veteranstoday--2020-06-22--Libya on the Edge of a Huge War for EU, Italy and Tobruk Faults. Or Will?

Yesterday , Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi , speaking in the military base of Sidi Barrani , 95 km from the Libyan border , told his army to prepare for any mission if the forces of the Government of National Agreement ( GNA ) will cross what is called « the red line that connects Al Jufra to Sirte » .
« Egypt will intervene alongside the local tribes » explained Al Sisi , « to guarantee the country ’ s security and stability » .
Today the Egyptian Foreign Minister has thrown water on the fire and clarifies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president : « A military intervention in Libya would be only the last option , even if we consider the presence of Turkish military in the country a threat to our security » says Shoukry .
And he concludes : « we want a political solution and that will allow the Libyan people to go to elections sooner or later » .
Shoukry heard Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today , who stressed that for Moscow , an ally of Haftar together with Cairo and the United Arab Emirates « There is no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This was reported by an updated post in Italian network RAI News .
This is the battle of words that anticipates that on the field .
An escalation of the war in Libya would be devastating for Europe and for Italy due to the risk of an irrepressible wave of migrants into which thousands of ISIS jihadists could infiltrate brought as mercenaries to Tripoli by the Ankara government in support of the president GNA Fayez Al Serray .
In this context , the pantomime of the non-existent Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Italy , proposes a “ sustainable truce ” makes a little smile and a little cry .
In fact , he does not have a minimum political credibility precisely because the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella has long flown to Qatar to reassure the Emir of the Muslim Brotherhood , the hidden financier of the Ankara operation , on commercial relations in the war industry .
We have already talked about this and will talk about it in a forthcoming shocking investigation .
The invasion of Islamic terrorists has been documented @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Human Rights ( SOHR ) which operates from the United Kingdom and has always had a privileged channel with the White Helmets ( Syrian Civil Defense ) created by British intelligence through his former officer James Le Mesurier , mysteriously killed in Turkey , just in Istanbul , on 11 November 2019 , one month after the invasion of the Ankara army in Rojava of North East Syria .
Precisely for this reason the repeated SOHR reports must sound like an alarm bell for the whole West … But if the war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a miniature world war , the fault lies only with Europe , the headless slave of aggressive NATO policies aimed at increasing geopolitical and war business logic for the Weapons ’ Lobby , but above all of Italy , which for too many years , it has seen in the trade of defense systems , warships and helicopters and bombs a greedy and indispensable affairs .
Europe and Italy pretended to dialogue with General Khalifa Haftar , commander of the Libyan National Army who defeated ISIS who arrived in Libya after the violent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US of Barack Obama and France of Nicolas Sarkozy with the support of the Italian NATO bases imposed by the then president Giorgio Napolitano .
In reality , Brussels and Rome have always and only shook hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan despite the fact that the latter had shown in Syria that he was a far more bloody and dangerous tyrant than Gaddafi .
Thanks to thousands of fierce jihadist mercenaries sent from Ankara and well armed by the latter that can boast of NATO ’ s second army , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defend Tripoli from the siege launched by Haftar in April 2019 but has gained ground starting with a counter-offensive that now threatens Sirte and the gulf rich in oil wells and gas fields of world interest .
Now that Sirte is at risk of capitulating , the Tobruk government has retraced its steps and has resumed very close diplomatic relations with Haftar after isolating him due to the announcement with which in recent weeks the general proclaimed himself the only leader of Libya by announcing the coup against Tripoli .
It was the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ burning defeats received on the field and the many strategic retreats made to avoid the defeat .
In fact , Tripoli continued to receive reinforcements in troops and weapons thanks to the fictitious naval control in the Mediterranean of the European Union ’ s IRINI mission aimed at enforcing the UN de facto embargo only in Moscow , France , the United Arab Emirates and Egypt , allies of the army of Cyrenaica .
In this context of shameful diplomatic hypocrisy such as to induce the Italian ambassador in Tripoli to admit that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no other NATO country could have intervened outside of Turkey , the decision of Aguila Saleh Issa , President of the Chamber of Representatives of Tobruk , who since 2014 , since the outbreak of the civil war , has administered the vast and populous area of Eastern Libya around Benghazi , to isolate Haftar despite all its diplomatic and military errors , has proved fatal .
And the rethinking risks being late .
Either Saleh has already been approached by Erdogan and is ready to become his ally , or , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he made a huge mistake because he threw the LNA general in front of the world into disrepute at the most critical moment of this long-standing conflict relying on the possibility of a peace agreement with the Turkish sultan who , in his aims of refounding the Ottoman Empire under the aegis of the Muslim Brotherhood , has a free field of action thanks to the Weapons ’ Lobby : well happy with new wars regardless of who do and win them .
How was it possible to believe Erdogan who , since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ISIS in Syria through the MIT intelligence of Ankara ?
How was it conceivable to hypothesize a truce with a dictator who continues to launch “ peace ” operations invading Syria and letting ruthless terrorists who were militiamen in the Islamic State or Al Qaeda massacre civilians with impunity ?
Now the Tobruk government is trying to run for cover .
Haftar received a delegation which included the vice president of the House of Representatives ( HOR ) , the minister of Foreign Affairs and International cooperation of Libya , Abdulhadi Al-Hweij , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the armed forces , after their return from an official visit to Russia .
The media Al Marsad reported it in recent days .
Now the Parliament of the House of Representatives , according to sources cited by the Hawar News Agency , is preparing to officially request the intervention of Egypt to legitimize its military support .
But the damage to the image is now done .
Especially in Italy where Radio24 , the powerful globalist broadcaster of Confindustria , has already aired the possibility that the Benghazi general is being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is already ready to paint it as the new Gaddafi to justify possible NATO raids if the conflict will degenerate with peace of mind for us Italians and especially Sicilians who live 260 nautical miles from the Libyan coast .
Why do I do this ?
Only for the money of the Weapons ’ Lobby which , as shown in previous reports , moves in the shadow of the Masonic pyramid of the Deep State in which the financial potentates of the USA , United Kingdom , Italy , Turkey and Qatar wallow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Muslim Brotherhood who fit perfectly into the globalist aims of the New World Order .
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio © COPYRIGHT GOSPA NEWS for VETERANS TODAY only no reproduction without authorization – italian original version here

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT iTaly
Yesterday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, speaking in the military base of Sidi Barrani, 95 km from the Libyan border, told his army to prepare for any mission if the forces of the Government of National Agreement (GNA) will cross what is called «the red line that connects Al Jufra to Sirte».
«Egypt will intervene alongside the local tribes» explained Al Sisi, «to guarantee the country’s security and stability». Today the Egyptian Foreign Minister has thrown water on the fire and clarifies the meaning of the declarations of its president: «A military intervention in Libya would be only the last option, even if we consider the presence of Turkish military in the country a threat to our security» says Shoukry. And he concludes: «we want a political solution and that will allow the Libyan people to go to elections sooner or later».
Shoukry heard Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today, who stressed that for Moscow, an ally of Haftar together with Cairo and the United Arab Emirates «There is no military solution to the conflict». This was reported by an updated post in Italian network RAI News.
This is the battle of words that anticipates that on the field. An escalation of the war in Libya would be devastating for Europe and for Italy due to the risk of an irrepressible wave of migrants into which thousands of ISIS jihadists could infiltrate brought as mercenaries to Tripoli by the Ankara government in support of the president GNA Fayez Al Serray.
In this context, the pantomime of the non-existent Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who wanders the Mediterranean at the expense of Italy, proposes a “sustainable truce” makes a little smile and a little cry. In fact, he does not have a minimum political credibility precisely because the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella has long flown to Qatar to reassure the Emir of the Muslim Brotherhood, the hidden financier of the Ankara operation, on commercial relations in the war industry. We have already talked about this and will talk about it in a forthcoming shocking investigation.
The invasion of Islamic terrorists has been documented in multiple reports by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) which operates from the United Kingdom and has always had a privileged channel with the White Helmets (Syrian Civil Defense) created by British intelligence through his former officer James Le Mesurier, mysteriously killed in Turkey, just in Istanbul, on 11 November 2019, one month after the invasion of the Ankara army in Rojava of North East Syria. Precisely for this reason the repeated SOHR reports must sound like an alarm bell for the whole West …
But if the war scenario will take on the contours of a miniature world war, the fault lies only with Europe, the headless slave of aggressive NATO policies aimed at increasing geopolitical and war business logic for the Weapons’ Lobby, but above all of Italy, which for too many years, it has seen in the trade of defense systems, warships and helicopters and bombs a greedy and indispensable affairs.
Europe and Italy pretended to dialogue with General Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army who defeated ISIS who arrived in Libya after the violent dismissal of moderate dictator Muhammar Gaddafi by the US of Barack Obama and France of Nicolas Sarkozy with the support of the Italian NATO bases imposed by the then president Giorgio Napolitano.
In reality, Brussels and Rome have always and only shook hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan despite the fact that the latter had shown in Syria that he was a far more bloody and dangerous tyrant than Gaddafi.
Thanks to thousands of fierce jihadist mercenaries sent from Ankara and well armed by the latter that can boast of NATO’s second army, Al Serray has not only managed to defend Tripoli from the siege launched by Haftar in April 2019 but has gained ground starting with a counter-offensive that now threatens Sirte and the gulf rich in oil wells and gas fields of world interest.
Now that Sirte is at risk of capitulating, the Tobruk government has retraced its steps and has resumed very close diplomatic relations with Haftar after isolating him due to the announcement with which in recent weeks the general proclaimed himself the only leader of Libya by announcing the coup against Tripoli. It was the maneuver of a marshal desperate for the burning defeats received on the field and the many strategic retreats made to avoid the defeat.
In fact, Tripoli continued to receive reinforcements in troops and weapons thanks to the fictitious naval control in the Mediterranean of the European Union’s IRINI mission aimed at enforcing the UN de facto embargo only in Moscow, France, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, allies of the army of Cyrenaica.
In this context of shameful diplomatic hypocrisy such as to induce the Italian ambassador in Tripoli to admit that, for constitutional and legislative reasons, no other NATO country could have intervened outside of Turkey, the decision of Aguila Saleh Issa, President of the Chamber of Representatives of Tobruk, who since 2014, since the outbreak of the civil war, has administered the vast and populous area of Eastern Libya around Benghazi, to isolate Haftar despite all its diplomatic and military errors, has proved fatal. And the rethinking risks being late.
Either Saleh has already been approached by Erdogan and is ready to become his ally, or, not wanting to believe this infamous hypothesis, he made a huge mistake because he threw the LNA general in front of the world into disrepute at the most critical moment of this long-standing conflict relying on the possibility of a peace agreement with the Turkish sultan who, in his aims of refounding the Ottoman Empire under the aegis of the Muslim Brotherhood, has a free field of action thanks to the Weapons’ Lobby: well happy with new wars regardless of who do and win them.
How was it possible to believe Erdogan who, since 2011, has managed the movements of ISIS in Syria through the MIT intelligence of Ankara? How was it conceivable to hypothesize a truce with a dictator who continues to launch “peace” operations invading Syria and letting ruthless terrorists who were militiamen in the Islamic State or Al Qaeda massacre civilians with impunity?
Now the Tobruk government is trying to run for cover. Haftar received a delegation which included the vice president of the House of Representatives (HOR), the minister of Foreign Affairs and International cooperation of Libya, Abdulhadi Al-Hweij, and the delegate of the general command of the armed forces, after their return from an official visit to Russia. The media Al Marsad reported it in recent days.
Now the Parliament of the House of Representatives, according to sources cited by the Hawar News Agency, is preparing to officially request the intervention of Egypt to legitimize its military support. But the damage to the image is now done. Especially in Italy where Radio24, the powerful globalist broadcaster of Confindustria, has already aired the possibility that the Benghazi general is being prosecuted for war crimes.
The mainstream is already ready to paint it as the new Gaddafi to justify possible NATO raids if the conflict will degenerate with peace of mind for us Italians and especially Sicilians who live 260 nautical miles from the Libyan coast.
Why do I do this? Only for the money of the Weapons’ Lobby which, as shown in previous reports, moves in the shadow of the Masonic pyramid of the Deep State in which the financial potentates of the USA, United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey and Qatar wallow in support of a plan of the Muslim Brotherhood who fit perfectly into the globalist aims of the New World Order.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
© COPYRIGHT GOSPA NEWS for VETERANS TODAY only
no reproduction without authorization – italian original version here
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veteranstoday--2020-06-22--Healing your raw emotions

