The pro-Ukrainian Spectator states correctly that the sanctions on Russia have failed. But its reasoning is dubious: The West embarked on its sanctions war with an exaggerated sense of its own influence around the world. As we have discovered, non-western...

By Drago Bosnic | May 12, 2023

There are very few things that have been as unifying for Americas political establishment as the belligerent thalassocracys propensity to impose sanctions. Republicans and Democrats will almost always be at each others throats for virtually any issue, but when it comes to sanctions, particularly against the Syrian people, their unity is unquestionable. For well over a decade, the unfortunate Middle Eastern country has been at the forefront of Washington DCs regime change efforts, with the United States using everything from sanctions and financing various moderate democratic opposition forces (i.e. head-chopping terrorists) to direct attacks on Syria and its armed forces.

Unfortunately, the Arab League actively took part in this comprehensive attack on a fellow Arab country and it took years of active Russian and Chinese diplomatic efforts to have the organization reengage with Damascus. In the last couple of months, there have been several major breakthroughs in this regard, culminating with announcements that Syria will be readmitted into the organization. President Bashar al-Assad even visited several prominent Arab countries, some of which previously played an extremely active role in attempts to oust him. The likes of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia went from Assad must go! to Were happy to see Assad stay in mere months.

And while Damascus must tread carefully when reengaging countries that actively took part in a comprehensive aggression against it, this opportunity is something that should not be missed. As previously mentioned, it was only thanks to the sustained diplomatic efforts of the multipolar world that this inter-Arabic conflict came to an end, inflicting a devastating blow to US plans for Syrias destruction. However, the warhawks in Washington DC are far from giving up. Top GOP and DNC members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee are pushing for a bipartisan initiative to sanction anyone taking part in Syrias full diplomatic reinstatement. Since May 8, they made several announcements about this.

The bipartisan group is now urging President Joe Biden and his deeply troubled administration to impose crippling sanctions on any state or entity engaged in attempts of normalizing relations with Syria. Expectedly, the initiative is led by one of the most prominent neocon warmongers, Texas Republican Michael McCaul.

Readmitting Assad to the Arab League is a grave strategic mistake...

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By Dan McKnight | The Libertarian Institute | May 12, 2023

Did you see what Donald Trump said about Ukraine?

At a CNN town hall on Wednesday evening, the former president and current candidate announced:

If Im president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. Ill meet with Putin, Ill meet with Zelensky, they both have weaknesses and they both have strengths, and within 24 hours that war will be settled. Itll be overI dont think in terms of winning or losing. I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people and breaking them.

When CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Trump if he wanted Ukraine or Russia to win this war, he responded, I want everybody to stop dying. Theyre dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them stop dying. And Ill have that done in 24 hours, Ill have it done. You need the power of the presidency to do it.

Thats a damn good answer. And a much better one than anyone in the Biden White House has presented for why weve spent over a hundred billion dollars to fight a war with Russia.

These corporate press stand-ins never explain what victory conditions look like for Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky has said his aims include the recapture of Crimea and the decapitation of the Russian state.

But...

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By Janet Parker, Isthmus, May 12, 2023

Note: Janet Parker is organizer with Madison for a World BEYOND War in Madison, Wisconsin, where this was first published by Isthmus.

I locked up the church doors, then tucked in to sleep on a small open spot on the floor of the sanctuary, between chairs and right next to a huge east-facing window. It was Friday night, March 24, the first day of a regional anti-war event Id helped organize, the 20th Midwest Catholic Worker Faith and Resistance Gathering. I was there hoping to help prevent nuclear war.

People had converged from eight states at a church on Old Sauk Road. Friends old and new greeted each other with smiles, hugs, and shrieks of joy. We ate dinner, then watched Theaters of War, a new documentary about how the Pentagon and the CIA use Hollywood to promote the U.S. military.

I slept, cozy on a camping pad and under a comforter, with a shirt rolled up as a pillow. I woke up around midnight to open the door and greet Chrissy, Lindsey and Theo, young Catholic Worker activists whod driven from St. Louis. They carried in sleeping bags and got settled.

I woke up briefly again in the very early morning. Outside the big window snow had started to fall thickly. By morning a foot had accumulated, beautiful and heavy on the evergreens, roofs and roads. At 6:30 a.m., Barb and Mike from northern Wisconsin arrived to cook breakfast. We carried in boxes of banana bread and cartons of eggs, and a lively day of work began.

We would spend the next three days together learning, reflecting, and preparing to act on Monday.

