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WILL WAR BREAK OUT IN HOURS, DAYS OR A WEEK AT MOST?

Nehme Hamie

Aug, 05/2024

Paris / In a few hours or days at most, which is unlikely, the region will ignite from Asia, that is, from Iran to the Middle East and the region to Palestine and to the northern front occupied by Zionism. We do not know the extent of Iraq and the Houthis’ intervention in this war, nor the extent of their internal problems. As for the Syrian arena, it seems that it has become outside the battlefields, and Russian President Putin played a major role in removing Syria from the axis of resistance. Putin played this role with President Assad a long time ago, and this appeared at the Arab Summit in Bahrain, where Syrian President Bashar al-Assad did not speak. Then, two weeks later, Saudi Arabia sent its ambassador to Damascus, and Italy took the initiative to open its embassy in the Syrian capital, and called on 8 European countries to review the file of relations with Syria. From a military standpoint, there are points for the Russian army, which Russian President Putin ordered to deploy in the Golan so that the Golan front would not be opened militarily. Noting that the situation in Syria is stable, thousands of Shiite villages in the Hermel and Baalbek regions, and even others, have been displaced towards Syria. These are civilian families. As for the young men and women, they have remained in Hermel, Baalbek, Nabi Sheet, Brital and in their Shiite majority villages. In fact, the civilian section of the families was only sent to Syria, while the fighters and men remained in this region, from Hermel to Baalbek and a few kilometers before Zahle.

The United States has mobilized the largest naval force, as the number of modern American warships and destroyers has reached 22 ships accompanied by two aircraft carriers, one in the Arabian Sea and the other off the coast of Palestine. The American Pentagon, i.e. the American Department of Defense, also announced that it has sent many squadrons of modern F-35 and F-15 aircraft that the American army has updated, until they have become very advanced, and can travel and conduct combat operations up to 5,000 kilometers, and the F-15 aircraft have become more effective in bombing and dropping heavy bombs than the F-35, but the F-35 is superior to it in that it is a stealth aircraft that cannot be detected by radar. The Israeli enemy army also has 200 F-15 aircraft in excellent condition, accompanying aircraft carrying out bombing operations and other things, and their mission is to engage any target approaching these aircraft in the air, as well as protecting tanker aircraft from fuel because aircraft carrying out bombing at long ranges need to be refueled several times with fuel and aviation gasoline, which is provided by these aircraft, of which “Israel” has 3, but the United States has placed 6 other aircraft at its disposal to refuel aircraft gasoline in the air. The US Secretary of State contacted the Israeli Minister of War, Galant, and informed him of all measures, and that the United States will defend “Israel” to the utmost extent, but does this mean that the US warplanes will bomb Iran or Hezbollah sites in Lebanon? Because the urgent request of the US embassy during the past hours was more than panic and fear, so the US embassy published a message to those who hold US citizenship, to find any travel ticket to any country and leave Lebanon for fear of reactions to the US standing against Hezbollah and bombing its centers or against Iran and bombing its centers. The US embassy announced that whoever does not have money to travel, it is ready to give him the money, and as soon as he arrives in the country, whether to Greece, Italy, Europe or anywhere, he can contact the US embassy, ​​and it will secure all the money for him, even though he received large sums of money from the US embassy in Beirut. However, the US embassies received instructions to give the Americans the necessary money, and they choose the country in which they will stay, but the US State Department wants them to travel to the United States.

Tehran and the preparation for war

The Iranian parliament met in the presence of the Revolutionary Guards and an intelligence team. The statement issued by it was that Israel must inflict heavy losses, and even attempt to destroy its infrastructure, and that it has violated Iran’s sovereignty, and that the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, i.e. Tehran, has a supreme value in the conscience and soul of the Iranian people. Also, assassinating a guest while he was sleeping is a war crime, as described by the Iranian parliament speaker. Al-Arabiya channel gave a presentation on the missiles that Iran possesses, and stated that Iran has 6 types of missiles, but the most effective missile is the Radwan missile, and its speed reaches 8 times the speed of sound, meaning that it is a hypersonic missile, and it does not need more than a few minutes to hit its target. It added that Iran possessed this type of missile, about 2,500 missiles. Al-Arabiya channel then listed 5 types of missiles, but they are not faster than surface-to-surface missiles that reach their target in “Israel” within 13 minutes, and the Iron Dome can deal with them in a way that shoots them down. The Israeli air force, which will remain alert in the airspace with about 80 aircraft, in addition to about 70 American aircraft, will try to shoot down these missiles and prevent any missile from reaching its targets. Will it succeed?

Battles start with plans, but no one knows how the war will end.

