7️⃣ Seven Facts and Figures About WWII You Need to Know
In the final days of the World War II in Europe, the German command pursued a deliberate policy of successive partial capitulations in the West to bring as many as possible of the eastern military formations westwards and surrender them intact to the British and Americans. It was General Eisenhower how dashed German hopes for a separate peace with the West and facilitated the signing of the final instrument of surrender at the seat of government from where the German aggression sprang: Berlin, captured by the Red Army.
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In the final days of the World War II in Europe, the German command pursued a deliberate policy of successive partial capitulations in the West to bring as many as possible of the eastern military formations westwards and surrender them intact to the British and Americans. It was General Eisenhower how dashed German hopes for a separate peace with the West and facilitated the signing of the final instrument of surrender at the seat of government from where the German aggression sprang: Berlin, captured by the Red Army.
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😷🔒The draconian lockdowns imposed by dozens of Democratic leaders, did very little to halt the outbreak of Covid, Robert Bridge writes.
Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo, the governors of California and New York, respectively, appear to be struggling for their political lives over their bungled handling of the pandemic. Is the tide finally turning against the lockdown mentality?
The groundswell of public animosity currently being directed at the Democratic state leaders disproves the adage that ‘all publicity is good publicity’. Just ask New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Despite a fawning media that only shows its fangs at Republican prey, the accusations against Cuomo are becoming harder to ignore considering that they border on criminal neglect.
The problems for the governor date back to March 1, 2020 when the first reported case of Covid emerged in New York. Nineteen days later, with just 35 fatalities connected to the virus in New York City, Cuomo ordered all nonessential workers to stay home, prohibited gatherings of any size, while demanding that citizens comply with a 6-foot social distancing decree. At this point, many New York citizens were wondering ‘where’s the science’ behind the seemingly irrational commands.
Then came a truly bizarre move. On March 25, the Cuomo administration barred nursing homes from refusing seniors on the grounds that they had COVID-19. If ever there was a perfect way for spreading a deadly virus, all the more virulent among senior citizens, many of them already suffering other health issues, this was it. New York health officials said that nursing homes were forbidden “by law” to reject anyone they couldn’t adequately care for. While that may be true, it was an unforgivable directive from officials who were trying to come to grips with a pandemic that had just shut down their entire economy. And the ‘oversight’ would prove deadly.
🔗 READ MORE by Robert Bridge ⤵️
#Robert_Bridge #lockdown #NewYork #pandemic
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/20/covid-karma-us-lockdown-kings-gavin-newsom-and-cuomo-suffer-political-fallout/
Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo, the governors of California and New York, respectively, appear to be struggling for their political lives over their bungled handling of the pandemic. Is the tide finally turning against the lockdown mentality?
The groundswell of public animosity currently being directed at the Democratic state leaders disproves the adage that ‘all publicity is good publicity’. Just ask New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Despite a fawning media that only shows its fangs at Republican prey, the accusations against Cuomo are becoming harder to ignore considering that they border on criminal neglect.
The problems for the governor date back to March 1, 2020 when the first reported case of Covid emerged in New York. Nineteen days later, with just 35 fatalities connected to the virus in New York City, Cuomo ordered all nonessential workers to stay home, prohibited gatherings of any size, while demanding that citizens comply with a 6-foot social distancing decree. At this point, many New York citizens were wondering ‘where’s the science’ behind the seemingly irrational commands.
Then came a truly bizarre move. On March 25, the Cuomo administration barred nursing homes from refusing seniors on the grounds that they had COVID-19. If ever there was a perfect way for spreading a deadly virus, all the more virulent among senior citizens, many of them already suffering other health issues, this was it. New York health officials said that nursing homes were forbidden “by law” to reject anyone they couldn’t adequately care for. While that may be true, it was an unforgivable directive from officials who were trying to come to grips with a pandemic that had just shut down their entire economy. And the ‘oversight’ would prove deadly.
🔗 READ MORE by Robert Bridge ⤵️
#Robert_Bridge #lockdown #NewYork #pandemic
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/20/covid-karma-us-lockdown-kings-gavin-newsom-and-cuomo-suffer-political-fallout/
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Covid Karma: U.S. Lockdown Kings Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo Suffer Political Fallout
The draconian lockdowns imposed by dozens of Democratic leaders, did very little to halt the outbreak of Covid, Robert Bridge writes. Gavin Newsom and Andrew…
🇨🇱 With a new constitution, Chilean state actors should be held accountable to the people’s demands for democratic changes in the country, otherwise Chile’s long-standing democratic tradition risks being lost to the dynamics of state violence.
