Bulletin N° 1093 

 

“Freaks”

https://archive.org/details/Freaks1932_201812

or

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x617an4

(1:04:17)

by Tod Browning

1932

 

 

 

Subject: The Late Capitalist Crisis and « Murder Incorporated. »

 

 

 

Grenoble

March 12, 2023

 

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

 

The era in which we now live might very well become known as the concluding years of “the Long Century of Pain”, with the human sacrifices in Ukraine, the mass killings and mutilations by “medications” around the world, the Psyops calculated to produce mass fear and self-destructive hysteria, the systematic impoverishment of millions upon millions of people in a world of “artificial scarcity,” etc., etc... - all imposed by late-capitalist imperatives.

 

These events were, to be sure, preceded by more atrocities including the over 4 million causalities in the Korean War and millions more in Vietnam War, the Iraq Invasion, and the military massacres in Afghanistan and Syria; the 9/11 hoax, and the subsequent War against Terrorism, and not to mention the barbaric slaughters, before that, of over 20 million people during the so-called “Cold War” - which constantly enriched the owners of capital and enabled them to produce more opportunities to gain greater control of society.

 

Violent social class relationships are not new, of course. Historians recount similar phenomena in the pre-capitalist era, such as the grotesque event of human sacrifice in 13th-century Aztec civilization, when within a period of four days 80,000 virgins were slaughtered by priests atop a pyramid outside of Mexico City, their hearts cut out and while still beating eaten by the elite - all this to appease their Sun God so that the sun would continue to shine on the empire.

 

Life is cheap in the capitalist way of thinking, and as we become less exploitable we have every reason to worry that we are all expendable, unless …!

 

 

The 26 + items below serve to illustrate questions which many people in the Anglophone world are discussing in search of an exit (as opposed to an evasion) from this suicidal path of mayhem that has become our routine way of life. The urges, the rationalizations, the pragmatic use of scapegoats are predictable results of inequality, which today is reproduced and augmented by capitalist ownership of the means of production.

 

We must first come to terms with our own habitual feelings of helplessness and fear, and assume partial responsibility for what we have been successfully manipulated to become.

 

The next step is toward ingenuous dialogue. The 20th-century history of the Gulags and the Great Leap Forward has taught many of us that we must become vigilant warriors for human dignity and freedom, that the ends cannot always be used to justify the means. It is apparent that the cure is sometimes worse than the disease.   

 

 

 

Sincerely,

Francis McCollum Feeley

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Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org

 

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin—Former Member of Raytheon Board of Directors—Has Awarded

Over $30 Billion in Contracts to Raytheon Since His Confirmation in January, 2021

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/10/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-former-member-of-raytheon-board-of-directors-has-awarded-over-30-billion-in-contracts-to-raytheon-since-his-confirmation-in-january-2021/?mc_cid=21ef35d4f4&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d?mc_cid=21ef35d4f4&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d?mc_cid=21ef35d4f4&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by  Jeremy Kuzmarov

version Fr: https://covertactionmagazine.com/fr/2023/03/10/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-former-member-of-raytheon-board-of-directors-has-awarded-over-30-billion-in-contracts-to-raytheon-since-his-confirmation-in-january-2021/?mc_cid=21ef35d4f4&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d?mc_cid=21ef35d4f4&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

 

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WATCH: Assange Belmarsh Tribunal Live From Sydney

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/02/watch-assange-belmarsh-tribunal-live-from-sydney/

Consortium News’ CN Live! is broadcasting the Belmarsh Tribunal live from Sydney, Australia on Saturday at 3 am EST, 8 am GMT and 7 pm AEDT. Among the speakers are Stella Assange, Yanis Varoufakis, Jennifer Robinson and David McBride.

 

As the pressure mounts on the Australian government to intervene with the U.S. government, join us live for the Assange Belmarsh Tribunal in Sydney on March 4 at 7pm AEST (8am GMT, 3am EST) when some of Australia’s most prominent politicians, lawyers, journalists and whistleblowers testify in defense of imprisoned publisher Julian Assange.

 

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Virtue and Terror: How the New Normal was Created

https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/18/virtue-and-terror-how-the-new-normal-was-created/

by Simon Elmer

The past three years have exposed the structural flaw in Western democracy with more disastrous consequences for its populations than at any time in recent history.

It’s generally known that democracy, from the Ancient Greek dēmokratia, means ‘rule by the people’; but it is perhaps less widely known that the fifth-century city-state of Athens on which the West modelled its democracy was a slave-owning society in which only adult males and hereditary citizens comprising maybe 10-15 per cent of the population had the right to vote.

The universal suffrage we have in the UK today was only attained through centuries of political struggle, and is predicated, at least in principle, on an equally universal education. One of the arguments against extending rights of suffrage that were originally restricted to landowners, then to property owners, then to heads of households, then to men over twenty-one, then to propertied women over thirty, and only eventually made a universal right, was that according equal votes to individuals with vastly unequal levels of education, influence and understanding of policy was politically suicidal.

The counter argument, which eventually won out, is that those who, because of their wealth or education or age or gender, had the right to vote, were unlikely to do so against their interests, making their political franchise a guarantee of political hegemony.

The eventual concession to universal suffrage, however, gave those who grudgingly conceded it ample time to turn this threat to their advantage, and make the vastly expanded electorate the object of demographically targeted political strategies. It was from this necessity, and from the opportunity it afforded, that the modern mass media were born.

A century later, universal suffrage has produced not the Platonic ideal of a universally educated, socially conscientious and politically informed demos but, to the contrary, a people governed by virtue and terror. It is not only in the interests of a Government and its beneficiaries to keep the electorate both ignorant and stupid; it is necessary in order to maintain its grip on power — and not only a sitting Government but every political party that hopes to form one.

This hardly needs to be argued, as the evidence of the erasure of our politics, which every year descends to new lows of populism, is denied only by those who strut on its stages, script its tragedies and direct their endings from behind the scenes.

For the same reason, universal education, which has always served to indoctrinate citizens into the dominant ideology, has been transformed into more or less explicit propaganda for the changing values and pressing needs of Western capitalism far beyond how we vote. Globalism, multiculturalism, political correctness, identity politics, environmental fundamentalism, the orthodoxies of woke and now the dogma and cultic practices of biosecurity are all products of the neoliberalisation of our education, media and culture industries.

The result of this ideological co-ordination of every sector of our society is that the most educated demographic in human history, the middle classes of the West, is now the most easily manipulated populace in history. A century and more of universal suffrage and education has created not ‘rule by the people’ but a demos in thrall to the ever-expanding technologies of biopower.

The systemic exploitation of this flaw in our democracy means that our lives are now effectively ruled by the most gullible, the most afraid, the most obedient and the most compliant members of our society, on the grounds that they constitute a democratic consensus. It is not by chance that every crisis manufactured to justify removing our freedoms is turned into a ‘health’ crisis.

Just as our human rights, discarded on the justification of the health and safety of the ‘people’, have become the means by which our lives have been taken into the protective custody of the state, so too our democracy has become the means by which the institutions and processes of democratic oversight and accountability have been dismantled and replaced by the rule of a global technocracy implementing a totalitarian system of governance.

How this was done, by whom, for whose benefit and to what ends is the subject of the articles collected in these two volumes. Originally appearing between April 2020 and October 2021, these articles are a record of how, with the collaboration of a terrorised and virtuous public, a threat to public health that never existed was turned into a ‘crisis’, and on the justification of combatting it the ‘vaccination’ programme was implemented, laying the foundations for the UK biosecurity state of today.

Collected in two volumes, Virtue and Terror and The New Normal, their publication marks the third anniversary since the ‘pandemic’ was officially declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020. But they also serve a more immediate purpose.

As the evidence of the immense and increasing damage of both lockdown and the UK ‘vaccination’ programme has become too overwhelming for all but the COVID faithful to ignore, those who called loudest for their enforcement — politicians, journalists and doctors — have claimed not only that they did not know what the consequences would be but that nobody else knew either, and have made plaintive appeals for an ‘amnesty’ between the financially ruined, psychologically traumatised, ‘vaccine’ injured and bereaved and those responsible for their suffering and loss. I’m happy to say that these appeals have been almost universally rejected and denounced for what they are: denials of culpability by cowards and criminals.

The data and analysis contained in these articles are a reminder and historical record that those who took the time to look knew almost from the start that the coronavirus ‘crisis’ had been manufactured, that closing down the economy for two years would impoverish millions and enrich a few, that printing hundreds of billions of pounds in quantitative easing to save it from collapse would lead to rampant inflation, that withdrawing medical diagnosis, care and treatment for 68.8 million people for two years would cause the deaths of tens of thousands of UK citizens, and that injecting 170 million doses of experimental gene therapies into a terrorised public would kill thousands, injure millions, and go on to have still unknown consequences for the health and lives of the British people.

 

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With Us or Against Us’ Fails in Munich and Bengaluru as U.S. Tries ‘Offer They Can’t Refuse’

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/06/with-us-or-against-us-fails-in-munich-and-bengaluru-as-u-s-tries-offer-they-cant-refuse/?mc_cid=95cc78f2f2&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Dee Knight

You can’t be neutral” in NATO’s proxy war with Russia, foreign ministers of the U.S., Germany and Ukraine told leaders of Global South countries at the Munich Security Conference on February 18. “Neutrality is not an option,” said Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, “because then you are standing on the side of the aggressor.” In January Baerbock told the Council of Europe “We are fighting a war against Russia.”

 

Annalena Baerbock [Source: annalena.baerbock.de]

 

U.S. Secretary of State Blinken echoed his German counterpart, stressing “You really can’t be neutral.”

 

Why not? What motivates this Mafia style pressure?

“Nearly 90 percent of the World Isn’t Following Us on Ukraine,” blared a Newsweek opinion piece last September 15. “While the United States and its closest allies in Europe and Asia have imposed tough economic sanctions on Moscow, 87 percent of the world’s population has declined to follow us. Economic sanctions have united our adversaries in shared resistance. Less predictably, the outbreak of Cold War II has also led countries that were once partners or non-aligned to become increasingly multi-aligned.”

 

In 2002, before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, George Bush Junior told western European leaders “You are either with us, or against us,” even if they didn’t believe Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction.”

 

“My Way or No Highway” is the title of a section of the Munich Security Report. Some Non-Aligned members felt this was a warning not to participate in China’s Belt and Road Initiative—their preferred “highway.” The section cites Chinese President Xi Jinping that “Mechanisms for countering foreign sanctions, interference, and long-arm jurisdiction will be strengthened.”

 

Immediately after the Munich conference, at a summit in Bengaluru, India (aka Bangalore), U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said G20 countries must condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and they must adhere to U.S. sanctions against Russia. But India, the chair of the G20, demurred. Indian officials said “India is not keen to discuss or back any additional sanctions on Russia during the G20… The existing sanctions on Russia have had a negative impact on the world.”

 

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The 30th Anniversary of the FBI’s Biggest Bomb

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/09/the-30th-anniversary-of-the-fbis-biggest-bomb/

by James Bovard

Thirty years ago last week, the largest terrorist attack in American history up to that time occurred when a 1200-pound bomb exploded beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. It was sheer luck that the explosion did not topple the entire skyscraper and kill thousands of people.  On the anniversary, politicians held solemn ceremonies but made no mention of the FBI’s role in that disaster.

On November 5, 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated at a New York hotel. Kahane advocated banishing all Arabs from Israel and the occupied territories, and his political party was banned from the Knesset for “inciting racism” and “endangering security.” Kahane was shot by El Sayyid Nosair, a 36-year-old Egyptian immigrant, who was part of an anti-Israeli cabal of Muslims in the New York area. When police searched Nosair’s residence, they carried off 47 boxes of documents, paramilitary manuals, maps, and diagrams of buildings (including the World Trade Center).

No one in the New York FBI office could read Arabic, so those documents – labeled “a road map” to the 1993 bombing – were left in storage for more than two years.  A 2002 congressional report noted that the New York Police Department “resisted attempts to label the Kahane assassination a ‘conspiracy’ despite the apparent links to a broader network of radicals” because they “wanted the appearance of speedy justice and a quick resolution to a volatile situation.”  Nosair’s legal defense was reportedly financed by Osama Bin Laden.

The trial, which began in late 1991, was “marked by rioting outside the courthouse, death threats against the judge and lawyers, calls for ‘blood’ revenge against the defendant and cries of ‘Death to Jews!’ from his Moslem supporters,” the National Law Journal reported. The FBI placed an informant named Emad Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian military officer, in the midst of the Muslim protesters. Salem insinuated himself and became the bodyguard for Sheik Abdul Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric. Despite stark evidence, a New York jury bizarrely found Nosair not guilty of murder.

In mid-1992, Salem repeatedly warned the FBI that radical Muslims were planning to carry off a catastrophic bombing in New York City. FBI supervisors were convinced he was concocting tall tales and ceased paying him $500 a week. On February 26, 1993, a massive bomb in a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, killing six people, injuring more than a thousand, and causing half a billion dollars in damage. If the van had been parked a few feet closer to one of the pillars, an entire tower of the Trade Center could have collapsed.

 

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FLASHBACK: Requiem for the Suicided: Terrance Yeakey (2010)

https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-yeakey/

with James Corbett

(41:10)

FROM 2010: This week we turn the focus of our open source investigation to Sgt. Terrance Yeakey,

one of the first responder heroes at the scene of the OKC bombing who discovered something that conflicted

with the official story of the bombing...something that cost him his life.

 

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“Trudeau Is A Plant Of Globalists & Economic Elites”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxzap7znaMA&feature=youtu.be

with Jimmy Dore and David Freiheit

(9:33)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must have thought he was engaging in some fun back-and-forth with the citizenry when he posted a video on Twitter asking for questions. Except Trudeau wound up getting wildly ratio’d, in part over his support for sending untold billions to Ukraine while so many Canadians remain in dire need at home.

 

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Watch “Putin and China just scored a KNOCK OUT blow to the U.S. economy and we’re screwed”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njuciwhybSU&feature=youtu.be

withMorris Clayton

(14:25)

 

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Watch “Economic Update: Establishment Media & Russia”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h42kWTaEqZg&feature=youtu.be

with Richard Wolf and Aaron Maté

(28:24)

 

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What is the Delphi Technique? - Questions For Corbett #098

https://www.corbettreport.com/qfc-delphi/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with James Corbett

(23:07)

 

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EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex

https://public.substack.com/p/exposed-americas-secret-censorship

by Michael Shellenberger

U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment

 

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The Censorship Industrial Complex

https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-censorship-industrial-complex?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by CJ Hopkins

 

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Russia Abandons The West For Asia - This Pivot Will Change The World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8fcPFiotfg

with Sean Foo

(14:53)

Russia is moving away from Europe and shifting all its focus to Asia, specifically China and India. This groundbreaking move will shift the world order further away from the West while Asia will continue to gain economic power, and it all hinges on cheap Russian energy. The sanctions have backfired and we could see a situation where the EU could once again knock on Russia's door to buy oil and gas!

 

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WE NEED CHANGE | Tim Pool & Russell Brand Discuss The Collapse of Narratives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgIHfFeJYJA

with Russell Brand and Tim Pool

(17:52)

 

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Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”

https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/05/quoth-the-vultures-evermore/

by Edward Curtin

 

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“Woody Harrelson Breaks The Sound Barrier On SNL”

https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1629753381249224704?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=emailwith Woody Harrelson

(0:27)

Woody Harrelson goes Anti-Vax on SNL: “The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel's drugs.”

