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President Macron's visit to the UAE in early December was concluded with a controversial $19bn arms deal for 80 Rafale fighter jets and 12 military helicopters.

As you say, building up on the border. theres real concern about the military movement. the russians clearly dont want to have ukraine succeed. . >> so what is zelensky doing here? is he trying to get eyes trained on the region as there is concern about a russian invasion? . >> transparency helps him. because if people are watching what the russians do, then they cant get away with any covert action. so that could be something that makes people look at whats going on in ukraine. he has concern b...

A lecture by John Stockwell given in October, 1987 on the inner workings of the national security council and the CIA's convert actions in Angola, Central America and Vietnam.

Something called the powell doctrine which limited the number of times the united states should use multi force for diplomatic reasons. he thought one of the lessons of vietnam was you dont send boys into war unless the country is behind it and the mission is clear and if you send them in to war you send them in to win. so he tried to zis courage the use of military force. he restored honor. one of his jobs was to clean out the mess after iran contra. he was the national security adviser and giv...

The attorneys of Julian Assange have disclosed official US documents showing that the head of the CIA considered Wikileaks to be a (...) [Voltaire Network]

Can get into place even though its a lot harder, and i think that history has shown that presidents tend to rely on the cia to do covert action, to carry out secret war. it can be a seductive thing and there can be political benefits to it. so certainly one of the points of our piece was we would expect not only president biden but whoever comes after president biden to be dealing with afghanistan for some time. >> claire, i wonder if you can pull all of this reporting together and just reflect ...

In covering the fall of Kabul, the Western media are mindlessly repeating seven lies of Western propaganda. By misrepresenting the (...) [Voltaire Network]

July 30, 2021  —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Arguing for Socialism — Socialists are not the only ones who talk about a new cold war between the US and China. It is becoming a commonplace in the mainstream media. But we have an explanation for it. All the endless propaganda and punitive measures against China are part of a campaign by Western imperialism, principally the United States, to isolate and contain China and reassert Washington’s hithert...

Fronts. its our inability to work with allies. oftentimes weve been at odds with them. but it does actually work. ill give you one episode that did work with russia, and its not a very pleasant one. everyone will recall in 2018 there was an incident in syria. our military was very clear to the russian military, you fire on our guys, well fire back. the russians tried covert action. they put in some paramilitary groups in there. they shot at our guys pretending to be rebels. they got shot back at...

Met vladimir putin, he told him he had no soul. more recently, he said he was a killer. mr putin hit back: "takes one to know one". so when they sit down for talks, what message will the white house be putting across to the kremlin? fiona hill was donald trumps senior adviser on russia. she says moscow must be told to behave. the biggest danger that the united states faces right now from russia is the coercive, subversive, covert action that is the hallmark of vladimir putin, be it ransomware fo...