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The long reach of Big Pharma: Who runs Washington?

Tony Cartalucci
Activist Post
Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:20 UTC
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Like a mythical sea monster, the true nature of a Wall Street-London centered global corporatocracy is often talked about but rarely seen. However, on rare occasions, a tentacle breaks the surface and affords the public an opportunity to examine and assess its true, gargantuan dimensions.

Just such a moment occurred when leaked diplomatic letters from the Colombian Embassy in Washington D.C. revealed just how far the United States government is willing to go on behalf of the corporate-financier interests that clearly shape the entirety of its foreign policy.

Comment: Big Pharma continues to lose credibility
When you visit the websites for leading pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Novartis, you'll find mission statements that will feed you with inspiring goals such as "improve health and well-being," "provide access to safe, effective and affordable medicines," and "to prevent and cure diseases, to ease suffering and to enhance the quality of life."

Who still believes this? Let's keep it straight: major pharmaceutical companies are in the business of dealing drugs and making money.


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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: ‌NATO goes ballistic over Russia's growing influence


Sott.net
Sun, 05 Jun 2016 16:00 UTC
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NATO war games in the Baltics, the ubiquitous and hysterical cries of "Russian aggression" and potential Russian invasions, now culminating in the decision to place NATO missiles in Poland and Romania. The anti-Russian information war is running at full steam, tensions are rising, and the new Cold War mentality is spreading.

The latest geopolitical events have caused many in the alternative media to write about the threat of a full-blown war between NATO and the Russian Federation: Robert Parry, Paul Craig Roberts, Pepe Escobar, The Saker, Dmitry Orlov, Stephen Lendman, William Engdahl, Eric Zuesse, and more. So what's the deal? Is humanity facing a M.A.D. scenario? Will Russia invade or attack a European nation? Will NATO throw the first punch? In short, will there be a 'hot war' with Russia? And is there the potential for it to go nuclear? Join us today on Behind the Headlines as we look at what people are saying, sifting out the realities from the hype.

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U.S. unwilling to support peace in Syria - Russia returns to double-down on terrorist threat


Moon of Alabama
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 22:19 UTC
Russian airforce jet
© Sputnik / Igor Zarembo
The Obama administration does not want peace in Syria. The Russians finally have to admit to themselves that the U.S. is no partner for a continuation of a ceasefire, a coordinated attack against the Islamic State and al-Qaeda and for peace in Syria. Indeed, as Lavrov explains, the U.S. has again asked to spare al-Qaeda from Russian air strikes even as two UN Security Council resolutions demand its eradication. Huge supply convoys (vid) from Turkey are again going to the "rebels" who will, as always, share them with al-Qaeda and other terrorists.

The current renewed Syrian Arab Army attack towards Raqqa is being obstructed not only by sandstorms but also by a timely attack of al-Qaeda, Ahrar al Sham and Turkestan Islamist Party forces against government positions in the south Aleppo countryside.
More than 1,000 militants have begun an offensive against Syrian army positions southwest of Aleppo, the Russian ceasefire monitoring center in Syria said in a statement on Saturday.

The center also reported civilians in Aleppo as saying armed groups partly made up of Turkish soldiers had appeared north of the city.
The exact same scheme happened in March and April when a move towards eastern Syria by the Syrian army had to be stopped to prevent further losses against al-Qaeda south of Aleppo. It seems obvious that these moves by U.S.-supported forces are planned to prevent any gains of the Syrian government in the east.
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Obama's visit to Vietnam signals Empire's continued movement against Russia and China

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:29 UTC
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US President Barack Obama's "legacy world tour" continued with "historic" visits to Vietnam followed by the Japanese city of Hiroshima. He is the first sitting president to attend the Japanese city where the US dropped an atomic bomb 71 years ago killing at least 140,000 people.

While in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, Obama announced the "historic" lifting of a US arms embargo on the country, an embargo that had been in place for the past 50 years since the end of the American war on the country - a war which killed upwards of three million Vietnamese people.

Unofficially, the presidential swing through Asia can be seen as Obama's "legacy" tour. With only months to go before his second term in the White House ends, it seems obvious that Obama's purpose is partly to clock up a series of putative historic achievements in order to burnish his slot in the history books, as well as add kudos to lucrative future earnings as a globe-trotting celebrity speaker.

Earlier this year, the 44th president became the first US leader to visit socialist Cuba since his predecessor Calvin Coolidge in 1928, bearing hyped promises of "normalized relations" - but still no end to the trade embargo that Washington has imposed on the Caribbean island for the past 55 years.
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Juncker drunk? EU chief at summit displays unorthodox diplomacy


RT
Sun, 05 Jun 2016 15:12 UTC
Jean-Claude Juncker
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Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, has shown up in an oddly cheerful mood at an international summit in Latvia. He slapped and hugged world leaders, compared his tie to theirs, sparking speculation that he was drunk as a sailor.

The video showing Juncker's unorthodox diplomacy was shot during the EU-Eastern Partnership summit, which was held on May 21-22 in Latvia.

Standing in front of the cameras alongside fellow EU official Donald Tusk, who heads the European Council, and the host nation's prime minister, Laimdota Straujuma, Juncker made a number of friendly gestures which may seem too frivolous for the occasion.
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Muscular weapon unleashed: China's new coast guard ships to protect South China Sea


Sputnik
Sun, 05 Jun 2016 15:05 UTC
China South Sea fleet
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China's new South China Sea coast guard ships are more muscular than most and their mission comprises of law enforcement, search and rescue according to online publication The National Interest.

One especially combative ship CCG3210, formerly known as Yuzheng 310 has been affecting politics in the South China Sea, for a long time.

