Who Does America Belong to? Not to Americans Paul Craig Roberts

Who Does America Belong to?

July 31, 2018 

Who Does America Belong to?

Not to Americans

Paul Craig Roberts

The housing market is now apparently turning down. Consumer incomes are limited by jobs offshoring and the ability of employers to hold down wages and salaries.  The Federal Reserve seems committed to higher interest rates—in my view to protect the exchange value of the US dollar on which Washington’s power is based.  The arrogant fools in Washington, with whom I spent a quarter century, have, with their bellicosity and sanctions, encouraged nations with independent foreign and economic policies to drop the use of the dollar.  This takes some time to accomplish, but Russia, China, Iran, and India are apparently committed to dropping  or reducing the use of the US dollar.

  

A drop in the world demand for dollars can be destabilizing of the dollar’s value unless the central banks of Japan, UK, and EU continue to support the dollar’s exchange value, either by purchasing dollars with their currencies or by printing offsetting amounts of their currencies to keep the dollar’s value stable.  So far they have been willing to do both.  However, Trump’s criticisms of Europe has soured Europe against Trump, with a corresponding weakening of the willingness to cover for the US.  Japan’s colonial status viv-a-vis the US since the Second World War is being stressed by the hostility that Washington is introducing into Japan’s part of the world.  The orchestrated Washington tensions with North Korea and China do not serve Japan, and those Japanese politicians who are not heavily on the US payroll are aware that Japan is being put on the line for American, not Japanese interests.  

If all this leads, as is likely, to the rise of more independence among Washington’s vassals, the vassals are likely to protect themselves from the cost of their independence by removing themselves from the dollar and payments mechanisms associated with the dollar as world currency.  This means a drop in the value of the dollar that the Federal Reserve would have to prevent by raising interest rates on dollar investments in order to keep the demand for dollars up sufficiently to protect its value.

As every realtor knows, housing prices boom when interest rates are low, because the lower the rate the higher the price of the house that the person with the mortgage can afford.  But when interest rates rise, the lower the price of the house that a buyer can afford. 

If we are going into an era of higher interest rates, home prices and sales are going to decline.

The “on the other hand” to this analysis is that if the Federal Reserve loses control of the situation and the debts associated with the current value of the US dollar become a problem that can collapse the system, the Federal Reserve is likely to pump out enough new money to preserve the debt by driving interest rates back to zero or negative.

Would this save or revive the housing market?  Not if the debt-burdened American people have no substantial increases in their real income.  Where are these increases likely to come from? Robotics are about to take away the jobs not already lost to jobs offshoring. Indeed, despite President Trump’s emphasis on “bringing the jobs back,” Ford Motor Corp. has just announced that it is moving the production of the Ford Focus from Michigan to China.  

Apparently it never occurs to the executives running America’s offshored corporations that potential customers in America working in part time jobs stocking shelves in Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, etc., will not have enough money to purchase a Ford.  Unlike Henry Ford, who had the intelligence to pay workers good wages so they could buy Fords, the executives of American companies today sacrifice their domestic market and the American economy to their short-term “performance bonuses” based on low foreign labor costs.

What is about to happen in America today is that the middle class, or rather those who were part of it as children and expected to join it, are going to be driven into manufactured “double-wide homes” or single trailers.  The MacMansions will be cut up into tenements.  Even the high-priced rentals along the Florida coast will find a drop in demand as real incomes continue to fall. The $5,000-$20,000 weekly summer rental rate along Florida’s panhandle 30A will not be sustainable.  The speculators who are in over their heads in this arena are due for a future shock.

For years I have reported on the monthly payroll jobs statistics.  The vast majority of new jobs are in lowly paid nontradable domestic services, such as waitresses and bartenders, retail clerks, and ambulatory health care services. In the payroll jobs report for June, for example, the new jobs, if they actually exist, are concentrated in these sectors: administrative and waste services, health care and social assistance, accommodation and food services, and local government.

High productivity, high value-added manufactured jobs shrink in the US as they are offshored to Asia.  High productivity, high value-added professional service jobs, such as research, design, software engineering, accounting, legal research, are being filled by offshoring or by foreigners brought into the US on work visas with the fabricated and false excuse that there are no Americans qualified for the jobs. See: https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Laissez-Faire-Capitalism/dp/0986036250/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532992327&sr=1-2&keywords=Paul+Craig+Roberts+books&dpID=51HWdHsbtFL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

America is a country hollowed out by the short-term greed of the ruling class and its shills in the economics profession and in Congress.  Capitalism only works for the few. It no longer works for the many.

