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Start Of A New World War by NairaMinted2: 1:18am On Mar 24, 2016
A brilliant reminder why y'all harbour the views that y'all harbour.

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March 22, 2016

Propaganda about Russian and Chinese “aggression” has cloaked the reality of the U.S. and the West moving aggressively to encircle both countries, the start of a new world war, says John Pilger.

By John Pilger

I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini,” they say, “You mean the swimsuit.”

Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 — the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for 12 years.


President Barack Obama uncomfortably accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2009. (White House photo)

Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Nothing moves. There are no birds. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. My shoes registered “unsafe” on a Geiger counter.

Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called “Bravo.” The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever.

On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women’s Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: “You, too, can have a bikini body.” A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different “bikini bodies”; each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers.

Unlike the smiling woman in the magazine, all of them were impoverished: the victims and guinea pigs of a rapacious superpower that is today more dangerous than ever.

I relate this experience as a warning and to interrupt a distraction that has consumed so many of us. The founder of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, described this phenomenon as “the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the habits and opinions” of democratic societies. He called it an “invisible government”.

How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.

In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in the centre of Prague, in the heart of Europe. He pledged himself to make “the world free from nuclear weapons.” People cheered and some cried. A torrent of platitudes flowed from the media. Obama was subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was all fake. He was lying.

The Obama administration has built more nuclear weapons, more nuclear warheads, more nuclear delivery systems, more nuclear factories. Nuclear warhead spending alone rose higher under Obama than under any American president. The cost over 30 years is more than $1 trillion.


A nuclear test detonation carried out in Nevada on April 18, 1953.

A mini nuclear bomb is planned. It is known as the B61 Model 12. There has never been anything like it. General James Cartwright, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, “Going smaller [makes using this nuclear] weapon more thinkable.”

In the last 18 months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two — led by the United States — is taking place along Russia’s western frontier. Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia.

Ukraine – once part of the Soviet Union – has become a CIA theme park. Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of the Russian-speaking minority.

This is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.

In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — next door to Russia — the U.S. military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This extreme provocation of the world’s second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.

What makes the prospect of nuclear war even more dangerous is a parallel campaign against China. Seldom a day passes when China is not elevated to the status of a “threat.” According to Admiral Harry Harris, the U.S. Pacific commander, China is “building a great wall of sand in the South China Sea.”

What he is referring to is China building airstrips in the Spratly Islands, which are the subject of a dispute with the Philippines – a dispute without priority until Washington pressured and bribed the government in Manila and the Pentagon launched a propaganda campaign called “freedom of navigation.”

What does this really mean? It means freedom for American warships to patrol and dominate the coastal waters of China. Try to imagine the American reaction if Chinese warships did the same off the coast of California.

I made a film called The War You Don’t See, in which I interviewed distinguished journalists in America and Britain: reporters such as Dan Rather of CBS, Rageh Omar of the BBC, David Rose of the Observer.

All of them said that had journalists and broadcasters done their job and questioned the propaganda that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction; had the lies of George W. Bush and Tony Blair not been amplified and echoed by journalists, the 2003 invasion of Iraq might not have happened, and hundreds of thousands of men, women and children would be alive today.

The propaganda laying the ground for a war against Russia and/or China is no different in principle. To my knowledge, no journalist in the Western “mainstream” — a Dan Rather equivalent, say — asks why China is building airstrips in the South China Sea.

The answer ought to be glaringly obvious. The United States is encircling China with a network of bases, with ballistic missiles, battle groups, nuclear-armed bombers.

This lethal arc extends from Australia to the islands of the Pacific, the Marianas and the Marshalls and Guam, to the Philippines, Thailand, Okinawa, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India. America has hung a noose around the neck of China. This is not news. Silence by media; war by media.

In 2015, in high secrecy, the U.S. and Australia staged the biggest single air-sea military exercise in recent history, known as Talisman Sabre. Its aim was to rehearse an Air-Sea Battle Plan, blocking sea lanes, such as the Straits of Malacca and the Lombok Straits, that cut off China’s access to oil, gas and other vital raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.


Billionaire and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

In the circus known as the American presidential campaign, Donald Trump is being presented as a lunatic, a fascist. He is certainly odious; but he is also a media-hate figure. That alone should arouse our skepticism. Trump’s views on migration are grotesque, but no more grotesque than those of British Prime Minister David Cameron. It is not Trump who is the Great Deporter from the United States, but the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama.

According to one prodigious liberal commentator, Trump is “unleashing the dark forces of violence” in the United States. Unleashing them?

This is the country where toddlers shoot their mothers and the police wage a murderous war against black Americans. This is the country that has attacked and sought to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and bombed from Asia to the Middle East, causing the deaths and dispossession of millions of people.

No country can equal this systemic record of violence. Most of America’s wars (almost all of them against defenseless countries) have been launched not by Republican presidents but by liberal Democrats: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.

In 1947, a series of National Security Council directives described the paramount aim of American foreign policy as “a world substantially made over in [America’s] own image.” The ideology was messianic Americanism. We were all Americans. Or else. Heretics would be converted, subverted, bribed, smeared or crushed.

