Saudis send in boots on the ground:
As Reuters notes, “military operations in the campaign have so far been carried out by the Royal Saudi Air Force and the Royal Saudi Land Forces, which answer to the Defense Ministry. The national guard is a separate military structure run by its own ministry.”
Which means that what has been an airborne war until now is about to become a land war.
Things are speeding up:
Poland has decided to buy the US Patriot air-defense system for a total cost of around $9bn: “The US proposal has been found to be more profitable from the viewpoint of Poland’s security and implementation of commitments within NATO framework.”
Washington has decided to loan Poland a battery of Patriots until the deal is signed.
this invasion by the Sauds’ into Yemen reminds me of the Israelis going into Palestine half a year ago…more and more every day….what filth….why isn’t this world fixing this problem !~ How can it be like this…what has happened ??? A criminal takeover….how will it end ?
“… China’s immensely ambitious New Silk Road project will keep intersecting with the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union (EEC). And that will be the day when the EU wakes up and finds a booming trade/commerce axis stretching from St. Petersburg to Shanghai. It’s always pertinent to remember that Vladimir Putin sold a similar, and even more encompassing, vision in Germany a few years ago – stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
It will take time – and troubled times. But Eurasia’s radical face lift is inexorable. This implies an exceptionalist dream – the U.S. as Eurasia hegemon, something that still looked feasible at the turn of the millennium – fast dissolving right before anyone’s eyes. …”
– and concludes:
”… How will Moscow and Beijing stare down the West – politically, commercially and ideologically – without risking a war? How will they cope with so much pressure? How will they sell their strategy to great swathes of the Global South, across multiple Asian latitudes?
One battle, though, is already won. Bye, bye Zbigniew Brzezinski. Your grand chessboard hegemonic dream is over. …”
Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has slammed a book about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s escape from the US as being a clichéd hack job that has “minimal additional research”.
Assange, who is hiding out in the Ecuador Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden to stand trial for rape charges, has written a scathing analysis for Newsweek of The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World’s Most Wanted Man, a book by Guardian journalist Luke Harding.
The book explores what happened to Snowden after he leaked NSA revelations to the media and then had to flee the US to Hong Kong and then Russia in order to avoid being prosecuted.
Harding’s work is now the subject of Snowden, an upcoming movie directed by Oliver Stone that will star the likes of Nicolas Cage, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zachary Quinto, but Assange feels the book and The Guardian have exploited Snowden’s story for personal gain and that “Snowden deserves better”.
“We all understand the pressures facing print journalism and the need to diversify revenue in order to cross-subsidise investigative journalism. But investigative journalism involves being able to develop relationships of trust with your sources,” Assange writes.
“There is a conflict of interest here. Edward Snowden was left in the lurch in Hong Kong by The Guardian, and WikiLeaks had to step in to make sure he was safe. While WikiLeaks worked to find him a safe haven, The Guardian was already plotting to sell the film rights.”
“… The man that played one of the most successful Intel psyops of this century continues to be put to work by his Israeli handlers to keep him ‘high with a little help from their friends’ in the movie business. They are covering Assange’s tracks that he got burned by erasing that from his public history, but we are not erasable.
Wikileaks was all about supporting the push for war with Iran…pure and simple. Israel wanted it bad and went to its deep well to build the Iranian bogeyman that the world would fear and support being ‘taken care of.’ But to pull a theatrical psyops you need mass media to work closely with the scam, and they did. …”
The only thing I’m sure of in this is,if Luke Harding is involved something is wrong.He is a total US stooge and Russophobe.Every article he writes for the Guardian (and his main book on Russia) is a hatchet-job against Putin and Russia.
John Rappoport has written some articles on the Snowden issue that make sense to me. Basically, Snowden’s mission is on behalf of the CIA to damage the NSA, which the agency is competing against for funding. As in the Third Reich, it’s not just one happy plutocratic family in the USA; there are rivalries among the heads of the Hydra.
Mighty interesting! So… Snowden ’n Assange… Birds of a Feather Flock Together…
Interesting … though not scary. Scary is the realization that the Earthly anthill is made out of sheeple, all so easily led by their noses – and none will ever know it.
Not too tall a task lampooning these psycopath scum:
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150421/1021188563.html
In a frantic interview for Italian daily newspaper la Repubblica, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk demonstrated that he appears to be losing his grip on reality, stating that Russia is an aggressive state seeking to invade Europe and ‘destabilize the planet’, and simultaneously a weak country with a slew of unsolvable problems.
China, Pakistan Sign Gas Pipeline Deal for Iran Imports
April 21, 2015 – 17:33
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – China signed a deal with Pakistan to construct a pipeline to take Iran’s gas at border and take it across the country to the southern port of Gwadar.
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The value of the deal – that has been signed during the visit by the Chinese President Xi Jinping to Islamabad – is $2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Nuland attempts Kiev Version 2.0 in Skopje – Macedonia
Nuland’s tactics differed somewhat in her Ukrainian and Macedonian campaigns. Her signature challah bread offerings to protesters at Kiev’s Maidan Square took the form of unsolicited offerings to the Macedonian press suggesting that Gruevksi was wiretapping as many as 20,000 Macedonians and that a videotape proving it was secretly made by Macedonia’s George Soros-financed leader of the opposition, Zoran Zaev, in a meeting he had with Gruevski.
