The most despicable regime on the planet that Occupies Palestine and is run by what some term Zionazis with plenty of reasons current and historic has now seen what they so proudly declared to be their Deterrence Weapon—overwhelming force to be visited onto any challenger to the Zionist Genocide Project—shattered by Iran’s well measured and legal retaliation for the Zionists' many crimes, the most recent being the utter destruction of International Law by bombing the Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus to murder several Iranian Generals.
Unlike the Zionists who prefer to attack and murder civilians, Iran chose to attack the military assets responsible for the Zionist attacks, where Iran appears to be quite successful. On the technical military aspects, I defer to the excellent article Simplicius composed which shows some of the same videos I saw last night of multiple missile strikes in a very tight grouping. Just one note, many of the photos shown claiming to be downed Iranian missiles are merely the booster stages of Iran’s multistage missiles that often have a manoeuvrable warhead and possibly impact at hypersonic speeds. The informed word is Iran’s attack was very limited, and it issued a statement saying it was satisfied with the results and no further punishment would be required unless the Zionists retaliated.
Two very important geopolitical outcomes were quickly made. First, Russia announced that Iran was acting well within its rights under the UN Charter and that Russia has Iran’s back, something that was hinted at two years ago but is now 100% overt. The second item is Biden’s saying the Outlaw US Empire won’t aid the Zionists if they decide to retaliate. A third minor development was Jordan’s acting in the Zionist defence. Other items would be the Emirati and Saudi relief that they’d reached peaceful relations with Iran as it’s now very clear just how strong Iran really is.
In closing this short note, I must strenuously endorse this Michael Hudson interview with Ania K., “Gaza: The Strategic Imperative,” that provides some of the hidden context to this longstanding conflict. I’m so very tempted to provide an excerpt, but the choices are too many, and I do want readers to read or watch what Michael has to share.*
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Yes, the carnage could’ve been greater. It was done by members of the Outlaw US Empire’s Terrorist Foreign Legion—ignore the denials from Washington. That Western media continues to focus on the Kate Middleton “revelation” shows how it cooperates with such events. Putin’s address is short and to the point. Russians are very aware of what nation is behind the attack. And Russian resolve will be even more steadfast than ever. Here’s Putin:
Vladimir Putin:
Dear citizens of Russia,
I am writing to you in connection with the bloody, barbaric terrorist act that killed dozens of innocent civilians – our compatriots, including children, teenagers, and women. Doctors are now fighting for the lives of the victims, those who are in serious condition. I am sure that they will do everything possible and even impossible to save the lives and health of all the wounded. Special words of gratitude to the ambulance and ambulance crews, special forces soldiers, firefighters, rescuers who did everything possible to save people's lives, get them out of the fire, out of the epicenter of fire and smoke, and avoid even greater losses.
I cannot ignore the help of ordinary citizens, who in the first minutes after the tragedy did not remain indifferent and indifferent and, along with doctors and special services, provided first aid and delivered victims to hospitals.
We will provide the necessary assistance to all families in whose lives a terrible disaster has come, to the wounded and injured. I express my deepest, most sincere condolences to all those who lost their loved ones. The whole country and all our people mourn together with you. I declare March 24 a day of national mourning.
Additional anti-terrorist and anti-sabotage measures have been introduced in Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as in all regions of the country. The main thing now is to prevent those who are behind this bloodbath from committing a new crime.
As for the investigation of this crime and the results of operational search actions, at present we can say the following. All four direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack, all those who shot and killed people, were found and detained. They tried to escape and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border. A total of 11 people were detained. The Federal Security Service of Russia and other law enforcement agencies are working on identifying and opening the entire base of accomplices of terrorists: those who provided them with transport, planned escape routes from the crime scene, prepared caches, caches of weapons and ammunition.
I repeat: the investigative and law enforcement agencies will do everything possible to establish all the details of the crime. But it is already obvious that we are faced not just with a carefully, cynically planned terrorist attack, but with a prepared and organized mass murder of peaceful, defenseless people. Criminals were cold-blooded and purposefully going to kill and shoot our citizens and our children at point-blank range. Like the Nazis who once carried out massacres in the occupied territories, they planned to stage a demonstration execution, a bloody act of intimidation.
All perpetrators, organizers and customers of this crime will be justly and inevitably punished. Whoever they are, whoever directs them. I repeat: we will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this blow to Russia, to our people.
We know what the threat of terrorism is. We look forward to working together with all States that sincerely share our pain and are ready to really join forces in the fight against the common enemy, international terrorism, and all its manifestations.
