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woensdag 3 april 2019

CNN en WaPo eisen van Trump een escalatie van de spanningen met Rusland, ofwel: WOIII

Gebaseerd op leugens over Venezuela en haar president Maduro, eisen CNN en de Washington Post (WaPo) actie van Trump tegen Rusland, daar dit land nu ook bezig is om Maduro te ondersteunen tegen de terreur van de VS, dat hoe dan ook een verandering van regime wil doorvoeren in Venezuela.......

Deze 2 mediaorganen, die als het overgrote deel van de reguliere westerse media, dag in dag uit leugens brengen over Venezuela en datzelfde de laatste paar jaar deden met de leugenbrij die men Russiagate is gaan noemen, willen dat de VS de andere nucleaire grootmacht Rusland aanvalt, anders kan je niet concluderen gezien wat men op de sites van CNN en WaPo heeft durven schrijven....... Het maakt deze media (plus de rest van de reguliere media) en intussen een groot deel van de westerse politiek niet uit dat een nucleaire oorlog niet is te winnen en dat de mens voor een enorm deel zal omkomen in zo'n oorlog.....

Je zou toch denken dat e.e.a. niet in het belang is van het publiek dat CNN en WaPo bedienen, het is dan ook niet het publiek dat nog bediend moet worden door de reguliere media, nee die media bedienen de westerse neoliberale politiek en het grote bedrijfsleven, waar vooral het militair-industrieel complex, de oliemaffia en de georganiseerde misdadigersbende die men de financiële sector noemt, tot de grootste klanten kunnen worden gerekend waarvoor die media lobbyen....

De reguliere westerse media zouden onafhankelijk moeten rapporteren, zeker als je ziet hoe de VS de wereld haar illegale oorlogen heeft ingelogen met hulp van die media, de enorme berg bewijzen daarvoor liggen bij wijze van spreken voor het oprapen...... Ondanks dat blijven die media bezig met het brengen van fake news (nepnieuws) en desinformatie, zoals in het al genoemde 'Russiagate', waarover de alternatieve media al even lang hebben bericht als zijnde een smerige truc van het verkiezingscampagne team van Hillary Clinton om haar misdadig gedrag verborgen te houden (het stelen van de voorverkiezingen van Bernie Sanders...)... Nogmaals dag in dag uit hield men de leugen vol, totdat vorige week uit Muellers onderzoek bleek dat er van het hele Russiagate verhaal niets overeind blijft.....

CNN en WaPo maken geen rectificaties voor al de leugens die men bracht over Russiagate, nee men durft bij deze mediaorganen te stellen dat het niet optreden van Trump tegen Rusland een teken is dat er connecties zijn tussen de Trump administratie en Rusland....... Werkelijk ongelofelijk en totaal ongeloofwaardig.....

Alternatieve media waren voor een dergelijke zaak al lang door Facebook, Twitter en YouTube op zwart gezet, maar niet de reguliere media, die zoals gezegd een enorme berg fake news hebben gebracht en daarmee het volk in de VS en de rest van het westen hebben gemanipuleerd.......

Media die op basis van leugens een oorlog eisen, de wereld anno 2019........

Het volgende uitstekende artikel komt van Caitlin Johnsone's site:

CNN And WaPo Demand That Trump Further Escalate Tensions With Russia

by Caitlin Johnstone



CNN has aired a segment in which pundit Fareed Zakaria tells the network's audience that the US president has "been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on any issue" and asks "will Venezuela be the moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?"

The segment is a near-verbatim reading of Zakaria's Washington Post column from a couple of days prior, so that's two massive prongs through which this false and pernicious narrative is being driven into mainstream consciousness claiming that the Trump administration has been far too dovish toward Moscow, rather than dangerously hawkish as is actually the case.

Zakaria begins his segment by describing the Trump administration's (completely illegitimate) efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, then describing Russian efforts to counter this agenda as an attempt to "taunt the United States." He then spends the rest of the segment asking if Trump will be brave and patriotic enough to further escalate tensions against a nuclear superpower. Zakaria concludes by implying that if Trump fails to increase world-threatening nuclear tensions to effect yet another US regime change intervention in yet another oil-rich country, it will be because he is a Kremlin agent.



