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Regime Change: Venezuela Edition

Billy Bob
Streamed live on Jul 30, 2024
7/30/2024 Episode 100 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guest Vladimir Golstein.

 

Netanyahu's New West Asia War

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Streamed live on Aug 2, 2024
8/2/2024 Episode 101 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guests Chris Black and Dust James.

PLUS: World News Roundup

EURASIA TILTING AWAY
BANDERA 404
- 404: Ukraine will introduce 'action plan for peace' by end of November - Elensky communique ( Kyiv 'Independent' ) 
┝ Patience, Support and Diplomatic pressure needed ( by US and EU ) for a 'just peace'
┝ 'International unity will add pressure and show Moscow that there is no chance'
- 404: 'I know we will win – and how' - Ukraine’s top general on turning the tables against Russia - Syrsky ( Guardian UK ) 
┕ There is a plan to take Crimea but it's top secret.. We basically need more men, hopefully Ukrainians abroad.
- 404: Russia 'adapting tactics' advances in Donetsk - takes more land - Ukraine depleted - turmoil in US election ( WaPo ) 
- 404: Ukraine helped Mali rebel attack kill dozens of Wagner fighters - key role in ambush by 1,000 'Tuaregs' ( Times UK )
- 404: Ukraine's plan to survive Trump - survive and resist for 5-8 months - Trump will see 'Putin can't be trusted' ( TIME ) 
- 404: Ukraine’s top diplomat signals readiness to negotiate with Russia - Kuleba - Wang Yi 3 hour meeting ( SCMP CN ) 
- 404: Zaluzhny - now ambassador to UK - in first address - wants to turn his country into a weapons testing lab ( RT RU ) 
- 404: US combat vehicles keep Russians at bay - for how long? - 300 Bradley IFVs wrecked, Trump more? ( Times UK ) 
- 404: Ukrainian Brigade Collapses - and now hundreds of soldiers are surrounded near Progres - David Axe ( Forbes )
- 404: Ukraine will have a just peace or none at all - better position for offensive next year - Editorial Board ( FT UK ) 
- 404: Gains in terrain for Russia's army - Ukrainians are less and less able to counteract, morale crumbles ( FAZ DE ) 
- 404: Russia punches through weakened frontlines in eastern Ukraine - probing and breakthrough operations ( NYT ) 
- 404: F-16 fighter jets arrive in Ukraine but may not tip advantage against Russia - ' will arrive within weeks' ( WaPo ) 
- 404: Ukraine has suffered 700,000 irretrievable losses in the SVO - Major General Apti Alaudinov ( Rossiya 1 TV ) 
- 404: Peace agreement with Russia would be a 'deal with the devil' - top Ukrainian adviser Podolyak ( Euronews ) 
- 404: Fitch downgrades Ukraine further into default zone over $20 billion debt agreement - 'C' rating ( Reuters ) 
- 404: Plan to send Azeri gas to Europe may simply disguise Russian fuel - Kiev 'experts' examine ( FT UK )

