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World blasts Netanyahu's cheap 'Iran lied' stunt, but only one person matters — Trump

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 04 May 2018 10:20 UTC
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Netanyahu's speech, edited, by Adam Horowitz.
The good news from Benjamin Netanyahu's speech on Iran's "secret atomic archive" yesterday is that it was so cheaply theatrical that it is being widely dismissed as vaudeville. He used the word secret 15 times, and in the encore pulled back a black curtain on his evidence, proclaiming, "I just revealed something the world has never seen before."

The bad news is that the world doesn't matter; Netanyahu obviously pitched his message to one person, Donald Trump, who is moved by cheap theatrics; and lobbying Trump to go to war against Iran looks to be a far better bet than lobbying his predecessor, Barack Obama. Under similar pressure three years ago, Obama said that only one country in the world was against the deal, Israel, and that it would be an "abrogation of my constitutional duty" to defer to Israel rather than the American people.

Alas, Trump isn't so fussy.

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Mitch McConnell's in-laws purchased 10 cargo ships from China since his wife became Transportation Secretary

Peter Schweizer & Jacob McLeod
Breitbart
Fri, 04 May 2018 10:20 UTC
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) in-laws have ordered 10 massive cargo ships from the Chinese government since the senator's wife Elaine Chao became Secretary of Transportation. The deep financial ties between the Chao family's shipping business Foremost Group and the Chinese regime were first revealed in the #1 New York Times bestseller Secret Empires.

Foremost Group, which is owned by Sec. Elaine Chao's father and Sen. McConnell's father-in-law James S.C. Chao, signed contracts with a subsidiary of the state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) for four bulk cargo ships in June and September 2017. In December 2017, Chao's company signed another contract with state-owned CSSC at Foremost's New York office for two massive 210,000-ton ships. James S.C. Chao and two of Elaine's sisters were in attendance. So, too, was the Consul General of China in New York, as well as representatives from the CSSC. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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Analysis: Macron's Speech to the Joint Session of Congress, 25 April 2018

Gilbert Doctorow
US Foreign Policy
Fri, 04 May 2018 10:20 UTC
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© Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Paul Ryan and Vice President Mike Pence listen as French President Emmanuel Macron addresses a joint meeting of Congress inside the House chamber in Washington on April 25, 2018.
In this essay, I offer a detailed textual analysis of the speech which French President Emmanuel Macron delivered before the Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C. on 25 April 2018. In line with the kind of textual analysis which I performed on major political documents signed by heroic East European freedom fighters in 2007 and 2009, which were in fact authored by US intelligence operatives, I maintain here that a substantial part of Macron's speech was either written by or coordinated closely with these same intelligence services for the purpose of exerting maximum influence on domestic US politics by reinforcement of centrist American predispositions from respected foreign actors. However, in the given instance, it is also essential to explain how M. Macron became president of France in 2017 with the connivance of these same intelligence services. I will attempt to do that in the second part of the essay.

I freely admit that my argumentation is circumstantial and relies heavily on hunches that today are sagely phrased as "most likely" scenarios. But whereas the "most likely" reasoning of Theresa May is used to justify unprecedented verbal attacks on Russia and military attacks on the sovereign state of Syria, my reasoning, if unpersuasive, has no other consequence than to lose a reader here or there. On the other hand, if I indeed have touched gold, as I believe is the case, then the "special relationship" between the United States and France that Emmanuel Macron celebrated in his speech to Congress assumes a far more sinister nature than anyone in our mainstream and alternative media has so far identified.
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It's America who is violating the nuclear agreement, not Iran

Darius Shahtahmasebi
The Anti-Media
Wed, 02 May 2018 15:21 UTC
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On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his most grandiose anti-Iranian performance to date, revealing what he believed was direct proof that Iran "lied" about its nuclear program. This isn't the first time Netanyahu has overhyped the threat of Iran's non-existent nuclear weapons program. He has been crying wolf over Iran since as far back as 1992.

The aim of this performance is to cast doubt on the efficacy of the Iranian nuclear accord signed in 2015, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which U.S. President Donald Trump has long intended to completely derail. Netanyahu, of course, is totally on board with this goal.

Following Netanyahu's speech, the White House released a statement of its own, saying Israel's intelligence confirms what the U.S. had already known - that "Iran has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world." Not long after, the White House issued a second statement that changed the word "has" to "had," appearing to suggest that Iran no longer possesses a nuclear weapons program. However, a White House official later explained to NBC News that the wrong tense was the result of a "clerical error."

