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SOTT Focus: Washington Goes For The Jugular: Puppet 'Leader' in Venezuela Launches 'Military Coup' Against Maduro Government

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:51 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Ruben Sevilla Brand"Oh my, a military coup!" Actually, no. It's just another Washington-directed riot in Caracas.
Self-declared Venezuelan 'interim president', Juan Guaido, aka RGN (Random Guy Named) Guaido (aka 'Guido', to the US State Department) - whose uncanny resemblence to former US president Barack Obama continues to amaze - has today outright called for a military uprising. So far, it just amounts to rioting at one location in Caracas, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ends that way.

With his bosses in Washington perplexed over the failure of their color-revolution attempt back in January, they're going for the jugular by attempting to instigate a military coup.

Appearing in a video that was apparently shot at (or near) a Caracas military airbase, and accompanied by a number of what appear to be Venezuelan soldiers, along with fellow 'revolutionary', Leopoldo Lopez, Guaido announced that:
"The moment has come to start the end of the usurpation."
This, ironically, is exactly what might happen now that Washington has gone 'all in' with an attempted coup: they have gifted Maduro all the justification he needs to round up Guaido and his accomplices.

Leopoldo Lopez, incidentally, was arrested in 2014 and - because the Maduro government has been far too soft in its treatment of what are de facto rabid terrorists - was held under house arrest after being found guilty of inciting violence during that first post-Chavez round of bombings, murder and mayhem. Lopez claims that he is in attendance for today's outbreak of democrazi because he was "released by the military under Guaido's orders." More likely, he simply walked out of his house...
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SOTT Focus: Global NATO: The 70-Year Long Alliance of Oppressors is Now in Crisis

Horace G. Campbell
Counterpunch
Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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Comment: Despite the somewhat "woke" and ideologically-derived perspectives presented, the following article provides an excellent overview of NATO's raison d'etre - past, present and future...


On the Limits of Military Management of the International System

Introduction

The celebration of NATO's 70 years of existence provides another opportunity to unearth the real history of the ideas, practices and destruction wrought by this military alliance. Even with the clear exposure of the cooperation between NATO, the CIA and the British MI6 to spread terror and psychological warfare in Europe immediately after the formation of this military alliance, the mainstream media, academics and policy makers remain silent on activities of the 'stay behind armies' and 'false flag' operations that distorted the real causes of insecurity in the world after 1945. The evidence of the manipulations of the peoples of the world to ensure the continued survival of NATO has been well documented in the fraudulent interventions and bombings in the Balkans right up the present multiple wars against the peoples of Iran.

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Vijay Prashad had identified NATO as the prime defender of the Atlantic project. This Atlantic project, he noted was, "a fairly straightforward campaign by the propertied classes to maintain or restore their position of dominance." This Atlantic Project was anchored in the military alliance called NATO with its principal work, that of reversing the South Project; the struggles for peace, bread and justice by the poorer citizens of the planet, especially those who had emerged on the world stage after the decolonization of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

The ostensive reason for the founding of NATO was to 'thwart' Soviet aggression, but in practice the organization was a prop for western capital and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, became the core prop for Wall Street. In this year, there will be many commentaries on the fact that the existence of NATO reflects a Cold War relic, that NATO is obsolete and lost its mandate, but very few will link the expansion of NATO to the military management of the international system.
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SOTT Focus: Aaron Maté Gives (Non-exhaustive) List of Rachel Maddow's Insane Russiagate Conspiracies in Epic Twitter Thread

Doug DiPasquale
Sott.net
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:37 UTC
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Last Saturday, Rachel Maddow tweeted an article from the Washington Post decrying the fact that YouTube's algorithm had recommended a video from RT in searches for videos about the Mueller Report. "YouTube recommended one video source hundreds of thousands of times to viewers seeking information, a watchdog says: RT, the global media operation funded by the Russian government." Maddow appended the tweet with the phrase "Death by algorithm".

The 'controversial' video in question is an interview Chris Hedges did with Aaron Maté - so, between two award-winning journalists (Hedges was awarded a Pulitzer, Maté an Izzy Award, specifically for his reporting on 'Russiagate') - whose collective journalistic weight dwarfs Maddow's 'Alex-Jones-of-the-Left conspiracy theories', by several orders of magnitude. The idea that YouTube should not be recommending this kind of high-caliber discussion, 'because Russians', is simplistic and reactionary.

