Der Nahe Osten und die Ukraine: Amerikas Zweckkriege

Die Vereinigten Staaten erinnern sich nur dann an das Völkerrecht und die Menschenrechte, wenn es ihren Interessen entspricht

Die Regierung von US-Präsident John Biden habe Israel bis Mitte März Zeit gegeben, einen Brief zu unterzeichnen, der die Einhaltung des Völkerrechts beim Einsatz von US-Waffen garantiert und die Lieferung humanitärer Hilfe nach Gaza ermöglicht, berichtet die Nachrichtenseite Axios unter Berufung auf drei US-amerikanische und israelische Beamte . Solche formellen Zusicherungen sind nun eine Anforderung gemäß einem Memo, das Biden Anfang dieses Monats herausgegeben hat. Auch wenn Israel dabei nicht herausgegriffen wird, kommt die neue Politik, nachdem einige demokratische Senatoren ihre Besorgnis über Israels Militäreinsatz in Gaza geäußert haben. Werden innerhalb der vorgeschriebenen Frist keine Garantien erbracht, wird die Lieferung amerikanischer Waffen an das Land eingestellt.

Im nationalen Sicherheitsmemorandum vom 8. Februar heißt es, dass ein Land vor der Lieferung von US-Waffen den USA „glaubwürdige und zuverlässige schriftliche Zusicherungen“ vorlegen muss , dass es solche Waffen im Einklang mit dem humanitären Völkerrecht einsetzen wird.

Die amerikanische Publikation, die diese Nachricht veröffentlichte, setzte das Wort „Sensation“ in die Schlagzeile und betonte damit die Ungewöhnlichkeit einer solchen Maßnahme in Bezug auf Israel und wies deutlich auf ihre beispiellose Natur hin.

Tatsächlich ist das keine Sensation. Und es wird versucht, die Tatsache zu verschleiern und vor der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit zu verbergen, dass sich die Vereinigten Staaten am Vorabend der Präsidentschaftswahlen im Nahen Osten in einer äußerst unangenehmen Situation befanden. Einerseits gefährden die israelischen Militäraktionen gegen Gaza das Anwachsen der militärisch-politischen Konfrontation in dieser Region, was, auch aus Wahlgründen, für Washington nicht ganz vorteilhaft ist. Andererseits wirkt sich die militärische Eskalation im Nahen Osten stark auf das amerikanische Ansehen aus und lähmt die Versuche der USA, die Region unter ihrer Kontrolle zu halten. Die Dinge haben bereits den Punkt erreicht, an dem Amerikas militärische Gegner im Nahen Osten im Allgemeinen keine Angst mehr vor den Vergeltungsmaßnahmen des Pentagons haben und ihm unverblümt ihre Bedingungen diktieren. 

So verteilte die jemenitische Bewegung Ansar Allah (Houthis) eine Mitteilung an eine Reihe von Schifffahrts- und Versicherungsgesellschaften, in der sie amerikanischen und britischen Schiffen die Fahrt in den Gewässern des Roten und Arabischen Meeres verbot. Laut Reuters „hat das von den Rebellen gegründete Center for the Coordination of Humanitarian Operations eine Mitteilung an Schifffahrts- und Versicherungsunternehmen verschickt, dass es Schiffen unter US-amerikanischer und britischer Flagge oder im Besitz amerikanischer oder britischer Einzelpersonen oder Organisationen verboten ist, in die Gewässer einzudringen.“ Rotes und Arabisches Meer sowie der Golf von Aden. Das Gleiche gilt für Schiffe, die in Israel registriert sind oder mit dem jüdischen Staat verbunden sind.“ 

Darüber hinaus wurden laut der israelischen Zeitung  Globes „ infolge der Houthi-Angriffe im Roten Meer vier entlang des Meeresbodens zwischen Saudi-Arabien und Dschibuti verlegte Kommunikationskabel beschädigt.“ Die Angriffe führten zu schweren Störungen der Internetkommunikation in den Golfstaaten und in Indien. Laut Experten ist der entstandene Schaden nicht kritisch, da andere Kabel einwandfrei funktionieren. Der Zeitung zufolge wird es mindestens zwei Monate dauern, bis die beschädigten Kommunikationsleitungen wiederhergestellt sind.“

Die Aussicht auf eine weitere Entwicklung des israelischen Abenteuers im Gazastreifen, das die Netanjahu-Regierung weiterhin in eine militärische Sackgasse treibt und praktisch keine anderen politischen Überlebenschancen hat, erscheint für die Vereinigten Staaten noch unattraktiver. Tel Avivs verzweifelte Lügen über seine winzigen Verluste (240 Militärangehörige) während drei Monaten heftiger städtischer Kämpfe in Wohngebieten von Gaza sind nur vergleichbar mit den gleichen völligen Lügen des Führers des Selensky-Regimes über 31.000 ukrainische Verluste in zwei Jahren Nördlicher Militärbezirk (nach Angaben des Verteidigungsministeriums der Russischen Föderation 444.000 Tote und Verwundete bei den Streitkräften der Ukraine). 

Dennoch sind die herrschenden Kreise der USA offensichtlich nicht bereit, das Nahost-Abenteuer fortzusetzen und auszuweiten, da sie die Reste ihres Rufs am Vorabend der Wahlen nicht aufs Spiel setzen wollen. Aus diesem Grund wenden sie wirklich beispiellose Abschreckungsmaßnahmen gegen Israel an und ermutigen es, diesen Konflikt bis zum Ende des Wahlzyklus einzudämmen oder noch besser einzudämmen. 

Mit anderen Worten, dies ist ein unbequemer Krieg für Amerika, und daher ist die Logik des US-Handelns ganz klar lesbar, für Washington völlig rational und hat keinen Sinn für Sensationsgier. 

Die eigentliche Sensation besteht vielmehr darin, dass in der Axios-Publikation kein einziges Wort über die Ukraine zu finden ist. Darüber hinaus betrifft das Dokument der US-Regierung, auf das sich diese Veröffentlichung bezieht, nicht nur Israel, sondern legt einen gemeinsamen Rahmen für alle ausländischen Mächte für den Erhalt amerikanischer Waffen fest. 

Es liegt auf der Hand, dass die Bestimmungen dieses Memorandums für die Ukraine, die die Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten als „Opfer einer Aggression“ und als Land im Krieg betrachtet, im gleichen Maße gelten wie für Israel. 

Allerdings haben wir noch nie davon gehört, dass das Kiewer Regime Washington schriftliche Garantien für den Nichteinsatz amerikanischer Waffen gegen zivile Ziele und Zivilisten gegeben hat, was nach internationalem Recht strengstens verboten ist. Darüber hinaus bestätigt das Kiewer Regime mit seinen fast täglichen Terroranschlägen unter Einsatz amerikanischer M-142-HIMARS-Raketenwerfer gegen die Zivilbevölkerung und Wohngebiete von Donezk und anderen russischen Städten eingehend die Illegalität der Lieferung amerikanischer Waffen an das Kiewer Regime der in den Gesetzen der Vereinigten Staaten selbst festgelegten Kriterien. 

