By The Duran
Source: https://theduran.com/natos-war-with-russia-w-dmitry-orlov-live/
Washington’s Provocations of Russia Are Becoming Ever More Reckless
Raisi Led the Charge for Russia–Iran–China’s ‘New World Order’
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s eastward vision was instrumental in advancing the strategic Moscow–Tehran–Beijing nexus and bulldozing a path toward institutionalizing multipolarity.
By Pepe Escobar
The Cradle
Amidst all the sadness and grief over the loss of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, let’s take a moment to showcase the critical path he helped forge toward a new global order.
In the nearly three years since Raisi ascended to the Iranian presidency, Eurasian integration and the drive toward multipolarity have become fundamentally conducted by three major actors: Russia, China, and Iran.
Which, by no accident, are the three top “existential threats” to the hegemonic power.
At 10 pm this past Sunday in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Iran’s ambassador to Moscow, Kazem Jalali, to be at the table in an impromptu meeting with the cream of the crop of Russia’s Defense Team.The Self-Sufficient Li…Seymour, JohnBest Price: $30.21Buy New $22.99(as of 07:37 UTC — Details)
That invitation reached far beyond the myopic media conjecture over whether the Iranian president’s untimely death was due to an “accidental crash” or an act of sabotage. It came from the fruits of Raisi’s tireless labor to position Iran as an east-facing nation, boldly forging strategic alliances with Asia’s major powers while sweetening Tehran’s relations with past regional foes.
Increased Eurasian integration
Back to that Sunday night table in Moscow. Everyone was there – from Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu to Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Emergencies Minister Aleksandr Kurenkov and Special Assistant to the President, Igor Levitin.
The key message portrayed was that Moscow has Tehran’s back. And Russia completely supports the stability and continuity of government in Iran, which is already fully guaranteed by Iran’s constitution and its detailed contingencies for a peaceful transition of power under even unusual circumstances.
As we are now deep into total Hybrid War mode – bordering on Hot – across most of the planet, the three civilization states shaping a new system of international relations could not be more obvious.
Russia–Iran–China (RIC) are already interlinked via bilateral, comprehensive strategic partnerships; they are members of both BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and their modus operandi was fully unveiled for the whole Global Majority to examine at Putin’s crucial summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last week.
In short, none of the three Asian powers will allow the other partners to be destabilized by the usual suspects.
A stellar record
Late President Raisi and his top diplomat, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, leave a stellar legacy.
Under their leadership, Iran became a member of BRICS, a full member of the SCO, and a major stakeholder in the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU). These are the three key multilateral organizations shaping the road to multipolarity.
Iran’s new diplomatic drive reached key Arab and African players, from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Egypt to Libya, Sudan, and Djibouti. Tehran, for the first time, conducted a sophisticated, large-scale military operation against Israel, firing a barrage of drones and missiles from Iranian territory.
Iran–Russia relations reached the next level in trade and military-political cooperation. Two years ago, Putin and Raisi agreed on a comprehensive bilateral treaty. The draft of the core document is now ready and will be signed by Iran’s next president, expanding the partnership even further.
As a member of an Iranian delegation told me last year in Moscow, when the Russians were asked what could be on the table, they replied, “You can ask us anything.” And vice versa.
So all interlocked declinations of Raisi’s “Look East” strategic shift coupled with Russia’s earlier “pivot to Asia” are being addressed by Moscow and Tehran.
The Council of Foreign Ministers of the SCO is meeting this Tuesday and Wednesday in Astana, preparing for the summit in July, when Belarus will become a full member. Crucially, Saudi Arabia’s cabinet has also approved the decision for Riyadh to join, possibly next year.
Iran’s continuity of government will be fully represented in Astana via interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, who was Amir-Abdollahian’s number two. He’s bound to immediately enter the fray alongside Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to discuss the multi-layered multipolar path.
A hypersonic joint statement
The overarching charter of what a new system entails was revealed last week at the landmark Putin-Xi summit via a stunning 10-chapter joint statement, over 12,000 words long, with “cooperation” appearing no less than 130 times.
