by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Asia Times by special agreement with the author)
Top officials, including former CIA officers, Pentagon officials, US Army officers and former diplomats demand explanation of Israeli actions
By Pepe Escobar May 19, 2018 11:57 AM (UTC+8)
In a letter addressed to President Donald Trump, with copies to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN Security Council, four top former officials at the highest level of the US government have given him legal notice about his duty to advise the US Congress, the ICC and the UNSC, among others, about Israel’s actions coinciding with the “70th anniversary of the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.”
The letter is signed, among others, by former CIA operations officer Phil Giraldi; former Pentagon official Michael Maloof; former US Army officer and State Department coordinator for counterterrorism contractor Scott Bennett; and former diplomat and author of Visas For al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked The World, Michael Springmann.
Maloof, Bennett and Giraldi, as well as Springmann and this correspondent, were among guests at the 6th International New Horizon conference in the holy city of Mashhad, eastern Iran. The top themes of the conference’s debates were Palestine and the Trump administration’s unilateral exit from the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
As Maloof and Bennett separately confirmed to Asia Times, the letter was written by Giraldi and Maloof at an airport lounge as they were waiting for a flight from Mashhad to Tehran, where it was presented at a press conference this past Tuesday. This correspondent was on a reporting trip in Karaj. We all reunited on Thursday at Mashhad’s airport. The press conference in Tehran was virtually ignored by US corporate media.
Visas for the visiting Americans were an extremely delicate matter debated at the highest levels of the Iranian government between the Foreign Ministry and the intelligence services. In the end, the visitors, under intense scrutiny by Iranian media, ended up finding a huge, eager audience all across Iran.
A new psyops in the making
The letter signatories make a direct connection about Israeli actions that may trigger “and escalate American military actions against Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Russia since these nations are opposed to the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem; and rising tensions already exacerbated by the US withdrawal from the JCPOA.”
President Trump is also served legal notice that the letter “will be included as evidence in all matters relating to the US Embassy move to Jerusalem/Al Quds and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The letter is to be listed as “exhibit 1 in any war crimes investigation and prosecution (past, present, future) relating to this matter, at all times.”
As Bennett told Asia Times, the main concern is that according to his military sources the current, volatile situation may establish the preconditions for “a new psyops campaign.”
Trump has been served legal notice – pursuant to 18 US Code 4, and 28 US Code 1361 – of “national and international legal violations.” The letter also doubles as “a legal notice to the American people” – and is established as legal protection “against any retaliation, detainment, investigation, sequestration, interrogation, discrimination, imprisonment, torture, financial consequences, or any other negative or prejudicial consequences or actions.”
Moreover, “any action taken against the undersigned will be interpreted as a violation of the following; 18 USC 242 (conspiracy to deny/violate constitutional civil rights); 42 USC 1983, 1984, 1985 (civil action for rights violations); 18 US 2339A (providing material support to terrorists).
The letter may also be interpreted as an olive branch; apart from requesting full whistleblower protection, the signatories offer themselves to fully debrief the President as well as Congress.
The letter is copied to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani.
There has been no White House response so far.
Considering the US embassy transfer to Jerusalem; the unilateral abrogation of the JCPOA followed by a declaration of economic war against Iran; the new narrative on the DPRK — as in there’s only our deal, or you will be destroyed like Libya; not to mention the treatment of whistleblower Julian Assange, the prospects for a fruitful dialogue remain bleak.
UN launches investigation into Gaza massacre, accuses Israel of war crimes, US and Australia vote against resolution, UK abstains :
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-killings-israel-hamas-un-war-crimes-investigate-border-deaths-sniper-a8357981.html
I live in Australia and am disgusted by our doing this.The only thing I have gotten by this news is that I now know we are owned by the US.
Welcome to the “Canasta Club”.
I gotta tell ya the story of this “Canasta” thing: My wife and I were in Iran 1977-78. A Texan I worked with (and liked) came back from leave with a “map” of North America. Of course. TX was the biggest piece of real-estate on it and Canada was a little strip up north, called “Canasta”. (That’s a GAME ya know?) I just about died laughing and told Carl to tell his cartographer back home that he was spot on the mark where Canada is concerned: we are a bunch of mindless, weak-kneed vassals.
