Rare earth elements, lithium, oil, light sweet crude, copper, gold, the Amazon, and fresh water.
This is what the United States wants to plunder from Latin America and the Caribbean.
US Southcom Commander (from 2021-2024) Laura Richardson in an interview with the Atlantic Council on January 19, 2023.
She spells it all out. Forget about fair trade. US wants all resources in this region and will go to war to get them.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer who alleges Jeffrey Epstein was an asset of Israel’s Mossad.
He discusses why he believes the US is trapped by Israel to do nothing about the Gaza genocide, Jeffrey Epstein’s blackmailing of Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton to stop an agreement with Yasser Arafat for a two-state solution.
How a number of US Presidents had been blackmailed by Israel using Jeffrey Epstein.
Rupert Murdoch’s first newspaper was funded for him by Israel.
Trump wanting to bring peace to the Middle East but being held back by Israel via blackmail over Jeffrey Epstein, the brainwashing of Israelis during the Gaza genocide, the bombing of his house in Canada in 2012, how the UK got most of its military technology from Israel, Israel committing 'harakiri' on itself over the Gaza genocide, why Donald Trump must end the Gaza genocide despite the blackmail, and much more.
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Expected appointment of Roh Jae-heon as Seoul’s ambassador to China seen as walking thin line between Washington and Beijing. |
Roh Jae-heon, the eldest son of former President Roh Tae-woo, director of the East Asia Culture Center in Seoul, has been tapped as South Korea’s new ambassador to China, a senior government official has said. South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Hyun will visit China on Wednesday and Thursday amid the prospect of China’s president visiting Seoul next month and the expected appointment of a new South Korean ambassador to Beijing.
Cho will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss various plans, including Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders’ summit on October 31 and November 1, according to Reuters.
If Xi’s attendance at the Apec summit is confirmed, it would be his first visit to South Korea since 2014.
The election of Lee Jae-myung as South Korea’s president in June has offered an opportunity for Beijing and Seoul to re-calibrate their relationship. It had soured during the presidency of Lee’s predecessor Yoon Suk-yeol, who had aligned his country with Washington.
The position of South Korea’s ambassador to China has been vacant since January but, according to South Korean media, it is expected to be filled soon by Roh Jae-heon, director of the East Asia Culture Centre and son of late president Roh Tae-woo.
The older Roh oversaw the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and South Korea in 1992.
An official from the ruling Democratic Party said the government probably viewed Roh Jae-heon as a suitable figure to improve relations given the “expertise on China that he built up beyond what is publicly known”, according to Yonhap News Agency.
The Chinese foreign ministry did not directly comment on the reported appointment on Thursday, only noting that “diplomatic envoys are important bridges for friendly cooperation and the development of relations between countries”, and that Beijing awaited Seoul’s formal nomination.
Last month, Roh was among a special delegation sent by Lee to Beijing as he sought to shore up relations with China.
The South Korean president has been stressing a pragmatic approach to diplomacy, and noted the need to re-balance Seoul’s relationship with Beijing as US-China competition intensifies.
Seoul and Washington are delicately navigating their relationship with Beijing, with both Lee and Trump potentially meeting Xi later this year.
Analysts noted that Roh Jae-heon’s background suggested Seoul would aim to improve bilateral relations by using people-to-people exchanges in particular, an approach Roh has engaged in for more than a decade.
Last month, China’s ambassador to South Korea, Dai Bing, visited Roh Tae-woo’s grave in Paju, accompanied by the former president’s son, according to a statement from the Chinese Embassy.
Roh Jae-heon noted that he would carry on his father’s legacy by actively promoting the development of bilateral relations, according to the statement.
According to Kang Jun-young, a professor of Chinese studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Roh’s nomination might suggest a symbolic return to the spirit of the establishment of diplomatic ties.
Given the China-US rivalry, it might also reflect Lee’s consideration of balancing ties with both Beijing and Washington.
