Monthly Archives: January 2016

Iran’s “Aggression” in Intercepting U.S. Naval Ships — in Iranian Waters

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“Most U.S. news accounts last night quickly skimmed over — or outright ignored — the rather critical fact that the U.S. ships had ‘drifted into’ Iranian waters. Instead, all sorts of TV news personalities and U.S. establishment figures puffed out their chest and instantly donned their Tough Warrior pose to proclaim that this was an act of aggression — virtually an act of war: not by the U.S., but by Iran. They had taken our sailors ‘hostage,’ showing yet again how menacing and untrustworthy they are.  Somehow, the U.S. media instantly converted the invasion of Iranian waters by U.S. ships into an act of aggression by Iran.”

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/us-media-condemns-irans-aggression-in-intercepting-us-naval-ships-in-iranian-waters/

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JPMorgan: China’s Potential Capital Outflows ‘Practically Boundless’

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“China has seen nearly $1 trillion in capital leave the nation since the second quarter of 2014, and according to analysts at JPMorgan Chase, the sky’s the limit for outflows going forward.  The causes of these massive capital outflows, which have prompted the People’s Bank of China to tap the country’s war chest of reserves to support the currency, have grown more numerous in the second half of 2015, argues a team led by managing director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou. Amid the broadening of sources of downward pressure on the yuan, however, a major factor that may have restrained the central bank from devaluing the currency in a big way has vanished.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-11/jpmorgan-potential-capital-outflows-from-china-have-become-practically-boundless-

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China’s military makes move into Africa

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“China is establishing its first military base in Africa, according to a top U.S. general, providing yet another sign of its growing reach beyond the Asia-Pacific.  ‘They are going to build a base in Djibouti, so that will be their first military location in Africa,’ U.S. Army Gen. David Rodriguez, the commander of U.S. Africa Command, recently told defense reporters.  There has been speculation for years that China might establish a base in Djibouti. Rodriguez told The Hill that China has signed a 10-year contract with the African nation.  The base, he said, would serve as a logistics hub for China to be able to ‘extend their reach.'”

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/261153-chinas-military-makes-move-into-africa

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David Stockman, Christmas 2015—–Why There Is No Peace On Earth

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“The real threat to peace circa 1990 was that Pax Americana would not go away quietly in the night.  In fact, during the past 25 years Imperial Washington has lost all memory that peace was ever possible at the end of the cold war. Today it is as feckless, misguided and bloodthirsty as were Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg, Vienna and London in August 1914.  The modern Warfare State has been the incubator of American imperialism since the Cold War, and is now proving itself utterly invulnerable to fiscal containment, even in the face of a $19 trillion national debt.  So 101 years after the Christmas truces along the Western Front there is still no peace on earth.”

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/christmas-2015-why-there-is-no-peace-on-earth/

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Bill Bonner: The Curse of Lawrence of Arabia [2002]

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“In 1919, Thomas went on a lecture tour in the United Kingdom and United States, showing pictures of Lawrence posing in a sheikh’s robes in a London studio, and entranced audiences with stories about the ‘White King of the Arabs.’ By the time the Treaty of Sèvres was negotiated in 1920, with Lawrence in attendance and the media mob hanging on his every word, the British felt compelled to keep Lawrence’s promise to the chieftains of an Arab tribe called the Hashemites.  The political structure of the Middle East today is the result of that promise. The Treaty of Sèvres permitted the British to seize pieces of the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled the Middle East for centuries.”

http://dailyreckoning.com/the-curse-of-lawrence-of-arabia/

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Seymour M. Hersh on US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war

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“The Joint Chiefs felt that a direct challenge to Obama’s policy would have ‘had a zero chance of success’. So in the autumn of 2013 they decided to take steps against the extremists without going through political channels, by providing US intelligence to the militaries of other nations, on the understanding that it would be passed on to the Syrian army and used against the common enemy, Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State. Once the flow of US intelligence began, Germany, Israel and Russia started passing on information about the whereabouts and intent of radical jihadist groups to the Syrian army; in return, Syria provided information about its own capabilities and intentions.”

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military

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US military provided Assad with intel on CIA-supported extremists

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“The Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has been indirectly providing Syrian military with intelligence on Islamic extremists fearing the Obama administration’s agenda to oust Bashar Assad will engender total chaos in Syria.  A new investigation in the London Review of Books by renowned American journalist Seymour M. Hersh exposes the divide between the US top brass and the politicians in the White House when it comes to dealing with Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq.  It seems the US JCS isn’t enthusiastic about Obama’s ‘Assad must go’ maxima, opting to provide Damascus with intelligence and analytics on the jihadists instead. This is, however, done indirectly.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/326748-us-syria-intelligence-hersh/

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El Chapo v. Longstanding CIA Global Drugs Trafficking

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“His operation and others like his pale compared to CIA global drugs trafficking – a topic media scoundrels won’t touch. Its involvement began in 1947, its first year of existence. In his book titled ‘The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade,’ Alfred McCoy documented CIA and US government complicity in drugs trafficking at the highest official levels.  Iran-Contra and Afghan opium cultivation for global heroin trafficking are two among numerous other examples.  Hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenues are produced – a US government-supported bonanza for the CIA, organized crime and Western financial institutions, heavily involved in money laundering.”

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2016/01/el-chapo-v-longstanding-cia-drugs.html

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Jacob Hornberger: Cold War Fearmongering on Cuba and Korea

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“North Korea is not the first national-security state to employ the fearmongering strategy. In fact, the U.S. national-security state, along with its acolytes in the mainstream press, is a master of the strategy.  Cuba is another example of a national-security state that long kept its citizens fearful of a U.S. regime-change operation.  But let’s keep in mid that throughout all the fearmongering about Cuba, it was always the U.S. national-security state that was the aggressor against Cuba. It was the U.S. national-security state that invaded the island (unsuccessfully), initiated acts of terrorism and sabotage within Cuba, and conspired to assassinate the president of Cuba.”

http://fff.org/2016/01/12/cold-war-fearmongering-again/

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The Devil’s Chessboard: How the First CIA Director Collaborated With Nazis

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“David Talbot, the founder of Salon, has written a new book, ‘The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government.’ The book exhumes a number of the US government’s historical skeletons: its rejection of Jewish refugees during WWII, its cooperation with key Nazi figures, its complicity in a variety of coups, to name just a few.”

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33041-focus-david-talbot-on-how-the-first-cia-director-collaborated-with-nazis

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