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Geopolitics of human trafficking: How Western regime-change operations enable criminal activities

Lucas Leiroz
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
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© brookings.edu/lviv.center.org/KJNUkraine human trafficking
According to a recent investigation, Kiev regime is heading a big international scheme of slave trade.

The slave trade in Ukraine has become one of the most serious problems of our time. Since the 2014 coup d'état, Kiev has been a key player in modern slavery, particularly for human trafficking and sexual exploitation networks. The political and social instability that has affected the country since the Western-led regime change operation is one of the main factors for the growth of such human rights violations.

A recent investigative report published by the Foundation to Battle Injustice showed in details the seriousness of the slave trade in Ukraine. According to the organization, Kiev has become one of the main global hubs in the human trafficking market, with free exploitation and circulation of irregular workers - in addition to the well-known trafficking of women and children in the predatory sex market.

The study points out that more than 300,000 Ukrainians were victims of the slave market between 1991 and 2021. This situation, however, has deteriorated even further since Vladimir Zelensky came to power. It is estimated that since the beginning of Zelensky's government, more than 550,000 Ukrainians have been enslaved. These numbers are alarming and place Ukraine as one of the main agents of human trafficking in the entire world.

Comment: Author presents one of the darkest reasons the US is so highly and consistently involved in Ukraine.

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Austerity in the EU: How European bureaucrats serve America's economic interests

Hugo Dionisio
Strategic Culture
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
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Once again, the European bureaucracy is living up to the saying that "what has born crooked, late or never is straightened out". This is the case with the European Union, which was built as a political response to a reality that is no longer there — the socialist bloc — and which, when faced with the absence of its vital force, embarked on an erratic process of enlargement, aimed above all at provoking Russia, creating the conditions for NATO expansion and responding to the monopolies' growing need for new markets and new sources of skilled and cheap labor, as is the case in Eastern Europe.

Within this framework and in response to the same needs, the EU is once again reissuing a recipe already widely known to the peoples of the South. While there is widespread recognition that the budgetary criteria contained in the Stability and Growth Pact constitute a stranglehold on public investment and is responsible for the short-term vision that has left the member states hostage to the financial authoritarianism of Brussels, at a time when the European bloc is losing more and more ground to the economies with which it has to compete, the unelected supranational power of the EU is once again proposing, this time to all Europeans, something that none of these peoples would ever vote for: austerity for the next four years (at least).

Comment: An informative read. The EU is being set up...willingly.

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The US secretly sent long-range ATACMS to Ukraine — and Kyiv used them

Alexander Ward, Lara Seligman
Politico
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:30 UTC
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© John Hamilton, U.S. Army/APU.S. Army soldiers conduct live fire testing of early versions of the Army Tactical Missile System
White Sands Missile Range, N.M. • Dec. 14, 2021
The transfer of Army Tactical Missile Systems with a nearly 200-mile range ends a yearslong drama between Washington and Kyiv.

The Biden administration last month secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine for the first time in the two-year war — and Kyiv has already used the weapon twice to strike deep behind Russian lines.

In March, the U.S. quietly approved the transfer of a number of Army Tactical Missile Systems with a range of nearly 200 miles, said a senior Biden administration official and two U.S. officials, allowing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's forces to put at risk more Russian targets inside Ukrainian sovereign territory.

The administration will include additional long-range ATACMS in a new $1 billion package of military aid President Joe Biden approved on Wednesday, one of the U.S. officials said.

The provision of the long-range version of the ATACMS ends a lengthy drama in which Ukraine clamored for years to receive the weapon, driving a wedge between Washington and Kyiv. The U.S. quietly sent the medium-range version of the missile in October, but Ukraine continued to press for a weapon that would allow it to strike farther behind Russia's lines.

Ukrainian forces have used the long-range missiles twice, first against a Russian military base in Crimea and more recently against Russian forces east of Berdyansk near the Sea of Azov, the senior administration official said.

Comment: With Biden's lethal gifts and seal of approval, the war in Ukraine has escalated:
Ukraine used the missiles for the first time last Wednesday, targeting a Russian airfield about 165 kilometers (103 miles) from the front line.

On the morning of April 17, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said his forces had attacked the airbase in Dzhankoy, Crimea. The Russian Defense Ministry has not commented on that claim.

The ATACMS were acquired from Lockheed Martin, rather than from the Pentagon stockpiles, and paid for by the "savings" discovered in March, when several military contracts were reportedly delivered for less than the original bid value.

According to the official, Biden instructed his aides to include the ATACMS in the package but to keep it secret, so as to preserve Ukraine's "operational security and the element of surprise."

"This is yet another mistake on the part of the United States," Russian President Vladimir Putin said last October, explaining that, had Washington refrained from sending the missiles, it could have later positioned itself as the "good guy" for its attempts to prevent needless casualties.

With Russia upgrading its air defenses to intercept the ATACMS, their arrival will not have a major impact on combat operations, and will only "prolong the agony" of Ukraine, Putin explained. "That's why it's a mistake."