Nuland has been charged by Macedonian intelligence with conspiring with Zaev of the Macedonian Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), the former Communist Party that has been thoroughly co-opted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Soros operative. Also charged in the attempted putsch against Gruevski is Radmila Sekerinska. Zaev and Sekerinska are said by Macedonian insiders to be nothing more than fronts for former Prime Minister and President Branko Crvenkovski who continues to head up the SDSM and accept large amounts of largesse from such CIA NGO laundry operations as the National Democratic Institute (NDI), National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Freedom House, and Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI) to foment a themed revolution against Gruevksi’s right-of-center VMRO-DPMNE government. http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/02/16/nuland-attempts-kiev-version-2-skopje.html
Speculation that the proposed Russian-Turkish gas pipeline could be extended into Greece as part of a plan to supply Europe with gas has heightened with a meeting between the chief of Russian gas company Gazprom and Greek government officials in Athens.
Alexei Miller, Gazprom’s management committee chairman is to meet Greek Prime Minster Alexis Tsipras and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis on Tuesday as part of a number of ongoing discussions between officials and business figures of Russia and Greece.
Literally a puny coral outcrop of an islet is all, yet part of the chain 6 nations are claiming.
China is close to completing the construction of an airstrip on a tiny outcrop in the South China Sea, heightening its ability to project power regionally from the disputed waters and further raising the stakes in an increasingly tense showdown between Beijing, its neighbors, and the United States.
New satellite images provided to Foreign Policy show advances in the construction of a strip of pavement on the Fiery Cross Reef, which sits near the southern end of contested waters in the South China Sea, several hundred miles from the Philippines. Fiery Cross is part of the Spratly Islands
Raising tensions and fomenting showdowns are precisely what America seems to do against China’s periphery just as it seeks to do against Russia–even as the USA tries to masquerade as a “fair and balanced” arbiter of peace!
What America is doing is just a variation of that instinctive Anglo tactic called Divide and Conquer.
Like the British Empire, the American Empire wants to maintain its global dominance by playing one country off against another, sowing tension, chaos, and war around the world.
American thus seeks to arm, back, and support this or that nation against Russia and China in particular, such as America’s backing of Ukraine, Poland, sundry Baltic states, etc. against Russia or playing its Japan and SE Asian satraps against China or pitting Sunni states against Shia nations in the Middle East.
This is why America is the Empire of Chaos.
Foreignpolicy.com obscures these issues because, like most of the American unFree Press, it is an America mouthpiece.
“Referring to the South China Sea disputes, Obama told a town-hall event in Jamaica: “We think this can be solved diplomatically,” he said “but just because the Philippines or Vietnam are not as large as China doesn’t mean that they can be just elbowed aside.” His comments followed remarks by the Chinese foreign ministry on Thursday defending its reclamation work in the South China Sea”
Leaving aside the long history of American diplomatic bullying, coups, military interventions and wars around the world—not least in Vietnam, the Philippines and elsewhere in Asia—Obama’s remarks turn reality on its head. As part of his administration’s “pivot to Asia” over the past five years, he has deliberately inflamed what were long-running but relatively low-level, regional disputes in the South China Sea into dangerous flashpoints that risk triggering a broader war.”
[…]
“Over the past year, US officials have effectively dropped their stance of “neutrality” in the maritime disputes and publicly challenged China’s claims in the South China Sea. At the same time, Washington, behind the scenes, encouraged and assisted the Philippine government, now supported by Vietnam, to mount a legal case against China under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea—an international treaty that the US itself has refused to ratify.”
While Novorossiya is being systamatically pulverized, schools, libraries, and homes, lives, and Militia, destroyed, it is deemed necessary to attempt to assure the imperialists, by way of cartoon humor, that – The Russians are Not Coming.
It may prove pivotal, that it was exactly, -The Russians Coming!!!-, in Mongolia-1939, in Europe-1945, in Georgia-2010, and the Crimea-2014, that Saved The Day for humanity. Hell! Samsonov’s sacrifice of an army saved the Entent’s Ass in 1914.
It is not necessary for Russian President Vladimir Putin to have the Russian Armed Forces intervene to resolve all the world’s problems, but such intervention should not be treated as a negative.
Such defensive humor, as with this cartoon appear a desperate attempt to influence the Imperialist oligarchs of the inoffensiveness of Russia’s existence. Such an attempt is a waste of newsprint, as the mere existence of opposition to the Anglo/American/Zionist uni-polar political and economic domination of the planet will not (cannot) be tolerated by the Oligarchs. That is the mere existence of a living and breathing Russia, and China cannot and is not tolerated by the Oliggarchs. Hell! They could not tolerate the existence of Yugoslavia (a nation founded by Woodrow Wilson).
The Nazis had to invade the Soviet Union, just as humans have to breathe. Stalin’s refusal to understand (for whatever reasons), the nature of political gravity, cost the Russian people many millions of unnecessary casualties, and the accompanying heartache.
