- "If the war does not significantly change the world's political map, the U.S. will not achieve its aim" (Donald Rumsfeld on the Global War On Terror)
- "I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz [when] one of the generals called me in..... [He said] "They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” ..... So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” ...... he said, “I just got this down from upstairs” -- meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office -- “today...... This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” (US General Wesley Clark)
- "It was at the July meeting.... [Ambassador] Tom Simons suggested that Afghanistan could face an open-ended military operation..... if it didn't accede to U.S. demands. "Ambassador Simons stated that if the Taliban wouldn't agree with the plan [relating to the proposed strategic Trans-Afghanistan pipeline], and if Pakistan was unable to persuade them, the United States might use an overt action against Afghanistan..... The words used by Simons were "a military operation".... Another participant reportedly said the Taliban's choice was clear: either accept a "carpet of gold" riches from the pipeline or "a carpet of bombs," meaning a military strike.... [Ambassador Tom Simons] confirms that only a few weeks before Sept. 11, American diplomats warned of military action against Afghanistan if its leaders did not meet U.S. economic and political demands." (Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline, A memo by military chief Mohammed Atef raises new questions about whether failed U.S. efforts to reform Afghanistan's radical regime -- and build the pipeline -- set the stage for Sept. 11., 05/06/2002)
- "We think the price is worth it." (Madeleine Albright in a 1996 interview regarding the death of over 500 000 Iraqi children due to sanctions).
- “You have 24 hours to leave the organization, and if you don’t comply with this decision by Washington, we have ways to retaliate against you. We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York.” (John Bolton threatening Jose Bustani [then OPCW Director General), if he didn’t resign from his position), etc.....
The criminality of successive US governments is well documented. A nation that shows disregard for international law, engages in successive wars of aggression, is subjecting numerous nations to economic strangulation (through 'sanctions', the resultant deaths conforming to genocide in the case of Iraq), is involved in the theft of foreign resources (currently in Syria) and the seizure of resources from commercial shipping (accurately described by Iran and Venezuela as piracy), etc., can easily be described as a rogue nation.
PS. See how the evil Americans threatened others to do their biddings or be killed or destroyed. They have no qualms about killing Muslims and Arabs. And they are trying to con the world that they are fighting for the rights of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Muslims that they have been killing and destroying all over the world. The Americans are protectors of Muslims and Arabs? What are they doing in the Middle East, in Syria, Libya, Iraq, in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Morocco etc etc
The truths are ugly, but it is the truth that they had been planning many wars to take out so many countries. They will fabricate lies, like WMD in Iraq, and use covet action using the CIA, meaning sabotage and inciting unrest, like in Hong Kong, and engineering false flag incidents to forcibly drag countries into war, either with them or against one another.
ReplyDeleteDuring George W. Bush's Presidency, China was not yet one of the countries named to be taken out then. Today, China and Iran are the top priority in any war contemplated by the USA. They are provoking them right now, under Biden.
It is sad that practically the whole world falls for the lies of the USA actions, being led by the nose into Iraq and regretting their folly afterwards. Now, some are wising up, but most are still beholden and cowering under threats of sanctions, knowing full well what the veiled message of 'you are either with us or against us' mean. So they still cowered to survive! Is that a good thing to let the Evil one dictate forever?
After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the country of Iraq is still mired in conflict today.
ReplyDeleteYes democratic rule prevails, but with price democracy when people's lives are hellish and worse then before when Saddam rules.
At least there was peace under Saddam, albeit dictatorial. Many Iraqis regretted their support for the US invasion, but it is too late to think that the USA cares two hoots about how hellish their lives have been turned into.
The Biden and Kamala pair is as vicious and unscrupulous as Trump, Obama, Bush pairs. The only difference is their styles
ReplyDeleteIndigenous Aboriginal Australians protest national celebrations
ReplyDeleteAs Australia prepares for its national day of festivities on Tuesday, Indigenous woman Rita Wright will be protesting the celebrations at a march in Sydney.
Australia Day marks the date the British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in 1788 to start a penal colony, viewing the land as unoccupied despite encountering settlements. For Wright, holding national celebrations on the highly sensitive date reinforces a legacy of mistreatment of Indigenous people by white people. She said the date of the national holiday should be changed.
"I always thought Captain Cook owned this land and not the Aboriginal people," said Wright, referring to the British explorer who mapped Australia's eastern coastline in 1770, paving the way for the establishment of the colony. "But as I got older and stronger I was so proud that I'm Aboriginal."
When the white colonialists invaded Asia and Africa, most of the lands in the region were inhabited by tribes. The concept of nation state was unknown to them. Neither were the tribes big enough to control a large enough piece of land. In a way there were no kingdoms, no nation states. The tribes were loose communities of natives, not organised into statehood.
ReplyDeleteThat made the conquest and colonisation of these lands easy for the white colonialists with their superior firearms.
These lands only became nation states after WW2, when given independence or won independence from the colonialists through armed revolution. Even India's loose tribal states under the Maharajahs were too small and weak to claim nationhood and were all seized by the white rajs and all grouped together as part of British India, like Indonesia under the Dutch.
Before the British and Dutch grouped them together, there was no states to talk about.
Only Japan and China, to a certain extent Thailand and Vietnam were recognisable states or kingdoms, though not in the western form of nation states.
