thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-08--Trump’s “Bay of Pigs” in Venezuela (Dossier)

Despite the glaring culpability of the US government at all levels , the degenerate media—as usual— barely covers the story .
Apair of abortive armed landings by US-led mercenaries on Venezuela ’ s coast earlier this week has made it clear that the global coronavirus pandemic and the death and devastation it has wrought upon the American people have done nothing to curb US imperialism ’ s predatory and criminal pursuit of geostrategic interests in South America and across the globe .
The first of the two landings took place early Sunday morning in Maputo in the state of La @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s drive from the Venezuelan capital of Caracas .
Eight of the armed men who came ashore , including the leader of the group , an ex-Venezuelan army captain known as “ Pantera ” ( the panther ) , were killed , and the rest captured .
A second landing took place on Monday on the peninsula of Chuao in Aragua state , also on Venezuela ’ s Caribbean coast , west of Caracas .
Here , the armed invaders were detected by local fishermen , who turned them over to Venezuelan security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Adolfo Baduel , the son of a former Venezuelan defense minister sent to prison on corruption charges , who has been at the center of a series of coup plots .
Also taken prisoner were two US citizens , Luke Denman , 34 , and Airan Berry , 41 , both of whom have been identified as former US special operations troops .
Baduel told Venezuelan authorities that the two Americans had told him that they worked for the security force of US President Donald Trump .
Venezuelan officials have shown the media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two captured Americans , along with photographs of armaments captured along with the mercenaries .
They also released a video of an interrogation of Denman , who said that his mission had been to seize control of a Caracas airport in order to receive planes that would carry out the rendition of Venezuela ’ s President Maduro to the US .
Asked who was directing the operation , he replied , “ President Donald Trump.
” At the center of the operation was one Jordan Goudreau , an ex-Green Beret veteran of Iraq @ @ @ @ @ @ @ private security contracting firm , SilverCorp USA .
By his own account , Goudreau was hooked up with the Venezuelan right and its US-backed coup plots by Keith Schiller , Trump ’ s longtime bodyguard , who served as director of Oval Office operations .
Videos have since surfaced showing Goudreau working security at Trump rallies .
The military contractor ’ s ties with US intelligence and the Venezuelan right became apparent when he was hired in February 2019 to provide security for a concert paid for by British billionaire Richard Branson on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ failed CIA Trojan Horse operation to force phony aid convoys into Venezuela .
Goudreau has publicly taken responsibility for the latest operation , claiming that it is still ongoing and its objective is “ to overthrow the government of Maduro.
” He said that despite the abject failure of the maritime invasion , other elements remain active inside Venezuela and were “ going to start attacking tactical targets , ” in other words , launch a wave of terrorism .
In addition , Goudreau confirmed the validity of a contract posted online that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the right-wing political nonentity who proclaimed himself “ interim president '' of Venezuela in January of last year and was instantly anointed by Washington and its allies as the “ legitimate government '' of Venezuela .
A taped conversation in English between Guaidó and Goudreau has also been released in which the US puppet agreed to pay $ 213 million to the American security contractor to carry out the armed intervention , with the fee guaranteed by oil resources stolen from Venezuela by the US government .
Goudreau claimed that Guaidó failed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the exact arrangement , however , it is clear that someone paid for the organization of a mercenary army and its deployment to the shores of Venezuela .
Whether it was the puppet or the puppet master makes little difference .
If Guaidó , who attempted to spark a military coup little more than a year ago , is not behind bars , it is because Maduro ’ s “ Bolivarian Socialist '' bourgeois government still sees him as a possible interlocutor with US imperialism and the traditional oligarchy in pursuit of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a revolutionary explosion from below .
Asked about the attempted seaborne invasion of Venezuela , Trump claimed that he knew nothing about it and that it had “ nothing to do with our government.
” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a somewhat more conditional answer at a State Department press conference Wednesday , declaring , “ There was no US government direct involvement in this operation.
” He said he was “ not prepared to share any more information about what we know took place.
” As for the two captured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would “ use every tool that we have available to try and get them back.
” On what grounds the US can demand that they be sent back , the secretary of state did not say .
Is there the slightest doubt that a pair of foreign nationals caught invading the US with the objective of kidnapping or killing Donald Trump would be sentenced on terrorism charges to life in prison or worse ?
The armed incursions have unfolded in the context of a “ maximum pressure ” campaign of crippling sanctions against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of war .
An effective embargo against the country has cut off its oil exports and prevented it from importing vitally needed medicine and medical supplies , leading to tens of thousands of deaths , even before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic .
Since its outbreak , US imperialism has only tightened the sanctions seeking to employ disease and death as a weapon in forcing the Venezuelan population into submission and completing its drive for regime change .
Even as the death toll mounted in the US and the economy plummeted , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ task force to waters off Venezuela ’ s Caribbean coast on the pretext of combatting narcotics trafficking , even though the vast majority of drugs flowing into the US are sent via Colombia and the Pacific Ocean through Central America , protected by Washington ’ s right-wing allies in Bogota , Tegucigalpa and Guatemala City .
The destroyers and littoral combat ships sent into this operation are ill-designed for catching drug smugglers .
The sordid events on Venezuela ’ s coast recall the darkest chapters of US imperialism ’ s prolonged history of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state repression in Latin America .
In earlier US imperialist interventions gone bad , including the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 , Washington officials initially also issued categorical denials of US involvement .
Similarly , in the illegal operation to fund the “ contra '' terrorist war against Nicaragua in the 1980s , Washington maintained deniability until CIA contractor Eugene Hasenfus was shot down flying weapons to the contra mercenaries .
Both the Bay of Pigs and the so-called Iran-contra affair triggered major political crises in Washington and close @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reports of an abortive US-orchestrated invasion of Venezuela , however , have been passed over in near silence by the corporate media and have elicited not a word of criticism from Trump ’ s ostensible political opposition within the Democratic Party .
From Biden to Sanders , they have all lined up behind the regime change operation in Venezuela .
This operation , serving the interests of America ’ s ruling oligarchy , is aimed at establishing unfettered control by US energy conglomerates over the country ’ s oil reserves , the largest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the growing influence of China and Russia in Venezuela and Latin America as a whole , which US imperialism has long regarded as its “ own backyard.
” In the midst of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic that threatens the lives of millions , US imperialism is pursuing its predatory interests by means of military aggression , threatening to ignite another world war that would kill billions .
Only the working class , uniting across national boundaries in a common struggle to put an end to capitalism and imperialism , can provide an alternative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ survival of humanity .
SOURCE : https : //www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/07/pers-m07.html

Despite the glaring culpability of the US government at all levels, the degenerate media—as usual— barely covers the story. Dateline—7 May 2020
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Apair of abortive armed landings by US-led mercenaries on Venezuela’s coast earlier this week has made it clear that the global coronavirus pandemic and the death and devastation it has wrought upon the American people have done nothing to curb US imperialism’s predatory and criminal pursuit of geostrategic interests in South America and across the globe.
The first of the two landings took place early Sunday morning in Maputo in the state of La Guaira, barely a half hour’s drive from the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. Eight of the armed men who came ashore, including the leader of the group, an ex-Venezuelan army captain known as “Pantera” (the panther), were killed, and the rest captured.
A second landing took place on Monday on the peninsula of Chuao in Aragua state, also on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, west of Caracas. Here, the armed invaders were detected by local fishermen, who turned them over to Venezuelan security forces.
Among those captured was Josnars Adolfo Baduel, the son of a former Venezuelan defense minister sent to prison on corruption charges, who has been at the center of a series of coup plots. Also taken prisoner were two US citizens, Luke Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, both of whom have been identified as former US special operations troops. Baduel told Venezuelan authorities that the two Americans had told him that they worked for the security force of US President Donald Trump.
Venezuelan officials have shown the media passports and military ID cards of the two captured Americans, along with photographs of armaments captured along with the mercenaries. They also released a video of an interrogation of Denman, who said that his mission had been to seize control of a Caracas airport in order to receive planes that would carry out the rendition of Venezuela’s President Maduro to the US. Asked who was directing the operation, he replied, “President Donald Trump.”
At the center of the operation was one Jordan Goudreau, an ex-Green Beret veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, who runs a Florida-based private security contracting firm, SilverCorp USA. By his own account, Goudreau was hooked up with the Venezuelan right and its US-backed coup plots by Keith Schiller, Trump’s longtime bodyguard, who served as director of Oval Office operations. Videos have since surfaced showing Goudreau working security at Trump rallies.
