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Latest Articles: WORLD WAR III
Never Forget the Real Reason Russia Went to War
Post Date: 2023-05-08 19:49:29 by Charles_Byrd
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Public support for NATO's proxy war in Ukraine rests upon three frequently repeated assumptions: Russia's invasion was unexpected and unprovoked, Ukraine is a unified, democratic state, and Ukraine will win the war. Based on widely available public information, it is increasingly self-evident that all three of these assumptions are flawed. As the anniversary of the start of the war approaches, we intend discuss precisely why these views have become dangerously misleading, starting with the conclusion that Russia's behavior was somehow surprising. Many well-informed observers agree that as the Cold War was ending, the Western powers assured the Soviet Union that NATO would not ...
BRICS Is Expanding: Here’s Why That’s Very Concerning for the US
Post Date: 2023-05-07 02:18:22 by Charles_Byrd
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You may have heard the term “BRICS” when reading about world affairs and wondered what it was all about. As we watch the American dollar and economy lose power on the world stage, this alliance could quickly move to take its place, especially as other countries that used to be allied with us move over this bloc. As a matter of opinion, I think that on the global stage, BRICS is a union we should watch, as there are several large economic powers involved that aren’t exactly friends of the United States of America. Should this group continue to grow, it’s possible that it could dramatically affect us with regard to world trade. And that’s at the very least. Click ...
Unwarranted Influence, Twenty-First-Century-Style
Post Date: 2023-05-07 02:17:00 by Charles_Byrd
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The military-industrial complex (MIC) that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact, it’s consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm about the “unwarranted influence” it wielded in his 1961 farewell address to the nation. The statistics are stunning. This year’s proposed budget for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons work at the Department of Energy is $886 billion — more than twice as much, adjusted for inflation, as at the time of Eisenhower’s speech. The Pentagon now consumes more than half the federal discretionary budget, leaving ...
On The Hypocrisy of the New EU Sanction Regime
Post Date: 2023-05-07 02:12:42 by Charles_Byrd
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Once upon a time the European Union rejected secondary sanctions which the U.S. used to press third party countries to follow its sanction regimes against other once: Making use of the centrality of the US in the global economy, it has imposed ‘secondary sanctions’ on foreign firms, which are forced to choose between trading with US sanctions targets or forfeiting access to the lucrative US market. In addition, the US has penalized foreign firms for breaching US sanctions legislation. Click for Full Text!
There Never Was a Nord Stream “Secret Operation”: President Biden’s “Act of War” Against Europe
Post Date: 2023-05-04 23:19:57 by Charles_Byrd
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The Nord Stream sabotage was announced at a press conference in Washington on February 7, 2022, by President Biden. and Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz. This announcement was tantamount to an Act of War by the United States against its European Allies. Interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, economist, professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa and editor of the renowned anti-globalist Global Research website Click for Full Text!
Biden Can Close the Extrajudicial Prison at Guantánamo
Post Date: 2023-05-03 20:16:48 by Charles_Byrd
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Last week, Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush was released from detention at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and returned to Algeria, his home country. Suspected of being a low-level fighter for Al Qaeda, at age 52 he was in his 21st year of detention in the prison, had no charges filed against him and stopped speaking to lawyers about five years ago. Mr. Bakush’s release leaves 30 men, of the 780 held there over the years since 2002, still imprisoned at the U.S. naval base whose name has become synonymous with American shame. President Biden said at the outset of his administration that he would seek to have the detention center closed, and he directed the Defense Department to study how ...
Biden Hypocritically Slams Arrest of US Journalist in Russia But Pursues Assange
Post Date: 2023-05-03 20:04:22 by Charles_Byrd
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May 3, 2023, will mark the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, which the United Nations established to remind governments about the need to respect their commitment to freedom of the press. But as the Biden administration proclaims the centrality of press freedom globally, its hypocrisy in pursuing journalist and publisher Julian Assange is stunning. The Biden administration recently expressed outrage that Russia arrested journalist Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal, a United States citizen based in Moscow, for practicing journalism. Gershkovich is now incarcerated in Russia, facing espionage charges that could garner him 20 years in prison. His appeal to lift his ...
Rep. McCaul Says US Support for Ukraine Depends on Counteroffensive
Post Date: 2023-05-03 20:02:43 by Charles_Byrd
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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Monday that future US support for Ukraine depends on Kyiv’s looming counteroffensive. “I think there’s going to be a lot riding on the line with this counteroffensive,” McCaul told Bloomberg. “If Ukraine is successful in the eyes of the American people and the world, I think it will be a game- changer for continued support. If they are not, that will also have an impact, in a negative way, though.” Click for Full Text!
