Bulletin N° 1105
Grenoble, France
June 7, 2023
Subject : Update: The Politics of Censorship, Past and Present.
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
We take this opportunity, while presenting the Alternative Anglophone social media articles and essays this week, to inform readers of the struggle which continues to develop in the UK and the USA against censorship as described in three items received in recent mails from Mark Crispin Miller, Jimmy Dore, and CJ Hopkins:
“The latest on my libel suit at New York University, and why the outcome matters to us all (CORRECTED)”
by Mark Crispin Miller
My case is ironclad. In order to dismiss it, a lower court has set a precedent that poses a grave threat to academic freedom and free speech in the United States
Mark Crispin Miller
and
“How The Guardian Newspaper Became A Pro-War Garbage Rag.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcl5PgwVYv4
with Jimmy Dore and Matt Kennard
(20:14)and
“An Open Letter to Ella Irwin, Head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety (and Censorship) Department”
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-ella-irwin-head?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=298057&post_id=119853038&isFreemail=true
by CJ Hopkins
Crisis capitalism exists as the leitmotif for the political and cultural expressions of class struggle and its many sublimations and circuitous evasions.
The following 21 + items are articles and essays from the Alternative Anglophone social media, many of which acknowledge the efforts at censorship imposed by the technology produced by the late capitalist state on journalists, investigative reporters, as well as scientists and artists in support of today’s dominant ideology of “population control,” (i.e. eugenics, genocide, and war-for-private-profit) – old, senile ideals which spring anew from today’s ruling class interests.
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
a.
Watch “Kissinger at 100: New War Crimes Revealed in Secret Cambodia
Bombing That Set Stage for Forever Wars”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXZy-TrKlw&feature=youtu.be
with Nick Turse and Greg Grandin
(27:50)
A bombshell
new investigation from The Intercept reveals that former U.S. national security
adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was responsible for even more
civilian deaths during the U.S. war in Cambodia than was previously known. The
revelations add to a violent résumé that ranges from Latin America to Southeast
Asia, where Kissinger presided over brutal U.S. military interventions to put
down communist revolt and to develop U.S. influence around the world. While
survivors and family members of these deadly campaigns continue to grieve,
Kissinger celebrates his 100th birthday this week. “This adds to the list of
killings and crimes that Henry Kissinger should, even at this very late date in
his life, be asked to answer for,” says The Intercept’s Nick Turse, author of
the new investigation, Kissinger’s Killing Fields. We also speak with
Yale University’s Greg Grandin, author of Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach
of America’s Most Controversial Statesman.
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Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a
Nazi?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-zelenskys-pro-russian-speech-before-being-co-opted/5819279
by Prof
Michel Chossudovsky and Silview Media
(0:36)
Absolutely stunning,
An Astute Intelligence Op.
A Russian Jew transformed into a Nazi?
See the video below.
***
Zelensky is Jewish. He supports the Nazi Azov
Battalion, the two Nazi parties, which have committed countless atrocities against
the Jewish community in Ukraine.
He belongs to a Russian-Jewish family. He was brought
up as a native Russian speaker, who until recently was not fluent in
Ukrainian.
And now this
Jewish-Russian proxy president wants to “ban everything Russian”, including the
Russian language, the Russian media, the teaching of Russian in the schools.
He has been
instructed by Washington to lead Kiev’s Neo-Nazi government, which is portrayed
by the U.S. mainstream media including the NYT as a democracy.
Zelensky
also plans to ban Russian composers including Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev,
Shostakovich, Borodin, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, and many more.
He has
ordered the removal of 100 million books by Russian authors, including
Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gorky, from Ukraine’s
libraries.
Meanwhile,
the Kiev neo-Nazi regime (supported by US-NATO) has endorsed the writings
of Stepan Bandera as well as Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Zelensky has
also betrayed his family. Many of his relatives were the victims of the Nazi
holocaust.
In a twisted
irony, days before he assumed office, “he …laid flowers on the grave of his
grandfather, Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky, who fought in the Soviet Union’s Red
Army during World War II”.
It was May 9
— Victory Day in Ukraine — and a day of “thanksgiving,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
“[Semyon]
went through the whole war and remain[s] forever in my memory one of those
heroes who defended Ukraine from the Nazis,” he wrote. “Thanks for the fact that
the inhuman ideology of Nazism is forever a thing of the past.
Thanks
to those who fought against Nazism — and won.” (quoted in Washington Post, emphasis added)
High
Treason.
My
Grandfather: “one of those heroes who defended Ukraine from the Nazis”.
What a liar
and a criminal,
Sponsored by
America and Europe, Zelensky is promoting Nazism in Ukraine.
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Ukraine Admits Murdering "Quite a Few" Russian Civilians Who
Back Putin and His Invasion
by Zero
Hedge
A senior Ukrainian official has admitted that his
country has assassinated “quite a few” Russian civilians who support Putin and
his war to assert control of the Donbas region. In interviews first
reported by The Times of London, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, who
heads Ukraine’s military intelligence service, also promised more attacks are
to come.
“We’ve
already successfully targeted quite a few people,” said Budanov. He didn’t name
any of the victims, but said “there have been well-publicized cases everyone
knows about, thanks to the media coverage.”
Since the
February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, several prominent Russian supporters of the
invasion — and many innocent bystanders — have been killed or wounded in the
campaign.
One of the
most prominent such attacks happened last August, when a car bomb killed
journalist Darya Dugina — in a possible attempt to kill her father, the
political scientist-philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.
Like her
father, Darya was a vocal supporter of Putin and his invasion. Both she and her father
were sanctioned by the United States after the war began. Given her profile, it’s possible Ukraine may have intentionally murdered her in
a sinister two-for-one act of punishment.
Read more: Ukraine: A
Wider War Is in Prospect?
Most
recently, novelist Zakhar Prielepin was wounded in a May 6 car-bombing,
and Russian military blogger Vladen Tatarsky was killed at an April public
appearance after a woman presented him a statuette with a bomb concealed inside
it. Fifteen others were injured.
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“Total Indirect Death Toll in the U.S. ‘War on Terror’ is 4.5 Million”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57571.htm
by Bharat
Dogra
When the
Brown University (USA) based Costs of War project had estimated the direct deaths resulting
from violence (actual fighting, bombing etc.) caused by the USA’s post 9/11
‘War on Terror’ at about 920,000 (a little less than a million, or 0.9 million)
then many people were shocked by this. However even at that time the project
researchers had cautioned that this was merely the number of deaths which were
directly caused in the conflicts. They had added that if all the indirect deaths
related to the war on terror are also counted (for example deaths caused later
by diseases resulting from destruction of sanitation and health facilities in
the bombings), then the number of these deaths may turn out to be much higher,
in fact it may be several times more.
Now, in
mid-May, this project has also released its estimates of the indirect deaths
caused in the War on Terror. These indirectly caused deaths have been estimated
at 3.6 to 3.7 million. If these are added to the direct deaths caused earlier,
the total number of deaths in the War on Terror goes up to 4.5 million to 4.6
million. So the total number of deaths is about 5 times the number of direct
deaths.
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“Rearmament & Europe’s Welfare”
“The Whirling Ear” by Alexander Calder, Mont des Arts,
Brussels, 2019. (Ninara/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/22/patrick-lawrence-rearmament-europes-welfare/
by
Patrick Lawrence
Let’s see how
Europeans respond when they are told their peace dividend is henceforth to be
spent on the machinery of war — when it’s “howitzers instead of hospitals” now,
as a New York Times article
puts it.
Maybe you recall
all the post–Cold War talk of a “peace dividend” and maybe you don’t: It
depends on when you took up residence on this mortal coil.
The term
arose as the Soviet Union disintegrated and was commonly mentioned during
George H.W. Bush’s presidency, 1989–1993. A dramatic reduction in defense
spending, and a corresponding increase in expenditures on education, health
care, and so on, was put around as one of Bush I’s outstanding achievements.
That was the peace dividend.
The thing you
need to know about all the talk of a peace dividend back then is that it was
all talk. And the thing you need to know now, with Cold War II in more or less
full swing and the proxy war against Russia raging in Ukraine, is that there is
no longer any need to know anything about the peace dividend.
As we speak,
it takes its place as an artifact of another time, a curiosity in the way of …
what? … maybe Eisenhower’s promise of free electricity
in his “Atoms for Peace” speech, delivered at the United Nations in 1953.
The New York Times published a remarkable piece on this topic last week under the headline, “The
‘Peace Dividend’ Is Over in Europe. Now Come the Hard Tradeoffs.” There are two ways to read this
lengthy report, text and subtext.
On one hand,
it tells us exactly what the headline promises: European leaders, in response
to the Ukraine crisis, now plan to dump a lot more money into the weapons of
war and a lot less into the social-democratic apparatus — welfare programs,
social programs, cultural programs — in which European citizens have long taken
pride.
On the other,
this piece has a special message for Americans: There shall be no more
daydreaming about how good the Danes or the French have it. The
military-industrial complex has crossed the Atlantic. Neoliberalism has won. It
is indeed the end of history.
It is “TINA”
time: “There is no alternative,” as Margaret Thatcher famously used to say. The
future will be no different from the present.
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Did Bellingcat get Ukrainian forces killed?
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/26/bellingcats-ukrainian-forces-killed/
by Kit Klarenberg
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Elon Musk is right: Bellingcat is a Western ‘psy-op’
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/19/elon-musk-bellingcat-western-psy-op/
by Aaron
Maté
The Twitter
CEO draws establishment media outrage for criticizing a NATO state propaganda
outfit.
Twitter CEO
Elon Musk has triggered headlines by claiming that the website Bellingcat, a trusted source
for establishment US media outlets, engages in “psyops.”
Musk invoked
Bellingcat’s role in “psychological operations” while expressing skepticism
about the group’s claims that the mass shooter in Allen, Texas was motivated by
white supremacist views. Prominent voices came forward to defend Bellingcat as a “a great journalistic organization” (CNN anchor Jake
Tapper), and “a treasure trove of hugely important investigative journalism”
(Yale professor Timothy Snyder).
While
the available evidence supports Bellingcat’s findings about the Allen
gunman, Musk is correct about the group overall. With complete uniformity,
Bellingcat’s media cheerleaders omit that the group is funded by NATO states
and their contractors. And just as Musk suggested, Bellingcat has regularly
promoted propaganda that advances its backers’ foreign policy objectives.
Since 2017, Bellingcat’s top financial donors have included the
National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S. government organization founded by
Ronald Reagan’s CIA chief, Bill Casey. From its inception, the NED has served
as a front for US intelligence operations, including destabilization and regime
change in targeted states. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly
twenty-five years ago by the CIA,” the NED’s first director, Allen Weinstein,
told the Washington Post in 1991. NED board members have included veteran
neoconservative bureaucrats Elliott Abrams and Victoria Nuland.
The NED
conceals its funding for Bellingcat, to the point where a search of its
database does not return any results. For several years, Bellingcat also
refused to specify its NED funding, until finally admitting that the US
government organization was its highest “non-profit” donor: more than €112,000
in 2020 and €212,000 in 2021. (Bellingcat has potentially received more NED
funding via other conduits, according to Declassified UK).
Bellingcat
takes in more money from other Western governments and cut-outs, including the
Dutch Postcode Lottery. Bellingcat was a founding partner in the Open
Information Partnership (OIP), which is funded by the UK government’s Foreign,
Commonwealth, and Development Office, FCDO. Another OIP partner, Zinc Network,
which is funded by the UK and US governments, has given Bellingcat at least
€160,000.
Bellingcat
also rakes in donations from firms that profit from from
NATO-backed regime change operations. These include the scandal-plagued foreign aid profiteer Adam Smith International
(ASI), one of the largest recipients of UK government contracts abroad. In
2017, a UK government agency suspended all future contracts with the company over what
it called “inappropriate” conduct and “serious lack of judgement”, including
fabricating glowing testimonials about its aid services. As The Grayzone has reported, ASI and another private Bellingcat
donor, Chemonics, have received Western contracts to aid and abet sectarian
insurgents in the regime change war against Syria.
A number of
Bellingcat’s staffers and contributors have NATO intelligence and military backgrounds, including
the UK army, the GCHQ, the Royal United Services Institute, the UK Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, and the Pentagon.
Bellingcat
founder Eliot Higgins spent several years as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the
Atlantic Council, the arms industry and government-funded think tank that
serves as NATO’s de-facto lobbying arm in Washington. During his tenure,
Higgins encouraged the US government to make better use of
open-source data, which happened to become Bellingcat’s professed
specialization. Higgins’ collaborators at the Atlantic Council included John E.
Herbst, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine; Frederic Hof, a former US special
envoy to Syria who has vocally advocated regime change there; and Ben Nimmo, a
former NATO press officer who now serves as “Global Lead for Threat Intelligence”
at Facebook’s parent company Meta.
While
partnering with a network of NATO state sources and receiving their lavish
funding, Bellingcat’s own state partners have privately raised doubts about the
group’s credibility. A leaked assessment produced for the UK Foreign Office
by Zinc Network concluded that: “Bellingcat was somewhat discredited, both by
spreading disinformation itself, and by being willing to produce reports for
anyone willing to pay.”
When I shared
Zinc’s leaked assessment on Twitter this week, Higgins responded by characteristically blaming Russia.
“I was
told,” Higgins wrote, that “a third party organisation who
put together this report based it on a Sputnik article and a claim by a Russian
journalist.”
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CIA Officers Admitted the Agency Ran Drug Traffic During
Indochina Wars
by Jeremy
Kuzmarov
+
“Messing With the Merchants of Death”
by Jack Gilroy
+
“The Truth is Coming Out: Warning! The United States Is BEING DESTROYED
From Within”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saQ5tpU5R_8
with Col.