The ship is armed with machine guns, light cannons and innovative hardware proficient at jamming communications.

"Built in 2010, CCG3210 escorted a fishing flotilla and stared down the Philippine navy during a dispute over territorial rights. But that was just the beginning," The National Interest reported.
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Berlin's decision to name Moscow as a 'rival' is 'implementation of NATO policy'


Sputnik
Sun, 05 Jun 2016 14:59 UTC
NATO meeting
© AP Photo/ Virginia Mayo
Berlin's decision to include Russia in the list of major security threats is belated as Germany has been consistently treating Russia as a rival in recent years, the first deputy of the Russian upper house's Defense and Security Committee said on Sunday.

Earlier in the day, German media reported that the country's new White Paper on security policy, the 80-paper document in the final stage of preparation, would include Russia in the list of 10 major threats for the country and views Russia as a rival, but not as a partner.

"I think that the new edition of the White Paper is even overdue, in a certain sense. In the implementation of the so-called NATO's eastern policy one of the key roles belongs, perhaps, to Germany... For a long time, Russia has been de facto considered by Germany as a rival, not a partner. One behaves in a completely different way toward a partner," Franz Klintsevich told RIA Novosti.

He added that Berlin's decision was unlikely to add optimism to the current state of bilateral relations.
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Washington's military planners have gone stark raving mad

William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 00:00 UTC
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To read the Western mainstream media, we would be led to believe that the big, bad Russian Bear, with Vladimir Putin atop, shaking a fistful of nuclear warheads, is confronting the West in the most threatening manner imaginable. We should believe Russia is provoking at every turn, frothing at the mouth and threatening to invade the Baltic countries and perhaps all Western Europe. We would feel quite justified, as the propaganda spin of Washington claims, to protect America's European allies from surprise Russian nuclear attack by surrounding Russia with anti-Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) systems.

So we as citizens in the Western NATO countries have little reaction at all when we read some days ago that the Obama White House announced it had activated the first phase of its anti-ballistic missile defense system (BMD), known as AEGIS, in an air base in Deveselu, Romania. Poland will be next to become activated with Washington's Aegis.

The Aegis Ashore system has been officially put into operation and can already launch SM-3 interceptor missiles. The system includes 24 anti-aircraft SM-3 missiles. At the same time the Pentagon is placing its BMD installations in Japan and South Korea and possibly, Australia, aimed at China. Our perception of world reality is primarily shaped for us by what we read in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or hear on CNN or BBC. We sigh a small sigh of relief that our world is now more secure. Nothing is farther from reality. That's a grave error.

On May 13, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, alongside officials representing the United States and European NATO members, announced the activation of a new missile system, based in Romania. Stoltenberg announced,

Comment: We are watching a 'history lesson' unfold right before our eyes. A slow-motion nightmare that is enabled as much by the crazies in Washington as by their tools in the media and political sycophantic vassals the world over. How has it come to this? When a nucleus of pathology is so concentrated and so driven to subsume the world of normal thinking people, it behaves like a virus; hell-bent on destroying everything that isn't part of its sick system - and in the process, destroying itself.

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EU teams with social media in Orwellian plan to monitor & censor 'hate speech'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sun, 05 Jun 2016 12:39 UTC
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The European Union, in partnership with YouTube, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter, has published a "code of conduct" to fight the spread of "illegal hate speech" online.

Following the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks, the EU has taken it upon itself to begin cracking down on "hate speech". The technocrats in Brussels have already taken over the economic and political sovereignty of member states, the hijacking of free speech online was bound to happen. The terrorist attacks in the heart of Europe have provided the unelected in Brussels perfect cover.

In partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft, the newly released EU "code of conduct" will fight "illegal hate speech" online in Europe. The arguments from those supporting the initiative is textbook smoke and mirrors...in the aftermath of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, a crackdown on "hate speech" is necessary to counter jihadist propaganda online.

Of course we will see definitions of what is "hate speech" take on various forms, all of which will be defined as any voice that strays from the EU narrative, as content that must be removed from the above popular online destinations.

Opponents to the "code of conduct" rightly argue that this is nothing more than an assault on free speech in Europe.
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Syrian Army joins the race to liberate Raqqa from ISIS


Sputnik
Sun, 05 Jun 2016 12:58 UTC
Syrian Arab Army
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
The Syrian Army launched on June 3 a large-scale offensive to liberate the city of Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the Daesh caliphate.

Retired Syrian Major General Sabet Muhammad told the Russian newspaper Izvestia that the operation started from the town of Isriya, in Hama province, nearly 140 km to the west from Raqqa.

"The operation was prepared for many days. Several thousands of troops were deployed to Isriya. The forces have several interim objectives, including the town of Al-Thawrah, a military airfield as well as the town of Resapha. These positions will be used for an assault on Raqqa," he said.

According to the general, after the army regains control over Raqqa the Daesh-controlled area will be split. Terrorists in Deir ez-Zor will be cut off from supply lines.

Comment: Further reading:
Assuming an — unlikely — scenario of Syrian Kurds managing somehow to conquer Raqqa, it's not hard to forecast the follow-up, whoever wins in November. Washington will make Raqqa its own satrapy and invest — once again — in Divide and Rule; creating a joint Kurd/Sunni Arab vassal state within Syria, along the Euphrates.

So those "advise-and-assist" boots on the ground are in fact the vanguard for a complex game plan — through which Washington, if successful, would be able to cut off that fiction much entertained by the petrodollar gang — the Shi'ite crescent — as well as weaken a fragmented Syria for the foreseeable future.

Pepe Escobar: The road to Raqqa is a ruse


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