The American people love their illusions. The political liberal-left love their imperialist Democrat gang and their Hollywood President, and their wrinkled war criminal Princess. The Right, love their phoney oposition, revere their earlier Hollywood President, and are searching for a suitable losing opponent for the anointed Princess.
Sorry for all these interventions, but my calendar is clear until tomorrow.
“The Nazis had to invade the Soviet Union, just as humans have to breathe.”
Sorry, but this is … nonsense. First, it was about Germany, and not “the Nazis”, which was just a political party, albeit a very popular one. Second, Germany was already at war, didn’t have the means to win, and Britain didn’t want to make peace; so the last thing Germany needed was another huge front.
The truth, and it is overwhelmingly documented, is that Stalin, who was neither a saint nor an angel, had put the Red Army poised for an attack on Germany, which was imminent. For some reason that is not quite clear, he absolutely didn’t believe that Germany could attack first, and he didn’t see that his Red Army, completely without defensive preparations, all set for attack, was dangerously exposed. Or have you never wondered why, despite its numerical and material superiority, it collapsed so phenomenally under the German assault?
Go read Viktor Suvorov’s “Icebreaker”.
Much as I support Russia and Putin, this is point that the Russian State is not honest about, maybe cannot afford to be honest about.
The Red Army units were poised in a spearhead salient in preparation to invade and occupy Germany’s oilfields in Romania, and not necessarily positioned to attack Germany proper. Occupying the oilfields would have stopped Hitler in his tank tracks, which was the point: to forestall or prevent an invasion of the Soviet Union. Nothing for the ex-Soviet Union to be too dishonest about.
‘Sorry, but this is … nonsense. First, it was about Germany, and not “the Nazis”, which was just a political party, albeit a very popular one. Second, Germany was already at war, didn’t have the means to win, and Britain didn’t want to make peace; so the last thing Germany needed was another huge front.”
Evidence that the Soviet Union was preparing to attack Nazi Germany is tendentious – at best. What we know, for sure, is that the German imperialists DID attack the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), and that they DID claim that their attack was in self-defense, as (they insisted), the Soviet Union had prepared its own attack.
In 1939, they had also claimed that the Polish State had attacked them, and it was their right to self-defense that forced them to counter-attack Poland. The Nazis also claimed that there were weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, and therefore… Excuse. Did I get my invasions wrong?
“nonsense”??? Germany did open a second front by attacking the Soviet Union. You do admit that the German Nazi government attacked the USSR??? Or do you insist the Russian people had that coming to them???
On Insanity:
Germany’s totalitarian Oligarchs attacked Poland after having already secured vast and prosperous borders for the 3rd Reich. Their territorial gains included, Anschluss with Austria, gorging on Czechoslovakia; restoring the Rheinland, and the Saar, were among their political successes. The German attack on Poland was clearly not in their interest. They didn’t need the last few inches. The attack on Russia was indeed, further against Germany’s interest. With the war all but won, France conquered, but not Britain, or its guarantor, the United States, war with Russia was a great gamble.
Yet they gambled. After Japans attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, the German and Italian governments, unnecessarily declared war on the United States. Mussolini’s declaration of war against the United States (from a nation that had been defeated in every theatre of war it had engaged in), was an act of insanity. He was cheered on by thousands of insane Italians when he made the announcement.
Hitler voiced and acted out the wishes of the German Oligarchs, and some other nations’ Oligarchs. His military and political decisions after 1939 were ever more deranged. The post Kennedy American government displays the same foreign policy trajectory of ever increasing political and military delusion.
My key point is: These totalitarian societies could not help themselves, as they operated without the corrective political and cultural advantages rendered by the popular participation of a free citizenry in Democratic Republics. History has shown that while Democratic Republics often delay important decisions and the implementation of helpful policies, they make fewer political and economic errors; and, most importantly, they avoid the most catastrophic ones.
The political balance provided by the ready societal imput of free and confident citizens contrasts with the dangerous lack of political balance provided by tyrannies. Review the last 50 years of history; make a chart, and look at it.
Germany under Hitler’s Nazis, was coming; Hitler under Mussolini’s Fascists, was coming, and Japan under General Tojo, was coming. Nothing could have stopped their aggressions, only military victory by the allies sufficed. That is history.
If “We the People” cannot stop the Anglo/American/Zionist Oligarchs, preferrably by restoring our Republic, then the war horrors of the present will only increase. Have you listened to the madness of the American NATO General? He, and the Congressional Democrats and Republicans, have repeatedly exibited sheer foaming at the mouth insanity. Do you recall the Congress’ resolution on the Ukraine? Only 10 Congressmen dared vote against it.
This same Congress was more favorable to the butchery of the Palestinians in Gaza than Israel’s own Knesset. This political insanity within the United states has increased-geometrically, since November 22, 1963.
Genocidal insanity can only be cured by Democratic Republics.
IMAGINE
* The Soviet Union under Djugashvili (Stalin), was ironically, mostly politically irrelevant in World War II. As a totalitarian state, which operated a huge Gulag of Prison Camps, it had little (positive) to offer the world’s peoples. However (in this case there is a however), their military victory over the fascist powers, powered by a resiliant and heroic people, saved the world from the worst horror imaginable, the planetary conquest by the imperialist fascist powers.