'Let down': U.S. Marines scramble to find ships for Sudan evacuation
Post Date: 2023-05-02 19:26:20 by Charles_Byrd
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The Marine Corps is using two substitute ship classes to help the State Department evacuate people from conflict-ridden Sudan, which service leaders say is yet another reason the Navy should grant their request for more fast-deploying amphibious warships, U.S. Naval Institute News reported. The Navy does not have enough ships to operate an aircraft carrier group or amphibious readiness group in the Middle East, leaving the Marine Corps scrambling to find alternatives for a sea-based evacuation route, according to USNI News. On Monday, the Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport (EFT) USNS Brunswick sailed about 300 people from the Port of Sudan to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as they seek to ...
Washington’s Egregious Deceptions About the Russia-Ukraine War
Post Date: 2023-05-02 19:22:58 by Charles_Byrd
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All governments produce deceptive propaganda about aspects of their foreign policy. However, Joe Biden’s administration seems intent on setting some kind of record for both the number of falsehoods and their brazenness. Three of them stand out with respect to the latter feature. Click for Full Text!
Russia Vows ‘Harsh’ Response to Poland Seizing Embassy School in Warsaw
Post Date: 2023-05-01 21:41:56 by Charles_Byrd
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Poland on Saturday seized a building in Warsaw near the Russian embassy that was used as a school for the children of Russian diplomats, drawing protest from Moscow. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow would respond “very” harshly. “Warsaw will receive retaliatory steps, as you understand, they will be taken and worked out by agencies. This work has been launched, this is their choice, we will respond,” she said. Click for Full Text!
The lack of U.S. Navy ships in the Asia-Pacific is an emerging problem for U.S. military readiness, particularly amid the increasing Chinese designs on maintaining control of Taiwan, U.S. officials warn. "We are at the point where any little problem
Post Date: 2023-04-30 22:45:21 by Charles_Byrd
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The United States called on China Saturday to stop "provocative and unsafe conduct" in the disputed South China Sea after a recent near-collision with a Philippines coast guard boat there, ramping up rhetoric ahead of a visit by the Filipino president to the White House. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, in a statement two days before President Joe Biden is to host his Philippine counterpart Ferdinand Marcos Jr., said the incident was a reminder of China's "harassment and intimidation" of Philippine vessels in the contested waterway. Click for Full Text!
Marine Exercise Cancellation Exposes US Pacific Ship Shortage
Post Date: 2023-04-30 22:41:56 by Charles_Byrd
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The lack of U.S. Navy ships in the Asia-Pacific is an emerging problem for U.S. military readiness, particularly amid the increasing Chinese designs on maintaining control of Taiwan, U.S. officials warn. "We are at the point where any little problem with one of the amphibious ships throws the schedule for the whole fleet and affects the Marines' ability to deploy," Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Bryan Clark told The Wall Street Journal. Click for Full Text!
Crimea Oil Depot Burns After Suspected Ukrainian Drone Attack
Post Date: 2023-04-30 00:37:06 by Charles_Byrd
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A drone strike hit an oil reservoir in Crimea and set it ablaze, according to the Russia-installed governor of the Black Sea peninsula’s port city of Sevastopol, with suspicions that it was a Ukrainian attack though Kyiv has not claimed responsibility. Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol, posted videos and photos of the blaze on his Telegram channel. Click for Full Text!
Blinken draws fire for 'stonewalling' over Afghanistan
Post Date: 2023-04-30 00:35:12 by Charles_Byrd
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Former Ambassador Thomas Boyatt, a highly decorated foreign service officer who served in multiple senior U.S. foreign service roles in the 1970s and 80s, has a bone to pick with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Since the chaotic and deadly U.S. exit from Afghanistan, Blinken has refused to turn over to Congress a key internal State Department dissent document signed by 23 U.S. diplomats at the embassy in Kabul. The classified cable was sent to Blinken and top leadership at State in July 2021, one month before the evacuation descended into chaos. The classified memo reportedly urged the administration to accelerate evacuation plans because the Afghan government was on the brink of ...
Trapped Americans In Sudan "Shocked & Disgusted" - Left By Biden To Fend For Themselves
Post Date: 2023-04-29 01:09:03 by Charles_Byrd
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Sudan is continuing to stare into the abyss of full-blown civil war as the battle for control of the capital of Khartoum between two rival generals - now reaching the two week mark - results in a mounting death toll. Currently, dozens of countries have for days been racing to get their citizens out via military transport planes, ships, and via cross-border land routes into Ethiopia and neighboring countries, but not the United States. A surprisingly blunt report voicing intense criticism toward the Biden administration has been issued by CNN Friday, which writes, "As the crisis in Sudan continues to unfold, there is mounting anger among Americans who feel abandoned by the US ...
