Presidential Candidate Jill Stein on Fighting The US War Machine
In the third episode of The Racket, Journalist and Author Matt #Kennard speaks to #American physician, activist, and Green Party presidential candidate Jill #Stein @JillStein2024. They discuss #US foreign policy, #corruption and #empire, renewed #fears of #Nuclear #war and Julian Assange & Edward Snowden's place in The White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs3CqUWmNUU
Obrigado; @mulk@diasp.eu
Maria #Zakharova, 28 August
💬 The terrorist essence of the Kiev regime is becoming more and more odious.
Bankova's Western curators with maniacal fury do not stop pushing their Kyiv puppets to prolong the insane and suicidal adventure of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine in the #Kursk region.
On August 21, the head of the so-called European diplomacy, #Borrell, said that "lifting restrictions on the use of opportunities against the Russian military" would lead, allegedly, to strengthening Ukraine's self-defense, saving lives, reducing destruction in Ukraine and advancing peacekeeping efforts.
efforts.
I am sure that if this phrase had been broadcast to a Ukrainian audience, Borrell would have simply been booed or pelted with something.
On August 22, Deputy Pentagon Spokesperson Sabrina #Singh spoke even more frankly and aggressively. According to her, Washington's approaches allow Ukraine to carry out counterstrikes to "protect" against Russian attacks from border regions, which include Kursk and Sumy. Now the head of the #US defense department allegedly intends to discuss with the Ukrainian side whether the Armed Forces of Ukraine plan to "hold" territories in the Kursk region.
Western officialdom literally distorted everything and, in fact, agreed that the strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on #Russia, that is, military aggression, terror, would allegedly contribute to achieving peace.
What world? Actual, on the ground? Everyone sees perfectly well what is happening there. #Peace at the negotiating table? With whom? With those who kill civilians? With those who mock women, old people? With THESE or what? Who will sit down at the same negotiating table with them?
In fact, all these statements by both Borrell and the US Defense Department are nothing more than justifying and encouraging the crimes of the Kyiv regime.
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Evidence of Kyiv's monstrous war crimes against the Russian civilian population is multiplying. As a rule, I cite data from Russian law enforcement agencies, and today I will cite data from a Western organisation, Reporters Without Borders. This structure, which, as a rule, does not say anything good about our country, has already counted more than 1000 cases of the use of Nazi symbols by the Ukrainian military who invaded the Kursk region.
❗️ Horrific evidence of captured militants continues to arrive that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine gives direct orders to the military to kill civilians and loot on Russian territory.
A lot of facts of looting of residential buildings and shops by the Ukronazis are recorded. One of the prisoners even had crosses and jewelry stolen from residents of Kursk villages. Religious paraphernalia - antique icons stolen in the Kursk region - appeared on sale at Ukrainian online auctions. Moreover, it is openly indicated that these are "trophies".
There are also many photos of residents of the Kursk region killed by Ukrainian militants who did not have time to evacuate, which show that many of them were shot at point-blank range.
Thus, it is not an isolated but a massive and purposeful nature of the atrocities and acts of looting committed by the ukrobanderites on Russian territory that is revealed. The guilt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in serious crimes has become even more obvious to the world audience. Kiev propaganda is not able to retouch the truth.
Against this background, the attempts of Ukrainian propaganda to concoct fakes about the allegedly harmless and attentive to the needs of the civilian population interventionists who invaded our land look absolutely cynical. These fakes are instantly exposed.
The NED played a pivotal role in helping to trigger the conflict with Russia by supporting two color revolutions directed against Ukraine’s pro-Russian (not really - note mine) leader Viktor #Yanukovych — a potential successor to Vlodymyr #Zelensky if Russia wins.
The 2004 color revolution replaced Yanukovych with Viktor Yushchenko, who favored admitting Ukraine to NATO and adopted an International Monetary Fund (IMF) structural adjustment program that benefitted U.S. investors while cutting social programs.
NED activists employed a broad public relations strategy that included: a) busing paid out-of-town protesters into Kyiv; b) creating an online TV protest station and agitation paraphernalia; and c) providing offshore training to the anti-Yanukovych student leadership. The strategy was based on the writings of Gene Sharp and a template that the NED had successfully employed in Serbia with a youth group called “Otpor,” which helped secure the defeat of socialist Slobodan Milosovic in September 2000 elections.
