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The U.S. government may pretend to respect a “rules-based” global order, but the only rule Washington seems to follow is “might makes right” — and the CIA has long served as a chief instigator and enforcer. by Nicolas J.S. Davies Part 7 - Demonizing Iran The idea that Iran has ever had a nuclear weapons program is seriously contested by the IAEA, which has examined every allegation presented by the CIA and other Western “intelligence” agencies as well as Israel. Former IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei revealed many details of this wild goose chase in his 2011 memoir, Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times. When the CIA and its partners reluctantly acknowledged the IAEA’s conclusions in a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), ElBaradei issued a press release confirming that, “ the agency has no concrete evidence of an ongoing nuclear weapons program or undeclared nuclear facilities in Iran. ” Since 2007, the IAEA has resolved all

globinfo freexchange President Trump has a lot of work to do during his 10-day tour in Asia. In Japan and South Korea, he tried to reassure the nervous allies that the United States has not granted regional sovereignty to China. In Vietnam and Philippines, he has to communicate the US pursuit of balancing China's influence in Southeast Asia. But the most important stop is in Beijing where Trump already meets with President Xi Jinping for the first time since the Chinese leader announced a "new era" in global politics at his party's central council in October. Trump will try to exercise strong pressure, calling for closer cooperation on the North Korea issue and resolving trade disputes. But he goes in a moment where China, not the US, is the strongest player in the global economy. According to Time, the Chinese totalitarian-capitalist model shouldn't supposedly survive in a global free market, let alone thrive. Until a few years

Ο πρόεδρος Τραμπ έχει να κάνει πολλές δουλειές κατά τη διάρκεια της 10ήμερης περιοδείας του στην Ασία. Στην Ιαπωνία και τη Νότια Κορέα, επιχείρησε να καθησυχάσει τους νευρικούς συμμάχους ότι οι Η.Π.Α. δεν έχουν παραχωρήσει περιφερειακή κυριαρχία στην Κίνα. Στο Βιετνάμ και τις Φιλιππίνες, πρέπει να επικοινωνήσει την επιδίωξη των ΗΠΑ για εξισορρόπηση της επιρροής της Κίνας στη Νοτιοανατολική Ασία. Αλλά η πιο σημαντική στάση είναι στο Πεκίνο, όπου βρίσκεται ήδη ο Τράμπ και συναντάται με τον πρόεδρο Σι Τζινπίνγκ για πρώτη φορά από τότε που ο Κινέζος ηγέτης ανακοίνωσε μια «νέα εποχή» στην παγκόσμια πολιτική στο κεντρικό συμβούλιο του κόμματός του τον Οκτώβριο. Ο Τραμπ θα προσπαθήσει να προβάλει ισχυρές πιέσεις, ζητώντας στενότερη συνεργασία για τη Βόρεια Κορέα και για την επίλυση εμπορικών διαφορών. Αλλά φτάνει σε μια στιγμή που η Κίνα, και όχι οι ΗΠΑ, είναι ο ισχυρότερος παίκτης στην παγκόσμια οικονομία. Σύμφωνα και με το Time, Το κινεζικό απολυταρχικό-καπιταλιστι

The Daily Beast reported on newly unsealed documents that show the FBI blindly hacked into computers in Russia, China and Iran during a wide-ranging investigation that led to the bust of a global child pornography operation and the liberation of sexual abuse victims. As the Daily Beast explains: During a hacking operation in which U.S. authorities broke into thousands of computers around the world to investigate child pornography, the FBI hacked a number of targets in Russia, China, and Iran, The Daily Beast has learned. The news signals the bold future of policing on the so-called dark web, where investigators are increasingly deploying malware without first knowing which country their suspect is located in. Legal experts and commentators say the approach of blindly kicking down digital doors in countries not allied with the U.S. could lead to geopolitical fallout. The case centers around the FBI’s 2015 Operation Pacifier investigation into a website ca

The U.S. government may pretend to respect a “rules-based” global order, but the only rule Washington seems to follow is “might makes right” — and the CIA has long served as a chief instigator and enforcer. by Nicolas J.S. Davies Part 6 - Boxing In North Korea A U.S. aerial bombardment or “preemptive strike” on North Korea could quickly escalate into a war between the U.S. and China, which has reiterated its commitment to North Korea’s defense if North Korea is attacked. We do not know exactly what was in the U.S. war plan discovered by North Korea, so neither can we know how North Korea and China could respond if the U.S. pressed ahead with it. Most analysts have long concluded that any U.S. attack on North Korea would be met with a North Korean artillery and missile barrage that would inflict unacceptable civilian casualties on Seoul, a metropolitan area of 26 million people, three times the population of New York City. Seoul is only 35 miles from the frontier