Healing your raw emotions

Excerpts from Emotional Healing : The Bridge To Healing Note : This is part of a series by grief specialist Dr. Ted Wiard , dedicated to helping educate the community about emotional healing .
For most of us , the last few months has turned the world upside down and has forced a high level of fear , chaos , anger , disconnect , revelation of differences , and multiple levels of societal dysfunction , and a demand to examine many aspects of humanity and society on a collective level… As the fear increases , people , groups and organizations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or isolating .
Both of these behaviors lead to a larger wedge in relationships and less and less ways to connect .
In the business world , this type of isolation and separation is called knowledge silos where there is so much wonderful potential and information sitting within the silos rather than being shared .
In order to build better and stronger relationships , we need to decrease fear to be able to build a new present moment which will allow for growth , sharing of knowledge , and having harmonious passion with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , defensiveness , control of others , rage and hatred , takes the bravery of communication .
Healthy communication is when information is shared with no need to have to have the other person agree or disagree but have the willingness to listen without being reactive , dismissive or non-responsive , allowing the person to be seen , heard and valued .
As knowledge silos are opened and true data is shared , a level of safety can be felt in order to be open to finding the commonalities rather than the differences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forward with a collective momentum , rather than regression to fear and anger…

Dr. Ted Wiard
Golden Willow Retreat
Note: This is part of a series by grief specialist Dr. Ted Wiard, dedicated to helping educate the community about emotional healing. For most of us, the last few months has turned the world upside down and has forced a high level of fear, chaos, anger, disconnect, revelation of differences, and multiple levels of societal dysfunction, and a demand to examine many aspects of humanity and society on a collective level…
As the fear increases, people, groups and organizations have a tendency of either lashing out or isolating. Both of these behaviors lead to a larger wedge in relationships and less and less ways to connect.
Unleash your Knowledge Silos!
In the business world, this type of isolation and separation is called knowledge silos where there is so much wonderful potential and information sitting within the silos rather than being shared.
In order to build better and stronger relationships, we need to decrease fear to be able to build a new present moment which will allow for growth, sharing of knowledge, and having harmonious passion with choices.
To decrease fear, isolation, defensiveness, control of others, rage and hatred, takes the bravery of communication.
Healthy communication is when information is shared with no need to have to have the other person agree or disagree but have the willingness to listen without being reactive, dismissive or non-responsive, allowing the person to be seen, heard and valued.
Find some Commonalities!
As knowledge silos are opened and true data is shared, a level of safety can be felt in order to be open to finding the commonalities rather than the differences.
This can allow us to move forward with a collective momentum, rather than regression to fear and anger…
By communicating we expose healthy and unhealthy patterns!
Read more…
[ Feature image by photographer Nancy Ann Hibbs in the Los Alamos Daily Post was not originally connected with this article, but may be a set of posits for a dialogue. An aside, before business adopted the word silo, traditionally silos were cylindrical structures where fermentation converts green foliage crops into a useful food for ruminants. Editor, Erica P. Wissinger ]


veteranstoday--2020-06-22--Muhammad Ali Jr.: Black Lives Matter Movement is racist

Muhammad Ali Jr. , the son of the late boxing icon Muhammad Ali , has recently put a deathblow on the entire Black Lives Movement by saying that it is “ racist.
” Why ?
Because Black Lives Matter , said Ali Jr. , is not concerned about all lives .
“ Ali Jr. said he believed his father would ’ ve supported the ‘ all lives matter ’ movement , and thought the legendary boxer would ’ ve believed current protestors were ‘ nothing but devils ’ after some demonstrations have turned destructive.
” [ 1 ] Ali Jr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ think it ’ s racist .
It ’ s not just Black lives matter , white lives matter , Chinese lives matter , all lives matter , everybody ’ s life matters .
God loves everyone — he never singled anyone out .
Killing is wrong no matter who it is.
” [ 2 ] Ali Jr. moved on to say that his father would have declared that the entire BLM movement “ ain ’ t nothing but devils.
” He added : “ Black Lives Matter is not a peaceful protest .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ would take them all out .
Yes , Black lives matter .
Yes , white lives matter , Asian lives matter .
All lives matter .
And that ’ s kind of what my focus is.
” [ 3 ] Ali Jr. provided some constructive criticism on the movement : “ Don ’ t bust up shit , don ’ t trash the place .
You can peacefully protest.
” This is a very important point because one can protest without violence , looting , and rioting .
I clearly remember when much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former president Park Geun-hye .
I was in Gwanghwamun Square in 2016 witnessing the entire protest .
There were numerous protests in South Korea against Park Geun-hye , and Gwanghwamun Square was a special place for the protesters because it is located in the heart of the Seoul area .
Gwanghwamun Square seems to be an important location because it is also a historical site , going all the way back to the Joseon Dynasty around 1395 .
The place has also gone through many upheavals over the centuries .
It was destroyed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ got reconstructed in 1867 , and got deconstructed again by the Japanese in 1926 for reasons that are beyond the scope of this article .
So it was obviously no coincidence that protesters would choose Gwanghwamun Square to raise their voice in unison against Park Geun-hye ’ s political and financial corruption .
After all , Gwanghwamun Square is within walking distance from the White House .
But everything was done peacefully , even though people were chanting “ Down with Park Geun-hye !
” There was no violence , no looting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really crowded but civil .
So why can ’ t people in the so-called BLM advocates express their anger or outrage without appealing to violence and destruction ?
Well , they obviously have been paid and financially supported by the elite to act like they are doing a scene for Planet of the Apes , Part III .
In contrast to BLM ’ s entire diabolical weltanschauung , Ali Jr. again sees police officers not as enemies , because “ don ’ t wake up and think , ‘ I ’ m going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a white man.
’ I never had a bad scene with a cop .
They ’ ve always been nice and protect me .
I don ’ t have a problem with them.
” [ 4 ] Ali Jr. is not here condoning the recent death of George Floyd , but he is trying to get at the bottom of all these issues because the media won ’ t do it for him .
Ali Jr. again said : “ The officer was wrong with killing that person , but people don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what they showed .
The guy resisted arrest , the officer was doing his job , but he used the wrong tactic .
”

