theduran--2020-04-01--Trump & Putin join forces to SMASH Saudi Prince MbS (Video)

The Duran ’ s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Monday phone call between US President Donald Trump and his Russian President Vladimir Putin .
The leaders discussed plunging oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic .
The two leaders “ expressed serious concern regarding the scope of the spread of the coronavirus ” and “ discussed closer cooperation , ” according to a Kremlin statement on what it described as the a ” lengthy ” phone call .
White House and Kremlin statements reported that the oil market turmoil was discussed , with the White House version stating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in global energy markets.
” Most certainly both leaders focused on how best to deal with Saudi Prince MbS and his oil price war .
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a phone call on Monday to have their top energy officials discuss slumping global oil markets , the Kremlin said , as Trump called Russia ’ s price war with Saudi Arabia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new twist in global oil diplomacy since a failed deal earlier this month between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia to cut production ignited the price war between Russia and OPEC ’ s de facto leader Saudi Arabia .
The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic also helped to send oil prices into a historic tailspin , threatening higher-cost drillers in the United States and around the globe with bankruptcy .
“ Opinions on the current state of global oil markets were exchanged .
It was agreed there would be Russo-American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ energy , ” the Kremlin said in a readout of the call .
White House spokesman Judd Deere said the two leaders had agreed on the importance of stability in global energy markets .
U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette will talk with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak about “ ways the world ’ s largest producers can address volatility in the global oil markets , ” Energy Department spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said .
The Kremlin did not say what exactly the ministers would discuss , but Moscow has previously signaled it would like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ balance global oil markets .
Shortly before Monday ’ s phone call , Trump said Saudi Arabia and Russia “ both went crazy ” in their oil-price war and that “ I never thought I ’ d be saying that maybe we have to have an oil ( price ) increase , because we do.
” “ The price is so low now they ’ re fighting like crazy over , over distribution and over how many barrels to let go , ” Trump said in an interview on Fox News .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the world ’ s largest oil and gas producer , thanks to a technology-driven shale drilling boom .
But the current price of oil is below the production cost of many American drillers .
That has threatened the highly leveraged U.S. shale industry .
“ We don ’ t want to have a dead industry that ’ s wiped out , ” Trump said in the interview .
“ It ’ s bad for them , bad for everybody .
This is a fight between Saudi Arabia and Russia having to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And they both went crazy , they both went crazy.
” Goldman Sachs analysts said that oil demand from commuters and airlines , which account for about 16 million barrels per day of global consumption , may never return to their previous levels .
Oil prices fell on Monday , with U.S. crude future CLc1 dropping below $ 20 a barrel and international benchmark Brent LCOc1 falling to 18-year lows .
The Trump administration is also seeking to persuade the world ’ s top oil exporter , Saudi Arabia , to cut @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a special energy envoy , Victoria Coates , to the kingdom .
In addition to oil and the pandemic , Trump said he and Putin would talk about trade and sanctions the United States has imposed on Russia .
After Washington imposed sanctions on two units of Russia ’ s largest oil producer Rosneft ( ROSN.MM ) in Venezuela , the company said on Saturday it had sold the assets to an unnamed company owned by the Russian government .
The change of ownership means any future U.S. sanctions on Russian-controlled oil operations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ directly .
The Trump administration had accused Rosneft of providing a financial lifeline to Venezuela ’ s President Nicolas Maduro , a socialist .
Washington recognizes opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country ’ s legitimate interim president .
Late last year , Washington slapped sanctions on Russia ’ s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline , halting work on the project weeks before it was expected to be finished .
Russia says the pipeline will be completed eventually .
But the delay could allow increased competition for gas markets in Europe , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ export more liquefied natural gas .
Trump said in the Fox interview that Putin has been asking over the last two years for the sanctions to be lifted and probably would do so on the call .
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied Trump ’ s claim that Putin had made the requests over the course of the past two years , the TASS news agency said in a report .

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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Monday phone call between US President Donald Trump and his Russian President Vladimir Putin. The leaders discussed plunging oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic.
The two leaders “expressed serious concern regarding the scope of the spread of the coronavirus” and “discussed closer cooperation,” according to a Kremlin statement on what it described as the a”lengthy” phone call.
White House and Kremlin statements reported that the oil market turmoil was discussed, with the White House version stating agreement on the “importance of stability in global energy markets.”
Most certainly both leaders focused on how best to deal with Saudi Prince MbS and his oil price war.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a phone call on Monday to have their top energy officials discuss slumping global oil markets, the Kremlin said, as Trump called Russia’s price war with Saudi Arabia “crazy.”
The agreement marks a new twist in global oil diplomacy since a failed deal earlier this month between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia to cut production ignited the price war between Russia and OPEC’s de facto leader Saudi Arabia.
The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic also helped to send oil prices into a historic tailspin, threatening higher-cost drillers in the United States and around the globe with bankruptcy.
“Opinions on the current state of global oil markets were exchanged. It was agreed there would be Russo-American consultations about this through the ministers of energy,” the Kremlin said in a readout of the call.
White House spokesman Judd Deere said the two leaders had agreed on the importance of stability in global energy markets. U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette will talk with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak about “ways the world’s largest producers can address volatility in the global oil markets,” Energy Department spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said.
The Kremlin did not say what exactly the ministers would discuss, but Moscow has previously signaled it would like to see more countries joining efforts to balance global oil markets.
Shortly before Monday’s phone call, Trump said Saudi Arabia and Russia “both went crazy” in their oil-price war and that “I never thought I’d be saying that maybe we have to have an oil (price) increase, because we do.”
“The price is so low now they’re fighting like crazy over, over distribution and over how many barrels to let go,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News.
The United States has grown in recent years into the world’s largest oil and gas producer, thanks to a technology-driven shale drilling boom. But the current price of oil is below the production cost of many American drillers.
That has threatened the highly leveraged U.S. shale industry.
“We don’t want to have a dead industry that’s wiped out,” Trump said in the interview. “It’s bad for them, bad for everybody. This is a fight between Saudi Arabia and Russia having to do with how many barrels to let out. And they both went crazy, they both went crazy.”
Goldman Sachs analysts said that oil demand from commuters and airlines, which account for about 16 million barrels per day of global consumption, may never return to their previous levels.
Oil prices fell on Monday, with U.S. crude future CLc1 dropping below $20 a barrel and international benchmark Brent LCOc1 falling to 18-year lows.
The Trump administration is also seeking to persuade the world’s top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, to cut crude output, and will soon send a special energy envoy, Victoria Coates, to the kingdom.
In addition to oil and the pandemic, Trump said he and Putin would talk about trade and sanctions the United States has imposed on Russia.
After Washington imposed sanctions on two units of Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft (ROSN.MM) in Venezuela, the company said on Saturday it had sold the assets to an unnamed company owned by the Russian government.
The change of ownership means any future U.S. sanctions on Russian-controlled oil operations in Venezuela would target the Russian government directly. The Trump administration had accused Rosneft of providing a financial lifeline to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, a socialist. Washington recognizes opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s legitimate interim president.
Late last year, Washington slapped sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, halting work on the project weeks before it was expected to be finished. Russia says the pipeline will be completed eventually. But the delay could allow increased competition for gas markets in Europe, where the United States is eager to export more liquefied natural gas.
Trump said in the Fox interview that Putin has been asking over the last two years for the sanctions to be lifted and probably would do so on the call. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied Trump’s claim that Putin had made the requests over the course of the past two years, the TASS news agency said in a report.
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theduran--2020-04-02--COVID-19 Forces the World to Re-Think the Idea of ‘Monetary Value’

Western society has long been gripped by a deep seeded belief in money .
Trillions of dollars of bank notes tied to ever-growing mountains of un-payable national debts has taken on a life of its own over the years .
As the post-1971 years rolled by , society increasingly lost a sense that this human invention called “ money ” was created to serve humanity rather than rule it , and with that lost sense , money became an idol of worship .
Decades of this modern religion have resulted in an incredibly tragic situation : a disproportionate wealth distribution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , an over-bloated services/consumer driven economy , increased rates of poverty and despair internationally as well as a dismal loss of vital skills , and productive capacity once enjoyed by advanced industrial nations just four decades ago .
Vital infrastructure built up during the 1930s-1960s has been permitted to decay through simple neglect while un-payable debts have reached record highs .
Then like a thief in the night , the illusion was ripped away .
The Confused Response to the Crisis This ripping away took the form of an international pandemic which has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a halt with a new $ 2 Trillion government emergency spending bill unveiled on March 24 .
The Washington Post reports that this bill will authorize “ hundreds of billions of dollars sent to Americans in the form of checks as a way to flood the country with money in an effort to blunt the dramatic pullback of spending that has resulted from the coronavirus outbreak.
” Governments across the Trans-Atlantic have also announced national interventions into banks and private industry in order to force production quotas of vital equipment like ventilators @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meet the increased demand .