The military contractor’s ties with US intelligence and the Venezuelan right became apparent when he was hired in February 2019 to provide security for a concert paid for by British billionaire Richard Branson on the Venezuelan-Colombian border as part of a failed CIA Trojan Horse operation to force phony aid convoys into Venezuela.
#4May A través de la inteligencia social y la unidad cívico militar policial se logró la captura de estos mercenarios. Subestiman a un pueblo que con coraje se encuentra preparado para defender nuestra soberanía ¡La Patria no se vende, la Patria se defiende! #UniónSoberaníaYPaz pic.twitter.com/uME7cnR2ve — Rodolfo Marco Torres (@RMarcoTorres) May 4, 2020
Goudreau has publicly taken responsibility for the latest operation, claiming that it is still ongoing and its objective is “to overthrow the government of Maduro.” He said that despite the abject failure of the maritime invasion, other elements remain active inside Venezuela and were “going to start attacking tactical targets,” in other words, launch a wave of terrorism.
In addition, Goudreau confirmed the validity of a contract posted online that was signed between himself and Juan Guaidó, the right-wing political nonentity who proclaimed himself “interim president" of Venezuela in January of last year and was instantly anointed by Washington and its allies as the “legitimate government" of Venezuela.
A taped conversation in English between Guaidó and Goudreau has also been released in which the US puppet agreed to pay $213 million to the American security contractor to carry out the armed intervention, with the fee guaranteed by oil resources stolen from Venezuela by the US government.
Goudreau claimed that Guaidó failed to make the promised payments. Whatever the exact arrangement, however, it is clear that someone paid for the organization of a mercenary army and its deployment to the shores of Venezuela. Whether it was the puppet or the puppet master makes little difference.
If Guaidó, who attempted to spark a military coup little more than a year ago, is not behind bars, it is because Maduro’s “Bolivarian Socialist" bourgeois government still sees him as a possible interlocutor with US imperialism and the traditional oligarchy in pursuit of a deal to salvage Venezuelan capitalism and prevent a revolutionary explosion from below.
Asked about the attempted seaborne invasion of Venezuela, Trump claimed that he knew nothing about it and that it had “nothing to do with our government.”
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a somewhat more conditional answer at a State Department press conference Wednesday, declaring, “There was no US government direct involvement in this operation.” He said he was “not prepared to share any more information about what we know took place.”
As for the two captured US mercenaries, Pompeo stated that Washington would “use every tool that we have available to try and get them back.”
On what grounds the US can demand that they be sent back, the secretary of state did not say. Is there the slightest doubt that a pair of foreign nationals caught invading the US with the objective of kidnapping or killing Donald Trump would be sentenced on terrorism charges to life in prison or worse?
The armed incursions have unfolded in the context of a “maximum pressure” campaign of crippling sanctions against Venezuela that is tantamount to a state of war. An effective embargo against the country has cut off its oil exports and prevented it from importing vitally needed medicine and medical supplies, leading to tens of thousands of deaths, even before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Since its outbreak, US imperialism has only tightened the sanctions seeking to employ disease and death as a weapon in forcing the Venezuelan population into submission and completing its drive for regime change.
Even as the death toll mounted in the US and the economy plummeted, Trump ordered the deployment of a naval task force to waters off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast on the pretext of combatting narcotics trafficking, even though the vast majority of drugs flowing into the US are sent via Colombia and the Pacific Ocean through Central America, protected by Washington’s right-wing allies in Bogota, Tegucigalpa and Guatemala City. The destroyers and littoral combat ships sent into this operation are ill-designed for catching drug smugglers.
The sordid events on Venezuela’s coast recall the darkest chapters of US imperialism’s prolonged history of military aggression, semicolonial exploitation and police state repression in Latin America. In earlier US imperialist interventions gone bad, including the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, Washington officials initially also issued categorical denials of US involvement. Similarly, in the illegal operation to fund the “contra" terrorist war against Nicaragua in the 1980s, Washington maintained deniability until CIA contractor Eugene Hasenfus was shot down flying weapons to the contra mercenaries.
Both the Bay of Pigs and the so-called Iran-contra affair triggered major political crises in Washington and close scrutiny by the American media. The reports of an abortive US-orchestrated invasion of Venezuela, however, have been passed over in near silence by the corporate media and have elicited not a word of criticism from Trump’s ostensible political opposition within the Democratic Party. From Biden to Sanders, they have all lined up behind the regime change operation in Venezuela.
This operation, serving the interests of America’s ruling oligarchy, is aimed at establishing unfettered control by US energy conglomerates over the country’s oil reserves, the largest on the planet, and rolling back the growing influence of China and Russia in Venezuela and Latin America as a whole, which US imperialism has long regarded as its “own backyard.”
In the midst of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic that threatens the lives of millions, US imperialism is pursuing its predatory interests by means of military aggression, threatening to ignite another world war that would kill billions.
Only the working class, uniting across national boundaries in a common struggle to put an end to capitalism and imperialism, can provide an alternative to the grave threats posed to the survival of humanity.
SOURCE: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/07/pers-m07.html


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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-07--US propaganda campaign promotes lies blaming China for COVID-19

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n recent days , ruling circles in America and Europe have launched an aggressive media campaign promoting the claim that China is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic .
This goes hand in hand with a wave of lawsuits targeting China , calls for China to pay trillions of dollars in damages to America and its European allies , and renewed US naval deployments to the South China Sea .
At the center of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus causing COVID-19 escaped from a virology lab in Wuhan , China , the pandemic ’ s first epicenter .
This campaign also legitimizes and fuels false rumors circulating on social media that COVID-19 is the product of Chinese germ-warfare programs .
All these statements are groundless and fly in the face of repeated statements by leading scientists in America and internationally .
These are political lies as shameless as US lies in 2002 that Iraq had “ weapons of mass destruction , ” which served as a pretext for an illegal US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ genome of the coronavirus causing COVID-19 has been mapped out in China and examined by biologists internationally .
They have established that the virus is a previously-unknown , naturally-occurring coronavirus that originated in bats , which was not previously in the possession of any lab .
Nonetheless , a relentless campaign is underway , darkly insinuating that COVID-19 is the product of malevolent Chinese activity .
Last weekend , as US COVID-19 cases topped 730,000 and deaths neared 39,000 , US President Donald Trump speculated that China deliberately provoked the pandemic : “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before it started and it wasn ’ t , and the whole world is suffering because of it .
… If it was a mistake , a mistake is a mistake .
But if they were knowingly responsible , yeah , I mean , then sure there should be consequences.
” Trump ’ s speculation about whether China is “ knowingly responsible ” for COVID-19 followed a barrage of articles in Democratic Party media attacking China and blaming Wuhan labs .
“ Most experts say there is no evidence that China deliberately engineered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Washington Post wrote in an editorial , admitting that such claims are “ conspiracy talk.
” This claim that “ most ” experts oppose conspiracy theories about Chinese germ warfare is itself misleading , in fact : all scientific experts reject this unfounded and incendiary claim .
“ A more troubling explanation is that the coronavirus was inadvertently spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology , which had carried out research on bat coronaviruses , ” the Post continued .
It denounced China , writing that the “ Chinese model—deception , cover-up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not the solution.
” These lies all fly in the face of established science regarding the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19 , reviewed in dozens of articles in leading scientific publications .
In one such article , “ The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 , ” in Nature , a team of US and UK biologists wrote , “ Here we review what can be deduced about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 from comparative analysis of genomic data .
We offer a perspective on the notable features of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and discuss scenarios @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.
” Based on a detailed analysis of the genome and internal structure of the virus , first provided by Chinese scientists , the authors concluded that zoonotic transfer ( that is , passage of a virus occurring naturally in animals to humans ) led to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 .
They wrote , “ if genetic manipulation had been performed , one of the several reverse-genetic systems available for betacoronaviruses would probably have been used .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone .
Instead , we propose two scenarios that can plausibly explain the origin of SARS-CoV-2 : ( i ) natural selection in an animal host before zoonotic transfer ; and ( ii ) natural selection in humans following zoonotic transfer.
” The sudden spread of new , deadly viruses jumping to humans from other animal carriers is not a Chinese , but a well-known international phenomenon .
COVID-19 ’ s emergence from a bat virus that infected humans in live-animal markets recalls the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in China in 2002 .
However , the emergence in Africa in 1981 of the HIV virus that causes AIDS , or of human monkeypox in the United States in 2003 are examples of the same natural phenomenon .