Muhammad Ali Jr., the son of the late boxing icon Muhammad Ali, has recently put a deathblow on the entire Black Lives Movement by saying that it is “racist.” Why? Because Black Lives Matter, said Ali Jr., is not concerned about all lives. “Ali Jr. said he believed his father would’ve supported the ‘all lives matter’ movement, and thought the legendary boxer would’ve believed current protestors were ‘nothing but devils’ after some demonstrations have turned destructive.”[1]
Ali Jr. elaborated on his claim: “I think it’s racist. It’s not just Black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives matter, all lives matter, everybody’s life matters. God loves everyone — he never singled anyone out. Killing is wrong no matter who it is.”[2] Ali Jr. moved on to say that his father would have declared that the entire BLM movement “ain’t nothing but devils.” He added:
“Black Lives Matter is not a peaceful protest. Antifa never wanted it peaceful. I would take them all out. Yes, Black lives matter. Yes, white lives matter, Asian lives matter. All lives matter. And that’s kind of what my focus is.”[3]
Ali Jr. provided some constructive criticism on the movement: “Don’t bust up shit, don’t trash the place. You can peacefully protest.” This is a very important point because one can protest without violence, looting, and rioting. I clearly remember when much of the Korean population was revolting against former president Park Geun-hye. I was in Gwanghwamun Square in 2016 witnessing the entire protest.
There were numerous protests in South Korea against Park Geun-hye, and Gwanghwamun Square was a special place for the protesters because it is located in the heart of the Seoul area. Gwanghwamun Square seems to be an important location because it is also a historical site, going all the way back to the Joseon Dynasty around 1395.
The place has also gone through many upheavals over the centuries. It was destroyed during the Japanese invasion in 1592, got reconstructed in 1867, and got deconstructed again by the Japanese in 1926 for reasons that are beyond the scope of this article. So it was obviously no coincidence that protesters would choose Gwanghwamun Square to raise their voice in unison against Park Geun-hye’s political and financial corruption. After all, Gwanghwamun Square is within walking distance from the White House. But everything was done peacefully, even though people were chanting “Down with Park Geun-hye!” There was no violence, no looting, and no rioting. The demonstration was really crowded but civil.
So why can’t people in the so-called BLM advocates express their anger or outrage without appealing to violence and destruction? Well, they obviously have been paid and financially supported by the elite to act like they are doing a scene for Planet of the Apes, Part III.
In contrast to BLM’s entire diabolical weltanschauung, Ali Jr. again sees police officers not as enemies, because “don’t wake up and think, ‘I’m going to kill a nigger today or kill a white man.’ I never had a bad scene with a cop. They’ve always been nice and protect me. I don’t have a problem with them.”[4]
Ali Jr. is not here condoning the recent death of George Floyd, but he is trying to get at the bottom of all these issues because the media won’t do it for him. Ali Jr. again said:
“The officer was wrong with killing that person, but people don’t realize there was more footage than what they showed. The guy resisted arrest, the officer was doing his job, but he used the wrong tactic.”
Two cheers for Muhammad Ali Jr.
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/muhammad-alis-son-said-dad-174437494.html.


veteranstoday--2020-06-22--EU’s aviation deal with Israel ‘the pinnacle of hypocrisy’

I had barely finished my rant against the British Government for showering new rewards on the Israelis ( see ‘ Do Palestinians ’ lives matter ?
’ ) when the EU voted to do the same .
The UK-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement signed last year comes into force next January .
The Government says it loves this relationship and is committed to strengthening it .
“ We will seek to work with counterparts in the new Israeli government to host a bilateral trade and investment summit in London.
” This will “ identifying new opportunities and collaboration between Israel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be outdone , the EU has now decided to hand Israel a juicy aviation agreement , the latest in a long line of goodies awarded to the apartheid regime for its crimes against humanity .
And that ’ s after the EU had voiced condemnation of Israel ’ s latest annexation plan .
Not only that , the European Investment Bank , the EU ’ s financing institution , has just agreed a 150 million euros loan for a seawater desalination plant – one of the largest in the world – for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s most water-stressed regions ” .
So water-stressed that Israel long ago stole the Palestinians ’ aquifers and deprived them of access to their own supply .
And it made no difference that the criminals were now gearing up to annex even more Palestinian territory .
According to this report 437 MEPs ( that ’ s 62 % ) from EPP , REG , ECR voted to ratify the EU-Israel Aviation Agreement even though MEP Clare Daly from Ireland warned that doing so “ would be perceived as an upgrade in bilateral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So who are these confused people ?
The EPP ( European People ’ s Party ) Group , the oldest and largest , says : “ We must continue to promote human rights and democracy in our relations with third countries.
” So , naturally , they have no objection to promoting the Israeli regime in its policy to permanently deny Palestinians their human rights and self-determination .
The REG ( Renew Europe Group ) would have us believe : “ At a time when the rule of law and democracy are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our Group will stand up for the people who suffer from the illiberal and nationalistic tendencies that we see returning in too many countries.
” Oh really ?
The ECR Group ( European Conservatives & Reformists ) declare : “ We are the voice of COMMON SENSE.
” As if their behaviour wasn ’ t bizarre enough , these MEPs then held a separate debate with High Representative Joseph Borrell to discuss EU measures to deter Israel from declaring annexation .
The aviation deal builds on a 2013 agreement .
Back then scheduled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ EU Member States and the EU was said to be the most important aviation market for Israel , accounting for 57 % of scheduled international air passenger movements to and from Israel , and that Israel was one of the most important aviation markets for the EU in the Middle East with a strong growth potential .
The aim now is to take EU-Israel aviation relations to a new level .
Higher volumes of tourism in both directions will create additional jobs and economic benefits on both sides .
Of course much of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Holy Land rightly belongs to the Palestinians if only they were permitted their own airport , but the EU doesn ’ t seem to care that all visitors to and from the Holy Land are forced through Israel ’ s Ben Gurion airport – or should we call it Lydda ?
Thereby hangs an interesting tale… .
Strictly speaking Ben Gurion , near Tel Aviv , belongs to the Palestinians .
It was formerly Lydda airport ; and Lydda , a major town in its own right during the British mandate , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Plan .
In July 1948 , after Britain left and Israel declared statehood , Israeli terrorist troops seized Lydda , shot up the town and drove out the population as part of the ethnic cleansing and territorial expansion programme set out in their infamous ‘ Plan Dalet ’ .
In the process they massacred 426 men , women , and children .
176 of them were slaughtered in the town ’ s main mosque .
See here for the gory details .
Those who survived were forced to walk into exile in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bodies — men , women and children — along the way .
Israeli troops carried away 1,800 truck loads of loot .
Jewish immigrants then flooded in and Lydda was given a Hebrew name , Lod .
So Israel has no real right to Lydda/Lod/Ben Gurion airport — it was stolen in a terror raid , as was so much else .
And it ’ s Israeli terror that is being rewarded by increasing airline flights and boosting tourism and trade .
Today the airport is the international gateway to Israel… and indirectly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gaza ’ s airport ?
The Oslo II Agreement of 1995 provided for one to be constructed .
The Yasser Arafat International airport was built with funding from Japan , Egypt , Saudi Arabia , Spain , Germany and Morocco , and cost $ 86 million .
Arafat and US President Clinton attended the opening in 1998 .
Owned and operated by the Palestinian Authority it was capable of handling 700,000 passengers a year .
In December 2001 Israel destroyed the radar station and control tower , and cut the runway .
Back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who plainly don ’ t give a four-X about adding to the Palestinians ’ misery .
Aneta Jerska , the coordinator of the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine ( ECCP ) says : “ Those same political groups whom we heard expressing concern about annexation had just made annexation possible by voting in favour of the EU-Israel Aviation Agreement .
This is by any standards the pinnacle of the EU ’ s hypocrisy .
European citizens need to see no more crocodile tears from their elected politicians .
The EU @ @ @ @ @ @ @ member states once did against apartheid South Africa , including a military embargo on Israel , a ban on trade with illegal settlements and the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement .
Only by ending ‘ business as usual ’ , will Israel feel pressure to change its criminal behaviour .
”