Working against militarism in the U.S. can be daunting. People sometimes ask me, Isnt it depressing? I think its depressing to not speak out against war. Speaking out gives me hope.

We are in an unprecedentedly dangerous time, in a proxy war with Russia. Last year after Russias brutal invasion of Ukraine, friends and I started doing war abolition walks in Madison to call for a ceasefire and diplomacy in Ukraine, and an end to all war. Weve done 28 walks since last April. We hold signs that say, Defuse Nuclear War and Weapons Makers Are the Only Winners. Weve start...

By Gilbert Doctorow | May 12, 2023

Americans have taken umbrage at the now commonplace habit of Russian media personalities to speak of Anglo-Saxons as the principal opponents, or enemies if you will, of their country. In Russia the term is meant to include the USA. Given the high percentage of Blacks, Hispanics and Orientals in the U.S. population, there is some substance to American objections. However, as regards the British, they have not a leg to stand on: they are Anglo-Saxons like it or not. And by their behavior towards Russia right to the present day, they have well earned the intense dislike bordering on hatred that a large swathe of influential Russians feel towards them.

First you had Boris Johnson, who ruined the nearly agreed peace accord between Russia and Ukraine back in March 2022. Boris threatened to put a stop to Western assistance to Kiev if Zalensky took the draft treaty through to signature. Zelensky then backed out of the negotiations and went all out for war.

Now we have Prime Minister Sunak sending long range cruise missiles to Ukraine supposedly to help them succeed with their counteroffensive and recapture lost territory from the Russians. The missiles are to be fitted onto existing Ukrainian Soviet era jets and have a 250 km range. This will theoretically enable Ukrainian forces based in Kharkov or Zaporozhie to deliver highly destructive warheads to anywhere in Crimea, for example.

Yes, you may say, but the Ukrainians already have been making daily drone attacks on Sevastopol. However, the new missiles will be far more deadly and less easy for air defense to bring down because of the inherent advantages of their speed, very low altitude and variable flight paths.

The new weapons are potentially a game changer in a way that the Leopard or Abrams tanks that have attracted so much public attention over recent months are not.

Why a game changer? Because with each incrementally more powerful artillery or tank delivered to Ukraine the Russians could say they only meant that Russia would have to push the Ukrainian border back that much further to keep Russian territories safe from attack. But there is no way for the Russians to push back the line of confrontation with Ukraine 250 km in the short term. That might be possible in a matter of months if not years. But in the meantime the missiles could do vast damage in purely Russian territories and create enormous numbers of casualties among both civilians and military.

I can easily imagine the popular reaction in Russia of a Ukrainian rocket attack on Sevastopol that killed, say 400 civilians. There would be a great public uproar and it is hard to see how the Kremlin could avoid responding wi...

By Women Peace Makers, May 12, 2023

Note: This new book includes a chapter co-authored by World BEYOND War Education Director Phill Gittins.

This book was inspired by the Women Peace Makers (WPM) 2020 intervention that explored history from a young persons perspective in an inter-ethnic setting in Cambodia. That gathering demonstrated that the past deeply affects who we are today and how we interact with others and with ourselves. The 1975-1979 genocide and the following decades of civil wars, in particular, have shaped a society scarred by trauma, warfare, and survival, while the educational system was in a complete collapse.

This book offers a brief overview of concepts of peacebuilding while introducing teachers and learners to the various tools and types of interventions utilized in the field that are culturally responsive to the Southeast Asia context and demonstrate the complex nature of peacebuilding. It is meant to co-create spaces that support meaningful and challenging dialogue, as well as hopeful and transformational spaces. The book has two overall objectives:

1) To explain theoretical aspects that support nonviolence and peacebuilding.
2) To show how theory is applied in practice in a SE Asia context.

This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines peacebuilding through a variety of ways of knowing. Each chapter is structured in the same way. It grounds itself in a Cambodian quote or proverb that sets the tone for that chapter. Each chapter starts with theory, states the purpose of the chapter, and highlights 2-3 points. Then the chapter moves the theory into practice within a SE Asian context describing the situation or scenario that supports the topic, as it offers a description of the thoughts and feelings of communities. Lastly, it details what actions were made to support the topic or resolve the situation.

Read online or download for free here or here.

