REGIME OF ILLEGALITY

Myths and realities of Western democracy's relations with the far-right, mafia-like regime in Kiev

 

By Sidney Hey

A seemingly harmless shipment of farm implements and motorbikes being unloaded at the port of Durres, Albania concealed a consignment of arms and equipment that was not supposed to get there, but no one cares. In a place so corrupt and run by gangsters with links to the “agency” and NATO, silence is assured.

Further afield, somewhere in the Red Sea, other container ships will land on some Arab beach another ton of military equipment and weaponry that was supposed to reach Ukraine. I would not be surprised if we see a re-run of the “Islamic State 2.0” hoax using Turkish “Bayraktar” Drones, “Javelin” missiles and British “Starstreak” MANPADS, if that happens I would like to hear what the media buffoons in the West will say. Still no one in the ASIS offices in Canberra has dusted off the matter of the vans that were shipped to be handed over to “Daesh and there is a simple explanation for this: As a strategic ally in the South, Washington has a firm grip on Australian politicians and that is why they gladly participate in all operations ordered as part of the “Five Eyes”.

But other shipments that did reach the country seem to have been subject to other diversions and are lost in the mists of a state of absolute lawlessness. The reality in western Ukraine, and in Kiev in particular, is far from a state of legality. In addition to being at the mercy of a pro-Nazi regime, the inhabitants must contend with local criminal mafias that are the law in a lawless state. Someone has been making a killing on shipments to Eastern Europe and the question is: is this a stunning oversight by the Ministry of Defence (MoM), the consequence of an extraordinary and sophisticated Russian intelligence operation, or are there other Washington plans for these armaments?

Democracy is supposed to be the governance of law, so is breaking international law democratic?

I can assure you that if the government wanted to, it would not miss a nut on a tank. But it is true that in recent years the dealings between the government and private corporations, the intra-governmental corruption is so great that administrative controls that only serve to justify huge defence budgets no longer matter. The scandalous case of Hunter Biden, which the American media corporation has tried to sweep under the carpet, explains many inexplicable things in American politics.

No doubt this has partly filtered into the disaster of Kiev's failed counteroffensive that forced into the public eye the failures and shortcomings reported by many Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries (American and British) who managed to survive in the midst of what they themselves called “hell”.

The alleged shortcomings in end-use monitoring between the Pentagon and their colleagues in Kiev do not explain these gross irregularities, which are actually minuscule compared to others noted by the Russians in the liberated territories.

Why should this not be credible? Ukrainian troops have been known to steal and sell such large items as French 155mm “Caesar” guns and their ammunition to the Russians, who took no time at all to remove them from the field and reverse engineer them. Let alone the tide of rifles and machine guns that no one knows where they ended up. For those of you who can remember, remember the weapons and money that were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan?

On those occasions various military officers and intelligence contacts made their own fortunes by taking out of Iraq and selling the weapons of Saddam's dismantled army to insurgency groups and mafias around the globe. What did the Baghdad government do? Nothing if they were part of the deal. The same in Afghanistan, where many ISAF military and corrupt Afghan military and politicians loyal to Karsai got rich selling and reselling weapons to warlords and opium traffickers.

Why should things be any different in the current war in Ukraine? And yet we are only talking about this trafficking and not about the more sinister and lucrative trafficking of people and organs.

This is undoubtedly a nuisance for government bureaucrats who tend to see ghosts where there are none. They are typically useless, sitting on their chubby asses in a well-appointed office far removed from reality. So it's not surprising that these questions fall foul of them as “Russian propaganda”.

It is possible that there is another theory for creating this black hole of arms and money in Ukraine. Perhaps this seemingly uncontrolled arms surge has been planned to flood the mafias, irregular and extremist groups of all kinds into Ukraine and all of Eastern Europe to consolidate a scenario of controlled chaos that will destroy their governments and in the midst of that morass, Washington and NATO will come to the rescue.

 

WHAT IS THE REAL WAR?

The war in Ukraine pitting Russia against NATO interests hides another silent arm wrestling match to impose an ominous agenda for total control of two markets vital to human life Where is the morality of the Anglo-American democracies?