Donald Trump is a symptom of this, but he is also a maverick. He says the invasion of Iraq was a crime; he doesn’t want to go to war with Russia and China. The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton. She is no maverick. She embodies the resilience and violence of a system whose vaunted “exceptionalism” is totalitarian with an occasional liberal face.

As presidential Election Day draws near, Clinton will be hailed as the first female president, regardless of her crimes and lies – just as Barack Obama was lauded as the first black president and liberals swallowed his nonsense about “hope.” And the drool goes on.


Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a Democratic presidential debate sponsored by CNN.

Described by the Guardian columnist Owen Jones as “funny, charming, with a coolness that eludes practically every other politician,” Obama the other day sent drones to slaughter 150 people in Somalia. He kills people usually on Tuesdays, according to the New York Times, when he is handed a list of candidates for death by drone. So cool.

In the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton threatened to “totally obliterate” Iran with nuclear weapons. As Secretary of State under Obama, she participated in the overthrow of the democratic government of Honduras. Her contribution to the destruction of Libya in 2011 was almost gleeful. When the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, was publicly sodomized with a knife – a murder made possible by American logistics – Clinton gloated over his death: “We came, we saw, he died.”

One of Clinton’s closest allies is Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State, who has attacked young women for not supporting “Hillary.” This is the same Madeleine Albright who infamously celebrated on TV the death of half a million Iraqi children as “worth it”.

Among Clinton’s biggest backers are the Israel lobby and the arms companies that fuel the violence in the Middle East. She and her husband have received a fortune from Wall Street. And yet, she is about to be ordained the women’s candidate, to see off the evil Trump, the official demon. Her supporters include distinguished feminists: the likes of Gloria Steinem in the U.S. and Anne Summers in Australia.

A generation ago, a post-modern cult now known as “identity politics” stopped many intelligent, liberal-minded people examining the causes and individuals they supported — such as the fakery of Obama and Clinton; such as bogus progressive movements like Syriza in Greece, which betrayed the people of that country and allied with their enemies.

Self-absorption, a kind of “me-ism,” became the new Zeitgeist in privileged Western societies and signaled the demise of great collective movements against war, social injustice, inequality, racism and sexism.

Today, the long sleep may be over. The young are stirring again. Gradually. The thousands in Britain who supported Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader are part of this awakening – as are those who rallied to support Sen. Bernie Sanders.

In Britain last week, Jeremy Corbyn’s closest ally, his shadow treasurer John McDonnell, committed a Labour government to pay off the debts of piratical banks and, in effect, to continue so-called austerity.

In the U.S., Bernie Sanders has promised to support Clinton if or when she’s nominated. He, too, has voted for America’s use of violence against countries when he thinks it’s “right.” He says Obama has done “a great job.”

In Australia, there is a kind of mortuary politics, in which tedious parliamentary games are played out in the media while refugees and Indigenous people are persecuted and inequality grows, along with the danger of war. The government of Malcolm Turnbull has just announced a so-called defense budget of $195 billion that is a drive to war. There was no debate. Silence.

What has happened to the great tradition of popular direct action, unfettered to parties? Where is the courage, the imagination and the commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature?

Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?

This is an edited version of an address by John Pilger at the University of Sydney, entitled “A World War Has Begun.” JohnPilger.com – the films and journalism of John Pilger.

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/03/22/start-of-a-new-world-war/

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Re: Start Of A New World War by bonechamberlain(m): 7:38am On Mar 24, 2016
the article says it all, as the way things are now only God can save us from the hands of evil powers and the u.s.a.

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Nobody: 8:59am On Mar 24, 2016
NairaMinted2:


Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 — the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for 12 years.



How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.

In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in the centre of Prague, in the heart of Europe. He pledged himself to make “the world free from nuclear weapons.” People cheered and some cried. A torrent of platitudes flowed from the media. Obama was subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was all fake. He was lying.

The Obama administration has built more nuclear weapons, more nuclear warheads, more nuclear delivery systems, more nuclear factories. Nuclear warhead spending alone rose higher under Obama than under any American president. The cost over 30 years is more than $1 trillion.



A mini nuclear bomb is planned. It is known as the B61 Model 12. There has never been anything like it. General James Cartwright, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, “Going smaller [makes using this nuclear] weapon more thinkable.”

In the last 18 months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two — led by the United States — is taking place along Russia’s western frontier.

Ukraine – once part of the Soviet Union – has become a CIA theme park. Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally.

This is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.

In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — next door to Russia — the U.S. military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This extreme provocation of the world’s second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.





What does this really mean? It means freedom for American warships to patrol and dominate the coastal waters of China. Try to imagine the American reaction if Chinese warships did the same off the coast of California.

a Dan Rather equivalent, say — asks why China is building airstrips in the South China Sea.

The answer ought to be glaringly obvious. The United States is encircling China with a network of bases, with ballistic missiles, battle groups, nuclear-armed bombers.



In 2015, in high secrecy, the U.S. and Australia staged the biggest single air-sea military exercise in recent history, known as Talisman Sabre. Its aim was to rehearse an Air-Sea Battle Plan, blocking sea lanes, such as the Straits of Malacca and the Lombok Straits, that cut off China’s access to oil, gas and other vital raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.