"The big question for Washington is: Will it allow Moscow to make a mockery of another U.S. red line?" Zakaria said. "The United States and Russia have taken opposing, incompatible stands on this issue. And as with Syria, there is a danger that, if Washington does not back its words with deeds, a year from now, we will be watching the consolidation of the Maduro regime, supported with Russian arms and money."

Yes Fareed, there is a real "danger" that if the Trump administration you liberal pundits claim to oppose doesn't act like the reckless madman you claim he is and tempt hot war with a nuclear superpower in order to effect regime change in a sovereign nation, that regime change agenda will fail. Very, very dangerous to not flirt with nuclear war over US resource control agendas.

"The administration has been tough on Russian involvement in Venezuela," said Zakaria. "Trump himself has even declared, 'Russia has to get out.' But that is an unusual statement from Trump, who has almost never criticized Putin and often sided with Russia on matters big and small."
Zakaria goes on to cite the Obama administration's ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul, who claimed in a Washington Post article that, contrary to the Trump administration's claims of being hawkish toward Russia, “Even on small issues of little relevance to American national interests, Trump sides with Putin."

"I have never alleged collusion or conspiracy between Russia and Trump, writing merely that we should wait to see what evidence special counsel Robert S. Mueller III presented," Zakaria concludes, trying to shelter himself from the ridicule that is being directed at the debunked Russiagate conspiracy while simultaneously promoting it. "But the real puzzle remains: Why has Trump been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on any issue? And will Venezuela be the moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?"
War obsessed CNN pushing Trump to destroy Venezuela to prove he’s not Putin’s bitch.
My god, this is pure war propaganda. https://t.co/RUQiRHvcYv
Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) April 1, 2019

You could not ask for a more perfect illustration of just how dangerous and toxic this years-long Russiagate psyop has been. Even after the Mueller investigation concludedwith no mass arrests, no sealed indictments, no further indictments and no evidence of Russian collusion, the mass media war propagandists are attempting to use the Russia hysteria they've already manufactured via the collusion narrative to manufacture demand for more escalations against Russia. Fragmenting and undermining Russia and shoving it off the world stage has been an agenda of opaque US government agencies since the fall of the Soviet Union, and steps have been taken into a new cold war to effect this agenda for more than five years now, long before liberals in America spent any part of their day thinking or caring about Vladimir Putin. Mass media outlets like CNN and WaPo have been actively facilitating this agenda by promulgating these false narratives, and they are playing an instrumental role in convincing the US populace to keep their foot off the brake pedal in an accelerating and world-threatening new cold war.

Trump has already greatly escalated tensions with Russia by implementing a Nuclear Posture Review with a much more aggressive stance against Russiawithdrawing from the INF treaty, bombing and illegally occupying Syria, arming Ukraine, staging a coup in Venezuela, and many, many other hawkish actions taken against the interests of Russia's geostrategic and economic interests. It is an indisputable fact that Trump has been more aggressive toward Russia than any other president since the fall of the Berlin wall. But the Russiagate narrative enables the war propagandists to not only ignore these escalations and the danger they pose to all life on earth, but to demand more and more of them.

Stephen Cohen, one of the foremost experts on US-Russia relations in America, made the following observation way back in April of 2017 in an interview with Democracy Now:
I think this is the most dangerous moment in American-Russian relations, at least since the Cuban missile crisis. And arguably, it’s more dangerous, because it’s more complex. Therefore, we—and then, meanwhile, we have in Washington these—and, in my judgment, factless accusations that Trump has somehow been compromised by the Kremlin. So, at this worst moment in American-Russian relations, we have an American president who’s being politically crippled by the worst imaginable—it’s unprecedented. Let’s stop and think. No American president has ever been accused, essentially, of treason. This is what we’re talking about here, or that his associates have committed treason. 
Imagine, for example, John Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis. And for the viewers who are not of a certain age, the Kennedy administration was presented—and the evidence, by the way, was presented to us; they showed us the surveillance photos. There was no doubt what the Soviets had done, putting missile silos in Cuba. No evidence has been presented today of anything. Imagine if Kennedy had been accused of being a secret Soviet Kremlin agent. He would have been crippled. And the only way he could have proved he wasn’t was to have launched a war against the Soviet Union. And at that time, the option was nuclear war.