Banks in Spain have been nationalized ( albeit only “ temporarily ” ) to force finance to act in accordance with the needs of society .
In America , the Defense Authorization Act and broader War Powers Act passed by President Trump gives the executive broad powers to take over vital industries if needed in order to mobilize the nation to respond to the crisis .
This renewal of national sovereign powers breaks all of the monetary “ laws of the neoliberal order ” and with that defiance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a paradigm shift is visible… but something vital is still missing .
This “ missing something ” is clearly demonstrated by the continued obsession with money as new bailouts of the collapsing speculative banks have now risen to a $ 1 trillion/day overnight repo loan to collapsing banks which is added to the $ 1 Trillion 14 week loans offered every week that will dramatically increase the $ 9 trillion already emitted since helicopter money began in earnest in September 2019 .
With the mass panic and economic shutdown instigated by COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of their value and fears of a new great depression have spread far and wide .
Rather than impose serious bank regulation like Glass-Steagall to break up the commercial from speculative banks as was done in 1933 , the American government has merely unleashed unlimited money printing .
This bipolar response is akin to trying to stop a raging fire with a combination of water and gasoline .
We thus find that the greatest crisis facing humanity is not caused by the market crisis , or even the coronavirus per se , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ understand the source of real from fictitious value .
What is REAL Value ?
Lincoln and FDR Revisited “ The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government , but it is the Government ’ s greatest creative opportunity .
By the adoption of these principles , the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied .
The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest , discounts and exchanges .
The financing of all public enterprises , the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will become matters of practical administration .
The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government .
Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity .
Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
” These words were uttered by none other than America ’ s 16th president Abraham Lincoln as he fought to take federal control of credit vis a vis the “ greenbacks ” that not only allowed him to win the war of secession but also construct the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ driven by the trans continental railway .
The dramatic success of Lincoln ’ s “ American System ” not only saved the union , but spread successfully across the world from Japan ’ s Meiji restoration , Russia ’ s trans Siberian rail development , Bismarck ’ s Zollverein in Germany and Sadi Carnot ’ s France .
This powerful spread of what German economist Friedrich List called “ the American System of Political Economy ” nearly annihilated the money-worshipping system of Adam Smith ’ s Free Trade doctrine from the earth and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plenitude of London-directed assassinations , and a couple of imperially-orchestrated wars and revolutions along the way [ 1 ] .
The world spun out of control between the murder of the “ last Lincoln republican ” William Mckinley in 1901 [ 2 ] and the orchestrated meltdown of the U.S. economy known as the great depression of 1929 .
Amidst this dark period , Franklin Roosevelt called for the Democrats to claim the legacy of Lincoln from the corrupt republican party and faced a Wall Street-backed coup d ’ etat , survived a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of London-orchestrated bankers ’ dictatorship… all in his first year in office .
During his March 4 , 1933 inaugural address , the president rallied the american people saying : “ I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require .
These measures , or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom , I shall seek , within my constitutional authority , to bring to speedy adoption.
” As I have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Crush a Bankers ’ Dictatorship , FDR took control of credit in a similar manner as Lincoln by forcing the Federal Reserve to obey a national mandate for the first time since the private bank was set up in 1913 .
He did so by imposing his ally Mariner Eccles into the position of Chairman who understood that money had to create infrastructure and industrial growth in order to acquire any claim to having actual “ value ” .
This was a stark break from the “ hands off/laissez-faire ” policy of President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FDR also emitted Lincoln-styled productive credit through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation ( RFC ) to fuel the New Deal .
The RFC issued over $ 33 billion in low-interest loans by the end of the war ( more than all private banks combined ) .
“ We seek not merely to make government a mechanical implement , but to give it the vibrant personal character that is the very embodiment of human charity .
We are poor indeed if this nation can not afford to lift from every recess of American life the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not needed in the world .
We can not afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude.
” Today ’ s America is confronting an existential crisis similar to that which both Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt battled in their time .
Just as the proto-deep state of 1865 ran Lincoln ’ s assassination from Montreal Canada , and took over the White House minutes after FDR ’ s untimely death in 1945 , today ’ s deep state has attempted in vain to overthrow President Trump while successfully undermining @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard .
The difference is that today ’ s crisis combines elements of all previous crises of 1861-1865 , 1929-1933 and 1938-1945 : the very real new threat of chaos and civil war within , NATO-led wars with China and Russia without and economic collapse across the entire trans-Atlantic bubble economy .
The other difference is located in the current presidency ’ s inability to FOCUS with a clear mind on principled solutions to this multi-faceted crisis while instead finding itself trapped within contradictory impulses .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ located the physically productive forces of labor which sustained and improved the lives of people and gave the constitution ’ s pre-amble a real living character , today ’ s American leadership has displayed a far greater ignorance to this basic fact of life .
The vital difference between “ need ” vs “ want ” which has been obscured by decades of free market ideology has resulted in a loss of moral judgment necessary to properly put out the fires threatening to unleashing civil war , chaos and fascist global government “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The new multipolar alliance led by Russia and China have demonstrated what modern day New Deal policies can do .
The Belt and Road Initiative as well as the Strategic Eurasian Partnership , Polar Silk Road and bold space exploration projects all reflect the type of principles of win-win cooperation and long term planning that characterized both FDR and Lincoln earlier .
The Health Silk Road announced earlier this week by President Xi Jinping provides a brilliant maneuver to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic under a non-Malthusian worldview .
This Multipolar Alliance exists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for anyone wishing to escape the fate of the Titanic and embark on a new epoch of growth and cooperation .
The question is : Do western powers have the ability to act according to a scientific ( and moral ) standard of value by aligning with this multipolar alliance or will they choose to remain in Orwell ’ s dystopic cage and succumb to a fate which Lincoln , FDR and other great leaders gave their lives to prevent ?
[ 1 ] Before his assassination , McKinely attacked the neo-liberals of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ` everything would be so cheap , ’ if we only had free trade .
Well , everything would be cheap and everybody would be cheap .
I do not prize the word ` cheap.
’ It is not a word of hope ; it is not a word of comfort ; it is not a word of cheer ; it is not a word of inspiration !
It is the badge of poverty ; it is the signal of distress ; and there is not a man in the audience , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he will let his memory go back , will not recall , then when things were the cheapest , men were the poorest… .
Cheap ?
Why , cheap merchandise means cheap men , and cheap men mean a cheap country ; and that is not the kind of Government our fathers founded , and it is not the kind their sons mean to maintain .
If you want cheap things , go where you can get them… .
We want labor to be well paid.
” [ 2 ] Some of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Czar Alexander II ( 1880 ) , U.S. President Garfield ( 1880 ) , France ’ s President Sadi Carnot ( 1895 ) , Prime Minister Castillo of Spain ( 1897 ) and even though Bismarck avoided assassination , his 1891 ouster from chancellorship firmly set Germany onto the slow course of self-destruction known as WWI and WWII .
The full story is told in the 2008 film 1932 : Speak not of Parties .
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Untold History of Canada ’ book series .
In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation and can be reached at [ email protected ]

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Originally published on Strategic Culture
Western society has long been gripped by a deep seeded belief in money. Trillions of dollars of bank notes tied to ever-growing mountains of un-payable national debts has taken on a life of its own over the years. As the post-1971 years rolled by, society increasingly lost a sense that this human invention called “money” was created to serve humanity rather than rule it, and with that lost sense, money became an idol of worship.
Decades of this modern religion have resulted in an incredibly tragic situation: a disproportionate wealth distribution in the hands of the 0.1%, an over-bloated services/consumer driven economy, increased rates of poverty and despair internationally as well as a dismal loss of vital skills, and productive capacity once enjoyed by advanced industrial nations just four decades ago. Vital infrastructure built up during the 1930s-1960s has been permitted to decay through simple neglect while un-payable debts have reached record highs.
Then like a thief in the night, the illusion was ripped away.
The Confused Response to the Crisis
This ripping away took the form of an international pandemic which has resulted in western nations’ economies grinding to a halt with a new $2 Trillion government emergency spending bill unveiled on March 24. The Washington Post reports that this bill will authorize “hundreds of billions of dollars sent to Americans in the form of checks as a way to flood the country with money in an effort to blunt the dramatic pullback of spending that has resulted from the coronavirus outbreak.”
Governments across the Trans-Atlantic have also announced national interventions into banks and private industry in order to force production quotas of vital equipment like ventilators, masks and other medical necessities to meet the increased demand. Banks in Spain have been nationalized (albeit only “temporarily”) to force finance to act in accordance with the needs of society. In America, the Defense Authorization Act and broader War Powers Act passed by President Trump gives the executive broad powers to take over vital industries if needed in order to mobilize the nation to respond to the crisis.
This renewal of national sovereign powers breaks all of the monetary “laws of the neoliberal order” and with that defiance of globalization, a genuine positive potential for a paradigm shift is visible… but something vital is still missing.