by Stuart Littlewoood
I had barely finished my rant against the British Government for showering new rewards on the Israelis (see ‘Do Palestinians’ lives matter?’) when the EU voted to do the same.
The UK-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement signed last year comes into force next January. The Government says it loves this relationship and is committed to strengthening it. “We will seek to work with counterparts in the new Israeli government to host a bilateral trade and investment summit in London.” This will “identifying new opportunities and collaboration between Israel and the United Kingdom”.
Not to be outdone, the EU has now decided to hand Israel a juicy aviation agreement, the latest in a long line of goodies awarded to the apartheid regime for its crimes against humanity. And that’s after the EU had voiced condemnation of Israel’s latest annexation plan.
Not only that, the European Investment Bank, the EU’s financing institution, has just agreed a 150 million euros loan for a seawater desalination plant – one of the largest in the world – for Israel “in one of the world’s most water-stressed regions”. So water-stressed that Israel long ago stole the Palestinians’ aquifers and deprived them of access to their own supply. And it made no difference that the criminals were now gearing up to annex even more Palestinian territory.
According to this report 437 MEPs (that’s 62%) from EPP, REG, ECR voted to ratify the EU-Israel Aviation Agreement even though MEP Clare Daly from Ireland warned that doing so “would be perceived as an upgrade in bilateral relations with the state of Israel”. So who are these confused people?
The EPP (European People’s Party) Group, the oldest and largest, says: “We must continue to promote human rights and democracy in our relations with third countries.” So, naturally, they have no objection to promoting the Israeli regime in its policy to permanently deny Palestinians their human rights and self-determination.
The REG (Renew Europe Group) would have us believe: “At a time when the rule of law and democracy are under threat in parts of Europe, our Group will stand up for the people who suffer from the illiberal and nationalistic tendencies that we see returning in too many countries.” Oh really?
The ECR Group (European Conservatives & Reformists) declare: “We are the voice of COMMON SENSE.”
As if their behaviour wasn’t bizarre enough, these MEPs then held a separate debate with High Representative Joseph Borrell to discuss EU measures to deter Israel from declaring annexation.
The aviation deal builds on a 2013 agreement. Back then scheduled direct passenger flights connected Israel and 18 EU Member States and the EU was said to be the most important aviation market for Israel, accounting for 57% of scheduled international air passenger movements to and from Israel, and that Israel was one of the most important aviation markets for the EU in the Middle East with a strong growth potential.
The aim now is to take EU-Israel aviation relations to a new level. Higher volumes of tourism in both directions will create additional jobs and economic benefits on both sides. Of course much of the benefit of increased tourism to the Holy Land rightly belongs to the Palestinians if only they were permitted their own airport, but the EU doesn’t seem to care that all visitors to and from the Holy Land are forced through Israel’s Ben Gurion airport – or should we call it Lydda? Thereby hangs an interesting tale….
Growing airline traffic rewards Israeli terror
Strictly speaking Ben Gurion, near Tel Aviv, belongs to the Palestinians. It was formerly Lydda airport; and Lydda, a major town in its own right during the British mandate, was designated Palestinian in the 1947 UN Partition Plan. In July 1948, after Britain left and Israel declared statehood, Israeli terrorist troops seized Lydda, shot up the town and drove out the population as part of the ethnic cleansing and territorial expansion programme set out in their infamous ‘Plan Dalet’. In the process they massacred 426 men, women, and children. 176 of them were slaughtered in the town’s main mosque. See here for the gory details.
Those who survived were forced to walk into exile in the scalding July heat leaving a trail of bodies — men, women and children — along the way. Israeli troops carried away 1,800 truck loads of loot. Jewish immigrants then flooded in and Lydda was given a Hebrew name, Lod.
So Israel has no real right to Lydda/Lod/Ben Gurion airport — it was stolen in a terror raid, as was so much else. And it’s Israeli terror that is being rewarded by increasing airline flights and boosting tourism and trade.
Today the airport is the international gateway to Israel… and indirectly to Palestine. And what happened to Gaza’s airport? The Oslo II Agreement of 1995 provided for one to be constructed. The Yasser Arafat International airport was built with funding from Japan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Germany and Morocco, and cost $86 million. Arafat and US President Clinton attended the opening in 1998. Owned and operated by the Palestinian Authority it was capable of handling 700,000 passengers a year.
In December 2001 Israel destroyed the radar station and control tower, and cut the runway.
Back to the fiasco with the 437 MEPs who plainly don’t give a four-X about adding to the Palestinians’ misery. Aneta Jerska, the coordinator of the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP) says: “Those same political groups whom we heard expressing concern about annexation had just made annexation possible by voting in favour of the EU-Israel Aviation Agreement. This is by any standards the pinnacle of the EU’s hypocrisy. European citizens need to see no more crocodile tears from their elected politicians. The EU must impose sanctions on Israel, as member states once did against apartheid South Africa, including a military embargo on Israel, a ban on trade with illegal settlements and the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Only by ending ‘business as usual’, will Israel feel pressure to change its criminal behaviour.”
Stuart Littlewood
20 June 2020


veteranstoday--2020-06-22--Egypt’s Gen. Sisi and UAE threaten Libyan intervention

Egypt ’ s President warns of direct military intervention in Libya if Turkey continue to advance [ Editor ’ s Note : Poor Libya is now the poster child for how easy it is to fragment a tribal country with natural resources by pitting tribes against each other who then require foreign sponsorship for military support .
The UN shows once again how useless it is , due to the one veto that can stop any joint sanctions against a trouble making outside country trying to exploit the situation , when it has the support of one of the Security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The UN recognized GNA government is only holding the Tripoli area so it can defend itself within interior lines .
With the help of Turkish militia forces flown in from the Syrian militias , the GNA had been able to create a wider defensive shield and begin pushing east to take some of the coastal towns , including a major oil port .
Turkish drones have played a key role .
We now learn 2600 of them have gone back to Turkey , a result of the GNA current coastal offensive , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rebel held air bases , so even Moscow has a hand in this mess .
This puts Putin directly in conflict with Erdogan , when they already are head to head in Syria .
It appears that those supporting General Hadi in Benghazi are not happy with Tripoli moving in on what these outside parties consider to be ‘ their interests ’ .
Egypt has made the incredible claim that the world would support its intervention as an act of self defense .
You just can ’ t make this stuff up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which countries go public with General Sisi in this outrageous claim .
Unfortunately , in Libya everyone wants to control the oil revenue to be able to have their tribe take the biggest piece , hence they have been set upon each other to the benefit of foreign interventionists .
We have seen this game played in Iraq and Syria …JD ] Jim 's Editor ’ s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal Jim 's work includes research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
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@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has warned of direct military intervention in Libya if Turkish-backed forces continue their advance .
Sisi said on Saturday the Libyan cities of Sirte and Jufra , which the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord ( GNA ) is pushing to capture , are a red line for Egypt , warning the internationally recognized GNA not to cross the current front line with renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar ’ s eastern-based self-styled Libyan National Army ( LNA ) .

Egypt’s President warns of direct military intervention in Libya if Turkey continue to advance
…by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor …with PressTV, Tehran
[ Editor’s Note: Poor Libya is now the poster child for how easy it is to fragment a tribal country with natural resources by pitting tribes against each other who then require foreign sponsorship for military support.
The UN shows once again how useless it is, due to the one veto that can stop any joint sanctions against a trouble making outside country trying to exploit the situation, when it has the support of one of the Security Council veto holders to protect it.
The UN recognized GNA government is only holding the Tripoli area so it can defend itself within interior lines. With the help of Turkish militia forces flown in from the Syrian militias, the GNA had been able to create a wider defensive shield and begin pushing east to take some of the coastal towns, including a major oil port. Turkish drones have played a key role.
We now learn 2600 of them have gone back to Turkey, a result of the GNA current coastal offensive, and Russian Mig-29 planes have been spotted in the rebel held air bases, so even Moscow has a hand in this mess. This puts Putin directly in conflict with Erdogan, when they already are head to head in Syria.
It appears that those supporting General Hadi in Benghazi are not happy with Tripoli moving in on what these outside parties consider to be ‘their interests’.
Egypt has made the incredible claim that the world would support its intervention as an act of self defense. You just can’t make this stuff up. It will be interesting to see which countries go public with General Sisi in this outrageous claim.
Unfortunately, in Libya everyone wants to control the oil revenue to be able to have their tribe take the biggest piece, hence they have been set upon each other to the benefit of foreign interventionists. We have seen this game played in Iraq and Syria …JD ]
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– First published … June 21, 2020 –
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has warned of direct military intervention in Libya if Turkish-backed forces continue their advance.
Sisi said on Saturday the Libyan cities of Sirte and Jufra, which the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) is pushing to capture, are a red line for Egypt, warning the internationally recognized GNA not to cross the current front line with renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar’s eastern-based self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA).


veteranstoday--2020-06-23--Don’t Belittle US Protesters by calling their struggle a ‘Color Revolution’