Many years ago, after watching how Australia championed the independence of East Timor, then went on to swindle her out of her oil wealth, i swore not stop feeding the Australian monster. I have since then refused as far as possible to knowingly buy any Australian product or service, and have not stepped back into that country. I have recently taken the same policy towards the USA. This particular vote by Australia in the UNSC has shown me my decision those years ago was justified. May the Anglo World Order collapse soon.
You have been very slow in understanding the obvious. Australia is owned by UKUSRAEL in fact. Legally, Australia is a British province, with a large internal autonomy.
Thank you Pepe for bringing this to our attention. Very, very interesting! Some, in the US, apparently don’t want to be eaten by the Zio-Zombies. Plus here is another possible development :
Iran And Russia Discuss Transacting In Crypto To Avoid International Sanctions
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-19/iran-and-russia-discuss-transacting-crypto-avoid-international-sanctions
Who knows, sooner or later, it will all bubble up to some real action that will change our lives for good.
The U.S. is Master of the Universe of Planet Earth. Do not disturb with moral arguments, legal restrictions or historic realities.
Israel murdering Palestinians is to be expected. How else can they steal the land from the natives?
This is the Anglo-American way of life.
The new rules of the NWO negate all prior Moral Law, including the Ten Commandments and all the Wisdom of Human History.
So, stand by, for the inevitable Karma—the Monster will be slain, maybe impaled on its own weapon.
The forces of Multi-Polarity are stronger than the Hegemon. And they gain more strength every day.
The bluff and bluster of the Wizard of Oz scares no one any more. The most effective weapon the Hegemon wields is corruption. We see the process of late in Central Asian leaders drifting (induced) toward acquiescence to allow the US bases and rival “projects” to BRI.
War in seven nations, terrorists and corruption are the tools of the American brand of Global Domination.
But the untouchable sovereign nations, Russia, China and Iran, form a chokebone the mighty Empire cannot survive.
Yep. Nice little sermon. 7 a.m. Sunday morning in NZ.
Thank you.
Now , on with the farming day in the darkest 60 days of the year.
Good one.
“…The forces of Multi-Polarity…” is an illusion.
China is wholly owned and operated by the western industrialists and bankers who financed and supplied Mao Tse Tung’s communist revolution in 1949. They control it to this day and this explains the colossal transfer of wealth from the west to the east over the past 40 odd years. The rise of China and the fall of the west has been engineered as a prerequisite to the global communist dictatorship known as the New World Order.
As for Russia, after Putin’s recent electoral victory he stated “Russia supports the European Union and the Chinese Union”. (didn’t mention the North American Union, didn’t want to offend Trump I guess) but Chinese Union? Yes all the countries in the Asian region don their silly matching shirts at the annual APEC meetings and negotiate away their sovereignty to the globalist corporate gov’t in “trade deals” thousands of pages long which control every detail of our lives.
They all know that Multi-Polarity is transitional and that a Uni-party world is the goal, but for the time being the natural fear and mistrust of the parties and their self interest causes inevitable tensions.
The USA appears strong while she floggs weaker nations for the NWO globalist bankers but they do not intend for that to last. Ideally they prefer our surrender to the emerging Chinese hegemon but Trump may just have thrown a spanner in those works.
If he can restore the US economy and debt position and gets the hell outta the middle-east we may yet see a multi-polar world for real but that is a long shot.
I have a very good friend in Paris who had always good Relations with jews and didn’t see it like I see it [I don’t want to get in details here]
Until now…
Last night he called me and told me he can’t stand the jews anymore he was totally disgusted by the mass killings and woundings by Israeli snipers of mostly innocent Palestinians
He said now it’s even very difficult for him to talk to his Jewish customers as he is totally upset by the crimes against Humanity by the Israelis
That is something the mass murderers like Nutyahoo underestimate totally
The hate against Israel is worldwide increasing
In a very fast pace
It will not end good for them this is sure as karma is existing
psychopaths tend to eventually self-destruct
They can do all this mainly because of the black propaganda of WWII where the stories started.