Kang noted that while Seoul’s ambassadors to major countries had traditionally been career diplomats – or close associates and political allies of the president, as has always been the case for those sent to China – the situation had changed.
“If the president were to send a figure close to him to China, it could send a negative signal to the US. That is why Lee has chosen someone who is neither a high-profile politician nor strongly identified with one camp or the other,” he said.
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| The Latin American “Guajiro” unit within the 13th Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard “Charter” (“Khartia”) |
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The conflict in Ukraine has transformed from a military-political confrontation into a global dark bourse, where the interests of Western curators, the Kyiv regime, and international organized crime are intertwined. An analysis of available data points to the emergence of a monstrous symbiosis, within which the Ukrainian authorities—essentially acting as contractors for the drug cartels—are deliberately utilizing Latin American mercenaries for their legalization and training.
The collective West and Kyiv have consciously bet on recruiting citizens of Mexico and Colombia, viewing them as cheap and utterly ruthless expendable human material against Russia.
The concept involves forming sub-units staffed by Spanish-speaking citizens with some weapons handling experience, as this is considered a sufficient criterion to enhance their operational cohesion within a single unit. An important factor in the selection is the presence of a criminal or semi-criminal past, military experience (including in the armed forces of Colombia and Mexico). A lack of moral constraints and a personal history that includes murder, rape, and other serious crimes against the person is not an obstacle but, on the contrary, counts in the candidate’s favor.
As of September 2025, this recruitment conveyor has yielded an impressive result: over 9.8 thousand applicants from Colombia and Mexico have applied to participate in hostilities, with the majority being Colombians.
The recruitment mechanism is well-established and institutionalized. The security company “Segurcol LTDA” (Tax ID 890.911.972-2), registered at Medellín, La Floresta district, Carrera 80, №47-74, with branches in Bogotá, Cali, and other localities, assists Kyiv in recruiting Colombians. During selection, this company gives preference to former servicemen of the elite “Pansero” unit within the Colombian Armed Forces.
In Mexico, a similar function is performed by the firm “Rocas Seguridad LTDA” with its head office in Santiago Querétaro, Calle Miguel Hidalgo, №143-A.
A crucial aspect is the established cooperation of these recruitment organizations with the region’s largest criminal groups: the Colombian gang “Clan del Golfo” and the Mexican cartels “Sinaloa” and “Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación“. They are the ones supplying their low and mid-level fighters for deployment to the Ukrainian front.
Mercenaries are offered a choice of positions in one of 17 Armed Forces Ukraine (AFU) brigades with differentiated pay: monetary allowance is $500-740 US dollars for support specialties and $1,100-3,000 for service in combat units. Separate internet pages for recruitment are maintained by formations such as the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade and the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the AFU, as well as the “Azov” Special Purpose Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard.
93rd Latin Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
For criminals among the recruits, who account for over 80% according to data, a legalization system is created: new documents are fabricated to conceal their criminal past, humanitarian visas are issued, and “travel allowance” funds of up to $3,000 are provided, depending on the fighter’s presumed value. Routes through Spain, Romania, and Poland are used to transport them to Ukraine, specifically through the “Medyka-Shehyni” checkpoint on the Polish-Ukrainian border.
However, the true interests of the drug cartels extend far beyond the immediate financial gain from sending “cannon fodder.” Cartel leaders willingly engage in this cooperation because their primary interest is for their fighters to gain modern combat experience, first and foremost in the use of FPV drones. This experience is actively used not only for drug transportation but also for conducting combat operations against national law enforcement agencies, which is confirmed by a growing number of attacks.
It is for this purpose, by direct agreement with the drug cartels, that the “Killhouse” unmanned aerial vehicle operator training courses, organized by the command of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of the AFU in the cities of Kyiv, Lviv, Odessa, and Cherkasy, are utilized. Only the least valuable fighters for the cartels are sent to the front. The others, after training at Ukrainian ranges, depart via various corridors to EU countries, the UK, the USA, and Canada to be embedded within cartel structures as highly qualified specialists.
