An annual Pentagon report on extremism within the ranks reveals that 78 service members were suspected of advocating for the overthrow of the U.S. government and another 44 were suspected of engaging or supporting terrorism. . .here
Posted by: Don Bacon | Dec 6 2023 2:43 utc | 200
Excellent. Power to the new recruits.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 6 2023 2:50 utc | 203

As Guyana is still a French possession as far as I know
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 6 2023 2:46 utc | 202
If so, then perhaps this is also part of the the latest phase of decolonization sweeping the global south (particularly Africa) …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 6 2023 2:53 utc | 205

. . .Let’s look at those who do sign up–
An annual Pentagon report on extremism within the ranks reveals that 78 service members were suspected of advocating for the overthrow of the U.S. government and another 44 were suspected of engaging or supporting terrorism. . .here
Posted by: Don Bacon | Dec 6 2023 2:43 utc | 200
A afterthought :
I seem to recall a history of white supremacist movements in the U.S military also being reported as involved in support for terrorism and overthrow of the U.S government.
It seems this movement is undergoing some form of affirmative action…

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 6 2023 2:59 utc | 207

Peter AU1 | Dec 6 2023 3:07 utc | 208–
You might want to watch Nima and Orlov talk in a video posted at Martyanov’s. I found it informative and refreshing.

Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 6 2023 3:13 utc | 209

Sunny Runny Burger 204
Codependency
In psychology, codependency is a theory that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person’s self-destructive behavior[1] such as addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement.
Definitions of codependency vary, but typically include high self-sacrifice, a focus on others’ needs, suppression of one’s own emotions, and attempts to control or fix other people’s problems.
Wikipedia
I don’t feel remotely responsible for Muslim Brotherhood, or Zionist Christian eschatology. They are dog-turd on the shoes of humanity and we are none of us remotely responsible for their extremist crimes.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 6 2023 3:36 utc | 211

karlof1 | Dec 6 2023 3:13 utc | 209
Just checked it. Wasn’t up when I looked at Martyanov’s site this early morning. Interesting view/insights into Ukraine, particularly the comedian and his replacement. He lost me though on US terrorism and it getting away from the US. The likes of ISIS for instance was a US tool for getting back into Iraq and Then Syria were it annexed most of Syria’s oil and wheat producing land. Same in the Sub Sahara. With the European Nazi’s, like the zionists, they are a tool of both the Brits and the Americans. The Brits have been trying desperately to bring the US/European Nato into direct conflict with Russia. With Zionist Israel/Zionist extremism, the Brits and the Americans seem to be on the same page.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 6 2023 3:48 utc | 213

144 Karlof1 I agree with you and always read your posts to educate myself, but I remember when
Russia’s war with USNatoUkraine was talked about by many people, myself included as being a dawn of the multipolar world (not to exclude other factors in it’s formation) towards a more equal world. I even had hoped with others here that BRICs nations might intercede more actively in obstructing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

Posted by: Lavieja | Dec 6 2023 4:17 utc | 215

@Don Firineach | Dec 6 2023 2:07 utc | 187
Thanks for the link.

Posted by: tawharanui | Dec 6 2023 4:20 utc | 217

RLTW 214
” JSOC has been surgically killing/capturing HVTs for over 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq and with minimal casualties.
And it is hard complex work. Working multiple target lines simultaneously. Going toe to toe with the enemy and shooting it out every night. Burning down every target line one at a time. Taking down one HVT one at a time.”
I just sought refuge with Allah from Satan the accursed, and up you pop in person.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 6 2023 4:26 utc | 219

RLTW | Dec 6 2023 4:12 utc | 214
What a load of shit. Like the Afghans say, the Soviets fought like men, the Americans fight like homosexuals.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 6 2023 4:31 utc | 221

Lavieja 220
It would have been better for Hamas to obtain the means to destroy Israel before provoking this catastrophe. There is no distinction between Judaism and Zionism.
Judaism refuses to acknowledge their Prophet the Messiah pbuh who was sent to teach them their religion. They lost their covenant. They broke their own deal, to follow the prophets and help them. AS.
There is a clear remedy for restoring their deal , which is to follow the Messiah pbuh and the Last prophet ,SAW, who is mentioned in their scriptures and the Gospels.
Jews won’t accept the deal, even though it would immediately restore their promised land to them in submission to the rights of the Muslims. Zionism.is taking it by force, which will result in their own destruction.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 6 2023 4:57 utc | 223

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-netanyahu-political-allies-peace-dangerous
@bevin | Dec 6 2023 4:22 utc | 218
Very interesting. Well worth reading the entire article.

