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<p><strong><em>Bowes’ arrest and deportation is alarming as it signals a new low on the scumline of EU totalitarianism.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The European Union continues to sink deeper and deeper in its own political excrement as it not only believes its own manufactured consent by its Brussels cabal of wasters who call themselves journalists but is also tightening down its grip on its 400 million citizens. The EU never pretended to be a democracy but these days it is surpassing even the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union in its determination to control every thought of its citizens, which, of course means hunting down and persecuting any journalists who even simply question the narrative.</p>
<p>The latest example – as there are many – is good ‘ol Chay Bowes, an RT presenter-come-journalist who was sent to Romania to cover the presidential elections – second time around, as the original result in March, which didn’t please the EU, was cancelled. It’s what the EU does quite frequently. It <em>simply cancels</em> democratic processes which don’t come up with the results it prefers. Ireland and France experienced the same with their own referendums which had to be done a second time to get the right result. These days the EU simply calls any results which it doesn’t like ‘Russian interference’ and everyone just rolls over and accepts it, amazingly.</p>
<p>Well, perhaps not amazingly for Romania which entered the EU in 2007 as its sort of Third World member state with corruption so bad that the narrative in Brussels at the time was “we’ll let them it and then reform them”. Not much has changed. The elite in Bucharest quite confidently takes its instructions from Brussels these days which told the Romanians to arrest Bowes when he arrives in Bucharest and get him to sign some bullshit fake police statement admitting all kinds of nonsense before kicking him out of the country.</p>
<p>Only the EU elite would go this far to block any kind of old school reporting on the ground by polemics like Bowes, who is probably considered very odd in his native Ireland, but was really only going to report what he saw and heard.  Only the EU would be this obsessed with using the example of his arrest as a warning to any other odd journalists who don’t believe the EU script, that this is what happens to you. Bowes may well be wondering what will happen to him if he ever has to return to Ireland to see loved ones. Will his own police, on the instructions of the fabulously corrupt EU, have him arrested on some fake charge?</p>
<p>At the heart of the matter is a man called Georgescu who, in basic terms, stands against everything that the corrupt EU and its boss – Ursula von der Leyen – stand for and so he got branded as being ‘pro-Russian’ and they have the piece of paper to prove it. From their own secret service goons. Oh yes they have.</p>
<p>Although he didn’t stand this second time around, back in March he got very close to winning outright the election before the EU stepped in. How convenient it was for Brussels to cancel an election in a country where corruption is so endemic that the people simply didn’t question how anti-democratic the stunt was in the first place. Romania, it would seem, is an irony-free zone. And I should know. In 2007 I travelled there to interview the PM for Euronews, only to find that once I arrived the interview was cancelled. I protested in a sarcastic email offering a couple thousand euros bribe to the press officer, only to receive a very angry email back. The press honcho had taken my offer seriously. Undeterred, I comforted myself by interviewing Romania’s new, young anti-corruption minister who, somewhat on cue, was forced to resign a few days after the interview. Yes, you’ve guessed it. He was accused of graft on a grand scale himself.</p>
<p>Democratically speaking, Romania is not at all a serious country, which has allowed the EU to meddle in its internal workings quite effortlessly rather like Moscow might have done at one point in its history.</p>
<p>The elite in Bucharest and their EU masters have a real problem with Georgescu and is policies which are remarkably similar to those of Victor Orban, the EU’s in-house irritant who holds back the project from thinking big.</p>
<p>“His frequent posts channelled widespread frustration over persistent poverty and endemic corruption in the country” Bloomberg wails. “Reprising themes popular with prominent nationalists such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, he condemned LGBTQ rights, questioned the use of vaccines, portrayed the coronavirus pandemic as a hoax and espoused the “Great Replacement” theory — the idea that Christian populations are being systematically replaced by non-Christians and immigrants”.</p>
<p>Perhaps it was his cynicism about Covid vaccines which really got up the European Commission’s boss’s nose? After all, she has a number of <a href="https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrNaWxNChVoowIA_qtXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzIEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1747418958/RO=10/RU=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.eu%2Farticle%2F5-things-to-know-about-ursula-von-der-leyens-pfizergate-court-cases%2F/RK=2/RS=eKqyVFlxoJamlzkmhAkT3IXYAfc-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billion dollar corruption allegations</a> still stinking about her involvement with Pfizer after she amazingly managed to delete all her text messages to its boss, while refusing to cooperate with an internal EU probe. And let’s not get started on her husband’s relationship with Pfizer and the dirty EU money his outfit has received.</p>
<p>It may well have been that the EU simply could not cope with a second in-house rebel, to add to Hungary, blocking voting on big issues that something had to be done to silence Georgescu. And so the ‘ol ‘Russia meddling’ allegation had to be wheeled out and dusted down. And can you blame them, when you have well over a 1000 call-centre journalist in Brussels eagerly waiting to write up this garbage fed to them without even checking if any of it is even remotely based on the broadest definition of truth?</p>
<p>Russia’s government has denied any interference in the election while Its foreign intelligence agency SVR released <a href="http://svr.gov.ru/smi/2025/03/rumyniya-borba-s-inakomysliem-v-es-vykhodit-na-novyy-uroven.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a> on March 4 saying the criminal probe against Georgescu showed that a totalitarian European liberal elite feared the ‘conservative turn of Europe’ under the influence of Donald Trump. Well put.</p>
<p>But Bowes’ arrest and deportation is alarming as it signals a new low on the scumline of EU totalitarianism. The dirty bath of grand scale corruption and total power that the European Commission boss is lowering herself into represents a new phase where we see von der Leyen pull off any stunt to stay in power at the cost of Europe’s democracy, which many fought for, going down the plughole at an alarming speed.</p>
<p>“It’s truly amazing just how quickly justice, the rule of law and human rights have been removed, not just in Romania but across Europe” one pundit on X wrote. “People are accepting it without a fight which is an insult to all those who fought for those rights and sometimes died for them”.</p>
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title: Regime de Kiev continua bombardeando templos ortodoxos deliberadamente
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<p><strong><em>Recente ataque contra igreja histórica na região de Belgorod deixa clara a natureza do regime ucraniano.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Na Semana de Páscoa Ortodoxa de 2025, um dos episódios mais simbólicos da guerra espiritual e cultural em curso na Eurásia foi registrado no coração da Rússia histórica. O templo “Novo Jerusalém”, localizado na aldeia de Sukharievo, na região de Belgorod, foi completamente destruído após sucessivos ataques de drones ucranianos. Segundo o governador regional, Vyacheslav Gladkov, os bombardeios deliberados impediram os bombeiros e voluntários de combater o incêndio que consumiu esse que era considerado um dos santuários mais importantes da região.</p>
<p>Este fato não é um episódio isolado. Ele deve ser compreendido no contexto de uma perseguição sistemática à Igreja Ortodoxa promovida pelo regime de Kiev, cada vez mais subordinado não apenas aos interesses geopolíticos do Ocidente Coletivo, mas também à sua agenda cultural anticristã. A destruição do templo “Novo Jerusalém” simboliza o que está em curso há anos na Ucrânia pós-Maidan: uma campanha aberta de hostilidade contra a fé ortodoxa, contra os valores tradicionais e, de modo geral, contra tudo aquilo que vincule o povo ucraniano às suas raízes históricas e espirituais comuns com a Rússia.</p>
<p>Desde o golpe de 2014, apoiado por Washington e Bruxelas, a Ucrânia deixou de ser apenas um campo de disputa territorial e passou a ser um laboratório avançado de reengenharia cultural ocidental. A russofobia institucionalizada em Kiev serve como justificativa para a perseguição à Igreja Ortodoxa Ucraniana, ligada ao Patriarcado de Moscou, que tem sido alvo de expulsões, prisões de padres, confisco de templos e até mesmo legislações específicas para sua erradicação do espaço público. O objetivo é claro: desarraigar o cristianismo ortodoxo do território ucraniano e substituí-lo por uma visão de mundo alinhada ao materialismo globalista.</p>
<p>Esse processo se acelerou nos últimos anos, com a consolidação da chamada “Igreja Ortodoxa da Ucrânia” – uma criação artificial e cismática, fabricada com apoio direto dos EUA e da União Europeia, sem reconhecimento canônico por quase todo o mundo ortodoxo. Essa entidade funciona como braço religioso do regime, legitimando sua ideologia e promovendo uma narrativa de ruptura com Moscou, mesmo às custas da própria identidade espiritual do povo.</p>
<p>A russofobia, por sua vez, é utilizada como manto ideológico para justificar toda forma de barbárie. Violas cessar-fogo religioso? Bombardear igrejas na Páscoa? Destruir mosteiros históricos? Perseguir monges? Tudo isso é relativizado ou silenciado pela imprensa ocidental, pois, afinal, trata-se de “resistência contra a agressão russa”. A narrativa dominante ignora que o verdadeiro agressor é o regime que bombardeia símbolos religiosos e reprime a fé de seus próprios cidadãos por motivos puramente políticos e ideológicos.</p>
<p>É fundamental entender que o que está em jogo na Ucrânia vai muito além de fronteiras ou disputas territoriais. Estamos diante de uma batalha civilizacional. De um lado, um povo que preserva suas tradições, sua fé e seu vínculo com a história ortodoxa comum a russos e ucranianos. Do outro, um regime que funciona como satélite do Ocidente liberal, promovendo o secularismo radical, a desconstrução dos valores familiares e a supressão da religião como elemento estruturante da sociedade.</p>
<p>O silêncio das instituições internacionais diante da destruição do “Novo Jerusalém” e outros templos expõe não apenas a hipocrisia do discurso ocidental sobre “direitos humanos” e “liberdade religiosa”, mas também evidencia o papel da Ucrânia como ponta de lança de um projeto que visa não apenas dividir a Rússia, mas enfraquecer toda a sua base espiritual.</p>
<p>A fé do povo russo, como afirmou o governador Gladkov, permanece firme. A Ortodoxia sobreviveu a impérios, revoluções e guerras. Sobreviverá também a este capítulo sombrio da história. Mas cabe ao mundo enxergar com clareza o que está acontecendo: uma tentativa deliberada de erradicar o cristianismo ortodoxo do espaço pós-soviético e impor, em seu lugar, o vazio espiritual do globalismo liberal.</p>
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title: First they kill the Alawites and the Christians, now the Druze – who is next in Syria?
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<p><strong><em>Old European colonial powers sowed chaos, sectarian division, and unrest, as did the Ottoman Empire.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The world, its politicians, and the media remain silent – dead silent – about the events in what I now call the former Syria. Syria is being Balkanized; worse, it is being ethnically cleansed – at least, that is the goal – just like Palestine.</p>
<p>Since December 2024, following the fall of President Assad’s government, a spiral of violence, ethnic cleansing, murder, and retribution has unfolded. Western media and mainstream Arab outlets, often dominated by Sunni perspectives like Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, stay silent or dismiss the ethnic cleansing as mere battles against the last remnants of resistance from former President Assad’s government.</p>
<p>Of course, they do not reveal the truth: that the so-called rebels, branded as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Al-Qaeda) and now ruling Syria, are in fact ISIS. Yes, ISIS is back – they never truly left Idlib – and they wield their Sunni faith as a weapon of terror, much like Zionist settlers (many of them American emigrants) do in Israel.</p>
<p>They use religion as both a weapon and an excuse to <a href="https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/01/747214/Over-100-killed-in-clashes-between-Druze-gunmen,-HTS-militants-near-Syrian-capital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destroy anyone</a> they deem infidels, dissenters, or oppositionists – you name it. These are radicalized, indoctrinated groups beyond dialogue. The only remaining options are extermination or being exterminated. We have seen this in Syria, as we did earlier in Afghanistan and Libya. We have witnessed attacks worldwide, often targeting ordinary civilians, carried out in the name of Allah, God, or Yahweh with brutal, medieval savagery.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/25/western-complicity-enables-the-ongoing-genocide-of-syria-alawites/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ethnic cleansing of Alawites</a> and the <a href="https://x.com/hassan1994/status/1917884984037196097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expulsion of Christians</a> began on March 8 this year in places like Ma’aloula and Sednaya, continuing now in the so-called “Valley of the Christians.” The Alawites protested mass dismissals and inhumane living conditions – jobless, penniless, starving, and ultimately facing death. In response, the terrorists in Damascus, led by Al-Julani (who has since occupied the Presidential Palace with his gang), began systematically murdering Alawites under the guise of their “security apparatus.”</p>
<p>As a reminder, I cite the findings of Marat Imankulov, Secretary of the Kyrgyz Security Council, who stated in February that “according to some estimates, up to <a href="https://tass.com/defense/1918961" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20,000 foreign militants</a> are joining the Syrian security forces.” These figures are conservative. Terrorists are now flooding into former Syria from across the globe, aiding in the ethnic cleansing of its native inhabitants – all to establish, with Turkey’s help, a new caliphate rooted in medieval ideology.</p>
<p>The Middle East is being thrust back centuries in time. If Europe and the rest of the world allow this cancer to spread, they will soon face the need to arm themselves against this new caliphate. Like the Emirate of Córdoba – which became the <a href="https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/caliphate-cordoba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caliphate of Córdoba</a> in 929 – this Arab-Islamic state, ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031, once dominated southern Spain. They were halted at the gates of Poitiers, but today, the new caliphate’s supporters are already embedded across Europe. The gates <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/global-migration-and-demography/2016/08/02/number-of-refugees-to-europe-surges-to-record-1-3-million-in-2015/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were breached in 2015</a>.</p>
<p>Now, the Druze are facing ethnic cleansing. After massacring Alawites and forcing many to flee to Lebanon (where they await European visas alongside their Christian brethren), Al-Julani’s ISIS regime turned this week to Jaramana, the Druze suburb of Damascus. Prominent Druze sheikhs have been executed by the regime’s predominantly foreign security forces. In Sawra Kabira, a Druze village, and across Suwayda province – the heart of Syria’s Druze community – attacks have left thousands dead: young men, sheikhs, women, and children.</p>
<p>Shelling by HTS-ISIS factions has devastated homes in Druze villages across As-Suwayda Governorate. Local sources report mortar and artillery strikes on residential areas, displacing families and causing extensive damage. Official casualty numbers remain unconfirmed, but reports indicate high civilian deaths and widespread panic. Key figures like <a href="https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/Syria%3A-Mayor-of-Druze-city-of-Sahnaya-shot-dead/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hussam Warwar, mayor of Sahnaya</a>, and his son Haidar were executed by Al-Julani’s ISIS security forces in a field firing squad.</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/sayed_ridha/status/1917900061830484379" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Footage</a> circulating on social media shows Mayor Warwar in a sky-blue shirt, publicly welcoming and attempting to negotiate with the General Security forces. He even appeared on Syria TV, assuring residents of stability and cooperation with incoming factions. Yet, less than 24 hours later, he and his son were dead – executed by the ISIS-HTS regime.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Al-Julani’s forces have stormed villages like <a href="https://t.me/Syrdoc/3374" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fahil</a>, 40 kilometers from Homs, inhabited by Alawites, Druze, and Christians. Their method is consistent: cut off internet and electricity, then slaughter every inhabitant. This happens daily, unreported by mainstream media – a disgraceful negligence.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the ISIS-controlled SANA state media claims that “Public Security Forces” have been deployed in Al-Sourah Al-Kubra to “enhance security and stability.” Yet their own footage exposes the lie: <a href="https://t.me/syriajusticearchive/5447" target="_blank" rel="noopener">terrorists bearing ISIS insignia</a> operate as these so-called security forces.</p>
<p>The world’s politicians and elites, however, scent money and power in Syria. The West (and others) now engage with terrorist Al-Julani in his Damascus palace, kneeling at his feet, shaking hands (men only), snapping selfies, and praising his “inclusive” leadership. The French, ever eager for a colonial venture, have already struck a deal: Syria’s General Authority for Land and Sea Ports (retaining old governmental structures) signed an <a href="https://sana.sy/en/?p=354129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreement</a> with French company CMA CGM to manage Latakia’s container terminal. Latakia is back in French hands.</p>
<p>Or consider the Italians, who may soon <a href="https://sana.sy/en/?p=354140" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vacation in the new caliphate</a>. Will they visit the Alawite, Christian, and Druze villages where massacres unfold? Will their women veil themselves, as required? Or will they play along, as Hitler did in 1936, erasing all evidence of impending genocide?</p>
<p>Turkey, of course, offers unconditional support to its ISIS proxy in Syria. It was Turkey (coordinating with Israel) that enabled the “Blitzkrieg” that annihilated Syria’s former army in 24 hours using drones and Western, American, Turkish, and Israeli weapons. Why didn’t Syrians resist? They couldn’t – just as Jews in 1933–1945 were stripped of everything before their men were executed.</p>
<p>For Turkey, this also solves the Kurdish “problem.” The Kurds are next on Al-Julani’s hit list, per Ankara’s orders. Kurdish self-determination has never been an option for Turkey – history proves that. And as for Western aid? The U.S. has betrayed the Kurds repeatedly. As the late Kissinger said: “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”</p>
<p>Soon, we will likely witness the attempted extermination of the Kurds. In Turkey itself, they have long been targets. Unrest simmers nationwide, suppressed by Turkish media – yet protests persist, and hundreds, Kurds and secularists alike, vanish into prisons.</p>
<p>This is the tragic reality of the Middle East and West Asia. Old European colonial powers sowed chaos, sectarian division, and unrest, as did the Ottoman Empire, which allied with Germany in World War I and later feigned neutrality in World War II while secretly negotiating with the Nazis. Today, Turkey’s duplicity is on full display. The colonial ideologies of Europe and the post-1945 U.S. endure, claiming countless lives in the Middle East – all for the sake of superiority and stolen resources. Secularism was a fleeting dream, now crushed by Western powers and fanatical religious forces controlling what was once Syria.</p>
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title: MYERS: The sudden collapse of the new Western Faith
author: ;Kevin Myers
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/totem-pole-1512005_1280-e1746353361385.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Two secular creeds have cursed western civilisation in the 21st</strong> <span><strong>century: one, that humankind could change sexes, two that civilisation could cease to be a net generator of carbon dioxide.</strong> A third, lesser but related disorder proclaims that women’s advance in societies was being obstructed by the malignant power of “the patriarchy”. All three are fictions, the most evil being the first. Children have been sexually mutilated in its name, and those who denounced its underlying barbarism were themselves vilified and ostracised. This was in a society that deplored the ancient evils of witch-burning, the Inquisition and The Third Reich, while for the sake of modernism, eagerly imposed a terror-regime on impressionable youngsters that the Nazi war-criminal Josef Mengele might have envied. </span></p>
<p><span>What mankind had known since Eden about the two sexes was abandoned in pursuit of a world in which a fervent wish could be transubstantiated into a fact by hocus pocus and metallic excisions.  That men and women were different psychologically, physically, hormonally, chromosomally was deemed irrelevant compared to the sheer</span> <em><span>humanitarianism</span></em> <span>involved in turning one sex into another. Anyone who said this was utterly impossible was denounced as a reactionary bigot. A new hate-vocabulary was invented: transphobia, to describe heretics as a group, and terfs – trans-exclusionary radical feminists –  if the heretics believed in the power of the (non-existent) patriarchy. Transgenderism became a religion: it believed in the magic of a priesthood that could turn the bread and water of man into the body and blood of a woman. Similarly, there were “devils” who were opposed to the spell-craft of this priesthood, whom you could curse with the newly-invented and laudable vocabulary of damnation. </span></p>
<p><span>Yet virtually nobody personally knew anyone who believe in transgenderism: not friends, or family, or teachers, or clergy, or politicians, although we all heard about a bunch of nut-cases and quacks, plus the hellhole of Tavistock Clinic. This specialised in removing healthy breasts and genitals and irreversibly mutilating children, and instead of its Mengeles being hauled before a Nuremberg-style tribunal, its wicked practices were subsidised by the British NHS in Britain, and by referral, by a compliant VHI in Ireland.</span></p>
<p><span>So transgenderism was not some obscure fringe on the edge of society, but was mainstream, endorsed by the White House, Downing Street, and even Dail Eireann: ten years ago this July, it became one of the world’s first legislatures to accept gender self-identification as legally binding. Regina Doherty, a government minister named after the Virgin Mary, even declared that there were nine genders, though without identifying which one was Mary’s. The Department of Education introduced mandatory guidelines on volitional pronouns, a recipe for anarchy in schools: the tragedy of Enoch Burke was destined to happen.</span></p>
<p><span>Meanwhile, people began to worship the gods of wind and the sun as sources of power for our civilisation. Anyone who argued against this nonsense was an agent of an evil petro-chemical cabal. This hysteria was made even more ludicrous by the unconcealed generation of carbon dioxide by Russia, India, China and South America. A global campaign to end global warming only has meaning if it genuinely is global. If its edicts are not binding or universal, then they are platitudinous aspirations. Why would any intelligent government cut its own throat by adhering to “rules” that half of the world was systemically violating? </span></p>
<p><span>Central to this delusion was the misuse of language, as in “renewable”. Mankind cannot renew wind or sun: unlike a renewable subscription, these are variables outside our control, and as energy-sources are only safe with a carbon-based back-up. But even to state this was to be the energy-equivalent of a transphobe or a terf. Moreover, most journalists – a shallow, callow and fallow species – rapidly succumbed to the fiction that there was a cheap and ecologically sound alternative to fossil fuels, and mercilessly ridiculed realists as being paid hacks of the oil lobby.</span></p>
<p><span>Yet within a single glorious fortnight this spring came decisive rebuttals of both these global religions. In Britain, the Supreme Court ruled that transgender women were not really women, which most of us knew already. And though we should not need a trio of British judges to tell us that water is wet and fire burns, their rulings intellectually vindicated our gut instincts. Shortly afterwards, power outages across Spain, Portugal and Southern  France proved that the term  “renewable” is meaningless, and that any carbon-free energy source that lacks a conventional power-system as a back-up is a recipe for a catastrophe, which would have been the result had the outage occurred in midwinter. Most power-systems are fossil-based, though they can be nuclear – an option which in Ireland has been made illegal by a brainless  edict from the Greens when in government. Rather like condoms in the days when Catholic teaching guided our politicians, nuclear-power can be smuggled into Ireland via the electricity-interconnectors with Britain and France. </span></p>
<p><span>Question: are Irish environmentalists so utterly stupid that they cannot see how uncannily they resemble the Catholic Church of yore? </span></p>
<p><span>Answer. Yes.</span></p>
<p><span>So how did the fictions of transgenderism and carbon neutralism gain so much political and legal traction in the first place? In part, because we inhabit a civilisation that is predicated on empirical falsehoods, the foremost being  “equality”. We know that equality in law is meaningless when the interests of the rich and powerful (especially Sinn Fein) can be protected by expensive counsel and by the ruinous costs of law, which now shamelessly flaunts itself as “lawfare”. Furthermore, inequality masquerading as equality gave us the Sexual Offences Act, 2006, which specifically states that an underage boy can be imprisoned for a sexual act with a willing girl, while simultaneously declaring that she may not be imprisoned. “Equality” means that women are paid the same for a 55 minute tennis final as men for their five-hour final, in which their first serves are routinely 20% faster than the women’s. “Equality” allowed women to flee Ukraine while men had to stay and fight. And so on.</span></p>
<p><span>We live a permanent hallucination of bogus sanctimony that proclaims “equality” as the defining virtue, while systematically violating it, and not through subterfuge and hypocrisy – which are almost noble vices in comparison – but by proud parliamentary proclamation and judicial edict. Indeed, many rules within western societies clearly defy the virtues that they are supposed to embody,</span> <em><span>yet almost nobody points this out.</span></em> <span>So, when a group of people breaks ranks and espouses a new set of evidence-free virtues, how can we logically denounce them for errors that are barely more absurd than the phoney values we already live by? Why wouldn’t the transgender lunatics think their intellectual inconsistencies were no greater than those already around them? Likewise for the carbon-neutral zealots, for whom evidence means nothing: their arrogant emotions trump scientific realities. The English carbon neutral millennial Miliband is the son of a millennial Marxist who probably genuinely believed the gibberish that he wrote and talked because it made him feel better about both himself and the world.  What brings these two strains of nonsense together is that they are merely mental forms of self-pleasuring, which is just fine –</span> <em><span>but not at the expense of the rest of us.</span></em> <span>Okay?</span></p>

