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Is the US Finally Losing Influence in the Middle East?
Middle East

Is the US Finally Losing Influence in the Middle East?

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla – Public Domain Fifty years ago, in the wake of the October War of 1973, the United States emerged as the principal outside actor in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.  Secretary of State Henry Kissinger conducted the peace talks between Israel and Egypt as well as between Israel and Syria, and made sure that his counterpart—Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko—was excluded from the step-by-step process.  Kissinger rightfully boasted about expelling the Soviet Union from the Middle East, where no European states were important and China played no role. Fast forward to the present, and it is the United States that is on the outside looking in.  Russia was central to keeping Syrian President Bashar al-...
China backs Macron’s Ukraine peace efforts
China, France, Ukraine

China backs Macron’s Ukraine peace efforts

The crisis must be resolved by addressing the concerns of all parties, Beijing has said FILE PHOTO: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. ©  GREG BAKER / AFP Beijing supports European efforts to kickstart peace talks on Ukraine and eventually create a balanced and sustainable security framework for the continent, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has said. Negotiations should be based on Europe’s “fundamental long-term interests” and should take into account the “legitimate concerns of all parties,” the Chinese official said during a daily media briefing on Wednesday. Wang was commenting on a reported attempt by French President Emmanuel Macron to enlist Chinese assistance to de-escalate the conflict. The spokesm...
Project Syndicate funded by Soros, Gates and McKinsey to Promote Ukraine War as Rockefeller Council on Foreign Relations
USA

Project Syndicate funded by Soros, Gates and McKinsey to Promote Ukraine War as Rockefeller Council on Foreign Relations

Indice dei contenuti THE WHITE HOUSE PROPAGANDA THROUGH PROJECT SYNDICATE THE ROCKEFELLER STRATEGY BEHIND UKRAINE WAR THE CFR FORECASTING OF A NEVER-ENDING CONFLICT by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio «There is no publication that exemplifies Soros’ hold on the global media more than Project Syndicate, self-dubbed “The World’s Opinion Page.”». This was written by investigative journalist Joseph Vazquez and Daniel Schneider on MRC NewsBusters almost two months ago as we reported in the article “Soros Bankrolls 253 Groups to Influence Global Media and White House”. They blamed the “Global Propaganda Operation” behind this partizan website in they excellent inquiry on the Hungarian multimillionaire and and self-styled philanthropist. TH...
Sportswashing at Its Worst: Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf League
Saudi Arabia

Sportswashing at Its Worst: Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf League

BY KHURY PETERSEN-SMITH Saudi Arabia — in the news for cutting oil production and pushing up the price of gas — is also making headlines for perhaps a more unusual reason: golf. After a rollout last year hobbled by controversy, LIV — the Saudi Arabia-based golf league — is making a stronger debut this year. With 14 tournaments scheduled and half of those in the United States, the new league is poised to compete with the PGA. LIV is only the kingdom’s latest foray into professional sports. The Saudi national soccer team upset Argentina at the World Cup last year. The third Saudi Arabia Grand Prix, a Formula One race, was held in Jeddah. And more recently, the country’s Al-Nassr soccer team signed international superstar Christiano Ronaldo for a...
Fusion Reactor: $65 Billion and Still No Electricity
Environment, Health, USA

Fusion Reactor: $65 Billion and Still No Electricity

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Aerial view of the ITER site in France. (Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Wikimedia Commons) As defined by World Nuclear News, the international fusion project known as ITER, exists “to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy. The goal of ITER is to operate at 500 MW (for at least 400 seconds continuously) with 50 MW of plasma heating power input. It appears that an additional 300 MWe of electricity input may be required in operation. No electricity will be generated at ITER.” Four hundred seconds. No electricity. ITER, which stands for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, is a collaboration between 35 countries that was first conceived in 1985 and formally agreed to on November...
Operation Babylift 1975
USA