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Wang Wenbin, Chinas Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, held his regular press conference in Beijing, on May 11th, and answered a reporters question: It was reported that the G7 Summit to be held in Japan will ask China to abide by international rules. Do you have any comment? by saying that those countries are hypocritical for accusing others of violating the never-defined stock phrase of the U.S. Government international rules. He said:

The US has spied indiscriminately on countries globally, not least its G7 allies, strong-armed countries diplomatically, and applied economic coercion and military interference. The US has blatantly invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria and other countries that are smaller and weaker than the US, killing and displacing tens of millions of innocent civilians. When it comes to international rules, the USs place is in the dock. It is in no position to point fingers at other countries.

His statement that When it comes to international rules, the USs place is in the dock suggests that international rules means the same thing as international laws, but the U.S. Government, and its allies, have never defined what the term international rules means, nor what international body sets those rules, nor where they are codified, nor what they are. If those rules are international laws, then it would be easy to document which Government violates them more than any other Government does, because obviously that is the U.S. Government itself.

Wenbins answer also included the following:

When the G7 talk about international rules, they mean the Western rules that draw lines according to ideologies and values and the US-first and G7-dominated rules of a small circle. Those rules serve the vested interest of a very few countries, including the G7, rather than the common interests of the international community.

By the international community, he was referring to the General Assembly of the United Nations. It is the U.N., and not the U.S. Government, which establishes those laws. Wengbin opened his answer by talking about that:

Before discussing international rules, we need to first of all make clear what exactly the international rules are. For the overwhelming majority of countries in the world, international rules consist of the basic norms governing international relations b...

The younger generation of Palestinian refugees in Gaza carry memories of their original villages, even though they've never been to them. 75 years after the Nakba, they still dream of return.

By Eva Bartlett | RT | May 11, 2023

Heavy Ukrainian shelling of central Donetsk on April 28 killed nine civilians  including an eight-year-old girl and her grandmother  and injured at least 16 more. The victims were burned alive when the minibus they were in was hit by a shell.

The attack also targeted a major hospital, apartment buildings, houses, parks, streets, and sidewalks. All civilian areas not military targets.

According to the Donetsk Peoples Republics (DPR) Representative Office in the JCCC (Joint Monitoring and Co-ordination Center on Ukraines War Crimes), Kievs forces fired high-explosive fragmentation missiles produced in Slovakia and transferred to Ukraine by NATO countries. Regarding an earlier shelling on the same day, the JCCC noted that US-made HIMARS sy...

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Imran Khan poses the greatest threat to Pakistans military monopoly on political power.

The arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and leader of the Pakistan Movement for Justice (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI) caused thousands of Pakistanis to take to the streets and protest. However, Pakistans Supreme Court ordered on May 11 his release, offering a significant victory for the onetime leader responsible for bringing Islamabad closer to Moscow and away from US dominance until his removal from power.

On May 9, Khan was detained and arrested for the alleged embezzlement of 50 billion Pakistani rupees  ($240 million). This unleashed a wave of violent demonstrations in several cities in the country and threatens to unravel the fragile state.

The current situation is taking place against the background of several military coups because the army continues to play an essential role in the critical decisions of state policy. These internal factors had an even more substantial effect on the situation than the fact that Khan was trying to pursue an independent course in foreign policy, particularly with Moscow, whilst deepening his countrys dependency on Beijing. In addition, his domestic policy is rejected by elite military circles that maintain close ties with Britain and the US.

The former prime minister at first did not depend on any political party, and, in fact, he challenged traditional political and military circles. In Pakistan, there are two older parties: the Pakistan Muslim League and the Pakistan Peoples Party, which, apart from the military, have maintained political power.

Khan, a former cricket star, emerged as a revolutionary by deciding that Pakistan needed to choose another path and divorce itself from Western dominance.

Pakistani voters protested after Khan was removed from power in a soft coup on 10 April 2022 and continued to support him vehemently. Now, the protesters continue to demonstrate against his targeting. Through imprisonment, Khan would have been prevented from participating in the political struggle because the military had already made its position clear preserving the status quo, i.e., their own personal interests.

As for the US relationship with Pakistan, the latter is vital for the Americans as it is a state that directly borders Afghanistan and influences what is...

Al Mytty in Illinois during webinar for which these remarks were prepared.

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 12, 2023

We very much need World BEYOND War educational and activist events and campaigns in Illinois (and every other location). We also need the people of Illinois (and every other location on Earth) as part of the global movement to end war.

I say that having been in Chicago many times and at least once to Carbondale. Interstate 64 which comes by my house also cuts through Illinois, so a few cups of coffee and Im there.

