Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Yemeni War Deaths Underestimated By Five To One

November 12, 2018 Alisdare Hickson, Intrepidreport.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

In April, I made new estimates of the death toll in America’s post-2001 wars in a three-part Intrepid Report series I estimated that these wars have now killed several million people. I explained that widely reported but much lower estimates of the numbers of combatants and civilians killed were likely to be only one fifth to one twentieth of the true numbers of people killed in U.S. war zones. Now one of the NGOs responsible for understating war deaths in Yemen has acknowledged that it was underestimating them by at least five to one, as I suggested in my report. One of the sources I examined for my report was a U.K.-based NGO named ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project), which has compiled counts of war deaths in Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

Maduro: Venezuela Sitting On 2nd Biggest Gold Reserve On Earth

November 10, 2018 Staff, Venezuelanalysis.com Educate! Gold, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Sanctions, Venezuela

President Nicolas Maduro announced a new set of measures in the Venezuelan gold industry to combat the U.S. imposed sanctions, which he described as “crazy” and “criminal,” accusing the North American country of blocking, and raising the price of food and medicine imports into the country. The U.S. government announced a new set of sanctions against the Latin American country last week, potentially limiting their gold exports, as announced by the national security senior advisor John Bolton. The sanctions already prohibited institutions, business and anyone from giving any kind of financial support to the Bolivarian Revolution. Maduro answered Bolton’s comments during a televised speech, saying Venezuela is currently certifying 32 gold fields.

U.S. Sanctions On Iran: War In A Different Form

November 10, 2018 Patricia Gorky, Liberationnews.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Sanctions, Wars and Militarism

“Sanctions are coming / November 5th” reads the foreboding meme Donald Trump published earlier this week on Twitter. The picture used the trademark font and slogan of the Game of Thrones franchise to evoke support for the re-instatement of sanctions on Iran. Trump, as the graphic suggests, represents the honor-bound protagonist defending humanity against the greater ‘evil’: allegedly Iran. But what is hidden from this arrogant threat is the fact that it is U.S. imperialism which poses the threat of omnicide to the world. It is the U.S. that recently withdrew from the nuclear disarmament INF treaty, signaling to the world its re-commitment to a nuclear arms race. It is the U.S. that is the largest polluter in the world.

France: ‘We will NOT Let The US Be Policeman Of The World’

November 10, 2018 James Bickerton, Express.co.uk Educate! Europe, France, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, US Imperialism

The comments were made by Bruno Le Maire, French economy minister, during an interview with the Financial Times. He claimed: “Europe refuses to allow the US to be the trade policeman of the world.” President Trump pulled the US out of the nuclear deal Mr Obama signed with Iran in 2015 and has reimposed a range of economic sanctions. He has repeatedly threatened punitive action against any European companies which ignore these sanctions and continue doing business with Iran. Mr Le Maire argued the US measures threaten the EU’s “economic sovereignty” and urged the bloc to “affirm our independence”.

Leaked Video Shows Israel Lobby Used Phony Sexual Assault Claims Against BDS Activists

November 8, 2018 Staff, Electronicintifada.net Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Israel, US Imperialism

In the first two parts of the censored documentary The Lobby – USA, released by The Electronic Intifada this week, Al Jazeera’s undercover reporter “Tony” charmed his way into pro-Israel circles. He discovered a network of organizations acting as fronts for the Israeli state to spy on, disrupt and sabotage USsupporters of Palestinian rights – especially BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. In the final two parts of of the film, Tony gets a deeper look at Israel’s covert influence campaigns during his internship for The Israel Project. Watch parts three and four in the videos embedded above and below.

Saudi Arabia Has To Be Stopped And This Time It May Get Stopped

November 8, 2018 By Andre Vltchek, Countercurrents.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Saudi Arabia

In the eyes of many in the West, it crossed them not because it has been brutally killing tens of thousands of innocent people in Yemen, not even because it keeps sponsoring terrorists in Syria, (and in fact all over the world), often on behalf of the West. And not even because it is trying to turn its neighboring country, Qatar, from a peninsula into an island. The crimes against humanity committed by Saudi Arabia are piling up, but the hermit kingdom (it is so hermit that it does not even issue tourist visas, in order to avoid scrutiny) is not facing any sanctions or embargos, with some exceptions like Germany. These are some of the most barbaric crimes committed in modern history, anywhere and by anyone.

No Nuclear Arms Race In Europe!

November 6, 2018 Staff, Kein-wettruesten.de Resist! disarmament, Europe, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Nuclear Weapons

US President Trump announced to withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force Treaty (INF) with Russia. The Treaty put an end to the stationing of land-based intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe. It is reassuring that both sides have announced that they are seeking negotiations now. The aim of these negotiations must be to uphold the general prohibition of intermediate range nuclear missiles (“zero-solution”) in Europe, now and in future. The INF Treaty protects Europe and especially Germany since more than 30 years from being the stage of a threatening nuclear arms race. Ronald Reagan and Michail Gorbatschownegotiated the Treaty at the end of the 1980s.

