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Russian President PUTIN: The WEST Is Turing the Planet into a Global Barracks

The remarks below are excerpted from President Putin’s meeting with Russia’s ambassadors on July 1, 2014. Putin damns Washington’s puppet president of Ukraine, an usurped position resulting from the overthrow of a democratically elected president, for taking “the path of violence which cannot lead to peace.” Putin’s remarks are simultaneous English translations as Putin speaks in Russian. Such translations are seldom good, but are usually adequate to convey the content. “Unfortunately, Ukrainian President Poroshenko has made the decision to resume military actions, and we – meaning myself and my colleagues in Europe – could not convince him that the way to reliable, firm and long-term peace can’t lie through war. Previously, Petro Poroshenko had no direct relation to orders to take military action. Now he has taken on this responsibility in full. Not only military, but also more importantly, politically.”

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Google Stays in Bed with Mercenaries, …
Google distances itself from the Pentagon, stays in bed with mercenaries and intelligence contractors “The United States government spends about $80 billion a year on information technology, making it the largest consumer of technology projects in the world.” —New York Times With all the hubbub about NSA spying, Google’s PR people really want you to know how separate the company is from America’s military-industrial complex. Earlier this week, Google made a big show of refusing DARPA funding for two robotics manufacturers it purchased, even though the companies themselves were financed with plenty of DoD cash. It’s a nice gesture, and one that was welcomed by those who want Silicon Valley to be free of government interference. Unfortunately, while a crowd-pleasing announcement is good for Google’s public image, it does nothing to change the company’s long and ongoing history of working closely with US military and surveillance agencies. Last week, I detailed how Google does much more than simply provide us civvies with email and search apps. It sells its tech to enhance the surveillance operations of the biggest and most powerful intel agencies in the world: NSA, FBI, CIA, DEA and NGA — the whole murky alphabet soup.
Putin’s Risk and Obama Lies Again
The Cold War made a lot of money for the military/security complex for four decades dating from Churchill’s March 5, 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri declaring a Soviet “Iron Curtain” until Reagan and Gorbachev ended the Cold War in the late 1980s. During the Cold War Americans heard endlessly about “the Captive Nations.” The Captive Nations were the Baltics and the Soviet bloc, usually summarized as “Eastern Europe.” These nations were captive because their foreign policies were dictated by Moscow, just as these same Captive Nations, plus the UK, Western Europe, Canada, Mexico, Columbia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Georgia, and Ukraine, have their foreign policies dictated today by Washington. Washington intends to expand the Captive Nations to includ Azerbaijan, former constituent parts of Soviet Central Asia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.
US Embassy in Ankara: The Headquarter for the ISIS War on Iraq – Hariri Insider
The green light for the use of ISIS brigades to carve up Iraq, widen the Syria conflict into a greater Middle East war and to throw Iran off-balance was given behind closed doors at the Atlantic Council meeting in Turkey, in November 2013, told a source close to Saudi – Lebanese billionaire Saad Hariri, adding that the U.S. Embassy in Ankara is the operation’s headquarter. A “trusted source” close to the Saudi – Lebanese multi-billionaire and former Lebanese P.M. Saad Hariri told on condition of anonymity, that the final green light for the war on Iraq with ISIS or ISIL brigades was given behind closed doors, at the sidelines of the Atlantic Council’s Energy Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 22 – 23, 2013.
The Ghoulish Face of Empire
The black-clad fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, sweeping a collapsing army and terrified Iraqis before them as they advance toward Baghdad, reflect back to us the ghoulish face of American empire. They are the specters of the hundreds of thousands of people we murdered in our deluded quest to remake the Middle East. They are ghosts from the innumerable roadsides and villages where U.S. soldiers and Marines, jolted by explosions of improvised explosive devices, responded with indiscriminate fire. They are the risen remains of the dismembered Iraqis left behind by blasts of Hellfire and cruise missiles, howitzers, grenade launchers and drone strikes. They are the avengers of the gruesome torture and the sexual debasement that often came with being detained by American troops. They are the final answer to the collective humiliation of an occupied country, the logical outcome of Shock and Awe, the Frankenstein monster stitched together from the body parts we left scattered on the ground. They are what we get for the $4 trillion we wasted on the Iraq War.

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International Voices

Eric Walberg: BC Land Claim Ruling: Canada’s Keystone Cop Stumbles

Abayomi Azikiwe: African Union 23rd Summit: Renaissance or Continuing Dependency?

Paul Craig Roberts: Russian President PUTIN: The WEST Is Turing the Planet into a Global Barracks

Anis H. Bajrektarevic: Europe of Sarajevo 100 Years Later: Was History Ever on Holiday? Part II

Vijay Prashad: Libya and the Attack on Women

Christof Lehmann: Two North Korean Missiles Cause UNified Barrage of Retaliatory Propaganda Fire

Pepe Escobar: Brzezinski’s “Eurasian Balkans” Ever Simmering in a Funeral Pyre

Michel Chossudovsky: Media Scam? Iran and America Join Hands in Waging “The Global War on Terrorism”?

