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Natural resources were also essentially the reason for reducing Iran to a Western vassalage. That never had anything to do with Tehran developing a nuclear weapon, which was banned by both the leader of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
The 'New Great Game' in Eurasia was always about control of the Eurasian land mass. Minor setbacks to the American elite project do not mean the game will be restricted to a mere "war of attrition". Rather the contrary.
'International leaders expressed concern over the rising tide of racism and state violence in America, especially concerning the treatment of ethnic minorities in the country and the corruption in state security forces around the country when handling cases of police brutality. The latest crisis is taking place in Baltimore, Maryland, a once-bustling city on the country's Eastern Seaboard, where an unarmed man named Freddie Gray died from a severed spine while in police custody.
Black Americans, a minority ethnic group, are killed by state security forces at a rate higher than the white majority population. Young, black American males are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than white American males.
Elbaum describes how their efforts have been specifically directed toward destabilizing the incumbent center-left government of President Cristina Fernandez, while securing exorbitant profits for a Zionist Wall Street speculator, Paul Singer of Elliott Management as well as undermining a joint Iranian-Argentine investigation of the 1994 terrorist bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.
Elbaum's article was written in response to the death of Alberto Nisman, a Zionist zealot and chief government prosecutor in the terrorist bombing investigation for over 20 years.
The serious issues raised by the political use and gross manipulation of the horrors of the bombing of the Argentine Jewish Community Center shows how Tel Aviv (and its political assets in Argentina and the US) further Israeli power in the Middle East, in particular, by isolating and demonizing Iran. This is important at two critical levels, which this article seeks to highlight.
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Recent revelations that German intelligence allegedly spied on European targets at the behest of the US National Security Agency (NSA) shows that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted Germany's transformation from an EU leader to a US puppet, a German lawmaker told Sputnik.
Comment: Yep, though she didn't have much choice since the EU was set up to be a US vassal in the first place. It's ordinary people who have to pay the price. The NSA's wiretapping, the sabotage of Russian economic partners by the US' sanctions, and being left with the aftermath of Ukraine's neo-Nazi descent are all crippling burdens, and more are coming.
Also see:
- Will US led military and economic fiasco in Ukraine lead EU into financial collapse?
- The Pentagon's long war pits NATO against China, Russia, and Iran
- German lawmaker: No threat justifies doubling NATO Response Force
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General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan is pictured
General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan is pictured
"These wars and these threats stem from a comprehensive American strategy. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Americans felt that a new force was beginning to materialize, namely the union between Sunnis and Shiites," said Ahmad Reza Pourdastan in an interview with Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam state news network.
"The basis of this force was the blessed Islamic Revolution in Iran. This force is Islam, or the Islamic world. In order to prevent this force from materializing, the Americans did many things," Pourdastan said, according to a translation of his remarks by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
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Citing an anti-Russia policy brief, US lawmakers approved $200 million for providing "lethal weapons of a defensive nature" to the Ukrainian government as part of the $600 billion Pentagon budget proposal for the fiscal year 2016.
The House Armed Services Committee passed its proposal for the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with a bipartisan vote of 60 to 2, in what Defense News described as a "marathon" session that ended around 4:30am on Thursday.
Section 1532 of the 498-page document calls for the US to provide assistance, "including training, equipment, lethal weapons of a defensive nature, logistics support, supplies and services, and sustainment to the military and national security forces of Ukraine" through the end of September 2016.
Comment: Here we go again with the semantics of defensive lethal weapons. NATO Commander Breedlove supports the idea of offensive weapons:
"I support the consideration of using offensive weapons to change the decision calculus on the ground [in eastern Ukraine] and to facilitate bringing our opponent to the table for a solution, a final solution," Breedlove told the US Senate Armed Services Committee.But then later retracts that statement saying he misspoke and actually meant defensive lethal weapons:
"We're talking about what I said earlier - lethal defensive weapon. I used these words and don't even understand what I said. It's not a big correction in politics, it's just a military pilot after 2 and a half hours testifying in the Senate, " said Breedlove.Is that clear now?
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"The aim is to deepen both countries' friendly and practical cooperation, and increase our navies' ability to jointly deal with maritime security threats," Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said on Thursday in a monthly news briefing.
"What needs saying is that these exercises are not aimed at any third party and have nothing to do with the regional situation," he added, saying that the Chinese Navy would contribute its warships currently on an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden.
Comment: US/NATO/EU will not be pleased. Europe will kick and scream they are being threatened.
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"So here's the plan..."
"So here's the plan..."
On Wednesday, the premier's Likud party signed agreements with two Israeli parties, which would give him control of 46 seats out of the parliament's 120, Israeli media outlets reported. The agreements were signed with the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and the center-right Kulanu parties.
UTJ leader Yakov Litzman (pictured below) confirmed to Israeli media that the party "signed a coalition deal with the Likud".
Comment: Coalitions are formed by making "deals" with other parties. There are 26, some of which are Arab. It is a scramble, once the election results are in, for parties to jockey into "winning" positions in the coalition. This kind of set-up would seem to cater to "good ole boy" politics, leaving minorities and cast-offs without enough clout to matter. What can we expect to change in Israel if nothing substantially alters in the Knesset, Arabs are locked out, Bibi gets favors from Rivlin and the power players just shift positions? Answer: It could get worse.
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"About 5 a.m., our reconnaissance registered a brief exchange of fire at the positions of the Ukrainian armed units," he said. "Our reconnaissance officers said in their reports that an unknown unit of commandoes had stormed and seized a platoon-level fortified strongpoint set up by punitive expeditioners from a nationalistic battalion."
Comment: Very interesting development in Ukraine. It is curious what the purpose of the attack is.
Comment: A rare moment of truth from the Washington Post. Of course, we have to be suspicious of this editorial line from a truly 'white establishment' paper like the Post. In recent days, the Post has carried other very candidly anti-system articles. For example, in this article, when referring to the video of African-America mother Toya Graham beating her would-be protestor son, the Post journalist states: Do the owners of the Washington Post have an interest now in exposing the truth about racist America in order to encourage more widespread chaos and, possibly, one of those nice 'color revolutions' in which the US State Deptartment and CIA are so well-schooled?