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O governo legítimo de Bashar Al Assad caiu e a República Árabe Síria já não existe. A vitória dos terroristas pró-Turquia contra as tropas governamentais trouxe uma série de preocupações, uma vez que agora o povo sírio está refém da ação de uma junta extremista, que põe em perigo as minorias religiosas locais, como os cristãos, os alauítas e os xiitas.

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A situação na Síria é particularmente preocupante para algumas minorias religiosas, como os cristãos e os muçulmanos não sunitas. Estes grupos religiosos são especialmente odiados pelos militantes Wahhabi e são alvos prioritários das políticas de perseguição implementadas pelo “governo” ilegítimo do HTS. As regiões de Latakia e Tartus, onde os alauítas e os cristãos têm uma forte presença, têm sido um importante foco de resistência contra o HTS. Estas regiões são também onde estão localizadas as bases militares russas na Síria, o que traz alguma esperança à resistência – que obviamente não pode contar com qualquer apoio ocidental, uma vez que a retórica “cristã” dos políticos neoconservadores ocidentais é absolutamente hipócrita, tendo muitos americanos e europeus direitistas comemorado a vitória do HTS.

Uma esperança dos cristãos, alauitas e xiitas é estabelecer comunidades políticas autônomas, separando-se efetivamente do governo pró-turco controlado pela junta. Além disso, os militantes turcófílicos continuam a entrar em conflito com as milícias separatistas curdas, que são apoiadas pelos EUA. Na prática, a Síria pós-Bashar provavelmente se tornará uma espécie de “Estado falido”, com diferentes facções políticas controlando partes do seu território e mantendo constantes hostilidades.

Erdogan continuará a expandir a sua geopolítica neo-otomana, mas terá dificuldade em lidar com uma Síria fragmentada e tensa. Além disso, Israel está a aproveitar o momento para expandir as suas áreas de controle nas Colinas de Golã, o que torna ainda mais difícil manter qualquer arquitetura de segurança sólida na região.

Com o fim do governo Assad, já não existe qualquer possibilidade de unificar a Síria como um Estado político secular e multiétnico. A Síria encontra-se agora numa situação semelhante à da Líbia pós-Gaddafi, estando dividida em diferentes porções territoriais e unidades políticas autônomas. Este é o resultado da ação desestabilizadora promovida conjuntamente por Ancara e os seus apoiadores em solo sírio.

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

 

Artigo em inglês : Pro-Turkey militants capture Damascus and spread terror in Syria, InfoBrics, 12 de Dezembro de 2024.

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First published in June 2015

From cyberwar to proxy war to covert war, the global long war against humanity threatens to become a full-fledged theatre war and even nuclear war.

Today Michel Chossudovsky joins us to discuss the struggle against this total warfare and the propagandists who enable it.

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

The United States and its allies have launched a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity. U.S. and NATO forces have been deployed in Eastern Europe including Ukraine. U.S. military intervention under a humanitarian mandate is proceeding in sub-Saharan Africa. The U.S. and its allies are threatening China under President Obama’s “Pivot to Asia”.

In turn, military maneuvers are being conducted at Russia’s doorstep which could potentially lead to escalation.

The U.S. airstrikes initiated in September 2014 directed against Iraq and Syria under the pretext of going after the Islamic State are part of a scenario of military escalation extending from North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean to Central and South Asia.

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CHOSSUDOVSKY: Now all those things, all those dimensions – the economic, the social, the military dimensions – coalesce and are sustained by an extensive apparatus of media propaganda. I’m referring to the mainstream media, the corporate media, which sustains the lies and ultimately controls what people think.

And this I would say is an inquisitorial environment. It’s much more devastating than the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition was also based on a Big Lie, and it lasted for three or four hundred years.

But we are dealing with a media apparatus which turns realities upside down, presents the western quest, and military adventure, as a peace-making undertaking, which lies with regard to the casualties of war, which presents the war criminals as protagonists of human rights, and so on, so forth.

And that, in itself, is the pinnacle of this system. Without the mainstream media, and war propaganda, this New World Order agenda doesn’t have a leg to stand on. In other words, without these media lies, the military agenda, the economic agenda would collapse like a deck of cards. And that is why it is absolutely fundamental that within the realm of independent media, and alternative media, we wage a war against the mainstream media. In other words, it’s a war of ideas. It is an obligation on our part to support the truth, and to use truth, as a means, as a weapon, to undermine the legitimacy of this global economic and military agenda which is destroying humanity.

It is global war, it is total war, and it is destruction. And it has a logic, and it’s part of global capitalism. But at this stage it is not a struggle against socialism, but it is a struggle against national capitalism. In other words, it is the global capitalist elites, mainly Anglo-American, dominated by Wall Street and the city of London, the large financial centers, against competing capitalist powers, which, we might name them: Russia, China – China’s not a communist country, China is a capitalist country, in fact a very advanced capitalist country, and so is Iran.

So that essentially, what this war involves is world domination, it’s the establishment of a global economic and political system whereby countries worldwide would be subordinated to these global corporations, and where national sovereignty under national capitalism would be undermined. And the trade and investment agreements which are being negotiated behind closed doors are part of this agenda. They’re part of this agenda, and in effect they are the end game of this agenda, whereby global corporations undermine and destroy national and regional corporations – in other words, bankruptcy of the entire landscape – and impose a global economic agenda throughout the world.

CORBETT: Well the battle between oligarchs for global control I think is nothing new to human history but the technologies that are available to actually accomplish that goal really does make this a much more important and decisive battle than it has ever been before. So that is exactly, and precisely, why it is so important that in the alternative media we do battle against these forces, and that’s of course what you’re doing at globalresearch.ca. We will direct people once again to your recent book on the Globalization of War, which of course will be linked up in the show notes for this interview as well.

Michel Chossudovsky, I think we’ll have to continue this conversation by looking at various aspects of this global warfare, but we’ll leave it there for today. Thank you very much for joining us on the program.

CHOSSUDOVSKY: Delighted to be on the program


The Globalization of War is undoubtedly one of the most important books on the contemporary global situation produced in recent years. 

In his latest masterpiece, Professor Michel Chossudovsky shows how the various conflicts we are witnessing today in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Palestine are in fact inter-linked and inter-locked through a single-minded agenda in pursuit of global hegemony helmed by the United States and buttressed by its allies in the West and in other regions of the world.   Dr Chandra Muzaffar, President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST)

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The Biden administration has quietly extended a controversial “emergency declaration” under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act until December 31, 2029.

“Secretary Becerra signed the 12th amendment to the declaration under the PREP Act for COVID-19 Medical Countermeasures. The Secretary issues this amendment pursuant to section 319F–3 of the Public Health Service Act to extend the duration of the Declaration to December 31, 2029, and to republish the Declaration in full,” according to the announcement.

The timing? Conveniently, it ensures that Big Pharma and mRNA vaccine makers remain shielded from liability throughout President Trump’s second term and beyond.

According to the Federal Registrar Notice reviewed by The Gateway Pundit: 

“I am now amending section XII of the Declaration to extend the time period of PREP Act coverage through December 31, 2029. COVID-19 continues to present a credible risk of a future public health emergency.

COVID-19 continues to cause significant serious illness, morbidity, and mortality during outbreaks. The risk of domestic cases is high due to ongoing outbreaks that continue domestically and internationally in the year since the PHE for COVID-19 ended.

Development of and stockpiling vaccines, therapeutics, devices, and diagnostics for COVID-19 continues to be needed for U.S. preparedness against the credible threat of a public health emergency due to outbreaks of COVID-19.

Continued coverage under the PREP Act, as provided in this Declaration, is intended to prepare for and mitigate the credible risk presented by COVID-19.”

While the Biden administration insists the extension is a precaution for “future public health emergencies,” critics argue it reeks of cronyism and corruption, benefiting pharmaceutical giants while sidelining the American public’s growing concerns about vaccine injuries and accountability.

The PREP Act provides sweeping liability immunity for vaccine manufacturers and distributors, effectively preventing lawsuits except in cases of “willful misconduct.”

By extending this declaration, Biden’s Health and Human Services Department locks in protections for companies producing COVID-19 vaccines, ensuring their profits remain unscathed regardless of adverse effects or public outcry.

“Covered Persons who are afforded liability immunity under this Declaration are ‘‘manufacturers,’’ ‘‘distributors,’’ ‘‘program planners,’’ ‘‘qualified persons,’’ and their officials, agents, and employees, as those terms are defined in the PREP Act, and the United States.

‘‘Order’’ as used herein and in guidance issued by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health means a provider medication order, which includes prescribing of vaccines, or a laboratory order, which includes prescribing laboratory orders, if required.

“Qualified person” includes (A) a licensed health professional or other individual who is authorized to prescribe, administer, or dispense such countermeasures under the law of the State in which the countermeasure was prescribed, administered, or dispensed.”

The declaration provides immunity from liability for claims:

  • of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of countermeasures to diseases, threats and conditions
  • determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible risk of a future public health emergency
  • to entities and individuals involved in the development, manufacture, testing, distribution, administration, and use of such countermeasures.

Read the Notice of Amendment here.

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The Biden regime’s discussion of “preemptive” pardons for Tony Fauci,  Adam Schiff, and  Liz Cheney is the Biden regime’s admission that these people have committed felonies in their efforts to destroy Donald Trump and that Fauci by lying about the safety and protection of the Covid “vaccine” is liable for mass murder and health damage to millions of people worldwide. He is also liable for funding illegal biowarfare research in both US and Chinese laboratories. 

In effect, the preemptive pardons would be convictions that escape punishment.

Normally, a pardon from a president or governor comes after a conviction and often only after the sentence is served.  Traditionally pardons have not been given in advance of indictment.  In the case of Biden’s pardon of Hunter, the pardon was preemptive as it included a ten-year period and not just the gun and IRS convictions but also all the crimes, evidence for which the laptop provided, that the FBI failed to investigate.

What the discussion should be about is why is it more important to get Trump, while protecting Biden, than it is to obey the law? Once ideology enters politics, law no longer holds, because ideologues have agendas that are contrary to law and to the Constitution. There are many problems with Republicans, but Democrats have become an ideological party.  Democrats are champions of open borders and the blurring of distinction between citizens and immigrant-invaders. They are champions of normalizing sexual perversions. They are champions of  raising children independently of parental control.  Democrats oppose the First, Second, and Fourteenth Amendments. Their ideology replaces free speech with indoctrination and controlled narratives. Their ideology violates the 14th Amendment by granting privileges to people of color, sexual perverts, and preferred genders. This is all said to be necessary to combat “white supremacy.” Pedophiles have been renamed “minor attracted persons.” Democrat ideology requires the exploiter–the racist whites– to be displaced from positions of influence and power and turned into second class persons.

This Democrat agenda  is what the non-woke portion of the American people, not much more than half of the population, objected to and in protest elected  Donald Trump  President three times.

In the latter part of my various careers when I undertook to explain reality to Americans and interested foreigners, I have been non-partisan. I have done my best to hold accountable Republican administrations as well as Democrat administrations. 

In my book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, published 24 years ago, which Milton Friedman said was “A devastating indictment or our current system of justice,” I demonstrated that we were losing justice to the subservience of law to political agendas. In Alan Dershowitz’s review of my book, he wrote:

The Tyranny of Good Intentions is a bold defense of our fundamental freedoms.  It demonstrates that government oppression is not a right-left issue, but rather a universal evil that should be resisted by all free people. It [my book] demonstrates why conservatives and liberals who despise tyranny must unite against statists of both the right and the left who falsely believe that partisan ends justify depravations of liberty.”

It is very costly to go against both parties as it leaves one without support.  My supporters are the rare independent thinkers. If they cease to support this website, it will cease to exist. The consequences extend beyond me into the existence of truth. There are not many voices. There is no money in telling the truth.  There are immensely powerful lobbies serving ideological and economic interests that drown out the voices of truth.

It never pays to serve truth. I serve it because of the way I was raised. People are no longer raised that way.  So truth faces extinction. 

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The “Fall of Assad”: A Strategic Retreat, Not a Defeat?

December 12th, 2024 by Prof. Ruel F. Pepa

The recent developments in Syria, marked by what many describe as the “fall of Assad,” are far from the final chapter in the conflict. Contrary to popular narratives of capitulation, the departure of Assad’s forces from Damascus is better understood as a calculated maneuver forged through exhaustive consultations between the Syrian government and its Russian allies. Rather than signaling a surrender, this retreat reflects a tactical strategy aimed at regaining control over Syria in the long term.

The Strategic Context

Syria’s complex conflict has been shaped by the involvement of numerous insurgent groups, many of which receive backing from the United States and Israel. These groups have rendered the political and military landscape perilously constricted for Assad’s government. Under such conditions, fighting entrenched enemies within a heavily contested Damascus would risk further fragmentation and depletion of loyalist forces. Instead, stepping back creates an opportunity to regroup and strengthen Assad’s defenses.

This retreat allows Assad’s government to escape the tight space carved out by terrorist factions and consolidate its resources. By shifting focus outside Syria, loyalist forces gain room to rearm, reorganize, and prepare for future offensives. Historically, such strategic withdrawals have proven to be effective precursors to counterattacks, especially when they allow forces to strike from unexpected directions.

Lessons from History

The dynamic unfolding in Syria is reminiscent of other geopolitical contexts where external backers of insurgent governments ultimately lose interest. The United States’ diminished commitment to Afghanistan after decades of involvement offers a cautionary tale. A similar scenario is plausible in Syria, where the Islamist government, now supported by U.S. and Israeli resources, could face abandonment as those nations turn their focus inward due to their own protracted conflicts.

Israel’s ongoing battles with Hamas and Hezbollah, coupled with the United States’ embroilment in Ukraine alongside its NATO allies, strain both nations’ military and economic capacities. These pressures suggest a likely reduction in their ability or willingness to sustain the Islamist government in Syria over the long term. Assad’s strategy appears to hinge on this eventuality.

A Calculated Pause

The current lull is part of a longer game. Assad’s forces—and their Russian allies—are buying time to evaluate their enemies, regroup, and strengthen. When regional tensions ease and external backers waver, the conditions will be ripe for a counteroffensive. In this scenario, Assad’s forces can capitalize on the weakened resolve of their opponents to reclaim Syrian territory and governance.

While the present Islamist government’s grip on power might seem secure, its foundation is precarious. Its reliance on foreign sponsorship leaves it vulnerable to shifts in global priorities and alliances. Assad’s strategic withdrawal is an acknowledgment of this reality and a preparation for the opportune moment to strike back.

The Road Ahead

Assad’s retreat should not be mistaken for resignation. Instead, it’s a calculated response to a battlefield that has been reshaped by external forces and internal chaos. The consolidation of loyalist forces outside Syria’s borders is a clear indication of intent: a determination to outlast the insurgent government and to reclaim Syria when the conditions are favorable.

The current Islamist regime may appear victorious for now, but history and geopolitical trends suggest that its position is far from secure. When the balance of power shifts, Assad’s forces will likely seize the opportunity to return—this time, with the advantage.

Conclusion

The so-called “fall of Assad” is not the end but a strategic pause. It’s a move calculated to ensure survival, preparation, and eventual resurgence. As external backers of the Islamist government become preoccupied with other conflicts and priorities, the stage will be set for Assad’s forces to reclaim their position. This conflict is far from over, and its final outcome may yet redefine the region once again.

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The Siege of Syria, Poverty and Famine: Richard C. Cook

December 12th, 2024 by Richard C. Cook

I have received the following urgent update from my confidential on-the-ground correspondent in Syria:

Syria: Guns and Butter

Syria fell because the livelihood of the population was destroyed due to US occupation of energy resources and grain fields, which was compounded by the “Caesars” sanctions. Damascus had one hour of electricity per day, a soldier’s monthly salary was $7, and a general’s $40, way below subsistence levels.

The situation was worse than the siege of Leningrad, where some supplies, albeit insufficient, could come via Lake Ladoga. The siege of Syria lasted longer than the 900 days of Leningrad.

Syria tried to have China invest in productive projects, but nothing came of it, because China was afraid of breaking the sanctions.

Syria then decided to mend relations with the Gulf Oil monarchies, seeking investments. This was prevented by the US.

The Syrian government had enough guns but not enough butter. The situation was unsustainable, and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

When the NATO-Turkey-Israel-backed terrorists started the most recent attacks, President Assad decided it was best for the Syrian people for him to leave. Thus he rejected Russian and Iranian military aid proposals, as this would bring more deaths and destruction on Syria, and the economic suffering of the population would not be resolved.

Many talk shows blame the debacle on the corruption of Syrians and Arabs in general. Besides the inherent racism in such remarks, a good reminder to those would be the ruthless Nazi proxy “Russian Liberation National Army” comprised of tens of thousands of Soviet military who fought alongside the Nazis against the Soviet Union.

As for corruption, one recalls the rampant and across-the-board corruption during the Yeltsin years when the Russian economy was destroyed by neoliberalism.

This brings to mind the Arabic proverb: “حين تسقط البقرة يكثر سلاّخوها” “When the cow falls, many are the butchers.”

The cowards, if any, were not Assad nor the Syrian Arab Army. It was China.

President Assad was a courageous, honorable man who cared about his people more than himself or his family.

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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 at https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/category/agi/.

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Trump Returns to the World Stage

December 12th, 2024 by Renee Parsons

In his first appearance on the world stage since re-election on November 5th, President-elect Donald Trump was greeted amid Presidential pomp at the Elysses Palace in Paris for the reopening of 900 year old Notre Dame Cathedral since its 2019 fire. Prior to the ceremony, Trump was greeted by a weary French President Emmanuel Macron who had recently survived a no-confidence vote.  

Macron was accompanied by the obsequious (no longer) Ukraine President Zolodymyr Zelensky who tagged along, hoping for an opportunity. Trump stepped into the void of American governance for the last four years while Biden was asleep in Angola.   

It is said the meeting lasted thirty five minutes and no doubt focused on maintaining US support for the Ukraine war as well as Trump’s past opposition to NATO while Zelensky’s continued pillaging of American coffers for billions worth of weapons and funds has cultivated strong opposition in the US. 

At the same time as the Trump – Zelensky meeting, the Biden Administration was granting another $1 Billion in military aid to Ukraine prior to Trump being inaugurated on January 20th. 

Trump later met with William, Prince of Wales at the British Embassy to renew their ‘special relationship.” 

Trump used the opportunity at Notre Dame which was attended by world leaders and dignitaries, to establish himself as a dominant force internationally.   In response to the current crisis in Syria, Trump issued a non intervention statement regarding the escalation on that war-torn country which concluded with

“The United States should have nothing to do with it.  This is not our fight.  Let it play out.  Do not get involved.  We should not send one penny to Damascus or any other party involved.   We cannot let the warmongers in the White House succeed in starting WW III.”  

While US intervention in Syria may have begun as early as a 2006 memorandum of leaked diplomatic cables which confirmed more than a decade of the US attempting to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  As the long standing 2011 ‘civil’ war escalated with US sponsored ‘militants,’ by 2015, President Obama, with the support and encouragement of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ordered air strikes and special op troops into Syria.  

 As a presidential candidate in 2016, HRC promised to conduct a no-fly zone over Syria.

Currently, the Islamist takeover of Syria gains traction as Assad and his family have apparently ‘fled’ to Russia.  Trump may have forgotten his 2019 policy of keeping US troops in east Syria to protect US extraction of Syrian oil. “I left troops only for the oil. 

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President-elect Trump has been unnecessarily assertive with anti-BRICS statements that threaten the alliance if it dares undermine the ailing US dollar.  It seems apparent that the President does not yet have a working understanding of the international crisis that motivated BRICS in direct response to the US Empire’s sanctions.  

Those financial penalties are targeted by the US Treasury Department  against multiple nations as the hegemon’s war-like  bullying and menacing other nations into submittal or face unmitigated sanctions in reprisal for exercising their prerogatives as independent sovereignties.  Somehow Trump has apparently missed a staff briefing that BRICS is protecting itself from the Empire’s overreach rather than setting itself up as a militaristic rival.     

President-elect Trump recently caught international attention with his recent announcement of a 100 per cent tariff against BRICS nations if they undermine the US Dollar’s dominant position as the world reserve currency.  The President had already announced a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada and a 10% tariff on China regarding illegal immigration and drug trafficking in the US. 

Rather than threaten BRICS with an unreasonable economic policy which is exactly one of the reasons BRICS was initiated; it would behoove the Trump Administration to better understand that BRICS formed specifically to avoid the US pervasive use of economic sanctions against the global southern bloc of economically developing nations.

The nine member nations that formed BRICS as an alternative to the US hegemon’s widespread economic penalties against the southern multipolar world blames US foreign policy for the last several decades.  Putin’s recent assertion of the US ‘weaponizing’ the dollar has led the BRICS to increase its membership; now accounting for 45% of the world’s population, 45% of global oil production which will not be sold on the dollar, development of the BRICS New Development Bank as well as a challenge to the western bank payment SWIFT system as BRICS continues to focus on diplomacy, trade and economic growth.  

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In total admission that the Ukraine war is not winnable against Russia, NATO and its proponents of the Ukraine war must alter Trump’s current thinking and convince him that a hybrid ceasefire will bring peace. 

Trump may be attempting to go one-better as his campaign promise that he would stop the Ukraine war his first day in office has not materialized. The President-elect walked into more of a challenge than he anticipated.   

Since his meeting in Paris with Macron and Zelensky, Trump has called for an immediate ceasefire in order to conduct peace negotiations.  Trump wrote on Truth Social that Zelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness.”  Since when has Zelensky been willing to make a deal and ‘stop the madness’ that he himself has continued to create?  It does not take a state department professional to recognize that Trump is being played.  

What is unclear is whether there will be an exchange of weaponry during the ceasefire as had been previously suggested by Trump’s top Ukraine negotiator, retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg.  

On November 22, NATO Chief Mark Rutte visited Trump in Mar a Lago to talk ‘global security issues’ and warn of a ‘dire threat’ facing NATO if a ‘bad’ peace deal is forced on Ukraine.  In continuing NATO’s propaganda campaign against Trump, Rutte also met with Rep. Mike Waltz who Trump selected as his national security adviser as well as other Trump staff.  The message, however, was not about peace but rather how to continue NATO support, American spending and American weapons to the Ukraine conflict. 

Following the Rutte meeting, Trump responded by appointing retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg to be his special envoy and chief negotiator to bring peace to that war torn country which may not have sent a peace message to Putin.  A former chief of staff on Trump’s National Security Council during his first term, Kellogg also served as national security advisor to vice president Mike Pence and has no diplomatic experience.  

In a previous DOD policy paper, Kellogg along with former Trump aide Fred Fleitz, recommended a ceasefire that would continue military aid to Ukraine during a kind of ‘pause’ that would temporarily ‘freeze’ the conflict while military preparation continued nonstop.  It was further suggested that Ukraine could obtain additional US weapons if it entered into peace talks while delaying Ukraine’s NATO membership was also a non-starter. 

Putin’s advisor Constantin Malofeyev predicted Kellogg’s plan was doomed to fail if it did not include broader talks on Moscow’s security concerns with the need for a constructive long term peace plan and some general agreement about a new world order.

According to the Russians, negotiations about the future of Europe and the world must include the wars in the Middle East and its burgeoning alliance with China.  Malofeyev further suggested that Russia would require Washington to reverse its decision on the use of advanced long range weapons and remove Zelensky, who is not the legal President of Ukraine, from office.   

In addition, Malofeyev said the world is on the brink of WW III when US and UK -made long range missiles were fired into Russian territory.  Putin’s response was an experimental nuclear capable missile strike.  

Spoken like a true neocon, Kellogg responded that Trump should “call Russia’s bluff in response to Putin recent ballistic missile strike on Ukraine.  Putin used the nuclear capable missile for psychological reasons. Because he is kind of saying to the west, see what I can do. Rather than back off, the US and western allies should ‘lean in’ because Putin will not start a nuclear war in Europe.” 

The prospect of an escalated Ukraine war leaves the essential unanswered question:  Can NATO survive without the US?

It might be assumed that two of Trump’s favorite war hawks, Sen. Lindsay Graham and Secretary of State appointee Marco Rubio, both neocon cohorts, may have had a hand in selecting Kellogg or that Trump is allowing warmonger hooks to be deeply embedded.  Both are hardly representative of the America First peaceniks who can be counted on to tout NATO in its quest to bring war to Russia.   

Zelensky ended on ironic twist that the war could be ended with NATO membership for Ukraine; and that is what started the conflict with Russia. 

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For nearly half a year, the mainstream propaganda machine has been claiming that North Korean troops are engaged in the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict.

Back in June, I argued that Pyongyang could’ve sent specialized personnel to help integrate some of the North Korean weapons (specifically rockets and missiles) into the Russian military. By mid-November, this was confirmed as heavy artillery pieces sent by Pyongyang were seen in Russia. However, since October, the mainstream propaganda machine has been escalating its reporting about North Korean troops participating in battles. There were even claims that “at least 18 North Korean soldiers are believed to have deserted the Russian frontline”, while some sources even suggested these troops defected to the Neo-Nazi junta.

There were also reports about hundreds of neutralized North Koreans, including high-ranking military officers, of which at least one was a general. However, the sheer amount of inconsistencies regarding the published information is staggering. Namely, many of these reports appeared in October, while the first “confirmed” cases were reported only in November, with the New York Times quoting “US officials” (their favorite “anonymous sources”) that “many North Koreans have been killed”. Many other mainstream propaganda machine outlets then reposted the claims made by the infamous neoliberal mouthpiece. Throughout November, there were reports about “hundreds of North Koreans killed”, albeit with no evidence except “anonymous sources from battleground intelligence”.

Even the Kiev regime frontman Volodymyr Zelensky “confirmed” this in an interview with Japanese Kyodo News, published on December 2. However, there’s just one issue with all these reports – the Pentagon debunked them, twice. The first time it happened was on November 25, when its Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh was asked whether she had “any indications that there are North Korean troops actually in Ukraine or moving to Ukraine at this point”, to which Singh responded that

they “don’t have any indications that there are DPRK soldiers in Ukraine”, adding that “[they] aren’t moving into Ukraine at the moment”.

On December 9, Singh held another press conference, where she was asked about an update on North Korean troops allegedly stationed in Russia, to which she responded:

“So we believe — and I think General Ryder spoke to this as well last week, that DPRK troops are still in that Kursk region. Haven’t seen them engaged in combat. But, you know, we know they’re there. We know that they’re staged to engage in combat and, you know, we’re continuing to monitor that.”

So, there you go, an official US military spokesperson, in black and white, inadvertently destroying an entire narrative that the laughable mainstream propaganda machine has been building for months. We at InfoBRICS have been saying this the entire time, reporting that there’s absolutely no evidence that North Koreans are fighting in Ukraine. As previously mentioned, various specialists might be there, but there’s nothing that indicates Pyongyang sent its regular troops.

However, these absurd lies didn’t prevent that same US government from quoting those fake reports and (ab)using them as a pretext to send longer-range weapons to the Neo-Nazi junta. Worse yet, they even contemplated the possibility of giving its forces previously banned missiles and even nuclear weapons.

For instance, on October 25, the NYT reported that North Korea allegedly “sent 5000 soldiers to help Moscow”, quoting American and Kiev regime officials as their primary sources, as per usual. Obviously, no other evidence was presented to corroborate such claims. Still, as previously mentioned, this didn’t stop the US from (ab)using these unsubstantiated reports to “draw red lines regarding North Korean presence in Ukraine”.

Namely, the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner sent a letter to President Joe Biden, asking him to “brief the committee on Russia’s use of North Koreans in Ukraine”, insisting this should be considered a “red line for the US”. Worse yet, he called for the Pentagon (you know, the one that knew all this was a lie all along) to directly attack North Koreans.

“If North Korean troops were to invade Ukraine’s sovereign territory, the United States needs to seriously consider taking direct military action against the North Korean troops,” Turner posted on X, adding: “I have long challenged the Biden-Harris Administration’s unwise position on restricting Ukraine’s use of US weapons against targets within Russian territory. If North Korean troops attack Ukraine from Russian territory, Ukraine should be permitted to use American weapons to respond.”

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The troubled Biden administration itself also made similar threats, with the White House National Security spokesman John Kirby claiming that US intelligence services “found evidence that at least 3,000 North Korean soldiers arrived at Russia’s Pacific port of Vladivostok earlier this month” and that these troops then “traveled onward to multiple Russian military training sites in eastern Russia, where they are currently undergoing training”. He also added that “if they deploy to fight against Ukraine, they’re fair game”. Neither Turner nor Kirby specified what exactly the US military could do (much less how), but if they were indeed suggesting direct military action, the only logical conclusion is that the warmongering oligarchy in Washington DC is more out of touch than previously thought.

Namely, if those North Korean troops were indeed deployed in the Kursk oblast (region), any US/NATO missile and/or jet sent to attack them would be promptly shot down by Russian fighter jets and/or SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems. It would be even worse if the US or some other NATO member tried launching strikes in Russia, as it would prompt the Kremlin to respond directly with its own weapons, particularly hypersonic, which NATO lacks entirely due to technological inferiority. Moscow already used these to neutralize thousands of NATO personnel involved in the fighting, something for which we have very clear evidence, proving the political West’s direct involvement in the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict, while they don’t have any evidence for alleged North Korean involvement.

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President-elect Donald Trump has made the news stating that Ukraine lost around 400,000 soldiers and “many more civilians” in its ongoing conflict with Russia since 2022. Posting on the Truth Social platform, he stated, on December 9, that  this is “a war that should never have started, and could go on forever.”

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky however gives only a fraction of that figure, insisting that 43,000 Ukrainians have died thus far plus there being 370,000 “cases of providing assistance to the wounded”. Zelensky added that, in the case of Ukraine, “approximately 50 percent of the wounded return to the ranks.”

If Trump’s number could be too high, the Ukrainian leader’s counting on the other hand is, simply put, hard to believe. The figure of 43,000 deaths is higher than the 31,000 he gave in February, but still is quite lower than estimates by Western intelligence agencies, according to the Washington Post. The point is that the issue of the number of people killed is critically important for Zelensky for his survival. Last week, he disputed a Wall Street Journal news report of about 80,000 deaths (twice as much as he currently claims).

Beyond deaths and numbers, the situation in Ukraine is no good, regardless of how one quantifies it. For example, I wrote earlier this month about how the corruption scandals in Ukraine are ruining its energy infrastructure amid Russian attacks, with disastrous outcomes for its defense efforts. It has in fact left the country vulnerable before the winter. There have been blackouts and people expect massive power cuts. Meanwhile, Mustafa Nayyem, former head of the government agency tasked with preserving strategic infrastructure, says he had requested €1.4 billion for “third-level protection” bunkers used in substations. The funds were blocked, due to (he claims) “vested interests” having to do with bribes no longer being paid to Kyiv’s officers. Nayem resigned from his post, and the political crisis goes on.

Back to numbers, the idea of “fighting to the last Ukrainian” has become a trope in political discourse – be it as it may, the figures are troublesome. Consider this:

Europe now faces the largest population displacement crisis since World War II. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported, in September, that over  6 million people have left Ukraine to become refugees. There are also 3.7 million people displaced within the country. This means almost a third of the population has fled their homes. Ukraine’s population in February 2022 was 43.5 million and is now only 37.9 million.

With the impacts the conflict has brought upon the economy, almost 25% of the Ukrainian population now live in poverty

There are no policy in the country to address the issue of war veterans, who are exposed to organized crime recruitment risks. According to the  Numbeo Crime Index 2024, four Ukrainian cities made it to the top 10 most criminal in Eastern Europe (Kyiv, Dnipro, Odessa, and Kharkiv). The organized crime issue is related to the corruption problem (the country’s level of corruption is comparable to that of Uganda), and there has been a jump in illegal weapons sales.

On top of all of that, Ukraine is debating drafting 18 years old. I wrote before about Ukraine’s extreme large-scale conscription efforts, which include mobilizing men over 50 years old and even those who would normally be deemed as physically unfit for service.

The irony of it is that during the presidential campaign, Zelensky promised to put an end to the War in Donbass (which started in 2014). In fact, “a native Russian speaker himself”, he enjoyed “strong support from the country’s Russian-speaking regions.” Making a peace deal is of course something the radical nationalists and their armed militias would never allow and things escalated instead.

It would not be an exaggeration at all to describe today’s Ukraine as a kind of corrupt oligarchic dictatorship – with an acute far-right problem, on top of that. In fact, even pro-Maidan philosopher Serhiy Datsiuk (writing for Euromaidan Press, of all places) described his country in 2017 as “civil resistance forced the Ukrainian government to move towards an oligarchic dictatorship.” He wrote: “The nationalists are responding to the threat of oligarchic dictatorship by stirring up feelings of nationalist revanchism and mobilizing civil groups under the banner of nationalism. In this case, a nationalist dictatorship is just as likely as an oligarchic one because the first is seen as an alternative and a lesser evil… So, we are now faced with a dramatic choice: oligarchic dictatorship or nationalist authoritarianism.”

He also admitted that the “directive objectives outlined by (Ukrainian) nationalists” amount to “revenge on, and suspicion and hatred of Russians and Russian speakers”, adding that “for many Ukrainians, the easiest way out of this turmoil and the best way to solve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is to persecute Russian speakers in Ukraine.” Regardless of one’s own political sympathies, any honest discussion on the roots of the current confrontation should include such ethnopolitical issues as well as the geopolitics of NATO enlargement – or else one fails to grasp some of the key points.

The aforementioned Euromaidan Press shares its names and values with the ultra-nationalist Euromaidan Revolution of 2014. By “nationalists”, Dyatsiuk refers to the Ukrainian radicals who celebrate controversial figures such as Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army combatants as national heroes (so does the Ukrainian state today, in official functions). Those were Nazi collaborators who also committed war crimes against Poles – there are often considered genocide even by prominent Ukrainian historians such as Yaroslav Hrytsak.

The nationalist-oligarchic dilemma in itself already is a recipe for turmoil. Now add to it corruption scandals, blackouts during winter time and a draconian draft, with a President who tries to downplay more realistic figures pertaining to the number of people killed and maimed.

To sum it up, the risk of domestic unrest and anti-draft uprisings in Ukraine is very real.

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French Military Begins Withdrawal from Chad

December 12th, 2024 by Abayomi Azikiwe

Yet another African state has broken its military agreements with the former colonial power of France.

Chad, an oil-rich country bordering West and North Africa, has been a longtime ally of Paris plagued by decades of instability due to factional and regional disputes.

On December 10, the French military began to pull out its troops furthering the rapidly declining relationship between the two countries. This process follows similar policy shifts in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger which have formed a new Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

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Mahamat Déby

Two Mirage fighter jets flew out of a military base in the country representing the initial phase of the withdrawal of French troops which are stationed inside Chad. The troops have been there under the guise of assisting the government in a protracted war against rebels which have for years challenged the authority of President Mahamat Deby Itno.

Deby took over in 2021 after his father, Idris Deby Itno, was killed on the battlefield in a military operation against rebels. The current leader assumed control of the state after the former president’s assassination. His position was supposed to last for 18 months. Nonetheless, after the transitional period expired, Deby extended his governance for another five years.

Although there were opposition forces which protested the extension of Deby’s rule, obviously many Chadians continue to support the current administration. The growing anti-imperialist sentiment in various African states in the western region has played a role in the consolidation of support for the government.

The relatively strong presence and partnership between Chad and successive French governments are being reversed as more people across the region question the viability of numerous military and economic agreements. In Niger, for example, the CNSP administration which took power in a military coup on July 26, 2023, has expelled French and United States troops while breaking an agreement related to its uranium deposits which had left France with virtual control of this valuable natural resource.

On December 6, hundreds of people demonstrated against the continuing French military presence in Chad. The capital of N’Djamena was the scene of the protests which targeted the French embassy and other symbols of the colonial legacy of the country including a military base.

The Associated Press reported on the manifestation saying:

“Protesters in the capital, N’Djamena, chanted ‘Chad for us, France out!’ with some holding banners that read, ‘We do not want to see a single French person in Chad.’ Last week, Chad said in a statement it would end a defense cooperation agreement with France to redefine its strategic partnerships in line with national priorities. France has maintained about 1,000 troops in Chad. The statement didn’t specify when they have to leave. Some protesters on Friday went to a military airbase where French soldiers are stationed and called for their departure. Others gathered in front of the French embassy, which was under increased protection from the Chadian army.” 

The Role France and the United States in the Sahel

Over the last decade the Group of Five (G5) in the Sahel region was organized and coordinated by France ostensibly to fight the growing “Islamic terrorist” threat in the region. The G5 Sahel consisted of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad and Mauritania.

However, the efforts of the G5 did not result in the decline of rebel activity. In fact, the overall situation worsened where millions of civilians were traumatized and displaced. Thousands of civilians and military personnel were killed and wounded since the French-backed purportedly “anti-terrorism” campaign was initiated.

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Map of G5 Sahel member states

The G5 resembled the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) which has followed a similar trajectory. AFRICOM was officially launched in early 2008 under the administration of then President George W. Bush, Jr. The purpose as articulated by the Bush administration was to assist the African Union (AU) member-states to enhance their security capacity through Pentagon military training and joint exercises on the continent.

In reality the AFRICOM forces working in conjunction with the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sought to weaken and destabilize African states. The first full-fledged AFRICOM project was the destruction of the North African state of Libya, then the most prosperous country on the continent.

Former Libya leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi had come to power in a revolutionary coup led by junior officers in 1969. During the course of the Libyan Al-Fateh Revolution, the country through its oil and natural gas resources was able to build up the country as a powerhouse for Pan-African unity and development. Gaddafi had served as the Chairman of the AU representing the continental body at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2009.

Since the Pentagon-CIA-NATO overthrow of the Jamahiriya in Libya in 2011, the country remains divided as its standard of living has declined precipitously. Libya has never recaptured its political status which was recognized throughout Africa and internationally.

Since the fall of the Libyan government thirteen years ago, instability has increased throughout West and North Africa. These countries where rebels are engaged in operations against the national military forces and the civilian populations includes Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso and Niger.

The Libyan government under Gaddafi during 1983-84 intervened in Chad to support a patriotic coalition calling itself the Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT). The grouping opposed French and U.S. domination of the country led then by Hissene Habre.

As more territory was liberated by GUNT, France with the full backing of Washington then under President Ronald Reagan, sent thousands of troops to bolster the pro-imperialist forces. France had not mobilized its troops in Africa to that degree since the Algerian War of Liberation (1954-1962). Then President Francois Mitterrand of France was forced to negotiate a temporary settlement with Libya resulting in a de facto partition of Chad.

Eventually Libya withdrew its forces and the situation in Chad remained contested. Since the assassination of Idris Deby Itno three years ago, a loyal ally of France and the U.S., the current administration appears to be more inclined to establish security agreements with the Russian Federation.

The French-led G5 was officially liquated after all of its affiliates with the exception of Mauritania resigned from the military alliance. These events illustrate that the neo-colonial model of international relations between Africa and the imperialist states is in serious crisis. See this.

What Is at Stake in Chad?

Chad has been a heavily coveted state due to its strategic geographic location within Africa as well as the natural resources found under its soil. Despite this growing economic potential, the people of the country are listed as some of the most underdeveloped internationally.

One reference source on the material wealth of Chad points out that:

“Historically, Chad’s principal mineral resource was natron (a complex sodium carbonate), which is dug up in the Lake Chad and Borkou areas and is used as salt and in the preparation of soap and medicines. The discovery of oil north of Lake Chad led to further exploration and development, and in 2003 Chad began producing oil, which quickly became the country’s most important resource and export. There are deposits of gold located in various parts of Chad, including those mined in the southwestern part of the country. Other mineral deposits include uranium, titanium, and bauxite.” 

The petroleum industry has been largely controlled by a consortium under U.S. leadership through multinational corporations such as ExxonMobil and Chevron. Since Chad is a landlocked state, the oil is extracted and sent out of the country by a pipeline which travels through neighboring Cameroun.

In order for the people to benefit from the extractive industries, society will have to be organized along the lines of the interests of the masses of workers and farmers. The wealth which is generated within Chad should all go towards the rebuilding of the state based upon the national and regional unity of the people.

Geopolitics and Imperialism

The former colonizing and contemporary neo-colonizing countries will develop renewed tactics to reassert their imperialist domination over those African states severing military and economic ties. These trends away from the dependence upon France and the U.S. are speaking directly to the objective conditions prevailing on the continent where only the realization of self-determination, sovereignty and social emancipation can resolve the crises of inequality and underdevelopment.

Recent events in Syria provide a profound lesson on the willingness of the forces of settler-colonialism and imperialism to undermine and destroy any coordinated resistance movement. Such attempts may not be far away in the Sahel and neighboring regions.

On the same day that Chad announced the departure of French troops, Senegal declared its intention of following the same policy. Middle East Eye wrote on this phenomenon noting:

“Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who won elections in March, called for the removal of French military bases from Senegal. ‘Senegal is an independent country; it is a sovereign country, and sovereignty does not accept the presence of military bases in a sovereign country,’ Faye stated.” 

These statements are in sync with the broader international movement toward operational solidarity among the peoples of the Global South. The realization of unity between the developing countries alongside the working and oppressed peoples within the imperialist states can create the conditions for a just and equitable world system.

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Greater Israel Is on the March. Paul C. Roberts

December 12th, 2024 by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Syria no longer exists. The Russian news service RT reports that Israel has launched the largest attack on Syria in history with Israeli warplanes hitting more than 250 military targets.  Other reports put the number at 300.  The Israeli Defense Force reports it has destroyed 80% of Syrian military capability. This is after Syria’s fall.  “Wave after wave of airstrikes carried out by IAF fighter jets and drones then hit Syrian airbases, weapon depots and weapon production sites in Damascus, Homs, Tartus, Latakia and Palmyra, according to the military. Meanwhile, on Monday night, Israeli Navy missile boats destroyed 15 naval vessels belonging to the former regime at the Minet el-Beida bay and Latakia port on the Syrian coast.” Possibly the Syrian Army, paid to stand down, suffered more casualties from these attacks than they would have suffered in battle in defense of Syria. The money for the generals came at a high price for the soldiers.

The Israeli military said the airstrikes destroyed many long-range projectiles, Scud missiles, cruise missiles, coast-to-sea missiles, air defense missiles, fighter jets, helicopters, radars, tanks, hangars and more.

Israel explains its aggression as self-defense to prevent the weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists.  But the terrorists that Israel, Washington, and Turkey employed to overthrow Syria have been turned into “democratic forces that liberated Syria” and whose leader has declared friendship with Israel.  The real explanation for Israel’s aggression is that Israel now occupies part of Syria. If you will remember, recently Netanyahu held up a map of Greater Israel and it included Syria. Netanyahu, despite his criminal indictment in Israel for corruption, is likely to go down as the greatest of all Israeli heroes, as the leader who achieved the Zionist goal of Greater Israel.

