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Kosovo War at 25: Blair's secret invasion plot to 'topple Milosevic' revealed

Tony Blair and Hashim Thaci
Tony Blair with KLA leader and now-indicted war criminal Hashim Thaci
Top secret papers reviewed by The Grayzone reveal Tony Blair demanded strikes on civilian targets in Yugoslavia days before NATO attacked them. While the UK military acknowledged a NATO strike on Hotel Jugoslavia would mean inflicting "some civilian casualties," it insisted the deaths were "worth the cost."

Declassified British Ministry of Defence (MOD) files reviewed by The Grayzone reveal that officials in London conspired to embroil US troops in a secret plan to occupy Yugoslavia and "topple" President Slobodan Milosevic during NATO's 1999 war on the country. Though the crazed scheme was never implemented, details of the plot reveal precisely how British officials successfully shaped Washington into a blunt force instrument of their vanquished empire in years to come.

March 24 marks the 25th anniversary of Operation Allied Force, NATO's 78-day-long bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. Still venerated in Western mainstream as a successful "humanitarian intervention" conducted to prevent an impending "genocide" of Kosovo's Albanian population, the war was in fact a wantonly destructive, illegal assault on a sovereign, multiethnic country, based on lies and atrocity propaganda. Belgrade had in fact been engaged in a counterinsurgency battle against the CIA and MI6-backed Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an Al Qaeda-linked extremist group.

The KLA — funded by the narcotics trade and organ harvestingexplicitly sought to maximize civilian casualties, in order to precipitate Western intervention. In May 2000, a British parliamentary committee concluded all purported abuses of Albanian citizens by Yugoslav authorities occurred after NATO's bombing began, finding that the alliance's intervention had actually encouraged Belgrade to aggressively neutralize the KLA. Meanwhile, in September 2001, a UN court in Pristina determined that Belgrade's actions in Kosovo were not genocidal in nature, or intent.

These findings are largely overlooked today. A February Politico investigation into the West's post-war pillage of Kosovo axiomatically asserted that NATO intervened in Yugoslavia "to halt an unfolding genocide against the ethnic-Albanian population." Similarly forgotten is just how close leading NATO states came to invading Belgrade during that chaotic spring.

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Best of the Web: Yemen's Indian Ocean checkmate

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Ansarallah has single-handedly disrupted global shipping power dynamics. Yemen is launching attacks against Israeli-linked vessels deep into the Indian Ocean to cut off the last waterway route to the occupation state.
Our people are ready to send hundreds of thousands of mujahideen to Palestine. Okay, geography might pose a problem. It could be a problem for our people to go there in large numbers. Nevertheless, and despite all the obstacles, we will not hesitate to do whatever we can. We are completely coordinated with our brothers in the Jihad and resistance front to do anything and everything that we can do.
- Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, 10 October 2023

Since Abdul-Malik al-Houthi's proclamation three days after the launch of the Palestinian resistance's 7 October Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, Yemen's Ansarallah movement, under his leadership, has undergone a remarkable transformation.

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Mr. Potato

'Little Napoleon' Macron obsesses over personal security amid Ukrainian conflict - media

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© AP Photo / Franc ZhurdaFrench president Emmanuel Macron
The French leader is said to be "totally freaked out by the Russians" amid his own efforts to antagonize Moscow

French president Emmanuel Macron's concerns for his own personal safety are being amplified by his public statements and tough stance on the Ukraine conflict, Marianne magazine reported on Sunday.

The magazine spoke to multiple sources within Macron's security detail, the country's Interior Ministry, and to his notorious ex-bodyguard Alexandre Benalla. During his time with Macron's security team, Benalla became embroiled in multiple scandals, including beating up demonstrators alongside riot police during the Yellow Vest protests.

Macron has always been concerned with his personal security, Benalla claimed, revealing the president had bolstered the ranks of his guard right after assuming office.

Comment: Maybe dialing back the insane war rhetoric a little might help? Just a thought .. . . .

And what a flip-flop from a couple of years ago: Maybe its because Putin refused to entertain his nonsensical proposal for negotiations over Ukraine?
  1. Macron: 'Putin is a strong leader, we should never be weak with him'
  2. Forked tongue: Macron urges Putin to 'return to table' on Ukraine while supplying more weapons
  3. How Putin squashed arrogant Macron



NPC

Biden's intel community circulates DEI newsletter highlighting cross-dressing, inclusive language

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The executive arm of the U.S. intelligence community, which includes the CIA and several top military spy agencies, recently circulated a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) newsletter that features a secret agent who reveals he is a cross-dresser.

According to a Fox News Digital review of the document, the internal newsletter, The Dive, highlighted several left-wing initiatives and was circulated throughout the U.S. spy apparatus by the Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Office.

It is housed in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), a Cabinet-level position that oversees the intelligence community.

The document's theme is "the importance of words," focusing on ways spy agencies can be more inclusive.

Bizarro Earth

US destroyed anti-terrorism cooperation - Moscow

Anatoly Antonov
© AP Photo/Patrick SemanskyRussian ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov.
The US has dismantled its counterterrorism cooperation with Moscow, Russian Ambassador in Washington DC Anatoly Antonov has claimed. The diplomat added that joint work in this field had been among the key aspects of the partnership between the two nations.

