In 2007 Washington declared war on Russia without announcing it. Putin provoked Washington’s secret declaration of war when he rejected Washington’s uni-polar hegemony at the Munich Security Conference.
As the world approaches a new war with nuclear weapons openly discussed (and even loudly advocated by the US Senator and foreign policy “expert” Lindsey Graham) and as openly Fascist/Nazi movements in Ukraine are armed and trained by western powers, these four books are worth reading which described the seeds of this crisis in post-second world war Europe and America and to a great extent predicted it.
The biggest concern of the world regarding US elections is whether these can lead to the creation of a government with a significantly higher commitment to world peace.
The Israeli minister went on to claim that Guterres “will be remembered as a stain on the history of the UN” for giving “backing to terrorists, rapists and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and now Iran.”
October 1, 2024, marks the start of the 4th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command), organized by the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP). International Month of Action Against AFRICOM will kick off with an international webinar featuring voices from the African continent and diaspora expressing the need for the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops and a complete end to the combatant command.
Bear in mind Israel is a de facto member of NATO, which serves the strategic interests of the U.S. The earlier Israeli attacks against Iran and Lebanon were conducted in close consultation with Washington and NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
Patrushev insisted that “without their participation and direct support, Kiev would not have ventured into Russian territory”.
He also added there’s evidence that NATO intelligence services are providing direct support to the Kiev regime junta forces.
Considering that Patrushev headed the FSB for nearly a decade and that he’s one of Putin’s closest associates, it’s a given he’s privy to such information. And yet, Washington DC is still trying to maintain “plausible deniability”. No doubt that this is not only yet another attempt to deny its responsibility, but also a way to further enrage Moscow in order to create the illusion that NATO is a “defensive alliance protecting Europe from aggressive Russia”.
Apparently, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul had his email hacked, revealing “peculiar” papers on the Kursk oblast incursion. Along with former US ambassador to Uzbekistan and Ukraine John Herbst, McFaul was invited to take part in a wargame organized by the Atlantic Council, a rabidly warmongering think tank based in Washington DC. This highly controversial gathering took place back in February, while the wargaming itself focused precisely on an incursion such as the one Kiev launched in Russia’s Kursk oblast.
Remeslo argues that the military failure of the Kiev regime forces also forced its NATO overlords to abort further operations. After the Kursk oblast incursion was launched, I argued similar points to Remeslo’s. Namely, mere days before the attack, US/NATO and the Neo-Nazi junta tried to assassinate President Vladimir Putin and Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov. The Kremlin gave a very clear warning to the political West – there will be immediate thermonuclear war if this ever happens again.
However, the Kursk oblast incursion soon followed, putting additional pressure on Moscow. It was already clear that the attack was planned very carefully, months in advance, meaning that the most likely goal was to assassinate Putin and/or Belousov and then launch the incursion to cause a breakdown in leadership the Kremlin and possibly even a Maidan-style revolution that would effectively defeat Russia. Since the Eurasian giant is seen as the spearhead of multipolarity, destroying at least its sovereignty (and eventually its statehood) is critically important for the political West. This is also in line with plans of the so-called “decolonization of Russia”, a blatantly open call for the world’s largest country’s dissolution. The latest evidence about the involvement of high-ranking US officials only serves as further confirmation that these plans are certainly still in motion. This is extremely dangerous, as it ensures that NATO and Russia remain on a collision course.
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Except for the neoconservatives whose agenda it is, I sometimes wonder if I am the only other person who understands what the Ukraine conflict is about.
In 2007 Washington declared war on Russia without announcing it. Putin provoked Washington’s secret declaration of war when he rejected Washington’s uni-polar hegemony at the Munich Security Conference.
Washington’s first attack was a year later when, while Putin was distracted at the Beijing Olympics, Washington sent a US trained and equipped Georgian army into South Ossetia. The purpose was not to defeat Russia militarily. Instead, it was a calculated risk that Putin might stand down and to avoid a military conflict that the West could misrepresent as restoring the Soviet Empire, and allow the Russian protectorate to be absorbed into Georgia. The American neoconservatives were gambling with lives not their own that Putin and thereby Russia would be weakened by giving in, thus opening more paths of aggression against Russia.
The neoconservatives’ plot against Putin might have worked except the Georgian invaders killed Russian peace-keepers. In 2008 Putin was trying to resurrect Russian pride, which was lost with the Soviet collapse 1991, and could not turn his back on dead Russian soldiers in South Ossetia. He returned from China, sent in an army, and smashed the US trained and equipped Georgian army in 5 days.
All of Georgia, a province of the Soviet Union until 1991, was in Putin’s hands. The Western propaganda is that Putin is dangerous because he intends to recover the Soviet empire. Obviously, this is a lie, because Putin pulled the Russian army out and left Georgia an independent state.
Following the US neoconservative’s failure in South Ossetia, which they mischaracterized as a “Russian invasion of Georgia,” the neoconservatives began pouring billions of dollars into Ukraine in order to create cadres, NGOs, and purchased politicians that would support the “Maidan Revolution,” which was Washington’s overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine that was living in profitable peace with Russia.
Again Putin was inattentive, this time distracted by the Sochi Olympics, and this time he did nothing. It is unclear why Putin allowed Ukraine to become Washington’s puppet state hostile to Russia and a candidate for NATO.
The neo-Nazi state that Washington created began a number of operations against the Russian population in Donbas. The use of the Russian language was banned. Russians were accosted and killed in the streets by bands of Stepan Bandera’s followers. (Bandara fought for Nazi Germany against Russia during World War II.)
The Russian parts of Ukraine, Donbas and Crimea, which were separated from Russia by Lenin and Khrushchev, asked Putin to protect them by re-admitting them to Russia. Putin accepted Crimea’s request as the Russian Black Sea naval base is in Crimea, but Putin refused the requests from Donbas, which had formed into two independent republics to protect themselves from slaughter by the Ukrainian army. Putin, always cautious, was advised that if he accepted Donbass he would give credence to Western propaganda that Russia was restoring the Soviet Empire.
Nevertheless, Putin knew he had to do something to protect the Donbas Russians. He concocted the Minsk Agreement. The Minsk Agreement kept Donbas as part of Ukraine, but gave the territory some autonomy, such as its own police and courts, to prevent persecution by Washington’s puppet in Kiev.
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The leaders of Belarus, Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine at the 11–12 February 2015 summit in Minsk, Belarus (Licensed under CC BY 4.0)
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Kiev and the two Donbas republics signed the Minsk agreement, and Germany and France promised to enforce it. Believing that the West had integrity, Putin was taken for a ride. Both the German Chancellor and French President later publicly admitted that they deceived Putin for eight years while Washington built and equipped a strong Ukrainian Army capable of conquering the two break-away republics in Donbas.
When during December 2021 and February 2022 Putin and Lavrov’s efforts to secure a mutual defense agreement between Russia and the West were met with extremely cold shoulders from Washington, NATO, and the European Union, Putin was faced with a large Ukrainian army about to invade the Donbas republics. Putin’s false hopes and mistaken belief in the West’s integrity left him unprepared, but he was forced to intervene and Russia, due to unpreparedness was forced to rely on a small private military force, the Wagner Group. As Putin had not prepared for the obvious conflict staring him in the face, he limited his intervention to Donbas to clearing out the Ukrainian forces, not to quickly prevailing in the conflict. The long conflict has given the West two years and eight months to involve itself and widen the conflict.
As Putin never enforced any of the announced red lines, he has no credibility in the West. Recently, the NATO Secretary-General said NATO does not pay any attention to Putin, because he talks but never does anything.
Consequently, the world has reached the precise point I said would be reached. Putin has backed up so much that he has no more room. His back is to the wall. NATO, the British Prime Minister, and the neoconservatives are lobbying Washington to give a green light to US/NATO firing missiles into Russia from Ukraine territory.
Understand, Ukraine hasn’t the capability and satellite targeting systems to fire the missiles. A missile attack on Russia can no longer be characterized as a “proxy war.” Putin himself has made this clear. Putin said that missiles fired into Russia means the US and NATO are at war with Russia and that Russia reserves the right to respond with nuclear weapons.
A crisis is upon us. The only relevant decision in the world at this time is whether Washington decides that Putin means what he says or that Putin is so averse to war that he will stand down from his threat in order to avoid a wider conflict involving nuclear weapons.
What is the agenda behind this crisis? The neoconservatives believe that Putin is so averse to war that he will stand down and sacrifice some of his declared goals of his Special Military Operation for peace in order to avoid the wider war that would result from Russia’s response to missile attacks on Russia.
Such a response from Putin, the neoconservatives believe, would undermine Putin in Russia both with the people and the military. The people would ask the meaning of the sacrifices and lives lost for the sake of surrendering the goals. The military would say, as Admiral Avakyant already has, that if Putin stands down “the pressure on Russia from its historical opponents will only increase, and the escalation process will enter an irreversible phase. The enormous resources currently invested in the indirect hot war of the collective West against our country will be redirected to finance all destructive and anti-state forces (regional separatism, ‘the fight against the rotten corrupt regime’, ‘the promotion of universal freedoms and values’, etc.). Various states ‘historically offended’ by our country will begin to make territorial claims against Russia from all sides.”
In other words, Putin could lose support and the Russian government could become less stable.
The neoconservative’s aim is to destabilize Putin and Russia. The neoconservatives would take advantage of destabilization to encourage the various ethnicities that comprise the Russian Federation to break apart. Washington’s goal is a dismembered Russian Federation into its constituent parts with many countries in the place of Russia.
The breakup of Russia by Washington began in 1991 with the Soviet collapse. Vast areas of Russia were taken from her: Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Central Asia extending from the Caspian Sea in the West to the borders of China, an enormous area encompassing Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. Only the Russian Federation remained, itself a collection of ethnicities. Like the Western world, Russia itself is a tower of babel, only unlike in the West, in Russia the emphasis is on unity instead of division.
The neoconservatives believe that if Putin, in order to avoid wider war, reduces his demands on Ukraine, he can be painted as a loser, discredited, undermined, and Russia with him.
There is one and only one issue and one and only one decision: Does Washington believe Putin or not. If Washington believes Putin, Washington will not send missiles into Russia. If Washington does not believe Putin, World War III is about to happen unless Putin stands down.
I suspect a delayed decision as the can is kicked down the road. The Middle East is another avenue of attack on Russia. The absence of a mutual defense treaty between Russia, China, and Iran leaves Iran subject to a US/Israeli attack. The possibility exists of Israel’s war with Hezbollah leading into a joint attack of Israel and the US on Iran. This could hurt Russia’s prestige, and Western propaganda would present it as a Russian defeat.
As Washington and Russia are not talking, little can be done to ease the tension. The neoconservatives’ agenda of hegemony has produced a more dangerous situation than the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Washington has not acted to defuse the crisis.
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The good news – according to the WHO – is that all these efforts have been successful so far, and they are actually vaccinating more children than they planned too.
…And the world breathed a sign of relief.
Thankfully the starving, homeless children of Gaza won’t get polio as they crouch under the rubble of their homes praying the next batch of cluster bombs misses them.
Sometimes a story hits the news and you’re initial reaction is simply, “Wait…what?”
It used to be a semiregular occurrence, but since “covid” it has become almost daily. This is one of those stories. I just don’t get it.
The paralyzed child was actually due to receive his first polio vaccine on October 7th last year – the same day as the “Al-Aqsa Flood”, if you can believe it (as it happens I can’t, but increasingly I can’t really believe anything).
Why would Israel agree to “humanitarian pauses” to vaccinate children they are apparently intent on blowing to pieces?
I mean, if you can stop blowing up children because you don’t want them to die of polio, can’t you stop blowing up children because you don’t want them to die of being blown up?
Don’t forget, even before the latest one-sided “war”, Israel had been starving Gaza of supplies and water and energy for years.
Why are vaccines the exception to that?
Why is vaccinating against polio of all things any kind of priority right now?
Imagine Darth Vader is dueling Obi Wan Kenobi down a corridor on the Death Star – each swing of the light sabre intended to deal a killing blow – but then he pauses the fight to warn the older man about a “caution: wet floor” sign behind him.
The only explanation I can think of is that there is some kind of override priority when it comes to narratives. War trumps climate change, but vaccines trump war and so on.
This is a way of reinforcing the overwhelming vitalness of vaccination – even enemies, blowing each other up in a war, will stop to get kids vaccines (before blowing them up). Vaccines are just that important.
It’s yet another bizarre narrative twist that calls into question the true purpose and motivation for the Gaza war as a whole.
Or maybe it’s a story thread that will lead somewhere else eventually.
Down the line, don’t be surprised if the media starts saying “war is a threat to public health by making pandemics more likely”, or that the “polio ceasefire shows hope for the future” and that is the launching pad a for a fresh push on the global government “let’s all get along” messaging.
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The biggest concern of the world regarding US elections is whether these can lead to the creation of a government with a significantly higher commitment to world peace. At the very least, what is hoped for is that even if the new President and the administration do not have any firm commitment to world peace, they have the sense of responsibility to keep miles away from any possibility of instigating or provoking the third world war which is likely to be a nuclear war and hence can threaten all life on earth. The present US President and his top security advisers have not shown such responsibility. Their policies are guided by the quest for dominance and always remaining at the top as the number one power, a quest which leads inevitably to aggression against rivals and potential rivals (as well as others) and therefore, with both sides armed very heavily with the most destructive weapons including nuclear weapons, there is the possibility of an existential threat for all life on earth.
Unfortunately, the overall indications are that this quest for dominance will continue regardless of US election results. In the case of Ukraine conflict there appears to be a greater chance, but certainly no guarantee, of early end of war if Trump wins. However regardless of election results there is not much of a chance of weapons supply to Israel being stopped. The wider reality is that overall the quest for dominance will continue regardless of who wins elections and with this the threat of a much bigger war involving the great powers, the third war or a nuclear war will continue.
This is a reflection of the wider fact that in the US democracy, at a practical level, the electoral contest is confined to just two political parties and to just two presidential candidates. Further, there is some kind of a deep state or deep establishment which ensures that only candidates who speak and work within a certain narrow framework are allowed to emerge as presidential candidates. Both the leading political parties are sometimes together referred to as the war party signifying their unwavering commitment to pursue the dominance of USA, regardless of how many more wars and regime changes and coups are needed for this. This is dressed up in patriotic and nationalist terms but deep interests of the military-industrial-politician complex and of other very big business interests lurk closely in the shadows.
The entire world is looking at the ongoing election campaign in the USA. However people at home and abroad also know better than to believe all that is said by politicians and candidates in the election debates, as they realize that the gulf between campaign statements and actual statements can be quite wide.
However for a moment let us try to imagine that the actual pursuit of foreign policy in recent times, which is likely to broadly continue, is actually reflected in election campaign statements and commitments.
In such a situation a leading political party may release a statement saying, “We are committed to the pursuit of the USA’s dominance of the world, so committed in fact that we’ll continue to pursue dominance regardless of whether the entire world is threatened by weapons of mass destruction.”
One or the other leading political parties may make things even clearer by stating, “We promise to the American people with the deepest sincerity that the USA will always continue to command the world, regardless of whether anyone is left to command.”
To make the foreign policy aims of the USA more specific in terms of domestic implications, one of the leading politicians may say, “We promise that we will never falter in our commitments to supply weapons to our friends, proxies and clients, regardless of whether they use it for genocidal actions or to provoke bigger wars or even a world war, and we will not hesitate to divert for them resources needed for meeting the basic needs of all American people.”
To be even more specific another election statement may say, “Having seen the success of our policy of inflicting some harm or the other on Russia without causing any harm to our soldiers, we assure the continuation of our policy of achieving this at the cost of the lives of the Ukrainians till as long as it takes.”
Another variant of such a more specific commitment may be— “We will never falter in our support for Israel, and to ensure that this is done without troubling the conscience and hence the firmness of USA policy making establishment, we will issue orders that hereafter no data on information on the number of people killed, injured or displaced in Gaza or West Bank is to be mentioned or considered in our policy establishment.”
Another or the same senior politician may also assert, “We once again re-affirm at least for the next four years our deepest commitment to the politician-military-industrial complex, even at the cost of denying billions of badly needed dollars for the homeless and other people most in need.”
Of course such statements are never likely to be made actually and in reality such intentions are covered up to sound politically correct in many ways. We are mentioning such imaginary statements only to show the absurdity of what is happening when compared to the real needs of peace and real needs of people.
The existing situation with highly disastrous possibilities including WW3 will continue till a very large number of people do not come forward for a very big peace movement which works with continuity, guided by some of the world’s best statesmen and scholars whose deep commitment to peace with justice is well-established. After all if millions of people can come forward to devote their time to election campaigns, why cannot they do so for the peace movement which has much higher chances of creating a better and safer world?
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The upcoming winter could be the toughest for Ukraine during the conflict so far due to a shortage of energy resources and the poor psychological state of the population, The Washington Post reported. The report added that the consequences of prolonged power outages could range from cutting off water and heating to damaging the country’s economy.
The American outlet noted that power outages are a fact, but estimates of their severity vary. “The best-case scenario is just four hours of power cuts a day, but it could also end up being 20 hours of darkness or more a day in the depths of Ukraine’s frigid winter.”
But the biggest casualty may be the psychological state of Ukrainians, according to The Washington Post. About two and a half years after Russia launched its special military operation, with little prospect of a Ukrainian victory on the horizon and following a series of battlefield setbacks in recent months, the population has reached its breaking point.
The newspaper added that the population’s willingness to make territorial concessions rose from 10% in May 2023 to 32% a year later.
The director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Anton Hrushetsky, noted that cold, dark days could change Ukrainian attitudes to the conflict. In his words, the population is now overwhelmingly against peace with Russia “at any cost,” but opinion polls show an increase in the number of people willing to make difficult compromises to end the conflict.
He described “a growing tiredness, and this causes more conflict, because people are more psychologically unstable.”
Ukraine’s Energy Minister, German Galushchenko, said half of its electricity generation capacity had been lost earlier. He said that his state is now living with restrictions, even in the summer.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously said some 9 gigawatts of Ukraine’s power generation capacity had been destroyed, representing 80% of thermal power and one-third of hydropower. At the same time, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said some 90 percent of its coal-fired power plants had been damaged or destroyed.
It is also recalled that Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said on March 22 that the country’s energy system had suffered the largest attack in recent times, whilst Igor Sirota, director general of Ukrhydroenergo, said the country lost about 20% of its regulation capacity due to damage to the Dnieper hydroelectric power station in Zaporozhye.
Russia began carrying out massive high-precision missile strikes against vital infrastructure and command posts in several Ukrainian regions and cities on October 10, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that Moscow was forced to strike such blows in response to Ukrainian attacks on its own energy facilities, a factor The Washington Post does not mention.
The Washington Post noted that “the bulk of Ukraine’s energy production this winter will still be concentrated in large power plants, allowing Russia to inflict maximum damage with targeted missile strikes — as was demonstrated clearly last month when Moscow’s forces carried out one of the biggest bombardments since the war began.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a statement on September 21, citing Ukrainian intelligence reports, that Russia is “preparing strikes on critical facilities” of the country’s nuclear energy system “on the eve of winter.” The attacks will target “open distribution devices of nuclear power plants and transmission substations,” which created “a high risk of a nuclear incident that will have global consequences.”
Although this is highly unlikely, it does point to the immense fear that the Kiev regime has in facing long periods of cold and darkness, a factor that will only continue to demoralise the parts of the population that are still against peace with Russia, whether it be because they believe Kiev regime propaganda that victory can still be achieved or out of blind ultra-nationalism.
Nonetheless, in a press release, Danielle Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said:
“This winter will be bad enough with people likely having to cope with scheduled blackouts across the country. Any additional attacks leading to prolonged electricity blackouts could have catastrophic consequences.”
This will be the third winter that Ukrainians will suffer through, and by all accounts, it will be the most difficult experience the country will have had since World War II. Although European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the Director of the International Energy Agency presented on September 19 a report on the immediate measures that need to be taken to strengthen Ukraine’s energy security and help it face the coming winter, there is nothing that either can do if Russia decides to continue attacking Ukrainian energy resources. Only Zelensky’s willingness to achieve peace with Moscow can prevent Ukrainians from having a brutal winter, but there are no serious signs from him that he wants to pursue this.
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The official concluding statements by the UN and WHO at the completion of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York regarding the High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response are summarized as follows:
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The high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response will focus on the theme: “Creating and maintaining political momentum and solidarity for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response“. Plenary Segment: Statements by Member States and members of the United Nations specialized agencies.Issued on 20 Sept 2023.
WHO statement on the high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response:
The World Health Organization welcomed today’s historic commitment shown by global leaders, at the UNGA, to strengthen the international cooperation, coordination, governance, and investment needed to prevent a repeat of the devastating health and socioeconomic impact caused by COVID-19, make the world better prepared for future pandemic, and get back on track to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
“The first-ever head of state summit on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response is a historic milestone in the urgent drive to make all people of the world safer, and better protected from the devastating impacts of pandemics,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “I welcome this commitment by world leaders to provide the political support and direction needed so that WHO, governments and all involved can protect people’s health and take concrete steps towards investing in local capacities, ensuring equity and supporting the global emergency health architecture that the world needs.”
The political declaration, approved by Mr Dennis Francis, President of the 78th United Nations General Assembly (2023), and the result of negotiations under the able leadership of Ambassadors Gilad Erdan of Israel and Omar Hilale of Morocco, underscored the pivotal role played by WHO as the “directing and coordinating authority on international health,” and the need to “commit further to sustainable financing that provides adequate and predictable funding to the WHO, which enables it to have the resources needed to fulfil its core functions.”Issued on 20 Sept 2023
Neither the UN nor the WHO statement mentions the number of world leaders or heads of state, who approved the crucial WHO documents, the severely revised (more than 90 points of revision) International Health Regulations (IHR), including the Pandemic Treaty – which is actually no longer a treaty, as it is planned to ram it through during the next World Health Assembly (WHA) in May 2024 – making the new IHR effective without a vote. See full interview with Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger here.
Since there are no official accounts from these “behind closed-door” UN / WHO meetings, we can rely only on “hearsay”, according to which there were several member states who abstained and others who objected to the revised IHR. Among the objectors was apparently the Russian Federation. See this.
The Mike Adams interview of Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger (26 September 2023) about the coming (planned) health dictatorship by the UN and WHO juxtaposes the official UN / WHO statements.
There is nothing constructive, nothing the world might want to look forward to that came out of these secret meetings, debates. Secretive, like a death cult, planning a worldwide genocide run as part of the “new” WHO / UN Agenda.
Imagine where the world has gone? And where the full UN Agenda 2030 is planning to take us?
With a corrupted UN system, with a World Health Organization that is no longer looking after the population’s health and disease, but is promoting death.
And that on a worldwide basis. All governments – more than 190 national governments, have all been coopted, corrupted coerced and outright threatened – if they do not go along and lie to the people who supposedly elected them, and if they do not betray the trust and the (tax) money these people have confided in them – people’s funds that also pay for the government bureaucrats generally generous wages.
Here are some of the key points Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger made during the BOMBSHELL interview. For courageously speaking out since the beginning of the outbreak of this criminal plandemic, Dr. Stuckelberger has been a beacon for truth. In response, the University of Geneva cut off all her courses and deprived her of her faculty position.
She is also otherwise threatened and coerced, often censored – to no avail: Astrid keeps speaking out, to spread the truth as far and widely as possible – so that people eventually may wake up – stand up – and stop obeying. Non obedience is everyone’s right.
Here are some of the highlights of Dr. Stuckelberger’s interview:
When during the organization’s earlier times, WHO stood for protecting the lives of the elderly and children, today WHO is promoting suicide for older people and forced killer vaccination for children.
WHO is eliminating staff – scientists, doctors, and researchers, who are ethical and true experts, replacing them with people who are no experts, unethical and corrupt.
WHO programs on food, nutrition or basic sanitation, have morphed into programs that are largely overseeing the extermination of people on planet earth, rather than promoting the health of people.
In the 1990s WHO was still warning about the dangers of 5G microwaves, the negative effects of holding the phone to your ear… how it affected the brain — no longer. These warnings have been eliminated from the WHO’s website. This is part of accelerating elimination of old age people and of dumbing the brains of children and young adults.
Also, WHO warned of the danger building 5G antennas on school buildings – as the effect on human brains and the development of human brains is devastating – this warning too, has disappeared from WHO’s website.
Around the year 2000, the private sector, with lobbies came into effect – and Bill Gates put his foot in WHO’s door. In 2012 he was literally in charge of WHO’s vaccination / immunization programs.
Today, WHO alone has a monopoly on all that concerns health – it is a tyrannical dictate – and is followed by severe censoring, including with punishment for those who do not follow the mandate. UN Secretary General, António Guterres, is echoing what WHO is doing, by promoting censorship [banning “fake news”], and digitizing health information – with a monopoly for WHO.
But WHO alone cannot control the world, as Ministers of Health, usually countries’ representatives at the World Health Assembly, may not agree with some dictates and they must listen to their governments [though, most of which have been corrupted], they need an overarching body to assure full compliance, the United Nations.
Therefore, the UN will claim the overall right of controlling censorship as well as dictates on health, i.e., vaccination / programs on immunization, delegated to WHO — no questions asked, all with the objective of massively reducing the world population, an objective which has been on the political drawing board since the 1970s.
See the Kissinger Report published in 1974, in the year following the U.S. sponsored military coup in Chile (September 11, 1973).
WHO is the door to the most sensitive and vulnerable points in our lives: life and death, health and disease. It is the entry to their – the Beast’s – biotech neuro-weapon which is the so-called injection vaccine – and they want to roll out untold thousands of new types of vaccines, billions to be administered over the coming years – a perpetual program, feeding into the UN Agenda 2030 – to help accomplish the “17 Sustainable Development Goals” (SDG).
The first paragraph of the preparedness on pandemic prevention response, refers to the constant and repeated danger of covid and covid-related pandemics… triggering an eternal fear, as covid has been enshrined in the brains of the people as THE potentially death-bringing pandemic and danger.
They are generating constant fear with something that didn’t even exist, that has never been analyzed scientifically, never been isolated in laboratories, nor with the instruments of WHO — it’s always about infections, because you cannot see them (the viruses), and people do not know.
WHO along with the (bought) media is a psychological terrorist organization.
Under the new declaration WHO is becoming a permanent fear campaign mechanism, with the overarching worldwide tyrannical authority to demand “preventive” quarantine even against the policies of individual sovereign countries, and they are implementing them enforced by police and military – which country governments must obey, under threat.
But, says Astrid, “the Beast is losing power, because we are becoming more conscious, waking up and resisting.
The revised IHR and the Pandemic Convention – yes, it is not a treaty, as it will be adopted, not even voted on.
That is the imposition by the UN – sponsored, or imposed by the US. The IHR / Pandemic Convention will be adopted by the WHA in May 2024, without a vote. And during this UNGA 2023, WHO and its public (mainly the White House) and private (mainly the pharma-industry) sponsors are asking for the blessing of the UN; and “they” received the blessing of the UN.
Australia is already training their police and military to enforce mandated vaccinations – ramming in doors of family homes and making sure that schools comply with the vaxx-orders.
They want to get rid of children for depopulating the world – and of course of elderly people, who are not contributing to the economy, but using state money [that they contributed to] for living in retirement (pensions) – whom Klaus Schwab’s Israeli adviser, Yuval Noah Hariri, calls, “useless eaters”.
That is why former President Trump has already said, if he will be reelected President, he would propagate homeschooling.
WHO is run by McKinsey Consulting – Dr. Stuckelberger has seen the contract – and by the bought media.
They, “the Beast”, will invent a public emergency, either “natural” or a plandemic of a monster epidemic, to spread fear and lock people down.
They are rolling out a plan, to lock people down, they want the vaxx back – it is already visible from the media.
[In India a new pandemic has already been declared, with compulsory masks. An outbreak of Nipah virus (NiV) has been confirmed in India. Six cases of Nipah, including two deaths, have been reported – see video below (Annotation by PK)]
Three major corporate media outlets control the world:
AP = American Press;
AFP = French Press; and
Reuters.
They are paid to lie. They cannot be believed, but they distribute their news to all local mainstream media, which must report almost verbatim the going narrative.
We must create our own counter-media – like what you are doing, referring to Mike Adams and others, to spread the truth and let people know what is going on.
They – “the Beast” — are doing whatever they can with the help of the governments, which are no longer YOUR governments. Today’s governments across the globe are coerced to do what “the Beast” wants them to do, either by buying them or by threat.
They will create anything to maintain the level of fear, even the plague is a possibility.
All they need to do is create a fake disease in one city, and then declare it a pandemic – and all that comes with the pandemic — lockdowns, ramming in doors for forced vaccinations also in schools, a fear-based tyranny – where people will obey…. But will they? (Annotation PK)
Then they are going to use their real weapon, either by vaccine, or in the hospitals, like in NY, where they incubated people… until they died.
Or using 5G. 5G can be directed into the brain of people, paralyzing individuals, or programming them, à la Klaus Schwab’s transhumanism, digitized, robotized obeying transhumans.
With 5G they can do whatever they want; 5G is not only emitted from the endless antennas around the world, but also from street lamps, or other items you least expect, and don’t know; possibly also through your TV set.