Maté, understandably, took issue with this mischaracterization. In response he provided a "thread offering a sample of the falsehoods, innuendo, and propaganda that [Maddow] has aired on her top-rated cable news show". Strap in, this is epic.

Comment: For more Twitter reactions to Maddow's fear-mongering, see: Rachel Maddow flips out after YouTube allegedly recommends an RT video.

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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health #12 - The New Red Scare - Freaking Out About the Measles


Sott.net
Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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The measles are coming! The measles are coming!

Recent "scare media" reports would have us believe the measles is a deadly 'disease', and our governments are reacting to any surfacing of measles infections with quarantines worthy of an Ebola outbreak.

However, prior to the release of the vaccine, measles was thought of as being relatively benign - requiring only a few days of rest before being completely free of the infection, while getting the benefit of lifetime immunity from future infections.

So why is measles currently treated as a deadly modern plague while the last generation used it as a plot device for comedy on sit-coms? Is all the panic really justified?

Join us for a fascinating discussion of the measles, including the media and government's overreactions, mandatory vaccinations, as well as actual health BENEFITS of natural, wild measles infections and new research involving therapeutic uses of the measles virus in fighting cancer.

And stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment, where she talks about reading cat behavioral cues.

Additional links:

Measles Virus as a Cancer Fighter https://youtu.be/qRy-IAPJLBA
Measles to the Rescue: A Review of Oncolytic Measles Virus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086626/
ZERO U.S. Measles Deaths in 10 Years, but Over 100 Measles Vaccine Deaths Reported https://healthimpactnews.com/2015/zero-u-s-measles-deaths-in-10-years-but-over-100-measles-vaccine-deaths-reported/

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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Great Peterson Vs. Žižek Debate: Ideological Slugfest or Meeting of the Minds?

Elan Martin, Harrison Koehli, Corey Schink
Sott.net
Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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What happens when two of the biggest and best known minds in the Western world decide to come together under one roof and publicly debate one of the most contentious and divisive of all political ideological issues - Capitalism Vs. Communism - and which one confers happiness to the greatest number of people? Well that's exactly what Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek did recently much to the delight, disgust or confusion of many thousands. How would Žižek defend Communism? How would Peterson take it apart? Would there be rancor between these two intellectual giants - who both ostensibly fall squarely on either side of the fence? Or could they accommodate each others' points of view in a coherent and respectful manner? Join us this week on MindMatters as we share our reactions to their truly great discussion and point to its virtues, its values and its deficiencies - as well as how it excelled in defying many expectations.


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SOTT Focus: Russian 'Agent' Maria Butina Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison on 'Conspiracy' Charge

Sara Murray and David Shortell
CNN
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:40 UTC
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© Alexandria Sheriff's Office / Reuters 2Maria Butina's police booking photo.
A federal judge sentenced Russian national Maria Butina to 18 months in prison on Friday, after she pleaded guilty to trying to infiltrate conservative political circles and promote Russian interests before and after the 2016 presidential election.


Comment: Like many people who plead guilty in the US, she did so because the system there makes you plead guilty in exchange for 'leniency', not because she's actually 'guilty'. In Butina's case, they tortured a confession out of her.


She is the first Russian citizen convicted of crimes relating to the 2016 election, though her efforts to infiltrate Republican circles appeared to be separate from the Kremlin's sweeping election-meddling campaign detailed in special counsel Robert Mueller's report.


Comment: That's CNN's way of saying she had no connection with the Kremlin whatsoever.


The 30-year-old gun rights enthusiast has been incarcerated since her arrest in July and will receive credit for the nine months previously served. She will be deported to Russia after serving her sentence.


Comment: Take note, American 'gun rights enthusiasts': they're 'gunning' for you next.


Comment: During the Cold War, the West could blame an Iron Curtain for the USSR's isolation (even though, like today, Western leaders themselves first imposed it).

Today, the technocrats running the Western system have reconstituted this isolation, but because the Russian Federation is effectively as open as most countries, they have to scheme a LOT harder to make Russia (seem) isolated.

Butina is being punitively subjected to additional solitary prison-time despite the flimsiest of charges brought against her. She never made any secret of her activities. She was a gun 'enthusiast' who wanted to advocate for gun rights in her home country, so who better to talk to than the NRA?

