Transcript (slightly expanded) of a Skype interview with Alex Knyazev – Russia TV24, Program ‘Geo-economics’
by Peter Koenig
Since this interview was given, an important event happened, important for world history. Fidel Castro died on 25 November, at the age of 90 (1926 – 2016). Comandante Castro, a lawyer by education, with a true sense of justice for humanity, has led a Revolution in his native Cuba to free his people from a brutal dictator, murderer and of course, what else, a puppet of the United States, Fulgencio Batista. Fidel has essentially freed Cuba from 500years of colonialism. Fidel has defied Washington’s multiple attempts to oust him, and more than 600 US secret service attempts to kill him. His Revolution has withstood a brutal, illegal, international blockade, initiated and also brutally enforced by Washington with sanctions against any country in the world that wouldn’t follow the embargo dictate of the US, against his country for almost 60 years – and counting. Fidel’s followers will continue in his spirit fighting against capitalists cum neofascists’ ruthless exploitation (see also http://www.globalresearch.ca/hasta-siempre-dear-comandante-fidel/5559516).
As a campaign pledge, repeated after his election, Mr. Trump wants to undo President Obama’s agreement for new relations with Cuba. Here is his abject reaction to Fidel’s passing: “Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.”
This is to be remembered. Everything that follows during his presidency is to be put in context of that man’s way of thinking. The 45th President of the United States is either completely ignorant or has all the elements to become a ruthless ‘dictator for corporate profit’. He is an unreliable rogue. Business and money is what drives him. Humanity is just a tool.
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Russia TV24 Question
How would you describe the current political and economic situation in Europe if we take into account the latest events, Trump’s victory for example? How would Trump in the future reshape the EU’s policy?
PK Reply
The current economic situation in Europe is very uneven. There are some countries that are doing better than others. For example, Germany and the Nordic countries are generally better off than the Southern European countries. Germany has benefitted the most from the EU’s common market. But if you look at the benefit of the EU as a whole – because a union should be judged as an entity, not country by country – as a union – which it really isn’t – the EU has done worse than if there would have been no so-called European Union.
This may be difficult to prove, of course, since no study can be done of what would have happened without the union – i.e. what would the countries of Europe have done socioeconomically without the EU.
Why the claim that the sum of the EU is worse than would have been the sum of all individual sovereign EU member countries? – Because the EU was never set up as a union to serve its members equally. It wasn’t even created by the Europeans. Hard to believe, I know. Its creation was the idea of Washington, carried out by the CIA, right after WWII. Down-beaten Europe was to become a vassal for the US, already 70 years back. We have to understand the context, before we can understand what is going wrong in the EU and its equally false euro-based monetary system.
The European Union started by the creation of the Council of Europe (CoE), signed and opened in London on 5 May 1949, covering 47 countries, including the territories of today’s 28 EU member nations which currently amount to about 820 million people. It is clearly an Anglo-Zion idea, brainchild of the CIA, where the UK played patsy for the US, as they still do today.
That’s also why BREXIT was such a surprise. Nobody expected people actually standing on their own feet, asking to gain back their sovereignty. The UK as backbone of the ‘establishment’ and a Washington mole in the EU, was taken as a given.
The CoE was the precursor of today’s European Union. The idea was born out of the Washington instigated WWII – planned and prepared already in the early 1930s, as the US economy was under deep depression, the result of the 1928 banking collapse. Building arms was then and is today an efficient engine for our sick economy – truly an economy of destruction and death – that eventually serves only the rich and powerful. Because after destruction you have to rebuild. And the winners, those who have the armament and weapons to destroy (and win), have also the industry and machinery to rebuild. For them – the US – war is a double whammy.
The CoE was followed by the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the first big transatlantic market. In 1955 the Rockefeller-led Bilderberg Society – the semi-secret home base of the top movers and shakers, those that pull the strings on the US Presidents, like the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, other Wall Street (WS) banksters and CEOs of the war industry, pharmaceuticals, ag-corporations, like Monsanto – and last but not least of the six giant Anglo-Zionist media corporations – this Bilderberg Society pleaded already in 1955 for a common European currency. In 1958 emerged the Treaty of Rome, of which people falsely say it was the beginning of the European Union. This, and all the future treaties all the way to Maastricht (1992) and Lisbon (2007) were infiltrated and influenced by US agents.