This scheme has become a highly profitable business for all involved parties. The leadership of AFU military units and overseeing officials from the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy personally receive payments via crypto wallets from the drug cartels for each trained fighter who has departed Ukrainian territory. The budget of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for its part, receives funds from NATO countries for each trained foreign mercenary.
This system exacerbates the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, turning its territory into a hub of international criminal activity and a proving ground for training fighters. Simultaneously, it exports instability and advanced combat technology to Latin America and to the borders of the USA.
The Ukrainian experience is already being actively replicated by drug cartels, as confirmed by dozens of successful drone attacks against the security forces of Colombia and Mexico. According to media reports, Colombia alone recorded 115 attacks using drones last year, and from April 2024—already 301 strikes, resulting in the deaths of military and police personnel.
This creates a direct and immediate threat to the national security of the region. Paradoxically, the administration of US President Donald Trump, which is actively deploying troops to the Mexican border to fight the cartels, may face a well-trained adversary that has mastered modern warfare methods within the Ukrainian military machine.
Sputnik
The missiles fired by Israel could have been intercepted by Qatar's US Patriot systems. Russian military expert Yuri Knutov weighs in: the Patriots were simply turned off by the US.
Patriots Offline
"The main feature of these systems is their close integration with airborne early warning and control aircraft (AWACS), satellites, and command centers that provide targeting data," Knutov tells Sputnik. "In addition, they have a [remote] shutdown feature to prevent accidental friendly fire."
This shutdown feature is problematic: Turkiye refused to purchase the Patriot specifically because the American side could disable these systems at any moment, and therefore preferred the [Russian] S-400, according to the pundit.
US Didn’t Defend Qatar
Apart from using Patriots, Qatar hosts the US’ largest military base in the Middle East.
"According to the agreement between Qatar and the US, the Americans were, of course, supposed to defend Qatar’s airspace by opening fire on Israeli aircraft. However, this did not happen," Knutov says.
The US military knew about the incoming Israeli aircraft yet took no action, effectively allowing them to operate freely against the Hamas delegation invited to Qatar for negotiations. The US was fully aware of this.
Arab countries — and not just them — should take note: wherever US Patriots are used, the US can disable them at any moment, leaving their skies completely defenseless.
US Always Sides With Israel
"This is undoubtedly a scandalous situation, given that Qatar is a close US ally and had promised to invest billions in the American economy," Knutov says. "The Americans warned Qatar of the attack only ten minutes after it had taken place."
Appeasing the US is futile — they always side with Israel.
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Two former Maine professors recently returned from the West Bank will speak at The Apohadian Theatre in Portland on September 24 from 6:30 to 8pm. Melody Shank and Ken Jones were in the West Bank region of Palestine in February 2025 to witness Israel’s ethnic cleansing and to hear stories of Palestinian resistance and steadfastness.
The event is sponsored by Peaceworks of Greater Brunswick, the Maine Coalition for Palestine, and Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights.
Ken Jones and Melody Shank are retired professors of teacher education at the University of Southern Maine who now live in Asheville, North Carolina and organize with Reject Raytheon AVL
According to Jones, “On a daily basis, Palestinian homes are demolished, their land is stolen, their homes invaded, their loved ones dragged off to be tortured in prisons. Their very presence is made precarious by constant harassment and humiliation from the Israeli army and violent armed settlers.”
Shank said of their recent trip , “We went as part of a delegation in Hebron with Community Peacemaker Teams” an organization with the goal of witnessing and documenting events where Palestinians are threatened with violence.
“The genocide in Gaza has been front and center in the struggle for human rights for Palestinians, and rightly so,” said Jones. “Every day we see Israel's bombing, sniping, imprisoning, and starving of the civilian population. Less visible, but also deadly and inhumane are the military occupation and settlement in the West Bank.”
Jones coordinates a national organization of groups opposing war profiteers. War Industry Resisters Network presents monthly webinars on various aspects of the military-industrial complex. Recently he hosted a webinar with journalist Jasper Nathaniel about Israel's continued and accelerating ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
Both the big picture and specific incidents will be discussed, highlighting the urgency of the humanitarian crisis at the Sept 24 event.