Either way, despite the uncompromising anti-Iranian narrative, the prevailing truth appears to be that Iran is in full compliance with the JCPOA, and the main officials involved - including Trump and Netanyahu - are well aware of this. In his April 12 Senate confirmation hearing, then-CIA director Mike Pompeo (who this week began his tenure as secretary of state) said he has "seen no evidence that they [Iran] are not in compliance today."

Comment: Good point. But the US doesn't care, and hasn't since its inception. They only follow the rules when it suits them otherwise they're there to be broken. It's no secret that the US is not be trusted when it comes to geopolitics. See also:

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SOTT Focus: Essay by Putin Advisor Vladislav Surkov on Russia's Eurasian Future: 'We Began a New Era in 2014'

Vladislav Surkov
Russia in Global Affairs
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:50 UTC

Comment: The following essay was recently published in Russia in Global Affairs, the Russian equivalent of Foreign Affairs in the US. We have translated it from the original at globalaffairs.ru, the cryptic title of which was: 'Одиночество полукровки (14+)' - The Solitude of a Half-Blood (14+).

Its author is Vladislav Surkov. If Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin is mischaracterized in the West as "Putin's brain," then Surkov is similarly mischaracterized "Putin's éminence grise." Surkov was Deputy Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration from 1999-2011, during which time he apparently played a role in the transition from Yeltsin to Putin and later developed the concept of sovereign democracy, which is arguably 21st century Russia's 'state ideology'.

Surkov also served as Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Modernisation from 2011-2013, and has since remained an aide to Putin, apparently with the specific brief of handling Russia's relationships with Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Ukraine. When Western elites went apoplectic because Crimea joined the Russian Federation in 2014, Surkov was one of the first names on Obama's sanctions list. Asked how he felt about no longer being able to travel to the US, Surkov responded:
"The only things that interest me in the US are Tupac Shakur, Allen Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock. I don't need a visa to access their work."
As Western actors hurl invective, sanctions, cyberattacks, political subterfuge and proxy wars at Russia - all apparently with a view to 'correcting' its policy decisions in the short-term, and thus its developmental trajectory in the long-term - Surkov sweeps through Russian history to explain why he believes that the 'civilizational crisis' his country finds itself in today marks the beginning of a new era and new identity for Russia...

[Hyperlinks to Wikipedia and other sources concerning historical events/actors referenced by the author are ours]


Vladislav Surkov
Vladislav Surkov
There are all kinds of jobs. Some jobs can be tackled only in a state that differs somewhat from a normal one. For example, a proletary1 of the news industry, a garden variety news supplier, as a rule, is a person in a frenzied state, and with a somewhat feverish mind. Which isn't surprising, since news business requires haste: the first to know, the first to report, the first to interpret.

The excitement of those who inform passes to those who are being informed. The excited ones often mistake their own excitement for a thinking process, and this excitement replaces the latter, which leads to long-term 'convictions' and 'principles' being replaced with one-shot 'opinions'. It is also the source for incompetent assessments, which no one seems to mind. That's the price for news being fresh and hot.

Few can hear the mocking silence of fate through the background media noise. Few are interested to know that there is slow and massive news that doesn't come from shallow waters, but from the depth of life, where geopolitical structures and historical eras collide. It takes time before we can understand their full meaning, but it is never too late to do so.
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Israel is inventing reasons to support sanctions against Iran in the hopes that it will lead to regime change

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin Johnstone Rogue Journalist
Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00 UTC
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put on a performance the other day that was so vapid and prop-intensive I was half expecting him to finish by smashing watermelons with a novelty-sized mallet. He falsely presented a bunch of old information already known in 2011 as though it was a scandalous new bombshell revelation obtained by heroic covert operations, making the amazingly strained argument that it should cause the termination of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, also known as the Iran deal).

In reality, Netanyahu actually revealed that the nuclear arsenal Tehran had envisioned many years ago was, as Defense One put it, "remarkably miniscule, unambitious" and "would make Kim Jong Un giggle."

CounterPunch's Patrick Cockburn explains how Netanyahu's Carrot Top-esque performance actually highlighted why the nuclear deal is necessary, since, as JCPOA proponents argued in 2015, Iran had in fact had ambitions of obtaining nuclear weaponry prior to 2003.

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SOTT Focus: Why the Deep State Hates Putin

Chris Kanthan
Sott.net
Thu, 03 May 2018 21:12 UTC
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Russophobia in America today is as intense as it was at the height of Cold War when terrified school kids had "Duck and Cover" drills and the public was obsessed with bomb shelters. However, all the drama hides the real conflict: geopolitical power struggle for world domination, which involves hundreds of trillions of dollars, massive egos of Machiavellian elites, and nations driven by memory of the past and visions of the future.

