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L’arte della guerra

«America First» armata sulle nostre teste

Manlio Dinucci

Il presidente Trump è sbarcato dall’elicottero al Forum economico mondiale di Davos. Qui, preceduto dai suonatori di ottoni dell’orchestra di Friburgo, ha annunciato che «il mondo sta assistendo alla rinascita di una forte e prosperosa America», grazie alle riduzioni di tasse e riforme attuate dalla sua amministrazione in base al principio «America First», ossia quello di mettere l’America al primo posto.Ciò «non significa America da sola: quando gli Stati Uniti crescono, cresce tutto il mondo». 

Ma, ha aggiunto, «non possiamo avere un commercio libero e aperto se alcuni paesi sfruttano il sistema a spese di altri». Chiaro il riferimento soprattutto alla Cina e alla Russia, accusate di «distorcere i mercati globali» attraverso «sussidi industriali e una pervasiva pianificazione economica a guida statale».  

Emerge così il nodo della questione. Gli Stati Uniti sono ancora la prima potenza economica del mondo, soprattutto grazie ai capitali con cui dominano il mercato finanziario globale, alle multinazionali con cui sfruttano risorse di ogni continente, ai brevetti tecnologici in loro possesso, al ruolo pervasivo dei loro gruppi multimediali che influenzano le opinioni e i gusti della gente su scala planetaria. 

La loro supremazia economica (compresa quella del dollaro) viene però messa sempre più in pericolo dall’emergere di nuovi soggetti statuali e sociali. Anzitutto la Cina: salita come reddito nazionale lordo al secondo posto mondiale dopo gli USA, essa è la «fabbrica del mondo» in cui producono anche molti grandi gruppi statunitensi. È quindi divenuta il primo esportatore mondiale di merci. A sua volta essa effettua crescenti investimenti sia negli USA e nella UE, sia in Africa, Asia e America Latina (qui soprattutto in infrastrutture).

Il progetto più ambizioso, varato dalla Cina nel 2013 e condiviso dalla Russia, è quello di una nuova Via della Seta: una rete terrestre (viaria e ferroviaria) e marittima che collega la Cina all’Europa attraverso l’Asia Centrale e Occidentale e attraverso la Russia. Se fosse realizzato secondo l’idea originaria, il progetto, che non include componenti militari, rimodellerebbe l’architettura geopolitica dell’intera Eurasia, creando una nuova rete di rapporti economici e politici tra gli stati del continente.

Quella globalizzazione che gli Stati Uniti hanno promosso, fiduciosi di poterla dominare, si ritorce ora contro di loro. I dazi fino al 50% su lavatrici e pannelli solari, stabiliti dall’amministrazione Trump per colpire le esportazioni di Cina e Corea del Sud, sono una prova non di forza ma di debolezza. 

Perdendo terreno sul piano della globalizzione economica, gli Stati Uniti puntano sulla globalizzazione militare: «Stiamo facendo investimenti storici nel militare americano – ha annunciato Trump a Davos – poiché non possiamo avere prosperità senza sicurezza».

Gli USA hanno già oggi basi e altre installazioni militari in oltre 70 paesi, soprattutto attorno alla Russia e alla Cina. I paesi in cui sono dispiegate truppe USA sono oltre 170. In tale strategia sono affiancati dalle potenze europee della NATO, le quali, pur avendo con gli USA contrasti di interesse, si schierano sotto la leadership statunitense quando si tratta di difendere l’ordine economico e politico dominato dall’Occidente.

Questo è lo scenario in cui si inserisce la sempre più pericolosa escalation USA/NATO in Europa contro la Russia, presentata come il nemico che ci minaccia da Est. Dibattere di Unione Europea ed euro indipendentemente da tutto questo, come si fa nell’attuale campagna elettorale, significa giocare di fronte agli elettori una partita con carte truccate.

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Sahra Wagenknecht/Jean-Luc Melenchon: Europe is dismembering (EN/IT/PT)

Sahra Wagenknecht: Europe is dismembering (EN/IT/PT)

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Transcript:

Sahra Wagenknecht: Then I wonder where the Schultz' Europe lead us Merkel, Macron and others.

We can see it in figures. Jean-Luc has already mentioned some of them.One figure has already been published.

 In Europe, the distribution of dividends is mounting to 323 bilions of euro. It is an amount as we have never seen before.

323 bilion euro had gone to stockholders in individual European countries, and, simultaneously, we have a situation

where poverty in Europe is at an all-time high, where so many young people are facing a life that offers them no chances...

where education is being economized to the point where it no longer functions, where public institutions are decaying,

where hospitals are completely under-equipped, where countries are pressured  to privatize and cut back on social benefits, and the dividends are bubbling more than ever before."

I think this shows that this Europe is not a Europe that supports the continuity of its people.”