This “missing something” is clearly demonstrated by the continued obsession with money as new bailouts of the collapsing speculative banks have now risen to a $1 trillion/day overnight repo loan to collapsing banks which is added to the $1 Trillion 14 week loans offered every week that will dramatically increase the $9 trillion already emitted since helicopter money began in earnest in September 2019. With the mass panic and economic shutdown instigated by COVID-19, markets have lost over 30% of their value and fears of a new great depression have spread far and wide. Rather than impose serious bank regulation like Glass-Steagall to break up the commercial from speculative banks as was done in 1933, the American government has merely unleashed unlimited money printing. This bipolar response is akin to trying to stop a raging fire with a combination of water and gasoline.
We thus find that the greatest crisis facing humanity is not caused by the market crisis, or even the coronavirus per se, but rather society’s profound inability to understand the source of real from fictitious value.
What is REAL Value? Lincoln and FDR Revisited
“The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government’s greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.”
These words were uttered by none other than America’s 16th president Abraham Lincoln as he fought to take federal control of credit vis a vis the “greenbacks” that not only allowed him to win the war of secession but also construct the greatest infrastructure and industrialization programs of history driven by the trans continental railway. The dramatic success of Lincoln’s “American System” not only saved the union, but spread successfully across the world from Japan’s Meiji restoration, Russia’s trans Siberian rail development, Bismarck’s Zollverein in Germany and Sadi Carnot’s France. This powerful spread of what German economist Friedrich List called “the American System of Political Economy” nearly annihilated the money-worshipping system of Adam Smith’s Free Trade doctrine from the earth and only failed in this task via a plenitude of London-directed assassinations, and a couple of imperially-orchestrated wars and revolutions along the way [1].
The world spun out of control between the murder of the “last Lincoln republican” William Mckinley in 1901 [2] and the orchestrated meltdown of the U.S. economy known as the great depression of 1929.
Amidst this dark period, Franklin Roosevelt called for the Democrats to claim the legacy of Lincoln from the corrupt republican party and faced a Wall Street-backed coup d’etat, survived a freemasonic assassination attempt and subverted a City of London-orchestrated bankers’ dictatorship… all in his first year in office. During his March 4, 1933 inaugural address, the president rallied the american people saying:
“I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require. These measures, or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption.”
As I have outlined in my recent paper How to Crush a Bankers’ Dictatorship, FDR took control of credit in a similar manner as Lincoln by forcing the Federal Reserve to obey a national mandate for the first time since the private bank was set up in 1913. He did so by imposing his ally Mariner Eccles into the position of Chairman who understood that money had to create infrastructure and industrial growth in order to acquire any claim to having actual “value”. This was a stark break from the “hands off/laissez-faire” policy of President Hoover and his JP Morgan-run cabinet. FDR also emitted Lincoln-styled productive credit through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) to fuel the New Deal. The RFC issued over $33 billion in low-interest loans by the end of the war (more than all private banks combined).
Describing his moral philosophy of political economy, FDR stated:
“We seek not merely to make government a mechanical implement, but to give it the vibrant personal character that is the very embodiment of human charity. We are poor indeed if this nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world. We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude.”
What is missing today
Today’s America is confronting an existential crisis similar to that which both Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt battled in their time. Just as the proto-deep state of 1865 ran Lincoln’s assassination from Montreal Canada, and took over the White House minutes after FDR’s untimely death in 1945, today’s deep state has attempted in vain to overthrow President Trump while successfully undermining the political viability of other “outsiders” like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard.
The difference is that today’s crisis combines elements of all previous crises of 1861-1865, 1929-1933 and 1938-1945: the very real new threat of chaos and civil war within, NATO-led wars with China and Russia without and economic collapse across the entire trans-Atlantic bubble economy. The other difference is located in the current presidency’s inability to FOCUS with a clear mind on principled solutions to this multi-faceted crisis while instead finding itself trapped within contradictory impulses.
While FDR and Lincoln understood that VALUE was located the physically productive forces of labor which sustained and improved the lives of people and gave the constitution’s pre-amble a real living character, today’s American leadership has displayed a far greater ignorance to this basic fact of life. The vital difference between “need” vs “want” which has been obscured by decades of free market ideology has resulted in a loss of moral judgment necessary to properly put out the fires threatening to unleashing civil war, chaos and fascist global government “solutions” across the Trans Atlantic today.
The new multipolar alliance led by Russia and China have demonstrated what modern day New Deal policies can do. The Belt and Road Initiative as well as the Strategic Eurasian Partnership, Polar Silk Road and bold space exploration projects all reflect the type of principles of win-win cooperation and long term planning that characterized both FDR and Lincoln earlier. The Health Silk Road announced earlier this week by President Xi Jinping provides a brilliant maneuver to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic under a non-Malthusian worldview. This Multipolar Alliance exists as a form of a life raft for anyone wishing to escape the fate of the Titanic and embark on a new epoch of growth and cooperation.
The question is: Do western powers have the ability to act according to a scientific (and moral) standard of value by aligning with this multipolar alliance or will they choose to remain in Orwell’s dystopic cage and succumb to a fate which Lincoln, FDR and other great leaders gave their lives to prevent?
Footnotes
[1] Before his assassination, McKinely attacked the neo-liberals of his day saying “Then they say `everything would be so cheap,’ if we only had free trade. Well, everything would be cheap and everybody would be cheap. I do not prize the word `cheap.’ It is not a word of hope; it is not a word of comfort; it is not a word of cheer; it is not a word of inspiration! It is the badge of poverty; it is the signal of distress; and there is not a man in the audience, not a white-haired man, who, if he will let his memory go back, will not recall, then when things were the cheapest, men were the poorest…. Cheap? Why, cheap merchandise means cheap men, and cheap men mean a cheap country; and that is not the kind of Government our fathers founded, and it is not the kind their sons mean to maintain. If you want cheap things, go where you can get them…. We want labor to be well paid.”
[2] Some of the most notable murders of the day included Czar Alexander II (1880), U.S. President Garfield (1880), France’s President Sadi Carnot (1895), Prime Minister Castillo of Spain (1897) and even though Bismarck avoided assassination, his 1891 ouster from chancellorship firmly set Germany onto the slow course of self-destruction known as WWI and WWII. The full story is told in the 2008 film 1932: Speak not of Parties.
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation and can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com
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theduran--2020-04-02--Countries Having the Highest Percentages of Population with Covid-19 Infection

As of April 2nd , the top ten most-infected countries , by numbers of persons tested positive , and their respective population-sizes , and the resulting percentages of population who are known to be infected , are : Consequently , of all of the ten countries that have the most infections , the three with the highest ratio of the population who are known to be infected are : Italy , Spain , and Switzerland .
Those countries are in the worst shape .
Germany is the next-highest , after them .
In the mid-range , below those 4 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and UK .
The lowest percentage who are known to be infected are in China .
Of the top ten countries , three — Italy , Spain , and Switzerland — are , on the basis of current public knowledge , the most-infected ; and one — China — is the least-infected .
Consequently , at present , the strictest lockdowns ought to be in Italy , Spain , and Switzerland ; and travelers from those 3 countries ought to be especially subjected to testing before being allowed to enter others of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , allowed to enter any other country ) .
Furthermore , at the present time , China should prohibit entrance into the country by travelers from abroad .
Of course , one can question the reliability of these data , but this applies to the data from all countries ; and , therefore , to do that is basically to ignore the data ( which only fools would do , since these data are all that we ’ ve currently got to go on ) .
This is only at the current phase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a global problem , and even countries that at the present phase seem to have gotten this plague under control could experience new sources of infection , either from abroad or else domestically .
Covid-19 , the virus that causes the coronavirus-19 disease , is too new for there to be much confidence in any predictions about its mutation-rates and other important attributes .
For such a phenomon , much guesswork is inevitably involved , and the outcome of any prediction will largely due to chance , mere luck .
Investigative historian Eric @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , of They ’ re Not Even Close : The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records , 1910-2010 , and of CHRIST ’ S VENTRILOQUISTS : The Event that Created Christianity .

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Eric Zuesse
As of April 2nd, the top ten most-infected countries, by numbers of persons tested positive, and their respective population-sizes, and the resulting percentages of population who are known to be infected, are:
USA 217,661 / 327,527,107 = 0.0007
Italy 110,574 / 59,484,488 = 0.002
Spain 110,238 / 46,569,676 = 0.002
Germany 81,728 / 81,845,984 = 0.001
China 81,589 / 1,426,279,708 = 0.00006
France 56,989 / 67,699,975 = 0.0008
Iran 50,468 / 81,797,656 = 0.0006
UK 33,718 / 66,465,841 = 0.0005
Switzerland 18,475 / 8,429,973 = 0.002
Turkey 15,679 / 80,091,763 = 0.0002
Consequently, of all of the ten countries that have the most infections, the three with the highest ratio of the population who are known to be infected are: Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. Those countries are in the worst shape.
Germany is the next-highest, after them.
In the mid-range, below those 4, are: U.S., France, Iran, and UK.
Turkey is the next-highest.
The lowest percentage who are known to be infected are in China.