Douglas Macgregor
(1818)
Colonel
Douglas Macgregor shares devastating details about the Ukraine-Russia war, but
also outlines the danger facing the United States financial system, government,
corporate donor corruption and the military-industrial-congressional complex.
The corruption within the US government has reached a dangerous and sickening
level.
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Zelensky travels, Zaluzhny's star fading, Intel Chief Budanov gains
power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKHTZIzLvGE
with Alex
Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris
(34:13)
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“Ukraine's neoliberalism on steroids, Europe’s economic suicideC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bF3QkHIB7I
with
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and economic geographer Mick Dunford
(1:01:24)
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The EU Can’t Keep Its Story Straight About U.S
Sanctions against the Import of Russian Fuel
https://www.globalresearch.ca/eu-cant-keep-its-story-straight-about-russian-energy-sanctions/5819859
by Andrew Korybko
The EU only has two choices when it comes to India
selling refined Russian fuel: it can either retain the present arrangement for
the pragmatic sake of all parties’ pecuniary interests, or it can ban the
import of these products for ideological reasons at the expense of the
aforesaid.
EU foreign
policy chief Josep Borrell sparked a scandal earlier this week when he
criticized India for selling refined Russian fuel to Europe, ominously warning that “we have to act.” This implied threat prompted
Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to remind everyone to “Look at EU Council regulations, Russian crude is
substantially transformed in the third country and not treated as Russian
anymore. I would urge you to look at Council’s Regulation 833/2014.”
Borrell
responded shortly after by sharing “Some Clarifications On The Circumvention Of EU
Sanctions Against Russia” on the European External Action
Service website. According to him, “The EU’s measures have no extraterritorial
effect, meaning they only apply to European entities.” He also reaffirmed that
“Once refined, these products are no longer treated as Russian but as Indian
and we cannot prevent Indian refineries selling them to an EU operator, or to
an intermediary.”
Nevertheless,
Borrell then added that
“We in the EU
don’t buy Russian oil, but we buy the diesel obtained by refining this Russian
oil somewhere else. This has the effect of circumventing our sanctions and our
member states should take measures to deal with this.”
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UK media admits, 'shock and awe' sanctions have failed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgiBH8oLJiA
with Alex
Christoforou and Alexaqncder Mercouris
(18:46)
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“The Ukraine Refugee Question”
https://scheerpost.com/2023/05/19/seymour-hersh-the-ukraine-refugee-question/
by
Seymour Hersh
Last Saturday
the Washington Post published
an exposé of classified American intelligence documents showing that Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky, working behind the back of the Biden White House,
pushed hard earlier this year for an expanded series of missile attacks inside
Russia. The documents were part of a large cache of classified materials posted
online by an Air Force enlisted man now in custody. A senior official of the
Biden administration, asked by the Post for
comment on the newly revealed intelligence, said that Zelensky has never
violated his pledge never to use American weapons to strike inside Russia. In
the view of the White House, Zelensky can do no wrong.
Zelensky’s
desire to take the war to Russia may not be clear to the president and senior
foreign policy aides in the White House, but it is to those in the American
intelligence community who have found it difficult to get their intelligence
and their assessments a hearing in the Oval Office. Meanwhile, the slaughter in
the city of Bakhmut continues. It is similar in idiocy, if not in numbers, to
the slaughter in Verdun and the Somme during World War I. The men in charge of
today’s war—in Moscow, Kiev, and Washington—have shown no interest even in
temporary ceasefire talks that could serve as a prelude to something permanent.
The talk now is only about the possibilities of a late spring or summer
offensive by either party.
But something
else is cooking, as some in the American intelligence community know and have
reported in secret, at the instigation of government officials at various
levels in Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Czechoslovakia, and Latvia.
These countries are all allies of Ukraine and declared enemies of Vladimir
Putin.
This group is
led by Poland, whose leadership no longer fears the Russian army because its
performance in Ukraine has left the glow of its success at Stalingrad during
the Second World War in tatters. It has been quietly urging Zelensky to find a
way to end the war—even by resigning himself, if necessary—and to allow the process
of rebuilding his nation to get under way. Zelensky is not budging, according
to intercepts and other data known inside the Central Intelligence Agency, but
he is beginning to lose the private support of his neighbors.
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“Odessa and Kharkiv fall under Russian control and authority”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u9CQv0INK4&feature=youtu.be
with Col.
Douglas Macgregor
(40:51)
Col Douglas Macgregor Straight Calls - Ukraine news today and in-depth
discussion of current geopolitical events in the United States of America.
Colonel Douglas Macgregor's Ukraine Russia war update, Russian offensive,
Ukraine counter offensive, Ukraine latest news, Ukraine war news, Ukraine war
video footage, Ukraine Russia news, Russia Ukraine war update and Ukraine war
2023.
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Where Did All the Money Go? Ukraine's Organized Military Loses Major
Stronghold City to Russian Mercenaries
by Jordan Schachtel
(0:50)
Five months ago to this
day, Ukrainian President Volodomyr
Zelensky
delivered what has now become an infamous address to the U.S. Congress.
During his speech, Zelensky boldly declared the city of Bakhmut as
his country’s “stronghold in the east,” adding, “the fight for Bakhmut will
change the trajectory of our war for independence and for freedom.”
Zelensky then presented Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris with a flag he claimed was from soldiers in Bakhmut, which at the time
was a hotly contested battle ground. He said to thunderous applause:
See also: Video: Ukraine War: The Battle for Bakhmut
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“NATO’s Latest Stunt To Keep Ukraine War
Going”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=txJ9SSt4DOE
with Jimmy Dore
(12:37)
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently traveled to Texas in
an effort to maintain support among prominent elected Republicans for the
Ukraine War. Johnson notably traveled to Kiev during the early days of the war
to tell Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the NATO powers would not
support a peace deal with Russia.
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Ukrainian banker offers cash for drone terror in Russia
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/02/ukrainian-banker-cash-drone-terror-russia/
by
Alexander Rubinstein
Days before a
failed drone assassination targeting Putin, Ukrainian banking baron Volodymyr Yatsenko offered a $500,000 bounty to any
weapons maker able to land a drone in Red Square during Moscow’s upcoming
Victory Day parade.
On April 23,
a Ukrainian drone laden with 30 Canadian-made C4 explosive blocks crashed near
Rudnevo Industrial Park in Moscow. Ukraine-based operators deployed the 37 LB arsenal
in a failed bid to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was
scheduled to visit Rudnevo that day.
The drone
ultimately failed to hit its target, crashing roughly 12 miles from its
intended destination. Russian media reported authorities discovered three similar
unmanned aircrafts in the surrounding area. By the time the
Canadian-manufactured bombs arrived in Moscow, the government in Ottawa had
provided Kiev with nearly 6 billion dollars worth of aid to support Ukraine’s
fight against Russia’s military.
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Ukrainian media asks 'who should be next' after car bombing of Russian
writer
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/09/ukrainian-media-car-bombing-russian-writer/
by
Alexander Rubinstein
A Ukrainian media
group partnered with BBC, Der Spiegel and other Western outlets polled readers
on which Russian intellectual should be assassinated following a car bomb
attack on writer Zakhar Prilepin. The Biden administration has greenlit Kiev’s
campaign of terror.
Hours after
Russian writer and activist Zakhar Prilepin was nearly killed in a targeted car
bomb, a popular Ukrainian news agency submitted a poll that asked its readers,
“Who do you think should be next in the Russian pantheon of scum
propagandists?”
It’s open
season on Russian intellectuals supportive of the government’s war effort,
according to Ukrainian news agency UNIAN. Following a car bomb intended to kill
Russian novelist Zakhar Prilepin in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia, the
outlet polled its audience on Telegram, providing a list of names
of prominent Russians that could be assassinated.
Excluding the
two reported assassination attempts on Russian President Vladimir Putin,
Prilepin is the third high-profile Russian to be targeted for assassination by
Ukrainian agents. His maiming follows the car bombing that killed Dariya
Dugina, which was intended for her father, the Russian nationalist philosopher
Alexander Dugin, and the bombing of a public event featuring Vladlen Tatarsky, who ran a popular Telegram channel. The Telegram
post by UNIAN explicitly references Dugin, Tatarsky, and Prilepin.
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Blowback: Italian police bust Azov-tied Nazi cell planning terror
attacks
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/11/15/blowback-italian-azov-tied-nazi-terror/
by
Alexander Rubinstein, November 15, 2022
The arrest of
Italian neo-Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion highlights the
terrifying potential for blowback from the Ukraine proxy war
Italian
police announced a series of raids against the neo-Nazi Order of Hagal
organization. Accused of stockpiling weapons and planning terror attacks, the
group has established operational ties to the Ukrainian Azov Battalion.
Five members
of an Italian neo-Nazi organization known as the “Order of Hagal” were arrested
on November 15th while an additional member remains wanted by authorities. He
happened to be in Ukraine, fighting Russian forces alongside the Azov
Battalion, which has been formally integrated into the Ukrainian
military.
The “Hagal”
members are accused of plotting terrorist attacks on civilian and police
targets. A sixth member of the Hagal group, now considered a fugitive, is in
Ukraine and embedded with the Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi paramilitary group
that has been incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard.
Members of
the Order of Hagal reportedly maintained “direct and frequent” contacts over
Telegram with not just the Azov Battalion, but also the neo-Nazi Ukrainian
military formations Right Sector and Centuria, “probably in the view of possible recruitment into
the ranks of these fighting groups,” according to Italian media.
The police
investigation was launched in 2019 and has included extensive computer searches
and wiretapping; tactics which have revealed members of the group’s intent on
carrying out violent acts in Italy.
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Neo-Nazi terror threat grows as Ukraine fighters jailed in France
by Kit
Klarenberg, May 8, 2023
The arrest of
two heavily armed French neo-Nazis returning from Ukraine highlights a looming
problem for NATO states sponsoring the proxy war, and their conspiracy of
silence on the nature of the threat.
On April 24th 2023, two French neo-Nazis were jailed for 15 months,
nine of which were suspended, for possessing assault rifle ammunition. The pair
had returned to Paris from Ukraine two days earlier, and were
arrested at customs.
Both were on
the radar of French domestic spying agency DGSI, which held files on them for
endangering state security. According to the French
outlet Mediapart, one was a veteran of Chasseurs Alpins (Alpine Hunters),
France’s elite mountain infantry force. He was thrown out of the military after
his neo-Nazi sympathies were exposed online. The other is a notorious local
far-right activist.
As in many
other Western countries, hundreds of French citizens have traveled to Kiev to
take up arms against Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
According to the DGSI, at least 30 of the French foreign fighters are known
fascists.
This shocking
outflow has failed to generate any English-language media interest, however,
save for March 2022, when far-right militant Loïk Le Priol was deported
home from Hungary en route to Ukraine, to face charges of murdering Argentinian rugby player Federico Martín
Aramburú in Paris.
It was
inevitable that some of the French Neo-Nazis who managed to make the journey to
Kiev had pre-existing links with Azov Battalion, Ukraine’s
notorious Neo-Nazi paramilitary. In January 2022, Paris
banned the white supremacist group Zouaves. Its members had violently attacked anti-racist protesters disrupting a rally for
far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour the previous month. The
movement’s leader, Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, traveled to Ukraine in December 2019 to meet with representatives of Azov, and attend its
training camps.
Since the war
in Ukraine began, Ouest Casual, a still-extant Telegram channel linked to Zouaves,
has published a steady stream of tributes to Ukrainian soldiers, repeatedly
denouncing the “Asiatic contingents of Soviet imperialism once again sweeping
across Europe,” and “Putin’s Islamist dogs,” in reference to Chechen fighters. Bordeaux Nationaliste, a violent
Neo-Nazi group closely linked to Zouaves, has regularly organized collections
of equipment for the fight.
Washington
creates a powder keg in Kiev
The two newly
jailed Neo-Nazis were reportedly “asked all day” by police following their
arrest why they carried military equipment, possession of which is absolutely
illegal under French law, into the country. An obvious answer is that the pair were planning to bring the terror of Ukraine’s battlefields
back home with them.
In November, Alex Rubinstein reported for The Grayzone on how
Italian police had arrested five members of the local neo-Nazi group, Order of
Hagal, which maintains operational ties to Azov Battalion. They were
stockpiling weapons, including ammunition, tactical gear, and a grenade
launcher, and planning terror attacks. A sixth member, then-fighting alongside
Azov in Ukraine, remained wanted.
The neo-Nazis
had been monitored intensively by Italian authorities since 2019. One – reported
to be “dangerously close to far-right Ukrainian Nationalist groups” – was
planning an attack on a police station in Naples, while the fugitive Azov
fighter had a shopping mall in the same city in his crosshairs.
In an
intercepted January 2021 conversation, the former boasted he “would make a
massacre like the one in New Zealand,” referring to the Christchurch spree
shooter who murdered 51 Muslims two years earlier. That individual had
emblazoned his flak jacket and the cover of his manifesto, which mentioned
Ukraine, with Azov’s ubiquitous “black sun” logo.
As a 2020 investigation by West Point Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism
Center found, that manifesto became a popular online currency among Ukrainian
paramilitary groups, and was even translated into Ukrainian and sold as a book
by a 22-year-old living in Kiev. The Center noted that Ukraine “holds a
particular attraction for white supremacists–ideologues, activists, and
adventurers alike,” explicitly due to the emergence of Azov and other
state-backed fascist elements.