While Chileans are still awaiting the process of a new constitution to end Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship legacy in the country, police brutality is in the spotlight for two reasons – the increase in violence since the start of the protests in 2019, which turned into organised social demonstrations clamouring for change, and the calls to dissolve the Carabineros.
Earlier this month, the Chilean military police killed Francesco Martinez, a 27-year old street artist, after he failed to comply with an identity check, in Panguipulli. Demonstrators calling for justice attacked the municipal buildings, prompting the government to convene an emergency meeting. Judge Felipe Munoz determined an excess use of force by the police and called for an investigation into the lethal shooting.
In another case that sparked allegations of police violence, Camilo Miyaki was found hanged in a cell where he was being held over non-compliance with road safety rules. Miyaki was detained at Pedro Aguirre Cerda police station and placed in isolation without security cameras, in a building that has become notorious for its human rights abuses and violations since the 2019 protests.
For a brief while, international media highlighted the excesses of Chilean police violence, in particular the wilful shooting of rubber bullets in the protestors’ eyes, causing blindness and serious eye injuries. Chile’s National Institute of Human Rights deemed the ongoing wave of violence to be “the most serious” since the country’s transition to democracy, calling out the government on its partiality for safeguarding the perpetrators’ impunity, rather than seeking truth and justice.
🔗 READ MORE by Ramona Wadi ⤵️
#Ramona_Wadi #Chile
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/20/the-need-for-accountability-over-impunity-in-chile/
While Chileans are still awaiting the process of a new constitution to end Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship legacy in the country, police brutality is in the spotlight for two reasons – the increase in violence since the start of the protests in 2019, which turned into organised social demonstrations clamouring for change, and the calls to dissolve the Carabineros.
Earlier this month, the Chilean military police killed Francesco Martinez, a 27-year old street artist, after he failed to comply with an identity check, in Panguipulli. Demonstrators calling for justice attacked the municipal buildings, prompting the government to convene an emergency meeting. Judge Felipe Munoz determined an excess use of force by the police and called for an investigation into the lethal shooting.
In another case that sparked allegations of police violence, Camilo Miyaki was found hanged in a cell where he was being held over non-compliance with road safety rules. Miyaki was detained at Pedro Aguirre Cerda police station and placed in isolation without security cameras, in a building that has become notorious for its human rights abuses and violations since the 2019 protests.
For a brief while, international media highlighted the excesses of Chilean police violence, in particular the wilful shooting of rubber bullets in the protestors’ eyes, causing blindness and serious eye injuries. Chile’s National Institute of Human Rights deemed the ongoing wave of violence to be “the most serious” since the country’s transition to democracy, calling out the government on its partiality for safeguarding the perpetrators’ impunity, rather than seeking truth and justice.
🔗 READ MORE by Ramona Wadi ⤵️
#Ramona_Wadi #Chile
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/20/the-need-for-accountability-over-impunity-in-chile/
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The Need for Accountability Over Impunity in Chile
With a new constitution, Chilean state actors should be held accountable to the people’s demands for democratic changes in the country, otherwise Chile’s long-standing democratic…
🇺🇸🇦🇫 Is President Joe Biden prepared to preside over the worst U.S. strategic defeat since the fall of Saigon in 1975?
For that may be what’s at stake if Biden follows through on the 2020 peace deal with the Taliban to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by May 1 — just two months from now.
Consider. If the 2,500 American troops remaining in Afghanistan are pulled out, the entire 10,000-troop NATO contingent departs.
This would write an end to the Western military commitment.
And the likelihood the Kabul government could then survive the constant and increasing attacks from the Taliban, as the latter now control half of the country and many roads leading to the capital, is slim.
After all, an Afghan army that could not defeat the Taliban a decade ago, when 100,000 U.S. troops were fighting alongside it, is not going to rout the Taliban after the Americans have gone home.
🔗 READ MORE by Patrick Buchanan ⤵️
#Afghanistan #Biden
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/20/is-biden-prepared-to-lose-afghanistan/
For that may be what’s at stake if Biden follows through on the 2020 peace deal with the Taliban to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by May 1 — just two months from now.
Consider. If the 2,500 American troops remaining in Afghanistan are pulled out, the entire 10,000-troop NATO contingent departs.