These diseases were cited in an article by a group of US physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine , titled “ Escaping Pandora ’ s Box—Another Novel Coronavirus , ” analyzing how the sudden spread of the previously-unknown COVID-19 virus could occur .
It explained that this type of virus , whose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” can mutate with great speed and suddenly become infectious in humans .
“ SARS-CoV-2 did not escape from a jar , ” they wrote .
“ RNA sequences closely resemble those of viruses that silently circulate in bats , and epidemiologic information implicates a bat-origin virus infecting unidentified animal species sold in China ’ s live-animal markets .
… It took the genome of the human species 8 million years to evolve by 1 percent .
Many animal RNA viruses can evolve by more than 1 percent in a matter of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ understand why we increasingly see the emergence of zoonotic viruses.
” Nonetheless , with total contempt for scientific evidence , US media and officials are promoting unsubstantiated , lurid claims that the virus spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology ( WIV ) .
This institute was developed in 2015 as a P4 high-security lab in collaboration with America ’ s National Laboratory of Galveston in Texas and France ’ s National Institute of Health and Medical Research ( INSERM ) to investigate highly dangerous pathogens .
Another biological research lab in Wuhan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Peter Navarro , a US trade negotiator , has claimed that the most likely source of the pandemic is the WIV , demanding that China prove its labs did not have the COVID-19 virus .
“ What we know is that the ground zero for this virus was within a few miles of that lab , ” Navarro said .
“ If you simply do an Occam ’ s razor approach that the simplest explanation is probably the most likely , I think it ’ s incumbent on China to prove that it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publishing its editorial attacking China , the Washington Post carried a column by Josh Rogin , claiming Wuhan labs had , if not manufactured , then at least leaked the COVID-19 virus .
The “ Chinese government still refuses to answer basic questions about the origin of the novel coronavirus while suppressing any attempts to examine whether either lab was involved , ” Rogin claimed , citing an unnamed US national security official : “ Right now , the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the other side.
” Just as Washington placed Iraq in 2002 in the impossible position of having to prove that it did not have its nonexistent WMDs , US officials are placing China in an impossible position of proving a negative—that it did not have the virus in its possession before the pandemic .
The Post ’ s claim in this context that the “ ledger ” points to Chinese responsibility for the virus is a reactionary fraud .
In reality , an overwhelming weight of scientific evidence shows that China did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus in its possession before the pandemic .
Not only have WIV officials repeatedly denied that they had samples of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 before the pandemic , but scientists internationally have strongly rejected claims that the WIV had the virus .
Scimex , the Australia-New Zealand science news site , solicited comments from biologists on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus , including from Edward Holmes , an evolutionary virology professor at the University of Sydney .
Holmes wrote , “ The closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2 is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kept at the Wuhan Institute of Virology .
There is some unfounded speculation that this virus was the origin of SARS-CoV-2 .
However , ( i ) RaTG13 was sampled from a different province of China ( Yunnan ) to where COVID-19 first appeared ; and ( ii ) the level of genome sequence divergence between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is equivalent to an average of 50 years ( and at least 20 years ) of evolutionary change .
Hence , SARS-CoV-2 was not derived from RaTG13.
” The Nature study also explained why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other viruses could have produced the SARS-CoV-2 virus .
It pointed to totally new features of this virus , including a polybasic cleavage site and molecules called O-linked glycans on its surface .
These features are thought to be critical in making the virus dangerous : they protect the spike the virus uses to bind to ACE2 receptors and penetrate human cells from detection by the immune system .
The Nature article stressed that it is highly unlikely that such features could have emerged while another virus was manipulated in a lab .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of SARS-CoV-2 by cell culture or animal passage would have required prior isolation of a progenitor virus with very high genetic similarity , which has not been described .
Subsequent generation of a polybasic cleavage site would have then required repeated passage in cell culture or animals with ACE2 receptors similar to those of humans , but such work has also not previously been described .
Finally , the generation of the predicted O-linked glycans is also unlikely to have occurred due to cell-culture passage , as such features suggest the involvement of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must be posed is why the imperialist ruling classes are launching a propaganda campaign without any scientific basis , insinuating that China sought to poison the world—though a Chinese city , Wuhan , was itself the first victim .
To understand the current anti-Chinese propaganda campaign , it is worth recalling the plague pandemic of 14th-century Europe .
A third of the population died from a disease that could neither be understood nor treated , at a time when the existence of viruses and bacteria was unknown .
Fear and panic gripped populations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
As rumors spread that the disease was caused by Jews poisoning wells , Christian populations rioted , organizing pogroms and massacring Jewish populations in cities across Western Europe .
Modern science and technology have truly astonishing power and potential .
Even amid the most dangerous pandemic in over a century , humanity faces an entirely different situation from that facing plague victims 700 years ago .
It can identify pathogens , test for them , and start working on drugs or vaccines to treat them only weeks after the outbreak even of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for contact tracing and the isolation and treatment of the sick that could slash infection and fatality rates .
Humanity could be sustained with food and medicine produced and distributed by the labor of only a small part of the world ’ s working population .
Billions could thus shelter at home , awaiting the end of the contagion and the development of effective treatments .
The reason these techniques can not be fully employed is the social backwardness of capitalism .
Decades of austerity have shuttered hospitals and medical facilities , starved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slashed workers ’ living standards and diverted trillions of dollars into the pockets of super-wealthy elites in America and Europe .
Governments did not employ basic tracing and quarantine measures—or even get an adequate supply of face masks—in the world ’ s wealthiest countries .
Instead , a tiny financial aristocracy in America and Europe enriched itself with trillions of dollars in bank and corporate bailouts , while workers and small businesspeople face joblessness , financial ruin and even hunger and starvation in addition to the fear of COVID-19 .
Today , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of people backwards , into a barbaric hunt for scapegoats .
In a strategy that political anti-Semites like the fascists of 20th-century Europe would have easily understood , it works to degrade working class consciousness with appeals to fear and ethnic hatreds .
All of the complex scientific questions and social contradictions are swept aside with one simple , hysterical and totally false slogan : Blame China !
The anti-Chinese campaign in the ruling class has nothing to do with treating the disease , and everything to do with continuing the policy of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington and its European allies had been threatening China for years before the pandemic .
As the US Navy dispatched ships to the South China Sea , the imperialist ruling elites are demanding massive , totally unsubstantiated financial penalties from China .
A class action suit suing China for billions of dollars over COVID-19 is already under way in Florida , and the US state of Missouri has also announced that it will sue China .
In Britain , the right-wing Henry Jackson Society think-tank demanded China pay $ 6.3 trillion in reparations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while the German newspaper Bild called for Berlin to initially demand $ 127 billion to $ 382 billion from China , citing COVID-19 ’ s damage to the German economy .
Incendiary statements that China is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of US and European citizens , together with demands for massive financial penalties that would bankrupt China , have an unmistakable political logic .
Nearly 20 years after the Iraq war , the imperialist powers are tobogganing eyes closed towards another , even greater catastrophe : conflict with China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the world economy .
It is critical for workers and youth in America , Europe and internationally to reject this reactionary and baseless imperialist campaign against China .
Chinese workers , who underwent a long and draconian confinement period to limit the COVID-19 pandemic , and whose labor is producing millions of masks , respirators and other key medical equipment being sent around the world , are not the enemies of workers in other countries .
They are their class brothers and sisters in a common struggle against imperialist war and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and media denouncing China in America and Europe , they stand exposed as perpetrators of a fascistic campaign to incite national hatreds based on lies .
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By Alex Lantier
•Note : First iteration 24 April 2020. We have found this article to be the most well-rounded in reporting about this issue. This is how true journalism should normally operate: in depth and contextually.
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n recent days, ruling circles in America and Europe have launched an aggressive media campaign promoting the claim that China is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. This goes hand in hand with a wave of lawsuits targeting China, calls for China to pay trillions of dollars in damages to America and its European allies, and renewed US naval deployments to the South China Sea.
At the center of this incendiary campaign are unsubstantiated allegations that the coronavirus causing COVID-19 escaped from a virology lab in Wuhan, China, the pandemic’s first epicenter. This campaign also legitimizes and fuels false rumors circulating on social media that COVID-19 is the product of Chinese germ-warfare programs. All these statements are groundless and fly in the face of repeated statements by leading scientists in America and internationally.