It was the
first time since the defeat of the Nazis that “an overtly far-right white
nationalist militia” anywhere in the world was “publicly celebrated, openly
organizing, and [had] friends in high places.” Support from Petro Poroshenko’s
government and Ukrainian security services – “despite well-documented reports
of human rights abuses” – was “electrifying to far-right individuals and groups
in Europe, the United States, and further afield,” the investigation noted.
Fascists duly flocked in droves to Kiev to join Azov, and/or receive training.
The US and
its international vassals have been keen to encourage and facilitate the
proliferation of neo-Nazism in Ukraine. Throughout the Cold War, the CIA and
MI6 adopted a covert policy of
encouraging ultra-nationalist elements in Ukraine to undermine communist rule.
In the years after the US-backed 2014 Maidan coup, numerous far-right militias
received high-level military training from Washington, London, and Ottawa.
Support from the West has only increased since Russia’s invasion.
Two groups
that received extensive practical and material support from NATO states in
recent years are Centuria and Right Sector. The indicted members of Italy’s Order of Hagal reportedly maintained “direct and frequent” contacts with both, along with Azov,
seeking “possible recruitment into the ranks of these fighting groups,”
according to local media.
Well-established
blowback from US covert ops in Europe . . . .
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Secret Document: Germany’s Bundeswehr
is Preparing to Wage War on Russia
by Prof
Michel Chossudovsky and news.de
Introduction
While there are divisions within NATO, Germany’s
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock –who assiduously studied foreign
policy in Klaus Schwab’s WEF Forum of Young Global Leaders
(YGL)– confirmed in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe (PACE) (January 25, 2023), that Germany and its allies [NATO] are at war
with Russia:
“Baerbock’s
comments come on the heels of nearly a year of direct Russophobic narrative,
including openly declared plans for war with Russia.
In
mid-November 2022, Der Spiegel published a leaked German Defense Ministry document [68
pages], revealing that the Bundeswehr is preparing for war with Russia [See
below]
The secret document
titled “Operational guidelines for the Armed Forces” was drafted by Germany’s
Chief of Staff, General Eberhard Zorn.
“He stressed
the need for a “mega-reform” of the German military and clearly identified
Russia as an “immediate threat”. Infobrics
Screenshot
from Der Spiegel, November 14, 2022
Translation
of the above (From German by Global Research)
Feared
confrontation with Russia
Preparation
for “forced war” – The Bundeswehr must become significantly more powerful”
In a
confidential strategy paper, General Chief of Staff Zorn swears that the
Bundeswehr will face tough years ahead. A conflict with Russia is becoming more
likely. The troops must concentrate fully on defence [Abwehr] against an attack.
What this
bold statement suggests is that Germany and its allies should “defend
themselves” (plural) against a Russian attack.
See also the
contradictory statement of Germany’s Foreign
Minister:
“The most
important is that we do it together, we are fighting against Russia”
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“I did Nazi that coming” - The Grayzone Friday live, May 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5lRmQAo1f8
with Max
Blumenthal and Aaron Maté
(1:38:04)
Max
Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the failed cross-border raid by
anti-government Russian neo-Nazis armed with US heavy equipment, the media's
strange spin on the fall of Bakhmut, the BBC's spooky new disinformation unit,
and the dystopian DIAA app rolled out by USAID and the Ukrainian govt in DC
this past week.
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“Russians are
dying. It's the best money we've ever spent,” Lindsey Graham tells Zelensky, while Hillary makes fun of Putin's height
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGsmqxlDDZWLFJtZClXvlpmngrN
by Mark Crispin Miller
Those two—and they are not
the only ones—should be confined to Walter Reed, for our protection.
Whereas most of “our free
press” ignored the senator’s horrendous crack (as reported by Ukraine, although
he hasn’t disavowed it), they’re now all barking about Russia’s warrant for his
arrest—which he, brave man, declares “a badge of honor.”
This disgusting spectacle comes
six days after Hillary Clinton—formerly the US Secretary of State (!)—got many
laughs with a derisive public riff
about “short guy” Vladimir Putin, whom she also called “narcissistic,”
“messianic” and “authoritarian” (an apt description of the woman who, in a TV
interview, exulted in the violent death of Muammar Qaddafi—“We came, we saw, he
died!”—and proposed a drone strike against her critic Julian Assange).
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China says clash with US would be 'unbearable
disaster for the world’
by Chen Lin and Kanupriya Kapoor
===========
b.
“Dark Clouds over America: the Weekly Wrap-Up”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Xek6ccjMs
with
reallygraceful
(33:36)
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“The War on Reality (Revisited)”
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-war-on-reality-revisited?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Reality isn’t
what it used to be. It never really was, but that’s another story. This one
isn’t about reality per se. It’s about the War on Reality, the one we’re in the
middle of, the war that started when the War on Terror was cancelled in the Summer of 2016. It’s actually an extension and an evolution
of the War on Terror, and the War on Populism, and the rollout of the New
Normal in 2020 … but that is also another story. I want to focus on the war
that is raging currently, on the Internet, in people’s workplaces, homes, among
friends and families, and in people’s heads. I’m pretty sure you know the war
I’m talking about, regardless of which “side” you feel you are on.
The War on
Reality is a civil war, but it is much more than just a civil war. It is an
asymmetrical, polymorphous, metastatic, multiplicitous war. An
ontological free-for-all. It has no conventions or rules of engagement.
There are no battle lines. The battle is everywhere. Alliances shift from day
to day. It is chaos, unrelenting, inescapable chaos. An
omnipresent, immaterial, omnipotent organism attacking itself. It is
continual, and completely unwinnable. It is unwinnable because it has already
been won. It ended in victory the moment it began, and now we’re doomed to go
on fighting it forever, or until some less ethereal leviathan is born, or
reborn, out of its ashes.
Unfortunately,
that’s rather likely, the less ethereal leviathan scenario. It may not come
about in my lifetime — and, selfishly, I’m hoping it doesn’t — but this state
of affairs cannot continue indefinitely. As I wrote in an essay in June of 2021 …
“The global
capitalist ruling classes are implementing a new official ideology, in other
words, a new ‘reality.’ That’s what an official ideology is. It’s more than
just a set of beliefs. Anyone can have any beliefs they want. Your personal
beliefs do not constitute ‘reality.’ In order to make your beliefs ‘reality,’
you need to have the power to impose them on society. You need the power of the
police, the military, the media, scientific ‘experts,’ academia, the culture
industry, the entire ideology-manufacturing machine. There is nothing subtle
about this process. Decommissioning one ‘reality’ and replacing it with another
is a brutal business. Societies grow accustomed to their ‘realities.’ We do not
surrender them willingly or easily. Normally, what’s required to get us to do
so is a crisis, a war, a state of emergency, or … you know, a deadly global
pandemic. During the changeover from the old ‘reality’ to the new ‘reality,’
the society is torn apart. The old ‘reality’ is being disassembled and the new
one has not yet taken its place. It feels like madness, and, in a way, it is.
For a time, the society is split in two, as the two ‘realities’ battle it out
for dominance. ‘Reality’ being what it is (i.e., monolithic), this is a fight
to the death. In the end, only one ‘reality’ can prevail.”
I wrote that
almost two years ago, in the relative calm before the storm of fascistic,
hate-drunk mass hysteria and systematic official persecution that was unleashed
on “the Unvaccinated” in the months that followed. If your memory of 2021 is
hazy, my year-end column, The Year of the New Normal
Fascist, or this video compilation by Matt Orfalea might help sharpen it back up. Since
then, the madness of the reality-changeover in progress has intensified, albeit
somewhat more subtly … or at least Keith Olbermann is not shrieking hatred like
a meth-addled Goebbels anymore.
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“Dr. Buttar outed mysterious death of Top virologist years ago”
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perfection of the patent, that was issued to Pirbright corporation in Europe,
which is controlled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Which issued a patent on COVID-19, not on a vaccine or on
treatment, but on the virus itself on the pathogen itself, which, how can you
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“Arrested For Accusing Bill Gates Of Epstein Connections – Peter
Flaherty Reacts!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-3VHtfT5kc
with
Jimmy Dore
(23:49)
In a video
that has gone viral and then some, Peter Flaherty of the National Legal and
Policy Center (NLPC) stepped up to the microphone at the recent Berkshire
Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, but then his mic was suddenly cut
and he was promptly arrested as soon as he brought up Bill Gates’ connection to
Jeffrey Epstein. So at least someone is getting arrested in connection to
Epstein, even though it’s just a corporate stockholder calling out the
nefarious activities of billionaires.
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“James O’Keefe Addresses Being Fired After Exposing Pfizer Lies”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaZ0-yyd-9A&feature=youtu.be
with
Jimmy Dore
(8:14)
When
notorious guerrilla journalist James O’Keefe was fired from Project Veritas,
the organization he founded well over a decade ago, rumors swirled about what
he had done to run afoul of the organization’s board. Many speculated that
O’Keefe had chosen an ill-advised target — Pfizer — and was paying the price
for challenging such a powerful institution.
+
“Raided By The FBI! – James O’Keefe Speaks Out!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhrfVF815E&feature=youtu.be
with
Jimmy Dore and James O’Keefe
(15:17)
+
What the hell is going on with the UK
Labour Party?
https://therealnews.com/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-the-uk-labour-party
by Jon Greenaway
After a decade of austerity, with inflation still
running at 10% and a country going
through the biggest fall in
living standards in the last 60 years, it is an
understatement to say that the current conservative UK government is profoundly
unpopular. Yet, even as former government ministers are announcing their plans to leave
politics—presumably for more
profitable employment elsewhere—and with current MPs under
investigation for violating ethical
standards for public officials, the mood of voters regarding a possible Labour
government seems gloomy at best.
On the surface, this lackluster attitude may seem slightly strange: the
regional elections on May 4 saw the Conservative party lose over 900
local councilors and national polling shows that the
Labour party has enjoyed a 15-point lead since
January. Despite these rosy predictions, Keir Starmer’s position as the next
prime minister does not yet seem like a done deal. Polling may be healthy for
the larger Labour party, but Starmer’s personal polling is hardly inspiring.
Pollsters warn that the Conservatives are closing the gap, and a hung
parliament (a general election in which no party has a majority) is becoming more
likely. Late last year, the Labour party reported a £5 million
financial deficit and an exodus of nearly 100,000 members. On top of all of
that, in April 2022, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party passed a motion that would block the former
leader of the party, Jeremy Corbyn, from
standing as a Labour candidate in the next general election. To get a better
understanding of this current disarray, it’s best to start with Labour’s
current leader: Keir Starmer.
Sir Keir
Starmer and the Labour Right . . . .
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“31 billionaires are worth more than the US Treasury has in cash”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/29/investing/billionaires-debt-ceiling/index.html
by Matt
Egan
Cash levels
at the US Treasury are tumbling toward a dangerously low level as Washington
waits until the last minute to raise the debt ceiling.
As of the
close of business on May 25, Treasury had just $38.8 billion in cash, according
to the latest federal data. That’s down from more than $200 billion earlier
this month and nearing the bare minimum level of $30
billion.
For context,
31 billionaires are each worth more than the
federal government’s $38.8 billion in cash, according to the Bloomberg
Billionaires Index.
Some
of them, like fashion mogul Bernard Arnault – are worth a lot more. Arnault, the
chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, has a net worth estimated at $193 billion.
Tesla billionaire Elon Musk is worth $185 billion and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
has a net worth of $144 billion.
The list of
31 billionaires worth more than Uncle Sam’s cash total includes household names
like Michael Dell, legendary investor Warren Buffett and Facebook co-founder
Mark Zuckerberg, as well as billionaires with lower profiles such as French
billionaire Francois Pinault and Chanel chairman Alain Wertheimer.
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c.
“Linoleic Acid - The Most Destructive Ingredient in Your” Diet
https://www.globalresearch.ca/linoleic-acid-most-destructive-ingredient-your-diet/5818645
by Joseph
Mercola
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Toxic
Contagion – Funds, Food and Pharma
https://www.globalresearch.ca/toxic-contagion-funds-food-pharma/5819860
by Colin
Todhunter
In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed
that small farms produce most of the world’s food in its report Hungry
for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland. The report Small-scale
Farmers and Peasants Still Feed the World (ETC Group, 2022) confirmed this.
Small farmers
produce up to 80% of the food in the non-industrialised countries. However,
they are currently squeezed onto less than a quarter of the world’s
farmland. The period 1974-2014 saw 140 million hectares – more than all
the farmland in China – being taken over for soybean, oil palm, rapeseed and sugar cane plantations.
GRAIN noted
that the concentration of fertile agricultural land in fewer and fewer
hands is directly related to the increasing number of people going hungry every
day. While industrial farms have enormous power, influence and resources,
GRAIN’s data showed that small farms almost everywhere outperform big farms in
terms of productivity.
In the same
year, policy think tank the Oakland Institute released a report stating that the first years of the 21
century will be remembered for a global land rush of nearly unprecedented
scale. An estimated 500 million acres, an area eight times the size
of Britain, were reported bought or leased across the developing
world between 2000 and 2011, often at the expense of local food
security and land rights.
Institutional
investors, including hedge funds, private equity, pension funds and university
endowments, were eager to capitalise on global farmland as a new and
highly desirable asset class.
This trend
was not confined to buying up agricultural land in low-income countries.
Oakland Institute’s Anuradha Mittal argued that there was a new rush for US
farmland. One industry leader estimated that $10 billion
in institutional capital was looking for access to this land in the US.
Although
investors believed that there is roughly $1.8 trillion worth of farmland
across the US, of this between $300 billion and $500 billion (2014
figures) is considered to be of “institutional quality” – a combination of
factors relating to size, water access, soil quality and location that
determine the investment appeal of a property.
In 2014,
Mittal said that if action is not taken, then a perfect storm of global
and national trends could converge to permanently shift farm ownership
from family businesses to institutional investors and other
consolidated corporate operations.
