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Ecuador’s presidential candidate Yaku Pérez supported coups in Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. His US-backed party Pachakutik and supposedly “left-wing” environmentalist campaign is being promoted by right-wing corporate lobbyists.   by Ben Norton  Part 4 - US-backed “ecosocialists” ally with right-wing in coup attempt against Rafael Correa   The deployment of ostensibly progressive “environmentalist” talking points to destabilize left-wing governments in Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, and beyond was developed over a decade ago, to weaken the democratically elected government of Ecuador’s former socialist President Rafael Correa. To undercut Correa, the United States and Western European governments funded civil society groups in Ecuador that claimed to support environmental causes and indigenous rights, but ended up serving as tentacles of the right-wing opposition. Throughout their tenures in office, Ecuador’s Correa and Bolivia’s Evo Morales faced heavy opposit...

The Trump and Biden administrations have relied on the work of a right-wing religious extremist, Adrian Zenz, for their “genocide” accusation against China. A close review of Zenz’s research reveals flagrant data abuse and outright falsehoods.   by Gareth Porter and Max Blumenthal Part 2 - Genocide or equal treatment in family planning policy? In Adrian Zenz’s 2020 paper for the Jamestown Foundation, he boasted that his findings “ provide the strongest evidence yet that Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang meet one of the genocide criteria cited in the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. ” Zenz was referring Article 2 (d) of that Convention: “ Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group .” But Article II qualifies the relevant acts as those “ committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such. ” But “ preventing births ” by itself cannot be evidence of alleged genocide wi...

The US State Department is pushing a politicized vote recount, overseen by the coup-sponsoring OAS, after socialist Andrés Arauz won Ecuador’s election in a landslide. Meanwhile Colombia’s ex-president warns his country’s “radical right” is “interfering” with “slander” and a “dirty game.”   by Ben Norton  Part 3 - Ecuador’s biased electoral council collaborates with losing candidates against leading leftist   While the Colombian government has openly meddled in Ecuador’s internal affairs, the US government and Organization of American States have been working more quietly behind the scenes to undermine the electoral victory of leftist Andrés Arauz.   On February 12, the same day Colombia’s chief prosecutor arrived in Quito, Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE) held an unprecedented closed-door meeting between the second- and third-place presidential candidates.   In a blatant violation of Ecuadorian law, the CNE hosted a private event where the losing oppo...

by Robert Inlakesh   Part 2 - When in doubt, blame Iran   Despite the fact there has been no confirmation as to who exactly carried out the recent Erbil rocket attack, the US State Department has vowed a response against those involved.  The group that claimed the attack, Saraya Awliya Al-Dam, has since been linked by the Western press to Iran. The likes of CNN have even called the group an “ Iranian-backed militia ”, for which the network provided no evidence and which is a potentially dangerous assertion, as many Americans will have been given the impression that Iran was somehow responsible. Iran has since denied any involvement in the Erbil attack and says it has never backed the Saraya Awliya Al-Dam militia group.  Following Trump’s ‘targeted assassination’ of Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs) Chairman Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis in January 2020, the Iraqi parliament had voted to expel US forces from the country....

globinfo freexchange   Στις αρχές Φεβρουαρίου, ένα σύντομο άρθρο στη διαδικτυακή έκδοση του Associated Press πέρασε λίγο-πολύ απαρατήρητο. Παρόλα αυτά, θα μπορούσε να αποτελέσει την καλύτερη απόδειξη για ένα γεγονός που αυτό εδώ το μπλογκ υποστηρίζει εδώ και χρόνια. Δηλαδή, με λίγα λόγια, ότι το Δυτικό οικονομικό μοντέλο έχει ήδη μεταμορφωθεί σε κάτι ακόμα χειρότερο από τον καπιταλισμό. Έχει μεταμορφωθεί σε ένα είδος κορπορατικής φεουδαρχίας του 21ου αιώνα. Και φαίνεται ότι η πολιτεία της Νεβάδα θα αποτελέσει και επίσημα το πεδίο δοκιμών γι'αυτή την Οργουελική μετάβαση.    Το πρώτο σοκ έρχεται με τη γενική περιγραφή του τι πρόκειται να δούμε στην πολιτεία της Νεβάδα. Όπως αναφέρεται στο άρθρο, ετοιμάζεται ειδική νομοθεσία που θα επιτρέπει την ίδρυση περιοχών (που αποκαλούνται Ζώνες Καινοτομίας) στη συγκεκριμένη πολιτεία, τις οποίες οι μεγάλες εταιρίες θα ελέγχουν απόλυτα μέσα από αυτόνομες τοπικές κυβερνήσεις!  Το σχέδιο ανακοινώθηκε από τον κυβερνήτη  Steve ...

