.
DONi News Agency

On 18.7.2017 the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic,
Alexander Zakharchenko, declared the creation of a new
federal state, Malorossiya, which will become the legal
successor of 'Ukraine'. The new state formation, will
consist of 19 regions of the former Ukraine with the
capital in Donetsk city. Kiev remains a historical
and cultural centre, without the status of
capital city.

Here is the full English translation of the declaration:

Political Declaration

The project of the state of "Ukraine", formulated 150 years ago
 and implemented in different versions during the 20th century,
has reached its logical conclusion --- and led to the country's
disintegration, civil war and the death of tens of thousands
of people, including children, women, and elderly people.

And this process is irreversible. An attempt to turn the story back
will result in "balkanization" of the conflict, expansion of chaos,
escalation of civil war and even bigger numbers of casualties.

To stop the civil war and avoid new victims, we representatives
of the majority of the regions of former "Ukraine" assembled
in Donetsk on July 18, 2017, discussed the current situation
and came to the following conclusions:

- the state of "Ukraine" has revealed itself as a failed state and
demonstrated its being incapable of granting its inhabitants
a peaceful and prosperous present and future;

- the current authorities  – elected in Kiev, after the coup d'etat,
against the backdrop of political terror and the absence
 of elections in the Crimea and Donbass, are illegitimate;

- the state of "Ukraine" is on the brink of
economic catastrophe and depopulation;

- an ultranationalist coup is brewing in Kiev, as a result
of which outright neo-Nazis will come to power
instead
of "Banderites with a European face";

- the Ukrainian nationalistic project (the Galician one)
has 
discredited itself, by the shedding of civilians'
blood in
 the country;

- the ideology of "Ukrainism" has proved to be misanthropic,
 mixed with xenophobia (Russophobia, anti-Semitism,
Polonophobia) and neo-Nazism (the ideology of
national exclusivity and superiority);

- resulting from historical development and due to the Maidan,
the word "Ukraine" is forever associated with the names of
the Nazi accomplices, Bandera and Shukhevich, with the
tragedies of the Baby Yar, the Volyn massacre & Khatyn,
and, nowadays, with the mass murder of people on the
Maidan, in the Trade Unions' House in Odessa, and
Genocide of the Donbass people.

On the basis of the above, we believe that the state of
 "Ukraine", in the form it was established, after the
collapse of the USSR, is UNSERVICEABLE.

We, representatives of the regions of the former "Ukraine",
propose to re-establish the state and to proclaim the state
of MALOROSSIYA, under an historical background, out of
the former "Ukraine". In this case, it is of fundamental
importance to rename the country, since "Ukraine"
as a state, is guilty of war crimes, mass terror
and the genocide of its own people.

In turn, the new name of the country, based on historical
traditions, will enable us to reunify those pieces of the
former "Ukraine" that seemed to have parted ways
forever, including because of participation in the
civil war, on different sides of the front line.

We must turn the page of our people's history, which
is flooded with the blood of our brothers and sisters.

Malorossiya is an INDEPENDENT, SOVEREIGN state, with
a new name, a new flag, a new constitution, a new state
structure, new principles of social and economic
development, and new historical prospectives.

But this is NOT A REVOLUTION ! This is a return to
history. This is a novelty that restores, not destroys.

In view of the economic plight of the country, the chaos
& disintegration potential, and regarding the possibility
of launching a "war of all against all", we consider it
necessary to declare a state of emergency for the
transition period – up to 3 years. During this time,
the process of adoption of the new Constitution
and the establishment of the rule of law,
should be completed.

Under a state of emergency, a ban on the activities of
political parties and foreign funds is to be introduced,
& penalties for criminal offenses, especially against
the person, are to be increased. The fight against
corruption will be toughened, as well as the
penalties for it.The shadow arms market is
 to be eliminated, including by registering
weapons in accordance with the new law.

In the same period an investigation is to be carried
out, with the involvement of foreign specialists –-
from Russia, Belarus & the European Union –- into
the crimes committed by the Maidan Kiev regime:
the murders on the Maidan, the murder of Odessa
citizens in the Trade Unions' House on May 2nd,
 2014, and the war crimes in Donbass, in the
so-called ATO.

In the same period, the People's Tribunal is to be
prepared to charge the state criminals who have
led the country into disintegration and civil war:
V.F. Yanukovich (with a request to Russia for his
 extradition), P.A. Poroshenko and his clique:
 Turchinov, Yatsenyuk, Kolomoisky, Paruby,
Nalivaichenko and others.

We are sure that, having recovered from the criminal
neo-Nazi ideology of "Ukrainism", we will be able to
build a new society on the basis of friendship and
mutual assistance -- but not hatred and envy. The
creative genius of our people will manage to bring
 Malorossiya to the forefront of global civilization
and play a role in history. The role of Good,
 and Truth.

Official translation by the DONi
Donbass News Agency, 07/18/2017

(Source - Russia Insider)


_____________________________________________


Nato – A Dangerous Alliance
May 24th

As Nato ends its summit in Brussels, Rae Street explains
why the military alliance remains a threat to world peace


When the Warsaw Pact ended, after the collapse of communism,
some optimists might have expected Nato to be broken up too.
After all, the Labour Party in Britain had been opposed to Nato
 in the mid-1980s. But that was not to be. The US, which had
always dominated Nato, quickly began to reinvent Nato
and furthermore, to expand it.

Following the end of the Warsaw Pact many central and east
European governments wanted to join Nato. This, of course,
was music to the ears of the US military manufacturers.
 Indeed, the chair of the expand Nato committee, Bruce
 Jackson, was technical director of Lockheed Martin,
 the largest military manufacturer in the world. So, for
the new Nato members because of the policy on
“interoperability,” that is Nato personnel being
able to use the same military equipment, it
was out with the old Soviet military hard-
ware and in with sales of, for example,
Lockheed’s military aircraft ,costing
 millions of dollars.

This continues to this day in countries which can ill afford
 it, with struggling economies. The latter includes Greece.
Think of the situation in Greece today.

Expanding Nato up to the borders with Russia, was a
provocative policy. The dangers were pointed out but
 the military industrial complex and the “hawks” in
the West, took no notice.

To this day, this helps President Vladimir Putin:
more and more of the Russian people believe
that “the West” is against them.

Decades later, we read: “British troops have arrived in
 Estonia, as part of a major Nato mission in the Baltic
states, to deter Russian aggression.”

From the start, Nato has always held a nuclear
armed policy.  It continues to claim that nuclear
weapons “preserve peace.” Manifestly, nuclear
weapons do not deter conflict.

Governments, including Britain’s, now analyse the main
threats to security as cyber warfare and terrorism.
Remember September 11th 2001, when New York
 was attacked by terrorists in planes,
 brandishing knives?

The US then had and still has, 13 nuclear armed Trident
submarines, of which several will be roaming the seas
 fully operational. Britain has four, with one constantly
 on alert at sea.

Were these any use in the madman’s attack
on Westminster, or in any terrorist attacks?

Trident is “integrated” into Nato. Even worse, Nato
 still has a policy of “first use of nuclear weapons.”

When the then minister of defence, Geoff Hoon, was
asked in Parliament why Britain has a policy of “first
use,” he replied: “Because of our obligations
to Nato.”

