'Philippines becoming U.S. proxy against China'

 

Lena Petrova

The United States recently deployed mid-range advanced missile systems and pledged $500 million in military aid to the Philippines. As geopolitical rivalry between the US and China increases, the Asia -Pacific region is being groomed for a new proxy conflict. 

Dr. Anna Malindog-Uy, an academic, prolific writer and researcher, joined Lena to discuss how the Philippines is slowly becoming "the next Ukraine" and what it means for the world. 

Sunday song

 

 

'You must take care - the 3rd atom bomb never falls'

 

 

 Pete Seeger live Australia.

One of my most favorite peace songs ever from Japan - I learned of it when I first went to Japan in 1984 and a peace group in Fukuoka gave me a tape with the song on it.

Bruce

 

Americans will pay the price: As war widens, US assets become easy targets

 

US economic and military interests across West Asia could come under direct fire as Israel's aggressions drag Washington into a region-wide escalation.

By Mohamad Hasan Sweidan
 
As noted previously by The Cradle, a World Bank study indicated that any tension in the region would directly impact energy prices, with the rate of increase varying according to the level of tension. This issue is particularly significant now, as US polls show that most voters prioritize the domestic economy.

For instance, a February Pew survey found that 73 percent of voters consider strengthening the economy a top priority. Consequently, Iran has the potential to influence American voter sentiment indirectly by affecting energy prices through actions involving the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

The likelihood of a regional war is becoming increasingly tangible due to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s persistent aggressive policies in Gaza and the broader region. This potential multi-front conflict could reach unprecedented levels, especially considering Iran’s perception that its very existence as an Islamic Republic is at stake.

In such a scenario, Tehran and other members of the Resistance Axis would likely deploy all available resources and strategies to defend their collective interests. And if US military forces or facilities become directly engaged, US interests – both military and economic – will be at the heart of the confrontation.

Deploying more US troops and assets into the region at such a critical juncture only broadens American target banks for the Axis.

~ Mohamed Sweidan is a strategic studies researcher, a writer for different media platforms, and the author of several studies in the field of international relations. Mohamed's main focus is on Russian affairs, Turkish politics, and the relationship between energy security and geopolitics.

The western gun-slingers

 

 

The western gun-slingers

They didn't call it

the Wild West

for nothing.

 

The US-NATO are 

experienced killers.

An old friend, and nun, 

used to say,

'We are a killing nation.

We can kill them fast, 

or we can kill them slow'.

WW3 is upon us

as the gun-slinging west

mounts terror campaigns

virtually everywhere

across the globe.

 

The Gaza Method:

The West’s evolving blueprint 

for controlling a crisis ridden world 

is mass-murder and subjugating the poor, 

the rebellious, 

and those deemed 'superfluous'.

It's all a desperate act,

by the white 

colonial masters,

that have rampaged 

for generations

to remain in control

of the world

for plunder 

of resources 

and cheap labor.

 

But those days 

of full spectrum dominance

are disappearing.

Thus the full-bore

western onslaught.

 

Even in the so-called

sophisticated and 

genteel Britain,

we witness

the chaos

of the anti-immigrant forces

that learned its trade

from the King & Queen's

long brutal theft 

from their

'good subjects'

in India

and beyond.

 

(Soon to come

to the U.S.

which often follows

the lead of the Brit

originators.

Yes, after all

we are indeed

the step-child of

the palace occupants.)

Those concerned

about the true origins

of unrestrained immigration,

from the long-battered

Global South,

might consider protesting

the endless war$

manufactured by 

US-UK-EU-NATO

that create the 

mass flows

of refugees.

 

BRICS + is a modern

slave revolt

that the western 

gun-slingers most fear.

 

US-UK-EU-NATO declare

BRICS + rebellion

must be destroyed

at all costs,

even risking the dreaded

modern nuclear version

of Atlantis.

Speak out now

or forever

hold your breath.

 

Bruce 

Remembering in Visakhapatnam

 

From: Prabhakar Jalluri
To:     Global Network

Observed Anti Nuclear day and against Weaponisation of space by a group of  young people at Dr. Ambedkar library in Visakhapatnam, AP, India.

The youth and peace warriors Demanded to stop wars in west Asia and Europe.

Prabhakar jv
India  

VP Harris: 'I'm here because we believe in democracy'

 

Middle East Eye

We asked American journalist Chris Hedges whether he thinks Kamala Harris will be different on Gaza than Joe Biden.  

 

 

Jill Stein's campaign notes: In responding with such contempt to these protesters, Kamala sent the message that while there are no red lines for Israel, she’s drawing a red line to those who dare interrupt her with reminders of the inconvenient reality of the ongoing carnage in Gaza. Kamala’s brief honeymoon with progressives is over and the message is loud and clear: It’s time to fall into line and be silent about genocide.

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What is going on right now in the 2024 Prez campaign is a color revolution. It's being coordinated by Madison Avenue and Hollywood under CIA direction. 

Mainstream media is doing its usual job of round-the-clock mind washing to bring those who pay little attention into the Dems fold. 

Watch Harris become even more emboldened now as she performs her prosecutor-cop harsh act to shut down anyone who stands in resistance to the corporate oligarchic control. (Already some liberals are calling for the movement protests at the Dem Convention in Chicago to be cancelled. They don't want any truths to be shouted from the Chicago streets. It's too uncomfortable for the libs.)

Democracy is gone. It's a race to increase tensions between urban-rural and all the rest. The goal is to divert anger/rage away from the dominant powers of Wall Street banksters and the war machine. Instead the divide-and-conquer America agenda pits the nation against itself. Just like we now see in Britain and Israel (where the country is equally divided over excusing anal rape of Palestinian prisoners or not.)

Harris will play the role of the smiling hard-ass backstabber. Trump plays the racist, America first role. A perfect drama to bring the public into its final act of submission before the feet of Mr. Big and his knee-busting hench men and women.

Our 'new exciting' digital economic future will be rolled out during the next administration (no matter which party wins) in response to economic collapse. Further destruction of civil liberties will escalate. Poverty will take off like a rocket ship. Military production will be the only real jobs game in town. Health care only for the billionaires....life expectancy will decline dramatically.

We are on to WW3 - and you can't talk about in in polite company!

All the while the public's attention is turned to the 2024 'Election escapades'.

Enjoy, if you can.

Bruce

My sanity patch

 

Our burial stone remembering Loukie & Stan Lofchie who adopted MB and I after we moved to Maine in 2003. They found us our first home in Brunswick and showered us with love til their passing. (Click on photo for better view)

These photos I took on Monday while at the community garden. This is my patch that I've now had three years. It is where I go to escape a bit from the madness that surrounds us. 

(Although quite difficult late last week when the Air Force Thunderbirds were 'thundering' just above the garden drumming up support for their August 3 show-off here in Brunswick.)

I ride my bike one mile from our apartment to the garden. I love riding my bike and do it as often as possible during spring, summer and fall. Twice a week I also ride the bike to the local college swimming pool for my exercise routine. Having spent so many years living in Florida I do like being in the water even if it is an indoor pool.

I've already harvested peas, garlic, spring radish, diakon radish and lately taking kale, green beans, and lettuce. I've got cherry tomatoes and basil in big pots outside our apartment.

 

The home garden at our apartment

Still to come are lots of onions, collard greens, carrots and my first time trying Maine indigenous people's skunk pole beans.

MB and I go to a favorite spot (Potts Point) on the ocean and gather seaweed to fertilize the garden each year. 

 

I need these healthy and tasty diversions as they allow me to put my hands in the dirt and remember what is really essential about life.

Bruce