Terrorists, murderers, and nonhumans who do not and cannot have a nationality will face one unenviable fate – retribution and oblivion. They have no future. Our common duty now, our comrades-in – arms at the front, all citizens of the country-to be together in one line. I believe it will be so, because no one and nothing can shake our unity and will, our determination and courage, the strength of the united people of Russia. No one will be able to sow the poisonous seeds of discord, panic and discord in our multiethnic society.
Russia has repeatedly passed through the most difficult, sometimes unbearable tests, but it has become even stronger. So it will be now.
I’ve written about the Anti-Humans of the West mostly in relation to their parasitic political economy, but they do employ terrorism to attain their goals, and they don’t have any qualms about killing their own people. I suggested sending a message to their curators by addressing one dozen FAB-3000s to the Al-Tanf terror training facility in Syria followed by a mop-up detail made by the SAA to rid Syria of that cancerous tumor. Unfortunately, I cannot claim to be surprised by the attack. That no Western leader attempted to contact Putin to offer condolences as is usual in such events fits all too well with the essay I mirrored yesterday—yes, some messages were sent via social media, but the initial response by the UNSG’s office was all too typical:
On Friday, hours after tragedy struck at Crocus City Hall outside Moscow, Zakharova criticized the choice of words in the original statement released by the UN secretary-general’s press office – which said the international body was “saddened” by the events.
“SADDENED? BY THE SHOOTING? Is that a brawl at a shooting range or something?”the diplomat asked in her post on Telegram.
She cited disturbing eyewitness footage of the “horrific, bloody terrorist attack that does not cause ‘sadness,’ but rather terror, shock, consternation, unconditional condemnation, righteous anger and compassion toward the victims.” [Emphasis Original]
There are many media reports, but this one caught my eye:
This Is Not ISIS - Rossiya Segodnya Editor-in-Chief on Moscow Concert Hall Attack:
Simonyan explained that the perpetrators were chosen to carry out the attack in a manner that would allow the West to persuade the international community that ISIS was behind the attack.
“Basic sleight of hand. The level of a railway thimble-rigger," she added." It has nothing to do with ISIS. It's Ukrainians."
She added that the enthusiasm displayed by Western media when they tried to persuade everyone that ISIS was responsible even before arrests were made gave them away completely.
Yes, lock-step BigLie Media often give away the game via their behavior. What they did is provide confirmation to those who know how to read their lies.
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Performative Politics: Congressional Theater for the Naive
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These periodical performances before Congress are not good for the hoi polloi. They mislead the masses and actually hide the true mechanics of power. At best, these politicians' and bureaucrats' well remunerated minuets are, like the shadows in Plato's cave, only rough and remote approximations, not of a reality, but of an ideal perhaps impossible to realize without the benefit of a revolution. Thus, the fake verbal duels and posturings will never yield a reliable representation of the actual power structure that oppresses the majority, nor of the ominous direction in which it is moving. The captive populations are thereby disarmed by these great exercises in fake information. Think about it for a minute. The very idea that the US regime's "national security" watchdogs—that is, the ruling elite's bodyguards—will level with a bunch of crooked politicians who, themselves, sit in Congress to above all protect the same oligarchs—is an insulting absurdity by definition. Besides, what do you mean "worldwide threats", Kemo Sabe? Threats to whom? Not to me, not to us, ordinary Americans. But here we are. Being scared out of our wits for the umpteenth time by real professionals. And all according to a well-rehearsed and elegant protocol. Who could ask for more?
This elaborate and shameless pantomime is surely the best scam that money can buy, perfected to an art form, but a scam nonetheless. So, fixate, if you will, on these long and ponderous hours of testimony —Plato's shadows undulating on the walls—because they are a very good simulacrum of what an actually functioning representative democracy might look like if this ruling class was sincere about democracy. Which is not, simply because it can't afford to be. For starters, a society with an institutionalized core of constantly growing horrid inequality, cannot be a democracy. It must be something else. Call it a plutocracy, an oligarchy, a kakistocracy, but never a democracy. Fact is, a real democracy would quickly kill it. But guess what? We do have a democracy, "a democracy for the few", as Michael Parenti so brilliantly called it, and in this strange animal, the "few", that is, the billionaire class, the 0.0001% of the population, rule exclusively for their benefit. With no apology or effective accountability whatsoever to the much vaster and long-suffering masses. Some cynics have said that this arrangement sounds like a class dictatorship, and they would be right. What's more, this is the idealised template that most liberal-globalist "democracies" in the collective West so tediously brag about these days, while haughtily denouncing the rest as dangerous authoritarians. Well, that's just another fantasy anyway, because vassal nations without sovereignty cannot enjoy a genuine democracy.