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title: The Bell Tolls for All White Gentile Ethnicities
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<p>The Bell Tolls for All White Gentile Ethnicities</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>The Vice President and Secretary of State of the United States have called attention to the tyrannical behavior of the current German government, a corrupt anti-democratic government, controlled by Israel,  that is holding on to power by designating its rival, AfD, the rapidly growing second largest party as “extremist.” <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> Recent polls indicate that the AfD has pulled even and perhaps a bit ahead of the government that is trying to suppress it.</span></p>
<p>By applying the “extremist” label to its rival, the government gives itself the power to use its spy agencies to keep the AfD under surveillance. This permits the current corrupt government to know in advance the AfD’s electoral plans while demonizing the AfD as so extreme that it must remain under surveillance.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>On what grounds is the AfD designated extremist?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The German Domestic Security Service BfV explains:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The AfD represents ethnic Germans.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Representing “people based on ethnicity and descent” disregards the human dignity of immigrant-invaders and is “incompatible with the democratic basic order.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/616710-german-fm-response-rubio-afd-tyranny/">https://www.rt.com/news/616710-german-fm-response-rubio-afd-tyranny/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Here we have it stated clearly just as Jean Raspail put it in <i>The Camp of the Saints. </i>It is anti-democratic for a government to represent the citizens from whose ethnicity the name of the country is derived. Democracy requires representation of those who entered the country illegally or under false pretenses.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>All government enforcement measures are then directed against the ethnic citizens who are coerced to accept the invasion. As Jean Raspail showed, this is a formula for the extinction of white ethnicities. President Trump’s effort to restore power to ethnic Americans is being blocked by an anti-American judicial system that represents immigrant-invaders, not American citizens.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">     </span></p>
<p>Hanne Herland of the Herland Report tells us accurately that this is the situation all over Western Europe, the UK and Ireland:</p>
<p>“In Europe, non-Western immigrants were given the victim card, and the current discrimination against the indigenous native Europeans by their own leaders began. Instead of listening to their needs, they demonized their views and attacked their own populations.</p>
<p>“Europeans were told to step aside and allow immigrants to behave however rudely they wanted, since they came from poor countries and ‘didn’t know any better.’ They were to be excused from law-breaking behavior such as violent rapes, murders or entering the country illegally.”  In other words, the immigrant-invaders weren’t civilized sufficiently to know any better, and it is all the fault of racist white ethnicities. <a href="https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/how-racism-against-whites-was-legitimized-by-marxist-multiculturalism/">https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/how-racism-against-whites-was-legitimized-by-marxist-multiculturalism/</a> <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>What representing immigrant-invaders means in the EU is the loose enforcement, if any enforcement at all, of criminal and rape laws against immigrant-invaders,</p>
<p>Holding immigrant-invaders accountable would be racism, like what the  Germans did to Jews.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In effect, what is happening all over Europe and in Britain is that immigrant-invaders are becoming overlords over the ethnicities that comprise the former nations, now towers of babel.</p>
<p>So, on top of their Israeli overlord, Europeans have immigrant-invaders as another overload.</p>
<p>What a joke that Europeans and British and Irish are “free people.”  They are the most enslaved in history.  Even their tongues have been cut out.  They cannot speak.</p>
<p>The entire Western World is a dead man walking.  Every person who rises to the defense of Western civilization is demonized, arrested, fired, dismissed from his university, framed in a false prosecution and imprisoned.</p>
<p>The Insouciant West was insouciant for too long,  It has lost its life.</p>
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<p>This is US Representatie Marjorie Taylor Greene: the Firebrand Republican Member of the house:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1918351681374581181">https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1918351681374581181</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>She says Trump is losing support.</p>
<p>It does seem that Trump’s peace promises have been elbowed off the agenda by Israel and the US armaments industry.</p>
<p>Washington has approved a $310 million F-16 support package for Ukraine, and Trump threatens more sanctions for Russia. <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/616689-us-approves-f16-support-ukraine/">https://www.rt.com/news/616689-us-approves-f16-support-ukraine/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It appears that the deal Trump wants does not coincide with the one Zelensky wants or the one that Putin wants.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Will coercion take the place of negotiation?</p>
<p>The peace negotiations with Iran seem even less favorable.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The terms specified by the US Secretary of State are unacceptable to Iran, and Washington has returned to war threats. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The analysis below is from a realist, not a narrative supporter, and it is grim.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Make of it what you will:</p>
<p>Following the last (third) meeting between the US and Iran held a week ago, a “senior US official” reported that “The talks in Muscat were positive and productive. There is still much to do, but further progress was made on getting to a deal.” The Omani Foreign Minister also stated, “U.S-Iran talks today identified a shared aspiration to reach agreement based on mutual respect and enduring commitments. Core principles, objectives and technical concerns were all addressed.”  My impression was that the talks were focusing on the same principles that the previous JPCOA agreement (which Trump abrogated) had embodied, which would have resulted in Iran forgoing the production of weapons-grade uranium (and the elimination of Iran’s current stockpile of 60% enriched uranium).<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Statements made on May 2 by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (copied below) reveal that, once again, the negotiating position of the US on Iran appears to have radically changed. The US has reinstated the Zionist list of demands that go far beyond limiting the production of weapons-grade uranium: Iran must (1) eliminate all capacity to enrich uranium (which it is allowed to do under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, for uses in its civilian nuclear energy program), (2), eliminate its arsenal of long-range ballistic missiles (which are essential for Iran’s defense against Israel et al), and (3) stop all support of the Houthis in Yemen. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Rubi’s comments came as the fourth round of nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington, set to take place in Rome today (May 3), were postponed indefinitely. An Iranian official cited by Reuters said a new date for the talks would be set “depending on the US approach.”  Iran has been quite clear that its uranium enrichment and its defense capabilities are non-negotiable. In other words, the latest US demands — which have resulted in the cancellation of further talks with Iran — are designed to be unacceptable and create the excuse to launch major attacks on Iranian nuclear and military facilities.</p>
<p>When he took office, Trump had the opportunity to immediately stop the flow of munitions, arms, and money to both Israel and Ukraine, which would have quickly ended the ability of both nations to continue supplying their respective armed forces, bringing a relatively quick end to the Ukraine War and the ethnic cleansing in Gaza. But Trump quickly abandoned his campaign promises to avoid entangling the US in any more foreign wars, which for decades have wasted trillions of dollars that could have been used to rebuild the US crumbling infrastructure and de-industrialized economy.</p>
<p>Trump instead accepted the Zionist neocon demands that the US continue its unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli slaughter and starvation of the Palestinians, and as a result, he has started a new war with Yemen, because — in defense of the Palestinians — the Yemeni Houthis dared to blockade all ship traffic going to and from Israel in the Red Sea.  Under Trump, the US “Operation Rough Rider Protect Genocide” has carried out 1000 bombing raids against Yemen, which have killed hundreds of Yemeni civilians but have failed to break the blockade.</p>
<p>Considering the abject failure of the current military attacks on the Houthis, it makes absolutely no military sense for the US to launch a similar air campaign against Iran — a nation like Yemen that has spent decades preparing for just such an attack. Iran has a multitude of deeply buried missile cities, which include underground military bases and silos where Iran stores and deploys its missile arsenal. These missile cities are strategically located throughout Iran, and they include large, deeply buried underground tunnels, storage facilities, and launch silos for missiles. The US and Israel may know the location of many of these sites (especially the nuclear sites), but they cannot use conventional weapons to effectively destroy them.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Only an attack with nuclear weapons has the capacity to thoroughly destroy nuclear facilities that are buried deep inside a mountain or underground (this would not assure the destruction of the 60% enriched uranium supplies that Iran has already produced, as it may have already been moved elsewhere). The US is highly unlikely to attack Iran with nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>But would the current Israeli leadership shy away from using nuclear weapons against the Iranian nuclear facilities? Israel has already had no qualms about killing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Israel has several hundred nuclear weapons that can be “delivered” by planes, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles — including submarine-launched cruise missiles carried by their 4 German diesel subs. An Israeli nuclear strike against Iran would trigger a full-scale Iranian attack on Israel, and all-out war would ensue.</p>
<p>Even if a US-Israeli attack on Iran was initially limited to the use of conventional non-nuclear weapons, there has been public discussion that such an attack would target Iranian political and military leaders. This type of attack would involve hitting Iranian cities as well as Iranian military bases. It would be a huge strike, and one that would almost guarantee that Iran would retaliate against US bases in the Middle East, US naval forces that participated in the attack — as well as against Israeli military bases, military leaders, and Israeli political leaders. The three largest cities of Israel (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, which hold at least 20% of the total population of Israel) would be struck.  After such an attack, I think Israel would retaliate with nuclear weapons against both civilian and military targets in Iran.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>In other words, regardless of whether or not the initial strike on Iran would include nuclear weapons, it is almost inevitable that nuclear weapons would be used in the war that would result.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The Israeli propaganda is that Iranian air defenses have already been destroyed, making a large air attack against Iran quite feasible (a “cakewalk”).  I think this is a false assumption, created by Israel to help draw the Americans into a joint attack. The idea is that once the air defenses are completely taken out, and the Iranian political and military leaders have been killed, the scenario recently seen in Syria (with the utter collapse of the Assad government) will play out again, this time in Iran. The incredible hubris of the Trump White House seems to lend itself to accepting this idea. The latest change in the US “negotiating” position via Iran suggests that Trump will succumb to the Zionist pressure to wage war against Iran.</p>
<p>If the reports from Alastair Crooke are correct, the Russian and Iranian air defense systems are in good working order and actually fended off the last attempt by Israel to take them out (in October 2024). If this is the case, I think the US and Israeli forces will suffer major losses if they send their air forces to attack Iran military and nuclear sites. Russia will be providing real-time intelligence to Iran; the Russian air base in Tartus, Syria, has S-400 radar systems that can detect an Israeli attack; Iran also has an over-the-horizon radar system that could provide an early warning of an aerial attack. Will the US be able to effectively pierce Russian and Iranian air defense systems?  If not, then I suspect that under such circumstances, as the desperation levels of the attackers increase, the use of nuclear weapons becomes even more likely.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Let us hope that the reports copied below — in which the US Secretary of State Rubio has announced the latest US demands on Iran — are simply one more flip flop in Trump’s bizarre manner of threatening extreme action against any nation that doesn’t follow his latest diktats.  If not, then all Hell is going to break loose in the Middle East sometime in the near future.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/2/marco-rubio-says-iran-must-abandon-uranium-enrichment-program/">https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/2/marco-rubio-says-iran-must-abandon-uranium-enrichment-program/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Rubio says Iran must abandon its uranium enrichment program</p>
<p>By Vaughn Cockayne – The Washington Times – Friday, May 2, 2025</p>
<p>A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday.</p>
<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran must “walk away” from all nuclear enrichment and ballistic missile programs, taking a public hard line as negotiations between Washington and Tehran continue.</p>
<p>In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Mr. Rubio said there can be no long-lasting deal between the U.S and Iran if Tehran is unwilling to give up several initiatives.</p>
<p>“They have to walk away from sponsoring terrorists, they have to walk away from helping the Houthis, they have to walk away from building long-range missiles that have no purpose to exist other than having nuclear weapons, and they have to walk away from enrichment,” Mr. Rubio said Thursday</p>
<p>Mr. Rubio went on to suggest that Iran could import enriched uranium, so it would not have to abandon its domestic commercial nuclear industry completely. He added that the U.S. must be allowed to inspect Iranian nuclear and military facilities regularly.</p>
<p>Iran has long maintained that its nuclear enrichment program is for civilian and commercial use and has denied seeking a nuclear weapon. Its foreign ministers have asserted repeatedly that it will not give up its nuclear sovereignty during negotiations.</p>
<p>Nuclear watchdogs and U.S. officials say Iran’s level of nuclear enrichment is far higher than what would be necessary for purely civilian purposes. During the past month’s talks, some have floated the possibility of Iran transferring ownership of its enriched uranium to a foreign ally like Russia. Iran’s foreign ministry has publicly declined to accept such an offer.</p>
<p>“If you have the ability to enrich at 3.67%, it only takes a few weeks to get to 20%, then 60% and then the 80 and 90% that you need for a weapon,” Mr. Rubio said Thursday.</p>
<p>Mr. Rubio’s comments on Thursday detail the deep divisions still in play during negotiations. The U.S. seeks limits on Iran’s nuclear enrichment and ballistic missile program in exchange for sanctions relief.</p>
<p>However, President Trump has repeatedly said that if Tehran and Washington are unable to come to a deal, he would launch bombing raids on Iran with Israel’s help. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a firm warning to Iran on Thursday, urging the Islamic Republic to halt its funding of Houthi rebels in Yemen.</p>
<p>Negotiators were expected to meet again in Rome on Saturday, but Omani mediators announced Thursday that talks had been postponed over logistical issues.</p>
<p>Iran must ‘walk away’ from all uranium enrichment, Rubio says</p>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-must-walk-away-all-uranium-enrichment-rubio-says-2025-05-02/">https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-must-walk-away-all-uranium-enrichment-rubio-says-2025-05-02/</a></p>
<p>May 2 (Reuters) – Iran has to ‘walk away’ from uranium enrichment and long-range missile development and it should allow Americans to inspect its facilities, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday as a round of nuclear talks was postponed.</p>
<p>Rubio’s comments underscore the major remaining divisions in talks between the countries to resolve the long-running dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme, with U.S. President Donald Trump threatening to bomb Iran if there is no agreement.</p>
<p>“They have to walk away from sponsoring terrorists, they have to walk away from helping the Houthis (in Yemen), they have to walk away from building long-range missiles that have no purpose to exist other than having nuclear weapons, and they have to walk away from enrichment,” Rubio said in an interview on the Hannity programme on Fox News. Iran has repeatedly said it will not give up its missile programme or its uranium enrichment – a process used to make fuel for nuclear power plants but which can also yield material for an atomic warhead.</p>
<p>On Thursday a senior Iranian official told Reuters that the scheduled fourth round of talks due to take place in Rome on Saturday had been postponed and that a new date would be set “depending on the U.S. approach”.</p>

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Karen Kwiatkowski Wonders How Much Longer Americans Will  Be Content for 9 Million Israelis to Totally Dominate the US

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<p>Karen Kwiatkowski Wonders How Much Longer Americans Will<br>
Be Content for 9 Million Israelis to Totally Dominate the US</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/karen-kwiatkowski/war-in-washington/">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/karen-kwiatkowski/war-in-washington/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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<p>The long-debated “minerals deal” was finally signed between the US and Ukraine late Wednesday, after a months-long, whiplash-producing back and forth between the two parties. In the end, Wednesday started with an affirmation that the deal would be signed, then by mid-day we were told that the Ukraine government aircraft turned around mid-flight and the deal was off, and then later in the afternoon the deal was finally actually signed. That is the chaos that is Trump 2.0 foreign policy in these early days of the Administration.</p>
<p>The “minerals deal” that was eventually signed was billed as a miraculous breakthrough, an amazing journey from the dramatic confrontation between the US president and vice president and Zelensky in the Oval Office just weeks ago, to the point where President Trump can raise high his trophy: the signed minerals deal for which an enormous amount of US diplomatic effort has been spent!</p>
<p>But the deal signed Wednesday in no way resembles the original “rare earths” deal touted by President Trump just a few weeks ago. Recall that when first launched this “deal” was a way for Ukraine to “pay back” the United States for $350 billion in assistance as calculated by the Trump people. The number is only accurate if one goes back to the US-backed coup in 2014, and, ironically, through the first Trump term (where for the first time offensive weapons were provided), and past the Biden <em>largesse </em>after Russia’s launch of its “special military operation” in February of 2022.</p>
<p>And it was a payback in the “rare earths” minerals said to be so critical to our technological society that had heretofore been supplied by “adversaries” like China for which many in the Trump foreign policy team were preparing to target as soon as they solved the Ukraine issue.</p>
<p>The great negotiator Trump was to secure the “rare earths” minerals from Ukraine that would for certainty be withheld or forbidden when the real strategy of “confronting” China was put into place.</p>
<p>But it’s all kabuki theater. First off, Trump people dropped the demand that US aid to Ukraine to the tune of a third of a trillion dollars needed to be paid back. That was the backbone and rationale of the deal in the first place. No, just days ago it was determined that we would start with a clean slate with Ukraine.</p>
<p>Once again – as with the “Liberation Day” tariff war – maximalist demands were made, proved incredibly disruptive, and then were inexplicably reversed suddenly days later.</p>
<p>“Just kidding.”</p>
<p>And now that the “minerals deal” was finally signed to great fanfare, it turns out that it was not about “rare earths” minerals at all. As Energy and commodities columnist at Bloomberg Javier Blas reported, after looking at the radically restructured “rare earths” deal <a href="https://x.com/JavierBlas/status/1917709957681590476" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">posted on X</a>, the “deal” is primarily about “oil, natural gas and a bit of aluminum.” He added, “And the critical minerals? Rare earths?”</p>
<p>Even the supposed harsh terms <a href="https://x.com/baronitaigas/status/1917716487248437394" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">turn out to be a paper tiger</a>:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>– The US has no say under the agreement on when or what gets extracted in Ukraine<br>
– Both countries invest equally into an ‘investment fund’<br>
– No debts for past aid are acknowledged<br>
– The US will not see a single dollar from the investment, in the best circumstances, for 10 YEARS</p></blockquote>
<p>We’ve seen this movie before. Stealing oil from Syria and Iraq with negligible benefit to American citizens that was initially touted as a way to pay them back for our financing regime change wars. But only the well-connected Beltway parasites were well-paid.</p>
<p>The ludicrous “rare earths minerals deal” is a microcosm of how absurd the Trump Administration’s policy has been on the US/Russia war through proxy Ukraine in the first place.</p>
<p>One of the most dangerous and counter-productive additions to the new “minerals deal” is a provision that US military assistance shipped to Ukraine will go into the joint investment fund on the plus-side of the US ledger. In other words, this “breakthrough” has opened the door for the US to return to the Biden policy of endless weapons supplied to a nearly supine nation…with a promise to “pay you back” once minerals are extracted from what remains of Ukraine soil. This will serve to prolong the war that Trump claims he wants to end.</p>
<p>As longtime analyst Brian Berletic – with a solid track record of accuracy – <a href="https://ronpaulinstitute.org/us-plays-mediator-in-its-own-war-on-russia/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote last week</a>, “Today, the US government is attempting to play the role of a frustrated mediator trying to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia, when in reality this was always a war between the US and Russia.”</p>
<p>Perhaps driven by hubris and an obsession with vainglory, President Trump is desperate to be able to take credit for “solving” a completely fictional Ukraine/Russia war. Any doctor worth his salt would tell you that there is no way you can treat the disease if you misdiagnose the symptoms, but here we are with an Administration hypnotized by the neocon-created fantasy of a sudden attack – without antecedent – by Russia on its neighbor as a blatant land grab mixed equally with a desire to express bestial cruelty.</p>
<p>The only way they can sell this neocon fever dream is to reimagine Russian President Putin as a kind of golem-like figure who suddenly wakes up in the morning and decides who and how many to kill that day.</p>
<p>In fact this entire chapter of post-Cold War US foreign policy is defined by a desperate search for relatively easy dragons abroad to slay while sharpening our fangs to take down rival number two, Russia, with an eye on rival number one, an ascendant China.</p>
<p>But something happened on the road to unipolar victory: through the bad joke called NATO, the US threw everything in its arsenal short of nuclear weapons at Russia in Ukraine and it lost. In a United States thankfully defended by a wonderful geography of two protective oceans, it may be hard for our fellow citizens to understand what an existential war may look like.</p>
<p>Indeed, even WWII was a kind of crusade to save Europe from its own excesses. We were never threatened by Hitler or any of his riff-raff. Jews were totally safe in the US.</p>
<p>Russia on the other hand came to know up close and personal the murderous intent of the Nazis, and for the Soviet Union it was a matter of life and death – and we are talking tens of millions of lives – that savage Hitler with his view that Slavs were <em>untermensch </em>to be eliminated must be defeated.</p>
<p>Life or death. Americans have not faced that since, arguably, the Civil War.</p>
<p>So here we are in an absolutely AI kind of artificial reality where the early Trump 2.0 Administration is expending extraordinarily amounts of political, diplomatic, and other multi-layer efforts to maintain a fiction that Trump can wave his wand and remove animosity between Ukraine and Russia when all the time it was the US who was at war behind the shadows.</p>
<p>As the process becomes increasingly less attuned to the reality on the ground – thanks in large part to a reverse Walter Durranty-level fantasist called “General Kellogg” who for some bizarre reason continues to dominate the debate with his asinine “plan” published with neocon <a href="https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/all-the-presidents-neocons/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fred Fleitz</a> last April –  Trump’s chimeric admonitions to his Russian counterpart to “just stop shooting” belie a kind of desperation that is doomed to fail. And he knows it.</p>
<p>Russia is fighting for its survival. Neocons are surfing on Ukrainian blood to “take down” Russia.</p>
<p>That’s it. That’s the war.</p>
<p>So how can President Trump square this ginormous circle and escape the traps and spider webs woven for him by all the neocons he has again hired to direct his foreign policy?</p>
<p>Ron Paul is often dismissed as <em>jejune </em>for his <em>bons mots</em> like “we just marched in we can just march home.” However in systems analysis many times it turns out that the simplest solution is the best solution. President Trump can end the war in Ukraine in a day (as he once promised) by simply announcing that it is not his war and he will no longer have anything to do with it.</p>
<p>That means no shuttle diplomacy with absurd plans, no more Steve Witkoff trafficking in Kellogg’s gilded turds. Simply a recognition of reality: literally no American who voted for Trump to save them from Biden’s inflation and woke tyranny could give a flying fornication who rules Ukraine or how it gets along with Russia. Polls back this idea as well.</p>
<p>To win Ukraine, Trump must wash his hands, Pontius Pilate-like, of the whole affair.</p>
<p>The neocons who have again steadied their swagger in Trump 2.0 love to revise the “peace through strength” mantra, as if they are the heirs of Reagan. But the real strength that brings on peace is the strength to stand up to all the Beltway neocons and desktop warriors and say, “enough.”</p>
<p>“This is not my war and I want to have nothing to do with it. Americans elected me to bring jobs to Middle America, not to pursue a crusade for the bloodthirsty neocon elite who fantasize of using American might to right all their perceived historical wrongs.”</p>
<p>America first is the real and only solution to the Ukraine problem.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://ronpaulinstitute.org/end-the-ukraine-war-with-this-one-simple-trick/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>ronpaulinstitute.org</strong></a></p>


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<p><strong>Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill c. 1743 — c. 1800, was an Irish noblewoman and poet, and the composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, a lament she wrote for her husband who was murdered by Abraham Morris, a planter and Sheriff in Cork.</strong></p>
<p>In 1767 she fell in love with Captain Art Ó Laoghaire of Rathleigh, Macroom who had recently returned from service in the Hungarian Hussars. Eileen was 23. Airt was 26. With the marriage against the express wishes of her family, Airt and Eileen eloped and settled down at Rathleigh with Art’s father, Cornelius Ó Laoghaire. They had five children, three of whom died in infancy. She was pregnant at the time of Airt’s death.</p>
<p>Airt and Eibhlín came from important Irish families. The earls had fled from Ireland to the European continent, consolidating the complete collapse of the old order. Part of the surviving Catholic nobility, because of the draconian Penal Laws, which made it made it impossible for 95% of the population to receive an education or have a career in their own country, Airt was educated on the Continent, and served as a hussar in the Austro-Hungarian empire.</p>
<p>Because of the Penal Laws, all Irish Catholics had to endure severe restrictions on employment, trade, ownership of property and the practice of their religion. Lack of opportunity in Ireland resulted in thousands of Irish men and women leaving for Europe and America; indeed, this was why Art had sought military service in the first place.</p>
<p>Sheriff Morris vigorously attempted to enforce these those Penal Laws, while Art made regular attempts to overcome them, resulting in extremely bitter and personal enmity between the two.</p>
<p>The dispute came to a head in 1773 when Airt’s horse beat Morris’s horse in a race in Macroom Races, and in a temper Morris offered Airt five pounds for his horse. According to the Penal Laws, a Catholic could not own a horse worth more than five pounds, so Morris was invoking this law, though he knew it was an insult to Airt; it was about much more than the price of the horse.</p>
<p>Airt refused, and went on the run. A price of 20 guineas was put on his head. Once proclaimed an outlaw, he could be shot at sight quite legally, again under Penal Laws, where no Catholic or Irishman had fair redress in the justice system.</p>
<p>Ó Laoghaire attempted and failed to ambush Morris at Millstreet and soon after was shot at Carraig an Ime. His mare raced to Rathleigh, riderless, soaked in blood. Eibhlín Dubh mounted the mare and galloped back to Carraig an Ime, where she found Airt’s body.</p>
<p>She then composed the beautiful and poignant 390-line lament mourning Ó Laoghaire’s death and calling for revenge. The Caoineadh (‘lament’) was composed ex tempore, became part of the Irish oral tradition and was not written down until many years later. It has been described as “the most remarkable set of keening verses to have survived.”  According to an Oxford Don, the poem is the greatest poem written on these islands in the 18th century. According to great Seán Ó Tuama, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire is the one of the greatest affirmations, in literature, of a woman’s love for a man.</p>

<h3>Caoineadh Airt UÍ Laoghaire</h3>
<p>B’fhéidir gur aithris Eibhlín na dréachtaí seo os cionn an choirp i gCarraig an Ime.</p>
<p>Mo ghrá go daingean tu!<br>Lá dá bhfaca thu<br>ag ceann tí an mhargaidh,<br>thug mo shúil aire dhuit,<br>thug mo chroí taitnearnh duit,<br>d’éalaíos óm charaid leat<br>i bhfad ó bhaile leat.</p>
<p>Is domhsa nárbh aithreach:<br>Chuiris parlús á ghealadh dhom,<br>rúrnanna á mbreacadh dhom,<br>bácús á dheargadh dhom,<br>brící á gceapadh dhom,<br>rósta ar bhearaibh dom,<br>mairt á leagadh dhom;<br>codladh i gclúmh lachan dom<br>go dtíodh an t-eadartha<br>nó thairis dá dtaitneadh liorn.</p>
<p>Mo chara go daingean tu!<br>is cuimhin lem aigne<br>an lá breá earraigh úd,<br>gur bhreá thiodh hata dhuit<br>faoi bhanda óir tarraingthe;<br>claíomh cinn airgid,<br>lámh dheas chalma,<br>rompsáil bhagarthach –<br>fír-chritheagla<br>ar námhaid chealgach –<br>tú i gcóir chun falaracht<br>is each caol ceannann fút.<br>D’umhlaídís Sasanaigh<br>síos go talamh duit,<br>is ní ar mhaithe leat<br>ach le haon-chorp eagla,<br>cé gur leo a cailleadh tu,<br>a mhuirnín mh’anama….</p>
<p>Mo chara thu go daingean!<br>is nuair thiocfaidh chúgham abhaile<br>Conchúr beag an cheana<br>is Fear Ó Laoghaire, an leanbh,<br>fiafróid díom go tapaidh<br>cár fhágas féin a n-athair.<br>‘Neosad dóibh faoi mhairg<br>gur fhágas i gCill na Martar.<br>Glaofaid siad ar a n-athair,<br>is ní bheidh sé acu le freagairt….</p>
<p>Mo chara thu go daingean!<br>is níor chreideas riamh dod mharbh<br>gur tháinig chúgham do chapall<br>is a srianta léi go talamh,<br>is fuil do chroí ar a leacain<br>siar go t’iallait ghreanta<br>mar a mbítheá id shuí ‘s id sheasarnh.<br>Thugas léim go tairsigh,<br>an dara léim go geata,<br>an triú léim ar do chapall.</p>
<p>Do bhuaileas go luath mo bhasa<br>is do bhaineas as na reathaibh<br>chomh maith is bhí séagam,<br>go bhfuaras romham tu marbh<br>Cois toirín ísil aitinn,<br>gan Pápa gan easpag,<br>gan cléireach gan sagart<br>do léifeadh ort an tsailm,<br>ach seanbhean chríonna chaite<br>do leath ort binn dá fallaing —<br>do chuid fola leat ‘na sraithibh;<br>is níor fhanas le hí ghlanadh<br>ach í ól suas lem basaibh.</p>
<p>Mo ghrá thu go daingean!<br>is érigh suas id sheasamh<br>is tar liom féin abhaile,<br>go gcuirfeam mairt á leagadh,<br>go nglaofam ar chóisir fhairsing,<br>go mbeidh againn ceol á spreagadh,<br>go gcóireod duitse leaba<br>faoi bhairlíní geala,<br>faoi chuilteanna breátha breaca,<br>a bhainfidh asat alias<br>in ionad an fhuachta a ghlacais.</p>

<p>II</p>
<p>Nuair a shroich deirfiúr Airt (ó Chorcaigh) teach an tórraimh in aice Mhaigh Chromtha,<br>fuair sí, de réir an tseanchais, Eibhlín roimpi sa leaba. Seo roinnt den bhriatharchath a bhí eatarthu.</p>
<p>Deirfiúr Airt:</p>
<p>Mo chara is mo stór tú<br>is mó bean chumtha chórach<br>ó Chorcaigh na. seolta<br>go Droichead na Tóime,</p>
<p>do tabharfadh macha mór bó dhuit<br>agus dorn buí-óir duit,<br>ná raghadh a chodladh ‘na seomra<br>oíche do thórraimh.</p>
<p>Eibhlín Dhubh:</p>
<p>Mo chara is m’ uan tú!<br>is ná creid sin uathu,<br>ná an cogar a fuarais,<br>ná an scéal fir fuatha,<br>gur a chodladh a chuas-sa.<br>Níor throm suan dom:<br>ach bhí do linbh ró-bhuartha,<br>‘s do theastaigh sé uathu<br>iad a chur chun suaimhnis.</p>
<p>A dhaoine na n-ae istigh,<br>‘bhfuil aon bhean in Éirinn,<br>ó luí na gréine,<br>a shínfeadh a taobh leis,<br>do bhéarfadh trí lao dho,<br>ná raghadh le craobhacha<br>i ndiaidh Airt Uí Laoghaire<br>atá anso traochta<br>ó mhaidin inné agam?…</p>
<p>M’fhada-chreach léan-ghoirt<br>ná rabhas-sa taobh leat<br>nuair lámhadh an piléar leat,<br>go ngeobhainn é im thaobh dheas<br>nó i mbinn mo léine,<br>is go léigfinn cead slé’ leat<br>a mharcaigh na ré-ghlac</p>
<p>Deirfiúr Airt:</p>
<p>Mo chreach ghéarchúiseach<br>ná rabhas ar do chúlaibh<br>nuair lámhadh an púdar,<br>go ngeobhainn é im chom dheas<br>nó i mbinn mo ghúna,<br>is go léigfinn cead siúil leat<br>a mharcaigh na súl nglas,<br>ós tú b’fhearr léigean chucu.</p>
<p>III</p>
<p>Cuireann Eibhlín a mórtas as a fear céile in iúl go lánphoiblí sna<br>dréachtaí seo. B’fhéidir gur aithris si an méid seo tar éis don chorp<br>a bheith rétithe le haghaidh an adhlactha.</p>
<p>Eibhlín Dhubh:</p>
<p>Mo chara thu is mo, shearc-mhaoin!<br>Is gránna an cháir a chur ar ghaiscíoch<br>comhra agus caipín,<br>ar mharcach an dea-chroí<br>a bhiodh ag iascaireacht ar ghlaisíbh<br>agus ag ól ar hallaíbh<br>i bhfarradh mná na ngeal-chíoch.<br>Mo mhíle mearaí<br>mar a chailleas do thaithí.</p>
<p>Greadadh chúghat is díth<br>á Mhorris ghránna an fhill!<br>á bhain díom fear mo thí,<br>athair mo, leanbh gan aois:<br>dís acu ag siúl an tí,<br>‘s an tríú duine acu istigh im chlí,<br>agus is dócha ná cuirfead diom.</p>
<p>Mo chara thu is mo thaitneamh!<br>Nuair ghabhais amach an geata<br>d’fhillis ar ais go tapaidh,<br>do phógais do dhís leanbh,<br>do phógais mise ar bharra baise.<br>Dúraís, ‘A Eibhlín, éirigh id sheasamh<br>agus cuir do ghnó chun taisce<br>go luaimneach is go tapaidh.<br>Táimse ag fágáil an bhaile,<br>is ní móide go deo go gcasfainn.’<br>Níor dheineas dá chaint ach magadh,<br>mar bhíodh á rá liom go minic cheana.</p>
<p>Mo chara thu is mo chuid!<br>A mharcaigh an chlaímh ghil,<br>éirigh suas anois,<br>cuir ort do chulaith<br>éadaigh uasail ghlain,<br>cuir ort do bhéabhar dubh,<br>tarraing do lámhainní umat.<br>Siúd í in airde t’fbuip;<br>sin i do láir amuigh.<br>Buail-se an bóthar caol úd soir<br>mar a maolóidh romhat na toir,<br>mar a gcaolóidh romhat an sruth,<br>mar a n-umhlóidh romhat mná is fir,<br>má tá a mbéasa féin acu –<br>‘s is baolach liomsa ná fuil anois….</p>
<p>Mo ghrá thu is mo chumann!<br>‘s ní hé a bhfuair bás dem chine,<br>ni bás mo thriúr clainne;<br>ná Dónall Mór Ó Conaill,<br>ná Conall a bháigh an tuile,<br>ná bean na sé mblian ‘s fiche<br>do chuaigh anonn thar uisce<br>‘déanamh cairdeasaí le rithe –<br>ní hiad go lér atá agam dá ngairm,<br>ach Art a bhaint aréir dá bhonnaibh<br>ar inse Charraig an Ime!<br>marcach na lárach doinne<br>atá agam féin anso go singil —<br>gan éinne beo ‘na ghoire<br>ach mná beaga dubha an mhuilinn,<br>is mar bharr ar mo mhíle tubaist<br>gan a súiile féin ag sileadh.</p>
<p>Mo chara is mo lao thu!<br>A Airt Uí Laoghaire<br>Mhic Conchúir, Mhic Céadaigh,<br>Mhic Laoisigh Uí Laoghaire,<br>aniar ón nGaortha<br>is anoir ón gCaolchnoc,<br>mar a bhfásaid caora<br>is cnó bui ar ghéagaibh<br>is úlla ‘na slaodaibh<br>na n-am féinig.<br>Cárbh ionadh le héinne<br>dá lasadh Uíbh Laoghaire<br>agus Béal Atha an Ghaorthaigh<br>is an Uigdn naofa<br>i ndiaidh mharcaigh na ré-ghlac<br>a níodh an fiach a thraochadh<br>ón nGreanaigh ar saothar<br>nuair stadaidís caol-choin!<br>Is a mharcaigh na gclaon-rosc  —<br>nó cad d’imigh aréir ort?<br>Óir do shíleas féinig<br>ni maródh an saol tu<br>nuair cheannaíos duit éide.</p>
<p>IV</p>
<p>Déanann deirfiúr Airt a caoineadh féin anseo. Nuair a luann sí, na mná óga<br>a bhí mór le Art, spriúchann Eibhlín.</p>
<p>Deirfiúr Airt:</p>
<p>Mo ghrá is mo rún tu!<br>‘s mo ghra mo cholúr geal!<br>Cé ná tánag-sa chúghat-sa<br>is nár thugas mo thrúip liom,<br>nior chúis náire siúd liom<br>mar bhíodar i gcúngrach<br>i seomraí dúnta<br>is i gcomhraí cúnga,<br>is i gcodladh gan mhúscailt.</p>
<p>Mura mbeadh an bholgach<br>is an bás dorcha<br>is an fiabhras spotaitheach,<br>bheadh an marc-shlua borb san<br>is a srianta á gcroitheadh acu<br>ag déanamh fothraim<br>ag teacht dod shochraid<br>a Airt an bhrollaigh ghil….</p>
<p>Mo chara is mo lao thu!<br>Is aisling tri néallaibh<br>do deineadh aréir dom<br>i gCorcaigh go déanach<br>ar leaba im aonar:<br>gur thit ár gcúirt aolda,<br>cur chríon an Gaortha,<br>nár fhan friotal id chaol-choin<br>ná binneas ag éanaibh,<br>nuair fuaradh tu traochta<br>ar lár an tslé’ arnuigh,<br>gan sagart, gan cléireach,<br>ach seanbhean aosta<br>do leath binn dá bréid ort<br>nuair fuadh den chré thu,<br>a Airt Uí Laoghaire,<br>is do chuid fola ‘na slaodaibh<br>i mbrollach do léine.</p>
<p>Mo ghrá is mo rún tu!<br>‘s is breá thiodh súd duit,<br>stoca chúig dhual duit,<br>buatais go glúin ort,<br>Caroilin cúinneach,<br>is fuip go lúifar<br>ar ghillín shúgach –<br>is mó ainnir mhodhúil mhúinte<br>bhíodh ag féachaint sa chúl ort.</p>
<p>Eibhlín Dhubh:</p>
<p>Mo ghrá go daingean tu!<br>‘s nuair théitheá sna cathracha<br>daora, daingeana,<br>biodh mná na gceannaithe<br>ag umhlú go talamh duit,<br>óir do thuigidís ‘na n-aigne<br>gur bhreá an leath leaba tu,<br>nó an bhéalóg chapaill tu,<br>nó an t-athair leanbh tu.</p>
<p>Tá fhios ag losa Criost<br>ná beidh caidhp ar bhaitheas mo chinn,<br>ná léine chnis lem thaoibh,<br>ná bróg ar thrácht mo bhoinn,<br>ná trioscán ar fuaid mo thí,<br>ná srian leis an láir ndoinn,<br>ná caithfidh mé le dlí,<br>‘s go raghad anonn thar toinn<br>ag comhrá leis an rá,<br>‘s mura gcuirfidh ionam aon tsuim<br>go dtiocfad ar ais arís<br>go bodach na fola duibhe<br>a bhain diom féin mo mhaoin.</p>
<p>V</p>
<p>De bharr constaicí dlí, dealraionn sé nár cuireadh Art i reilig a shinsear. Cuireadh an corp go sealadach;<br>agus cúpla mí ina dhiaidh sin, ní foldáir, aistríodh i go mainistir Chill Cré, Co. Chorcaí. B’fhéidir gur<br>chuir Eibhlín na dréachtaí seo a leanas lena, caoineadh ar ócáid an dara adhlacadh.</p>
<p>Eibhlín Dhubh:</p>
<p>Mó ghrá thu agus mo rún!<br>Tá do stácaí ar a mbonn,<br>tá do bha buí á gcrú;<br>is ar mo chroí atá do chumha<br>ná leigheasfadh Cúige Mumhan<br>ná Gaibhne Oileáin na bhFionn.<br>Go dtiocfaidh Art Ó Laoghaire chúgham<br>ní scaipfidh ar mo chumha<br>atá i lár mo chroí á bhrú,<br>dúnta suas go dlúth<br>mar a bheadh glas a bheadh ar thrúnc<br>‘s go raghadh an eochair amú.</p>
<p>A mhná so amach ag gol<br>stadaidh ar bhur gcois<br>go nglaofaidh Art Mhac Conchúir deoch,<br>agus tuilleadh thar cheann na mbocht,<br>sula dtéann isteach don scoil —<br>ní ag foghlaim léinn ná port,<br>ach ag iompar cré agus cloch.</p>
<p>–Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill (ca 1743-1800)</p>

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<p><em>JB Yeats impression of Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill lamenting her murdered husband Airt Uí Laoghaire</em></p>

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<p><em>Tomb of Airt Uí Laoghaire in Cork</em></p>

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title: NATO is dead and European leaders are in denial
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<p><strong><em>Stop the Smoke and Mirrors, Madame von der Leyen!</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Franklin DEHOUSSE</em></strong></p>
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<p><em>To date, there is no plan showing how Europe – experiencing its greatest military crisis in 80 years – will jointly secure: funding, efficient equipment, and trained soldiers. Policymakers must act. Otherwise, they will cause monumental disillusionment that will pave the way for extremist parties, warns Franklin Dehousse.  </em></p>
<p>Listening to European politicians, one would think Europe has entered a grand revolutionary phase. A new era is dawning. Vast resources are being deployed to rapidly rebuild formidable European armies. The reality, alas, is very different. And it is crucial to recognize this.</p>
<p>Summit after summit in Paris, then London, then Brussels – it’s dizzying. But where are the real results? Reading the conclusions of the latest European Council, there are few. One could call it a scam. For example, the Union declares itself “ready to increase pressure on Russia.” Yet it knows full well its sanctions are full of holes and does nothing about it (liquefied gas and oil purchases, the shadow fleet, the massive surge in circumvention exports to Russia via Central Asia…). Europe postures as tough – but only so long as it doesn’t harm its trade. “Russian assets should remain frozen,” but “subject to EU law” – a masterful way of saying one thing and its opposite. Very tough, but only if it doesn’t hurt financial exchanges.</p>
<p>President von der Leyen grandly announces €800 billion in defense spending. Another sleight of hand. €150 billion might be loaned to member states. As for the remaining €650 billion? They’ll just raise the permitted deficit limits for states. In other words, there is absolutely no guarantee these billions will actually be borrowed. But this fanfare mainly serves to avoid any debate on joint European borrowing, which Germany does not want (yet).</p>
<p>In reality, despite all this noise and smoke, practically nothing has been decided so far, even as Europe faces its greatest military crisis in 80 years since Trump’s return. Europe is largely defenseless against Putin, who is rearming aggressively despite heavy losses. American support is no longer guaranteed at all. Trump’s promises are worthless. Europe’s arsenals are largely empty, its troops underdeveloped and inadequate, and its intelligence, communications, and heavy logistics barely exist without the U.S.</p>
<p><strong>Zero plan</strong></p>
<p>Yet nothing guarantees the rapid mobilization of the funds promised by von der Leyen. Nothing guarantees effective management of these funds. Nothing guarantees equipment interoperability. Nothing guarantees fair burden-sharing among member states – or between rich and poor. Nothing guarantees democratic oversight of the project. As usual with von der Leyen, we see a hastily cobbled-together pile of proposals from member states (especially the big ones, and even more especially Germany). Beyond that, there is no long-term vision and no institutional roadmap. Zero.</p>
<p><strong>High Representative Kallas’ failed attempt</strong></p>
<p>High Representative Kallas at least tried to get the Union to adopt something concrete immediately after Trump’s repeated threats against Zelensky. She proposed a new €40 billion European aid package for Ukraine in 2025. Yet this plan was gutted – first to €5 billion, then to a million shells, then to “further review.” Many governments criticized Kallas’ proposal, accusing her of acting like a prime minister (<em>La Libre</em>, 22/03/2025). In reality, they resent her mainly for exposing the harsh truth. On one hand, despite the massive U.S. shift – oscillating between disinterest and hostility toward Europe (and Ukraine) – few governments want to establish real European military independence. On the other, there are enormous disparities in the national aid provided to Ukraine so far.</p>
<p>The Kallas proposal was a Rorschach test for the European Union: it revealed the full extent of both its division and hypocrisy. It is split between frontline states (in the east and north), directly threatened by Russia’s rise, and the rest. The rest are themselves divided between:</p>
<ul>
<li>Russia sympathizers (Hungary, Slovakia, soon perhaps Czechia),</li>
<li>Trump supporters (Italy),</li>
<li>Neutrals (Ireland, Austria, Malta, Cyprus),</li>
<li>And lukewarm Ukraine backers (France, Spain, and Benelux).</li>
</ul>
<p>At the center of it all floats an uncertain Germany.</p>
<p>Yet weak solidarity among Europeans is nothing new.</p>
<p>On Ukraine, behind the ridiculous and dangerous bravado of figures like von der Leyen and Michel (“we stand with you,” “Ukraine will be a member by 2030”) lurk damning statements like Sánchez’s (“our threat is not Russian troops arriving in the Pyrenees”) or Meloni’s (“my greatest ally is President Trump”), justifying demands for European funds to be redirected away from defense (<em>FT</em>, 13 and 27/05/2025). Weak solidarity among Europeans, however, is nothing new. True, for now, Western and Southern Europe offer little solidarity to the East and North. But in 2010, at the height of the financial crisis, the opposite was true. The same happened during the migration crisis.</p>
<p>In reality, the spirit of solidarity has collapsed in the European Union over the past 30 years. Only the threat of an imminent shock (banking collapse, pandemic) still convinces governments to adopt serious collective responses – enough to patch up the system in crisis, but not to cure it.</p>
<p><strong>European leaders are in denial – the public understands </strong></p>
<p>Yet the real Putin-Trump alliance creates precisely such a threat. NATO is dead. Article 5, guaranteeing U.S. solidarity against aggression, is even deader, given its purpose. Over time, the former American partner has even emerged as a growing adversary in trade, finance, monetary policy, technology, and even territorial matters (see Greenland). Yet, as in many long marriages ending in death, Europe remains stuck in denial.</p>
<p>At least at the leadership level. The European public, however, seems to have grasped the situation better, thanks to Trump’s incessant provocations. According to a pan-European poll (<em>Grand Continent</em>, 20/03/25), Trump is overwhelmingly seen as a danger to Europe and democracy. From now on, Europeans have effectively become potential Ukrainians. The moment they need something, Trump will try to extort them, just as he is already doing to Ukraine. And he will try to change our governments, as he has already done in Romanian and German elections (see his new support for Le Pen).</p>
<p><strong>A majority now supports common European defense</strong></p>
<p>In many member states (especially in the West), a majority of public opinion now favors a common European defense. Only such a joint structure can truly rationalize production, concentrate research, and reduce costs – which otherwise will become exorbitant. Alas, European decision-makers remain far from accepting the necessary constraints. At the governmental and institutional level, there is no joint project in this direction – not even on paper. No joint funding. No shared definition of needs. No fair distribution of rearmament burdens. Very few joint orders. No integration of troops, even partial. The resistance of politicians and bureaucrats to real joint action is total. Another sign of widespread reluctance: several member states are already negotiating with the UK to create a joint military procurement bank (<em>Politico</em>, 03/04/2025).</p>
<p>As a result, the coming rearmament risks being chaotic, ineffective, and extremely costly. Any rearmament can quickly spiral out of control, caught between the obsessions of militaries, industrialists, and national politicians. Even before that, it must be accepted by the public. And they will quickly notice that the burdens are very unevenly distributed.</p>
<p><strong>Inequitable burden-sharing among member states</strong></p>
<p>First, there is inequality among member states. For example, Ireland, Austria, Malta, and Cyprus do not belong to NATO. These countries, however, are part of the EU and bound by the solidarity obligation of Article 42.7 TEU. Among NATO states, some contribute far less than others (notably Spain, Italy, Belgium, and Luxembourg). Moreover, some are tax havens, siphoning off vast fiscal revenues that, under equal taxation, would fund other countries (which, of course, eases their own defense efforts).</p>
<p><strong>The Irish case</strong></p>
<p>Ireland is the textbook example (though far from alone). The diversion of trade flows it causes through tax breaks has reached such heights that it now has two separate GNPs. For instance, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry barely pays any taxes in America because it routes all its production through Ireland (which also fuels Trump’s tariff rage against all Europeans). Meanwhile, despite its artificially inflated revenues, Ireland’s military spending hovers around 0.2% of GNP, and its aid to Ukraine at 0.1% (compared to Poland’s 4% and 1.2%, respectively).</p>
<p>How to convince some countries to contribute two or four times more than others? Solving this problem is the hidden challenge of collective European funding for defense spending – particularly joint borrowing. Note that Kallas and von der Leyen offer opposing analyses on these issues, further adding to the general cacophony.</p>
<p><strong>Tax havens must be tackled</strong></p>
<p>Second, rearmament highlights inequality between social classes. Many argue for cutting social security to fund weapons. Yet no one talks about cracking down on tax havens, even though they play a central role in rising inequality – and in maintaining covert Russian (and mafia) financial presence in Europe.</p>
<p>Making the weakest foot the bill for rearmament is the best strategy to strengthen the far right in the coming years. Appeasing Putin and Trump at all costs will then become synonymous with increased social spending. True, real rearmament will require effort from all – but the wealthiest should contribute first. Hence the need for a genuine European initiative against tax havens; otherwise, these individuals will keep evading taxes. Historically, rationing has always been a key tool of war economies. In the U.S. during WWII, the top income tax rate reached 94% (heroes like John Wayne and Frank Sinatra, who avoided military service, spent much of their time dodging it). Oliver Cromwell funded his armies by taxing property at 20% and imposing forced loans on bankers.</p>
<p>The demand for fairness is all the more critical as consumption restrictions will be necessary. European countries are already saddled with debt at around 100% of GNP. There is very little room for new borrowing. Excessive borrowing will only fuel inflation and raise interest rates. The authorities do not mention this.</p>
<p><strong>A “Savings Union”?</strong></p>
<p>Moreover, the Commission is reviving old peripheral projects. To capitalize on the defense resurgence, the capital markets union has been rebranded as a “savings union” and presented as a funding avenue. Not false, but hardly essential. Meanwhile, the tax haven lobby is already working to block the parallel creation of a European financial regulator (a perfect strategy for triggering another financial crisis).</p>
<p>The Commission also mentions the need for a single defense market. Again, not false, but not essential either. In all major states, military production relies first and foremost on strong synergy between the state and a few oligopolistic producers. Rationalizing and integrating producers and research is, as we’ve seen, a vital need. Yet it will require difficult political choices. Who will manage all these changes? Again, the authorities are silent. Though very good on these needs, a recent Bruegel report for the Polish presidency (07/04/2025) underestimates – like everyone else – the institutional obstacles to achieving them.</p>
<p><strong>A gift to extremist parties</strong></p>
<p>In summary, proper defense requires money (and a lot of it, after letting the tools rust for a third of a century), efficient equipment, and trained soldiers. Right now, there is no plan showing how these will be obtained – let alone jointly. Implementing such a plan would also require effective institutions and competent managers. These are nowhere to be seen either. European policymakers must now act to define a real strategy and open a broad public debate, as this represents a true revolution in continental integration. Otherwise, the path to European defense will soon be littered with monumental disillusionment – paving the way for extremist parties.</p>
<p><em>Franklin Dehousse is a former professor at the College of Europe, former Belgian representative in European negotiations, former judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union</em></p>
<p>Published originally by <a href="https://www.lalibre.be/debats/opinions/2025/04/16/lotan-est-morte-est-les-dirigeants-europeens-sont-dans-le-deni-YSEEDWOYU5CRXBLA5AP5UBXD5Q/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">La Libre</a>.</p>


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title: 'The FDR Economic Recovery:Precedent and Practice'
author: ;Diane Sare
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885076
title: ¿Brasil, sede permanente de los BRICS?
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<p><strong><em>A finales de abril, dos profesores brasileños presentaron una idea inédita: que Brasil se convierta en la sede permanente de los BRICS.</em></strong></p>
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<p>A finales de abril, dos profesores brasileños presentaron una idea inédita: que Brasil se convierta en la sede permanente de los BRICS, al igual que Estados Unidos lo es de la ONU.</p>
<p>Eduardo R. Gomes, coordinador del Núcleo de Estudios de los BRICS (NuBRICS / UFF), y Lier Pires Ferreira, investigador de la misma institución, publicaron un artículo en el periódico Toda Palavra, de Río de Janeiro, defendiendo la tesis de que la antigua capital de Brasil —que acogerá la próxima cumbre de los BRICS a principios de junio— se convierta en la sede fija de la organización que representa las aspiraciones del llamado “Sur Global”.</p>
<p>“Río de Janeiro es una ciudad singular. Fue la única en el Sur Global en ser sede de un imperio colonial europeo, como capital del Reino Unido de Portugal, Brasil y Algarve (1815-1822). Desde principios del siglo XX, cuando aún ostentaba el estatus de capital de la República, Río de Janeiro ha sido escenario de grandes eventos, como la Exposición Internacional del Centenario de la Independencia en 1922; la Conferencia de Río en 1942; o el Mundial de 1950, de triste recuerdo. A principios de los 90, la ciudad también albergó la II Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Medio Ambiente (ECO-92) y la Cumbre de América Latina, el Caribe y la Unión Europea, con representantes de casi 50 países”, escribieron los investigadores. “Pero fue en el siglo XXI cuando Río de Janeiro consolidó su vocación de escenario global, con eventos sucesivos como los Juegos Panamericanos de 2007, la Río+20 en 2012, la final del Mundial de 2014 y los Juegos Olímpicos y Paralímpicos de 2016”.</p>
<p>Añadieron: “Sin embargo, le falta la vivencia cotidiana, el día a día de una verdadera ciudad global, hiperconectada con el mundo. Falta un elemento fijo que, más allá del trinomio turismo, cultura e industria petrolera, alimente diariamente a Río con ciudadanos del mundo, con extranjeros de todas partes, tan diversos y plurales como los cariocas. Hoy, esa oportunidad surge con los BRICS”.</p>
<p>Gomes y Ferreira expresan un malestar —compartido por muchos que apuestan por el proyecto BRICS— ante la falta de una sede permanente de la organización, lo que, según ellos, dificulta el trabajo del grupo. Argumentan que “una sede física y una secretaría permanente son inversiones necesarias para la coalición, incentivando a que los BRICS actúen de manera más sistemática en la arena internacional. Además, una secretaría profesionalizada podría ofrecer soporte técnico y logístico para impulsar agendas prioritarias, como comercio, inversiones, innovación tecnológica, seguridad energética, desarrollo sostenible y cambio climático, articulando múltiples actores, estatales y sociales, nacionales e internacionales”.</p>
<p>El profesor Gomes, doctor en Ciencia Política, afirmó a SCF que académicos de otros países BRICS ya han mostrado interés por la idea de establecer una sede permanente en Río de Janeiro. Además, hay información de que algunos ministros de Relaciones Exteriores que participaron en la reciente reunión preparatoria para la cumbre de junio también conocieron la propuesta. Se informó que el alcalde de Río de Janeiro también fue notificado de la idea.</p>
<p>“Actualmente hay una transición hegemónica muy clara entre China (la potencia en ascenso) y Estados Unidos (la potencia en declive), lo que está generando una serie de tensiones y conflictos, particularmente en torno al multilateralismo”, explicó a SCF el profesor Lier Ferreira, doctor en Derecho. “Estados Unidos está cuestionando las instituciones multilaterales y manipulándolas para perseguir a los aliados de China, por lo que sería positivo que las grandes instituciones internacionales estén fuera del eje de esta disputa hegemónica”, continuó. Y concluyó: “En el caso de los BRICS, una sede en Río de Janeiro encajaría perfectamente en esta perspectiva”.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, Eduardo Gomes cree que el proceso para materializar esta idea entre los países BRICS sería largo, no inmediato. “La fundación del Nuevo Banco de Desarrollo, el banco de los BRICS, y su instalación en Shanghái, por ejemplo, solo ocurrió después de discusiones en varias cumbres anuales”, comentó. En cualquier caso, debatir y concretar una sede fija contribuiría a un mayor compromiso entre todos los miembros, especialmente los fundadores.</p>
<p>Ambos profesores coinciden en que, de desarrollarse, discutirse e implementarse esta idea, Brasil, desde Río de Janeiro, se convertiría en un puente entre Occidente y Oriente, beneficiando no solo a Brasil y América Latina, sino también a los países euroasiáticos, atrayendo inversiones y dinamizando la economía del gigante sudamericano, lo que impulsaría a sus vecinos hacia un mayor desarrollo y conectaría a un mundo en transición.</p>
<p>“Plural por naturaleza, Río podría potenciar las fuerzas creativas del Sur Global en favor de un nuevo orden internacional multipolar, libre de hegemonías, capaz de materializar los anhelos de desarrollo y reinserción internacional que por siglos han guiado las luchas de los pueblos afroasiáticos y latinoamericanos contra las distintas expresiones de la colonialidad”, concluyeron.</p>
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title: Trump Blew It
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/V-CEnF0ZV2k" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 1 May 2025, I appeared on “Judging Freedom” with Judge Napolitano. We discussed President Trump’s failed attempt to put an end to the Ukraine war and his floundering foreign policy more generally. Think Iran. Think his full-throated support for the Israeli genocide. Think his tariffs. Think what has happened to the American brand around the world. It is clear after Trump’s first 100 days in office that he has mishandled the various foreign policy problems he confronted when he took office. And his prospects for fixing things do not look good at all. Let’s hope I am wrong!</p>
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title: Trump’s Middle East Gamble Just Blew Up | Larry C. Johnson &amp; Col. Larry Wilkerson
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title: Saturday Class - William McKinley, the Last Defender of Black Equality - May 3, 2025
author: ;Promethean In-Depth
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885074
title: Un’Italia sempre più povera
author: ;A A
link: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/04/unitalia-sempre-piu-povera/
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<p><strong><em>Riguardo alla profonda crisi salariale che colpisce l’Italia, è giusto riconoscere che le sue origini affondano in oltre sessant’anni di politiche economiche spesso inefficaci o focalizzate sul breve termine.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Giù i salari, produttività stagnante e povertà in aumento</strong></p>
<p>Che in Italia le cose non stiano andando proprio bene, lo sappiamo ormai tutti. La difficoltà è tangibile già da tempo, ma ora comincia a diventare insostenibile anche per quanti hanno fatto finta di niente. Il Governo Meloni aveva promesso mari e monti – come al solito – ma in verità ci ha regalato l’ennesima accelerazione verso il dirupo del “fallimento di Stato”.</p>
<p>I salari reali (cioè al netto dell’inflazione) in Italia sono stagnanti o in calo da decenni, un fenomeno unico tra i principali paesi europei.</p>
<p>Secondo l’OCSE, sono diminuiti del 2,9% tra il 1990 e il 2020, rendendo l’Italia l’unico paese UE con una contrazione in questo periodo. Nel 2022, il calo è stato del 7,3% rispetto al 2021, a causa dell’alta inflazione post-crisi energetica.</p>
<p>Tra il 2019 e il 2023, i salari reali sono scesi dell’8%, il peggior risultato in Europa, contro una media dell’Eurozona del -3%. Nel 2023, i salari nominali sono cresciuti del 3,1%, ma l’inflazione al 5,6% ha eroso il potere d’acquisto.</p>
<p>Il legame tra salari e produttività del lavoro rappresenta un altro elemento critico. Tra il 1999 e il 2021, i salari reali in Italia sono cresciuti più della produttività, ma a partire dal 2022 la tendenza si è invertita: la produttività ha cominciato a salire più rapidamente rispetto ai salari. In pratica, ogni lavoratore ha iniziato a produrre di più, ma il suo stipendio non è aumentato in proporzione, soprattutto tenendo conto dell’inflazione. Il confronto internazionale rende il quadro ancora più preoccupante: nei Paesi a reddito elevato, la produttività è aumentata del 30% tra il 1999 e il 2024, mentre in Italia è diminuita del 3%.</p>
<p>Le misure introdotte negli ultimi due anni per adeguare i salari all’inflazione hanno cercato di tamponare l’aumento dei prezzi, ma non sono state sufficienti, in particolare per chi percepisce redditi bassi. Tali lavoratori, che destinano gran parte delle loro entrate a spese essenziali come casa e alimentazione, risultano particolarmente vulnerabili. Dopo aver toccato l’8,7% nel 2022, l’inflazione ha rallentato nel 2023 e nel 2024, allineandosi alla tendenza europea, ma i salari non sono riusciti a mantenere il passo. Anzi, parliamoci chiaro: nessuno mai ci ha messo mano. Le uniche cifre che si sono mosse sono state quelle dei salari dei politici. Curioso, no? Non dovremmo forse farci qualche domanda e cominciare a pensare a chi conviene mantenere uno status di crisi permanente?</p>
<p>Nel frattempo, anche il Pil reale dell’Italia ha mostrato una crescita debole: con un incremento dello 0,7% nel biennio 2023–2024, il nostro Paese è rimasto indietro rispetto alla media dell’Ue (1,1%) e delle economie avanzate (1,8%). A livello globale, invece, la crescita si è attestata al 3,2%, quasi tre volte tanto.</p>
<p>L’Italia detiene il primato negativo tra i Paesi del G20 per quanto riguarda la perdita di potere d’acquisto dal 2008. Stando ai dati dello studio, i salari reali sono scesi dell’8,7%, una percentuale peggiore rispetto a quella registrata in Giappone (-6,3%), Spagna (-4,5%) e Regno Unito (-2,5%). Il calo è stato particolarmente marcato tra il 2009 e il 2012, negli anni successivi alla crisi finanziaria globale. All’estremo opposto si colloca la Corea del Sud, che ha visto aumentare i salari del 20% tra il 2008 e il 2024.</p>
<p>L’incremento del costo della vita ha aggravato ulteriormente la situazione, colpendo in modo significativo l’Italia nel biennio 2022–2023. In questo periodo, i salari reali di uomini e donne sono diminuiti rispettivamente del 3,3% e del 3,2%, superando negativamente la media delle economie sviluppate del G20. Solo nel 2024 si è verificata un’inversione di tendenza, con una crescita media del 2,3%. Tuttavia, nonostante sia superiore alla media degli altri Paesi analizzati (+1,4%), non basta a compensare le perdite subite negli anni precedenti.</p>
<p>Oltre il 75% della forza lavoro dipendente nel mondo è soggetta a forti disuguaglianze retributive. Secondo l’OIL, che ha analizzato i dati di 82 Paesi rappresentanti circa il 76% dei lavoratori globali, i salari orari mostrano ampie discrepanze, con le disuguaglianze più accentuate nei Paesi a basso reddito. Anche nei Paesi ad alto reddito, però, le differenze non scompaiono, ma si concentrano soprattutto nelle fasce intermedie e alte.</p>
<p>In Italia, le disuguaglianze salariali assumono tratti peculiari. Le maggiori divergenze si riscontrano nella fascia alta delle retribuzioni, a testimonianza di una crescente polarizzazione dei redditi. Inoltre, quasi il 52% dei lavoratori a basso salario è composto da donne, a fronte di una rappresentanza femminile generale del 43,2% tra i dipendenti. Anche l’origine incide: i lavoratori stranieri guadagnano mediamente il 26,3% in meno rispetto agli italiani, a parità di mansioni. Un divario strutturale che acuisce l’ingiustizia salariale.</p>
<p><strong>E se fosse troppo tardi?</strong></p>
<p>Agire sui salari non è sufficiente. Per affrontare le disuguaglianze in modo strutturale, è necessario integrare obiettivi di equità retributiva con strategie economiche e ambientali di lungo periodo. Solo attraverso una combinazione di sostenibilità, innovazione e crescita della produttività sarà possibile realizzare un’economia davvero inclusiva e resiliente.</p>
<p>Riguardo alla profonda crisi salariale che colpisce l’Italia, è giusto riconoscere che le sue origini affondano in oltre sessant’anni di politiche economiche spesso inefficaci o focalizzate sul breve termine. Questa eredità storica non esime l’attuale classe dirigente dalla responsabilità di agire. I dati sopra citati parlano chiaro. È vero che siamo abituati almeno in parte ad aspettare il peggio del peggio, ma è ancor più vero che “quando è troppo tardi”, poi, non c’è più tempo.</p>
<p>A questo punto, se fossimo in un Paese sovrano con un Governo libero e interessato al bene dei propri cittadini, verrebbe indetta una riforma fiscale e bancaria in modo da bloccare questa degenerazione, spazzando via il famigerato debito pubblico e ricominciando da zero. Ma ci troviamo in uno Stato che è un fantoccio di potenze straniere, da spremere come un agrume da cui estrarre il succo, per poi gettarne la parte solida. Non c’è governo di patrioti, sovranisti o che dir si voglia, che abbia veramente provato a sistemare le cose. Tutti, uno dopo l’altro, hanno reso la loro obbedienza a Washington, Londra e Tel Aviv.</p>
<p>L’attuale immobilismo rischia invece di rendere permanente la frattura tra salari stagnanti e aumento del costo della vita, alimentando sfiducia e disillusione collettiva.</p>
<p>Nessuno pretende soluzioni miracolose, ma è legittimo aspettarsi scelte coraggiose, coerenti e di ampio respiro. In caso contrario, cambieranno forse i protagonisti, ma non cambierà il copione.</p>
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/zen_basilica3-e1746369966437.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
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<h2><strong>Sélections d’articles : </strong></h2>
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<div data-sanitized-class="alignleft"><a href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/washington-caput-mundi-capitale-du-monde/5698330"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.mondialisation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Capture-decran-le-2025-05-02-a-22.20.01-51x46.png" alt="" width="51" height="46" data-sanitized-class="attachment-featured_thumbnail size-featured_thumbnail wp-post-image alignleft"></a></div>
<p><strong data-sanitized-class="title"><a href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/washington-caput-mundi-capitale-du-monde/5698330">Washington Caput mundi: Capitale du monde</a></strong></p>
<p><em data-sanitized-class="date">Par <span data-sanitized-class="author"><a title="Articles par Manlio Dinucci" href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/author/manlio-dinucci">Manlio Dinucci</a></span>, 03 mai 2025</em></p>
<p>“Trump et Zelensky se parlent, essais de paix à Saint Pierre”, titre l’Ansa (<i>agence de presse nationale italienne, ndt</i>) en publiant …</p>


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title: VIDEO – ZIMBABWE: Création d’une voiture qui roule sans carburant
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<p data-sanitized-class="entry-sub-title">Maxwell Chikumbutso, autodidacte zimbabwéen, prétend avoir développé une technologie énergétique innovante et un véhicule électrique autonome fonctionnant par ondes radio.</p>
<p><em>Maxwell Chikumbutso, un ingénieur autodidacte zimbabwéen, a récemment attiré l’attention </em>…</p>


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title: WATCH: Large immigration protests in Monaghan, Donegal
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Monaghan.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>


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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>President Donald J. Trump, in an exclusive interview on Meet the Press, outlined the historic successes of his first 100 days — and charted the course for many more victories to come. President Trump sent a clear message: he will not relent in his mandate to secure our borders, rid our country of dangerous criminals, lower prices, end the globalist trade policies that have ripped off American workers and businesses for decades, and Make America Great Again.</p>
<p><strong>Here are the top moments you missed:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919045057820168238"><strong>On prices</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “Prices are down on groceries. Prices are down for oil. Prices are down for all energy. Prices are down at tremendous numbers for gasoline.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919021066699075897"><strong>On securing the border</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “It’s really secure. When you say that, doesn’t it just sound good after being abused for years by an incompetent President?”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919028908466315314"><strong>On protecting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “We’re not cutting Medicaid, we’re not cutting Medicare, and we’re not cutting Social Security.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919022289397452899"><strong>On deporting violent criminal illegal immigrants</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “We have thousands of people … some of the worst, most dangerous on earth — and I was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919105674165833752"><strong>On tariffs</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “Remember — there are no tariffs if you build your product here. It’s very easy. It’s very simple.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919023203856286203"><strong>On the auto industry</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “What about the car business? They’re going to make a fortune because of the tariffs. The head of the union, who was no fan of mine … He’s saying, ‘Wow, what Trump’s done for the automobile, I can’t believe it … We’ve been waiting 40 years for somebody to do what Trump is doing.’”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919124111860625610"><strong>On Iran</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “I want Iran to be really successful, really great, really fantastic. The only thing they can’t have is a nuclear weapon … The Iranian people are incredible, I just don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon because the world will be destroyed.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919121688886714460"><strong>On DOGE</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “They found $160 billion worth of fraud, waste, and abuse. I think he’s done an amazing job. I think his people have done an incredible job … We’re not finished yet … He’s leaving behind some very brilliant people.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919020763912220928"><strong>On the border emergency</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out — and we have some judges that want everybody to go to court … We have millions of people. We’re going to have millions of court cases?”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919021725146140677"><strong>On trade</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “We’re making a lot of money. We’re doing great. Again, we were losing more than $5 billion a day … We’re going to be at a point soon where we’re making money every day.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919025431648346599"><strong>On peace in Ukraine</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “I do believe we’re closer with one party and maybe not as close with the other … We’re talking tremendous hatred between these two men.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919046509900751019"><strong>On China tariffs</strong></a><strong>:</strong> “At some point I’m going to lower them because otherwise you could never do business with them — and they want to do business very much. Their economy is really doing badly. Their economy is collapsing.”</li>
</ul>

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title: Elbridge Colby, l’homme derrière la politique chinoise de Trump ?
author: ;Mike Whitney
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<p>Les droits de douane imposés par Trump font partie d’une stratégie à plusieurs volets qui consiste à empêcher la Chine de devenir la puissance dominante en Asie. La composante militaire de cette stratégie est conçue pour fonctionner en parallèle avec …</p>


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title: Trumpland
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<p>Les fascistes chrétiens et les oligarques ravis de remettre à Donald Trump son stylo et ses décrets ne font pas la guerre à l’État profond, à la gauche radicale, ni ne cherchent à nous protéger des <em>“antisémites”</em>. Ils font …</p>


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Pourquoi les médias se trompent-ils toujours autant dans l’affaire des ambulanciers assassinés à Gaza?

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<p>L’exécution par Israël de 15 secouristes il y a un mois est incontestablement établie. Alors pourquoi <i>The Guardian</i> et d’autres médias sont-ils toujours aussi prompts à brouiller les pistes ?</p>
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title: En Equateur, des élections contestables et contestées
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<p>En Equateur, le président sortant Daniel Noboa a été déclaré réélu par le Conseil national électoral (CNE), le 13 avril, avec 55,63 % des suffrages. La candidate de gauche Luisa González, qu’il n’avait devancée que d’une très courte tête au </p></div>…</article>


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title: It Was Never About Hostages. It Was Never About Hamas.
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*0y9DNRbQDa-MkDofHsN4bw.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSiOHQiVB8"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FLZSiOHQiVB8%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLZSiOHQiVB8&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FLZSiOHQiVB8%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/4ca5ed0132953e80b7e9f7bd3647649c/href">https://medium.com/media/4ca5ed0132953e80b7e9f7bd3647649c/href</a></iframe><p>Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/01/middleeast/netanyahu-calls-defeating-israels-enemies-the-supreme-objective-intl">said on Thursday</a> that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his top priority, suggesting instead that defeating Hamas should take precedence over a hostage deal.</p><p>“We have many objectives, many goals in this war,” Netanyahu said. “We want to bring back all of our hostages. That is a very important goal. In war, there is a supreme objective. And that supreme objective is victory over our enemies. And that is what we will achieve.”</p><p>Nothing the prime minister said here is true or valid — unless by “enemies” he means “all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip”.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/Antiwarcom/status/1918338438459449702&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/fe212f6bf8a5305295310903309ac07e/href">https://medium.com/media/fe212f6bf8a5305295310903309ac07e/href</a></iframe><p>Netanyahu has been fairly transparent about the fact that Israel’s ultimate goal in Gaza is neither freeing the hostages nor defeating Hamas, but seizing Palestinian territory and removing its Palestinian inhabitants. He <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/04/28/netanyahu-vows-israel-will-maintain-military-control-of-gaza/">has openly said</a> that Israel will occupy Gaza via military force, completely ruling out the possibility of any form of Palestinian government for the enclave. He <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/free-gaza-from-hamas-really-means">has openly said</a> he wants to enact President Donald Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza, which explicitly entails <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-goes-all-in-on-stealing-gaza">removing “all” Palestinians</a> and <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/10/trump-says-no-right-of-return-for-palestinians-in-gaza-under-his-plan/">never allowing them to return</a>.</p><p>So they’ve made this perfectly clear. This isn’t about Hamas, except insofar as an armed resistance group will make it difficult to forcibly remove all Palestinians from Gaza. And it certainly isn’t about hostages.</p><p>And yet, bizarrely, this is how the western political-media class continues to frame this onslaught. They call it Israel’s “war with Hamas”, when it’s nothing other than an undisguised ethnic cleansing operation. They prattle on about October 7, hostages, and terrorism, even though it has already been made abundantly clear that this has nothing to do with any of those things. They act as though the admission was simply never made.</p><p>There is absolutely no excuse for continuing to babble about hostages and Hamas after the US and Israel said the goal is the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza. They told you what this is really about. They said it. With their face holes. They said it right to you. End of debate.</p><p>Israel has been seeking ways to purge Gaza of Palestinians <a href="https://x.com/Louis_Allday/status/1917165153851760697">for generations</a>. That’s all this has ever been about. Not October 7. Not hostages. Not Hamas. Not terrorism. Everything about Israel’s operations in Gaza have indicated that their real goal is to remove Palestinians from a Palestinian territory and not to free hostages or defeat Hamas. And then when Trump took office, they started openly admitting it.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/Antiwarcom/status/1889045416387449060&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/f5e469ed73a6ab3778ca273af7366fe1/href">https://medium.com/media/f5e469ed73a6ab3778ca273af7366fe1/href</a></iframe><p>How is this not the whole entire conversation every time Gaza comes up? How is this not the beginning, middle and end of every single discussion?</p><p>This is like a cop looking right into someone’s phone camera while strangling a black man to death and saying “I am killing this man because I am racist and I want to kill black people,” and then afterward everyone’s still saying “resisting arrest” and “we don’t know what happened before the video started recording”. He said what he was doing and what his motives were with his own mouth.</p><p>You don’t get to babble about Hamas, October 7 or hostages in defense of Israel’s actions in Gaza anymore. That is not a thing. If you want to defend Israel’s actions in Gaza, the sole topic of conversation is whether or not it’s okay to forcibly purge an entire population from their historic homeland by systematically bombing, shooting and starving them while destroying their civilian infrastructure, solely because of their ethnicity.</p><p>That is what the discussion is about. Not anything else. That and that only.</p><p>________________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/"><em>Click here for links for my mailing list, social media, books, merch, and audio/video versions of each article</em></a><em>. All my work is </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/reminder-all-my-work-may-be-freely"><em>free to bootleg and use</em></a><em> in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. All works co-authored with my husband Tim Foley.</em></p><p>Bitcoin donations: 1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Netanyahu,_January_2024.jpg">Feature image via Wikimedia Commons</a>.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&amp;referrerSource=full_rss&amp;postId=3da608218ebf" width="1" height="1" alt="">

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title: Alastair Crooke : Trump Can't Seem to Make a Deal.
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title: The Q&amp;A: Kathleen deLaski, &quot;Who Needs College Anymore?&quot;
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<p><strong><em>Durante la visita del Primo Ministro giapponese Shigeru Ishiba a Hà Nội, Vietnam e Giappone hanno siglato accordi in politica, sicurezza ed economia, con intese in materia di semiconduttori, energia nucleare e infrastrutture, rafforzando una cooperazione strategica per stabilità e sviluppo regionale.</em></strong></p>
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<p>La visita di tre giorni del Primo Ministro nipponico Shigeru Ishiba a Hà Nội, dal 27 al 29 aprile, ha consolidato le relazioni bilaterali tra Giappone e Vietnam, che hanno stipulato un Partenariato Strategico Globale per la Pace e la Prosperità in Asia e nel Mondo, estendendo la collaborazione su numerosi fronti (politico, economico e strategico) di vitale importanza per la stabilità regionale.</p>
<p>L’arrivo di Ishiba a Hà Nội è stato salutato da un caloroso benvenuto al suo aereo all’aeroporto internazionale di Nội Bài, dove il Premier vietnamita Phạm Minh Chính e sua moglie Trần Thị Vân Anh lo hanno accolto con omaggi floreali e un’esibizione tradizionale che ha sottolineato l’importanza dell’evento. In quell’occasione, il Primo Ministro vietnamita ha ribadito come “<em>la cooperazione con il Giappone sia oggi più vitale che mai, in un contesto internazionale segnato da incertezze e rivalità geopolitiche</em>”.</p>
<p>Nel primo giorno di visita, Ishiba è stato ricevuto in udienza dal Presidente della Repubblica Lương Cường, presso il Palazzo presidenziale. Durante l’incontro è emersa la comune volontà di elevare ulteriormente il livello di fiducia politica e cooperazione strategica, con il Vietnam pronto a supportare il Giappone nella sua “<em>visione di un Indo-Pacifico libero e aperto</em>” e il Giappone intenzionato a sostenere il percorso di sviluppo sostenibile del Vietnam.</p>
<p>Le delegazioni guidate da Phạm Minh Chính e da Shigeru Ishiba hanno quindi tenuto colloqui in cui si è discusso dell’avanzamento della cooperazione di sicurezza, difesa e politica estera. Ishiba ha sottolineato che “<em>il Vietnam rappresenta un pilastro fondamentale per la sicurezza dell’area e la stabilità delle rotte marittime</em>” mentre il Premier vietnamita ha proposto di istituire un dialogo trilaterale Vietnam-Giappone-Australia per coordinare la difesa marittima nel Mar Cinese Orientale e nel Mar Cinese Meridionale (denominato Mar Orientale dai vietnamiti).</p>
<p>Sul piano economico, è stato ribadito il target di far crescere il volume degli scambi bilaterali a 50 miliardi di dollari entro il 2030, puntando a diversificare la cooperazione oltre i settori tradizionali. Commentando la visita di Ishiba, Kurihara Hirohide, illustre studioso giapponese, ha definito questa partnership “<em>una delle più vitali per il Giappone e un modello di cooperazione strategica tra Paesi in via di sviluppo e Paesi sviluppati</em>”. Gli accordi siglati in materia di tecnologia dei semiconduttori e di energia nucleare testimoniano infatti il carattere avanzato e ambizioso dell’intesa: le due parti hanno deciso di avviare congiuntamente la costruzione di un impianto di arricchimento dell’uranio per scopi civili in Vietnam e di istituire un centro di ricerca congiunto per lo sviluppo di circuiti integrati a micro-architettura giapponese.</p>
<p>Sempre in ambito industriale, le due parti hanno convenuto di potenziare la produzione vietnamita di componentistica destinata alle case automobilistiche giapponesi e di estendere la collaborazione nel settore dei trasporti ferroviari ad alta velocità. È stata inoltre annunciata la nascita di un fondo bilaterale per sostenere le piccole e medie imprese che intendano entrare nella catena di fornitura del Giappone, rafforzando l’interscambio di tecnologie e know-how.</p>
<p>Parlando dell’accordo sull’energia nucleare, il Primo Ministro Ishiba ha evidenziato l’importanza di propiziare “<em>un salto di qualità nel settore dell’energia nucleare civile, in cui il Giappone vanta competenze di eccellenza e il Vietnam ha esigenze crescenti per garantire la sicurezza energetica</em>”. Dal canto suo, il Primo Ministro Chính ha richiamato il sostegno ricevuto dal Giappone nel corso del <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/i-paesi-dellasean-puntano-sullenergia-nucleare/">programma nucleare civile varato dal suo governo</a>, definendolo “<em>un pilastro per la transizione energetica del nostro Paese</em>”.</p>
<p>Al termine di ogni giornata di lavoro, Phạm Minh Chính e Ishiba hanno incontrato i media nel corso di una conferenza stampa congiunta, in cui hanno tracciato un bilancio estremamente positivo della visita. Tra i punti salienti, l’appello congiunto a rafforzare la cooperazione multilaterale nell’area ASEAN-Giappone e la volontà di promuovere iniziative di capacity building nel settore digitale e dell’innovazione, per favorire lo sviluppo di startup tecnologiche vietnamite con l’affiancamento degli esperti giapponesi.</p>
<p>La tappa successiva ha visto l’incontro di Ishiba con il Segretario Generale del Partito Comunista Tô Lâm, che ha messo in evidenza il “<em>carattere straordinariamente sostanziale degli sviluppi bilaterali</em>” e ha invitato il Giappone a cooperare nella realizzazione di infrastrutture portuali smart e nella gestione congiunta delle risorse idriche transfrontaliere.</p>
<p>Il culmine della visita è stato rappresentato dalla firma di un comunicato congiunto, in cui Vietnam e Giappone si sono impegnati a consolidare il loro Partenariato Strategico Globale per la pace e la prosperità nel nuovo contesto internazionale. Nel testo si sottolinea come “<em>solo attraverso una cooperazione sostanziale, fondata sulla fiducia politica e su obiettivi condivisi, potremo affrontare le sfide globali quali la sicurezza alimentare, il cambiamento climatico e le nuove minacce cibernetiche</em>”.</p>
<p>Questa visita del Primo Ministro Shigeru Ishiba conferma non solo l’importanza strategica del Vietnam per la politica di sicurezza e sviluppo del Giappone, ma indica anche una svolta nell’approccio di Tokyo verso la macro-regione dell’Indo-Pacifico (non a caso, Ishiba ha successivamente effettuato una visita anche nelle Filippine). L’ampliamento della cooperazione in ambiti ad alta tecnologia, dall’energia nucleare ai semiconduttori, testimonia la volontà di entrambi i governi di costruire una partnership resilienti e in grado di rispondere alle sfide del XXI secolo. Con la firma di numerosi accordi e la programmazione di progetti concreti, i due governi hanno messo le basi per un rapporto sempre più stretto, destinato a influenzare positivamente l’architettura di sicurezza e lo sviluppo economico dell’intera regione.</p>
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title: Pakistan e India verso un conflitto. Cui prodest?
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<p><strong><em>Il Pakistan afferma che l’India stia preparando un “attacco militare a breve” e, se fosse vero, la regione dell’Asia meridionale precipiterebbe verso la catastrofe.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Il pretesto ufficiale? Un sanguinoso attacco a Pahalgam, in Kashmir, che ha ucciso 26 civili lo scorso 22 aprile. Ma se questo fosse solo l’ultimo “casus belli” di una strategia atlantista vecchia di decenni, pensata per fomentare il fervore nazionalista e distogliere l’attenzione da crisi più profonde?</p>
<p>L’avvertimento del Pakistan è netto: qualsiasi aggressione indiana verrà affrontata con la forza. Entrambe le parti sono intrappolate in una “guerra fredda” regionale all’ombra del riallineamento globale. La Cina e la Russia osservano preoccupate, invitando alla moderazione e proponendosi come mediatrici. E gli Stati Uniti d’America? Sorridono sullo sfondo, desiderosi di un’instabilità che mantenga divisa l’Eurasia e continui a “gonfiare” i profitti del complesso militare-industriale.</p>
<p>Il tempismo non potrebbe essere più sospetto. Il dollaro vacilla. L’Occidente sprofonda nel declino morale ed economico. I BRICS+ emergono sempre più come l’unica alternativa all’indegna governance mondiale nordamericana. Che tutto questo finisca in una scaramuccia o in una spirale più ampia, vi è una certezza: quando l’ordine unipolare vacilla, il caos diventa moneta corrente e la guerra diventa possibile.</p>
<p>In una manifestazione pubblica organizzata in fretta e furia in Bihar, dove si terranno le elezioni dell’assemblea statale entro la fine dell’anno, il Primo Ministro indiano Modi ha portato la retorica bellicosa a un nuovo livello: “Oggi, dal suolo del Bihar, dico al mondo intero: l’India identificherà, rintraccerà e punirà ogni terrorista e i suoi sostenitori. Li inseguiremo fino ai confini del mondo”. Ha aggiunto: “La punizione sarà significativa e severa, cosa a cui questi terroristi non avrebbero mai nemmeno pensato”. Il ministro della Difesa Rajnath Singh ha affermato: “I responsabili di tali atti riceveranno una forte risposta nel prossimo futuro. Non puniremo solo i mostri che hanno compiuto questo atto di brutalità e barbarie. Raggiungeremo anche coloro che si sono nascosti dietro una tenda per portare a termine questa cospirazione. Gli aggressori e i loro padroni saranno presi di mira”. Allo stesso modo, il Ministro degli Interni dell’Unione, Amit Shah, ha dichiarato: “I colpevoli di questo vile attacco terroristico non saranno risparmiati. E con una nazione che osserva attentamente, queste parole sono più di una promessa: sono un avvertimento” (1).</p>
<p>La tempistica dell’attacco di Pahalgam merita un’analisi approfondita. È avvenuto in un momento in cui il Primo Ministro Modi era in visita in Arabia Saudita, mentre il Vicepresidente statunitense J.D. Vance si trovava in India con la sua famiglia e poco prima che Donald Trump annunciasse una sospensione dei dazi a Nuova Delhi. Inoltre, mentre le elezioni in Bihar sono previste per ottobre-novembre 2025, molti Stati chiave come Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu e Bengala Occidentale dovrebbero andare alle urne nel 2026. Sul fronte interno, si sono registrate forti proteste a livello nazionale da parte dei musulmani in merito al Waqf Act, recentemente approvato, perché considerato l’ennesima legge anti-musulmana dopo il Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Il Governo indiano ha ricevuto un forte incentivo a creare distrazione e distogliere l’attenzione pubblica. Dopo aver incriminato il Pakistan senza una vera indagine e senza fornire prove, l’India ha proclamato una serie di misure ritorsive. In particolare, ha deciso di sospendere il Trattato sulle acque dell’Indo (IWT) del 1960 e ha annunciato la chiusura dell’Integrated Check Post di Attari. A tutti coloro che avevano attraversato il confine con visti validi è stato consigliato di rientrare attraverso quella rotta entro il 1° maggio 2025. L’India ha aggiunto che ai cittadini pakistani non sarà consentito viaggiare nel Paese con i visti SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES) e che tutti i visti rilasciati a cittadini pakistani sono considerati annullati, mentre ai cittadini pakistani attualmente in India sono state concesse solo 48 ore per andarsene.</p>
<p>I Consiglieri per la Difesa/Militare, Navale e Aerea dell’Alto Commissariato del Pakistan a Nuova Delhi sono stati dichiarati “persona non grata” e hanno avuto una settimana di tempo per lasciare l’India. Nuova Delhi ha anche deciso di ritirare i propri Consiglieri per la Difesa/Marina/Aerea dall’Alto Commissariato indiano a Islamabad.</p>
<p>In risposta, il Pakistan, a seguito della riunione del Comitato per la Sicurezza Nazionale, ha respinto la decisione dell’India di “congelare” l’IWT, sottolineando che non esiste alcuna clausola nell’accordo che ne consenta la sospensione unilaterale. Il Pakistan ha avvertito che qualsiasi deviazione delle acque sarebbe stata considerata un “atto di guerra” e ha deciso di chiudere il suo spazio aereo all’India. Sebbene il Pakistan avesse già bloccato gli scambi bilaterali a seguito delle misure illegali e unilaterali dell’India del 5 agosto 2019 riguardanti l’IIOJK (la Regione del Jammu-Kashmir), ha ora annunciato la sospensione di tutte le forme di commercio, inclusi gli scambi con Paesi terzi attraverso il territorio pakistano (2).</p>
<p>Il Pakistan ha inoltre chiesto ai cittadini indiani di lasciare il Paese, ad eccezione dei Sikh Yatri e ha osservato di riservarsi il diritto di sospendere gli accordi bilaterali, incluso quello di Simla. Il Pakistan ha poi espresso la sua ferma determinazione a difendere la propria sovranità e integrità territoriale da qualsiasi “disavventura”. Negli ultimi giorni, le crescenti tensioni bilaterali sono state accompagnate da segnalazioni di un intensificarsi degli scontri a fuoco lungo la Linea di Controllo (LoC).</p>
<p>Secondo Islamabad, sarà solo questione di tempo prima che il mondo apprenda che anche questo attacco a Pahalgam faceva parte della consueta strategia della destabilizzazione attraverso un’operazione sotto falsa bandiera. Il Pakistan, impegnato in una risoluta lotta contro il terrorismo proveniente dal suo confine occidentale, difficilmente può permettersi di aprire un nuovo fronte sui suoi confini orientali: le accuse indiane appaiono effettivamente prive di logica.</p>
<p>Il problema è che se non verrà condotta un’inchiesta internazionale neutrale e indipendente sull’accaduto – come richiesto subito da Pechino – per verificare le eventuali responsabilità di “parti terze” nell’attentato, Nuova Delhi e Islamabad continueranno a scambiarsi accuse reciproche, alimentando la retorica nazionalista e dirigendosi verso un conflitto aperto estremamente pericoloso, trattandosi di due potenze nucleari. Esercitazioni di guerra dell’esercito di Islamabad sono attualmente in corso nelle aree di Sialkot, Narowal, Zafarwal e Shakargarh al confine tra Pakistan e India.</p>
<p>Si tratta, quindi, di un banco di prova importante per la strategia d’integrazione eurasiatica, in quanto India e Pakistan appartengono entrambe all’Organizzazione per la Cooperazione di Shangai; peraltro, Islamabad ha da tempo manifestato la propria disponibilità ad entrare nei BRICS e a partecipare al Corridoio Internazionale Nord-Sud, iniziative alle quali l’India ha già aderito da anni.</p>
<p>(1) Mahwish Hafeez, <em>Pahalgam Incident: Another False Flag Operation?</em>, ISSI, Islamabad, 29 aprile 2025.<br>
(2) Stefano Vernole, <em>KASHMIR SENZA PACE: UN FOCUS SUL DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE</em>, <a href="http://www.cese-m.eu/">www.cese-m.eu</a>, 7 febbraio 2025.</p>
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*0_j-7QJJAMC7cv5L19k9fw.png"></figure><h4><strong>Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix</strong></h4><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7auuVND3dO0"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F7auuVND3dO0%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7auuVND3dO0&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F7auuVND3dO0%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/f7122016f74b4e0eda97fb9339108f42/href">https://medium.com/media/f7122016f74b4e0eda97fb9339108f42/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>Israeli soldiers <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/4/israeli-soldiers-settlers-harass-palestinian-activist-featured-in-bbc-film">have been harassing</a> a Palestinian activist who appeared in Louis Theroux’s recent documentary The Settlers to talk about Israel’s apartheid abuses in the occupied West Bank. Issa Amro <a href="https://x.com/Issaamro/status/1918722495273640412">shared footage</a> of IDF troops raiding his home over the weekend, days after Theroux’s film debuted on the BBC.</p><p>Israelis not only <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/2/gaza-war-deadliest-ever-for-journalists-says-report">murder journalists</a>, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/israeli-soldiers-raid-al-jazeera-office-in-ramallah">attack journalistic institutions</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/26/bbc-jeremy-bowen-accuses-israel-blocking-journalists-gaza">block journalists</a> from entering the Gaza Strip, they also persecute Palestinian civilians who speak with journalists.</p><p>If you haven’t yet watched The Settlers, I highly recommend <a href="https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1917008203402932419">doing so</a>. It’s so damning that I’ve seen people expressing astonishment that it made it past the BBC’s censors, but really, what’s to censor? It’s an hour of Israelis telling a video camera what Israelis think in their own words.</p><p>One of the best ways to tell the truth about the real Israel is to just point a camera at these freaks and let them tell it themselves. Theroux’s interviewing style lends itself particularly well to this type of exposure.</p><p>❖</p><p>A ship trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza was <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/02/israel-bombs-humanitarian-aid-flotilla-on-way-to-gaza/">drone bombed by Israel</a> near Malta on Friday. Activist Greta Thunberg was preparing to board the ship to travel with it to its destination.</p><p>Which is just wild to think about. Things are so fucked up on this timeline that there is a non-zero probability that Israel ends up assassinating Greta Thunberg.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/657/0*d6QPxoG7Ae1jDkce"></figure><p>Imagine the western reaction if Iran had bombed a humanitarian aid ship trying to feed starving civilians.</p><p>Imagine the reaction if Chinese forces were caught massacring medical workers in ambulances.</p><p>Imagine the reaction if Russia bombed an international humanitarian aid convoy in clearly marked vehicles.</p><p>It would be all we’d hear about for weeks.</p><p>❖</p><p>My social media feeds are filling up <a href="https://x.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/1917733617721118929">with footage</a> of <a href="https://x.com/tparsi/status/1919134283316212086">skeletal starving children</a> in Gaza. If we had sane and responsible news media in the west, this would be the lead story in every outlet and publication. But we do not have sane and responsible news media. We have propaganda services disguised as news media.</p><p>People who continue to support Israel are only able to do so because they actively avoid watching the video footage the rest of us are watching.</p><p>❖</p><p>If I built a home and then discovered that it could only remain standing if I constantly massacred children, I would simply change my living arrangements.</p><p>I would not claim my building “has a right to exist”.</p><p>I would not spend years explaining why my child massacres are okay.</p><p>I would not spend decades accusing anyone who criticized my child massacres of unfair discrimination against me and my family.</p><p>I would simply change my building so that its existence no longer required me to routinely massacre children. If I could not find a way to restructure my building in this way, I would move.</p><p>I would not do this because I am a remarkably kind and special person. I would do it because I am not a psychopath.</p><p>Only a psychopath would want to continue living in that kind of building. Only a psychopath would want that kind of building to remain standing.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*qax_I250fTCbqSBsqNMiVA.png"></figure><p>I <a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1918782323480567861">said the preceding on Twitter</a> yesterday and Israel apologists immediately came in yelling at me for saying evil things about Israel, but what’s funny is that I never mentioned Israel once; I just talked about a building. They only knew I was actually talking about Israel because of all the stuff I said about constantly massacring civilians.</p><p>Gets ’em every time.</p><p>❖</p><p>It’s good that Trump’s “MAGA” base opposes war with Iran so forcefully, but it’s pretty revealing how absent they’ve been on Trump’s butchery in Yemen and Gaza. They’re not opposed to war or mass murder, they’re just opposed to fighting people who are strong enough to fight back.</p><p>___________________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/"><em>Click here for links for my mailing list, social media, books, merch, and audio/video versions of each article</em></a><em>. All my work is </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/reminder-all-my-work-may-be-freely"><em>free to bootleg and use</em></a><em> in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. All works co-authored with my husband Tim Foley.</em></p><p>Bitcoin donations: 1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2</p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandfordawards/48053583963/">Feature image by Claire Boxall (Public Domain)</a>.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&amp;referrerSource=full_rss&amp;postId=ba86724ded6e" width="1" height="1" alt="">

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title: PERRINS: Where is the Irish Farage?
author: ;Laura Perrins
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NigelFarage.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>There was a classic piece of journalistic gaslighting in the Irish <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/04/28/the-idea-that-immigration-fuels-our-housing-crisis-might-seem-intuitive-but-its-wrong/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/04/28/the-idea-that-immigration-fuels-our-housing-crisis-might-seem-intuitive-but-its-wrong/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1746526096661000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3GPQrzOCvF1ZthxilqunQT">Times</a> last week.</strong> It said that immigration is not fuelling Ireland’s housing crisis and that in fact by any measure, “immigrants come out much worse than Irish – born households” (you sense the Irish Times would like it to be the other way around). It was also noted that “here in Ireland, while we don’t have a prominent anti-immigrant party, grassroots and online-based groups appear to be growing in size and confidence.” That’s exactly how FF, FG and the Irish Times like it.</p>
<p>There is no coherent anti-immigration party in Ireland. Unlike the UK where Reform have just enjoyed a huge victory in the local elections and gained an MP. Reform gained 677 seats, won eight councils from the Tories, two from Labour, and won two mayors. They also won the byelection of Runcorn and Helsby by just 6 votes. Labour had won this seat at the general election with a majority of 14,696 and more than 50% of the vote. Reform’s narrow win set a new record for the smallest majority at a parliamentary by-election since the end of the second world war.</p>
<p>What of Ireland? Just yesterday an opinion poll in the Sunday Independent put housing and immigration at the top of voters’ concerns by a clear margin (they are, of course, linked). Do not expect action on either issue anytime soon. Ireland is locked into the European Migration Pact which means border control is out of our hands.</p>
<p>And we do not have to rely on the opinion polls. Two weekends ago thousands of people took to the streets of Dublin to protest the current immigration policy. This was a culmination of lots of local protests that have taken place in various towns over the last few months.</p>
<p>This is how the Irish Times reported <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/04/26/anti-immigration-protest-marking-easter-rising-gathers-crowds-in-dublin/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/04/26/anti-immigration-protest-marking-easter-rising-gathers-crowds-in-dublin/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1746526096661000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1mH9_U_aQDBNPva6GuIuu1">it</a> “Thousands take part in anti-immigration protest in Dublin. Protestors carried Tricolour flags, wore ‘Make Ireland Great Again’ caps and shouted ‘get them out’.”</p>
<p>The problem for the Irish anti-immigration movement is that they struggle to turn this protest movement into electoral success, first because there is no competent organiser that doesn’t repel the middle ground, and secondly even if there was one the vote gets sliced and diced by the ludicrous voting system of proportional representation with a single transferrable vote.</p>
<p>This adoption of proportional representation with a single transferrable vote after Independence was a big mistake. The new Republic adopted the British parliamentary style for the Dail (but with blue benches instead of green), retained all of the English common law and statutory law until repealed or replaced but for some reason adopted the PR system of voting which I have long believed is a bad idea.</p>
<p>Ireland with this dangerous continental voting system means that any sane organiser who can somehow bring together the rag-bag of characters in the anti-immigration movement will have their party split at the first sign of dissent. There will be split after split as the purity test becomes stricter. This then splits the vote because of the voting system.</p>
<p>In the UK there were complaints at the last general election that the Reform vote share was not converted into seats in the House of Commons and therefore Britain should have PR. This is an argument for lunatics. What ‘first past post’ does is say to a party, if you want to win you have to be disciplined, serious, organised and in the words of Malcolm Tucker you have to really, really want power.</p>
<p>And Nigel Farage MP, leader of Reform, really wants number 10. Nigel is as “hungry as a Hutu in the jungle with a big machete.”</p>
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<p>Labour although disciplined have their problems. It is not helped when you have Lucy Powell MP running around BBC Radio 4 Any Questions dismissing the problem of Muslim rape gangs as ‘trumpets and dog whistles.’ That’s three days of damage control right <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ew9jnj2p1o" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ew9jnj2p1o&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1746526096661000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ZRl_Yy5SubV3Gic_fpLBi">there.</a></p>
<p>As for the Tories, they are so useless they are not even worth writing about. Their only hope is Robert Jenrick MP who I expect to be the one leading them in the next general election.</p>
<p>So that leaves Reform. Yesterday I read an interview with one Zia Yusuf, the chairman of Reform, in the Sunday <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-young-need-a-moral-re-education-hdbjgtn20" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-young-need-a-moral-re-education-hdbjgtn20&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1746526096661000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ngnpVIWvKJSMflD3h-d7i">Times.</a> Yusuf made a six figure donation to the party which was just the start.</p>
<p>The Sunday Times, “Zia Yusuf is the chairman of Reform and the man behind the machine that is ushering in a new era in British politics. For most of his adult life, the 39-year-old voted Conservative. He is a former Tory party member. But now his main ambition is to make Farage the country’s next prime minister. In the party’s turquoise boardroom, he gushes: “Look, there’s no two ways about it. Nigel, I think, is the most extraordinary British politician of our lifetime.”</p>
<p>Also, “Speaking about the party’s by-election victory in Runcorn &amp; Helsby which Reform won by just six votes, Yusuf, <strong>smartly dressed in a dark suit and crisp white shirt,</strong> says in years gone by the party would have lost. “But the ending was different this time because we have built something quietly in the background, without bigging it up to people, which is supported by real infrastructure and machinery,” he says. “What we have done in the space of ten months is something we’re extremely proud of. One of my jobs as chairman was to professionalise the party. But what does that actually mean? It means turning it into a really formidable election-winning machine and I want to be really clear, we’re just getting started.”</p>
<p>But this is what it takes to run a successful political party – professionalism, organisation, infrastructure and the knowledge that it all must be done while wearing a dark suit and a crisp white shirt and tie. (In all the photographs, it is all suits and ties, not an open neck collar or rolled up sleeves in sight. Praise be to God.)</p>
<p>Reform has plans for a patriotic school curriculum, a ban on transgender ideology in the classroom and two-year undergraduate degrees. Farage has also pledged to establish a mini-version of Elon Musk’s cost cutting Department of Government efficiency (DOGE) in the 10 local councils his party now controls, where working from home, climate projects, and diversity and inclusion schemes, will be banned.</p>
<p>And on the big issue of immigration, the only issue voters are really coming out for and voted Reform, – the talk is tough. “Among the more radical proposals being drawn up by Reform is a bold zero-tolerance plan to deport all illegal immigrants in five years in a move he compares to that undertaken by Barack Obama.”</p>
<p>There is also talk of declaring a national emergency in order to get to grips with the scale of the problem. It is critical then that these proposals are included in the Reform manifesto when the general election eventually comes around.</p>
<p>Irish voters who believe immigration is too high can only look across the Irish sea and ask, where is the Irish Nigel Farage? Currently, the anti-immigration movement is exactly where the establishment wants them: on the streets, well away from the levers of power.</p>

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guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/civilization-versus-false-religious
title: Civilization, versus False Religious Justification for Destroying Civilization
author: ;Magdalena Therrien
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<h5>Utilizing a transcription kindly supplied by Ginger Sladky.</h5>
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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138872
title: Majorie Taylor Greene Says Trump is Losing Support
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<p>This is US Representatie Marjorie Taylor Greene: the Firebrand Republican Member of the house:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1918351681374581181">https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1918351681374581181</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>She says Trump is losing support.</p>


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title: Humans at work
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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138863
title: Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher reveals alarming new data on mRNA-driven mass harm and death
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<p>Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher reveals alarming new data on mRNA-driven mass harm and death</p>
<p><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/data-time-cancel-mrna/5885742">https://www.globalresearch.ca/data-time-cancel-mrna/5885742</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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title: If you took the Covid “vaccine,” you worsened your chance of survival
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<p>If you took the Covid “vaccine,” you worsened your chance of survival</p>
<p>If you took the Pfizer Covid “vaccine,” you face a 37% higher chance of “vaccine” caused death than if you took the Moderna “vaccine.”</p>
<p>In Florida the Pfizer death shot killed 847 people per 100,000.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The Moderna death shot killed 618 people per 100,000.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-study-pfizer-recipients-face-37-higher-risk-death-moderna-recipients/5885727">https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-study-pfizer-recipients-face-37-higher-risk-death-moderna-recipients/5885727</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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title: Trump Is Destroying America, but He Is Making Israel Great
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<p>Trump Is Destroying America, but He Is Making Israel Great</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>Presidents, like corporate CEOs and everyone else, have a limited span of control.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They can’t know everything or focus on everything.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Most presidential decisions are just acceptances of subordinate’s decisions. I know it.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I have been there.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I have seen it, both the President of the United States and the CEOs and boards of corporations are dependent on information that comes from below. And often in the case of government the information from below is from outside.</p>
<p>We are now witnessing this in the Trump regime. Real ID is a George W. Bush/Cheney regime measure from the fake “war on terror” that was used by Washington to remove Arab governments opposed to Greater Israel.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Until Trump, no president wanted the flack of imposing it on “free” American citizens, thus revealing to them how unfree they are.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>But the police state crowd see Trump’s concern with illegals as an opportunity to finally get their old handiwork from the “war on terror” Implemented.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>And Trump has obliged.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>We are also witnessing the ruling establishment’s success in removing Trump’s people in the hopes of replacing them with one of theirs.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Having learned nothing from failing to stand by General Flynn, Trump’s national security adviser for ten minutes in Trump’s first term, Trump has repeated his mistake.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He kicked his national security advisor upstairs to be US Ambassador to the UN.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Why?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Because someone mistakenly included the Jewish editor of the leftwing magazine, The Atlantic, in on a meeting about bombing Yemen. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Clearly, the invitee list was a staff responsibility.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The real problem is that Atlantic editor Goldberg did not announce at the meeting that he doubted he was supposed to be present in a national security discussion.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Instead he kept silent, took notes, and published an article.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I do think that his dishonest behavior displaying a total lack of integrity is indictable.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Instead of kicking his national security advisor upstairs, Trump should have had AG Bondi arrest and prosecute Goldberg for revealing national security secrets. But Trump would be too afraid to treat an Israeli-protected person that way. So Trump sacrificed his national security advisor.</p>
<p>Trump’s failure signals weakness or inattention, and now they are after his Defense Secretary. Same kind of charge. Hegseth let some confidential information out via some communication service to the delight of the Israel Lobby, which is using the mistake to have Hegseth removed.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></p>
<p>People are confused about this, because Hegseth is a Zionist, a full-time supporter of Israel. What got Hegseth in trouble is that he listened to knowledgable Pentagon personnel who explained to him that a US war with Iran for Israel was fraught with danger. He was advised, correctly, that once the US ignited a war Washington had no ability to control it.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The consequence could be the destruction of Washington’s bases in the Middle East and loss of every Navy aircraft carrier in the vicinity.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Hegseth backed off, Israel hit the roof, and Hegseth had to fire the advisers who told him the truth.</p>
<p>According to the liberal/left, the Democrats, and the media, Trump is tyrannical strength itself, imposing dictatorship on America, but neither Trump nor his administration have the strength to stand up to Israel.</p>
<p>What Trump is going to do is to make Israel great, not America.</p>
<p>All over the Western world it is already the case in many countries, such as Great Britain and Germany that criticism of Israel or of Jews is a criminal offense, and it is becoming the same in every Western country, eventually even in Russia. In America the Trump regime is deporting students who protest Israel’s American-supported genocide of the Palestinians.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Long ago Israeli propagandists convinced Americans that every Palestinian, even 3-year old children, was a terrorist who wore bomb vests in order to kill Israelis.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>All the while Israel killed Palestinians, 3-year olds included, by the bomb load.</p>
<p>Even in the Red State of Texas, if you protest Israel’s genocide of Palestine, you are ineligible to have a state contract.</p>
<p>America is totally owned by Israel.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>So is Trump.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>So how can America be “made great again”?</p>
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https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/05/trump-is-destroying-america-but-he-is-making-israel-great/


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<p>Trump Claims US Did ‘More Than Any Other Country’ to Win World War II</p>
<p><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20250502/trump-claims-us-did-more-than-any-other-country-to-win-world-war-ii-1121965577.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20250502/trump-claims-us-did-more-than-any-other-country-to-win-world-war-ii-1121965577.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Trump’s claim is ridiculous.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He is making a fool of himself.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It was the Soviet Army that defeated Germany. All of the significant battles were in Russia. The enormous differences in battle deaths prove it.</p>
<p>Total US battle deaths (Germany and Japan):<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>291,557.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Total WW II US military deaths (all causes):<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>407,316.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The war with Japan accounted for 111,606 of the US military deaths.</p>
<p>Russian WW II dead:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>27,000,000.</p>
<p>Germany’s war dead (including civilians):<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>18,000,000.</p>
<p>Trump’s false claim does not create an image of a person whose veracity will be trusted by the Kremlin.</p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/05/trump-claims-us-did-more-than-any-other-country-to-win-world-war-ii/


guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885088
title: Why doesn’t the ‘Deal-Maker’ close the deal?
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<p><strong><em>This Trump transformation of America was intended to be rebuilt as America First.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The story, both on Ukraine and Iran, is that President Trump wants a ‘deal’ – and both deals are available – yet he seems nonetheless to have boxed himself in. Trump presents his Administration as being something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental. It aspires to emerge, apparently, as also something more centralized, coercive, and radical.</p>
<p>In domestic policy, there may be some truth to this categorisation of the Trumpian ethos. In foreign policy, however, Trump tergiversates. The reason is not clear, but the fact of it clouds his prospects in the three areas vital to his ‘peace-maker’ aspiration – Ukraine, Iran and Gaza.</p>
<p>Whilst it is true that Trump’s true mandate derived from rampant economic and social discontent, rather than from his claims to be a peacemaker – yet the two key foreign policy ends remain important to maintaining momentum forward.</p>
<p>One possible answer is that in foreign negotiations, the President needs a grounded and experienced team to support him. And he does not have that.</p>
<p>In advance of sending his Envoy Witkoff to talk to President Putin, General Kellogg, it seems, <a href="https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/the-kellogg-framework-is-a-disaster">presented Trump</a> with a Versailles-type Armistice proposal: A vision of Russia on the ropes (i.e. the plan was cast in terms more appropriate to Russian capitulation). Kellogg’s proposal implied also that Trump would be doing Putin a ‘big favour’ – by condescending to offer him a ladder down which to climb from his perch up the Ukraine ‘tree’. And this was exactly the line Trump took in January:</p>
<p>Having stated that Russia had lost one million men (in the war), Trump then went on to say that “Putin is destroying Russia by not making a deal”. He further claimed that Russia’s economy was in ‘ruins’, and most notably, said that he would consider sanctioning or tariffing Russia. In a subsequent Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113872782548137314">post</a>, he wrote, “I’m going to do Russia – whose Economy is failing – and President Putin, a very big FAVOR”.</p>
<p>The President – duly briefed by his team – may have imagined that he would offer Putin a unilateral ceasefire and, hey presto, would have a quick deal to his credit.</p>
<p>All the premises on which the Kellogg plan was based (Russia’s vulnerability to sanctions, huge losses of men, and a stalemated war) were false. Did no one on Trump’s team then do any due diligence on the Kellogg strategy? It seems (lazily) to have taken the Korean war as its template, without due consideration of whether it be appropriate, or not.</p>
<p>In the Korean instance, the ceasefire along a Conflict Line preceded political considerations, which came only later. And which remain ongoing – and unresolved – until today.</p>
<p>By launching premature demands for an immediate ceasefire during talks with Russian officials in Riyadh, Trump invited rejection. Firstly, because the Trump Team had no concrete plan for how to implement a ceasefire, simply presuming rather that all such details could be settled post-hoc. In short, it was presented to Trump as a ‘quick win’.</p>
<p>Only it wasn’t.</p>
<p>The outcome was fore-ordained – the ceasefire was declined. It should not have been allowed to happen, given competent staff work. Had none of Trump’s team been listening since 14 June of last year when Putin very clearly <a href="https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1957107/?TSPD_101_R0=08765fb817ab200020b1d367e4711f11b2ede878b6afd35fa1d64bff8dcda7938762d8b9bb632930089f5fd0f0143000ad2d624d99a1ebdd96e467701da1aec1d50b4e29c3d1178d7b86d1c4b171d41a7fbf975432e2c0043f0d7f7cbb4a4c8d">outlined</a> MFA the Russian position on a ceasefire? And which has been repeated regularly ever since. Apparently not.</p>
<p>Yet even so, when Trump’s Envoy, Witkoff, returned from a long meeting with President Putin to report on the latter’s personal, detailed explanation of why a political framework must precede any ceasefire (unlike Korea), Witkoff’s account reportedly was met with the flat retort that ‘the Ukrainians would never agree’ from General Kellogg.</p>
<p>End of discussion, apparently. No decision taken.</p>
<p>Several more flights to Moscow have not altered the basic situation. Moscow awaits evidence that Trump is able to consolidate his position and can take charge of the situation. But until then, Moscow stands ready to facilitate a ‘rapprochement of positionality’ – but will not approve a unilateral ceasefire. (And nor will Zelensky).</p>
<p>The puzzle here is why Trump doesn’t cut off U.S. weapons and intelligence flows to Kiev, and tell the Europeans to butt out of Trump’s way? Does Kiev have some form of veto power? Does Team Trump not understand that the Europeans simply hope to disrupt Trump’s aim to normalise relations with Russia? They must do.</p>
<p>It seems that the “debate” (if you can call it that) in the Trump Team largely excluded real life factors. It took place at some high normative level, where certain facts and truths are simply assumed.</p>
<p>Maybe the Sunk Costs phenomenon weighed heavily – the longer you continue with a course of action (no matter how stupid), the less willing you are to change it. Changing it would be interpreted as acknowledging error – and acknowledging error is the first stage to losing power.</p>
<p>And there is a parallel with the talks with Iran.</p>
<p>Trump has a vision for a negotiated settlement with Iran that would achieve his objective of ‘no Iranian nuclear weapon’ – though the aim itself, is something of a tautology given that the U.S. intelligence community <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/us-intel-report-determines-iran-not-building-nuclear-weapon">already has determined</a> that Iran has NO nuclear weapon.</p>
<p>How do you stop something that is not occurring? Well, ‘intent’ is an enormously difficult concept to ring-fence. So, the Team heads back to basics: to the original Rand Organisation’s firm doctrine that there exists no qualitative difference between peaceful and weapon-linked enrichment of uranium. So, no enrichment should be permitted.</p>
<p>Only Iran does have enrichment – thanks to the Obama concession as part of the JCPOA, which allowed it, subject to limitations.</p>
<p>Many ideas are floating around about how to square this circle – of Iran’s refusal to relinquish enrichment versus Trump’s ‘no capacity’ to weaponise dictum. None of the ideas is new: Importing into Iran enriched feedstock; exporting Iran’s highly enriched uranium to Russia (something already done as part of the JCPOA), and having Russia build Iran’s nuclear energy capacity to power its industry. The problem is that Russia is already doing that too. It has one plant already up, and another in construction.</p>
<p>Israel naturally has its own proposals too: Root out all Iranian enrichment infrastructure and missile delivery capacity.</p>
<p>Only Iran will never agree to this.</p>
<p>So, the choice is either a jacked-up inspection and technical surveillance system in a JCPOA-like accord (which will not make either Israel or the pro-Israel Institutional leadership happy). Or military action.</p>
<p>Which takes us back to the Trump Team and the internecine divisions within the Pentagon.</p>
<p>Pete Hegseth sent the following message to Iran, posted on his social media account:</p>
<p>“We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing. You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of – and you were warned. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing”.</p>
<p>Plainly, Hegseth is frustrated. As Larry Johnson has <a href="https://sonar21.com/us-is-flummoxed-by-yemen/">noted</a>:</p>
<p>“The Trump team has been labouring under [another] false assumption that the Biden folks did not make a serious effort to destroy the Houthis’ arsenal of missiles and drones. The Trumpers believed that they could bomb the Houthis into submission. Instead, the U.S. is demonstrating to all countries in the region the limits of its naval and air power … Despite more than 600 bombing sorties, the Houthis continue to launch missiles and drones at U.S. ships in the Red Sea and targets inside Israel”.</p>
<p>So, Team Trump has waded firstly into one conflict (Yemen), and secondly, into a complex negotiation with Iran, again seemingly without doing its homework on Yemen. Is this <a href="https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/a-strange-defeat">down to group think</a> again:</p>
<p>“In a situation of uncertainty like the present, solidarity comes to be seen as an end in itself, and nobody wants to be accused of ‘weakening the West’ or ‘strengthening Iran’. If you have to be wrong, best be wrong in the company of as many others as possible”.</p>
<p>Will Israel let this pass? It is beavering away with General Kurilla (the U.S. General in command at CENTCOM) in the bunker under the Israeli Defence Department – preparing plans for a joint attack on Iran. Israel appears very keen on his work.</p>
<p>Yet, the fundamental impediment to achieving an accord with Iran is more crucial – in that, as presently construed, the U.S. approach to the negotiations <a href="https://strategicreflections.substack.com/p/the-new-iran-deal-misconceptions">breaks all the rules</a> about how to initiate a weapons-limitation treaty.</p>
<p>On the one hand, <a href="https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-weapons-who-has-what-glance">there is Israel with a triad of nuclear weapons systems</a> and delivery capacities: from submarines, aircraft and by missile. Israel has also <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-08/ty-article/iran-nuclear-chief-ministers-threat-to-nuke-gaza-confirms-israels-capability/0000018b-aecb-df42-a78f-afcbcbcd0000">threatened the use of nuclear weapons</a> – recently in Gaza and earlier during the first Iraq war, in response to Saddam Hussein’s Scud missile capacity.</p>
<p>The missing principle here is any modicum of reciprocity. Iran is said to threaten Israel – and Israel regularly threatens Iran. And Israel, of course, wants Iran neutered and disarmed and insists itself be untouched (no NPT, no IAEA inspections, no acknowledgment).</p>
<p>The arms-limitation treaties initiated by JF Kennedy with Khruschev derived from the successful reciprocal negotiation by which the U.S. withdrew its missiles from Turkey before Russia removed its own missiles from Cuba.</p>
<p>It must be clear to Trump and Witkoff that such a lopsided proposal as theirs for Iran bears no relation to geo-political realities – and is therefore likely to fail (sooner or later). Team Trump thus, is cornering itself into military action against Iran – which they will then own.</p>
<p>Trump does not want that; Iran does not want that. So, has this been adequately thought through? Has the Yemen experience been taken fully into account? Has the Trump Team mooted some off-ramp?</p>
<p>One creative way out of the dilemma – and which might restore at least some semblance to a classical arms limitation treaty exercise – would be for Trump to air the notion that now is time for Israel to enter the NPT and to have its weapons inspected by the IAEA.</p>
<p>Will Trump do that? No.</p>
<p>It then becomes obvious why.</p>
<p>This Trump transformation of America was intended to be rebuilt as America First.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Fascism has resurged in Europe, with neo-Nazis masquerading as nationalists – most notably in Ukraine, where a far-right regime tightens its grip.</em></strong></p>
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<p>As May 9<sup>th</sup> approaches, Russia prepares to commemorate the liberation and defeat of the Nazis, who ruled Germany and Austria (following the 1938 Anschluss) from 1933 to 1945. During this time, they invaded numerous European countries and launched the horrific Operation Barbarossa – an attempt to conquer the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>Beyond their pursuit of Lebensraum, the Nazis sought to “cleanse” occupied territories of Jews, Roma, non-Aryans, communists, and political opponents. This was ethnic cleansing, but the Nazis pioneered industrialized methods for their atrocities. Initially relying on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiXPSSi3z40" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mass shootings</a>, they later introduced gas chambers using Zyklon-B, claiming this was more “efficient” and spared their soldiers psychological trauma. Yet, mass shootings still claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, primarily Jews, in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and the Baltic states.</p>
<p>One of the most infamous sites is <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kiev-and-babi-yar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Babi Yar</a> near Kiev, where Ukrainian collaborators murdered approximately 34,000 Jews on September 29–30, 1941. As recent documentaries <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8l7af2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reveal</a>, the Nazis <a href="https://devend.online/2024/02/28/history-repeats-itself-the-baltic-states-and-ukraine-are-the-root-of-the-current-problem-part-i/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lacked</a> sufficient manpower to carry out such massacres alone.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885091" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885091" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/250505-1.jpg" alt="Photo © Yad Vashem Babi Yar" width="600" height="401" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885091 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885091" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>Photo © Yad Vashem Babi Yar</em></p></div>
<p>By the war’s end, 8,500 members of the SS Galizien Division – Ukrainian soldiers implicated in heinous crimes – were granted refugee status in the UK, with many later emigrating to Canada. The <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kremlin-reaction-canadian-parliament-1.6977248" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent honoring</a> of Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka in Canada’s parliament underscores how Nazism persists in the West.</p>
<p><a href="https://devend.online/2023/03/22/the-baltic-states-lithuania-the-most-fascist-states-of-europe-tracing-back-to-world-war-two/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lithuania</a> suffered one of the highest Jewish death tolls, with up to 90% of its Jewish population exterminated under Nazi rule and with local collaboration. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponary_massacre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ponary massacre</a>, overseen by the German SD and SS but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypatingasis_b%C5%ABrys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carried out</a> by Lithuanian death squads (<em>Ypatingasis būrys</em>), claimed around 100,000 lives – mostly Jews, Poles, and Russians – between July 1941 and August 1944.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885098" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885098" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/250505-2-image.jpg" alt="Jews being assembled by Lithuanian militiamen for execution in a ravine in the Ponar forest. German-occupied Lithuania, 1941. © Courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research." width="740" height="463" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885098 "><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885098" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>Jews being assembled by Lithuanian militiamen for execution in a ravine in the Ponar forest. German-occupied Lithuania, 1941. © Courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.</em></p></div>
<p>In Belarus, the <a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/travel/belarus-life/khatyn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Khatyn massacre</a> stands as a particularly brutal example. On March 22, 1943, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzmannschaft_Battalion_118" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118</a> – composed largely of Ukrainian collaborators, aided by the SS-<a href="https://www.feldgrau.com/ww2-german-36th-waffen-ss-grenadier-division/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger</a> – massacred nearly the entire village in retaliation for partisan attacks. Over 90% of Belarusian Jews (more than 600,000 people) were exterminated in mass shootings. At least 5,000 Belarusian villages were burned, often with all inhabitants killed – some with up to 1,500 victims – as punishment for partisan support. Unlike in Ukraine and the Baltics, most Belarusians opposed the Nazis, maintaining a communist and multi-ethnic society akin to the broader Soviet Union.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885092" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885092" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/250505-3-image.jpg" alt="Photo: © www.sb.by/en/memory-is-sacred.html" width="769" height="513" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885092 "><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885092" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>Photo: © www.sb.by/en/memory-is-sacred.html</em></p></div>
<p>Poland endured immense suffering under Nazi Germany and its Axis collaborators. The occupation brought systematic genocide, particularly targeting Jewish Poles, as the Nazis viewed Slavs and Jews as racially inferior “subhumans” to be eradicated. Most concentration camps outside Germany were located in Poland, with Auschwitz being the most notorious. Established in 1940 after the Nazi conquest of Poland, Auschwitz saw an <a href="https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/auschwitz-and-shoah/the-number-of-victims/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated 1.1 million deaths</a> in under five years – 1 million Jews, 70,000 Poles, 21,000 Roma and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet POWs, and 12,000 others (Czechs, Belarusians, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians). The Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945.</p>
<p>Today, Nazism still festers in Europe. Russia, now fighting resurgent Nazism in Ukraine, has been barred from Holocaust commemorations – a denial emblematic of Europe’s lingering fascist tendencies.</p>
<p>Eastern Europe and Russia bore the brunt of Operation Barbarossa, but the scale of atrocities would have been impossible without local collaboration – particularly in Ukraine and the Baltics. To this day, Lithuania <a href="https://historiek.net/holocaust-in-litouwen-collaboratie-ontkenning-en-verdraaiing/158919/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bans discussion of its complicity in the Holocaust</a>, including the murder of Jews, communists, and other opponents.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885093" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885093" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/250505-4-image.jpg" alt="Soviet Red Army liberating Auschwitz - © Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Getty Images" width="757" height="482" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885093 "><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885093" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>Soviet Red Army liberating Auschwitz – © Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Getty Images</em></p></div>
<p>Western Europe also witnessed Nazi brutality. In France, the massacre at <a href="https://www.francecomfort.com/be/bezienswaardigheden/508/Oradour-sur-Glane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oradour-sur-Glane</a> on June 10, 1944, saw the SS destroy the village and burn 643 civilians alive in its church. In the Netherlands, the <a href="https://ww2gravestone.com/the-putten-raid-dutch-razzia-van-putten-october-1st-1944/">Razzia of Putten</a> on October 1, 1944, led to the deportation of 602 men – the village’s entire male population – to German concentration camps; only 48 survived.</p>
<p>Rotterdam, a working-class city with strong socialist and communist sympathies, suffered immensely. On May 14, 1940, German bombers obliterated its historic center. Later, during the <a href="https://www.environmentandsociety.org/tools/keywords/dutch-hunger-winter-1944-45" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunger Winter</a> of 1944–1945, Rotterdam – like Leningrad – was besieged, with food reserved for occupying Germans. Over 20,000 died of starvation and cold. The city endured executions and deportations, becoming the Netherlands’ last liberated city.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885094" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885094" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/250505-5-image.jpg" alt="Starving boy in 1944 – © M. Meijboom, collectie Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam" width="456" height="600" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885094 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885094" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>Starving boy in 1944 – © M. Meijboom, collectie Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam</em></p></div>
<p>In Serbia and Greece, entire villages were razed during anti-partisan operations. In Greece, Kandanos and the <a href="https://vog.ert.gr/podcast/Forgotten-Villages-Ep-11-The-Viannos-massacres-19-Apr-2024-20240430/?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Viannos massacres</a> stand out. In Serbia, the Wehrmacht killed over 2,700 civilians in the <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-21/germans-massacre-men-women-and-children-in-yugoslavia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kragujevac massacre</a> (October 1941) and 2,000 in the <a href="http://www.zlocininadsrbima.com/EN/NewsPiece.aspx?Naslov=Nazi-(German)-massacre-in-Kraljevo-1941" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kraljevo massacre</a>. By December 1941, German reprisals had claimed 20,000–30,000 Serbian lives – not Jews, but locals who resisted Nazi occupation.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885095" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885095" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/250505-6-image.jpg" alt="Massacre in Kraljevo, Serbia - ©The Nazi (German) massacre in Kraljevo - Serbia 1941 - www.zlocininadsrbima.com" width="640" height="427" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885095 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885095" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>Massacre in Kraljevo, Serbia – ©The Nazi (German) massacre in Kraljevo – Serbia 1941 – www.zlocininadsrbima.com</em></p></div>
<p>Eighty years later, Western Europe has erased much of this history, rewriting narratives to blame Germany and Russia equally for the war. Commemorations focus on concentration camps (from which Russia is excluded) and D-Day, downplaying the Soviet Union’s pivotal role. Fascism has resurged in Europe, with neo-Nazis masquerading as nationalists – most notably in Ukraine, where a far-right regime tightens its grip. Once again, Europe looks away, scapegoating Russia instead of confronting its own complicity.</p>
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title: MCGUIRK: The untapped potential of Ken O’Flynn
author: ;John McGuirk
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Ken-OFlynn-3-scaled-e1746448233574.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Earlier today, <a href="https://gript.ie/perrins-where-is-the-irish-farage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura asked a pertinent question</a>: Where is the Irish Nigel Farage?</strong></p>
<p>We will stipulate at the beginning that what Laura meant was not that this country needs a carbon copy of Mr. Farage, whose particular brand of ale-swilling, King-adoring, two-world-wars-and-one-world-cup singing English nationalism is unlikely (for better or worse) to go down well in the Irish Republic. Rather, she meant in general that there are no obvious candidates to take public discontent over immigration, housing, law and order, and general Irish Government intertia and turn it into a credible alternative populist political movement that could, like Farage just has in the UK, draw upwards of 20% of the vote.</p>
<p>Except, I submit, that there <em>is</em> one such person: Independent Ireland’s party Chairman, Ken O’Flynn TD.</p>
<p>Last week, Deputy O’Flynn was voted by Oireachtas insiders (apparently a straw poll of cross-party TDs and political staff) as the most impressive political newcomer since the general election. It is an award that has been well-earned. But more on that in a minute.</p>
<p>In her article, Laura makes a point about the Irish electoral system which is objectively true: That proportional representation acts as a disincentive to political unity. You see this on both the left – where the Green Party, Labour, and the Social Democrats manage to be a sort of unholy trinity of one party that believes the same things, divided into three – and on the “right”, where Independent Ireland, Aontu, populist independents and a rag-tag of smaller more hard-line and fringe groups managed to translate about 12% of the votes at the general election into very few seats.</p>
<p>In O’Flynn’s own Cork North Central seat, for example, candidates of the broad populist right (O’Flynn, Aontu’s Finian Toomey, and then-Ireland First leader Derek Blighe) polled a collective 17.5% of all votes cast, essentially a quota. In that case, O’Flynn’s own vote was large enough, and transfers consistent enough, to elect him. But in several other constituencies, such as Dublin North West, a highly competitive combined first preference vote was hopelessly divided between multiple candidates, meaning that slim prospects of a seat died instead of transfer starvation.</p>
<p>The other problem Laura identifies is that because the electoral system encourages factionalism, the various factional groups are subject to perverse incentives. Aontu, for example, spent much of the last election campaign on social media presenting themselves as the only serious option for populist voters, while other campaigns targeted Aontu as watery and weak-willed sell-outs and openly in many cases advised not transferring to them. This dragged all groups into a sort of weird niche side-campaign that restricted all of them from being able to appeal to a wider set of voters.</p>
<p>Back to the question of leadership that Laura asked. She set out a few tests:</p>
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<p><em>The problem for the Irish anti-immigration movement is that they struggle to turn this protest movement into electoral success, first because there is no competent organiser <strong>that doesn’t repel the middle ground</strong>, and secondly even if there was one the vote gets sliced and diced by the ludicrous voting system of proportional representation with a single transferrable vote….</em></p>
<p><em>Also, “Speaking about the party’s by-election victory in Runcorn &amp; Helsby which Reform won by just six votes, Yusuf, smartly dressed in a dark suit and crisp white shirt, says in years gone by the party would have lost. “But the ending was different this time because we have built something quietly in the background, without bigging it up to people, which is supported by real infrastructure and machinery,” he says. “What we have done in the space of ten months is something we’re extremely proud of<strong>. One of my jobs as chairman was to professionalise the party. But what does that actually mean? It means turning it into a really formidable election-winning machine and I want to be really clear, we’re just getting started.”</strong></em></p>
<p><em>But this is what it takes to run a successful political party <strong>– professionalism, organisation, infrastructure and the knowledge that it all must be done while wearing a dark suit and a crisp white shirt and tie.</strong> (In all the photographs, it is all suits and ties, not an open neck collar or rolled up sleeves in sight. Praise be to God.)</em></p>
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<p>The bits in bold are really important: A good leader must 1) not repel the middle ground, 2), be an effective organiser and party builder ruthlessly focused on electoral success and 3) be presentable and appealing to voters.</p>
<p>With no disrespect to the only other figure with any qualifications in this area – Aontu’s Peadar Toibin – the only candidate across the broad swathe of Irish populist and discontented opinion who comes close to meeting these qualifications is Deputy O’Flynn.</p>
<p>He is, first and foremost, a gifted and capable communicator who speaks fluently the language of the Irish middle classes whose support is non-negotiable if anybody wants political success in this country. He is capable of going on television and articulating his opposition to widespread immigration, for example, without using the language of street protest and by focusing relentlessly on issues of real difficulty for the Government. This video is a good example:</p>
<p>Second, he is a capable political organiser, having been born, raised, and party to his own family’s long Fianna Fáil dynastic inheritance.  Take a look through his Instagram feed and you will find a politician who is rarely at home, and who understands the importance of local issues to the Irish voter. He is as comfortable speaking about the leaky roof of the local GAA club as he is in speaking about national economic strategy, and unlike many on the populist right he genuinely appears to care equally about both.</p>
<p>Third, and this is sort of a summary of points one and two, he understands the importance of presentation, tone, appearance, and normality. He wears well-cut suits with nice ties. If you don’t think this is important, then you should re-consider.</p>
<p>Then there are the ideological points: I have long thought that a major problem for Aontu is that try as you might, it is hard to get a sense that they really care much about the issues that populists find most animating, and that Aontu’s true passions lie elsewhere: In the campaign for the Irish republic to subsume the Northern Irish state, for example, and in their noble commitment to the pro-life cause, which this writer shares. It is very important to Aontu’s sense of identity that they contest Northern Irish elections, for example. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it is not to say that they do not honestly and sincerely seek to <em>represent</em> populists, but it is to say that they are not <em>natural</em> populists. They are natural <em>republicans.</em> Ask an Aontu person if they had to choose between a United Ireland in ten years or solving the Republic’s immigration and housing issues but delaying a United Ireland for another century, and I am fairly sure I know which answer I would get.</p>
<p>O’Flynn, by contrast, is a natural populist, chairman of a party that contains other natural populists like Michael Fitzmaurice and current party leader Michael Collins. But while Collins and Fitzmaurice have a sort of Dublin-voter-unfriendly “mountainy man” image, O’Flynn speaks the language of urban and sub-urban Ireland much more fluently.</p>
<p>I am but a humble scribe and scribbler of sometimes unwanted opinions, and thus this can be discarded, but I would answer Laura’s question by saying that sometimes you have to recognise the talent that is already on the pitch, and back it. It is a lot to ask people like Deputies Collins and Fitzmaurice to recognise this, but for my money O’Flynn is head and shoulders above both of them in terms of raw political talent as a communicator and an ability to appeal to a broader electorate than either of them.</p>
<p>Independent Ireland should make him their party leader, and let him take the wheel. If they do, then I would expect their support to grow substantially. Including at the expense of some of the other populist groups on the right.</p>

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Congressman Casten: Trump’s Assault on the Rule of Law Is Causing Capital Flight Out of U.S. by Foreign Investors

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<p><strong>By <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Pam Martens and Russ Martens</a>: May 5, 2025 ~</strong></p>
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<p>Donald Trump’s assault on the rule of law is now the ubiquitous and defining feature of his administration. That assault also represents the gravest threat to the national security of the United States, its economic standing, and the stability of the U.S. financial system.</p>
<p>Take, for example, what has happened recently.</p>
<p>Last Wednesday, Congressman Sean Casten, Democrat of Illinois, stated the following in an open meeting of the House Financial Services Committee:</p>
<p>“For the first time in my memory, foreign investors are not only fleeing U.S. equities but are fleeing U.S. Treasuries. I met with banks last week – banks under our jurisdiction – who said that the international community is putting a risk premium on investments in the United States because of regulatory risk and because they question whether the rule of law that they depend on to execute contracts in the United States will be executed as it will be in European markets where that capital is running to.</p>
<p>“So, if you need to tell yourself before you go to bed that you’re a deficit buster, fine, but just acknowledge you’re lying. This is not about deficit busting. This is about making rich people richer, and that’s it.”</p>
<p>Casten was referring to the latest efforts of the Trump administration to gut regulatory agencies that provide oversight of Wall Street’s entrenched history of fraud and lawlessness. </p>
<p>The ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), released a statement last week explaining the latest assaults as follows:</p>
<p>“Now is the time for Congress to step up. Instead, Committee Republicans are cosigning this destruction and helping Trump and Co-President Elon Musk dismantle the agencies responsible for helping bring down costs, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB]. Today, they are slashing the Bureau’s budget by 70%…</p>
<p>“Republicans are also pushing to gut the Financial Stability Oversight Council and Treasury’s Office of Financial Research – agencies designed to prevent another financial crisis like in 2008. They are eliminating funding for affordable housing construction despite a national homelessness crisis. And they are so desperate to do Trump’s bidding that they’re eliminating another agency that doesn’t cost taxpayers anything, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board [PCAOB], which oversees auditors to prevent frauds like Enron and ensure that companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party are on the up and up.”</p>
<p>The plan to kill the PCAOB has received scant media coverage but the language to kill its independence and fold it into the Securities and Exchange Commission <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/BA00/20250430/118145/HMKP-119-BA00-20250430-SD002.pdf">appeared in a Memorandum</a> released by the Republican leadership of the House Financial Services Committee last Wednesday.</p>
<p>Neutering the PCAOB would be completely in line with Trump’s efforts right out of the starting gate. On February 10, Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/pausing-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-enforcement-to-further-american-economic-and-national-security">issued an Executive Order</a> that suspended the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for 180 days, giving an all clear to U.S. corporations to bribe officials in foreign countries to get business deals approved. The order bars federal prosecutors from starting any new FCPA investigations, enforcing new actions and orders a review of existing FCPA investigations to “restore proper bounds” on applying the FCPA law.</p>
<p>In early March the Trump administration gutted another anti-corruption law, the Corporate Transparency Act, which had become law in 2021. Its goal is to curb anonymous shell companies from money laundering in the U.S. behind a curtain of darkness. It requires that the true owners of these shell companies file beneficial ownership information into a federal registry established by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and it imposes stiff fines and up to two years in prison for failure to do so.</p>
<p>Quietly, with little public notice, on March 2 Trump’s newly installed Treasury Secretary (<a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/11/donald-trumps-treasury-nominee-made-big-bets-this-year-on-chinese-stocks-and-a-big-short-on-the-u-s-market/">hedge fund honcho Scott Bessent</a>) announced that he would not enforce the Corporate Transparency Act as the law was written. The <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0038">statement from the Treasury Department said this</a>:</p>
<p>“The Treasury Department is announcing today that, with respect to the Corporate Transparency Act, not only will it not enforce any penalties or fines associated with the beneficial ownership information reporting rule under the existing regulatory deadlines, but it will further not enforce any penalties or fines against U.S. citizens or domestic reporting companies or their beneficial owners after the forthcoming rule changes take effect either. The Treasury Department will further be issuing a proposed rulemaking that will narrow the scope of the rule to foreign reporting companies only. Treasury takes this step in the interest of supporting hard-working American taxpayers and small businesses and ensuring that the rule is appropriately tailored to advance the public interest.”</p>
<p>In May of last year, Trump was unanimously convicted on 34 felony counts by a 12-member jury in New York of falsifying business records. His credentials on what constitutes ethical business practices would thus seem to be highly suspect.</p>
<p>Last evening, the CBS News program, <em>60 Minutes</em>, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-orders-target-law-firms-some-lawyers-say-that-threatens-rule-of-law-60-minutes-transcript/">aired a segment on Trump’s assault on law firms</a>, including Big Law firms, which had taken on clients whose interests were adversarial to Trump’s personal, business or political interests.</p>
<p>In recent weeks, Trump has signed Executive Orders that barred these law firms from the grounds of federal courthouses where they need access in order to represent clients and threatened to cancel the federal contracts of their clients. A senior partner at one of the law firms told <em>60 Minutes</em> that within hours of the Executive Order being signed by Trump, his major clients were threatening to drop the firm as its counsel.</p>
<p>Mark Elias, one of the lawyers targeted by name in Trump’s Executive Orders, agreed to be interviewed by <em>60 Minutes</em>. Elias had this to say:</p>
<p>“It is trying to intimidate them the way in which a mob boss intimidates people in the neighborhood that he is seeking to either exact protection money from or engage in other nefarious conduct. I mean, the fact is that these law firms are being told, ‘If you don’t play ball with us, maybe somethin’ really bad will happen to you.’ ” </p>
<p>John Keker is a prominent attorney and Democrat in San Franciso. He was asked by the <em>60 Minutes</em> moderator of the segment, Scott Pelley, this: “If the president brings the legal profession to heel what situation is the country in then?”</p>
<p>Keker responded: “No rule of law. You’re in a dictatorship. That’s what’s happened in China. It happened in Russia. These are legal systems that look like legal systems, but in fact are controlled by a dictatorship.”</p>
<p>On May 1, <em><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-poll-dangerous-dictator-2066852">Newsweek reported</a></em> on a new poll that found that 52 percent of Americans view Trump as a “dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.” </p>
<p><strong>Related Article:</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2025/03/trumps-attacks-on-big-law-universities-and-the-media-have-a-common-goal-silence-dissent-against-authoritarian-rule/">Trump’s Attacks on Big Law, Universities, and the Media Have a Common Goal: Silence Dissent Against Authoritarian Rule</a></strong></p>

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title: Dodik and Republika Srpska in the crosshairs
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<p>Using NATO and the EU as its primary tools, the collective West is currently waging an intense campaign to reconfigure the political space in Bosnia and Hercegovina. The first step in that process is to remove (or “decapitate” in their terminology) the leadership of the recalcitrant Republika Srpska, the Serb ethnic entity with Bosnia, which refuses to give up its constitutional autonomous attributes or to “come to heel,” in a phrase made famous in the 1990s during the war in Bosnia.</p>
<p>That war, it may be recalled, was terminated by the signing in Paris of the Dayton Peace Agreement in December 1995. The complex arrangements for a sustainable post-war Bosnia enshrined in that Agreement were not, as it turned out, envisioned by the collective West as a permanent solution to which it was genuinely committed. They were but a stopgap measure structured to put an end to the fighting whilst other mechanisms, held in reserve, would be activated to sidestep key provisions of the Agreement and accomplish the West’s long-term geopolitical objectives by alternative means.</p>
<p>One of those mechanisms as it turned out was the Office of the High Representative, exercised by an appointee confirmed by the UN Security Council with limited powers to act as arbiter in circumstances when the Bosnian parties were unable to agree on effective solutions to governance issues. It soon became clear however that the High Representative was in fact meant to act not as an honest broker between the local parties but as a supreme authority accountable to and channelling the will of the “international community” which, as everyone knows, is but a code word for collective West countries.</p>
<p>At a meeting in London of the so-called “Peace implementation council” for Bosnia, a self-appointed body nowhere mentioned and lacking formal status under the Dayton Agreement a parallel system of governance for Bosnia was set up. Predictably, the Council was composed almost exclusively of leading Western powers and their dependencies, the weakened 1990s Russia being granted a seat merely for form’s sake. The Council, or PIC as it is known, met subsequently in Bonn, Germany, in 1997, and acting without any legal authority whatsoever under the Dayton Agreement or any provision of international law, it arbitrarily redefined the powers of the High Representative in Bosnia. Those powers now included appointing and dismissing public officials, imposing laws, and even annulling measures adopted by local legislative bodies. The resultant so-called “Bonn powers” which were unlawfully vested in the High Representative were a disguise for the tyranny that was put in place, similar to the Raj of the Viceroy in India under British rule. The tyranny was passed off as a practical measure to enable the adoption of “binding decisions when local parties seem unable or unwilling to act.” But it was in fact an end-run around the Dayton Agreement. That peace treaty, binding on all parties under international law, established a sovereign state of Bosnia and Herzegovina with constituent entities, one for Serbs and the other for Muslims and Croats. With the ethnic checks and balances built into the Dayton Agreement set aside and dictatorial powers illegally conferred on the High Representative, Bosnia’s sovereignty and the entities’ autonomous status were greatly impaired and effectively reduced to a farce.</p>
<p>Damage resulting from the stealthy reconfiguration of Bosnia’s political system soon became evident. The High Representatives abused their de facto powers by playing one ethnic group off against another and raising ethnic tensions, instead of acting even-handedly to facilitate a smooth and efficacious functioning of the government. Far too often in practice that meant siding with the other Bosnian ethnic groups against the Serbs, who were perceived by the “international community” as unwilling to sacrifice the autonomy guaranteed to their entity by the Dayton Constitution to a unitary Bosnian state without ethnic safeguards and under the complete domination of the collective West.</p>
<p>Fast forward to the present day. The current High Representative, or the person claiming to be that, Christian Schmidt, was appointed by the aforementioned Peace Implementation Council without bothering to obtain a confirmation by the UN Security Council, knowing that Russia was in favour of abolishing the High Representative’s office altogether and would probably veto Schmidt’s appointment. Schmidt is therefore illegally exercising the function that he has usurped. In that illegal capacity, he has decreed changes in Bosnia’s electoral system and promulgated laws that the Serb entity Republika Srpska rejects and refuses to abide by.</p>
<p>In retaliation, Schmidt’s office initiated proceedings against the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, and two other officials for disobedience to Schmidt’s unlawful decrees. Conveniently, Schmidt also invoked his fraudulent “Bonn Powers” to impose a change in the criminal code, making it a separate penal offence to refuse to implement his decrees. Using the judicial facilities of the central Bosnian administration under his direct command, Christian Schmidt organized a kangaroo trial for Dodik and his associates where predictably they were found guilty. Consequently, in February <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrxy1zp8mxo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Bosnian court under Schmidt’s control sentenced Dodik to a year in prison and a six-year ban on holding public office</a>, which means that he would be deposed as President of Republic of Srpska if he agreed to abide by the verdict, which he does not. Analogies between this attempt to eliminate Dodik and Republika Srpska’s elected leadership and the recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/world/europe/romania-calin-georgescu.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">political repression of Kalin Georgescu</a> in NATO-controlled Romania are striking but not fortuitous in the least.</p>
<p>There is now a tense political stand-off in the Republic of Srpska. Numerous signs suggest that a decision has been taken by the collective West to use any means at its disposal to get rid of Dodik and dissolve his uncooperative government. Recently, the insertion into Bosnia of a British Special Forces team consisting of about forty commandos was detected, raising reasonable suspicions that Dodik may be targeted for assassination.</p>
<p>If that indeed is the case, it would not be an unheard of practice in post-war Bosnia, where there still are garrisoned several thousand SFOR “Stabilisation Force” troops under NATO command, making such an operation entirely feasible. At least two Bosnian Serb leaders in the past have been assassinated by NATO units. In 1997, Prijedor municipal police chief Simo Drljaca, who was sought by the Hague Tribunal on war crimes charges, was shot to death by a NATO commando team whilst allegedly “resisting arrest.” In 1999, acting on a Hague Tribunal warrant, in a surprise attack an SFOR team shot to death Serb official Dragan Gagovic. The killing was portrayed by NATO as an act of self-defence on the part of Gagovic’s pursuers, although that exculpatory depiction of events was flatly denied by passengers in the vehicle Gagovic was driving, who had survived the shooting.</p>
<p>There is, therefore, sufficient precedent in Bosnia for the physical elimination by international forces of figures considered troublesome to their agenda. Tensions are deliberately being raised, with a steady stream of provocations to test the patience of Republika Srpska security forces charged with ensuring Dodik’s safety. On 23 April, when Dodik was attending a political conference in the Serbian part of Sarajevo inspectors of the <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1915117567431106779" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bosnian security service approached the venue</a> for the purpose of arresting him, pursuant to a warrant issued by the court that had sentenced him. They were frustrated in their intention by the firm reaction of the Republic of Srpska Interior Ministry personnel. This exemplifies however the sort of contrived incident that could easily have escalated into a shootout which for Dodik could have had deadly consequences. As in previous incidents following the same pattern, undoubtedly his killing would have been attributed to “resisting arrest.”</p>
<p>Using NATO and local forces under its command, the collective West is playing a dangerous destabilisation game which risks rekindling the conflict that thirty years ago was successfully ended by the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which guaranteed autonomy and ensured equal participation in the country’s governance to all ethnic groups in Bosnia. The world should know that if Bosnia again descends into chaos the responsibility for that would be entirely on the collective West, which is callously undermining the delicately balanced constitutional system in that country that was set up in Dayton in order to gain complete control of that and other strategic parts of the Balkans as it prepares to unleash conflicts in other theatres.</p>
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title: Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré has a death wish
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<p><strong><em>Though Traoré will most likely follow Lumumba and Sankara to an early grave, he and his pals have rekindled a patriotic pan-African movement, Declan Hayes writes. </em></strong></p>
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<p>Although 37 year old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Traor%C3%A9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Burkina Faso President, Ibrahim Traoré</a>, seems to be fit as a fiddle, he should expect to die violently long before he reaches his 63<sup>rd</sup> birthday, which is the <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/bfa/burkina-faso/life-expectancy#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">current average life expectancy</a> of his compatriots. Let’s look at the actuarial facts that really matter in buying him his premature tombstone. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congo’s Patrice Lumumba</a> was 36 when NATO offed him, and Burkina Faso’s own <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara">Thomas Sankara</a> was 38 when NATO dispatched him. Although <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Libya’s Muammar Gadaffi </a>is an outlier in that he made it to 69 before NATO murdered and sodomised him (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXDU48RHLU&amp;pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we came, we saw, he died ha ha</a>), no matter which way we look at it, Traoré is living on borrowed time.</p>
<p>Let’s look at Traoré’s rap sheet to confirm this. Burkina Faso is one of those countries POTUS Trump <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described, perhaps not inaccurately, as a shithole</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Burkina_Faso" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Burkina Faso’s GDP</a> is certainly in the toilet, with over 80% of the population barely subsisting. Traoré professes to be affronted at that and he has instituted a number of reforms in the medical and infrastructural areas to change all that. He is making education and hospital care free and he has imported heavy machinery, so the Burkinabé can build roads rather than pay French contractors outrageous amounts to pretend to build them.</p>
<p>The roads are important benchmarks as Traoré has pointed out that these gangsters have not even built good roads to the gold mines of Burkina Faso, which is his country’s main source of wealth. Burkina Faso currently produces about 57.3 tons of gold a year and Traoré is expanding his government’s control over these mines through the state-run Société de Participation Minière du Burkina (SOPAMIB), which recently acquired two gold mines previously owned by the <a href="https://www.endeavourmining.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian Endeavour Mining company</a>, and he has plans to <a href="https://www.intellinews.com/guns-and-gold-how-two-coups-reshaped-burkina-faso-s-mining-sector-370117/#:~:text=These%20ancient%20rock%20formations,%20known,including%20Essakane,%20Hound%C3%A9%20and%20Sanbrado." target="_blank" rel="noopener">nationalise many more such mines</a>, just as the sodomised Gadaffi (foolishly?) nationalised his nation’s resources.</p>
<p>Although Burkina Faso is also rich in zinc, copper, manganese and diamonds Traoré, much like Lumumba, Sankara and other African leaders of that stripe before him, feels that the Burkinabé should get a decent part of the proceeds and so, <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/03/eisenhowers-proclamation-no-1-the-ukrainian-rump-reich-and-oxymoron-of-nato-democracy/">as NATO’s Mafia would say,</a> he has to go. To illustrate that death sentence contract, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihdIoZp53qQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consider this meeting </a>of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AFRICOM</a> Commander General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Langley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Langley</a> reporting to the US Senate that Traoré wishes to use his nation’s gold for his own base ends and not for those of the ordinary Burkinabé or, more to the point, of the Canadian, Australian and other NATO companies which are currently living high on the hog at the expense of the impoverished Burkinabé.</p>
<p>Although NATO could conceivably work around Traoré’s insolence, his crimes, in NATO’s eyes, are magnified by his collusion with other independent-minded leaders in the Sahel. NATO sees the current leaders of Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali as dangerous trail blazers, who might just set sub-Saharan Africa on its own independent and sovereign trajectory and that is a situation up with which NATO cannot and will not put.</p>
<p>That is why <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/20/ukraine-is-losing-the-plot-in-africa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukrainian mercenaries are in Mali</a>, American and Romanian mercenaries and every other devil from hell are in the Congo and why <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@ussanews/video/7499632694385528110?_r=1&amp;_t=ZS-8w0yZaNdylt&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawKB2iRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETAwV0pxR3ZSdk1rckZLVVpwAR5fNvi6ayleH65t9g_kN3byPLp1NqOnILy3oRxgcQ0o3x1KeenNvB0fT_nHjQ_aem_AJ3XQ24Shvip_4SWZ9mLgw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Traoré is at the centre of the mother of all storms</a>. Belgian <a href="https://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin-articles/a-century-of-agro-colonialism-in-the-dr-congo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agro-colonialism remains rampant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>. <a href="https://globaltradealert.org/intervention/137505-india-export-of-2000-tonnes-of-non-basmati-white-rice-permitted-to-malawi-and-zimbabwe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Malawi buys 150,000 Kgs of rice from India </a>every year, even though its neighbours, Tanzania and Madagascar, are major rice producers and, if Malawi were to source its rice from them, then that would be a further $175 million that could rotate between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_African_Development_Community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Southern African Development Community</a> (SADC), much as the slain and sodomised Gadaffi envisaged.</p>
<p>Although Traoré seems like a top chap, who is doing the impossible in Burkina Faso, and to coin the old joke, miracles take a little longer than the impossible to perform, were China to lend a hand, Traoré might actually have a chance of succeeding. <a href="https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/chn/partner/bfa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trade between China and Burkina Faso</a> is currently negligible, with China selling mainly $40 mn worth of trucks, tractors and motor bikes in exchange for manganese, raw cotton and oily seeds. Though China could easily change that equation to the benefit of both parties, it is doubtful that China has the moral fibre it takes to upset the NATO applecart and that epitomises the threat that AFRICOM poses not only to Traoré, but to all of Africa as well.</p>
<p>AFRICOM’s mission is to contain and eventually eliminate the threat Traoré’s lot pose to NATO’s ongoing scams, the chief of which is to keep Africa subservient to the larger NATO family. Should the Sahel upstarts continue their shenanigans and, for example, should <a href="https://africa-container-shipping.com/en/top-10-ports-africa-port-projects-in-west-africa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China expand its port facilities</a> in the Côte d’Ivoire’s Abidjan, then Traoré, his chums and their compatriots would have a greater chance of getting off Trump’s shithole country list and charting their own independent destiny. But, because AFRICOM is charged with smothering Burkina Faso and allied African countries, I cannot see that happening, just as I cannot see Traoré remaining in the land of the living for much longer.</p>
<p>Still, ex Africa aliquid semper novi, from Africa always something new as Pliny the Elder once quipped. And, though Traoré will most likely follow Lumumba and Sankara to an early grave, he and his pals have rekindled a patriotic pan-African movement that NATO will find ever harder to contain and control when other Africans follow the trail blazing path Traoré, Lumumba and Sankara have laid out for them. Though the writing may not be on the wall for AFRICOM in Africa, the architects of their demise already have the chalk in their hands and good on Traoré and the rest of Africa’s trail blazers for that.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Evoluzione demografica negli Stati Uniti, quando i migranti possono sfrattare gli “americani” e può finire in conflitto?</em></strong></p>
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<p>Ormai da molti anni, gli Stati Uniti sono alle prese con un fenomeno colossale di immigrazione clandestina che sta frammentando ulteriormente una società già profondamente divisa ed esasperando il confronto politico. I <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dati</a> attestano che tra gli anni fiscali 2018 e 2019 si è verificato il primo, drastico incremento quantitativo dei flussi migratori diretti verso gli Stati Uniti; gli “incontri” tra migranti irregolari e forze della Border Patrol passarono da un anno all’altro da 404.142 a 859.501. Le dinamiche innescate dalla pandemia ridimensionarono provvisoriamente il fenomeno, che prese tuttavia ad incrementare vigorosamente in coincidenza con le prime aperture. I contatti tra gli agenti di frontiera e i migranti sono infatti cresciuti a 1.662.167 nel 2021 e a 2.214.652 nel 2022. Per l’anno fiscale 2023, che si concluderà il 30 settembre, siamo a  1.423.282 di incontri. Una crescita impetuosa,  che si riflette puntualmente nell’aumento degli arresti e dei provvedimenti di fermo</p>
<p>Le ragioni principali che stanno alla base di questo incremento sostanziale vanno ricercate nell’attrattività economica degli Usa, in grado di offrire opportunità di lavoro relativamente buone, nella facilitazione delle procedure per la concessione del diritto di asilo e, soprattutto, nelle <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1177/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">politiche migratorie</a> adottate dalle autorità di Washington sotto l’amministrazione Biden. I repubblicani, in particolare, l’hanno <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/us/politics/house-republicans-immigration-bill.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusata</a> con veemenza di incoraggiare deliberatamente l’afflusso costante di immigrati irregolari per ingraziarsi una base elettorale solida e costante a cui attingere per ottenere consenso politico.</p>
<p>Per gli Stati Uniti, si tratta di un passaggio particolarmente delicato, specialmente per quanto concerne le implicazioni di medio e lungo periodo derivanti dall’aumento costante e apparentemente inarrestabile di flussi migratori composti essenzialmente da <em>latinos</em>. Storicamente, l’apparato dirigenziale statunitense manifesta una spiccata propensione a identificare il corso del Rio Grande più come una faglia geopolitica interna alla sfera egemonica statunitense che come una “semplice” linea di frontiera. «<em>Il confine del Guatemala con il Chiapas è oggi la nostra vera frontiera meridionale</em>» <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/mexico-us-borderpatrolsecurityimmigrants.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenziò</a> Alan Bersin per giustificare, in qualità di alto funzionario del Dipartimento della Homeland Security dell’amministrazione Obama, la stretta imposta dal suo governo nel 2014 attraverso il programma Frontera Sur. Quest’ultimo implicava la partecipazione diretta di personale del Pentagono alle operazioni di contrasto all’immigrazione illegale, proveniente da sud e diretta verso gli Stati Uniti tramite il corridoio messicano, da condurre lungo il confine tra Messico e Guatemala dalle locali forze armate e di polizia. Un approccio “securitario”, inteso a spostare ancor più a sud il filtro anti-migratorio e pienamente rispecchiante sia le paure che i rischi intravisti dietro al fenomeno.</p>
<p>I <em>latinos </em>vengono infatti considerati con malcelata ostilità sia dal popolo statunitense che dalle <em>élite </em>politiche e accademiche Usa poiché giudicati inassimilabili all’identità Wasp. La percezione vale soprattutto nei confronti dei messicani, a cui, in un suo <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/207363" target="_blank" rel="noopener">studio</a> realizzato nel 1917 in cui si evidenziavano le enormi difficoltà che presentava un’eventuale invasione del Messico, Isaiah Bowman attribuiva caratteristiche “antropologiche” strutturalmente incompatibili con l’identità statunitense. Ragion per cui, nella visione dello stratega di origini canadesi, inglobando il Messico negli Stati Uniti in conformità alle mire dei comandi militari del tempo, il governo di Washington avrebbe condannato la giovane nazione statunitense a un destino biculturale foriero di giganteschi stravolgimenti di ordine demografico e geopolitico. Considerazioni dello stesso tenore furono <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/abs/americas-strategy-in-world-politics-the-united-states-and-the-balance-of-power-by-nicholas-john-spykman-new-york-harcourt-brace-co-1942-pp-xvii-500-maps-index-375/6A330A15F5BE4791B15370C0025E6B1B" target="_blank" rel="noopener">formulate</a> a un venticinquennio di distanza da Nicholas J. Spykman, a detta del quale «<em>è una circostanza sfortunata che le aree anglofone e ispanofone del continente vengano entrambe chiamate America, perché va ad alimentare un’inconscia percezione di affinità del tutto priva di basi. Soltanto se si realizza che i Paesi collocati nella parte meridionale del continente sono profondamente diversi dagli Stati Uniti per quanto riguarda le caratteristiche geografiche, la composizione etnica e razziale, l’economia, i costumi sociali, l’ideologia e la cultura è possibile cogliere il significato che queste aree rivestono per la nostra vita nazionale</em>».</p>
<p>Nel corso dei decenni successivi, le osservazioni di Bowman e Spykman sono risultate fortemente avvalorate dalla refrattarietà dei messicani a convertirsi all’evangelismo di matrice anglosassone (da sempre considerato un importante elemento di assimilazione), a conformarsi a uno stile di vita protestante-calvinista e a rimpiazzare lo spagnolo con l’inglese quale principale idioma di riferimento, nonché della loro spiccatissima inclinazione a mantenere rapporti strettissimi con la madrepatria senza profondere sforzi significativi per integrarsi realmente nella società Usa (1) e a stabilirsi nei territori che in epoche passate erano sottoposti all’autorità di Città del Messico. All’interno di questi si è venuto dipanando un fenomeno a cui <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/surosinger.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">è stata attribuita</a> l’efficacissima definizione di «<em>Heartland ispanico in America</em>»; un’espressione che designa quell’insieme di realtà locali che, per ampiezza e ritmi d’incremento della comunità ispanica, hanno gradualmente raggiunto livelli più che ragguardevoli. Il progressivo spostamento verso nord del confine culturale che ne deriva va pertanto ad alimentare un po’ ovunque negli Stati Uniti una sorta di riflesso pavloviano tendente a identificare nei messicani i principali vettori di una radicale rivoluzione demografica – di fatto già in pieno corso (2) – in grado sovvertire i delicati equilibri interni agli Usa.</p>
<p>Non solo culturali, ma anche geopolitici. Lo <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/56543/the-next-100-years-by-george-friedman-founder-of-stratfor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ha notato</a> George Friedman, secondo cui il fatto stesso che «<em>le parti del Messico occupate dagli Stati Uniti negli anni Quaranta del XIX secolo ridiventeranno messicane culturalmente, socialmente e, in molti sensi, anche politicamente</em>» condurrà giocoforza al rafforzamento delle già vigorose correnti secessioniste che, anche senza minare l’integrità territoriale Usa, tendono a inserirsi come cunei nelle crepe di ordine etnico e sociale che attraversano la sempre più pericolante struttura nazionale statunitense. Specialmente in virtù del persistente irredentismo che continua a caratterizzare lo spirito identitario messicano a oltre un secolo di distanza dal cosiddetto Piano di San Diego, in base al quale un manipolo di ribelli di origini messicane – presumibilmente sostenuti dalla Germania guglielmina – si adoperò per fomentare un’insurrezione finalizzata a sottrarre la regione sudoccidentale degli Stati Uniti al controllo di Washington. Basti pensare all’episodio della cosiddetta “secessione parziale” di El Cenizo, cittadina texana situata in prossimità del confine che nel 1999 proclamò lo spagnolo come lingua ufficiale prima di dichiararsi porto franco per i lavoratori sprovvisti di documenti. O alle teorizzazioni del professor Charles Truxillo (docente presso l’Università del New Mexico) in merito alla creazione di una República del Norte che ricomprendesse al proprio interno l’area sudoccidentale degli Stati Uniti e le regioni settentrionali del Messico, in quanto accomunate da fattori di omogeneità di gran lunga superiori e maggiormente rilevanti rispetto a quelli che le legano alle loro rispettive nazioni d’appartenenza. Per non parlare del movimento di ispirazione socialista Demanda Lo Nuestro, che sotto la guida di Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas arrivò a predisporre un ricorso alla Corte internazionale di giustizia inteso a ottenere l’annullamento del trattato di Guadalupe Hidalgo, che pose fine al conflitto scoppiato nel 1846 decretando la mutilazione del territorio messicano, perché sottoscritto <em>obtorto collo </em>e in seguito a un’illegale guerra d’aggressione.</p>
<p>Iniziative di questo genere possono destare ilarità, ma si colorano di una luce tutta particolare se considerate alla luce dei vaticini formulati da Friedman. Nella sua ottica, il fenomeno dell’irredentismo alimentato dalla diaspora messicana assumerà tra il 2070 e il 2090 dimensioni tali da rendere assai plausibile la prospettiva di un conflitto aperto tra Stati Uniti e Messico, identificato come la principale minaccia strategica pendente sul destino degli Usa. Così lo <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/28/the-hispanic-challenge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">qualificò</a> Samuel Huntington, secondo cui «<em>nella storia degli Stati Uniti nessun altro gruppo di immigrati ha affermato o potrebbe affermare una rivendicazione storica su nostri territori. Messicani e messicano-americani possono farlo e lo fanno</em>» .</p>
<p>Lo stesso Huntington si è inoltre mostrato incline a ravvisare nella combinazione tra demografia e nazionalismo messicano un potenziale effetto sinergico in grado di conferire una certa consistenza allo spauracchio della <em>reconquista</em>, con conseguente snaturamento dell’etica collettiva statunitense che ancora oggi attribuisce un valore incommensurabile al merito e alla concentrazione del reddito ad esso legata. All’interno di un volume eloquentemente <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Who-Are-We/Samuel-P-Huntington/9780684870540" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intitolato</a> <em>Who we are? </em>e incentrato proprio sui presunti pericoli connessi all’ispanizzazione degli Stati Uniti, il noto politologo scriveva che «<em>le ideologie del multiculturalismo e dell’eterogeneità hanno eroso la legittimazione degli elementi fondamentali dell’identità americana […]. Il continuo e cospicuo afflusso di immigrati messicani e ispanici, insieme al basso tasso di assimilazione di costoro nella società e nella storia statunitensi, potrebbe alla lunga trasformare questo Stato in un Paese con due lingue, due culture e due popoli. Questo fenomeno non si limiterebbe a trasformare gli Stati Uniti. Avrebbe anche delle conseguenze profonde per gli ispanici, che vivrebbero in America senza appartenervi […]. Non c’è un sogno americano. C’è solo il sogno americano creato dalla società anglo-protestante. Gli americani di origine messicana lo potranno condividere e potranno far parte di quella società solo se sogneranno in inglese</em>».</p>
<p><em>Note</em></p>
<p>1) Secondo un’indagine riportata da Friedman, i non messicani che risiedono nelle aree statunitensi di frontiera temono di essere investiti dall’ondata demografica messicana e avvertono con sempre maggior forza la percezione di vivere in Messico, anziché negli Usa.<br>
2) Da una ricerca <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/20/key-ways-us-changed-in-past-decade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condotta</a> dall’autorevole Pew Research Center emerge che i bianchi, che nel 1950 rappresentavano circa l’88% della popolazione statunitense, sono scesi al 60% nel 2018 e si prevede che caleranno sotto la soglia del 50% entro il 2035. Il cambiamento demografico ridimensionerà il peso della comunità bianca a vantaggio delle popolazioni nera, asiatica e, soprattutto, ispanica. La composizione politica e ideologica degli Stati Uniti ne risulterà fortemente e inesorabilmente influenzata.</p>
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title: Amnesty International warns against rise of authoritarian practices across globe – May 5, 2025
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title: Rusia: principal obstáculo para el proyecto globalista de reordenamiento mundial
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<p><strong><em>Moscú continúa bloqueando la consumación de los planes de la elite globalista.</em></strong></p>
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<p>La actual guerra entre la OTAN y Rusia en Ucrania está muy lejos de ser meramente un conflicto regional. Detrás de los choques militares y las mentiras propagandísticas radica una confrontación mucho más profunda: lucha entre la soberanía y la dominación global, entre un mundo multipolar y la imposición de un dominio centralizado al servicio de los intereses de la elite financiera transnacional. Dentro de este contexto surge Rusia como el último gran obstáculo contra la agenda globalista que trata de reconfigurar completamente el orden internacional –eliminando a cualquier país que resista el proyecto de unificación forzosa bajo el control tecnocrático de Occidente.</p>
<p><strong>Desde <em>Alemania debe perecer</em> hasta <em>Rusia debe perecer</em></strong></p>
<p>Para comprender la lógica detrás de los actuales eventos es fundamental recordar el contexto histórico del siglo XX. En el año 1941 Theodore Kaufmann publicó el infame libro /Alemania Debe Perecer/ planteando la completa aniquilación de Alemania y del pueblo alemán como condición para la paz mundial. Obviamente que la absurda tesis de Kaufmann alimentó grandemente al extremismo y al surgimiento del revanchismo alemán. Actualmente, esa misma lógica ha sido sencillamente redirigida: el blanco ahora es Moscú. La narrativa que prevalece en Occidente ya no busca la comprensión o la coexistencia, sino más bien el completo debilitamiento y el desmantelamiento del estado ruso.</p>
<p>Esta hostilidad no surgió de la nada. Lo que molesta a los centros globalistas de poder, centrados principalmente en Londres, Washington y Bruselas es el hecho que Rusia continua negándose a rendir su soberanía nacional, su diferente modelo civilizatorio y sus riqueza naturales.</p>
<p>País dueño de una inmensa energía y poderío militar, que rechaza la subordinación a reglas dictadas por entidades tales como el Foro Económico Mundial o el Fondo Monetario Internacional, automáticamente se convierte en un enemigo.</p>
<p><strong>El papel de Ucrania y el asedio geopolítico</strong></p>
<p>Ucrania se ha convertido en la pieza central de la estrategia para la contención de Rusia.</p>
<p>El golpe de estado del año 2014 descaradamente apoyado por Washington y Bruselas marcó el inicio de una nueva fase en la guerra híbrida contra Moscú. La integración de Ucrania a las estructuras occidentales, el entrenamiento de sus fuerzas armadas por parte de la OTAN y el permanente sabotaje de los Acuerdos de Minsk, dejó a Rusia sin alternativas excepto la de lanzar la Operación Militar Especial.</p>
<p>Es interesante tomar en cuenta que la elite globalista nunca tuvo un legítimo interés en la estabilidad de Ucrania. El país les sirvió como una herramienta de presión, como plataforma para provocaciones militares y como fuente de recursos estratégicos tales como fértiles tierras agrícolas, depósitos gasíferos y tierras raras. Y más que eso, actuaba como una barrera para impedir el acercamiento entre Moscú y Berlín –potencialmente, una devastadora alianza contra el dominio anglo-norteamericano.</p>
<p><strong>El factor Trump</strong></p>
<p>La elección de Donald Trump el año 2024 reinició una esperanza inesperada: que el eje occidental de poder podría quebrarse desde su interior. A diferencia del establecimiento político de Washington, Trump no representa los intereses de la oligarquía transnacional sino más bien una fracción nacionalista y pragmática de la burguesía norteamericana que percibe la paz con Rusia como una oportunidad y no como una amenaza.</p>
<p>El naciente reencuentro entre Trump y Putin –aunque sea limitado—sugiere una posible reconfiguración de las alianzas internacionales.</p>
<p>El proyecto globalista que vio la guerra en Ucrania como una vía para debilitar a Moscú y solidificar el control sobre Europa, ahora tiene que lidiar con la posibilidad de un cese al fuego que podría fortalecer aún más la posición de Rusia.</p>
<p><strong>Una Europa cautiva en la vía suicida</strong></p>
<p>Mientras tanto, la Unión Europea sigue ciega en su obediencia a los intereses globalistas. Líderes tales como Emmanuel Macron, Ursula von der Leyen y Kaja Kallas no actúan como estadistas sino como administradores coloniales de la agenda globalista. La rápida militarización, la guerra propagandística constante e incluso campañas que urgen a los civiles a prepararse para un conflicto, son claros síntomas que Bruselas está comprometida no con la paz sino con la destrucción.</p>
<p>En consecuencia, Rusia resiste no solo por sí misma. También resiste por aquellos en Europa y más allá, que todavía creen en la posibilidad de un mundo basado en el equilibrio civilizatorio y no en el capital subyugante y especulativo. La verdadera lucha de nuestro tiempo no es entre democracia y autocracia como ellos quieren que nosotros creamos, sino entre soberanía y servidumbre.</p>
<p><em>Traducción desde el inglés por Sergio R. Anacona</em></p>
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title: Banker Mark Carney's Rise to Power, Tavistock's Century-Long Plan for Canada? | with Matt Ehret
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title: B.C. Premier David Eby announces plan for clean energy – May 5, 2025
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title: 80 anos da Vitória: Recordando as atrocidades alemães na Segunda Guerra Mundial
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<p><strong><em>Trata-se não simplesmente de uma comemoração militar, tampouco de uma comemoração ideológica ligada ao comunismo, mas da celebração da vida e do seu triunfo sobre a morte planificada.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Conforme aproxima-se a celebração do Dia da Vitória para o ano de 2025 pode valer a pena recordar contra o quê os soviéticos se (e vários outros povos do mundo) se digladiaram na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Talvez a compreensão de certos aspectos nefastos daquele conflito sirva para explicar bem a importância do Dia da Vitória para os russos contemporâneos.</p>
<p>A Segunda Guerra Mundial, conforme avançou e especialmente após o início da Operação Barbarossa em 1941 (a invasão da URSS, assumiu as características de uma guerra total. Em grande medida, a natureza total desse conflito estava, porém, prefigurada nos próprios termos nos quais os alemães o situaram desde o início.</p>
<p>Ao pensar a guerra em termos fundamentalmente raciais e ao interpretá-la sob uma lógica de “vida ou morte”, os alemães abriram os portões para que a Segunda Guerra Mundial se transformasse em uma hecatombe com atrocidades crescentes.</p>
<p>Já notórias, especialmente para o público ocidental, são as atrocidades alemães contra os judeus nos campos de concentração em território polonês (Auschwitz, Majdanek, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka e Chelmno) onde as vidas de massas de judeus encontraram seu fim, bem como a repressão ao Gueto de Varsóvia, onde pereceram milhares de judeus e milhares outros foram deportados para os campos de concentração mais próximos.</p>
<p>Menos conhecidas do público ocidental são as atrocidades praticadas para além do território polonês, em terras que hoje pertencem aos países bálticos, a Belarus, à Ucrânia e à Federação Russa.</p>
<p>Retomando aos fundamentos dessa hecatombe, é necessário recordar que as elites políticas alemães distorceram de forma grosseira os conceitos geopolíticos de Friedrich Ratzel e Karl Haushofer (este que, inclusive, era defensor de uma aliança germano-soviética) para transformá-los em ferramentas teóricas para o expansionismo territorial e a guerra racial.</p>
<p>Nesse sentido, o uso pelo governo nazista do conceito de “Lebensraum” pode ser resumido em uma lógica segundo a qual os alemães, como povo sadio e em crescimento demográfico, deveriam buscar o espaço suficiente correspondente ao seu potencial nas terras europeias orientais. Na medida em que estas terras já estavam ocupadas, os alemães precisariam destruir ou expulsar os seus habitantes e, com isso, demonstrariam e garantiriam a sua “superioridade biológica”.</p>
<p>À teoria correspondeu, então, um plano específico, o Generalplan Ost (Plano Geral para o Leste), um projeto para a expropriação, escravização e destruição dos povos eslavos (através de massacres, trabalho forçado até a morte e deportação para a Sibéria) e, posteriormente, a colonização de suas terras por colonos alemães.</p>
<p>É neste contexto, por exemplo, que é possível compreender o tratamento dado pelos alemães aos prisioneiros de guerra soviéticos. Os soldados soviéticos capturados pelos nazistas enfrentaram condições desumanas. Cerca de 3,3 milhões de prisioneiros de guerra soviéticos morreram em campos alemães, muitos de fome, doenças ou execuções sumárias. Em contraste com o tratamento dado a prisioneiros ocidentais, os soviéticos eram frequentemente deixados ao relento, sem abrigo ou comida, em violação direta às convenções internacionais.</p>
<p>Também é sob a lógica do Generalplan Ost que se deve entender um dos crimes menos discutidos, mas igualmente horrendos, da Alemanha Nazista: a política de fome deliberada imposta pelos nazistas em regiões ocupadas, especialmente na Ucrânia e em partes da Rússia. O plano era desviar alimentos para as tropas alemãs e para o Reich, enquanto a população local era deixada para morrer.</p>
<p>Cidades como Leningrado (atual São Petersburgo) foram sitiadas por quase 900 dias, resultando na morte de mais de um milhão de civis, muitos deles de inanição. Relatos de canibalismo surgiram como consequência do desespero extremo. Em outras áreas, aldeias inteiras foram queimadas e seus habitantes executados (como em Koriukivka e em Khatyn) como parte de operações de represália contra a resistência guerrilheira, o Bandenbekämpfung.</p>
<p>A partir da Diretiva 46, assinada pelo próprio Hitler, o comportamento das SS na Frente Oriental se radicalizou. Os alemães passaram a designar áreas inteiras como “territórios de bandidos”, nos quais não se tratava de uma questão de “pacificação”, mas de aniquilação de todos os habitantes para garantir a “segurança” das tropas alemães, como ocorreu em Zhestianaya Gorka.</p>
<p>Boa parte desses massacres, bem como outras ações voltadas especificamente contra comunistas e judeus, foram praticados pelos Einsatzgruppen.</p>
<p>Os Einsatzgruppen eram esquadrões da morte encarregados de eliminar os “indesejáveis” nos territórios ocupados. Suas táticas envolviam reunir vítimas em florestas, ravinas ou valas antitanque e executá-las em fuzilamentos em massa. Provavelmente, o exemplo mais famoso é o de Babi Yar, em que os nazistas massacraram mais de 100 mil civis ao longo de vários dias, mas também pode-se fazer referência ao Massacre de Odessa, de 1941, quando os alemães com seus aliados romenos assassinaram aproximadamente 40 mil civis russos e ucranianos.</p>
<p>Já fizemos menção ao uso de trabalho escravo pelos alemães como parte do Generalplan Ost, mas aqui podemos mencionar de uma forma mais específica, a deportação de entre 4 e 5 milhões de civis eslavos para o território alemão, com a finalidade de seu uso para trabalho escravo. Esses trabalhadores recebiam rações de menos de 1.000 calorias por dia, e eram usados principalmente em fábricas de armamentos da Siemens e da Krupp. Por causa da péssima nutrição e dos maus tratos, centenas de milhares de “Ostarbeiter” morreram até o fim da guerra.</p>
<p>Além disso, merece menção o uso de trabalhadores escravos pela Organização Todt, uma megacorporação que esteve envolvida em inúmeros projetos de infraestrutura por toda a Alemanha e pelas regiões ocupadas pelo Reich. Aqui é importante recordar, por exemplo, a sua construção de campos para testes de armas experimentais, como o de Dora-Mittelbau, que usavam trabalho escravo. Ou então, na construção de ferrovias em Belarus, onde milhares morreram por causa das péssimas condições de trabalho.</p>
<p>Tudo aquilo que temos diante de nós indica com clareza que fosse por meio da fome, do trabalho forçado e extenuante, de fuzilamentos, e de vários outros métodos, a Alemanha nazista pretendia varrer os povos do leste europeu para abrir espaço para colonização alemã.</p>
<p>A importância do Dia da Vitória está precisamente nisso. Trata-se não simplesmente de uma comemoração militar, tampouco de uma comemoração ideológica ligada ao comunismo, mas da celebração da vida e do seu triunfo sobre a morte planificada.</p>
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link:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/05/80-anos-da-vitoria-recordando-as-atrocidades-alemaes-na-segunda-guerra-mundial/


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title: O valor estratégico da participação norte-coreana em Kursk
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<p><strong><em>Ocidente teme as consequências do fortalecimento da aliança entre russos e coreanos.</em></strong></p>
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<p>No teatro prolongado da crise ucraniana, um novo capítulo se abre com a revelação oficial de que tropas da República Popular Democrática da Coreia atuaram ao lado das forças russas na região de Kursk. Esse dado, antes especulado com insistência pela imprensa ocidental, surge agora não como uma “confirmação” das suposições de Washington e Bruxelas, mas como mais uma demonstração da evolução da guerra: o eixo Moscou-Pyongyang ganha força e experiência, não como aliança de ocasião, mas como um elemento do novo equilíbrio multipolar.</p>
<p>Durante meses, os conglomerados midiáticos do Ocidente recorreram a conjecturas para tentar atribuir uma presença coreana às frentes de batalha. Vídeos de má qualidade, fotos de soldados russos de feições asiáticas — muitos deles originários do Extremo Oriente russo ou de repúblicas autônomas como Buriácia ou Yakutia — foram usados de forma sensacionalista para alimentar a ilusão de que Pyongyang já havia cruzado uma “linha vermelha”. Contudo, nada do que foi divulgado à época passou por verificação séria. A obsessão em antecipar os fatos apenas refletia o desespero de quem, no fundo, teme a aproximação entre Estados que não se curvam ao domínio atlântico.</p>
<p>Agora, com a operação concluída e o território de Kursk plenamente pacificado, Moscou assume a narrativa com soberania: sim, houve participação norte-coreana, e sua atuação foi marcada por bravura e disciplina. Em vez de tratar essa revelação como uma “admissão”, como tentam pintar os editorialistas europeus, trata-se de um gesto calculado, feito no momento certo, quando a operação já havia alcançado seus objetivos. O sigilo anterior não era um “encobrimento”, mas uma aplicação elementar dos princípios clássicos da guerra: proteger informações estratégicas enquanto há combate em andamento.</p>
<p>Do ponto de vista jurídico, não há qualquer ilegalidade na presença coreana. A cooperação militar entre a Federação Russa e a RPDC foi formalizada em acordos bilaterais legítimos, dentro do direito internacional vigente. Aqueles que hoje gritam sobre “internacionalização do conflito” preferem esquecer que milhares de estrangeiros operam na Ucrânia com o beneplácito da OTAN, sob o disfarce de “mercenários”, “voluntários” ou “consultores”. Quando norte-americanos e europeus morrem em combate na linha de frente, seus governos silenciam. Mas quando soldados de uma nação soberana atuam em aliança formal com um parceiro estratégico, há o escândalo de governos e da mídia mainstream.</p>
<p>O que de fato incomoda as capitais ocidentais não é a presença dos coreanos — mas sim sua eficácia. Durante os meses em que estiveram no front, não houve qualquer registro público de baixa entre as fileiras da RPDC. Nenhuma captura. Nenhuma humilhação. Nenhuma propaganda feita à custa deles. A ausência de provas, que antes era usada como argumento para a negação, agora revela a verdadeira força dos que atuam longe dos holofotes midiáticos e perto da realidade do combate.</p>
<p>Mais importante que isso, porém, é o significado geopolítico desse momento. A presença de Pyongyang ao lado de Moscou envia um recado claro: o mundo não gira mais em torno das decisões tomadas em Washington. A aliança entre dois Estados soberanos, constantemente demonizados pelo mesmo aparato midiático-financeiro, é uma afirmação do direito de resistir e de construir vias alternativas à ordem unipolar.</p>
<p>Enquanto o Ocidente impões sanções e finge ainda dominar o mundo, outros países constroem pontes silenciosas — que se tornam, dia após dia, corredores reais de apoio, logística e solidariedade política, econômica e militar. A aliança entre Rússia e Coreia do Norte não representa apenas uma colaboração de ocasião, mas o embrião de uma nova arquitetura de segurança na Eurásia. E isso, mais do que qualquer operação tática, é o que verdadeiramente assusta os que vivem da hegemonia e do monopólio da força.</p>
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link:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/05/o-valor-estrategico-da-participacao-norte-coreana-em-kursk/


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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>President Donald J. Trump’s relentless pursuit of an American manufacturing renaissance is “boosting demand for some U.S.-made goods, with smaller players reaping the early benefits,” <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trumps-tariffs-are-lifting-some-u-s-manufacturers-06b4c6e1">writes <em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a>, as companies onshore production and buy their products in America.</p>
<p><strong>Here are a few examples from the</strong> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trumps-tariffs-are-lifting-some-u-s-manufacturers-06b4c6e1"><strong>story</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>“‘We are swamped. We are running 24 hours a day, seven days a week in both Chicago and Cleveland,’ said Jack Schron, president of Jergens Inc., which makes manufacturing tools, including industrial screwdrivers, clamps and hoists. Schron said his factories in Ohio and Illinois are ‘going like gangbusters,’ partly owing to new orders from customers looking to avoid paying import tariffs.”</li>
<li>“Donny Chaplin, president of Grand River Rubber &amp; Plastics in Ashtabula, Ohio, said he has seen a rush of new inquiries and orders. Two previous customers that had switched to Chinese suppliers a few years ago came back in recent days wanting to buy rubber gaskets from Grand River again, for the plastic pails they manufacture. Three manufacturers of oil filters also got in touch, wanting to shift business from China, with two already placing orders. All together, the new business will be worth about $5 million a year if it is completed, or roughly 10% of Grand River’s revenue. That might require the company to hire new employees and expand production lines.”</li>
<li>“The tariffs are a lifeline for the U.S. companies that sprang up during the Covid-19 pandemic to produce face masks, rubber gloves and other personal protective equipment, after shipments from Asia declined. The companies struggled in the pandemic’s aftermath, when hospitals and clinics abandoned U.S. manufacturers and returned to lower-cost suppliers in China, U.S. executives said. But new U.S. tariffs on rubber gloves from China have doubled the price from a few months ago, and ‘the folks that are relying on China are scrambling for other sources,’ said Alan Rust, chief growth officer for SafeSource Direct … ‘We were getting stiffed for a very long time, but just recently we’ve been getting a lot more inquiries.’”</li>
<li>“Employees for Massachusetts-based AccuRounds are working overtime to accommodate rising orders for the company’s shafts, valves and other steel components. The company recently added two customers that had shifted business from AccuRounds to suppliers in Singapore and China in recent years. First-quarter sales were 20% higher from a year earlier, said Chief Executive Michael Tamasi.”</li>
<li>“Michigan-based Whirlpool, which assembles 80% of its U.S. appliances at domestic factories, says its Asian competitors have had an unfair advantage, as they manufacture their appliances overseas but haven’t been paying import tariffs on them since 2023, when one imposed during Trump’s first term expired. Those rivals’ access to cheaper components and steel in Asia helps give them a $150 retail price advantage on washers, Whirlpool says. Chief Executive Marc Bitzer said the latest tariffs on imported assembled appliances should help close the price gap. ‘The tariffs will finally help create a level playing field for Whirlpool,’ he said in April during a call with analysts.”</li>
</ul><p><strong>Meanwhile, <em>The Washington Post</em></strong> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/04/trump-tariffs-us-manufacturing/"><strong>reports</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>“At the local Excel Dryer plant, William Gagnon, the chief operating officer, is unfazed. In fact, President Donald Trump’s import taxes so far have been nothing but good news for one of the world’s largest makers of restroom hand dryers. Gagnon, 48, credits Trump’s first-term tariffs with changing the math on production location decisions … the president’s second-term ‘reciprocal’ tariffs might result in the elimination of trade barriers that prevent Excel’s high-velocity hand dryers from dominating markets in countries such as Brazil and Australia … By making foreign goods more expensive, the import taxes make domestic suppliers more competitive while also discouraging Americans from purchasing cheap Chinese copies of Excel’s hand dryers. The tariffs also offer hope of prying open foreign markets … The tariffs Trump imposed on China this year also have brought more work home for one of Excel Dryer’s local suppliers: Double A Molding in Monson, Massachusetts … As Trump escalated his trade spat with China in recent weeks, Double A felt the effects.”</li>
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/icymi-trumps-tariffs-are-lifting-some-u-s-manufacturers/


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L’AFP et France info mentent sur le cancer du col au Danemark et érigent en modèle un pays vacciné où le risque est 70% plus élevé qu’en France !

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Les médias oublient de rappeler que l’incidence du cancer invasif du col danois très vacciné est 1,7 fois plus élevée que l’incidence en France peu vaccinée. Pour tous ces auteurs le pourcentage de vaccinés parait beaucoup plus important que les résultats cancérologiques très inquiétants du Gardasil.

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Interdiction de circulation aux véhicules lourds sur une portion du chemin de Montréal Ouest par mesure préventive

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title: Premier Danielle Smith speaks to Albertans on path forward with Ottawa – May 5, 2025
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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698412
author: ;Karine Bechet-Golovko
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Trêve du 9 Mai : pourquoi la Russie « attend » elle toujours une réponse, qui pourtant lui a déjà été donnée ?

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<p>Pour ceux, qui n’ont pas très bien compris ce qui s’est passé lors de la première trêve de 30 heures <i>in fine</i> unilatérale des fêtes de Pâques, le Président Poutine a proposé une nouvelle trêve, cette fois de trois jours, …</p>

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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885110
title: Ustica 1980, no closure will ever reveal the truth
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<p><strong><em>Can we really say that we are doing well when such serious truths are still being silenced?</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>In the dark and cold place of oblivion</strong></p>
<p>The investigation into the 1980 Ustica tragedy has been closed.</p>
<p>The Italian judicial authorities have decided to close all proceedings relating to the disaster that occurred on June 27, 1980, in the Tyrrhenian Sea.</p>
<p>After more than forty years of judicial investigations, international letters rogatory, and often partial or conflicting testimonies, the Ustica massacre risks remaining unsolved. In April 2025, the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office officially closed all investigations into the disaster involving the ITAVIA DC-9 aircraft. The disaster caused the death of 81 people. The French, Israeli, and US authorities refused to cooperate with the Italian authorities (and we will understand why). The hypothesis of an explosive device on board has been definitively ruled out, while that of an air battle remains valid, but this has not led to the identification of any responsible parties.</p>
<p>During the entire investigation, no data was ever obtained on the operation of the radars of the American aircraft carrier SARATOGA and the DLRO E-3 aircraft. The Italian media’s version of the responsibility for the accident involving the US fighter jet of the 37th squadron based on the USS SARATOGA (fragments of a suspended fuel tank with the livery of the fighter jets were found in the wreckage) has remained just a version. The truth and evidence have been concealed to appease Euro-Atlantic solidarity. Those responsible have not been punished. Compensation to the victims’ relatives was negligible and was only paid in 2023, following a ruling by the Rome Court of Appeal.</p>
<p>In 2007, the Court of Cassation ruled that the DC-9 had been shot down by a missile, probably in a war scenario. In 2013, talk of compensation began. No one has been formally convicted for the downing of the plane. There have been 20 rulings, but none has named a single “guilty party.” Itavia even <a href="https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/cronaca/ustica-sottratti-risarcimenti-itavia-sequestro-gdf-130-milioni_81894066-202402k.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had time to defraud</a> the Italian tax authorities and the families of the victims, before being convicted by the judiciary and having its assets seized by the authorities. Officials were able <a href="https://www.open.online/2023/09/15/strage-di-ustica-giuseppe-dioguardi-documenti-sismi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to destroy documents</a> on Ustica to prevent the truth from leaking out.</p>
<p>Now the case has been closed, which is the classic method of consigning to oblivion a historical fact whose truth must NOT be known.</p>
<p>But let’s take things in order, because the investigations and cover-ups, alongside the judicial developments, continue to be incredible. At this moment in history, it is certainly essential for Israel to protect itself and for the European Union (and therefore politically for France) to remain united and prevent international scandals from worsening relations between these countries.</p>
<p>Ah, an interesting point: Judge Paolo Borsellino, who was killed in a Mafia attack, <a href="https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2024/03/05/ustica-augias-a-la-confessione-rai3-di-gomez-dopo-la-telefonata-dellaviere-a-telefono-giallo-borsellino-mi-chiamo-e-riapri-linchiesta/7469072/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wanted to reopen the </a>Ustica case. Is it a coincidence that he was killed shortly afterwards?</p>
<p><strong>Only a few people know what really happened</strong></p>
<p>In 1980, tensions with Israel were palpable, and Gaddafi was beginning to assert himself on the international scene. The Libyan leader wanted a more prominent role, but it was not granted to him. Disappointed and dissatisfied, he began to take steps to regain the credibility he had built as a dictator by keeping the Libyan tribes united—a task that was far from easy without a strong man in charge. This, perhaps, is something that everyone should understand.</p>
<p>Gaddafi gained international visibility, mainly thanks to his relations with Italy. One day in 1980, he was on his way to Belgrade for a meeting. Giulio Andreotti, notoriously well informed about everything and everyone, learned of a possible assassination attempt against the Libyan president during the trip. When the plane was over Malta, Andreotti—through the embassy—warned Gaddafi of the danger. By then, however, he had already changed course and avoided the attack.</p>
<p>Everyone knew that Gaddafi was no longer on that plane.</p>
<p>That day, an Itavia DC-9 took off from Bologna bound for Palermo, with a delay of one hour and 35 minutes—a detail that has never been clearly explained. Two military aircraft took off from a base near Varese and tailed the DC-9. From then on, the story becomes complicated.</p>
<p>If we had read the signs correctly from the beginning, perhaps we could have avoided another 15 victims in the years that followed. Those planes could not have reached Libya: they did not have enough fuel. At most, they could have reached Palermo. But to do what? Gaddafi was not on that flight. It was an intelligence operation, one of the most sophisticated ever carried out.</p>
<p>In the Mediterranean, an area heavily monitored by radar and military bases—from Naples, for example—there were Italian, American, and French planes, and even a British submarine. Think of similar cases, such as the cable car in Friuli, which was cut by American planes: there, the blame was admitted and everything ended quickly. Instead, in the case of Ustica, it was preferred to talk about ‘structural failure’ and other implausible explanations.</p>
<p>What really happened? We know that four fighter jets took off from the Solenzara base in Corsica. Only three returned. There was an air battle in the area. It was not a bomb, but a shoot-down. According to some sources, the jets were Israeli. And it all makes sense, considering that Gaddafi was not on board the DC-9, but there was probably something much more valuable in the hold.</p>
<p>Nuclear material? Uranium? Plutonium? Perhaps. According to some, that cargo was destined for Gaddafi or Iran. Or both.</p>
<p>And there is another disturbing fact: among the bodies recovered, some passengers were dressed in life jackets, without shoes, with blackened feet. This detail is important: contact between certain radioactive materials and water can cause blackening of the skin. It is a clue. And it suggests that there was something extremely dangerous and secret in the hold of the plane.</p>
<p>If the plane was hit, as they say, the passengers would not have had enough time to put on life jackets and take off their shoes. So what really happened? There are even reports of the plane crashing into the sea, but officially it was shot down.</p>
<p>Now, bear in mind that Gaddafi was a man who knew the mechanisms of power well. To maintain his position, he knew how important it was to cultivate strategic contacts. Several people claimed that he had discovered a vast underground lake in the Libyan desert: an immense, potentially revolutionary resource. He had also accumulated huge gold reserves, as is well known. If he had been able to start getting rid of the French franc and use his own currency, or at least the capital at his disposal, he could have financed the extraction of water and transformed the desert into a kind of nationwide kibbutz. He would have become an autarkic state, independent of Western powers. But there was one obstacle too great: Israel. Even back then, in the 1980s, it was feared. It was known to possess nuclear weapons. And Gaddafi, alone, was too weak to oppose such a force.</p>
<p>We must not forget another crucial fact: in 1972, during the Munich Olympics, an attack struck the Israeli delegation. An athlete was killed, and the reaction was ruthless. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir drew up the infamous “X list” and tasked Mossad agents, who were given new identities, with tracking down and killing those responsible for the attack. Ten out of eleven were eliminated. Only one survived an assassination attempt and was not pursued further.</p>
<p>This shows that when Israel perceives a threat to its national security, it reacts directly, precisely, and secretly. A perception is enough: the target is identified and hit.</p>
<p>And here we return to Italy. After the Itavia DC-9 disaster, the French were tasked with recovering the wreckage. They recovered tiny objects: wallets, identity documents, even personal effects. But something much larger, such as the tail fin—a huge and crucial piece—was never found. How is this possible?</p>
<p>Entrusting the recovery of the wreckage to those who may have been involved in the events that night seemed, frankly, absurd. It was like asking the innkeeper if the wine was good. Was it possible that Italy did not have the means to deal with it? Or, at least, that another country could not be involved, accompanied by Italian military personnel?</p>
<p>On June 25, 2024, <a href="https://t.me/VQBChannel/147568" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on Giletti’s evening television program</a>, a former French soldier claimed that he was ordered to tell the Italians that the radar was under maintenance. <a href="https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/strage-di-ustica-francia-tracciati-58810de7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The radar tracks</a> were denied, and everything was covered up once again. France, servant of the London-Tel Aviv axis, was not to get its hands dirty.</p>
<p>And so, while tiny objects are found, the rudder disappears. The very thing that could have contained the most relevant evidence. A “ministerial jungle,” as Salgari would say. But this is no adventure novel.</p>
<p>In the meantime, they told us everything. In bits and pieces. Conflicting versions, misdirection, half-truths. But then, when the verdicts come, they say something completely different.</p>
<p>In the end, 96 people lost their lives. Not just those who knew too much. They all suffered the same tragic fate. The real scandal is that, even today, this secret remains hidden, far from the knowledge of the Italian people. Who still refuse to reveal the role played by the US, Israel, and France, and the extent to which Italy was involved in all this.</p>
<p>So how can we really say that we are doing well when such serious truths are still being silenced?</p>
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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698416
title: Voici ce que contient l’accord crucial sur les minéraux signé par les États-Unis et l’Ukraine
author: ;Andrew Thornebrooke
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<p>Un nouvel <a href="https://www.epochtimes.fr/t-accord" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accord</a> de développement des ressources entre les États-Unis et l’<a href="https://www.epochtimes.fr/t-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukraine</a> permettra aux deux pays d’investir conjointement dans des projets de ressources naturelles pour les décennies à venir.</p>
<p>Des représentants du département du Trésor américain ont fait savoir, …</p>

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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698420
title: L’empire anglo-nazi qui a failli voir le jour
author: ;Kit Klarenberg
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<p>À l’approche du jour de la Victoire en Europe, les responsables occidentaux, les experts et les journalistes cherchent tous à exploiter le 80e anniversaire de la défaite du nazisme à des fins politiques. Les dirigeants européens <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d0ab8abc-5535-42f0-a820-3121e3cd2000?j=eyJ1IjoiaTFlc3AifQ._8qpI5U56Zqt9LZ9jNpDMzP45EDRjWe8lVaF2CrLl0c" rel="">ont menacé</a> de représailles …</p>


guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698427
title: Argentine: Milei prépare-t-il l’état de siège?
author: ;Germán Gorraiz López
link: https://www.mondialisation.ca/argentine-milei-prepare-t-il-letat-de-siege/5698427
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<p><strong>L’Argentine serait accablée par <a href="https://chequeado.com/el-explicador/deuda-de-la-argentina-como-evoluciono-durante-el-gobierno-de-javier-milei/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">une dette extérieure</a> exorbitante</strong> <strong>de 290 milliards de dollars, ce qui la rend dangereusement exposée à une éventuelle appréciation du dollar et laisse présager de sombres perspectives économiques pour l’Argentine.</strong></p>
<p>L’accord avec le FMI pour recevoir …</p>


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author: ;⚡️Luc Trudel
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🔘 Nouvel Article | 07 Apr 2025Sionisme : 43 députés français ont appelé à bloquer le renouvellement du mandat de Francesca Alban...

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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8839
title: Saigon – 50 Years Later
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">In this episode of the Ray and Bob Show, Robert Scheer and CIA veteran Ray McGovern discuss the fall of Saigon on its fifty year anniversary. https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/30/the-fall-of-saigon-50-years-later-w-ray-mcgovern/</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/05/saigon-50-years-later/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


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title: Speaking in Russia Alongside Medvedev, Putin
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">Giving a talk at the Znanie Youth Forum titled “Russia-USA-World: Lessons From History.” Other speakers included former Russian President Medvedev and President Putin. https://disk.yandex.ru/i/FuBzIb33TYrl1w Photos: https://disk.yandex.ru/d/lwBkX1B1ZIWrpQ</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/05/speaking-in-russia-alongside-medvedev-putin/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


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title: Poignant Exchange with Putin
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">There was a long Q and A after President Putin spoke at the Znanie Youth Forum on Wednesday. This short exchange was particularly poignant, as well as instructive: Viktoria Agapova: Good afternoon, Mr President. My name is Viktoria Agapova and I am from Tambov. I write a history blog on the Great Patriotic War. My great-grandfather saved a disabled self-propelled…</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/05/poignant-exchange-with-putin/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8848
title: From Moscow – What Putin Wants
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">From Moscow – on with the Judge on What Putin Wants</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/05/from-moscow-what-putin-wants/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>How to counter the drive for war? The Trump administration must clean the war hawks out of its ranks, and form principled alliances for mutual benefit with the nations of BRICS and the Global Majority.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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title: IPC # 100 May 2nd – To 'Bear Witness Unto the Truth' Means to Act to Stop the Genocide
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Friends of the International Peace Coalition,It is hard to avoid the reality that we are witness to a full-scale, systemic breakdown crisis underway in the West.British geopolitics, including the deployment of terrorists, threatens to detonate yet another war, this time in the India-Pakistan theater—where both countries are nuclear powers and are openly threatening to use those weapons.The entire peninsula of Iberia, a land area nearly the size of Texas, was thrown into pitch darkness for almost 24 hours on April 28, because Spain has most aggressively adopted the EU’s clinically insane energy policies of full reliance on "renewable"—i.e., intermittent and undependable—energy sources with the lowest possible energy flux densities. Germany and all of the EU are following close behind.And President Trump continues to insist on a tariff policy which is predictably sharply increasing inflation and shutting down factories in the U.S.; leading to rising defaults on loans issued by banks at home and abroad; and declaring economic war on the very countries on which the U.S. physical economy most depends—in particular China.Worse still, the dominant political Establishments in both the United States and Europe are adamantly refusing to admit that their policies have failed miserably, let alone consider options to solve the crises. As Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated in a policy discussion on April 28, "it’s very clear that the entire war danger right now comes from the inability, or unwillingness, of the Establishments of the West… [to] recognize the failure of these policies and correct them by simply replacing them with the correct policies," such as those being promoted by the BRICS and other nations of the Global South, that are intent on putting an end to 500 years of colonialism with science-driven development.We are also witness to the U.S. government continuing to enable the genocide underway in Gaza, just as Joe Biden did, this time arguing before the International Court of Justice in favor of the Netanyahu government’s "right" to banish UNRWA—the major source of organized food and other aid to starving Palestinians—from Gaza and the West Bank.But to "bear witness unto the truth" means responsibility to act.And that is what the Schiller Institute—and the International Peace Coalition which it initiated in May 2023—will make its urgent agenda at its 100th consecutive weekly meeting this Friday, May 2. That meeting will kick off the IPC’s next drive to place a discussion of LaRouche’s Oasis Plan at the center of the deliberations surrounding the upcoming June 2-4 United Nations Conference demanding a "Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine." According to the UN’s convening resolution, the conference will be held in New York City and "will adopt an action-oriented outcome document… to urgently chart an irreversible pathway towards the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine and the implementation of the two-State solution.""We have to stop the genocide," Zepp-LaRouche insisted, "and for that we need a breakthrough." The approach to defeating British geopolitics and achieving peace through development that is taken in LaRouche’s Oasis Plan for Southwest Asia, is exemplary of the global policies that must be adopted in the West to get it off its current, accelerating trajectory towards a systemic breakdown.Join the IPC’s 100th meeting this Friday, to redouble our action for peace and development. And register to attend and help build the Schiller Institute’s May 24-25 conference, "A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!"<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>This week, Diane is joined by longtime LaRouche associate Denise Ham.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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title: Fireside Chat May 1st w Mike Bilington and Bill Jones
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Unless those in the United States continue to willingly avoid reality, the fact that we are now heading towards a systemic breakdown crisis in the trans-Atlantic sector today, cannot be avoided.Though the Trump Administration embarks on a different path with Russia than the previous Biden Administration, there is a clear fight being waged by the war hawks to derail the progress that has so far been made. The attacks on Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, by nasty neocons like Michael McFaul and John Bolton in the New York Post, makes this battle within the administration very clear.Meanwhile, another war threatens to detonate in the India-Pakistan theater on the basis of a terrorist incident in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where both countries are nuclear powers and openly threatening to use those weapons. While the majority of those two countries’ leaders are set on blaming each other, an insightful comment was made by Pakistan’s Defense Minister, who pointed the finger at ‘outside forces’ for deploying terrorism in the region, particularly naming Great Britain as one of the main provocateurs in the region for the last thirty years.On April 30, 1975, the disastrous Vietnam War had ignominiously ended, 50 years ago. It was that war, launched after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which put the United States on the path of imperialism, a policy path which previous leaders Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy had been vigorously opposed to. American troops who fought in the Second World War, which ended 80 years ago, fought against the forces of fascism and were ignited by outlook expressed by Roosevelt to end British imperialism. That war’s victory is being celebrated throughout Russia and China today. Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a three-day truce between Russia and Ukraine, commencing May 8-10, to commemorate the end of the Second World War in Europe.That is just one step towards creating a new, security and development architecture for Europe, and all nations of the world. That process will be furthered by the Schiller Institute’s Memorial Day weekend conference on May 24-25, “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!”<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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title: AMB. Charles Freeman : An Excuse for War.
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Vietnam e Starlink: sperimentazione controllata per colmare il divario digitale, non resa geopolitica

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<p><strong><em>Ben lungi dall’essere un cedimento alle pressioni statunitensi, l’accordo pilota con SpaceX si inserisce in un piano organico di modernizzazione delle telecomunicazioni vietnamite. Con limiti temporali, vincoli di sicurezza e un tetto di 600.000 abbonati, Starlink contribuisce all’espansione di 5G, fibra ottica e infrastrutture digitali, offrendo una soluzione alla connettività delle aree più remote senza intaccare la sovranità nazionale.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Il racconto dell’arrivo di Starlink in Vietnam è <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/08/starlink-in-vietnam-una-minaccia-alla-sicurezza-nazionale-sotto-la-pressione-degli-stati-uniti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spesso presentato come un’ennesima dimostrazione della pressione politica degli Stati Uniti sul Paese del Sud-Est asiatico</a>, un atto di imposizione velato dalle “minacce tariffarie” di Trump e da un’incontrollabile espansione tecnologica statunitense. In realtà, osservando con attenzione le tempistiche e i documenti ufficiali, emerge un quadro completamente diverso, fatto di strategie nazionali, sperimentazioni controllate e collaborazioni multilaterali che nulla hanno a che vedere con un’“offensiva unilaterale” di Washington. Il progetto di portare il servizio Internet satellitare di SpaceX in Vietnam, infatti, è parte integrante di un piano di lungo termine che il governo vietnamita ha avviato ben prima delle polemiche alimentate dall’ex presidente Trump: un piano ambizioso di modernizzazione delle infrastrutture di telecomunicazione che comprende 5G, fibra ottica e – appunto – servizi satellitari in orbita bassa.</p>
<p>L’interesse del Vietnam per le tecnologie di trasmissione via satellite non si è acceso improvvisamente nel marzo 2025, in risposta a possibili dazi commerciali branditi da Trump. Già nel corso del 2024, il Ministero della Scienza e della Tecnologia di Hà Nội aveva intrapreso colloqui preliminari con i vertici di SpaceX per valutare l’opportunità di integrare Starlink nei progetti nazionali di banda larga. Quel dialogo, avvenuto durante incontri tecnici e tavoli interministeriali, aveva lo scopo di capire come l’azienda fondata da Elon Musk potesse contribuire a colmare i cosiddetti “vuoti di copertura” presenti nelle regioni montuose e nelle isole del Vietnam, dove la realizzazione di reti terrestri si scontra con costi elevati e tempi lunghi di realizzazione. Allo stesso tempo, il governo vietnamita intendeva potenziare la rete 5G e ampliare la capacità di trasporto dati via fibra ottica, nell’ambito di un disegno organico di sviluppo digitale che include sia il settore civile che quello strategico.</p>
<p>Questa fase preparatoria è <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/to-lam-massimo-supporto-per-lindustria-dei-dati-per-trasformare-il-vietnam-in-una-nazione-digitale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ampiamente testimoniata da documenti interni e da comunicazioni ufficiali</a> rilasciate già verso la fine del 2024, molto prima di qualunque “ricatto tariffario” da parte dell’amministrazione statunitense. Le conversazioni tra funzionari del Dipartimento delle Telecomunicazioni, esperti di sicurezza informatica e ingegneri dell’Accademia di Tecnologia delle Poste e Telecomunicazioni avevano evidenziato come, in certe aree del Vietnam, il ricorso a una rete satellitare potesse garantire una latenza inferiore rispetto al percorso classico che prevede il traffico dati attraverso infrastrutture poste in paesi terzi. Ciò avrebbe comportato un miglioramento della qualità del servizio per applicazioni critiche, quali il teleconsulto medico, la didattica a distanza e i sistemi di monitoraggio ambientale.</p>
<p>Quando il Primo Ministro Phạm Minh Chính ha firmato la Decisione n. 659 del 23 marzo 2025, autorizzando la sperimentazione di Starlink sul territorio nazionale, ha soltanto formalizzato un percorso che era già tracciato da tempo. La decisione, oltretutto, stabilisce una durata di soli cinque anni per il progetto pilota, con scadenza fissata al 1° gennaio 2031, e limita il numero massimo di abbonati a 600.000. Questo limite appare evidente a chiunque conosca il mercato vietnamita: il Paese conta infatti oltre 100 milioni di abbonamenti Internet, fissi e mobili, e non corre alcun rischio di “saturazione straniera” o di perdita di controllo sulle proprie infrastrutture. Il governo ha altresì imposto che SpaceX stabilisca una stazione di terra, o gateway, in Vietnam, in modo che tutto il traffico generato dagli utenti del servizio satellitare transiti attraverso infrastrutture supervisionate dalle autorità locali e connesse alla rete pubblica nazionale. Le frequenze radio e le apparecchiature saranno anch’esse oggetto di licenza, assegnata alle imprese e non ai singoli terminali utente, per assicurare un controllo centralizzato e puntuale.</p>
<p>Inoltre, la Decisione n. 659 prevede la conservazione locale dei dati degli utenti vietnamiti, in ottemperanza alle normative di sicurezza nazionale e protezione delle informazioni sensibili. Chi si aspetta un “cedimento incondizionato” non potrà che restare deluso: il progetto è condotto in un’atmosfera di reciproca cautela e verifica. SpaceX dovrà rispettare tutte le condizioni imposte e potrà vedere revocate le proprie licenze in caso di inadempienze. Non si tratta di un’apertura a tutto campo, bensì di un esperimento controllato, all’interno di un più ampio sforzo del governo per garantire connettività sicura e resiliente su tutto il territorio.</p>
<p>Questo approccio, del resto, non è inedito né confinato al solo Vietnam. In Malaysia, già dallo scorso luglio 2023, Starlink ha ottenuto una licenza decennale per operare senza limiti di capitale straniero. Le autorità di Kuala Lumpur hanno scelto di avviare la sperimentazione servendosi inizialmente del servizio per collegare infrastrutture educative in aree remote, distribuendo kit a quarantacinque istituti scolastici. Anche in Indonesia, paese recentemente divenuto membro dei BRICS, Starlink ha inaugurato operativamente il proprio servizio sin dal maggio dello scorso anno, concentrandosi su applicazioni cruciali come la telemedicina e l’istruzione nelle isole periferiche. Queste esperienze confermano che il modello di business di SpaceX, per quanto possa avere tra i propri obiettivi una politica di dominazione tecnologica, deve poi venire a compromessi stipulare partenariati con i governi locali, tramite pilot studiati per integrarsi con le reti esistenti e per supportare il progresso digitale nelle aree che ne hanno più bisogno.</p>
<p>Per quanto riguarda il caso vietnamita, poi, appare evidente come i limiti imposti dal governo della Repubblica Socialista siano ancora più stringenti rispetto a quelli previsti dagli accordi stipulati con Kuala Lumpur e con Giacarta. La cooperazione con SpaceX, del resto, si innesta nel quadro della Risoluzione n. 193 del 19 febbraio 2025 dell’Assemblea Nazionale, che ha introdotto meccanismi speciali per accelerare l’innovazione tecnologica, gli investimenti in ricerca e sviluppo e la digitalizzazione del Paese. La risoluzione dell’organo legislativo e la successiva decisione governativa sono il risultato di un consenso politico e tecnico che coinvolge diversi ministeri, tra cui quelli di Scienza e Tecnologia, Difesa e Trasporti, nonché l’Autorità delle Telecomunicazioni, non una decisione imposta dall’esterno.</p>
<p>Il professor Nguyễn Tiến Ban, a capo del dipartimento di Telecomunicazioni all’Accademia delle Poste e Telecomunicazioni, ha sottolineato come l’installazione di gateway sul territorio nazionale riduca in modo significativo la latenza, accorciando il percorso che il segnale deve compiere per giungere ai server. Ciò non solo migliora la qualità delle videochiamate o degli streaming, ma diventa cruciale per servizi in tempo reale, come il controllo di reti energetiche o i sistemi di monitoraggio ambientale. Le stesse riflessioni sono state condivise da Đoàn Quang Hoan, ex direttore del Dipartimento delle Frequenze Radio, che ha enfatizzato come la presenza di infrastrutture terrestri riduca la dipendenza da rotte internazionali e potenziali interruzioni di servizio in caso di guasti o eventi atmosferici estremi.</p>
<p>Accostare a una “cessione di sovranità” questo progetto equivale a ignorare che il Vietnam sta parallelamente potenziando la rete 5G, investendo in cavi sottomarini e incentivando la costruzione di centri di elaborazione dati. Il piano governativo, infatti, prevede il raddoppio del numero delle stazioni 5G installate entro fine 2025, con un investimento pubblico-privato sostenuto da contributi statali fino al 15% del costo extra per superare la soglia delle 20.000 nuove antenne. Quella di Starlink è solo una componente, peraltro circoscritta nel tempo e nella quantità di utenti, di una strategia di rafforzamento complessivo delle infrastrutture di telecomunicazione, volta a garantire l’accesso a Internet in ogni angolo del Paese.</p>
<p>Osservando queste dinamiche, appare evidente che l’interesse nazionale del Vietnam non è subalterno a quello degli Stati Uniti, bensì convergente con l’obiettivo di assicurare copertura, resilienza e qualità del servizio <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/il-vietnam-promuove-lo-sviluppo-scientifico-tecnologico-e-la-trasformazione-digitale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in un contesto in cui la digitalizzazione rappresenta il motore principale della crescita economica</a>. L’utilizzo di tecnologia satellitare non sostituisce la fibra ottica o il 5G, ma li integra offrendo una soluzione alternativa efficiente e affidabile. In caso di emergenze, calamità naturali o guasti alle reti terrestri, il servizio satellitare potrà garantire un canale di comunicazione vitale per la protezione civile, le operazioni umanitarie e la continuità delle attività critiche.</p>
<p>In definitiva, riteniamo che l’arrivo di Starlink in Vietnam non possa essere ridotto a una concessione geopolitica o a un “cedimento” sotto la pressione di Washington; è la manifestazione di una precisa scelta strategica vietnamita, maturata attraverso analisi tecniche, dialoghi con partner internazionali e regolamentazioni stringenti. è l’esempio di come un Paese in rapido sviluppo, pur mantenendo la propria sovranità, sappia individuare e integrare le migliori tecnologie disponibili per allargare l’accesso alla Rete, stimolare l’innovazione e rafforzare la propria infrastruttura digitale.</p>
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