Why this
matters . . . .
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“Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity”
by Prof. Claudia von Werlhof, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Prof Michel
Chossudovsky, Josefina Fraile, Elana Freeland, Maria Heibel, Claire Henrion,
Conny Kadia, Linda Leblanc, and Vilma Rocío Almendra Quiguanás
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“The High Costs of Military Air Shows”
A Short History. Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for our
Amusement
https://www.globalresearch.ca/short-history-high-costs-military-air-shows/5683177
by Dr.
Gary G. Kohls
The US Navy’s “Blue Angel” fighter jet squadron are scheduled to “perform” at Duluth, Minnesota’s
military air show on July 15/16, 2023. The economic and environmental costs of
such pro-military propaganda stunts that heavily contribute to the trillion
dollar annual “defense department” budgets and federal deficit crises and the
promotion of the aggressive militarization of our nation by such things as this
weekend’s National Memorial Day celebration that was sponsored by Lockheed
Martin Corporation, one of the largest, most profitable military weapons
manufacturers in the world that depend on war-readiness, military dominance,
massive deficit spending and “keeping our nation safe”.
Incidentally, Lockheed’s stock price today is $450 per
share and is scheduled to pat a $3 quarterly dividend at the end of this
quarter. Witnessing the over-the-top patriotic propaganda of the Memorial Day
concert in Washington, D.C. today, I felt it was necessary to re-issue an old
Duty to Warn article, which was published by
Global Research on July 10, 2019.
Dr. Gary G. Kohl, May 29, 2023
***
In 1825, long before anybody even thought about air
flight, the US Navy began operations in the Pensacola, Florida area, when the
federal government built a naval yard on Pensacola Bay.
90 years
later, in 1914, the naval yard became home to the Navy’s first permanent air
station. Since that time, NAS (Naval Air Station) Pensacola has served as the
primary training base for naval aviators and has housed the Blue Angels
aerobatic programs, which will be giving 61 shows at 32 locations from March
through November of 2019. The two Blue Angel shows in Duluth are scheduled for
July 20 – 21, 2019.
The US Navy
pilots that came back in one piece from World War II returned flush with pride
for doing their part in winning the war in the Pacific. So, in 1946, the Navy
established a base of naval air operations on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico
where the Blue Angels began training pilots to perform aeronautic stunts to
entertain the public (Pentagon budgetary costs partially offset by attendance
fees). The airshow were done partly for recruiting future pilots, partly for
raising unit morale, partly to gain the support of congresspersons who vote on
military budgets and, one supposes, to further glorify America’s military
conquests in the eyes of the public.
The United
States Air Force (USAF) shortly established a similar air base in Texas, where
the first Thunderbird team began doing air shows for public entertainment in
1953.
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d.
“The Mafia, CIA & Jeffrey Epstein Worked TOGETHER To Traffic
Minors”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rhlXhvf-c&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore and Whitney
Webb
There is much more to the Jeffrey Epstein case than an island for sex
trafficking, flight logs and a suspicious “suicide.” As journalist Whitney Webb
unravels in her two-volume “One Nation Under Blackmail” series, ties between
the CIA, organized crime, international arms dealers and sex traffickers date
back to before World War II and the Epstein connection merely represents the
latest chapter in an unbelievably sordid, many-tentacled tale of money, sex,
violence, power and blackmail. Jimmy and Whitney discuss the historical
connection between the military, the CIA and organized crime as well as
Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Victoria’s Secret founder Les
Wexner, among many other miscreants and malefactors.
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e.
“Mischief-Making in
Pretoria-Moscow-Washington Foreign and Trade Policies”
by Patrick Bond
Has the South African government unequivocally sided with Russia, as
witnessed not just in February’s joint military exercises (alongside China) but
also in allegedly selling weapons to Moscow late last year? Will the
relationship prevent President Cyril Ramaphosa from having Vladimir Putin
arrested at the Johannesburg summit, in late August, of the
Brazil-Russia-India-China-Johannesburg bloc – as the International Criminal
Court arrest warrant (for abuse of captured Ukrainian children) requires? And
will any of these factors threaten the single largest component of South
Africa’s export trade, the African Growth and Opportunity Act duty-free imports
to the United States, worth several billion dollars last year alone?
During the current fog of war, with its accompanying military
profiteering racket, it is entirely predictable for South African politicians
to have a go at seeding the clouds of doubt. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana
was among the most evasive, on May 14, when deflecting the furious U.S. State Department claim that South Africans loaded
weaponry destined for Russia on the ship Lady R, at a Cape Town naval base in
December 2022: “If it did happen as the Americans claim, it could be a conduct
of people who were mischief makers.”
Who would make mischief from lethal arms dealing, and what are the
broader economic implications?
The world’s leading military profiteer remains the United States. And
in spite of White House and State Department rhetoric about the “battle between democracies and autocracies,” the latter are favoured arms customers by President Joseph
Biden’s administration. As The
Intercept’s Stephen Semler concluded last week after reviewing official 2022 trade data, Biden “has helped
increase the military power of a large number of authoritarian countries… The
U.S. sold weapons to at least 57 percent of the world’s autocratic countries in
2022.” The likes of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt top the list. In the
process, reported Axios, “The U.S. accounted for 40% of
total [arms] exports from 2018-2022, up from 33% in the previous five years,
while Russia declined from 22% to 16%.”
Other military mischief makers include South Africa’s own arms dealers,
led by the parastatal agency Denel and the Paramount Group. But Obed Bapela,
the deputy head of the African National Congress foreign policy committee which
has insisted on abstentions when the United Nations votes on Russia’s invasion,
recently claimed on SAfm
national radio, “I was with the management of Denel, I was there last week
Friday. Denel has not been in production for the past three years.”
In reality, Rheinmetall-Denel Munitions (RDM) is a major joint venture
in Somerset West which has been producing and selling quite a bit of deadly
weaponry, including in recent
weeks. While the firm deniesproviding
Putin with ammunition (as RDM’s are apparently non-compatible with Russian
guns), according to DefenceWeb there
has been “an uptick in business, most likely due to the war in Ukraine. In
December 2022, for example, RDM announced a NATO country order for 155 mm
Assegai ammunition.”
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f.
How deep is Russia's demographic hole?
by Edward
Slavsquat
Deep enough
for the Kremlin to warn of "problems of an insurmountable nature"
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“At least we have each other”
by Edward
Slavsquat
Edward's
weekly news roundup & open thread (June 4, 2023)
“‘Pro-Russia’ does NOT mean anti-globalist”
https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/19/answering-our-critics-on-the-russia-question/
by Catte
Black
For the first
six years of our eight-year existence OffG was routinely described as
“pro-Russian” by detractors and supporters alike. We were cited on RT and one
editor was invited to work for them (they declined). We were classified
semi-politely as “Russian disinfo” by certain fact-checkers, and condemned as “Russian trolls” who “found a home for their hate” by less scrupulous media.
There were
repeat insinuations that we were controlled by the Russian government.
We weren’t,
of course. And we aren’t now.
We were
“pro-Russian” to the extent that we supported their eminently rational
geopolitics over the crazy confrontationalism of the Washington neocons which
seemed to be driving the world to war. We were “pro-Russian” in that this
counter-propaganda struggle represented probably 90% of our output for our
first five years.
We were
“pro-Russia” on issues such as Ukraine, the Odessa Massacre, MH17, Syria, the Panama Papers, the Skripals, the Russiagate lies, Luke Harding’s nonsense, the
Guardian’s sometimes hilarious Russophobia, and much much more…
because being
“pro-Russia” at that time meant being pro-peace, pro-rule of law, pro-truth.
But we were
never “pro-Russian” to the extent of picking a side or feeling any sense of
loyalty that transcends our independent ethical judgement. We were never funded
to hold certain opinions, in fact we have never been
funded by any benefactors or
donors beyond the minuscule percentage of our readers (less than 0.05%) who are
generous enough to send us a few tips in return for our free output. We
struggle to survive in fact. Can’t afford to pay our
wonderful contributors, who never complain about that.
So, why are
you not “pro-Russia” at this time?
Well, let’s
just remind ourselves of some hard facts.
* In 2020 the
Russian leadership and its elites revealed themselves to be an integral part of
the fake pandemic “coup”.
* They
employed the same fear and
deception tactics we saw in the West, in China, in fact in almost every country
in the world.
* They
initiated the same unnecessary
and deeply anti-human isolation and lockdown policies.
* They
initiated the same unnecessary
and deeply damaging mask policies
* They
initiated the same unnecessary
and potentially genocidal “vaccine” policies, incentivising and coercing vast
numbers of Russian people into getting an untested possibly very dangerous
chemical brew injected into their bodies.
Should
anyone be “pro” any of this?
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News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller
“In memory of those who "died suddenly" in the United States
and worldwide, May 22-May 29, 2023”
by Mark
Crispin Miller
Musicians in
Mexico, Cuba, Peru, UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Italy,
Algeria; actors in the US, Canada (2), Germany, Slovakia, Spain, China; cops in
Poland, Turkey, New Zealand; more
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“As German study finds that "vaccination" causes cancer (!),
another study has been rushed out to "prove" that COVID is the cause”
by Marc
Crispin Miller
It's getting
ever harder to suppress the fact that "vaccination" has induced a
global plague of "rare," aggressive cancers; so the propagandists
will now try to change the subject
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“Canadians, what you don't know is killing you! This (real) journalist
tells how the CBC became the lethal propaganda mill it is today”
by Marc
Crispin Miller
This
testimony by Rodney Palmer is a MUST-SEE not just for all Canadians, but for
anyone, worldwide, who wants to know exactly how a free press turns—is
turned—into its opposite
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“Figure skater Piper Gilles has ovarian cancer; goalie Heinz Lindner
has testicular cancer; cyclist Jan Polanc retires ("heart irregularities");
cricketer Heath Streak treated for cancer, and more…”
by Marc
Crispin Miller
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/
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“MLB pitcher David Hess's cancer has returned; pro wrestler BLK Jeez has
multiple myeloma; "Rory McIlroy confirms illness heading into PGA";
Philly sportscaster John Kincaide has colon cancer”
by Marc
Crispin Miller
“MLB world
reacts to vomiting pitcher" (Amir Garrett of the Kansas City Royals);
LSU's Sa'Mayah Smith collapses at the White House
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“See how ‘safe’ those ‘vaccines’ are, how ‘rare’ the deaths and
crippling injuries”
by Marc
Crispin Miller
Too many
"anecdotal" horrors to keep believing Fauci, Pfizer, Biden, Trump,
"our free press" or any of the others that deny, deny, deny, deny the
FACT of this worldwide extermination drive
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Stillbirths are skyrocketing in the Post-Covid Vaccination Era, leaked
Hospital Email reveals
by Ethan
Huff
An employee at a hospital in Fresno, Calif., leaked an email to the media showing that stillbirth rates have been
spiking ever since the introduction of Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines.”
In August of this year, there were 22 stillbirths at
the facility, the email revealed. And the trend is only expected to continue,
it went on to state. (Related: Some of Canada’s
most-vaccinated areas saw a
28-fold increase in stillbirths due to covid injections.)
So far in
September, there have been seven stillbirths, though at the time of reporting
only eight days had passed in the month. Extrapolated to October, we would
expect the total number of stillbirths at the hospital in September to be
around 40, or more than twice
that of August.
Prior to
Operation Warp Speed, the average number of stillbirths per month at the
hospital in question was less than one. Only about two deaths every three
months were reported at the facility prior to the rollout of Fauci Flu shots.
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“Two UK Babies Dead From Myocarditis: Total of 16 Babies Developed
“Severe Myocarditis” in Wales & England, Eight Ended Up in Intensive Care”
by Dr.
William Makis
+
“Paul Simon's ‘sudden’ hearing loss; ‘Sam Smith abruptly ends concert’;
Celine Dion cancels tour; Jimmy Buffett hospitalized, postpones concert; Enrique
Iglesias cancels show”
by Marc
Crispin Miller
George
Thorogood cancels tour because of "very serious medical condition";
Rainbow Kitten Surprise cancels shows because "one of our members is in a
medical crisis"
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“Ophthalmologists Now Ethically Obligated to Denounce COVID-19
Vaccines, as 20,000 New Eye Disorders Are Reported”
by Lance
Johnson
Ongoing
processor vaccine related eye disorders first reported two year ago in May 2021
***
In just a few months, the World Health Organization
received approximately 20,000 reports of new eye
disorders that occurred post
covid-19 vaccination. These reports include 303 cases of blindness and 1,625
cases of visual impairment! The European drug monitoring agency had never
recorded such a severe spike in eye injuries until after the experimental
vaccines were launched. These reports were collected by VigiBase and analyzed
by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Uppsala, Sweden.
About half of
the new eye disorders were additionally reported to the U.K.’s Yellow Card
adverse event reporting system, which was set up to monitor the influx of
adverse events that were anticipated during this live, experimental vaccine
study. Back in 2020, the vaccine makers had already entered into liability-free
contracts with governments around the world. This has enabled mass vaccine
injury with no recourse or accountability and set up the framework for a
historic, worldwide holocaust.
Ophthalmologists
need more training to properly recognize and report vaccine injury
These
experimental vaccines are designed to cause inflammation throughout the body,
by reprogramming human cells to produce inflammatory spike proteins that are
derived from the bio-weapon itself. Eye damage is merely a symptom of this
inflammation, a sign of more serious problems to come with capillaries and
autoimmune issues. The inflammatory conditions caused by the vaccines provide a
new revenue stream for various industries within the medical system, including
ophthalmology.