These are political lies as shameless as US lies in 2002 that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction,” which served as a pretext for an illegal US invasion of Iraq in 2003. The genome of the coronavirus causing COVID-19 has been mapped out in China and examined by biologists internationally. They have established that the virus is a previously-unknown, naturally-occurring coronavirus that originated in bats, which was not previously in the possession of any lab.
"Today, the ruling class is trying to push masses of people backwards, into a barbaric hunt for scapegoats. In a strategy that political anti-Semites like the fascists of 20th-century Europe would have easily understood, it works to degrade working class consciousness with appeals to fear and ethnic hatreds..."
Nonetheless, a relentless campaign is underway, darkly insinuating that COVID-19 is the product of malevolent Chinese activity. Last weekend, as US COVID-19 cases topped 730,000 and deaths neared 39,000, US President Donald Trump speculated that China deliberately provoked the pandemic: “It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t, and the whole world is suffering because of it. … If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, yeah, I mean, then sure there should be consequences.”
Trump’s speculation about whether China is “knowingly responsible” for COVID-19 followed a barrage of articles in Democratic Party media attacking China and blaming Wuhan labs. “Most experts say there is no evidence that China deliberately engineered the virus as a weapon,” the Washington Post wrote in an editorial, admitting that such claims are “conspiracy talk.” This claim that “most” experts oppose conspiracy theories about Chinese germ warfare is itself misleading, in fact: all scientific experts reject this unfounded and incendiary claim.
“A more troubling explanation is that the coronavirus was inadvertently spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which had carried out research on bat coronaviruses,” the Post continued. It denounced China, writing that the “Chinese model—deception, cover-up and rewriting history—is part of the problem, not the solution.”
These lies all fly in the face of established science regarding the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19, reviewed in dozens of articles in leading scientific publications. In one such article, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” in Nature, a team of US and UK biologists wrote, “Here we review what can be deduced about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 from comparative analysis of genomic data. We offer a perspective on the notable features of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and discuss scenarios by which they could have arisen. Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”
Based on a detailed analysis of the genome and internal structure of the virus, first provided by Chinese scientists, the authors concluded that zoonotic transfer (that is, passage of a virus occurring naturally in animals to humans) led to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. They wrote, “if genetic manipulation had been performed, one of the several reverse-genetic systems available for betacoronaviruses would probably have been used. However, the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone. Instead, we propose two scenarios that can plausibly explain the origin of SARS-CoV-2: (i) natural selection in an animal host before zoonotic transfer; and (ii) natural selection in humans following zoonotic transfer.”
The sudden spread of new, deadly viruses jumping to humans from other animal carriers is not a Chinese, but a well-known international phenomenon. COVID-19’s emergence from a bat virus that infected humans in live-animal markets recalls the emergence of the first SARS pneumonia virus in China in 2002. However, the emergence in Africa in 1981 of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, or of human monkeypox in the United States in 2003 are examples of the same natural phenomenon.
These diseases were cited in an article by a group of US physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine, titled “Escaping Pandora’s Box—Another Novel Coronavirus,” analyzing how the sudden spread of the previously-unknown COVID-19 virus could occur. It explained that this type of virus, whose RNA genetic material is “genetically error-prone,” can mutate with great speed and suddenly become infectious in humans.
“SARS-CoV-2 did not escape from a jar,” they wrote. “RNA sequences closely resemble those of viruses that silently circulate in bats, and epidemiologic information implicates a bat-origin virus infecting unidentified animal species sold in China’s live-animal markets. … It took the genome of the human species 8 million years to evolve by 1 percent. Many animal RNA viruses can evolve by more than 1 percent in a matter of days. It is not difficult to understand why we increasingly see the emergence of zoonotic viruses.”
Nonetheless, with total contempt for scientific evidence, US media and officials are promoting unsubstantiated, lurid claims that the virus spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). This institute was developed in 2015 as a P4 high-security lab in collaboration with America’s National Laboratory of Galveston in Texas and France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) to investigate highly dangerous pathogens. Another biological research lab in Wuhan has a lower P2 biosecurity rating.
Peter Navarro, a US trade negotiator, has claimed that the most likely source of the pandemic is the WIV, demanding that China prove its labs did not have the COVID-19 virus. “What we know is that the ground zero for this virus was within a few miles of that lab,” Navarro said. “If you simply do an Occam’s razor approach that the simplest explanation is probably the most likely, I think it’s incumbent on China to prove that it wasn’t that lab.”
Before publishing its editorial attacking China, the Washington Post carried a column by Josh Rogin, claiming Wuhan labs had, if not manufactured, then at least leaked the COVID-19 virus. The “Chinese government still refuses to answer basic questions about the origin of the novel coronavirus while suppressing any attempts to examine whether either lab was involved,” Rogin claimed, citing an unnamed US national security official: “Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there’s almost nothing on the other side.”
Just as Washington placed Iraq in 2002 in the impossible position of having to prove that it did not have its nonexistent WMDs, US officials are placing China in an impossible position of proving a negative—that it did not have the virus in its possession before the pandemic. The Post’s claim in this context that the “ledger” points to Chinese responsibility for the virus is a reactionary fraud. In reality, an overwhelming weight of scientific evidence shows that China did not have and could not have had the virus in its possession before the pandemic.
Not only have WIV officials repeatedly denied that they had samples of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 before the pandemic, but scientists internationally have strongly rejected claims that the WIV had the virus. Scimex, the Australia-New Zealand science news site, solicited comments from biologists on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including from Edward Holmes, an evolutionary virology professor at the University of Sydney.
Holmes wrote, “The closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2 is a bat virus named RaTG13, which was kept at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There is some unfounded speculation that this virus was the origin of SARS-CoV-2. However, (i) RaTG13 was sampled from a different province of China (Yunnan) to where COVID-19 first appeared; and (ii) the level of genome sequence divergence between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is equivalent to an average of 50 years (and at least 20 years) of evolutionary change. Hence, SARS-CoV-2 was not derived from RaTG13.”
The Nature study also explained why scientists reject claims that laboratory manipulation of other viruses could have produced the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It pointed to totally new features of this virus, including a polybasic cleavage site and molecules called O-linked glycans on its surface. These features are thought to be critical in making the virus dangerous: they protect the spike the virus uses to bind to ACE2 receptors and penetrate human cells from detection by the immune system. The Nature article stressed that it is highly unlikely that such features could have emerged while another virus was manipulated in a lab.
They wrote, “a hypothetical generation of SARS-CoV-2 by cell culture or animal passage would have required prior isolation of a progenitor virus with very high genetic similarity, which has not been described. Subsequent generation of a polybasic cleavage site would have then required repeated passage in cell culture or animals with ACE2 receptors similar to those of humans, but such work has also not previously been described. Finally, the generation of the predicted O-linked glycans is also unlikely to have occurred due to cell-culture passage, as such features suggest the involvement of an immune system.”
The question that must be posed is why the imperialist ruling classes are launching a propaganda campaign without any scientific basis, insinuating that China sought to poison the world—though a Chinese city, Wuhan, was itself the first victim.
To understand the current anti-Chinese propaganda campaign, it is worth recalling the plague pandemic of 14th-century Europe. A third of the population died from a disease that could neither be understood nor treated, at a time when the existence of viruses and bacteria was unknown. Fear and panic gripped populations that were totally defenseless against the plague. As rumors spread that the disease was caused by Jews poisoning wells, Christian populations rioted, organizing pogroms and massacring Jewish populations in cities across Western Europe.
Modern science and technology have truly astonishing power and potential. Even amid the most dangerous pandemic in over a century, humanity faces an entirely different situation from that facing plague victims 700 years ago. It can identify pathogens, test for them, and start working on drugs or vaccines to treat them only weeks after the outbreak even of previously-unknown diseases like COVID-19. It allows for contact tracing and the isolation and treatment of the sick that could slash infection and fatality rates. Humanity could be sustained with food and medicine produced and distributed by the labor of only a small part of the world’s working population. Billions could thus shelter at home, awaiting the end of the contagion and the development of effective treatments.
The reason these techniques cannot be fully employed is the social backwardness of capitalism. Decades of austerity have shuttered hospitals and medical facilities, starved research on coronavirus vaccines of funding, slashed workers’ living standards and diverted trillions of dollars into the pockets of super-wealthy elites in America and Europe. Governments did not employ basic tracing and quarantine measures—or even get an adequate supply of face masks—in the world’s wealthiest countries. Instead, a tiny financial aristocracy in America and Europe enriched itself with trillions of dollars in bank and corporate bailouts, while workers and small businesspeople face joblessness, financial ruin and even hunger and starvation in addition to the fear of COVID-19.
