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Bomb

The Biden doctrine in Gaza: bomb, starve, deceive

Aaron Maté
Aaronmate.net
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00 UTC
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© Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
The White House unveils a new PR stunt for Gaza aid while hiding US arms transfers to Israel.

At his State of the Union address Thursday night, President Biden announced that the US military will install a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza to deliver emergency aid to the besieged enclave, where more than 2.2 million Palestinians face a humanitarian crisis, including starvation. The pier, which will take weeks if not months to complete, will be built by US soldiers.

The US, Biden claimed, "has been leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance into Gaza" and believes that "protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority."

In reality, the emergency project underscores Biden's real priority: to prolong Israel's rampage in Gaza, the US is even willing to deploy its own military for face-saving public relations stunts.

With criticism of Biden's Gaza complicity increasing inside the Democratic Party, and threatening him at the ballot box, the pier is the latest in a series of token gestures aimed at feigning concern for Gazans while providing unfettered support to the Israeli government that is indiscriminately attacking them.
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Chess

Building alliances: Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Mar-a-Lago resort


Washington Examiner
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:52 UTC
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© Viven Cher Benko/EPADonald Trump and Viktor Orban spoke about “many things” when they met in Bedminster, New Jersey, August 2022
Former President Donald Trump met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday, an unconventional move since Orban did not meet with President Joe Biden during the trip.

Trump's presidential campaign claimed the pair met to discuss a "wide range of issues affecting Hungary and the United States, including the paramount importance of strong and secure borders to protect the sovereignty of each nation."

"He's a non-controversial figure because he says, 'This is the way it's going to be,' and that's the end of it. Right?" Trump said of the Hungarian prime minister in a video on Instagram. "He's the boss."

Comment: Ah, Viktor. Scourge of the woke and perennial thorn in the EU side. Long may you wave!

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Dominoes

Spain's PM proposes to recognize Palestinian state


Associated Press
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 16:24 UTC
Pedro Sanchez, Spain's Prime Minister
© AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, FileFILE - Pedro Sanchez, Spain's Prime Minister delivers his speech at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2024. Sánchez said Saturday March 9, 2024 that he will propose that Spain's parliament recognizes a Palestinian state.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Saturday that he will propose that Spain's parliament recognizes a Palestinian state.

"I will propose granting Spain's recognition to the Palestinian state," Sánchez said. "I do this out of moral conviction, for a just cause and because it is the only way that the two states, Israel and Palestine, can live together in peace."

Sánchez added his voice to a chorus of other European leaders and government officials who have said that they could support a two-state solution in the Middle East as international frustration grows with Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories.

Comment: It may be a bit premature to be considering how life will look 'afterwards', because Israel and the West seem appear intent on escalating the war of terror ever further:

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Stormtrooper

US puppets: Kurds fear 'Afghanistan-style' withdrawal from Syria


The Cradle
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:25 UTC
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The US military's Kurdish proxies occupying northeast Syria fear an "Afghanistan-like pullout" of US forces that would leave them at the mercy of their long-time enemy Turkiye, Middle East Eye (MEE) reported on 8 March.

Turkiye has escalated its airstrikes on areas in northeast Syria occupied by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in recent months; at the same time, Washington is in talks with the Iraqi government to potentially withdraw forces from Iraq.

The 900 US soldiers occupying northeast Syria with the SDF receive logistical support from US forces in Iraq. Any US withdrawal from Iraq may necessitate US withdrawal from Syria as well.

"The whole region is on fire and nobody will respond to Turkey's aggression against us when everyone is busy with Gaza. We have asked the US to rein in Turkey, but they have brushed us off," said Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the political wing of the SDF.

In recent months, Turkiye has bombed power stations, the region's electric grid, medical facilities, and oil fields, leaving millions without electricity or access to clean drinking water.

Kurdish fears of being abandoned by the US remain despite a visit last week to northeast Syria by US General Erik Kurilla.


Comment: Anyone with two neurons firing could see that relying on the US would not be viable long term solution. The Kurdish forces chose to not learn from history, though there are abundant examples in recent history of the US dropping useful 'allies' when the situation proved convenient.


Comment: Yes, it was always just a sinister plan by the US to deprive Syria the resources for rebuilding while sowing seeds of division.
Vanessa Beeley gives a good background of the Kurds from different perspectives in this article from 2019 and still the same is the situation 5 years later. Background: A guide to Turkey, the Kurds and NATO

The Kurds were given many opportunities in the past by the Syrian government to come into the fold under favorable conditions to the Kurds, yet each time, the Kurds chose to listen to the sweet words from the US. This article highlights that, even if it is 5 years old: Syrian Kurds are not helpless victims: They gambled, and lost
It's one thing to defend your nation or territories, it's another to be greedy and feel like you're untouchable. The Kurds arrogantly denied any cooperation with the Syrian government and Russia and heavily relied on the US to defend them. They placed a bet that nobody can win. The US is well known for treating their proxies just as vassals who'll do the dirty work and then would be thrown in the graveyard of history when they become useless.
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People 2

Neil Oliver: '...truth against lies...'

