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“You are only free to speak your mind in the US if you are saying what the authorities want you to say.” — Tara Reade An American, even a former US Marine and UN weapons inspector, who takes issue with official explanations dear to Washington’s heart, will be accused, as Scott Ritter is, of manipulating...

This is going to be a total mess. Why would Chicago allow this? They could easily have just said “no, it’s a safety threat.” Chicago is probably worse than New York in terms of the city’s ability to just do whatever they want. It’s almost like… they want the DNC to have problems? New York...

Then-Sen. Barack Obama's 2008 run, a classic identity play, emphasized the history-making potential of electing the nation's first Black president. No one knew or cared much about Obama's policy positions, and he didn't bother to share them. Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 and 2020 bids were policy arguments focused around a succinct set of issues: student...

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Nagasaki Day arrives again on Friday. Naturally I wrote a major piece about this atrocity – and Oppenheimer barely mentioning it – last year at Mother Jones, my third piece for them last summer in response to the Nolan movie (see here and … Continue reading "Nagasaki: The Forgotten Bomb"

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The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear weapons contractors like Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. And they will do everything in their power to keep … Continue reading "Cashing in on Nukes"

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The United States has announced it will upgrade U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ) to a joint force headquarters (JFHQ) with expanded operational responsibilities. The new command will report to the US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). The revamped structure will assume the control of about 55,000 personnel stationed in Japan from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command some 6,200 kilometers … Continue reading "Japan-US Joint Statement on War Preparations Forecasts Doom"

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Vladimir Putin is an old-fashioned American liberal. He believes in reason, good will, working things out, and agreements despite having zero evidence that any such reciprocating belief exists in the West. Putin’s illusions have caused him and Russia extraordinary difficulties. Russia is currently at war in Ukraine, although Putin still doesn’t seem to realize it,...

Am 4. August haben Dominik Reichert und ich bei Anti-Spiegel-TV über Serbien und die dortigen Proteste gesprochen, die Sendung finden Sie hier. In der Sendung haben wir bereits halb im Scherz gesagt, dass die EU sich in Serbien in eine Win-Win-Situation gebracht hat und dass sie den serbischen Präsidenten, den der Westen wegen seiner Weigerung, […]

El Aro. Die Regierung von Gustavo Petro hat im Bezirk El Aro im kolumbianischen Departamento Antioquia 52 Landeigentumstitel an Familien von Bauern übergeben. Im Oktober 1997 töteten Paramilitärs dort 17 Menschen, ungefähr 1.400 mussten ihre Heimat und damit ihr Ackerland... weiter 09.08.2024 Artikel von Anna Abraham zu Kolumbien, Politik, Soziales

Wasgington. Die US-Behörden haben die vor zwei Jahren eingeführten humanitären Ausnahmegenehmigungen für die Einreise aus vier Ländern vorübergehend ausgesetzt. Das sogenannte Parole-Programm ermöglichte fast einer halben Million Migranten aus Kuba, Haiti, Nicaragua und Venezuela... weiter 09.08.2024 Artikel von Rudi Kurz zu USA, Politik

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In an article titled “U.S. Warns Iran of ‘Serious Risk’ if It Conducts Major Attack on Israel,” The Wall Street Journal reports that officials within the Biden administration have been warning Iran not to “escalate” against Israel in its planned retaliatory strikes for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran.

“The United States has sent clear messaging to Iran that the risk of a major escalation if they do a significant retaliatory attack against Israel is extremely high,” an anonymous US official told The Wall Street Journal, adding that “there is a serious risk of consequences for Iran’s economy and the stability of its newly elected government if it goes down that path.”

As we sit awaiting Iran’s planned reprisal attack and hope dearly that it doesn’t lead to a major new war in west Asia, one can’t help but read such reports and think it sure would’ve been nice of the Americans to issue these kinds of warnings to Israel against escalating before it went on its insanely escalatory assassination spree in the capital cities of Iran and Lebanon.

Report: US Warns Iran of ‘Serious Risk’ If It Launches Major Attack on Israel
US officials don't know when the expected Iranian reprisal attack is coming
by Dave DeCamp@DecampDave #Iran #Israel #Gaza #Haniyeh https://t.co/YqCcPkCOaC pic.twitter.com/ZmwEbyWFOa

— Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) August 8, 2024

You’ll never see western officials so enthusiastic about the idea of de-escalation as they are in those time periods when their side has just severely escalated tensions with an extreme act of aggression, but the other side has yet to retaliate. They remind you of a parent who lets their kid run around clobbering other children at the playground, then when another child goes to hit them back they rush in and start yelling about the need to play nice.