Today, the ruling class is trying to push masses of people backwards, into a barbaric hunt for scapegoats. In a strategy that political anti-Semites like the fascists of 20th-century Europe would have easily understood, it works to degrade working class consciousness with appeals to fear and ethnic hatreds. All of the complex scientific questions and social contradictions are swept aside with one simple, hysterical and totally false slogan: Blame China!
The anti-Chinese campaign in the ruling class has nothing to do with treating the disease, and everything to do with continuing the policy of trade war and military escalation with which Washington and its European allies had been threatening China for years before the pandemic.
As the US Navy dispatched ships to the South China Sea, the imperialist ruling elites are demanding massive, totally unsubstantiated financial penalties from China. A class action suit suing China for billions of dollars over COVID-19 is already under way in Florida, and the US state of Missouri has also announced that it will sue China. In Britain, the right-wing Henry Jackson Society think-tank demanded China pay $6.3 trillion in reparations to Washington and the European powers, while the German newspaper Bild called for Berlin to initially demand $127 billion to $382 billion from China, citing COVID-19’s damage to the German economy.
Incendiary statements that China is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of US and European citizens, together with demands for massive financial penalties that would bankrupt China, have an unmistakable political logic. Nearly 20 years after the Iraq war, the imperialist powers are tobogganing eyes closed towards another, even greater catastrophe: conflict with China, a nuclear-armed power at the heart of the world economy.
It is critical for workers and youth in America, Europe and internationally to reject this reactionary and baseless imperialist campaign against China. Chinese workers, who underwent a long and draconian confinement period to limit the COVID-19 pandemic, and whose labor is producing millions of masks, respirators and other key medical equipment being sent around the world, are not the enemies of workers in other countries. They are their class brothers and sisters in a common struggle against imperialist war and the COVID-19 pandemic.
As for the officials and media denouncing China in America and Europe, they stand exposed as perpetrators of a fascistic campaign to incite national hatreds based on lies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alex Lantier is a senior analyst with wsws.org , a Marxian publication.
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-08--The CIA’s Jack Ryan Series Is ‘Regime-Change’ Propaganda Aimed At Venezuela (Video & Text)

The second season of the big budget series Jack Ryan has just debuted across multiple platforms .
Described as “ the huge hit that Amazon has been hoping for , ” the series follows the story of an eponymous CIA agent as he attempts to overthrow ruthless Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Reyes .
Reyes , we learn , has acquired a nuclear weapon from Russia and is portrayed as a heartless dictator who kidnaps dissidents and crushes protests .
Reyes , therefore , is presented in much the same way the U.S. government presents real-life Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro .
Venezuela @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , was a once prosperous and free nation , but is now falling apart due to government corruption , economic mismanagement and crime .
Fortunately for its people , the CIA is supporting Gloria Bonalde ( Cristina Umaña ) , a glamorous and committed left-wing ( sic ) populist challenger to the cold-blooded Reyes , and is attempting to rid the country of its authoritarian tyrant .
The depiction of Venezuela has been predictably condemned by the Venezuelan government with Culture Minister Ernesto Villegas writing it off as , “ crass war propaganda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s depiction of the country does indeed wildly distort the reality of the situation on the ground .
Firstly , Venezuela ’ s current President Nicolas Maduro is himself a left-wing populist , while the United States ’ preferred head of state is the far-right Juan Guaidó , who last weekend attempted another failed coup d ’ état against the elected government .
Some may find the concept of an apolitical intelligence agency , especially the one with the CIA ’ s history , a little questionable .
But the actor went @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everything , ” he said , “ the CIA is something that we should all not only cherish , but be saying thank you for every single day.
” While the South American country is indeed living through grave economic circumstances , the U.S. role in worsening the situation is not mentioned in the show .
The Trump administration ’ s deadly economic sanctions against the country are estimated to have killed at least 40,000 Venezuelans between 2017-2018 alone .
The sanctions have been declared illegal by the United Nations , who have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ break them , even discussing reparations the U.S. should pay to Venezuela .
One American UN Special Rapporteur , who visited the country , declared the sanctions akin to a medieval siege and declared the U.S. as guilty of “ crimes against humanity.
” Dr. Matthew Alford of the University of Bath , author ofNational Security Cinema : The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood , told MintPress that the new Amazon product is a “ disgrace of a series , ” unfairly demonizing a nation at a time when the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ throat of Venezuelan society .
“ The new Jack Ryan series comes in the context of four movies stretching back decades that have all had Department of Defense and/or CIA support at the scriptwriting phrase , ” he noted , labeling Jack Ryan as a classic “ national security entertainment product ” .
Yet Jack Ryan ’ s stars defended the show , and the CIA , from criticism .
John Krasinski , who plays the title character based on Tom Clancy novels , said that he works closely with the Agency in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Krasinski described the CIA as amazingly “ apolitical.
” “ They ’ re always trying to do the right thing , ” he said of the Agency , claiming they “ care about the country in a bigger , more idealistic way .
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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he second season of the big budget series Jack Ryan has just debuted across multiple platforms. Described as “the huge hit that Amazon has been hoping for,” the series follows the story of an eponymous CIA agent as he attempts to overthrow ruthless Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Reyes. Reyes, we learn, has acquired a nuclear weapon from Russia and is portrayed as a heartless dictator who kidnaps dissidents and crushes protests. Reyes, therefore, is presented in much the same way the U.S. government presents real-life Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuela, we learn from the blockbuster series, was a once prosperous and free nation, but is now falling apart due to government corruption, economic mismanagement and crime. Fortunately for its people, the CIA is supporting Gloria Bonalde (Cristina Umaña), a glamorous and committed left-wing (sic) populist challenger to the cold-blooded Reyes, and is attempting to rid the country of its authoritarian tyrant.
The depiction of Venezuela has been predictably condemned by the Venezuelan government with Culture Minister Ernesto Villegas writing it off as, “crass war propaganda disguised as entertainment.” But Jack Ryan’s depiction of the country does indeed wildly distort the reality of the situation on the ground. Firstly, Venezuela’s current President Nicolas Maduro is himself a left-wing populist, while the United States’ preferred head of state is the far-right Juan Guaidó, who last weekend attempted another failed coup d’état against the elected government.
Some may find the concept of an apolitical intelligence agency, especially the one with the CIA’s history, a little questionable. But the actor went even further: “I owe them everything,” he said, “the CIA is something that we should all not only cherish, but be saying thank you for every single day.”
While the South American country is indeed living through grave economic circumstances, the U.S. role in worsening the situation is not mentioned in the show. The Trump administration’s deadly economic sanctions against the country are estimated to have killed at least 40,000 Venezuelans between 2017-2018 alone.
The sanctions have been declared illegal by the United Nations, who have formally called on all member states to break them, even discussing reparations the U.S. should pay to Venezuela. One American UN Special Rapporteur, who visited the country, declared the sanctions akin to a medieval siege and declared the U.S. as guilty of “crimes against humanity.”
Dr. Matthew Alford of the University of Bath, author ofNational Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood, told MintPress that the new Amazon product is a “disgrace of a series,” unfairly demonizing a nation at a time when the United States has its boot on the throat of Venezuelan society.
“The new Jack Ryan series comes in the context of four movies stretching back decades that have all had Department of Defense and/or CIA support at the scriptwriting phrase,” he noted, labeling Jack Ryan as a classic “national security entertainment product”.
Yet Jack Ryan’s stars defended the show, and the CIA, from criticism. John Krasinski, who plays the title character based on Tom Clancy novels, said that he works closely with the Agency in order to make the show more realistic. Krasinski described the CIA as amazingly “apolitical.” “They’re always trying to do the right thing,” he said of the Agency, claiming they “care about the country in a bigger, more idealistic way.”


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-08--Adam Schiff’s Russiagate house of cards comes crumbling down (Video)

The Duran ’ s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how shifty , corrupt Congressman Adam Schiff folded and had to release information from 53 declassified transcripts of witnesses that testified before Congress regarding the FBI ’ s Russia probe into the Trump campaign .
The decision for Schiff to publish the 6,000 pages of transcripts comes after a showdown with Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell , who stated in a letter on Wednesday that if Adam Schiff does not make the transcripts public then he will release them himself .