 

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“Drug Cartels have corrupted governments and have a world-wide monopoly”

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/friday-funnies-drug-cartels?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

 

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Were we really assholes as felt by CDC, NIH & HHS? Did Fauci, Francis Collins, Walensky, Birx, Bourla, Bancel, Hahn, Azar, Jha etc. think we are & were assholes? That our kids were stupid assholes???

https://celiafarber.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Dr. Paul Alexander

“I love how uninhibited Dr. Paul Alexander is, and his white hot rage that never dims. His rage is entirely appropriate. Mine is very repressed but I truly appreciate how he uses this word "assholes" here. Heroic fury.”

--Celia Farber

Were we really assholes as felt by CDC, NIH & HHS? Did Fauci, Francis Collins, Walensky, Birx, Bourla, Bancel, Hahn, Azar, Jha etc. think we are & were assholes? That our kids were stupid assholes???

 

Tell me what you think, reply, comment, let us debate it for to me, they sure thought of us as morons & assholes, stupid idiots for what they pulled off on us; yet I think you were way smarter; you?

 

Did they think our children were assholes and can just be abused with their COVID lunatic school closure policies and the fraud gene injection? Did they think McCullough was a moron? Or Risch? That Oskoui was an idiot? When they stood up for right and showed you the real science? Or I was a fool? Did they? That Atlas was insane? Did the alphabet agency morons at CDC and NIH think they could shine the shoes of these above named technical experts, dripping with acumen and depth the likes they could never have.

 

Look around, we are vindicated now, it has all come full-circle and these malfeasants are running to the hills, and while they may have thought so, that they can dehumanize and devastate the society and harm and kill people, that you could kill our children with your lockdowns and fraud injection, and then get away with it, look around, we are running toward them now, it is them running away, sending out their flip flopping prior supporters and advocates to now tell us they are on our side. No, no amnesty, we won’t let them.

 

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You thought we were assholes? IMO, and based now on what has happened after 3 years of your COVID lockdown lunacy, your evil, the only evil, duplicitous, malevolent ones are the legacy media today in US and Canada and UK and Australia etc. and you at FDA, CDC, NIH, HHS and you alphabet health agency officials. All of you. The real subversives are the government alphabet health agency so called experts and leaders. The real top dog malevolents who placed us in the mess we still are in today, are the medical doctors who sided with their governments, incentivized no doubt, who denied early treatment and killed people, refused to treat, whose brains seemed to have fallen out of their assholes as they chose to protect their salaries while denying Suzie her exemption letter so Suzie could go home unemployed and then hang herself.

 

That’s the real devil, the medical doctors around us, who denied natural immunity saying it was inferior to vaccinal immunity when we had 2,500 years of evidence that it was real and 100% bullet proof, who helped the governments mandate a fraud failed deadly mRNA-DNA gene injection that did not sterilize/neutralize the virus (did not stop infection, replication, or transmission), who helped sedate our parents with paralytics, midazolam, diamorphine, with deadly toxic drugs, intubated and ventilated and blew up our parents lungs, who left them in isolation and misery in the dark back rooms of the hospitals, dying, lonely, we could not even see them to give a touch, nor even bury them, malnourished, dehydrated, pumped with Fauci’s kidney and liver toxic Remdesivir. You want to talk hell-worthy feral, banal, fecal devil? Talk then about medical doctors around us. Then you are really describing too the legacy media, especially the ones in Washington, DC. That is putridity in spades.

 

And you want me to forget you? Never! It is never too late to apologize for your malevolence, but there will be proper legal justice for you all who did this, who ransacked our lives and society.

 

We want real justice and accountability in proper legal forums. We want their money taken away and many of them imprisoned for they caused deaths of innocent people by their lockdown lunacy and fraud mRNA technology gene injection. We want death penalty too if a court warrants this. I will agree if a judge calls for it. No argument by me. Place the death penalty on the table, even for senators, MPs, MPPs, congresspeople who played a role in costing lives, once shown in proper legal settings, leaders of nations too.

 

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“The Law of Rule”

https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-law-of-rule?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by James Corbett

As viewers and listeners of The Corbett Report will know by now, it's official: Canada has criminalized dissent.

Yes, Paul Rouleau—the judge appointed by the Canadian government to lead the Public Order Emergency Commission examining the Canadian government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act last year to crack down on the Freedom Convoy—has delivered his thoroughly unsurprising verdict: the Canadian government was completely justified in its actions!

So what does this all mean?

For starters, it means that government officials now have carte blanche to invoke the Emergencies Act whenever they want in order to squelch any protest movement they dislike before the protest has the chance to effect any significant change.

But beyond that, we are witnessing the apotheosis of that rule by emergency that I identified last year as the new governing paradigm for the erstwhile "liberal Western democracies."

And if that realization doesn't send a chill down your spine, then you're not paying attention.

Strap in, folks. We're going for a deeeeeep dive into the murky world of law, philosophy and government this week.

 

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Barbara Stiegler - De la démocratie en pandémie : santé, recherche, éducation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23FyqDcnz-s

avec librairie mollat

(1:02 :48)

Barbara Stiegler vous présente son ouvrage "De la démocratie en pandémie : santé, recherche, éducation" aux éditions Gallimard. Entretien avec Pierre Coutelle.

 

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“The Banality of Evil”: On the COVID crisis and the Limits of Empire

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-banality-of-evil?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.”

Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

 

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Dr. Bhakdi Interview - Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha & The Ongoing Cover Up Of The Deadly COVID Jabs

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/dr-bhakdi-interview-thai-princess-bajrakitiyabha-deadly-covid-jab-cover-up/

with Ryan Cristián

(1:01:09)

 

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Russell Brand tells Tucker about the harmful effects of COVID lockdowns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-U34MAFaM

with Tucker Carlson and Russell Brand

(4:22)

 

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“Are We Medicating Millions of ADHD Children without Scientific Justification?”

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/are-we-medicating-millions-of-adhd?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Yaakov Ophir

What if the scientific consensus is wrong?

As glasses help people focus their eyes to see,” medical experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics rule, “medications help children with ADHD focus their thoughts better and ignore distractions.” In their view, as well as in the view of multiple other expert consortiums, the most appropriate way to treat the “lifelong impairing condition” of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is by taking stimulant medications on a daily basis. 

Although stimulants, as suggested by their name, are frequently abused for stimulating (potentially addictive) sensations of high energy, euphoria, and potency, they are often compared to harmless medical aids, such as eyeglasses or walking crutches. Numerous studies, we are told, support their efficacy and safety, and evidence-based medicine dictates that these substances will be administered to children with ADHD as the first-line treatment

There is only one, huge problem. ADHD is currently the most common childhood disorder in Western-oriented countries. Its ever-increasing rates are now skyrocketing. The documented prevalence of ADHD is not about 3 percent, as it used to be when the disorder was first introduced in 1980. In 2014, a survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that over 20 percent of 12-year-old boys were diagnosed with this “lifelong condition.” 

In 2020, thousands of real-life medical records from Israel suggested that over 20 percent of all children and young adults (5-20 years) received a formal diagnosis of ADHD. This means that hundreds of millions of children around the world are eligible for this diagnosis and that most of them (about 80 percent), including very young, preschool children, will be prescribed with its treatment-of-choice, as if regular use of stimulants is indeed comparable to eyeglasses.

Stimulant brands for ADHD, such as Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall, or Vyvanse rank at the top of the best-selling lists of medications for children. Indeed, the American dream may play a significant role in the proliferation of such cognitive enhancers in the US, but the rush for the magic pills crosses national borders. In fact, the ‘semi-final’ countries that are currently ‘winning’ the Ritalin Olympics, according to the International Narcotics Control Board, are: Iceland, Israel, Canada, and Holland.

But what if the scientific consensus is wrong? What if the medications for ADHD are not as effective and as safe as we are told? After all, stimulant medications are powerful psychoactive substances, which are prohibited to use without medical prescriptions, under federal drug laws. Like all psychoactive drugs, which affect the central nervous system, stimulant medications are designed to penetrate the blood-brain barrier – the specialized tissue and blood vessels that normally prevent harmful substances from reaching the brain. In this way, stimulant medications are essentially impacting the biochemical processes of our brain – that miraculous organ that makes us who we are.

 

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“By killing each other we became more free?”
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/by-killing-each-other-we-became-more?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Edward Slavsquat

A posthumous question from Alexei Mozgovoy.

 

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No, “Covid” STILL doesn’t come from a lab

https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/28/no-covid-still-doesnt-come-from-a-lab/

by Kit Knightly

The big Covid news the last couple of days has been that the US Department of Energy, via the Wall Street Journal, has claimed that a laboratory leak is the “most likely” origin of “Covid”.

Citing “new evidence”, a DoE panel has amended their assessment from 2021, essentially switching “we don’t know” to “it probably came from a lab”.

This is just the latest step in the lab-leak theory’s remarkable journey from fringe idea to mainstream position, or from “conspiracy theory to government debate”, according to Forbes’ article timelining the whole process.

You know what OffG thinks of the lab-leak theory, we did a fact-check on it back in 2021, and then addressed it again in 2022: “Lab leak” theory makes no sense, and only reinforces the mainstream narrative.

Further, it can now be used as fuel for the “new cold war” narrative.

The US can blame China for creating the virus, while China can either claim it was natural or that the US released it in an act of “bio-terrorism”.

Both sides will claim the other side’s vaccines don’t work, but that theirs do. And, make no mistake, both sides will still very much want to vaccinate everyone.

In some ways this is a symptom of the failure of the Covid narrative. The greatest propaganda push of all time ran out of steam just two years in, and is suddenly fighting defensively simply to hold itself together. Because the “lab leak” debate is very much a fallback position. A retreat in good order, protecting – at all costs – the fundamental lie of “Covid”, vizthere was no new disease.

Let’s say that once more with feeling….

There was NO NEW DISEASE!

 

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Catte’s Corner: “lab leaks” & brick walls

https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/01/cattes-corner-lab-leaks-brick-walls/

by Catte Black

The “covid was a lab leak” story was always a back door official narrative that reinforced the reality of the “pandemic” while appearing to be a suppressed “alternative”.

You know, one of those “suppressed alternatives” that end up in the WSJ.

It’s now going to be used to finally bury any hope that 2020-21 will wake us up to the full modern reality of geopolitics.

Remember the grotesque spectacle of supposedly ideologically opposed world leaders all in lockstep, promoting the non-existent “pandemic”, giving the same advice, talking the same talk?

Yeah, they’d much rather you didn’t remember that…

Do you recall how suddenly it was so obvious what they all were?

Little actors, with their lines carefully written for them, scurrying about doing as they’re bidden by forces we had heretofore barely realized were operational?

They suddenly looked so small & ridiculous didn’t they – in their masks & bio-hazard costumes. Speaking with one voice – that belonged to none of them.

We could see they were just employees toeing some company line.

ALL of them. East & West. Left & Right. Putin & Biden. Trump & Xi. All differences forgotten. All rivalries put aside.

Just to sell a lie.

And kill some people with “solutions” to a problem they knew did not exist.

Remember the shock factor as realization dawned – my God, they are literally all in this together and not even pretending otherwise.

Remember how it started to wake us up – like we had never been before?

We had to abandon all our “heroes” because they all abandoned us. Or made it clear they had never really been with us.

They took the covid shilling & got in line to read from the covid script & forced us to face the fact they had never been what we thought they were.

That the world in fact had never been what we thought it was.

I think covid was supposed to launch a brand new geopolitical narrative. I think it was to be the end of “conflict” and the start of the world “coming together” to face a “common threat”.

And I think, like good little actors our global leaders and our tame media were all given new scripts and new motivations. “Ok, guys, in this scene, you’re no longer enemies. You’re seeing that human beings need to work together to overcome terrible existential threats…”

The plan was to get that New Normal communitarian nightmare world all locked in place before we could react – or even get a bead on what was going on.

It was Agenda 2030 in quick time. Six months, not ten years. A bold headlong dash instead of the usual steady creep.

It was crazy.

And it didn’t work.

The fear factor never got high enough. The obvious non-existence of the “threat” became too clear too quickly to too many.

There was pushback. They had to halt and retreat.

And today the New Normal remains just a half-built prison.

They’re still working at it but they have gone back to slow and steady and the 2030 goal. One “shortage”, one act of censorship, one tiny new legislative incursion at a time.

And meanwhile what they REALLY need from us is that we all stop thinking about what we just saw.

It didn’t happen!

You didn’t see supposed autonomous and diametrically oppositional world leaders all suddenly stop being autonomous and oppositional – as if by magic.

You didn’t see them adopt totally new personas on cue and meekly start selling the same pandemic lies, and culling their populations with the same lockdowns & useless toxic vaccines.

It did not look for all the world as if they were all on the same side, working for the same goals.

You didn’t get any kind of glimpse behind the curtain.

You didn’t suddenly get to see how superficial and performative global politics must be.

The New Normal? Please. It was just the old normal, ok? – and frankly we’d be grateful if you’d stop using that particular phrase.

The Great Reset? What even was that? Big ole nothing burger is all.

NO. You were mistaken. Imagining things. Being a conspiracy theorist.

Global politics is NOT performative. Conflicts CAN’T all be turned off in a second when it becomes convenient to do so. And any impression they can was purely accidental/imaginary.

In fact look over there – a war has started! And we can’t stop or prevent it!

See, all nice and old normal.

Oh and ok -sigh… “covidwas a lab leak bioweapon

We feel forced to admit it.

It was those pesky Russians.

Or maybe those awful Yanks.

Or the Chinese.

Or maybe the Iranians.

Or could be ISIS I guess.

Or Israel.

Pick your side. Any side. We don’t really mind which.

Just so long as you totally forget the most important lesson you are ever going to learn about the nature of geopolitics.

Because if you remember it we are rather screwed, and you will be able to set yourself free.

And we don’t want that do we.

What a dreadful unintended consequence of our crazy little covid gamble that would be!

An awake and free world! – Horrible.

No, boys and girls (and “others”), don’t be playing with any of that nonsense.

Just come back to what you know.

The old show. The familiar songs.

Just keep your seat in our theater.

You know you want to really. It’s warm in here. And kind of reassuring.

Just keep buying our tasty popcorn, keep watching our shows. Cheer your chosen good guys, hiss at your chosen baddies.

All we ask is you never – ever – notice that brick wall at the back.

Or if you do notice it – look away and pretend you don’t.

And by the way, have you ever thought that while prisons might not be free – they are lovely and safe.

Just a thought to leave with you – for future reference.

 

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Russia & the lab leak theory

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russia-and-the-lab-leak-theory?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

Was Russia attacked by a manmade virus-thing?

The lab leak theory has officially gone mainstream thanks to the Wall Street Journal and its 130-year track record of being wrong about everything.

 

To summarize the paper’s findings: “China.”

 

On the opposite end of the lab leak spectrum are folks like Ron Unz, who insist COVID-19 was micro-brewed by the Americans.

 

Then there’s Robert Malone, who reconciles these two origin stories by accusing both the US and China of lab-leakage that “killed millions of people.”

 

The implication here seems to be that a leaky lab murdered lots and lots of people, and not the last three years of organized culling under the guise of “public health.”

This is not a very believable hypothesis, in our humble opinion.

We will demonstrate using Russia as a guide. . . . .