To be clear, we came within a hair's breadth of total nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nobody likes to think about how close we all came to losing literally everything, and we didn't find out exactly how close we came until years later, but armageddon came *this* close to happening. The primary risk of nuclear war isn't that one will be planned and carried out in the hope of one side emerging victorious, it's that something can go cataclysmically wrong as a result of miscommunication or misunderstanding in the midst of complex and confusing escalating tensions. This almost happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Due to his extensive knowledge of the dynamics in play, Cohen saw all this coming long before anyone else, and accurately predicted the waves of cold war escalations we've seen since. 
Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard recently confirmed his prediction, tweeting, "Short-sighted politicians and media pundits who've spent last two years accusing Trump as a Putin puppet have brought us the expensive new Cold War and arms race. How? Because Trump now does everything he can to prove he’s not Putin’s puppet—even if it brings us closer to nuclear war."

This is how depraved the mass media are. They're willing to lull the populace into complacency with the formation of a new cold war that threatens everyone they love, even get them demanding direct confrontation, all to please their plutocratic owners, their military-industrial complex sponsors, and the intelligence agencies with which they are aligned. They're willing to risk getting us all killed for money and crude oil.

If we're going to begin bringing our society and ecosystem into health, we're going to have to find a way to extricate the influence of these toxic manipulators from the minds of the greater populace. As long as they're able to propagandize the majority into consenting to even the most insane omnicidal agendas, we'll never be able to use our superior numbers against the malignant manipulations of the few who would rule us. Whoever controls the narrative controls the world, and right now it's the evil fingers that are pulling the strings of empire lackeys like Fareed Zakaria.
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Caitlin Johnstone | April 1, 2019 at 11:43 pm


maandag 13 november 2017

Saoedi-Arabië heeft oorlog nodig om grote tekorten te verdoezelen, de VS en GB helpen graag 'een handje...'

Er is al veel gezeur gepasseerd over de crisis in Saoedi-Arabië, waar vooraanstaande personen en leden van de enorme grote koninklijke familie werden vastgezet en van hun eigendommen zijn ontdaan.

Lullig genoeg durft men in het westen te stellen dat kroonprins Mohammed bin Salman het land wil hervormen, dat leidt men af aan het toestaan van autorijden door vrouwen*, wat men volgend jaar wil invoeren als ik me niet vergis.

Volgens Darius Shahtahmasebi is er echter meer aan de hand. In een artikel gaat hij eerst in op de invloed die Saoedi-Arabië uitoefent in andere islamitische landen (soennitisch), waar S-A de laatste 30 jaar miljarden heeft gestoken in de bouw van moskeeën en madrassa's ('koran scholen'). Niet vreemd dat in die moskeeën en madrassa's het wahabisme wordt uitgedragen, het wahabisme dat door de Saoediërs wordt beleden.... Hiervoor voert Shahtahmasebi een Washington Post (WaPo) artikel aan van Fareed Zakaria.

Terecht wijst Shahtahmasebi op het financieren van terreur door Saoedi-Arabië, al is dat niet alleen de reden voor fiks wat islamterroristen om tekeer te gaan tegen anders gelovigen. De grootschalige barbaarse terreur die het westen o.l.v. de VS keer op keer aanricht in het Midden-Oosten, gecombineerd met een 'strak onderwezen' uitleg van de islam, zijn minstens, zo niet meer de oorzaak van ellende o.a. op de Europese straten.....

Onder andere volgens Shahtahmasebi verkeert S-A in grote financiële problemen en heeft het de grootste moeite om de met de VS (en Groot-Brittannië) gesloten wapenaankopen te kunnen betalen, daarbij gaat het om miljarden orders....... Dit zou dan ook de reden zijn voor het oppakken van hoogwaardigheidsbekleders en leden van de koninklijke familie, waarbij een gering aantal van hen zelfs werd vermoord....... Het verbeurd verklaren van eigendommen, waaronder miljarden aan banktegoeden, was dan ook de eerste opzet van het dictatoriale bewind in Riyad......

