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Western nations request meetings with Russia at OSCE, agree to open sanctioned-airspace for Lavrov to travel

Guy Faulconbridge
Reuters
Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:42 UTC
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Russia said on Monday there would be no meeting between Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at an OSCE meeting in North Macedonia this week.

Lavrov had said earlier he would join the foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which includes Canada and the United States, in Skopje if Bulgaria opened its air space for him. He said some Western countries had requested meetings with him.

Since President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the West has sought to isolate Russia, and face-to-face meetings between senior ministers have been rare.

Comment: Investigative Journalist Kit Klarenberg had this to say:

See also: Wife of Ukraine's spy chief & several military intel officers poisoned with heavy metals

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Best of the Web: A planned US-Israeli attack on Iran is contemplated

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00 UTC
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The U.S. led War on the People of Palestine and the Middle East is a Criminal Undertaking

Introduction

We stand in Solidarity with Palestine. But we must recognize that the United States Military and Intelligence apparatus is firmly behind Israel's genocide directed against the People of Palestine.

And this must be part of the solidarity campaign, namely to Reveal the Truth regarding Washington's insidious role, which is part of a carefully planned military agenda directed against Palestine and the broader Middle East. Netanyahu is a proxy, with a criminal record. He has the unbending support of Western Europe's "Classe politique".

The U.S. led War on the People of Palestine and the Middle East is a Criminal Undertaking

Israel and the Zionist lobby in the U.S. are NOT exerting undue influence AGAINST U.S. Foreign Policy as outlined by numerous analysts.

Quite the opposite. The Zionist lobby is firmly aligned with U.S. foreign policy, and Vice Versa. It targets those who are opposed to war, who call for a cease fire. It exerts influence in favour of the conduct of the U.S. military agenda in support of Israel. The US military-intelligence establishment in coordination with powerful financial interests is calling the shots in regards to Israel's genocidal intent to "Wipe Palestine off the Map".
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MIB

Wife of Ukraine's spy chief & several military intel officers poisoned with heavy metals


TASS
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:22 UTC
Marianna Budanova
Marianna Budanova. Earlier on Tuesday, the Ukrainian news website Babel said Budanov's wife had been poisoned with heavy metals.
The wife of Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov and several employees of the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) have been diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning, the Ukrainska Pravda online media outlet reported, citing a senior Ukrainian security official.

According to the official, Budanov's wife, Marianna Budanova, "has most likely been given poisoned food" as she "complained of feeling unwell" and her poisoning had been confirmed after tests.

In turn, the RBC-Ukraine news agency requested information about the condition of Budanov himself from Ukraine's special services. According to an intelligence official, Ukraine's spy chief "is feeling well" and no signs of his poisoning have been found.

Comment: It's likely a sign of just how rapidly the Kiev-junta is deteriorating when even the spy chief's wife and staff are being poisoned.

Note that this comes just a few weeks after a rather dubious incident wherein a top aide to the military commander received a birthday present of 6 hand grenades, one somehow exploded, killing him and seriously injuring his son:

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'The Horror! The Horror!', Revisited in Palestine

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 02:22 UTC
Destroyed Gaza
© Public Domain
"Mistah Kurtz - he dead."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad once said that before he had been to the Congo he was a simple animal. It was in one of those lands partially mapped out by the cruelty and hypocrisy of the imperial ethos that Conrad discovered European colonialism in its undiluted, most terrible incarnation, duly depicted in Heart of Darkness - one of the great consciousness-raising epics in the history of literature.

It was in the Congo that Conrad, an ethnic Pole born in what is still known today as "Ukraine", then controlled by Poland, and who only started to write in English when he was 23, forever lost any illusion over the civilizing mission of his race.

Other eminent Europeans of his time seamlessly experienced the same horror - participating in Conquest Atrocity Spectaculars; helping the Metropolis to hack and plunder Africa; using the continent as backdrop to their - murderous - juvenile adventures and rites of passage; or only testing their mettle while "saving" the souls of the natives.

They went through the savage heart of the world and made their fortune, their reputation or their penitence just to come back to the sweet comfort of unconsciousness - when they were not shipped back in a coffin, of course.