“Vaccination” – people will be injected by a binary weapon, that can be activated by remote signaling… through 5G, maybe soon to come 6G.
This is made possible through graphene oxide in people’s bodies [those, who have been vaccinated] – who were injected with the false covid vaxxes, some of which contained graphene oxide, a highly electro-magnetic sensible substance that will react to the 5G micro-waves.
Pfizer’s Bio-n-Tech vaxx = bio nano tech, or bio neuro tech…and mRNA – a computer program — “mode” RNA – will make humans highly vulnerable to 5G. As humans, we are bio-electromagnetic, electro-encephalogram – making our brains vulnerable to 5G manipulation.
Astrid Stuckelberger: “Hacking the mind is at the center of what is going on.”
Dr. James Giordano: The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future
The “Havana Syndrome” is one of the brain manipulations – first appeared in 2016 in the US and Canadian Embassies in Havana, Cuba. Since then, the syndrome has occurred in many other places – in Beijing, Moscow, Serbia…
We humans emit waves – “love waves” as well as “anger waves” – our moods are expressed in electromagnetic waves.
Controlled opposition talking about viruses, covid, mRNA, PCR-test, the vaccination that all may come back… that is their plan – the Beast’s plan, the perpetuation of an absolute fraud.
Mike Adams:
“We are seeing the complete perversion of science which will destroy the credibility of science and medicine. – There is no isolate of SARS-Covid-2, has never been – it is a total fraud.”
“While the next plandemic is being rolled out – and more and more people are being victimized by this fraud – genocide is unfolding in front of us.”
We, the People, cannot let that happen; we must win this war
These are the paraphrased final words of Astrid Stuckelberger –
“We are gonna have a tough wave of time now, this may last for 6 months a year… who knows. So, take good care of yourself. If you are knowledgeable, you are better prepared for what may come – and take care of the elderly and the kids. I am worried about the children. They are gonna go after the children…”
“There is already a warning: in Norway, they must vaccinate all the young people… Take No Vaccine whatsoever, they are trying to sell you all sorts of common vaccines – don’t take them, they are all fake mRNA vaccines….”
Ending on a positive note:“I think we are protected for what we are ….”
Watch the full interview below.
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Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
Outstanding Analysis and Historical Overview by Rodney Atkinson
As the world approaches a new war with nuclear weapons openly discussed (and even loudly advocated by the US Senator and foreign policy “expert” Lindsey Graham) and as openly Fascist/Nazi movements in Ukraine are armed and trained by western powers, these four books are worth reading which described the seeds of this crisis in post-second world war Europe and America and to a great extent predicted it.
How did the western part of the victorious anti-fascist coalition of 1945 become a supporter of war against Russia without which the Nazi tyranny would not have been defeated?
How did Britain and the USA who lost so much liberating Europe in 1945 end up on the side of an openly Nazi society like Ukraine whose war time collaboration with Nazi Germany and massacre of Poles and Jews is reflected today in the Nazi military movements of Azov, Aidar, Right Sector and C14, in public statues and annual celebrations of Nazi collaborators and in the killing of thousands of Russians in Eastern Ukraine?
The answer is in these four books which describe the rise of corporatist fascism in Europe since the 1950s and the absorption of once democratic, freedom-loving Britain into that European Union based on the Nazi principles of 1943 (Die Europaeische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft – see our book Treason at Maastricht).
Voting to leave the European Union in 2016 did not stop the British political class allying itself to the equally pernicious prison of NATO/EU military structures and the attack on Russia through Ukraine.
World War is being courted and Ukraine is being destroyed on the altar of US neocon imperial ideas, German Europe’s “Push to the East” and a decadent British political class surrendering to Russophobia and leading the rhetorical charge. These books written between 1994 and 2013 explain how and why.
The other critical ingredient in both the suppression of democratic dissent at home and the extension of imperial power abroad – Corporatism – is covered in many posts on this freenations.net website.
The more recent manifestations of the fascist and imperialist threat posed by the EU – and its military collaborator NATO – were exposed in the two books Fascist EuropeRising (2001) and And into the Fire.
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Rodney Atkinson has been a successful linguist and linguistic theorist, was formerly a lecturer at the University of Mainz, Germany and a merchant banker in the City of London. He is the Founder of the Freenations website (visited by individuals and government institutions from over 100 countries) an occasional adviser to MPs and the proprietor of his own commercial property company.
He is the author of over 100 articles and policy papers three internationally praised books on political economy: Government against the People (1986), The Emancipated Society (1988), The Failure of the State (1989) and three on the European Union, Treason at Maastricht (with Norris McWhirter CBE, fourth edition 1998) Europe’s Full Circle (third edition 1998 also published in Yugoslavia and Poland) and Fascist Europe Rising (2001 also published in Yugoslavia).
For the extensive all party and international praise of these books and other work see the websites www.rodneyatkinson. freeuk.com and www.freenations.freeuk.com/publications.html
He was Referendum Party candidate in North West Durham in the 1997 General Election (5.2% of the vote) and the lead UK Independence Party candidate for the North East Region in the 1999 European Elections (8.83% of the vote). He has been a contributor to radio and television programmes on both sides of the Atlantic. He launched the cross party British Declaration of Independence in 1999.
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Never heard of in the entire history of the United Nations that a diplomat of the UN is declared a persona non grata by one of its member-states.
In this case it is not just a UN diplomat but Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, declared the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as Persona non Grata in Israel.
The reason is simply because Mr. Guterres did not condemn the years-long Israeli-provoked attack by Iran on Israeli cities and her most important military airbase, Nevatim. Instead he called for a ceasefire.
Mr. Katz called the Iranian retribution an “abhorrent attack.” He added,
“Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil.”
The Minister went on accusing Guterres for not having denounced “the massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas murderers on October 7”, and Katz claims that Guterres has not made any effort to declare the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, a terrorist organization.
The Israeli minister went on to claim that Guterres “will be remembered as a stain on the history of the UN” for giving “backing to terrorists, rapists and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and now Iran.”
Could this be the end of Mr. Guterres’s career as the UN’s Chief Officer?
Of course, no mention of Israel’s atrocious massacres, forced famine, killing, decapitating at times, children and woman in Gaza, then in the West Bank, and now in Lebanon. That is all “normal”, Israel’s self-defense, even though nobody has attacked Israel out of the blue. All attacks were provoked by Israel for the last 80 years and beyond – and all for eventually expelling Palestinians and others who are in the way – for Zionist-Israel’s creation of a Greater Israel.
Bombing of schools
The Persona non Grata declaration means that Mr. Guterres is barred from entering Israel. Frankly, why would he want to go to Israel? See this for further details.
The implication is simply that Israel distances herself from the UN, meaning that the UN would be excluded as far as Israel is concerned from any potential peace-mediating effort.
Nevatim is also the airbase for Israel’s F-35 stealth fighter jets. Iran claims that Israel lost 20 F-35s in one day. Apparently, the US is planning in creating a coalition to attack Iran.
Of course, none of this is reported by the mainstream.
If the US plans to attack Iran – in a coalition of western “allies”, a hot WWIII has moved yet another inch closer to midnight.
But let us hope and trust that this can be and will be averted in one way or another by sensible politicians on the other side of the western artificially created division of West and East, i.e., Russia and China must vouch for peace.
On a deeper level, what seems to be most important is that a high-level diplomat, like the UN Secretary General — someone totally sold to the “system” that put him in place, had a bout of conscience that shook him out of the horror the west has been supporting as truth and standard value, not only by words but by billons worth of weapons and missiles and tanks; the conscience told Mr. Guterres “enough is enough.”
Mr. Guterres must be congratulated for taking this step; instead of condemning Iran and “allowing” Israel to retaliate in “self-defense” – the usual – Mr. Guterres called for a ceasefire.
This conscious step to call for peace rather than more war, more deaths, more destruction, must be honored. May more people of his caliber, heads of state and western institutions come to this internal awakening and switch sides.
The world needs peace not war.
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Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
October 1, 2024, marks the start of the 4th International Month of Action Against AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command), organized by the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP). International Month of Action Against AFRICOM will kick off with an international webinar featuring voices from the African continent and diaspora expressing the need for the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops and a complete end to the combatant command.
This year’s Month of Action Against AFRICOM comes at a pivotal geopolitical moment for Africa. The continent is experiencing widespread anti-neocolonialist movements including:
(1) the successful expelling of AFRICOM from Niger,
(2) admission and evidence that U.S. ally Ukraine has supported terrorism in Mali, and
(3) popular mass mobilizations against governments propped up by the U.S. that are facing state repression, ie. Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda.
Join us for this webinar to learn more about the rise of African struggle against rising fascism, neocolonialism, and the role of US militarism!
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Panelists:
Booker Omole, Communist Party of Kenya
Akin Gofment, Amilcar Cabral Ideological School-Movement (ACIS-M), Nigeria.
Salome Ayuak, South Sudanese Acholi of North America Association and a member of Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team
Inemesit Richardson, president of the Thomas Sankara Center for Liberation and African Unity, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and an organizer with the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party.
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Below is an article titled “Thais Belém, journalist and missionary, dies at 28” by Vinicius Veloso:
Journalist Thais Belém from Pará died this Friday (13/9), at the age of 28. She was also a model and Catholic missionary. She worked with the Cristo Alegria project and fought against a brain tumor diagnosed in early 2023.
The information was confirmed by Thais’ husband, Gabriel Rodrigues.
On Instagram, he posted a photo of the missionary and wrote: “Heaven is your home. Confident in the Lord’s promise, I ask that you pray for the soul of our beloved Thais Belém.”
On social media, friends and family paid tribute and expressed their condolences. “The greatest example of faith I have ever seen,” said one of the comments on the photo posted by Thais’ husband. The wake will be held until 3 pm at Memorial Metrópole, on Boa Ventura da Silva Street, in Belém.
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My Take…
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1st dose: July 5, 2021
2nd dose: Sep 17, 2021
Brain tumor diagnosis: early 2023
Deceased: September 13, 2024
This is mRNA vaccine-induced turbo cancer.
This is going to be the fate of millions of young people over the coming years.
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Dr. William Makis is a Canadian physician with expertise in Radiology, Oncology and Immunology. Governor General’s Medal, University of Toronto Scholar. Author of 100+ peer-reviewed medical publications.
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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity
by Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.
“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”
Reviews
This is an in-depth resource of great interest if it is the wider perspective you are motivated to understand a little better, the author is very knowledgeable about geopolitics and this comes out in the way Covid is contextualized. —Dr. Mike Yeadon
In this war against humanity in which we find ourselves, in this singular, irregular and massive assault against liberty and the goodness of people, Chossudovsky’s book is a rock upon which to sustain our fight. –Dr. Emanuel Garcia
In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig
Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac
A reading of Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late. You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin
ISBN: 978-0-9879389-3-0, Year: 2022, PDF Ebook, Pages: 164, 15 Chapters
[First published on October 2, 2024. Relevant updates on October 3, 2024]
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On October 1st, Iran launched Operation “True Promise 2: about 180 missiles were deployed (NYT). A coordinated missile strike has completely destroyed Israel’s F-35 Base Nevatim “among other key targets”.
“The facility hosts both of the Israeli Air Force’s F-35 fifth generation fighter squadrons, and was previously intended to host a third squadron of the fighters after they were delivered” (Military Watch Magazine)
Tehran has confirmed that the attack was launched in response to Israel’s assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s chairman Hasan Nasrallah:
“According to a statement released by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the attack was aimed at “three military bases” in the Tel Aviv area:
Labelled “True Promise 2,” the operation follows a year of escalating tensions between Tehran and Tel Aviv, and represents a long awaited retaliatory attack after an Israeli strike on Tehran on July 31.
Iran was previously reported to have agreed not to retaliate if Israel deescalated hostilities, with Israel’s invasion and intensive bombardment of Lebanon and assassination of the leadership of the Iranian aligned militia group Hezbollah having been seen to have broken this agreement.” (Military Watch Magazine)
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Dangerous Crossroads
The fundamental question is whether this retaliatory attack will lead to escalation, including an Israeli counter-attack on Iran with the support of US-NATO.
In the words of Prime Minister Netanyahu:
“Iran made a big mistake tonight — and it will pay for it… The regime in Iran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and to retaliate against our enemies.” (NYT, emphasis added)
Bear in mind Israel is a de facto member of NATO, which serves the strategic interests of the U.S.
The earlier Israeli attacks against Iran and Lebanon were conducted in close consultation with Washington and NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
According to the NYT:
Iran fired waves of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday evening in an assault that was mostly thwarted, according to the Israeli authorities, but one that made the prospect of a direct all-out war between two of the more powerful militaries in the Middle East more likely.
The offensive left the region on edge awaiting a potential Israeli response. (emphasis added)
What Is Washington’s Intent: A Month Prior to the November Elections?
“Less than an hour after the attack, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan delivered an ominous warning saying: “There will be severe consequences for this attack, and we will work with Israel to make that the case.” Sullivan refused to elaborate on the manner in which the US or Israel would retaliate, but some analysts think the response could come as early as Tuesday night. (quoted by Mike Whitney)
The response by the Pentagon has on the whole been “soft”, disregarding the magnitude of the attack. See Press Conference below.
What Is Washington’s Unspoken Intent? Let Your Allies Do the Dirty Work for You?
Flash back to 2005. At the outset of Bush’s Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting, that Israel would, so to speak: be doing the dirty work for us (paraphrase) without US military involvement and without us putting pressure on them “to do it”.
I must admit that I (reluctantly) concur with Cheney in regard to Israel’s recent attacks against Lebanon and Iran.
Israel was doing the Dirty Work on behalf of US-NATO.
“The Israelis might well decide to act first, and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards,”
“Israel would not be able to act unilaterally against Iran, without a green light from the Pentagon which controls key components of Israel’s air defense system.
In practice, a war on Iran, were it to occur would be a joint US-NATO Israeli endeavor, coordinated by US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with America’s allies playing a key (subordinate) role.” (quoted from my 2018 article)
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
Israeli Military Cooperation with the Pentagon and NATO
“Political rhetoric is often misleading. Israel is America’s ally. Military operations are closely coordinated. Tel Aviv is however subordinate to Washington. In major military operations, Israel does not act without the Pentagon’s approval.
Barely acknowledged by the media, the US and Israel have an integrated air defense system, which was set up in early 2009, shortly after the Israel invasion of Gaza under “Operation Cast Led”:
“The X-band radar air defense system set up by the US in Israel in 2009 would “integrate Israel’s missile defenses with the U.S. global missile detection network, which includes satellites, Aegis ships on the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and Red Sea, and land-based Patriot radars and interceptors.” (Sen. Joseph Azzolina, Protecting Israel from Iran’s missiles, Bayshore News, December 26, 2008).
What this means is that Washington calls the shots. Confirmed by the Pentagon, the US military controls Israel’s Air Defense:
”This is and will remain a U.S. radar system,’ Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said. ‘So this is not something we are giving or selling to the Israelis and it is something that will likely require U.S. personnel on-site to operate.’” (Quoted in Israel National News, January 9, 2009, emphasis added). (Chossudovsky, January 2018 article below)
Israel Is a “De Facto Member of NATO”
Military cooperation with both the Pentagon and NATO is viewed by Israel’s Defence Force (IDF) as a means to “enhance Israel’s deterrence capability regarding potential enemies threatening it, mainly Iran and Syria.”
Israel is a de facto member of NATO (with a special status) since 2004, involving active military and intelligence coordination as well as consultations pertaining to the occupied territories.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed (Press Conference, Brussels, October 12, 2023) that Israel is under attack and that U.S. military deployments in the Middle East are ongoing allegedly to avoid escalation:
There is always the risk that nations and/or organisations hostile to Israel will take try to take advantage. And that includes, for instance, organisations like Hezbollah or a country like Iran. So this is a message to countries and organisations hostile to Israel that they should not try to utilise the situation.
And the United States have deployed, or has deployed more military forces in the region, not least to deter any escalation or prevent any escalation of the situation. (NATO Press Conference, Brussels, October 12, 2023, emphasis added)
Video: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Press Conference
Brussels, October 12, 2023
NATO is committed to its de facto Ally: Israel. NATO is complicit in the genocide directed against Palestinians.
Moreover, NATO has casually dismissed (despite ample evidence) that the October 7, 2023 operation was a false flag:
“First, Israeli Defence Minister Gallant briefed us on the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel. And of Israel’s Reponse.
Allies strongly condemned Hamas’ indefensible attacks on civilians, and called for the immediate release of all hostages.
Our thoughts are with all those affected by these horrific attacks.
Israel has the right to defend itself. And as the conflict unfolds, the protection of civilians is essential.
No nation or organisation hostile to Israel should seek to take advantage of the situation, or to escalate the conflict.
Today, a number of NATO Allies made clear that they are providing practical support to Israel.
And doing everything possible to provide for their affected citizens.” (Jens Stoltenberg, emphasis added)
War against Iran has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon since the 1990s.
Below is my article first published in January 2018
Michel Chossudovsky, October 2, 2024, minor revisions on October 3, 2024
US Winks, Israel Bites?
Shifting Middle East Alliances.
The War on Iran is “On Hold”?
By Michel Chossudovsky
January 2, 2018
In 2003, the war on Iran project was already Déjà Vu. It had been on the drawing board of the Pentagon since the mid-nineties.
Since the launching of the Theater Iran Near Term (TIRANNT)war games scenario in May 2003 (leaked classified document), an escalation scenario involving military action directed against Iran and Syria had been envisaged, of which Syria was the first stage in 2011.
The initial invasion of Iraq under “Operation Iraqi Freedom” was launched on March 20, 2003, April 9 marks the Fall of Baghdad; officially the invasion was completed on May 1st, 2003.
In May 2003, immediately following the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the TIRANNT (Theater Iran Near Term) war games scenario were carried out as revealed by William Arkin, a former US intelligence analyst:
“In early 2003, even as U.S. forces were on the brink of war with Iraq, the Army had already begun conducting an analysis for a full-scale war with Iran. The analysis, called TIRANNT, for “theater Iran near term,” was coupled with a mock scenario for a Marine Corps invasion and a simulation of the Iranian missile force. U.S. and British planners conducted a Caspian Sea war game around the same time. And Bush directed the U.S. Strategic Command to draw up a global strike war plan for an attack against Iranian weapons of mass destruction. All of this will ultimately feed into a new war plan for “major combat operations” against Iran that military sources confirm now exists in draft form. [This contingency plan entitled CONPLAN 8022 would be activated in the eventuality of a Second 9/11, on the presumption that Iran would be behind it] (William Arkin, Washington Post, 16 April 2006)
Screenshot of WPo article, opinion section
“Theater Iran Near Term”, a scenario of waging a war against Iran following the defeat of Iraq was the unspoken concept. Under the auspices of US Central Command, TIRANNT focussed on both “Near Term” (i.e. following the Iraq war) as well “Out-Year” (signifying the subsequent year) scenarios for war with Iran ” …including all aspects of a major combat operation, from mobilization and deployment of forces through postwar stability operations after regime change.” (Ibid)
The core TIRANNT effort began in May 2003, when modelers and intelligence specialists pulled together the data needed for theater-level (meaning large-scale) scenario analysis for Iran. TIRANNT has since been updated using post-Iraq war information on the performance of U.S. forces. Meanwhile, Air Force planners have modeled attacks against existing Iranian air defenses and targets, while Navy planners have evaluated coastal defenses and drawn up scenarios for keeping control of the Strait of Hormuz at the base of the Persian Gulf.
A follow-on TIRANNT Campaign Analysis, which began in October 2003, calculated the results of different scenarios for action against Iran to provide options for analyzing courses of action in an updated Iran war plan. (Ibid)
Needless to say, the “Near Term” plans formulated in 2003 had been postponed.
USCENTCOM’s “Dual Containment”. First Iraq, then Iran
The 2003 decision to target Iran under TIRANNT as well as all subsequent endeavors and “secret plans” were part of the broader Middle East military roadmap. Already during the Clinton administration, US Central Command (USCENTCOM) had formulated in 1995 under the doctrine of “Dual Containment” “in war theater plans” to invade first Iraq and then Iran:
“The broad national security interests and objectives expressed in the President’s National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman’s National Military Strategy (NMS) form the foundation of the United States Central Command’s theater strategy. The NSS directs implementation of a strategy of dual containment of the rogue states of Iraq and Iran as long as those states pose a threat to U.S. interests, to other states in the region, and to their own citizens. Dual containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the region without depending on either Iraq or Iran. USCENTCOM’s theater strategy is interest-based and threat-focused. The purpose of U.S. engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States’ vital interest in the region – uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil.”
emphasis added, the original document of USCENTCOM is no longer available)
The Role of Israel. Doing the Bombing For Us?
The TIRANNT (2003) scenario was followed by a series of military plans pertaining to Iran. Numerous post 9/11 official statements and US military documents had pointed to an expanded Middle East war, involving the active participation of Israel.
Broadly, what characterizes U.S. foreign policy is to encourage America’s allies “to do the dirty work on our behalf”.
At the outset of Bush’s Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting, in no uncertain terms, that Iran was “right at the top of the list” of the rogue enemies of America, and that Israel would, so to speak, “be doing the bombing for us” (paraphrase), without US military involvement and without us putting pressure on them “to do it”.
In contrast, under the Trump administration, according to Professor James Petras, Israel and the Zionist Lobby are playing an active role, pressuring President Trump to take the first step:
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Presidents of the 52 Major Jewish American Organizations are leading President Trump, like a puppy on a leash, into a major war with Iran. The hysterical ’52 Presidents’ and ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu are busy manufacturing Holocaust-level predictions that a non-nuclear Iran is preparing to ‘vaporize’ Israel, ,
The buffoonish US President Trump has swallowed this fantasy wholesale and is pushing our nation toward war for the sake of Israel and its US-based supporters and agents. (James Petras, Global Research, October 27, 2017)
Who are the Main Actors?
Political rhetoric is often misleading. Israel is America’s ally. Military operations are closely coordinated. Tel Aviv is however subordinate to Washington. In major military operations, Israel does not act without the Pentagon’s approval.
Barely acknowledged by the media, the US and Israel have an integrated air defense system, which was set up in early 2009, shortly after the Israel invasion of Gaza under “Operation Cast Led”.
The X-band radar air defense system set up by the US in Israel in 2009 would “integrate Israel’s missile defenses with the U.S. global missile detection network, which includes satellites, Aegis ships on the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and Red Sea, and land-based Patriot radars and interceptors.” (Sen. Joseph Azzolina, Protecting Israel from Iran’s missiles, Bayshore News, December 26, 2008). )
What this means is that Washington calls the shots. Confirmed by the Pentagon, the US military controls Israel’s Air Defense:
”This is and will remain a U.S. radar system,’ Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said. ‘So this is not something we are giving or selling to the Israelis and it is something that will likely require U.S. personnel on-site to operate.’” (Quoted in Israel National News, January 9, 2009, emphasis added).
At the outset of Obama’s Second Term, the US and Israel initiated discussions pertaining to a “US personnel on site” presence in Israel, namely the establishment of a “permanent” and “official” military base inside Israel. And on September 17, 2017, a US Air Defense base located in the Negev desert was inaugurated. According to the Israeli IDF spokesperson, the objective is to send a “message to the region, ” including Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.
Israel would not be able to act unilaterally against Iran, without a green light from the Pentagon which controls key components of Israel’s air defense system.
In practice, a war on Iran, were it to occur would be a joint US-Israeli endeavor, coordinated by US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with America’s allies playing a key (subordinate) role.
The Evolving Structure of Military Alliances
Since the formulation of USCENTCOM’s “in war theater” plans in the mid-nineties, and more specifically since the onslaught of the war on Syria in 2011, the geopolitics of the broader Middle East Central Asian region has evolved dramatically with Russia and China taking on a major role.
In this regard, the shift in the structure of military alliances has served to weaken US influence. Iran is now supported by a powerful China-Russia block. In turn, Pakistan and India have joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which has contributed to undermining US-Pakistani relations.
In turn, Iran’s bilateral relations with China including strategic oil, gas and pipeline deals (as well as military cooperation) have developed since President Xi Jinping took office in 2012.
Moreover, while Tehran has reached a “pact of convenience” with Ankara, the unity of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States is now in jeopardy, with Qatar, Oman and Kuwait building an alliance with Iran, to the detriment of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Since the war on Syria, Iran has not only established a strong bilateral relationship with Syria, it has also reinforced its ties with Lebanon and Yemen.
In other words, US hegemony is threatened in the broader Middle East Central Asian region. The structure of alliances and “cross-cutting coalitions” in 2018 does not favor a US-led military operation against Iran.
The Atlantic Alliance is in crisis and so is the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
The US and Turkey are clashing in Northern Syria, where Turkey is fighting US sponsored Kurdish rebels.
Turkey, which constitutes NATO’s heavyweight (in terms of conventional forces) has acquired Russia’s S400 air defense system. Does this signify that Turkey (as a member state of the Atlantic Alliance) no longer fully shares the US-NATO-Israel defense system?
Another consideration is Turkey’s rapprochement with both Russia and Iran.
presidents Putin and Erdogan (right)
Demise of the “Triple Alliance”: US, Israel, Turkey
How does Turkey’s “pact of convenience” with Iran affect the Israel-Turkey Security and Secrecy Agreement (SSA) launched by the Tansu Çiller government in 1994?
The SSA agreement was a carefully designed instrument of US foreign policy (sponsored by the Clinton administration) which set the stage for a firm and close Israel-Turkey relationship in military and intelligence cooperation, joint military exercises, weapons production and training.
The SSA largely served US strategic interests in the Middle East. The intent of the SSA Israel-Turkey bilateral military-intelligence agreement was to create a triangular relationship between the US, Israel and Turkey. This de facto (rather than de jure) “triple alliance”, under the helm of the Pentagon, was intended to integrate and coordinate military command decisions (as well as intelligence) between the three countries pertaining to the broader Middle East.
From a strategic standpoint, the Pentagon was intent upon “using” both Israel and Turkey in Middle East military operations (i.e to act on our behalf).
The “Triple alliance” was based on close (bilateral) military ties respectively between Israel and Turkey with the US, coupled with a strong bilateral military relationship between Tel Aviv and Ankara.
In turn, Israel signed a far-reaching military cooperation protocol with NATO in March 2005 in Jerusalem. Under this agreement, Israel had become a de facto member of NATO. The 2005 Israel-NATO bilateral military cooperation agreement was viewed by the Israeli military as a means to “enhance Israel’s deterrence capability” against Iran, which has recently entered into an alliance of convenience with Turkey, a NATO member state. Sounds contradictory?
It is also worth noting Israel’s longstanding membership in NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue together with six other non-NATO member states: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. Recently, these six countries have taken a stance against Israel in the wake of Trump’s decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.
It was no coincidence that the Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) was launched in the same year as the Israel-Turkey SSA agreement (1994).
Is the Israel-Turkey SSA agreement currently in jeopardy?
Following Trump’s Jerusalem Statement, the Mediterranean Dialogue is also in crisis, to the detriment of Washington.
How can joint military and intelligence operations directed against Iran be carried out when Turkey (a NATO member state and an ally of Israel) is “in bed with the enemy”?
Another consideration is the de facto demise of GUUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova), a loose US-NATO sponsored military alliance of five former Soviet republics created in 1999, slated to be used against Russia and Iran.
For the above reasons, the Pentagon’s TIRANNT “Near Term” scenario of a conventional war against Iran at this juncture is unlikely.
While a conventional war on Iran is currently on hold, the US has indelibly opted for nonconventional warfare including destabilization, economic sanctions, infiltration, cooptation and regime change.
The Pentagon, nonetheless retains its longtime strategic option of inducing its closest allies including Saudi Arabia and Israel to “wage war on its behalf”.
We are nonetheless at a dangerous crossroads in our history. While Pentagon analysts are fully aware that the US cannot win a conventional war against Iran, a first strike tactical nuclear weapons attack is still “on the table”. So are intelligence ops, the recruitment of hired “jihadist” terrorists, the funding of insurgencies, etc. (not to mention the use of a panoply of nonconventional weapons systems including electromagnetic, chemical and biological weapons).
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In the last two and a half years, the Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky pitched a number of “peace” plans, formulas, platforms and whatnot. Last year, the so-called Crimea Platform was all the rage, with the United States pressuring numerous countries to join this effectively void initiative.
Thus, in order to shift attention away from its collapsing defenses, the Neo-Nazi junta resorted to the most daring PR stunt yet – the Kursk oblast (region) incursion. Expectedly, this also turned out to be a disaster, with the political West itself frustrated by the way the Kiev regime forces were wasting precious resources while the defenses in the Donbass failed to stop the Russian advance. Zelensky’s PR team was now essentially out of new phrases/tropes and realized there won’t be any “peace summits” with Russia.
All of a sudden, the word “peace” was replaced and now we got a “victory plan” once again.
Obviously, such “grand schemes” require more money, so Zelensky traveled to the US and spent around a week there in late September, formally pitching the latest “victory plan” to the troubled Biden administration.
This still leaves the obvious question – what is this “victory plan” about? It wouldn’t be the first time that the Neo-Nazi junta is claiming that it can “win”, but it “just needs this one game changer”.
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The Pact was approved during the weekend 22 / 23 September 2024, by all 193 UN member countries, by a procedure called “The Silence Procedure” — it is not by vote, but by non-objection. It is a Pact, and if nobody objects it is automatically adopted.