This document can correctly be interpreted as a joint hypersonic manifesto comprehensively blowing up Washington’s artificial “rules-based international order.”
This section particularly stands out:
All countries have the right to independently choose their development models and political, economic, and social systems based on their national conditions and people’s will, oppose interference in the internal affairs of sovereign countries, oppose unilateral sanctions and ‘long-arm jurisdiction’ without international law basis or UN Security Council authorization, and oppose drawing ideological lines. Both sides pointed out that neo-colonialism and hegemonism are completely contrary to the trend of the times and called for equal dialogue, the development of partnerships, and the promotion of exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
Iran, sanctioned to death for over four decades, is now learning directly from China and Russia about their efforts to destroy “decoupling” narratives as well as the effect of a tsunami of western sanctions on Russia.
For example, an array of China–Europe train corridors is now mostly used to ship Chinese goods to Central Asia and re-export them to Russia.
Yet amidst this trade boom, logistical bottlenecks also increase. Virtually every European port refuses to handle any shipments from or to Russia. And Russia’s largest ports continue to have problems: Vladivostok does not have capacity for large cargo ships, while St Petersburg is very far from China.
So Chapter 3 of the Russia–China joint declaration places particular emphasis on “port and transportation cooperation, including developing more logistics routes,” and deepening financial cooperation, “including via increasing the share of local currency in financial services,” and increasing industrial cooperation, “including in strategic areas such as car and boat manufacturing, metal smelting, and chemicals.”
All that applies to Russia–Iran cooperation too, for instance, in streamlining the International North–South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), especially from Astrakhan in the Caspian to Iranian ports and then via roads down to the Persian Gulf.
Iranian Foreign Minister Bagheri Kani had previously remarked that thanks to Iran’s “exceptional geopolitical location” reaching West Asia, the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea region, and wider Eurasia, Iran can contribute to the “economic growth and economic potential” of all regional players.
Putin’s visit to China last week included a visit to the northeastern powerhouse Harbin – which has strong geographical/historical links to Russia. A giant China–Russia Expo attracted over 5,000 commercial firms. It’s not far-fetched to imagine an equally successful Russia–Iran Expo at a Caspian port.
Promethean project
What links Russia, China, and Iran is, first and foremost, an emerging framework designed by Sovereign Civilizational States. The fateful passing of president-martyr Raisi won’t alter The Big Picture in the least.
We’re in the middle of a long process against an environment conditioned for decades by pain and fear. The process has gained immense traction these past few years, starting with the official launch of the New Silk Roads in 2013.
The New Silk Roads and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are a Promethean project that is as much geopolitical as geoeconomic. In parallel came the gradual expansion of the SCO’s role as an economic cooperation mechanism. Once again, Iran is a top BRI, SCO, and BRICS member.
After Ukraine’s Maidan coup in 2014, the Russia–China strategic partnership really started picking up speed. Soon, we also had Iran selling practically all of its oil production to China and coming under the protection of the Chinese nuclear umbrella.
Then we had the Empire humiliated in Afghanistan. And the Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine in February 2022. And the expansion of BRICS into formerly western terrains in the Global South.
During his memorable Spring 2023 visit to Moscow, Xi told Putin that “changes not seen in a hundred years” would occur and that both should be at the helm of these inevitable changes.
That was exactly the crux of their discussions last week in Beijing.
The Iranian bombing of ultra-protected Israeli territory with perfect precision – as a response to a terror attack on its diplomatic consulate in a third country – sent a crystal-clear, game-changer message, completely understood by the Global Majority: the Hegemon’s power in West Asia is coming to an end.
Losing the Rimland is anathema to perfectly American geopolitics. It must be back in its control as it knows how important it is.Lick the Sugar Habit: …Appleton, NancyBest Price: $1.91Buy New $10.52(as of 03:17 UTC — Details)
New direction
The Angel of History, though, is pointing in a new direction – to China, Russia, and Iran as the natural Sovereigns shaping the re-emergence of the Heartland.