 

By Charles H. Slim

After Russia's chastisement of the Odessa ports and the abandonment of the grain agreement for having been used by Kiev to smuggle weapons, Washington and its European cronies with European Commission Vice-President Joseph Borrell at the head have taken the opportunity to publicly accuse Russia of seeking food shortages that would provoke a global food crisis.

This is intended to create panic and the false appearance that Ukrainian grain is the only grain that can meet the needs of the poorest countries, but that would not be the case.

The US and its dirty jobs partner Britain are not worried about the war in Ukraine and how much its continuation might cost Ukrainians. On the contrary, the longer it lasts it will serve the purposes of the ruling oclocracy in Washington who have made it clear that they will sacrifice whoever and however many are necessary to secure comforts and a standard of living for themselves and a select circle of their country.

In retrospect this is nothing new. When the sect of neoconservatives and Zionists colluded to devise a plan to create US supremacy in the new millennium known as Project for the New American Century (PNAC), that idea was born early in 1993 by one of the most prominent Zionists who were George Bush senior's sidekicks named Paul Wolfowitz where he bluntly specified how to get rid of the competition and grab the oil-based energy sources. The consequences of these lucubrations were soon seen and as we have already seen, they have tried to be swept under the carpet of history.

In the present circumstances we see the same interests at work again, although without many of those officials in the race. The war in Ukraine is one of the most favorable and ambitious financial incentives for speculators such as BLACKROCK, JP MORGAN and VANGUARD GROUP who at the same time are participants together with US food corporations in causing severe financial losses and monopoly of food policies that have led among other things to the doubling of the price of bread in the poorest countries.

Argentina, far from being able to guarantee its food sovereignty, is obviously not able to offer an alternative food supply not only because of its famished geopolitical status and its deficient logistic infrastructure for foreign trade, but also (and much worse) because it is entangled in the same spider web woven by international financial organizations such as the IMF.

Clearly, the farce of accusing Russia and in particular President Vladimir Putin of creating the conditions for a global food crisis is exposed. What is really going on is an ambitious race by the Anglo-Americans to impose their conditions and totally control the food market.

Obviously, with the war and the -deliberate- cutting off of the EU from the supply of cheap Russian energy, the only beneficiaries are the American Corporations and energy companies, especially LNG (through a deceitful agenda) and food companies (Cargill, Archer Daniel Midland, Bunge and Louis Dreyfus) which have turned the European governments and citizens into forced and captive dependents of their products at sidereal prices.

As could not be otherwise, all this is linked to the World Bank, which participates in this blackmail on a global scale since it answers directly to the Oval Office in the White House.

This is where once again the great swindle of US democracy and the total falsity of its declarations about its concern for human rights, freedoms and values become apparent. The US is a dying empire and needs to sink its fangs into its abandoned victims in the global south, especially in Africa and Latin America.

As it could not be otherwise, Argentina is immersed in this scheme of plundering which, due to its geographical characteristics and extensive lands for cultivation, presents an appetizing profit for the US agribusiness lobby, which knows that it will have no obstacles to impose its conditions, whoever the government may be. That is why in the country of wheat the price of a kilogram of bread rises as if it were a scarce commodity.

We are witnessing a new wave of abusive policies aimed at monopolizing no longer the national markets of a few states or specific regions, getting rid of small producers for the benefit of US agribusiness corporations and agrochemical laboratories with European ramifications. This is a global ambition. By hoarding grain stocks and preventing commercial traffic through a deliberate increase in fuel prices, these interests are taking the bread out of the mouths of millions of people, and no longer just those in impoverished regions in Africa or Latin America. The same European citizens and even ordinary Britons, with a government that participates in these plans, are being held hostage to a constant rise in the prices of food, transport and taxes for basic services.

There is no doubt that this is no accident. Despairing the ordinary population has advantages very well thought out by and for the governments, that is, if they manage to hide the truth of what is really behind the current crisis. Fortunately, citizens have already realized this and the argumentative efforts of the media and the intelligentsia servile to these interests are becoming more and more innocuous, making it clear that the system is part of the problem.

But behind this global agri-food corporation and its colleagues in the energy corporation lies the objective of the Anglo-American political-financial oclocracy, which aspires to control a wider spectrum of captives that would materialize with the control of the entire global south, and to this end, getting China and Russia out of the way is paramount to achieve this aspiration.