Tehran has confirmed that the attack was launched in response to Israel’s assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s chairman Hasan Nasrallah.
Less than an hour after the attack, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan delivered an ominous warning saying: “There will be severe consequences for this attack, and we will work with Israel to make that the case.” Sullivan refused to elaborate on the manner in which the US or Israel would retaliate, but some analysts think the response could come as early as Tuesday night.
On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah and Hamas. There are conflicting reports about how many of the missiles struck their targets and if there were any deaths. But Israel is now considering a counterattack that could propel it into an all-out war with Iran, with the U.S. in tow.
NATO’s continued arms shipments to Ukraine next year are at risk due to a lack of resources among key backers of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, experts told Bloomberg on September 27. This is a far cry from the promises made in the first years of the war when the West promised to support Ukraine until victory was achieved, a victory that will not occur.
The Chinese, Iranian, Pakistani, and Russian Foreign Ministers gathered for their third quadrilateral meeting on Afghanistan on the sidelines of the UNGA last week. The joint statement that they produced was sharply critical of the Taliban on very sensitive issues, thus showing that they’re becoming increasingly displeased with them. They confirmed that international terrorist groups are still active in Afghanistan despite the Taliban’s claims and called on them to fulfill their obligation to fight them.
In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies. The world’s poorest countries are due to pay $43 billion in debt repayments in 2022, which could otherwise cover the costs of their food imports.
Ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, an inspirational and pioneering figure in the dance world, has died at age 29 of undisclosed causes.
Her death was announced via her Instagram by a spokesperson on Friday. “Her unwavering commitment to her art, her humanitarian efforts, and her courage in overcoming unimaginable challenges will forever inspire us,” read the caption.
Her siblings also released a statement on Facebook, noting her influence as a dancer: “Her passion and impact on the dance world, especially in inspiring young Black dancers to pursue their dreams, has been tremendous.”
DePrince, born Mabinty Bangura in Sierra Leone, lost both her parents as a toddler during the country’s civil war. Her passion for dance began early. In her memoir, Taking Flight, she writes that she danced in her “bare toes in the mud” during the rainy season.
29 year old Michaela Mabinty DePrince was forced to take COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines in 2021 to be able to travel (see picture above).
She got one of her COVID-19 Vaccines during a trip to New York City.
She dropped dead on Sep. 10, 2024. Cause of death at this time remains unknown.
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines cause cardiac damage in 1 in 30 within the first week after vaccination.
Study #1 – Thailand study (2022, Mansanguan) 202 boys ages 13-18 were tested. 7 of them developed subclinical myo/pericarditis within 7 days after 2nd Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA dose. That’s 1 in 30 per Pfizer dose.
Study #2 – Swiss Study (2023, Muller) – 777 healthcare workers had Moderna COVID-19 mRNA booster shot, 22 had evidence of myocardial injury (22/777 = 1 in 35 per Moderna dose).
“Conclusion: mRNA-1273 vaccine-associated myocardial injury was more common than previously thought, and more frequent in women versus men.”
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NATO’s continued arms shipments to Ukraine next year are at risk due to a lack of resources among key backers of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, experts told Bloomberg on September 27. This is a far cry from the promises made in the first years of the war when the West promised to support Ukraine until victory was achieved, a victory that will not occur.
At stake is a controversial $50 billion loan deal, which came from the profits from the Russian Central Bank’s frozen assets in Western banks. Bloomberg reported that Washington fears that Hungary could block or reduce the deal. Even if the amount were released, it would only be enough to keep the Kiev regime supplied with weapons until the middle of next year.
This is without taking into account Ukraine’s economic situation, including a projected $35 billion gap in the 2025 budget, of which about $15 billion remains uncovered, even after applying subsidies from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.
Bloomberg’s sources warned that the deficit could force the Kiev regime to enter peace talks with Russia “from a position of weakness.”
Kiev is also struggling to convince its backers to continue shelling out tens of billions of dollars of weapons for the conflict, as increased Russian production outpaces the combined output of the collective West.
According to the news agency, a November victory for US presidential candidate Donald Trump will likely increase pressure on Zelensky to end the war he intends to continue despite no hope of victory. It is recalled that in April, the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives approved a $48 billion security aid package for Ukraine only after a six-month standoff over the crisis on the US southern border.
In addition, Germany — Ukraine’s second-largest backer after the US — faces constitutional debt constraints that have already begun to affect its support for Kiev. With economic troubles spreading to France, Italy, and the United Kingdom, those countries may also cut back on aid. Keir Starmer’s government in London has vowed to continue vigorously supporting Kiev despite tough budget choices at home.
Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov admitted that his country is more than 80 percent dependent on military aid from Western partners, while the Ukrainian General Staff reports that the situation on the front line remains difficult due to the superiority of the Russian Armed Forces.
According to Umerov, the Western supply of military equipment is the basis of the assistance provided to Ukraine. The country receives resources from the US, the European Union, NATO, the Security Assistance Group Ukraine (SAG-U), the United States European Command (EUCOM) and “a dozen other countries in a bilateral format on a daily basis.”
“So far, international military assistance has been the backbone of our aid. […] We are more than 80 percent dependent on our partners,” he said in an interview with a Ukrainian publication.
On September 25, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that due to the Russian Army’s superiority in terms of the number of troops and equipment available, the situation along the entire front line remains difficult.
“The situation on the front line remains difficult. The enemy, using its superiority in personnel and equipment, is continuously attacking our positions,” the General Staff’s official Telegram channel said.
This difficult situation is not set to be alleviated because, as already mentioned, Ukraine’s allies are facing their own economic issues and political opposition.
Last week, The New York Times reported that the US-EU plan to finance Ukraine stalled due to legal issues, as the systems in Washington and Europe are making it difficult for the initiative to come to fruition. However, even with the plan implemented, the $50 billion will be insufficient to cover Kiev’s military needs for another year of conflict, and the allies will have to look further afield for funding, according to Bloomberg.
The outlet reported that Ukraine’s military is relying on its allies for artillery ammunition, missiles, and improved air defence capabilities. This has prompted US President Joe Biden to announce another $8 billion in funding for Kiev and appear to be coordinating additional support from NATO members before his term ends.
However, all this action has done is once again demonstrate the grand failure Biden’s adventure in Ukraine was, all for the sake of the vain attempt to weaken Russia. Rather, Russia has territorially expanded, diversified its economic partners, and taken great leaps in de-dollarising global trade, all the whilst Ukraine has been economically and demographically destroyed and completely dependent on Western aid, which is clearly running out, for survival.
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All four agree that it isn’t doing enough to fight international terrorist groups inside Afghanistan.
The Chinese, Iranian, Pakistani, and Russian Foreign Ministers gathered for their third quadrilateral meeting on Afghanistan on the sidelines of the UNGA last week. The joint statement that they produced was sharply critical of the Taliban on very sensitive issues, thus showing that they’re becoming increasingly displeased with them. They confirmed that international terrorist groups are still active in Afghanistan despite the Taliban’s claims and called on them to fulfill their obligation to fight them.
Those four’s joint statement explicitly said that the Taliban should “eliminate all terrorist groups equally and non-discriminatory and prevent the use of Afghan territory against its neighbors, the region, and beyond”, thus implying that it’s only selectively targeting those like ISIS-K which it considers a threat. The innuendo is that some of them like the TTP and BLA, which readers can learn more about here, are being sheltered by the Taliban and even exploited by them as proxies against Pakistan like Islamabad suspects.
It’s for this reason why Pakistan’s Express Tribune, which is one of the country’s most reliable outlets, described the inclusion of that language as a ”major diplomatic victory”. The other criticisms of the Taliban were comparatively milder and include a call for it to finally assemble the ethno-politically inclusive government that it promised to form a few years back, create the conditions for facilitating the return of refugees from Iran and Pakistan, and reconsider its policy towards women.
The rest of the document was perfunctory and also predictably blamed NATO for Afghanistan’s plight, but it’s the parts mentioned above that are the most important for observers to pay attention to. What they show is that those four counties’ honeymoon with the Taliban has indisputably ended and they’re no longer shy about drawing attention to its ties with international terrorist groups. They don’t outright accuse it of complicity with them, but a reading between the lines reveals that this is what they think.
This is significant because it hints that they wouldn’t politically oppose whatever military means Pakistan might ultimately resort to for defending its national security interests from Taliban-backed terrorists. China, Iran, and Russia aren’t anywhere near as directly affected by this ignoble state of affairs as Pakistan is, and each has their respective reasons for not worsening their ties with it in spite of this, with Pakistan being the only one among them that might do something tangible in response.
China wants Pakistan to improve its domestic security situation in order to protect BRI’s CPEC flagship, Iran doesn’t want Taliban-backed terrorists in Pakistan’s Balochistan spilling over into its half of this transnational region, and Russia wants a stable environment in which to possibly ramp up investments. The convergence of these three’s interests in this respect inside of Pakistan in spite of their individual ties with the Taliban is why they agreed to so sharply criticize the group in their joint statement.
Seeing as how neither China, Iran, nor Russia will scale back their ties with the Taliban to pressure it into acting against those anti-Pakistani terrorist groups, which is due to them not wanting to lose out on Afghanistan’s logistics and mineral opportunities, the Taliban has no reason to comply. Their implied lack of political opposition to whatever military means Pakistan might ultimately resort to won’t change the military-strategic dynamics between Kabul and Islamabad.
Both conflicting parties know this, which is why the latest joint statement should only be seen as a symbolic declaration of their increasing displeasure with the Taliban and not anything more substantive. Pakistan would still carry out cross-border military action if it considered this necessary even if those other three countries didn’t just signal that they wouldn’t oppose it. In any case, they’ll now better understand why it might do so, which suggests that such a scenario might actually be in the cards.
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The US is looking to start a new regional war in the Middle East with the dual objective of drying up China’s energy sources and subsequently, designing the cartography of the new Greater East. Such an escalation of war could reenact the 1973 Oil Crisis of disastrous memories for the world economy and that would translate into the energy domination of the European Union of liquefied gas and American crude.
Thus, the foreseeable increase in the escalation of war would translate into an escalation of crude oil to $150, a brutal increase in inflation rates, the consequent increase in the price of money by the Central Banks, the subsequent economic suffocation of countless countries and finally, the entry into stagflation scenarios, characterized by economic stagnation and high inflation (secular stagflation).
New Oil Crisis?
Given that alternative energy still needs huge subsidies to be viable in developing countries, the practice of fracking raises environmental concerns and the inertia of oil assets will not allow large companies to abandon their current equipment and infrastructure, the world economy will continue to gravitate towards oil dependency in the next decade.
Image: Oregon gasoline dealers displayed signs explaining the flag policy in the winter of 1973–74 (From the Public Domain)
The International Energy Agency (IEA), in a report entitled “Global Energy Investment Prospects”, warns that it will be necessary to invest $48 billion until 2035 to cover the growing world energy needs. The major developed countries have strategic oil reserves that are used exclusively in critical situations to ensure domestic consumption for a couple of months.
However, according to the US Department of Energy, reserves in the US have fallen sharply and are 374.4 million barrels of oil well below the level of 600-700 million in the last decade and in the case of China, would have about 511 million barrels in storage, so its crude oil reserve is equivalent tobetween 40 and 50 days.
Global inventories would also have fallen by 57 million barrels in the second quarter, coupled with a voluntary cut in production of 2.2 million barrels per day, agreed between Russia and OPEC until the end of 2025 and the lack of resolution of the Iranian dispute, have caused a daily deficit of 1 million barrels per day and a dangerous “supply anxiety” to increase the countries’ inventories, Brent crude oil has risen to $75 per barrel.
Should the situation in the Middle East continue to escalate, Iran could try to prevent trafficking across the strategic Strait of Hormuz if the US resorts to military action against the Islamic Republic. According to IEA (International Energy Agency) estimates, 13.4 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil would pass through the narrow channel in oil tankers (representing almost 30 percent of the supply of crude oil traded worldwide), with which the crude could climb up to $150, reissuing the 1973 Oil Crisis.
This would lead to a worldwide supply-gap psychosis, which would be reflected in a wild rise in the cost of freight and agricultural fertilizers. This, together with unusual droughts and floods in the traditional world barns and the consequent application of restrictions on the export of commodities from these countries to ensure their self-sufficiency, could lead to shortages of agricultural products on world markets, the rise of their prices to stratospheric levels and the consequent global food crisis.
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In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and indirectly subject to external political influences by several external political units of the time. According to the official historiographical traditions (mainly of Western origin), Kievan Russia was established and governed by the Nordic Vikings (“Varyagi/Varangians/Rus’”) with the Dnieper as its axis with Kiev as capital and later received Christianity of the Eastern (Greek) type from the Byzantium in the south and was finally conquered by the barbaric Mongol Tartars from the east.
The origin of the term “rus’” is, actually, still not scientifically investigated and, therefore, clear (due to the lack of proper historical sources). However, in the early period of the state’s emergence, the Eastern Slavs did not use the term “rus’” to refer to themselves. The term is, in fact, related to the Old Norse word “rōþr”, which means a rower or a campaign by boats propelled by oars. In the 9th and 10th centuries, “rus’” referred to the ducal inner circle and his confidants, the army – an elite social group. In Byzantine written historical sources circulating until the 11th century, “rus’” (“Rhōs”) referred to the Scandinavians or the Nordic Vikings. Around that time another name, “Varangians” (“Varangoi”), also appeared. Varangians were primarily Nordic-Scandinavian mercenaries in the Byzantine Imperial army. They were elite warriors valued for their valor and loyalty and even formed the Emperor’s personal bodyguard. The terms “rus’” and “Varangians” have been used synonymously since the 11th century.
From the very point of geography, concerning the formation and functioning of the first state of the Eastern Slavs, on the territory of Kievan Russia, there was a contrast between seven types of land being of significant importance at the time: northern coniferous forest, tundra, mixed and deciduous forest, wooden steppe, steppes, desert, and mountain vegetation. The Nordic Vikings arrived in this region in the 9th century as merchants and conquerors but before that, the Slavic tribes living there were pushing eastwards from Central Europe toward the woodlands of present-day European Central Russia. However, at the same time, different types of Asiatic hordes belonging to nomadic horsemen have been constantly moving westwards across Russian southern steppes.
Nevertheless, when the Nordic Vikings arrived, the rivers in a north-south direction (not steppes in the eastern-western direction) became the focal routes of importance.The militant Vikings established, dominated, and consequently exploited chief waterways trade lines along the main rivers of the region populated by the Eastern Slavs from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea including the Dnieper River as the focal waterway for the Viking-led trade with the Byzantine Empire. In fact, the first national state of Russians – Kievan Russia, originated in the Viking’s attempt to impose trade control over the territories around the main watersheds from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The chief trading potential between the Baltic and Byzantium comes from the fact that the rivers of the land populated by the Eastern Slavs have in general north-south and south-to-north directions of navigation.
As a matter of fact, in Kievan Russia, both the focal trade lines and coming state organization have been going from north to south, based upon the rivers, across the west-east belt of forest and steppe used by the Russian enemies in their invasion attempts from Asia to Europe. Actually, the whole history of Kievan Russia as the first national state of Russians, was politically dominated by the constant fight and ultimate failure of the Russians to protect their steppe land from the Asiatic migrating nomadic-warrior invaders. However, instead, Russians resumed the historic eastward colonization of the northern forest belt, which the Asiatic nomads did not dare to enter until the mid-13th century.
The focal river route that the Scandinavian Vikings used ran from the Gulf of Finland up the Neva River, via Lake Ladoga, the Volkhov and Dnieper Rivers, and across the Black Sea to the Byzantine Empire which had developed trade links with Asia. This trade line was known in historical sources of the time as the “route from the Varyagi to the Greeks” (i.e., from Scandinavia to Byzantium). The Vikings succeeded in imposing their military-political and economic control southwards and consequently, the towns of Smolensk, Novgorod, and Kiev (in 882) became controlled by them as the main trade outposts. Among all other towns, Kiev grew fast for the very reasons it was the capital of the state and it established strong economic links with the Byzantine Empire – its most important trading partner. In addition, Kievan Russia received the Orthodox Christian denomination at the time of the rule by Vladimir Svyatoslavich (980−1015).
During the Viking military and trading expeditions throughout the lands populated by the Eastern Slavs within the boundaries of Kievan Russia, the Khazars and Magyars (vassals of the Khazars) occupied the southern steppes north of the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and the Caspian Sea. The Khazars, originally nomadic tribes, by the 10th century, became farmers and merchants who settled between the River Dnieper and the River Volga where they established powerful state organization. The Slavic Russians succeeded in controlling the territory north of the southern steppes of the lower rivers of Pruth, Southern Bug, and Dniester, and to keep control of the Dnieper route with the exit to the Black Sea. A Russian Grand Duke Svyatoslav (962−972) took an obligation to defeat the Khazars in order to expand the southern territory of its state and to neutralize the Khazar’s pressure on the borders of Kievan Russia. His army defeated Khazars and occupied their capital city of Sarkel in 965 continuing military expeditions in the next two years along the rivers of Volga, Terek, and Kuban between the Caspian Sea and Sea of Azov. In 966, the Volga Bulgars have been defeated as well. However, the crushing Khazars was a kind of trap as now it opened the way to the wild Pechenegi who consequently controlled the southern steppes between Dniester and Dnieper. However, in 1054 warlike Polovtsy living between Volga and Ural rivers started to move eastward crossing Volga and subordinated Pechenegi who sacked the city of Kiev in 1093. Grand Duke Vladimir I of Kiev (980−1015) was forced to organize some defensive actions against fierce Pechenegi.
Kievan Russia was always in trouble with the nomadic peoples in the southern steppes being weakened in constant conflicts with them – the problem was never solved till the end of the state independence in the mid-13th century. From 1054 up to its final dissolution in 1242, Kievan Russia was broken up into several autonomous and even, in fact, independent principalities which in many cases were in conflicts between themselves. The southern parts of Kievan Russia were suffering from cruel raids of plundering by Polovtsy and attacks by other nomadic peoples, while northern principalities (like Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal with Moscow) enjoyed their geographic positions of several watersheds trade lines in the security of the forests and marshes. Especially Novgorod on the River Volkov near Lake Ilmen became economically prosperous and established a vast fur-trading empire stretching to the Artic and the Ural Mt. Steady colonization of the forests in central and northern parts of Kievan Russia, giving them enough power to effectively get rid of the rule from Kiev. After the Novgorod trading empire, among all forest principalities, the most important was Vladimir-Suzdal with the fast-growing city of Moscow (first mentioned in historical sources in 1147).
The Vladimir-Suzdal principality on the eve of the final Mongol incursion into central Russian lands in 1237 was preparing to attack the Volga Bulgars (of Mongol origin) as their position in the mid-Volga region was a barrier for further Russian expansion toward the East. For that purpose was built Nizhniy Novgorod as a military stronghold (fortress) on the way of the campaign against the Volga Bulgars and their capital Bolgar on the Volga River. However, in 1237 started the Mongol invasion which was one of the most (if not the most) traumatic events in Russian history. Firstly, the Asiatic Mongols made an exploratory incursion into the southern Russian steppes in 1221 when they defeated the joined army of Russian and Polovtsy detachments at the Battle of the River of Kalka on May 31st, 1223. However, the Mongols as more powerful returned to Russian steppes in 1236 and first attacked the regions of middle and upper Volga against Volga Bulgars continuing in the next winter of 1237/1238 their incursions in central Russian principalities when the protective marshes, lakes, and rivers were frozen. Consequently, the Mongols destroyed prosperous towns in the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal, especially after the Battle of the River Sit on March 4th, 1238 when they defeated the Russian forces. The territory of Novgorod, including the city of Novgorod itself, was saved only due to the approach of spring weather when the snow and ice started to melt and, therefore, the Mongols dared not be caught by the thaw among Novgorod’s surrounding marshes. Nevertheless, the next year (1239) southwest portions of Kievan Russia suffered annihilation by the Mongols. The city of Kiev itself became sacked in 1240 followed by numerous other settlements.
The territory of Novgorod escaped the Mongol barbaric invasion and looting of the settlements but on the other hand at the same time had to refute constant military attacks from Nordic Swedes and Baltic German Livonian Order of Crusaders who wanted to drive Russia from the Baltic. Novgorod’s Duke Alexander (“Nevsky”) succeeded in beating both of them: first the Swedes on the River of Neva in 1240, and the German Crusaders on the ice of Lake Peipus in 1242 but he had to recognize the Mongol overlordship in the same year of 1242 that was marked as the final ending of the independent Kievan Russia. Nonetheless, the Mongol incursions on the Russian land and the final subjugation of Kievan Russia had serious and lasting multi-effects of economic, political, social, and cultural consequences which in some aspects can be visible even today. First, the peasants were oppressed by the heavy tribute paid to the Mongol masters and lost any hope of changing their social status for a long time. Second, the destruction of the most important urban settlements, where handicrafts had been developed, reduced national life to, in fact, an uncivilized level of existence. Third, the cancelation of the urban class paved the proper way to the later emergence of political Russian autocracy which in many patterns imitated its Asiatic-Mongolic-Tatarian masters.
Nonetheless, the Mongolian Tatars themselves after 1242 soon withdrew to the southern steppes. They limited their direct military interventions against Russian lands to punitive expeditions if it was necessary followed by the policy of appointment of local powerful tax-collectors. Such a situation existed till the mid-15th century when Russians started to liberate their lands against Mongol lords.
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Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović is a former university professor in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Geostrategic Studies. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah and Hamas. There are conflicting reports about how many of the missiles struck their targets and if there were any deaths. But Israel is now considering a counterattack that could propel it into an all-out war with Iran, with the U.S. in tow.
For years, Iran has been trying to avoid such a war. That is why it signed the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement with the United States, the U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union. Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA in 2018, and despite Joe Biden’s much-touted differences with Trump, he failed to restore U.S. compliance. Instead, he tried to use Trump’s violation of the treaty as leverage to demand further concessions from Iran. This only served to further aggravate the schism between the United States and Iran, which have had no diplomatic relations since 1980.
Now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees his long-awaited chance to draw the United States into war with Iran. By killing Iranian military leaders and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Iranian soil, as well as attacking Iran’s allies in Lebanon and Yemen, Netanyahu provoked a military response from Iran that has given him an excuse to widen the conflict even further. Tragically, there are warmongering U.S. officials who would welcome a war on Iran, and many more who would blindly go along with it.
Image: President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session. (UN Photo/Loey Felipe)
Iran’s newly elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian, campaigned on a platform of reconciling with the West. When he came to New York to speak at the UN General Assembly on September 25, he was accompanied by three members of Iran’s JCPOA negotiating team: former foreign minister Javad Zarif; current foreign minister Abbas Araghchi; and deputy foreign minister Majid Ravanchi.
President Pezeshkian’s message in New York was conciliatory. With Zarif and Araghchi at his side at a press conference on September 23, he talked of peace, and of reviving the dormant nuclear agreement.
“Vis-a-vis the JCPOA, we said 100 times we are willing to live up to our agreements,” he said. “We do hope we can sit at the table and hold discussions.”
On the crisis in the Middle East, Pezeshkian said that Iran wanted peace and had exercised restraint in the face of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its assassinations of resistance leaders and Iranian officials, and its war on its neighbors.
“Let’s create a situation where we can co-exist,” said Pezeshkian. “Let’s try to resolve tensions through dialogue…We are willing to put all of our weapons aside so long as Israel will do the same.”
He added that Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while Israel is not, and that Israel’s nuclear arsenal is a serious threat to Iran.
Pezeshkian reiterated Iran’s desire for peace in his speech at the UN General Assembly.
“I am the president of a country that has endured threats, war, occupation, and sanctions throughout its modern history,” he said. “Others have neither come to our assistance nor respected our declared neutrality. Global powers have even sided with aggressors. We have learned that we can only rely on our own people and our own indigenous capabilities. The Islamic Republic of Iran seeks to safeguard its own security, not to create insecurity for others. We want peace for all and seek no war or quarrel with anyone.”
The U.S. response to Iran’s restraint throughout this crisis has been to keep sending destructive weapons to Israel, with which it has devastated Gaza, killed tens of thousands of women and children, bombed neighboring capitals, and beefed up the forces it would need to attack Iran.
That includes a new order for 50 F-15EX long-range bombers, with 750 gallon fuel tanks for the long journey to Iran. That arms deal still has to pass the Senate, where Senator Bernie Sanders is leading the opposition.
On the diplomatic front, the U.S. vetoed successive cease-fire resolutions in the UN Security Council and hijacked Qatar and Egypt’s cease-fire negotiations to provide diplomatic cover for unrestricted genocide.
Military leaders in the United States and Israel appear to be arguing against war on Iran, as they have in the past. Even George W. Bush and Dick Cheneybalked at launching another catastrophic war based on lies against Iran, after the CIA publicly admitted in its 2006 National Intelligence Estimate that Iran was not developing nuclear weapons.
When Trump threatened to attack Iran, Tulsi Gabbardwarned him that a U.S. war on Iran would be so catastrophic that it would finally, retroactively, make the war on Iraq look like the “cakewalk” the neocons had promised it would be.
But neither U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin nor Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant can control their countries’ war policies, which are in the hands of political leaders with political agendas. Netanyahu has spent many years trying to draw the United States into a war with Iran, and has kept escalating the Gaza crisis for a year, at the cost of tens of thousands of innocent lives, with that goal clearly in mind.
Biden has been out of his depth throughout this crisis, relying on political instincts from an era when acting tough and blindly supporting Israel were politically safe positions for American politicians. Secretary of State Antony Blinken rose to power through the National Security Council and as a Senate staffer, not as a diplomat, riding Biden’s coat-tails into a senior position where he is as out of his depth as his boss.
Meanwhile, pro-Iran militia groups in Iraq warn that, if the U.S. joins in strikes on Iran, they will target U.S. bases in Iraq and the region.
So we are careening toward a catastrophic war with Iran, with no U.S. diplomatic leadership and only Trump and Harris waiting in the wings. As Trita Parsi wrote in Responsible Statecraft, “If U.S. service members find themselves in the line of fire in an expanding Iran-Israel conflict, it will be a direct result of this administration’s failure to use U.S. leverage to pursue America’s most core security interest here — avoiding war.”
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“And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself.” Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) (preface to the English Edition, p.36)
The IMF and World Bank have for decades pushed a policy agenda based on cuts to public services, increases in taxes paid by the poorest and moves to undermine labour rights and protections.
In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies.The world’s poorest countries are due to pay $43 billion in debt repayments in 2022, which could otherwise cover the costs of their food imports.
Oxfam and Development Finance International (DFI) have also revealed that 43 out of 55 African Union member states face public expenditure cuts totalling $183 billion over the next five years.
According to Prof Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Research on Globalization, the closure of the world economy (March 11, 2020 Lockdown imposed on more than 190 countries) has triggered an unprecedented process of global indebtedness. Governments are now under the control of global creditors in the post-COVID era.
What we are seeing is a de facto privatisation of the state as governments capitulate to the needs of Western financial institutions.
Moreover, these debts are largely dollar-denominated, helping to strengthen the US dollar and US leverage over countries.
It raises the question: what was COVID really about?
Millions have been asking that question since lockdowns and restrictions began in early 2020. If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the massive health, economic and debt implications would be?
Why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations and use the full force and brutality of the police to ensure compliance?
These actions were wholly disproportionate to any risk posed to public health, especially when considering the way ‘COVID death’ definitions and data were often massaged and how PCR tests were misused to scare populations into submission.
Prof Fabio Vighi of Cardiff University implies we should have been suspicious from the start when the usually “unscrupulous ruling elites” froze the global economy in the face of a pathogen that targets almost exclusively the unproductive (the over 80s).
COVID was a crisis of capitalism masquerading as a public health emergency.
Capitalism
Capitalism needs to keep expanding into or creating new markets to ensure the accumulation of capital to offset the tendency for the general rate of profit to fall. The capitalist needs to accumulate capital (wealth) to be able to reinvest it and make further profits. By placing downward pressure on workers’ wages, the capitalist extracts sufficient surplus value to be able to do this.
But when the capitalist is unable to sufficiently reinvest (due to declining demand for commodities, a lack of investment opportunities and markets, etc), wealth (capital) over accumulates, devalues and the system goes into crisis. To avoid crisis, capitalism requires constant growth, markets and sufficient demand.
According to writer Ted Reese, the capitalist rate of profit has trended downwards from an estimated 43% in the 1870s to 17% in the 2000s. Although wages and corporate taxes have been slashed, the exploitability of labour was increasingly insufficient to meet the demands of capital accumulation.
By late 2019, many companies could not generate sufficient profit. Falling turnover, limited cashflows and highly leveraged balance sheets were prevalent.
Economic growth was weakening in the run up to the massive stock market crash in February 2020, which saw trillions more pumped into the system in the guise of ‘COVID relief’.
To stave off crisis up until that point, various tactics had been employed.
Credit markets were expanded and personal debt increased to maintain consumer demand as workers’ wages were squeezed. Financial deregulation occurred and speculative capital was allowed to exploit new areas and investment opportunities. At the same time, stock buy backs, the student debt economy, quantitative easing and massive bail outs and subsidies and an expansion of militarism helped to maintain economic growth.