Concisely, these Three Sovereigns have the epistemological level, will, creativity, organization skills, vision, and tools of power to realize a true Promethean project.
It may sound like a miracle, but the present leadership in all three states shares this common understanding and endeavor.
For instance, what could be more enticing than the possibility of former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as Iran’s next president to join new Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani? In the past, Jalili has been cast as too “hardline” for western palates, but the west hardly matters anymore on these shores.
After Raisi’s eastward and multipolarity grand U-turn away from former Iranian “reformist” President Hassan Rouhani’s misguided, failed westward foray, Jalili may be just the ticket for Iran’s next phase. And oh, what a perfectly dashing complement to the Xi–Putin duo that would be.
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of The Cradle.
Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst and author. His latest book is Raging Twenties. He’s been politically canceled from Facebook and Twitter. Follow him on Telegram.
The US Is Discrediting All Arguments for Why It Should Lead the World
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
One by one, the US empire is discrediting all of its own arguments for why it should lead the world. All the violence, tyranny and injustice it claims to be keeping at bay with its globe-dominating leadership is being inflicted by the empire itself, in more and more brazen and egregious ways each year.
The entire premise behind the empire’s containment strategies, military encirclement and cold war brinkmanship with China is that obviously the PRC needs to be stopped from rising and displacing the US as the global leader, and arguments about the need to control Russia and Iran by any means necessary arise from the same premise. These arguments are accepted as a given by many on the basis that the US is a free and democratic country which promotes liberal values and opposes authoritarianism, so of course it’s better to have the US in charge of world affairs.Profiles in Corruption…Schweizer, PeterBest Price: $17.98Buy New $17.99(as of 03:27 UTC — Details)
But every point which could be used to bolster that argument is being rapidly eroded by the US itself. The US is making the world a much more violent and dangerous place. The US is assaulting freedom by perpetrating and facilitating more and more injustice and authoritarianism. The US is undermining international law by constantly violating it. Every argument that could be made for the merits of US global leadership gets weaker by the day.
As the US backs Israel in routinely committing horrifying massacres in Gaza, it’s clear that the US cannot claim to be making the world a more peaceful and harmonious place.
As the US and its allies recklessly ramp up nuclear brinkmanship with Russia over the failing proxy war in Ukraine, it’s clear that the US cannot claim to be making the world safer.
As the US denounces the International Criminal Court for applying for arrest warrants of Israeli officials, and supports Israel in dismissing the orders of the International Court of Justice to cease its assault on Rafah, it’s clear that the US has discredited its claim as the upholder of the “rules-based international order”.
As online censorship and banned pro-Palestine slogans are increasingly normalized throughout the US-led western world, it’s clear that the US has discredited its claim to being a protector of the freedom of speech.
As the US inflicts violent police crackdowns on anti-genocide protesters on university campuses nationwide, it’s clear that the US has discredited its claim to being a protector of the freedom of assembly.
As the US backs Israel in murdering a historic number of journalists and shutting down Al Jazeera, while itself imprisoning Julian Assange for journalistic activity exposing US war crimes, it’s clear that the US has discredited its claim to being a protector of the freedom of the press.
As the US supports its proxies in Kyiv canceling elections in Ukraine while providing military assistance to most of the world’s dictatorships, it is clear that the US has discredited its claim to being a major promotor of democracy.
Whatever argument you could come up with for why the world benefits from US leadership, there are major stories in the news right now which soundly discredit such claims. The evidence is in, and that argument has been lost.
This is not some empty rhetorical point I’m just making to show that my worldview is better than those of the mainstream western empire apologist; it is extremely relevant to present and future developments of unparalleled importance to the survival of our species.
The US empire has been simultaneously ramping up aggressions against China and Russia as well as in the middle east with increasing recklessness that appears bound for a massive military confrontation with at least one major nuclear-armed state at some point in the coming years. It is doing so because the rise of China means US planetary hegemony will be on its way out the door unless something significant occurs, and the empire managers appear to have calculated that it’s worth risking the life of every terrestrial organism to force that something significant to occur.
