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🚨 The Hersh report is a devastating revelation of U.S. and NATO international terrorism as well as Western media complicity.
It exposes the lawlessness of U.S. government, the total disregard by Washington for its so-called European allies, the supine nature of European governments, Germany in particular, and the real geopolitical reasons behind the war in Ukraine, and subsequently the shocking servility of Western media in refusing to cover what is an astounding act of criminality.
This is an explosive story in more ways than one and indeed in more ways than we can perhaps even calculate at this stage. Only one week after its publication, the fallout and reverberations continue to amplify. Such is the parlous and pathetic state of Western journalism, Hersh was obliged to publish his account on his resources, knowing that mainstream outlets would not touch it.
That systematic media censorship and exposure of propaganda functioning is itself a huge scandal that will grow further.
This is while the European Union sanctions and bans Russian media, even though Russian media have been vindicated by Hersh’s revelations while Western media is shown to be an utter disgrace.
The Hersh article – despite the Western media shamefully ignoring it thereby exposing their own criminal complicity in U.S. terrorism – has made the world more aware than ever of the rogue state that is the United States and its capitalist, imperialist dynamics.
Inciting war in Europe, antagonizing a nuclear Russia with unprecedented aggression, inflicting mass poverty and hardship on European civilians, and lying about it all the time through its propaganda media.
Washington is a war-criminal state par excellence along with its European Quislings ❌
💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial
#SeymourHersh #media #NordStream
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🤫 Bill Burns travelled (in secret) in mid-January to meet Zelensky. Was it to prepare Zelensky for a shift in the American stance?
💬 Alastair Crooke writes
#Ukraine #UnitedStates
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🦅 An air base deep in Russian territory has been attacked twice with drones in less than one month. It is not some remote outlying facility either. The air base near the city of Saratov houses nuclear-capable Russian strategic bomber aircraft.
What we are surmising here is that it is entirely plausible that a spate of deadly incidents at military facilities across Russia over the past year is no accidental coincidence but rather has been instigated as sabotage operations aimed at sowing confusion and logistical problems for Russia’s campaign in Ukraine.
That pattern ties in with the above report claiming that the CIA has been busy infiltrating Russian territory along with a European NATO ally for this very purpose.
In particular, the attacks carried out on high-security air bases deep in Russia strongly suggest that the weapons used for such raids were already emplaced in Russia by the alleged CIA sleeper cells. It seems unlikely that drones could have traversed such long distances from Ukrainian territory deep inside Russia undetected.
The use of sabotage teams behind enemy lines is nothing new for the CIA in regard to Russia.
What this means is that the U.S. war planners were fully anticipating the current proxy war in Ukraine against Russia ❌
💬 Read more by Finian Cunningham
#Ukraine #war #NATO #CIA
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🇷🇺 Once Russia liberates Odessa and lifts the siege of Transnistria, Borrell, von der Leyen and others will stand naked before truth’s eternal flame.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
#Ukraine #war #world #conflict
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🎇🗺 The war in Ukraine has dominated the past year. Other global crises of soaring energy and food costs are collateral damage from the conflict in Ukraine.
The conflict is not simply a localized one in the center of Europe on Russia’s doorstep involving a reactionary anti-Russian regime in Kiev.
The conflict represents a historic showdown between the United States and its allies in the NATO military alliance it leads, and Russia. The showdown has been a long time coming.
It didn’t have to happen in this violent, atrocious way 😢
💬 Read our new Editorial and Happy New Year 🎄
#Ukraine #war #world #conflict
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☠️ The Euthanasia Paradox
In December 2022, a 65-year old disabled Canadian man received a doctor’s approval for euthanasia despite admitting becoming poor was the main reason he was applying to die. Experts say that “choosing to die is more accessible” in Canada than support for disabled people. At the same time, most the countries where active euthanasia or assisted suicide is legal are on the top of the United Nations Human Development Index.
🧐 Why isn’t human life valued the most in the countries where its quality is the highest?