James Petras: The Soaring Profits of the Military-Industrial Complex, The Soaring Costs of Military Casualties

F. William Engdahl: The ISIS in Iraq Stinks of the CIA/NATO ‘Dirty War’ Operation

Murray Hunter: Geo–cultural Strategy for Eurasia: A Paradigm for the New Silk Road

Chris Hedges: The Ghoulish Face of Empire

Colin Todhunter: Criminalising Dissent in India

Jamal Kanj: Lebanonisation of Iraq: An Enterprise Paid for by American Money and Hundreds of Thousands of Lives

Ellen Brown: Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a Corporate Buying Spree

Wayne Madsen: Missing Saddam: America Broke Iraq. It Broke Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Egypt.

Finian Cunningham: Mr Hague, How about Ending the Rape of Whole Countries?

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East”

Eric X. Li: Abe’s ‘New Japanese’ Want Their Grandfather’s Asia: No Thanks, We Remember World War II

The 9/11 Special

Mosul Maelstrom: ISIS and the Turning Point of American Adventurism in Middle East By Sonia Mansour Robaey
Kerry: US NOT Responsible for What Happened in Libya, NOR in Iraq Today By Bill Van Auken
If Militarism Continues, Humankind is Doomed: It’s the MIMAC, Stupid! By Jan Oberg / The 4th Media News
Media Scam? Iran and America Join Hands in Waging “The Global War on Terrorism”? By Michel Chossudovsky
The Soaring Profits of the Military-Industrial Complex, The Soaring Costs of Military Casualties By James Petras

Debate

The Search for Malaysian Airlines MH370: Unanswered Questions and Crucial Information Withheld

By GeoResonance/Global Research/The 4th Media News

The Search for Malaysian Airlines MH370. Unanswered Questions. Wreck of Unidentified Aircraft in Bay of Bengal? Crucial Information Withheld The staff at GeoResonance are not prone to conspiracy theories, we all deal with facts and science. It appears some of the authorities involved in the search have not been completely transparent with all of the […]
What Goals Does US Pursue in Ukraine?

By Boris NOVOSELTSEV

The events in Donbass testify to the fact that the main goal of the United States and the new Ukrainian administration is finding ways to influence Russia instead of tackling the problems related to the ongoing crisis in Donbass. Instead of launching a long-awaited dialogue with Donetsk and Lugansk, as promised by the President of […]
A Statistically Tested Way to Stop Terrorism and Boost Iraq’s Economy

By Teresa Studzinski, M.A. and Dr. David Leffler

NBC News reports that U.S. President Barack Obama said “I don’t rule out anything,” and “my national security team is looking at all the options” with regard to the rapidly growing unrest in Iraq. “This is an area that we have been watching with a lot of concern,” he said. Even if The Islamic State in Iraq […]
Apartheid Australia Backs Apartheid Israel

By Gideon Polya

Dear fellow humanitarians, An Apartheid Australia with an ongoing Aboriginal Genocide backs Apartheid Israel with its ongoing Palestinian Genocide. A politically correct racist (PC racist) Apartheid Australia under an extreme right wing, pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey, human rights-abusing, anti-Indigenous, anti-environment Coalition government has moved to be the world’s leading supporter after the US […]

Politics

Ukraine: The International War-Criminal Is Obama, Not Putin

By Eric Zuesse

In February this year, the Obama Administration violently overthrew the freely-elected and Russia-friendly President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. We hired gunmen dressed to appear to be from the Yanukovych government firing into the “Maidan” crowd who were demonstrating against Yanukovych. This made it seem to be violence from him, not from Obama’s team. […]

Economy

Central Bank Stock Buying Binge: It’s INSANITY!

By MIKE WHITNEY / The 4th Media News

Global CBs Secretly Load up on Equities Pushing Prices Higher Central banks have shifted into stocks and are buying up everything that isn’t bolted to the floor. That’s the gist of the story that breathlessly appeared in the Financial Times about a week ago and swept across the blogosphere like a Santa Anna […]

Society

‘Conspiracy of an Insurrection’ Fabricated by South Korean CIA

By Task Force against ‘Conspiracy of an Insurrection’ fabricated by NIS and Political Repression / The 4th Media News

Reasons for appeal on the Rep. Lee Seok-ki’s insurrection conspiracy case – There was no conspiracy for insurrection. Release the innocent seven people! May, 2014 Task Force against ‘Conspiracy of an Insurrection’ fabricated by NIS and Political Repression • Rep. Lee Seok-ki: twelve years of imprisonment and ten years of suspension of qualification […]

Environment

Climate Collapse and Near Term Human Extinction

By Michael Welch

“According to Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences, the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide we observe today is the minimum level we’ll see for at least the next 1000 years. Carbon dioxide is incredibly recalcitrant in the atmosphere. We can’t just wave a magic wand, start doing permaculture and powering down and expect to […]

Culture

Today’s Oligarch Curtain of Lies, Theft, Death and Destruction Are Exposed As Never Before

By Joachim Hagopian

In psychology our belief system shapes our perceptions of the world around us, in fact becoming our very sense of reality. Our primary caregivers, most often our parents, project their view of us and their world onto us and we in turn internalize their views as our own sense of developing self and world view. […]