Posted by: tawharanui | Dec 6 2023 5:08 utc | 225

@ Arch Bungle | Dec 6 2023 2:59 utc | 207
re: white supremacist movements
There were 32 “Advocating for widespread unlawful discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, or sexual orientation” . .p. 26 . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Dec 6 2023 5:11 utc | 227

Snake @ 167
Further to Palestine as a site for competition with Russia: it was thus from the very get-go in the 1840s.
Here is a most interesting account:
https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/attachments/jps-articles/2537686.pdf
including these grafs:
. . . .BRITAIN IN PALESTINE, 1838-1882 41
. . . The most important event in Palestine in this connection was the establishment of a British consulate in Jerusalem in 1838. Because the Ottomans had to continue with Muhammad ‘Ali’s policy even after the Egyptians were expelled in 1840, Jerusalem witnessed the entrance of still other European consuls2 and religious dignitaries. As a result, the European public’s interest in the “Holy Land” markedly increased. Thus, Palestine fell into that whirl- pool of opposing European interests: the Great Powers’ “Eastern question” of the nineteenth century. Once the “Holy Land” had come into view, inordinate desires were awakened, plans were devised, and visions were given free reign. None of these, however, was politically feasible, despite the fact
that the sultan would not have been able to drive the Egyptians out of Syria and Palestine without European (primarily British and Austrian) help.
Given that European intervention was undertaken for the sake of main-
taining the integrity of the Ottoman Empire (Britain’s Middle Eastern policy in particular held the conservation of the empire’s core as an urgent goal), there could be no question of partitioning Ottoman territories. The problem-the nineteenth century’s “Eastern question”-was how much of the Ottoman Empire had to be preserved, and in what form, in order to protect the interests of the European powers. Since European penetration could not take the form of territorial control, then, it could only be a matter of influence. One of the most important vehicles through which the European powers tried to exercise their influence was the “protection” of non-Muslim minorities in the Ottoman Empire.
The Establishment of the English Presence and European
Cultural-Religious Penetration
In England’s view, Russia and France had taken the lead in the race to
gain influence by means of “protecting” minorities. The former was the
traditional “protecting power” of the Orthodox Christians, while the latter held the same position for Catholic Christians, both in Palestine and in the Middle East generally. It was high time that this lead was narrowed. But as heads of Europe’s Protestant powers, England and Prussia first had to find (or, more exactly, create) their own proteges: Jews and Protestants. They recognized that, just to set foot in Palestine and exercise any right to be involved, they would to some extent have to contest the “natural” strong points of Russia and France. This resulted in the appointment of a British consul for Jerusalem in 1838. At the outset, he was supposed to form a counter-weight to the feared expansion of Russian influence.3 Thus the first step in a systematic European penetration of Palestine was made in the context of European rivalries concerning the “Eastern question.” This rivalry continued to be the most important factor in the period under consideration.
. . .
It is interesting that at this period Britain sought to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman Empire—I suppose because otherwise Russia might take some of it. Later it seems like Churchill himself wanted to break it up and grab chunks of it. Very likely because by that time, after the Unification of Germany in 1871, the Germans had also started taking an active role in developing a transport corridor and otherwise assisting the Ottomans to modernize, plus the Russians wanted Constantinople. Basically, all of the European powers shat on the actual Palestinians, and disfavored them vis-a-vis the Jews, who were basically English imperial proxies, it now seems clear.

Posted by: Jane | Dec 6 2023 5:29 utc | 229

People are saying that the HAMAS doesn’t have any choice but to drop bombs on women and children. Bullshit! You get in there and do work! Work your intel! Develop your targeting lines and take down the IDF HVTs! Cut the head off the snake! Fight toe to toe!
The idea that the only pathway to defeating Zionism is through carpet bombing women and children is a cowardly answer.

… REMOVED BECAUSE PURE BULLSHIT …

And it is hard complex work. Working multiple target lines simultaneously. Going toe to toe with the enemy and shooting it out every night. Burning down every target line one at a time. Taking down one Zionist HVT one at a time.
It takes Balls and Brains. Or you can just continue dropping bottle rockets on kids and women.
Keep making bullshit arguments like this and you will become the fucking snake. Heck, you already are!
Posted by: RLTW | Dec 6 2023 5:02 utc | 224
There, fixed your ‘argument’ for you.
But this part in particular was irreparable:

JSOC has been surgically killing/capturing HVTs for over 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq and with minimal casualties. The pathway exists. JSOC pioneered it. Does Israel have the balls and the brains to follow it?

