Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Twitter Relying On US/European Gov-Funded Regime-Change Groups To Crack Down On Foreign States

August 28, 2019 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Regime Change, Twitter

Twitter has continued to demonstrate how Big Tech corporations in Silicon Valley operate as arms of the American national security state. On August 19, the social media giant announced that is relying on numerous organizations funded by the US government and European allies to help it police foreign state media on its platform. Among the Twitter allies is Freedom House, a notorious right-wing lobby group almost entirely bankrolled by Washington that is heavily invested in regime-change operations against foreign adversaries.

Suddenly West Is Failing To Overthrow “Regimes”

August 24, 2019 By Andre Vltchek, Journal-neo.org Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, NATO, Regime Change, US Imperialism

It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If the country did not collapse within months or just couple of years, the bombing would begin. And the nation, totally shaken, in pain, and in disarray, would collapse like a house of cards, once the first NATO boots hit its ground. Such scenarios were re-enacted, again and again, from Yugoslavia to Iraq.

Southcom’s Faller Again – US Navy Is Ready To Be Deployed In Venezuela

August 22, 2019 Staff, Orinocotribune.com Educate! Blockades, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Navy, Venezuela

The head of the Southern Command said that the US Navy will implement the political decisions that are necessary to further encircle President Maduro. Meanwhile the regular Chavista population in Venezuela made fun of this new threat from the US commander that only this year has made at least 3 other similar statements. “We are getting bored here, let’s have them come and we will receive them with roses”, was the saying among Chavistas in Caracas yesterday.

Trump Calls For Naval Blockade Of Venezuela

August 22, 2019 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org Educate! Blockades, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Navy, Venezuela

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called upon his national security officials and senior military commanders to draw up plans for a US naval blockade of Venezuela to stop all goods from either entering or leaving the country. Such an illegal military intervention would come on top of a set of unilateral US sanctions that already amount to an effective embargo, tantamount to an act of war. Earlier this month, according to Reuters, when asked by a reporter whether he was considering a naval embargo, he responded, “Yes, I am,” without elaborating on his plans.

Russia Signs Deal To Send Navy To Venezuela After ‘Unacceptable’ U.S. Moves

August 20, 2019 Tom O'Connor, Newsweek.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Navy, Regime Change, Russia, Venezuela

The Russian military has signed a deal that would allow it to send military ships to Venezuela, expressing support for the Latin American country. The U.S. has been critical of current Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and has backed attempts to replace him. Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino met Thursday in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu, with whom he "signed an agreement on the visits of warships to the ports of both states and discussed the situation in Venezuela, as well as issues of bilateral military and military-technical cooperation."

Unraveling Of Arms Control Agreements Continuing, Last Nuclear Pact’s Future Uncertain

August 16, 2019 Andrew Osborn, Reuters.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Nuclear Power, Russia, United States

The New START treaty limits the number of strategic nuclear warheads the world’s two biggest nuclear powers can deploy to no more than 1,550, the lowest level in decades. It also curbs the number of nuclear launchers and deployed land- and submarine-based missiles and nuclear-capable bombers they can have. “Some want to extend New START. Some are arguing in favor of creating something new. I’m not sure where it will go,” U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman told the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Wednesday.

China And The Zombies Of The Past

August 16, 2019 Christopher Black, Journal-neo.org Educate! China, History, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

The hybrid war, being conducted against China by the United States and its gaggle of puppet states from the UK to Canada to Australia, has entered a new phase. The first stage involved the massive shift of US air and naval forces to the Pacific and constant provocations against China in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. The second stage was the creation of disinformation about China’s treatment of minority groups, especially in Tibet and west China. That this propaganda campaign has been carried out by nations such as the US, Canada and Australia...

US, UK Hong Kong Hypocrisy

August 16, 2019 Finian Cunningham, Sputniknews.com Educate! China, Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, United Kingdom (UK), United States

Imagine the response if protesters were to smash up JFK or Heathrow airports, closing down international flight services. The US and British authorities would have culprits rounded up and jailed, or worse, shot dead on the spot by armed police. The scenes of vandalism and lawless insurrection this week at Hong Kong’s airport – the world’s eighth-busiest hub for passengers – were staggering. Thousands of club-wielding demonstrators trashed the terminals causing cancellation of all flights for the day.

