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A World War Has Begun
Break the Silenceby John Pilger / March 23rd, 2016
In the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two led by the United States is taking place along Russias western frontier. Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia.
Ukraine once part of the Soviet Union has become a CIA theme park. Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of the Russian speaking minority. This is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.
In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia next door to Russia the US military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This extreme provocation of the worlds second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.
Ukraine once part of the Soviet Union has become a CIA theme park. Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of the Russian speaking minority. This is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.
In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia next door to Russia the US military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This extreme provocation of the worlds second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.
The propaganda laying the ground for a war against Russia and/or China is no different in principle. To my knowledge, no journalist in the Western mainstream a Dan Rather equivalent, say asks why China is building airstrips in the South China Sea.
The answer ought to be glaringly obvious. The United States is encircling China with a network of bases, with ballistic missiles, battle groups, nuclear-armed bombers.
This lethal arc extends from Australia to the islands of the Pacific, the Marianas and the Marshalls and Guam, to the Philippines, Thailand, Okinawa, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India. America has hung a noose around the neck of China. This is not news. Silence by media; war by media.
The answer ought to be glaringly obvious. The United States is encircling China with a network of bases, with ballistic missiles, battle groups, nuclear-armed bombers.
This lethal arc extends from Australia to the islands of the Pacific, the Marianas and the Marshalls and Guam, to the Philippines, Thailand, Okinawa, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India. America has hung a noose around the neck of China. This is not news. Silence by media; war by media.
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This is the country where toddlers shoot their mothers and the police wage a murderous war against black Americans. This is the country that has attacked and sought to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and bombed from Asia to the Middle East, causing the deaths and dispossession of millions of people.
No country can equal this systemic record of violence. Most of Americas wars (almost all of them against defenceless countries) have been launched not by Republican presidents but by liberal Democrats: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.
No country can equal this systemic record of violence. Most of Americas wars (almost all of them against defenceless countries) have been launched not by Republican presidents but by liberal Democrats: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.
What has happened to the great tradition of popular direct action, unfettered to parties? Where is the courage, imagination and commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature?
Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?
Where are those who will shatter the silence? Or do we wait until the first nuclear missile is fired?
Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/03/a-world-war-has-begun/
WW111 was begun with the illegal invasion and military destruction of Iraq, imo with every death since being a continuation in the grand plan of that PNAC objective.
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A World War Has Begun (Original Post)
polly7
Mar 2016
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riversedge
(70,204 posts)1. Nothing but another vile hit piece on Hillary. Of course it ends up on DU
polly7
(20,582 posts)2. Need a whaaaaaaaambulance? Truth hurts. nt.
revbones
(3,660 posts)3. Would any negative piece on Hillary be called anything else? nt
retrowire
(10,345 posts)5. so you don't have a contesting point?
as expected...
raging moderate
(4,304 posts)4. Wait a minute! Launched by who?
The Bush/Cheney regime launched this whole Iraq war, against the warnings of liberal Democrats!
rurallib
(62,411 posts)6. no kidding