Land of the Free? Een analyse van die ‘vrijheid’ in de VS (en de rest van het westen)

(On the top right hand side of this page you can choose for a translation in the language of your choice in Google Translate)

Hier een artikel van Philip Giraldi, waarin deze aantoont dat men in de VS bepaald niet vrij is. Sterker nog: de juist bestaande onvrijheid wordt steeds verder aangescherpt, overigens is het in de rest van het westen niet veel beter, ondanks dat men een grote bek heeft over Rusland, China en andere volgens het westen dictatoriaal geregeerde landen…..*

Schuldig hieraan zijn zeker de door de VS en haar slaafse NAVO-partners uitgelokte oorlog in Oekraïne en de genocidale oorlog van Israël tegen het Palestijnse volk. Wat Giraldi in zijn artikel  niet noemt zijn de draconische maatregelen die werden genomen tijdens de Coronahysterie, waarbij het recht op privacy, burgerrechten en zelfs grondrechten op grote schaal werden geschonden door de politici, die juist deze rechten met hand en tand zouden hebben moeten verdedigen…..

Bij al deze zaken werden de politici geholpen door de reguliere westerse (massa-) media en zogenaamde deskundigen die niet zelden banden hadden en hebben met de farmaceutische maffia. Die banden hadden en hebben die media zelf overigens ook, dit vanwege het feit dat deze media ofwel staatsmedia zijn (je bijt niet in de hand die je voedt), dan wel de commerciële media die in handen zijn van plutocraten met hun enorme aandelenportefeuilles in zowel de farmaceuten, de wapenindustrie, de grote bouwfirma’s en de fossiele industrie. Al moet over de laatste nog wel worden gezegd dat zeker de staatsmedia, maar ook veel commerciële media nog al eens met kritiek komen op die fossiele industrie, al is het goed mogelijk dat dit wordt toegestaan daar men is overtuigt dat de wereld voorlopig niet zonder die industrie kan en je daarom makkelijk kritiek kan uiten, immers die kritiek zal niet leiden tot snelle veranderingen….

Meer dan schandalig is het feit dat onafhankelijke westerse journalisten, die verder kijken dan hun neus langs is, in het land van herkomst worden gestraft voor bijvoorbeeld het kritiek uiten op de wat in feite een oorlog van de NAVO is tegen Rusland, een oorlog die in Oekraïne wordt uitgevochten, uiteraard onder aanvoering van de grootste terreurentiteit ter wereld >> de VS…. Het is zelfs zo zot dat één van de beste onderzoeksjournalisten van de laatste 20 jaar, Julian Assange al 5 jaar lang in isolatiefolter wordt gehouden in Groot-Brittannië en dat wanneer hij mocht worden uitgeleverd aan de VS hem een levenslange gevangenisstraf wacht en ook dat naar grote waarschijnlijkheid in dezelfde isolatiefolter…. Vergeet niet dat in de VS 120.000 mensen in isolatiefolter gevangen worden gehouden!! (het in isolatie houden van mensen is één van de ergste martelingen die zwaar ten koste gaan van de fysieke en geestelijke gezondheid, ofwel een zwaar barbaarse en bijzonder inhumane straf)

Journalisten die het lef hebben om tegen het westen in te gaan wat betreft de oorlog in Oekraïne, of die hun werk gebruiken om het voor de Palestijnen op te nemen, grote kans lopen in eigen land te worden gestraft, zo zijn er journalisten in Duitsland, Groot-Brittannië en Frankrijk van wie de bankrekening is geblokkeerd zodat ze niet meer vrijelijk kunnen reizen en hun beroep derhalve niet meer kunnen uitoefenen, waarbij ze zelfs de kans lopen om te zijner tijd voor de rechter te worden gedaagd en hen mogelijk zelfs een gevangenisstraf wacht….  

Scott Ritter is ook het slachtoffer van zijn kritiek op het westen geworden, men heeft hem zijn paspoort afgenomen zodat het ook voor hem moeilijk wordt om zijn beroep nog uit te kunnen oefenen, ook hij berichtte op een totaal andere manier over de oorlog in Oekraïne en de genocidale oorlog van Israël tegen het Palestijnse volk…. 

Het voorgaande terwijl de westerse overheden en zelfs zo ongeveer alle westerse reguliere media het gore lef hebben om te klagen over nepnieuws (fake news) en desinformatie op de sociale media, de media waar je nog echte journalisten kan vinden, die niet het narratief volgen wat de reguliere media wel doen, het narratief van de westerse regeringen, zogenaamde deskundigen, lobbyisten van de wapenindustrie en rechtse denktanks, die allen de status quo willen bewaren en zich achter het voeren van oorlog hebben geschaard, zogenaamd om vrede te bereiken. Al die groepen eisen dan ook dat er censuur wordt uitgeoefend op de sociale media, terwijl ze tegelijkertijd pochen over de democratie in hun land….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!  

Lees het uitstekende artikel van Giraldi, eerder geplaatst op Information Clearing House, die veel verder ingaat op die zogenaamde vrijheid in de VS.

(als je het Engels niet machtig bent, zet dan de tekst om in Nederlands met behulp van Google translate dat je rechts bovenaan deze pagina ziet staan, klik eerst in het menu op ‘Engels’, waarna je weer kan klikken op die vertaalapp, daarna zie je bovenaan in het menu ‘Nederlands’ staan >> klik daarop en de hele tekst staat vervolgens in het Nederlands, de vertaling is van een redelijk goede kwaliteit.)

Land
of the Free?

Better
watch what you say and to whom.