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Following the standoff between Rep. Adam Schiff ( D-CA ) and Acting DNI Richard Grenell , the House Intelligence Committee published all of the Russia investigation transcripts Thursday evening .
• • None Letter from Counsel to David Kramer to HPSCI ( December 23 , 2017 ) • • None Letter from Counsel to David Kramer to HPSCI ( January 5 , 2018 ) • None Letter from Counsel to David Kramer to HPSCI ( January 10 , 2018 ) • • @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Justice ( April 30 , 2019 ) Meanwhile , criminals like Jack Clapper are scrambling to save their asses from the possible tsunami of reprisals that Trump and his minions may be concocting .
That said , let us recall we 're merely helpless spectators in this intra ruling class melodrama .
Mercutio 's intonation— '' A plague a ' both your houses ! ''
is richly merited by these bastards .
All of them .

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how shifty, corrupt Congressman Adam Schiff folded and had to release information from 53 declassified transcripts of witnesses that testified before Congress regarding the FBI’s Russia probe into the Trump campaign.
The decision for Schiff to publish the 6,000 pages of transcripts comes after a showdown with Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, who stated in a letter on Wednesday that if Adam Schiff does not make the transcripts public then he will release them himself.
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Following the standoff between Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Acting DNI Richard Grenell, the House Intelligence Committee published all of the Russia investigation transcripts Thursday evening.
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Meanwhile, criminals like Jack Clapper are scrambling to save their asses from the possible tsunami of reprisals that Trump and his minions may be concocting. That said, let us recall we're merely helpless spectators in this intra ruling class melodrama. Mercutio's intonation—"A plague a' both your houses!" is richly merited by these bastards. All of them.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-09--A Peek On The Situation In And Around Syria

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DISPATCHES FROM MOON OF ALABAMA , BY `` B '' This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches from Moon of Alabama The recent financial turbulence in the oil markets and the global depression will have a large impact on the conflicts in the Middle East .
ast night the Iraqi parliament elected a new prime minister .
Mustafa al-Kadhimi is seen as a technocrat with a good track record and politically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ includes a number of experienced people who are known for effective work .
Astonishingly both , the U.S. and Iran , have supported Kadhimi .
Kadhimi has lots of work waiting for him .
The low oil price means that Iraq 's budget will have a huge deficit .
It will have to borrow a lot of money most likely from the IMF .
The money may come with U.S. conditions .
There has recently been a wave a small ISIS attacks .
The Jihadis were equipped with night vision devises .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ again using ISIS to pressure the government .
The U.S. wants Iraq to take a position against Iran and the Iraqi militia which Iran sponsors .
But Kadhimi can not do that without losing support in the parliament .
Iraq also depends on Iranian energy .
The military situation in Syria has changed little .
The ceasefire in Idleb governorate seems to hold .
Russian and Turkish troops patrol on parts of the M4 highway after Turkey had some harsh exchanges with the Jihadis from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham who had tried to prevent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get rid of the Jihadis , who have led the war against Syria from its very beginning , one way or another .
Throughout the last months Russian foreign policy grandees and oligarchs had published essays that argued that the Syrian government had to look more at the economic situation in Syria , which is very bad , instead of pushing for military solutions .
It was not fully clear what they were aiming at .
Then a conflict between President Assad and Syria 's prime oligarch Rami Makhlouf broke into the open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saga .
Makhlouf is a maternal cousin of Assad .
Whoever wanted to do business in Syria during the war had to go through him .
He sponsored his own militia and charity .
Makhlouf , the richest man in Syria and owner of Syriatel and lots of other companies , has now been pushed aside .
But he is fighting back .
Makhlouf has little chance to win .
In 2017 the Jabar brothers , also oligarchs with their own militia , were also getting too interested in their personal profits and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and how they were unceremoniously moved aside .
Assad 's position is now stronger then ever and Russian companies will now be happy to do business in Syria without a Mr. Five Percent in between .
Turkey , working together with Qatar , has hired some 10,000 Syrian 'rebels ' to fight in Libya on the side of the Government of National Accord and its Jihadi militias .
The GNA troops have been trounced by the Libyan National Army under General Haftar .
Turkey has also sent its own troops with Turkish made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But most of the drones were shot down immediately .
The UAE , which supports Haftar 's LNA , has now sent 6 Mirage fighter jets to Egypt and uses them to bomb GNA and Turkish positions in Tripoli and Misrata .
The 'rebels ' Turkey hired have taken a lot of casualties but have not yet received their promised money .
That news has reached Idleb were further recruitment efforts by Turkey now fail to gain traction .
The Turkish Lira continues to fall .
The Central Bank , under control of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than $ 25 billion to prevent the Lira from breaking the barrier of 7 Lira per U.S. Dollar .
It is now at 7.2 Lira/US $ and sinking further .
The 44 year old Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak is Erdogan 's son in law and unqualified for the job .
The Fed has rejected a request from Turkey for a swap agreement that would have provided the country with more U.S. dollar .
Those are urgently needed : Erdogan can ( again ) ask the Emir of Qatar to step in but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what Qatar might be willing or able to provide .
That leaves the IMF as the only way out .
But after previous IMF loans to Turkey and the harsh austerity measures that came with them any talk of IMF loans in Turkey is political poison and a sure way to lose elections .
Erdogan will have to cut his losses in Libya and Syria as these conflicts have become economically unsustainable .
The Ponzi scheme the Central Bank of Lebanon had used for 30 years to bind the Lebanese Pound to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Within months the pound fell from 1.500 per US $ to now below 4.000 per US $ .
Everybody who had money in a Lebanese bank has lost most of it .
Lebanon 's riches of the last 30 years are gone .
The country needs a new business model which will be difficult to find .
Ehsani explains how it came to this .
Today the U.S. announced that it is removing its Patriot missiles from the country .
Two fighter squadrons in the area will also leave .
The U.S. navy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gulf region .
In early April Trump had threatened the Saudis with such measures if they failed to reduce their oil output and to thereby raise the global oil price .
Some output was reduced but the old price is falling further for a lack of demand .
Without U.S. protection a further Saudi war against the Houthi in Yemen will become untenable .
All the above countries are also massively affected from the current pandemic .
This probably less from death in their relatively young populations than from the economic consequences that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If there is a winner of all these crises in the region it is Iran .
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DISPATCHES FROM MOON OF ALABAMA, BY "B"
This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches from Moon of Alabama
The recent financial turbulence in the oil markets and the global depression will have a large impact on the conflicts in the Middle East.
Iraq:
[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ast night the Iraqi parliament elected a new prime minister. Mustafa al-Kadhimi is seen as a technocrat with a good track record and politically neutral to all sides. His cabinet includes a number of experienced people who are known for effective work.
Astonishingly both, the U.S. and Iran, have supported Kadhimi.
Secretary Pompeo @SecPompeo - 1:09 UTC · May 7, 2020 Great to speak today with new Iraqi PrimeMinister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. Now comes the urgent, hard work of implementing the reforms demanded by the Iraqi people. I pledged to help him deliver on his bold agenda for the sake of the Iraqi people.
Javad Zarif @JZarif - 9:56 AM · May 7, 2020 Congratulations to Prime Minister @MAKadhimi, his Cabinet, the Parliament and most importantly the people of Iraq for success in forming a new Government. Iran always stands with the Iraqi people and their choice of administration.
Kadhimi has lots of work waiting for him. The low oil price means that Iraq's budget will have a huge deficit. It will have to borrow a lot of money most likely from the IMF. The money may come with U.S. conditions.
There has recently been a wave a small ISIS attacks. The Jihadis were equipped with night vision devises. There is strong suspicion that the U.S. is again using ISIS to pressure the government.
The U.S. wants Iraq to take a position against Iran and the Iraqi militia which Iran sponsors. But Kadhimi can not do that without losing support in the parliament. Iraq also depends on Iranian energy.
Syria:
The military situation in Syria has changed little. The ceasefire in Idleb governorate seems to hold. Russian and Turkish troops patrol on parts of the M4 highway after Turkey had some harsh exchanges with the Jihadis from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham who had tried to prevent the patrols. Turkey will have to get rid of the Jihadis, who have led the war against Syria from its very beginning, one way or another.
Throughout the last months Russian foreign policy grandees and oligarchs had published essays that argued that the Syrian government had to look more at the economic situation in Syria, which is very bad, instead of pushing for military solutions. It was not fully clear what they were aiming at.