Hezbollah prepares for war

Hezbollah raised its combat readiness to the highest level. As a result, the Israeli military leadership called for a preemptive war in which the Israeli Air Force would launch a preemptive strike on Hezbollah’s military and missile centers in particular, because the missile strikes from Lebanon towards Nahariya, Haifa and Tel Aviv would hit their targets even if the Iron Dome shot down 70 or 80% of these missiles. The arrival of 20% of the missiles would lead to a large exodus from Haifa and Nahariya, especially from Tel Aviv. These three cities are home to 2.2 million Israelis, and the high-rise buildings in Tel Aviv, which are the centers of major financial and economic companies, international companies, stock exchange companies, would be hit by the missiles. The shelters available in Tel Aviv are not sufficient to accommodate the Israeli citizens who live in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Nahariya. The bombing line from Lebanon, which is full of terrain, valleys and high mountains, makes Hezbollah’s resistance capable of bombing violently without its centers being exposed, while the city of Nahariya, the city of Haifa and the city of Tel Aviv are on the same line on the Mediterranean coast, and the missiles hit their targets easily because the coastal bombing where there are no mountains or rocky terrain and so on leads to a painful and hurtful hit. As for the Lebanese resistance, it has a strategic depth where there is a direct shore of the Mediterranean Sea from 500 to 600 meters the mountains begin to form, and from there to 3 thousand meters. Hezbollah has a strategic depth that extends from the Lebanese border with the Zionist entity to the farthest depths of the northeastern Bekaa, that is to the Hermel and Baalbek regions and in Akkar and the Qamouaa region. Some talk about the presence of missiles in the Cedar Mountains, and Hezbollah’s resistance also has a strategic depth that extends to Syria, Iraq and Iran, and it is not besieged like the Israeli people in Palestine where the geography is very clear and all rocks.

When will the war start?

According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, it stated that at dawn on Monday, the war will begin between Iran and “Israel”, but it could not determine whether Iran will start the war in coordination with Hezbollah or whether Hezbollah will lead the war with its own strategy that it knows in the south and in Lebanon, so that Iranian missiles and Hezbollah missiles do not rain down at the same time. The battle between southern Lebanon and northern occupied Palestine is the strongest ever, as Hezbollah has 100,000 fighters and can recruit an additional 50,000 fighters, who are reserves. Hezbollah also announced that it has more than 100,000 surface-to-surface missiles, which are smart missiles and precision-guided missiles, but no one has been able to know the number of missiles that Hezbollah has, but at least 100,000 missiles. If Hezbollah uses its precision-guided missiles, which constitute more than 60% of ballistic missiles, and manufactures them to be precise in its laboratories in Lebanon, it will hit Israeli military bases, Israeli infrastructure, military sites, and cities with Israeli civilians and citizens. This is because His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, when talking about the martyrdom of the great military commander Fouad Shukr, that 70 civilians were injured in this attack, and this attack was not focused on the apartment of the great military commander Fouad Shukr. This is an indication that Hezbollah’s resistance did not stop at bombing military bases, but will also bombard settlements and towns with precision-guided missiles with settlements with civilians, in response to the bombing of the southern suburbs, which killed Fouad Shukr and injured 72 civilians, in addition to killing 8 civilians.

According to military information, Israel is no longer capable of launching a ground attack as it did in 2006, and reached the town of Khiyam and besieged it, and Hezbollah deterred it at this point. But today, information and estimates say that any Israeli attack on Lebanese territory will be met with an attack by the Radwan forces and Hezbollah’s elite forces on the Galilee, and the occupation of settlements. Here, Israeli aircraft will not have a major role, as they will be disrupted between Hezbollah fighters’ attacks in the heart of settlements inhabited by Israeli settlers. This does not frighten Hezbollah, but His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, “Do not rule out that our forces will enter the Galilee.” Hezbollah has this ability, but to a limited extent, and can control a distance of 4 kilometers by 7 kilometers, and this will be the first time an Arab army or force has entered the occupied Palestinian land since the 1973 war, and thus the Israeli deterrent force continues with the deterrent forces to resist Hezbollah.

What will the US

Air Force and Navy do?