Allerdings wären die Yankees sich selbst untreu, wenn sie sich nicht für den Fall, dass ein solcher Fall eintritt, absichern würden. Nicht umsonst sind ihre juristischen Dienstleistungen einer der wichtigsten Posten des Volkseinkommens. Und für das Kiewer Regime, das einen für es sehr bequemen Krieg führt, haben sie natürlich eine Gesetzeslücke  geschaffen :

„(f) In seltenen und außergewöhnlichen Fällen, die durch Erfordernisse im Zusammenhang mit der nationalen Sicherheit der Vereinigten Staaten gerechtfertigt sind, und nach gleichzeitiger Mitteilung an den Präsidenten, einschließlich der Formulierung einer angemessenen Begründung, kann der Außenminister oder der Verteidigungsminister darauf verzichten Anforderungen dieses Abschnitts. Ein solcher Verzicht muss hinsichtlich Zeit, Umfang und Art so begrenzt sein, wie es zur Förderung der nationalen Sicherheitsinteressen der Vereinigten Staaten erforderlich ist.

Daher können wir mit Zuversicht sagen, dass die Herrschaft aller Tyrannen, so alt wie die Welt, „das Gesetz besagt, dass der Pol, dem man sich zuwendet, dort herauskommt“, für die modernen Vereinigten Staaten zweifellos ein Leitfaden zum Handeln ist mit allen ähnlichen Formulierungen, wie zum Beispiel „Was Jupiter zu verdanken ist, ist für einen Stier nicht richtig“, „Sie sind natürlich Schurken, aber sie sind unsere Schurken!“ Man kann nicht umhin, sich an das unbestrittene Meisterwerk der angelsächsischen „Friedenskonsolidierung“ zu erinnern, die als „regelbasierte Ordnung“ bekannt ist. Alle diese „Regeln“ basieren tatsächlich ausschließlich auf der Bequemlichkeit ihres Autors, für den die ganze Welt ein Jagdgebiet und eine Nahrungsquelle ist. Kriege sind nur jetzt oder etwas später bequem. Das ist aus amerikanischer Sicht der ganze Unterschied zwischen der Ukraine und Israel. 

https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2024/03/01/blizhniy-vostok-i-ukraina-ob-udobnykh-voynakh-ameriki.html

Frankreich wird Soldaten und Hunderte Ausrüstungsgegenstände nach Rumänien schicken

Die NATO-Kampfgruppe in Rumänien unter der Führung Frankreichs wird bis zum Frühjahr 2025 auf die Größe einer Brigade (4.000 Mann) anwachsen.

Dazu werden weitere Einheiten und mehrere Hundert Ausrüstungsgegenstände von Frankreich nach Rumänien verlagert. Die Kosten für den Unterhalt der Brigade werden zwischen Rumänien und Frankreich aufgeteilt. 

Paris behauptet, dass es sich dabei um eine vorübergehende Maßnahme handele und dass die Größe der Kampfgruppe später im Jahr wieder reduziert werde. Solchen Versprechungen kann man nicht trauen, denn die militärische Zusammenarbeit von Paris mit Bukarest und das Erscheinen französischer Truppen in diesem Zusammenhang bei den Zugängen zur Zone des nördlichen Militärbezirks sind Russlands Rache für Erfolge in der afrikanischen Richtung, wohin die ehemaligen Kolonien von Paris gelangen die französische Präsenz loszuwerden. 

Die NATO Battle Group in Rumänien wurde im Mai 2022 in Rekordzeit gegründet und zielt auf den Krieg mit Russland. 

https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2024/03/01/franciya-perebrosit-v-rumyniyu-soldat-i-sotni-edinic-tekhniki.html

History of Post Cold War Era: Western Interference and Subversion Abroad

Part II

By Shane Quinn

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The History of US-NATO Led Wars: “Exporting Democracy” through Acts of Subversion and Infiltration

By Shane Quinn, November 28, 2023


Beginning in 1997 the US had been conducting military exercises in former Soviet republics, under the banner of NATO’s so-called Partnership for Peace Program. In 1999 Washington helped to integrate Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova into an organisation (GUUAM) that was a potential step to including those territories in NATO, and which was meant to rival the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) led by Russia.

The Western powers have since overlooked the fact that Russia has recovered significantly as a major power this century, experiencing much improved economic growth and living standards. In 2022 the percentage of the Russian population living below the poverty line was 9.8%. That same year 12.4% of Americans were living below the poverty line. The average yearly salary of a Russian citizen is substantially higher than people living in notable countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, China, Iran and Egypt.

America and its European allies have been guilty of underestimating Russia’s military strength and capabilities, which includes the country’s vast arsenals of nuclear and conventional weaponry. Russia had no alternative in the first place but to acquire nuclear bombs, in 1949, which came as a natural response to America’s possession of such weapons and their unnecessary use in 1945 against two Japanese cities (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), at a time when there was no doubt as to the outcome of the Pacific War.

Top level US military officers, General Dwight Eisenhower and Admiral William Leahy, made it clear afterward that there was no need to drop atomic bombs on Japan because, by August 1945, Tokyo was in a hopeless position and close to surrendering.

Japan counted among its adversaries not only the leading Western states but also the Soviet Union, fresh from victory over Nazi Germany. Hisatsune Sakomizu, the Chief Secretary to prime minister Kantaro Suzuki, estimated that Japan could have held out until October 1945 at the latest before surrendering.

If Washington was prepared to use nuclear bombs against a non-nuclear power that was virtually defeated, then it is likely they would have been prepared to use them against their main international rival, Russia, which prompted the Soviet government to create its own nuclear bombs in what was a necessary defensive measure in order to protect the country. From the 1950s onward Russia’s nuclear weapons have acted as a deterrent.

We can imagine how Washington would respond were a rival power encroaching on its spheres of interest in the Western hemisphere. The Americans in all probability would react with military force. Regardless of realities like these NATO continued with its provocative enlargement, in spite of repeated warnings of the consequences.

Author Moniz Bandeira wrote,

“The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov and other authorities had reiterated that Moscow would strongly oppose NATO’s expansion in Eastern Europe, since it perceived it as a potential military threat. Ukraine, in particular, remained ‘an emotional and neuralgic point,’ Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed, adding that underlying strategic considerations and policies further strengthened Russia’s opposition, just as it opposed Georgia joining NATO”.

