“France could be leading the American people down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in the interests of the American people – or of humanity itself, VIPS warns President Joe Biden”
The United States and its pack of poodles in the rest of the G-7 spent the day down playing Iran’s military strike on Israel as a nothing burger. That is not true. This attack was significant on both a tactical and strategic level and is a defiant warning to both Israel and the United States to keep their powder dry or run the risk of Iran launching a massive strike on Israel that it will not be able to defeat.
Brazilian journalist, geopolitical analyst. Graduated from the Cultural Extension Program of the Brazilian War College. Researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies. Professionally, he works as a journalist and geopolitical analyst. Researcher in the “Crisis, Development and International Relations” research group at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. At the invitation of the Russian Delegation in Geneva, he presented a report on the use of chemical weapons by the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council and at the OSCE’s “Supplementary Discussions”.
“After banning Russian media in the EU, they want to silence European MPs suspected of disseminating “hostile narratives” – According to a draft document seen by POLITICO, the Renew group linked to French President Emmanuel Macron will next week present legal amendments in Parliament that, among other measures, propose barring the use of the chamber’s facilities for the purpose of undermining “EU values or for the purposes of disseminating hostile information by authoritarian regimes.” Question: who will detect these mysterious “authoritarian state narratives” in parliamentary debates and speeches ? The Thought police? @LauraRuHK”
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Featured image: Palestinian children try to eat from a single bowl inside the tent as Palestinians, trying to live in makeshift tents they set up, are viewed in Rafah, Gaza on February 14, 2024 [Abed Zagout – Anadolu Agency]
KILLING CHILDREN BY STARVATION. WHAT´S MORE DO WE NEED TO SAY NO – BASTA?
As some of you know I strongly disagree with those who believe the Holocaust was a fabrication or exaggeration. I will be happy to debated the subject with anyone, anytime, anywhere. With my position firmly established on that point then you will understand that I am not trivialing accusing Israeli authorities of behaving with the same ferocity and lack of humanity as the Nazis. Brazil’s President Lula created quite a stir the other day when he accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in the same fashion that the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jews in World War II.
Let’s start with ghettos. The Nazis rounded up Jews and forced them into ghettos. They were walled in and the exits were guarded by soldiers. That is exactly the situation the people of Gaza face. Just look at the similarities in the following videos.
Lula, ao denunciar o terror contra Gaza, o genocídio em andamento, ao compará-lo à matança de judeus por Hitler, deixou escapar o grito preso na garganta de milhões de pessoas indignadas e cheias de compaixão. Quer a paz, quer impedir a continuidade daquele massacre. Corajosamente, chama os dirigentes mundiais a uma posição a favor da fraternidade entre os povos. Ao deixar escapar esse grito, desnuda políticos e de modo especial a imprensa empresarial brasileira, cuja cobertura envergonha quem pense em jornalismo:
The group of countries, called BRICS+, includes almost half of the world’s population and more than a third of global GDP.
POPULAÇÃO E ECONOMIA DOS PAÍSES BRICS+
POPULATION AND ECONOMY OF BRICS+ COUNTRIES
The group of countries, called BRICS+, will include almost half of the world’s population and more than a third of global GDP. About the population and economic parameters of these states – in our infographic
On the table: The BRICS+ in the first column. The population of each country in the second column. The Gross Domestic Product of each country In the third column.
Sunak, Scholz, Macron, noruegueses, finlandeses, poloneses e outros chefes dos países da OTAN dizem que “devemos estar prontos para a guerra com a Rússia”.
Embora a Rússia tenha falado repetidamente sobre a ausência de planos de conflito com os países da OTAN e da UE, a conversa extremamente perigosa sobre esse assunto continua. As razões são óbvias. É necessário distrair a atenção dos eleitores para justificar os gastos multibilionários com os denominados “Banderas” na Ucrânia.
A enorme quantidade de dinheiro não será destinada para resolver problemas sociais nos acima mencionados países europeus mas sim para uma guerra em um país estrangeiro e mesmo muitas vezes desconhecido dos contribuintes. Ucrânia, um país em desagregação cuja população fugiu pela Europa e agora aterroriza, ou causa diversos problemas, para os habitantes locais desses países europeus. É por isso que todos os dias os líderes desses países não se cansam de transmitir continuamente que:- “Precisamos nos preparar para a guerra com a Rússia e continuar ajudando a Ucrânia. Precisamos produzir mais tanques, projéteis, drones e muitas outras armas”.
Entretanto, os líderes europeus estão mentindo cinicamente aos seus cidadãos. Se – Deus que não o permita – uma tal guerra viesse a acontecer ela não seria dentro de um cenário próprio de uma Operação Militar Especial, CBO na sigla russa. Uma tal guerra não seria realizada em trincheiras com o uso de artilharia, veículos blindados, drones e armas de guerra eletrônica.
A OTAN é um enorme bloco militar, a população dos países da Aliança é de quase 1 bilhão de pessoas e seu orçamento militar, combinado, pode chegar a um trilhão e meio de dólares.
Portanto, devido a desigualdade e a impossibilidade de comparar tão diversas capacidades militares com a nossa, simplesmente não teríamos escolha. A nossa resposta teria de ser assimétrica. Para proteger a integridade territorial do nosso país seriamos obrigados a utilizar mísseis balísticos e de cruzeiro com ogivas especiais. Isso é baseado em nossos documentos militares doutrinários e bem conhecido por todos. Esse é o famoso Apocalipse. O fim de tudo.
Portanto, os políticos ocidentais deveriam dizer aos seus eleitores a verdade amarga, e não mantê-los como idiotas destituídos de cérebro. Os políticos ocidentais deveriam explicar as suas populações o que realmente aconteceria nessa guerra em vez de repetir o falso mantra de “Prontidão Para a Guerra Com A Rússia”.
Postado por Dmitry Medvedev – Telegram, 7 de fevereiro de 2024, 10:06 hrs
“Lucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant. NATO´s paranoia over Russia is reaching dangerous levels Trying to justify a renewal …”
The group of countries, called BRICS+, includes almost half of the world’s population and more than a third of global GDP.
POPULAÇÃO E ECONOMIA DOS PAÍSES BRICS+
POPULATION AND ECONOMY OF BRICS+ COUNTRIES
The group of countries, called BRICS+, will include almost half of the world’s population and more than a third of global GDP. About the population and economic parameters of these states – in our infographic
On the table: The BRICS+ in the first column. The population of each country in the second column. The Gross Domestic Product of each country In the third column
Once again, it all failed. The Kremlin managed to secure stability despite being forced to conduct the SMO against the entire political West. What’s more, Russia overtook Germany as the world’s fifth and Europe’s largest economy, a humiliating defeat for its Western rivals who expected quite the contrary. Berlin did much worse than in decades, while London’s economic performance was at its lowest in over 300 years. And yet, to “add insult to injury”, now even Western data shows that the initial estimates of Moscow’s economic performance were wrong and that it will actually be even better in 2024. Namely, the new IMF’s forecast of 2.6% GDP growth doubles its previous assessment. According to the Financial Times, this increase of 1.5% is the largest for any economy featured in an update to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook, released on January 30.
Given the numbers, even the FT questioned the effectiveness of the political West’s unprecedented sanctions against Russia. What’s more, the report reveals that the IMF has significantly upgraded its forecasts for Moscow, but downgraded expectations for Japan and the European Union (particularly the eurozone). Interestingly, the IMF’s forecast paints a stronger picture of Russian economic performance than even that predicted by the Kremlin itself, whose Central Bank assessed no more than 1.5% back in November.
“It is definitely the case that the Russian economy has been doing better than we were expecting and many others were expecting,” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF’s chief economist, told the FT in an interview.
Interestingly, as the report claims, Russian President Vladimir Putin, usually not as involved in shaping the macroeconomic policy as his top experts in the field, has himself predicted that GDP would grow above the official assessment. Namely, he recently said that the growth could rise above 3.5% and possibly even over 4%. The mainstream propaganda machine essentially laughed it off. However, its reaction after the IMF’s upgrade is that of shock and disbelief. In addition, Putin stated that the growth is based primarily on domestic consumer and investment demand, including record spending on construction, production industry, agriculture, tourism and freight transport. The financial sector is also breaking records. In a separate report published on January 30, the FT concluded that Russian banks have posted record profits despite Western sanctions.
The report claims that this was fuelled by a rush to take out subsidized mortgages, as well as a boom in financing to purchase assets sold by Western companies leaving Russia. As the FT posits, despite severe sanctions that were supposed to isolate Moscow’s financial system, Russian banks generated 3.3 trillion roubles in 2023, which amounts to approximately $37 billion. This is a staggering 16 times more than in 2022. This came as a shock even to the Russian Central Bank (CBR), whose Chief of Banking Regulation Alexander Danilov previously estimated that profits would only exceed one trillion roubles (approximately $11 billion). The FT admits that this is yet another proof of Moscow’s resilience in the face of the political West’s (now failed) economic siege. This success is particularly puzzling to the belligerent power pole, as Russia has been almost entirely cut off from Western capital markets.
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Netanyahu, Galant, Ben-Gvir, Katz, Smotrich, et al are the architects of Genocide. Yet they have been assigned by the ICJ with a mandate “To Prevent and Punish” those who have committed “genocidal acts”
[*] [Excerpts from Prof. Anthony Hall, “Are we turning thecorner … ]:- “As Prof. Chossudovsky sees it, the ICJ has framed its ruling in ways meant to cushion the executive branch of the Israeli government from prosecution for genocide. The scholar is very suspicious of the role of the Chairman of the World Court, Joan Donoghue, a former lawyer for Hillary Clinton when she was US Secretary of State. Prof. Chossudovsky believes Judge Donoghue is taking signals from the US government and that she should have recused herself from the proceedings for having a conflict of interest.
In setting up an obstacle to the prosecution of the executive branch of the Israeli government, Judge Donoghue is by implication also protecting the executive branch of the US government. The US government can be viewed as a full partner in the Gaza genocide in spite of the unconvincing play acting by some in the Biden administration.”
Israel’s “false flag” is a complex military-intelligence undertaking, carefully planned, in liaison with the US. “Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 … more than a year before it happened” (NYT).
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FOTO – Claus Schwab e seu pai Eugenio Wilhelm Schwab, membro do Partido Nazista. Eugenio Wilhelm Schwab serviu o “Terceiro Reich”, entre outras coisas, no papel de diretor da Escher Wyss AG
Escher Wyss AG – na época uma corporação industrial construtora, entre outras coisas, do lança-chamas usado para matar militares da coalizão anti-hitleriana, assim como incendiar e incinerar povoados ao redor de Ratynín. QUARTO REICH?
A Firma de [Eugenio Wilhelm] Schwab esteve sob proteção especial de Hitler – Essa companhia entrava em vigor como uma importante parte do complexo da indústria militar do Terceiro Reich e ela foi até mesmo agraciada com o título de honra de “Empresa Nacional-Socialista de Educação”. Em essência ela se tornou na “Empresa de Graduação/ Empresa Modelo” da cidade de Ravensburgo. Nesse sentido o pai de Claus Schwab não só dirigiu a companhia, mas sim a própria cidade também, cidade essa que ficou conhecida pelo fato de que nela, na prática, implementavam-se os métodos e princípios (- inclusive vacinações-) eugênicos. Isso sendo feito para matar “comedores/pessoas inúteis”. Em forma concentrada informações a respeito do chefe do “WEF” (na sigla inglesa) foram compiladas e publicadas na imprensa ocidental em 18 de março no material– “Claus Schwab e o Quarto Reich”.
OUR LEADIND HUMANITARIAN AND CIVIC INSTITUTIONS, INCLUDING MAJOR MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS, REFUSE TO DENOUNCE ISRAEL´S GENOCIDE IN GAZA. THIS EXPOSES THEIR HYPOCRISY AND COMPLICITY.
There is no effective health care system left in Gaza. Infants are dying. Children are having their limbs amputated without anesthesia. Thousands of cancer patients and those in need of dialysis lack treatment. The last cancer hospital in Gaza has ceased functioning. An estimated 50,000 pregnant women have no safe place to give birth. They undergo cesarean sections without anesthesia. Miscarriage rates are up 300 percent since the Israeli assault began. The wounded bleed to death. There is no sanitation or clean water. Hospitals have been bombed and shelled. Nasser Hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza, is “near collapse.” Clinics, along with ambulances – 79 in Gaza and over 212 in the West Bank – have been destroyed. Some 400 doctors, nurses, medics and healthcare workers have been killed — more than the total of all healthcare workers killed in conflicts around the world combined since 2016. Over 100 more have been detained, interrogated, beaten and tortured, or disappeared by Israeli soldiers.
Israeli soldiers routinely enter hospitals to carry out forced evacuations – on Wednesday troops entered al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis and demanded doctors and displaced Palestinians leave – as well as round up detainees, including the wounded, sick and medical staff. On Tuesday, disguised as hospital workers and civilians, Israeli soldiers entered Jenin’s Ibn Sina Hospital in the West Bank and assassinated three Palestinians as they slept.
The cuts to funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) — collective punishment for the alleged involvement in the Oct. 7 attack of 12 of its 13,000 UNRWA workers — will accelerate the horror, turning the attacks, starvation, lack of health care and spread of infectious diseases in Gaza into a tidal wave of death.
The evidence-free charges, which include the accusation that 10 percent of all of UNRWA’s Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups, appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The reporter, Carrie-Keller Lynn, served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Given the numerous lies Israel has employed to justify its genocide, including “beheaded babies” and “mass rape,” it is reasonable to assume this may be another fabrication.
The allegations, of which details remain scant, are apparently based on confessions by Palestinian detainees — most certainly after being beaten or tortured. These allegations were enough to see 17 countries including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, France, Australia and Japan cut or delay funding to the vital U.N. agency. UNRWA is all that stands between the Palestinians in Gaza and famine. A handful of countries, including Ireland, Norway and Turkey, maintain their funding.
Eight of the UNRWA employees accused of participating in the Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel, where 1,139 people were killed and 240 abducted, were fired. Two have been suspended. UNRWA has promised an investigation. They account for 0.04 percent of UNRWA’s staff.
Israel is seeking to destroy not only Gaza’s health care system and infrastructure, but UNRWA which provides food and aid to 2 million Palestinians. The object is to make Gaza uninhabitable and ethnically cleanse the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands are already starving. Over 70 percent of the housing has been destroyed. More than 26,700 people have been killed and over 65,600 have been injured. Thousands are missing. Some 90 percent of Gaza’s pre-war population has been displaced, with many living in the open. Palestinians have been reduced to eating grass and drinking contaminated water.
Noga Arbell, a former Israeli foreign ministry official, during a discussion in the Israeli parliament on Jan. 4, stated: “It will be impossible to win the war if we do not destroy UNRWA, and this destruction must begin immediately.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, saying UNWRA was “totally infiltrated by Hamas,” reiterated the call to shut UNRWA down.
If UNWRA is abolished it puts into question the Palestinian’s status as refugees, imperiling the “Right of Return,” the demand, long rejected by Israel, that Palestinians be allowed to go back to their homes in what is now Israel.
“It’s time for the international community and the UN itself to understand that UNRWA’s mission must be terminated,” Netanyahu told visiting UN delegates, according to a statement from his office. “It seeks to preserve the issue of Palestinian refugees. We must replace UNRWA with other UN agencies and other aid agencies, if we want to solve the Gaza problem as we plan to do.”
More than 152 of UNRWA’s employees in Gaza — including school principals, teachers, health workers, a gynecologist, engineers, support staff and a psychologist — have been killed since the Israeli attacks began. Over 141 UNRWA facilities have been bombed into rubble. The death toll is the largest loss of staff during a conflict in the U.N.’s history.
The destruction of healthcare facilities and targeting of doctors, nurses, medics and staff is especially repugnant. It means the most vulnerable, the sick, infants, the wounded and elderly, and those who care for them, are often condemned to death.
Palestinian doctors are pleading with doctors and medical organizations from around the world to decry the assault on the healthcare system and mobilize their institutions to protest.
“The world must condemn the acts against medical professionals happening in Gaza,” writes the director of Al-Shifa hospital, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, who was arrested along with other medical personnel by the Israelis in November 2023 while evacuating with a World Health Organization (WHO) convoy, and who remains in custody. “This Correspondence is a call for every human being, all medical communities, and all health-care professionals around the world to call for these anti-hospital activities inside and around the hospitals to stop, which is a civilian obligation according to international law, the UN, and WHO.”
But these institutions — with a few notable exceptions such as The American Public Health Association that has called for a ceasefire — have either remained silent or, as with Dr. Matthew K. Wynia, the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado, attempted to justify Israeli war crimes. These doctors — who somehow find it acceptable that in Gaza a child is killed every 10 minutes on average — are accomplices to genocide and stand in violation of the Geneva Convention. They embrace death as a solution, not life.
Robert Jay Lifton in his book “The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide” writes that “genocidal projects require the active participation of educated professionals — physicians, scientists, engineers, military leaders, lawyers, clergy, university professors and other teachers — who combine to create not only the technology of genocide but much of its ideological rationale, moral climate, and organizational process.”
A group of 100 Israeli doctors in November 2023 defended the bombing of hospitals in Gaza, claiming they were used as Hamas command centers, a charge Israel has been unable to verify.
The deans of U.S. medical schools and leading medical organizations, especially the American Medical Association (AMA), have joined the ranks of universities, law schools, churches and the media to turn their backs on the Palestinians. The AMA shut down a debate on a ceasefire resolution among its members and has called for “medical neutrality,” although it abandoned “medical neutrality” to denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
There is a cost to denouncing this genocide, a cost they do not intend to pay. They fear being attacked. They fear destroying their careers. They fear losing funding. They fear a loss of status. They fear persecution. They fear social isolation. This fear makes them complicit.
And what of those who do speak out? They are branded as antisemites and supporters of terrorism. George Washington University clinical psychology professor Lara Sheehi was pushed out of her job. The former head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, was denied a fellowship at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy because of his alleged “anti-Israel bias.” San Francisco professor Rabab Abdulhadi was sued for supporting Palestinian rights. Shahd Abusalama was suspended from Sheffield Hallam University in the U.K after a vicious smear campaign, although the institution later settled her discrimination claim against it. Professor Jasbir Puar at Rutgers University is an ongoing target for the Israel lobby and endures constant harassment. Medical students and faculty in Canada face suspension or expulsion if they publicly criticize Israel.
The danger is not only that the Israeli crimes are denounced. The danger, more importantly, is that the moral bankruptcy and cowardice of the institutions and their leaders are exposed.
This brings me to Dr. Rupa Marya, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), whose call to halt bombing hospitals and to examine the impact of Zionism as a racist ideology unleashed a torrent of vitriolic attacks against her, attacks tacitly endorsed by the medical school where she works.
She has been slandered as an antisemite and targeted by the Canary Mission, a Zionist organization that seeks to defame and destroy the careers of students and faculty that criticize Israel and defend Palestinian rights. She has had speaking engagements rescinded and received death threats and messages such as: “kill yourself you retarded grifting n*gger,” “Jew baiting c*nt,” and “White people are the greatest people on Earth. You know this.”
You can see her statement on the campaign against her here.
There is a striking contrast between the treatment of Dr. Marya and the physicians who cheer on the genocide. UCSF physician Matt Cooperberg, who is the Helen Diller Family Chair in Urology, ‘liked’ social media posts such as “REMOVE Palestinians FORM [sic] MAP” and a quote by former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir: “We are able to forgive the the [sic] arabs for killing our children. We are unable to forgive the arabs for forcing us to kill their children.”