According to one prodigious liberal commentator, Trump is “unleashing the dark forces of violence” in the United States. Unleashing them?

This is the country where toddlers shoot their mothers and the police wage a murderous war against black Americans. This is the country that has attacked and sought to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and bombed from Asia to the Middle East, causing the deaths and dispossession of millions of people.

No country can equal this systemic record of violence. Most of America’s wars (almost all of them against defenseless countries) have been launched not by Republican presidents but by liberal Democrats: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.



Donald Trump is a symptom of this, but he is also a maverick. He says the invasion of Iraq was a crime; he doesn’t want to go to war with Russia and China. The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton.

As presidential Election Day draws near, Clinton will be hailed as the first female president, regardless of her crimes and lies – just as Barack Obama was lauded as the first black president and liberals swallowed his nonsense about “hope.” And the drool goes on.

Obama the other day sent drones to slaughter 150 people in Somalia. He kills people usually on Tuesdays, according to the New York Times, when he is handed a list of candidates for death by drone. So cool.

In the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton threatened to “totally obliterate” Iran with nuclear weapons. As Secretary of State under Obama, she participated in the overthrow of the democratic government of Honduras. Her contribution to the destruction of Libya in 2011 was almost gleeful. When the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, was publicly sodomized with a knife – a murder made possible by American logistics – Clinton gloated over his death: “We came, we saw, he died.”

One of Clinton’s closest allies is Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State, who has attacked young women for not supporting “Hillary.” This is the same Madeleine Albright who infamously celebrated on TV the death of half a million Iraqi children as “worth it”.



Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?


I like this write-up because it is very detailed & thorough. When we came out and raised concerns about Amerika's global hegemony & covert wars against Russia, China, Middle-East & Africa; They said we are pained because we were denied visa at the Amerikan embassy.

I am glad that the author of the write-up is an Amerikan. Let us see what the Pentagon Propaganda zombies have to say about this mind-boggling revelations.

Over to you - Missy89, ValerianSteel, Mazeltov, Vedaxcool, Lucasbalo, CSTR2. grin

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Re: Start Of A New World War by NairaMinted2: 9:27am On Mar 24, 2016
Consortiumnews.com

A top site with incisive, excellent articles; background insight and analyses all penned by Amerikans, several with backgrounds in intelligence, investigative journalism and within the diplomatic community.

These are the truth tellers. The folks that tell it as it really is. Amerikans that have refused to be trapped in The Matrix and kept there by the propaganda that masquerades in the US as “news".

At least no one can dismiss them as "paid Kremlin propagandists" or "State controlled media" abi?

Ray McGovern, Robert Parry, Paul Craig Roberts, Stephen Cohen, Oliver Stone, Stephen E. Jones, Robert Gage, etc, all Amerikan truth tellers, all Amerikan heroes

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Re: Start Of A New World War by scully95: 10:34am On Mar 24, 2016
The article is on point... So we still have real American patriot like the writer who is very Educated and well informed ?
Hilary Clinton is a demon and if she ever becomes President, America will continue to be weak and vulnerable. She will definitely continue Obama's onslaught regime controlled by the Zionist.

Compared to Business guru Donald. The Zionist need a blood tasty president and that president is Hilary.

Hilary becoming president will only make Russia, Iran more powerful.

Well, whatever the case, either Donald or Hilary. Nothing will change in African countries or the less armed countries. They will continue to invade, divide, attack and dismantle strategy in less armed countries. ( To install a puppet regime)

Russia already got answer to this but not all. Just Syria and ukraine. Libya is there on the verge of collapse. Other African countries to follow. China is also very slow in responding to U.S aggression and encirclement, they always wait till last minute to defend themselves.


Brazil is next on their axis. BRICS.. You will mostly like see colour revolutions in all the BRICS countries with the exception of China and Russia.

Again the question is, will Russia wait for 5 years before it acts by the time they turn these countries to the likes of Syria or can the Brazilian or south African Regime control the colour revolutions ?

I hope they can.

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Underground: 5:42pm On Mar 24, 2016
Brilliant article. America's hubris and brinkmanship captured masterfully in one article. Too bad they didn't put in a word or two about Sep 911 but that alone we know is an entire book.

Great job guys! Really all I need do is sit back and enjoy the show. Lol!

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Re: Start Of A New World War by ValerianSteel(m): 7:00pm On Mar 24, 2016
Some of the points passed off as facts by the speaker are well too over exaggerated.

How can he claim the United States has seen to the overthrow of 50 governments of which all are democracies?That's just too much of a lie.

Much of the article critics United States global military alliance and dominance.While I know we have reservations towards the policy of circling supposed enemy states-Russia and China.We must understand that Western ideologies are responsible for policy mapping and direction.

Let me explain the above.China is not a democracy,Russia certainly isn't as well.Under Western ideology,both countries are unpredictable as they do not have clearly defined policies that can be put to checks within the structure of their own government.Both countries(China and Russia) are considerably powerful as an independent nation,in the books of the United States,a non-democratic state will always remain a threat.

Just because Russia and China doesn't have roque leader like Kim of North Korea doesn't mean they can't become the next North Korea tomorrow as there is no power,individual or body to counter such efforts within the Chinese or Russian governments.