The problem is that we have all been gagged ever since to find some free speech and ask for any forensic evidence of crime scenes.Not until 1988 were there any forensic chemical analyses done by experts (witnesses called in to the Zundel trial) in the camps. Why was forensic evidence-seeking never allowed and did one only listen to extremely strange and contradictory witness statements? Research since 1988 has disclosed a lot of the black propaganda, but they have introduced laws that make it impossible to use such research. Strange isn’t it in a modern world where one speaks of free speech? I cannot see any change with Israel’s impunity to commit crime after crime until something of the root cause (collective guilt about WWII) has been properly discussed and until people are willing to listen to science instead of stories. It is not for nothing that in their histories, neither Churchill in his 3-volumes, nor de Gaulle, nor Eisenhower, ever even mentioned “gas chambers”.
You are “on” to it, Andrew. Keep up the relentless pursuit of the truth, and you will probably be astonished at how much the people were lied to, terribly, during and after WW2. Most people are not yet ready for these kinds of revelations, however, even after all of the years that have passed. In America, to this day, the prevailing mind-set about the war is “they started it, and We finished it”. “Our atomic bombs ended the war.” Seriously! ! ! ! Period! Why, it is so simple, it makes a perfect mantra. Alas, the human race lost World War 2. In your own studies, I suspect you know why forensic evidence seeking was never allowed, and why there was so much strange and contradictory witness statements. A whole new group of myths needed to be created for what amounted to a new “religion”, which focused on death more than life — many of the churches went along with these lies because they wanted to retain their tax-exempt status–and pastors/priests/rabbis were paid off to deceive their flocks. I am as angry at them as I am at the people who never questioned what they were told. *** Now, regarding The Letter From Iran: I have guarded hopes that this will actually go somewhere, but it is going to be an uphill fight against “The Chosen People” and their enablers.
Thank you, CHad. Yes, it has been a journey to read some 25 books by actual scholars who could calculate and show how impossible the claims had been. I believed in all the stories about WWII and camps all my life until I really “suspended judgment” about such scholars and understood their struggle which had nothing to do with hatred or anti-Semitism, but simply wishing to find the real truth about the claims.
In fact, if anything, it was a great relief to find that things were not as extraordinary cruel as portrayed. In other words, it was bad enough but nowhere near the sadistic, vicious stories and nobody had ever investigated the documents released since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most “proof” was negative, i.e. “true” because “they” had destroyed evidence. It turned out the Germans had not destroyed it but lots of documents were not released.
In his book Commandant of Auschwitz, prof.Carlo Mattogno describes how and why this commandant was tortured and then had to go along with his testimonies (written by his captors) to ensure that his family would not be punished etc. So the most important testimony was obtained under torture and duress.
I can only feel relief to see things were not as extreme, but I am also aware that Israelis and Zionists would not be happy because they rely on their black propaganda, started in the camps resistance movement, to make a case for the establishment of Israel. As the former motto of Mossad had it: By Way of Deception Thous Shalt Make War. And so they did and still do.
I am going to chime in. It was (Unfortunately I can’t find the article about it) said that Memorial Plaque at the entrance to the Auschwitz (Oświęcim in Polish) used to say (2.5mln-3.5mln I can’t remember the exact number) and just recently Polish government changed that plaque which says ~250,000. This never got any publicity as it severely undermines the 6mln holocausted.
Actually, UI found Poliish site which says that accordingly to records SS the numbers are as follows (sorry it’s in polish”:
http://www.auschwitz.org/muzeum/aktualnosci/wiecej-nazwisk-ofiar-auschwitz-dostepnych-online,998.html
One of my searches gave a number of 4.7mln. So you pick whatever.
