by Oui
Tue Oct 19th, 2021 at 10:15:28 AM EST
Economic sanctions are increasingly being used to promote the full range of American foreign policy objectives. Yet all too often sanctions turn out to be little more than expressions of U.S. preferences that hurt expands American economic interests without changing the target's behaviour for the better.
Doesn't make a better world, it changes the behaviour of American allies more than the intended targets. Bullying through sanctions and NATO military pressure makes states line-up behind unipolar might of the USA. There will be a moment the imbalance causes a confrontation and war, for now it's manoeuvring to stay on top of the pyre of wealth.
Biden Refuses to Lift Trump Sanctions on Iran | CBS News - Feb. 7, 2021 |
In A Nutshell ...
by Oui
Mon Oct 18th, 2021 at 10:01:20 PM EST
So NATO and the US suffered a setback by full withdrawal from Afghanistan and left Central Asia to regional powers Turkey, Russia and China. How to get the attention of media and the world.
NATO expels eight 'undeclared' Russian intelligence officers | AP News - Oct. 6, 2021 |
NATO Adding Pressure on Russia
by Oui
Wed Oct 13th, 2021 at 05:23:10 PM EST
In 25 years more poverty has stricken and children with no breakfast send to school.
Children in poverty in the Netherlands
by Oui
Sun Oct 10th, 2021 at 09:22:55 AM EST
by Oui
Thu Oct 7th, 2021 at 06:59:01 PM EST
As Slovenia Summit extends invitation to expansion into the Western Balkans, key countries turn their backs on Brussels.
On all levels the EU has come up short to deliver policy ahead of crisis. The woes are added very few months and patience is running out. More nations are putting in a great effort to undermine the union, no need to look at exterior players like Russia and Putin or the United States and Trump/Biden. NATO and Stoltenberg adds fuel to the burning fires of discontent.
For two decades, the EU Commission and its president(s) have not effectively shown leadership for a stronger bond between EU countries. How to get rid of unwilling nations like Austria, Hungary and Poland. Threats just do not work and power of sanctions are quite limited. The Constitutional Court in Warsaw put a stake into the beating heart of Brussels.
Activists target Poland's constitutional court ahead of crucial ruling
More below the fold ...
by Oui
Tue Oct 5th, 2021 at 02:03:33 PM EST
EU leaders seek unity on how to face China, US | France24 |
EU leaders will have a hard discussion on Europe's place in the world on Tuesday as they seek unity on how to approach ties with superpowers China and the US.
The 27 heads of state and government are set to converge on Brdo Castle in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia, the country that currently holds the EU's rotating presidency.
While no concrete outcome is expected from the meeting, "this is the first time leaders have met since June, and with everything that has happened, that seems ages ago", a senior EU diplomat said.
The dinner takes place on the eve of an EU-Western Balkans summit in which countries to the bloc's east will seek assurances on one day joining the European Union.
by Oui
Mon Oct 4th, 2021 at 07:31:12 AM EST
PM Boris Johnson and the Tories now own the Red Wall of Britain ...
Iain Macwhirter: The Tory Red Wall is wilting at the greening of Boris Johnson
"Beyond the pandemic; building back greener; renewing community assets; transforming energy to reach net zero; transport connectivity and levelling up; putting green jobs at the heart of recovery ..." the list of official Conservative Party Conference fringe events in Manchester this week reads like a resume of Keir Starmer's speech to the Labour Conference. And that isn't a list of events held by charities and lobby groups, but the Conservative Party's own fringe agenda.
by Oui
Fri Oct 1st, 2021 at 08:03:57 AM EST
The East-West propagandists are having a field day ... 😄
by Oui
Wed Sep 29th, 2021 at 02:52:40 PM EST
Gerrymandering
by Oui
Sun Sep 26th, 2021 at 11:26:22 AM EST
by Oui
Fri Sep 17th, 2021 at 09:56:21 AM EST
Highly Unlikely ...