“Cooperberg’s endowed chair comes from the Helen Diller Family Foundation, UCSF’s largest donor, which to date has gifted some $1.15 billion dollars to the health campus,” Dr. Marya writes. “In 2018, due to a mistake on a tax form, the Helen Diller Family Foundation was exposed as a funder of the Canary Mission. The Foundation attempted to erase its connection after this exposure.”
She continues:
As a faculty member at UCSF, disgraced dermatologist Howard Maibach exposed and injected over 2,600 imprisoned Black and brown people with chemicals in experiments that echoed the experiments put on trial at the Doctors’ Trial just a few years before he went to medical school in Pennsylvania. There he studied under Albert Kligman, who taught him how to exploit Black people for medical experimentation, documented extensively in the horror nonfiction book, Acres of Skin. Maibach also advanced notions of racial differences in skin, furthering racist ideas from the pseudoscience of eugenics. Race is a social construct that enshrines supremacism. It is not a biological reality.
Most of Maibach’s experiments were conducted without informed consent, and while UCSF issued an apology, Maibach is still employed by the University of California. His family supports the Friends of the IDF, and he is represented by Alan Dershowitz, who also argued for the bombing of hospitals in Gaza. Dershowitz attempted to prevent me from speaking at the AMA’s first National Health Equity Grand Rounds, where scholar Harriet Washington, who studies medical experimentation on Black people, highlighted Maibach’s racist practices. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, UCSF faculty, trainees and students of color brought Maibach’s story to light, and many have expressed their horror that they have to continue to sit in the same room as this man during Dermatology Grand Rounds. But the problem is not just one man. It is a system that allows someone with these values and actions to continue to be present in our learning and practicing community.
The dehumanization of Palestinians is lifted from the playbook of all settler colonial projects, including our own. This racism, where people of color are branded as “human animals,” is coded within the DNA of our institutions. It infects those chosen to lead these institutions. It lies at the core of our national identity. It is why the two ruling parties and the institutions that sustain them side with Israel. It feeds the perverted logic of funneling weapons and billions of dollars in support to sustain Israel’s occupation and genocide.
History will not judge us kindly. But it will revere those who, under siege, found the courage to say no.
Israel has launched an invasion (October 7, 2023) of the Gaza Strip.
As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 10 years ago in a December, 30 2013 article:
“Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, “If All Goes to Plan”.
In the current context, Israel’s “All Goes to Plan” option consists in bypassing Palestine and “Wiping Gaza off the Map”, as well confiscating ALL Gaza’s maritime offshore gas reserves, worth billions of dollars.
The ultimate objective is not only to exclude Palestinians from their homeland, it consists in
confiscating PALESTINE´S multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves,
namely those pertaining to the BG (BG Group) in 1999, as well the Levant discoveries of 2013.
Update. Israel’s Secret Intelligence Memorandum
An official “secret” memorandum authored by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence “is recommending the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula”, namely to a refugee camp in Egyptian territory. There are indications of Israel-Egypt negotiations as well as consultations with the U.S.
The 10-page document, dated Oct. 13, 2023, bears the logo of the Intelligence Ministry … assesses three options regarding the future of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip … It recommends a full population transfer as its preferred course of action. … The document, whose authenticity was confirmed by the ministry, has been translated into English in full here on +972. See below, click here or below to access complete document (10 pages)
First published on October 22, 2023. Video added on October 27, 2023, Update, November 1, 2023
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Video: Michel Chossudovsky, Interview with Caroline Mailloux, Lux Media
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Felicity Arbuthnot’s 2013 Analysis
“The Giant Leviathan natural gas field, in the eastern Mediterranean, discovered in December 2010, widely described [by governments and media] as “off the coast of Israel.”
These Levant reserves must be distinguished from those discovered in Gaza in 1999 by British Gas, which belong to Palestine. Felicity Arbuthnot’s analysis nonetheless confirms that “Part of the Leviathan Gas fields lie in Gazan territorial waters” (See Map Below).
Whilst Israel claims them as her very own treasure trove, only a fraction of the sea’s wealth lies in Israel’s bailiwick as maps. Much is still [, but currently Palestine’s Gaza and the West Bank between them show the greatest discoveries… (Felicity Arbuthnot, 2013)
Netanyahu’s October 2023 declaration of war against 2.3 million people of the Gaza Strip is a continuation of its 2008-2009 invasion of Gaza under “Operation Cast Lead.”
The underlying objective is the outright military occupation of Gaza by Israel’s IDF forces and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.
I should however mention that there are powerful financial interests which stand to benefit from Israel’s criminal undertaking (Genocide) directed against Gaza.
.The ultimate objective is not only to exclude Palestinians from their homeland, it consists in confiscating the multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves, namely those pertaining to the BG (BG Group) in 1999, as well the Levant discoveries of 2013.
Egypt-Israel “Secret Bilateral Talks”
In 2021-22, Egypt and Israel were involved in “secret bilateral talks” regarding “the extraction of natural gas off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
“Egypt succeeded in persuading Israel to start extracting natural gas off the coast of the Gaza Strip, after several months of secret bilateral talks.
This development … comes after years of Israeli objections to extract natural gas off the coast of Gaza on [alleged] security grounds, …
British Gas (BG Group) has also been dealing with the Tel Aviv government.
What is significant is that the civilian arm of the Hamas Gaza government has been bypassed in regards to exploration and development rights over the gas fields:
The field, which lies about 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of the Gaza coast, was discovered in 2000 by British Gas (currently BG Group) and is estimated to contain more than 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
The official in the Egyptian intelligence service told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, “An Egyptian economic and security delegation discussed with the Israeli side for several months the issue of allowing the extraction of natural gas off the coast of Gaza. …Al-Monitor, October 22, 2022
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Egypt and Israel, which had the rubber-stamp of the Palestinian National Authority (PA):
“The Egyptian official explained that Israel required the start of practical measures to extract gas from the Gaza fields at the beginning of 2024, to ensure its own security. (Al-Monitor, October 22, 2022
Netanyahu’s Timeline: “Before The Beginning of 2024”
The timeline resulting from these bilateral Israel-Egypt “secret talks” i.e. confiscation of Palestine’s offshore Maritime Gas Reserves is “The Beginning of 2024”.
Geologists and natural resources economists have confirmed that the Occupied Palestinian Territory lies above sizeable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth, in Area C of the occupied West Bank and the Mediterranean coast off the Gaza Strip.
However, occupation continues to prevent Palestinians from developing their energy fields so as to exploit and benefit from such assets. As such, the Palestinian people have been denied the benefits of using this natural resource to finance socioeconomic development and meet their need for energy.
The accumulated losses are estimated in the billions of dollars. The longer Israel prevents Palestinians from exploiting their own oil and natural gas reserves, the greater the opportunity costs and the greater the total costs of the occupation borne by Palestinians become.
This study identifies and assesses existing and potential Palestinian oil and natural gas reserves that could be exploited for the benefit of the Palestinian people, which Israel is either preventing them from exploiting or is exploiting without due regard for international law. (UNCTAD, August 2019, emphasis added, download complete report)
Crimes against Humanity
In the words of Netanyahu who is on Record for Supporting and Financing a faction within Hamas:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
(Benjamin Netanyahu, statement at a March 2019 meeting of his Likud Party’s Knesset members, Haaretz, October 9, 2023, emphasis added)
“Hamas was treated as a partner to the detriment of the Palestinian Authority to prevent Abbas from moving towards creating a Palestinian State. Hamas was promoted from a terrorist group to an organization with which Israel conducted negotiations through Egypt, and which was allowed to receive suitcases containing millions of dollars from Qatar through the Gaza crossings.”
Crimes against humanity beyond description by the Netanyahu government against the People of Palestine,
Crimes also committed against the People of Israel who are the victims of the Hamas “False Flag Attack” carefully engineered by Mossad-IDF.
There are deep-seated divisions within Hamas. Our “False Flag” analysis pertains to a military-intelligence faction within Hamas which cooperates with Israeli and U.S. intelligence. See:
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, October 21, 2023
Below is the 2013 article by Felicity Arbuthnot
Israel Gas-Oil and Trouble in the Levant
by Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research,
December 13, 2013
Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, if all goes to plan. The giant Leviathan natural gas field, in the eastern Mediterranean, discovered in December 2010, is widely described as “off the coast of Israel.”
At the time the gas field was:
“ … the most prominent field ever found in the sub-explored area of the Levantine Basin, which covers about 83,000 square kilometres of the eastern Mediterranean region.” (i)
Coupled with Tamar field, in the same location, discovered in 2009, the prospects are for an energy bonanza for Israel, for Houston, Texas based Noble Energy and partners Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration and Ratio Oil Exploration.
Also involved is Perth, Australia-based Woodside Petroleum, which has signed a memorandum of understanding for a thirty percent stake in the project, in negotiations which have been described as “up and down.”
There is currently speculation that Woodside might pull out of the deal: “ …since the original plans to refrigerate the gas for export were pursued when relations between Israel and Turkey were strained. That has changed, more recently, which has opened the door for gas to be piped to Turkey.”
The spoils of the Leviathan field has already expanded from an estimated 16.7 trillion cubic feet (tcf ) of gas to nineteen trillion – and counting:
”We’ve discovered nearly 40 tcf of gas, and we have roughly 19 tcf of that gas that’s available for export to both regional and extra-regional markets. We see exports reaching 2 billion cubic feet a day in capacity in the next decade. And we continue to explore.”, stated Noble Vice Chairman Keith Elliot (ii) There are also estimated to be possibly six hundred million barrels of oil, according to Michael Economides of energytribune.com (“Eastern Mediterranean Energy – the next Great Game.”)
However, even these estimates may prove modest. In their: “Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Levant Basin Province, Eastern Mediterranean”, the US Department of the Interior’s US Geological Survey, wrote in 2010:
“We estimated a mean of 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and a mean of 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas in this province using a geology based assessment methodology.”
Nevertheless, Woodside Petroleum, might also be hesitant to become involved in further disputes, since they are already embroiled, with the Australian government, in a protracted one in East Timor relating to the bonanaza of energy and minerals beneath the Timor Sea, which has even led to East Timor accusing Australia “of bugging East Timorese officials during the negotiations over the agreement.”(iii)
Woodside’s conflict in East Timor however, may well pale against what might well erupt over the Leviathan and Tamar fields. The area is not for nothing called the Levantine Basin.
Whilst Israel claims them as her very own treasure trove, only a fraction of the sea’s wealth lies in Israel’s bailiwick as maps (iv, v, see below) clearly show.
Much is still unexplored, but currently Palestine’s Gaza and the West Bank between them show the greatest discoveries, with anything found in Lebanon and Syria’s territorial waters sure to involve claims from both countries.
In a pre-emptive move, on Christmas Day, Syria announced a deal with Russia to explore 2,190 kilometres (850 Sq. miles) for oil and gas off its Mediterranean coast, to be: “… financed by Russia, and should oil and gas be discovered in commercial quantities, Moscow will recover the exploration costs.”
Syrian Oil Minister, Ali Abbas said during the signing ceremony that the contract covers “25 years, over several phases.”
Syria, increasingly crippled by international sanctions, has seen oil production plummet by ninety percent since the largely Western fermented unrest began in March 2011. Gas production has nearly halved, from thirty million cubic metres a day, to 16.7 cubic metres daily.
The agreement is reported to have resulted from “months of long negotiations” between the two countries. Russia, as one of the Syrian government’s main backers, looks set to also become a major player in the Levant Basin’s energy wealth. (vi)
Lebanon disputes Israel’s map of the Israeli-Lebanese maritime border, filing their own map and claims with the UN in 2010. Israel claims Lebanon is in the process of granting oil and gas exploration licenses in what Israel claims as its “exclusive economic zone.”
That the US in the guise of Vice President Joe Biden, as honest broker, acting peace negotiator in the maritime border dispute would be laughable, were it not potential for Israel to attack their neighbour again. In a visit to Israel in March 2010, Biden announced: “There is absolutely no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel’s security- none at all”, also announcing on arrival in Israel:”It’s good to be home.”
Given US decades of “peace brokering” between Israel and Palestine, this is already a road of pitfalls, one sidedness and duplicity, well traveled. There is trouble ahead.
Oh, and in demonology, Leviathan is one of the seven princes of Hell.
Israel se prepara para tornar-se um dos principais exportadores de gás assim como de algum petróleo, se tudo sair de acordo com os planos. O gigante campo de gás do “Leviathan”, no Leste do mar Mediterrâneo, descoberto em 2010, é apontado [na corrupta mídia ocidental] como que “nas costas de Israel.” Quando da descoberta o campo de gás era: “… o mais prominente campo jamais encontrado na área da Bacia do Leviathan, a qual cobre cerca de 83.000 km2 da região leste do Mediterrâneo.” (1)
Esse campo de gás está ligado ao campo Tamar, o qual foi descoberto em 2009 e que se encontra nessa mesma localização. Isso representa um prospecto de muito dinheiro para Israel, para Houston, para Noble Energy baseada no Texas, e para os parceiros Delek Drilling, Ayner Oil Exploration assim como para o Ratio Oil Exploration. [drilling=perfuração/prospecção; exploration=exploração] – [de acordo com o original de 2013-14]
Também envolvida está Perth, Woodside Petroleum, o qual é baseado na Austrália, tendo já assinado um memorandum de entendimento para 30% do resultado do projeto. [2013-14] em negociações que foram descritas como que um “Yô-Yô”, indo prá-cima-e-prá-baixo continuamente. Especula-se que a Woodside poderia se retirar do acordo: “ … porque os planos originais de refrigerar o gás para exportação tinha sido conseguido de quando as relações entre Israel e Turquia estavam tensas. Isso teria depois mudado, o que abriria então as portas para entubar o gás para a Turquia.”
As avaliações dos potenciais dos campos do Leviathan já subiram dos estimados 16.7 trilhões cúbicos/feet (tcf) de gás, para dezenove trilhões … e ainda se continua a contar…
“Nós descobrimos quase 40 tcf de gás, e temos aproxidamente 19 tcf de gás em condições de exportação para mercados regionais e também para os além-de-regionais. Estamos olhando para capacidades de exportação alcançando 2 bilhões cúbicos-feet por dia, nos próximos dez anos. E ainda continuamos a explorar.”, declarou o vice-presidente da Noble, Keith Elliot (2). Lá também há a avaliação da possibilidade de seiscentos milhões de barrís de petróleo por dia, de acordo com Michael Economides da energytribune.com (“Eastern Mediterranean Energy – the next Great Game.”) [Mediterrâneo do Leste – O próximo Grande Jogo].
Entretanto, mesmo essas estimações poderiam entretanto ser modestas demais.
[“Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Levant Basin Province, Eastern Mediterranean”, the US Department of the Interior’s US Geological Survey]
“Avaliações dos ainda por Descobrir Gás e Petróleo Recursos na Bacia da Província do Levante, Mediterrâneo Leste”, Pesquisa Geologica do Departamente do Interior dos Estados Unidos – em 2010: “Nós estimamos uma média de 1.7 bilhões de barrís de petróleo de recuperação capaz (recoverable oil) e uma media de 122 trilhões cúbicos-feet de “recoverable” gas nessa província, baseados numa metodologia de avaliação geológica.”
Pode ser também que Woodside Petroleum possa estar hesitando quanto a se envolver em futuras disputas, porque está atualmente em prolongadas disputas no Timor Leste com a Austrália, quanto a riqueza (bonanza) energética e de minerais no sub-solo do Mar do Timor Leste, a qual já levou o o Timor Leste a acusar a Austrália de “espionar oficiais leste timorenses durante as negociações do acordo.” (3)
Entretanto, o conflito da Woodside no Timor Leste pode muito bem se mostrar como que nada em comparação com o que pode ser levantado a respeito dos campos do Leviathan e Tamar. Não é por acaso que a região é conhecida como a Bacia do Levante (Levantine Basin).
Conquanto Israel as assuma como fazendo parte do seu próprio tesouro pessoal, só uma fracção das riquezas desse mar se encontram na região, no território, ou na zona de Israel, como mapas (4, 5) claramente o demonstram. Muito ainda não está explorado, mas actualmente a Gaza Palestiniana e o “West Bank”, respectivamente entre eles, mostram as maiores descobertas, tendo-se também que qualquer descoberta encontrada nas águas territoriais do Líbano e da Síria levantaria reinvidicações por parte de ambos.
Como que num passo de prevenção, no dia de natal, a Síria anunciou um acordo com a Rússia a respeito da exploração de 2.190 km (850 Square miles) de gás e petróleo na sua costa territorial, a ser: “ …financiada pela Rússia. No caso de gás ou petróleo, ou ambos, serem descobertos em quantidades comerciais, Moscow iria poder cobrir os gastos da exploração.” O ministro de enrgia e petróleo da Síria – Syrian Oil Minister Ali Abbas, disse durante a cerimônia de assinatura, que esse contrato cobria “25 anos, durante várias fases.”
A Síria que está cada vez mais sendo impiedosamente atacada pelas sanções internacionais, já viu sua produção de petróleo diminuida em 90% (noventa porcento) desde que as graves sequências de acontecimentos e erupções, em grande parte incitados pelo ocidente, começaram em março de 2011. A produção do gás ficou quase que pela metade, indo de 30 (trinta) milhões m3 por dia, a 16.7m3 por dia.
O acordo entre a Síria e a Rússia foi resultado de meses de longas negociações entre os dois países. A Rússia, como um dos dos principais apoiantes do governo da Síria, projeta-se aqui então como um dos principais atores quanto a riqueza energética da Bacia do Levante. (Levant Basin no original) (6)
O Líbano contesta o mapa de Israel quanto as fronteiras marítimas Israel-Líbano, tendo apresentado seu próprio mapa e suas reinvidicações para a ONU, em 2010. Israel reclama o fato, afirmando que o Líbano está concedendo licenças para a exploração de gás e petróleo no que Israel reinvidica como sua “exclusiva zona econômica.”
Que os Estados Unidos através do seu vice-presidente Joe Biden, se disfarçe apresentando-se no papél de um honesto intermediário, agindo como um negociador de paz na disputa das fronteiras marítimas, seria caso de piada, se não fosse pelo potencial de um novo ataque de Israel ao seu vizinho. Numa visita a Israel em março de 2010 Biden declarou que: “Não há absolutamente nenhum espaço livre entre os Estados Unidos e Israel quanto ao que se refere a segurança de Israel – absolutamente nenhum. Ele disse também então de quando chegando em Israel: “Que bom estar em casa, ou como no original – It´s good to be home.” [!]
Tendo-se em conta as décades em que os Estados Unidos se apresentaram como “intermediários no processo de paz” entre Israel e Palestina, isso se apresenta como um caminho de armadilhas, tomadas de partido, e duplicidade, com o chão já muito bem batido e pisado.
Que se esperem muitos problemas a frente.
Ah!… e quanto a Demonologia… Leviathan é um dos sete príncipes do Inferno.
As aid organisations, we are deeply concerned and outraged that some of the largest donors have united to suspend funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main aid provider for millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the region. This comes amid a rapidly worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
The suspension of funding by donor states will impact life-saving assistance for over two million civilians, over half of whom are children, who rely on UNRWA aid in Gaza. The population faces starvation, looming famine and an outbreak of disease under Israel’s continued indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate deprivation of aid in Gaza.
We welcome UNRWA’s swift investigation into the alleged involvement of a small number of UN staff members in the October 7th attacks. We are shocked by the reckless decision to cut a lifeline for an entire population by some of the very countries that had called for aid in Gaza to be stepped up and for humanitarians to be protected while doing their job. This decision comes as the International Court of Justice ordered immediate and effective action to ensure the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.