By Philip
Giraldi

June 13, 2024


Many
individuals who actually care about the United States Constitution
and its guarantee of basic liberties for the American people have
been seriously concerned over how recent Administrations, both
Republican and Democratic, have taken steps to control and limit the
rights of citizens to exercise free speech as well as freedom to
travel and associate freely. This abuse of power, for that is what it
is, has unfortunately escalated sharply due to the uncompromising
commitment of the Joe Biden White House to both Israel and Ukraine.
It manifests itself in many ways, but most often includes steps to
make it difficult for concerned Americans to learn for themselves the
truth about what is taking place in the various international hot
spots that the US State Department appears to be cultivating in such
a fashion as to bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.


Those
truth-tellers who persist in exposing the criminality in high places
have been targeted and labeled in some government circles as
“info-terrorists” and there has been what appears to be a
sustained effort underway to undermine the credibility of journalists
who are daring to report favorably on either Russia or the
Palestinians. Interestingly enough, the Ukrainians have established
the gold standard in identifying dissident journalists through their
Department of Disinformation called “Myrotvorets.” It includes a
list of names of those individuals who might be assassinated to
silence them. The US has, not surprisingly, been 
seeking
to establish
 a
similar government agency, though hopefully without the kill list.


In
the latest manifestation of denial of fundamental rights in an
attempt to shut down a critic, on June 3rd the State
Department forced former Marine intelligence officer, Chief UN
weapons inspector, journalist and author Scott Ritter off a plane
headed to Russia by way of Istanbul and confiscated his passport.
According to Scott “As I was boarding my flight out of New York I
was pulled aside by three armed Customs and Border Patrol officers,
who seized my passport. When asked why, they said orders of the State
Department. No further information was provided. My bags were removed
from the flight, and I was escorted out of the airport.” Ritter,
who has been a persistent critic of both the ongoing wars in Gaza and
Ukraine, was traveling to participate in the highly respected annual
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum as a guest speaker. The
seizure of the passport to block his travel is a violation of the
First, Fourth and Fifth amendments to the Constitution of the United
States.


In an
interview
 later
that day with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Ritter admitted that he had
been taken aback by what had happened to him and should have been
more aggressive in defense of his rights. He did not, for example,
demand to see a warrant or be given a receipt for the passport and
did not get the names of the three officers who had taken it away and
escorted him out. He also should have demanded the name of the State
Department Official who had signed the order to accost him in the
most embarrassing fashion possible as he was boarding the plane and
take his document.


Interestingly,
Scott Ritter’s name appeared prominently on the Ukrainian
“Disinformation” hit list. And not terribly surprisingly, the
mainstream media, which is in sync with the government on the wars in
the Middle East and Eastern Europe, did not give the Ritter story
much coverage. The silence is particularly remarkable as the press,
which has been protecting President Joe Biden and his Homeland
Security lackeys as they watched millions of people illegally cross
the Mexican border into the US failed to exercise any vigilance when
a single American citizen was unsuccessful in trying to go the other
way completely legally.


Ritter,
to be sure, has been a powerful voice critiquing the Iraq War, where
his inspections turned up no WMD and he declared, in August 2002,
that a case had not been made for attacking Saddam Hussein. If George
W. Bush and his gang of neocons plus Congress had only paid attention
to Scott Ritter, the US 
would
have been spared
 the
loss of thousands of soldiers and the utter waste of trillions of tax
dollars. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis also died as a result of the
US attack on their country.


Since
that time, Ritter has been an activist who calls for dialogue,
negotiation and diplomacy to avoid wars, particularly in the current
context where the United States is supplying tens of billions of
dollars in arms to expand the war with Russia, sustain the attacks on
Gazans and establish a pretext for a war with China over Taiwan.
Ritter has traveled to Russia and Iran, as well as to other hot
spots, without regard for his personal safety, driven by the desire
to tell the truth about what is being propagandized in hopes that he
will make politicians think twice about what they are doing. Scott
has reported what he sees and describes the conversations he has had
with local people without fear or favor, always with the objective of
avoiding war and death. For his pains, he inevitably is accused of
being a source of Russian and anti-Israeli disinformation and even
acting as “Putin’s poodle,” but his information has proven to
be overwhelmingly reliable.


Interestingly,
this week’s incident was not the first time when Ritter was
targeted by the US government for truth-telling. In the wake of the
passport seizure, he recounted on X how “The similarities between
what happened to me on June 3, and what transpired some 21 1/2 years
ago, are disconcerting. Then, the FBI carried out a concerted effort
to prevent me from making a documentary movie, ‘Shifting Sands,’
about the flawed case for war being promulgated by the US government.
They threatened me with arrest, they engaged in acts of physical
intimidation, and—when this didn’t work—they played a role in
manufacturing a case designed to destroy my personal character in the
eyes of the general public. The 2001 incidents were a warning shot
across the bow for me to begin toeing the line. When I refused to do
so, releasing my documentary film and actively speaking out against
the US case for war with Iraq, the FBI then arranged to have the
information about the 2001 incidents leaked to the press in an effort
to destroy my credibility on the eve of a February 2003 trip I was
planning to take to Iraq, together with a high-profile international
delegation, that was designed to prevent a war between the US and the
government of Saddam Hussein.”


Scott
is not alone in being a target for government attempts to discredit
him. Almost anyone who has good access to media and audiences and
crosses the established line will be confronted to a greater or
lesser extent. Sometimes the confrontation does real damage as in the
recent cases of employees of universities and government who have
lost their jobs for speaking out in defense of the Palestinians. Has
anyone in America lost a job for promoting an ongoing and highly
visible genocide, i.e. Israel’s apparent inherent right to kill
tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians? No, that is considered
acceptable speech by those who govern us and make up the rules.


