U.S. economic house of cards revealed

 

Gotta see this one - top Washington Economic Advisor can't explain why just printing more $$$ (which is inflationary) is a bad thing.

We are in trouble.

 

 

By taking over Gaza border crossing to Egypt Israel has breached Camp David accords and declared war. 

Will Egypt respond? 

Be serious 

Cuban students in solidarity

 

Hundreds of students gathered at the University of Havana to condemn the police repression of US student protesters and show their support for Palestine. 

On the same steps, students were repressed by the Batista dictatorship in the 1950s — one of the sparks of the Cuban revolution.

All over the world people of good heart and soul are on the streets.

But those in power in Tel Aviv, Washington, London and Brussels push the war on Palestine with frozen hearts.

They reveal their true agenda to drive Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank. The zionists wish to create 'Greater Israel' at any cost. An ever expanding western military base in the region.

But Israel is digging their own grave. The zionists have put their nation's future on the line and by doing so have exposed their cold soul to the entire globe. 

Israel has lost the war and they have lost the public relations battle. People have become sick of the constant stream of lies coming from the zionists.

‘No Partial Deals’

Umm Khalid Shahada also wants the war to stop.

“We do not want a partial ceasefire deal, followed by a continuation of the war on Gaza as it happened last November,” she told The Palestine Chronicle.

“Hamas’ demands – stopping the war, Israel’s withdrawal, and the return of the refugees – are the demands of every Palestinian who has lived through pain and hardship during this horrific war,” Umm Khalid continued.

 On Tuesday, Esteban Carrillo, a Beirut-based Ecuadorian journalist and current editor for The Cradle, joined Sputnik’s Fault Lines to discuss the ongoing attacks on Rafah, as well as the political implications that those attacks will pose on US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“For weeks now, there's been this effort to make it seem like it's Hamas that doesn't want a deal, that they don't want to sit down at the table to accept Israeli demands. Where, in reality, it's the opposite,” Carrillo explained. “Hamas has been very steadfast in what they're asking for. And it's Israel who doesn't want a lasting ceasefire. This is really the crux of the issue here.”

What's next?

Will western colonial powers (now entering serious decline) have the courage to force the zionist global cabal to stop their madness?

Will the Biden administration and Congress have the guts to reject the current orders from AIPAC to support the zionist genocide of the Palestinian people to the final end?

Time will tell. 

In the meantime we must stay in the streets and force our collective corporate dominated governments to change policy or face even more severe social disruptions.

Bruce

How CIA and MI6 created ISIS

 

By Kit Klarenberg

Within just 24 hours of the horrific mass shooting in Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on March 22nd, which left at least 137 innocent people dead and 60 more critically wounded, US officials blamed the slaughter on ISIS-K, Daesh’s South-Central Asian branch. For many, the attribution’s celerity raised suspicions Washington was seeking to decisively shift Western public and Russian government focus away from the actual culprits - be that Ukraine, and/or Britain, Kiev’s foremost proxy sponsor.

Full details of how the four shooters were recruited, directed, armed, and financed, and who by, are yet to emerge. The Kremlin claims to have unearthed evidence that Kiev’s SBU were the ultimate architects, which the agency denies, charging that Russian authorities knew about the attack and permitted it to happen, in order to ramp up its assault on Ukraine. It has been reported that the killers received funds from a cryptocurrency wallet belonging to ISIS’ Tajikistan wing.   

Whatever the truth of the matter, it is certain that the four individuals responsible had no clue who or what truly sponsored their monstrous actions. Contrary to the group’s mainstream portrayal, as inspired by fanatic, extreme religious fundamentalism, ISIS are primarily guns for hire. At any given time, they act at the behest of an array of international donors, bound by common interests. Funding, weapons, and orders reach its fighters circuitously, and opaquely. There is almost invariably layer upon layer of cutouts between the perpetrators of an attack claimed by the group, and its ultimate orchestrators and financiers.