There was also a ramping up of an imperialist strategy that has seen indigenous systems of production abroad being displaced by global corporations and states pressurised to withdraw from areas of economic activity, leaving transnational players to occupy the space left open.
While these strategies produced speculative bubbles and led to an overevaluation of assets and increased both personal and government debt, they helped to continue to secure viable profits and returns on investment.
But come 2019, former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King warned that the world was sleepwalking towards a fresh economic and financial crisis that would have devastating consequences. He argued that the global economy was stuck in a low growth trap and recovery from the crisis of 2008 was weaker than that after the Great Depression.
King concluded that it was time for the Federal Reserve and other central banks to begin talks behind closed doors with politicians.
That is precisely what happened as key players, including BlackRock, the world’s most powerful investment fund, got together to work out a strategy going forward. This took place in the lead up to COVID.
Aside from deepening the dependency of poorer countries on Western capital, Fabio Vighi says lockdowns and the global suspension of economic transactions allowed the US Fed to flood the ailing financial markets (under the guise of COVID) with freshly printed money while shutting down the real economy to avoid hyperinflation. Lockdowns suspended business transactions, which drained the demand for credit and stopped the contagion.
COVID provided cover for a multi-trillion-dollar bailout for the capitalist economy that was in meltdown prior to COVID. Despite a decade or more of ‘quantitative easing’, this new bailout came in the form of trillions of dollars pumped into financial markets by the US Fed (in the months prior to March 2020) and subsequent ‘COVID relief’.
The IMF, World bank and global leaders knew full well what the impact on the world’s poor would be of closing down the world economy through COVID-related lockdowns.
Yet they sanctioned it and there is now the prospect that in excess of a quarter of a billion more people worldwide will fall into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 alone.
In addition to helping to reboot the financial system, closing down the global economy deliberately deepened poorer countries’ dependency on Western global conglomerates and financial interests.
Lockdowns also helped accelerate the restructuring of capitalism that involves smaller enterprises being driven to bankruptcy or bought up by monopolies and global chains, thereby ensuring continued viable profits for Big Tech, the digital payments giants and global online corporations like Meta and Amazon and the eradication of millions of jobs.
Although the effects of the conflict in Ukraine cannot be dismissed, with the global economy now open again, inflation is rising and causing a ‘cost of living’ crisis. With a debt-ridden economy, there is limited scope for rising interest rates to control inflation.
But this crisis is not inevitable: current inflation is not only induced by the liquidity injected into the financial system but also being fuelled by speculation in food commodity markets and corporate greed as energy and food corporations continue to rake in vast profits at the expense of ordinary people.
Resistance
However, resistance is fertile.
Aside from the many anti-restriction/pro-freedom rallies during COVID, we are now seeing a more strident trade unionism coming to the fore – in Britain at least – led by media savvy leaders like Mick Lynch, general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), who know how to appeal to the public and tap into widely held resentment against soaring cost of living rises.
Teachers, health workers and others could follow the RMT into taking strike action.
Lynch says that millions of people in Britain face lower living standards and the stripping out of occupational pensions. He adds:
“COVID has been a smokescreen for the rich and powerful in this country to drive down wages as far as they can.”
Just like a decade of imposed ‘austerity’ was used to achieve similar results in the lead up to COVID.
The trade union movement should now be taking a leading role in resisting the attack on living standards and further attempts to run-down state-provided welfare and privatise what remains.
The strategy to wholly dismantle and privatise health and welfare services seems increasingly likely given the need to rein in (COVID-related) public debt and the trend towards AI, workplace automisation and worklessness.
This is a real concern because, following the logic of capitalism, work is a condition for the existence of the labouring classes. So, if a mass labour force is no longer deemed necessary, there is no need for mass education, welfare and healthcare provision and systems that have traditionally served to reproduce and maintain labour that capitalist economic activity has required.
In 2019, Philip Alston, the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty, accused British government ministers of the “systematic immiseration of a significant part of the British population” in the decade following the 2008 financial crash.
Alston stated:
“As Thomas Hobbes observed long ago, such an approach condemns the least well off to lives that are ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’. As the British social contract slowly evaporates, Hobbes’ prediction risks becoming the new reality.”
Post-COVID, Alston’s words carry even more weight.
As this article draws to a close, news is breaking that Boris Johnson has resigned as prime minister. A remarkable PM if only for his criminality, lack of moral foundation and double standards – also applicable to many of his cronies in government.
With this in mind, let’s finish where we began.
“I have never seen a class so deeply demoralised, so incurably debased by selfishness, so corroded within, so incapable of progress, as the English bourgeoisie…
For it nothing exists in this world, except for the sake of money, itself not excluded. It knows no bliss save that of rapid gain, no pain save that of losing gold.
In the presence of this avarice and lust of gain, it is not possible for a single human sentiment or opinion to remain untainted.”Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), p.275
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We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain. The high-tech/big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model of food and agriculture on the world.
Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab.
Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier. The Davos Great reset is merely an updated blueprint for a global dystopian dictatorship under UN control that has been decades in development. The key actors were David Rockefeller and his protégé, Maurice Strong.
In the beginning of the 1970s, there was arguably no one person more influential in world politics than the late David Rockefeller, then largely known as chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank.
Creating the new paradigm
At the end of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, the international circles directly tied to David Rockefeller launched a dazzling array of elite organizations and think tanks. These included
The Club of Rome;
the 1001: A Nature Trust, tied to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF);
the Stockholm United Nations Earth Day conference;
the MIT-authored study, Limits to Growth;
and David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission.
Club of Rome
In 1968 David Rockefeller founded a neo-Malthusian think tank, The Club of Rome, along with Aurelio Peccei and Alexander King. Aurelio Peccei, was a senior manager of the Fiat car company, owned by the powerful Italian Agnelli family. Fiat’s Gianni Agnelli was an intimate friend of David Rockefeller and a member of the International Advisory Committee of Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank. Agnelli and David Rockefeller had been close friends since 1957. Agnelli became a founding member of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission in 1973. Alexander King, head of the OECD Science Program was also a consultant to NATO. [i] That was the beginning of what would become the neo-Malthusian “people pollute” movement.
In 1971 the Club of Rome published a deeply-flawed report, Limits to Growth, which predicted an end to civilization as we knew it because of rapid population growth, combined with fixed resources such as oil. The report concluded that without substantial changes in resource consumption, “the most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.”
It was based on bogus computer simulations by a group of MIT computer scientists. It stated the bold prediction, “If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years.” That was 1971. In 1973 Klaus Schwab in his third annual Davos business leader meeting invited Peccei to Davos to present Limits to Growth to assembled corporate CEOs. [ii]
In 1974, the Club of Rome declared boldly, “The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man.” Then: “the world is facing an unprecedented set of interlocking global problems, such as, over-population, food shortages, non-renewable resource [oil-w.e.] depletion, environmental degradation and poor governance.” [iii] They argued that,
‘horizontal’ restructuring of the world system is needed…drastic changes in the norm stratum – that is, in the value system and the goals of man – are necessary in order to solve energy, food, and other crises, i.e., social changes and changes in individual attitudes are needed if the transition to organic growth is to take place. [iv]
In their 1974 report, Mankind at the Turning Point, The Club of Rome further argued:
Increasing interdependence between nations and regions must then translate as a decrease in independence. Nations cannot be interdependent without each of them giving up some of, or at least acknowledging limits to, its own independence. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for organic sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all finite resources and a new global economic system. [v]
That was the early formulation of the UN Agenda 21, Agenda2030 and the 2020 Davos Great Reset.
David Rockefeller and Maurice Strong
By far the most influential organizer of Rockefeller’s ‘zero growth’ agenda in the early 1970s was David Rockefeller’s longtime friend, a billionaire oilman named Maurice Strong.
Canadian Maurice Strong was one of the key early propagators of the scientifically flawed theory that man-made CO2 emissions from transportation vehicles, coal plants and agriculture caused a dramatic and accelerating global temperature rise which threatens “the planet”, so-called Global Warming.
As chairman of the 1972 Earth Day UN Stockholm Conference, Strong promoted an agenda of population reduction and lowering of living standards around the world to “save the environment.”
Strong stated his radical ecologist agenda:
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” [vi]
This is what is now taking place under cover of a hyped global pandemic.
Strong was a curious choice to head a major UN initiative to mobilize action on the environment, as his career and his considerable fortune had been built on exploitation of oil, like an unusual number of the new advocates of ‘ecological purity,’ such as David Rockefeller or Robert O. Anderson of Aspen Institute or Shell’s John Loudon.
Strong had met David Rockefeller in 1947 as a young Canadian eighteen and from that point, his career became tied to the network of the Rockefeller family.[vii] Through his new friendship with David Rockefeller, Strong, at age 18, was given a key UN position under UN Treasurer, Noah Monod. The UN’s funds were conveniently enough handled by Rockefeller’s Chase Bank. This was typical of the model of “public-private partnership” to be deployed by Strong—private gain from public government. [viii]
In the 1960s Strong had become president of the huge Montreal energy conglomerate and oil company known as Power Corporation, then owned by the influential Paul Desmarais. Power Corporation was reportedly also used as a political slush fund to finance campaigns of select Canadian politicians such as Pierre Trudeau, father of Davos protégé Justin Trudeau, according to Canadian investigative researcher, Elaine Dewar. [ix]
Earth Summit I and Rio Earth Summit
By 1971 Strong was named Undersecretary of the United Nations in New York and Secretary General of the upcoming Earth Day conference, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Earth Summit I) in Stockholm, Sweden. He was also named that year as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation – which financed his launch of the Stockholm Earth Day project.[x] In Stockholm the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) was created with Strong as its head.
By 1989 Strong was named by the UN Secretary General to head the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development or UNCED (“Rio Earth Summit II”). He oversaw the drafting of the UN “Sustainable Environment” goals there, the Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development that forms the basis of Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, as well as creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN. Strong, who was also a board member of Davos WEF, had arranged for Schwab to serve as a key adviser to the Rio Earth Summit.
As Secretary General of the UN Rio Conference, Strong also commissioned a report from the Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, authored by Alexander King which admitted that the CO2 global warming claim was merely an invented ruse to force change:
“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.” [xi]
President Clinton’s delegate to Rio, Tim Wirth, admitted the same, stating,
“We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” [xii]
At Rio Strong first introduced the manipulative idea of “sustainable society” defined in relation this arbitrary goal of eliminating CO2 and other so-called Greenhouse Gases. Agenda 21 became Agenda 2030 in Sept 2015 in Rome, with the Pope’s blessing, with 17 “sustainable” goals. It declared among other items,
“Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlement, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership also is a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice…Social justice, urban renewal, and development, the provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only ‘be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole.”
In short private land ownership must become socialized for “society as a whole,” an idea well-known in Soviet Union days, and a key part of the Davos Great Reset.
At Rio in 1992 where he was chairman and General Secretary, Strong declared:
“It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class— involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable.” [xiii] (emphasis added)
By that time Strong was at the very center of the transformation of the UN into the vehicle for imposing a new global technocratic “paradigm” by stealth, using dire warnings of planet extinction and global warming, merging government agencies with corporate power in an unelected control of pretty much everything, under the cover of “sustainability.” In 1997 Strong oversaw creation of the action plan following the Earth Summit, The Global Diversity Assessment, a blueprint for the roll out of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, an inventory of every resource on the planet, how it would be controlled , and how this revolution would be achieved.[xiv]
At this time Strong was co-chairman of Klaus Schwab’s Davos World Economic Forum. In 2015 on Strong’s death, Davos founder Klaus Schwab wrote,
“He was my mentor since the creation of the Forum: a great friend; an indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation Board.” [xv]
Before he left the UN over an Iraq Food-for-Oil corruption scandal, Strong was member of the Club of Rome, Trustee of the Aspen Institute, Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Rothschild Foundation. Strong was also a director of the Temple of Understanding of the Lucifer Trust (aka Lucis Trust) housed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City,
“where pagan rituals include escorting sheep and cattle to the alter for blessing. Here, Vice President Al Gore delivered a sermon, as worshippers marched to the altar with bowls of compost and worms…” [xvi]
This is the dark origin of Schwab’s Great Reset agenda where we should eat worms and have no private property in order to “save the planet.” The agenda is dark, dystopian and meant to eliminate billions of us “ordinary humans.”
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F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
[v] The Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974, quoted in Brent Jessop, Mankind at the Turning Point – Part 2 – Creating A One World Consciousness, accessed in http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=154
[vii] Elaine Dewar, Cloak of Green: The Links between key environmental groups, government and big business, Toronto, James Lorimer & Co., 1995, pp. 259-265.
This skilfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. “Control the food and you control the people.”
This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms.
The author cogently reveals a diabolical world of profit-driven political intrigue, government corruption and coercion, where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food production. If the book often reads as a crime story, that should come as no surprise. For that is what it is.
The UN Pact of the Future is perhaps best explained by Dr. Sherry Tenpenny. (Video Below) She explains in simple terms the way the Pact was ratified and what appalling elements for humanity’s future it contains.
The Pact was approved during the weekend 22 / 23 September 2024, by all 193 UN member countries, by a procedure called “The Silence Procedure” — it is not by vote, but by non-objection. It is a Pact, and if nobody objects it is automatically adopted.
A pact is a formal agreement between two or more parties, often used in a less formal context than a treaty. A Pact can refer to agreements in various fields, including politics and personal relationships. A Pact, generally implies a mutual commitment but is not legally binding.
In the part of informality lies our chance. But only if and when sovereign countries decide to renegue on the Pact.
Nevertheless, it was accepted – worldwide – by the West and the East, or Global South, meaning for the West primarily the US and Europe, and for the East by China and Russia.
How many of the 193 members have been coerced not to object?
Adversaries and even enemies have united under a UN tyranny for the future.
What does that say for our globe of freedom loving people – about 8 billon of us?
Outright enslavement in a Digital Gulag, if we, the People, let it go.
The guess is up to you. But it means, it is futile to think there is still hope for escaping to the Global South. They too have accepted the UN Pact for the Future.
It is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) runaround and go-around. Since the Pandemic Treaty was not accepted by the World Health Assembly (WHA) this past May, they took it to the UN. It is even more egregious than the WHO Pandemic Treaty and the new WHO International Health Regulations (IHR) combined.
The Pact says that this is the power structure for the control of the masses. Everyone is expected to have a biometric digital ID that marks them not only as a citizen of an individual country but as a global citizen.
Anytime you hear “global” or “sustainability,” it refers to the UN Agenda 2030, and to the new WHO horrifying power (the Pandemic Treaty formulated differently) to control and brand us, if necessary, with deadly vaccines.
Anyone who has a dissenting opinion will be labeled conspiracy theorist, as in misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation, and will be censored.
Perpetrators will be “fact-checked” and punished by the system, operated, and enforced by artificial intelligence (AI).
Punishment will include being locked out of your bank account, unable to make certain purchases, unable to get on an airplane, subway, or other public transportation system, or drive on public roads.
This is the future according to the world’s self-appointed overlords at the United Nations, consisting of unelected technocrats, put into their places because of their obedience to the powers behind the UN overlords.
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For the full video clip (about 4-minutes) by Sherri Tenpenny, click image below or click here.
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They have been chosen to make decisions above our countries and individual sovereignties around the world. If they fail to execute their orders, they are “gone”.
One may ask, who or what is the tremendous power behind these visible institutions like the UN system, WEF and others, of unconscious, unelected bureaucrats, and technocrats, who play along with the system because they believe they will be protected by it?
If these UN bureaucrats and implanted so-called leaders of UN member countries, who consented to the Pact, knew how wrong they are in believing that by promising obedience they are protected – once they become “useless eaters”, replaced by AI and a fully digitized world mechanism, or they may think a wrong thought, they are doomed.
Yes, indeed, “mind reading” is part of the future all-digitization and AI – you may call it the Digital Gulag. See this for the WEF’s plan and this.
Well, the question of the practically invisible powers behind it all – will the former French President Jacques Chirac maybe give a partial answer?
If we call today’s Israel Zionist-Israel striving for a Greater Israel, we might as well consider Mr. Chirac’s notion of Israel being the 51st State of the US. They control the western monetary system, which is a giant, oversized Ponzi-scheme, created to serve the purpose of sub-doing the world.
Remember the 1913 passed Federal Reserve Act which allowed the creation of this monetary Ponzi-scheme, was initiated in December 1911 by Free Masons and Zionists, Jewish and non-Jewish mega-banking interests.
This monetary system has also allowed the proliferation of multi-billionaires, including those controlling the world’s foremost banking and financial institutions. Taking advantage of the people’s greed, they are using the new-old God, money, for controlling the world.
In the meantime, wars must go on. Not only to increase wealth for and through the war industry, but also for distraction.
For example, Israeli PM Netanyahu has given the order to launch the attack on Lebanon from his hotel room in New York City, upon which Germany is evacuating diplomats and families from Lebanon, and Iran is readying her troops to fight in Lebanon. See this.
Could there be even a larger movement behind this UN Pact assault on 8 billion people?
Could this Kla.TV link be an indication of the power behind the power?
Power, that controls the UN and all the world’s most destructive organizations?
Now, it is important to get prepared with food, water, flashlights, digital access (?), or other means to communicate with family and friends, like old-style landlines.
Now would be the time to do something, if We, the People do not want to be enslaved by the UN Pact for the Future. We must mobilize and go forward, acting with our communities, our friends.
For years we have been talking about the onset of a “One World Order, One World Government”, One World Religion, One World Money – it is no longer coming; it is already here.
Collective consciousness is the first step to stop it, get out of the system, by creating a new and coming world of sovereignty and freedom.
Starting from scratch may not be as hard as it seems, considering our generations of experience and creative minds.
It could start with a strong anti-globalist behavior: Local production for local consumption with local money and local sovereign public banking – and trading with neighbors and think-alikes….a dynamic, slowly but surely growing movement.
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Peter Koenigis a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
Children’s Health Defense embarked on a nine-month journey across America, gathering powerful testimonies from the people. Our interviews ranged from mothers and fathers to teenagers, families, medical professionals, whistleblowers, lawyers, and people from all walks of life.
What we discovered was nothing short of staggering. We listened to harrowing accounts of COVID hospital protocols that shook us to our very core. The consistency of these stories was alarming.
People also shared their experiences after taking the COVID-19 vaccine, revealing tragic outcomes of either death or serious injury. Now, fueled by these powerful firsthand testimonies, we are creating a documentary by the people, for the people.
Learn what we uncovered on the road. You can’t afford to miss it.
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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity
by Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.
“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”
Reviews
This is an in-depth resource of great interest if it is the wider perspective you are motivated to understand a little better, the author is very knowledgeable about geopolitics and this comes out in the way Covid is contextualized. —Dr. Mike Yeadon
In this war against humanity in which we find ourselves, in this singular, irregular and massive assault against liberty and the goodness of people, Chossudovsky’s book is a rock upon which to sustain our fight. –Dr. Emanuel Garcia
In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig
Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac
A reading of Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late. You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin
ISBN: 978-0-9879389-3-0, Year: 2022, PDF Ebook, Pages: 164, 15 Chapters
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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity
by Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.
“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”
Reviews
This is an in-depth resource of great interest if it is the wider perspective you are motivated to understand a little better, the author is very knowledgeable about geopolitics and this comes out in the way Covid is contextualized. —Dr. Mike Yeadon
In this war against humanity in which we find ourselves, in this singular, irregular and massive assault against liberty and the goodness of people, Chossudovsky’s book is a rock upon which to sustain our fight. –Dr. Emanuel Garcia
In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig
Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac
A reading of Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late. You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin
ISBN: 978-0-9879389-3-0, Year: 2022, PDF Ebook, Pages: 164, 15 Chapters
Todos os grandes meios de comunicação ocidentais, controlados pelo aparelho de desinformação e propaganda de Washington, estão realizando uma enorme cobertura jornalística (ou melhor, “jornalística”) das eleições presidenciais nos Estados Unidos.
O país é retratado como um bastião da democracia e da livre escolha dos cidadãos. No entanto, esse paraíso está sendo ameaçado por um dos concorrentes, que seria uma aberração e uma anomalia do sistema norte-americano.
Logo, as duas tentativas de assassinato contra tal candidato são justificadas pelo clima tenso e pela polarização incentivada por ele. Ao mesmo tempo, ele – Donald Trump – tem usado essas ocorrências como arma propagandística contra seus rivais, apresentando-se como vítima de um regime controlado pelo Partido Democrata que acabou com o sonho americano.
Os dois lados têm utilizado todas as ferramentas de última geração para colher as mínimas vantagens sobre os adversários. A mais utilizada é a propagação de fake news. Mas Kamala Harris e os democratas têm sido blindados da maioria das denúncias pela imprensa que é ligada a eles.
De fato, Trump, apesar de ser um absoluto demagogo, tem razão ao indicar que os EUA vivem uma espécie de regime ditatorial. Só que isso não se deve exatamente aos democratas e não é algo novo. Os EUA sempre foram uma ditadura, ao menos desde que se tornaram uma potência capitalista.
Em duas ocasiões apenas a panelinha bipartidária não conseguiu fazer dobradinha no resultado final das presidenciais. E isso já faz muito tempo. Muito tempo mesmo: em 1860 e em 1912. Como apresentado em outro artigo, ao menos metade dos estadunidenses gostaria de ter um terceiro partido minimamente competitivo, porque os outros são mera fachada para encobrir o sistema bipartidário claramente antidemocrático.
O sistema funciona basicamente assim: os grandes banqueiros e industriais se reúnem para decidir quem deverá representar seus interesses no Salão Oval da Casa Branca. Como os interesses não são exatamente os mesmos – alguns querem mais dinheiro para seus negócios do que para os dos outros –, e como é preciso fingir diante de uma população de mais de 300 milhões de pessoas que esses cidadãos também têm algum direito, então dois candidatos são escolhidos para a disputa.
Nos últimos anos, Donald Trump – um desses grandes empresários – conseguiu angariar apoio em um setor da burguesia para ser um desses dois candidatos. Como ele fala umas groselhas que muita gente gosta de ouvir (e que têm sentido para muita gente falida em todos os sentidos), isso incomoda os empresários mais poderosos.
A elite dos capitalistas dos Estados Unidos prefere Harris a Trump. O aparato que controla a política e o Estado americano é formado basicamente pelos setores de finanças, indústria bélica e tecnologia de ponta. Uma olhada no financiamento das duas campanhas demonstra que a balança ainda pesa para a candidatura democrata.
O dinheiro investido, tanto de forma oficial quanto por debaixo do pano, é quem decide quem será eleito. O eleitor só vai na onda. O monopólio dos grandes meios de comunicação noticia apenas as candidaturas democrata e republicana – como os eleitores irão conhecer os outros candidatos, para votar neles? As redes sociais controlam as discussões e os conteúdos a serem vistos – o Google é o maior financiador da campanha de Harris; Apple, Oracle, Amazon e Facebook também investem pesado na democrata, enquanto Microsoft também deposita uma grana em Trump.
Não há espaço para nada diferente.
O único espaço seriam as ruas. Mas lá a ditadura é ainda mais brutal. Milhares de ativistas têm sido detidos nos últimos meses por realizarem protestos políticos. A principal área de atuação política dos Estados Unidos, como um verdadeiro império global, é a política internacional. E muito das discussões entre os dois candidatos têm sido sobre isso. Nas ruas, o povo também tenta entrar nas discussões – já que nas redes canais, páginas e perfis tanto de indivíduos como de organizações e mesmo de veículos de imprensa têm sido excluídos. Mas os estudantes de dezenas de universidades estão sendo agredidos e detidos pela polícia por se oporem ao genocídio que as armas e o dinheiro dos EUA facilitam em Gaza.
Essa repressão nas ruas – exercida em pleno mandato dos democratas – é aplaudida por Trump e os republicanos. Mas Trump que se cuide, pois as duas tentativas de assassinato que sofreu foram executadas por pessoas que não estão gostando das palavras alegadamente pacifistas do candidato a respeito da guerra na Ucrânia.
Aliás, quem não defende a guerra dos EUA e da OTAN na Ucrânia contra a Rússia tem sido alvo preferencial da censura nestas eleições. Vários renomados funcionários e comentaristas políticos têm sido coagidos pela polícia e pelo FBI devido a suas posições políticas, como foram os casos de Scott Ritter, Dan Kovalik e Dimitri K. Simes. Ou então do historiador judeu Ilan Pappé, interrogado ao chegar nos EUA devido à sua opinião crítica sobre Israel.
Nestas eleições, imposição de candidatos, controle da opinião pública e ampla repressão contra dissidentes têm sido elementos essenciais da festa da democracia nos Estados Unidos.
Esse é o país que quer dar lição de democracia ao resto do mundo.
Eduardo Vasco
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Eduardo Vascoé jornalista especializado em política internacional, correspondente de guerra e autor dos livros-reportagem “O povo esquecido: uma história de genocídio e resistência no Donbass” e “Bloqueio: a guerra silenciosa contra Cuba”.
Sirens sounded across Israel on Tuesday as a massive barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles hit targets around Tel Aviv. The attack was launched in response to Israel’s assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s chairman Hasan Nasrallah. According to a statement released by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the attack was aimed at “three military bases” in the Tel Aviv area. As of this writing, no casualties have been reported and the extent of the damage remains unknown.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian praised the attack calling it a “decisive response” to Israeli “aggression.”
In accordance with legitimate rights and the aim of [establishing] peace and security in Iran and the region, a decisive response has been made to the Zionist regime’s aggression. Netanyahu should know that Iran is not seeking war, but it will stand firmly against any threat. This is just a glimpse of our capabilities.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei followed the president’s remarks by posting an illustration of a large underground weapons cache that would be used to deter future Israeli aggression.
Less than an hour after the attack, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan delivered an ominous warning saying: “There will be severe consequences for this attack, and we will work with Israel to make that the case.” Sullivan refused to elaborate on the manner in which the US or Israel would retaliate, but some analysts think the response could come as early as Tuesday night.
Unverified video from Israel’s Nevatim Air Base shows a facility that has been severely damaged by Iran’s ballistic missile barrage. The wreckage extends in all directions and dozens of workers are seen picking through the piles of broken concrete and twisted rebar. If the video is real, then it appears that Iran has the technological ability to strike heavily defended installations at the heart of Israel. Naturally, all of this will factor into Tel Aviv’s decision about how best to retaliate.
Aside from Israeli military bases, Iran also landed a direct hit on an Israeli gas platform off the coast of Gaza. The “US-based energy company Chevron …operates the Tamar platform, which is roughly 13 miles off the coast of the Gaza Strip.” Palestinian officials have disputed Israel’s right to sell the gas as the field occupies an area within Palestinian territorial waters. Check out this post from Kathleen Tyson
(Israel) will annex Gaza to deprive Palestinians of Levantine Basin gas revenues, maybe Lebanon too. War is always about hydrocarbons @Kathleen_Tyson_
Bloodlust, yes, but land, oil, and gas lust too. Zionists will not tolerate any revenues from the Levant Basin gas reserves go to Palestinians and Lebanese.
US, UK, and EU are backing the genocides because they lost their bid with proxy Ukraine to regain the oil, gas, and lithium of the Donbas and Crimea.
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It’s worth noting that support for Israel’s expansionist war aims in the Middle East is now encountering stiff resistance among members of Washington’s foreign policy establishment. This is from an article at Politico:
Senior White House figures privately told Israel that the U.S. would support its decision to ramp up military pressure against Hezbollah — even as the Biden administration publicly urged the Israeli government in recent weeks to curtail its strikes, according to American and Israeli officials…
Not everyone in the administration was on board with Israel’s shift, despite support inside the White House, the officials said. The decision to focus on Hezbollah sparked division within the U.S. government, drawing opposition from people inside the Pentagon, State Department and intelligence community who believed Israel’s move against the Iran-backed militia could drag American forces into yet another Middle East conflict….
Officials in the intelligence community, in briefings and talks with members of Congress last week, had said they were increasingly worried about the potential for a direct ground confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah….
The administration’s public message to Israel continues to be: Avoid escalation and keep pursuing diplomacy with Hezbollah. Politico
While the author makes a persuasive case that elements within the US state oppose further escalation, it’s largely a moot point. The Biden administration has been Israel’s greatest enabler and certainly shares equal responsibility for the mountains of carnage strewn across Gaza and soon Lebanon. If a war breaks out between Iran and Israel, the US will back Israel to the hilt underscoring its culpability in mass murder and the triggering a Third World War. Here is a shortened version of today’s Statement by the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces:
“Following the illegitimate actions of the Zionist regime, assassinating our military advisors in Syria and Lebanon, and assassinating the leaders of the resistance such as Ismael Haniyeh and Hassan Nasrallah, and especially its massacres in Gaza and Lebanon, a harsh response was necessary.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, in the past 45 years, has never initiated any war, but will not hesitate to act in self-defence….
If the Zionist regime retaliates against Iran, it must wait for the destruction of its military infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian territories. In case of direct US-support for Israel in any attack on Iran, their facilities and bases in the region will be targeted in a harsh and regretful manner.”
There it is in black and white: ‘Mess with us, and you are in for a world of hurt’. Couldn’t be much clearer than that.