Those
of us who are under attack regularly for going against government
writ sometimes exchange jokes about how defying the administration or
Congress means going it largely alone in a fight against thousands of
government lawyers who will be able to write or interpret the “rules”
to crucify you staged in a selected court house before a co-opted
judge where you will be certainly convicted. The threat is real,
think of what Julian Assange is going through driven by a vengeful US
government aided and abetted by those of a like mind in Britain, the
home of the Official Secrets Act. The government nearly always wins
when it comes to ruining one’s life on spurious or transmutable
charges like the Espionage Act of 1918. Scott will have to get a
lawyer and sue the government in an attempt to get his passport back
and along the way a faceless bureaucrat will no doubt accuse him of
high crimes and misdemeanors.


This
latest outrage reminds me of something that I and others went through
a few years ago relating to Iran, another preferred target of
Israeli/US government rage. In May 2018 I and others from many
nations, including Israelis and even an American rabbi, attended what
was a public media annual conference in Masshad, Iran hosted by the
Iranian NGO New Horizon foundation to discuss “Jerusalem/al-Quds
the Eternal Capital of Palestine.” The discussions were wide
ranging and include some sharp criticisms of Iranian policy. At the
time, the Trump Administration was preparing to withdraw from the
JCPOA agreement which monitored the Iranian nuclear program and was
also ready to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel, an illegal
move. Trump’s Treasury Department was pursuing a policy of “maximum
pressure” on Iran and groups like the Jewish Anti-Defamation League
were calling the conference an 
“anti-Semitic
gathering”
 that
“included US and international anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and
anti-war activists.” The conference nevertheless proceeded
peacefully, culminating in a press conference in Tehran that I and
others spoke at which was open to the international media.


Unfortunately,
someone in Washington did not like the idea of a conference that
brought together people from many nations and beliefs to discuss a
contentious international problem. In February 2019, Sigal Pearl
Mandelker, then Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and
Financial Intelligence and an Israeli citizen, ordered the Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to sanction the American-educated
founder of New Horizon Nader Talebzadeh Ordoubadi as well as his
Lebanese wife, Zeina Mehanna, his organization The New Horizon
Conference (NHC), and some of its staff for holding the conference.
Ostensibly and perhaps inevitably the reason was “anti-Semitism,
Holocaust Denial, and allowing Iranian intelligence to recruit
attendees.” Mandelker, by the way, was suspected of having links to
Israeli intelligence, Mossad. She was 
inter
alia
 reportedly
involved in brokering the infamous Florida deal
 that
allowed the wealthy child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and probable
Israeli spy to avoid federal charges.


I
may have inadvertently been the source of the claim about Iranian
intelligence operating at the conference in Masshad. Shortly after I
returned from Iran to the US, I was visited by two FBI officers who
wanted to talk about the gathering. They were polite enough, and when
they asked if I thought that Iranian intelligence officers were
“working” the conference I replied that they most definitely were
but while New Horizon certainly knew about it I strongly believe that
they had no choice and were not actually complicit in what was going
on. In fact, I was personally “pitched” three times – once by
an officer posing as a journalist; once by an officer posing as a
foreign ministry official; and once by two intelligence officers
using alias names who, I later learned, were the head and deputy head
of the Ministry of Intelligence. I was not threatened in any way
during the pitches, but I was, of course, in their country and
completely under their control.


In
order to place in context what took place, I would point out that any
international conference almost anywhere in the world like the one we
attended in Mashhad would be covered by the local intelligence
service in an attempt to make recruitments and obtain information.
The CIA has an entire division called National Collection which
spends much of its time going to conferences in the US where foreign
targets will be present. In like fashion operate the British, French,
Mossad, Russian and Chinese services. In my opinion, targeting New
Horizon for sanctions because an event hosted by it was exploited by
its country’s intelligence service is wrong because NH clearly had
no choice in the matter. And it is what the United States and other
countries do regularly.


The
sanctioning of New Horizon became relevant when NH sought to host
another conference in Beirut, Lebanon in September 2019. Roughly the
same group of Americans, myself included, was invited to speak or
otherwise participate. Several of the Americans were approached in
advance by FBI agents, evidently acting under orders from Sigal
Mandelker. The Agents warned that any participants in the conference
might be subject to criminal indictment upon return to the US because
New Horizon was under sanctions. One of those who was approached by
the Bureau elaborated how “They’re interpreting the regulations
to say that even if you only associate with someone who has been
sanctioned, you are subject to fines and imprisonment…” The
Bureau went on to explain how Iranian sanctions are somewhat unique.
That’s because Iran is a “comprehensively sanctioned” country,
meaning that anything having to do with “supporting it” is
sanctionable, including tourist visits that aid its economy. We were
informed confidentially that if we attended the conference we would
be arrested upon our return and would face criminal prosecution as
well as possible fines up to $300,000. We all decided not to go and
the conference gathering proceeded peacefully without any US input.


The
point I am trying to make is that this has been going on for quite
some time and rather aggressively by the US government, yet even a
well-informed American is probably completely unaware of how he or
she can be stripped of fundamental constitutional rights without any
ability to push back against the system. And it comes from both
Democratic and Republican administrations as well as from government
agencies that have been corrupted to the point where they exist to
serve their political masters rather than the American people.
Hopefully, Scott Ritter will get his passport back and be free both
to travel again and speak his mind. We need him and also millions
more voices challenging the horrors that have been coming out of
Washington.


Philip
M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the
National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation
(Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based
U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website
is 
councilforthenationalinterest.org, address
is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email
is 
inform@cnionline.org.

Hier nog 2 reacties op het bericht van Giraldi:


    Gregory
    Fisher

    June
    12, 2024

    I
    started reading dystopic sci-fi quite early on. My Golden Years,
    early teens, discovering the Universe. Oh wherefore art thou,
    Valentine Michael Smith? Love, Ben.