Operation Babylift 1975

BY HOWARD LISNOFF A Babylift flight arrives at San Francisco, 5 April 1975. Photograph Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration – Public Domain The catastrophic rhyme of history reverberates in society after society. Sometimes war is involved and sometimes it is not, but the hideous rhyme often becomes a sickening attempt to enforce the dominant “culture” on indigenous peoples. Innocent children are included in this human debacle. Often greed is incorporated into the enterprise of empire and sometimes it’s the full-spectrum, full-dominance putsch of empire. Resistance is often brutally crushed! Whether it’s the attempted destruction of the Native population in the US and the removal of Indigenous children to state schools, or the same treatment of indigenous ...
A Half Century After Chile’s Coup: the First Year of Popular Unity
Chile

A Half Century After Chile’s Coup: the First Year of Popular Unity

BY TAROA ZÚÑIGA SILVA Pictures of persons missing after the 1973 Chilean coup. Photograph Source: Marjorie Apel – CC BY-SA 3.0 Ten days after the 1973 coup against the Popular Unity (UP) government of President Salvador Allende, the military opened the Río Chico concentration camp on Dawson Island, located in the Strait of Magellan, near the southern tip of Chile. The island had served as an extermination camp by a Catholic order between 1891 and 1911 to confine the Selk’nam and Kawésqar peoples, who died due to overcrowding, the spread of disease, and the cold. The coup regime sent 38 officials of the UP government to the Compañía de Ingenieros del Cuerpo de Infantería Marina (COMPINGIM) naval base and then to the Río Chico camp. It also sent hundreds of ...
Americans Are Dying and Dying … and Dying
Human Rights, USA

Americans Are Dying and Dying … and Dying

BY DAVID ROSEN “The Garden of Death” painting exposed at Tampere Cathedral – Finland – Public Domain Every day one hears about someone dying. It could be a loved one, aging relative or a neighbor; it could be a screaming media headline about the latest mass killing or a hold-up gone wrong; or a stranger killed on the corner by a hit-and-run driver or in a car accident.  And the bodies are piling up. Over the last century life expectancy in the U.S. has significantly increased.  In 1900, for males it was 46.2 and for females it was 48.3 years. By 1950, life expectancy for males reached 65.3 and for females was 71.1 years. However, between 2021 and 2022, life expectancy in the U.S. declined from 77.0 to 76.1 years and the CDC’s National Center for Health ...
Sanctions as Siege Warfare
Russia

Sanctions as Siege Warfare

BY DEREK ROYDEN In the distant past, the one place that people could escape a marauding army was behind the walls of a castle. Though this usually protected them from any immediate danger, it created problems of its own. While under siege and waiting for outside help or for the attackers to leave in frustration, those behind the walls could ultimately run out of food and even potable water, which would lead either to surrender or a slow, terrible death. Although they’re never portrayed as such, in our own time, a form of siege warfare is applied to whole countries, usually poorer ones, through the misuse of sanctions. There are innumerable forms of sanctions: opprobrium, boycotts, embargoes, denial of service, travel bans, export bans, divestment, asset seizures, blockades, c...
Iran prepared to ‘destroy Tel Aviv’
Iran, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Iran prepared to ‘destroy Tel Aviv’

Ebrahim Raisi (c) listens to the national anthem during the Army Day parade in Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2023 ©  AP / Vahid Salemi Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Tuesday that any hostile move from Nazi entity “will lead to the destruction of Haifa and Tel Aviv.” Speaking at an annual military parade, Raisi called on the US and other “extra-regional” forces to leave the Middle East for their own benefit. Delivering his remarks as armoured vehicles rolled by and fighter jets flew overhead, Raisi marked Iran’s annual Army Day by proclaiming that “the smallest hostile move” from the “Zionist regime” in Israel will “lead to the destruction of Haifa and Tel Aviv,” according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency. Iranian leaders often use Army Day to make bombastic th...