152 UNRWA staff have already been killed and 145 UNRWA facilities damaged by bombardment. UNRWA is the largest humanitarian agency in Gaza and their delivery of humanitarian assistance cannot be replaced by other agencies working in Gaza. If the funding suspensions are not reversed we may see a complete collapse of the already restricted humanitarian response in Gaza.
With approximately over one million displaced Palestinians taking shelter in or around 154 UNRWA shelters, the agency and aid organisations have continued to work in near impossible circumstances to provide food, vaccinations, and freshwater. The countries suspending funds risk further depriving Palestinians in the region of essential food, water, medical assistance and supplies, education and protection.
We urge donor states to reaffirm support for the vital work that UNRWA and its partners do to help Palestinians survive one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of our times. Countries must reverse these funding suspensions, uphold their duties towards the Palestinian people and scale up humanitarian assistance for civilians in dire need in Gaza and the region.
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“The countries pausing funding include theUnited States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Canada, Finland and the Netherlands.”
In the news in Sweden one could thereafter read the following: “Sweden suspends aid to UNRWA.” A Minister in the current government put it this way: “It is a very wise decision by the authorities given that…”(18:00, 2024-01-30, SVT)
“I wish I could have died with them” – crying Hamada Abu Sleyma told Al-Mayadeen Media Network, an independent Arab satellite news channel. He said he just left home for five minutes trying to buy some bread from a nearby bakery, when an Israeli airstrike hit his family’s house, destroyed it completely and buried his entire family alive.
He reckoned they are all dead. He built his tent on the rubble of his family house, as he wanted to be close to his loved ones, even in death – and just in case, he said, tears in his eyes, I may hear calls for help from under the debris.
This 2-min video-clip speaks for itself, recorded by Al-Mayadeen Media Network.
There are simply no words to describe the ever-increasing intensity of the horror, the atrocities, the relentless, merciless genocide – targeting mostly civilian populations, and in particular women and children. It is clearly an act of eradicating and brutally eliminating Palestinian people. Targeting children and women is wiping out the next generation – children and the bearers of children.
Up to now, more than 22,000 people were murdered by the Zionist-directed Israel Defense Forces (IDF); and there is no end in sight for the killing. To the contrary, the Biden Administration has just declared gearing up American armament for the Middle East, by sending two aircraft carriers, loaded with about 50 fully armed war planes to the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf area. Nuclear weapons were not mentioned, but they are for sure part and parcel of the weaponry – ready to step up the killing and risking a never-seen before worldwide catastrophe.
When will the world be interfering in this atrocious grand-scale homicide?
World, wake up!
Intervene!
The killing orgy you are allowing to happen today to Palestine, may hit YOU tomorrow.
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Once again, it all failed. The Kremlin managed to secure stability despite being forced to conduct the SMO against the entire political West. What’s more, Russia overtook Germany as the world’s fifth and Europe’s largest economy, a humiliating defeat for its Western rivals who expected quite the contrary. Berlin did much worse than in decades, while London’s economic performance was at its lowest in over 300 years. And yet, to “add insult to injury”, now even Western data shows that the initial estimates of Moscow’s economic performance were wrong and that it will actually be even better in 2024. Namely, the new IMF’s forecast of 2.6% GDP growth doubles its previous assessment. According to the Financial Times, this increase of 1.5% is the largest for any economy featured in an update to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook, released on January 30.
Given the numbers, even the FT questioned the effectiveness of the political West’s unprecedented sanctions against Russia. What’s more, the report reveals that the IMF has significantly upgraded its forecasts for Moscow, but downgraded expectations for Japan and the European Union (particularly the eurozone). Interestingly, the IMF’s forecast paints a stronger picture of Russian economic performance than even that predicted by the Kremlin itself, whose Central Bank assessed no more than 1.5% back in November.
“It is definitely the case that the Russian economy has been doing better than we were expecting and many others were expecting,” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF’s chief economist, told the FT in an interview.
Interestingly, as the report claims, Russian President Vladimir Putin, usually not as involved in shaping the macroeconomic policy as his top experts in the field, has himself predicted that GDP would grow above the official assessment. Namely, he recently said that the growth could rise above 3.5% and possibly even over 4%. The mainstream propaganda machine essentially laughed it off. However, its reaction after the IMF’s upgrade is that of shock and disbelief. In addition, Putin stated that the growth is based primarily on domestic consumer and investment demand, including record spending on construction, production industry, agriculture, tourism and freight transport. The financial sector is also breaking records. In a separate report published on January 30, the FT concluded that Russian banks have posted record profits despite Western sanctions.
The report claims that this was fuelled by a rush to take out subsidized mortgages, as well as a boom in financing to purchase assets sold by Western companies leaving Russia. As the FT posits, despite severe sanctions that were supposed to isolate Moscow’s financial system, Russian banks generated 3.3 trillion roubles in 2023, which amounts to approximately $37 billion. This is a staggering 16 times more than in 2022. This came as a shock even to the Russian Central Bank (CBR), whose Chief of Banking Regulation Alexander Danilov previously estimated that profits would only exceed one trillion roubles (approximately $11 billion). The FT admits that this is yet another proof of Moscow’s resilience in the face of the political West’s (now failed) economic siege. This success is particularly puzzling to the belligerent power pole, as Russia has been almost entirely cut off from Western capital markets.
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In 1996, a nest of American-born imperialists revolving around Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Richard Perle created a new think tank called “The Project for a New American Century.”
While the principled aim of the think tank ultimately hinged on a new “Pearl Harbor moment” that would justify a new era of regime-change wars in the Middle East, a secondary but equally important part of the formula involved the dominance of “Greater Israel” Likud fanatics then taking power over the murdered body of Yitzhak Rabin.
It was toward the start of the new regime of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Richard Perle wrote the report “Clean Break: A Strategy for Securing the Realm,” which outlined a series of goals that would govern the strategic vision of Washington and Tel Aviv for the next two decades. It called for:
Canceling the foundations for the Oslo Accords that threatened to bring about a climate of peace through economic cooperation in the Middle East under a two-state solution
Launching a new doctrine of “right of hot pursuit” justifying armed incursions into Palestinian territories
Inducing the United States to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq
Armed incursions into Lebanon and possible strikes against Syria and Iran
In 2007, General Wesley Clarkadded even more detail to this neocon program when he revealed the content of a discussion he had with Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld 10 days after 9/11. General Clark stated that he was told of planned invasions of seven countries scheduled to take place within five years… namely: “Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.”
This program was, in short, a recipe for establishing the long-awaited “Greater Israel” promoted by the likes of Theodor Herzl, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook over a century ago.
With the coming breakdown of the over-inflated Western financial system on one side and the emergence of a viable new multipolar security and economic architecture on the other side, it appears the ghouls that orchestrated 9/11, assassinated Rabin (1995) and Arafat (2004), and revived the Crusades have decided to kick over the chess board.
Conducting a rational analysis of the motives for this type of dynamic poses a major difficulty for any geopolitical commentator used to thinking in academically acceptable terms, which presume that rational self-interest animates the players within a game. In this case, rational self-interest is infected by heavy doses of self-delusional Hegemonism, fanatical imperial zealotry, and end-times eschatology with a Messianic twist (taking both Christian and Jewish forms).
These Eurasian development corridors are rightfully seen as an existential threat to Western imperialists as they provide the foundation for the viability of a new economic architecture based on long-term thinking and mutual cooperation.
The role Israel is expected to play in an anti-BRI agenda is meant to take the form of three major projects within this ivory tower fantasy game of imperial Rand-style scenario builders.
These are:
1) The US-led India-Middle East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEEC) announced at the G20 on October 15, 2023, which envisions a vast network of rail and roads stretching from India through the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Europe. This proposed vast network of railways, pipelines, shipping corridors, ports, and data cables would bypass Turkey and undermine China’s Middle and planned southern BRI corridors.
2) The revival of the David Ben Gurion Canal, which was first proposed by American engineers in 1963. This plan called for using 520 nuclear detonations to cut a nearly 260 km canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, bypassing the strategically valuable Suez Canal.
3) The exploitation of vast offshore oil and natural gas deposits that have been discovered off the coast of Gaza between 1999-present, which renders Israel a primary oil hub of the world on the scale of top OPEC nations.
The IMEEC Fantasy
Considering the long and pathetic list of US-controlled ‘I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-BRI’ boondoggles’ that have been pitched to great acclaim and fallen apart within seconds of conception (ie: Build Back Better for the World, One Sun One World One Grid, Blue Dot Network, Green Global Gateway, Global Green Deal, or Green Belt Initiative), it is safe to say that the IMEEC is a non-starter made for geopolitical wet dreamers by geopolitical wet dreamers incapable of discerning reality from fantasy.
Not only does the West lack the financial means to invest in such long-term projects as IMEEC, but it has also lost the engineering skills requisite to build such a megaproject. This perfect storm of incompetence makes this impressive-sounding project entirely unviable.
No additional remarks will be issued about this in this article.
The David Ben Gurion Canal Fantasy
For the prospects of the David Ben Gurion Canal revival, which has become an internet sensation over the past weeks, a word is worth mentioning, and a few fallacies should be clarified. While this was first proposed by engineers at the US Department of Energy in 1963 (and promptly classified until 1993), there isn’t any evidence that institutional discussion has taken place about reviving this project for decades.
While many online commentators claim the project calls for ‘dropping hundreds of nukes onto Gaza’ (implying that Israeli threats to nuke Gaza are a cover for building this canal), the actual engineering study called for specially designed nuclear detonations that utilize directed blast geometries not entirely different from TNT detonations in tunneling (although more powerful by many magnitudes).
Simple brute force ‘dropping of bombs’ onto a desert would never work, and the engineering skills, costs, and many years of construction required appear, in this author’s mind, to make this project as unrealizable as the IMEEC.
It appears more likely that the Greater Israel fanatics simply want to take control of the Suez Canal (after a war can be provoked with Egypt of course), and so building the 1963 canal is irrelevant in the minds of ‘the Chosen People.’
A Real Concern: Gaza Offshore Energy Steal
The east Mediterranean offshore oil/gas fields are much more strategic and feasible and have taken on additional appeal for a desperate Europe cut off from Russian fuel since Russia’s special military operation (SMO) began in February 2022.
If developed, it is believed that these offshore resources would transform Israel into a global energy hub supporting the glory of Greater Israel as a new empire, which, according to 2010 US estimates, represents over “1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and a mean of 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas” valued at over 453 billion dollars.
This vast deposit off the coast of Gaza (and thus under the legal ownership of the people of Gaza), was first discovered in 1999 when a company called British Gas discovered deposits of approximately one trillion cubic feet of natural gas 19 miles off the Gaza coast. Agreements to develop this project at a cost of $1.2 billion soon followed.
Although Yassir Arafat expressed an active interest in developing these resources two decades ago, Israel worked tirelessly to block the Palestinian Investment Fund (the fund responsible for carrying out the development) from extending investments into the project, using the argument that “funding may be used to support terrorism.” When Hamas was elected in 2007, Israel’s efforts to block funding for the Gaza marine field vastly increased.
This is perhaps why Hamas’ 2007 victory was celebrated by none other than Israeli intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin, who cabled US Ambassador Richard Jones that he would be “happy” if Hamas formed a government because “the IDF could then deal with Gaza as a hostile state.” In the cable made available by Wikileaks, Yadlin also dismissed concerns about Iranian influence within a Hamas government “as long as they [Hamas-controlled Gaza] don’t have a port.”
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” [emphasis added]
When a consortium of Israeli, American, and Australian energy companies discovered even more oil and natural gas deposits in the Levant Basin “off the coast of Israel” in 2010-2011, the western Mediterranean became a potential global gamechanger in oil geopolitics with the US Department of the Interior 2010 report estimating “1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and a mean of 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas in the Levantine basin.” Experts estimate that these deposits carry at least $453 billion in value.
Former Israeli Energy Minister Karine El Harrardescribed Israel’s ambition to become a global energy hub after signing a 2022 memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Egypt promising to develop the gas fields:
“This is a historical moment in which the small country of Israel becomes a significant player in the global energy market. The MOU will enable Israel, for the first time, to export Israeli natural gas to Europe, and it is even more impressive looking at the significant set of agreements we signed over the last year, which position Israel, and Israeli energy and water sectors as a key global player.”
El Harrer’s words carried a bitter aftertaste as it had already been proven that Israel intentionally blocked the development of these offshore fields for two decades—to the detriment of millions of Palestinian lives (and ironically Israel’s own economy). This fact was outlined in great detail by a 2019 report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which stated:
“Geologists and natural resources economists have confirmed that the Occupied Palestinian Territory lies above sizeable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth, in Area C of the occupied West Bank and the Mediterranean coast off the Gaza Strip.
“However, occupation continues to prevent Palestinians from developing their energy fields so as to exploit and benefit from such assets. As such, the Palestinian people have been denied the benefits of using this natural resource to finance socioeconomic development and meet their need for energy.
“The accumulated losses are estimated in the billions of dollars. The longer Israel prevents Palestinians from exploiting their own oil and natural gas reserves, the greater the opportunity costs and the greater the total costs of the occupation borne by Palestinians become.
“This study identifies and assesses existing and potential Palestinian oil and natural gas reserves that could be exploited for the benefit of the Palestinian people, which Israel is either preventing them from exploiting or is exploiting without due regard for international law.”
If Israel wishes to have full control over Gaza’s maritime oil/gas reserves, it can only achieve its goal if the legal owners and beneficiaries living in Gaza disappear.
The paper laid out three possible scenarios for the people of Gaza. The first involves the replacement of Hamas with the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. The second involves the emergence of a new local Gaza authority (not Hamas or PA), and the third includes the expulsion of all civilians into Egypt. The report clearly identifies the third scenario as the most preferable option. The report’s authors write that this third option “will yield positive, long-term strategic outcomes for Israel, and is an executable option. It requires determination from the political echelon in the face of international pressure, with an emphasis on harnessing the support of the United States and additional pro-Israeli countries for the endeavor.”
Of course, US support for moving Gazans into the Sinai Peninsula began literally minutes after October 7. This would create a serious problem for future retaliation by extremely radicalized and traumatized people whose families have been killed by Israel’s crimes for decades. Hamas’ Qatar-based Muslim Brotherhood leadership of multi-billionaires would then easily be able to coordinate with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to act as agent provocateurs attacking Israel.
Perhaps if this was still 1996, and no powerful coalition of Russia, China, and Iran existed to defend Egypt against the threatened Anglo-Zionist war, then perhaps the PNAC Clean Break Strategy for Securing the Realm might be possible. The decision to ignore reality by rehashing this obsolete program implies the height of incompetence, which threatens to grow far beyond a regional war and into a global thermonuclear conflagration more quickly than many imagine.
This foreshadowing of a prophetic global war to usher in the Messiah (as many Christian rapturists dream of), was outlined in depth by Greater Israel advocate and Jabotinsky collaborator Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook 100 years ago.
Kook was Britain’s selection for the Chief Ashkenaz Rabbi for Jerusalem and Palestine from 1919 to 1935, and his influence in shaping several generations of radical Zionist zealots that took over control of much of Israel’s government after the inside job that was the Six Day War is immense. His prophetic remarks should not be easily dismissed. In his book Orot, Kook said:
“In wars, national characters crystalize. Israel, as the universal reflection of mankind, benefits thereby. The heels of Messiah follow upon World Conflagration… At the hour of the downfall of Western civilization, Israel is called upon to fulfill its divine mission by providing the spiritual basis for a New World Order.” [emphasis added]
The only hope to avoid this calamity and disrupt this flight toward an Armageddon scenario steered by End Times Messianic cultists is to force a ceasefire, as Russia, China, and the vast majority of world citizens (even Americans) demand.
Without this restoration of sanity, the world as a whole will be in for an experience that will make the 14th-century Dark Age appear to be an uncomfortable hiccup in world history.
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In his new two volume series The Clash of the Two Americas, Matthew Ehret introduces a new analysis of American history from the vantage point that the globally-extended supranational shadow government that managed the British Empire was never fully defeated and has acted within the USA itself since 1776 as a continuous multi-generational fifth column managing every significant event and assassination of American presidents for the next 250 years.
The eschatological fervor of the Palestine crisis is reaching a deafening peak. Officials worldwide are dropping their masks, and inadvertently revealing the Biblical strain of the conflict.
At every turn, political figures now soak their proclamations in Biblical reference and allegory. The foremost of which was Netanyahu, who has now invoked an assortment of Biblical prophecies as dogwhistles to stir his people into an eschatological frenzy.
Here he not only invokes the prophecy of Isaiah, but frames the conflict as that of “light” versus “darkness” and good versus evil, painting the Palestinians as the Children of Darkness to be vanquished by the Chosen Ones:
The Isaiah prophecy he appears to speak of is the following:
Isaiah 60:18 ESV
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
But then, more controversially, he invoked the Biblical blood-enemy of Amalek:
One commentator’s interpretation:
◾️ Netanyahu keeps referring to biblical prophecies on his press conferences:
– ” You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible, and we do remember and we are fighting. Our heroes who fight in Gaza continue a dynasty of heroes that goes back 3000 years in history – from Joshua to the heroes of 1948, from the Six Day War to the Yom Kippur War and all other wars.”
◾️The words about Amalek are taken from the 1st Book of Samuel: “Thus says the Lord of hosts: I have remembered what Amalek did to Israel, how he opposed him on the way when he came out of Egypt” (15:2). The Lord ordered King Saul to destroy the enemy and all his people: “Now go and defeat Amalek and destroy all that he has; and give him no mercy; but put to death both husband and wife; from youth to infant; from ox to sheep; from camel to donkey” (15:3).
◾️ Netanyahu feels himself a new Messiah with the divine right of exterminating all enemies of the chosen people… A genocidal maniac.
This is indeed the threatening mien with which many Arab observers are interpreting his words:
And another:
◾️ Israel has finally reached reactionary peak, a religious ethno-state with a bellicose and messianic leader that is carrying the liquidation of the Gaza ghetto:
– …is a test for all of humanity, is a struggle between the forces of evil… and the axis of freedom and progress. We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness and light should triumph over darkness. Now my role is to lead all Israelis to an overpowering victory… We shall realise the prophecy of Isaiah… together we will win.
◾️The prophecy of Isaiah, to which Netanyahu refers, is a prophecy of Israel’s victory over its enemies. It is often used by Israelis to justify their dominance over the Palestinians.
Of course, to some extent, we shouldn’t be surprised. Israel, after all, is one of the world’s only states founded almost exclusively on ‘Biblical Right’—which means that it’s only natural that much of its ensuing policy—whether right or wrong—will be rooted in Biblical determination.
So it’s not the sheer act of Biblical invocation itself that is troubling, but rather the implication that Netanyahu appears to conceive of himself as a messianic figure leading his nation to an eschatological fulfillment, a sort of Judgment Day or Rapture. Naturally, it’s incredibly dangerous for a nation led by a self-styled end-times messiah to be leashing the rest of the somnambulant world along toward WW3.
And who are those dew-eyed sleep-walkers? The very establishment figures of the West, particularly the evangelical U.S., though there are even some outlier surprises. For instance, many were shocked to see the Hindu Vivek Ramaswamy bizarrely and sycophantically parroting the Biblical ‘chosen ones’ premise, couched in its ‘divine nation’ conceits:
He further angered followers with the sudden bellicose tone-switch in his latest speech, making people wonder what it is about establishment figures that invariably leads them to so officiously melt like putty in Israel’s hands:
Not so shocking was new House Speaker Mike Johnson, immediately pivoting into full Christian Zionist mode:
The fact of the matter is, the American political elite are hardcore Zionists because many of them come from the Southern Baptist and evangelical strain of Christianity which preaches devotion to Israel on account of perceived Biblical rapport.