What the US really wanted out of WWII is that Hitler defeats the Soviet Union, because of a pathological anti-socialist / communist sentiment, prevailing in the United States as of this day. So – as Washington usually does, they danced on two weddings, i.e. with the one hand they financed Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union via the Bank for International Settlement, the BIS in Basle Switzerland, created in 1930 to monitor German WWI reparation payments. In Basle, it is conveniently located at the border to Germany. The funds arrived from the FED via Wall Street (WS) banks at the BIS and were transferred to the German Reichsbank (then the German Central Bank). The President of the BIS at that time was Thomas McKittrick (1940-46), a Rockefeller confidant. He was a former WS exec and worked in close collaboration with the FED and WS. All this is documented in books, one of them is called The Tower of Basle.
Had Hitler defeated the Soviet Union, his army would have been weak enough to be beaten easily by the remaining Allied Forces. In fact, as it is, the Soviet Union defeated Hitler’s army, and the US / UK came in towards the end of the war to ‘liberate’ – as they proclaim themselves, the various occupied territories, including France, and of course Germany. But the winner was clearly the Soviet Union – which lost 25 to 30million people in this war, a tremendous sacrifice for which the west should be forever grateful.
To continue their plan of creating Europe as a vassal of Washington, now Plan B kicked in: A Cold war with the Soviet Union had to be created. This continued justifying the US very lucrative arms race. Building up the Cold War went in parallel with rebuilding Europe with an entirely US funded Marshall Plan, then about US$ 13 billion (today about 130 billion equivalent) – which bound the European countries together through a common reconstruction fund. The World Bank, alias Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the IMF were created (1944 – the Breton Woods Organizations) to respectively manage the Marshall Plan Funds and to monitor and control the so-called ‘hard’ currencies’ adherence of the then also US imposed gold standard.
Europe was never meant to become a political sovereign entity, like the US. Lest Europe might have become an autonomous competitor to the self-styled US hegemon. It follows that the creation of a common EU currency the euro, was shaped and structured exactly according to the US-dollar.
A group of countries that has no binding constitution, no common political or even economic goals, no solidarity, can never sustain a common currency. Therefore, the EU as well as the Euro are doomed to fail. It is but a question of time. This is the opinion of renowned economists, including Joseph Stiglitz.
Under these circumstances, I doubt very much that Mr. Trump can do much for improving the lot of Europe. He shouldn’t even try. He really shouldn’t continue the US tradition of meddling in other countries affairs. This is eventually the task – and the obligation of Europe – not of an outsider. A new Europe has to be built from within, by Europe, for Europe and with the full participation of European citizens – and without any involvement of Washington.
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Back to Mr. Trump – there is indeed a lot of uncertainty at this time. However, the 45th President–elect is apparently backtracking on some of his extreme rightwing appointees, especially those that may have bent over backwards to please Israel and AIPAC. It looks like former NY mayor Giuliani is no longer on the shortlist to become Secretary of State – or Attorney General. But we’ll see.
On Syria, an apparent good news is that Mr. Trumps son reportedly met last month in Paris with Randa Kassis, a Syrian politician who strongly supports Russian intervention in her country. This may be an indication that the President-elect is serious wanting to partner with Russia and eliminate the US created IS and its affiliated terror groups, and freeing Syria and the democratically elected Regime of Bashar al-Assad from the ruthless claws of the empire. But the question always remains – how much freedom to act does Mr. Trump really have?
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Russia TV24 Question
Which countries in your view economically benefit from being in the Eurozone and which do not?
PK Reply
As I said before, Germany has emerged as the ‘winner’ if there is a ‘winner’ in the EU, and some of the Nordic countries. Clear losers are the EU’s southern countries; and this on purpose. They are bordering the highly strategic Mediterranean Sea; they are also NATO countries and must be kept under tight control. If they are economically weak, and of course not under a socialist government, they can much better be controlled and manipulated. Austerity brings poverty and poor people are extremely vulnerable, as their survival depends on earning just enough for the basic livelihood of their families. Poor people have no energy nor time to fight for their rights. That’s a built-in axiom of the austerity programs.
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Russia TV24 Question
French Jean-Luc Schaffauser recently said “the Eurozone stopped functioning and there are no prospects anymore”. What do you think?
PK Reply
I fully agree with this statement. The EU as it ‘dysfunctions’ today is doing increasing harm to the nations of Europe – more austerity, more misery, more unemployment, which is always a sign of ultra-capitalist engendered economic decline, a neoliberal-fascist take-over. We are living today in a fascist economy. The only way out of it, is dismantling the EU, and returning to sovereign national currencies.