Then a conflict between President Assad and Syria's prime oligarch Rami Makhlouf broke into the open. Danni Makki digs into the whole saga. Makhlouf is a maternal cousin of Assad. Whoever wanted to do business in Syria during the war had to go through him. He sponsored his own militia and charity. Makhlouf, the richest man in Syria and owner of Syriatel and lots of other companies, has now been pushed aside. But he is fighting back.
Makhlouf has little chance to win. In 2017 the Jabar brothers, also oligarchs with their own militia, were also getting too interested in their personal profits and power. Riam Dalati tells their story and how they were unceremoniously moved aside.
Assad's position is now stronger then ever and Russian companies will now be happy to do business in Syria without a Mr. Five Percent in between.
Libya:
Turkey, working together with Qatar, has hired some 10,000 Syrian 'rebels' to fight in Libya on the side of the Government of National Accord and its Jihadi militias. The GNA troops have been trounced by the Libyan National Army under General Haftar. Turkey has also sent its own troops with Turkish made drones to attack Haftar's position. But most of the drones were shot down immediately. The UAE, which supports Haftar's LNA, has now sent 6 Mirage fighter jets to Egypt and uses them to bomb GNA and Turkish positions in Tripoli and Misrata.
The 'rebels' Turkey hired have taken a lot of casualties but have not yet received their promised money. That news has reached Idleb were further recruitment efforts by Turkey now fail to gain traction.
Turkey:
The Turkish Lira continues to fall. The Central Bank, under control of wannabe Sultan Erdogan, had spent more than $25 billion to prevent the Lira from breaking the barrier of 7 Lira per U.S. Dollar. It is now at 7.2 Lira/US$ and sinking further. The 44 year old Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak is Erdogan's son in law and unqualified for the job. The Fed has rejected a request from Turkey for a swap agreement that would have provided the country with more U.S. dollar. Those are urgently needed:
S&P Global estimated on Wednesday that Turkey’s economy needs to refinance close to $168 billion over the next 12 months. That equates to 24% of the country’s GDP. The record-low lira makes it more costly for the country’s government and companies to pay back their dollar-denominated debt. That $168 billion of short-term external debt and only $85 billion in gross FX reserves means the so-called “coverage ratio” is only around 50%, one of the lowest of any emerging- market economy.
Erdogan can (again) ask the Emir of Qatar to step in but the sum he needs is larger than what Qatar might be willing or able to provide. That leaves the IMF as the only way out. But after previous IMF loans to Turkey and the harsh austerity measures that came with them any talk of IMF loans in Turkey is political poison and a sure way to lose elections.
Erdogan will have to cut his losses in Libya and Syria as these conflicts have become economically unsustainable.
Lebanon:
The Ponzi scheme the Central Bank of Lebanon had used for 30 years to bind the Lebanese Pound to the U.S. Dollar has finally fallen apart. Within months the pound fell from 1.500 per US$ to now below 4.000 per US$. Everybody who had money in a Lebanese bank has lost most of it. Lebanon's riches of the last 30 years are gone. The country needs a new business model which will be difficult to find. Ehsani explains how it came to this.
Saudi Arabia:
Today the U.S. announced that it is removing its Patriot missiles from the country. Two fighter squadrons in the area will also leave. The U.S. navy will recall some ships from the Persian Gulf region. In early April Trump had threatened the Saudis with such measures if they failed to reduce their oil output and to thereby raise the global oil price. Some output was reduced but the old price is falling further for a lack of demand.
Without U.S. protection a further Saudi war against the Houthi in Yemen will become untenable.
All the above countries are also massively affected from the current pandemic. This probably less from death in their relatively young populations than from the economic consequences that will lead to more poverty and hunger.
If there is a winner of all these crises in the region it is Iran.
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-09--China forges ahead through chaos and threats

Amid the deepest economic contraction in nearly a century , President Xi Jinping had already made it very clear , last month , that China should be ready for unprecedented , relentless foreign challenges .
He was not referring only to the possible decoupling of global supply chains and the non-stop demonization of every project related to the New Silk Roads , or Belt and Road Initiative .
An allegedly leaked internal document , secret and invisible inside China , but nonetheless obtained by some obscure Western-connected source , even stated , essentially , that the blame game against China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over Tiananmen all over again .
According to the secret , invisible document , China would have to “ prepare for armed confrontation between the two global powers ” – a reference to the US .
It ’ s as if this was an aggressive strategy deployed by the Chinese state in the first place , and not in response to the massive escalation of hybrid warfare 2.0 by the United States government .
For all practical purposes , the hysterical demonization of China across the Beltway has now overtaken the previous hysterics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beijing used to define as a “ period of strategic opportunity ” is over .
There were rumblings in intel circles that the CCP leadership believed this strategic window of opportunity would last unimpeded until the key date , 2049 – when “ national rejuvenation ” should have been fully accomplished .
Forget it .
Now the whole game is about hybrid warfare 2.0 deployed by the US to contain the emerging superpower , whatever it takes .
And that implies that a plethora of Chinese plans are now being turbo-charged .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the productivity of the Made in China machine .
During his recent visit to Shaanxi province , historically crucial for the CCP , President Xi insisted on it , coupled with an anti-poverty offensive .
He had promised to eliminate poverty this year .
Significantly , and contrary to all Western forecasts , China ’ s exports grew 3.5 % in April , compared with a fall of 6.6 % in March .
This totally shatters the decoupling rationale .
The Japanese government , for instance , is accelerating the relocation of factories @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a very clever strategy .
These factories are leaving a nation that has all but eradicated Covid-19 .
And if they move to Vietnam , well , that ’ s also a socialist economy ( with Vietnamese characteristics ) .
China ’ s GDP growth fell by 6.8 % in the first quarter of 2020 .
Recovery is already on .
Officially , unemployment was at 5.9 % in late March – not taking into account migrant workers who went back to the big cities after spending the apex of Covid-19 in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at 20 % – later retracted .
Recovery will be a mix of economic stimulus to companies , big and small ; investments in infrastructure ; and vouchers to a great many of the working masses .
The hukou system – linking social rights to place of residence – will also be reformed .
The key date to watch will be May 22 , during the postponed session of the National People ’ s Congress .
Geopolitically , the analysis by the French think tank CAPS , a subsidiary of the Ministry of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practically a mantra across the West .
CAPS is alarmed that China has become indispensable , while questioning its “ values ” and “ hidden agenda.
” With the EU totally paralyzed and graphically proving its irrelevance on myriad levels , especially in terms of agreeing upon an effective rescue package for all its members , the – declining – West , almost in block , is terrified that China is in the irreversible process of becoming the top global power .
Even after suffering the massive Covid-19 blow , Beijing seems to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in its economic policy ( financial institutions , large corporations ) .
The CCP will double down on developing the whole production machine side by side with widespread application of AI techniques .
What seems to be established by now is that China will first secure its own national interests – in terms of global supply chains and exports .
Short and medium term , there will be concentrated focus on selected New Silk Roads overland and maritime connectivity corridors – Health Silk Road included .
Even with Covid-19 , China ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3.2 % in the first quarter , not shabby even when compared with the 10.8 % for the whole of 2019 .
According to the Ministry of Commerce , Beijing ’ s trade with 56 Belt and Road nations scattered across Asia , Africa , Europe and South America represents a very important 30 % of total annual trade .
Now compare it to the 13 % to 32 % contraction in global trade forecast by the World Trade Organization for 2020 .
So even if a trade drop in the first quarter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s bound to pick up quickly especially in relation to Southeast Asia , Eastern Europe and the Arab world .
Belt and Road is predictably facing myriad short and middle term challenges – all linked to broken connectivity : supply chain breakdowns , widespread travel and visa restrictions , severe border controls , project delays because of increased costs .
Examples include the $ 6 billion , 150 km-long Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail in Indonesia , with technical experts from China only slowly trickling back in after being absent because of government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , mandatory quarantine for Chinese technicians has frozen progress for at least two months .
The same applies to projects in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka .
According to an Economist Intelligence Unit report , Covid-19 will derail Belt and Road in 2020 .
That may have been the case only for the first four months of the year .
Even under Covid-19 , Beijing has signed deals for new Belt and Road projects in Myanmar , Turkey and Nigeria .
The 414-km long China-Laos high-speed rail – connecting Yunnan , via Vientiane , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remains on track , with completion scheduled for the end of 2021 .
ASEAN , significantly , is now China ’ s number one trade partner , ahead of the drowning-in-crises EU .
The key takeaway from all this is that the CCP ’ s complex macro-strategy will be undisturbed .