EUROPE HATES HUNGARY
- EUK: Poland tells Hungary to 'join a union with Putin' in diplomatic row - leave EU and NATO - Deputy FM ( Euronews ) 
- EUK: Hungary embraces China loan financing after €1B deal - Chinese financing will be widespread ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: Orbán spoke at the annual Tusványos summer University in Hungarian part of Romania ( various ) 
┝ Russia stands to gain as 'irrational' West loses power - hyper rational, remarkable economy ( Reuters / CNN ) 
┝ Nord Stream act of terrorism was carried out under US leadership against German property ( Ukro Pravda ) 
┝ The European Union is on the path to 'self-destruction' - world is Asia-oriented - Orbán ( Guardian UK ) 
┕ EU will have to admit defeat and bear responsibility for supporting war in Ukraine - Orbán ( TASS RU ) 
ITALIA REACHES OUT
- EUK: Italy’s Meloni on mission to mend ties with Xi ahead of US vote - in Beijing after leaving BRI last year ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: Italy's Meloni pledges to 'relaunch' relations with China - on five-day state visit - signed 3-year 'action plan' ( FT UK ) 
- EUK: Italy restores diplomatic relations with Syria - returns ambassador after decade-long absence ( Euronews ) 
- EUK: Thousands rally in various Serbian towns to protest against EU lithium excavation deal ( Euractiv ) 
ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE
- USC: National debt hits $35 trillion - US stares down fiscal reckoning - debt to GDP 'scary levels' ( Washington Examiner )
- USC: US home insurers suffer worst loss this century - citing natural disasters, inflation and 'population growth' ( FT UK ) 
- USC: Pentagon finds another $2 billion of accounting errors for Ukraine aid - used wrong values to tabulate ( Reuters )
- USC: US consumers show signs of flagging, companies and analysts warn - spending lowest in eight months ( FT UK )
- USC: $1 Trillion rout his NASDAQ 100 over AI jitters in worst day since 2022 - lost $10t value in selloff ( Bloomberg ) 
- USC: US Carmakers chasing an EV future get tripped up by 'choppy present' - Ford, GM, Tesla stocks fall ( WSJ ) 
- USC: Undocumented immigrants will boost economy, lower deficit - Congressional Budget Office ( The Hill ) 
- USC: Yellen says $3T of fresh capital is needed annually to fight climate change - in Brazil ( Politico US ) 
- USC: No return date for NASA astronauts amid problems with Boeing Starliner capsule ( Guardian UK ) 
- USC: McDonald's sales fall worldwide for first time in four years as cost of living bites ( Guardian UK ) 
- EUK: Around 10m British pensioners will lose their winter fuel payments under new plans - chancellor Reeves ( BBC UK ) 
- EUK: EU diplomats ordered to cancel parties after 'budget crunch' - overspending triggers expense crackdown ( FT UK ) 
- EUK: Tories have left UK with 'unforgivable' £22 billion black hole in budget - Chancellor Rachel Reeves ( Times UK ) 
- EUK: Scholz is failing to engineer 'liftoff' for German economy - no meaningful growth casts shadow ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: More than half of Britons feel poorer than they did five years ago - Censuswide survey ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: The UK is 'broke and broken' - Starmer's office prepares to tackle shortfall in public finances ( AP ) 
- EUK: UK drops out of top ten manufacturing nations for first time -from 8th to 12th place ( Times UK ) 
┕ 7 Mexico, 8 Russia, 9 Italy, 10 France, 11 'Taiwan', 12 UK
- EUK: China's made-in-Europe EVs pose new threat to region's carmakers ( Bloomberg )
┝ BYD, Chery, Geely open new factories in Hungary, Spain, Türkiye and Poland
┕ New quarterly losses : Renault 35% decline, Ford 18%, Nissan 73%, Stellantis 48%!
- ASO: Japanese automaker Nissan lowers its profit forecast amid incentive, inventory woes - 73% profit loss ( WaPo ) 
- ASO: Critical AUKUS contract doubles in price and now a year late - $9.6m / 114% increase ( Canberra Times AU ) 
- RUC: Russia's 'surprising' consumer spending boom - sharp rise in real wages and consumption ( FT UK ) 
MILITARY / DIPLOMATIC 
- USC: Canada, China pledge to mend relations - FMs met in Beijing - Tibet, Taiwan, Uyghurs 'internal affairs' ( CBC CA ) 
- USC: How the US and allies can convince more citizens to serve - we need more men - Editorial board! ( Bloomberg )
- USC: The entire West makes just one fifth-generation fighter - The F-35 - and it’s in crisis - delays, price ( Telegraph UK ) 
- USC: US risks losing in event of multiple conflicts with adversaries - National Defense Strategy report ( Sputnik RU ) 
- USC: Blinken warned China’s top diplomat Wang Yi that Kamala Harris 'cares about rules-based order' ( WaPo ) 
- EUK: The EU sends €1.5B frozen assets to Ukraine - Switzerland opts out - will not follow - law, obligations ( Swissinfo ) 
- EUK: Germany's legal bogeyman is 'hampering EU response to Putin' - shared EU debt = Eurobonds ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: Rampant sanctions busting is overwhelming EU front-line states - Latvian FM Baiba Braže ( Politico EU ) 
- EUK: European defense is in need of big financial boost - Swedish Saab chief Micael Johansson ( FT UK ) 
- EUK: Why Britain’s F-35s could be consigned to the scrap heap - programme is too costly ( Telegraph UK ) 
- ASO: US told Philippines it made 'missteps' in secret anti-vax propaganda effort - drag China into a quagmire ( Reuters ) 
- ASO: Making Asia grimace again? Idea of Trump 2.0 White house fuels regional unease - for the enslaved ( SCMP CN ) 
- ASO: US forces Japan to be upgraded to 'warfighting command' - new four-star US commander ( Defense One ) 
- ASO: Blinken chides Beijing's 'escalating actions' at sea, concerned over Taiwan - ASEAN Summit ( Reuters ) 
- ASO: US launches military command in Tokyo 'to counter China' - forces will be overseen from new HQ ( WSJ ) 
- ASO: Blinken meets Wang Yi, US and China 'air global differences' - on sixth meeting since last year ( AP ) 
- RUC: PLA holds intensive foreign military interactions across three continents - Europe, Asia, Africa ( Global Times CN )
- RUC: Russia celebrated Navy Day in St Petersburg - with international flotilla of 200 - China, Algeria, India ( TASS RU ) 