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🇷🇸 Could anybody kindly remind Kurti (aka the local tribal mafia boss of his self-proclaimed pseudo state of Kosovo) that the Serbs are not afraid of his terror regime and his hit lists with the names of the Serbs to be killed by him and his blood thirsty mercenaries?
Only a blurred video appeared in the social media with the sounds of repetitive gunfire but there is nothing to see clearly and only vague reports coming from both sides. The Quint countries keep sending out ultimatums to the Serbs to remove the barricades and the deadline issued is 48 hours for the Serbs.
They should be well aware that the Serbs are allergic to ultimatums ✋
A resurgence of hostilities by the Shqiptari yet again. The Serbs defending their centuries-old heartland. Plus a range of manipulation tactics by Washington and Berlin. Both KFOR and Pristina deny any incident happening there.
The Collective West and their mafia boss in power Kurti, the Shqiptari warmongering leader of dubious background, are waging a psychological warfare against the local Serbs and Serbia as a whole.
The Serbs may have been too naive and gullible to place trust in the agreements signed so far on this issue and performing on each clause therein in the same manner the Russians have placed a most naïve trust in the Minsk Agreements.
💬 By Tatiana Obrenovic
#KosovoIsSerbia #КосовојеСрбија #KosovojeSrbija
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✝️ His Holiness, Pope Francis, should give especial consideration to this year’s Urbi et Orbi address he is scheduled to give to Rome and the world this Christmas Day, 2022.
Although all such addresses bring their own unique sets of problems, given how firmly the Pontiff has embedded himself with Zelensky’s stormtroopers, this year’s is going to be particularly problematic 😬
💬 Read more by Declan Hayes
#PopeFrancis #Ukraine #war
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🇫🇷 The recent deadly attack in Paris laid open the wound of rampant racism in France.
An attacker shot dead three people at a Kurdish cultural center and wounded another three persons. The attacker was arrested and had a history of immigrant attacks. France has a problem with racism and immigrant hatred, but officially that subject is ignored and not to be discussed.
Kylian Mbappe has said he was racially abused in social media following his team’s loss in the final game of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar. Mbappe is a French footballer who played on the French national team in the World Cup recently. Although he was born and raised all his life in France, he has complained about previous incidences of racist attacks against him.
France has a deep-seated problem with racism, but due to the official French political ideology, France denies they have any problem, and denies that racism exists in France 😶
💬 Read more by Steven Sahiounie
#ParisAttack #Kurds #Mbappe #France #racism
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🦅 Will Americans wake up to the reality that they’ve been walking on the wrong side of history for too long or has the point of no-return been crossed?
💬 Matthew Ehret writes
#UnitedStates #war
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🪖🦅 It’s idle to dwell on the cringe-worthy visit of the Kiev clown to Crash Test Dummy at the White House, coupled with a “Churchillian” speech at the War Party dominions in Capitol Hill.
History will ridicule this Hollywood soap for centuries ahead 🤯
Way more juice is provided by the latest War Party P.R. show, sponsored by Raytheon Productions. After all Lloyd Austin, the current Pentagon head, is a former Raytheon weapons peddler.
After much fanfare, it was established that the Pentagon will provide not a collection, but a single Patriot battery to Kiev – either with four or eight missile launchers, and either the PAC 2 or PAC 3 version.
A Patriot battery comes with radar, lots of computers, power generating equipment, and an “engagement control station”.
Little did we know that by 2023 the raging would go beyond paroxysm, Pepe Escobar writes.
#Ukraine #Pentagon #war
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🌐🦅 America’s ‘Unfree’ Allies
Under President Biden, the United States has renewed its efforts to promote the values of freedom and democracy around the world. However, when it comes to strategic matters, America is fine with some of its allies being “not free”. This is true for both major non-NATO allies and NATO member states, as Turkey’s example shows.
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#sc_infographic #NATO #UnitedStates
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🤔 Although the problems of China and Russia would remain (Zelensky’s rump Reich doesn’t matter and never did except as a casus belli against Russia), their fate must wait for another day.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
#Qatar #Ukraine
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🇸🇾 Although NATO has spared no expense in smearing Syria and her allies, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah in the main, they have the considerable problem that many of their propagandists are thick as shit mercenaries.