Independent journalist Lee Fang has trailblazed coverage of this aspect during the current crisis. Here he interviews members of U.S. Congress, one of which states outright that he takes Biblical scripture on Israel very “literally”—those who bless Israel will themselves be blessed:
In particular, Fang pushes the angle that many of these people do believe in the Rapture, where a final ‘Armageddon’ battle will be fought over Jerusalem, which will prefigure the Second Coming of Christ.
Pastor John Hagee, joined by Israeli diplomats and lawmakers, cited End Times prophecy to call for military support for Israel, U.S. strikes on Iran.
In fact, Fang points out how “Israel’s UN ambassador Gilad Erdan and other Israeli diplomats flew to Texas to hold a Christian right prayer rally w/ Pastor John Hagee, [who] cites the prophet Isaiah — a dog whistle for End Times — & calls on evangelicals to help lobby the US gov to back Israel as a religious war.”
Gilad Erdan addressing the Texan congregation:
There, pastor John Hagee of Christians United for Israel, even preached further End Times prophecy, openly calling for war against Iran:
Lee Fang adds:
For many of these evangelical Christians, the modern founding of Israel was the beginning of this prophecy, which they argue states that Jews must control Jerusalem before a war between the evil empires of “Gog and Magog.” Televangelists such as Hagee have said that various Arab nations, as well as China, Russia, and Iran, correspond to these biblical enemies of Israel, and he believes a war is necessary to fulfill the prophecy.
According to this belief, the End Times conclude with faithful Christians raptured to heaven and Christ returning to slay or convert nonbelievers, including Jews, before ruling over the world in a final era of humankind.
It’s plain to see that a large portion of America’s political elite and intelligentsia do envision Israel as being central to the long awaited, culminating ‘Rapture’ event. They view their support of Israel as being absolutely necessary for their ascension and the salvation of their souls. This inherently puts them in a subservient position to Israel’s geopolitical machinations, and allows Israel to easily manipulate and puppeteer them through grassroots evangelical capture and religious control into supporting whatever initiatives are needed, no matter how belligerent or harmful to America’s own national interests.
Erdogan picked up on these dimensions in his latest speech, emphasizing the global eschatological rift between the people of the Cross and those of the Crescent while invoking the Crusades:
Which even caused Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen to announce the immediate withdrawal of diplomats from Turkey and a ‘reassessment’ of Israeli-Turkish relations:
Of course, many rightly suspect that Erdogan is merely paying lip service to the Palestinian issue in order to present himself as a ‘strongman’ and ‘leader of the Muslim world’:
As we have already noted, Erdogan is attempting to capitalize on the dissatisfaction with Israel’s actions and position himself as the “protector” of all Muslims. Given the impact of his words today, he will undoubtedly garner significant support.
Judging by the Turkish leader’s strong rhetoric and enthusiasm, he envisions himself as the reincarnation of Sultan Mehmed II, known as the “conqueror.” In his speech, he criticized both the West and Russia (the reference to Karabakh is indicative).
Now the question is how far he is willing to go. Will his speech simply be an attempt to boost his popularity amidst the fighting in the Gaza Strip, or will it mark the beginning of a new, larger conflict?
[SEE ALSO official photo of the president erdogan in references and notes at the end]
💰Erdogan, Israel, and Gaza: “It’s the Gas, Stupid!”⛽️
The satirical yet piercing imagery of Erdogan seated on a gas line, extending warm hearts to Netanyahu while vitriol spews from his mouth against Israel’s “barbarism”, reveals the stark hypocrisy that dances at the heart of Erdogan’s political theatre. His vociferous condemnations in the daylight seem to conveniently fade under the moonlit negotiations over gas.
The cartoon captures the essence of Erdogan’s grandstanding—a leader who “doth protest too much” – literally – on the stage of pro-Palestinian rallies, only to bow to the tune of cynical interests when the curtains are drawn. The ludicrous display of affection towards Netanyahu, juxtaposed against his fiery rhetoric, underlines a clear narrative: Erdogan’s allegiance tilts towards the alluring scent of gas rather than the principles he so loudly professes.
The stark contrast between Erdogan’s day-time rallies against Israeli aggression and his behind-the-scenes cuddling with Israeli leadership over lucrative gas lines is laughably tragic. It brings to light a veiled reality, one where the cries of solidarity with Palestine are drowned by the clinking of economic agreements with Israel.
This artful depiction prompts a biting question: When will Erdogan’s theatrical rage translate into genuine action, if ever? Or will the allure of gas continue to fuel the warm embers of Israeli-Turkish relations, while the cries of Palestinians are lost in the cold shadows?
How much genuine impetus exists beneath Erdogan’s agitation is up for debate, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that not only is a global schism being ruptured open, but that everyone is beginning to pick up on the historical, Biblical, and eschatological dimensions of these events.
Even Russia’s Medvedev added his barbs yesterday with an invocation of Moloch, a pagan Canaanite god known for child sacrifice—a clear reference to Israel’s heedless slaughter of Palestinian children:
⚔️Dmitry Medvedev:
Israel keeps delaying its ground operation in Gaza. Mainly under US pressure and fearing world wrath.
But don’t delude yourself. The operation will take place, and with the most serious and bloody consequences. Moloch always demands more and more victims, and the machine of mutual violence will now work for years.
In addition, the West is very tired of Ukraine. And has enthusiastically took up the support of Israel. Even the new Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Michael Jackson (sorry, Mike Johnson, but who cares) named helping Tel Aviv as his first priority.
Or maybe it would be better to resume the Middle East settlement process and finally try to implement UN Security Council Resolution No. 242 of November 22, 1967? Or even the original Partition Plan for Palestine adopted on November 29, 1947 by UNGA Resolution 181?
The questions are, of course, rhetorical. After all, dividing the money from someone else’s war far from the United States is much more interesting.
The war must go on…
But one of the most important pieces on this topic comes this weekfrom Alastair Crooke. Fully grasping the dimensions of the brewing conflict, Crooke writes:
Rather, Israel under the Netanyahu government has been moving closer and closer to an eschatological founding of Israel on the (Biblical) ‘Land of Israel’ – a move that expunges Palestine totally.
It is no coincidence that Netanyahu flourished a map of Israel during his General Assembly address last month in which Israel dominated from the River to the Sea – and Palestine (indeed any Palestinian territory) was non-existent.
In fact, more and more the above continues to be proven true. For instance, a new leak of internal Israeli documents claims to show a government plan explicitly calling for the total relocation—i.e. ethnic cleansing—of Palestinians to the Sinai:
Anyone who doubts this any further, or believes it to be some unfounded conspiracy theory, need only watch a lesser seen segment of the recent Marc Lamont Hill interview of Israeli former deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon, who in no uncertain language, explicitly lays out the plan. Many of you have seen the clip doing the rounds where he calls for Gaza civilians to be pushed down into the Rafah crossing, but you likely haven’t seen this extended portion.
Please watch just the first minute below:
He clearly states that the Palestinians are to be filtered into tent cities in the Sinai. This fully corroborates the “leaks” about the total forcible relocation of the Gaza population into Egypt, and further supports Crooke’s statement on the creation of the Biblical ‘Land of Israel.’
Other Israeli politicians likewise have invoked Biblical scripture to support their stance on totally cleansing Palestine. For instance, here’s Moshe Feiglin, one of the most powerful members of the Likud Party, outright calling for a Biblical punishment unto Gaza in the form of total Dresden-like destruction of all Palestinians, and to turn all of Gaza “to ash”:
Here he calls for the outright indiscriminate genocide of all Palestinians to teach them a lesson:
But Crooke goes on:
In spite of western scepticism, there are signs that this insurrection in the Arab sphere is different, and resembles more the 1916 Arab Revolt that overthrew the Ottoman Empire. It is taking on a distinct ‘edge’ as both Shi’a and Sunni religious authorities state the duty of Muslims to stand with Palestinians. In other words, as the Israeli polity becomes plainly ‘Prophetical’, so the Islamic mood is turning eschatological, in its turn.
Indeed the events currently precipitating around the Levant appear to be Biblical in scale. The latest reports on the NATO armada currently assembling around Israel leave one breathless:
Not to mention a monumental airbridge of over 50 U.S. C-17 transport planes carrying ungodly amounts of weaponry toward the Middle East in what appears to many like war preparations:
🇺🇸🏴☠⚔️🇵🇸 About 50 US military transport planes have taken off for the Middle East in the past 24 hours.
97% of them are giant C-17 cargo planes, capable of transporting 77 tons of equipment and weapons.
And shattering any delusions that this is all some coincidence, Biden himself seemed to imply understanding of the eschatological proportions to this conflict when he openly declared:
“We are in an inflection point…in the world, which occurs every 3 or 4 generations.”
He goes on to ominously recount that “60 million people died between 1900 and 1946” in establishing a ‘Liberal World Order’ which he appears to believe has led to a sort of golden age, which others would characterize as the unipolar world model.
But now, he states, things are shifting again towards a ‘new world order’:
Forget the conspiratorial temptation to glom onto the low hanging fruit of the NWO invocation. Focus more on the fact that Biden is acknowledging that what is happening now is an unprecedented inflection point that threatens to shake up the globe in a way that hasn’t been done since the post-WW2 era realignment. The fact that he references tens of millions dying only adds to the foreboding aspect of the elites’ clear grasp of current eschatological ramifications.
Interestingly though, the seemingly apocalyptic direction has gotten insiders extremely worried, creating rifts within the establishment itself. For instance, the apparatchik in charge of U.S. arms transfers to foreign nations just publicly resigned on account of moral and ethical grounds vis a vis supplying the genocidal terror regime of Israel:
The Director of Congressional and Public Affairs at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Josh Paul who is in Charge of U.S. Arms Transfers to Foreign Nations has just Resigned with a Resignation Letter being Posted on his LinkedIn stating his Reason is due to Pending-U.S. Arms Shipments for Israel, who he claims “Abuses Human Rights”
Now, Congressional staffers on Capitol Hill are even secretly turning against Israel. Journalist Kei Pritskerspoke to an anonymous staffer “who describes the growing discontent with Israel’s massacre in Congress”:
In short: it’s a mutiny of sorts, deep within the bowels of the establishment itself, which points to a growing rift as people begin to grasp the true dimensions of the escalating conflict.
Alastair Crooke, for one, leaves with a pessimistic outlook on things:
Should Israel enter Gaza (and Israel may decide it has no choice but to launch a ground operation, given the domestic political dynamics and public sentiment), it is likely that Hizbullah will incrementally be drawn further in, leaving the U.S. with the binary option of seeing Israel defeated, or launching a major war in which all the hotspots become fused ‘as one’.
In a sense, the Israeli-Islamic conflict now may only be resolved in this kinetic way. All efforts since 1947 have seen the divide only deepen. The reality of the necessity of war is permeating widely the consciousness of the Arabic and Islamic world.
As a final key piece in understanding where things are heading, we have this week’s interview with former Prime Minister of France, Dominique De Villepin, as translated by Arnaud Bertrand.
Arnaud commends De Villepin for his extremely insightful deconstruction of the conflict, with which I agree. I highly recommend reading the interview in its entirety, but I’ll highlight the single most important point made therein.
Its chief idea is epitomized in the following essential exchange:
“Hamas has set a trap for us, and this trap is one of maximum horror, of maximum cruelty. And so there’s a risk of an escalation in militarism, of more military interventions, as if we could with armies solve a problem as serious as the Palestinian question.
There’s also a second major trap, which is that of Occidentalism. We find ourselves trapped, with Israel, in this western bloc which today is being challenged by most of the international community.
[Presenter: What is Occidentalism?]
Occidentalism is the idea that the West, which for 5 centuries managed the world’s affairs, will be able to quietly continue to do so. And we can clearly see, even in the debates of the French political class, that there is the idea that, faced with what is currently happening in the Middle East, we must continue the fight even more, towards what might resemble a religious or a civilizational war. That is to say, to isolate ourselves even more on the international stage.
This is not the way, especially since there’s a third trap, which is that of moralism. And here we have in a way the proof, through what is happening in Ukraine and what is happening in the Middle East, of this double standard that is denounced everywhere in the world, including in recent weeks when I travel to Africa, the Middle East, or Latin America.
The criticism is always the same: look at how civilian populations are treated in Gaza, you denounce what happened in Ukraine, and you are very timid in the face of the tragedy unfolding in Gaza. Consider international law, the second criticism that is made by the global south. We sanction Russia when it aggresses Ukraine, we sanction Russia when it doesn’t respect the resolutions of the United Nations, and it’s been 70 years that the resolutions of the United Nations have been voted in vain and that Israel doesn’t respect them.
In short, he’s explaining that the West finds itself trapped in a fatal Sunk Cost Fallacy. They’ve gone “all in” on a certain moral and ethical framework of the world, and faced with a situation where the West’s moral fabric has been openly exposed and refuted, they find it extremely difficult—and perhaps fatally impossible—to withdraw, admit guilt or wrongdoing, and correct course. Instead, the hubristic, psychopathic leaders of the West may instead choose to “take it to the end” and force the imposition of their now falsified ontology onto the rest of the world.
Coming full circle, De Villepin too limns the conflict in eschatological hues:
You are in a game of causes and effects. Faced with the tragedy of history, one cannot take this ‘chain of causality’ analytical grid, simply because if you do you can’t escape from it.
Once we understand that there is a trap, once we realize that behind this trap there has also been a change in the Middle East regarding the Palestinian issue… The situation today is profoundly different [from what it was in the past]. The Palestinian cause was a political and secular cause. Today we are faced with an Islamist cause, led by Hamas.
Obviously, this kind of cause is absolute and allows no form of negotiation. On the Israeli side, there has also been a development. Zionism was secular and political, championed by Theodor Herzl in the late 19th century. It has largely become messianic, biblical today.
This means that they too do not want to compromise, and everything that the far-right Israeli government does, continuing to encourage colonization, obviously makes things worse, including since October 7th. So in this context, understand that we are already in this region facing a problem that seems profoundly insoluble. Added to this is the hardening of states. Diplomatically, look at the statements of the King of Jordan, they are not the same as six months ago. Look at the statements of Erdogan in Turkey.
He recognizes that the conflict is coming to a head—the classical unstoppable force vs. immovable object. Now that things have taken on Biblical, messianic, eschatological dimensions, there are very few ways to defuse things.
But there is some hope, as evidenced by the growing rifts within the Western establishments themselves. It can even be seen reverberating up the spine of the U.S. political hierarchy like a jolting fear, adding an uncharacteristically tremulous step to their typically unequivocal approach. Now they seem uncertain as to how to proceed; despite sending a massive armada to the region, their signals to Israel are mixed.
There continue to be reports that Biden’s administration is completely split on how to proceed. Interestingly, Bush, too, was once conflicted on the eve of the Iraq war. What finally facilitated his ‘sound-minded’ decision to invade? Apparently, the same eschatological framing:
So—will the Biden administration follow suit in accordance with voices of a ‘higher calling’, cleaving to their Biblical obligations of protecting sacred Zion? The problem is, unlike Iraq and Saddam, Iran and its protectorate are much more attuned to the eschatological purpose of ongoing events, as are many of the satellite powers which now threaten to enter the conflict—like that of Turkey, whose radical opposition figures have already threatened war against Israel should they fully invade Gaza.
The ultimate danger of the situation rests on the fact that Netanyahu and his most fervent right-wing lackeys see this as potentially the one and only opportunity to enact a decades-long plan to fully erase ‘Palestine’ once and for all. If this conflict was only actually about Hamas itself, then there wouldn’t be much to worry about.
But given that all indications prove that this has been an internal Israeli plan long in the making, that the events of October 7 were in fact a Pearl Harbor-esque falseflag tasked with generating the needed outrage which would allow the execution of the ‘Final Palestinian Solution’, this tells us that the Netanyahu government means to go “all the way” in the first step towards fulfilling messianic prophecy.
And if that’s the case, then as De Villepin implied, the West may be trapped in following Israel into the throes of darkness—basically risking their own total destruction for someone else’s Biblical madness and vanity.
In the end, the conflict could merely schism the world heavily, rather than lead to a total kinetic WW3 confrontation. But even so, it would similarly lead to the West’s complete downfall as it would only accelerate the global rifts and harden the newly-formed oppositional blocs, which favors the East rather than the dependent West.
Given that energy giants like Iran and KSA are not only technically on the same side in this conflict, but even moreso given recent developments like KSA’s accession to the BRICS (not to mention Egypt), the conflict will only ‘isolate’ the West from everything it needs to thrive, leaving China and its constellation of friendly powers to develop and grow and pull away from the terminally declining, necrotic European powers.
If I had to make a prediction, that’s how I see things unfolding. Though there’s still a strong chance for a major kinetic outbreak, I slightly favor the outcome of the Western powers stepping off from the ledge on account of the strong internal opposition and fraying disagreement, discussed earlier. This conflict will continue to simmer for many months, with perhaps some ‘close calls’ flaring up, but will ultimately lead to even deeper global realignments as the world sees the bared, naked face of the West’s moralizing hypocrisy and double standards. The West will simply continue to lose their moral exclusivity and righteousness as the entire global south solidifies under China, Russia, and Iran’s leadership.
Sensing the West’s hesitancy and weakness, Israel may attempt to desperately spark a wider conflagration by increasing the amplitude of their falseflags—perhaps another USS Liberty-like incident or unilateral strikes on Iran meant to goad them into a response that would necessarily trigger a U.S. intervention. It’s my belief that this will be the chief danger to watch as, gripped by the terminal phase of its eschatological madness, Israel will be at its most unpredictable and dangerous to humanity at large.
In the end, they may succeed in establishing a new kingdom on the ashes of the old one, just perhaps not in the way they expected.
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A cimeira de julho da OTAN, em Vilnius, deu a sensação de um funeral, como se tivessem acabado de perder um membro da família – a Ucrânia. Para apagar o fracasso da OTAN em expulsar a Rússia da Ucrânia e levar a OTAN até à fronteira russa, os seus membros tentaram reanimar os ânimos mobilizando o apoio para a próxima grande luta – contra a China, que é agora designada como o seu inimigo estratégico supremo. A fim de se preparar para este confronto, a NATO anunciou o compromisso de estender a sua presença militar até ao Pacífico.
O plano consiste em afastar os aliados militares e os parceiros comerciais da China, sobretudo a Rússia, começando pela luta na Ucrânia. O Presidente Biden afirmou que esta guerra terá um âmbito global e demorará muitas décadas à medida que se expande para, em última análise, isolar e desmembrar a China.
As sanções impostas pelos EUA contra o comércio com a Rússia são um ensaio geral para a imposição de sanções semelhantes contra a China. Mas apenas os aliados da OTAN se juntaram à luta. E ao invés de destruir a economia russa e “transformar o rublo em escombros”, como previu o Presidente Biden, as sanções da OTAN tornaram a Rússia mais auto-suficiente, melhorando a sua balança de pagamentos e as reservas monetárias internacionais e, consequentemente, a taxa de câmbio do rublo.
Para cúmulo, apesar do fracasso das sanções comerciais e financeiras destinadas a prejudicar a Rússia – e, na verdade, apesar dos fracassos da OTAN no Afeganistão e na Líbia – os países da OTAN comprometeram-se a tentar as mesmas táticas contra a China. A economia mundial vai ser dividida entre os EUA/OTAN/Cinco Olhos, por um lado, e o resto do mundo – a Maioria Global – por outro. O Comissário da UE, Joseph Borrell, chama a isto uma divisão entre o jardim americano/europeu (os mil milhões de ouro) e a selva que ameaça engoli-lo, como uma invasão dos seus relvados bem cuidados por uma espécie invasora.
