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Globalists concede defeat, Russia and China facilitate rise of multipolar world


Sputnik
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:26 UTC
Natobreakup
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The recent German Marshall Fund's Brussels Forum, which brought together influential American neocons and trans-Atlantic leaders from Europe, marked the failure of the Western-centered globalist idea, Sputnik political observer Dmitry Kosyrev notes, adding that meanwhile, Russia and China continue to facilitate the emergence of a multi-polar world.

Globalists have admitted their defeat by recognizing that neither Russia nor China will dance to their tune, Sputnik political observer Dmitry Kosyrev writes.
"It seems that work has begun to revive the half-dead 'liberal world order'," the observer noted. "It will take quite some time, and it is not necessary that the United States will be its epicenter. However, this 'order' will not be global - goodbye, illusions. It will involve only part of the countries while China, Russia and some other states won't be affected [by the project]."
The observer referred to the 2018 German Marshall Fund's (GMF) Brussels Forum, citing Josh Rogin of The Washington Post. The Brussels Forum is an annual high-level meeting of influential politicians, corporate leaders and scholars from North America and Europe. The event had the eloquent title "Revise, Rebuild, Reboot: Strategies for a Time of Distrust." The organizers of the forum raised the alarm over "a decline in trust, both in domestic and international spheres."
"We lost sight of what it took to create this international order and what an act of defiance of history and even defiance of human nature this order has been. We have the capacity to push back - we just need to understand the pushback needs to start occurring,"
Robert Kagan, neoconservative American historian and husband of former US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland told the forum, as quoted by Rogin.

For his part, Senator Chris Murphy bemoaned the fact that US President Donald Trump is not interested in "projecting liberal values" into other countries, let alone trade liberalization.
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Virginia State Senator Black: US' Syrian campaign is a disgrace

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Senator Black
© when the news stopsVirginia Senator Richard Black
FRN is honored to present this exclusive guest editorial from the esteemed former JAG officer at the Pentagon, and current sitting 13th District representative of the Virginia state senate, Mr. Richard Black.

Several weeks ago, NATO powers warned that Syria was going to use poison gas against East Ghouta - site of a massive, ongoing battle between Western-backed terrorists and the Syrian Army.

The West knew full-well that terrorists in East Ghouta had all the necessary chemicals in place to stage a false-flag attack that the West could blame on the Syrian Army. This ploy has been used repeatedly by the CIA, British MI-6, and Turkish MIT throughout the Syrian War. Unfortunately for them, the Syrian Army advanced so fast that they overran the Sarin gas laboratory and captured it before the terrorists could execute their assigned plans.

Consequently, no Sarin gas attack has yet occurred in East Ghouta. However, you can be certain that Western intelligence services are working feverishly to resupply the terrorists with new chemicals to formulate poison gas that can be used to impugn the Syrian government. That is a major reason for the Syrian Army's haste in overrunning the final 20% of East Ghouta remaining in terrorist hands.

Comment: So there is at least one legislator in the US that has eyes open and an ear to the ground.

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Best of the Web: Don't believe the MSM about N. Korea's nukes - even US intel admits they're not offensive

Steve Chovanec
Reports from Underground
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:42 UTC
North Korea military parade
© Damir Sagolj / ReutersNorth Korea on parade
The recent diplomatic breakthrough between the Trump administration and North Korea provides a hopeful opportunity for peaceful resolution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula. Immediately after the announcement, the media went into overdrive to try and undermine the development, worrying more about photographs of Kim Jung-Un than of preventing nuclear war.

This, however, is only the latest iteration in a long history of media reporting which has enabled an aggressive US foreign policy.

While the momentum during the Olympic Games was pushing towards détente, the Trump administration ramped up its "maximum pressure" campaign. Meanwhile, the media constantly reminded its audiences of the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons. A threat not only to the people of the region - but likely even the United States itself.

When faced with such a threat the bellicose posturing of the Trump administration seems perhaps to have been warranted. After all, if the US does not coerce North Korea into denuclearization, what else will protect us?

There is a problem though. This threat is not real. North Korea's nuclear program - according to official US intelligence assessments - is defensive. Its overall military posture is designed to deter an attack - exactly the kind that Trump has threatened them with.