We started World BEYOND War in 2014 to work with thousands of existing peace groups but to do three things a bit differently. One is to be global. Another is to go after the entire institution of war. Another is to use education and activism, both and together. Ill say a few words about each of these things.

First, on being global. Theres a great peace activist named Bill Astore who has an article this week at TomDispatch where he suggests that if we rid the world of nuclear weapons he could like his country better. I also read yesterday a book by my old philosophy professor Richard Rorty, probably the smartest person in many ways Ive ever met, who simply obsesses over the need to view U.S. history as a glass half full, even if it means believing in myths and ignoring ugly facts. Unless one does that, he writes, we cannot do the work of creating a better country. He never even entertains long enough to reject it the possibility of staring at all the facts head-on and doing the work regardless (is the question of whether a country has done more harm or more good even answerable?). Nor does he ever even consider the possibility of identifying with the world or a locality more so than a nation.

What I love most about online World BEYOND War events is that people use the word we to mean we people of the Earth. Now and again, youll have someone always its someone from the United States use we to mean a military always its the U.S. military. As in Hey, I remember you from that jail cell we were in for protesting the fact that we were bombing Afghanistan. This assertion would seem like a riddle to a Martian who might wonder how one can bomb Afghanistan from a jail cell and why one would have also protested ones...

Global warming and extensive overfishing have damaged ocean ecosystems well beyond recognition from only a few decades ago. Still, on its own accord, the ocean stood tall for over 3 billion years. But, alas, in less than one human lifetime it is teetering like never before, and credible studies claim the worlds oceans could be devoid of life within only three decades. This is one of the most troubling transformations of all time, nothing compares to it, absolutely nothing!

The ocean heat bomb is all about the impact of global warming and overfishing, neither of which is high enough on to-do lists of countries to help sustain ecosystems. It should be noted that Wall Streets embrace of going green for a profit wont come close (not enough scale soon enough) to solving the global warming problem, but theres plenty of green to be made. By all appearances, the love affair with fossil fuels is a permanent fixture, according to IEA data, fossil fuels constitute ~80% of energy over the past 50+ years with no change as of 2023. And a reality check: Big banks and investment firms have joined the ranks of companies making net-aero pledges. But their huge stakes in oil and gas projects are undermining their climate promises. (Source: How Wall Streets Fossil-Fuel Money Pipeline Undermines the Fight to Save the Planet, Fortune, February 2, 2023)

Moreover, as if an overheated ocean is not enough of a headache, overfishing is totally out of control, nearly wiping out several species, e.g., over 11,000 sharks killed per hour at risks of extinction in part for a brew of tasteless shark fin soup.

The oceans are a gigantic heat sponge, absorbing 90% of planetary heat, enabling life to go on within its 10,000-yr Goldilocks Holocene cycle, not too hot not to cold. But times are changing very rapidly. For the first time that scientists recall, sea surface temperatures that always recede from annual peaks are failing to do so, staying high with scientists warning that this underscores an underappreciated but grave impact of climate change. (Source: Record Sea Surface Heat Sparks Fears of Warming Surge, Phys.org, May 4, 2023)

Year by year ocean warming is increasing at an absolutely staggering rate, Jean-Baptiste Salle, Research Scientist, CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), Ibid.

Scientists are now warning that human-generated greenhouse gases are demonstrably exposing the worst possible scenario with the ocean turning into a global warming heat bomb. What goes around comes around. It appears that the ocean heat bomb has ignited.

According to US NOAA observatory recordings, in early April 2023 average surface temperatures of the oceans, excluding polar waters, hit an all-time high of 21.1C (70F). More than a passing interest, that all-time high might be goosed much higher by an upcoming El Nio weather phenomenon, triggering the ocean heat bomb...

I am grateful to you for reading this newsletter, which has been coming to you since March 2018 and which now thanks to the efforts of our movements reaches over a million people. Our first newsletter posed a problem that remains at the heart of our institutes work:

The Left has before us a serious challenge: people think that we are good and sensitive people, but that we are utopian and fail to provide reasonable answers to practical problems. We have to overcome this penalty. We have to show that radical thinking is not merely utopian (and has no place in reality), but that it attempts to solve practical challenges given the constraints of property and power. It has to show, more importantly, how certain problems cannot be solved within these constraints and require more ambitious transformations of the political and economic system. This kind of thinking guided by political and social movements will be at the heart of the institute.

