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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: U.S
Date: November 18, 2023, 7:55 pm
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HTML https://asiatimes.com/2023/11/the-rubble-of-americas-rules-based-order-in-gaza/
The rubble of America’s ‘rules-based order’ in Gaza
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> Even national leaders, many of them close US allies, are not
mincing their words and are breaking ranks with the American
policy of de facto carte blanche. As the war intensifies and the
body bags pile up, US double standards on the victims of Ukraine
and Gaza invasions become glaringly obvious, especially in the
Global South that is often subject to American sermons on
liberty and human rights.
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> These days the only thing the leading custodian of the liberal
international order seems to be liberal with is brown bodies.
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> Like Segal, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sees
the military campaign as a genocide. Malaysian Prime Minister
and democracy icon Anwar Ibrahim calls it “height of barbarism.”
Belgium wants sanctions on Israel for the “inhumane” air
strikes. France wants Israel to stop bombing and Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau says Israel needs to stop killing babies.
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> The high priests of the liberal order are invoking
anti-Semitism to combat any critique of Israel. France is
considering jail terms for “insults” to Israel, while the
British government likens anti-war demonstrations to “hate
marches.”
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> automatically treats criticism of the Israeli state as
anti-Semitism – the human tragedy wreaked on Gaza is simply
unacceptable.
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> The heartbreaking images from the conflict evoke horror at the
unrestrained mutilation of the norms of accepted state behavior,
and the helplessness of the global system of laws and
institutions in stopping it. Gaza increasingly looks like the
killing fields of the “rules-based order” that the Biden
administration has made its mantra.
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> This wouldn’t be the first time for the rules-based order to
be profaned, of course. Israel is only pummeling what little
credibility was left of it after the unilateral excesses of Iraq
and Ukraine invasions.
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> But the international backlash on Gaza reflects an
unprecedented crisis of moral authority of the liberal order, in
particular the US, which has spearheaded its making since the
end of the Second World War and embedded its global leadership
in its institutions.
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> Gaza raises serious questions about America’s actions and
judgment, and by extension the very legitimacy of the liberal
order that it evangelizes.
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> In a world horrified by the sights of Gaza, the optics of
Biden flying to Israel and hugging its leader, America’s casual
acceptance of the inevitability of mass-scale civilian deaths in
Gaza, its blocking of even “humanitarian pauses” in the UN to
get in lifesaving aid, and its assistance to Israel to carry on
the war, call into question like never before the fairness and
capability of the current rules-based multilateralism, as well
as America’s credentials in leading it.
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> the UN has failed even to protect its own staff from it. More
than a hundred of its members have been killed in Israeli
bombardment of UN facilities, which are supposedly inviolable in
conflict situations as a matter of rule.
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> Vested with the authority to enforce peace, the UN has seldom
looked this powerless. Its helpless pleas for peace on social
media make it look every bit the sideshow that it has been
reduced to – by the very power that swears by it.
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> The grand promise of the “rules-based order” that Biden
dangles to the Global South has thus never rung hollower. His
administration uses it as a catch phrase to consolidate a global
alliance against an ascendant China that it claims is out to
wreck the liberal order.
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> But China has in fact shown much greater respect for the
“rules” in this conflict and has come across as a more
responsible power by firmly opposing Israel’s retaliatory
excesses and calling for a ceasefire, unlike America’s steadfast
opposition to it despite the UN’s repeated appeals.
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> America’s response to the crisis has undermined both its
assertions of moral superiority over its new cold-war rival and
the liberal order
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> The new powers in an emerging multipolar world argue that it
is too West-centric and lacks diversity and accountability.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: special relationship
Date: November 21, 2023, 9:02 pm
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HTML https://www.thestar.com/business/american-elites-are-living-in-a-delusional-universe-here-s-why-the-next-crisis-will/article_7d70f596-b79a-508f-85c6-ffa4d4dca171.html
American elites are living in a delusional universe. Here’s why
the next crisis will make the 2008 recession look like a garden
party
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> The U.S. predicament of escalating debt and inflation has much
in common with 16th-century Spain’s bid to solve financial
turmoil by issuing more money, writes Frank Giustra.
