PEPE ESCOBAR—This naval force is obviously not there to launch WWIII. Martyanov explains that “while both can strike all of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and Canada, they are there not for that reason. God forbid if it comes to real WWIII there are plenty of Bulavas, Avangards, Sarmats and Yarses to deal with this horrifying business. No, both Gorshkov and Kazan are there to show that they can reach any combat ship or strategic sea lift vessel carrying any military combat set from North America to Europe in case of some nutjob deciding to try to survive a conventional war with Russia in 404.”
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EDITOR—The main lesson of Covid, says Garland, is never trust the Government. Do your own research, do your thinking before adopting any position. Why should we trust a government, a ruling elite, that has committed enormous crimes in practically all continents and continues to do so, while lying through their teeth? Why should the American people think that a depraved ruling class that has engaged in many wars of choice, regime changes and so on, and is even now actively plotting more, causing incalculable suffering around the globe, all for self-enrichment, not the highfalutin ideals like “freedom” or “democracy” or “human rights” they always told the people, is going to suddenly become good and virtuous in their behaviour toward the American people? Why should a plutocracy, a bunch of billionaires with no real national attachment to any country, who follow nothing but the pursuit of wealth, be trusted with most of the major decisions in our lives? The Covid timeline alone should have alerted us, adds, Garland. But apparently it didn’t.
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PATRICK CONNORS—With a few exceptions, The Times reporting on Israel’s ongoing assault in Gaza has been dreadful and deserves condemnation. The paper has deliberately obscured or lazily failed to examine key events and realities, and presented information in a way that attempts to portray a balanced conflict where both sides are suffering similarly, rather than the reality of a one-sided Israeli massacre of Palestinian civilians. The Times has omitted key facts in a way that hypes threats to Israel while obscuring Israel’s overwhelming power, and control over and brutal repression of Palestinians.
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EDITOR—Probably jockeying for a position in the Trump administration, Lindsay Graham, US Senator for South Carolina, and one of the most revolting and depraved politicians ever produced by the US ruling elites (and we know this establishment produces some real prizes) admits that much of the reason for the Ukraine war is plain old conquest and plunder. With a view, of course, of triggering regime change in Moscow and later capturing and dismantling Russia. (This has been the West’s wet dream for at least 75 years if not longer). ALSO: Criticism of sickening “Hostage Rescue” raid, with US soldiers (US Special Forces?) backing up the IDF killers. It’s clear US full-bore partnership in Israel’s war against Palestinians is a war crime. The testimony is soul-crushing: “Video of a Palestinian boy in Gaza has gone viral in which he says members of his family were shot and killed by American soldiers during the recent raid to recover Israeli hostages. The boy says the soldiers were definitely not Israeli, and in addition to killing his brother they also shot him in the finger, tied his hands behind his back and put out a cigarette on his neck.
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EDITOR—GARLAND discusses how the arrogant Biden regime—par for the course when it comes to US foreign policy regimes, all steeped in hypocrisy, supremacism and exceptionalism— and its hard core of mentally and morally-deficient Neocons have entangled themselves with the Russian Bear and now all options spell bigger and much worse trouble for the Empire. Ukraine has no appealing off-ramp, and neither does the Palestinian quagmire, which the Biden regime’s collaboration with Tel Aviv has only made even more disgusting. And the Neocons continue to talk tough toward China.