Over the course of the past sixty-two months, we have tried our best to hold fast to this mission. To this end, we set for ourselves a series of objectives:

1. To bridge the gap between movements and intellectual institutions.
2. To bridge the gap between movements across the planet.
3. To amplify the voices of the new intellectuals who lead these movements.
4. To elaborate the theories that are often implicit in these movements.
5. To reclaim the histories of socialism and national liberation.

These objectives ground our work. We hope that what we have researched and produced has been useful to those committed to strengthening our movements and advancing...

Tunisian political prisoner Said Ferjani sends plea for solidarity

By Lucas Leiroz | May 12, 2023

In a recent interview to a Western media outlet, the head of the Kiev regime stated that his country needs more time before starting the counteroffensive against Russian troops. According to Vladimir Zelensky, the Ukrainian forces would be ready to start the move, but before that they need to receive more equipment and wait for the ideal conditions for action to emerge which is obviously a contradictory, ambiguous and unsubstantiated narrative.

Zelenskys words were spoken during a conference with the Eurovision News Network and were then reported by the BBC. The Ukrainian president claims that he could give orders to launch the counteroffensive now, but that would mean too many casualties for Kiev, which is why it seems more prudent to wait for more favorable conditions to arise in the future. At the time, Zelensky also emphasized the importance of receiving more armored vehicles from the West, which would operationally facilitate the counteroffensive.

Another interesting point of the interview was Zelenskys response when asked if he has been under pressure from his western partners to resume negotiations in case the counterattack plans fail. The president suggested that his army would continue fighting regardless of the outcome of the counter-offensive and said that no Western country could pressure Ukraine to surrender territories to Russian forces. Zelensky also said that Moscow intends to freeze the conflict, as it would be territorially favored, which supposedly will be prevented by the counteroffensive.

Wed lose a lot of people [if we started the counteroffensive now] () I think thats unacceptable. So, we need to wait. We still need a bit more time () [Western powers] cant pressure Ukraine into surrendering territories, he said.

The most curious thing about Zelenskys narrative is how extremely contradictory it is. At one moment the president says that his country is ready to start the maneuver and at another he says it needs to wait. Either Kiev is ready to start an effective counterattack, or in fact it is not and needs to wait for better conditions in the future. There is no possible synthesis between both possibilities. This confused and irrational rhetoric sounds like a desperate attempt to have control over the military situation of the conflict, when in fact this control does not exist.

Also, by reaffirming that Kiev will continue to fight to recover the territories liberated by Russia, Zelensky makes it clear to the Western media that, in practice, the outcome of the counteroffensive does not matter. Even if the plans fail, Ukrainian forces will continue to be forced to fight and keep looking for virtually unattainable results. And, as Zelensky himself stated, no western power is opposed to that &#821...

Are you the people with that black pick-up with the white camper?

Hes a short red-bearded white cop standing over me and my friend, KK (initials to be revealed soon). We are in KKs hometown, Merrill, Wisconsin, population 9,300.

Whats up, officer?

We have a complaint from a resident who says you were on his property taking pictures of his house and a juvenile daughter.

So begins the morning in Merrill, or at least, after a few hours of photographing KKs old haunts with a borrowed Canon his schools, churches, and, yep, the house he grew up in. It was 9 am when I got him to stand on the sidewalk to photograph KK in front of the small house where he spent his youth. It was his grandparents home. Small, sort of shotgun clapboard style no with faded vinyl siding.

Four shots, and we took off, turned for some of the street scenes where he played, and, then we moved on out with the pick-up and my shutterbug disease.

I call these drive-by shoots, so we drove and then stopped, posed, and then shot film. He is a 65 year old who I met on the internet who has been a good friend, a good reader of my stuff, including books, for more than a year. His wife died in October 2022, in River Falls, where they moved to decades before leaving Merrill, hometown for both of them. Merrill is his and his deceased wifes birthplace and family locales. Bad memories for KK, and I dont know about his wife, Cheri.

The owner of the home accused you have trespassing, stepping on his lawn and photographing his teenage daughter. He is wanting you arrested.

Welcome to America, and sure, I knew Id get out of this stupidity, but what flashes in my mind is the mindlessness of America, the flyover states policing and politics, the rural places with contradictory values, old sagging towns with closed businesses, tired homes, and more which I will cover in this series. Lots of strip malls and drive-thru food joints you see all over America.

Im a journalist, and I have been taking photos of Merrill the past few hours, and I can tell you we did not go on the lawn, and I was photographing KK who is from Merrill. I saw no girl in a window, and there is no girl in a window in the four shots I took of a guy out in front of his childhood house.