For almost a decade , I have been covering “ Color Revolutions ” in virtually all parts of the world .
While making a film for TeleSur , I was facing Egyptian tanks , risking my life under sniper fire , getting roughed-up in the middle of clashes of the supporters of al-Sisi and Morsi .
Together with Syrian commanders , I was also facing the terrorists in Idlib ; challenged the Ukrainian fascists ; encountering Bolivian indigenous elders high in the Altiplano , after the revolution of Evo Morales and MAS was crashed by the U.S.-sponsored coup in 2019 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lebanon , and Iraq .
And of course , again and again , I have been returning to Hong Kong , reporting on systematic Western attempts to radicalize SAR ’ s youth and to harm China .
I mention all this just in order to establish that I am very well aware of how those “ Color Revolutions ” are triggered and implemented .
“ Color Revolutions !
” Unlike many “ analysts ” who are now tossing this term left and right , often without ever experiencing the events first hand , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ground , examining dynamics , asking endless questions .
On many occasions , I was risking my life to get a philosophical context and the story right .
Frankly , I am sick of conspiracy theories , ignorance , clichés , and arrogance of those “ analysts ” who , from the comfort of their couch , somewhere in Europe or North America , are passing judgments and conclusions , with that proud look of superiority .
Since the police murdered Mr. Floyd in Minneapolis , since the United States literally exploded , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other appallingly oppressed people went to the streets in hundreds of the cities demanding justice ; a substantial group of mainly white ‘ we-know-everything ’ ‘ analysts ’ began belittling protesters , calling them ‘ violent , ’ calling them ‘ riots , ’ calling them ‘ creations of Soros and the Zionists ’ !
And at the end , with dark sarcasm , declaring that the United States itself is now suffering from what it has been spreading all over the world for years – from the so-called “ Color Revolution.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ became so aggressive and vocal that they literally managed to monopolize the ‘ alternative narrative.
’ Suddenly , there was hardly any space left for those of us who were continuously writing , using traditional internationalist , left-wing perspective .
First of all , even the term itself – “ Color Revolutions ” – became a bad cliché .
The Western empire has been destroying the world for some 500+ years , in the most brutal ways imaginable .
Hundreds of millions of lives were lost .
Entire continents were plundered .
People @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the colonial era , in various parts of our planet , at least some semi-independence was achieved .
But countless governments in Africa , Asia , the Middle East , and Latin America were still taking diktat directly from Washington , London , Paris , and other Western capitals .
After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the situation looked desperate .
But with the rise of China and Russia , as well as Iran , great hope returned , and many countries embarked on the second stage of de-colonialization .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Each country was different .
There were attempts to trigger real revolutions ( Egypt ) , but there were also some clearly anti-revolutionary and right-wing movements ( Syria , Ukraine ) born .
In many countries where genuine grievances of the people brought masses to the streets , masses which were demanding mainly social and political reforms , the West quickly infiltrated several movements and literally kidnaped the revolutions .
This is what happened in Egypt , but also , a few years later , in Lebanon and Iraq .
But to claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be insulting , patronizing , and incorrect !
Egypt was suffering from the terrible pro-Western regime and from the military .
Egyptian people rose .
I was working with a group of Marxist doctors during the process ; I saw it all , from the ground , so to speak .
But the revolution was infiltrated and finally destroyed .
In Lebanon , too .
For five years , I was based there ; in Beirut and Asia .
People were fed up with the so-called ‘ confessional democracy , ’ of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ savage capitalism , collapsed infrastructure , and non-existent social services .
Hezbollah , hated by the West and Israel has been the only solid provider of social services to all deprived Lebanese people , for years and decades .
And so , in Lebanon , too , people rose .
Late , in 2019 , but rose .
Sure , a few weeks after , I began spotting clenched fists of “ Odpor ” and “ Canvas ” on the Martyr ’ s Square ( those used in Serbia , when President Milosevich @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full sponsorship of the West ) .
Sure , the West began supporting rebels , because it wanted to get rid of Hezbollah , which has been part of the ruling coalition .
But people of Lebanon do have thousands of legitimate grievances ; reasons to rebel .
However , the West has been skillfully infiltrating and , to some extent manipulating the uprising , which is still going on until this day .
And we have no idea where it is all going to lead .
Do you see how complex the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any of the simplifications , and clichés !
And of course , it is even more complicated than how I describe it here .
It takes entire books to explain .
Syria : another totally different story , and absolutely distinctive specie of “ Color Revolutions , ” if it is how you want to call it .
Some grievances , yes .
But also , a solid pan-Arab socialist state , which the West , Saudis , Qataris , Israelis , and other allies of Washington wanted desperately to destroy ; government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a relatively mild rebellion in Aleppo and Holms , supported by Gulf states coalition , and the West , Saudis , and Turks began injecting monstrous , murderous combat forces into Syria , from ISIS to Uyghurs , and everything in between .
All these cases of interference from the West are totally distinctive , although some patterns can be detected .
And we are still in the same cultural and geographical area .
Now look further away : Bolivia , Cuba , Venezuela , Iran , Hong Kong ( China ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ direct interventions , clear counter-revolution !
It is financed , supported , and coordinated from Washington , London , Berlin , Paris , and other Western capitals .
In Bolivia , white , racist , fundamentalist Christian elites overthrew , with the full support of the White House , the legitimate multi-cultural , democratic , and enormously successful government of President Evo Morales .
It was done after agitation by a small sector of Bolivians , clearly financed from abroad and by the local elites .
One month after the coup , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taking down testimonies of indigenous people who were humiliated , tortured , abused , even killed by a new illegitimate regime .
That ’ s quite different ‘ scenario , ’ isn ’ t it ; different from that in Lebanon , Syria , and Egypt ?
Is it really legitimate to hide it all under one single “ Color Revolutions ” label ?
Look at Cuba : decades and decades of terror against this marvelous island !
Passenger airplanes being blown out of the sky .
Countless assassination plots against its leaders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bombing of cafes , restaurants , and hotels .
All proven and documented .
And constant attempts to recruit , radicalize Cuban citizens – to force them against their own government .
Venezuela , a nation that offered tremendous hope to the entire divided continent .
Venezuela compassionate , brave , built on solidarity .
Look what has been done to her .
One coup attempts after another .
Embargos .
Recruitment of treasonous cadres .
Attacks from neighboring Colombia .
Another “ Color Revolution ?
” Or merely a campaign of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , former British colony , which has been ‘ sacrificed ’ by the West , while literally converted into a battleground against the most optimistic country on Earth – China .
There , the symbol used to be umbrellas , not colors .
Now , there seems to be no symbol , whatsoever , just spite and violence and hate .
It is easy to understand that somehow the label of “ Color Revolutions ” is trivializing everything .
I am surprised that some conspiracy theorists did not come up with a scheme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the very term – “ Color Revolutions ” – has been invented to belittle what has been done to the world by the imperialist West .
To throw everything to one bag , and to confuse everything .
“ Color Revolution ” there , too ?
For heaven ’ s sake , really ?
After the murder of Mr. Floyd , protests are being discredited , again and again , by the people who , one would believe , should be standing by the side of the oppressed .
Instead , they call @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that they are backed by Soros , Gates , others !
The terrible truth emerged : in the United States , there is almost no left anymore .
No real left .
No internationalist left .
Instead , there are tons of conspiracy theory sites .
Significantly , on the streets of Minneapolis , Atlanta , New York , black people are not just demanding justice for themselves ; they have been shouting internationalist slogans , demanding justice for the world .
It is something new , something marvelous , something you hardly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this fact goes unnoticed , hardly reported .
The explosion of rage , brave uprising all over the United States , has been targeting those basic foundations of over 200 years long monstrous history , on which the country is based .
First , the colonialist invasion by the genocidal Europeans , then extermination of the great majority of native people , and simultaneously the most repulsive slavery which was endorsed and used by the founding fathers .
The state of the oppressed people in the U.S.A. today is clearly and directly related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not only that : the entire state of the world could only be comprehended if viewed in the context of what has been done to the native people and brutalized black slaves in the United States itself .
Colonialism , extermination campaigns in Asia , Africa , and Latin America , are inter-connected with the plight of non-white people in the United States .
Now , black people in the United States are fighting for themselves and their children , but also for their brothers and sisters in all corners of the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Washington and London .
Do all of the protesters know this ?
Some do , some don ’ t , and many feel it , intuitively .
Now , to the point which is made by those who are trying to discredit this uprising : is all this also a power-struggle inside the U.S. establishment ?
Are Democrats , for instance , trying to manipulate the situation , using it to their advantage ?
I have no doubt that they are such attempts .
Almost everyone in the United States is always @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is what people are taught to do , living in a savage capitalist system .
But these are two distinct issues !
Even if Gates , Soros , deep state , Democrats , mass media outlets , and who knows who else , wants to kidnap the narrative and derail the uprising , it changes nothing on the fact that the peoples whose lives were , for generations , ruined , are now pissed off no end , and that their rebellion may shake the foundations of the entire country , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as this is being written , the uprising in the U.S. already inspired new movement @ PapuanLivesMatter , which is referring to an ongoing genocide in West Papua , performed by the Indonesian state on behalf of Western governments and mining companies .
And this is just a beginning .
Grievances are legitimate .
Struggle for justice is legitimate .
The essential thing now is to separate the fight against racism , colonialism , and imperialism , from the political interests of the establishment , or part of it .
This separation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And since the education has been kidnapped by the regime , there has to be an accelerated injection of the revolutionary education administered to both protesters and the general public .
Education about both the past and the present .
But we should not give up on the protesters !
And calling their uprising “ Color Revolution ” is disrespectful and yes : racist !
Their rage is legitimate .
And of course , the rage of the people all over the world is legitimate , too , without any doubt .
Point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” is wrong .
Those who are promoting it are actually confusing the situation .
During the last years and decades , the West has been using many different tactics on how to overthrow governments , subvert legitimate movements and revolutions , and deter revolutionary and anti-colonialist struggle .
Each has to be examined and exposed separately , individually .
Otherwise , it would create indigestible , on purpose confusing mass , and further damage independence struggle .
Otherwise , nihilism would be spread , and revolutionary zeal deterred .
Point two : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ struggle against racism , segregation , and imperialism is a legitimate struggle , which is having a tremendous and positive influence on the entire world .
If there are political interests that are trying to undermine and derail it , they should be exposed by the people in the United States .
But it does not mean at all that the protesters should be discourages , let alone ridiculed .
Those who are fighting for justice , and for the entire world , should be embraced and full-heartedly supported !
Andre Vltchek is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and investigative journalist .
He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries .
Six of his latest books are “ New Capital of Indonesia ” , “ China Belt and Road Initiative , ” “ China and Ecological Civilization ” with John B. Cobb , Jr. , “ Revolutionary Optimism , Western Nihilism , ” a revolutionary novel “ Aurora ” and a bestselling work of political non-fiction : “ Exposing Lies Of The Empire ” .
View his other books here .
Watch Rwanda Gambit , his groundbreaking documentary about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Noam Chomsky “ On Western Terrorism ” .
Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and Latin America and continues to work around the world .
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Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek
For almost a decade, I have been covering “Color Revolutions” in virtually all parts of the world. While making a film for TeleSur, I was facing Egyptian tanks, risking my life under sniper fire, getting roughed-up in the middle of clashes of the supporters of al-Sisi and Morsi.
Together with Syrian commanders, I was also facing the terrorists in Idlib; challenged the Ukrainian fascists; encountering Bolivian indigenous elders high in the Altiplano, after the revolution of Evo Morales and MAS was crashed by the U.S.-sponsored coup in 2019. I regularly worked in Venezuela, Lebanon, and Iraq. And of course, again and again, I have been returning to Hong Kong, reporting on systematic Western attempts to radicalize SAR’s youth and to harm China.
I mention all this just in order to establish that I am very well aware of how those “Color Revolutions” are triggered and implemented.
“Color Revolutions!” Unlike many “analysts” who are now tossing this term left and right, often without ever experiencing the events first hand, I spoke with the people on the ground, examining dynamics, asking endless questions. On many occasions, I was risking my life to get a philosophical context and the story right.
Frankly, I am sick of conspiracy theories, ignorance, clichés, and arrogance of those “analysts” who, from the comfort of their couch, somewhere in Europe or North America, are passing judgments and conclusions, with that proud look of superiority.
Since the police murdered Mr. Floyd in Minneapolis, since the United States literally exploded, since the African Americans, Native Americans and other appallingly oppressed people went to the streets in hundreds of the cities demanding justice; a substantial group of mainly white ‘we-know-everything’ ‘analysts’ began belittling protesters, calling them ‘violent,’ calling them ‘riots,’ calling them ‘creations of Soros and the Zionists’! And at the end, with dark sarcasm, declaring that the United States itself is now suffering from what it has been spreading all over the world for years – from the so-called “Color Revolution.”
Many of those ‘analysts’ became so aggressive and vocal that they literally managed to monopolize the ‘alternative narrative.’ Suddenly, there was hardly any space left for those of us who were continuously writing, using traditional internationalist, left-wing perspective.
*
First of all, even the term itself – “Color Revolutions” – became a bad cliché.
The Western empire has been destroying the world for some 500+ years, in the most brutal ways imaginable. Hundreds of millions of lives were lost. Entire continents were plundered. People have been enslaved.
At the end of the colonial era, in various parts of our planet, at least some semi-independence was achieved. But countless governments in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America were still taking diktat directly from Washington, London, Paris, and other Western capitals.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the situation looked desperate. But with the rise of China and Russia, as well as Iran, great hope returned, and many countries embarked on the second stage of de-colonialization.
The process was confused and confusing. Each country was different. There were attempts to trigger real revolutions (Egypt), but there were also some clearly anti-revolutionary and right-wing movements (Syria, Ukraine) born.
In many countries where genuine grievances of the people brought masses to the streets, masses which were demanding mainly social and political reforms, the West quickly infiltrated several movements and literally kidnaped the revolutions. This is what happened in Egypt, but also, a few years later, in Lebanon and Iraq.
But to claim that Egypt had not attempted a revolution would be insulting, patronizing, and incorrect! Egypt was suffering from the terrible pro-Western regime and from the military. Egyptian people rose. I was working with a group of Marxist doctors during the process; I saw it all, from the ground, so to speak. But the revolution was infiltrated and finally destroyed.
In Lebanon, too. For five years, I was based there; in Beirut and Asia. People were fed up with the so-called ‘confessional democracy,’ of the religions tearing-apart the nation, of savage capitalism, collapsed infrastructure, and non-existent social services. Hezbollah, hated by the West and Israel has been the only solid provider of social services to all deprived Lebanese people, for years and decades. And so, in Lebanon, too, people rose. Late, in 2019, but rose. Sure, a few weeks after, I began spotting clenched fists of “Odpor” and “Canvas” on the Martyr’s Square (those used in Serbia, when President Milosevich was forced out of power, with full sponsorship of the West). Sure, the West began supporting rebels, because it wanted to get rid of Hezbollah, which has been part of the ruling coalition. But people of Lebanon do have thousands of legitimate grievances; reasons to rebel. However, the West has been skillfully infiltrating and, to some extent manipulating the uprising, which is still going on until this day. And we have no idea where it is all going to lead.
Do you see how complex the situation is? It does not fit any of the simplifications, and clichés! And of course, it is even more complicated than how I describe it here. It takes entire books to explain.
Syria: another totally different story, and absolutely distinctive specie of “Color Revolutions,” if it is how you want to call it. Some grievances, yes. But also, a solid pan-Arab socialist state, which the West, Saudis, Qataris, Israelis, and other allies of Washington wanted desperately to destroy; government they were aiming to overthrow. After a relatively mild rebellion in Aleppo and Holms, supported by Gulf states coalition, and the West, Saudis, and Turks began injecting monstrous, murderous combat forces into Syria, from ISIS to Uyghurs, and everything in between.
All these cases of interference from the West are totally distinctive, although some patterns can be detected. And we are still in the same cultural and geographical area.
Now look further away: Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Hong Kong (China).
In all these places, there are direct interventions, clear counter-revolution! It is financed, supported, and coordinated from Washington, London, Berlin, Paris, and other Western capitals.
In Bolivia, white, racist, fundamentalist Christian elites overthrew, with the full support of the White House, the legitimate multi-cultural, democratic, and enormously successful government of President Evo Morales. It was done after agitation by a small sector of Bolivians, clearly financed from abroad and by the local elites. One month after the coup, I was working all over the Altiplano, taking down testimonies of indigenous people who were humiliated, tortured, abused, even killed by a new illegitimate regime.
That’s quite different ‘scenario,’ isn’t it; different from that in Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt? Is it really legitimate to hide it all under one single “Color Revolutions” label?
Look at Cuba: decades and decades of terror against this marvelous island! Passenger airplanes being blown out of the sky. Countless assassination plots against its leaders. Chemical warfare, biological warfare, the bombing of cafes, restaurants, and hotels. All proven and documented. And constant attempts to recruit, radicalize Cuban citizens – to force them against their own government.
Venezuela, a nation that offered tremendous hope to the entire divided continent. Venezuela compassionate, brave, built on solidarity. Look what has been done to her. One coup attempts after another. Embargos. Recruitment of treasonous cadres. Attacks from neighboring Colombia. Another “Color Revolution?” Or merely a campaign of terror?
Hong Kong: a city, former British colony, which has been ‘sacrificed’ by the West, while literally converted into a battleground against the most optimistic country on Earth – China. There, the symbol used to be umbrellas, not colors. Now, there seems to be no symbol, whatsoever, just spite and violence and hate.
It is easy to understand that somehow the label of “Color Revolutions” is trivializing everything.
I am surprised that some conspiracy theorists did not come up with a scheme, yet, that would say that the very term – “Color Revolutions” – has been invented to belittle what has been done to the world by the imperialist West. To throw everything to one bag, and to confuse everything.
*
Back to the United States.
“Color Revolution” there, too? For heaven’s sake, really?
After the murder of Mr. Floyd, protests are being discredited, again and again, by the people who, one would believe, should be standing by the side of the oppressed. Instead, they call rebellion ‘riots,’ they claim that they are backed by Soros, Gates, others!
The terrible truth emerged: in the United States, there is almost no left anymore. No real left. No internationalist left.
Instead, there are tons of conspiracy theory sites.
Significantly, on the streets of Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York, black people are not just demanding justice for themselves; they have been shouting internationalist slogans, demanding justice for the world. It is something new, something marvelous, something you hardly hear in Paris or Berlin.
But this fact goes unnoticed, hardly reported.
The explosion of rage, brave uprising all over the United States, has been targeting those basic foundations of over 200 years long monstrous history, on which the country is based. First, the colonialist invasion by the genocidal Europeans, then extermination of the great majority of native people, and simultaneously the most repulsive slavery which was endorsed and used by the founding fathers.
The state of the oppressed people in the U.S.A. today is clearly and directly related, connected to that past. But not only that: the entire state of the world could only be comprehended if viewed in the context of what has been done to the native people and brutalized black slaves in the United States itself.
Colonialism, extermination campaigns in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, are inter-connected with the plight of non-white people in the United States.
Now, black people in the United States are fighting for themselves and their children, but also for their brothers and sisters in all corners of the world, which is still colonized and plundered by Washington and London.
Do all of the protesters know this? Some do, some don’t, and many feel it, intuitively.
Now, to the point which is made by those who are trying to discredit this uprising: is all this also a power-struggle inside the U.S. establishment? Are Democrats, for instance, trying to manipulate the situation, using it to their advantage?
I have no doubt that they are such attempts. Almost everyone in the United States is always using things, looking for advantages. This is what people are taught to do, living in a savage capitalist system.
But these are two distinct issues!
Even if Gates, Soros, deep state, Democrats, mass media outlets, and who knows who else, wants to kidnap the narrative and derail the uprising, it changes nothing on the fact that the peoples whose lives were, for generations, ruined, are now pissed off no end, and that their rebellion may shake the foundations of the entire country, and the terrible world order!
Even now, as this is being written, the uprising in the U.S. already inspired new movement @PapuanLivesMatter, which is referring to an ongoing genocide in West Papua, performed by the Indonesian state on behalf of Western governments and mining companies.
And this is just a beginning.
Grievances are legitimate. Struggle for justice is legitimate. The essential thing now is to separate the fight against racism, colonialism, and imperialism, from the political interests of the establishment, or part of it.
This separation can only happen on the barricades. And since the education has been kidnapped by the regime, there has to be an accelerated injection of the revolutionary education administered to both protesters and the general public. Education about both the past and the present.
But we should not give up on the protesters!
And calling their uprising “Color Revolution” is disrespectful and yes: racist!
Their rage is legitimate. And of course, the rage of the people all over the world is legitimate, too, without any doubt.
CONCLUSION
Point one: Blanket term “Color Revolutions” is wrong. Those who are promoting it are actually confusing the situation. During the last years and decades, the West has been using many different tactics on how to overthrow governments, subvert legitimate movements and revolutions, and deter revolutionary and anti-colonialist struggle. Each has to be examined and exposed separately, individually. Otherwise, it would create indigestible, on purpose confusing mass, and further damage independence struggle. Otherwise, nihilism would be spread, and revolutionary zeal deterred.
Point two: in the United States – the ongoing struggle against racism, segregation, and imperialism is a legitimate struggle, which is having a tremendous and positive influence on the entire world. If there are political interests that are trying to undermine and derail it, they should be exposed by the people in the United States. But it does not mean at all that the protesters should be discourages, let alone ridiculed. Those who are fighting for justice, and for the entire world, should be embraced and full-heartedly supported!
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veteranstoday--2020-06-23--Vltchek: Message to my young readers in Hong Kong (and around the world)