It is a Europe that is dismembering itself.That there is aspirations and nationalist tendencies

in so may countries, that is a result of these politics. This is what they are doing with their politics.

Jean-Luc Melenchon: We now hear from all the parts of Europe, that we have to step up military cooperation,

and increase our spending on the sector that we have to install missile and anti-missile systems,

At the beginning they said that it was against Iran, and now we understand it is against Russia.

No. Russia is not an enemy. Russia is a partner.

Russia is a partner.Russia is not an enemy.Russia is a partner.

 [Applause]

No to war. No to armament. No to NATO. No compromise on war and peace.

No to Europe of defence.

Because we do not know whom we defend ourselves from.

We do not know whom they want to attack.

 [Applause]

A Look at the Future

A Look at the Future

January 28, 2018 

A Look at the Future

If you find yourself with a wet, cold, icy Sunday on your hands, The Saker’s interview with Guns & Butter is well worth an hour.

The Saker— Andrei Raevsky—makes many good points. For example, Trump’s move of the US embassy to Jerusalem has hurt Israel and Washington by removing the figleaf of US neutrality. Washington has now openly placed itself in Israel’s corner and can no longer aid and abet Israel by pretending to be the honest broker.

Among other points, The Saker notes that the neoconservative zionists who have controlled US foreign policy in the 21st century have succeeded both in weakening and in isolating Washington. Neocon “diplomacy” consists only of threats and violence, signs of extreme weakness. Consequently, countries are no longer afraid to stand up to the US. The only fear is that the absence of any intelligence in Washington could doom the world to nuclear Armageddon.

Here is the interview: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48663.htm

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In the Western World Lies Have Displaced Truth by Paul Craig Roberts

In the Western World Lies Have Displaced Truth

January 28, 2018 

In the Western World Lies Have Displaced Truth

Paul Craig Roberts

Last year I was awarded Marquiss Who’s Who In America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. This did not prevent a hidden organization, PropOrNot, from attempting to brand me and my website along with 200 others “Putin stooges or agents” for our refusal to lie for the corrupt, anti-American, anti-constitutional, anti-democratic, warmonger police state interests that rule the Western World.

The only honest, factual media that exists in the Western World today are the names on the PropOrNot list of “Putin agents.”

The purpose of ProOrNot is to convince Americans that freedom of speech must be halted by destroying fact-based Internet media, such as this website and 200 others that provide factual information at odds with Big Brother’s universal brainwashing as delivered by CNN, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the rest of the utterly corrupt presstitute media, a collection of scum devoid of all integrity and all respect for truth.

A conspiracy of US government agencies, tax-exempt think tanks funded by the ruling interests, and media acting in behalf of a war and police state agenda work to shape perceived reality as it is described in George Orwell’s book, 1984, and in the film, The Matrix. Controlled perception-based reality is only a Facebook “like” away from killing one person or one million or elevating a liar or the warmonger responsible for the killing to hero status or to the conrol of the CIA or FBI or the US presidency.

Here on OpEdNews is an article by George Eliason that reports on who exactly PropOrNot is and who is underwriting the disinformation that is PropOrNot.
https://www.opednews.com/populum/printer_friendly.php?content=a&id=219560

Eliason’s article is long and documented. It demonstrates the organized conspiracy against truth that exists in the Western World. Nothing stated in the Western presstitute media and no statement by any Western government or subservient vassal state can be trusted to comply with the facts.

Truth is the enemy of the state, and the state is eliminating the truth.

Peoples in the United States, Europe, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the various vassal states, such as Japan, all live day in, day out, an orchestrated lie that serves interests directly opposed to the interests of the peoples.

Governments that do not rest on truth rest on tyranny.

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Is the Goal of Identity Politics White Genocide?

Is the Goal of Identity Politics White Genocide?

January 27, 2018

Is the Goal of Identity Politics White Genocide?

In the United States today defense of white people is illegitimate. Identity Politics permits you to say whatever you want to about white people. You can turn white people into untermensch by discriminating against them, teach hatred toward them, demonize them, tear down their historical monuments, and set them up for the gas chambers, but one word in their defense makes you a “white supremacist” like David Duke. https://davidduke.com/the-real-racial-discrimination-that-goes-on-in-america/

Note that youtube twice tries to discourage you from watching the video.

Here is the complete analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data:http://whitenationalism.com/div/Diversity.html

Note that Harvard’s own reporting on the racial composition of its student body does not report separately on Jews and non-Jewish whites but combines the two into a white representation of 45.1%: https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/harvard-university/student-life/diversity/

There is dispute about Duke’s measure of Jewish over-representation in Harvard’s student body, but there is agreement that Jews are over-represented compared to equally qualified non-Jews: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37502/are-jewish-students-over-represented-at-harvard-university For Duke’s point it doesn’t matter if Jews are over-represented 47 times or 13.5 times.

