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the devilish propagandist......

Last week’s terror attack on a Moscow concert venue has opened a Pandora’s Box of allegations by Russian officials accusing Western intelligence agencies and governments of secretly cooperating with, coordinating and masterminding the activities of international terrorist groups. Occasionally, however, Western actors don't even bother to hide it.

 

BY Ilya Tsukanov

 

Billionaire financier and civil society ‘philanthropist’ George Soros’ soft power empire needs no introduction, with his Open Society Foundations (OSF) grant making network active across the planet – including major global insecurity hotspots.

In Syria – the Middle Eastern country rocked by a decade plus-long CIA-sponsored dirty war, Soros has taken a deep and personal interest in the ouster of President Bashar Assad, with the OSF sponsoring an array of legal and humanitarian initiatives, and offering PR support for the White Helmets – the media-savvy civil defense organization characterized by independent journalists as ‘al-Qaeda* Civil Defense’ over its documented ties to jihadists.

So deep is Soros’ interest in the Syrian crisis that he has taken time out of his busy schedule to pen a series of articles in the Financial Times and Project Syndicate on the subject, accusing Russia of engaging in “war crimes” by striking terror strongholds, explaining why the 2016 operation to liberate Aleppo from jihadist control was actually a bad thing, and arguing that Moscow was “no ally against ISIS”* for the West (notwithstanding the outsized role Syria, Russia, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon's Hezbollah militias have played in crushing ISIS and other jihadists operating across the Middle East over the past decade compared to the US 'anti-terror coalition’).

‘Creative Ideas’

Soros’ obsession with the fate of Syria’s radicalized rebel groups can be better understood when exploring the type of policy advice given to US administrations by non-profits linked to the financier. In February 2021, the International Crisis Group – a Soros-funded Brussels-based think tank, released a strategic blueprint for the then incoming Biden administration’s Syria policy, recommending that Washington lift its formal terrorist designation against Hei’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)* - the Syrian al-Qaeda offshoot which dominates Idlib – the last stronghold of anti-Assad ‘rebels’ in the country, and scale back military operations against the group.

 

 

“The ‘terrorist’ label affixed to Idlib’s strongest rebel group undermines a crucial ceasefire and blocks potential paths to avert a military showdown. It also reflects a gap in Western policy. Creative ideas from Washington could help break the impasse and set a useful precedent,” the paper, entitled ‘In Syria’s Idlib, Washington’s Chance to Reimagine Counter-terrorism,’ recommended.

 

The think tank assured that HTS had actually “broken with transnational jihadist networks and now seeks entry into the realm of political engagement on Syria’s future,” and that the terrorist label on the group by the UN Security Council “presents a major obstacle.”

 

“The Biden administration should work with European allies and Turkiye to press HTS into further action that addresses key local and international concerns, and to define clear benchmarks which (if met) could enable HTS to shed its ‘terrorist’ label,” the International Crisis Group suggested. Further still, it stressed, “such an approach would have wider value: it could lay out what a conditional roadmap looks like for other groups on today’s battlefields that have been designated ‘terrorists’ but show willingness to forego their pursuit of transnational agendas and attacks on civilians, among other criteria.”

 

The purpose of lifting the terror label against a group tied to fanatics held responsible for the worst-ever terror attack on US soil becomes clear further down, with the ICG expressing concern over US drone strikes on Idlib-based terror leaders, and what it said was the “short-sighted” assumption in Washington that the rebel region’s return to Syria “might be desirable from a counter-terrorism perspective.”

 

 

Instead, the Soros think tank effectively recommended that Syria remain perpetually divided, with HTS to be offered “carrots and sticks” to meet Western standards, such as expanding “space for independent and Western-backed civil society organizations to operate,” and demonstrating a “clear commitment to political and religious pluralism.” The goal? To prevent the Assad government from restoring the country's territorial integrity.

The think tank made similarly bold recommendations in 2023, urging Turkiye and Western powers to "strengthen the 2020 ceasefire” between Idlib militants and Damascus to prevent Syria from restoring control over its internationally-recognized territories.

The same year, coincidentally, leading HTC militant Abu Maria al-Qahtani urged al-Qaeda to formally disband and create a “united front” for operations against Iran. On top of that, Idlib became a strategic conduit for the recruitment of jihadist fighters flowing to Ukraine to fight Russia, among them the Ajnad al-Kavkaz* group, known to have engaged Russian forces in the Battle of Bakhmut.

President Assad’s successful breakout from regional diplomatic isolation in May 2023 and Syria’s return to the Arab League has undoubtedly pressured Washington to intensify efforts to legitimize the HTS – with support for the terrorist wildcard not only helping to assure the continued partition of Syria, but using the region to prevent Syrian-Turkish normalization, and thus fueling Ankara’s drift from the Western orbit.

