Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticised violation of Russian territorial waters by British ship HMS Defender as a provocation. He also said that Americans had assisted British side. The whole thing was being filmed and registered by a US spy plane, its presence confirming the aggressive nature of this incursion.
Default Editor Patrice de Bergeracpas
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Gagging the world to make the US official narrative prevail.
5 minutes readJimmy Dore sounds the alarm about an illegal act (yet another!) by the US government, this time to silence Iran and other governments regarded as purveyors of “inconvenient truths” by Washington. It’s obvious the United States in its imperialist oligarchic form clearly does not adhere to international standards of civilised behaviour. No wonder most decent, educated people around the globe, and a significant number of Americans, see our government as an outlaw regime with no real semblance to an actual democracy.
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I AM THE LORD THY GOD, THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME: THE MONOTHEISTIC ROOTS OF NATIONALISM
45 minutes readBRUCE LERRO—Earlier we said that what separates monotheism from polytheism is the expansionary, missionary zeal of monotheism. This tendency was also characteristic of many nation-building projects throughout history. Both monotheism and nationalism wish to expand. There is an exclusive commitment to either one religion or one nation; yet once that exclusive commitment is made, the religion or nation sometimes advocates for expansion around the world. We can see this with Western imperialism, which in many cases sends in the missionaries first.
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JOHN RACHEL—Same with the imperial project, the ambitious design to rule the world. As long as you can hold a rifle and shoot straight, color of skin, gender, sexual preferences, etc are not an issue. Yes, gender and sexuality have mattered as a disciplinary and effectiveness concern within the ranks of the military. But the people who decide on the wars couldn’t care less about the details, as long as our military does the job, and makes the world safe for plunder and profit-seeking subjugation. [That’s why the US armed forces have led the country in desegregation, and now even the Pentagon chief is Black.)
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PEPE ESCOBAR—The prequel to Sea Breeze took place last week, via a farcical Britannia Rules The Waves stunt enacted like a Monty Python sketch – yet with potentially explosive overtones.
Imagine waiting at a bus stop somewhere in Kent and finding a soggy blob – nearly 50 pages – of secret documents in a trash bin detailing Ministry of Defense elaborations on the explicitly provocative deployment of the Defender destroyer off Sebastopol, in the Crimean coast.
Even a BBC journalist embedded with the destroyer smashed the official London spin that this was a mere “innocent passage”. Moreover, the Defender weapons were fully loaded – as it advanced two nautical miles inside Russian waters. Moscow released a video documenting the stunt.