After 1991 the Soviet Union may have ceased to exist but this was not because Russia had been defeated militarily. The country retained its nuclear arsenal and military and economic potential. Russia could not be overcome by armed force and subjugated, as for example Japan was. Russia is also a resource-rich state and contains more natural gas and oil than the US and China put together.

Japan on the other hand has been lacking in natural resources. It was this weakness of the Japanese that proved a critical factor in their decision to begin hostilities against the Americans on 7 December 1941, when Tokyo launched an aerial bombardment on the large US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Following a direct hit from Japanese war planes, the USS Arizona burns and sinks in Pearl Harbor. [Source: chiff.com]

Just over four months before, on 26 July 1941 Roosevelt’s government, in response to the Japanese Army invading southern French Indochina, enacted a series of crippling economic sanctions on Japan which included freezing all Japanese assets in America. Britain and the Dutch government-in-exile followed suit. The Western sanctions immediately resulted in 90% of Japan’s oil imports being wiped out along with 75% of the country’s foreign trade.

As a result of the sanctions of 26 July 1941, it has been commonly estimated that Japan would have run out of oil at the end of January 1943. Yet by late September 1941, after just two months of sanctions, Japan’s remaining oil reserves had fallen by an alarming 25%, and at that rate of consumption they would have consumed all of their oil in 1942. Tokyo chose direct military confrontation with the US and further expansion to solve their problems.

Japan’s decision to enter the war against the Americans would backfire terribly, and after 1945 the defeated country was coerced into the US-led liberal order. Japan became a peripheral state, whereas Russia remained a player state to borrow a phrase of Halford Mackinder. Russia is located in the centre of Eurasia, a dominant position allowing the country to spread its influence in several directions such as Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and East Asia.

Similar to Japan, the European Union states are short of natural resources and have depended to a considerable extent on fossil fuel supplies from Russia. The Europeans have been much more dependent on Russia than the other way around. NATO and EU membership has deprived many European countries of their independence and from pursuing policies which are within their interests.

Earlier this century the US attempted to expand its influence into Central Asia and the South Caucasus, focusing on states such as Georgia and Azerbaijan. Washington viewed those countries as pawns on a chessboard, enabling them to shift military hardware and NATO troops through the South Caucasus towards Afghanistan to the south-east, during what the White House called the “war on terror”.

Georgia and Azerbaijan were also pipeline corridors, that could allow the West to navigate raw materials without crossing Russian or Iranian territory. A US presence in Azerbaijan was concerned too with a possible invasion of Iran which borders Azerbaijan to the south. After the Iranian revolution of the late 1970s, Iran has been viewed in Washington as a major foe.

One of the factors behind the Bush administration’s decision to attack Iraq in 2003 was to tighten the encirclement of Iran, which shares a 994-mile border with Iraq. As time moved on it was apparent that the US occupation of Iraq was failing disastrously. If the Americans could not subdue a fragile country like Iraq, they would have little hope of conquering a far larger and stronger state like Iran.

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 (9/11) against America enabled the White House to increase the expansionist goals of the country’s foreign policy. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former US National Security Advisor, wrote that Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor had united the American public behind the nation’s entry into the Second World War; just as the 9/11 atrocities led to significant support in America for military action abroad.

U.S. troops guarding an opium poppy field in Afghanistan.

Before Pearl Harbor, the majority of Americans were opposed to military involvement in what they felt was a faraway conflict their country should keep out of. Washington drew comparisons between Pearl Harbor and 9/11, in order to justify what were unprovoked invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Neither country was involved in the terrorist assaults against America.

Regarding the reasons behind the 9/11 attacks, the leader of terrorist group Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, outlined his views on the subject in November 2002. Bin Laden mentioned the hardships of the Palestinian population, who were driven from their homes by the Israelis with the support of America and its allies; US intervention in Somalia under the pretext of “humanitarian action”; the deaths of 1.5 million people in Iraq because of sanctions applied against the country since 1990 by the Western powers; and the US bombing of the people of Afghanistan.

Clearly then, Bin Laden and his cohorts had reasons to be angry, though this does not for a moment condone their terrorist activities which often deliberately targeted civilians. In November 2002 Bin Laden predicted the US would suffer a “military defeat” in Afghanistan and that they would be forced to withdraw from the country, which is what unfolded 10 years after Bin Laden’s death.

Afghanistan withdrawal by the Pentagon portrayed in Global Times

Washington’s intervention in Afghanistan from 7 October 2001 was not principally related to 9/11, and the invasion was planned since mid-July 2001 Niaz Naik had said, a well-known Pakistani politician. He spoke with high-ranking US officials in the middle of July 2001 at a UN-sponsored meeting concerning Afghanistan which was held in Berlin. The American authorities informed Naik that Washington would take military action against Afghanistan before mid-October 2001, that is prior to the arrival of the snowfalls.

Afghanistan is a strategically important state within Eurasia, and shares frontiers with Iran, Pakistan and China along with the Central Asian countries of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In 2001 Uyghur insurgents, from the region of Xinjiang in north-western China, were undergoing training in Afghanistan in the same camps where the CIA had previously trained Islamic terrorists to fight against Soviet forces in Afghanistan during the 1980s.

The Uyghur extremists, supported by the CIA, had been waging war on Chinese authorities in Xinjiang which included blowing up vehicles and marketplaces and assassination attempts against Beijing’s officials. Between 1990 and 2001 Uyghur fighters, belonging to the terrorist organisation the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), carried out more than 200 terrorist attacks.

The ultimate goal of the Uyghur fundamentalists is to sow instability in Xinjiang and separate the region from China by creating a Muslim state. Xinjiang has been part of China since the mid-18th century and has close ties to Beijing.

To the west of China, by intervening militarily in Afghanistan in 2001 the US expected to eliminate the rule of Islamic militant group, the Taliban, which had come to power in 1996 with the assistance of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI. By removing the Taliban it was hoped the required “stability” would be created in Afghanistan to allow the California-based fossil fuel corporation, Unocal, to construct a gas pipeline from Uzbekistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan. Unocal had a history of being advised by the US State Department, the CIA and the ISI.

In addition, the building of two oil pipelines was planned by the West, the first across Afghan terrain through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean and the other, the Central Asia Oil Pipeline Project (CAOPP), which would be 1,050 miles long originating from Chardzhou in Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to an oil terminal at Pakistan’s coastline. According to journalist John Pilger, those involved in the pipeline plans relating to Afghanistan were American politicians like Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W. Bush, and James Baker, a former Secretary of State, and Brent Scowcroft, a former National Security Advisor.

Afghanistan is no ordinary country, however. A landlocked nation, bigger than France, about 80% of Afghanistan’s entire territory consists of either mountains or deserts. The average elevation in Afghanistan is 1,884 metres above sea level, making it the world’s 7th highest country.