The only possible argument that this is a sane or reasonable thing to do is that the world is better off with US leadership than without it. But as we just discussed, every possible premise of that claim has been soundly discredited by the actions of the United States. And it’s only getting worse.
This to me makes it abundantly clear that the world would be better off without US leadership.
Whenever I say this I get empire apologists in my comments furiously arguing that if the US doesn’t dominate our planet then China will, but there’s no evidence that China seeks to supplant the US as a unipolar planetary hegemon, and the assumption that there must always be one unipolar power dominating the globe is ahistorical nonsense. In all of human history there has been only one unipolar planetary hegemon, namely the US empire, and it didn’t exist until the fall of the Soviet Union in the nineties.The Myth of a Guilty N…Nock, Albert JayBuy New $2.99(as of 11:31 UTC — Details)
It is not rational to believe that something which has only happened one single time in all of history must be the norm for our world. Multipolarity has been the norm, not the exception, throughout all the rest of our time on this planet prior to the emergence of US global supremacy some three decades ago.
None of this is to suggest that a multipolar world will solve all our problems or give rise to peace and harmony. But it is clear that accepting the emergence of such a world is preferable to a world in which the US empire seeks to suppress and delay its arrival with rapidly increasing amounts of violence and aggression, up to and including ramping up for World War Three and playing insane games of chicken with armageddon weapons.
The US empire is too crazy and sick to be allowed to rule the world anymore. There is no argument to be made that the benefits outweigh the costs. There is no reason the world’s great powers cannot come together and collaborate toward a healthy world for the benefit of everyone, if humanity can just shrug off its primitive impulse to dominate and control.
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The West’s War on God
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
Perhaps the most startling quality of world leaders today is that they do not believe in much beyond their own wants and needs. Many will feign a belief in God for the sake of appearances, but true believers are hard to find. In the West, where Christianity has shaped society for two thousand years, it is more common to find governments punishing Christians for their faith than to see biblical doctrine defended.
Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen, a rare Christian politician in our overwhelmingly secular times, has spent the last several years defending herself against criminal “hate speech” charges for quoting the Bible. Prosecutors claim that her religious convictions concerning marriage and morality are “insulting” and “degrading” and violate “sexual rights.” Furthermore, her accusers insist that the State “can limit freedom of expression in the outward expression of religion.”Fight the Good Fight: …Marsh, Cory M.Buy New $9.97(as of 11:02 UTC — Details)
Such despotic statements amount to nothing less than full-throated attacks against religious freedom. Faithful Christians are not Christian for merely an hour or two during church service each week. They do not slip in and out of their Christian identity as a worker might put on overalls and gloves. Believers walk the walk in everything they do. For Finnish authorities to demand that Räsänen hide her faith is to demand that she no longer be a practicing Christian. Only a government that believes in nothing beyond its own power would command a citizen to obey the State by disobeying God.
Finland is far from the only Western nation putting God on trial. During the “Reign of COVID Terror,” New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, and most of Europe waged a perverse kind of spiritual war against churches and congregations. Priests, pastors, and rabbis were threatened with criminal charges for opening their doors to a suffering public, and government agents tracked mobile phones and recorded license plate numbers of faithful parishioners who attended religious services.
Amid a horrendous global effort to prevent people from praying together, Canada’s Justin Trudeau distinguished himself as a tyrant par excellence by sanctioning the repeated arrest of Polish-Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski. His “crime”? He continued to hold church services for those seeking salvation in defiance of Canadian officials’ attempts to shut him down. Video of Pastor Pawlowski throwing armed police out of his church during an Easter service back in 2021 remains one of the most inspiring examples of regular citizens rejecting State tyranny. Comparing Canada’s militant authoritarianism to what he witnessed growing up “under a communist dictatorship behind the Iron Curtain, under the boots of the Soviets,” Pawlowski repeatedly implored Westerners: “We as lions should never bow before the hyenas.” Because the good pastor possesses moral courage, Trudeau and his government of Cheka thugs have done their best to ruin him.