If David Duke has the facts wrong, he is no different from anyone else who gets the facts wrong. If being wrong about the facts makes one a white supremacist, the entirety of the Western media and all the governments are white supremacists.

Keep in mind that the point is not the extent of over-representation of Jews at Harvard, but the systematic discrimination against whites that affirmative action and Identity Politics have institutionalized in American society and that it is impermissible even to mention this basic fact.

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More Proof That Russiagate Is a DNC/FBI Conspiracy Against American Democracy and President Trump

More Proof That Russiagate Is a DNC/FBI Conspiracy Against American Democracy and President Trump

January 27, 2018

More Proof That Russiagate Is a DNC/FBI Conspiracy Against American Democracy and President Trump

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/25/russian-social-media-elections-312491 

By POLITICO MAGAZINE

The companies, under the microscope for their role in facilitating Russian outreach in the 2016 U.S. elections, sought to downplay the extent of that influence in written answers released Thursday. | AP Photos

Tech companies say they didn't see Russian social media infiltration in 2017 elections

By NANCY SCOLA, ASHLEY GOLD and LI ZHOU

01/25/2018 07:19 PM EST

Google and Twitter told lawmakers they've found no evidence of Russian influence efforts via their platforms in the handful of U.S. elections held last year.

The companies, along with Facebook, responded to written questions from Senate Intelligence Committee members as the next step in lawmakers' scrutiny of how and how much Russian-affiliated interests used U.S. social media networks to sow chaos and influence the country's 2016 elections.

In answers released Thursday, Google and Twitter said they aren't aware of any "state-sponsored attempts to interfere in any American elections" last year. Two states — New Jersey and Virginia — held gubernatorial elections in 2017, but there were few national or state wide races in the off-year election.

"While we have not specifically detected any abuse of our platforms in connection with the 2017 state elections, our work is ongoing, and we will continue to develop tools and processes to combat evolving threats," Google General Counsel Kent Walker wrote.

Twitter acting General Counsel Sean Edgett said his company "is not aware" of any state-sponsored interference attempts last year, while Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch didn't directly answer the question but disclosed no known incidents.

The companies, under the microscope for their role in facilitating Russian outreach in the 2016 U.S. elections, sought to downplay the extent of that influence in written answers released Thursday by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The questions were a follow-up to a Nov. 1 hearing when Intelligence Committee members grilled representatives from the three companies. The committee extended the deadline for written responses to lawmakers' questions to Jan. 8 after the companies requested more time.

The companies expanded on their answers from the hearing as they continue to probe the causes and effects of Russian use of their sites.

Facebook said the Internet Research Agency, a troll farm linked to the Kremlin, created 129 real-world event pages during the 2016 election, with about 25,800 accounts marking "interested" and about 62,500 marking "going" to the events.

In response to a question from Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Facebook said it has seen only "what appears to be insignificant overlap between the targeting and content used by the IRA and that used by [President Donald] Trump's campaign," including by its third-party vendors.

Facebook also said targeting used by the IRA for advertisements was "relatively rudimentary," lacking the level of sophistication candidates use, such as Facebook's Contact List Custom Audiences, which is based on voter profile information.

Facebook didn't answer the question from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) about whether it had seen evidence of Russian meddling in 2017 elections in Virginia and New Jersey.

It wrote in its response to Harris: "We have learned from the 2016 election cycle and from elections worldwide this last year. We have incorporated that learning into our automated systems and human review and have greatly improved in preparation for the upcoming elections. We hope to continue learning and improving through increased industry cooperation and dialogue with law enforcement moving forward."

Twitter told lawmakers it has beefed up both machine learning and human-driven content screening capabilities since the 2016 elections, including its ability to flag accounts that appear to be working in concert.

The company also revealed that users had reported Russian-linked accounts, but it elected not to act on those reports at the time.

“We received user reports for a small minority of the IRA accounts previously identified to the Committee, prior to the suspension of these accounts from Twitter,” Edgett wrote. “A large percentage of those reports related to content from two accounts: @TEN_GOP and @SouthLoneStar. While many of these reports were not actioned at the time, Twitter has since made substantial changes to its operations and policies to respond more effectively to user reports.”

Twitter says it intends to officially launch its Advertising Transparency Center, a hub dedicated to disclosing information about political ads on the platform, in the first quarter of 2018. The company had said it was due to go live in the “coming weeks” when it was first announced in October.

Schumer knocks Johnson as ‘delusional’ over FBI ‘secret society’ flap

 KYLE CHENEY

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Police Are Americans’ Greatest Threat

Police Are Americans’ Greatest Threat

January 27, 2018 

Police Are Americans’ Greatest Threat

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2018/01/25/blown-away-not-complying/

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