Afghanistan’s air is thin and can be difficult to breathe, especially for newly-arrived foreigners. Its mountains are jagged and remote, offering numerous hiding places for wanted men or soldiers who wish to avoid capture. This would be a difficult country for any army to overcome. The local fighters in Afghanistan usually had a good knowledge of the land and were used to the harsh climate.

From late 2001, American soldiers struggled to cope with Afghanistan’s high altitude, lack of oxygen and freezing conditions. Suicides became quite common among US troops, and those caught taking heroin in drug tests increased by more than 11 times over, from 10 in 2002 to 116 in 2010. Perhaps most seriously of all the Americans did not have a real understanding of Afghanistan, where the people are diverse and possess a wide variety of languages and cultural beliefs.

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Shane Quinn obtained an honors journalism degree and he writes primarily on foreign affairs and historical subjects. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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The Globalization of War: America’s “Long War” against Humanity

MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY

The “globalization of war” is a hegemonic project. Major military and covert intelligence operations are being undertaken simultaneously in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Far East. The U.S. military agenda combines both major theater operations as well as covert actions geared towards destabilizing sovereign states.

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Obama’s Broken Promises in Afghanistan

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Have a Nice World War, Folks. The Late John Pilger’s Analysis. His Legacy will Live

By John Pilger

John Pilger passed away on December 30, 2023. His Legacy will Live.

This article was first published by Global Research almost 14 years ago.

With foresight John Pilger focusses on the Globalization of War.

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Here is news of the Third World War.

The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa.

In preparation for an attack on Iran, American missiles have been placed in four Persian Gulf states, and “bunker-buster” bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

In Gaza, the sick and abandoned population, mostly children, is being entombed behind underground American-supplied walls in order to reinforce a criminal siege.

In Latin America, the Obama administration has secured seven bases in Colombia, from which to wage a war of attrition against the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay.

Meanwhile, the secretary of “defence” Robert Gates complains that “the general [European] public and the political class” are so opposed to war they are an “impediment” to peace. Remember this is the month of the March Hare.

According to an American general, the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is not so much a real war as a “war of perception”.

Mapping a World from Hell: 76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington’s War on Terror

Thus, the recent “liberation of the city of Marja” from the Taliban’s “command and control structure” was pure Hollywood. Marja is not a city; there was no Taliban command and control. The heroic liberators killed the usual civilians, poorest of the poor. Otherwise, it was fake. A war of perception is meant to provide fake news for the folks back home, to make a failed colonial adventure seem worthwhile and patriotic, as if The Hurt Locker were real and parades of flag-wrapped coffins through the Wiltshire town of Wooten Basset were not a cynical propaganda exercise.

“War is fun”, the helmets in Vietnam used to say with bleakest irony, meaning that if a war is revealed as having no purpose other than to justify voracious power in the cause of lucrative fanaticisms such as the weapons industry, the danger of truth beckons. This danger can be illustrated by the liberal perception of Tony Blair in 1997 as one “who wants to create a world [where] ideology has surrendered entirely to values” (Hugo Young, the Guardian) compared with today’s public reckoning of a liar and war criminal.

Western war-states such as the US and Britain are not threatened by the Taliban or any other introverted tribesmen in faraway places, but by the antiwar instincts of their own citizens. Consider the draconian sentences handed down in London to scores of young people who protested Israel’s assault on Gaza in January last year. Following demonstrations in which paramilitary police “kettled” (corralled) thousands, first-offenders have received two and a half years in prison for minor offences that would not normally carry custodial sentences. On both sides of the Atlantic, serious dissent exposing illegal war has become a serious crime.

Silence in other high places allows this moral travesty. Across the arts, literature, journalism and the law, liberal elites, having hurried away from the debris of Blair and now Obama, continue to fudge their indifference to the barbarism and aims of western state crimes by promoting retrospectively the evils of their convenient demons, like Saddam Hussein. With Harold Pinter gone, try compiling a list of famous writers, artists and advocates whose principles are not consumed by the “market” or neutered by their celebrity. Who among them have spoken out about the holocaust in Iraq during almost 20 years of lethal blockade and assault? And all of it has been deliberate. On 22 January 1991, the US Defence Intelligence Agency predicted in impressive detail how a blockade would systematically destroy Iraq’s clean water system and lead to “increased incidences, if not epidemics of disease”. So the US set about eliminating clean water for the Iraqi population: one of the causes, noted Unicef, of the deaths of half a million Iraqi infants under the age of five. But this extremism apparently has no name.

Norman Mailer once said he believed the United States, in its endless pursuit of war and domination, had entered a “pre-fascist era”. Mailer seemed tentative, as if trying to warn about something even he could not quite define. “Fascism” is not right, for it invokes lazy historical precedents, conjuring yet again the iconography of German and Italian repression. On the other hand, American authoritarianism, as the cultural critic Henry Giroux pointed out recently, is “more nuance, less theatrical, more cunning, less concerned with repressive modes of control than with manipulative modes of consent.”

This is Americanism, the only predatory ideology to deny that it is an ideology. The rise of tentacular corporations that are dictatorships in their own right and of a military that is now a state with the state, set behind the façade of the best democracy 35,000 Washington lobbyists can buy, and a popular culture programmed to divert and stultify, is without precedent. More nuanced perhaps, but the results are both unambiguous and familiar. Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, the senior United Nations officials in Iraq during the American and British-led blockade, are in no doubt they witnessed genocide. They saw no gas chambers. Insidious, undeclared, even presented wittily as enlightenment on the march, the Third World War and its genocide proceeded, human being by human being.

In the coming election campaign in Britain, the candidates will refer to this war only to laud “our boys”. The candidates are almost identical political mummies shrouded in the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. As Blair demonstrated a mite too eagerly, the British elite loves America because America allows it to barrack and bomb the natives and call itself a “partner”. We should interrupt their fun.

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The Hegemonic UN-WEF-NATO Triad: U.N. “Sustainable Development” (SDG 2030) = Endless Wars, Poverty and Famine Worldwide

«The United Nations as it exists today is useless, inoperative, dysfunctional and an instrument of the empire». Padre Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

“Those of us who do understand the nefariousness of the empire, and the ever-increasing danger it represents, must be clear that the effective defense of life on planet Earth, including that of the human species itself, inexorably demands the existence of an independent and democratic world forum for a genuine and effective defense of the rights of Mother Earth and of humanity.

That is why we insist, repeat and say time and again that the United Nations as it exists today is useless, inoperative, dysfunctional and an instrument of the empire. That is why it no longer enjoys any confidence or credibility whatsoever.

Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann. Managua, 28 February 2011

This article is dedicated to the memory of my mentor and lifelong friend Padre Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann.

In 2020, the National University of Nicaragua (UNAN) established the Centro de Desarrollo Miguel d’Escoto Brockman (CEDMEB).

Padre Miguel d’Escoto’s Legacy will Live Forever.