To dominate assorted "primitive" peoples, Britannia replaced the iron and the sword with trade. Like any monotheistic faith, they believed there was only one way to be; one way to drink your tea; one way to play the game - any game. Everything else was non-civilized, savage, brute, at best providing raw materials and acute headaches.
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Bad Guys

The Jews and Boris Johnson: Zelensky's top political ally looking for scapegoats as Ukrainian elites begin to accept the war is lost

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Mon, 27 Nov 2023 21:40 UTC
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© Kenzo Tribouillard / AFPLeader of the Servant of the People's Political Party of Ukraine David Arakhamia talks to the media as he arrives for the Renew Europe Leader's pre-summit meeting, in Brussels, on June 29, 2023.
David Arakhamia, the head of Vladimir Zelensky's parliamentary faction, admits his nation's dependency on the West and the lack of a coherent strategy

A few days ago, President Vladimir Zelensky's most important political ally, David Arakhamia, gave a long interview to TV presenter Natalya Moseichuk. Both are heavyweights of Ukraine's public sphere, with widespread recognition and significant influence.

Moseichuk's main platform is the television channel 1+1. Arakhamia heads the parliamentary faction of the 'Servant of the People' party, which is Zelensky's machine and, as such, controls Ukraine in a de facto authoritarian manner.

Bound to attract attention, the interview has done more: Due to Arakhamia's unguarded (or deliberately revealing?) account of real yet missed opportunities to reach an early peace agreement in the full-scale war between Moscow and Kiev (and its Western sponsors and exploiters), it has caused a sensation.
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Bad Guys

Elon Musk meets Netanyahu in wake of pro-Palestinian post

Michelle Toh, Lauren Izso and Alex Stambaugh
CNN
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:37 UTC
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Elon Musk visited Israel Monday, meeting the country's leaders and walking through a kibbutz destroyed by Hamas last month as he tried to calm outrage caused by his endorsement of an antisemitic post on his social media platform, X.

Musk was taken to Kfar Azza — one of the kibbutzim attacked on October 7 — by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The kibbutz was the home of Abigail Edan, a four-year-old American dual citizen abducted by the militant group that day and released Sunday.

In a live online conversation on X with Netanyahu Monday, Musk agreed with the prime minister that Israel must destroy Hamas.

"Those who are intent on murder must be neutralized. Then the propaganda must stop," Musk said. "They're just training people to be murderers."

He also said Gaza must be made "prosperous."

"If (all) that happens, I think it will be a good future," he said. "I'd love to help."
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Scott Ritter: Hamas winning battle for Gaza

Scott Ritter
Sputnik
Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:29 UTC
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© Yuri Cortez/AFP 2023
The recently announced ceasefire is a blessing for Palestinians and Israelis alike — a chance for prisoners to be exchanged, humanitarian aid to be distributed to those in need, and for emotions on both sides of the conflict to cool down.

While the ceasefire, negotiated between Israel and Hamas by Qatar, was mutually agreed between the two parties, let no one be fooled into thinking this was anything less than a victory for Hamas. Israel had taken a very aggressive position that, given its stated objective of destroying Hamas as an organization, it would not agree to a ceasefire under any conditions.

Hamas, on the other hand, had made one of its primary objectives in initiating the current round of fighting with Israel the release of Palestinian prisoners, and in particular women and children, held by Israel. Seen in this light, the ceasefire represents an important victory for Hamas, and a humiliating defeat for Israel.

One of the reasons Israel eschewed a ceasefire was that it was confident that the offensive operation it had launched into northern Gaza was going to neutralize Hamas as a military threat, and that any ceasefire, regardless of the humanitarian justification, would only buy time for a defeated Hamas enemy to rest, refit, and regroup. That Israel signed on to a ceasefire is the surest sign yet that all is not well with the Israeli offensive against Hamas.

This outcome should not have come as a surprise to anyone. When Hamas launched its October 7 attack on Israel, it initiated a plan years in the making. The meticulous attention to detail that was evident in the Hamas operation underscored the reality that Hamas had been studying the Israeli intelligence and military forces arrayed against it, uncovering weaknesses that were subsequently exploited. The Hamas action represented more than sound tactical and operational planning and execution — it was a masterpiece in strategic conceptualization as well.