And possibly at some point in the future – rethink the idea of a common Europe, but under completely different circumstances – and not under the dictate of Washington. It will require honest, non-corruptible European statesmen- and women. In fact, it is our hitherto destructive generation’s duty vis-à-vis the up-and-coming younger generations, those who will lead our civilization ahead, to dismantle the EU and the euro.
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Russia TV24 Question
What is the reason for the economic crisis in the Eurozone? Some experts say this is a matter of the whole system and the rules under which the EU is functioning. The ECB monetary policy does not correlate with different economic policies of the EU members, e.g. the heads of JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley claimed one of the reasons for that is Brexit and this might lead to a collapse of the Eurozone.
PK Reply
Yes BREXIT could indeed inspire other EU members to decide exiting the EU. Next in line could be Italy, or France.
Take France – Mr. François Fillon, the new candidate of the French extreme right, would bring more austerity and more hardship to France. He has already said so. He may be Washington’s candidate, as was Sarkozy at his time. He has been shoved in from outside, mysteriously ousting Mr. Alain Juppé, in the French Primaries of the Republican Party. He will, thus, become the prime opponent of Marine Le Pen, the current frontrunner for the Presidential elections next spring. Marine Le Pen wants to exit the EU, the Eurozone and NATO. This, of course, is a no-no for the Atlantists and Washington. They don’t want to take such a risk. France has still relatively much social capital to be stolen by the neo-fascist oligarchs, like the health system, the pension funds, the workers relatively long leaves and short workweeks – all achievements of the syndicates and paid for by the workers – could be taken away by unbridled privatization under a Fillon Presidency.
Let’s not even talk about the countrywide austerity programs he would bring to the French populace. And remember, austerity always comes with strings attached: debt – debt that needs to be serviced by interest and amortization, taking away some of the workers’ output, shifting it to the banksters and other oligarchs, and weighing down people’s mobility with the albatross of debt. Greece is a glaring example.
However, as mentioned before, there is Marine Le Pen, the ‘independent’ National Front (‘Front National’ – FN) candidate. The British Telegraph reports that “Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader of the Front National, “can win” France’s presidency next year, [as] the country’s shell-shocked mainstream Right predicted”, adding that “Donald Trump’s surprise triumph has thrown all political certainty into doubt.” – And that’s precisely why Mr. Fillon had to be ‘pushed in’ at the far right of the Republican Party. On domestic issues, he is pretty much in line with Marine Le Pen, but he does not vouch to exit the EU, euro and NATO. Therefore, he is slanted to defeat Le Pen in a second round.
Ms. Le Pen’s key campaign promises would be a blessing for the vast majority of European electors- though not for their mostly undemocratically elected leaders, but for the electorate – exiting the EU and the Eurozone, as well as exiting NATO. For most Europeans, including parliamentarians, although the MSM ignore them, getting rid of NATO would be a benediction, as it would stop or largely diminish the constant, counter-productive and illegal threat on Russia, it would diminish the risk of a nuclear annihilation of mankind and it would open the doors for Europeans to reestablish the natural partnership with Russia that has been a tradition for hundreds of years, before the self-anointed exceptional nation’s ascension to world tyranny.
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Russia TV24 Question
There are more and more right-oriented politicians in the EU. Why? At the same time, Mme. Merkel is going to run for her fourth term in the next elections (Fall 2017). What would it lead to?
PK Reply
True, there are ever more right wing politicians in the EU, actually heading EU members. There is currently no country that comes to mind that has a true left-wing leader. None. You can imagine that this is not just a coincidence. This is a clear sign that democracy has ceased to exist, that Democracy remains a dream of Greek philosophers some 2000 years back, and that elections are fabricated by the ‘new’ western fascism, especially by the unlimited and unrestrained lie-propaganda of the Anglo-Zionist MSM. Case in point is the recent ‘soft’ and hardly noticed parliamentary coup in Spain. The neoliberal President Rajoy, hated by at least three quarters of the population for the poverty and misery he has brought to Spain during his previous term from 2011-2015. See this election analysis http://www.globalresearch.ca/spain-the-dice-are-cast-another-parliamentary-coup-instigated-from-outside/5553699.
Interestingly, shortly after President Obama’s fare well visit to Berlin, during which he had extensive talks with Angela Merkel, she emerged announcing her fourth-time candidacy for the Chancellorship of Germany. Obama called her the new leader of Europe. I wonder what he promised her and how he explained to her that she will win the elections, while two thirds of the population oppose her.