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The professional peddlers of democracy tell us that, in a true democracy, the people rule and make the laws. If that is so, why is it, then, that in the US not even the most popular, obvious, and longed for laws—like universal healthcare, or a decent minimum wage, for example—never seem to get enacted? Answer that, big boy. Don't worry, take your time.
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This presentation is in two parts.Part One contains the Frontline PBS [TV/video] report.This is a commendable report on the 737 Max commercial jet scandal, a glaring corporate crime with many parties implicated, and which alarmingly continues to this day. The PBS Frontline series, which decades ago set standards for television journalism, but whose professional integrity nosedived after getting the memo from the Deep State about waging constant disinformation on Russia and Putin, is, nonetheless, credible on this topic. (Frontline has done intentionally shabby coverage on Ukraine and several hatchet jobs on Putin alone). A glaring but not surprising flaw is that capitalism and its inevitable Wall Street culture of short-term fixes, bottom-line mentality, widespread corruption (including the whole political and media class, with a handful of exceptions), is not firmly indicted as the ultimate perpetrator. How could it? PBS, after all, though formally a "public" network is a product of the same capitalist system whose very DNA prevents any problem caused by its wiring to be ever resolved. Part Two comprises the extraordinary coverage of this topic by the website Moon of Alabama (MoA), edited by the semi-anonymous "b" (or "B", for Bernhard?). MoA is easily one of the few anti-imperialist / current affairs sites that we can call truly indispensable, and "B" (who many assume to be a German citizen residing in Germany) is without a doubt an outstanding editor, a genuine citizen journalist, despite the fact his background (such as we know) is actually one related to military, intel, engineering, and related subjects, which, for a site dedicated to geopolitical, cultural, and strategic analyses, is probably a strong asset. MoA, incidentally, is a winner of the Serena Shim Award, given for "uncompromised integrity in journalism". Find out who Serena Shim was, and you'll understand what kind of journalism we are talking about here. Certainly not the malignant travesty you find on the corporate mainstream media.
As you might expect from the above, MoA has done extensive and incisive coverage on Gaza, the Ukraine War, and the epochal war between the US-led NATOstan and the rising multilateralist Eurasian powers, plus many other matters concerning our rapidly changing world. (Just check how B denounces the pathetic tsunami of Western newspeak describing Putin's landslide re-election.) When you visit MoA, be sure to pay attention to the usually extensive readers' comments. Their superior quality and number is another great feature distinguishing this info resource. —PG
Mar 12, 2024#737Max#Boeing#Documentary As new questions arise about Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jet, FRONTLINE and The New York Times update an award-winning investigation into the design, oversight and production of a plane that was involved in two crashes that killed 346 people.
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Boeing 737 MAX Crash Reveals Severe Problem With Older Boeing 737 NGs
The fleet of Boeing 737 MAX planes will stay out on the ground longer than anticipated. Boeing promised a new software package to correct thesevereproblems with its Maneuver Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). The delivery was supposed to be ready in April. A month later it has still not arrived at the Federal Aviation Agency where it will take at least a month to certify it. The FAA will not be the only one to decide when the plane can come back into the flight line. Other country's agencies will do their own independent review and will likely take their time.
The 737 MAX incident also revealed a problem with older generations of the 737 type of plane that is only now coming into light. Simulator experiments (video) showed that the recovery procedures Boeing provided for the case of a severe mistrim of the plane is not sufficient to bring the plane back under control. The root cause of that inconvenient fact does not lie with the 737 MAX but with its predecessor, the Boeing 737 Next Generation or NG.
This was known in pilot circles for some time but will only now receive wider public attention:
The Boeing 737 Max's return to commercial airline service is reportedly being further delayed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
US government officials told The Wall Street Journal's Andy Pasztor that the FAA is evaluating the emergency procedures for not only the Max but also the older generations of the 737 including the [once] hot-selling Boeing 737 NG.
According to the officials, the broadened evaluation will take a look at how pilots of all 737 variant are instructed to respond to emergency situations.
Here is a detailed explanation why the FAA is now looking into the pilot training for older 737 types.