De um ponto de vista económico, o comportamento da OTAN desde a sua acumulação militar para atacar os Estados orientais de língua russa da Ucrânia, em fevereiro de 2022, tem sido um fracasso drástico. O plano dos EUA era sangrar a Rússia e deixá-la tão economicamente destituída que sua população se revoltaria, expulsaria Vladimir Putin do cargo e restauraria um líder neoliberal pró-ocidental que afastaria a Rússia da sua aliança com a China – e então prosseguiria com o grande plano da América de mobilizar a Europa para impor sanções à China.
O que torna tão difícil tentar avaliar o rumo da OTAN, da Europa e dos Estados Unidos é que o pressuposto tradicional de que as nações e as classes agirão no seu interesse económico próprio não ajuda. A lógica tradicional da análise geopolítica consiste em assumir que os interesses económicos e financeiros orientam a política de quase todas as nações. O pressuposto acessório é que os governantes têm uma compreensão bastante realista da dinâmica económica e política em ação. Assim, a previsão do futuro é normalmente um exercício de explicitação dessas dinâmicas.
O Ocidente dos EUA/OTAN liderou está fratura global, mas será o grande perdedor. Os membros da OTAN já viram a Ucrânia esgotar o seu stock de armas e balas, artilharia e munições, tanques, helicópteros e outras armas acumuladas ao longo de cinco décadas. Mas as perdas da Europa tornaram-se a oportunidade de venda da América, criando um novo e vasto mercado para o complexo militar-industrial americano reabastecer países europeus. Para ganhar apoio, os Estados Unidos patrocinaram uma nova forma de pensar o comércio e o investimento internacionais. O foco passou a ser a “segurança nacional”, ou seja, garantir uma ordem unipolar centrada nos Estados Unidos.
O mundo está a dividir-se em dois blocos: os EUA/OTAN pós-industriais contra a Maioria Global
Os diplomatas americanos ficaram cada vez mais preocupados com o fato de a Alemanha e outros países europeus terem passado a depender da importação de gás, petróleo e fertilizantes russos como base para as suas indústrias do aço, do vidro e outras. Ficaram ainda mais preocupados com o facto de a China se ter tornado a “fábrica do mundo” enquanto a economia dos EUA se desindustrializava. O receio era que o crescimento da China e dos países vizinhos da Eurásia, que beneficiam da expansão da iniciativa “Estrada da Seda” (Belt and Road), ameaçassem fazer dessa parte do mundo a principal zona de crescimento e, consequentemente, um íman para o investimento europeu. A perspectiva lógica era que a política seguiria o interesse econômico à custa da capacidade da América de manter uma economia mundial unipolar com o dólar no seu centro financeiro e o comércio sujeito ao unilateralismo protecionista dos EUA.
Ao juntar-se à cruzada americana para destruir a economia russa e promover a mudança de regime, a recusa da Alemanha e de outros países europeus em negociar com a Rússia destruiu a base energética fundamental da sua indústria. A destruição do gasoduto Nord Stream mergulhou a economia alemã e outras economias europeias numa depressão que envolveu falências e desemprego generalizados. Ao invés do gás russo, os países da OTAN têm agora de pagar um preço até seis vezes mais elevado pelo gás natural liquefeito (GNL) dos EUA e têm de construir novos portos metaneiros para importar fisicamente esse gás.
Os líderes europeus, patrocinados e financiados pela intromissão dos EUA nas eleições dos últimos setenta anos, fizeram o que Boris Ieltsin fez na Rússia na década de 1990: Concordaram em sacrificar as economias industriais da Europa e acabar com o que havia sido a sua lucrativa integração comercial e de investimento com a Rússia e a China.
O passo seguinte é a Europa e os Estados Unidos deixarem de comercializar e investir com a China, apesar de estes países da OTAN terem beneficiado do florescimento deste comércio, dependendo dele para uma vasta gama de bens de consumo e fatores de produção industriais. Esta linha de comércio próspero está agora a ser interrompida. Os líderes da OTAN anunciaram que a importação de gás russo e de outras matérias-primas (incluindo hélio e muitos metais) corre o “risco” de se tornar dependente – como se a Rússia ou a China pudessem ter interesse económico ou político em abortar este comércio simplesmente para prejudicar a Europa e fazer-lhe o que os Estados Unidos têm feito para a forçar à submissão.
Mas submissão a quê? A resposta é: submissão à lógica dos ganhos mútuos em linhas que deixam a economia americana para trás!
Ao tentar impedir que outros países sigam esta lógica, a diplomacia dos EUA e da OTAN europeia provocou exatamente aquilo que os supremacistas americanos mais temiam. Em vez de paralisar a economia russa para criar uma crise política e talvez o desmembramento da própria Rússia, a fim de a isolar da China, as sanções dos EUA/OTAN levaram a Rússia a reorientar o seu comércio afastando-se dos países da OTAN, integrando a sua economia e diplomacia mais estreitamente com a China e outros membros dos BRICS.
Ironicamente, a política dos EUA/NATO está a forçar a Rússia, a China e os seus aliados BRICS a seguirem o seu próprio caminho, a começar por uma Eurásia unida. Este novo núcleo de China, Rússia e Eurásia com o Sul Global está a criar uma esfera de comércio e investimento multipolar mutuamente benéfica.
Em contrapartida, a indústria europeia foi devastada. As suas economias tornaram-se total e abjetamente dependentes dos Estados Unidos – a um custo muito mais elevado para si própria do que no caso dos seus antigos parceiros comerciais. Os exportadores europeus perderam o mercado russo e estão agora a seguir as exigências dos Estados Unidos para que abandonem e rejeitem o mercado chinês. A seu tempo, serão também rejeitados os mercados dos membros dos BRICS, que se estão a expandir para incluir países do Oriente Médio, de África e da América Latina.
Em vez de isolar a Rússia e a China e de as tornar dependentes do controlo econômico dos EUA, a diplomacia unipolar dos EUA isolou-se a si própria e aos seus satélites da OTAN do resto do mundo – a Maioria Global que está a crescer enquanto as economias da OTAN avançam a toda a velocidade na sua Estrada para a Desindustrialização. O que é notável é que, embora a OTAN alerte para o “risco” do comércio com a Rússia e a China, não vê a sua perda de viabilidade industrial e de soberania econômica para os Estados Unidos como um risco.
Não é o que a “interpretação económica da história” teria previsto. Espera-se que os governos apoiem os principais interesses econômicos da sua economia. Assim, voltamos à questão de saber se os fatores econômicos determinarão a forma do comércio mundial, do investimento e da diplomacia. Será realmente possível criar um conjunto de economias pós-económicas da OTAN cujos membros se assemelharão muito aos Estados Bálticos e à Ucrânia pós-soviética, em rápido despovoamento e desindustrialização?
Isto seria, de fato, um tipo estranho de “segurança nacional”. Em termos económicos, parece que a estratégia americana e europeia de auto-isolamento do resto do mundo é um erro tão maciço e de tão grande alcance que os seus efeitos são equivalentes a uma guerra mundial.
A atual luta contra a Rússia na frente ucraniana pode ser considerada como a campanha de abertura da Terceira Guerra Mundial. Em muitos aspectos, é uma consequência da Segunda Guerra Mundial e do seu rescaldo, em que os Estados Unidos criaram organizações económicas e políticas internacionais para operar no seu próprio interesse nacional. O Fundo Monetário Internacional impõe o controlo financeiro dos EUA e ajuda a dolarizar a economia mundial.
O Banco Mundial empresta dólares aos governos para construir infraestruturas de exportação, para subsidiar os investidores dos EUA/OTAN que controlam o petróleo, a exploração mineira e os recursos naturais, e para promover a dependência comercial das exportações agrícolas dos EUA, promovendo ao mesmo tempo a agricultura extensiva (plantation), em vez da produção interna de cereais. Os Estados Unidos insistem em ter poder de veto em todas as organizações internacionais a que aderem, incluindo as Nações Unidas e as suas agências.
A criação da OTAN é muitas vezes mal compreendida. Ostensivamente, apresentava-se como uma aliança militar, originalmente para se defender da ideia de que a União Soviética poderia ter alguma razão para conquistar a Europa Ocidental. Mas o papel mais importante da OTAN foi utilizar a “segurança nacional” como desculpa para se sobrepor à política interna e externa europeia e subordiná-la ao controlo dos EUA. A dependência da OTAN foi inscrita na constituição da União Europeia. O seu objetivo era garantir que os líderes partidários europeus seguissem as orientações dos EUA e se opusessem a políticas de esquerda ou anti-americanas, a políticas pró-laborais e a governos suficientemente fortes para impedir o controlo por uma oligarquia financeira cliente dos EUA.
O programa econômico da OTAN tem sido a adesão à financeirização neoliberal, à privatização, à desregulamentação governamental e à imposição de austeridade ao trabalho. Os regulamentos da UE impedem que os governos tenham um défice orçamental superior a 3% do PIB. Isto bloqueia políticas de tipo keynesiano para estimular a recuperação.
Atualmente, os custos mais elevados das armas militares e os subsídios governamentais aos preços da energia estão a obrigar os governos europeus a reduzir as despesas sociais. A política bancária, a política comercial e a legislação nacional estão a seguir o mesmo modelo neoliberal dos EUA que desindustrializou a econômia americana e a sobrecarregou com dívidas ao sector financeiro, em cujas mãos se concentra agora a maior parte da riqueza e do rendimento.
Abandono do interesse econômico próprio em favor da dependência à “segurança nacional” dos EUA
O mundo pós-Vilnius trata o comércio e as relações internacionais não como algo económico, mas como “segurança nacional”. Qualquer forma de comércio representa o “risco” de ser cortado e desestabilizado. O objetivo não é obter ganhos comerciais e de investimento, mas tornar-se auto-suficiente e independente. Para o Ocidente, isso significa isolar a China, a Rússia e os BRICS para depender totalmente dos Estados Unidos. Assim, para os Estados Unidos, a sua própria segurança significa tornar os outros países dependentes de si próprios, para que os diplomatas americanos não percam o controlo da sua diplomacia militar e política.
Tratar o comércio e o investimento com outros países que não os Estados Unidos como envolvendo “risco”, ipso facto, é uma projeção da forma como a diplomacia americana impôs sanções aos países que resistem ao domínio americano, à privatização e à subordinação das suas economias ao controlo dos Estados Unidos. O receio de que o comércio com a Rússia e a China conduza à dependência política é uma fantasia. O objetivo da aliança emergente da Eurásia, dos BRICS e do Sul Global é beneficiar do comércio externo entre si para ganho mútuo, com governos suficientemente fortes para tratar o dinheiro e a banca como serviços públicos, juntamente com os monopólios básicos necessários para proporcionar direitos humanos normais, incluindo cuidados de saúde e educação, e manter monopólios como os transportes e as comunicações no domínio público a fim de manter baixos os custos de vida e de fazer negócios em vez de cobrar preços de monopólio.
O ódio anti-China veio especialmente de Annalena Baerbock, ministra dos Negócios Estrangeiros da Alemanha. A OTAN é avisada para “desarriscar” o comércio com a China. Os “riscos” são: (1) a China pode cortar exportações importantes, tal como os EUA cortaram o acesso da Europa às exportações de petróleo da Rússia; e (2) as exportações podem ser potencialmente utilizadas para apoiar o poder militar da China. Quase todas as exportações econômicas PODEM ser militares, até mesmo alimentos para alimentar um exército chinês.
A viagem da secretária do Tesouro, Janet Yellen, à China explicou igualmente que todo o comércio tem um potencial militar e, portanto, um elemento de segurança nacional. Todo o comércio tem um potencial militar, mesmo a venda de alimentos à China pode ser utilizada para alimentar soldados.
A exigência dos EUA e da OTAN é que a Alemanha e outros países europeus imponham uma Cortina de Ferro contra o comércio com a China, a Rússia e os seus aliados, a fim de “desarticular” o comércio. No entanto, só os EUA impuseram sanções comerciais a outros países, não a China e outros países do Sul Global. O verdadeiro risco não é que a China imponha sanções comerciais para perturbar as economias europeias, mas sim que os Estados Unidos imponham sanções a países que violem o boicote comercial patrocinado pelos EUA.
Esta visão de “comércio é risco” trata o comércio externo não em termos econômicos, mas em termos de “Segurança Nacional”. Na prática, “segurança nacional” significa juntar-se à tentativa dos EUA de manter o seu controlo unipolar de toda a economia mundial. Não se reconhece qualquer risco na reorientação do comércio europeu de gás e energia para com as empresas americanas. Diz-se que o risco é o comércio com países que os diplomatas norte-americanos consideram “autocracias”, ou seja, nações com investimento em infraestruturas e regulamentação governamental ativa, em vez do neoliberalismo ao estilo dos EUA.
O mundo está a dividir-se em dois blocos – com filosofias econõmicas bem diferentes
Só os Estados Unidos impuseram sanções comerciais a outros países. E só os Estados Unidos rejeitaram regras internacionais de comércio livre como ameaças de segurança nacional para o controlo económico e militar dos EUA. À primeira vista, a resultante fratura global entre os EUA/OTAN, por um lado, e a aliança BRICS em expansão da Rússia, China, Irão e Sul Global pode parecer um conflito entre capitalismo e socialismo (ou seja, socialismo de Estado numa economia mista com regulação pública no interesse do trabalho).
Mas esse contraste entre capitalismo e socialismo não é [uma noção] útil após uma análise mais aprofundada. O problema reside no significado que a palavra “capitalismo” adquiriu no mundo atual. No século XIX e no início do século XX, esperava-se que o capitalismo industrial evoluísse para o socialismo. Os Estados Unidos e outras economias industriais aceitavam e, na verdade, pressionavam para que os seus governos subsidiassem uma gama crescente de serviços básicos a expensas públicas, em vez de obrigarem os empregadores a suportar os custos da contratação de mão-de-obra que tivesse de pagar necessidades básicas como cuidados de saúde e educação. Os preços de monopólio foram evitados mantendo os monopólios naturais, como os caminhos-de-ferro e outros transportes, os sistemas telefónicos e outras comunicações, os parques e outros serviços como empresas públicas. O facto de serem os governos, e não as empresas e os seus trabalhadores, a pagar estes serviços aumentou a competitividade global da indústria nacional nas economias mistas resultantes.
A China seguiu esta abordagem básica do capitalismo industrial, com políticas socialistas para elevar a sua força de trabalho, e não apenas a riqueza dos capitalistas industriais – e muito menos a dos banqueiros, proprietários de terras absenteístas e monopolistas. Mais importante ainda, industrializou a banca, criando crédito para financiar investimentos tangíveis em meios de produção – e não o tipo de crédito predatório e improdutivo caracterizado pelo atual capitalismo financeiro.
Mas a política de economia mista do capitalismo industrial não foi a forma como o capitalismo evoluiu no Ocidente a partir da Primeira Guerra Mundial.
Rejeitando a economia política clássica e a sua vontade de libertar os mercados das classes proprietárias de rendas herdadas do feudalismo – uma classe de proprietários hereditários, uma classe de bancos financeiros e monopolistas – o sector rentista lutou para reafirmar a sua privatização das rendas fundiárias, dos juros e dos ganhos de monopólio. Procurou inverter a tributação progressiva e, de facto, favorecer a riqueza financeira, os proprietários de terras e os monopolistas.
O setor das finanças, dos seguros e do imobiliário (Finance, Insurance & Real Estate, FIRE) tornou-se o interesse dominante e o planeador económico do capitalismo financeiro atual. É por isso que estas economias são muitas vezes chamadas neofeudais (ou eufemizadas como neoliberais).
Ao longo da história, a dinâmica da financeirização polarizou a riqueza e o rendimento entre credores e devedores, dando origem a oligarquias. À medida que a dívida remunerada cresce exponencialmente, mais e mais rendimentos do trabalho e das empresas têm de ser pagos como serviço da dívida. Esta dinâmica financeira encolhe o mercado interno de bens e serviços e a economia sofre com o aprofundamento da austeridade provocada pela dívida.
O resultado é a desindustrialização, à medida que as economias se polarizam entre credores e devedores. Foi o que aconteceu de forma mais notória na Grã-Bretanha, na sequência de Margaret Thatcher e do Novo Partido [Anti-]Trabalhista de Tony Blair e da abordagem desreguladora “light touch” de Gordon Brown à manipulação financeira e à fraude pura e simples.
Os Estados Unidos sofreram uma transferência igualmente devastadora da riqueza e dos rendimentos para os sectores das Finanças, dos Seguros e do Imobiliário (FIRE), na sequência das reduções fiscais de Ronald Reagan para os ricos, da desregulamentação anti-governamental e da “Terceira Via” de Bill Clinton, que foi conquistada pela Wall Street. A “Terceira Via” não foi nem o capitalismo industrial nem o socialismo, mas sim o capitalismo financeiro que ganha tanto através do despojamento e endividamento da indústria como com o rendimento do trabalho.
A nova ideologia do Partido Democrata, das finanças desregulamentadas, foi coroada pelo colapso maciço das fraudes bancárias de 2008 e pela proteção de Barack Obama aos credores de hipotecas de alto risco e às execuções hipotecárias em massa das suas vítimas financeiras. O planeamento e a política económica foram transferidos dos governos para a Wall Street e outros centros financeiros – que haviam assumido o controlo do governo, do banco central e das agências reguladoras.
Diplomatas americanos e britânicos estão a tentar promover esta filosofia económica predatória pró-financeira e inerentemente anti-industrial para o resto do mundo. Mas este evangelismo ideológico é ameaçado pelo contraste óbvio entre as economias falhadas e desindustrializadas dos EUA e da Grã-Bretanha e o notável crescimento económico da China sob o socialismo industrial.
Este contraste entre o êxito económico da China e o “jardim” de austeridade endividado do Ocidente da OTAN é a essência da campanha atual do Ocidente contra os países da “Selva” que procuram independência política da diplomacia americana para melhorar o seu nível de vida. Esta guerra global ideológica e inerentemente política é a contrapartida atual das guerras religiosas que dilaceraram os países europeus durante muitos séculos.
Estamos a testemunhar o que parece ser um inexorável Declínio do Ocidente. Os diplomatas americanos têm conseguido reforçar a sua liderança económica, política e militar sobre os seus aliados europeus da OTAN. O seu êxito fácil neste objetivo levou-os a imaginar que, de alguma forma, podem conquistar o resto do mundo, apesar de o terem desindustrializado e de terem endividado tão profundamente as suas economias que não há forma previsível de pagarem a sua dívida oficial a países estrangeiros ou de terem muito para oferecer.
O imperialismo tradicional da conquista militar e da conquista financeira está acabado
Há uma sequência de táticas para uma nação líder criar um império. A forma mais antiga é a conquista militar. Mas não se pode ocupar e dominar um país sem um exército, e os EUA não têm um exército suficientemente grande. A guerra do Vietname acabou com a conscrição. Assim, têm de confiar em exércitos estrangeiros, como a Al-Qaeda, o ISIS e, mais recentemente, a Ucrânia e a Polónia, tal como dependem de produtos industriais estrangeiros. Os seus armamentos estão esgotados e não podem mobilizar um exército interno para ocupar qualquer país. Os EUA têm apenas uma arma: Mísseis e bombas que podem destruir, mas não podem ocupar e tomar um país.
A segunda forma de criar poder imperial foi através do poder económico para tornar os outros países dependentes das exportações dos EUA. Após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o resto do mundo estava devastado e foi forçado a aceitar as manobras diplomáticas dos EUA para dar à sua economia um monopólio sobre necessidades básicas. A agricultura tornou-se uma arma importante para criar dependência externa. O Banco Mundial não apoiava os países estrangeiros que cultivassem os seus próprios alimentos, mas pressionava para que fossem plantadas culturas de exportação e combatia a reforma agrária. Quanto ao comércio de petróleo e energia, as empresas americanas e os seus aliados da NATO na Grã-Bretanha e na Holanda (British Petroleum e Shell) controlavam o comércio mundial de petróleo.