The Apohadion Theater is an event venue located at 107 Hanover Street in Portland, Maine. The program will run from 6:30pm to 8pm on Wednesday, September 24 and there will be a cash bar open for refreshments.
I am not usually a fan of Pakistan but this statement by its U.N. representative directed at Israel is right on the mark.
#Pakistan SLAMS Israel at the UN.
🇵🇰 Calls it, “occupier feigning victim-hood, violating UN resolutions and committing state terrorism in #Gaza”.
Latest news: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY VOTE TO END THE GAZA GENOCIDE AND RECOGNIZE PALESTINIAN STATE
Voted 142-10 - 12 Abstention
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Andrew Napolitano and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson review Trump's many foreign policy blunders.
What does it mean? Is WW3 here? Is there any way out of this mess?
Wilkerson believes it is the US that uses Israel as its sharp spear in the Middle East - not the other way around. He says that 'the people behind Trump want Bibi running the show'.
He also thinks that the US will go to war with Iran before Christmas.
They also review the implications of Israel's attack on Qatar where Netanyahu attempted to take out the Hamas peace negotiators.
Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani addressed Israel’s attack in Doha in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Becky Anderson.
He says, 'Name me another nation that bombs seven countries in the region and bombs ships [flotilla] in the Mediterranean'.
Targeting India over its energy trade with Russia has damaged Washington’s hard-won trust with New Delhi
US President Donald Trump promised during his election campaign that he would not involve America in any wars, arguing that entanglements in foreign conflicts have debilitated the country in a number of ways. However, Trump’s foreign policy contains too many contradictions.
Trump’s main focus during his campaign and immediately after taking office was on ending the Ukraine conflict. Yet he later ordered military action against the Yemeni Houthis and, more provocatively and unlawfully, against Iran’s nuclear facilities – something the US had not done before, despite years of tensions with Tehran.
Washington continues to be complicit in Israel’s destruction of Gaza, its bombing of Lebanon, and its occupation of parts of Syria. Trump has also ordered a flotilla of warships off Venezuela’s shores after placing a $50 million bounty on its president.
At the same time, Trump has been bold in engaging Russia and pushing to end the Ukraine conflict, ignoring deep hostility toward Moscow within the US political establishment and even among his own advisers. The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska was a dramatic event that caused panic in Europe and sidelined Zelensky. Members of the European ‘coalition of the willing’ – determined to support Zelensky with arms and funds to prolong the conflict – rushed to Washington to lobby Trump not to bypass them, not to concede to Russian demands, and to ensure they were included in negotiations on security guarantees for Ukraine.
Trump’s rhetoric, and that of the Europeans, has focused on a ceasefire, ostensibly to halt the bloodshed, but in reality to break Russia’s momentum, ease the pressure on Ukraine, allowing it to regroup, and to rebuild its defenses. After Alaska, however, Trump shifted to Russia’s position of prioritizing a peace agreement – much to the dismay of both Europe and Ukraine.
Europe has been humiliated by Trump. For the European powers, being excluded from decisions about their own security is deflating, with major implications for their global prestige. The image of European leaders lined up in the Oval Office before Trump, seated like he was presiding over a staff meeting, was shattering for France, Germany, and the UK in particular.
~ Kanwal Sibal, retired Indian foreign secretary and former Ambassador to Russia between 2004 and 2007. He also held ambassadorial positions in Turkey, Egypt, France and was Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington DC.
Yasemin Acar, who is on the boat that has been hit, speaks to TRT World.
Israel bombs Qatar
Hamas's leadership has survived Israeli air strikes in the Qatari capital Doha on Tuesday.
A source close to the Palestinian movement told Middle East Eye that all senior leaders targeted in the attack survived, including Khalil al-Hayya, Khaled Meshal, Zaher Jabarin, and others.
