The current debate about the Greek debt has given rise to all sorts of threats, first of all against Tsípras' government, then against the Greek voters. Without becoming involved in a discussion of the repugnant side of this affair, Thierry Meyssan observes the international campaign against Greece leaving the Euro zone. He shines a light on the historic project of the European Union and the Euro, as they were formulated in 1946 by Churchill and Truman, and concludes that in the end, Greece is trapped by the international geopolitical environment and not by its economic situation.

Moscow is considering direct energy supplies to Greece, Russia's Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak has said, adding that the country wants to help Greek recovery by expanding economic cooperation.

"Russia intends to support the recovery of the Greek economy by increasing cooperation in the energy sector. Therefore we are looking into options for facilitating direct energy supplies to Greece in the near future," the minister said.

According to Novak, the Russian Energy Ministry is planning to come to an agreement on energy supplies to Greece "within weeks."

Siding with foreign interests to destroy your country's economy and constitution pays off:

The girl from "I am Ukrainian" video, Yulia Marushevskaya, has been appointed 3rd in command for Saakashvili's team in Odessa, at just 25 years old. Saakashvili claimed that she has been "educated" in Harvard and Stanford, but Standford University states no one by that name studied there. She has no other qualifications and no experience. Well, at least she's not a wanted pro-American strongman like her boss.

In case anyone forgot, the original "I am a Ukrainian" video was made by a Western team with connections to US gov't.

Ukrainian Right Sector militants, blocked in on the outskirts of Mukachevo after deadly clashes with police, are refusing to lay down their arms without their leader's orders. Civilians in the area have been evacuated, as negotiations so far have failed.

SWAT police and special units of the National Guard, as well as Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) agents have secured the area and blockaded members of Ukraine's ultra-nationalist Right Sector group on the outskirts of Mukachevo, which lies a stone's throw away from Hungarian and Slovakian border.

"To prevent possible bloodshed, the Security Service and Interior Ministry demand that the illegal armed group lays down [its] arms and surrenders," the SBU said in a statement, adding that fighters refuse to surrender unless ordered directly by Right Sector ('Pravy Sektor') leader Dmitry Yarosh.

Forget the funny money, this is war against the people. And not just the people of Greece, although they're currently in the firing line. On this week's episode of Behind the Headlines, we'll be looking at the context that is woefully absent from the utterly inane mainstream media narrative surrounding 'the Greek debt crisis'.

The euphoria of last week's resounding 'NO!' to austerity in the referendum has quickly given way to bitter acrimony in Greece, following the resignation of maverick Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and the apparent capitulation of Prime Minister Tsipras to the EU's demands for the imposition of austerity measures.

How did this situation come about? And whose debt is it really? Will Greece be forced out of the Eurozone currency? What might happen if it does? Do Eurocrats and European leaders even understand what they are doing? And what is Washington's interest in this apparently intra-European affair?

All this and more this Sunday, 12th July 2015, from 2-4pm EST / 8-10pm CET.

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Evgeny Fedorov: To be honest, I liked the statement by the US Defense Secretary recently, one week ago or so. He said frankly: We won't lift the sanctions until we solve two problems in Russia: the resignation of the Russian government, i.e. Putin, and the dissolution of the Russian Federation. The second problem they have been trying to solve for a thousand years. The first has been added. This is the way they frame the issue. Here we just need to understand the technology of their efforts - the technology of orange invasion. The Maidan in Yerevan is a small element of the invasion.

We have talked about this before, but let's go through the details again. The invasion technology is the recruitment of the decision-makers, under the influence of fear, by the use of blackmail, a guarantee of political asylum, and a guarantee, that they can keep their stolen wealth. Those are the main mechanisms. Their tasks are: Communication to a thousand decision-makers in Russia or a few hundred in Armenia: ministers, oligarchs, state officials, leading media figures, and so on. And a personal agreement with them, that they see their future within the United States of America, and will move to there, if problems arise. It's called, "here's a plane for you". When Yeltsin was ordering the storming of the White House ( Moscow, 1993 ), there was an American plane waiting. Meaning: Yeltsin knew, that whatever would happen in the White House, if he would be losing, then in half an hour he's on the plane and out of there. And that's the end of it - he's sitting in America, contented, i.e. he loses the position of President, but he doesn't lose his wealth or life. Here we have the same, i.e. personal negotiations, in the context of which a result is achieved. The US Defense Secretary spoke very clearly, very correctly. What he reflected was not the usual propaganda nonsense that "Once you give up Crimea, the sanctions will end". He reflected the main point: Crimea became an issue for those objectives. Crimea only became an issue after the coup d'état in Kiev, which was an attack on us, after which the secondary issues arose: Crimea, Donbass, and so on. The objective of the February 2014 attack in Kiev was in fact a violation of international law. The Americans decided to do that. They don't do this all that often, I mean such a violation of the law, this is an exception. Having decided to do this, they would clearly go all the way, having already attacked. It's like when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. He couldn't have advanced 100 km only to say: "I've changed my mind. I'm going back". That doesn't happen. It's an attack to the end, till the death. Quite simply the Defense Secretary explicitly revealed the true objectives - the dismemberment of the Russian Federation, the removal of Vladimir Putin. That's it.