Let us also be reminded that Germany still has no Peace Agreement after WWII. Germany’s status remains one of ‘Armistice’ in which it is clearly pointed out that the Chancellor shall never oppose the will of Washington. There it is. What better puppet Obama could have selected to continue with this absurd term in the Armistice Agreement, which currently acts as the German Constitution.
The agreement is being applied as it pleases Washington. For example, it also says that no military aggression shall ever emanate from German territory – which is outright baloney. Ramstein, in the center of Germany, is one of the most important US military bases in Europe. Most drone attacks in Pakistan and the Middle East emanate from Ramstein. Also, the German Luftwaffe has quietly joined the French, UK, US and NATO in bombing Syria and Iraq. A future German Chancellor with backbone might want to revisit this Armistice Agreement, in view of converting it into a Peace Agreement, giving Germany full sovereignty which would be a first step of liberating Europe from the fangs of the American vulture — ehhh, I mean eagle.
It depends now on what Mr. Trump has in mind, when he pledges no more US interventionism. Does he mean to give Europe back to the Europeans? That would be a strong feather in Mr. Trump’s hat. – But would those who pull the strings on the western marionette leaders allow it?
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Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 4th Media, TeleSUR, TruePublica, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
Europe crushed by the fascists, islamofascists, bureaufascists and their masters
http://bit.ly/1O3eaWP
” socialist government, they can much better be controlled and manipulated.”
-socialist, left, progressive, these are all synonymous with globalist in the western world,if a country has a government that calls itself socialist, it will be 100% globalist. If you are looking to describe anti-globalist forces, that would be Nationalist. The only thing socialist cares about is gender wars, race wars, wars between men and women, the destruction of the family and so forth.
The commenter uses a section of the interview out of context to post the usual websayan troll. This is pathetic.
He did wrongly quote Koenig, who was implying that countries under a socialist government will be less controlled and more caring for their people’s well-being.
But the point Vol Tak makes is valid: we see nowhere in Europe today a socialist government that protects their people’s basic rights – including the right to national sovereignty (it is a right!), the right to a job and a livelihood, to have a real say in matters that concern their lives and the life of the nation.
The only rights they seem to care fore are so-called LGBT rights, abortion rights, euthanasia rights – and these and similar fashionables are defended with extreme vigour and enthusiasm…
Indeed.
Because these ‘rights’ actually serve Malthusian/eugenicist agendas, the twin preoccupations of Anglo-Zionist elites since forever.
They are about as ‘socialist’ as nazism: in fact, they are fronts for the same goals except using the ‘soft power’ of ‘human rights’ instead of the overt political power of fascism.
The major clue is in the attack on free speech through ‘hate speech’ crackdowns and other ploys.
But he also notes : ” There is currently no country that comes to mind that has a true left-wing leader. None. ” which is absolutely true. The actual left is a pseudo-left, a wolf in clothes of lamb.
“Had Hitler defeated the Soviet Union, his army would have been weak enough to be beaten easily by the remaining Allied Forces. In fact, as it is, the Soviet Union defeated Hitler’s army”
-That seems highly unlikely,the remaining allies outside of USSR was basically USA, and USA had to struggle to defeat the Germany army in 1944, when 80% of the German army hade already been lost in the east, and USA was fighting 12 year olds and 65 year olds. If Germany hade defeat the USSR, it would have had no problem fighting of USA.
Yes, but that’s because the whole ‘official’ narrative about WWII – except Stalin’s version – doesn’t make very much sense at all. It’s for the most part simply a fabricated fairy tale.
WWII was another attempt by the ‘British’ Empire, led by Rothschild’s rel. mafia to ‘liberate’ the whole world, because Trotsky’s Bolsheviks had failed to ‘liberate’ the Russian Empire according to plan.
They had already ‘liberated’ the U$ (1913), the Ottoman & German Empire (WWI), and most of the rest of the world.
Nazi Germany was just an affiliate of this international mafia, where they operated openly, if not for Smedley Butler, the Rothschild Nazi fascists might’ve operated openly in the US as well, like their fellow ISIS-like Rothschild boogiemen Nazis in Germany.
I reckon the plan was all along – if Stalin’s USSR would’ve been defeated – to evacuate the worst boogiemen to Argentina, and the ‘good’ Nazis would simply have changed uniforms with the boogiemen Nazis, all the while massacring as many as possible Russian, American, German, and other non-Nazi cannon fodder.