On national security grounds Trump should respond to Ford’s announcement of offshoring the production of Ford Focus to China by nationalizing Ford.  Michigan’s payrolls and tax base will decline and employment in China will rise. We are witnessing a major US corporation enabling China’s rise over the United States. Among the external costs of Ford’s contribution to China’s GDP is Trump’s increased US military budget to counter the rise in China’s power.

Trump should also nationalize Apple, Nike, Levi, and all the rest of the offshored US global corporations who have put the interest of a few people above the interests of the American work force and the US economy.  There is no other way to get the jobs back.  Of course, if Trump did this, he would be assassinated.  

America is ruled by a tiny percentage of people who constitute a treasonous class. These people have the money to purchase the government, the media, and the economics profession that shills for them. This greedy traitorous interest group must be dealt with or the United States of America and the entirety of its peoples are lost.

In her latest blockbuster book, Collusion, Nomi Prins documents how central banks and international monetary institutions have used the 2008 financial crisis to manipulate markets and the fiscal policies of governments to benefit the super-rich.
https://www.amazon.com/Collusion-Central-Bankers-Rigged-World/dp/1568585624/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533039219&sr=1-1&keywords=Nomi+Prins#customerReviews

These manipulations are used to enable the looting of countries such as Greece and Portugal by the large German and Dutch banks and the enrichment via inflated financial asset prices of shareholders at the expense of the general population.

One would think that repeated financial crises would undermine the power of financial interests, but the facts are otherwise. As long ago as November 21, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to Col. House that “the real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”

Thomas Jefferson said that “banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies” and that “if the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” The shrinkage of the US middle class is evidence that Jefferson’s prediction is coming true.

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America’s Rulers Are Divided Between Going For Short-term Profits or For Long-term Power

America’s Rulers Are Divided Between Going For Short-term Profits or For Long-term Power

July 30, 2018 

America’s Rulers Are Divided Between Going For Short-term Profits or For Long-term Power

Altough not very well written, this article by Jay Janson offers a very interesting perspective.

I recommend it to you.

A Nationalist Faction on Wall St. Challenges the War Faction Which Owns the CIA and Media

https://www.opednews.com/populum/printer_friendly.php?content=a&id=224164

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The United States Is The Only Remaining Colonial Power Paul Craig Roberts

The United States Is The Only Remaining Colonial Power

July 30, 2018 

The United States Is The Only Remaining Colonial Power

Paul Craig Roberts

The United States government has never allowed independent governments in Latin America. Every time people elect a government that represents them instead of US economic interests, Washington overthrows the elected government. Marine General Smedley Butler told us this as have many others. There is no doubt about it.

Currently Washington is trying to overthrow the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua and has bought off the Ecuadorian government with oil purchases and the usual personal bribes. Evo Morales government in Bolivia is also targeted by Washington. The Obama regime succeeded in removing the reform governments in Honduras, Argentina, and Brazil.

Reform governments in Latin America, except for Castro’s Cuba, always leave themselves set-up to be overthrown. They foolishly or impotently permit Washington’s agents, such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the US Agency for International Development, and various so-called NGOs, whose purpose is to maintain Washington’s control and overthrow every government that escapes control, to organize and fund opposition groups and media that work hand-in-hand with Washington to reinstall a Washington-compliant government.

As Marx, Lenin, Mao, and Pol Pot understood, you cannot overthrow an oppressor class if you leave them unmolested. Whether from weakness or stupidity, Latin American reform governments always leave the electorally defeated oppressor class and its economic and media power unmolested. When Washington reinstalls the oppressor class, the same tolerance is never shown to the overthrown reformers who usually pay with their lives.

All Latin American reform efforts have made the foolish mistake of leaving the oppressor class with their newspapers and their traitorous connections to Washington in place, including the government of President Ortega in Nicaragua. One would think that Ortega would know better. Washington has been trying to get rid of Ortega and the Sandinistas since the Reagan administration. His government has survived the latest Washington-led coup attempt, but Washington is pouring more money into the effort. Read Kevin Zeese’s report here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49933.htm

Hugo Chavez made the same mistake in Venezuela, and his successor has repeated the mistake. The post-Castro Cuban government is now also falling into the trap of becoming an American vassal as it was under Fulgencio Batista.