- RUC: Putin on Russian patrol flights near Alaska - a response to increased US activity close to Russia ( RT RU ) 
- RUC: Segrei Lavrov arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on previous unannounced official visit ( TASS RU ) 
┕ Malaysia sent official letter of application to join BRICS - PM Anwar Ibrahim ( TASS RU  ) 
- RUC: Russian navy starts major drills involving most of its fleet - Pacific, Arctic, Caspian, Baltic ( Reuters ) 
- RUC: India and China agree to work urgently to achieve withdrawal of troops from disputed border ( AP )
- RUC: Putin warns the United States of Cold War-style missile crisis - response to Germany ( Reuters ) 
- RUC: Attack on Christian church foiled in Islamic Russian region - Kaspiysk, Dagestan - FSB ( RT RU ) 
WEST ASIA MIGHT EXPLODE
ATTACK ON THE GOLAN
- WEA: A projectile fell on a football field, in Majdal Shams, Israel-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, killing 12 children 
┝ Hezbollah 'firmly denied' claims that they were responsible - official statement
┝ The Druze initiative said Israeli Iron Dome interceptor missiles fell on them - 'happens every day' - Ghalib Saif
┝ The Druze in this occupied area are Arabs loyal to Syria and the resistance, certainly not the occupation
┝ The funeral goers rejected Israeli ministers presence, including Smotrich - videos
┝ They also heckled PM Netanyahu going to the town - sent a letter to the Knesset to 'stay away'
┝ 'Get out of here, murderer! You came here to dance on the blood of our children!'
┝ Israel blamed Hezbollah - claimed it was an 'Iran-made Falaq 1 missile'
┝ Israel has refused an official inquiry into the Majdal Shams explosion.
┕ The IDF vowed they - Hezbollah - will 'pay a heavy price' - DM Gallant
CURRENT AFTERMATH
- USC: Netanyahu’s US visit revealed 'no workable plan' for peace - Biden 'day after' strategy remains pipe dream ( WaPo ) 
- USC: Don't bomb Beirut - US leads push to 'rein in' Israel's response - five people with knowledge ( Reuters - Euractiv ) 
- USC: Washington gives Netanyahu 'full backing' to expand war on Lebanon - insider tells Israeli channel 14 ( Cradle ) 
- USC: US and Middle-East diplomats scramble to head off Israel-Hezbollah war after rocket attack ( WSJ )
- USC: US does not want escalation after Golan Heights rocket attack - Blinken in Tokyo ( Reuters )
- EUK: Britain delays decision on banning arms exports to Israel for weeks - expected 'total ban' suspended ( Times UK ) 
- EUK: Türkiye should be kicked out of NATO after threatening Israel with war - Belgian PM Geert Wilders ( Ynet ) 
- EUK: Church of England bishop calls Israel an apartheid state - Rachel Treweek ( Telegraph UK ) 
- EUK: EU top diplomat urges end to 'madness' after Gaza school strike - Borrell ( Euractiv ) 
- WEA: Extremist Israeli Finance Minister minister called for assassination of Hezbollah's Nasrallah - Smotrich ( IRNA IR ) 
- WEA: Israel launched retaliatory strikes 'deep inside' Lebanon - claim 'weapons and military infrastructure' ( Politico EU ) 
- WEA: FM Bezalel Smotrich urged NATO to expel Türkiye after Erdogan threatened to invade Israel ( Times of Israel ) 
- WEA: Lebanon warned Israel that an attack on Beirut would lead to 'regional war'  - Foreign Ministry ( Telegraph UK ) 
- WEA: 'I can’t justify this military operation any more' -  the IDF reservists refusing to return to Gaza ( Guardian UK ) 
- WEA: Israeli education minister threatens 'all-out war' with Hezbollah after Golan Heights attack ( Guardian UK ) 
- WEA: Iran warned of serious consequences for any Israeli strike on Lebanon - President Pezeshkian ( Reuters ) 
- WEA: UNHRC finds Israel 'and Hamas' guilty of war crimes - extermination, murder, using starvation ( CNN ) 
- WEA: Erdogan warned that Türkiye may enter Israel - just like it entered Karabakh and Libya ( TASS RU )
- WEA: An Israeli airstrike hits a school sheltering people in Gaza, killing at least 30 including children ( AP ) 
- WEA: Israel orders more evacuations - deadly strike on Khan Younnis school kills at least 30 ( WaPo ) 
- WEA: Israeli FM threatens Erdogan with Saddam Hussein’s fate - Israel Katz ( Mehr IR )
THE AMERICAS
VENEZUELA DECIDES
- LAT: Venezuela 'strongman' Nicolas Maduro reelected as president - election authorities ( CNN ) 
┝ All Western headlines are about a 'shock' win for an 'autocrat' with election interference.
┝ Attack on electoral system that slowed vote count came from North Macedonia - Attorney General Tarek Saab
┝ 'protestors' / thugs have set hospitals, and the Calabozo USP HQ on fire after elections.
┝ Nicholas Maduro, when casting his ballot : 'Viva Palestine Libre!' 
┝ María Corina Machado : 'Venezuela's struggle is Israel's struggle' - sent letters to US and Israel to invade
┝ María Corina Machado : 'We will move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem if we win'
┝ Argentina will not recognize Maduro - Milei 'hopes the Armed Forces will 'defend democracy' - statement
┝ Elon Musk - for some reason - was extremely upset with the election results.
┝ Blinken has 'serious concerns' about election representing the 'will of the people' - statement
┝ Venezuela withdraws diplomatic staff from Argentina, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama, Dom-Rep, Uruguay
┝ Mexico - belatedly - recognized the election results as fair and open, after confirmation.
┕ Putin, Lukashenko, Iran, Bolivia and China congratulated Maduro on his re-election as president
DEMOCRACY IN USA
- USC: Democrats bet America is ready to elect a black woman president - Gender and race will be central to campaign ( WSJ ) 
- USC: Kamala Harris and the dangers of the 'Glass Cliff' - women of color cleaning up mess after white men ( Intercept ) 
- USC: Kamala Harris has 'quickly pivoted' to convincing Arab American voters of her leadership - on Gaza policy ( AP ) 
- USC: Kamala Harris raises $200m in first week of presidential campaign - overcoming Biden 'slowdown' ( FT UK ) 
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LARRY JOHNSON and SCOTT RITTER: IS DHS RESPONSIBLE FOR ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON TRUMP?