Under the direction of the US administration, with its
policy of global domination, Nato has established a
string of nuclear-armed bases across Europe, in
Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and
Turkey, at Incirlik.

The latter is now causing deep problems as relations
between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the
US, become more and more fractious.

There is now a real problem for Nato, as Erdogan is a
 repressive dictator — how can Turkey remain in Nato?

Nato states are supposed to uphold principles of human
 rights and democracy, notably lacking in Turkey today.

The nuclear-armed bases come under Nato’s “nuclear
sharing policy” — in effect a violation of the nuclear
 Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Nato continues to expand. The policy of not acting “out
 of area” was dropped long ago. “North Atlantic” simply
means, a domination of policies by the US.

Nato claims in its “strategic concept” that “the promotion
 of Euro-Atlantic security is best assured through a wide
network of partner relationships with countries and
organisations around the globe.”

In 1994 Nato established the Partnerships for Peace
 across Europe, extending as far as Uzbekistan.

 Nato surrounds Russia from the west and east. These
 Partnerships for Peace (note the language again) now
 include 22 states, including “neutral” Ireland.

Then there is the ''Mediterranean Dialogue,'' with
''arrangements'' with countries in the Middle East.
Few people realise that Nato carries out
military exercises with Israel.

 Nato has also established bilateral relations — named
individual partnerships — with Afghanistan, Australia,
Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, New
 Zealand and Pakistan.

In this part of the globe, where Nato carried out a military
 exercise in 2014 with Japan, named Ocean Shield, they
 are surrounding and menacing China, as the enemy.

Then there was the statement by Nato that “co-operation
 between Nato and the United Nations continues to make
 a substantial contribution to security in operations
round the world.

“The alliance aims to deepen political dialogue and
practical co-operation with the UN, as set out in
the Nato/UN declaration, signed in 2008.”

This seems like Nato bidding
to be the UN's military arm.

This hardly accords with the UN Charter. It was the
Organisation for Security & Co-operation in Europe,
set up under Chapter 8, of the UN Charter, to
prevent and resolve conflict by non-military
means and to promote co-operation in
humanitarian and other fields.

The 54 member states stretch from Iceland to Kyrgyzstan
and include Russia. Alas, how many times do you read
of their work in the press, compared with the times
you hear about Nato?

Nato is sold to us as a peace-making body. After all,
the US is home to the finest PR companies in
the world.

To summarise, Nato is pursuing yet more militarism and war:

- All Nato states are required to increase their military budgets
 to 2 per cent of GDP. That means stealing more money from
 social needs. Readers of the Morning Star know those all
too well: the NHS, education, adult social services; the
 list is endless.

- Nato member states will have to spend 20 per cent of defence
 budgets on military equipment: warships, war planes, drones,
 bombs. By fuelling the arms race, Nato makes a mockery of
moves for conflict resolution.

- Nato and its member states multiply interventions outside
their territory and increase their presence through world-
wide partnerships and “coalitions of the willing.”

- Nato extends its nuclear policies as a supreme “guarantee
 for the allies’ security,” notwithstanding that the majority of
countries in the world are negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear
 weapons. In the meantime, nuclear weapons in Europe —
under the guise of Nato — and elsewhere, are being
modernised at a cost of many tens of billions of
dollars and pounds. Think of Trident at a cost
of £205 billion.

The Nato summit will be held and activists will
beholding a “counter-summit”
with protesters
organising workshops and a 
demonstration.

CND activists will be there from the 
UK, but
-- we also need people to raise the issues

with their MPs, write letters to the press
and 
raise awareness on social media.

Let’s put pressure on the government to
invest in social welfare, not Nato, not war.

(Source - Morning Star)


In 2017 in the Donbass -
give the children Peace!


Ethnic Ruthenes of sub-Carpathian
Ukraine demand autonomy


Activists of a Slavic ethnic group known as Ruthenes
-- or Rusyns -- who reside in the Trans-Carpathian
(sub-
Carpathian) region of Ukraine, have turned
to
President Pyotr Poroshenko with a demand:

  recognize the results of 1991's regional
  referendum --- when 78% of the region's
residents, voted in favor of granting it
the status of a
self-governing region.


"We have two main demands - to recognize the
 Rhuthenes as an ethnos and to acknowledge
 the regional referendum of 1991, where 78%
sub-Carpathians voted for the region being
 a self-governed territory within Ukraine,"
Vesti quoted Ivan Palinkash, the
leader
of the Ruthene movement &
a member
of
the People’s Council's presidium  
of Sub-
Carpathian Ruthenes.


Natalya Magalina, a deputy of Uzhgorod district
 council, told the meeting of leaders of Ruthene
ethnic organizations it is important to maintain
 the Ruthene language by establishing minimal
 norms for broadcasting in the native tongue,
over the state regional TV Channel Tisa-1.

This isn't the first time that the Ruthenes of the sub-
Carpathian area have asked the Kiev government to
 recognize the outcome of the referendum held 25
 years ago. The Coordination Council of Ruthene
 Organizations of the Trans-Carpathian Region
turned to the central authorities with the
same requirement, the previous time,
in
the summer of 2015.


It was also in the summer of 2015 that the activists
 of Ruthene organizations adopted an appeal to the
 Council of Europe, the European Commission, the
Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe
& the UN, as well as to the parliaments of Hungary,
 the Czech Republic, & Slovakia, to wield pressure
 on President Poroshenko and force the Ukrainian
 government towards accepting the result of
 their referendum.

The Ruthenes are an indigenous sub-Carpathian
 people. Ukrainian authorities do not consider
 them to be a separate ethnos, and continue
calling them Ukrainians, although the UN
 has issued recommendations more than
once, to recognize their status as a
separate ethnos.

More than that, Kiev accuses the leaders of
Ruthene organizations of making appeals
 for encroachments on the territorial
 integrity of the country.

(source - TASS)



!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Zionist lobby preventing West
from criticizing Israel: Analyst
Fri Dec 16, 2016

The European Union has censured the Israeli regime
 for destroying Palestinian shelters and structures in
the occupied territories. According to a statement
by the European bloc, the Tel Aviv regime has
 demolished 866 structures so far in 2016 in
Area C of the West Bank, which is under
 full Israeli military control.

Anthony Hall, editor-in-chief of the American Herald
 Tribune from Alberta, says that the European states
 have been under the influence of the Zionist lobby
to go along with Israeli interests - and thus refuse
 to slam crimes against the Palestinian people.

“Every government within the EU has a very strong
 Israeli lobby, and this is one of the dilemmas that
 the Western people are facing,” Hall explained.

“Not only the governing parties but the opposition
parties as well, are constraining discussion and
 discourse within a very narrow range, that puts
 Israeli priorities at the top of the list in all our
 Western countries,” he added.

The professor also called on Western citizens
 to “intervene directly and make contact with
the Palestinian people, directly.”

“We, as the citizens in the EU, citizens in Canada,
& citizens in the US, have to find ways to bypass
the constraints of our governments & the biases
and power of this lobby over our governments,”
he noted.

Hall criticized the EU for its forensic accounting
of homes demolished in Palestine.

“This type of numerical accounting fails to really
 describe the nature of this destruction of homes
 in its broader context ------ where thousands of
Palestinian people are in dungeons and being
 tortured in Israeli incarceration facilities,”
he said.