See also: 19,916 ‘Eye Disorders’ Including Blindness Following COVID Vaccine
Reported in Europe
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Since last August, 27 comedians have "died suddenly" (and
four more fell gravely ill)
by Marc
Crispin Miller
Always a
tough business, comedy has been especially tough these past 9+ months, as we
can see from these reports out of the US, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy, Spain,
India, S. Korea and elsewhere
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“4 off-duty nurses save the lives of people "dying suddenly"
of heart attacks; 150 planes grounded by American Airlines alone; 330
"COVID" papers withdrawn for scientific flaws”
by Marc
Crispin Miller
These numbers
don't lie, although "the science" crafted to "explain" them does.
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“These three minutes of Jimmy Dore onstage are worth more than the last
three years of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers, SNL
& Sarah Silverman COMBINED”
by Mark
Crispin Miller
Here Dore
channels Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Richard Pryor,
George Carlin, Joan Rivers and Bill Hicks, whose material was NOT dictated by
the CIA's Comedy Desk
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h.
“Sucharit Bhakdi & the
prosecution of ‘thought crime’”
https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/22/sucharit-bhakdi-the-prosecution-of-thought-crime/
by Off-Guardian
Eminent and influential “covid” skeptic Dr Sucharit Bhakdi is about to be prosecuted tomorrow, May 23, under German law for:
1.
having incited hatred
against a religious group and attacked the human dignity of others by insulting
and maliciously disparaging that religious group, while acting in concert in a
manner likely to disturb the public peace; and
2.
having publicly trivialized an act committed under the rule of National
Socialism of the kind described in Section 6 (1) of the International Criminal
Code in a manner likely to disturb public peace.
Now you may or may not agree with Bhakdi’s statements regarding the Jews
and Israel. It’s your free right to do either.
You might think he doesn’t go far enough in condemning Israel, or you
might think he goes too far. You might think he expressed himself clumsily and
without due regard for the difference between Jewish people and the arguably
criminal Israeli state. You might think it’s a stretch to describe modern
Israel as “worse” than the Nazis, or you might think it’s more than accurate.
But all of that is missing the real point, which is – Bhakdi is being
prosecuted for expressing an opinion.
That’s all.
Despite the weasel wording of the accusation, he wasn’t calling for or threatening
acts of violence, he wasn’t even “acting in concert” to “disturb the peace” –
he was just telling people what he
thought.
The real question here isn’t do you agree with him, it’s do you, or any
of us, want to live in a world in which a person can be penalized by the state,
fined or put in prison, for the thoughts in their head?
For thought crime?
This is why Bhakdi deserves your support.
Because his case illustrates the real intent behind
the criminalizing of selective avenues of thought. And it has nothing to do with respecting the dead or preventing another
Holocaust.
In fact this, from ‘Mr Sebastian Willing’ makes
it too clear what the real agenda is:
By putting the vaccination—which is demonstrably harmless—against the
Corona virus on par with the Holocaust, he is belittling the genocide of the
National Socialists in the 3rd Reich
As must be clear to everyone, even Mr Willing, Bhakdi does not agree the
“vaccination” is “harmless”. This is his entire point. He is absolutely not belittling the genocide of the
Nazis, quite the reverse, he is giving his opinion that the vax will end up
being another
genocide just as terrible.
This is, of course, his real crime, and the one that can never be stated,
because even discussing that possibility is simply too dangerous for the
agenda-managers right now.
For sources for everything quoted here and for more info on the case go
to Doctors for Covid Ethics here and here.
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“FDA Finds Evidence of
Serious Safety Signal for COVID Vaccines in Young Kids — Says It Proves Shots
Are ‘Safe’”
by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
Young teens who received the mRNA COVID-19
vaccine have a higher risk of heart inflammation, according to a new U.S. Food
and Drug Administration study — researchers said the study’s results provide
“additional evidence for the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines in the pediatric
population.”
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“Myocarditis Not Recovered
in 80% at 6 Months after Vaccination”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/myocarditis-not-recovered-in-80-at
by Peter A. McCullough, MD,
MPH
Worrisome Serial MRI Results in Adolescents after Primary mRNA Series”
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“The Covid ‘Killer Vaccine’. People Are Dying All Over
the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking”
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
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“Don’t let them rewrite
history: Ventilators KILLED people…and it was no accident”
by Kit Knightly
A new study from Northwestern University has concluded that the majority
of “Covid19” patients put on ventilators were actually killed by bacterial
pneumonia, not the alleged virus.
You can read that paper here.
This should not come as a shock to any regular OffG reader – or indeed
anyone who tried to keep themselves informed during the “pandemic”. Mechanical
ventilation is not a treatment for respiratory infection, and quite often makes
the situation worse.
Deliberate, institutional misuse of mechanical ventilation probably
killed huge numbers of patients during the so-called “first wave”. We cover
this in great detail in our “40 Facts” covid cribsheet.
Predictably enough, though, mainstream talking heads are not ready to
admit this, and the Northwestern paper has produced a wave of somewhat fevered
revisionism among the dwindling covidiot class.
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Graphene COVID Kill Shots:
Let the Evidence Speak for Itself
https://www.globalresearch.ca/graphene-covid-kill-shots-let-evidence-speak-itself/5763418
by Dr. Ariyana Love
I compiled all the evidence
we have into this article that prove Graphene Oxide, Graphene Hydroxide and
other Graphene variants are in fact being injected into people by governments
and Big Pharma.
This evidence was discovered
and proven numerous times already by independent research teams, scientists,
Biotech whistleblowers and the few ethical Journalists remaining.
There’s a concerted effort
by the pharmaceutical cartel funded “fact checkers,” Big Tech platforms and
mainstream media, to hide the evidence and slander the people bringing this to
light.
Once you go over the evidence provided here, you must take action for the
safety of you and your families.
Serve all war criminals participating in this COVID death jab program
with a Notice of Liability for the murders they are
committing.
This is definitive action that any person can take, worldwide.
The notices are already drafted by legal teams so why not use them and
let our enemies be on the defensive. The criminals will be reminded of the
Nuremberg trials, and informed that they will be brought to justice. They need
to cease and desist from acting knowingly and willfully in mandating “vaccine”
death jabs and enforcing them. The evidence to the danger is clear and deaths
have been proven. Anyone administering or mandating these “vaccine” kill shots
are doing so without Informed Consent.
Compilation of Evidence . . . .
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i.
“Economic Update: Varoufakis
Critique of Capitalism Today”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZyJiOCIr1A
with Richard Wolff and Yanis
Varoufakis
(28:40)
Yanis Varoufakis, elected member of the Greek parliament, joins the
program and offers his original, critical perspectives on (1) the banking
crisis, (2) the decline of the US empire and US capitalism, (3) the mass
uprisings of the French and Greek working classes in Europe, (4) the collapse
of Europe's efforts to shape an independent (from the US and China) economic
position, and (5) class struggle inside China.
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“The Debt Ceiling is
Political Theater”
by Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa
(audio,
55:29)
The “debt ceiling” crisis playing out between President Biden and
Congressional Republicans is manufactured by capitalism to justify spending
cuts to critical social programs while continuing to bail out big businesses
and fund the Pentagon’s endless war drive.
This comes after the taxpayer-funded bailouts of Silicon Valley Bank,
Signature Bank and First Republic Bank show the willingness of the capitalist
system to do everything it can to keep itself afloat.
To talk about the debt ceiling, bank bailouts, inflation and more, we’re
joined by Chris Caruso from the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights &
Social Justice.
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“A Conduit for Eco-Money
Laundering and Crime”
by Robert W Malone MD, MS
How the Climate Emergency Fund justifies their actions
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j.
“Conference on Propaganda
and COVID-19”
https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/17/conference-on-propaganda-and-covid-19/
by Jerry Alatalo
This weekend PANDA in association
with the Portuguese Society of Integrative Medicine, are sponsoring a conference on Propaganda and mental
health, with a focus on the recent Covid19 psy-op.
Speakers will include regular OffG contributor Dr Piers Robinson, Mark
Crispin Miller, Mattias Desmet and many more. You can view the full programme and list of of speakers through their website, and
the conference will streamed live here.
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k.
The Pentagon Has Been
Recolonizing University Campuses—Why Aren’t More Students Protesting?
by Jérémy Kouzmarov
Once upon a time getting a college degree meant reading classic
literature and philosophy, learning about history and politics, studying
mathematics and science, learning new languages, and debating the great issues
of the day in student forums.
The billionaire class and Pentagon, however, do not want young people to
think critically, or to be worldly and idealistic.
They want the university to function as a breeding ground for creation of
a docile, technically skilled workforce that they can control, and as a
laboratory for the development of new weapons systems and testing ground for
those weapons that can help them dominate the world.
Recolonizing the Campus
On April 5, Massachusetts Peace Action and the War Industries Resistance
Network hosted a webinar on the militarization of
higher education featuring Michael T. Klare, the national security
correspondent for The Nation magazine.
Klare warned about the Pentagon’s drive to recolonize American
universities and exploit academia’s expertise for the development of new
weapons, including hypersonic and robotic weapons.
According to Klare, the military-industrial-academic complex first
emerged during World War II and was expanded during the Cold War when the Pentagon
developed a significant presence on American campuses.
Among other things, it financed academic research in nuclear physics and
radar and missile technologies, and helped to develop the hydrogen bomb along
with many other weapons systems that caused methodical devastation in the
Korean and Vietnam Wars.
The political awakening of the 1960s led to large-scale student protests,
which influenced many universities to sever their ties with the Pentagon, or
move military-related research facilities off campus.
However, since the declaration of the War on Terror and new great-power
competition with Russia and China, the Pentagon is now moving back on campus
with limited pushback as the government attempts to wage an “all-society
struggle” to ensure U.S. military supremacy.
Developing the Weapons of the Future
. . . .
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l.
FACT SHEET: The Palestine
Problem: Test Your Knowledge, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 1967
by The Editors, The Black Agenda
Review
Do you know that the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) published a fact sheet in 1967
detailing the truth about the history of Zionist, British, and U.S. aggression
against the Palestinian people? Read it below to learn more – and help to fight
for a free Palestine!
In the summer of 1967, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) published a fact sheet in their newsletter titled, “The Palestine
Problem: Test Your Knowledge.” Focusing on the history of the formation of the
Zionist state of Israel through the expulsion of the Palestinian people and the
expropriation of their land, the piece was structured as a series of thirty-two
answers to the question, “Do you know?” Placed under a section titled, “Third
World Round Up,” the editors made the bold claim that “Since we Afro-Americans
are an integral part of The Third World (Africa, Asia, Latin America, American
Indians and all persons of African descent), then it is indeed necessary for us
to know and understand what our brothers are doing in their homelands.”
“The Palestine Problem” was published soon after the end of the 1967
Arab-Israeli war, a war which had captured the western imagination and in which
the media showed little support for the Palestinians. Ethel Minor , the editor
of the SNCC Newsletter, had a
particular interest in the Palestinian struggle. She had met Palestinian
organizers as a student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne and in
Brazil, and she felt the need for African Americans to follow Malcolm X’s lead
to have an international orientation to Black struggle. She joined SNCC, and
for two years organized a reading group in Lowndes County, Alabama, around the
Palestinian issue.
The reading group, which had Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Toure and H. Rap
Brown as members, read one book a month on the Palestine problem, focusing
particularly on writings by the architects of Zionism - Herzl, Ben-Guirion,
etc. It was through these readings that these young people discovered, in the
words of Ture, “the close military, economic, and political alliance between
the Israeli government and the racist apartheid regime in South Africa.”
But most importantly, the reading group learned about the undemocratic
establishment of the Zionist state through a collusion of European and U.S.
imperial machinations that used the United Nations to consecrate the illegal
removal of Palestinians from their lands and the merciless stripping of their
sovereignty. They were also shocked both at the UN’s capitulation to the west,
and the refusal to acknowledge the viewpoints of the African and Asian states
who stood against the dismemberment of Palestine.
“The Palestine Problem” ignited a national firestorm and SNCC faced a
violent backlash, including claims of anti-semitism. Significantly, the staff
of SNCC’s Atlanta bureaus and the editors of the SNCC Newsletter argued that the article was published for internal discussion within the
organization in the face of the reality that “the white American press seldom,
if ever, gives the true story about world events in which America is involved.”
Nevertheless, the article was distributed nationally and garnered widespread
rebuke - including from the integrationists
liberal Black civil rights personalities Martin Luther King, Bayard Rustin, and
Roy Wilkins, who were afraid of offending their northern liberal supporters,
many of which were staunch supporters of the Zionist state.
It is now 2023. May 15th was the 75th anniversary of the NAKBA, the catastrophe inflicted upon the Palestinian people. The Zionist
entity continues its brutal occupation and its racist terror. Meanwhile, as
time passes, its government becomes more extreme and right-wing. But the U.S.
and its European junior partners continue to support this terrorist state with
not only funding, but with media propaganda that hides both the Zionist state’s
brutal origins and its ongoing genocidal policies - all the while demonizing
Palestinian resistance.
Do you know: the U.S. and the rest of the West “have prevented the world
from knowing the truth of the Palestine Arab refugees who were and still are
the victims of Zionist, British, and U.S. aggression against them?” Well, read
the SNCC factsheet (reprinted below) to learn more – and help to fight for a
free Palestine!
THIRD WORLD ROUND UP
The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge
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Unveiling a Dark History:
Nakba's Tragedy Continues Unabated after 75 Years
by Miko Peled
Even with all the protests and mentions of Nakba Day on social media,
commemorating this horrific, sad event is nowhere near where it ought to be.
Arguably one of the darkest and most awful chapters in the long history of
Palestine, the Nakba needs to be fully commemorated in every capital in the
world.