Comment: Masks are off: Israel's leadership has nowhere to hide, no one to fool. Leaders that support and condone its actions risk likewise. The global public will not forgive nor forget.

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What lies behind Benjamin Netanyahu's lies and Hamas' evasions

Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations • September 22, 2023
The official version of the Hamas-Israel war raises more questions than it answers. Here, the author highlights seven major contradictions. On reflection, Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu, far from being enemies, are acting in concert with no regard for the lives of Palestinians or Israelis. Behind them, the United States and the United Kingdom are pulling the strings.

We are reacting to the attack on Israel on October 7 and the massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza on the basis of the information available to us. However, we feel that the official version of the Israeli government and Hamas is a lie.

Seven major questions remain unanswered:

1. How did Hamas manage to dig and build 500 kilometers of tunnels at a depth of 30 meters without arousing suspicion?

Tunnel-drilling equipment is considered to have both civilian and military uses. It is not manufactured in Gaza and cannot be brought in under any circumstances, unless there is complicity within the Israeli administration.

The excavated earth (1 million m3) was not detected by aerial surveillance. Even supposing it had been scattered in many different places and mixed in with the soil from other construction sites, it is impossible for the Israeli intelligence services not to have detected anything for twenty years.

Tunnel ventilation equipment is not considered to be for military use. It is possible to bring it into Gaza, but the quantity required should have attracted attention.

The reinforced concrete needed to solidify the walls is not manufactured in Gaza. It too is not considered military equipment, but the quantity required should have attracted attention.

Comment: It is fair to doubt Netanyahu knows what lies behind his 'lies'!

Deciphering a broad and complicated Muslim Brotherhood history, Meyssan offers questions we should be asking and their strategic relevance.

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Heart - Black

West 'screwed over' Ukraine - ex -Zelensky aide


RT
Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:04 UTC
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© Ukrainian Presidency/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesAleksey Arestovich
"Stupidity and corruption" in Kiev paved the way for it, Aleksey Arestovich has said...

The West has essentially thrown Ukraine under the bus in its conflict with Russia by failing to provide Kiev with the necessary amount of military aid, Aleksey Arestovich, a former aide to President Vladimir Zelensky, has claimed.

Writing on Telegram on Sunday, Arestovich weighed in on the differing views of Ukrainian officials as to why Kiev's conflict with Moscow is still in full swing despite several major attempts at peace.

According to the former presidential aide, the West bears most of the blame for the situation.
"The real responsibility lies with those who promised Ukraine real support for waging a real, big war and did not provide it. In other words, they screwed us over."
Arestovich claimed that Ukraine "had won its war" by managing to survive in the first few months of the conflict. "This war of ours could have well ended with the Istanbul Agreements," he suggested, referring to the talks in the Turkish city in the spring of 2022, which initially made some progress but stalled after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's visit to Kiev. The negotiations collapsed but Russia maintains it is open to diplomatic engagement with Kiev.

Comment: To enter war is to reap consequence and change. Ukraine engaged; Ukraine received. Quit whining! There is no going back.

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NATO 'slaughtering' Ukrainians to fight Russia - Kremlin


RT
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:50 UTC
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© Kostya Liberov / Libkos via Getty ImagesUkrainian infantryman
NATO is sticking to its plan to contain Russia by sacrificing countless Ukrainian lives, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. His comments came after the bloc's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg argued that the alliance was trying to prevent further escalation of tensions with Russia.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Peskov pointed out that, no matter what statements come out of NATO, the bloc was originally conceived and structured in a way that "essentially make it an instrument of confrontation with Russia and a means of containing it."

"So far, the alliance has not abandoned its plans to contain Russia and slaughter the Ukrainian people as ritual victims in the fight against Russia," Peskov said, noting that Moscow was planning its course of action taking these realities into account.

During a press conference ahead of the meetings of NATO foreign ministers on Monday, Stoltenberg said the two main goals of the organization were the continued support of Kiev and preventing an escalation of the conflict that could lead to "a full-fledged war between Russia and NATO."
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