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How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It
Photo: Sander de Wilde/Corbis/Getty Images HOW UK SPIES HACKED A EUROPEAN ALLY AND GOT AWAY WITH IT FOR A MOMENT, it seemed the hackers had slipped up and exposed their identities. It was the summer of 2013, and European investigators were looking into an unprecedented breach of Belgium’s telecommunications infrastructure. They believed they were on […]
Russians Spooked by Nukes-Against-Cyber-Attack Policy
Russians Spooked by Nukes-Against-Cyber-Attack Policy New U.S. policy on nuclear retaliatory strikes for cyber-attacks is raising concerns, with Russia claiming that it’s already been blamed for a false-flag cyber-attack – namely the election hacking allegations of 2016, explain Ray McGovern and William Binney. Moscow is showing understandable concern over the lowering of the threshold for […]
America: A Military Nation
AMERICA: A MILITARY NATION Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security state after World War II (without a constitutional amendment authorizing the conversion), it has been the Pentagon, the CIA, and the […]
Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime
Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime The torrent of reckless false accusations against Russia made by the US and its NATO allies is hitting warp speed. This week saw more baseless allegations of Russian cyber attacks on American elections and British industries. There were also crass claims by US officials that Russia was behind so-called sonic […]
Admiral Warns US Must Prepare For Possible War With China
Admiral Warns US Must Prepare For Possible War With China While we await the latest details on the ongoing trade war between the US and China, currently focusing on escalating steel and aluminum tariffs and China’s reciprocal response could be, the threat of a real war is looming. Speaking to Congress, the navy admiral nominated […]
Agitprop Is Not News
Agitprop Is Not News Forget about sharks. In their Valentine’s Day editorial: Why Does Trump Ignore Top Officials’ Warnings on Russia?, The New York Times jumped several blue whales (all the ones left on earth), a cruise ship, a subtropical archipelago, a giant vortex of plastic bottles, and the Sport’s Illustratedswimsuit shoot. The lede said: […]
Global Trade Wars Begin: Ross Recommends Major Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum Focusing On China, Russia
Global Trade Wars Begin: Ross Recommends Major Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum Focusing On China, Russia Update 3: As previewed earlier, at noon on Friday the commerce department released reports on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s investigations into the impact on our national security from imports of steel mill products and from imports of wrought and […]
False Flag Potential in the Middle East: Iran, Syria, and Israel
False Flag Potential in the Middle East: Iran, Syria, and Israel Their End Goal for We the People: “I am the State…the State is all!” (“Quarlo” from “The Outer Limits,” episode “Soldier”) History does repeat itself; if not identically, then in identical circumstances and events in different nations. History also does not just “happen,” as […]
Russia Is Taking Over Syria’s Oil And Gas
Russia Is Taking Over Syria’s Oil And Gas If finally happened… In accordance with an energy cooperation framework agreement signed in late January, Russia will have exclusive rights to produce oil and gas in Syria. The agreement goes significantly beyond that, stipulating the modalities of the rehabilitation of damaged rigs and infrastructure, energy advisory support, […]
Canada vs. Venezuela: Have the Koch Brothers Captured Canada’s Left?
Canada vs. Venezuela: Have the Koch Brothers Captured Canada’s Left? Photo by Eden, Janine and Jim | CC BY 2.0 With a U.S.-backed military coup or invasion in Venezuela looking ever more likely, Canada’s progressive leftists are pushing for the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) to abandon its “reactionary” foreign policy position on that country. […]
Dutch Lies Over Putin’s ‘Aggression’ Expose NATO War Agenda
Dutch Lies Over Putin’s ‘Aggression’ Expose NATO War Agenda Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte was this week forced to bear a parliamentary vote of no confidence after his foreign minister finally came clean over a dangerous lie he has been telling for two years concerning Russian President Vladimir Putin. Halbe Zijlstra quit in shame on […]
Regime Change Fails: Is A Military Coup or Invasion of Venezuela Next?
Regime Change Fails: Is A Military Coup or Invasion of Venezuela Next? The U.S. has employed all of its regime change tools in Venezuela and although so far they have failed, there is still a chance that a military attack is in store, warn Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. Several signals point to a possible military […]
Saudi Arabia, Russia Ink 3 Huge Energy Deals
Saudi Arabia, Russia Ink 3 Huge Energy Deals Saudi Arabia hits bullseye, IPO and LNG deals cements geopolitical cooperation Russia Hidden by the fog of the ongoing oil market volatility and the Turkish adventures in Syria, OPEC leader Saudi Arabia has been cementing its geopolitical position for years. In Riyadh meetings this week between Saudi […]
The Lies and the Narrative
The Lies and the Narrative Frank Larson Chrysler reflection, 42nd Street near 5th Ave, New York 1950sUpdate: Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra resigned at 5pm local time, before the parliamentary debate could take place. But that still leaves Rutte in place with his own version of “when it gets serious, you have to lie”. There […]
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Tech Journalism, Fake News and the Russia Threat Narrative
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Tech Journalism, Fake News and the Russia Threat Narrative “At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question … Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.” George Orwell, 1945, ‘The Freedom of […]