That implies that China will remain the top engine of the global economy , with or without decoupling , and with Belt and Road at the very core of China ’ s macro-foreign policy strategy , coupled with a solid drive towards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the world economy , especially across the Global South , show no intention of decoupling from China , Beijing will have to be ready to counterpunch full-spectrum hybrid war by Washington on every front – geo-economic , cybernetic , biological , psychological .
As Kishore Mahbubani detailed in his latest book , that does not mean that China will have the intention – and the capacity – to become a new gendarme of the world .
It will certainly turbo-charge its economic and financial power , as in the careful implementation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then there ’ s the relentlessly evolving game-changer responsible for the US establishment ’ s sleepless nights : the Russia-China strategic partnership .
Two weeks ago , an immensely important geopolitical development was virtually buried by corona-hysteria .
Moscow is very much aware that Washington is deploying missile defense systems very close to Russia ’ s borders – carrying the potential to deliver a nuclear first strike .
Beijing is following this development with alarm .
Moscow being aware of it is just part of the story : the key point is that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Sarmat and the Avangard will take care of it .
More complex is the issue of Pentagon bioweapon labs in the former USSR – an issue also closely followed by Beijing .
Moscow has identified a lab near Tblisi in Georgia , and 11 of them in Ukraine .
And way back in 2014 , when Crimea was reunited with Russia , scientists also found a lab in Simferopol .
All this information – nuclear and bioweapons – as intel sources confirmed to me , is exchanged at the highest level of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ big move in the geopolitical chessboard points to the partnership negotiating their bilateral relations with the US as a team .
Nothing could be more rational , considering they are regarded as the top two “ threats ” to the US , according to the National Security Strategy .

Beijing is turbocharging its Belt and Road and other game-changing plans despite Covid-19 and US hybrid warfare
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]mid the deepest economic contraction in nearly a century, President Xi Jinping had already made it very clear, last month, that China should be ready for unprecedented, relentless foreign challenges.
He was not referring only to the possible decoupling of global supply chains and the non-stop demonization of every project related to the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative.
An allegedly leaked internal document, secret and invisible inside China, but nonetheless obtained by some obscure Western-connected source, even stated, essentially, that the blame game against China over the virus is like the backlash over Tiananmen all over again.
According to the secret, invisible document, China would have to “prepare for armed confrontation between the two global powers” – a reference to the US. It’s as if this was an aggressive strategy deployed by the Chinese state in the first place, and not in response to the massive escalation of hybrid warfare 2.0 by the United States government.
For all practical purposes, the hysterical demonization of China across the Beltway has now overtaken the previous hysterics, the demonization of Russia.
What Beijing used to define as a “period of strategic opportunity” is over. There were rumblings in intel circles that the CCP leadership believed this strategic window of opportunity would last unimpeded until the key date, 2049 – when “national rejuvenation” should have been fully accomplished.
Forget it. Now the whole game is about hybrid warfare 2.0 deployed by the US to contain the emerging superpower, whatever it takes. And that implies that a plethora of Chinese plans are now being turbo-charged.
The first order of business is to restore the productivity of the Made in China machine. During his recent visit to Shaanxi province, historically crucial for the CCP, President Xi insisted on it, coupled with an anti-poverty offensive. He had promised to eliminate poverty this year.
Significantly, and contrary to all Western forecasts, China’s exports grew 3.5% in April, compared with a fall of 6.6% in March. This totally shatters the decoupling rationale. The Japanese government, for instance, is accelerating the relocation of factories from China, in haste. Not a very clever strategy.
These factories are leaving a nation that has all but eradicated Covid-19. And if they move to Vietnam, well, that’s also a socialist economy (with Vietnamese characteristics).
China’s GDP growth fell by 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020. Recovery is already on. Officially, unemployment was at 5.9% in late March – not taking into account migrant workers who went back to the big cities after spending the apex of Covid-19 in the countryside. There were projections of unemployment at 20% – later retracted.
Recovery will be a mix of economic stimulus to companies, big and small; investments in infrastructure; and vouchers to a great many of the working masses. The hukou system – linking social rights to place of residence – will also be reformed. The key date to watch will be May 22, during the postponed session of the National People’s Congress.
Belt & Road on track
Geopolitically, the analysis by the French think tank CAPS, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Paris, has become practically a mantra across the West.
CAPS is alarmed that China has become indispensable, while questioning its “values” and “hidden agenda.” With the EU totally paralyzed and graphically proving its irrelevance on myriad levels, especially in terms of agreeing upon an effective rescue package for all its members, the – declining – West, almost in block, is terrified that China is in the irreversible process of becoming the top global power.
Even after suffering the massive Covid-19 blow, Beijing seems to be in control of all base variables in its economic policy (financial institutions, large corporations). The CCP will double down on developing the whole production machine side by side with widespread application of AI techniques.
What seems to be established by now is that China will first secure its own national interests – in terms of global supply chains and exports. Short and medium term, there will be concentrated focus on selected New Silk Roads overland and maritime connectivity corridors – Health Silk Road included.
Even with Covid-19, China’s trade with Belt and Road nations grew 3.2% in the first quarter, not shabby even when compared with the 10.8% for the whole of 2019.
According to the Ministry of Commerce, Beijing’s trade with 56 Belt and Road nations scattered across Asia, Africa, Europe and South America represents a very important 30% of total annual trade. Now compare it to the 13% to 32% contraction in global trade forecast by the World Trade Organization for 2020.
So even if a trade drop in the first quarter of 2020 was more than predictable, it’s bound to pick up quickly especially in relation to Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Arab world.
Belt and Road is predictably facing myriad short and middle term challenges – all linked to broken connectivity: supply chain breakdowns, widespread travel and visa restrictions, severe border controls, project delays because of increased costs.
Examples include the $6 billion, 150 km-long Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail in Indonesia, with technical experts from China only slowly trickling back in after being absent because of government restrictions. Along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, mandatory quarantine for Chinese technicians has frozen progress for at least two months. The same applies to projects in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
According to an Economist Intelligence Unit report, Covid-19 will derail Belt and Road in 2020. That may have been the case only for the first four months of the year. Even under Covid-19, Beijing has signed deals for new Belt and Road projects in Myanmar, Turkey and Nigeria.
The 414-km long China-Laos high-speed rail – connecting Yunnan, via Vientiane, to Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore – remains on track, with completion scheduled for the end of 2021. ASEAN, significantly, is now China’s number one trade partner, ahead of the drowning-in-crises EU.
Watch digital yuan
The key takeaway from all this is that the CCP’s complex macro-strategy will be undisturbed. That implies that China will remain the top engine of the global economy, with or without decoupling, and with Belt and Road at the very core of China’s macro-foreign policy strategy, coupled with a solid drive towards multilateralism.
As much as vast swathes of the world economy, especially across the Global South, show no intention of decoupling from China, Beijing will have to be ready to counterpunch full-spectrum hybrid war by Washington on every front – geo-economic, cybernetic, biological, psychological.
As Kishore Mahbubani detailed in his latest book, that does not mean that China will have the intention – and the capacity – to become a new gendarme of the world. It will certainly turbo-charge its economic and financial power, as in the careful implementation of the possibly gold-backed digital yuan.
And then there’s the relentlessly evolving game-changer responsible for the US establishment’s sleepless nights: the Russia-China strategic partnership.
Two weeks ago, an immensely important geopolitical development was virtually buried by corona-hysteria.
Moscow is very much aware that Washington is deploying missile defense systems very close to Russia’s borders – carrying the potential to deliver a nuclear first strike. Beijing is following this development with alarm.
Moscow being aware of it is just part of the story: the key point is that Russia is confident sophisticated weapons such as the Sarmat and the Avangard will take care of it.
More complex is the issue of Pentagon bioweapon labs in the former USSR – an issue also closely followed by Beijing. Moscow has identified a lab near Tblisi in Georgia, and 11 of them in Ukraine. And way back in 2014, when Crimea was reunited with Russia, scientists also found a lab in Simferopol.
All this information – nuclear and bioweapons – as intel sources confirmed to me, is exchanged at the highest level of the Russia-China strategic partnership.
The next big move in the geopolitical chessboard points to the partnership negotiating their bilateral relations with the US as a team.
Nothing could be more rational, considering they are regarded as the top two “threats” to the US, according to the National Security Strategy.
Talk about a major paradigm shift.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-09--The USA Screwed Up the F-35 “Fifth-Generation Fighter Jet”

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