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LARRY JOHNSON and SCOTT RITTER; IS DHS RESPONSIBLE FOR ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON TRUMP?

 "Bad people in the Secret Service...Bad people in the FBI. They have to be involved in this, the National Security Division. The Secret Service was involved in this...What happened here was not an accident, and this goes straight to the top of the Secret Service, but it also works its way down, to the guy in Pittsburgh."—Scott Ritter

Both analysts believe this was not so much incompetence but a well planned operation that failed due to those things that no one can predict and prepare for, Like Trump moving his head angle a fraction of a second before the assassin’s bullet hit home. 

The Establishment...The Democrats have been trying to kill Donald Trump politically forever. They tried the courts, and it failed.  Now they went for this. How do we explain we have a kid with a phone with 20 encrypted channels, with links overseas. Regarding the Ukraine and Palestine, both experts think that it's too early to tell the details, but it's rather clear that Trump will not change US posture toward Israel, perhaps making it a bit worse, and that Ukraine and Zelensky are finished. The Ukro army is collapsing, losing almost a brigade every few days, notes Ritter. As for Trump thinking he can "read" Putin and deal with him effectively, he's dreaming. No one knows what Putin thinks or how he will react to any given situation. And, contrary to Trump's macho posturing, much of its product of staggering ignorance, Putin is not going to be intimidated. Ultimately, despite his braggart and bully's instincts, Trump is also a pragmatist. When reality hits him between the eyes, he reaches out for negotiations. n hat sense, he's better than Biden, who was rigid, frozen in his criminally mediocre policy of supporting Israel at any price. Trump might end up negotiating with Hamas. Furthermore, a lot more is going happen between now and January, when Trump would assume soffice. The situation will be far worse for Israel at that point. 