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A CIA document exposed by WikiLeaks could become the blueprint for Kamala Harris to start a war with Iran   Biden accidentally reveals the plan: be replaced by Kamala Harris    WikiLeaks paper reveals attempt by US Big Pharma cartel to take over France's health industry in a neocolonial style under Sarkozy presidency   A high-tech giant deeply connected with US intelligence agencies behind a potential voter manipulation operation in Greece

New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. by Max Blumenthal Part 1 The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have sponsored Reuters and the BBC to conduct a series of covert programs aimed at promoting regime change inside Russia and undermining its government across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to a series of leaked documents. The leaked materials show the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action participating in a covert information warfare campaign aimed at countering Russia. Working through a shadowy department within the UK FCO known as the Counter Disinformation & Media Development (CDMD), the media organizations operated alongside a collection of intelligence contractors in a secret entity known simply as “the Consortium.” Through training programs of Russian journalists overseen by Reuter...

It is now difficult to distinguish where the deep state ends and the fourth estate begins and Ben Nimmo’s move from NATO to NATO-aligned think tank to Facebook is just another example of this phenomenon.   by Alan Macleod   Part 3 - Pro-war putsch The Atlantic Council began as an offshoot of NATO itself and maintains extremely close connections to the military alliance. It continues to receive major funding from Western governments and weapons contractors, and its board of directors is filled to the brim with senior American statespersons, such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Henry Kissinger. Also appearing on the board are no fewer than seven former CIA directors and a number of top military generals, such as Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, Wesley Clark, and David Petraeus. In recent years, the council’s employees have penetrated deep into big tech and social media organizations. In 2018, it announced it had partnered with Facebook to aid in the curation of Facebook news fe...

An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon.   by Raul Diego   Part 2 - Dragon blood harvest at the dawn of human capital markets In this multi-part investigative analysis, we will dissect a daring piece of propaganda titled “The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Lockdown Fraud” published on Medium which has been making the rounds on social media purporting to demonstrate that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is behind the global lockdowns and, by implication, the pandemic itself. The heavily-annotated “open letter” is addressed to the FBI and calls for an “ expedited federal investigation into scientific fraud in COVID‑19 public health policies. ” The 10-point document exploits widespread fears and the economic hardship many are suffering as a result of the ubiquitous lockdowns and related policies adopted by governments around the world in the wake of the pandemic crisis. ...

Ecuador’s presidential candidate Yaku Pérez supported coups in Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. His US-backed party Pachakutik and supposedly “left-wing” environmentalist campaign is being promoted by right-wing corporate lobbyists.   by Ben Norton  Part 3 - Friendly ties with the US government   While Yaku Pérez Guartambel has no problem demonizing revolutionary left-wing governments in Latin America as “ colonial, ethnocidal, and racist, ” he is curiously silent about the US government’s massive human rights violations. That is because Pérez has fostered cozy ties with Washington, while advancing its agenda in his country. Before running for president, Pérez served as the prefect for Ecuador’s Azuay province, whose capital, Cuenca, has become a major hub for US expats. Entire communities of North Americans exist in Cuenca, speaking only English and paying for everything in US dollars (which have been the official currency of Ecuador since 2000 dollarization, f...

The Trump and Biden administrations have relied on the work of a right-wing religious extremist, Adrian Zenz, for their “genocide” accusation against China. A close review of Zenz’s research reveals flagrant data abuse and outright falsehoods.   by Gareth Porter and Max Blumenthal Part 1 Both President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute accusation of “genocide” against the Muslim Uyghur population in China’s Xinjiang province. But an investigation of published work by the researcher Pompeo relied on to level his genocide allegation reveals a pattern of data abuse and fraudulent assertions that substantially undermines the incendiary charge. The US government’s accusation of genocide against China stems from a single source: a June 2020 paper by Adrian Zenz, a right-wing German researcher affiliated with the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and neoconservative Jamestown Foundation in Washingt...