This would write an end to the Western military commitment.
And the likelihood the Kabul government could then survive the constant and increasing attacks from the Taliban, as the latter now control half of the country and many roads leading to the capital, is slim.
After all, an Afghan army that could not defeat the Taliban a decade ago, when 100,000 U.S. troops were fighting alongside it, is not going to rout the Taliban after the Americans have gone home.
🔗 READ MORE by Patrick Buchanan ⤵️
#Afghanistan #Biden
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/20/is-biden-prepared-to-lose-afghanistan/
📰🔎New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have sponsored Reuters and the BBC to conduct a series of covert programs aimed at promoting regime change inside Russia and undermining its government across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a series of leaked documents.
The leaked materials show the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action participating in a covert information warfare campaign aimed at countering Russia. Working through a shadowy department within the UK FCO known as the Counter Disinformation & Media Development (CDMD), the media organizations operated alongside a collection of intelligence contractors in a secret entity known simply as “the Consortium.”
Through training programs of Russian journalists overseen by Reuters, the British Foreign Office sought to produce an “attitudinal change in the participants,” promoting a “positive impact” on their “perception of the UK.”
🔗 READ MORE by Max Blumental ⤵️
#Bellingcat #MassMedia #UK
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/21/reuters-bbc-bellingcat-participated-covert-uk-foreign-office-funded-programs-weaken-russia-leaked-docs-reveal/
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have sponsored Reuters and the BBC to conduct a series of covert programs aimed at promoting regime change inside Russia and undermining its government across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a series of leaked documents.
The leaked materials show the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action participating in a covert information warfare campaign aimed at countering Russia. Working through a shadowy department within the UK FCO known as the Counter Disinformation & Media Development (CDMD), the media organizations operated alongside a collection of intelligence contractors in a secret entity known simply as “the Consortium.”
Through training programs of Russian journalists overseen by Reuters, the British Foreign Office sought to produce an “attitudinal change in the participants,” promoting a “positive impact” on their “perception of the UK.”
🔗 READ MORE by Max Blumental ⤵️
#Bellingcat #MassMedia #UK
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/21/reuters-bbc-bellingcat-participated-covert-uk-foreign-office-funded-programs-weaken-russia-leaked-docs-reveal/
🇪🇨 The hope of sunlight in Ecuador appears frail indeed, but let us be thankful for small mercies rather than none at all, Martin Sieff writes.
A shaft of still weak and vulnerable sunlight is piercing through the gloom that the new Biden administration in Washington has already spread over hopes for a revival of democracy across Latin America.
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#Ecuador #LatinAmerica #Martin_Sieff
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/21/ecuador-election-vote-offers-hope-across-latin-america/
A shaft of still weak and vulnerable sunlight is piercing through the gloom that the new Biden administration in Washington has already spread over hopes for a revival of democracy across Latin America.
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#Ecuador #LatinAmerica #Martin_Sieff
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/21/ecuador-election-vote-offers-hope-across-latin-america/
🇧🇭The Bahraini people’s struggle continues in spite of the lying, conniving Western governments and their media lackeys, Finian Cunningham writes.
*This piece below is a personal reflection by the author who found himself unexpectedly embroiled in the maelstrom. It was life-changing…
"I had been living in Bahrain for two years before the tumultuous events of the Arab Spring exploded in early 2011. Before that turmoil ignited, I was working as an editor on a glossy business magazine covering the Gulf region and its oil-rich Arab monarchies. But in many ways, I hadn’t a clue about the real social and political nature of Bahrain, a tiny island state nestled between Saudi Arabia and the other big Gulf oil and gas sheikhdoms of Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman.
During my corporate media employment I enjoyed a charmed life: a hefty tax-free salary, and a swanky apartment with rooftop swimming pool, jacuzzi and gym, which overlooked the sparkling Gulf sea and other glittering buildings that seemed to sprout up from reclaimed spits of land off the coast.
It was all weirdly artificial, if not hedonistically enjoyable. The luxury and glamor, the opulence. Unlike the other Gulf states, Bahrain had a distinctly more liberal social scene – at least for the wealthy expats. There were endless restaurants offering cuisine from all over the world. There were bars that freely sold alcohol which is “haram” in the other strictly-run Gulf Islamic monarchies. There were loads of nightclubs and loads of pretty hookers, most of them from Thailand and the Philippines. It all had the atmosphere of Sin City and forbidden fruit for the picking.