The Monroe Doctrine has always been glorified in US textbooks as warning European colonialists away from Latin America. The Americans intended it for themselves and succeeded in keeping Latin America as a colony. The Organization of American States has always been in Washington’s pocket and remains there today. Latin America accepts its colonized existence and does not come to the aid of those democratic governments that Washington targets for overthrow. Latin America is impotent, because its leaders are paid off, blackmailed, or threatened by Washington.

Washington has pretended forever to be the great friend and protector of democracy, but every time an independent government comes into existence in Latin America, Washington overthrows it.

In 2015 President Barack Obama, America’s first Black President and “great friend of the oppressed,” citing “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by Venezuela,” signed an executive order and imposed sanctions. Obama’s excuse was the Washington-incited violence that led to the arrest of some of those committing acts of violence. Washington quickly termed the criminals Washington had incited “political prisoners” and called for “dialogue” instead of “silencing critics with arrests.” Washington declared the arrests of those committing acts of violence to be “human rights violations by the Venezuelan government.” http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-declares-venezuela-national-security-threat-imposes-sanctions

In other words, the Venezuelan government was violating Washington’s human rights to overthrow the Venezuelan government.

The presstitutes reported this with a straight face.

A government that has no shame whatsoever in telling the most transparent lies while actively trying to overthrow a democratically elected government is a government that deserves universal condemnation. Yet the world is too well paid off or scared to open its mouth.

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The Putin Interviews by Oliver Stone (FULL VIDEOS) EN/RU/SP/FR/IT

 

The Putin Interviews by Oliver Stone (FULL VIDEOS) EN/RU/SP/FR/IT

http://tributetoapresident.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-putin-interviews-by-oliver-stone.html

Syrie / Retour sur les « Casques blancs », usurpateurs d’identité Par Mouna Alno-Nakhal

Syrie / Retour sur les « Casques blancs», usurpateurs d’identité

 Par Mouna Alno-Nakhal

Mondialisation.ca, 27 juillet 2018

Région : Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord

Thème: Désinformation médiatique, Guerre USA OTAN

Analyses: SYRIE

Dans un article précédent concernant la « diplomatie humanitaire » de la France, nous avons écrit : « La France annonce qu’elle rend hommage à une organisation terroriste dont le monde a entendu parler pour la première fois, après qu’elle eut massacré les volontaires de la défense civile à Alep, comme l’a prouvé la chercheuse jordanienne, Mme Hayat al-Hweik, sur Al-Mayadeen TV le 23 juillet » ; ce qui a suscité quelques interrogations. Nous nous sommes juste trompés de date, l’émission ayant été diffusée le 22 juillet.

Pour rappel, elle faisait suite à l’annonce par le porte-parole du ministère israélien des Affaires étrangères qu’Israël avait évacué de Syrie, en pleine nuit, des membres de l’organisation prétendument humanitaire nommée « Casques blancs » à la demande de Trump, de Trudeau et de pays européens, comme l’a expliqué Netanyahou dans un Tweet ; la France, le Royaume-Uni, l’Allemagne et le Canada ayant annoncé être disposés à les accueillir.

Les médias locaux avaient rapporté dans la journée qu’environ 800 personnes avaient été évacuées d’Israël vers la Jordanie, laquelle n’en avait accueillies que 422. Trois invités participaient à l’émission. Nous avons regroupé les points essentiels de leurs interventions.

Mme Hayat al-Hweik : écrivaine et chercheuse jordanienne

Il est indéniable que le rôle de la Jordanie dans cette évacuation des Casques blancs n’est ni plus ni moins que celui d’un exécutant. Et je commencerai par deux remarques :

• Le communiqué officiel de la Jordanie parle à maintes reprises de « citoyens syriens » et non de Casques blancs. La Science du discours suggère que cette insistance signifie que dans leur grande majorité, ils ne sont pas des citoyens syriens.

• Le porte-parole du gouvernement et le ministre des Affaires étrangères ont déclaré que 422 évacués étaient arrivés en territoire jordanien sur un total annoncé de 800, tandis que des sources sûres ont parlé de 3000.