 

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Was the Pentagon and CIA Behind the COVID-19 Pandemic?

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/02/27/was-the-pentagon-and-cia-behind-the-covid-19-pandemic/

by  Jeremy Kuzmarov

Bioterrorism expert and whistleblower alleges that CIA secretly collaborated in supporting unethical gain of function research that resulted in the manufacture of the COVID-19 virus, which was then leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Dr. Andrew G. Huff is an Iraq War veteran and infectious disease epidemiologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota who, in September 2014, went to work for EcoHealth Alliance, an NGO that received over $118 million in grants from federal agencies whose mission was to protect the public from infectious diseases.

 

In a new book, The Truth About Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History (New York: Skyhorse Press, 2022), Huff claims that his boss at EcoHealth Alliance, Dr. Peter Daszak, was working with the CIA and that beginning in 2012, he oversaw the development of the biological agent known as SARS-CoV-2 that results in the disease COVID-19.

 

In his book, Lies My Gov’t Told Me, Dr. Malone emphasizes how the “cancel culture” encourages censorship as does the prevalence of tribal tendencies and a cognitive dissonance where people have trouble accepting viewpoints that differ from their entrenched beliefs and reject those willing to speak out against inconvenient truths.

 

These trends are behind what amounts to a modern-day witch-hunt that threatens to stifle the advancement of scientific and medical knowledge and has given a criminal elite free reign to carry out nefarious social experiments that have altered human life as we know it.

Dr. Malone and Michel Chossudovsky’s analysis is reinforced in a new documentary, Science for Hire, produced by WBAI radio host Gary Null, which exposes the corruption of America’s scientific elite.

 

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Murder of Anti-Vietnam War Monk Thomas Merton in 1968 Was a CIA Hit Linked with Assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, New Book Argues

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/09/murder-of-anti-vietnam-war-monk-thomas-merton-in-1968-was-a-cia-hit-linked-with-assassinations-of-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-new-book-argues/?mc_cid=c995b25185&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Phillip F. Nelson

 

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Preview of My Book, Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History Of AIDS: Mark Crispin Miller's Foreword

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/preview-of-my-book-serious-adverse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

 

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How "HIV/AIDS" foretold the "COVID" crisis

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/how-hivaids-foretold-the-covid-crisis?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

As Dr. Fauci engineered his lethal "HIV/AIDS" scam—laying the groundwork for the "COVID" horror to come—Celia Farber was there covering it; and now her book about that episode is back in print

 

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50,663 Dead and 5,315,063 Injured Following COVID-19 Vaccines in European Database of Adverse Reactions

https://www.globalresearch.ca/50663-dead-and-5315063-injured-following-covid-19-vaccines-in-european-database-of-adverse-reactions/5811071

by Brian Shilhavy

The European (EEA and non-EEA countries) database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance,  verified by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and they are now reporting 50,663 fatalities, and 5,315,063 injuries following injections of EMA-authorized  experimental COVID-19 shots as of February 25, 2023.

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“What If We Told You The Famous ACT UP Activist Who Got AZT "FDA Approved" In Weeks & Is THIS Close To Fauci, Has A Brother Who Exchanged Over 1000 Emails With Jeffrey Epstein?”

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/what-if-we-told-you-the-famous-act?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

(10:02)

Full of Strange Coded Language, Reported in UK Press but not US. Why? Peter Staley Is An Historic American after all

 

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Prepared Testimony - Pandemic Response

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/prepared-testimony-pandemic-response?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MTI5MzM4OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTA1ODE1NTY5LCJpYXQiOjE2Nzc2ODA2NjcsImV4cCI6MTY4MDI3MjY2NywiaXNzIjoicHViLTU4MzIwMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.-KlXl-DMcBUQrW8-iUY0S27zme8_q0Sc-Ic0Q-_p-Qc&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

(1:07:50)

For the The Senate of the Republic, Mexico, LXV Legislatura

 

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Ohio Disaster Is Worse Than Admitted, Evidence Of "COVID" Foreknowledge & It's All Happening Again

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ohio-disaster-worse-than-admitted-covid-foreknowledge-all-happening-again/

with Ryan Cristián

(4:16:17)

As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or another. Stay Vigilant.

 

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Watch "Video: Dead Deer & Toxic Chemicals in East Palestine River"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCYeym8FU_Y&feature=youtu.be

with Jimmy Dore

(13:53)

Government officials in Ohio have told residents that the water in East Palestine is safe to drink despite the massive toxic spill from the train derailment three weeks ago. But one reporter’s visit to local waterways reveals that residual chemicals remain in the creekbeds, as well as the mysterious deaths of wildlife. So why isn’t the environmentalist community up in arms about this ongoing disaster? Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger wonder why Joe Biden would prioritize traveling to Ukraine to promise Volodymyr Zelensky billions more dollars in weapons and do so little for the people of East Palestine?

 

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East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy

https://www.blackagendareport.com/east-palestine-ohio-and-oligarchy

by Margaret Kimberly

A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class.

 

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On East Palestine, Dems’ Unwillingness to Speak in the Language of Class Opens the Door for GOP’s Cynical “White Genocide” Narrative

https://therealnews.com/on-east-palestine-dems-unwillingness-to-speak-in-the-language-of-class-opens-the-door-for-gops-cynical-white-genocide-narrative

by Adam Johnson

From opioids to ‘free trade’ deals to environmental destruction, Democrats siding with Corporate America gives right-wing demagogues all the ammo they need.

 

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"This was preventable": Railroad workers explain how Wall St caused the East Palestine derailment

https://therealnews.com/this-was-preventable-railroad-workers-explain-how-wall-st-caused-the-east-palestine-derailment

with Maximillian Alvarez

(1:04:37)

Over 1000 trains derail across the US each year. Corporate profiteers pushing larger trains, smaller staff sizes, and other cost-cutting measures are to blame.

 

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EPA Is Knowingly Ignoring Dioxins (Never Tested) & The Spectacular "Failure" Of COVID Jabs

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/epa-knowingly-ignoring-dioxins-never-tested-spectacular-failure-covid-jabs/

with Ryan Cristián

(2:35:30)

 

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Eight Alarming Cover-ups and Contradictions in the East Palestine Train Wreck Chemical Nightmare Now Spreading Across Multiple States

https://www.globalresearch.ca/eight-alarming-cover-ups-contradictions-east-palestine-train-wreck-chemical-nightmare-now-spreading-across-multiple-states/5810628

by Mike Adams

When it comes to explaining away the single largest ecological catastrophe in the history of America, the EPA and Ohio officials just can’t seem to get their stories straight. Every explanation they offer is a contradiction or cover-up. And they refuse to test for the one thing that poses the greatest health hazard of all: DIOXINS.

Dioxins are always created when chlorinated compounds are burned within a certain temperature range. They’re also the most deadly chemical compounds known to humankind, and they can be toxic at parts-per-quadrillion concentrations.

Put another way, it seems that they cause toxic effects on the human body at concentrations 100,000 times lower than where glyphosate begins to show toxicity. That’s just an estimate. The real number may be a million times or more.

 

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Poisoning America for Profit: A Brief History of Norfolk Southern’s Greed

https://www.blackagendareport.com/poisoning-america-profit-brief-history-norfolk-southerns-greed

by Amanda Yee

On February 3, 2023 a Norfolk Southern train carrying vinyl chloride and other hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. To prevent a potential deadly explosion, officials conducted a “slow burn” of the vinyl chloride, which produced a cloud of thick black smoke lingering over the town for days. The fallout from this spill and the chemicals released has resulted in thousands of dead aquatic life contamination of residential water wells a noxious chemical smell in the air , and mysterious symptoms afflicting residents such as rashes, headaches, sore throat, and nausea.

What happened in East Palestine is just the latest in an upsurge in train derailments in recent years. Norfolk Southern alone is responsible for over half the damages caused by hazardous materials incidents involving railways in 2022.  In May of last year, a Norfolk Southern train derailed in western Pennsylvania, releasing 1,423 gallons of combustible petroleum distillate. Then, in October of 2022, another Norfolk Southern train derailed in Sandusky, Ohio releasing 20,000 gallons of liquid paraffin wax. And then another derailed just a few weeks later in Illinois, releasing over 20,000 gallons of flammable chemicals. 

The East Palestine disaster is an expression of capitalism’s single-minded drive for greater and greater profit: Norfolk Southern has for decades now eliminated services and operating costs to dangerously low levels—all to deliver more and more wealth to its shareholders each year.

What causes train derailments?

The uptick in train derailments can be attributed to a confluence of three factors that epitomize capital’s profit motive incentive at all costs. The first factor is the introduction of Precision Scheduled Railroading starting in 1993—the implementation of which was largely pushed by Wall Street  to cut operating expenses and increase stock buybacks and dividends. PSR means rail companies spend less money on labor in order to create higher profit margins, resulting in trains transporting heavier and heavier loads with a diminishing number of workers. In fact, while 80-90 cars were once supported by five rail workers before the introduction of PSR, after PSR was set into place  two  workers can now oversee as many as 150 rail cars or more . According to More Perfect Union , “In 2002, Norfolk Southern employed 29,000 people. By the end of 2022, the company had slashed its headcount by 33%. Meanwhile, management more than doubled profit margins.”

The second factor contributing to this increase in derailments is that rail companies are making their trains longer and forcing them to carry heavier and heavier freight. Very long trains can also disrupt radio communications between rail crew, making accidents more likely. In fact, the same train that derailed in East Palestine broke down at least once a few days prior, due to excessive length and weight. When it derailed, the train was 9,300 feet long, consisted of  151 cars,  and carried 18,000 tons. Again, this is to generate higher profit margins for its investors, which include the likes of Vanguard, Blackrock, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo , among others. In its 2021 annual report, Norfolk Southern assured shareholders it would increase “efficiency” by increasing average train weight by 21% and train length by 20%.

The third factor is that most railroad trains—including the Norfolk Southern one which derailed in East Palestine—rely on outdated braking technology. That is, trains are still using 19th century braking systems which stop each car individually rather than the entire train at once. Also, in an emergency situation, the longer, heavier trains which have become commonplace are much more difficult to halt.

While the rate of accidents for Norfolk Southern has increased, the rail company reaped over $8 billion of gross profit in 2022 . And railways, as a whole, are the most profitable industry in the United States, with an over 50% profit margin.   

 

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Dioxins: The Ohio Cover Up & The Overwhelming (Intentional?) Incompetence/Malfeasance Of The US Gov

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/dioxins-ohio-cover-up-overwhelming-intentional-incompetence-malfeasance-of-us-gov/

with Ryan Cristián

(3:00:04)

 

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The Vietnam Peace Movement & Ukraine Today

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/01/watch-the-vietnam-peace-movement-ukraine-today/

with Carolyn Woods Eisenberg

On January 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Conference agreed to U.S. withdrawal of all troops and advisors from Vietnam, withdrawal of all foreign troops from Laos and Cambodia, and a ceasefire throughout Vietnam. It was the culmination of a failed US project that cost vast sums of money and millions of lives. For years a vibrant antiwar movement challenged the direction of U.S. policy.

Focusing on the Nixon years, Eisenberg has drawn upon thousands of declassified documents to illuminate the impact of the antiwar movement on the Nixon Administration. In looking back at the Vietnam experience, do those events have implications for the present? Eisenberg’s new book Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of government affect the lives of individuals at home and abroad.

Carolyn Woods Eisenberg is Professor of U.S. History and American Foreign Relations at Hofstra University. She is the author of the prize-winning book Drawing the Line: the American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-49. She is the co-founder of Brooklyn for Peace and co-legislative coordinator for Historians for Peace and Democracy.

 

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Dr. Strangelove is No Longer Satire

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/01/dr-strangelove-is-no-longer-satire/?mc_cid=785e2870bd&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Dee Knight

Expansion of U.S. weapons supplies to Ukraine makes nuclear war more conceivable

“We are fighting a war against Russia,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the Council of Europe on January 24. The next day German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to send high-powered tanks to Ukraine, in a major escalation of the conflict.

“Germany has really stepped up,” Biden said, “and the chancellor has been a strong, strong voice for unity…and for the level of effort we’re going to continue.” 

Biden said nothing about destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines last September, considered by many as a direct attack on its European “ally.” Other voices were not so united. Croatian President Zoran Milanovic commented at the Council of Europe meeting that “The German FM said we must be united because we are at war with Russia. I did not know that. Maybe Germany is at war with Russia again, then good luck to them, maybe it will turn out better than 70 years ago.”

World-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs declared on January 25 that “We are at the brink of a disaster…first and foremost because of the United States which is a major provocateur of this war, and a major threat to peace.” He made an impassioned plea to “get us off this reckless war between Russia and NATO, which is escalating by the day. The Doomsday Clock was moved to 90 seconds to midnight at the same time as the U.S. and Germany agreed to send new highly advanced tanks to Ukraine, in a guaranteed reckless escalation that brings us closer to nuclear war.”

 

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The Historic Urgency for an Anti-War Movement

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/01/caitlin-johnstone-the-historic-urgency-for-anti-war-movement/

by Caitlin Johnstone

The sparks are flying around flash points that could ignite nuclear war, in Crimea and elsewhere. We need to start organizing against those who would steer our species into extinction. 

 

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“We not going anywhere”: Carrying on MLK's legacy, 50 years later

https://therealnews.com/we-not-going-anywhere-carrying-on-mlks-legacy-50-years-later

with Nina Turner, Danny Glover, and Eddie Conway

 

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European antiwar protests gain strength as NATO's Ukraine proxy war escalates

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/27/europeans-protest-natos-proxy-war/

by Stavroula Pabst and Max Blumenthal

Europeans are storming the streets in unprecedented numbers to protest NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine and their own declining living standards. The Grayzone has covered demonstrations and interviewed protest leaders in several countries since the war erupted.

 

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Media Muzzling Anti-War Protests

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/02/caitlin-johnstone-media-muzzling-anti-war-protests/

by Caitlin Johnstone

Western coverage of the war in Ukraine is making people accept the continuous escalations toward world war. We must wake each other up from this propaganda-induced sleep.

 

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Western Oligarchy

https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/02/western-oligarchy/

by Simon Elmer

One of the obstacles to understanding the managed and apparently deliberate destruction of the small and medium-sized businesses that in the UK have decreased in number by half a million since 2020 and the removal of our national sovereignty on the justification of saving us from, by turns, a health crisis, an environmental crisis, an energy crisis or a cost-of-living crisis, is the question of how anyone can benefit from doing so. It’s always difficult to look into the future and predict what is going to happen, but we can look back on and try to learn from the recent past.

If we want to know where this impoverishment and disenfranchisement of the British people is leading and who will benefit, we could do worse than look at what happened to Russia in the 1990s.

When Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he immediately began his programme of perestroika (‘restructuring’) the economic and political policy of the USSR. Five years later, in September 1990, under the policy reform called glasnost (‘openness’), the Soviet Parliament granted Gorbachev, now the newly elected President of the USSR, emergency powers of privatisation. This included the authority to transform state-owned enterprises into joint-stock companies with shares offered on stock exchanges. After Gorbachev’s resignation and the formal dissolution of the USSR in December 1991, the first Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, initiated a programme of privatisation that sought to compress twenty years of Western neoliberalism into a few years in a country whose population had no experience of how finance capitalism works.

Two years later, more than 85 per cent of Russian small businesses and more than 82,000 Russian state-owned companies, about one-third of the total in existence, had been privatised.