Bin Salman, de kwaadaardig kroonprins, is verder uit op oorlog tegen Iran en Hezbollah in Libanon, niet voor niets dat het fascistische apartheidsbewind in Israël goede banden onderhoudt met het Saoedische bewind. Oorlog leidt bovendien binnenlandse onvrede af van het rampzalige financiële beleid dat de Saoedische dictatuur heeft gevoerd en nog voert....... De agressie van S-A is vooral ingegeven door de haat tegen de andere vorm van islam, die Iran en Hezbollah aanhangen, het sjiisme...... Niet voor niets voert de Saoedische coalitie, gesteund door de VS (ook militair) en GB, een genocide uit op de sjiieten in buurland Jemen......**

Lees de visie van Shahtahmasebi, die hij redelijk heeft onderbouwd:

What You’re Not Being Told About the Royal Crisis in Saudi Arabia


November 7, 2017 at 4:55 pm

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  According to the Washington Post’s Fareed Zakaria, in order to understand how traditionally secular Muslim countries became hubs of radicalization in recent years, you need just one example: Saudi Arabia. Zakaria explains:

In Southeast Asia, almost all observers whom I have spoken with believe that there is another crucial cause [behind the ‘cancer’ of Islamic extremism] – exported money and ideology from the Middle East, chiefly Saudi Arabia. A Singaporean official told me, ‘Travel around Asia and you will see so many new mosques and madrassas built in the last 30 years that have had funding from the Gulf. They are modern, clean, air-conditioned, well-equipped – and Wahhabi [Saudi Arabia’s puritanical version of Islam].’ Recently, it was reported that Saudi Arabia plans to contribute almost $1 billion to build 560 mosques in Bangladesh. The Saudi government has denied this, but sources in Bangladesh tell me there’s some truth to the report.” As The Week explained two years ago, Saudi Arabia has spent billions of dollars “investing heavily in building mosques, madrasas, schools, and Sunni cultural centers across the Muslim world. Indian intelligence says that in India alone, from 2011 to 2013, some 25,000 Saudi clerics arrived bearing more than $250 million to build mosques and universities and hold seminars.”

The Week made it quite clear that these “institutions and clerics preach the specifically Saudi version of Sunni Islam, the extreme fundamentalist strain known as Wahhabism or Salafism.”

This isn’t just some unfriendly version of Islam that may or may not be linked to terror attacks aimed at Western countries – this is the same standard of Islam ISIS and al-Qaeda adhere to. Remember this next time a Donald Trump supporter accuses you of being an “apologist for Islam” while their leader sells these puritanical extremists more arms than they can afford to buy in the first place.

Not to mention that since early 2015, Saudi Arabia has been locked in a brutal quagmire in neighboring Yemen, engaging in war crimes and using banned munitions.

Despite Saudi Arabia’s documented behavior, everything that moves right now in the Middle East is somehow purported to be due to Iran’s “malignant” activities. A missile that was launched into Saudi Arabia’s capital city, which may or may not have been intercepted, was immediately and baselessly blamed on Iran. Saudi Arabia has been called the event an act of war (initiated by Iran). The meltdown of Lebanon’s internal politics has also been blamed on Iran, yet Saudi Arabia is clearly the one trying to pull the strings to create internal strife in the country.

In actuality, the available evidence that has come to light in recent weeks is that it was Saudi Arabia that actively coordinated an act of aggression on the sovereign nation of Syria in 2013. It has also come to light that a leaked cable, written in Hebrew, allegedly shows Saudi-Israeli collusion to provoke a war with Lebanon. It should be noted that the mainstream media and the governments that run in tandem with the media have paid close to zero attention to this, despite how damning the conclusion is.

So what can one make of what is happening directly inside Saudi Arabia even as we speak? One can only describe the recent developments as a crackdown that makes Bashar al-Assad’s pale in comparison given very senior and royal Saudi figures have already been killed and arrested in just over a weekend of action. The media has advanced that this is merely a crackdown by a reformist leader in the hopes of putting Saudi Arabia on a path to modernity and creating some domestic social and economic reforms. No one will be willing to admit it, but the House of Saud is in trouble.