(the war in the West, ‘British/U$/French’ Nazis against ‘German’ Nazis, was provenly a phony war – as soon as the war was over, the united Nazi psychopaths – e.g. Churchill – actually planned to attack Stalin’s USSR again)
@ Laika
Your hypothetical scenario on the eventual defeat of the USSR doesn’t make mush sense to me without further elaboration. My view is that the German-USSR war was supposedly to have lasted much longer on the basis of the Russian propensity for deep defence (drawing the enemy further into scorched earth/frozen territory), except that Stalin drew a red line on the Volga and Stalingrad, which was a bold move, yet vital to the USSR as the gate to the Baku oilfields.
Under the expected plan, German and Soviet armies would engage in a titanic struggle for years and both bled white, therefore easy pickings to the Entente powers who would calibrate their policies to prolong the war as long as possible (e.g. lend-lease and similar programmes). I don’t know the full extent of “Allied” help to Germany after the war was declared but the diplomatic manoeuvers and the “phoney” period were obvious clues that they did not intend to restrain Germany. However, recently I came across some information relating to the huge amount of gold Portugal received from Germany via Switzerland as payment for exports of wolfram (tungsten) which is a critical war material and Germany did not have any. Spain also produced wolfram and, although the Iberian countries were friendly with Germany, it wouldn’t be very hard to twist their arms and stop shipments to Germany. Yet they were allowed to trade throughout the war! Without tungsten the German war machine would come to a halt.
The only snag in their plan was the resilience of the Red Army and its offensive ability, which the Germans underrated, mostly because of deficient intelligence. In fact one of the aims of the Soviet purges was to eliminate real or potential traitors and that drained the Germans of any valuable information about the strength and prowess of the Red Army and Soviet industrial capacity.
Had Germany defeated the USSR, the “Allies” would simply walk in and takeover the lot (Germany would be to weak to resist) from Lisbon to Vladivostok, as president Putin recently advocated, and Uncle Sam with his friend John Bull would have achieved their globalization project decades earlier.
Yes, but in my opinion it’s as plain as day, in spite of the ‘official’ systems telling otherwise, that the whole West, including Germany, was run by the same (shadow) government, and still is.
The ‘elites’ couldn’t care less how many civilians (and cannon fodder) they massacred, they intentionally bombed civilians actually.
Just like they did in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Vietnam, Laos, Japan, or wherever. Of course most of the people, and the ones fighting the wars, were not supposed to, and didn’t know that.
There was no difference between the ‘owners’ (of banks, big companies, government) of the ‘British’ Empire, the US, Holland, and so forth, and Nazi Germany, they were one and the same. (the US was taken over – e.g. by way of artificial crises – especially since 1913 [Fed], and Germany since the end of WWI; coup/occupation)
On the US, UK, France paper on fuelling the Nazi Germany machine of war pre-WWII, I leave you this MUST READ document translated by a Spanish site ( of course in Spanish, and, since quite long, impossible to translate here, so use a translater ) on a soviet diplomatic note based on information from the III Reich archives requitered after the take of Berlin by the Red Army:
“The counterfeiters of History ( Societ note published on February 1948 )”:
https://culturaproletaria.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/los-falsificadores-de-la-historia-nota-sovietica-publicada-en-febrero-de-1948/
That’s a great 1948 document, wherein Stalin’s USSR clearly states the totally obvious truth. (one gets automatically the official English version, by the way), thank you.
They still tell it somewhat diplomatically, that is, that they do not directly state that (German) Nazis = (Anglo) Zionists = Phariseic Talmudism led by the Rothschilds, but it is totally obvious . . . Hitler was a Rothschild bastard http://whale.to/c/inside_the_gestapo.html
No wonder, the united Nazis (US, British Empire, France, German Nazis – now called NATO) were still hell-bent on destroying Stalin’s USSR (with nuclear weapons), immediately following WWII.
Stalin was almost certainly murdered by them (MI6) & their Nazi 5th column within the USSR in 1953.
It’s difficult to assess the likeliness of a success of those considerations. Securing the conquered territory would’ve pinned military units down.This in turn could’ve resulted in a weakened opponent. (I’m no military expert.)
Regardless of nowadays tactical considerations, plans for another attack on the USSR existed:Operation Unthinkable.