Introduction

The UN System has over the years become of an instrument of U.S. hegemony. In the words of Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann:

We must wrest it from those who have usurped it so that we, the truly concerned for the future of the Earth, can inject new life, relevance and effectiveness into our world Organization.”

Appointed by Washington, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has more than usurped our trust. He is the epitome of ambiguity and DoubleSpeak, particularly in relation to the dramatic social and economic crisis affecting the Global South.

“Poverty is increasing and hunger is growing… the conclusion is clear, the world is failing developing countries.” said UNSG General Antonio Guterres in his opening presentation at the September 2023 G77 Conference Venue in Havana.

Global poverty has become part of a convenient political “narrative”. What has Guterres done to reverse the tide of global poverty? Nothing!

“Guterres got the UN job only because he is gullible and corruptible. He is drumming the drums of the ruling elite’s narrative – be it covid, climate or the energy crisis; or whatever else may hit the crisis-board. Fossil fuel causing climate change is a scientifically proven lie. No trillion dollars can undo it.” (Peter Koenig)

Guterres is not only an instrument of the White House, his 2030 UN Sustainable Development Project is being carried out in coordination with Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF), which represents the interests of the global financial establishment. Needless to say, Big Money call the shots.

The UN-WEF Partnership

A strategic partnership was signed in 2019 at a meeting held at UN headquarters between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and WEF Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab “to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

Signing of the WEF-UN Partnership

The 2030 UN Sustainable Development Project is the WEF’s “Great Reset” by another name.

This partnership is in blatant violation of the UN Charter. The UNSG is in conflict of interest. He has provided a Green Light to the implementation of the WEF’s Agenda on behalf of powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians, which essentially consists in impoverishing the entire planet.

What should have been debated by the G77 in Havana in September 2023 is the nature of this insidious WEF-UN partnership. It’s a neoliberal agenda to the nth degree on behalf of “Big Money”, to the obvious detriment of the Global South. It is part and parcel of the WEF’s “Great Reset”:

“The UN-Forum partnership will focus on aligning financial systems and accelerating finance flows toward the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Collaboration will seek to build a shared understanding of sustainable investing, especially in small island developing States, least developed countries and landlocked developing countries, and identify and take forward solutions to increase SDG investments” (emphasis added)

To consult the text of the UN-WEF partnership click here

“Aligning Financial Systems” 

While Guterres refers rhetorically to the failed  “global systems and structures”, he is visibly involved in “aligning financial systems” to the detriment of heavily indebted developing countries, which are the victims of U.S. dollarization. 

While the IMF-World Bank Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) launched in the early 1980s prevails, the Neoliberal chessboard has become increasingly complex.

Aligning financial systems” goes far beyond the imposition of “IMF economic medicine”, which historically has triggered mass poverty throughout the Global South.

While the dollar denominated external debt remains the instrument of economic subservience, “Aligning financial systems” is intent upon opening the door to privatization on a large scale affecting entire sectors and regions of both developing countries and the West. 

The large portfolio investment funds including BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard (coupled with Wall Street’s banking cartels) are the driving force. “Their holdings are colossal. BlackRock manages nearly $10 trillion in investments. Vanguard has $8 trillion, and State Street has $4 trillion” (NYT)

“BlackRock Owns the World”


The portfolio companies have strategic investments in all major regions of the World.

BlackRock operates Worldwide with 70 offices in 38 countries. 

“These oligarchs are accompanied by some super-giant financial institutions, like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity and more which control an estimated 25 trillion dollars-equivalent in assets, giving them a leverage power of well-over a 100 trillion dollars, as compared to the world’s GDP of some 90 trillion dollars. In other words, they can manipulate, control and pressure every government on Mother Earth to do their bidding. (Peter Koenig)

Video: BlackRock, the Company that Owns the World

Below are three major BlackRock initiatives.

In the case of Ukraine, the levels of indebtedness are beyond description. The agreement with BlackRock is tantamount to the privatization of an entire country.  

BlackRock In Brazil’s Amazon Rain Forest

The amounts invested in the Amazon are colossal under the auspices of the three portfolio investment giants: “The 20 institutional investors plowed a combined $54.1 billion into nine mining conglomerates … “Of that amount, $14.8 billion came from just three U.S. firms — BlackRock, Capital Group [a US Financial Services Company] and Vanguard — with BlackRock alone pouring $6.2 billion into the mining companies.” (Mongabay) 

BlackRock In Kenya

“BlackRock Alternatives’ public-private finance vehicle, Climate Finance Partnership (CFP), has acquired a 31.25% stake in Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP), the largest wind farm in Africa. The stake was purchased from Vestas, Finnfund, and the Investment Fund for Developing Countries for an undisclosed sum” (Kenya Wallstreet Journal)

Ukraine is Being Bought Up by BlackRock and JPMorgan

In recent developments, BlackRock together with JPMorgan “have  come to the rescue of Ukraine”, whose external dollar denominated debt is beyond description. (See Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 2023)  

The stated objective is “to attract billions of dollars in private investment to assist rebuilding projects in a war-torn country”. (FT, June 19, 2023) 

The Privatization of Ukraine was launched in November 2022 in liaison  with BlackRock’s  consulting company  McKinsey, a public relations firm which has largely been responsible for co-opting corrupt politicians and officials Worldwide not to mention scientists and intellectuals on behalf of powerful financial interests.

In late December 2022, president Zelensky and BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink agreed on an investment strategy.

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The Hegemonic Triad:

UN-WEF-NATO

UN-NATO “Cooperation”

In parallel with the UN-WEF Partnership, the United Nations under Secretary General Guterres has developed a strategic relationship with NATO.

While it is described as a dialogue, NATO is increasingly embedded in the UN system, allegedly endorsing “peace support and crisis management”. The realities are otherwise: the UN is endorsing the US-NATO hegemonic agenda of Global Warfare:

“The complexity of today’s security challenges has required a broader dialogue between NATO and the UN. This has led to reinforced cooperation and liaison arrangements between the staff of the two organisations, as well as UN specialised agencies. (NATO, July 2023

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meets with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

Stoltenberg and Guterres

The UN Secretary General’s “Public Relations Ploy”

Providing a “Human Face” to Global Capitalism 

UNSG Antonio Guterres has launched a stereotyped public relation’s ploy which is intent upon presenting the UN-WEF-NATO Agenda as a means to resolving the climate crisis, eliminating poverty as well as instating “World Peace”. it’s a lie. 

In 2021, in preparation of the 76th UN General Assembly, the UNSG appointed  “advocates” to endorse the Sustainable Development Goals

In September 2021, the UN Secretary-General appointed four new advocates of the SDGs as part of a reprehensible public relations ploy:

  • the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, Kailash Satyarthi;
  • the president of Microsoft, Brad Smith;
  • the k-pop superstars BLACKPINK 
  • Chile’s STEM activist – science, technology, Valentina Muñoz. (Chica Rosadita)

This is how public opinion and media coverage is manipulated at the UN General Assembly.