PM Mark Rutte travels to London today to visit his friend and Conservative colleague Boris Johnson ... it's about Afghanistan he says. 🤥 Hard to believe as his caretaker Cabinet was shaken by vote of censure in Dutch lower house yesterday affecting both the FM Kaag (D66) and Defense minister Bijleveld (CDA). Both are leading politicians of parties still supporting the caretaker government. Sigrid Kaag resigned to work full time as MP and key player in the formation talks ongoing for six months after the election.
He lost two key figures of his cabinet due to failures on withdrawal from Kabul and leaving interpreters with family and human rights workers behind. Handling of visa and papers were in chaos as staff had left with the first evacuation flight. Rutte has no soul of decency and serves his party's populist agenda on immigration and with priority less taxation for multinationals. Problems are not solved ... where is our Dutch leader? His heart is in corporate welfare, not the hard working people of main street Rotterdam or Groningen.
Gas production and earthquakes in Groningen: reflection on economic and social consequences | RUG Edu |
by Oui
Tue Sep 14th, 2021 at 01:52:08 PM EST
Zelensky's U.S. visit: new tone in relations
Meanwhile ...
U.S., Germany strike a deal to allow completion of controversial Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline | CNBC - July 21, 2021 |
Nord Stream 2: Last piece of gas pipeline is in place | DW |
Construction on the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline took a major step to completion. According to the company, the final piece of piping has been welded together. It will then be lowered into place in the Baltic Sea. It must then be connected and will then be expected to begin operating soon.
by Oui
Sat Sep 18th, 2021 at 10:10:47 AM EST
Afghanistan, the Graveyard of Empires ... yet it's the civilian population that bears the brunt of violence and have to pick op the pieces of a devastated nation.
by Oui
Wed Sep 15th, 2021 at 06:14:40 PM EST
Security at last ...
by Oui
Fri Sep 10th, 2021 at 06:14:19 PM EST
Previous title: Amanpour On the Lawrence Wilkerson Show
George Bush became President based on lies and voter suppression in Jeb Bush’s Florida. The whole nation and Western allies looked to him for leadership after America’s second Pearl Harbor. Bush was fed lies and Biblical quotes to go into Iraq to avenge Saddam’s plot to murder his dad. The military show of force based on anger was led by VP Cheney and master of evil at the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld.
END OF UPDATE
Unbelievable a very astute analysis of the fault lines in the American Empire. So much regret for the role he played in the run-up to the Iraq War.
by Oui
Thu Sep 9th, 2021 at 09:23:39 AM EST
20 Years Military Operation Shock and Awe has Sizzled Out - Cost of US Wealth expressed in $$ trillions (military technology, arms investment and bribes) and loss of American diplomatic prestige overseas.
"You are either with us, or with the terrorists."
As the United States prepares for the 20 Year Commemoration of the 9/11 Attacks on America ...
President Bush has been talking to world leaders since last Tuesday, when terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing thousands.
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair met with the President just prior to the speech and accompanied him to Capitol Hill. "We stand side by side with you now, without hesitation. This is a struggle that concerns us all, the whole of the democratic and civilized and free world," he said.
Prime Minister Blair sat to the right of First Lady Laura Bush during the address. To her left was New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani.
The House chamber, which is always used for joint meetings, was packed for the event. Mr. Bush's only other speech to the legislature was back on February 28, when the bitterness of last year's presidential election dispute filled the hall. The atmosphere this time was very different. There was unity, sorrow and determination. "Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered great loss. And in our grief and anger we have found our mission and our moment," he said.
by Oui
Sat Sep 4th, 2021 at 10:17:41 AM EST
The U.S. Foreign Policy 'Establishment' Is Incredibly Dumb | MofA |
Decades of zero accountability for US political, economic,Intel agency elites has decimated US democratic institutions & led to an establishment that is allowed to make the same 'mistakes' over and over again? Unending impunity for elites isn't Democracy, it's Tyranny. [Posted by: Stephen Kalil]