However the case is different for the United States.The American constitution is supreme.It empowers the government to protect its citizens against external aggression.Also it empowers it's citizens to check the government against rogue policies that are detrimental to the well being and image of the United States.

Which is why American democracy trumps all others cause the government is not at liberty to do as it pleases.The government is constantly reminded her citizens have a voice which has a binding weight on government decision.Leadership in America is the job of all,power is not in the hands of a select few powerful.

To me if Russia and China were reversed as the United States becoming the world's Superpower,I doubt they'd have a different policy as to military alliance and dominance.Should Russia or China have the same resources and allies as the US does,they'd practically head in that direction.

To me all these boils down to the ideological differences between the United States and her allies whose systems contradicts the ones operated by contending powers like Russia,China,North Korea e.t.c

Until a resolve can be reached on ideological differences,we'd continue to castigate and war on what is right but considered evil or what is wrong considered good.

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Nobody: 7:49pm On Mar 24, 2016
ValerianSteel:


Let me explain the above.China is not a democracy,Russia certainly isn't as well.Under Western ideology,both countries are unpredictable as they do not have clearly defined policies that can be put to checks within the structure of their own government.


You're such an un-repented & incorrigible brain-dead dummy. Y should Amerika poke her ugly nose in the business of every Nation?

No 1 appointed Amerika as the world's police force. She is a self-proclaimed world's police force. She made totalitarian police state out of her own useless Country and now trying so hard to impose her own will & culture all over the globe.

Amerika has neither moral nor legal authority to interfere in the affairs of any Nation.

As Amerika interferes in other people’s conflicts, a self-appointed world policemen will breed resentment and a lust for revenge. No one likes a bully, especially when it’s a presumptuous superpower armed with nuclear warheads and conventional weapons.

Amerika's record on the world's stage hardly qualifies it for any merit badges. It rails against Assad’s brutality, but it backed Iraq's late president Saddam Hussein, even when he used chemical weapons in the 1980s.

It condoned the Egyptian military's mowing down of over a thousand street demonstrators after the recent coup, and it has more than tacitly approved Israel's string of onslaughts against the Palestinians and Lebanese. In these cases, American presidents could have properly responded by ending military aid - but they refused.

Similarly, the U.S. government for decades provided advanced weaponry to brutal and corrupt monarchies in the Arab world and autocrats in Asia and Latin America. More often than not, when a government represses its population, it uses equipment made in the USA.

Amerika's selective outrage is not lost on the world. The U.S. government is neither an honest broker nor an avenger of the victims of injustice. It is the world's ham-handed hegemon, with overriding geopolitical and economic interests that determine what it does in any circumstance.

Amerikan foreign policy in the Middle East has long been dedicated to guaranteeing that no country can challenge U.S./Israeli hegemony.

Amerikan vampire presidents have no problem with strongmen who crush their people’s dreams of freedom, as long as those rulers do what they are told. But if they don’t toe the line, watch out. Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Qadaffi learned that the hard way.

It's not just that no one appointed the United States the world's policeman. By assuming that role, the U.S. government - no matter who the president is - undermines the values she claims to uphold, such as freedom, justice, privacy, and peace.

The invasions of Iraq, Libya & Afghanistan left hundreds of thousands dead, many more gravely wounded, - leaving corrupt authoritarian governments in control of the social wreckage.

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Re: Start Of A New World War by ValerianSteel(m): 8:12pm On Mar 24, 2016
Zoharariel:


You're such an un-repented & incorrigible brain-dead dummy. Y should Amerika poke her ugly nose in the business of every Nation?

No 1 appointed Amerika as the world's police force. She is a self-proclaimed world's police force. She made totalitarian police state out of her own useless Country and now trying so hard to impose her own will & culture all over the globe.

Amerika has neither moral nor legal authority to interfere in the affairs of any Nation.

As Amerika interferes in other people’s conflicts, a self-appointed world policemen will breed resentment and a lust for revenge. No one likes a bully, especially when it’s a presumptuous superpower armed with nuclear warheads and conventional weapons.

Amerika's record on the world's stage hardly qualifies it for any merit badges. It rails against Assad’s brutality, but it backed Iraq's late president Saddam Hussein, even when he used chemical weapons in the 1980s.

It condoned the Egyptian military's mowing down of over a thousand street demonstrators after the recent coup, and it has more than tacitly approved Israel's string of onslaughts against the Palestinians and Lebanese. In these cases, American presidents could have properly responded by ending military aid - but they refused.

Similarly, the U.S. government for decades provided advanced weaponry to brutal and corrupt monarchies in the Arab world and autocrats in Asia and Latin America. More often than not, when a government represses its population, it uses equipment made in the USA.

Amerika's selective outrage is not lost on the world. The U.S. government is neither an honest broker nor an avenger of the victims of injustice. It is the world's ham-handed hegemon, with overriding geopolitical and economic interests that determine what it does in any circumstance.

Amerikan foreign policy in the Middle East has long been dedicated to guaranteeing that no country can challenge U.S./Israeli hegemony.

Amerikan vampire presidents have no problem with strongmen who crush their people’s dreams of freedom, as long as those rulers do what they are told. But if they don’t toe the line, watch out. Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Qadaffi learned that the hard way.