    Prometheus

    June
    13, 2024

    “…groups
    like the Jewish Anti-Defamation League were calling the conference
    an “anti-Semitic gathering” that “included US and
    international anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and anti-war
    activists.” ”
    Aha…those dastardly anti-war
    activists…forever disrupting our indU$tria£i$€d b£oodbathing$
    and pi££aging with pleas for humanity.
    Pretty soon there’ll
    be one under every bed.

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* Neem ook het feit dat wij in Nederland en de bevolkingen van andere westerse landen in feite een slaaf zijn van het dak boven ons hoofd, terwijl dat NB een mensenrecht is!!! (in de VS kan je je huis verlaten als je dat niet meer kunt betalen, al heeft de VS daardoor een enorm aantal daklozen en zelfs gezinnen moeten vaak in erbarmelijke omstandigheden leven, aan de andere kant kan je hier met een ongelofelijk grote schuld komen te zitten als je de woonlasten niet meer kunt opbrengen…) Zie wat dat betreft onder andere: ‘Datalek bij woningcorporatie (die ook in bezit is van belastinggegevens) en de schandelijke huurverhogingen

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Zie ook: ‘When The Powerful Control Public Opinion, Elections Aren’t Real‘ (13 juni 2024) En als verkiezingen niet echt zijn geldt dit ook voor de zogenaamde democratie en vrijheid!! Een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone.

EU-verkiezingen: een geweldige berg desinformatie van en over de EU‘ (6 juni 2024)

EU parlementsverkiezingen en Songfestival ‘telestemmen’

Ursula von der Leyen: een corrupte vijand van de democratie En zie de berichten onder de links in die blogpost!!

Voorspelingen van Khadaffi komen uit: het morele en ethische failliet van het westen

Von der Leyen laat nog eens geheel overbodig haar onmenselijke kant zien‘ 

The Media Skew Public Perception By Manipulating People’s Attention‘ De zogenaamd onafhankelijke reguliere westerse media zijn de grote pleitbezorgers voor dictatuur, juist door het tegenovergestelde te beweren en met desinformatie in feite de lezers te hersenspoelen. (zie mijn eerdere schrijven in dit bericht/////) Ook dit is een uitstekend artikel van Caitlin Johnstone.

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Wat betreft de genocide die de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël uitvoert op de Palestijnen in de Gazastrook zie: ‘Klachten dat Hamas de bevolking als menselijk schild zou gebruiken gaan volkomen voorbij aan de dagelijkse gang van zaken in de Gazastrook‘ (12 juni 2024) En zie de berichten onder de links in die blogpost!!

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Wat betreft Julian Assange zie: ‘Morgen en overmorgen geeft het Britse gerechtshof de beslissing of Julian Assange mag worden uitgeleverd aan oorlogsmisdadige VS‘ (19 mei 2024) En zie de berichten onder de links in die blogpost!!

 ‘Internationale Dag van de Persvrijheid 2024 (World Press Freedom Day 2024), Julian Assange: al meer dan 5 jaar gemarteld in isolatiefolter…..‘ (3 mei 2024) 

Het proces van Julian Assange om te mogen procederen tegen zijn uitlevering aan de VS, een analyse van Chris Hedges‘ 

Klokkenluider veroordeeld tot 5 jaar en 8 maanden voor het openbaren van Australische oorlogsmisdaden begaan in Afghanistan‘ Klokkenluiden en een echt vrije onafhankelijke pers moeten onafscheidelijk verbonden zijn aan een democratie en aan de vrijheid in een democratie!!

Voorts zie wat betreft ook andere journalisten die het leven en werken onmogelijk wordt gemaakt: Oekraïne: journalist Alina Lipp: bankrekening geblokkeerd en kans op 3 jaar gevangenisstraf voor het berichten over oorlogsmisdaden‘ (21 juli 2022)

Graham William Phillips, is een Britse journalist die wordt vervolgd door zijn regering, ook zijn bankrekening is geblokkeerd voor gebruik, dit daar hij de waarheid vertelde over Oost-Oekraïne….. Eerder had ik een video van YouTube waarin hij één ander uitlegde, echter zijn YouTube account is geblokkeerd en de inhoud is verwijderd, ofwel censuur anno 2023 >> alleen al dit zou de fascistische-Oekraïne-staat-aanhangers wakker moeten maken, zeker als je bedenkt dat Philips maar weinig mensen bereikt met zijn Facebook account, waarom dan hem censureren?? Juist! Zogenaamd om de burgers te beschermen tegen desinformatie, terwijl hij gewoon berichtte over wat er gebeurde in Oost-Oekraïne, ofwel men mag de waarheid niet weten, sterker nog die wordt afgedaan als Russische propaganda….. Volgens de VN heeft het nazi-leger van Oekraïne in Oost-Oekraïne vanaf 2014 tot 2023 meer dan 14.000 etnische Russen vermoord met bombardementen op burgerdoelen in de afgescheiden staatjes, een oorlogsmisdaad van formaat….. Eén van de redenen waarom Rusland ingreep in 2022….. 

German journalist faces detention for reporting on Ukrainian crimes in Donbass

Julian Assange, Alina Lipp, and Anne-Laure Bonnel–When truth becomes a crime in the West

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Voor meer berichten over Palestijnen, genocide, Oekraïne, democratie, vrijheid en/of dictatuur, klik op het desbetreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

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Let op!! De ruimte om reacties weer te geven werkt niet altijd. Als je commentaar hebt en het lukt niet op de normale manier, doe dit dan via het mailadres trippleu@gmail.com, ik zal deze dan opnemen onderaan in het bewuste artikel, althans als je geen geweld predikt, voorts plaats ik jouw reactie ook al staat deze diametraal tegenover dat bericht. Alvast mijn dank voor jouw eventuele reactie, Willem.

Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank

WikiLeaks
heeft een overheidsdocument van de VS gepubliceerd, waaruit blijkt dat
de economische oorlogsvoering van de VS tegen haar onwelgevallige
landen wordt uitgevoerd met gebruikmaking van het IMF, de Wereldbank
en de Organisatie voor Economische Samenwerking en Ontwikkeling (OESO,
in het hieronder opgenomen artikel de Engelse afkorting: OECD).

Kortom
de VS gebruikt voornoemde organisaties als wapen tegen landen waar
men een verandering van regime in het belang van de VS acht, zoals bij de
economische oorlogsvoering van de VS tegen het soevereine land Venezuela……

Economische
oorlogsvoering middels eerst nog redelijk bedekte druk op bedrijven
niet langer zo’n land te bevoorraden met hun producten, zoals VS
supermarkten en farmaceuten uit de VS in (voorbeeld) Venezuela….
Door die in feite boycot ontstaat er ontevredenheid onder het volk,
waar men hoopt dat deze tot een opstand leidt, waarna het afzetten
van een regering (of president) een stuk makkelijker wordt….. Als
de opstand groot genoeg is en de reguliere westerse media volkomen onterecht moord en
brand schreeuwen, worden er officiële sancties ingesteld, waar maar
al te vaak andere westerse landen aan meewerken, zoals in het geval
van Venezuela: Canada en de EU…….

Als
zelfs een coup in dat geval niet lukt gaat de VS maar al te vaak over
tot het opzetten en regisseren van een coup, desnoods middels een
militaire inval….. (in Colombia, het buurland van Venezuela, staan
zelfs NAVO troepen klaar om in te grijpen, bovendien stuurt de VS
5.000 militairen naar buurlanden van Venezuela….)

Het
bewuste document werd eerder in 2008 gepubliceerd door WikiLeaks. Het
is dan ook duidelijk waarom de VS de opstand in Oekraïne organiseerde
(door Hillary Clinton en de CIA) die in 2013 tot de afzetting van de
democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj leidde, waarna de zwaar
corrupte neonazi Porosjenko werd geïnstalleerd, de gewenste kandidaat
van de VS…..

Het
voorgaande daar de VS er niet kwam middels een economische
oorlogsvoering, immers Rusland steunde Oekraïne en Janoekovytsj weigerde
zijn land in het EU (en daarmee VS/NAVO) pak te laten naaien……

Eén en
ander werpt ook meer licht op de draai die de Griekse premier Tsipras
maakte en hij zijn land in feite overgaf aan de terreurtrojka bestaande uit het IMF, de ECB en de
Europese Commissie…….. (gegarandeerd dat de VS hem tevens dreigde met een coup, immers Rusland kwam in beeld als hulp voor de Griekse bevolking)

Lees het
volgende ontluisterende artikel van Whitney Webb, eerder gepubliceerd
op MintPress News en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:

WikiLeaks
Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional”
Weapons

February
7, 2019 at 9:30 am

Written
by 
Whitney
Webb

(MPN) —
In a leaked military manual on “unconventional warfare” recently
highlighted by WikiLeaks, the U.S. Army states that major global
financial institutions — such as the World Bank, International
Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) — are used as unconventional, financial
“weapons in times of conflict up to and including large-scale
general war,” as well as in leveraging “the policies and
cooperation of state governments.”

The document,
officially titled “Field Manual (FM) 3-05.130, Army Special
Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare” and originally written in
September 2008, was
 recently
highlighted
 by
WikiLeaks on Twitter in light of recent events in Venezuela as well
as the years-long, U.S.-led economic siege of that country through
sanctions and other means of economic warfare. Though the document
has generated new interest in recent days, it had
 originally
been released
 by
WikiLeaks in December 2008 and has been described as the military’s
“regime change handbook.”

WikiLeaks

@wikileaks

What’s happening with Venezuela? @WikiLeaks‘ publication of US coup manual FM3-05.130, Unconventional Warfare [UW], provides insight

DOS=Department of State

IC=Intelligence Community

UWOA=UW operations area

ARSOF=US Army Special Operations Forceshttps://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-fm3-05-130.pdf 


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WikiLeaks’
recent tweets on the subject drew attention to a single section of
the 248-page-long document, titled “Financial Instrument of U.S.
National Power and Unconventional Warfare.” This section in
particular notes that the U.S. government applies “unilateral and
indirect financial power through persuasive influence to
international and domestic financial institutions regarding
availability and terms of loans, grants, or other financial
assistance to foreign state and nonstate actors,” and specifically
names the World Bank, IMF and The Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), as well as the Bank for
International Settlements (BIS), as “U.S. diplomatic-financial
venues to accomplish” such goals.

The
manual also touts the “state manipulation of tax and interest
rates” along with other “legal and bureaucratic measures” to
“open, modify or close financial flows” and further states that
the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) –
which oversees U.S. sanctions on other nations, like Venezuela —
“has a long history of conducting economic warfare valuable to any
ARSOF [Army Special Operations Forces] UW [Unconventional Warfare]
campaign.”

This
section of the manual goes on to note that these financial weapons
can be used by the U.S. military to create “financial incentives or
disincentives to persuade adversaries, allies and surrogates to
modify their behavior at the theater strategic, operational, and
tactical levels” and that such unconventional warfare campaigns are
highly coordinated with the State Department and the Intelligence
Community in determining “which elements of the human terrain in
UWOA [Unconventional Warfare Operations Area] are most susceptible to
financial engagement.”

The
role of these “independent” international financial institutions
as extensions of U.S. imperial power is elaborated elsewhere in the
manual and several of these institutions are described in detail in
an appendix to the manual titled “The Financial Instrument of
National Power.” Notably, the World Bank and the IMF are listed as
both Financial Instruments and Diplomatic Instruments of U.S.
National Power as well as integral parts of what the manual calls the
“current global governance system.”