“Let us also be reminded that Germany still has no Peace Agreement after WWII. Germany’s status remains one of ‘Armistice’ in which it is clearly pointed out that the Chancellor shall never oppose the will of Washington. There it is. What better puppet Obama could have selected to continue with this absurd term in the Armistice Agreement, which currently acts as the German Constitution.”
-Where is the source that the Germany chancellor never shall oppose USA?
Germany is still under occupation, officially and in fact. After the end of hostilities, usually when one party surrenders, a formal agreement between the parties is entered to regulate their affairs in the post-conflict era. No such treaty was entered between West Germany and the occupying powers (UK, US and France) but they imposed a Constitution on West Germany. The same situation applies to Japan and South Korea, they are also occupied countries.
What the occupying powers did was to impose on the Federal Republic of Germany in 1955 a Convention on the Presence of Foreign Forces which remains in force theoretically for ever because there are no time limits.
The Settlement of 1990 about the reunification of East and West Germany did not affect the Convention of 1955, therefore Germany is still under military occupation.
What about the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany?
With IG Farben claimants of Nazi Germany had been tricked, too. The sole purpose for the continuance of that company was to distract from the real successors (Hoechst, BASF, …).
In my opinion it’s a play on words. Since there’s no formal Peace Treaty nobody can’t sue Germany in court. For example: Some legal experts argued that Greece can demand for reparations when such a document exists. With an official Peace Treaty chances are that Germany may have to pay back the forced loan. This in turn could lead to even more litigations. The end result would be that Germany could join “Club Med” (without even own access to the Mediterranean) – with regard to debt.
Irrespective of the the used term – Peace Treaty or Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany – Germany is still occupied by US military. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that this occupation is part of a separate agreement.
Correction: nobody can sue
Considering the separate agreement: It’s called NATO.
“Where is the source that the Germany chancellor never shall oppose USA?”
1) It’s not only Germany, It’s all Western nations.
2) It’s not only the ‘chancellor’, it’s all politicians, academics, bankers, propagandists, lawyers, etc.
3) It’s not only ‘never shall oppose USA’, but also NATO, EU and Israel
Get up to speed, brother! Knowing at least some basic facts about the world your living in dispels mind fog, disorientation and chronic fatigue.
Excellent interview. Funny, one doesn’t see these in the western Jewish owned/run media. I wonder why?
Well, I don’t think Russian media (not to mention its international) is that much different, unfortunately. (it’s less catastrophically pathological lying, but most of them don’t tell the whole truth either)
The mistake is on our side. ‘The media’ is the mouthpiece of the ‘the system’ and has always been. Our assumption that ‘the media’ is here to tell us the truth is completely unfounded and naive at best.
I have absolutely no idea what will happen as a result of Donald Trump becoming President of the USA – but I think it highly unlikely that I will actually Pass The Border and Enter the USA – though my Son did – and he escaped alive..
However, I think my wife and I will be going to a Rock Festival in Cypress next year … There is a competition going on..Its all (mainly heavy rock bands) – British and American mainly..but we don’t mind The Germans joining in – or even The Russians, Greeks, Spanish or Turks..providing you can play guitar, sing or play drums – or any other instruments incredibly well (us British have our standards – you are also supposed to be nice to us – we have traveled to your country and are drinking your beer and spending our money in your country – loads of us)
I think the one next year we are going to – is being organised by an Italian – but he is really nice too…the details have not been sorted yet…
It’s only Rock & Roll…(We are fairly harmless)..but we do get about
I saw The Who at Wembley Stadium in 1979 ( I never rated them – but they were completely awesome live as was my Girlfriend at the time) – a bit like Status Quo – Rubbish on Vinyl but Brilliant Live.
“The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live In Texas ’75) ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwS1tC9Mp00
http://www.rockersreunited.co.uk/page6.htm
http://www.classicrocktours.co.uk/
Tony
“The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live In Texas ’75) ”
Good place for them, on all counts.
3 neocon trolls in a row, excellent work mods.
Lots of food for thought. First of all, the flaunted new Yank “non-interventionist foreign policy” is a non-starter:
1 – it goes against the entrenched ruling class mindset,
2 – it goes against the plutocratic project of globalization,
3 – it goes against the economic dependence on a strong dollar as the international reserve and trading currency.
There are other cogent reasons for asserting that it will be business as usual, but the above three headers encompass the fundamental tenets of hegemonic policies on which the Empire depends to sustain its plutocracy.