With the arrival of the General Command of the American armies to “Israel”, and from there to Doha, the American army will directly participate in the fighting against Iran and against Hezbollah, and of course the Israeli enemy army will complete its massacres against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Many surprises may occur. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said previously that we have prepared for the American aircraft carriers and warships that will attack us, and which were deployed on the day Iran attacked “Israel” with planes and drones in a combat position to attack anyone who attacks occupied Palestine. One of these surprises may be the launching of 100 missiles at once on an American aircraft carrier, and Hezbollah has land-to-sea missiles, and a large number of them are capable of carrying out this mission. It is true that it is difficult to determine the geographical location of the aircraft carrier in the sea because it is not possible to rely on maps, but there are devices that determine the distance of the aircraft carrier from the shore and the distance, and then Hezbollah can direct 50 missiles at the same time at one time against an aircraft carrier, and if it hits it, the United States will be faced with dangerous and major options or options to retreat, and the United States cannot accept to be broken in front of Hezbollah and in front of the Iran-Hezbollah axis. Therefore, it will activate its warplanes that it has, which reach 300 aircraft from air bases in the Arab world and on the deck of the aircraft carrier, to carry out very violent bombing operations to destroy the missile launch sites, and these sites are unknown, and therefore we say, “God protect us from the coming war.”

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Netanyahu takes Israel to the brink of destruction

By Steven Sahiounie

Haniyeh was a guest of the government of Iran when he was killed, and in the culture of the region, a guest is considered the responsibility of the host.

On August 30, at 8:00 pm. local time, Israel struck a four-story residential building in the southern section of Beirut, Lebanon. The airstrike assassinated Fuad Shukr, killed three civilians, and injured 174 others.

Shukr was a senior military commander in the Lebanese resistance organization, Hezbollah, and was a founding member of its military wing. Shukr is accredited with obtaining the bulk of the group’s more advanced weapons, which experts have said are on parity with those of Israel.

Israeli military planners had accused Shukr of a missile strike on July 27 that killed 12 children playing football in Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights. The children were not Israeli citizens, or Jewish, but were Syrian Druze living under occupation on their own land.

Hezbollah denied responsibility for the strike, and said after investigation the missile was an Israeli air-defense missile which misfired.

Israeli ministers attempted to visit the funerals of some of the killed children, but were attacked verbally by parents and relatives, who blame the Israeli military for the massacre.

Netanyahu deflected blame on Hezbollah for the dead children, and used them to justify the assassination of Shukr. If a regional war starts because of a lie, it won’t be the first time. The U.S. used 9/11 to justify the attack, invasion and occupation of Iraq based on what we know was a lie.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati of Lebanon condemned the “blatant Israeli aggression,” describing the assassination as a “criminal act” in a “series of aggressive operations killing civilians in clear and explicit violation of international law”.

Iran

At 2:00 am. Beirut time, just six hours after the Shukr assassination, Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by an Israeli airstrike in Tehran, along with his bodyguard Wasim Abu Shaaban.

Hamas and Hezbollah are both part of the ‘axis of resistance’, which is formed by armed groups across the region. They are united in the armed resistance of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as Israeli occupied areas in Lebanon and Syria. The groups have been in military exchanges with Israel during the current Gaza war beginning on October 7. The groups have vowed to continue their struggle in support of the people of Gaza until Israel will stop the war.

Israeli media has reported that the missile that struck Haniyeh’s residence was launched from outside Iran, which would be a first for Israel.

Haniyeh had been living outside of Gaza since 2019, and was in Tehran for the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian which he attended just hours before his death.

Israel has previously sabotaged Iranian nuclear and military facilities and assassinated nuclear scientists from inside Iran. In April, Israel launched an attack inside Iran on a military facility in Isfahan, and inflicted damage to a Russian-made S-300 missile defense system.

Iran’s Khamenei, Pezeshkian and IRGC have all promised retaliation for Haniyeh’s assassination, but have not disclosed their plans. Haniyeh was a guest of the government of Iran when he was killed, and in the culture of the region, a guest is considered the responsibility of the host.

Iraq

About 8:00 pm. Beirut time, almost exactly timed with the Israeli attack on Beirut, the U.S. carried out an attack inside a base south of Baghdad operated by Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) that killed four members of the group and wounded four others.

U.S. officials described the attack as “self-defense” demonstrating coordination with the Israeli military’s assassination of Shukr in Beirut.

U.S. officials, speaking off the record, said the U.S. carried out an airstrike in Musayib, located in Babil province that targeted militants that the U.S. supposed might launch drones on U.S. forces in Iraq, in an unprovoked and pre-emptive deadly attack.

The Iraqi parliament had demanded the U.S. military leave Iraq, and the Baghdad government held talks with the U.S. on the subject of withdrawal, but as of yet the U.S. has not complied with the Iraqi demands.

Iraq condemned the strike saying the U.S. has committed a “heinous crime” by targeting security sites south of Baghdad and said the attacks were a serious violation of the U.S. mission and mandate, an Iraqi military spokesman Yahya Rasool said in a statement.

The PMF is a division of the Iraqi Army, and fought alongside the U.S.-led coalition in the fight to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

On July 24, President Joe Biden gave an Oval Office speech saying that he concluded in recent weeks that “the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation.”