A number of analysts are predicting that Israel will use a nuclear weapon on Iran to plunge the country into chaos and achieve a quick victory. While we don’t discount the possibility that Israel might pursue that option, we think it is unlikely for the simple reason that Putin—who reportedly spoke with Netanyahu on Tuesday—is not going to allow it. Keep in mind, Russia and Iran have significantly strengthened their diplomatic, economic and military ties over the last few years to the point they are openly committed to each other’s security. Here’s how military analyst Will Schryver sums it up:
Russia, China, and Iran have now formed a de facto military and economic alliance — what they prefer to call a “partnership”. In the case of Russia and China, a comprehensive full-spectrum partnership has emerged: military, economic, and monetary….
Russia, China, and Iran conduct regular joint exercises in the Arabian Sea. Those exercises have increased in both scope and frequency in recent years.
Both Russia and China are investing vast sums of capital in Iran, much of it in the energy sector and in ambitious transportation projects aiming to construct fast and efficient trade corridors linking China, Iran, and Russia as primary nodes of Eurasian commerce… Arms and technology transfers between the three countries have reached unprecedented levels….
It is increasingly evident that Russia, China, and Iran recognize that an attack against any one of them would constitute an existential threat to them all. The strategic interests of all three countries are now inextricably intertwined. Most importantly, they are united in a single overriding strategic objective: to dismantle the dominion of the long-reigning Anglo-American empire….
In a putative war between the United States and Iran, both Russia and China would actively support Iran… Iran would simply be supplemented with arms and other logistical necessities from both its partners — and quite possibly taken under their nuclear umbrella in an explicit act of deterrence.
The empire is stretched so thin and its potential for power projection is so diluted that undertaking even one Big War would be enough to bring the entire house of cards tumbling down. This is the harsh reality the Masters of Empire are now facing, and no amount of mythologizing about the “limitless” power at their disposal can change it….
To the extent Russia, China, and Iran are determined to act all for one and one for all, they represent a combination of global military and economic power that cannot be defeated. All for One and One for All, Will Schryver, Twitter
One final thought:
NBC News published an article just days ago that revealed the real reason that Nasrallah was assassinated and, of course, it had nothing to do with the official justification that he was a “terrorist”. No. It was because he was morally committed to saving Palestinians by putting pressure on Israel. In effect, Nasrallah was doing what the UN Security Council would have done months ago if they had found a way to prevent US obstructionism. Here’s the story from NBC:
Israel took the decision to assassinate Nasrallah after concluding he would not accept any diplomatic solution to end the fighting on the Israel-Lebanon border that was not tied to an end to the war in Gaza, an Israeli official said.
Israel had tried repeatedly to reach a separate diplomatic solution with Hezbollah since October 8th but Nasrallah was adamant he would continue firing until Israel made a deal with Hamas, the official told NBC News.
“What we found after over 11 months is that Nasrallah is persistent in tying himself — and the hijacked Lebanese state that he took over — to whatever’s going on in Gaza,” the official said. “He declined every diplomatic effort. He declined messages to stop connecting himself to Gaza. And he continued to fire at Israel, and in the past few weeks or months, even expanded the range and velocity of attacks against Israel.”
So, according to Israeli officials, Nasrallah is a hero who sacrificed his life for unarmed civilians who couldn’t defend themselves.
How does that saying go: “Greater love hath no man…..”?
You know the rest.
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Michael Whitney is a renowned geopolitical and social analyst based in Washington State. He initiated his career as an independent citizen-journalist in 2002 with a commitment to honest journalism, social justice and World peace.
He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
Featured image: The Iranian air attack on Israel was an extensive air operation carried out by Iran from its territory against Israel on the evening of 1 October 2024, and included 181 projectiles. The result was at least 8 Israelis killed. The photos were taken in the Lower Galilee from a settlement towards the east. (Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)
Iran launched several hundred ballistic missiles against Israel on the evening of 1 October in retaliation for the self-professed Jewish State’s assassination of top Resistance Axis figures and its latest war in Lebanon.
We talk about the original, genocidal plan of the US War Department for a genocidal nuclear slaughter of the Soviets, how that plan has continued to the present day, the existential threat of nuclear holocaust and the prospects for an anti-war movement that can actually stand up to the military-industrial complex.
The 79th Session of the General Assembly held in New York City beginning in the week of September 23 was a clear reflection of the continuing domination of the imperialist states within North America and Western Europe.
The hearing in Strasbourg on October 1, organised by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), arose from concerns raised in a report by Iceland’s Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir, in which she expressed the view that Assange’s case was “a classic example of ‘shooting the messenger’.”
Yesterday, 1st of October 2024, China was proudly celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Chinese Revolution – an outright socioeconomic success never seen before in human history; a development in Peace, and ever seeking cooperation with the rest of the world. Never aggression.
We are watching the cover-up of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Injuries by governments around the world, in real time. Just like when Health Canada recently ordered all unused COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine vials to be destroyed.
Next year will represent the 80th anniversary of the formation of the United Nations Organization in San Francisco which took place in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
Since 1945 the composition of the organization has been transformed as a direct result of the successes of the national liberation movements and socialist revolutions which came to power from the late 1940s through the modern period.
In its earliest phase the overwhelming number of governments represented at the UN were colonial powers which welded political and economic power based upon the outcomes of the victories of the war. The bulk of the military clashes during the second imperialist war were in Europe, North Africa, Asia and the Asia-Pacific.
Despite the majority of people in the world since 1945 have been located in the regions of Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, their levels of influence and authority within the international relations of production and ownership have been highly disproportionate. This holds true even today during the third decade of the 21st century.
The 79th Session of the General Assembly held in New York City beginning in the week of September 23 was a clear reflection of the continuing domination of the imperialist states within North America and Western Europe. United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s articulation of the proposal for the allocation of two permanent seats on the Security Council for African Union member-states was devoid of veto power. The number of African nations and their populations and land masses far exceed those of Western Europe and North America combined yet they are literally disrespected and disregarded in the imperialist calculations related to the allocations of power within the august body.
Within the General Assembly every year a resolution is passed calling for the lifting of the decades-long U.S.-imposed embargo on the Republic of Cuba. Washington ignores these resolutions in the same fashion they have defied the majority of those governments which have supported the ending of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Instead of abiding by world sentiment for a ceasefire and a permanent solution to the Palestinian question, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has supplied billions of dollars in military and intelligence assistance to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to carry out the genocide in Gaza as well as in Lebanon.
Imperialism, Zionism and the Threat to World Peace
During the lead up and same week of the UNGA, there was an all-out assault on the people of Lebanon through the resistance movement of Hezbollah. A series of attacks using pagers and walkie-talkie devices killed and injured hundreds of people in Lebanon.
Hezbollah has expressed solidarity with the people in Gaza by intensifying its cross-border missile and drone strikes which have targeted military and infrastructural sites in northern occupied territories of Palestine. Due to the persistent engagements with the IDF, hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers have been relocated from the northern areas of the country.
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The Iranian air attack on Israel was an extensive air operation carried out by Iran from its territory against Israel on the evening of 1 October 2024, and included 181 projectiles. The result was at least 8 Israelis killed. The photos were taken in the Lower Galilee from a settlement towards the east. (Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)
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When Biden addressed the UNGA 79th Session he repeated his disingenuous platitudes about the U.S. policy in West Asia. He once again said the White House was in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza, nonetheless, his administration has not refrained from sending fighter aircraft, bombs and other weapons of genocidal warfare to Tel Aviv. More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7 of 2023 while hundreds of thousands of others suffered injuries. Nearly everyone in Gaza is under threat of displacement, injury and death.
The war has also escalated in the West Bank where raids by the IDF and settlers serve to further kill, maim and imprison the Palestinians. Leaders within the Democratic and Republican parties are in reality opposed to the demands for a ceasefire let alone an arms embargo against the Zionist state.
Amid the expansion of the war in Palestine and Lebanon against the will of the peoples of the world, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was allowed to address the UNGA on September 27. In his speech he repudiated the UN and its resolutions in favor of the Palestinians.
Image is from PressTV via Abayomi Azikiwe
Near simultaneously, the IDF escalated its bombing operations in densely populated areas in the south suburbs of Beirut as well as the East Bekaa Valley. Utilizing the most sophisticated fighter-jets designed by the U.S., the F-35, Netanyahu ordered the launching of massive bunker-busting bombs against residential and commercial areas which encompass offices of the Hezbollah resistance movement killing top Lebanese leaders including Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
The Biden administration has attempted to distance itself from the attacks on communication devices, targeted assassinations of political leaders and the bombing of neighborhoods in Lebanon. However, it is highly unlikely that the U.S. did not have advanced knowledge of these attacks. Israel serves the interests of imperialism in the West Asia and North Africa regions. It was the same colonial forces within the UN during May 1948 which voted to recognize the State of Israel as a “legitimate” entity within the world system. Although the Soviet Union voted in favor of Israeli recognition in 1948, their position would have been meaningless without the Western European states and North America which exercised the dominant voice within the UN.
Following the pattern of their sponsors in Washington, the IDF on September 29 bombed Yemeni infrastructural sites including the Ports of Hodeida and Ras Isa. These port cities are indispensable for the shipping of humanitarian assistance to Yemen, the least developed nation within the entire West Asia region.
Of course, Yemen is being targeted by the Biden administration and the Israeli government because of the uncompromising position of the Ansarullah Resistance Movement aimed at imposing through the Red Sea and contiguous waterways a blockade of vessels carrying cargo to Israeli ports. These actions by the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) are being conducted in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.
Such acts of solidarity with the Palestinians from the Lebanese, Yemeni, Iraqi and Syrian resistance forces are posing a challenge to the imperialist control of the strategic waterways and lands of West Asia. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been a source of support for the anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist movements throughout the region and the globe. Tel Aviv and Washington want to bring Tehran directly into the regional war they are anticipating.
The Threat of Regional and World War
These developments occurring during the UNGA 79th Session have revealed the prospects for a deeper global war which could involve several nations throughout West Asia and beyond. In the wars waged in the West and Central Asia regions over the last 45 years from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Palestine, military activity has included psychological warfare, political destabilization, economic blockades, aerial bombings along with ground invasions and occupations.
There has been much damage done through aerial bombardments and shelling. Nonetheless, the attempted and actual overthrowing of governments since the Israeli and U.S. interventions in Lebanon beginning in 1982 has inevitably led to the direct occupation by the IDF and the Pentagon deployment of ground troops.
Since the wars of occupation of the 1990s and early decades of the 21st century, millions have lost their lives and suffered injuries. At present there are more displaced persons in the world than any other period in history. The displacement of Palestinians and Lebanese people over the last year portends much for the entire West Asia region.
The imperialists are in a desperate situation on a geostrategic level. The requirements of recruitment and deployment of military forces in ever expanding areas of several geo-political regions will come into conflict with the aspirations and desires of populations within the western states. These capitalist countries are already undergoing economic and political crises which threaten domestic upheavals stemming from class and national conflicts.
Despite the ruling class domination of both major parties within the U.S., the internal class struggle and demands for self-determination will not be contained under the emerging dimensions of a potential third imperialist war. The threats of wider regional warfare will not be restricted to West Asia.
Imperialism is waging a war to weaken the Russian Federation as well as containing the People’s Republic of China. With the advent of the deployment of hundreds of thousands of additional Pentagon and NATO troops in West Asia and its environs, Beijing and Moscow will not remain silent and removed from the center of efforts to determine the future of a reconfigured world system.
The peoples of Africa and Latin America are demanding genuine economic independence and territorial sovereignty from imperialism. The rejection of Pentagon and NATO military forces in some areas of Africa and Latin America will be a major factor in the quest for a multipolar transformation of international relations.
Just as the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 was not able to avoid the political trajectory which created the conditions for the first imperialist war between 1914-1918, the League of Nations founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1920, failed as well to avoid the rise of fascism and monopoly capitalism which resulted in WWII.
The United Nations of the 21st century appears incapable of preventing protracted regional conflicts which could expand to another imperialist war. People in the U.S. and other western states must take a position against world war in order to bring about peace and mutual cooperation throughout the planet.
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It was good to hear that voice again. A voice of provoking interest that pitter patters, feline across a parquet, followed by the usual devastating conclusion. Julian Assange’s last public address was made in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. There, he was a guest vulnerable to the capricious wishes of changing governments. At Belmarsh Prison in London, he was rendered silent, his views conveyed through visitors, legal emissaries and his family.
The hearing in Strasbourg on October 1, organised by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), arose from concerns raised in a report by Iceland’s Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir, in which she expressed the view that Assange’s case was “a classic example of ‘shooting the messenger’.” She found it “appalling that Mr Assange’s prosecution was portrayed as if it was supposed to bring justice to some unnamed victims the existence of whom has never been proven, whereas perpetrators of torture or arbitrary detention enjoy absolute impunity.”
His prosecution, Ævarsdóttir went onto explain, had been designed to obscure and deflect the revelations found in WikiLeaks’ disclosures, among them abundant evidence of war crimes committed by US and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, instances of torture and arbitrary detention in the infamous Guantánamo Bay camp facility, illegal rendition programs implicating member states of the Council of Europe and unlawful mass surveillance, among others.
A draft resolution was accordingly formulated, expressing, among other things, alarm at Assange’s treatment and disproportionate punishment “for engaging in activities that journalists perform on a daily basis” which made him, effectively, a political prisoner; the importance of holding state security and intelligence services accountable; the need to “urgently reform the 1917 Espionage Act” to include conditional maliciousness to cause harm to the security of the US or aid a foreign power and exclude its application to publishers, journalists and whistleblowers.
Assange’s full testimony began with reflection and foreboding: the stripping away of his self in incarceration, the search, as yet, for words to convey that experience, and the fate of various prisoners who died through hanging, murder and medical neglect. While filled with gratitude by the efforts made by PACE and the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee, not to mention innumerable parliamentarians, presidents, prime ministers, even the Pope, none of their interventions “should have been necessary.” But they proved invaluable, as “the legal protections that did exist, many existed only on paper or were not effective in any remotely reasonable time frame.”
The legal system facing Assange was described as encouraging an “unrealisable justice”. Choosing freedom instead of purgatorial process, he could not seek it, the plea deal with the US government effectively barring his filing of a case at the European Court of Human Rights or a freedom of information request. “I am not free today because the system worked,” he insisted. “I am free today because after years of incarceration because I plead guilty to journalism. I plead guilty to seeking information from a source. I plead guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else.”
When founded, WikiLeaks was intended to enlighten people about the workings of the world. “Having a map of where we are lets us understand where we might go.” Power can be held to account by those informed, justice sought where there is none. The organisation did not just expose assassinations, torture, rendition and mass surveillance, but “the policies, the agreements and the structures behind them.”
Since leaving Belmarsh prison, Assange rued the abstracting of truth. It seemed “less discernible”. Much ground had been “lost” in the interim; truth had been battered, “undermined, attacked, weakened and diminished. I see more impunity, more secrecy, more retaliation for telling the truth and more self-censorship.”
Much of the critique offered by Assange focused on the source of power behind any legal actions. Laws, in themselves, “are just pieces of paper and they can be reinterpreted for political expedience”. The ruling class dictates them and reinterprets or changes them depending on circumstances.
In his case, the security state “was powerful enough to push for a reinterpretation of the US constitution,” thereby denuding the expansive, “black and white” effect of the First Amendment. Mike Pompeo, when director of the Central Intelligence Agency, simply lent on Attorney General William Barr, himself a former CIA officer, to seek the publisher’s extradition and re-arrest of Chelsea Manning. Along the way, Pompeo directed the agency to draw up plans of abduction and assassination while targeting Assange’s European colleagues and his family.
The US Department of Justice, Assange could only reflect, cared little for the moderating tonic of legalities – that was something to be postponed to a later date. “In the meantime, the deterrent effect that it seeks, the retributive actions that it seeks, have had their effect.” A “dangerous new global legal position” had been established as a result: “Only US citizens have free speech rights. Europeans and other nationalities do not have free speech rights.”
PACE had, before it, an opportunity to set norms, that “the freedom to speak and the freedom to publish the truth are not privileges enjoyed by a few but rights guaranteed to all”. “The criminalisation of newsgathering activities is a threat to investigative journalism everywhere. I was formally convicted, by a foreign power, for asking for, receiving, and publishing truthful information about that power while I was in Europe.”
A spectator, reader or listener might leave such an address deflated. But it is fitting that a man subjected to the labyrinthine, life-draining nature of several legal systems should be the one to exhort to a commitment: that all do their part to keep the light bright, “that the pursuit of truth will live on, and the voices of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few.”
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Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). Email: [email protected]
Featured image: The Crucifixion of Julian Assange – by Mr. Fish
All that can be assessed thus far in the absence of any Israeli retaliation at the time of writing is that both sides are very concerned about their reputations.
Iran launched several hundred ballistic missiles against Israel on the evening of 1 October in retaliation for the self-professed Jewish State’s assassination of top Resistance Axis figures and its latest war in Lebanon. Both sides are spinning this to their advantage: Iran claims that “True Promise II” destroyed several of its enemy’s military bases while Israel insists that it was a mostly harmless demonstration. Even so, Israel still promised to retaliate at a time and place of its choosing, keeping the world on edge.
The timing of Iran’s retaliation coincides with the start of the latest Israeli-Lebanese War’s ground phase and might thus have been partially meant to deter a large-scale operation that could lead to Gaza-like levels of destruction. It also followed some of its supporters angrily speculating that Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination last week might not have happened had Iran decisively responded to the assassination of Hamas’ political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran over the summer.
These factors suggest that Iran aimed to advance military, reputational, and strategic goals: deter a Gaza-like war in Lebanon; “save face” before its supporters; and ideally restore deterrence. The Resistance loudly cheered Iran’s delayed retaliation so its reputational goal was indisputably met, but it’s premature to conclude that its corresponding military and strategic ones were achieved. After all, Israel promised to retaliate, so everyone will have to wait till that happens to judge whether or not Iran’s strikes succeeded.
If Israel doesn’t do so soon, then speculation will swirl that it might have suffered devastating military damage exactly as Iran claimed, plus it would appear that Israel might be too afraid of Iran’s promise to retaliate even more fiercely than ever if Israel attacks it after that. An alternative explanation for this scenario could be that Israel couldn’t secure US support for its own retaliation, after which it either called it off or delayed it in order to revise its original plans. In any case, deterrence would be restored.
It would also be restored if Israel’s retaliation is limited and could thus be spun by the Resistance as a mostly harmless demonstration exactly as Israel is spinning Iran’s latest strikes. Most observers would probably perceive any retaliation in this way if it doesn’t involve Israel hitting targets inside of Iran. The abovementioned insight about Israeli-American differences, which readers can learn more about here, could be a factor behind any restrained retaliation that ultimately results in restoring deterrence.
And finally, the third scenario is that Israel retaliates against Iran by hitting its air defenses and/or energy infrastructure like Axios reported on Tuesday might be in the cards for later this week, in which case a dangerous cycle of strikes could follow since Iran would then feel pressured to retaliate to “save face”. That could easily spiral out of control since each side might try to outdo the other, thus quickly putting the assumption of “Mutually Assured Destruction” (MAD) between them to the test.
All that can be assessed thus far in the absence of any Israeli retaliation at the time of writing is that both sides are very concerned about their reputations. Neither wants to look weak in the other’s eyes since they fear that this could encourage more attacks, including against their partners, but they’ve also thus far been careful not to risk a wider war either. That calculation is the most important, but hawks on both sides already believe that theirs is stronger than the other, hence their eagerness to escalate up to MAD.
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Andrew Korybko is an American Moscow-based political analyst specializing in the relationship between the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China’s One Belt One Road global vision of New Silk Road connectivity, and Hybrid Warfare. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine status would be the first thing to investigate.
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Dr. William Makis is a Canadian physician with expertise in Radiology, Oncology and Immunology. Governor General’s Medal, University of Toronto Scholar. Author of 100+ peer-reviewed medical publications.
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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity
by Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.
“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”
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This is an in-depth resource of great interest if it is the wider perspective you are motivated to understand a little better, the author is very knowledgeable about geopolitics and this comes out in the way Covid is contextualized. —Dr. Mike Yeadon
In this war against humanity in which we find ourselves, in this singular, irregular and massive assault against liberty and the goodness of people, Chossudovsky’s book is a rock upon which to sustain our fight. –Dr. Emanuel Garcia
In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig
Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac
A reading of Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late. You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin
ISBN: 978-0-9879389-3-0, Year: 2022, PDF Ebook, Pages: 164, 15 Chapters
A massive Iranian ballistic missile strike on targets in Israel launched on October 1 has targeted Nevatim Air Base, among other key targets in the country. The facility hosts both of the Israeli Air Force’s F-35 fifth generation fighter squadrons, and was previously intended to host a third squadron of the fighters after they were delivered.
Iranian media sources have reported that the facility was “completely destroyed” in the attack. Footage from Israel has confirmed the impact of dozens of ballistic missiles which Israel’s air defence network failed to shoot down, with targets impacted including the headquarters of the intelligence agency Mossad, located in Tel Aviv which was levelled by the attack.
Labelled “True Promise 2,” the operation follows a year of escalating tensions between Tehran and Tel Aviv, and represents a long awaited retaliatory attack after an Israeli strike on Tehran on July 31. Iran was previously reported to have agreed not to retaliate if Israel deescalated hostilities, with Israel’s invasion and intensive bombardment of Lebanon and assassination of the leadership of the Iranian aligned militia group Hezbollah having been seen to have broken this agreement.
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Israeli Air Force Personnel and F-35 at Nevatim Air Base
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Reports have indicated that the bulk of Nevatim Air Base’s F-35s – over 20 fighters – were destroyed in the attack, with the stealth fighters representing one of the most high value targets in Israel. The facility has been widely referred to as Israel’s “most important air base” due to the importance of the F-35 in the country’s fleet. Israel fields just two squadrons of the costly stealth jets, and relies on them heavily as the remainder of the fighter fleet relies on largely obsolete avionics and old mechanically scanned array radars. F-35s play a central role in Israeli plans for potential attacks on Iran, with their stealth capabilities and advanced avionics, including electronic warfare systems and other air defence suppression features, making them optimal assets for such operations. The destruction of F-35s is thus an important step towards limiting Israel’s ability to respond with further escalation. Although Israel has a third squadron’s worth of F-35s on order, significant issues with production, which remains at a fraction of initially planned rates, has resulted in a very long delivery queue, and means Israel will only begin to receive the newly ordered fighters from 2028.
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Iranian Ballistic Missiles Seconds Before Impact on Tel Aviv
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Israeli and Western officials have widely stressed the need for a strong response against Iran, with White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stating:
“There will be serious consequences for Iran as a result of this attack and we will work with Israel to make sure that happens.”
The Israel Defence Forces announced that its response will be “seen by the entire Middle East,” with Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz stating that the entire “free world” had to support Israel – a reference to expected Western support for future Israeli attacks. The influential U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham meanwhile called on President Joe Biden to authorise attacks on Iranian oil refineries.
The Iranian strike has demonstrated the severe limitations of Israel’s air defence network, despite the country having by far the densest and most sophisticated network of any Western aligned actor – rivalled only by that of Taiwan. Israeli media outlets reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a number of ministers were forced to remain in a fortified underground location in Jerusalem for hours during the attack, with Western correspondents reporting that massive explosions could be felt across Tel Aviv. The current state of the Israeli fighter fleet remains highly uncertain, and alongside the reported destruction of Nevatim Air Base, other fighter losses have been reported including losses of F-15s at Hatzerim Air Base. Previous minor losses were also reported, but not confirmed, after intensified Hezbollah rocket artillery and drone strikes on facilities such as Ramat David Air Base.
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A new study from the University of Turku showed that reducing daily sitting prevented back pain from worsening over six months. The result strengthens the current understanding of the link between activity and back pain as well as the mechanisms related to back pain.
Intuitively, it is easy to think that reducing sitting would help with back pain, but previous research data is surprisingly scarce. The study from the Turku PET Centre and UKK Institute in Finland investigated whether reducing daily sitting could prevent or relieve back pain among overweight or obese adults who spend the majority of their days sitting. The participants were able to reduce their sitting by 40 min/day, on average, during the six-month study.
“Our participants were quite normal middle-aged adults, who sat a great deal, exercised little, and had gained some extra weight. These factors not only increase the risk for cardiovascular disease but also for back pain,” says Doctoral Researcher and Physiotherapist Jooa Norha from the University of Turku in Finland.
Previous results from the same and other research groups have suggested that sitting may be detrimental for back health but the data has been preliminary.
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The figure presents the change in back pain intensity on a scale from 0 to 10. The blue bars represent individuals in the intervention group that reduced sitting and the red bars represent the control participants who did not change their sitting habits. Most of the participants in the intervention group decreased their back pain whereas the back pain in the control participants tended to increase.
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Robust Methods for Studying the Mechanisms Behind Back Pain
The researchers also examined potential mechanisms behind the prevention of back pain.
”However, we did not observe that the changes in back pain were related to changes in the fattiness or glucose metabolism of the back muscles,” Norha says.
Individuals with back pain have excessive fat deposits within the back muscles, and impaired glucose metabolism, or insulin sensitivity, can predispose to pain. Nevertheless, back pain can be prevented or relieved even if no improvements in the muscle composition or metabolism take place. The researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and PET imaging that is based on a radioactive tracer to measure the back muscles.
“If you have a tendency for back pain or excessive sitting and are concerned for your back health, you can try to figure out ways for reducing sitting at work or during leisure time. However, it is important to note that physical activity, such as walking or more brisk exercise, is better than simply standing up,” Norha points out.
The researchers wish to remind that switching between postures is more important than only looking for the perfect posture.
The study was published in the peer reviewed journal BMJ Open 29.9.2024 and is openly accessible to read online.
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Yesterday, 1st of October 2024, China was proudly celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Chinese Revolution – an outright socioeconomic success never seen before in human history; a development in Peace, and ever seeking cooperation with the rest of the world. Never aggression.
75 years ago, on 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong declared that “The Chinese people have stood up.” And the People’s Republic of China was born.
What happened after that is a peoples’ made miracle with changes for the wellbeing of the Chinese population, eventually spreading throughout the world, never seen before. China lifted 800 million people out of poverty.
China has become not only food self-sufficient but has emerged as a major supplier of nutrition and food grains to the rest of the world.
China is today a power house for electronics supplies to the world, without which technological advances of the west would limp far behind.
Despite non-stop threats and aggressions from the west, China is today the economic center of the world, providing hope for other developing countries of Africa and the Global South fighting for sovereignty against the forces of imperialism.
Hence, the significance of the recent Africa Summit in Beijing and recent meeting of all the Palestinian organizations in China – and more.
In 2013, China, under President Xi Jinping, initiated the New Silk Road — the Belt and Road — which by now counts more than 160 member countries and institutions around the world, connecting countries in peace via at least six land, sea, and air roads, through infrastructure, trade, education and not least – diplomacy.
China is a haven for Peace – always readily offering her diplomatic services for mediation.
China has literally become from close to zero in 1949 – from a colony looted by world powers – to being the world’s strongest, independent, and sovereign economy in PPP terms (purchasing power parity), which is really the only economic indicator that counts; but soon she will also be the strongest economy in absolute terms.
Yes, Mao’s words and deeds, “the Chinese People have stood up,” have become through an unbroken revolution-to-evolution a worldwide historic vision for peacefully progressing, while assisting and inviting others to follow the pattern of cooperation with benefits for all.
China, in cooperation with Russia, has been instrumental in creating the BRICS – an ever-growing association of Global South countries that are eager to become free form the fangs of western sanctions and the US-dollar dominance.
China’s philosophy of Peace stems from the deep-rooted ancient Tao philosophy – a philosophy of non-aggression, leading her people to create a miracle of achievements.
China may look forward to the next 75 years and beyond, of Peoples’ peaceful development with an outreach to the world with shared benefits for all.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing. He is also a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
Aparentemente, ninguém quer mais ser responsável pelos problemas da Ucrânia. Numa declaração recente, responsáveis da ONU pediram a Kiev que não contem com o apoio da organização para o próximo inverno, o que levanta uma série de expectativas negativas para o futuro próximo. O povo ucraniano depende fortemente da ajuda internacional para satisfazer as suas necessidades básicas, dadas as ações irresponsáveis do regime de Vladimir Zelensky.
O Alto Comissariado das Nações Unidas para os Refugiados (ACNUR) informou recentemente que não dispõe dos fundos necessários para ajudar os ucranianos durante o próximo inverno. Ao mesmo tempo que aumenta a procura de ajuda humanitária estrangeira por parte da Ucrânia, os recursos das organizações internacionais tornam-se cada vez mais escassos, tornando impossível que estas instituições continuem a cumprir os seus deveres normais e a ajudar simultaneamente os cidadãos ucranianos.
Karolina Lindholm Billing, representante sénior do ACNUR para a Ucrânia, disse que muitas agências da ONU estão atualmente subfinanciadas, reduzindo a sua capacidade operacional. Como resultado, está a tornar-se impossível manter todos os projetos humanitários ao mesmo tempo, razão pela qual a ajuda à Ucrânia deverá diminuir drasticamente, se não completamente.
Billing disse que se a situação financeira do ACNUR melhorar, irá naturalmente fornecer mais ajuda aos ucranianos, tanto aos refugiados no estrangeiro como às pessoas deslocadas internamente. No entanto, há poucas chances de este financiamento aumentar, por isso é prudente que os ucranianos se preparem para o pior cenário possível.