Furthermore,
the manual states that the U.S. military “understand[s] that
properly integrated manipulation of economic power can and should be
a component of UW,” meaning that these weapons are a regular
feature of unconventional warfare campaigns waged by the United
States.

Another
point of interest is that these financial weapons are largely
governed by the National Security Council (NSC), which is currently
headed by John Bolton. The document notes that the NSC “has primary
responsibility for the integration of the economic and military
instruments of national power abroad.”

Independent”
but controlled

Though
the unconventional warfare manual is notable for stating so openly
that “independent” financial institutions like the World Bank and
the IMF are essentially extensions of U.S. government power, analysts
have noted for decades that these institutions have consistently
pushed U.S. geopolitical goals abroad.

Indeed,
the myth of World Bank and IMF “independence” is quickly eroded
by merely looking at the structure and funding of each institution.
In the case of the World Bank, the institution is located in
Washington and the organization’s president has always been a U.S.
citizen
 chosen
directly
 by
the president of the United States. In the World Bank’s entire
history, the institution’s Board of Governors has never rejected
Washington’s pick.

This
past Monday, it was reported that President Donald
Trump
 nominated former
Bear Stearns economist David Malpass to lead the World Bank. Malpass
had famously failed to foresee the destruction of his former employer
during the 2008 financial crisis and is likely to limit World Bank
loans to China and to countries allied or allying with China, given
his well-established reputation as a China hawk.

In
addition to choosing its president, the U.S. is also the
 bank’s
largest shareholder
,
making it the only member nation to have veto rights. Indeed, as the
leaked unconventional warfare manual notes, “As major decisions
require an 85% supermajority, the United States can block any major
changes” to World Bank policy or the services it offers.
Furthermore, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs banker
and “foreclosure king,” Steve Mnuchin, functions as the World
Bank’s governor.

Though
the IMF is different from the World Bank in several respects, such as
its stated mission and focus, it too is largely dominated by U.S.
government influence and funding. For instance, the IMF is also based
in Washington and the U.S. is the company’s largest shareholder —
the largest by far, 
owning
17.46 percent
 of
the institution – and also pays the largest quota for the
institution’s maintenance,
 paying
$164 billion
 in
IMF financial commitments annually. Though the U.S. does not choose
the IMF’s top executive, it uses its privileged position as the
institution’s largest funder to control IMF policy
 by
threatening to withhold
 its
IMF funding if the institution does not abide by Washington’s
demands.

As
a consequence of the lopsided influence of the U.S. on these
institutions’ behavior, these organizations have used their loans
and grants to “trap” nations in debt and have imposed “structural
adjustment” programs on these debt-saddled governments that result
in the mass privatization of state assets, deregulation, and
austerity that routinely benefit foreign corporations over local
economies. Frequently, these very institutions – by
 pressuring
countries
 to
deregulate their financial sector and through
 corrupt
dealings
 with
state actors – bring about the very economic problems that they
then swoop in to “fix.”

Guaidó
hits up IMF

Given
the close relationship between the U.S. government and these
international financial institutions, it should come as little
surprise that – in Venezuela – the U.S.-backed “interim
president” Juan Guaidó – has
 already
requested
 IMF
funds, and thus IMF-controlled debt, to fund his parallel government.

This
is highly significant because it shows that top among Guaidó’s
objectives, in addition to privatizing Venezuela’s massive oil
reserves, is to again shackle the country to the U.S.-controlled debt
machine.

As
the 
Grayzone
Project
 recently
noted
:

Venezuela’s
previous elected socialist president, Hugo Chávez, broke ties
with the IMF and World Bank, which he noted were “dominated by US
imperialism.” Instead Venezuela and other left-wing governments in
Latin America worked together to co-found the Bank of the South,
as a counterbalance to the IMF and World Bank.”

However,
Venezuela is far from the only country in Latin America being
targeted by these financial weapons masquerading as “independent”
financial institutions. For instance, Ecuador – whose current
president has sought to bring the country back into Washington’s
good graces – has gone so far as to conduct an “audit” of its
asylum of journalist and WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in order
to win
 a
$10 billion bailout
 from
the IMF. Ecuador granted Assange asylum in 2012 and the U.S. has
fervently sought his extradition for still sealed charges ever since.

In
addition, last July, the U.S.
 threatened
Ecuador
 with
“punishing trade measures” if it introduced a measure at the UN
to support breastfeeding over infant formula, in a move that stunned
the international community but laid bare the willingness of the U.S.
government to use “economic weapons” against Latin American
nations.

Beyond
Ecuador, other recent targets of massive IMF and World Bank “warfare”
include Argentina, which awarded
 the
largest IMF bailout loan in history
 just
last year. That loan package was, unsurprisingly, heavily pushed by
the U.S., according to a statement from Treasury Secretary
Mnuchin
released
last year
.
Notably, the IMF
 was
instrumental
 in
causing the complete collapse of the Argentinian economy in 2001,
sending a poor omen for last year’s approval of the record loan
package.

Though
it was released over a decade ago, this “U.S. coup manual”
recently highlighted by WikiLeaks serves as a salient reminder that
the so-called “independence” of these financial institutions is
an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons”
regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will
and even overthrow U.S.-disfavored governments.

By Whitney
Webb
 / Creative
Commons
 / MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo

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Zie ook:

VS huurlingen bezig met wapentransport gearresteerd in Haïti

Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra

Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela

Venezuela >> de media willen het socialisme definitief de nek omdraaien

Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de ‘Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis’ op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok

BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)

Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia

Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit

Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie

Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt

VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen

Pompeo: US Military Obligated to “Take Down” the Iranians in Venezuela

(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)

Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela

Mike Pence (vicepresident VS) gaf Guaidó, de door de VS gewenste leider, groen licht voor de coup in Venezuela

VS coup tegen Maduro in volle gang……..

Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Pompeo Speech on Venezuela

Venezuela’s Military Chief, Foreign Allies Back Maduro

Als de VS stopt met spelen van ‘politieagent’ en het vernielen van de wereld, zullen de slechte krachten winnen……

VS weer op oorlogspad in Latijns-Amerika: Venezuela het volgende slachtoffer…….

Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie

Vast Majority of Democrats Remain Silent or Support Coup in Venezuela

Trump wilde naast de economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela dat land daadwerkelijk militair aanvallen……

Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden……….

Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare

Venezuela: de anti-propaganda van John Oliver (en het grootste deel westerse massamedia) feilloos doorgeprikt

Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………

Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)

Rex Tillerson waarschuwt Venezuela voor een coup en beschuldigt China van imperialisme…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Edwin Koopman (VPRO Bureau Buitenland) over Venezolaanse verkiezingen met anti-Maduro propaganda bij de ‘onafhankelijke NOS…..

EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………

Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..

VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………

Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote

10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela

Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly

What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………

Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………

Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media

Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!

Iran houdt zich aan de nucleaire deal dit in tegenstelling tot de VS……..

In het
hieronder opgenomen artikel, geschreven door Darius Shahtahmasebi,
betoogt hij dat niet Iran de nucleaire deal schendt maar de VS!
Dezelfde VS, die sinds de Trump administratie aan het bewind is, deze
deal van tafel wil hebben, zoals o.a. Trump zelf meermaals op een
meer dan belachelijke manier heeft gesteld.

Echter
als je de bepalingen in deze deal, de ‘Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) leest en deze goed analyseert,
is het juist de VS die dit JCPOA schendt!

Voorts
hebben zelfs de psychopaten Pompeo, Tillerson, Mattis en het State
Department (het VS ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken) gesteld dat Iran zich
wel degelijk aan deze overeenkomst houdt. Naast deze spelers heeft ook de IAEA
(het internationaal atoomagentschap) gesteld dat Iran zich aan de
deal hield en houdt, een vaststelling die de IAEA maar liefst 9 keer heeft gedaan……. Ook EU partners in de IAEA en de EU hebben dit meermaals vastgesteld…..

Lees
het volgende verhelderende relaas van Shahtahmasebi (en zegt het
voort, de reguliere media beginnen meer en meer de leugens van de
Trump administratie in deze te herhalen en te verdedigen, niet in de
laatste plaats te danken aan de belachelijke ‘openbaringen’ van
Palestijnenslachter Netanyahu en zijn psychopathische collega
Lieberman*):

Iran
Isn’t Violating the Nuclear Agreement — America Is

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Iran Isn’t Violating the Nuclear Agreement — America Is

May
2, 2018 at 3:21 pm

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  On
Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his
most 
grandiose
anti-Iranian performance
 to
date, revealing what he believed was direct proof that Iran “lied”
about its nuclear program. This isn’t the first time Netanyahu has
overhyped the threat of Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons
program. He has been
 crying
wolf
 over
Iran since as far back as 1992.

The
aim of this performance is to cast doubt on the efficacy of the
Iranian nuclear accord signed in 2015, officially known as the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which U.S. President Donald
Trump has long intended to completely derail. Netanyahu, of course,
is totally on board with this goal.

Following
Netanyahu’s speech, the White House
 released a
statement of its own, saying Israel’s intelligence confirms what
the U.S. had already known — that “
Iran
has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried
and failed to hide from the world
.”
Not long after, the White House issued a
 second
statement
 that
changed the word “has” to “had,” appearing to suggest that
Iran no longer possesses a nuclear weapons program. However, a White
House official later
 explained to NBC
News
 that
the wrong tense was the result of a “clerical error.”

Either
way, despite the uncompromising anti-Iranian narrative, the
prevailing truth appears to be that Iran is in full compliance with
the JCPOA, and the main officials involved — including Trump and
Netanyahu — are well aware of this. In his April 12 Senate
confirmation hearing, then-CIA director Mike Pompeo (who this week
began his tenure as secretary of state)
 said he
has “
seen
no evidence that they [Iran] are not in compliance today
.”

Just
last month, the State Department once again issued a 
report declaring
that “
Iran
continued to fulfill its nuclear-related commitments

under the JCPOA following an ongoing pattern of the State
Department even under the watch of Rex Tillerson, who
 essentially
forced
 Trump
to certify Iran’s compliance. Secretary of Defense James “Mad
Dog” Mattis
 has
also said
 Iran
is “fundamentally” in compliance with the nuclear agreement.

Further,
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has
also
 confirmed Iran’s
compliance at least nine times, as have the
 European
partners
 to
the JCPOA and practically the entire EU.

The
deal is working, it is delivering on its main goal which means
keeping the Iranian nuclear programme in check,”
 said
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief, before
acknowledging that the JCPOA is “making
the world safer and … preventing a potential nuclear arms race in
the region.”

In
fact, as the 
Atlantic’s Peter
Beinart has
 explained,
it is Donald Trump’s administration that is most likely violating
the JCPOA — not Iran.

According
to Beinart:

The
more interesting question isn’t whether Iran has been complying
with the nuclear deal. It’s whether America has. American
journalists 
often describe the
agreement as a trade. In the words of one CNN report, it ‘
obliges
Iran to limit its nuclear program in exchange for the suspension of
economic sanctions
.’ 