 

 

 

 

DESPERATE STRATEGY

What might be the consequences of widening the sources of instability against Russia? Is Turkey's repositioning an advantage or a disadvantage?

 

By Sidney Hey

The events of the past week in Ukraine have prompted the White House and NATO to launch moves outside the Ukrainian theatre with the clear objective of complicating the situation for Russia. Once again, military and intelligence advisers commissioned in Kiev realised the mistake of provoking Russia with the attack on the Kerch Bridge.

Beyond the parsimonious Western news reports and the Biden administration's comments peppered with propaganda that is not credible at this point, the reports on the ground are overwhelming. This was experienced firsthand by mercenary groups working with British ex-SAS advisors in preparing special operations involving the waterborne drone attack on the Crimean bridge.

According to confidential sources, these task forces operating alongside the SBU in Odessa and Nikolayev could feel the “Kalbir” and “Kinzal” missiles falling on their heads destroying important supply and fuel depots in the docks on the Black Sea shore. “Sirens blared and anti-aircraft batteries fired into nothingness and a second later the ground shook from the impact of one of those damn missiles”, said a British mercenary who escaped the attack.

Another major absentee was the US Patriot anti-aircraft system which, had it been operational, could have done little to intercept the hypersonic missiles. 

The Russian attacks were replicated and occurred at the same time on the entire Ukrainian port infrastructure, as evidenced by the explosions in Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Nikolayev, Odessa, Poltava and Cherkasy, which, in addition to the damage, left the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defences exhausted.

These strikes were not only in retaliation for the Kerch bridge, but also for having been using the agreed grain corridor as an access route for smuggling Western weaponry. Russian intelligence was aware of this perfidy and kept the executive informed of these shipments and their destinations, demonstrating that Zelensky and his backers (led by the US) care little about food supplies to poorer countries and the impact on global costs. It was for this reason that Russia terminated an agreement that the US and its partners once again ended up violating.

At the same time, the Americans with the help of their partners (mainly British) were already preparing to reactivate other theatres. Syria is one of them, and so the US forces still occupying the north of the country with the cooperation of Kurdish armed gangs and jihadists fortified in Idlib (where, among others, MI6 assets are sheltering), have tried to trouble the Damascus government and the Russian contingent. This could not be happening without the agreement of Ankara which, let us remember, was the central partner in NATO's ploy to use jihadists (Jabbat Al Nusra, ISIS, among others) to try to overthrow the Syrian Arab Republic and reshape the region.

We witnessed Erdogan welcoming Sweden and claiming that “Ukraine deserved to be a member of NATO” while shaking hands with an enraged Zelensky in a supreme effort to feign disappointment. The bizarre display was a bad sign for Russia.

As we saw, Erdogan not only turned a blind eye to the Islamophobia on display in Sweden with the burning of copies of “The Koran” and the constant attacks on Muslims living there, but having been conformed at the Vilnius summit (omitting the principle of indivisible security), there will surely be no problem for the Kurdish collaborators of the Americans to operate unhindered against Damascus. All this fits with the Turkish leader's treacherous nature, a quality that is well known in Moscow. The problem for Erdogan is that his Judeo-Christian partners do not guarantee that they will not operate against Turkey.

For Washington and especially for military advisers in the Pentagon, embarrassing Russian logistics is a priority objective to try to disempower him in actions over Ukraine. At the same time, Moscow is aware of this move, and Vladimir Putin in particular knows that it is not a question of exerting more force, but of knowing how to wait.

In the meantime, and to oil this strategy, the Americans and NATO are counting on the collaboration of Israel which, obviously denying this link and no doubt taking advantage of the pragmatism of the Turkish leader, is launching its air attacks with drones, surface-to-surface missiles and from the Golan Heights on Damascus, without the United Nations attending to these repeated (hundreds of attacks recognised by Netanyahu) cases of aggression as foreseen in Chapter VII of the Charter.

But this move may bring more complications than benefits, and Tel Aviv knows that the risks are high. What if Russian troops are killed again as they have been? The current circumstances are too different and dangerous to risk Moscow legitimately retaliating for further such actions.