Cops in America Kill with Impunity by Stephen Lendman

Cops in America Kill with Impunity

July 27, 2018 

Cops in America Kill with Impunity

by Stephen Lendman

Cops are a greater threat than criminals to Americans.

https://stephenlendman.org/2018/07/cops-in-america-kill-with-impunity/

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The Treasonous Democratic Party Paul Craig Roberts

The Treasonous Democratic Party

July 26, 2018 

The Treasonous Democratic Party

Paul Craig Roberts

If America had more honest, fact-based journalists with integrity like Tucker Carlson, we would not be, as we are today, dissolving as a country.

In this one TV broadcast— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGlj2T1tITg–Carlson shows that the Democrats have gone far beyond “lying through their teeth political partisanship” into deranged hatred of President Trump and the American people who elected him.

The Democrats’ insane hatred of “Trump deplorables” has firmly allied the Democrats with the corrupt military/security complex in a plot to overthrow the elected President of the United States.https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/07/26/cia-fbi-doj-plot-to-overthrow-the-president-of-the-united-states/

Carlson presents the former heads of US intelligence in the corrupt Obama regime accusing President Trump of treason against the United States for trying to normalize relations with Russia and endangering the United States for trying to make peace.

What these former heads of intelligence mean is that Trump, by attempting to normalize relations with Russia, is endangering the $1,000 billion annual budget of the military/security complex and the multi-millions each of them expect to receive for their service in office not to US national security but to the security of the military/security complex’s budget.

Carlson makes clear that each of these corrupt and treasonous former intelligent officials are currently monetizing their former intelligence positions by serving as well paid talking heads in the Trump-hating presstitute media. The despicable John Brennan has already revealed classified information in the past, without punishment, and is likely to do so in the future. So Carlson asks why do these traitors and liars still have their security clearances. No one has ever done America more harm than John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, Rod Rosenstein, and the corrput Obama FBI cabal that orchestrated “Russiagate.”

Carlson’s question is on target. However, the real question is why have these obvious traitors clearly engaged in a plot to overthrow the US government not been indicted and arrested? Clearly, the Trump Justice (sic) Department is protecting the traitors. What else to expect with Rod Rosenstein running the Justice (sic) Department. Why did President Trump appoint Rosenstein, who intends to destroy Trump, as de facto head of the Justice (sic) Department? What traitor advised Trump to make this appointment?

Carlson also documents the false, and thereby felonious, warrant to spy on Carter Page obtained by the Obama Justice (sic) Department that intentionally deceived the FISA court in order to get the warrant. There is no doubt whatsoever that this crime took place. All the evidence is available. Yet not a single person has been indicted for the felony of intentionally deceiving a federal court.

Carlson then reports on the Democratic Governor of New York’s policy of pardoning convicted aliens, erasing their criminal status so that they cannot be evicted from the US. Carlson interviews the Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor of NY and asks him if the Democrats will also pardon legitimate US citizens for their crimes. All the Democratic politician can do is to speak about “children ripped from their mother’s arms.” But, of course, the crimes committed by the illegal aliens were not crimes committed by mothers fearful for their children. After failing to get an answer from the illiterate Democrat brainwashed by Identity Politics, Carlson moves on to Hillary Clinton’s close relationship with sexual assaulter of women Harvey Weinstein.

It is amazing, isn’t it, how the Democratic Party’s vocal men-hating feminists love and are loyal to Hillary who has such a close and mutually supportive relationship with a notorious sexual abuser of women. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/26/tammy-bruce-america-avoided-disaster-look-at-clintons-and-their-pal-harvey-weinstein.html

Julian Assange, the world’s best journalist, has spent years of his life in political asylum inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London as the only way he can avoid being handed over by the utterly corrupt British government to Washington for torture, an orchestrated trial, and imprisonment or execution on entirely false charges. The new president of Ecuador and his foreign minister have apparently been purchased by Washington and reportedly are in the process of revoking Assange’s Ecuadorian citizenship and political asylum and handing him over to the British, who, in turn, will hand him over to their Washington masters.

Have the new Ecuadorian president and foreign minister been paid many millions of dollars to disgrace the country of Ecuador by making its word and commitments worthless? Who would ever again trust such a corrupt government? Indeed, the current government of Ecuador is so corrupt that it is trying to arrest, likely on Washington’s orders, the former president who granted Assange asylum. Washington has to prove to Latin America that defying Washington is simply not permitted. The current government of Ecuador is helping Washington to make that point.