“The reality: that the world is letting this
 happen is very discouraging,” he added. 

Hall warned that the prospect of a Palestinian
state is no longer viable, given the emphasis
on building up settlements, and destroying
the structures of the indigenous people
 of Palestine.

"This goes beyond apartheid,” he said.

The Israeli policy of demolishing houses in
the
West Bank to build illegal settler units
has
affected 5,704 Palestinians, of whom,
1,221
have been rendered homeless,
 including 586 children.

   (source - PressTv)

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UN Adopts "Paper Tiger"
Resolution, on Israel's

Withdrawal from the
Syrian Golan
 
Fahwad Al-Khadoumi - The UN General Assembly
 adopted yet another resolution demanding that
Israel withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan
 Heights, in line with a resolution of June 4, 1967.

However, UN General Assembly resolutions are
non-binding and no more than a paper tiger, with-
out a unanimous decision by the permanent UN
Security Council members, to enforce them; A
highly unlikely prospect.

In its latest resolution, the UN General Assembly
 again condemned Israel's non-compliance with
UN Security Council Resolution 497 (1981).


 The General Assembly reiterated that Israel's
 decision from December 14th, 1981, to impose
Israeli laws, administration & custody on the
 occupied Syrian Golan Heights, is null and
void -- and has no legality at all.

The latest UNGA resolution was adopted by an
 overwhelming majority of UN member States.

 The resolution --- reaffirmed the illegality of
acquiring territories ----- through the use of
military force. The General Assembly also
 repeated that Israel's continued occupation
 & enforcement of Israeli law & administration
 violates international law, the UN Charter, &
 the Geneva Convention's principles on the
 protection of civilians during war.
 
During the UNGA session, a number of states
 condemned the Israeli practices in occupied
 Syrian Golan, calling on Israel to withdraw
from Golan, in line with June 4th, 1967.

 37 states proposed the now adopted draft
resolution. However, UNGA resolutions are
 non-binding and no more than a paper tiger,
 unless permanent Security Council members
 are willing to put their money where their
 mouth was, when they adopted UNSC
 Resolution 497 (1981) - decades ago.

Moreover, none of the permanent UNSC members
 - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US - took
any tangible steps when the now former Israeli
Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman,
defiantly
declared that "Israel and the Golan are part
and parcel" and that "the international
community should get used to facing
the fact that Israel will permanently
annex the Syrian territory".

Most favourite scapegoat

The favorite scapegoat among permanent UNSC
 members, with regard to supporting Israel and
 neglecting Israel's illegal occupation of Golan
is the US. However, Russia is in no way more
actively pursuing Israel's adherence with
UNSC Resolution 497 (1981)  -- than any
other -- of the self-anointed permanent
UNSC members. In April 2016, Russia
and Russian President Vladimir Putin,

were ominously silent about the Golan
when
Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu,
visited Moscow.

Russia failed to respond to what Netanyahu had
 declared "a red line" - occupation of the Golan.

A brief review of recent history pertaining to the
 Israeli occupation, international affairs & Israel's
 use of the Golan to wage war on Syria, suffices
 to show that the UN System has failed, utterly,
 and that it is perverted to the point that many
 analysts call for abolishing the UN altogether.

In June 2013 an Austrian UN Disengagement &
 Observer Force (UNDOF) officer told the press
 that Israel is -- running a joint operations room
with the insurgents in Syria in the Golan. The
UNSC failed to respond and more importantly,
 failed to take action. In July 2013, the Syrian
 permanent representative to the UN in Geneva,
Dr. Fayssal al-Hamwi, noted how Israel, since
 it occupied the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967,
has displaced about half a million of the
Golan´s original inhabitants.

Also in Feb. 2014, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
 preempted a public relations quagmire by visiting
a field hospital for "Syrian Freedom Fighters" in
the Golan to show how much Israel cares and
does, on the humanitarian front. It turned out
that the "Freedom Fighters" belonged to the
Syrian Al-Qaeda franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra.

In March 2014, Israel launched one of many
 military attacks against Syrian military and
 security forces, from the Golan, while the
 UNSC and most media were "silent".

In April 2014 The Director of Israel's Military
 Intelligence, Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi,
a protegé of the now deceased Ariel Sharon,
 was appointed to head the Israeli Defense
Forces Northern Command.

NSNBC international editor-in-chief, Christof
Lehmann, reported that the appointment of
Kochavi, indicated that Israel was planning
large-scale military operations in the Golan
in the near future and the widening of the
Syria war. Lehmann was right on the money.

In May 2014 Israel denied Syrians in Golan the
 right to participate in Syrian elections. The UN
 was "silent". In mid-April 2016, ahead of talks
with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli
 PM Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed that Israel
would hold on to the Golan.

A UNDOF withdrawal has left a 12-16 km wide
 corridor uncontrolled by the UNDOF...  In 2013,
it transpired that Israel was giving support to
Jabhat al-Nusrah, such as a joint intelligence
and military operations room in the Israeli
occupied Golan, plus logistical support,
weapons, field hospitals, and direct
combat support.

In September 2014, Israeli machinations, resulted
in the displacement of UNDOF troops from a 12-16
 kilometer-wide corridor in the disengagement zone
 in the Golan by Jabhat Al-Nusra.. The corridor has
 since been used to supply Al-Nusra and the other
 terrorists and to launch attacks against Syria.

All permanent UNSC members with the exception of
 Russia were "silent". Russian diplomats tentatively
 spoke out against terminating the peace keeping
 mission in the Golan. The UNSC failed to act.


In 2015 it came out that Israel planned a major
hydrocarbon extraction project in the Golan.
 Partners in crime include Genier Energy.

On the board of directors? Dick Cheney,
James Woolsey, Bill Richardson, Jacob
Lord Rothschild, Rupert Murdoch, Larry
Summers and Michael Steinhardt,
among others.

Other players involved include the Israeli subsidiary,
Afek Oil and Gas, American Shale, French Total and
 BP. Thus, there exists a broad and powerful nexus
of US, British, French and Israeli interests: at the
 forefront of pushing for the break-up of Syria and
control of what's believed to be potentially vast
untapped oil and gas resources in the country.

On April 20th, 2016, NSNBC international editor-
in-chief Christof Lehmann -- said Netanyahu's
"Red Line" would be a litmus test for Russia,
as a permanent UNSC member. On April
21st, after talks between
Netanyahu
and Putin in Moscow, it could be
 concluded that Russia failed
-- spectacularly.

In September 2016, Israel started a wave of home
 demolitions in the Golan. The UNSC was "silent".
 
 In October 2016, Israel announced plans to
build 1,600 settlement units in the Golan,
& none of the permanent UNSC members
 took any action.

So much for the latest UN
General Assembly
 paper tiger.

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The UK Labour MPs who
 didn’t back the Yemen vote
 have blood on their hands
by David Wearing

Presenting the motion in the Commons, Thornberry
 was subjected to a series of ill-judged interruptions
 by Labour MPs, such as Kevan Jones, Toby Perkins
 and John Woodcock. Indeed, Thornberry received
 more vocal support in the chamber from the SNP
 group than from her own supposed comrades.