They’ve been doing this song and dance for the last few days, ever since it became clear that Iran was going to retaliate for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh while he was a guest on their territory. 

“Earlier, Vice President Harris and I were briefed in the Situation Room on developments in the Middle East,” President Biden’s Twitter account posted on Monday. “We received updates on threats posed by Iran and its proxies, diplomatic efforts to de-escalate regional tensions, and preparations to support Israel should it be attacked again. We also discussed the steps we are taking to defend our forces and respond to any attack against our personnel in a manner and place of our choosing.”

“Further attacks only raise the risk of dangerous outcomes that no one can predict and no one can fully control,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken proclaimed on Tuesday.

“Further escalation in the Middle East is in no one’s interests,” tweeted UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Tuesday. “I spoke to Iran’s acting Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, and cautioned that any Iranian attack would have devastating consequences for the region. Iran and all parties must urgently and immediately de-escalate.”

Further escalation in the Middle East is in no one’s interests. I spoke to Iran's acting Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, and cautioned that any Iranian attack would have devastating consequences for the region. Iran and all parties must urgently and immediately de-escalate. pic.twitter.com/Bds2Oru5jT

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) August 6, 2024

Israel’s powerful western backers are happy to let it run rampant throughout the region without making any meaningful warnings against its criminal actions or imposing any consequences on it whatsoever. But as soon as it becomes clear that Israel has crossed a red line and is about to get hit, these western empire managers turn into a bunch of hippies who just want peace and love.

When Iran does whatever it’s about to do, we may be certain that the western empire and its propagandists in the mass media are going to frame it as an unprovoked and outrageous act of aggression and start babbling about “defending” Israel against its “attackers”. Imperial history always begins right after Israel’s aggressions, and starts the clock as the retaliations for them emerge.

That’s how the imperial spin machine operates: reversing victim and victimizer, aggressor and defender, claiming to always be acting in self-defense while existing in a continuous state of attack. When the inevitable blowback from these aggressions turns up, they stare with Bambi-eyed innocence and call it an unprovoked attack launched by deranged madmen with hatred in their hearts, and use it to justify even more mass military slaughter in the parts of the world where they already wanted to inflict it.

Are you not tired of having your intelligence insulted like this? I know I am.

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Bei türkischen Luftangriffen in der Kurdistan-Region Irak (KRI) sind mehrere Buschfeuer ausgebrochen. Das berichtete unter anderem die Nachrichtenagentur RojNews am Abend. Die danach mit Kampfflugzeugen verübten Attacken ereigneten sich am Donnerstag gegen 18 Uhr Ortszeit und trafen ländliche Gebiete nördlich von Silêmanî (Sulaimaniyya), darunter das Dorf Gelale. Ob Menschen verletzt wurden, sei zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt nicht bekannt.

Mindestens drei Bombenabwürfe habe es gegeben, teilte Kamaran Osman, Vertreter der in der KRI ansässigen NGO Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT-Iraqi Kurdistan), lokalen Medien mit. Zuvor seien Aufklärungsdrohnen am Himmel über der Region beobachtet worden, hieß es im Bericht von RojNews. Anwohnende riskierten demnach Leib und Leben und versuchten die Flammen auf eigene Faust zu bekämpfen. Ob die Feuerwehr ebenfalls im Einsatz ist, war nicht zu erfahren. Laut CPT-Angaben sind bereits 2,5 Hektar forst- und landwirtschaftliche Fläche abgebrannt. Eine offizielle Erklärung der Behörden lag zuletzt nicht vor.

 

Die Ortschaft Gelale, die sich an den Ausläufern des Asos-Gebirges in der Gemeinde Mawet befindet, gehört verwaltungstechnisch zur Stadt Şarbajêr im Norden des Gouvernements Silêmanî und liegt gut 200 Kilometer vom türkischen Staatsgebiet entfernt. Dennoch greift die türkische Armee die Gegend unter dem Deckmantel der „Selbstverteidigung“ seit Jahren immer wieder mit Kampfflugzeugen oder Drohnen an. Mitte April war in Gelale ein Bewohner bei einem Drohnenschlag getötet worden, im Januar hatten fliegende Tötungsmaschinen ein Haus in dem Dorf in Trümmer gebombt.