The 737 NG (-600/-700/-800/-900) was the third generation derivative of the 737 and followed the 737 Original (-100/-200) and Classic (−300/-400/-500) series. The first NG flew in 1997. Some 7,000 were build and most of them are still flying.
Two technical modifications that turned out to be a problem during the recent incidents occurred during the redesign of the 737 Classic into the New Generation series.
In the NG series a new Flight Management Computer (FMC) was added to the plane. (The FMC helps the pilots to plan and manage the flight. It includes data about airports and navigation points. It differs from the two Flight Control Computers in that it has no control over physical elements of the plane.)
The FMC on the NG version has two input/output units each with a small screen and a larger keyboard below it. They are next to the knees of the pilot and the copilot They are located on the central pedestal between the pilots right below the vertical instrument panel (see pic below). The lengthy FMCs did not fit on the original central pedestal. The trim wheels on each side, used to manually trim the airplane in its longitudinal axis or pitch, were in the way. Boeing's 'solution' to the problem was to make the manual trim wheels smaller.
737 NG cockpit with FMC panels and with smaller trim wheels (black with a white stripe)
The smaller trim wheels require more manual force to trim with the same moment of force or torque than the larger ones did.
Another change from the 737 Classic to the 737 NG was an increase in the size of the rear horizontal flight surface, the stabilizer.
The stabilizer at the rear of the plane can be turned around a central pivot point. The natural nose up or nose down characteristics of an airplane change during a flight depending on the speed at which the airplane flies. The stabilizer can be moved during a flight by a jackscrew (vid) which is turned by either an electric motor, or via cables from the hand-cranked trim wheels in the cockpit. Trimming the airplane keeps it level at all flyable speeds.
At the rear end of the stabilizer is the elevator surface (blue arrow in the pic below). The elevator is moved by the column or yoke the pilot uses to control the plane. During a flight the pilot, or an automated stabilizer trim system (STS), will electrically trim the stabilizer so that no additional force on the column is required for the plane to stay at its flight level.
In case of a mistrim of the stabilizer, the plane puts its nose up or down and the pilot will have to push or pull his column to move the elevator to counter the mistrim of the stabilizer. Depending on the position of the stabilizer and the speed of the airplane this can require very significant force. In some cases it might be impossible.
The size of the stabilizer increased from 31.40 square meter on the Classic to 32.78 sqm on the NG and MAX. Meanwhile the size of the elevator, the primary control surface the pilot can use to counter a mistrimmed stabilizer, was kept at its original size of 6.55 sqm.
It is therefore more difficult for the pilot of a 737 NG or 737 MAX plane to use the elevator to counter a mistrimmed stabilizer than it was on the earlier 737 Classic series.
In 1961 a mistrimmed stabilizer on a Boeing 707 caused the crash of an airplane. All on board died. The root cause was a malfunction in the electrical switch the pilot normally uses to electrically move the stabilizer. The switch stuck in an ON position and the motor moved the stabilizer to its most extreme position. The plane's nose went up until it aerodynamically stalled. The pilots were unable to recover from the situation.
The type of incident where an electric malfunction drives the stabilizer into an extreme position is since known as a 'runaway stabilizer'.
To get a type rating for Boeing planes the pilots have to learn a special procedure to diagnose and correct a runaway stabilizer situation. The procedure is a so called 'memory item'. The pilots must learn it by heart. The corrective action is to interrupt the electric circle that supplies the motor which drives the jackscrew and moves the stabilizer. The pilots then have to use the hand-cranked trim wheels to turn the jackscrew and to bring the stabilizer back into a normal position.
[The MCAS incidents on the crashed 737 MAX were not of the classic runaway stabilizer type. A runaway stabilizer due to an electric malfunction is expected to move the stabilizer continuously. The computerized MCAS operated intermittently. It moved the stabilizer several times, with pauses in between, until the mistrim became obvious. The pilots would not have diagnosed it as a runaway stabilizer. Only in the end are the effects of both problems similar.]
A third change from older 737s to newer types involved the manuals and the pilot training.
If due to a runaway stabilizer event the front end of the stabilizer moves up, the nose of the airplane will move down and the plane will increase its speed. To counter that the pilot pulls on his column to move the rear end of the elevator up and to bring the plane back towards level flight. As the plane comes back to level the aerodynamic pressure on the mistrimmed stabilizer increases. Attempts to manually trim in that situation puts opposing forces on the jackscrew that holds the stabilizer in its positions. The aerodynamic forces on the stabilizer can become so big that a manual cranking of the trim wheel can no longer move the jackscrew and thereby the stabilizer.