All of this is happening despite the fact that neither of the Swedish women who invited Assange to copulation in their beds filed an accusation of rape with police. One was worried that a condom had not been used, and worried about all the hype about AIDS, she asked Assange to take an AIDS test. He apparently regarded this as an insult and refused, prompting the woman to inquire of the police if he could be required to take the test. From this, came the orchestrated charge of rape, twice dismissed by Swedish prosecutors. Yet with all charges dropped, Washington’s puppet state of “Great” Britain continues to refuse, on Washington’s orders, to acknowledge Assange’s political asylum. Washington, with the complicity of the corrupt British government, has used the years of Assange’s incarceration in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to elect a Washington puppet in Ecuador, and now the newly elected puppet is conspiring with the British puppet to hand over the world’s greatest journalist to the Washington Evil to be silenced forever.

If there is anywhere a proud American or a proud Englishman, he is ignorant beyond all belief. The US and UK governments prove conclusively that every citizen of both countries can only feel total and utter shame of their citizenship.

Meanwhile, assused serial rapist Harvey Weinstein, protected by Hillary and Bill Clinton, remains uncharged and free to have expensive dinners publicly with the former First Family in New York’s finest restuarants.

Little doubt that when Hillary becomes President, Weinstein will be named Secretary for Women’s Affairs.

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CIA/FBI/DOJ Plot To Overthrow The President Of The United States Paul Craig Roberts

CIA/FBI/DOJ Plot To Overthrow The President Of The United States

July 26, 2018

CIA/FBI/DOJ Plot To Overthrow The President Of The United States

Paul Craig Roberts

On July 21, I posted on my website a report on the discovery by John Solomon of The Hill magazine that Lisa Page testified to a congressional committee to the effect that the Russiagate probe conducted by Robert Mueller is a cover-up operation to obscure the criminal use of counterintelligence capabilities to spy on Trump’s presidential campaign and then to sabotage Trump’s presidency. 

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/07/21/bombshell-development-lisa-page-reveals-plot-against-trump/

The evidence is overwhelming that CIA director John Brennan, FBI director James Comey, Robert Mueller, James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and the Democratic National Committee are engaged in high treason against the American people and the President of the United States and are actively engaged in a plot to overthrow the President of the United States. Yet, the traitorous intelligence officials retain their high security clearances and have not been indicted, arrested, and put on trial for high treason. Rosenstein and Mueller haven’t even been fired from their high positions where they continue to operate in behalf of the overthrow plot.

It shows the untouchable power of the military/security complex when its operatives are so far beyond the reach of law and accountability that they can commit high treason with no consequences to themselves.

The US presstitute media works full time to protect these traitors, because the presstitutes hate Donald Trump and the Americans who elected him much more than they love the US Constitution and the rule of law. This makes the presstitutes accomplices to high treason and subject to arrest and prosecution.

Even those who understand what is going on and are willing to speak against it, such as former CIA official Ray McGovern 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49903.htm 

and Senator Rand Paul speak in muted terms. Senator Paul wants their security clearances withdrawn because they are monetizing them in their roles of well-paid talking heads in the presstitute media and may reveal classified information on the programs.

There is no evidence that Trump is a Russian agent. There is enormous evidence that the above CIA, FBI, DOJ, and national security officials are engaged in treason against the United States.

Yet, we hear only about the fake case that Trump is a Russian agent. We hear nothing about the CIA/FBI/DOJ plot against the president of the United States that is unfolding before our eyes in plain sight of even insouciant Americans.

We also don’t hear anything about this: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49898.htm

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Dear Friends: Some issues explained

Dear Friends: Some issues explained

July 26, 2018 

Dear Friends: Some issues explained

Your website has been recently experiencing troubles with PayPal returning to donors all donations not made in US dollars with the excuse to the donor that I have requested to approve or reject all foreign donations. I have made no such request and have made no such rejections. This problem, never previously experienced, all of a sudden appeared out of nowhere. So far PayPal has been unresponsive to my inquiries. I am confident that our webmaster will get the matter resolved. In the meantime donors from abroad might consider using Stripe.