Butina, in fact, was working to export the US gun lobby model to her home country, something that should - if Americans believe their own narratives - have been promoted, not punished.

Moralizing over her relationship with an older man is the height of hypocrisy, especially in an amoral place like Washington, DC. Her treatment while imprisoned was deplorable, and now she faces more of the same. Still, the US feels it can rub Russia's nose in it... UPDATE 27 April 2019, 12:00 CET

Butina made a tearful plea for leniency, and begs for mercy.
"My parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they watch in their rural house in a Siberian village," she told a judge in a shaky voice at her hearing Friday. "I love them dearly, but I harmed them morally and financially. They are suffering from all of that. I destroyed my own life as well."

"Now I beg for mercy, and the chance to go home and restart my life."

"I came to the United States not under any orders, but with hope, and now nothing remains but penitence," she said, adding that "I just didn't register because I didn't know to."
The judge sentenced her anyway.

Her lawyer, Robert Driscoll, said that Butina was arrested and smeared for no other reason than her nationality:
"Anyone who thinks that someone who wasn't Russian would be in this situation is fooling themselves."
He appeared on RT today to voice his concern for his client, and the potential blow-back this precedent sets up for Americans caught up in copy-cat entrapment schemes abroad:


The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement:
"From the moment of her arrest we have pointed out that the accusations against her of attempting to influence internal American political processes were completely contrived and fabricated. Her confession, which was coerced through harsh imprisonment conditions and threats of a lengthy sentence, changes nothing.

Our compatriot's only crime was being a citizen of Russia. She became a victim of a bitter battle between political forces inside the US, and an unbridled anti-Russian campaign in the spirit of McCarthyism. Butina's sentence is a shameful stain on the American judicial system."
Russia 'loses' to the US, again, but Truth, as usual, remains on Russia's side.

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SOTT Focus: More Than 40 Members of the White Helmets Admit to Staging of Chemical Attacks in Syria


Sputnik
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 23:09 UTC
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© AP Photo / Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets
At least 40 members of the White Helmets organization have admitted during recent interviews that they staged chemical attacks in Syria to provoke retaliation against President Bashar Assad, Foundation for the Study of Democracy Director Maxim Grigoriev said on Thursday as he unveiled the results of a new study at the UN.

"We have interviewed ... 40 members of the White Helmets, including those from Douma, who provided a detailed description of their methods commonly used by their organization to fake scenes," Grigoriev said.

The foundation conducted a fact-finding mission in Syria and located both White Helmets members and dozens of other people who participated in the staged attacks, Grigoriev said.

"Those people told us in detail how they had to participate in the staging for few dollars to buy some food for their families," he said.

One woman recounted how she was given white burial shroud to wrap herself up in and then told to lay on the ground and smear her mouth with toothpaste, Grigoriev said.

Comment: Like so many of the wars the US wages under utterly deceitful pretenses, one is reminded of the slew of stories rammed down our throats in order to serve Washington's Big Lie narratives in the service of achieving world hegemony.

See also:

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SOTT Focus: Kremlin Fifth-Column Plot to Make Putin Look Short Revealed!

Anoniy Mouseevich Stenographov
Sott.net
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:59 UTC
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© Kremlin.ruVladimir Putin met at the Kremlin with women whose children have achieved outstanding results in the arts, science, sport, or been awarded the title Hero of Russia, March 8, 2015.
The following special report comes to us from our Russian correspondent, Anoniy Mouseevich Stenographov. Anoniy risked his life smuggling this information out of Russia, but he fears for the safety of his family due to the explosive nature of the Russian national secrets revealed here.

Four years ago, the UK's Daily Express revealed to the world one of the Kremlin's best-kept secrets: Russian President Vladimir Putin is insecure about his height. One year ago, the New Yorker's Robin Wright confirmed this, using her astute knowledge of Putin's inner psyche to conclude: "Putin is still a little man strutting to be one of the big boys."

This information continues to be relevant, and several sources within the U.S. and UK intelligence communities have confirmed to us that it is perhaps the key piece of intelligence that will help the free and democratic world win the New Cold War. While they couldn't share all their plans with us for reasons of national security, they did tell us one thing: part of the plan involves interfering in the elections of as many foreign nations as possible in order to 'elect' tall leaders (like Trump at 6'3", Imran Khan at 6'2", and Aleksandar Vucic at 6'6"). The hope is that the intimidating height of such competitors will slowly wear on the Russian president's self-image until he does something to catastrophically weaken his stranglehold on Russian politics, thus paving the way for the election of someone more willing to sell Russia to the highest bidder, like Alexey Navalny.

