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Tag Archives: International Law
What is the Rules-Based Order?
By Kim Petersen Source: Dissident Voice In fits of, what might well be termed, masochism, some of us now-and-then tune in to the legacy media. When doing so, one is likely to hear western-aligned politicians rhetorize ad nauseam about the linguistically vogue … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Deep State, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, International Law, Joe Biden, Julian Assange, language, Legal/Constitutional, Maidan Coup, Narrative, propaganda, rules-based order, Ukraine, United Nations, US Foreign Policy
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How a Missile in Kabul Connects to a Speaker in Taipei
By Pepe Escobar Source: The Unz Review This is the way the “Global War on Terror” (GWOT) ends, over and over again: not with a bang, but a whimper. Two Hellfire R9-X missiles launched from a MQ9 Reaper drone on … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war, war on terror
Tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, China, Deep State, empire, geopolitics, IMF, imperialism, International Law, Kabul, Nancy Pelosi, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, Vladimir Putin, war, war on terror, Xi Jinping
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Forget liberating Ukraine – We first need to liberate our minds
Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous By Jonathan Cook Source: Jonathan Cook Blog Nothing should better qualify me to write about … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, NATO, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Apartheid, China, corporate media, culture, disinformation, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, International Law, Israel, Labour, Mainstream Media, media, Meretz, NATO, neo-Nazis, Palestine, propaganda, rules-based order, Russia, Saddam Hussein, society, Tribalism, Ukraine, war, war on terror, Zionism
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In Redux of Iraq War Run Up, Media Cheers on Assassination of Soleimani
With echoes of Iraq, media are once again cheering an attack against a Middle Eastern country on the grounds of a supposedly imminent strike against the United States. By Alan Macleod Source: Mint Press News Early Friday morning, a U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged assassination, corporate news, empire, General Qassem Soleimani, geopolitics, imperialism, International Law, Iran, iraq, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, propaganda, State Crime, Syria, US Foreign Policy, war, War Crime
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CODEPINK Denounces Illegal Entry and Arrest at DC Venezuelan Embassy and Vows to Keep Fighting to Protect the Embassy
An image presumably showing the moment of the arrest of the four activists of the #EmbassyProtectionCollective. In the photo that appears to be a screenshot of another image, you see David Paul, Adrienne Pine and Margaret Flowers.Photo via: .@AlinaTelesur#HandsOffVenezuela pic.twitter.com/F5TLiXhWxp … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, Militarization, Neocons, news, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged activism, Adrienne Pine, ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, David Paul, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, International Law, Interventionalism, Juan Guaidó, kevin zeese, margaret flowers, Popular Resistance, regime change, State Crime, US Foreign Policy, US State Department, venezuela, Venezuelan Embassy, Vienna Convention
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The Triumph of Evil
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Today (April 17) I heard a NPR “news” report that described the democratically elected president of Venezuela as “the Venezuelan dictator Maduro.” By repeating over and over that a democratically elected president is a … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged black ops, CIA, Cuba, Daniel Ortega, empire, geopolitics, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, International Law, John Bolton, Juan Guaidó, Latin America, Mike Pompeo, Neocons, Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro, Russia, venezuela
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Assange arrest: The turning point is here—don’t let them win
Will we wait until they come for us because our homes are built atop resources they wish to plunder, because we shared information online they found objectionable, because we dared to question why madmen are in control of our country … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged Chelsea Manning, Deep State, elites, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, International Law, Iraq War, Journalism, Julian Assange, Oligarchy, Social Media, State Crime, war crimes
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Russia’s Seattle Consulate Broken Into: the US Openly Flouts its International Obligations
By Alex Gorka Source: Strategic Culture Foundation They did it again. On April 25, US inspectors broke into the Russian consulate in Seattle, which had been shuttered and vacated at the order of the American government, in a response to the Skripal case. The … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, news, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Cold War, Diplomatic War, empire, geopolitics, International Agreements, International Law, Russia, Russian Consulate, Seattle, Skripal, US Foreign Policy, US-USSR Consular Convention, Vienna Convention
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