Biden had bet his chances on winning re-election on delivering a win in Ukraine, and a ceasefire in Gaza. On July 11, Netanyahu reneged on his promise to accept the Biden proposed ceasefire in Gaza, Biden and his advisors decided to throw in the towel. Biden is now a lame-duck President and the Oval Office is running on autopilot, which suits Netanyahu.

On July 24, Netanyahu delivered an address to a joint meeting of Congress. He received numerous standing ovations from the members who attended, while dozens of lawmakers boycotted his address and demanded a ceasefire in Gaza.

Netanyahu gaged his support in the Congress and knew then he could get away with murder, and stay out of jail. The U.S. Congress had effectively given him the ‘green-light’ to do as he pleased.

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M.Walt exposed AIPAC as the driving force which keeps the U.S. foreign policy firmly under the thumb of Israel.

How will Iran and Hezbollah reply?

In a TV address on July 1, Hassan Nasrallah said the decision to reply has been taken, and Iran has made a similar statement.

Netanyahu may use the reply to attack nuclear facilities inside Iran, which has been an extremist goal for years.

Yair Lapid, Israeli opposition politician, met with Netanyahu on July 1 and told him to stop listening to Ithamar Ben-Gvir, the extremist ally of Netanyahu, and stop the war in Gaza.

The root cause of Middle East conflict is the occupation of Palestine.

On July 19, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel should stop settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and end its “illegal” occupation of those areas and the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.

In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the court had made a “decision of lies”.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 39,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Source: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/02/netanyahu-takes-israel-to-the-brink-of-destruction/

Will Americans stop trying to ‘Run the World’?

When President Joe Biden was attempting to disguise his encroaching dementia, he told journalist George Stephanopoulos: “You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.” No wonder everything everywhere is such a mess. War is raging in Europe and the Middle East. Multiple conflicts threaten Asia. Heckuva job, Joe! – notes Doug Bandow, a former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, at ‘The American Conservative’.

Unfortunately, America’s so-called allies are determined to entangle the United States in one war after another. For instance, South Korean officials demand “reassurance” that Washington will use nuclear weapons to protect Seoul. Taiwanese resist military service, expecting Americans to save them. U.S naval forces battle Yemeni insurgents interdicting Asian and European maritime commerce.

The Baltic states repeatedly concoct military campaigns against Russia for America to mount, while France and other NATO members suggest introducing combat troops to Ukraine. Failed British politicians representing a country unable to defend itself urge U.S. officials to enable attacks on the Russian homeland, risking the sort of escalation only narrowly avoided during the Cold War. Kiev demands Washington make Ukraine’s conflict America’s own.

Actually, the best way to protect America’s citizens would be to stop trying to “run the world” and instead opt out of other nations’ battles. Unfortunately, America’s “friends” rarely act like friends.

Washington’s attempt to “run the world” reflects the grotesque surplus of ego, greed, illusion, vanity, and fantasy that overwhelms America’s imperial city. Even during the Cold War, when the U.S. could claim to lead the “free world” — which, of course, included many very unfree regimes — Washington was rarely in control. Remember Cuba and Vietnam, China and Egypt, India and Iran, Cambodia and Haiti. Remember tens of thousands of American lives lost, billions in Americans’ earnings wasted, and Uncle Sam’s reputation regularly ravaged.

Where is the U.S. in control today? Allied arrogance and recklessness in expanding NATO and ignoring Russian security interests led to Vladimir Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine. He bears responsibility for his action, but he reacted to American and European misbehavior, leaving allied officials, too, drenched in Ukrainian blood. Washington’s proxy war remains one mistake away from full-scale conflict, with Moscow unlikely to strike only so long as it believes it is winning. Yet Ukraine, along with European governments whose militaries would be rounding errors in any conflict, demand that Washington escalate American involvement.

The Middle East once seemed vital to U.S. policymakers. The region’s oil resources were important. Israel was vulnerable. The Soviet Union was threatening. No more. All those justifications have expired. Washington has no reason to intervene in Shia–Sunni hostilities. Israel is a nuclear power well able to defend itself. As the latter follows increasingly authoritarian and brutal policies against Palestinians, Washington should back away.

Asia, which contains the world’s most populous and prosperous nations other than America, matters far more globally than Europe or the Middle East. Yet Asia’s breadth makes it even more difficult for Washington to influence, let alone control.

The People’s Republic of China poses an even greater challenge. Just as Washington is supreme in the Americas, the PRC wants to reign in Asia. The U.S. is determined to remain a Pacific power, but that doesn’t mean it can “run Asia.” After all, it is far more expensive to project power thousands of miles away than to deter intervention from such a distance. Moreover, the region will always matter more to China than America.