Birds of a Feather

Whether thanks to Soros lobbying or due to internal considerations, the Washington permanent state apparatus is known to have adopted many of the International Crisis Group’s recommendations.

In an explosive March 2021 interview with PBS, James Jeffrey, the Trump-era Syria point man who boasted openly about deceiving the president on the size of the US military footprint in Syria, and blocking orders to withdraw from the country, praised the HTS as an organization the US could cooperate with.

“Certainly the behavior of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham since I’ve been observing them in 2018 is they don’t go after civilians,” Jeffrey said, recalling his personal efforts to lobby a waiver on the resumption of the delivery of humanitarian aid in HTC-controlled areas by USAID the same year.

 

“Now for the second time, not by supporting the armed opposition but by supporting indirectly the armed opposition – supporting the Israelis, supporting the Turks, supporting the SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces], keeping our troops on – we were re-engaging militarily, as well as diplomatic, and through sanctions and other economic tools in Syria, to try to stop a Russian-Assad-Iranian victory. And HTS picked up on that,” Jeffrey said, recalling messages from the terror group to US interlocutors saying “We want to be your friend. We’re not terrorists. We’re just fighting Assad.”

 

“I had to be very careful that I was not seen as someone who was advocating support for HTS, which was why I was horrified when [Russian Foreign Minister Sergei] Lavrov fingered me, hoping that it wouldn’t be picked up by anybody else, because there was a lot of controversy about this Syria policy,” Jeffrey admitted.

Pro-Terror Public-Private Partnership

Syria and its Russian and Iranian anti-terror allies have for years accused the United States of covertly aiding the jihadists in the Syrian dirty war, training ‘former’ Islamist militants at the al-Tanf garrison and the US-occupied northeastern territories, evacuating militant leaders aboard helicopters, and openly mingling with the jihadists. In 2018, now late Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani urged Iran’s diplomats at the UN to publicly “slap” Western powers “in the face” with evidence of US collusion with Daesh in Syria and Iraq. Two years later, the anti-terror commander was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad.

Soros’ involvement in shaping US policy in Syria, outlined above in some detail for the first time, sheds new light on the role American billionaires’ pet think tanks can play to influence efforts to patch up the faltering Western liberal hegemonic order.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240328/soros-shady-terror-ties-why-billionaire-advised-us-to-ditch-al-qaeda-offshoots-terror-label-1117610102.html

 

 

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media lies......

 

BY Viktor Mikhin Hypocrisy, double standards and lies – business as usual for the Media in the West

 

It is no secret that the “democratic” Western media widely and unashamedly use hypocritical rhetoric and apply double standards when they report various events in countries which the United States and NATO see as adversaries. A prime example of this is their policy of Iranophobia in their coverage of Iran’s domestic and foreign policy initiatives.

While these Western media platforms are eager to criticize Iran’s foreign policy aspirations, they very conveniently overlook similar, or even more troubling, actions by other global powers, especially the United States. Despite the extensive US involvement in the arms trade and its ubiquitous military presence around the world, the Western media appears to turn a blind eye to these aspects of its conduct. Instead, they focus disproportionately on condemning Iran’s actions, which they claim threaten the interests of nations around the world. This glaring inconsistency in reporting undermines the credibility of the Western media and their claim to provide impartial and comprehensive coverage of international affairs. There is no doubt that the media should adopt a balanced and objective approach when reporting on international issues, and refuse to propagate double standards and biased narratives for the benefit of the West.

Western media lies in reporting on Iranian-Sudanese co-operation

On March 3 the Wall Street Journal published a report entitled “Iran Tried to Persuade Sudan to Allow a Naval Base on its Red Sea Coast.” The article, completely without any factual basis, claimed that Tehran was somehow trying to establish a military presence in the Red Sea region by proposing the construction of a naval base to the government in Khartoum. However, the WSJ’s claims, or rather brazen lies, regarding Iran’s alleged efforts to establish a permanent naval base in Northeast Africa were categorically refuted by Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali al-Sadiq Ali.

Speaking during the Antalya Diplomatic Forum 2024 in Turkey, he unequivocally condemned the Wall Street Journal article as “false and fabricated.” He emphasized that during his recent visit to Iran, no discussions regarding the establishment of a military base were raised. “I just visited Iran, but no one brought up this matter to me there,” he clarified, dispelling any notions of Iran soliciting Sudan for such a base.

In light of the current improvement in Iran-Sudan relations, it is crucial to scrutinize the veracity of such statements made by certain Western media outlets and approach them critically. Accusations of this nature could not only strain diplomatic relations but also exacerbate tensions in the highly turbulent region where Israel, backed by the US, is currently massacring Palestinians in Gaza. It is essential to exercise caution and discretion in the consumption and dissemination of information, especially when it relates to sensitive geopolitical issues.