This is particularly true of those leading NATO’s charge that Syria is a narco state, much like the NATO puppet state of Bosnia & Herzogovina, which NATO illegally and very bloodily wrested from the rest of Serbia.
The stolid resistance of the Syrian people will still be saluted when every last one of us is dead and buried ✌️
💬 Declan Hayes writes
#Syria #NATO #Assad
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💸⛽️ Prohibitively brutal sanctions against Russia have revived the old fears of the old system based on the U.S. dollar.
As a result, the countries such as Saudi Arabia are trying to lessen their heavy dependence on the U.S. currency and certainly the renewed talks on petroyuan indicate that the new alternatives devour U.S. dominance world order all the more so.
Some tend to believe that it is already happening that Saudi Arabia is selling some amount of oil to China in yuan already but neither the Chinese nor the Saudis want to place a particular emphasis on that publicly.
Both sides are overly exposed to petrodollar yet there is no reason for their mutual trade to be carried out using the currency of a third party other than theirs. Particularly because the third party is not a friend of either of them anymore 🤨
One wonders as to how important the Chinese President Xi ‘s visit to Saudi Arabia is and what the birth of petroyuan brings to the world and even more importantly what ‘the jackal on its dying legs’ aka the USA will do about it?
💬 Read more by Natasha Wright
#Dollar #Yuan #China #SaudiArabia #oil
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🌀The Big Narrative is changing fast: the RAND report, the looming NATO humiliation in Ukraine, Balloon Hysteria, UFO psy op. The real “threat” is – who else – China.
What’s left for all of us is to swim in a swamp crammed with derelict patsies, dodgy cover stories and intel debris.
Knowing that those who really run the show never show their hand 🎭
💬 Read more by Pepe Escobar
#SeymourHersh #UnitedStates #NordStream
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🌖 While America’s cultural and economic ascendency is portrayed as an End of History ‘normal’, it represents an obvious anomaly, Alastair Crooke writes.
#China #crisis #NewWorldOrder #UnitedStates
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Happy New Year!!! 🎄🎄🎄
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🏞 The Real Economy Seems to Be the Biggest Winner in 2022
“In a turbulent year marred by global monetary tightening, recession fears, and a war in Ukraine, a mining stock in Indonesia is proving to be the world’s best performer with a whopping 1,595% rally,” Bloomberg reports.
Meanwhile, the worst performing stocks include those of IT and fintech companies. Investing in coal turned out to be a winning strategy in our supposedly greener world.
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👎 Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande, whom Merkel led along holding his ‘politically rickety’ hand as if he were her political lapdog in front of Putin’s eyes, carried out a secret operation and deceived everybody 🛑
💬 Read more by Natasha Wright
#Merkel #Germany #Diplomacy #Ukraine #war
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🚻 In the happy times when good manners mattered, in the Anglosphere this used to be an admonition to ill-bred children prone to use obscenities.
Nowadays, in the West at least, it has acquired a starkly different and unrecognisable connotation. It is no longer a discrete instruction to minors to eschew vulgarities but a crude threat to adults to conform in their speech to arbitrary, non-traditional terminology, or face penal consequences.
The war on language is an assault on thought and ultimately it targets the integrity of the human mind.
It is sad to observe the West, once a promising experiment, sinking into a quagmire of lawlessness or, as Durkhein would put it, anomie 🆘
💬 Read more by Stephen Karganovic
#gender
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🔒🇬🇧 People around the world need to add their voices to the call for Julian’s release from the dungeon in Britain.
👤 John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father, spoke to Finian Cunningham in an interview just days before Christmas.
John Shipton has traveled the world appealing to parliaments, politicians, civic bodies, and ordinary public members for the release of his son. John tells how a rallying call for Julian’s release is growing. Every parliament in Europe, for example, now has members explicitly calling for freedom. So too has the Australian government finally wakened up to demand the end of the barbaric mistreatment. In Latin America, North America, and other parts of the world, the clamor for justice is growing.