 

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How This US Lie Will Likely Lead to War

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/03/02/how-this-us-lie-will-likely-lead-to-war.aspx?ui=1a9aa5929272225005800e010374012622b4f5ada052fec393b5aa18371e3259&sd=20220707&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20230302_HL2&cid=DM1349208&bid=1734224152

by Dr. Joseeph Mercola

Story at-a-glance

September 26, 2022, massive leaks were detected in two Russian pipelines — Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 — that deliver natural gas from Russia to Europe underneath the Baltic Sea. Within a couple of days, several countries, including Russia, agreed the leaks were the result of intentional sabotage.

The sabotage came right on the heels of Moscow's decision to cut off Nord Stream 1's supply to Germany at the end of August 2022. Prior to that, in February 2022, Germany had suspended its certification process of Nord Stream 2, so it was never entered into service.

US Threatened to Take Out Pipeline

From the start, Russia accused the United States of destroying the pipelines. It was a rather obvious choice, considering President Biden had publicly announced that "if Russia invades Ukraine, there will be no Nord Stream 2.

We will bring an end to it."1 When asked by an incredulous reporter how Biden could ensure that, considering the pipeline was under German control, he replied, "I promise you, we'll be able to do it."2

During a January 27, 2022, State Department briefing, undersecretary Victoria Nuland also delivered a near-identical message, saying "I want to be very clear to you today. If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward."3

Despite such direct promises, the Biden administration denied having anything to do with the explosion after the fact, instead claiming Russia blew up its own pipeline, ostensibly for no other reason than being able to blame the U.S. As incomprehensible as that was to any rational person, the mainstream media ran with this narrative.

In early October, Germany partnered with Denmark and Sweden to investigate, using Navy, police, and intelligence services from the three countries.4 As of this writing, that investigation is still ongoing.

Legendary Journalist Publishes Shock Report

February 8, 2023, legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh — famous for his 1969 exposure of the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970 — published a shocking article5 claiming the sabotage was carried out by U.S. Navy divers during BALTOPS 22, a NATO exercise that took place in the Baltic Sea in June 2022.

Three months later, the planted explosives were remotely detonated, destroying the two pipelines. According to Hersh:6

"Biden's decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington's national security community about how to best achieve that goal.

For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible. There was a vital bureaucratic reason for relying on the graduates of the [U.S. Navy's Diving and Salvage] center's hardcore diving school in Panama City.

The divers were Navy only, and not members of America's Special Operations Command, whose covert operations must be reported to Congress and briefed in advance to the Senate and House leadership—the so-called Gang of Eight. The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022.

President Biden and his foreign policy team — National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland, the Undersecretary of State for Policy — had been vocal and consistent in their hostility to the two pipelines, which ran side by side for 750 miles under the Baltic Sea from two different ports in northeastern Russia near the Estonian border, passing close to the Danish island of Bornholm before ending in northern Germany.

The direct route, which bypassed any need to transit Ukraine, had been a boon for the German economy, which enjoyed an abundance of cheap Russian natural gas — enough to run its factories and heat its homes while enabling German distributors to sell excess gas, at a profit, throughout Western Europe. Action that could be traced to the administration would violate US promises to minimize direct conflict with Russia. Secrecy was essential."

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The Threefold 'Why' Behind the Attack

According to Hersh's investigative report,7 the "why" behind Biden's decision to blow up the pipelines was threefold. First, it would massively impact Russia's economy, as its oil and gas revenues are estimated to account for as much as 45% of its annual budget. Once Nord Stream 2 got underway, that income stream would increase even further.

Second, eliminating Germany's and Western Europe's ability to buy low-cost gas from Russia would force them to buy U.S. gas. As noted by Hersh, Nord Stream 1 was bad enough from the perspective of Washington, but were Nord Stream 2 to open up, Germany would be able to buy more than half of its annual consumption straight from Russia.

The 'why' behind Biden's decision to blow up the pipelines was threefold. First, it would massively impact Russia's economy. Second, eliminating Germany's and Western Europe's ability to buy low-cost gas from Russia would force them to buy U.S. gas. And third, he feared Europe would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with money and weapons if they were reliant on Russian gas.

Third, with Europe being so reliant on low-cost gas from Russia,8,9 "Washington was afraid that countries like Germany would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with the money and weapons it needed to defeat Russia," Hersh writes.

A Fateful Plan Was Hatched

According to Hersh, Biden authorized U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to "bring together an interagency group to come up with a plan" for how to address the Nord Stream threat. The task force Sullivan convened allegedly included "men and women from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA and the State and Treasury Departments."

"What became clear to participants, according to the source with direct knowledge of the process, is that Sullivan intended for the group to come up with a plan for the destruction of the two Nord Stream pipelines — and that he was delivering on the desires of the President," Hersh writes.

"Over the next several meetings, the participants debated options for an attack. The Navy proposed using a newly commissioned submarine to assault the pipeline directly.

The Air Force discussed dropping bombs with delayed fuses that could be set off remotely. The CIA argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert. Everyone involved understood the stakes. 'This is not kiddie stuff,' the source said. If the attack were traceable to the United States, 'It's an act of war' …

Throughout 'all of this scheming,' the source said, 'some working guys in the CIA and the State Department were saying, 'Don't do this. It's stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.'"

Will Europe View the Attack as an Act of War?

Unfortunately, that's where we find ourselves today. If the attacks can be definitively traced to the U.S., the Biden administration has not only committed an act of war against Russia, but also against NATO allies! To say the world is now in a conundrum would be an understatement.

Will Germany and Western Europe accept industrial terrorism against them by a supposed ally? Well, perhaps. Because according to Hersh's "deep throat" source, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with Biden at the White House and personally OK'd the operation.

The source also claims Norway, another NATO member, was in on the plan and helped solve several hurdles encountered along the way. Norway also had financial incentive to keep the secret, as the destruction of Nord Stream would allow them to sell more natural gas to Europe too.

But here's the deeper question: If a small group of NATO allies conspired to commit what some have called "one of the worst terrorist attacks in history"10 against allied member nations, in addition to causing one of the worst ecological disasters in history, what will be the result? Will affected NATO members, whose economies and industries have been demolished, accept a sheepish apology?

Time will tell, but clearly, the Biden administration's actions have brought us to the very brink of world war.

The possibility of war escalation is made even more prominent by the fact that President Putin on February 21 announced he is indefinitely suspending Russia's participation in the New START treaty, a strategic nuclear arms treaty with the U.S. that limits the nuclear arsenals of both countries.11,12 The only thing really holding this house of cards together right now is the fact that mainstream media are refusing to touch Hersh's whistleblower story.13

Circumventing Congress

As for the shocking indiscretion of Nuland and Biden in the months before the attack, Hersh's source noted that several of the planners were indeed "dismayed" by it.

"It was like putting an atomic bomb on the ground in Tokyo and telling the Japanese that we are going to detonate it," the source told Hersh. "The plan was for the options to be executed post invasion and not advertised publicly. Biden simply didn't get it or ignored it."

However, the indirect admission also "created an opportunity" for the planners, as "senior officials of the CIA determined that blowing up the pipeline 'no longer could be considered a covert option because the president just announced that we knew how to do it.'" Hersh continues:14

"The plan to blow up Nord Stream 1 and 2 was suddenly downgraded from a covert operation requiring that Congress be informed to one that was deemed as a highly classified intelligence operation with U.S. military support.

Under the law, the source explained, 'There was no longer a legal requirement to report the operation to Congress. All they had to do now is just do it — but it still had to be secret. The Russians have superlative surveillance of the Baltic Sea.'

The Agency working group members had no direct contact with the White House and were eager to find out if the President meant what he'd said — that is, if the mission was now a go. The source recalled, 'Bill Burns comes back and says, 'Do it.'"

Russia Calls for Independent UN-Led Probe

Russia is now calling on the United Nations to establish an independent international investigation to identify "perpetrators, sponsors, organizers and accomplices," as Russia and "other interested parties" have been barred from the German investigation.15

February 21, 2023, Russia convened a Security Council meeting to vote on the resolution.16 According to UN News, the Council discussion got rather heated as U.S. ambassador John Kelley insisted Russia was "abusing its position as Council member" by airing unfounded "internet conspiracy theories":17

"'We are not here to set up a trial in the Security Council,' Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said during discussions. He said Moscow was presenting a request for an independent investigation in light of doubts about the integrity and transparency of Denmark, Germany and Sweden in their ongoing inquiries.

Instead, he said, the UN Secretary-General 'is someone we trust' to lead an investigation … There was 'proof that explosives had been planted' near the pipeline during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercise in the summer of 2022, he said, referring to a recent United States news report by reporter Seymour Hersh claiming Washington was involved.

'This journalist is telling the truth,' he told Council members. 'This is more than just a smoking gun that detectives love in Hollywood blockbusters. It's a basic principle of justice; everything is in your hands, and we can resolve this today.'"

Evidence of 'Gross Sabotage'

UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo, urged parties to "show restraint" and "avoid any speculation" and "unfounded accusations that could further escalate the already heightened tensions in the region and potentially inhibit the search for the truth."18

She did note, however, that preliminary results from the inquiry by Germany, Sweden and Denmark showed signs of "gross sabotage" and that "foreign items" had been seized at the site.

While the Council remained split on the decision to launch a UN-led investigation, many expressed "grave concerns about the ecological impacts" of the sabotage, and agreed that the Council's efforts should focus on de-escalating tensions in line with international law and the UN Charter.

According to an analysis by the UN Environment Program's (UNEP) International Methane Emissions Observatory, the methane emitted during the explosion is estimated to be between 75 to 230 kilotons — a record in terms of being from a single event.19

An Undeclared War

As suggested by UnHerd columnist Thomas Fazi, "We are already at war with Russia," and this "never-ending escalation will result in catastrophe." He writes:20

"Almost a year into the conflict, the narrative of Western intervention in Ukraine — that 'NATO is not at war with Russia' and that 'the equipment we're providing is purely defensive' — is being revealed for what it always was: a fiction.

Last month, at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, another kernel of truth slipped through the cracks at a briefing21 by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley.

Austin and Miller stated in no uncertain terms that the US was committed to going 'on the offensive to liberate Russian-occupied Ukraine' …

The admission that the weapons being provided by the US and NATO are of an offensive, not defensive, character marks a significant U-turn for the Biden administration. In March last year, Biden promised22 the public that the US would not send 'offensive equipment' and 'planes and tanks' to Ukraine, because this would trigger 'World War III' …

Yet in the coming months, the US is planning to deliver 31 Abrams tanks, and even Germany, after weeks of reluctance, has caved in to the immense pressure coming from Washington and other allies …

This is simply the latest in a long list of red lines that the US and NATO have crossed since the start of the conflict … [We] need to acknowledge that we are already at war with Russia … The fact that there has been no formal declaration of war is beside the point …

By providing increasingly powerful military equipment as well as financial, technical, logistical and training support to one of the warring factions, including for offensive operations (even within Russian territory), the West is engaged in a de facto military confrontation with Russia, regardless of what our leaders may claim."

As noted by Fazi, the current military strategy of the West is based on a highly dubious assumption, namely that Russia will accept military defeat and loss of territory without resorting to nuclear weapons. Being wrong would be disastrous for the whole world, and if we're making assumptions, there's every reason to assume Russia will NOT accept defeat before every available option has been used up.

After all, Russia's perspective is that it's fighting an existential threat in Ukraine. Meanwhile, evidence suggests the basis for the United States' interest in, and defense of, Ukraine is related to it being a valuable money laundering hub and, potentially, a secret biological weapons manufacturing ally.

As Americans, we cannot be naïve about this, seeing how it's our lives that will be destroyed were Russia to send nuclear missiles our way. Europeans also need to search their souls to determine whether protecting Deep State interests is really worth the price.

 

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East Germany & the True Test of a Civilization

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/02/east-germany-the-true-test-of-a-civilization/

by Vijay Prashad

A few years ago, a minor medical problem took me to the Hospital Alemán-Nicaragüense in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. While I was being treated, I asked the doctor, a kindly older man, if the hospital had been built in association with a German missionary organisation, given its name (in Spanish, alemán means ‘German’).

No, he said: this hospital used to be called the Carlos Marx Hospital, and it was built in collaboration with the German Democratic Republic (DDR), or East Germany, in the 1980s.

The DDR worked with Nicaragua’s Sandinista government to build the hospital in the working-class area of Xolotlán, where 300,000 people lived without access to health care. A massive solidarity campaign in the DDR helped raise funds for the project, and East German medical professionals travelled to Xolotlán to set up a camp of provisional medical tents before beginning construction. The brick-and-mortar hospital opened on July 23, 1985.

When the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) took power in 1979, the revolutionaries inherited a country where infant mortality rates had skyrocketed to 82 per thousand live births (which would be the highest rate in the world today) and where health care was a privilege restricted to a small minority of the population. Besides, by the time the FSLN rode into Managua, whatever health care apparatus had been built by the regime of the Somoza family during their 43-year rule had been shattered: the 1972 earthquake destroyed 70 percent of the city’s buildings, including the military and Baptist hospitals and most of its health care facilities.

The Carlos Marx Hospital was an act of immense solidarity by the socialists, built in Managua on the ruins of a society brutalised by the country’s oligarchy and by their enablers in Washington (as U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said in 1939 of the dictator at the time, “‘Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch”). Socialist internationalism, from the DDR’s assistance to the efforts of Cuban medical personnel, along with the development of the Sandinista health campaigns, markedly improved the lives of Nicaraguans.

 

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Watch “The US obsession with Russia - A Piece of History”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNZ7biiVNkk&feature=youtu.be

with Jeffrey Sachs, Scott Ritter & Ray McGovern

(55:51)

 

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“Change in Putin, Reality of Relations between Russia and the West II Alexander Mercouris”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udFFX_9zD7g&feature=youtu.be

with Alexander Mercouris

(1:18:49)

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The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of American Journalism

https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/26/chris-hedges-the-trump-russia-saga-and-the-death-spiral-of-american-journalism/

by Chris Hedges

The media caters to a particular demographic, telling that demographic what it already believes — even when it is unverified or false. This pandering defines the coverage of the Trump-Russia saga.

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Trump against empire: is that why they hate him?

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/15/trump-empire-they-hated-him/

by Christian Parenti

 

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The Last Chance to Avoid World War III?

https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/24/ray-mcgovern-the-last-chance-to-avoid-world-war-iii/

by Ray McGovern

The CIA expert and Russia specialist who served seven presidents under risks of nuclear war is alarmed that the war in Ukraine has brought us to the most dangerous moment yet.

 

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“The End Of America’s Empire Is HERE”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKUT9HRFypI

with Russell Brand and Chris Hedges

(10:05)

Is this the end of America's empire?! Here's my conversation with Chris Hedges where we discussed the parallels between the Iraq & Ukraine Wars PLUS... how America is pushing Russia & China together as they escalate the Ukrainian conflict.

 

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Russia’s New Reset with the West

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/24/patrick-lawrence-russias-new-reset-with-the-west/

by Patrick Lawrence

Putin’s announcement of a suspension of the last extant U.S.-Russia arms-control pact this week was a carefully attenuated move. It was also a big deal, but not in the way Western officials encourage us to think it is.