It's not just that no one appointed the United States the world's policeman. By assuming that role, the U.S. government - no matter who the president is - undermines the values she claims to uphold, such as freedom, justice, privacy, and peace.

The invasions of Iraq, Libya & Afghanistan left hundreds of thousands dead, many more gravely wounded, - leaving corrupt authoritarian governments in control of the social wreckage.
No need to trade words.Like I rightly said,I know we have our reservations against the United States but I make bold to say that if the game was reversed and any other world power assumed the position of Superpower,we'd see such country move in the same direction.

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Missy89(f): 11:45pm On Mar 24, 2016
Pilger needs to tell us about Semipalatinsk-21 , do some light reading on UNCLOS and the Cuba missile crisis

Maybe he will realize his obvious cherry picking

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Re: Start Of A New World War by fineguy11(m): 7:44am On Mar 25, 2016
THE GREATEST MISTAKE THE WEST WLD MAKE IS TO INFURIATE THE RUSSIANS INTO FORMING A MILITARY ALLIANCE WITH CHINA..the era of regime change DIED in syria,all thanks to russia..those neo-cons are currently trying their luck in BRAIL but DILMA ROUSSELF has proven to be a hard nut to crack,despite numerous allegation against her government...wheather u be a pro-russian or pro western political commentator,one facts remains,EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS ARE DOOMED!no light @the end of the tunnel,just wars,destructions,and more Wars.

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Missy89(f): 8:01am On Mar 25, 2016
fineguy11:
THE GREATEST MISTAKE THE WEST WLD MAKE IS TO INFURIATE THE RUSSIANS INTO FORMING A MILITARY ALLIANCE WITH CHINA..the era of regime change DIED in syria,all thanks to russia..those neo-cons are currently trying their luck in BRAIL but DILMA ROUSSELF has proven to be a hard nut to crack,despite numerous allegation against her government...wheather u be a pro-russian or pro western political commentator,one facts remains,EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS ARE DOOMED!no light @the end of the tunnel,just wars,destructions,and more Wars.

rouge states will be the first to use a nuke in today's political setting

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Re: Start Of A New World War by fineguy11(m): 8:07am On Mar 25, 2016
Missy89:


rouge states will be the first to use a nuke in today's political setting
going by your logic,Amerika has been a rouge state,considering the fact that they're the only ones that have used a nuclear weapon to win a war..

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Missy89(f): 8:10am On Mar 25, 2016
fineguy11:
going by your logic,Amerika has been a rouge state,considering the fact that they're the only ones that have used a nuclear weapon to win a war..

Lol do you see the part where i said "TODAY"?

By the way, America did not win any war with nukes

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Tkester1: 7:59pm On Mar 25, 2016
Missy89:


Lol do you see the part where i said "TODAY"?

By the way, America did not win any war with nukes


Bush meat, and 1945 Nagasaki was won by a punch.

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Tkester1: 8:01pm On Mar 25, 2016
fineguy11:
THE GREATEST MISTAKE THE WEST WLD MAKE IS TO INFURIATE THE RUSSIANS INTO FORMING A MILITARY ALLIANCE WITH CHINA..the era of regime change DIED in syria,all thanks to russia..those neo-cons are currently trying their luck in BRAIL but DILMA ROUSSELF has proven to be a hard nut to crack,despite numerous allegation against her government...wheather u be a pro-russian or pro western political commentator,one facts remains,EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS ARE DOOMED!no light @the end of the tunnel,just wars,destructions,and more Wars.


True,

But methinks that their greatest mistake was to have allowed Putin to come to power. they Didn't realize what badass Nigga that gee is. Now they have only themselves to blame

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Re: Start Of A New World War by NairaMinted: 9:36am On Mar 26, 2016
Anyone got any scoop about this weird story of North Korean troops fighting in Syria on the side of the SAA?
Re: Start Of A New World War by Nobody: 12:00pm On Mar 26, 2016
NairaMinted:
Anyone got any scoop about this weird story of North Korean troops fighting in Syria on the side of the SAA?

Yes, there are rumours two North Korean units - Chalma-1 and Chalma-7, are fighting for Bashar al-Assad according to a representative of a Syrian opposition delegation.

It could be a propaganda or not but as of now, there is no hard evidence to back up such claim.

That said, any militia fighting for Assad to scuttle the AngloZionist agenda in Syria is a welcome development. grin

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Re: Start Of A New World War by scully95: 2:14pm On Mar 26, 2016
Tkester1:



True,

But methinks that their greatest mistake was to have allowed Putin to come to power. they Didn't realize what badass Nigga that gee is. Now they have only themselves to blame

mistake.. they did not allow putin lik you think.. You have to give only one credit to Yeltsin for doing the right thing at the die minute. After everything Yeltsin did to the liberial of the u.s trying to satisfy them, thereby going their ways. They turned the country to a 4th world country via massive corruption at all levels. the oil wells were not benefitting any of the masses.. Russia was raped back and front steady like a useless b1tch. See it bellow in the pic.. what went wrong that time. This should be a lesson for allafricannation.. That you can never be like them. They will continue to attack you until you sumbit.

as if that was not enough they made the biggest mistake of their lives trying to break Russia via proxies. Attacking the Chechinia the with Saudi Arabia takfiri Wahhabi terrorist instituition backed by Pentagon.

