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🌍🦅 American Generosity
The United States has promised an aid package to Africa fearing losing competition for influence in the continent to countries like China and Russia. But this is only a fracture of what has already been spent on the war in Ukraine.
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❓✝️ Just as Ghana cannot afford an economic Maguire, so also can the Catholic Church not afford a spiritual Maguire at its center, Declan Hayes writes.
#PopeFrancis #Ukraine #NATO
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Just a reminder 😏
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https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/12/17/news-from-the-natostan-imposed-meat-grinder/
Sit back, relax, grab a fab drink, and enjoy the real news in 404.
No holds barred.
🇸🇾🎄 Syria has never been as bad as it is this Yuletide.
It is out of fuel and heating oil. Its government has shut down the schools and offices for Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in an effort to conserve fuel and it has likewise banned all sporting and cultural events in an effort to conserve transportation fuel. Its diesel powered generators are silent as they lack fuel to fire them up.
For Syria’s Christians, it is a Stille Nacht, a silent good night where they must freeze to death as NATO’s NGOs pump billions more into Clown Prince Zelensky and other fraudsters, who care no more about their own freezing citizens than do any other of NATO’s amoral gangsters.
Let’s give a thought for the women and children of Syria, the country where Christianity first took hold and which gifted the word the great apostle Paul 📿
💬 Read more by Declan Hayes
#Syria #NATO #Christmas
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🇺🇸🇸🇾 US troops are still illegally occupying parts of Syria – up to a third of its territory – but the defeat of America and NATO’s regime-change plan in Syria by Russia was an unforgivable setback for US imperial ambitions in the Middle East.
Hence the determination of the US to make Russia pay through a war of attrition in Ukraine – right on Russia’s doorstep.
👤 Richard Black is a former Senator for Virginia state and a former top Pentagon insider.
He explains in this interview with Finian Cunningham how the current war in Ukraine is a proxy war against Russia led by the United States and how that conflict is motivated in part by a desire in Washington for revenge. The impetus for revenge stems from Russia’s military intervention in Syria at the end of 2015 where, crucially, the Russian military thwarted Washington’s covert war for regime change in Damascus.
Senator Richard Black visited Syria’s battle zones during the 10-year war in that country that erupted in early 2011. He has been outspoken in condemning Washington’s dirty war. He describes in detail how the war in Syria was prosecuted by the US supporting Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists to overthrow the Syrian government. That American plot failed because of an intervention ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin to defend the allied Syrian government.
The war in Ukraine is therefore not due to “Russian aggression”, as the Western media would portray, but rather it is part of an ongoing geopolitical confrontation between the US and Russia.
This is the bigger context that is needed for an understanding of the causes of conflict and how peaceful resolution can be achieved.
💬 Read more here and watch the interview
🎬 Watch on Youtube
#Syria #war #Ukraine #Russia #UnitedStates
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🇺🇦 Since the onset of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine in February this year, there has been an upsurge of interest in Ukrainian history.
And in the midst of a conflict over national sovereignty, there has been an upsurge of interest in simplistic versions of Ukrainian history. But the history here is very complicated.
Ukrainian nationalists have presented a distorted history of Ukraine ✂️
💬 By Katya Sedgwik
#Ukraine #History #Nationalism
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🤥 Misperception and disinformation overrode the facts of the Assange case at an event organized by the Hayden Center on Monday night in Washington, reports Joe Lauria.
#Assange #CIA #HumanRights
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via @GeopoliticsAndEmpire 👋
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🇬🇧 Poor and freezing Britons will no doubt be cheered by the BBC’s report that Britain is to build a new stealth fighter jet.
How cozy to know the skies above are being protected while you and your children are huddled under dank blankets with ice on the inside of windows.
It’s surreal what people are being insulted with these days. The term “stealth jet” is well-named.
The stealth of robbing people with a ridiculous boondoggle 🤬
Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, announced the “good news” while visiting an RAF base as if it was an early Christmas gift to the nation.
The state-owned BBC was on hand like a helpful elf to lend some gloss to the news.
“The prime minister says the joint venture aims to create thousands of UK jobs and strengthen security ties,” chirruped the Beeb, adding, “It is hoped the new Tempest jet will carry the latest weapons.”
Why would any sane person “hope” for the “latest weapons”❓
💬 Read more by Finian Cunningham
#UK #militarisation #RishiSunak
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🪧 The price cap is a stupid policy implemented by people with a clear animus against humanity itself that they would drive the world to the brink of nuclear war.
It’s nothing more than the same scorched earth policy that’s been on display for years now.
If we can’t rule the world, we will burn it down 💥
All it’s really doing is accelerating the split between East and West. Russia is done with Europe. They have turned East and will wait for Europeans to come to their senses and find common ground. Both they and the Chinese realize now there is no return to normalcy without the West collapsing in a fit of rage.