I receive from many of you copies of your published and unpublished books and articles. It is impossible for me to read, assess, and respond to so much material. Neither can I engage in discussion with individuals over various topics. It is simply a matter of available time and energy. Writing columns for this website and being prepared to write is a full time job leaving me almost no time for my life. A non-response from me does not mean that your ideas or efforts are not valuable or worthwhile.

I do read your emails, but seldom can respond.

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Ron Unz Discusses Whether the Bolshevik Revolution Was a Jewish Plot Against Russia

Ron Unz Discusses Whether the Bolshevik Revolution Was a Jewish Plot Against Russia

July 26, 2018 

Ron Unz Discusses Whether the Bolshevik Revolution Was a Jewish Plot Against Russia

And whether open immigration is a Jewish plot against America

http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-bolshevik-revolution-and-its-aftermath/

See Also:
http://www.unz.com/runz/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/

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EN -- Manlio Dinucci -- The Art of War -- The warmonger's response to negotiation

The Art of War

The warmonger's response to negotiation

Manlio Dinucci

«You have attacked our democracy. Your well-worn gamblers' denials do not interest us. If you continue with this attitude, we will consider it an act of war.» This is what Trump should have said to Putin at the Helsinki Summit, in the opinion of famous New York Times editorialist Thomas Friedman, published in La Repubblica. He went on to accuse the Russian President of having «attacked NATO, a fundamental pillar of international security, destabilised Europe, and bombed thousands of Syrian refugees, causing them to seek refuge in Europe.»

He then accused the President of the United States of having « repudiated his oath on the Constitution » and of being an « asset of Russian Intelligence » or at least playing at being one.

What Friedman expressed in these provocative terms corresponds to the position of a powerful internal and international front (of which the New York Times is an important mouthpiece) opposed to USA-Russia negotiations, which should continue with the invitation of Putin to the White House. But there is a substantial difference.

While the negotiations have not yet borne fruit, opposition to the negotiations has been expressed not only in words, but especially in facts.

Cancelling out the climate of détente at the Helsinki Summit, the planetary warmongering system of the United States is in the process of intensifying the preparations for a war reaching from the  Atlantic to the Pacific:

Ø  After the landing of an US armoured brigade in Anvers, totalling a hundred tanks and a thousand military vehicles, a US aerial brigade landed in Rotterdam with sixty attack helicopters. These forces and others, all of them USA/NATO, are deployed along the borders of Russian territory, in the framework of operation Atlantic Resolve, launched in 2014 against « Russian aggression. » In its anti-Russian function, Poland asked for the permanent presence of an armoured US unit on its own territory, offering to pay between 1.5 - 2 billion dollars per year. 

Ø  At the same time, NATO is intensifying the training and armament of troops in Georgia and Ukraine, candidates for entry into membership of the Alliance on the frontiers with Russia.

Ø  Meanwhile, the US Congress received with all honours Adriy Parubiy, founder of the National-Social Party (on the model of Adolf Hitler's National-Socialist Party), head of the neo-Nazi paramilitary formations employed by NATO in the Maïdan Square putsch.

Ø  NATO command in Lago Patria (JFC Naples) – under the orders of US Admiral James Foggo, who also commands the US naval forces in Europe and those in Africa – is working busily to organise the grand-scale exercise Trident Juncture 18, in which will participate 40,000 military personnel, 130 aircraft and 70 ships from more than 30 countries including Sweden and Finland, which are NATO partners. The exercise, which will take place in October in Norway and the adjacent seas, will simulate a scenario of « collective defence » - naturally enough, against « Russian aggression. »

Ø  In the Pacific, the major naval exercise RIMPAC 2018 (27 June to 2 August) is in full swing -   organised and directed by USINDOPACOM, the US Command which covers the Indian and Pacific oceans – with the participation of 25,000 sailors and marines, more than 50 ships and 200 war-planes. 

     The exercise – in which France, Germany and the United Kingdom are also participating – is clearly directed against China, which Admiral Phil Davidson, commander of USINDOPACOM, defines as a «major rival power which is eroding the international order in order to reduce the access of the USA to the region and thus become hegemonic.»

When Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping, Friedman will no doubt accuse him of connivance not only with the Russian enemy, but also with the Chinese enemy.

Edition Tuesday 24 July 2018 « ilmanifesto »

Translator: Pete Kimberley

NO WAR NO NATO

SIGN THIS PETITON

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