“A realidade é que a situação de financiamento para organizações como a nossa é demasiado baixa nesta altura do ano – estamos com apenas 47% de nossas capacidades financeiras (…) e os pedidos de apoio das autoridades a organizações como o ACNUR estão na verdade a aumentar (.. .) Se conseguirmos os fundos, estou convencido de que seremos capazes de ajudá-los”, disse Lindholm Billing.
O responsável apelou à tomada de medidas excepcionais para melhorar a capacidade da Ucrânia de lidar com os desafios do inverno. Por exemplo, apelou à realização de esforços significativos para reconstruir as infra-estruturas ucranianas destruídas durante as hostilidades, especialmente as instalações energéticas. Obviamente, sem tais esforços, muitos ucranianos não conseguirão lidar com os problemas causados pela estação, o que irá expandir ainda mais a onda de refugiados – e consequentemente piorar as condições de trabalho do ACNUR.
O próximo inverno deverá ser um dos mais difíceis da história da Ucrânia, considerando que, além do conflito, os cidadãos do país terão de lidar com as condições de inverno com apenas cerca de 50% a 80% da capacidade de geração. Haverá grandes apagões e em algumas regiões o fornecimento de eletricidade deverá durar apenas algumas horas por dia.
Além do frio, uma série de outros problemas serão gerados pela falta de energia no inverno. Com a redução da capacidade produtiva, haverá impacto na indústria – e consequentemente em toda a economia, que já se encontra num momento extremamente crítico. As pessoas perderão os seus empregos e ficarão sem qualquer fonte de rendimento, não deixando outra alternativa senão fugir do país.
É ingênuo acreditar que Kiev fará realmente tudo para evitar que o pior aconteça aos seus cidadãos. A crise humanitária é um dos objetivos do regime, uma vez que Kiev precisa de usar a tragédia dos seus cidadãos como justificação para continuar a pedir financiamento internacional para a guerra. Zelensky usa o sofrimento dos ucranianos comuns como meio de guerra, culpando a Rússia e apelando aos parceiros ocidentais para que façam esforços para “punir” Moscou.
Por seu lado, a Rússia está a fazer o seu melhor para aliviar o sofrimento dos ucranianos comuns. Moscou absteve-se de atacar as infra-estruturas ucranianas durante os últimos dois invernos precisamente para evitar que cidadãos inocentes sofressem as consequências da crise energética. Nos últimos meses, Moscou teve de retomar os seus ataques porque Kiev realizou uma série de incursões terroristas contra civis russos nas regiões fronteiriças. Ao destruir infraestruturas críticas da Ucrânia, a Rússia conseguiu reduzir a capacidade do inimigo de realizar tais ataques.
Se Kiev parar de matar civis russos na fronteira, a Rússia reduzirá naturalmente a intensidade dos seus ataques às infraestruturas ucranianas. No entanto, o regime neonazista se beneficia da crise humanitária. Quanto mais os ucranianos sofrem, mais Kiev consegue fazer propaganda sobre o conflito e assim consegue apoio a sua campanha por armas e dinheiro ocidentais. É improvável que a Ucrânia faça qualquer esforço para aliviar o sofrimento dos seus cidadãos porque a crise humanitária é uma das principais armas do regime.
In response to Basma’s questions, Dr. Al-Durzi wrote the following:
It was clear to every wise person in the world, in general, and in Syria, in particular, that what happened in the mid of March 2011 is that the world has become at a very dangerous stage, and the crisis that took place in Syria is only an extension of a large western project to control the Mediterranean Sea, and that the outcome of this crisis which was turned into a military form does not only target Syria but also forces that are against this project hegemony, especially Russia and China.
Image: Dr. Ahmad Al-Durzi
Actually, this is what happened when the United States of America pushed regional powers to intervene extensively in the Syrian war, depending on terrorists, who came from more than 80 countries in the world. The crisis did not stop at that point, but was accompanied by unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States of America and the European Union countries on Syria to push it to change its geopolitical position-which would leave effects and repercussions on Iran, Russia and China- and to loot the Syrian state’s main resources that are necessary for the continuation of life in what remains of Syria as the terrorist groups took control of the areas of the Syrian Al-Jazeera area – where the resources of oil, gas and the food basket of Syria are located— and to divert these resources to serve the terrorist groups and finance and attract them due to the huge amount of money flowing as a result of controlling these resources. …..The main goal was to push Damascus to change its geopolitical policy and to allow the Qatari gas pipes to pass through Syria to Turkey and then the EU countries with the aim of preventing the flow of Russian gas to Europe and be an alternative to it.
These policies, which were based on terrorism and the theft of the Syrian oil and gas resources, have put enormous pressure on the Syrian state and on the lives of Syrian citizens, and led to an increase in poverty levels that have reached 92%, and caused major impacts on the Syrian demographics and changes in their lifestyles, and pushed more than 40% of the Syrian population to emigrate abroad, in addition to more than 10% of the internal demographic change through internal migration. These changes required the adoption of hard policies in accordance with the available resources to keep the existence of the Syrian state within the framework of the international and regional conflict. The adopted hard policies led to unprecedented rise in poverty rate which continues until this moment.
Sanctions that are being imposed on Syria have greatly affected all groups of doctors, not just me. Medical work is no longer useful, so the majority of doctors have been forced to emigrate or work in Somalia and Iraq. Imagine that the number of doctors in Aleppo has decreased from 11,000 to 1,800, and in Somalia it has increased to 4,000 Syrian doctors.
As for the Russian intervention in Syria, it was legitimate as it came upon the request of Damascus. It came at a critical moment when what remained of Syria was under threat. It prevented the multinational terrorist groups from moving to Iran, Central Asia, the South Caucasus and northwestern China, relying on terrorists who came from these regions.
Image: Syrians wave Russian and Syrian flags during a protest against US-led air strikes in Damascus, Syria on 14 April 2018. (Photo credit: VCG Photo)
The first goal of the Russian intervention in Syria was to eliminate multinational terrorist groups in cooperation with the Syrian Army, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Lebanese Hezbollah. These four parties formed an important axis to confront the US occupation forces that exist in Syria and to defeat ISIS terrorists. This has been achieved to a large extent.
The second goal was to keep Syria united and this has been achieved to a reasonable degree at a military level as the geographic area that is controlled by Damascus expanded from 27% to 67%, while the sides of the Syrian Al-Jazeera are still under the occupation of the American army, which came illegally under the pretext of fighting terrorism, and the northwestern side of Syria is still under the occupation of the terrorist groups that are supported by the United States of America and Turkey, which is betting on achieving geopolitical gains at the regional level through the Syrian gateway.
Although Russia is preoccupied with its war with Ukraine, which is actually a war with NATO on the Ukrainian scene, the effects of the Russian presence in Syria are still ongoing, with the continued presence of Russian forces on the ground and the continued Russian role in working to restore the unity of Syrian territory through the political aspect of the talks it is conducting with the forces in northeastern Syria or with Turkey to achieve reconciliation between Syria and Turkey based on the unity and sovereignty of Syrian territory, and to find solutions to dismantle the armed terrorist groups in the areas of the northern Aleppo countryside and Idlib, in addition to the areas located between Ras al-Ain al-Abyad in the Syrian Jazeera .
I believe that the Russian role will continue despite the war in Ukraine, as Syria is an arena of confrontation with the United States of America, complementary to the Ukrainian arena, and also complementary to the Palestinian, Lebanese and Yemeni arenas, where the conflict with the Western side is escalating in these regions, and Russia has no interest other than to be a fundamental supporter of all the forces that exist in these regions in order to preserve its national security.
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Dr. Ahmad Al-Durzi is a Syrian political analyst and expert in political issues on impacts of terrorism, sanctions and resources theft on Syrian people.
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“The choice is no longer between violence and non-violence. It is now either non-violence or non-existence.” —Martin Luther King
“I and others may be revolutionaries, but we are the disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.” –Ho Chi Minh
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our times.” —Albert Einstein
In recent times the dark menacing shadow of violence, war and conflict has increased its presence in our world like seldom before. Even genocidal violence is being justified by some of the societies earlier regarded to be more caring and concerned about human rights. Humanity has seen dark periods before too, but never was the possibility of destruction as high as in the present times because of the availability now of weapons of mass destruction.
Secondly, it is not just the weapons of mass destruction and the wars fought by them that lead to an existential threat. In addition about a dozen or so serious environmental problems taken together also pose an existential crisis. Hence for the first time in the history of earth an existential threat created entirely by man-made factors has appeared, symbolized by the doomsday clock having been placed at ninety seconds to midnight by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in their latest projection, the closest ever to full-scale disaster.
Image: A photograph of Mahatma Gandhi during the Salt March, which gave a critical impetus to the Indian independence movement. (From the Public Domain)
Such a situation did not exist during the lifetime of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). However as he was constantly thinking and grappling with the most essential issues, with remarkable foresight he could see the direction in which the world was going and therefore his ideas, writings and work continue to be extremely relevant for present times as a deeply troubled world seeks solutions to very serious problems before it is too late.
Like several thoughtful analysts of our times, Mahatma Gandhi also felt that distortions of economic systems have an important role in creating the environmental crisis as well as in causing wars, but he approached the issue in a somewhat different way. He said that economics should never be separated from ethics. He pleaded for avoiding greed and prioritizing needs, capturing economics and environmentalism in just ten words—earth has enough for everyone’s need but not for greed.
In particular he gave a call for placing the poorer and weaker sections at the center of decision making and, in a statement that has been widely quoted since then, told policy makers that whenever they are confused regarding policy-choice, they should examine the question from the perspective of its impact on the poor and decide on the basis of what will most help/ empower the weak and the deprived.
This thinking is also reflected in his views on mechanization and technology as he clearly declared, at the risk of being ridiculed, that in a country like India where so many people had been already unemployed by highly unjust colonial policies, he was prepared to emphasize protection of labor-intensive technologies in several lines of work (for example hand spinning and weaving), along with the special skills these involved, regardless of the easy availability of heavy machines for this work. He called upon consumers to support these hand-made goods and built up a huge market for these by his tireless efforts, a market which still exists, helped much by the linkage it has with the work and ideas of Gandhi.
In agriculture this thinking is reflected in his support for low-cost, self-reliant, organic, soil protecting methods which, as has been increasingly realized now, also help in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
This brings us to his essential message which is actually at the root of protecting environment, although Mahatma Gandhi had the wisdom to emphasize this even before the environmental crisis had become such a big issue. This message is of limiting human consumption, of voluntary simplicity in life style choices. Gandhi continued to experiment with this in various experiments of community living.
Once this voluntary frugalityis accepted as an ideal of daily life patterns and choice of food, clothing, housing, furnishing etc. is based on simplicity instead rather than greed, grandeur or ‘more and more’, this becomes a very important value that enhances humanity’s ability to live in sustainable ways without disrupting earth systems.
People living this way have much less reason to be either discontented or dominating, excessively ambitious and careerist; they also get more time and space to devote to the higher aim of life of creating a better world.
Hence unlike the present-day highly reductionist thinking on environmental issues Mahatma Gandhi provided a holistic view based on the entire life pattern being simple and frugal, placing the least burden on nature. This, together with his ethical economics based on a deeply caring attitude towards weaker sections, provides for equality and simplicity to be the base of any society.
Equality and simplicity also provide very conducive conditions for peace and non-violence. Mahatma Gandhi saw non-violence as something should exist in all aspects of life, a way of thinking, which helps greatly to improve social relationships, to reduce widespread and very distressing problems like domestic violence, child abuse, bullying, street and workplace violence, the tendency for dominance and exploitation, and identity-based violence.
At the same time this helps to create a strong base for peace in world, which increases the chances of creating a world without wars and a war without the most terribly destructive weapons. Non-violent ways of opposing any injustice is something to which Gandhi devoted his entire life.
While the struggles he launched and led could involve millions of people in the most difficult conditions, the emerging lesson is not that exactly the same tactics can succeed in all conditions but instead that resistance must be based on non-violence, inspired by the objective of justice based peace and never motivated in a narrow sense by revenge.
Today we have a heavily demarcated way of thinking, researching and trying to find solutions and so we spend a lot of effort and resources for finding solutions separately of many problems with their roots in widespread tendencies of violence and dominance. Gandhi’s thinking and worldview offer a different approach of a way of life rooted in non-dominance and non-violence, as well as self-training and training for this, which can reduce these painful social problems very significantly.
Mahatma Gandhi was able to mobilize millions of people for non-violent movements against injustices of colonial rule time and again. There were both successes to celebrate and mistakes to learn from in these struggles. What made the freedom movement successes bigger was the ability to add many constructive activities to these, and to prepare a wider base for more equality and justice based changes to follow.
No less remarkable is the fact that the legacy of Gandhi lives on 76 years after his assassination in numerous big and small non-violent struggles for justice which are inspired by him and draw strength from him.
At a time when the world needs prolonged peace, stability and international cooperation to resolve unprecedented environmental problems which according to most senior scientists are already serious enough to endanger the basic life nurturing conditions of earth, we need more than ever before Mahatma Gandhi’s message of healing which can help and guide us to seek deeper and more comprehensive as well as sustained solutions.
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Niacinamide (vitamin B3) enhances DNA repair and reduces UV-induced immunosuppression in skin cells, preventing non-melanoma skin cancers
A large-scale study found higher niacin intake associated with a 16% lower risk of squamous cell carcinoma. Another study showed niacinamide twice daily for 12 months reduced new nonmelanoma skin cancers by 23%
Niacinamide works by preventing ATP depletion, boosting cellular energy and enhancing DNA repair. It’s particularly beneficial for those with multiple past skin cancers, showing 54% reduction in basal cell carcinomas and 52% in squamous cell carcinomas
Many studies use 500-mg doses, but caution is advised. Small doses of 50 mg three times daily are better to optimize energy and boost cellular NAD+ levels. Excessive intake may lead to side effects or backfire
Topical niacinamide offers benefits for acne treatment, sebum reduction, antiaging effects and rosacea management. Oral niacinamide also supports brain health, chronic pain relief, stress protection, vision health and may ameliorate damage from linoleic acid consumption
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In the video above, board-certified dermatologist Dr. Andrea Suarez, known online as Dr. Dray, shares some fascinating insights about niacinamide, a water-soluble form of vitamin B3 (niacin), and its benefits for skin health.1
Niacinamide, also known as nicotinamide, is a precursor for NAD+, which is not only involved in the conversion of food to energy but is also important in the process of repairing damaged DNA. This is crucial because your skin faces constant environmental stressors, including ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which can damage DNA in skin cells and suppress your immune system.
Niacinamide shows promise for skin cancer prevention due to its ability to enhance DNA repair and reduce UV-induced immunosuppression in skin cells. These mechanisms are useful in preventing the development of non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSCs), which include basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).
The Promise of Niacinamide for Skin Cancer Prevention
Clinical trials show that taking 500 milligrams (mg) of niacinamide twice daily significantly reduce the incidence of NMSCs in high-risk individuals.2 This news was particularly encouraging for those with a history of skin cancer. However, while many studies for skin cancer prevention use 500-mg doses, caution is warranted.
Niacinamide at a dose of 50 mg three times per day is a better dose and will provide the fuel for the rate limiting enzyme for NAD+, NAMPT. I recommend getting niacinamide in powder form because the lowest available dose in most supplements is 500 mg, and that will decrease NAD+ due to negative feedback on NAMPT, which is the opposite of what you’re looking for.
Other research has shown a beneficial role of niacinamide intake specifically for SCC risk reduction. In one large-scale study involving the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, researchers found that total niacin intake was inversely associated with SCC risk. The pooled hazard ratio was 0.84, suggesting a 16% lower risk of SCC for those with higher niacin intake.3
Niacinamide: Your Skin’s New Best Friend
A study conducted in Australia and published in The New England Journal of Medicine also found that this simple supplement significantly reduces the risk of developing nonmelanoma skin cancers.4 The study, involving 386 high-risk patients, revealed that taking 500 mg of niacinamide twice daily for 12 months led to a 23% lower rate of new nonmelanoma skin cancers compared to those taking a placebo.
This effect was seen in both basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas, the two most common types of skin cancer. Again, the benefits of niacinamide were most pronounced in patients who had a history of numerous skin cancers, suggesting it might be particularly helpful for those at higher risk. The best part? Niacinamide is inexpensive, easily accessible as an over-the-counter supplement and comes with minimal, if any, side effects.
In addition to reducing skin cancer risk, niacinamide showed impressive results in decreasing actinic keratoses — precancerous skin lesions that can develop into squamous cell carcinomas. Participants taking niacinamide had 11% fewer actinic keratoses at three months and 20% fewer at nine months compared to the placebo group. This translated to three to five fewer actinic keratoses on average.
The mechanism behind niacinamide’s protective effects lies in its ability to prevent adenosine triphosphate (ATP) depletion and boost cellular energy, enhancing DNA repair. Your cells need ATP for life, repair and regeneration. Niacinamide also reduces UV-induced immunosuppression without altering your baseline immunity, providing a two-pronged approach to skin protection.
Many conventional chemopreventive agents, such as oral retinoids, cause significant side effects like dry skin, increased lipid levels and even liver toxicity. However, niacinamide showed no clinically significant adverse effects in the study. While the study used a dose of 500 mg twice daily, the minimum effective dose for skin cancer prevention is unknown.
Niacinamide Reduces Skin Cancer in High-Risk Individuals
If you’ve had multiple skin cancers in the past, niacinamide is particularly beneficial for you. A systematic review and meta-analysis revealed that niacinamide’s effectiveness in preventing skin cancers tends to increase for individuals with a higher number of previous skin cancers.5
Niacinamide was effective in reducing both BCCs and SCCs, with a 54% reduction in BCCs and a 52% reduction in SCCs compared to control groups. To reap the full benefits of niacinamide for skin cancer prevention, consistency is key.
Again, the studies showing significant reductions in skin cancers used a dosage of 500 mg twice daily, taken orally for at least 12 months. This regimen appears to be effective for both healthy individuals and organ transplant recipients, who are at higher risk for skin cancers due to immunosuppression.
Niacinamide: A Secret Weapon for Skin Cancer Prevention
Unlike sunscreen, which blocks UV rays, niacinamide works by repairing DNA damage that has already occurred in your skin cells. This means it helps reverse past sun damage and reduce your risk of developing skin cancer, particularly BCC and SCC. As noted in the journal Cureus:6
“By providing the precursor molecules for key components to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), nicotinamide also enhances DNA repair by replenishing cellular energy after UV damage. Current research also suggests that nicotinamide plays a role in blocking inflammatory cell activation and influences cell life span, survival, and cancer progression.”
Niacinamide’s skin-protective effects stem from its ability to boost your body’s natural defense mechanisms. When you take niacinamide supplements, you’re providing your cells with the building blocks they need to produce ATP, the energy currency of your cells. This extra energy empowers your skin cells to repair DNA damage more efficiently after UV exposure.
But that’s not all — niacinamide also helps block inflammatory cell activation and influences cell lifespan and survival. This multipronged approach makes it a powerful ally in your skin cancer prevention strategy. It’s a simple addition to your daily routine that could have significant benefits for your skin health.
It’s especially important if you have a history of skin cancer, as studies have shown that many patients with non-melanoma skin cancers often have vitamin deficiencies.7 By addressing these deficiencies, you’re giving your skin the tools it needs to protect itself.
Interestingly, a 2023 study found that patients who believed more strongly in niacinamide’s ability to reduce skin cancer risk were more likely to use it consistently.8 On average, patients perceived that niacinamide could reduce their risk of basal cell carcinoma by 31.2% and squamous cell carcinoma by 30.2%.
Those who were actually taking niacinamide had an even higher perception of its effectiveness, believing it could reduce their risk by 41.2% for BCC and 38.3% for SCC. The researchers noted, “Our results should encourage providers to educate patients and their families on nicotinamide and its link to skin cancer prevention.”9
Too Much Niacinamide Can Backfire
Keep in mind that the niacinamide dosages used in research studies vary widely and can be on the high side. As a general rule, I only recommend taking small doses of 50 mg of niacinamide three times a day.
This dosage has been shown to optimize energy metabolism and boost NAD+ levels, which are foundational for optimal health. It can be taken four times a day if you space them out. Take a dose as soon as you get up, before going to bed, and twice evenly spaced between those times.
The problem with taking too much vitamin B3, whether in the form of niacin or niacinamide, is that it might backfire and contribute to cardiovascular disease10,11 and other side effects. Dray stresses the importance of proper dosage and warned about potential dangers of excessive intake:12
“You can run into dangerous side effects when taking very high doses. You can get into toxic ranges if you take too much. Three and a half grams per day will definitely get you to toxic levels that can damage your liver.”
Other potential side effects of high doses include nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness and fatigue. There’s also a risk of medication interactions, particularly with carbamazepine. I recommend getting niacinamide in powder form so you can control the dose. Niacinamide will only cost you about 25 cents a month if you get it as a powder. Typically, 1/64 of a teaspoon of niacinamide powder is about 50 mg.
Niacinamide: A Versatile Skincare Ingredient and Overall Health Remedy
While the focus of many studies is on oral supplementation, Dray also touched on the benefits of topical niacinamide in skincare products, noting, “It’s actually very beneficial for a variety of skin issues when applied topically because it’s anti-inflammatory, it’s an antioxidant.”13 She explains that niacinamide applied topically is useful for:14
1. Acne treatment — “Four percent niacinamide is as effective for moderate acne as 1% clindamycin.”
2. Sebum reduction — “Two percent niacinamide gel … decreases sebum production, reducing oiliness and shine.”
3. Antiaging effects — “It’s been demonstrated when applied anywhere from 2% to 4% to help improve the look of fine lines, red blotchiness … It also can improve the appearance of sunspots, help them fade.”
4. Rosacea management — “Niacinamide can improve barrier function and make the symptoms of rosacea … better.”
However, Dray notes that some individuals may find topical niacinamide irritating, especially at higher concentrations. In addition to helping your skin, oral niacinamide also benefits other aspects of health, such as:
The last one is particularly important, as one of the most toxic metabolic byproducts of LA is 4 HNE, a toxic aldehyde that appears to play a causative role in heart failure.19 Fortunately, there is an enzyme system called aldehyde dehydrogenases that deactivates 4 HNE.
The best way to increase the activity of this enzyme system is to make sure you have sufficient NAD+, and the most efficient way to optimize your NAD+ level is to make sure you’re getting 50 mg of niacinamide three times a day.
Further, as niacinamide emerges as a promising and versatile compound for skin health and cancer prevention, its ability to enhance DNA repair, reduce UV-induced immunosuppression and decrease the incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers makes it a valuable tool in dermatological care.
While clinical trials have shown significant benefits at higher doses, it’s crucial to approach supplementation cautiously, as excessive intake can lead to adverse effects. The recommended dosage of 50 mg three times daily in powder form strikes a balance between efficacy and safety.
Beyond skin health, niacinamide offers benefits throughout your body, underlining its importance as a multifaceted supplement. As research continues to unfold, niacinamide stands out as a simple, cost-effective and generally safe addition to your health regimen, particularly for those concerned about skin cancer risk and overall skin health.
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This was a clear message to Ankara that such resales without Russian consent would be illegal. It’s critically important that Turkey gets the memo, as it has the propensity to illegally resell weapons that were supplied to its military. Serbia recently had issues with this, as Ankara resold MLRS munitions it bought from Belgrade to the Kiev regime.
Back in 2017, Russia and Turkey signed a $2.5 billion deal on the purchase of the S-400 SAM system. In response, the United States expelled Ankara from the JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) program, effectively banning the sale of troubled F-35 fighter jets.
Since then, Washington DC has been antagonizing Turkey, imposing various sanctions and restrictions, particularly on military cooperation. This includes the refusal to allow the modernization of F-16 fighter jets, leaving the Turkish Air Force technologically far behind its principal opponents in the area, particularly Greece, which kept its fleet not only up to date, but also modernized it heavily with purchases of new gear. Initially, Ankara insisted it would not give up on its S-400 systems. However, in recent months, there have been numerous reports that it’s secretly negotiating the return to the JSF program. Such deals are certainly not out of the ordinary, as Erdogan allowed Sweden to join NATO in return for F-16 modernization.
The latest reports regarding the S-400 in Turkish service suggest that the country is distancing itself from the Russian-made SAM system, including by omitting it from national air defense projects. Back in early August, reports surfaced about the so-called “Steel Dome” program designed to enhance Turkish air defense capabilities. Described as a “system of systems” as it integrates several air defense assets, the “Steel Dome” is essentially Turkey’s take on multilayered SAM systems. This includes around a dozen projects that are either in development or already in service with the Turkish military. However, the S-400 was excluded from the program, despite being by far the most capable air defense system in Ankara’s service. Back in early August, Turkish businessman and politician Cavit Caglar, who also served as the Minister of State in the early 1990s, suggested that Turkey could sell its Russian-made S-400 SAM systemsto third parties, such as India or Pakistan.
This prompted many to start speculating on how Russia would react to such a move and what implications could this have for Russian-Turkish relations. Worse yet, quoting the Turkish Cumhuriyet daily, Forbes reported that some officials suggested that the S-400 could be “put in boxes” and then “inspected” by US personnel. By the end of August, pro-government outlets such as the Daily Sabah had to resort to damage control and publish rebuffs. Namely, on August 29, Turkish officials stated that “there is no change in [their] position amid recent speculation that Ankara was keen to keep S-400 air defense missile systems in storage in return for the US lifting its ban on F-35 fighter jets”. However, when asked whether Turkey was working on the return to the JSF program and the resumption of F-35 purchases, its Defense Minister Yasar Guler said that “talks between Ankara and Washington DC continued on the matter”. This suggests that the reports aren’t entirely unfounded.
What’s perhaps most disturbing is the involvement of Victoria Nuland. Namely, earlier this year, she said that Washington DC is “open to welcoming Turkey back into the F-35 program if the issue over the S-400s is resolved”. Given the fact that she was one of the architects of the Maidan coup that installed the Neo-Nazi junta and effectively jumpstarted the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict, nothing good can come from her involvement. There’s been a lot of speculation on how exactly Ankara could return to the JSF program, including reports that the Kiev regime could get the S-400. However, one thing is certain – as long as Turkey operates the Russian-made long-range SAM system, the US is virtually guaranteed to prevent Ankara’s potential purchases of the F-35. Allowing the US/NATO to inspect the S-400 could be an alternative, but it’s highly unlikely that Moscow wouldn’t find out about such a massive breach of contract.
However, since Greece already sent weapons directly to the Kiev regime, Washington DC approved the sales of the latest military tech to Athens, including the troubled F-35 fighter jets. Thus, Turkey might be desperate to match this and at least allow the US to inspect the S-400s. A possible loophole for Ankara might be to allow American inspections on Turkish territory, possibly at US bases in the country, particularly the Incirlik Air Base which is largely under USAF control (even nuclear weapons are stored there). This could be an alternative to transferring the S-400 directly to other NATO member states.
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Below is an excerpt from an article by Frank Bergman:
The vast majority of the Israeli government’s official data for Covid mRNA shot side effects has been “lost,” according to reports.
Israel’s Health Ministry failed to review 82% of reports on side effects from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The missing data was revealed in a recent official report.
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman revealed that the Israeli Health Ministry received 345,200 reports of adverse events following the administration of the Pfizer mRNA injection.
However, only 18% of those reports were recorded in the ministry’s database.
The other 82% were “lost” due to “technical errors,” Times of Israel reported.
“The Health Ministry also failed to process an additional 33,000 reports filed by the public regarding side effects due to limited ability to analyze reports filed anonymously,” continued the report.
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman’s office released a report Tuesday criticizing the Health Ministry’s conduct during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing that the ministry didn’t process or analyze thousands of reports it had received about various vaccine side effects.
In 2021, the Health Ministry received some 345,200 reports on side effects caused by the coronavirus vaccine, sent by hospitals and Health Maintenance Organizations, the Comptroller’s Office said, but just 18 percent of reports were accurately recorded in the ministry’s database. The other 82% of reports were lost due to technical errors and system malfunctions.
The Health Ministry also failed to process an additional 33,000 reports filed by the public regarding side effects due to limited ability to analyze reports filed anonymously. Adding to that, a lack of manpower in the ministry’s Department of Epidemiology meant that reports that contained identifying details were also unable to be reviewed and investigated.
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My Take…
We are watching the cover-up of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Injuries by governments around the world, in real time.
Just like when Health Canada recently ordered all unused COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine vials to be destroyed.
Let’s look at the cover-up by the Israeli government:
345,200 Vaccine Injury reports filed in 2021, 82% lost (283,064)
additional 33,000 Injury reports from 2021 not analyzed (anonymous)
55,000 reports that were analyzed were mild (fever, pain at injection site)
200 reports of menstrual changes not investigated promptly
275 cases of myocarditis/pericarditis – most victims were hospitalized
No investigation of sudden or unexplained deaths
Israel’s Health Ministry vehemently denied there was any increase in cardiac arrests.
And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity
by Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.