I later realized that Bahrain was not “cosmopolitan” as the business magazines and advertisements would gush about. That was just a euphemism for a vast system of human trafficking. All the service businesses were worked with menial people from Asia and Africa who were cheap and indentured labor. Where were the ordinary Bahrainis? What did they do for a living? In the cocooned expat life, the ordinary Bahrainis didn’t exist. Rich expats were there to enjoy tax-free salaries, glamorous glass towers, loads of booze and, if desired, loads of cheap sex.
My wake-up call came when my so-called professional contract was terminated after two years…"
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#Finian_Cunningham #Bahrain #ArabSpring
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/21/arab-spring-personal-story/
*This piece below is a personal reflection by the author who found himself unexpectedly embroiled in the maelstrom. It was life-changing…
"I had been living in Bahrain for two years before the tumultuous events of the Arab Spring exploded in early 2011. Before that turmoil ignited, I was working as an editor on a glossy business magazine covering the Gulf region and its oil-rich Arab monarchies. But in many ways, I hadn’t a clue about the real social and political nature of Bahrain, a tiny island state nestled between Saudi Arabia and the other big Gulf oil and gas sheikhdoms of Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman.
During my corporate media employment I enjoyed a charmed life: a hefty tax-free salary, and a swanky apartment with rooftop swimming pool, jacuzzi and gym, which overlooked the sparkling Gulf sea and other glittering buildings that seemed to sprout up from reclaimed spits of land off the coast.
It was all weirdly artificial, if not hedonistically enjoyable. The luxury and glamor, the opulence. Unlike the other Gulf states, Bahrain had a distinctly more liberal social scene – at least for the wealthy expats. There were endless restaurants offering cuisine from all over the world. There were bars that freely sold alcohol which is “haram” in the other strictly-run Gulf Islamic monarchies. There were loads of nightclubs and loads of pretty hookers, most of them from Thailand and the Philippines. It all had the atmosphere of Sin City and forbidden fruit for the picking.
I later realized that Bahrain was not “cosmopolitan” as the business magazines and advertisements would gush about. That was just a euphemism for a vast system of human trafficking. All the service businesses were worked with menial people from Asia and Africa who were cheap and indentured labor. Where were the ordinary Bahrainis? What did they do for a living? In the cocooned expat life, the ordinary Bahrainis didn’t exist. Rich expats were there to enjoy tax-free salaries, glamorous glass towers, loads of booze and, if desired, loads of cheap sex.
My wake-up call came when my so-called professional contract was terminated after two years…"
🔗 READ MORE ⤵️
#Finian_Cunningham #Bahrain #ArabSpring
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/21/arab-spring-personal-story/
🪐🇦🇪 The Emiratis understand that their economy, primarily based in oil revenue, though presently lucrative, is a short-term prosperity. A future that is dependent on oil is unstable and unkind, it is not a reliable resource for an advancing economy.
Something truly remarkable happened on Feb. 9th, 2021, which I fear has not been fully comprehended by most of the Western hemisphere in terms of its massive implications as a game-changer in geopolitics for the Middle East.
Here in the West, we have become accustomed to our jaded denigration of space exploration. It appears to many, that space exploration is just a charade or if of real consequence, is understood as an extension of geopolitics, the imperialistic conquest and militarisation of space.
It is for this very reason that the UAE’s story for why they decided to create their Hope (or Amal in Arabic) mission to Mars is so very striking against this politically cynical foreground.
🔗 READ MORE by Cynthia Chung ⤵️
#Cynthia_Chung #UAE #BigTech
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/22/beyond-oil-how-uae-hope-mars-mission-breaking-arab-world-out-crisis-scarcity/
Something truly remarkable happened on Feb. 9th, 2021, which I fear has not been fully comprehended by most of the Western hemisphere in terms of its massive implications as a game-changer in geopolitics for the Middle East.
Here in the West, we have become accustomed to our jaded denigration of space exploration. It appears to many, that space exploration is just a charade or if of real consequence, is understood as an extension of geopolitics, the imperialistic conquest and militarisation of space.
It is for this very reason that the UAE’s story for why they decided to create their Hope (or Amal in Arabic) mission to Mars is so very striking against this politically cynical foreground.