Of the top ten countries, three — Italy, Spain, and Switzerland — are, on the basis of current public knowledge, the most-infected; and one — China — is the least-infected.
Consequently, at present, the strictest lockdowns ought to be in Italy, Spain, and Switzerland; and travelers from those 3 countries ought to be especially subjected to testing before being allowed to enter others of these 10 countries (or, perhaps, allowed to enter any other country).
Furthermore, at the present time, China should prohibit entrance into the country by travelers from abroad.
Of course, one can question the reliability of these data, but this applies to the data from all countries; and, therefore, to do that is basically to ignore the data (which only fools would do, since these data are all that we’ve currently got to go on).
This is only at the current phase of the pandemic. It’s a global problem, and even countries that at the present phase seem to have gotten this plague under control could experience new sources of infection, either from abroad or else domestically. Covid-19, the virus that causes the coronavirus-19 disease, is too new for there to be much confidence in any predictions about its mutation-rates and other important attributes. For such a phenomon, much guesswork is inevitably involved, and the outcome of any prediction will largely due to chance, mere luck.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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theduran--2020-04-02--COVID-19 strategy: UK, Sweden and Belarus (Video)

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The Kremlin has no information whether Minsk @ @ @ @ @ channels for help in fighting the coronavirus pandemic .
“ I do not know if @ @ @ @ @ diplomatic channels , ” Kremlin spokesman , Dmitry Peskov told reporters Wednesday , commenting on @ @ @ @ @ that Belarus allegedly contacted Russia , asking for help .
The Kremlin spokesman recalled that @ @ @ @ @ from an understanding that all countries are now “ in the same boat.
” “ @ @ @ @ @ for us all , and it is impossible to fight this virus without cooperation , @ @ @ @ @ mutual help and aid , ” he added .
“ This concerns all countries in @ @ @ @ @ case of our brotherly Belarus , this is a unique situation .
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“I do not know if such appeals were sent through diplomatic channels,” Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov told reporters Wednesday, commenting on Kommersant newspaper’s report that Belarus allegedly contacted Russia, asking for help.
The Kremlin spokesman recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin proceeds from an understanding that all countries are now “in the same boat.”
“This is a common challenge for us all, and it is impossible to fight this virus without cooperation, combined effort, partnership and mutual help and aid,” he added. “This concerns all countries in the world and in the case of our brotherly Belarus, this is a unique situation.”
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theduran--2020-04-02--A Proposed Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The U.S. President will be elected by means of a standardized physical and personally signed mail-in ballot , which , starting in the first month of the election-year , is mailed out to all registered voters , who are broken down into 100 different and all-inclusive randomly assigned daily batches of 1 % of the electorate ( 5 % of the electorate per week ) , and which asks each such person “ Whom do you wish were America ’ s President right now ?
( Name a living American . )
” Each of the top two chosen named @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to serve as President — both of them naturally being publicly well-known — will then , within 30 days of having been publicly announced as having been selected by the voters for the second-round voting and willing to serve , post online that individual ’ s proposed Presidential policies ; and each of these two contenders will , then , after yet another 30 days , together face a town hall , with 100 randomly selected Americans , at which event ten of them who would like to ask questions will randomly be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questioners to ask only one question ( secretly held by that randomly selected individual ) , which they want to be answered by both of the contenders , and allowing each such questioner up to 5 successive follow-up questions on that one question , to ask that question of each one of the two contenders , but allowing no other question , and no time-limits .
( That will , at a maximum , be 10 main questions , plus , for each question , 10 follow-up questions , or 110 questions total @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this event , which will be the one and only Presidential-campaign town hall during the entire election-season . )
After that town hall , each of the two candidates will have a half hour of free and federally financed air-time on all networks each week , so as to be able to address any issues that may have arisen .
100 days after that town hall , a second standardized physical mail-in ballot will be mailed out , this time all-at-once , to all registered voters and listing as options only those two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and personally signed ballots in each of the two rounds will be permanently stored for possible recounts .
The candidate who receives the majority of votes will be the next President .
The loser will be the Vice President .
The twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution is hereby nullified .
The twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is hereby nullified .
Article II , Section 1 , Clauses 2 & 3 , of the U.S. Constitution , are hereby nullified .
THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT WOULD ESTABLISH A MEANS OF AVOIDING THE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ THE EXISTING SYSTEM OF SELECTING A U.S. PRESIDENT , such as : Nominees being selected entirely by means which enable billionaires and other top political donors collectively to control the outcome by eliminating candidates whom they all oppose .
Major newsmedia , which themselves are controlled by billionaires , coloring or ‘ interpreting ’ candidates ’ assertions so as to sway voters toward their preferred candidates .
Staged ‘ debates ’ with only shallow questions that have been pre-approved by representatives of the billionaires , which representatives have negotiated , in advance , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t be allowed to be publicly debated at these ‘ debates ’ .
Replacing the Electoral College and eliminating the role that superdelegates play in the Presidential-selection process .
Eliminating the argument for term-limits on the Presidency ( because no arbitrary requirement will be placed on whom the President should be , other than the requirements that were imposed in the 1787 Constitution itself ) .
Temporally spreading the initial selection-process , out to 100 weekdays , or 20 weeks , will prevent any one news-event or scandal or emergency from over-influencing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two individuals competing in the second round .
By limiting the final choice to the individuals who were the two top chosen persons in the initial choice and willing to serve , that final choice will not only be between two individuals both of whom are highly regarded by a substantial portion of the population and willing to serve , but in the second ( the final ) round will allow each of them to present the individual ’ s case for him/herself and against the opponent ; and this natural adversarial process @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be accentuated in any meaningful election , so as to expose not only the strengths , but also the vulnerabilities , in each of the two electoral options ( persons ) that are being offered to the public in the final stage .
Since this Amendment would eliminate the influence of Party-organizations ( because the voters would be choosing on their own and not guided by the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee ) , it would introduce a new type of Presidency — one which , for the very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election of George Washington , would produce Presidents who are not answerable to any Party-organization but only directly-and-only to the electorate .
The balance of powers between the Executive and the Legislative branches would then be much closer to what the Founders ( who had wished to avoid any political Parties from forming in America ) had intended to be the case , regarding the selection of the President .
The Founders opposed political Parties because they knew such Parties to result inevitably in , and to encourage the development of , corruption @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only the public , no Party organization .
The Founders also knew that any admixture between the Legislative and the Executive functions will greatly exacerbate corruption , by means of reducing the separation-of-powers .
This proposed new U.S .
Constitutional Amendment would restrain corruption because it would separate the President not only from the Party-system that controls the Legislature , but from the Legislature itself .
This double-insulation would amplify the President ’ s “ bully pulpit ” ( by institutionalizing adversariality , competition , between the Executive and Legislative branches ) and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ influence ( which , under the current system , a President exercises via his own Party-organization ) over the Legislature .
Politically , the President will therefore then be competing against both the House and the Senate , and will cooperate with the Legislature only so as to produce legislation that both the Executive and the Legislative branches will want to take to the electorate in their respective re-election campaigns .
The objective here is to maximize the Government ’ s electoral accountability to the public .
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , at no more than two four-year terms ) was instituted during 1947-1951 , under President Truman , in order to reduce democracy ( eliminate the public from choosing the President ) when an incumbent in the Presidency has proven to be so good that the public will probably always be happy for that person to continue on in that office until that person either dies or quits — such as was the case with Franklin Delano Roosevelt , who had died as the President in his fourth term , on 12 April @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2nd-greatest President , after only Abraham Lincoln .
Though he was popular as President , he is even more admired in retrospect by historians .
In his own time , America ’ s wealthy were hostile toward him .
The first-ever U.S. Presidential-election poll was taken by the conservative Literary Digest during the Great Depression in 1936 and only amongst middle-and-upper-class Americans , and it showed FDR likely to obtain only 43 % of the vote , but in the actual election , he won 61 % , and that magazine then died @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Digest poll in 1936 , George Gallup mocked that pollster ’ s methodology and correctly predicted FDR ’ s win ( though likewise under-estimating it , at 56 % ) , thus creating the first scientific polling-organization , which still exists .
The 1940 pollings showed FDR as being almost certain to win , which happened ; and , then , in 1944 , likewise .
Republicans didn ’ t want that to happen ever again and thus forced through the 22nd Amendment so as to prevent it from happening .
They sensed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as President who would be so popular for so long .
However : that Republican 22nd Amendment is inevitably an invitation to corruption because it reduces the incentive for a sitting President to govern so that the public will be and will remain supportive of that incumbent ’ s continuance in office .
The 22nd Amendment was thus part of the degeneration of American democracy — not part of its enhancement .
If FDR had been held to the standard that the Republicans succeeded at imposing upon the country in 1951 , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when the U.S. was attacked at Pearl Harbor and America ’ s economic recovery from the Republicans ’ Great Depression was already blossoming in full force since 1938 , the Republican Wall-Street lawyer and proponent of regulated monopolies , Wendel Willkie , would probably have become President , and America ’ s degeneration into extreme corruption would likely have begun four years before it ultimately did .