Don’t listen to the Guardian as it tries to James Bond-up Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince with ludicrous titles such as “Saudi arrests show crown prince is a risk-taker with a zeal for reform.”

According to Bruce Riedel, director of the intelligence project at the Brookings Institution, Saudi Arabia is more or less looking at an economic recession. The country can barely afford the arms deals it agreed to with both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and its expenditures on the illegal war in Yemen are starting to take their toll. Perhaps this is the real reason the crackdown targeted three of the Kingdom’s richest profiles, which will result in the confiscation of $33 billion for the Saudi Kingdom to use at its leisure. The country is facing economic hardship, as the Washington Post explains:

The International Monetary Fund said in July that the kingdom would run a deficit of about 9.3 percent of gross domestic product this year. Unemployment was running around 12.3 percent. It said that non-oil growth was projected to pick up to 1.7 percent but that relatively weak oil prices would keep overall GDP growth ‘close to zero.’”

Saudi Arabia’s chickens are coming home to roost. The extremist nation should know this more than anyone considering they have tried their hand at overthrowing multiple governments in the region.
Once a crackdown as blatant as this one begins, there will be no turning back for the Islamic Kingdom.

While some may celebrate the fall of Saudi Arabia, the downside is that desperate times will undoubtedly call for desperate measures in the face of the Kingdom’s dying status as a regional player.
The only viable option to maintain the illusion of domestic strength and international prowess is to find a scapegoat, and the Saudis have had the perfect scapegoat for years. Even as we speak, the war rhetoric targeting the Iranian government and its allies is beating ever louder as it becomes clear that the oil-rich nation may have no other way of distracting from its own inner turmoil than to launch further aggression against Iran.

It is already somewhat evident that Donald Trump has given his full support for this to happen — and that Trump’s sword-dancing meeting with Saudi Arabia earlier this year set the scene for something far more sinister than we could have ever predicted.

As the Washington Post explained:

Mohammed Bin Salman’s domestic power grabs have often been accompanied by major foreign policy moves. Many regional observers therefore fear that Hariri’s resignation, announced in Riyadh with a sharply anti-Iranian speech, could trigger a political crisis intended to end with a military campaign against Hezbollah. Such a move would fit the pattern of bold foreign policy initiatives launched in the expectation of a rapid, politically popular victory. It would also very likely follow the pattern of such initiatives rapidly collapsing into a bloody, destabilizing quagmire.”

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Het is te hopen voor andere verkeersdeelnemers dat vrouwen die autorijden, niet volkomen gesluierd hoeven rond te rijden:


** Vandaag werd bekend gemaakt, dat de Saoedische coalitie de blokkade van Jemen voor hulpgoederen heeft opgeheven, terwijl ook zonder die blokkade de Saoediërs (met hulp op zee van de VS) maar mondjesmaat hulpgoederen toelaten tot Jemen, een tactiek die is gekopieerd van Israël (de smerige blokkade van openluchtgevangenis Gazastrook....)

Zie ook: 'Libanon: premier al-Hariri treedt af, 'toevallig' tijdens zijn bezoek aan Riyad......'

       en: 'Saoedi-Arabië beschuldigt Houthi's en Iran van raketbeschieting en noemt dit een oorlogsverklaring............'

       en: 'Jemen, de hel op aarde >> Saoedi-Arabië en de VS (plus hulp van GB) plegen een genocide'

       en: 'Genocide op Houthi's in Jemen: daders Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en de Arabische Emiraten.............'

       en: 'Media Silent As Saudi Arabia Devastates Yemen Into Famine'

 'Saoedi-Arabië en VS nu ook verantwoordelijk voor difterie in Jemen, aandacht van media alleen voor 'Houthi raketten......''

        en: 'VS senator beschuldigt zijn 'land' van oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen.......'



      
        en: (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling in 'Dutch'): 'U.S. and U.K. Continue to Participate in War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians'





       en: 'Koenders nog steeds stil: Saoedi-Arabië bezig met etnische zuivering op eigen bodem en nog steeds levert het westen wapens aan terreurstaat S-A....'