🔗 READ MORE by Cynthia Chung ⤵️
#Cynthia_Chung #UAE #BigTech
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/22/beyond-oil-how-uae-hope-mars-mission-breaking-arab-world-out-crisis-scarcity/
Strategic Culture Foundation
Beyond Oil: How the UAE’s HOPE Mars Mission Is Breaking the Arab World Out of the Crisis of Scarcity
The Emiratis understand that their economy, primarily based in oil revenue, though presently lucrative, is a short-term prosperity. A future that is dependent on oil…
🎓🦅The door is open to think about how we can change our 1800’s education to meet up with or fight against the demands of this upcoming new industrial revolution, Tim Kirby writes.
It is hard to say exactly why, but political change of a grand sweeping nature simply does not occur without some sort of crisis to demand it. A catalyst is always needed. For years it has been obvious that many office jobs could simply be done from home without wasting employees’ time and earnings on a commute and workspace. If it were not for the Coronavirus, driving over an hour to work on an inferior computer in a beige cubicle surrounded by people you hate would still seem to be the only possible option. Now working from home is the “new normal” and one that actually works to the benefit of many. So as our catalyst for change is burning bright it is surprising that Joe Biden is pushing for schools to go back to the way they were in a pre pandemic world as fast as possible.
❓Why would education be exempt from the biggest opportunity for political change since 9/11?
❓And what sort of education would actually function to meet the challenges of the near future under the supposed 4th Industrial Revolution?
🔗 READ MORE by Tim Kirby ⤵️
#Tim_Kirby #Biden #education
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/22/bidens-great-school-reset-time-for-change/
It is hard to say exactly why, but political change of a grand sweeping nature simply does not occur without some sort of crisis to demand it. A catalyst is always needed. For years it has been obvious that many office jobs could simply be done from home without wasting employees’ time and earnings on a commute and workspace. If it were not for the Coronavirus, driving over an hour to work on an inferior computer in a beige cubicle surrounded by people you hate would still seem to be the only possible option. Now working from home is the “new normal” and one that actually works to the benefit of many. So as our catalyst for change is burning bright it is surprising that Joe Biden is pushing for schools to go back to the way they were in a pre pandemic world as fast as possible.
❓Why would education be exempt from the biggest opportunity for political change since 9/11?
❓And what sort of education would actually function to meet the challenges of the near future under the supposed 4th Industrial Revolution?
🔗 READ MORE by Tim Kirby ⤵️
#Tim_Kirby #Biden #education
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/22/bidens-great-school-reset-time-for-change/
Strategic Culture Foundation
Biden’s Great School Reset – Is It a Time for Change?
The door is open to think about how we can change our 1800’s education to meet up with or fight against the demands of this…
🗽❓The neo-cons were for ever knifing Trump in the back. They’ve now gone to Biden, Alastair Crooke writes.
Rep. Jamie Raskin wrapped up the impeachment managers’ case for convicting Donald Trump by citing a 1776 passage by Tom Paine: “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this saving consolation: the more difficult the struggle, the more glorious in the end – will be our victory”. Light and dark. Good and evil – and so the essence of the ‘show trial’ stands revealed. It is one of extravagant theatre – touching on the Manichean through using edited clips from TV to present a drama consisting of, on the one hand, legitimacy and power, versus, on the other, Trump and his supporters as – not just ‘enemies’ – but ‘tyrants out of hell’.
The question ultimately is: Did it succeed? Was the ‘guilty party’ cowed by the majestic dramaturgy of the show trial, and fearful of a coming domestic Patriot Act ? Did it guarantee a long era of one-party’s rule?
🔗 READ MORE by Alastair Crooke ⤵️
#Alastair_Crooke #Biden #elites
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/22/transition-of-elites/
Rep. Jamie Raskin wrapped up the impeachment managers’ case for convicting Donald Trump by citing a 1776 passage by Tom Paine: “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this saving consolation: the more difficult the struggle, the more glorious in the end – will be our victory”. Light and dark. Good and evil – and so the essence of the ‘show trial’ stands revealed. It is one of extravagant theatre – touching on the Manichean through using edited clips from TV to present a drama consisting of, on the one hand, legitimacy and power, versus, on the other, Trump and his supporters as – not just ‘enemies’ – but ‘tyrants out of hell’.
The question ultimately is: Did it succeed? Was the ‘guilty party’ cowed by the majestic dramaturgy of the show trial, and fearful of a coming domestic Patriot Act ? Did it guarantee a long era of one-party’s rule?
