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Eric Zuesse
On June 17th, U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed NATO’s and America’s General Ben Hodges, who is the Commanding General of the U.S. Army in Europe, which is "NATO's most senior land forces command.” He said (after 4:54 in the audio):
“This notion that somehow, Russia, you know, has no choice but to respond or that the West is being provocative, really, I don’t think rings true at all. … We’re building up on NATO’s borders. These are NATO countries, these are allies of ours, that are concerned based on what Russia is doing on their borders, and they’ve asked for assurance that their allies are there.”
The interviewer asked, “President Putin said that only an insane person could imagine that Russia would suddenly attack NATO. I mean, is NATO insane for worrying about a Russian attack?” Hodges replied (6:41):
by Stephen Lendman
Kiev war crimes include using banned chemical weapons, cluster bombs and white phosphorous in Donbass - including against civilian neighborhoods.
Reports indicate US experts are helping Ukraine produce chemical weapons for use against rebel forces. Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) intelligence learned they're being secretly developed for escalated dirty war.
On Tuesday, reported fuel-air (thermobaric) explosives targeted a Donetsk chemical plant - fired from junta held Kurahhovo village 30 kilometers away.
These weapons suck oxygen from open areas and human lungs. They generate intense, high-temperature explosions. They're much more destructive than conventional explosives of equal weight - especially when used against people in bunkers, shelters, caves and other enclosed places.
by Stephen Lendman
French and Belgian Russian asset freezes along with extending EU sanctions through January came (not coincidentally) on day one of the 19th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
It's an impressive annual three-day event attracting thousands of participants - including world political and business leaders, journalists and others from dozens of countries worldwide.
The Forum's web site states:
"SPIEF gathers the leading decision-makers of the emerging economic powers to identify and deliberate the key challenges facing Russia, emerging markets, and the world at large, while engaging communities to find common purpose and establish frameworks to forge solutions which will drive the growth and stability agenda."
Vladimir Putin welcomed participants calling SPIEF "a platform for candid discussions to be held on a wide range of economic, financial and social issues, with long-term contracts and agreements being concluded on the sidelines."
by Stephen Lendman
America, rogue EU partners and their go-along scoundrel media propaganda machine can't stop beating a dead horse. Big Lies persist ad nauseam.
The whole world knows Russia didn't invade Ukraine. It's not waging war against any nation. It's not supplying Donbass freedom fighters with weapons or other military support.
It's the continent's leading proponent of peace and stability. It shames America's rage for endless wars of aggression against invented enemies.
Throughout months of conflict in Ukraine, Russia more than any other nation has gone all-out to resolve it diplomatically. No one more deserves Nobel Peace Prize recognition than Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov.
War criminals like Obama win most often. Peace champions are systematically shunned.
by Stephen Lendman
Putin says what he means and means what he says. His style is forthright. He follows through on what he says.
Obama is polar opposite - an inveterate serial liar with no credibility whatever. He says one thing and does another.
On the occasion of Ramadan, he duplicitously extended "warmest greetings" to world Muslims he's been systematically mass slaughtering since day one in office with no letup.
If he really cared for their rights and welfare, he'd immediately order all US direct and proxy wars of aggression ended. He'd stop destabilizing Muslim countries and end persecuting Islamic people at home and abroad.
He'd end the charade about a so-called Iranian nuclear weapons program the whole world knows doesn't exist.
by Stephen Lendman
Call it the silly season. A host of unworthy presidential aspirants announced their candidacy. Donald Trump is the latest: a billionaire con man, Trump Organization head, self-styled celebrity, outspoken to a fault.
In 2010, he expressed interest in a possible presidential run, then backed off, saying he wasn't "ready to leave the private sector."
Modesty isn't a Trump long suit. He claimed at the time if he ran, he'd "be able to win the primary and, ultimately, the general election."
He added "business is (his) greatest passion and" he wasn't ready for politics. Now he claims he spent over $1 million researching a possible 2016 presidential run.
New World Order: Where Geoengineering Via Chemtrails Meets The Global Carbon Control Matrix
One World Government Initially Emerging As Global CO2 ‘Management’ Regime
Ultimately, it’s all about exerting absolute power and control over every square inch of Planet Earth and its atmosphere.
Cosmic Convergence Research Group
There is an ongoing, covert and meticulously planned plot afoot that is being implemented 24/7 worldwide. It goes way beyond Agenda 21 in scope, but uses that UN plan to accomplish its goals. This clandestine agenda is being executed in order to impose a new global CO2 ‘management’ regime. Doing so is the penultimate step in securing complete control over all of Earth’s natural resources and atmosphere.
The evolving New World Order (NWO) is being administered by a highly organized cabal of intermarrying bloodlines which have shared this common cause over centuries. Every major world event over the past 250 years has occurred in order to advance their grandiose and destined-to-fail project. That would include the American, French and Russian Revolutions, as well as World Wars I and II and the Great Depression (See addendum below).
It is self-evident that whoever controls the land, water and air around the globe effectively controls the entire planetary civilization. Food, clothing and shelter are basic to surviving on Planet Earth; therefore, their availability, and especially their cost, are of vital importance to every resident. In order to exploit this sole fact of life, the NWO cabal is seeking to commodify all land, air and water in ways they have previously not attempted.
The Back Story:
by Stephen Lendman
Washington's dirty hands manipulate geopolitical events worldwide - notably in Latin America since the 19th century.
In September 2010, Washington's attempted coup against Ecuadorean President Raphael Correa failed. A previous article asked is history repeating now?
Days of street protests continue over the phony pretext of inheritance and capital gains tax increases affecting only wealthy citizens - about 2% of the population. At the same time, ordinary Ecuadoreans stand to benefit from announced progressive tax reform. Street protests reflect wealthy elites opposing progressive fairness - with Washington's dirty hands manipulating things covertly like always.
In April at the Summit of the Americas in Panama, Correa denounced Washington's sordid history of meddling lawlessly in the internal affairs of Ecuador and other Latin American countries.
Eric Zuesse
The following is a reader-comment that was just posted from someone in Ukraine to an article whose links document America’s coup there in February 2014 in the formerly peaceable but corrupt country, and the subsequent ethnic cleansing to exterminate the people who live in the area of Ukraine which had voted more than 90% for the man whom Obama had overthrown:
Алексей К. • 33 minutes ago
This is all true, the US-backed fascist regime turned life for ordinary p
Here is a standard news report about the devastation that Obama produced in Ukraine.
by Stephen Lendman
On June 15, talks began - an inauspicious process with opposing sides not meeting face-to-face. Instead, UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, continues shuttle diplomacy between attending delegations with no signs of progress so far.
He was less than candid claiming "an important start towards the return to a political process."
So was UN spokesman Farhan Haq in New York saying "discussions will hopefully foster mechanisms that create confidence, increase the chances of implementation of the different Security Council resolutions and ensure that compromise on one side will not be abused by the other."
Talks going nowhere were extended until Saturday to try breaking an intractable deadlock. It's unlikely. Riyadh and Yemeni exiled US-installed puppet Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi demand Ansarullah Houthis accept one-sided Security Council Resolution 2216 terms.
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