The official's remark came shortly after several gunmen staged one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Russia's modern history, unleashing a shooting spree at the Crocus City concert hall just outside of Moscow on Friday evening. According to the latest estimates, the raid has claimed the lives of at least 133 people, with scores more injured.

Earlier this month, the US embassy in Moscow warned its citizens against attending large gatherings due to an imminent threat of a terrorist attack in the Russian capital.

In an article on Sunday, RIA Novosti quoted Antonov as saying: "I've always reminded the Americans that our president [Vladimir Putin] was the first one to extend a hand to the Americans and stated readiness to provide assistance in 2001," referring to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

He noted that "some things [in this cooperation] worked out... and it is all destroyed today through no fault of our own."

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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Moscow Terror Attack Mars Putin's Landslide Victory

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...but it won't change the outcome of the war.

133 dead civilians mowed down at a concert in Moscow by 4 Tajik gunmen-for-hire. Who paid them? Western media is sure they were 'ISIS', yet they were caught trying to escape to Ukraine. And that this occurred amidst increasing strikes and counter-strikes between Ukraine and Russia, the true motive for this atrocity is clear: to unsettle Russia and provoke Putin into escalating and/or deviating from 'the SMO plan' to demilitarize Ukraine.

Also in this NewsReal, Macron denies that his wife is a man and flexes his muscles for Putin, Israel prepares to drive Palestinians out of southern Gaza (and into Egypt?), and the Kate Middleton mystery is 'solved'.


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Suspects behind Moscow terrorist attack: What is known so far

Crocus City Mall terrorist attack suspect Moscow
© Telegram / Margarita SimonyanOne of the suspects detained in the Crocus City Mall terrorist attack in Moscow, Russia
A total of 11 people have been detained in the wake of Friday's brutal assault on Crocus City Hall spectators awaiting concert

Russia's law enforcement and security services have detained a total of 11 suspects following Friday's terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the outskirts of Moscow. The detainees include the four alleged perpetrators of the massacre that has claimed the lives of more than 130 and left scores injured, according to Russian domestic security service the FSB.

Details about the suspects' identities and the circumstances of the attack are still emerging. According to the FSB, the assault was carefully planned and designed to maximize casualties. An investigation into the incident is underway. Here is what is known so far:

Comment: Updates from social media:






Quenelle - Golden

SOTT Focus: Lockdown's Fourth Birthday

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Today marks four years to the day since the UK went into "lockdown" for the first time.

What an exciting time that was, right? With the pan-banging and the curve-flattening and the Spirit of the Blitz living on. Good times.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's team decided to honour the occasion by slapping themselves on the back:

Needless to say, this is revisionism of the highest order. To quote my favourite reply, it's the "gaslightiest gaslight I've ever been gaslit by".

The furlough system did not "save the economy". The economy was not saved. Rather, it was laid out on a stone table and slowly flayed with a sharpened flint.

We are all still living with the consequences of lockdown, not just in the UK but globally. The world over, hundreds of millions of people have been plunged into extreme poverty by so-called "anti-Covid measures".

Billions more are worse off, paying more for almost every product and service, and struggling in general.

It's important to remember this was the point.

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MPs claim Zelensky has total control of Ukraine - media

President Vladimir Zelensky
© Global Look Press / President of UkraineFILE PHOTO: President Vladimir Zelensky attends the plenary session of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, on June 28, 2023
Ukraine is now essentially under the personal rule of President Vladimir Zelensky, leading Kiev news outlet Ukrainskaya Pravda (UP) reported on Wednesday. He has virtually stripped the national parliament - the Verkhovna Rada - of its powers and reduced it to a mere rubber-stamp body, UP outlined in a piece based on numerous interviews with Ukrainian MPs.

The Rada has long been tightly controlled by the presidential administration, according to UP. The outlet claims that Zelensky's office is not only determining the priority of bills on the agenda but also deciding "whether the parliament should convene at all or its MPs should be promptly sent to the trenches."

"The president's office despises the parliament," an unnamed senior MP reportedly said. Zelensky and his team believe his party - the Servant of the People - which holds a majority in the legislature, "would vote for anything" the president needs, according to the lawmaker.

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France: Senators call for ban on gender transition for minors, 'one of the greatest ethical scandals in history of medicine'

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© Ashley Fraser/PostmediaA group of activists joined together for the Protect Trans Kids (again) protest to show support for anti-LGBT hate, rallying together at the Human Rights Monument on Elgin and marching to Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Oct. 21, 2023.
While the British National Health Service has just announced a ban on prescribing puberty blockers to minors, French senators have published a report that expresses alarm at the excesses of child gender transition and have proposed a bill to put an end to it.

A lengthy investigation initiated by centre-right Les Républicains senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio has just been made public. It is alarmed by what has been described as "one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine" — namely sex reassignment in minors, made possible by the administration of puberty blockers and surgery.

The report, which is detailed and well-argued, points to a number of abuses by health professionals, indoctrinated by a "trans-affirmative" ideology and subject to the influence of experienced trans activist associations. The report's authors accuse these associations of unreasonably encouraging gender transition in minors via an intense propaganda campaign on social media.

Comment: For further insight into why the West in particular is suffering from this social contagion, the following interview which explores childhood attachment and the implications in psychological development is enlightening: