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The disarticulation of pandemic war propaganda

An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon.   by Raul Diego   Part 3 - CFR for dummies An open letter published on the web in early January called on “ the federal authorities in Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States ” and the FBI, specifically, to investigate the claim made by the authors that the worldwide lockdowns that have decimated small businesses and left millions unemployed, yet lined the pockets of the richest people and sent stock markets soaring, have been “inspired” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Their ‘case’ begins with the argument that as a result of China’s implementation of a lockdown on the city of Wuhan after the novel coronavirus was deemed a threat to public health by Chinese authorities. and the ostensible iron grip the communist nation has on the World Health Organization, it was able to stealthily transpose its draconian mea

How Ecuador’s US-backed, coup-supporting ‘ecosocialist’ candidate Yaku Pérez aids the right-wing

Ecuador’s presidential candidate Yaku Pérez supported coups in Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. His US-backed party Pachakutik and supposedly “left-wing” environmentalist campaign is being promoted by right-wing corporate lobbyists.   by Ben Norton  Part 4 - US-backed “ecosocialists” ally with right-wing in coup attempt against Rafael Correa   The deployment of ostensibly progressive “environmentalist” talking points to destabilize left-wing governments in Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, and beyond was developed over a decade ago, to weaken the democratically elected government of Ecuador’s former socialist President Rafael Correa. To undercut Correa, the United States and Western European governments funded civil society groups in Ecuador that claimed to support environmental causes and indigenous rights, but ended up serving as tentacles of the right-wing opposition. Throughout their tenures in office, Ecuador’s Correa and Bolivia’s Evo Morales faced heavy opposition to their a

US State Department accusation of China ‘genocide’ relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue

The Trump and Biden administrations have relied on the work of a right-wing religious extremist, Adrian Zenz, for their “genocide” accusation against China. A close review of Zenz’s research reveals flagrant data abuse and outright falsehoods.   by Gareth Porter and Max Blumenthal Part 2 - Genocide or equal treatment in family planning policy? In Adrian Zenz’s 2020 paper for the Jamestown Foundation, he boasted that his findings “ provide the strongest evidence yet that Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang meet one of the genocide criteria cited in the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. ” Zenz was referring Article 2 (d) of that Convention: “ Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group .” But Article II qualifies the relevant acts as those “ committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such. ” But “ preventing births ” by itself cannot be evidence of alleged genocide withou

US, OAS, Colombia try to steal Ecuador’s election from popular socialist candidate, while spreading fake news

The US State Department is pushing a politicized vote recount, overseen by the coup-sponsoring OAS, after socialist Andrés Arauz won Ecuador’s election in a landslide. Meanwhile Colombia’s ex-president warns his country’s “radical right” is “interfering” with “slander” and a “dirty game.”   by Ben Norton  Part 3 - Ecuador’s biased electoral council collaborates with losing candidates against leading leftist   While the Colombian government has openly meddled in Ecuador’s internal affairs, the US government and Organization of American States have been working more quietly behind the scenes to undermine the electoral victory of leftist Andrés Arauz.   On February 12, the same day Colombia’s chief prosecutor arrived in Quito, Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE) held an unprecedented closed-door meeting between the second- and third-place presidential candidates.   In a blatant violation of Ecuadorian law, the CNE hosted a private event where the losing opposition candidates were e

Joe Biden is already breaking his promise to end the US’ ‘forever wars’ in the Middle East

by Robert Inlakesh   Part 2 - When in doubt, blame Iran   Despite the fact there has been no confirmation as to who exactly carried out the recent Erbil rocket attack, the US State Department has vowed a response against those involved.  The group that claimed the attack, Saraya Awliya Al-Dam, has since been linked by the Western press to Iran. The likes of CNN have even called the group an “ Iranian-backed militia ”, for which the network provided no evidence and which is a potentially dangerous assertion, as many Americans will have been given the impression that Iran was somehow responsible. Iran has since denied any involvement in the Erbil attack and says it has never backed the Saraya Awliya Al-Dam militia group.  Following Trump’s ‘targeted assassination’ of Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs) Chairman Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis in January 2020, the Iraqi parliament had voted to expel US forces from the country. Although the expul

Νεβάδα όπως Ελλάδα: το Αμερικανικό πεδίο δοκιμών για την θεσμοθέτηση της κορπορατικής φεουδαρχίας του 21ου αιώνα!

globinfo freexchange   Στις αρχές Φεβρουαρίου, ένα σύντομο άρθρο στη διαδικτυακή έκδοση του Associated Press πέρασε λίγο-πολύ απαρατήρητο. Παρόλα αυτά, θα μπορούσε να αποτελέσει την καλύτερη απόδειξη για ένα γεγονός που αυτό εδώ το μπλογκ υποστηρίζει εδώ και χρόνια. Δηλαδή, με λίγα λόγια, ότι το Δυτικό οικονομικό μοντέλο έχει ήδη μεταμορφωθεί σε κάτι ακόμα χειρότερο από τον καπιταλισμό. Έχει μεταμορφωθεί σε ένα είδος κορπορατικής φεουδαρχίας του 21ου αιώνα. Και φαίνεται ότι η πολιτεία της Νεβάδα θα αποτελέσει και επίσημα το πεδίο δοκιμών γι'αυτή την Οργουελική μετάβαση.    Το πρώτο σοκ έρχεται με τη γενική περιγραφή του τι πρόκειται να δούμε στην πολιτεία της Νεβάδα. Όπως αναφέρεται στο άρθρο, ετοιμάζεται ειδική νομοθεσία που θα επιτρέπει την ίδρυση περιοχών (που αποκαλούνται Ζώνες Καινοτομίας) στη συγκεκριμένη πολιτεία, τις οποίες οι μεγάλες εταιρίες θα ελέγχουν απόλυτα μέσα από αυτόνομες τοπικές κυβερνήσεις!  Το σχέδιο ανακοινώθηκε από τον κυβερνήτη  Steve Sisolak, μέλος του Δ

Keir Starmer’s war on Democracy

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Dec 2020 picks

A CIA document exposed by WikiLeaks could become the blueprint for Kamala Harris to start a war with Iran   Biden accidentally reveals the plan: be replaced by Kamala Harris    WikiLeaks paper reveals attempt by US Big Pharma cartel to take over France's health industry in a neocolonial style under Sarkozy presidency   A high-tech giant deeply connected with US intelligence agencies behind a potential voter manipulation operation in Greece

Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal

New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. by Max Blumenthal Part 1 The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have sponsored Reuters and the BBC to conduct a series of covert programs aimed at promoting regime change inside Russia and undermining its government across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a series of leaked documents. The leaked materials show the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action participating in a covert information warfare campaign aimed at countering Russia. Working through a shadowy department within the UK FCO known as the Counter Disinformation & Media Development (CDMD), the media organizations operated alongside a collection of intelligence contractors in a secret entity known simply as “the Consortium.” Through training programs of Russian journalists overseen by Reuter

Facebook hires NATO press officer Ben Nimmo as intelligence chief

It is now difficult to distinguish where the deep state ends and the fourth estate begins and Ben Nimmo’s move from NATO to NATO-aligned think tank to Facebook is just another example of this phenomenon.   by Alan Macleod   Part 3 - Pro-war putsch The Atlantic Council began as an offshoot of NATO itself and maintains extremely close connections to the military alliance. It continues to receive major funding from Western governments and weapons contractors, and its board of directors is filled to the brim with senior American statespersons, such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Henry Kissinger. Also appearing on the board are no fewer than seven former CIA directors and a number of top military generals, such as Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, Wesley Clark, and David Petraeus. In recent years, the council’s employees have penetrated deep into big tech and social media organizations. In 2018, it announced it had partnered with Facebook to aid in the curation of Facebook news feeds of users w