The mindset argument did not start with the recent slogans of the “indispensable” and “exceptional” nation. Perhaps it goes as far back as the fundamentalist Pilgrim Fathers, the exhortations of Jonathan Edwards of a “Holy Nation” and “Chosen People” to replace the Jewish claims of divine superiority, and the policies of the new republican aristocracy based on the “manifest destiny” of greed and plunder only once restrained when the Brits told them (1812) to keep out of Canada and burned down the Whore House as a reminder. But they soon forgot the lesson and few years later came up with the Monroe Doctrine to sanctify their right to rule the whole American hemisphere, in pursuance of which they stole 2/3 of Mexican territory from Texas to California and enthroned puppet dictators elsewhere to do their bidding to this day, except in Cuba for a brief period, thank you Fidel. And the Monroe Doctrine served as the blueprint for extension in other continents thanks to the old and tried English precedent of instigating wars between rival powers and then coming at the end of conflicts to claim victory and the spoils of war.
I was about to make a brief comment but got carried away a bit and now can’t finish it for lack of time. Will someone pick up the baton and expand on the other two topics?
Polish Foreign Ministry Denies Grey’s Alleged Links to US Special Services
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201612011048035832-poland-denies-grey-intelligence/
“On Wednesday, Gazeta Wyborcza reported that Grey lost his job because he concealed the fact that he cooperated with US special services. A foreign ministry representative confirmed Grey’s dismissal without giving the reason for the decision.
Grey’s parents immigrated to the United States from Poland when he was a child. Grey returned to Poland in 2010.”
IE: grey is typical zionazi 5th column scum.
Excellent interview, spot on regarding the current EU situation. The sooner that ill-conceived behemoth falls apart, the better for all us poor hoodwinked proles.
“Had Hitler defeated the Soviet Union, his army would have been weak enough to be beaten easily by the remaining Allied Forces.”
That does not make much sense to me. If Germany had won an easy victory at the end of 1941, they would have been able to concentrate 4 times more military power in the west, which I suspect would have been overwhelming by itself. But then Germany would also have had access to limitless natural resources, unlimited slave labor, and millions of fascist volunteers from Eastern Europe to act as cannon fodder.
Europe would be entirely owned by Germany today. The US would continue since the Atlantic protects it, but it would not be the global power it is now. At least that’s how I see it.
@ Lysander
I don’t think you are well informed about the WWII. Please read some of the comments above to get a basic insight into the political machinations behind the war, especially the fact that the USSR would not and could not lose the war against Germany. It was a matter of survival for the SU.
The German war against the “Allies” was a phoney one. Hitler never intended to wage war on the western front but had to once the French issued a declaration of war. He even allowed the whole British Army to escape at Dunkirk!
Please, correct me if I am wrong: what Mr Trump said will not have any effect whatsoever in the US ‘agreement’ with Cuba because the US is making so many absurd demands, which the Cuban government cannot accept, that the agreement has already stalled. Politically, however, it is a wise thing to say: it may calm down some neo-libs in the US, easing his way to the White House – at least the Cuban-Americans in Miami will be neutralized…
Sorry, in the previous post I refer to Trump’s speech about Cuba…
“On Syria, an apparent good news is that Mr. Trump’s son reportedly met last month in Paris with Randa Kassis, a Syrian politician who strongly supports Russian intervention in her country.”
I wouldn’t be so sure that amounts to some ‘promising sign’. Firstly, to the best of my knowledge, Trump’s offspring certainly doesn’t call the shots howsoever. Secondly, if indeed there was some political significance to the encounter, I don’t like the smell of it. Reeks of Zionazi intrigue and subversion. Syria is way too important to be deserted by Western imperialism just like that.
They said that it could not be done, that it was impossible, but Mr. Putin succeeded in making an OPEC deal with Iran and Saudi Arabia.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-01/meet-man-who-made-opec-deal-possible
I’m a wait and see guy on trumps Syria policy, as well. He’s real sweet on Israel, and destruction of Syria for incorporation into the greater israel delusional zionazi freakshow is the current hit single in this govno.
The main question about trump is does he plan to separate american interests from those of the isrealis. Does he even know the difference?
Will he bring a “workers paradise”, ? Hardly likely, he’s in for it for fellow rich guys, oligarchs, the things it is “Russian propaganda” to say run the zio-quisling amero-fail. We got a four years breather. That’s it. Make it count.