A bigger load of horseshit I have only heard from the IDF spokesmen.

The USA was bombing weddings, and entire families until the very last day it pulled it’s beaten, battered arse out of Kabul airport under fire while begging the Taliban to cover their retreat.
Please, if you’re going to go all “righteous ‘Murican indignation” on us, at least stay faithful to the facts and to the canonical Western System of Morality.

Righteous indignation is a poor substitute for Truth and actual Morality.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 6 2023 5:32 utc | 231

“The army yearns for redemption for its massive failure to protect its citizens in the south of Israel. It desperately needs the scalps of Hamas’s leaders. But in moving southwards, it’s going into a complete unknown.
Posted by: bevin | Dec 6 2023 4:22 utc | 218
This is usually a precursor to Genocide.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 6 2023 5:37 utc | 233

Fair enough, the US is complicit in the crime of genocide, but outright blaming the US government for the slaughter perpetrated by the Israeli government is a bit of a stretch. By doing that you are are saying Netanyahoo and his government can’t be held responsible for the blatant and intentional murder of defenceless woman and children! Obviously this JNS “news outlet” will shift the blame to someone else other than their murdering type in the Knesset!

Posted by: George | Dec 6 2023 6:08 utc | 235

Posted by: George | Dec 6 2023 6:08 utc | 23
Israel rapes your wife, the US puts a gun to your head and makes you watch it.

Posted by: Turk 152 | Dec 6 2023 6:17 utc | 237

Arch Bungle 232
1. Yes. Muslim Brotherhood, funded by the
US , supplied weaponry to Hamas, informed Likud and they jointly provoked the genocide.
2. Yes, Nuclear weapons are a mugs game because they are WMD. Israel will be cleared in an SMO like Ukraine. We already know that Israel kills its own citizens. So that’s half the job done for them, like Ukraine.
3 . Yes. The army Palestine has , belongs to its enemy, political Islam and is funded by its enemy the US. The army Israel gets defeated by won’t be.
Any more daft questions, ?

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 6 2023 6:23 utc | 239

Any more daft questions, ?
Posted by: Giyane | Dec 6 2023 6:23 utc | 239
Yes: How long has your wife been slipping arsenic in your drinks?
The faculty of reasoning is always the first to go before the blue tinge manifests.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Dec 6 2023 6:53 utc | 241

karlof1 | Dec 6 2023 5:11 utc | 226
That get together in Moscow is interesting. I knew Johnson is in Moscow but didn’t know about the others. I guess we will learn in good time what it is about.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 6 2023 7:29 utc | 243

RLTW,
FYI – no one in the military uses the term Green Beret anymore.

Posted by: Exile | Dec 6 2023 7:37 utc | 245

The longer this goes on, the more one gets the sense that this is just massacre for the sake of massacre. There is no objective that can conceivably be attained.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Dec 6 2023 8:09 utc | 247

Posted by: Jane | Dec 6 2023 5:29 utc | 229
This rivalry continued to be the most important factor in the period under consideration. re snake at 167.
The Germans had strong economic relations with the Ottomans the Germans had developed a railroad the ottomans traded with Germany, the deal was the Germans would build the railroad between the ottoman capital and its sea ports and directly into Germany and in return the Ottomans would allow the Germans access to the oil which was under the Ottoman land.. (basically the Germans had nearly exclusive access to the oil and gas beneath the entire middle East) . The Ottoman were not dealing with too many other outsider economic interest; the reason for WWI was oil.. because nearly all of the oil in the middle east was in German control.
Remember about 1865 (when Lincoln was assassinated) the whale industry supplied lamp oil to the world, and slavery supplied the manpower that made colonies profitable. But laws against slavery and the extinction of whales made the Slave and lamp oil monopolies more or less unprofitable.
Shipping(railroads) and sea ports in those days were the important asset. The Oil and Gas industry (what became standard oil of N.J. BP in Briton and France, etc. , and many earlier..). The driving force for WWI, WWii as well as the many smaller wars since WWII including the war in Gaza, have been about the territories where the oil, gas and pipeline profits were in need of the physical access to the territorial or in need of the political and contractual rights to control the oil, gas and pipeline routes. Where ever a challenge to oil, gas or pipeline profit occurred, whether by by coincidence or by threat, .. Chaos, war, invasion and takeover have occurred. . all of the religious and racial crap is just that, its propaganda promoting divide and conquer mind control strategy.
If the average everyday Israeli and the average everyday Palestinian were to meet and had the power to resolve the crisis, the war would be over in a few hours; because non of those people, no matter their race or religion have access to the oil, gas, food and pipeline profits that fuel this war.

