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The Global South has had enough.
I post this as Putin and Xi are in the Kremlin here discussing the next steps.
🤥 The duplicitous role of western media in assisting NATO in its dark endeavours is nothing new. But Reuters may well have broken a world record in partisan journalism with its latest efforts to implicate Russia in the Libyan immigrants crisis.
Reuters is not the news legend it used to be 🤭
💬 Read more by Martin Jay
#Reuters #news #propaganda #MSM
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🗿The Collective West on their steep downward civilization trend are doing their best to get their nanny state-addicted, complacent populations slowly used to the new age of a dysfunctional society.
💬 Read more by Natasha Wright
#West #UnitedStates #EU #imperialism
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🪙 Western capitalism and its supposed democracy are in terminal crisis as increasing numbers of people reject the system’s abysmal economic failure: record levels of poverty, inequality and relentless militarism and warmongering.
Professor Jodi Dean, the author of The Communist Horizon (Verso), says we are living in a rare historic situation of social, economic and political turmoil where breakthrough revolutionary change can happen.
People are increasingly realizing that “Western-style democracy” and its much-vaunted “values” are a grotesque illusion. In reality, what we have is a “dictatorship of billionaires” that is brutally oppressive and destructive ❌
Increasingly, people and workers are taking to the streets in protests and in industrial strikes, from Europe to the United States, because they have “had it” with capitalist exploitation and militarism. This is a formidable sign of positive change, says Dean in this wide-ranging interview on the prospects of a socialist alternative.
She points out that the massive bailouts of banks and private corporations by the state, both in the U.S. and Europe, clearly demonstrate to people that socialist control of the economy is actually viable and doable, only instead of “socialism for the rich” we should implement socialism for workers, the vast majority of society.
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#West #imperialism #capitalism
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⛓ A Spanish journalist has been rotting in a Polish prison for the past year. And nobody knew or cared 😨, Stephen Karganovic writes.
#Censorship #EuropeanUnion #HumanRights #Serbia #Spain
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🇬🇪 The Western-backed activists, who took to the streets with EU flags against the “foreign agents” bill, were actually marching against the Georgian version of a law enacted by the USA in 1939.
💬 Erkin Oncan writes
#Georgia #ColorRevolution
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The US produces a lot of hot air, which is great for bubbles and not so great for the real economy. As a fallout of the crisis that hit Silicon Valley Bank, a regional New York-based lende,r Signature Bank, has also succumbed to a high outflow of deposits. The effects of the crisis are being felt globally, and a high number of startups could struggle to pay salaries while smaller firms may crumble. The US market is the most manipulated market in the world. The Federal Reserve cut rates to zero, a most irresponsible decision, then had to increase them. Any surprise that bubbles would be created and would eventually burst? @LauraRuHK
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Psychos do Divide and Rule.
Ancient civilizations do Diplomacy.
🇷🇺 In Donbass, which used to be part of Ukraine up until recently, the local population have always spoken Russian as their mother tongue and considered themselves Russians i.e. members of the Russian population corpus.
Donbass has up to recently been considered the richest part of Ukraine due to huge deposits of coal and other valuable and lucrative ores, including much-sought-after titanium.
It was in effect Donbass together with Crimea, which gave the staunchest opposition to the pro-European movements 💪, by way of which the Collective West wanted to forcefully direct Ukraine’s future.
In the meantime, the situation in Donbass got to be continually exacerbated. Upon Kiev’s request, the Collective West started increasing the military aid for Ukraine.
💬 Read more by Natasha Wright
#Donbass #Crimea #Ukraine #West
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❓📰 The New York Times and other Western news media ran with clumsy and blatantly diversionary claims this week, which in the end only serve to draw even more attention to the guilt of the United States in blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
Not only is the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden even more indictable over the criminal act; the absurd cover-up attempt this week exposes the Western media as nothing but a ministry of propaganda masquerading as journalism.