You might remember that the American media and “fact checkers” denied there was any such thing as Greater Israel.  It was all misinformation by anti-semites. Apparently, the narrative controllers regarded Netanyahu’s map  of Greater Israel as part of the anti-semantic misinformation.  The Zionist neoconservatives showed their hand many years ago when they put in motion their plan to destroy seven countries in five years. It took longer than five years, but with Syria’s fall only two of the seven remain–Iran and Saudi Arabia.  The inability of the Muslim Middle East to unify has doomed it.

Israel has sent tank columns into Syria with the intent of occupation.  Washington backs Israel’s invasion of Syria.    Washington’s narrative is that it is better to have Syrian territory in the hands of Israel than ISIS, Washington’s tool, already betrayed, in Syria’s overthrow. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says Washington expects Israel’s occupation of Syrian territory to be “temporary.”  Turkey’s reward is that Erdogan can now conduct military operations against the Kurds who were sheltered by Syria.

The myth that Syria still exists is alive in the UN and among Russian government officials. The UN Security Council is united in the need to “preserve the territorial integrity of Syria,” Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said after a a closed-door meeting on Monday.

“We were talking about the need to work out a document by the Council … in the coming days,” Nebenzia said. (See this)

Amazing. The Russians are going to save Syria with a document.

The absence of realism among the Russian government is disturbing. Syria already doesn’t exist and is rapidly becoming Greater Israel.  Washington covers up reality by emphasizing Israel’s right to self-defense.  Defense from what?  A non-existent Syria?

Washington is also conducting strikes on former Syria. The US claims to be striking ISIS, the CIA created force the US used to overthrow Syria. If the US and Israel now turn on the ISIS-al Qaeda forces, now called Al-Nusra, a name now superseded by “democratic opposition,” used to overthrow Assad, the situation could develop badly for Washington and Israel.  

Assad in Syria and Saddam Hussein in Iraq were secular leaders.  This was necessary as both countries had Sunni and Shite residents.  But the jihadist forces Washington used against Libya and Syria contain real Muslims capable of jihad.  These Muslims opposed the secular leaders of Iraq and Syria and are willing agents for Washington and Israel to use for their own purposes against secular Muslim regimes. 

Now that Israel and Washington are turning on their jihadist tool, they possibly could have a fight on their hands and more instability than they counted on.  Both Israel and Washington are at work destroying Syrian air defenses, which with so much open territory will make it difficult for the jihadists to establish control over the territory they have conquered with the active help of Turkey, Washington, and Israel and the stand down help of Russia and Iran.  The question is: what will Washington, Israel, and Turkey do to dispose of the tool that they used to destroy Syria?

What Washington and Israel have going for them is that Muslims have been split since the fight over the succession to Muhammad. The Sunnis and the Shia hate one another more than they hate their Western and Israeli oppressors.  As UK ambassador Craig Murray explains, Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinian nation and creation of a Greater Israel, in return for the annihilation of the Shia minorities of Syria and Lebanon and the imposition of Salafism across the Eastern Arab world.

The Russian government shows no understanding of the consequences of Greater Israel. Alan Sabrosky concludes that Russia was not willing to fight as hard in Syria’s defense as Washington and Israel were to fight for Syria’s downfall. (See this) The road to Iran is now clear.

The fact that matters most is that throughout the world the perception is that Washington and Israel have prevailed over Russia. This perception will strengthen Washington and likely have effects on foreign policies and on the development of BRICS. Saudi Arabia, which went so far as to hold joint military maneuvers with Iran and to express an interest in BRICS will likely reinstate the petro-dollar in exchange for Washington’s protection against the Israeli government minister who declared that the map of Greater Israel now includes Saudi Arabia.

The extraordinary defeat that  Israel and Israel’s American neoconservatives have dealt to Russia and Iran  pre-empts Trump from any peace moves. The West has recovered its hegemony with Russia’s defeat in Syria and is on a roll. Washington will insist on Russia and Iran’s obedience.

The purpose of Trump’s ceasefire in Ukraine is to protect the West from a defeat. As Putin prefers agreements to war, he might fall into the trap, and Washington will have succeeded in restoring its hegemony.

Did the Russian and Iranian governments understand that the stakes in Syria were Washington’s hegemony and Israel’s hegemony over the Middle East in the form of Greater Israel?  Do they realize the enormity of their defeat? 

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Almost everything that’s wrong in the world starts from an implacable resistance to the existence of a state of consciousness.

Denial of the fact that every new human life born into this world is a divine spark, a fecund manifestation of limitless potential. 

A denial of the fact that higher consciousness is actually the default position of humanity – not a distant goal only attainable by a dedicated minority. 

So many remain in a state of resistance to their innate connection with the source of life, thus sealing themselves in a well constructed prison.

Something greatly encouraged via the dumbing down priorities enforced by the architects of global control.

Religious institutions created within this control system teach that only some outside saviour can rescue humanity from the ubiquitous spread of evil – of which they themselves are the prime perpetrators.

It is the inability to throw-off a long existing fixation with this form of irrational dogma that has brought the world so perilously close to the brink today.

The dictionary definition of dogma is “a set of principles intended to be accepted without question”.

Religious dogma starts by making its captors believe that they are powerless, and that their only hope in gaining a little power is by devoting themselves to praying for forgiveness for the fact that they were born sinners. 

Being born ‘a sinner’, one is informed by Christian institutions, is due to the fact that Adam and Eve broke away from the command to obey a rule put in place by some strongly authoritarian master of the universe. He who oversaw events taking place in the Garden of Eden.

And if it was not for this reason that one is born a sinner, then it is because one is somehow implicated as being responsible for having Jesus nailed to an execution pole – the cross – in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. 

This, it is claimed, is due to one’s being part of a collective unconscious which links all humanity. Thus the crucifixion crime, perpetrated by a small segment of this humanity, becomes one’s crime also.

Either one of these events is enough to mark one for life, according to the religious teachings that have dominated the Western world for far too long. 

Put together, they ensure the locking and bolting of the prison door on the development of the gift of conscious awareness. The unfortunate fate of all who fail to see beyond the Veil of Maya.

And then in the afterlife, one is informed, the same prison guards are in attendance awaiting one’s arrival – to direct one to the properly stoked furnace or to their rather exotically decorated playground known as heaven.

Either way, one remains in the trap; and Life goes on somewhere else. A place/dimension one is warned against attempting to engage with. 

This kind of top-down subversion leads to unquestioned acceptance of grand ulterior motives like the ‘Great Reset’ and is taken-up by all who suffer a fundamental fear of freedom.

However, all ‘victims’ of this great hoax carry a high level of personal responsibility for allowing themselves to be fooled. 

Taking an overtly trusting view of those who one has no basis to trust stems from a failure ‘to know one’s self’. Such self deception comes from a failure to adopt a proper commitment to follow the road of truth in one’s daily life.

While I concentrate on the leading role played by the perpetration of authoritarian control in diverting humanity from its true path, one must not forget that each one of us is responsible for the choices we make in this life.

One may get caught, but there is always a way of overcoming one’s shortcomings and breaking out of jail.

The Vatican, which has its headquarters in Rome, produces its own expression of dogma via the cardinal rule book known as the Catechisms. Here it states that the cross painted onto the forehead of infants at the first baptism ceremony is an exorcism.

It is needed, says the Vatican’s Holy See, because every little baby arrives on this earth as a sinner and therefore must be exorcised of the demon possessing them and then placed in ‘the safe hands of the church’. 

The church, according to the Catechisms, is inseparable from God. What the church says is ‘God’s law’ according to this doctrine.

Such teachings have the opposite effect from that which they proclaim to be their goal. They reinforce an implacable resistance to the independent search for truth and the meaning of life which is the true birthright of all human beings.

This grand deception, sold to we the people under the monica ‘the one truth’, leads to senior representatives of leading religious institutions averting their eyes, as millions are murdered due to fearsome divisions created by the mass indoctrination of mankind to a grossly distorted interpretation of the road to salvation.

Religious institutions feign shock, but do nothing to expose and put an end to the slaughter of the innocents in Gaza; the pedophilia and prostitution laid on for their own priests; the crass power-play of politicians; the gross materialistic indulgence of profit obsessed corporations; the cowardly posturing of their own brotherhood and the anti-life politics of control of the deep state.

The hypocrisy is complete, since – while turning away from reality – they present their saviours as supreme actors in defence of life, justice and truth. 

Religious institutions are subservient to the authority of the State, just as they are subservient to their very own gods – each of which is proclaimed as ‘the one and only true saviour of mankind’ and therefore permanently at war with other challengers for that title.

So deeply has this idealogical dogma infested the minds, bodies and spirits of humanity that, over the centuries, it has provoked a thoughtless submission to authority figures as well as a plague of passivity and the denial of the basic responsibility that comes with being a trustee of the health and welfare of planet earth. 

The protagonists of this disease have rolled our world onto its back – while simultaneously pleading ‘not guilty’ to reducing divine sparks to lifeless expressions of fear, obedience and cowardice.

But then how else could it be, if indoctrinated mortals fail to reject the accusation of guilt that comes with accepting that one is born a sinner?  

Fail to reject ‘guilt by association’ with an act of treachery performed by a tiny band of ancient ancestors revolting against their once hallowed master.

While the tribes of Abraham may not have constituted or consolidated a formal religion, their scholars and esoteric priests concocted a thoroughly indigestible diet of messianic indulgence.

An indulgence centred around a conviction in the unique superiority of the God of Abraham and the manipulation of this Old Testament warring deity into representing the absolute voice of authority concerning the destiny of his chosen people.

In this way they invented the ultimate despot, any criticism of whom is treated as an act of outright heresy.

Divide and conquer, fragmentation and division – are used as ways of splintering the primal condition of wholeness which is our common inheritance. Rendering its oneness into a jarring compilation of antagonistic parts.

But there is only One God – and everything comes from Him – and everything returns to Him. The emanation of Supreme Consciousness.

Truth is indivisible. Oneness with our Creator is our primal condition and will remain that way.  

The refusal to open one’s self to such a fundamental form of consciousness is to live in a state of great impoverishment. Yet it is just such a state of impoverishment that is generally accepted as the norm of everyday life – leading to the persecution of those who manifest the noble art of standing for truth.

There are those who enter into religious teachings and ceremonies in a genuine search for spiritual guidance – and who find this within the credo of their particular faith. An environment in which to find a guiding hand onto the path of devotion. 

There are prophets at the foundational level of all the main religions of the world, and their teachings have a central commonality of conviction concerning the greatness of God and the supremacy of love, wisdom and compassion.

The tragedy is that this common recognition of the beatitude of the Divine is so rarely, if ever, admitted by different faiths, and is instead claimed as the unique provenance of each one separately.

This lack of magnanimity becomes the touchstone for divisions and rivalries that are openly promoted by the high priests of political sabotage. Those who seek to gain complete control over the lives of others, turning institutes of worship into bastions of political power and greed.

Control is maintained through rules, regulations and promises of salvation for the obedient blinded followers of authority. 

Strip away this carefully constructed facade and underneath one will find the small but potent seed of original spirituality that is the actual direct link to the Divine.

It is past time that this original spirituality be set free. 

Its suffocation under the various cloaks that have disguised it, has pulled humanity down into a dull and shackled version of its true power.

This hobbled state of humanity is played upon by the deep state globalist architects of control, who work hand in hand with the most influential church authorities in a Faustian pact to maintain domination over the true aspirations of open hearted seekers of truth.

Do we see the Pope or archbishops or leading figureheads of other churches and faiths coming boldly forward to decry those working to genetically modify and re-engineer the DNA of the human, animal and natural environment?

Or unitedly rising up to defy overt cold blooded atrocities of mass murder in and around what is called The Holy Land?

No, we don’t, with one or two notable exceptions.

Yet are not these crimes against humanity and nature the very heinous acts that teachers of belief in God are supposed to implacably stand up against?

Their religious proclamations stand in denial of the very existence of the God of whom they profess to be the messengers.

They are cowards, bowing to the authority of the system and turning their heads away in fear of losing their positions on the jealously guarded hierarchical ladder of the religious world order. 

Unwilling to come face to face with the anti-life forces of destruction that manifest in every corner of the world – they serve no function other than the perpetration of the lie.

We cannot help but now see how standing fixedly in the constrictive authority of religious dogma has brought the world to the ultimate geopolitical crisis point.

Somebody’s god has been given the role of stating its absolute supremacy of judgement over all/any other belief systems – and so dogmatic and inflexible is this proclamation that its supporters are willing to provoke a Third World War, rather than see and admit the error of their ways.

Real spirituality is about demolishing ego, not re-enforcing it. Real spirituality recognises the oneness of all nations, peoples, colours and creeds, not their division and mutual attrition. Real spirituality upholds and seeks the supreme guidance of the creator of the universe – of all humanity, animal and insect populations and of the full biological diversity of nature. 

There is just one such indivisible Supreme Nucleus. One God. And the division of that God into a hundred warring, despotic claimants to the throne is the single greatest obstruction to the collective spiritual evolution of mankind. 

Enforced fanaticism, under the guise of religious belief has brought us to the brink of a collective act of suicide. There can be absolutely no excuse for its continuation.

We who are aware of this and who respond to that great gift called ‘love of life’ represent the majority of the sentient and genuinely human population of planet earth.

We are going to step forward now and put an end to the supposed impregnability of the fanatical clique that holds the whole world hostage to its undisguised megalomania.

We will show the power of spirituality in its true light, freed forever from being chained to institutions of deception that have sought to ‘own the word of God’ and use it to lead mankind into the abyss of an ego fuelled world of chaos.

Rise up, all good people of the world, our unstoppable affirmation of life is fast gaining the upper hand; one can feel its dancing prisms of source-delivered energy multiplying day on day, week on week. 

Let them infect our appetite for going determinedly onto the front foot and acting to dispel any last lingering doubts and fears that hold us back from bringing about the full and lasting emancipation of mankind. 

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Video: On the Lebanese/Syrian Border. Craig Murray

December 12th, 2024 by Craig Murray

Where reality is very different from what the BBC and CNN are telling you.

“Thousands of people are returning back to Syria.”

It’s completely untrue. 

Watch Craig Murray report from the Lebanese-Syrian border.

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The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity: Teetering on the Brink of Armageddon, The Danger of Nuclear War

By Robert J. Burrowes, December 11, 2024

In the latest, most significant development, NATO-produced and guided weapons were fired from Ukraine to attack Russian territory: On 19 & 20 November, U.S. ATACMS (supersonic tactical ballistic) missiles and British ‘Storm Shadow’ (cruise) missiles were used to destroy targets in Russia.

The COVID Vaxx Jab-Pushing Government of Danielle Smith in Alberta. Anthony J. Hall

By Prof. Anthony J. Hall, December 11, 2024

As demonstrated by the content of the following advertisement for COVID-19 clot shots that is published by her own provincial government, Danielle Smith has quietly abandoned the freedom movement that put her in office. Danielle Smith has herself become a promoter and supplier of gene-modifying mRNA bio-technologies. Danielle Smith has become a big part of the problem by showing contempt for the solutions.

Good for the Moldovan Goose; Not Good for the Romanian Gander

By Stephen Karganovic, December 11, 2024

The Romanian presidential election two weeks ago exposed graphically the blatant hypocrisy and total abandonment of even the pretence of moral principle in the collective West.

Video: A Brief History of the War on Syria. James Corbett

By James Corbett, December 11, 2024

The foreign-backed terrorist insurgency in Syria has finally accomplished the globalists’ objective: regime change in Syria. But how did we get here?  Who was behind this decades-long plan for reshaping the Middle East? And what does it mean for the world?

“Israel is expanding occupied territories at the expense of Syrian lands.” Interview with Andrey Ontikov

By Andrey Ontikov and Steven Sahiounie, December 11, 2024

On December 9, Egypt accused Israel of illegally seizing a buffer zone in Syria. The area extends from the Golan Heights almost to the outskirts of Damascus. Israel troops and weaponry are now within hiking distance of the capital of Syria.

My Internal Exile. “The USA is run by ruthless killers.” “When the Lie Becomes the Truth”, Al Qaeda Has Come to the Rescue of the Syrian People. Edward Curtin

By Edward Curtin, December 11, 2024

The mainstream media is claiming that the new savior of Syria is the terrorist “rebel” leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria, al-Nusra, and a former deputy to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

There Never Was a “New Corona Virus”, There Never Was a Pandemic

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 11, 2024

The implications of my article are far-reaching because they refute and invalidate “everything” pertaining to the Covid pandemic. These include the policies related to the lockdown which has resulted in mass poverty worldwide and the  Covid-19 “Vaccine”, not to mention the infamous Pandemic Treaty and the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset.”

Arab Writers: Pain, Perseverance and Prizes. Barbara Nimri Aziz

December 12th, 2024 by Barbara Nimri Aziz

Arab writers have a tough job these days. Here, I’m talking only about those of us in the US. (Although this affects us all.) Whether poets, journalists, novelists or comedians, we have an extra responsibility to record our pain, unite our fractured people, and celebrate our existence and endurance.

We must continue to celebrate while we praise our martyrs; we must struggle to maintain and fortify our budding artistic community while we assist needy families overseas; we must reaffirm our cultural values and noble heritage while being presented with horrifying headlines; we must stand strong and hone our skills to speak for those pained and smothered by unstoppable tears, for those in fresh dug graves, for the unnamed beneath rubble. We must learn to forge genuine, trusted alliances that build on earlier achievements while restoring fractures.

We cannot be victims consoled into silence while our elders and our children need us to speak for them. The books and poems we manage to share must be more than substitutes for action.

Recent months have seen our most esteemed Arab writers honored with life achievement awards and prizes for new endeavors. Most recently two Arab women, both Americans, were among winners of the 75th American National Book awards. This was preceded by Poets and Writers’ 2024 prize to Fady Joudah and American Academy of Poets award to Naomi Shihab Nye. These outstanding individuals join associations of Arab filmmakers, comedians and visual artists. All demonstrate the breadth and depth of our commitment and excellence.

Vibrant Arab literary organizations today include Mizna, RAWI, New Arab American Theater Works in Minneapolis, Silk-Road Rising in Chicago, along with al-Bustan. All build on the legacy of Khalil Gibran’s al-Mahjar movement founded in 1915. Yes, steadily growing for the past century!

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This week, the work of two more Arab writers will be awarded for new writing endeavors. They are winners of a newly established prize for a grade-school level manuscript by Arab Americans. The award is in honor of author Naomi Shihab Nye. A Palestinian American, Nye is a pioneer whose poems and stories for children feature Arab characters.

Naomi Shihab Nye prize winners augment an already expanding body of children’s literature by Arab authors. Hosted by Al-Bustan in Philadelphia Dec 14th, winners of a new competition created stories we expect to see between book covers soon. First prize winner is Alia Yunis, author of The Night Counter, and a journalist and filmmaker. She is joined by Pauline Kaldas, a professor of English and editor whose latest novel is A Measure of Distance.

The importance of books for children is undiminished in schools, homes and libraries. Even while animated phone screens capture the eyes of our infants, children love books. Books fire the imagination of our youth with stories of magical rabbits, dragons and superwomen. Most importantly, today’s books reflect the vast range of cultures and characters in the US. We are now flooded with children’s books on Islam and being Muslim. There’s Shifa Shafadi’s (@Muslimmommyblog) Amina Banana Series. Which reminds me of Kezzeiz’ Fasfoose Mouse series. And, oh yes: Darraj’s Farah Rocks. (I happily can’t keep up.) Stories about Arab American families and heroes – mythical and historical ­– join a welcome stream of Native American, African American, Italian, Vietnamese, Irish, South Asian, Chinese, Nigerian, Caribbean and other global tales. Such richness. Together they represent new interpretations of this country. And the world.

Stories of our grandfather’s secret gardens, our new baby sister, a lost friend, are as appealing to growing minds as fantastic dragons and fairy princesses. Drawing on their specific histories, geographies and religions, Caribbean and Iranian tales introduce us to an entirely new panorama of characters.

Hard to resist. New parents, teachers, and writers in other genres are jumping into the challenge of nourishing hungry young minds with delicious tales.

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“Amnesty International’s report demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.”

Amnesty International has concluded in a new report that it has found “sufficient basis” to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

“Amnesty International’s report demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

“These acts include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction,” she added, following the release of the 296-page report on Thursday, titled ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza’.

“Month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them,” said Callamard.

Nine Months Investigation

Amnesty said the report examines in detail Israel’s violations in Gaza over nine months between October 7, 2023, and early July 2024. A total of 21 people were interviewed, including Palestinian victims and witnesses, local authorities in Gaza, and healthcare workers, conducted fieldwork and analyzed an extensive range of visual and digital evidence, including satellite imagery.

The report also analyzed statements by senior Israeli government and military officials as well as official Israeli bodies.

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On multiple occasions, the organization shared its findings with the Israeli authorities but had received no substantive response at the time of publication, said Amnesty.

“Our research reveals that, for months, Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable harm it was inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza,” said Callarmard. “It continued to do so in defiance of countless warnings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation and of legally binding decisions from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to take immediate measures to enable the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.”

‘Genocidal Statements’

Amnesty said that in order to establish Israel’s “specific intent to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza,” as such, the organization analyzed the overall pattern of Israel’s conduct in Gaza.

It also “reviewed dehumanizing and genocidal statements by Israeli government and military officials, particularly those at the highest levels, and considered the context of Israel’s system of apartheid, its inhumane blockade of Gaza and the unlawful 57-year-old military occupation of the Palestinian territory.”

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Before reaching its conclusion, Amnesty said it “examined Israel’s claims that its military lawfully targeted Hamas and other armed groups throughout Gaza, and that the resulting unprecedented destruction and denial of aid were the outcome of unlawful conduct by Hamas and other armed groups, such as locating fighters among the civilian population or the diversion of aid.

The organization “concluded these claims are not credible.”

It pointed out that many of the unlawful acts documented by the organization were preceded by officials urging their implementation.

Audiovisual ‘Evidence’

The organization “reviewed 102 statements that were issued by Israeli government and military officials and others between 7 October 2023 and 30 June 2024 and dehumanized Palestinians, called for or justified genocidal acts or other crimes against them.”

Of these, Amnesty identified 22 statements made by senior officials in charge of managing the offensive that “appeared to call for, or justify, genocidal acts, providing direct evidence of genocidal intent.”

“This language was frequently replicated, including by Israeli soldiers on the ground, as evidenced by audiovisual content verified by Amnesty International showing soldiers making calls to ‘erase’ Gaza or to make it uninhabitable, and celebrating the destruction of Palestinian homes, mosques, schools and universities,” the investigation found.

Civilians Deliberately Targeted

Amnesty documented “the genocidal acts of killing and causing serious mental and bodily harm” to Palestinians in Gaza by reviewing the results of investigations it conducted into 15 airstrikes between October 7, 2023, and April 20, 2024, that killed at least 334 civilians, including 141 children, and wounded hundreds of others.

It “found no evidence that any of these strikes were directed at a military objective.”

In one cited case, on April 20, 2024, an Israeli air strike destroyed the Abdelal family house in the Al-Jneinah neighborhood in eastern Rafah, killing three generations of Palestinians, including 16 children, while they were sleeping.

“While these represent just a fraction of Israel’s aerial attacks, they are indicative of a broader pattern of repeated direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects or deliberately indiscriminate attacks. The attacks were also conducted in ways designed to cause a very high number of fatalities and injuries among the civilian population,” said Amnesty.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 44,580 Palestinians have been killed, and 105,739 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.

‘Devasting Impacts’

The report also documented how Israel “deliberately inflicted conditions of life on Palestinians in Gaza intended to lead, over time, to their destruction.”

“These conditions were imposed through three simultaneous patterns that repeatedly compounded the effect of each other’s devastating impacts,” said Amnesty.

These include “damage to and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure and other objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population; the repeated use of sweeping, arbitrary and confusing mass “evacuation” orders to forcibly displace almost all of Gaza’s population; and the denial and obstruction of the delivery of essential services, humanitarian assistance and other life-saving supplies into and within Gaza.”

Humanitarian Crisis

Amnesty noted that Israel’s total siege imposed on Gaza after October 7 last year, cutting off water and fuel “exacerbated an already existing humanitarian crisis.”

Israel “maintained a suffocating, unlawful blockade, tightly controlled access to energy sources, failed to facilitate meaningful humanitarian access within Gaza,  and obstructed the import and delivery of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid,” particularly to areas north of Wadi Gaza.

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Amnesty said the situation, combined with the extensive damage to Gaza’s homes, hospitals, water and sanitation facilities and agricultural land, and mass forced displacement, “caused catastrophic levels of hunger and led to the spread of diseases at alarming rates.”

The impact, it said, was especially harsh on young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women, with anticipated long-term consequences for their health.

Repeated Evacuation Orders

The report also pointed out that Israel’s repeated evacuation orders “displaced nearly 1.9 million Palestinians – 90% of Gaza’s population – into ever-shrinking, unsafe pockets of land under inhumane conditions, some of them up to 10 times.”

These multiple waves of forced displacement, Amnesty said, “left many jobless and deeply traumatized, especially since some 70% of Gaza’s residents are refugees or descendants of refugees whose towns and villages were ethnically cleansed by Israel during the 1948 Nakba.”

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Amnesty also pointed out that despite conditions quickly becoming unfit for human life, “Israeli authorities refused to consider measures that would have protected displaced civilians and ensured their basic needs were met, showing that their actions were deliberate.”

They also refused to allow those displaced to return to their homes in northern Gaza or relocate temporarily to other parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory or Israel, “continuing to deny many Palestinians their right to return under international law to areas they were displaced from in 1948.”

“They did so knowing that there was nowhere safe for Palestinians in Gaza to flee to,” said the organization.

Callamard lambasted the international community’s “to return to their homes in northern Gaza or relocate temporarily to other parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory or Israel, continuing to deny many Palestinians their right to return under international law to areas they were displaced from in 1948.”

Call to World Bodies

In a call to the world’s leaders, Callamard said “Governments must stop pretending they are powerless to end this genocide, which was enabled by decades of impunity for Israel’s violations of international law.”

“States need to move beyond mere expressions of regret or dismay and take strong and sustained international action, however uncomfortable a finding of genocide may be for some of Israel’s allies,” she stressed.

She said the ICC’s arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity issued last month “offer real hope of long-overdue justice for victims.”

“States must demonstrate their respect for the court’s decision and for universal international law principles by arresting and handing over those wanted by the ICC,” Callamard emphasized.

She also called on the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC “to urgently consider adding genocide to the list of crimes it is investigating and for all states to use every legal avenue to bring perpetrators to justice.”

“No one should be allowed to commit genocide and remain unpunished,” Callamard stated.

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Featured image: Amnesty International has concluded in a new report that it has found “sufficient basis” to conclude that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. (Photo: Palestine Chronicle, via Amnesty International)

As the world simultaneously teeters on the brink of nuclear war in Central Asia, shatters any remaining sense of ‘international justice’ by taking no effective action to halt the televised genocide in Palestine (let alone the risk of a dramatically expanded war in West Asia), and runs headlong into the rapidly advancing technocracy – to nominate just three of the more pronounced threats – the bulk of the human population yawns while they scroll through the latest entries in the various chat groups on their phone.

Virtually all of these chat groups (and the channels through which they are distributed), like the ‘news’ distributed by the corporate media through television, radio and newspapers, find an endless sequence of inconsequential issues to distract people from reality.

And so our death or transhuman slavery awaits us.

As I have explained many times in the past, it is only a rare person who understands how the world works, who orchestrates and drives events, how they do so, and the purposes of their program. For one account of this, see Historical Analysis of the Global Elite: Ransacking the World Economy Until ‘You’ll Own Nothing.’

Consequently, most analysts misconceive what is taking place and, therefore, what is necessary to resist it effectively.

Inevitably therefore, the human population continues to be victimized by this program, as has been routinely demonstrated throughout history.

Unfortunately, time is now rapidly running out with the Elite program – heavily concealed by this endless barrage of corporate ‘news’, among other techniques (see ‘The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind is Climaxing. Can We Defeat it?’) designed to divert attention from the fundamental threats – to depopulate Earth and imprison those left alive in a technocratic ‘smart city’ prison advancing daily.

In the latest, most significant development, NATO-produced and guided weapons were fired from Ukraine to attack Russian territory: On 19 & 20 November, U.S. ATACMS (supersonic tactical ballistic) missiles and British ‘Storm Shadow’ (cruise) missiles were used to destroy targets in Russia.

In response, and immediately following the latest update of Russian nuclear doctrine – English translation here ‘Full Text of Russia’s Updated Nuclear Doctrine’ and briefly and simply explained by Andrew Korybko here ‘Russia’s Updated Nuke Doctrine Aims To Deter Unacceptable Provocations From NATO’ – Russia fired an ‘experimental’ version of the new hypersonic ‘Oreshnik’ (ICBM) missile (equipped with six independently-targetable warheads, each containing six submunitions) which traveled at Mach 10 (that is, ten times the speed of sound) to destroy the Yuzmash missile factory in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk.

Among a wide range of expert commentaries expressing grave concern, including because of the latest update of NATO strategy – see ‘NATO After the Washington Summit: Future-Proofing the Alliance and Supporting Ukraine until Victory: Resolution 494’ – see Scott Ritter’s ‘On the Brink’,

Drago Bosnic’s ‘Nukes and medium-range missiles for Neo-Nazi junta, perfect recipe for WW3’ and watch Colonel Doug Macgregor’s recent interview ‘How Close Are We to WWIII?’

And geostrategic analyst Drago Bosnic specifically draws attention to the lack of evidence that President Biden has officially authorized the delivery of US nuclear weapons for use by Ukraine despite the fact that prominent media outlets, starting with the New York Times, have indicated, without offering any evidence, that this has taken place.

Watch ‘Say No to Nuclear War! Peace on the Planet’.

So while we can speculate about the identity of the person or persons responsible for such a decision, assuming it has been made, it simply highlights the point that those we believe are in control are not, in fact, in control. The Elite is scripting key world events and simply using the chosen puppets in governments, bureaucracies, international organizations and the media to offer an endlessly disconnected sequence of actions and announcements so that most people are confused and left unable, even if inclined to do so, to act decisively and effectively.

Two factors seriously complicating this conflict are that Russia appears to possess at least one type of weapon and a weapon delivery system that can generate the equivalent damage as the blast impacts of a nuclear weapon but without the massively damaging heat and deadly radioactive fallout of nuclear weapons. This means that the damage can be ‘contained’ to a precise, if very large, target. And delivery of the weapon cannot be intercepted.

The destructive power of this weapon, based on the descriptions offered by Ritter in his articles ‘On the Brink’ cited above and ‘Fahrenheit 7232’ – ‘Each war head in turn contained six separate submunitions, consisting of metal slugs forged from exotic alloys that enabled them to maintain their form during the extreme heat generated by hypersonic re-entry speeds. These slugs are not explosive; rather they use the combined effects of the kinetic impact at high speed and the extreme heat absorbed by the exotic alloy to destroy their intended target on impact.’ – suggests a substantially scaled-down version of the geoengineering weapon known as a ‘Rod from God’. Unlike the original version of this weapon, this Russian weapon was delivered using a hypersonic missile and fired against its target as a cluster of ‘smaller’ weapons.

The geoengineering version of this weapon was fired from a satellite and used to generate the earthquake in Turkey and Syria in February 2023. It was thoughtfully described by the head of the Turkish Space Agency, Serdar Hussein Yildirim here, but earlier description of these Hypervelocity Rod Bundles (‘Rods from God’) are available in US military literature and elsewhere. See, for example, the U.S. Air Force ‘Transformation Flight Plan’ with the subject simply discussed in ‘Hypervelocity Rod Bundles’.

Separately from its destructive power, the delivery system for this Russian weapon was the Oreshnik missile, which is hypersonic. It can travel at speeds up to Mach 10 and it cannot be intercepted with any existing technology, as was made clear by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in his official statement following the strike. See ‘Statement by the President of the Russian Federation’ [re firing of the Oreshnik missile on 20 Nov 2024].

So while Russia has recently updated its nuclear doctrine to allow a lower threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, it has already developed, deployed and used a non-nuclear technology that can, by using modest quantities of the weapon, replicate the blast impact of a nuclear weapon and be delivered at breathtaking speed.

The fundamental complication of this state of affairs is that the United States does not have weapons with equivalent capacities so it is more likely to resort to the use of nuclear weapons despite the fact that their impacts are far from ‘clean’, relatively confined or even short-lived.

Consequently, the world stands at a dangerous turning point.

This is particularly because the Elite orchestrating this and other critical conflicts is insane, as I have explained many times previously – see ‘The Global Elite is Insane Revisited’ – and most of their agents throughout governments and key international organizations are likewise insane, with many even holding fundamentalist or otherwise extreme beliefs (as one aspect of their insanity).

One variation of this insanity is those people sometimes labeled ‘Armageddonists’ – people who believe, as indicated by this comment to Professor Bernard Lown by a senior US State Department official in 1998, ‘if there is a nuclear war, we will be the first ones to rise up and meet Jesus in the sky’.

When Lown queried the official about whether anyone else in the US State Department felt the same way, the official replied:

‘Oh yes, many of us do.’ Quotes cited in ‘Iran: The Road to Armageddon? Would the US Administration really endanger the Entire planet?’

If you are unfamiliar with the damage that a nuclear weapon can do, this 18-minute video will make it clear enough: ‘The True Scale of Modern Nuclear Weapons’. And Annie Jacobsen’s latest book makes it clear too: Nuclear War: A Scenario.

But, I want to emphasize yet again, whether or not the war in Central Asia goes nuclear (or the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians and war against its Arab/Persian neighbours in West Asia goes the same way), a wide range of Elite objectives in relation to its genocidal and transhumanist/technocratic program is being fulfilled and no amount of complaining about it, signing petitions or statements, lobbying of Elite agents in governments and international organizations, or demonstrating on the streets can make a difference. For a fuller explanation, see ‘The Elite Coup to Kill or Enslave Us: Why Can’t Governments, Legal Actions and Protests Stop Them?’

So I can only encourage any reader to have a ponder about the dangerous predicament in which we find ourselves and to seriously consider participating in comprehensive grassroots nonviolent strategies to halt the war in Central Asia, end the genocide against the Palestinians and defeat the advancing technocracy.

In the following articles, I have explained the Elite program that drives each of these conflicts. Crucially, I have explained (or linked to) the nonviolent strategies necessary to end each of them.

Strategies to address many other threats have already been elaborated elsewhere or in some cases (including geoengineering and synthetic biology) are being developed.

‘The War in Ukraine: Understanding and Resisting the Global Elite’s Deeper Agenda’ which references a list of Strategic Goals for a Nonviolent Struggle to End a War.

‘Nonviolent Strategy to Halt the Genocide in Gaza, Liberate Palestine and Defeat the Global Technocracy’.

‘Fighting for Our Humanity, Fighting for Our Future’.

Each article also links to the ‘We Are Human We Are Free’ campaign – which identifies the strategic action necessary to defend yourself from the advancing technocracy (explained, most simply, on the ‘We Are Human We Are Free’ one-page flyer, available in 23 languages).

As the title of the last article suggests, there is an monumental amount at stake and it is going to take enormous effort by a substantial number of people to defend human life and a life worth living.

And yet, despite the enormity of these threats, there is no effective resistance to the threat of nuclear war, the rapidly advancing technocracy or even the televised genocide in Gaza.

Why?

The Other Side of the Coin

This is because there is an even bigger hurdle that must be overcome for effective resistance to manifest. Most ‘ordinary’ people are trapped in a childhood version of submissive obedience.

That is, most adults are incapable of doing anything beyond the adult equivalent of the powerless complaining about an injustice that they learned to do as a child.

After all, whether or not it is consciously realized by any adult, the primary purpose of ‘socialization’ generally and punishment specifically is to terrorize the child into submissive obedience of ‘higher authorities’ in the child’s life: parents, teachers and religious figures. This is done so that the future adult will be submissively obedient to employers, the legal system and other state actors as well as (for some) military officers. See ‘Punishment is Violent and Counterproductive’.

Overwhelmed by the deluge of ‘visible’, ‘invisible’ and ‘utterly invisible’ violence inflicted on them during childhood – see ‘Why Violence?’ and ‘Fearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and Practice’ – the child ultimately learns that powerless complaining to their perpetrators is the limit of their permissible ‘action’.

Consequently, the typical adult is submissively obedient and confines their ‘action’ to the adult equivalents of complaining such as signing a petition or letter of complaint to a higher authority (often a government), lobbying a politician or attending a protest gathering. Their fear ensures that the idea of taking strategically powerful action never even occurs to them or, in the case of the person to whom the idea occurs or is presented, is quickly discarded from thought and memory.

In essence, effective resistance requires strategically-oriented action and that is inherently frightening to most people. It is ‘safer’ to do something ineffective (that is, confined within the ‘permissible’ range) rather than to take action that will make a difference but likely incur punishment (such as a fine or prison sentence for civil disobedience).

Conclusion

Major international processes and events are driven by the Global Elite which is insane. While the Elite remains largely hidden from view, their equally insane or submissively obedient agents in international organizations, governments, corporations and non-government organizations carry out their insane will.

At the moment, this includes driving the world to the brink (and possibly over the brink) of nuclear war, against a backdrop of the rapidly advancing technocracy and the genocide in Gaza.

And while there is zero effective resistance to any of these threats – even with much hang-wringing in some quarters – the Elite program proceeds unimpeded.

So if you are not taking action that is going to make a strategic difference, I can only encourage you to do so – perhaps as part of a group so that your fear might be contained – while there is still time to defend a life worth living, both for ourselves and others.

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There Never Was a “New Corona Virus”, There Never Was a Pandemic

December 11th, 2024 by Prof Michel Chossudovsky

「新しいコロナウイルス」は存在しなかった、パンデミックは存在しなかった

Scroll down for Japanese version, AI translation

日本語版、AI翻訳は下にスクロールしてください。

 

Dear Readers, 

This article is controversial. It goes against the dominant Big Money, Big Pharma narrative which has been imposed Worldwide.. 

Many of my friends and colleagues, scientists and medical doctors who are actively involved in the campaign against the Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine, consider that what is at stake is solely a public health crisis. Given the political pressures, and threats exerted against them by politicians and the health authorities, I fully understand and respect their stance. 

The complexity of this crisis has to be addressed. It affects humanity in its entirety. It is by no means limited to a dangerous “vaccine”. Below I  provide a short summary, prior to dealing with the complexities. 

Flash back to January 2020.

People worldwide were led to believe that there was a dangerous epidemic, and that the dramatic March 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown -confining people in their homes– applied and enforced Worldwide was a solution to combating a deadly virus, which had spread from country to country. 

My research based on a careful review of  WHO data, concepts and “methodologies” confirms that there never was a dangerous epidemic, and the identity of the “new virus” was never confirmed. 

The official WHO number of confirmed Covid 19 cases used to justify the declaration of  a Worldwide Emergency (PHEIC) on January 30th, 2020 was ridiculously low: 83 PCR Covid-19 “confirmed cases” Worldwide outside of China (6.4 billion people)

Three weeks later at a press conference on the 20th of February 2020 the WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus intimated that the pandemic was imminent:

“[I am] concerned that the chance to contain the coronavirus outbreak was “closing” … I believe the window of opportunity is still there, but that the window is narrowing.” (emphasis added)

What was the evidence put forth by Dr. Tedros in support of his bold statement? On February 20, 2020, there were only 1076 confirmed [cumulative] cases outside China.

Click Screenshot below to enlarge (Tedros’ opening remarks at media briefing)

 “Outside China there are now 1076 cases in 20 countries, with a total of seven deaths….

….Of all cases outside China, more than half are among passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship

Official Statement of WHO Director General Dr. Tedros, Geneva, 20 February 2020

The Fear campaign went into high gear alongside grotesque media lies: According to the BBC

“The following day [March 12, 2020], …the government’s Sage committee of scientific experts was shown revised modelling of the likely death toll. The figures, according to the Sunday Times, were “shattering”. If nothing was done, there would be 510,000 deaths [UK]. Under the existing “mitigation” strategy – to shield the most vulnerable while letting everyone go about their business mostly as normal – there would be a quarter of a million.

In a press conference, the prime minister [Johnson] told anyone with a continuous cough or a fever to self-isolate. His instruction came with a warning that “many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time”. The bluntness was shocking. Some asked why, in that case, more wasn’t being done.” (BBC, emphasis added)

Another fraudulent BBC report quoting  the “scientific analysis” of a Cambridge virologist, personalizes the virus presenting “it” as a “terrorist”:  

It behaves like a ‘hit and run’ killer …

So the virus is like a dangerous driver fleeing the scene – the virus has moved on to the next victim long before we either recover or die.

In stark terms, “the virus doesn’t care” if you die, says [Cambridge] Prof Lehner, “this is a hit and run virus”.  

It does peculiar and unexpected things to the body (BBC, James Gallagher, October 22, 2020, emphasis added)

Bear in mind the BBC is generously funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Prof Lehner, is a member of Big Pharma’s Wellcome Trust.

Spread the Word

My objective is that this article will be extensively read and debated at the grassroots of society,  The complexity of this crisis is overwhelming. This is not solely a “Public Health Crisis”. 

The implications of my article are far-reaching because they refute and invalidate  “everything” pertaining to the Covid pandemic. These include the policies  related to The Lockdown which has resulted in mass poverty Worldwide and the  Covid-19 “Vaccine”, not to mention the infamous Pandemic Treaty and The World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset”. 

The official “corona narrative” is predicated on a “Big Lie” endorsed by corrupt politicians. 

That “official consensus” is exceedingly fragile. 

What is ultimately at stake is the value of human life and the future of humanity.

“‘You Were Right, Vaccines Are Killing Millions of Our Loved Ones”, Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Japan’s former Minister of Internal Affairs’s

Our objective is to save lives including those of newly born babies who are the victims of the Covid-19 “Vaccine”.

At this juncture in our history, the priorities are to:  

  1. Reveal the Truth regarding the Impacts of the Lockdown,
  2. Reveal the Fraud pertaining to the Identity of the “New Virus”: 2019 nCoV and the alleged Pandemic and
  3. Disable the Fear Campaign” and Media Disinformation,
  4. Cancel the Vaccine” Worldwide

Hopefully this will set the stage for the development of a Worldwide movement of solidarity, which questions the legitimacy of the powerful “Big Money” financial elites which are behind this infamous project.

Dear Readers, you may wish to view the video below before reading the article. 

You can also download my E-Book (free of charge)

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, December 5, 2023, revised October 30, 2024

“When the Lie Become the Truth, There is No Moving Backwards”

CENSORSHIP: The original Global Research video produced by Ariel Rodriguez in February 2021. It was taken down by Vimeo on March 5, 2022. 

Below is the Version on Rumble.

The Most Devastating Crisis in Human History 

Starts At 6’47”

Our thanks to Vaccine Choice Canada 


“Hell is Empty and the Devils are All Here”. William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, 1623 

My response to Shakespeare: “Send the Devils Back to Where They Belong”

“When the Lie Becomes the Truth, There Is No Moving Backwards”

“Get off that crazy train. I know, it is scary, it can hurt. Take back your physical and intellectual autonomy and protect your children”.  Dr. Pascal Sacré, Belgian author and Medical Doctor, November 2021. 

