Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Mistakenly Sent Draft Letter Falsely Announces US Forces Preparing To Leave Iraq

January 7, 2020 Staff, Sputniknews.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East, US military

"Poorly worded, implies withdrawal. That's not what's happening." That's how US Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation's top general, described a letter sent by mistake from US Marine Corps Brig. Gen. William H. Seely III to Iraqi Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah on Monday, that announced the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. Milley said Monday the letter was "genuine," but had been sent by "mistake," noting it was an unsigned draft meant to underscore increased levels of troop movements.

Trump Admin Bars Top Iranian Diplomat From Entering U.S.

January 7, 2020 Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, Huffpost.com Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East, Trump Administration

The Trump administration blocked Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s top diplomat, from entering the United States, Foreign Policy first reported Monday. The diplomat planned to come to the U.S. to address the United Nations Security Council in a meeting on Jan. 9, when he was expected to speak on the assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani by the U.S. Reuters also confirmed the visa denial, citing an unnamed American official.

A Dubious Official Story Masks The True Motives Behind The Soleimani Assassination

January 6, 2020 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East

BAGHDAD — The recent assassination of Iran’s most popular and well-known general, Qassem Soleimani, has stoked fears that a new war pitting the U.S. and its allies against Iran could soon become a devastating and deadly reality. The airstrike that killed Soleimani, conducted by the U.S. in Baghdad, was conducted without the authorization or even prior notification of the U.S. Congress and without the approval of Iraq’s government or military, making the attack flagrantly illegal on multiple levels.

The Soleimani Assassination: The Long-Awaited Beginning Of The End Of America’s Imperial Ambitions

January 4, 2020 By Philip Giraldi, Ahtribune.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Middle East, US Imperialism

The United States is now at war with Iran in a conflict that could easily have been avoided and it will not end well. There will be no declaration of war coming from either side, but the assassination of Iranian Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani and the head of Kata’ib Hezbollah Abu Mehdi Muhandis by virtue of a Reaper drone strike in Baghdad will shift the long-simmering conflict between the two nations into high gear. Iran cannot let the killing of a senior military officer go unanswered even though it cannot directly confront the United States militarily.

After 18 Years of US Occupation, Poll Finds Zero Percent Of Afghans Thriving, 85 Percent “Suffering”

January 4, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Afghanistan, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Occupation, US Imperialism

Since the 2001 occupation of Afghanistan began, fighting has not stopped, destroying the country and leading to the U.S. spending an estimated $2 trillion on the war. American polling firm Gallup has found that Afghans are the saddest people on earth, finding that nearly nine in ten respondents are “suffering,” in their own words, with zero percent claiming that they are currently “thriving.” When asked to rate their life out of a score of ten, Afghans gave an average answer of 2.7, a record low for any country studied. Worse still, when asked to predict the quality of their life in five years, the average answer was even lower: 2.3.

The Impeachment Crisis And US War Plans Against Russia

January 3, 2020 Andre Damon, Wsws.org Educate! China, Impeachment, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia

With each passing day of the impeachment crisis, the distance between the official reasons for the conflict in Washington and the real reasons grows wider. It has become increasingly clear that the central issue is not Trump’s attempt to “solicit interference from a foreign country” by “pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president’s main domestic political rivals,” as alleged in the whistleblower complaint that triggered the impeachment inquiry.

The West’s Present Misconduct Has A Long History

January 3, 2020 By James ONeill, Journal-neo.org Educate! History, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Wars and Militarism

One of the persistent themes of western political leaders is that they support the notion of “the rule of law”. By this they generally mean the system of law as developed by western nations, and in the international context the formulation over the past 120 years or so of international law. By this of course, they mean “their law”. Any deviation from this by non-western nations is to be deplored and where appropriate punished. The epitome of this approach was to be found in the Nuremberg trials and their Japanese equivalent that followed victory in the Second World War.

Full Spectrum Fubar

January 2, 2020 Paul Edwards, Informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Wars and Militarism

January 01, 2020 "Information Clearing House" - Back in the days when the Deep State’s diktats commanded a modicum of credibility, its stated goal was worldwide military “full spectrum dominance”. Twenty years of grossly humiliating failure in its murderously ineffectual floundering has rendered that idea null, even to doctrinaire NeoCon wanks. Instead, the WWII term for total situational dysfunction and chaos is now so perfectly descriptive of our national Goon Show that it seems made for it. Back then, when a major planned operation went tits up, GIs described it as “Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition” and the acronym stuck.