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JIMMY DORE and his guests expose the Democrat-endorsed "wokeness" movement as a corporate plot to keep Americans divided. "Wokeness" is the ruling class' trick to distract Americans from their serious economic and political troubles and the badly needed unity they need to advance their class struggle.
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  • Now the fight against anti-semitism is being weaponised as a new sanctimonious McCarthyism.
  • Unless opposed, neither justice nor our Constitutional right to Free Speech will survive this assault.

Things to keep in mind...

Neo-Nazi ideology has become one of the main protagonists of political and social life in Ukraine since the 2014 coup d'état. Meanwhile, fascist ideology and blatant lies also permeate the consciousness of most people in the West. Those in the comfortable top 10%, the "PMCs" (Professional Managerial Class), are especially vulnerable. They support and disseminate such ideas. They are the executors of the actual ruling class' orders, those in the 0.001%, who remain largely invisible. The PMCs are the political class, the media whores, the top military brass, some people in academia, and the "national security/foreign policy" industry honchos. Push back against these unethical, contaminated people with the truth while you can.

AND...where the US Government is at: LYING 24/7

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Palestine is the ‘red pill’ for America’s Gen Z

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The sociopathic perfidy of US foreign policy is one of America's best-kept secrets (from Americans!)

The CIA "Jakarta Method" applied to Chile in 1973. (TGP screenshot)

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Neo, of course, takes the red pill.

American university students protesting for an end to the Palestinian genocide and their government’s support for it are today’s real-life Neos. More Canadian and British students are joining them. That’s why university apparatchiks are calling in police to suppress their protests, and many Western news outlets are painting them as antisemitic rather than the spearheading of a new anti-war movement that it really is.

The Israeli war on the Palestinians is showing young people the brutal realities of the American empire and the world it has made.

However, committing or supporting acts of genocide, mass murder and massacres is nothing new for the United States. Arming and providing diplomatic cover for Israel’s war is hardly exceptional.

The US “war on terror” caused the deaths in multiple countries of 4.5 million people, of whom about 900,000 could be attributed to US military operations and their direct impact, according to Brown University’s Costs of War Project. An estimated 38 million were displaced from their homes.

The multi-year Saudi intervention in the Yemeni civil war in the past decade contributed to “an estimated 233,000 deaths, including 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure”, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in late 2020.

Like Israel, the Saudis received US weapons and intelligence support from Washington in their merciless bombing campaigns, resulting in high civilian death tolls and famine conditions.

In 1996, during a 60 Minutes interview, correspondent Lesley Stahl asked then US ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright about an estimated half a million deaths of Iraqi children from US-led international sanctions after the first Gulf war: “I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

Albright replied: “The price, we think, the price is worth it.”

Less than seven months after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, which led to US sanctions against China, the administration of President George H.W. Bush launched Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama to overthrow the dictator Manuel Noriega.

In a little-known episode, the US invaders “indiscriminately bombed” a poor neighbourhood called El Chorrillo. “The assault killed twenty-five hundred to three thousand non-combatant Panamanians and displaced fifteen thousand,” wrote Yale historian Greg Grandin in Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States and the Making of an Imperial Republic.

Like many developing world strongmen, Noriega was a long-time US asset until Washington eventually turned against him.

“He first established contact with the Eisenhower administration … continuing as an asset to the US during the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan presidencies,” Grandin wrote.

As recounted by Princeton political scientist Gary Bass in The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, Washington gave the go-ahead to the Pakistani army in 1971 to launch Operation Searchlight that killed at least 300,000 Bengalis and forced 10 million to flee. The genocide was halted by India’s military intervention, leading to the establishment of Bangladesh.

In 1965-66, with full support from the CIA and the State Department, the anti-communist purge launched by Suharto after his coup against Sukarno cost the lives of up to a million Indonesians.

About 3 million Vietnamese were killed in the war waged by the US in their country.

In The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped our World, journalist Vincent Bevins has argued America’s victory in the Cold War had less to do with its promotion of democracy and free-market capitalism than its ability to run a global network of authoritarian client states and military juntas to suppress and exterminate communists, socialists and social democrats, outside the protected “Western” cores of Europe, Oceania and Japan.

For a full numerical picture, in Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War, Boston College political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke counted a whopping 72 attempts by Washington between 1949 and 1989 to effect regime change against a foreign government. Of these, 29 succeeded in installing US-backed plotters. In at least six cases, a successful coup was launched against a democratically elected government, resulting in a US-allied dictatorship or fascist government.

Xiang Shuchen, a Xidian University philosopher, has reproduced O’Rourke’s full list of America’s global subversion and regime change in the glossary of her new book, Chinese Cosmopolitanism.