💬 Read more by Tom Luongo
#EU #energy #sanctions
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🤔 It is becoming irrefutably clear that the United States and its NATO partners have been planning for many years for the current war in the Ukraine against Russia.
That fact makes the prospects for peace all the more elusive. How to negotiate with a mindset that is so deeply invested and ingrained with belligerence?
Western governments and media accuse Russia of “unprovoked aggression” against Ukraine and are clamoring for Moscow to hand over eye-watering financial compensation as well as face war crimes prosecutions.
The bitter irony is that the war in Ukraine, which is dangerously escalating and could spiral into a nuclear cataclysm, was sown by the United States and its accomplices.
It is the West that bears ultimate responsibility for this abysmal situation, not Russia.
As Merkel’s comments reveal, the war mentality in the West against Russia has been extant for over a decade if not longer ⚔️
💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial
#Merkel #Diplomacy #Donbas #Ukraine #War
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🇬🇧 The whole world can see with their own eyes that the UK joins anti-Russian sanctions in purchasing even more Russian gas and energy resources than before but via some bogus routes unbeknownst to the general public.
But Rishi Sunak claims he remains undaunted by this very fact in that he pledges to create anti-Russian and anti-Chinese alliances world wide all the way to the Middle East and Indo-Pacific region. It goes without saying that USA and EU belong to this batch.
There will be more confrontations, more divisions, more effort at ‘divide and rule’ strong arming both small and big nations at any possible geopolitical corner by the British ⚔️
💬 By Natasha Wright
#RishiSunak #UK #China #geopolitics
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🪖 Is anyone really wondering why public confidence in the military’s upper echelons is declining?
The American armed forces, though they remain among the most respected institutions in the country, are set to be a casualty of polarization.
The Reagan Foundation released its annual National Defense Survey last week and reported that trust and confidence in the military has declined by a staggering 22 points in recent years. The principal driver of diminished trust in the armed forces was their perceived politicization.
💬 Read more by R. Jordan Prescott
#UnitedStates #USArmy #War
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🇪🇬⚽️🇹🇷 Football diplomacy brought Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan together in Doha for the opening of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar.
Years of tension between the two were broken with a friendly handshake 🤝
The big differences between the two large countries centered on Erdogan's support of the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization banned in Egypt, Syria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, but not banned in America.
💬 Read more by Steven Sahiounie
#Diplomacy #Egypt #MiddleEast #MuslimBrotherhood #Qatar #Turkey
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🥁🌎 Is the West preparing its narrative to cut from this unwinnable conflict –Ukraine – and to move on?
Is this feasible? Is the West not too deeply invested narratively in the ‘Bleed Russia’ storyline; Putin must not be allowed to win; for that to happen? No, it can happen. Look what occurred in Afghanistan: A huge and profitable boondoggle was wound up within days. And just over a year later, on its anniversary, the Kabul débacle is scarcely noted in the Western press.
Media headlines moved on seamlessly from Afghanistan to Ukraine, scarcely with a backwards glance. And already, a diversionary ‘tethered goat’ is being prepared to grab compliant western MSM attention, as the Ukraine meme is quietly shelved, and Serbia’s ‘aggression’ against Kosovo becomes the new ‘aggression’.
Look around: the tectonic plates of geo-politics and geo-finance are shifting – shifting radically away from an increasingly flailing West 🎳
💬 By Alastair Crooke
#West #Ukraine #geopolitics #WorldOrder
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🇷🇸 If we look at the political turmoil in the Balkans and Serbia and its heartland of Kosovo (and Metohija), some rather gruelling scenes reach us yet again from there.
In the municipality of Leposavić, heavily populated by the Serbs, first the local Shiptari tried to commit a massive robbery of the local (Serbian) Treasury. And then soon after in quick succession, in Velika Hoča ‘special police forces’ arrived with a huge storage cistern so as to rob and plunder a humble Serbian family and take away i.e. steal their own wine storage with as many as 42 000 liters of wine of the family Petrović under the false pretext that the family did not pay any tax (which they duly did but to the Serbian tax authorities).
After these traumatic events, one wonders if the KFOR can wield security guarantees any more? ❌
💬 Read more by Tatiana Obrenovic
#KosovoIsSerbia #КосовојеСрбија #KosovojeSrbija
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🏛 Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show.
💬 By Pepe Escobar @rocknrollgeopolitics
#Ukraine #NATO #war
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🌎⚔️🌏 The Radio Free Europe outlet this week blatantly published satellite images of Russian military bases in Crimea and openly advocated for the Kiev regime to launch strikes. The reality is even more sobering and grim.