The house owner said his daughter was upstairs, wondering what you were photographing and said you photographed her.

The conversation when from here and there, and we gave up our IDs, and alas, yeah, KK is an ex-con (with air quotes), ten years be...

May 12, 2023 By Issam A. Adwan | MEE The air hung heavy as an overwhelming sense of dread permeated my bedroom and a feeling of unease crawled over my skin. At around 2 am [23.00 GMT] on Tuesday, 9 May, the violent shaking from the bombing outside woke me up. I checked my phone []

May 12, 2023 Ali Haidar, Al-Akhbar Newspaper Israels most recent aggression against the Gaza Strip exposed the unexpected effects of a decision by the Palestinian resistance not to respond immediately and mechanically to the assassination of three Al-Quds Brigades leaders. The military and political establishments in Tel Aviv appeared confused by the new, unprecedented tactic []

Turkey elections: Why Kilicdaroglu suspects Russian interference

There is no news of Ukrainian army commander General Oleksandr Syrsky, nor from General Valerii Zaluzhnyi,Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has denied rumors of their deaths.

In a surprising though not unprecedented move, Chile announced plans to nationalize its lithium industry, following similar efforts in resource nationalism among major producers of battery metals. Although implementation of the reforms is expected to be gradual and keep existing contracts intact, the decision stands to influence the political will and feasibility for other lithium producers to follow suit. In seeking to indigenize and retain a greater portion of the value chain in their mining sector, the policies instituted by Chile and other lithium producers have significant implications for the global energy market as demand for electric vehicles and renewable infrastructure soars.

At present, Chile possesses the worlds largest lithium reserves and is the 2^nd largest producer, behind Australia. In its return to resource nationalism, Chile seeks to secure its domestic supply and maximize revenue generation from this strategic resource, positioning itself as a leading player in the global battery metals market. Santiagos move toward greater state control of critical minerals precedes a similar phased plan for copper nationalization dating back to the 1950s and ending with the military coup in 1973 that removed the left-wing government of then-President Salvador Allende.

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Notes on the financial oligarchy: Jeffrey Epstein and the criminality of the ruling class

This important article was spotted and shared by S.D., and we are very grateful to him for passing it along.  I think, once you

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Mike Whitney The Unz Review May 11, 2023

Psychiatric treatment and psychiatric drugs are the common denominator of the growing number of shootings and other acts of violence, which are soaring right along with the soaring prescribing of psych drugs. Killers on Psych Drugs

Heres a question that every American should be able to answer: What percentage of the killersthat have carried out mass shootings across the United Stateswere on powerful psychiatric medications?

• a1%
• b25%
• c50%
• d75% or more

Why dont we know the answer to this question? Doesnt the United States have more mass shootings than any country in the world?

• Yes, it does.

And arent these shootings the source of great suffering and anxiety?

• Yes, they are.

And dont most people genuinely want to know why these lone gunman feel compelled to kill innocent people?

• Yes, they do.

Then, why dont we know? Whyafter more than two decades of these bloody incidentsdo we still not have a definitive, thoroughly-researched answer to this one simple question: How many of these mentally-disturbed killers were on dangerous psychiatric medications?

Instead, the media pursues a line of inquiry that fails to reveal anything even remotely conclusive about the gunmans actions. If white supremacy or Nazi ideology impacted the killers decision to go on a deadly shooting spree in Texas, then why didnt he target a black community center or a Jewish synagogue? Wouldnt that have been more consistent with his alleged ideology?

Yes, it would have been, which suggests that his alleged ideology is a symptom of his fragile mental condition not the primary factor driving his behavior. The reason these people go on crazed killing sprees is because they are damaged goods not because they are ideologues. Theres a big difference.

So, why does the media keep harping on this silly the idea that the killers behavior was effected by his feelings about white supremacy or Nazi ideology? Its ridiculous, after all, the killer was not white himself nor were his victims racially targeted. They were merely random passersby strolling through a shoppi...

Introduction May 11, 2023

US Air Force F-22s are about to be deployed to the Amari Air Base in Estonia but they wont be the only NATO warplanes based there. They will be joining a contingent of Royal Air Force Typhoons already stationed there.

Together they represent some the the Wests most advanced and capable air power

To get some idea of how Russia will view this, imagine if advanced Russian and Chinese fighters were deployed to a Mexican Air Force base to monitor the Gulf of Mexico. Or if Russian and Chinese fighters were flying patrols out the Republic of Ireland over the Irish Sea.