This is what made Yelstin to put the country back to where it belong..Putin took the war to the terrorists.

The West Wanted the late dead puppet Nemtoz during that time but Yelstin believed in Putin that he's the only person that could put the country back to where it should be since the west is a no go friend.

And you still have the Euro integrationist in the country known as 5th column. Even prime minister is the highest

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Appleyard(m): 4:20pm On Mar 27, 2016
ValerianSteel:

How can he claim the United States has seen to the overthrow of 50 governments of which all are democracies?That's just too much of a lie.
Of course! Much of those states were democratically elected governments with popular supports. E.g, Guatamela, Brazil, Venezuela, Congo. The US coup machine had been destroying democracies since 1953.



Let me explain the above.China is not a democracy,Russia certainly isn't as well.Under Western ideology,both countries are unpredictable as they do not have clearly defined policies that can be put to checks within the structure of their own government.Both countries(China and Russia) are considerably powerful as an independent nation,in the books of the United States,a non-democratic state will always remain a threat.

Just because Russia and China doesn't have roque leader like Kim of North Korea doesn't mean they can't become the next North Korea tomorrow as there is no power,individual or body to counter such efforts within the Chinese or Russian governments.
Stop being naive! What do you think are the basic elements necessary for a government to be termed '' a democracy?'' Can you name five democratic institutions inherent in the administration of government machinery in Britain, France or the US that are not readily available in Russia? I will be waiting. Do you even know that the acts of when a government spy on its people, decieved its people just to realize certain policy objectives, is a feature of totalitarianism? Yet, the suppose essence of democracy is the government ''of the people, for the people, and by the people,'' even when they had no full right to their privacy? And come to think of it: if we are to go by the Abraham Lincoln's litmus test, not even the US is close. So, don't even go there, mister. Today's concept of democracy is a sham that only exist in the abstract meaning of the term.

Opining that Russia or China are not democracies, hence, the US and Europe would always see them as ''threats,'' is a demonstration of the fact that you are not conversant with the reality on ground, or maliciously chosen to ignore them. If the US or Europe sees Russia as threat base on your ''undemocratic ideology,'' where would you put Satan Arabia where women are flogged, stoned to death and publicly executed at will? What about Erdogan's Turkey who takes over major newspaper, imprison and try journalists for treason, just for doing their works? Not to mention sponsoring terrorism? Yet this two states are allies of the US. How should we reconcile that with your dictum of ''democracy'' per western ideology vis Russia?
It simply doesn't make sense. What is actually shaping their respective views, is the concept of ''real politiks,'' not some ''democratic'' kiddie excuse, my brother.

However the case is different for the United States.The American constitution is supreme.It empowers the government to protect its citizens against external aggression.Also it empowers it's citizens to check the government against rogue policies that are detrimental to the well being and image of the United States.
So the constitution of China or Russia is not supreme? It doesn't protect the interest of its people, eh? By the way: we saw how the American people were able to stop the rogue policies of its warproned government on Iraq, Afghan, Libya, Syria, right? How Saddam got weapons of MD from the devil, abi? Man, take it easy!

Which is why American democracy trumps all others cause the government is not at liberty to do as it pleases.The government is constantly reminded her citizens have a voice which has a binding weight on government decision.Leadership in America is the job of all,power is not in the hands of a select few powerful.
This shows you are still understanding the system, my brother. They don't care that much about the people as you think. Thats why they did and covered up 9/11, fooled the people on the Iraqi WMD, sponsored sheer terror against Syria, etc. Contrary to what you believe, US democracy trumps nothing! I don't see police in Russia, France of England enforcing justice based on racial profiling- murdering unarmed blacks, and even the murderer do get away in one piece. That's just an example.

A lot of you folks mistake a country's passive and active tolerance of it's people to excel under a certain form of social stratisfication like, gay marriage, etc, as ''democracy!'' But that isn't really a fundamental element or yardstick of measuring a democracy. Rather, that's a perversion of nature and a cut-throat departure from the basic norms of the real and natural society. Believe me, brother. Many folks are still understanding democracy.

Until a resolve can be reached on ideological differences.

No resolve can ever reach as long as some few people wants to control the rest of mankind. There will always be resistance here and there. That's man!

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Re: Start Of A New World War by romme2u: 6:50am On Mar 30, 2016
then what are they waiting 4, let the game begin

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Re: Start Of A New World War by PunterTim(m): 2:50pm On Mar 30, 2016
Putin's Propagandist Piece!