 

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Watch "'Gas station masquerading as a country,' must be running out of ammo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfYRJb93O4&feature=youtu.be

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(34:51)

 

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Col. Douglas Macgregor: UKRAINE IS DONE. Putin will MARCH ON Kyiv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsPSuQAE1to

with Douglas Macgregor, and Stephen Gardner

(26:23)

Colonel Douglas Macgregor sits down with Stephen Gardner to discuss the fall of Ukraine. Putins next moves against Ukraine. The political corruption festering in Washington DC. The Afghanistan withdrawal. DC is abusing the American people as they cause chaos around the world. Colonel Douglas Macgregor also agrees with Scott Ritter on how this war will end and Moscow's big move on the Ukraine capital of KYIV. Ukraine is reeling from the targeted strikes from Russia. Bahkmut has fallen as of today.

 

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“UKRAINE WILL BE DESTROYED”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXj87urVnUo&feature=youtu.be

with Douglas Macgregor

(22:08)

 

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“An Aggressive onslaught”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cEt4FUu1c8&feature=youtu.be

with Douglas Macgregor

(13:24)

 

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The Return of Non-Alignment

https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/02/patrick-lawrence-the-return-of-non-alignment/

by Patrick Lawrence

The Ukraine conflict as catalyst: I wonder how many people who pay attention understood a year ago that Russia’s intervention and the West’s extravagant support for the Kyiv regime would prompt fundamental shifts in the global order such that the world is now a very different place and the 21st century has a very new look. It escaped me, I have to say. I didn’t see last February that so many nations, so vast a proportion of humanity, would lean so swiftly into a new era, or that the principles of this new era would be so clearly defined.

I certainly did not see that the good old much-missed Non–Aligned Movement would re-emerge after many years languishing in the wilderness of post–Cold War geopolitics. No, not with a declaration such as that the NAM made first in Bandung, the Indonesian mountain resort where Sukarno hosted its members in 1955, or in Tito’s Belgrade six years later, when the movement formally declared itself as an organization, but in spirit, in the ethos non–Western nations now stand up to declare as theirs.

Let us watch. In my estimation the numerous non–Western nations gathering in support of the principles and demands first articulated by the gone-but-not-forgotten NAM will stand in coming years as the most significant, determinant turn in world politics we are likely to see in this century.    

There are lots of ways we can measure the wider consequences of the Ukraine conflict. There is Europe’s astonishing surrender of its interests to a voraciously coercive administration as it leads America into its late-imperial phase. Related to this, there are the regrettable pledges of allegiance sworn by Finland, Sweden, and Germany—three nations whose honorable but now-abandoned role was to serve as bridges between West and East.

 

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Lukashenko meets Xi Jinping. “Cold war lines are being drawn”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91y2l_FPGYY&feature=youtu.be

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(17:56)

 

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Hersh: US bombed Nord Stream to prolong the Ukraine proxy war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8QRWPxWP0o

with Aaron Maté and Seymour Hersh

(44:35)

 

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Watch “Seymour Hersh EXCLUSIVE: SHREDS NYT's Nord Stream Report”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s9aDEwfnsY&feature=youtu.be

by Breaking Points

(19:04)

 

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The people vs. capital: French strikes against Macron's pension reforms continue

https://therealnews.com/the-people-vs-capital-french-unions-continue-fight-against-macrons-pension-reforms

with Brandon Jourdan

(7:25)

On Feb. 7, France’s eight largest unions turned out for the third strike of the year against Emanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular pension reforms. The fight to prevent a rise in the retirement age from 62 to 64 has galvanized French workers. On March 7, French unions have vowed to mobilize for the country’s sixth strike so far this year. This video is part of a special Workers of the World series on the cost of living crisis in Europe.

 

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“It's amazing how many people are united at the moment”: UK teachers join strike wave

https://therealnews.com/its-amazing-how-many-people-are-united-at-the-moment-uk-teachers-join-strike-wave

with Ross Domoney

(6:59)

 

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Here’s How To Get Rid of Police and Not Have Everything Fall Apart. I’m Not Kidding

https://www.mintpressnews.com/lee-camp-police-reform/283860/

with Lee Camp

(17:14)

Most Americans are already familiar with the stats. Killings by U.S. police reached a new record in 2022, placing one out of every ten to twelve murders in the U.S. at the hands of police. This, of course, does not even address the millions of lives that have been destroyed by police violence which resulted in other types of injury and trauma.

And in addition to the painfully obvious toll this has on society, there is a financial cost to America’s style of policing too. “The U.S. spends at least $759,325,125 per day on police and prisons… $277 billion [a year],” according to Stephen Semler from a Jan. 2022 Speaking Security Newsletter.

Perhaps it’s time to have far fewer police in our country and take the billions spent on them to fund other jobs that can deal with social crises.

 

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CovertAction Bulletin: Who are the Real Terrorists? Stop Cop City and Jim Crow Legislation in Mississippi

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/08/covertaction-bulletin-who-are-the-real-terrorists-stop-cop-city-and-jim-crow-legislation-in-mississippi/?mc_cid=26991ae98d&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa

(audio, 54:35)

 

 

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A New Orleans play aims to change the conversation on labor organizing

https://therealnews.com/a-new-orleans-play-aims-to-change-the-conversation-on-labor-organizing

by Frances Madeson

Goat in the Road Productions of New Orleans recently presented an immersive play about a family of Sicilian grocers deciding whether to make common cause with Black/Creole grocers during the city’s 1892 general strike.

 

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For the Texas Environmental Workers Union, the fight is against fossil fuels and the bosses

https://therealnews.com/for-the-texas-environmental-workers-union-the-fight-is-against-fossil-fuels-and-the-bosses

by Jules Taylor

Brandon Marks and Chloe Torres joined the Texas Environmental Campaign to fight Big Oil. They’ve found themselves in a two-front battle against fossil fuels and NGO bosses.

After five months of the Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE) not recognizing their union, members of the Texas Environmental Workers Union unanimously agreed to a one-day strike, which took place on February 6, 2023. Working People producer Jules Taylor sat down with Brandon Marks and Chloe Torres for an in-person interview ahead of the strike to discuss the struggle Texas Environmental Workers Union members are facing in their workplace. Union members are requesting that listeners sign on their letter urging the TCE to recognize their union, and consider donating to their strike fund. The Texas Environmental Workers Union is proudly represented by the Communications Workers of America.

Additional links/info below

 

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FLASHBACK: The REAL Middle East Nuclear Threat (2018)

https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-israelinukes/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with James Corbett

(26:16)

 

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US hands lit torch to Israeli arsonists

https://electronicintifada.net/content/us-hands-lit-torch-israeli-arsonists/37246

by Maureen Clare Murphy

The US is paving the way for horrific violence against Palestinians by allowing Israel to go into settler-colony and apartheid overdrive.

By doing so, Washington may also be hastening the end of the total impunity that allows Israel to episodically “mow” down Palestinians who challenge its colonial domination.

Events of recent days will make it more difficult for Washington and its allies to treat the situation of extreme injustice in Palestine as something that can be managed indefinitely.

That conflict management approach – by which the colonized Palestinians are treated as an equal partner to their oppressor while being required to do the occupier’s dirty work – prevailed during the quarter-century that followed the signing of the Oslo accords by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the mid-1990s.

It was during that period, of course, that Israel grabbed West Bank hilltops and accelerated the building of its settlement colonies in violation of international law, further fragmenting Palestinian land and society.

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price typified that approach during a press conference following Israel’s bloody daytime raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday.

Eleven Palestinians, including a child and three men over the age of 60, were killed and dozens more injured by live fire during the raid, which began when Israeli forces disguised as Palestinian civilians opened fire in a busy vegetable market.

Price said “we are deeply concerned that the impact of today’s raid could set back efforts aimed at restoring calm for both Israelis and Palestinians,” implying that it wasn’t the violent raid itself that posed a setback to calm.

Price emphasized “the urgent need for both sides to work together to improve the security situation in the West Bank,” absurdly suggesting that Palestinians are responsible for maintaining the security of Israel’s regime of settler-colonization, apartheid and military occupation.

 

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Absurd and cruel: New evidence on how the EU aims to please Israel

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/absurd-and-cruel-new-evidence-how-eu-aims-please-israel

by David Cronin

 

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Eyewitness: 'Settlers carried out new Nakba' in Huwara - February 27, 2023

https://therealnews.com/eyewitness-settlers-carried-out-new-nakba-in-huwara

by Middle East Monitor

 

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By Recognizing Israel, Muslim Countries Are Betraying the Palestinian Cause

https://www.mintpressnews.com/recognizing-israel-muslim-countries-betraying-palestinian-cause/283892/

by Miko Peled

 

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“Truth, No Matter What”: Why Watering Down Palestinian Reality is a Crime

https://www.mintpressnews.com/truth-no-matter-watering-palestinian-reality-crime/283874/

by Ramzy Baroud

On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an earlier draft resolution which would have demanded that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.”

The intrigues that led to the scrapping of what was meant to be a binding resolution will be the subject of a future article. For now, however, I would like to reflect on the fact that the so-called international community’s relationship with the Palestinian struggle has always attempted to ‘water down’ a horrific reality.

While we often rage against statements made by US politicians who, like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, refuse to even acknowledge that Israel is occupying Palestine in the first place, we tend to forget that many of us are, somehow, involved in the watering down of the Palestinian reality, as well.

While reports by B’tselem, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, dubbing Israel an ‘apartheid state’, are welcome additions to a growing political discourse making similar claims, one must ask: why did it take decades for these conclusions to be drawn now? And what is the moral and legal justification for ‘watering down’ Israel’s apartheid reality for all of these years, considering that Israel has, from the moment of its inception – and even before – been an apartheid entity?

The ‘watering-down’, however, goes much deeper than this, as if there is a conspiracy not to describe the reality of Palestine and the Palestinian people by its proper names: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, apartheid and more.

 

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On False Hopes and Broken Promises: Behind the Scenes of the UN Statement on Palestine

https://www.mintpressnews.com/false-hopes-broken-promises-behind-scenes-un-statement-palestine/283909/

by Ramzy Baroud

 

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Eyewitness: 'Settlers carried out new Nakba' in Huwara

https://therealnews.com/eyewitness-settlers-carried-out-new-nakba-in-huwara

by Middle East Monitor

An eyewitness to extreme settler violence near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank describes the worst attack on his village of Huwara ‘since the First Intifada’. The attacks by illegal Israeli settlers and soldiers left one Palestinian dead as well as Palestinian cars, homes and businesses burnt to the ground.

 

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Israeli Army Helps Settlers Carry Out A Pogrom

Against Palestinians In Hawara

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/israeli-army-helps-settlers-carry-out-a-pogrom-against-palestinians-in-hawara/

by Robert Inlakesh

On Sunday evening Israeli settlers stormed the town of Hawara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, burning down Palestinian homes, vehicles, killing one and injuring hundreds. The attack has been labelled as a pogrom, which was backed by the Israeli military.

Around 64 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured, so far this year, in what is shaping up to be the most violent year for the West Bank since the Second Intifada. At this rate, the death toll may even top last year, the deadliest since 2005 according to the United Nations. The situation is so volatile that the director of the US’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has warned of a Third Intifada (uprising) by the Palestinian people.

Last Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces launched a violent invasion of the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, resulting in the murder of 11 Palestinians and the injury of over 100. On Sunday, an unidentified Palestinian gunman, reportedly armed with a 9mm pistol, launched a revenge attack against two illegal Israeli settlers, shooting both dead inside their car, whilst they were passing through the area known as Hawara. There was no indication that the Palestinian who shot the two settlers was from Hawara and it appears that the shooter had fled far from the location. Hawara is a Palestinian town located close to Nablus and is situated nearby an illegal Israeli settlement, so settlers will often pass through the area.

After the two settlers were killed, fanatical Israeli settlers from the Yitzhar illegal settlement put out calls for a revenge march in Hawara, scheduled for 6pm that night. It was planned to be a violent incursion, during which settlers would have a carte blanch to attack anyone, or thing, they chose, whilst receiving protection from the Israeli army. As planned, the settlers showed up in gangs of hundreds and began attacking everything in site that belongs to Palestinians.

The chaos raged on for hours, as Palestinians were left completely defenseless to the onslaught of the armed and violent racist mob attack. In total, around 100 vehicles were set alight, 35 homes were completely burned down and 40 other homes were damaged by the arson attacks of the settlers. Reports emerged that the settlers were throwing molotov cocktails into Palestinian homes, blocking the exits and when the families would flee, they would hit them with poles and sticks. Screams of helpless families were heard by local residents, as they made the difficult decision to flee their homes with their small children, knowing that settler mobs were outside waiting for them. The attacks then spread to three other villages, where settlers and soldiers attacked unarmed Palestinians, including medical workers.

 

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Activists from Different Worlds: Meet Two Prominent Peace Advocates Working to End Israel's Occupation of Palestine

https://www.mintpressnews.com/activism-adam-bloomberg-issa-amro-israel-occupation-palestine/283812/

with Lee Camp

(1:03:36)

 

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High Court Declines Arkansas Case on Boycotting Israel

“Boycott Israeli Products” in Hands Off Gaza demonstration in London on Jan. 3, 2009. (Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieira, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/02/high-court-declines-arkansas-case-on-boycotting-israel/

by Marjorie Cohn

 

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Canadian Government Partners With Israel Lobby to Delete Pro-Palestinian Accounts

https://www.mintpressnews.com/canadia-partners-israel-lobby-delete-pro-palestinian-accounts/283473/

by David Miller

The Israel lobby is working directly with the Canadian government and with Silicon Valley corporations to quash the voices of those critical of its expansionist policies and systematic oppression of its indigenous population.

One clear example of this came last September when an international parliamentary committee met in Congress in Washington, DC, to demand that Twitter remove the account of Palestinian-Canadian Laith Marouf. Marouf is a multimedia producer who currently serves as a senior consultant at the Community Media Advocacy Centre and the coordinator of ICTV, a project to secure a national multi-ethnic news television station in Canada. He also has a long record of active support for Palestinian rights.

As such, Marouf – whose Community Media Advocacy Centre is funded by the Canadian government – faced official consequences for comments he made critiquing Israel. But the Trudeau administration went further to secure his erasure from social media, which should concern all those who believe in free speech.

Marouf’s case is just one in an endless stream of such acts happening all over social media and beyond. Marouf, in other words, was not the first and certainly will not be the last. Furthermore, his case opens the floodgates for the stream of suspensions to become a torrent.

 

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Video: The archers of Gaza

https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-archers-gaza/3725

with The Electronic Intifada

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The bougiecrats descend into mass psychosis

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-bougiecrats-descend-into-mass

by Toby Rogers

 

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Our Species Is Being Genetically Modified. Are We Witnessing Humanity’s March Toward Extinction? Viruses Are Our Friends, Not Our Foes

https://www.globalresearch.ca/our-species-genetically-modified-witnessing-humanity-march-toward-extinction-viruses-friends-not-foes/5763670

by David Skripac

 

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 “Did We Just Start a Revolution?”

by Celia Farber, The Truth Barrier

Since it is a "weapon," (leaving out "bio") then this is the rational "revolution," and path forward. Please leave feedback. I will post Dr. Joseph Sansone's interview with Stew Peters in the comments section.
—Celia

PS. I would like to hear from anybody who holds the view that admitting there is no SARS Cov 2 will lead to an ending of the massacre, and this is my question: Does a "bio-weapon" exist, regardless of its target (in silico SARS Cov 2) not existing? In other words, can we all agree on THIS?