But there’s more to it than that. The deal doesn’t only require
the United States to lift nuclear sanctions. It requires the United
States not to inhibit Iran’s reintegration into the global economy.
Section 26 
commits the
U.S. (and its allies) ‘to prevent interference with the realisation
of the full benefit by Iran of the sanctions lifting specified’ in
the deal. Section 29 
commits the
U.S. and Europe to ‘refrain from any policy specifically intended
to directly and adversely affect the normalisation of trade and
economic relations with Iran.’ Section 33 commits them to ‘agree
on steps to ensure Iran’s access in areas of trade, technology,
finance and energy.’”

This
is the interesting part. According to those sections, the U.S. has
been violating the JCPOA for some time now.

As
Beinart explains further:

The
Trump administration has likely been violating these
clauses. 
The Washington
Post
 reported
 that
at a NATO summit last May, ‘Trump tried to persuade European
partners to stop making trade and business deals with Iran.’ Then,
in July, Trump’s director of legislative affairs 
boasted that
at a G20 summit in Germany, Trump had ‘underscored the need for
nations … to stop doing business with nations that sponsor
terrorism, especially Iran.’ Both of these lobbying efforts appear
to violate America’s pledge to ‘refrain from any policy
specifically intended to directly and adversely affect the
normalisation of trade and economic relations with Iran.’”

Or,
take for example, sanctions
 imposed on
Iran by the Trump administration in July of last year that targeted
procurement
of advanced military hardware, such as fast attack boats and unmanned
aerial vehicles, and send a strong signal that the United States
cannot and will not tolerate Iran’s provocative and destabilizing
behaviour,”
 according to
a statement released by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin.

Beinart
also explains how that 22 of the deal specifically requires the U.S.
to allow for the sale of commercial passenger aircraft and related
parts and services to Iran,” which,
as 
Al-Monitor revealed, “requests
concerning permits to export planes to Iran have been piling up …
OFAC** has not responded to aircraft sales licensing requests since the
first of such licenses were issued during the Barack Obama
administration.”

In
other words, Iran is in compliance with the JCPOA but the U.S. isn’t.
Does the U.S. abide by its own rules, or should it be held to the
same standards that the world has held Iran ransom to for decades?

It
is nothing short of extraordinary that the only country to have ever
used nuclear weapons can be the one violating an international
agreement all while it consistently demonizes another state for
allegedly violating the very same agreement. Why is it that the U.S.
can violate the JCPOA with no consequence but Iran is demonized even
as it continues to comply with it?

The
problem with the JCPOA isn’t that it isn’t working; the problem
for people like Trump and Netanyahu is that it is working too well.

Op-ed
Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

============================================

*  Zie: ‘Iran moet hangen en Iran-deal moet van tafel……. Israël speelt wolf in schaapskleren

** OFAC: Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Zie ook: ‘Israël laat alweer haar ware terreur gezicht zien: IS kan tijdelijke ‘geallieerde worden’ in de strijd tegen Iran en Hezbollah………

       en: ‘Rex Tillerson (VS BuZA) geeft toe dat de VS een staatsgreep wil uitvoeren in Iran…….. Het is nog ‘iets te rustig’ in dat gebied……..

      en: ‘VS liegt schaamteloos om het westen verder op te zetten tegen Iran……..

      en: ‘Iraanse protesten allesbehalve compleet spontaan (zoals VS ambassadeur bij de VN Haley durfde te stellen…)….

       en: ‘Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël

       en: ‘Iran, de protesten en wat de media je niet vertellen………

       en: ‘De VS gaf meer dan 1 miljoen dollar uit om protesten tegen Iraans bewind uit te buiten (en te organiseren)

       en: ‘Het verborgen motief achter de Israëlische agressie tegen Iran en Syrië

       en: ‘VS bewandelt dezelfde weg richting Iran, als die voor de illegale oorlog tegen Irak in 2003, aldus één van de verantwoordelijken voor die oorlog……..

       en: ‘VS, de werelddictator: Iran-deal is van nul en generlei waarde (op basis van leugens en achterklap)…….

       en: ‘Netanyahu vergelijkt Iran met nazi-Duitsland en stelt dat Iran een bedreiging is voor de wereldvrede….. ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Washington uit op oorlog met Iran……

       en: ‘Oliemaatschappijen weigeren n.a.v. VS sancties de jet van Iraanse minister af te tanken

       en: ‘Israël bezig met voorbereiding op meerdere fronten oorlog…….. (met hulp van de VS)

       en: ‘John Bolton heeft beloofd dat Iran voor 2019 onder een ander regime zal leven…….

       en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië dreigt Iran aan te vallen voor vanuit Jemen afgevuurde ‘raketten’ op Saoedische ‘doelen……….’

       en: ‘VS rechter gelast Iran miljarden te betalen aan de families van 911 slachtoffers…..

       en: ‘VS ambtenaren: Israël zoekt steun VS voor oorlog tegen Iran…….

       en: ‘VS, de werelddictator: Iran-deal is van nul en generlei waarde (op basis van leugens en achterklap)…….

        en: ‘Syrian ‘Rebels’ Used Sarin Nerve Gas Sold By Britain

        en: ‘VS en GB brengen propaganda die moet verdoezelen wat er echt gebeurt in Syrië…….. Door VS gebombardeerde ‘gifgasfabriek’ niet bestaand….

        en: ‘Israël laat er geen twijfel over bestaan: met het uit de Iran-deal stappen van de VS is definitief de oorlog verklaard aan Iran………

        en: ‘Iran-deal: de echte reden waarom Trump deze deal de nek heeft omgedraaid

        en: ‘Netanyahu en Bolton stoken het vuur in het Midden-Oosten verder op: Iran moet en zal vallen…..

       en: ‘Trump beloofde geen extra oorlog in het Midden-Oosten >> toch heeft hij het pad vrijgemaakt voor oorlog tegen Iran……

       en: ‘VS ‘laat zien op vrede uit te zijn’ door dreiging Iran te vermorzelen……