Biden Prepares To Give Up on Ukraine
Post Date: 2023-04-28 07:36:55 by Charles_Byrd
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The much ballyhooed Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ is destined to fail its purpose of severing Russia’s supply line to Crimea and to liberate ‘occupied territory’. The Biden administration has finally recognized this and is out to lower expectations and to preemptively blame everyone but itself. Click for Full Text!
Mr. Lavrov’s New York Shuffle
Post Date: 2023-04-28 01:28:54 by Charles_Byrd
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Now picture a true gentleman, the foremost diplomat of these troubled times, in total command of the facts and endowed with a delightful sense of humor, taking a perilous walk on the wild side, to quote iconic Lou Reed, and emerging unscathed. In fact, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s New York moment – as in his two interventions before the UN Security Council on April 24 and 25 – performed the diplomatic equivalent of bringing the house down. At least the sections of the house inhabited by the Global South – or Global Majority. Click for Full Text!
War threatens Ukraine auto empire of Biden megadonor
Post Date: 2023-04-27 00:00:25 by Charles_Byrd
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t the only one demanding more military assistance from President Biden to protect Kiev from Russian forces. So too is a close Delaware friend and financial backer of Biden, who owns several luxury car dealerships around the Ukrainian capital. By sending billions of dollars in weapons and other military aid to help defend Ukraine, Biden also is securing the investments of millionaire car magnate John Hynansky, a Ukrainian American and longtime supporter of the president. Click for Full Text!
House Resolution Would Declare US Policy Is to Seek Ukrainian Victory
Post Date: 2023-04-26 23:52:08 by Charles_Byrd
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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) is planning to introduce a resolution in the House that would declare it is US policy to seek a Ukrainian victory against Russia, which includes returning all Russian-controlled territory to Kyiv, including Crimea. According to Yahoo News, the resolution “affirms that it is the policy of the United States to see Ukraine victorious against the invasion and restored to its internationally recognized 1991 borders.” Click for Full Text!
Democrats Attack Ukraine Audit Resolution as ‘Divisive and Ill-Advised’
Post Date: 2023-04-26 23:49:26 by Charles_Byrd
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Legislation introduced by Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), which calls on the White House to provide Congress with documents related to the war in Ukraine, passed a voice vote on Wednesday. The resolution is set to be voted on by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday. Debate on the resolution was divided among party lines. The legislation, H.Res.300, calls on President Joe Biden to “transmit, respectively, to the House of Representatives copies of all documents indicating any plans for current or future military assistance to Ukraine and documents indicating whether any United States Armed Forces, including special operations forces, are currently deployed in Ukraine.” ...
Zelensky's Soviet-style persecution of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Post Date: 2023-04-26 23:38:02 by Charles_Byrd
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The forced politicization of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine may easily backfire. As the Ukrainian government is now engaged in a militant, atheistic, Soviet Union-type of manhunt and persecution against traditional Orthodox Christians, despite their pledged loyalty to Ukraine, this may be a mistake that will impact the Russia-Ukraine war in unexpected ways. What happens domestically when you begin attacking your own history? "The Ukrainian authorities are sadly ignorant of the spiritual laws that govern the universe. Instead, they spit upon the Church and the saints," says Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye. Almost half of the Ukrainian population adhere to the Ukrainian Orthodox ...
Russian Arms Control Official Says Serious Talks With US Aren’t Possible
Post Date: 2023-04-26 23:05:25 by Charles_Byrd
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Vladimir Yermakov, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Arms Control Department, said Tuesday that serious talks with the US and other Western countries aren’t possible. “In the given circumstances, no major negotiations can be conducted with the United States or the West in general,” Yermakov told the Russian news agency TASS. Click for Full Text!
Will the West Turn Ukraine Into a Nuclear Battlefield?
Post Date: 2023-04-23 02:02:32 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s sure to be a blood-soaked spring in Ukraine. Russia’s winter offensive fell far short of Vladimir Putin’s objectives, leaving little doubt that the West’s conveyor belt of weaponry has aided Ukraine’s defenses. Cease-fire negotiations have never truly begun, while NATO has only strengthened its forces thanks to Finland’s new membership (with Sweden soon likely to follow). Still, tens of thousands of people have perished; whole villages, even cities, have been reduced to rubble; millions of Ukrainians have poured into Poland and elsewhere; while Russia’s brutish invasion rages on with no end in sight. The hope, according to Ukrainian President ...
How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor’s Putin arrest warrant
Post Date: 2023-04-23 01:49:30 by Charles_Byrd
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ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev — and Hollywood. Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, stood before a podium on March 3, 2023, and issued an unusual qualifier: “Of course the prosecutor of the ICC does not, whatever affection and regard I may have for my dear friends in Ukraine – has no special affinity to any particular country. We’re not a party to any hostilities.” Click for Full Text!
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