Posted by: snake | Dec 6 2023 8:31 utc | 249

Guyana/Guiana is different from Guinea, they are both related to a watershed descending from a land rise formation (e.g. Guinea Shield, which shapes the Niger River, Volta, etc. flow), former in South America and the latter in Africa.
So you get in S.A. Guyana (UK derived), Suriname (prev. Dutch Guyana), and French Guiana, and in Africa Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and oddly enough Equatorial Guinea (too far from the watershed, yet the coastal Africa colonial naming convention continued).
Guyana is the UK related colonial slice. You see similar slices of mixed colonists next to each other elsewhere, like the Guineas (UK, Portugal) or Benin, Togo, Nigeria ((French, German, UK). Given it’s been a few decades in post-colonialism now, reorganization in borders is an expected ongoing process. The question is will the UK use this pretext to intervene and call in colonialist belligerents?

Posted by: titmouse | Dec 6 2023 9:16 utc | 251

Democratic Rights are everything you have to fight for in a capitalist society:
– Housing, everyone should have a shelter
– Employment, everyone has a right to be employed
– Government financed education from kindergarten to university
– Health Insurance
– Right to organize in a Trade Union
– …
I was talking about Democratic Rights and not Democracy.
PS. This was my last dose of out of topic comment for today, Sorry b!
Posted by: Framarz | Dec 5 2023 22:46 utc | 162
Thanks for the reply. Tbh, I interpreted democratic rights to mean all the intangibles (right to freedom of speech, assembly etc. etc.)
Ironically, housing, healthcare, education decent job are the four things that were provided for in Cuba, USSR, Yugolavia and it’s China’s aim on which it has made a lot of progress.
Also, people won’t like to hear this but in the Gulf countries, the rulers are viewed as being responsible for the people so these four things are provided to the nationals.
As regards foreign workers rights they are uniformly treated like expendable robots across North America. UK, the EU, South Korea and the Gulf countries with the caveat that in North America, the UK, EU lower income workers have few rights even if they are citizens.
This is why the hard-working class in the “free world” recognizes the oppression of Palestinians.

Posted by: pq | Dec 6 2023 9:35 utc | 253

Humanity is in a civilization war about private/public finance…..pick a side
Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 5 2023 15:45 utc | 86
Very true. But today, this is no longer simply an ideological issue, it is also a methodological issue. Thanks to the existence of Bitcoin, we have the means at our disposal to separate money from the state: in other words, we can all do our bit to ensure that private finance wins.
I would phrase the civilizational war differently: it is the war between statism and agorism. The battle between CBDCs and Bitcoin is at the front line of this war.

Posted by: geralds | Dec 6 2023 9:56 utc | 255

Arch Bungle 241
I wish I had your energy and dedication.
When I get bored, I say bad things.
As to the blue tinge, I dose myself.
My hair sticks out like Ken Dodd or BoJo in bright Pictish blue.
I’m missing listening to BBC Radio after it’s regurgitating of Hamas beheading babies. Voltairenet has been hollowed out since fleeing Ukraine in a hurry and Craig Murray who I followed for 18 years classes anybody who has attended Oxford University as a personal enemy.
Moon of Alabama is thin gruel for me , because after 20 years of Islamist wars for Greater Israel nobody here seems to have noticed that political Islam is a USUKIS proxy and humanity’s enemy.
Bored though I am , I will try harder not to be naughty.

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 6 2023 11:25 utc | 257

# 178 Wilhelm – Thanks for your input. Exactly. That’s why I wrote ‘Gospel of the Fallen Angel’, calling out the psychopathic tribal god Yhwh and his ‘Chosen Followers’. The theology and ideology that existed millennia before the Nazis came along. I call it YAHWIZM. The Old(er) Testament or Tanakh is his/their primary source material. It’s not my theory or speculation. It’s there in hundreds and hundreds of verses and passages, in plain sight for all to see. Its current High Priest is Bibi Netanyahoo. Jesus or Yehoshua had the courage to call him/and his enforcers out, as a ‘brood of vipers’ who followed the Devil. He ended up being tortured and executed, because he followed another ‘god’ who went by the name of ‘abba’. (By the way, Jesus was not being anti-Semitic, when he called out the Jewish leaders and their violent theology. He was challenging their leaders who were deceiving their fellows Jews. Ring any bells!).