🔗 READ MORE by Alastair Crooke ⤵️
#Alastair_Crooke #Biden #elites
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/22/transition-of-elites/
Strategic Culture Foundation
The ‘Transition’ of the Élites
The neo-cons were for ever knifing Trump in the back. They’ve now gone to Biden, Alastair Crooke writes. Rep. Jamie Raskin wrapped up the impeachment…
Forwarded from Xoaquin FIores - New Resistance
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/19/killing-bahrain-revolution-us-uk-plotted-regime-change-libya-syria/
REMEMBER BENGHAZI ! The Clinton and Obama Wars Return!
Deep State moves to preserve Bahraini monarchy, suppress pro-Constitution movement. Biden doesn't even know his name.
REMEMBER BENGHAZI ! The Clinton and Obama Wars Return!
Deep State moves to preserve Bahraini monarchy, suppress pro-Constitution movement. Biden doesn't even know his name.
Strategic Culture Foundation
Killing Revolution in Bahrain, U.S.-UK Plotted Regime Change in Libya, Syria
The legacy from events a decade ago still reverberate to this day. Several members of the current Biden administration bear responsibility for the destruction, including…
🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel is always backed by successive administrations in Washington and can literally get away with murder in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The first weeks of this year have been lively and deadly for Palestinians, with Israeli troops and settlers continuing to burn down, bulldoze and otherwise destroy olive trees, villages and farmland in the Palestinian territory they occupy. The long-term campaign against Palestinians was given impetus by the Covid-19 pandemic which presented the Israeli authorities with the opportunity on February 15 to block vaccine from being delivered to the besieged Gaza strip which is home to about 1.9 million Arabs.
🔗 READ MORE by Brian Cloughley ⤵️
#Brian_Cloughley #Israel #Gaza #Palestine
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/23/israels-anti-palestine-campaign-includes-delaying-covid-vaccine-bulldozing-olive-trees/
The first weeks of this year have been lively and deadly for Palestinians, with Israeli troops and settlers continuing to burn down, bulldoze and otherwise destroy olive trees, villages and farmland in the Palestinian territory they occupy. The long-term campaign against Palestinians was given impetus by the Covid-19 pandemic which presented the Israeli authorities with the opportunity on February 15 to block vaccine from being delivered to the besieged Gaza strip which is home to about 1.9 million Arabs.
🔗 READ MORE by Brian Cloughley ⤵️
#Brian_Cloughley #Israel #Gaza #Palestine
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/23/israels-anti-palestine-campaign-includes-delaying-covid-vaccine-bulldozing-olive-trees/
Strategic Culture Foundation
Israel’s Anti-Palestine Campaign Includes Delaying Covid Vaccine and Bulldozing Olive Trees
Israel is always backed by successive administrations in Washington and can literally get away with murder in the occupied Palestinian territories. The first weeks of…
🇮🇷🇸🇦🇺🇸 It’s easy to understand why Iran wants to play hardball with Biden now after the suffering of years of Trump’s sanctions. The problem is that Biden has to see a halt to enrichment as a crucial gesture. Is there a compromise?
The news that Joe Biden took steps recently to withdraw the specific actions by Donald Trump which led the U.S. to quit the JCPOA deal signed in 2015 is welcome by anyone who hopes for peace in the Middle East, but in many respects is nothing more than a diplomatic stunt with nothing really to glean from either side.
Most keen analysts knew that this was likely and Iranian officials were expecting as much. Some critics have even argued that it has put him in an even weaker negotiating position. But no matter.
In recent days, much backchannel chattering has been going on, with some messaging in the press from the Iranians of what they expect next, which is the real issue and the one to judge Biden on. Sanctions.
🔗 READ MORE by Martin Jay ⤵️
#Martin_Jay #Iran #Biden #SaudiArabia
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/23/iran-stubbornness-on-enrichment-understandable-but-not-wise-if-it-wants-return-jcpoa/
The news that Joe Biden took steps recently to withdraw the specific actions by Donald Trump which led the U.S. to quit the JCPOA deal signed in 2015 is welcome by anyone who hopes for peace in the Middle East, but in many respects is nothing more than a diplomatic stunt with nothing really to glean from either side.
Most keen analysts knew that this was likely and Iranian officials were expecting as much. Some critics have even argued that it has put him in an even weaker negotiating position. But no matter.
In recent days, much backchannel chattering has been going on, with some messaging in the press from the Iranians of what they expect next, which is the real issue and the one to judge Biden on. Sanctions.