Here's the big picture: it's a geopolitical battle of USA + EU versus Russia + China. The US and EU are governed by the same banking and military-industrial overlords, while Russia and China - two independent countries - have made an alliance out of necessity. Why? If Russia falls, China will be the next.

Get the bear, you get the dragon, and thus you get the world.

But here is the kicker: the globalists did trap the bear in 1991 when the USSR collapsed. However, rather than befriending the bear, they caged it and then starved, tortured and humiliated it for the next eight years. That's when the bear tore down the cage and fought back.
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Moron Macron thinks mass migration is not linked to shocking rise in violence, terror and sexual assault in Europe

Virginia Hale
Breitbart
Tue, 01 May 2018 17:34 UTC
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© CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/AFP/Getty Images
Violent crime, terror attacks, and epidemic levels of sexual assault in Europe are "not linked" to mass migration, Emmanuel Macron has said, blaming "discrimination" and inequality for the phenomena.

Speaking to George Washington University students in the U.S. last week, the French President also acknowledged that "90 per cent" of African migrants arriving in Europe are economic migrants and not refugees.


Comment: The reason Africans are economic migrants is because of Western nations like France who have gone into Africa and looted it of its wealth and left the people to deal with the aftermath.


Macron was prompted to address the topic after a student stood up to say that Americans have watched as mass immigration "from the Middle East and Africa to Europe ... over the years", resulting in the rise of violence, crime, and terror attacks on the continent.

Highlighting "an increase in sexual assault and rape of women to the point that many women are too afraid to leave home" and "an increase in anti-Semitism to the point that in many cities Jewish citizens are advised not to wear religious garb for fear of being attacked", she asked the President what his government is doing "to ensure the national security and the cultural identity of France and Europe".
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Best of the Web: Wuhan summit between India and China another sign of faltering US global hegemony

M K Bhadrakumar
rediff.com
Tue, 01 May 2018 17:21 UTC
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The anxiety syndrome in the American write-ups on the Wuhan summit is truly tragi-comic. An analyst at the Brookings Institution confidently predicted even before the summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping that the event was much ado about nothing. The US government-funded Voice of America in an analysis has now arrived at the same conclusion, after the summit. Why are these American analysts in such tearing hurry to debunk the Wuhan meeting?

It's geopolitics, stupid! The prestigious Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released a report today which says amongst other things that India's defence spending rose by 5.5 per cent to US$63.9 billion in 2017, overtaking that of France as one of the world's top five military spenders. The report estimates that one of the main motivations behind India's plans to expand, modernise and enhance the operational capability of its armed forces lies in its tense relations with China.

From the US perspective, the situation is ideal to advance the business interests of America's vendors of weaponry. Last year, business deals worth $15 billion were chalked up. Any improvement in India-China relations will profoundly hurt American interests. Fueling India-China tensions is a major objective of the US' regional strategy.
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Could Macron be the last multilateralist?

Patrick Buchanan
Creators
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
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© AFPPresidents Macron and Trump
"Together," President Macron instructed President Trump, "we can resist the rise of aggressive nationalisms that deny our history and divide the world."

Before Congress he denounced "extreme nationalism," invoked the U.N., NATO, WTO, and Paris climate accord, and implored Trump's America to come home to the New World Order. "The United States is the one who invented this multilateralism," Macron went on, "you are the one now who has to help preserve and reinvent it."

His visit was hailed and his views cheered, but, on reflection, the ideas of Emmanuel Macron seem to be less about tomorrow than yesterday. For the world he celebrates is receding into history.

The America of 2018 is coming to see NATO as having evolved into an endless U.S. commitment to go to war with Russia on behalf of a rich Europe that resolutely refuses to provide for its own defense.

Since the WTO was created in the mid-'90s, the U.S. has run $12 trillion in trade deficits; and among the biggest beneficiaries - the EU. Under the Paris climate accord, environmental restrictions are put upon the United States from which China is exempt. As for the U.N., is that sinkhole of anti-Americanism, the General Assembly, really worth the scores of billions we have plunged into it?

"Aggressive nationalism" is a term that might well fit Napoleon Bonaparte whose Arc de Triomphe sits on the Champs-Elysees. But does it really fit the Hungarians, Poles, Brits, Scots, Catalans and other indigenous peoples of Europe who are now using democratic methods and means to preserve a national home for the unique peoples to whom they belong? And the United States would seem an odd place to go about venting on "aggressive nationalisms that deny our history."

Comment: Odd that as the European nations are contemplating creation of the United States of Europe, more than half the states in America are contemplating independence.
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