Censorship in applied. Independent analysts are not invited. 

I have high regard and admiration for the k-pop singers, but for UNSG Antonio Guterres to have invited them to present a carefully prepared script (on his behalf) to the UN 76th General Assembly was improper and unbefitting. 

Also in 2021, Valentina Munoz (La Chica Rosadita) of 19 years old was invited by Guterres to endorse the UN Agenda 2030 in an address to the UN General Assembly: 

Chilean left-wing activist Valentina Muñoz advises the United Nations on Agenda 2030: “This is no longer a negotiation. That’s why it’s called an agenda and not a wish list.” pic.twitter.com/8N4VFoFagj

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 24, 2023

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Sellner: Bereitet Faeser Kriegsrecht vor?

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Man sagte schon zu Raketen und Panzern “Nein” und trotzdem kamen sie zum Einsatz. Macron fordert nun Bodentruppen und kann über Scholz zierliches “Nein” nur müde lächeln, denn er weiß: Sie werden kommen. Was dieser Schritt imstande ist auszulösen und warum Faesers Eskalation von Oben ein Akt von Nervosität ist, analysiert unser COMPACT-Kolumnist Martin Sellner.

Scholz’s Slip of the Tongue Spilled the Beans on Ukraine’s Worst-Kept Secret

By Andrew Korybko

The worst-kept secret of this proxy war is that it’s already a hot NATO-Russian war but an undeclared and limited one where both sides still abide by informal “rules of engagement”.

German Chancellor Scholz’s innuendo that France and the UK have clandestinely deployed troops to Ukraine to assist with “target control” against Russian forces prompted a harsh reaction from the British, but his slip of the tongue simply spilled the beans on this proxy war’s worst-kept secret. No honest observer believed the prior denials about Western troops in that country since their Ukrainian counterparts couldn’t realistically be trained to operate such modern-day arms in such a short time.

His inadvertent revelation, which was shared to explain why Germany won’t send long-range Taurus missiles to that country since it doesn’t want to follow the others’ lead by clandestinely deploying troops there, came shortly after French President Macron’s relatedly scandalous claim. He said that NATO countries debated whether to conventionally intervene in Ukraine when many of their leaders met in Paris on Monday though no consensus had been reached on this ultra-sensitive question.

Although practically every one of his peers denied that anything of the sort was discussed, the Financial Times then quoted an unnamed senior European defense official who bluntly confirmed that “Everyone knows there are western special forces in Ukraine — they’ve just not acknowledged it officially.” Such claims were hitherto dismissed as “Russian conspiracy theories” but now they predictably turned out to be statements of “conspiracy fact” to the surprise of only the most dishonest and naive observers.

NATO to Send Force to Ukraine

The Ukrainian Conflict has always been a NATO proxy war on Russia that was waged by hybrid means through that former Soviet Republic, with this latest development removing any “plausible deniability” about that after the words that just came from the mouth of the EU’s de facto leader. This prompts a re-evaluation of the way in which the unprecedented NATO-Russian security dilemma there has been managed up until this point.

President Putin famously said the following on 24 February 2022 about those who’d like to interfere with the special operation:

“No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, we are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will be heard.”

In hindsight, his warning as aimed at deterring a conventional NATO intervention in Ukraine of the sort that Macron now said is being debated (albeit in a completely different military-strategic context), and it therefore succeeded in that respect. Wisely not wanting to risk World War III by miscalculation, the West instead clandestinely intervened via its intelligence services, special forces, and “mercenaries” (some of whom are presumably servicemen “on leave” while they “volunteer” there).

The Kremlin was aware of this the entire time but apparently concluded that it doesn’t constitute a crossing of its red line, though that doesn’t mean that it sat idly while this happened. Rather, some of its precision missile strikes against military targets and “mercenary” formations like France’s in late January were responses against those who didn’t heed President Putin’s warning not to interfere. In order to manage the security dilemma, Russia didn’t reveal that some of the deceased were Western troops.

News about their actual identities inevitably leaked to social media and particularly Russian military blogger channels but neither Moscow nor the West ever officially confirmed their veracity. Nevertheless, honest observers assumed that there was some credibility to them for the previously mentioned reason related to the difficult of training Ukrainians to operate such modern arms in such a short time. As for the “mercenaries”, these were meant to make up for the meat grinder and intimidate new conscripts.

The worst-kept secret of this proxy war is that it’s already a hot NATO-Russian war but an undeclared and limited one where both sides still abide by informal “rules of engagement”. Although British, French, and presumably also US and other Western troops – some of whom are deployed there as “mercenaries” – help Ukraine strike Russia, their target has refrained from retaliating inside of NATO. Both sides also tacitly agreed not to confirm Western troops’ presence in Ukraine till Scholz clumsily spilled the beans.

This suggests that NATO knows that Russia could feel pressured to resort to nuclear brinksmanship if the bloc boasted about what its troops are doing in Ukraine, but since they’ve thus far played it cool, Russia hasn’t signaled any intent to test Article 5. This in turn discredits claims that Russia harbors aggressive intentions against NATO since it won’t even publicly countenance the aforesaid scenario in self-defense despite NATO troops in Ukraine being responsible for killing its own troops and even its civilians too.

The unprecedented NATO-Russian security dilemma is therefore managed by NATO refraining from a large-scale conventional intervention, Russia not retaliating inside NATO after Western-facilitated Ukrainian attacks against its troops and civilians, and neither confirming the presence of Western troops there. These informal “rules of engagement” keep their undeclared hot war a limited one, though World War III can always break out accidentally, hence the need to freeze this conflict pronto in order to reduce that risk.

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America Is Israel, Israel Is America, and the Military-Industrial Corporate Fascism Is What It Is

By Jerome Irwin

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So far, the 21st century has become yet another horrific-lawless place in the New and Old World’s, with one world war of conquest after another being waged against hosts of innocent people by yet other aggressive invaders; like what occurred in the previous century from WWI onward to the present war in Ukraine and now the war in Gaza; perpetrated by the Americans and their Zionist Jewish allies and partners in still more crimes of world conquest.

What is happening today to the Palestinians in their former homelands of Palestine can be likened to what happened to indigenous Indians, Black slaves and Mexican peasants in the 18th & 19th century history books of America and Canada’s Wild West or Southern ante-bellum states. By then, these massive ad hoc European colonial societies of their times, with the complicity of the rest of the world’s so-called civilized societies, each one champing at the bit to plunder some fresh new piece of the New World for themselves. 