Willkie wouldn ’ t have kept America out of WW II , but he had zero record in public office and there was nothing in his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would have served America and the world better in WW II and afterward than FDR and even Truman did .
The 22nd Amendment was just a thinly rationalized power-grab by the Republican National Committee , as soon as FDR died .
But merely eliminating it wouldn ’ t be enough to make America ’ s Presidential-selection process truly and directly democratic .
Parties must be removed entirely from that process .
This Amendment would do that .
The 12th Amendment to the Constitution , as well as Clauses 2 & 3 of Section @ @ @ @ @ @ @ College , and thus likewise would be eliminated by the proposed Amendment .
Those provisions , too , had been introduced by conservatives , especially the slave states .
Particularly , during the U.S .
Constitutional Convention , “ southern Convention delegates , who personally thrived on the institution of slavery and represented others who also did so , forced the compromise establishment of our bipartite constitutional scheme for presidential elections.
” The Amendment which is proposed here would replace all of that .
This Amendment would , in fact , at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of America by its former slave states .
The Civil War didn ’ t do this , but only held the Union together while outlawing outright slavery .
Some of the Deep South ’ s stranglehold against democracy remained even after the 14th Amendment ended the overt commerce in human beings .
Moreover , slavery continued in Alabama right up to WW II , when FDR , on 12 December 1941 , ordered it finally to be ended .
Consequently , this would be a very important Amendment .
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of They ’ re Not Even Close : The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records , 1910-2010 , and of CHRIST ’ S VENTRILOQUISTS : The Event that Created Christianity .

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Eric Zuesse
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The U.S. President will be elected by means of a standardized physical and personally signed mail-in ballot, which, starting in the first month of the election-year, is mailed out to all registered voters, who are broken down into 100 different and all-inclusive randomly assigned daily batches of 1% of the electorate (5% of the electorate per week), and which asks each such person “Whom do you wish were America’s President right now? (Name a living American.)” Each of the top two chosen named persons that is Constitutionally qualified and willing to serve as President — both of them naturally being publicly well-known — will then, within 30 days of having been publicly announced as having been selected by the voters for the second-round voting and willing to serve, post online that individual’s proposed Presidential policies; and each of these two contenders will, then, after yet another 30 days, together face a town hall, with 100 randomly selected Americans, at which event ten of them who would like to ask questions will randomly be selected, each one of these ten questioners to ask only one question (secretly held by that randomly selected individual), which they want to be answered by both of the contenders, and allowing each such questioner up to 5 successive follow-up questions on that one question, to ask that question of each one of the two contenders, but allowing no other question, and no time-limits. (That will, at a maximum, be 10 main questions, plus, for each question, 10 follow-up questions, or 110 questions total, as an absolute maximum, at this event, which will be the one and only Presidential-campaign town hall during the entire election-season.) After that town hall, each of the two candidates will have a half hour of free and federally financed air-time on all networks each week, so as to be able to address any issues that may have arisen. 100 days after that town hall, a second standardized physical mail-in ballot will be mailed out, this time all-at-once, to all registered voters and listing as options only those two identified individuals. All of the returned and personally signed ballots in each of the two rounds will be permanently stored for possible recounts. The candidate who receives the majority of votes will be the next President. The loser will be the Vice President.
The twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution is hereby nullified.
The twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is hereby nullified.
Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 & 3, of the U.S. Constitution, are hereby nullified.
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THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT WOULD ESTABLISH A MEANS OF AVOIDING THE MAIN SOURCES OF PROBLEMS THAT ARE IN THE EXISTING SYSTEM OF SELECTING A U.S. PRESIDENT, such as:
Nominees being selected entirely by means which enable billionaires and other top political donors collectively to control the outcome by eliminating candidates whom they all oppose.
Major newsmedia, which themselves are controlled by billionaires, coloring or ‘interpreting’ candidates’ assertions so as to sway voters toward their preferred candidates.
Staged ‘debates’ with only shallow questions that have been pre-approved by representatives of the billionaires, which representatives have negotiated, in advance, what questions will and what won’t be allowed to be publicly debated at these ‘debates’.
Replacing the Electoral College and eliminating the role that superdelegates play in the Presidential-selection process.
Eliminating the argument for term-limits on the Presidency (because no arbitrary requirement will be placed on whom the President should be, other than the requirements that were imposed in the 1787 Constitution itself).
Temporally spreading the initial selection-process, out to 100 weekdays, or 20 weeks, will prevent any one news-event or scandal or emergency from over-influencing the first-round choices of whom will be the two individuals competing in the second round.
By limiting the final choice to the individuals who were the two top chosen persons in the initial choice and willing to serve, that final choice will not only be between two individuals both of whom are highly regarded by a substantial portion of the population and willing to serve, but in the second (the final) round will allow each of them to present the individual’s case for him/herself and against the opponent; and this natural adversarial process will produce the polarity that is necessary to be accentuated in any meaningful election, so as to expose not only the strengths, but also the vulnerabilities, in each of the two electoral options (persons) that are being offered to the public in the final stage.
Since this Amendment would eliminate the influence of Party-organizations (because the voters would be choosing on their own and not guided by the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee), it would introduce a new type of Presidency — one which, for the very first time in American history after the election of George Washington, would produce Presidents who are not answerable to any Party-organization but only directly-and-only to the electorate. The balance of powers between the Executive and the Legislative branches would then be much closer to what the Founders (who had wished to avoid any political Parties from forming in America) had intended to be the case, regarding the selection of the President. The Founders opposed political Parties because they knew such Parties to result inevitably in, and to encourage the development of, corruption. They wanted the President to represent only the public, no Party organization. The Founders also knew that any admixture between the Legislative and the Executive functions will greatly exacerbate corruption, by means of reducing the separation-of-powers. This proposed new U.S. Constitutional Amendment would restrain corruption because it would separate the President not only from the Party-system that controls the Legislature, but from the Legislature itself. This double-insulation would amplify the President’s “bully pulpit” (by institutionalizing adversariality, competition, between the Executive and Legislative branches) and simultaneously diminish the President’s direct influence (which, under the current system, a President exercises via his own Party-organization) over the Legislature. Politically, the President will therefore then be competing against both the House and the Senate, and will cooperate with the Legislature only so as to produce legislation that both the Executive and the Legislative branches will want to take to the electorate in their respective re-election campaigns. The objective here is to maximize the Government’s electoral accountability to the public.
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution (setting a term-limit upon the Presidency, at no more than two four-year terms) was instituted during 1947-1951, under President Truman, in order to reduce democracy (eliminate the public from choosing the President) when an incumbent in the Presidency has proven to be so good that the public will probably always be happy for that person to continue on in that office until that person either dies or quits — such as was the case with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had died as the President in his fourth term, on 12 April 1945. Historians rank FDR as the 2nd-greatest President, after only Abraham Lincoln. Though he was popular as President, he is even more admired in retrospect by historians. In his own time, America’s wealthy were hostile toward him. The first-ever U.S. Presidential-election poll was taken by the conservative Literary Digest during the Great Depression in 1936 and only amongst middle-and-upper-class Americans, and it showed FDR likely to obtain only 43% of the vote, but in the actual election, he won 61%, and that magazine then died in 1938. Months after the Literary Digest poll in 1936, George Gallup mocked that pollster’s methodology and correctly predicted FDR’s win (though likewise under-estimating it, at 56%), thus creating the first scientific polling-organization, which still exists. The 1940 pollings showed FDR as being almost certain to win, which happened; and, then, in 1944, likewise. Republicans didn’t want that to happen ever again and thus forced through the 22nd Amendment so as to prevent it from happening. They sensed that they could never get a Republican as President who would be so popular for so long. However: that Republican 22nd Amendment is inevitably an invitation to corruption because it reduces the incentive for a sitting President to govern so that the public will be and will remain supportive of that incumbent’s continuance in office. The 22nd Amendment was thus part of the degeneration of American democracy — not part of its enhancement. If FDR had been held to the standard that the Republicans succeeded at imposing upon the country in 1951, with the 22nd Amendment, then in 1941 when the U.S. was attacked at Pearl Harbor and America’s economic recovery from the Republicans’ Great Depression was already blossoming in full force since 1938, the Republican Wall-Street lawyer and proponent of regulated monopolies, Wendel Willkie, would probably have become President, and America’s degeneration into extreme corruption would likely have begun four years before it ultimately did. Willkie wouldn’t have kept America out of WW II, but he had zero record in public office and there was nothing in his public record which would indicate that he would have served America and the world better in WW II and afterward than FDR and even Truman did. The 22nd Amendment was just a thinly rationalized power-grab by the Republican National Committee, as soon as FDR died. But merely eliminating it wouldn’t be enough to make America’s Presidential-selection process truly and directly democratic. Parties must be removed entirely from that process. This Amendment would do that.