Abusing Christians has become an obsession for American leftists. Catholic-in-name-only Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Religious Persecution have spent the last three years targeting pro-life Americans who pray near abortion clinics. Heavily armed agents of the Gestapo FBI have executed pre-dawn raids against Christians with no criminal records because they offend the pro-abortion sensibilities of the State. While federal authorities do next to nothing to investigate attacks on churches and pro-life organizations, they throw grandparents in prison to serve multi-year sentences for the “crime” of having peacefully protested outside of notorious abortion businesses.
Similar arrests and prosecutions of pro-life Christians regularly take place in the United Kingdom, too, where police officers have been filmed asking citizens whether or not they are silently praying on public sidewalks. If so, it’s off to the hoosegow! Praying outside is now forbidden! The UK government has been shamefully clear that God is permitted only in certain designated areas where He may be best hidden from the public. He is unwelcome everywhere else.The Family Bible Devot…Wells, Sarah M.Best Price: $2.03Buy New $7.60(as of 11:02 UTC — Details)
Unfortunately, that is also the case in France, Germany, and much of Europe, where Christians are regularly demonized as being “fascist” or “far-right.” The continent that is home to the Vatican and the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation has become hostile to biblical teachings and discriminatory against all those who belong to a Christian church. As Douglas Murray has pointed out in his insightful book, The Strange Death of Europe, European nations seem determined to destroy their shared civilization. In abandoning God and criminalizing Christians, they will surely succeed.
Nowhere are leftists more committed to burying Christianity than in the United States. Why is that? For the same reason that the Chinese Communist Party tortures, enslaves, and murders Christians living within its domain: Christians understand that God’s authority supersedes that of the State. China must prevent Christianity from growing within its borders because a population faithfully obedient to God will not remain mindlessly obedient to a communist dictatorship. Likewise, American Marxists must first dismantle American Christians’ spiritual faith before they can cultivate a widespread dependence upon and deification of D.C.’s Deep State.
Mass Slaughtering Civilians To Stop Terrorism
Remember kids, Israel has to bomb hospitals and starve Gaza and incinerate children and shoot people waving white flags and assassinate doctors and journalists and commit daily massacres of civilians, because if it doesn’t do this the region will be dominated by evil terrorists.
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
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Remember kids, Israel has to bomb hospitals and starve Gaza and incinerate children and shoot people waving white flags and assassinate doctors and journalists and commit daily massacres of civilians, because if it doesn’t do this the region will be dominated by evil terrorists.
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Experts: If Israel attacks Rafah it will result in the mass slaughter of civilians.
US government: Relax, it’ll be a limited attack. If it’s real bad we’ll stop supporting them.
Experts: Israel has attacked Rafah and is mass slaughtering civilians.
US government: Eh, what are ya gonna do?
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It’s simply mindblowing that Israel is routinely massacring civilians in front of the whole world for openly racist reasons and the west is still chock full of liberals who act like this thing is just too compwicated for their poor widdle minds to take a stand on, goo goo ga ga.
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How do Israel apologists not understand that when they show up on posts showing children ripped to shreds by Israeli bombs explaining why what we’re seeing is actually fine and perfectly justified, it makes their side look worse?
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No no, Israel isn’t a wildly belligerent rogue state which commits war crimes and mass atrocities in plain view of the whole world, what’s actually happening is that the global international community and the entire United Nations harbors a secret hatred of Jews.
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“Mommy what was the Holocaust?”
“It was a systematic extermination of Jewish people committed by the Nazis many years ago.”
“Oh! What did we do about it?”
“Well not much at the time because our country didn’t care, but we try to make up for it by helping Israel commit its own holocausts.”
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It looks like they may be field-testing more new weapons on human beings in Gaza. Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda says there was another tent massacre in Rafah that ripped people apart and, though it sounded like a bomb, she can’t find the munition or blast site. She says “they are using weapons that leave no clues but kills people.”
It’s not a secret that new weapons systems are being tested in Gaza using humans as laboratory guinea pigs to demonstrate their effects; we already know they’ve been trial running new military robots and AI systems there since October. In a darkened hellscape that’s closed off to the press and it’s open season on Palestinians, who knows what else these freaks are trying out in there.