OK I am back, I can’t find any info about the Plaque, but here is a “denial page”:
http://auschwitz.org/en/history/the-number-of-victims/
which is an English page for the one I submitted before
You would think that when the numbers of deaths calculated in the concentration camps decreases dramatically that the total number of Jews killed would go down in a corresponding manner…but no! It’s still 6 million dead, no matter what the evidence to the contrary.
I’m more of the opinion that the first responders were the most honest in their reportage. Certainly they provide the least biased first-hand accounts. I think it’s fair to say between 250,000-500,000 total deaths (Jew and Gentile) is a reasonable number, and many if not most of those died from disease and malnutrition toward the end of the war when moving supplies became impossible.
Israel is a vasal country like others. This little tiny country couldnt survive one minute without Instructions and funding from Washington, London and Paris.
As usual people are manipulated to attack the little guy. Big bully´s scapegoat and whipping boy.
Karma (Gaia) is saddling. By wanting it all Physcostan will lose it all.
A plus ca change moment if there ever was one.
50 years ago, plus change (sorry, bad pun) “The creation and distribution of John Jeheber’s updated Nuremberg Trial poster in 1967 coincided with an event that received much international attention, but very little mention in the U.S. – the 1967 International War Crimes Tribunal. Founded by British philosopher and Nobel Prize winner, Bertrand Russell, and by French philosopher and playwright, Jean-Paul Sartre, the International War Crimes Tribunal was conducted in two sessions; Stockholm, Sweden (May 2-10, 1967), and Roskilde, Denmark (Nov. 20 – Dec. 1, 1967). The aim of the tribunal was the exposure of crimes against humanity committed in Vietnam by the U.S. government and military…”
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/LBJ/LBJ.htm
Note also Bertrand Russell’s specifics, which sound familiar:
“The United States is using fascist states to facilitate its plans for new levels of crime. Each day bombers leave Thailand to saturate Vietnam in steel pellets and liquid fire. Has one American city been attacked? Are Canada and Mexico bases for the destruction of America by a power on the other side of the world? If one American city suffered two hours of bombing such as has been inflicted for two years on Vietnam the world press would inform us rather fully. This imbalance is a clear indication of the great injustice we are investigating. The difference in power is matched by the indifference of the powerful and those who serve them or depend on their favour.”
But the absolute biggest non-change is the obvious one: Lyndon Johnson had been the “peace candidate”, specifically saying “American boys won’t be shooting at Asian boys if I’m elected…” Two months after he was sworn in they did nothing but for the next decade.
So Trump ain’t even Trump. He’s Lyndon VIII. At least there’s no pretense of democracy anymore.
Been reading another book about that era, and it has me hooked. “The Plot to Kill King” by Dr. William Pepper (Dr. Pepper, that should be easy to remember!) .
The basic premise is that Dr. King was killed by a conspiracy of the US government. The CIA, FBI and Army Intelligence at least. Did you know the King family won a civil trial case by convincing a jury that this conspiracy existed? If you think James Earl Ray killed Dr. King, then you still believe the cover story put out by the FBI. The King family proved in court that this story was not true.
Dr. Pepper is talking a lot about what we would now call “the Deep State” in America during this time (late 60’s). There was a brief period of Glasnost in the 70’s when a lot of this was revealed, so we know more about what they were doing in those days. Good to know, as its a sure bet that they are doing the same or much more these days to those who oppose the empire.
Good book. Dr. Pepper knew Dr. King, and later was the lawyer representing both the King family and James Earl Ray. The book is the result of 40 years of investigation as to what happened when America lost a great moral leader. Same era as the Bertrand Russell war crimes investigation, and related as Pepper was in that time doing photojournalism on the crime of Vietnam, and Dr. King was convinced that this war was immoral. See his Riverside speech, a must read for anyone who opposes all of these wars. Surely the war crimes of that era include the murders of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy to keep change from occuring.
Thanks for the tip.
It probably belongs on the same shelf with J.M Douglas’ JFK and the Unspeakable. I never did believe the story they told about James Earl Ray.
