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GARY OLSON—Most Americans remain unaware that President Barack Obama initiated the war in Ukraine in February, 2014 with the Euromaidan Coup in Kiev. Those with an ounce of integrity who followed subsequent events, understand that every Russian entreaty for peace was ignored and that Russia’s red line was crossed when the US opened the door for Ukraine to join NATO. Politically, Putin has no choice but to intervene. This is the critical missing context every time the official mantra “Russia invaded Ukraine” is incessantly repeated in the mainstream media.
Romania suspends Democracy? Rom Court ANNULS Presidential Election Results, Georgescu’s Win.
High-handed "lawfare" is now the norm throughout the US empire.1 minutes readEDITOR—Emil excoriates the “Western system” of democracy wherein only elections acceptable to Washington are allowed to stand, while the rest are declared null and void, branded as “polluted” by Russian meddling and a host of other technical judicial imperfections. This political fraud is now being seen throughout the US empire—from Europe to Asia—and it now includes the homeland of the US Hegemon itself. The latest cases involve Romania and Georgia, both highly strategic lands in Moscow’s “near Russia” periphery.
Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy crimesby Chris Hedges7 minutes readCHRIS HEDGES—Carter gave Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, although he ruled under martial law, billions in military aid. He armed the Mujahideen in Afghanistan after the Soviet intervention in 1979, a decision that cost the U.S. $3 billion, saw the deaths of 1.5 million Afghans and led to the creation of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The blowback from this Carter policy alone is catastrophic.
He backed the South Korean military in 1980 when it laid siege to the city of Gwangju, where protestors had formed a militia, which led to the massacre of some 2,000 people.
Finally, he sold out the Palestinians when he negotiated a separate peace deal, known as the Camp David Accords, in 1979 between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
The Indispensable John Helmer— THE INCITATUS PRECEDENT IN US STRATEGY, THE CALIGULA CURE IN RUSSIAN STRATEGY
PLUS: Act Two—The Kremlin's Oprichniki32 minutes readJOHN HELMER—There has never been a transition between US presidential administrations which has been so replete with new Washington-directed violence across the world. That’s to say, the escalation of wars already under way and the instigation of new ones to the furthest limits of the US empire’s reach.
As the Pentagon war-gaming of the Reagan Administration proved in secret, neither escalation of conventional war nor escalation to nuclear war can be controlled when Americans are running the game. That’s because Americans always think they have firepower superiority (aka shock and awe).