It would not be the Kiev regime carrying out such strikes, but rather U.S., British and other NATO special forces acting as the brains and stealthy hands of the regime.
Surely a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Ukraine and the wider security concerns of Russia should be a priority. But regrettably, Washington and its European and Kiev minions are incapable of such diplomacy 🌑
💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial
#Ukraine #NATO #war
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🍽 How World Food Situation Has Changed Over Past Decade
FAO Food Price Index shows that food prices have made a U-curve over the past ten years.
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#sc_infographic #food #economy #crisis
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🥴🇪🇺 It’s probably far-fetched and overzealous to think about doing away with the EU altogether.
But ditching the parliament might be a good idea 🤭
Here we go again. Another graft scandal in Brussels. Another EU boss caught with her fingers in the till. And the usual lame copy from euro hacks based in the Belgian capital, some of whom even believe they are journalists. But the arrest of a Greek socialist MEP, suspected of fraud, breaks a few records even for the most ineffective assembly in the world.
💬 Read more by Martin Jay
#EU #corruption #politics #Qatar
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🕵🏻♂️ Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone @thegrayzonecom reveal how a smartphone tracking technology tramples over fundamental data protection tenets and international law, while violating the privacy of citizens across the world without their knowledge or consent.
The clandestine tool can transform anyone into a potential person of interest to Western intelligence agencies, and thus a target for recruitment, surveillance, harassment, or worse 🔮
A Washington DC-area Anomaly 6 firm is marketing illegal spy tech that can scrape an individual’s most sensitive personal data by tracking their smartphone. The British Ministry of Defence and GCHQ are potential buyers.
💬 Read more by Kit Klarenberg
#BigTech #CIA #Spying
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📍 For Europe, its unreflective taking of this American ‘cuckoo’ thinking into its own European nest is nothing short of catastrophic.
Brussels – by extension – has absorbed the false contention that China is distinct from the Russian project. This mental device intentionally forecloses on the necessary understanding that Europe faces a burgeoning resistance from the Russia-China axis, and much of the world, who scorn its pretensions to some higher order superiority.
Secondly, the buy-in to the DC-smart ‘only two alternatives’ framework – ‘because the U.S. is a military behemoth and Russia would never dare anything beyond a proxy war’ – shows up the fat cuckoo in the nest: NATO escalation is relatively risk-free: we have Putin pinned down in Ukraine; HE dare not trigger a full NATO response.
Russia, nonetheless, is preparing to launch an outcome-setting offensive. Then, what of Europe? Did you think that through?
No, because that ‘alternative’ did not even appear ‘amongst the framework parameters’ 🚧
💬 Alastair Crooke writes
#EU #Ukraine #war #West
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Cynthia Chung unpacks the origins of modern fascism and current events on The Convo Couch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffmOvXFL-HI
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🏰 Europeans have embraced American manacles more readily than any other subjugated people have in history, Declan Hayes writes.
#EU #UnitedStates
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💢 As Ukraine continues striking deep into Russia, one wonders to what extent the U.S. military and intelligence agencies are involved.
Did the U.S. provide technology? Targeting information? Intelligence?
There’s little reason for Ukraine to negotiate when it’s enjoying a blank check of support from the U.S. and NATO, writes W.J. Astore.
#NATO #Ukraine #War
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Via @rocknrollgeopolitics 🌐
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🛢🦅 The very idea that Russia could sell its oil at an artificially low price in a NATO controlled currency it has no truck with defies both basic economics and common sense, which is not NATO’s strong card.
The only way it can make sense is if OPEC marginalizes Russia and NATO can use Russia”s resources as a cut price top up or stop gap. Russia cannot agree to that madness.
All oil, Russian oil included, must be pegged to market prices. No matter how many Nordstream pipelines NATO’s terrorists destroy, NATO cannot control either the volume or the price Russia or its allies sell their products at.
Russia is not now and never can be NATO’s vassal as it is their road to ruin and perpetual serfdom 🇷🇺
If China, India or the countries of South East Asia or Africa wish to buy Russian oil at any agreed price and in agreed volumes, it is nobody’s business but their own or, should anyone step out of line, that of the Russian and allied navies.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
#oil #NATO #war
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🤑 Pay Gap Between U.S. CEOs and Typical Workers
CEO pay, including stock awards and options, is up 1,460% since 1978, an Economic Policy analysis found. This increase was not matched by increased pay for typical workers, as the chart below shows.
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#sc_infographic #capitalism #money #economy #crisis
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🩸💸 “America spends roughly a trillion dollars a year on wars and weaponry and an imperial military presence, so that’s what we get. We’re not spending a trillion a year on peace and diplomacy and conflict resolution. We reap what we sow, and what we sow is almost entirely favorable to more war.”
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/12/06/where-antiwar-movement/
#War #Society #UnitedStates
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