King’s killing in particular added immeasurably the level of paranoia that had been building up since JFK’s death. It was so intense that the old “Rolling Stone” magazine (not the celebrity-sheet it’s since turned into) issued a small but very thick paperback of essays called The Age of Paranoia: How the Sixties Ended. Worth a look as an invaluable period document, assuming a second-hand shop might have it.
Even the people who edited it thought it was ludicrous to call a period of a few years “an age” but for once they were absolutely bang-on. Someone wanted to drive us all crazy and in too many cases they succeeded.
Anon,
William Peppers books are indeed great. He provides all the evidence to the King civil case in the Apoendices as well, including the depositions.
Peter Dale Scott coined the term “Deep State” later to “Deep Politics” based on his work on JFK assassination. I would recommend his “Deep Politics And The Death of JFK”, as he untangles the relationship of government, organized crime and corporate money how each plays a part, whether the outing of Arbenz govt in Guatemala or the death of JFK. Deep State is oft used today, but the key players or the ‘the club’ is not just limited to the Govt.
As you are aware from Pepper’s reasearch, plausible deniability excuses and the actual payments for murder are handled by these non-government players.
Thank you Pepe – that’s a real good to know there.
Hope for a little sanity.
Just wondering about something….
Seems to me that only American officials who have the word “former” before their names have any brains – what do they do with them while they are serving?
It would be most helpful if they had them active between their ears WHILE they are in office.
Scott Bennett admits that he only learned the truth of 911 being an inside job due to his ability to compare notes on many many things that were bothering him about US politics and armed forces from whistle blower banker Brad Birkenfeld while they were both incarcerated at the same facility.
It takes courage to admit to such “patriotic” blindness and error…..and then stand up and fight for truth. And to not be broken by the deep state attacks. A lot more courage and freedom from ego than those who knew Sept 11, 2001, were more “right” than Bennett far earlier on…but subsequently did virtually nothing compared to what Bennett has done, ever since his eyes were opened…….
@Bro. Like the anti-colonialist (it was either Nehru in India or Luthuli in South Africa) imprisoned by the British; he said that being together with like minded people from all over his very large country helped them to organize the coming struggle.
Totally agree. There are many different kinds of courage. I’m fairly confident that, whatever kind of bravery US generals have generally, most are moral cowards, so they aren’t about to speak up about Israeli atrocities until long after their fat pensions are secured, and maybe not even then.
I’d say it’s nearly impossible for a flag officer to hold any dissenting opinion about a wide variety of social and political issues now. Long before they are promoted to that rank, their views on homosexual soldiers, women on submarines, proper Russophobia, and a staunch support for Israel have all been carefully vetted. Those found wanting remain as colonels, where they will be forced out eventually, and those willing to toe the party line are promoted as general officers.
The Obama administration politically cleansed the general staff of the military from any dissenters in the ranks. Now the Deep State ensures that the military remains mute and neutered.
Is the text of the letter available to the general public too?
I’d like to read it…
Any opinion on this report that the Americans are preparing a jihadist terror campaign against Russia via Tajikistan and Uzbekistan?
Special Service’s Agent: Attack On Russia is Being Prepared
https://off-guardian.org/2018/05/20/special-services-agent-attack-on-russia-is-being-prepared/
This community would be well served by getting to know Scott Bennett, much, much better, IMHO.
Here he is on Ukraine and Russia:
https://youtu.be/SyC4oKIhCzghttps://youtu.be/SyC4oKIhCzg
Former US Armed Forces Psychological warfare expert on how the expendable American Armed Forces cannon fodder are profiled by the Luciferian pedophiles and human traffickers to not know up from down or good from evil.
The lies are wearing thin except among the dead asleep. Mr Bennett admits he used to be among them but he woke up, and thus knows the glaring contradictions that the still asleep need to grapple with and come to terms with. The key control mechanism, of course is superficial “Christianity” that makes them easy prey to Zionist Mind Control.
Bro, man o’ man, are they crawling all over the Scott Bennett site.
I’ve got it all over me now, and maybe it’s worth it to find this information ,but you should check it out yourself, or, if you think appropriate, warn potential visitors that you refer of the obvious attention that will be focused on visitors to any particular site, and I do mean above-and-beyond the fact that everything, all internet activity, is almost certainly being monitored probably by more than one organization/system).