The victory of the Soviet Union, ironically, bought some time for Democracy to grow. Now, it grows within Russia, while declining in the West. Some of that time remains. Let’s see what we can do with it.
BTW, Morsi ex-pres Egypt mentioned in here just got a 20-year sentence today.
He obviously wasn’t wearing an Iron Man suit of teflon, where nothing sticks, like all the rest of his compadre contemporary war criminals at large still freely jet-setting around.
ISIS releases video showing execution of 30 Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in Libya.
by Katherine Frisk, The Phaser.com:
Whether this is another “false- flag – fake” video or not, the intention behind it is the same. To embroil Ethiopia in a war resulting in another holocaust of Orthodox Christians. One hundred years ago, over 1.5 million Orthodox Armenian Christians were slaughtered by Turkey.
The Wahabi under many names and disguises, Sunni extremists and the many acronyms of the Muslim Brotherhood, funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, assisted by Israel on the Golan Heights and trained by the CIA in Jordan, known more recently as: ISIL, ISIS or Al-Qeada or whatever Donald Duck/Mickey Mouse name Hollywood can think up next, are now running a similar operation.
Hi Daniel ! I agree with the first part of your comment…but I don’t know if the end of your comment is true….the people funding the Empire are richer now than they have ever been….its called ‘slow burn’ and may go on for decades yet….
The American public – or the UK public for that matter – has zero influence over decisions taken by deep state actors to go to war. Even active global resistance on a massive scale (in the case of the 2nd Iraq war) is ignored.
What is of interest is the level of propaganda and provocations being carried out by Anglo-Zionist deep state actors, and by Russia in response. Compared to the period between the end of WWII and the fall of the Soviet Union there is nothing new happening. Back then we had mad dogs like General Curtis LeMay who could – on his own – order a nuclear strike against Russia via bombers. He kept up a continuing campaign of provocative bomber and spy plane flights in an attempt to provoke a Russian response. Fortunately the Russian refused to react strongly, at least until 1960 when a US U2 was shot down. By this time Presidential controls were in place and General LeMay could no longer order nuclear strikes on his own.
Despite all the saber rattling (on both sides) I don’t see the US/Nato getting directly involved in a shooting war with Russia, at least not on purpose. There is a significant risk that something may go awry with one of ongoing military provocations and shooting erupts. We can only pray that both the US President and the Russian President love their children and they hold the dogs of war in check.
re: “everyone should watch this” Thanks vn. Well, this was an interesting attempt by hacks to discount the facts of the ” reality on the ground” that is bombed buildings in Donbass not Kiev and starving Yemenis in a country which depends on 90% of its food as imports. So much for their claims of “reality based politics” being lost in the narratives of so called conspiracy theorists. We rip off the veil of their rhetoric, their evil, yes, evil, self serving narrative to shape the discussion on the interenet.
Long live the Saker Family!!!
End of an era for the West
@nmb
Sorry, did you perhaps intend to provide a link? Nothing shows when you click on your sentence.
Sorry, I did something wrong. See below.
I googled the title, and here’s the missing link :)
End of an era for the West
But there’s nothing especially interesting in that article.
Thanks for fixing.
Their idea of humour–how a symbol of life becomes one of death:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=231880&d=1429613661
:-)….still idiot box the culprit …
Saudis send in boots on the ground:
As Reuters notes, “military operations in the campaign have so far been carried out by the Royal Saudi Air Force and the Royal Saudi Land Forces, which answer to the Defense Ministry. The national guard is a separate military structure run by its own ministry.”
Which means that what has been an airborne war until now is about to become a land war.
Things are speeding up:
Poland has decided to buy the US Patriot air-defense system for a total cost of around $9bn: “The US proposal has been found to be more profitable from the viewpoint of Poland’s security and implementation of commitments within NATO framework.”
Washington has decided to loan Poland a battery of Patriots until the deal is signed.
$9 billion?– u sure that’s not in zlotys?
I guess at that price it was still far less than the rated top-of-the-line product:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2OnU5WQjluE/TJGzViRl7xI/AAAAAAAAAJM/eudm6dCDeVY/s1600/wile+coyote+acme.png
this invasion by the Sauds’ into Yemen reminds me of the Israelis going into Palestine half a year ago…more and more every day….what filth….why isn’t this world fixing this problem !~ How can it be like this…what has happened ??? A criminal takeover….how will it end ?
Another masterpiece by Pepe Escobar:
Eurasia as we (and the U.S.) knew it is dead
http://atimes.com/2015/04/eurasia-as-we-and-the-u-s-knew-it-is-dead/
Commences:
“… China’s immensely ambitious New Silk Road project will keep intersecting with the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union (EEC). And that will be the day when the EU wakes up and finds a booming trade/commerce axis stretching from St. Petersburg to Shanghai. It’s always pertinent to remember that Vladimir Putin sold a similar, and even more encompassing, vision in Germany a few years ago – stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
It will take time – and troubled times. But Eurasia’s radical face lift is inexorable. This implies an exceptionalist dream – the U.S. as Eurasia hegemon, something that still looked feasible at the turn of the millennium – fast dissolving right before anyone’s eyes. …”
– and concludes:
”… How will Moscow and Beijing stare down the West – politically, commercially and ideologically – without risking a war? How will they cope with so much pressure? How will they sell their strategy to great swathes of the Global South, across multiple Asian latitudes?