By falsely portraying North Korea as the aggressor, the press have functioned much in the same way that state-sponsored propaganda would, bolstering an aggressive foreign policy despite the chance that it will descend the world into a possible nuclear war.
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Zakharova: Britain using 'black PR' in Skripal case, Russia will 'have a surprise' for those comparing Russia to Third Reich

Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 17:52 UTC
Maria Zakharova
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova, believes that Britain is using "black PR" in relation to the Skripal case; the actions of London are "a colossal provocation."

"They can not defend their theses, they can not sell it, using their own arguments." Accordingly, they turned to the concept of black PR on a world scale: it's a colossal provocation, I would say more: it's a colossal adventure [for them]."

Zakharova noted that the information campaign against Russia is poorly worked out. The British mass media have already begun to pay attention to this unconvincing argument.

The recent EU summit discussed the Salisbury incident "without a single fact, without a single argument", which, she believes, "does not even remotely resemble a trial.""Have at least some argument, but no, you need a comparison with the Third Reich and Nazi Germany for such public purposes," she said.

The diplomat also promised a surprise to all those who are trying to present Russia as an enemy. "We have a surprise for all who have the impudence to compare, to draw parallels between Russia and the Third Reich," Zakharova said.
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The aim of Britain's foreign policy

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:11 UTC
Global Britain
Re-establishing the Empire. Wishful thinking would be a kind way to describe it!
Thierry Meyssan pursues his study of national foreign policies. After having analysed the policy of France, he now turns to that of the United Kingdom. While the former is considered to be the « private domain » of the President of the Republic, and as such, escapes the democratic debate, the latter, even more so, is elaborated by an elite gathered around the monarch, outside of any form of popular control. Thus the elected Prime Minister can do no more than implement the choice of the hereditary Crown. Faced with the failure of the US project for a unipolar world, London is attempting to restore its erstwhile imperial power.

On 13 November last, Theresa May seized the opportunity offered by the Prime Minister's annual speech at Lord Mayor's Banquet to give an overview of the new British strategy after the Brexit [1]. The United Kingdom intends to re-establish its Empire (Global Britain) by promoting international free exchange with the help of China [2] and ejecting Russia from international instances with the help of its military allies - the United States, France, Germany, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Retrospectively, all the elements we can see today were mentioned in this speech, even if we didn't immediately understand it at the time.

Comment: Tre real dangers to those mascarading as the virtues of "freedom and democracy" are those countries where there actually is a fair level of freedom and democracy. In other words, nothing scares the lie more than the truth.

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CIA's interference in the 2016 US elections: Let's investigate John Brennan

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:02 UTC
John Brennan


Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, a Barack Obama friend and protégé as well as a current paid contributor for NBC and MSNBC, has blasted President Donald Trump for congratulating President Vladimir Putin over his victory in recent Russian national elections. He said that the U.S. President is "afraid of the president of Russia" and that the Kremlin "may have something on him personally. The fact that he has had this fawning attitude toward Mr. Putin ...continues to say to me that he does have something to fear and something very serious to fear."

It is an indication of how low we have sunk as a nation that a possible war criminal like Brennan can feel free to use his former official status as a bully pulpit to claim that someone is a foreign spy without any real pushback or objection from the talking heads and billionaire manipulators that unfortunately run our country. If Trump is actually being blackmailed, as Brennan implies, what evidence is there for that? One might reasonably conclude that Brennan and his associates are actually angry because Trump has had the temerity to try to improve relations with Russia.

It is ironic that when President Trump does something right he gets assailed by the same crowd that piles on when he does something stupid, leading to the conclusion that unless The Donald is attacking another country, when he is lauded as becoming truly presidential, he cannot ever win with the inside the Beltway Establishment crowd. Brennan and a supporting cast of dissimulating former intelligence chiefs opposed Trump from the git-go and were perfectly willing to make things up to support Hillary and the status quo that she represented. It was, of course, a status quo that greatly and personally benefited that ex-government crowd which by now might well be described as the proverbial Deep State.

The claim that Trump is a Russian agent is not a new one since it is an easy mark to allege something that you don't have to prove. During the campaign, one was frequently confronted on the television by the humorless stare of the malignant Michael Morell, former acting CIA Director, who wrote in a mind numbing August 2016 op-ed how he was proud to support Hillary Clinton because of her "commitment to our nation's security: her belief that America is an exceptional nation that must lead in the world for the country to remain secure and prosperous; her understanding that diplomacy can be effective only if the country is perceived as willing and able to use force if necessary; and her capacity to make the most difficult decision of all: whether to put young American women and men in harm's way." Per Morell, she was a "proponent of a more aggressive approach [in Syria], one that might have prevented the Islamic State from gaining a foothold..."
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Trump's selection of war-hawk John Bolton will hasten the degeneration of American world power

Finian Cunningham
RT
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:14 UTC
John Bolton
© Alex Wong / AFPJohn Bolton
Since US President Donald Trump announced John Bolton as his new top national security advisor last week, the world has been reeling from multiple predictions of wars breaking out.