Given ISIS-K is currently arrayed against China, Iran, and Russia - in other words, the US Empire’s primary adversaries - it is incumbent to revisit their “parent” group’s origins. Emerging seemingly out of nowhere just over a decade ago, before dominating mainstream media headlines and Western public consciousness for several years before vanishing again, at one stage the group occupied vast swaths of Iraqi and Syrian territory, declaring an “Islamic State”, which issued its own currency, passports, and vehicle registration plates.
    

   

Devastating military interventions independently launched by the US and Russia wiped out that demonic construct in 2017. The CIA and MI6 were no doubt immensely relieved. After all, extremely awkward questions about how precisely ISIS came to be were comprehensively extinguished. As we shall see, the terror group and its caliphate did not emerge in the manner of lightning on a dark night, but due to dedicated, determined policy hatched in London and Washington, implemented by their spying agencies.

‘Continuingly Hostile’

RAND is a highly influential, Washington DC-headquartered “think tank”. Bankrolled to the tune of almost $100 million annually by the Pentagon and other US government entities, it regularly disseminates recommendations on national security, foreign affairs, military strategy, and covert and overt actions overseas. These pronouncements are more often than not subsequently adopted as policy.

For example, a July 2016 RAND paper on the prospect of “war with China” forecast a need to fill Eastern Europe with US soldiers in advance of a “hot” conflict with Beijing, as Russia would undoubtedly side with its neighbour and ally in such a dispute. It was therefore considered necessary to tie down Moscow’s forces at its borders. Six months later, scores of NATO troops duly arrived in the region, ostensibly to counter “Russian aggression”.

Similarly, in April 2019 RAND published Extending Russia. It set out “a range of possible means” to “bait Russia into overextending itself,” so as to “undermine the regime’s stability.” These methods included; providing “lethal aid” to Ukraine; increasing US support for the Syrian rebels; promoting “regime change in Belarus”; exploiting “tensions” in the Caucasus; neutralising “Russian influence in Central Asia” and Moldova. Most of that came to pass thereafter.

In this context, RAND’s November 2008 Unfolding The Long War makes for disquieting reading. It explored ways the US Global War on Terror could be prosecuted once coalition forces formally left Iraq, under the terms of a withdrawal agreement inked by Baghdad and Washington that same month. This development by definition threatened Anglo dominion over Persian Gulf oil and gas resources, which would remain “a strategic priority” when the occupation was officially over.

“This priority will interact strongly with that of prosecuting the long war,” RAND declared. The think tank went on to propose a “divide and rule” strategy to maintain US hegemony in Iraq, despite the power vacuum created by withdrawal. Under its auspices, Washington would exploit “fault lines between [Iraq’s] various Salafi-jihadist groups to turn them against each other and dissipate their energy on internal conflicts”, while “supporting authoritative Sunni governments against a continuingly hostile Iran”:

“This strategy relies heavily on covert action, information operations, unconventional warfare, and support to indigenous security forces…The US and its local allies could use nationalist jihadists to launch proxy campaigns to discredit transnational jihadists in the eyes of the local populace…This would be an inexpensive way of buying time…until the US can return its full attention to the [region]. US leaders could also choose to capitalize on the sustained Shia-Sunni Conflict…by taking the side of conservative Sunni regimes against Shiite empowerment movements in the Muslim world.”
    

An incomprehensible graphic from the RAND report

‘Great Danger’

So it was that the CIA and MI6 began supporting Sunni “nationalist jihadists” throughout West Asia. The next year, Bashar Assad rejected a Qatari proposal to route Doha’s vast gas reserves directly to Europe, via a $10 billion, 1,500 kilometre-long pipeline spanning Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. As extensively documented by WikiLeaks-released diplomatic cables, US, Israeli and Saudi intelligence immediately decided to overthrow Assad by fomenting a local Sunni rebellion, and started financing opposition groups for the purpose.

This effort became turbocharged in October 2011, with MI6 redirecting weapons and extremist fighters from Libya to Syria, in the wake of Muammar Gaddafi’s televised murder. The CIA oversaw that operation, using the British as an arm’s length cutout to avoid notifying Congress of its machinations. Only in June 2013, with then-President Barack Obama’s official authorisation, did the Agency’s cloak-and-dagger connivances in Damascus become formalised - and later admitted - under the title “Timber Sycamore”.    