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Introduction

Destabilizing the social, political and economic structure of 190 sovereign countries cannot constitute  a “solution” to combating a novel coronavirus  which mysteriously emerged in Wuhan, Hubei province (PRC) in late December 2019. That was the imposed “solution” —implemented in several stages from the very outset–, leading to The March 2020 Lockdown and the Rollout of a so-called Covid 19 “Vaccine” in December 2020, which since its inception has resulted in an upward trend in excess mortality. 

It’s the destruction of people’s lives Worldwide. It is the destabilization of civil society.

Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. 24/7, Incessant and Repetitive “Covid alerts” in the course of more than three years. In turn, the ongoing fear campaign had devastating impacts on people’s health

The  historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of “economic warfare”: a war against humanity. 

The New Virus: 2019-nCoV

The official story is that a dangerous NEW VIRUS was detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. It was entitled 2019-nCoV which stands for “2019 New (n) Corona (Co) Virus (V)”.

On  January 1, 2020, “the Chinese health authorities closed the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan following Western media reports claiming that wild animals sold there may have been the source of the virus.

As of early January 2020, it was the object of extensive media coverage and an unfolding Worldwide fear campaign.  Media disinformation 24/7 went into high gear.

The Chinese authorities (allegedly) “identified a new type of virus” on January 7, 2020, using the RT-PCR test. No specific details were provided regarding the process of isolation of the virus.

Failed Identification of the Novel Coronavirus

In late January 2020, the WHO confirmed that: 

It did not possess an isolate of 2019-nCoV from a purified sample from an infected patient, which meant that they were unable to confirm the identity of the novel coronavirus:

We report here on the establishment and validation of a diagnostic workflow for 2019-nCoV screening and specific confirmation, designed in absence of available virus isolates or original patient specimens. Design and validation were enabled by the close genetic relatedness to the 2003 SARS-CoV, and aided by the use of synthetic nucleic acid technology.

ここでは、2019-nCoVスクリーニングと特定の確認のための診断ワークフローの確立と検証について報告します。これは、利用可能なウイルス分離株または元の患者検体がない場合に設計されています。設計と検証は、2003年のSARS-CoVとの密接な遺伝的関連性によって可能になり、合成核酸技術の使用によって支援されました。

February 11, 2020. The Alleged “New Virus” is Renamed 

In early February. 2020, following the failure to identify the novel coronavirus, a decision was taken to change its name to:

Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus”: SARS-CoV-2 which (according to the WHO) is “similar” to a 20 year old virus entitled:

2003-SARS-CoV.

A Twenty Year Old 2003 Coronavirus Categorized in February 2020 as a “New Virus”? 

Confirmed by the WHO and The New England Journal of Medicine, May 2003 (NEJM):

“A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome” 

which broke out in China’s Southern Guangdong Province in 2002 WAS identified and categorized as a “new virus” on May 15, 2003. (More than 20 years ago). 

See Screenshot 0f NEJM May 15 2003 article below: 

 

(Scroll down for analysis and details pertaining to the identification and renaming of 2019-nCoV)


Video: The Non-existent “New Corona Virus”?

Michel Chossudovsky, Interview with Caroline Mailloux, Lux Media

 


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“Big Money” and “Big Pharma” Meet at Davos

The alleged new virus was actively debated at the World Economic Forum (WEF), meeting in Davos Switzerland (January 22, 2020).

Proposed by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) an entity financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a 2019-nCoV vaccine program was put forth.  Announced at Davos,  Seattle-based Moderna (with the support of CEPI) was to manufacture an mRNA vaccine to build immunity against 2019-nCoV.

The evidence as well as the statements at Davos suggest that the 2019-nCoV vaccine project was already underway in early 2019. And CEPI had foreknowledge regarding the announcement of the 2019-nCoV. (Michel Chossudovsky, Chapter VIII).

The development of a 2019 nCoV vaccine was announced at Davos, 2 weeks after the January 7, 2020 announcement, and barely a  week prior to the official launching of the WHO’s Worldwide Public Health emergency on January 30.  The WEF-Gates-CEPI Vaccine Announcement precedes the WHO Public Health Emergency (PHEIC) (January 30, 2020) which was predicated on 83 positive Covid-19 confirmed PCR cases outside China (official WHO statistics)

Lies and Falsehoods

All of this was unfolding at a time when the alleged new coronavirus named 2019-nC0V had not been isolated, it’s identity had not been confirmed and the number of reported cases in China was exceedingly low: “As of 3 January 2020, there were 44 cases reported, 11 are severely ill, while the remaining 33 patients are in stable condition” (WHO Report).

There was no evidence of an unfolding epidemic in China, nor was there evidence of a lab leak, CEPI’s statement at Davos regarding “The Rapid Global Spread of the Novel Coronavirus” is a bold face lie. (See image above)

And then on January 30th, 2020, the Director General of the WHO Dr. Tedros declared a Public Health Emergency of  International Concern (PHEIC) with absolutely no evidence of a threatening epidemic.

On that same day there were 83 positive cases Worldwide out of China for a population of 6.4 billion people. See table below: 5 positive cases in the U.S, 3 in Canada, 4 in France and 4 in Germany. Ask yourself does that constitute a Worldwide emergency? 

And those (cumulative) cases were based on the RT-Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Test which does not detect the identity of the virus. (See Appendix). 

 

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Screenshot from WHO, January 29, 2020.

Number of confirmed positive cases in US, Canada, France and Germany 

page29image1161272480Three weeks later at a press conference on the 20th of February 2020 the WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus intimated that the pandemic was imminent:

“[I am] concerned that the chance to contain the coronavirus outbreak was “closing”

“I believe the window of opportunity is still there, but that the window is narrowing.”

What was the evidence put forth by Dr. Tedros in support of his bold statement?

On February 20, 2020, there were only 1076 confirmed [cumulative] cases outside China (including those of the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship stranded in Japan’s territorial waters).

On that same day, the  WHO provided the data of confirmed cases “by countries, territories or areas outside China”15 in the U.S., 8 in Canada, 16 in Germany, 12 in France, 9 in the U.K.

 

Click Screenshot below to enlarge (Tedros’ opening remarks at media briefing)

 “Outside China there are now 1076 cases in 20 countries, with a total of seven deaths….

Of all cases outside China, more than half are among passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship

Official Statement of WHO Director General Dr. Tedros, Geneva, 20 February 2020

Wow! 

“Without the Diamond Princess data, the so-called confirmed cases worldwide outside China on February 20, 2020 were of the order of 452, out of a population of 6.4 billion.”( pages 18-19)

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March 11, 2020: The historic COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, “Closing Down” of approximately 190 National Economies 

The WHO Director-General had already set the stage in his February 20th Press Conference.

 “The world should do more to prepare for a possible coronavirus pandemic.” 

The WHO officially declared a worldwide pandemic at a time when there were 44,279 (cumulative) positive PCR Covid cases outside China for a population of 6.4 billion. (For details and analysis see Michel Chossudovsky, Chapter II).

The 80,981 cases for China are also confirmed cumulative PCR positive cases. Note the new positive PCR-RT positive cases for China recorded on March 12, 2020: a modest “26 new” indicating that the pandemic in China was over on March 11, 2020. 

Even if the alleged 2019 nCoV had been detected and duly identified, the number of PCR-RT confirmed (cumulative) positive cases published on March 12, 2020 (44,279) used as a justification to enforce the Lockdown of more than 190 countries was ridiculously low, (and this without accounting for the failure of the PCR-RT test, which does not detect or identify the virus) (See Appendix for review of the PCR-RT Test.)

The WHO “Risk Assessment” Borders on Ridicule

And yet it was accepted by 190 Member Nation States of the United Nations

To access the WHO page click here

WHO RISK ASSESSMENT

GLOBAL LEVEL

The data below was released on March 12, 2020

Screenshot from WHO Report 

 

Confirmed by the WHO, in the United States, recorded on March 9, 2020, there were 3,457 “confirmed cases” (RT-PCR positive) out of a population of  329.5 million people  (Screenshot of WHO graph Interactive WHO graph) [The link on WHO is no longer available]

Screenshot from WHO Report

In Canada on March 9, 2020, there were 125 “confirmed cases” out of a population of 38.5 million people

  Screenshot of WHO graph Interactive WHO graphData for Canada

In Germany on March 9, 2020, there were 2948 “confirmed cases” out of a population of 83.2 million people

Screenshot of WHO Report

As a result of the Fear Campaign and the Worldwide expansion of  PCR-RT testing, the number of so-called ” PCR-RT  “Confirmed Cases” went Fly High.

For details, see Michel Chossudovsky, March 19, 2022)

 

The October 2019 “Event 201” Simulation of a “Dangerous Virus” entitled nCoV-2019

Event 201 was a table top simulation of a coronavirus epidemic, sponsored by John Hopkins and the Gates Foundation. 

The WHO initially adopted the same acronym, namely 2019-nCoV (to designate the novel coronavirus), as that of the Johns Hopkins simulated Pandemic Event 201 Exercise.

The name of the new coronavirus was (with the exception of the placement of 2019) identical to that of the Event 201 simulation.

Attended by prominent personalities, The Simulation was held on October 18, 2019, less than three months before the announcement  in early January 2020 of a new coronavirus.

Among the participants, were representatives (aka. decision-makers) from the WHO, US Intelligence, the Gates Foundation, the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) (financed by the Gates Foundation), the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the World Economic Forum (WEF), the United Nations, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Director Dr. George Fu Gao), Big Pharma, the World Bank, among others. 

These various organizations played a key role when the so-called pandemic went live in early 2020. Many features of the 201 “simulation exercise” did in fact correspond to what actually happened when the WHO Director-General launched a Global Public Health Emergency (PHEIC) on January 30, 2020. 
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Moreover, the sponsors of Event 201 — including the WEF and the Gates Foundation — as well the participants were actively involved from the very outset in coordinating (and financing) COVID-19-related policies including the RT-PCR test, the March 2020 lockdown as well as as the mRNA vaccine, launched in December 2020

China’s CDC Director Dr. George Fu Gao –who participated in the Event 201 simulation– played a central role in overseeing the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan in early 2020, acting in close liaison with his mentor Dr. Anthony Fauci, as well as with the Gates Foundation, CEPI, et al. 

Dr. Gao Fu is an Oxford graduate with links to Big Pharma. He was also for several years a fellow of the Wellcome Charitable Foundation owned by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK, plc). 

The Mysterious “Identity of the New Virus”

The name of the virus was first identified: 

  • –October 2019: Event 201 Simulation Scenario: nCoV-2019 
  • –December 2019, Wuhan: 2019-nCoV 

And then mysteriously another change in the name of the novel coronavirus took place on February 11, 2020.

from 2019-nCoV to SARS-CoV-2, which stands for “Severe acute respiratory syndrome”: SARS – Corona (Co) Virus(V)-2″.  

There was no longer a “n” prefix (indicating that it was a NEW VIRUS). The “n” prefix was replaced by a “2” suffix 

What is the meaning of SARS-CoV-2. More specifically what is the meaning of the mysterious “2” suffix? It pertains to a 20 year old virus entitled: 

2003 -SARS-CoV, which can by no means be categorized as a NEW VIRUS

“New Virus” versus “Old Virus”: the 2002-2003 “Severe acute respiratory syndrome” (SARS)

SARS-CoV-2  –which since February 11, 2020 had become the official name of the 2019 novel coronavirus– is by no means A NEW VIRUS.  

Flash Back to China, Guangdong Province 2002-2003. Confirmed by the WHO and peer reviewed reports: 

“A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome” broke out in Guangdong, Province, PRC in 2002. (NEJM, May 2003)

SARS was categorized as a Novel Coronavirus in 2003. i.e no longer NEW. It was detected and isolated 20 years ago in early 2003. 

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The Essential Features of the 2003-SARS-CoV Virus

Confirmed by the WHO

“the Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease caused by a SARS-associated coronavirus. It was first identified at the end of February 2003 [more than 20 years ago] during an outbreak that emerged in China and spread to 4 other countries. … 

A worldwide outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been associated with exposures originating from a single ill health care worker from Guangdong Province, China. We conducted studies to identify the etiologic agent of this outbreak.

… a novel coronavirus was isolated from patients who met the case definition of SARS. …  Consensus coronavirus primers designed to amplify a fragment of the polymerase gene by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were used to obtain a sequence that clearly identified the isolate as a unique coronavirus only distantly related to previously sequenced coronaviruses.

What is significant in this report is that the WHO confirmed that the novel 2003 coronavirus entitled 2003 SARS-CoV had been isolated from patients’ samples, identified and designated “severe acute respiratory syndrome” in May 2003. 

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The identification of the virus adopted in the NEJM (May 15, 2003) is as follows: (emphasis added)
 
We received clinical specimens from patients in seven countries and tested them, using virus-isolation techniques, electron-microscopical and histologic studies, and molecular and serologic assays, in an attempt to identify a wide range of potential pathogens
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RESULTS: None of the previously described respiratory pathogens were consistently identified. However, a novel coronavirus was isolated from patients who met the case definition of SARS. Cytopathological features were noted in Vero E6 cells inoculated with a throat-swab specimen. Electron-microscopical examination revealed ultrastructural features characteristic of coronaviruses. Immunohistochemical and immunofluorescence staining revealed reactivity with group I coronavirus polyclonal antibodies. 
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Consensus coronavirus primers designed to amplify a fragment of the polymerase gene by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were used to obtain a sequence that clearly identified the isolate as a unique coronavirus only distantly related to previously sequenced coronaviruses.”

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In the course of the last twenty years it must have resulted in multiple variants of the original 2003-SARS-Coronavirus.

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Absence of An Isolate of the “New 2019 Virus (2019-nCoV)” 

While the 2003 SARS-CoV was duly isolated, the WHO acknowledged in January 2020 that it did not have an isolate and purified sample of  the NEW 2019 coronavirus from an infected patient, which meant that they were unable to confirm the identity of the (“dangerous”) 2019 novel coronavirus entitled 2019-nCoV. That was the reason given. Sounds Absurd. 

Not Wuhan!  The Berlin Virology Institute

How was this matter resolved. Following advice from the Gates Foundation, the WHO was in liaison with the Berlin Virology Institute at Charité Hospital.

Under the scientific guidance of Dr. Christian Drosten, the Berlin Virology study was entitled:

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The Berlin Virology Institute study firmly acknowledged that:

[While]… several viral genome sequences had been released,… virus isolates or samples [of 2019-nCoV] from infected patients were not available …”

What the Berlin team recommended to the WHO was that in the absence of an isolate of the 2019-nCoV virus, a similar 2003 SARS-CoV virus should be used as a “proxy” (point of reference) of the novel 2019 coronavirus:

“The genome sequences suggest presence of a virus closely related to the members of a viral species termed severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-related CoV, a species defined by the agent of the 2002/03 outbreak of SARS in humans [3,4].

We report on the the establishment and validation of a diagnostic workflow for 2019-nCoV screening and specific confirmation [using the RT-PCR test], designed in absence of available virus isolates or original patient specimens. Design and validation were enabled by the close genetic relatedness to the 2003 SARS-CoV, and aided by the use of synthetic nucleic acid technology.” (Eurosurveillance, January 23, 2020, emphasis added).

What this ambiguous statement suggests is that the identity of 2019-nCoV was not required and that “COVID-19 confirmed cases” (aka infection resulting from the 2019 novel coronavirus) would be validated by “the close genetic relatedness to the 2003 SARS-CoV.”

How could the new virus be categorized as similar without having been identified, i.e. without an “isolate”? Moreover, bear in mind that while the PCR test does not detect the virus, it detects genetic fragments (of numerous viruses)

Smoking Gun

What this means is that a coronavirus detected 20 years ago (at the time of writing) in Guangdong Province (2003 SARS-CoV) has been used to “validate” the identity of a so-called “novel coronavirus” first detected in China’s Hubei Province in late December 2019.

The recommendations of the Drosten study (financed with a grant of $249,550 from the Gates Foundation) were then transmitted to the WHO. 

They were subsequently endorsed by the Director- General of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The WHO did not have in its possession the “virus isolate” required to identify the new virus.

“Never mind”. It was decided that an isolate of the new coronavirus was not required.

It stands to reason that if the PCR test uses the 2003 SARS-CoV virus as a proxy or “point of reference”, there can be no “confirmed” cases pertaining to the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV.

The 2019 new coronavirus 2019 nCoV  was renamed SARS-CoV-2 on February 11, 2020 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. That explains the 2 suffix.

The 2019 novel coronavirus is said to be “similar” to 2003-SARS-CoV, which was subsequently renamed SARS-CoV-1 (to distinguish it from SARS-CoV-2).

The NEW Virus (2019 nCoV) is “non-existent” (no RT-PCR confirmed cases). 


Short parenthesis, summary

The  Omicron, Delta, Alpha, etc, Variants and Sub-variants

Inasmuch as the 2003 SARS-CoV-1  is according to WHO, the point of reference or proxy for the alleged New Virus, (SARS-CoV-2) the (dangerous) omicron, delta variants and sub-variants allegedly (identified)  by the  PCR test are among the hundreds of variants of the twenty year old 2003 SARS-CoV-1 (identified by an isolate confirmed by the NEJM in May 2003)

We recall that during the 2021 Christmas holiday, the dangerous omicron variant was used as a fraudulent pretext to launch a renewed fear campaign:

In December 2021, we were told by our governments to prepare for Christmas under Lockdown. To protect you and your loved ones against the so-called deadly Covid Omicron Variant.

The announcement regarding Omicron was made on Black Friday November 2021, the day after Thanksgiving. Anthony Fauci led the disinformation campaign, intimating that Omicron “is already in the United States but has yet to be detected”

The alleged spread of  Omicron during the 2021 Christmas holiday period was used as a justification for implementing partial lockdowns, restrictions on travel as well as confinement and stay at home mandates during the Christmas holiday. 

According to CNN, citing expert opinion:

The Omicron variant “is extraordinarily contagious”, and if you are in a crowd now, and certainly if you are not vaccinated, you are at great risk of contracting this virus”.

A small party at a friend’s house should be okay if everyone is vaccinated, boosted and tested negative before the party ,… Large outdoor parties are less risky unless they are crowded.

“I will not eat in a restaurant now without a mask”

 “I absolutely will not go to a bar. ”  Emphasis added.

The “Dangerous” Omicron Spread: Speculative Operations on the Stock Markets

Screenshot, the Mail Online, 3 December 2021

 

For details see review article on how the omicron crisis in November-December 2021, contributed to fraudulent speculative operations


 

The RT-PCR Test Declared Invalid by the WHO

Amply documented, the RT-PCR test detects genetic fragments of numerous viruses without being able to identify the virus.

See the article below:

The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of “Positive Cases” are Meaningless. The Lockdown Has No Scientific Basis

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 10, 2023

See also our review of the RT- PCR in the Appendix of this article. 

The significance and ambiguity of the WHO decision –following the advice of the Berlin Virology Institute– namely the issue of the “isolate” of the novel coronavirus have been casually overlooked. “No Questions Asked”

The British Media reported on February 6, 2020 the change in the name of the virus:  

“[The] Deadly coronavirus will FINALLY get a name: Scientists plan to officially label the disease ‘within days’ – but it won’t be called after any places or animals. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses has submitted a name. …

Big Money, Big Pharma. Patent Rights

Let’s bear in mind: The Covid Crisis which is still ongoing is a Big Money Operation Worldwide, with numerous Big Pharma products, extending from the global misuse of the RT-PCR test, to the multibillion dollar Big Pharma vaccine project, largely dominated by Pfizer.

Was the change in the name of the virus to SARS-CoV-2 an issue of “royalties” and intellectual property rights? The U.S Patent Rights, pertaining to 2003 SARS-CoV was filed in April 2004 and assigned in May 2007 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:  

Patent No.: US 7,220,852 B1 Date of Patent: May 22 2007. (This is a matter for further investigation.)

“The Big Lie” and the “Non-Existent New Virus”. What are the Consequences?

As documented above (confirmed by the WHO) the new 2019 corona virus was never identified.

The use of  a 20 year old virus entitled 2003 SARS-CoV as a proxy for the alleged new virus confirms that there was NO PANDEMIC resulting from a NEW CORONAVIRUS in January-March 2020.

THERE WAS NO “NEW VIRUS”.

What this signifies is that both the Devastating Lockdown policies imposed on 190 countries (March 11, 2020) as well the Worldwide Rollout of the Covid-19 Vaccine (mid December 2020) are fraudulent. They are based on a “Big Lie”,  which has contributed in the course of almost four years to literally destroying people’s lives.

In turn the incessant fear campaign had a devastating impact on people’s health, their mental health, including a Worldwide wave of suicides. In several countries suicides among school children were recorded (See Michel Chossudovsky, Chapter VI)

“The Big Lie” Precipitates the Lockdown

The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus has provided a pretext and a justification to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to precipitate the entire world into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.

The lockdown was an act of economic and social warfare. The labor force was confined, the work place was frozen, leading to an engineered Worldwide economic collapse.

This crisis is by no means over. The entire World is currently strangled in the Most Serious Debt Crisis is World history. All categories of indebtedness (private and public). US National Debt Tops $35 Trillion for the First Time in History, according to the US House of Representatives Budget Committee,  announced on July 29, 2024.

In the words of the WEF billionaires to those who are loosing their homes or cannot pay their monthly rent: their motto is: 

Own Nothing Be Happy”.  

 


“When the Lie Become the Truth, There is No Moving Backwards”

CENSORSHIP: The original Global Research video produced by Ariel Rodriguez in February 2021 was taken down by Vimeo on March 5, 2022

Below is the Version on Rumble

The Most Devastating Crisis in Human History 

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Our thanks to Vaccine Choice Canada 


 

The mRNA “Vaccine” Intended to Protect People against a “Non Existent New Virus”

Amply documented the mRNA “vaccine” which was intended to protect people against this non-existent new coronavirus renamed SARS-nCoV-2 has resulted in an upward trend in excess mortality. 

The Pfizer Confidential Report released under Freedom of Information confirms based on their own data that the vaccine is a toxic substance.  To access the complete Pfizer report click here

The evidence is overwhelming:

See the carefully documented impacts of the “vaccine” by Dr. William Makis on people from all walks life: pilots, health workers, school children, students, athletes, pregnant women and new born babies (and many more). 

Excess Mortality Attributable to the Covid-19 “Vaccine”

There are numerous studies on vaccine related excess mortality. Below is a summary of an incisive study pertaining to Cancer Related Excess Mortality in England and Wales resulting from the mRNA Vaccine conducted by the team of Edward Dowd

Dowd’s method was to analyze the number of deaths attributed to cancer in England and Wales between 2010 and 2022 (based on the data of the U.K. Office for National Statistics). 

The table below pertains to excess deaths related to malignant neoplasm (cancerous tumor) in England and Wales, recorded in three consecutive years: 2020, 2021, and 2022 vs. a 10 year trend (2010-2019).

The data for excess mortality in 2020 (the year prior to the vaccine) are negative with the exception of “malignant neoplasm without specification of site”.

The COVID-19 vaccine was rolled-out in several phases in England and Wales starting on December 8, 2020  and extending into March-April 2021.

The upward movement in excess mortality (%) commences in 2021. The increase in excess mortality related to malignant neoplasm is tabulated for the two first years of the vaccine. 

 

England and Wales: Excess Mortality

 

Below is a similar table pertaining to Excess Mortality in Germany, which points to the Deviation of Observed Mortality from Expected Mortality (by age group) in 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Notice the upward shift in excess mortality in 2021 and 2022 following the rollout of the Covid Vaccine in December 2020

 

Germany: Excess Mortality 

Germany: Excess Mortality by Age Group (%)

Excess Mortality in Red by age group, Total Excess Mortality in Gray 

Japan:  Excess Mortality

Japan. Excess Mortality (2020-2022): Jump in Excess mortality in 2021 and 2022 (January-October 2022)

United States:
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Official Figures for Vaccine Deaths. Official Data (click image below to access the VAERS website)
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The graph below: “All Deaths reported to Vaers by Year” starting in 1990. (e.g. reported by the Victim’s family to VAERS). These are official figures, deaths attributable to the Vaccine. Only a very small percentage of vaccine deaths is reported. Nonetheless the graph below indicates more than 19,000 Vaccine related deaths in 2021 in the U.S. Neither the media nor the U.S government have informed the public. 
 
What can be observed is that the number of reported vaccine deaths has increased dramatically in the course of 2021 corresponding to the first year of the Covid vaccine which was launched in the U.S. in mid December 2020.
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Media Disinformation, Boldface Lies 

There are numerous studies on excess mortality resulting from the vaccine, which are ignored by the media.

Invariably the Press reports state with authority that it is the virus which is “dangerous” or “deadly”, when in fact it is the “Vaccine” which has triggered an upward trend in mortality.

The Daily Mail (February 6, 2020) refers to a “deadly coronavirus” intimating that it is spreading Worldwide

The dangerous virus designation is a boldface LIE:

Confirmed by the WHO, the CDC and peer reviewed reports, the 2019 nCoV-19 is not dangerous. See the Appendix below.


“When the Lie Become the Truth, There is No Moving Backwards”

CENSORSHIP: The original Global Research video produced by Ariel Rodriguez in February 2021 was taken down by Vimeo on March 5, 2022

Below is the Version on Rumble

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Starts At 6’47”

Our thanks to Vaccine Choice Canada 

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Our analysis in this short article has provided evidence: 

  • that the alleged NEW CORONAVIRUS entitled 2019 nCoV was never isolated, 
  • the renamed new coronavirus entitled SARS-CoV-2 is NOT A NEW VIRUS. It is similar to an OLD VIRUS entitled 2003-SARS-CoV.

I should mention that there are many other issues which invalidate the “official narrative”, specifically the RT-PCR test which does not identify the virus.  

See sections 1, 2, 3 4 of the Appendix below as well as our review of The Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Test. 

Scroll down to consult the Appendix


Michel Chossudovsky’s Message

Dear Readers,

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My thanks for your support in the course of more than twenty two years.

You are welcome to download (free of charge) my Book (15  chapters) which provides a detailed analysis of a crisis which is still ongoing. First published in August 2022. Print version in Japanese. 

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The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity

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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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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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About the Author

Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research.

He has undertaken field research in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific and has written extensively on the economies of developing countries with a focus on poverty and social inequality.

He has also undertaken research in Health Economics on.behalf of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC),  UNFPA, UNDP, CIDA, WHO, etc. Government of Venezuela, John Hopkins International Journal of Health Services (1979, 1983). 

He is the author of 13 books including The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003), America’s “War on Terrorism” (2005),  The Globalization of War, America’s Long War against Humanity (2015).

He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.  His writings have been published in more than twenty languages. In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on NATO’s war of aggression against Yugoslavia. He can be reached at [email protected]

See Michel Chossudovsky, Biographical Note, (refutes Wikipedia)

Michel Chossudovsky’s Articles on Global Research

 


Appendix

 

Our analysis above provides evidence: 

  • that the alleged NEW CORONAVIRUS entitled 2019 nCoV was never isolated and that
  • the renamed new coronavirus entitled SARS-CoV-2 is similar to a 20 year old virus entitled 2003-SARS-CoV 

It should be understood that there are many other issues which invalidate the “official narrative” which are not addressed in the article(See sections 1, 2, 3 4 below as well as our review of The Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Test

Of significance to our understanding of “fear campaigns”, the WHO and CDC confirm that the 2019 nCoV (SARS-CoV-2) is not a dangerous virus.

1. The WHO Statement Regarding 2019-nCoV

“The most recently discovered coronavirus causes coronavirus disease COVID-19. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, dry cough, and tiredness. … These symptoms are usually mild and begin gradually. Some people become infected but only have very mild symptoms. Most people (about 80%) recover from the disease without needing hospital treatment. Around 1 out of every 5 people who gets COVID-19 becomes seriously ill and develops difficulty breathing.” (For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, August 2022, emphasis added)

2. Dr. Anthony Fauci  Regarding SARS-CoV-2 in the NEJM

From the outset, Fauci has persistently warned of the imminent dangers of the SARS-CoV-2 (including its variants and sub-variants), while acknowledging in his peer reviewed article in the New England Journal of Medicine (together with H. Clifford Lane, M.D. and Robert R. Redfield, M.D. that:

“The overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968)…” (See Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted, NEJM)

3. The WHO’s Definition of 2003-SARS

“SARS is an airborne virus and can spread through small droplets of saliva in a similar way to the cold and influenza. … SARS can also be spread indirectly via surfaces that have been touched by someone who is infected with the virus.

Most patients identified with SARS were previously healthy adults aged 25–70 years. A few suspected cases of SARS have been reported among children under 15 years. The case fatality among persons with illness meeting the current WHO case definition for probable and suspected cases of SARS is around 3%.  

One month prior to the change of name of the novel 2019 nCoV coronavirus to SARS-CoV-2 (On February 11, 2020), the WHO released, a detailed document pertaining to the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Operational Support & Logistics Disease Commodity Packages pdf).

4. The CDC’s Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 with Seasonal Influenza 

“Influenza (Flu) and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses. COVID-19 is caused by infection with a new coronavirus (called SARS-CoV-2) and flu is caused by infection with influenza viruses.

Because some of the symptoms of flu and COVID-19 are similar, it may be hard to tell the difference between them based on symptoms alone, and testing may be needed to help confirm a diagnosis. Flu and COVID-19 share many characteristics, but there are some key differences between the two.”

If the public had been informed and reassured that COVID is “similar to Influenza”, the fear campaign would have fallen flat.

The lockdown and closure of the national economy would have been rejected outright, not to mention the subsequent imposition of the Covid-19 Vaccine.

 

The Reverse Transcription

Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Test

 

The slanted methodology applied under WHO guidance for detecting the alleged spread of the virus is the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, which has been routinely applied all over the world since February 2020. (This Text is an excerpt from Michel Chossudovsky’s book,  August 2022)

The RT-PCR test has been used worldwide to generate millions of erroneous “COVID-19 confirmed cases”, which are then used to sustain the illusion that the alleged pandemic is real.

This assessment based on erroneous numbers has been used in the course of three and and a half years to spearhead and sustain the fear campaign.

“Confirmed” is a misnomer. A “confirmed RT-PCR positive case” does not imply a “COVID-19 confirmed case”.

Positive RT-PCR is not synonymous with the COVID-19 disease! PCR specialists make it clear that a test must always be compared with the clinical record of the patient being tested, with the patient’s state of health to confirm its value [reliability]. (Dr. Pascal Sacré)

The procedure used by the national health authorities is to categorize all RT-PCR positive cases as “COVID-19 confirmed cases” (with or without a medical diagnosis). Ironically, this routine process of identifying “confirmed cases” is in derogation of the CDC’s own guidelines:

“Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms. The performance of this test has not been established for monitoring treatment of 2019-nCoV infection. This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.”8 (emphasis added)

The methodology used to detect and estimate the spread of the virus is flawed and invalid.

False Positives

The earlier debate at the outset of the crisis focused on the issue of “false positives.”

Acknowledged by the WHO and the CDC, the RT-PCR test was known to produce a high percentage of false positives. According to Dr. Pascal Sacré:

“Today, as authorities test more people, there are bound to be more positive RT-PCR tests. This does not mean that COVID-19 is coming back, or that the epidemic is moving in waves. There are more people being tested, that’s all.”9

The debate on false positives (acknowledged by health authorities) points to so-called errors without necessarily questioning the overall validity of the RT-PCR test as a means to detecting the alleged spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The PCR Test Does Not Detect the Identity of the Virus

The RT-PCR test does not identify/detect the virus. What the PCR test identifies are genetic fragments of numerous viruses (including influenza viruses types A and B and coronaviruses which trigger common colds).

The results of the RT-PCR test cannot “confirm” whether an individual who undertakes the test is infected with SARS-CoV-2.

The following diagram summarizes the process of identifying positive and negative cases. All that is required is the presence of “viral genetic material” for it to be categorized as “positive”. The procedure does not identity or isolate COVID-19. What appears in the tests are fragments of the virus.10

Failures of the PCR Test, Ridiculously Low Numbers

Even if the 2019 nCoV had been detected and duly identified, the numbers of PCR-RT confirmed (cumulative) positive cases in the period leading up to to March 11, 2020 used as a justification to enforce the Lockdown of more than 190 countries were ridiculously low. The 80,981 cases for China also pertains to confirmed (cumulative) PCR positive cases. Note the new cases in China   (PCR positive) on March 12, 2020 are of the order of “321 new”

 
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Image: Total cumulative cases on March 12, 2020 (Source: WHO)

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「新しいコロナウイルス」は存在しなかった、パンデミックは存在しなかった

 

著者から読者へのメッセージ

新型コロナウイルスとされるものに焦点を当てたこの記事は、私が書いた記事の中でも最も重要なものの一つです。

文章には簡潔さと常識の要素があります。私の目的は、科学者や医師だけでなく、社会の草の根レベルでこの記事が広く読まれ、議論されることです。この危機の複雑さは圧倒的です。これは単なる「公衆衛生危機」ではありません。

この記事は、新型コロナウイルス感染症のパンデミックに関連する「すべて」 を否定し、無効にしているため、その影響は広範囲に及ぶ。これには、悪名高いパンデミック条約世界経済フォーラムの「グレート・リセット」 は言うまでもなく、ロックダウンや  新型コロナウイルス感染症「ワクチン」に関連する政策も含まれる。

公式の「コロナ物語」は、腐敗した政治家が支持する「大嘘」に基づいています。

その「公式コンセンサス」は極めて脆弱です。私たちの意図は、それを「トランプのトランプのように」 崩壊させることです。

最終的に問題となるのは、人間の命の価値と人類の未来です。

「あなたの言う通り、ワクチンは何百万人もの私たちの愛する人を殺しています」と、日本の元総務大臣である原口一博氏は述べた。

私たちの目的は、新型コロナウイルス感染症「ワクチン」の犠牲者となった新生児を含む命を救うことです 。

私たちの歴史のこの時点での優先事項は、「恐怖キャンペーンを無効にする」ことと「ワクチンをキャンセルする」 (いわゆる 「パンデミック条約」の廃止を含む)ことです。

願わくば、これが世界的な連帯運動の発展のきっかけとなり、この悪名高いプロジェクトの背後にいる強力な「大金持ち」金融エリートたちの正当性に疑問を投げかけることになるだろう。

読者の皆様、この記事とビデオを広く転送してください。

ミシェル・チョスドフスキーグローバル・リサーチ、2023年12月5日、2024年9月2日

「地獄は空っぽで、悪魔は皆ここにいる」ウィリアム・シェイクスピア、『テンペスト』、1623年

シェイクスピアに対する私の返答:「悪魔を本来の居場所へ送り返せ」

「嘘が真実になったら、後戻りはできない」

「その狂った列車から降りてください。怖いし、傷つくこともあるのはわかっています。身体的、知的自立を取り戻し、子どもたちを守ってください」。パスカル・サクレ博士、ベルギーの作家、医師、2021年11月。

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導入

190の主権国の社会的、政治的、経済的構造を不安定化させること   は、2019年12月下旬に中国湖北省武漢市で謎の形で発生した 新型コロナウイルスと闘うための「解決策」にはなり得ない。それが強制された「解決策」であり、当初から数段階に分けて実施され、2020年3月のロックダウン2020年12月のいわゆるCovid-19「ワクチン」の展開につながり、その開始以来、過剰死亡率の上昇傾向をもたらしている。 

それは世界中の人々の生活の破壊であり、市民社会の不安定化です。

偽科学は、この壊滅的な計画を支えていた。 この嘘は、大規模なメディアによる偽情報キャンペーンによって支えられていた。  3年以上にわたり、24時間年中無休で絶え間なく繰り返される「コロナ警報」 。その結果、継続的な恐怖キャンペーンは人々の健康に壊滅的な影響を及ぼした。 

2020年3月11日の歴史的なロックダウンは、世界中で経済的、社会的混乱を引き起こしました。それは「経済戦争」、つまり人類に対する戦争 行為でした。

新しいウイルス: 2019-nCoV

公式発表によれば、2019年12月に中国湖北省武漢市で危険な新しいウイルスが検出されたとのこと。このウイルスは「 2019年新型コロナウイルスV」を意味する2019 -nCoVと名付けられました。

2020年1月1日、「中国の保健当局は、そこで売られていた野生動物がウイルスの発生源である可能性があるという西側メディアの報道を受けて、武漢の華南海鮮卸売市場を閉鎖した。

2020年1月初旬の時点で、この問題はメディアの広範な報道の対象となり、世界規模で恐怖キャンペーンが展開されました。メディアによる偽情報は24時間365日、フル稼働で行われていました。

中国当局は、2020年1月7日にRT-PCR検査を使用して「新しいタイプのウイルスを特定した」とされている。ウイルスの分離プロセスに関する具体的な詳細は提供されていない。

新型コロナウイルスの特定に失敗

2020年1月下旬、WHOは次のことを確認しました。

感染患者から精製されたサンプルから2019-nCoVの分離株を保有していなかったため、新型コロナウイルスの正体を確認できなかった

ここでは、2019-nCoVスクリーニングと特定の確認のための診断ワークフローの確立と検証について報告します。これは、利用可能なウイルス分離株または元の患者検体がない場合に設計されています。設計と検証は、2003年のSARS-CoVとの密接な遺伝的関連性によって可能になり、合成核酸技術の使用によって支援されました。

2020年2月11日。疑惑の「新型ウイルス」が改名される 

2020年2月初旬、新型コロナウイルスの特定に失敗したことから、名称を以下のように変更することが決定されました。

重症急性呼吸器症候群コロナウイルス」:SARS-CoV-2は(WHOによると)20年前のウイルスに「似ている」:

2003-SARS-CoV。

20年前の2003年のコロナウイルスが2020年2月に「新しいウイルス」に分類される? 

WHOニューイングランド医学ジャーナル(NEJM)2003年5月号により確認:

「重症急性呼吸器症候群に関連する新型コロナウイルス」 

2002年に中国南部の広東省で発生したこのウイルスは、2003年5月15日に「新しいウイルス」として特定され分類されました。(20年以上前)。 

以下に、 2003 年 5 月 15 日の NEJM の記事のスクリーンショットを示します。 

 

(2019-nCoVの特定と改名に関する分析と詳細については下にスクロールしてください)


動画:存在しない「新型コロナ ウイルス」?

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「大金持ち」と「大手製薬会社」がダボスで出会う

この新型ウイルスは、スイスのダボスで開催された世界経済フォーラム(WEF)の会議(2020年1月22日)で活発に議論された。

ビル&メリンダ・ゲイツ財団が資金提供している団体、感染症流行対策イノベーション連合(CEPI)が提案した2019-nCoVワクチンプログラムが発表された。ダボスで発表されたシアトルを拠点とするモデルナ社(CEPIの支援を受けて)は、2019-nCoVに対する免疫を構築するためのmRNAワクチンを製造する予定だった。

証拠とダボスでの発言は、2019-nCoVワクチンプロジェクトがすでに2019年初頭に進行中であったことを示唆しています。そして、CEPIは2019-nCoVの発表について事前に知っていました。(ミシェル・チョスドフスキー、第8章)。

2019年nCoVワクチンの開発は、2020年1月7日の発表から2週間後、1月30日のWHOの世界的公衆衛生上の緊急事態の公式発表のわずか1週間前にダボスで発表されました。WEF、ゲイツ、CEPIのワクチン発表は 、中国国外で 83件の陽性確認症例を前提としたWHOの公衆衛生上の緊急事態(PHEIC)に先行しています。

嘘と虚偽

これらすべては、  2019-nC0Vと名付けられた疑わしい新しいコロナウイルスが分離されておらず、その正体も確認されておらず、中国で報告された症例数が非常に少なかった時期に展開されました。「2020年1月3日現在、44件の症例が報告されており、11人が重症で、残りの33人の患者の容態は安定している」(WHO報告書)。

中国で流行が広がっている証拠はなく、研究室からの漏洩の証拠もなかったため、CEPIがダボスで「新型コロナウイルスの急速な世界的拡大」について述べた声明は、真っ赤な嘘である。(上の画像を参照)

そして2020年1月30日、WHO事務局長テドロス博士は、脅威となるような流行の証拠が全くないにもかかわらず、国際的に懸念される公衆衛生上の緊急事態(PHEIC)を宣言しました。

同日、中国では 人口64億人のうち世界中で83人が感染していました。下の表をご覧ください。米国で5人、カナダで3人、フランスで4人、ドイツで4人です。これは世界的な緊急事態に該当するのでしょうか?

そして、それらの(累積)症例は、ウイルスの正体を検出しないRT-ポリメラーゼ連鎖反応(PCR)検査に基づいています 。 (付録を参照)。

 

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WHOからのスクリーンショット、2020年1月29日。

米国、カナダ、フランス、ドイツで確認された陽性症例数

ページ29画像11612724803週間後の2020年2月20日の記者会見で、WHO事務局長テドロス・アダノム・ゲブレイェソス博士はパンデミックが差し迫っていることを示唆した。

「コロナウイルスの流行を封じ込めるチャンスが『消えつつある』ことを懸念しています…」

「チャンスはまだあるが、そのチャンスは狭まりつつあると私は信じている。」

テドロス博士が大胆な発言を裏付けるために提示した証拠は何だったのでしょうか?

2020年2月20日現在、中国国外で確認された感染者(累計)は1076人(日本の領海内に座礁したクルーズ船「ダイヤモンド・プリンセス」号の感染者を含む)に過ぎない。

同日、WHOは「中国以外の国、地域、地域別」の確認された症例のデータを提供した。 米国15人、カナダ8人、ドイツ16人、フランス12人、英国9人。

 

下のスクリーンショットをクリックすると拡大します (テドロス氏の記者会見での冒頭発言)

「中国以外では、現在20か国で1076人の感染者 がおり、死亡者は計7人となっている。

中国国外での感染者のうち、半数以上はクルーズ船「ダイヤモンド・プリンセス」の乗客である。

WHO事務局長テドロス博士の公式声明、ジュネーブ、2020年2月20日

おお! 