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Iran did October 7. And so did Russia. And China. And North Korea. And Cuba. And Code Pink. And Jewish Voice for Peace. And TikTok. And Macklemore. And Voldemort. And Mordor. And Team Rocket. https://t.co/ocSmknpn5Q— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 28, 2024
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It’s important to understand that just because Ukraine has been shoved out of the spotlight doesn’t mean brinkmanship with Russia is getting any less dangerous. As Ukraine loses more and more territory and runs out of soldiers, we’re actually seeing a dramatic rise in reckless escalations from NATO powers. France is preparing to put boots on the ground in an official open deployment to train troops in Ukraine, and high-level empire managers like NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US House Speaker Mike Johnson and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron are aggressively pushing for NATO-supplied weapons to be used on Russian territory.
All of these escalations push us closer to hot warfare between NATO and Russia. They’re playing games with the lives of every organism on this planet over an unwinnable proxy war that they themselves provoked.
The western empire must end.
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The thing about claiming Trump would be worse on Gaza is that you don’t even know that’s true. It’s a completely baseless and unfalsifiable assertion. Biden’s adamant refusal to put up any resistance at all to Israeli insanity is such a drastic deviation from the norm for US presidents that it’s entirely possible replacing him with almost anyone would be an improvement.
Of course it’s possible Trump would be worse on Gaza. And it’s possible he’d be exactly the same. It’s also possible that he’d occasionally tap the brakes a bit in ways Biden has not done, like the way he resisted his cabinet’s pressure to bomb Iran after they shot down a US drone.
There’s no way to know, since both Biden and Trump constantly lie about what their actual positions are. That’s just the kind of uncertainty you get in the hub of a globe-spanning empire that has been subjugated by the will of plutocrats and secretive government agencies, where the will of the electorate has been nullified to having almost zero impact on foreign policy.
Obviously Trump is a warmongering swamp monster just like Biden, and will absolutely have a significant body count if re-elected just as he did the first time around. I’m just pointing out that liberal claims that he’d be worse on Gaza are based entirely on the imaginations of those making the assertion.
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Maya Angelou said when someone shows you who they are, believe them. I would add that this also applies to government and military powers.
more absurdity from Ursula ‘Hairspray’ Von der Leyen
Von der Leyen proposes ‘vaccines’ for minds and a ‘shield’ for democracy, by Rachel Marsden
Prophylactic censorship has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? From Rachel Marsden at rt.com: The European Commission president‘s campaign features an unprecedented preventive crackdown on wrongthink Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate at the European Parliament … Continue readingVon der Leyen proposes ‘vaccines’ for minds and a ‘shield’ for democracy, by Rachel Marsden
Sin paz
No te subas al carro
Nunca lo vimos en la Marcha del Silencio
No fue al Palacio Legislativo en el acto de reparación de las Muchachas de Abril
Ningún compromiso con Familiares para encontrar desaparecidos
Politiquería electoral
Gobiernan en coalición con militares, votan en contra de quitar fueros para investigar a un ex-militar, estuvieron ausentes durante todo el gobierno y siempre sin voluntad política con Madres y Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos. Nunca más.
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Paz solo con justicia
NEUE BEWEISE FÜR LABORURSPRUNG VON CORONA – IST DIE NÄCHSTE PANDEMIE SCHON IN ARBEIT?