The politicization of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the
consequent installment of an apartheid regime to govern it is such that few
countries dare even to mention these crimes against humanity.
The full scope of the Nakba, a combination of several crimes against
humanity, is yet to be understood.
To begin with, the Nakba is a tragedy that began over seventy-five years
ago and continues in full force. Furthermore, the full extent of the crimes
committed in the early Nakba, from 1947 to 1952, is still being uncovered.
The latest discovery was just published in the
Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
According to the article, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister,
ordered chemicals to be used to poison wells in Palestinian villages.
Newly found mass graves and testimonies of Zionist terrorists like
Yerachmiel Kahnovich, who admitted in a recent YouTube video that he shot an
anti-tank missile into the Dahmash mosque in Lyd in June 1948, are still
being uncovered. Kahnovich single-handedly murdered over one hundred people taking
refuge in the mosque as Lyd was undergoing a brutal ethnic cleansing. As the
years go by, more testimonies like his are opening up. We should remember and
appreciate that both the perpetrators and the victims of the acts that took
place during the early period of the Nakba are getting old and will soon be
gone.
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“The US and UK are complicit
with the Israeli apartheid and racist regime.” Interview with Sami, the Bedouin
by Sami the Bedouin and Steven
Sahiounie
The armed conflict between
the Palestinian people of the West Bank and Gaza continues against the Israeli
forces who maintain the over 5 million residents under a brutal military
occupation, with no human rights, and no freedom in sight.
Steven Sahiounie of MidEastDiscourse interviewed Sami, the Bedouin, a
Palestinian writer and blogger. He is originally ethnically cleansed from
Ashdod, in Occupied Palestine, but living as a refugee in the West Bank
Occupied Palestine. As an activist for Palestine, he has been arrested several
times and spent some years in the zionist jails for
resisting the zionist occupation. He’s been blogging exclusively about
Palestine in different sites and in his blog www.samibedouin.wordpress.com
*
Steven Sahiounie (SS): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
ordered the targeted assassinations of three leaders of Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
It appears Netanyahu did so for his own benefit, because he faces huge domestic
political issues. What is your view on this situation?
Sami the Bedouin (SB): Netanyahu didn’t invent, or start the
Israeli assassination policy against the Palestinian leaders and activists; he
just continued a systematic and continuous state-sponsored policy. Steering the
attention away from the Israeli internal dilemma and saving Netanyahu from the
masses of demonstrating Israelis could be a side and temporary result for
attacking Gaza but we can’t blame only Netanyahu for that longstanding policy,
or even the current wave of assassination that was decided and carried out by
the Israeli cabinet, ie, the whole Israeli government, plus, there was a
massive support from the whole Israeli political spectrum for the killing,
although most of the victims were civilians.
Now, to understand the Israeli systematic assassination policy you have
got to know that it is an integral part of all the Israeli governments as
“Israel” has been using Death Squads even before it was established, and once
it was terrorist groups of Lehi, Irgun, and Stern. Most of the Zionist leaders
were directly involved in this systematic policy and the assassins mostly
become the top leaders of “Israel”, like Begin, Shamir, Sharon, Barak, Livni,
Bennett, Shaked and the list is endless.
This policy was started as early as 1930s when the Jewish National Fund
JNF had compelled an inventory that included the topographic location of each
village with detailed information including husbandry, cultivated land, number
of trees, quality of fruit, average amount of land per family, number of cars,
shop owners, Palestinian clans and their political affiliation, descriptions of
village mosques and names of their imams, civil servants and more. The final
inventory update was finished in 1947 with lists of “wanted” persons in each
village targeted in 1948 for search-and-arrest operations with those seized
summarily shot on the spot in cold blood.
The assassination policy is an Israeli built-in strategy in order to
weaken the Palestinian leadership within the major Zionist target of committing
what is known to be a political genocide against the Palestinian people to
deprive it from its able leadership to pave the way to subordinate, submissive
and compromising leadership.
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With the turn of a key,
everything changes
A boy looks out over the
destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Gaza on 13 May.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/turn-key-everything-changes/37771
by Mahmoud Alyazji
Life in Gaza can change in the blink of an eye, like a key turning in a
lock.
Just last week, I was excited about my university quiz, an upcoming
performance on stage, and the photography course I teach to a group of
children.
Then, the key turns, and I wake up with just one burning question: will I
survive?
Tuesday morning, the first day of Israel’s assault, my father shook me
and my younger brother awake.
“We need to move the goods from our shop to a safer location,” he said,
keen to salvage the clothes he sells from his store in al-Shujaiya.
I couldn’t help feeling skeptical. What new location would be any safer?
It would have the same sky that the warplanes fly in, the same sky that brings
death and destruction to our city. No place or time makes us feel safer in war.
“Let’s move,” my dad insisted while helping me up.
In the car, I saw the usual war scenery. The streets were crowded with
people rushing to buy supplies for the week. Bakeries were crowded. The smell
of stress and war hung thick in the air, and I couldn’t escape the constant
drone of the news channel reporter’s voice in the background.
I despise that voice, a constant reminder of the destruction and terror
that surrounds us.
With each passing moment my heart raced faster. Each tall building we
drove by could be struck and fall on the car. I kept imagining a missile
striking us. In the blink of an eye, we would never see our mother again. Our
bodies would be stiff and black, an ugly way to die. The terrifying things I
had seen in previous wars and on social media haunted me all the way to the
shop.
But terror gave way to profound disappointment and frustration when we
drove past my university. The talent show that we had been eagerly preparing
for had been snatched away from us by the cruel hands of Israel. I was no
longer filled with thrill and delight.
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‘Apartheid’ Designation
Ignored as Israel Kills Children in Gaza Again
by Bryce Greene
Israel’s recent bombing of the Gaza Strip from May
9–13 killed 33 Palestinians, including seven children. FAIR looked at coverage
of these attacks from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, and didn’t
find a single reference to Israel as an apartheid state, despite this being the
consensus in the human rights community.
Since apartheid is the
overriding condition that leads to Israel’s violent outbursts, and since the US
has vigorously supported Israel for the last 60 years, US media should be
putting it front and center in their coverage. Omitting it allows Israel
to continue to portray any violence from Palestinians as a result of senseless
hostility, rather than emerging from the conditions imposed by Israel. For
audiences, that distortion serves to justify Israel’s attacks on civilians and
continued collective punishment of all Palestinians.
The term apartheid originated with the South African system of systematic
racial segregation, which was not unlike Jim Crow in the United
States. Apartheid is considered a crime against humanity—defined in the UN’s
Apartheid Convention as “inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing
and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial
group of persons and systematically oppressing them.”
The term has been increasingly applied to the Israeli apparatus of
checkpoints, segregation, surveillance, arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial
murders that it uses to oppress Palestinians. In particular, the exclusion of most Palestinians under
Israeli control from participation in Israeli politics, under the pretense that
Palestinian areas either are or someday will be independent, mirrors the disenfranchisement of
Black South Africans through the creation of fictitious countries known as
bantustans.
Human Rights Watch published a report in 2021 titled A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and
the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution. That same year, the leading Israeli
human rights organization, B’Tselem, labeled Israel’s rule “a regime of
Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.” Amnesty
International published a major report in 2022 on “Israel’s
Apartheid Against Palestinians.”
After the biggest, most respected human rights organizations labeled
Israel an apartheid state, much of the US political establishment erupted in bipartisan indignation in defense of Israel. The
New York Times actually refused to even mention the Amnesty International
report for 52 days (Mondoweiss, 3/24/22).
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Israel kills municipal
worker, resistance fighters in Nablus
by Tamara Nassar
Israeli occupation forces attacked Balata refugee camp on Monday morning,
killing three Palestinians and injuring others.
Muhammad Bilal Zaytoun, 31, a cleaner with the
Nablus municipality, was returning home from work when Israeli soldiers raided
the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, an occupied West Bank city.
As Zaytoun stepped out of a municipal vehicle, Israeli soldiers fired at
him without warning even though he posed no danger, according to the Palestinian Center
for Human Rights (PCHR).
The Israeli invaders shot him in the chest, hand and leg, and left him
“to bleed for 20 minutes without providing him [with] first aid.”
He was killed in “cold blood,” the human rights group said.
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One year later, Israel has
yet to answer for Shireen Abu Akleh's assassination
https://therealnews.com/one-year-later-israel-has-yet-to-answer-for-shireen-abu-aklehs-assassination
by Chris Hedges
Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh was covering an Israeli
raid on Jenin Refugee Camp in her official capacity as a reporter for Al
Jazeera on May 11, 2022, when an unnamed Israeli sniper fired a bullet into the
thin space between the back of her helmet and her flak jacket, killing her. At
the time, Abu-Akleh was fleeing Israeli gunfire directed towards her and other
observing journalists, including Al Jazeera producer Ali Al-Samudi, who was
wounded moments before Abu-Akleh’s death.
One year later, Israeli military forces have issued an apology for
killing Shireen Abu Akleh. This follows countless reports from journalist
eyewitnesses, analyses by multiple international outlets, condemnation from
world governments, and a joint investigation which determined Israeli forces deliberately targeted Abu Akleh.
Israel’s admission thus reflects a definitive loss of the narrative battle over
the course of a full year rather a morally-directed decision. Al Jazeera Front Lines senior producer Kavitha
Chekuru joins The Chris Hedges
Report to discuss Abu Akleh’s assassination and the status of her
case one year later.
Kavitha Chekuru is a senior producer for Al Jazeera’s Front Lines, which released the
documentary The
Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh last December.
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Berliner
Zeitung interview
https://rogerwaters.com/berliner/
with Roger Waters
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“How The
Israel Lobby Destroyed Jeremy Corbyn”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9tvXBcNgmbo
with Katie Halper, Roger Waters
& Asa Winstanley
(1:30:11)
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“The Anti-Anti-Semitism
Follies”
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-anti-anti-semitism-follies?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by CJ Hopkins
Roll up, roll up, because it’s time once again for The Anti-Anti-Semitism
Follies! That’s right, folks, it’s everyone’s favorite unintentionally
slapstick theatrical revue, featuring an all-star line-up of uproarious
propagandists, side-splitting corporate media clowns, babbling British Labour
MPs, the all-singing, all-dancing Berlin Police Department, and other zany
anti-anti-Semites! Grab your popcorn and sit back and watch as they hunt down
dastardly “Holocaust relativizers,” insidious critics of the State of Israel,
and anyone who has ever used the word “globalism.” Hilarious high jinks are
sure to ensue!
But, seriously, folks, this is no joke. We are in a bona fide State of
Anti-Semitism Emergency! Throughout Western Europe, Israel, the UK, and coastal
areas of the USA, the Anti-Semitism Alert Level has been bumped up to ORANGE!
According to “anonymous Intelligence sources,” crackerjack Anti-Anti-Semitism
commandos are en route to Torquay in the South of England, where rumor has it
Roger Waters, John Cleese, Mel Brooks, and other notorious anti-Semites have
gathered in a shabby seaside hotel and are staging some sort of hatred-inciting
“Nazism Glorification Contest.”
Roger holds the lead, currently. Following his recent performances in
Berlin, the police have opened an official criminal investigation into his …
well, his clothing. “We are investigating suspected incitement to hatred,” a Berlin police spokesperson told the AFP. I’m not joking. The official
ground for this investigation is the “dictator” costume Roger Waters has been wearing in his shows for over 40 years. You’ll
recall this costume from the album The
Wall …
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“Israel's Religious
Demographic Crisis (and why it's only going to get worse)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST_eZwBIMDA
by Nebula
(27:13)
Watch my exclusive follow-up video to this one on Israel's population and
politics: https://nebula.tv/videos/wonderwhy-is... In this video, I take a look at the current demographic crisis that is
ongoing in Israel. The judicial reform that's been in the news lately might be
an early sign of what's to come. The country will likely become more and more
polarised as the demographics of the country change, and the population of the country
become divided on what the future of the country should be. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:48 Jews 1:52 Jewish state 2:46 Arabs 4:04 Democratic state 5:35 Secular state 7:26 Status Quo 10:45 Religious fertility rates 12:28 Russian Jews 14:52 Settlements 17:09 Religious Zionists 21:17 2023 judicial reform 23:30 International relations 24:24 Conclusion 24:59 Companion video over on
Nebula
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Israeli attacks ensure
generations of trauma
Israel killed at least seven
children in its attacks on the Gaza Strip beginning 9 May 2023.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-attacks-ensure-generations-trauma/37776
by Ahmed Nehad
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“Israeli Extremists Storm
al-Aqsa Mosque Complex”
https://scheerpost.com/2023/05/22/israeli-extremists-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-complex/
by Juan Cole
The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that dozens of
Israeli squatters, with Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at their
head, stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque complex early on Sunday morning from the
Moroccan Gate. They were closely guarded by Israeli police, who imposed restrictions
on the entry of Palestinians.
It was the second time since Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made
Ben-Gvir a cabinet minister that he has stormed the grounds of al-Aqsa Mosque.
This time he led his fellow fanatics to the area in front of the Buraq Mosque,
a subterranean chamber with a ring on its wall where Muslims believed that the
Prophet Muhammad tied his donkey, Buraq, before ascending from that place to
the outskirts of heaven. The al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, which includes the Dome
of the Rock and the Buraq Mosque, is the third holiest spot for the 1.8 billion
Muslims worldwide.
Although many Jews call it the “Temple Mount,” there is no reason to
believe that Solomon’s temple ever stood there. There are many disputes about
where exactly the Second Temple stood, but Israeli archeologists have concluded that the
al-Aqsa Mosque does not stand within the area of the ancient Temple. The
Israeli religious establishment has decreed that no Jew should
step foot there because there are human remains somewhere in the area. This may
be a reference to the Zealots killed by Roman troops when they took the Second
Temple in 70 CE and destroyed it.