HOW WE SOLD SOVIET UNION AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA FOR PLASTIC SHOPPING BAGS For months , this has been a story that I want to share with young readers in Hong Kong .
Now it seems to be the really appropriate time when the ideological battle between the West and China is raging , and as a result of it , Hong Kong and the entire world is suffering .
I want to say that none of it is new , that the West already destabilized so many countries and territories , brainwashed tens of millions of young people .
I know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was one of them .
If I weren ’ t , it would be impossible to understand what is now happening in Hong Kong .
I was born in Leningrad , a beautiful city in the Soviet Union .
Now it is called St. Petersburg , and the country is Russia .
Mom is half Russian , half Chinese , artist , and architect .
My childhood was split between Leningrad and Pilsen , an industrial city known for its beer , at the Western extreme of what used to be Czechoslovakia .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ cities were different .
Both represented something essential in the Communist planning , a system that you were taught , by the Western propagandists , to hate .
Leningrad is one of the most stunning cities in the world , with some of the greatest museums , opera and ballet theatres , public spaces .
In the past , it used to be the Russian capital .
Pilsen is tiny , with only 180.000 inhabitants .
But when I was a kid , it counted with several excellent libraries , art cinemas , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ art galleries , research zoo , with things that could not be , as I realized later ( when it was too late ) , found even in the U.S. cities of one million .
Both cities , a big and a small , had excellent public transportation , vast parks , and forests coming to its outskirts , as well as elegant cafes .
Pilsen had countless free tennis facilities , football stadiums , even badminton courts .
Life was good , meaningful .
It was rich .
Not rich in terms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intellectually , and health-wise .
To be young was fun , with knowledge free and easily accessible , with the culture at every corner , and sports for everyone .
The pace was slow : plenty of time to think , learn , analyze .
But , it was also the height of the Cold War .
We were young , rebellious , and easy to manipulate .
We were never satisfied with what we were given .
We took for granted everything .
At night , we were glued to our radio @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Voice of America , Radio Free Europe , and other broadcasting services aiming at discrediting socialism and all countries which were fighting against Western imperialism .
Czech socialist industrial conglomerates were building , in solidarity , entire factories , from steel to sugar mills , in Asian , Middle East , and Africa .
But we saw no glory in this because Western propaganda outlets were simply ridiculing such undertakings .
Our cinemas were showing masterpieces of Italian , French , Soviet , Japanese cinema .
But we were told to demand junk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , from live to recorded .
Almost all music was , actually , available although with some delay , in local stores or even on stage .
What was not sold in our stores was nihilist rubbish .
But that was precisely what we were told to desire .
And we did desire it , and copied it with religious reverence , on our tape recorders .
If something was not available , the Western media outlets were shouting that it is a gross violation of free speech .
They knew , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ manipulate young brains .
At some point , we were converted into young pessimists , criticizing everything in our countries , without comparing , without even a tiny bit of objectivity .
We were told , and we repeated : everything in the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia was bad .
Everything in the West was great .
Yes , it was like some fundamentalist religion or mass-madness .
Hardly anyone was immune .
Actually , we were infected , we were sick , turned into idiots .
We were using public , socialist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subsidized cafes , to glorify West and smear our own nations .
This is how we were indoctrinated , by Western radio and television stations , and by publications smuggled into the countries .
In those days , plastic shopping bags from the West became the status symbols !
You know , those bags that you get in some cheap supermarkets or department stores .
When I think about it at a distance of several decades , I can hardly believe it : young educated boys and girls , proudly walking down the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for which they paid a serious amount of money .
Because they came from the West .
Because they were symbolizing consumerism !
Because we were told that consumerism is good .
We were told that we should desire freedom .
Western-style freedom .
We were instructed to “ fight for freedom.
” In many ways , we were much freer than the West .
I realized it when I first arrived in New York and saw how badly educated were local kids of my age , how shallow was their knowledge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there was , in regular mid-sized North American cities .
We wanted , we demanded designer jeans .
We were longing for Western music labels in the center of our LPs .
It was not about the essence or the message .
It was form over substance .
Our food was tastier , ecologically produced .
But we wanted colorful Western packaging .
We demanded chemicals .
We were constantly angry , agitated , confrontational .
We were antagonizing our families .
We were young , but we felt old .
I published @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left , slammed the door behind me , went to New York .
And soon after , I realized that I was fooled !
This is a very simplified version of my story .
Space is limited .
But I am glad I can share it with my Hong Kong readers , and of course , with my young readers all over China .
Two wonderful countries which used to be my home were betrayed , literally sold for nothing , for pairs of designer jeans , and plastic shopping bags .
West @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the socialist system , both countries were literally robbed of everything by Western companies .
People lost their homes and jobs , and internationalism was deterred .
Proud socialist companies got privatized and , in many cases , liquidated .
Theatres and art cinemas were converted into cheap second-hand clothes markets .
Czechoslovakia was broken into two parts .
Now , decades later , both Russia and Czechia are wealthy again .
Russia has many elements of a socialist system with central planning .
But I miss my two countries , as they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ show that the majority of people there miss them too .
I also feel guilty , day and night , for allowing myself to be indoctrinated , to be used , and in a way to betray .
After seeing the world , I understand that what happened to both the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia , also happened to many other parts of the world .
And right now , the West is aiming at China , by using Hong Kong .
Whenever in China , whenever in Hong Kong , I keep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ terrible example .
Defend your nation !
Do not sell it , metaphorically , for some filthy plastic shopping bags .
Do not do something that you would regret for the rest of your lives !
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher , novelist , filmmaker and investigative journalist .
He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries .
Six of his latest books are “ New Capital of Indonesia ” , “ China Belt and Road Initiative ” , “ China and Ecological Civilization ” with John B. Cobb , Jr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” , a revolutionary novel “ Aurora ” and a bestselling work of political non-fiction : “ Exposing Lies Of The Empire ” .
View his other books here .
Watch Rwanda Gambit , his groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DRCongo and his film/dialogue with Noam Chomsky “ On Western Terrorism ” .
Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and Latin America , and continues to work around the world .
He can be reached through his website , his and his Patreon