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As a sign of the NED’s influence, Ukrainian President Petro #Poroshenko (2014-2020)—a main beneficiary of the #Maidan coup currently awaiting trial on treason charges—bestowed the Order of Princess Olga, one of Ukraine’s highest honors, on Dr. Nadia Diuk,[42] a former vice president and senior adviser to the NED for Europe and Eurasia.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/07/national-endowment-for-democracy-deletes-records-of-funding-projects-in-ukraine/
#USA #US #american #democracy #CIA #IMF #NATO #deepstate #intelligence #NED #propaganda #fraud #psyops #ukraine #war against #Russia #russian #ukraine #ukrainian #history
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an Invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.” – Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt - US President The Progressive Covenant with the People speech, 1912- Audio – Library of Congress
...“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
-Woodrow Wilson, Former President of the United States, The New Freedom
...E. Howard Hunt is probably one of the best-known CIA operatives in the world. Tom Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible movies is based on E Howard Hunt and he was arrested as one of the Watergate burglars. On his deathbed he confessed to the CIA’s involvement in the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy including naming Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and the specific agency personnel involved in the plot: Cord Meyer, David Atlee Phillips, Frank Sturgis, David Morales, Antonio Veciana, William Harvey, and an assassin he termed "French gunman grassy knoll" who many presume is Lucien Sarti.
https://artofliberty.substack.com/p/multiple-us-presidents-have-admitted
#USA #US #POTUS #CIA #FBI #Wilson #Roosevelt #Kennedy #deepstate #zionists #banksters #hidden-control #intelligence #finance #money #power
🇷🇺SERGEY #LAVROV:
[How would you comment Ukraine’s demands as set forth in The Guardian? They seek the green light to use the #StormShadow missiles to target #Moscow and St Petersburg as a way to force Moscow to negotiate.]
"This is #blackmail, an attempt to pretend that the West seeks to avoid any excessive escalation.
In reality, they are full of mischief.Avoiding escalation is not what the West is after.
To put it into plain language, they are simply picking a fight.
I think that this has become obvious to everyone.
I have recently cited John Kirby, who is the White House National Security Communications Advisor.
A couple of months ago, he said that escalation would be dangerous, since it would be extremely ill-advised to let the situation slide into a world war and that Europe would be the one to suffer in the process.Recently, John Kirby said this again.
For Americans, any talk about the third world war comes down to something that would affect Europe alone, and God forbid if it ever happened.
This is quite telling, since this idea reflects the mindset of the American planners and geostrategy experts who believe that they can simply sit the whole thing out.
I think that it is important to understand in this situation that we have our own doctrine, including the one governing the use of nuclear weapons.
An effort to update it is underway.
Moreover, these Americans are well aware of the provisions it sets forth.
This fact transpires from the Freudian slips they make when they say that having a third world war would be a bad thing because they do not want Europe to suffer.
This is what this American mindset comes down to.
They have a mindset of a master sitting somewhere out there overseas and believing to be totally safe and secure, thinking that not only Ukrainians, but also, as it turns out, Europeans would be willing to do the dirty work and die for them.
We have long been hearing speculation about authorizing #Ukraine to use not only the Storm Shadow missiles, but also #US -made long-range missiles.
There was an anonymous source in Washington who said that they were working on it.
This source purported that their overall view of Ukraine’s request is quite positive. I will stop at that. President Vladimir #Putin said all about it quite a while ago.
Now, all we can do is confirm once again that playing with fire is a dangerous thing for the men and women in charge of #nuclear-weapons across the Western world, but they are playing with matches as if they never grew up."
(Just channeled Twitter's @RedScareBot Robot J. McCarthy)
♲ Hanse Mina - 2024-08-28 02:46:56 GMT
A comedy series will be filmed in #Russia, the main character of which will be #US President Joe #Biden. A project called “Goodbye” was announced by the TNT channel, owned by #Gazprom Media».
According to the plot, Biden wants to figure out why American sanctions are not working against Russia, and flies there undercover. On the very first day, he loses his documents, but meets a “real Russian patriot.”