Of course, it is impossible for the U.S. to assume away the possibility of war. Military action might become absolutely necessary. But only as a last resort, debated by the American people, and fought on their behalf, not for allies or other interests.

Unfortunately, most of Washington’s security guarantees act as transmission belts rather than firebreaks to war. For example, NATO expansion has added a gaggle of military midgets — the Baltic and Balkan states, most recently North Macedonia and Montenegro, for instance — which multiply U.S. obligations while doing nothing to aid America. Even Sweden and Finland, though more capable militarily, do nothing to protect Americans who are obligated to fight for them against a nuclear-armed power over territory with little connection to American security.

The Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia are even less relevant to America’s defense. America’s 20-year Afghan misadventure turned rural lands into a charnel house and converted residents to the Taliban’s cause. Why do American forces remain scattered about Iraq and Syria, serving no recognizable American security interest?

Finally, what could be worse than war between the U.S. and the PRC? Never before have two major conventional powers possessing nuclear weapons fought one another. The consequences would be incalculable. It is hard to imagine a scenario in which China would attack America. Instead, the issue is maintaining Washington’s Asian dominance. That has value, to be sure, but is it worth the possible destruction of both nations, America’s allies, and the global economy?

Unfortunately, foreign policy so far has not been a major campaign issue. Although Biden pretended to be “running the world,” he fooled few Americans. Most pay little attention to the arrogant cant that overflows Washington unless their money — and lives — are being ostentatiously squandered. Nevertheless, Biden’s withdrawal and Vice President Kamala Harris’s likely nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate will reset the campaign. Harris could scarcely do worse than the president and can reject Biden’s reflexive interventionism, applied everywhere but Afghanistan. She appears to be less enthused with Washington’s tight embrace of Israel’s Netanyahu government, though she has shown little difference on other issues.

There is greater hope of change from Trump if elected, although during his first administration he often retreated from promises to disengage from needless conflicts.

What Americans most need from the next president is someone who does not hope to “run the world.” Doing so is impossible. Doing so competently and effectively would require a double miracle. The next president should serve and protect Americans, while nudging the world toward a better future. After decades of misguided and costly wars, Washington should choose peace and allow America to again become a normal country.

Source: https://en.interaffairs.ru/article/view-from-washington-will-americans-stop-trying-to-run-the-world/

Unruhen in England: Premier Starmer liefert wirre Drohrede – ohne die Auslöser anzusprechen

In einer mitunter wirren Drohrede zu den Unruhen wandte sich Großbritanniens Premier Keir Starmer an die Nation und versprach, man werde auch diejenigen ins Visier nehmen, die die Proteste „online angefeuert haben“. Die Bluttat, die all das auslöste, ließ er unerwähnt.

Von Redaktion

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Seit der Ermordung von drei kleinen Mädchen durch einen 17-jährigen ruandischer Abstammung letzte Woche, formiert sich in Großbritannien Protest gegen die dortige Einwanderungspolitik. Über das Wochenende kam es in mehreren Städten zu gewalttätigen Unruhen, als Tausende Briten ihrer Wut Luft machten. Am Sonntagabend wandte sich der, vorerst wenigen Wochen gewählte, Premierminister Keir Starmer in einer Fernsehansprache an die Briten.

Starmers Rede beginnt mit einer Drohung: „Seid euch sicher! Die, die an dieser Gewalt beteiligt waren, werden die volle Härte des Gesetzes zu spüren bekommen.“ Der Premierminister will stark und entschieden wirken, versucht grimmig in die Kamera zu schauen. Doch sein teigiges, ausdrucksschwaches Gesicht und seine nervösen Blicke nach unten, um auf den Zettel mit seiner Rede zu schauen, lassen das nicht so recht zu. So wirkt er eher wie ein Getriebener, der von der Stärke der Proteste überrascht wurde und nun panisch versucht, die Situation in den Griff zu bekommen.

Trotzdem ist seine Wortwahl martialisch. Es wird bald Verhaftungen geben, verspricht er, und führt weiter aus: „Ich garantiere es. Ihr werdet bereuen an diesen Unruhen teilgenommen zu haben, ob direkt, oder indem sie diese Taten online angefeuert haben und dann weggerannt sind!“ Damit richtet sich Starmers Drohung auch gegen jene, die in den Tagen nach dem Mord an den drei Mädchen in der englischen Stadt Southport, in den sozialen Medien Konsequenzen gefordert, und Proteste befürwortet hatten.

Denn wer die Migrationspolitik der britischen Regierung kritisiert, oder die Ermordung der drei Mädchen mit ihr in Verbindung bringt, ist in den Augen der linken Labour-Regierung Starmers bereits ein geistiger Brandstifter und Befürworter von Gewalt.