The link address that you included in your post goes straight to a Forbidden page.
A stealthier search engine using Tor) look up for SB yielded my findings.
Anyhow, it’s the way it is; information that they want to keep from everybody, they will be watching.
As you probably know, I recommend Douglas Reed’s “The Controversy of Zion“, quite a bit, and have started to include a disclaimer, for the fact-based information is so counter-to-the-controlled-narrative, and it is almost impossible to obtain a paper copy, most have likely been burned, and if you can obtain a paper copy, it’s at exorbitant cost and … also tracked, address and financial services provider, sites with downloads of this sensitive material, counter to the house-of-cards narrative, are almost certainly monitored.
As for the letter, in light of the gargantuan lies that are foisted everyday upon we, living under the auspiciousness of the empire, I fully expect them to use their completely fail to acknowledge/deny credibility approach, i.e. denial/dismissal, a behavioural trait which has become, unfortunately, common among the increasingly attenuated neuroses of the all out-group individuals, i.e. humanity, and is the natural social progression to emulation of the ruling class, secretive or otherwise, as it turns out.
respect
Reed is so good that I personally recommend taking the risk. So much interesting stuff in there about Balfour, before and after… Reed poured his heart out there, and couldn’t even live to see it released! Amazing that the book survived at all. So it needs to be spread around, no matter what “they” think about it. Reed himself was a child of the sick Empire himself, and it’s a shame he isn’t around now to talk to, so reading him doesn’t mean agreeing with all he says, but he must be read. I don’t think the people in charge know how to define people who actually still read books (a tiny minority… why should the 20-something Q-kids bother? I may be very wrong)…
I recommend Douglas Reed’s The Controversy of Zion, quite a bit, and have started to include a disclaimer, for the fact-based information is so counter-to-the-controlled-narrative, and it is almost impossible to obtain a paper copy, most have likely been burned, and if you can obtain a paper copy, it’s at exorbitant cost and … also tracked, address and financial services provider, sites with downloads of this sensitive material, counter to the house-of-cards narrative, are almost certainly monitored.
What a load of BS; I suppose it’s intended to scare people off.
The book is freely available, for anybody who wants it; there’s even an audiobook, FFS.
There’s no reason to believe that is any more monitored than anything else.
Douglas Reed — The Controversy of Zion
Respectfully, I’m not trying to scare people off.
But everyone should be taking precautions on the internet!
At places where they don’t want people to know the information, they are watching.
So, it’s a big, bad, dangerous world, and you need to take precautions.
I am recommending precautions, not the ceasing of search for the truth.
We need people to know, that is the only way they will be stopped.
And they will be stopped.
chill
404 not found result for link.
And that was using Yandex.
Try to use this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyC4oKIhCzg&feature=youtu.be
or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyC4oKIhCzg
Hmm, so if there are actions against Turkey, can it invoke article whatsis of the NATO charter, and demand support from other NATO members? How will they decide which side to support?
Very interesting development. This needs to grow legs. Cheers to the 4 responsible and to PE for covering it.
FORGET IT! Where are you at, people?!? The US “government” is a big old poorly-maintained, has-bin, road-hog of a bus, full of demented billionaires, rattling down a long-neglected highway, on seven cylinders, burning dirty diesel, and exhaust coming up through the floor; with a “looka me, I’m boss-a-th-werld” megalomaniac-in-training clutching the wheel and screaming, “wadda I do next?” And 90% of those “people” standing along the roadside with the dumbed-down looks on their faces haven’t had a clue about what’s going on with that truck for two hundred years – let alone of how to maintain it.
Like Kruschev said at the UN many haircuts ago – “You’ll smother yourselves”.
Ha, ha! Make it a “Blue Bird” school bus from the 70’s! Look, ma, no AC! The baddest-ass tank in the land, dude!
Great image, happy Sunday to you!