Civil Disobedience In Hong Kong Or US Color Revolution Attempt?

August 14, 2019 Stephen Lendman from his website. Educate! Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Protests

As the saying goes, if it walks, talks, and quacks like a duck, chances are it is one. What’s been going on for months in Hong Kong has all the earmarks of a US orchestrated color revolution, aimed at destabilizing China by targeting it soft Hong Kong underbelly. In calling for reunification of China in the early 1980s, then-leader Deng Xiaoping said Hong Kong and Macau could retain their own economic, financial and governmental systems, Taiwan as well under a “one country, two systems” arrangement.

Lust For Profits, Not Love Of Democracy: The Real Reason Washington Wants Maduro Gone

August 14, 2019 Stephen Gowans, Gowans.blog Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Oil, Regime Change, Venezuela

In Inventing Reality: The Politics of the News Media, political scientist Michael Parenti wrote that, “Even when we don’t believe what the media say, we are still hearing or reading their viewpoints rather than some other. They are still setting the agenda.” [1] And the agenda they’ve set on Venezuela is built on the questions of whether the government of Nicolas Maduro is authoritarian and whether its so-called ‘socialist’ policies have ruined the country’s economy.

The U.S. Terrorist War Against Venezuela

August 14, 2019 Stella Calloni, Redh-cuba.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, US Imperialism, Venezuela

We are witnessing one of the biggest acts of terrorism, not only economic but of all kinds, on behalf of the United States in its war against Venezuela. Because this is what the criminal freezing of the South American country’s assets in U.S. territory is about, suffocating its population and government amidst an imperial offensive boosted since last January 23rd following another failed coup attempt. The economic, financial and commercial blockade adds up to these measures...

Deficit Hawks Are Enabling The Next US War

August 13, 2019 Lindsay Koshgarian, Truthout.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Military Budget, Reform

Back in April, progressives in Congress succeeded in halting a vote that included a military budget increase. In July, most of those same progressives — including powerhouses like Reps. Barbara Lee and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — voted to support a military budget that was slightly larger even than what they’d rejected in April. What changed? As Democratic and White House leadership announced a backroom budget compromise and put it up for a vote in July, congressional progressives faced a seemingly impossible choice...

For The Last Time, The Russians Didn’t Do It

August 13, 2019 Jack Balkwill, Intrepidreport.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda, Russia

If one more person tells me the Russians are to blame for Trump being president, I’m going to vomit on them. I know who fixed the election, and I will explain it in this article. There has never been any evidence put forth by the corporate media or their primary source, the intelligence agencies, to prove the Russians hacked the elections to bring us Trump. Nothing, nada, zip. I have caught the intelligence agencies in so many lies over the years that if they told me the sun came up in the morning...

The Spoils of Economic War: How The US, Saudis Profit From Sanctions On Venezuela And Iran

August 12, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Sanctions, Venezuela

The United States has been playing the role of the world's economic bully. So far, the U.S. has imposed sanctions against Afghanistan, Burundi, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, China, Cyprus, Haiti, Libya, Lebanon, Belarus, Crimea, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe. But if unilateral harassment has proven itself historically ineffective at achieving conventional geopolitical objectives, why does the U.S. insist on bullying Venezuela and Iran?

U.S. Imperial Decline And The Belt And Road Initiative: The Most Important Global Struggle Of The Century

August 10, 2019 Danny Haiphong, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia, United States

The U.S. is once again mired in the political circus of the presidential election cycle. Corporate Democrats have aligned themselves firmly against the social democratic aspirations of the Sandernistas. The Republican Party has collapsed at the feet of chief arch-racist billionaire Donald Trump and will remain under his political thumb for as long as there is a White Man’s Party. A crisis off legitimacy has been set off by the economic condition of the U.S. imperial system where slow growth stagnation, austerity, and endless war reigns supreme.

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