「ダイヤモンドプリンセス号のデータがなければ、2020年2月20日現在、中国以外の世界全体で確認された感染者数は、人口64億人のうち452人程度だった。」 (18~19ページ)

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2020年3月11日:歴史的なCOVID-19パンデミックによるロックダウン、約190の国家経済の「閉鎖」

WHO事務局長は2月20日の記者会見ですでに舞台を整えていた。

「世界はコロナウイルスのパンデミックの可能性に備えるためにもっと努力すべきだ。」

WHOは、中国以外で人口64億人に対してPCR検査で陽性となった新型コロナウイルス感染者数が累計44,279人 に達した時点で、世界的パンデミックを公式に宣言した。 (詳細と分析については、ミシェル・チョスドフスキー著、第2章を参照)。

中国の80,981件の症例も、  PCR陽性症例の累計であることが確認されています。2020年3月12日に記録された中国の新規PCR-RT陽性症例に注目してください。控えめな「新規26件」は、中国でのパンデミックが2020年3月11日に終了したことを示しています。 

仮に2019年のnCoVとされるウイルスが検出され、適切に特定されていたとしても、190か国以上でロックダウンを実施する根拠として使われた  、2020年3月12日に公表されたPCR-RTで確認された(累積)陽性症例数(44,279)は途方もなく少ないものでした(これは、ウイルスを検出または特定しないPCR-RT検査の失敗を考慮していない)(PCR-RT検査のレビューについては付録を参照)。

WHOの「リスク評価」は嘲笑の域に達する

しかし、国連加盟国190カ国がこれを承認した。

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WHOリスク評価

グローバルレベル

以下のデータは2020年3月12日に公開されました

WHOレポートのスクリーンショット

 

WHOが確認したところ、米国では2020年3月9日の記録で、 人口3億2950万人のうち3,457人の「確定症例」 (RT-PCR陽性)があった( WHOグラフのスクリーンショット インタラクティブWHOグラフ [WHOへのリンクは利用できなくなりました] 

WHOレポートのスクリーンショット

カナダでは2020年3月9日現在人口3850万人のうち125人の「感染者」 が確認されている。

WHOグラフのスクリーンショット インタラクティブなWHOグラフ。 カナダのデータ

ドイツでは2020年3月9日現在、人口8320万人のうち2948人の「感染者」 が確認されている。

WHOレポートのスクリーンショット

恐怖キャンペーンとPCR-RT検査の世界的拡大の結果いわゆる「PCR-RT」確認症例の数は急増しました。

詳細については、ミシェル・チョスドフスキー(2022年3月19日)を参照。

2019年10月の「イベント201」の「危険なウイルス」のシミュレーション 「nCoV-2019」

イベント201は、ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学とゲイツ財団が後援したコロナウイルス流行の卓上シミュレーションでした。

WHOは当初、 ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学が実施したパンデミック・イベント201の模擬演習と同じ頭字語、すなわち2019-nCoV(新型コロナウイルスの呼称)を採用した。

新しいコロナウイルスの名前は(2019年の配置を除いて)イベント201シミュレーションの名前と同一でした。

著名人が出席したこのシミュレーションは、2020年1月初旬に新型コロナウイルスの発生が発表される3か月弱前の2019年10月18日に開催された。

参加者の中には、WHO、米国情報機関、ゲイツ財団、ワクチンと予防接種に関する世界同盟(GAVI)(ゲイツ財団が資金提供)、感染症流行対策イノベーション連合(CEPI)、世界経済フォーラム(WEF)、国連、米国疾病予防管理センター(CDC)、中国疾病予防管理センター(CDC、ジョージ・フー・ガオ所長)、大手製薬会社、世界銀行などの代表者(つまり意思決定者)がいた。

こうしたさまざまな組織は、2020年初頭にいわゆるパンデミックが始まった際に重要な役割を果たした。201の「シミュレーション演習」の多くの特徴は、実際にWHO事務局長が2020年1月30日に世界公衆衛生緊急事態(PHEIC)を発表したときに実際に起こったことと一致していた。

さらに、WEFやゲイツ財団を含むイベント201のスポンサーと参加者は、RT-PCR検査、2020年3月のロックダウン、2020年12月に開始されたmRNAワクチンなど、COVID-19関連の政策の調整(および資金調達)に当初から積極的に関与していました。

 イベント201のシミュレーションに参加した中国CDC所長のジョージ・フー・ガオ博士は、2020年初頭の武漢でのCOVID-19の流行を監視する上で中心的な役割を果たし、指導者であるアンソニー・ファウチ博士やゲイツ財団、CEPIなどと緊密に連携しながら活動した。

ガオ・フー博士はオックスフォード大学卒で、大手製薬会社とつながりがあります。 また、グラクソ・スミスクライン社 ( GSK, plc )が所有するウェルカム慈善財団のフェローも数年間務めていました。

謎に包まれた「新型ウイルスの正体」

ウイルスの名前が最初に特定されました:

  • –2019年10月:イベント201シミュレーションシナリオ、2020年10月:nCoV-2019 
  • –2019年12月、武漢: 2019 nCoV 

そして2020年2月11日、新型コロナウイルスの名称が不思議なことにまた変更された。

2019-nCoV から SARS-CoV-2 に変更されました。これは 「重症急性呼吸器症候群」  の略称です: SARS – コロナ (Co) ウイルス (V)-2」。

もはや「n」という接頭辞(新しいウイルスであることを示す)はなくなりました 。n」という接頭辞は「2」という接尾辞に置き換えられました。

SARS-CoV-2の意味は何でしょうか。より具体的には、謎の「2」という接尾辞 の意味は何でしょうか。これは、20年前のウイルスに関係しており、その名称は次の通りです。

2003年 -SARS-CoVは、決して新しいウイルスとして分類することはできません

「新しいウイルス」対「古いウイルス」:2002~2003年の「重症急性呼吸器症候群」(SARS)

2020年2月11日以降、 2019年新型コロナウイルス  の正式名称となったSARS-CoV-2は、決して新しいウイルスではありません。  

2002-2003 年中国広東省のフラッシュバック。WHO および査読済みレポートによって確認済み:

「重症急性呼吸器症候群に関連する新型コロナウイルス」は、 2002年に中国広東省で発生しました。(NEJM、2003年5月

SARS は2003 年に新型コロナウイルスとして分類されました 。つまり、もはや新しいものではありません。20 年前の 2003 年初頭に検出され、分離されました。

2003-SARS-CoVウイルスの本質的な特徴

WHOによって確認された

「重症急性呼吸器症候群(SARS)は、SARS関連コロナウイルスによって引き起こされるウイルス性呼吸器疾患です。2003年2月末(20年以上前)に中国で発生し、他の4カ国に広がった流行中に初めて確認されました。… 

重症急性呼吸器症候群 (SARS) の世界的流行は、中国広東省の 1 人の医療従事者が罹患したことにより発生した感染に関連しているとされています。私たちはこの流行の原因物質を特定するための研究を実施しました。

…  SARSの症例定義を満たした患者から新しいコロナウイルスが分離されました。  … 逆転写ポリメラーゼ連鎖反応(RT-PCR)によってポリメラーゼ遺伝子の断片を増幅するように設計されたコンセンサスコロナウイルスプライマーを使用して、分離株が、以前に配列決定されたコロナウイルスとはわずかに関係が薄い独特のコロナウイルスであることを明確に特定する配列が得られました。

この報告書で重要なのは、WHOが、  2003年5月に「2003 SARS-CoV」と 名付けられた新型2003コロナウイルスが患者のサンプルから分離され、特定され、「重症急性呼吸器症候群」と指定されたことを確認したことです 。


NEJM(2003年5月15日)で採用されたウイルスの識別は次のとおりです。(強調追加)
私たちは7か国の患者から臨床検体を受け取り、ウイルス分離技術、電子顕微鏡および組織学的研究、分子および血清学的検査を使用して検査し、広範囲の潜在的な病原体を特定しようとしました。
結果: これまで報告された呼吸器病原体はいずれも一貫して特定されなかった。しかし、SARS の症例定義を満たす患者から新しいコロナウイルスが分離された。咽頭スワブ検体を接種した Vero E6 細胞に細胞病理学的特徴が認められた。電子顕微鏡検査により、コロナウイルスに特徴的な超微細構造が明らかになった。免疫組織化学および免疫蛍光染色により、グループ I コロナウイルスポリクローナル抗体との反応性が明らかになった。 
逆転写ポリメラーゼ連鎖反応(RT-PCR)によってポリメラーゼ遺伝子の断片を増幅するように設計されたコンセンサスコロナウイルスプライマーを使用して、分離株が、以前に配列決定されたコロナウイルスとはわずかに関係が薄い独特のコロナウイルスであることを明確に特定する配列を取得しました。」

過去 20 年間で、元の2003 年 SARS コロナウイルスの複数の変異体が生じたに違いありません。


「新型2019ウイルス(2019-nCoV)」の分離株の不在 

 2003年のSARS-CoVは適切に分離されましたが、 WHOは2020年1月に、感染患者から2019年新型コロナウイルスの分離・精製サンプルを入手しておらず、2019-nCoVと呼ばれる(「危険な」)2019年新型コロナウイルスの正体を確認できなかったことを認めました。それが理由でした。馬鹿げているように聞こえます。 

この問題はどのように解決されたのでしょうか。ゲイツ財団からの助言に従い、WHOはシャリテ病院のベルリンウイルス学研究所と連携しました。

クリスチャン・ドロステン博士の科学的指導の下 、ベルリンウイルス学研究は次のように題されました。

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ベルリンウイルス学研究所の研究では、 次のことが明確に認められています。

「いくつかのウイルスゲノム配列が公開されていたが、感染患者からの[2019-nCoVの]ウイルス分離株やサンプルは入手できなかった…」

ベルリンチームがWHOに推奨したのは、2019-nCoVウイルスの分離株が存在しない場合、類似の2003年のSARS-CoVウイルスを2019年新型コロナウイルスの「プロキシ」(基準点)として使用すべきだということだ。

「ゲノム配列は、重症急性呼吸器症候群(SARS)関連CoVと呼ばれるウイルス種のメンバーに密接に関連するウイルスの存在を示唆しています。この種は、2002/03年にヒトで発生したSARSの原因物質として定義される種です[3,4]。」

「我々は、利用可能なウイルス分離株や患者の元の検体がない状況で設計された、2019-nCoVのスクリーニングと特定の確認(RT-PCR検査を使用)のための診断ワークフローの確立と検証について報告します。設計と検証は、 2003年のSARS-CoVとの遺伝的関連性が高いことにより可能となり、合成核酸技術の使用によって支援されました。」(Eurosurveillance、2020年1月23日、強調追加)。

この曖昧な声明が示唆しているのは、2019-nCoVの正体は必須ではなく、「COVID-19の確認症例」 (つまり、2019年新型コロナウイルスによる感染症)は「2003年のSARS-CoVとの密接な遺伝的関連性」によって検証されるということだ。

新しいウイルスが特定されずに、つまり「分離株」も出ずに、類似ウイルスとして分類されるのはなぜでしょうか。さらに、PCR 検査ではウイルスは検出されませんが、 (多数のウイルスの)遺伝子断片は検出されるということに留意してください。

決定的な証拠

これが意味するのは、 20年前(本稿執筆時点)に広東省で検出されたコロナウイルス( 2003 SARS-CoV )が、2019年12月下旬に中国の湖北省で初めて検出されたいわゆる「新型コロナウイルス」の正体を「検証」するために使用されたということだ。

ドロステン研究(ゲイツ財団からの249,550ドルの助成金で賄われた)の勧告はその後WHOに伝えられた。

これらはその後、WHO事務局長テドロス・アダノム・ゲブレイェソス博士によって承認された。

WHOは、新しいウイルスを特定するために必要な「ウイルス分離株」を保有していなかった。

「気にしないでください」。 新型コロナウイルスの分離は必要ないという判断が下されました。

PCR検査が2003年のSARS-CoVウイルスを代理または「参照点」として使用する場合、新型コロナウイルス2019-nCoVに関連する「確認済み」症例は存在しないというのは当然のことです

2019年新型コロナウイルス2019nCoVは、2020年2月11日に国際ウイルス分類委員会によってSARS-CoV-2  と改名されました。これが2という接尾辞の由来です。

 2019年の新型コロナウイルスは、 2003年のSARS-CoVに「似ている」と言われており、その後、  SARS-CoV-2と区別するためにSARS -CoV-1と改名されました。

新しいウイルス(2019 nCoV)は「存在しない」(RT-PCRで確認された症例はない)。

RT-PCR検査はWHOによって無効と宣言された

十分に文書化されているように、RT-PCR 検査は、ウイルスを特定できないものの、多数のウイルスの遺伝子断片を検出します。

以下の記事をご覧ください:

WHO、新型コロナPCR検査に欠陥ありと認める:「陽性者」の推定値は無意味。ロックダウンには科学的根拠なし

ミシェル・チョスドフスキー教授、2023年12月10日

この記事の付録にある RT-PCR のレビューも参照してください。

ベルリンウイルス学研究所の助言に従ったWHOの決定の重要性と曖昧さ、つまり新型コロナウイルスの「分離株」の問題は、何気なく無視されてきた。「質問なし」

英国メディアは2020年2月6日にウイルスの名前の変更について報じた。

「致死的なコロナウイルスについに名前が付けられる。科学者たちは数日以内にこの病気に正式な名前を付ける予定だが、場所や動物にちなんで名付けられることはないだろう。国際ウイルス分類委員会が名前を提出した。…

大金、大製薬。特許権

心に留めておこう。現在も続いている新型コロナウイルス危機は、  RT-PCR検査の世界的な悪用から、ファイザーが大部分を占める大手製薬会社の数十億ドル規模のワクチンプロジェクトに至るまで、数多くの大手製薬会社の製品を使った世界規模の巨額資金の作戦なのだ。

ウイルスの名前がSARS-CoV-2に変更されたのは、「ロイヤリティ」と知的財産権の問題だったのでしょうか?2003年のSARS-CoVに関連する米国特許権は2004年4月に申請され、2007年5月に米国保健福祉省に譲渡されました。 

特許番号: US 7,220,852 B1 特許日: 2007 年 5 月 22 日(これはさらに調査が必要な事項です。)

「大嘘」と「存在しない新ウイルス」。その結果は?

上で文書化されているように(WHOによって確認済み)、2019年の新しいコロナウイルスは特定されていません。

2003 SARS-CoVと呼ばれる20年前のウイルスを、疑わしい新しいウイルスの 代理 として使用することで、2020年1月から3月にかけて新しいコロナウイルスによるパンデミックは発生しなかったことが確認されます。

「新しいウイルス」は存在しませんでした

これが意味するのは、190か国に課された壊滅的な ロックダウン政策(2020年3月11日)と、 世界的な新型コロナワクチンの展開(2020年12月中旬)の両方が詐欺的であるということです。これらは「大きな嘘」に基づいており、  ほぼ4年間にわたって文字通り人々の生活を破壊することに貢献してきました。

絶え間ない恐怖キャンペーンは、人々の健康、精神衛生に壊滅的な影響を及ぼし、世界的な自殺の波を引き起こしました。いくつかの国では、学童の自殺が記録されました(ミシェル・チョスドフスキー、第6章を参照)。

「大嘘」がロックダウンを誘発

暗黙の真実は、新型コロナウイルスが、強力な金融利害関係者と腐敗した政治家たちに、全世界を大量失業、破産、極度の貧困と絶望のスパイラルに陥れる口実と正当化を与えたということだ。

ロックダウンは経済的、社会的戦争行為でした。労働力は閉じ込められ、職場は凍結され、世界規模の経済崩壊が計画的に起こりました。

この危機は決して終わっていません。現在、世界全体が世界史上最も深刻な債務危機に陥っています。あらゆる債務の種類(民間および公的)。 米国下院予算委員会が2024年7月29日に発表したところによると、米国の国家債務は史上初めて35兆ドルを超えています。

家を失ったり、毎月の家賃を払えなくなったりしている人々に対するWEFの億万長者たちの言葉は、次の通りです。

何も持たずに幸せになろう」。

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「存在しない新しいウイルス」から人々を守ることを目的としたmRNA「ワクチン」

SARS-nCoV-2と改名された、存在しない新しいコロナウイルスから人々を守ることを目的としたmRNA「ワクチン」が、過剰死亡率の上昇傾向 をもたらしたことが十分に文書化されています

情報公開法に基づいて公開されたファイザーの機密報告書は、自社のデータに基づいてワクチンが有毒物質であることを確認しています。ファイザーの報告書全文に  アクセスするには、ここをクリックしてください。

証拠は圧倒的です:

ウィリアム・マキス博士による「ワクチン」がパイロット、医療従事者、学童、学生、アスリート、妊婦、新生児 (その他多数)など、 あらゆる階層の人々に与える影響について、慎重に記録された資料をご覧ください。

新型コロナウイルス「ワクチン」による死亡率上昇

ワクチン関連の過剰死亡率に関する研究は数多くある。以下は、エドワード・ダウド のチームが実施した、mRNAワクチンによる イングランドとウェールズでの癌関連の過剰死亡率に関する 鋭い研究の要約である 。

ダウド氏の方法は、2010年から2022年の間にイングランドとウェールズで癌が原因で死亡した人の数を分析するというものでした (英国国家統計局のデータに基づく)。

以下の表は、イングランドとウェールズにおける悪性新生物(癌性腫瘍)に関連する 超過死亡数を、2020年、2021年、2022年の3年連続で記録し、10年間の傾向(2010~2019年)と比較したものです。

2020年(ワクチン接種前の年)の超過死亡のデータは、「部位を特定しない悪性新生物」を除いてマイナスです。

COVID-19ワクチンは、 2020年12月8日から2021年3月から4月にかけて 、イングランドとウェールズで段階的に導入されました。

過剰死亡率(%)の上昇は 2021 年に始まります。悪性腫瘍に関連する過剰死亡率の増加は、ワクチン接種の最初の 2 年間について集計されています。 

 

イングランドとウェールズ: 超過死亡率

 

以下は、ドイツの超過死亡率に関する同様の表であり、 2020年、2021年、2022年の観測死亡率予想死亡率(年齢グループ別)の偏差を示しています。

2020年12月の新型コロナワクチンの導入後、2021年と2022年に死亡率が上昇していることに注目してください。

 

ドイツ: 超過死亡率 

ドイツ: 年齢層別超過死亡率 (%)

年齢層別の過剰死亡率は、総過剰死亡率は灰色 

日本:過剰死亡

日本。超過死亡率(2020年~2022年):2021年と2022年の超過死亡率の急増(2022年1月~10月)

アメリカ:
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ワクチン有害事象報告システム (VAERS)。報告されたワクチンによる死亡。
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ワクチンによる死亡に関する公式データ。公式データ(下の画像をクリックすると VAERS の Web サイトにアクセスできます
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下のグラフ:「年ごとに Vaers に報告されたすべての死亡者数」は1990 年から始まっています 。(例:被害者の家族が VAERS に報告)。これらは公式の数字であり、ワクチンに起因する死亡者数です。ワクチンによる死亡者のごく一部のみが報告されています。それにもかかわらず、下のグラフは、2021 年に米国で 19,000 人以上のワクチン関連の死亡者がいること を示しています。メディアも米国 政府も国民に知らせていません。
注目すべきは、2020年12月中旬に米国で発売された新型コロナワクチンの初年度に相当する2021年を通じて、報告されたワクチンによる死亡者数が劇的に増加したことだ。
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メディアの偽情報、大胆な嘘 

ワクチンによる過剰死亡率に関する研究は数多くあるが、メディアはそれを無視している。

マスコミの報道では決まって、 ウイルスが「危険」または「致命的」であると権威をもって述べられているが、実際には死亡率の上昇傾向を引き起こしたのは「ワクチン」である。

デイリーメール(2020年2月6日)は「致命的なコロナウイルス」について言及し、それが世界中に広がっていることを示唆している。

危険なウイルスの指定は大胆な嘘です。

WHO、CDC、査読済みレポートによって確認されたように、2019 nCoV-19 は危険ではありません。以下の付録を参照してください。


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この短い記事での私たちの分析は、以下の証拠を示しました。

  • 2019 nCoVと呼ばれる新型コロナウイルスは分離されたことはなかった、
  • SARS-CoV-2と改名された新しいコロナウイルスは、新しいウイルスではありません。2003-SARS-CoVという古いウイルスに似ています 

「公式の説明」を否定する他の多くの問題、具体的にはウイルスを特定しない RT-PCR 検査があることを述べておくべきでしょう。

以下の付録のセクション 1、2、3、4 と、逆転写 ポリメラーゼ連鎖反応 (RT-PCR) テストのレビューを参照してください。 

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ミシェル・チョスドフスキーは、この陰険な計画がどのように「人々の生活を破壊する」かを詳細に検証しています。彼は、医学的側面から経済的および社会的影響、政治的背景、精神的および心理的影響まで、「パンデミック」について知っておくべきすべてのことを包括的に分析しています。

「作家としての私の目的は、世界中の人々に情報を伝え、国家全体の経済と社会の構造を不安定にし、その後「致死的な」COVID-19「ワクチン」を押し付けるための正当化として使われてきた公式の見解に反論することです。この危機は人類全体、つまり約80億人に影響を及ぼしています。私たちは世界中の仲間の人間と子供たちと連帯します。真実は強力な手段です。」

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これは、より広い視点から理解を深めたい人にとっては、非常に興味深い詳細なリソースです。著者は地政学について非常に知識が豊富で、それがコロナの文脈化の仕方に表れています。—マイク・イェードン博士

私たちが今直面している人類に対する戦争、自由と人々の善良さに対するこの特異で不規則で大規模な攻撃において、チョスソドフスキーの本は私たちの戦いを支えるための岩石です。 –エマニュエル・ガルシア博士

簡潔な科学に基づく15章で、ミシェルは偽のコロナパンデミックを追跡し、最大97%の偽陽性が証明されたPCR検査と、容赦ない24時間年中無休の恐怖キャンペーンが組み合わさって、どのようにして世界規模のパニックに満ちた「パンデミック」を生み出すことができたのかを説明しています。このパンデミックは、悪名高いDNA改変ポリメラーゼ連鎖反応検査なしには決して起こり得なかったでしょう。この検査は今日に至るまで、何も知らない大多数の罪のない人々に押し付けられています。彼の結論は、著名な科学者によって証明されています。—ピーター・ケーニグ 

チョスドフスキー教授は、「ウイルスと経済変数の間には因果関係はない」という真実を明らかにしている。言い換えれば、世界経済の停止を引き起こしたのはCOVID-19ではなく、むしろ非論理的で科学的根拠のないロックダウンの意図的な実施だったのだ。 –デビッド・スクリパック

チョスドフスキーの本を読むと、「グレート リセット」と呼ばれる世界規模のクーデターが進行中であること、そして世界中の自由を愛する人々がこれに抵抗し、打ち負かさなければ、想像もできないディストピアの未来が訪れることなど、包括的な教訓が得られます。手遅れになる前に、チョスドフスキー教授からのこの無料ギフトをぜひお渡しください。これほど多くの貴重な情報と分析を 1 か所で見つけられる場所は他にありません。 –エドワード カーティン

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著者について

Michel  Chossudovsky. ミシェル・チョスドフスキー は、受賞歴のある作家であり、オタワ大学の経済学教授(名誉教授)、モントリオールのグローバリゼーション研究センター(CRG)の創設者兼所長、Global Researchの編集者です。

彼はラテンアメリカ、アジア、中東、サハラ以南のアフリカ、太平洋地域で現地調査を行い、貧困と社会的不平等に焦点を当てて発展途上国の経済について多くの著作を残しています。

彼はまた、国連ラテンアメリカ・カリブ経済委員会(ECLAC)、UNFPA、UNDP、CIDA、WHOなどを代表して医療経済学の研究を行ってきました。ベネズエラ政府、ジョン・ホプキンス国際医療サービスジャーナル (1979年1983年)。

彼は、『貧困のグローバル化と新世界秩序』  (2003年)、『 アメリカの「テロとの戦い」  (2005年)』、   『戦争のグローバル化、人類に対するアメリカの長期戦争』 (2015年)を含む13冊の本の著者です。

彼はブリタニカ百科事典の寄稿者です。彼の著作は 20 以上の言語で出版されています。2014 年には、ユーゴスラビアに対する NATO の侵略戦争に関する著作により、セルビア共和国功労金メダルを授与されました。連絡先は[email protected]です。 ([email protected])

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付録

 

上記の分析は証拠を提供します:

  • 2019 nCoVと呼ばれる新しいコロナウイルスは分離されたことはなく、
  • SARS-CoV-2と改名された新しいコロナウイルスは、2003-SARS-CoV と名付けられた20年前のウイルスに類似している。

この記事で取り上げられていない「公式の見解」を否定する他の多くの問題があることを理解すべきである(以下のセクション1、2、3、4、および逆転写 ポリメラーゼ連鎖反応(RT-PCR)検査のレビューを参照)。

「恐怖キャンペーン」を理解する上で重要なのは、WHOとCDCが2019nCoV(SARS-CoV-2)は危険なウイルスではないと確認していることです。

1. 2019-nCoVに関するWHOの声明

「最近発見されたコロナウイルスは、コロナウイルス感染症COVID-19を引き起こします。COVID  -19の最も一般的な症状は、発熱、乾いた咳、倦怠感です。…これらの症状は通常軽度で、徐々に現れます。感染しても症状が非常に軽い人もいます。ほとんどの人(約80%)は、入院治療を必要とせずに回復します。COVID-19に感染した人の約5人に1人が重症化し、呼吸困難になります。」(詳細については、ミシェル・チョスドフスキー、2022年8月、強調追加)

2. アンソニー・ファウチ博士によるSARS-CoV-2に関するNEJM誌の記事

ファウチ氏は当初から、SARS-CoV-2(その変異体と亜変異体を含む)の差し迫った危険性について繰り返し警告しており、ニューイングランド医学ジャーナルの査読済み論文 (H.クリフォード・レーン医学博士およびロバート・R・レッドフィールド医学博士と共著)では次のことを認めている。

「新型コロナウイルス感染症の全体的な臨床的影響は、最終的には重症の季節性インフルエンザ(致死率は約0.1%)やパンデミックインフルエンザ(1957年と1968年に発生したものと同様)に似たものになる可能性がある…」(  NEJMの「新型コロナウイルス感染症 – 未知の世界への航海」を参照)

3. WHOによる2003-SARSの定義

「SARSは空気感染するウイルスで、風邪やインフルエンザと同様に唾液の小さな飛沫を介して広がる可能性があります。…SARSは、ウイルスに感染した人が触れた表面を介して間接的に広がることもあります。」

SARS と診断された患者のほとんどは、以前は健康だった 25~70 歳の成人でした。15 歳未満の子供で SARS の疑いのある症例が数件報告されています。現在の WHO の SARS の疑いのある症例と可能性の高い症例の定義を満たす病気の患者の致死率は約 3% です。

新型2019nCoVコロナウイルスの名前がSARS-CoV-2に変更される1か月前(2020年2月11日)、WHOは2003年の 重症急性呼吸器症候群に関する詳細な文書 (運用サポートおよびロジスティクス疾病商品パッケージpdf)を発表しました。

4. CDCによるSARS-CoV-2と季節性インフルエンザの比較 

「インフルエンザとCOVID-19はどちらも伝染性の呼吸器疾患ですが、原因となるウイルスが異なります。COVID-19は新しいコロナウイルス(SARS-CoV-2と呼ばれる)の感染によって引き起こされ、インフルエンザはインフルエンザウイルスの感染によって引き起こされます。」

インフルエンザとCOVID-19の症状の一部は似ているため、症状だけで両者を区別するのは難しい場合があり、診断を確定するために検査が必要になることがあります。インフルエンザとCOVID-19には多くの共通点がありますが、両者の間にはいくつかの重要な違いがあります。」

もし国民がCOVID-19が「インフルエンザに似ている」と知らされ、安心していたら、恐怖キャンペーンは失敗していただろう。

ロックダウンと国家経済の閉鎖は、その後の新型コロナワクチンの導入は言うまでもなく、完全に拒否されただろう。

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ポリメラーゼ連鎖反応(RT-PCR)検査

 

ウイルスの拡散を検知するためにWHOのガイドラインに基づいて適用されている偏った方法は、逆転写ポリメラーゼ連鎖反応(RT-PCR)検査であり、2020年2月以来、世界中で日常的に適用されている。(このテキストは、ミシェル・チョスドフスキーの著書、2022年8月からの抜粋です)

RT-PCR検査は世界中で何百万もの誤った「COVID-19確定症例」を生成するために使用され、それがいわゆるパンデミックが現実であるという幻想を維持するために使用されています。

誤った数字に基づくこの評価は、3年半にわたって恐怖キャンペーンの先頭に立って継続するために使われてきました。

「確認済み」というのは誤った表現です。「RT-PCR検査で陽性と確認された症例」は「COVID-19の確定症例」を意味するものではありません。

RT-PCR検査が陽性だからといって、必ずしもCOVID-19感染症と同義ではありません。PCRの専門家は、検査結果の価値(信頼性)を確認するには、検査を受ける患者の臨床記録や健康状態と常に比較する必要があると明言しています。(パスカル・サクレ博士)

国家保健当局が採用している手順は、RT-PCR検査で陽性となったすべての症例を「COVID-19確定症例」(診断の有無にかかわらず)として分類することだ。皮肉なことに、この「確定症例」を特定する日常的なプロセスは、CDC自身のガイドラインに反している。

「ウイルスRNAの検出は、感染性ウイルスの存在や2019-nCoVが臨床症状の原因物質であることを示しているわけではない。この検査の性能は、2019-nCoV感染の治療を監視するために確立されたものではない。この検査では、他の細菌またはウイルス病原体によって引き起こされる疾患を除外することはできない。」8(強調追加)

ウイルスの拡散を検出し推定するために使用された方法論は欠陥があり無効です。

誤検知

危機が始まった当初の議論は「偽陽性」の問題に焦点が当てられていた。

WHOとCDCも認めているように、RT-PCR検査は偽陽性率が高いことが知られています。パスカル・サクレ博士によると、

「現在、当局がより多くの人々を検査するにつれ、RT-PCR検査で陽性となる人も増えるはずです。これは、COVID-19が再流行している、あるいは流行が波のように広がっていることを意味するものではありません。検査を受ける人が増えている、それだけです。」9

偽陽性に関する議論(保健当局も認めている)は、いわゆるエラーを指摘しているが、SARS-CoV-2ウイルスの疑惑の拡散を検出する手段としてのRT-PCR検査の全体的な有効性に必ずしも疑問を呈しているわけではない。

PCR検査ではウイルスの正体は検出されない

RT-PCR 検査はウイルスを特定/検出するものではありません。PCR 検査で特定されるのは、多数のウイルス(インフルエンザウイルス A 型および B 型、風邪を引き起こすコロナウイルスを含む)の遺伝子断片です。

RT-PCR検査の結果では、検査を受けた個人がSARS-CoV-2に感染しているかどうかを「確認」することはできません。

以下の図は、陽性と陰性のケースを識別するプロセスをまとめたものです。「陽性」と分類されるために必要なのは、「ウイルスの遺伝物質」が存在することだけです。この手順では、COVID-19を特定したり分離したりするものではありません。検査で検出されるのは、ウイルスの断片です。10

PCR検査の失敗、信じられないほど低い数値

2019年のnCoVが検出され、適切に特定されていたとしても、190か国以上でロックダウンを実施する根拠として使われた 2020年3月11日までの期間のPCR-RT確認(累積)陽性症例数は途方もなく少ないものだった。中国の80,981件も、PCR確認(累積)陽性症例に該当する。2020年3月12日の中国の新規症例(PCR陽性)は「321件の新規」程度であることに注意。

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Video: A Brief History of the War on Syria. James Corbett

December 11th, 2024 by James Corbett

The foreign-backed terrorist insurgency in Syria has finally accomplished the globalists’ objective: regime change in Syria.

But how did we get here?

Who was behind this decades-long plan for reshaping the Middle East?

And what does it mean for the world?

Today on The Corbett Report podcast, James dives through The Corbett Report’s 13-year archives on the Syrian war to bring these events into focus.

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Since I started “Looking Out at the World From Canada” about a year and a half ago, I have delved into a number of developments in my home province of Alberta. Often my commentaries involve reports on public health as administered by the current Alberta government of Premier Danielle Smith.

I have explained earlier how I participated in a small way to help her become head of the United Conservative Party (UCP). Danielle Smith then won an electoral mandate to become the provincial premier while commanding a UCP majority of seats in the Edmonton-based Legislature.

Danielle Smith remains a vivacious and energetic political leader with many important talents across a wide spectrum of activity. She moves easily and adeptly across a wide array of functions from, say, an effective high-level researcher to a convivial schmoozer who is relaxed, attentive and engaging in a variety of community settings.

Unfortunately, however, Danielle Smith is failing badly in precisely the area of involvement that drew me to become a political supporter in the first place.

Premier Smith was delivered to the job of Alberta Premier in 2022 after she successfully rode an undercurrent of public unrest that permeates most Western countries. The realization is still developing that the medical profession was bribed and intimidated into attacking public health in order to serve nefarious objectives that had nothing to do with countering the spread of a viral respiratory infection.

For those with the capacity for clear-headed critical assessment, the Covid debacle has exposed a huge and urgent need for major alterations in how doctoring should take place in viable systems of health care. The malaise in doctoring is part of a larger societal malady where the wellbeing of a large majority of humans is being ruthlessly ravaged in a variety ways that further enrich the world’s tiny handful of domineering power junkies.

Premier Smith seemed briefly to have had a handle on the hopes and expectations she aroused in helping to articulate Alberta’s version of the “freedom movement.” This grass roots movement seeks to redress and rectify multiple grievances.

Those engaged in the freedom struggle face the challenge of finding envoys willing to participate in the rough and tumble permeating political life in the upper echelons of decision-making in North America and Europe. For a time it seemed that Danielle Smith might be such a person. Hope springs eternal. Maybe Smith can still come back to the principles she once espoused.

As I became aware of her attributes I wondered if Alberta’s Danielle Smith might become a point person in the crucial transnational movement to end the manipulation of public health as a devious device for the seizure of unlimited control over human interactions with bio-digital technology? This agenda showed itself very clearly in the unprecedented and still largely-unexplained scheme to jab the population of the entire world.

In the name of vanquishing COVID-19, humanity was attacked with gene-modifying bioweapons whose malicious intent was to depopulate, injure, enfeeble and ultimately enslave the survivors of the sacrificial injection. The magnitude of the crime is so immense that it is very difficult for most people to wrap their minds around the insidiousness of what is really going on. What we are seeing is a new kind of war waged on humanity as a whole.

It takes time to internalize the reality that we are not dealing merely with the results of mistakes and incompetence. At the highest levels, something much more sinister was and is at play in the ongoing and expanding implementation of Operation COVID-19.

It takes some doing to contemplate the magnitude of what we have already lived through since 2020 and where we are pointed if we continue to mindlessly march along the path that the predators continue to create for us.

At this moment in history, however, many hundreds of millions of people worldwide have connected many of the dots indicating what is really transpiring. The urgency of this realization is motivating tens of millions to work overtime to impress on the larger population the magnitude of the elaborate assaults still being directed at humanity at large.

The organization on December 8, 2024 of the Covid Memorial Day is one of thousands of grass roots efforts on the part of conscientious citizens to mark the diabolical enormity of the continuing assault on the lives, health and wellbeing of humanity. The organizers of the Memorial Day have rightfully asserted,

“What happened during the so-called Covid pandemic is a horrific crime against humanity, unparalleled in modern times.” See this.

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Briefly Danielle Smith seemed willing to follow through on her election promises to help lead the freedom movement when it comes to the rehabilitation of public health. The new premier stepped up to the plate to articulate what was obvious to many, namely that the discrimination directed against the so-called “unvaxxed” had been horrific.

Even this comment, however, was considered much too radical by those engulfed in the hypnotic spell that continues to cripple critical thinking in the face of the ongoing attacks. Moreover, Premier Smith did not take her intervention one step further by explaining that those who refused to take the often-mandatory jabs were in fact proven correct.

We, the so-called “unvaxxed,” experienced individually and collectively far better health outcomes than those who took the clot shots. We flattened the curve by not going along with the lies while those who took the injections have disproportionately put onerous burdens on themselves, their families, and society in general.

Danielle Smith Backs Away from Her Commitments. She Has Become Yet Another Jab Promoter.

That was then but this is now. Danielle Smith did not follow through. She is proving to be a major disappointment to many who supported her ascent to power, or, who even moved to Alberta based on the expectation that the Alberta Premier would continue to give guidance to the movement for medical sanity and ethics.

As demonstrated by the content of the following advertisement for COVID-19 clot shots that is published by her own provincial government, Danielle Smith has quietly abandoned the freedom movement that put her in office. Danielle Smith has herself become a promoter and supplier of gene-modifying mRNA bio-technologies. Danielle Smith has become a big part of the problem by showing contempt for the solutions.

Based on the fictional “success” of the COVID-19 bioweapons, the mRNA/lipid nanoparticle bio-technology continues to be replicated to treat a growing array of illnesses. The new treatments include responses to the fast proliferation of turbo cancers. The growing plague of increasingly menacing varieties of turbo cancers has been set off by the gene-modifying technologies disguised as a remedy for COVID-19.

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This hideous advertisement published above by the Danielle Smith government claims that “COVID-19 immunization can protect and promote the health of Albertans and protect you from getting severely sick from COVID-19 infection.” This statement doesn’t deal with the reality that the injections do not stop or even slow down the spread of COVID-19.

Indeed in many instances is has been noted that those who received the shots were far more likely to demonstrate the flu-like symptoms of COVID-19 than those who did not get the shots. However it remains unclear to me how the presence of COVID-19 is to be determined given that the main PCR test that was supposed to identify the presence of the celebrity virus famously and notoriously does not work.

The inventor of the PCR test, Kary B. Mullis, was absolutely insistent that it was not meant as a means of diagnosing bacterial or viral illness.

Given this history, what is to be made of the claim in the advertisement above that taking the shot might prevent recipients from “getting severely sick from COVID-19 infection”? Is the author of the statement indicating that a supposed benefit of the shot for those who get it, is that they might become slightly less ill than they otherwise would have if they had NOT taken the shot?

There is no science to back up this dubious claim. Imagine being urged to take a polio shot on the understanding that by taking it, one will get only a little bit of polio and one might get a little bit less sick.

Then there is the announcement that the Danielle Smith government is subsidizing COVID shots so they can be made freely available for babies as young as six months old. This advertisement is nothing short of a gross obscenity to my way of thinking. It embodies a clear and present disgrace to be worn by the Danielle Smith government. On what basis did Premier Smith make the decision to promote the jabbing of babies with toxic injections that convey no benefit whatsoever on the recipients but that continue to heap much potential harm on the infant victims and their families?

By now there is a mountain of research that shows that young people have nothing to gain from the clot shots and a great deal to lose including their lives, their health, their longevity, and the full vitality of their natural inheritance of God-given immunity.

The Medicalized Weaponry Still Pointed Our Way

Rather than disciplining AHS, Premier Smith has gone down into the trenches with this jab-obsessed organization to join in the ongoing predations initiated in the name of vanquishing COVID-19. Clearly the Smith-AHS team have opted to keep the COVID-19 scam going because of its strategic role in rolling out so much of the harm being done by the medicalized weaponry still pointed our way.

Premier Smith’s surrender to the jab lobby is especially surprising given the nature of the political process that enabled the current premier to replace the former UCP premier. Because of his compliance with Covidian mandates and restrictions coming from Ottawa, former Premier Jason Kenney was removed by a grass roots movement that included a group called Take Back Alberta.

Take Back Albertan, with David Parker as its point person, helped Danielle Smith to take office. I was encouraged to join the UCP and attend general meetings by Take Back Alberta. As shall be discussed in the next episode, Danielle Smith has lost the confidence of David Parker.

The expanding array of gene-modifying injections falsely labelled as “vaccines” include lipid nanoparticles (LNP), the outgrowth of research at the University of British Columbia. The purpose of LNP is to ease the movement throughout the entire body of the injected concoctions meant to facilitate the genetic alterations of people. One of the genetic modifications facilitated by the injections involves the spread of highly toxic spike proteins to all organs of the body.

The result within the bodies of the injection recipients can be conceived is a meandering form of genetic infection that can cause havoc throughout the body, including in brains and major sites of human fertility in uteruses and testes.

The topic of harms done by the injections is a subject of a vast and growing literature too enormous to be comprehensively considered here. One recent development, however, involved an immense research project undertaken by dozens of experts who together went through hundreds of thousands of pages of Pfizer’s research detailing literally thousands of ailments caused by the toxic injections.

The plan of the US Food and Drug Administration had been keep the records of Pfizer’s research secret from the public for 75 years. Only a very enlightened judge who wrote a very meritorious court order prevented the Biden government from achieving this cover up.

Very recently a succinct summary of the findings of the major research project to asses the Pfizer Papers has appeared. Amy Kelly was the logistical point person in organizing the herculean task of organizing the work of dozens of specialists to go through the huge and highly specialized inquiry by Pfizer.

This big league project has now resulted in the appearance of digestible publication suitable for mass distribution. Much of the final text was written by Dr. Naomi Wolf under the direction of political controversialist, Steve Bannon.

To keep things simple and straightforward I have lifted only a couple of short and representative samples of text from the rich and dense text of The Pfizer Papers. With the passage of time the full significance of this publication and the primary sources behind will become clear. The publication of the Pfizer Papers is a watershed with major implications for the future of politics, law and literature in the West.

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The Alberta Government and the AHS 

The Pfizer Papers and the objectives of the COVID Memorial Day create a contemporary backdrop to evaluate other advertisements below that highlight the extent to which the Danielle Smith government has lost the plot in its current stance on public health. In Alberta most of the COVID harms were imposed on the citizenry by the enormous staff of Alberta Health Services (AHS).

The AHS is the biggest employer in Alberta with a staff of well over 100,000 individuals. It has become notorious for its large number of middle manager of which many have been declared redundant in a study of Ernst and Young. See this.

Along with the hucksters of Big Pharma based at the World Health Organization, the AHS is one of the largest health care entities in the world. Like the WHO, the AHS has become something of a self-contained anomaly secretively serving lobbies whose technique of exercising influence are anything but transparent.

The AHS swallows up almost half of the Alberta government’s total budget. Clearly Premier Smith and her officials, including her Health Minister Ariana LaGrange, take their advice on injection policies from senior officials at Alberta Health Services (AHS).

The AHS is a leviathan that unfortunately has earned itself a dubious reputation among average people in Alberta. As demonstrated by its misleading advertising of an injurious and sometimes lethal product, the AHS as well as the Alberta Ministry of Health continue to promote COVID injections to babies, to older people and everyone in-between.

More Lethal Propaganda from AHS

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This effort to persuade children to fear and despise “COVID-zilla,” the “COVID-19 beast,” is worthy of criticism. All the evidence shows that for children, the so-called COVID-19 beast is no more harmful that colds or the flu also rooted in coronavirus infection.

Children do not die from COVID-19. Some children do die or do get very sick, however, from the beast of COVID-19 injections. It is the injections that are COVID-zilla.

As of June 24, 2024 Danielle Smith’s governments has approved COVID-19 injections in the regular schedule of province-approved immunization.

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To call COVID-19 a “vaccine-preventable disease” is an absurdity given the state of the science that is being suppressed by the likes of AHS and the Danielle Smith government. The mRNA/lipid nanoparticle injections absolutely do NOT prevent the spread of, or infection from, COVID-19. In fact the injections have a significant propensity to cause disease and worse.

The clots shots assault the mechanisms of natural immunity. Moreover, the shots increase the propensity of recipients to develop very serious conditions of autoimmunity.

More shots to children stimulate more deterioration of natural immunity at the very time when young people should be developing their ability to fend off disease by exercising their own natural capacities to avoid or overcome infections from micro-organisms.

Generally speaking children get “the best immunity possible” by developing their own natural immune systems. The education system would be better advised to teach young people how to cultivate and elevate their own capacities of natural immunity through good diet, frequent exercise, fresh air, sunshine and such. This approach stands in contrast to socializing young people to become profit producers for drug companies.