“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”
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This is an in-depth resource of great interest if it is the wider perspective you are motivated to understand a little better, the author is very knowledgeable about geopolitics and this comes out in the way Covid is contextualized. —Dr. Mike Yeadon
In this war against humanity in which we find ourselves, in this singular, irregular and massive assault against liberty and the goodness of people, Chossudovsky’s book is a rock upon which to sustain our fight. –Dr. Emanuel Garcia
In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig
Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac
A reading of Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late. You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin
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Is it acceptable for Israel to wipe Palestine and Palestinians off the map? On 5 November 2024, Americans have an opportunity to signal whether genocide is anathema for the majority of its citizens.
So, how can Americans signal their abhorrence for genocide?
Americans have been locked in a pattern of voting for the political duopoly: either wing of the business party. It is widely held that on most major matters there is little to separate the Democrats and Republicans. And this has led to many Americans voting based on whichever party is perceived to be the lesser evil.
Despite this lesser-evilest inspired voting, the election outcome has resulted in the presidency and congressional majority rotating between the Democrats and Republicans with little change in the US trajectory. As far as the US economy is concerned, the country has continued to increase its debt burden. As far as US foreign policy is concerned, the US has continued to wage wars abroad. As far as support for democracy is concerned, the US has continued to initiate coups against governments it does not approve of. As far as Israel is concerned, it continues to enjoy steadfast support from the duopoly.
One commonly heard refrain posits that continually resorting to the same action with expectation of a different result meets the definition of insanity. The expectation of lesser-evilist voting producing a significantly different outcome on the political scene given that such action has never brought about a change before speaks disparagingly to the strategy of lesser-evilist voting.
Being considered insane, however, is less disparaging than being considered immoral. That would be shameful.
Given the nugatory outcomes of lesser-evilist voting, another proposition comes to mind:
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
There are two candidates seen as frontrunners for the presidency of the United States. However, the Democratic Party candidate, Kamala Harris, and the Republican Party candidate, Donald Trump, both stand solidly behind the Zionist entity aka the state of Israel, and neither of these candidates will exert pressure on Israel to cease and desist in its commission of war crimes. In fact, the US funds Israel, arms Israel, and has situated its military and armaments in the region in support of Israel. This is despite Israeli officials openly calling for the eradication of Palestinians, causing a case to be brought against Israel charging it with genocide in the International Court of Justice.
The upshot of this is that a vote for either Harris or Trump must be considered as a vote for genocide. The only out for a voter to escape criticism for supporting genocide is, pathetic as it may be, ignorance.
What can Americans do to avoid supporting genocide?
One can always abstain from voting. That, however, would not be fighting against genocide. Moreover, abstaining would still allow the supporters of genocide to vote for a genocidaire as president.
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Strangely enough, many Americans seem oblivious to the existence of other presidential candidates that one can vote for. One can even cast a vote for a candidate opposed to Israeli crimes against Palestinians. To wit, there is candidate Cornel West who calls 7 October a “counter-terrorism response“; Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver has pledged to end the genocide; candidate Jill Stein has a platform Pledge to Stop Genocide.
Unfortunately, in a winner-take-all voting system, one must consider how the strong individual desire to attain political office plays against a tactical and selfless decision to coalesce around one anti-genocide candidate to increase the chances of shutting down a genocide in progress.
Voting in the US elections on 5 November 2024 is an opportunity to indicate one’s abhorrence to genocide. Elementary morality demands a vote for an opponent of genocide.
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Bayer’s complicity as part of IG Farben, a chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate notorious for its involvement in war crimes, has been well documented. The company was formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical firms: Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, Hoechst and Weiler-ter-Meer.
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) said on Sunday that its 85,000 members, along with “tens of thousands of dockworkers and maritime workers around the world,” will hit the picket lines Tuesday, October 1, “and strike at all Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports from Maine to Texas.”
The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) has rendered a great public service by very recently publishing a report titled ‘Bayer’s Toxic Trails’ which reveals how the German agrochemical giant Bayer has been lobbying hard to promote glyphosate and GMOs, or trying to “capture public policy to pursue its private interests.”
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, known with convenient laziness as AKD, became Sri Lanka’s latest president after a runoff count focusing on preferential votes. The very fact that it went to a second count with a voter turnout of 77% after a failure of any candidate to secure a majority was itself historic, the first since Sri Lankan independence in 1948.
Never before have there been massive excess deaths following vaccination. Never before have there been children, young adults, athletes in their prime, entertainers, dropping dead “cause unknown” following vaccination.
A world of fantasy permeates the mainstream media which tacitly upholds the conduct of nuclear war as a peace-making endeavor. Everything is interrelated: the war in Ukraine, censorship and the derogation of fundamental rights, the Lockdowns and Covid-19 “killer vaccine”, corrupt governments.
The push to end gasoline or diesel transport by 2035 in favor of e-vehicles is based on a lie as the lithium-ion battery-powered vehicles have a total “carbon footprint” when the effects of mining lithium and producing all parts are included, that is worse than diesel autos.
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) said on Sunday that its 85,000 members, along with “tens of thousands of dockworkers and maritime workers around the world,” will hit the picket lines Tuesday, October 1, “and strike at all Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports from Maine to Texas.”
The longshoremen are demanding higher wages and a total ban on the automation at ports regarding cranes, gates, and moving containers in the loading and unloading of freight.
Potential U.S. port strike locations service the entire eastern half of the country—and beyond, through supply chains. The strike is expected to have a crippling impact on commerce—and consumer prices—just a month from the presidential election.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans have offered a solution to the hardships facing port workers with massive inflation of the prices of food and other essentials over recent years or to the possible loss of employment of huge numbers of workers due to automation. Of course “automation” also translates to AI.
According to the Washington Post,
“The union’s leaders say longshoremen deserve a fair share of the hundreds of billions in profits that shippers have made in recent years and have accused the management alliance of making lowball wage offers. The negotiations broke down in June and the two sides have barely been speaking.”
Business leaders have condemned the union’s stance and are calling on President Joe Biden to assert federal authority to force workers back to their jobs if they do in fact walk off.
But the looming strike is exposing a fundamental flaw in capitalist economics that cannot simply be ordered to go away. The businesses that run the U.S. economy are almost entirely owned by billionaires and giant hedge and investment funds whose wealth has been soaring with record stock market quotations over the last several years.
There has been a direct correlation between the passive wealth of the nation’s investors and the inflation that has pinched every wage earner and their families.
Every industry is also under pressure from increasing automation, including AI. As of today, there does not appear to be the political will from any direction to force business owners to share their wealth with workers or to mitigate the adverse impact of job loss. The U.S. workforce has also seen mass layoffs from stock buybacks and leveraged buyouts, both of which were illegal until the “Reagan Revolution” which began the enormous deregulation of the economy in favor of big finance.
But here is the contradiction: As Henry Ford discovered long ago, the economy requires workers and consumers to earn enough money to buy the products which industrialization makes available. That is why Ford decided to pay his own employees more than enough to merely scrape by but in sufficient amounts to purchase his dandy new automobiles.
Of course, many suggest that what is required is greater economic “growth” or a more favorable balance of trade with respect to foreign nations. But what are employees to do who have lost their jobs or seen their wages stagnate while they are waiting for the wizards of macroeconomics to bring about better overall conditions?
This is a huge problem that a longshoremen’s strike is about to expose.
My own view is that the nation requires a massive overhaul of the entire monetary and financial system that I have been writing about for years. Unfortunately, the politicians have little to offer except band-aids on band-aids. And nothing for workers or families feeling the pinch.
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Richard C. Cook is co-founder and lead investigator for the American Geopolitical Institute. Mr. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst with extensive experience across various government agencies, including the U.S. Civil Service Commission, FDA, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. As a whistleblower at the time of the Challenger disaster, he exposed the flawed O-ring joints that destroyed the Space Shuttle, documenting his story in the book “Challenger Revealed.” After serving at Treasury, he became a vocal critic of the private finance-controlled monetary system, detailing his concerns in “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform.” He served as an adviser to the American Monetary Institute and worked with Congressman Dennis Kucinich to advocate for replacing the Federal Reserve with a genuine national currency. See his new book, Our Country, Then and Now, Clarity Press, 2023. Also see his Three Sages Substack and his American Geopolitical Institute articles.
“Every human enterprise must serve life, must seek to enrich existence on earth, lest man become enslaved where he seeks to establish his dominion!” Bô Yin Râ (Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, 1876-1943), translation by Posthumus Projects Amsterdam, 2014. Also download the Kober Press edition of The Book on the Living God here.
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Environmentalist and campaigner Rosemary Mason has been relentlessly exposing the insidious effects of agrochemicals on human health and the environment through a decade-long series of incisive reports. Many of these reports have taken the form of scathing open letters directed at corporations, regulators and officials in the UK and the EU.
Mason has never held back in her condemnations of the agrochemical giants. After Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto in 2018, her focus sharpened on Bayer, scrutinising its troubling history and its actions, not least during one of humanity’s darkest chapters: Nazi Germany.
Bayer’s complicity as part of IG Farben, a chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate notorious for its involvement in war crimes, has been well documented. The company was formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical firms: Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, Hoechst and Weiler-ter-Meer.
Bayer was not merely an observer but an active participant in heinous medical experiments conducted on concentration camp inmates. These experiments involved testing drugs on unwilling subjects, including those at Auschwitz, where prisoners were deliberately infected with diseases to evaluate Bayer’s pharmaceuticals.
During World War I, Bayer was involved in the development of chemical weapons, including chlorine and mustard gas.As part of IG Farben, Bayer later contributed to the creation of nerve agents like Tabun, Sarin and Soman. Post-war, Bayer transitioned these chemical developments into pesticides such as parathion, which are neurotoxic.
In addition, IG Farben was implicated in the production of Zyklon B, the gas used in concentration camps. Executives from IG Farben were convicted for their roles in war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials.
Bayer’s leadership was fully aware of these atrocities yet chose profit over ethics, benefiting from the forced labour of concentration camp inmates to produce essential chemicals for the Nazi war machine.
The aftermath of World War II saw Bayer and other IG Farben companies face minimal repercussions for their actions. While some executives were tried, they received light sentences or were released early, allowing them to reclaim positions of power within their companies.
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IG Farben Building, Frankfurt, completed in 1931 and seized by the Allies in 1945 as the headquarters of the Supreme Allied Command. In 2001 it became part of the University of Frankfurt. (Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0)
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As for Bayer, things did not stop with the end of the war. The Powerbase website provides a very long list of Bayer’s corporate wrongdoings since 1945, including allegations of corporate bullying, monopolistic practices, the suppression of scientific information, bribery, poisonings, false advertising and abusing workers.
More recently, Bayer has inherited a legacy of deception through its acquisition of Monsanto. Both companies have been accused of concealing the health risks associated with glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and the world’s most used agricultural herbicide. Internal documents reveal a concerted effort to downplay glyphosate’s carcinogenicity while ignoring substantial evidence indicating its dangers to human health.
In her numerous reports, Mason has shown how Bayer shaped regulatory processes to secure product approvals, influencing scientific studies and regulatory decisions while suppressing contrary evidence. The environmental devastation wrought by Bayer’s pesticides is alarming: Mason cites significant declines in biodiversity and poisoned ecosystems as direct consequences of their widespread use.
Moreover, rising cancer rates in communities exposed to Bayer’s products cannot be ignored, especially increasing cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma linked to glyphosate use in areas heavily treated with these chemicals.
Rosemary Mason is not alone in her condemnation of Bayer. For instance, journalist Carey Gillam has written extensively about Bayer-Monsanto’s practices, particularly in relation to glyphosate and its health impacts in the book ‘Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science’.
“US Roundup litigation began in 2015 after the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen. Internal Monsanto documents dating back decades show that the company was aware of scientific research linking its weed killer to cancer but instead of warning consumers, the company worked to suppress the information and manipulate scientific literature.”
Hit Lists and Lobbying
Image: Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, is the most heavily-used agricultural chemical in history. (Photo: Mike Mozart/Flickr/cc)
Gillam has shown that, over the years, Monsanto mounted a deceitful defence of its health- and environment-damaging Roundup and its genetically modified (GM) crops, and it orchestrated toxic smear campaigns against anyone — scientist or campaigner — who threatened its interests.
With that in mind, it comes as no surprise that a US-Based PR firm has created a watchlist, profiling activists, scientists and journalists who are critical of pesticide use and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as recently revealed in documents obtained by the investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports.
As a result of a year-long investigation, Lighthouse Reports argues that this operation seeks to cast pesticide critics, environmental scientists or campaigners as an anti-science “protest industry” and used US government money to do so.
The watchlist is the brainchild of Jay Byrne, a former communications executive at Monsanto, and his reputation management firm v-Fluence. It comprises profiles (including personal information) on hundreds of scientists, campaigners and writers. These profiles have been published on a private social network, which grants privileged access to 1,000 people comprising a who’s-who of the agrochemical industry alongside government officials from multiple countries.
The US government funded v-Fluence as part of its programme to promote GMOs in Africa and Asia, including “enhanced monitoring” of critics of “modern agriculture approaches” — and to build the network.
Watchlists and hitlists aside, to further its interests, the agrochemical giants pour huge resources into lobbying that seeks to shape narratives, deceive and coerce rather than engage with genuine public health and environmental concerns.
The research and campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) recently took a deep dive into Bayer’s disturbing “toxic trail” of lobbying as the company strives to maintain its huge slice of the seed and pesticides markets, fight off regulatory challenges to its toxic products, limit legal liability and exercise political influence.
CEO’s report ‘Bayer’s Toxic Trails: Market Power, Monopolies and the Global Lobbying of an Agrochemicals Giant’ notes that Bayer spent between €7 million and €8 million in 2023 on EU lobbying, the biggest sum declared by any individual chemical company and the highest amount ever spent by Bayer on EU lobbying.
According to CEO, Bayer’s current top lobbying priority in Europe is to derail the original ambitions of the European Green Deal and to prevent any of the company’s firmly established interests (chemicals and pesticides) from being touched. One of the central goals of this deal is to reduce the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% by 2030 through the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy. This target aims to address both environmental and public health concerns associated with pesticide use in agriculture.
Bayer’s lobby spend in the US has also risen considerably over the past few years, spending US$7.5 million in 2023 alone, some of which is aimed at securing changes in the law to prevent further litigation cases and more hefty payouts to people suffering from conditions due to glyphosate exposure. To date, the company has reportedly paid out approximately $11 billion to settle nearly 100,000 lawsuits stemming from claims that Roundup causes cancer, particularly non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
CEO states:
“Bayer’s lobby tactics continue to capture public policymaking and in doing so hollow out democracy. A perverse symbiosis between corporate lobby groups and decision-makers has been actively created through its economic weight and large investments in many corners of the world, and this consistently leads to crucial decisions being made in favour of industry profits, rather than public interest.”
It concludes that:
“Around the world, Bayer’s modus operandi is not to work in the public interest but rather to capture public policy to serve its private interests and dividends of its shareholders, all while ignoring the public health and environmental impact of its activities.”
Be Careful What You Wish For
So, why would a government want to do a deal with the devil?
That is precisely what the government of India seems to have done when it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bayer in September 2023. Bayer signed the MoU with the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), which is responsible for co-ordinating agricultural education and research in India.
In July 2024, hundreds of scientists, farmer leaders, farmers and ordinary citizens signed a letter and sent it to Himanshu Pathak, director-general of the ICAR.
It said:
“Bayer is a company notorious for its anti-people, anti-nature business products and operations in itself and, furthermore, after its takeover of Monsanto. Its deadly poisons have violated basic human rights of peoples across the world, and it is a company that has always prioritised profits over people and planet.”
Bayer’s aim first and foremost seems to be to exploit the ICAR’s vast infrastructure and networks to pursue its own commercial plans, including boosting sales of toxic proprietary products and the introduction of genetically modified food crops into India. These crops would be reliant on Bayer’s agrochemicals.
That article explains that mutagenetic techniques are being used to bypass existing GMO regulatory procedures, despite a recent Supreme Court directive for the government to formulate a national policy framework on GM crops based on a democratic consultative process.
Telangana State Seed Development Corporation chairman S Anvesh Reddy recently stated that farmers want a bio-safety policy and not a promotional policy for GM crops.
However, they are in danger of getting the latter. Prominent campaigner Kavitha Kuruganti has warned that the Ministry of Agriculture may bypass the democratic consultative processes recommended by the Supreme Court. It has already appointed a panel of ‘experts’ to draft the policy and information about it is being kept secret.
On X (formerly Twitter), agricultural policy specialist Devinder Sharma says:
“How can a policy be framed for GM crops when there is still no consensus on the need for these crops? Despite heavy lobbying by industry, most countries oppose it.”
How can this be?
Let us turn to Aruna Rodrigues:
“Our regulatory bodies have been captured by the biotech and agrichemical industries… It is breathtaking; all pretence is gone. We have a cancer that is metastasising vertically and horizontally throughout the entire regulatory body.”
In the meantime, farmers’ leaders from 18 states in India have resolved to oppose GM crops. They say GMOs in agriculture are harmful to human and animal health, the environment, farmers’ livelihoods and trade and are based on failed promises.
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We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain. The high-tech/big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model of food and agriculture on the world.
The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) has rendered a great public service by very recently publishing a report titled ‘Bayer’s Toxic Trails’ which reveals how the German agrochemical giant Bayer has been lobbying hard to promote glyphosate and GMOs, or trying to “capture public policy to pursue its private interests.” This report, written by Joao Camargo and Hans Van Scharen, follows Bayer’s toxic trail as “it maintains monopolistic control of the seed and pesticides markets, fights off regulatory challenges to its toxic products, tries to limit legal liability, and exercises political influence.”
This CEO report tells us that German multinational Bayer is one of the biggest pharmaceutical and agricultural companies in the world, employing over 100,000 people globally. Despite facing very extensive legal actions relating to very serious health problems caused by its high hazard products, it has plans “to stay afloat in a volatile future – from pushing glyphosate and new GMOs, to claiming its agricultural model is climate smart.”
The CEO report says on the basis of its extensive study that “the company’s general modus operandi is to cosy up to different political regimes or carefully generate political pressure to push through its products and its monopoly model, using market power, size, financial assets and lobbying as key tools.”
As the CEO report tells us, Bayer has been in the headlines again recently because of the EU’s re-approval of the controversial herbicide glyphosate for another 10 years. This has happened despite the fact that “Glyphosate has come under heavy scrutiny over the past decade, since the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, a World Health Organization agency) classified the company’s bestselling pesticide as “probably carcinogenic to humans”. In the US Bayer has recently been ordered to pay US$2.25 billion in compensation to a single plaintiff due to cancer linked to use of the pesticide (later cut to US$400 million by a judge).”
“In total, so far, Bayer has faced over 170,000 lawsuits associated with its pesticide Roundup, which glyphosate is a main ingredient of. As of 2024 the company also estimates that there are still over 60,000 pending Roundup lawsuits. According to US law firm Wisner Baum, roughly 60 per cent of lawsuits have been resolved through verdicts in individual cases worth billions, or via a collective Roundup settlement agreement worth approximately US$11 billion. As a result the company’s stock continues to fall: it has dropped 70 percent since the summer of 2018, when it acquired the giant agrochemical glyphosate producer Monsanto for €63 billion.”
However, the report says,
“Bayer is pursuing a business model of increasing monopoly control over chemicals and seeds. After the Bayer-Monsanto and other mergers, just four companies ended up controlling 60 percent of the world seed market. Analysis shows that Bayer is the leading company in the global seed market, with a 17 percent share. It is also a dominant player in the chemical crop protection market. As a result, it appears determined to undermine key aspects of the EU’s beleaguered Green Deal. And even where it finds obstacles, for example when its products are deemed too toxic to sell for use in Europe, it will still produce them here and instead export the banned substances to other countries around the world, including across the global south. The company has a long history of promoting a global agricultural model that creates and perpetuates addiction to its ever more expensive products.”
Further the CEO report says,
“Recent examples show the capability of the agrochemical giant to challenge or change policies and even laws in countries like Thailand, Mexico, and the US… Bayer’s plans promise a disturbing future for food, farmers, and communities – a future that undermines sustainable agriculture and real climate solutions in order to secure future corporate profits, whatever the environmental and health consequences.”
Regarding powerful lobbying efforts , this report tells us,
“Major actors in the agrochemical sector, aka ‘Big Toxics’, are currently among the biggest lobby spenders by sector at EU level, jostling for the top place with Big Tech and Big Energy. According to the EU lobby register, Bayer AG spent up between 7 to €8 million in 2023 on EU lobbying, the biggest sum declared by any individual chemical company and the highest amount ever spent by Bayer on EU lobbying. To this we should add an important caveat: these are self-declared figures in a de facto voluntary register. In the past, Monsanto hired lobby firm Fleishman-Hillard to work on its lobby campaign to secure the re-authorisation of glyphosate but did not declare the €14.5 million contract in the register.
“It was in the context of this glyphosate lobby campaign that Monsanto-Bayer was exposed by the publication of the Monsanto Papers. In May 2019 Bayer acknowledged that its Monsanto unit was being investigated by French prosecutors for compiling files on journalists, politicians and other influential persons in several European countries. The inquiry was opened after a complaint was filed by newspaper Le Monde, which alleged that Monsanto had developed and maintained a file on 200 European names, including journalists and lawmakers, in hopes of influencing their position on pesticides.”
US investigative journalist Carey Gillam (who has published two books on glyphosate and Monsanto) published an overview of how the company has very actively manipulated the debate on glyphosate. According to Gillam they have done this not only by “ghostwriting scientific papers and suppressing science that conflicts with corporate assertions of Roundup’s safety”, but also via cosy relationships with regulators and lawmakers, and through strategic manipulation and intimidation of the media.
The CEO Report states further that in 2022 the US-based investigative group US Right to Know (USRTK) reported that the very active ‘Genetic Literacy Project’ “is an influential front group that partners with Bayer and other chemical companies to promote GMO foods and pesticides and argue for deregulation. Bayer paid the Genetic Literacy Project US$100,000 from July 2020 to June 2021 for its work “to prevent legislative overreach in genetic engineering”, according to the group’s declaration in the US regarding its lobbying there.
Regarding new GMOs, in 2021 Bayer proposed “a new regulation (separate from GMOs) assessing whether the changes in the DNA of the new plant are similar to the ones that could have been obtained through conventional breeding methods or spontaneous mutation.” This would class new GMOs as essentially the same as non-GM.
Bayer’s lobbying also ignores the conclusion of scientific researchers in 2022 that we have already exceeded the safe planetary boundaries of chemicals in the environment. Target Seven of the 15th Conference of Parties on the UN Convention for Biodiversity clearly outlines the imperative of “reducing the risks of pesticide use to protect a further decline of biodiversity.”
Results of powerful lobbying by Bayer and others in Europe can be seen- the European Commission has proposed to deregulate new GMOs, and has re-authorised the use of the “probably carcinogenic” glyphosate for another decade, despite not having achieved the agreement of a qualified majority of member states.
In the USA, “because of the avalanche of litigation unfolding as a result of the toxic nature of glyphosate and the fact that the labels of products that contain glyphosate have not warned users of its potential dangers, Bayer wants to change US law. Bayer has also been lobbying lawmakers in three US states to pass legislation which would provide legal protection for the company from future lawsuits.” As AP reported “nearly identical bills introduced in Iowa, Missouri and Idaho this year – with wording supplied by Bayer – would protect pesticide companies from claims they failed to warn that their product causes cancer.” Experts warn that this could have huge consequences – extending to US product liability laws and providing corporate immunity for lawsuits.
The CEO report says,
“Despite the adverse health and scientific findings, Bayer isn’t giving up one inch on maintaining its glyphosate production and market. It is simply an extremely profitable chemical, with annual market revenue of US$10 billion in 2023.”
“Ever since taking on Monsanto and adding glyphosate-based RoundUp to its list of troublesome products, it has taken many hits. Sales have continued to decline in its crop science and pharma segments, and a further slash in its 2023 revenue directly connected to a drop in glyphosate demand is creating pressure for change.”
Bayer had announced that it would take glyphosate for residential use out of the US market in 2023, although its massive agricultural use will be retained.
The CEO report tells us further that Bayer has been looking into alternatives to glyphosate for some time.
“In March 2024 the company announced that such a product would be publicly available in 2028. At the beginning of this year, in Brazil, Bayer presented two new herbicides in this vein: Icafolin and Convintro. The Convintro herbicide contains PFAS diflufenican and endocrine-disrupting metribuzim, two substances which are bound to raise serious environmental and health issues.”
The CEO report adds,
“An even more business-friendly and Bayer-friendly German government in 2025, such as one led by the former director of BlackRock Germany (one of Bayer’s biggest shareholders) – and current CDU leader in the Bundestag – Friedrich Merz, might improve Bayer’s prospects. With a rise in conservative and far-right elected representatives in the EU, Bayer and its toxic lobby will likely realign for new political scenarios.”
Expressing shock the CEO report says,
“It is astonishing to see how far Monsanto’s (subsequently Bayer’s) lobbying has sunk its teeth into public decision-making across the world. Bayer’s lobby tactics continue to capture public policy-making, and in doing so hollow out democracy. A perverse symbiosis between corporate lobby groups and decision-makers has been actively created through its economic weight and large investments in many corners of the world, and this consistently leads to crucial decisions being made in favor of industry profits, rather than public interest.”
Further, this report adds,
“companies like Monsanto/Bayer have for many years managed to influence, design and change national policies on the use of pesticides and biotechnology in food production, leading to significant and long-lasting environmental and health harm. But if Bayer were to now succeed in changing US law on labelling, and thus to de facto achieve immunity from further litigation related to its toxic products, that would still be a new low for democracy and for policies to improve public health and preserve biodiversity.”
According to the CEO report,
“Some things are really hard to change. As with the three other ‘horsemen of the agrochemical apocalypse’ – Syngenta, Corteva, and BASF – the dire climate situation of food chokepoints internationally offers the opportunity for corporations like Bayer to hold more power over governments and farmers who are subject to significant socio-economic pressures, deploying patented products, crops, and technologies controlled almost exclusively by them. These companies are privatising life and food itself, with patented seeds and the coupled use of pesticides, to maintain and further lock in an agro-industrial model that produces mainly commodities.”
This report strongly asserts,
“Companies such as Bayer have left a toxic trail all around the world and all through their long history. Bayer’s model of production, and many of its products, have been a past, present, and future threat to people and planet,– Bayer’s modus operandi is not to work in the public interest, but rather to capture public policy to serve its private interests and dividends of its shareholders, all while ignoring the public health and environmental impact of its activities.
“In the short term, we need a firewall between decision-makers on the one side, and Bayer and its lobby representatives on the other. Much as we need toxic-free food and a toxic-free environment, we desperately also need toxic-free politics…We need to urgently kick big toxic polluters out of the places where they exercise their poisonous political influence.”
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Never before have there been massive excess deaths following vaccination.
Never before have there been children, young adults, athletes in their prime, entertainers, dropping dead “cause unknown” following vaccination.
Of course, the cause is known.The leading doctors and medical scientists of our time–which excludes health agency bureaucrats, such as Fauci, who serve as marketing agents for Big Pharma and corrupt, politicized state medical boards and HMOs–have explained why and how the mRNA “vaccines,” which are not vaccines, kill, destroy the immune system, and cause health injuries.What is not known is why some die immediately after receiving the deadly substance, others a month later, and others remain, so far, alive.Some researchers think the content of the “vaccines” differed by lot, and some think some of the jabs were placebos for the purpose of producing an uninjured cadre to tout the safety of the jabs.
Professor Michel Chossudovskyhas collected here a number of videos documenting the widespread sufferings and deaths of the vaccinated.It is not the unvaccinated who are “mysteriously” dropping dead all over the world.It is the vaccinated.
Yet the coverup continues.The western media–a collection of whores–are at work covering up for themselves as well as for Fauci, Biden, Bill Gates, Big Pharma, the FDA, NIH, CDC, and the utterly corrupt and irresponsible medical profession.Big Pharma and the FDA continue to push jabbing babies with the killer vaccine, and there are still parents so utterly stupid and insouciant that they participate in the murder of their own children.
With people all over the world so stupid and so blindly trusting of authority, we can see why the Satanic Bill Gates and Satanic Klaus Schwab are confident that they can succeed in reducing the world population and effecting their Great Reset.
What do I mean when I say Gates and Schwab are Satanic? Think about it this way.From time to time when discussing the subject, someone will say that people can be so awful they can understand why some would want to genocide them.I ask them if they would be willing to push the genocide button, and they say “no.”They understand that they have no right to cause people’s deaths in behalf of their opinion or a climate or ideological agenda.The difference between them and Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab is that Gates and Schwab are willing and eager to push the genocide button. What is so horrifying is that this willingness has acquired a high moral position. Exterminating people has become the way to save the planet.
The perpetrators of this mass murder are confident that their crime is too huge to be recognized as such.Naive populations simply won’t believe that “their” governments would do this to them.No one wants to admit that they executed their own family members and their own children by blindly trusting “authorities” who had announced their genocide agenda in advance.
In the United States only a tiny percentage of thepeople have any idea what is happening. The time and energy of the population is used up in making ends meet and in entertaining themselves.They fall for one transparent crime after another.Whatever government announces they accept–President John Kennedy’s assassination, Senator Robert Kennedy’s assassination, the Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11, Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, Covid pandemic, “safe and effective” Covid vaccine.They never learn.
Now they face genocide, and they still haven’t learned.
The perpetrators of mass genocide are still in control.