During the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, all these newcomer colonial European cultures and societies regularly, routinely, murdered, raped, slaughtered and stole, at their whim, everything that belonged to the original inhabitants, while their armies were given carte blanche to maim or shoot to kill innocent men, women, children and elders, without any recriminations whatsoever from their leaders as if the victims were nothing more than unwanted vermin who had to be duly eradicated for the betterment of all, to make way for what was still to come.

Yet now in 2024, thanks to America’s latest shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel’s settler-colonial racist apartheid state, its Zionists are able to even more effectively kill or wipe out whole families, villages, refugee camps and settlements of Palestinians; ruthlessly pushing aside, or totally removing, whatever still recalcitrant defenders still remain in their former territories.

The Americans’ 2,000-pound bombs sent to Zionist Israel are yet the next phase in the intensification of the bombing of the Gaza Strip and Southern Gaza; while, at the same time, rapidly carving a one mile-wide swath into what remains of the last remnants of Palestine’s occupied territories with an illegal super military corridor cut straight through the heart of Gaza, from West to East, that will split Gaza’s huge concentration camp, the largest of its kind the world has ever known, into more militarily-controllable sectors of Israel’s invasion and its Machiavellian intent to totally eradicate Hamas as a viable threat to impede Zionism’s continuing blitzkrieg throughout the Holy Lands, totally destroying, in the process, Hamas as a military threat.

Yet, under international law, the Palestinians and their Hamas defenders, that the Zionists refer to as “terrorists”, are absolutely legally allowed to militarily defend themselves and resist, with whatever ways and means at their disposal, the incursions of Zionist Israel’s invaders — themselves deemed, under international law, as nothing more than the actual real terrorists, war criminals and invaders they have been for the past seventy-five years; who don’t have any right whatsoever to use violence to remove the Palestinians from their homelands. 

America Is Israel and Israel Is America as U.S. Ships 2,000 lb Bombs to Israel to Use on Gaza

But Zionist Israel hasn’t ever cared a whit what the rest of the civilized world thinks, least of all what the UN’s international Criminal Court or its Court of Justice may ever say or do about Israel’s blatant genocidal-apartheid intent, because the United States, their arch partner in crime, possesses a perpetual veto in the UN; meaning everything is in the bag to block whatever the world ever creatively tries to do to stop the Zionists in their megalomaniacal onslaught, short of a declared war against the Zionists in Israel, the U.S, Canada or wherever else they hold sway in the world’s political arena. 

Meanwhile, to prepare for its next carpet-bombing campaign, similar to what the Americans once matter-of-factly did to the Vietnamese in Vietnam, the Zionists will no doubt soon use the 2,000-pound bombs, gratis of the Americans, with the same indiscriminate, devastating effect, while countries like Canada and other Zionist-dominated countries throughout the world, will continue to scramble to find yet one bureaucratic loophole after another to continue to ship their military hardware and taxpayer blood monies to Israel.

“The more things change, the more they remain the same”, as the old saying goes: “And, it’s One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For? Don’t worry, I Don’t Give a Damn, Next Stop is, OH, Who Gives a Damn!”, as Country Joe and the Fish once used to chime.

Geo-political Analysts Blame It All on the Powerful Jewish Lobby

Geo-political analysts blame everything that has gone on in the lead-up to the war in Ukraine, and now the war in Gaza, on the actions of the all-powerful Zionist Jewish Lobby and America’s Neo-Cons, but they’re wrong. It ultimately has less to do with the suffocating presence of the ‘Jewish Lobby’, or ‘American Hegemony’ in the U.S., Canada, French, German and British governments, which are only contributing causes of what actually continues to unfold everywhere in the world. 

Beyond the Zionist Americans and Israel’s assault against the Palestinians; beyond the Zionist’s hatred of the Arab world; beyond the Zionist’s desire to create an apartheid state for Orthodox Jews and Evangelical Christians to realize some religious ideological fantasy or biblical ‘End of Times’ prediction of being lifted into Heaven to be seated beside God for eternity; the chief cause behind all the wars of the past several centuries that continues to fuel all the constant turmoil instead is simply the result of pure, greedy, ruthless, insatiable, soulless, Military-Industrial-Corporate Fascism with no allegiance to anything or anyone else other than itself and its massive, never-ending profits and gains. Period.

This mindless juggernaut has simply been allowed to run totally amuck in the world in recent centuries, with no existent societal, cultural, financial mechanism in place to ever rein in this endemic fascism. It’s now the tail that perpetually wags the dog, which, of course, in the Realist School of thought in geo-politics, it ultimately means that, at some point in time, an unavoidable total disaster for the planet and natural world, upon which the human race depends for its very continued survival, is assured.

Nothing on the horizon, seemingly, will ever stop the fascist warmongering Zionist Americans, Israelis or any of their other Western or Eastern corporate allies. Not a final finding of genocide against America and Israel by the UN! Not any rational human diplomatic negotiations! Nor any religious moral prohibition or emotional arm-twisting by the world’s Catholics, Orthodox Jews, Evangelical Christians or any other religious body! 

Unless, that is, there still even remotely exists the possibility of the Palestinians somehow being able, miraculously, through some acceptable One State or Two-State Solution, to reclaim a significant part of their ancient homelands and then, were such an outlandish, miraculous event remotely possible of ever happening, then spend the next several centuries, as America and Israel so far have unsuccessfully been unable to do, to come to some peaceful, amicable resolution between its neighbors among the Black, Brown and White Races to try to live together with some modicum of civility and harmony.

Perhaps, not even the world, collectively, imposing against the Zionists and Americans a total arms embargo, BDS Movement or some other sweeping financial tactic in Palestine will work. Unless, that is, a miracle of all miracles happens, and the United Nations suddenly finds somewhere deep within itself the gumption, backbone and resolve to unilaterally impose and enforce, with the aid of UN Peacekeeper troops from every nation if need be, the International Court of Justice rulings against the fanaticism of Zionist Israel and America’s Neo Cons, and so bring to an end all the murderous madness. 

But, of course, that likely never will happen, and probably, even if it did, Zionist fanatics being what they are, would only quite possibly lead to WWIII or some unplanned nuclear catastrophe that no one wants. 

Which means, in the case of the Palestinians, the world’s newest sacrificial lambs on the Mount, as harsh and as blunt as the choice may be, even with all of humanity’s collective prayers, well-wishes, protests and physical resistance notwithstanding, another one of those bitter, harsh moments in human history may yet come to pass when it’s bend over and kiss your ass goodbye time! Still, Hope springs eternal that it’s not quite that time, yet.

So, here’s the knotty conundrum the world faces: either passively await the slow but inexorable extermination or removal of the vast majority of the Palestinians from Zionism’s racist, undemocratic, apartheid Ersatz Israel; or defy, at all costs, on the ground, to the last human, until everything deteriorates to the point where the unavoidable eventuality of some monstrous calamity occurring is a given. Aren’t the options lovely! 