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Israel views children's
lives as irrelevant
The destruction caused in
Nuseirat refugee camp during Israel’s latest attack on Gaza.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-views-childrens-lives-irrelevant/37781
by Haidar Eid
In its latest attack on Gaza, Israel killed at least 33 Palestinians
within five days.
The attack was accompanied by calls from Israel’s government
ministers – including the overt fascists Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich – for greater violence, in
effect the intensification of genocide.
Gaza has long been acquainted with Israel’s policies of extermination.
Yet not a single action has been taken against Israel by any
Arab country nor by any Western “democracy.”
The failure of the United Nations to hold Israel accountable for its
crimes indicates complicity. That is precisely why Palestinian civil society issued its 2005 call for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
Such appeals are not addressed to the sanctimonious “international
community” but rather to solidarity groups and other civil society
organizations around the world. Palestinians have advocated effective
campaigning – with the aim of compelling Israel to end its aggression against
Gaza and the West Bank.
The apartheid state of Israel would not be able to commit all its war
crimes against Palestinians in general – and Gazans in particular – without the
full impunity offered by the “international community.” That is a glaring fact.
It is unnecessary to remind the “civilized world” that Israel has mounted
a continuous wave of attacks against the civilian population in Gaza..
In September 2007, Gaza was declared an “enemy entity.”
Israel prevented a wide range of food and basic materials from being
imported into Gaza. It was even revealed that Israeli bureaucrats
decided how many calories people in Gaza could consume.
Fuel and electricity were cut, too. Gaza has endured an electricity crisis for many years.
Concentration camp
Israel has turned Gaza into the largest concentration camp in the world.
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Israel Uses Its Civilians As Human Shields During Its Attack On Gaza
by Robert Inlakesh
Israel’s latest assault on
the besieged Gaza Strip resulted in the murder of 33 Palestinians, a third of
them women and children, in a “targeted assassination” campaign, again, with a
majority of those killed being civilians. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin
Netanyahu, attempted to score a domestic political victory, however, the plot
didn’t quite go to plan.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning last week, at around 2:00AM,
Israeli fighter jets began bombarding the besieged Gaza Strip. Three prominent
leaders of the second most powerful armed group in the territory, the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement (PIJ), were killed along with their wives
and children in the initial strikes. Although Western corporate media attempted
to brush over this fact, it is a violation of international law to break a ceasefire
agreement by murdering none-active combatants along with their families. There
were no legal proceedings, no plausible threat to the Israeli side, and the
regime failed to produce any evidence that killing the individuals they
targeted would prevent any future threat — in fact they demonstrated the very
opposite.
Tel Aviv notified the United States government about its intentions and
Washington did not prevent the attack, making them complicit in the war crimes
committed. The Israeli military also used American aircraft in order to carry
out its assassination campaign.
In total, 33 Palestinians were killed, roughly a third of them women and children, with over 110 suffering
wounds from the Israeli onslaught, 38 of whom were children. On the other side,
1 Israeli was killed by Palestinian retaliatory rocket fire, with a number of
others injured. It is expected that Israel is again hiding their combatant
deaths, after a gag order was placed on the destruction of military sites
during the confrontation. Among the hundreds of sites bombarded by the Israelis
was the Beit Lahia Cemetery, an act which was condemned by Gaza’s Ministry of Waqf and Islamic
Affairs as “a flagrant violation of
the sanctity of the dead”. Ninety-four Gazan families, comprising 535
people, lost their sources of livelihood in Gaza due to the bombings, a further
800 people were displaced, with 940 buildings damaged and 15 residential
blocks, containing over 50 apartments, being completely destroyed.
A Strategic Israeli Failure
“Shutting Down the Israeli
Arms Industry”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/shutting-israeli-arms-industry-huda-amori/284774/
with Lowkey and Huda Amori
(12:14)
Even as Israel’s war against Palestine continues unabated, a new movement
has arisen in the United Kingdom, challenging the Israeli war machine – and it
has been winning some impressive victories.
Founded in 2020, Palestine Action is a grassroots activist movement that
seeks to end British complicity in Israeli war crimes by shutting down arms
manufacturing sites across the U.K. Today, Lowkey welcomes back Palestine
Action co-founder Huda Amori to talk about the rise of her organization that
has taken the country by storm and has weapons manufacturers fleeing. Born in
the U.K., Amori is a Palestinian-Iraqi whose father was chased out of his home
by Israeli soldiers in 1967, and forced to flee, without even a pair of shoes.
Decades later, Amori has found a way to fight back, using direct action
to occupy and shut down Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm. With the
help of the community in her native Oldham, Amori and Palestine Action’s
occupation has forced Elbit Systems to leave the town and sell their factory at
a substantial loss. Last summer, they abandoned their London headquarters. And
last winter, the British Ministry of Defence canceled around £280 million
(around U.S.$350 million) of contracts with the
company.
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“Israel’s Latest Hasbara Scheme
Enlists High School Students as Trolls Against
Palestine”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/israels-teen-troll-army-hasbara-scheme/284626/
by Jessica Buxbaum
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m.
“Here’s Why Police Oversight
Boards Always Fail”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSE6-UVzw_M&feature=youtu.be
with Jimmy Dore
(11:51)
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Shutdown or Not, the Police
State Will Continue to Flourish
https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/23/shutdown-or-not-the-police-state-will-continue-to-flourish/
by John Whitehead
“There is no more dangerous
menace to civilization
than a government of
incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.”
Ludwig von Mises
Once again, the police state is up to its old tricks, stoking tensions
over whether or not the government is forced to shut down, even partially, due
to a default on the national debt.
Yet while these political games dominate news headlines, send the stock
market into a nosedive, and put federal employees at risk of having to work
without pay, nothing about these high-handed theatrics will diminish the
immediate and very real dangers of the American Police State with its roadside
strip searches, government surveillance, biometric databases, citizens being
treated like terrorists, imprisonments for criticizing the government, national
ID cards, SWAT team raids, censorship, forcible blood draws and DNA
extractions, private prisons, weaponized drones, red light cameras, tasers,
active shooter drills, police misconduct and government corruption.
Default or not, war will continue. Drone killings will continue.
Surveillance will continue. Censorship and persecution of anyone who criticizes
the government will continue. The government’s efforts to label dissidents as
extremists and terrorists will continue.
Police shootings will continue. Highway robbery meted out by government
officials will continue. Corrupt government will continue. Profit-driven
prisons will continue. And the militarization of the police will continue.
Indeed, take a look at the programs and policies that will not be
affected by a government default on its debt leading to a possible shutdown,
and you’ll get a clearer sense of the government’s priorities, which have
little to do with serving taxpayers and everything to do with amassing money,
power and control.
Surveillance will continue unabated. On any given day, whether
you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to
friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency,
whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your
behavior. Police have been outfitted with a litany of surveillance gear, from
license plate readers and cell phone tracking devices to biometric data
recorders. Technology now makes it possible for the police to scan passersby in
order to detect the contents of their pockets, purses, briefcases, etc.
Full-body scanners, which perform virtual strip-searches of Americans traveling
by plane, have gone mobile, with roving police vans that peer into vehicles and
buildings alike—including homes. Coupled with the nation’s growing network of
real-time surveillance cameras and facial recognition software, soon there
really will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
Global spying will continue unabated. The NSA’s massive surveillance
network, what the Washington Post refers
to as a $500 billion “espionage empire,” will continue to span the globe and
target every single person on the planet who uses a phone or a computer. The
NSA’s Echelon program intercepts and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax
and email message sent anywhere in the world. In addition to carrying out domestic
surveillance on peaceful political groups such as Amnesty International,
Greenpeace and several religious groups, Echelon has also been a keystone to
the government’s attempts at political and corporate espionage.
Egregious searches will continue unabated. Under the pretext of
protecting the nation’s infrastructure (roads, mass transit systems, water and
power supplies, telecommunications systems and so on) against criminal or
terrorist attacks, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) task forces (comprised
of federal air marshals, surface transportation security inspectors,
transportation security officers, behavior detection officers and explosive
detection canine teams) will continue to do random security sweeps of nexuses
of transportation, including ports, railway and bus stations, airports, ferries
and subways. Sweep tactics include the use of x-ray technology, pat-downs and
drug-sniffing dogs, among other things.
The undermining of the Constitution will continue
unabated. America’s so-called war on terror, which it has relentlessly
pursued since 9/11, has chipped away at our freedoms, unraveled our
Constitution and transformed our nation into a battlefield, thanks in large
part to such subversive legislation as the USA Patriot Act and National Defense
Authorization Act. These laws—which completely circumvent the rule of law and
the constitutional rights of American citizens, re-orienting our legal
landscape in such a way as to ensure that martial law, rather than the rule of
law, our U.S. Constitution, becomes the map by which we navigate life in the
United States—will continue to be enforced.
Militarized policing will continue unabated. Thanks to federal grant
programs allowing the Pentagon to transfer surplus military supplies and weapons
to local law enforcement agencies without charge, police forces will continue
to be transformed from peace officers into heavily armed extensions of the
military, complete with jackboots, helmets, shields, batons, pepper-spray, stun
guns, assault rifles, body armor, miniature tanks and weaponized drones. Having
been given the green light to probe, poke, pinch, taser, search, seize, strip
and generally manhandle anyone they see fit in almost any circumstance, all
with the general blessing of the courts, America’s law enforcement officials,
no longer mere servants of the people entrusted with keeping the peace, will
continue to keep the masses corralled, under control, and treated like suspects
and enemies rather than citizens.
SWAT team raids will continue unabated. With more than 80,000 SWAT
team raids carried out every year on unsuspecting Americans for relatively
routine police matters and federal agencies laying claim to their own law
enforcement divisions, the incidence of botched raids and related casualties
will continue to rise. Nationwide, SWAT teams will continue to be employed to
address an astonishingly trivial array of criminal activity or mere community
nuisances including angry dogs, domestic disputes, improper paperwork filed by
an orchid farmer, and misdemeanor marijuana possession.
Overcriminalization will continue unabated. The government
bureaucracy will continue to churn out laws, statutes, codes and regulations
that reinforce its powers and value systems and those of the police state and
its corporate allies, rendering the rest of us petty criminals. The average
American now unknowingly commits three felonies a day, thanks to this
overabundance of vague laws that render otherwise innocent activity illegal.
Consequently, small farmers who dare to make unpasteurized goat cheese and
share it with members of their community will continue to have their farms
raided.
The shadow government— a.k.a. the Deep State, a.k.a. the police
state, a.k.a. the military industrial complex, a.k.a. the surveillance state
complex—will continue unabated. This corporatized, militarized, entrenched
bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials will
continue to call the shots in Washington DC, no matter who sits in the White
House or controls Congress. By “government,” I’m not referring to the highly
partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m
referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is
unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.
These issues are not going away.
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“Cops keep making
unjustified arrests, but these victims are fighting back—and winning”
with Taya Graham and Stephen
Janis
(1:21:31)
Police Accountability Report
hosts Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down
some recent cases of bad arrests covered by PAR and share with viewers how our
reporting has actually lead to progress. We also explore new ways of analyzing
policing to explain why it continues to lead to suffering and bad outcomes in
communities across the country.
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‘We Do Not Need a School for
Assassins’: Hours of Public Comment Unanimously Against ‘Cop City’
by Alex Binde
Atlanta, GA — Hundreds of Atlantans spoke out against the proposed
authorization of $33.5 million taxpayer dollars for the Atlanta Police
Foundation to fund the construction of ‘Cop City’ during the public
comment section at city council on Monday. The council is expected to vote on
the funding on June 5.
The public comment lasted over seven hours and the nearly 300 community
members who had the opportunity to speak were unanimous in their opposition to ‘Cop City’, which if built,
would be an 85-acre urban warfare police training compound in the South River
Forest in DeKalb County, Georgia.
The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (‘Cop City’) will cost at least
$90 million total, with most of the funding flowing from corporations such as
Coca-Cola, Chick-fil-A, Cox Enterprises, UPS, Home Depot, Waffle House, Wells
Fargo and more.
During the hours-long public comment, many of the same points were
brought up by Atlanta residents about what the $33.5 million could go toward
instead — affordable housing, repairing roads, improving the electrical grid,
the healthcare system, education, family leave, after-school programs, building
community centers, community outreach, etc.
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n.
US troops in Somalia rise to
900, House votes not to withdraw
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/03/us-troops-somalia-house-withdraw/
by Ann Garrison and Jamal Abdulahi
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o.
“From Yellow Journalism to
China Bashing, the Media’s Enduring Role in Promoting War”
by John Pilger
In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City,
followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets,
novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss
the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were
electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members
of the public, with more than a thousand turned away.
Arthur Miller, Myra Page, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Hammett warned
that fascism was rising, often disguised, and writers and journalists were
responsible for speaking out. Telegrams of support from Thomas Mann, John Steinbeck,
Ernest Hemingway, C Day Lewis, Upton Sinclair and Albert Einstein were read
out.
The journalist and novelist Martha Gellhorn spoke up for the homeless and
unemployed and ‘all of us under the shadow of violent great power.’
Martha, who became a close friend, told me later over her customary glass
of Famous Grouse and soda: ‘The responsibility I felt as a journalist was
immense. I had witnessed the injustices and suffering delivered by the
Depression, and I knew, we all knew, what was coming if silences were not
broken.’