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Three cheers for our red, white, and blue war profiteers

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:45 UTC
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© New Eastern Outlook
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently told reporters that "No matter what else occurs regarding Ukraine, United States business and leadership put money in their pockets. While TASS news agency is not considered prime news for Westerners, it should be. It turns out the American leadership and militarists have no qualms about admitting the profitability of war in Ukraine." Let's run with a quote from Mr. Peskov via TASS:
"In any case, whatever the modality of providing this aid, de facto it is about provoking Ukraine into further hostilities down to the last Ukrainian, putting guaranteed money in the pockets of the US."
It's been reported hundreds of times in alternative media, the big win for the U.S. military-industrial complex for every Ukrainian or Russian killed in a stupid conflict that never should have happened. But, war between two Slavic peoples is a game show for those born and bred to push Russia and Russians down. What surprises me most is the transparency with which some Western media reports on the situation.

"Return on Investment: Justifying Aid to Ukraine" by The Defense Post proves once and for all that my country would murder on any scale for a return on assets or a good-paying job at Lockheed. Return on investment, ROI, the hold grail for a once great society. Wow! And we don't even deny it anymore. Just the other day, I reported about Germany getting set to milk Ukraine dry from financing to rebuild the country once enough Ukrainians have bled to death or been blasted into the afterlife. Today, I followed the Peskov statements and immediately found The Defense Post story, which did not simply report the actual game but justified it.
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Hungarian PM Orban: Liberal world order must be 'destroyed'


RT
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:25 UTC
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© FOTO DATOTEKA AFP / Attila KisbenedekHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
The values system dominating the West has "brought chaos," the Hungarian prime minister believes

Western liberal hegemony has failed and must be destroyed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated on Thursday, suggesting it could end as soon as this year.

Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC Hungary) in Budapest, Orban criticized the existing "world order based on progressive liberal hegemony," saying it has spawned numerous figureheads who are "not fit to be leaders," with even "beauty pageants" knowing more about peace then they do.

He accused liberal politicians of building "hegemonic ideological control to which everyone must submit" instead of actual governing, while turning "state bodies into tools of oppression." Such forces are a dangerous enemy whose time is coming to an end, Orban claimed.

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Cult

Fanatical German Green party officials lied to push nuclear power phase-out


RT
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:31 UTC
German nuclear power plant
German nuclear power plant
Environmentalist diehards reportedly manipulated experts' conclusions to fit their own agenda

Top-ranking German government officials from the Ministry of Economic Affairs intentionally falsified experts' reports to make it look like nuclear power was no longer viable in the country, Cicero magazine reported on Thursday.

Citing internal documents and e-mails it obtained via a court order, the media outlet claims that long-time Green Party proponents of a nuclear phase-out in high positions swept reports under the rug, or altered them, if they ran counter to their ideological convictions.

Following the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, Germany's parliament voted in favor of shutting down all similar facilities in the country. In April 2023, Germany's last three operational nuclear power plants were taken offline.
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Neil Oliver: '...we're being played by our governments over and over again!!!'

Neil Oliver
YouTube
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:09 UTC
Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver
'....no one will think of a homeland that belongs to them in any meaningful sense anymore...... we're all being turned into migrants....'

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Attention

Massive backtrack from WHO: Latest draft of IHR amendments drops almost all offending aspects

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:49 UTC
WHO concludes its 76th assembly
WHO President Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Campaign group UsForThem is reporting that the just-released draft of the International Health Regulations amendments from the WHO Working Group shows a massive climbdown in almost all areas of concern. Here's the summary (emphasis in original):

Comment: Encouraging news, but it could be a feint. The same regulations on censorship and centralization of power could still be brought in under the guise of "fighting terrorism" or some such nonsense. Eyes open!

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Rafah operation threatens to be a 'disaster for Israel' - Former IDF Major General


The Cradle
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:29 UTC
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© ReutersThe former officer said Hamas is planning a 'strategic ambush' for Israeli troops upon their upcoming entry into Rafah
Former Israeli army officer, Major General Israel Ziv, said on 26 April that Hamas' military wing is preparing an ambush to confront Israeli forces upon their entry into Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, where the army's long-planned invasion is approaching.

Hamas is working on a "strategic ambush" for when Israeli troops decide to enter Rafah, Ziv said, adding that this would be a "disaster for Israel."

"The Rafah invasion poses a high risk, one higher than everything [Israel] did in Gaza, given the fact that Rafah is a very crowded place and difficult to fight in, as well as the US and Egypt's sensitivity toward it," the former officer said, according to Al-Mayadeen.

Comment: Israel did indeed fail in their war on Hamas in Gaza, however it seems that the genocide of Palestinians, and ethnic cleansing of the region, was also part of the plan, and, in their demented eyes, that aspect was a 'success' - of sorts; because, Israel's military losses, its collapsing economy, and its reputation in the eyes of the world, proves otherwise:

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Israeli minister Ben-Gvir hurt in car accident


Al Arabiya
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:44 UTC
Israeli minister Ben-Gvir
Israeli minister Ben-Gvir
Israel's hardline national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was slightly hurt in a car accident and taken to hospital on Friday, police said, adding that they were investigating the circumstances.

Video aired on Israeli media showed the car Ben-Gvir was travelling in had flipped over.

Police commissioner Kobi Shabtai told reporters two other people were injured in the incident.

Ben-Gvir was leaving the scene in the city of Ramle near Tel Aviv where police said a suspected stabbing attack had occurred shortly before.

Comment: 42% of Israel's student soldiers mull 'quitting' school over 'psychological strain' of war on Gaza

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