Neil Oliver
YouTube
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:06 UTC
Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver
'...with an onslaught of attacks from Big State and Big Tech people need to stick together & hold the line!'

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Target

AI censorship targets people who read primary sources to fact-check the news

Joy Pullmann
The Federalist
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00 UTC
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Artificial intelligence censorship tools are making sure you never read this article or share it with anyone it might persuade.

NewsGuard announced last week it's using AI to automatically prevent American citizens from seeing information online that challenges government and corporate media claims about elections ahead of the 2024 voting season.

"[P]latforms and search engines" including Microsoft's Bing use NewsGuard's "ratings" to stop people from seeing disfavored information sources, information, and topics in their social media feeds and online searches. Now censorship is being deployed not only by humans but also by automated computer code, rapidly raising an Iron Curtain around internet speech.
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Bullseye

'The West thought Putin would be easily defeated, but that was not so. Trend is now for all out militarization' - Serbia's Vucic


TASS
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:40 UTC
President Aleksandar Vucic
FILE PHOTO: President Aleksandar Vucic
The Western countries are building up their military potential and pursuing a policy of total militarization in an attempt to defeat Russia, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said.

"What is happening now is madness. They all thought that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin would be easily defeated. Now they see that this is not so," Vucic said. "The current trend is toward total militarization and a five-fold build-up in all respects," he told the media while visiting the Belgrade Military Technical Institute and inspecting armaments on display.

The Serbian leader together with Defense Minister Milos Vucevic inspected new weapons of the Serbian Armed Forces. He noted the importance of increasing the production of UAVs and other weapons.

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Star of David

Israel accused of torturing UN workers to obtain false testimony about UNRWA and Hamas

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin's Newslettr
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 19:09 UTC
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© The United Nations
A recent UNRWA document says its staff report having been tortured while detained by Israeli forces, who pressed them to provide false statements about ties between the agency and Hamas.

"The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members," Reuters reports, saying UNRWA workers "reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks."

This is another one of those stories about Israeli offenses that are so stunning that at first you can mistakenly believe you must not be reading it correctly — especially since the western political-media class haven't been treating it like the jarring news that it is. If we had anything remotely like an objective news media in the western world, reports that Israel tortured United Nations staff to get them to make false statements against a UN aid agency would be the top story everywhere for days.
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Bizarro Earth

After Ukraine, US readies 'transnational kill chain' for Taiwan proxy war

K.J. Noh
G/E
Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00 UTC
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© BAE Systems
In many traditions, when you paint or sculpt a Buddha, the eyes are the very last to be painted. It's only after the eyes have been completed that the sculpture is fully alive and empowered.

The United States has approved a $75 million weapons package to Taiwan province, involving the sale of the Link 16 communications system.

The acquisition of Link 16 is analogous to "painting the eyes on the Buddha": a last touch, it makes Taiwan's military systems and weapons platforms live and far-seeing.

It confers deadly powers, or more prosaically, in the words of the US military, it completes Taiwan as the final, lethal link of what the US Naval Institute calls a "transnational coalition kill chain", for war against China.

What exactly is Link 16? It is a key system in the US military communications arsenal. Specifically, it's the jam-resistant tactical data network for coordinating NATO weapons systems for joint operations in war.

If this sale is completed, it signals serious, granular, and single-minded commitment to kinetic war. It would signal that the Biden administration is as serious and unwavering in its desire to provoke and wage large-scale war with China over Taiwan as it was with Russia over Ukraine, which also saw the implementation of this system.

More important than any single weapons platform, this system allows the Taiwan/ROC military to integrate and coordinate all its warfighting platforms with US, NATO, Japanese, Korean, Australian militaries in combined arms warfare.
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Propaganda

CIA spills the beans about deep involvement in Ukraine: Part of ploy to undercut Republican congressional opposition to war

John Kiriakou
CovertAction Magazine
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00 UTC
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© nytimes.comA home, flying Ukrainian and American flags, close to the Russian border.
Makes a Point of Slipping in Disinformation About Russia to Further Propaganda Campaign

The New York Times on February 25 published an explosive story of what purports to be the history of the CIA in Ukraine from the Maidan coup of 2014 to the present. The story, "The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin," written by Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz, is one of initial distrust, but a mutual fear and hatred of Russia that progresses to a relationship so close that Ukraine is now one of the CIA's closest intelligence partners in the world.

At the same time, the Times's publication of the piece, which relied on more than 200 interviews in Ukraine, the U.S., and "several other European countries," raises several questions: Why did the CIA not object to the article's publication, especially coming in one of the Agency's preferred outlets? When the CIA approaches a newspaper to complain about the classified information it contains, the piece is almost always killed or severely edited.

Newspaper publishers are patriots, after all. Right? Was the article published because the CIA wanted the news out there? Perhaps more importantly, was the point of the article to influence the congressional budget deliberations on aid to Ukraine? After all, was the article really just meant to brag about how great the CIA is? Or was it to warn congressional appropriators, "Look how much we've accomplished to confront the Russian bear. You wouldn't really let it all go to waste, would you?"
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