Democracy, Class And The Fight Against Recolonization

November 6, 2018 Staff, Tortillaconsal.com Educate! Colonialism, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Nationalism, United States

Having lost Eurasia, the US elites and their allies have focused much more attention on Latin America and the Caribbean in order to re-consolidate their absolute control of the region's resources. They work to destroy the movements and political leaders who defend impoverished majorities against the neocolonial agenda of the West. Western elites devote special attention, along with their local allies, to the elimination of all expression of international sovereignty. From within countries, they undermine and co-opt governments and institutions. From the outside, they deploy all kinds of financial, commercial, diplomatic and media aggression, in addition to the blatant military harassment.

Europe And The US Clash Over Washington’s Economic War On Iran

November 6, 2018 Keith Jones, Wsws.org Educate! Europe, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, United States

Washington’s imposition of sweeping new sanctions on Iran—aimed at strangling its economy and precipitating regime change in Tehran—is roiling world geopolitics. As of today, the US is embargoing all Iranian energy exports and freezing Iran out of the US-dominated world financial system, so as to cripple the remainder of its trade and deny it access to machinery, spare parts and even basic foodstuffs and medicine. In doing so, American imperialism is once again acting as a law unto itself. The sanctions are patently illegal and under international law tantamount to a declaration of war. They violate the UN Security Council-backed 2015 Iran nuclear accord...

Keen Sword: US And Japan Stage Largest Wargames In Pacific Amid Tensions With China

November 5, 2018 Staff, Rt.com Educate! China, Imperialism, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Japan, United States

Washington and Tokyo have amassed a record number of sailors, marines and airmen for the biggest joint naval drill that the two allied nations have ever held close to Chinese shores as tensions keep rising in the region. Around 47,000 troops from the Japan Self-Defense Force have been joined by more than 10,000 US servicemen for the Keen Sword 19 military exercise – the biggest drill of its kind since the biennial joint maneuvers were launched in 1986. The US forces participating in the drill include the bulk of the Seventh Fleet, as well as the Submarine Group 7 – both of which are based in Japan's Yokosuka. Tokyo has deployed roughly a fifth of its military. Two Canadian warships are also taking part in the exercise.

‘Troika Of Tyranny’: Trump White House Announces Tough New Policies Against Venezuela, Cuba And Nicaragua

November 3, 2018 Chris Riotta, Independent.co.uk Educate! Cuba, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Nicaragua, Policy, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The confrontational remarks from John Bolton come same day as United Nations calls on US to lift Cuban embargo. Donald Trump‘s White House has announced an aggressive new policy to confront the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, labelling the three nations the “troika of tyranny”. “Many of you in the audience today have personally suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of the regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, only to survive, fight back, conquer, and overcome,” John Bolton, Mr Trump’s national security advisor said during a speech in Miami, Florida. “The troika of tyranny in this hemisphere – Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua – has finally met its match,” he said.

US Needs ‘Offensive Weapons In Space’ For Self-Defense, Mattis Claims

November 2, 2018 Staff, Rt.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia, Space weapons, United States, US Imperialism

Dominance in space is vital for the American way of life and the Pentagon must be prepared for deployment and usage of offensive weapons there, in order to protect US interests, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said. The Pentagon is looking at a two-pronged strategy in space, Mattis told an audience at the US Institute of Peace in Washington on Tuesday. In addition to making US assets in orbit more difficult to destroy and easier to replace, offensive capabilities are under consideration, he said. “We are going to have to be prepared to use offensive weapons in space should someone decide to militarize it and go on the offensive,” said the retired Marine who took over the Pentagon in January 2017.

There Is No Peace: Africa And Africans Are At War! U.S. To The World: “Comply or Die!”

November 1, 2018 Staff, Black Is Back Coalition Organize! Africa, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Protests, US Imperialism

Hundreds of black people from throughout the U.S. and from every town, city and state, will descend on Washington, D.C.—capital of imperialist white power—on November 3 and 4. This is a Call for you to take your place in the rally, march and conference with the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations under the banner: “There is no Peace: Africa and Africans are at War!” For nine years in a row the Black is Back Coalition has been leading the charge to unite our people against the growing, desperate white nationalist attacks by the U.S. and other imperialist countries against our people and the colonized peoples and countries of the U.S. and the world.

The Abolition Of Nuclear Abolitionism?

October 30, 2018 Stephen Cohen, Rt.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, United States

Stephen Cohen elaborates on the following points regarding Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed by the US and (Soviet) Russia in 1987. For whatever reasons, both leaders at the time, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, had developed a deep personal fear of nuclear weapons. After agreeing in principle, though informally, in February 1986 that all nuclear weapons should be eliminated, the following year they abolished an entire category of those instruments of mass destruction: nuclear-warhead–bearing missiles with a range of some 500–5,500 kilometers.

Poking The Russian Bear With The NATO Umbrella

October 27, 2018 Ted Galen Carpenter, Theamericanconservative.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, NATO, Russia, US Imperialism

Some terrible foreign policy ideas seem to have eternal life. One example is the proposal to expand NATO yet again by offering membership to Georgia and Ukraine. That campaign has gone on for more than a decade and is a significant factor in the West’s deteriorating relations with Russia. George W. Bush’s administration apparently decided that the United States and its European allies had not provoked Russia sufficiently with the first two rounds of NATO expansion. U.S. leaders adopted that attitude even though the second round in 2004 added the three Baltic republics, which had been part of the defunct Soviet Union itself. The administration now pushed hard to make certain that Ukraine and Georgia received membership invitations.

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