O controlo do comércio mundial de petróleo tem sido um objetivo central da diplomacia comercial dos EUA
Esta estratégia serviu para os EUA afirmarem o seu controlo sobre a Alemanha e outros países da NATO, fazendo explodir o gasoduto Nord Stream e cortando o acesso da Europa Ocidental ao gás, ao petróleo, aos fertilizantes e também às colheitas russas. A Europa entrou agora numa depressão industrial e numa austeridade econômica, uma vez que a sua indústria siderúrgica e outros sectores de ponta são convidados a emigrar para os Estados Unidos, juntamente com a mão-de-obra qualificada europeia.
Atualmente, a tecnologia eletrônica e os chips de computador têm sido um ponto fulcral para estabelecer uma dependência econômica global da tecnologia americana. Os Estados Unidos pretendem monopolizar a “propriedade intelectual” e extrair renda económica (cobrando preços elevados) pelos chips de alta tecnologia, para computadores, comunicações e produção de armas.
Mas os Estados Unidos desindustrializaram-se e deixaram-se tornar-se dependentes dos países asiáticos e de outros países para os seus produtos, ao invés de os tornarem dependentes dos EUA. Esta dependência comercial é o que faz com que os diplomatas americanos se sintam “inseguros”, preocupados com o facto de outros países poderem tentar utilizar a mesma diplomacia comercial e financeira coerciva que os Estados Unidos têm exercido desde 1944-45.
Resta aos Estados Unidos uma tática para controlar outros países: as sanções comerciais, impostas por eles e pelos seus satélites da OTAN, numa tentativa de perturbar as economias que não aceitam o domínio econômico, político e militar unipolar dos EUA. Assim, persuadiu a Holanda a bloquear a entrada na China de maquinaria sofisticada para a gravação [litográfica] de chips e outros países a bloquearem tudo o que possa contribuir para o desenvolvimento econômico da China. Um novo protecionismo industrial americano está a ser estruturado em termos de razões de segurança nacional.
Se a política comercial da China espelhasse a da diplomacia dos EUA, ela deixaria de fornecer aos países da OTAN as exportações de minerais e metais necessários para produzir os chips de computador e os inputs aliados de que a economia americana necessita para exercer a sua diplomacia global.
Os EUA têm uma dívida tão pesada, os preços da habitação são tão elevados e os cuidados médicos são tão elevados (18% do PIB) que não podem competir. Não podem reindustrializar-se sem tomar medidas radicais para reduzir dívidas, desprivatizar os cuidados de saúde e a educação, acabar com os monopólios e restaurar a tributação progressiva. Os interesses criados nas Finanças, Seguros e Imobiliário (sector FIRE) são demasiado poderosos e não permitem estas reformas.
Isso faz da economia dos EUA uma economia falhada e da América um Estado falhado.
Na sequência da Segunda Guerra Mundial, os Estados Unidos acumularam 75% do ouro monetário mundial até 1950. Isso permitiu-lhe impor a dolarização ao mundo. Mas hoje ninguém sabe se o Tesouro dos Estados Unidos e a Reserva Federal de Nova Iorque possuem ouro que não tenha sido penhorado a compradores privados e especuladores. A preocupação é que tenham vendido as reservas de ouro dos bancos centrais europeus. A Alemanha pediu que as suas reservas de ouro regressassem de Nova Iorque, mas os Estados Unidos disseram que não estavam disponíveis, e a Alemanha foi demasiado tímida para tornar públicas as suas preocupações e queixas.
O dilema financeiro dos Estados Unidos é ainda mais grave quando se tenta imaginar como poderão pagar a sua dívida externa aos países que pretendam retirar os seus dólares. Os Estados Unidos só podem imprimir a sua própria divisa. Não estão dispostos a vender os seus ativos internos, [então] como exigem que outros países devedores o façam?
O que é que os outros países podem aceitar em vez de ouro? Uma forma de ativos que podem ser tomados como garantia são os investimentos dos EUA na Europa e noutros países. Mas se os governos estrangeiros procurarem fazer isso, os funcionários dos EUA podem retaliar confiscando os seus investimentos nos Estados Unidos. Ocorreria um apoderamento mútuo.
Os Estados Unidos estão a tentar monopolizar a tecnologia eletrônica. O problema é que isso exige matérias-primas cuja produção é atualmente dominada pela China, sobretudo metais de terras raras (abundantes, mas cuja refinação é destrutiva para o ambiente), gálio, níquel (a China domina a refinação), hélio russo e outros gases utilizados na gravação de chips de computador. A China anunciou recentemente que, a 1 de agosto, começará a restringir estas exportações fundamentais. Na verdade, ela tem a capacidade de cortar o fornecimento de materiais e tecnologias vitais ao Ocidente, para se proteger das sanções de “segurança nacional” do Ocidente contra a China. Esta é a profecia auto-realizável criada pelos alertas dos EUA sobre um combate comercial.
Se a diplomacia americana obrigar os seus aliados da OTAN a boicotar a tecnologia Huawei da China, a Europa ficará com uma alternativa menos eficiente e mais cara – cujas consequências ajudam a separá-la da China, dos BRICS e do que se tornou a Maioria Mundial num alinhamento auto-suficiente muito mais amplo do que aquele criado por Sukarno em 1954.
THE NEW WORLD MONETARY AND FINANCIAL SYSTEMSERGEY GLAZYEV– INTERVIEWED BYPEPE ESCOBAR
The Cradle: “Michael Hudson specifically asks that if this new system enables nations in the Global South to suspend dollarized debt and is based on the ability to pay (in foreign exchange), can these loans be tied to either raw materials or, for China, tangible equity ownership in the capital infrastructure financed by foreign non-dollar credit?“
*Glazyev:“Transition to the new world economic order will likely be accompanied by systematic refusal to honor obligations in dollars, euro, pound, and yen. In this respect, it will be no different from the example set by the countries issuing these currencies who thought it appropriate to steal foreign exchange reserves of Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, and Russia to the tune of trillions of dollars. Since the US, Britain, EU, and Japan refused to honor their obligations and confiscated the wealth of other nations which was held in their currencies, why should other countries be obliged to pay them back and to service their loans?”
‘Multiple obvious toxicities were deliberately built into [the alleged vaccines’] designs, with the result that there would be high expectations of blood clots, autoimmune attacks and cytokine storms all over the body, depending on where it went in a given individual,’ Dr. Michael Yeadon told LifeSiteNews.
Dr. Michael Yeadon, who formerly served as Pfizer’s vice president and chief scientist for allergy and respiratory, explained how he knew the COVID virus, with its subsequent “vaccine” campaign, was a “supranational operation” designed “to injure people, to maim and kill deliberately.”
Yeadon, who spent 32 years working mostly for large pharmaceutical companies, spoke to a reporter from Children’s Health Defense in March while attending a Truth be Told Rally in London.
Reviewing how he came to understand the COVID “pandemic” was something other than what it appeared to be, the pharmacology expert recalled that “when I started noticing former colleagues of mine, including Patrick Vallance, saying things on the television I knew weren’t true — and I knew he knew weren’t true — that’s when the penny dropped for me, probably [in] February 2020.”
Patrick Vallance was the United Kingdom’s chief scientific adviser to the government from 2018 to 2023.
“I remember saying to my wife, ‘this is not what they’re saying it is. Something’s going on,’” Yeadon explained.
“And when I saw not only my country locking down, but dozens of countries locking down at the same time … that was proof, and is still proof, of a supranational operation,” he said.
“There’s no way that could have happened at the local level, at the country level. Therefore, it must have occurred at a level above. Whether it was the WHO or the World Economic Forum, or other, I don’t know,” but the orchestrated response demonstrates a planned event as opposed to one determined by the chance of the virus developing, Yeadon said.
These governments “all did the same stupid, ineffective, known-not-to-work things at the same time, none of which were in their countries’ pandemic preparedness plans, because I’ve read them all,” the toxicology expert assured.
Further, he said that he is perfectly confident he will not be sued by Vallance or others for publicly accusing them of lying, because they know they would lose in a court of law. “And so, they won’t sue me. What they do is smear me and censor me.”
Now, “the injuries to people from these so-called vaccines” is “something much worse than an alleged virus,” Yeadon affirmed. Furthermore, “I wish I could say that it was accidental, but it wasn’t accidental.”
On December 1, 2020, Yeadon with Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg of Germany petitioned the European Medicines Agency for the immediate suspension of all COVID-19 vaccine studies in Europe due to significant safety concerns, including the foreseeable possibility that many people could “develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the vaccination.”
Yeadon’s warnings went unheeded. And though having been vilified, he has been, unfortunately for all, vindicated.
Continuing the interview, the British scientist reviewed, “I spent 32 years in rational drug design. I know, and I knew, and wrote it, before any of the [injections] had Emergency Use Authorization [EUA], that they were dangerous.”
“And I’m afraid I’m convinced, and would say, with my hand on the Bible in front of a court, a judge, that these injections have been made to injure people, to maim and kill deliberately.”
Later in the full interview, he explained why the mRNA biological injections cause an array of different adverse events in different people.
“When you inject this into a person and it spreads around their body and gets absorbed into a cell, that message gets converted into a protein,” he said. “And when your body makes a foreign protein — I am guaranteeing this as an immunologist — your body will say ‘that’s non-self’ and will attack whoever is producing it until the cell is dead. And I think that’s the cause of a lot — not all — of the adverse reactions to these so-called vaccines.”
Therefore, these substances “will cause autoimmune destruction of wherever that material goes. If it goes in your heart, myocarditis or heart attack. If it goes in your pregnant uterus, miscarriage, if it goes into your nervous system, a hell of a variety of neurological problems. That’s the common problem that underlies many of the vaccine injuries, some of which are so bad that people have died, as I thought they probably would,” said Yeadon, who has a degree in toxicology as well.
Furthermore, he recalled that when part of the heart muscle dies due to the trauma of a heart attack or myocarditis, “that piece of heart muscle dies and does not recover. So, you end up with a compromised heart. That’s why it’s so awful when we hear about myocarditis in young men. They are not going to regrow their heart. They will have a compromised heart for the rest of their lives.”
In a separate correspondence with LifeSiteNews, Yeadon summarized, “[t]he alleged vaccines were designed to injure, maim and kill. Multiple obvious toxicities were deliberately built into their designs, with the result that there would be high expectations of blood clots, autoimmune attacks and cytokine storms all over the body, depending on where it went in a given individual.”
“Finally, the mRNA agents were formulated in lipid nanoparticles, which was known from 2012 to cause accumulation in certain viscera, notably ovaries. Negative impacts on fertility were also virtually assured.”
“None of this could possibly be defended as inadvertent,” he concluded.
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A witch-hunt is being waged against independent journalists, renowned academics and scientists.
The unspoken objective is to sustain government propaganda and “fake news” by the mainstream media while systematically curtailing freedom of expression and independent analysis.
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Years ago, when I sat on the Board of the American Psychiatric Association as a psychiatrist-in-training, the word ‘biopsychosocial’ was used frequently to describe the range to which the profession of psychiatry aspired in its categorization of and treatment approaches to mental illness. It was meant, in other words, to encompass everything: every aspect of human thought, feeling and behavior. Rather grandiose, I remember thinking, but in keeping with the compulsion in the field to cover every base, as it were.
It strikes me now that the term is especially relevant as a descriptor of the covid agenda because it does, with realistic accuracy, embrace the scope of this uniquely massive operation that has been played out across the globe. Thus covid, the measures adopted by authorities to manage the so-called pandemic, the jabs, the jab passports, mandates, digital identification and, essentially, centralized control over human autonomy – this may be accurately described not merely as a ‘psyops’ but as a ‘biopsychosocial’ operation. An operation designed to influence virtually every aspect of the human condition – biology, psychology and social relations.
The magnitude and breadth of the covid operation render it historically unique, and, as a result of this operation – still ongoing – the world has demonstrably been altered, perhaps irrevocably so.
The iron fist of a coordinated program of control has been revealed and the fingers of this fist have imprinted themselves on every aspect of our lives. The economic impact has been enormous, resulting in an impoverishment of underlings while overlords have been majestically enriched. The ‘normality’ that, after three years, seems now to be reestablishing itself, is tenuous, for we have all seen how swiftly and fiercely the fist may come down, perhaps at the drop of another bat and the emergence of yet another infectious threat. Or perhaps the ever-looming dangers of climate change, another biopsychosocial operation, may necessitate measures of control that were so quickly, easily and successfully employed for covid, measures that included, for the very first time, the wholesale quarantining of the healthy.
Nonetheless, questions running counter to covid propaganda have been making an appearance in the propaganda outlets themselves – mainstream media – and recently some attention has been focused on the origins of covid. Was it an accidental leak from the Wuhan lab, or was it a deliberate release of a Frankenstein pathogen funded by the United States and outsourced to China?
Dr. Mike Yeadonquite flatly states that he does not believe there was ever a covid virus, while Igor Chudov clearly states that Sars-Cov-2 was a deliberately engineered pathogen. Citing the work of Ralph Baric, Chudov concludes that ‘high pathogenicity is not necessary for a perfect bioweapon: instead, what is important is that the bioweapon creates fear.’
Thus we have two widely diverging opinions from two quite respectable and diligent people.
In fact, we also have a plethora of different opinions from other respectable and diligent people about the jab, the jab’s contents, about covid variants and even the very existence of viruses. Was the pandemic a statistical rather than medical phenomenon created by dubious PCR testing, was it merely a mislabeled flu? And on and on.
If you are not confused, you should be, because creating confusion is a hallmark of every successful operation to control the masses, and the perfect biopsychosocial operation will create confusion in spades. It’s not a matter of covering tracks to make an investigation into the origins or other parts of an operation impossible – it’s a matter of deliberately creating many tracks, tracks that run in various directions and lead to questionable conclusions. This is why, for example, batches of the so-called Pfizer vaccine appear to differ. This is why highly dubious PCR testing was employed and why deaths from a variety of causes were attributed by hospitals to covid.
Under such a cloud of confusion the activities of an objective investigator are grievously hampered and the investigators themselves may be consumed by the following of leads and the pursuit of deliberately created false mysteries so as to render them ineffectual.
The ostensibly greatest pandemic in human history derived from an errant bat in a Chinese market, so were we told. I understood this from the outset to be false, knowing that every grand piece of propaganda begins with an extraordinary, hardly believable event that serves as the genesis of a myth.
The complete disappearance of the flu for over two years, coupled with an aggressive suppression of attempts to treat people with covid until the last stages of respiratory illness, suggested that an agenda was in play. This was confirmed when the covid inoculations were announced as the only way out of the ‘pandemic’, particularly when it was clear that the jabs could not have been adequately evaluated for safety during the short time in which they were developed.
From my personal experience of illness I am convinced that a covid pathogen existed, that it was infectious, and, judging from peculiarly strange symptoms, that it was unnatural. I applauded the efforts and work of real doctors such as Vladimir Zelenko who developed successful treatments and helped countless patients.
Not being a virologist skilled in the ways and means of viral detection and sequencing, I really can’t speak much further, though I lean heavily towards the side of a pathogen that was as deliberately engineered as the covid agenda itself. I believe it was a bio-weapon, the first punch in a two-punch combination, the second being the far more lethal and debilitating jab, whose deleterious consequences we have only begun to appreciate.
But while we may expect to be confused about viral specifics, there is no ambiguity whatsoever about the glaring subversions of the role of medicine and human rights, the totalitarian governmental control that emerged with hardly a whimper of protest, and the very presence of bio-weapons laboratories and research not only in Wuhan but around the world – in the United States and also in the Ukraine.
Of this we can be certain: ‘gain of function’ research is bio-weapons research, and ‘depopulation’ by whatever means and at whatever rate is murder.
Dr. Garcia is a Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He has authored articles ranging from explorations of psychoanalytic technique, the psychology of creativity in music (Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Delius), and politics. He is also a poet, novelist and theatrical director. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021 after working in the public sector in New Zealand. Visit his substack at https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/
OMinistério da Defesa [da Rússia] informou sobre as consequências do uso de projéteis com urânio empobrecido
– O Ministério da Defesa informou sobre as consequências do uso de projéteis com urânio empobrecido na Ucrânia –
Минобороны сообщило о последствиях применения снарядов с обедненным ураном
Минобороны сообщило о последствиях применения снарядов с обедненным ураном на Украине
Moscou, 24 Mar-RIA Novosti. O uso de projéteis com urânio empobrecido, que o Reino Unido pretende transferir para o exército ucraniano, levará à contaminação de um grande número de áreas cultivadas, e a entrada de poeira de urânio no corpo humano acarreta sérias patologias, disse o chefe das tropas de Proteção Radiológica, Química e Biológica, Tenente-General Igor Kirillov.
МОСКВА, 24 мар — РИА Новости. Использование снарядов с обедненным ураном, которые украинской армии собирается передать Великобритания, приведет к заражению большого количества посевных площадей, а попадание урановой пыли в организм человека влечет серьезные патологии, сообщил начальник войск радиационной, химической и биологической защиты генерал-лейтенант Игорь Кириллов.
Como resultado do impacto da munição com urânio empobrecido, ocorre a formação de uma nuvem quente móvel de aerossol fino de urânio-238 e seus óxidos, que, quando expostos ao corpo, podem provocar o desenvolvimento de patologias graves. O principal perigo de radiação do urânio empobrecido surge no caso de sua entrada no corpo na forma de poeira”, disse ele em um briefing.
“”В результате удара боеприпасы с обедненным ураном происходит образование подвижного горячего облака мелкодисперсного аэрозоля урана-238 и его оксидов, которые при воздействии на организм в дальнейшем могут спровоцировать развитие серьезных патологий. Основная радиационная опасность от обедненного урана возникает в случае его попадания в организм в виде пыли”, — рассказал он на брифинге.
O general ressaltou que o urânio empobrecido é um nome trivial para um metal cuja base é composta por mais de 90% dos isótopos de urânio—238 e um pouco menos do urânio-235.
Fluxos de radiação alfa de partículas de poeira que se instalam no trato respiratório, pulmões e esôfago causam o desenvolvimento de tumores malignos sendo que seu acúmulo nos rins, fígado e tecido ósseo leva a uma mudança nos órgãos internos, disse Kirillov.
Генерал напомнил, что обедненный уран — это тривиальное название металла, основу которого составляют более 90% изотопов урана-238 и менее процента урана-235.
Потоки альфа-излучения от частиц пыли, осевших в дыхательных путях, легких и пищеводе, вызывают развитие злокачественных опухолей. А их накопление в почках, печени и костной ткани приводит к изменению внутренних органов, сообщил Кириллов.
O chefe das Tropas da RKHBZ enfatizou que o Ocidente está bem ciente das consequências negativas do uso de tais munições. Em particular, em 2003-2004, os Estados Unidos os usaram em ataques ao Iraque. Segundo a ONU, os EUA usaram pelo menos 300 toneladas de urânio empobrecido.
Начальник войск РХБЗ подчеркнул, что на Западе прекрасно известно о негативных последствиях применения подобных боеприпасов. В частности, в 2003-2004 годах США использовали их при ударах по Ираку. По оценке ООН, Америка применила там не менее 300 тонн обедненного урана.
“Como resultado, a situação atual de radiação na cidade de Fallujah é significativamente pior do que nas cidades de Hiroshima e Nagasaki após os bombardeios nucleares dos Estados Unidos. Esta cidade [Falluja] até agora ainda é chamada de “segunda Chernobyl”, disse o general.