Wiederholt bezeichnet er die Demonstranten als „rechtsextreme Verbrecher“, auch wenn die Bilder der Demonstrationen zeigen, dass es sich mitnichten nur um Rechtsextreme, sondern in der Regel um ganz normale Menschen der britischen Arbeiterklasse handelt. Die Bekleidung der Demonstranten, oft leichte Sommerkleidung und Sportschuhe, sowie die Präsenz von Kindern und Frauen bei den Protesten verstärkt den Eindruck, dass es vor allem Anwohner sind, die demonstrieren. Das von der britischen Regierung und Medien gestreute Gerücht, große Zahlen „rechter Hooligans“ würden koordiniert zu den Protesten anreisen, um zu randalieren, lässt sich nicht bestätigen.

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Besonders empört ist der Premierminister von den Ausschreitungen in der Stadt Rotherham. Dort hatten die Demonstranten sich bei einem Hotel versammelt, welches als Aufnahmezentrum für Asylbewerber genutzt wird, die Fenster beschädigt und einen Müllcontainer angezündet. „Die Bewohner und das Personal der Einrichtung waren voller Angst“, so Starmer.

In Rotherham wurden zwischen 1997 und 2013, also mehr als 15 Jahre lang, mindestens 1400 britische Mädchen von muslimischen Männern vergewaltigt, unter Drogen gesetzt, zur Prostitution gezwungen und in einigen Fällen sogar ermordet. Die Polizei wusste davon und schritt dennoch nicht ein, denn sie befürchtete rassistische Stereotypen zu verstärken – fast alle Täter waren Männer pakistanischer Herkunft, ihre minderjährigen Opfer überwiegend weiß und britisch – oder selbst des Rassismus beschuldigt zu werden. In mehreren anderen britischen Städten gab es ähnliche Fälle, deren Aufklärung ebenfalls von den Polizeibehörden verschleppt wurde, um Rassismusbeschuldigungen zu entgehen. Auch das trag viel zur aufgestauten Wut vieler Menschen dort bei, die sich jetzt bei den gewaltsamen Ausschreitungen zeigte.

Gewalt gab es in den letzten Tagen nicht nur von Seiten der Demonstranten, sondern auch von Linksextremen und migrantischen Gruppierungen. Videos zeigen, wie in vielen Städten große Gruppen muslimische Männer mit Baseballschlägern, Macheten und Messern die Straßen durchziehen (Apollo News berichtete). Die Polizei scheint sie gewähren zu lassen, obwohl das öffentliche Tragen von Waffen dieser Art in Großbritannien eigentlich streng verboten ist. Auch zeigen die Videos, wie Briten, die von diesen Gruppen als Demonstranten verdächtigt werden, von migrantischen Gruppen verprügelt und zum Teil schwer verletzt werden. 

Überraschend ist Starmers Schweigen über diese Vorfälle nicht. Als Mitte Juli ein islamischer Mob in Leeds wütete (Apollo News berichtete), gab es von Starmer nicht einmal einen Tweet, geschweige denn eine Fernsehansprache. Und das, obwohl er in den 80er Jahren an der University of Leeds studierte und erst kürzlich seine Verbundenheit zu der Stadt betonte. 

Auch kein einziges Mal spricht er über die Ermordung der drei Mädchen, den Auslöser der Proteste. Auch andere Gewalttaten von Migranten, die das Land seit Jahren erschüttern, spricht er in seiner Rede nicht an. Wer Starmer zuhört, könnte meinen, dass tausende Briten am Wochenende aus Langeweile oder der reinen Laune am Krawall auf die Straße gegangen wären.

Als ob die Wut, die sich im Land entzündet hat, keinerlei Auslöser oder Ursache hat. Doch so ist es nicht. Die Menschen in Großbritannien, insbesondere die der Arbeiterklasse, sind wütend, fühlen sich vom Staat weder verstanden noch in ihren Sorgen ernst genommen. Mit seiner Rede bestätigt Starmer das nur noch einmal. 

U.S. Government Selects New President For Venezuela

By Moon of Alabama

The clown show continues:

U.S. says Maduro lost Venezuelan election, calls for talks, transition – Washington Post

CARACAS, Venezuela — The United States on Thursday said opposition candidate Edmundo González defeated President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela’s presidential election and called for negotiations to ensure a peaceful transition of power.

Maduro claims that he won Sunday’s vote. The opposition, meanwhile, says that the government’s own records, as well as independent exit polls, indicate that González won twice as many as votes.

“Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Thursday evening.

Did anyone inform “President” Juan Guaido?