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Re: State subverters
DIR By: canada
Date: November 25, 2023, 12:22 am
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cameron-ortis-leaks-intelligence-espionage-rcmp-1.7030802
Ortis was 'on the cusp' of passing state secrets to foreign
entity at time of arrest, Crown alleged
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> Cameron Ortis, convicted by a jury Wednesday of violating
Canada's secrets act, was arrested when he was "on the cusp" of
passing state secrets to a foreign entity, a Crown prosecutor
alleged during the former RCMP official's bail hearing in 2019.
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> When RCMP officers raided Cameron Ortis's condo in late August
2019, they were hunting for clues related to leaks of internal
police documents to criminal groups.
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> Their investigation took a quick turn into the murky world of
international espionage when they analyzed electronic equipment
and documents seized at the residence of the national police
force's top intelligence analyst.
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> According to an unsealed 2020 court document, which can now be
reported on, RCMP investigators feared Ortis was planning to
share information with Chinese officials.
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> On several to-do lists police found in his condo, Ortis noted
mundane activities like donating blood, cleaning his apartment,
working out and filing dental insurance claims — in addition to
tasks related to what he called "the project." Prosecutors said
this was the name given to his plan to leak state secrets.
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> On his computer equipment, RCMP agents discovered 488 highly
classified documents.
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> During the bail hearing, Kliewer argued that if Ortis had
carried out his plan, the consequences would have been
catastrophic for the security of Canada, its allies and
intelligence agents in the field.
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> Ortis was preparing to argue that he accumulated classified
information to make a presentation to senior RCMP members
"concerning how to best respond to the growing threat from a
specific foreign entity."
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> She added the file was classified "gamma," meaning it was one
of the most closely-held secrets in Canada's hands.
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> Kliewer said Ortis was arrested three days after the second
RCMP raid, when he was at a "critical stage" of his project and
"on the cusp" of a great betrayal.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: US
Date: January 3, 2024, 10:05 pm
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/10201801/red-sea-attacks-shipping-costs/
Red Sea attacks add ‘significant cost’ to global shipping,
Canada and allies warn
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> Canada and its allies are warning that disruptions from
attacks on vessels in the Red Sea are “adding significant cost”
and delays to global shipping.
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> A joint statement Wednesday from Canada, the United States,
United Kingdom and a host of other nations reiterates
condemnation of Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Red
Sea, noting a “significant escalation” over the past week.
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> The nations call attacks from the Yemeni-based Houthi a
“direct threat to the freedom of navigation” that underpin
global trade in “one of the world’s most critical waterways.”
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> White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby
said Wednesday the U.S.-led multinational task force, which
includes Canada, has significantly expanded its military
presence in the region to counter the attacks — including assets
with “offensive and defensive military power.”
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> Kirby said the U.S. economy has yet to feel a significant
effect from the Red Sea disturbance, telling reporters it will
depend on the length of the disruptions and how “energetic” the
Houthi rebels become.
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HTML https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-hamas-hezbollah-iran/
Will Israel Drag the US Into Another Ruinous War?
I can sense the heightened threat posture. For those attempting
a false flag on me, hell is guaranteed for you.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: america
Date: January 9, 2024, 5:11 pm
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HTML https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/09/us-slams-south-africas-meritless-israel-genocide-suit.html
U.S. slams ‘meritless’ Israel genocide suit, reigniting tensions
with South Africa
HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67929673
Powerful storms across the US deliver tornadoes, snow and
flooding
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: US
Date: January 11, 2024, 9:01 pm
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67951433
Lloyd Austin: Pentagon to review handling of defence secretary's
illness
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> Mr Austin, 70, was placed in intensive care on 1 January after
suffering complications from a late December surgery to treat
prostate cancer.
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> But senior defence officials and the White House did not even
learn he was seriously ill until three days later.
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> Pentagon officials have struggled to explain why they failed
to notify relevant people in the chain of command sooner about
the gravity of Mr Austin's illness.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: US
Date: January 11, 2024, 9:38 pm
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HTML https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/11/us-deficit-tops-half-a-trillion-dollars-in-the-first-quarter-of-fiscal-year.html
U.S. deficit tops half a trillion dollars in the first quarter
of fiscal year
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> The U.S. government ran up another half a trillion dollars in
red ink in the first quarter of its fiscal year, the Treasury
Department reported Thursday.