According to subsequent reports, some Labour
members even tried to work with their Tory
 counterparts, in order to defeat their own
 party’s motion.

Woodcock, a former 'Progress' Chair, claimed that
 British support is “precisely focused on training
the Saudis” to improve their targeting - so as to
 “create fewer civilian casualties” -  parroting
 the official government line. The idea that the
 Saudis’ “widespread & systematic” attacks
on civilian targets are just a series of well-
meaning errors, is one that, to put it as
gently as possible, lacks credibility.

And if decades of training provided by the
British to the Saudi pilots hasn’t prevented
these supposed errors by now --- it seems
rather unlikely that it will in the near future.

In any case, this misrepresents the true nature
of the UK's role. When the intervention began,
the foreign secretary Philip Hammond, vowed
 to “support the Saudis in every practical way
short of engaging in combat”, including “spare
parts, maintenance, technical advice, resupply”
 and “logistical support”. The reality is that the
 Saudi Air Force, roughly half UK-supplied and
 half US-supplied jets, could barely function,
without this ongoing assistance from
Washington and London.

If there is Yemeni blood on the hands of the Saudi-led
 coalition - then that blood is also on the hands of the
 coalition’s western backers, enablers and apologists.

The Saudis and their allies can only wage this war
 because the Anglo-American suppliers of their air
 forces are providing active, material support. And
 British and American politicians can only collude
in these outrages, because the political cost on
them, so far, has been low. However, it is in the
gift of their constituents – you, the reader –
to change that equation.

(source - The Guardian)


This could be defeated --- with
a UNITED LABOUR PARTY !!!

But unfortunately, there are "entryist"  MPs who, for
decades, have been groomed by CIA cold war relic
organisations -- like the Atlantic Council -- and are
now trying to misdirect the Labour Party towards
cuts, a militarised police, and a US war agenda...
 and their anti-peace MPs are hobbling Labour.


129 Labour MPs voted to stop support for
Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen. The
vote was defeated by a majority of 90.

The motion called for ---- support to be withdrawn
from the Saudi government until a United Nations
 investigation could determine whether the Saudi
 bombing had breached international law.

 The motion didn't explicitly include
a suspension
 of UK arms sales.

100+ Labour MPs didn't vote on the motion.
If all of them had voted to support it, the
government would have been defeated.

The following, are the Labour MPs who
abstained, or weren't present to vote.

Adrian Bailey
Andy Burnham
Angela Eagle
Angela Smith
Ann Clwyd
Ann Coffey
Anna Turley
Barry Sheerman
Ben Bradshaw
Bridgit Phillipson
Caroline Flint
Catherine McKinnell
Chris Bryant
Chris Elmore (Teller)
Chris Evans
Chris Leslie
Clive Lewis (ill)
Connor McGinn
Dan Jarvis
David Crausby
David Lammy
Diana Johnson
Fiona MacTaggart
Frank Field
Gareth Thomas
Gavin Shuker
Geoffrey Robinson
George Howarth
Gerald Kaufman
Gill Furniss
Gisela Stuart
Gloria De Piero
Graeme Jones
Graham Allen
Graham Stringer
Heidi Alexander
Helen Jones
Ian Austin
Ian Murray
Ivan Lewis
Jamie Reed
Jim Fitzpatrick
Joan Ryan
John Mann
John Spellar
John Woodcock
Judith Cummins (Teller)
Julie Elliott
Kate Hoey
Keith Vaz
Kevan Jones
Kevin Barron
Liz Kendall
Luciana Berger
Lucy Powell
Madeleine Moon
Margaret Beckett
Margaret Hodge
Maria Eagle
Mark Hendrick
Mary Creagh
Meg Hillier (Paired)
Melanie Onn
Michael Dugher
Mike Gapes
Natascha Engel
Neil Coyle
Nia Griffith
Pat McFadden
Paul Flynn
Peter Kyle
Phil Wilson
Rachel Reeves
Rob Flello
Rob Marris
Roberta Blackman-Woods
Rosie Cooper
Rushanara Ali
Ruth Smeeth
Shabana Mahmood
Siobhain McDonagh
Stephen Kinnock
Susan Jones
Toby Perkins
Tom Blenkinsopp
Tom Watson
Tracy Brabin
Tristram Hunt
Vernon Coaker
Wayne David
Wes Streeting
Yasmin Qureshi
Yvonne Fovargue


___________________________________



‘How Can I Deselect
My Labour MP?’ A Short
Guide
to Reselection and
Democratic Accountability

by Eric Sim, excellent free advice here:

http://novaramedia.com/2016/07/13/how-can-i-
deselect-my-labour-mp-a-short-guide-to-
reselection-and-democratic-accountability/


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US Impunity Erodes World Justice

Nicolas J S Davies is the author of Blood On Our
Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction
of Iraq.  He also wrote the chapters on “Obama
at War” in Grading the 44th President: a Report
Card on Barack Obama’s First Term as a
Progressive (Lol) Leader.

In the past weeks, Burundi and S. Africa have joined
 Namibia in declaring their intention to withdraw from
the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
(ICC). They are likely to be followed by a parade of
other African countries, jeopardizing the future of
an international court, which has prosecuted 39
officials from 8 African countries, but has failed
 to indict a single person who is not African.

Ironically, African countries were among the first
 to embrace the ICC, so it is a striking turnaround
 that they are now the first to give up on it.

But it is the United States that has played the leading
 role in preventing the ICC from fulfilling the universal
mandate for which it was formed, to hold officials of
all countries accountable for the worst crimes in the
world: genocide; crimes against humanity; and war
crimes - not least, international aggression, which
 the judges at Nuremberg defined as “the supreme
 international crime”, from which, all other war
crimes follow.

As the ICC’s founding father, former Nuremberg
prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, lamented in 2011:
 
“You don’t have to be a criminologist to realize
that if you want to deter a crime, you must
persuade potential criminals that, if they
commit crimes, they will be hauled into
court and be held accountable. It is the
policy of the US to do just the opposite
as far as the crime of aggression is
concerned.

"Our government has gone to great pains --- to
be sure that no US citizen will be tried by any
 international criminal court, for the supreme
 crime of illegal war-making.”

The US has not only refused to accept the
jurisdiction of the ICC over its own citizens.
It's gone further, pressuring other countries
 to sign Bilateral Immunity Agreements (BIA),
in which they renounce the right to refer US
citizens to the ICC for war crimes committed
on their territory.

The US has also threatened to cut off US aid to
 countries that refuse to sign them. The BIAs
 violate those countries’ own commitments
under the ICC statute, and US pressure to
sign them, has been rightly condemned:
as an outrageous effort to ensure
impunity for US war crimes.

Resistance to US Impunity

To the credit of our international neighbours, this
US strategy has met with substantial resistance.
The European Parliament overwhelmingly passed
 a resolution, stating that BIAs are incompatible
with EU membership, and urging EU- member
states and countries seeking EU membership
not to sign them.

Fifty-four countries have publicly refused to sign
 BIAs, and 24 have accepted cut-offs of US aid as
 a consequence of their refusal. Of 102 countries
that have signed a BIA, only 48 are members of
the ICC in any case ----- and only 15 of those
countries are on record as having ratified
the BIAs in their own parliaments.