HOW WE SOLD SOVIET UNION AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA FOR PLASTIC SHOPPING BAGS
By: Andre Vltchek
For months, this has been a story that I want to share with young readers in Hong Kong. Now it seems to be the really appropriate time when the ideological battle between the West and China is raging, and as a result of it, Hong Kong and the entire world is suffering.
I want to say that none of it is new, that the West already destabilized so many countries and territories, brainwashed tens of millions of young people.
I know, because in the past, I was one of them. If I weren’t, it would be impossible to understand what is now happening in Hong Kong.
*
I was born in Leningrad, a beautiful city in the Soviet Union. Now it is called St. Petersburg, and the country is Russia. Mom is half Russian, half Chinese, artist, and architect. My childhood was split between Leningrad and Pilsen, an industrial city known for its beer, at the Western extreme of what used to be Czechoslovakia. Dad was a nuclear scientist.
Two cities were different. Both represented something essential in the Communist planning, a system that you were taught, by the Western propagandists, to hate.
Leningrad is one of the most stunning cities in the world, with some of the greatest museums, opera and ballet theatres, public spaces. In the past, it used to be the Russian capital.
Pilsen is tiny, with only 180.000 inhabitants. But when I was a kid, it counted with several excellent libraries, art cinemas, an opera house, avant-garde theatres, art galleries, research zoo, with things that could not be, as I realized later (when it was too late), found even in the U.S. cities of one million.
Both cities, a big and a small, had excellent public transportation, vast parks, and forests coming to its outskirts, as well as elegant cafes. Pilsen had countless free tennis facilities, football stadiums, even badminton courts.
Life was good, meaningful. It was rich. Not rich in terms of money, but rich culturally, intellectually, and health-wise. To be young was fun, with knowledge free and easily accessible, with the culture at every corner, and sports for everyone. The pace was slow: plenty of time to think, learn, analyze.
But, it was also the height of the Cold War.
We were young, rebellious, and easy to manipulate. We were never satisfied with what we were given. We took for granted everything. At night, we were glued to our radio receivers, listening to the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other broadcasting services aiming at discrediting socialism and all countries which were fighting against Western imperialism.
Czech socialist industrial conglomerates were building, in solidarity, entire factories, from steel to sugar mills, in Asian, Middle East, and Africa. But we saw no glory in this because Western propaganda outlets were simply ridiculing such undertakings.
Our cinemas were showing masterpieces of Italian, French, Soviet, Japanese cinema. But we were told to demand junk from the U.S.
Music offering was great, from live to recorded. Almost all music was, actually, available although with some delay, in local stores or even on stage. What was not sold in our stores was nihilist rubbish. But that was precisely what we were told to desire. And we did desire it, and copied it with religious reverence, on our tape recorders. If something was not available, the Western media outlets were shouting that it is a gross violation of free speech.
They knew, and they still know now, how to manipulate young brains.
At some point, we were converted into young pessimists, criticizing everything in our countries, without comparing, without even a tiny bit of objectivity.
Does it sound familiar?
We were told, and we repeated: everything in the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia was bad. Everything in the West was great. Yes, it was like some fundamentalist religion or mass-madness. Hardly anyone was immune. Actually, we were infected, we were sick, turned into idiots.
We were using public, socialist facilities, from libraries to theatres, subsidized cafes, to glorify West and smear our own nations. This is how we were indoctrinated, by Western radio and television stations, and by publications smuggled into the countries.
In those days, plastic shopping bags from the West became the status symbols! You know, those bags that you get in some cheap supermarkets or department stores.
When I think about it at a distance of several decades, I can hardly believe it: young educated boys and girls, proudly walking down the streets, exhibiting cheap plastic shopping bags, for which they paid a serious amount of money. Because they came from the West. Because they were symbolizing consumerism! Because we were told that consumerism is good.
*
We were told that we should desire freedom. Western-style freedom.
We were instructed to “fight for freedom.”
In many ways, we were much freer than the West. I realized it when I first arrived in New York and saw how badly educated were local kids of my age, how shallow was their knowledge of the world. How little culture there was, in regular mid-sized North American cities.
We wanted, we demanded designer jeans. We were longing for Western music labels in the center of our LPs. It was not about the essence or the message. It was form over substance.
Our food was tastier, ecologically produced. But we wanted colorful Western packaging. We demanded chemicals.
We were constantly angry, agitated, confrontational. We were antagonizing our families.
We were young, but we felt old.
I published my first book of poetry, then left, slammed the door behind me, went to New York.
And soon after, I realized that I was fooled!
*
This is a very simplified version of my story. Space is limited.
But I am glad I can share it with my Hong Kong readers, and of course, with my young readers all over China.
Two wonderful countries which used to be my home were betrayed, literally sold for nothing, for pairs of designer jeans, and plastic shopping bags.
West celebrated! Months after the collapse of the socialist system, both countries were literally robbed of everything by Western companies. People lost their homes and jobs, and internationalism was deterred. Proud socialist companies got privatized and, in many cases, liquidated. Theatres and art cinemas were converted into cheap second-hand clothes markets.
In Russia, life expectancy dropped to African sub-Saharan levels.
Czechoslovakia was broken into two parts.
Now, decades later, both Russia and Czechia are wealthy again. Russia has many elements of a socialist system with central planning.
But I miss my two countries, as they used to be, and all surveys show that the majority of people there miss them too. I also feel guilty, day and night, for allowing myself to be indoctrinated, to be used, and in a way to betray.
After seeing the world, I understand that what happened to both the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, also happened to many other parts of the world. And right now, the West is aiming at China, by using Hong Kong.
Whenever in China, whenever in Hong Kong, I keep repeating: please do not follow our terrible example. Defend your nation! Do not sell it, metaphorically, for some filthy plastic shopping bags. Do not do something that you would regret for the rest of your lives!
*
[First published by China Daily Hong Kong]