A very important initiative on a world stage level. Did you get support from democratic or conservative representatives? Can civil society sign in accordance to your action? Civil society must come forward to
realize themselves their expectancies. We can not wait anymore because of the massive and mass betrayal of our paid representatives, the waste of our money for completely destructive politics, for the horrendous government spending for the arms industries, which only can profit in the domain of mass destruction.
WE HAVE TO STOP THE DESTRUCTIVE MADNESS OF OUR ELECTED MEN AND WOMEN. WE HAVE TO WITHDRAW OUR TRUST AND DECLARE THEIR INEFFICIENCY OF RULE: TRUMP IS GUILTY OF ARBITRARY RULE IN VIOLATION OF DEMOCRACY. There is a latin term of the revocation by the people of their rulers. We do not need a guillotine.
USA never cared much for international law or moral conciousness. They have a divine right from the Almighthy (Protestant Zionist) God to do as they wish, genocide, theft of entire nations, as far as they are concerned, and UK are back in medieval times with they hysteria and worship of a imperialist Monarchy, consider themselves Exceptional and outside the laws of humanity. In geopolitics- not much hope economically or socially for USA, UK, Israel, Ukraine really. They just show their weakness more and more. I maintain Putin did unessecary thing in inviting Bibi to Moskva. To Muslims this seemed an insult and betrayal even if the intentions was noble. But he counteracted a bit this by inviting Assad just after and the propose a German Russian alliance to Merkel.
The resistance marches on, Venezuela will get Maduro again, China will buy Iranian oil, Phillipines, Turkey, Serbia and Uzbekistan turn away from the west and go to the East.
Will Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory End with America’s Role As Global Bully?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49451.htm
” I am in Iran speaking at a conference on the future of the Middle East. The timing for the meeting is particularly appropriate due to the recent American withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which limited the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for suspension of sanctions. Initial discussions with Iranians revealed that they are less pessimistic about the development than are the Americans and Europeans present, believing as they do that the situation can somehow be reversed either by Congressional refusal to endorse the Trump decision or by rejection of the demands being made by the White House that all parties who were also signatories to the agreement (Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) should also withdraw or themselves face secondary sanctions.”
EU invokes old law to defy US sanctions against Iran:
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-to-launch-law-for-blocking-iran-sanctions-on-friday/amp/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com
Iran sanctions war: EU against USA! – Christoph Hörstel to the situation
calendar week 20 (You can change the video’s subtitles to English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8InlC_O1L0
With Iran sanctions Trump made Europeans look like the fools they are
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/427116-eu-sanctions-iran-trump/
“The angry statements by European leaders might lead one to think that we are on the cusp of a major reappraisal of trans-Atlantic relations. However, the reality is that the EU and its leaders have painted themselves into a corner from which it will be very difficult, perhaps impossible, to extricate themselves.
The first European community was created with overt and covert US support in 1950 in order to militarize Western Europe and to prepare it to fight a land war against the Soviet Union; NATO acquired its integrated command structure a few months later and its Supreme Commander is always an American.
Today the two organizations are legally inseparable because the consolidated Treaty on European Union, in the form adopted at Lisbon in 2009, states that EU foreign policy “shall respect” the obligations of NATO member states and that it shall “be compatible” with NATO policy. In other words, the constitutional charter of the EU subordinates it to NATO, which the USA dominates legally and structurally. In such circumstances, European states can only liberate themselves from US hegemony, as Donald Tusk said they should, by leaving the EU. It is obvious that they are not prepared to do that.”
Scathing article on the eu and it’s duplicity and hypocrisy. They make noise to try and convince Europeans the eu is independent and relevant, but any solid, meaningful move away from zionazia, they will not do.