The British Parliament, the US Congress and the White House would be in uproar.

Well this amounts to the same thing. Advanced British and American warplanes will be flying patrols in airspace that Russia considers its own backyard. The West is more than just asserting itself over sea lanes to and from Russias main north eastern port,  we cant help feeling that it is preparing for a direct military confrontation with Russia.

To make matter worse these potential areas of confrontation with Russia arent confined to the Baltic or Ukraine.

They are developing in Romania, where NATO is establishing a network of air and missile defences, that Russia claims is a threat to its interests.

There are also the Kuril Islands in the northern Pacific, currently occupied by Russia but claimed by Japan.

Then of course theres Syria, where nearly one thousand US troops remain in defiance of demands by Damascus that they leave.

So potential areas of conflict with Russia are developing on multiple fronts and neither Russia or the West seems ready to back down. Ed.

US F-22s deploy to Estonia from Poland

NATO Allied Air Command Public Affairs Office May 9, 2023

The U.S. Air Force F-22s supporting NATO Allied Air Commands Air Shielding mission along the eastern flank have executed an Agile Combat Employment deployment to Amari Air Base, Estonia on May 8 to deter aggression in the Balti...

Andrew Chuter Defense News May 11, 2023

Britain has donated Storm Shadow cruise missiles to the Ukrainian air force in a move widely seen as a game changer in Kyivs ability to mount long-range strikes against invading Russian forces.

The decision to hand over a quantity of the MBDA-built cruise missiles was announced by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace in a May 11 statement to lawmakers here.

Storm Shadow is a long-range, conventional, precision-strike capability, he said. It compliments the long-range systems already gifted, including HIMARS and Harpoon missiles, as well as Ukraines own Neptune cruise missiles and longer-range munitions already gifted.

The Anglo-French-developed Storm Shadow missile, known in France as Scalp-EG, has a range in excess of 250 kilometers, or 155 miles, and is particularly effective against hardened and buried targets, according to the manufacturer.

The donation of Storm Shadow missiles, many of which are already in Ukraine, means the British are the first nation to supply Kyiv with long range weapons.

Wallace described the governments decision as a calibrated, proportionate response to Russians escalation in its invasion of Ukraine.

These systems are not in the same league as the Russian AS-24 Killjoy hypersonic missile or Shahed Iranian one-way attack drones, or their Kalibr cruise missile with a range of over 2,000 km, roughly 7 times that of the Storm Shadow missile, Wallace said. Russia must recognize that their actions alone have led to such systems being provided to Ukraine.

Wallace said technical hurdles integrating the weapon onto Ukraines Soviet-era combat jets had been successfully overcome.

Having technically cleared the hurdles, and as everyone talks about an expected counter-offense, now is the right time to gift these to Ukraine, and they [Storm Shadows] are now going into or are in the country, he said.

The British have been signaling for months their intention to donate the long-range weapon to the Ukrainians, and confirmation of the move comes ahead of a long expected offensive by Kyiv against Russian forces occupying parts of the country.

Its part of a wider Western effort to strengthen Ukraines deep-strike capabilities which has recently seen a British-led effort to procure missiles or rockets with a range of 100-300km and payloads between 20kg and 490kg as part of an international funding arrangement.

The Storm Shadow weapon provides the Ukrainian air force with a substantial step up in capability, according to Douglas Barrie, senior air analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank in London.

It really provides Ukraine with a long-range strike capability it doesnt have, h...

HenryMakow.com May 11, 2023

Mike Stone has written an advice book for teenage boys. His first line of advice is Purge All Porn. 

Porn has been used to turn males into sex addicts and to undermine the institution of marriage. Both have contributed to the satanic possession we are experiencing. 

For another perspective, see my Managing the Male Sex Drive.

    by Mike Stone (henrymakow.com) 

If youre not currently reading or watching pornography, youre a good man. Dont ever start.

If you ARE currently reading and watching pornography, its important for you to stop immediately and purge it all from your life.

Pornography has no place in the life of a man. Its sinful, its disgusting, and it leads to masturbation, a mortal sin that will send you straight to hell.

Even the act of reading or watching pornography is a mortal sin that will send you to hell for all eternity. Is the sight of some ugly whores naked body worth going to hell for?