Like Jesus, Trump is a “sign of contradiction.” You either love him or hate him. I don’t hate him. I remember how hopeful folks were when Obama preached “change.” Right, from bad to worst. I will wait and see with Trump. He can hardly be worse than Obama with his transvestite wife and fake kids, and legions of starry-eyed, air-headed cry-babies throwing violent tantrums.
Marine LePen vs a very hostile BBC reporter/agent. She destroys all of his arguments, one by one. Excellent stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sfhc_e5P88
It’s good to see that pompous BBC propagandist brought down a peg or two. More please.
1. I would like to see and hear Trump officially recognizing Crimea as part of Russia after his inauguration.
2. Recognition of the Syrian government and his right to independence and prosperity
3. Fighting together with Russia against ISIL and associates till compete annihilation wherever they came from and wherever they hide
4. Recognition of the Palestinian state
5. Signing a peace treaty with Germany and allowing to be independent and neutral
6. Retreat all US forces from Europe and South Korea.
7. Leave Japan as well and let them decide their fate.
There are probably much more.
@ Ioan
Beautiful wish list and great gift to the world if it ever gets fulfilled. Mind you, not a real gift, just some basic justice, but a much better world would emerge for next generation.
But it is also a dream list – it is too nice, decent and reasonable to ever come about
Lost my post, again, and again, and is becoming too vexatious to keep going…
Only thing I would disagree with in this article is the prosperity of the Nordic countries under the EU system even that of Germany itself.
Finland is not much better economically than the PIGS with household debt sky rocketing, unemployment also rising, social services contracting and the same with the economic outlook. Sweden is a basket case with its flood of migrants, struggling emergency and social services, wages that have been reversed and citizen rights flying out the window. Denmark, well what have they had anyway and Norway was only doing well with decent oil prices but now are burning through their sovereign wealth fund. Iceland took a hit but held their heads high as a result of 2008 although their financial crooks still got off lightly and then there is Germany. Deutsche Bank is drowning under the waves of speculative banking and could be another Lehman, the German public are struggling under floods of migrants who are above the law and their real wages have been suffering declines over the last 20+ years whilst the wealthy corporates have seen income growth like that of Wall Street.
No, Norther EU is not doing that well and German manufacturing is also suffering from the absurd sanctions the USA has forced the EU to enter against Russia. Couple that with the BS vehicle emissions issues the US has used to pull the rug out from the German auto industry, well it isn’t rosy there either.
A house of cards facing a storm with the worst in politicians leading the EU into self destruction.
I noticed a very big mistake in one of your answer.
You say Le Pen the leader of the French National Front wants to leave UE, Euro and Nato.
THIS IS NOT TRUE ! She only pretends but it is in fact to LURE the voters (especially the private sector workers) away from an other party concealed ferociously from the mainstream media.
And allow Fillon or maybe Valls, of the treason parties, to win the secound round of next year French presidential election. As ever for the last thirty years, the beginning of the neoliberal nightmare.
She and her FN are part of that neoliberal fascist system. Period.
The only party that stands for this triple exit is UPR (Union Populaire Républicaine) led by François Asselineau.
You will see on his blog upr.fr that he shares most of your views on the origin of European “construction”.
Even Mélenchon of the so-called Parti de Gauche (i.e left wing Party) is most unclear with leaving the UE. He is a mere reformist. As well as Dupont-Aignan of Debout la France (i.e Stand up France) that is unfortunately supported by Nigel Farage.
By the way, UPR is fast growing and will reach 15 000 members at the beginning of next year.
Its being barred from the media seems to invigorate it tremendously ….on the Internet !!! the last freedom space left to us readers of the Saker ( I hope for long enough to topple that neofascist order).
I wish Nigel Farage read that comment … and changed his mind about his support !
Finally, James “Rabid Dog” Mattis appointed as Chief of Pentagon…..So, do not wait for peace.
Obviously he fits very well with Flynn and Bannon and their keeness for a harder hand in the Middle East and towards Russia, iran and China in general. So, we have already at least 4 rabid dogs two in the White House, one in charge of intelligence and another in Pentagon. This starts seeming a jauría.
I leave the news from RT Spanish version since the English version does not say anything about it. I wonder why.
https://actualidad.rt.com/video/225048-trump-james-mattis-jefe-pentagono
US President-elect Donald Trump announced that Gen. James Mattis, alias ‘rabid dog’, will be the head of the Department of Defense. Mattis, a retired US Marine Corps general, has criticized Russia over the conflict in Ukraine and has expressed support for supplying weapons to the Syrian opposition.