In the meantime, Erdogan's sudden but expected U-turn suggests that Turkey will not be neutral in the current conflict and may allow the MIT (in cooperation with the CIA) to deploy protected ISIS assets after the fall of Mosul in 2017. If this is possible, Moscow will have already foreseen it and if it is proven that there are plans to act within Russia, Erdogan will no doubt not have a second chance to apologise with crocodile tears like those he shed to Vladimir Putin after the November 2015 downing of the SU-24 aircraft.

 

UNA GEOPOLITICA FOSILIZADA

Las elecciones presidenciales se acercan en Argentina y la pregunta recurrente para algunos es ¿Cuál será el camino y la orientación geopolítica del nuevo gobierno?, ¿Será un nuevo gobierno?

 

Por Javier B. Dal

Tal vez el título de este artículo suene incomprensible y hasta de alguna manera fantástica, pero en la vida política de la Argentina estos son conceptos que no asombran a nadie. Aquí a pesar de que los años y las décadas pasan, los políticos siguen siendo los mismos y sus prosélitos siguen en un continuo regreso en la vida política del estado dándole al título un sentido bien certero.

Desde el regreso a la democracia no hubo un solo gobierno (sin distinción de partidos) que no haya hecho de sus funcionarios y de los partidos que pertenecen, permanentes y omnipresentes sujetos dependientes de las cajas del estado, un vicio que por una desvergonzada venalidad extienden sin tapujos a sus parientes y amigos.

Para estos profesionales de la charlatanería la “democracia” se convirtió en el negocio redondo para perpetrarse en el circuito de la política gubernamental y así sostener sus ampulosos medios de vida. Hasta en eso han sido obsecuentes imitadores del sistema estadounidense, un verdadero sistema negocial y corrupto que está muy lejos de sus representados pero a su vez, tan íntimamente cerca de los poderes económicos y financieros que les sustentan.

Tampoco es una novedad decir que el país está fuera de la realidad mundial. Su cíclica crisis socio-económico y financiera que lo atestigua no es por el azar. Una catarata de problemas sin resolver, una inversión de valores éticos y desinteligencias explican cómo un país tan vasto y con tantos recursos explotables pueda estar tan mal administrado y a la deriva en el concierto internacional. En momentos que el abastecimiento de granos y carne es uno de los problemas más acuciantes para el una importante parte del mundo, y atendiendo a la neutralidad que debería mantener en el conflicto europeo, la Argentina no dispone de una flota mercante ni de una planificación logística desarrollada para explotar estas necesidades ¿Quiénes son los responsables por esto?

Hasta un país asediado por sanciones de todo tipo y continuas acciones subversivas por potencias externas logran salir adelante sin perder de vista sus intereses estratégicos ni renunciar a la dignidad de su propia existencia. Lo han hecho los iraníes, los iraquíes, los venezolanos, los yemeníes, los palestinos y tantos otros. Obviamente que eso creará bolsones de descontentos y oportunistas dentro de la sociedad dispuestos a extender sus manos (para recibir dinero) a los intereses externos que se benefician de eso, pero serán combatidos por aquellos que se mantienen fieles al interés nacional. Así es como obran y terminan los traidores y los advenedizos en otras latitudes.

Pero en Argentina ¿Qué clase de asedio o cuál es su poderoso enemigo que le ha postrado en el estado en que se encuentra? Lamentablemente a los enemigos del país (que son históricos y siguen vigentes) no les hace falta ninguna de estas tácticas, esfuerzo ni alguna que otra estrategia extraordinaria o subterránea para mantener arrodillada la voluntad de su población. Los mismos políticos se han encargado de dinamitar la infraestructura crítica y las áreas estratégicas de un estado afuncional. Son los saboteadores por unas cuantas monedas. Como en las películas de zombies, son los mismos políticos verdaderos muertos-vivos de la corrupta institucionalidad quienes se devoran por dentro los recursos del país.

Como en esas películas, esos zombies reproducen su infección de corrupción y ya hace tiempo que su peste está diseminada sobre los tres poderes en los tres niveles de la distribución territorial del poder es decir, tanto en lo nacional, provincial como el municipal. Pero ¿Dónde vienen estos engendros que devoran a sus propios conciudadanos? Son el producto de su propia idiosincrasia y como tal, no hay más responsables que ellos mismos. El dilema de quién fue primero, el huevo o la gallina aquí esta bien resuelto.