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Why does this advertisement above appear on the AHS website? Why is there such a disconnect between the horrific revelations recently published on the Pfizer Papers and the Big Pharma politics adopted by the Danielle Smith government in partnership with the AHS?

Why are the Smith government and AHS identifying themselves with the Pfizer, BIONTECH, and COMIRNATY brand names and brand logos? What do the province’s lawyer have to say about jumping on a corporate bandwagon that is bound to be the object of much hostile litigation.

I find this advertisement to be insidious. Is there a suggestion here that the father should not be permitted to go hiking with his daughter if he hadn’t taken the jab? Is the jab meant to be a means whereby members of a family protect themselves from one another? Is everyone to be treated as a biohazard to everyone else?

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Apparently this document above is available in 27 languages. It must be a very important document. Yet again, we see the seemingly triumphal announcement that everything is in place to inject six-month old babies with the mRNA/lipid nanoparticle shot. This repeated message could be seen as a triumphal signal that the most radical, injection-obsessed fanatics have prevailed in the AHS-Danielle partnership. It seems clear that some sort of coup has taken place within the UCP?

More to come.

It gets worse, much worse.

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Good for the Moldovan Goose; Not Good for the Romanian Gander

December 11th, 2024 by Stephen Karganovic

The Romanian presidential election two weeks ago exposed graphically the blatant hypocrisy and total abandonment of even the pretence of moral principle in the collective West.

From a field of half a dozen candidates, the winner by plurality of votes was political unknown Calin Georgescu. On 8 December the electoral process will undergo a second round for voters to decide who the next President of Romania will be. In the runoff, competing against Georgescu will be the candidate favoured by the European Union and NATO, Elena-Valerica Lasconi. An outcome where their candidate comes in second is a humiliation for the powers-that-be. They do not brook their will being challenged because they are accustomed invariably to impose their preferences upon the insouciant and politically naive public. The reasons for their present chagrin are therefore understandable. Notwithstanding ringing endorsements as well as ample financial and media support from the highest places, in the first round establishment candidate Lasconi trailed by several percentage points political newcomer Georgescu, who was running a shoestring campaign with a skeletal staff.

Accordingly, the day after the first round the smear campaign, featuring all the standard epithets, was launched. Energetic measures were promptly undertaken not just to dispute Georgescu’s extraordinary electoral result but if possible to eliminate him from the presidential race altogether. The rationales put forward by the globalist establishment were in part characteristically hypocritical and in part laughably preposterous.

The hypocritical part consisted of the allegation that Georgescu’s victory was obtained unfairly due to the votes overwhelmingly cast for him by the Romanian diaspora in European Union countries. Subsequent polls confirmed that this allegation was spot on. But why should that have been a problem? The diaspora voters are also Romanian citizens.

The preposterous claim, upon which the brazen demand to invalidate Georgescu’s candidacy was based, was that the social media network TikTok, which Georgescu used extensively to broadcast his message to Romanian voters, all other media outlets being closed to him, unfairly favoured his campaign and thus enabled his victory. Miraculously, the Romanian Supreme Court, to which the matter was referred for adjudication, had enough common sense and professional probity to dismiss this unscrupulous lawfare attack.

Image: Elena Lasconi (Licensed under CC BY 3.0)

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The frivolous charge about diaspora support was made with the evident aim of delegitimising Georgescu’s electoral triumph. The establishment operatives who made it clearly hold the public for amnesiac idiots with a serious Attention Deficit Disorder. They thought that everyone had conveniently forgotten that barely three weeks before, in neighbouring Moldova, their favoured candidate Maia Sandu, the Moldovan equivalent of Elena Lasconi, was proclaimed winner in that country’s presidential election, where it was precisely the EU diaspora vote that made the critical difference to her advantage. In fact, the Moldovan election was deliberately rigged to favour Sandu by counting diaspora votes from the European Union, where it was anticipated that she would garner strong support whilst disqualifying Moldovan diaspora votes from Russia, where her opponent was thought to be ahead.

But in contemporary collective West’s outcome-based, utilitarian political thinking, level playing field is an unheard of concept. Whether a political actor is allowed to win, regardless of the degree of popular support he enjoys, depends not on satisfying democratic procedural requirements (such as winning the most votes, for instance) but entirely on his ideological suitability and servile willingness to put the globalist cabal’s objectives ahead of his nation’s interests. Conversely, a non-compliant actor, such as Georgescu appears to be, must at any cost be barred from winning, regardless of how much popular support he may enjoy.

Georgescu’s opponent Elena Lasconi obviously knows how that game is played and she is an avid player. In a soft-ball promotional interview on Romanian television the other day she adroitly hit all the right notes. Dismissing Georgescu’s scepticism about NATO and the European Union, and speaking over the heads of the Romanian electorate, she reassured her foreign handlers of her unswerving support for Romania’s membership in the Western military and political system and fully acceptance of Romania’s obligation to actively participate in NATO’s military preparations. 

Quality of life issues that are of primary interest to the Romanian public have been all but ignored by Lasconi in her campaign pronouncements as she stressed to the voters the only issue that is of interest to her foreign sponsors: “to ensure Romania does not change course.”

And that according to her can mean only one thing, that “we must choose between NATO protection and Putin’s war. We must choose between the EU’s prosperity and freedom of movement, or the sound of tanks coming from the Kremlin.”

With such demagogic platitudes it is not clear how Lasconi managed to qualify even for second place. (Possibly Dominion counting machines were tabulating the votes.) The fact that she managed to achieve only relative success, and even that not without the colossal advantages that the global establishment always confers on its minions, points to the serious degradation of control mechanisms that have been meticulously put in place precisely to prevent the appearance of unvetted upstarts such as Calin Georgescu. The reasons for the globalist Establishment’s consternation are clear and from their standpoint fully justified.

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A brief summary of Georgescu’s political and moral credo demonstrates why it is so. He is an unapologetic “Romania Firster” who, unlike his opponent Lasconi, eschews “internationalist obligations” (many will recall that colourful former East Bloc phrase that has now been resurrected and again put to good use by the collective West) and he insists on applying the litmus test of “Is it good for Romania?” He also demands that his country be treated with dignity and as an equal in the councils of NATO and the EU, should it decide to remain in those structures. As a devout Orthodox Christian, Georgescu let it slip that he views current events in apocalyptic terms, hardly a good recommendation for a reliable team player, and he has denounced the entire range of global elite’s aggressively deployed instruments used as battering rams for the demolition of traditional cultures and societies. He has also committed himself, if elected, to block Ukrainian grain exports through Romanian ports and to stop further military assistance from Romania to the Neo-Nazi regime in Kiev. Need we list more of this man’s grave political sins which make him so obviously unsuitable, or does this suffice to explain his low rating in the relevant corridors of power?

Of course, no one should be taken at face value based on mere rhetoric. Georgescu does have an interesting past, having served as a functionary at the UN where, as an insider, he mingled with the very circles that he is now prepared to repudiate. But so did Viktor Orban; and St Paul comes to mind as another influential figure who experienced a transformative and authentic change of heart.

Calin Georgescu ought to be given the benefit of the doubt. On 8 December, the good people of Romania should be encouraged to vote with wisdom and discernment.  

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Author’s note: On 2 December it was reported that the Constitutional Court of Romania had rejected challenges to the outcome of the first round of Presidential elections and validated the official result, paving the way for the second round to take place as scheduled on 8 December. That decision should have been final, according to the AP report from Bucharest. However, on Friday, 6 December, the Constitutional Court apparently reversed itself and invalidated the election result, citing declassified intelligence information purportedly showing that the electoral process in the first round was tainted by “Russian interference.” According to the London Guardian, “The momentous move by the court effectively voids the national election, which will have to be re-run.” The Court’s bizarre conduct strongly suggests that the judges were acting under irresistible NATO and European Union pressure, basing their new decision on “intelligence information” that was hastily and specifically concocted to give an appearance of legality and plausibility to crude interference in Romania’s democratic process on the part of collective West interests. It remains to be seen how presidential candidate and first round winner Calin Georgescu and the Romanian public will react to this unprecedented violation of their democratic rights.

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Since the overnight hours Damascus has been under the control of the Islamist militants led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and backed by Turkey. The country’s President Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, and his whereabouts are unknown, after the extremely rapid insurgent advance out of Idlib, where city after city fell starting with Aleppo in a matter of about a mere week. And just like that 50 years of Assad family rule has ended, and a new extremely unpredictable era of Syria begins. 

Will the country hopelessly fracture as did Iraq and Libya for years after their strongman leaders were overthrown? Will there be mass reprisal killings? Will Christians, Alawites, and Shia be subject to mass persecution and extermination? Will the country, which has already been through over 13 years of horrific proxy war, descend into sectarian and factional chaos and hell? Will Sharia law be enforced by gunpoint? Or will some semblance of a stable transitional government emerge? 

One thing is for sure, a US-designated terrorist has emerged as the current de facto ruler of Damascus and of Syria. At this very moment Washington has a $10 million bounty on his head, given his career as a jihadist began with al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) which was killing American troops in Iraq. 

The jihadist factions entered Damascus overnight without a fight from the Syrian Army, and videos quickly emerged of armed fighters entering both the presidential palace (or office) as well as Assad’s private residence in Malki neighborhood.

State television stations broadcast a message from HTS leaders urging calm and a stable transition of power. New rules for Damascus include a curfew imposed from 4pm to 5am local time, according to the local Al Watan newspaper.

Rule by ‘Al Qaeda in suits’… technocratic jihad:

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While the mood on the streets has been generally jubilant, gunfire has been heard – but more likely this is from anti-Assad fighters firing in celebration into the air. Western mainstream media has also been celebratory, generally ignoring HTS’ obvious Al Qaeda links past and present.

But for every scene the media highlights of a few hundred people celebrating in a central square, there are many more thousands of families huddled and fearful in their homes, not knowing what entity or Islamist faction controls the checkpoint around the block.

So far at least one central building has gone up in flames – the former government’s passport and immigration building. It remains unclear why or what the precise cause was.

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Amid all of this Israel has continued to attack some locations in Syria, also with reports overnight that Israeli tanks pushed further into a strip of southern Syria in the Golan area. Other buildings are on fire elsewhere in the Damascus region.

Al Jazeera writes:

Images show a building on fire in Damascus after a suspected air attack. It’s believed that the Israelis may have struck what is believed to be a munitions depot close to the airport.

The Israeli media reported earlier on Sunday that the Israeli air force has bombed weapons depots in southern Syria and Damascus to prevent opposition groups from seizing them.

Syrian Prime Minister Ghazi al-Jalali might be installed to head of a transitional government amid promises of stability, based on a potential deal or ‘security guarantees’ involving Turkey, Russia, Iran, and the Gulf powers.

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As for Assad’s current whereabouts, The Wall Street Journal speculates as follows:

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was in Damascus on Saturday, fled the country early Sunday local time but his current whereabouts were still unknown, according to Syrian security officials and Arab officials. Russia’s foreign ministry said later in the day that he had stepped down and left the country.

Assad had announced he would address the nation at 8 p.m. local time on Saturday, but the speech never occurred. The president’s wife and children left for Russia in late November, while his brothers-in-law left for the United Arab Emirates, Syrian security officials and Arab officials said.

Below: the breaching of the presidential palace, where Assad had conducted daily work in his office…

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Will the transition from Assad to “al-Qaeda in suits” be stable? Will a ‘Taliban-lite’ emerge? Is Sharia law coming… implemented by a terror and Islamist iron fist?

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Nothing is certain at this point, and there are likely more dark days ahead

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Update: BREAKING: Bashar al-Assad and family are in Moscow: Russian news agencies, via AFP

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On December 9, Egypt accused Israel of illegally seizing a buffer zone in Syria. The area extends from the Golan Heights almost to the outskirts of Damascus. Israel troops and weaponry are now within hiking distance of the capital of Syria.

Syria is now under the administration of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an armed opposition group from Idlib, which had been supported prior to 2017 by a covert CIA program. President Trump cut the funding in 2017, but Turkish President Erdogan continued to support the group.

In the chaos after the fall of the Assad regime, Israel wasted no time to take advantage of the security lapse and invaded Syria from the Occupied Golan Heights towards Damascus.

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said this was a temporary measure set up for defense of the Israeli border.  

Egypt and the other Arab League member states are nervously watching as Israel takes advantage of the weakness and chaos in Syria to carry out yet another land grab.

Last summer, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is in violation of international law. Now, Israel has added more occupied land in Syria to its long list of stolen territories. 

The Israeli Defense Forces have also carried out airstrikes on December 9 across Syria, taking out air defense systems, missiles and military infrastructure. Currently, there is no national army existing in Syria. All facilities lay vacant as soldiers and officers fled following and during the fall of the Assad regime on December 8.

The Golan Heights were captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. The United Nations recognizes the Golan as an Israeli occupied land which should be returned to Syria in a peace agreement between the two countries.

On March 25, 2019 President Donald Trump gave away the Golan to Israel, and officially recognized Israeli sovereignty.  Netanyahu hailed the move by Trump as historic.

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the move was not recognized internationally.

Israel invaded Gaza following the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, and Israeli cabinet ministers have called for annexing Gaza and the Occupied West Bank. On October 1, 2024 Israel invaded the south of Lebanon. 

In the absence of a legitimate government in Syria, and with Trump taking office next month, Israel may try to annex this new land grab in Syria.

Steven Sahiounie at MidEastDiscourse reached out to Andrey Ontikov, a Special Correspondent at Izvestia daily newspaper, in Moscow and a political commentator specializing in the Middle East.

Steven Sahiounie (SS): Recently, Aleppo fell into the hands of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, and later Hama and Damascus fell. In your opinion, how could a militia group be so powerful to oust the Syrian Arab Army? 

Andrey Ontikov (AO): It is obvious, that in recent years the Syrian command has missed the opportunity to train the army, equip it with the necessary weapons, and build defensive structures. At the same time, the armed opposition was able to obtain weapons. In addition, Syrian refugees in Turkey, who were ready to fight for little money and were motivated by their negative attitude towards the authorities in Damascus, probably became a good base for replenishing its ranks.

SS: Reports in the media claimed that there were Ukrainian drone specialists in Idlib who were assisting the HTS prior to their attack on Aleppo. In your point of view, why is Ukraine involved in Syria?

AO: It seems to me that if Ukraine sees an opportunity to somehow complicate life for Russia in one or another part of the world, it does so. Syria is the only country in a series of countries where the presence of Ukrainian troops has been recorded. There have also been reports of their activity from Sudan and Mali. So Kyiv’s actions are a direct reflection of the current conflict with Moscow.

SS: In 2015, Russia came into Syria and pushed back the militias which saved the coast of Syria. In your opinion, could Russia done something to save Syria before the fall of Damascus?

AO: Russia tried to help the Syrian army. But it couldn’t do its job for it. The lack of combat-ready ground forces is the main reason for the failure. Aviation can only provide cover, but it will not do all the work for the soldiers on the ground. 

SS: Turkey’s President Erdoğan has been supporting these opposition militias for 15 years. In your opinion, what does President Erdoğan want from supporting these groups?

AO: Erdogan is seeking to expand his influence in Syria. It is no secret that many areas of Syria country are perceived in Turkey as part of the former Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, Ankara is trying to strengthen its position. And it will probably try to strengthen its foothold to prevent the creation of an independent Kurdish state.

SS: The Arab League and the Arab countries, even Saudi Arabia and the UAE, announced their support for Syria and President Assad before he left. In your opinion, what made the Arab countries change their minds and support the Syrian government?

AO: Many Arab countries, in my opinion, have learned from the bitter experience of the so-called Arab Spring. They understand perfectly well that the violent overthrow of power often leads to the destabilization of the country and the surrounding region. It is enough to look at Libya, which has not been able to emerge from the crisis since 2011. As for Syria, now the situation there may well follow the Libyan scenario. At the very least, we see that Israel is already expanding the zone of occupied territories at the expense of Syrian lands. This is the first, but probably not the only negative result of current events.

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The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. Third quarter data is not yet available, but interest payments as a percent of tax receipts rose to 37.8% in the third quarter of 2024, the highest since 1996. That means interest is eating up over one-third of our tax revenues.

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General Mike Flynn, the former head of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), warned his colleagues in the Obama administration, that supporting terrorist groups to prosecute proxy wars on Washington’s behalf, was a risky business that would eventually backfire leading to the establishment of ‘a Salafist principality in Syria.’ That warning has now become a reality.

The situation in Syria has reached a critical and tragic juncture, marked by the fall of the Assad government and a dramatic shift in the country’s governance. Recent developments indicate that militant groups, backed by external players—particularly the United States and Israel—have seized control of significant regions and now hold sway over the government itself. These events have amplified concerns about the overarching geopolitical strategy known as the “Greater Israel Project,” which critics argue aims to destabilize and fragment Middle Eastern nations perceived as opposing U.S. and Israeli interests.

The Current Landscape

Over the past months, Syria has experienced a rapid escalation in conflict. Militant factions, many with ties to extremist ideologies, have captured key territories and ultimately taken control of the government. This has culminated in President Bashar al-Assad reportedly fleeing the country as his regime’s power collapsed under the sustained pressure of foreign-backed insurgents.

The resurgence of these militant groups has been fueled by sophisticated weaponry, logistical support, and intelligence allegedly provided by external actors, including the United States and Israel. The timing of this collapse is significant. Russia, a key ally of the Assad government, has been unable to fully commit its military resources to Syria due to its ongoing war in Ukraine. This vacuum has been effectively exploited by militant groups, marking the culmination of efforts to unseat Assad after more than a decade of conflict.

The “Greater Israel Project” Allegations

The notion of a “Greater Israel Project” is often cited in analyses of Middle Eastern geopolitics. Proponents of this theory argue that the long-term goal is to fragment and weaken neighboring states to ensure Israeli regional hegemony. Syria, along with Libya, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran, has been viewed as a target in this alleged strategy. The rapid destabilization and regime collapse in Syria are seen by critics as a step in this broader agenda.

Syria’s descent into chaos has its roots in the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, which spiraled into a devastating civil war. The Assad government managed to hold power for years with support from Russia and Iran, but persistent interference by Western and regional powers prolonged the conflict and eroded Syria’s stability. The fall of Assad signifies a tipping point in the alleged efforts to dismantle opposition to U.S.-Israeli policies in the region.

The Role of the United States and Israel

The United States has long supported opposition groups in Syria, citing the need to promote democracy and combat terrorism. However, many of these groups have demonstrated extremist tendencies and have contributed to the fragmentation of the Syrian state. Israel’s involvement, primarily through airstrikes targeting Syrian and Iranian positions, underscores its strategic interest in neutralizing perceived threats near its borders.

Critics argue that these actions have exacerbated the crisis, facilitating the rise of militant groups and undermining legitimate state institutions. The fall of Assad’s government, they contend, is the culmination of a broader strategy aligned with the “Greater Israel Project” to weaken adversaries by fostering division and chaos.

The Aftermath and the Road Ahead

With Assad’s departure and the militant takeover of the government, Syria’s future hangs in the balance. The country’s infrastructure lies in ruins, millions of its citizens are displaced, and the prospect of peace remains elusive. Regional players like Iran and non-state actors such as Hezbollah face significant challenges in their efforts to counterbalance the influence of U.S.- and Israeli-backed forces. Meanwhile, Russia’s diminished focus on Syria has left Damascus without its most powerful ally during this critical period.

The fall of the Assad government represents a seismic shift not just for Syria but for the broader Middle East. The implications of this development are profound, potentially redrawing alliances and intensifying conflicts throughout the region. The ongoing turmoil serves as a stark reminder of the devastating impact of foreign interventions and the intricate web of geopolitics that defines the modern Middle East.

Conclusion

Syria’s struggle epitomizes the larger battle between regional sovereignty and external manipulation. With the Assad government toppled and militant factions in control, the international community faces a critical test. Without genuine dialogue and respect for national self-determination, the cycle of destruction may persist. Until then, Syria remains at the heart of a geopolitical storm that threatens to reshape the Middle East for generations to come.

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The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. Third quarter data is not yet available, but interest payments as a percent of tax receipts rose to 37.8% in the third quarter of 2024, the highest since 1996. That means interest is eating up over one-third of our tax revenues.

Total interest for the fiscal year hit $1.16 trillion, topping one trillion for the first time ever. That breaks down to $3 billion per day. For comparative purposes, an estimated $11 billion, or less than four days’ federal interest, would pay the median rent for all the homeless people in America for a year. The damage from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina alone is estimated at $53.6 billion, for which the state is expected to receive only $13.6 billion in federal support. The $40 billion funding gap is a sum we pay in less than two weeks in interest on the federal debt.

The current debt trajectory is clearly unsustainable, but what can be done about it? Raising taxes and trimming the budget can slow future growth of the debt, but they are unable to fix the underlying problem — a debt grown so massive that just the interest on it is crowding out expenditures on the public goods that are the primary purpose of government.

Borrowing Is Actually More Inflationary Than Printing

Several financial commentators have suggested that we would be better off if the Treasury issued the money for the budget outright, debt-free. Martin Armstrong, an economic forecaster with a background in computer science and commodities trading, contends that if we had just done that in the first place, the national debt would be only 40% of what it is today. In fact, he argues, debt today is the same as money, except that it comes with interest. Federal securities can be posted in the repo market as collateral for an equivalent in loans, and the collateral can be “rehypothecated” (re-used) several times over, creating new money that augments the money supply just as would happen if it were issued directly.

Chris Martenson, another economic researcher and trend forecaster, asked in a Nov. 21 podcast, “What great harm would happen if the Treasury just issued its own money directly and didn’t borrow it? … You’re still overspending, you still probably have inflation, but now you’re not paying interest on it.”

The argument for borrowing rather than printing is that the government is borrowing existing money, so it will not expand the money supply. That was true when money consisted of gold and silver coins, but it is not true today. In fact borrowing the money is now more inflationary, increasing the money supply more, than if it were just issued directly, due to the way the government borrows. It issues securities (bills, bonds and notes) that are bid on at auction by selected “primary dealers” (mostly very large banks). Quoting from Investopedia:

Because most modern economies rely on fractional reserve banking, when primary dealers purchase government debt in the form of Treasury securities, they are able to increase their reserves and expand the money supply by lending it out. This is known as the money multiplier effect.  

Thus, “the government increases cash reserves in the banking system,” and “the increase in reserves raises the money supply in the economy.” Principal and interest on the securities are paid when due, but they are paid with borrowed money. In effect, the debt is never repaid but just gets rolled over from year to year along with the interest due on it. The interest compounds, an increasing amount of debt-at-interest is generated, and the money supply and inflation go up.

U.S. Currency Should be Issued by the U.S. Government

Well over 90% of the U.S. money supply today is issued not by the government but by private banks when they make loans.  As Thomas Edison argued in 1921, “It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people.” 

The government could avoid increasing the debt by printing the money for its budget as President Lincoln did, as U.S. Notes or “Greenbacks.” Donald Trump acknowledged in 2016 that the government never has to default “because you print the money,” echoing Alan Greenspan, Warren Buffett and others. So writes Prof. Stephanie Kelton in a Dec. 2, 2024 blog. Alternatively, the Treasury could mint some trillion dollar coins. The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin money and regulate its value, and no limit is put on the value of the coins it creates. In legislation initiated in 1982, Congress chose to impose limits on the amounts and denominations of most coins, but a special provision allowed the platinum coin to be minted in any amount for commemorative purposes. Philip Diehl, former head of the U.S. Mint and co-author of the platinum coin law, confirmed that the coin would be legal tender:

In minting the $1 trillion platinum coin, the Treasury Secretary would be exercising authority which Congress has granted routinely for more than 220 years … under power expressly granted to Congress in the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8).

To prevent congressional overspending, a budget ceiling could be imposed – as it is now, although the terms would probably need to be revised.

Eliminating the Debt

Those maneuvers would prevent the federal debt from growing, but it still would not eliminate the trillion dollar interest tab on the existing $36 trillion debt. The only permanent solution is to eliminate the debt itself. In ancient Mesopotamia, when the king was the creditor, this was done with periodic debt jubilees — just cancel the debt. (See Michael Hudson, And Forgive Them Their Debts.) But that is not possible today because the creditors are private banks and private investors who have a contractual right to be paid, and the U.S. Constitution requires that the government pay its debts as and when due. 

Another possibility is a financial transaction tax, which could replace both income and sales taxes while still generating enough to fund the government and pay off the debt. See Scott Smith,  A Tale of Two Economies: A New Financial Operating System for the American Economy (2023) and my earlier article here. But that solution has been discussed for years without gaining traction in Congress.

Another alternative is to have the Federal Reserve buy the debt as it comes due. For the last few years, the Treasury has been issuing an estimated 30% of its debt as short-term bills rather than 10-year or 30-year bonds. As a result, in 2023 approximately 31% of the outstanding debt came due for renewal. As usual, it was just rolled over into new debt. But the nearly one-third coming due in FY2025 could be bought in the open market by the Federal Reserve, which is required to return its profits to the government after deducting its costs, making the debt virtually interest-free. Interest-free debt carried on the books and rolled over does not raise the federal deficit. If a third of the outstanding debt is too much to monetize in one year to avoid inflation, this maneuver could be spread out over a number of years.

Mandating that action by an “independent” Fed would require an amendment to the Federal Reserve Act, but Congress has the power to amend it and has done so several times over the years. The incoming Administration is proposing more radical moves than that, including eliminating the income tax, ending the Fed, auditing the Fed, or merging it with the Treasury.The federal interest tab nearly doubled after April 2022, when the Fed initiated “Quantitative Tightening.” It reduced its balance sheet by selling over $2 trillion in federal securities into the economy, reducing the money supply, and by hiking the federal funds rate to as high as 5.5%. Arguably the Fed has overtightened and needs to reverse that trend by buying federal securities, injecting new money into the economy.

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How to Avoid Hyperinflation

Alarmed economists contend that a Weimar-style hyperinflation is the inevitable outcome of government-issued money. But as Michael Hudson points out, “Every hyperinflation in history has been caused by foreign debt service collapsing the exchange rate. The problem almost always has resulted from wartime foreign currency strains, not domestic spending.”

Issuing the money directly will not inflate prices if the funds are used to increase the domestic supply of goods and services. Supply and demand will then go up together, keeping prices stable. This has been illustrated historically, perhaps most dramatically in China. The People’s Bank of China manages the money supply by a variety of means including just printing currency. In 28 years, from 1996 to 2024, China’s money supply (M2) grew by 52 times or 5,200%, yet hyperinflation did not result. Prices remained stable because the funds went into increasing GDP, which went up along with the money supply.

Price inflation during the Covid crisis has been blamed on the Fed monetizing Congressional fiscal payments to consumers and businesses, increasing demand (the circulating money supply) without increasing supply (goods and services). But the San Francisco Fed concluded that the surge in global shipping and transportation costs due to COVID, along with delivery delays and backlogs, were a greater contributor than this fiscal stimulus to the runup of headline inflation in 2021 and 2022. The supply of goods could have been increased – producers could have increased production to respond to the increase in demand — were it not for the shutdown of more than 700,000 productive businesses labeled “non-essential,” resulting in the loss of three million jobs.

Swapping Debt for Productive Equity

Money printing is not inflationary if the money is issued for productive purposes, raising GDP in lockstep; but how can we be sure that the new money will be used productively? Today the banks and other large institutions that first receive any newly-issued money are more likely to invest it speculatively, driving up the price of existing assets (homes, stocks, etc.) without creating new goods and services.

Economic blogger Martin Armstrong observes that one solution pursued by debt-ridden countries is to swap the debt for equity in productive assets. This has been done by Mexico, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and the United States itself. It was  the solution of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in dealing with the overwhelming debt of the First U.S. Congress. State and federal debt was swapped along with gold for shares in the First U.S. Bank, paying a 6% dividend. The Bank then issued U.S. currency at up to 10 times this capital base, on the fractional reserve model still used by banks today. Both the First and the Second U.S. Banks were designed to support manufacturing and production, according to Hamilton’s Report on Public Credit.

Following the Hamiltonian model is H.R. 4052, the National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2023 (NIB) now pending in Congress. The NIB proposal is to swap privately-held federal securities (Treasury bonds) for non-voting preferred stock in the bank. Interest on the bonds would continue to go to the investors, along with a 2% stock dividend. That would not eliminate the debt or the interest, but if the Federal Reserve were to buy federal securities on the open market and swap them for NIB stock, the securities would essentially remain interest-free, since again the Fed is required to return its profits to the Treasury after deducting its costs.

Lending Directly to Productive Businesses

Another possibility for using newly issued money to increase the supply of goods and services is for the Federal Reserve to make loans directly to productive businesses. That was actually the intent of the original Federal Reserve Act. Section 13 of the Act allows Federal Reserve Banks to discount notes, drafts, and bills of exchange arising out of actual commercial transactions, such as those issued for agricultural, industrial or commercial purposes – in other words, lending directly for production and development. “Discounting commercial paper” is a process by which short-term loans are provided to financial institutions using commercial paper as collateral. (Commercial paper is unsecured short-term debt, usually issued at a discount, used to cover payroll, inventory and other short-term liabilities. The “discount” represents the interest to the lender.)According to Prof. Carl Walsh, writing of the Federal Reserve Act in The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Newsletter in 1991:

The preamble sets out very clearly that one purpose of the Federal Reserve Act was to afford a means of discounting commercial loans. In its report on the proposed bill, the House Banking and Currency Committee viewed a fundamental objective of the bill to be the “creation of a joint mechanism for the extension of credit to banks which possess sound assets and which desire to liquidate them for the purpose of meeting legitimate commercial, agricultural, and industrial demands on the part of their clientele.

Cornell Law School Professor Robert Hockett expanded on this design in an article in Forbes in March 2021: 

[T]he founders of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 … designed something akin to a network of regional development finance institutions. … Each of the twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks was to provide short-term funding directly or indirectly (through local banks) to developing businesses that needed it. This they did by ‘discounting’ – in effect, purchasing – commercial paper from those businesses that needed it … [I]n determining what kinds of commercial paper to discount, the Federal Reserve Act both was – and ironically remains – quite explicit about this: Fed discount lending is solely for “productive,” not “speculative” purposes.

Today discounting commercial paper is big business, but the lenders are private and the borrowers are large institutions issuing commercial paper in denominations of $100,000 or more. Except for its emergency Commercial Paper Funding Facility operated from 2020 to 2021 and from 2008 to 2010, the Fed no longer engages in the commercial loan business. Meanwhile, small businesses are having trouble finding affordable financing.

In a sequel to his March 2021 article, Hockett explained that the drafters of the Federal Reserve Act, notably Carter Glass and Paul Warburg, were essentially following the Real Bills Doctrine (RBD). Previously known as the “commercial loan theory of banking,” it held that banks could create credit-money deposits on their balance sheets without triggering inflation if the money were issued against loans backed by commercial paper. When the borrowing companies repaid their loans from their sales receipts, the newly created money would just void out the debt and be extinguished. Their intent was that banks could sell their commercial loans at a discount at the Fed’s Discount Window, freeing up their balance sheets for more loans. Hockett wrote:

The RBD in its crude formulation held that so long as the lending of endogenous [bank-created] credit-money was kept productive, not speculative, inflation and deflation would be not only less likely, but effectively impossible. And the experience of German banks during Germany’s late 19th century Hamiltonian ‘growth miracle,’ with which the German immigrant Warburg, himself a banker, was intimately familiar, appeared to verify this. So did Glass’s experience with agricultural lending in the American South. 

Prof. Hockett suggested regionalizing the Fed, expanding it from the current 12 Federal Reserve banks to many banks. He wrote in August 2021:

In time, we might even imagine a proliferation of public banks, patterned more or less after the highly successful Bank of North Dakota model, spreading across multiple states. These banks could then both afford nonprofit banking services to all, and assist the Fed Regional Banks in identifying appropriate recipients of Fed liquidity assistance.

The result, he said, will be “a Fed restored to its original purpose, a Fed responsive to varying local conditions in a sprawling continental republic, a Fed no longer over-involved with banks whose principal if not sole activities are in gambling on price movements in secondary and tertiary markets rather than investing in the primary markets that constitute our ‘real’ economy. It will mean, in short, something approaching a true people’s bank, not just a banks’ bank.” 

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“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull’d, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.” – Shakespeare, Coriolanus

Long ago, but what seems like only yesterday, I didn’t go to the U.S. war against Vietnam but the war came to me. It was when my exile began.

I am telling you this to try to shed some light on today’s wars and alarums since my tale is common for a small subset of Americans of my generation. We learned long ago that the USA was run by ruthless killers who reveled in war. Vietnam, the Phoenix Program, Cambodia, Indonesia, etc. Nothing was beyond them. We sensed that they would never stop and they haven’t. The genocide of Palestinians, the proxy war via Ukraine against Russia, the current US/Israel/Turkey bloodbath in Syria and Lebanon led by our ruthless terrorists – it is all nightmarish, malevolent, utterly evil, and conjures up hell on earth. And it will get worse in the future.

The mainstream media is claiming that the new savior of Syria is the terrorist “rebel” leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria, al-Nusra, and a former deputy to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

While there is truth in the view that the world has always been a butcher’s bench with wars, hatred, and strife being a common theme, “always” is meaningless to me. For I have never lived in “always.”

I have lived since birth in the United States during a period of time when it has been the world’s number one butcher, starting with the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then continuing waging non-stop wars, assassinating foreign and domestic leaders, including President Kennedy, executing coup d’états, supporting and arming ruthless dictators and terrorists, and creating an economy dependent on war.

All this has been sustained by lies and propaganda that most Americans have swallowed. It is a deeply ingrained Yankee doodle dandy ethos joined with American exceptionalism and a self-induced false innocence.

Just this morning, December 8, 2024, as it did during the Vietnam war, The New York Times spewed out lies about the events in Syria, calling the U.S.-backed jihadist terrorists (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/Al Qaeda, et al.) “rebels” and the overthrow of the Assad government a “civil war.” In doing so, the paper is just doing what it has always done as an organ for U.S. foreign policy, seemingly forgetting that it was the Obama administration that in 2012 launched Operation Timber Sycamore, a CIA program to, under the guise of a civil war, overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of a larger effort to undercut Iran and Russia for U.S./Israel/Turkey/NATO control of the region.

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The port in Aqaba, Jordan was an important route for Timber Sycamore weaponry that entered Syria. (Licensed under CC BY 2.0)

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It is propaganda about a much larger war well underway, as the presence of Ukrainian forces in Syria and the usual Israeli bombing attest. Like a mountain ridge wildfire, the winds whip wildly now, and whether the fire spreads next to Iran or somewhere else, it is sure to spread.

To paraphrase Thoreau, there is no need to care for a myriad of instances and applications, the only thing you need is to be acquainted with the principle, which in this case is the long-standing demonic nature of U.S. foreign policy which is synchronous with waging perpetual war.

Yet most people don’t want to go past such lying headlines that are repeated by all the mainstream media. They never did, except when the issues concerned them personally, as when there was a military draft.

Yes, government and media propaganda have contributed mightily to it, but so many of the country’s war crimes have been committed out in the open and accompanied by the public’s cheering and flag waving that propaganda is only part of the explanation.

The will to believe and self-delusion are a large part of it. And people seem to like war, if it is far away and the cheerleaders are on this side of the water. It lends excitement to life like a real murder mystery, a sex scandal, or an approaching hurricane.

Furthermore, it provides roots for the national myth, the mythic home, the mythic womb, wherein one can root for the home team as one stands with tens of thousands of team people and sing along with the words “bombs bursting in air” while feeling a stirring of patriotic pride. This desire to be patriotically conventional, to support the national team in war and peace, is very powerful. Why else the creation of the mammoth bureaucracy called Homeland Security, the un-American word homeland taken straight from Hitler’s 1934 Nuremberg rally. Root, root, root for the home team.

I know the patriotic feeling. It left me back in 1967 when my exile began. For the most part, it has not been apparent to outside observers, for there are places difficult to reach, and the one within is the most distant. My youthful “normalcy” received its first body blow with JFK’s assassination in 1963. By 1967 I had joined the Marines and then declared myself a conscientious objector as I realized the evil my country was committing in Vietnam. I was on my way away.

In the years that followed, as Malcom X, MLK, Jr. and RFK, were assassinated and Johnson and Nixon lied and brutalized Vietnam, my understanding of history and politics deepened. Families and friends called me a communist for being a C.O. and opposing the war and a lying government. It was laughable but relentless.

Many years have elapsed, and the charges have risen and fallen as the years have gone by. For years now, the name of abuse is a “conspiracy” theorist or Russian sympathizer for daring to say that Russia Gate was a Democratic conspiracy and the war against Russia in Ukraine has been a U.S. project from the start. There is much more.

But my point about internal exile is that I had to adopt the motions of normalcy in everyday life – to create a pleasant persona – to get through the days. My teaching and writing continued as hard-hitting as before, but family, friends, academic colleagues, and acquaintances didn’t take my courses or read my writing, which they made sure to avoid.

These days, many more people have been forced to discover the twofold life where they can’t talk to the people in their lives about many issues – politics, wars, Covid, etc. Something has broken. Almost everything.

To accept the conclusion that the country is run by a bunch of ruthless warmongering imperialists is a step too far for most people. They must mean well or just make mistakes, for their hearts are in the right place, runs through so many minds. At least they assume that about the leaders they support.

A key way the endless wars roll on is the deadly political game of the lesser of two evils. If it is one’s political party waging the foreign wars, there are always many reasons to still find it better than the other party’s wars. “My leader may be a warmonger but he’s better than your warmonger” is the unspoken implication. This neat trick is supported by a host of mitigating excuses to justify the delusion that one is for peace even as these wars occur non-stop throughout the decades as the Democratic and Republican leaders switch highchairs.

Rather than dismiss the lot of them, the desire to feel that patriot heart-pump, however dim, and to reject the “extremist” conclusion that war is the life blood of the country, remains.

Throughout the sixty years of my adult life, the U.S. has been continuously waging wars, hot and cold, small and large, openly and secretly, all across the world, and its economy has increasingly become a military-industrial-national-security complex so vast and intricately linked to daily life that the country would collapse without it. Simply put: Beneath daily life lies a death cult, a river of blood. If that sounds too strong for you, give me another name for it.

It seems to me very clear that most Americans are today suffering from some sort of traumatic mental sickness, trying desperately to deny it in a multitude of ways. Scratch the surface of an everyday conversation or a greeting on the street and there’s the rolling of the eyes and the looks that say, “Let’s not go there, it’s all too crazy!” Something has broken, and people seem like walking desperadoes with the flag planted like a dagger in their hearts.

Even the alternative media, those writers with whom I share wishes for a peaceful world, have for a good while let their hopes trump reailty by claiming the American empire is doomed, as is Israel and the neo-liberal, neo-con agenda. For many months now, I have noticed something amiss with these claims. Too much wishful thinking. Too little appreciation for the machinations of the CIA, M-16, Mossad, Turkish conspiracies. To think these devils would accept defeat without bringing the world down is naïve.

I don’t relish saying all this. It is depressing. But I think it is true.

Some people who know me call me an extremist and claim I make no room for the middle ground. When it comes to U.S. war-waging, I say there is none. It is endless and integral to U.S. foreign policy no matter which party is in office. And the foreign policy is integral to the domestic policy. Without it, the country would be so different. Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden – to buy their lies is to be a fool.

To realize the difference between power and innocence is to come to understand the demonic nature of America’s Forever Wars.  When in 2014 President Obama stood at West Point and said, “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being,” he was revealing, consciously or not, a hard truth, just as when he received the Nobel Peace Prize and told the world he believed in war.  But he smiled.

For war is the lifeblood of this “exceptional” country.  But if you keep repeating that, don’t expect smiles to come your way.

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‘Oreshniks’ in Belarus Deter NATO Aggression

December 11th, 2024 by Drago Bosnic

On November 21, the Russian military used the “Oreshnik” for the very first time, a new hypersonic weapon armed with a conventional MIRV/MaRV/HGV payload. Technically an ICBM/IRBM hybrid, the missile offers unparalleled conventional long-range strike capabilities, something President Vladimir Putin announced two years ago. The November 21 strike on the former Soviet “Yuzhmash” plant was a warning shot. However, it wasn’t meant for the NATO-backed Neo-Nazi junta, but the political West, as its policy of constant escalation is pushing the world into a catastrophe. The strategic impact of the “Oreshnik” is similar to that of the formidable RSD-10 “Pioneer” IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missile) that the Soviet Union deployed in the 1980s.

However, unlike the “Saber” (NATO reporting name for RSD-10), which was exclusively nuclear-armed, the “Oreshnik” can carry both conventional and nuclear-tipped warheads. This makes it a much more usable platform, as it has no (geo)political and/or moral consequences connected with the use of nuclear weapons. It enables the targeting of underground command centers or any other high-priority targets across NATO-occupied Europe. It should be noted that the deployment of such missiles is the consequence of America’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from the INF Treaty (August 2, 2019). And even then, Russia tried to convince the US to not go ahead with the plans to deploy previously banned missiles, but to no avail.

Worse yet, Washington DC and its vassals and satellite states are now looking to deploy land-based intermediate and medium-range missiles in Europe, pushing the continent back to the 1980s, a dangerous prospect that the INF Treaty was designed to prevent. Moscow is responding to this in several ways, including by increasing the range of existing land-based hypersonic weapons. However, the true strategic response was announced in the last several days, particularly with regard to the upcoming deployment of the “Oreshnik” missiles in Belarus. Namely, on December 6, President Putin revealed that his Belarussian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, made an official request for the deployment of the new hypersonic missile.

This would be entirely within the framework of existing mutual defense agreements and would significantly enhance Minsk’s ability to deter any potential NATO aggression. Belarus already has nuclear weapons deployed on its territory precisely for this reason, particularly as the neighboring Poland is militarizing. The “Oreshnik” will likely be deployed in the second half of 2025. Putin told Lukashenko that “there are a number of technical matters that must be resolved by specialists, namely, determining the minimum range, taking into account the priorities of ensuring the security of Belarus”. In practice, this means that the missile will likely have a conventional payload and a shorter-range capability to neutralize threats in Eastern Europe.

The “Oreshnik” will certainly give Minsk unparalleled long-range strike options, rivaled only by those of Russia. The Kiev regime thinks that hundreds of these missiles could be deployed in the foreseeable future. According to its infamous GUR, Moscow’s military industry is able to produce up to 25 “Oreshniks” per month, amounting to 300 yearly. Even if only 10% of those are deployed in Belarus and considering that each missile can carry six MIRVs/MaRVs/HGVs, this could give Minsk the ability to strike 180 strategic targets. In addition, each of the six warheads can carry another six advanced kinetic penetrators, meaning that the Belarussian military would be able to neutralize nearly 1,100 individual targets in a radius of up to 6,000 km.

As previously mentioned, this sort of asymmetric conventional power projection is wholly unparalleled, not just in Europe, but virtually anywhere in the world. Military sources essentially confirm that Moscow can achieve such a large production capacity, particularly as the facilities for making the formidable RS-24 “Yars” ICBM can be repurposed to produce the “Oreshnik”, which is based on the RS-26 “Rubezh”, a shortened version of the RS-24 (one stage removed). These missiles have a very peculiar maneuverability, the so-called wobbling movement that confuses NATO ABM (anti-ballistic missile) systems, making it virtually impossible to intercept. Still, it’s only a matter of time before the Neo-Nazi junta claims to have “shot down several at once”.