One battle, though, is already won. Bye, bye Zbigniew Brzezinski. Your grand chessboard hegemonic dream is over. …”
Bye, bye “Zbig” :-)
Good analysis as always from Pepe.
My fav. line has got to be:
“One battle, though, is already won. Bye, bye Zbigniew Brzezinski. Your grand chessboard hegemonic dream is over.”
That man has been the root of so many problems and it truly a relief to see the end of his plans.
Rgds,
Veritas
On Luke Harding
Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has slammed a book about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s escape from the US as being a clichéd hack job that has “minimal additional research”.
Assange, who is hiding out in the Ecuador Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden to stand trial for rape charges, has written a scathing analysis for Newsweek of The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World’s Most Wanted Man, a book by Guardian journalist Luke Harding.
The book explores what happened to Snowden after he leaked NSA revelations to the media and then had to flee the US to Hong Kong and then Russia in order to avoid being prosecuted.
Harding’s work is now the subject of Snowden, an upcoming movie directed by Oliver Stone that will star the likes of Nicolas Cage, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zachary Quinto, but Assange feels the book and The Guardian have exploited Snowden’s story for personal gain and that “Snowden deserves better”.
“We all understand the pressures facing print journalism and the need to diversify revenue in order to cross-subsidise investigative journalism. But investigative journalism involves being able to develop relationships of trust with your sources,” Assange writes.
“There is a conflict of interest here. Edward Snowden was left in the lurch in Hong Kong by The Guardian, and WikiLeaks had to step in to make sure he was safe. While WikiLeaks worked to find him a safe haven, The Guardian was already plotting to sell the film rights.”
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/julian-assange-slams-guardians-book-edward-snowden-cliched-hack-job-1497656
I would not put any trust into anything that Assange says.
A couple of items among many.
(1) Here is what reputable geopolitical analyst F. William Engdahl revealed about him and that entire “Wikileaks” scam.
From Voltaire Network, 10 December 2010: Wikileaks: a big dangerous US Government Con Job, http://www.voltairenet.org/article167733.html .
See also professor Engdahl’s article published in Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca/hidden-intelligence-operation-behind-the-wikileaks-release-of-secret-documents/20580
(2) And here is what Jim W. Dean, the managing editor of Veterans Today, had to say in New Eastern Outlook, 31 October 2013: Assange charade and coverup continues with new movie, http://journal-neo.org/2013/10/31/assange-charade-and-coverup-continues-with-new-movie/ . Says Dean:
“… The man that played one of the most successful Intel psyops of this century continues to be put to work by his Israeli handlers to keep him ‘high with a little help from their friends’ in the movie business. They are covering Assange’s tracks that he got burned by erasing that from his public history, but we are not erasable.
Wikileaks was all about supporting the push for war with Iran…pure and simple. Israel wanted it bad and went to its deep well to build the Iranian bogeyman that the world would fear and support being ‘taken care of.’ But to pull a theatrical psyops you need mass media to work closely with the scam, and they did. …”
Interesting… All worldly roads lead to Zionists.
The only thing I’m sure of in this is,if Luke Harding is involved something is wrong.He is a total US stooge and Russophobe.Every article he writes for the Guardian (and his main book on Russia) is a hatchet-job against Putin and Russia.
John Rappoport has written some articles on the Snowden issue that make sense to me. Basically, Snowden’s mission is on behalf of the CIA to damage the NSA, which the agency is competing against for funding. As in the Third Reich, it’s not just one happy plutocratic family in the USA; there are rivalries among the heads of the Hydra.
@ Lumi
Mighty interesting! So… Snowden ’n Assange… Birds of a Feather Flock Together…
Interesting … though not scary. Scary is the realization that the Earthly anthill is made out of sheeple, all so easily led by their noses – and none will ever know it.
Dear Saker
Could you find for us these cartoons
Activists said the next issue would mock the “fifth column” supportes of Poroshenko and UKUSA.
Reading the magazine on a bench, driver Yevgeny Kuzmenko, 23, said he was glad that Russia was making a humorous riposte to its critics.
“In Ukraine there’s a humorous (TV) cartoon about Putin and his politics…. Compared with that cartoon, this newspaper is child’s play.”
http://news.yahoo.com/pro-putin-movement-launches-cartoon-weekly-mock-west-173822936.html
Not too tall a task lampooning these psycopath scum:
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150421/1021188563.html
In a frantic interview for Italian daily newspaper la Repubblica, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk demonstrated that he appears to be losing his grip on reality, stating that Russia is an aggressive state seeking to invade Europe and ‘destabilize the planet’, and simultaneously a weak country with a slew of unsolvable problems.
Events swinging daily to the East/SCO/EEU.
Gwadar in news twice today, first with Persians building that new naval base near it.
http://www.tasnimnews.com/english/Home/Single/718106
China, Pakistan Sign Gas Pipeline Deal for Iran Imports
April 21, 2015 – 17:33
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – China signed a deal with Pakistan to construct a pipeline to take Iran’s gas at border and take it across the country to the southern port of Gwadar.