So much for America’s professed belief in other people’s national sovereignty and right to self-determination.

No one historically knowledgeable should be surprised that the profound violence that defined the American identity engendered at home needed to find outlets aboard, which in turn came back to haunt its citizens.

In one of the most penetrating observations on this destabilising cycle of societal and state violence of the US and its devastating impact on the rest of the world, the Marxist historian Gabriel Kolko wrote in Main Currents in Modern American History:

“Violence in America antedated industrialism and urban life, and it was initially a product of an expansive rural-commercial economy that in the context of vast distance and a hastily improvised and often changing social structure saw barbarism, violence, and their toleration ritualised into a way of life.

“Slavery consisted of institutionalised inhumanity and an attack on the very fibre of the black’s personal identity and integrity, yet the ultimate restraint on its violence was the value of the black as property.

“Against the Indians, who owned and occupied much coveted land, wholesale slaughter was widely sanctioned as a virtue. That terribly bloody, sordid history, involving countless tens of thousands of lives that neither victims nor executioners can ever enumerate, made violence endemic to the process of continental expansion.

“Violence reached a crescendo against the Indians after the civil war and found a yet bloodier manifestation during the protracted conquest of the Philippines from 1898 until well into the next decade, when anywhere between 200,000 to 600,000 Filipinos were killed in an orgy of racist slaughter that evoked much congratulation and approval from the eminent journals and men of the era who were also much concerned about progress and stability at home.

“From their inception, the great acts of violence and attempted genocide America launched against outsiders seemed socially tolerated, even celebrated. Long before Vietnam, that perverse acceptance of horror helped make possible the dominating experience of our own epoch.”

Kolko wrote these words in 1976. Today, rather than Vietnam, replace it with Palestine, and they are as true as ever about “that perverse acceptance of horror” by “eminent journals and men of the era … much concerned about progress and stability at home.”

Can America’s Gen Z stop these endless cycles of violence unleashed like a plague by their elders onto the rest of the world?

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Things to keep in mind...

Neo-Nazi ideology has become one of the main protagonists of political and social life in Ukraine since the 2014 coup d'état. Meanwhile, fascist ideology and blatant lies also permeate the consciousness of most people in the West. Those in the comfortable top 10%, the "PMCs" (Professional Managerial Class), are especially vulnerable. They support and disseminate such ideas. They are the executors of the actual ruling class' orders, those in the 0.001%, who remain largely invisible. The PMCs are the political class, the media whores, the top military brass, some people in academia, and the "national security/foreign policy" industry honchos. Push back against these unethical, contaminated people with the truth while you can.

AND...where the US Government is at: LYING 24/7

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Larry Johnson—WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES BUSY TRYING TO SPARK COLOR REVOLUTION IN GEORGIA; AND ME WITH THE BOYS OF THE DURAN

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WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES BUSY TRYING TO SPARK COLOR REVOLUTION IN GEORGIA; AND ME WITH THE BOYS OF THE DURAN

16 April 2024

This is a video article for the most part. First up, I do a five-minute rant on the current effort of Western intelligence to carry out a color revolution in Georgia under the guise of promoting freedom and democracy. Bullshit!! Georgia’s legislature passed a new law that mirrors the U.S. Foreign Agent Registration Act (aka FARA). The Georgian law will require Non-Governmental Organizations receiving foreign funds to report those. Good Lord!! Can’t have that. It might expose CIA and MI-6 operations designed to install a government in Georgia that will bend the knee to the West.

I am always honored to be invited to appear on The Duran with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris. They were the first one I stumbled upon at the start of the SMO who talked intelligently about the political and military dynamics. I was fortunate to come to their attention and have appeared several times since March 2022. We discussed the situation in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine. With respect to Ukraine, I explain the significance of the 12 CIA bases that the New York Times claims are scattered throughout Ukraine.

 
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Things to keep in mind...

Neo-Nazi ideology has become one of the main protagonists of political and social life in Ukraine since the 2014 coup d'état. Meanwhile, fascist ideology and blatant lies also permeate the consciousness of most people in the West. Those in the comfortable top 10%, the "PMCs" (Professional Managerial Class), are especially vulnerable. They support and disseminate such ideas. They are the executors of the actual ruling class' orders, those in the 0.001%, who remain largely invisible. The PMCs are the political class, the media whores, the top military brass, some people in academia, and the "national security/foreign policy" industry honchos. Push back against these unethical, contaminated people with the truth while you can.

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