Provocations In The East, False Flags In The West

A roundup of war news, spreading rapidly as the U.S. empire thrashes about in its death throes. History suggests that 800+ military bases around the planet might look like they offer a solution to losing the consent of the governed: the president currently has 31% approval (Quinnipiac) and 75% of registered voters in his own party don’t want him to run again in 2024 (CNN).

House Speaker Pelosi in Taiwan

Despite being warned that her visit to Taiwan violates previous U.S. agreements to respect China’s sovereignty, she persists.

In a likely too little, too late move, the Biden administration announces a feeble competitor for infrastructure projects where China’s Belt and Road Initiative is already well underway in Africa.

Drone bombing Afghanistan 

Despite “withdrawing” from Afghanistan and stealing their funds abroad to prevent the Taliban government from feeding the hungry, plus funding Al Qaeda in Syria for years as “moderate rebels”, the U.S. announced it had assassinated a top Al Qaeda leader in Kabul. 

“Justice has been delivered,” claimed the U.S. president despite the fact that extrajudicial murder is about as far from justice as you can get. The president claimed that assassinating Ayman al-Zawahiri is a sign of America’s resolve. (To do the bidding of Israel‘s government, I think he forgot to add.)

U.S. troops in Yemen

The long humanitarian disaster of Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen has only been possible with logistical support from its U.S. ally. Now the president of the U.S. has confimed to Congress — you know, the legislative branch of government that used to have the sole authority to wage war — that the U.S. has troops in Yemen as well. (Proxy war with Iran in Yemen is an element of the U.S. close alliance with colonial occupier Israel in Palestine, and despite Biden campaigning on a promise to end U.S. support for the Saudi’s war there.)

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Spreading the false flag news that Russian, not Ukrainian, forces bombed a Russian POW camp filled with captured fighters of the Azov battalion. Why would Ukraine do that? Because dead men tell no tales of forced conscription and botched operations.

Source: SanctionsKill.org

Sanctions on Venezuela and numerous other non-compliant nations. The U.S. president recently called the regions south of the U.S. border “America’s front yard” perhaps indicating we are no longer a bad neighbor but now think we own the continent.

Ben Norton, “The End of U.S. Hegemony and the Rise of BRICS”, Mintpress News:

In the past two decades, the U.S. grip on global power has been slipping, and new nations and organizations have begun to emerge that challenge American dominance. One of these is the BRICS, an economic and increasingly political bloc of emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Argentina, Iran and others have expressed an interest in joining this alliance, which has now laid out plans for its own bank and international currency, two moves strike at the heart of American economic hegemony.

“Now that the U.S. has sanctioned one-quarter of the global population, and especially now with the economic war on Russia, BRICS has emerged as this new economic infrastructure bringing countries together that want to get around Western sanctions,”

War at home: Russiaphobia used as pretext for violent attacks on Black organization, theAfrican People’s Socialist Party (APSP).

From August 1, 2022 Black Alliance for Peace press release:

On Friday, July 29, 2022, the FBI executed multiple raids against APSP’s Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida and their Uhuru Solidarity Center in St. Louis, Missouri and the private residence of APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela also in St. Louis. The FBI employed flashbang grenades and handcuffed Yeshitela and his wife while their house was raided.

The FBI claims that the raids are connected to the federal indictment of a Russian national, Aleksandr Ionov, alleging that he has been working to spread “Russian propaganda” in the United States.

Source: Trzmiel/Shutterstock

Nuclear war looming?

From In-Depth News “Caring About Nuclear Sharing: A Setback for Nuclear Arms Control”: 

It is estimated that between 100 and 150 American B61 nuclear weapons are stationed in five countries: Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. NATO has now announced its desire to modernise its nuclear deterrence..

NATO officials were enthusiastic about the widely shared willingness to modernise the nuclear sharing concept. Jessica Cox, Chief of NATO’s nuclear policy directorate said: “We’re moving fast and furiously towards F-35 modernization and incorporating those into our planning and exercising…” And she added that “the aircraft’s advanced features also will boost the capabilities of alliance members and F-35 customers like Poland, Denmark or Norway who might be tasked with supporting actual nuclear sharing missions.”

Cox is the bland bureaucratic face of discussions preparing for total annihilation. But don’t let her tone fool you. 

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Little Birch Tree — Will It Fall To Russiaphobic Axe?

A controversy is raging among instructors in a national preschool music education program: should the Russian folk song that is traditionally part of April’s curriculum be taught this year? For your reference, “Little Birch Tree” is performed here by the Seattle Girls Choir in times slightly less rife with hatred for Russia.

The inability of people in the U.S. to reason about the connections — if any — between traditional cultural artifacts and current geopolitical realities frightens me. Ban Russian chess players who express support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they cry! Guessing they missed The Queen’s Gambit film about chess and Russian influence in that sphere? But that’s beside the point. The point is, which U.S. chess champions were banned for supporting U.S. imperial wars on Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. ?

Don’t teach the authors Dostoevsky or Solzhenitsyn, they demand! Even though both were anti-authoritarian thinkers whose books long since entered the canon of world literature. And are dead. Not to mention that you will not find a book with the depth and breadth of The Idiot to replace it in your syllabus.

Even license plates are suspect these days. Here’s an apologia for a vanity plate I saw on the street this morning:

Meanwhile, back in Maine, the home of the late peacemaker Samantha Smith, spring gardeners are facing up to the reality that nearly all varieties of tomatoes that grow well in our state are, um, Russian. Or descended from Russians. (Full disclosure: we have a lot of birch trees as well.)

I’m laughing at all this so I don’t cry because, really, it is frightening how aggressively ignorant your average corporate news consumer is showing herself to be these days. Check out some of them spouting off in reply to my tweet after President Biden’s gaffe calling for regime change to remove Russia’s leader. (My reference is to a U.S. oligarch defending the right to topple Bolivia’s elected government after he was blocked from mining lithium there.)

They sure told me, didn’t they?

The only one that even bothered to mount an argument either believes the Russian invasion was “without provocation” or chooses to say so despite copious evidence to the contrary. (Maybe because he doesn’t want to be banned from Twitter for failing to spout the party line?).

As one music teacher commented about the attempt to ban the birch tree song for being Russian, “This is how people end up in concentration camps.”