Source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/us-government-selects-new-president-for-venezuela.html

Craig Murray: The Israeli Nihilist State

By Craig Murray*
CraigMurray.org.uk

The apartheid state appears to have no objective other than violence and an urge for desolation.

It is no longer possible to categorise the nihilistic violence of the Israeli state. It appears to have no objective other than violence and an urge for desolation.

In 24 hours Israel has murdered the man with whom it would need to negotiate hostage release in the short term and political settlement in the long term, and a key figure in its most dangerous potential military enemy which has refrained from full-on war.

In doing so it has violated the territory, indeed the capitals, of two crucial regional states.

[See: Netanyahu Risks Regional War With Assassination]

Israel has also taken a policy decision that the mass rape of detainees by soldiers — and, somewhat strangely, homosexual rape in particular — is acceptable in war and not to be punished.

Ironically Israel has also underlined its genocidal intent in Gaza by proving that it has the technical ability to carry out targeted attacks, and that the flattening of entire cities with 2,000lb bombs and the massacre of tens of thousands of innocents has been a policy choice.

The Western media appears paralysed by this. I have seen virtually no serious comment or analysis. Nor has anybody pointed out the contrast between Israel’s lies about mass rape on Oct. 7 and Israel’s now-admitted policy of tolerating rape of detainees.

The political class seems even more paralysed than the media class. Caught in their commitment to Zionism — basically bought and paid for – they have nothing to say about these incredible events more sensible than Kamala Harris’ zombie-like incantation of “Israel’s right to self-defence.”

The British Foreign Office has failed to produce its promised considered reaction to the ICJ Opinion on the illegality of Israeli occupation, let alone responded sensibly to Israel’s crazed paroxysm of destruction this week.

[See: ICJ: Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territory Is Illegal]

For me it is now axiomatic that there is no two state solution and that apartheid Israel must be completely dismantled as an entity. I believe that more and more people around the entire globe believe that now.

And if we have to dismantle our own political and media classes to get there, so be it.

*Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. His coverage is entirely dependent on reader support. Subscriptions to keep this blog going are gratefully received.

Source:https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/02/craig-murray-the-israeli-nihilist-state/

Col. Douglas MacGregor on the neo-Marxist warmongers in the Biden White House

He’s obviously very concerned about what these lunatics will do and makes clear that China, Iran and Russia are not the soft military targets they think.

America’s election meddling will finally be its own sword to fall on

Martin Jay

For the United States, the prize in Ukraine has always been the opportunity to fight Russia without committing one dead western soldier. This may change.

“Interventionism” could simply be called “western-backed coup”. Since the end of the WWII, the U.S., it is reported, has meddled with the elections of 81 countries and so it should come as little surprise that it tried its best to topple Nicolás Maduro, as it had previously in 2019 under Trump. U.S. election meddling though has changed considerably since the end of the Cold War. Previous to 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the U.S. was quite brazen about toppling left-wing dictators it hated or supporting right-wing candidates with their campaigns. Most notably its dirty tricks were seen as early as 1948 when it did all it could in Italy to oust a communist government. Later on, in the 80s, while the Cold War was still running and Soviet troops were in Afghanistan, the U.S. gave the contras in Nicaragua 18m USD in profits from the illegal arms sales to Iran, which ultimately led to Daniel Ortega being overthrown in a 1990 election. In the same year, Vaclav Havel was backed to the hilt in Czechoslovakia to be enthroned as a western leader in the first democratic elections to be held there.

The U.S. also backs campaigns to reinstate their puppets, when they lose one in a fair, democratic election. In 1986, for example, in Haiti, the U.S. lost Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” who was the incumbent president and a great ally of the West. Later on, his successor was finally overthrown when another friend was installed after years of a nefarious campaign. Sometimes they threw money at their own favoured incumbents who would be useful idiots to them. In 1996, the Clinton government lent 10m USD to Boris Yeltsin for his own campaign, a staggering amount of money at that time. Other times, they would pump money into campaigns run by opposition groups to oust the incumbent who was considered an enemy of the U.S., disregarding any pretentions of democratic collective conscience. In 2000, five years after the Serbs had been bombed into submission in the Yugoslav War by an illegal air strike campaign – which came about when Bosnian Muslims staged a false flag attack on their own people in a Sarajevo marketplace – the U.S. went all out to fund campaigns for all opposition groups in Serbia which finally led to those groups using the same dictator type tactics when the polls were counted by giving Milosevic to leave quietly with his life, or face the same consequences as Romania’s Ceausescu. The Serbian leader later was to mysteriously die in 2006 while held in prison at a specially convened war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands.