Her words echo across the silences today: they are silences filled with a
consensus of propaganda that contaminates almost everything we read, see and
hear. Let me give you one example:
On 7 March, the two oldest newspapers in Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, published several pages on ‘the
looming threat’ of China. They coloured the Pacific Ocean red. Chinese eyes
were martial, on the march and menacing. The Yellow Peril was about to fall
down as if by the weight of gravity.”
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p.
“Russian medicine is
controlled by the WHO”
by Edward
Slavsquat
A conversation with Russia's Independent Association of Doctors
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« Moscow's WHO
masochism »
Unpacking Russia's
performance at the 76th World Health Assembly
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/moscows-who-masochism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Edward Slavsquat
On May 22, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Health Sergey Glagolev addressed the 76th World Health
Assembly, held in Geneva, on behalf of Moscow and Minsk.
His speech wasn’t very long, so I’ve decided to break it down
line-by-line:
·
“On behalf of the Union
State of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, I have the honor
to congratulate the member countries of the organization, and all WHO
employees, on the anniversary of our Organization and note its role in
strengthening the health of the world’s population.”
The WHO is “strengthening the health of the world’s population”? Citation
desperately needed.
·
“We hope that this
organization and its member states are able to develop and achieve their goals,
primarily the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals], progress towards which has
been slowed down by the coronavirus pandemic.”
Second sentence of the speech, and Moscow is
already preaching about SDGs.
·
“We note that over the past
three years, the pandemic has been an unprecedented challenge to the whole
world, revealing many problems and vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, in
overcoming the current pandemic, when the highest degree of cohesion, mutual
assistance, coherence of actions and the rejection of selfish practices were
required, some countries preferred to look for the guilty and politicize the
situation. Nevertheless, despite all the difficulties and problems that have
been revealed, the world managed to cope with this severe blow and save
millions of lives, which became possible only thanks to mutual support and
cooperation.”
Russia’s natural population decline totaled more than 1 million people in
2021—a figure that hasn’t been seen since 1945. This impressive crime was
accomplished by suspending routine medical care, forcing an unproven genetic
injection on the population, and by waging a sustained campaign of
socioeconomic terrorism (in the form of QR codes, arbitrary restrictions on businesses,
etc.).
It’s cute that Moscow is now sermonizing about how the world just barely
“coped” with the “pandemic”.
Yes, how could we have survived without the life-saving guidance of the
WHO?
If anything, the Russian people should be applauded for heroically
“coping” with their government’s murderous “public health” policies. The same
holds true in all countries, obviously.
As for the “politicization” of COVID—is Moscow still
complaining that there weren’t enough vaccines, ventilators, and masks for Africa? Maybe?
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q.
Discussing video games with Russia's #1 chess player
by Edward Slavsquat
Part of a new series: Edward's
Russia Storytime!
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A.I. is Going
to Revolutionize Everything: With GPT-5, the U.S. is "In The Lead"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-leaving-everyone-behind-ai/5819906
by Karsten Riise
World Will Be Left Behind US in AI
With the release of GPT-4 a
few months ago, the US took the lead over China in AI.
The US is now moving fast
not only to cement its lead, but also to significantly increase its lead in AI.
Essentially, China, Russia, India, and even the EU will be left totally behind
in this extremely powerful technology.
US Computing Advantage
The cost in fast computing power has turned out to be massive. Especially when you consider the future load of commercial use.
In fact, AI developers will try to not upscale their models too much in order
to contain the computing load. The chip embargo on China and Russia is meant to
leverage the US advantage in raw computing power for AI.
The A.I.
Tsunami = US Strategic Success
US Development Speed
To expand its lead, the US is also moving fast to develop the next
generation of even more powerful AI, the GPT-5 model. GPT-5 will probably be
the complete breakthrough in commercial and advanced use of AI. Based on GPT-5,
a long range of commercial products already in development will be released.
Not only will GPT-5 have new capabilities, even more importantly, GPT-5 will be
far more reliable, give more correct answers, and behaving to users the way the
US state wants to. This includes of course censoring out what users are not
wanted to know or even to ask. Expect GPT-5 already in 2024.
US Secrecy
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G20 policy advisors are tired
of America’s self-serving ‘rules-based international order’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57573.htm
by Igor Makarov
Last week, in Mumbai, I attended the Think 20 interim conference. It
describes itself as an “idea bank” for the G20 that brings together think tanks
and high-level experts to discuss policy issues relevant to the group.
The recommendations involved are far from trivial. The world is in a
series of simultaneous structural crises right now: the economy, debt levels,
sustainable development goals and, separately, climate change. Above all, it is
also engulfed in a crisis of global governance, the basic architecture of which
was developed in a different era (when there was a different balance of power
between countries, in which they had different objectives).
The main target of criticism were international
financial institutions. The problem is not so much the effectiveness with which
they are run by developed countries (although this has also been much debated),
but that they are not up to the task of pooling large amounts of money for
common purposes. The world has sufficient financial resources to address many
sustainable development issues, but they cannot be directed to where they are
needed.
For example, the cost of capital in the developed (mostly Western) world
has averaged 1.5-2% over the past five years, but it has been at 8% in Asia,
16% in Africa and 22% in sub-Saharan Africa. Tightening monetary policy in the
West only exacerbates the situation for developing countries. The role of international financial institutions is not so much
to provide aid to poor states but to help channel sufficient private savings
around the world into development projects, taking on some of the risks of
investors.
India, as it happens, complains that the World Bank has provided only
peanuts in funding (just a few billion dollars), relative to its over $3
trillion economy, in nominal US dollar terms.
The second necessity is digitization. The focus is on digitizing services
and public infrastructure (as opposed to the manner in which it can be used for
industry in the US and Europe). An example of how this can work is the digital
ID system being developed in India, which is linked to a bank account. As a
result, there are now four times more digital transactions in the South Asian
country than in China, and 11 times more than in the US and Western Europe
combined.
The aim is twofold: to make it easier to include more people (especially
women) in economic activity, and to stimulate innovation. Developing countries
will be less and less able to host Western industries (which
was the Chinese growth model), so innovation will have to be built up
through services, especially as new technologies will allow global companies to
outsource more and more.
Multilateralism is essential. However, the question is to what extent the
US, on the one hand, and China, on the other, are
ready for it.
The former is more interested in the results of its next election, and
the cycle itself, than in global problems; while the latter sees its
participation in solving them so far only in the form of China-centric formats
such as the Belt and Road Initiative. There was one attempt to attack Russia
for undermining a well-functioning world order – by an Anglo-American
participant, who was immediately rebuked rather harshly by a Brazilian and then
an Indian moderator.
In general, any talk of a “rule-based order” in Mumbai was visibly tiresome.
In just a few years, I have seen a clear shift from delegates declaring the
crisis of this kind of order to key people asking who should actually make the
rules.
The general impression is that the successive presidencies of Indonesia,
India, Brazil and South Africa, from 2022-2025, (with very active interaction
between them) of the G20 will be maximized by these countries to shape a new
narrative, which of course will not automatically translate into reforms of
global governance, but will serve as constant pressure for these changes.
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“America’s Wars and the US Debt Crisis”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57575.htm
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
To surmount the debt crisis, America needs to stop feeding the
Military-Industrial Complex, the most powerful lobby in Washington.
In the year 2000, the U.S. government
debt was $3.5 trillion, equal to 35% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By
2022, the debt was $24 trillion, equal to 95% of GDP. The U.S. debt is soaring,
hence America’s current debt crisis. Yet both Republicans and Democrats are
missing the solution: stopping America’s wars of choice and slashing military
outlays.
Suppose the government’s debt had remained at a
modest 35% of GDP, as in 2000. Today’s debt would be $9 billion, as opposed to
$24 trillion. Why did the U.S. government incur the excess $15 trillion in
debt?
The single biggest answer is the U.S. government’s
addiction to war and military spending. According to the Watson Institute at
Brown University, the cost of U.S. wars from fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year
2022 amounted to a whopping $8 trillion, more than half of the extra $15 trillion
in debt. The other $7 trillion arose roughly equally from budget deficits
caused by the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Facing down the military-industrial lobby is the
vital first step to putting America’s fiscal house in order
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“Journalists for Sale:
Tucker, Teixeira and Taibbi (w/ Patrick Lawrence)”
by Diego Ramos and Max Jones
(59:32)
ScheerPost’s own Max Jones and Diego Ramos are back with another video
interview except this time it is under the official name for their show:
Journalists for Sale. We hope the irony isn’t lost on our readers and we are
excited to bring this weekly interview show to the site and our other
platforms.
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“Durham Report Reveals the
Real Threat to ‘Democracy’ – The FBI Weaponized by Democrat Party Affiliated
Elites”
by Ajamu Baraka
Donald Trump calls
Russiagate a "hoax" but it is in fact much worse. The manufactured
scandal was part of successful efforts to intimidate, to censor, and to
discredit opposition to state narratives. Russiagate is used to make the
case for the proxy war in Ukraine. Here in the US it plays a role in
subjugating the Black liberation movement. It is the 21st century version
of COINTELPRO.
“trenches of ideas are more powerful than
weapons.” (Jose Marti)
“...the American public was scammed.” (Donald Trump)
Six years and millions of dollars later, the “Durham report” released on
May 15th confirmed once again what a few of us had the nerve to argue before all
of the reports and stories that subsequently emerged – that “Russiagate” was
the most massive fraud ever perpetrated on the U.S. public by a section of the
capitalist rulers and represented a maturing of a form of U.S. neofascism
unique to this historical moment.
The public may have forgotten that during the Trump Administration U.S.
Attorney General Bob Barr assigned John H. Durham as special counsel to review
the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. The
Durham report, as it is being referred to in the media, corroborated many of
the conclusions reached by Justice Department Inspector General Michael
Horowitz’s report in 2019. Among the findings in the Horowitz report, was
evidence suggesting that the FBI made what was referred to as “basic, fundamental, and serious errors”
in applying for a warrant to surveil the Trump campaign.
However, the Durham report went further suggesting that the US Justice
Department and FBI “failed to uphold their mission” when they launched their initial
investigation of former president Donald Trump. What the report alluded to and
what is important to remind the public of, is that the “investigation” by the
FBI of the Trump campaign constituted a full-blown counterintelligence
campaign. Dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane,” the investigation of a presidential
contender from one of the two major parties allowed to conduct national
presidential campaigns without overbearing legal constraints, was truly
unprecedented.
The Durham report was quite explicit:
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The Pirate Stream:
Dialectical Dissidents - Episode 15
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/pirate-stream-dialectical-dissidents-episode-15/
with Ryan Cristián
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https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/category/top-news/
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The Defender – May 28, 2023
Children’s Health Defense,
News & Views
http://support.childrenshealthdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=7601&em_id=5001.0
by Robert Kennedy
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Covert Action – May 2023
https://covertactionmagazine.com/
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CHD.TV
“WHO Update: What You Need
to Know + More”
http://support.childrenshealthdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=7625&em_id=5121.0
by Robert F. Kennedy
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Consortium News: Volume 28,
Number 139 — Monday, May 22, 2023
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Monthly Review on Line
https://mronline.org/guest-author/covertaction-magazine/
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OffGuardian: This Week in
the New Normal –
May 21, 2023
https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/21/this-week-in-the-new-normal-63/
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Global Research - Selected
Articles, May 23, 2023:
“The Battle of Bakhmut:
Russian Forces Take Full Control of the Province”
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Children’s Health Defense
News &Views– June 5, 2023
“Is There a New Fauci
in Town? + 'Medical Gaslighting': Doctors Speak Out +
More”
http://support.childrenshealthdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=7821&em_id=5321.0
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“RUSSIAGATE'S
MISSING PIECES: What was not said in the Durham Report?”
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/russiagates-missing-pieces?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4MTI5MzM4OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTI0ODk4MzkwLCJpYXQiOjE2ODU2MTcyODQsImV4cCI6MTY4ODIwOTI4NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzNzcwNDAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.iCA63vW91ELZT44Xdqyudje9OFe8WKShWYz-M-M24QA&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Seymour Hersh
The first thing to understand about John Durham is that he was a fearless
prosecutor who went after organized crime and put in prison retired and active
FBI agents who protected the mob for money or other enticements. One of the
agents he stopped had enabled James “Whitey” Bulger Jr., once one of America’s
most wanted men, the Winter Hill Gang boss who evaded arrest for sixteen years.
In his forty-five years as a state and federal prosecutor in Connecticut
and Virginia, Durham worked often and closely with FBI agents, especially on
cases that involved violations of federal racketeering statutes.
Durham also handled two inquiries into the CIA’s conduct in the War on
Terror, and he did so without angering his superiors in the executive branch.
In one case he was asked to investigate the alleged destruction of CIA
videotapes of detainee interrogations, the so-called torture tapes. His final
report on the matter remains secret, and he recommended that no charges be
filed. He was later asked to lead a Justice Department inquiry into the
legality of the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” that resulted in the
death of two detainees. In that case, he was told that officers who were given
and obeyed what were determined to be illegal orders—there were many of those
after 9/11—could not be prosecuted. No charges were filed.
Durham’s 306-page report was made public on May 15, and it pleased no one
with its focus on the obvious. The journalist Susan Schmidt, whose byline was a
must-read when she was a reporter for the Washington Post, pointed
out on Racket News that Durham said the FBI would have done less damage to
its reputation if it had scrutinized the questionable actions of the Clinton
campaign in 2016: the Feds “might at least have cast a critical eye on the
phony evidence they were gathering.”
Schmidt was highlighting a moment in Durham’s report where he hints at the
real story: Russiagate was a fraud initiated by the Clinton campaign and
abetted by political reporters in Washington and senior FBI officials who chose
to look the other way. Durham writes: “In late July 2016, US intelligence
agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that US
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up
a scandal against US Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin
and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.”
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