Neun zivile Todesopfer durch türkischen Luftterror

Laut dem CPT sind seit Anfang des laufenden Jahres mindestens neun Zivilist:innen durch türkische Angriffe in der KRI getötet worden. Mitte Juni startete die Türkei zudem eine neue Besatzungsoffensive in der Region. Seither kommt es täglich zu schweren Bombardierungen ziviler Siedlungsgebiete. Den Daten der Community Peacemaker Teams nach wurden bereits zahlreiche Dörfer entvölkert, weiteren Ortschaft droht dasselbe Schicksal. Die internationale Gemeinschaft ignoriert die Verbrechen der Türkei in ihrem Nachbarland.

https://anfdeutsch.com/kurdistan/hpg-turkei-errichtet-stutzpunkt-auf-jahrhundertealtem-friedhof-43172 https://anfdeutsch.com/kurdistan/turkei-weitet-angriffe-auf-sudkurdistan-aus-43012 https://anfdeutsch.com/kurdistan/brand-nach-drohnenangriffen-in-Cemcemal-43051

 

Der Kaukasuskrieg 2008 wird von westlichen Politikern und Medien immer in die Liste der angeblichen „russischen Aggressionen“ aufgenommen und als eine Art russische Ursünde hingestellt, weil Russland damals angeblich erstmals vollkommen unprovoziert ein anderes Land angegriffen hat. Diese Behauptung ist jedoch eine glatte Lüge, denn der Rat der EU hat damals eine Fact Finding Mission […]

Today, Axios reported that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) will not propose any new rules for the use of AI-generated deepfakes in political advertising this year. The news comes over a year after Public Citizen petitioned the agency for rulemaking on the issue.

Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement in response:

“A decision by the FEC not to regulate political deepfakes would be a shameful abrogation of its responsibilities. The idea expressed by FEC Chair Sean Cooksey that the FEC should wait for deceptive fraud to occur and study its consequences before acting to prevent the fraud is preposterous.

“Political deepfakes are rushing at us, threatening to disrupt electoral integrity. They have been used widely around the world and are starting to surface in the United States. And while social media platforms have some good rules in place, Elon Musk’s recent posting of a political deepfake is a reminder that platforms cannot be trusted to self-regulate. Requiring that political deepfakes be labeled doesn’t favor any political party or candidate. It simply protects voters from fraud and chaos.

“The FEC is the nation’s election protection agency and it has authority to regulate deepfakes as part of its existing authority to prohibit fraudulent misrepresentations. It should have acted on this issue long ago, before Public Citizen petitioned for rulemaking. When we did petition, the agency should have promptly acted to put a rule in place. It still could and should reverse the wrongheaded decision that Chair Cooksey has said is imminent, and act to protect voters and our elections.

“The FEC’s refusal to do its job underscores the need for Congressional action, the importance of state action — already 20 state legislatures have acted to prevent deepfake chaos — and the need for the Federal Communications Commission to push forward with its proposal for an AI disclosure standard for political ads on TV and radio.”

Ich veröffentliche immer wieder Recherchen der russischen Menschenrechts-NGO Fonds zur Bekämpfung der Repression, deren Chefin ich auch persönlich kenne. Nun hat der Fonds eine neue Recherche veröffentlicht, in der es im wahrsten Sinne um Geschäfte mit dem Tod geht. Demnach ist der Markt für Bestattungen in der Ukraine monopolisiert und wird vom ukrainischen Präsidenten und […]

The President signed Federal Law On Amending Article 71 of the Federal Law On Education in the Russian Federation and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.

Southport am 29. Juni 2024 und Berlin am 3. August 2024: Beide Kalenderdaten stehen für Ereignisse, die es wert sind, als Signale wahrgenommen zu werden.  Im englischen Southport hat der 17-jährige A. Rudakubana am 29. Juni mit einem Messer drei Mädchen im Alter von 6, 7 und 9 Jahren erstochen, die an einem Taylor-Swift-Tanzkurs teilgenommen […]

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Vladimir Putin signed Federal Law On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.

The President signed Federal Law On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation and the Invalidity of Certain Provisions of Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.

Occupied Jerusalem , SANA /  56 Palestinians were martyred and dozens were wounded today as a result of the Israeli occupation air force bombing of several areas in Gaza as a part of its ongoing aggression.

Wafa news agency reported that the occupation air force bombed two schools housing displaced people east of Gaza, which resulted in the martyrdom of 15 Palestinians and the injury of dozens. Plus, 9 Palestinians were martyred in a similar bombing that targeted the neighborhoods of Zeitoun, Yarmouk and Sabra in the city.

In addition to that , the occupation air force bombed a residential area in the Bureij camp in the middle of the strip, resulting in the martyrdom of other /15/ Palestinians and the injury of dozens, while 17 others were killed and dozens were injured after bombing of the towns of Al-Qarara and Abasan al-Kabira east of Khan Yunis in the south of the Strip, the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Strip, and Jabalia and Beit Lahia in the north.

Earlier, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that since October 7th the number of victims of the ongoing occupation aggression on the Gaza has risen to 39,699 martyrs along with 91,722 wounded.