The Western media disinformation campaign is a crude joke. It can’t distract from the glaring facts that the United States and its NATO allies carried out an act of international terrorism against European companies and governments, and an act of war against Russia as the main owner of the 1,200-kilometer Nord Stream pipelines worth at least $20 billion to construct.
That criminal act was plausibly ordered by an American president and his White House aides. The geopolitical motives are overwhelming as are the self-indicting admissions by Biden and his aides before and after the odious event.
The cack-handed attempts this week to cover up by the Western media only serve to further incriminate the United States and its NATO crime partners. In addition, the Western media are exposed more than ever as being complicit in propagandizing war crimes.
The New York Times and other Western news outlets pompously claim to be pinnacles of journalism and defenders of public interest and democracy. They are nothing but the propaganda ministry for Washington – the Empire of Lies 🤥
💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial
#West #NordStream #propaganda #MSM
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Somebody with an IQ over room temperature at 19 degrees Celsius at the Pentagon finally found out that the two-front war against strategic partners/peer competitors and "existential threats" Russia and China CANNOT proceed because the Exceptionalists miserably lag behind on everything from submarines to hypersonic weapons. And on top of it the NATO war in 404 is incredibly costly.
So it's back to Plan A: Hybrid War and sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions sanctions
🌘 The degeneracy in western intelligence did not start with the recent collective ‘excitement’ at the possibilities of ‘nudge-psychology’.
The first steps in this direction began with a shift in ethos reaching back to the Clinton/Thatcher era in which the intelligence services were ‘neo-liberalised’.
No longer was the role of ‘devil’s advocate’ – of bringing ‘bad news’ (i.e. hard-edged Realism) to the relevant political leadership valued; instead what was inserted was a radical shift towards ‘Business School’ practice of services being tasked with ‘adding value’ to existing government policies, and (even) of creating ‘a market’ system in Intelligence!
The politician-managers demanded ‘good news’. And to make ‘it stick’, funding was tied to the ‘value added’ – with administrators skilled at managing bureaucracy moved into leadership jobs. It marked the end to classical Intelligence – which always was an art, rather than science.
In short, it was the outset to fixing the intelligence around policies (to add value), rather than the traditional function of shaping policies to sound analysis.
The West now faces the task of de-fusing the landmine of their own electorate’s conviction of a Ukraine ‘win’, and of Russian humiliation 🥴
💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke
#West #war #UkraineCrisis
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🌏🦅 In an effort to gain leverage against Russia and China, Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Kazakhstan last week to meet with foreign ministers of the five Central Asian nations.
The United States has no vital national security interests in any of the five Islamic states that have had long-standing ties to Moscow and are heavily reliant on economic assistance from China.
These nations—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—maintain close diplomatic and security ties to both Russia and China, and there is no chance that the United States has the leverage to weaken Central Asian relations with Moscow and Beijing. Nevertheless, the New York Times fatuously headlined that “Blinken Finds Some Leverage in Central Asia.”
The resolution of problems in Central Asia is simply beyond the capabilities of the United States ❌
Blinken’s trip was a fool’s errand that merely exposed the futility of U.S. efforts to practice dual containment against Russia and China as well as U.S. ignorance regarding its own policies that are driving Russia and China into a closer relationship.
💬 By Melvin Goodman
#CentralAsia #UnitedStates #Blinken
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🙃 Scholz and Macron have a plan to bring peace to Ukraine, but Putin can’t stop laughing as it's so stupid, Martin Jay writes.
#Ukraine #Germany #France
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🇨🇳🇪🇺So far, in regard to Russia, the EU has followed Washington off a cliff. The most important question for Europe in 2023 is going to be its relations with China. After driving a wedge between the EU and Russia, the US is hellbent on damaging China-EU ties as well. But if the EU complies with US diktats, it will disappear, literally. The damage to its economy will bring it to its knees and lead to its break up.
