Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Iran, Hong Kong, And The Desperation Of A Declining U.S. Empire

September 24, 2019 By Rainer Shea, Dandelionsalad.wordpress.com Educate! Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, US Imperialism

The U.S. empire’s global influence projects, especially the ones in Iran and Hong Kong, have a different nature from the ones that were carried out when American power was still in a stable state. There’s now an aspect of desperation to what America is doing abroad, an unacknowledged but ever-present reality that the purveyors of Western imperialism are fighting a losing battle against the inevitable process of imperial collapse. As the capitalist class loses its reliable means for bending global politics to its will, the foundations of capitalist markets themselves are becoming increasingly fractured.

The Emperor’s New-Old Nuclear Clothes

September 24, 2019 Helena Cobban, Lobelog.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons

How is it still possible to write a lengthy article about the military/strategic dynamic among the triad of Israel, Iran, and the United States while making zero mention of Israel’s robust nuclear-weapons capability? New York Times staffers Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti, and their editors at the Times magazine clearly think this is quite okay. In their recent lengthy article, “The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran,” Bergman and Mazzetti looked at the U.S.-Israeli coalitional aspect of the past 17 years in the project to prepare for launching military or special-ops actions against Iran.

Uprising In Times Of War

September 24, 2019 Pasqualina Curcio, Red Angostura, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Uprising, Wars and Militarism

It is necessary to unveil the enormity of the economic war continuing against the Venezuelan people. It’s been seven years since transnational and national monopolies put us in long lines, jumping from store to store so as to find our staples (food, medicine, and hygiene products). Our currency, the Bolivar (BsS), has been attacked by 29,862,393,456 percent: In 2012, the exchange rate was 8.69 BsS/US$. Today, criminal websites without any judgment or economics but political and bellicose grounds, rate 2,595,042,000 BsS/US$. Prices have not stopped increasing as a result since 2013.

Houthi Rebels Overturned The Chessboard

September 20, 2019 Pepe Escobar, Asiatimes.com Educate! Airstrikes, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

We are the Houthis and we’re coming to town. With the spectacular attack on Abqaiq, Yemen’s Houthis have overturned the geopolitical chessboard in Southwest Asia – going as far as introducing a whole new dimension: the distinct possibility of investing in a push to drive the House of Saud out of power. Blowback is a bitch. Houthis – Zaidi Shiites from northern Yemen – and Wahhabis have been at each other’s throats for ages. This book is absolutely essential to understand the mind-boggling complexity of Houthi tribes; as a bonus, it places the turmoil in southern Arabian lands way beyond a mere Iran-Saudi proxy war.

Iran To Avoid US Sanctions By Bypassing SWIFT, Ditching Dollar In Trade Transactions

September 20, 2019 By Tim Korso, Sputniknews.com Educate! Global Finance, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Sanctions, US Imperialism

The international SWIFT network banned Iranian banks from its system soon after the US imposed sanctions against the country in November 2018. The ban was preceded by Washington's threats to slap sanctions on the financial network too if it were to continue working with the Islamic Republic's financial institutions. Iranian Central Bank (CBI) head Abdolnaser Hemmati said in a statement on 18 September that the country is planning to evade American economic sanctions by switching entirely away from the dollar to national currencies in mutual trade and by bypassing SWIFT.

Who Is Robert C. O’Brien: Replacing John Bolton, Where Does Trump’s New Security Advisor Stand On Matters Of War And Peace?

September 19, 2019 Staff, Rt.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

President Donald Trump has named Robert C. O’Brien as his new National Security Advisor. As O’Brien steps into the role vacated by the hawkish John Bolton, how different are his foreign policy positions? Before Trump announced O’Brien’s hiring on Wednesday, the State Department diplomat was a relatively unknown figure outside the Beltway, save for his bizarre jaunt to Sweden in July to haggle for the release of jailed American rapper A$AP Rocky, at Trump’s behest.

From A Russian: Our Planet Is So Small That We Must Live In Peace

September 18, 2019 By Ann Wright, PopularResistance.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Peace Movement, Russia

I was in the Russian Far East, in the city of Yakutsk as a part of the Center for Citizens Initiatives citizen to citizen diplomacy program. The 45-person delegation from the United States had completed five days of dialogue in Moscow with Russian economic, political and security specialists about their analyses of today’s Russia, formed into small teams and had disbursed to 20 cities all over Russia to meet people and learn about their lives, their hopes and their dreams.