Con este diagnóstico es muy poco probable que un estado bajo semejantes condiciones pueda tener políticas de estado y mucho menos, proyectos o planificaciones estratégicas de largo alcance ya que, todo cuanto importa a los políticos de todas las extracciones es además de beneficiarse con los dineros del erario público, será hacer y deshacer a su antojo sin interesarles que es lo que pueda suceder después.

Como no podía ser de otra manera, esto afecta las relaciones internacionales las cuales son tan diletantes como los políticos que ocupan transitoriamente La Casa Rosada. Si hacemos un poco de retrospectiva vemos como el gobierno de Fernández &Fernández y su aparato partidario coqueteaban con China y Rusia en lo que pudo ser el inicio de relaciones estratégicas de alto nivel. La posibilidad de integrar el BRICS se dejó pasar y hoy por presiones de Washington y sus socios británicos, el gobierno de Fernández & Fernández ya renunció a su membrecía.

Para eso, además de saber qué es lo que se quiere, se requiere de compromiso y ser tomados en serio por el otro lado y no olvidemos que Alberto Fernández empezó con el pie izquierdo con el papelón en Moscú ofreciendo al presidente Vladimir Putin, una puerta de entrada que sabía que no podía brindar.

Tanto los kirchneristas de ayer, los que hoy ocupan el gobierno y toda la oposición, están lejos de querer comprometerse en ser parte del cambio de paradigma de la geopolítica que hoy se ve enfrascada en una guerra en Europa del este. Sin dudas que eso asusta, pero debieron haberlo previsto con anticipación y no paralizarse.

Hoy una vez más, el realismo se impone y deja caer las máscaras de estos supuestos promotores del cambio dejando bien claro que quienes mandan y marcan la agenda política de este país son los empresarios que monopolizan el mercado inmobiliario, la energía y el agro que no tienen la menor intención de cambiar sus clientes y los mercados a los que surten desde que la Argentina se constituyó como estado. De este modo, no soltaran la mano a la hegemonía angloestadounidense por el simple hecho de que como dice el dicho “más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer”, aun cuando saben que son quienes le ponen zanjadillas a su existencia.

Es por ello, el actual ministro y candidato presidencial Sergio Massa (en una muestra más de su panquequismo) giro en el aire y -por presión de ese círculo rojo- decidió patear los acuerdos que Buenos Aires tenía con Moscú sobre el abastecimiento de GNL bloqueando el ingreso de un buque ruso que iba al puerto de Buenos Aires ¿Y qué dijo CFK?

Más allá de las críticas que se le hagan a Massa por esto y por su desvergonzada opacidad y caradurez, él representa -en todos los niveles- la media de la dirigencia argentina que ha manejado al estado con este tipo de criterios. Sea del lado de los liberales anglófilos como de los “progresistas” o los mutantes “kirchnoperonistas”, la idea de objetivos estratégicos para el estado siempre se halla sujeta al más poderoso del hemisferio. Si hay algo que no existe en la personalidad de un político argentino (sea de cualquiera de estos sectores) es la resistencia al poder y no es de extrañar que tras la advertencia de Washington al gobierno de Fernández que si quería ayuda con el FMI, abandonara a Rusia. Ante una ausente presidente y una CFK enmudecida, Massa aprovecho su momento con la esperanza de ser recompensado por esta señal.

Hasta tanto no nazca una nueva camada de dirigentes, ajena a este sistema corroído de la partidocracia no habrá salida para lo que quede del país.

 

UNDERCOVER FIGHTING

Why Washington and its Atlanticist partners have passed all the limits of legality and do not mind doing so?

By Danny Smith 

Definitely, the fall of the USSR in 1991 was not the breakthrough towards a lasting peace that candid intellectuals and other malicious ones assured. Perhaps some disguised themselves as the former and, like psychopaths who know how to simulate their true intentions, quietly enjoyed what was about to happen.

Let us revive our memory a little. The loss of the geopolitical counterweight that was the USSR led the US and NATO to rise as the unilateral power over all the nations of the world and that immediately translated into the naked and crude application of military power. That explains why NATO was not dissolved. The invasions of Panama in 1989 and the war against Iraq in 1991 were the prolegomena of a decade of brutal actions against international law.