If it is not genocide, tell me what it is when distinguished medical scientists warn in advance about the mRNA “vaccine” and are censored and punished;
-when the inventor of the PCR “Covid test” [Kari Mullis, passed away in August 2019] stated that the test does not indicate the presence of the virus and is ignored,
-when the evidence of the harmful effects of the “vaccine” are kept secret by Pfizer and the FDA,
-when medical doctors are prevented from treating Covid with known cures such as Ivermectin and HCQ,
-when pharmacies refuse to fill doctors’ prescriptions for the cures,
-when illegal and unconstitutional mandates are used to force citizens under threat of loss of job to submit to being injected,
-when no official attention is paid to the massive increase in excess deaths among the vaccinated,
-when the media carries on a deceptive campaign of lies and propaganda?
Americans–indeed the world–are faced with a monstrous criminal enterprise. Do they have the strength and intelligence to recognize it?
Are they going to do anything about it?
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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity
by Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.
“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”
ISBN: 978-0-9879389-3-0, Year: 2022, PDF Ebook, Pages: 164, 15 Chapters
As condições desfavoráveis do regime de Kiev no campo de batalha já estão a ser reconhecidas pelas próprias autoridades ucranianas. Num discurso recente, o chefe da defesa ucraniano comentou a situação de dependência do seu país da ajuda ocidental, mostrando como Kiev não é capaz de continuar a lutar com os seus próprios recursos.
Segundo o ministro da Defesa ucraniano, Rustem Umerov, mais de 80% dos recursos militares da Ucrânia são de origem ocidental. Afirmou que o país depende quase inteiramente da ajuda da OTAN e de outros parceiros, sendo a maior parte dos recursos militares, logísticos e financeiros utilizados pelo regime provenientes de programas de ajuda externa.
As suas palavras surgiram em resposta às críticas feitas por jornalistas ucranianos sobre o grande número de funcionários governamentais que trabalham no setor da cooperação internacional. Umerov contradisse as críticas, dizendo que os oficiais têm tido sucesso no seu papel e enfatizando a importância da cooperação internacional para as forças ucranianas, dada a sua atual situação de dependência absoluta da ajuda externa.
“Os nossos colegas lidam com armamentos e equipamento militar com colegas dos Estados Unidos, da Europa, do Grupo de Assistência à Segurança-Ucrânia, do Centro Internacional de Coordenação de Doadores, etc. Estes são contratos de aquisição e logística. Dependemos mais de 80% dos nossos parceiros, ” ele disse.
Por outras palavras, Umerov respondeu às críticas confirmando que a Ucrânia depende de facto da ajuda externa para continuar a lutar, razão pela qual precisa realmente de um grande número de pessoas a trabalhar com a cooperação internacional. É claro que esta condição de dependência já é reconhecida pelos críticos ucranianos, que querem ver mudanças nesta situação, mas Umerov não parece disposto a promover qualquer tipo de reversão do cenário, não se opondo à dependência ucraniana.
Os jornalistas também perguntaram sobre os planos da Ucrânia para 2025, aos quais o ministro não respondeu especificamente, apenas afirmando que Kiev já tem uma estratégia definida e que irá agora tentar reforçar as suas capacidades de defesa para permitir o seu sucesso operacional. Umerov deixou claro, contudo, que ataques profundos contra a Federação Russa poderiam estar entre os novos objetivos da Ucrânia. Ele também enfatizou que a consecução de todos estes novos objetivos exigirá ainda mais assistência ocidental.
Umerov sugeriu que as ambições da Ucrânia só serão alcançadas com mais ajuda ocidental. Isto parece especialmente preocupante quando se trata da questão dos ataques profundos, soando como uma pressão sobre os parceiros internacionais para finalmente autorizarem tais ataques. No entanto, o ministro deixou claro que a principal ajuda, independentemente de qualquer outra, é a financeira, pois isso dá à Ucrânia o poder econômico para continuar a importar armas.
“Todas as operações que temos planejadas para 2025 vão [ser] realizadas (…) Temos tudo planejado, e agora só precisamos do apoio dos nossos parceiros. Dinheiro, em particular”, acrescentou.
É claro que Umerov não mencionou como os contratos de ajuda militar entre a Ucrânia e os países ocidentais são celebrados sob condições injustas que prejudicam gravemente o Estado e o povo ucraniano. Ele ignorou o fato de toda a ajuda ser fornecida através de empréstimos a taxas de juro injustas que beneficiam grandes fundos de investimento – tendo até cláusulas que prevêem a entrega de solo fértil ucraniano a empresas estrangeiras como forma de saldar dívidas. Umerov ignorou todos os aspectos negativos da ajuda externa, fazendo-a parecer uma mera “caridade” por parte dos “parceiros” do regime.
Sendo ucranianos, os jornalistas que entrevistaram Umerov têm uma atenção especial aos interesses do seu país e à situação interna, o que explica porque criticam o número excessivo de funcionários no setor da cooperação internacional. No entanto, é preciso dizer que este não é o principal problema da Ucrânia neste momento. Independentemente de quantas pessoas estejam a trabalhar para tornar viáveis os acordos internacionais, a grande questão para a Ucrânia é a sua própria dependência.
Nenhum país é capaz de vencer uma guerra lutando com mais de 80% do seu equipamento militar proveniente de ajuda externa. Ao admitir a situação de dependência, Umerov reconheceu involuntariamente que esta guerra já é inútil e sem sentido, não tendo qualquer razão racional para a Ucrânia continuar a lutar. Em vez de responder satisfatoriamente às críticas, Umerov apenas expôs ainda mais os problemas e aumentou a impopularidade do regime de Zelensky aos olhos do público ucraniano.
É inevitável que num futuro próximo os cidadãos ucranianos comecem a questionar a legitimidade das ações do regime, especialmente nos setores financeiro e militar – uma vez que o país está literalmente a ser “vendido” em troca de armas para travar uma guerra impossível de ser vencida.
We are currently at the crossroads of the Most Serious Economic and Social Crisis in World History. It is an outright war against all humanity: the Planet’s 8 billion people.
Starting with the corona crisis in late January 2020, the global crisis (2020-2023) –which is ongoing– has literally disrupted and destroyed people’s lives Worldwide in the course of the last three years.
In turn, the dangers of a Third World War are routinely obfuscated by the media.
A world of fantasy permeates the mainstream media which tacitly upholds the conduct of nuclear war as a peace-making endeavor.
Everything is interrelated: the war in Ukraine, censorship and the derogation of fundamental rights, the Lockdowns and Covid-19 “killer Vaccine”, corrupt governments, … Michel Chossudovsky
This interview addresses the complexities of this global crisis.
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The latest volume in the magisterial Germany and the Second World War series, volume VIII (edited by Karl-Heinz Frieser) deals with one of the most eventful phases of the Second World War: the battles on the eastern front in 1943 and 1944.
In no other period of the war, apart from its concluding phase in 1945, did the Wehrmacht suffer such enormous losses. The land battles of those years, first and foremost the battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943, were among the biggest in world history.
In the winter of 1943/44 the Red Army showed itself for the first time capable of conducting large-scale offensives against all German army groups simultaneously.
It was no longer a matter of isolated flare-ups: the whole eastern front was in flames.
The dramatic climax was reached in the summer of 1944, when the collapse of Army Group Centre led to what was then the heaviest defeat in German military history.
It was nevertheless overshadowed by events on the western front, with the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
And it is that which dominates perceptions in western societies to this day and has relegated the catastrophe in the east, despite its unprecedented proportions, to the rank of an almost “forgotten war.”
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Recent research challenges the long-term benefits of ketogenic diets, suggesting potential negative impacts on cardiovascular health
Your body has a metabolic switch called the Randle cycle, which chooses to burn either glucose or fat for energy. Being aware of this switch can help optimize your diet to use the ideal energy choice, which is glucose
Short-term keto can be beneficial for metabolic flexibility and weight loss, but long-term keto may lead to health issues and increased cardiovascular mortality risk
Increasing your carbohydrate intake, particularly from ripe fruits, may improve blood sugar levels and aid weight loss, even with higher overall calorie consumption
Balancing macronutrients is crucial — 15% to 30% fat, 15% protein and the rest from carbs, with pulp-free fruit juices recommended as a transitional carb source
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For several years, I recommended the ketogenic as way to optimize your metabolic and mitochondrial health. As it was backed by plenty of published research, it seemed logical to follow this direction.
But since I discovered the work of the late Ray Peat, Ph.D., my stance on the ketogenic diet has drastically changed. It turns out, going low-carb can be detrimental for your health, especially your cardiovascular system, as demonstrated by recent research.1
Long-Term Keto’s Effect on Your Cardiovascular Health
In a 2024 review published in Current Problems in Cardiology,2 researchers investigated the health effects associated with the ketogenic diet, particularly its downsides. They argue that it “does not fulfill the criteria of a healthy diet.”
While the ketogenic diet has been shown to help with weight loss, which can be good for your health, doing it long-term may put your health at risk. In the review, the researchers cited a study wherein two sets of obese people were given either a balanced diet or a keto diet. Results showed “no significant difference in body mass index (BM) between them. Moreover, the ketogenic diet led to a significant loss in lean muscle mass.”3
As I discussed in my previous article “Protein Guidance: How to Get Enough for Optimal Health,” having appropriate amounts of muscle is important for overall health. It acts as a reservoir for amino acids, and it’s also important for metabolism and glucose disposal, helping you manage conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
The importance of having strong muscles is also acknowledged by a study4 published by the American Heart Association. According to the researchers, sarcopenia, which is age-related muscle loss, predisposes the elderly to cardiovascular disease.
“There is a bidirectional association between sarcopenia and CVD (cardiovascular disease).
Sarcopenia can lead to increased adiposity, insulin resistance and chronic inflammation, and thus, predispose adults to developing cardiovascular events, and the chronic inflammatory state, malnutrition and decreased physical activity observed in cardiac patients are precursors to a catabolic state, leading to accelerated muscle loss and development of sarcopenia,” the researchers said.5
Keto Diet Can Increase Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
The featured study also cited a 2023 meta-analysis6 that investigated the association of low-carbohydrate diets and the risk of all-cause cardiovascular disease. Here, 10 studies were reviewed with a total of 421,022 participants. Based on their evaluation, a low-carbohydrate intake was associated with a lower CVD risk.7
But here’s an important distinction — drastically reducing carbohydrates to the point of being considered a ketogenic diet can have a negative effect on your cardiovascular health, as noted in the featured study:8
“The results of the high-versus-low meta-analysis published in 2023 revealed that cardiovascular disease mortality was not linearly associated with a low carbohydrate diet score, no matter if the pattern was plant-based or animal-based …
It suggests that the low-carb pattern seems more beneficial than very low-carbohydrate (including ketogenic) in terms of cardiovascular mortality … The ketogenic diet does not seem to be an optimal approach in terms of cardiovascular mortality according to the newly published meta-analysis.”
What Happened When I Stopped Keto
Based on my own experiments, the Current Problems in Cardiology study reaffirms the hypothesis that increasing carbohydrate can help optimize your health. Using myself as an example, I was eating below 50 grams of carbs a day for about a year when I first started keto. I then increased this amount to 100 grams for the next five years.
Once I embraced Peat’s work, I increased my carbohydrate intake to 650 grams per day, mostly in the form of ripe fruit and starch like white rice. Despite the 650% increase, I noticed dramatic beneficial changes, including a 10% decrease in my fasting blood sugar. I also gained 12 pounds but my body fat dropped from 10% to 6%, despite increasing the number of calories I was consuming.
While increasing your carb intake can help promote better health, that doesn’t mean the ketogenic diet will never have a place in a wellness regimen. In fact, I still recommend it if you’re just getting your health back on track as it’s useful, initially, to help you become more metabolically flexible. But, while short-term keto has several benefits, long-term ketosis is problematic.
The Context Behind Why Your Body Needs Carbs
The fact is your body needs glucose to function properly. When your body goes on without enough carbs for too long, it will synthesize glucose from cortisol via a process known as gluconeogenesis. To accomplish this, cortisol breaks down amino acids, such as the ones found in your muscles.9
For context, cortisol belongs to a class of steroid hormones called glucocorticoids.10 The term “gluco,” means glucose (sugar),11 while “cortico” denotes its origin in the adrenal complex.12 While it’s generally known as a stress hormone, its actual main purpose is increasing blood sugar levels when you don’t have enough glucose, and your liver doesn’t have enough glycogen reserves.
When your body detects this, cortisol induces the gene expression of the PEPCK enzyme, signaling the process of gluconeogenesis to begin.13
When cortisol is constantly elevated due to insufficient carb intake, it may increase inflammation and eventually impair your immune function.14 Clearly, this is not a situation you want to be in. For a long time, I recommended a low-carb diet, but now I realize that this isn’t the ideal approach for optimal health.
Based on the teachings of Peat and interviews I conducted with bioenergetic health experts, I’ve come to appreciate the importance of the metabolic switch called the Randle Cycle. This switch allows our body to consume only one fuel at a time. Think of it as a railroad switch that allows one train to travel down one set of tracks only.
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For your body to effectively burn glucose, it’s not just about bumping up your carbohydrate intake. You will need to lessen your fat consumption, ideally to about 30%. If you’re obese, the cutoff for fat is likely even lower.
When fat consumption goes beyond that threshold, your body switches to burning fat in your mitochondria, which hampers glucose metabolism. Since the glucose is unable to be transported into your mitochondria, it ends up back into your bloodstream, raising blood sugar levels. According to a previous interview I had with Georgi Dinkov, an expert on Peat’s work:
“I’ve noticed that between 15% and 20% [dietary fat] is probably where most people, in their current health state, can metabolize the fat without causing problems for the glucose through the Randle cycle. Especially Type 2 diabetics.
Most of them are overweight or obese, which means they have two sources of fats — one through the diet and the second one from their fatty tissue, because there’s always some lipolysis going on. So for diabetic people, it’s probably a good idea to lower the intake of fat from the diet, because they already have a lot coming from their own bodies.
There’s so many clinics around the world that treat and even cure Type 2 diabetes by putting them on a really restrictive diet until they lose most of their fat. And then suddenly, the metabolism of glucose gets restarted. I think this directly shows you that the problem with glucose wasn’t the glucose itself.
It wasn’t the glucose that was fattening them up. They had too much fat in their bodies, and once you get rid of that fat, no matter how you do it, the problems when metabolizing glucose disappear which, to me, is a great testament to the Randle Cycle.”
Hitting the Sweet Spot in Macronutrient Intake for Optimal Carb Digestion
When it comes to adjusting your macronutrient intake, a sensible approach is needed. While I mentioned that you need to lessen your fat consumption, that doesn’t mean fats have to be taken out entirely. Make no mistake, fats — especially healthy fats — are still crucial for optimal health.
You don’t want your fat intake to be too low — between 15% and 30% is said to be the sweet spot. But, as noted by Dinkov, the ideal ratio still isn’t known. From our interview, he believes that an equal ratio of fats, protein and carbs (about 33% each) is ideal for optimal health.15
However, I respectfully disagree with this, as I believe that 33% of protein may be too high unless you’re not eating many calories. Eating more than 35 to 40 grams of protein per meal may likely be counterproductive, as this impairs its absorption.
Your body will also have to remove the ammonia from leftover amino acids during digestion.16 If too much ammonia builds up in your body, it may affect your health. According to the Cleveland Clinic, “even slightly elevated levels (hyperammonemia) are toxic to your central nervous system (CNS).”17
Evidence suggests that 15% of protein is an appropriate amount for most people, especially when eating between 2,000 and 3,000 calories a day. Most people don’t require more than 120 grams of protein per day. If you go beyond that, your kidneys become burdened. To help you compute your protein intake, you can follow the formula of 0.8 grams per pound of lean body mass (not total bodyweight).
When adding in more carbs, I recommend starting with fruit juices. Cold-pressed, pulp-free orange juice, for example, is a good choice. The reason you want pulp-free is because if you’re like most people, you have gram-negative, endotoxin bacteria in your gut that will thrive on the pulp, hence increasing endotoxin production.
If you have an unhealthy gut microbiome, pulp-free orange juice is a great carbohydrate source that can help you slowly transition into eating more carbohydrates. As your microbiome improves, then you can transition to more complex carbohydrates, such as whole fruits and starches, which are, I believe, far superior to juices.
The Revolutionary Path to Healing and Longevity
For the last 50 years, I have been in a relentless pursuit of how to optimize health and wellness and prevent disease. Every year I get closer to the truth. But this time, I am convinced I have finally uncovered the kernels of truth that will help nearly everyone recover from whatever physical illness they are suffering with.
I’ve uncovered a groundbreaking revelation that has the astounding capacity to transform global health and that is the power of cellular energy. This isn’t just another health trend; it’s the fundamental key to unlocking your body’s innate healing abilities and achieving lasting vitality.
The Hidden Health Crisis
Nearly everyone reading this is only making about one-third of the energy they require to reverse disease and power their body to regenerate and repair damaged cells. Nearly all of us are in the black hole of self-perpetuating destruction of our gut bacteria that are crucial to help us regain our full energy potential.
Here’s a startling fact: A very sensitive and inexpensive blood test shows us that over 99% of us have insulin resistance, and as a result, are unknowingly living with compromised cellular energy. This silent epidemic explains why millions struggle with persistent health issues, feeling trapped in a cycle of treatments that never quite solves the problem. But there’s hope, and it lies within your very cells.
Imagine a life where your body hums with energy, where healing happens naturally, and where age is just a number. This isn’t a far-off dream — it’s the reality that I have been experiencing for over a year now and awaits when you master the art of cellular health.
Introducing ‘Your Guide to Cellular Health’
My newest book, “Your Guide to Cellular Health: Unlocking the Science of Longevity and Joy” is not just a manual — it’s your passport to a revolution in personal wellness. This comprehensive guide will empower you with life-changing knowledge:
Discover how to fuel your mitochondria for boundless energy and rapid healing
Uncover the secrets of metabolism that keep you vibrant and resilient against aging and disease
Identify and eliminate the three primary mitochondrial saboteurs lurking in your environment
Master innovative cutting-edge lifestyle and dietary strategies that supercharge your cellular energy production
This isn’t about quick fixes or temporary solutions. It’s about fundamentally transforming your health at its very foundation — your cells.
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There is only so much of stress, distress and high risk that our world can bear at any given time, and today this has crossed the limits.
While there are over 55 important conflicts in the world and several other smaller ones, not to mention the widespread violence and stress in daily life, the three conflicts associated with the highest risks and distress are those of Ukraine, the middle-east (itself a multi-dimensional conflict) and Sudan.
These three conflicts/wars must end as soon as possible, if possible now and here. The risks involved are simply too great.
The over 1.5 million people who have already died and the over 15 million who have been displaced in these three conflicts within 30 months are a very disturbing indication of the mass distress related to these conflicts but it is also a very partial indication– the high risks posed by the continuation/escalation of these conflicts are so huge that in fact the destruction of the entire world is a real possibility, as the escalation of at least two of these conflicts and their linking up can lead to a world war and a nuclear war.
There used to be a time when the top leaders and diplomats of the world could be trusted to avoid the worst possible scenarios. Unfortunately this appears to be no longer so, and it is best that people of the world know and realize this.
Several persons placed at senior levels in the west have routinely stated in recent times, more or less,—as we have crossed several stated red lines in the past and Russia did nothing, so this means we can go on crossing bigger ones and nothing will be done. For any sane persons, the horrible dangers inherent in such reasoning and arrogance should be clear. A reasonable response would have been to show at least some appreciation for the restraint exercised by Russia.
Image: People gather at the Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque in Doha for Friday prayers before the burial of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh [Showkat Shafi/Al Jazeera]
On the other front, when Iran’s expected retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, at a time when he was an official high-level guest in Tehran on July 31, did not come, again there was no appreciation of restraint. If escalation cannot come from this anticipated retaliation, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu appeared to say, then I’ll escalate on my own, and he has done so on the Lebanon front with relentless bombing preceded by the horrible communication device attacks.
Thus extremely irresponsible and escalatory behavior has been seen on the part of some senior leaders and diplomats who ought to have known and behaved better. Incredibly and sadly, the big media follows more the lead of such persons instead of becoming an important voice of peace and restraint, which should be its true role.
The peace and safety of the world cannot be said to secure in the hands of such leaders, officials and diplomats. Of course they must follow their national interests, but not in such narrow and dangerous ways as to endanger the safety of the entire world which includes their own country and people as well. As one listens to what senior officials and leaders of the most aggressive countries frequently say, one wonders if they have ever been sincerely trained and educated regarding the needs of world peace. Most distressing has been to see war mongering in those countries of Europe and among those sections which were expected by many people to stand for peace.
Given the fact that several leaders and diplomats of world in top decision making positions are not exercising the responsibility and caution expected from them, the ongoing most serious wars and conflicts become all the more dangerous and the possibilities of sudden escalations and widening of conflicts increase further. The fact that a situation has been reached where Russia has formally announced a significant revision of its nuclear doctrine is an indication of the extent to which the risks are rising.
It is not that some world leaders have not behaved irresponsibly in the past, but it is important to also remember that such irresponsibility and recklessness often resulted in bigger regional wars and, on two occasions, in world wars. The big difference then and now is that now the world has around 13,000 nuclear weapons, just 5 to 10% per cent of which are enough to destroy the world.
In Ukraine the risks of a wider war have been most discussed in recent times in the context of NATO countries possibly permitting Ukraine to use weapons supplied by them to attack mainland Russia. This is an explosive issue, but there are other possible flash points also for escalation, in a situation where the Ukraine President wants a wider war to reduce his own problems relating to military reverses.
In the middle-east, the Israeli Prime Minister appears to take pride in the number of fronts on which he is fighting, not acknowledging that he could have avoided most of this conflict by acting in a more responsible way. What is worse is that he appears bent on initiating escalations that can lead to an even wider regional war. There is also an additional possibility that the two escalating most dangerous conflicts of Ukraine and middle-east (with its many fronts) can get linked up with each other to become a world war and a nuclear war.
While the civil war in Sudan cannot lead to a world war, risks of a wider regional war in a highly volatile region certainly exist. The sheer magnitude of the humanitarian crisis that has been caused within a short period by this civil war are deeply disturbing. People have faced indiscriminate killings, one fifth of the population of the country has been displaced, one half of the population suffers from severe hunger, fleeing people are often forced to move from onedanger area to another, famine conditions have been declared even in big refugee camps, women and children face extremely harsh risks. On top of this in neighboring countries we now have increasing tensions between Somalia and Ethiopia, between Somalia and Somaliland and the rise in tensions in the wider region relating to Ethiopia’s giant GERD dam project. If the humanitarian crisis in Sudan and the Horn of Africa region is already so huge, one can imagine the dimensions of the crisis if a wider regional war erupts.
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Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (From the Public Domain)
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Keeping in view all these high risks and possibilities of escalations, it has become extremely important that all these three conflicts should end as soon as possible, if possible should end immediately now. The only way of ensuring such a very early end of these wars, as this writer has been emphasizing, is to agree to a more or less unconditional permanent ceasefire. There may be a few exceptions in the form of conditions that are relatively easy to achieve, such as the release of Israeli hostages, but what is important is that any conditions cannot be allowed to become the cause of further delay in ending war. So ceasefire now and here on the basis of the existing line of control should be the broad principle for ending these wars, while all contentious issues are then resolved later by peace negotiations. The peace negotiations can be prolonged but should not break down. Meanwhile the international community should contribute generously to start rehabilitation work on a large scale. Other peace and goodwill creating initiatives should continue all along. All the top statesmen, diplomats, scholars of world who are committed to peace should come forward to create such a consensus, the United Nations should contribute as much as possible to this, leaders of individual counties should contribute with mediation and rehabilitation assistance, all peace movements everywhere should extend their support.
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Bharat Dogra is Honorary Convener, Campaign to Save Earth Now. His recent books include Protecting Earth for Children, Planet in Peril, Earth without Borders, Man over Machine and A Day in 2071. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
Bird flu was the hot topic in pandemic fear-mongering until very recently. Just a few months ago, former CDC director Robert Redfield publicly described Bird flu (also known as H5N1 Influenza A or Avian Influenza virus) as the likely next pandemic – predicting a laboratory-leaked virus as the cause. Meanwhile, Deborah Birx, aka the “Scarf Lady” of Covid infamy, was making the TV news, promoting an unrealistic and excessive program of testing farm animals and humans for Bird flu.
At present, bird flu seems to have been put on the back burner by the authorities. Monkeypox has since taken center stage, with the World Health Organization declaring a state of emergency over that virus. Furthermore, the “experts” have trotted out numerous other viruses with which to terrify the public. Examples include West Nile virus – who no less than Anthony Fauci himself supposedly contracted – and even the exotic “Sloth virus” (also known as Oropouche virus).
The first step in dealing with these continual reports of horrific pathogens is recognizing the vital importance of living in knowledge rather than in fear. “Fear porn” is a real psychological weapon and one that is being used against us on a daily basis.
As we painfully learned during Covid, a terrified population is easily manipulated, controlled, and exploited. As free citizens, we must remain mindful and knowledgeable, rather than fearful, about the flood of information and propaganda that is hurled at us.
Regarding bird flu, we should remain mindful of the following. In its current iteration, bird flu has caused no widespread human illness, no human deaths, and sporadic outbreaks in farm animal populations. However, there is much evidence that bird flu could be used as a bioweapon. Furthermore, it could also be applied to disrupt the November 5 US Presidential election.
Here are 3 reasons why bird flu may still be weaponized to alter the election:
Multiple bio labs in the United States and abroad – such as the lab run by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, PhD at the University of Wisconsin – perform alarming Gain-of-Function research on the H5N1 virus, making variants of the virus that are much more dangerous to humans than variants that occur in nature. These labs have had leaks with alarming frequency. The current strains of bird flu in the US show strong genetic evidence of having originated in a laboratory. A laboratory leak of a new strain of the virus, manipulated to be highly transmissible and/or pathogenic in humans, remains a real possibility.
The “International Bird Flu Summit” will be held on October 2-4, 2024 at the Hilton Fairfax in Fairfax, VA – just outside Washington, DC – exactly one month prior to the election. Listed topics include “Command, Control and Management,” “Emergency Response Management,” and “Surveillance and Data Management.” If this sounds eerily reminiscent to you of the Covid lockdowns – which were also closely preceded by government-based planning exercises – your memory serves you well.
The infrastructure is already in place for a “pandemic” of bird flu, much more than it is for other potential pathogens. Already, widespread testing of farms is underway. The development of bird flu vaccines has increased dramatically. The FDA has already approved vaccines made by Sanofi, GSK subsidiary ID Biomedical Corporation of Quebec, and CSL Seqirus, while Moderna recently received a $176 million government grant for its mRNA-based bird flu injection, which is in development.
In the bigger picture, a number of viruses could potentially be employed as an “October Surprise” to disrupt the election. Bird flu appears to be a leading candidate (pun intended), but it is not the only one.
We, as citizens, must remain vigilant to this threat to our electoral process. We should contact our local and state officials now, before anything is attempted, and express our absolute insistence on fair, legal, and regular elections. We should share this information widely with others so that all are aware of what might be attempted. Over the longer term, we must work to end Gain-of-Function research.
With Covid, we experienced first-hand what can be done to our civil rights and to our Constitutionally guaranteed electoral and governmental processes when a fear-driven, emergency-based takeover of society occurs. As free citizens, we must never allow this to happen again. From now on, we must live in knowledge, not in fear.
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C.J. Baker, M.D. is an internal medicine physician with a quarter century in clinical practice. He has held numerous academic medical appointments, and his work has appeared in many journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. From 2012 to 2018 he was Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester.
Featured image: Birds that have been put down because of avian influenza. The virus is spread by contact between healthy and unhealthy birds. (Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)
Today we are even closer than ever to a nuclear war, as those who closely follow such events tell us. Scott Ritter, the former U.S. Marine and UN weapons inspector who tried to stop the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 by reporting that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is one.
The Israeli-led war is now engulfing Lebanon: First, targeted attacks against Hezbollah’s political and military leaders, then massacres by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, followed by indiscriminate air and ground attacks, including the use of white phosphorus shells against civilian settlements.
A recent survey of Middle East scholars shows that a “large majority believe that the war in… Gaza is likely to lead to new large-scale… displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and/or the West Bank. (Ethnic cleansing) The findings of the survey confirm what many have known from the very beginning, that the stated goal of “defeating Hamas” is a largely a fraud used by Israel to conceal its real objective which is the expulsion of the Arab population.
Fear was the fulcrum that allowed the government here in New Zealand and institutions like the Medical Council to ensure submission to their directives. It allowed for the acceptance of lockdowns, mandates, a ‘vax’ apartheid, and a curious silence among the nearly twenty thousand registered doctors about the subversion of the foundational principles of their profession.
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“The X-band radar air defense system set up by the US in Israel in 2009 would “integrate Israel’s missile defenses with the U.S. global missile detection network, which includes satellites, Aegis ships on the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and Red Sea, and land-based Patriot radars and interceptors.” (Sen. Joseph Azzolina, 
Another consideration is Turkey’s rapprochement with both Russia and Iran.
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One may ask, who or what is the tremendous power behind these visible institutions like the UN system, WEF and others, of unconscious, unelected bureaucrats, and technocrats, who play along with the system because they believe they will be protected by it?