Bloody Monday Every F_ _ _ _ _ g Day of the Week
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49459.htm
“The blood of our dead and dying brothers and sisters in Palestine covers the tiny hands of Donald Trump and his bloody-minded pal Benjamin Netanyahu. It washes over the Israeli Cabinet and the US Congress and all those sycophants in the mainstream media who see “clashes” where the world, with clear vision, sees “massacres,” and who write about “protecting Israeli security” instead of telling the truth about Israeli crimes against humanity. In an emergency meeting of the Security Council, Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the UN, condemned Hamas for provoking the people of Gaza to launch a protracted protest against their Israeli benefactors. Israel, she intoned, has shown remarkable restraint in their effort to prevent hordes of Palestinians from crossing the militarized zone between the state of God’s kingdom on Earth and the Bantustan of Gaza, where a twelve-year-old blockadeenforced by Israel has left the people with little hope for the future and nothing but suffering to show for the present.”
Good article, PE usually have good analysis’s, predicting where we are going is right now difficult. Here in western Europe there is hope yet, ordinary people are not completely buying the official line, uncomfortable questions are raised and people are slowly wondering, not all of Europe has been Zombified.
I think the EU will politely say to Trump to fok off, they have discovered that the US is their real enemy and that the us is only interested in the dismantling of the EU.
Fair enough, I cant wait for the civil unrest to start in the US and the breakdown of a dysfunctional system tormenting its own citizens. It will happen. I hope that my glee is not too obvious. And surely the rabid artheid state of Israel will follow in its own deroute. Of couse they could try the Samson option, but then Israel would be a piece of radioactive glass, and Jewdom a thing of the past.
Israel has just found out that the US is not taking on Iran on their behalf, having unfinished business in Irag and Afghanistan that has drained the Treasury, leaving the US deeply in the red. And EU starting to trade in the Euro and other states in the Yuan, is bad, very bad. And what will they do? Invade Span or France?
The Fat lady has not started the singing yet, but the first chords have been struck and the Hegemon is tilting.
The Germans caught on to the game, in public at least, earlier this year when Trump threatened sanctions against companies that are a part of Nord Stream 2. Trump was too obvious in that case, as he wants the Europeans to buy American LNQ at 3 or 4 times what the Russian gas will cost. So, these sanctions would cost German businesses billions up front, and then a constant cost for expensive LNG that American can only sell by force. Add in billions more in lost deals with Iran, and sooner or later you are talking about real money.
The Eu announced on Friday that they will update a Clinton era “blocking statute” that shields European companies from US sanctions. On top of that, they just agreed to ditch the dollar in favor of the euro in Iran oil trade to try to keep the US out of and hands-off these deals. Anything that cuts the global demand for dollars cuts into the status of it as a reserve currency, and Trump aiming the shotgun at his foot has given that movement a boost.
Anyone who wants Pence to replace Trump?
hey Saker,
Check this one: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/20/politics/pompeo-iran-speech-scenesetter/index.html
US establishment talk about new moves against Iran. News sanctions, a trojan horse and last (but not least) a military confrontation.
Escobar probably knows -as well as the majority of his readers- that the ICC has no sway over the United States. The USA never accepted nor recognized that the ICC has any jurisdiction over its affairs. So this is just a gesture that may make somebody feel better for a little while. No more than that. Very few in the USA will even learn of this gesture; and very few of those will even read it.
Further, it is very hard to wean oneself off the US Financial system. No entity, which does any business with or has any financing through US entities, can avoid heavy fines -even confiscations- as well as a loss of all business opportunities related to the USA itself.
Those, who control the USA, are legendary for their penchant for collective punishment and for slow debilitating punishment. Those who control are supremely confident that they cannot be hurt personally by any hostile reaction to these punishments, and that the USA will prevail in any contest. Essentially, they are correct in this assessment.
There are intelligent people in high places who are seriously concern what is being done to this country and the direction it is driven. There is some good talking about those matters but nothing has been done so far except this letter. Let’s hope that will be more similar actions. If won’t be very strong, organized action, so help us God.
It is not whether all know the truth but if they have a leader to move them to action. There is no real opposition like in Europa. We know that Dems & Reps are the same . In such scenerio, there won’t be stoppage to the trend.
Until “United SNAKES CORP, D[e]C[eit]” [NOT]Federal[NO]Reserve int’l dominance is fully rejected by alternative monetary systems, all such int’l “judicial claims/proceedings” will have no effect.