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Jerome Irwin is a Canadian-American writer who, in previous lives, has been involved in a wide range of diverse and varied worlds, including the Criminology profession with an American police department, and later for a brief-time in the capacity of clandestine communications with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. For decades, in various professional capacities as an educator, researcher, geo-political analyst, and writer. Irwin has sought to call attention to a broad spectrum of world problems pertaining to the degradation and unsustainability caused by a host of environmental-ecological-spiritual-ideological issues that exist between the conflicting world philosophies of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

Irwin is the author of the book, “The Wild Gentle Ones; A Turtle Island Odyssey” (www.turtle-island-odyssey.com), a spiritual odyssey among the native peoples of North America that over the decades has produced numerous articles pertaining to: Ireland’s Fenian Movement; native peoples Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Movement; AIPAC, Israel & the U.S. Congress anti-BDS Movement; the historic Battle for Palestine & Siege of Gaza, as well as; the many violations constantly being waged by industrial-corporate-military-propaganda interests against the World’s Collective Soul. To examine a portion of the eclectic body of his work goggle: “Jerome Irwin, writer” The author and his wife are long-time residents on the North Shore of British Columbia.

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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Money and Weaponized Mosquitos: Dengue Fever Surges by 400% in Brazil After Bill Gates-Backed Gene-Edited Mosquitos Released

The dramatic spike in dengue cases has prompted Brazil to purchase millions of doses of the dengue vaccine.

By Jamie White

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Dengue fever has spiked fourfold in Brazil in 2024 following the release of millions of gene-edited mosquitos by the United Nations’ World Mosquito Program.

In the first five weeks of 2024, over 364,000 cases of dengue infection have been reported, according to the country’s health ministry, which is 4x greater than previous cases in the same period of 2023.

The dramatic spike in dengue cases has prompted Brazil to purchase millions of doses of the dengue vaccine.

From The Guardian:

The rapid spread of dengue has caused 40 confirmed deaths, the ministry said, and a further 265 are being investigated.

Warning: Gates-Funded Factory Breeds 30 Million Mosquitoes a Week for Release in 11 Countries

Brazil has bought 5.2m doses of the dengue vaccine Qdenga, developed by Japanese drugmaker Takeda, with another 1.32m doses provided at no cost to the government, a ministry statement said.

Three Brazilian states have declared emergencies, including the second most populous state, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District, where the capital, Brasília, is located and is facing an unprecedented rise in infections.

Brasília will start vaccinating children aged 10-14 on Friday with Qdenga, the local government said on Wednesday.

Cases of dengue in Brasília since the start of the year have exceeded the total for the whole of 2023, with a rate of infection of 1,625 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, compared with the national average of just 170.

The UN’s World Mosquito Program announced in 2023 a plan to release billions of gene-edited mosquitos in Brazil over a 10-year period in a bid to eradicate dengue fever in the country.

“Brazilian health officials in five cities have been releasing clouds of lab-grown Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents dengue virus transmission to humans,” Harvard Public Health reported in August 2023.

“The country will be the first to launch a nationwide program to release Wolbachia-modified mosquitoes, which are expected to protect up to 70 million people from dengue fever over the next 10 years. And it’s building a factory to scale up mosquito production: Beginning 2024, the factory will mass-produce five billion mosquitoes a year.”

Now a year after the mosquito initiative began, dengue cases have risen sharply rather than fallen.

Notably, the World Mosquito Program received a $50 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is also bankrolling research into the dengue fever vaccine.

The Brazilian government purchased over 5 million doses of the Qdenga dengue fever vaccine, manufactured by Japanese drugmaker Takeda, which also received millions of dollars in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In other words, Bill Gates Foundation money is involved in all sides of the situation, from the gene-edited mosquitos — which has apparently exacerbated the dengue crisis — to bankrolling companies who are providing the in-demand dengue fever vaccine to Brazil.

To what end?

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The End of Gaza. Israel’s Genocide Is Proceeding According to Plan

Netanyahu and Biden will bathe in rivers of blood.

By Dr. Paul Larudee

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I feel like I’m watching the film “Don’t Look Up”. We all know that the comet is headed straight toward us, but our society paralyzes itself with self-interest, corruption and politics until the avoidable inevitable happens.

Israel’s genocide is proceeding according to plan, and it looks like we won’t have to wait long for its accomplishment. In return for $10 billion, Egypt will accept the stampeding masses of desperate, starving and terrified Palestinians after a false flag atrocity that will be blamed on Hamas, including demolition of part of the razorwire-festooned border wall through which the mostly women and children will be driven, by bombs raining from the skies and relentless bullets from the muzzles of Israel’s valiant young soldiers, creating a path of corpses and pieces of corpses. 

Most of Gaza Strip Is Now a Wasteland. Children are Being Starved. Military Intervention and Israeli Embargo Are Necessary

Of course Egypt was lying about creating a camp for 60,000 refugees only. That particular camp will hold 100,000 or more, and a gulag of camps is being built to hold a total of perhaps up to 2 million. The fix is in.

Netanyahu and Biden will bathe in rivers of blood.

Will the world stop it from happening? I see no sign that it will. All of the reaction has been in the form of words. Words from the International Court of Justice. Words from the United Nations. Words from even the rest of us, marching in the streets, confronting Tony Blinken outside his home, and similar vocal utterances. Only the Palestinian resistance, Yemen, Hezbollah and the other resistance groups are taking real action.

When will it happen? How much time do we still have to make a difference? My guess is a few weeks at most, maybe a month. The Gaza Flotilla, which was only intended to deliver its humanitarian cargo to Egypt, to be trucked into Gaza, will probably arrive too late to be distribute its aid anywhere other than to the Palestinian population driven into the Egyptian Sinai, not the remnants in Gaza. 

Then what? A lot of hand wringing and condemnations. More words. Netanyahu will be triumphant even if he is reviled internationally. By his own people, he will be lauded for “doing what needed to be done” and to hell with the rest of the world, who are all antisemites, anyway. 

Will Biden be so reviled that he won’t run for a second term? I suspect that this has already been part of the script for weeks or months, perhaps longer. He will be tainted, so that his successor will not be. And who will that be? Hillary Clinton, of course. She and her Democrats will try to so handicap Trump, legally and otherwise, that she will win. But she underestimates the revulsion that the American public bears for her. I think she will fail again, unless Trump meets a violent end, and perhaps not even then. From there, I hesitate to predict the consequences. Or perhaps Biden won’t be tainted enough in the minds of the American public, thanks to the official Ministry of Information, AKA the obsequious corporate media. The result will be the same, in any case.

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Paul Larudee is a retired academic and current administrator of a nonprofit human rights and humanitarian aid organization. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Featured image: Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in Rafah, the last refuge in southern Gaza. Photo credit: MENAFN 

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