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The value of the deal – that has been signed during the visit by the Chinese President Xi Jinping to Islamabad – is $2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Nuland attempts Kiev Version 2.0 in Skopje – Macedonia
Nuland’s tactics differed somewhat in her Ukrainian and Macedonian campaigns. Her signature challah bread offerings to protesters at Kiev’s Maidan Square took the form of unsolicited offerings to the Macedonian press suggesting that Gruevksi was wiretapping as many as 20,000 Macedonians and that a videotape proving it was secretly made by Macedonia’s George Soros-financed leader of the opposition, Zoran Zaev, in a meeting he had with Gruevski.
Nuland has been charged by Macedonian intelligence with conspiring with Zaev of the Macedonian Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), the former Communist Party that has been thoroughly co-opted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Soros operative. Also charged in the attempted putsch against Gruevski is Radmila Sekerinska. Zaev and Sekerinska are said by Macedonian insiders to be nothing more than fronts for former Prime Minister and President Branko Crvenkovski who continues to head up the SDSM and accept large amounts of largesse from such CIA NGO laundry operations as the National Democratic Institute (NDI), National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Freedom House, and Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI) to foment a themed revolution against Gruevksi’s right-of-center VMRO-DPMNE government.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/02/16/nuland-attempts-kiev-version-2-skopje.html
FLASH.
Speculation that the proposed Russian-Turkish gas pipeline could be extended into Greece as part of a plan to supply Europe with gas has heightened with a meeting between the chief of Russian gas company Gazprom and Greek government officials in Athens.
Alexei Miller, Gazprom’s management committee chairman is to meet Greek Prime Minster Alexis Tsipras and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis on Tuesday as part of a number of ongoing discussions between officials and business figures of Russia and Greece.
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150421/1021185881.html
Literally a puny coral outcrop of an islet is all, yet part of the chain 6 nations are claiming.
China is close to completing the construction of an airstrip on a tiny outcrop in the South China Sea, heightening its ability to project power regionally from the disputed waters and further raising the stakes in an increasingly tense showdown between Beijing, its neighbors, and the United States.
New satellite images provided to Foreign Policy show advances in the construction of a strip of pavement on the Fiery Cross Reef, which sits near the southern end of contested waters in the South China Sea, several hundred miles from the Philippines. Fiery Cross is part of the Spratly Islands
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/16/chinas-new-airstrip-in-the-south-china-sea-is-almost-completed/?utm_content=bufferdcc5f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
LOL.
Raising tensions and fomenting showdowns are precisely what America seems to do against China’s periphery just as it seeks to do against Russia–even as the USA tries to masquerade as a “fair and balanced” arbiter of peace!
What America is doing is just a variation of that instinctive Anglo tactic called Divide and Conquer.
Like the British Empire, the American Empire wants to maintain its global dominance by playing one country off against another, sowing tension, chaos, and war around the world.
American thus seeks to arm, back, and support this or that nation against Russia and China in particular, such as America’s backing of Ukraine, Poland, sundry Baltic states, etc. against Russia or playing its Japan and SE Asian satraps against China or pitting Sunni states against Shia nations in the Middle East.
This is why America is the Empire of Chaos.
Foreignpolicy.com obscures these issues because, like most of the American unFree Press, it is an America mouthpiece.
From: Obama heightens tensions over South China Sea
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/04/22/poli-a22.html
“Referring to the South China Sea disputes, Obama told a town-hall event in Jamaica: “We think this can be solved diplomatically,” he said “but just because the Philippines or Vietnam are not as large as China doesn’t mean that they can be just elbowed aside.” His comments followed remarks by the Chinese foreign ministry on Thursday defending its reclamation work in the South China Sea”
Leaving aside the long history of American diplomatic bullying, coups, military interventions and wars around the world—not least in Vietnam, the Philippines and elsewhere in Asia—Obama’s remarks turn reality on its head. As part of his administration’s “pivot to Asia” over the past five years, he has deliberately inflamed what were long-running but relatively low-level, regional disputes in the South China Sea into dangerous flashpoints that risk triggering a broader war.”
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“Over the past year, US officials have effectively dropped their stance of “neutrality” in the maritime disputes and publicly challenged China’s claims in the South China Sea. At the same time, Washington, behind the scenes, encouraged and assisted the Philippine government, now supported by Vietnam, to mount a legal case against China under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea—an international treaty that the US itself has refused to ratify.”
Necessary humor – perhaps.
While Novorossiya is being systamatically pulverized, schools, libraries, and homes, lives, and Militia, destroyed, it is deemed necessary to attempt to assure the imperialists, by way of cartoon humor, that – The Russians are Not Coming.
It may prove pivotal, that it was exactly, -The Russians Coming!!!-, in Mongolia-1939, in Europe-1945, in Georgia-2010, and the Crimea-2014, that Saved The Day for humanity. Hell! Samsonov’s sacrifice of an army saved the Entent’s Ass in 1914.
It is not necessary for Russian President Vladimir Putin to have the Russian Armed Forces intervene to resolve all the world’s problems, but such intervention should not be treated as a negative.