Women who allow themselves to be seen naked or in any form of scanty attire (bikinis, swimming suits, short skirts, etc.) are a blight on humanity and guilty of serious sin. They are literal human scum and condemning their souls to hell in exchange for fleeting male attraction. If you knew them in real life, youd be appalled and disgusted just being around them. Are you going to put your soul in danger of eternal damnation just to ogle one of these filthy whores?

You may not know this, but the main purpose of pornography is the destruction of Christianity. The porn pushers admit this themselves. Thats why pornography is so rampant in our society.

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Smoking Mirrors May 11, 2023

Dog Poet Transmitting.

Well now the poor huddled masses yearning for Walmart World are getting their Door Dash deliveries through the wall at Tijuana, waiting for Title 42 to end. I guess you know that this whole migrant thing is being driven by Big Business the conglomerates and international franchises. Its to lower the costs of labor because American citizens cost too damn much to employ, AND theres no one fit to be in the military anymore. There are other reasons too.

Its also about blending the races to the same common hue, speaking a polyglot pidgin with an across-the-board average of a 7th-grade education maybe. Of course, it doesnt matter how far you go in school these days if what you are learning is nonsense. Higher education would then mean; advanced nonsense specialized nonsense and nonsense Piled Higher and Deeper.

In some places, Nonsense will give way to Bullshit, and whole new course curriculums of Nonsense to Bullshit comparatives and anal-izing will spring up. No No! Thats not Bullshit, thats Nonsense. Look! Look at the grain and the texture! Only Bullshit oh, wait a minute youre right (something you would never hear) it is Bullshit, my Baaaaaahd.

I have a deep affection for America also known as The Great Satan in other locations. I thought of it as a great experiment later (I guess) to be known as a great failed experiment, but this is what you get from Materialism when it starts to run hot. This is also why it is called The Great Satan because that is the realm of The Red Guy with the Mustache and Goatee.

The Devil has a pitchfork. His job is to prod you on through whatever appetite and desire suggest when you are led into temptation. In India, they have a trinity also and one of the personifications has a trident, which is a kind of a pitchfork and he qualifies for some of the things that get blamed on The Devil, because he is The Destroyer aspect.

He would also be the revealer. Lord Shiva is associated with some of the more undesirable aspects of material existence, which is why he is never invited to weddings or other celebrations because of what he is a reminder of.

The whole thing is pretty simple, IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND IT. There is a dial. You turn it down and you enter the carnal theater(s) and The Devil who is God as The Wicked perceives him runs the illusion circus on that level. You turn The Dial up and you enter the spiritual zone(s). In the one location you desire, and in the other location you aspire. Its pretty simple and&#823...

Patrick Delaney Life Site News May 9, 2023

Dr. Michael Yeadon, who formerly served as Pfizers vice president and chief scientist for allergy and respiratory, explained how he knew the COVID virus, with its subsequent vaccine campaign, was a supranational operation designed to injure people, to maim and kill deliberately.

Yeadon, who spent 32 years working mostly for large pharmaceutical companies, spoke to a reporter from Childrens Health Defense in March while attending a Truth be Told Rally in London.

Reviewing how he came to understand the COVID pandemic was something other than what it appeared to be, the pharmacology expert recalled that when I started noticing former colleagues of mine, including Patrick Vallance, saying things on the television I knew werent true and I knew he knew werent true thats when the penny dropped for me, probably [in] February 2020.

Former Vice President at Pfizer, Dr. Mike Yeadon, on the sequence of events which led him to conclude that the so-called "pandemic" was planned and co-ordinated in advance, by unelected globalist bodies like the WHO and WEF, as a justification to deliberately depopulate the pic.twitter.com/qDcuhNimKg

Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) May 6, 2023

Patrick Vallance was the United Kingdoms chief scientific adviser to the government from 2018 to 2023.

I remember saying to my wife, this is not what theyre saying it is. Somethings going on, Yeadon explained.

And when I saw not only my country locking down, but dozens of countries locking down at the same time that was proof, and is still proof, of a supranational operation, he said.

Theres no way that could have happened at the local level, at the country level. Therefore, it must have occurred at a level above. Whether it was the WHO or the World Economic Forum, or other, I dont know, but the orchestrated response demonstrates a planned event as opposed to one determined by the chance of the virus developing, Yeadon said.

These governments all did the same stupid, ineffective, known-not-to-work things at the same time, none of which were in their countries pandemic preparedness plans, because Ive read them all, the toxicology expert assured.

Further, he said that he is perfectly confident he will not be sued by Vallance or others for publicly accusi...