Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Cold War Redux? U.S. To Hold Largest Europe Exercises In 25 Years

December 14, 2019 Robin Emmott, News.trust.org Educate! Europe, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, NATO

MONS, Belgium, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The United States will send 20,000 troops to Europe next April and May in its biggest military exercises on European soil since the Cold War to underscore Washington's commitment to NATO, a senior allied commander said on Tuesday. Days after a NATO summit in London at which U.S. President Donald Trump called low-spending European allies "delinquent", U.S. Major General Barre Seguin said the exercises, centred on Germany, will be the largest of their kind in 25 years.

Operation Condor 2.0 – “Expanded”

December 14, 2019 Peter Koenig, Informationclearinghouse.info Educate! History, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, US Imperialism

From what we are seeing this “legitimization” may be expanded to rest of the world. Because Washington instigated destabilizing unrest goes on throughout the world. We may as well call it “Operation Condor 2.0 – Expanded”. It promises to become devastating, oppressive and murderous on all Continents. A transformation from whatever ‘freedom’ may have existed to neoliberal dictatorships bending towards neofascism. The original “Operation Condor” was a campaign by the United States to bring ‘order’ into her backyard, i.e. Latin America.

‘Atrocious’: 188 Democrats Join GOP To Hand Trump $738 Billion Military Budget That Includes ‘Space Force’

December 14, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Military Budget, Reform

"It is Orwellian for Congress to hand over billions of dollars worth of weapons and bombs to a president waging a horrific, unconstitutional war in Yemen—and call that progressive." More than 180 House Democrats joined a nearly united Republican caucus Wednesday night to pass a sweeping $738 billion military spending bill that gives President Donald Trump his long-sought "Space Force," free rein to wage endless wars, and a green light to continue fueling the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen.

Who Gives US The Right To Lecture China About Rights?

December 14, 2019 Andre Vltchek, Chinadaily.com.cn Educate! Human Rights, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Racism

A long analysis I wrote about "the Uygur issue" earlier this year will be soon published as a book. For some time now, I have been warning that the West, the United States in particular, is helping radicalize the Uygurs both in and outside China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. I have also mapped the movement of the Uygur radicals through countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, from where they are injected into brutal war zones such as Idlib in Syria. I have worked with Syrian commanders in the Idlib area, and spoke at length with the internally displaced Syrian people...

The “Afghanistan Papers”: The Criminality And Disaster Of A War Based Upon Lies

December 13, 2019 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org Educate! Afghanistan, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The publication Monday by the Washington Post of interviews with senior US officials and military commanders on the nearly two-decades-old US war in Afghanistan has provided a damning indictment of both the criminality and abject failure of an imperialist intervention conducted on the basis of lies. The Post obtained the raw interviews after a three-year Freedom of Information Act court battle. While initially they were not secret, the Obama administration moved to classify the documents after the newspaper sought to obtain them.

The Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand In The Theft Of Iraqi And Syrian Oil

December 13, 2019 By Agha Hussain and Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iraq, Israel, Oil, Syria

KIRKUK, IRAQ — “We want to bring our soldiers home. But we did leave soldiers because we’re keeping the oil,” President Trump stated on November 3, before adding, “I like oil. We’re keeping the oil.” Though he had promised a withdrawal of U.S. troops from their illegal occupation of Syria, Trump shocked many with his blunt admission that troops were being left behind to prevent Syrian oil resources from being developed by the Syrian government and, instead, kept in the hands of whomever the U.S. deemed fit to control them, in this case, the U.S.-backed Kurdish-majority militia known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

A Decade Ends: Does It Leave A Legacy?

December 11, 2019 By Greg Godels, Zzs-blg.blogspot.com Strategize! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East

Will we remember the victory in Syria as a long overdue turning point in the struggle against imperialism and, perhaps, capitalism? Does the defeat of US and NATO machinations and their surrogate combatants in Syria inspire the people of the Middle East to transcend the divisive limits of sectarian grievances and cultural manipulation? Are we seeing the decline of artificially stoked and cruelly fueled national and religious divisiveness and a turn toward economic justice?

A New US ‘Manhattan Project’ Planning War With China

December 9, 2019 By David B. Larter, C4isrnet.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Wars and Militarism

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy and Air Force are teaming up to rapidly develop a network that can link together Air Force and Navy assets during battle, an effort the Navy’s top officer compared to the 1940s program to develop an atomic bomb. Adm. Michael Gilday, the new Chief of Naval Operations, told an audience Thursday that in order to take on China, the Navy will have to spread out and rely on networked weapons and sensors distributed over a wide area. But doing that would rely on a network architecture that doesn’t yet exist.