Thirty-two other ICC members have apparently
 allowed BIAs to take effect without parliament-
ary ratification, but this has been challenged by
 their own country’s legal experts in many cases.

The US campaign to undermine the ICC is part
of a much broader effort by the US government
to evade all forms of accountability under the
laws that are supposed to govern international
behaviour in the modern world --- even as it
continues to masquerade as a global
 champion of the rule of law.

The treaties US policy systematically violates
 today, were crafted by US statespersons and
 diplomats, working with foreign colleagues,
to build a world where all people will enjoy
 some basic protections... from the worst
 atrocities, instead of being subject only
 to the law of the jungle or “might
makes right.”

So current US policy is a cynical betrayal of
the work and wisdom of past generations of
US citizens, as well as of countless victims
over the world to whom we are effectively
denying the protections of the UN Charter
& Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child, and many other
 multilateral treaties our country ignores,
violates or refuses to ratify.

Avoiding jurisdiction in international courts
 is only one of the ways that the US evades
international accountability for its criminal
behaviour. Another involves an elaborate,
 well-disguised, public relations campaign
 that exploits the powerful position of US
corporations in the world of commercial
media.

Major Propaganda Funding

The US government spends a billion dollars
per year on public relations or, more bluntly,
propaganda, including $600 million from the
 Pentagon budget. The work of its PR teams
and contractors is laundered by US news-
papers --- and repeated and analyzed ad
nauseam, by monolithic, flag-waving
 TV networks.

These profitable corporate operations monopolize
 the public airwaves in the US, and also use their
 financial clout, slick marketing, and the support
of the US State Department to maintain a power-
ful presence in foreign and international media
 markets.

Foreign media in allied countries provide further
 legitimacy and credibility to US talking-points
 and narratives as they echo around the world.
Meanwhile, Hollywood fills cinema and TV
screens across the world with an idealized,
glamorized, inspirational version of the US
that still mesmerizes many people.

This whole elaborate “information warfare”
machine presents the US as a global leader
for democracy, human rights and the rule of
law, even as it systematically and catastroph-
ically undermines those same principles. It
enables our leaders to loudly, persuasively,
 demonize other countries and their leaders
 as dangerous violators of international law,
even as the US and its allies commit far
 worse crimes.

Double Standards 


The phrase “aggressive war” is also a no-no in
 the Western media - when the US government
launches wars, across international borders.
In the past 20 years, the US has violated the
 UN Charter to attack at least eight countries
 (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan,
Yemen, Somalia, Libya & Syria), and the
 resulting wars, have killed about
 two million people.

A complex whirlwind of conflict and chaos rages
on in all the countries where the US and its allies
 have lit the flames of war since 2001, but our US
 leaders still debate new interventions ---- and/or
 escalations as if we are the fire brigade not the
 arsonists. (By contrast, the US government and
 the Western media are quick to accuse Russia
 or other countries of “aggression” --- even in
 legally murky situations, such as after the
US-backed coup in 2014, that ousted the
elected president of Ukraine.)

Systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions
 are an integral part of US war-making. Most are
 shrouded in secrecy: the propaganda machine
spins the atrocities that slip through into the
public record, as a disconnected series of
aberrations, accidents and “bad apples,”
instead of as the result of illegal rules
of engagement and unlawful orders
 from higher-ups.

The senior officers and civilian officials who
 are criminally responsible for these crimes
in US & international law -- systematically
 abuse their powerful positions to subvert
investigations, cover up their crimes, &
avoid any accountability whatsoever.

Pinter’s Complaint

When UK playwright Harold Pinter was awarded
 the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he bravely
 and brilliantly used his Nobel lecture to speak
about the real role the US plays in the world,
 and how it whitewashes its crimes. Pinter
recounted a meeting at the US Embassy
in London in the 1980s in which a senior
embassy official, Raymond Seitz, flatly
denied US war crimes in Nicaragua ----
for which the US was in fact, convicted
of aggression by the International Court
 of Justice (ICJ). Seitz went on to serve
as Assistant Secretary of State, US
 Ambassador to the UK, and then
Vice-Chair of Lehman Brothers.

As Pinter explained: “this ‘policy’ was by no
means restricted to Central America. It was
conducted throughout the world. It was
never-ending. And it is --- as if it never
 happened.

“The United States supported - and in many cases
 engendered every rightwing military dictatorship
 in the world, after the end of the Second World
War. I refer to:-  Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay,
Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines,
Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile.
The horror the US inflicted upon Chile in 1973
can never be purged, & can never be forgiven.

“Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place
 throughout these countries. Did... they take
place? & are they in all cases, attributable
 to US foreign policy? The answer is 'yes',
 they did take place, and are attributable
 to American foreign policy. But you
wouldn’t know it.

“It never happened. Nothing ever happened.
Even while it was happening it wasn’t happ-
ening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest.
The crimes of the United States have been
 systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless,
 but very few people have actually talked
 about them. You have to hand it to the
US. It has exercised a quite clinical
manipulation of power, worldwide,
 while masquerading... as a force
 for universal good. It’s a brilliant
 - even witty - highly successful,
act of hypnosis.”

If, in 2016, the world seems to be more violent
and chaotic than ever, it's not because the US
 lacks the will to use force or project power, as
 both major party candidates for President, &
their military advisers appear to believe, but
because our leaders have placed too much
stock in the illegal threat and use of force,
and have lost faith in the rule of law, any
international cooperation and diplomacy.

After a century of commercial dominance,
 & 75 years of investing disproportionately
 in weapons, military forces & geopolitical
 schemes, perhaps it is understandable
 that US leaders have forgotten how to
 deal fairly and respectfully with our
 international neighbours. But it's no
longer an option, to muddle along,
leaving a trail of death, ruin and
chaos in our wake, counting on
 an elaborate propaganda mach-
ine, to minimize the blowback
 on our country and our lives.

Sooner, rather than later, US citizens & our
 leaders must knuckle down and master the
 very different attitudes & skills that we will
need to become law-abiding global citizens
 in a peaceful, sustainable, multipolar world.


_________________________________________


Russia ends treaty limiting

plutonium production in response
to recent US escalation
of hostility

Fort Russ News - Topwar.ru - Lenta - News.Ru - 
  translated by J. Arnoldski


TopWar: On October 3rd, Russian President
 Vladimir Putin signed a decree on suspending
compliance with the agreement with the US on
 disposing weapons-grade plutonium. The main
 reason for this decision was pointed out as the
 “unfriendly attitude of the US towards Russia.”

Sources from the State Duma have reported that
 Russia is ready to resume the agreement, if the
 US cancels all the anti-Russian sanctions. Plus,
Russia demands that the US reduce its military
 contingent in Europe, before Russia resumes
 compliance with the protocols. The State
Duma’s statement reads:

“Acting according to the agreement and the
protocols of the agreement can be resumed
after the US eliminates the reasons which led
 to this radical change in circumstances: after
the US reduces its military infrastructure and
the number of its troop contingents deployed
on the territory of the NATO countries having
 joined NATO after September 1st, 2000, down
 to the level at which they were on the day that
 the agreement and its protocols entered force.

 "Since then NATO has grown to encompass 9 states
 of Eastern Europe. Just around the corner is NATO’s
 10th state to be included since 2000 - Montenegro.”