Jokes aside, the political West seems to have taken the “Oreshnik” threat quite seriously, as military sources report that ATACMS and “Storm Shadow”/SCALP-EG attacks have come to a halt, particularly after the Chief of the Russian General Staff, Army General Valery Gerasimov, called his US counterpart, Charles Q. Brown Jr. We can only speculate what exactly the conversation was about, but it’s safe to assume that the Pentagon got a very clear and concrete warning. Unfortunately, gentlemanly agreements with the world’s most vile racketeering cartel and its warmongering overlords in Washington DC are all but impossible. They only understand the language of raw power and that’s how the actual world will communicate with them from now on.

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Eyewitness Syria, the Last 12 Days

December 11th, 2024 by Rick Sterling

My friend lives in Damascus. I will call him Qusay to protect his identity. Qusay was born and grew up in Aleppo and still has family there. He is a high-level translator and university professor. From his family he learned what unfolded in Aleppo following the invasion beginning November 27. He personally witnessed events in Damascus where he still is. The following is what Qusay told me about events in Syria over the past 12 days. 

Overthrow of Aleppo

The march and overthrow of Aleppo was done by Syrian and many foreign fighters supplied and backed by Turkish intelligence and military. Syrian military communications were jammed using electronic warfare. The invaders used drones for surveilling and attacking Syria forces. The jihadists were trained in the use of drones by NATO-funded Ukrainians. Turkey and other NATO forces supplied the drones and all sorts of other advanced weaponry. They had tanks in addition to machine gun mounted trucks and other vehicles.  

The jihadists were carefully prepared by Turkish / US forces. They sent individuals to talk with influential people in the Aleppo community, promising payments of hundreds of dollars and other rewards in exchange for complicity or no opposition. Doctors, engineers and public officials were contacted personally. It is highly likely that military officials were also contacted. When the invasion supported by the Turkish military happened starting November 27, the Syrian defense of Aleppo collapsed. 

Qusay thinks the Syrian army was exhausted from 13 years of war plus constant attacks from Israeli jets they have been helpless to stop. They, like all Syrian society, have been impoverished by intense sanctions from the West coupled with the theft of essential national resources. The primary wheat growing and oil and gas producing regions have been occupied by US forces and their Kurdish proxies since 2016.  As a result, most Syrians only have electricity a few hours per day and have trouble putting food on the table. Before the “dirty war” began in 2011, Syria was self sufficient in food and energy. Syria had no national debt and Syrians enjoyed free health care and education.

The invaders in Aleppo tried to assuage the public that they are not like the “rebels” of old who persecuted and killed Christians and Alawi and enforced sharia law. In Aleppo, they provided free bread for families and quickly set up electronic communications hubs so that everyone might have internet and also so they could broadcast their messages. 

Collapse in Damascus 

While the northern invading army went on to central Syria, a different attacking group worked from the south. First they attacked and took over Deraa on the Jordan border, then Suweida. Then they advanced to Damascus. It seems there were agreements in advance because there was little military defense of the capital of Syria. President Assad relinquished power and departed for Moscow. 

On Day One (Sunday) after the collapse of Bashar’s government, looting and chaos erupted immediately. People were terrified and afraid to go out of their homes.  Government other buildings were looted and ransacked. Universities were broken into and computers and lab equipment stolen.The Central Bank of Syria and other institutions was vandalized.

Many people have replaced the flag of Syria with the “revolution” flag out of fear.  

Now, on Day Two, the situation is better. There is more security. Many stores are still closed but they are opening one by one. The former PM and cabinet have urged people to go back to work.  

The titular head of the new government is Abu Mohammed al Jolani. He has publicly stated women are free to wear what they want and there will be no retaliation or revenge attacks. The Syrian Prime Minister has been replaced with Mohamad al Bashir. The Jolani government seems to be in control throughout most of the country, including Latakia. 

A huge concern now is the ongoing Israeli attacks and bombings. Israel has destroyed nearly all military buildings in Damascus area while Israeli drones are constantly overhead. Queneitra in the far south has been occupied by the Zionist army.  Netanyahu and Biden have both taken “credit” for the long dirty war in Syria.  

Qusay says, 

“Suddenly everything is lost…. Syrians are used to relying on the army to defend our country. But there is no more defense. Israel is taking overy Syrian land. Turkey is taking over another part of Syria. ….. We don’t know where Syria is going.” 

Some Syrians think they will have a better life.  Others believe this is an illusion and there are dark days ahead. Last weekend Qusay’s family had their bags packed and were ready to leave. But there is no place to go. Both Jordan and Lebanon have closed their borders. 

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On December 3, the Russian military demonstrated the true design of its 3M22 “Zircon” hypersonic missile for the first time. The footage shows the weapon being launched from the 3S14 UKSK vertical launch system (VLS). The launch platform was the Russian Navy’s “Admiral Gorshkov”, a frigate that regularly causes panic in NATO headquarters due to its long-range anti-ship and land-attack capabilities.

The first confirmed combat deployment of the “Zircon” occurred in January last year, although it’s very likely it was already used in 2022. In combination with high maneuverability, the missile’s maximum speed of Mach 9 (approximately 11,000 km/h) makes it effectively impossible to intercept, especially at very low altitudes, giving enemy forces mere seconds to react.

Information on the maximum range varies significantly, but informed military sources speculate it depends on the “Zircon’s” flight profile. According to Army Recognition, when flying low, it can reach up to 500 km, which is in line with basic physics, as the atmosphere is much denser at such altitudes. However, Russian tests have confirmed ranges of up to 1,500-2,000 km, as flying higher greatly extends the missile’s reach.

The “Zircon” is a two-stage weapon, with the first being a solid-fuel booster, while a scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) engine takes over after the missile has accelerated enough to enable its functioning (ramjets and scramjets can usually operate only after a certain velocity has been attained). It’s the world’s first and only operational weapon of this type.

The political West is particularly terrified of the “Zircon’s” multipurpose capabilities, as it can be launched by various platforms, be it submarines, surface combatants and/or land-based platforms. The missile is also nuclear-capable, meaning that it can be used on a strategic level, although its conventional capabilities are no less concerning to NATO, as its sheer speed and kinetic energy are unmatched by anything the world’s most vile racketeering cartel can deploy. As per usual, in order to somehow mask its inferiority (measured in decades at this point) in hypersonic technologies, the political West usually resorts to propaganda to denigrate the “Zircon”, primarily by pushing the laughable narrative that the Neo-Nazi junta shot down a third of all “Zircons” fired by the Russian military.

However, not a single remotely informed military source takes such claims seriously. On the contrary, even Western ones admit that “no known technology has been proven to consistently counter hypersonic threats, meaning adversaries could not intercept the Zircon in real-time, mainly when launched from long distances”, as the aforementioned Army Recognition report posits. The publication also admits that “for the United States and NATO, the Zircon represents a new generation of missile technology that could shift the balance of power, particularly in naval operations”, as its “extreme speed and the variety of launch platforms it can be deployed from increase its threat to naval assets such as aircraft carriers and destroyers” and that this “could severely limit Western operational reach”.

This is certainly true and confirms that NATO militaries are extremely worried about the possibility of such missiles proliferating to sovereigntist nations, a development that could severely limit the political West’s ability to conduct unprovoked aggression against the world. It should be noted that the United States, NATO and its other vassals and satellite states are mostly thalassocracies that focus on naval power projection, particularly on massive capital ships (such as aircraft carriers). These large and slow-moving targets are effectively sitting ducks for the Russian Navy which is focusing on deploying much smaller surface combatants such as frigates and corvettes that could carry the “Zircon”. Such vessels are far more affordable, while the missile itself gives them a strategic reach.

This asymmetric advantage is very difficult to match, particularly as the political West is decades behind in hypersonic propulsion technologies. Worse yet, any large-scale deployment of a land-based variant of the “Zircon” would also greatly diminish NATO’s land warfare capabilities, as the missile could easily target both high-value assets and large troop concentrations.

Its sophisticated guidance systems ensure pinpoint precision even at hypersonic speeds, making such strikes particularly deadly for high-tech opponents. The “Zircon” uses a combination of INS (inertial navigation system) and radar homing to achieve this. As the missile flies at 11,000 km/h, the air pressure in front of it forms a plasma cloud, absorbing radio waves and making it effectively invisible to radar.

This phenomenon, colloquially known as plasma stealth, and its sea-skimming capability, make intercepting an incoming “Zircon” effectively impossible. One downside of plasma stealth is that it greatly diminishes the ability to communicate with the missile, which is one of the many reasons why nobody in the political West has been able to develop a working hypersonic weapon. However, Russian scientists found a way to circumvent this, giving Moscow an unprecedented technological edge, as the “Zircon” is capable of information exchange during flight, allowing it to receive constant updates and adjustments in real-time. This doesn’t only ensure pinpoint precision, but it also enables timely retargeting, confirming the claim that the missile can engage moving targets.

The KRN, a Belgrade-based military think tank that gave several fascinating interviews to InfoBRICS, posited that the “Zircon” can be used by existing land-based platforms of the Russian military, specifically the K300P “Bastion-P” coastal defense system. I’m also a long-time member of this organization and we’ve suggested this was the case years ago. The genius of Russian military specialists becomes all the more apparent when one realizes that the “Zircon” was made to fit not just into the previously mentioned 3S14 VLS, but also the K300P. Back in 2023, along with my KRN colleagues, I had the chance to analyze the size of the P-800 “Oniks” supersonic cruise missile and determined that these missiles fit into identical launchers, both on naval vessels and land-based platforms.

This greatly enhances the “Zircon’s” already impressive versatility, making it a highly flexible weapon with a simultaneous tactical, operational and strategic impact. In addition to the aforementioned naval role, it can also be used in strikes on land-based critical military infrastructure such as command centers, airbases, SAM (surface-to-air missile) and ABM (anti-ballistic missile) systems, army bases and numerous other strategic targets.

It greatly complements Russia’s existing hypersonic weapons arsenal, including the “Iskander-M”, “Kinzhal” and the latest “Oreshnik” missile systems. It fits perfectly into Moscow’s non-nuclear (and nuclear) deterrence policies and has already been used in response to NATO-backed terrorist attacks, giving the perpetrators mere minutes (or seconds in some cases).

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her AHS lawyers have just filed Court Documents: 

  • threatening my Podcast posted on Twitter/X
  • seeking to have me imprisoned for 83 days
  • threatening & extorting my family for ~$56,000
  • threatening me for going to edmontonpolice
  • harassing judges for an earlier Court Date

Three weeks ago I posted on Twitter that I was being threatened by Alberta Premier Smith’s Office and Alberta Health Services lawyers they were working with – threatening they would seek to have me imprisoned for 83 days. 

I received those filed Court documents today and I was informed that Premier Danielle Smith’s Office is going to double down and work very hard with AHS to have me and my family destroyed as soon as they possibly can.

I received that Court paperwork today (they demanded an earlier Court date in mid January but didn’t get it).

Premier Danielle Smith’s Office is also going after my Podcast “15 minutes with Dr. Makis”, which was posted here on X and Twitter, to SILENCE me.

I am including the sworn AHS Affidavit that references one of my Twitter podcasts THREE times, as yet another reason Premier Smith & AHS want me imprisoned.

In this podcast I say:

“UCP government Officials are leaking confidential government documents and emails to corrupt AHS lawyers that are using them to violate the Criminal Code of Canada”

Notice, there is no allegation of defamation here from AHS, because it’s true.

Also notice that not a single one of Premier Danielle Smith’s AHS Executives have signed any of these legal documents – it’s all sworn by legal secretaries like HINDISAAR ABDULLAHI. I have no idea who any of these individuals are.

Attacking my X Twitter Podcast is a big strategic blunder, as I will have my legal counsel reach out to Elon Musk‘s legal team for assistance.

Elon Musk indicated he will assist any doctor who is being silenced for their posts on Twitter – AHS has literally put it in writing that they want me imprisoned for my Twitter posts.

This is the first instance in Canada, where a Canadian doctor is being threatened with 83 days in prison for a Podcast posted on Twitter.

This is what CENSORSHIP looks like. This is what lawfare by the Premier of Alberta and her Big Pharma allies at AHS looks like.

Premier Smith is attempting to align herself with the New Administration of President realDonaldTrump, however, this is nothing more than theatre, she is aligned with Big Pharma, AHS and Justin Trudeau on all matters pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines, abuse of healthcare workers & vaccine injured, etc.

Premier Danielle Smith’s Office interferes with Court matters when it comes to silencing honest, ethical doctors and I’m going to prove that in the coming weeks and months.

I will announce my new Legal Counsel tomorrow and I will try to have my GiveSendGo ready tomorrow as well to raise the $55,000 extortion costs that AHS and Premier Danielle Smith are demanding, and legal fees to defend my family.

This process is costing Alberta taxpayers over $10 million dollars in legal fees that AHS lawyers have charged over the years, including this latest filing.

Please pray for my family, and thank you all for your incredible support!

God bless you all.

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Ukrainian officials and commanders admit that efforts to build the fortifications are hampered by delays and a lack of coordination, a factor that, in turn, is further demoralising Ukrainian forces amid the rapid advance of Russian troops, writes the Financial Times. This persistent corruption in the Kiev regime has resulted in the Ukrainian army being in the worst situation since the beginning of the conflict.

Many experts consider recent times to be the worst for Ukraine during the entire period of the conflict, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been in constant retreat for months, sometimes losing several villages in one day. The article notes that there are 15 kilometres left before Russian troops enter a new region, Dnepropetrovsk.

“Ukraine is racing to finish multiple lines of defence that could halt Russia’s swift advances, but efforts have so far been marred by delays and lack of co-ordination, according to Ukrainian officials and commanders,” the British newspaper said, citing Ukrainian officials and commanders.

According to former Speaker of the Supreme Rada (Ukrainian parliament) Dmytro Razumkov, a former ally of President Volodymyr Zelensky who is now on the parliamentary committee investigating delays and alleged corruption in the effort to build defences, “The situation with fortifications is another factor demoralising troops.”

He said the construction of the defence lines was initially delayed because Kiev was counting on success. However, after the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2023, there were further delays due to a lack of coordination and numerous corruption cases.

“Funds are scattered among all the regions and everyone is building their own thing. There is no one person who is responsible for the quality, for planning, for how these positions will be transferred and to whom, and who will supervise them,” Razumkov added.

Thus, according to the publication, the Dnepropetrovsk region spent $7.3 million on fortifications from November 2023 to November 2024. However, two officials involved in construction in the area said that for the money spent, there is not much to show for it and that work actually began only about two months ago.

A Financial Times reporter who visited parts of the Dnepropetrovsk region in November saw only a few prepared positions and an anti-tank ditch, plus several positions still under construction or unfinished.

One Ukrainian engineering unit interviewed often had to raise money to build the defence lines, while the positions behind them, the second and third lines, were built without consultation with the troops on the front line, “either in the wrong place or too far back from the first line.”

In the summer, Ukrainian MP Mykhailo Bondar said that Ukraine had opened about 30 criminal cases related to the embezzlement of funds during the construction of fortifications, totaling more than $483 million.

“Now, about 30 criminal proceedings have already been opened for embezzlement of funds during the construction of fortifications. Upon hearing such figures, the members of the commission from the ‘Servants of the People’ immediately tried to protect the managers of the funds. And the lion’s share is the military-civilian administrations – this is the president’s vertical. Next time, we should get for each proceeding – under which article, who appears there and what amounts,” noted the MP.

Due to this corruption and failure to bolster defence lines, Ukraine cannot avoid collapse in the special military operation zone, especially as conditions are set to worsen as the winter deepens.

This predicament was also stressed by the head of the Air Reconnaissance Support Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Maria Berlinska, earlier this month, who said that the Ukrainian army is in the worst situation since the beginning of the conflict with Russia.

“What am I seeing? That the front is really falling apart. But this is obvious to everyone from open sources. It’s clear to me that the situation is not like in the spring of 2022, but significantly worse. Probably, the worst moment of the entire war [ …],” she said.

She noted that Ukrainian society is demoralised by situations when “certain civil servants obtain disability [documents],” and in the possession of others, huge sums of money are found.

At the same time, Berlinska acknowledged that the Russian army was advancing rapidly.

“It’s long since come time to tell how things really are: the front is crumbling, we are fighting one of the strongest armies in the world, a nuclear giant with a unified military-industrial complex, there are fewer and fewer of us, help is coming in little, untimely, and often of poor quality,” she concluded.

With temperatures plummeting, weapon supplies slowing down, military equipment inadequate to deal with Russian forces, and a catastrophic shortage of manpower, corruption has only exacerbated the problems that the Ukrainian military is facing. And yet, even under these conditions, it seems that the Kiev regime is unwilling to advance peace negotiations to conclude the war quickly.

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The Death of Democracy. Paul C. Roberts

December 11th, 2024 by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

The electorate in Romania chose Calin Georgescu as their president. But the West said  NO!  You see, Georgescu is opposed to US military bases on Romania’s border with Russia. So a Romanian judge was paid a bagful of money to cancel the election. The current president, whose term expires  December 21, following Zelensky’s lead declared he would stay in office. I have wondered why Biden did not do the same thing.

The judge vacated the will of the Romanian people, because he ruled that Russia using the social media TikTok interfered with the election.  For reasons I don’t understand, when a newspaper endorses a candidate it is not interfering with an election. Neither is it interfering when plutocrats donate millions of dollars, thus purchasing the government to serve their interests. Celebrities can endorse, etc., but it only is interference if it happens in social media and the result is not what the ruling elite require..

The West also doesn’t accept the vote of the Georgian people who elected a parliament that is not hostile to Russia. That country’s president, a French citizen, says she won’t step down either.  

It seems democracy is no longer a Western value if it interferes with Western agendas. This reduces democracy to a cover for elite agendas.

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Manifestantes georgianos apoiados pelo Ocidente atacam jornalistas.

December 10th, 2024 by Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

Na Geórgia, os manifestantes anti-governo estão a tornar-se cada vez mais violentos. Não há respeito pela liberdade de expressão entre os manifestantes e tem havido ataques frequentes tanto a cidadãos pró-governo como a jornalistas que tentam mostrar a realidade no terreno. Recentemente, dois jornalistas estrangeiros conhecidos pelo seu trabalho em Donbass foram assediados enquanto cobriam os acontecimentos na capital georgiana, o que mostra claramente como os militantes locais estão a adoptar práticas semelhantes às dos nacionalistas ucranianos durante o Euromaidan.

O americano Patrick Lancaster e o italiano Andrea Lucidi, dois jornalistas estrangeiros baseados na Rússia que trabalham como correspondentes de guerra na zona de operações militares especiais, foram atacados por manifestantes georgianos enquanto caminhavam pelas ruas de Tbilisi e filmavam os protestos. Em vídeo postado em seu canal Telegram, Lancaster afirmou que esta foi a primeira vez que enfrentou um problema de segurança devido à sua atividade jornalística na Geórgia.

“Durante o protesto desta noite em Tbilisi, Geórgia, o jornalista italiano Andrea Lucidi e eu fomos agressivamente abordados, cercados, empurrados e seguidos por muitos manifestantes. Como resultado, a nossa capacidade de cobrir o protesto foi interrompida. A liberdade de expressão e de jornalismo é muito importante e nunca deve ser prejudicada. Deve-se notar que, além dos manifestantes, nunca tive problemas para realizar meu trabalho como jornalista livremente na Geórgia”, disse Lancaster no Twitter. seu canal Telegram.

Ele também postou um vídeo do momento em que foram atacados pelos manifestantes, onde é possível ver os georgianos tentando espancá-los e expulsá-los da área onde ocorriam os protestos. Patrick e Andrea tentaram argumentar com os manifestantes, falando sobre a importância da liberdade de expressão e esclarecendo que a sua única intenção era fazer trabalho jornalístico, mas os ativistas não se interessaram em ouvir qualquer retórica, sendo extremamente agressivos e intolerantes.

Este não é o primeiro caso de violência relatado nas ruas de Tbilisi. As manifestações estão a transformar-se em atos de vandalismo, com “ativistas” destruindo e queimando monumentos públicos, bem como recorrendo à violência contra a polícia e autoridades estatais. No caso específico de Lancaster e Lucidi, foram certamente identificados por algum manifestante que já conhecia o seu trabalho na Rússia, razão pela qual se tornaram alvos da russofobia dos ativistas georgianos pró-UE. Em Tbilisi, tornou-se comum ouvir o hino ucraniano e canções de louvor ao regime de Kiev, razão pela qual não é surpreendente que jornalistas pró-Rússia sejam atacados, mesmo que estejam apenas a fazer o seu trabalho de imprensa sem qualquer propaganda política.

Este tipo de situação era de esperar, uma vez que os manifestantes em Tbilisi trabalham para os mesmos agentes estrangeiros que patrocinam a Ucrânia de hoje. Na verdade, existem muitas semelhanças entre os atuais acontecimentos na Geórgia e o golpe de Estado Euromaidan em 2014, quando militantes neonazistas agitaram parte da população contra o governo ucraniano legítimo e conseguiram provocar uma operação de mudança de regime pró-Ocidente.

Como é sabido, o regime estabelecido em Kiev após o Euromaidan prosseguiu uma política externa de alinhamento total com a OTAN e a UE e lançou uma campanha russofóbica, iniciando o genocídio em Donbass. Reagindo a estas ações, a Federação Russa lançou a sua operação militar especial em 2022, depois de ter fracassado em várias tentativas de resolver pacificamente a crise ucraniana. Kiev e o Ocidente usaram as medidas militares russas como desculpa para lançar uma guerra por procuração contra Moscou, criando assim um conflito prolongado que é hoje um dos pontos mais críticos da geopolítica mundial, com um grande risco de escalada global e nuclear.

É possível dizer que o Ocidente planeja o mesmo para a Geórgia. Os atuais protestos – que são abertamente apoiados pelo Ocidente e por lobistas pró-Ocidente na Geórgia – visam a mudança de regime e o estabelecimento de uma junta russofóbica, o que tornaria possível retomar a guerra contra as repúblicas separatistas do Norte, protegidas por Moscou. Desta forma, o Ocidente seria capaz de abrir um segundo flanco contra a Rússia utilizando outro proxy não pertencente à OTAN – criando um cenário em que o país é forçado a lutar sozinho, sem receber quaisquer garantias de segurança da aliança atlantista.

Espera-se que os cidadãos georgianos envolvidos nos protestos compreendam de uma vez por todas que estão a ser usados ​​pelo Ocidente num plano de guerra que, se for bem sucedido, trará um futuro terrível para o país. A melhor coisa que os georgianos podem fazer agora é apoiar o seu governo no meio da atual agressão financiada por estrangeiros, evitando que o futuro do país seja arruinado pelos interesses ocidentais.

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

 

Artigo em português : Western-backed Georgian protesters violently confronted journalists, InfoBrics, le 10 décembre 2024.

Imagem :  InfoBrics

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Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In

December 10th, 2024 by Caitlin Johnstone

Well it looks like the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is on its way out, likely to be replaced by one or more US puppet regimes depending on whether the nation maintains its current borders or is carved up into separate states. The empire notches another win.

I am not a military analyst, but analysts who are normally supportive and optimistic in favor of Assad like Elijah Magnier and Pepe Escobar are saying this is the end. Assad’s whereabouts are unknown as Turkish-backed fighters and al-Qaeda-linked forces with a history of western backing have swept through the country with alarming speed, and now Russia and Iran have joined with the governments of US-aligned nations like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey in calling for an end to the fighting in favor of a political solution. CNN reports that opposition forces have entered Damascus in search of Assad, and footage reportedly shows Assad forces retreating from the area where the president’s main residence is located.

The US proxy warfare in Lebanon and Ukraine makes a lot more strategic sense now; by tying up Hezbollah and Russia in other conflicts, the path was opened up for another run on Damascus and a chance to further cut off Hezbollah from supplies. Many pundits on my end of the commentary spectrum had been calling those proxy wars self-defeating and framing them as the desperate flailings of a dying empire which will only accelerate its demise, but now here we are watching the empire score a victory it’s been chasing for years, with the western/Israeli stranglehold on the middle east growing tighter than ever.

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Meanwhile the press is falling all over itself to support this regime change by promoting the narrative that al-Qaeda is woke now.

CNN just released a coddling softball interview with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the former ISIS and al-Qaeda member who leads the Syrian opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is itself a rebranded offshoot of al-Qaeda in Syria. Jolani told CNN that he has reformed from his radical ways of the past, saying,

“Sometimes it’s essential to adjust to reality,” adding, “someone who rigidly clings to certain ideas and principles without flexibility cannot effectively lead societies or navigate complex conflicts like the one happening in Syria.”

Now the imperial press are full of headlines like “How Syria’s rebel leader went from radical jihadist to a blazer-wearing ‘revolutionary’” from CNN, “Syria’s rebel leader Golani: From radical jihadist to ostensible pragmatist” from The Times of Israel, and “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state” from The Telegraph.

Only a matter of time before we start seeing former ISIS and al-Qaeda members chatting it up on liberal western talk shows with their preferred gender pronouns listed next to their names.

As luck would have it, these “diversity-friendly jihadists” have been telling the Israeli press that they “love Israel” and won’t do anything to harm its interests, so it’s safe to say that this “revolution” has been about as organically grown as a sheet of crystal meth.

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One of the many perks of being the world’s dominant superpower is that it gives you the luxury of time. If one regime change operation fails, don’t worry, you can just move some chess pieces around and take another shot at it. If a coup attempt fails in Latin America, relax, there will be other coup attempts. If your efforts to grab Syria fail, you can just smash it with sanctions and occupy its oil fields to impoverish it while overextending its military allies in proxy conflicts elsewhere and grab it later.

A good kickboxer throws many combinations with the understanding that most strikes will miss or be blocked or cause minimal damage, trusting that eventually the one knockout blow will get through.

No empire lasts forever, but there’s no evidence that this one is going away any time in the immediate future. This ugliness could conceivably drag itself out for generations.

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The End of Pluralism in the Middle East. Craig Murray

December 10th, 2024 by Craig Murray

A truly seismic change in the Middle East appears to be happening very fast. At its heart is a devil’s bargain – Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinian nation and creation of a Greater Israel, in return for the annihilation of the Shia minorities of Syria and Lebanon and the imposition of Salafism across the Eastern Arab world.

This also spells the end for Lebanon and Syria’s Christian communities, as witness the tearing down of all Christmas decorations, the smashing of all alcohol and the forced imposition of the veil on women in Aleppo now.

Yesterday US Warthog air-to-ground jets attacked and severely depleted reinforcements which were, at the invitation of the Syrian government, en route to Syria from Iraq. Constant, daily Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s military infrastructure for months have been a major factor in the demoralisation and reduced capacity of the Syrian government’s Syrian Arab Army, which has simply evaporated in Aleppo and Hama.

It is very difficult to see the tide turning in Syria. The Russians now have either to massively reinforce their Syrian bases with ground troops or to evacuate them. Faced with the exigencies of Ukraine, they may do the latter, and it is reported that the Russian navy has already set sail from Tartus.

The speed of collapse of Syria has taken everybody by surprise. If the situation does not stabilise, Damascus could be besieged and ISIS back on the hills above the Bekaa valley within a week, given the speed of their advance and the short distances involved.

A renewed Israeli attack on Southern Lebanon to coincide with a Salafist invasion of the Bekaa Valley would then seem inevitable, as the Israelis would obviously wish their border with their new Taliban-style Greater Syrian neighbour to be as far North as possible. It could be a race for Beirut, unless the Americans have already organised who gets it.

It is no coincidence that the attack on Syria started the day of the Lebanon/Israel ceasefire. The jihadist forces do not want to be seen to be fighting alongside Israel, even though they are fighting forces which have been relentlessly bombed by Israel, and in the case of Hezbollah are exhausted from fighting Israel.

The Times of Israel has no compunction about saying the quiet part out loud, unlike the British media:

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In fact Israeli media is giving a lot more truth about the Syrian rebel forces than British and American media just now. This is another article from the Times of Israel:

While HTS officially seceded from Al Qaeda in 2016, it remains a Salafi jihadi organization designated as a terror organization in the US, the EU and other countries, with tens of thousands of fighters.

Its sudden surge raises concerns that a potential takeover of Syria could transform it into an Islamist, Taliban-like regime – with repercussions for Israel at its south-western border. Others, however, see the offensive as a positive development for Israel and a further blow to the Iranian axis in the region.

Contrast this to the UK media, which from the Telegraph and Express to the Guardian has promoted the official narrative that not just the same organisations, but the same people responsible for mass torture and executions of non-Sunnis, including Western journalists, are now cuddly liberals.

Nowhere is this more obvious than the case of Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani, sometimes spelt Al-Julani or Al-Golani, who is now being boosted throughout western media as a moderate leader. He was the deputy leader of ISIS, and the CIA actually has a $10 million bounty on his head! Yes, that is the same CIA which is funding and equipping him and giving him air support.

Supporters of the Syrian rebels still attempt to deny that they have Israeli and US support – despite the fact that almost a decade ago there was open Congressional testimony in the USA that, to that point, over half a billion dollars had been spent on assistance to Syrian rebel forces, and the Israelis have openly been providing medical and other services to the jihadists and effective air support.

One interesting consequence of this joint NATO/Israel support for the jihadist groups in Syria is a further perversion of domestic rule of law. To take the UK as an example, under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act it is illegal to state an opinion that supports, or may lead somebody else to support, a proscribed organisation.

The abuse of this provision by British police to persecute Palestinian supporters for allegedly encouraging support for proscribed organisations Hamas and Hezbollah is notorious, with even tangential alleged references leading to arrest. Sarah Wilkinson, Richard Medhurst, Asa Winstanley, Richard Barnard and myself are all notable victims, and the persecution has been greatly intensified by Keir Starmer.

Yet Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) is also a proscribed group in the UK. But both British mainstream media and British Muslim outlets have been openly promoting and praising HTS for a week – frankly much more openly than I have ever witnessed anyone in the UK support Hamas and Hezbollah – and not a single person has been arrested or even warned by UK police.

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That in itself is the strongest of indications that western security services are fully behind the current attack on Syria.

For the record, I think it is an appalling law, and nobody should be prosecuted for expressing an opinion either way. But the politically biased application of the law is undeniable.

When the entire corporate and state media in the West puts out a unified narrative that Syrians are overjoyed to be released by HTS from the tyranny of the Assad regime – and says nothing whatsoever of the accompanying torture and execution of Shias, and destruction of Christmas decorations and icons – it ought to be obvious to everybody where this is coming from.

Yet – and this is another UK domestic repercussion – a very substantial number of Muslims in the UK support HTS and the Syrian rebels, because of the funding pumped into UK mosques from Saudi and Emirate Salafist sources. This is allied to the UK security service influence also wielded through the mosques, both by sponsorship programmes and “think tanks” benefiting approved religious leaders, and by the execrable coercive Prevent programme.

UK Muslim outlets that have been ostensibly pro-Palestinian – like Middle East Eye and 5 Pillars – enthusiastically back Israel’s Syrian allies in ensuring the destruction of resistance to the genocide of the Palestinians. Al Jazeera alternates between items detailing dreadful massacre in Palestine, and items extolling the Syrian rebels bringing Israel-allied rule to Syria.

Among the mechanisms they employ to reconcile this is a refusal to acknowledge the vital role of Syria in enabling the supply of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah. Which supply the jihadists have now cut off, to the absolute delight of Israel, and in conjunction with both Israeli and US air strikes.

In the final analysis, for many Sunni Muslims both in the Middle East and in the West, the pull seems to be stronger of sectarian hatred of the Shia and the imposition of Salafism, than preventing the ultimate destruction of the Palestinian nation.

I am not a Muslim. My Muslim friends happen to be almost entirely Sunni. I personally regard the continuing division over the leadership of the religion over a millennium ago as deeply unhelpful and a source of unnecessary continued hate.

But as a historian I do know that the western colonial powers have consciously and explicitly used the Sunni/Shia split for centuries to divide and rule. In the 1830’s, Alexander Burnes was writing reports on how to use the division in Sind between Shia rulers and Sunni populations to aid British colonial expansion.

On 12 May 1838, in his letter from Simla setting out his decision to launch the first British invasion of Afghanistan, British Governor General Lord Auckland included plans to exploit Shia/Sunni division in both Sind and Afghanistan to aid the British military attack.

The colonial powers have been doing it for centuries, Muslim communities keep falling for it, and the British and Americans are doing it right now to further their remodelling of the Middle East.

Simply put, many Sunni Muslims have been brainwashed into hating Shia Muslims more than they hate those currently committing genocide of an overwhelmingly Sunni population in Gaza.

I refer to the UK because I witnessed this first hand during the election campaign in Blackburn. But the same is true all over the Muslim world. Not one Sunni Muslim-led state has lifted a single finger to prevent the genocide of the Palestinians.

Their leadership is using anti-Shia sectarianism to maintain popular support for a de facto alliance with Israel against the only groups – Iran, Houthi and Hezbollah – which actually did attempt to give the Palestinians practical support in resistance. And against the Syrian government which facilitated supply.

The unspoken but very real bargain is this. The Sunni powers will accept the wiping out of the entire Palestinian nation and formation of Greater Israel, in return for the annihilation of the Shia communities in Syria and Lebanon by Israel and forces backed by NATO (including Turkey).

There are, of course, contradictions in this grand alliance. The United States’ Kurdish allies in Iraq are unlikely to be happy with Turkey’s destruction of Kurdish groups in Syria, which is what Erdoğan gains from Turkey’s very active military role in toppling Syria – in addition to extending Turkish control of oilfields.

The Iran-friendly Iraqi government will have further difficulty with reconciling US continuing occupation of swathes of its country, as they realise they are the next target.

The Lebanese army is under control of the USA, and Hezbollah must have been greatly weakened to have agreed the disastrous ceasefire with Israel. Christian fascist militias traditionally allied to Israel are increasingly visible in parts of Beirut, though whether they would be stupid enough to make common cause with jihadists from the North may be open to question. But should Syria fall entirely to jihadist rule – which may happen fast – I do not rule out Lebanon following very quickly indeed, and being integrated into a Salafist Greater Syria.

How the Palestinians of Jordan would react to this disastrous turn of events, it is hard to be sure. The British puppet Hashemite Kingdom is the designated destination for ethnically cleansed West Bank Palestinians under the Greater Israel plan.

What this all potentially amounts to is the end of pluralism in the Levant and its replacement by supremacism. An ethno-supremacist Greater Israel and a religio-supremacist Salafist Greater Syria.

Unlike many readers, I have never been a fan of the Assad regime or blind to its human rights violations. But what it did undeniably do was maintain a pluralist state where the most amazing historical religious and community traditions – including Sunni (and many Sunni do support Assad), Shia, Alaouites, descendants of the first Christians, and speakers of Aramaic, the language of Jesus – were all able to co-exist.

The same is true of Lebanon.

What we are witnessing is the destruction of that and imposition of a Saudi-style rule. All the little cultural things that indicate pluralism – from Christmas trees to language classes to winemaking to women going unveiled – have just been destroyed in Aleppo and could be destroyed from Damascus to Beirut.

I do not pretend that there are not genuine liberal democrats among the opposition to Assad. But they have negligible military significance, and the idea that they would be influential in a new government is delusion.

In Israel, which pretended to be a pluralist state, the mask is off. The Muslim call to prayer has just been banned. Arab minority members of the Knesset have been suspended for criticising Netanyahu and genocide. More walls and gates are built every day, not just in unlawfully occupied territories but in the “state of Israel” itself, to enforce apartheid.

I confess I once had the impression that Hezbollah was itself a religio-supremacist organisation; the dress and style of its leadership look theocratic. Then I came here and visited places like Tyre, which has been under Hezbollah elected local government for decades, and found that swimwear and alcohol are allowed on the beach and the veil is optional, while there are completely unmolested Christian communities there.

I will never now see Gaza, but wonder if I might have been similarly surprised by Hamas rule.

It is the United States which is promoting the cause of religious extremism and of the end, all over the Middle East, of a societal pluralism similar to Western norms. That is of course a direct consequence of the United States being allied to both the two religio-supremacist centres of Israel and Saudi Arabia.

It is the USA which is destroying pluralism, and it is Iran and its allies which defend pluralism. I would not have seen this clearly had I not come here. But once seen, it is blindingly obvious.

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December 8, 2024, was a sad day for all sovereigntists around the world. After nearly a decade and a half of fighting for survival against simultaneous aggression from virtually all sides, Syria succumbed to its mortal wounds. The ongoing blame game in Russia, Iran and other multipolar powers won’t change anything. There’s a ton of speculation on who sold what and to whom, but the simple fact is that everything has a breaking point.

Since 2011, when NATO effectively invaded the country, Syria wasn’t given a day of break. And yes, it was an invasion, because the so-called “Syrian Civil War” is a ridiculous euphemism coined by the mainstream propaganda machine as a cover-up for this terrorist-infested assault. The political West and its vassals and satellite states launched this truly unprovoked war of aggression not against Assad, but the Syrian people.

Back in 2015, Damascus asked for Russia’s help and its intervention saved the country from a complete terrorist takeover. By 2019, most of the country was liberated from NATO-backed terrorists, leaving several areas under occupation, including the terrorist-infested Al Tanf, where American occupation forces are still stationed, and Idlib, where Turkey maintained and supported an alliance of various Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists. Precisely these two areas played a central role in the latest attack on Syria, resulting in the complete takeover. The US-backed, Kurdish-dominated SDF still holds the territory beyond the Euphrates, although it remains to be seen for how long with the expansionist Turkey sending its terrorists to the area. Either way, the actual Syrian Civil War is starting just now and it’ll be a disastrous bloodbath.

The mainstream propaganda machine is already preparing some sort of “Syrian Zelensky” as the leader of the “moderate, democratic Syria”. The so-called “emir” Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a, better known by his Al Qaeda nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is a wanted terrorist, the leader of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, previously known as Al-Nusra Front), with the United States formally offering $10 million for his whereabouts and capture. And yet, that doesn’t prevent CNN from interviewing him, meaning they obviously know where he is, making this “moderate democratic” charade all the most ludicrous. Even more interestingly, he has an extremely lucrative business in Turkey, a major NATO member that somehow “didn’t get the memo” they’re working with a terrorist. Still, Ankara is more honest about its motivation for working with him.

Namely, the two-faced mini-sultan Erdogan doesn’t hide his Neo-Ottoman ambitions. His supporters openly brag about him being the new actual leader of Syria. And indeed, it certainly may seem like it, as his appetites keep growing, supported by Turkish expansionism in the South Caucasus, North Africa, Southeast Europe, and possibly even Central Asia in the foreseeable future.

However, Erdogan’s calculus might end up being way off as the “Syrian Gordian Knot” just became even more entangled and you can’t just cut it, as it’s made of steel. Namely, what the political West kept calling the “Syrian opposition” is effectively non-existent. Nobody really knows what it is, as it’s composed of numerous factions, the most prominent of which are the HTS, SNA and FSA, with the Kurdish-led SDF still in the game.

None of these factions are willing to renounce their spheres of influence without getting the “slice of the cake” (although they’re really left with crumbles at this point). It’s almost impossible to predict in what ways this could escalate. The US-backed SDF is not on good terms (to put it mildly) with any of these factions. There’s also a strong possibility of a direct Turkish invasion of SDF-held areas, although Washington DC is already conducting airstrikes in support of the Kurdish-led group. It remains to be seen if America will sell the SDF to Erdogan or if he will tolerate it as long as he gets the rest of the country. Perhaps Ankara might even go into an indirect confrontation with the US over Kurdish-held areas, although they’ve been coordinating this NATO invasion of Syria quite closely and are likely to continue to do so in most of the country.

What does all this mean for the Syrian people? Well, certainly nothing good. The terrorists are already looting, pillaging and destroying everything in their path. This includes kidnapping women and attacking civilians, as well as handing out weapons to anyone who’d take them, children included. The “moderate democratic” terrorists are already threatening that the historic Umayyad Mosque will be off limits for Shia Muslims, while Christians are being sent a very clear message as not even Christmas trees are tolerated(which is “civilized” in comparison to what’s actually going on in churches and other Christian shrines). In addition, the risk of a regional spillover cannot be overstated, as the terrorists don’t understand the concept of state borders, which is an issue Iraq is already having to contend with as terrorists take border crossings.

The unfortunate Baghdad also hasn’t had a break since the 1980s, all due to US/NATO meddling and aggression. This is now bound to get worse, as the political West will continue the strategic offensive against Iranian influence in the Middle East. And how does the mainstream propaganda machine call all these events in Syria and the region? “Mostly peaceful democratic revolution.” It would certainly make one fall off a chair laughing if the situation wasn’t that tragic.

At the same time, legitimate elections in Romania are being annulled due to “Russian interference” as the “far right” political candidate is now isolated due to his heating and Internet access being cut. Not to mention Georgia which is experiencing a sort of mini-Maidan led by an outgoing president who served as the French ambassador to the country she officially “leads”.

At the same time, the Neo-Nazi junta is also a “democracy”, despite the fact that Zelensky is now effectively a U.S. NATO “proxy dictator”, while Russia is a “dictatorship” despite holding actual elections. All in all, we see that the political West’s definitions of “freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law” are repulsive lies and misnomers for true tyranny and extremism. Whether it’s Wahhabism and other forms of Islamic radicalism, unadulterated Nazism, narco-terrorism, extremely violent criminal groups such as drug cartels, repulsive ideologies (ultra-liberal extremism and moral depravity), etc, NATO is behind it all and stands fully committed to supporting it. The dangers of the extremely malignant influence of the US-led racketeering cartel cannot be overstated, as it’s the main contributing factor to global nuclear proliferation.

The people of Syria are now the hostages of this evil empire of lies, serving as the tragic showcase to all of us what the loss of sovereignty can cost an entire nation. Still, while the multipolar world might’ve lost a battle, the geostrategic counteroffensive against the political West’s global aggression is only starting. Entire nations (and perhaps even continents) will now look for ways to keep the invaders at bay, particularly by building closer ties with BRICS and other sovereigntist organizations.

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Canada Stuck in NATO Penalty Box Through 2030

December 10th, 2024 by Kyle Duggan

Canada is not about to meet its NATO defense spending commitments anytime soon, a long-awaited major defense policy update revealed on Monday.

In 2023 at NATO’s Vilnius summit, Canada committed alongside its allies to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense, but Ottawa’s most recent projections have its defense spend-to-GDP ratio hit 1.76 percent in 2029-30, at a ballpark of C$57.8 billion.

The news comes as a record number of NATO’s allies will meet the 2 percent target, and follows months of pressure from allies for Canada to end its free-rider status in the alliance.

It comes days ahead of Canada’s budget, details of which have been revealed in a stream of announcements designed to shore up attention on the governing Liberals as they struggle against Conservatives surging in the polls.

Canada’s Defense Minister Bill Blair nonetheless billed the new spending announced Monday as a “very significant and necessary step towards reaching our NATO commitment” because it sets out billions to advance it from 1.38 percent, according to NATO’s July 2023 estimates.