 

Double standards of Western media in relation to events in the Red Sea.

Western media, primarily US and British sources, have attempted to blame Tehran for the current unrest in the Red Sea by linking Yemeni Houthi resistance operations to Iran. Following the retaliatory actions taken by Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement against ships directly linked to Israel, Western media narratives have deviated from the true motives behind the attacks. Instead, they have frequently and incorrectly claimed that Tehran is supplying arms to Sana’a to undermine world trade.

Rejecting such unsubstantiated claims, Yemeni officials have consistently emphasized that these operations are a direct response to Israel’s war crimes and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which is supported by the US military. Iranian diplomatic channels have in turn stated that resistance groups such as Ansarullah operate independently and are not under Tehran’s command. Moreover, the autonomy of these resistance groups is evident from the large-scale demonstrations taking place in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. These rallies strongly condemn Israel’s aggression and express solidarity with the Yemeni army’s efforts against Israeli-linked vessels. The massed voices of the Yemeni people confirm the authenticity of the Yemeni resistance movements, and clearly belie any claims that these movements are aligned with Tehran.

 

Hypocrisy of Western media in connection with South America

Last July, the defense ministries of Iran and Bolivia signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking and terrorism along Bolivia’s borders. However, some Western media, as if on cue, chose to portray the agreement as a “threat” to neighboring Argentina, thus fostering an atmosphere of fear and suspicion.

With Bolivia’s permeable borders providing little protection against gun runners and drug traffickers, Bolivia finds itself in a precarious position. However, one potential solution lies in a strategic partnership with Tehran to strengthen its borders and improve the internal situation in this multi-ethnic state. By upgrading its defense cooperation with Iran, Bolivia can greatly enhance its national security. This co-operation will provide Bolivia with invaluable support against persistent threats, giving it the resources and expertise it needs to effectively defend its citizens and borders. It is important to note that this cooperation between the two countries is not directed against the interests of any third country, and is aimed exclusively at strengthening peace within South America

Regardless of the region in which Tehran seeks to expand its peaceful foreign policy initiatives, Western media platforms consistently adopt a sensationalist line, fueling the prevailing Iranophobic narrative, and portraying Iran as an impending global threat. This tendency is particularly evident in the Middle East region, which, according to Western media, has long been under Iran’s thumb.

 

Analyzing the deception and “integrity” of the Western media

The Western media are persistently trying to vilify Iran’s foreign policy by widely and continuously disseminating misleading and fake news. However, in doing so, they somehow manage to turn a blind eye to the numerous arms deals entered into by the United States and its military presence around the world, which has led to a significant escalation of tensions, especially in West Asia.  The United States maintains about 750 military bases in at least 80 countries, although the actual number may be even higher as the Pentagon does not release complete data, as Al Jazeera notes. The Chicago Policy Review points out that US defense contractors, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, make huge profits from arms sales, which often exacerbate conflict and human rights abuses around the world. Together, these companies account for 40 per cent of the world’s arms exports.

Despite ongoing humanitarian crises, such as the situation in the Gaza Strip, the US continues to support Israel with extensive arms shipments, ignoring international calls for a ceasefire. Last December alone, President Biden approved two major arms deals with a combined value of hundreds of millions of dollars, raising questions about the beneficiaries and ethical implications of such transactions.

Unfortunately, the Western media abandon almost all professional and ethical principles of journalism when covering events in countries seen by the United States and NATO as adversaries, and often the resulting stories are so extreme that even some Western journalists condemn them as fabrications. Remember how the media in the “democratic world” reacted with “horror” to Bashar Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons and “rapes” in Syria! These emotionally charged reports are usually prepared by Western intelligence agencies and released to the media to incite international anger in line with the “strategic interests” of the West. In reality it is these reports that are the real instigators of wars in many parts of the globe.

In addition to the usual pro-war and pro-Western sanctions media such as Fox News and CNN, today even Britain’s The Guardian and Channel 4 News have sold out, adjusting their line to suit the interests of the West’s military-industrial complex. In recent years, YouTube, one of the world’s largest online video-sharing platforms, has become a breeding ground for hate speech, cyberterrorism and disinformation. Despite its claims to uphold high community standards, YouTube has failed to take action against channels that spread vile propaganda against those countries in the Global South which are increasingly taking a stand against the West’s self-serving policies.