Next begins the mechanism to achieve these objectives. What is the mechanism? Well, I was at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. I liked the fact that those mechanisms were articulated clearly. We're not just trying to guess why the Americans are applying pressure - it was all revealed there. They are conducting a negotiation process with the Russian elites for the extradition of Putin. The same negotiation process was conducted, for example, in Ukraine for Yanukovych. These are basically the methodologies of Ambassador Tefft. He works by them all the time. It was the same before that, when Saakashvili entered the leadership of Georgia. It's the same mechanism. The task is to get a thousand people to join this conspiracy. In essence, one can call it a conspiracy. However, they don't need to make a pact among themselves, they only need to make agreements with the US Ambassador, or with his representatives. It's not correct to call it a conspiracy in the full sense of the word, because it's not made among themselves. This is how the mechanisms of external invasion work - they make agreements with the Americans. The US Ambassador says: "We're willing to lift the pressure of sanctions on Russia, if you extradite the national leader Putin, and agree to the dismemberment of Russia, which will require a certain amount of time".

Following a wave of terrorist attacks in late June in France, Tunisia, and Kuwait, the narrative that ISIS is on the march has been dusted off by Western governments and media - though that particular fairy tale has never been allowed to collect dust for very long.

While it's entirely unclear what, if any, ties the alleged perpetrators of the aforementioned attacks had with ISIS fighters based in Iraq and Syria, the media ran with the tale of ISIS expansion, and Americans spent another July 4th threatened by their national security establishment with jihadists planning to attack their summer barbecue and pool parties. (Naturally, nothing happened.)

The beheading "attack" in France, already on high alter after January's massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices, was immediately cited by Europe's security "experts" and politicians, including Britain's Teletubby-totalitarian prime minister David Cameron, to justify expanding Europe's already massive surveillance apparatus.

The suspect in France was already known to the DST, French domestic intelligence, and the individual he beheaded was his employer, with whom he apparently had a hostile relationship. But the fact he had some nominal relationships with other Islamic radicals was enough to depict the murder of his boss as an ISIS-connected attack.

Leaked emails from an Italian-based hacking company reveal that government agencies engage in surveillance more invasive than previously thought, spending millions of dollars on spyware and malware software to accomplish their questionable goals. Tellingly, their use of the product places them squarely in the same category as other repressive regimes around the world.

After hackers ironically hacked Hacking Tools, a Milan-based company that sells strictly to governments, hundreds of gigabytes of emails and financial records were leaked. The emails show that the FBI, DEA, and U.S. Army all purchased software that enables them to view suspects' photos, emails, listen to and record their conversations, and activate the cameras on their computers, among other things.

While this may seem like old news, the most controversial revelation was the government's purchases of "Remote Control Systems." The FBI, DEA, and U.S. Army, courtesy of Hacking Tools, possess the capability to take control of a suspect's computer screen. The technology is so invasive that even the DEA, known for its violative surveillance policies, had reservations about purchasing it.

There's been a virtual blackout of news from this year's seventh annual BRICS summit in Ufa, Russia. None of the mainstream media organizations are covering the meetings or making any attempt to explain what's going on. As a result, the American people remain largely in the dark about a powerful coalition of nations that are putting in place an alternate system that will greatly reduce US influence in the world and end the current era of superpower rule.


Let's cut to the chase: Leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) realize that global security cannot be entrusted to a country that sees war as a acceptable means for achieving its geopolitical objectives. They also realize that they won't be able to achieve financial stability as long as Washington dictates the rules, issues the de facto "international" currency, and controls the main levers of global financial power. This is why the BRICS have decided to chart a different course, to gradually break free from the existing Bretton Woods system, and to create parallel system that better serves their own interests. Logically, they have focused on the foundation blocks which support the current US-led system, that is, the institutions from which the United States derives its extraordinary power; the dollar, the US Treasury market, and the IMF. Replace these, the thinking goes, and the indispensable nation becomes just another country struggling to get by.

His speeches can blend biblical fury with apocalyptic doom. Pope Francis does not just criticize the excesses of global capitalism. He compares them to the "dung of the devil." He does not simply argue that systemic "greed for money" is a bad thing. He calls it a "subtle dictatorship" that "condemns and enslaves men and women."

Having returned to his native Latin America, Francis has renewed his left-leaning critiques on the inequalities of capitalism, describing it as an underlying cause of global injustice, and a prime cause of climate change. Francis escalated that line last week when he made a historic apology for the crimes of the Roman Catholic Church during the period of Spanish colonialism — even as he called for a global movement against a "new colonialism" rooted in an inequitable economic order.

The Argentine pope seemed to be asking for a social revolution.

"This is not theology as usual; this is him shouting from the mountaintop," said Stephen F. Schneck, the director of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic studies at Catholic University of America in Washington.