Hong Kong Police Facing Invisible, Dangerous Enemies

January 2, 2020 Andre Vltchek, Chinadailyhk.com Educate! China, Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Police

It's much more than what you're allowed to see. Hong Kong's police force is heroically fighting both rioters and a complex and extremely dangerous international network aimed at destabilizing the People's Republic of China. I've never seen such cynicism before and such a vulgar media setup as in Hong Kong. I'm talking in general, and also about what happened on Dec 22. Rioters, waving blue Uyghur, Taiwan, British and US flags, were shouting "independence" and "China is terrorist" slogans in the middle of the city...

Baghdad Demonstrators Demand ‘U.S. Out Of Iraq!’

January 2, 2020 Mazda Majidi, Liberationnews.org Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Middle East, Protest Demonstrations, US Imperialism

On Dec. 31, hundreds of people protested at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, demanding an end to U.S. intervention in Iraq. As the protest went on for hours, dozens of the protesters managed to break into the main gate, go in, and set the main reception area on fire. Embassy officials frantically asked the Iraqi government for help. Shots were fired and several people were injured, but no deaths have, as of this writing, been reported in the incident.

Wars, Secrecy, And Lies

January 1, 2020 W.J. Astore, Bracingviews.com Educate! History, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Wars and Militarism

This is nothing new, of course. Perhaps the best book I read in 2019 is H. Bruce Franklin’s Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War. Franklin, who served in the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s before becoming an English professor, cultural historian, and an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, is devastating in his critique of the military-industrial complex in this memoir. I recommend it highly to all Americans who want to wrestle with tough truths.

China-Iran-Russia Alliance Ending US Unilateral Global Hegemony

January 1, 2020 Elijah J. Magnier, Ejmagnier.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Russia

The “maritime security belt” trilateral four-day drill between Iran, China and Russia in the sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean will mark the Middle East for decades to come. It signals the end of US absolute hegemony and control of the Middle East- and of the world. The joint drills are being carried out at the heart of the zone of US maritime influence. The drills are tactical exercises simulating the rescue of frigates under attack by a mutual enemy over a 17,000 km area. They are not strategic, because China and Russia will not have access to Iranian harbours on an ongoing basis.

A Monumentally Destructive US Decade — Symptomatic Of Imperial Decline

December 31, 2019 By Patrick Lawrence, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, US Imperialism

These are W.H. Auden’s lines, written as the 1930s drew to a close and six years of global conflagration commenced. Eighty years later, they are pitifully, painfully apt as the second decade of our new century gives way to the third. With 2019 staggering to its end, what do we see when we look back over the 2010s? What when we look forward to the 2020s? These are our questions, each to be answered without flinching, dissembling or deflecting. It requires a wide-eyed Boy Scout’s optimism to consider the decade now behind us and see anything other than a steady descent into global disorder...

Series Of Wikileaks Release On Fraudulent Report On Chemical Attack In Syria

December 31, 2019 Staff, Wikileaks.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Syria, Wikileaks

Today WikiLeaks releases more internal documents from the OPCW regarding the investigation into the alleged chemical attack in Douma in April 2018. One of the documents is an e-mail exchange dated 27 and 28 February between members of the fact finding mission (FFM) deployed to Douma and the senior officials of the OPCW. It includes an e-mail from Sebastien Braha, Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW, where he instructs that an engineering report from Ian Henderson should be removed from the secure registry of the organisation...

Washington’s Unmasked Imperialism Towards Europe And Russia

December 31, 2019 Staff, Strategic-culture.org Educate! Europe, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia, Sanctions

Washington must think the rest of the world is as stupid as many of its own politicians are. Its passing into law – signed by President Trump this week – of sanctions to halt the Nord Stream-2 and Turk Stream gas supply projects is a naked imperialist move to bludgeon the European energy market for its own economic advantage. US sanctions are planned to hit European companies involved with Russia’s Gazprom in the construction of the 1,225-kilometer pipeline under the Baltic Sea which will deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany and elsewhere across the European Union.

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