A brave man.
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.
Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....
A brave man.
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.
Another very interesting piece from the WSJ. These details have been available through OSINT sources but it's a good roundup showing how key Europe is to US operations against Iran:
Merz has said publicly that this "isn't [Germany's] war," but he has no choice but to allow US operations out of German air bases due to pre-existing legal agreements.
Meloni has spun Italian involvement as minor because only refueling missions are flown out of Aviano. Similarly, French defense minister Vautrin said, “a refueling aircraft is a gas station, not a fighter jet."
These technicalities may work on the European public, but it's difficult to imagine they'll work on the Iranians.
Let's focus not on what Trump says, but on what he does.
These are the U.S. military units recently deployed to the Middle East against Iran.
But for what mission?
Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus
Cuba 1950s was a Mafia-controlled Epstein Island where women were forced into prostitution by organized criminals who promised poor women from the countryside work as dancers or maids. At one point upwards of 30,000 Cuban women were exploited in the sex trade.
1950s Cuba, run by the American Mafia led by Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Santo Trafficante, Jr. in conjunction with dictator Fulgencio Batista and backed by the CIA - was a decadent paradise for US elites; business moguls, politicians and celebrities who went to Havana to partake in gambling as well as sex parties often arranged by the Mafia, giving the mob blackmail to guarantee allegiance from investors and US politicians alike.
One of Castro's first moves after the revolution was to make prostitution illegal. And instead of punishing sex workers and trafficking victims, the revolutionary government offered them re-education and job training.
Needless to say, the "customers' weren't happy when Castro and the revolutionaries from the mountains stormed into Havana on New Year's Eve 1958 and sent the mob and Batista packing.
The Kessler Syndrome is the idea that filling Earth’s orbit with too many satellites will inevitably cause failures to occur, leading to a cascading series of collisions that eventually distributes a layer of debris across the entire orbit, making it impossible to reach space from our planet.
According to new research, we’re actually closer to this scenario than we thought.
If this happens much of the Earth will go dark.
Nations ignore this at our own peril.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says in an interview:
In 2004, Malaysia purchased eight F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets from the United States, which were among the most advanced aircraft at the time. The value of this deal exceeded $640 million.
After receiving the aircraft, Malaysia formed a team of experts and engineers to conduct a detailed study of their features and combat capabilities.
👈 The Malaysian experts discovered that the aircraft was transmitting every flight's information to a US military base, such as:
Not only that, but the aircraft's operating system and autopilot feature could also be controlled from the US base. This means that if a US officer on the ground simply presses a button, the aircraft's route can be changed, it can be crashed, or even the target of its attack can be altered.
When Malaysia tried to modify the aircraft's operating system, the United States and manufacturer McDonnell Douglas strongly objected. They even threatened to stop supplying parts and maintenance, and impose restrictions.
Even when Malaysia requested specific parts to activate certain capabilities of the aircraft, the company rejected that as well.
Ultimately, Malaysia realized that it had bought aircraft that could not be used in actual combat without US approval.
This issue is not limited to Malaysia alone; many Arab and Muslim countries face the same reality.
The lesson is clear: Until a nation develops its own defense technology [and sovereign foreign policy], it will remain dependent on others."
~ (Source: TV interview on Al Jazeera with Mahathir Mohamad)
See more on this story here
The Public Service Company of New Mexico serves over 500,000 people.
Blackstone would make billions and execs would make millions, while the 40% of PNM customers in poverty get screwed.
What is next? Public transit, water systems, sewer systems, public parks, and more.
Corporations are out to own everything across the nation (and world)....they will bleed these public entities and leave the taxpayers with virtually nothing. It's high-tech led neo-feudalism.
The goal?
To help ease ongoing shortages and support millions of people facing economic hardship.
Officials described the move as a sign of longstanding ties and cooperation between the two countries.
The rice will be distributed for free across the island, offering relief during a time when access to basic food supplies has become a growing concern due to the increasing hostile US military naval blockade of Cuba.
As China, Russia, Mexico and others attempt to help Cuba will the Pentagon move to stop them?
Can the US afford to keep escalating globally in order to vainly save its crashing colonial project which only benefits the 1%?