Here's what the Express said at the time, quoting their source in the Kremlin:
The Russian president was hosting a group women at the presidential palace in Moscow to celebrate International Woman's Day. However, Putin's aides forgot to tell the invited group not to wear high-heels, leaving several of the guests towering over the Russian leader - who is famously self-conscious about his height. A Kremlin insider said strict rules dictate no one can be taller than the president - who is believed to be between 5ft 2" and 5ft 5" - in official photos.

"That's why his bodyguards are always shorter then [sic] he is, to give the impression Putin is a tall person," the source revealed. However that diktat appears to have been ignored in the most recent images of Putin, which show a handful of the 14 invited women dressed smartly but with accompanying high heels. According to the insider, the women were told to bend down during the photo call to make Putin appear slightly taller.

"They were told to try and squat down a little bit during the official photo session," the source said. They added: "Fourteen women were selected and invited to the Kremlin to take part in the official meeting with [the] president. In line with Kremlin rules, no one can be taller than he is to avoid causing embarrassment in pictures and video."
SOTT.net can confirm that this insider was subsequently ferreted out by the FSB and is currently serving time in Putin's personal secret gulag, where he is forced daily to repeat the phrase, "President Putin is the greatest and tallest leader the world has ever known." Our own Russian sources tell us that the women photographed with the Russian president have not been seen since the unfortunate event. Their whereabouts remain unknown - even to our highly-placed sources within the Kremlin. Only Putin knows their fate.
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SOTT Focus: The Prosecution of Julian Assange is Infinitely Bigger Than Assange

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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Julian Assange's mother reported yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers. Doctors who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy have attested that he urgently needs medical care. Belmarsh is a maximum security prison sometimes referred to as "the UK's Guantanamo Bay".

And yet we're asked to believe that this has something to do with an alleged bail violation and a US extradition request for alleged computer crimes carrying a maximum sentence of five years. If you zoom out and listen to the less-informed chatter of the overt propagandists and the brainwashed rank-and-file Western mass media consumers, you will also see that people believe this has something to do with Russia and rape allegations as well.

Actually, none of these things are true. Assange is being imprisoned under draconian conditions for journalism, and for journalism only. The Obama administration declined to prosecute him after WikiLeaks' publication of the Manning leaks out of concern that doing so would endanger press freedoms, and the Obama administration didn't have any more evidence at its disposal than the Trump administration has now. The "crime" Assange is accused of consists of nothing other than standard journalistic practices that investigative journalists engage in all the time, including source protection and encouraging the source to obtain more material. The only thing that has changed is an increased willingness in the White House to prosecute journalists for practicing journalism, and there are an abundance of reasons to believe that he will be hit with far more serious charges once extradited to US soil. They're not going to all this trouble for a bail violation and a five-year maximum sentence.
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SOTT Focus: Indian General Elections 2019: Money, Social Media and Nationalism

P. Rao
Sott.net
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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The world's largest democracy will hold parliamentary elections this month. The elections are conducted in 7 stages from April 11 to May 23rd. Phase 1 of the elections were completed on April 11th. 900 million people are eligible to vote, including 84 million first-time voters, in 1 million polling booths supervised by 11 million personnel for 543 parliamentary seats. 130 parties fielded more than 8000 candidates. Incumbent Prime minister Narendra Modi is expecting to retain his position, while opposition party (Congress lead UPA) that won 10 times out of the last 15 Lok Sabha elections (since independence) is hoping to reverse their abysmal 2014 performance. A record amount of money ($US 7 to 9 billion) is expected to be spent on this years election making it costlier than last US presidential election.

While the Ruling Hindu nationalist BJP coalition (NDA) hopes to showcase Modi's reforms during the last 5 years and highlight his tough stance on national security, the opposition parties are trying to take advantage of weak unemployment figures, anti-incumbency trends and attempt to cast Modi as corrupt with slogans like 'Chowkidar Chor Hai' (watchman is a thief) which is a reverse of the rhetoric Modi used to portray himself as a "Chowkidar" (a watchman or gatekeeper). Like a Bollywood movie, Indian elections contain a lot of emotion, pomp, drama, music and color.
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