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Global Economic, Political and Military Configurations
James Petras
Introduction
Mapping the emerging global economic, political and military configurations requires that we examine regions and countries along several dynamic policy axis:
1.Capitalist versus anti-capitalist
2. Neoliberal versus anti-neoliberal
3. Austerity versus anti-austerity
4.War command centers and war zones
5.Political change and socio-economic continuity
6.New Order and political decay
Though many of these dimensions overlap, they also highlight the complexity and influence of local and national versus global power relations.
We will first identify and classify the regimes and emerging movements, which fall into each of these categories, and then proceed to generalize about current ‘global’ trends and future perspectives based on approximations of the real correlation of forces.
Erdogan’s Heavy Hand
Stephen Lendman
His high crimes are too grave to ignore. Washington and NATO partners turn a blind eye.
Turkey is a valued Alliance member, partnering with Washington’s war on Syria. It’s raging. Cessation of hostilities and so-called peace talks beginning later this week changed nothing.
Multiple ceasefire breaches occur daily, US-supported terrorists entirely responsible. Western sources largely blame Moscow and Damascus.Turkish forces continue shelling cross-border on the phony pretext of protecting national security - attacking Kurdish YPG forces, supporting ISIS terrorists, supplying them with weapons and other material support, with full US support and encouragement.
Trump Bashing Goes Global
Stephen Lendman
A previous article said bashing him reached epic proportions. Even foreign officials are involved, denigrating him, unprecedented against a private citizen - vying for but not holding high political office.
Are Republican party bosses enlisting their support, desperately trying to undermine his campaign, going to any lengths, no trick too dirty to try derailing him?
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel ludicrously called him “a threat to peace” - ignoring Merkel’s partnership with endless US imperial wars and the human devastation they cause. Britain’s David Cameron shares blame, a fascist war criminal masquerading as democratic. He called Trump’s remarks on Muslims “divisive, stupid and wrong,” ignoring his own high crimes at home and abroad, partnering in America’s imperial project.
Et tu Barack? The End of Turkey’s Little Erdogan
Michael Collins
If Erdogan and his advisors seriously believe that they can publicly blackmail a superpower like the USA then their days are numbered. The Saker, Feb 20
Apparently, Turkish President Erdogan and his cronies failed to get the memo from The Saker. They continue to insist that the United States label as terrorists the Kurdish fighters of northern Syria known as the YPG. The YPG and the Syrian Arab Army are the only two ground forces fighting ISIS. The Kurdish YPG fighters are mopping the floor with the barbarians and control nearly the entire border region between Turkey and Syria. Even so, the Turkish government insists that the U.S. is either for Turkey by labeling the YPG as terrorists or against Turkey by supporting YPG’s efforts against ISIS.
Origins, composition and organizational structure of Islamic State
Nauman Sadiq
For the sake of argument, let me concede at the outset that it is a plausible fact that the US does not directly supports the Syrian militants, it only sets the broad policy framework and lets its client states in the region, like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait and Turkey, do the actual financing, training and arming of the Syrian militants. For instance, although the US openly provides the American-made antitank (TOW) weapons to the Syrian rebels but it has strictly forbidden the aforementioned clients from providing anti-aircraft weapons (MANPADS) to the militants, because Israel frequently flies surveillance aircrafts and drones and occasionally carries out airstrikes in Syria and Lebanon and had such weapons fallen into the wrong hands, it could have become a long term threat to the Israeli Air Force. Lately, some anti-aircraft weapons from Gaddafi’s looted arsenal in Libya have made their way into the hands of the Syrian militants but during the initial years of the civil war there was an absolute prohibition on providing such weapons to the insurgents.
Will Turkey and Saudi Arabia invade Syria?
Leon Tressell
Since the New Year there has been a lot of speculation in the mainstream and alternative media about Saudi Arabia and Turkey directly intervening into the war in Syria. Each week there have been threats, demands and sabre rattling from Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Meanwhile there is the growing momentum of the Syrian Armed Forces on the killings fields of Syria. To be blunt, the Saudi royal family and Erdogan's Mafia clan are apoplectic about the series of defeats that their proxy forces are suffering at the hands of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies.
This sense of dismay and seething anger at the defeats for the so-called 'moderate rebels', who represent a Heinz fifty seven variety of Sunni extremism and terrorism, has been the decisive factor leading the US to agree to a ceasefire with the Russians. They no doubt hope that the ceasefire will keep some of their proxy forces still on the battlefield and ready to take up arms against Assad's forces in the future.
ISIS Recruits and Trains Children to Be Killers
Stephen Lendman
ISIS is a US creation. A previous article discussed its use of children as suicide bombers.
It explained CIA operatives teach ISIS recruits the fine art of committing atrocities, including beheadings, use of chemical and other banned weapons, along with an array of other lawless terror tactics.
A London-based Quilliam counterterrorism think tank report explained how ISIS recruits young children, brainwashes and trains them for jihad.London’s GuardianV discussed its findings, saying “(a) new generation of Isis recruits is being developed in the Islamic State’s ‘caliphate,’ indoctrinated with religious concepts from birth, and viewed by its fighters as better and purer than themselves” - a scheme to “secur(e) the group’s future.”
John Kerry Wants Hollywood Producing (Phony) US War on ISIS Films
Stephen Lendman
Daily Variety/Hollywood Reporter David Robb's book discussed Hollywood's longstanding relationship with the Pentagon. Its complicity is notorious.
It began post-WW I, producing silent films. Franklin Roosevelt’s Office of War Information had enormous influence on Hollywood.
Administration censors controlled everything from scriptwriting to casting to production. Studio bosses were well compensated for collusion.
Robb said the only thing they like better than good films are good deals. They support Washington’s war machine. Most of all they prioritize profits.
A Pentagon Film Liaison Office overseas propaganda filmmaking, focusing on promoting US wars, reinventing history in the process.Zero Dark Thirty chronicled the phony hunt for Osama bin Laden - a dead man from natural causes since December 2001, a grotesque, dishonest Hollywood-style fabrication portraying otherwise.
Rubio's Billionaire wins ransom from Argentina
Greg Palast
[Greg Palast has investigated Paul "The Vulture" Singer for BBC TV and The Guardian for the last 9 years.]
Paul Singer, known as The Vulture, won a $4.65 billion payment from Argentina — nearly ONE HUNDRED TIMES his "investment" of $50 million in old Argentina bonds. It was, in finance speak, the most successful "vulture attack" ever.
Singer’s actions are outlawed in most of the civilized world. Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, attempted to stop Singer’s predatory act, but Singer did a brilliant end-run: he used his cash to help elect a new President in Argentina that would jump to his tune and pay him billions.
Super Tuesday Exit Polls Showed Voters Want Revolutionary Change
Stephen Lendman
America’s dysfunctional political system is too corrupted to fix. Ordinary Americans understand.
Half the electorate usually ops out, refusing to vote when no choices exist, no one for high office representing them.
Governance at all levels is unresponsive to their rights and needs. People want revolutionary change, yet remain unwilling to get actively involved.
Indifference lets dirty business as usual flourish. Elections are farcical when held. A previous article said duopoly power presidential aspirants look more like an FBI most wanted list than legitimate candidates, representing monied interests exclusively, not popular ones.
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