Recently some pilots used a 737 NG flight simulator to test the procedure. They simulated the runaway stabilizer case at a height of 10,000 feet and use the rollercoaster maneuver to recover from the mistrim. When they finally had the stabilizer back into a correct trim position they found themselves at 3,000 feet height. The maneuver would thus help only when the plane is already at a significant height above ground.
Both of the recent 737 MAX crashes happened shortly after the start. The rollercoaster maneuver would not have helped those flights. But should a runaway stabilizer incident happen on a 737 NG at its normal flight level the maneuver would probably be the only chance to recover from the situation.
The crashes of the two 737 MAX revealed a number of problems with the design of the MCAS system. Several additional issues with the plane have since become known. There may be other problems with its 737 MAX that no one yet learned of. The rather casual FAA certification of the type was clearly not justified.
But the problems described above are 737 NG problems. The 380 or so existing 737 MAX are currently grounded. But some 7,000 737 NG fly about every day. The record provides that it is a relatively safe airplane. But a runaway stabilizer is a well known electrical malfunction that could by chance happen on any of those flights.
The changes from the 737 Classic to the 737 NG make it more difficult, if not impossible, for the pilots to recover from such a situation:
The smaller manual trim wheels on the 737 NG make it more difficult to trim a runaway stabilizer back into a regular position.
The larger stabilizer surface makes it more difficult to counter a runaway stabilizer by using the elevator which was kept at the same size.
737 NG pilots no longer learn the rollercoaster maneuver that is now the only way to recover from a severe mistrim.
Simulator sessions demonstrate (video) that a runaway stabilizer incident on a 737 NG can no longer be overcome by the procedures that current Boeing manuals describe.
It is pure luck that no NG crash has yet been caused by a runaway stabilizer incident. It is quite astonishing that these issues only now become evident. The 737 NG was certified by the FAA in 1997. Why is the FAA only now looking into this?
The second 737 MAX crash revealed all these issues to a larger public. Except for MCAS the trim systems on the NG and MAX are similar. The Ethiopian Airline flight 302 did not experience a runaway stabilizer, but the multiple engagement of MCAS moved the stabilizer to a similar extreme position. The pilots cut the electricity to the stabilizer motor and tried to re-trim the plane manually by turning the trim wheels. The aerodynamic forces on the stabilizer were impossible to overcome. The pilots had not learned of the rollercoaster maneuver. (Not that it would have helped much. They were too low to the ground.) They switched the motor back on to use manual electrical trim to re-trim the aircraft. Then MCAS engaged again and put them into the ground.
All NG and MAX pilots should learn the rollercoaster maneuver, preferable during simulator training. There are probably some 50,000 pilots who are certified to fly a Boeing NG. It will be an enormous and costly effort to put all of them through additional training.
But it will be more costly, for all involved, if a 737 NG crashes and kills all on board due to a runaway stabilizer incident and a lack of pilot training to overcome it. Such an incident would probably keep the whole NG fleet on the ground.
Pilots, airlines and the public should press the FAA to mandate that additional training. The FAA must also explain why it only now found out that the problem exists.
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Caracas, Nov 1, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—In an special show conducted by Orinoco Tribune's co-editor, Saheli Chowdhury, we had the chance of interviewing Washington based journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen.
Dan Cohen is a US author, journalist, and blogger. He previously worked for RT America as a journalist based in Washington, D.C. He was also based in Israel-Palestine and produced widely distributed video reports and print dispatches for different outlets.
During the interview we walked through the following issues:
1- Why is it like the US wanting to invade Haiti when it already has control of the country through the Core Group? Cohen explained that gang violence is an issue in Haiti, but the US is pointing its batteries only against Jimmy Cherizier (aka Barbecue), the head of the G9 vigilante group, because they are actually building an armed revolutionary movement that is not complacent with the comprador Haitian bourgeoisie and US interests on the island. The US drafted US Resolution call for direct sanctions against Cherizier, so that might give a sense of what is really happening in Haiti.
2- What is the situation on the ground in Haiti at this moment? The US journalist explained that US and Core Group appointed de facto president, Ariel Hanry, recently lifted the subsidy on fuels causing the price of gasoline to double in matter of hours, creating a paralization of the country. This ignited street protest that move Cherizier to take control of the Varreux fuel terminal outside Port-au-Prince that processes about 70% of the fuel in Haiti and demand Ariel Henry resignation. Cohen stressed that "the United States and its allies instead of saying well there's a legitimate reason for this protest, we need to repeal these fuel hikes and look at the conditions where people are living, instead they've said that this is the result of gangs, this terrible gangster Jimmy Cherizier and we have to go assassinate him. So the US has been looking for any way to use the United Nations to carry out a military operation alongside the Haitian National Police," to achieve this objective.