Arguably, the best example of U.S. election meddling, especially for one which has so spectacularly backfired on the U.S., has got to be Ukraine. Both in 2004 and 2014, the U.S. created a revolutionary movement and pumped an estimated 4bn USD into it, just to unseat the Russian-leaning incumbent Viktor Yanukovych. With Ukraine, there were not energy reserves to act as a catalyst but a bigger prize for those red in tooth and claw determined to have their glory fighting Russia: the opportunity for the West to fight Russia without committing one dead western soldier. It proved irresistible and to this day, the West’s economies continue to plunder as this foolish decision takes a grip on those economies pulling them down, while Russia’s gains.

While we don’t know all of the facts which drew the U.S. to the Ukraine, its fatal attraction may well be part of Joe Biden’s corruption escapades there, clearly the Ukraine stands out as the West’s greatest defeat with election engineering which started off as a “colour revolution” but ended up as full-on support of military intervention, shrouded by dirty aid and military deals. The U.S. usually can’t see election interference for what it is as its people have gleaned a certain self-righteous coping mechanism to messing up other people’s lives just for the charred profits from other people’s losses, often deaths. As a general rule, if we overlook Ukraine, in recent years these “colour revolutions” are, compared to the gruesome coup d’états in Central and South America during the cold war years, benign. But it’s where the thinking leads.

Meta, Apple, Amazon «tricksen»: Tech-Giganten verstoßen laut Studie gegen EU-Recht

Die Regeln sind klar, trotzdem wird offenbar „getrickst“ was das Zeug hält: Sechs große Digitalkonzerne verstoßen laut einer Studie des deutschen Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverbands (vzbv) gegen EU-Recht. Meta, der Konzern hinter Facebook, die Google-Mutter Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon und der TikTok-Betreiber ByteDance würden ihre Nutzer manipulieren, um ihre Zustimmung für die möglichst weitgehende Zusammenführung ihrer persönlichen Daten zu erhalten.

Redaktion5. August 2024 05:55

Die Tech-Riesen würden “tricksen”, sagte Vzbv-Vorstand Ramona Pop der “Süddeutsche Zeitung” . “TikTok zum Beispiel suggeriert den Usern, wenn du diesem Dienst nicht zustimmst, können wir dir kein kostenloses Angebot mehr machen.” Sie kündigte an, die Ergebnisse an die EU weiterzuleiten und forderte eine konsequente Umsetzung des Digitalmarktgesetzes. Denn seit dem 7. März 2024 sei diese Praxis nach europäischem Recht verboten. “Wir scheuen uns nicht, die Konzerne auch abzumahnen”, sagte Pop.

Amazon versuche, die Zustimmung zur Datenzusammenführung direkt über die Cookie-Einstellungen zu erhalten. “Und den Facebook Marketplace kann man nicht vollständig nutzen, ohne vorher seine Daten bei Facebook abgegeben zu haben.” Die als “Gatekeeper” bezeichneten Tech-Giganten haben erheblichen Einfluss darauf, was die Menschen in Deutschland digital konsumieren.

https://exxpress.at/meta-apple-amazon-tricksen-tech-giganten-verstossen-laut-studie-gegen-eu-recht/

DEI recruiting nightmare: ‘We spent $1 million to get 1 kid in the Army’, by J.M. Phelps

A surprising number of potential military recruits don’t want to risk their lives for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. From J.M. Phelps at theburningplatform.com:

‘If you’re a white male, you’re not really a welcome person in the Army right now’

Nearly two million dollars spent by one of the nation’s Army recruiting brigades could not overcome the alienation of potential service members caused by the military’s embrace of radical “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies under the Biden-Harris administration.

After more than two decades of service, Col. Nicholas Braun (a pseudonym) recently retired from the U.S. Army. He spoke to WorldNetDaily on the condition of anonymity, concerned over likely reprisals he would face from the U.S. government for the information he shared with WND.

In 2023, said Braun, as recruiting numbers continued to dwindle through the Biden administration, every corps in the Army was tasked to support Recruiting Command. For example, operations and maintenance funds were diverted to recruiting, he told WND, revealing that over $1 million was so redirected in just the first quarter of last year.

“Do you know how many contracts we got signed?” he asked. “One. After four months, we spent a million dollars to get one kid in the Army.”

In the following quarter, Braun said, six individuals signed contracts after $800,000 of the operations and maintenance budget was redirected toward recruiting. “We used nearly $1.8 million to get seven people in the Army,” he told WND.

Yet, throwing money at recruiting did not solve the problem. Plans to “shrink excess” and reduce its number of personnel from 494,000 to 470,000 by 2029 followed. “In the Pentagon’s infinite wisdom to fix the recruiting problem,” Braun said, in February 2024, “they began another round of restructuring to make the on-hand quantity [of Army personnel] the authorized quantity to be able to say t

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