Passage of $95 billion bill by the US Congress for wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparation for war in Taiwan

Jackpot for Arms Contractors, Pain for Ukraine: Who Gets What From Congress’ $61 Bln Bag of Goodies?

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Ilya Tsukanov

Note by Fazal Rahman

US House of Representatives just passed the $95 billion spending bill for wars in Ukraine and Palestine, and preparations for war in Taiwan, while inflation of basic necessities of life is making them unaffordable to countless millions of Americans, and their Medicaid coverage is also being eliminated or downgraded by maneuvers of the so-called Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has maintained a totally erroneous, flawed, and absurd system of measuring Federal Poverty Level (FPL) since 1963.  I am not going into factual details of that here, but these can be easily found on the Internet.  All these evils and injustices are being created by the elected representatives of American Capitalist-Imperialist Technological-Militarist Society, and implemented by the countless non-elected bureaucrats.  They have all sold out their souls and intellects to the Real Devil, the CAPITAL.  So has much of the electorate that constantly elects these replicas to all the federal, state, and local offices, frequently even against its own interests.

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Cold War 2.0: Why Current Crisis is Far More Dangerous Than 20th Century’s Long Twilight Struggle

Ilya Tsukanov

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Note by Fazal Rahman

Excellent analysis of the current international situation by Lieutenant-General Evgeny Buzhinsky, who knows what he is talking about, especially in the military aspects.  However, many assistants of US and NATO proxy war, like the Poles, the Balts, the Czechs, which he talks about, will have no relevance, in case the Anal Character (Freudian term for extreme irrational stubbornness) US imperialism, with which almost all the US leaders have been infected throughout history, somehow changes its self-damaging and world-damaging policies and actions in the current hot war in Ukraine.  This proxy war is not a cold war.  It is a rapidly escalating hot war, which Ukrainian puppet, Zelensky, has been trying to escalate into the Third World War, endangering the survival of human and most other species.  He should be tried for plotting this most dangerous crime against humanity and nature in some international court.  Churchill’s speech about Iron Curtain only gained prominence in the West and its clients elsewhere.  In its essence, it was nonsensical. Stalin understood the political economy, mass psychology, policies and actions of the US and Western imperialisms better than most other Soviet and Russian leaders.  Gorbachev and Yeltsin understood these less than any others, and ruined the USSR and socialism there and internationally.  The current crisis and war in Ukraine is one of the numerous results of that Grand Betrayal.

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Amid the ongoing NATO-Russia proxy conflict in Ukraine, more and more Western media outlets, historians and think tank figures have referred to the crisis as a “new Cold War.” On the anniversary of Winston Churchill’s 1946 Iron Curtain speech, a leading Russian arms control expert explains why the ‘sequel’ to the Cold War is far more dangerous.

German Statesman Slams EU Leaders’ Spinelessness, Demands NATO’s Dismemberment, Closure of US Bases

Ilya Tsukanov

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Germany has found itself reaping the consequences of the crisis in Ukraine, facing skyrocketing energy and food costs, recession and the danger of permanent deindustrialization as Washington and Brussels continue to call for more and more sanctions against Russian energy to try to “punish” Moscow for its military operation in Ukraine.

The United States and its allies have spent the entire period since 2014 preparing for a confrontation with Russia in Ukraine, Oskar Lafontaine, a veteran German statesman with over forty years of political experience under his belt, has said.

“Of course, I also mean the conflict in Ukraine, which began with the Maidan putsch in Kiev in 2014. Since then, the US and its Western vassals have been arming Ukraine and systematically preparing it for confrontation with Russia. Ukraine thus became a de facto, if not de jure, member of NATO. This backstory has been studiously ignored by Western politicians and the mainstream media,” Lafontaine told Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten in an interview published Sunday.

History Repeats Itself? The Time US Sabotaged a Soviet Gas Pipeline and Bragged About It

Ilya Tsukanov

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Blasts rocked the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines on Monday, with each pipeline reportedly hit with the force of over 500 kg of TNT – which when combined is equivalent to the explosive power of a micro nuke. The Kremlin called the incident an act of terrorism, while Russian intelligence has pointed to a Western trace.

In his address before lawmakers and the nation on Friday on the entry of four new territories into the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin said that the attacks against Nord Stream were the next logical step for the US and its allies after exhausting anti-Russian sanctions. “It seems incredible but it is a fact – by causing explosions on Nord Stream’s international gas pipelines passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they have actually embarked on the destruction of Europe’s entire energy infrastructure,” the Russian president said.

Western hypocrisies on recent referenda in Ukraine and earlier referenda in Yugoslavia and USSR

Rules for Thee But Not for Me: Referenda Results the West Recognized When It Suited Them

Ilya Tsukanov

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https://sputniknews.com/20220930/rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me-referenda-the-west-recognized-when-it-suited-them-1101393969.html

Joe Biden vowed this week that Washington would “never, never, never recognize” the results of the referenda held in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and the liberated areas of Kherson and Zaporozhye between September 23 and 27, where the territories voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining Russia.

The United States and its Canadian and European allies have dismissed the results of the plebiscites held in the Donbass and the liberated areas, seemingly reading from the same talking point playbook and describing the votes as a “sham,” “absolute sham” or an “illegitimate/illegal sham.” President Biden dubbed the votes “a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and the basic principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity.” Washington and its partners have threatened Moscow with a raft of new sanctions as it moves forward to formally incorporating the territories into the Russian Federation.

But recent history shows that Washington and its allies are not at all averse to using referenda to hasten the destruction of their adversaries, or even to expand their own territorial realms, when it is convenient for them. Sputnik recalls a few big examples.