♲ Ukraine War Bulletins and News - 2024-08-27 18:21:48 GMT
‼️🇺🇦Ukraine Attempting Incursion In Belgorod, Russian Regional Governor Says (more) rferl.org/a/33094117.html #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #Russia #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow
♲ aggualaqisaaq🇦🇶 - 2024-08-26 04:08:59 GMT
#US official: #Cairo hostage talks were constructive, all sides interested in inking deal"A US official tells The Times of Israel that the hostage talks held in Cairo the past several days have been 'constructive and were conducted in the spirit of reaching a final and implementable agreement with all sides share that sentiment'...Notably, US officials appear to be the only party in the talks who sound hopeful about their trajectory"
#New #Complaint Filed Alleging that #US #Postal #Service ( #USPS ) #Committed #Electoral #Fraud in the #2020 #Presidential #Election
"A new development that merits attention. A complaint was filed on Friday before the U.S. District Court in Maryland presenting evidence that the USPS acted illegally in shipping at least one million mail-in ballots from a facility in Bethpage, New York to Pennsylvania on October 21, 2020. The suit was brought by attorney Brian Della Rocca, but the critical evidence was collected by two friends of mine — John Moynihan and Larry Doyle. Full disclosure, I have known John since 1998 and we were partners in BERG Associates, LLC. John, in my opinion, is one of the best financial and forensic investigators in the world. Hands down."
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#USA #Biden #neocons #zionists #deepstate #corruption #american #elections #fraud #democracy #fail
🇷🇺SERGEY #LAVROV:
[What do you think about the West’s rhetoric and stance on the situation in our border regions? They are denying that they knew about it.]
"The Defence Ministry leadership assesses the military situation and reports to President Vladimir #Putin several times a day.
As for the political side, it’s clear that the cap fits, and they should long be wearing it.
The evolution from 'we have nothing to do with it' and 'no one asked us' to 'they did ask, but we said no,' and 'Zaluzhny disobeyed' is just ridiculous.
Everyone is perfectly aware that Vladimir #Zelensky would never have dared to do this – the decision was certainly his.
Now he boasts that he is creating a buffer zone and damaging the Russian state.
He would not have dared to do this unless he had orders from the #US.
There is also no doubt that Washington is behind the #NordStream explosions, which cut Europe off from Russian fuel and consequently, a stable foundation for economic growth.
For us, the picture is crystal clear.
For all their dodging, the truth is obvious, and known to all objective and unbiased observers."
An Israeli diplomat at the Democratic National Convention hails the platform adopted by the party this week along with organizers’ decision not to offer a speaker slot to a representative of the Palestinian-American community.
“There was a lot of concern and many warnings issued about how the more progressive, anti-Israel voices within the party would be strongly represented both in the protests outside and inside the convention hall and that they would succeed in influencing the Democratic Party’s platform. Until now that has not happened,” says the Israeli diplomat in a briefing with reporters on the sidelines of the DNC.
“The organizers of the convention intelligently made an effort not to listen to cave to these voices,” the diplomat says.
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #KamalaHarris #DemocraticParty #Biden #Genocide
#media #news #press
Ps. Picture from internet, not the article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty
https://t.me/oper_goblin/31183
#USA #US #american #deepstate #propaganda #CIA #Western #media #radio #lie #anticommunism #anti-Russia #psyops #mindmanipulation #mccarthyism against #russian #Russia #soviet #USSR #history
Boeing's Latest Mishap: Cracks in New 777X Jetliner
Boeing (BA) has found cracks in the structure of its 777X jetliner in initial test flights, another mishap for the carrier this year.
The plane maker said it is grounding its 777X test fleet after an inspection showed the failure of a key engine mounting structure.
"During scheduled maintenance, we identified a component that did not perform as designed," a Boeing spokesperson said in a statement provided to Investopedia. "Our team is replacing the part and capturing any learnings from the component and will resume flight testing when ready."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeings-latest-mishap-cracks-777x-125134825.html
#USA #US #american #aviation #boeing #fail #capitalism
August 20, 2024 marks the 405th anniversary of slavery in the United States
August 20, 1619 - A ship brought the first 20 African Negroes to America, who were sold into slavery to the inhabitants of Jamestown.
