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NappyGate makes Biden the most disgraced U.S. president in history

Martin Jay
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:49 UTC
Brandon and Napoleon
© Public Domain
Joe Biden's attendance of the D-Day memorial in France was a disgrace and one which he will struggle to shrug off when the annals of history are written. Never before has a U.S. president stooped so low to use the event as a stage for his own PR strategy to get re-elected and harp on about Ukraine. Some may believe he plagiarised Reagan's speech almost 40 years earlier, but they miss the point. The D-Day commemorations are all about celebrating peace and learning lessons from history. They are not about celebrating war and calling for more blood on any battlefield, let alone Ukraine's. Interestingly, Ukraine's president was invited to the event, but not the Russian leader which corresponds with a trend now that many geopolitical analysts are noting: how Russia's critical contribution to defeating Nazi Germany is getting airbrushed out of the entire media landscape. Fake news has entered the domain of how such events are reported as we have to assume that Russia defeating Nazism in the West - and in particular in Ukraine in the 1940s - cannot be allowed a media spotlight as some voters in the West might draw the parallel with how Russia even today is continuing the theme.

This time around, though, it is the Nazis in Germany who we in the West are backing. It's pretty complicated. Have pity on the journalists who can even get their heads around it. Most simply chose to navigate around the Nazis in Ukraine altogether as was evident when recently a brigade visited the British parliament and not one national newspaper or TV channel covered the extraordinary event which included a flag, reminiscent of German Nazis, being presented to a proud Boris Johnson in the parliament itself. Remarkable what is possible when you have such control over the press. And even more remarkable how, when you take such control, that one of the perks is that it is not at all considered odd or incongruous when you start believing your own fake news.
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Zelensky not the one running Ukraine - The Times


RT
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:56 UTC
Yermak
© Metin Aktas/Getty ImagesVladimir Zelensky's chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, in Kiev, Ukraine on August 22, 2022
Chief of staff Andrey Yermak is de facto the head of state, critics have told the outlet.

Multiple Ukrainian officials have complained to British daily The Times about the growing power of Vladimir Zelensky's chief of staff Andrey Yermak, who they say de facto runs Ukraine.

The 52-year-old has previously been described as "Zelensky's right-hand man" and "Ukraine's real power broker." Officials in Kiev now say he has become something more, the outlet has reported.

The Times' Maxim Tucker wrote in the article published on Friday:
"Yermak's authority has surpassed that of all of Ukraine's elected officials bar the president. Some sources went so far as to describe him as the 'de facto head of state' or 'Ukraine's vice-president' in a series of interviews."
Tucker, who previously worked as Amnesty International's campaigner on Ukraine, claimed to have spoken with "senior government, military, law enforcement and diplomatic sources," many of whom requested anonymity. He described Yermak as Zelensky's "greatest flaw," and his behavior as "thirst for power."

Comment: Who runs Ukraine? Be it one guy or the global village, it doesn't seem to matter. The focus is Russia.

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Scott Ritter, another American voice for sanity and peace, gets cancelled


Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00 UTC
SRItter
© seemorerocks.substack.comScott Ritter
The sinister prevention of Scott Ritter travelling to speak and broadcast from Russia this week by United States authorities is a sure sign that the Western imperialist warmongers are afraid of the truth.

Indeed, there is a dark shadow cast on their pretensions of "democracy and freedom" - ironically in a week that supposedly commemorates the D-Day landings and the historic fight against fascism.

The former U.S. Marine and United Nations weapons inspector has gained worldwide respect as an independent political commentator and analyst. Ritter has become a powerful critic of the United States and NATO's proxy war in Ukraine. He has staunchly appealed for dialogue and diplomacy, warning that the reckless provocations by Washington and its allies towards Russia are driving the world to a nuclear conflagration.

This week, Ritter was due to fly from New York to Istanbul, on his way to attend the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia. The annual forum is attended by thousands of delegates from all over the world. He was hauled off the flight by U.S. police officers and his passport was confiscated before being escorted from the airport. There was no official explanation for the draconian interdiction to his travel plans. The U.S. State Department refused to comment on the matter, saying it was a private matter.

Comment: Freedom to distinguish, assess and determine on a personal basis is fundamental to 'our right to choose'. Under Biden America has 'jumped the shark'.