"The rhetoric that China and Europe are systemic rivals is driven by the Cold War mentality and ideological biases. It is not in the fundamental and long-term interests of China and the EU", said Wang Chao, spokesperson for the first session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), during a press conference on Saturday.
In 2022, despite headwinds, China-EU trade rose 5.6 percent and the EU investment in China surged 96.6 percent year-on-year. The China-Europe Railway Express set a new record on the trips it made, according to China's Foreign Ministry. China set its GDP growth target at about 5 percent for 2023, which means China will once again become one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies, as the global economy is widely expected to slow down sharply this year and major economies such as the US and the eurozone are grappling with risks of recession. @LauraRuHK
🇮🇱 Bibi is by nature cautious – even timid. His radical ministers, however, are not, Alastair Crooke writes.
#Bibi #Israel
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📢 Western propaganda outlets (also known as “news media”) are suddenly full of reports that The Hague-based International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The over-the-top coverage (that is, orchestration) is intended to give the ridiculous legal ploy an impression of gravitas and significance when in reality the so-called arrest warrant is meaningless and oozes with kitsch politicized theater.
Along with Putin, the Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova is also named as a wanted person to face “war crimes” prosecution. The alleged crimes are in connection with the supposed deportation of children to Russia during Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine conducted since February 2022.
The basis for the ICC move is as flimsy as an errant weather balloon. It is also an audacious distortion of reality 🌫
Russia has evacuated thousands of civilians, including children, from the regions formerly of eastern Ukraine that are now part of the Russian Federation for the precise reason of taking them out of harm’s way from the NATO-backed Nazi regime in Kiev whose forces have been indiscriminately shelling the Donbass and other areas.
If anyone should be facing prosecution for war crimes it is Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his Nazi-adulating commanders, as well as their sponsors: American, European, and NATO leaders.
If there were any genuine principles of justice, Biden should be in the dock facing war crime charges in connection with America’s illegal wars.
💬 Finian Cunningham writes
#West #UnitedStates #propaganda #war
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🪰 A U.S. spy drone operating 8,000 kilometers from Washington on Russia’s borders, helping a Nazi regime at war against Russia, crashes into the Black Sea – and yet, insanely, Moscow is arraigned for taking defensive action?
Can it be imagined how the U.S. would react if Russian drones were flying near its territory with their transponders off? We don’t have to imagine. Only a few weeks ago, President Joe Biden ordered F-16s to fire $500,000 Sidewinder missiles to shoot down a Chinese weather balloon and other balloons that had accidentally strayed into North American airspace.
The danger here is that Washington is a hyper-militarized, hyper-hostile rogue regime that is unhinged from its own delusional sense of righteousness and hubris. The American regime wantonly declares Russia and China to be geopolitical enemies and yet expects to fly and sail its warplanes and warships wherever it pleases as a matter of “routine”.
A fundamental problem is one of deep irrationality among American leaders. They want to have their imperial cake and eat it too 🎂 This exceptionalism has been going on for decades. In 1960, a CIA U2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace provoking a hue and cry by the Americans for Moscow to have the audacity to do so.
The current situation is even more absurd. Washington is all but at war against Russia – despite its risible assertions about not being involved – and yet when a hostile aircraft is forced down there is laughable outrage and hyperventilating by the Americans.
A $32 million drone buried unceremoniously at sea says a lot about a failing empire 🤭
💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial
#drone #UnitedStates #spying #war
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🏙 If Companies Were Countries, How Would They Compare?
This infographic shows nominal GDPs of the top countries and market capitalization of comparable corporations. As you see, some companies are worth more than many G20 countries.
🔗 Follow this link to find the high-res infographic.
✌️©You are free to repost, reproduce and print this infographic.
#sc_infographic #G20 #corporations
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🇷🇸 The Kosovo issue will be resolved in another set of geopolitical circumstances, which will come to being after the end of the conflict between the Collective West and Russia.