The 12th Amendment to the Constitution, as well as Clauses 2 & 3 of Section Two, all deal with the Electoral College, and thus likewise would be eliminated by the proposed Amendment. Those provisions, too, had been introduced by conservatives, especially the slave states. Particularly, during the U.S. Constitutional Convention, “southern Convention delegates, who personally thrived on the institution of slavery and represented others who also did so, forced the compromise establishment of our bipartite constitutional scheme for presidential elections.” The Amendment which is proposed here would replace all of that. This Amendment would, in fact, at the Presidential level, end the institutionalized rule of America by its former slave states. The Civil War didn’t do this, but only held the Union together while outlawing outright slavery. Some of the Deep South’s stranglehold against democracy remained even after the 14th Amendment ended the overt commerce in human beings. Moreover, slavery continued in Alabama right up to WW II, when FDR, on 12 December 1941, ordered it finally to be ended.
Consequently, this would be a very important Amendment.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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theduran--2020-04-03--Putin And Trump vs The New World Order: The Final Battle

The unknown that lays ahead for all of us is both exhilarating and scary .
Exhilarating in the long term , but rather scary in the short term .
All empires eventually die and we ’ re in the terminal phase of the New World Order that will not recover from the Russian roulette game it has been playing , for Vladimir Putin handed it a loaded gun and it pulled the trigger .
The last few weeks put everything in place for the last battle .
There are so many different facts and events , left and right , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ best to remain methodical in this complicated expose .
Bare with me , I ’ ve been struggling for three weeks with this article because of the insane amount of additional details that each day provides .
It might have been a wrong time to quit smoking , but I enjoy a good challenge .
A little context is required .
The New World Order concept is simply the wish of a handful of international bankers that want to economically and politically rule the whole planet as one happy family .
It started @ @ @ @ @ @ @ important changes over the years , but the concept and objective haven ’ t changed an iota .
Unfortunately for them , international banks that have been looting the planet through the US dollar since 1944 are now threatened by hyperinflation , as their printing machine has been rotating for years to cover their absurd spendings to sustain oil and resource wars that they ’ ve all ultimately lost .
In order to prevent this upcoming hyperinflation , they generated a virus attack on four countries ( China , Iran , Italy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ panic in the population , with the precious help of their ignominious medias .
Even though this corona virus isn ’ t different from any new viruses that attack humans every year , the media scare pushed people to voluntarily isolate themselves through fear and terror .
Some lost their jobs , companies are going bankrupt , the panic created a stock exchange crash that emptied wallets and dried assets , resulting in a few trillion virtual dollars off the market to release pressure off the currency .
So far , so good @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this desperate and ultimate banzai .
The top virologist on the planet confirmed that chloroquine was being used by the Chinese with spectacular results to cure patients , then he improved his magic potion by adding a pneumonic antibacterial called azythromicin , and saved everyone of his first 1000 cases , but one .
Donald Trump immediately imposed the same treatment through a fight against his own Federal Drug Administration , bought and owned by the deep state .
This forced all medias to talk about Dr Didier Raoult ’ s Miracle Elixir @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confidence in all Western governments , their medical agencies , the World Health Organization , and medias that were trying to destroy the impeccable doctor ’ s reputation , while inventing sudden « dangerous side effects » of a nearly inoffensive drug that has been used for 60 years to treat malaria .
Not so far away in Germany , internationally praised Dr Wolfgand Wodarg noted that the engineered panic was totally useless , since this virus isn ’ t any different than the others that affect us every years .
This has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the general population on social medias , whom exposed together the pathological lies of the official communication channels of every New World Order country .
De facto , the credibility ’ s of these puppet governments have vanished in the air , and from the eye of the storm , Italy will surely exit the EU right after the crisis , which will trigger a domino effect running through every EU countries and NATO members .
My friends , globalism is dead and ready for cremation .
International bankers couldn ’ t see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dominated 95 % of the planet after the fall of the Soviet Union .
It seemed that nothing could halt their ultimate mission to complete their Orwellian dream : destroy a few countries in the Middle East , enlarge Israel , and get the total control over the world oil market , the last piece of their Xanadu puzzle that they ’ ve been working on for a whole century , starting with the Balfour declaration in 1917 .
When Vladimir Putin got charge of Russia , there was no sign that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had replaced .
An ex KGB officer seemed like a choice more driven by nostalgia rather than ideology , but Putin had many more assets going for him than first met the eyes : patriotism , humanism , a sense of justice , cunning ruse , a genius economist friend named Sergey Glazyev whom openly despised the New World Order , but above all , he embodied the reincarnation of the long lost Russian ideology of total political and economical independence .
After a few years spent at draining the Russian swamp from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predecessor had left in his trail of empty bottles , Vlad rolled his sleeves and got to work .
Because his opponents had been looting the planet for 250 years through colonization insured by a military dominance , Vlad knew that he had to start by building an invincible military machine .
And he did .
He came up with different types of hypersonic missiles that can ’ t be stopped , the best defensive systems on the planet , the best electronic jamming systems , and the best planes .
Then to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t be an option , he came up with stuff which nightmares are made of , such as the Sarmat , the Poseidon and the Avangard , all unstoppable and able to destroy any country in a matter of a few hours .
With a new and unmatched arsenal , he could proceed to defeat any NATO force or any of its proxies , as he did starting in September 2015 in Syria .
He proved to every country that independence from the NWO banking system was now a matter of choice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war , but he won the support of many New World Order countries that suddenly switched sides upon realizing how invincible Russia had become .
On a diplomatic level , it also got mighty China by its side , and then managed to protect independent oil producers such as Venezuela and Iran , while leaders like Erdogan of Turkey and Muhammad Ben Salman of Saudi Arabia decided to side with Russia , who isn ’ t holding the best poker hand , but the whole deck of cards .
Ending in the conclusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ market , the unavoidable energy resource that lubricates economies and armies , while the banksters ’ NATO can only watch , without any means to get it back .
With the unbelievable results that Putin has been getting in the last five years , the New World Order suddenly looks like a house of cards about to crumble .
The Empire of Banks has been terminally ill for five years , but it ’ s now on morphine , barely realizing what ’ s going on .
Since there is no hope in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the last banzai came out of the bushes in the shape of a virus and the ensuing media creation of a fake pandemic .
The main focus was to avoid a catastrophic hyperinflation of the humongous mass of US dollar that no one wants anymore , to have time to implement their virtual world crypto-currency , as if the chronically failing bankers still have any legitimacy to keep controlling our money supplies .
It seemed at first that the plan could work .
That ’ s when Vlad took out his revolver @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bankers blew their brains out upon the pressure on the trigger .
He called a meeting with OPEP and killed the price of oil by refusing to lower Russia ’ s production , taking the barrel to under 30 dollars .
Without any afterthought and certainly even less remorse , Vlad killed the costly Western oil production .
All the dollars that had been taken out of the market had to be re-injected by the Fed and other central banks to avoid a downslide and the final disaster .
By now , our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the meantime , Trump also poked at the tie-wearing gangsters .
While medias avoided the corona-killing chloroquine subject , an old pill designed to cure malaria , Trump imposed to the FDA the use of this life-saving drug on US infected patients .
Medias didn ’ t have any choice but to start talking about it , which ignited a chain reaction : big pharmas CEO ’ s were fired because they had just lost the vaccine contract , countries like Canada looked like genocidal fools for not using the cheap and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criminal act by a government was exposed in full light : the Macron government had proclaimed in January 2020 that chloroquine was harmful and had restrained its use , just a couple of weeks before the burst of the fake pandemic !
Russian roulette is a popular game in Western governments these days around .
On Saturday March 28th , Russia announced its own corona-killing brew , based on Dr Raoult ’ s magic potion .
Yet another Cossack blow , this time to the big pharmas jugular vein , while most Western @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doctor ’ s treatment , or face the slap of a Russian pill coming to save its citizen .
Putin is in the lifesaving business these days : in the last week of March , he sent 15 military planes filled with doctors and supplies directly to North Italy , after an aid plane from China was blocked by the Czech Republic .
We ’ re about to learn that European countries fear that China or Russia finds the truth in the Lombardy region , where people are not dying from some corona @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cocktail hybrid from two earlier vaccines for meningitis and influenza , that they were injected in separate vaccination campaigns .
I said earlier that everyday brings amazing news .
Well on Sunday March 29th , the most stunning of them all fell like a ton of bricks on social medias : confined onlookers learned that Trump had taken control over the Federal Reserve , that is now handled by two representatives of the Treasury of State .
Of all the crazy news within the last month , this is by far the best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in power , Trump has finally fulfilled his electoral promise of taking private banks out of the US public affairs , ending a century of exploitation of the American citizens .
He has put the infamous Blackrock investment group to start buying important corporations for the Fed , meaning that he ’ s nationalizing chunks of the economy , while avoiding the crash of the market by implicating important private investors in the deal .
This outmost daring move comes at a crucial point in time , and faces us with the realization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ united and have taken humanity to the crossroads of the New World Order and freedom .