While the Western media focus on demonizing the foreign policy of the Global South, they ignore Washington’s aggressive militarism and lucrative arms sales. It is essential to scrutinize the motives behind these double standards and to hold accountable those who profit from “perpetual” conflict and instability on the world stage. There are relevant international organizations for this purpose, headed by the UN, the International Court of Justice and a number of others. As they say, if only there was a will to break and curb the aggressive West and direct international relations in a peaceful direction for the benefit of all countries, not just the West.

https://journal-neo.su/2024/03/25/hypocrisy-double-standards-and-lies-business-as-usual-for-the-media-in-the-west/

 

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cursed washington....

by Vincent Gouysse

Since the very first day of the Russian military intervention in Banderistan, Russia has demonstrated unique qualities for a bourgeois country, knowing how to raise itself (and raise the great masses of its people) to the necessary level of understanding of the stakes of this proxy war waged against Russia by a moribund Atlanticist Fourth Reich , driven to undertake desperate actions to try to halt the dislocation of its centuries-old colonial global hegemony: attempting to collapse Russia to compromise the security of China's energy supplies as a final maneuver to attempt to radically reshuffle the cards of a globalization that escaped them more than two decades ago. A hybrid war waged todayto the last Ukrainian» thanks to the sacrifice of a Ukraine submerged for a decade by a Banderist ideology mixed with Atlanticist supremacism and sprinkled with woke subculture (usually intended to promote the advent of an Orwellian transhumanist dystopia).

However, the reality of the Front, and in particular the overwhelming material superiority of the Russian army which has always known how to cultivate and maintain its moral ascendancy while fighting with one hand tied behind its back in order to preserve the lives of civilians, relegates today the hypothesis of a Banderist victory ranks among the most improbable fantasies. The conditions are thus met for the soldiers recruited by kyiv to feed the meat grinder to understand and oppose the deadly headlong rush in which the Ukrainian-Atlantic circus of kyiv has engaged them.

If the Russians have understood the implications of Western support for Banderist Ukraine for two years, there is still a long way to go for many Ukrainians to understand it as well, even if some, tested by the horrors of a fratricidal war , now wish to put an end to it as soon as possible ...

 

A video of a Ukrainian soldier reading a poem went viral on TikTok:

Animals from a distant land,
Where there are 50 stars on the flag,
Made me believe
That our brothers are no longer our brothers.
And they celebrated
Dancing on bones and blood
Of my friends, neighbors, brothers,
Who die in blind war.
This can't last any longer, I'm waiting for salvation
From the United Brotherhood!

 

As for the people of the West, still zombified by their ongoing brutal exit from an “American dream” turning more and more into a nightmare, it will undoubtedly take them even more time before they in turn curse the plutocrats. from Washington and their native Euro-Atlanticist comprador minions for having not only brought war to the old continent, but also for having achieved their massive accelerated impoverishment via a radical Great Reset committed by energy suicide...

An economic suicide leading to the civilizational collapse of Western "post-industrial" "bazaar economies", and committed in solidarity with the neo-Nazi junta of Kiev, itself engaged in a multifaceted radical suicide of the Ukrainian people (in particular demographic and economic) for the greatest benefit of BlackRock, American industry and the Western arms lobby! Russia, for its part, has already won in fairness, this oh how unfair proxy war waged against it by the Atlanticist “empire of lies” whose “democracy" (now populated by “über” citizen-consumers in the process of being downgraded and built on the sweat and blood of colonized peoples, that is to say on blackmail, sanctions and permanent wars), does not today 'Today, no one dreaming of being reputable on the international scene... More than ever, the King is naked, and only its powerful merdiatic lobby still manages to support the last illusions of power of the dying empire, whose spasms of dementia are multiplying.

«Cursed Washington», the Russians sing today. Tomorrow, this refrain will be taken up by the survivors of the Ukrainian Banderist circus and, following them, by the resistance fighters who will oppose the continuation of the path of civilizational collapse taken by the European Atlanticist branches.

«I have family in Germany,
I have family in Spain,
But I don't understand how it happened,
We are enemies now, we will fight.
Be damned, you and your deadly Washington,
You invented war against the Russians, and brought all of Europe to its knees,
The economies of these countries are all collapsing.
And Zelensky is not a fool, although he is a buffoon,
Dollars flow freely into his pockets.
Ukraine is a brother country – look closely,
You are sent to your death by a bloodthirsty junkie.
Be damned, you and your senile Washington,
You invented war against the Russians, and brought all of Europe to its knees,
The economies of these countries are all collapsing.
Remember, Washington and your moron,
May the punishment come back to you like a boomerang,
You will never defeat Mother Russia,
And thanks to all our brave boys.
Damn you and your Washington idiot,
You invented this war against the Russians,
And thank you to our brave boys».

«Cursed Washington» – Natalia Bickmeeva – April 2023 [Thanks to томас for the translation]

 

https://en.reseauinternational.net/maudit-washington-le-futur-retour-de-boomerang-auquel-sexpose-la-ploutocratie-atlantiste/

 

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