The English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia Peninsula. There, Governor George Yardley and his head of commerce, Cape Merchant Abraham Piercy, bought the “20-odd negroes” aboard in exchange for “provisions” - meaning they were trading food for slaves.
The year 1619 was a milestone in the long history of slavery in the European colonies and the beginning stages of what would become the institution of slavery in America.
The human cargo that arrived in Virginia in 1619 came from the port city of Luanda, now the capital of modern Angola. It was then a Portuguese colony, and most of the slaves are believed to have been captured during the ongoing war between Portugal and the Ndongo kingdom, as John Thornton wrote in The William and Mary Quarterly in 1998. Between 1618 and 1620, some 50,000 slaves - many of them prisoners of war - were exported from Angola. An estimated 350 of these captives were loaded onto a Portuguese slave ship called the São João Bautista (better known as the San Juan Batista ).
The ship was on its way to the Spanish colony of Veracruz when two English privateers, the White Lion and the Treasurer, intercepted it and captured some of the Angolans on board. According to James Horne, president and chief officer of the Jamestown Rediscovery , both vessels belonged to a powerful English nobleman, Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. Rich was anti-Hispanic and anti-Catholic and profited from the disruption of Spanish shipping in the Caribbean. The White Lion, which flew the flag of a Dutch port known for its pirates, was the first to arrive in Virginia in late August 1619, followed four days later by the Treasurer.
These 20 captives are believed to have been the first African slaves to arrive in what would become the United States 150 years later.
Four hundred years later, the arrival of the captives influenced virtually every important moment in American history, even if that history was created around anyone but Africans and African Americans. After all, for many Americans, familiarity with U.S. history is tied to the arrival of 102 passengers on the Mayflower in 1620. A year earlier, however, 20 African slaves had been brought to the British colonies against their will.
“Historians, elected politicians [and] community leaders would prefer to represent the United States as some mythical, Anglo-Saxon Christian place,” said Michael Guasco, a professor of early American history at Davidson College.
In 1992, Toni Morrison told the Guardian, “In this country, American means white. Everyone else has to spell it with a hyphen.”
After 1619, most of the country remained white and relied heavily on the labor of Indian slaves and white European indentured servants. It wasn't until the late 17th century that the transatlantic slave trade made its impact on the American colonies. There are now 26.5 million descendants of Africans in the United States.
1661
The first anti-racial law - prohibiting marriage between the races - was passed in Maryland in 1661, shortly after slaves were brought to the colonies. By the 1960s, these laws were still in effect in 21 states, most of them in the South . Alabama was the last state to repeal its ban on interracial marriage in 2000.
Advertisement in Boston for a cargo of about 250 “fine healthy negroes” recently arrived from Africa on the slave ship Bunte Island. About 1700.
1776
The Declaration of Independence, which in its first lines stated that “all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,” did not extend that right to slaves, Africans, or African Americans, and the reference to condemn slavery was deleted in the final version. Thomas Jefferson, himself a slaveholder, wrote these lines rejecting slavery; he deleted the reference after receiving criticism from a number of delegates who had enslaved blacks. This may represent “the fabric of the American political economy” since then, as some historians say.
Initially, slavery flourished on tobacco plantations in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. In the tobacco areas of these states, slaves made up more than 50 percent of the population by 1776. Slavery then spread to rice plantations farther south. In South Carolina, African Americans remained the majority until the 20th century, according to census data.
1860
The slave trade across the Atlantic, organized by the British, was one of the largest businesses of the 18th century. Approximately 600,000 of the 10 million African slaves made their way to the American colonies before the slave trade - not slavery - was banned by Congress in 1808. By 1860, however, there were nearly 4 million enslaved black people - 13% of the population - in the United States as the American-born population grew.
Eight of the first 12 U.S. presidents were slaveholders. Supporters of slavery supported the efforts of groups such as the American Colonization Society, which “sent back” tens of thousands of free black people - most of them born in America - to Liberia in the 19th century to prevent riots caused by the free descendants of slaves.