The US State Department is pushing a politicized vote recount, overseen by the coup-sponsoring OAS, after socialist Andrés Arauz won Ecuador’s election in a landslide. Meanwhile Colombia’s ex-president warns his country’s “radical right” is “interfering” with “slander” and a “dirty game.”   by Ben Norton  Part 2 - Colombia spreads fake news to try to prosecute Ecuador’s leading presidential candidate Just five days after the February 7 election, amid the recount chaos, Colombia intervened directly in Ecuadorian politics. The right-wing government of President Iván Duque, who has been credibly linked to drug cartels and death squads, sent its chief prosecutor to Ecuador on an official state plane in a desperate attempt to disqualify socialist Andrés Arauz. The head of Colombia’s justice department, Francisco Barbosa, a close ally and personal friend of Duque, has amplified fake news stories published by conservative media outlets in his country, maliciously claiming that a lead...

by Robert Inlakesh   Part 1   Prior to his inauguration, President Joe Biden had proclaimed that he wished to end the “forever wars” the US is fighting, just as former president Trump had claimed he would. But once you’re in office, it’s a different story.  NATO has decided to expand its footprint in Iraq, following a rocket attack in the city of Erbil that killed one American contractor and injured six more people. This, as the US State Department has threatened consequences for all those involved. NATO announced this Thursday that it will boost its Iraq mission from 500 to 4,000 personnel, which, Pentagon spokesperson Jessica McNulty confirmed in an interview with CNN, will mean the US “ will contribute its fair share to this important expanded mission ” – a clear indication that Biden is ready to continue his career along the warpath.    The United States currently has 2,500 troops active in Iraq, following the former Trump administration’s decision to lower ...

The Grayzone   Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, about her recent trip to Venezuela. In her first interview since the publication of the preliminary findings of her mission to Venezuela, Professor Douhan discusses her main take aways from the visit, her method for investigating, as well as the response to her report. 

The Grayzone   Haitian president Jovenel Moïse has cracked down on a wave of popular protest as he tries to cling to power. While tens of thousands of Haitians have taken to the streets in the face of government repression, the Biden administration is backing Moïse's effort to remain in office for at least another year.  Haitian activist and radio host Daoud Andre discusses the background to Moïse's power grab; the continued US deportations to Haiti; the enduring popularity of Jean-Bertrand Aristide -- twice overthrown in US-backed coups; and how the Biden administration's support for Moïse continues a long legacy of US attacks on Haiti's popular movements and backing of right-wing autocrats. 

Neoliberal fascists continue the purge of the real Left and give us a small taste of what will happen under a Biden presidency   Confirmed: Biden never wanted the Green New Deal and now he has a perfect excuse to bury it    Liberal plutocrats win a critical battle with their Biden puppet in the capitalist civil war and Trump keeps helping them   The Andrew Yang corporate media blackout: more evidence that the liberal elites hand-picked their unpopular puppet Kamala Harris

globinfo freexchange   An early February short report by Associated Press passed rather unnoticed. Yet, it could be probably considered the best proof for what this blog claims for many years now. In short, the Western economic model is about to be transformed into something even worse than capitalism, towards a kind of 21st century corporate feudalism. And the US state of Nevada is about to become the testing field for such a transition in the most official way! As the AP reported [emphasis added]: Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments. Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday. The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the...

It is now difficult to distinguish where the deep state ends and the fourth estate begins and Ben Nimmo’s move from NATO to NATO-aligned think tank to Facebook is just another example of this phenomenon.   by Alan Macleod   Part 2 - “Disinformation agents” For example, in 2019, U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn revealed secret Conservative Party documents showing negotiations the Tory government had with the U.S. over the privatization of the National Health Service (NHS). With just days to go before the U.K. general election, the scandal could have toppled the government and brought into power the most radical antiwar, anti-establishment government in the country’s history. Corporate media went into overdrive to spin the news, and Nimmo was a key part of this, immediately announcing, without evidence, that the documents “ closely resemble…a known Russian operation. ” His supposedly expert conjecture allowed the story to become “ Corbyn’s links to Russia ” rather tha...