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Re: Start Of A New World War by cyprus000: 8:19am On Apr 04, 2016
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I want to look at things from different panormaric prism,cos the grotesque behind western massianic facade is crassly selfish and deeper than what we usually perceive

Three essential things makes a country "world power house" and they're

*information(media control)

*military might

*economy

The aforementioned is the only reason babylonian empire(US)is relevant, and it is unequivocally overt that the empire of lie and propaganda is losing her monopoly on information and fallacious media construe to
indescribable faithful soulja's of truth and equity lyk Nairaminted, Scully95, Fineguy11, Tkester1,underground,capip120,bonechamberlian, appleyard...and other soulja of truth all over the world that has consummated "resilience" and "constistence" in vitiating and de-schematizing the miasma of zombie inducing lies,deception and false flag operations that babylon(US and co) has inebriated the world with, while russia,china,north korea,iran etc has exposed and ridiculed the make-believe that babylon is the alpha of world military, as the greatest hoax of human history and has unraveled babylon as an opportunistic spineless sissy that only flex malnourished muscle on poor,defenseless and helpless countries.
Has anybody wondered why libya was invaded immediately babylon noticed that it no longer pose significant nuclear threat?
It shouldn't come as a surprise,cos babylon is notorious for cowardice. and obnoxious poke nosing.

Babylon(US) only has one straw to shamelessly hold on to, which is her monopoly on the world financial system.
with the ineluctable collapse of her financial system that is about to brutally suffer fatality from chinese led (AIIB) that already has 57 prospective founding member nations, and BRICS waiting behind the corner to give "finishing blow" to her global hegemony of petrodollar system,i mean, sniff live outta her global economic order. Babylon(US and co)has found herself in a state of hullabaloo and will sure cowardly enmesh the world in her fated fall,which is why she has resort to incessantly plung the world in execrable conflicts and conflagrating settled regional disputes.
For instance; babylon does not waste time in accusing china of "territory grabbing" but it is this same babylon that was part of POTSDAM declaration that was decided by the Allies, of the four world powers” of World War 2 , namely; babylon(US), UK, USSR and republic of China on sharing the spoils of the war.
It was agreed that babylon(west) would retain all their prewar colonies in Asia, and Chinese historical territories, islands, etc captured by Japan would be returned to China, with the control of the East and South China Sea included, except 12 miles limit of the Western power colonies.
In 1947, china 9 dash line demarcating the east and south china sea was formalized and recorded with the UN as such!
All countries that now lay claim in the South China Sea were colonies and have no rights to claim into the 9 dashed line except within its own 12 miles limit base on the agreement between the four world Powers.” this same babylon is telling anybody who cares to listen that china is land grabbing and creating man made island, while herself and her main stream media maintians absolute silence on other countries lyk philippines,vietnam etc creating their own man made island in the same disputed sea...peak of hypocrisy and discord.

It is evident to even the dumb that babylon is fighting proxy wars with russia and china,cos they dont have the chutzpah to go into direct confrontation with d the two countries.

dat would be abysmally suicidal for her blood sucking quest for world dominance. Infact, babylon will be radioactive dust in matter of minutes if it tries bullshit, cos it is almost defenseless with her Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system (GMD) in the face of russian nuclear wrath, even military juveniles know this except incorrigible sybaritic babylonian zombies lyk the once we have to put up with in this fora.


Her game plan is to encircle china and russia to wishfully minimize casualty in possible all out war, while it conflagrate regional tension and stand by the side to spectate how all parties involve butcher themselves( an illusive plan of finishing the job when her adversary have been weakened) and run to her financial institutions for war funding, after provoking uncontrollable world currency crisis.

This is a futile fantasy of trying to deviate world attention in bide to circumvent the fated collapse of her financial institution and to maintian her financial monopoly of not only issuing sanctions to any country that summone the chutzpah to dare her blood sucking foreigh policy or try to unravel the qrotesque behind their massianic facade, but to also keep the world in financial bondage of using her currency as foreign reserve while it capitalize on fiat currency system to bastardly print and pump dollar into the world financial system at zero cost with almost zero inflation,cos the world stupidly made one currency(dollar) a reserve currency.
The greatest financial foolishness that the world has ever embroiled itself in, jointly orchestrated by babylon and wahhabi demonic empire(saudi arabia)

Thank jah mighty for AIIB and brics, that has given the world hope of sniffing life outta the financial fraud of babylonian empire built on innocent blood, suffering of the weak and tears of the orphans.

Fiyah of distruction bun babylon and all her minionsangry

Well, time can not be raped, it will put everything in it place.

Ini spectate in limbo mode cool

Respect zoharariel, ini see how ah deal wiht dat payaka zombie bumboclot, more strenght to yuh precocity, babylon cyaan do we nada, fiyah go a bun babylon and babylon go a fall before dem we eyes...I-rey man
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Re: Start Of A New World War by cyprus000: 9:06am On Apr 04, 2016
Appleyard:
Of course! Much of those states were democratically elected governments with popular supports. E.g, Guatamela, Brazil, Venezuela, Congo. The US coup machine had been destroying democracies since 1953.

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Oh! Apple of jah.

He who abrogate,vitiate quash all barrage of babylonian false with proficieny of ptolemy, precociously and potently abscured from contemporary neophytic foreign affaires punditry.

A direct descendant of jahweh who has irrevocably declared holy war on babylon and has put his love for upholding and projection of truth before his volition and
racial,ethnic,religious...positions, all for the luthiferous celestial vision of bringing preemtive judgement on babylon, in a rapture fashion that administer absolute repercussion designed to punish all babylonian abomination and corruption

Ohh! Apple of the world.