💬 By Tatiana Obrenovic
#Kosovo #Serbia #KosovoIsSerbia #КосовојеСрбија #KosovojeSrbija
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🌘🌒 The Ukraine war as the tool by which to cast the West’s war on Russia too, is an epic struggle between the Light and Dark. These Manichean ideological source-codes for now, dominate western liberalism.
But the West has put itself into a trap: ‘Going Manichean’ puts the West into an ideological straight-jacket.
It is a crisis of the West’s own making. Put bluntly, Manichaeism is the antithesis to any negotiated solution, or off-ramp. Carl Schmitt was clear on this point: the intent of conjuring up the blackest of enmities, precisely was to preclude (liberal) negotiation: How could ‘virtue’ strike a bargain with ‘evil’?
The West is too dysfunctional and weak now to fight on all fronts. Yet there can be no retreat without some de-legitimising humiliation of the West 🪃
The West has gambled all on its fear-led, ‘emergency-crisis’ managed ‘control’ system to save itself. It’s hopes now are pinned on its ‘Beware! The big boss has gone angry-mad’ act; he might do anything’, which it hopes will cause the world to back-off.
But the Rest of World is not backing off – it is becoming more assertive. Fewer believe what the western Élites say; fewer still trust their competence. The West has recklessly ‘placed its bet’; it may lose all. Or, more dangerously, in a fit of anger, it may kick over others’ gaming tables.
💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke
#West #war
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🪖 During March 2022, the peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine began first in Belarus and then in Istanbul.
Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the Russian delegation announced in public that they managed to align their viewpoints on a number of issues and then Kiev presented a document in writing, which for Russia contained sufficient number of acceptable views with the neutral status out of any political bloc of Ukraine without foreign military bases, units or weaponry, nuclear arms included.
It was recommended that as the guarantors for security these countries would be included as follows: Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Israel, Italy, Canada, China, Poland, the USA, Turkey and France.
However, the basic disagreement related to Crimea and Donbass remained unresolved.
Now all the services from Kiev, across Brussels and the Pentagon seem to be thinking: What is Gerasimov up to now? 🤔
💬 Read more by Natasha Wright
#Donbass #war #Ukraine #West
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🌍 Viewing Africa with double standards is part of why Africans are breaking their ties with Europe, Martin Jay writes.
#Africa #France #Macron #Europe
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🐲 The new currency should be able to become an “external money” storage of capital and reserves down the road, not just a settlement unit.
💬 Pepe Escobar writes
#China #Russia #Eurasia #currency
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🌒 Does rotting Western Civilisation has any hope of resuscitation and survival?
💬 Stephen Karganovic writes
#West #NewNormality
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🇷🇺 If Russia survives, the rest of the world will survive. Anything opposite from this is surely not an option 💎
This is not only because of that (and the world is able to fathom that as well) that this is not only about what is happening on the battlefield. That battlefield is but one part of the battle front in the war in which the divide lines are not completely clear.
💬 By Natasha Wright
#West #war #UkraineCrisis
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🇩🇪 Germany’s largest defense contractor is U.S.-owned — and it produces “eco-friendly mobility,” Werner Rügemer writes.
#Germany #war #militarisation
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⚠️ There is far more to the current multi-modal geopolitical war than just what’s happening in Ukraine.
This conflict has led to a myriad of downstream effects and moves which are just as important as what the encirclement of Bakhmut means.
For years the wildcard in the BRICS Alliance has been India 🇮🇳
💬 Read more by Tom Luongo
#India #Brazil #BRICS #geopolitics
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Well maybe the day Biden's son gets punished for doing coke with hookers on video, the Nord Stream business will actually get official questioning. I'm just saying!
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🇹🇷 President Erdogan may be instrumentalizing what happens in the aftermath to craft his P.R. campaign ahead of the next elections.
💬 Pepe Escobar writes
#Turkey #Erdogan #earthquake #elections
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