PEPE ESCOBAR—Everyone with a brain following the ghastly Eurocrat machinations in Brussels was aware of the main plot – yet hardly anyone among average EU citizens. Habeck, Chancellor “Liver Sausage” Scholz, the European Commission (EC) Green Energy VP Timmermans, EC dominatrix Ursula von der Leyen, they are all involved.
In a nutshell: as Engdahl describes it, this is about “the EU plan to de-industrialize one of the most energy-efficient industrial concentrations on the planet.”
PHILIP GIRALDI—Most CIA Stations and even the larger Bases overseas have covert action capabilities and their activity is frequently governed by the operating directives that are applied to every country where the Agency operates. In practice, covert action most often consists of recruiting, paying and directing journalists and other opinion-shapers to write stories and support narratives favorable to US interests. In some cases, depending on circumstances, the CA officers will either directly or indirectly fund groups and individuals who are opponents of the established government. If there is a major operation, like Ukraine, success comes when there is regime change.
“Excellent analysis of how we end up with leaders who are not able to lead. I was a career military officer and a health professional. Both areas require compliance and hoop jumping. The military has made hoop-jumping the primary means of career advancement. If you don’t advance on schedule, your career ends. Thus, officers become professional hoop jumpers and their actual duties are secondary. The consequence is that my the time an officer becomes field grade, they are often devoid of any real skills but have perfect promotion folders. Hard workers, loyal, but unable to deal with failure or stand up for principle. They can’t and won’t rock a boat that needs rocking.”
PATRICK LAWRENCE—The rampant, perverse corporatization of every aspect of life in unduly powerful nations represents the institutionalization of these characteristics. When everything is measured according to its potential to turn profit, we have to say that Margaret Thatcher was horribly right when she asserted, “There is no society. There are only individuals.” This is a key feature of nations that are merely powerful. They are gatherings of survivors in constant struggle against one another.
P. GREANVILLE—Few ideologies are more insidious and disastrous to society than libertarianism, but its popularity continues in the US, propelled by fanatics who live in an alternate universe, and the power of a multitude of billionaires, their media and bought politicians, and the fact it remains the core value of capitalism, aka “the American Way of Life”.