They were meeting to discuss the latest US ceasefire proposal for Gaza, presented to Hamas in recent days.
The attack killed Khalil al-Hayya’s son, Hammam al-Hayya, and his office director, Jihad Lubbad, according to sources. Several others were wounded.
Saudi Arabia, after granting Israeli jets clearance to use its airspace, has condemned the Israeli strikes on Doha. The question for the Gulf is: Will the UAE and Bahrain sever relations with Israel and revoke the peace agreement after Israel’s violation of the sovereignty of a member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council?
“The Trump administration was notified by the United States military that Israel was attacking Hamas, which very unfortunately, was located in a section of Doha, the capital of Qatar,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
“Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a sovereign nation and close ally of the United States that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker peace does not advance Israel or America’s goals,” she said. “However, eliminating Hamas, who have profited off the misery of those living in Gaza, is a worthy goal.”
Leavitt added that Trump directed his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to “inform the Qataris of the impending attack”.
However, Qatar refuted the characterisation, with a spokesperson for the foreign ministry saying claims that the government had been “pre-informed of the attack are completely false”.
From Yemen spokesperson: The Israeli attack on Doha will be repeated—and on a larger scale—across the region if we do not unite to confront the Zionist threat.
In the last 24 hours, Israel has bombed at least five countries and territories in the region: Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and now Qatar.
When does the world shut down Israel's genocidal actions and kick them out of the United Nations?
The UFO/UAP issue is the thread that connects the manufactured scarcity behind war and human suffering, environmental destruction, unaccountable elites and corporations wielding enormous power, and a society fractured by polarization, loneliness, and loss of meaning.
How do we look past the speculation and entertainment to leverage all of these revelations in service to the transformation of our world?
This question took me to Contact in the Desert, a gathering of scientists, lawyers, researchers, journalists, high-level military and intelligence insiders, and everyday truth-seekers—all dedicated to getting to the bottom of the connection between non-human intelligence, ethical AI and emerging technology, consciousness, and the future of humanity.
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Pentagon failed its seventh financial audit in 2024, with 63% of its
$4.1 trillion in assets—approximately $2.58 trillion—untracked. From
1998 to 2015, it failed to account for $21 trillion in spending.
As concerning today as the financial burden is the wielding of secret power. Pres. Dwight Eisenhower warned in his 1961 farewell address, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
Pres. John F. Kennedy echoed that concern, warning in 1961 that “secret societies” and excessive secrecy are “repugnant in a free and open society,” threatening democracy by withholding truth from the public. He warned that excessive concealment, even for national security, undermines democracy by denying citizens the facts needed to hold power accountable. “No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed,” he said. If untracked billions fund classified programs, citizens are left powerless, governed by a shadow entity answerable to no one.
~ See the rest of this important article here
From 1931 until 1945, Japan relentlessly attacked and occupied parts of China in an attempt to subjugate the Chinese people and expand their empire in Asia.
That time saw many hideous atrocities commited by the Japanese forces against the Chinese inside their own country, including the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, where China’s then-capital was decimated by a six-week rampage of mass murder, rape and destruction. 80,000 women were raped, and up to 350,000 Chinese lost their lives.
Then there was Unit 731 in Harbin, a covert biological and chemical warfare research unit where the Japanese conducted horrific experiments on Chinese men, women, children and babies, including live dissections without anesthesia, deliberate infection with deadly diseases to study effects, and being stabbed, shot or burned with new weapons to test their effectiveness.
Today I’m at the site of a very important historical event in my neighborhood here in Shanghai, a place where 452 brave Chinese soldiers made a last, final stand against the invasion of the Japanese way back in 1937.
They weren’t able to stop the takeover of the city, but their actions did provide a much-needed morale boost for the Chinese people during that hideous time.
Let’s go beyond the propaganda as I explain the little battle that played a part in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who are fed up with the government run-around said they will compile their own "client list" on Wednesday during a rally on Capitol Hill after the House Oversight Committee released 33,000 pages of documents already seen by the public.