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If wishes were fishes - a teachable intermezzo

James Howard Kunstler
jameshowardkunstler.substack.com
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00 UTC
2fish
© Fishwishes clipart-library.com/KJN'Going Nowhere'
This is the most significant reality of the world picture now: the wishes of the manager class are going in one direction while the actual dynamics of economy and politics go in the opposite direction. The managers wish for their management of systems to become as centralized and top-down as possible; but the very systems they manage are breaking down and seeking to reorganize at smaller scale, distributed locally. The tension entailed is explosive.

Forgive me for reiterating a basic principle driving this moment in history: everything organized at the gigantic scale is steaming toward failure: big governments, giant companies, the huge capital investment firms, global shipping, energy production, chain retailing, mass motoring, big electricity, big medicine, big education, big anything. They are all fixing to fail while our politicians and economists make plans based on consolidating them into one super-gigantic mega-system that will run flawlessly on computer tech magic.
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Myanmar's civil war: A golden opportunity for U.S. sabotage of China's interests

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00 UTC
Myanmar
© thealtworld.substack.comMyanmar's civil war
The real U.S. objective is to exploit the turmoil in the country as a way to contain China and undermine Beijing's strategic interests.

Myanmar's civil war is in a critical phase where the ruling military government is losing significant territory to a broad coalition of insurgent armies. It is estimated that insurgents now control over half the area in the Southeast Asian country after nearly three years of conflict.

Washington views the conflict as an "unmissable opportunity" to topple the military rulers and restore an elected government. The real objective of the United States is not to support democratic politics in Myanmar or peace and stability, but rather to exploit the turmoil in the country as a way to contain China and undermine Beijing's strategic interests.

In a set-piece interview with Time magazine published this week, President Joe Biden reiterated that Washington is pursuing a Cold War-style containment strategy against Russia and China. As the U.S.-led proxy war in Ukraine against Russia looks increasingly like a dead-end from the West's perspective, one can expect Washington to up the ante by turning its focus more on hampering China as a geopolitical rival. In his Time interview, Biden provocatively talks about "defending Taiwan against a Chinese invasion", and mobilization of other Asia-Pacific nations in a U.S.-led alliance to curb Beijing's influence.

Comment: USA: Rinse and repeat.

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Bayer will start selling genetically modified salad greens in US stores

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
Children's Health Defense
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:31 UTC
Genetically modified food


Chemical giant Bayer last week signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Pairwise, a genetic-based food startup, to develop and market its CRISPR-edited mustard greens.

Pairwise was the first company to bring produce created with the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR to the U.S. market when last year it started selling its mustard greens in some restaurants, hotels and retirement centers in a few U.S. cities.

Comment: For more information on the potential risks of genetically modified foods, see the following:

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'Until genocide stops': Israel's top coal supplier Colombia suspends exports


PressTV
Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:00 UTC
Colombian President Gustavo Petro
Colombian President Gustavo Petro
Colombia has said it would stop its coal exports to the Israeli regime as long as the latter sustained its months-long genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

"We are going to suspend coal exports to Israel until the genocide stops," Colombian President Gustavo Petro said in a post on X on Saturday.

He also posted a draft decree, which said that coal exports would only resume if the regime complied with a recent order by the International Court of Justice that mandated that Tel Aviv withdraw its troops from the Gaza strip.

Comment: With the weight of the US, UK, and Germany, propping up the genociders in Israel, whilst this will have some impact, it's unlikely to deter the pathocrats from their maniacal mission to eliminate Palestinians for their greater Israel project.

However, with the economies of the West slowly collapsing, the emerging multipolar alliance do stand a chance of having a more significant impact on Israel's plans. And that might be at least one reason why the West-Israel have chosen now as their moment to try to incite a worldwide chaos and war:

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Scholz and Macron should quit politics - Medvedev


RT
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:43 UTC
FILE PHOTO: Deputy chair of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.
© Sputnik / Ekaterina ShtukinaFILE PHOTO: Deputy chair of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.
The German and French leaders belong to the 'ash heap of history' having suffered damaging EU election defeats, the former Russian president has argued

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron should abandon politics after their respective parties suffered damaging setbacks in the European Parliament elections, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev believes.

Scholz's center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) is projected to finish third in the key ballot, behind the center-right Christian Democrats and the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Macron's Besoin d'Europe coalition is expected to win less than half of the votes received by the right-wing National Rally party associated with Marine Le Pen, prompting the French president to call a snap parliamentary election after preliminary results emerged on Sunday.