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> The deficit has continued to pile up despite the Biden
administration’s assurances that the Inflation Reduction Act, in
addition to reducing prices, would shave “hundreds of billions”
off the deficit.
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HTML https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/11/israel-hamas-gaza-war-us-middle-east-policy-saudi-biden/
U.S. Middle East Policy Has Failed
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> The region is on fire, and Washington is to blame.
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HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-education-formation/674765/
Why Americans are so awful to one another
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> The rising rates of depression have been well publicized, as
have the rising deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol, and
suicide. But other statistics are similarly troubling. The
percentage of people who say they don’t have close friends has
increased fourfold since 1990.
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> More than half of all Americans say that no one knows them
well.
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> I was recently talking with a restaurant owner who said that
he has to eject a customer from his restaurant for rude or cruel
behavior once a week
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> A head nurse at a hospital told me that many on her staff are
leaving the profession because patients have become so abusive.
At the far extreme of meanness, hate crimes rose in 2020 to
their highest level in 12 years. Murder rates have been surging,
at least until recently. Same with gun sales. Social trust is
plummeting.
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HTML https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/polar-vortex-unleash-teeth-chattering-143011439.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEhWh2p-je8YfCgu2tsFO_w877gSJfg2949St-TUedL3de47Q3qPnZI8hEvYv06lhmnU1KFsmY3_foCoiLGv6PRcyjiUcq00E-K3-fq-Z01ECfy57rugOnnR4hx3HKXXK0yDQDT_nCyWY-bJBev8TLH6cGjcoSUOiqwdy1UpHwx1
The Polar Vortex Is About to Unleash Teeth-Chattering Cold
Across the US
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> The polar vortex is about to unleash an Arctic chill across
much of the US this weekend
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: Schwartze Katze
Date: February 18, 2024, 1:13 pm
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'It is in our interest that Russia is defeated': Former US
Commander Ben Hodges | DW News
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> Republicans in the US Congress is blocking a
multi-billion-dollar military aid package that Ukraine urgently
needs in its fight against Russia. Can Kyiv expect a release
soon? At the Munich Security Conference, DW spoke with the
former Commander of the US Army Europe, Ben Hodges.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOui5oOD-LY
Comments:
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> "The strategic illiteracy of the former President Donald Trump
and his enablers is a danger to the United States". End quote.
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> It is so hard to get your head round the fact these Senators
have decided to go on holiday, at the 11th hour, and good on
you, Ben , for sending a not so thinly veiled threat to these
senators.
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See also:
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 23, 2024, 6:34 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/column-without-cameras-courtroom-trump-213455371.html
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> Column: Without cameras in the courtroom, Trump has already
won a major victory in hush money trial
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> The first criminal trial of a former U.S. president could have
been the moment when the cameras didn't embrace Trump the
Showman, where his customary angry rhetoric and bluster were
muted by the dictates of a controlled courtroom, allowing the
public to see what happens when a bully is stripped of his power
and platform.
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> But without the advantage of watching the proceedings on
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or live news outlets, the impact
feels lost in translation. It’s one thing to witness the former
president's impetuous behavior firsthand; it’s another to read
or hear about it in media accounts filed from the courtroom
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Re: War
DIR By: RobbinsonCrusoe
Date: August 6, 2024, 4:39 pm
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Anti-War Vet: No One’s Going to Sign Up for Middle East Regional
War
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> Israel wants to drag the US into a regional war. And Biden
just deployed warships.
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> The only catch? This time there might not be any soldiers to
fight it.
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> BT spoke to former US Army Ranger Greg Stoker about how
decades of imperialism have turned so many service members and
veterans like him against the war machine.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur-YmZykqK4
Comments:
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> Veteran here- completely support this. THANK YOU.
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> This guy is absolutely spot on!
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> Anti-war veteran here. I try my best to talk young people out
of serving the war machine, using myself and the experiences of
my friends as examples why it's a bad idea.
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> The world sees the horrors of Israel daily
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