Such defensive humor, as with this cartoon appear a desperate attempt to influence the Imperialist oligarchs of the inoffensiveness of Russia’s existence. Such an attempt is a waste of newsprint, as the mere existence of opposition to the Anglo/American/Zionist uni-polar political and economic domination of the planet will not (cannot) be tolerated by the Oligarchs. That is the mere existence of a living and breathing Russia, and China cannot and is not tolerated by the Oliggarchs. Hell! They could not tolerate the existence of Yugoslavia (a nation founded by Woodrow Wilson).
The Nazis had to invade the Soviet Union, just as humans have to breathe. Stalin’s refusal to understand (for whatever reasons), the nature of political gravity, cost the Russian people many millions of unnecessary casualties, and the accompanying heartache.
The American people love their illusions. The political liberal-left love their imperialist Democrat gang and their Hollywood President, and their wrinkled war criminal Princess. The Right, love their phoney oposition, revere their earlier Hollywood President, and are searching for a suitable losing opponent for the anointed Princess.
Sorry for all these interventions, but my calendar is clear until tomorrow.
For the Democratic Republics! Here and There!
IMAGINE
“The Nazis had to invade the Soviet Union, just as humans have to breathe.”
Sorry, but this is … nonsense. First, it was about Germany, and not “the Nazis”, which was just a political party, albeit a very popular one. Second, Germany was already at war, didn’t have the means to win, and Britain didn’t want to make peace; so the last thing Germany needed was another huge front.
The truth, and it is overwhelmingly documented, is that Stalin, who was neither a saint nor an angel, had put the Red Army poised for an attack on Germany, which was imminent. For some reason that is not quite clear, he absolutely didn’t believe that Germany could attack first, and he didn’t see that his Red Army, completely without defensive preparations, all set for attack, was dangerously exposed. Or have you never wondered why, despite its numerical and material superiority, it collapsed so phenomenally under the German assault?
Go read Viktor Suvorov’s “Icebreaker”.
Much as I support Russia and Putin, this is point that the Russian State is not honest about, maybe cannot afford to be honest about.
The Red Army units were poised in a spearhead salient in preparation to invade and occupy Germany’s oilfields in Romania, and not necessarily positioned to attack Germany proper. Occupying the oilfields would have stopped Hitler in his tank tracks, which was the point: to forestall or prevent an invasion of the Soviet Union. Nothing for the ex-Soviet Union to be too dishonest about.
When Nazis see a big juicy salient, they just can’t resist. Remember Kursk?
The battle of Kursk – the biggest tank battle in history!
(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcekvQeHS6o (88 minutes, in Russian with English subtitles, but not downloadable, historical reconstruction with actors, made in 1968)
[ http://voenhronika.ru/news/osvobozhdenie_ognennaja_duga_1968/2013-07-16-294 (the same film, downloadable, but without English subtitles) ]
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(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvdK7EMIQDs (50 minutes, in Russian, many spectacular CGI details, made in 2010)
Lumi
‘Sorry, but this is … nonsense. First, it was about Germany, and not “the Nazis”, which was just a political party, albeit a very popular one. Second, Germany was already at war, didn’t have the means to win, and Britain didn’t want to make peace; so the last thing Germany needed was another huge front.”
Evidence that the Soviet Union was preparing to attack Nazi Germany is tendentious – at best. What we know, for sure, is that the German imperialists DID attack the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), and that they DID claim that their attack was in self-defense, as (they insisted), the Soviet Union had prepared its own attack.
In 1939, they had also claimed that the Polish State had attacked them, and it was their right to self-defense that forced them to counter-attack Poland. The Nazis also claimed that there were weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, and therefore… Excuse. Did I get my invasions wrong?
“nonsense”??? Germany did open a second front by attacking the Soviet Union. You do admit that the German Nazi government attacked the USSR??? Or do you insist the Russian people had that coming to them???
On Insanity:
Germany’s totalitarian Oligarchs attacked Poland after having already secured vast and prosperous borders for the 3rd Reich. Their territorial gains included, Anschluss with Austria, gorging on Czechoslovakia; restoring the Rheinland, and the Saar, were among their political successes. The German attack on Poland was clearly not in their interest. They didn’t need the last few inches. The attack on Russia was indeed, further against Germany’s interest. With the war all but won, France conquered, but not Britain, or its guarantor, the United States, war with Russia was a great gamble.
Yet they gambled. After Japans attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, the German and Italian governments, unnecessarily declared war on the United States. Mussolini’s declaration of war against the United States (from a nation that had been defeated in every theatre of war it had engaged in), was an act of insanity. He was cheered on by thousands of insane Italians when he made the announcement.
Hitler voiced and acted out the wishes of the German Oligarchs, and some other nations’ Oligarchs. His military and political decisions after 1939 were ever more deranged. The post Kennedy American government displays the same foreign policy trajectory of ever increasing political and military delusion.
My key point is: These totalitarian societies could not help themselves, as they operated without the corrective political and cultural advantages rendered by the popular participation of a free citizenry in Democratic Republics. History has shown that while Democratic Republics often delay important decisions and the implementation of helpful policies, they make fewer political and economic errors; and, most importantly, they avoid the most catastrophic ones.