As I have stated often before , I thought that the world would deeply change between 2020 and 2024 , because these would be the last 4 years of these two heroes in political power of their nations .
The New World Order is facing the two most powerful countries on the planet , and this fake pandemic changed everything .
It showed how desperate the banksters are , and if we don ’ t want to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both directions , Putin and Trump have to stop them now .
Terminate the BIS , the World Bank , the IMF , the European Central bank , the EU , NATO , now .
Our world won ’ t be perfect , but it might get much better soon .
Easter resurrection is coming .
This might get biblical .

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Authored by Sylvain LaForest via OrientalReview.org:
We live in exciting times.
The unknown that lays ahead for all of us is both exhilarating and scary. Exhilarating in the long term, but rather scary in the short term. All empires eventually die and we’re in the terminal phase of the New World Order that will not recover from the Russian roulette game it has been playing, for Vladimir Putin handed it a loaded gun and it pulled the trigger.
The last few weeks put everything in place for the last battle. There are so many different facts and events, left and right, and I will try to do my best to remain methodical in this complicated expose. Bare with me, I’ve been struggling for three weeks with this article because of the insane amount of additional details that each day provides. It might have been a wrong time to quit smoking, but I enjoy a good challenge.
Dropping dollars
A little context is required. The New World Order concept is simply the wish of a handful of international bankers that want to economically and politically rule the whole planet as one happy family. It started in 1773 and if it went through important changes over the years, but the concept and objective haven’t changed an iota. Unfortunately for them, international banks that have been looting the planet through the US dollar since 1944 are now threatened by hyperinflation, as their printing machine has been rotating for years to cover their absurd spendings to sustain oil and resource wars that they’ve all ultimately lost. In order to prevent this upcoming hyperinflation, they generated a virus attack on four countries (China, Iran, Italy and now the United States) to spread panic in the population, with the precious help of their ignominious medias. Even though this corona virus isn’t different from any new viruses that attack humans every year, the media scare pushed people to voluntarily isolate themselves through fear and terror. Some lost their jobs, companies are going bankrupt, the panic created a stock exchange crash that emptied wallets and dried assets, resulting in a few trillion virtual dollars off the market to release pressure off the currency.
So far, so good, but everything else went wrong in this desperate and ultimate banzai. The top virologist on the planet confirmed that chloroquine was being used by the Chinese with spectacular results to cure patients, then he improved his magic potion by adding a pneumonic antibacterial called azythromicin, and saved everyone of his first 1000 cases, but one. Donald Trump immediately imposed the same treatment through a fight against his own Federal Drug Administration, bought and owned by the deep state. This forced all medias to talk about Dr Didier Raoult’s Miracle Elixir, signing the death warrant on our confidence in all Western governments, their medical agencies, the World Health Organization, and medias that were trying to destroy the impeccable doctor’s reputation, while inventing sudden «dangerous side effects» of a nearly inoffensive drug that has been used for 60 years to treat malaria. Not so far away in Germany, internationally praised Dr Wolfgand Wodarg noted that the engineered panic was totally useless, since this virus isn’t any different than the others that affect us every years. This has been an amazing victory for Trump and the general population on social medias, whom exposed together the pathological lies of the official communication channels of every New World Order country. De facto, the credibility’s of these puppet governments have vanished in the air, and from the eye of the storm, Italy will surely exit the EU right after the crisis, which will trigger a domino effect running through every EU countries and NATO members. My friends, globalism is dead and ready for cremation.
Digging the abyss
International bankers couldn’t see it coming in 1991, when they dominated 95% of the planet after the fall of the Soviet Union. It seemed that nothing could halt their ultimate mission to complete their Orwellian dream: destroy a few countries in the Middle East, enlarge Israel, and get the total control over the world oil market, the last piece of their Xanadu puzzle that they’ve been working on for a whole century, starting with the Balfour declaration in 1917.
When Vladimir Putin got charge of Russia, there was no sign that he would do better than the drunk he had replaced. An ex KGB officer seemed like a choice more driven by nostalgia rather than ideology, but Putin had many more assets going for him than first met the eyes: patriotism, humanism, a sense of justice, cunning ruse, a genius economist friend named Sergey Glazyev whom openly despised the New World Order, but above all, he embodied the reincarnation of the long lost Russian ideology of total political and economical independence. After a few years spent at draining the Russian swamp from the oligarchs and mafiosis that his stumbling predecessor had left in his trail of empty bottles, Vlad rolled his sleeves and got to work.
Because his opponents had been looting the planet for 250 years through colonization insured by a military dominance, Vlad knew that he had to start by building an invincible military machine. And he did. He came up with different types of hypersonic missiles that can’t be stopped, the best defensive systems on the planet, the best electronic jamming systems, and the best planes. Then to make sure that a nuclear war wouldn’t be an option, he came up with stuff which nightmares are made of, such as the Sarmat, the Poseidon and the Avangard, all unstoppable and able to destroy any country in a matter of a few hours.
With a new and unmatched arsenal, he could proceed to defeat any NATO force or any of its proxies, as he did starting in September 2015 in Syria. He proved to every country that independence from the NWO banking system was now a matter of choice. Putin not only won the Syrian war, but he won the support of many New World Order countries that suddenly switched sides upon realizing how invincible Russia had become. On a diplomatic level, it also got mighty China by its side, and then managed to protect independent oil producers such as Venezuela and Iran, while leaders like Erdogan of Turkey and Muhammad Ben Salman of Saudi Arabia decided to side with Russia, who isn’t holding the best poker hand, but the whole deck of cards.
Ending in the conclusion that Putin now controls the all-mighty oil market, the unavoidable energy resource that lubricates economies and armies, while the banksters’ NATO can only watch, without any means to get it back. With the unbelievable results that Putin has been getting in the last five years, the New World Order suddenly looks like a house of cards about to crumble. The Empire of Banks has been terminally ill for five years, but it’s now on morphine, barely realizing what’s going on.
Tragedy and hope
Since there is no hope in starting WW3 which is lost in advance, the last banzai came out of the bushes in the shape of a virus and the ensuing media creation of a fake pandemic. The main focus was to avoid a catastrophic hyperinflation of the humongous mass of US dollar that no one wants anymore, to have time to implement their virtual world crypto-currency, as if the chronically failing bankers still have any legitimacy to keep controlling our money supplies. It seemed at first that the plan could work. That’s when Vlad took out his revolver to start the Russian roulette game and bankers blew their brains out upon the pressure on the trigger.
He called a meeting with OPEP and killed the price of oil by refusing to lower Russia’s production, taking the barrel to under 30 dollars. Without any afterthought and certainly even less remorse, Vlad killed the costly Western oil production. All the dollars that had been taken out of the market had to be re-injected by the Fed and other central banks to avoid a downslide and the final disaster. By now, our dear bankers are out of solutions.
In the meantime, Trump also poked at the tie-wearing gangsters. While medias avoided the corona-killing chloroquine subject, an old pill designed to cure malaria, Trump imposed to the FDA the use of this life-saving drug on US infected patients. Medias didn’t have any choice but to start talking about it, which ignited a chain reaction: big pharmas CEO’s were fired because they had just lost the vaccine contract, countries like Canada looked like genocidal fools for not using the cheap and inoffensive medication, while a most outrageous criminal act by a government was exposed in full light: the Macron government had proclaimed in January 2020 that chloroquine was harmful and had restrained its use, just a couple of weeks before the burst of the fake pandemic! Russian roulette is a popular game in Western governments these days around.
On Saturday March 28th, Russia announced its own corona-killing brew, based on Dr Raoult’s magic potion. Yet another Cossack blow, this time to the big pharmas jugular vein, while most Western countries now have to implement the good doctor’s treatment, or face the slap of a Russian pill coming to save its citizen. Putin is in the lifesaving business these days: in the last week of March, he sent 15 military planes filled with doctors and supplies directly to North Italy, after an aid plane from China was blocked by the Czech Republic. We’re about to learn that European countries fear that China or Russia finds the truth in the Lombardy region, where people are not dying from some corona bug, but probably from a deadly cocktail hybrid from two earlier vaccines for meningitis and influenza, that they were injected in separate vaccination campaigns.
The punchline
I said earlier that everyday brings amazing news. Well on Sunday March 29th, the most stunning of them all fell like a ton of bricks on social medias: confined onlookers learned that Trump had taken control over the Federal Reserve, that is now handled by two representatives of the Treasury of State. Of all the crazy news within the last month, this is by far the best and most shocking. After three years in power, Trump has finally fulfilled his electoral promise of taking private banks out of the US public affairs, ending a century of exploitation of the American citizens. He has put the infamous Blackrock investment group to start buying important corporations for the Fed, meaning that he’s nationalizing chunks of the economy, while avoiding the crash of the market by implicating important private investors in the deal.
This outmost daring move comes at a crucial point in time, and faces us with the realization that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are united and have taken humanity to the crossroads of the New World Order and freedom. As I have stated often before, I thought that the world would deeply change between 2020 and 2024, because these would be the last 4 years of these two heroes in political power of their nations.