veteranstoday--2020-06-22--Both Vital and Hilarious: ‘100,000 expected in Tulsa” says Trump, maybe more, many many many many mo

Both Vital and Hilarious: ‘100,000 expected in Tulsa” says Trump, maybe more, many many many many more (Sarah Hits Another One out of the park)

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War .
He is a disabled veteran and has worked @ @ @ @ @ for decades .
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of @ @ @ @ @ .
He manages the world ’ s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with @ @ @ @ @ has traveled extensively , is published around the world and is a regular guest on @ @ @ @ @ than “ several ” countries .
He is also a trained chef , wine enthusiast @ @ @ @ @ specializing in historical weapons and restoration .
Business experience and interests are in energy and @ @ @

Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.


veteranstoday--2020-06-22--Attempted White Supremacist Ambush on US Troops:  FBI Arrests US Army Active Duty for Planning and I

Attempted White Supremacist Ambush on US Troops:  FBI Arrests US Army Active Duty for Planning and Intel

US Army soldier Ethan Melzer , 22 , of Louisville , Kentucky , was indicted on terrorist charges Monday after he provided sensitive details about his Army unit to extremist organization Order of the Nine Angles ( O9A ) , according to the US Justice Department ( DoJ ) .
Melzer provided information such as location , movements and security to the neo-Nazi and white-supremacist group , the DoJ said .
He has been charged with “ conspiring and attempting to murder US nationals , conspiring and attempting to murder military service members , providing and attempting to provide material @ @ @ @ @ @ @ murder and maim in a foreign country , ” the DoJ release notes .
The O9A group holds violent , neo-Nazi , anti-Semitic and Satanic beliefs and has “ expressed admiration for both Nazis , such as Adolf Hitler , and Islamic jihadists , such as Osama Bin Laden , ” according to the release .
According to the indictment documents , Melzer said “ you just got ta understand that currently I am risking my literal free life to give you all this ” and that he was “ expecting results ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attack on his unit .
When prodded by the same source on whether he understood that he could jeopardize his own life , Melzer responded : “ Your [ sic ] kidding right .
If we were to trigger this the right way the amount of s**t this would cause would cover it .
My life would be absolutely meaningless in the amount of s**t it would cause after .
Okay that sounds r******d but really it ’ s true.
” The DoJ release also notes that during a voluntary interview with military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he wanted the attack to kill as many of his fellow service members as possible and that he considers himself to be a traitor against the US .
“ As the indictment lays out , Ethan Melzer plotted a deadly ambush on his fellow soldiers in the service of a diabolical cocktail of ideologies laced with hate and violence , ” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers is quoted as saying in the DoJ release .
“ Our women and men in uniform risk their lives for our country , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the hands of one of their own .
The National Security Division is proud to support the efforts of those who disrupted this planned attack and to seek justice for these acts , ” he added .
Melzer joined the US Army in 2018 and became a member of O9A “ by approximately 2019 , ” according to the release .
“ Melzer declared himself to be a traitor against the United States , and described his own conduct as tantamount to treason .
We agree .
He turned his back on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ himself with members of the neo-Nazi group O9A , ” FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office William F. Sweeney Jr. is quoted as saying in the DoJ release .
“ Today , he is in custody and facing a lifetime of service – behind bars – which is appropriate given the severity of the conduct we allege today .
”

US Army soldier Ethan Melzer, 22, of Louisville, Kentucky, was indicted on terrorist charges Monday after he provided sensitive details about his Army unit to extremist organization Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), according to the US Justice Department (DoJ).
Melzer provided information such as location, movements and security to the neo-Nazi and white-supremacist group, the DoJ said. He has been charged with “conspiring and attempting to murder US nationals, conspiring and attempting to murder military service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country,” the DoJ release notes.
The O9A group holds violent, neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and Satanic beliefs and has “expressed admiration for both Nazis, such as Adolf Hitler, and Islamic jihadists, such as Osama Bin Laden,” according to the release.
According to the indictment documents, Melzer said “you just gotta understand that currently I am risking my literal free life to give you all this” and that he was “expecting results” to a confidential source when discussing the attack on his unit. When prodded by the same source on whether he understood that he could jeopardize his own life, Melzer responded: “Your [sic] kidding right. If we were to trigger this the right way the amount of s**t this would cause would cover it. My life would be absolutely meaningless in the amount of s**t it would cause after. Okay that sounds r******d but really it’s true.”
The DoJ release also notes that during a voluntary interview with military investigators and the FBI, Melzer said he wanted the attack to kill as many of his fellow service members as possible and that he considers himself to be a traitor against the US.
The FBI and the US Army prevented Melzer’s plot some time in May, and Melzer was arrested by FBI agents on June 10.
“As the indictment lays out, Ethan Melzer plotted a deadly ambush on his fellow soldiers in the service of a diabolical cocktail of ideologies laced with hate and violence,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers is quoted as saying in the DoJ release.
“Our women and men in uniform risk their lives for our country, but they should never face such peril at the hands of one of their own. The National Security Division is proud to support the efforts of those who disrupted this planned attack and to seek justice for these acts,” he added.
Melzer joined the US Army in 2018 and became a member of O9A “by approximately 2019,” according to the release.
Many members of the group have committed violent acts. Before planning the attack, Melzer consumed propaganda from several extremist groups including O9A and Daesh, the DoJ release revealed. The FBI discovered an iCloud account owned by Melzer that included a Daesh-issued document with outlines of attacks against US personnel.
“Melzer declared himself to be a traitor against the United States, and described his own conduct as tantamount to treason. We agree. He turned his back on his county and his unit while aligning himself with members of the neo-Nazi group O9A,” FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office William F. Sweeney Jr. is quoted as saying in the DoJ release.
“Today, he is in custody and facing a lifetime of service – behind bars – which is appropriate given the severity of the conduct we allege today.”