To cover up this aberration, the Anglo-American Think Tanks fabricated all kinds of argumentative monikers and narratives that sought to separate and in most of these cases, justify the criminality of the deaths that their governments would begin to cause as soon as they began to put their plans into operation (PNAC). The star puppet for this charade was Islam, very clever, don't you think?

Throughout this process, international organizations such as the United Nations, not to mention its Security Council, were like decorations without the slightest weight in their functions. All it took was a private phone call from the US State Department to the Secretary General for no one to lift a finger against the actions that Washington was putting into practice.

The return of a geopolitical counterweight to the international scene gives a chance to put an end to this Anglo-American unilateralism in pursuit of global control.

Precisely this return with the new Russia came about gradually, beginning with its intervention in Syria in 2015 to combat bands of “proxy jihadists” at the service of the West, and since February 2022 it has become a frontal fight with those who had promoted all that chaos. Prior to this and long before Joe Biden occupied the White House, he himself as a senator and his neoconservative colleagues in the mid-1990s outlined a reactivation agenda to expand US influence with the help of NATO and that implied cooperating with Islamist subversive elements in pro-independence countries.

The planned expectations were not fulfilled and although they managed to make Russia react to enter Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's potentiality and governance is still intact.

It is undoubtedly a frustration that the Anglo-Americans have tried to palliate with the most varied tactics. One of them is the use of terrorism in various forms. The use of terror is one of the most widely used strategies to try to defeat an enemy and has been used since man began to organize himself into communities.

For years it has been said that terrorism was only a source of irregular organizations and with certain affiliations. But in reality as a tactic, it has been and continues to be used by governments, especially so-called “democratic” ones.

In the current Ukrainian scenario, intelligence agencies have been visibly acting in the execution of attacks within the Russian territory with the aim of instilling terror among the population as they did on other occasions.

From what we have been able to see so far, the execution of this type of operations, especially those involving bombs, has been counting on the participation of expert hands that have clearly executed countless attacks of this kind in Iraq and Syria and that if we were to go back to 2014 the Western media would attribute to that pseudo-Arab-Islamic pantomime called “Islamic State”. The attack of October 8, 2022 with that truck bomb that was detonated on the bridge connecting the Kerch Strait reminded by its similarities a “martyrdom” operation of those impostors drugged with “Captagon” Or are the unemployed of that bloody comedy working for Zelensky, or are they part of the CIA advisors or both at the same time? Whatever it is, the media and its communicators have their mouths very well shut.

Since the bombing that killed the daughter of Russian political scientist Alexander Dugin, it became clear who was the favorite target of this terror campaign. Although the Ukrainian agent identified as Natalya Pavlovna Vovk was involved and managed to escape to Lithuania, it was recently reported that she was found hanged. This makes it clear how her employers paid her for her services. Of course, as with the Nord Stream pipelines and the Nova Kharkova dam, Washington claimed to be unaware of her involvement, but several U.S. sources confirmed that it was the CIA that was directing SBU cells and other Nordic agencies to carry out this type of action. It was not long before Russian author and novelist Zakhar Prilepin was the target of a similar attack that failed to kill him.

Another such event was the April 2023 assassination of Russian blogger Maxim Fomin, who was in a café in St. Petersburg when an explosive charge was detonated in a gift given to him by a young woman named Darya Trepova, who had been recruited by the SBU, and the list of attacks against facilities inside Russia goes on, but where is the outrage in the Western press about these terrorist tactics?

The discovery of an extensive plan to assassinate Russian journalists with RT director Margarita Simonian at the head, has put in black and white who the real orchestrators of international terrorism have been and are, and the degree of impunity they have to dare to consider such criminal plans. If it were not a power like Russia that can prevent and counteract these dirty operations, the citizens of another state without these capabilities would be exposed to the dirty games of these agencies. Just remember what they did in the Middle East to get an idea.

It is worth repeating that if in the past they succeeded in creating and feeding a supposed war against a method that has no ideology or religion, it was thanks to the complicity of the big media companies and the silence of the international forums that let them do it.