In addition, Russia has demanded, as one of its
 conditions, that Washington cancel the so-call-
ed Magnitsky Act.

We await a reaction from the US.

___________________________________________



Popov: Russia can and
should withdraw 
from
1997 treaty with Ukraine

By Eduard Popov for Fort Russ
 - translated by J. Arnoldski -

The other day, the disturbing news came from Lvov,
the unofficial capital of Ukrainian Galicia, that the
 Lvov regional council has filed a lawsuit to forcibly
 evict the Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre. As the
head of the regional council, V. Girnyak, said in his
statement, organizations tied to the Anti-Terrorist
Operation are preparing to transfer the building on
Korolenko Street. The Lvov deputies hardly expect
to earn more money from these “ATOers.” Rather,
 the eviction of Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre
 is explained by a different motive: once again,
punishing anyone ideologically representative
 of an “enemy” Russian culture.

This centre’s building was leased to the Russian
 community of Lvov, in 1990. In 1999, the then
mayor Vasiliy Kuybida, set the symbolic rent
fee of 5 hryvnia (around $1 back then).

Let us quote one founding document signed by
Ukraine, the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation,
and Partnership between the Russian Federation
 and Ukraine from May 31st, 1997. Point 12 of the
 agreement reads: “The High Agreeing Parties shall
 protect the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious
identities of national minorities on their territory
and create conditions for the fostering of their
identity….they will contribute to creating equal
opportunities and conditions for studying the
 Russian language in Ukraine and the Ukrainian
language in the Russian Federation, training
pedagogical staff for teaching these languages
 in educational establishments, and for these
purposes, provide equal state support.”

Points 1-2 of the agreement are based on the
 recognition of the friendly relations between the
 countries and their territorial integrity. Hence why
the agreement is often called a border treaty. For
Ukraine, whose territorial sovereignty over some
territories (including Galicia, which was part of the
 Second Polish Republic until September 1939) is
 quite disputed, this agreement was a real gift. It
is no coincidence that a number of patriotic
politicians in Russia, demanded that this
document not be signed.

Russia’s recognition of Kiev’s sovereignty over
territories included in the Ukrainian state is founded
on Ukraine’s observance of the rights of its Russian-
cultured citizens. After the coup d’etat in 2014,
Ukraine began pursuing a policy of cultural genocide
(ethnocide) against the Russian-cultured population.

Now Ukraine is discussing the initiative of the
scandalously infamous politician Irina Farion, to
deprive Russian residents in Ukraine of civil rights.

In fact, this measure is already being implemented.
The number of Russian schools has rapidly declined
 while Russian organizations are being prosecuted
and their activities are under close surveillance
by
 Kiev’s intelligence services.

In accordance with the 1997 treaty, an entire
 network of federal & regional organizations of
Ukrainians is funded in Russia. For example,

 in the Rostov region there is a city-level and
regional national-cultural autonomy of Ukrainians.

 The organization receives funding from the city
 and regional budgets. Its head, the businessman
Makarchuk, is a member of the Public Chamber of
 the Rostov region and is proud of his friendship
 with Rostov governor Vasili Golubev. Meanwhile,
Makarchuk is published on the website of the
Ukrainian neo-Nazi Svoboda party and
 frequently makes Russophobic statements.


Unfortunately, Russia is largely to blame for the fact
 that the civil rights of Russian-cultured people in
Ukraine are being massively violated. An example
of this is the patronizing policy of Rostov region's
authorities. But on the federal level as well, the
state does not make sufficient (or any) efforts
 to defend the Russian population of Ukraine
 (nearly half of the country’s total population).

Meanwhile, a more responsible attitude towards
 obligations would lead to discussion of the 1997
treaty. In a situation in which the second country
(Ukraine), massively violates the treaty’s basic
premises, then Russia has the right to withdraw
 from the treaty with all the legal and political
implications. I see no reason for the Russian
budget to support the activities of Ukrainian
 organizations in Russia, or recognize the
 territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.


____________________________________



WHITE HELMETS -- SHAM

The Ron Paul Institute has pointed out: “We
have demonstrated that the White Helmets
are an integral part of the propaganda van-
guard, that ensures obscurantism of fact
and propagation of Human Rights fiction
 that elicits the well-intentioned and self
 righteous response from a very cleverly
 duped public. A priority for these NGOs
 is to keep pushing the No Fly Zone
scenario which has already been
 seen to have disastrous implications
 for innocent civilians in Libya, for
 example.”

What better chance to push “the No Fly Zone
 scenario” than arriving within “moments” of
the convoy tragedy, filming it and creating a
propaganda scenario before any meaningful
forensic investigation could even be started,
 since the trucks were still burning. And of
course, the “White Helmets”, aka “Syrian
Defence Force”, were filming, rather than
 attempting to put out the fire and rescue
those in the burning trucks.

[Ed. Yet the UK's Guardian, that snivelling wreckage
of a "Liberal" newspaper, lies, & describes them as
"the White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group,"
quotes their accusations of Syrian & Russian
"constant bombing of civilians" and calls for
a "no-fly-zone" now --- as in Libya.]


The Russian Defence Ministry subsequently
caused outrage by claiming that their Drone
 footage: “shows the bombed Syrian aid
convoy
included a truck full of militant
fighters
carrying mortar guns.”


However: “The footage emerged as the United
 Nations rowed back from describing the attack
 on the aid convoy as air strikes, saying it did
 not have conclusive evidence about what
 had happened.”

It must be asked, why on earth, after long and
 protracted negotiations over the convoy would
 Syria and or their Russian ally risk the wrath of
the US & “coalition”, and of further decimation
of the country, by laying themselves open to
 accusations of bombing aid convoys?

The tragedy has emphatically achieved 1 thing,
 however. Wiped from the headlines, is another
 atrocity - the US bombing which killed over 60
 Syrian soldiers and wounded over 100 others,
 just two days earlier, on Saturday 17th Sept.
 - causing Russian Foreign Ministry spokes-
woman Maria Zakharova, to comment: “We
 are reaching a really terrifying conclusion
for the whole world: That the White House
 is defending Islamic State. Now there can
be no doubts about that”, according to
 the RIA Novosti news agency.

Again - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who will guard the guards?


___________________________________



US prepares an
Islamic army in Kosovo


Pravda.Ru - The US is preparing a reserve echelon
 in the territory of its Kosova enclave. But to keep
a secure strategic space, the Southern Serbian
provinces may be separated from Kosovo. Given
the total apathy of the authorities of Republika
Srpska... this plan is inching closer to its
 implementation.

The goal of the Americans is clear: if Berlin's
discontent ousts US bases from Germany,
after all, the US will have a spot in Kosovo.
It's no secret that the crime and terrorist
 mayhem plaguing Kosovo, is under the
patronage of the US.

Yelena Guskova, a Senator, and member of the
 Academy of Sciences of the Republika Srpska
 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), honoured with many
 Russian and Serbian state awards, commented
to Pravda.Ru on this matter, in an interview.

Former Commander of the French foreign legion
 in Kosovo -- General Jacques Ogar, has recently
confirmed to Pravda.Ru, evidence obtained from
confidential US sources -- that there are at least
 five ISIS training camps in Kosovo, which are
preparing suicide bombers and an army of
Islamists to conquer Europe.