He who was soused in celestial witticism by jah himself., a protagonist of justice,truth and equity whose genesis was mystical,biblical and spiritual, a sapien who used his mom ovaries as library and her uterus as museum of knowledge, while her placenta as a jacket of erudition.

Apple you're great! Apple you're a gift to the world, in your wit the world find succour of discernment.

Please pardon my involuntary ignorance to ur call to duty.
didn't get a mention notification,cos u mentioned a different sobriquet from mine.
I do not get notification when you quote 'cyrus000' moniker.
So! Try and mention my "cyprus000" moniker to notify me.


I-rey cool


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Re: Start Of A New World War by Appleyard(m): 1:46pm On Apr 04, 2016
cyprus000:
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Oh! Apple of jah.

He who abrogate,vitiate quash all barrage of babylonian false with proficieny of ptolemy, precociously and potently abscured from contemporary neophytic foreign affaires punditry.

A direct descendant of jahweh who has irrevocably declared holy war on babylon and has put his love for upholding and projection of truth before his volition and
racial,ethnic,religious...positions, all for the luthiferous celestial vision of bringing preemtive judgement on babylon, in a rapture fashion that administer absolute repercussion, designed to punish all babylonian abomination and corruption

Ohh! Apple of the world.

He who was soused in celestial witticism by jah himself., the only living protagonist of justice,
Who is this that trods across the wavelenght of Nairaland, eluscidating unblemished eloquence, radiating the Gospel Light of truth, to the corridors of the Gentile lost souls of western zombie-ism? The type whose works haven't been exhibited since eons, bringing back a lost world of factual analytical discourse and privileged nairaland-ism? These intriguing denoting contextures conjure a creator in whom independence, self-indulgence intelligence, passion and a restless quest for justice mingle to both productive and glorious-estimative effect. Who could this be? Thus, My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of that which is called ''Cyprus000,'' Son of Ghandaf, king of light, descendant of Rus, regiments of the lineage of David, king of Siberia, son of Jesse, the 29th descendant of Seth, son of Adam, whose Slavic name is Putin, son of God! (exactly why the Yankees called him Alien.) cool

Oh Cyprus000! Servant of the Most High! To whom shall i liken thee? Thou, whose works are indescribable. Your intellectualism hewned from the zodiac anthripology of Mount Sinai, enveloping the footprints of Moses. And without any aminus nocendi, [b]thou have become a sacred library where descriptive imagination dwells with a mélange of emotional truthfulness.
Conceived by aesthetic beauty, Often divine and esoteric in nature; thou have broken assunder western bars of predatory disinformation, thus becoming an emblem and a glorious spectacle to the sadonistic, unrepented minds across the world wide web. A ladder to the pygmies in the Langley prison of incomprehensability, and unto them that are striving for that golden yardstick of your grace and eloquence-that comprehensive capacity to express through common sense, yet are unable to decipher thy matchless wisdom.
That which is so vitally uncommon. An ecyclopaedia of words that seek to form a bridge
Between intellectual abstract, thought, and the world of the inarticulate.

O Cyprus! it is you i greet.

Thou who rides on the wings of Sputnik, Armed with the innocence of your S-500, you protect the librated hearts of the illuminated souls from Babylon's misinformation mirage, and has restore my trust in truth.
With your matchless Khibiny and Kaspersky shield of faith, thou has thwarted and countered the revisionist schemes and carnage of western lying media covens.

You light passion's flame in ways, that truly make the stars hush. And fan flames into a blaze,
triggering my pulse to rush.
Your sweet honey dipped postulations sugar coat my eagerness to respond to any call of duty. And a rainbow of wishes, arch to the Moon as light slips. And as Mother Russia crushed enemies of mankind in Syria and Ukraine, Happiness has followed love on its way back to my heart, and lifted me high above
the doubts tearing it apart.

Your love and commitment will forever be the mortar that keeps me whole.
For only it completes me,
bonding both body and soul in this bloodless war of words.

O Cyprus! Thou Apostle of light, the bringer of rain! A possessor of a saving basket full of light. The light shines forth as Sputnik crosses my Delta horoscope. When the light hits right, it twinkle bright with amazing beuty! Unmasking the cleverness of your logical reasoning, seasoned by the alienic craters in Siberia, and encased in Kilo Klass sub of ancient knowlegde, ministering truth from the Black Sea, exposing the reality, making western designs obsolete, and taking no prisoners of Babylonian making.

From the comfort of my golden vineyard, i appleyard behold this unique form of Cyprus000 as It twinkles bright, its beauty amazes me,
And when I get lost I look to it and it sure leads me back home to Kaleningrad!

O Cyprus000! It is you, son of the chosen, unfazed Soulja of Jah. [/b] cool

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Phoenix001(m): 5:48pm On Apr 04, 2016
This is the kind of post needed on Front page but no, mods will not do the needful until celebrities are featured.
Re: Start Of A New World War by sukkot: 6:10pm On Apr 04, 2016
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Re: Start Of A New World War by Dollyak(f): 6:12pm On Apr 04, 2016
Sensational article as usual. Neither Russia or USA has the apetite for Nuclear war. China is a newbie in the grand scheme of things.

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Re: Start Of A New World War by Jusmudi(m): 6:13pm On Apr 04, 2016
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