Comment:
From the same source:
9 Jun, 2024 08:14
German leader is a 'rotten liverwurst' - Medvedev
Olaf Scholz should "repent before the Ukrainians" for "dooming them to the slaughter," the former ex-Russian president has insisted

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz must ask for forgiveness from Ukrainians for playing a role in plunging their country into misery and helping to revive Nazi ideology, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said.

Writing on Telegram on Saturday, Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, lashed out at Scholz, who argued that President Vladimir Putin "must finally realize" that "Ukraine is strong and will not be forced to its knees or forced to surrender."

He went on to say that "there can only be a just peace for Ukraine," adding that "working for peace does not mean simply raising the white flag," while reiterating Berlin's commitment to supporting Kiev.

In response, Medvedev called Scholz "a rotten liverwurst," who he said "unexpectedly became chatty and talked outright drivel."

The former president claimed that Ukraine has become "a kind of dominion directly controlled by the United States and NATO countries," adding that Kiev is fully on the Western payroll and "is receiving all kinds of the most lethal weapons, despite the protests of its own people."

"So where does this strength come from, sausage maker? From exuberant corruption which is completely out of control? From the wholesale theft of this aid by the Zelensky clique? Or from a dying people, half of whom live in Russia and Europe?" Medvedev asked.

Scholz should "get down on his knees and repent before the Ukrainians" for lying to them that they could achieve victory against Russia, and for "dooming them to the slaughter while sacrificing the well-being of the Germans," according to the former president.

The German chancellor should also take responsibility "for the revival of Nazism" in Ukraine, his own "indescribable mediocrity of management," and the loss of public confidence in his Social Democratic Party, which makes his predecessors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt "turn over in their graves many times over," Medvedev said.

The former Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andrey Melnik, once called Scholz 'offended liverwurst'. In 2022, the envoy said the chancellor was behaving "not very statesmanlike" after he refused to visit Kiev following Ukraine's criticism of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Melnik was sacked following the remarks.
It is a kind of funny that the "liverwurst" description did not originate with Medvedev but with a now former Ukrainian ambassador. Had it not been for this precedence case, Medvedev would probably not have chosen this word in his commentary.

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The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All

David Vine & Theresa (Isa) Arriola
Counterpunch
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00 UTC
Military-industrial-congressional complex
We need to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they bleed, rupture, and cease functioning. Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy.

Bombs also make people rich.

When a bomb explodes, someone profits. And when someone profits, bombs claim more unseen victims. Every dollar spent on a bomb is a dollar not spent saving a life from a preventable death, a dollar not spent curing cancer, a dollar not spent educating children. That's why, so long ago, retired five-star general and President Dwight D. Eisenhower rightly called spending on bombs and all things military a "theft."

The perpetrator of that theft is perhaps the world's most overlooked destructive force. It looms unnoticed behind so many major problems in the United States and the world today. Eisenhower famously warned Americans about it in his 1961 farewell address, calling it for the first time "the military-industrial complex," or the MIC.

Start with the fact that, thanks to the MIC's ability to hijack the federal budget, total annual military spending is far larger than most people realize: around $1,500,000,000,000 ($1.5 trillion). Contrary to what the MIC scares us into believing, that incomprehensibly large figure is monstrously out of proportion to the few military threats facing the United States. One-and-a-half trillion dollars is about double what Congress spends annually on all non-military purposes combined.
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Now official: US lifts arms ban on Ukrainian neo-Nazi unit


RT
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:53 UTC
Azov flag
The State Department has allowed the delivery of US weapons to Ukraine's Azov Brigade, whose members openly espouse ultranationalist and neo-Nazi views. The flow of arms had previously been restricted due to the unit's ties to hateful ideology.

"After thorough review, Ukraine's 12th Special Forces Azov Brigade passed Leahy vetting as carried out by the US Department of State," the agency said in a statement to the Washington Post on Monday, referring to the legislation that bans military aid to units that were implicated in human rights violations.

The State Department added that it found "no evidence" of such violations committed by Azov.

Ukrainian officials treated the lifting of the ban as "a top priority" during their lobbying efforts, the Post said.

Azov was founded as a volunteer battalion in 2014 and participated in the war with the breakaway republics of Donbass after they chose to secede from Ukraine in the wake of the Western-backed coup in Kiev. The unit's core fighters were active and former members of ultranationalist and neo-Nazi groups, as well as far-right football hooligans.

Comment: The US doesn't have a problem using and supporting Nazies or ISIS terrorists or any other terrorist outfit as long as they fight for the US hegemonic world. The only difference from before is that it is now official concerning the Azov Brigade.

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