Der Hamburger Physik-Professor Roland Wiesendanger, der sich große Verdienste um die Aufdeckung des Skandals um die berüchtigte Gain-of-function-Virenforschung erworben hat, mit der das Corona-Virus im chinesischen Wuhan systematisch herangezüchtet wurde, hat neue Erkenntnisse zum Thema Labortheorie vorgelegt. Während in Deutschland keine Aufarbeitung der Corona-Zeit stattfinde, habe es in den USA und Großbritannien erhebliche Fortschritte gegeben, wobei sich, so Wiesendanger, immer deutlicher ein “enger Zusammenhang zwischen dem Ursprung der Corona-Pandemie im Herbst 2019 und den politisch getroffenen Maßnahmen ab dem März 2020“ offenbare. So habe etwa die Anhörung von Peter Daszak, dem Präsidenten der amerikanischen EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), vor dem US-Kongress ergeben, dass dieser jahrelang die „hoch risikoreiche Gain-of-function-Forschung mit Coronaviren“ durchgeführt habe, durch welche diese infektiöser und für den Menschen leichter übertragbar gemacht werden – und zwar gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftlern des Wuhan-Instituts für Virologie. Also genau in der Stadt in China, in der die Corona-Pandemie ausgebrochen ist.
Besonders hervorzuheben sei, dass Daszak gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftlern des Wuhan-Instituts für Virologie kurz vor Ausbruch der Pandemie einen Forschungsantrag konzipiert habe, in dem detailliert die künstliche Synthese eines neuen Sars-artigen Coronavirustyps vorgeschlagen wurde, „dessen Eigenschaften in frappierender Weise mit dem wenig später auftretenden Sars-CoV-2 Virus übereinstimmen“. Daszak befürwortete damals in seinem Antrag, dass die Forschungen nicht in einem US-Labor, sondern in Wuhan durchgeführt werden, weil dort die Sicherheitsbedingungen weniger streng seien. Der Antrag wurde in dieser Form zwar abgelehnt; Daszak erhielt dennoch neue Forschungsgelder – von einer Unterabteilung der amerikanischen National Institutes of Health (NIH) unter Leitung von Anthony Fauci, dem späteren höchsten Gesundheitsbeamten der USA.
Menschgemachter “Pandemie”-Hintergrund
Fauci war einer der glühendsten Befürworter der Gain-of-function-Forschung und vertrat die Auffassung, dass der Erkenntnisgewinn dieser Art von Forschung das Risiko einer damit möglicherweise ausgelösten Pandemie rechtfertigen würde. Dementsprechend tat er alles, um den Zusammenhang mit dem Ausbruch des Virus zu bestreiten und zu verschleiern. Auch der deutschen “Corona-Star” und Systemwissenschaftler Christian Drosten soll laut Wiesendanger engste Kontakte zum Wuhan-Labor unterhalten haben, ohne diese klaren Interessenkonflikte je offengelegt zu haben. Daszak wurden nach der jüngsten Anhörung nun sämtliche staatlichen Unterstützungen entzogen. In der Begründung hieß es: „Die im Protokoll enthaltenen Informationen stellen einen ausreichenden Beweis dafür dar, dass die Suspendierung und der vorgeschlagene Ausschluss der EHA aus einem so schwerwiegenden oder zwingenden Grund erforderlich sind. … EHA darf keine Geschäfte mit der US-Bundesregierung als Agent oder Vertreter anderer Auftragnehmer oder als Agent oder Vertreter anderer Teilnehmer an Bundeshilfsprogrammen tätigen.“
Wiesendanger erinnert daran, dass Daszak – gemeinsam mit unter anderem Christian Drosten – zu den Initiatoren eines Artikels in der medizinischen Fachzeitschrift „The Lancet“ vom 19. Februar 2020 gehörte, in der 27 Virologen jeden Zweifel an einem natürlichen Ursprung des Virus als „Gerüchte“, „Fehlinformationen“ und „Verschwörungstheorien“ verdammt hatten. Diese Leugnung eines menschgemachten “Pandemie”-Hintergrunds wurde dann quasi zur kanonischen Lesart der gesamten Corona-Zeit. Obwohl es von Anfang an mehr als plausible Hinweise darauf gab, dass das Virus künstlich gezüchtet wurde, durfte es nicht ausgesprochen werden, ohne dass man ins Lager der „Wissenschaftsfeinde“, Paranoiker und Schwurbler verbannt wurde.