Only two weeks ago, major newspapers in the United States and Europe published joint editorial statements urging the Biden Administration to end the imprisonment of Assange, stating that “publishing is not a crime”. That renewed appeal for freedom is a reflection of the swelling sea-change in public support around the world for Julian Assange.
John Shipton says he is not “into hope” in the superficial meaning of the word. By that, he means a sort of cheap hope, blithe optimism, or cheery, glib ignorance. A sort of “consumerist hope” that is fickle and vanishes at the slightest obstacle.
However, what he displays in his tenacious, resilient, courageous support for his son is a much deeper hope. One of faith and commitment in the face of immense adversity. That strength inspires profound hope. An audacious hope. One that defiantly smiles in the face of cold barbarity.
The kind of hope that can break chains ⛓
🎬 Watch the interview on YouTube
#Assange #Justice #FreeJulianAssange
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🌏🦅 The United States and NATO allies have sown the conflict in Ukraine and we are now reaping the whirlwind.
That’s the view of Benjamin Abelow who explains the reasons in this interview with Finian Cunningham.
Abelow is the author of How the West Brought War to Ukraine. In his book and in this interview, he lays out the background of the war and how the US and its Western allies created the causes of conflict.
The United States, NATO and the Western media are part of the problem, not part of the solution as they would fancifully pretend to be 🌀
🎬 Watch the interview on YouTube
#UkraineWar #UnitedStates #NATO #Russia
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Let the Patriot Games Begin — Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/12/24/let-the-patriot-games-begin/
If you haven't seen it yet, that was my Christmas column.
A little Christmas homage to the great Norman Rockwell https://risingtidefoundation.net/2022/12/24/norman-rockwells-american-renaissance-revival-revisited/?fbclid=IwAR0OUhY3k0ObGrstBGQ30eBw3l5xaHLKiVwRF_SDR9PxaLQyV5eg7BlAQ-s
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🇷🇸 The Serbs are ‘up on the barricades’ yet again. The Kosovo Albanians-only police officers keep provoking the local Serbs.
They harass the Serbs only and arrest the innocent Serbian civilians only in a quasi failed state of Kosovo (and Metohija).
For instance, one Serb was arrested and detained by the police only because he lives in the same building where the electoral committee is located. Then a few others as well in a matter of a few days in the past week.
The Shqiptari taking endless photos of themselves with their index fingers stuck on the triggers of their machine guns go to prove the unprecedented brutality and unscrupulousness of the Kosovo Albanians-only police officers.
The goal of the Kosovo Albanians’ hidden agenda is even more blatant now in broad political daylight in the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Тatiana Obrenovic writes.
#KosovoIsSerbia #КосовојеСрбија #KosovojeSrbija
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🎭 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was the star this week in a carefully orchestrated – yet cringingly obvious – real-life drama.
The warmongering spectacle, falsification of history, and manipulation of public emotions were worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. Yet it was also dripping with superficiality and cheesy contrivance in the best tradition of Hollywood schmaltz.
More seriously, though, the sobering takeaway is that the United States and the Kiev regime that it sponsors have absolutely no intention of negotiating a political end to the war in Ukraine with Russia.
Far from it, the U.S. rulers are driving their country to evermore war in a way that makes it almost impossible to end through diplomacy ⛔️
💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial
#war #Ukraine
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🤥 The cynicism of this bogus humanitarian campaign, in which all the major institutions of the collective West are taking part, is appalling.
💬 Read more by Stephen Karganovic
#Europe #Vatican #Ukraine
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Little Blinkie gave away the game AGAIN (well, he's hardly the brightest bulb in the lot) - as a few of us wrote extensively about it earlier this year:
"The US would not have been able to provide the same level of aid to Kiev if it had not decided to withdraw from Afghanistan."
There you go. It was a wilfull decision. NATO miserably loses in Afghanistan AFTER TWENTY YEARS and goes all-out Ukraine, where it will also miserably lose, and then move out to...Taiwan.
🇹🇷 Erdogan and his close relatives have prospered as war profiteers; making money off of stolen oil, factories, and wheat, Steven Sahiounie writes.
#Turkey #Erdogan #WorldOrder #war
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