Having found no evidence that proved
Milosevic was guilty, the Hague tribunal
 exonerated him. What do you think of it?

Slobodan Milosevic is a very significant historical
 person in Serbia's modern history, and the whole
of Yugoslavia. In the early 1990s he was seen as
 the last communist in Europe -- who should be
 annihilated. His own country turned him over
 to the Hague; the so-called new government
 -- after the colour revolution of 2000.

However he was a leader who defended his country
 and the truth. He combated a large amount of lies
at the Tribunal, which tried to prove that only the
 Serbs were guilty of all the events of the 1990s,
 as they were charged with collective crimes.

No leader of the Muslim territories of Yugoslavia was
 convicted, only Serbian ones. The figure of Milosevic
 was very important, but they didn't manage to find
 any evidence.

His brother Borislav Milosevic says they secretly
 took some samples of food and water Slobodan
 had been given and tested it in Moscow. And it
 turned out that poison had been added. And it
was difficult to breathe for him, which means
that something was infiltrated into the air.

Then he stopped eating, but the process had been
 launched. His death is mysterious but the Tribunal
admitted that he was not responsible for crimes
in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Colonel Jacques Ogar, who was Commander of
a foreign legion in the territory of Yugoslavia in
 the UN group admits that they were ordered to
stand for the Kosovars against the Serbians...
Western troops openly supported separatists
 and participated in punitive actions against
the Serbians. Do you have such data?

Surely. I'm a Head of the Centre for the Study of the
 Contemporary Balkan Crisis at the Russian Academy
of Sciences. Our main task is to collect documents
 and publish them. There occur more and more
 documents on the events since 1990, which
confirm it.

It's absolutely clear that international organizations
 were biased. The Albanians approach their dream -
to create a big country with an Albanian population
 only. The US has worked a lot to support this
 movement, as Kosovo is a project of the US.

And they would have got independence long ago,
 unless it was for Russia. Russia said No to their
 plans in 2007. it disturbed them, and now they
 do not influence Russia, but try to govern the
Serbian authorities. But I think the process
hasn't been completed, & there's a chance
 to return Kosovo to Serbia.

As they say, there are 8 ISIS training camps in
 the territory of Kosovo. It is reported that they
 train suicide bombers to carry out acts in the
 Western Europe and create a whole army to
 conquer it. How can you comment on this?

When huge flows of refugees were going across
 the Balkans in Europe, there were mainly young
men and almost no couples. They were well-
dressed, were going by three, and had enough
means to live in decent hotels. It is clear that
 there are those among them who should stay
 in the Balkans & orchestrate implementation
 of their leaders' aims.

As the Serbian officials struggle to join the EU,
they implemented all the terms. And they were
 told, to not only to let in these refugees, but
also to build camps for them. Many stayed
 in the South, where the population is
majority Muslim . A great quantity
went to Kosovo and Metohija.

And there's an uncontrolled NATO base Bondsteel
 there, where enormous resources are deployed.
This territory is not controlled by anyone. And
when questions of the US military camps in
 Europe occur, no one speaks of Kosovo.

In Kosovo's camps, where terrorists are trained,
they are set absolutely free. It's very dangerous
for the whole of Europe, and the Balkans first of
all. The US, though, wants to whip Serbia into
 submission and recognize the independence
 of Kosovo and Metohija.

 In Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika
 Srpska, and Serbians who reside there, are
 hampering these plans.

There is evidence that, as early as in the mid-
1990s the US aimed to go down to the Balkans
when the agreement with Germany terminated
 if they had to leave. They need a territory in
Bosnia & Herzegovina, in Kosovo, Metohija,
Montenegro, Serbia & Macedonia. Republika
Srpska hampers implementation of this plan
 today.

They need to annihilate the Republic and make
the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina a unitary
 state. They didn't manage to conduct a colour
revolution in the Republika Srpska, while the
 terror acts, which may be backed by Muslims
in other territories, may be fruitful.

These plans may come forward in the nearest
future, and it's a threat for the whole of Serbia.
As there is a plan to separate the Southern
regions of Serbia, where a lot of Albanians
and Muslims reside. Today Serbian officials
 regard these refugees calmly, as well as
capable of possible terrorist acts. But it
should be paid 'special attention'.

Interview by Alexandre Artamonov

_____________________________________



Shocking: South Korean
Death Camps Uncovered

If you want to read the original AP report:

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85a0508bbbd72c3c1b/ap-s-korea-covered
-mass-abuse-killings-vagrants


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US/UK elite
bankrolled A. Hitler


Germans were paid in company shares for loans
 that managed Germany's war reparations -- thus
 US capital began to actively integrate into the
 German economy.

The total amount of foreign investment in German
 industry during 1924-1929 amounted to almost 63
 billion gold Marks (30 billion was accounted for by
 loans), and the payment of reparations — 10 billion
 Marks. 70% of revenues were provided by bankers
 from the US, and most banks were from JP Morgan.

As a result, in 1929, German industry was in second
 place in the world, but it was largely in the hands of
 the USA's leading financial-industrial groups.

"Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie", main
 supplier of the German war machine, financed 45%
 of the election campaign of Hitler in 1930, and was
 under the control of Rockefeller's "Standard oil".

 Morgan, through "General Electric", controlled the
 German radio and electrical industry, via AEG and
 Siemens (up to 1933, 30% of the shares of AEG
were owned by "General Electric") and through
 the Telecom company ITT — 40% of the 'phone
 network in Germany.

In addition, they owned a 30% stake in the air-
craft manufacturing company "Focke-Wulf".

"General Motors", belonging to the DuPont
 family, established control over "Opel".

Henry Ford controlled 100% of the shares of
  Volkswagen. In 1926, with the participation
 of the Rockefeller Bank, Dillon, Reed & Co,
 the second largest  industrial monopoly in
 Germany, after I.G Farben, merged with
 metals group, "Vereinigte Stahlwerke"
 (Steel trust) plus Thyssen, Flick,
 Wolff, Feglera etc.

US co-operation with Germany's military-
industrial complex, was so intense and
 pervasive, that by 1933, the key sectors
 of German industry, & large banks such
 as the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank,
Donat Bank, etc, were all under the
control of US financial capital.

The political force that was intended to
 play a crucial role in the Anglo-American
 plans was being simultaneously prepared.

We are talking about the funding of
 the Nazi party and A. Hitler personally.

As former German Chancellor Brüning wrote in
 his memoirs, from 1923, Hitler received large
 sums from abroad. Where they went, is not
known, but they were received through
 Swiss and Swedish banks.

 It is also known that, in 1922 in Munich, a
meeting took place between A. Hitler and
the military attache of the US to Germany
 -- Captain Truman Smith -- who compiled
 a detailed report for his Washington
superiors (in the office of military
intelligence), in which he spoke
 highly of Hitler.

Through Smith's circle of acquaintances, A.
Hitler was introduced to Ernst Franz Sedgwick
 Hanfstaengl, (Putzie), --- a graduate of Harvard
 University who played an important role in the
 formation of A. Hitler as a politician, rendered
 him significant financial support, and secured
 for him, acquaintance & communication with,
 senior British figures.