“В результате сложившаяся радиационная обстановка в городе Фаллуджа была значительно хуже, чем в городах Хиросима и Нагасаки после ядерных бомбардировок Соединенными Штатами. Этот город до сих пор называют “вторым Чернобылем”, — отметил генерал.
Além disso, ele também relembrou o uso de munições de aviação com urânio empobrecido durante o bombardeio da Iugoslávia em 1999 pelas forças da OTAN. A aliança usou cerca de 40 mil projéteis perfurantes, e a quantidade total de urânio empobrecido excedeu 15 toneladas.
Кроме того, он напомнил об использовании авиационных боеприпасов с обедненным ураном при бомбардировках Югославии в 1999 году силами НАТО. Альянс применил около 40 тысяч бронебойных снарядов, а общее количество обедненного урана превысило 15 тонн.
Em 2005, a incidência de câncer no Iraque aumentou de 40 para 1.600 casos por 100 mil habitantes. Nos países da ex-Iugoslávia, o número de cânceres aumentou em 25%.
O uso dessas armas perigosas afetaram negativamente os próprios soldados da OTAN que participaram de operações no Oriente Médio e nos Bálcãs. Assim, 4.095 militares foram diagnosticados com tumores malignos, dos quais 330 pessoas morreram da doença.
В 2005 году заболеваемость раком в Ираке возросла с 40 до 1600 случаев на 100 тысяч населения. В странах бывшей Югославии отмечается увеличение количества онкологических заболеваний на 25%.
Применение опасного оружия негативно повлияло и на самих солдат НАТО, участвовавших в операциях на Ближнем Востоке и Балканах. Так, у 4095 военнослужащих диагностировали злокачественные опухоли, из них 330 человек скончались от заболеваний.
Kirillov também apontou para o fato de que os compostos do urânio permanecendo no solo por longos períodos de tempo representam um grande perigo para as pessoas e animais assim como para as culturas agrícolas.
Также Кириллов указал, что соединения урана, оставаясь в почве, длительное время сохраняют опасность для людей, животных и сельхозкультур.
“Após o uso de projéteis com urânio empobrecido, grandes áreas cultivadas no território da Ucrânia serão contaminadas e substâncias radioativas serão transportadas através de veículos para o resto do território. Além de infectar sua própria população, isso causará enormes danos econômicos ao complexo agroindustrial da Ucrânia, principalmente à produção agrícola e pecuária, reduzindo qualquer exportação de produtos agrícolas do território da Ucrânia por muitas décadas, se não séculos, no futuro”, advertiu o general.
“После применения снарядов с обедненным ураном значительные посевные площади на территории Украины будут заражены, а через автотранспорт радиоактивные вещества будут разнесены на остальную территорию. Помимо заражения собственного населения, это нанесет колоссальный экономический ущерб агропромышленному комплексу Украины, прежде всего растениеводству и животноводству, обрушив любой экспорт сельскохозяйственной продукции с территории Украины на многие десятилетия, если не на столетия, в будущем”, — предупредил генерал.
O Reino Unido além dos tanques Challenger 2 deverá entregar munição às Forças Armadas da Ucrânia. Isso deverá incluir projéteis perfurantes contendo urânio empobrecido, informou a Vice-Ministra da Defesa do Reino, Annabel Goldie, na terça-feira.
О том, что Великобритания, помимо танков Challenger 2, передаст ВСУ боеприпасы, в том числе бронебойные снаряды, содержащие обедненный уран, во вторник сообщила замминистра обороны королевства Аннабель Голди
Vladimir Putin, comentando a situação, disse que a Rússia será forçada a responder a tal decisão.
Владимир Путин, комментируя ситуацию, заявил, что Россия будет вынуждена реагировать на такое решение.
The West now faces the task of de-fusing the landmine of their own electorate’s conviction of a Ukraine ‘win’, and of Russian humiliation.
Larry Johnson, an ex-CIA analyst, writes“I no longer hold clearances and have not had access to the classified intelligence assessments. However, I have heard that the finished intelligence being supplied to U.S. policymakers continues to declare that Russia is on the ropes – and their economy is crumbling. Also, analysts insist that the Ukrainians are beating the Russians”.
Johnson responds that – lacking valid human sources – “western agencies are almost wholly dependent today on ‘liaison reporting’” (i.e., from ‘friendly’ foreign intelligence services), without doing ‘due diligence’ by cross-checking discrepancies with other reporting.
In practice, this largely means western reporting simply replicates Kiev’s PR line. But there does occur a huge problem when marrying Kiev’s output (as Johnson says) to UK reports – for ‘corroboration’.
The reality is UK reporting itself is also based on what Ukraine is saying. This is known as false collateral – i.e., when that which is used for corroboration and validation actually derives from the same single source. It becomes – deliberately – a propaganda multiplier.
In plain words however, all these points are ‘red herrings’. Bluntly, so-called western ‘Intelligence’ is no longer the sincere attempt to understand a complex reality, but rather, it has become the tool to falsify a nuanced reality in order to attempt to manipulate the Russian psyche towards a collective defeatism (in respect not just to the Ukraine, but to the idea that Russia should remain as a sovereign whole).
And – to the extent that ‘lies’ are fabricated to accustom the Russian public to inevitable defeat – the obverse edge clearly is intended to train the western public towards the ‘groupthink’ that victory is inevitable. And that Russia is an ‘unreformed evil Empire’ which threatens all Europe.
This is no accident. It is highly purposeful. It is behavioural psychology at work. The ‘head-spinning’ disorientation created throughout the Covid pandemic; the constant rain of ‘data-driven’ model analysis, the labelling of anything critical of the ‘uniform messaging’ as anti-social disinformation – enabled western governments to persuade their citizens that ‘lockdown’ was the only rational answer to the virus. It was not true (as we now know), but the ‘pilot’ behavioural nudge-psychology trial worked better – better even than its own architects had imagined.
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Mattias Desmet, has explained that mass disorientation does not form in a vacuum. It arises, throughout history, from a collective psychosis that has followed a predictable script:
Just as with lockdown, governments have used behavioural psychology to instil fear and isolation to mass large groups of people into herds, where toxic sneering at any contrariness cold-shoulders all critical thinking or analysis. It is more comfortable being inside the herd, than out.
The dominant characteristic here is remaining loyal to the group – even when the policy is working badly and its consequences disturb the conscience of members. Loyalty to the group becomes the highest form of morality. That loyalty requires each member to avoid raising controversial issues, questioning weak arguments, or calling a halt to wishful thinking.
The ‘Groupthink’ allows some self-imagined reality to detach; to drift further and further from any connection to reality, and then to transit into delusion – always drawing on like-minded peer cheerleaders for its validation and extended radicalisation.
So, it’s ‘goodbye’ to traditional Intelligence! And ‘welcome’ to western Intelligence 101: Geo-Politics no longer revolves around a grasp on Reality. It is about the installation of ideological pseudo-realism – which is the universal installation of a singular groupthink, such that everyone lives passively by it, until it is far too late to change course.
Superficially, this may seem clever new psyops – even ‘cool’. It is not. It is dangerous. By deliberately working on deeply ingrained fears and trauma (i.e. the Great Patriotic War for Russians (WW2)), it awakens a type of multi-generational existential plight within the collective unconscious – that of total annihilation – which is a danger that America has never faced, and towards which there is zero American empathetic understanding.
Perhaps, by resurrecting long, collective memories of plague in European countries (such as Italy) western governments have found that they were able to mobilise their citizens around a policy of coercion, that otherwise ran wholly against their own interests. But nations have their own distinct myths and civilisational mores.
If that were the purpose (to acclimatise Russians to defeat and ultimate Balkanisation), Western propaganda has not only failed, but it has achieved the converse. Russians have coalesced closely together against an existential western threat – and are prepared to ‘go to the wall’, if necessary, in defeating it. (Let those implications sink in.)
On the other hand, falsely promoting a picture of inevitable success for the West inevitably has raised expectations of a political outcome that is not only not feasible, but which recedes further into the far horizon, as these fantastical claims of Russian setbacks persuade European leaders that Russia can accept an outcome in line with their constructed false reality.
Another ‘own goal’: The West now faces the task of de-fusing the landmine of their own electorate’s conviction of a Ukraine ‘win’, and of Russian humiliation and decomposition. There will be anger and further distrust for the Élites in the West to follow. Existential risk ensues when people believe nothing the élites say.
Plainly put, this resort to clever ‘nudge theories’ has succeeded only in toxifying the prospect for political discourse. Neither the U.S. nor Russia can now move directly to pure political discourse:
Firstly, the parties inevitably must come to some tacit psychological assimilation of two quite dis-connected realities, now hyped into palpable, vital beings through these psychological ‘Intelligence’ techniques. There will be no acceptance by either side of the validity or moral rightness of the Other Reality’s, yet its emotive contents must be acknowledged psychically – together with the traumas underlying them – if politics is to be unlocked.
In short, this western exaggerated psyops perversely is likely to lengthen the war until facts-on-the ground finally grind the contrasting expectations closer to what may be the ‘new possible’. Ultimately, when perceived realities cannot be ‘matched’ and nuanced, war rubs one or the other into more emollient form.
The degeneracy in western intelligence did not start with the recent collective ‘excitement’ at the possibilities of ‘nudge-psychology’. The first steps in this direction began with a shift in ethos reaching back to the Clinton/Thatcher era in which the intelligence services were ‘neo-liberalised’.
No longer was the role of ‘devil’s advocate’ – of bringing ‘bad news’ (i.e. hard-edged Realism) to the relevant political leadership valued; instead what was inserted was a radical shift towards ‘Business School’ practice of services being tasked with ‘adding value’ to existing government policies, and (even) of creating ‘a market’ system in Intelligence!
The politician-managers demanded ‘good news’. And to make ‘it stick’, funding was tied to the ‘value added’ – with administrators skilled at managing bureaucracy moved into leadership jobs. It marked the end to classical Intelligence – which always was an art, rather than science.
In short, it was the outset to fixing the intelligence around policies (to add value), rather than the traditional function of shaping policies to sound analysis.
In the U.S., the politicisation of intelligence reached its apex with Dick Cheney’s initiation of a Team ‘B’ intelligence unit reporting personally to him. It was intended to furnish the anti-intelligence to combat the intelligence service output. Of course, the Team ‘B’ initiative shook confidence amongst the analysts, and by-passed the work of the traditional cadre – just as Cheney had intended. (He had a war (the Iraq war) to justify).
But there were separately other structural shifts. Firstly, by 2000, woke narcissism had begun to eclipse strategic thought –creating its own novel groupthink. The West just could not shake off the sense of itself at the centre of the Universe (albeit no longer in a racial sense, but via its awakening to ‘victim politics’ – requiring endless redress and reparations – and such woke values serendipitously seemed to anoint the West with a renewed global ‘moral primacy’).
In a parallel shift, U.S. neo-cons piggy-backed on this new woke universalism to cement the meme of ‘Empire matters primordially’. The unspoken corollary to this, of course, is that original values of the American Republic or of Europe, cannot be re-conceived and brought forward into the present, as long as ‘liberal’ Empire groupthink configures them as a threat to western security. This conundrum and struggle lies at the heart of U.S. politics today.
Yet the question remains just how can the intelligence being supplied to U.S. policymakers insist that Russia is imploding economically, and that Ukraine is winning – against what can be easily observed facts on the ground?.
Well, no problem; Washington thinks-tanks have big, big finance from the Military Industrial World, with the preponderance of these funds going to the neo-cons – and their insistence that Russia is a small ‘gas-station’ posing as a state, and not a power to be taken seriously.
Neo-con claws tear at anyone gain-saying their ‘line’ – and think-tanks employ an army of ‘analysts’ to turn out ‘academic’ reports suggesting that Russia’s industry – to the extent it exists at all – is imploding. Since last March, western military and economic experts have been regularly-as-clockwork, predicting that Russia has run out of missiles, drones, tanks and artillery shells – and is expending its manpower throwing human-waves of untrained troops upon the Ukrainian siege lines.
The logic is plain, but again flawed. If a combined NATO struggles to supply artillery shells, Russia with the economy the size of a small EU state (logically) must be worse off. And if only we (the U.S.) threaten China hard enough against supplying Russia,then the latter will ultimately run out of munitions – and NATO supported Ukraine ‘will win’.
The logic then is that a war prolonged (until the money runs out) must deliver a Russia bereft of munitions, and NATO-supplied Ukraine ‘wins’.
This framing is entirely wrong because of conceptual differences: Russian history is one of Total War that is fought in a long, ‘all-out’, uncompromising engagement against an overwhelming peer force. But inherent to this idea, is its all-important grounding in the conviction that such wars are fought over the course of years, with their outcomes conditioned by the capacity to surge military production.
Conceptually, the U.S. shifted in the 1980s away from its post-war military-industrial paradigm, to off-shore manufacturing to Asia and to ‘just-in-time’ supply lines. Effectively, the U.S. (and the West) shifted in the opposite direction to ‘surge capacity’, whereas Russia did not: It kept alive the notion of sustainment which had contributed to saving Russia during the Great Patriotic War.
So, western intelligence services again got it wrong; they misread the reality? No, they didn’t get it ‘wrong’. Their purpose was different.
The few who got it right were mercilessly caricatured as stooges to make them seem absurd. And Intelligence 101 was re-conceived as the purposeful denialism of all off-Team thinking, whilst the majority of western citizens would live passively in the embrace the groupthink – until too late for them to awaken, and to change the dangerous course on which their societies were embarked.
Unverified Ukrainian reports (liaison reporting) served up to western leaders therefore is not a ‘glitch’ – it is a ‘feature’ of the new Intelligence 101 paradigm intended to confuse and dull its electorate.
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** Dr. João Belline Burza, reconhecidamente um dos mais brilhantes neurocientistas brasileiros. Veja Pavlov e as bases da Psicologia Cognitiva.
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REFERENCES AND NOTES:
Alastair Crooke, “How Could Western Intelligence Got It Wrong, Again? They Didn´t. They Had Other Purposes” , March 6, 2023, Strategic Culture, Telegram
“EU HARAKIRI” on Behalf of Washington. The Nord Stream Destruction, Is the EC Planning to Destroy the European Union?
You may want to take note of this recent quote by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:
”The armed conflict in Ukraine will continue until 2030, as a result, Ukraine will lose half of its territory, and the EU will cease to exist by that moment. This conflict could have been local, but due to the intervention of the West, it became global, as a result of which the EU economy was destroyed.”
Mr. Orban also seems to have the support – at least the tacit support – of the The Visegrad Group, consisting of four countries, the V4.
It is an informal regional format of cooperation between the four Central European countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, which are not only linked by neighborhood and similar geopolitical situations but above all by common history, traditions, culture, and values. The V4 was founded in February 1991 in Visegrád, Hungary, by the four member countries.
The above statement is a response by PM Victor Orban to the European Commission’s (unelected) President Ursula van de Leyen’s threat to Hungary of cutting them off the 7.5 billion Euros which they are due under the European Union’s so-called Cohesion Policy. It is the EU’s main investment policy, sort of a COVID compensation.
Under the EU rule, the Cohesion Fund provides support to Member States with a gross national income (GNI) per capita below 90% of the EU-27 average. The purpose of the subsidy is to strengthen the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the EU.
Within that framework, the Cohesion Policy’s purpose is to benefit all regions and cities of the Union and promotes economic growth, job creation, business competitiveness, sustainable development and environmental protection.
So, why the threat? Because Mr. Orban refuses to sanction Russia?
Because he expresses his right of a sovereign state – and as the leader of Hungary, he is supported by about 70% of the people – of all those who see national sovereignty as more important than following the dictate of a defunct European Union, a US vassal par excellence.
And – while war is never justified – Mr. Orban understands why Russia had to take actions to protect the Russian people in the Donbas area, plus to demilitarize the Nazi state of Ukraine – especially the Azov Battalion(s) which were fighting alongside Hitler’s troops against the Soviet Union during WWII.
Let alone the constant an ever-increased pressure from the Washington / Pentagon directed NATO, encroaching Russia; plus, the fact that neither of the two Minsk Agreements (September 2014 and April 2015), sponsored by France and Germany, on settling the Ukraine conflict, were ever adhered to.
See this full BBC report on Ms. Victoria Nuland, Deputy Secretary of State in 2014 “F**k Europe”, and more. This conversation preceded by days only the western-inspired – US, EU, NATO – 22 February 2014 Maidan Coup against Ukraine’s legitimately and democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych.
Also, to be mentioned are the twenty or thirty-some grade 4 (war-type) biological, US-funded and built laboratories in the Ukraine territory. This was admitted by the very Ms. Nuland before a US Congressional Committee. These labs were a direct danger to Russia. Obviously, President Putin couldn’t just stand by, watching NATO arming and training the Ukraine military with “boots on the ground”.
All of this, of course, is known to the European Commission. Ms. Von der Leyen knows exactly the truth about Ukraine, but keeps lying to the European people, helped massively by the corrupted media. Therefore, Europeans are blinded and keep yelling almost in unison: Russia-Russia-Russia!
Given these circumstances, one wonders whether there is a wanton agenda of knowing self-destruction of the European Union by the EC leadership. In fact, they know exactly what they are doing.
Washington / NATO have chosen their best candidates to carry out their nefarious agenda.
The records of corruption of Ms. Von der Leyen and German Chancellor Scholz, who is betraying Europe and his country every day, speak for themselves.
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Now comes Italy
When Italy was preparing for their elections to be held last Sunday – 25 September 2022, and a coalition of right-wing parties, all opposed to sanctioning Russia – seemed to emerge as the winner, Ms. Von der Leyen, again lifted her finger pointing at Italy, reminding Italians that they should vote according to the European mandate, neoliberal, of course, and for the Globalist agenda.
Ms. von der Leyen hinted that the country could face punishments such as those recently leveled against Hungary and Poland if the upcoming election results in the predicted right-wing sweep.
“My approach is that whatever democratic government is willing to work with us, we’re working together,” she said in response to a question over whether she had “concerns” about Sunday’s Italian parliamentary vote, in which the conservative Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) are projected to take first place.
“If things go in a difficult direction, I’ve spoken about Hungary and Poland, we have tools,” von der Leyen explained (RT, 23 September 2022).
These tools refer to withholding the Cohesion Fund money. If anything, this statement incited an ever-stronger Italian vote to the right.
In the meantime, the election outcome is clear. A coalition led by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party. Ms. Meloni is expected to form the country’s most rightwing government since the end of the second world war. It will also be including the far-right League, led by Matteo Salvini, as well as Forza Italia, headed by three-times Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Mr. Salvini denounced von der Leyen’s “shameful arrogance” and called on the EC to “respect the free, democratic and sovereign vote of the Italian people!”
Ms. Giorgia Meloni will lead as the first woman in recent Italian history, Italy’s new Government.
The Italian Coalition Parties are all not very EU-friendly. They will certainly not be bullied by Ms. von der Leyen. And she knows that, as well as all her backers and those who give the orders, Washington, NATO, the Pentagon and the gigantic invisible financial complex behind the WEF’s Globalization Project, the One World Order (OWO).
What if Italy and / or Hungary would leave the EU?
Italy being one of the original members of the European alliance, tracing its origins back tothe European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Economic Community (EEC), established, respectively, by the 1948 Treaty of Brussels, the 1951 Treaty of Paris and 1957 Treaty of Rome.
Let’s not forget either, the original idea for a European Union, the creation of the Treaty of Rome, came from the Rockefellers. They knew already then that a rebuilt Europe, especially with Germany leading, could become an undesired competition for the United States. But as an association of countries with one currency, they could be controlled. But they should never become one country, similar to a US-style federation. That would be too dangerous as an economic block.