Gemeingefährliche Forschungen
Mitglieder des Covid-Untersuchungsausschusses des US-Kongresses schrieben nun vor drei Wochen, am 7. Mai, an Außenminister Antony Blinken: „Diese Dokumente enthalten äußerst relevante Informationen, die Folgendes glaubhaft machen: 1) Covid-19 entstand durch einen Laborunfall in Wuhan, China; 2) die KPCh verhinderte eine umfassende Untersuchung dieser Angelegenheiten und behinderte sie sogar; und 3) eine nahtlose Beziehung zwischen dem WIV und der Chinesischen Volksbefreiungsarmee. [Dabei steht die Abkürzung WIV für das Wuhan Institut für Virologie.]“ Und der ehemalige britische Politiker Michael Gove erklärte vor dem britischen Untersuchungsausschuss: „Wir waren nicht so gut vorbereitet, wie wir es idealerweise hätten sein sollen. Ich denke, das ist wahr. Auch hier liegt es in der Natur der Tatsache, dass das Virus neu war, und tatsächlich denke ich, dass dies wahrscheinlich über den Rahmen der Untersuchung hinausgeht, einer umfassenden Beurteilung, die davon ausgeht, dass das Virus selbst vom Menschen verursacht wurde, und das bringt auch gewisse Herausforderungen mit sich.“ Gove fügte hinzu, dass es „ein erhebliches Maß an Einschätzungen gab, die darauf hindeuteten, dass das Virus selbst vom Menschen verursacht wurde“.
Mehr denn je bestätigt sich somit der Verdacht, dass das Corona-Virus tatsächlich als Folge gemeingefährlicher Forschungen entstand (und freigesetzt wurde), die die natürlichen Eigenschaften von Viren bewusst manipulieren, um sie gefährlicher zu machen. Diese ungeheuerlichen Zusammenhänge wurden – und werden weiterhin – mit allen Mitteln vertuscht. Dadurch wurde schließlich eine epochale weltweite Gesundheitskrise ausgelöst, die wirtschaftliche und psychosoziale Schäden sowie politische Polarisierungen zur Folge hatte, die bis heute überhaupt nicht zu bemessen sind. Und dabei sind die katastrophalen Folgen der kriminell unverantwortlich und in aller Eile auf den Markt geworfenen, völlig unausgereiften Impfstoffe noch gar nicht eingerechnet. Es handelt sich dabei fraglos um den wohl größten Skandal aller Zeiten und um ein beispielloses Menschheitsverbrechen. Und trotzdem wird die Gain-of-function-Forschung weiter fortgesetzt. Niemand weiß, welche sonstigen teuflischen Viren sie bereits entwickelt hat, die dann – absichtlich-unabsichtlich? – bei Bedarf (oder beim nächsten Unfall) auf die Menschheit losgelassen werden. Frei nach Karl Lauterbach: Die nächste Pandemie kommt sicher!
TODAY: What is criminal in Ukraine, is God’s righteousness in Gaza
RUSSIA. US President Joe Biden welcomed the International Criminal Court’s issuing of an arrest warrant against his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
The ICC accused President Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine – something President Biden said the Russian leader had “clearly” done…… President Biden said that … the issuing of the warrant “makes a very strong point”. The claims focus on the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia since Moscow’s invasion in 2022.
“He’s clearly committed war crimes,” he told reporters.
His administration had earlier “formally determined” that Russia had committed war crimes during the conflict in Ukraine, with Vice-President Kamala Harris saying in February that those involved would “be held to account”.
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ISRAEL. President Joe Biden denounced the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court for seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders.
“What’s happening in Gaza is not genocide. We reject that,” Mr Biden said at a Jewish American Heritage Month event at the White House.
He said American support for the safety and security of Israelis is “ironclad”.
Biden administration presents its policies to overcome legal and political questions about its unconditional support for Israel, and continues to send weapons to Israel.
The US has vetoed three separate ceasefire draft resolutions at the United Nations Security Council and voted against two at the General Assembly.
Rights groups have documented numerous violations of international humanitarian law by the Israeli military, which extensively uses US weapons. Those reports include evidence of indiscriminate bombing, torture and targeting civilians.
Der Friedensstifter 