Hitler was prepared politically, but, as Germany
reigned in prosperity, his party remained on the
 periphery of public life... The situation changed
 dramatically with the beginning of 'the crisis'.

In the autumn of 1929, the collapse of the US
 stock exchange was triggered by the Federal
 Reserve, and the next stage of the Anglo-US
financial circles' strategy, had started.

The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan, decided to
 stop lending to Germany --- inspired by the bank
 crisis & economic depression in Central Europe.

 In September 1931, England abandoned the gold
 standard, deliberately destroying international
 payments systems and completely cutting off
 "financial oxygen" to the Weimar Republic.

But a financial miracle occurred for the Nazi
party: in September 1930 as a result of large
 donations by Thyssen and I.G. Farben --- the
 party got 6.4 million votes & took 2nd place
 in the Reichstag;- after this, more generous
 investments from abroad were activated.

The main link between the major German
 industrialists and foreign financiers,
 became H. Schacht.

On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held
 with the largest English financier, a Mr M.
Norman, A. Hitler, and von Papen, which
concluded a secret agreement on the
financing of the NSDAP.

 This meeting was also attended by US
 policy-makers, the Dulles brothers ---
 something their biographers do not
 like to mention.

On January 14th, 1933, a meeting between
 Hitler, Schroder, Papen & Kepler took place,
 where Hitler's program was fully approved. It
 was here that they finally resolved the issue
 of the transfer of power to the Nazis, and on
 30th January, A. Hitler became Chancellor.

The implementation of the next
 stage of the strategy thus began.

The attitude of Anglo-American ruling circles
 to the new government was very sympathetic.
 When Hitler refused to pay reparations, which
 naturally called into question the payment of
war debts, neither the UK or France pressed
 their payment claims.

Moreover, after a visit to the US in May 1933,
 H. Schacht was placed, again, at the head of
the Reichsbank, and, after his meeting with
the President and the biggest bankers on
Wall Street, the US allocated Germany
new loans --- totalling $1 billion.

In June, during a trip to London & a meeting
with M. Norman, Schacht sought an English
 loan of $2 billion and a reduction and then
the cessation of payments, on old loans.

Thus, the Nazis got what they could not
 achieve with the previous government.

In the summer of 1934, Britain signed the Anglo-
German transfer agreement, which became one
 of the foundations of British policy towards the
Third Reich, &, at the end of the 30's, Germany
 became the main trading partner of England.

Schroeder Bank became Germany's main agent
in the UK & in 1936 his New York office teamed
 up with the Rockefellers, to create Schroeder,
 Rockefeller & Co. investment Bank, which the
Times magazine called the Berlin-Rome
"economic propagandist axis".

As Hitler himself admitted, he conceived his 4-
year plan on the basis of foreign financial loans,
so it never inspired him with the slightest alarm.

In August 1934, US Standard oil acquired
 730,000 acres of land in Germany... then
 built large oil refineries which supplied
 the Nazis with oil.

At the same time, Germany secretly took
delivery of the most modern equipment
 for aircraft factories, from the US, which
would begin producing German planes.

Germany gained large numbers of military
patents from US firms Pratt and Whitney,
Douglas, and Curtis Wright --- and it was
US technology, building the Junkers-87.

In 1941 --- as world war ll was raging ---
 US investments in Germany's economy 
amounted to $475 million. Standard oil
 invested - 120 million, General motors -
$35 million, ITT - $30 million, and Ford
 - $17.5 million.

The close financial & economic co-operation
 of Anglo-American and Nazi business circles,
was the backdrop against which, in the 30's,
 a policy of appeasement led to world war II.

Today, as the world's financial elite begins
 to implement the 'Great depression 2' plan
with its subsequent transition to the "new
world order", identifying its key role in the
 organization of crimes against humanity,
becomes a priority.

Yuri Rubtsov is a doctor of historical
 sciences, academician of the Academy
 of military sciences, & a member of the
 International Association of historians
 of world war II.

Image: Results of UN vote condemning glorification of fascism

Image: Leonard Peltier



FREE POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER NOW!!!



Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier, 

  in prison in the US for 38 years, received
the first international human rights prize
of Uruguay's Mario Benedetti Foundation.



At a ceremony in Montevideo, where the
winner was announced, the human rights
group calls Peltier the longest-serving
political prisoner in the Americas, AFP
reports.



Peltier, a Native American activist who
was a member of the American Indian
Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977
for the alleged murder of  two US FBI
agents during a 1975 shootout on the

Pine Ridge Reservation in S. Dakota.


He was sentenced to 2 consecutive
terms of life imprisonment.

"Leonard Peltier, who on September 12th, 2014,
turned 70, has spent over half his life in prison.
He's a symbol of resistance to repressive state
policies by the US, where there are people in
jail for ethnic, racial,
religious & ideological 
reasons," the foundation's statement says.

Ricardo Elena, a member of the foundation's
honorary board, says Peltier's case "is one
that is repeated over and over: violation (of
rights), persecution, eviction, invasion and
expropriation of indigenous people, from
the time it was 'discovered', until now.

"It doesn't just happen in the United States;
it is happening in southern South America,
with the (indigenous) Mapuche people, and
with indigenous people in North America,"
he states.

Elena says the United States "likes to think
it's the seat of democracy, but it has political
prisoners just like a dictatorship might have."

The Mario Benedetti Foundation was founded
to support human rights and cultural causes
in line with the work of the Uruguayan writer
after whom it was named, who died in 2009.

Peltier is incarcerated at the United States
Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

James Swan, the head of the Black Hills chapter
of the United Urban Warrior Society - a nonprofit
group that helps Native Americans fight racial
discrimination and injustice - describes Peltier
as a political prisoner whose case needs to be
reviewed by an independent body.

"What we want people to realize is that this
is an injustice," AP quotes Swan as saying.

Peltier, 66, was given two life sentences in
'77, on false charges of killing 2 FBI agents.

Peltier asserts that he is innocent and
the FBI framed him for political reasons,
especially for his activities as a member
of the Native American Movement. He
has lodged numerous appeals against
the conviction - but all unsuccessfully.

He's been denied parole again and
again, and will not be eligible for it
again until 2024, when he turns 79.

Peltier's relatives say he suffers a
number of health problems such as
diabetes, arthritis, and the loss of
vision in an eye after a minor stroke.

Many activists say Leonard Peltier is
the most important political prisoner
in the US.

In a review of the US' human rights record,
at a United Nations Human Rights Council
UPR conference in Geneva, a group called
for a new trial for him.

The US Human Rights Network filed a 423-page
submission to the Geneva meeting about him.

One item, entitled “Political Repression -
Political Prisoners,” about 19
70's cases,
indicts the FBI: accusing COINTELPRO of
“maiming, murdering, false prosecutions
and frame-ups, destruction and mayhem
throughout the country.”

It cites the FBI for targeting the Puerto Rican
Independence Front, the Black Panther Party,
the Weather Underground, the American Indian
Movement, the Black Liberation Army, as well
as “peace activists and everyone in between,”
  and says “many of today's political prisoners”
in the US were jailed indefinitely as a result.

Repression has grown since 9/11, it says.


The political repression paper demands an
“immediate criminal investigation into the
conspiracy,”
and also new trials for two
aged activists jailed on
murder charges,
Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier.








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