🔗 READ MORE by Martin Jay ⤵️
#Martin_Jay #Iran #Biden #SaudiArabia
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/23/iran-stubbornness-on-enrichment-understandable-but-not-wise-if-it-wants-return-jcpoa/
Strategic Culture Foundation
Iran’s Stubbornness on Enrichment Is Understandable, but Not Wise If It Wants to Return to the JCPOA
It’s easy to understand why Iran wants to play hardball with Biden now after the suffering of years of Trump's sanctions. The problem is that…
🌍🦅Biden’s foreign policies are putting Democratic Party lipstick onto the Republican Party’s pig. That’s his ‘change’, on U.S. foreign policies.
Though U.S. President Joe Biden is publicly critical of Donald Trump’s foreign policies, he’s continuing almost all of them and is changing only minor ones. The changes are almost entirely in rhetoric, not in policies, as will be documented here.
🔗 READ MORE by Eric Zuesse ⤵️
#Eric_Zuesse #Biden #MiddleEast
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/23/secretly-biden-foreign-policies-are-trump-foreign-policies/
Though U.S. President Joe Biden is publicly critical of Donald Trump’s foreign policies, he’s continuing almost all of them and is changing only minor ones. The changes are almost entirely in rhetoric, not in policies, as will be documented here.
🔗 READ MORE by Eric Zuesse ⤵️
#Eric_Zuesse #Biden #MiddleEast
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/23/secretly-biden-foreign-policies-are-trump-foreign-policies/
Strategic Culture Foundation
Secretly, Biden’s Foreign Policies Are Trump’s Foreign Policies
Biden’s foreign policies are putting Democratic Party lipstick onto the Republican Party’s pig. That’s his ‘change’, on U.S. foreign policies. Though U.S. President Joe Biden…
@zerohedge re-posted the latest piece by Cynthia Chung 🤝
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/22/beyond-oil-how-uae-hope-mars-mission-breaking-arab-world-out-crisis-scarcity/
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/22/beyond-oil-how-uae-hope-mars-mission-breaking-arab-world-out-crisis-scarcity/
Strategic Culture Foundation
Beyond Oil: How the UAE’s HOPE Mars Mission Is Breaking the Arab World Out of the Crisis of Scarcity
The Emiratis understand that their economy, primarily based in oil revenue, though presently lucrative, is a short-term prosperity. A future that is dependent on oil…
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🔥California now fulfills Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s nightmare vision in his prophetic masterpiece “The Possessed” as to what unlimited liberalism must inevitably create – if not stopped in its tracks and rolled back.
Where California goes today, the rest of the United States and much of the Western world goes tomorrow. But what we are now seeing in America’s most populous state is the complete internal collapse of the entire liberal progressive civilization and the society that has most frantically tried to fulfill it.
For well over a hundred years, California, the self-styled “Golden State” has trail-blazed the future of America especially through the two famously American industries of aerospace and motion pictures. Telecommunications, computers and Artificial Intelligence are now led from Silicon Valley and the state has dominated the national politics of the United States too.
California rapidly grew into the wealthiest and largest population US state. It has produced two two-term presidents (Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan), one of the most important Chief Justices of the Supreme Court (Earl Warren) and the likely next president – current Vice President Kamala Harris if 78-year-old Joe Biden cannot complete his term.
🔗 READ MORE by Martin Sieff ⤵️
#Martin_Sieff #Greens #Biden
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/24/california-collapsing/
Where California goes today, the rest of the United States and much of the Western world goes tomorrow. But what we are now seeing in America’s most populous state is the complete internal collapse of the entire liberal progressive civilization and the society that has most frantically tried to fulfill it.
For well over a hundred years, California, the self-styled “Golden State” has trail-blazed the future of America especially through the two famously American industries of aerospace and motion pictures. Telecommunications, computers and Artificial Intelligence are now led from Silicon Valley and the state has dominated the national politics of the United States too.
California rapidly grew into the wealthiest and largest population US state. It has produced two two-term presidents (Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan), one of the most important Chief Justices of the Supreme Court (Earl Warren) and the likely next president – current Vice President Kamala Harris if 78-year-old Joe Biden cannot complete his term.
🔗 READ MORE by Martin Sieff ⤵️
#Martin_Sieff #Greens #Biden
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/24/california-collapsing/
Strategic Culture Foundation
California Collapsing
California now fulfills Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s nightmare vision in his prophetic masterpiece “The Possessed” as to what unlimited liberalism must inevitably create – if not stopped…