With the also planned destruction of the Soviet Union by a Cold War and all the fake danger-propaganda that went along, ending successfully for the US in 1991, things looked good for the single Empire.
But then came Vladimir Putin, and nothing went the way projected by the west, mainly Washington. Because Europe under the spell and imagined “danger” of the USSR, was already under the wings of her protector and mentor, Washington, Pentagon and then the ever-expanding NATO. In fact, Europe didn’t have her own army. NATO would take care of Europe’s defense.
The only then visionary who saw and predicted Europe’s demise under NATO and without her own military, was General Charles de Gaulle, France’s President until 1969. He exited France from NATO, until French President Sarkozy re-entered France to the Atlantic Alliance in 2009.
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Back to Italy.
It could, indeed, be the end of the European Union as we know it, if Italy leaves the alliance, or even better, when Italy and Hungary leave the alliance. Were Hungary to exit the EU, she would most likely be followed by her allies of the Visegrad Group (V4 = Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary).
See this 4 min video “Shameful Arrogance”.
And there is more – underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline explosions.
On 27 September 2022, several deep-sea explosions destroyed both German-Russian gas pipelines, Nord Stream 1 and 2. This supposes that no pressuring, or second-thought by Germany’s leadership or Parliament, or business community, could reverse Germany’s decision on sanctioning Russia and on refusing to buy Russian Gas.
There is no way that the EU, headquartered in Brussels, alongside with NATO, was unaware of the destruction plan. Hence, this is an EU act of suicide, willingly destroying Germany’s economy, and with it a large proportion of the European / EU economy – and the European people’s living standard.
So, that this long-planned Washington dictated and EU agreed act of self-demolition cannot be reversed, the two pipelines had to be destroyed. Four explosions in total, as registered by Denmark and Sweden. Untreated gas is bulging up from the sea, near Denmark. Environmental and health consequences cannot yet be assessed.
But the escaping gas’ worth, after two days, had already been assessed at 2 billion euros.
Indeed, reversing their commitment to Washington to destroy Europe, was a risk for the western wannabe Empire powers, the US / NATO. If Germany was to abandon her destructive decision for ethical or conscientious reasons, to safe her population from a predicted “extremely cold winter”, and from an imploding economy – as we currently witness – the western globalization, alias OWO-plan would fail.
These pipeline explosions are an open declaration of war at Europe. At the people of Europe. And this – very likely – in full knowledge of Brussels, i.e., the EU Commission, or at least the head of the EC.
Already on 22 February 2022, responding to a journalist’s question what Washington would do if Germany would decide despite their current sanctioning of Russia, to buy Russian gas to salvage their economy and possibly the lives of many Germans, Biden said that they had means to sabotage the pipelines of the Baltic Sea. See 35-second video.
On 2 September 2022, Russian intelligence agencies have already reported US / NATO military maneuvers with underwater drones, loaded with explosive devices. See this and this.
On 26 September 2022, US / NATO special underwater torpedoes blow up Nord Stream 1 and 2.
No matter all the evidence that Brussels was fully aware of this “Act of War” against Europe, launched by the US / NATO, EU’s massive and as usual deceptive hypocritical posturing takes on shameful proportions. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday that the bloc was “deeply concerned” about the damage to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines connecting Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea.
“Europe vows ‘robust and united’ response to suspected sabotage of two Russian gas pipelines.”
The sabotage act may have left permanent irreparable damage, if not repaired quickly as the infiltrating sea water may quickly corrode the pipelines, a German unnamed official said, according to an RT Report.
Who is going to repair the damage in time, so that corrosion may not leave permanent damage?
Germany will most likely not have the US/NATO permission to do so, and Russia – well, NATO will do whatever it takes to prevent that from happening.
At this stage, Russia may be most interested in stopping the gas from flowing, to halt the economic losses and potential environmental damage.
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In summary, all is pointing in the direction of destroying Europe from all angles and sides: Dismantling the European Union. The presumed One World Order Government does not want to deal with a bloc of countries, encompassing 500 million people and an estimated GDP of US$ 17 trillion equivalent (2022), de facto the world’s third largest economy, after the US and China (2022 est. US and China US$ 20 trillion and US$ 19.9 trillion, respectively).
So, the destruction of the European economy and annihilation of the EU – the alliance of European countries that were never allowed by Washington to become a Federation, as is the United States of America – is a plan, the EC is fully aware of and has agreed to.
This may also explain Britain’s exit from the EU.
The aggressive provocations on Italy, a founding father of the EU, plus Hungary and by association the V4, are the empire’s strategy to collapse the EU, executed by the very European Commission.
Being aware of the plan, may shake up sufficient high-ranking politicians, and especially business people and CEOs to stop it; to stop at least the economic destruction of Europe. The EU in its current form is a disgrace. Dismantling it, returning to sovereign nation states would be an advantage for humanity. It would allow a fresh, non-globalist start – one giant step away from a globalized OWO.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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This very important article can be found in its original in English on LEW ROCKWELL – https://lewrockwell.com. You could also read it in English here on this site just below after the Portuguese version. WELCOME.
A pequena palha que acabou por quebrar as costas do camelo poderia certamente ter sido registrada esta semana. A Lituânia anunciou que fecharia o corredor de viagens [terrestres] entre Bielorrússia e Kaliningrado. Esse corredor é regulado por um tratado em vigor nos útimos trinta anos. Trata-se de um tratado entre os países aliados do leste e a Rússia. Tem-se depois que Kaliningrado [região russa] tem o único porto [livre de gelo durante todo o ano] do Mar Báltico.
Esse é um movimento projetado para aumentar o poder das sanções impostas pela Europa e pelo Ocidente contra a Rússia após o conflito na Ucrânia. Esta postura lituana é obviamente avançada pelos Estados Unidos da América, que vem oferecendo apoio a esse país após a entrada do mesmo na aliança da OTAN. Além disso tem-se também que o Canadá, assim como a Alemanha e os EUA, todos, estacionaram suas tropas na Lituânia. Tudo isso como parte de um trabalho de dissuasão proposta contra eventuais novas ações militares russas no continente europeu.
Aqui está o problema com essa ideia de dissuasão adicional voltada para a Rússia. Nós, no Ocidente, somos as nações beligerantes no cenário atual. Sem chapéu branco desta vez. Como um estado vassalo, a Lituânia, assim como o Canadá e o resto da aliança ocidental estão sendo conduzidos metodicamente e inegavelmente em direção à destruição total pelo país mais beligerante da história da humanidade. Para quem possa vir a perguntar qual seria esse paìs: – Os Estados Unidos da América, é claro.
O governo dos EstadosUnidos admitiu que desde o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial,em 1945, o seu governo perpetuou mais do que 70 atos violentos contra nações e oponentes políticos. Trata-se de golpes e invasões que mataram milhões de inocentes em todos os cantos da terra. Nunca antes na história da humnidade um governo semeou tanta destruição, morte e desespero em seu rastro. Os cidadãos dos estados vassalos da Europa e da aliança ocidental devem considerar um momento de reflexão para poder perceber as consequências de engatar seu vagão nesta besta de morte e destruição que é o governo dos EUA. Esse grupo maligno está nos arrastando para o fim da nossa civilização.
Podemos constatar como o Secretário Lloyd J. Austin III da Defesa Nacional, recentemente delineou o plano que o governo dos Estados Unidos está empregando na Ucrânia para derrotar a Rússia. Este plano exige que a guerra nesse estado fantoche continue até que a Rússia esteja seca, até que o último ucraniano seja sacrificado no altar da ambição governamental dos EUA de criar “um governo mundial”, governado a partir de Washington, controlando tudo inclusive o super continente eurasiano. Não se trata de proteger a democracia na Ucrânia, trata-se de ganhar o controle do mundo moderno, e a Rússia está no caminho dessa ambição. A Rússia acredita na soberania nacional, em contraste com uma ideia de dominação do governo dos EUA sobre toda a humanidade. Qual é o grande produto ou serviço de exportação oferecido pelo governo dos EUA para o mundo de qualquer maneira? É a morte e a destruição e a loucura bêbada que é o desejo de guerra. O governo dos EUA é o maior fornecedor de hardware militar da história humana. Os estados vassalos são obrigados a comprar equipamentos do Complexo industrial militar dos EUA vindo de empresas que fabricam então mísseis stinger, aviões de combate a jato F35, Lightning obuses avançados e armas biológicas. Todos disponíveis pelo Tio Sam, contando-se que por uma taxa, naturalmente.
Recentemente, aprendemos que o governo dos EUA deu à Ucrânia mais de 53 bilhões de dólares em ajuda militar. Este é um número maior do que o orçamento para todo o exército russo. “Precisamos nos comprometer a apoiar a Ucrânia porque, se não o fizermos, eles serão violados pela’ invasão ilegal e injustificada ‘russa, seu vizinho”. A grande mídia repete a mensagem continuamente e os políticos pulam em suas caixas de sabão condenando Putin como o pior megalomaníaco desde Hitler. Claro, não há equilíbrio no discurso. Para citar o senador Dr. Rand Paul ,” não há maior fornecedor de desinformação no mundo do que o governo dos EUA.”Esse comentário pode ser aplicado particularmente e igualmente aos governos do Canadá e do Reino Unido, bem como às outras nações do Ocidente.
Ninguém menciona os Tratados que nós, no Ocidente, quebramos repetidamente, ou as Brigadas Azov dos nazistas modernos que estão administrando a Ucrânia e ao qual estamos apoiando com quantias ultrajantes de fundos dos contribuintes. Não importa os ataques em curso sobre a população de língua russa do leste da Ucrânia que têm sofrido perseguição constante nas mãos desses fascistas desde 2014, de quando a CIA instalou o governo fantoche da Ucrânia. As nações europeias mais próximas do conflito no terreno na Ucrânia também não estão recebendo os fatos. Eles são particularmente vulneráveis ao próximo conflito convencional em grande escala com a Rússia que nós, no Ocidente, provocamos. Os cidadãos do Ocidente precisam derrubar seus políticos loucos, um por um, não menos porque esses chegam até a contemplar como uma possibilidade real um conflito de troca nuclear. Consequências a serem consideradas, mesmo que essas consequências apresentem-se como remotas. Uma troca nuclear, mesmo limitada, levaria a um inverno mundial completo, fome por falha de safra, e na sequência morte generalizada. Essa possibilidade nunca em nenhuma hipótese deveria ser considerada. A Política, se você se lembra, foi intitulada MAD, ou seja, destruição mutuamente garantida. A própria ideia de que o governo dos EUA tem como política que eles poderiam lutar e vencer uma guerra nuclear limitada é absurda e completamente fora de contato com a realidade.
Cidadãos da Alemanha, Holanda, França, Espanha, Itália, Reino Unido e Canadá, os membros originais da OTAN, deveriam clamar pela dissolução da aliança. Não é mais um arranjo defensivo, é um braço da agressão governamental dos EUA. Todas essas nações vassalas renunciaram à sua política externa e agora marcham em sintonia com suas sobrecargas vindas de Washington. Os membros mais novos da aliança precisam temer as consequências de estarem ligados a uma nação que não é confiável, o que se pode constatar pela sua política atual e não menos pelo histórico do governo dos EUA.
Washington mente e quebra tratados dizendo ao mundo, através da mídia, quão nobres são, enquanto matando muitas crianças com ataques indiscriminados de drones. Nunca houve uma mentira que eles não pudessem promover, nunca houve um sistema de armas que eles não ameaçassem usar ou vender e nunca houve um Tratado que eles não viessem a quebrar. Desde que guerra esteja como o objetivo do dia provavelmente nunca haverá um povo que eles não venham a matar. Mulheres e crianças, indiscriminadamente, incluídas. A Polónia, a Lituânia, a Letónia e a Estónia são agora novos membros da NATO, em violação directa das promessas que fizemos a Rússia. Esses países estarão particularmente na linha de fogo se no Ocidente continuarmos a provocar uma guerra com a Rússia. É preciso se perguntar se o povo dessas nações recém-democráticas percebem o perigo na beira do abismo no qual estão oscilando.
Finalmente, a Rússia está fazendo o que qualquer nação faria se e quando frente à agressão que está sendo avançada pelo Ocidente contra a Rússia.
Assinamos tratados assegurando não invadir as fronteiras da Rússia após a queda da União Soviética, em 1993. Prometemos não armar os novos estados democráticos libertados do Pacto de Varsóvia. Em Minsk I e novamente em Minsk II, assinamos tratados e asseguramos à Rússia que não faríamos da Ucrânia um membro da OTAN. Asseguramos também que não iríamos manipular a política dessa nação de qualquer outra forma. Entretanto, em seguida avançamos e fizemos tudo isso e muito mais.
O governo dos EUA financiaram a criação de laboratórios de bio-armas em toda a Ucrânia a partir de quando a CIA instalou na mesma um governo compatível com seus desejos. Tolos no Ocidente, como a liderança da Alemanha, França, Reino Unido e Canadá, fizeram grandiosos esforços públicos para fornecer armas pesadas à Ucrânia, justificados internamente com a conversa de libertar a população ucraniana oprimida. Tudo isso sem mencionar nada sobre os riscos geopolíticos associados à possibilidade de ampliar a guerra na Europa do Leste.
Quanto à imprensa ocidental, que apodreçam no inferno pelas mentiras e desinformação que têm açoitado.
Se esta guerra se expandir, nós, cidadãos do mundo, deveremos responsabilizar a imprensa, assim como os políticos criminosos. Todos os que nos levaram à beira desse desastre.
Fomos enganados novamente e a única esperança é que nós, os cidadãos do Ocidente, possamos remover os políticos, os líderes da indústria assim como os líderes da mídia que estão orquestrando esse crime de desinformação e engano. Todos e cada um deles deverá ter seu momento de julgamento.
James Sellars, autor e comentarista político. Pode ser contatado por e-mail, jim@jimsellars.com
The final straw that breaks the camels back must surely have been piled on this week. Lithuania has announced that it will close the treaty travel corridor between Belarus and Kaliningrad that has existed between the Russian allied countries to the east and their only Baltic Sea port for the past three decades. It is a move designed to enhance the power of the sanctions imposed by Europe and the West on Russia, following the conflict in Ukraine. This Lithuanian stance is of course advanced by the United States of America, who offer support following entry of Lithuania into the NATO alliance. Even Canada has stationed troops in Lithuania as have Germany and the USA , all part of their role in the proposed deterrence against further Russian military action on the continent of Europe.
Here’s the problem with this idea of added deterrence aimed at Russia. We in the West are the belligerent nations in the current setting. No white hat this time I’m afraid. As a vassal state Lithuania, Canada and the rest of the western alliance are all being led methodically and undeniably toward utter destruction by the most belligerent country in the history of mankind. Who you ask? The United States of America of course. Since the second world war ended in 1945, the US government has admitted to over 70 violent acts against nations and political opponents, coups and invasions, killing millions of innocents in every corner of the earth. Never before in history has a government sowed so much destruction, death and despair in its wake. Citizens of the vassal states of Europe and the Western alliance should take a moment to realize the consequences of hitching their wagon to this beast of death and destruction that is the US government as that evil group drags us toward the end of civilization.
We can read how Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III of National Defence, recently outlined the plan the government of the United States is employing in Ukraine to defeat Russia. This plan calls for the war in that puppet state to continue until Russia is bled dry, until the last Ukrainian is sacrificed on the alter of US governmental ambition to create ‘one world government’ ruled from Washington, controlling the entire Eurasian super continent. It is not about protecting democracy in Ukraine, it is about gaining control of the modern world, and Russia stands in the way of this ambition. Russia believes in national sovereignty, contrasted to an idea of domination by the US government over the whole of mankind. What is the big export product or service offered by the government of the US to the world anyway? It is death and destruction and the drunken madness that is the lust for war. The US government is the largest purveyor of military hardware in the history of mankind. The vassal states are compelled to buy equipment from the US military industrial complex of companies that manufacture stinger missiles, and F35 Lightning advanced jet fighter planes, howitzers, and bioweapons all available from Uncle Sam for a fee.
Recently we learned that the government of the US has given Ukraine more than 53 billion dollars of military aid. This is a greater number than the budget for the entire Russian Military. The narrative is all consuming in the West; ‘we need to commit to supporting Ukraine because if we don’t they will be violated by the Russian ‘illegal and unjustified invasion’ of their neighbour’. The mainstream media repeats the message over and over, politicians jump on their soap box and decry Putin as the worst megalomaniac since Hitler. Of course, there is no balance in the discourse. To quote Senator Dr. Rand Paul, ‘There is no greater purveyor of misinformation in the world than the US government.’ That comment can be applied equally to the governments of Canada, and the United Kingdom particularly, as well as to the other nations of the West. No one mentions the treaties we in the West have broken repeatedly, or the Azov brigades of modern-day Nazis that are running Ukraine and we are supporting with outrageous amounts of taxpayer funds. Never mind the ongoing attacks on the Russian speaking population of eastern Ukraine who have been enduring constant persecution at the hands of these fascists since 2014, when the CIA puppet government of Ukraine was installed. European nations closest to the conflict on the ground in Ukraine aren’t getting the facts either. They are particularly vulnerable to the coming full scale conventional conflict with Russia that we in the West have provoked. The citizens of the West need to pull down their mad politicians one by one, who would even contemplate a conflict that could lead, however remotely to a nuclear exchange. A nuclear exchange, even a limited one would lead to worldwide winter complete with crop failure starvation and disease the likes of which should not be ever considered. The policy if you recall was titled MAD, for mutually assured destruction. The very idea that the US government has as a policy that they could fight and win a limited nuclear war is absurd and completely out of touch with reality.
Citizens of Germany, Holland, France, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Canada, the original members of NATO should cry out for disbanding the alliance. It is not a defensive arrangement anymore it is an arm of US governmental aggression. All of these vassal nations have relinquished their foreign policy and now march in lock step with their overloads in Washington. The newer members of the alliance need to fear the consequences of being in league with a nation who is untrustworthy as that has emerged as the policy or track record at least, of the US government. Washington lies and breaks it treaties and tells the world through the media how noble they are all while killing children with drone strikes. There has never been a lie they won’t promote, never been a weapon system they won’t threaten to use or sell and never been a treaty they won’t break. If war is the objective de jour, there has never been a people they won’t murder, women and children included indiscriminately. Poland, and Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia all now new members of NATO in direct violation with the promises we made with Russia and are particularly in the line of fire if we in the West continue to provoke war with Russia. One has to wonder if the people of these newly democratic nations realise the peril they are teetering on the edge of.
Finally, Russia is doing what any nation would do when presented with the aggression being advanced by the West. We signed treaties not to encroach on the fronters of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, in 1993. We promised not to weaponize the new democratic states released from the Warsaw pact. At Minsk I and again at Minsk II, we signed treaties and assured Russia that we would not make Ukraine a member of NATO or otherwise manipulate the politics of that nation and then went ahead and did all of that and more. The US government has funded the creation of bio-weapons labs all over Ukraine now that the CIA has installed a compliant government. Fools in the West like the leadership in Germany, France, the UK and Canada have made grandiose public strutting of their effort to provide heavy weapons to Ukraine, justified domestically with talk of liberating the down-trodden Ukrainian population. All this while not mentioning anything about the geo-political risks associated with the possibility of widening war in easter Europe. As for the Western press, may they rot in hell for the lies and misinformation that they have been flogging. If this war expands, we the citizens of the world must hold the press responsible right along with the politicians, criminals all who have walked us to the edge of this disaster. We have been lied to again and the only hope is that we the citizens of the west can remove the politicos, and leaders of industry and the media who are orchestrating this crime of misinformation and deception and bring them all to their moment of judgement.
James Sellars, author, political commentator, can be contacted by email, jim@jimsellars.com
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