After becoming new states after 1945, some Asean states are now aggressively claiming South China Sea islands that were long claimed by China and accusing China of being aggressive when China refilled the islands into bigger islands. For centuries they did not even know of the existence of these little islands. Now with the Americans egging them on, they really think they have a legal claim to these islands under a new UNCLOS law recently rectified. They totally ignored the historical claims and rights of China to these islands.
Who is the real aggressor to the claiming of South China Sea islands?
The natives of the region, including the aborigines of Australia, have rightful claims to their land that their forefathers occupied from time immemorial. Not islands in the South China Sea that they did not even know existed until recent times. They were not natives of those South China Sea islands.
In fact many natives have more rights to their lands than the Whites. The Red Indians of America, the Aborigines of Australia, the Maoris of New Zealand, the Hawaiians, The People of Diego Garcia and many Pacific Islands as well. All these people were robbed of their land by the Whites. The Whites all lied, cheated and stole from the natives and rewrote history highlighting their exploits or piracy and hijacking in the name of discovery.
ReplyDeleteIt is fortunate that China was not 'discovered' by the Whites, although they would have attempted to rewrite Chinese History too, if China had succumbed to their attempts to divide up the country among the White powers that ravaged China in the 19th century.
If the Whites had been given the dubious honour of discovering China, the Chinese people would be living in reservations and millions would have been culled like the Red Indians. Thank God the Whites failed. But they are trying again by the looks of it.
Biden administration is said to relinquish it's military support for the Saudis in their war with Yemen.
ReplyDeleteThat could be the message that oil is losing it's importance to the USA and the Saudis, having flirted with the Iranians and Russian Bear periodically, may be losing the edge in it's Middle East pivot.
Many suspect the 911 terrorist were financed by the Saudis, planned by the Israelis, all to take out Saddam Hussein, who attempted to sell Iraqi oil in Euros, and who was later proven to have nothing to do with 911. Iraqi oil is under USA control now.
Does that prove anything about lying, cheating and stealing? Fits perfectly.
The USA also had eyes on Venezuela's oil. That is why they want regime change, claiming the election in Venezuela was stolen.
ReplyDeleteHoly shit, isn't that stolen election drama also being played on Capitol Hill just recently, or was it just a sequel?
Singapore is discovered by India . .
ReplyDeleteFounded by LKY.
ReplyDeleteThousands protest ‘Invasion Day’ amid pandemic - "Decolonize! You are on stolen land"
ReplyDeleteThousands of Aboriginal Australians defied coronavirus rules on Tuesday to protest the country's national day, held on the anniversary of British colonization of the vast continent that its Indigenous population brands "Invasion Day."
Officially recognized as Australia Day, January 26 also sees annual rallies drawing attention to the injustices faced by Indigenous people and calling on the government to change the date of the national holiday.
The celebration of the origins of the modern nation is a time of mourning for Indigenous Australians, who have inhabited the land for 65,000 years and view the arrival of British settlers in 1788 as the beginning of two centuries of pain and suffering.
Reports in Germany’s Handelsblatt and Bild suggested the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has an efficacy rate of less than 10 per cent for those over 65.
ReplyDeleteThe European Medicines Agency is currently evaluating the studies. It has been known since the autumn that in the first studies that AstraZeneca submitted fewer older people took part than in the studies of other producers.
Germany’s health ministry said it expects the European medical regulator to publish its evaluation on Friday.
If this 10% efficacy rate for above 65 is true, then it is a total waste of time and money and unnecessary pain and discomfort to go be vaccinated.
ReplyDeleteAs days pass by, more and more truth about the 95% efficacy claim is being questioned. But because it is white vaccine, no one would dare or want to challenge the claims and pretend that all is well even with deaths and serious adverse reactions.
With each day passing, Chinese vaccines are going to get more acceotance as the most effective and danger free vaccines with no wild claims of 95% efficacy. Enough efficacy to be effective and safe.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, the mRNA will start to show more ugly sides and the lowering of its claims of 95% efficacy.
Remember, when one is vaccinated with mRNA, it's task is to make the body generate more mRNAs to get the body to response by producing more antibodies. And in some cases, the production of mRNA could be too much for the person and could lead to serious adverse effects if the body could not cope. And this is more likely to happen to the older folks or those with weak constitutions.
The Russian Sputnik vaccine is also gaining popularity.
ReplyDeleteNot long ago the USA had been claiming that some people have been hacking into their vaccine research facilities, all accusations targeting Russia and China, but these two latter countries are not using the same manufacturing technique as Pfizer and Moderna.
That was another propaganda piece, that if Russia and China had used the same technique as Pfizer and Moderna, would have been accused of stealing their technology. Thank God, Russia and China went a different but tested route.
Biden is complaining that vaccines under Trump are missing. Maybe Trump must have hidden them for his own, family and crony use later. Nothing can beat the evilness of this man!
ReplyDeleteWhen Trump said vaccine rollout will be for Americans first, maybe he lied too. Americans should interpret it as Trump first, not them. It is always about himself.
COVID19 deaths in the USA have exceeded all the USA deaths in all the wars they fought, excluding WW1 and 2. Now Heaven is settling all the old scores with the USA on behalf of the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteThis is Karma extracted for all the deaths they caused with their wars. Perhaps more is on the way to punish them for all the people they killed around the world. With vaccinations in disarray and supplies of vaccines uncertain, who knows? The virus waits for no men and waits not for vaccines.