A painting depicting freed slaves once owned by Confederate President Jefferson Davis arriving at the “federal camp” at Chickasaw Bayou, Tennessee
1865
According to Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War was fought to preserve the integrity of America, not to abolish slavery - at least initially. American historians like to write that the Civil War was fought to free slavery, but slavery was not abolished after the war either. Lincoln entered the fight to free the slaves, some historians suggest, because he was worried that the British would support the south in its self-proclaimed self-determination and recognize the south as a separate entity. If he started a war to abolish slavery, it would have looked bad for the struggle of the south and the British supporting his cause. Lincoln's death was probably the first casualty of “a long civil rights movement that was not yet over,” suggested historian Peter Kolchin.
1868
Some experts argue that Reconstruction laid the groundwork for “the organization of new segregated institutions, ideologies of white supremacy, legal rationalizations, extra-legal violence, and everyday racial terror”-further widening the racial gap between blacks and whites. Others point out that the end of the war left black Americans free but their status “uncertain,” with the passage of “codes” that prevented black people from being truly free.
But eventually, under the 14th Amendment, African Americans were granted the right to vote. African Americans were also granted birthright citizenship: it extends to the descendants of freed black slaves and immigrants to this day.
1898
The recession of the late 19th century hit the United States. The Knight Riders marched in the dark, burning the homes of African Americans who had bought their own land. They came to Washington to demand change, as southern white Democrats had abolished many of the, albeit limited, freedoms of Reconstruction just a couple decades before.
The era of Jim Crow segregation prohibited African Americans from drinking from the same water fountains, eating in the same restaurants, or attending the same schools as white Americans, all of which lasted until the 1960s, and sometimes much longer.
1926
As African Americans were denied jobs and opportunities during the Jim Crow era, and as more jobs became available in the North and Midwest, more than 2 million southern African Americans migrated after World War I. Yet, even hundreds of miles away from southern segregation, these migrating Americans encountered “sunset cities,” where black people were not welcome after sundown, and restrictions on where they could live in cities.
For example, Oregon's constitution did not remove the clause prohibiting blacks from entering the state until 1926.
A man drinks water from a cooler for “coloreds” at a bus station in Oklahoma City in July 1939. Photo: Russell Lee
1954
As the end of the Jim Crow era and the civil rights struggle neared, the struggle continued. For example: it was not until 1948 that the U.S. Army desegregated by presidential decree. In 1954, in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional and schools should be integrated. Civil rights leaders led marches against segregation across the country in the 1960s. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. Getting African American children into white schools in white neighborhoods was considered constitutional.
African Americans vote for the first time since 1890 in the 1946 Democratic primary in Georgia.
1965
“Slavery was gone, but Jim Crow was alive. Almost all southern African Americans were excluded from the ballot box and the political power it could give,” Edward E. Baptiste wrote in Half Never Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 attempted to remedy this by prohibiting racial discrimination in voting and imposing restrictions on a number of Southern states if they tried to change voting rights laws. These restrictions were recently overturned by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.
Since the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' book The Case for Reparations in 2014, the topic of settling financial debts for 250 years of slavery has risen up the political agenda. Proponents of a financial settlement for the descendants of slaves say it is meant to address the racial inequality that still persists in the United States.
A 2017 Pew study found that the median wealth of white households is $171,000 - 10 times that of black households ($17,100). Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker introduced a Senate reparations bill and received support from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders...
2013
19.02.2013. The Parliament of the state of Mississippi ratified the law on the abolition of slavery. Formally, slavery on the territory of the USA was until 2013. Thanks to kind people, they gave me the last date.
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1412954
#BLM #afroamericans #USA #US #american #slavery #racism #european #capitalism #african #negroes #british #colonialism #anniversary #history
MintPress takes a deeper look into the Spear Operations Group, a #US private military company responsible for carrying out assassinations across #Yemen.
#Israel #Terrorism #Politics #Genocide
♲ Hanse Mina - 2024-08-21 03:52:04 GMT
#Ukraine and #Russia both lack the military assets to mount major offensives against each other, the #Pentagon’s intelligence agency said in new assessments that suggests the two sides are headed toward stalemate.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/ukraine-not-capable-of-major-offensive-for-at-least-six-months
56 military interventions in Latin America alone..... and counting.
For "democracy" tho
#USA #US #CIA #MIC #Pentagon #military #deepstate #militarism #intervention #american #terrorism #democracy #map #history #latinoamerica