 

 

Did We Just Start a Revolution?

https://josephsansone.substack.com/p/did-we-just-start-a-revolution?utm_source=cross-post&publication_id=1021940&post_id=105830482&isFreemail=true&utm_campaign=257742&utm_medium=email

by Dr. Joseph Sansone

Last week I presented our Ban the Jab resolution to the Lee County Florida Republican Party and it passed with 80-90% of the vote. Although, the Lee County GOP has thus far been unable to issue a press release because the wire services are claiming it goes against CDC standards and it incites fear. That’s right, after three years of media hysterics and fear mongering, a press release exposing the C19 injections as bioweapons is inciting fear.

This issue is so popular that it has already started trickling out to become national news without a press release. Last Thursday I was interviewed on Stew Peters, and then Friday, Dr. Francis Boyle was on Stew Peters speaking about the bioweapon. Dr. Francis Boyle was the author of the 1989 Bioweapons and Antiterrorism Act, and is one of the world’s most credible authorities on this topic. Dr. Boyle is clear that the C19 injections meet the legal definition of a biological weapon according to the 1989 bioweapons act that he drafted as well as Florida statute.

Mind Matters and Everything Else with Dr. Joseph Sansone is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

The information provided in these interviews lays out the sense of urgency to this issue. The Biden administration is working with the World Health organization to basically over throw the United States government. Essentially, the WHO treaty is written in a way that it will provisionally take effect in May. Naturally, another pandemic is likely planned before the United States Senate would vote down ratification of the treaty. This would mean that WHO could force lockdowns, vaccination, masks, etc.

I know it is not constitutional, but they are doing it. The Supreme Court is compromised. According to Dr. Francis Boyle, they have crossed the Rubicon on this issue. Dr. Boyle is very clear that this is an existential threat to the United States. Most politicians are pretending this treason is not occurring. There are a few things that need to occur. The first is to withdraw from WHO. This is not likely because Biden is collaborating with WHO in this treason and attempt at a global coup.

The Republicans in the House of Representatives need to cut funding for WHO. As much political pressure as humanly possible needs to be put on House members. They need to become afraid of the public if they do not defund WHO.

On the state level, states need to pass simple laws stating that they will not comply with any WHO decisions, and are not under the jurisdiction of WHO. Honestly, secession may need to be on the table.

The other option to save our republic is to get an indictment of Fauci and pharma executives before the coup is completed. Dr. Boyle outlines this in his book Resisting Medical Tyranny. Dr. Boyle argues that the federal government is too corrupt and that it is at the state level that these indictments should be sought.

There are approximately 400 local prosecutors’ offices around the country. A state attorney general, state attorney’s office, which covers several counties, or even a county prosecutor where they have them, could indict Fauci and pharma executives for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. According to Dr. Boyle, once the first indictment is issued the house of cards will fall.

The Ban the Jab Resolution is important. It is an official statement of policy of the Republican Party for Lee County Florida. The resolution states that C19 injections are biological weapons, violate the Nuremberg code, and calls for Governor DeSantis and the legislature to ban the injections, and for the attorney general to confiscate all vials of the bioweapons and conduct a forensic audit. 

It also shifts the debate from mandates to banning. Sometimes it is true that the best defense is a good offense. Weapons wise we essentially are using a bottle cap and we moved the needle on this more than our worthless politicians have since the shots came out.

As mentioned, the news wire blocked the Lee GOP press release. It is totally absurd that one of the reasons was that it incited fear. A press release about a vote from one of the major political parties is blocked by a newswire because it incites fear. This is after three years of terrorizing the American public. Is this an illegal in kind donation to the other party?

Still, the word is trickling out and it is having an effect. I was told that the Florida Republican Assembly, which is a statewide conservative organization passed the ban the jab resolution unanimously, they are just waiting for a couple signatures. They may start hitting up the phones once officially passed. Collier County will vote Monday March 6, Santa Rosa County is supposed to take it up Wednesday March 9. Hillsborough County is supposed to take it up in April. This is with censorship. Imagine if a proper press release was allowed.

If a few more counties fall like dominoes then this Ban the Jab movement may take on momentum of its own. If that occurs the governor of Florida will have to act. I also know of people in Georgia and North Carolina that are planning on introducing the Lee GOP Ban the Jab resolution.

The revolt within local Republican parties is the first phase. This will build momentum and pressure will increase on politicians on the local and state level. We punched through in Lee County Florida. If we punch through statewide and ban the jab, other states will follow, and so will indictments.

So back to the question in the title. Did we just start a revolution?

Only time will tell. The answer is, that it depends on you. Don’t ask permission to lead. If we can do it, so can you. If you are a member of a Republican Executive Committee, introduce this resolution. If you are not an executive committee member, call your county GOP and tell them to adopt the Lee County Ban the Jab resolution. This is especially true in Florida, but we wouldn’t be too upset if another state banned it first….

 

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Honored in Cuba and condemned by Washington, Ana Belén Montes walks free from federal prison

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/01/06/cuba-us-ana-belen-montes-federal-prison/

by Stansfield Smith

“I obeyed my conscience rather than the law,” ex-Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ana Belén Montes declared on her way into a federal prison. Accused of spying for Cuba, she is a hero on the besieged island, where she foiled countless US destabilization operations.

 

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An Ex-CIA Agent's Trip to Cuba

https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/24/john-kiriakou-a-trip-to-cuba/

by John Kiriakou

I had several impressions as a first-time traveler to Cuba. I spent most of my career at the CIA and on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff either living in or working on the Middle East, and I have almost no familiarity with Latin America.  I found the Cubans to be very friendly and profoundly proud people. I was able to meet with scores of intellectuals, poets, artists, professors, and medical professionals. A common sight was a group of people sitting in a cafe, drinking coffee, and debating literature, Afro-Caribbean culture, music, and even women’s studies. The education system is very strong in Cuba, and literally everybody in the country is

schooled in literature and history, with a strong concurrent background in science and math.

 

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Canada in the Caribbean, Caribbean International Service Bureau, 1971

https://www.blackagendareport.com/essay-canada-caribbean-caribbean-international-service-bureau-1971

by Editors, The Black Agenda Review

Just like Canadian racism, Canadian imperialism likes to hide behind a veil of innocence and benevolence – or it lurks, shadowed and half-seen behind the brash and belligerent policies of the United States. Yet, as the panelists on a recently-held Black History Month webinar hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Instituteuniformly agreed, when it comes to the question of imperialism in the Caribbean, Canada is not merely a surrogate to the US, nor has it merely followed the orders and actions of its powerful neighbor. Instead, Canada’s foreign policy has been independent and assertive, guided by the interests and appetites of Canadian mining companies, insurance firms, banking and financial institutions, military contractors, and other corporate entities. No wonder Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeauhas been eager to send military hardware to Haiti to support the unelected and unpopular regime of Ariel Henry.

 

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Canada to Send Navy Ships to Haiti, Trudeau Announces at CARICOM Summit

https://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/canada-send-navy-ships-haiti-trudeau-announces-caricom-summit

by Saheli Chowdhury

Canada will send two navy ships to Haiti in the coming weeks to help the unelected government of Ariel Henry address “gang violence” in the country. This announcement was made by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, February 16, during his participation at the Summit of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), held in Nassau, the Bahamas.

This interventionist move from Canada in Haiti was expected since CARICOM had announced, in a statement issued on February 14, that the prime minister of Canada would attend the summit as a “special guest.” Trudeau had stated that he was “look[ing] forward to meeting with the leaders of CARICOM to discuss how we can continue to work together to support the people of Haiti,” an euphemism for keeping Haiti under imperialist control and chaos.

In his speech at the CARICOM summit, Trudeau said , “We’ve announced more support for the Haitian people, as they work to bring an end to the crisis in Haiti. In the days to come, we’ll deliver additional tactical and armored vehicles—and deploy Royal Canadian Navy vessels off the Haitian coast.”

 

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Crisis in Peru: Everything You Need To Know, with Eliana Carlin

https://www.mintpressnews.com/crisis-peru-everything-need-know-eliana-carlin/283901/

with Lee Camp and Eliana Carlin

(1:00:36)

 

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How the US crushed the struggle for a Somali nation

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/14/us-crushed-struggle-somali-nation/

by Ann Garrison

As Somalia struggled to hold its first real national elections since the country collapsed in 1991, the US and its allies pushed separatism and undermined democracy so as to militarily dominate the country and plunder its resources.

 

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War Over U.S. Military Base Quest in Somalia Rages On

https://www.blackagendareport.com/war-over-us-military-base-quest-somalia-rages

by Jamal Abdulahi

A conflict between Somali unionists and secessionists was spawned by a U.S. attempt to acquire a military base. War and a humanitarian crisis are the end result.

In the February 8th, 2023, edition of Black Agenda Report, I wrote about a brutal war in Northern Somalia fueled by America’s quest for an imperial base. The struggle is between secessionists who want to split Somalia based on 19th-century colonial borders and unionists who are yearning for a unified Somali Republic.

The secessionists are in favor of the American military base. The unionists vehemently oppose it. The casualties on both sides are staggering.

The epicenter of the violence is the city of Las Anod, in the state of Sool. The violence is raging for the 21st straight day as of this analysis.

Over 100 people are confirmed dead among the unionists. According to the unionist civilian defense unit’s spokesperson, many are noncombatant civilians. Most succumb to indiscriminate artillery shelling by the secessionist forces. The wounded cannot be accurately counted as the relentless shelling continues.

Casualties are hard to verify among secessionists. The Hargeisa regime makes an extraordinary effort to hide figures of dead and wounded. Hargeisa is the de facto capital of the secessionists.

One eyewitness who traveled on the highway connecting Oog, where secessionists set up a command center and the city of Burcio, described a bloodbath. The unimpeded bloodstain on the road between the two cities indicates the high number of wounded and corpses being transported according to one eyewitness.

Tens of thousands of Las Anod residents fled. Some estimates put the newly displaced population at 100,000 to 200,000.

 

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Africans’ Message to Imperialism: “We Are Not Your Flunkies!”

https://www.blackagendareport.com/africans-message-imperialism-we-are-not-your-flunkies

by Mark P. Fancher

South Africa's participation in military drills with Russia and China is an indication that the global south are not taking orders from Washington. African nations should continue their tradition as non-aligned states.

In a remarkable display of independence, South Africa defied NATO on February 24th when it conducted naval drills with Russia and China on the first anniversary of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Writer and analyst Steven Gruzd, sensing the anger of the imperialists, speculates: “I don’t think Western nations are going to let this one slide.”

But to date, South Africa has not been intimidated. Obbey Mabena, a veteran of the ANC’s armed wing, while not speaking for the South African government, told CNN: “By default, we are on the side of Russia. And to us Ukraine [is] what we call a sell-out. It is selling out to the west,”

Mabena went on to say South Africa’s posture is rooted in the struggle against apartheid, explaining that when South Africa’s people rose against a white minority settler regime, the then-Soviet Union “…was ready to give us everything that we needed. Give us food, they gave us uniforms, they trained us, they gave us weapons. For the first time we came across white people who treated us as equals.”

South Africa has branded itself as one of the “non-aligned” countries, which since the 1960s have, as part of their exercise of self-determination, declined to become toadies of the superpowers. Nevertheless, Peter Stano, a European Union spokesman accused South Africa of becoming a Russian ally and saying that the country “is moving further away from a non-aligned position.” It is a charge that South Africa vigorously denies, and which makes sense only if one presumes that non-alignment implies apathetic passivity and non-engagement even for purposes of survival, independence, and self-determination.

 

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US Hegemony and Its Perils

https://www.blackagendareport.com/us-hegemony-and-its-perils

by Ministry of Foreign Affairs People's Republic of China – March 1, 2023

 

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NATO's War in Ukraine Accelerates McCarthyism with Omali Yeshitela

https://www.blackagendareport.com/natos-war-ukraine-accelerates-mccarthyism-omali-yeshitela

with Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley

(1:33:26)

 

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Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/28/ukraine-the-tunnel-at-the-end-of-the-light/

by Robert Freeman

“Light at the end of the tunnel” was an iconic phrase used by the warmongers who kept the U.S. in Vietnam long after the War had been lost.

The implication was that insiders could see through the fog of war and know that things were getting better. It was a lie.

In January 1966, long before the military height of the war, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told President Lyndon Johnson that the U.S. had a one-out-of-three chance of winning on the battlefield.

But Johnson, like Eisenhower and Kennedy before him, and Nixon after him, didn’t want to be the first American president to lose a war. So, he ginned up a simplistic lie and “soldiered on.” 

The lie was blown by the Tet Offensive in January 1968. More than 100 U.S. military installations were attacked in a simultaneous nationwide assault that stunned the U.S.

The broadcaster, Walter Cronkite, then “the most trusted man in America,” bellowed on national television, “I thought we were supposed to be winning this damned thing.” It was the beginning of the end of the U.S.’ murderous and failed occupation. 

We’re now facing another light-and-tunnel event, this time in Ukraine. Only now, it’s not the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s the tunnel at the end of the light. What do we mean by that? 

 

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Reimagining Arms Control After Ukraine

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/28/scott-ritter-reimagining-arms-control-after-ukraine/

by Scott Ritter

Having used arms control to gain unilateral advantage over Russia, the cost to the U.S. and NATO in getting Moscow back to the negotiating table will be high.

 

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From Crisis to Catastrophe? What is To Be Done in Eastern Europe

https://www.blackagendareport.com/crisis-catastrophe-what-be-done-eastern-europe

by the black left

The end of the cold war was the beginning of the America unipolar moment. But the "end of history" was followed by contradiction and arrogance which brought the conflict in Ukraine into being.

The current crisis in the Ukraine will inevitably eventuate as that rarity:  a turning point in world history.   This involves a number of main points:

First, it clarifies that the preceding epoch, the Cold War, presumably ending in December 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, will likely be seen in the future as a catastrophic success for U.S. imperialism.

A success to be sure—at least in the short term—as it inaugurated the rapidly receding era of “unipolarity” and the heyday of the “sole remaining superpower.”

But to attain this success, Washington executed a trio of critical blunders:  there was the turbo-charging of religious zealotry that led initially to the alliance in Afghanistan in the 1980s that contributed to the demise of the Soviet Union—then the attack on New York and Washington in 2001 and the ignominious ouster of the U.S. from that same South Asian nation in August 2021.  Whatever the case, it is evident that we have not heard the last of the zealots, especially since they receive covert and overt aid from certain friendly regimes, Saudi Arabia not least. 

Then, when Washington forced the dissolution of the USSR, this allowed Moscow to cease subsidizing Moldova, Turkestan, Georgia and formerly socialist regimes in the vicinity.  This allowed Russia to husband its resources leading to what Stanford scholar, Kathryn Stoner terms in her latest tome:  “Russia Resurrected,” a self-explanatory title that speaks to the development of hypersonic missiles and an agricultural superpower and a nation that can turn geopolitical tides in Syria among other sites.   Imperialism failed to acknowledge that Russia had outgrown the sellout years of Boris Yeltsin and adamantly refused to adapt accordingly.  NATO should have collapsed in 1991 when the USSR did but instead extended its remit to Libya, along with destroying the former Yugoslavia and devastating Afghanistan.

And, above all—and ironically—the intervention in the Ukraine occurred as we were marking the 50th anniversary of yet another turning point:  the U.S.-China entente of February 1972 on an anti-Soviet basis with the payoff to Beijing being massive direct foreign investment creating a juggernaut that bids fair to leave imperialism sprawling in the dust.