The New World Order is facing the two most powerful countries on the planet, and this fake pandemic changed everything. It showed how desperate the banksters are, and if we don’t want to end up with nuclear warheads flying in both directions, Putin and Trump have to stop them now.
Terminate the BIS, the World Bank, the IMF, the European Central bank, the EU, NATO, now. Our world won’t be perfect, but it might get much better soon.
Easter resurrection is coming. This might get biblical.
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theduran--2020-04-03--Yemeni crisis ignored by mainstream media due to coronavirus coverage

Submitted by InfoBrics , authored by Lucas Leiroz , research fellow in international at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro… The world pays constant attention to the coronavirus , occupying the news agencies with a high coverage of the pandemic .
Meanwhile , on the global periphery , geopolitics continues at full throttle , with several conflicts occurring unnoticed by most people outside the affected regions .
The case of Yemen is a clear example of what we are talking about here .
Recently , the conflict in the country completed five years of uninterrupted fighting , reaching the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the confrontation , in addition to almost 100,000 killed by the social ills caused by the war , such as hunger , mainly among children .
The poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula has become a strategic area in strong dispute and a real geopolitical thermometer for Middle East tensions , especially between the two regional powers most involved in the conflict , Iran and Saudi Arabia , which are increasing their rivalry day after day .
The most noteworthy attitude is that of Saudi Arabia , which , aligned with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aggressive stances in the country , causing unnecessary suffering to the local population and prolonging the terror and fear in the region .
Human Rights Watch data show that Saudi Arabia has been behind fundamental rights abuses against the Yemeni population , especially in the al-Mahrah region , since at least June last year , when such crimes began to be investigated .
HRW Middle East Director Michael Page stated in an interview with PressTV : “ Saudi forces and their Yemeni allies ’ serious abuses against local-Mahrah residents is another horror to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coalition ’ s unlawful conduct in Yemen ( … ) Saudi Arabia is severely harming its reputation with Yemenis when it carries out these abusive practices and holds no one accountable for them ” .
Among the abuses reported by HRW , we highlight illegal arrests , torture , kidnappings and compulsory transfer of detainees to Saudi Arabia .
In addition , other international crimes had previously been reported by the organization as being committed by the American coalition against Houthi resistance in the region , including bombing homes , businesses and hospitals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yemeni civilians died from airstrikes conducted by Saudi military in the north of the country , in the district of Jawf al-Maslub .
The attack was said to have been conducted in response to the downing of a Saudi aircraft by the Houthi forces .
In the words of Houthi movement spokesman Yahya Saree : “ As usual , when the most brutal US-Saudi aggression receives painful strikes in the military confrontation fields , it replies with great folly by targeting civilians.
” In March , a fleet of 450 American soldiers landed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uncertain number of troops from the United Kingdom , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates .
According to information from al-Mashhad , this was the first stage of a project to send 3,000 American and British troops to Yemen , which will land in the regions of Aden , Lahai , Saqtari , Shabweh and al-Mohreh , thus completing a true siege of the country in all geographical directions .
In addition , two American warships docked at Balhaf , Yemen ’ s main natural gas export port .
American movements would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ fight terrorism ” , but several military analysts have already made it clear that the United States intends to intervene in the Yemeni government and install fixed bases in the region , “ stabilizing ” the situation in the country .
The crisis in Yemen is a real humanitarian catastrophe , with dimensions similar to those of the Civil War in Syria .
However , the attention given to the poorest country in the Middle East is minimal , especially in times of the pandemic .
Once again , COVID-19 is being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distract worldwide attention while illegal and aggressive movements are taking place in specific regions of the planet , as has recently become clear with the Israeli advance in the West Bank and the arrival of thousands of American troops to Yemen .
Yet , another factor that is absolutely ignored , being even more serious than military aggression , is the public health crisis and food insecurity generated by Saudi aggression .
Yemeni Health Minister Saif al-Haidri recently warned of the neglect with which international society has dealt with the situation , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shadow of war ” .
These are his words : “ approximately five and a half million children under the age of five are suffering from malnutrition ( … ) One child dies every ten minutes in Yemen ( … ) 80 percent of children in Yemen live in a state of stunting and anemia due to malnutrition ( … ) Two hundred thousand women of childbearing age or some of they are pregnant or have given birth to malnourished children , which threatens the lives of children ” .
Indeed , while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , crimes against humanity are committed with impunity and millions of people starve to death without any humanitarian assistance .
Yemen has yet to record any cases of COVID-19 , but what can we expect for the near future when Western troops arrive in the country at all times , since the US and Europe are the regions most affected by the pandemic ?
What will be the future of the Yemeni crisis ?
Will the West bring peace or the pandemic to the poorest country in the Middle East ?

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro…
The world pays constant attention to the coronavirus, occupying the news agencies with a high coverage of the pandemic. Meanwhile, on the global periphery, geopolitics continues at full throttle, with several conflicts occurring unnoticed by most people outside the affected regions. The case of Yemen is a clear example of what we are talking about here. Recently, the conflict in the country completed five years of uninterrupted fighting, reaching the regrettable marks of more than 10,000 killed in the confrontation, in addition to almost 100,000 killed by the social ills caused by the war, such as hunger, mainly among children. The poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula has become a strategic area in strong dispute and a real geopolitical thermometer for Middle East tensions, especially between the two regional powers most involved in the conflict, Iran and Saudi Arabia, which are increasing their rivalry day after day.
The most noteworthy attitude is that of Saudi Arabia, which, aligned with the western axis, has been taking increasingly aggressive stances in the country, causing unnecessary suffering to the local population and prolonging the terror and fear in the region. Human Rights Watch data show that Saudi Arabia has been behind fundamental rights abuses against the Yemeni population, especially in the al-Mahrah region, since at least June last year, when such crimes began to be investigated. HRW Middle East Director Michael Page stated in an interview with PressTV: “Saudi forces and their Yemeni allies’ serious abuses against local-Mahrah residents is another horror to add to the list of the Saudi-led coalition’s unlawful conduct in Yemen (…) Saudi Arabia is severely harming its reputation with Yemenis when it carries out these abusive practices and holds no one accountable for them”.
Among the abuses reported by HRW, we highlight illegal arrests, torture, kidnappings and compulsory transfer of detainees to Saudi Arabia. In addition, other international crimes had previously been reported by the organization as being committed by the American coalition against Houthi resistance in the region, including bombing homes, businesses and hospitals. In February, at least 30 Yemeni civilians died from airstrikes conducted by Saudi military in the north of the country, in the district of Jawf al-Maslub. The attack was said to have been conducted in response to the downing of a Saudi aircraft by the Houthi forces. In the words of Houthi movement spokesman Yahya Saree: “As usual, when the most brutal US-Saudi aggression receives painful strikes in the military confrontation fields, it replies with great folly by targeting civilians.”
In March, a fleet of 450 American soldiers landed in Yemen, in addition to an uncertain number of troops from the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. According to information from al-Mashhad, this was the first stage of a project to send 3,000 American and British troops to Yemen, which will land in the regions of Aden, Lahai, Saqtari, Shabweh and al-Mohreh, thus completing a true siege of the country in all geographical directions. In addition, two American warships docked at Balhaf, Yemen’s main natural gas export port. American movements would be motivated in the region to supposedly “fight terrorism”, but several military analysts have already made it clear that the United States intends to intervene in the Yemeni government and install fixed bases in the region, “stabilizing” the situation in the country.
The crisis in Yemen is a real humanitarian catastrophe, with dimensions similar to those of the Civil War in Syria. However, the attention given to the poorest country in the Middle East is minimal, especially in times of the pandemic. Once again, COVID-19 is being used as a “smokescreen” to distract worldwide attention while illegal and aggressive movements are taking place in specific regions of the planet, as has recently become clear with the Israeli advance in the West Bank and the arrival of thousands of American troops to Yemen.
Yet, another factor that is absolutely ignored, being even more serious than military aggression, is the public health crisis and food insecurity generated by Saudi aggression. Yemeni Health Minister Saif al-Haidri recently warned of the neglect with which international society has dealt with the situation, which he called a “disastrous in the shadow of war”. These are his words: “approximately five and a half million children under the age of five are suffering from malnutrition (…) One child dies every ten minutes in Yemen (…) 80 percent of children in Yemen live in a state of stunting and anemia due to malnutrition (…) Two hundred thousand women of childbearing age or some of they are pregnant or have given birth to malnourished children, which threatens the lives of children”.
Indeed, while the world is distracted by the coronavirus, crimes against humanity are committed with impunity and millions of people starve to death without any humanitarian assistance. Yemen has yet to record any cases of COVID-19, but what can we expect for the near future when Western troops arrive in the country at all times, since the US and Europe are the regions most affected by the pandemic? What will be the future of the Yemeni crisis? Will the West bring peace or the pandemic to the poorest country in the Middle East?
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