Pentagon Alarmed Russia Is Gaining ‘Sympathy’ Among US Troops

December 9, 2019 By Tyler Durden, Zerohedge.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, NATO, Pentagon, Russia

Remember when NATO bombed Belgrade back to the middle ages, invaded and occupied Iraq, started an eighteen-year long quagmire in Afghanistan, created anarchy in Libya, funded and armed al-Qaeda in Syria, and expanded its bases right up to US borders? Neither do we. Perhaps American soldiers are simply sick and tired of the US military and intelligence machine's legacy of ashes across the globe and recognize the inconvenient fact that Russia most often has been on the complete opposite side of Washington's disastrous regime change wars.

US-China Trade War In Jeopardy Over Uyghur And Hong Kong Support

December 9, 2019 Steven Sahiounie, Mideastdiscourse.com Educate! China, Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Trade War, Uyghurs

The Uyghur people are an ethnic group of Muslims in western China and they speak the ancient Turkic language, which is the root of the modern Turkish language. Their province is Xinjiang, and their capital city is Urumqi. China is a huge country, and to keep peace and harmony all ethnicities work together, and while respecting each other’s rights, they live as one people, like America. Recently, both US President Trump and the US House have made dramatic accusations against the Chinese government on sensitive domestic policies involving counter-terrorism measures and domestic safety issues.

Lessons On How To Hate China

December 7, 2019 William Briggs, Johnmenadue.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia

The ramping up of anti-China sentiment has led to fear and anxiety in this country. The annual Lowy survey has seen the proportion of Australians that ‘trust’ China fall from 52 per cent to 32 percent in just one year. Seventy per cent feel that there is too much Chinese investment, 50 per cent believe that China will pose a military threat to Australia in 20 years, and 49 per cent regard ‘foreign interference’ to be a critical threat. Those figures show just how powerful a prolonged political campaign can be. Those statistics were published before the latest round of anti-Chinese propaganda was unleashed.

The NATO Titanic: Four Crisis Areas

December 6, 2019 Jan Oberg, Transnational.live Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, NATO

But the political dimension of NATO’s crisis is only one. There is also a legal crisis. You’ll recognize it if you care to read the NATO Treaty text – something academic and media people don’t generally seem to have done. They would then have noticed that the Alliance of 2019 consistently operates outside – indeed in violation of – its own goals, purposes and values. For instance, the UN Charter which should be NATO’s guideline has been violated on a permanent basis for decades – such as in its out-of-area bombings of Yugoslavia with no UN mandate.

US Primes NATO To Confront Russia, China

December 6, 2019 By M. K. Bhadrakumar, Indianpunchline.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, NATO, Russia

Moscow’s breakthrough Avangard missile system with the hypersonic boost-glide vehicle will be deployed on combat duty with the Strategic Missile Force in December 2019. The December 3-4 summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in London resembles a family reunion after the acrimony over the issue of military spending by America’s European allies. The trend is up for defence spending across European Allies and Canada. Over $100 billion is expected to be added to the member states’ defence budgets by end-2020.

Trump Was Right: NATO Should Be Obsolete

December 5, 2019 Medea Benjamin, Codepink.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, NATO, Ruling Class Splits, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

The three smartest words that Donald Trump uttered during his presidential campaign are “NATO is obsolete.” His adversary, Hillary Clinton, retorted that NATO was “the strongest military alliance in the history of the world.” Now that Trump has been in power, the White House parrots the same worn line that NATO is “the most successful Alliance in history, guaranteeing the security, prosperity, and freedom of its members.” But Trump was right the first time around: Rather than being a strong alliance with a clear purpose...

The Untold Story Of The Trump-Ukraine ‘Scandal’: The Routine Corruption Of US Foreign Policy

December 5, 2019 By Joe Lauria, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Corruption, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Ukraine

The most crucial aspects of the Trump-Ukraine “scandal,” which has led to impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, are not being told, even by Republicans. Trump was very likely motivated by politics if he indeed withheld military aid to Ukraine in exchange for Kiev launching an investigation into Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden, though the transcript of the call released by the White House between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelinsky does not make certain such a quid-pro-quo.

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