The political balance provided by the ready societal imput of free and confident citizens contrasts with the dangerous lack of political balance provided by tyrannies. Review the last 50 years of history; make a chart, and look at it.
Germany under Hitler’s Nazis, was coming; Hitler under Mussolini’s Fascists, was coming, and Japan under General Tojo, was coming. Nothing could have stopped their aggressions, only military victory by the allies sufficed. That is history.
If “We the People” cannot stop the Anglo/American/Zionist Oligarchs, preferrably by restoring our Republic, then the war horrors of the present will only increase. Have you listened to the madness of the American NATO General? He, and the Congressional Democrats and Republicans, have repeatedly exibited sheer foaming at the mouth insanity. Do you recall the Congress’ resolution on the Ukraine? Only 10 Congressmen dared vote against it.
This same Congress was more favorable to the butchery of the Palestinians in Gaza than Israel’s own Knesset. This political insanity within the United states has increased-geometrically, since November 22, 1963.
Genocidal insanity can only be cured by Democratic Republics.
IMAGINE
* The Soviet Union under Djugashvili (Stalin), was ironically, mostly politically irrelevant in World War II. As a totalitarian state, which operated a huge Gulag of Prison Camps, it had little (positive) to offer the world’s peoples. However (in this case there is a however), their military victory over the fascist powers, powered by a resiliant and heroic people, saved the world from the worst horror imaginable, the planetary conquest by the imperialist fascist powers.
The victory of the Soviet Union, ironically, bought some time for Democracy to grow. Now, it grows within Russia, while declining in the West. Some of that time remains. Let’s see what we can do with it.
BTW, Morsi ex-pres Egypt mentioned in here just got a 20-year sentence today.
He obviously wasn’t wearing an Iron Man suit of teflon, where nothing sticks, like all the rest of his compadre contemporary war criminals at large still freely jet-setting around.
ISIS releases video showing execution of 30 Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in Libya.
by Katherine Frisk, The Phaser.com:
Whether this is another “false- flag – fake” video or not, the intention behind it is the same. To embroil Ethiopia in a war resulting in another holocaust of Orthodox Christians. One hundred years ago, over 1.5 million Orthodox Armenian Christians were slaughtered by Turkey.
The Wahabi under many names and disguises, Sunni extremists and the many acronyms of the Muslim Brotherhood, funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, assisted by Israel on the Golan Heights and trained by the CIA in Jordan, known more recently as: ISIL, ISIS or Al-Qeada or whatever Donald Duck/Mickey Mouse name Hollywood can think up next, are now running a similar operation.
http://thephaser.com/2015/04/holocaust-of-orthodox-christians-in-the-middle-east-and-eastern-europe-anti-christ-on-the-rise/
China and Russia want peace…
coz peace means we [all] can prosper…
and being prosperous means, we can focus on buying stuff…
The emperor’s dying and I hope we can kick it’s rotting corpse to the curb any day soon now…
Hi Daniel ! I agree with the first part of your comment…but I don’t know if the end of your comment is true….the people funding the Empire are richer now than they have ever been….its called ‘slow burn’ and may go on for decades yet….
The American public – or the UK public for that matter – has zero influence over decisions taken by deep state actors to go to war. Even active global resistance on a massive scale (in the case of the 2nd Iraq war) is ignored.
What is of interest is the level of propaganda and provocations being carried out by Anglo-Zionist deep state actors, and by Russia in response. Compared to the period between the end of WWII and the fall of the Soviet Union there is nothing new happening. Back then we had mad dogs like General Curtis LeMay who could – on his own – order a nuclear strike against Russia via bombers. He kept up a continuing campaign of provocative bomber and spy plane flights in an attempt to provoke a Russian response. Fortunately the Russian refused to react strongly, at least until 1960 when a US U2 was shot down. By this time Presidential controls were in place and General LeMay could no longer order nuclear strikes on his own.
Despite all the saber rattling (on both sides) I don’t see the US/Nato getting directly involved in a shooting war with Russia, at least not on purpose. There is a significant risk that something may go awry with one of ongoing military provocations and shooting erupts. We can only pray that both the US President and the Russian President love their children and they hold the dogs of war in check.
Vietnam Vet…man I hope you’re right….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LzvuiLbUvM#t=350
Chairman Royce Questions Witnesses at Hearing on Confronting Russia’s Weaponization of Information
Everyone should watch this
re: “everyone should watch this” Thanks vn. Well, this was an interesting attempt by hacks to discount the facts of the ” reality on the ground” that is bombed buildings in Donbass not Kiev and starving Yemenis in a country which depends on 90% of its food as imports. So much for their claims of “reality based politics” being lost in the narratives of so called conspiracy theorists. We rip off the veil of their rhetoric, their evil, yes, evil, self serving narrative to shape the discussion on the interenet.
Long live the Saker Family!!!
These clowns should have a check up at the psychiatry department especialy Ms.Wahl.
Is the profesional lie is in “IN” that most of the people lie like thay are reading the book? Or maybe I’m behind the modern trends.
Here’s a thought: replace the idiot box with the Saker’s Sandbox.
I wanna know something about the Brazilian Geopolitics condiction in this critic moment……
The remote needs a star of David instead of a US flag symbol, as those critters are handling the PR, as they always do now.