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Another Vision: Inside Haiti's Uprising | Episode 1: The Demonization Campaign
‘Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising’ tells the story of Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier and the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies, the armed neighborhood federation in the crosshairs of the U.S. empire. Episode 1 investigates Cherizier’s transformation to revolutionary leader, the multi-faceted disinformation campaign waged against him by the US government and Haitian oligarchy, and how his neighborhood is punished for its resistance.
Produced by Haiti Liberté and Uncaptured Media. Directed by Dan Cohen and Kim Ives. https://www.patreon.com/uncaptured
Another Vision: Inside Haiti's Uprising | Episode 2: The Emergence of the G9
‘Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising’ tells the story of Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier and the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies, the armed neighborhood federation in the crosshairs of the U.S. empire. Episode 2 reveals how state and criminal gang violence compelled Cherizier to unite Port-au-Prince's armed groups into the FRG9. The episode investigates the June, 2021 Lower Delmas Massacre, carried out against Cherizier's community, dissects western media's disinformation offensive, and shows how the masses respond to his revolutionary message.
Produced by Haiti Liberté and Uncaptured Media.
Another Vision: Inside Haiti's Uprising | Episode 3: A Burgeoning Revolution
Nov 18, 2022 'Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising’ tells the story of Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier and the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies, the anti-crime armed neighborhood federation in the crosshairs of the U.S. empire. In this series’ spectacular conclusion, Episode 3 shows Cherizier trekking through the planet’s most miserable slums as he seeks to advance a “mental revolution” among Haiti’s poorest masses. We learn about President Jovenel Moïse’s July 7, 2021 assassination, the stymied investigation of which is having a profound effect on Haiti’s national liberation struggle. We see how the de facto government, set in place by Washington, is wobbling in the face of the G9's growing strength. Produced by Haiti Liberté and Uncaptured Media. Directed by Dan Cohen and Kim Ives.
3- There is a possibility that Russia or China may veto the US drafted resolution to invade Haiti, so what would the US do in that case? "Right so if this resolution goes to a vote then it is likely that Russia and or China would veto it preventing UN so-called peacekeepers from once again being deployed to Haiti so the US is aware of that and it has proposed essentially deputizing a UN member state to carry out a military operation. Anthony Blinken the US Secretary of State was recently in Ottawa talking to Justin Trudeau about getting the Canadians to to carry out this military operation," was the initial comment by Dan Cohen.
He added that they are trying to touch the door of the Organization of American States (OAS) and CARICOM but that seems to be failing also. In this scenario he pointed out that the Global Fragility Act, designed to bypass the United Nations under alleged extreme humanitarian circumstances in "fragile" states, is the tool that seems to be the option to launch a so-called "small footprint" US military operation to keep Haiti under their control.
4- In reference to Latin American countries mistakes on approaching the Haitian issue, with Brazil and Mexico at the front seat, but also with progressive governments like those of Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina and even UNASUR, that in 2010 supported the peacekeeping initiative, Dr Gemma Pierre, said that "leftism of the Americas collapses at the door of Haitian sovereignty." So like why does this happen why do you think this happens every time in Haiti?
"I think Dr Pierre makes an important point, you know, we see just the election of Lula Da Silva in Brazil that just happened and many progressives are are celebrating and understandably, I mean the specter of another Bolsonaro term is quite terrifying for Brazilians, I think that is definitely a win but if you look at what Lula did in the 2004 occupation of Haiti, he joined in with the Bush Administration in sending these so-called peacekeepers that carried out horrific crimes against the Haitian masses, this has to be looked at and examined when Lula's record is talked about," was Cohen first reaction to the question.
He added that currently Mexico is the co-sponsor of the UN Resolution with the United States calling for sanctions against Jimmy Cherizier but also Mexico is also the co-sponsor of another UN Resolution that the US is drafting calling for military action in Haiti. The journalist wondered why Mexico is part of this US stratagema, similar to making a deal with the devil. He believes that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and his Foreign Minister Ebrard are committing a calculation error that contradicts their recent progressive moves like the rescue of Evo Morales during the 2019 coup d'etat in Bolivia.
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