    
At this time, Western officials universally referred to their Syrian proxies as “moderate rebels”. Yet, Washington was well-aware its surrogates were dangerous extremists, seeking to carve a fundamentalist caliphate out of the territory they occupied. An August 2012 US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report released under Freedom of Information laws observes that events in Baghdad were “taking a clear sectarian direction,” with radical Salafist groups “the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”

These factions included Al Qaeda’s Iraqi wing (AQI), and its umbrella offshoot, Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). The pair went on to form ISIS, a prospect the DIA report not only predicted, but seemingly endorsed:

“If the situation unravels, there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria…This is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want in order to isolate the Syrian regime…ISI could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create great danger.”

Despite such grave concerns, the CIA continued to dispatch unaccountably vast shipments of weapons and money to Syria’s “moderate rebels”, well-knowing this “aid” would almost inevitably end up in ISIS hands. Moreover, Britain concurrently ran secret programs costing millions to train opposition paramilitaries in the art of killing, while providing medical assistance to wounded jihadis. London also donated multiple ambulances, purchased from Qatar, to armed groups in the country.

Leaked documents indicate the risk of equipment and personnel from these efforts being lost to Al-Nusra, ISIS, and other extremist groups in West Asia was judged unavoidably “high” by British intelligence. Yet, there was no concomitant strategy for countering this hazard at all, and the operations continued apace. Almost as if training and arming ISIS was precisely the desired outcome. 

~  Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.

600,000 kids in Rafah - blood is on US-Israel-UK-EU and weak Arab nations hands

 

Today in London George Galloway MP challenged the deputy Foreign Office minister Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell MP over British government inaction over Gaza and for giving the exact same answer he did one week ago to the House. 

 

 

German cops punishing students in Berlin

 

 

Students who gathered at the campus of the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) in the German capital Berlin to protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza were detained after a violent intervention by German police.

'This is about Palestine'

 

 

“This wall is meant to make Palestine visible on campus and illuminate both the horrors of the Israeli occupation and the importance of Palestinian resistance.” 

At Tufts University, students create a mock apartheid wall as part of the country-wide, student- led campus encampments in solidarity with Gaza.  

A Jewish student member of the protest talks about why he is involved in this Free Palestine movement at Tufts.

Let students speak: Positive way of handling campus resistance

 

Palestinian American student gives power speech at 2024 University of Toledo commencement regarding the war on Gaza and state of affairs in the United States. 

“As the graduates of today, we have the opportunity to be the heroes of tomorrow…”  

 

                                                      Copenhagen, Denmark

Prime Minister of Georgia Exposes U.S. Regime Change Attempt

 

 

Moon of Alabama

In the April 18 I had mentioned a recent color revolution attempt in Georgia:

U.S./EU Lobby Against Georgian Law That Would Reveal Their Secret Influence

    Those organization who currently receive money from the various U.S. or EU government or non-government organizations are of course not amused that they will have to reveal their association with such sources. They want to lobby for foreign positions without being identified as foreign influencers.

    They have therefore launched protests against their country's government and parliament which has passed the law in the first reading. Two further readings will be required to finalize the law.

    The protesters against the law claim that it is a "Russian law" against "foreign agents".

    However neither is the law "Russian style" - it is a copy of FARA - nor does the law include the loaded word "agent". It does not accuse anyone of being such but seeks public transparency over foreign financial influences which would of course also include Russian ones.

Despite violent protests by the usual suspects the relevant bill has passed its second reading in the Georgian parliament. A third and final reading is expected in the mid of May.

The 'NGO' complex of U.S./EU regime change organizations in Georgia is enormous:

    Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo - 8:20 UTC · May 3, 2024

    🇬🇪 “Georgia has one of the highest amount of NGOs per capita!
    - 20,000 NGOs are active in Georgia!
    - 1 NGO per 148 citizens!
    - 90% get their funding from foreign countries!”
    -> He is not pro Russia, he is pro Georgia and the protesters are pro money!
    -> BBC interview with Nikoloz Samkharadze, Chair, Foreign Relations Committee, Parliament of Georgia (vid)

The current government of Georgia has a solid majority and obviously knows what is happening in its country.