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A photo popped up on the internet last week which was a bit surprising even for those of us who have been overly obsessed with the seemingly aimless and highly dangerous comedy routine that describes itself as the United States of America’s Foreign Policy. The US has confronted no real security threats since the Cold War ended but has done so many things that were against its own interests that it now finds itself seconds away from nuclear immolation as registered on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock.

Recently there has been much discussion of what Trump will do re the wars he has inherited from Joe Biden in Ukraine and the Middle East. Bear in mind that The Donald thinks he is a tough guy and believes that by throwing around threats he will inevitably get his way. Concerning Ukraine, he has repeatedly promised to end the war in one day, though he has not exactly provided details on how he expects to accomplish that. Sebastian Gorka, the new Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counter Terrorism, has explained that Trump will use the threat of increasing military aid to Ukraine as a tactic to bring Russia to the negotiating table. Gorka called Putin a “murderous former KGB colonel” and said that Putin must “negotiate now or the aid that we have given to Ukraine thus far will look like peanuts.” The comment is so preposterous that those monitoring the situation are waiting to hear something from President Trump himself to provide some clarity.

Trump’s connection with Israel suggests that he, like Biden, will do whatever Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants. On the campaign trail, he has openly and ostentatiously bonded closely with Israel and its Jewish and Christian Zionist supporters, describing himself as the Jewish state’s best friend. Nevertheless, on at least one occasion he rebuffed Netanyahu when, following the 2020 election, the soon-to-be ex-president lashed out at the prime minister for being, in his words, “the first person that congratulated” Biden.

The internet photo that appeared last week showed a festive gathering at Mar-a-Lago, featuring a beaming Donald Trump seated with Senator Lindsey Graham standing behind him also with a big smile on his face. Seated next to Trump were two grinning apparent guests of Trump whose faces would not be familiar to most Americans. The woman was Sara, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and seated next to her was her son Yair, who reportedly has been living in Miami Florida. The presence of the prime minister’s wife and son at Mar-a-Lago on Friday signaled a clear desire by the Israelis to maintain the much-needed warmth in the personal relationship with the American president.

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The back story to how Sara and Yair arrived at Mar-a-Lago is a bit murky, but it appears that Graham, a passionate and outspoken advocate for all things Israeli, was on one of his frequent trips to that country a few days before the dinner and may have brought Sara back with him to meet personally with the president-elect and to suggest to the incoming administration that the ties that bind the Netanyahus and the Trumps transcend politics.

In that light, it is perhaps no coincidence that so soon after the arrival of Sara Netanyahu, President-elect Donald Trump issued a grave warning to Hamas which is still holding in Gaza something like 100 Israeli hostages “violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire world.” In a Truth Social post Monday afternoon, Trump said that if they [the hostages] are not released by his inauguration – January 20, 2025 – “there will be all hell to pay in the Middle East [for] those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity.” Trump concluded “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”

As the United States used nuclear weapons twice on Japan in 1945, one presumes that Trump intends to outdo that performance, possibly by nuking entire countries or regions or even the world. Or maybe he is just so ignorant of history that he doesn’t know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And his threat comes even though Trump has also promised to “bring peace to the Middle East” on the campaign trail. Since he has never made any attempt to reach a Palestinian audience, it is clear that his call to release the hostages was not intended to include the upwards of 10,000 Palestinian prisoners that Israel is holding without any criminal charges or trials, and subjected to arbitrary killing, torture, rape and starvation. Nor was there any mention of possibly as many as 200,000 dead Arabs, most of whom are still lying under the rubble of their homes in Gaza, who have been on the receiving end of American bombs and artillery shells delivered by Israeli planes and tanks. Indeed, Trump’s failure to understand the whole story relating to what is going on in Gaza, Palestine, Lebanon and now Syria means that he will always be speaking to his Israeli and MAGA American audience and his words will not materially affect developments on the ground in the Middle East, which continue to spiral out of control. Nor does he appreciate, due to his own ignorance and arrogance, how his own utterances only add fuel to the fire, rousing passions among peoples who should be thinking instead of restraint. On Monday, a ceasefire engineered by Washington and signed between Israel and Hezbollah was already on the brink of collapse as it de facto ceded to Israel the right to define what constituted a violation of the understanding, allowing Netanyahu to resume the conflict as he sees fit. Inevitably, Israel began attacking Lebanese targets immediately, enabling a shift to the next target, Syria. It is to be presumed that the final target will be Iran with the United States doing the heavy lifting, paying the costs and absorbing most of the casualties. Will Trump be suckered into such a development? Probably.

The desire to ensure that the United States resumes its status as Israel’s poodle with the new administration makes Sara Netanyahu’s presence at Mar-a-Lago all the more important as her husband is busy coordinating the genocide of the Palestinians and the seizure of all their land and property. If the wars against Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria continue, the Israeli government will actively seek Trump’s full cooperation in the transformation of today’s Israel into the Eretz version stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates and also incorporating southern Lebanon to the Litani River. Luxury villas constructed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and inhabited by Jews only will line the Mediterranean coast on top of the remains of a place that was once referred to as Gaza and the oil and gas deposits offshore as well as in newly occupied territories inland plus the Ben Gurion project pipeline that will bypass the Suez Canal will make every Jewish Israeli rich.

Trump’s proposed cabinet is meanwhile composed nearly completely of Zionists, suggesting that Israel’s friends have had a hand of vetting who should be offered a seat at the table, but of course, by some measures Biden’s group was even more Judeo-friendly, with something like 80% of the key posts being held by Jews or by someone married to a Jew. Pam Bondi, the incoming Attorney General, echoing her new boss’s record for inane comments, urged in a Newsmax interview shortly after Hamas’ October 7th attack on Israel, that federal officials get tougher with pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses and revoke the visas of those who are not US citizens. “Frankly, they need to be taken out of our country or the FBI needs to be interviewing them right away,” she said. She also called antisemitism “rampant” in the US and said it’s “heartbreaking to see what’s happening to all of our Jewish friends in this country.”

Trump, sharing Bondi’s view, instituted in his first term a travel ban on people from several majority-Muslim countries. It is a policy which Trump has said he intends to bring back when he returns to the White House. So let’s accept that we Americans will be dominated by Zionists no matter which party we vote for and let’s look forward to the disappearance of free speech, or rather the banning and even criminalizing of the First Amendment by Bondi and her associates if one chooses to criticize a certain foreign country. Americans who dislike what is happening have little recourse since the deck has been cunningly stacked against us, but I will recommend for the umpteenth time that voters put pressure on Congress and the White House to take on the so-called Israel Lobby by forcing it to register on the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA). It would to a large extent compel groups like AIPAC to become transparent and not allow them to get involved in disbursing huge donations to influence US elections, which is the source of much of their control over Congress and the political establishment.

There have in fact been brave American politicians who have spoken up against Zionist domination and their voices have been heard, including William Fullbright, Pat Buchanan, James Traficant, Paul Findley and Cynthia McKinney. Israeli dominance of the corrupt American political system has become so total, so visible and so openly exercised that I keep hearing from associates that the tide is beginning to turn in terms of what ordinary people are willing to put up with. Hopefully a few voices right now will become millions demanding change and the monstrous Netanyahu and his supporters can go to Hell, where they belong.

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Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is [email protected]

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One Reason Why Consuming Animal Fats Is Vital

December 10th, 2024 by Dr. Ashley Armstrong

Vitamin K2, found exclusively in animal fats and fermented foods, is essential for metabolic health, serving as an emergency electron carrier during cellular reductive stress

Unlike plant-based oils, animal fats provide vitamin K2, which helps regulate calcium distribution, ensuring it’s deposited in bones and teeth rather than arteries and kidneys

Research indicates higher dietary vitamin K2 intake reduces the risk of coronary heart disease mortality and severe aortic calcification, unlike vitamin K1 found in plants

While gut bacteria can produce vitamin K2, its absorption is limited due to production location and bacterial binding, making dietary sources crucial for optimal intake

Pasture-raised animal products are superior sources of K2, with pastured chicken eggs containing 3 to 4 times more K2 than conventional eggs

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Let’s discuss just one of the reasons why regularly consuming animal fats is vital for health. Animal fats contain a metabolism-boosting and heart protective nutrient that is not available in plants: Vitamin K2.

Sorry Harvard, but your ‘Heart Healthy’ fats and oils like olive, canola, soy bean, corn, sunflower, and peanut oils do not contain this vital nutrient.

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There are 2 forms of vitamin K, each supporting different aspects of health and serve unique roles in the body. Both are beneficial to consume daily!

  • Vitamin K1 — Primarily found in plant foods and is abundant in leafy greens and veggies. (My favorite sources are collard greens, Brussels sprouts, parsley, and green beans.)
  • Vitamin K2 — Only found in animal foods and fermented foods. The term ‘vitamin K2’ refers to a collection of forms known as ‘menaquinones’ that are abbreviated with ‘MK’ with a number attached referring to the chain length/structure size. For ex: MK-4 and MK-7.

One of the biggest health benefits of vitamin K2 consumption is that it restores metabolic health since it serves as an emergency electron carrier when cells are in reductive stress (electron build up), helping to restore proper electron flow and metabolism. Most people are not metabolically healthy, and are experiencing reductive stress.

“Mitochondrial dysfunction was rescued by vitamin K(2) that serves as a mitochondrial election carrier, helping to maintain normal ATP production.”1 Since K2 fights reductive stress, it can help reverse insulin resistance and mitochondrial dysfunction.2,3 

Another health benefit of vitamin K2 is that it regulates calcium — K2 prevents calcium from going to the wrong places (like kidney and arteries) and makes sure it goes to the right places (like bones and teeth).

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Osteocalcin is a vitamin K2 dependent protein that the body needs to pull calcium from the bloodstream to deposit it where we want it: in the bones and teeth. Osteocalcin also stimulates the growth of new dentin, the calcified tissue underneath tooth enamel, reducing cavity risk and slowing tooth degradation.

“The relative risk (RR) of coronary heart disease mortality was reduced in the mid and upper turtles of dietary menaquinone (K2) compared to the lower … Intake of menaquinone was also inversely related to all-cause mortality and severe aortic calcification. Phylloquinone (K1) intake was not related to any of the outcomes.”4

Vitamin K2 can be synthesized by bacteria in the large intestine. However, this bacterially produced K2 has limited bioavailability and absorption for several reasons:

  • Location of production — The large intestine is not the primary site of nutrient absorption in our digestive system5
  • The K2 produced by gut bacteria are bound to bacterial cell membranes, making them less accessible for absorption6
  • An unhealthy gut can further reduce the already inefficient production and absorption of K27

Since absorption of bacterially synthesized K2 is generally poor, dietary sources are the primary source of functionally available K2.

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Fats from pasture-raised animals are going to be one of your best sources and will contain more K2 relative to animals raised in since they consume grass, which is rich in vitamin K1, which is converted to K2 by certain bacteria in the animal’s gut. For example:

  • Pasture-raised chicken yolk — 30 to 40 ug K2/yolk
  • Confinement raised chicken yolk — 10 ug K2/yolk

Since animal fats are rich in K2 (especially food products from pasture-raised animals), you don’t have to go crazy overboard in your fat consumption to consume sufficient amounts. K2 research and understanding is still in its infancy. But 100 to 200 ug daily intake is likely beneficial (ref: Chris Masterjohn, PhD). Here are three examples, in addition to your other food sources for the day of course!

  1. 1 to 2 oz aged cheese, 2 pasture-raised eggs, 3 oz dark chicken meat
  2. 1 to 2 oz aged cheese, 2 pasture-raised eggs, 1 oz beef liver
  3. 1 oz aged cheese, 2 pasture-raised eggs, 3.5 oz ground pork

Aged cheeses and pasture-raised eggs are going to be some of your best sources — and are important to consume daily! (Or at least every other day.)

Summary

Here are some take home points about Vitamin K2:

  • Vitamin K2 is important for metabolic health, bone and dental health, heart and kidney health, hormone production, and cancer prevention.
  • Animal products and natto are the best sources of vitamin K2, but one form (MK-4) is only found in animal products.
  • Eating animal fats is a practical way to consume this vital nutrient (plus, animal fats tend to be lower in PUFA and higher in SFA, further supporting metabolic health).
  • You don’t have to go crazy overboard in your daily fat consumption to consume enough K2, but consuming the most nutrient-rich sources will ensure you regularly consume this vital micronutrient.

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Notes

1 Science. 2012 Jun 8;336(6086):1306-10. doi: 10.1126/science.1218632. Epub 2012 May 10

2 Nutrition. 2022 Jan:93:111412. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2021.111412. Epub 2021 Jul 15

3 Antioxid Redox Signal. 2021 Jan 10;34(2):99-117. doi: 10.1089/ars.2019.7908. Epub 2020 Aug 19

4 J Nutr. 2004 Nov;134(11):3100-5. doi: 10.1093/jn/134.11.3100

5, 6 Front Immunol. 2022 Jan 5:12:791565. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.791565. eCollection 2021

7 Curr Nutr Rep. 2022 Dec;11(4):765-779. doi: 10.1007/s13668-022-00438-9. Epub 2022 Sep 23

Bashar al-Assad is no longer the president of Syria after a shocking coup that has left the world wondering: What deal was made behind closed doors?

As we wait for answers, Rebranded Al-Qaeda (HTS) has pledged to create a transitional government, and Israel is already ramping up strikes against the Syrian military and expanding its occupation of Syrian territory.

Kevork Almassian, Host of Syriana Analysis, noted that the end of the Syrian Government likely means the end of the “Axis of Resistance,” as the new government that takes shape is expected to have the interests of the U.S., Israel and Turkey directly involved, which means cutting off the supply lines to Hezbollah and other groups that support the Palestinian resistance.

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Black Flag Over Damascus. Mike Whitney

December 10th, 2024 by Mike Whitney

“The black flag of Salafist Islam has been raised over Damascus. ISIS/Al Qaeda has won…. The same terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. Whom we waged war against in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Losing thousands of our servicemen and women. Costing trillions of dollars. They won. And we helped them. America stands for nothing. …” —Scott Ritter@RealScottRitter

General Mike Flynn, the former head of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), warned his colleagues in the Obama administration, that supporting terrorist groups to prosecute proxy wars on Washington’s behalf, was a risky business that would eventually backfire leading to the establishment of ‘a Salafist principality in Syria.’ That warning has now become a reality.

Of the 50-or-so mainstream articles on the fall of the Syrian government, not one bothered to mention the fact that the Sunni militia that toppled Bashar al-Assad is currently on the US State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. Nor did they mention that the same jihadist group is on the United Nations list of terrorist organizations. Nor did they mention that the leader of the group—Abu Mohammad al-Jolani—has a $10 million bounty on his head offered by the US government. None of this information was reported to the public because the media does not want the American people to know that Washington just helped install a terrorist regime at the center of the Middle East. But that’s what’s really going on.

And it’s even worse than it looks because, ultimately, the 13-year-old Syrian campaign is not really aimed at Syria, but Iran. Syria is just the last obstacle on the path to Tehran, but Tehran is the icing on the cake. Crush Iran and Israel takes the ‘top spot’ in the Middle East; it becomes the regional hegemon overnight. Meanwhile—Uncle Sam gains access to the pipeline corridors it has sought for over 2 decades, corridors that will transport natural gas from Qatar to the Mediterranean and then onward to markets in Europe. The gas will be provided by a US puppet, extracted by western oil companies, sold in US Dollars, and used to maintain a stranglehold on European politics. At the same time, all other competitors will be either sanctioned, sabotaged or excluded entirely. (Nordstream)

Most people are unaware of how pipeline politics have shaped events in Syria making the country a target for US aggression. But from 1949 until today, US intelligence services have tried repeatedly to topple the leader of the Syrian government in order to oversee and control a Trans-Arabian Pipeline “intended to connect the oil fields of Saudi Arabia to the ports of Lebanon via Syria.” Robert F Kennedy summed it up in a brilliant article he wrote more than a decade ago:

The CIA began its active meddling in Syria in 1949—barely a year after the agency’s creation. Syrian patriots had declared war on the Nazis, expelled their Vichy French colonial rulers and crafted a fragile secularist democracy based on the American model. But in March 1949, Syria’s democratically elected president, Shukri-al-Quwatli, hesitated to approve the Trans-Arabian Pipeline, an American project intended to connect the oil fields of Saudi Arabia to the ports of Lebanon via Syria. In his book, Legacy of Ashes, CIA historian Tim Weiner recounts that i n retaliation for Al-Quwatli’s lack of enthusiasm for the U.S. pipeline, the CIA engineered a coup replacing al-Quwatli with the CIA’s handpicked dictator, a convicted swindler named Husni al-Za’im. Al-Za’im barely had time to dissolve parliament and approve the American pipeline before his countrymen deposed him, four and a half months into his regime. Why the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria,Robert Kennedy, Politico

Washington’s long history of covert action against Syria is well documented in Kennedy’s piece which also pinpoints the precise moment when the US decided it would do ‘whatever it takes’ to topple the regime and replace it with a compliant flunky. Here’s Kennedy:

our war against Bashar Assad did not begin with the peaceful civil protests of the Arab Spring in 2011. Instead it began in 2000, when Qatar proposed to construct a $10 billion, 1,500 kilometer pipeline through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. Qatar shares with Iran the South Pars/North Dome gas field, the world’s richest natural gas repository. The international trade embargo until recently prohibited Iran from selling gas abroad. Meanwhile, Qatar’s gas can reach European markets only if it is liquefied and shipped by sea, a route that restricts volume and dramatically raises costs. The proposed pipeline would have linked Qatar directly to European energy markets via distribution terminals in Turkey, which would pocket rich transit fees. The Qatar/Turkey pipeline would give the Sunni kingdoms of the Persian Gulf decisive domination of world natural gas markets and strengthen Qatar, America’s closest ally in the Arab world. Qatar hosts two massive American military bases and the U.S. Central Command’s Mideast headquarters. Why the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria, Robert Kennedy, Politico

This helps to explain why Syria factors so largely in US geopolitical plans to control critical resources as a way to preserve the dominance of the dollar and to contain China’s explosive economic growth. The US is determined to control the vast resources of the Middle East to maintain its privileged position in the global order. Here’s more:

Assad further enraged the Gulf’s Sunni monarchs by endorsing a Russian-approved “Islamic pipeline” running from Iran’s side of the gas field through Syria and to the ports of Lebanon. The Islamic pipeline would make Shiite Iran, not Sunni Qatar, the principal supplier to the European energy market and dramatically increase Tehran’s influence in the Middle East and the world. Israel also was understandably determined to derail the Islamic pipeline, which would enrich Iran and Syria and presumably strengthen their proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas.

Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009, according to WikiLeaks, soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria. It is important to note that this was well before the Arab Spring-engendered uprising against Assad. Why the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria, Robert Kennedy, Politico

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So, once Assad agreed to the “Islamic pipeline”, his goose was cooked.Washington was never going to let that happen. As we said earlier, Washington is fully committed to controlling critical resources in the Middle East as a way to contain China and maintain its increasingly tenuous grip on global power. The Abraham Accords also factor into this geopolitical strategy by normalizing relations between Israel and its Islamic neighbors (primarily Saudi Arabia) in order to create an economic corridor that allows for the rapid transport of manufactured goods from India to Europe. Washington sees economic integration in the region as the principle means for preserving its global primacy. That doesn’t mean that Israel’s ambitions to dominate the Middle East wasn’t the driving force behind the war in Syria and the ousting of Assad. It was, but there were other considerations as well, geopolitical considerations.

So, you can see why the US wanted to install a government that was more receptive to Washington’s interests. What’s hard to understand, however, is how this is all supposed to work. Assad is gone and al Qaida won. We know that. Now what?

I can’t imagine that any of the young men who have spent the last decade of their lives galivanting around the dessert in 4x4s blasting anything that moves, know a lot about running a government. So, who’s going to run the agencies, pay the workers and perform the mundane clerical tasks that that are expected of every government? Who’s going to run the schools, fix the roads, and police the streets? Of course, maybe Mr. al-Jawlani has talents we don’t know about and will miraculously rise to the occasion making sure the agencies are fully staffed and the trains run on time, but that seems extremely unlikely. What is more probable is that the architects of this dreadful fiasco plan to run the country and its flailing economy into the ground, greatly intensifying the suffering of ordinary working people, increasing the public dissatisfaction until an attempt is made to violently overthrow the new regime.

We could be wrong. There is a remote chance that the Sunni militants in HTS will address the needs of the people and lead them to a prosperous and secure future. But we all know that is not going to happen. This regime is merely a tool in the hands of foreign interests who want to seize as much of Syria’s natural wealth as possible while eliminating a potential threat to Israel’s relentless expansion. In short, the neocon powerbrokers who fomented this evil strategy did so without the slightest regard for the safety or well-being of any of the 23 million people who currently call Syria home. Their lives just don’t matter.

What does matter (to Tel Aviv and Washington) is having a proxy army that is willing to do its bidding in an upcoming war with Iran. That matters. And that is why the US and Turkey use “contract” soldiers who will do what they are told in exchange for the lavish salaries they receive. HTS is paid for its services, and those services are going to involve the launching of attacks on Iran and Hezbollah. So, this is NOT an experiment in new forms of governance. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham doesn’t have the slightest interest in running the government. Syria is merely a base of operations for launching attacks on Iran and Hezbollah. That’s it. That’s what they’re paid to do, make war.

It’s all about geography, gas, USD and Israel. And of those four, Israel looms largest.

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Romania – Coup d’État Instigated by the EU? “Europe is on a fast descent into darkness”,… “A Pact with the Devil.” Peter Koenig

By Peter Koenig, December 10, 2024

Europe is on a fast, very fast descent into darkness, followed by disappearance. Europe, especially the European Union (EU), is a Washington construct. To be sure, the EU never was a European idea. That is a different story. But is a fact.

Western-Supported Al Qaeda Invasion Topples Elected Syrian Government

By Mark Taliano, December 10, 2024

In an ultimate expression of international criminality, Washington and its allies, using al Qaeda and ISIS as proxies, have toppled the elected government in Syria, forcing President al-Assad into exile.

The Road to Tehran Goes Through Damascus: Military Escalation. Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War?

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 09, 2024

An extended Middle East Central Asian war has been on the Pentagon’s drawing board since the mid-1990s. As part of this extended war scenario, the US-NATO alliance plans to wage a military campaign against Syria under a UN sponsored “humanitarian mandate”.

Will Damascus Fall? Mike Whitney

By Mike Whitney, December 10, 2024

Erdogan supports the jihadist advance on Damascus and welcomes the ousting of the government. In truth, the war on Syria has been a long-term project for Erdogan dating back more than a decade leading to the splintering of the state into multiple parts controlled by the US, the Kurds (SDF), Israel, and a number of disparate militant groups under the control of Ankara.

Does Russia Have an Intelligence Service? Paul C. Roberts

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 10, 2024

I think not. There is a bureaucracy, an office, and someone with a title, but there is no intelligence. Putin did not know that a US-trained and equipped Georgian Army was about to invade South Ossetia and went to the Olympics in China.  

The Dismantling of Syria’s Brand of Socialism and the Agenda of Privatisation

By Philippa Jane Winkler, December 10, 2024

There are plenty of geopolitical reasons for regime change policy against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, pursued by Turkey, Israel and the United States. Less highlighted is another endgame: the dismantling of a state run economy with ideological socialist roots.

Europe is on a fast, very fast descent into darkness, followed by disappearance.

Europe, especially the European Union (EU), is a Washington construct. To be sure, the EU never was a European idea. That is a different story. But is a fact.

Presidential elections were held in Romania on 24 November 2024. A second round was to be held on 8 December 2024, as no candidate achieved an absolute majority. The top runner, Calin Georgescu, made a surprise first round win with almost 23%, compared to the leftist candidate, Elena Lasconi, with about 19.2%, while the current Social Democrat Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu received 19.15%.

A run-off election was planned for Sunday 8 December.

But it did not happen because Romania’s Constitutional Court canceled the elections of 24 November 2024. A specific reason was not given, only that the elections were not fully held by the norms of Romanian legality, and citing the usual “suspected Russian interference.”

Mr. Georgescu, highly popular with the people, is likely to have won the run-off. He is against Romania’s current pro-NATO position and against squandering more money for Ukraine, for more killing in an endless war – Romanian tax-money that Romania could put to much better internal use. Mr. Calin Georgescu’s position was also pro-Russian and against sanctioning Russia. See this.

Obviously, this displeased Brussels, especially the WEF and Washington-mandated unelected Madame Von der Leyen. So, very very likely the EC coerced the Romanian Constitutional Court to annul the first election, ordering them to repeat the full election cycle at a later date. Meaning, there will be time enough to prepare election manipulation (fraud), so that a pro-western, and pro-NATO candidate may win.

This may backfire, as this Constitutional Court decision comes as a slap in the face of most of the Romanian people, even those who did not vote for Georgescu. They may go all out and vote for him in the next elections.

On Friday 7 December, Georgescu is quoted by Realitatea TV as saying,

“The corrupt system in Romania showed its true face by making a pact with the devil.” 

He added that the current Romanian government is afraid of losing power and facing revelations, which were not further elaborated on. But one can only guess in what direction such revelations may have gone.

Of course this was countered by well-prepared western media outlet lies such as, “Declassified information from Romania’s intelligence agencies had alleged that the sudden rise of Georgescu in the first round of the election was “not a natural outcome.”

This was a clear Coup d’État, most likely by the very organization of which Romania is a member – the EU.

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Understanding Europe’s corrupt and scandalous colonial and exploitational history makes such non-ethical behavior even more understandable.

Europe has never confronted herself with her own history, to the contrary, by their, to this day assumed superiority, most Europeans have not even noticed, how they were being used as a tool for the United States, to eventually dominating Russia. So far it has not worked. And it will never work. Russia and her riches have never been dominated – and will never be dominated.

This goes as far back as the two World Wars, both inspired by Washington with the same objective, overrunning and domineering Russia. WWII, engineered at the orders of Washington, was shamelessly financed by the Federal Reserve via the Bank for International Settlement (BIS), conveniently located in Basle, Switzerland, close to the border with Germany.

The first President of the BIS was Mr. Gates McGarrah. He was a former director of the FED New York, and later was appointed as FED New York Chairman of the Board before he became President of the BIS. In 1924, he was appointed as the American director of the general Council of the German Reichsbank, i.e. German Central Bank.  See this.

BIS, Basle (image)

There are no coincidences.

And again, as usual, Washington always dances on several weddings at once: fighting against Hitler’s Germany as a Russian ally, and simultaneously funding Hitler’s war against Russia.

Today, the Rothschild-controlled BIS is also called the Central Bank of Central Banks, controlling more than 90% of the worldwide monetary flow, and except for some minor central banks, is in control of them all, including the Chinese and the Russian central banks.

The colonial times of Europe have become part of the European culture. Even though African and Latin American colonies have been “liberated” in Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, and in Latin America in the 19th Century – none of those so called “independent countries” is really free. They are all under modern financial and economic colonization, alias, exploitation, predominantly by Europe in Africa, and by the US (the former British Empire having moved across the Atlantic) in Latin America.

Case in point is France with the most shameless exploitation of their 14 former “official” French colonies, through the so-called Franc CFA (Communauté Financière Africaine, i.e. “African Financial Community” in English).

The currency is “guaranteed” (controlled) to the tune of some 80% by the Banque de France. So, these countries still do not have any autonomy of deciding over the economy by adjusting their currencies, as would be normal for most other countries (except for those attached to the Euro).

Many West African governments who have instigated movements for monetary independence did not survive for long. But only mentioned Thomas Sankara, former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, who was assassinated in 1987 after serious attempts of achieving financial and monetary autonomy for all French colonies.

In some philosophies, the rapid descent of Europe into oblivion would be called “karma.” The faster the EU collapses, the better off will be countries like Romania, Hungary, and many others, who so far do not dare pronouncing themselves, due to potential “consequences.”

Viva Neutrality and Sovereignty!

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Trump, RFK Meet with Big Pharma

December 10th, 2024 by Dr. Peter McCullough

Axios reported on the December 4, 2024 dinner:

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Lilly CEO David Ricks were at the dinner. Steve Ubl, CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represented the industry at the table. Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles, also attended.

You can see the intrigue by MacDonald and so many other media anchors now reporting on the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) campaign.

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In an ultimate expression of international criminality, Washington and its allies, using al Qaeda and ISIS as proxies, have toppled the elected government in Syria, forcing President al-Assad into exile.

This crime represents the antithesis of “freedom and democracy” and instead displays to the world, yet again, that Empire spreads and embraces terror and destruction, death and misery, in all of its “regime change” operations, especially now with the rebranded “leader” of the opposition being none other than Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, leader of HTS, a United Nations-designated terrorist organization.(1)

With Turkey’s Erdogan proclaiming that he wanted to take Damascus(2) sources indicate that about 80% of the invading terrorists were non-Syrian.

With Qatari funding, the U.S., Israel, Turkey, France and Ukraine led operations. The SAA, hollowed out by 13 years of war and economic devastation, with its allies diverted, offered relatively little resistance, likely a result, too, of a secret deal to save lives.

The West and its agencies will falsely characterize this tragedy in the days and weeks and months to come, but it is what it has always been: an undeclared US/NATO war of aggression against a sovereign state using al Qaeda terrorists as proxies. (3)

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Notes

  1. Tim Anderson, “Genocide rewarded: US backed al Qaeda takeover of Syria follows Israeli retreat from Lebanon.” Centre For Counter Hegemonic Studies, 8 December, 2024 (Genocide rewarded: US backed al Qaeda takeover of Syria follows Israeli retreat from Lebanon – Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies) Accessed 8 December, 2024.
  2. Akin Nazli, “Erdogan sets Damascus as final target for “rebels” advancing in Syria.” bne INTELLNEWS, 7 December, 2024 (bne IntelliNews – Erdogan sets Damascus as final target for “rebels” advancing in Syria) Accessed 8 December, 2024.
  3. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, “Syria: Undeclared US-NATO War of Aggression, Using Al Qaeda Terrorism as an Instrument of Death and Destruction.” Global Research, 8 December, 2024 (Updated) (Syria: Undeclared US-NATO War of Aggression, Using Al Qaeda Terrorism as an Instrument of Death and Destruction – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization) Accessed 8 December, 2024

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Will Damascus Fall? Mike Whitney

December 10th, 2024 by Mike Whitney

#Israel is waiting… for #Homs to fall in order to annex the south of #Syria and call it a “buffer zone to protect against jihadists”, the same thing it has been supporting for many years. @Netanyahu is not hiding his ambition that helps his image domestically by adding more stolen territories to the “greater Israel”.Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai

In a matter of days, a small army of battle-hardened jihadists have swarmed across Syria shattering a fragile truce and threatening the regional balance of power. The surprise Blitz has sent the stunned Syrian Army into full retreat while mostly foreign militants have seized the country’s industrial hub, Aleppo, and its fourth largest city, Hama. The unexpected rout has delivered a knockout blow to the government of Bashar al Assad who must now appeal to Russia, Iran and Hezbollah to deploy troops and weaponry to stave off the devastating offensive and prevent the fall of Damascus. But allies must move quickly if they plan to save the regime and stop the relentless advance of the Turkish-backed invaders. Enemy forces are now gathering just 100 kilometers from the Capital suggesting that their intention is to topple the present government and install a regime that is aligned with its foreign benefactors; Turkey, Israel and the United States.

On Friday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan tacitly congratulated the terrorist militias that are on the verge of toppling Assad without explicitly admitting his role in the treachery. This is from an article at Reuters:

Erdogan said on Friday he hoped Syrian rebels will continue their advance against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria…. Erdogan told reporters after Friday prayers he was closely following the push which he said was heading to the Syrian capital….

“The target is Damascus,” he said. “I would say we hope for this advance to continue without any issues…
“These problematic advances continuing as a whole in the region are not in a manner we desire, our heart does not want these. Unfortunately, the region is in a bind,” he said, without elaborating….

Ankara has for years supported Syrian opposition forces looking to oust... Assad, but also views some regional players as terrorists, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist former Al-Qaeda affiliate that is part of the rebel force. Turkey’s Erdogan Hopes Syrian Rebels Will Advance, but Raises Alarm About Some Fighters, US News and World Report

There it is in plain English; Erdogan supports the jihadist advance on Damascus and welcomes the ousting of the government. In truth, the war on Syria has been a long-term project for Erdogan dating back more than a decade leading to the splintering of the state into multiple parts controlled by the US, the Kurds (SDF), Israel, and a number of disparate militant groups under the control of Ankara. This latest onslaught poses the greatest threat the government has ever faced and it is increasingly likely that it will be unable to withstand a powerful and well-organized assault on the Capital. This, of course, puts Washington and Tel Aviv closer to realizing their dream of a “New Middle East” where the flow of critical resources to rival China is controlled by powerbrokers in the US and where Israel establishes its primacy over a vast area of the Arab world. If Damascus falls, the only obstacle to the long-awaited neocon plan, would be Iran which will be dealt with when Trump takes office.

Spearheading the ongoing rampage across Syria is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which is an offshoot of al Qaida, the shadowy confederation of Sunni terrorists whose origins are linked to the western intelligence agencies. According to antiwar.com:

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) offensive has been backed strongly by the Turkey-backed rebels from the country’s northwest. There have been multiple reports that Turkey is backing the offensive, and indeed that Turkey may even be the driving force in the recent push. HTS fighters seem increasingly well-equipped and confirmed as using tanks in their assault on Hama.

With Hama taken, many analysts say that the next major target would be the city of Homs. That would be an obvious next step, as HTS continues their offensive south along the major M5 highway from Aleppo. Homs is just 25 km south of Hama. If Homs fell too, it is likely the capital city of Damascus would also be under major risk. …

…while HTS is labeled a terrorist organization broadly internationally, countries including Turkey and Israel are showing increased comfort in openly working with them against the Syrian government. The HTS has reportedly offered to open Israeli embassies in Damascus and Beirut if and when they conquer Syria and neighboring Lebanon. Al-Qaeda Linked Militants Seize Major Syrian City of Hama, antiwar.com

Let me get this straight: HTS is supposedly an Islamic militia that would rather devote its energy to overthrowing a secular Arab leader that opposes US and Israeli hegemony in the region, then contribute to the war effort against the genocidal state of Israel and its biggest enabler, the United States?

Is that what we are supposed to believe? Here’s how political analyst Alon Mizrahi summed up Erdogan’s pro-terror policy:

what Turkey is doing, when aligning itself with Israel and the US, and allowing itself to be perceived as the enemy of Palestine and the Syrian people – what Turkey is doing is alienating itself from its neighbours, and antagonizing itself to the powers that will shape the future.

By moving into Syria, Turkey enrages Iran and Iraq, two of its immediate neighbors. It opens a new Syrian front for internal oppression, constant bloodshed and risk of terrorist attacks. But it is also, and most importantly, is working against the interests of both Russia and China – the two regional and global giants, who are becoming more powerful and dominant.

Will Turkey be accepted into BRICS after this? Will it be granted a favourable trade status by China? I have serious doubts about that.

So, what is Turkey set to gain from this? Territory it doesn’t need and won’t be able to control? Severe reputational and diplomatic implications (seriously? Choosing to now stand with Israel’s genocide???) The hate of Muslims the world over, and the eternal rage of its neighbors? More tyranny at home, instead of more freedom? An assured economic disaster? A destabilized population, exposed to terrorism, economic hardship, and loss of young men in a stupid war? …With no possible upsides and a guaranteed huge diplomatic, economic and military drawbacks, Turkey’s Syria move must be the dumbest ever. Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi

If there is some intangible benefit to Turkey, we don’t see it. What we see instead, is a geopolitical gun to Putin’s head forcing him to get more deeply involved in the Syrian campaign to prevent a US-Israeli takeover of the region thereby laying the groundwork for more mischief in the future. One can only wonder, why China—which aspires to a leadership role in the creation of a ‘new global security architecture’—remains on the sidelines while the Middle East is incinerated right below its nose? Why? If Xi Jinping assumes that China’s explosive economic growth is enough to ensure its ‘top spot’ in the world order without providing “rough men with guns” to achieve that objective, he’s got another think coming. The world is not run by clever merchants selling low-price widgets but gruff men with big fists who don’t mind using them. This is from an article at RT:

Beijing is willing to aid Damascus to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian has said.

“China is deeply concerned over the situation in northwestern Syria and supports its effort to uphold national security and stability,” Lin told a press briefing on Monday. “As Syria’s friend, China is willing to make an active effort to avoid further deterioration of the situation in Syria,” the official said…

China’s ties with Syria have been growing closer in recent years. Last September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad inked a “strategic partnership” deal, pledging to work together in order to “jointly safeguard international fairness and justice” in the face of the “unstable and uncertain international situation.” China vows support for Syria, RT

Okay, so China has agreed to help Syria. What are they waiting for? The wolves are at the door and there’s no time to waste. This is from a post at the Iran Observer:

Timeline before the attack on Aleppo:
November 18, Israel’s Shin Bet Chief met with Turkey’s intelligence agency
November 25, NATO Chief met with Erdogan
November 26, Al Qaeda and ISIS launched an attack against the Syrian state
@IranObserver0

What does it mean?

It means that Erdogan hammered out the details of the attack plan (on Syria) with officials from Israel and NATO. It means that Erdogan got the ‘green light from foreign opponents of Assad. It means that Erdogan is a double-dealing, back-stabbing serpent who cannot be trusted and who disparages Israel in public while doing their bidding behind closed doors. That’s what it means.

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Events on the ground are now moving so fast that this article will probably be obsolete before it ever goes to print. A Friday afternoon report from The Cradle states that panic has overtaken Homs sending thousands of civilians fleeing south for safety. Check it out:

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing in fear from Homs, Syria’s third largest city, as foreign-backed armed extremists continue to advance south from the town of Hama.

The joint operations center for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a UN-designated terrorist organization and offshoot of Al-Qaeda which has long enjoyed US, Qatari, Turkish, and Israeli support, announced its militants have taken two towns, Rastan and Talbisseh, along the strategic M5 highway and are now within five kilometers of Homs.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) also reported that militants from HTS had taken the two towns and are threatening Homs. The SOHR said Russian warplanes had bombed a bridge in Rastan to block the extremists’ advance….

Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged his support for the SNA and HTS on Friday, stating that the extremist invasion was in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s refusal to agree to Turkish demands in the Astana negotiations….

HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who was formerly an Islamic State of Iraq emir, continues to receive positive coverage in the Western and Gulf press – despite the atrocities his previous organization committed in Iraq and Syria, in particular against Christians, Yezidis, and Shia Muslims, but also against fellow Sunni Muslims.

Aaron Y Zelin, a terrorism researcher working for an Israeli-funded think tank, published an article in the UK Telegraph on 3 December describing Jolani’s HTS as “diversity-friendly jihadists” who want to secure the rights of Syria’s minorities.

On Friday, Jolani granted CNN an “exclusive interview” at an undisclosed location in Syria. The extremist leader said that his goal is to topple President Assad and the Syrian government, which has been a long-time US and Israeli goal. Jolani claimed his plan was to create a government based on institutions and a “council chosen by the people.” The Cradle

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These are the people the United States is supporting in the war against Assad; Jolani and his barbarian head-choppers. Bibi and Erdogan are both on-board the program, in fact, each believes that—their ultimate objective of toppling Assad and moving on to Iran—is now within their reach. Fortunately, we think their plan could be derailed by the unexpected involvement of Iran and Russia, but it is too soon to say for sure.

What we do know is that the jihadist blitzkrieg is gaining pace and now just 100 kilometers from Damascus. We know that “Egypt and Jordan have called on Bashar al-Assad to leave Syria and form a government in exile.” (Wall Street Journal) We know that “Israel has informed Iran that it will attack any attempt to send weapons or forces to Syria.” (Israeli i24News Channel) We know that armed jihadists have taken over the southern city of Daraa... after they reached a deal with the army to secure its orderly withdrawal. (Reuters) And we know that officials from the IDF said Friday it was “reinforcing aerial and ground forces” in the occupied Golan Heights in response to sweeping advances by opposition forces in Syria. (Times of Israel) In other words, the IDF is gathering the forces it needs to invade southern Syria if Homs falls.

So, we can assume that the next 24 to 48 hours will be nerve-wracking, chaotic and violent. Either Assad will summon the resources to defend his country from the devastation his enemies have in mind, or we will see the US-Israel-Turkey Axis succeed in their perfidious plan to topple another sovereign government in the Middle East plunging the region deeper into anarchy, ruin and desperation.

It might be a good time to recall what Tom Paine said on a similar occasion:

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.” Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776

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The Sectarian Risk: Turkey’s Syrian Mission

December 10th, 2024 by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan must be delighted about what is unfolding in Syria, though it is a feeling bound to be tempered by swiftly changing circumstances.  Iran’s Shia proxies have been weakened by relentless Israeli targeting and bombing.  Russia’s eyes and resources are turned towards war in Ukraine.  With reports that Syrian rebel groups are now fighting on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, the Assad regime looks frail, its leader either in hiding or evacuated.

In the salad mix of jihadis, nationalists, and run of the mill mercenaries, Turkey’s hand looms large.  It’s intervention in Syria’s conflict was motivated by two main goals: the containment, if not elimination of Kurdish militants in northern Syria, seen as indistinguishable from their PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) counterparts in Turkey itself, and creating conditions of stability or “safe zones” that would enable a return of Syrian refugees when feasible.

Since August 2016, Turkey has made three incursions seizing parts of Syria’s north, imposing an occupation using regular troops and auxiliary forces including the Syrian National Army (SNA) and a coalition of groups comprising former Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters.  In 2018, the Military Police was established by both Turkish authorities and the Syrian Interim Government (SIG), a force ostensibly intended to protect the civilian population.  Instead, this period of Turkish rule has been marked by brutality, repression and sheer neglect.

In its February 2024 report, Human Rights Watch documented instances of abductions, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detentions (these include children), sexual violence and torture.  The perpetrators spanned elements of the SNA, the Military Police, members of the Turkish Armed Forces, the Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT), and various military intelligence directorates.  To this colourfully gruesome range of cruelties can be added the abuse of property rights, looting, pillaging, confiscation of property, extortion and the absence of any consistent system of restitution.

The group enduring the heaviest burden of suffering are Kurdish residents, notably those that had received protection from the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) comprising the People’s Protection Unit (Yekineyen Parastina Gel, YPG), and the Women’s Protection Unit (Yekineyen Parastina Jin).  These forces proved crucial in countering the Islamic State (ISIS) group.  In October this year, Erdoğan reiterated the long held view that such Kurdish protective units were merely “the Syrian branch of the PKK terror group, destined to be abandoned, left isolated.”  Arabs and other groups seen as having links to the SDF and the Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria (AANES), have also been targets of Turkish-led ire.

The SNA is no friend of the headline grabbing Islamist outfit, Hayat Tahrir-al Sham (HTS), the primary spear in the lighting operation against the Assad regime.  HTS has marketed itself as a self-sufficient, modern, more considered group, less fire and brimstone from its al-Qaeda and al-Nusra iterations and supposedly more tolerant to other religions, sects and views.  Its leader, Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani, has managed to receive praise and plaudits in the Western media for that change, despite his listing by the US State Department as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” worthy of a $10 million reward to anyone willing to offer information leading to his capture.