Indeed, arguably, it is the specter of China that drove imperialist strategy toward Russia.  That is, confronting Beijing directly means a faceoff with Tesla and Apple and Microsoft and Starbucks and KFC and a slew of U.S. giants, whereas weakening China’s major partner—Russia—is more palatable, at least for the time being. 

That is why, as I write, it is not only regime change in Kiev that is at issue:  imperialism seeks regime change in Moscow, with all the dangers attendant with regard to toppling a nuclear power. 

The ostensible issue --Ukraine joining the U.S. dominated NATO—would mean a rise in the stock price of Raytheon (former home of Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin) and Lockheed Martin, as member states are required to spend more on advanced weaponry, which inevitably comes from these corporations.

With Germany pledging to re-arm, we also witness the shortsightedness of world imperialism, which refuses to learn the lessons of the 20th century, especially the catastrophe of world war ending with the uncovering of industrial funeral pyres in 1945.  Not only Washington but London, Brussels and Paris should be shuddering right now.

 

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Daniel Ellsberg’s Not Yet Goodbye

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/02/daniel-ellsbergs-not-yet-goodbye/

by Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg, a giant of American history for leaking the Pentagon Papers, wrote the following email to friends on Wednesday, including Consortium News, and has today decided to make it public. 

 

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US Peace Memorial Foundation

https://www.blackagendareport.com/us-peace-memorial-foundation

with Margaret Kimberley

(18:43)

Michael Knox is Founder and Chair of the US Peace Memorial Foundation . Since 2005, the US Peace Memorial Foundation has directed a nationwide effort to honor Americans who stand for peace by publishing the US Peace Registry, awarding the US Peace Prize, and fundraising to build the US Peace Memorial in Washington, DC. Michael Knox is the author of Ending U.S. Wars By Honoring Americans Who Work for Peace . He joins us from Tampa, Florida to explain his organization’s work.

 

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Why the Russian Federation Recognized the Independence Movements in the Donbas

https://www.blackagendareport.com/why-russian-federation-recognized-independence-movements-donbas-0

by Ajamu Baraka

 

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More Evidence Emerges That US Wanted Russia to Invade

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/24/more-evidence-emerges-that-us-wanted-russia-to-invade/

by Joe Lauria

The U.S. got its war in Ukraine. Without it, Washington could not attempt to destroy Russia’s economy, orchestrate worldwide condemnation and lead an insurgency to bleed Russia, all part of an attempt to bring down its government. Joe Biden has now left no doubt that it’s true.   

The president of the United States has confirmed what Consortium News and others have been reporting since the beginnings of Russsiagate in 2016, that the ultimate U.S. aim is to overthrow the government of Vladimir Putin.

“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said on Saturday at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The White House and the State Dept. have been scrambling to explain away Biden’s remark. 

But it is too late.

“The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” a White House official said. “He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”

On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, “As you know, and as you have heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia, or anywhere else, for that matter,” the last words inserted for comic relief. 

Biden first gave the game away at his Feb. 24 White House press conference — the first day of the invasion. He was asked why he thought new sanctions would work when the earlier sanctions had not prevented Russia’s invasion. Biden said the sanctions were never designed to prevent Russia’s intervention but to punish it afterward. Therefore the U.S. needed Russia to invade. 

 

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Russian cauldrons, Bakhmut and Debáltsevo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvAvj5Q_uQk

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(40:22)

 

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The people vs. capital: French strikes against Macron's pension reforms continue

https://therealnews.com/the-people-vs-capital-french-unions-continue-fight-against-macrons-pension-reforms

by Brandon Jourdan

(7:25)

French unions have already called the sixth strike of the year for March 7 as the struggle to preserve France’s retirement age and pension system continues.

n Feb. 7, France’s eight largest unions turned out for the third strike of the year against Emanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular pension reforms. The fight to prevent a rise in the retirement age from 62 to 64 has galvanized French workers. On March 7, French unions have vowed to mobilize for the country’s sixth strike so far this year. This video is part of a special Workers of the World series on the cost of living crisis in Europe.

 

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“It's amazing how many people are united at the moment”: UK teachers join strike wave

https://therealnews.com/its-amazing-how-many-people-are-united-at-the-moment-uk-teachers-join-strike-wave

by Ross Domoney

(6:58)

Britain’s largest strike in a decade swelled to half a million workers on Feb. 1, 2023, after educators and civil servants joined transport workers to demand better pay.

 

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African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Great Depression to World War II

https://www.blackagendareport.com/african-american-resistance-rural-south-great-depression-world-war-ii

by Abayomi Azikiwe

As Wall Street collapsed the United States was faced with the threat of yet another social and political crisis which could have prompted a national uprising against capitalism. 

African American History Month Series No. 5

During October 1929, the United States economic system was plunged into an unprecedented depression where tens of millions were thrown out of work and their homes.

In the South, the African American people living in major cities, small towns and rural areas were impacted more than any other demographic inside the country.

The Great Depression began under the leadership of Republican President Herbert Hoover who refused to initiate any major policy reforms to seriously mitigate the rising tide of joblessness, foreclosures, evictions and food deficits. The lack of political will on the part of the Hoover administration led to the ascendancy of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932-33.

Roosevelt realized that the failure to act decisively would prove far more disastrous in light of the mobilization by left wing forces which organized hunger marches, unemployed councils and leagues along with putting forward demands for the institutionalization of social safety nets to curb the level of homelessness and hunger.

Under the Roosevelt administration a New Deal was proclaimed which sought to recorrect the problems which arose prior to and after the Great Depression. An Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was adopted and implemented through the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA).

However, the AAA exposed the contradictions within the policies of Roosevelt since it did not address the inherent class and national oppressive conditions prevailing among the African American people since the conclusion of the Civil War and the defeat of Federal Reconstruction. The concluding decades of the 19th century witnessed the rise of the Black Codes, lynching and the imposition of tenant agriculture production through sharecropping and contract prison labor exploitation.

This process continued during the first three decades of the 20th century where African Americans who could not escape the plantations and penal institutions migrated into municipalities in the South, the North and the West. Despite the prosperity of the ruling class in the 1920s, most African Americans remained in poverty. Others who were able to secure incomes as successful commercial farmers, small business owners, professionals and industrial workers were consistently reminded of the institutional racism enshrined in the laws and mores of the U.S.

One source on the period described the AAA as follows:
“Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), in U.S. history, was a major New Deal program to restore agricultural prosperity during the Great Depression by curtailing farm production, reducing export surpluses, and raising prices. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (May 1933) was an omnibus farm-relief bill embodying the schemes of the major national farm organizations. It established the Agricultural Adjustment Administration under Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to effect a “domestic allotment” plan that would subsidize producers of basic commodities for cutting their output. Its goal was the restoration of prices paid to farmers for their goods to a level equal in purchasing power to that of 1909–14, which was a period of comparative stability. In addition, the Commodity Credit Corporation, with a crop loan and storage program, was established to make price-supporting loans and purchases of specific commodities.”

Nonetheless, this agricultural policy sparked efforts to organize African American toilers, white farmers and agricultural workers. The consequences of the AAA reinforced the already existing class and racial divisions in the Southern U.S.

The Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the Unemployed League

 

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Shattering the myth of Rosa Parks reveals the civil rights movement's true history

https://therealnews.com/rosa-parks-myth-civil-rights-movement-history

with Marc Steiner

(46:54)

Sanitized histories of the Civil Rights Movement have erased the long history of activism and struggle that defined the life of Rosa Parks long before she defied Jim Crow codes on a Montgomery bus. Yet Rosa Parks’s dedication to the Black freedom struggle preceded the Montgomery Bus Boycott by decades. She joined the campaign to free the Scottsboro Boys in 1932, and was elected secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943. As an NAACP member, Parks investigated the gang-rape of Recy Taylor, a Black woman from Alabama, and helped organize the Committee for Equal Justice for Recy Taylor, which brought national attention to the systemic sexual assault of Black women and helped lay the organizing foundations of the future Civil Rights Movement. Biographer Jeanne Theoharis and documentarian Yoruba Richen join The Marc Steiner show to set the record straight on the many under-appreciated contributions of Rosa Parks.

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Twitter Files—GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists

https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/02/matt-taibbi-twitter-files-gec-new-knowledge-and-state-sponsored-blacklists/

by Matt Taibbi

Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project.

A new #TwitterFiles thread will be dropping in a few hours, at noon EST. It follows up the Hamilton 68 story of a month ago with examples of state-funded digital blacklisting campaigns run amok. It’s self-explanatory, but some advance context might help:

In 2015-2016, during the brief, forgotten period when Islamic terrorism was fading as a national obsession and Trumpian “domestic extremism” had not yet become one, Barack Obama made a series of decisions that may yet prove devastating to his legacy.

The short version is he signed Executive Order 13271, establishing a “Global Engagement Center” (“GEC”) to “counter the messaging and diminish the influence of international terrorist organizations.” This act got almost no press and even within government, almost no one noticed.

In the bigger picture, however, a lame duck president kick-started the process of shifting the national security establishment’s focus from counterterrorism to “disinformation.” Whether by malfunction or design, this abrupt course change of Washington’s contracting supertanker would have dramatic consequences. In fact, the tale of how America’s information warfare mechanism turned inward, against “threats” in our own population, might someday be remembered as the story of our time, with collective panic over “disinfo” defining this generation in much the same way the Red Scare defined the culture of the fifties.

This is a complicated story and it would be a mistake to jump to simplistic conclusions, like that the Global Engagement Center (humorously nicknamed “GECK” or “YUCK” by detractors in other agencies) is an evil Orwellian mind-control scheme. It isn’t. But for a few crucial bad decisions, it could have fulfilled a useful or at least logical mission, much as the United States Information Agency (USIA) once did. However, instead of stressing research and public reports, as the USIA did when responding to Soviet accusations that Americans had caused the AIDS crisis, GEC funded a secret list of contractors and employed a more surreptitious approach to “counter-disinformation,” sending companies like Twitter voluminous reports on foreign “ecosystems” — in practice, blacklists.

GEC was not conceived as a partisan mechanism to defang conservative media, despite the recent true and damning series of reports by the Washington Examiner, outlining how a GEC-funded NGO in England used algorithmic scoring to de-rank outlets like The Daily Wire and help papers like the New York Times earn more ad revenue. The blacklisting tales you’ll be reading about later today on Twitter also primarily target American conservatives, though GEC and GEC-funded contractors also target left-friendly movements like the gilets jaunes (yellow vests)socialist media outlets like Canada’s Global Research, even the Free Palestine movement.

The scary angle on GEC is not so much the agency as the sprawling infrastructure of “disinformation labs” that have grown around it.

 

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Sinister Agency Created To Do CIA’s Dirty Work in Public Has Just Named New Leaders

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/02/sinister-agency-created-to-do-cias-dirty-work-in-public-has-just-named-new-leaders/

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

New Appointees Picked to Pursue Same Imperialist Goal of Fomenting Disruption and Regime Change in Countries that Won’t Toe U.S. Line

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an innocently named, “wolf-in-sheep’s clothing” offshoot of the CIA that funds dissident foreign organizations and media trying to overthrow their own governments in countries targeted by the U.S. for regime change.

In February, the NED announced as new board members Democratic Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro, Indiana Republican Senator Todd Young, and Princeton University Dean Amaney A. Jamal.

But the new members will eagerly follow the old CIA playbook, which is precisely why they were appointed.

[Source: covertactionmagazine.com]

Castro’s selection is a particularly clever one, the perfect choice to cloak the NED with a progressive veneer since he is known for opposing Donald Trump’s immigration policy and supporting the rights of Mexicans living in the U.S. as a six-term congressman from San Antonio, where he also founded a large literacy campaign and book drive.

Paradoxically, Castro is a gung-ho supporter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which led to mass migration from Mexico because the loosening of trade restrictions allowed for cheap U.S. imports into Mexico that destroyed its agricultural sector.

 

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CIA Stories: “The Jakarta Method”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up3-lOiO9L8&feature=youtu.be

with Abby Martin

(1:07:20)

 

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Profiting Off of Death and Suffering is the American Way

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/03/profiting-off-of-death-and-suffering-is-the-american-way/?mc_cid=907e6ea66a&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by David Starr

Arms Industry and U.S. Government Have Now Practically Merged

The United States’s imperial foreign policy has been evident since day one, but especially starting with the Gilded Age and the arrogant doctrine of Manifest Destiny of the mid-19th century. The imperial “cause” continued through the decades leading up to today. 

And today, the U.S. arms industry and the U.S. Congress have a reciprocal relationship. Because of this relationship, many members of Congress have grown rich off of war and death.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has presented the latest opportunity for profiteering off of war. The arms industry is certainly making big bucks, with policies that fuel the conflict with the selling of an array of weaponry. There are politicians who have bought stock in the arms industry just before Russia invaded Ukraine. Nothing like perfect timing to secure one’s profits. 

Never to turn down a “good” military intervention, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) invested in Lockheed Martin shares the day before the invasion. The amount was small, between $1,001 and $15,000, compared to some investors. But Greene could not resist.

 

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The Future Food False Flag

https://www.corbettreport.com/foodfalseflag/

with James Corbett

(45:59)

The food supply is under attack. But by whom? And for what purpose? Find out the dirty truth about the global food crisis and how the powers-that-shouldn't-be are trying to use this crisis as an opportunity to usher in the Great Food Reset on today's fast-paced edition of The Corbett Report podcast.

 

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The UK is “rationing” vegetables…& it’s all about normalization

https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/28/the-uk-is-rationing-vegetables-its-all-about-normalization/

by Kit Knightly

The past few days have seen certain fruits and vegetables “rationed” by major UK supermarkets. Aldi, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury’s have all put limits on customer purchases of peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers.

Just yesterday, Lidl added their own name to that list.

Many – including Justin King, former Sainsbury’s CEO – have jumped at the chance to lay the blame at Brexit’s feet.

But that doesn’t make much sense, since Morrocco – whence the UK imports a lot of salad vegetables – obviously isn’t in the EU. Further, Ireland has been affected too, plus we’re only 5 months removed from France (and other EU nations) facing their own “catastrophic food shortages”

The other side of the Brexit divide is firmly set on blaming any shortages on the weather. Of course, that’s also helpful to the establishment narrative since the “bad weather” angle can be swiftly and easily parlayed into discussions about climate change. In fact, it already has been.

The real reason there are shortages – supposing there are real shortages, not just psy-op nonsense like the toilet paper fiasco at the beginning of the “pandemic” – is that, one way or another, they have been engineered.

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Inflation on the rise. EU sanctions, punish consumers and reward energy companies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb25yempyXs&feature=youtu.be

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(17:50)

 

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Against Forgetting: Pandemic Parallax View: The Historical Archive Of The Last Three Years and Beyond

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/against-forgetting-pandemic-parallax?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

Since WE can scarcely believe it, living through it, what of future generations?