Rachel Maddow Endorses Regime Change In Venezuela To “Push Russia Back,” Sympathizes With Bolton And Pompeo

September 18, 2019 Aaron Mate, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Liberals, Regime Change, Venezuela

The loudest voice among the corporate media hack pack doubling down on Russiagate conspiracies is MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. On May 3, Maddow took her propaganda to an entirely new level of militaristic cheerleading, launching into a rant that offered de-facto encouragement for the current neocon cause-du-jour: regime change in Venezuela. Maddow not only cast Trump as a Russian stooge for daring to discuss – and possibly de-escalate – the Venezuelan crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the top-rated liberal cable news host expressed sympathy for John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, the most militaristic members of the Trump administration.

Green-Smearing – From Nicaragua To Bolivia

September 17, 2019 Stephen Sefton, Tortillaconsal.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Media, Propaganda

On one level the intensifying deceit of Western media foreign affairs coverage corresponds to the increasing desperation of Western elites confronting their failing global power and influence. But it also signals yet another crisis of capitalist economic growth. After 1945, North America and Western Europe based their genocidal imperialism on a social compact promising prosperity to their peoples at home in exchange for their collusion in imperialist military aggression and neocolonial crimes overseas.

Yemen Was Called The Forgotten War, But Activists Are Refusing To Forget

September 17, 2019 Janine Jackson, Truthout.org Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

Janine Jackson: When observers who have spent years in war-rocked places describe events as “staggering,” you know you’re talking about a disturbing new order. That’s how the UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen responded to the September 1 bombing by Saudi Arabia of a detention center in southwest Yemen that killed more than 100 people, some believed to be prisoners of war. And yet this horror must take its place amid myriad horrors Yemenis are enduring, with 80 percent of the country’s people in need of assistance...

Pro-Hong Kong Rally In DC Against “CHINAZI Regime” Being Sponsored With US Govt-Linked Money

September 13, 2019 Staff, Orinocotribune.com Educate! China, Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Regime Change, United States

A planned Washington DC protest in support of Hong Kong activists and promoting the ‘Chinazi’ flag is being sponsored by at least six organizations backed by the notoriously shady, US-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Posters for the event circulated online contain an image of the so-called ‘Chinazi’ flag – an altered version of the Chinese national flag with the yellow stars arranged to form a swastika and with a hammer and sickle placed in the center.

Western Media Portrays Hong Kong Hooligans As Heroes. But Are They?

September 13, 2019 By Andre Vltchek, Globalresearch.ca Educate! Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda

On Sunday, huge US flags were waving in the air. A massive demonstration, consisting of mainly young people, was moving up from the old British-built downtown area of the city towards the US Consulate General, often erroneously called the “embassy.” The temperature was well over 30 degrees Celsius, but the number of ‘protesters’ kept growing. Many of the main arteries in Hong Kong were entirely blocked. Western media were there in full force, wearing yellow fluorescent vests, their ‘Press’ insignia, helmets and masks. They mingled with the crowd, filming US flags, clearly enjoying the show.

America Loses Asia-Pacific As Full Spectrum Dominance Continues To Fail

September 12, 2019 Matthew Ehret, Strategic-culture.org Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia, United States

While American military exercises in the Pacific have played out on China’s doorstep at an accelerating rate since the Pivot to Asia was announced in 2011 with the most recent US-Australia Talisman Sabre bi-annual exercise and US-South Korea Ulchi Freedom war games this month, China has not remained idle. In response to America’s vast array of military infrastructure built up on China’s border, China has responded by the unveiling of cutting edge anti-ballistic missile technologies, including hypersonic weaponry to counteract the American threat.

US Space Command’s First Big War Game Is Already Under Way

September 11, 2019 By Tom Roeder and The Gazette, Taskandpurpose.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Space, Wars and Militarism

A secretive war game that examines combat in space kicked off this week in Alabama. The Schriever War Game, bringing together several military commands, allies and the nation's intelligence agencies, focuses on a rival nation in Europe starting a "multi-domain" war, a military term that combines traditional land, sea and air combat with space battle and cyberattacks. The unnamed rival — the military never says Russia or China when it comes to war games — is "seeking to achieve strategic goals by exploiting multi-domain operations," Air Force Space Command said in a news release.

New Bases To Counter China? Indo-Pacific Is New Priority Region For The US

September 10, 2019 By Darius Shahtahmasebi, Rt.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, United States

After devastating the Middle East through sanctions, warfare, and the backing of extremists to fight proxy wars, the Indo-Pacific region – not the Middle East – is now the Pentagon’s “priority” region. Just this week, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made the call to expand base locations in the Pacific region while speaking at the Naval War College, dubbing the Indo-Pacific theatre “our priority theatre.” The remarks were clearly part of the Pentagon’s wider goal of curbing and containing China’s expanding influence throughout the region.

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