Posted by: Geraint ap Iorwerth | Dec 6 2023 12:45 utc | 259

The 200th cargo plane carrying military equipment has arrived in Israel, the country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
“The 200th cargo plane carrying military equipment for the IDF (Israeli army) has arrived in Israel,” the statement read, adding:
“Over 10,000 tons of military equipment were delivered since the beginning of the war, including armored vehicles, armaments, personal protective equipment, medical supplies, ammunition, and more.”
According to the statement, the delivery marks the culmination of joint efforts led by the Defense Ministry’s US Procurement Mission, the ministry’s Department of Production and Procurement and the IDF’s planning, technology and logistics divisions.
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced on October 19 that it had received a cargo plane from the US carrying the initial shipment of armored vehicles for the IDF, which would replace those damaged during military activities.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-received-10000-tons-of-us-military-equipment-since-start-of-gaza-war/

Posted by: JB | Dec 6 2023 17:16 utc | 261

@ geralds | Dec 6 2023 9:56 utc | 255 who wrote
”
Thanks to the existence of Bitcoin, we have the means at our disposal to separate money from the state: in other words, we can all do our bit to ensure that private finance wins.
I would phrase the civilizational war differently: it is the war between statism and agorism. The battle between CBDCs and Bitcoin is at the front line of this war.
”
This is an OT subject that needs to migrate to latest Open Thread to continue….Bitcoin is tulip mania and private finance is what we have now…class system and all…gack!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 6 2023 17:33 utc | 263

But I’ve watched Guyenot’s film and he fails to connect some dots in his attempt to paint Israel as basically the sole perpetrating party/mastermind behind it.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 5 2023 23:49 utc | 173
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
The video and the long written piece have somewhat different emphases.
I don’t think Guyenot paints Israel as the “sole” mastermind. I think he implies that Johnson was always to some extent and Israeli cut-out and when push come to shove, Israel came through. Johnson managed the operation on the ground in Dallas, but with both Israeli and Jewish (mobsters and “businessmen”) sayanim assistance.
Guyenot certainly reinforces the thrust of the CovertAction guy’s work, although I don’t think Guyenot actually cites all of the dirt that the fellow dug up. So perhaps Guyenot is not aware of Kuzmarov’s conclusions? The two guys seem to be on different, but converging, tracks.
Kuzmarov and Guyenot need to get together!!
Kuzmarov doesn’t mention any Israeli connection; his story basically stops before Dallas. Yet obviously Dallas saved Johnson’s ass. So who helped him pull it off? Kuzmarov suggests that it was Wallace who pulled the trigger in the Texas Book Depository. Yet newest evidence is that the kill shot did not come from there.

Posted by: Jane | Dec 7 2023 0:17 utc | 265

Jane 266
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I betook myself to Greece on a half price student Europe-wide rail deal in about 1976. In the train I met an Iraqi family on their way to Baghdad. We talked about watermelons in the barren landscape of Macedonia and they invited me to stay on the train and visit their beautiful country.
I haven’t visited Baghdad yet, but my Kurdish father in law used to go regularly in Saddam’s time and after Saddam’s time. Totally fearless.
The poisonous pimps to Uncle Snigger who took over from Saddam’s violent regime despised this generation of fearless traders as Sufis, which my father in law
was not. They ignored him in the hospital when he was dying of Covid, and he now bless him rests peacefully in his village grave.
The Kurds are stillmowed 4 years of salary , embezzled by the Barzani Mossad confederates . To be fair even Mossad hate this genocide. It’s bad for business , bad for public relations and may well close to Israel the Kurdish Oil Erdogan sends them.
It’s an ill wind that blows no good.
The Middle East is a violent region and its tacky political relationship with USUKIS is brutally exposed by this genocide. Kurdish Oil keeps the lorries moving 24/7 on the piddly little M6 motorway from London to Leeds.
Punching above its weight Little Britain’s criminal colonialism is brutally exposed in Sunak’s brothel with its exhausted whores , Zahawiri, BoJo , and Cameron .

Posted by: Giyane | Dec 7 2023 3:50 utc | 267

Arch Bungle | Dec 6 2023 2:36 utc | 198
As Guyana is still a French possession as far as I know rather than any form of independent country, this will be interesting to watch.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 6 2023 2:46 utc | 202
The Multi-polar world at work
Guyana was never a French colony. It was originally a Dutch colony that Britain took. It is an independent nation made up of several hundred thousand indigenous people. I believe they would take great exception to being referred to as a colony. The International community has already made determinations on the border. The Venezuelans had accepted the border until oil reserves were found in the areas that Venezuela is now set on “annexing”.

Posted by: Zargo | Dec 7 2023 15:03 utc | 269