It has rejected a recent - conditional - invitation to the U.S.:

    The Government of Georgia has declined an invitation from the US to discuss strategic partnership and assistance, reports Ekho Kavkazu.

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia confirmed receiving the invitation from the Prime Minister. However, before the visit, parliament was supposed to temporarily suspend consideration of the bill On Transparency of Foreign Influence.

Well, the parliament did not do so.

Now witness this very public slap-in-the face which Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze is handing out to Derek H. Chollet, the Counselor of the U.S. State Department:

   Irakli Kobakhidze @PM_Kobakhidze - 8:13 UTC · May 3, 2024

Spoke to @CounselorDOS and expressed my sincere disappointment with the two revolution attempts of 2020-2023 supported by the former US Ambassador and those carried out through NGOs financed from external sources. Had these attempts been successful, the second front line would have been opened in Georgia.

Besides, I explained to Mr. Chollet that false statements made by the officials of the US State Department about the transparency bill and street rallies remind us of similar false statements made by the former US Ambassador in 2020-2023, which served to the facilitation of violence from foreign funded actors and to the support of revolutionary processes back then.

Also, I clarified to Mr. Chollet that it requires a special effort to restart the relations against this background, which is impossible without a fair and honest approach.

I have not expressed my concerns with Mr. Chollet about a brutal crackdown of the students' protest rally in New York City.

It is rare to see a small power like Georgia publicly exposing U.S. mischief like this.

Speech to New Zealand Gaza Rally

 

By Murray Horton

New Zealand needs to get tough with Israel. It's not as if we haven't done so before.

When NZ authorities busted a Mossad operation in Auckland 20 years ago, the Government didn't say: "Oh well, Israel has the right to defend itself". No, it arrested, prosecuted, convicted, imprisoned and deported the Israeli agents, plus made them pay a big sum of damages. And it refused to restore normal diplomatic relations with Israel, until Israel apologised to NZ. Which Israel did.

Today's Government needs to treat Israel the same way it treats other aggressors, like Russia, with the likes of sanctions.

And the Government needs to designate Zionism as an inherently racist, terrorist ideology.

Everyone knows that the Gaza War would stop in five minutes if the US stopped arming Israel to the teeth and allowing it to commit genocide with impunity.

Israel is the mass murderer; the US is the enabler of mass murder.

NZ is part of the US empire. The most useful thing we could do is to sever our ties to that empire, something we bravely started in the 80s with the nuclear free policy.

Develop a genuinely independent foreign policy.

Get out of US wars, like the one in the Red Sea and Yemen.

Get out of the Five Eyes spy alliance.

Close the Waihopai spy base and the GCSB, the NZ agency which runs it.

 

 

Kick out Rocket Lab, NZ's newest American military base.

Stop the process of getting entangled with NATO.

Stay out of AUKUS, which is simply building an alliance to fight a war with China. I never thought I'd find myself on the same side of an issue as Don Brash and Richard Prebble but even they have strongly opposed AUKUS.

Zionism is the enemy of the Palestinian people.

US imperialism is the enemy of the Palestinian people and the New Zealand people.

~ Murray Horton is Secretary/Organiser of Anti-Bases Campaign in Christchurch, New Zealand

Just a poke in the eye....

 

@randomname3109

they slap your face, and cry that you have hurt their hand  

 

 

 

	Steven Donziger ⁦‪@SDonziger‬⁩ BREAKING: This brilliant speech yesterday by a Columbia professor on the cowardice of the university administration in calling in police to arrest students will be cited throughout history -– and will inspire generations of students for decades to come. Columbia still on… pic.twitter.com/n5rLw2KR6v   5/2/24, 11:39 AM

Israel digging their hole deeper in the Middle East

 

 

Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara critiques Israel's actions as indicative of broader political trends. 

He dismisses the notion of Israel as a democratic state, highlighting its focus on maintaining a Jewish majority. 

Bishara argues that Israel's ban on Al Jazeera reflects weakness and desperation, driven by international scrutiny and public backlash. 

He emphasizes the importance of social media in circumventing censorship and believes younger generations are pivotal in shaping future political landscapes.

Sunday song