The following is not meant to sound complacent, but the inclusion of arch war-hawk Bolton in Trump's inner circle may actually turn out to be a good thing. For it will hasten America's reckless foreign policies and its decline as a world power.

Admittedly, such an outlook is proffered against a very grim background.

John Bolton has been described not so much as "America First" as "Military First". He is credited as being the chief architect of the Iraq War under the GW Bush administration. He remains bumptiously unapologetic about promoting that war, which was based on lies and resulted in as many as one million deaths.

Bolton relishes in open contempt for the United Nations and international law, viewing both as hampering the United States from using military force whenever and wherever it wants, in pursuit of its geopolitical objectives.
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Why Rouhani's trip to Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan is a big deal


PressTV
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:28 UTC
President Rouhani (L) gets off a car to be received by Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
© Photo by IRNAPresident Rouhani (L) gets off a car to be received by Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow at the presidential palace in Ashgabat, March 27, 2018
President Hassan Rouhani has begun the new Iranian year with a trip to neighboring Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, signaling Tehran's focus on connectivity as the cornerstone of reviving links with traditional trade partners.

Iran's plans are in synergy with development strategies of the surrounding countries calibrating to a major change which has started in trade routes in the wake of China's massive project to build a modern-day "Silk Road" at a cost of $1 trillion.

Iran seeks to revive its traditional position as the transport hub in the heart of Eurasia and a vital link between the East and the West.

The strategy has found added momentum after a landmark nuclear deal in 2015 failed to put an end to years of estrangement between the Islamic Republic and the West. Tehran is now trying to reroute trade to the places which are less susceptible to outside arm-twisting.

Comment: In a ceremony held in Ashgabat on Tuesday, senior officials of Iran and Turkmenistan signed 13 documents to develop joint cooperation in various fields.
The ceremony was attended by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Turkmen counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.

The Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) feature collaborations in political, cultural, trade, industrial, agricultural, sports and academic fields.

Addressing the event, Rouhani, who started his two-day visit to the Central Asian country on Tuesday, hailed the "good and constructive" talks between high-ranking Iranian and Turkmen officials earlier.

The Iranian president highlighted the good-neighborliness and common cultural, historical and religious grounds between the two nations, saying, "We are determined to tap into all available capacities to develop and deepen joint cooperation."


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Jimmy Carter: Bolton pick for NSC adviser a 'disaster for our country'


RT
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:28 UTC
Jimmy Carter
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images / AFPFormer U.S. President Jimmy Carter holds up a copy of his new book 'Faith: A Journey For All,' March 26, 2018 in New York City
The 39th US President has slammed Donald Trump's pick of Bush-era war hawk John Bolton to lead the National Security Council. The effects of the move, which has sparked a lot of criticism, could be disastrous, Jimmy Carter said.

The 93-year-old former President has echoed the concerns of Democratic lawmakers that have been sounding the alarm over Trump's decision to sack Gen. HR McMaster from his national security adviser post and replace him with the former US envoy to the UN.

Bolton, known for beating the drums of war against North Korea and Iran, and pushing for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is set to formally take office on April 9, ahead of Trump's planned talks with Kim Jong-un.
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Kremlin: Putin and Erdogan discuss preparations for Russia-Turkey-Iran summit in Ankara


TASS
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:08 UTC
Vladimir Putin
© Alexei Nikolsky/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS
Apart from that, Putin and Erdogan stressed the importance of further development of bilateral relations

Preparations for an upcoming summit meeting of the Russian, Turkish and Iranian leaders in Ankara were in focus of a telephone conversation between Russian and Turkish Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Kremlin press service said on Tuesday.

"The two presidents discussed preparations for a regular meeting of the top-level Cooperation Council between Russia and Turkey and the second summit of the Astana process guarantor nations - Russia, Turkey and Iran - due to be held in early April in Ankara," the Kremlin said.

Comment: See also:

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