Even on the progress of HTS, Turkish influence cannot be discounted, despite Ankara eschewing open support for the group.  As Fuad Shahbazov, writing for the Stimson Center remarks, the recent advances of HTS “would have been unthinkable without Turkey’s military and logistical backing, and provision of advanced weaponry.”  It has also been suggested that Ankara gave a nod of approval to the offensive led by HTS after it failed to secure a rapprochement with Assad.

Erdoğan’s statements on the advance show a slippery mind in operation.  On December 6, he told reporters after Friday prayers that the target of the offensive was evidently Damascus.  “I would say we hope for this advance to continue without any issues.”  But he also expressed the view that these advances were “problematic” and “not in a manner we desire”.  While not elaborating on that point, it could be gleaned from the remarks that he is concerned about various “terrorist organisations” operating in the rebel forces.

The next day, the Turkish President decided to be lofty in his assessment as the rebels entered the suburbs of Homs.  “There is now a new reality in Syria, politically and diplomatically,” he declared in a speech delivered in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.  “And Syria belongs to Syrians with all its ethnic, sectarian and religious elements.”

In keeping with the views of other leaders responsible for intervening in the affairs of another state, Erdoğan spoke of Syrian independence as viable, the will of its people as inviolable.  “The people of Syria are the ones who will decide the future of their own country.”  He hoped that the country would “quickly regain the peace, stability, and tranquillity it has been longing for 13 years.”  He went on to remark that “responsible actors and all international organisations” should support the preservation of the state’s territorial integrity.

The audacity of such statements does nothing to conceal the sectarian and ethnic dangers unfolding at the end of this Ankara-sponsored mission.  The fall of Bashir al-Assad will imperil Shia communities and do even more harm to the Kurds, leaving the door open for Salafism.  The rebel groups, only united by the common cause of overthrowing Assad, may well find battling each other hard to avoid.  As for the territorial integrity Erdoğan speaks of, Turkish officialdom and policy will never wear it short of any number of guarantees Ankara is bound to extort on hefty terms.  And as for refugees?  Expect many more to gush out in desperation.

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Effects of Magnesium Deficiency on Women’s Health

December 10th, 2024 by Dr. Joseph Mercola

Magnesium deficiency is linked to increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), with studies showing women who have lower magnesium intake face significantly higher risks of developing reproductive health issues

Research demonstrates magnesium supplementation improves quality of life for women with PCOS, helping with physical functioning, emotional well-being and managing common symptoms of the condition

Women with higher magnesium intake had a 32% lower risk of frailty according to the Nurses’ Health Study, which followed 81,524 women aged 60+ over three decades

Low magnesium levels accelerate cellular aging and DNA damage, leading to premature tissue and organ aging

You can increase your magnesium levels through dietary sources (like raw milk, broccoli, seaweed), supplements or alternative methods like Epsom salt baths

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Magnesium plays an important role in maintaining your body’s essential functions, particularly in women. Not only is it necessary for bone health, muscle function and regulating blood pressure, but magnesium also has a significant impact on inflammatory conditions like pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).

PID is an infection that affects the female reproductive organs, leading to serious complications like infertility, chronic pelvic pain and ectopic pregnancies if left untreated. Research has shown that magnesium deficiency is increasingly common due to poor dietary habits, such as increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods, with many women not meeting the recommended daily intake.1

Further, studies now suggest a direct connection between magnesium levels and the risk of developing conditions like PID. Consuming enough magnesium is key to support your body’s ability to fight inflammation and maintain overall reproductive health.

Magnesium Deficiency Linked to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

A recent study utilizing data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) explored the link between magnesium intake and PID in U.S. women.2 The study included 3,034 women between the ages of 20 and 59 and examined their dietary magnesium intake along with the incidence of PID.

Women with lower magnesium intake had a significantly higher risk of developing PID compared to those who met or exceeded the recommended daily magnesium intake. Magnesium’s anti-inflammatory properties play a role in this connection. It helps regulate immune function and reduces oxidative stress, both of which help in managing infections and preventing conditions like PID from progressing.

Inflammatory markers, such as C-reactive protein (CRP), are often elevated in women with low magnesium levels, indicating a higher risk of chronic conditions like PID. Magnesium helps to lower these inflammatory markers, reducing the body’s overall inflammatory response and protecting against infections that lead to conditions like PID.

The NHANES study also found that higher magnesium intake was associated with a reduction in PID severity. Women who consumed more magnesium had fewer symptoms and lower rates of chronic PID, suggesting that magnesium not only helps prevent the onset of PID but also mitigates its impact once it develops.

Women with lower magnesium levels were also more likely to experience irregular periods, suggesting a link between magnesium and overall hormonal balance. This further highlights the power of magnesium as a simple, natural approach to managing reproductive health.

The Role of Magnesium in PCOS

A study conducted in Isfahan, Iran, explored how magnesium supplementation could help alleviate polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).3 PCOS affects millions of women worldwide, presenting a spectrum of symptoms that significantly impact daily life. Those navigating PCOS might experience irregular menstrual cycles, excessive hair growth, acne and even hair loss as some of the frustrating hurdles.

These symptoms stem from hormonal imbalances and the presence of multiple cysts in the ovaries, making fertility and overall well-being a concern for many. By focusing on abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), alopecia, quality of life and acne, the researchers aimed to uncover whether increasing magnesium intake could offer tangible benefits for women dealing with PCOS.

From reducing menstrual pain and cramps to supporting protein formation and cell growth, magnesium’s benefits are extensive. For those with PCOS, magnesium levels tend to be lower compared to healthy individuals, which might contribute to some of the syndrome’s challenging symptoms. The researchers administered 250 milligrams (mg) of magnesium oxide daily to a group of women with PCOS over 10 weeks, comparing their progress to a placebo group.4

One of the standout findings of the study was magnesium’s significant impact on the quality of life for women with PCOS. Quality of life encompasses various dimensions, including physical health, emotional well-being and social functioning — all areas where PCOS takes a toll. Participants who received magnesium supplements reported improvements in physical functioning, general health and emotional and mental health aspects.5

This suggests that magnesium may help mitigate some of the psychological and physical stresses associated with PCOS. The mechanism behind this improvement could be magnesium’s role in neurotransmitter regulation and its ability to alleviate depressive symptoms, which are common in PCOS sufferers.6

By enhancing both physical and mental health, magnesium supplementation could provide a much-needed boost to overall well-being, making daily challenges more manageable and improving the ability to enjoy life despite the hurdles of PCOS.

Unveiling the Link Between Magnesium and Frailty in Women

A comprehensive study using data from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) focused on how magnesium affects the risk of frailty in older women.7 Frailty, a condition marked by decreased strength and resilience, leads to serious health issues like falls, disabilities and even cognitive decline. This study followed 81,524 women aged 60 and above, tracking their magnesium consumption through diet and supplements over nearly three decades.

By meticulously assessing dietary habits and monitoring the onset of frailty using the FRAIL scale, researchers aimed to determine whether adequate magnesium intake could serve as a protective factor against this debilitating syndrome. The findings are particularly relevant for women looking to maintain their independence and quality of life in their golden years, highlighting the role magnesium plays in sustaining muscle function and overall vitality.

Magnesium isn’t just another mineral in your diet — it’s a powerhouse that supports hundreds of enzymatic reactions in your body. From muscle contraction and relaxation to energy production and bone health, magnesium is indispensable for maintaining optimal bodily functions. As you age, your body’s ability to absorb magnesium decreases, and factors like inadequate dietary intake and certain medications further deplete your magnesium levels.

This deficiency may manifest as muscle cramps, fatigue and weakness, all of which contribute to the onset of frailty. The NHS study emphasized that women who consistently consumed higher levels of magnesium through their diet had a significantly lower risk of becoming frail.

Specifically, women in the highest quintile of dietary magnesium intake had a 32% lower risk of developing frailty compared to those in the lowest quintile. Further those who met the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for magnesium intake via their diet had a 14% lower risk of becoming frail.8

This underscores the importance of incorporating magnesium-rich foods, such as leafy greens, into your daily meals. By prioritizing magnesium in your diet, you bolster your muscle strength, enhance energy levels and reduce the likelihood of experiencing the adverse effects associated with frailty.

Low Magnesium Levels Accelerate Cellular Aging

Ensuring you receive sufficient magnesium goes beyond just enhancing your energy levels — it also equips your body with a powerful mechanism to fight chronic inflammation and lower your chances of developing age-related illnesses.

In fact, magnesium levels in your body are closely tied to the integrity of your DNA. Research published in the European Journal of Nutrition highlights this connection.9 The study, which focused on healthy middle-aged Australians, revealed that low magnesium levels — especially when paired with high homocysteine — significantly escalate DNA damage.

As the fourth most abundant mineral in your body, magnesium is integral to numerous enzymatic reactions essential for DNA replication and repair. Without adequate magnesium, your body may struggle to maintain the stability and functionality of your genetic material. Ensuring you consume enough magnesium could be pivotal in protecting your DNA and promoting healthy aging.

Researchers examined various biomarkers of DNA damage and found that magnesium deficiency speeds up cellular aging and heighten the risk of chronic degenerative diseases. This goes beyond magnesium’s well-known benefits for bone health and nerve function, shedding light on its lesser-recognized role in DNA protection.

When your body lacks sufficient magnesium, the process of DNA replication and repair becomes less efficient. This inefficiency leaves your genetic material more susceptible to damage, leading to increased oxidative stress and a higher probability of DNA strand breaks. Over time, these genetic issues accumulate, resulting in premature aging of your tissues and organs.

By maintaining adequate magnesium levels, you provide your body with a powerful tool to fight off chronic inflammation and reduce the risk of age-related diseases. This not only helps in preserving your genetic integrity but also supports overall cellular health, contributing to a longer, healthier life.

Boosting Your Magnesium Levels for Optimal Health

More than half of Americans aren’t meeting their daily magnesium requirements.10 This shortfall is even more pronounced in specific populations. Health conditions like diabetes and regular alcohol consumption accelerate the loss of magnesium from your body, increasing your risk of deficiency.

Additionally, lifestyle factors such as inadequate sleep and high stress levels deplete your magnesium stores. Even short-term stress significantly lowers your magnesium levels. When considering supplements, magnesium threonate is my preference due to its exceptional ability to penetrate cells, including those in your brain and mitochondria.

If you’re new to magnesium supplementation, it’s advisable to start with magnesium citrate, however, to determine the right dosage for your body. This approach, known as “bowel tolerance,” involves gradually increasing your magnesium intake until you experience mild loose stools, indicating that you’ve reached your optimal level. This natural feedback mechanism helps prevent magnesium overdose.

Finding the Right Magnesium Supplement and Dosage

Begin with a daily dose of 200 mg of magnesium and slowly increase it until you notice your stools becoming slightly loose. This change signals that you’ve found your ideal dose. Once comfortable with this dosage, explore other forms of magnesium if desired.

Magnesium threonate can be taken with or without meals, offering flexibility in your supplementation routine. If you’re also supplementing with calcium, it’s beneficial to take them together. For those who engage in regular fitness activities, incorporating calcium and magnesium in a 1:2 ratio before workouts might be advantageous.

While a 1:1 ratio is commonly recommended, most diets already provide ample calcium. Therefore, you may need two to three times more magnesium than calcium in your supplements to achieve a balanced intake.

Prioritizing Dietary Sources of Magnesium

It’s important to note that blood tests aren’t always the most accurate indicators of your magnesium levels, especially within muscles and bones. Instead, tracking your dietary intake is a more practical approach to ensure you’re getting enough magnesium. Incorporate magnesium-rich foods into your meals, such as:

  • Raw milk and homemade yogurt
  • White rice
  • Potato
  • Dried seaweed or agar

Focusing on these nutrient-dense foods not only boosts your magnesium intake but also provides other essential vitamins and minerals that support overall health.

Alternative Methods to Increase Magnesium Levels

In addition to dietary sources and oral supplements, there are other effective ways to enhance your magnesium levels:

  • Epsom salt baths — Soaking in water infused with magnesium sulfate allows your skin to absorb magnesium directly, bypassing your digestive system. This method is especially beneficial for those who experience digestive issues with oral supplements.
  • Topical applications — Create a concentrated Epsom salt solution by following these steps:
    • Heat 6 ounces of water and dissolve 7 tablespoons of Epsom salt.
    • Allow the mixture to cool, then transfer it to a dropper bottle.
    • Apply the solution directly to your skin.
    • For enhanced absorption, follow up with fresh aloe vera gel.

These alternative methods provide additional avenues to ensure your body receives adequate magnesium, supporting your overall health and well-being. Maintaining adequate magnesium levels is essential for protecting against inflammatory conditions like PID, managing PCOS and warding off frailty as you age. By focusing on magnesium-rich foods and considering supplements when necessary, you’re taking proactive steps to enhance your health naturally.

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Notes

1, 2 Frontiers in Nutrition August 6, 2024, Volume 11

3, 4, 5, 6 Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2022 Aug 2;20:110. doi: 10.1186/s12958-022-00982-7

7, 8 J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle. 2024 Jun 6;15(4):1275–1282. doi: 10.1002/jcsm.13450

9 European Journal of Nutrition June 12, 2024

10 Oregon State University, “Micronutrient Inadequacies in the US Population: An Overview” Micronutrient Deficiencies and Inadequacies

“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a ‘Bill of Temporary Privileges.’ And if you read the news, even badly, you know that the list gets shorter and shorter.”—George Carlin

Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch.

It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on it by seizing greater power and using those powers against the American people.

We’ve seen this play out over and over again.

The government used its so-called War on Terror to transform itself into a police state.

Then the police state used its War on COVID-19 to claim lockdown powers.

All indications are that the government’s promised War on Illegal Immigration will be yet another sleight of hand that allows the powers-that-be to engage in greater power grabs while weakening the Constitution.

Therein lies the danger of the government’s growing addiction to power.

Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it’s in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America healthy again—inevitably, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.

The slippery slope that starts with illegal immigration has all the makings of a thinly veiled plot to empower the government to become the arbiter of who is deserving of rights and who isn’t.

That quickly, we could find ourselves navigating a world in which the rights enshrined in the Constitution for all persons living in the United States are transformed into privileges enjoyed only by those whom the government chooses to recognize as legitimate.

By persuading the public that non-citizens, particularly illegal immigrants, do not enjoy the same inalienable rights as law-abiding citizens (a fact refuted by the Constitution and every credible legal scholar in the country), the Deep State is leading us down a road in which all rights are transitory.

This is how you establish a hierarchy of rights, contingent on whether you belong to a favored political class.

Be warned.

At such a time as the government is emboldened to flip that switch and appoint itself the ultimate authority on which protected class of individuals gets to enjoy the rights enshrined within the Constitution, the dividing line will not be between legal citizens and illegal immigrants.

It will not even be between Republicans and Democrats.

Rather, the purpose of that line of demarcation will be to distinguish the compliant, obedient, subservient vassal of the American police state (the so-called Loyalists) from everyone else.

We’re almost at that point now.

This is how tyranny rises and freedom falls.

Here are some of the inherent dangers in allowing the government to become the arbiter of who is deserving of rights:

It leads to the erosion of universal rights. The Bill of Rights was designed to protect the fundamental rights of all persons within the United States, regardless of their citizenship status, race, religion, or any other factor. When the government starts making distinctions about who is entitled to these rights, it undermines the universality that makes them so powerful. This creates a slippery slope where rights become privileges, subject to the whims of those in power.

It gives rise to authoritarianism. History is replete with examples of governments that consolidated power by first stripping away the rights of marginalized groups. Once the principle of universal rights is breached, it becomes easier to target other groups deemed “undesirable” or “unworthy.” This paves the way for authoritarianism, where the government dictates who enjoys freedom and who does not.

It creates a two-tiered society. A hierarchy of rights inevitably leads to a two-tiered society, where some individuals enjoy full protection under the law while others are relegated to second-class status. This fosters resentment, division, and social unrest. It also creates a vulnerable population that can be easily exploited and abused.

It undermines the rule of law. The rule of law is a fundamental principle of a just society. It means that everyone is subject to the same laws and that no one is above the law. When the government selectively applies the law based on arbitrary criteria, it undermines the rule of law and erodes trust in the legal system.

It chills free speech and dissent, i.e., the right to criticize the government. When people fear that their rights are contingent on their political views or social status, they are less likely to speak out against injustice or challenge the government. This chilling effect on dissent stifles free speech and creates a climate of fear and conformity.

It contributes to the loss of moral authority. A nation that claims to champion liberty and justice for all loses its moral authority when it denies those principles to certain groups within its borders. This undermines its standing in the world and diminishes its ability to promote human rights abroad.

Remember, the erosion of inalienable rights often starts subtly, with the government chipping away at the edges of those rights for specific groups.

The pattern is subtle at first, with government officials exploiting fear and prejudice in order to target groups that are already marginalized or perceived as “outsiders.” Incrementally, the net is cast wider and wider, so that by the time the injustice is widespread enough to inspire outrage in the greater populace, it’s too late to resist.

Historic examples abound of how the government has manufactured a blatantly unjust hierarchy of rights in order to diminish certain segments of society. These run the gamut from slavery and the persecution of Native Americans to the Japanese internment camps and segregation.

More recently, we’ve seen this tactic deployed in order to justify policies that run afoul of the Constitution, ranging from immigration policies and mass surveillance programs to SWAT team raids, voting rights, and the erosion of due process.

Clearly, Martin Niemöller’s warning about the widening net that ensnares us all, a warning issued in response to the threat posed by Nazi Germany’s fascist regime, still applies.

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

This is how the slippery slope to all-out persecution starts.

It doesn’t help that growing numbers of American citizens barely know their rights. Consider that only 5% of the U.S. adults surveyed could correctly name all five rights in the First Amendment, 20% could not correctly name any, and less than one in 10 Americans know they have a right to petition the government.

Such civic illiteracy lays the groundwork for all manner of tyrannies to follow. After all, how can you defend your rights if you don’t know what those rights are?

Then again, civic illiteracy among government officials, who are entrusted with upholding and protecting the Constitution, doesn’t appear to be much better.

It was ten years ago on December 15, National Bill of Rights Day, that the U.S. Supreme Court in its 8-1 ruling in Heien v. State of North Carolina gave police in America one more ready excuse to routinely violate the laws of the land, this time under the guise of ignorance.

The Heien case, which started with an improper traffic stop based on a police officer’s ignorance of the law and ended with an unlawful search, seizure and arrest, was supposed to ensure that ignorance of the law did not become a ready excuse for government officials to routinely violate the law.

It failed to do so.

In failing to enforce the Constitution, the Court gave police the go-ahead to justify a laundry list of misconduct, from police shootings of unarmed citizens to SWAT team raids, roadside strip searches, and the tasering of vulnerable individuals with paltry excuses such as “they looked suspicious” and “she wouldn’t obey our orders.”

Ignorance of the law has become an all-too-convenient cover for all manner of abuses by government officials who should know better.

I’m not sure which is worse: government officials who know nothing about the laws they have sworn to uphold, support and defend, or a constitutionally illiterate citizenry so clueless about their rights that they don’t even know when those rights are being violated.

This much I do know, however: for anyone to advocate terminating or suspending the Constitution is tantamount to a declaration of war against the founding principles of our representative government and the rule of law.

If there is one point on which there should be no political parsing, no legal jockeying, and no disagreement, it is this.

Then again, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, one could well make the case that the Constitution has alreadybeen terminated after years on life support, given the extent to which the safeguards enshrined in the Bill of Rights—adopted 233 years ago as a means of protecting the people against government overreach and abuse—have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded with the support of Congress, the White House, and the courts.

History provides chilling examples of how quickly rights can vanish, even in a nation such as ours founded on the principles of freedom. As George Carlin astutely observed:

“If you think you do have rights, next time you’re at the computer, get on the internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, I want you to type in ‘Japanese Americans 1942’ and you’ll find out all about your precious … rights. In 1942, there were 110,000 Japanese American citizens in good standing, law-abiding people, who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That’s all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had: ‘right this way’ into the internment camps. Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took them away. And rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away.”

Remember you were warned, folks.

At the point that rights become privileges, then the Constitution and the government’s adherence to the rule of law will become optional.

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There are plenty of geopolitical reasons for regime change policy against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, pursued by Turkey, Israel and the United States.

Less highlighted is another endgame: the dismantling of a state run economy with ideological socialist roots.

Countries that lean towards socialism are anathema to private corporations because they deprive capitalists of cheap resources, labour and consumer markets. In the pursuit of private capital, the West, led by the United States (US) has for decades supported right wing anti-socialist countries and organisations.

This article situates Syria as a state within the global context, where capital continually strives to expand in a way that profits the few over the many.

Arab States: A Tale of Two Contrasting Development Trajectories

  1. Authoritarian monarchies such as Saudi Arabia align with Western interests which favour private enterprise and the transfer of resources from the government to the private sector. Members of ruling families constitute a private capitalist class, in control of the state, oil resources and corporations. The working class consists of low-paid immigrant workers who do not have citizenship and therefore do not benefit from welfare programs. Petrodollars from these countries have kept the United States’ economy in pole position globally.
  2. After decolonisation, republics such as Syria, Iraq and Libya adopted a financial model which rejected privatisation of trade, banks and financial markets. Inspired by pan-Arabism and Marxism, these countries were built on trade unionism, centrally planned economies, state banks and state ownership of oil resources with profits flowing to a welfare state. From the 1970s to 1990s, this economic model made these three oil-rich countries relatively prosperous and independent.

Syria Before and After War and Sanctions

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In 1963 the Syrian Socialist Arab Resurrection (Ba’ath) Party came to power on a platform of socialism, anti imperialism, wealth redistribution, secularism, and modernization. Also active in Iraq, the Ba’ath Party advocated Pan-Arabism, the movement for Arab unification as a way of reversing national divisions imposed by the European powers after World War 1. Under the memorable slogan ‘Unity, Freedom, Socialism,’ the Ba’ath Party in Syria was backed by a mass movement of industrial workers and farm labourers, who had occupied factories and battled landowners in the 1960s. Hafiz al-Assad became President in 1970; Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father in 2000.

A key policy of the Ba’ath Party is the nationalization of resources and assets, with profits ploughed back into the state for welfare and development.

There followed years of relative prosperity. By the mid-2000s Syria’s economy remained under state control with 2/3rds of its capital formation in the public sector In 2000, Libya’s poverty incidence was 10.36% which was low by international standards (Lawson, 2019.) By comparison the US’ poverty rate was at 11% this year.

In 2005 the first of a series of harsh sanctions was imposed by the US to deprive the Syrian population of resources. The collective punishment was blamed on al-Assad’s government support of Hamas and Hezbollah. By 2010, sanctions plus a three year drought led to poverty levels rising to 30% of the population.

In 2011, anger at state repression, government corruption and rising poverty levels boiled over in street protests. Counter demonstrations in favour of al-Assad were equally large. Syrian police and security forces carried out a brutal crackdown on dissidents; resulting in an estimated 3000 deaths. From 2012 to 2016 government forces battled with an armed opposition and an influx of ISIS and Al Qaeda affiliates.

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Pro al-Assad rally in Damascus, October 2011

Anti al-Assad rally in Deraa, October 2011. [Picture source: BBC News]

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The US funded and trained the armed opposition as part of its regime change policy to overthrow al-Assad. Other regional powers, allies of the US, financed extremist militias. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan famously wrote to Hillary Clinton in 2011, ‘AQ [al-Qaeda] is on our side in Syria’.

In 2012, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies reported that the sanctions amounted to an economic blockade that was ‘…aimed at stifling the Syrian economy within a period estimated in months, not years, leading to the collapse of the balance of its former macroeconomic framework.’ (Robicheau, 2014.)

By 2018 the rate of poverty had soared to 80% of Syrians living under the poverty line.

Trump doubled down on the sanctions. In 2019, his administration and the United States Congress passed the extraordinarily brutal Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, a package of draconian economic and financial restrictions with a cruel twist: any country that traded with Syria would also be sanctioned.

In 2023, Human Rights Watch reported that a staggering 90% of Syrians had fallen under the poverty line. ‘At least 12 million—more than half the population—could not access or afford enough quality food, and at least 15 million required some form of humanitarian aid to survive. More than 600,000 children were chronically malnourished. ‘

What Happened to Post-war Iraq and Libya Could Happen to Syria

After it invaded Iraq in 2003, the US banned Iraq’s Ba’ath Party, which precipitated social unrest and a civil war. From 2003 to 2011, an estimated 200,000 civilians died as a result of the US invasion, occupation and resultant insurgencies.

In the post war ‘reconstruction period’ the US attempted to open up Iraqi oil industries to private international corporations. This measure was blocked by oil workers trade unions, assertingthe oil wealth of Iraq belonged to its people.’ However Iraqi government neglect and financial corruption mean that profits are yet to trickle down to ordinary citizens.

In 2012 socialist Libya was bombed and defeated by NATO. The country managed to retain its public sector but much of the development initiated by Col Gaddafi, Libya’s former President, was eradicated. The North African country now suffers from deteriorating economic conditions, post-war internal conflicts and the scourge of Islamist terrorist groups.

Syria’s Oil: Smuggling and Theft

The majority of Syria’s oil and gas fields has fallen into the hands of non-government entities in the past few years.

A UK-based public energy company, Gulfsands, reported in 2022 that:

‘Western sanctions placed on the oil sector have caused foreign oil companies to leave the country…The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed coalition, currently controls one-quarter of Syria’s territory, including the area east of the Euphrates. This means that the SDF now dominates 90 percent of the oil and over 50 percent of the gas fields, as well as the infrastructure owned by foreign companies, according to legitimate contracts signed with the Damascus government, including Gulfsands Petroleum, Total, and Shell. Oil wells and facilities were cordoned off and “protected” by the US-led coalition forces and SDF…

‘…Damascus announced that the oil sector’s losses since the beginning of the crisis amounted to USD 91.5 billion. Oil Minister Bassam Tohme revealed that the daily oil production is 89,000 barrels, mainly in Kurdish-controlled areas. Tohme describes this oil as being “stolen” from the Syrian people.

‘Officials talk about networks operating in the shadows to smuggle oil and its derivatives between the east of the Euphrates, controlled by the SDF whose linchpin is the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), and the Euphrates Shield areas or other enclaves controlled by the Syrian opposition factions and the Turkish army.’

The vultures are circling, waiting to seize Syria’s remaining natural assets. Behind the front line of terrorists, smugglers and war profiteers lurk multinational oil and gas corporations, ready to pounce once stability is restored.

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During the early morning hours of December 9, 1981, cab driver and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was wounded and arrested on charges related to the shooting death of a white Philadelphia police officer.

When it became known who the principal suspect was in the death of Officer Daniel Faulkner, the mainstream corporate media crafted their editorial approach to make it appear as if Mumia was already guilty even prior to a trial.

Since his conviction and initial sentencing to death, it has been an ongoing struggle by Mumia and his supporters to overturn this injustice and to win his release. A years-long international campaign was successful in having the former Panther taken off death row in 2011.

Nonetheless, for decades the judicial system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has refused to seriously consider the exculpatory evidence which could exonerate Mumia and release him from incarceration. In the latest legal challenge to win a new trial, the judge hearing the case ignored the fact that pertinent information related to efforts to deny Mumia a fair hearing by prosecutors was suppressed.

Abu-Jamal turned 70 years-old in April 2024. Over the last decade his health has been deteriorating as a direct result of the horrendous conditions under which he is being confined in Pennsylvania state prisons.

He has suffered numerous ailments including diabetes, failing eyesight, hepatitis C, heart disease, among others. In every instance of a healthcare emergency, people around the country and the world were compelled to launch legal challenges and letter writing campaigns to secure the necessary medical treatments needed to save his life.

Despite these legal and health crises, Abu-Jamal remains a prolific writer and broadcaster. He has authored and contributed to a dozen books while issuing regular commentaries through Prison Radio on a plethora of topics including racism, militarism, poverty and the plight of the more than two million people incarcerated in the U.S. The most recent book that he edited entitled “Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader” was released in July of this year.

His case has prompted thousands of rallies and demonstrations over the decades. Every year on April 24 (his birthday) and December 9 (his arrest anniversary), there are demonstrations in Philadelphia to demand his immediate release from prison.

His case has become a national and international cause celebre. For people throughout North America and in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, the name of Mumia Abu-Jamal is widely known as millions continue to call for his freedom.

How Did We Get Here?

Mumia had been a founding member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969 at the height of the United States government’s counter-intelligence program aimed at neutralizing the revolutionary movement. After the demise of the BPP, he continued to work as a journalist and community organizer while eventually becoming a staunch supporter of the MOVE organization which was started in Philadelphia during the early 1970s.

In a biographical entry on the Prison Radio website, it says of Mumia’s legacy:

“In the late 1970s, Abu-Jamal worked as a reporter for radio stations throughout the Delaware Valley. He was a staff reporter for WUHY (now WHYY), the NPR flagship station, and he filed nationally for All Things Considered and the Morning Report. Along with his team at Philadelphia’s WUHY, he won the prestigious Major Armstrong Award (1980) from Columbia University for excellence in broadcasting. In 1981, Abu-Jamal was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists’ Philadelphia chapter…. Currently, he’s serving life without parole at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, PA. Abu-Jamal’s 1982 trial and its resultant first-degree murder conviction have been criticized as unconstitutionally corrupt by legal and activist groups for decades, including by Amnesty International and Nobel Laureates Nelson Mandela, Toni Morrison, and Desmond Tutu. Abu-Jamal earned his BA at Goddard College in 1996; his MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1999; and an honorary Doctor of Law from the New College of California in 1996. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.” 

Since the late 1960s, hundreds of activists have been locked up and framed as political prisoners for crimes in which they did not commit. Many of these freedom fighters served decades in prison as some even died behind bars.

Others, such as Dr. Mutulu Shakur and Ruchell Magee were released in their final months suffering from terminal illnesses. This treatment of activists illustrates clearly the social character of the U.S. political system which maintains the nationally oppressed peoples under repressive and exploitative conditions.

Assata Shakur, a veteran member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), was broken out of prison by her comrades in New Jersey 45 years ago in November 1979. Eventually, Shakur was granted political asylum in Cuba.

Leonard Peltier Could by Freed from Federal Prison by Outgoing President Joe Biden

American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier has languished in federal prisons since being illegally extradited from Canada by the U.S. government in 1976. Peltier was railroaded into prison for the killing of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents at the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota during 1975.

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Although many politicians, celebrities and mass organizations have petitioned for a new trial or the release of Peltier, the organizer has remained in prison for 47 years. AIM grew out of the upsurge and spin-offs from the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s. The organization was founded in 1968 to fight for the rights of indigenous people whose land and lives were stolen by European settler-colonialism.

Peltier was denied parole again in June 2024. However, with the imminent departure of President Joe Biden on January 20, 2025, he could be released. Peltier and AIM have been longtime allies with the Black Liberation Movement and other oppressed peoples.

A report published by The Hill points out that a Senate Democrat has called upon Biden to release the AIM leader:

“Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chair Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) called on President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of murdering two FBI agents in a controversial 1977 trial, before he leaves office. Peltier is ‘among those who deserve grace and mercy,’ Schatz said on the Senate floor Wednesday (Dec. 4). ‘If there was ever a case that merited compassionate release, Leonard Peltier’s is it,’ he continued. ‘This is exactly what that awesome presidential power is for: to right a historic wrong. And if not that, then to show mercy and let an old man die with his family.’” 

Indigenous people have been denied fundamental human rights, civil rights and the right to self-determination for centuries. The release of Peltier would by the least the federal government could do to make partial amends for the genocidal policies enacted by the U.S. since its inception.

Supporters of Peltier are encouraging people to contact the White House to demand the granting of clemency by Biden to this Indigenous leader who has been imprisoned for nearly five decades. An online petition can be signed by logging on to the following URL: click here.

Worsening Prison Conditions Prompting Self-Immolation in Virginia

The cases of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier are representative of the inhumane treatment that is routinely meted out by the U.S. ruling class to oppressed peoples and their organizational representatives. Disproportionately people of color, the poor and working class are the ones who are subjected to the profiling, arrest and prosecution by the judicial system.

As a result of the unbearable conditions of people within the prison-industrial-complex, some inmates have begun to set themselves on fire as a form of protest against their treatment. At the Red Onion State Prison in Virginia there have been numerous cases of self-immolation.

Prison Radio broke this story earlier in the year. In one report the media outlet says that:

“DeAndre Gordon, Demetrius Wallace, Tre’vaughn Brown, and Ekong Eshiet, prisoners at Red Onion, have set themselves on fire while demanding to be taken ‘off the mountain.’ The warden confirmed six men burned themselves in protest. Prisoners report the total is over a dozen men treated for burns. A number were taken for skin grafts, seven hours away, at the Evans-Haynes Burn Center at VCU Hospital in Richmond, VA. ‘These acts of self-immolation are desperate cries for help from at least twelve Black men, since September 15, who allege systemic abuse, neglect, and blatant human rights violations,’ the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus statement reads and continues. ‘People who have been incarcerated at Red Onion State Prison describe being regularly subjected to racial and physical abuse from correctional officers, medical neglect including the withholding of medicine, excessive stays in solitary confinement with one report of 600 consecutive days, inedible food having been covered in maggots and officers’ spit, and violent dog attacks.’”

Although the U.S. praises itself as being the leading democracy in the world, the country has the highest per capita prison population internationally. The overwhelming majority of those incarcerated come from the proletariat and the oppressed. (See this)

Consequently, to bring about justice it is necessary to eliminate the prison-industrial-complex as a key aspect in the overall transformation of the country. Institutional racism and class exploitation must be upended to create just and equal society.

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“No compromise. No Retreat” is more than a statement — it is a mandate. One we do not take lightly as we clarify and sharpen the contradictions of this colonial empire, irrespective of who occupies the seat within the White Man’s House. The recent presidential election and the electoral frenzy that preceded it, put on full display the shameless opportunism within our communities and the extensive propaganda employed by state actors to keep the masses caged within a system that tosses them between two hands of the same imperialist body.

The re-election of Donald Trump is seen as the ushering in of fascism. However, we know fascism will not suddenly emerge from the shadows in January 2025. Some may call the Democrats an “opposition party,” but many of us live, work, and organize in areas under Democratic leadership. We know all too well that this battle has been ongoing.

In our latest statement, “The Face of the White People’s House May Have Changed but the War on the Oppressed Working Class Hasn’t” we asserted:

“We are clear. The anti-democratic duopoly is made up of representatives of the capitalist class and provides cover for what is, in reality, the dictatorship of capital. In this, the duopoly reveals the class nature of the state. This dictatorship, the true enemy of the people, is the target of our agitation and organizing.”

We are experiencing increasing repression at the hands of this so-called “opposition”. Now is the time to rid ourselves of any doubts or misconceptions about the reality of this system.

“Under Biden-Harris, we saw police, judicial, and media suppression of mobilizations in solidarity with the Palestinian people, the student intifada, the Uhuru 3, African Stream media, and many others. And it is no coincidence that so-called “cop cities” are being constructed across the country in those urban areas being managed by Black democrat party functionaries or, what Black Agenda Report refers to as the “Black Misleadership Class…”

As we close out the year and prepare ourselves for what is to come in 2025, we must keep our focus on the true enemy. Our task is to reveal the face of that enemy to the masses and organize a force against it – to continue to resist the pan-European, white supremacist, imperialist, patriarchy without fear. And we will. That is what we commit ourselves to every time we say,

No compromise. No retreat!

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Annex: The Face of the White People’s House May Have Changed but the War on the Oppressed Working Class Hasn’t

No Matter Who Sits in the White Peoples’ House the War Being Waged by the U.S. Colonial/Capitalist Class Against the Black Colonized Working Class and All Oppressed Peoples and Nations Will Continue

“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories…” (Amilcar Cabral)

It was under the Democrats and the first “Black” president that the Department of Defense 1033 program that militarizes local police forces was expanded by 2,400%; the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) expanded by 1,900%; Libya, the most prosperous African and Pan African nation was attacked and destroyed; the war on Yemen began; the Occupy Wall Street Movement was smashed; the FBI created the “Black Identity Extremist” label; the banks were bailed out from the economic collapse that they created, but not the working class; Black people lost more wealth  than was lost at the end of Reconstruction in 1870s; and, despite police killings across the country, including Mike Brown in Ferguson, the Obama administration only brought Federal charges against one killer-cop.  Yet, with the return of Trump, opportunists in our communities and beyond are telling us that the real culprits in our oppression and the targets for opposition are Trump and republicans. 

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) rejects this kind of ahistorical opportunism.

We are clear. The anti-democratic duopoly is made up of representatives of the capitalist class and provides cover for what is, in reality, the dictatorship of capital. In this, the duopoly reveals the class nature of the state. This dictatorship, the true enemy of the people, is the target of our agitation and organizing.

Focusing attention on the Trumpian wing of the capitalist class as the primary or principal contradiction facing the people in the U.S. or in the world, obscures the reality that the dominant wing of capital, finance capital, along with the U.S. based transnational corporations, have captured and are operating through both parties. However, it is the democratic party wing of the dictatorship of capital that has championed what is popularly referred to as neoliberalism. Neoliberalism, first given coherence under Ronald Reagan, eventually migrated to the democratic party under Bill Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Council, whose “third way politics” aligned with both neoliberals and neoconservatives (neocons). Trumpism is the particular (national) manifestation of the global crisis of neoliberal capitalism. The republican party’s capture of the executive and all branches of government will not resolve the structural contradictions of neoliberal capital. What we can expect, then, is the strengthening of the repressive state apparatus and more targeted repression. To be clear, this process would have continued under a Harris administration because Harris promised to maintain the same trajectory of state repression in the name of capital. Because of the bipartisan jettisoning of liberal democratic and human rights in favor of the capitalist order, it does not matter which individual is sitting in the white peoples’ house. Therefore, the correct approach for opposition forces is one that grounds the people’s understanding of the objective structural contradictions of the capitalist order and that builds their capacity to struggle against that order  – regardless of which wing of the duopoly represents it. Focusing on only one part of the duopoly is akin to focusing on only one faction of the capitalist class.

Despite any rhetoric to the contrary, BAP expects Trump will govern as a neoliberal. That is why certain elements of the ruling class turned to him again.  Continued austerity, especially at the state and local levels, will persist, as well as privatization of public assets, tax breaks for the capitalist class, the suppression and repression of labor, fiscal and monetary policies that prop-up capitalist profits and undermine human rights and, of course, the targeted use of military power to advance the interests of the capitalist dictatorship. We believe, however, that Trump will make as his main mission the primary concern of the neoliberal elite:  smashing the movement toward de-dollarization.

We cannot afford to have any illusions or harbor any sentimentality about the nature of this system. As we organize in political spaces controlled by Black democrats, it would be suicidal if we did not understand the role these neocolonial puppets play – primarily against any organized opposition – in the war that capital is waging against the people. Under Biden-Harris, we saw  police, judicial, and media suppression of mobilizations in solidarity with the Palestinian people, the student intifada, the Uhuru 3, African Stream media, and many others. And it is no coincidence that so-called “cop cities” are being constructed across the country in those urban areas being managed by Black democrat party functionaries or, what Black Agenda Report refers to as the “Black Misleadership Class.”  

This corrupted Black petit-bourgeois professional/managerial class, positioned in government, corporate and non-profit sectors, provides the buffer and role models for individual material advancement at the expense of the Black working class.

And while we are dealing with cop cities, we also understand what is coming with the mass deportations of non-white migrants and the violent law and order rhetoric that is already emanating from the Trumpian forces. But let us not forget that, under the Biden-Harris regime, mass deportations rose by 250 percent, of which Harris campaigned on being “tough” on the border. Anti-immigrant rhetoric is also bipartisan.

Like all people, we want to live decent, prosperous lives in peace and in harmony with all humanity and nature. But we are going to have to fight for peace. And for that struggle BAP is guided by the principles of the Black radical peace tradition that states clearly: 

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the achievement by popular struggle and self-defense of a world liberated from the interlocking issues of global conflict, nuclear armament and proliferation, unjust war, and subversion through the defeat of global systems of oppression that include colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.

That is the task and the responsibility that we take on. We are not afraid of any individual or oppressive system. We gladly take on this fight with the certainty that one day we will defeat the Pan European white supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy that is the enemy of collective humanity. 

The struggles and sacrifices being made by the Palestinian peoples to defend their dignity and popular sovereignty is the example we embrace. This is why we say that, no matter the circumstances, no matter the challenge, no matter the intensity of the repression, we are building on the sacrifices of our people and guided by revolutionary principles. Our call will always be:

No Compromise, No Retreat! 

Coordinating Committee, Black Alliance for Peace

Does Russia Have an Intelligence Service? Paul C. Roberts

December 10th, 2024 by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

I think not. There is a bureaucracy, an office, and someone with a title, but there is no intelligence. 

Putin did not know that a US-trained and equipped Georgian Army was about to invade South Ossetia and went to the Olympics in China.  

Putin didn’t know that the US was about to overthrow the Ukrainian Government and went to the Sochi Olympics.

Putin didn’t know that the West was deceiving him with the Minsk Agreement. This cost him eight years and left him behind the eight ball and locked into a military conflict now three years old, a conflict that has expanded into US/NATO missile attacks into Russia.  And still Russia stands down.  Has Putin not been informed of the attacks? Lavrov told Carlson that Russia was not at war with the West.

Putin didn’t know that the US was about to overthrow Syria. In his interview with Tucker Carlson, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov spoke as if the renewal of the conflict in Syria allowed plenty of time to find a diplomatic solution. He had no idea that Syria would be overthrown by about the time the interview ended.

Russia had no realization, despite Biden explicitly telling them, that the Nord Stream Pipeline was going to be blown up by the US.

How is it possible that the Russian government never has a clue about imminent events that have adverse consequences for Russia?

Have the fearsome days of the NKVD and KGB convinced Russian liberals like Putin and Lavrov that intelligence services are dangerous and unnecessary in a democracy?

The sudden fall of Syria has completely changed the matrix. The US and Israel have gained tremendously at the expense of Russia and Iran. The Israeli government sees an enormous situational change that has greatly weakened the ability of Iran and Hezbollah to oppose Greater Israel.

The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel Defense Force Operations Command Chief Major General Israel Ziv said the fall of Syria has weakened the Axis of Resistance to Greater Israel and presents a historic opportunity that Washington and President Trump should capitalize on to remove Iran as an obstacle to US and Israeli interest.

The year 2024 ends with the erasure of Palestine and Syria by Washington and Israel. During 2025 the targets will be Lebanon and Iran.  And Russia, of course.

The rapidity of Syria’s collapse raises the question whether Washington purchased Syria’s collapse with payments to generals and officials. The Syrian military had successfully repelled the previous assault with the aid of Russian airpower.  But this time the army retreated from its positions and refused to fight, leaving the cities open for enemy opposition. Ekaterina Blinova offers some information here.

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