 

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Global Research - Selected Articles, March 6, 2023

“First Child Death Due to Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Compensated”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-first-child-death-due-pfizer-covid-19-mrna-vaccine-compensated-taiwanese-girl-5-11-years-old-died-after-second-pfizer-jab-government-awarded-115000-family/5811035

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Off Guardian  – March 5, 2023

“This Week in the New Normal”

https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/05/this-week-in-the-new-normal-57/

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CHD.TV – March 6, 2023

Children’s Health Defense Live, Video, Audio

“The Attack on Food Symposium + Solutions to Fight Back”

https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chdtv_03_06_23?wvpId=f0b6826b-15ae-4c2a-9662-3001033b9406

 

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News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller

“In memory of those who "died suddenly" in the United States and worldwide, February 20-February 27, 2023”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/

 

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Iceland leading all of Europe in excess mortality; Philippines sees record high in excess deaths

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/iceland-leading-all-of-europe-in?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Still more statistical evidence that grimly reconfirms what our (and others’) “died suddenly” compilations have been making all too clear week after week

 

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Pilots and Flight Attendants Who Recently Had Cardiac Arrests In-flight and "Died Suddenly"

https://www.globalresearch.ca/pilots-flight-attendants-who-recently-had-cardiac-arrests-in-flight-died-suddenly/5811018

by Dr. William Makis

 

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In memory of those who "died suddenly" in the United States and worldwide, February 27-March 6, 2023

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-eaa?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Journalists in the US, Canada, Honduras, Cuba, Brazil (2), UK, Netherlands and Russia; musicians in the US (5), Brazil, France, Germany (2), Spain, Italy, Russia, India and Japan; & more

 

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What's happened to the rhythm section (1): Remembering the bassists who've "died suddenly" worldwide since April, 2022

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/iceland-leading-all-of-europe-in?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Has the visceral thud of playing bass (and drums) had anything to do with this peculiar toll among musicians who have died untimely deaths since "vaccination" started?

 

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What's happened to the rhythm section (2): Remembering the drummers who've "died suddenly" worldwide since May, 2022

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/whats-happened-to-the-rhythm-section-746?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

 

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Joe Biden, Andrew Tate, Barclays CEO, Ducks ass't coach & streamer Kyedae all have cancer; Hoda Kotb missed "Today" bc of child in ICU; Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Susan Wild miss votes due to illness

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/joe-biden-andrew-tate-barclays-ceo?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Wrestler Roxanne Perez collapses in the ring; MMA amateur Isaiah Abels suffers cardiac arrest mid-bouth; Warriors' Andrew Wiggins missing games bc of "serious family matter"

 

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“Excess deaths in 30 countries”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av4Ej6om0WI&feature=youtu.be

with Dr. John Campbell

(16:21)

 

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“30% More Young People Now DYING Of Heart Attacks – New Study”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR7vfSir10o

with Jimmy Dore

(11:18)

 

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“Matt's messages”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DriaNp3yEGQ

with John Campbell

(18:05)

“Deliberately causing unnecessary excessive fear is absolutely disgusting and unforgivable, so many people have died from suicide and many illnesses caused by stress while matt was cashing in.”

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The Defender – March 5, 2023

Children’s Health Defense: News and Views

“New Studies Deliver Harsh Verdicts on Mask Mandates, Vaccine Mandates for U.S. Cities”

https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/3-5-23defenderweekly?

by Robert Kennedy

 

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Masks, the jury returns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3vY2LyQn1A

with Dr. John Campbell

(14:59)

 

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“Pandemic Post Mortem: The Truth Vs. The Narrative”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYaLgeEBgaU

with Aubrey Marcus and Dr. Robert Malone

(2:24:16)

At the start of the pandemic, Dr. Robert Malone had faith in the medical system he had worked within for decades. When vaccines were approved, he got double jabbed. To this day he is still trying to heal from the injuries he received as a consequence of that decision. Dr. Robert Malone has been courageously outspoken during these trying times, and as a result has been mercilessly attacked, slandered, and censored. This despite the fact that he is an internationally recognized scientist/physician and the original inventor of mRNA vaccination as a technology, DNA vaccination, and multiple non-viral DNA and RNA/mRNA platform delivery technologies with about 100 scientific publications and whose work has been cited over 12,000 times. On this podcast we discuss the latest data and talk about a wide range of topics, including; the mechanisms of toxicity, 5th generation warfare, and what it means to be a warrior in our time.

 

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Satire

Why do people think Putin dislikes clot-shots?

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/why-do-people-think-putin-dislikes?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

 

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The Truth Barrier

“My Most Important Realization About What Made Fauci's Reign Of Terror Possible: A New Language That Eclipsed The Scientific Tradition”

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/my-most-important-realization-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

 “Asked to offer thoughts on Fauci, veteran AIDS “war” reporter Celia Farber pulls back and takes a broad view. She said:

 

People understand the Hannah Arendt concept of the “banality of evil.”

“You have set yourself the formidable task of deconstructing him. Why is he “evil?” (Which he is.)

 

It’s not because he is so “banal,” so bureaucratic, so boring. That’s the drag costume.

“In fact, he is a revolutionary — a very dangerous one, who slipped behind the gates when nobody understood what he was bringing in.

 

“What was he bringing in? He was bringing in — as a trained Jesuit, and committed Globalist — a new potion that would achieve any and all aims for Pharma and the powers he served. The potion was then known as Political Correctness — now called “woke.”

 

Fauci switched the entire linguistic system of American science, from classical “speak,” to woke “speak.” He brought in Cancel Culture, essentially, before anybody could imagine what it was. It was too perverse for genuine scientists to conceive of such a thing mixing with science, they could not believe it, or grasp it. Like a rape. It was incredibly confusing. That’s what I documented, on the ground, that horror and confusion among real scientists, as American science is dying. This begins in the late 1980s, after 1987.”

 

“Let me elaborate a bit. Fauci’s reign begins in 1984, a year of total change. Everything changes, all of a sudden. Gallo is deployed with Margaret Heckler to make the declaration by US government fiat that the “probable cause of AIDS” had been “found” and that it was some kind of trans-Atlantic fusion that looked “virus like” on the big screen, but was really neither a cogent virus nor a pathogen. The reason it “flew” to use Harvey Bialy’s word, was because everything had already changed.

 

“It was understood, without overt commands, that the “gay cancer” that had everybody in such a panic could not be assessed as complex toxic illness with a complex cause. The entire US media understood what to say and not say, and not only because of the allegiance to the shadow government, but because the era of classical science had ended. It ended that day. It would henceforth be a crime against decency to, for example, address anything that could be making gay men sick other than “the virus.”

 

“That’s not “bad science.” That’s perfectly executed political correctness. And they are diametrically at odds, in the Biblical sense of good and evil.”

 

“What Fauci did was he made political correctness the new currency, of his funding empire.

 

“Peter Duesberg was not ‘wrong’ about HIV and AIDS, he was politically incorrect about it and that was how Fauci banished him — sentenced him to funding and reputation death, as though he had done something really bad by dissenting against HIV theory.

 

“Stop and think how insane this is. An elite cancer virologist brought over from Germany’s Max Planck Institute whose credentials are so outstanding, who was well on his way to solving cancer’s genetics…felled suddenly by a fatwah, issued by this…little…Mufti?

 

“Who was he to issue a fatwah against America’s top cancer virologist? Well, he did. He blocked every federal research dollar to Duesberg after 1987, because Duesberg repudiated the woke ideology Fauci’s HIV empire, in a few paragraphs of a scientific paper that was about something else. He sustained the economic and reputational attack/vendetta for the next 3 decades. Without blinking. It’s really an unbelievable story. It would make Americans blood boil if they knew about it — because almost all have lost somebody in their family to cancer.

 

Fauci had, by 1987, when Duesberg wrote the Cancer Research paper that sealed his scientific fate, an apparatus that included mass media, psychological operations, public health–this octopus that just straight-up throttled the entire scientific tradition of Western civilization. Evidence based science and the discourse culture that goes with it — gone. That’s what he did. It’s no small feat. He destroyed American science by snuffing out its spirit, the spirit of open inquiry, proof and standards.

 

“The reason so many outstanding scientists lent their names to opposing Fauci’s vendetta on Duesberg was not that they cared, necessarily, about the cause of AIDS; This was, for them, a battle over the very soul of science. Kary Mullis broke down crying in an interview I did with him in 1994, talking about it–talking about what Fauci did to Peter Duesberg and what it meant.

 

“The real scientists were horrified. Suddenly a guillotine was present. A new and strange terror. People were “guilty,” of thought-crimes like “HIV denialism.” Fauci had made political correctness the new revolutionary language, see? And that meant if you were “bad,” if you didn’t push agenda driven science, everything was taken away from you. And the media cheered. And anybody who didn’t was destroyed, vilified, harassed, fired, in a word, canceled.

 

What Hannah Arendt wrote about Eichmann, rings true also of Fauci:

 

“What he said was always the same, expressed in the same words. The longer one listened to him, the more obvious it became that his inability to speak was closely connected with an inability to think, namely, to think from the standpoint of somebody else. No communication was possible with him, not because he lied but because he was surrounded by the most reliable of all safeguards against the words and the presence of others, and hence against reality as such.”

 

“You won’t find one sentence uttered by Anthony Fauci that resonates with real meaning. It’s empty contagion rhetoric, that never changes. It hits people in the part of their hearing and perceiving where they have stopped expecting to understand what the man is saying. That’s Mr. Global. Catherine Austin Fitts’ archetype–“Mr. Global.” That’s Fauci. A canvas onto which “goodness” is projected precisely because he repudiates language and delivers pure domination instead. A ruthless careerist who stands for nothing and whose speech is designed to manipulate people, to hypnotize them — make them respond to some kind of buzzing sound but not to living words, evolving ideas.”

 

“The only idea Fauci has is that he’s never wrong.” [Note: I call this Fact-ism.”]

 

“And you see this in the Fauci followers, the Fauci-Davidians. That is their simple religion: Fauci is never wrong. Including and especially every time he is. Which is all the time, since he has no interest in truth or reality as it pertains to human illness or human wellness. He was wrong about so many things, starting with HIV, AIDS, the AZT genocide — he just makes mass death appear… virtuous, I don’t know how else to say it. He coins phrases like “lessons learned” when he wipes out a few hundred thousand gay men, as he did with high dose AZT. And they loved him for it.

 

“We all focused on Gallo, as the Darth Vader of AIDS, the Dark Father of it all, while Fauci was in fact, infinitely more powerful, and more dangerous. Gallo only did the deed of concocting “the virus” under conditions of fraud. He made the bomb. Fauci ran the whole vendetta economy, and was able to very deftly use this new language of political correctness, to sort of…make himself this weird saint. But of what? Of failure? His whole career is failure. Now, for the globalists, that’s success. If a ‘virus’ is stopped, that’s no good. It has to always be [continued,] worshipped and the flames fanned. That’s what he does. It’s occult stuff. Idolatry.

 

“He is also the Patron Saint of Fear. Why Americans should be afraid, all the time, of “viral threats,” and why they should never do anything to bolster their immune systems, they should only submit to drugs and vaccines and watch him on TV. Notice he never says anything is going to be alright. Never. He loves and abuses words like “risk”, “spread”, “worse”, - he loves all the tension words, never resolving words.

 

“He’s Mr. Maybe. Maybe this, maybe that. Cover all bases, spread the chips. As long as fear and anxiety are always peddled, all Americans remain weakened.

 

“In the final analysis, he’s profoundly anti-American. He wants to destroy America, one American at a time. And he is doing precisely that. No foreign enemy could ever, ever have caused this much destruction to our country and our people. I think Americans are beginning to see this is true now. But it’s a very painful thing to open your eyes to, so many simply won’t be able to.”

 

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« Nullification » - #SolutionsWatch

https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-nullification/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with James Corbett and Michael Boldin

(25:42)

Joining us today to discuss the latest wins for the nullification movement is Michael Boldin (NOT Boldrin!) of TenthAmendmentCenter.com. In this jam-packed conversation, James and Michael examine the historical and philosophical roots of nullification and how the idea is being used to derail federal government tyranny.

 

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Dr. Redfield's Bombshell Testimony

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/dr-redfields-bombshell-testimony?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

While crickets chirped, the bus just ran over Fauci

 

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January 6 Committee Lied About Cop’s Death! – Tucker Carlson Proves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mVcGZIj04

with Jimmy Dore

(6:05)

One of the most powerful and compelling stories condemning the January 6 “insurrectionists” was the claim that the rioters killed five police officers. That claim proved wholly fabricated and, as Tucker Carlson recently pointed out, video shows the most frequently mentioned victim, Officer Brian Sicknick, casually touring the Capitol after the point when he was supposedly brutally attacked by the mob.

 

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“Tucker Carlson Exposes January 6 Committee’s Lies”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4cB5DVOc-c&feature=youtu.be

with Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal

(27:56)

The January 6 Committee would have us believe that the hundreds of January 6 “insurrectionists” were violent extremists bent on staging a coup and overthrowing the U.S. government. But now that Tucker Carlson has been granted access to the 40,000+ hours of footage, the Fox News host has provided an alternate viewpoint — and he shows how the committee outright lied to the American public about the nature of the protests, the extent of the violence and the participation of undercover FBI agents in encouraging protesters to enter the Capitol.

 

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J6 Video Footage Further Proves That The Federal Government Is Illegitimate & Criminal

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/j6-video-footage-further-proves-that?utm_source=cross-post&publication_id=400535&post_id=106892466&isFreemail=true&utm_campaign=257742&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MTI5MzM4OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTA2ODkyNDY2LCJpYXQiOjE2NzgzNzI5NTEsImV4cCI6MTY4MDk2NDk1MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwMDUzNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.Bzg7d7fe6da4_3XsVrwNcZxGETtDBW1YwUr_as1nnBI&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

Dear all, we're going through a higher than usual density of (need for) cross postings. Please bear with me. I prefer to speak to you directly, but things are happening at warp speed right now, if you will. Lies are crumbling faster than one can even begin to chronicle. So we're all doing a fair amount of cross posting. Is the so-called Deep State collapsing?

 

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The Ukraine Off Ramp? German/Western Support For Ukraine Implodes With Help Of Fake Story About Nordstream Sprung By NYT/WaPo

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-off-ramp-germanwestern?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

A Very Bad Week For The "Build Back Better" Crowd, As Everything They Spent Hundreds of Billions on Implodes and Collapses Before The World's Eyes

 

 

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Ed Dowd: “Remain Calm…The World Is Not Ending. Just Changing.”

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/ed-dowd-remain-calmthe-world-is-not?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

Bank Run Leaves 16th Largest US Bank SVB With Negative $1 Billion.

“Prominent venture capitalists advised their tech startups to withdraw money from Silicon Valley Bank, while mega institutions such as JP Morgan Chase & Co sought to convince some SVB customers to move their funds Thursday by touting the safety of their assets.

 

“Let us get this straight: the largest US commercial bank was actively soliciting the clients of one of its biggest competitors, and the 16th largest US bank, knowing full well deposit flight would almost certainly lead to the collapse of a bank which courtesy of fractional reserve banking, had only modest cash to satisfy deposit demands: certainly not enough to meet $42 billion in deposit outflows.

 

“Of course, Jamie, who has suddenly emerged as a key figure in the Jeff Epstein scandal alongside Jes Staley, [brother of Peter Staley] knows this, and would be delighted with an outcome that kills two birds with one stone: take his name off the front pages and also make JP Morgan even bigger. Actually three birds: remember it was JPM that started that "Not QE" Fed liquidity injection in Sept 2019 when the bank "suddenly" found itself reserve constrained. We doubt that JPM would mind greatly if Powell ended his rate hikes and eased/launched QE as a result of a bank crisis, a bank crisis that Jamie helped precipitate.